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AHNENTANFEL OF SETH T. HUNTLEY Generation One 1. Seth T. Huntley (1779 – 1856) Generation Two 2. Elihu Huntley (1743 – 1836) 3. Naomi Brockway (1753 – 1843) Generation Three 4. David Huntley (Abt. 1717 – 1745) 5. Mary Tinker (1713 - ___) 6. Jedediah Brockway (1713 - ___) 7. Sarah Fox (1713 - ___) Generation Four 8. David Huntley (1687/88 – 1738) 9. Mary Munsell (1737 - 1737) 10. Samuel Tinker (Abt. 1687 – 1755) 11. Jemima Smith (1698 - 1753) 12. Richard Brockway (1677 - 1718) 13. Rachell Fox (Abt. 1677 - 1718) 14. Benjamin Fox (Bet. 1688/1690 – 1746) 15. Naomi Rogers (1686 - 1725 Generation Five 16. Aaron Huntley (1654 – 1742 17. Mary Champion (1658 - 1732) 18. Thomas Munsell (Abt. 1639/1640 - 1712) 19. Lydia Way (Abt. 1652 – Abt. 1698) 20. Samuel Tinker (1659/60 – 1733) 21. Abigail Durant (1659 – 1728) 22. John Smith (wft est. 1627/1672 – wft est. 1698/1730) 23. Mary Tinker (1653 – 1695) 24. Wolston Brockway (1638 -1718) 25. Hannah Briggs (Abt. 1642 – 1686/87) 23. John Fox (Abt. 1653 – 1730) 27. Sarah Larrabee (1658 - ___) 28. Jonathan Rogers (1655 – 1697) 29. Naomi Burdick (1657 – 1732) Generation Six 30. John Huntley (Abt. 1633 – 1676) 31. Jane Curtis (1630 - 1669) 32. Henry Champion (1610 – 1708/09) 33. Sarah Burdett (1626 - ___) 34. George Way (___ - ___) 35. Elizabeth ___ (___ - ___) 36. John Tinker (1613 – 1662) 37. Alice Homan Smith (1629 – 1714) 38. George Durant (___ - ___) 39. Elizabeth Blake (___ - ___) 40. Richard Smith (Btw. 1619/1621 - __)

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41. Joanna Quarles (Abt. 1630 - ___) 42. Same as #26 43. Same as #27 44. William Brockway (Abt. 1605 - ___) 45. Bridget Waller (Abt. 1596 - ___) 46. William Briggs (1616 – 1687) 47. Mary ___ (Abt. 1920 - ___) 48. Thomas Fox (Abt. 1619 – 1658) 49. Hannah Brooks (Btw. 1620/1630 – 1692) 50. Greenfield Larrabee (Abt. 1620 – 1661) 51. Phoebe Brown (1620 – 1664) 52. James Rogers (1614/15 – 1686/87) 53. Elizabeth Rowland (Abt. 1635 – 1692) 54. Robert Burdick (Abt. 1635 – 1692) 55. Ruth Hubbard (1639/40 – 1691) Generation Seven 56. Robert Tinker (1565 - 1624) 57. Mary Merwin (1606 – Aft. 1669) 58. John Homan Smith (Abt. 1603 – 1669) 59. Mary ____ (___ - ___) 60. Same as #58 61. Same as #59 62. Same as #56 63. Same as #57 64. Thomas Waller (___ - ___) 65. Sarah Wolterton (1583 - ___) 66. Same as #58 67. Same as #59 68. Henry Brooks (Abt. 1591 – 1683) 69. Grace Wheeler (___ - 1651) 70. William Brown (1593 – 1650) 71. Jane Burgess (1590 – 1645) 72. Thomas Rogers (Abt. 1589 – 1638) 73. Grace ____ (Abt. 1590 – 1662) 74. Samuel Burdick (1602 - 1664) 75. Frances St. Lawrence (1617 - ___) 76. Samuel Hubbard (1610 – Abt. 1689) 77. Tacy Cooper (1608/09 – 1697) Generation Eight 78. Randall Tinker (___ - ___) 79. Thomas Merwin (1525 – 1586) 80. ____ Smith (___ - ___) 81. Same as #78 82. Same as #79 83. Same as #80 84. Richard Wolterton (1550 – 1617/18) 85. Mary Bensley (___ - ___) 86. Joseph Brown (1562 – 1622)

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87. Margery Patching (1563/64 – 1608) 88. Thomas Burdick (1565 - ___) 89. Ann Wilson (___ - ___) Generation Nine 90. John Merwin (1490 – 1552) 91. Isabelle Bartlett (___ - ___) 92. Same as #90 93. Same as #91 94. William Brown (1533/34 – 1564) 95. Magdalene Elsick (___ - 1604) 96. Bernard Rogers, Sr. (1543 – 1564) 97. Thomas Burdett (1535 - ___) Generation Ten 98. ____ Barlett (___ - ___) 99. Katherine ____ (1470 – 1525) 100. Same as #98 101. Same as #99 102. John Brown (Abt. 1508 – 1546) 103. Jone ___ (Abt. 1502 - ___) 104. Robert Burdett (___ - ___) 105. Elizabeth Curzon (___ - ___)

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Preface

This is the family history of Sarah Jane Huntley Mason’s father, Seth T. Huntley. His youngest son by his first marriage to Phebe Saunders who died in April 1816, Charles Seth Huntley, lived in Chautauqua, New York and Seth T. and his family lived in the area for some years. Children of Seth T. Huntley and Phebe Saunders: 1. Erastus Huntley, born about 1804 and probably died in Jones County, Iowa after 1880.

Erastus Huntley married Laura Chittenden (born about 1795, Connecticut and died April 29, 1861, aged 65 years).

2. Clarissa Huntley, born about June 5, 1802 and died March 9, 1885. Clarissa Huntley married Calvin Miner. They had 8 children.

