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My Eddy Family

Generations of Parents and Grandparents

Beginning With My Mother's Generation

Thru My Grandparents 10 Generations From Me

by: Joni K. Coombs-Haynes

October 2011

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000 Mildred Josephine Eddy-Jackson

Jackson, Mildred J. Eddy Date of Birth 1911-03-26

Date of Death 1937-04-29

Place of Birth California, USA

Place of Death Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Fathers Name William T. Eddy

Mothers Name Mary Alice Phillips

Cemetery Evergreen

Plot Description Sec. B Lot 310 Pos. 4 Walkway

General Information

Place of Birth: California Born: March 26, 1911 Place of Death: Salt Lake City Died: April 29, 1937 Cause: Cholecystitis Parents: William T. Eddy & Mary Alice Phillips

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Mildred & Ray Jackson

Utah County, Utah Cemetery Index

Source Information: Utah Valley Regional Family History Center. Utah County, Utah Cemetery Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1998. Original data: Utah Valley Regional Family History Center. Utah County (UT) Cemetery Index. Provo, UT, USA: Utah Valley Regional Family History Center, 1997.

Description: Index of 80,000 records collected from Utah cemeteries

© 2011, The Generations Network, Inc.

Name: Mildred Josephine Jackson

Birth Date: 26 Mar 1911

Death Date: 29 Apr 1937

Cemetery: Egreen

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Utah Death Index, 1905-1951

Source Information: Ancestry.com. Utah Death Index, 1905-1951 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003. Original data: Bureau of Vital Statistics. Utah Death Index, 1905-1951. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: Utah Department of Health.

Description: This database is an index to deaths that occurred in Utah between 1905 and 1951. In addition to providing the name of the deceased, the index provides the date of death, county of death, gender, age at time of death, birth date, and state file number.


Name: Mildred Josephine Jackson

Death Date: 29 Apr 1937

State File Number: 1937001906

Gender: Female

Age: 26

County of Death: Salt Lake

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002 William Thomas Eddy II

WWI Civilian Draft Registrations

Source Information: Banks, Ray, comp.. WWI Civilian Draft Registrations [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.

Description: This database provides information on 1.2 million men in the United States born between 1873 and 1900 who completed draft registration cards in 1917 and 1918. Information found on these cards generally included, among other information, birth date, birth location, father's birthplace, and the address of next of kin.


Name: Eddy, William Thomas

Birth Date: 8 Jun 1882

City/County: Wasatch

State: UT

Ethnicity: W

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Eddy, William Thomas Date of Birth 1882-06-08


Place of Birth Lake Shore, Utah, USA

Place of Death Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Fathers Name William Thomas Eddy

Mothers Name Sarah Jane Green

Cemetery Evergreen

Plot Description Sec. B Lot 330 Pos. 1 Walkway

General Information

Place of Birth: Lake Shore Born: June 8, 1882 Place of Death: Salt Lake City Died: February 6, 1966 Cause: Natural Parents: William Thomas Eddy & Sarah Jane Green

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Social Security Death Index

Source Citation: Number: 529-05-4609;Issue State: Utah;Issue Date: Before 1951.

Source Information: Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration.

Description: The Social Security Administration Death Master File contains information on millions of deceased individuals with United States social security numbers whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration. Birth years for the individuals listed range from 1875 to last year. Information in these records includes name, birth date, death date, and last known residence.


Name: William Eddy

SSN: 529-05-4609

Last Residence: 84102 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States of America

Born: 8 Jun 1882

Died: Feb 1966

State (Year) SSN issued:

Utah (Before 1951)

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003 Henry Barnes III

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003 Sarah Jane Green-Eddy

Eddy, Sarah J. Green Date of Birth 1842-06-05


Place of Birth Hancock County, Illinois, USA

Place of Death Springville, Utah, USA

Fathers Name Henry Green

Mothers Name Louisa Spencer

Cemetery Evergreen

Plot Description Sec. B Lot 312 Pos. 8

General Information

Place of Birth: Hancock County, Ill Born: June 5, 1842 Place of Death: Sprinville Died: May 15, 1916 Cause: Velvilis Dis. Parents: Henry Green & Louisa Spencer

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Name: Sarah Jane Eddy


Death Date: 15 May 1916

Cemetery: Egreen



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Name: Sarah June Eddy



Gender: Female

Age: 73

County of Death: Utah



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003 Willaim Thomas Eddy 1880

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003 Willaim Thomas Eddy I 1900

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003 Willaim Thomas Eddy I 1910





Name: William T. Eddy



Cemetery: Egreen



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003 Willaim Thomas Eddy I Utah Cemetery Index





Name: William Thomas Eddy



Gender: Male

Age: 76

County of Death: Utah



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003 Willaim Thomas Eddy I Utah Death Index

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004 Pardon Spooner 1800

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004 Thomas Henry Green

005 James Spooner Biography

James Spooner Life Story (b. 1739)

James Spooner was raised a farmer. This calling he gave up for that of a seaman, which he followed,

except when in service as a soldier, until his removal from New Bedford to Vermont, soon after the close

of the Revolution, where he purchased land. About the year 1810 he removed to Ohio, and located on

land near Conneaut, where he afterwards lived.

He was a patriot soldier in the French and Indian war; he was, in 1758, in the company of Capt. James

Andrews. In the Revolution his name is first found. April 21, 1775, on the roll of the minute men, under

Capt. Dillingham, who marched for Lexington, in 1775, was corporal, company of Capt. Thomas

Kempton and afterwards he was under other officers.

A granddaughter of his writes “I loved and revered my grandfather beyond almost any other person. How

much I listened to his council and hung upon his words, I shall never forget. He was a good deal over 6

feet in height, a very stout frame, with broad shoulders, a frame that was never bent in the least in old age.

He had light blue eyes that were mild. His hair was white when I knew him, was once dark auburn. The

early part of his live he lived in New Bedford. He was a soldier when quite young in the French and

Indian war, and served in the Continental army throughout the Revolutionary war. He followed a sea-

faring life for about twenty years. I have heard him relate his voyages in the South seas, of doubling the

Cape of Good Hope; his whaling voyages; of his having expended a large sum in building a whaling ship,

which was wrecked, and he lost his all. Such seemed to be his fortune through life, — he was energetic,

and preserving, would accumulate property fast, and through some accident, or by trusting to the

uprightness of others, would lose all.

He had a good education. I remember how I used to admire his beautiful writing, and of seeing him write

his name neatly after he was blind. He belonged to the Baptist Church and was a Christian.

Source: Records of William Spooner of Plymouth, Massachusetts & his descendants Thomas Spooner,

1883

taken from www.spoonergen.com

U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783

Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original data:

Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; National Archives, Washington. D.C.

Records indexed by Direct Data Capture.

Description: This database is a collection of records kept by the U.S. National Archives listing men who fought for the colonies during the war. Each record provides the soldier's name, category, rank information, and NARA microfilm roll number to aid the researcher in locating the original record. Images of the records are also included.


Name: James Spooner

Rank - Induction: Lieut

Roll Box: 91

Roll State: VT

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005 James Spooner Revolutionary War Rolls

005 James Spooner – French American War

French And Indian War

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Not to be confused with French and Indian Wars

French and Indian War

Part of the Seven Years’ War

Date 1754–1763

Location North America

Result Treaty of Paris

Territorial changes

France cedes Canada

transfers Louisiana

Belligerents

France

New France

• Abenaki

• Algonquin

• Caughnawaga Mohawk

• Lenape

• Mi’kmaq

• Ojibwa

• Ottawa

• Shawnee

• Wyandot

Commanders And Leaders

French American War


French and Indian Wars.

Canada to Great Britain, retaining Saint Pierre et Miquelon

Louisiana to Spain; Spain cedes Florida to Great Britain

Great Britain

British America

Iroquois Confederacy

• Onondaga

• Oneida

• Seneca

• Tuscarora

• Mohawk

• Cayuga

• Catawba

• Cherokee (before 1758)

Saint Pierre et Miquelon, and


Louis-Joseph de Montcalm †

Marquis de Vaudreuil

François-Marie de Lignery †

Chevalier de Lévis (POW)

Joseph de Jumonville †

Jeffrey Amherst

Edward Braddock †

James Wolfe †

James Abercrombie

Edward Boscawen

George Washington

Strength

10,000 regulars (troupes de la terre and

troupes de la marine, peak strength,

1757)[1]

7,900 militia

2,200 natives (1759)[citation needed]

42,000 regulars and militia (peak strength,

1758)[2]

The French and Indian War is the common American name for the war between Great Britain and

France in North America from 1754 to 1763. In 1756, the war erupted into the world-wide conflict known

as the Seven Years’ War and thus came to be regarded as the North American theater of that war. In

Canada, it is usually just referred to as the Seven Years’ War, although French Canadians often call it La

guerre de la Conquête (“The War of Conquest”).[3][4]

In Europe, there is no specific name for the North

American part of the war. The name refers to the two main enemies of the British colonists: the royal

French forces and the various Native American forces allied with them, although Great Britain also had

Native allies.

The war was fought primarily along the frontiers between the British colonies from Virginia to Nova

Scotia, and began with a dispute over the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, the site of

present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The dispute resulted in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in May 1754.

British attempts at expeditions in 1755, 1756 and 1757 in the frontier areas of Pennsylvania and New

York all failed, due to a combination of poor management, internal divisions, and effective French and

Indian offense. The 1755 capture of Fort Beauséjour on the border separating Nova Scotia from Acadia

was followed by a British policy of deportation of its French inhabitants, to which there was some

resistance.

After the disastrous 1757 British campaigns (resulting in a failed expedition against Louisbourg and the

Siege of Fort William Henry, which was followed by significant atrocities on British victims by Indians),

the British government fell, and William Pitt came to power, while France was unwilling to risk large

convoys to aid the limited forces it had in New France, as it preferred to concentrate its forces against

Prussia and its allies in the European theatre of the war. Pitt significantly increased British military

resources in the colonies, and between 1758 and 1760, the British military successfully penetrated the

heartland of New France, with Montreal finally falling in September 1760.

The outcome was one of the most significant developments in a century of Anglo-French conflict. France

ceded French Louisiana west of the Mississippi River to its ally Spain in compensation for Spain’s loss to

Britain of Florida. France’s colonial presence north of the Caribbean was reduced to the islands of Saint

Pierre and Miquelon, confirming Britain’s position as the dominant colonial power in the eastern half of

North America.

Origin Of The Name

The conflict is known by several names. In British America, wars were often named after the sitting

British monarch, such as King William’s War or Queen Anne’s War. Because there had already been a

King George’s War in the 1740s, British colonists named the second war in King George’s reign after

their opponents, and thus it became known as the French and Indian War.[5]

This traditional name


remains standard in the United States, although it obscures the fact that

sides of the conflict.[6]

American historians generally use the traditional name or the European title

Seven Years’ War). Other, less frequently used names for the war include the

and the Great War for the Empire.[5

In Europe, the North American theater

entire worldwide conflict is known as the

Europe, from the official declaration of war in 1756 to the signing of the peace treaty in 1763. These dates

do not correspond with the actual fighting on mainland North America, where the fighting between the

two colonial powers was largely concluded in six years, from the

capture of Montreal in 1760.[5]

In Canada, both French- and English

conflicts as the Seven Years’ War (

Conquest” (Guerre de la Conquête

British and became part of the British Empire

Canadians.[citation needed]

This war is also one of America

Scotia and Newfoundland in the north.

arbitrarily far to the west, as the extent of the continent was unknown at the time their provincial charters

were granted. While their population centers were along the coast, they had growi

Scotia, which had been captured from France in 1713, still had a significant French

Britain also claimed Rupert’s Land

Hudson’s Bay Company traded for furs with local tribes.

In between the French and the British, large areas were

dominated by native tribes. To the north, the

Abenaki still held sway in parts of Nova Scotia, Acadia, and

the eastern portions of the province of Canada

Maine.[11]

The Iroquois Confederation

present-day Upstate New York and the

the latter also included populations of

Mingo. These tribes were formally under Iroquois control, and

were limited by them in authority to make agreements.

Further south the interior was dominated by

Map showing the 1750 possessions of Britain

France (blue), and Spain (orange) in contemporary

Canada and the United States.

French American War

remains standard in the United States, although it obscures the fact that American Indians

American historians generally use the traditional name or the European title

. Other, less frequently used names for the war include the Fourth Intercolonial War5]

theater of the Seven Years’ War usually has no special name, and so the

entire worldwide conflict is known as the Seven Years’ War. The “Seven Years” refers to events in



argely concluded in six years, from the Jumonville Glen skirmish

and English-speaking Canadians refer to both the European and North American

(Guerre de Sept Ans).[7][8]

French Canadians may use the term

Guerre de la Conquête), since it is the war in which New France was conquered by the

British Empire, but that usage is never employed by most English

This war is also one of America’s “Forgotten Wars.”[citation needed]

North America in the 1750s

North America east of the Mississippi River

largely claimed by either Great Britain or France.

The French population numbered about 75,000 and

was heavily concentrated along the

River valley, with some also in

day New Brunswick), Île Royale

Cape Breton Island), and a few in

France claimed the Mississippi River basin, but

had made little effort to establish settlements.

Instead there were hundreds of traveling fur traders

who did business with local tribes, and oft

married Indian women.[9]

British colonies had a population of about 1.5

million and ranged along the eastern coast of the

continent, from Georgia in the south to

in the north.[10]

Many of the older colonies had land claims that extended


were granted. While their population centers were along the coast, they had growing populations. Nova

Scotia, which had been captured from France in 1713, still had a significant French-speaking population.

s Land, where posts of the

traded for furs with local tribes.

In between the French and the British, large areas were

the north, the Mi’kmaq and the

still held sway in parts of Nova Scotia, Acadia, and

province of Canada and present-day

Iroquois Confederation dominated much of

and the Ohio Country, although

the latter also included populations of Delaware, Shawnee, and

. These tribes were formally under Iroquois control, and

were limited by them in authority to make agreements.[12]

Further south the interior was dominated by Catawba, Creek,

Map showing the 1750 possessions of Britain (pink),

in contemporary

Canada and the United States.

Iroquois engaging in trade with Europeans

(1722

American Indians fought on both

American historians generally use the traditional name or the European title (the

Fourth Intercolonial War

ar usually has no special name, and so the

refers to events in



Jumonville Glen skirmish in 1754 to the

speaking Canadians refer to both the European and North American

French Canadians may use the term “War of

was conquered by the

d by most English

Mississippi River was

largely claimed by either Great Britain or France.

The French population numbered about 75,000 and

was heavily concentrated along the St. Lawrence

valley, with some also in Acadia (present-

, Île Royale (present-day

, and a few in New Orleans.

France claimed the Mississippi River basin, but

had made little effort to establish settlements.

Instead there were hundreds of traveling fur traders

who did business with local tribes, and often

British colonies had a population of about 1.5

million and ranged along the eastern coast of the

in the south to Nova

Many of the older colonies had land claims that extended


ng populations. Nova

speaking population.

Iroquois engaging in trade with Europeans

1722)


Choctaw, and Cherokee tribes.[13]

When war broke out, the French also used their trading connections to

recruit fighters from tribes in western portions of the

the conflict between the French and British

Potawatomi. The British were supported in the war by the Iroquois, and also by the Cherokee

differences sparked the Anglo-Cherokee War

negotiated the Treaty of Easton, in which a number of tribes in the Ohio Country promised neutrality in

exchange for land concessions and other considerations. Most of the other northern tribes sided with the

French, their primary trading partner and supplier of arms.

diplomatic efforts by both the French and British for either support or neutrality in the conflict. It was not

uncommon for small bands to participate on the

encompassed land claimed by multiple colonies, and, after the war began, with the

establishment when its leaders attempted to impose constraints and demands on the colonial

administrations.

Events Leading To War Céloron’s Expedition

In June 1747, concerned about the incursion and expanding influence of British traders such as

Croghan in the Ohio Country, Roland

France, ordered Pierre-Joseph Céloron

confirm the original French claim to the territory, determine the level of British influence, and impress the

Indians with a French show of force.

Céloron’s expedition force consisted of about 200

Indians. The expedition covered about 3,000 miles

up the St. Lawrence, continued along the northern shore of

and then followed the southern shore of

Barcelona, New York), the expedition moved inland to the

of present-day Pittsburgh, where Céloron buried lead plates e

New York and Pennsylvania theaters of the war,

contemporary image

French American War


recruit fighters from tribes in western portions of the Great Lakes region (an area not directly subject to

the conflict between the French and British), including the Huron, Mississauga, Ojibwa

. The British were supported in the war by the Iroquois, and also by the Cherokee

Cherokee War in 1758. In 1758 the Pennsylvania government successfully

, in which a number of tribes in the Ohio Country promised neutrality in


French, their primary trading partner and supplier of arms. The Creek and Cherokee were targets of


uncommon for small bands to participate on the “other side” of the conflict from formally

agreements.

Spain’s presence in eastern North America was

limited to the province of Florida; it also controlled

Cuba and other territories in the

became military objectives in the Seven Years

Florida’s population was small, with a few

settlements at St. Augustine and Pensacol

At the start of the war, there were no French

army troops in North America, and few British

troops. New France was defended by about 3,000

troupes de la marine, companies of colonial regulars

(some of whom had significant woodland combat

experience), and also made calls for militia support

when needed. Most British colonies mustered il

trained militia companies to deal with native threats,

but did not have any standing forces. Virginia, with a

large frontier, had several companies of British

regulars. The colonial governments were also used to

operating independently of each other, and of the

government in London, a situation that complicated

negotiations with natives whose territories

encompassed land claimed by multiple colonies, and, after the war began, with the


In June 1747, concerned about the incursion and expanding influence of British traders such as

Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière, the Governor

Joseph Céloron to lead a military expedition through the area. Its objectives were


Indians with a French show of force.[14]

s expedition force consisted of about 200 Troupes de la marine (provincial marines

expedition covered about 3,000 miles (4,800 km) between June and November 1749. It went

up the St. Lawrence, continued along the northern shore of Lake Ontario, crossed the portage

and then followed the southern shore of Lake Erie. At the Chautauqua Portage

, the expedition moved inland to the Allegheny River, which it followed to the site

, where Céloron buried lead plates engraved with the French claim to the Ohio

New York and Pennsylvania theaters of the war,


an area not directly subject to

Ojibwa, Winnebago, and

. The British were supported in the war by the Iroquois, and also by the Cherokee — until

in 1758. In 1758 the Pennsylvania government successfully

, in which a number of tribes in the Ohio Country promised neutrality in


The Creek and Cherokee were targets of


of the conflict from formally-negotiated

s presence in eastern North America was

; it also controlled

and other territories in the West Indies that

became military objectives in the Seven Years’ War.

s population was small, with a few

Pensacola.

At the start of the war, there were no French regular

troops in North America, and few British

troops. New France was defended by about 3,000

, companies of colonial regulars

some of whom had significant woodland combat

, and also made calls for militia support

when needed. Most British colonies mustered ill-

companies to deal with native threats,

but did not have any standing forces. Virginia, with a

large frontier, had several companies of British

nts were also used to

operating independently of each other, and of the

government in London, a situation that complicated

negotiations with natives whose territories

encompassed land claimed by multiple colonies, and, after the war began, with the British Army


In June 1747, concerned about the incursion and expanding influence of British traders such as George

, the Governor-General of New

to lead a military expedition through the area. Its objectives were


provincial marines) and 30

between June and November 1749. It went

portage at Niagara,

(near present-day

, which it followed to the site

ngraved with the French claim to the Ohio


Country.[14]

Whenever he encountered British merchants or fur-traders, Céloron informed them of the

French claims on the territory and told them to leave.[14]

When Céloron’s expedition arrived at Logstown, the Native Americans in the area informed Céloron that

they owned the Ohio Country and that they would trade with the British regardless of what the French

told them to do.[15]

Céloron continued south until his expedition reached the confluence of the Ohio River

and the Miami River, which lay just south of the village of Pickawillany, the home of the Miami chief

known as “Old Briton“. Céloron informed “Old Briton” that there would be dire consequences if the

elderly chief continued to trade with the British. “Old Briton” ignored the warning. Céloron returned to

Montreal in November 1749.

In his report, which extensively detailed the journey, Céloron wrote, “All I can say is that the Natives of

these localities are very badly disposed towards the French, and are entirely devoted to the English. I

don’t know in what way they could be brought back.”[15]

Even before his return to Montreal, reports on

the situation in the Ohio Country were making their way to London and Paris, proposing that action be

taken. William Shirley, the expansionist governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, was particularly

forceful, stating that British colonists would not be safe as long as the French were present.[16]

Negotiations

In 1747 some British colonists in Virginia established the Ohio Company for the purpose of developing

trade and settlements in the Ohio Country.[17]

The company received a grant from King George II in 1749

that included requirements that it settle 100 families in the territory, and construct a fort for their

protection.[18]

The territory was also claimed by Pennsylvania, and both colonies began pushing for action

to improve their respective claims.[19]

In 1750 Christopher Gist, acting on behalf of both Virginia and the

company, explored the Ohio territory and opened negotiations with the Indian tribes at Logstown.[20]

This

beginning resulted in the 1752 Treaty of Logstown, in which the local Indians, through their “Half-King”

Tanacharison and an Iroquois representative, agreed to terms that included permission to build a “strong

house” at the mouth of the Monongahela River (the site of present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).[21]

The War of the Austrian Succession (whose North American theater is also known as King George’s

War) formally ended in 1748 with the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. The treaty was primarily

focused on resolving issues in Europe, and the issues of conflicting territorial claims between British and

French colonies in North America were turned over to a commission to resolve. Britain assigned

Governor Shirley and the Earl of Albemarle, the governor of the Province of Virginia, whose western

border was one of the sources of conflict between the two powers, to the commission. Albemarle also

served as ambassador to France. King Louis XV appointed Galissonière and other equally hard-line

members to the French membership of the commission. The commission met in Paris in the summer of

1750, with the predictable result that nothing was agreed to, given the positions of the negotiators.

Frontiers between Nova Scotia and Acadia in the north, to the Ohio Country in the south were claimed by

both sides. The disputes also extended into the Atlantic, where both powers wanted access to the rich

fisheries of the Grand Banks.

Attack On Pickawillany

Main article: Raid on Pickawillany

On March 17, 1752, the Governor-General of New France, Marquis de la Jonquière died, and was

temporarily replaced by Charles le Moyne de Longueuil. It was not until July 1752 that his permanent

replacement, the Marquis Duquesne, arrived in New France to take over the post.[22]

The continuing

British activity in the Ohio territories prompted Longueuil to dispatch another expedition to the area

under the command of Charles Michel de Langlade, an officer in the Troupes de la Marine. Langlade was

given 300 men comprising members of the Ottawa and French-Canadians. His objective was to punish

the Miami people of Pickawillany for not following Céloron’s orders to cease trading with the British. On

June 21, the French war party attacked the trading centre at Pickawillany, killing 14 people of the Miami


nation, including Old Briton, who was reportedly ritually cannibalized by some aboriginal members of the

expedition.

Marin’s Expedition

In the spring of 1753, Paul Marin de la Malgue was given command of a 2,000-man force of Troupes de

la Marine and Indians. His orders were to protect the King’s land in the Ohio Valley from the British.

Marin followed the route that Céloron had mapped out four years earlier, but where Céloron had limited

the record of French claims to the burial of lead plates, Marin constructed and garrisoned forts. The first

fort constructed by Paul Marin was Fort Presque Isle (near present-day Erie, Pennsylvania) on Lake Erie’s

south shore. He then had a road built to the headwaters of LeBoeuf Creek. Marin then constructed a

second fort at Fort Le Boeuf (present-day Waterford, Pennsylvania), designed to guard the headwaters of

LeBoeuf Creek. As he moved south, he drove off or captured British traders, alarming both the British

and the Iroquois. Tanaghrisson, a chief of the Mingo with an intense dislike for the French (whom he

accused of killing and eating his father), went to Fort Le Boeuf, where he threatened action against them,

which Marin contemptuously dismissed.[23]

The Iroquois sent runners to William Johnson‘s manor in upstate New

York. Johnson, known to the Iroquois as “Warraghiggey”, meaning “He

who does big business”, had become a respected member of the Iroquois

Confederacy in the area. In 1746, Johnson was made a colonel of the

Iroquois, and later a colonel of the Western New York Militia. They met

at Albany, New York with Governor Clinton and officials from some of

the other American colonies. Chief Hendrick insisted that the British

abide by their obligations and block French expansion. When an

unsatisfactory response was offered by Clinton, Chief Hendrick

proclaimed that the “Covenant Chain“, a long-standing friendly

relationship between the Iroquois Confederacy and the British Crown,

was broken.

Dinwiddie’s Reaction

Governor Robert

Dinwiddie of Virginia

found himself in a predicament. He was one of the investors

in the Ohio Company, which stood to lose money if the

French held their claim.[24]

To counter the French military

presence in Ohio, in October 1753 Dinwiddie ordered the

21-year-old Major George Washington (another Ohio

Company investor) of the Virginia militia to warn the French

to leave Virginia territory.[25]

Washington left with a small

party, picking up along the way Jacob Van Braam as an

interpreter, Christopher Gist, a company surveyor working in

the area, and a few Mingo led by Tanaghrisson. On

December 12, Washington and his men reached Fort Le

Boeuf.[26][27]

Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre, who replaced Marin as

commander of the French forces after the latter died on

October 29, invited Washington to dine with him that

evening. Over dinner, Washington presented Saint-Pierre

with the letter from Dinwiddie that demanded an immediate

French withdrawal from the Ohio Country. Saint-Pierre was

quite civil in his response, saying, “As to the Summons you

Robert Dinwiddie, British

lieutenant governor of Virginia

Washington’s map of the Ohio River and

surrounding region containing notes on

French intentions, 1753 or 1754.


send me to retire, I do not think myself obliged to obey it.”[28]

He explained to Washington that France’s

claim to the region was superior to that of the British, since René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle had

explored the Ohio Country nearly a century earlier.[29]

Washington’s party left Fort Le Boeuf early on December 16, arriving back in Williamsburg on January

16, 1754. In his report, Washington stated, “The French had swept south”,[30]

detailing the steps they had

taken to fortify the area, and communicating their intention to fortify the confluence of the Allegheny and

Monongahela Rivers.[31]

Course Of The War

Dinwiddie, even before Washington returned, sent a group of 40 men under William Trent to that point,

where in the early months of 1754 they began construction of a small stockaded fort.[32]

Governor

Duquesne sent additional French forces under Claude-Pierre Pecaudy de Contrecœur to relieve Saint-

Pierre during the same period, and Contrecœur led 500 men south from Fort Venango on April 5, 1754.[33]

When these arrived at the forks, Contrecœur generously allowed Trent’s small company to withdraw,

after purchasing their construction tools to continue building what became Fort Duquesne.[34]

After Washington returned to Williamsburg with his report, Dinwiddie ordered him to lead a larger force

to assist Trent in his work. While en route, he learned of Trent’s retreat.[35]

Since Tanaghrisson had

promised him support, he continued toward Fort Duquesne, and met with the Mingo leader. Learning of a

French scouting party in the area, Washington took some of his men, and with Tanaghrisson and his

party, surprised the French on May 28. Many of the French were slain, among them their commanding

officer, Joseph Coulon de Jumonville, whose head was split open by Tanaghrisson. Historian Fred

Anderson puts forward the reason for Tanaghrisson’s act (which was followed up by one of

Tanaghrisson’s men informing Contrecoeur that Jumonville had been killed by British musket fire) as one

of desperate need to win the support of the British in an effort to regain authority over his people, who

were more inclined to support the French.[36]

Following the battle, Washington pulled back several miles and

established Fort Necessity, which the French then attacked on July 3.

The engagement led to Washington’s surrender; he negotiated a

withdrawal under arms. One of Washington’s men reported that the

French force was accompanied by Shawnee, Delaware, and Mingo—just

those Tanaghrisson was seeking to influence.[37]

When news of the two battles reached England in August, the

government of the Duke of Newcastle, after several months of

negotiations, decided to send an army expedition the following year to

dislodge the French.[38]

Major General Edward Braddock was chosen to

lead the expedition.[39]

Word of the British military plans leaked to

France well before Braddock’s departure for North America, and King

Louis XV dispatched six regiments to New France under the command

of Baron Dieskau in 1755.[40]

The British, intending to blockade French

ports, sent out their fleet in February 1755, but the French fleet had

already sailed. Admiral Edward Hawke detached a fast squadron to

North America in an attempt to intercept the French. In a second British

act of aggression, Admiral Edward Boscawen fired on the French ship

Alcide on June 8, 1755, capturing her and two troop ships.[41]

The British harassed French shipping

throughout 1755, seizing ships and capturing seamen, contributing to the eventual formal declarations of

war in spring 1756.[42]

British Campaigns, 1755

The earliest authenticated

portrait of George Washington

shows him wearing his colonel’s

uniform of the Virginia

Regiment. This portrait was

painted in 1772 by Charles

Willson Peale.


The British formed an aggressive plan of operations for 1755. General Braddock was to lead the

expedition to Fort Duquesne, while Massachusetts provincial governor William Shirley was given the

task of fortifying Fort Oswego and attacking Fort Niagara, Sir William Johnson was to capture Fort St.

Frédéric (at present-day Crown Point, New York),[43]

and Lieutenant Colonel Robert Monckton was to

capture Fort Beauséjour on the frontier between Nova Scotia and Acadia.[44]

Braddock led about 2,000 army troops and provincial militia on an expedition in June 1755 to take Fort

Duquesne. The expedition was a disaster. At the battle of the Monongahela, Braddock was mortally

wounded. Two future opponents in the American Revolutionary War, Washington and Thomas Gage,

played key roles in organizing the retreat. One consequence of the debacle was that the French acquired a

copy of the British war plans, including the activities of Shirley and Johnson. Shirley’s efforts to fortify

Oswego were bogged down in logistical difficulties and magnified by Shirley’s inexperience in managing

large expeditions. When it was clear he would not have time to mount an expedition across Lake Ontario

to Fort Ontario, Shirley left garrisons at Oswego, Fort Bull, and Fort Williams (the latter two located on

the Oneida Carry between the Mohawk River and Wood Creek at present-day Rome, New York).

Supplies for use in the projected attack on Niagara were cached at Fort Bull.

Johnson’s expedition was better organized than Shirley’s, something that did not escape the attention of

New France’s governor, the Marquis de Vaudreuil. He had primarily been concerned about the extended

supply line to the forts on the Ohio, and had sent Baron Dieskau to lead the defenses at Frontenac against

Shirley’s expected attack. When Johnson was seen as the larger threat, Vaudreuil sent Dieskau to Fort St.

Frédéric to meet that threat. Dieskau planned to attack the British encampment at Fort Edward at the

upper end of navigation on the Hudson River, but Johnson had strongly fortified it, and Dieskau’s Indian

support was reluctant to attack. The two forces finally met in the bloody Battle of Lake George between

Fort Edward and Fort William Henry. The battle ended inconclusively, with both sides withdrawing from

the field. Johnson’s advance stopped at Fort William Henry, and the French withdrew to Ticonderoga

point, where they began the construction of Fort Carillon (later renamed Fort Ticonderoga after British

capture in 1759).

Colonel Monckton, in the only real British success that year, successfully captured Fort Beauséjour in

June 1755, cutting the French fortress at Louisbourg off from land-based reinforcements. To cut vital

supplies to Louisbourg, Nova Scotia’s Governor Charles Lawrence ordered the deportation of the French-

speaking Acadian population from the area. Monckton’s forces, including companies of Rogers’ Rangers,

forcibly removed thousands of Acadians, chasing down many who resisted, and sometimes committing

atrocities. More than any other factor, the cutting off of supplies to Louisbourg led to its demise.[45]

The

Acadian resistance, in concert with native allies, including the Mi’kmaq, was sometimes quite stiff, with

ongoing frontier raids (against Dartmouth and Lunenburg among others). Other than the campaigns to

expel the Acadians (ranging around the Bay of Fundy, on the Petitcodiac and St. John rivers, and Île

Saint-Jean), the only clashes of any size were at Petitcodiac in 1755 and at Bloody Creek near Annapolis

Royal in 1757.

French Victories, 1756–1757

See also: Franco-Indian alliance

Following the death of Braddock, William Shirley assumed

command of British forces in North America. At a meeting in

Albany in December 1755 he laid out his plans for 1756. In

addition to renewing the efforts to capture Niagara, Crown

Point and Duquesne, he proposed attacks on Fort Frontenac on

the north shore of Lake Ontario and an expedition through the

wilderness of the Maine district and down the Chaudière River

to attack the city of Quebec. Bogged down by disagreements

and disputes with others, including William Johnson and New York’s Governor Sir Charles Hardy,

Conference between the French and

Indian leaders around a ceremonial fire.


Shirley’s plan had little support, and Newcastle replaced him in January 1756 with Lord Loudoun, with

Major General James Abercrombie as his second in command. Neither of these men had as much

campaign experience as the trio of officers France sent to North America.[42]

French regular army

reinforcements arrived in New France in May 1756, led by Major General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and

seconded by the Chevalier de Lévis and Colonel François-Charles de Bourlamaque, all experienced

veterans from the War of the Austrian Succession.

Governor Vaudreuil, who harboured ambitions to become the French

commander in chief (in addition to his role as governor), acted during

the winter of 1756 before those reinforcements arrived. Scouts had

reported the weakness of the British supply chain, so he ordered an

attack against the forts Shirley had erected at the Oneida Carry. In the

March Battle of Fort Bull, French forces destroyed the fort and large

quantities of supplies, including 45,000 pounds of gunpowder,

effectively setting back any British hopes for campaigns on Lake

Ontario, and endangering the Oswego garrison, which was already short

on supplies. French forces in the Ohio valley also continued to intrigue

with Indians throughout the area, encouraging them to raid frontier

settlements. This led to ongoing alarms along the western frontiers, with

streams of refugees returning east to get away from the action.

The new British command was not in place until July. Abercrombie,

when he arrived in Albany, refused to take any significant actions until Loudoun approved them. His

inaction was met by Montcalm with bold action. Building on Vaudreuil’s work harassing the Oswego

garrison, Montcalm executed a strategic feint by moving his headquarters to Ticonderoga, as if to presage

another attack along Lake George. With Abercrombie pinned down at Albany, Montcalm slipped away

and led the successful attack on Oswego in August. In the aftermath, Montcalm and the Indians under his

command disagreed about the disposition of prisoners’ personal effects. These sorts of items were not

prizes in European warfare, but Indians were angered by the fact that the French troops prevented them

from stripping the prisoners of their valuables.

Loudoun, a capable administrator but a cautious field

commander, planned only one major operation for 1757: an

attack on New France’s capital, Quebec. Leaving a sizable force

at Fort William Henry to distract Montcalm, he began

organizing for the expedition to Quebec, only to be ordered by

William Pitt, the Secretary of State responsible for the colonies,

to attack Louisbourg first. Beset by delays of all kinds, the

expedition was ready to sail from Halifax, Nova Scotia in early

August. In the meantime French ships had escaped the British

blockade of the French coast, and a fleet outnumbering the

British one awaited Loudoun at Louisbourg. Faced with this

strength Loudoun returned to New York amid news that a

massacre had occurred at Fort William Henry.

French irregular forces (Canadian scouts and Indians) harassed

Fort William Henry throughout the first half of 1757. In January they ambushed British rangers near

Ticonderoga. In February they launched a daring raid against the position across the frozen Lake George,

destroying storehouses and buildings outside the main fortification. In early August, Montcalm and 7,000

troops besieged the fort, which capitulated with an agreement to withdraw under parole. When the

withdrawal began, some of Montcalm’s Indian allies, angered at the lost opportunity for loot, attacked the

British column, killing and capturing several hundred men, women, children, and slaves. The aftermath of

the siege may also have been responsible for the transmission of smallpox into remote Indian populations;

General Louis-Joseph de

Montcalm

Montcalm trying to stop allied Native

Americans from attacking British soldiers

and civilians as they leave after the Battle

of Fort William Henry.


some Indians were reported to have traveled from beyond the Mississippi to participate in the

campaign.[46]

British Conquest, 1758–1760

Vaudreuil and Montcalm were only minimally

resupplied in 1758, as the British blockade of the

French coastline again limited French shipping.

The situation in New France was further

exacerbated by a poor harvest in 1757, a difficult

winter, and the allegedly corrupt machinations of

François Bigot, the intendant of the territory,

whose schemes to supply the colony inflated

prices and were believed by Montcalm to line his

pockets and those of his associates. A massive

outbreak of smallpox among western tribes led

many of them to stay away in 1758. While many

parties to the conflict blamed others (the Indians

critically blaming the French for bringing “bad

medicine” as well as denying them prizes at Fort

William Henry), the disease was probably spread

through the crowded conditions at William Henry

after the battle.[47]

In the light of these conditions, Montcalm focused his meager resources on the defense

of the Saint Lawrence, with primary defenses at Carillon, Quebec, and Louisbourg, while Vaudreuil

argued unsuccessfully for a continuation of the raiding tactics that had worked quite effectively in

previous years.[48]

The British failures in North America, combined with other failures in the European theater, led to the fall

from power of Newcastle and his principal military advisor, the Duke of Cumberland. Newcastle and Pitt

then joined in an uneasy coalition where Pitt dominated the military planning. He embarked on a plan for

the 1758 campaign that was largely developed by Loudoun, who was replaced by Abercrombie as

commander in chief, after the failures of 1757. Pitt’s plan called for three major offensive actions

involving large numbers of regular troops, supported by the provincial militias, aimed at capturing the

heartlands of New France. Two of the expeditions were successful, with Fort Duquesne and Louisbourg

falling to sizable British forces.