3. Albert Huntley, born about 1804 and died March 10, 1853, Derby, Connecticut (39 years of age). Albert Huntley married (1) July 9, 1826, Lyme, Connecticut to Almira Field (born about 1806 and died May 3, 1834, age 28 years. Almira Field was the daughter of James Field and Sarah Stevens). Albert Huntley married (2) September 17, 1834, Milford, Connecticut to Mary Ann Dorman (born about 1810 and died October 5, 1903, Shelton, Connecticut, aged 93 years, 1 month. Mary Ann Dorman was the daughter of Isaac Dorman and Sarah Gilbert).

4. William Huntley, born about 1806, Connecticut and died before June 21, 1842 of drowning. William Huntley married on December 9, 1827 to Laura Field, born April 10, 1810 and died before July 27, 1861. Laura Field was the daughter of James Field and Sarah Stevens – her name also appears as Lorain Field).

5. Charles Seth Huntley, born April 27, 1808, Lyme, Connecticut, died September 20, 1890, Weare, Oceana County, Michigan.

6. Fidelia Huntley, born about 1815, Lyme, New London, Connecticut and died December 19, 1851, Bushnell, Ohio at age 36. Fidelia Huntley married (1) July 31, 1831 to Horace Watrous (born December 30, 1810 and son of Harris Watrous and Clarinda Sawyer) and (2) February 22, 1843, Ashtabula County, Ohio to Samuel Lockerman Watrous, born August 23, 1815, Chester, Middlesex, Connecticut and died December 18, 1892, Monroe Center, Ashtabula, Ohio. He was the son of Harris Watrous and Clarinda Sawyer).

Seth and his second wife, Fanny Phelps, were married in Essex, Connecticut, August 27, 1816, (by Mr. Hovey, Presbyterian Preacher). Seth T. Huntley was a soldier in the War of 1812. Since Seth Huntley lived near his youngest son from his first family, I would imagine most of the children born to Seth T. and Fanny Phelps Huntley were born in Chautauqua County, New York. History of Chautauqua County, N.Y., p. 652-653. …Seth Huntley, being a native and long-time resident of New Haven, Connecticut…Seth Huntley moved from New Haven to Michigan, and later to Iowa where he died in 1860. Seth Huntley then moved sometime after 1840 to Ionia County, Michigan. By the 1850 Federal Census, they were located in Hobart, Lake, Indiana. They then moved to Jones County, Iowa. In reading Seth T.’s pension records, we learn that he died January 11, 1856, Jones County, Iowa. Seth T. and Fanny Huntley had the following children (and possibly several more unknown at the present).

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Children of Seth T. Huntley and Fanny Phelps: 7. Amy Samantha Huntley, born January 1821, New York and died January 18, 1902,

Newago County, Michigan. Amy Huntley married William Palmer (born about 1823, New York and died before 1900).

8. Alonzo Huntley, born about 1822 and died after the 1880 Plattsmouth, Cass, Nebraska Federal Census. Married to Rebecca Spencer. Had no children.

9. Sophronia Huntley, born about 1825, New York, died June 27, 1901, LaPorte County, Indiana

10. Sarah Jane Huntley, born about March 15, 1827. New York, married to Ira Mason, died April 5, 1912, Clarinda, Iowa, burial in Hospital Cemetery, Clarinda, Iowa

11. Mary E. Huntley, born June 1827, (according to the 1900 Federal Census – however, her age estimate in following all the census records indicates she was born around 1832 or 1833 and died February 2, 1911. Mary Huntley married on June 7, 1852, La Porte County, Indiana to Minor “Mynar” Mann (born about 1824, Aleppo Township, Green County, Pennsylvania and died December 9, 1873 (according to Robert Flitter) His parents were Henry Mann and Elizabeth Pratt.

12. Philander Huntley, born about 1834 and died before the 1870 Federal Census. Married Nancy Spencer. According to family history, “Flan” played the “fiddle” for a living, some men got in an argument one night in the tavern and Flan was the innocent bystander who was shot and killed.

13. Paulina Huntley, born about 1836, married (1) Elijah Mann and (2) Benjamin Turner Tinnel.

Seth’s father, Elihu Huntley (who was in the Revolutionary War) married Naomi Brockway. From her line, we gain the following family lines – Fox, Briggs, Waller, Wolterton, Larrabee, Rogers, Brooks, Brown, Wheeler, Burdick, Rowland, Hubbard, St. Lawrence, Cooper, and Wilson (which are known at this time). Seth’s grandfather, David Huntley (who died in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia) married Mary Tinker. From her line, we gain the additional following family lines – Smith, Homan Smith, Merwin, Bartlett and others. Seth’s great-grandfather, David Huntley, married Mary Munsell. From her line, we gain the family of Way. Mary Munsell’s mother, Lydia Way Munsell, died in her 80th year from falling into a well. Seth’s great-great-grandfather, Aaron Huntley (who was in the King Philip’s War) married Mary Champion from whom we also acquire the Bennett family. Seth’s great-great-great-grandfather, John Huntley (who was the first Huntley to arrive in America) married three times and our line is from his wife, Jane Curtis (who is believed to be the sister or daughter of his partner.

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BROCKWAY FAMILY

Generation No. 1

William Brockway Born: 1585, St. Giles, Without Cripplegate, London, England. Married: Died: Before June 19, 1641, London, England Parents: Father: Mother: Spouse: Bridget Waller Born: January 19, 1617/18, St. Giles, Without Cripplegate, London, England Died: Parents: Father: Thomas Waller Mother: Sarah Wolterton Children: 1. John Brockway, born between 1627-1642. 2. Richard Brockway, Baptised November 7, 1635, St. Michaels, London, England. 3. Edward Brockway, Baptised December 18, 1636, St. Andrews, Norwich,

England. 4. Wolston Brockway, born 1638, London, England, died November 11, 1717,

Lyme, New London, Connecticut.

Generation No. 2

Wolston Brockway (William1) Born: 1638, London, England Married: 1663, Saybrook or Lyme, Connecticut Died: November 11, 1717, Lyme, New London, Connecticut Parents: Father: William Brockway Mother: Bridget Waller Spouse: Hannah Briggs Born: About 1642, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Died: February 6, 1686/87, Lyme, New London, Connecticut Parents: Father: William Briggs Mother: Mary

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Children: 1. Hannah Brockway, born September 14, 1664, Lyme, New London, Connecticut;

died March 2, 1749/50, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. 2. William Brockway, born July 25, 1666, Lyme, New London, Connecticut; died

March 29, 1755, Brockway’s Ferry, Connecticut. 3. Wolston Brockway, born February 7, 1667/68, Lyme, New London, Connecticut;

died May 15, 1707, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. 4. Mary Brockway, born January 16, 1669/70, Lyme, New London, Connecticut;

died April 7, 1719, Lyme, New London, Connecticut; married Samuel Mott, April 6, 1692, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. (He was born January 25, 1668/69, Lyme, New London, Connecticut and died before May 7, 1753, Lyme, New London, Connecticut.

5. Bridget Brockway, born January 9, 1670/71, Lyme, Connecticut and died April 6, 1756, East Haddam, New London, Massachusetts.

6. Richard Brockway, born September 30, 1673, Lyme, New London, Connecticut and died March 16, 1761, Lyme, New London, Connecticut.

7. Elizabeth Brockway, born March 24, 1675/76, Lyme, New London, Connecticut; died July 1729, Colchester, New London, Connecticut. She married (1) William Harris on November 30, 1696, Block Island. He died about 1710; married (2) Robert Alger on March 1711/12, Colchester, Connecticut.

8. Sarah Brockway, born September 23, 1679, Lyme, New London, Connecticut and died January 9, 1739/40, Lyme. She married Nathaniel Beckwith on January 2, 1702/03.

9. Deborah Brockway, born May 1, 1682, Lyme, New London, Connecticut; married on July 27, 1703 to Joseph Elderkind.

10. John Brockway, born 1684, Lyme, New London, Connecticut and died November 24, 1764, Surry, Cheshire, New Hampshire\

Notes: Wolston Brockway was a respectable and early settler at Lyme. He deeded land in Lyme to John Robins in 1672 signed by himself and his wife Hannah. He deeded a piece of land in Lyme to his father- in-law William Briggs this deed was entered for record 1680. In 1682 he sold land to Mr. Christopher Christophers, of New London. His wife was the daughter of William Briggs and was probably married before he settled in Lyme. Wolston Brockway, on the 12 day of March 1671-2, was one of the Saybrook and Lyme men, against whom John Prentice of New London, complained for "riotous practices and assaults" on New London people The Saybrook people had also complained to the County Court in Hartford that same year against the people of New London for similiar complaints. The controversy between the towns was a strip of land which included Black Point in Lyme. In the lineage book, National Society of the Daugters of the American Colonists, Wolston is listed as a land owner of Lyme, CT and a soldier of King Philips War. Burial: Duck River Cemetery, Lyme, New London Co., Connecticut Wolston died September 14, 1717 Lyme Twp., New London Co., CT, at 79 years of age. His body was interred 1717 Lyme Twp., New London Co., CT, Duck River Cemetery (?). He married Hannah Briggs ABT 1663. Hannah was born Boston, MA August 28, 1642. Hannah was the daughter of William Briggs and Mary ----. Hannah died February 6, 1687/88 Lyme Twp., New London Co., CT, at 45 years of age.

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Wolston immigrated, 1659. Destination: Lyme, CT. Their first known child, Richard, was baptized in Norwich, Norfolk, in November 1634 and another son, John, is known from Bridget's uncle's will. There may have been some older sons, because the expected names of the father and grandfathers were not used for these three. William Brockway may have died before 1641, when a marriage between a Bridget Brockway and John Manninge was recorded at St. Katherine by the Tower, London, on June 19, 1641. It isn't known exactly when Wolston came to New England. It doesn't appear that his parents or siblings came over, but he did have Waller cousins in Massachusetts and his maternal grandmother, Sarah (Wolterton) Waller was in Connecticut. His great uncle, Gregory Wolterton, of Hartford, Connecticut, mentioned Wolston and his oldest son in his 1674 will. Wolston bought a house and property in Saybrook, Connecticut, in December, 1659. Both he and the seller, John Reynolds, were listed as being from Saybrook. This means he was an adult by then and was probably married or about to be married. The Puritans frowned on single people living alone in those days. He was living in Lyme, Connecticut soon after and the Saybrook deed was actually recorded in the Lyme town records, rather than in Saybrook. In the Saybrook town records, vol. 1, page 55 (1666) he and Robert Lay were witnesses to a transaction involving the ownership of a ketch. Other persons involved were Ralph Parker, George Young of New London and Robert Chapman, John Westall, Thomas Dunk, John Phillips and John Chester, of Saybrook. On page 77 of the same volume, Thomas Dunk recorded that he had bought "a parsill of land lying upon black point of twenty ackers more or less with all the meadow belonging thereto" from Woolston Brockway in 1670. In various deeds, his occupation was listed either as cooper or planter. Wolston's wife was Hannah Briggs. They were the parents of ten children, nine of whom were recorded in the Lyme town records: Hannah, William, Wolston, Marah (Mary), Briget, Richard, Elizabeth, Sarah and Debrah. Wolston's wife died in 1688 and he married Sarah ( ) Briggs, and after she died, he married another Hannah, who survived him. He had another son, John, who may have been from the second marriage. This child wasn't recorded in the town records, but he was mentioned as a son in several deeds. Wolston was a frequent office holder in Lyme and he seems to have acquired a lot of property. He deeded property to most of his children during his lifetime and more was distributed after his death.