1758

The Forbes Expedition was a British campaign in September — October 1758, with 6,000 troops led by

General John Forbes to drive the French out of the contested Ohio Country. After a British advance party

was repulsed on Sept. 14, the French withdrew from Fort Duquesne, leaving the British in control of the

Ohio River Valley.[49]

The great French fortress at Louisbourg in Nova Scotia was captured after a

siege.[50]

The third invasion was stopped with the improbable French victory in the Battle of Carillon, in which

3,600 Frenchmen famously and decisively defeated Abercrombie’s force of 18,000 regulars, militia and

Native American allies outside the fort the French called Carillon and the British called Ticonderoga.

Abercrombie saved something from the disaster when he sent John Bradstreet on an expedition that

successfully destroyed Fort Frontenac, including caches of supplies destined for New France’s western

forts and furs destined for Europe. Abercrombie was recalled and replaced by Jeffrey Amherst, victor at

Louisbourg.

In the aftermath of generally poor French results in most theaters of the Seven Years’ War in 1758,

France’s new foreign minister, the duc de Choiseul, decided to focus on an invasion of Britain, to draw

The Victory of Montcalm’s Troops at Carillon by Henry

Alexander Ogden.


British resources away from North America and the European mainland. The invasion failed both

militarily and politically, as Pitt again planned significant campaigns against New France, and sent funds

to Britain’s ally on the mainland, Prussia, and the French Navy failed in naval battles at Lagos and

Quiberon Bay. In one piece of good fortune, some French supply ships managed to depart France, eluding

the British blockade of the French coast.

1759-1760

British victories continued in all theaters in the Annus Mirabilis of 1759,

when they finally captured Ticonderoga, James Wolfe defeated

Montcalm at Quebec (in a battle that claimed the lives of both

commanders), and victory at Fort Niagara successfully cut off the French

frontier forts further to the west and south. The victory was made

complete in 1760, when, despite losing outside Quebec City in the Battle

of Sainte-Foy, the British were able to prevent the arrival of French relief

ships in the naval Battle of the Restigouche while armies marched on

Montreal from three sides.

In September of 1760, Governor Vaudreuil negotiated a surrender with

General Amherst. Amherst granted Vaudreuil’s request that any French

residents who chose to remain in the colony would be given freedom to

continue worshiping in their Roman Catholic tradition, continued

ownership of their property, and the right to remain undisturbed in their

homes. The British provided medical treatment for the sick and wounded French soldiers and French

regular troops were returned to France aboard British ships with an agreement that they were not to serve

again in the present war.

End Of The War

Most of the fighting between France and Britain in continental

North America ended in 1760. The notable exception was the

French seizure of St. John’s, Newfoundland. When General

Amherst heard of this surprise action, he immediately dispatched

troops under his nephew William Amherst, who regained control

of Newfoundland after the Battle of Signal Hill in September.[51]

Many troops from North America were reassigned to participate in

further British actions in the West Indies, including the capture of

Spanish Havana when Spain belatedly entered the conflict on the

side of France, and a British expedition against French Martinique

in 1762.[52]

General Amherst also oversaw the transition of French forts in the western lands to British control. The

policies he introduced in those lands disturbed large numbers of Indians, and contributed to the outbreak

in 1763 of the conflict known as Pontiac’s Rebellion.[53]

This series of attacks on frontier forts and

settlements required the continued deployment of British troops, and was not resolved until 1766.[54]

The war in North America officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on February 10, 1763,

and war in the European theatre of the Seven Years’ War was settled by the Treaty of Hubertusburg on

February 15, 1763. The British offered France a choice of either its North American possessions east of

the Mississippi or the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, which had been occupied by the

British. France chose to cede Canada, and was able to negotiate the retention of Saint Pierre and

Miquelon, two small islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and fishing rights in the area. The economic

value of the Caribbean islands to France was greater than that of Canada because of their rich sugar crops,

and they were easier to defend. The British, however, were happy to take New France, as defense was not

British General Jeffrey Amherst

The descent of the French on St.

John’s, Newfoundland, 1762.


an issue, and they already had many sources of sugar. Spain, which traded

Cuba, also gained Louisiana, including

Navigation on the Mississippi was to be open to all nations.

Consequences

The war changed economic, political, and social relations between three European powers

France, and Spain), their colonies and colonists, and the

France and Britain both suffered financially because of the war, with significant long

evolved to “Cadien” then evolved to

Following the peace treaty, King George III

which outlined the division and administration of the newly conquered territory, and to some extent

continues to govern relations between the government of modern

in its provisions was the reservation of lands west of the

population,[57]

a demarcation that was at best

settlers.[58]

The proclamation also contained provisions that prevented civic participation by the Roman

Catholic Canadians.[59]

When accommodations were made in the

other issues, religious concerns were raised in the largely Protestant

of “popery“.

The Seven Years’ War nearly doubled Britain

pay off the debt, attempted to impose new taxes on its colonies. These attempts were met with

increasingly stiff resistance, until troops were called in so th

perform their duties. These acts ultimately led to the start of the

France attached comparatively little value to its North American possessions, especially in respect to the

highly profitable sugar-producing

considered he had made a good deal at the

had only lost “a few acres of snow”

of the war weakened the monarchy and contributed to the advent of the

For many native populations, the elimination of French power in North America meant the disappearance

of a strong ally and counterweight to British expansion, lea

Ohio Country was particularly vulnerable to legal and illegal settlement due to the construction of

military roads to the area by Braddock and Forbes.

Map showing British territorial gains following the

Treaty of Paris in pink, and Spanish territorial gains after

the Treaty of Fontainebleau in yellow.

French American War

an issue, and they already had many sources of sugar. Spain, which traded Florida to Britain to regain

, including New Orleans, from France in compensation for its losses.

Navigation on the Mississippi was to be open to all nations.[55]

The war changed economic, political, and social relations between three European powers

, their colonies and colonists, and the natives that inhabited the territories they claimed.

France and Britain both suffered financially because of the war, with significant long-term consequences.

Britain gained control of French Canada

Acadia, colonies containing approximately 80,000

primarily French-speaking Roman Catholic

residents. The deportation of Acadians beginning

in 1755 resulted in land made available to

migrants from Europe and the colonies further

south. The British resettled many Acadians

throughout its North American provinces, but

many went to France, and some went to New

Orleans, which they had expected to remain

French. Some were sent to colonize places as

diverse as French Guiana and the

these latter efforts were unsuccessful. Others

migrated to places like Saint-Domingue

to New Orleans after the Haitian Revolution

Louisiana population contributed to the founding

of the modern Cajun (french word

then evolved to “Cajun”) population.[56]

King George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763 on October 7, 1763,


continues to govern relations between the government of modern Canada and the First Nations

in its provisions was the reservation of lands west of the Appalachian Mountains

a demarcation that was at best a temporary impediment to a rising tide of westward


When accommodations were made in the Quebec Act in 1774 to address this and

religious concerns were raised in the largely Protestant Thirteen Colonies

War nearly doubled Britain’s national debt. The Crown, seeking sources of revenue to


increasingly stiff resistance, until troops were called in so that representatives of the Crown could safely

perform their duties. These acts ultimately led to the start of the American Revolutionary War


producing Antilles islands, which it managed to retain. Minister

considered he had made a good deal at the Treaty of Paris, and philosopher Voltaire wrote that Louis XV

”.[61]

For France however, the military defeat and the financial burden

of the war weakened the monarchy and contributed to the advent of the French Revolution


and counterweight to British expansion, leading to their ultimate dispossession.


he area by Braddock and Forbes.[63]

Although the Spanish takeover of the Louisiana

Map showing British territorial gains following the

in pink, and Spanish territorial gains after

in yellow.

to Britain to regain

, from France in compensation for its losses.

The war changed economic, political, and social relations between three European powers (Britain,

natives that inhabited the territories they claimed.

term consequences.

French Canada and

containing approximately 80,000

speaking Roman Catholic

residents. The deportation of Acadians beginning

in 1755 resulted in land made available to

migrants from Europe and the colonies further

south. The British resettled many Acadians

hroughout its North American provinces, but

many went to France, and some went to New

Orleans, which they had expected to remain

French. Some were sent to colonize places as

and the Falkland Islands;

these latter efforts were unsuccessful. Others

Domingue, and fled

Haitian Revolution. The

Louisiana population contributed to the founding

french word “Acadien”

on October 7, 1763,


First Nations. Included

Appalachian Mountains to its Indian

a temporary impediment to a rising tide of westward-bound


in 1774 to address this and

Thirteen Colonies over the advance

s national debt. The Crown, seeking sources of revenue to


at representatives of the Crown could safely

American Revolutionary War.[60]


islands, which it managed to retain. Minister Choiseul

wrote that Louis XV

For France however, the military defeat and the financial burden

French Revolution in 1789.[62]


ding to their ultimate dispossession.[62]

The


Although the Spanish takeover of the Louisiana


territory (which was not completed until 1769) had only modest repercussions, the British takeover of

Spanish Florida resulted in the westward migration of tribes that did not want to do business with the

British, and a rise in tensions between the Choctaw and the Creek, historic enemies whose divisions the

British at times exploited.[64]

The change of control in Florida also prompted most of its Spanish Catholic

population to leave. Most went to Cuba, including the entire governmental records from St. Augustine,

although some Christianized Yamasee were resettled to the coast of Mexico.[65]

The history of the Seven Years’ War, particularly the siege of Quebec and the deaths of British Brigadier

General James Wolfe and French General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, generated a vast number of ballads,

broadsides, images, maps and other printed materials, which testify to how this event continued to capture

the imaginations of the British and French publics long after their deaths in 1759.[citation needed]

France returned to North America in 1778 with the establishment of a Franco-American alliance against

Great Britain in the American War of Independence. This time France succeeded in prevailing over Great

Britain, in what historian Alfred Cave describes as “French [...] revenge for Montcalm’s death”.[66]

See also

• French and Indian Wars (article includes King William’s War, Queen Anne’s War, King George’s

War, and this war.)

• Northwest Indian War

• Franco-Indian alliance

• Great Britain in the Seven Years War

• New Hampshire Provincial Regiment

Footnotes

1. ^ Brumwell, pp. 24–25.

2. ^ Brumwell, pp. 26–31, documents the starting sizes of the expeditions against Louisbourg,

Carillon, Duquesne, and West Indies.

3. ^ The Canadian Encyclopedia

4. ^ The Siege of Québec: An episode of the Seven Year’s War — Canadian National Battlefields

Commission Plains of Abraham website

5. ^ a b c Anderson (2000), p. 747.

6. ^ Jennings, p. xv.

7. ^ The Canadian Encyclopedia: Seven Years’ War.

8. ^ (French) L’Encyclopédie canadienne: Guerre de Sept Ans.

9. ^ John Powell, Encyclopedia of North American immigration (2005) p. 204

10. ^ Francis D. Cogliano, Revolutionary America, 1763-1815: A Political History (2008) p 32

11. ^ Jennings, pp. 9, 176

12. ^ Anderson (2000), p. 23

13. ^ Jennings, p. 8

14. ^ a b c Anderson (2000), p. 26.

15. ^ a b Fowler, p. 14.

16. ^ Fowler, p. 15.





21. ^ Anderson (2000), p. 28

22. ^ Anderson (2000), p. 27

23. ^ Fowler, p. 31.

24. ^ O’Meara, p. 48

25. ^ Anderson (2000), pp. 42–43


26. ^ Anderson (2000), p. 43


28. ^ Fowler, p. 35.

29. ^ Ellis, His Excellency George Washington, p. 5.

30. ^ Fowler, p. 36.

31. ^ O’Meara, pp. 37–38.

32. ^ O’Meara, p. 41

33. ^ O’Meara, pp. 43–45


35. ^ Anderson (2000), p. 50

36. ^ Anderson (2000), pp. 51–59.

37. ^ Anderson (2000), pp. 59–65.

38. ^ Fowler, p. 52.

39. ^ Lengel p. 52.

40. ^ O’Meara, p. 113.

41. ^ Fowler, pp. 74–75.

42. ^ a b Fowler, p. 98.

43. ^ O’Meara, pp. 110–111.

44. ^ O’Meara, p. 163.

45. ^ Patterson, Stephen E. 1744-1763: Colonial Wars and Aboriginal Peoples. In Phillip Buckner and

John Reid (eds.) The Atlantic Region to Conderation: A History. Toronto: University of Toronto

Press. 1994. p.152

46. ^ Nester, pp. 53–61

47. ^ Fowler, p. 138.

48. ^ Fowler, p. 139.

49. ^ Fred Anderson, Crucible of War: The Seven Years War and the Fate of Empire in British North

America, 1754-1766 (2000) pp 267-285

50. ^ William, Wood, The Great Fortress: A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720–1760 (online from Project

Gutenberg

51. ^ Anderson (2000), p. 498

52. ^ Cave, p. 21


54. ^ Anderson (2000), pp. 617–632

55. ^ Anderson (2000), pp. 505–506

56. ^ Calloway, pp. 161–164

57. ^ Anderson (2000), pp. 565–566

58. ^ Anderson (2000), pp. 636–637

59. ^ Anderson (2000), p. 568

60. ^ Anderson, Fred. “The Real First World War and the Making of America“ American Heritage,

November/December 2005.

61. ^ Cave, p. 52

62. ^ a b Cave, p. xii

63. ^ Anderson (2000), p. 525

64. ^ Calloway, pp. 133–138

65. ^ Calloway, pp. 152–156

66. ^ Cave, p. 82

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1766&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=true.

• Anderson, Fred (2005). The War that Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War.

New York: Viking. ISBN 0670034541. http://www.wqed.org/tv/specials/the-war-that-made-america/.

— Released in conjunction with the 2006 PBS miniseries The War that Made America.

• Brumwell, Stephen (2006). Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755-1763.

Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521675383.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=qEZfYRuZLJQC&lpg=PP1&dq=%3DRedcoats%3A%20The%20Br

itish%20Soldier%20and%20War%20in%20the%20Americas%2C%201755-

1763&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=true.

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Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195300710. http://books.google.ca/books?id=XtxG369-

VHQC&lpg=PP1&dq=The%20Scratch%20of%20a%20Pen%3A%201763%20and%20the%20Transf

ormation%20of%20North%20America&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=true.

• Cave, Alfred A. (2004). The French and Indian War. Westport, Connecticut — London: Greenwood

Press. ISBN 031332168X.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=iiZoWyv77qQC&lpg=PP1&dq=French%20and%20Indian%20Wars

&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=true.

• Ellis, Joseph J. (2004). His Excellency George Washington. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN

1400032539.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=jdrjRMhV5PcC&lpg=PP1&dq=His%20Excellency%20George%20

Washington&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=true.

• Fowler, William M. (2005). Empires at War: The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North

America, 1754-1763. New York: Walker. ISBN 0802714110.

• Jennings, Francis (1988). Empire of Fortune: Crowns, Colonies, and Tribes in the Seven Years War

in America. New York: Norton. ISBN 0393306402.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=VsBPyRfdHEAC&lpg=PP1&dq=Empire%20of%20Fortune%3A%

20Crowns%2C%20Colonies%2C%20and%20Tribes%20in%20the%20Seven%20Years%20War%20

in%20America&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=true.

• Nester, William R (2000). The first global war: Britain, France, and the fate of North America,

1756–1775. Westport, CT: Praeger. ISBN 9780275967710. OCLC 41468552.

• O’Meara, Walter (1965). Guns at the Forks. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. OCLC 21999143.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=1UpMrXR3rvwC&lpg=PP1&ots=znjgmfPvo2&dq=Guns%20at%20

the%20Forks&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=true.

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Further reading

• Eckert, Allan W. Wilderness Empire. Bantam Books, 1994, originally published 1969. ISBN 0-553-

26488-5. Second volume in a series of historical narratives, with emphasis on Sir William Johnson.

Academic historians often regard Eckert’s books, which are written in the style of novels, to be

unreliable, as they contain things like dialogue that is clearly fictional.

• Parkman, Francis. Montcalm and Wolfe: The French and Indian War. Originally published 1884.

New York: Da Capo, 1984. ISBN 0-306-81077-8.

External Links

• The French and Indian War Website


• Historical Preservation Archive: Transcribed Articles & Documents

• The War That Made America from PBS

• FORGOTTEN WAR: Struggle for North America from PBS

• French and Indian War study guide, analysis, primary sources, teacher resources

• Select Bibliography of the French and Indian Wars compiled by the United States Army Center of

Military History

U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970

Source Citation: Volume 331; SAR Membership Number 66035.

Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

Original data: Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls.

Description: This database contains applications for membership in the approved between 1889 and 31 December 1970. These records can be an excellent source for names, dates, locations, and family relationships.


Name: Corporal James Spooner

SAR Membership: 66035

Birth Date: 5 Sep 1739

Birth Place: Dartmouth, New Bedford, Massachusetts

Death Date: 3 Sep 1815

Death Place: Conneaut, Ashtabula, Ohio

Spouse: Susanna De Maranville

Children: Joshua Spooner

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Name: Elizabeth Spooner


Birth Date: 1718

Spouse: John Spooner

Children: John Spooner



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Birth Date: 1715

Father: Nathan Spooner

Mother: Patience Spooner

Spouse: Elizabeth Spooner




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006 Louis De Marnville - Biography

Louis De Maranville

www.fourth-millennium.net/family-travels/sarah-waste-family.html

From “Descendants of Louis DeMaranville” by George L. Randall, 1921

Legend says Louis DeMaranville was born in Paris, France, and was a young officer in the army,

age 19. One morning while walking in the garden he saw his new step-mother punishing his little

sister and becoming enraged pulled out his sword and knocked her bonnet off. To escape a worse

punishment he was put on board a war ship of which Francis Crapo was Captain. This vessel was

wrecked off the shore of Cape Cod, and four men and the boy Peter Crapo were saved in a boat

said to have landed at Plymouth, Mass.

The boy Peter Crapo about 12 years of age was bound out by his brother the Captain to Francis

Coombs of Middleboro, Mass. No date is given of their coming but it was probably before 1700.

A rhyme of the men’s names I have heard repeated by descendants of the five families, was:

Louis DeMaranville and Louis Voteau.

Old Peter Jucket and Francis Crapeau.

Peter Crapo buys land in Rochester, Mass. As early as 1703 and was married in 1704. At the time

of this marriage Louis DeMaranville is said to make a vow that he would not marry until he could

marry a daughter of Peter Crapo, which in 1730 he did, and is said to have had thirteen children,

of several of which I find no mention. It is said that while waiting for his future wife to grow up

that he cleared up an exceedingly nice farm for those days and built thereon a wall so wide that a

yoke of oxen could be driven on top thereof, a portion of this wall is shown today on the old

homestead near Braley’s Station, in Dartmouth, Mass. It is said also that Louis named his first

child Chaumont after the Duke of Chaumont. An old pewter porringer said to belong to Louis is

yet shown and is in the hands of a descendant Mrs. Abbie J. Brooks of New Bedford, Mass.

A deed dated 1773 refers to Louis as lately deceased and while we do not know how old he was

at his death, yet if our legend is true he must have been more than 100 years old, and it has been

claimed 110. The family has been noted for its longevity, also for its musical and inventive

ability.

It is not known how much truth there is in this legend, but this we do know that the men

mentioned in the rhyme and the boy Peter Crapo were all in the town of Rochester and married

before 1735 and therefore could not have been of the Arcadians ( who were not driven out until

after 1740) as has been alleged.

The spelling of the name has differed among many branches and often in the same family I find it

DeMaranville, DeMoranville, DeMeranville, Maranville, Moranville, and Ranville, and should be

pronounced DeMaranville with each a, as in ran. I have made no attempt to show which each one

uses, as I only use first and middle names in the following pages.

1. Louis DeMaranville was born in Paris, France and died in Dartmouth, Mass. , previous to

1773, married, Rochester, Mass. 8, Dec. 1730, Susanna Crapo, who b. Rochester, Mass, 5,

Nov 1707, daughter of Peter and Penelope (White) (Penelope White, daughter of Samuel and

Rebecca Green and grand-daughter of Resolved the “Child of the Mayflower” thus all of the

descendants of Louis have a Mayflower descent) A deed dated 15 April 1775, divides his

property to his children named in the following order and may be the order of their birth.

2. Chaumont, 22 Feb 1731

3. John

4. Charles

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5. Mary

6. Frances

7. Susanna

8. Gabriel

9. Elizabeth

10. Thankful

11. Louis

12. Stephen, 15 Aug 1750

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Name: Jean Marlin


Birth Date: 1740

Death Date: 1792

Spouse: Andrew Ferrier

Children: John Ferrier



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Birth Date: 1689

Father: John Spooner

Spouse: Patience Spooner




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Name: Penelope White


Birth Date: 1687

Death Date: 1726

Spouse: Peter Crapo

Children: John Crapo



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General Crapo History

From a history written by Janette L. Crapo Miller and a letter sent to Jean May by Ralph Harmon Crapo.

More information on the early American ancestors can be found in the book "Certain Comeoverers" by

Henry Howland Crapo.

Pierre or Peter Crapo and Penelope White

The Crapo family were originally from Bordeaux, France.

The early Crapo's of America were fishermen, lumbermen

and farmers.

Pierre or Peter Crapo, a boy of about 10 or 12 years of age,

was the first Crapo in America. Peter was an orphan living

with his aunt and uncle at Bordeaux, France. He had a

brother Nicholas who was captain of a ship in the French

navy. This brother's ship was in port being overhauled and

supplied for a cruise somewhere but no one, even the

captain, knew where.

Nicholas took his little brother Peter around and showed him a good time. Peter wanted to sail with him,

but he captain said "no". The time arrived to sail. The captain took sealed orders and sailed. On the third

day out the orders were opened and they found they were to go to America where the French had

colonies.

A day or two later Peter came out of hiding among the rigging where he had stowed away with a bottle of

water and some food that he had carried onto the ship. Nicholas could not go back now so he was forced

to take his brother along with him or throw him overboard.

The ship, some weeks later, arrived at Boston harbor and anchored. One night a big storm blew in off the

Atlantic and tore the ship from its anchors and drove the wooden ships on the rocks at Cape Cod and

wrecked it completely. All on board were cast into the water.

When morning came the wreckage of the ship was lying along the shore near the town of New Bedford

and on the shore were 6 persons. The Captain, his brother, Peter, and four sailors. The Captain had lashed

Peter to a floating mast and hung on to the ropes until the mast floated in the gale to the shore. The

Captain found a home for Peter with a farmer signing papers for him until he was 21 years of age. He said

he would write, but was never heard from by Peter. (Nicholas sailed back to France to report the loss of

his ship.)

When Peter became 21, he was his own master. He got some land, bought a house, and married an

English girl, Penelope White, who was the daughter of Samuel White and Rebecca Green. Samuel was

the son of Resolved White and Judith Vassell. Resolved White was the son of William White and

Susanna Fuller White who came to America on the Mayflower.

During that first hard winter after the landing of the Mayflower many of the Pilgrims died and among

them was William White and also Elizabeth Barker Winslow, the wife of Edward Winslow, Jr. Later

Edward Winslow, Jr. Married Susanna (the widow of Wm. White) and took her two sons Resolved and

Perigrine to live with them. Later both sons married and reared families. Resolved married Judith Vassall

and they had eight children, one of them Samuel, the father of Penelope White, who married Peter the

first American ancestor.

The House Of Peter Crapo

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Name: Peter Crapo


Birth Date: 1670

Death Date: 1756

Spouse: Penelope White

Children: John Crapo



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Name: John Spooner


Birth Date: 1648

Death Date: 1734

Children: Nathan Spooner



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008 Rebecca Lapham – Biography

Rebecca Lapham Notes

OTHER POSSIBLE NAMES: The wife of Samuel White has been thought to be Rebecca Greene or

Rebecca Lapham.

DEATH: Rebecca was 65 years old at her death.

SOURCES: N.E. Hist and Gen. Reg. (1960-1961) Col. CXV April 1961 P14.5 Interstake Center Library,

Oakland, California Rebecca Lapham, wife of Samuel White or John Washburn? by Mrs. John E.

Barcley, F.A.S.G. of Whitman, Massachusetts. Researched by Gertrude Clifton Pierce Nelson.

NOTES: Rebecca Lapham, wife of Samuel White or John Washburn? by Mrs. John E. Barcley, F.A.S.G.

of Whitman, Massachusetts.

A paper originally read in October 1960 at the annual meeting of the American Society of Genealogists,

Concord, N.H. and revised somewhat for publication.

There is no record of Samuel White wife's death as such. However, it is beleived that she was the Rebecca

White who died in Rochester 25 June 1711 in her sixty-fifth year, hence born about 1646.

For many years descendants have tried to determine the parentage of Rebecca, Samuel White's wife, by

searching for a Rebecca born about 1646. To my knowledge no one has ever identified her. Many names

have been suggested; and most frequently it has been thought that she was the granddaughter of James

Greene who died in Barnstable in 1731, naming in his will his granddaughter Rebecca White.

This will was dated 12 July 1727 (Barnstable Probate, 5:114). If a thorough search of this family had been

made, it would have been found that James Greene had a son James born 15 Dec 1665, who married

about 1687 Anna Greenwood, and that their daughter Rebecca, born 19 May 1688, married 24 June 1711

Isaac White of the Brookline.

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008 Samuel White – Biography

Samuel White Notes

Robert Brown's research indicated Samuel White was born in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

SOURCES: N. E. History and Genealogical Register, Volume 5, page 88. Certain Comeovers by H.

H. Crapo, Volume 1, page 56-57.

The AM Genealogist, Volume 17, April 1941. Rochester Vital Records, Volume 1, Pages 302-304.

Researched by Gertrude Clifton Pierce Nelson.

Samuel White and four others viewed the lands of Sippican and determined where the lots should be

laid out and finally each lot was laid out in 40 acre sections. Samuel White drew a house lot in what is

now Mattapoisett which he does not appear to have taken up.

The deed of the territory called Sippican was turned over to the court, July 22, 1679 to the purchasers

who organized the same day at Plymouth. Samuel White settled in North Rochester near Sniptuit and

after his death his son-in-law, Peter Crapo, bought from his grandson his Mansion House at Scituate.

The earliest list of freemen in Rochester in 1684 gives the name of Samuel White.

He was of the first board of selectmen in 1690. October 15, 1689 he took the oath of fidelity under

Governor Hinckley. In 1709 his name appeared in a list of seventeen male members of the First

Church of Rochester, Massachusetts. In 1722/1723 Samuel White and Timothy Ruggles examined

one Mr. Josiah Marshall and did approve of him as a fit person qualified as the law directs to be a

school master.

SOURCES N.E. Hist. and Gen. Reg. (1960-1961) Col. CXV April 1961 P14.5 Interstake Library,

Oakland, California

Rebecca Lapham, wife of Samuel White or John Washburn? by Mrs. John E. Barcley, F.A.S.G. of

Whitman, Massachusetts. A paper originally read in October 1960 at the annual meeting of the

American Society of Genealogists, Concord, N. H. and revised somewhat in publication. Researched

by Gertrude Clifton Pierce Nelson.

NOTES: In the original records of the Town of Rochester, Massachusetts, Volume I, page 4, there

appears the following:

"Samuel White, Senior and his wife were born in March about ye 13 in ye year 1646 taken from his

own record with ye births of his

children." Then follows a list of his eight children and their birth records, all on the same page. This

shows they were all recorded on the same day and not at the time of birth.

By comparison the vital records as printed alphabetically do not give an accurate picture of the

records as they are, a fact which is especially true in regard to those of this particular family. As they

are printed, the impression is given that all of the children were born in Rochester, yet such was not

the case and the most significant facts escape notice. Since all of the data appears together on the

same page in the original records the basis from which to work is provided and a challenge to solve

the problem is created.

The most interesting and significant thing about this record is the fact that Samuel White and his wife

were both born on the same day, the same month, and the same year and that it was "taken from his

own records". This is the only record of its kind that the writer has ever found. Yet, we are baffled by

the fact that there is no marriage record and he does not tell us her name. There is no record of his

wife's death as such. However, it is believed that she was the Rebecca White who died in Rochester

25 June 1711 in her sixty-fifth year, hence born about 1646. This at least agrees with the birth of

Samuel White's wife.

008 Samuel White – Biography

We know quite a little about Samuel White. According to the Scituate Vital records he was born 13

March 1646, the son of Resolved White, and who, with his parents, came in the Mayflower. This

verified his own statement about the date of his birth. Judging from the date of the birth of his first

child, 24 August 1669, he was married about 1668, when he and his wife were twenty-two. In 1671

he sold some land in Middleboro to Benjamin Church (Plymouth Colony Deeds, 4:229) amd is called

"of Sandwich". This indicates that he removed to that town about the time he was married or soon

after and that their first five children probably were born there, although their births were not

recorded on the town books. There is evidence that he was in Sippican as one of the proprieters 10

March 1679 and that the rest of the children were born in this new plantation, later called Rochester,

which was established as a town in 1686, only about four years before he had all of his children

recorded, as we have noted above.

SOURCES: The following information was obtained from TAG, Volume 17, The Parentage of

William White (GS0066); Records of Plymouth Colony 1633-1689, by Shurtleff-Records of James

Torrey, Towne Clarke of Scituate 1654. Researched by Robert Arthur Brown.

He removed to Sandwich at some point since in 1671, Samuel White of Sandwich, and wife Rebecca,

deeded land to Benjamin Church, acknowledged 8 June 1677. Before, and after that time they lived in

Rochester, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

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009 Eleanor Weaver - Biography

Consolidated Biography For John Peckham & Eleanor Weaver (From Many Various Sources)

1638 , Rhode Island (founders of colony)

SIR JOHN PECKHAM AND ELEANOR WEAVER, IMMIGRANTS TO RHODE ISLAND

THIS INFORMATION HAS BEEN COMPILED BY WILFREDA L “SKEET” FLOWERS FROM

SOURCES LISTED AT THE END OF THIS DOCUMENT.

Clement Weaver, the founder of our Weaver branch in America, was born about 1590 in Glastonbury,

Somersetshire, England. He married Rebecca Holbrook, daughter of William Holbrook of the same town,

on May 19, 1617 at St. John’s Church, Glastonbury. He immigrated to Massachusetts about 1630 settling

in Weymouth, Norfolk Co, Massachusetts. He relocated to Newport Co, Rhode Island about 1645. His

wife and children; Clement, Eleanor and Elizabeth accompanied him.

Eleanor Weaver (Elner) was born abt Sep 10, 1623 in Glastonbury, Somersetshire, England and came to

America about 1630 with her parents. They sailed from England to Boston, settling in Weymouth,

Norfolk Co, Mass. She moved with her family to Newport Co, Rhode Island about 1645.

Sir John Peckham was born 8 Apr 1595 in Boxgrove, Sussex Co, England. He died after 6 Jan 1681 in

Newport, Newport Co, Rhode Island. In 1634 he was chaplain to the Earl of Hertford and there is no

doubt but that as chaplain to that nobleman he made the acquaintance of Sir Henry Vane, the younger.

There can be little doubt that the extreme theological views of Sir Henry Vane became the convincing

argument that turned John Peckham from his allegiance to the Church of England. These more or less

extreme views may be described in the language of that day as those of a Baptist Lollard.He is reported

by some as having come to Boston on the “Abigail” in 1634 with Sir Henry Vane, who was stated as

having also spent time in the same village as John’s family. Others say he arrived on the “Griffin” with

the Hutchinson family. On whatever ship he sailed, he is reported to have been in Boston where he

probably met Mary Clarke, (b. abt 17 Jul 1607 in Westhorpe, Suffolk, England,) his first wife, who had

accompanied her brother, Dr. John Clarke, to Boston. [Mary and John, were the children of Thomas and

Rose (Kerridge) Clarke.] While John Peckham's name does not appear in the list of those who were

disarmed in Boston, nor among the followers of Wheelwright, nor one of the signers of the Portsmouth

Compact, he must have been one of the party known as the Ann Hutchinson Party, who founded a

settlement on the north end of Rhode Island, the town of Portsmouth. On 20 May 1638 his name appeared

on the list as one of those admitted as an inhabitant of Portsmouth, he married Mary Clark in 1639, the

bounds of his land were established in 1640, and he was admitted as a freeman in March 16,1641. He had

five children by his first wife, Mary Clarke. After her death in 1648, he married Eleanor Weaver, daug. of

Clement and Rebecca (Holbrook) Weaver, by whom he had seven children. Eleanor died in 1670 and

John in 1681

He resided in that part of Newport which is now Middletown, Rhode Island. There are many more

references to John and his decendants in the listed sourse documents as well as many other Family and/or

Place Histories for Rhode Island. It is interesting reading and gives you a feel for life during the founding

and settlement of the original 13 colonies. The families of the original settlers of Rhode Island are very

inter-connected with most of the marriages linking to one or more of the other original listed founding

families.

Children of Sir John Peckham and Mary Clarke:

Thomas (1639-1713) m. Hannah Weeden, d. of William and Abigail (Bailey) Weeden

Mary Clarke (1643-1695) m. Tobias Saunders

John (1645-1712) m. Sarah Newport

William (1647-1734) m. Elizabeth Clarke, d. of Joseph and Margaret (Turner) Clarke

James P. (1648-1712) never married.

Children of Sir John Peckham and Eleanor Weaver:

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Eleanor (1648-1679) m. Matthew Boomer, s. of Joshua Boomer

Sarah (1651-1727) m. William Weeden

Stephen (1652-1724) m. Mary Pope

James (1655-1712) never married

Rebecca (1658-1699) m. Joseph Spooner

Clement (1660-1712) m. Lydia ______

Susannah (1663-1733) m. first, Peter Barker, s. of James and Barbara (Dungan) Barker. Second, Peter

Wells. 8. Deborah (1664-1743) m. Robert Taylor

Phoebe (1666-1746) m. Thomas Gray, s. of Edward and Dorothy (Lettice) Gray

Elizabeth (1669-1714) m. Peter Taylor

Disclaimer: Although some of the information in the source documents is conflicting, I have tried to

assemble some of the information found in them as seems most logical. Please notify me of any sources

that disprove any of the information I have stated.

E-mail me at [email protected].

Sources:

Weaver, Lucius E, “History and genealogy of a branch of the Weaver Family,” Rochester, NY: Du Bois

Press, 1928: {Repository Ancestry.com.}

Austin, John Osborne, “One Hundred Sixty Allied Families,” Salem Mass: The Salem Press, 1893.

{Repository: Ancestry.com}

Wilbur, Benjamin Franklin, “Little Compton Families, Vol. I and Vol. II,” Baltimore, Mass.: Geological

Publishing Co, 2003. {Repository Ancestry.com}

Various on-line Historical Records found on Ancestry.com.

009 John Peckham - Biolgraphy

John Peckham From England

John Peckham, immigrant ancestor and founder of the family, was a native of England and emigrated to

America at a date unknown. He was admitted an inhabitant of the island of Aquidneck (Rhode Island)

March 20, 1638. He was made a freeman of Newport, March 16, 1641. He was one of the ten male

members in full communion of the First Baptist Church in 1648, and one of its founders in 1644. He was

a resident of that part of Newport which became Middletown, where he was made a freeman in 1655. Mr.

Peckham was first married to Mary Clarke, who died in 1648; the given name of his second wife was

Eleanor. He was the father of twelve children, namely: John*, William, Stephen, Thomas, James,

Clement, Sarah, Rebecca, Deborah, Phebe, Elizabeth and Susannah.

The Peckham families of Rhode Island are among the oldest and most prominent in the Commonwealth.

Prior to 1700 they were among the large land owners of Rhode Island, figuring in the Pettaquamscott

purchase of 1660, and the Westerly purchase of 1661, and the East Greenwich purchase in 1677. Their

holdings were in Southern Rhode Island, and e×tended into Massachusetts.

* Our ancestor.

Peckham Family In Rhode Island

The Peckham families of Rhode Island are among the oldest and most rominentin the Commonwealth.

Prior to 1700 they were among the large land owners of Rhode Island, figuring in the Pettaquamscott

purchase of 660, and the Westerly purchase of 1661, and the East Greenwich purchase in 1677. Their

holdings were in Southern Rhode Island, and extended into Massachusetts; their descendants passed into

the old Bay State, Eastern Connecticut, and Central New York, many, however, remaining in Newport

and Providence counties, R. I. Many of the descendants of the founder, John Peckham, have risen to great

prominence in the State, in the professions and in the fields of business and commerce. The line herein

dealt with is that of the late Felix Peckham, Jr., of Newport, R. I., a well-known business man and

financier of that city in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

(I) John Peckham, immigrant ancestor and founder of the family, was a native of England and emigrated

to America at a date unknown. He was admitted an inhabitant of the Island of Aquidneck, R. I., March 20,

1638,which is the first record of him in the New World. He later removed to Newport, R. I., where he

became a leader of great prominence in the affairs of the Baptist church. He became a freeman at

Newport, March 16, 1641. In 1648 John Peckham was one of the ten male members in full communion in

the First Baptist Church of Newport, having been one of its founders in 1644. He resided in that part of

Newport which later became Middletown,and was made a freeman there in 1655. A stone marked "I P"

On the land of William F. Peckham in Middletown is supposed to mark the grave of John Peckham. He

married (first) Mary Clarke, the sister of Rev.John Clarke, of Bedfordshire, England, and Boston and

Newport, an associate of Roger Williams. He married (second) Eleanor. John Peckham died after 1681,

and prior to 1700. His will bears the date January 6, 1681.

Short Biography

SIR JOHN PECKHAM was born 1595 in England and was christened 8 Apr 1595 in Boxgrove, West

Sussex, England. He died after 6 Jan 1681 in Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island.

From LITTLE COMPTON FAMILIES, pub. by Little Compton Historical Society from Records

compiled by Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, 1967.

John Peckham no doubt came to Boston with Sir Henry Van in 1634 and he probably met there Mary

Clarke who accompanied her brother John Clarke to Boston about the time. The acquaintance resulted in

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marriage of which no record can be found. He probably was one of the party called the Ann Hutchinson

party, who founded a settlement on the north end of Rhode Island, which became the town of Portsmouth.

In 1640 the bounds of his land were established."

On 20 May 1638 his name appeared on the list as one of those admitted as an inhabitant of Portsmouth.

He became a freeman in 1641. In 1648 his second wife Eleanor was baptised.

His residence was in that part of Newport which is now Middletown, and a stone marker J. P. is supposed

to mark his grave.

Sources: NEHGR, v75, p279; C. Merton Babcock. C.M. Babcock: John Peckham of Newport, RI.

NEHGR: __ Peckham of Newport.

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Source Citation: Place: Newport, Rhode Island; Year: 1638; Page Number: 218.

Source Information: Gale Research. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010. Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2010.

Description: Updated annually, this database is an index to passengers who arrived in United States and Canadian ports from the 1500s through the 1900s. It contains listings of approximately 4,838,000 individuals and references thousands of different records compiled from everything from original passenger lists to personal diaries. For each individual listed, you may find the following information: name, age, year and place of arrival, and the source of the record.


Name: John Peckham

Year: 1638

Place: Newport, Rhode Island

Source Publication Code:

1262

Primary Immigrant:

Peckham, John

Annotation: Date and place of settlement or date and place of arrival. Names not restricted to the Order of Founders and Patriots of America.

Source Bibliography:

COLKET, MEREDITH B., JR. Founders of Early American Families: Emigrants from Europe, 1607-1657. Cleveland: General Court of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America, 1975. 366p.

Page: 218

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Name: John Tomson


Birth Date: 1616

Death Date: 16 Jun 1696

Spouse: Mary Cooke

Children: John Tomson



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Source Citation: Place: Boston, Massachusetts; Year: 1635; Page Number: 176.




Name: Judith Vassall

Year: 1635

Age: 16

Estimated Birth Year:

abt 1619

Place: Boston, Massachusetts


263

Primary Immigrant:

Vassall, Judith

Annotation: Part 1, pp. 1-43, is a study of emigration to New England in colonial times; part 2, pp. 45-207, lists passengers and the ships they arrived on (3,600 passengers on 213 ships). From the Custom House records of English ports. Much of the information is contained in nos. 7906 and 7907, Savage; nos. 1672 and 1674, Drake; and no. 3283, Hotten.


BANKS, CHARLES EDWARD. The Planters of the Commonwealth; a Study of the Emigrants and Emigration in Colonial Times: To Which Are Added Lists of Passengers to Boston and to the Bay Colony; the Ships which Brought Them; Their English Homes, and the Places of Their Settlement in Massachusetts, 1620-1640. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. 231p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1961. Repr. 1984.

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Source Citation: Place: Massachusetts; Year: 1630; Page Number: 80.




Name: Lydia Masters

Year: 1630

Place: Massachusetts

Family Members: Wife Jane; Daughter Sarah; Daughter Lydia; Son Nathaniel; Son Abraham; Daughter Elizabeth


281

Primary Immigrant:

Masters, John

Annotation: Over 700 names given, with list of 40 heads of families on the Mary and John, which sailed with the Winthrop Fleet. See also no. 0388, Bartlett; no. 3323, Hunt; no. 4477, Kuhns; and no. 6600, Passengers of the Mary and John, 1634.


BANKS, CHARLES EDWARD. The Winthrop Fleet of 1630: an Account of the Vessels, the Voyage, the Passengers and Their English Homes, from Original Authorities. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. 119p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1961. Repr. 1983.

Page: 80



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Source Information:Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.


Description:This database contains applications for membership in the approved between 1889 and 31 December 1970. These records can be an excellent source for names, dates, locations, and family relationships.


Name: Mary Cooke


Birth Date: 1626

Death Date: 21 Mar 1714

Spouse: John Tomson

Children: John Tomson


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Name: Mary Tilden

Year: 1634



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[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

Original data: Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National

Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls.



Name: Mary Tilden


Spouse: Thomas Lapham

Children: Thomas Lapham



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Source Citation: Place: Plymouth, Massachusetts; Year: 1630; Page Number: 283.




Name: Philip Taber

Year: 1630

Place: Plymouth, Massachusetts


1262

Primary Immigrant:

Taber, Philip

Annotation: Date and place of settlement or date and place of arrival. Names not restricted to the Order of Founders and Patriots of America.


COLKET, MEREDITH B., JR. Founders of Early American Families: Emigrants from Europe, 1607-1657. Cleveland: General Court of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America, 1975. 366p.

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Resolved White In Records

This information is from the Pilgrim Hall Museum, (America's

museum of Pilgrim possessions)

RESOLVED WHITE IN 17TH CENTURY RECORDS

Resolved White: Mayflower passenger

"The names of those which came over first, in the year 1620, and

were by the blessing of God the first beginners and in a sort the

foundation of all the Plantations and Colonies in New England;

and their families ...

"Mr. William White and Susanna his wife and one son called

Resolved, and one born a-shipboard called Peregrine, and two

servants called William Holbeck and Edward Thompson."

William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647, ed.

Samuel Eliot Morison (New York : Knopf, 1991), p. 442.

William White, Resolved's father, died in the general sickness of

1620-1621. His mother, Susanna White, married Edward

Winslow in the spring of 1621.

Resolved White And The 1623 Division Of Land

The 1623 Division of Land marked the end of the Pilgrims’

earliest system of land held in common by all. Governor Bradford explains it in this way :

"And so assigned to every family a parcel of land, according to the proportion of their number, for that

end, only for present use (but made no division for inheritance) and ranged all boys and youth under some

family This had bery good success, for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was

planted than otherwise would have been by any means the Governor or any other could use, and saved

him a great deal of trouble, and gave far better content. The women now went willingly into the field, and

took their little ones with them to set corn; which before would allege weakness and inability; whom to

have compelled wuld have been thought great tyranny and oppression."

William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647,

ed. Samuel Eliot Morison (New York : Knopf, 1991), p. 120.

Plymouth Colony Records, Deeds &c, Vol I 1627-1651 is the oldest record book of the Plymouth

settlement. It begins with the 1623 Division of Land, recorded in the handwriting of Governor William

Bradford. The lands of Resolved White are, presumably, included in those given posthumously to his

father William White. They are among those designated as "The Falles of their grounds which came first

over in the May Floure, according as thier lotes were cast" and described in this way "these containe 16

akers besids Hobamaks ground which lyeth betwene Jo: Howlands & Hobkinses… this .5. akers lyeth

behind the forte to the litle ponde."

Resolved White And The 1627 Division Of Cattle

Plymouth Colony Records, Deeds, &c, Vol. 1 1627-1651 is the oldest record book of the Plymouth

settlement. It tells of the 1627 Division of Cattle :

"At a publique court held the 22th of May it was concluded by the whole Companie, that the cattell wch

were the Companies, to wit, the Cowes & the Goates should be equally devided to all the psonts of the

same company ... & so the lotts fell as followeth, thirteene psonts being pportioned to one lot ...


"The third lot fell to Capt Standish & his companie Joyned to him (2) his wife Barbara Standish (3)

Charles Standish (4) Allexander Standish (5) John Standish (6) Edward Winslow (7) Susanna Winslow

(8) Edward Winslow (9) John Winslow (10) Resolued White (11) Perigrine White (12) Abraham Peirce

(13) Thomas Clarke

"To this lot fell the Red Cow wch belongeth to the poore of the Colonye to wch they must keepe her Calfe

of this yeare being a Bull for the Companie. Also to this lott Came too she goats."

Resolved White: 1650

"And seeing it hath pleased Him to give me [William Bradford] to see thirty years completed since these

beginnings, and that the great works of His providence are to be observed, I have thought it not unworthy

my pains to take a view of the decreasings and increasings of these persons and such changes as hath

passed over them and theirs in this thirty years ...

"Mr. White and his two servants died soon after their landing. His wife married with Mr. Winslow, as is

before noted. His two sons are married and Resolved hath five children, Peregrine two, all living. So their

increase are seven."


Samuel Eliot Morison (New York : Knopf, 1991), p. 443-7.

Resolved White In The Records Of Plymouth Colony

3 August 1640: "Resolved White is graunted one hudnred acrees of upland lying upon the southerley part

of Mr Wm Vassells land in Scituate, called the West Newland, and a pporcion of meddow to be layd to

yt, upon view, wch upland is to range two hundred pole in breadth wth Mr Bassells land, pvided that if,

by reason of the bending of the coeve on the west side, it shall entrench upon the lands graunted on the

easterly side thereof, that then hee shalbe allowed his pporcion up into the woods on the southerly pte."

Plymouth Colony Records, Vol. 1, p. 159.

7 March 1642/3: "Resolved White is graunted all that marsh and meddow land that lyeth wthin the cove

wch is at the west end of the lands of Mr Willm Vassell, called the West New Land, by the North River;

that is to say, from a marked tree that is on thother side of the cove, over against the said West Newland,

wch tree standeth upon the northermost poynt of the upland there, upwards to the head of the cove, so farr

as there is any marsh or meddow, and so on both sides of the creeke wch runneth up the cove, excepting

all that marsh & meddow that was formerly graunted to the said Willm Vassell."


August 1643: "The Names of all the Males that are able to beare Armes from sxi. Yeares old to 60

Yeares, w'thin the sev'rall Towneshipps…

Scituate… Mr Willim Vassell, John Bassell, Resolved White, et al."

Plymouth Colony Records, Vol. 8, p. 187-8.

1644/5: "Of Scituate that have taken the Oath of Fidelitie…

"At Scituate, Januar. 15th, 1644. Resolved White [et al]."


25 March 1650: "To all Christian people to whom this prsent writing shall com Samuell ffuller of

Scittuate in the government of New Plymouth in New England in america sendeth greeting;

"Know yea that I the said Samuell fuller for and in consideracon of a sufficient sum of money in full

satisfaction by mee in hand Receved by Peeter Collymore of Scittuate … goe bargan sell enfeffe and

confeirm unto the said Peeter Collymore his heires and assignes forever one dwelling house and a barn


and Cowhouse with sixteene acars of upland more or lesse being bounded on the west with the land of mr

Willam Barssall on the south with the land of Resolved White on the north…"

Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 1, p. 91-93.

6 December 1653: "Memorand: That Leiftenant Perigrine White of the towne of marshfeild in the

Jurisdiction of new Plymouth in New England in america Doth acknowlidge that for and in consideration

of the full summe of forty pounds to him in hand payed by capt: Thomas Willett of the Towne of

Plymouth in the Jurisdiction aforsaid wherwith hee Doth acknowlidge himselfe Satisfyed contented and

fully payed; hee hath freely and absolutly barganed allianated and sold enfeofed and confeirmed and by

these Doeth bargane sell enfeofe and confeirme unto the said capt: Willett all that his prte and proprietie

of land which as Purchaser or old comer; belongeth unto him att Sowamsett Mattapoisett and place

adiacent…

and alsoe the said Leiftenant White heerby covenanteth that his brother Resolved White shall give his and

full consent unto the sale of the abovesaid premi9ses0."

Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 4, p. 86.

3 June 1656: "Att a General Court holden att Plymouth the third Day of June, 1656…The Grand Enquest.

Christopher Wadsworth, Henery Bourne, Henery Wood, Thomas Laythorpe, Samuell Elson, Samuell

Hickes, James Walker, Thomas Doged, Gorge Macye, Josias Cooke, Elverton Crow, Will Eldred,

Samuell Jackson, Resolved White, Arther Hathaway, John Merritt, absent, Leift Peter Hunt, Willam

Buckland, William Allen, absent, John Rouse. sworne."


1 June 1658: "Freeman admitted this Court, and sworne… Resolved White."


And again "Scituate… Resolved Whitcte…" (PCR Vol. 8, p. 198.)

3 June 1662: "In reference to a petition prefered to the Court by sundry of the freemen, and in reference

unto a graunt made to some to looke out accommodations of land, as being the first borne children of this

govment, and for the disposing of two severall tracts of land lately purchased, the one by Major Winslow

and the other by Captaine Southworth, the Court, having viewed the severall lists of the names of those

that desired to bee accommodated therin, have settled it upon those whose names follow:

"Mr Prence, Mr Bradford, Major Winslow, Mr Aldin, William Mullins, Mr Brewster, Mr Howland,

Francis Cooke, Leiftenant Fuller, Leiftenant White, William Pontus, Steven Dean, Phillip Delanoy, Mr

John Winslow, John Adams, Peter Browne, John Shaw, Anthony Anible, for his daughter, Hannah

Burman, Francis Sprague, Gorge Soule, Nathaniell Warren, Samuell Fuller, Junir, of Plymouth, Andrew

Ringe, Francis Billington, Moses Simonson, Resolved White, Willam Bassett, Edward Bumpas, Samuell

Eedey, William Hoskins, Gorge Partrich, William Nelson, by right of his wife."


3 March 1662/3: "Richard Church and John Tompson complained against Capt Thomas Willett, in an

action of the case, to the damage of twenty four pounds, for non pforming an agreement, according to

covenants, about the meeting house att Plymouth.

"Find for the defendant the cost of the suite…

"The names of the jury that tried the action betwixt Richard Church and John Tompson, plaintiffes, and

Capt Willett, defendant, are as followeth: - John Bourne, Gorge Soule, James Walker, Barnabas Laythorp,

Josepth Beedle, Henery Sampson, Benjamine Nye, Resolved White, Francis Crocker, John Whiston,

Stephen Winge, John Wadsworth. sworne."



17 March 1662/3: "To all people to whom these presence shall come Resoulved White if Sittuate in the

Government of New Plymoth in new England in America planter sendeth greeting Know yee that I the

said Resoulved White for and in consederation of theerten pounds and ten shillings of curant New

England pay to mee in hand payd by Isack Buck of sittuate aforesaid blacksmight with which said sum I

the said Resolved Whitte doe Exknowledg my selfe fully satisfied Contented and payd and there of and of

every part and parcell there of doe exonerate aquite and discharge the aforesaid Isack Buck hee his heiers

executors administrators and assignes for ever per these presence have freely and absolutly bargained and

sold infeafed and Confermed and per these presence doe bargaine sell infeafe and Conferme from mee the

said Resouled White and my heiers unto him the said Isack Buck hee hi heiers and assigns for ever Two

parcelles of marsh meddow leying in Sittuate aforesaid one parte or parcell of Marsh medow which Mr.

William Varssall bought or Exchanged formerly with Sammuell fuller and lyeth one the south side of the

upland which the said the said William vassall bought & Exchanged with with Samuell ffuller aforesaid

as it is butted from the said upland on the north by a Right Line towards the suth by the East Ende of pine

Iland to a creeke there and from a marked tree one the East against the said Iland by and as the stakes

bound it towards the south to a Creeke and all the marsh betweene the two creeks towards the south to the

North River allsoe a nother parcell of Marsh Medow beieng five ackres more or Lesse and is the medow

that did belong to the to the southerly halfe or part of beare Iland being bounded on the North by one

straight Line Crose the midle of the said Iland and medow from East to West and soe to the first hering

Brook the northerly halfe being the Lands of Peter Collemore and one the south it is bounded by another

straight Line that Runneth from East to West along by the south side of the body of the said Iland as the

stackes now stand till it com nere to the mouth of a cartayne greate Creeke that Issueth forth into the said

hering brooke by which Line it is devided from the medow lands that sum times was Mr. William Vassall

and now in the posestion of John Cushen and is bounded one the west with the lands of the said Cuhen

and Peeter Collimore and with the foresaid hering brooke and creek on the East With all and singular the

appurtinancs preveledges and Emmunities there unto beelonging or any wayes appartayning to all or any

part of parcells of the said two parcells of marsh medow withy all my said Right title or to all or any part

or parcell there of To have and to hold the foresaid to parcells of marsh medow unto him the said Isack

Buck hee his heiers and assignes for ever to the proper use and behoufe of him the said Isack Buck hee

his heieres and assignes for ever to bee holden according to the manor of East Greenwitch in the County

of Kente in free and Common sockedg and not in Caputies nor by Knight service per the rents and service

there of and there by due and of Right accostumed and waranting the sale and title heare of against all

people What soe Ever in by or Thought mee the said Resouled Whitte & by my right title & intrest

Clayming any right title or intresse of or in the premises or any part or parcell there of and the said

Resolved Whitte doth hereby furder grant and Covenant to and with the said Isack Buck his heiers and

assignes for ever full And free liberty of Ingrese Egrese and Egrese of passage to and from the said

parcell of marsh medow that is first bounded in this deed of sale by and Through all the wayes Leading

from the said marsh unto the dwelling house that was Mr. William Vassalls Called Beell house and soe

from thence through all ways and pasedges Commonly used and to bee used uot the hey wayes beyond

the said Lands and he the said Isack Buck his heiers and assignes and Every of them to Carte and Carry

all maner of Caredge Ride drive and Leede all manor of Cattell as often as thay or Either of them shall

please which Liberty and preveledg was given and granted unto mee Resolved Whitte my heiers and

assignes as apereth by a deed of gift bering date the 24th of October 1646 And the said Resolved Whitte

for him selfe heiers Executors Administrators assignes by these presence doe Covenant to and with the

said Isack Buck that the said Isack Buck his heiers and assignes to and for there one use shall and may

from henceforth and for Ever have after peasably and quietly have hold and Injoy all and singuler the

premises heare by sold infeafed granted and given with all the wayes and Easments there unto belonging

and suficently save harmles from all incombrance and molestation what soe ever by and from the said

Resolved Whitte his heiers and assignes or from all parsons what soe Ever Lawfully Clayming from them

and doe by these presence promise that my wiffe Judeth Whitte shall freely surrender up har Intrese in the


premeses before a majestrat when it shall bee Requiered and the said Resolved Whitte doth allsoe

Covenant and promise and grant that it shall and may bee lawfull for the said Isack Buck Either by him

selfe or his Atorney to Record or in Rowle these presence or to case them to bee Recorded & In Rouled in

the Records of new Plymoth or in any other place of Records according to the usall maner of Recording

Evidences in such cases provided to and for the Trew performance of the premises I the said Resolved

Whitte bind mee my heieres Executores Administrators and assignes fermly by these presence in wittnes

wheare of I have heare unto set my hand seal this seventent day of march Anno Dom. 1662.

Resouled Whitt

Signed sealed and delivered in the presens of us

James Torry

John Buck

Judith the wife of Resolved Whitte did Exknowledge the sale above mentioned and did Resigne up har

wholl right and Intres in the purchas above Exspresed

Beefore mee

Jos: Winslow assist"

Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, The Seventeenth-Century Town Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, Volume

One (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1997), p. 259-261.

7 February 1664/5: "The severall lots layed forth and bounded lying and being upon Pockade necke neare

unto Namassakett grounds unto several persons afternamed as followeth:

"Impr. The Major Winslow 1 Lot begineth att a white oake tree marked on four sides neare the brooke

where the three brookes meet and it Runs up a southwest line and is bounded on the other side with two

Redoakes marked…

"Mr Resolved White 15 Lott is att the wadeing place and is bounded with the Path and the beaver dam

and lyeth halfe the length of the formet lotts"

Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, Indian deeds: land transactions in Plymouth Colony, 1620-1691 (Boston:

NEHGS, 2002), p. 333-4.

3 June 1668: "Surveyors of the Highwaies… Marshfeild, Joseph Bedle, Resolved White."


29 May 1670: "An exact List of all the Names of the Freemen of the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth,

transcribed by Nathaniel Morton, Secretary to the Court…

"Marshfeild. Major Josias Winslow, Mr Samuell Arnold, Mr Kanelme Winslow, Mr Josias Winslow,

Senir, Mr Thomas Besbech, Captaine Nathaniel Thomas, Leiftenant Peregrine White, John Dingley,

Robert Carver, Anthony Snow, John Bourne, Mr Anthony Eames, Ensigne Marke Eames, William Foard,

Senir, Mr Resolved White, Timothy Williamson…


2 July 1675: "To all Christian people to whome these prsents shall Come Josiah Winslow of Marshfeild in

the Colony of New plymouth in New England sendeth greeting In the Lord god everlasting, And further

Know yee. That I the said Josiah Winslow being by ye goodnes of God in Competent health, and of sound

memory, but sensable of my fraylety, and that I am subiect to suddayne Changes. Revooking hereby any

other or former will by me at any time made, doe declare and order this to be my last will and

Testament…

Item I give unto my Brother Resolved White a suat and Cloak of my wearing aparrell."



Note: Josiah Winslow was Resolved's half brother, the offspring of Susanna White's second marriage to

Edward Winslow.

28 October 1684: "Humphry Johnson, of Hingham, in the right of himselfe as principall and assigne to Mr

Resolved White, of Marshfeild, and Josias Holmes, of Duxburrow, who is an assigne to his father,

William Holmes, deceased, the said Johnson, White, and Holmes being propriators in the commons or

undevided lands in the townshipp of Scittuate, as by the records of the said towne in the yeer 1654, with

other evidences, may appeer, complaine against the inhabitants of Scittuate, in an action of the case, for

that, to the plaintiffes great damage, the said towne doe unjustly detaine from him severall tracts of land

graunted by order of the Court of Plymouth the 16th of June, 1671, which ordered the commones of

Scittuate to be devided according to each inhabitants just right; the severall proportions belonging to eich

ratable inhabitant of 1647 was an hundred and eighty acars of land, to be devided by an equall alotment;

alsoe, severall other graunts of lands graunted October, 1672, and in 1673, all the severall graunts of land

by the towne and committee were consented utno by the Court, 1672 & 1673, aforsaid; alsoe, all the

severall graunts of land graunted by either Court, towne, or committey, to the ratable inhabitants of 1647,

and to all such that come in theire rome & stead, was confeirmed by the towne of Scittuate, as appeers by

theire record, dated the fift of Aprill, 1683, in theire 2 and fourth pticulars, all theire severall graunts

graunted by either Court, towne, or committee; the Court declareth they see noe reason, but doe approve

what Scittuate men had prsented to the Court for approbation, as appeers by the Court orders June, 1683,

and July, 1683; yett, notwithstanding, the severall graunts of land graunted by either Court, towne, or

committee, have bine confeirmed by the towne, 1673 and 1683, and consented unto by the Court as

aforsaid, the grantes being to the rateable inhabitants of 1647, and such as came in theire rome and stead;

wherof the plaintife hath a right to claime for three, in that state himselfe as principall, and as assigne to

Mr White and Josiah Holmes, aforsaid. Yett the towne doth not sett out theire proportions of land

graunted as aforsaid, neither to all nor any of the three propriators, nor yett give the plaintiffe satisfaction,

as was engaged and published the 17 day of December, 1671, as may appeer under the hands of three

majestrates, by all which neglect of the towne, as aforsaid, the plaintiffe is greatly damnifyed.

"The jury find for the plaintiffe the right the said plaintiffe sues for in the commons of the towne of

Scittuate, and the cost of the sute, which is one pound and seaven shillings in mony.

"The Names of the Jury. Thomas Tupper, Elisha Bourne, Eliezer Churchill, Thomas Cushman, Samuel

Arnold, David Thomas, Wrestleing Brewster, John Nye, Ensigne William Ford, Gilbert Brookes, Samuell

Lucas, John Partrich. sworn."


3 January 1687/7: "Att a Towne Meeting held at Sittuate the Third day of January 1687…

"The declaration of the Inhabitance of the Towne of Sittuate Respacting the Conferm ation of the Land

procured to be Survaieyed by Humphry Johnson of hingham with in the TownShip of Sittuate To his

Exelencie Sir Edmond Andros knit Capt Generall and Governor in Chife of his majesties Territories and

dominions of new England and Counsell Wheras at a Counsell held at Boston the two and Twentyeth of

June Last past it was Resolved by said Counsell That Humphry Johnson of hingham hath three Rights of

Land in the TownShipe of Sittuate on behalfe of him selfe Resolved whitte and Josiah Holmes and ordred

that the same be asartayned to him accordingly and wee the Inhabitance of said Sittuate underStanding

that said Johnson have procured a servighor and Laid out one hundred ackers of Land to ech of said

Rights at Three severall places That is to say on hundred ackers at the head of Richard Dwelly Lott and

neare others of the naighbors up the river we doe declare that said Land is part of a parcell of Land which

by the Commity in said Towne was designed Laid out and sett apart for severall yeares agone to Lie for a

perpetuall Commons for the use of said Naightberhood and for it to be Taken up will be very Iniuerous to

them"


Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, The Seventeenth-Century Town Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, Volume

Three (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1997), p. 215.

Resolved White: His Family

"A note of the psons Recorded since June last [per] me James Torrey Towne Clarke of Scittuate sent to

March Court 1654

"Resolved White marryed to Judith the Daughter of mr Willam Varsall Aprill the 8th 1640….

"Beirthes of Children. Willam the son of Resolved white bnorn Aprill the 10th 1642. John the son of

Resolved White born March the 11th 1644. Samuell the son of Resolved White born the 13th of March

1646…

"Resolved the son of Resolved White born November 12th 1647. Anna the Daughter of Resolved White

born June the 4th 1649. Elizabeth the Daughter of Resolved White born June the 4th 1652. Josiah the son

of Resolved White born September the 29 1654."


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Resolved White 1615-1687

Resolved White

Birth: 9 Sep 1615, possibly Leyden, (Leiden), Zuid, South Holland, The Netherlands. (OR England.)

Death: 19 Sep 1687, Marshfield, Plymouth Colony Massachusetts. (No death or probate records for

Resolved White have yet been discovered.)

It is believed that Resolved White was born in Holland at about the time when the decision was reached

to seek a permanent resting place on the other side of the Atlantic, and he was no doubt named in

commemoration of that event.

APPROXIMATE TIMELINE FOR RESOLVED WHITE'S LIFE EVENTS:

1615: Birth.

1620: Emmigration to America.

On 6 Sep 1620, William White, his wife, Susanna and five year old son Resolved were among the 102

passengers, (which included the first company of Pilgrims), that embarked on the Mayflower, leaving

Plymouth, Devon County, England. On 9 Nov 1620, land was sighted. On 11 Nov 1620, the passengers

and crew of the Mayflower made landfall in America. Resolve's brother, Peregrine White, was born on

board the Mayflower while the ship was in the port of Plymouth in 1620. (Resolved's name is on the

passenger list, dated 5 August 1620 for the "Mayflower's" voyage.)

1620: Shortly after arriving in Plymouth Colony, Resolve's father, William White, dies.

1621: Resolve's mother, Susanna White, remarries. Her second husband is Edward Winslow.

Following the death of his father and remarriage of his mother in 1621, Resolved was raised by step-

father Edward Winslow. The family moved to Marshfield in the 1630s, and later moved to Scituate.

1638: Resolved had lands laid out in Scituate in 1638, and the place afterward sold to Lieut. Isaac Buck, a

half mile south of the Harbour.

1640: Resolved married his first wife, Judith Vassall.

MARRIED: Judith Vassall, the eldest daughter of William Vassall, Esq. and Ann King Vassal, was born

in 1619, in Stepney, Middlesex, (now Greater London), England. She died before 3 Apr 1670, in


Marshfield, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. She was buried on 3 Apr 1670, in Marshfield, Plymouth

Colony, Massachusetts. Her parentage is shown on a deed dated 18 Jul 1657, in which she, as the wife of

Resovled White, sells land bequeathed to her, as the daughter of "William Vassall heretofore of Scituate,

and late of Barbados deceased, by a will dated 13 July 1655."

MARRIAGE: 5 Nov 1640, in Scituate, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. Judith was 21 years old. (OR:

5-8 Apr 1640, in Scituate; or 18 Apr 1640, in Rochester, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.)

"Judith joined the church in Scituate on May 14 1637, but was always in sympathy with the Quaker

movement. It is said that it was due to her influence that her brother-in-law, Governor Josiah Winslow,

refused to persecute the sect.

Resolved White's stepfather Edward Winslow wrote a pamphlet in 1647, entitled New England's

Salamander Discovered, where the notorious and slanderous "salamander" was apparently William

Vassall the father of his daughter-in-law.

1640: On 3 Aug 1640, Resolved had a grants, by order of the Colony Court, of 100 acres, upland and

marsh, on Belle house neck, adjoining, {his father-in-law), Mr. Vassall's farm on the south-east, Scituate.

1642/1643: On 7 Mar 1642/43, Resolved was granted more land in Scituate.

1640-1656: Residing, as a landowner, in Scituate, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts.

1646: Resolved also had other lands adjoining by deed of a gift from Mr. Vassall in 1646.

1656/1657: Resolved, his wife, Judith, and perhaps some of their children, travelled to Barbados in

1656/1657, presumably to aid in the settling of the estate of her father, for on 17 March 1656/1657

'Resolved White of Scituate in New Plymouth in New England, gentleman, and his wife Judith, daughter

of William Vassall of this Island' deeded land in the Barbados, a deed acknowledged on March 20th by

'Resolved White's wife' and recorded at Barbados only four days later."

1658: On 1 Jun 1658, he was made a Freeman of Plymouth Colony.

1662: In 1662, he sold his house to Isaac Buck, and removed to Marshfield. He seems to have had two

houses, the one near Buck's corner and the other at Belle House Neck.

1662: Resolved was one of the "original twenty-six purchasers of the first precinct of Middleboro, in 1662

from the Indian Chief Wampatuck, and it is probable that some of his children took up these holdings."

1662-1670: Resolved White moved his family back to Marshfield in the early 1660s.

1668: On 3 Jun 1668, Resolved was elected Surveyor of highways for Marshfield.

1670: On 29 May 1670, he was in the list of Freemen of Marshfield.

1670: Judith died and was buried in Marshfield on 3 April 1670.

1674: Resolved marries a second time; to a widow, Abigail Lord, in 1674 in Salem.

MARRIED #2: {The Widow}, Abigail Lord b: About 1620. ( OR: Abigail LORD was born between

1615-1650 and died after 5 Oct 1674.) No children are found from her first marriage. Her birth date was

calculated from a deposition: She was aged about 74 on 2:1:1679/80.

MARRIAGE: 5 Oct 1674, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts.

1674-1682: Resolved was in Salem from 1674 to at least 1682, being a freeman of Salem in 1680. He

served in King Philip's War under Capt. Manning in 1676.

1676: Military Service as a soldier in King Philip's War {of 1676}, under Capt. Manning.

1680: Freemanship in Salem, Massachusetts.


1684/1685: Resolved returned to Marshfield after the death of his second wife, for on 13 March 1684/5

'Resolved White of Marshfield' and sons Samuel and Josiah quit-claimed rights to an island, in return for

which grantee John Branch would maintain Resolved's eldest son, William.

1682: The Will of "Abigail White, wife of Mr. Resolved White of Salem dated 26 April 1682, and proved

June 1682, mentions her former husband William Lord, his kinsman William Lord and the latter's

children. She left to Resolved White my now husband, bed, bedding, chest and house furnishings.

1687: We assume Resolved was still living on 19 Sept. 1687 when his son, William, quitclaimed his

rights in the island to John Branch, mentioning his father, but not as 'deceased,' and mentioning the earlier

deed of my father Mr. Resolved White.'

Death: It is assumed Resolved was still living on 19 Sep 1687 when his son William quit-claimed his

rights in the island to John Branch, mentioning his father, but not as "deceased," and mentioning the

earlier deed of "my father Mr. Resolved White." Resolved's age is calculated from depositions "5:9:1678"

and again in June that he was about age 63.

The Children Of Resolved White And Judith Vassall White:

1. William, born 10 Apr 1642; d. 24 Jan 1695/1696, in Marshfield, or Scituate, Plymouth Colony,

Massachusetts. He died on 24 Jan 694/1695/1696, in Marshfield, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts.

William apparently never married and there are no probate records for him in Plymouth County.

2. John, born 11 Mar 1643/1644/1645, in Scituate, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts; died possible

1684/1845, in Marshfield, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts; (Another source gives death as "unknown".)

(May have gone to Barbados.) He probably died before 1684/1685, when two of his living brothers, (but

not he,) quit claimed land to provide for their oldest brother, William.

3. Samuel, born 13 or 16 Mar 1645/1646/1647; d. 1720, (OR ca April 1731). (When Samuel was 21, he

married Rebecca [White]. Rebecca died on 25 Jun 1711, in Rochester, MA.)

4. Resolved, (II) born 12 Nov 1647, in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts; d. 20/23 Mar 1670, in

Marshfield, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. He was buried on 27 Mar 1670 in Marshfield, Plymouth

Colony, Massachusetts.

5. Anna, born 4 Jun 1649, in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts ; d. 25 May 1714, in Concord, Middlesex

Colony, Massachusetts.

(On 2 Jun 1671 when Anna was 21, she married John Hayward, son of George Hayward Mary

[Hayward], in Concord, MA.)

6. Elizabeth, born 4 Jun 1652, in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts ; d. after 20 Mar 1712. (Married

Odadiah Wheeler of Concord, on 17 Jul 1672.)

7. Josiah, born 29 Sep 1654, in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts ; d. ca 3 Mar 1710, in Boxford, Essex

County, Massachusetts. (Married Remember Read on 30 Dec 1680. Remember was born ca 1657 and

baptized in Salem, MA on 26 Apr 1657. Remember died aft 20 May 1721.)

8. Susanna, born 10 Aug 1656, in Scituate, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. She was baptized on 8 Nov

1656 in Scituate, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. (She may have married Uriah Johnson, son of John

Johnson of Sudbury.)

(None of these children settled in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts : their posterity is found in Bristol

County as well as Plymouth. Some of them may have "removed to Barbados."

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A deed bearing the signature of Resolved White as witness was pictured in The Mayflower Descendant in

1915. [RESOLVED WHITE TO WILLIAM WILLS*] [p. 3]On 17 March, 1662, "Resolved White of


Scittuate .... in america plantor", for £26, 10s., sold to "Willam Wills of Scinuate aforsaid plantor .... all

that peece and pte of orchyard conteining two rowes and halfe way the next row of trees in breadth att the

east end of the orchyard that formerly was mr Willam Vassalls; and alsoe one peece of land enclosed on

the south and east with railes and abuteth on the said graunted orchyard one the west and on the cornfeild

that now is in the posession of John Cushen on the north containing two acrees and an halfe more or

lesse; with a garden formerly enclosed on the south side of the said feild; as also one other peece of land

as it lyeth between the said feild and garden towards the north and the mersh that sometimes was Mr

Willam Vassalls towards the south and abuteth on the lands that formerly was Mr Vassalls towards the

west by a st eight line from the said rowes of trees as is before mentioned towards the mersh southward

and abuteth on the land whih Mr Willam Vassall bought of Samuell Fuller on the [worn] and alsoe all that

upland which lyeth on the east side of that peece of enclosed land before mentioned on the east side of the

railes containing one road and an halfe in breadth all the length of the said railes with all the houses and

edifices therupon builded which lands were pte of the lands of mr Willam Vassalls called bellhouse lands;

and were given to mee Resolved White as appeers by a Deed of gift, bearing Date" ;14 October, 1646,

"alsoe all that upland which Mr Willam Vassall bought or exchanged with Samuell Fuller aforsaid

abuting abuting upon the forementioned graunted land on the west; and the mersh that was the said

Willam Vassalls on the south and east and on the land that somtime was the land of Samuell Fullers on

the north except and alwaies reserved of this sale unto mr Willam Vassall his heires and assignes for ever

a good and sufficient way in the most convenientest throwout the afore mentioned bounded lands from

the west t the east to fech and Drive Cattle Cart and Cary all manner of Carriages from the house and

other the lands that was the * Complete descuption printed. Plymouth Colony Records of Deeds 107

house and lands of the said Willam Vassall unto and from the mershes that were the said Willam s lying

on the east side of the said lands alsoe another pcell of upland being the one halfe of an Iland called beare

Iland .... in Scittuate aforsaid being the southerly pte or halfe of the Iland being Devided from the

Northerly halfe of the said Iland by a straight line crose the middle of the said Iland from west to east ....

and the said Resolved White Doth .... graunt unto the said Willam Wills .... libertie of Ingresse egresse

and regresse of passages from the house and lands heerby sould unto Willam Wills; and which was

formerly given .... by my father in law mr Willam Vassall unto me the said Resolved unto the Dwelling

house that was Mr Vassalls Called Belhouse by and through all the waies leading from the said house and

lands unto belhouse and soe from thence through the lands that formerly were Willam Vassalls by and

through all waies and passages comonly used and to bee used unto the highwaes beyond the said lands;

and hee the said Willam Wills his heires [p. 4] heires and assignes and every of them to cart and carry all

manor of Carriages ride Drive and lead all manor of Cattle as oft as they or either of them shall please;

which privilidge was given and graunted by my fatherinlaw Mr Willam Vassell unto mee .... as appeers

by a Deed of gift formerly expressed;" James Torrey, Sr., and John Buck witnessed the deed, and

"posession livery and season of the house and land within specifyed" was given in their presence, on the

date of the deed. On 25 September, 1663, "Judith the wife of Resolved White Did acknowlidge the sale

abovementioned and Did resigne up her whole right and Interest in what is therin mentioned; before mee;

Josias Winslow Asistant."

Some Sources:

1. "History of Scituate" Samuel Deane NEHG Register, Vol. 87, April 1933 pgs. 115-120.

2. Resolved White Scituate Early Families 1623 - 1640 Family # 095 1st. Generation Resolved White b.

ca 1615, came to Plymouth 1620, to Scituate 1638.

3. Sources: Title: Mayflower Families Through Five Generations Author: General Society of Mayflower

Descendants 2002 Publication: William White Descendants Repository.

4. Marriages Prior, Torrey, Clarence A. , pg 806. [S46] Mayflower Families, 5 Generation Series , vol 1

pg 99.


5. New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Third Series, Volume III, William Richard Cutter,

New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Third Series, Volume III, (1915. Reprint, Baltimore:

Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1996). , Pg. 1362.