In a deposition made by him July 10, 1714, and recorded in Lyme, his age is stated at seventy years or thereabouts, and he stated that he had dwelt in Lyme for fifty years past, but there are indications that both his age and the length of his residence in Lyme were placed too low. He bought land with a house and barn thereon of John Reynolds, of Saybrook, Connecticut, December 3, 1659, the land being described as "one ye east sid of ye river ouer against he towne of Saybrooke" and the consideration was twenty pounds sterling. The natural inference is that he was of full age when he made this purchase, and that he settled at once in his new home, which would fix the date of his birth about 1638 and make his residence in Lyme cover nearly fifty years in July, 1714. His first home in Lyme was probably on Duck river, at some distance south of the present village of Lyme, and near Long Island Sound. He was frequently elected to some office in the town, the most important of which was surveyor. He owned land at Tantum Morantum, near what is now Brockway's

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ferry, as early as February 1, 1703, at which date he bought forty acres of land of Rev. Moses Noyes, which was already in Brockway's possession, but it is not known that he lived there.

Ancestral File Number: 3WK7-N4Lyme vitals vol l-1 p 126, additional information from "Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire" Vol 2 p 571Lyme

vitals vol L-1BIOGRAPHY: Was in Lyme, New London,Connecticut, owning a house and land there a early as 1659. He died there soon after 1718. His wife was Hannah Bridges,

daughter of William Bridges and died February 6, 1687. Taken from Genealogical and family history of the State of New Hampshire p 571 Additional information from

"Genealogy of a Branch of Wolston Brockway, Who Settled in Lyme, Conn. about 1660." by Beman Brockway.

Generation No. 3 Richard Brockway (William1, Wolston2) Born: September 30, 1673, Lyme, New London, Connecticut Married: (1) October 25, 1697, Lyme, New London, Connecticut; (2) May 5, 1720, Lyme, New London, Connecticut Died: March 16, 1761, Lyme, New London, Connecticut Parents: Father: Wolston Brockway Mother: Hannah Briggs Spouse(1): Rachel Fox Born: Died: April 9, 1718, Lyme, New London, Connecticut Parents: Father: Mother: Children of Richard Brockway and Rachel Fox: 1. Rachel Brockway, born August 17, 1698, Lyme, New London, Connecticut 2. Hannah Brockway, born August 14, 1700, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. 3. Sarah Brockway, born June 25, 1703, Lyme, New London, Connecticut and died

1808, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. 4. Ruth Brockway, born June 20, 1706, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. 5. Lydia Brockway, born April 17, 1709, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. 6. Richard Brockway, born April 4, 1711, Lyme, New London, Connecticut and

died March 30, 1742, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. He married Hannah Randall on May 14, 1740.

7. Captain Jedediah Brockway, born October 25, 1713, New London, New London, Connecticut.

8. Deborah Brockway, born December 7, 1716, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. She married Robert Ames on May 15, 1735.

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Spouse (2): Elizabeth Tiffany Born: February 23, 1696/97, New Shoreham, Rhode Island Died: After 1740 Parents: Father: Consider Tiffany Mother: Abigail Children of Richard Brockway and Elizabeth Tiffany are: 9. Elizabeth Brockway, born June 22, 1721, Lyme, New London, Connecticut and

died March 30, 1742, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. She married Samuel Waller on November 5, 1740 at the Lyme First Church, New London, Connecticut.

10. Consider Brockway, born February 1, 1723/24, Lyme, New London, Connecticut and died February 17, 1747/48, Lyme, New London, Connecticut.

11. Abigail Brockway, born February 1, 1723/24, Lyme, New London, Connecticut and married Benjamin Fox on November 7, 1745, Lyme, New London, Connecticut.

12. Silence Brockway, born April 13, 1726, Lyme, New London, Connecticut and died 1817, Broadalbin, New York.

13. Eunice Brockway, born August 24, 1732, Lyme, New London, Connecticut and died 1817, Broadalbin, New York. Eunice was baptized in the Lyme First Church on October 8, 1732 per church records.

14. Nathan Brockway, born May 7, 1736, Lyme, New London, Connecticut and died August 11, 1822, Broadalbin, New York.

15. Tiffany Brockway, born August 9, 1740, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. Notes: Richard Brockway died before March 16, 1761, Lyme, New London, Connecticut

at approximately 87 years of age. An inventory of Richard’s estate was taken at this time.

In December 1718, Richard was surety for Edward Lay and Samuel Capman to the Governor and Council of Connecticut. He joined the First Church of Lyme in 1739.

The Brockway Family

Generation No. 4 Jedediah Brockway (William1, Wolston2, Richard3) Born: October 25, 1713, New London, New London, Connecticut Married: October 13, 1743, Lyme, Connecticut Died: Parents: Father: Richard Brockway Mother: Rachell

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Spouse: Sarah Fox Born: 1721, New London, New London, Connecticut Died: Parents: Father: Mother:

Children : 1. Josiah Brockway, born January 16, 1743/44, Lyme, Connecticut. 2. Gideon Brockway, born September 4, 1746, Lyme, Connecticut. 3. Rachel Brockway, born August 17, 1749, Lyme, Connecticut. 4. Naomi Brockway, born May 5, 1753, Lyme, Connecticut. 5. Lucy Brockway, born March 5, 1757, Lyme, Connecticut. 6. Gideon Brockway, born April 6, 1759, Lyme, Connecticut.

Vols. 37-52, 1883-98, include section: Genealogical gleanings in England, by H. F. Waters

William Briggs, the son of John Briggs and Mary his wife, was born the 30th of July, 1673. Peter, b. the 5th of Feb., 1680. Jedediah Brockway and Sarah Fox were married Oct. 13, 1743. Josiah, b. Jan. 16, 1744. Gideon, b. Sept. 4, 1746, and d. Dec. 12, 1749. Rachel, b. Aug. 17, 1749 ; d. Dec. 13, 1749. Naomy, b. May 5, 1753. Lucy, b. March 5, 1757. Gideon, b. April 6, 1759. Ezra Brockway was born May 24, 1732, and married Dorcas Geddings Nov. 14, 1754. Briget, b. Sept. 26, 1755. Richard Brockway and Hannah Randall, of Colchester, were married May 14, 1740. Lois, b. March 15, 1741. Elizabeth, b. March 13, 1744-5. Hetty, b. Dec. 3, 1746. Lois, b. July 15, 1756. Enos, b. April 25, 1759. Children of John Brockway : Breget, b. Aug. 8, 1708. Walston, b. Dec. 23, 1712. Mary, b. JulyS, 1714. Jane, b. Feb. 6,1717. John, b. July 4, 1721. Phebe, b. Feb. 1, 1724-5. Naomi, b. May 3, 1727. The births and deaths of the children of Wolston Brockway : Hannah, b. Sept. 14, 1664. William, b. July 25, 1666. Wolston, b. Feb. 7, 1667. Marah, b. Jan. 16, 1669. Briget, b. July 9, 1671. Richard, b. Sept. 31, 1673. Elizabeth, b. May 24, 1676. Sarah, b. Sept. 23, 1679. Deborah, b. May 1, 1682. Goodwife Brockway died Feb. 6, 1687. William Brockway was married to Elizabeth his wifTe March 8, 1692.

William Brockway, Jr. and Prudence Pratt were married Oct. 3,1716. Hannah Brockway, b. Nov. 10, 1718. William, b. Feb. 22, 1723. The births and deaths of

the children of Wolston Brockway and Marget his wife : Walston, b. Oct. 26, 1689. Samuel, b. Feb. 10, 1692. Jonathan, b. May 10, 1694. Deborah, b. Nov. 11, 1696. Edward, b. March 8, 16Э8. Marget, b. April 17, 1701. Ephraim, b. April 4, 1703. Wolston Brockway and Anna Brook, of New London, were married Sept. 30, 1736. Briget, b. Dec. 25, 1737. Sarah, b. Aug. 29, 1739. William, b. March 9, 1741-2. Anna, b. March 14, 1743-4. William Brockway and Hannah Clark were married April 19, 1744. Caroline, b. May 18, 1748. Mary, b. Oct. 8, 1751. Hannah, b. Dec. 28, 1752. Abner, b. Dec. 28, 1754. Temme, b. Nov. 17, 1757. Abraham Bronson and Hannah Brouson were married Sept. 2, 1675. Anna, b. Oct. 5, 1675. Abram, b. March 29, 1677. Mary, b. March 21, 1680. Elisabeth, b. Aug. 12, 1682. Dorrity Bronson died Jan. 9, 1704-5. Widow Catharine Bradford died Nov. 6, 1732. The births and deaths of the children of Henry Champion : Joshua Champion and Elisabeth Beckwith were married Oct.

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14,1742. Lydia, b. Aug. 3, 1745. Joshua, b. Feb. 3, 1746-7. Joshua was born Sept. 28, 168-. Henrv, b. Jan. 5, 16—. Susan, b. Feb. 28, 16—. Samuell, b. June 18, 169-. Alfe, b. March 15, 1094. Rachel, b. Dec. 2, 1697. Abegall, b. June 25, 1699. Stev'n, b. July 15, 1702. Mary, b. Oct. 14, 1704. (Note by the transcriber. A part of the foregoing record is deficient—the margin of the leaf is worn off.)

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ORIGINS AND HISTORY Most Brockways in the United States trace their ancestry back to the immigrant, Wolston Brockway, of East Lyme, Connecticut.

Wolston Brockway was a respectable and early settler at Lyme. He deeded land in Lyme to John Robins in 1672 signed by himself and his wife Hannah. He deeded a piece of land in Lyme to his father- in-law William Briggs this deed was entered for record 1680. In 1682 he sold land to Mr. Christopher Christophers, of New London. His wife was the daughter of William Briggs and was probably married before he settled in Lyme. Wolston Brockway, on the 12 day of March 1671-2, was one of the Saybrook and Lyme men, against whom John Prentice of New London, complained for "riotous practices and assaults" on New London people The Saybrook people had also complained to the County Court in Hartford that same year against the people of New London for similiar complaints. The controversy between the towns was a strip of land which included Black Point in Lyme. In the lineage book, National Society of the Daugters of the American Colonists, Wolston is listed as a land owner of Lyme, CT and a soldier of King Philips War.

John Reynolds early lived in that part of Saybrook on the east side of the Connecticut River which is now called Lyme [Vol. II of the NE Hist. Gen. Reg.]. On Dec. 3, 1659, John sold his house and land in Lyme to Wolston Brockway, and with other Saybrook settlers went up to found Norwich. Their places in Lyme were filled mostly by a later generation. From Lyme, CT Land Records I:25, Record of Deed from John Reynolds to Wolston Brockway, December 3, 1659; recorded July 10, 1674, with other deeds held by Brockway. Original volume in CT State Library, Hartford.

A deed of Saile from John Rennolls to Wolston: Brockway. "Artikles of agrements maid betwixt John Rennolls & Wolston Brockway of Seabrook as foloweth. John Rennolls doth deed unto the said Wolston Brockway his house & all his Land both upland & Medow that he hath one ye east sid of the River over aganst the towne of Saybrooke; all that was granted him by the towne of Saybrooke as also all the Commanige tharunto belonging & Also all the fencis that is alredy maid & the flowers of the hous & the tow Laders that belong to the house & the barne;

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all thes perticklers above specified the said John doth sell unto the said Wolston for twenty pounds ster.: Seven pounds ten shiling to be payed in cattell or kind, at or before the furst of may next and the other fivety shiling to be payed in good marchantabell corne at or before the last of June next and the other ten pounds is to be payed next (mithelmoth?) come twelvemonth: in cattell and corne as before menshoned. Wharunto we sett our hands: the R mark of John RenaldsWolstone Brockway.

Source(s): Brockway, Francis E.; The Brockway Family. Some Records of Wolston Brockway and his Descendants; Oswego, NY; Leon L. Brockway's Power Print; Aug. 1890. (Generally considered the 'Bible' for all Brockways, but obviously outdated for later generations.)