The First Thanksgiving

November 1621 , Plymouth, Massachusetts

The 53 Pilgrims

At The First Thanksgiving :

4 Married Women : Eleanor Billington, Mary Brewster, Elizabeth Hopkins, Susanna White Winslow.

5 Adolescent Girls : Mary Chilton (14), Constance Hopkins (13 or 14), Priscilla Mullins (19), Elizabeth

Tilley (14 or15) and Dorothy, the Carver's unnamed maidservant, perhaps 18 or 19.

9 Adolescent Boys : Francis & John Billington, John Cooke, John Crackston, Samuel Fuller (2d), Giles

Hopkins, William Latham, Joseph Rogers, Henry Samson.

13 Young Children : Bartholomew, Mary & Remember Allerton, Love & Wrestling Brewster, Humility

Cooper, Samuel Eaton, Damaris & Oceanus Hopkins, Desire Minter, Richard More, Resolved &

Peregrine White.

22 Men : John Alden, Isaac Allerton, John Billington, William Bradford, William Brewster, Peter Brown,

Francis Cooke, Edward Doty, Francis Eaton, [first name unknown] Ely, Samuel Fuller, Richard Gardiner,

John Goodman, Stephen Hopkins, John Howland, Edward Lester, George Soule, Myles Standish,

William Trevor, Richard Warren, Edward Winslow, Gilbert Winslow.

009 Resovled White 'Mayflower'

Resolved White Resolved White Back to the Mayflower Passenger List

Born: About 1615.Mayflower Families: William White for Five Generations, contains the best, most thorough and completely researched genealogy on William White and his two sons, Resolved and Peregrine. It covers every descendant of his for the first five generations, to the birth of the sixth.

Marriage: Judith Vassall, 5 November 1640, Scituate.

Abigail Lord, widow, 5 October 1674, Salem.

Death: After 1687, Marshfield.

Children by Judith:

William, John, Samuel, Resolved, Anna, Elizabeth, Josiah, and Susanna.

Biographical Information

Resolved White came on the Mayflower at about the age of five, with parents William and Susanna. He was raised by step-father Edward Winslow following the death of his father William and remarriage of his mother in 1621. They moved to Marshfield in the 1630s, and later moved to Scituate where he married Judith Vassall, the daughter of William and Ann (King) Vassall. Resolved White’s stepfather Edward Winslow wrote a pamphlet in 1647 entitled New England’s Salamander Discovered, where the notorious and slanderous “salamander” was apparently William Vassall the father of his daughter-in-law.

Resolved White moved his family back to Marshfield in the early 1660s, and Judith died and was buried there on 3 April 1670. He then remarried to the widowed Abigail Lord in 1674 in Salem, was a soldier in King Philip’s War of 1676, and became a freeman in Salem in 1680 before moving back to Marshfield a couple years later. He died sometime not too long after 1687, presumably in Marshfield.

from www.MayflowerHistory.com


William, Susanna, Resolved White — Mayflower Passengers William and his wife Susanna came on the Mayflower in 1620 with son Resolved; Susanna gave birth to son Peregrine while the Mayflower was still anchored off the top of Cape Cod waiting for the Pilgrims to discover a place to build their colony. William died the first winter, on the same day as three other passengers, including William Mullins. His wife Mayflower Passenger Susanna Fuller B 1594 England D 1 Oct 1680. Susanna remarried to Edward Winslow a few months later, being the first marriage to occur at Plymouth.

1White, William m Susanna Fuller,

2 Resolved White m Judith Vassall,

3 Anna White m John Hayward,

4 Hayward, Deacon Thomas m Bethiah Brett,

5 Mary Hayward m Jacob Thomson,

6 Ebenezer Thomson m Elizabeth Besse ,

7 Thomson, Charity m Isaac Chamberlain ,

8 Nathaniel CHAMBERLAIN m Eliza FREEMAN,

9 Isaac CHAMBERLAIN m Lydia Ann OSBORNE,

10 Warren Franklin CHAMBERLAIN m Mary Jane FOSTER,

11 Carrie Ellen CHAMBERLAIN m James Albert Holmes,

12 Richard Bradford Holmes m Gertrude Mary Willett.

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Description: Records relating to applications to be designated "free" in Massachusetts between 1630 and 1691


Name: Resolved White

Date: 19 May 1680

Residence: Salem

Original Source: C. R., Vol. V. p. 260.

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Year: 1620



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Annotation: Passengers on the Mayflower, 1620, pp. 20-22; the Fortune, 1621, pp. 79-80; the Anne, 1623, pp. 84-86; the Little James, 1623, p. 86; and the Mayflower, 1629, pp. 86-87. Totals 66 passengers from London and 38 from Leyden. For other references to these sh


HILLS, LEON CLARK. History and Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters and First Comers to Ye Olde Colonie. Washington, D.C.: Hills Publishing, 1936, vol. 1, pp. 20-22, 79-80, 84-87. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1975.

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009 Thomas Lapham – Biography

Thomas Lapham

Thomas Lapham from Tenterden, Kent, old England, was at Scituate, Mass., in 1634. Two years later, he

married Mary, the oldest daughter of Elder Nathaniel Tilden. Judith, a sister of Mary Tilden, married

Abraham Preble and settled in York, Me.: these are the aucestors of the Maine Prebles. Thomas Lapham1

died in 1648, leaving two sons and four daughters. His son Joseph2 was one of the grantees of

Bridgewater and died there unmarried. Thomas2 moved to Marshfield and had two sons, Joseph3 and

Samuel3. Joseph3 married Abagail Sherman, and had Joseph4, who married Abagail Joyce. Joseph4 had

4 sons, John5. Jesse5, Joseph5 and Nathaniel5. John Lapham5 m. Bathsheba Eames of Marshfield, and

came to Buckfield, Me., in 1793. His oldest son, John6, died in the Revolutionary army, and his only

other son, Abijah6, married Sarah Hartwell of Bridgewater, and came to Buckfield with his father.

Abijah's6 wife died, and he married Abagail, dau. of John and Abagail (Irish Buck. John Lapham7, was

the only son of Abijah6, who ever lived in Paris. He married Loviey, dau. of Levi and Lusanna (Bryant)

Berry, and lived for several years at the north-west part of the town. His wife died in 1868, and he in

1883. Children:

History of Paris, Maine from Its Settlement to 1880 with a History of the Grants of 1736 & 1771 Together

with Personal Sketches, a Copious Genealogical Register and an Appendix

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Thomas Lapham Mary Elder Nathaniel Tilden Judith Mary Tilden Abraham Preble Thomas Lapham

Joseph Thomas Joseph Samuel Joseph Abagail Sherman Joseph Abagail Joyce Joseph John Jesse Joseph

Nathaniel John Lapham Bathsheba Eames John Abijah Sarah Hartwell Abijah Abagail John Abagail

(Irish Buck John Lapham Abijah Loviey Levi Lusanna (Bryant) Berry

Residence:

Maine

Civil:

1634 1648 1793 1868 1883 in Tenterden, Kent, Old England Scituate, Mass. York, ME Bridgewater

Marshfield Marshfield Buckfield, ME. Bridgewater Buckfield Paris

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Name: Thomas Lapham

Year: 1634

Place: America


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Lapham, Thomas

Annotation: Date and port of arrival, date and place of first mention of residence in the New World, or date and place of will. The indexers only included the names of the persons who had wills and others who were known to go to the New World. All spouses and childre


SHERWOOD, GEORGE. American Colonists in English Records: A Guide to Direct References in Authentic Records, Passenger Lists Not in "Hotten," &c., &c., &c. Ser. 1-2. London: G. Sherwood, 1932-1933. 2 vols. Reprinted, 2 vols. in 1, by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1961. Repr. 1982.

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009 William Spooner - Biography

William Spooner, First Generation

Records Of William Spooner –Of– Plymouth, Mass. –And– His Descendants.

By: Thomas Spooner. CINCINNATI: 1883.

WILLIAM SPOONER: b: Jan 1621 d: March 1683.

The earliest record that we have relating to William Spooner, is the assignment of articles indenturing

him, by John Holmes* to John Coombs, as is seen in Plymouth Colony Records, Vol. XII, p. 19, as

follows:

Bradford Govr a R.R. Caroli, XII jth. 1637.

"Whereas, William Spooner of Colchester, in the County of Essex by this Indenture, bearing date the

twenty-seaventh day of March Anno Dmi., 1637, in the thirteenth year of his Majesty’s Raigne, hath put

himself apprentice with John Holmes, of New Plymouth, in America, gent. from the first day of May next

after the date of the said Indenture vnto thend terme of six yeares thence ensuing wth

diuers other

couenant both pts to be pformed eich to other by the Indent it doth more plainly appear. Now the said

John Holmes wth the consent likeinge of the said William Spooner hath the first day of July assigned and

set ouer the said William Spooner vnto John Coombs+ of New Plymouth, aforesd gent for all the residue

of his terme vnexpired to serue the sd John Coomes, and the sd John Coomes in thend of his said terme

shall giue the said Willm Spooner one comely suit of apparell for holy days, and one suite for working

days, and twelue bushells of Indian Wheate, and a good seruiceable muskett, bandaliers and sword fitt for

seruice."

*Homes was in Plymouth as early as 1632. He was "admitted into the freedom of the Colony January 1,

1634-5 and was sworn "messenger of the Government December 4, 1638. "

+John Coombs was in Plymouth as early as 1630. He appears to have possessed considerable landed

property, obtained by grants by purchase, and by inheritance of his wife, who was Sarah daughter of

Cuthbert Cuthbertson. He d prior to 1645.

Mar 1643. It was "ordered by the Court that William Spooner shall pay for the debt of Mr. Coombs his

master vnto Wm. Hambury the sum of 10s." August, 1648 the Court ordered that Thomas Cushman shall

haue and enjoy without disturbance, the one-third part of all the English corn due vnto Miss Combes for

her part from Willm Spooner, for this psent years, except the rye, whereof he is to haue the one-half, and

one part of flue of the Indian Corn, and the one-half of the frute, and the one-half of the hempe."

16 Oct 1646. "William Spooner came before the Gou’r and vndertake to saue the towne harmless from

any charge that might befall of a child that Mrs. Coombs left with him when she went for England, and

which he vndertake to keepe and prouide for."

Aug. 1, 1648. The Court "further ordered concerning the children of said Mrs. Combe, now being with

William Spooner, that the said Spooner keep them for the psent and not dispose of them for the future

without further orders from the Court."

The payment of the debts of Mr. And Mrs. Coombs, the custody of their children having been given by

Mrs. Coombs to William Spooner, and this guardianship having been confirmed by the Court, is good

evidence that William Spooner was in possession of the lands of Mr. And Mrs. Coombs. Whether these

lands were held by him, in trust, or had been purchased with these incumbrances, cannot now be

determined.

It thus appears that William Spooner began life in America,* as an apprentice to a Mr. John Coombs, a

well-to-do citizen of New Plymouth. His age at the time of his indenture is unknown, but it is natural to

suppose that he was then in his minority. As concerns his origin, the time and place of his birth, and all

other matters ancestral, we are, for lack of authoritative information, obliged to speak in very general and


conjectural terms. Furthermore, it is not in our power to supply the connecting link between the Spooners

of America and the Spooners of

England; so we must be content to affirm that, as the families of England and America have a community

of name, so also they must have a community of blood, — a very pleasing affirmation by the way, since it

enables us to claim, with our more pretentious brethern of England, a co-descent from the old "laird of the

manor,"+ and co-heirship to the coat-of-arms and to the titles granted by Queen Elizabeth.** But this is a

very unsatisfactory kind of speculation, and must be esteemed of little worth; so, as good Colonel

Newcome, of Thackeray’s story, did not think it a disgrace to be descended from barber-surgeon, let no

one of our family in America, how exalted soever in station or wealth, deem it a matter of shame that our

common ancestor chanced to be an obscure and unlettered Plymouth apprentice; rather than a "belted

knight, marquis, or duke," of the realm of England. And; as we find no dishonor in this, neither would we

make any particular merit of it, but simply record the fact that William Spooner, from whom our branch

of the family is descended, was certainly a very plain and (at last in the estimation of the world) a very

insignificant man, who was born, lived, begot children and died, and who, as we have every reason to

believe, acted his part in life well. This fact we shall endeavor to bear in mind as we write this memoir,

well aware that the subject of it had few qualities which served to distinguish him from the great body of

people, yet who, like Matthew Prior, having no Norman blood or noble connections to boast of, can still

point to a more ancient and honorable lineage, and claim equality on general principles with Bourbon or

Nassau.++

*It is possible that he was what was known at a later period as a "redemptioner." "In early times,

emigrants came over frequently as redemptioners; that is, the ship took them without prepayment of

passage, and on their arrival sold them by auction for the lowest term of years for which any one would

take them and pay the passage money." His Mag.,r.iv,p.197.

+John Spooner of Seething, was lord of the Manor of Manclerk’s late Inglase’s, in the reign of Henry IV,

and died lord in 1514, and Richard Spooner was his son and heir, who was to marry Cecilia Willis; and

Thomas Spooner, gent, was lord in the 40th of Elizabeth. Bloomfield’s Norfolk, Vol.i,p.169.

**"Wicwantford, Co. Worcester, 1559, Az. A boars head, ar, armed, ar, pierced through the neck with a

spear, ar. Embrued with blood." Burke’s General Armory.

There was "A Confirmation of the Arms, and a Grant of the Crest to Thomas Spooner of Wickwantford in

com. Wigorn, at Droitwich com. Wigorn, 10th August 1683, by Robt. Cooke, Clarencieux, 29 Nov., 1589,

32

Eliz." Miscellanea Genealogica Heraldice, 1872.

Niabet says:–"The boar, say the naturalists and heralds, is a champion among other wild beasts, and

encounters his enemy with a noble courage, and, in order to battle, he is said to whet and sharp his tusks."

Guillium says the same; "he betokeneth a man of a bold spirit, skillful and politie, or warlike feats, called

in Latin, aper ab asperitas."

++A reference to Matthew Prior’s celebrated epitaph:

"Here lies what once was Matthew Prior;

The son of Adam and Eve;

Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher?"

William Spooner then, "of Colchester, in the county of Essex," (England or Massachusetts?), arrived in

the New Plymouth settlement early in the year 1637. Whence he came, whether with Ann Spooner from

Leyden,* whether direct from the mother country, or whether–which we think the most probable–from

the little embryo town of Colchester, Massachusetts Colony+, is not known. Let this much be said,

however, that considering his youth, (he probably was not more than sixteen or seventeen years old at the


time of his indenture), and considering also the fact that a Mrs. Ann Spooner (doubtless from Leyden,

Holland) was in Salem in 1637, it is more than probable that William made the journey to America with

Ann Spooner and Thomas Spooner, whom we suppose to have been his mother and brother, and that, on

their arrival in Salem, and William seeking his fortune first in the little Colchester settlement and

subsequently in New Plymouth.

Of William Spooner’s life after his apprenticeship to Mr. Coombs, we have, from the records, a tolerably

well-connected account. From the various orders of the Court, already quoted, we conclude that he was a

faithful and competent steward, entrusted with the administration of his master’s estate and the custody of

his children. These were no common marks of confidence, especially among the early New England

settlers, with whom sturdy self-reliance was one of the first and greatest of virtues.

In the list of August, 1643, William Spooner is mentioned as one "of all the males that are able to beare

arms, from xvi years old to 60 years wthin the seuvall townships. He was propounded to take up his

freedom,*** June 7, 1653," and was "sworn and admitted June 6, 1654," and at the same time was

appointed Surveyor of Highways. He also served on the "Grand Enquest," 1657 and 1666.

*It is known that in 1616, John Spooner was living in Leyden and was the head of a family;—also, that

Ann S., his widow, was there in 1630. In 1637 an Ann Spooner was in Salem, who it is supposed was the

Ann S. of Leyden, and that John and Ann of Leyden were the parents of William of Plymouth and of

Thomas, who was in Salem in 1637.

+The name Spooner was as early one in England. In the fifteenth century, and the early part of the

sixteenth, the name was confined chiefly to Worcestershire, Essex, Middlesex and Yorkshire counties.

The indenture of William, naming him as of "Colchester, Essex county," would seem to indicate that he

came from the old Roman town of Colchester, England. It is the opinion of some of the family and of

others, that this is the proper interpretation of the words "Colchester, Essex county" in the indenture.

An opinion, possibly not well founded, and yet entertained by the compiler of these records, points to an

early settlement "beyond the Merrimack" as the place where William first took up his residence in

America. That settlement antedates 1637,–and, from the first, was probably known as "Colchester." and

the district that it was in as "Essex." In 1639, it was "ordered by the Court that the other plantation beyond

Merrimack shall be called Colchester." Under date of February, 1679-80, is the following record:–"This

Court being sensible of the great

inconvenience and charge that it will be to Salisbury (Colchester), Haverhill and Amesbury to continue

their County Court, now some of the towns are taken off, and considering that those towns did formerly

belong to Essex county, and attended Essex courts,–do order, that those towns that are left be again joined

to Essex." These records and other facts, lead us to the conclusion that the settlement "beyond the

Merrimack" was known as "Colchester" from its earliest date; and that the region of country was called

"Essex";–and, from these facts we conclude that this America Colchester was the earliest American home

of William Spooner.

***The qualifications to become a Freeman were:–"Twenty-one years of age, sober, peaceable

conversation, orthodoxy in the fundamentals of religion and a ratable estate of twenty pounds." Balics’

New Plymouth.i,p.230

On Dec. 26, 1657, Benajah Pratt sold to William Spooner, "for the consideration of a Cow, one-half of his

land, called Purchase land at Coaksett alias Acoakus and places adjacent." Oct. 25, 1658, Samuel Hickes

sold to William Spooner, "in consideration of a valuable sum, fifteen acres at the lower South meadow in

the Township of Plymouth," which was sold by William Spooner to Robert Ransome June 30, 1662, and

on this same date Robert Ransome sold to William Spooner, "twenty acres of upland at Acushena." On

Aug. 1, 1662, William Spooner sold to Edward Gray, "his share of the land at Punckatessett and places

adjacent." Memorandums of these conveyances are found in Plymouth Records.


He continued to reside in Plymouth until about 1660, when he removed to the new settlement at Acushnet

in the Dartmouth purchase. * Here he held lands in his own name and an interest in the purchase, which

were confirmed to him and to his heirs in their proprietory rights by his will. His lands and the grants

made to his sons and grandson, were situated near The-Head-of-the-River, somewhat to the north and

east, thence to the south on the east side of the river Acushnet; a small portion of the inheritance of his

son, John, was on the West or New Bedford side of the Acushnet, and they held land on Sconticut Neck

and at Nasquatucket.

It is traditionally claimed, (and this claim seems to be well founded.) that William and his sons built the

first mill within Dartmouth bounds, which was located in what is now Acushnet village.

He was twice married; first to Elizabeth Partridge, who died April 28, 1648, and second to Hannah Pratt.

By his first wife he had one child, John, the dates of whose birth and death are not known, but who was

living in February, 1734, and therefore must have been at the time of his death, nearly, if not quite, a

nonogenarian. By his second wife, William had eight children, all of whom survived him.

*The purchase of Dartmouth was originally contracted for by thirty-six colonists who met at Plymouth,

March 7, 1652. The confirmatory deed of the purchase, given by William Bradford, Nov. 13, 1694,

names fifty-six proprietors. "The deed of Wamsutta or Moaman, who was called by the English

Alexander, as given in the history of New Bradford, gives the bounds of this purchase as follows: "All the

tract or tracts of land lying three miles eastward from a river called Cushenagg to a certain harbour called

Acoaksett to a flat rock on the westward side of said harbour, and whereas the said harbour divideth itself

into several branches, the westernmost arme to be the bound, and all the tracts of land from the said

westernmost arme to the river of Sushenagg, three niles eastward of the same, with all the rivers, creeks,

meadows, necks and islands that lye in or before the same, and from the sea upward to go so high that the

English may not be annoyed by the hunting of the Indians in any sort of their cattle."

This grant or purchase was "allowed by the court to be a township, and known by the name of Dartmouth,

June, 1644." and comprised the territory now incorporated as Dartmouth, New Bedford, Fair Haven,

Westport and Acushnet. The original township of Dartmouth was about thirteen miles square.

William Spooner’s educational advantages in the way of "book learning," etc., were certainly very

limited. His will, in common with many of the instruments executed by the early colonists, bears the

"mark" of illiteracy. It is dated March 8, 1683. On the margin of the record, we find the memorandum

"1684," which indicates that the year, instead of being 1683, was in fact 1684, and should therefore have

been written 1683-4.* The inventory of his estate bears date March 14,1683, (more properly March 14,

1683-4). Six days only intervening between the making of the will and the taking of the inventory, clearly

evidences that dissolution took place some time between the eighth and the fourteenth of March 1684.

Considering this fact, it is not a matter of surprise that being, as he must have been, "weake of body," he

was physically, if not mentally, incapacitated from doing more than affix "his mark" to the last will and

testament.+

*"Those who consult the Plymouth records," says Dr. Shurtleff, editor of the twelve published volumes,

"should be reminded that they were written at the time when the Julian method of computing time,

commonly known as ‘Old Style,’ was in use in England and its dependencies, and that therefore in New

England the legal year commenced on Conception day, the 25th of March. The additioin of ten days to any

date given in printed volumes of records, all the facts therein having transpired in the seventeenth century,

will reduce it to ‘New Style.’

"The first figure indicates the legal year commencing on the 25th of March, and the last the historical year

commencing on the 1st day of January."

The same double-year-dating is also found in all the early records of New England towns. In the records

of this period–the seventeenth century–taken from town registers and given in these pages, the double-


year-dating has been omitted, the historical year only is given. The dates of the days of the month are

invariably given as found on the records.

+On a recent examination of Plymouth by Mr. James Walter Spooner of that city, a record was found in

Vol. 3, Folio S2, Old Colony Records, which is almost conclusive evidence that William Spooner could

write. In that record his name appears with those of Samuel, Jenney and James Shaw as witnesses to an

agreement between John Hayward and John Cook as to a highway, ("with the consent of the neighbors at

Acushenah,") to "The Neck." in Dartmouth. These names of witnesses are given as having been written

by themselves. Thus we can relieve William of the extreme illiteracy of not having been able to write his

name.

His will and inventory of his estate, as found on Plymouth County Wills Records, are in words as follows:

Will Of William Spooner

"1684, March 8, 1683.

"The last will & Testament of William Spooner, being aged & weake of body, but yet in perfect

understanding & memory, wherein I haue disposed of my estate as followeth, Im primis: I giue vnto my

son, John Spooner, that thirty acres of land where he now dwelleth, with Twenty acres more to be added

therevnto at ye next deuision of Dartmouth lands to him, his heirs & assigns foreuer; also, I giue to my

grandson, John Spooner, one-fourth part of a share of all ye vndeuided lands in y

e township of Dartmouth,

with two acres to my three acres of good meadow, lying on ye west side of Sconticut neck at y

e entering in

of ye neck to him, his heirs & assigns foreuer; also I giue y

e bed which I now lodge on vnto my aforesaid

Grandson; also, I glue vnto my son, Ebenezer Spooner, eight pounds, to be paid vnto him three years after

my decease, in good current pay.

"Also, I giue vnto my son, Isaac Spooner, five shillings; also, I giue vnto my son-in-law, John Sherman,

my great coat; and vnto my daughter, Sarah Sherman, I giue one cow; also, I giue vnto my daughter,

Martha Whing, one cow; also, I giue vnto my daughter, Hannah & her son, Joshua, one cow or the value

of a cow; I giue also vnto my daughter, Mercy, to be delieured vnto her two years after my decease * also,

I giue & bequeath vnto my son, Samuel Spooner, my house and ye seat of land belonging to it, both

vpland and meadow, containing fourty acres, more or less, with one acre to my three acres of good

meadow, lying on ye west Side of Sconticutt aforesaid, vnto him, his heirs and assigns foreuer; also, I giue

all ye rest of my upland already laid out, with one-fourth part of a share of all vndeuided lands, except that

twenty acres I giue vnto my son John, as aforesaid, to be equally deuided between my

son Samuel & my son William, to them, their heirs & assigns foreuer; also, I giue ye rest of my neat

Cattell, to be equally deuided amongst my two sons, Samuel & William; also, all ye remainder of my laid-

out meadow I giue to be equally deuided amongst my three sons, John, Samuel and William, to them and

their heirs foreuer; also I giue all my household goods, of all sorts, to be equally deuided amongst my son

Samuel & my daughter Hannah and my daughter Mercy; also I make my son Samuel my sole executor,

and I haue made choyce of my two friends, Seth Pope & Thomas Taber, for my ouerseers, to see this my

will performed.

His

WILLIAM X SPOONER. (SEAL)

mark.

"Signed & sealed in ye presence of His "John X Jenny, mark.

"Thomas Taber"

*Here appears to have been an omission by the Recorder.

INVENTORY.


"March ye 14

th, 1683, the inventory of y

e lands, goods and chattles of William Spooner of the town of

Dartmouth, late deceased:

Imprmis, his house and land att - - - - - - - - 150–00–0

It. his nett Cattle at - - - - - - - - - - - 025–00–0

It. his beds and bedding and wearing clothes at - - - - 017–00–0

Itt. for Cotton yarn, lenen yarn & hemp - - - - - - 003–15–0

It. for three Iron potts & one gun - - - - - - - 002–00–0

It. for tools of all sorts & two spinning wheels - - - - 002–00–0

Itt. for spoons & dishes & other household lumber - - - 001–10–0

Itt. for corn & other prousion - - - - - - - - 009–03–0

Total is - - - - - - - - - - - 201–15–0

"Taken by us ye day and yeare above written.

His "SETH X POPE mark.

THOMAS TABER

"On ye oath of Samuel Spooner," vol.4,p. 71, Willis, Plymouth County Records.

Here, then, is the simple story of a simple and unpretending, though in no sense ill-spent life; a youth of

labor,–an age of ease,–honorable toil–well-earned competence–peace with God and man. This story we

shall leave as we found it,–unadorned and therefore best adorned,–complete in itself and pointing its own

moral. Its own moral? Yes, for it has a moral’ a homely one perhaps, and fashioned after a very common

and vulgar pattern, yet not lacking in rugged extrinsic worth.

William Spooner’s lot was cast among a very remarkable people, who, individually and collectively,

builded better than they knew. Good taste forbids us to dilate on "morals," "heritages" or "posterity," still,

even in our humble capacity as a collector of facts and unimportant biographical data, we cannot forbear,

in passing, to pay our little tribute of appreciation to the virtues of these sturdy pioneers, who adding

patriotic endeavor to intelligent conviction, raised up a tabernacle in the wilderness and wrought for

posterity a work of great social and moral beneficence. Here, we are convinced, is the most edifying

spectacle in all history; for these men, unlike the founders of most other nations, were actuated by no

sinister motives of gain or self-seeking. Theirs was a more devout spirit of action, arising from principle

more than from fleeting caprice, and brought to fruition by peaceful pursuit of worthy ends. In the course

of events, wars and feuds arose among them, but their quarrels were always quarrels of necessity and

never of choice. We are not called upon, in passing on the character of the forefathers, to subscribe to

their religious views, or to have religious convictions of our own of any kind. Certainly, the light of the

present liberal age, we find somewhat to condemn in their religious principles and practices; particularly

in the stupid fanaticism which ostracised Roger Williams, and, which inspired the persecutions at Boston

and Salem. Still, when all is said that can be said, we cannot but admire the devoted Christian purpose by

which they were governed; and even though that purpose was sometimes warped and misdirected, we

should not forget that the spirit in which men act, and not the fruit of action, is always "the highest

matter."

How the Pilgrims * and the Puritans came to be what they were; how they toiled and fought; how they

adapted themselves to soil and climate and conciliated and subdued the barbarous tribes among whom

they were thrown, is a story which we are not called upon to repeat in the present connection. Suffice it to

say that their form of government + was, for more than half a century, a perfect theocracy, and that their

annals are "the short and simple annals of the poor." They did nothing very "glorious," in the common


acceptation of the term, performed no prodigies of warlike valor; and were content if at the year’s end

their crops were safely garnered and their devoted numbers remained intact.

William Spooner was both with this people and of them; "sober and peaceable in conversation and

orthodox in the fundamentals of religion." During his fifty years’ sojourn among them, the little nucleus

formed at Plymouth, grew in size and importance, until from a mere settlement it became a wealthy

colony, capable of maintaining its own in war and peace. This was the primitive period of American

civilization, and whatever of wisdom exists in our institutions today–and we are persuaded there is much–

must be accredited to the enterprise and independence of these devoted pilgrims and to their brother

colonists of New England, New York and the South. These were stirring times, too, in the mother

country. The civil war, the

*There is a marked and clear line of distinction to be drawn between the Pilgrims and the Puritans.

Said Arnold–the historian of Rhode Island–"The Pilgrims of Plymouth "were more liberal in feeling and

tolerant in practice than the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay."

"As they were distinct from the Puritans of England, and had long been separated from them in Holland,

so did they preserve that distinction in some measure in America."

The two colonies, in all that related to governmental policy and laws bearing upon the people, were

entirely distinct from each other until the Union of the two colonies in 1692.

"No evidence appears that, during the witchcraft delusion, any instance of it occurred within the bounds

of Plymouth colony."

+The "Social Compact" signed on board the Mayflower by the forty-one adult male passengers, before

landing at Plymouth, was the foundation and basis of the laws of the Plymouth Colony Government.

The first act under this Plymouth Constitution, for such was the compact to all intents and purposes, was

the election on the day of its adoption of John Carver as Governor of the Colony.

John Quincy Adams said of this compact:

"This is perhaps the only instance in human history of that positive, original social compact, which

speculative philosophers have imagined as the only legitimate source of government. Here was a

unanimous and personal assent by all the individuals of the community to the association by which they

became a nation. It was the result of circumstances and discussions, which had occurred during their

passage from Europe, and is a full demonstration that the nature of civil government, abstracted from the

political settlers of all former European colonies had contented themselves with the powers conferred

upon them by their respective charters, without looking beyond the seal of the royal parchment for the

measure of their rights and the rule of their duties. The founders of Plymouth had been impelled by the

peculiarities of their situation to examine the subject with deeper and more comprehensive research."

The first article of the Declaration of Rights and Laws, as adopted by the colony, 1636, was in these

words: "That no act, imposition, law or ordinance be made or imposed upon us at present or to come, but

such as have been or shall be enacted by the consent of the body of freemen, or associates of their

representatives legally assembled."

"Here we find advanced," said the Orator of Rochester Bi-Centennial Celebration: "The whole principle

of the Revolution, and not only that, we find the whole doctrine of our Republican institutions."

Commonwealth and the Restoration belong to this era of English history. The dissentions at home

naturally had an adverse influence on the affairs of the struggling colonists, not to engender strife or feud

amongst them, for they were too well united in interest and opinion, but to create a breach, at least in

feeling, between the republican New Englanders and their royal master. The fruits of the bold

independence and right of free speech asserted by the colonists, are seen in the grevious persecutions of

which they were subjected by the restored monarchs, such as the withdrawal of the royal charter, the


imposition of severe and unjust taxes, and the tyrannous exactions of royal governors. All this was felt

and suffered, and left its rankling wound. Nevertheless, despite the fact that the colonists received no aid

or sympathy from England, and that they were forced to dissipate their energies in bloody wars with the

Indians, these were fifty years of phenomenal prosperity. Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island

were dotted with thriving settlements, commerce sought the New England shores, and the wilderness was

indeed made to blossom as the rose. It was at this time, too, that the spirit of political liberty, always

inherent in the New England character, began to assert itself. In 1643, the Plymouth colony and

Massachusetts towns united "for common defense" and for commercial and other purposes. The union

gradually extended southward, and ere long all the American colonies became one in heart and aim, and it

remained only for the occasion to present itself, when their union, from being undefined, should become

broad and national, proposing a patriotic object, and leaving a distinct impress on history.

To the religious and the political wisdom of the Pilgrims, American civilization owes some of its most

cherished institutions. The compact signed by the passengers of the Mayflower, was distinctly prophetic

of our national and state government.* The system of free schools, now so national in its ramifications,

originated in New England.+

*Bancroft, writing of the compact, says:

"This was the birth of popular constitutional liberty. The middle ages had been familiar with charters and

constitutions, but they had been merely compacts for immunities, partial enfranchisements, patents of

nobility, concessions of municipal privileges or limitations of sovereign power in favor of feudal

institutions. In the cabin of the Mayflower humanity recorded its rights and instituted government on the

basis of ‘equal rights’ for the ‘general good.’"

+"The Puritan settlers of New England were fully convinced of the necessity of universal education. They

came here with no intention of founding a colony of semi-barbarians like the Boers of South Africa; and,

accordingly, we find that as soon as they had provided temporary shelter for themselves, they reared in

humble guise indeed, but with willing hands, the church and the school house."

"The free public school (the common school of our time) was of New England origin, but whether

Massachusetts or Connecticut is entitled to the honor of its first establishment, is a mooted point. The first

legislative enactment was made by Massachusetts in 1647."

The grant by Plymouth colony, 1647, of the pasturage of Rochester lands and at an earlier date is fishery

privileges at Cape Code, were largely for the support of schools. Hon. W.W. Crapo said at Rochester

Celebration, July 22, 1879: "The school fund of the Plymouth colony came from the rental of the pasture

lands of Rochester, and from the income derived from the rights granted to take mackerel and bass and

herrings with nets and seines. The pasturage of Rochester and the fisheries of Cape Cod must always be

associated together, as furnishing the earliest support for free schools upon this continent."

The fact that her sur-name was Partridge, is learned from a record made by James Spooner, No. 680, "as

related to him by Walter Spooner," No. 179. Walter was born in 1720, his grandfather, Samuel S., lived

until 1739, and his great uncle, John S. Is known to have been living in 1734. Walter, at these periods of

time, was of an age to have an interest in such matters, and from either John, the son of Elizabeth, or of

his grandfather, he probably obtained the record communicated by him to his Plymouth relative.

"Joshua Pratt came in the "Ann," 1623, and was allotted land among "the old comers." His widow,

Bathsheba, administered upon his estate Oct. 6, 1656. He was one of the original thirty-six purchasers of

Dartmouth, who met at Plymouth, March 7, 1652.

Spooner’s heirs are named among the proprietors of Dartmouth in the confirmatory deed of Bradford, and

were recognized under the will of their father as "the owners of Joshua Pratt’s share in "The Purchase," as

is seen in the records of Dartmouth proprietors.


These facts, with family tradition, point to Joshua and Bathsheba Pratt as the parents of William

Spooner’s second wife.

Generally speaking, we have taken to ourselves all that was good in the Pilgrim and the Puritan character,

principles, and institutions, and applied it to our altered conditions. Puritan character and manhood are

ours by inheritance; Puritan principles by time-honored observance, and Puritan institutions by adoption.

In all that touches our national and private conduct, we have, in the example of the forefathers, a model

well worthy of our strictest imitation, for, though it cannot be claimed for the Puritans that they were

entirely free from human error, yet their conspicuous virtues atoned for their seeming faults; conscience

and faith led them in the path of wisdom; and we must search history in vain to discover a state of society

in which justice was more righteously dispensed; in which the domestic virtues were more religiously

practiced, or in which the laws of man harmonized more perfectly with the laws of God.

The first wife of William Spooner was Elizabeth Partridge. She D: 28 Apr 1648

AND HIS DESCENDANTS

CHILD.

John. He was living Feb. 7, 1734

William Spooner married March 18, 1652m Hannah Pratt, D: as is supposed of Joshua and Bathsheba

Pratt.

CHILDREN.

Sarah, B: Oct. 5, 1653; was living 1720

Samuel, B: Jan. 14, 1655; D: ____,1739

Martha B: 1657; was living Mar. 25, 1717

William B: 1654; was living Oct. 27, 1735

Isaac B: 1652; D: Dec. 27, 1709

Hannah B: 2663; D: ______

Ebenezer B: 1666; D: Feb. 5, 1718

Mercy B: 1663; D:______

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William Spooner and John Coombs

Combs, Combe, Coomes, Coombe, or Coombs, Francis, Plymouth 1666, s. of John. GEORGE,

Charlestown, d. 27 July 1659, was, perhaps only a transient man. JOHN, Plymouth, freem. 1633, is call.

gent. next [p.439] yr. had w. Sarah, and s. Francis, seemsto have d. bef. 1645, when William Spooner,

wh. was his serv. in 1642, was by the Ct. order. to have charge of the childr. of Combs. and in 1666, the s.

Francis got gr. of ld. in his f.'s right.

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Plymouth Colony

Plymouth Colony History and People

Source: Stratton, Eugene Aubrey, FASG. Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620-1691. Salt Lake

City, UT: Ancestry Incorporated, 1986.


Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620-1691

Part One: Chronological Histories

Chapter 5: Quaker Ranters, Baptist Schismatics, and Indians with Tongues Running Out (1657-1675)

As mentioned above, in June 1670 Dartmouth was conspicuously mentioned in connection with the law

that towns without ministers would have to start paying for future maintenance, and was rated at £15.

Dartmouth had paid nothing by 1 July 1672, when the court noted it had neglected to do so under the

excuse that those appointed to collect it refused, and the order to pay £15 was repeated. Dartmouth was a

special case. Sometime after its founding it effectively became, no doubt in good part due to its location,

the "Rhode Island" of Plymouth Colony, the place where religious dissenters could go without much

disturbance from colony officials. James Cudworth had written that "almost the whole Town of Sandwich

is adhering" to the Quakers, but by the 1670s there were a number of Quakers in Dartmouth, too, coming

from Scituate, Duxbury, [p.98] Plymouth town, and other places. Many of the families associated with

Plymouth in its earliest days removed to this newly opened area, including the adjoining Saconnet, later

to be called Little Compton, where land was granted on 4 June 1661 to some of the former servants who

had been promised land by their contracts. There were Howlands, from the families of Arthur and Henry,

the brothers of John; several third-generation Aldens; some Soules; some Samsons; a Cuthbertson, now

shortened to Cutbert; the Jenney family; Palmers; Delanos; and others. Of course, not all these were

necessarily religious dissenters, but it is a fact that Baptist and Quaker meetings were active in Dartmouth

and Little Compton, but no Congregational Church was established in either during the lifetime of

Plymouth Colony. As of 29 May 1670 Dartmouth had only seven freemen residents: John Cooke, John

Russell, James Shaw, Arthur Hathaway, William Spooner, Samuel Hicks, and William Palmer.