WOLSTON BROCKWAY

Wolston Brockway, born ca 1638, married (1) Hannah Briggs; (2) Hannah and died 1717 Wolston Brockway cam to America from England sometime in 1639. He settled in Saybrook and on 3 December 1659 he bought a house from John Reynolds on the east side of the river. He held many elective offices, serving at different times as Hayward, pound keeper, fence viewer and surveyor. In 1699, he was elected constable, but chose not to serve. Children: (by first wife) Hannah b. 14 September 1664, Lyme m. (1) Thomas Champion (2) John Wade William b. 25 July 1666 m. Elizabeth, 6 March 1693 Wolston b. 7 February 1667/8 Lyme m. Margaret Jones, 4 December 1688 Mary b. 16 January 1669/70, Lyme m. Samule Mott, 6 April 1692 Bridget b. 9 January 1671, Lyme m. Jonathan Beebe, 1714 Richard b. 30 September 1673 m. (1) Rachel, 25 October 1667 (2) Elizabeth Tiffany, 5 May 1720 Elizabeth b. 24 May 1676, Lyme m. (1) William Harris, 1701 (2) Roger Alger, Sr., March 1711/12 Sarah b. 23 September 1679 m. Nathaniel Beckwith, 20 January 1703 Deborah 1 May 1682, Lyme John b. Lyme (possible the son of his second wife)

The Founders of Saybrook Colony and Their Descendants, 1635 -1985, Compiled by the Founders Committee

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GENEALOGY

(I) WOLSTON BROCKWAY, b. about 1640; d. about 1718; m. Hannah Bridges [Briggs], of Lyme, Ct., who died Feb. 6th, 1687. Issue: I. Hannah, b. Sept. 14th, 1664; m. Thos. Champion II. William, b July 25th, 1666, d. March 29th, 1755. III. Wolston, b. Feb. 7th, 1667; d. 1707. IV. Marah, b. Jan. 16th, 1669; m. Samuel Mott in 1697. V. Bridget, b. Jan. 9th, 1671; m. Jonathan Beebee in 1714. VI. Richard1, b. Sept. 30th, 1673; d. April 9th, 1718. VII. Elizabeth, b. May 24th, 1676; m. William Harris in 1705, and died July, 1729. VII. Sarah, b. Sept. 23d, 1679; m. Nathaniel Beckwith. IX. Deborah, b. May 1st, 1682. X. John – no record of his birth. Elizabeth, widow of William Harris; m. Roger Alger Hannah (2,) m. Thos. Champion, Aug. 23d, 1688; he d. in1705. Issue: Hannah, (Sarah m. Daniel Peck;) Thomas, Marah, Deborah2. William (3,) son of Wolston (I;) m. Elizabeth, March 8th, 1692-3, Issue: I. William, b. Dec. 26th, 1693; d. 1774. II. John, b. may 10th, 197; d. Nov. 27th, 1777. III. Richard, b. Sept. 11th, 1699; d. about 1755. IV. Elizabeth, b. March 2d, 1701-2. V. Ebenezer, b. Oct. 29th, 1702. VI. Dorothy – no record of birth The earliest known mention of this doubtless first representative of this family name in America, and the ancestral head of all bearing it here prior to 1800, is found in the Town Records of Lyme, Ct., where it is stated, that Dec. 3, 1659, he bought “housing and land of John Reynolds of Norwich, former of Lyme, on the East side of the river over against the town of Saybrook.” No prior notice of him had yet been found in either Lyme, Saybrook, or the Hartford State Records. The earliest Saybrook town and church records have been missing for more than two centuries, having, probably, been destroyed by fire, which occurred in the fort and its adjacent buildings at that ear. By comparison of dates, it is seen that he came to Lyme in his twenty-first year and was married soon after. Some twenty years later, he become the possessor of a considerable tract of land in the Northwestern part of Lyme, on the Connecticut river, and located his family residence there.

The “deed of sale” from Reynolds to Brockway specifies “his land, upland and meadow, all that was granted him (Reynolds) by the town of Saybrook for £20.” In a sale fro that property in 1680, he is named as “Wolston B. Planter,” and also “Cooper of Black Hall.” In 1682 he sold out to Christopher Chredophus of New London for £100, “all my land

1 Richard’s wife died 9 Ap. 1718 (handwritten in book – source unknown) 2 Hanwritten note that Deborah married Ebenezer Johnson

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purchased of John Reynolds, in the neck of land commonly called Black Point, twenty acres of upland and three and one-half of meadow.” In 1687 it was “voted that Goodman Brockway shall have the remainder of his 4th division, in some convenient place between Joshuasland and Fishing Brook, if it be there to be found.” In 1682 he was one of the “stewarts” with Reynold Marvin, and on the list of proprietors of the town of Lyme, and in 1704, was chosen sheep-master, and was then located “at the third hill to the Westward of Flatrock hill, and his division to the Eastward of the great plan at Tantum Morantum. In 1698 he “was granted by the town the remainder of his proportion,” viz: “the check of land against the lower corner to Twelve Mile Island,” and “at the upper end of the meadow, at the fishing brook, up to the landing place, hear his house,” showing that he then lived in that part of the town. In 1697 was a deed of gift from Walston B. to his son Wolston of land, “commonly known as the Planting Field, where my said son hath erected himself a dwelling house,” near the lot of his own son William. In 1702 he bought of Rev. Moses Noyes, forty acres of plough land, and also received from the town two hundred acres at Tantum Morantum. In 1697 he devised land to his eldest son William, “according to God’s command to provide for my children,” and also in 1709 devised property to the same son, in consideration of a legacy bequeathed by his “kinsman” Mr. (Gregory) Wilterton of Harford.” The particular connection between the two families is not known. Mr. Wilterton, as we learn from the Rev. Dr. Walker’s recent “History of the First Church of Hartford,” was one of its original members. His tombstone and that of his wife, are among the oldest in the acnient cemetery in that city. In a deed of 1702, he gave his son Wolston certain property, “feeling that he was growing old,” and in return, Wolston, Jr., promises to provide for his father, but died in 1707 before his father. He also deeded land to “son Richard” and to “son John;” also to the latter “two iron pots and one brass skillet,” on Sept. 5, 1716. The record of his children’s births was sent to the town clerk Jan. 20, 1683, and it contains no mention of his son John, who is, however, often mentioned in the record of deeds. Wolston also gives Richard the homestead in Lyme, to care for him and his wife. The latest paper signed by him is dated Aug. 1, 1718, he being then about eighty years of age. Wolston Brockway, Sr., married in Lyme, Hannah Bridges [Briggs], of that town, daughter of William Bridges [Briggs], and the number of children recorded was ten. “Goodwife Brockway” died Feb. 6, 1687. Where she was buried is not known. He, without doubt, died at his son William’s house in Joshuatown, near Brockway’s