Part Two: Topical Narratives

Chapter 11: Man and Master

William Spooner of Colchester, co. Essex, by contract of 27 March 1637, apprenticed himself to John

Holmes, gentleman, of Plymouth for six years, and later in 1637 Holmes, with the consent and liking of

Spooner, assigned Spooner's contract to John Coombs of Plymouth. At the end of the term Coombs was

to give Spooner "one comely suit of apparell for holy dayes and one suite for workinge dayes and twelve

bushells of Indian Wheate, and a good serviceable muskett, bandiliers and sword fitt for service." There

are hints that Holmes might have been from Colchester, too, and might have recruited Spooner as a

servant for Coombs. Could Holmes have known, perhaps through a letter from home, that Spooner was

desirous of finding employment in Plymouth? So, too, Edmond Weston in 1636 had his contract to serve

John Winslow turned over to Nathaniel Thomas, on behalf of the latter's father Mr. William Thomas, with

Thomas paying Winslow £10, and promising to give Weston at the end of two years £6 and fourteen

bushels of corn, plus whatever else Weston would be due by virtue of his covenant with Winslow. We

know that even a prosperous man might arrange to have a relative work as a servant, for on 13 February

1639/40 Henry Cogan transferred the five-year contract of his servant James Glass (who was also his

nephew) to Manasseh Kempton.


Part Three: Biographical Sketches

Biographical Sketches

Cooper, Ann (or Agnes)

He died sometime prior to 1 August 1648 when the court ordered that the one-third part of the English

corn due Mrs. Coombs from William Spooner be turned over to Thomas Cushman. The court noted that

Mr. John Coombs was indebted to the estate of Godbert Godbertson, which in turn owed Isaac Allerton,


who had turned the debt over to his son-in-law Thomas Cushman (PCR 2:131-33); from a document

dated 27 October 1646 by Allerton, it appeared that the debt was quite large (£100 sterling). Also on 1

August 1646 the court noted that Coombs's children were now with William Spooner, who was ordered to

keep them for the present and not dispose of them without further court order (PCR 2:131). Coombs had

taken over the indenture of William Spooner, of Colchester, County Essex, England, from John Holmes

in 1637 for six years. On 6 March 1642/43 the court ordered William Spooner to pay the debt of ten

shillings of his master Mr. Coombs to Mr. William Hanbury (PCR 2:51). (See also TAG 46:130.)


Part Three: Biographical Sketches

Biographical Sketches

Pratt, Phineas

—Joshua Pratt arrived at Plymouth on the Anne in 1623, and was in the 1623 land division and the 1627

cattle division. He was a Purchaser and was on the 1633 list of freemen. He was on the committee of 3

January 1627/28 to lay out the twenty-acre allotments (PCR 12:14). He was chosen as messenger of the

court and constable for Plymouth on 1 January 1633/34, and he continued as constable after the

messenger position was given to Mr. John Holmes on 4 December 1638 (PCR 1:21, 105). He obtained a

good number of land grants and engaged in frequent land transactions (PCR, passim). On 7 March

1652/53 he was one of the purchasers of land in Dartmouth (MD 4:186-87). Administration of his estate

was granted to his wife Bathsheba on 5 October 1656 (PCR 3:108)—her surname is unknown, and she

may have been a second wife. He has been called a brother of Phineas Pratt, q.v., and in the 1623 land

division he was paired with Phineas, but proof of a relationship is lacking. His widow married (2) John

Doggged 29 August 1667 (PCR 8:31). His children are thought to be Benajah, who married Persis

Dunham; Hannah, who married William Spooner; Jonathan, who married Abigail Wood; and Bathsheba,

who married Joshua Rice.


Part Four: Appendices

Appendix J: The 1643 Able to Bear Arms (ATBA) List

Plymouth

William Spooner

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History Of William Spooner

WILLIAM SPOONER

Colchester, Essex Co., Eng., Plymouth, Dartmouth, Mass.

1637, 3, 27. "Whereas Wm. Spooner of Colchester, in the County of Essex, by his Indenture bearing date

the 27th day of March 1637, etc. hath put himself apprentice with John Holmes of New Plymouth in

America, Gent, from the first day of May next after the date of said Indenture, unto the end of a term of

six years, etc., now the said John Holmes with the consent of Wm. Spooner bath the first day of July

assigned and set over the said Wm. Spooner unto John Coombs of New Plymouth aforesaid Gent. for all

the residue of his unexpired term, to serve the said John Coombs. And the said John Coombs in the end of

his said term shall give the said Wm. Spooner one comely suit of apparel for Holy days and one for

working days, and twelve bushels of Indian Wheat, and a good serviceable musket, bandileers, and sword,

fit for service."

1643. Plymouth. His name is in a list of those of Plymouth, between ages of 16 and 60, able to bear arms.

1645. Appointed Guardian of children of John Coombs.


1653. He was propounded Freeman at Plymouth, and next year admitted as Freeman.

1655, '65. Surveyor.

1657, '66. Juryman.

1670. Dartmouth. Freeman.

1683, 3, 8. Will. Ex., son Samuel. Overseers, Seth Pope, Thomas Taber. Witnesses, John Jenny, Thomas

Taber. To son Samuel, his house and 40 acres. To sons Samuel and William, the residue of neat cattle not

given to other children. Other lands are given to sons John, Samuel, and William, and to grandson John.

To daughter Sarah Sherman, 1 cow, and to son-in-law John Sherman, "my great coat." To daughter

Martha Wing, 1 cow. To daughter Hannah and her son Joshua, 1 cow. To son Ebenezer, œ8. To son Isaac,

5s. To daughter Mercy, (???). Houschold goods are divided equally between son Samuel and daughters

Mercy and Hannah.

1684, 3, 14. Inventory, œ201, 15s. House and land, œ150. Neat cattle, œ25. Bed, bedding, and wearing

apparel, œ17. Cotton and linen yarn and hemp, œ3, 15s. Three iron pots and 1 gun, œ2. Tools and 2

spinning wheels, œ2. Spoons, dishes and other bousehold lumber, œ1, 10s. Corn and other provision, œ9,

3s.

Source: New England Families Genealogical and Memorial. 3rd series. Volume 4.

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Name: William Spooner

Year: 1637



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Spooner, William

Annotation: In the years from 1925 to 1942, Frederick A. Virkus edited seven volumes with the title, The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy, published in Chicago by the Institute of American Genealogy. Each volume has a section in the main body of the work, co


VIRKUS, FREDERICK A., editor. Immigrant Ancestors: A List of 2,500 Immigrants to America before 1750. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1964. 75p. Repr. 1986.

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Name: William Spooner


Birth Date: 1620

Birth Place: England

Death Date: Mar 1684

Death Place: Dartmouth, Massachusetts

Spouse: Hannah Pratt

Children: Samuel Spooner



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Name: Anne Vassall

Year: 1635

Age: 42


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010 Clement Weaver - Biography

Early Rhode Island Settlers

1600's , Rhode Island

Clement Weaver was born about 1585 to 1590, as he died about 1683, "near 100 years old." He came to

New England between 1630 and 1640; settled at first in Boston, later removed to Weymouth, as in 1643

he owned property there an lived next door to his brother-in-law Thomas Holbrook. About 1650 he left

Weymouth and went to Rhode Island, where he was a wall builder. He and his son Clement were made

freemen (citizens with a right to vote) in Newport in 1655.

On 19 May 1617, he married at St. John's, Glastonbury, co. Somerset, Rebecca, daughter of William

Holbrook.

John S. Wurts, MAGNA CHARTA, Brookfield Pub. Co., Philadelphia, 1945, Part III, p. 436-437, 454.

Wilfred Jordan, Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Lewis Historical Publishing Co.,

New York, 1942, pp. 679-680; Coat of Arms facing p. 663.


Source Citation: Place: Rhode Island; Year: 1630; Page Number: 71.




Name: Clement Weaver

Year: 1630

Place: Rhode Island


9448

Primary Immigrant:

Weaver, Clement

Annotation: In the years from 1925 to 1942, Frederick A. Virkus edited seven volumes with the title, The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy, published in Chicago by the Institute of American Genealogy. Each volume has a section in the main body of the work, co


VIRKUS, FREDERICK A., editor. Immigrant Ancestors: A List of 2,500 Immigrants to America before 1750. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1964. 75p. Repr. 1986.

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010 Francis Cooke – Biography

Francis Cooke


For other people named Francis Cooke, see Francis Cooke (disambiguation).

Francis Cooke (1583 – April 7, 1663 Plymouth, Massachusetts)

was one of the 102 passengers on the Mayflower. This early

settler is one of the twenty-six male Pilgrims known to have

descendants.

Early Life And Family

Francis is described in Leiden Walloon church marriage records

dating from 1603 as a "woolcomber out of (uyt) England".[1]

However, his origins are unknown. He could have been a

refugee from religious persecution elsewhere in continental

Europe.

In Leiden, sometime after July 20, 1603, as Franchoys Couck,

he married Hester le Mahieu, the daughter of Protestant refugees

from the Walloon Flanders area.[2]

The Mahieus, from Lille, had resided in Canterbury, then London,

since the 1570s before moving to Leiden in 1590. Hester le Mahieu's sister was Marie le Mahieu, wife of

Jan Lano, another Protestant refugee in Canterbury and then Leiden, whose son, Philippe de Lannoy

(anglicized to 'Delano') migrated on the Fortune to join his uncle Francis Cooke and his cousin Robert at

Plymouth colony in 1621, having been left behind with twenty others when the Mayflower's sailing mate,

the Speedwell, foundered and returned to port in England leaving the Mayflower to sail alone. Philippe is

the progenitor of the branch of the Delano family living in America, from which Franklin Delano

Roosevelt descends.

While in Leiden, Francis and Hester were members of the Walloon church. In 1606, they left Leiden

briefly for Norwich, England, where they joined another Walloon church, returning to Leiden in 1607,

possibly for religious reasons. Between 1611 and 1618, the Cookes were members of the Pilgrim

Separatist congregation in Leiden.[3]

The Pilgrim church was not established in Leiden until 1609, so

Francis was living there long before their arrival and must have met up with and joined them afterwards.

The Mayflower And Plymouth

In 1620, Francis, his son John, and nephew Philippe de Lannoy boarded Speedwell at Delftshaven. Cooke

left wife Hester and their younger children behind to follow when the colony was established. The Leiden

Separatists bought the ship in Holland. They then sailed it to Southampton, England to meet the

Mayflower, which had been chartered by the merchant investors. In Southampton they joined with other

Separatists and the additional colonists hired by the investors.

The two ships began the voyage on August 5, 1620, but the Speedwell leaked badly and had to return to

Dartmouth to be refitted at great expense and time. On the second attempt, the two ships sailed about 100

leagues beyond Land's End in Cornwall, but the Speedwell was again found to be leaky. Both vessels

returned to Plymouth where the Speedwell was sold. It would later be revealed that there was in fact

nothing wrong with the ship. The crew had sabotaged it in order to escape the year long commitment of

their contract.

Eleven people from the Speedwell (including Francis and John Cooke) boarded the Mayflower, leaving 20

people (including Robert Cushman and Philippe de Lannoy) to return to London while a combined

company of 103 continued the voyage. For a third time, the Mayflower headed for the New World. She

left Plymouth on September 6, 1620 and entered Cape Cod Harbor on November 11, 1620. The Fortune

eventually followed, arriving at Plymouth Colony one year later on November 9, 1621.

Bas-relief from the Pilgrim Monument

depicting the signing of the Mayflower

Compact.


Arriving at what is now Provincetown, Massachusetts, on November 11 (November 21, new-style

calendar), forty-one of the passengers, among them Francis Cooke, signed the Mayflower Compact as the

boat lay at anchor.

Francis was active in Plymouth civil affairs in the 1630s and 40s - committees to lay out land grants and

highways, petit jury, grand jury, coroner's jury. He appears on the 1643 Plymouth list of those able to bear

arms. At some point in 1638 or afterward, he settled at Rocky Nook on Jones River, within the limits of

Kingston, a few miles from Plymouth.[4]

In 1651, fellow Pilgrim William Bradford wrote of him: "Francis Cooke is still living, a very old man,

and hath seen his children's children have children. After his wife came over with other of his children; he

hath three still living by her, all married and have five children, so their increase is eight. And his son

John which came over with him is married, and hath four children living." [5]

Francis Cooke died in 1663

in Plymouth.[6]

Notable Descendants

Claimed by the Francis Cooke Society

Notable descendants of Francis Cooke include Cephas Thompson, William

Drew Washburn, Mrs. Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma Moses"), (George)

Orson Welles, Abel Head "Shanghai" Pierce (Texas cattleman who introduced

the Brahman cattle breed into Texas), Actor Richard Gere, Beach Boys Brian,

Carl, and Dennis Wilson, and U.S. Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt,

George Herbert Walker Bush, and George Walker Bush.[7]

References

1. ^ Johanna W. Trammel, The Pilgrims and other people from the British Isles in Leiden, 1576-1640

(Isle of Man: Mansk-Svenska Publishing Co. Ltd., 1989), p.152

2. ^ Walter J. Harrison, "New Light on Francis Cooke and His Wife Hester Mayhieu and Their Son

John," Mayflower Descendant, Vol 27, 145-153. Their betrothal was recorded on July 4 and 5, so the

20th was the soonest the marriage could have taken place after banns were read.

3. ^ Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs. "The Pilgrims and other English in Leiden records: some new Pilgrim

documents." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July 1989, p.195-214.

4. ^ Robert Charles Anderson, "Francis Cooke", The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New

England 1620-1633, 1995, Vol. I.

5. ^ William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647, ed. Samuel Eliot Morison (New York:

Knopf, 1991), p. 442, 446.

6. ^ Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David

Pulsifer, eds., (Boston 1855-1861), Vol 8, p. 23

7. ^ Famous Descendants of Mayflower Passenger Francis Cooke, Francis Cooke Society

External links

• Francis Cooke at the Pilgrim Hall Museum

• Francis Cooke at MayflowerHistory.com

Francis Cooke

Back to the Mayflower Passenger List


Francis Cooke – Mayflower Families ‘Through Five Generations’

Birth: About 1583, probably in England. Mayflower Families: Francis

Cooke for Five Generations, contains the best, most thorough and completely

researched genealogy on Francis Cooke. It covers every descendant of his for the

first five generations, to the birth of the sixth generation. It's 685 pages packed full

of well documented genealogical research. Published by Picton Press in association

with the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.

Marriage:

Hester le Mahieu, 20 July 1603, Leiden.

Death: 7 April 1663, Plymouth.

Children: John, unnamed child buried in Leiden, Jane, Elizabeth, Jacob, Hester, and

Mary.

Biographical Summary

Francis Cooke was born about 1583. His origins have not been discovered, but it is probable he was born

in England, perhaps from the Canterbury or Norwich areas. He married Hester le Mahieu on 20 July 1603

in Leiden, Holland; she was a French Walloon whose parents had initially fled to Canterbury, England;

she left for Leiden sometime before 1603. Francis Cooke and Hester le Mahieu's marriage occurred in

Leiden, Holland six years before the Pilgrim church made its move there, so he was living there long

before their arrival and must have met up with and joined them afterwards. His wife Hester was a French

Walloon. What brought Francis to Holland in the first place is unknown: religious persecution of

Protestants in England did not really begin until after King James took power in 1604. In 1606, the

Cookes left Leiden and went to Norwich, Norfolk for a time (for what reason is not known), but returned

to have their first son, John, baptized at the French church in Leiden, sometime between January and

March, 1607. In Holland, Cooke took up the profession of a woolcomber.

Francis, and his oldest son John, came on the Mayflower to Plymouth in 1620. He left behind his wife

Hester and his other children Jane, Jacob, Elizabeth and Hester. After the Colony was founded and better

established, he sent for his wife and children, and they came to Plymouth in 1623 on the ship Anne.

Francis lived out his life in Plymouth. Although he kept a fairly low profile, he was on a number of

minor committees such as the committee to lay out the highways, and received some minor appointments

by the Court to survey or lay out land. He was a juror on a number of occasions, and was on the coroner's

jury that examined the body of Martha Bishop, the 4-year old daughter who was murdered by her mother

Alice. He received some modest land grants at various times throughout his life. He lived to be about 80

years old, dying in 1663; his wife Hester survived him by at least three years and perhaps longer.

Will Of Francis Cooke

7 December 1659

The last Will and Testament of ffrancis Cooke of Plymouth late Deceased: exhibited before the Court

held att Plymouth aforsaid the fift day of June 1663 on the oathes of mr John Aldin and mr John howland;

The Last Will and Testament of ffrancis Cooke made this seaventh of the tenth month 1659

I being att prsent weake and Infeirme in body yett in prfect memory throw mercy Doe comitt my soule

unto god that gave it and my body to the earthe; which my will is should bee Intered in a Decent and

comly manner;


As for such goods and lands as I stand posessed of I Doe will and bequeath as followeth;

1 My will is that hester my Dear and loveing wife shall have all my moveable goods and all my Cattle of

all kinds; viz: neat Cattle horsekind sheep and swine to be att her Dispose

2 my will is that hester my wife shall have and Injoy my lands both upland and meddow lands which att

prsent I posesse During her life

3 I Doe ordaine and appoint my Deare wife and my son John Cooke Joynt exequitors of this my said will

Witnes

John Aldin

ffrancis Cooke

John howland



Source Information:Gale Research. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com

Operations, Inc, 2010. Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2010.

Description:Updated annually, this database is an index to passengers who arrived in United States and Canadian ports from the 1500s through the 1900s. It contains listings of approximately 4,838,000 individuals and references thousands of different records compiled from everything from original passenger lists to personal diaries. For each individual listed, you may find the following information: name, age, year and place of arrival, and the source of the record.


Name: Francis Cooke

Year: 1620

Age: 37


abt 1583


Family Members: Son John 10


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Primary Immigrant:

Cooke, Francis

Annotation: Date and port of arrival. Mainly extracted from The Mayflower and Her Log ... by Dr. Azel Ames (indexed in PILI, first edition, source no. 108). Occupation and names of relatives are also provided.


"PASSENGERS ON THE MAYFLOWER." In The Mayflower Quarterly (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA), vol. 46:4 (Nov. 1980), pp. 177-182.

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010 Francis Cooke – Mayflower Compact

Photo Information

Title: Signing of the compact in the cabin of the Mayflower

State/Province: New Plymouth

Country: New Zealand

Year(s): 1566, 1576, 1584, 1588, 1620, 1621, 1644, 1656, 1657, 1910, 1930

Subject(s): Bradford, William, 1588-1657.

Brewster, William, 1566 or 7-1644.

Carver, John, ca. 1576-1621.

Standish, Myles, 1584?-1656.

Mayflower (Ship)

Mayflower Compact (1620)

Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)

Format: Conjectural works.

Dry plate negatives.

Paintings Reproductions.

Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.

Created/Published: [between 1910 and 1930]

Collection: DET

Notes: Title devised by cataloger.

Photograph of a painting signed Percy Moran, showing Myles Standish, William Bradford, William

Brewster and John Carver signing the Mayflower Compact in a cabin

Videodisc image laterally reversed.

No Detroit Publishing Co. no.

Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

010 Francis Cooke – Pilgrim Hall Museum

FRANCIS COOKE IN 17TH CENTURY RECORDS

Francis and Hester Mahieu Cooke in Leiden

The name of Francis Cooke appears in the records of Leiden, The Netherlands, in 1603 :

"Couk, Franchoys of England, Wool-comber, acc[ompanied] by Phillipe de Veau and Raphael Roelandt

his acq[aintance]. betr[othed]. 30 June 1603 to Hester Mahieu of Canterbury in England, acc[ompanied].

by Jenne Mahieu her mother and Jenne mahieu her sister ..."

Johanna W. Tammel, The Pilgrims and other people from the

British Isles in Leiden, 1576-1640 (Isle of Man : Mansk-Svenska

Publishing Co. Ltd., 1989), p. 152.

[Although Hester Mahieu is listed as "of Canterbury," she was actually Walloon, French-speaking

Belgian, and not English. Many Walloons lived in Canterbury, engaged in the textile trades.]

Hester Mahieu's name also appears in records in Leiden in 1603 as having been accepted as a member of

the French Reformed Church (known as the Walloon Church) of Leyden. Her name in this list reads

"Esther de Mahieu." The baptism of John Cooke, Francis and Hester Mahieu Cooke's firstborn son, is also

in the Walloon Church records.

Information taken from : Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 27, 145-153.

Hester Mahieu Cooke's name appears in 1646 in a description of the relationship among the various

Protestant churches of Europe :

"And for the French churches, that we held and do hold communion with them, take notice of our practice

at Leyden, viz. that one Samuel Terry was received from the French church there into communion with

us. Also the wife of Francis Cooke, being a Walloon, holds communion with the church at Plymouth, as

she came from the French, to this day, by virtue of communion of churches."

Edward Winslow's Brief Narration (1646) as printed in :

Alexander Young, Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers (Boston : Charles C.

Little and James Brown, 1841), p. 393.

"On New Year's Day, 1608, among those admitted to communion by letter of transfer from another

Walloon congregation were `Francois Cooke et Esther sa femme, de Norwich' ... This entry informs us

that before 1608, the Cooke-Mahieu couple had lived in Norwich among the Walloons there. They

evidently left for Norwich on 8 August 1606, as a note in the Walloon Library of Leiden mentions their

departure on that date with letters of transfer ... Both the departure with attestation and the return to

communion in Leiden with a similar letter indicate that Francois Cooke, as well as Hester his wife, was a

member of the Leiden Walloon congregation. The Cookes evidently returned briefly to Leiden, between

the quarterly dates of communion, which they missed, in order to have their son Jean baptized within the

Leiden Walloon congregation with family as godparents to raise him in case he became orphaned.


"Scholars at the Leiden Municipal Archives discovered two other children of Francois and Hester besides

their son Jean : Elizabeth, baptized on 26 December 1611, and a child, whose name is not given, buried in

the Pieterskerk on 20 May 1608 ... The burial record imparts the further information that at that time

Franchoys Couck lived on the Levendaal, a canal on the southeast side of Leiden. The Cookes' other

children, Jane, Hester, Jacob, and Mary, were presumably baptized in the Separatist congregaton of

Leiden, for which no records are preserved, although it is possible that one or two might have been born

in Norwich, or some may have been born in the colony of New Plymouth ...

Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs. "The Pilgrims and other English in

Leiden records : some new Pilgrim documents." The New England Historical

and Genealogical Register, July 1989, p. 195-214.

[Dr. Bangs' article also discusses possible family connections between the Mahieus and other Pilgrim

families, including the Delanos.]

Francis Cooke : Mayflower Passenger

"The names of those which came over first, in the year 1620, and were by the blessing of God the first

beginners and in a sort the foundation of all the Plantations and Colonies in New England; and their

families ...

"Francis Cooke and his son John; but his wife and other children came afterwards."



Hester Mahieu Cooke and her children arrived in Plymouth in 1623 on the Anne.

Francis Cooke : Signer Of The Mayflower Compact

"I shall ... begin with a combination made by them before they came ashore ; being the first foundation of

their government in this place. Occasioned partly by the discontented and mutinous speeches that some of

the strangers amongst them had let fall from them in the ship: That when they came ashore they would

use their own liberty, for none had power to command them, the patent they had being for Virginia and

not for New England ... And partly that such an act by them done, this their condition considered, might

be as firm as any patent, and in some respects more sure.

"The form was as followeth : IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We whose names are underwritten, the

loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and

Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc. Having undertaken, for the Glory of God and advancement of the

Christian Faith and Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern

parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another,

Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and

preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame

such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be

thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due

submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the

11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France and

Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini 1620."



Francis Cooke & The Early Years Of Plymouth Colony


"Friday, the 16th [February 16, 1621], was a fair day; but the northly wind continued, which continued

the frost. This day, after noon, one of our people being a fowling, and having taken a stand by a creek side

in the reeds, about a mile and a half from our plantation, there by him twelve Indians, marching towards

our plantation, and in the woods he heard the noise of many more. He lay close till they passed, and then

with what speed he could he went home and gave the alarm. So the people abroad in the woods returned

and armed themselves, but saw none of them; only, toward the evening, they made a great fire about the

place where they were first discovered. Captain Miles Standish and Francis Cooke being at work in the

woods, coming home left their tools behind them; but before they returned, their tools were taken away

by the savages. This coming of the savages gave us occasion to keep more strict watch, and to make our

pieces and furniture ready, which by moisture and rain were out of temper."

Mourt's Relation, ed. Jordan D. Fiore (Plymouth, Mass. :

Plymouth Rock Foundation, 1985), p. 44.

Francis Cooke And The 1623 Division Of Land

The 1623 Division of Land marked the end of the Pilgrims' earliest system of land held in common by all.

Governor Bradford explains it in this way

"And so assigned to every family a parcel of land, according to the proportion of their number, for that

end, only for present use (but made no division for inheritance) and ranged all boys and youth under some

family. This had very good success, for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was

planted than otherwise would have been by any means the Governor or any other could use, and saved

him a great deal of trouble, and gave far better content. The women now went willingly into the field, and

took their little ones with them to set corn; which before would allege weakness and inability; whom to

have compelled would have been thought great tyranny and oppression."



Plymouth Colony Records, Deeds, &c., Vol. I 1627-1651 is the oldest record book of the Plymouth

settlement. It begins with the 1623 Division of Land, recorded in the handwriting of Governor William

Bradford. The lands of Francis Cooke were among those designated as "their grounds which came first

over in the May Floure, according as thier lotes were case" and described in this way "these lye on the

South side of the brooke to the baywards." The name of Francis Cooke also appears in the list of "their

grounds which came ouer in the shipe called the Anne," which was the ship on which his wife and

children arrived.

Plymouth Colony Records, Vol. 12, p. 5

3 January 1627 : "it was agreed in a full Court; about deuision of lands as foloweth.

"That the first deuision of the Acers should stand, and continue firme, according to the former deuision

made ...

[This is followed by several paragraphs detailing how lands should be laid out and distributed.]

"Lastly, that euery man of ye surueighers haue a peck of corne for euery share of land laid out by them; to

be payed by the owner therof when the same is layd out.

"The names of the layers-out were these. William Bradford, Edward Winslow, John Howland, Francis

Cook, Josua Pratt, Edward Bangs."


Francis Cooke & The 1627 Division Of Cattle

Plymouth Colony Records, Deeds, &c., Vol I 1627-1651 also tells of the 1627 Division of Cattle:


"At a publique court held the 22th of May it was concluded by the whole Companie, that the cattell wch

were the Companies, to wit, the Cowes & the Goates should be equally devided to all the psonts of the

same company ... & so the lotts fell as followeth, thirteene psonts being pportioned to one lot ...

"The first lot fell to ffrancis Cooke & his Companie Joyned to him his wife Hester Cooke (3) John Cooke

(4) Jacob Cooke (5) Jane Cooke (6) Hester Cooke (7) Mary Cooke (8) Moses Simonson (9) Phillip

Delanoy (10) Experience Michaell (11) John ffance (12) Joshua Pratt (13) Phinihas Pratt. To his lot fell

the least of the 4 black heyfers Came in the Jacob, and two shee goats."

Francis Cooke : A 1626 Purchaser

"In 1621, King James I authorized the Council for New England to plant and govern land in this area.

This Council granted the Peirce Patent, confirming the Pilgrims' settlement and governance of Plymouth.

Peirce and his associates, the merchant adventurers, were allotted 100 acres for each settler the Company

transported. The Pilgrims had a contract with the Company stating all land and profits would accrue to the

Company for 7 years at which time the assets would be divided among the shareholders. Most of the

Pilgrims held some stock. The Pilgrims negotiated a more favorable contract with the Company in 1626.

In 1627, 53 Plymouth freemen, known as "The Purchasers," agreed to buy out the Company over a period

of years. In turn, 12 "Undertakers" (8 from Plymouth and 4 from London) agreed to pay off Plymouth's

debts in return for trade benefits.

The list we have of the 1626 Purchasers includes the name "Francis Cooke."

Francis Cooke And The Plymouth Colony Records

7 January 1632-3 : "Whereas there were divers accounts between Samuell Fuller, the elder, & Peter

Browne, wherein they differ, the said Samuell being plaintiffe, upon thexamining of things, they agreed to

refer their cause to Robt Heeks & Francis Cooke, & to haue the hearing of their recconings, and according

as they shall thinke meete & just to make even & sett streight the same at or before the last of this prnt

moneth ..."


25 March 1633 : "According to an order in Court held the 2d of January, in the seaventh yeare of the

raigne of o'r soveraigne lord, Charles, by the grace of God King of Engl., Scotl., France, & Irel., defendor

of the faith, &c, the psons heere under menconed were rated for publike use by the Gov'r, Mr Will

Bradford ...to be brought in by each pson as they are heere under written, rated in corne at vi s[hillings] p

bushell, at or before the last of November next ensuing... Francis Cooke ... 00 : 18 [shillings] : 00."

In March of 1634, Francis Cooke was "rated" only 9 shillings.

Plymouth Colony Records, Vol. 1, p. 9-10, 27-28.

28 October 1633 : "A true Inventory of the goods & Chattels of Martha Harding deceased as they were

prised by James Hurst ffr Cooke & John Coke & presented upon Oath at a Court..."

and on 25 November 1633 : "An Inventory of the goods & Chattels of ffr Eaton Carpenter of Plymouth as

it was taken by James Hurst, ffranc Cooke & Phineas Prat..."

Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 1, p. 82, 197-198.

23 July 1634 : "Apoynted for laying out of highwayes : ... For Plimouth, John Jeney, Fra: Cooke,

Manaseh Kempton, Ed. Bangs, Nicolas Snow, John Winsloe, James Hurst."


24 December 1636 : "Joh. Harmon, the son of Edm. Harmon, of London, tayler, acknowledged himselfe

to be the apprentise of Francis Cooke, of New Plymouth, for seaven yeares, viz, from the first of Octob'r,


1636, to the expiracon of the said terme, and then to be dowble apprelled by the said Francis, who is also

to giue him twelue bushels of corne."


15 November 1636: ["A law was passed by the Colony Court, November 15, 1636, `That every mans

marke of his Cattle be brought to the towne book where he lives ...']

"ffrancis Cooke a hole in the left eare and a slit in the right eare downe the middest of the eare."

Records of the Town of Plymouth, Vol. 1, p. 1-2.

7 March 1636-7 : "The Names of the Freeman ... Francis Cooke."


The name of Francis Cooke also appears on the August 1643 list of "The names of all the Males that are

able to beare Armes from xvj Yeares old to 60 Yeares, w'thin the seu'rall Towneshipps" (PCR 8:187) and

on a list of the names of Freeman which was taken about the year 1658 (PCR 8:197).

7 March 1636-7 : "Frauncis Cooke complains against Thomas Lettis, James Walter, John Browne the

yeonger, & Thomas Teley, and against Mr John Browne thelder & Thomas Willet, vpon an action of the

case, to the damnag of x [shillings], for that they, the said Thomas Lettis, James Walter, John Browne the

yeonger, & Thomas Teley, in the service of the said John Browne thelder, & Thomas Willet, did, about

the ix'th day of November last, vnreasonably abuse the cattle of the said Francis Cooke, insomuch that

therevpon one cowe cast her calf, & hath lost her milk, & is in danger to be lost herself. The jury found

for the pltiff against John Browne thelder, and doe assesse him three pounds damnage, and the cost of the

suite."


2 May 1637 : "It was ordered by this Court, that a jury should be empanelled to set forth the heigh wayes

about Plymouth, Ducksborrow, and the Eele River... The Names of the Jury ... Francis Cooke, [et al.]"


7 June 1637 : "Execuson is graunted against Mr John Browne, at the suite of Frauncis Cooke, vpon the

verdict recoued against him."


2 January 1637-8 : "Franc Cooke" served on several trial juries : Michaell Turner against John Davis for

damage to a boat, Edward Dotey against John Holmes in a case of transpass, and John and Elisabeth

Willis against William Bradford, Edward Winslow and Thomas Prince (as executors of a will) in a

dispute about land. (PCR 7:7 and 1:74)

Francis Cooke also served on juries and grand inquests on 5 June 1638 (PCR 1:87) on 3 September 1639

(PCR 7:13), 3 December 1639 (PCR 7:14), 3 March 1639-40 (PCR 7:16), 2 June 1640 (PCR 1:155), 7

June 1642 (PCR 7:31), 7 September 1642 (PCR 7:32) and 7 March 1642-3 (PCR 7:34).

3 December 1638 : "A pcell or tongue of land about an acre & a half broad at Smilt Riuer, lying betwixt

the riuer & the lands of Mr Thomas Prince, is graunted vnto Mr Thomas Prince. It was graunted before to

Francis Cooke."


4 February 1638-9 : "A parcell of vpland lying at thend of Goodman Shawes land at Smilt Riuer is

graunted to Francis Cooke, puided it doe not pjudice the graunts formly made to Mr Thomas Prince, Mrs

Fuller, and others, w'ch lands are to be viewed and layd forth for him."



1639 : [description of a land sale] "twenty acrees of lands lying on that side towards ffrancis Cooks land

w'ch came by his wyfe ..."


1 February 1640-1 : "A jury was impannelled and sworne to lay forth certaine heigh wayes now in

differrence, and to set forth the bounds and land markes betwixt John Shawe, Kenelme Winslowe, and Mr

John Atwood, at Playne Dealeinge, and the heigh wayes from the towne of Plymouth to Wellingsley, and

through Georg Bowers ground, and a heigh way for John Dunhame and Willam Pontus, from their

meddows at the waterside, and a heighway for Nothaniell Sowther, from his field to the towne.

"The names of the Jury ... ... Francis Cooke, sworn."


5 May 1640 : "Mr John Jenney, Mr John Atwood, Francis Cooke, John Barnes, Richard Sparrow, John

Cooke, & Josuah Pratt, are appoynted to view the meddows about Edward Doteys, & to computate the

number of acrees, & make report thereof to the next Court."


5 October 1640 : "The Court doth graunt vnto Francis Cooke & John Cooke, Jun'r, the pcell of vpland

lying betwixt Leiftennant Holmes lands at the North Riuer, and the lands graunted to John Rogers,

Constant Southwood, &c, puided it doe not exceede two hundred acres of vplands, and the meddow

before yt, or so much as shalbe thought competent when the same is viewed & layd forth by Capt

Standish & Mr John Alden. There is a pcell of vpland moore there found, containing about 10 or 12

acrees, be it moore or lesse, w'ch the court hath likewise graunted vnto then, the sd Francis & John ...

"The Court doth order, that Mr John Howland, Francis Cooke, Josuah Pratt, and Thom Cushman shall

range the bounds of the lands betwixt Mr Thom Prence & Clement Briggs at Joanes Riuer, and to set

them forth according to the auncient bounds & markes formly made betwixt them.

"The foresaid graunt of two hundred acrees of vpland were layd forth by Captaine Standish and Mr

Alden, according to the order of the Court, to the said Francis Cooke & John Cooke, in manner following,

viz, all that pcell of vpland lying betwixt the lands of Willm Holmes and the lands of John Rogers

containeing 212 acres, be it more or lesse, w'th the meddow lying before the said vpland, w'th the one half

of the meddow lying before, or any way bounding vpon the vpland of John Rogers ; and whereas Willm

Holmes hath pt of his meddow lands lying before part of the said vpland so graunted to Francis & John,

we haue also layd vnto them, the said Francis & John, the meddow or marsh lying betweene the said

Willm Holmes his meddow or marsh ground and the said North River."


7 June 1642 : "Surveyors ... Frances Cooke."


Francis Cooke was also appointed as one of the "Surveyors of the Heighwayes" for Plymouth in 1645

(PCR 2:84).

17 October 1642 : "These seuall psons following are graunted these seuall pporcons of meddow at the

North Meddow by Joanes Riuer, of that w'ch remaynes : - ... Francis Cooke, [et al.] to eich of them six

acrees a peece, if it be there to be had ...


25 May 1644 : "A true inventory of all the goods chattells and cattells w'ch were mr John Jenneys lately

Deceased ... Debts oweing by the Testator ... It To ffrancis Cooke 01 [pounds] 10 [shillings] ..."



22 June 1644 : "In case of alarume in tyme of warr or danger these division of the Towneship are to be

observed and these companys to repaire together.

"At Joanes River - Mr Bradford famyly one, Mr Prences one, Mr Hanbury one, Mr Howland one, ffrancis

Cooke one, Phineas Pratt, Gregory Armestrong, John Winslow, Mr Lee."