******************* Richard (5,) son of Wolston (I,) m. Rachael, Oct. 25th, 1697; she d. April 9th, 1718. Issue born in Lyme, Conn.: I. Rachael, b. Aug. 17th, 1698. II. Hannah, b. Aug. 14th, 1700. III. Sarah, b. June 25th, 1703; m. Peter Tubbs in 1723. IV. Ruth, b. June 20th, 1706. V. Lydia, b. April 17th, 1709. VI. Richard, b. April 4th, 1711. VII. Jedidiah, b. Oct 23d, 1713. VIII. Deborah, b. Dec. 7th, 1716.

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Richard, m. 2d, Elizabeth Tiffany, May 5th, 1720. IX. Elizabeth, b. June 22d, 17223 X. Consider, b. Feb. 1st, 1723. XI. Abigail, b. Feb. 1st, 1723. XII. Silence, b. April 13th, 1726. XIII. Eunice, b. Aug. 24th, 1732, d. 1817 in Broadalbin, N.Y. XIV. Nathan, b. March 19th4, 1736, d. 1822. XC. Tiffany, b. Aug. 9th, 1740.

Genealogy of a Branch of the Descendants of Wolston Brockway, Who Settled in Lyme, Conn., About 1660, compiled by

Beman Brockway, Watertown, NY, 1867

BROCKWAY FAMILY First Generation

WOLSTON BROCKWAY, the progenitor of the New England family bearing his name, was probably born in some part of England, not far from 1638. In a deposition made by him 10 July 1714, and recorded in Lyme, his age is stated at “seventy years or thereabouts,” and he stated that he had dwelt in Lyme for fifty years past; but there are indicates that both his age and the length of his residence in Lyme were placed too low. He bought land with a house and barn thereon, of John Reynolds, both of Saybrook, Conn., 3 December 1659, the land being described as “one ye east sid of ye riuer ouer against ye towne of Saybrooke,” and the consideration, £20 sterling. The natural inference is that he was of full age when he made this purchase, and that he settled at once in his new house, and that would fix the date of his birth about 1638, and make his residence in Lyme to cover nearly fifty-five years, in July 1714. His first home in Lyme was probably on Duck River, at some distance south of the present village fo Lyme, and near Long Island South. A highway laid out 24 March 1698-99, is described as follows: “The highway on the Southward side of Duck riuer is as follows: First, the highway from Wolston Brockway’s Landing place is four rods wide, -4- the landing place being in length from said highway, southwest ten rods and a half to a stub” etc. This road passed the “planting field” and then to “Black Hall river.” Between Smith’s Neck and the planting field it passed Thomas Champion’s house, Richard Smith’s yard, Edward Lay’s land and William Brockway’s corner. In 1675 he sold to Isaac Watterus of Lyme, a piece of land in “the planting field,” bounded northerly by the lands of the said Isaac, and easterly by the Black Hall river. In this deed he was styled Planter. See Lyme deeds Vol. I, p. 66. On the 9th of February 1676-77, in a deed to Richard Smith he was styled Cooper. He sold land 29 April, 1682 to Christopher Christophers of New London, describing it as “all of my land purchased of John Reynolds, in the neck of land commonly called Black Point,” twenty acres of upland and three and a half of meadow. He and wife Hannah, be deed dated 13 March 1707-08, gave their homestead to their son, Richard Brockway, with reservation during their lives, and a stipulation

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that he should pay £15 to his brother, John Brockway, on their death. In a deed to his youngest son, John Brockway, 5 September 1716, conveying five acres of land near Flat Rock Hill, he again styled himself Cooper. He was frequently elected to some office in the town. As hayward, 13 Feb. 1676-77; fence-viewer, 24 Sept. 1677 and 9 Dec. 1679; Hayward, 29 Dec. 1684; and pound-keeper on the same date; surveyor, 27 Nov. 1689 and 16 Dec. 1690; fence-viewer, Dec. 1690, 14 Dec. 1697, 15 Dec. 1698 and 15 Dec. 1701. He was elected constable 18 Dec. 1699, but refused to serve. He owned land at Tantum Morantum, near what is now Brockway’s Ferry, as early as 1 Feb. 1702-3, at which date he bought forty acres of land there of Rev. Moses Noyes, which was already in Brockway’s possession, but it is not known that he lived there. His ear-mark for cattle, recorded at Lyme 1 June, 16__ was afterward transferred to his grandson, William Brockway, Jr. -5- The townsmen of Lyme, 27 Aug. 1688, assessed him as “Walstone Brockway,” as follows: “3 persons, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 00 00 “house and Lands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02 00 00 “2 Oxen, two Cowes. . . . . . . . . . . . 16 00 00 “1 : 3 yerling 5 : 2 yerling. . . . . . . 12 10 00 “1 Mare – 2 hogs 12 sheep. . . . . . . 13 00 00 £103 10 00” The tax on this amount was £0: 8: 7 ½. See the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. XXXIV, pp. 379 to 381. He married with HANNAH BRIGGS, widow of John Harris of Boston, Mass, with whom she married 10 September, 1657.5 She was born at Boston, 28 August, 1642, daughter of William and Mary Briggs.6 She died at Lyme, 6 February, 1687 – 88. He married with a second wife whose name was HANNAH, but her maiden name has not been found. He gave his land to his children during his life. Perhaps the latest deed was to his daughter, Hannah Wade, dated 16 May, 1717, giving her certain personal property, to take effect on the death of himself and wife. He died not long before 11 November 1717, at which date his son, Richard Brockway, was granted administration on his estate. Probably his widow died before 7 April, 1719, at which date the administrator reported that he had paid debts and charges, amounting to £24 : I : 7, and that £I : 13 : 8, remained for distribution. The court ordered that the eldest son should have a double portion, 6s., each of the other seven children 3s. and 3s. to the children of Wolston Brockway, Jr., deceased, and 3s. to the children of Mary Mott, deceased. He was probably buried in Duck River cemetery in the village to Old Lyme,

5 The date of the death of John Harris has not been found. He left one son, John Harris, born at Boston, 8 August,

1658, who lived at Lyme. 6 John [crossed out in pen and William written in] Briggs, the father of Mrs. Brockway, lived most of his life in

Boston; but he bought land in Lyme, 27 October 1680, of his son-in-law, Wolston Brockway, and sold the same to his son, John Briggs, 15 February, 1680-81, “with the frame of a house thereon standing, which I purchased of John Lareby.” Before 1685 he had returned to Boston.