Records of the Town of Plymouth, Vol. 1, p. 17

10 June 1646 : "This 10th of June 1646 the condicions of the marriage between Jacob Cooke and

Damarise hopkins

"Know all men by these presents that upon a conclusion of a marriage between Jacob Cooke of Plymouth

and Damarise hopkins of the same It is promised by ffrancis Cooke of Plym : aforsaid and father of the

said Jacob Cooke upon the conclusion of the said marriage That hee Doth give unto the said Jacob his

sonne one hundred acres of land with meddow or therabouts bee It more or lesse Lying att the north

River;

"2condly The said ffrancis giveth to his said sonne Jacob halfe the Land that att any time shall fall to him

the said ffrancis by any Devision of the Purchase Land or Due to the first commers

"3dly The said ffrancis given upon the conclusion aforsaid to his said sonne Jacob one oxe one cow and

one calfe and the next fole that the said ffrancis his mare bringeth

"4ly It is promised by the sd ffrancis that att any time that the said Jacob shall see most conducable to his

condicon that the said Jacob at his said fathers appointment in such place as shalbee considered

convenient by the said ffrancis and Jacob build an house upon the Land wherof the said ffrancis is now

possessed of att Rockynooke and if the said Jacob shall think it convenient att any time in the time of his

fathers life or after his Decease to Remove himselfe or shalbee enforced to Remove ; that then the said

ffrancis Doth promise that the said Jacob Removeing or being Removed the said Jacob shall at the

Judgment of honest and Judiciall men shall have satisfaction for any building or buildings fence or fences

which otherwise might prove Damage to the said Jacob ;

"5ly It is mutually promised by the said ffrancis Cooke and Hester Cook his wife ; the parents of the

aforsaid Jacob Cooke that att the Decease of the Longer surviver of the said ffrancis and hester that then

and att such time the said Jacob or his heires shall have the teame with all the furniture belonging therunto

"And to concluding of all these prmises aforsaid wee the said ffrancis and hester Doe by these prsents

bind ourselves our heires adminestrators or assignes

"Witnesse our hands the Day and yeare above written ; In prsence of these Witnesses

ffrancis Cooke

the marke of hester Cooke

Miles Standish

James Hurst

John Howland"


10 December 1646: "It was agreed that whosoever coms not to ye towne meeting being therunto warned

at ye time appoynted shall forfite to ye towns use for every shuch defalte 12 d except he have a sufficent

and lawfull excuse.

William Hoggkins, Christoher Winter, Ralph Joanes, Francis Cooke, Jacob Cooke, WIlliam Spoooner,

Mr. Howland..."

Records of the Town of Plymouth, Vol. 1, p. 9010.


1 August 1648 : [Francis Cooke was on an investigative panel for a murder case] "These sheweth, that on

July the 22cond, 1648, wee, whose names are vnderwritten, were sworne by Mr Bradford, Gouerner, to

make inquiry of the death of the child of Allis Bishop, the wife of Richard Bishope.

"Wee declare, yt coming into the house of the said Richard Bishope, we saw at the foot of a ladder wh

leadeth into an vpper chamber, much blood; and going vp all of us into the chamber, wee found a woman

child, of about foure yeares of age, lying in her shifte vppon her left cheeke, with her throat cut ... and the

said Allis hath confessed to fiue of vs att one time, yt shee murdered the child with the said knife.

"John Howland, James Hurst, Robert Lee, John Shawe, Francis Cooke, John Cooke, James Cole, Gyells

Rickard, Richard Sparrow, Thomas Pope, Francis Billington, William Nelson.


11 July 1649 : [in a description of a land sale, the property is described as] "lying in Rocky noocke near

Plymouth aforsaid being bounded with the lands of Mr John Combe on the one syde and of ffrancis

Cooke on the other side abuting vpon the bay ..."


9 April 1650 : "That on the 9th of aprell i650 ffrancis Cooke did com before the Goue'r and acknowlidge

yt hee hath freely given & made ouer vnto his sonne Jacob Cook all his Right title and Enterest of & into

a Certaine Tract of vpland & meadow being estemated att an hundred acars bee it more or lesse; lying att

the North River accordingly as it was graunted vnto him the said ffrancis Cooke as appeers by the Record

of the said graunt bearing date the fift of October i640 the said Tract of vpland & meadow with all &

singulare the apurtenances & privilidges therunto belonging to haue & to hold to him the said Jacob

Cooke his heaires & assignes for euer vnto the only proper vse & behoofe of him the said Jacob Cooke

his heaires and assignes for euer."


10 June 1650 : "According to our order, wee haue found out and marked a new way from Joaneses Riuer

to the Massachusetts Path through John Rogers his ground, and are all agreed the said way by vs marked

out to bee most convenient and least preiuditiall.

"Wittnes our hands heere vnder written. John Howland, Francis Cooke, Joshua Pratt, John Wood, Samuell

Sturtivant, Henery Howland, Tho: Heward, Seni, John Washburne, Seni, Henery Sampson, Gorg:

Partridge, Tho: Lettis, Willam Paybody. All Sworne."


2 October 1650 : "Ordered, that wheras Captaine Miles Standish and Mr John Alden were somtimes

ordered by the Court to lay out sertaine lands and meddows att North Riuer vnto Francis Cook, and John

Cook, and John Rogers, the Court doth therfore order the said Captaine Standish and Mr Alden to

manifest what were theire intents about the bounds of the said lands and meddows when they formerly

layed them forth, and to sett and establish the bounds of the said lands and meddowes soe as to continew

for the futuer."


March 1651 : "The Names of those that have Interest and proprieties in the Townes land att

Punckateesett over against Road Iland ... ffrancis Cooke."


25 December 1655 : "Wee graunt to frances Cooke 3 holes of meddow lying at the Hither end of the

Greate meddow Caled Jons River."



2 August 1659 : "Wheras there is a controuersy depending betwixt Thomas Pope and Willam Shirtlife,

conserning the bounds of the lands of the said ptyes lying att Strawbery Hill, or the Reed Pond, in the

township of Plymouth, the Court haueing heard what can bee said on both sides, and finding an issue can

not bee put to it att this psent Court, doe order and request Mr John Howland, Francis Cooke, and John

Dunham, Seni'r, to take a convenient time as soon as may bee to repaire to the said lands, and alsoe such

of the ancient inhabitants as giue any testimony or light towards the clearing of the case, and that they, the

said John Howland, Francis Cooke, and John Dunham, shall measure the said lands and sett the bound

therof vnto the said pties according to the true and ancient bounds, as neare as may bee, and soe a finall

end to bee put therby vnto the said controuersy ..."


15 September 1659 : "Wee whose Names are underwritten being Deputed by the Court have Ranged the

grounds betwixt Willam Shirtliffe and henery Wood and Thomas Pope and have layed out the bounds of

Willam Whirtlifs land begining att a Rocke which lyeth att the Corner of his outside ffence by the

highway northward above and soe to a smale green oake that is marked by the hieghway in breadth above

a path which is alsoe marked by a stone set up in the Range by the path a little northward of the hedgh or

ffence now upon the land of Tho: Pope ; and soe trending Downeward towards the swamp to a stake sett

up by a smale green walnutt tree...

"John Howland John Dunham ffrancis Cooke."


1660 re the Purchasers of Dartmouth : "Att a generall meeting of the Purchasers att Plymouth the

seaventh of march 1652 It was ordered and fully agreed unto and Concluded by the whole that all that

Tract and tracts of lands lying from the Purchassers bounds on the west side of Acoughcusse to a river

called Accusshaneck and three miles to the Eastwards of the same ; with all Ilands meddows woods

waters rivers creekes and all appurtenances therunto belonging Should bee given to those whose names

are heerunder written Containing thirty four shares and was then given alloted Assigned and sett over to

them by the whole to have and to hold to them and their heires and Assignes for ever ; to Devide and

Dispose of the same as they should see good ; and they are to Satisfy the Indians for the Purchase therof

and to beare all other Due Charges that shall any way arise about the same According to their severall

proportions ... ffrancis Cooke [et al.]

"Wheras these Purchasers whoe by agreement of the whole had theire proportions of Purchase land falling

unto them in the places above mencioned whoe by agreement had theire severall names entered into a list

(together with some other old Comers) under the hand of the honored Gov'r : late Deceased they Did

Desire that the list of theire Names might bee recorded ; but the above written originall list of Names and

the agreement Could not bee found in some yeares ; soe that it was Judged lost These purchasers

notwithstanding still Desiring that what was theire right might bee recorded ; wherupon order was given

by the aforsaid Gov'r that it might bee Done ...

"The names of those whoe by order of the Purchasers mett att Plymouth the seaventh Day of march 1652

whoe by Joynt consent and agreement of the said purchasers are to have theire prtes shares or proportions

att the place or places commonly called and knowne by the names of Acushena alias acquessent which

entereth in att the westeren end of Neckatay and to Coaksett alias acoakius and places adjacent ; the

bounds of which Tract fully to extend ... The said Tract or tract[s] of Land soe bounded as abovesaid

which is purchased of the Indians which were the right propriators therof ; as appeers by a Deed under

theire hands with all the mershes meddows rivers waters woods Timbers ; and all other profitts privilidges

emunities comodities and appurtenances belonging to the said Tract or Tracts above expressed or any prte

or prcell therof to belonge unto the prties whose names are underwritten (whoe are in number thirty four

whole prtes or shares and noe more) to them and their heires and assignes for ever ... ffrancis Cooke one

whole share."



3 June 1662 : "In reference to a petition prefered to the Court by sundry of the freemen, and in reference

vnto a graunt made to some to looke out accomodations of land, as being the first borne children of this

goument, and for the disposing of two seuerall tracts of land lately purchased, the one by Major Winslow

and the other by Captaine Southworth, the Court, haueing viewed the seuerall lists of the names of those

that desired to bee accomodated therin, haue settled it vpon those whose names follow : - ... Francis

Cooke ..."


22 March 1663 : "The owners names ... The severall lotes on Puncateesett Necke are as followeth

...Francis Cooke, John Cooke, [No.] 18, lott is on the north side of the 17th lott and att the east end is

bounded with a blacke flatt stump by the water side and a great white-wood tree and att the west end with

a walnutt stake and a Rid oake stake."

Records of the Town of Plymouth, Vol. 1, p. 62-66.

1 March 1663-4 : "This Court, takeing notice of such euidence as hath bin produced for the clearing of a

controuersey between John Tompson, plaintiffe, and Richard Wright ... that the said pties shall haue

equall share of the land allotted to Francis Cooke at Namaskett aforsaid, prouided that they bee equall in

bearing the charge about the said land."


5 July 1670 : "Wheras it us euident to the Court, that a certaine tract or psell of land, called Old Cookes

Holes, lying att Jonses Riuer meddow, was formerly graunted vnto Francis Cooke, of Plymouth,

deceased, in the liew of some land which is supposed would haue fallen within his line att the Smelt

Brooke, but is not fully settled on the said Cooke and his heires and assignes, this Court doth by these

psent fully and absolutely settle, rattify, assure, and confeirme the said graunt of land or tract of land,

being threescore acrees, be it more or lesse, lying att Joneses Riuer meddow, vnto the said Francis Cooke,

his heires and assignes foreuer ; which said land was giuen by the said Francis Cooke vnto Richard

Wright and Thomas Michell, comonly called Old Cookes Holes, and since his decease rattifyed and

confeirmed vnto the said Richard Wright and Thomas Michell by John Cooke, the heire vnto the said

Francis Cooke, as appeers by a writing vnder his hand and seale.


Francis Cooke : 1650

"And seeing it hath pleased Him to give me [William Bradford] to see thirty years completed since these

beginnings, and that the great works of His providence are to be observed, I have thought it not unworthy

my pains to take a view of the decreasings and increasings of these persons and such changes as hath

passed over them and theirs in this thirty years ...

"Francis Cooke is still living, a very old man, and hath seen his children's children have children. After

his wife came over with other of his children; he hath three still living by her, all married and have five

children, so their increase is eight. And his son John which came over with him is married, and hath four

children living."



Francis Cooke's Death

"Francis Cooke died the seauenth of Aprill, 1663."



Francis Cooke's burial site is unknown.

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Francis Cooke — Mayflower

Birth: About 1583, probably in England.

Marriage: Hester le Mahieu, 20 July 1603, Leiden.

Death: 7 April 1663, Plymouth.

Children: John, unnamed child buried in Leiden, Jane, Elizabeth, Jacob, Hester, and Mary.

Biographical Summary

Francis Cooke was born about 1583. His origins have not been discovered, but it is probable he was born in England, perhaps from the Canterbury or Norwich areas. He married Hester le Mahieu on 20 July 1603 in Leiden, Holland; she was a French Walloon whose parents had initially fled to Canterbury, England; she left for Leiden sometime before 1603. Francis Cooke and Hester le Mahieu’s marriage occurred in Leiden, Holland six years before the Pilgrim church made its move there, so he was living there long before their arrival and must have met up with and joined them afterwards. His wife Hester was a French Walloon. What brought Francis to Holland in the first place is unknown: religious persecution of Protestants in England did not really begin until after King James took power in 1604. In 1606, the Cookes left Leiden and went to Norwich, Norfolk for a time (for what reason is not known), but returned to have their first son, John, baptized at the French church in Leiden, sometime between January and March, 1607. In Holland, Cooke took up the profession of a woolcomber.

Francis, and his oldest son John, came on the Mayflower to Plymouth in 1620. He left behind his wife Hester and his other children Jane, Jacob, Elizabeth and Hester. After the Colony was founded and better established, he sent for his wife and children, and they came to Plymouth in 1623 on the ship Anne.

Francis lived out his life in Plymouth. Although he kept a fairly low profile, he was on a number of minor committees such as the committee to lay out the highways, and received some minor appointments by the Court to survey or lay out land. He was a juror on a number of occasions, and was on the coroner’s jury that examined the body of Martha Bishop, the 4-year old daughter who was murdered by her mother Alice. He received some modest land grants at various times throughout his life. He lived to be about 80 years old, dying in 1663; his wife Hester survived him by at least three years and perhaps longer.

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010 Hester Mahieu – Biography

Hester Mahieu Memorial

1666 , Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Birth: 1582

Kent, EnglandDeath: Jun. 8, 1666

Plymouth

Plymouth County

Massachusetts, USA

Came to America on the ship Anne in 1623. She was of Walloon (French Protestant) stock but came to

Leyden, Holland from Canterbury, England where there was a Walloon church, in the records of which

the name of Mahieu was common.

The marriage intentions state Hester Mahieu was from Canterbury, England and she was accompanied by

her mother, Jennie Mahieu and her sister Jennie Mahieu. In his book "Hypocrisie Unmasked", Edward

Winslow stated she was a "Walloone" and came from the French "Mayflower Descendant" 27:145 shows

she was admitted to the French Reformed Church in Leiden in 1603.

"Take notice of our practie at Leyden, viz. that one Samuel Terry was received from the French Church

there, into communion with us; also the wife of Francis Cooke being a Walloone, holds communion with

the Church at Plymouth , as she came from the French, to this day, by virtue of communion of churches."

[Winslow's "Hypocrisie Unmasked" in "Mayflower Descendant" 27:64]

Daughter of Jacques an d Jenne/Jeanne (___) Mahieu, Walloon refugees from the area around Lille (now

in France). If 19 at marriage and 42 at the birth of her last known child about late 1626, then Hester was

born about 1584 and thus was about two years younger than her husband. As Hester was about 82 in

1666, it seems likely she died closer to 1666 than to 1675. Hester Mahie was admited to communion in

the Walloon church by confession of faith on June 1, 1603, about a month and a half before her marriage.

Family links:

Children:

Jane Cooke Mitchell*

John Cooke (____ - 1695)*

Jacob Cooke (1618 - 1676)*

Hester Cooke Wright (1622 - 1666)*

Spouse:

Francis Cooke (1583 - 1663)*

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Year: 1623


Family Members: Child Jane;Child Jacob;Child Hester


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Cooke, Hester Mayhieu

Annotation: Date and port of arrival. Name of ship and family information also provided.


SHIPS THAT CAME LATER BRINGING THE WIVES AND CHILDREN OF THE PILGRIMS. In Bulletin of the Cape Cod Genealogical Society, September 1982, p. 74.

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Source Citation: Place: Watertown, Massachusetts; Year: 1630; Page Number: 1234.




Name: John Masters

Year: 1630

Place: Watertown, Massachusetts

Family Members: Wife Jane; Daughter Elizabeth; Daughter Lydia; Daughter Sarah; With son


116.1

Primary Immigrant:

Masters, John

Annotation: Date and place of first residence in New England. Extracted from passenger lists, lists of freemen, colony and court records, notarial records, vital records, land records, church records, and journals and letters. Place of origin, occupation, and other genealogical and historical information may also be provided.


ANDERSON, ROBERT CHARLES. The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. Three Volumes. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995. 2386p.

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John Masters 1584-1639

John was born in Aldenham, Herts, England in 1584 to John and Elizabeth (Thompson) Masters. He arrives in Salem Massachusetts Bay Colony on 12 June 1630 with the John Winthrop, Sr. fleet on one of eleven vessels. He arrived with his wife and five children.

He married Jane Cox probably in Aldenham, Herts, England where both were born. Children of John and Jane all born in Suffold were:

Sarah born abt. 1613, married ____Dobyson.

Ly dia born abt. 1614,married by 1639 as his first wife Philip Taber.

E lizabeth born abt. 1615, married by November 1632 Edmond Lockwood, married 2nd after 3 March 1634/5 (when she was called “Ruth Lockwood” and by 1639 Cary Latham.

Nathai el born abt. 1618

Abraham born abt. 1620

He moved to Cambridge in 1633 where he was a tavern keeper and was licensed to do so in 1635. He was a member of the Watertown church by July 1632. He wrote at least one letter to “Lady Barrington” at Hartford Broadoak, Essex. Master stated that she and her family had “desired me to write of this country, and said you would believe what I should write”; he also stated that “Sir Richard Saltonstall hath put upon me in place to oversee his great family, with the worthy son”. These comments, and the entire tenor of the letter, indicate that Masters had in the past been in service to one or more of the Puritan families of Essex.

In his will, dated 19 December 1639 he bequeathed to “my wife all my estate for the term of her life, and after her decease…to my daughter Sarah Dobyson L10; to my daughter Lidya Taber L10; to “my grandchild John Lockwood L10; to Nathaniel Masters L10; and to Abraham Masters 10s; residue to may daughter Elizabeth Latham. His wife died about 7 days after John.

010 John Partridge — Biography

Partridge History

The Partridge family of PARTRIDGE Jamestown, New York, trace to an American ancestor, John

Partridge, of English birth and parentage. The origin of the family in England is thus given :

In the year 1066, at the historic battle of Hastings, William, Duke of Normandy, defeated Harold, then

King of England, and ascended to the English throne, and, to his new possession, he soon added his own

little duchy of Normandy, To those of his countrymen, who had assisted him in his work of conquest,

William made grants of lands in the conquered kingdom, the number and size of which depended upon

the value of the service rendered. After the death of William his successors carried out this same policy,

during the wars of the next century. All land of value was soon disposed of, and the estates of the British

nobles were seized, confiscated and turned over to the intrepid Normans, who thus became the landed

gentry of England. Among those who thus received grants was one described, by English antiquarians, as

"Partridge, the Norman.'' He is said to have emigrated during the reign of Stephen ("35-54). alld. in

recognition of his military service, to have received, from Henry II. (1154-89), estates in Essex, though

the family afterward settled in Gloucestershire. Certain it is that, in the next century (1254), "Richard de

Pertriche" (that being the Nonnan and original spelling of the name) is indisputably recorded as the head

of the family, with manors in the county of Gloucester. These royal grants not only proved the family to

have been in high favor at court, but at once marked it as one of ¿indent distinction.

Concerning the English birth and home of John Partridge there is little definite information, but a great

deal that may help to prove his identity. In volume ii., state records of Connecticut, on file in the state

house at Hartford, is the will of John Beebe, dated May 18, 1650, made on shipboard, while coming to

New England from England. The will is witnessed by John and William Partridge, whose signatures are

identical with those of John and William Partridge, of Medfield, Massachusetts. The name of the ship is

not mentioned, nor is it known from what port in England they sailed, nor where a landing was made in

America. The testator describes himself as "John Beebe. husbandman, late of Broughton in the county <if

Northampton." The "Visitation of Essex," made in the year 1634, gives (xiii part, page 465) the children

of Captain John Partridge, of Navestock, as: John, aged about fourteen years ; William, Jane and

Margaret. From further information obtained from the vicar of the parish of Navestock it appears that of

these children William was born in 1622 ; Margaret. 1628. In his will, made August 4, 1692. William

Partridge, of Medfield, states his age as "about seventy years.'' This would agree with the parish records,

and indicates the same William given in the "Visitations," as the son of Captain John Partridge, of

Navestock. Another coincidence is in the age of Margaret Stacy, of Medfield, relict of Thomas Mason,

who in her will, made 1695, gives her age as about "sixty-seven years." Again the birth date of Margaret

Partridge, born 1628. agrees. John and William Partridge, of Medfield, were brothers, and the conclusion

seems strong that they were the sons of Captain John Partridge, of Navestock, England.

John Partridge, with William, his brother, and sister Margery (Margaret), came to Medfield,

Massachusetts, from Dedham, in 1653. He was in Dedham at least a year earlier, for, on "ye 7 ye i month,

1652," he shared, with others, in the division of five hundred acres of land ( see Dedham town records,

vol. Hi., p. 211 ). John and William took up their house lots in Medfield, in "Bachelors Roe," now North

street. Their lots were near each other, and another near neighbor was Thomas Mason, who married

Margery (Margaret) Partridge, April 23, 1653, the first recorded marriage in Medfield. John and William

both signed the "proprietors agreement." drawn (it is supposed ) by Ralph Wheelock. founder of

Medfield. They appear to have been good and useful citizens, both serving a term as selectman, and John

being chosen clerk of the market in 1672. In 1676, when Medfield was burned by the Indians, John's

house and barn were destroyed, with a quantity of grain and several head of cattle. William Partridge was

twice married and had a large family. John Partridge married. December 18, 1655, Magdalen, died in

Medfield, December 27, 1677. daughter of John and Magdalen lîullard, early of Watertown. later of

Medfield. He died May 28. 1706. In his will, proved June 25, 1706, mention is made of sons John,

Eleazer, Samuel, Zachariah : daughter Rachel, wife of Theophilus Clark ; and three of his grandchildren,


Eleazer and Obadiah Adams and Hannah Rockwood. Children: i. John, of further mention. 2. Hannah,

born April 15, 1658, died March 8. 1680. 3. Deborah, born August 16, 1662, died November 8, 1736. 4.

Abiel, born June 13. 16167. died July 2, 1667. 5. Experience, twin of Abiel, died July 5, 1667. 6. Rachel,

born July 12, 1669, died December i, 1717. 7. Samuel, born February 22, 1671, died December 12. 1752.

8. Zachariah. born July 2, 1674. died September 23, 1716. 9. Mary, born February 15, 1677.

Capt John Partridge - Notes

In volume ii., state records of Connecticut, on file in the statehouse at Hartford, is the will of John Beebe,

dated May 18, 1650, made on shipboard, while coming to New England from England. The will is

witnessed by John and William Partridge, whose signatures are identical with those of John and William

Partridge of Medfield, Massachusetts. The name of the ship is not mentioned, nor is it known from what

port in England they sailed, nor where a landing was made in America.

The "Visitation of Essex," made in the year 1634, gives the children of CAPTAIN JOHN PARTRIDGE,

of Navestock, as: John, aged about 14 years; William, Jane and Margaret. From further information

obtained from the vicar of the parish of Navestock it appears that of these children William was born in

1622; Margaret, 1628. In his will, made August 4,1692, William Partridge, of Medfield, states his age as

"about 70 years".This would agree with the parish records, and indicates the same William given in the

"Visitations," as the son of Captain John Partridge, of Navestock.SOURCE: "History of Medfield", by

Tilden.

Bio

John Partridge, son of Captain John Partridge (1), was born in Navestock, England, 1620. He was the

immigrant ancestor. He came to Medfield, Massachusetts, from Dedham, in 1653, probably accompanied

by his brother William and his sister Margery. He had a share in the division of land in Dedham, March 7,

1652. John and William Partridge had house lots in Medfield, on "The Bachelor's Roe," now North street,

and both signed the proprietor's agreement. John was selectman, and clerk of the market in 1672. His

house and barn, with a quantity of grain and several head of cattle, were burned at the time of the Indian

raid in 1676. He married, December 18. 1655, Magdalen Bullard, died December 27, 1677, daughter of

John and Magdalen Bullard, early of Watertown and later of Medfield. He died May 28, 1706. and his

will was proved June 25 following. Mention is made of sons John, Eleazer, Samuel and Zachariah;

daughter Rachel, wife of Theophilus Clark, and three grandchildren, Eleazer and Obadiah Adams, and

Hannah Rockwood. Children: 1. John, born September 21. 1656; mentioned below. 2. Hannah, April 5,

1658: died March 8. 1680; married, April 2. 1679, Joseph Rockwood. 3. Deborah, August 16, 1662;

married April 4, 1681, John Adams. 4. Eleazer, February 20, 1664; died November 8, 1736. 5. Abiel.

June 13, 1667; died July 2, 1667. 6. Experience, June 13, 1667 (twin) : died July 5, 1667. 7. Rachel. July

12. 1669; died December 1, 1717 ; married. September 25. 1670. Theophilus Clark. 8. Samuel. February

22, 1671; died December 12, 1752. 9. Zachariah, July 2, 1674; died September 23. 1716. TO. Mary, died

February 15, 1677.

John And William Partridge

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hubbard/NNY_index/partridge.html

NORTHERN NEW YORK

Genealogical and family history of northern New York: a record of the achievements of her people

in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation.


New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co. 1910.

PARTRIDGE

Transcribed by Coralynn Brown

There were several early emigrants of this name, and some have many descendants now scattered over the

United States. Many localities count them among their earliest settlers, including St. Lawrence county,

N.Y. The name is of Norman origin, and was spelled de Pertriche before it became anglicized.

Antiquarians have recorded the appearance of this family in England as about the middle of the twelfth

century, during the reign of Stephen (1135-1154). In 1254 Richard de Petriche is described as the head of

the family, with manors or country seats in the county of Gloucester. While it is impossible to trace in

direct line from this Norman family the branch to which this article refers, there is no doubt that it is

descended from it.

(I) John Partridge, of Medfield, Mass., was the first in America of one branch of this family. It is thought

the he was the son of Captain John Partridge, of Navestock, county Essex, England. A Captain John

Partridge is on record as having an account in the general court, Boston, with Captain Clark, Oct. 17,

1649 (see Pope). John, the emigrant and his brother William, first come to our notice while they are en

route to New England, May 18, 1650. On that day they subscribed as witnesses to the will of one John

Beebe, a fellow passenger, who was taken suddenly ill and died during the voyage. This will, with the

original signatures of John and William Partridge, is on file at the state house, Hartford, Conn. The

brothers seem to have located almost immediately in Dedham, near Boston, where in 1652 they shared in

a division of lands. In 1653 they removed to Medfield, which in that year was set off from Dedham as a

separate town. They signed the proprietors' agreement, and each took up his residence in "Ye Bachelors'

Roe," now North street. John was town selectman and clerk of the market in 1672. In the Indian raid of

1676 his house and barn and several head of cattle were burned. His name appears among the list of

contributors toward the founding of Harvard College.

He married, Dec. 18, 1655, Magdalen, daughter of John and Magdalen Bullard, early of Watertown and

later of Medfield. She died Dec. 27, 1677. He died in Medfield May 28, 1706.

Children:

1. John, mentioned below.

2. Hannah, born April 15, 1658, died March 8, 1680, married Joseph Rockwood.

3. Deborah, born Aug. 16, 1662, married John Adams.

4. Eleazer, born Feb. 26, 1664, died Nov. 8, 1736.

5. Abiel, born June 13, 1667, died July 2, 1667.

6. Experience, born June 13, 1667, died July 5, 1667. [twin of Abiel?]

7. Rachel, born JUly 12, 1669, died Dec. 1, 1717; married Theophilus Clark.

8. Samuel, born Feb. 22, 1671, died Dec. 12, 1752.

9. Zachariah, born July 2, 1674, died Sept. 23, 1716.

10. Mary, died Feb. 15, 1677.

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Year: 1634



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Primary Immigrant:

Tilden, Lydia

Annotation: Most are date and port of arrival; some are date and place of settlement in Massachusetts. Name of ship, place of origin, occupation, and other genealogical data pertaining to will administration may also be provided.


POPE, CHARLES HENRY. The Pioneers of Massachusetts, A Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns and Churches, and other Contemporaneous Documents. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1998. 550p.

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010 Nathaniel Tilden – Biography

Nathaniel Tilden (1583-1641) And Wife Lydia Hucsteppe — Immigrants

1600s , England & Scituate

Nathaniel Tilden was baptized 28 July 1583 at St. Mildred's in Tenterden, England.

Nathaniel Tilden was churchwarden 1611-3 and chamberlain in 1615.

Nathaniel Tilden was a magistrate in Tenterden and JOP there in 1624, 1625, 1627, and 1629. He was

mayor there in 1622. He succeeded his Uncle John Tilden as mayor and was followed by his Cousin John

Tilden Jr. as mayor in 1623.

Nathaniel Tilden carried a certificate dated 26 Feb 1634 from his vicar and a letter dated 04 Mar 1634

from the mayor of Tneterden when he sailed from England to America. Nathaniel Tilden sailed to

America in 1634 aboard the Hercules with wife Lydia and 7 children and 7 servants. He was part-owner

of the Hercules. They went directly to Scituate to live. Apparently Scituate was settled by many "Men of

Kent" who were wealthy men from Kent County in England.

Nathaniel Tilden's houselot was on Kent Street and was the 3rd lot south of Greenfield Lane. He also

purchased land in 1636 and 1638 and 1639. A 02 February 1636 deed shows that Nathaniel Tilden

purchased land from John Emerson on Third Cliff at Scituate. A 10 Apr 1638 deed shows that Nathaniel

Tilden purchased land from Henry Merritt and it refers to land on the Third Cliff already owned by

Nathaniel Tilden in Scituate previously purchased from John Emerson in 1636. His farm was in the "Two

Mile Tract" which is now North Marshfield and it was on both sides of the North River and along the sea

on the "Third Cliff".

Nathaniel Tilden was chosen Ruling Elder of the First Church in Scituate in 1634. The pastor of this

church at this time was John Lothrop.

Nathaniel Tilden was appointed in 1637 to represent Plymouth colony in border disputes with

Massachusetts Colony. The issue was not resolved at htis time.

Nathaniel Tilden's will was dated 25 May 1641. His estate inventory of 31 July 1641 included a musket, a

sword, a birding-peece, 45 books, 10 hives of bees, and more.

Sources: Massachusetts and Maine Families by W. G. Davis, 1996; History of Scituate, MA by S. Deane,

1831; Notes on the Origin of the Tilden Name and Family by S. J. Tilden, 1894; The Original Western

Brance of the Tilden's in America by J. L. Tilden, 1972

American Tilden’s

The Tilden families of America derive their lineage from John Tilden, a clothier of Benenden, born

around 1400. A descendant, Nathaniel Tilden, sailed with his family (his wife Lydia, seven children and

seven servants) in March 1634 on the Hercules, from Sandwich, Kent to New England.

Nathaniel Tilden, the first name on the passenger list of the Hercules, had been mayor of Tenterden in

1622 and his immediate family had held similarly official roles in Tenterden and the surrounding

community. Nathaniel Tilden was chosen ruling elder of the first church of Scituate within a year after his

arrival in the colony of Massachusetts Bay. His name is recorded in the first conveyance of land recorded

in Scituate in 1634: "of all that land which I have of Goodman Byrd lying within the fence at the north

end of the third cliffe, unto the land of Nathaniel Tilden."

The connection of the Tildens to the earliest days of settlement in New England are numerous. Nathaniel's

brother Joseph, two years his junior, was one of the merchant adventurers of London who fitted out the

Mayflower. Similarly Nathaniel Tilden's youngest son, Stephen married Hannah Little of Plymouth,


Massachusetts, whose father had married the daughter of Richard Warren, a passenger on the

Mayflower.[3]

The Father Of All Tilden’s In America

Brief history of the father of all Tilden’s in America

Added by MPSmith76j on 22 Mar 2007

The records of Kent show that estates in Kent have borne the name of Tilden for more than six hundred

years. The present Sir John Maxwell Tilden, of Milsted in Kent, has in his possession a copy of an ancient

pedigree which began with Sir Richard Tylden, who lived under the reigns of Henry II and Richard I, a

period which extended from 1154 to 1189, and his armorial bearings are said to show that his ancestors

intermarried with the first Norman Earl of Chester, a nephew of William the Conqueror.

The Tilden’s of America can trace their lineage back by authentic records to John Tilden, an influential

clothier of Benenden, who was born about the year 1400. He was the direct progenitor of Nathaniel

Tilden, who with his family, consisting of his wife Lydia, seven children and seven servants, in the month

of March, 1634, embarked in the good ship HERCULES, of Sandwich, of the burthen of two-hundred

tons John Witherby, master, and were therein transported to the plantation called New England in

America; with the certificate from the Ministers where they last dwelt, of their conversion and conformity

to the orders and the discipline of the church, an that they had taken the Oath of Allegiance and

Supremacy.

Nathaniel Tilden is the first name on the passenger list of the HERCULES. He was a man of substance

and importance, had been mayor of Tenterden in 1622 and was succeeded in that office by his cousin

John in 1623-4. His Uncle John had also been mayor of Tenterden in 1585 and in 1600. His father

Thomas had been one of the jurate of local magistrates of Tenterden, and his brother Hopestil had held

that same office. Within a year after his arrival at Scituate in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, where he

established himself, Nathaniel Tilden was chosen ruling elder of the first church of that town; the first

conveyance of land recorded in Scituate was made to him in 1634, and it was bounded by land which

already belonged to him.

He is the ancestor of the Honorable Samuel J. Tilden, Democratic candidate for President of the United

States in 1876.

Taken from Descendants of John De Tilden, available at

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/t/i/l/Lanie-F-Tilden/GENE2-0001.html

Probate Of Nathaniel Tilden

http://www.histarch.uiuc.edu/plymouth/TILDEN.htm

Nathaniel Tilden

July 31, 1641 Plymouth Colony Wills 1:37-38

Mayflower Descendant 3:220-223 (1901)

#P019

[38] An Inventorie of the goods and chattells of Natahniell Tilden late of Scittuate in New England in

America gen Deceased made & prized the xxxith Day of July 1641 by us whose names are hereunder

written


li s d

Imprimis in the Hall one table one forme & chaires 00 23 00

It one booke of martirs one great bible Calvins instucons wilson on the romans 3 of Mr Downams 3 of

Dotr Prestons Dod upon the Comaundnts Sibbs upon the covenant 3 of Doctr Stortons mr Dikes works &

thirty other bookes 05 00 00

It i muskett i sword & birding peece 01 00 00

It in the Innter rooms i bed furnished 03 00 00

It 3 pair of sheets two pair of pillowcoats i duzn

& half of napkins two table cloaths two towells 03 00 00

It i peece of fusteon 00 14 00

It xii peecs of pewter 00 12 00

It iii silver spoones 00 15 00

It two cloakes 02 00 00

It i truncke 00 06 08

It in the hall chamber i bed furnished 03 00 00

It three chests 00 14 00

It in the Inner Chamber one flock bed furnished 01 10 00

It three chests 00 06 00

It i smale paire of brand Irons 00 02 06

It i old case of bottells 00 03 00

It 2 old flock beds two boulsters three blanketts & a pillow 02 00 00

It in the servants chambers two flock beds furnished 02 00 00

It ix paire of sheets 02 10 00

It vi paire of pillow coats 00 15 00

It vii table cloathes 00 16 00

It iii duzzen & three napkins 01 00 00

It v Towells 00 10 00

It iiii old table clothes & other old linnen 00 02 00

It x silver spoones 0* 00 00

It six prcells of fusteon 03 18 00

It the rest of his weareing apparell 05 10 00

It a pillion & a pillion cloth 00 10 00

It six cusheons 00 09 00

It the rest of the pewter 03 10 00

It the bras 05 00 00

It the irons belonging to the chimney 00 14 00

It iii iron potts 00 16 00

It ii frying pans & a dripping pan 00 10 00

It scales and waights 00 12 00

It i grindle stone 00 05 00

It i one Jacke 00 14 00

It brewing vessells & milk vessells & beere vessells kneading troughs & other tubbs 05 00 00

It certaine spruce boards 01 00 00

It other smale things necessary about the house 00 10 00

It all the Iron and workeing tooles belonging to husbandry 03 10 00

It the Cart & all things belonging to yt & a set of harrow tynes 03 06 08

It two oxen two bulls two steeres 1 yearling one Cow and a calfe 50 00 00

It ii hoggs and foure piggs 07 00 00

It foules about the house 00 13 04


It tenn stocks & swarmes of bees 10 00 00

It fishing netts 01 00 00

It pouder & shott 01 06 08

It Indean Corne in the house about 37 bushells about 3 bushells of sumer wheate 1 bushell and halfe of

peas & about one bushell & half of mault 07 00 00

It xiiii acrees of Corne on the ground 30 00 00

It in Debts hopefull & Desprate 27 00 00

Prized as abovesaid by us

Willm Vassall

Thomas Chambers

Willm Hatch

(From the Mayflower Descendant, Vol. III, pp. 220)

The Men of Kent

Added by MPSmith76j on 23 Mar 2007

"Who were there Men of Kent? They were a band of “merchant adventurers” from England’s garden spot,

County Kent. Led by one Timothy Hatherly, founder of Scituate, they formed a group known as “The

Conihasset Proprietors” and built a road from Third Cliff around the marshes to the Harbor which still

bears the name they gave it – Kent Street. Along it in 1633 they laid out “Six houses lots of four acres

extending eight rods along the street and eighty rods up into the woods,” and on July 1 of that year

Scituate was established as a town. Like their Pilgrim neighbors, they pushed back the forests, built their

thatch-roofed log houses and established their first log meeting house and cemetery on the little hill above

their homes. Thus the nucleus of Scituate township was born. Its confines extended as far inland as the

town of Abington, included parts of Pembroke, Hanover and Cohasset, all of Norwell and two miles south

beyond the North River into what is now Marshfield."

Family Of Thomas Tilden (2220) & Alice Bigge

8046. Sarah Tilden. Born ca Aug 1579 at Tenterdon, Kent. Baptized on 30 Aug 1579 at St. Mildred's,

Tenterden. Sarah died bef 6 Jun 1617.

On 20 Nov 1600 Sarah married John Stanshome, at Tenterdon, Kent.

8047. Abigail Tilden. Born ca Feb 1581/2 at Tenterdon, Kent. Baptized on 26 Feb 1581/2 at St.

Mildred's, Tenterden. Abigail died at Tenterdon, Kent, on 5 Aug 1582.

8048. Elder Nathaniel Tilden. Born in 1583 at Tenterdon, Kent. Baptized on 28 Jul 1583 at St.

Mildred's, Tenterden. Nathaniel died at Scituate, MA, on 25 May 1641.

"Elder Nathaniel Tilden came from Tenterden in Kent, with his family, before 1628. He was chosen

Ruling Elder of the first Church in Scituate 1634. His house lot was on Kent-street, the 3d. south of

Greenfield lane. He had also lands at Long marsh: and lands also in 1640, on the east side of the North

River, below Gravelly beach."6

Nathaniel arrived in New England in 1634 in the ship Hercules, of Dover, with his wife and children

(Joseph, Mary, Sarah, Judith, Lydia, Stephen, and Thomas), and the following, who came under the

designation of 'servants:' Thomas Lapham, George Sutton, Edward Ford, Edward Jenkins, James Bennett,

Sarah Couchman, and Mary Perien. The Rev. William Witherell came on this same boat.7


"Nathaniel Tilden was among the earliest of the 'Men of Kent' who established plantations at Satuit before

1628, others being Anthony Annable, Thomas Bird, Edward Foster, William Gillson, Henry Merritt,

Henry Rowley, Nathaniel Tilden, and Deane says, 'perhaps others.'"7

Nathaniel was a Magistrate in Tenterden, and elected to the office of Mayor.7

"Elder Nath'l Tilden was the ancestor of nearly all the Tildens in Marshfield. He was one of three

borothers, and they were called 'Men of Kent,' from ENgland. He came to Scitaute at that portion called

'Tow Mile' tract, now known as North Marshfield, in 1628. His farm extended both sides of North River,

part of it being on 'Gravelly beach.'"26

Nathaniel came in the Hercules in 1635 from Sandwich, in Co. Kent, being one of an old family at

Tenterden, near Cranbrook, in that shire, bringing wife Lydia, seven children and seven servan ts. He may

have visited our country before and went home to bring his household; but it does not appear by any facts.

He settled in Scituate. In May 1637, with his friend Hatherly, he was appointed by Plymouth Colony to

settle the bounds between it and the Massachusetts Colony. He was ruling elder in the church and died

1641, the inventory being of 31 July, and his will of 25 May preceding in that year. It names his wife

Lydia, perhaps daughter of Thomas Bourne of Marshfield, yet married in England to which he gives his

home at Tenterden, all the seven children Joseph; Thomas, b. a. 1621; Mary, the w. of Thomas Lapham,

m. 13 Mar. 1637; Sarah, the w. of George Sutton; Judith; Lydia; and Stephen; also two servants who

should serve his eldest son..2

Ca 1606 Nathaniel married Lydia Huckstepp (5277) , daughter of Stephen Huckstepp (ca 1554/5-Jun

1633) & Winifred Hatch (1410) (ca 1553-Oct 1592).7 Born ca 1587/8 at Tenterdon, Kent. Baptized on 11

Feb 1587/8 at Tenterden, Kent.68

Lydia died at Scituate, MA, on 31 Jul 1672.

Children:

14751i. Thomas (Died young) (ca1608-1618) 14752ii. Mary (ca1610->1690) 14753iii. Joseph (Died

soon) (ca1611-1612) 14754iv. Sarah (ca1612-1676) 14755v. Joseph (ca1615-1670) 14756vi. Stephen

(Died soon) (ca1617-1619) 14757vii. Thomas (ca1618-1704) 14758viii. Judith (ca1620-1663) 14759ix.

Winifred (Died young) (ca1622-1627) 14760x. Lydia (Died soon) (ca1624-1624) 14761xi. Lydia

(ca1625-ca1673) 14762xii. Stephen (ca1629-1711)

8049. Joseph Tilden. Born on 18 Nov 1585 at Tenterdon, Kent. Baptized on 28 Nov 1585 at Tenterdon,

Kent. Joseph died at London, England, on 1 Feb 1641/2.

8050. Hopestill Tilden. Born ca May 1588 at Tenterdon, Kent. Baptized on 1 May 1588 at St. Mildred's,

Tenterden. Hopestill died at St Marys, Sandwich, England, on 19 Dec 1661.

Will: The Will of Hopestill Tilden, one of the jurats of the Town and Port of Sandwich in the county of

Kent, 19 Nov 1661. I give and bequeath unto and amongst the children sons and daughters of my brother

Nathaniel Tilden late of Tenterdon in the said County, gent., 100 pounds to be equally divided between

them, 50 pounds within twelve months after my decease and 50 pounds in two years. To John Hughes,

nephew of Deborah my now wife, 20 pounds. To My former servant John Iggleden 10s. to buy him a

Bible. To my cousin Samuel Tilden 20s., to his daughter Ann Tilden 10 pounds at the age of one and

twenty years, and to his daughter Elizabeth 20s. at that age. To my two grandchildren Joseph Rumsey and

Thomas Rumsey, sons of my daughter Sara by Thomas Rumsey, 5s. apiece. To wife Deborah the use and

benefit of the household stuff, one of my best chambers during her life, and an annuity of 20 pounds to be

paid out of the profits of my lands and tenements in Sandwich or elsewhere in the County of Kent. If she

stay not with with my executors for three months after my death then she shall have 5 pounds. To the

poor people of Sandwich. All the residue of my goods, chattels, and personal estate, and my messuage,

lands and tenements in Sandwich in the Isle of Thanet or elsewhere in England, I give to my

grandchildren Robert Smith and John Smith, sons of my late daughter Sarah, deceased, Robert to have

three fourths and John one fourth, and I make them joint executors of this my will. Witnesses: William


Picard and John Verrier. Proved 9 Febnary 1661/2 by Robert Smith and John Smith, the executors named

in the will. (Archdeaconry of Canterbury, Vol. 71, fo.194) (English Origins of New England Families,

publised by NEHGS.)

Hopestill first married Deborah Hughes.

On 3 Aug 1613 Hopestill second married Gertrude Grant, at St Marys, Sandwich, England. Gertrude died

at St Marys, Sandwich, England, on 7 Mar 1636/7.

8051. Theophilus Tilden. Born ca Oct 1590 at Tenterdon, Kent. Baptized on 11 Oct 1590 at St.

Mildred's, Tenterden. Theophilus died at Oxford, England, on 20 Apr 1613.

8052. Thomas Tilden. Born ca May 1593 at Tenterdon, Kent. Baptized on 1 May 1593 at St. Mildred's,

Tenterden.

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Annotation: Lists of passengers, with other information. For other references to these ships, see index.


BANKS, CHARLES EDWARD. The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers Who Came to Plymouth on the Mayflower in 1620, the Fortune in 1621, and the Anne and the Little James in 1623. New York: Grafton Press, 1929. 187p. Reprinted with corrections and additions by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1962. Repr. 1984.

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Death Date: 1647

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Edited From “The Great Migration”

WILLIAM WHITE

BIRTH: By about 1590, based on estimated date of marriage.

DEATH: Plymouth 21 February, 1620.

ORIGIN: Leiden, Holland

MIGRATION: 1620 on the Mayflower

FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth

ESTATE: In the 1623 Plymouth division of land William White received five acres as a passenger on the

Mayflower (even though he had been dead for two years). In the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle,

Resolved White and Peregrine White, were the tenth and eleventh persons in the third company.

MARRIAGE: About 1615 Susanna _____. She married (2) Plymouth, 12 May 1621, EDWARD

WINSLOW.

CHILDREN:

RESOLVED, b. say 1615; m. Scituate 8 April 1640, Judith Vassal; daughter of WILLIAM VASSALL.

PEREGRINE, b. 4 December 1620, (“Whilst some were employed in this discovery [of a good harbor], it

pleased God that Mistress White was brought abed of a son, which was called Peregrine; m. by 6 March

1648/1649, Sarah Bassett, daughter of WILLIAM BASSETT.

COMMENTS: In his list of those who came in the Mayflower Bradford includes “Mr. William White and

Susanna his wife and one son called Resolved, and one born a-shipboard called Peregrine, and two

servants named William Holbeck and Edward Thompson” [Bradford 442]. In his accounting of 1651

Bradford tells us that “Mr. White and his two servants died soon after their landing. His wife married with

Mr. Winslow, as is before noted.

His two sons are married and Resolved hath five children, Peregrine two, all living. So their increase are

seven.”

Susanna (_____) (White) Winslow was not, as often claimed, sister of SAMUEL and EDWARD

FULLER. (The resolution of this problem fundamentally comes down to the question of whether the

William White who married Ann Fuller, sister of Samuel Fuller, at Leiden in 1612, was identical with the

William White who came to Plymouth in 1620. The position of the sources cited earlier in this paragraph

is that they were not identical.

In 2000 Jeremy D. Bangs revisited the problem and argued that the possibility that the two William

Whites were identical could not be dismissed, and in fact that it was more likely than not that they were

identical.

On 30 October 1623, EDWARD WINSLOW wrote from London to “his much respected Uncle Mr.

Robert Jackson” who was clerk of the sewers at Spalding, Lincolnshire. In his letter he wrote that “almost

two years since I wrote to my father-in-law declaring the death of his son White & the continued health of

his daughter and her two children; also how that by God’s providence she was become my wife.... My

wife hath had one child by me, but it pleased him that gave it to take it again unto himself; I left her with

child at my departure (whom God preserve) but hope to be with her before her delivery.” This remains the

best clue to her identity.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1975, Robert M. and Ruth W. Sherman published an account of William

White and his descendants as part of the first volume of the Five Generations Project of the General

Society of Mayflower Descendants. Robert S. Wakefield revised and republished this material in 1997.

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PRESERVED PURITAN

Susanna White Winslow

Susannah White, (Mayflower Passenger)

Birth: ca early 1590’s, perhaps in Redenhall, Norfolk, England.

Death: Sometime after 1654, when she is mentioned in her husband Edward Winslow’s will. (OR before

2 Jul 1675, OR 1 Oct 1680, Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.)

Susanna White was listed on a passenger list 5 August 1620, at sailing on the “Mayflower.” Seven

months pregnant, Susanna came aboard the Mayflower with husband William and their son, Resolved.

The voyage across the Atlantic took 65 days and after further weeks of scouting for a suitable settlement

area, the Mayflower’s passengers finally landed at Plymouth on December 26, 1620. [The Mayflower’s

captain and part-owner, Christopher Jones, had threatened to leave the Pilgrims unless they quickly found

a place to land.]

Susanna gave birth to her son, Peregrine, while the Mayflower was still anchored in Provincetown

Harbor, off the tip of Cape Cod. Susannah’s husband, William White, died during the first winter; known

as the killing time,” [the period of the first few months in Plymouth Colony], when about one-third to

one-half of the Mayflower passengers perished. Susanna was one of only four adult women to have

survived to see the “First Thanksgiving” at Plymouth that autumn.

The Mayflower remained at Plymouth during the first terrible winter of 1620/1621. On 15 Apr 1621, The

Mayflower left Plymouth and arrived back in England on 16 May 1621.

It was important for the newly widowed Susanna, with an infant and an active 7-year-old already on her

hands, to marry again. Edward Winslow had lost his wife, Elizabeth, about a month after William White

died. So, only a few months after the deaths of their spouses, Susanna and Edward married in May

1620/1621. It was the first Pilgrim marriage at Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. The ceremony was

performed by William Bradford.

Susannah went on to bear five children to Edward, two of which survived childhood and one of which,

Josiah, appears briefly in this narrative.

Susannah White Winslow lived in Marshfield with her husband, Edward Winslow, who during the period

of this narrative, sometimes served as governor of Plymouth colony. [The Vassalls, Whites, and

Winslows were on “friendly terms” and lived close to one another.]

Winslow became the colony’s main emissary to England, and he engaged in numerous diplomatic and

trade negotiations with the other New England colonies. In 1646, he was chosen by Governor Winthrop

and the Bay Colony magistrates to go to England as their representative to defend the Bay General Court

from the charges being made to Parliament by William Vassall and Robert Child.

Edward Winslow never returned to New England, leaving his wife Susanna and his family behind.

At the time Bradford ended his History, Edward Winslow was still alive in England, and the last words of

the History are “So as he [Winslow] hath now bene absente this 4 years, which hath been much to the

weakning of this govermente, without whose consente he tooke these imployments [that is,

Parliamentarian service] upon him,” a double lament. Stratton, Eugene Aubrey, FASG. Plymouth Colony:

Its History and People 1620-1691.


While in England for the last time, Winslow accepted employment in Oliver Cromwell’s government and

in December of 1654 was appointed commissioner, along with Admiral William Penn and General Robert

Venables, of the ill-fated expedition to the West Indies to capture the island of Hispaniola from the

Spanish. After the defeat at Santo Domingo, Edward Winslow died of a fever on the voyage from

Hispaniola to Jamaica and was buried at sea. “He fell sick at sea betwixt Domingo and Jamaica and died

the eighth day of May, which was about the sixty-first year of his life.” Mayflower Families Through Five

Generations,V, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1991.

Married 1: William White, (Mayflower Passenger)

Marriage: 27 Jan 1612, (OR 11 Feb 1612, OR 1 Jul 1612), Leiden, Zuid, Holland, The Netherlands.

Children of William White and Susanna (?Fuller - MNU) White:

Child Buried in infancy, ca 1613, Leiden, Zuid, Holland, The Netherlands.

Anna #1, Buried in infancy, on 28 Jun 1615, Leiden, Zuid, Holland, The Netherlands.

Anna #2, b. 1616. She died in infancy, on 21 Dec 1616. Buried ca 1616, Leiden, Zuid, Holland, The

Netherlands.

Direct Lineage:

Resolved White, (Mayflower Passenger), b: ca 9 Sep 1615, probably in Leiden, South Holland, The

Netherlands. Resolved married Judith Vassall, who was b. about 1619, in England. (Judith was the

daughter of William Vassall and Ann King.) Resolved and Judith were married 5 Nov 1640, (OR 8 Apr

1640), in Scituate, Massachusetts. Judith Vassall White d. Apr 1670, in Marshfield, Massachusetts. Her

burial was 3 Apr 1670. Resolved d: and was buried about 1687-1690, in Salem, Massachusetts. It is

believed that Resolved was named for his parents’ decision, to seek freedom...William and his wife

Susanna had “resolved” to seek a new life.

Peregrine, (Mayflower Birth), [later Captain Peregrine White], b. 4 Dec 1620, (OR 7 Dec 1620), aboard

the Mayflower. The name Peregrine means wanderer, traveller, or foreigner. It was a “tradition” to use a

unique name such as Peregrine to commemorate a noteable event. Peregrom married Sarah Bassett, by 6

March 1648/1649. (Sarah was the daughter of William Bassett.) Peregrine d. 22 Jul 1704.

Married 2: Edward Winslow

Marriage: 12 May 1621, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts.

Children of Susanna White Winslow and Edward Winslow:

1. Infant Winslow, b. 1623, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

2. Edward Winslow, b. Abt 1624, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

3. John Winslow, b. Abt 1626, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

4. Josiah Winslow, b. 1629, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

5. Elizabeth Winslow, b. Abt 1630, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

“The last document mentioning Susanna White Winslow, by name, was dated 12 (11) 1647, [[22 Jan

1648, by the current calendar]. No further record has been found concerning the woman who was the wife

of the first Colony Governor; the mother of another; the first woman to marry in the Colony; and the

mother of the first English child born in the Colony.”

Another account indicates that she may have died before 2 Jul 1675, because “her son Josiah Winslow

made no proviso for her in his will, although he had made bequests to numerous relatives and friends.

This may refute the claim that she died at Marshfield within two weeks of Josiah’s death in 1680.”


Research On The Parentage Of Susanna White Winslow:

Susanna, was not Anna Fuller sister of Mayflower passengers Samuel and Edward Fuller; nor was she

Susanna Tilley. ( Annie A. Haxtun in “Signers of the Mayflower Compact”, 1895, claimed that Susanna

was Susanna Tilley and referred to the Cowles Bible in Connecticut that was supposed to have belonged

to William White. According to the Bible, William married Susanna Tilley, “ye 3d of March 1620.” This

was later debunked by many genealogists since the date would have been impossible based on the

calendar in effect at that time.)

To complicate Susanna’s ancestry, another source indicates: “Susanna Fuller, (daughter of Robert Fuller

Sr. and Sarah Dunkkhoren, was born in 1593/1594, in Redenhall, Norfolk County, England.” Later

research claims that “Susanna was NOT the sister of Dr. Samuel Fuller as is often claimed. This fact is

convincingly expressed in ‘Mayflower Families Through Five Generations,” compiled in 1975, and no

proof has been found concerning her parentage or that of her husband William White. Therefore,

Susanna’s maiden name remains unknown.

The only positive clue to Susanna’s ancestry seems to be a letter from Edward Winslow to “Uncle Robert

Jackson,” in 1623, in which he sent news of Susanna, her late husband, and her children. He also sent his

regards to his father-in-law in England, by which time Robert Fuller who was supposed to be Susanna’s

father, was nine years dead.”

Sources:

Title: Mayflower Families, 5 Generation Series , vol 1 pg 99.

Title: New England Marriages Prior, Torrey, Clarence A. , pg 807.

William White Family

From http://www.mayflowerfamilies.com/mayflower/william_white_family.htm:

William White died early after his arrival. He married by about 1615 (Sus)anna (?Fuller). She married

shortly after his death, 12 May, 1621 Edward Winslow. Their child Peregrine was born aboard the

Mayflower, and his cradle is one of the few relics remaining from the period.

Children Of William And Susanna:

Resolved, b abt 1615 m. Scituate 8 April 1640 Judith Vassall, daughter of William Vassall

Peregrine, b. 4 Dec 1620 aboard the Mayflower, m. by 6 March 1648/9 Sarah Bassett, daughter of

William Bassett.

Bradford’s Passenger List: mr William White, and Susana his wife; and one sone caled resolved, and

one borne a ship-bord caled perigriene; &.2 servants, named William Holbeck, & Edward Thomson

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Annotation: Pages 437-453 entitled, "The Pilgrim Company," have passenger lists from the Mayflower, 1620 and 1629; Fortune, 1621; Shallop, 1622, and other vessels. Names of immigrants are scattered throughout the book. For references to the Mayflower, see the index.


WILLISON, GEORGE F. Saints and Strangers, Being the Lives of the Pilgrim Fathers and Their Families.... New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1945. 513p. Reprinted by New Englandia, North Adams, Mass., 1973.

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Name: Thomas French

Year: 1675

Place: America


1220.11

Primary Immigrant:

French, Thomas

Annotation: Date and port of arrival, or date of sentencing or reprieve for transport and port of arrival. Name of ship, crime convicted of, and other information may also be provided. The remainder of the book will be indexed as source number 1220.12 in PILI 1999 Pa


COLDHAM, PETER WILSON. The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1988. pp. 1-461.

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010 William Vassall – Biography

Facts About William Vassall

Lifetime events

William Vassall, Esq, born 1593 in Stepney, England. Died 1655 in Barbados at the age of 62. He

married in 1618 to Anne King, born 1593. They had 6 children who came over to America and are

confirmed in Tepper (pg. 30). One child was Judith Vassall who married Resolved White of the

Mayflower White family.

He and his brother Samuel Vassall were among the original patentees in 1628 of the Massachusetts Bay

Company. Although Samuel never came to New England, his investments in the new country were great .

Samuel was an alderman of London, a member of parliament and a royal commissioner in the matter of

the establishment of peace with Scotland. William was named in the March 1629 First Charter of the

Massachusetts Bay Company wherein he is listed as an Associate and Assistant .

William Vassall first came in 1630 on the Arabella, as one of the assistants of the Mass. Bay Co. to

Salem, Mass. He returned to England in the fall of 1630 on the "Lyon".

He returned to America on the "Blessing", around July 1635, at the age of 42 with his wife, age 42, and

settled at Roxbury. His wife joined the church in 1638. They moved to Scituate and were admitted to the

church around 11/28/1636. They took the oath of allegiance to the Plymouth colony on 2/1/1638. He

moved to Marshfield, about 1643, where he was again a town officer.

Ship the Blessing 1635

http://www.primenet.com/~langford/spls/635ne005.htm

Vassall, Ann . . . . . . 42

Vassall, Ann . . . . . . 6 * Listed together in this order.

Vassall, Margaret . . . . 2 *

Vassall, Mary . . . . . . 1 *

Vassall, Francis . . . . 12 (Entered as "Fra.")

Vassall, Judith . . . . . 16

Vassall, William . . . . 42

Vassell, Jo: . . . . . . 10

William did not agree with the attitude of Mass. Bay and Plymouth governments towards persons who's

opinions in politics and religion differed from the puritan line. He used his influences for greater charity

toward the Quakers, etc. The elders expressed their disapproval towards his outspokenness. The church of

Plymouth sent him a message by way of John Cook, which is recorded in the book of the second Church,

Scituate, dated April 14, 1645; hoping he would desist from proceedings intended, and questioned if they

would commune with him if he continued. He went to England in 1646 with a petition to Parliament for

the liberty of English subjects." (NEH&GR, Jan 1863, page 58)

He settled in Scituate, but in 1634, provoked by the persecution to which the Episcopalians were

subjected, he returned to England. Later he went to Barbados and died there. His son Captain John

Vassall, sold the Situate estate in 1661, but the daughters married and remained in this country.

William Vassall

Son of Captain John and Anna (Russell) Vassall, of Stepney, Middlesex, England. Brother of Judith

(Vassall) Freeborne and Samuel Vassall, MP. Husband of Anna (King/Kinge) Vassall. Father of Anna

(who died in infancy), Judith (Vassall) White, Frances (Vassall) Adams, Mary, Samuel (who died in

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infancy, twin of Mary), Colonel John, William Jr., Anna (Vassall) Ware, and Margaret (Vassall)

Hubbard/Hobart.

A merchant-adventurer and member of the Massachusetts Bay Company, his name appears in the Charter

signed by King Charles I. Arrived in Massachusetts in 1630 as a leader of the "Winthrop Fleet," which

began what came to be known as "The Great Migration," but soon returned to England for his children.

With his family, he sailed back to Massachusetts in 1635 where he became a civil affairs officer.

Historically accepted author (possibly along with Major John Childe) of "New England's Jonas Cast Up

in London" (1647), a significant political tract which exposed the Massachusetts Puritan leaders' political

corruption, religious intolerance, and abuse of power in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Former Plymouth

Colony Governor Edward Winslow, whose religious intolerance made William Vassall his enemy,

insisted that it was Vassall alone who wrote the tract. Vassall and Winslow were initially friends, as

Winslow was the step-father-in-law of William and Anna Vassall's daughter Judith (Vassall) White.

A highly educated gentleman who was far ahead of his time, Vassall publicly supported true freedom of

religion in British North America for Catholics, Anglicans, Puritans, Quakers, indeed all Christians

regardless of denomination, as was well as religious freedom for those of the Jewish and Islamic faiths.

It was through William Vassall's son-in-law, "Mayflower" passenger Resolved White who had married

his daughter Judith (both named in Vassall's will) that Resolved White's half-brother Governor Josiah

Winslow of Plymouth Colony (son of Edward Winslow and Susanna - widow of William White -

Winslow) eased persecution of the Quaker community of Plymouth.

Vassall passed away at St. Michael's Parish, Barbados, where he had built an estate after leaving

Massachusetts due to the growing religious bigotry within the largely Puritan community.

His direct descendants today are found in both North America (where he retained large tracts of land in

Massachusetts) and in Great Britain. The town of Vassalboro in Kennebec County, Maine was named in

his honour.

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William Vassall (1593-1655) ~~~~~ William Vassel

Birth: ca. 1592/1593, in Ratcliffe Parish, Devon, Stepney, County Middlesex, England.

Death: Between 1655 and 1657, in Barbadoes. Age 62 years. (OR died 13 Jul 1655, in Plymouth, Roxbury, Scituate, Marshfield, Massachusetts.

“A man of pleasant and affable manners, but always in opposition to government, both in Massachusetts and in Plymouth.”

Father: John Vassall, born and died in England.

Mother: Anne Russell Vassall, born and died in England.

Emigration: William Vassal’s first trip to the Americas was in 1628, as one of the Assistants of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, arriving in Salem in 1628.

1630: He returned to England with his family on the ‘Lyon’ in 1630.

1635: Both William and his wife, Anne, were age 41 when they again sailed again to New England, in Jul 1635. This time the vessel was the ‘Blessing, and they settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts.

1635: His wife, Anna Vassall, joined the church in 1635.

1636: The family removed to Scituate and were admitted to the church on 28 Nov 1936.

1638: William Vassall took oath of allegiance to Plymouth Colony 1 Feb 1638.

1642: Plymouth Colony Records of 1642, refer to William’s surveying instruments.

1643: Removed to Marshfield; recorded as a proprietor in 1643.

William Vassal: A Biographical Sketch

By Cairril Mills

A biographical sketch including mention of Anna King Vassall, Judith Vassall White, Resolved White, William White, Susannah Fuller White Winslow, Edward Winslow, William Bradford, Josiah Winslow and others in Plymouth Colony.

William Vassall, did not come to the Colonies until about ten years after the Whites, Winslows, and Bradfords. His daughter, Judith, eventually married Resolved White, uniting the Winslow and Vassall families.

The irony of the story lies in that Vassall, Bradford, and Winslow were initially somewhat similar men: all highly educated, conscientious, and essentially tolerant. But their experiences in the Colonies changed them: Vassall became more radicalized; Bradford slightly more conservative; and Winslow a great deal more conservative. Judith appears to have supported the “radical” stances of her father, while Resolved hardly figures in the stories at all.

FAMILY LIFE:

William Vassall was born ca. 1593, in Ratcliffe, Stepney, County Middlesex, England, (just east of London). William’s father John Vassall was a London alderman who served under Queen Elizabeth I and who equipped and commanded two ships in the fight against the Spanish Armada.

William’s grandfather was also named John and had been sent into England by his father, (yet another John), to escape persecution in France. The French Vassalls were Huguenots, and France was leading up to the horrible St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, (1572). Thousands of Huguenots were killed by rioters

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and troops under orders of the Catholic king. Fortunately John, (William’s grandfather), emigrated to Protestant England, from Normandy, before the persecution reached fever pitch, and settled near London.

William never knew his mother, Anne Russell Vassall; she died shortly after he was born. She was 45 years old and may have died in childbirth. It wasn’t until William was about 24, (and already married himself), that his father married again, this time to Anne Hewes. We don’t know if there was a mother figure in William’s life in the intervening years, but, as an alderman, John would have been wealthy enough to afford governesses and other servants. We also know William was well educated. William grew up with his two surviving siblings, (two brothers, both named John, died before William was born), Judith and Samuel.

We don’t know anything more about William until 1613, when he married Anna, (or Anne), King on 9 June 1613. They were both 20 years old and they would have 10 children together—eight of them surviving childhood. We have no death date for Anna, but as she was not mentioned in William’s will, it seems likely she predeceased him. Some sources give Anna’s death date as 1 Dec 1670, in Barbados, but they do not give their source for this date. It seems unlikely she would have been left out of William’s will were she still alive.]

Anna became pregnant almost immediately, giving birth to a girl they named Anna. But the infant died within three months. William and Anna did not have another child (though there may have been unrecorded miscarriages) until ca. 1619, when daughter Judith was born. Four years later, when William and Anna were about 30, daughter, Frances, was born. The following year, their first son, Samuel, was born, along with twin Mary. Samuel died fewer than six months later, and Mary seems to have died either as an infant or while still a child.

The next year, (1625), another son was born, John. His namesake, William’s father John, died the same year at age 81. The following year, when William and Anna were 34, they had their third son, William. Another daughter, again named Anna, was born the year after, (1628), but a five-year gap appears before their final child, Mary, was born, (perhaps due in part to their travels to and from the Colonies).

ESTABLISHING A COLONIAL HOME:

William and his brother, Samuel Vassall, were among the original patentees of the Massachusetts Bay Company, (1629). Samuel became very wealthy, eventually owning one-tenth of the entire Massachusetts Bay colony. His fleet of ships regularly supplied the colonists. But he was the first to refuse to pay the tax of “tonnage and poundage,” a tax Parliament levied on supplies going to the Colonies. For this, he was convicted by the Star Chamber court and imprisoned for sixteen years. While Cromwell’s Parliament voted him over £10,000 in compensation, it was never paid, and the family never recovered their former wealth.

As for William, he was an Assistant to Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Winthrop. He invested in the company and held a position as a magistrate. Almost all the “Adventurers,” (investors), were wealthy businessmen, (William is referred to in one source as an “opulent West India merchant”), or landed gentry from the eastern coast or southwest of England, and active in Puritan religious and political causes. These areas had a long history of Christian reform movements and were where Cromwell raised his Puritan armies in the 1640s.

There were 127 founding investors who formed the basis of the company at the granting of the Royal Charter in 1628. In return for their investment, each received a small acreage in the colony, just enough to be able to flee to if religious and political persecution under the rule of the Stuarts made it necessary. Many of them eventually emigrated.

At a meeting of the Company 15 October 1629, William was appointed to go over to the colony. In spring 1630, William sailed with about 300 families from Yarmouth for Massachusetts Bay. Their aim was to establish “an independent church, but not a separate one.” Like many of the New England colonists,

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William disagreed with some tenets of the state church, (Church of England), but was not ready for an open break. By being geographically distant from the centers of religious and political power in England, colonists were generally able to experience greater religious freedom.

The company landed first at Salem, where they found the population decimated by disease and hunger. Of the 1,000 immigrants who came to Salem that year, one-fifth died during their first 12 months. With provisions scarce and hardly any buildings available, the new colonists dispersed into neighboring communities. The first court of the Assistants was held at Charlestown, but a polluted water source led them to move again, this time to the Shawmut Peninsula where there was an abundance of clear spring water. Here they founded the colony’s capital, Boston.

The people of the colony were resentful of the magistrates’ power, and by May 1631, the decision was made that all officers of the government be elected annually by the freemen of the colony. While this is one of several examples of early democratic tendencies in the colonies, it must be noted that there were only about 120 freemen and they had to be in good standing with the church.

Whether because of this incident, William’s differences with Governor Winthrop, or some other reason, William returned to England “a short while” after arriving in the colonies on the ‘Lyon.’

He appears in the records again in 1635, when he and Anna, (age 42), and children Judith (16), Frances (12), John (10), Ann (6), Margaret (2), and Mary (1) board the ‘Blessing’ to return to the colonies. They settled first at Roxbury in the Bay colony, where Anna joined the church*, but moved “shortly after” (by Nov 1636), to Scituate in Plymouth Colony, just over the border from the Bay Colony. [*Joining the church meant entering into the covenant. It afforded responsibilities and privileges in both the religious and secular spheres.]

The Vassall house, called West Newland, was one of the first built at Scituate, (1636). In November of that year, William joined the Scituate church. He expanded his land holdings, in 1638, with 350 acres and gained the right to keep a ferry. In 1639, he was given the rights to have an oyster bed on the West Newland River. In exchange for these grants, William took oaths of allegiance and fidelity to the Crown. William was wealthy and well-connected, with his brother Samuel a member of Parliament and numerous friends traveling back and forth to England.

Daughter, Judith Vassall, joined the Scituate church in 1637, when she was 18, and seems to have sided prominently with her father in the pending division of the church. In 1640, she married Resolved White in Scituate. Around this time William seems to have considered moving back to Salem, since court records show he was looking into buying a farm in the area, but nothing came of it. Eventually Judith and Resolved had their own home on land adjoining William’s estate.

In 1642, William was chosen to be on the war council after the Narragansett Tribe threatened the colony. The following year, his name appears on a list of militia members.

In 1643, the year Judith and Resolved married, the Vassalls moved to Marshfield, where William became a town officer. Susannah White Winslow lived in Marshfield with her husband Edward Winslow, who during the period of our story sometimes served as governor of Plymouth colony. The Vassalls, Whites, and Winslows were on friendly terms and lived close to one another. William would have been in close contact with Edward Winslow in their work as town magistrates.

DISSENSION BEGINS: The Scituate Church Division.

William Vassall is best known for his role in the division of the church at Scituate 1644/1645. It began, as so many schismatic movements in Christianity seem to begin, with a controversy over baptism. At the First Church of Christ in Scituate, disagreements arose as to whether baptism should be by sprinkling or by immersion. Rev. John Lothrop eventually took about half the church with him in a split and moved to Barnstaple. William and daughter, Judith, were part of the congregation which remained at the Scituate church, and which now needed a new minister. Most of the congregation voted to call Rev. Charles

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Chauncy, of Plymouth; William, Judith, and a few others refused to call him; [William Vassall, Thomas King, John Twisden, Thomas Lapham, Suza King, Judith White and Anna Stockbridge].

Chauncy had been embroiled in controversy over baptism before. He favored baptism by immersion, and while his Plymouth church congregation conceded it was probably the more theologically sound way, it was impractical for their climate. The Plymouth church consulted with ministers from other area churches, all of whom opined against Chauncy’s position. Chauncy would not back down, and left the Plymouth church.

But even before this controversy, Chauncy had been involved with the persecution of non-conformists in England, during the reign of Charles I, a fact William was probably well-acquainted with.

William wanted nothing to do with Chauncy and led the dissident Scituate faction. He was highly educated and could argue any point Chauncy, (an Oxford graduate), threw his way. William also supported allowing Anglican church members to partake of communion, a controversial position. He argued publicly it would allow for expansion of the church through evangelism, but his primary motivation was one of tolerance.

Chauncy then took the very curious step of trying to re-organize the church based on the people who had called him. He allowed that those who did not call him might be allowed into the covenant if he “saw cause.” This is remarkable because, in the Colonies, a minister was not a minister unless he was called by a congregation. His power derived from the congregation, not from any external source. This was clearly a power play on Chauncy’s part.

Chauncy accused William of being “inclined to the Bishops,” (an allusion questioning William’s Protestant credentials). Chauncy then asked the entire Vassall faction, (which had grown to about half of the Scituate congregation), to refrain from communion, effectively kicking them out and depriving them of members’ rights and privileges.

William’s faction, renewed their covenant as a gathered church on 2 Feb 1642. They called themselves the First Church of Scituate, believing that Chauncy had effectively established a new church by re-writing the rules of the covenant. Chauncy and his followers insisted they were the First Church. The matter ended up in court, partly due to related issues of land ownership. The court eventually found in Chauncy’s favor. Vassall’s congregation became the Second Church of Scituate.

The Second Church wanted a peaceful separation and took a “live and let live” approach. They called William Witherell of Duxbury, a grammar school teacher, to be their minister, ordaining him 2 Sep 1645. He had been pastor of the Duxbury church, which refused to release him. John Cooke of Plymouth Church, and Josias Winslow of Marshfield Church, (Edward and Susannah’s son and Resolved White’s half-brother), were sent to try to convince Witherell not to leave. Witherell left anyway.

Josias began attending the the Second Church of Scituate and brought his children to be baptized there, even though it was 10 miles away. Perhaps the fact that Witherell favored baptism by sprinkling or by the laying on of hands had something to do with it. Regardless, Witherell was a highly successful pastor, continuing in his position for the next 39 years until his death.

The church at South Scituate that William Vassall founded continued through the years in peace and tranquility. Samuel Deane called its doctrine “moderate Calvinism.” He wrote: “The religious character of the people, it is remarked, has been sober, modest and rational in general, not corrupted by metaphysical subtleties, nor distracted by sectarian zeal. Hospitality, charity and sociability are characteristics of the state of society.”

The feud between William Vassall and Chauncy, and the two churches, went on for thirty years, agitating both Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies. Vassall left the colony in 1646, and Chauncy resigned his ministry in 1654, to become president of Harvard, which helped disperse some of the animosity. But the churches weren’t able to formally reconcile until 1674/1675.

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DISSENT GROWS: The Call for Greater Democracy.

While William wrestled with the controversy over the Second Church of Scituate, he was also closely involved, (though not in a public manner), with controversies which arose in Hingham, a nearby town across the border in Massachusetts Bay Colony.

In 1643, a confederation was formed among the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the colonies of Plymouth, New Haven, and Connecticut. (Piscataqua and Providence were left out because of religious nonconformity, and Rhode Island because it refused to become part of Plymouth.) It was clear from the start that Massachusetts Bay Colony was going to drive the confederation, seeking to impose its more drastic, Puritan, authoritarian laws on other communities in the confederation. Vassall was savy enough to see the writing on the wall and, in the Hingham case, tried to work behind the scenes to bolster democratic and pluralistic law.

“The issues, which the town of Hingham was fighting for, were the same issues which Samuel Vassall had been fighting for a decade before in England—the right to petition the government and the right to speak out against unjust taxation and fines. Here they were fighting also for the freedom of the local church from domination by a state church, as well as the right of the towns to carry on with their own elections of military officers without outside interference. Moreover, a greater battle…was being fought, too—over the rights of the freemen to share equally with the magistrates in affairs of the government.”

Local citizens presented a petition to Hingham magistrates in support of their cause. The magistrates rejected the petition, saying,

1. That the petition was false and scandalous;

2. That those that were bound over, &c. and others that were parties to the disturbance at Hingham, were all offenders, though in different degrees;

3. That they and the petitioners were to be censured;

4. That the Deputy-Governor ought to be acquit and righted.”

William had advised the dissenters and was probably involved in the drafting of the petition. Because he did not make his involvement public, (though it was certainly known of), he escaped the heavy fines which the dissenters were forced to pay. But he felt strongly enough about the issues at stake to consider taking the case to Parliament “in order to affirm that English law, not arbitrary colonial law, (established by the magistrates alone), would be supreme in the Colonies.”

During this time, William turned often to his friend, colleague, and relative, (via Judith and Resolved’s marriage), Edward Winslow. They had worked closely in business and government affairs. Winslow was one of the most erudite of the Plymouth colony, (he was often selected by the colony to represent it in dealings back in England), and had been part of the Leyden congregation, whose pastor, John Robinson, had extolled the virtue of tolerance. Winslow must have seemed the perfect ally. And indeed, if Winslow had stood up to Massachusetts Bay Governor John Winthrop and his Puritan cronies, the course of American history might have been different. But William discovered that Winslow was not interested in checking the authoritarian tendencies of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and, in fact, was sympathetic to them. In perhaps the most tragic turn of the story, Winslow became William’s chief opponent in the struggles ahead.

Vassall hoped, that Winslow would share his belief in tolerance. Winslow says of him in The Salamander, “Our Salamander, [Vassall], having labored two years together to draw me to his party and finding he could no way prevail, he then casts off all his pretended love, and made it a part of his work to make mee of all men most odious, that so whatever I did or said might be the less effectual.” However, in fairness to Vassall, we must point out that by this time Winslow had elected to join the side of that enemy to tolerance, John Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay. Vassall wrote no unpleasant words about his neighbor, nor did he manufacture a disparaging nickname for Winslow as the latter did for him.

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OPEN DISSENT: “The Remonstrance of Doctor Child.”

In the summer of 1645, the Bay Colony magistrates tried to extend a law to all confederate colonies—the law banning Anabaptists, (another Protestant sect). This was the catalyst for William to leave the shadows and protest openly against the government, and which led eventually to his leaving New England forever.

It was at a small meeting of the Court of Assistants, in Plymouth, where the act was first proposed. Governor William Bradford was present, as were Edward Winslow and two other Assistants. The act was “a recommendation to the General Courts of the Colonies, for the exclusion from membership, in any of their churches, of all persons who do not hold particular tenets, and bind themselves by covenant to observe the laws and duties of the spiritual corporation; for refusing baptism to all but such members and their immediate seed; and for ‘the seasonable and due suppression of Anabaptists, Familists, Antinomians, and all other like errors, which oppose, undermine, and slight the Scriptures, &c....under the deceitful color of liberty of conscience.’”

After studying the proposal, the members decided to postpone the issue to the next General Court, where all the Assistants would be present. The next General Court turned out to be the Court of Elections, where William Vassall was in attendance as Scituate’s deputy.

At the Court of Elections, the proposal caused an uproar, resulting in a “whole day’s agitation.” William was not the only one who objected strongly to the act. But at the end of the day, the act passed with only one dissenter: William Vassall.

The one bright spot of the new law was that it allowed any man to petition the government. William was ready to test that right, though he certainly must have known what it might cost him. He drew up a petition for religious tolerance in the colonies, “to allow and maintain full and free tolerance of religion to all men that would preserve the civil peace, and submit unto Government; and there was no limitation or exception against Turk, Jew, Papist, Arian, Socinian, Nicholaytan, Familist, or any other, &c.”

In other words, as long as citizens were law-abiding, they could practice whatever religion they chose. This right to religious freedom was not fully established until the Bill of Rights was passed almost 150 years later. Quakers and Anabaptists were hounded out of the colonies and even put to death.

William took his petition to the Plymouth General Court, presided over by Governor William Bradford and where Edward Winslow acted as magistrate. Many of the town deputies and Assistants were in favor of the petition, (Plymouth had long been a place of tolerance in comparison to the radicalism of the Bay Colony), and it appeared a majority would vote in support. But rather than let it come to a vote, Bradford pulled a parliamentary move to defer the petition in order to give his side (the conservatives, including Winslow) time to defeat it.

But William Vassall would not be silenced. The law, freshly inked, said every man had the right to petition the government. He was determined to exercise this right, even in the face of massive opposition from the Bay Colony. He joined forces with Boston freemen who had other grievances against the government. The resulting petition is known as “the Remonstrance of Doctor Child,” after the petition’s author, Richard Child. It was the last major attempt in the seventeenth century to stem the authoritarian, Puritan tide in New England.

The Child petition was presented to the Boston Court under the name of Child and six others. William did not add his name to it, in order to be free to carry the petition to his brother Samuel in Parliament. He also was preserving himself from possible charges of treason.

The same Body of Liberties which gave every man the right to petition the government also listed capital offenses; one of these was sedition. In the eyes of Massachusetts magistrates, petitioning the King, (in effect, going over their heads), was treason, punishable by death.

One of the more interesting points in Child’s petition is the assertion that the colony was experiencing a severe economic depression due to the intolerance of the government. Immigration to New England had

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slowed to a trickle by this point and many felt the increasingly strict religious atmosphere was choking the life out of the colonies.

As expected, the petition was denied by the court. It was time to appeal to Parliament.

THE LAST STAND:

By now the conflict over liberties had reached a fever pitch. The conservatives were determined to prevent William from even reaching England. He would carry not only the Child petition, but the original Hingham petition and his own petition for religious toleration. While the first two had been publicly debated in open court, William’s petition had not been as widely circulated. The magistrates feared that, if William’s petitions were successful, they would lose lucrative tax-free trade rights. More importantly, the Charter for the colony itself might be revoked. Since William’s brother was a member of Parliament and could easily bring the petitions before the Commissioners for the Plantations, the conservatives knew the petitions were likely to receive a sympathetic hearing.

Robert Child and John Dand were to accompany William, but ministers in the colonies called upon local law enforcement to apprehend them—and they did. The night before the ‘Supply’ was set to sail, Dand’s study was ransacked by the magistrates in a desperate attempt to find William’s petition. Child and Dand were held as transgressors against the capital law, meaning they could be found guilty of treason and put to death.

William, somehow, was able to get aboard ship, along with his comrade Thomas Fowle. But even then he wasn’t safe. As part of their propaganda campaign, the magistrates had instructed colony ministers to preach on the subject of “Jonas” before the ship sailed. In thinly veiled references, ministers throughout the colonies warned passengers that, in any stormy crossing, the “Jonas” should be found and thrown overboard in order to appease God.

Conveniently enough, a storm did blow up over the Atlantic as the ‘Supply’ made her way. A woman approached William, during the storm, and told him they must throw the “Jonas,” (meaning the petition), overboard. William cooly answered that he had no such Jonas, only a petition to Parliament that they might enjoy the liberty of English subjects and certainly there could be no evil in that. He then suggested she go see Thomas Fowle, (which makes one suspect the two had planned for this turn of events). This she did. Fowle told her innocently he had nothing but a copy of the Child Petition, and even read it to her. He then mentioned that, if she “and others” thought it might be the cause of the storm, he’d be happy to hand it over so they could toss it overboard. She gladly seized on the opportunity and threw the petition to the wind, but, alas, God was not appeased and the storms did not abate for the remainder of their crossing.

Fowle had only given her a copy of the petition addressed to Boston, not the petition addressed to Parliament. The Parliament petition remained safely onboard, along with another copy of the Boston petition and the all-important petition which William himself had written.

Arriving in England, they found Winslow had already been distributing tracts named Hypocrisie Unmasked, a virulent diatribe against William and his position. It was Winslow who had been chosen by the conservatives to present their case to Parliament. Not to be outdone, William Vassall responded with the 22-page tract, “New England’s Jonas Cast Up at London,”* a piece agitating for greater political freedom in the colonies.

William presumably presented his petition, although there is no record of it in Parliamentary papers. He had come back to England at a difficult and confusing time. His natural allies in Parliament, enemies of Charles I, were no longer moderate, having been caught up in the revolutionary fervor of the times. Puritans were divided into factions and extremism was on the rise. Only two years later, Charles I would be beheaded and Cromwell’s Puritan Commonwealth established. It was precisely the wrong time to look for support of religious tolerance in the colonies.

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The petitioners charged a lack of religious freedom in Massachusetts and the denial of civil privileges to those who were not church members. As they were freeborn Englishmen, they asked that English law be reasserted in the colonies, rather than a separate, more repressive system under the magistrates. They noted that they were being denied their liberty in the colonies on the grounds of their religion, and were being forced to take civil oaths which conflicted with their oath of allegiance to the king. They termed colonial government “arbitrary” and complained of being subjected to extrajudicial proceedings.

Winslow represented the government’s point of view to Parliament, and it was he who won the day, thanks in part to the success of “Hypocrisie Unmasked”. The Parliament committee summed up their view: “We encourage no appeals from your justice. We leave you with all the freedom and latitude that may, in any respect, be duly claimed by you.”

The conservatives now had full authority to govern as they chose. The end result was predictable: The hanging of Quakers, the hounding of dissidents, and the trials of so-called “witches.” When we wonder how those who came to the colonies seeking religious freedom could possibly participate in such persecution of their own, we need only remember that dissent was made punishable by death, and those who escaped such harsh punishment must either remain silent, choose martyrdom, or leave the colonies forever.

[*Complete title: New-Englands Jonas cast up at London: or, A relation of the proceedings of the court at Boston in New-England against honest and godly persons, for petitioning for government in the common-wealth, according to the lawes of England ... Together with a confutation of some reports of a fained miracle upon the foresaid petition, being thrown overboard at sea; as also a brief answer to some passages in a late book, (entitled Hypocrisie Unmasked), set out by Mr. Winslowe, concerning the Independent churches holding communion with the Reformed churches.]

AFTERMATH:

Back in the colonies, Robert Child was kept prisoner for some time and his wealth was confiscated. When freed, he moved to Ireland, and, while he tried to regain his fortune, he never did. Dand was also imprisoned and his ultimate fate is unknown.,

Edward Winslow never returned to New England. Leaving Susannah and his family behind, he stayed in England during the revolution and was appointed by Cromwell to head an expeditionary force which captured Jamaica in 1655. On the way back to England, he died at sea.

William also left family and considerable estates behind in the colonies. But it was clear by now he could not return. Besides his “problematic” political and religious convictions, he would almost certainly have been arrested and possibly hanged as a traitor. He removed to Barbados, which had a reputation for religious toleration. It was 1648, and he purchased lands in St. Michael’s Parish, (whereabouts now unknown). We don’t know if his wife Anna was still alive at this point and if she joined him. Other members of the Vassall extended family had estates in Barbados, and there are records of travel back and forth by the cousins.

In one of the ironies of the story, William probably had an estate run by slave labor. Other Vassalls in Barbados certainly did.

In another irony, Edward Winslow stopped at the island on his way to Jamaica in 1654, and the old neighbors’/adversaries’ paths crossed again. “It is a curious fact that Winslow had been recommended on 22 Nov 1650 to be appointed governor of the island. If the recommendation had gone through, Vassall would have found Edward Winslow his governor once again. The forces of the expedition of Penn and Venables spent many months at the island, quartered in the houses of the planters, eating their food, recruiting their servants. There was obvious rejoicing when they finally left.”

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William died in Barbados between 1655 and 1657. He bequeathed to his son John one-third of all his estate and split the remainder among his daughters. His estate in Scituate was sold at the behest of his children in 1656. Consisting of about 120 acres with house and barn, the estate brought £120.

The Vassall family as a whole was involved with both freedom movements and the employ of slave labor in the Caribbean. Judith appears in several of the documents asserting dissenting religious views during the Scituate schism, while her husband Resolved does not. Some of Judith and Resolved’s children ended up in Barbados—none stayed in Scituate. Judith’s cousin John (son of Samuel) bought land in Jamaica in 1655, setting up a large plantation which flourished until emancipation. He and his cousin Henry, (still in England), supported a colony in Cape Fear, promising the vote and freedom of religion. They secured some aid from the Massachusetts Bay colony but the experiment failed.

It is clear from the historical record that William Vassall was a man of intelligence and integrity. While Winslow castigated William in his various letters and tracts against him, William never stooped that low. He focused on the issues at hand, and, while passionate in defense of a point, he was cool-headed enough to navigate the treacherous waters he chose to swim. While conservative, Bradford was never as nasty or hardcore as Winslow or the Puritans to the north.

What is also fascinating to speculate on is the impact all these doings had on the families involved, particularly Judith and Resolved White, and Resolved’s mother Susannah. Susannah’s son by Winslow, Josiah, joined Vassall’s Scituate church, so she had family members on all sides of the issue. She also had the added challenge of raising her family without her husband, who was busy excoriating William and, later, building his position with Cromwell. Judith and Resolved’s children were living in Massachusetts when the Salem “witch” trials occurred, and one can only speculate as to what their views were.

What is made clear by the story of William Vassall’s life is that oppression doesn’t just “happen.” It grows bit by bit, and if it is not swiftly resisted, it can too easily take hold and grow. And while, at the time, it may have looked like his life’s work was a failure and Winslow’s was the success, America has accepted Vassall’s view in the long run and it is he who comes out the hero. Like many dissenters, he took enormous risks and paid the price for an unpopular point of view. But he had the consolation of having remained true to his principles. While his views on slavery were probably indicative of his surroundings, his views on religion were far ahead of his time. And his courage, intelligence, and passion remain a light for us to be guided by.

William Vassall’s Will information.

His Will is dated 13 Jul 1655, and gave property to his son John; daughters Judith, Frances, Anna, Margaret & Mary. Part of these heirs sold their shares in certain lands. — (Pope 1965, p. 470.)

Married: Anna King, b. ca 1593 in England.

Marriage: ca 1618 in England. (OR married 9 Jun 1613, in Cold Norton Parish, Essex, England.) They were married for 37 years.

Children of William Vassall and Anna King Vassall:

1. Anna Vassall, b. ca 1619, in England. She died at about three months of age.

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DIRECT LINEAGE:

2. Judith Vassall, b. ca 1619, in England. She died ca 1670, age about 51 years. She married Resolved White on 8 Apr 1640, in Scituate, Massachusetts. (William M. Clemens recorded this marriage as occuring on 5 Nov 1640, in Scituate, Massachusetts, page 220. Resolved was the son of Mayflower passengers, William and Susannah. they removed from Scituate to Marshfield, Massachusett in 1662, where he remained until 1670. None of their eight children settled at Scituate, their posterity being found in Plymouth and Bristol counties and some removed to Barbados. (NEH&GR, Jan. 1863, p. 58.). Age

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given as “16” per the 1635 passenger information on the ‘Blessing.’ That would make her birthdate ca 1619, as given here.

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3. Frances Vassall, b. ca 1623, in Stepheny, England. She died ca 1670, at about age 47. As a widow, Frances had 150 acres of land laid out to her by the Massachusetts General court 5 Jul 1673. This land was located “about eight miles northward from Lancaster.” (Bailey, p. 411. Married James Adams, b. about 1623, in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The married was on 16 Jun 1646, in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. They were married for six years when James died at sea at age 30. All their children were baptized at the Second Church of Scituate, Massachusetts.

Received shares of cattle in 1627. (Pope 1965, p.10.) “Resided on a farm on the Marshfield side of North River, nearly opposite Mr. Vassall’s the father of Francis Adams. They worshipped with the second church in Scituate, and their children were carried thither for baptism. — (Thomas, p.36-37.) On 18 Feb 1656, James Adams signed papers to help settle the estate of his father-in-law, William Vassall. (NEHGR, Jan 1863, p. 57.) Age given as “12” per the 1635 passenger information on the ‘Blessing.’ That would make her birthdate ca 1623, as given here.

4. Samuel Vassall, b. ca 1620-1624. He was a twin. Samuel died in less than six months.

5. Mary Vassall, twin to the above Samuel, b. ca 1620-1624. Mary either also died either as an infant or while still in childhood.

6. John Vassall, b. ca 1625. His namesake, William’s father, John, died the same year at age 81. Age given as “10” per the 1635 passenger information on the ‘Blessing.’ That would make her birthdate ca 1625, as given here.

7. William Jr., Vassall, b. ca 1626.

9. Anna Vassall, b. ca 1628/1629. Age given as “6” per the 1635 passenger information on the ‘Blessing.’ That would make her birthdate ca 1628/1629, as given here.

11. Margaret Vassall, b. ca 1633. Age given as “2” per the 1635 passenger information on the ‘Blessing.’ That would make her birthdate ca 1633, as given here.

Margaret is also included in her father’s, William Vassall, will.

10. Mary Vassall, b. in 1634. Age given as “1” per the 1635 passenger information on the ‘Blessing.’ That would make her birthdate ca 1634, as given here.

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Sources:

1. William Vassal: A Biographical Sketch. Author, Cairril Mills. Copyright 2005.

2. The Vassalls of New England; The New England Historical and Genealogical Register; Vol XVII; John Ward Dean, Editor; New England Historic-Genealogical Society, Albany 1863; Facsimile reprint 1994 by Heritage Books, Bowie MD.

3. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-33, Robert Charles Anderson, 1995.

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William Vassall

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Greater London, England Death: Jul., 1656

Son of Captain John and Anna (Russell) Vassall, of Stepney, Middlesex, England. Brother of Judith (Vassall) Freeborne and Samuel Vassall, MP. Husband of Anna (King/Kinge) Vassall. Father of Anna (who died in infancy), Judith (Vassall) White, Frances (Vassall) Adams, Mary, Samuel (who died in infancy, twin of Mary), Colonel John, William Jr., Anna (Vassall) Ware, and Margaret (Vassall) Hubbard/Hobart.

A merchant-adventurer and member of the Massachusetts Bay Company, his name appears in the Charter signed by King Charles I. Arrived in Massachusetts in 1630 as a leader of the “Winthrop Fleet,” which began what came to be known as “The Great Migration,” but soon returned to England for his children. With his family, he sailed back to Massachusetts in 1635 where he became a civil affairs officer.

Historically accepted author (possibly along with Major John Childe) of “New England’s Jonas Cast Up in London” (1647), a significant political tract which exposed the Massachusetts Puritan leaders’ political corruption, religious intolerence, and abuse of power in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Former Plymouth Colony Governor Edward Winslow, whose religious intolerance made William Vassall his enemy, insisted that it was Vassall alone who wrote the tract. Vassall and Winslow were initially friends, as Winslow was the step-father-in-law of William and Anna Vassall’s daughter Judith (Vassall) White.

A highly educated gentleman who was far ahead of his time, Vassall publicly supported true freedom of religion in British North America for Catholics, Anglicans, Puritans, Quakers, indeed all Christians regardless of denomination, as was well as religious freedom for those of the Jewish and Islamic faiths.

It was through William Vassall’s son-in-law, “Mayflower” passenger Resolved White who had married his daughter Judith (both named in Vassall’s will) that Resolved White’s half-brother Governor Josiah Winslow of Plymouth Colony (son of Edward Winslow and Susanna — widow of William White — Winslow) eased persecution of the Quaker community of Plymouth.

Vassall passed away at St. Michael’s Parish, Barbados, where he had built an estate after leaving Massachusetts due to the growing religious bigotry within the largely Puritan community.

His direct descendants today are found in both North America (where he retained large tracts of land in Massachusetts) and in Great Britain. The town of Vassalboro in Kennebec County, Maine was named in his honour.

Requiescat in pace.

Family links:

Parents:

John Vassall (1544 — 1625)

Anna Russell Vassall (1556 — 1593)

Children:

Judith Vassall White (1619 — 1670)*

John Vassall (1625 — 1688)*

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Specifically: Earthly remains buried at St. Michael’s Parish, Barbados, where he had an estate.

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Name: William Vassall

Year: 1630


Family Members: Wife Anna King; Daughter Mary; Son William; Son John; Daughter Anna; Daughter Frances; Daughter Judith


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Primary Immigrant:

Vassall, William

Annotation: Date and place of first residence in New England. Extracted from passenger lists, lists of freemen, colony and court records, notarial records, vital records, land records, church records, and journals and letters. Place of origin, occupation, and other genealogical and historical information may also be provided.


ANDERSON, ROBERT CHARLES. The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. Three Volumes. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995. 2386p.

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London, England, Extracted Parish Records

Source Information:Ancestry.com. London, England, Extracted Parish Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001. Original data: Electronic databases created from various publications of parish and probate records.

Description:This database is a collection of historical parish registers from the county of London in the country of England. The 318,900 records in this collection can range in date from the early 1500s to the mid- to late-1800s. Some non-parish records may be included from as early as the twelfth century. The records include baptisms/christenings, burials, marriages, tombstone inscriptions, obituaries, tax lists, wills, and other miscellaneous types of records.


Text: 09 Jun 1613 William Vassall, of Eastwood, Essex, Yeoman, Bachr, 21, son of John Vassall, of same, Gent., who consents, & Anne King, of Cold Norton, Essex, Spinster, 20, dau. of George King, of same, Yeoman, who consents; at Cold Norton afsd.

Book: Burials.

Collection: London: - Marriage Licences, 1611-1828 (Marriage)

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010 William White – Biography

William White – Biography

Husband of Susanna (Unknown) White. Father of Resolved and (Capt.) Peregrine White. Grandfather and

great-grandfather.

A prosperous wool merchant, William

White and his family were among the

Pilgrims who arrived in the New World

aboard The Mayflower in 1620. He was

one of the signers of The Mayflower

Compact; the very first document of civil

government and religious freedom in

British North America.

Tragically, William White and the

family's two servants (William Holbeck

and Edward Thompson) died during the

terrible first winter in New England. His

two sons survived, as did his widow

Susanna who later married Governor

Edward Winslow.

Requiescat in pace.

*Cole's Hill is the place where the Pilgrims buried those who did not survive the first winter. They were

buried in unmarked graves, at night, supposedly because the survivors feared the local Native Americans

would feel an advantage in strength if they knew how many of the colonists were dying during that first

winter. The place is now marked with a stone sarcophagus which contains all the remains of the Pilgrims

who were originally buried on the hill.

Burial Memorial

Cemetery notes and/or description:

Cole's Hill Cemetery is located on the top of the hill overlooking Plymouth Rock, on Leyden Street. Our

Pilgrim ancestors' first winter in Plymouth proved deadly, with half of the colony dying of sickness. They

were afraid of burying the dead openly, as it would alert the Indians to how weak the colony was and

possibly provoke an attack. In order to prevent this, they buried their dead in secrecy at Cole's Hill in

Plymouth.

After rain storms had washed many of the remains out of the hill, it was decided in 1921 that the remains

should be excavated and placed into a stone sarcophagus that now sits at the top of the hill overlooking

the harbor.

The inscription on the Sarcophagus reads:

Here under cover of darkness the fast dwindling company laid their dead, leveling the earth above them

lest the Indians should learn how many were their graves. Reader, history records no nobler venture for

faith and freedom than that of this pilgrim band. In weariness and painfulness in watchings often in

hunger and cold, they laid the foundations of a state wherein every man through countless ages should

have liberty to worship God in his own way. May their example inspire thee to do thy part in perpetuating

and spreading the lofty ideals of our Republic throughout the world.

Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA

Plymouth Pilgrim’s Memorial Marker

Joni

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010 William White 'Mayflower'


White History

Notes from H.E. White

In research I have found conflicting dates, names spelled several different ways and numerous other

things. This creates quite a few problems. However, dates and names pertaining to William Harvel White

were taken from his Bible and we will assume that they are correct untill proven otherwise.

In my research it has been impossible at present to determine what lineage our branch of the WHITE

family comes from. There are several allied families that are similar. There are any number of William

White's listed with no middle name or date of birth.

It is said by some that the White family derives its descents from Roderick, the Great, who descended

from King of South Wales about 900. They were traced into Ireland and England. The early record of the

White family, beginning with Otho in 1042, who was living at the time of King Edward. They ran

through several variations of the names Gwynne, Whyte, to the present spelling of White.

It has always been a traditon among some of the older people that they were descendants of William

White of the Mayflower. Since this cannot be proved different, we can assume that they may be correct

untill there is other proff. Therefore, I have written a short brief of the White family that was taken from a

book written by Thomas and Samuel White. The years were 1607 to 1895. Mayflower Photo.

The Puritanism began to rise with John Wyclif in the 14th Century. The Puritan was first applied to men

of high standing in the Church of England. They were ridiculed by King James, the First . Even tho they

were abused and murdered, they continued to worship God in the way they thought was right. With

resolved to become Pilgrims and exile to a strange land.

They left England and went to Amsterdam, Holland, then some went to Leyden, Holland. After living

here untill 1609 with 300 church members they had not found their home of religion and freedom.

They resolved to seek the New World, then on July 22, 1620, a few people with their Pastor John

Robinson left Leyden, Holland, for Delfthaven, Holland, where a 60-ton ship called Speedwell was

preparing for a voyage. They sailed for Southhampton, England to join with another ship, the Mayflower,

that would lead the way to a New World. After encountering difficulty with the Speedwell on two

different occasions, it was abandoned. Then on September 6, 1620, the Mayflower set sail with 101

people for America. After being at sea 65 days, the new world was sighted on November 9, 1620. Then

on Monday, November 13, 1620, sixteen men went ashore to explore a place to settle. This group was

headed by Captain Myles Standish. They finally landed on a piece of land, that is now known as Clark

Island. On December 9, 1620, they held thier first Christian Sabbath ashore. On Monday they settled and

established head-quarters on what was known as Forefathers Day.

Before they settled, five members of the group, William Bradfore, William Brewster, John Carver,

Edward Winslow, and William White drew up an instrument which established the principle of individual

liberties. Then on November 11, 1620, forty-one men at Cape Cod signed this compact, which

represented one hundred people, one had died at sea. This was the birth of constitutional liberty; thus was

organized the Right of Man. This compact, signed by forty-one men, was engraved on stone in the yard at

Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth, Massachusetts. the sixth signer of this compact was William White.

William White was considered a well educated man. He was a wool carder by trade, the maker of cloth.

He was the son of Bishop John White. He was married to Susanna Fuller in Leyden, Holland, July 1,

1612, by the Rev. John Robinson. With their first born child named Resolved and two servants, William

Holbeck and Edward Thompson, they sailed on the Mayflower with other people from Leyden, Holland.


By spring of 1621, half of the people that settled at plymouth had died, one of them being William White.

He died March 14, 1621. His widow, Susanna, then married Governor of the Colony Edward Winslow,

Jr., May 12, 1621. She died October, 1680.

William and Susanna White's first son, Resolved, was born at Leyden, Holland in the year 1614. He was

supposed to have reached the age of about six years at the time the Mayflower arrived. He married Judith

Vassal April 8, 1640. He died about 1680 and she died April 3, 1670. They had six children: William

born April 10, 1642; Jon born March 11, 1644; Samuel born March 13, 1646, Resolve born November

12, 1647; Anna born June 4, 1649; and Elizabeth born June 4, 1652.

William and Susanna's second child, a son was named Peregrine. He was born in Cape Cod harbor in the

cabin of the Mayflower December 19, 1620. He was the first child born in the New World (New

England). He was married to Sarah Basset in 1647. He died July 20, 1704, at Marshfield, Mass. His wife

died January 20, 1711. They had four children: Daniel born 1649, Mercy norn 1653, Johathan born June

4, 1658, and Sarah born 1663.

I have given the dates of the children born to Resolve and Peregrine White as some of their children's

children were named William and Emeline. Our ancestors may be traced from some of them.

Some of the above records were taken from a bible that belonged to William White which he brought

over on the Mayflower. It is called the Breech Bible, bearing the date 1588. It is reported to have

belonged to William White of England in 1608. In the Bible was written "Sonny was born to Susanna

White Dec. 19, 1620, six o'clock in the morning." It is reported that a Mr. Charles M. Tainter had

possession of the Bible and sold it to a Mr. S. W. Cowles, 891Main St., Hartford Conn. for $12.00 in the

year 1892. It would be of interest to know where the Bible is now located.

Thomas and Samuel White said Ancestory and Descendants reflects honor or dishonor upon each other.

Virtuous and godly children are the gems in the crown of an honorable ancestry and filing honor they in

turn cherish them as their glory. The close connection between posterity and ancestry when it says

"children's children are the crown of old men and the glory of children are their fathers".

List of Puritan Passengers of Mayflower

Leiden Congregation and Families

Provincetown memorial to Pilgrims who died in Provincetown Harbor

Allerton, Isaac

Mary (Norris) Allerton, wife (Newbury, Berkshire)[1]

Bartholomew Allerton, son (Leiden, Netherlands)

Remember Allerton, daughter (Leiden, Netherlands)

Mary Allerton, daughter (Leiden, Netherlands), the last survivor of the Mayflower company[2]

Bradford, William (Austerfield, Yorkshire)

Dorothy (May) Bradford, wife (Wisbech, Cambridgeshire)

Brewster, William (Doncaster, Yorkshire)

Mary Brewster, wife

Love Brewster, son (Leiden, Netherlands)

Wrestling Brewster, son (Leiden, Netherlands)

Carver, John

Catherine (Leggett) (White) Carver, wife (probably Sturton-le-Steeple, Nottinghamshire)

Chilton, James (Canterbury)[2]

Mrs. Susanna Chilton, wife

Mary Chilton, daughter (Sandwich, Kent)

Cooke, Francis


John Cook, son (Leiden, Netherlands)

Cooper, Humility - (probably Leiden, Netherlands) baby daughter of Robert Cooper, in company of her

aunt Ann Cooper Tilley, wife of Edward Tilley[3]

Crackstone, John (Stratford St. Mary, Suffolk)

John Crackstone, son

Fletcher, Moses (probably Canterbury, Kent)

Fuller, Edward (Redenhall, Norfolk)[2]

Mrs. Edward Fuller, wife

Samuel Fuller, son

Fuller, Samuel (Redenhall, Norfolk), (brother to Edward)

Goodman, John

Minter, Desire (Norwich, Norfolk)

Priest, Degory

Rogers, Thomas (Watford, Northamptonshire)

Joseph Rogers, son (Watford, Northamptonshire)

Sampson, Henry (Henlow, Bedfordshire) child in company of his uncle and aunt Edward and Ann

Tilley[3]

Tilley, Edward (Henlow, Bedfordshire)

Ann (Cooper) Tilley (Henlow, Bedfordshire) wife of Edward and aunt of Humilty Cooper and Henry

Sampson

Tilley, John (Henlow, Bedfordshire)

Joan (Hurst) (Rogers) Tilley, wife (Henlow, Bedfordshire)

Elizabeth Tilley, daughter (Henlow, Bedfordshire)

Tinker, Thomas

Mrs. Thomas Tinker, wife

boy Tinker, son

Turner, John

boy Turner, son

boy Turner, younger son

White, William

Susanna (Unknown) White , wife

Resolved White, son

Peregrine White, son (born in Provincetown Harbor)

Williams, Thomas, (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk)

Winslow, Edward (Droitwich, Worcestershire)

Elizabeth (Barker) Winslow, wife


William White, (Mayflower Passenger). Birth: 10 Nov 1591/1592, either in England or Leiden, South Holland, The Netherlands. (That he may have been born in Holland is based from the fact that that is where the Pilgrims lived prior to their voyage to the New World.)

Death: 21 Feb 1620/1621, (OR died Mar 1620/1621), in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, soon after arriving on the Mayflower.

Burial: ca 14-15 Mar 1621, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts.

Some sources believe that William was originally from Beaminster, England, but that he had moved to Leiden, Holland, in about 1608, with a group of “Separatists,” who were trying to find religious freedom. The religious group were called the Separatists because they demanded a complete separation from the Church of England. They wanted to worship in a very simple manner without all of the ritual and symbols which were used in the Anglican Church. In their study of the Bible they had decided the original church in New Testament times had been a simple church and they wished to follow that example in their own worship. They also believed that there were so many changes needed to be made in the Anglican Church, it could not be accomplished to their satisfaction. Therefore, the only possibility for them was to “separate” completely from the state church.

William White, about 29 years old, brought his 7-months pregnant wife, Susanna, and son Resolved, on the first voyage of the Mayflower. In early December 1620/1621, Susanna gave birth to another son, Peregrine, while waiting onboard the Mayflower. The Mayflower was anchored in Provincetown Harbor, on Cape Cod, while the Pilgrims were searching for a suitable place to build their colony. (Peregrine is considered to be the first Pilgrim child born in America.)

Little is known about Pilgrim William White. From Governor Braford, “say that amoung the Mayflower passengers wer Mr. William White and Susanna his wife and one son call Resolved, one one born a-shipboard called Peregrine, and two servants named Will Holbeck and Edward Thompson.” In 1651, he added that “Mr. White and his two servants died soon after their landing. His wife married with Mr. Winslow, His to sons are married and Resolved hath five children, — Peregrine two all living.”

William died the first winter, on the same day as three other passengers, including William Mullins. His wife Susanna remarried to Edward Winslow a few months later, being the first marriage to occur at Plymouth.”

William White was the 11th signature on The Mayflower Compact.

Married: Susanna, (Mayflower Passenger), (*? Fuller or Maiden Name Unknown), b. about 1592, perhaps in Redenhall, Norfolk, England.

Marriage: 27 Jan 1612, in Leiden, Zuid, Holland, The Netherlands. (OR the marriage date may have been 11 Feb 1612, in Holland.)

Children of William White and Susanna (?Fuller — MNU) White:

Child Buried in infancy, ca 1613, Leiden, Zuid, Holand.

Anna #1, Buried in infancy, 28 Jun 1615, Leiden, Zuid, Holland, The Netherlands.

Anna #2, b. 1616. She died on 21 Dec 1616, in infancy. Buried ca 1616, Leiden, Zuid, Holland, The Netherlands.

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Resolved White, (Mayflower Passenger), b: ca 9 Sep 1615, probably in Leiden, South Holland, The Netherlands. Resolved married Judith Vassall, who was b. about 1619, in England. (She was the daughter


of William Vassall and Ann King.) Resolved and Judith were married 5 Nov 1640, (OR 8 Apr 1640), in Scituate, Massachusetts. Judith Vassall White d. Apr 1670, in Marshfield, Massachusetts. Her burial was 3 Apr 1670. Resolved d: and was buried about 1690, in Salem, Massachusetts. It is believed that Resolved was named for his parents’ decision, to seek freedom...William and his wife Susanna had “resolved” to seek a new life.

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Peregrine, (Mayflower Birth), later Captain Peregrine White, b. 4 Dec 1620, (OR 7 Dec 1620), aboard the Mayflower. The name Peregrine means wanderer, traveller, or foreigner. It was a “tradition” to use a unique name such as Peregrine to commemorate a noteable event. Peregrom married Sarah Bassett, by 6 March 1648/1649. (Sarah was the daughter of William Bassett.)

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There are many commonly known false and faked Mayflower lines. There is a list based on a series of articles appearing in the Mayflower Descendant, Volume 20, 21, 23, 34, titled “False and Faked Mayflower Lines”; the Mayflower Descendant article in volume 43 entitled “A Mayflower Hoax Resurfaces”; published articles in the Mayflower Descendant; The American Genealogist; the New England Historic and Genealogical Register and the Mayflower Families in Progress series of books.

The ancestry of William White of the Mayflower is not known. Incorrect royal lineages have been given for him, as well as an incorrect identification of him as the son of Rev. John White of London. William Bradford wrote that William White came on the Mayflower with his wife “Susanna.” There is a marriage record in Leiden on 27 Jan 1612, for a William White, woolcomber, and an “Anna” Fuller, sister of Samuel Fuller. The marriage was witnessed by Sarah Priest and Samuel Fuller. This record, however, does not relate to the Mayflower passenger, as commonly claimed. The reasons for this conclusion are as follows: A William White had Sarah Priest witness his marriage; a William White in 1621, witnessed the marriage of Sarah Priest. However, the William White of the Mayflower was dead in America and could not have witnessed Sarah Priest’s marriage. It would therefore appear that this is not the William White who came on the Mayflower. (There were several William White’s in Leiden, and it is possible he was one of them; but there is no hard evidence he was from Leiden either, and he could very well have boarded the Mayflower in London.)

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Sources:

Title: Mayflower Families for Five Generations: Francis Eaton, Samuel Fuller, and William White, Vol. 1.

Title: Plymouth Colony: Its History and Its People, 1620-1691 (Ancestry Publishing: Salt Lake City, 1986, Eugene Aubrey Stratton.)

Source: Mayflower Web Pages. Caleb Johnson © 1998.

Title: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1988, Robert and Ruth Sherman. 2002 Publication:

Pilgrim Notes Queries 1:1.

Title: Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647, Author, Governor William Bradford, and Bradford’s his addendum of 1651.


William, Susanna, Resolved White — Mayflower Passengers William and his wife Susanna came on the Mayflower in 1620 with son Resolved; Susanna gave birth to son Peregrine while the Mayflower was still anchored off the top of Cape Cod waiting for the Pilgrims to discover a place to build their colony. William died the first winter, on the same day as three other passengers, including William Mullins. His wife Mayflower Passenger Susanna Fuller B 1594 England D 1 Oct 1680. Susanna remarried to Edward Winslow a few months later, being the first marriage to occur at Plymouth.

1White, William m Susanna Fuller,

2 Resolved White m Judith Vassall,

3 Anna White m John Hayward,

4 Hayward, Deacon Thomas m Bethiah Brett,

5 Mary Hayward m Jacob Thomson,

6 Ebenezer Thomson m Elizabeth Besse ,

7 Thomson, Charity m Isaac Chamberlain ,

8 Nathaniel CHAMBERLAIN m Eliza FREEMAN,

9 Isaac CHAMBERLAIN m Lydia Ann OSBORNE,

10 Warren Franklin CHAMBERLAIN m Mary Jane FOSTER,

11 Carrie Ellen CHAMBERLAIN m James Albert Holmes,

12 Richard Bradford Holmes m Gertrude Mary Willett.






Name: William White

Year: 1620


Family Members: Husband William; Son Resolved; Son Peregrin


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Primary Immigrant:

White, Sussana

Annotation: Date and port of arrival.


HEWLETT, BERNARD. "The Mayflower and the Pilgrim Fathers." In The Midland Ancestor (Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy, Birmingham, England), vol. 6:4 (Mar. 1982), pp. 128-129.

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