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BROCKWAY FAMILY Second Generation

Children of Wolston and Hannah (Briggs) Brockway: I. HANNAH BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 14 Sept. 1664, [not 24 Sept. as others have read it]; married there 23 Aug. 1682, with THOMAS CHAMPION, who was born at Saybrook, Conn., in April 1656, son of Henry and Deborah Champion. He died at Lyme in 1705. She married (2d) with JOHN WADE, and as “my daughter, Hannah Wade, of Lyme,” received a deed from her father 16 May 717, conveying to her certain personal property, on the death of himself and wife. II. WILLIAM BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 25 July 1666; married there 8 March 1692-93, with ELIZABETH ______________. Gregory Wilterton, of Hartford, Conn., by his will of 1674, gave him a legacy of £10, in consideration of which his father deeded land to him in 1709. He settled at Brockway’s Ferry, in that part of Lyme to which Joshua, the son of Uncas, gave the name of Joshuatown; and died there 29 March 1755, in the 89th year of his age, as testified by his grave stone, still legible in the family cemetery at that place. His wife, it is said, was buried by his side, but no stone is there to tell the date. His father deeded land to him at Tantum Morantum, (Joshuatown) 8 June 1697, Lyme records II, 302. On this land he probably settled. At the May session, in 1724, the General Court granted to him, in con- -7- nnection with William Pratt, who lived on the west side of Connecticut river, the right to keep a ferry, which is still known as Brockway’s Ferry. He signed a paper, 7 Dec. 1724, relating to ecclesiastical matters in Lyme, North Quarter, now Hamburgh. III. WOLSTON BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 7 Feb. 1667-68; married there 4 Dec. 1688, with MARGARET _____________. His ear mark for cattle was recorded at Lyme, 19 May 1696, and he died there early in 1707. Letters of administration on his estate were granted to his widow, 4 June 1707, and the estate was distributed 17 March 1713 – 13. She married (2d) at Lyme, 7 Feb. 1710-11, with Thomas Ennis, and died there 17 Jan. 1738 – 39, aged 73 years. By her second marriage she had one son, Thomas Ennis, born at Lyme, 28 May 1712. IV. MARY BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 16 Jan. 1669 – 70; married there 6 April 1692, with SAMUEL MOTT, of Lyme, and they had a gift of land from her father, 27 March 1697. Her name on the town record is written Marah, that being the form which town clerk, Joseph Peck, was in the habit of using for Mary. V. BRIDGET BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 9 Jan. 1671 [1671 – 72]. The copy in Register, Vol. 23, p. 427, has the month July, which is erroneous. Beman Brockway’s pamphlet says she married in 1714, with JONATHAN BEEBE. If so she must have been his second wife. Bridget, wife of Jonathan Beebe, died in East Haddam, Conn., 6 April 1756, aged eighty-six years, according to her gravestone.

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VI. RICHARD BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 30 Sept. 1673; and the record says 31 Sept.; married there 25 Oct. 1697, with RACHEL _____. She died at Lyme, 9 April 1718; and he married (2d) 5 May 1720, with ELIZABETH TIFFANY. In Dec. 1718, he was surety for Edward Lay and Samuel Chapman, to the Governor and Council of Conn. He joined the First Church in Lyme, in Oct. 1739. -8- VII. ELIZABETH BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 24 May 1676; married there about 1701, with WILLIAM HARRIS, of Lyme, and her father gave land to them 23 Jan. 1705 – 06. He probably died as early as 1710, and she married (2d) in March 1711 – 12, with Roger Alger, Sr. “Elizabeth, widow of Roger Alger, late of Lyme, deceased, formerly the wife of William Harris, dyed in July, in ye year 1729.” VIII. SARAH BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 23 Sept. 1679; married [East Haddam records,] 20 Jan. 1703 [1703-04] with NATHANIEL BECKWITH, and they were living at East Haddam 23 Nov. 1704, when her father gave land to his “well beloved son-in-law, Nathaniel Beckwith, of hadam, on the east side of the river.” IX. DEBORAH BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 1 May 1682. X. JOHN BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., date not found; had an ear-mark for cattle recorded 12 Feb. 1729 – 30. His father, in deeding his homestead to Richard Brockway, 13 March 1707 – 08, provided that Richard should pay £15 to John Brockway, on the death of their father. He was probably the son of the first wife, but it is possible that the second wife was his mother. -12-

Third Generation Children of Richard and Rachel Brockway: I. RACHEL BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 17 Aug. 1698. II. HANNAH BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 14 Aug. 1700. II. SARAH BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 25 June 1703; married there, 10 March 1723-

24, with PETER TUBBS. IV. RUTH BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 20 June 1706. V. LYDIA BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 17 April 1709. -13- VI. RICHARD BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 4 April 1711; married there 14 May 1740, as “Richard Brockway, 3d,” with HANNAH RANDALL, of Colchester. He was baptized in the First Church of Lyme, 27 May 1733, adult, and the names of his parents were not records. VII. JEDIDIAH BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 23 Oct. 1713; married there 3 Oct 1743, with SARAH FOX, of New London. He was baptized at Lyme, First Church, 3 June 1733, as an adult, and his parents names were not recorded.

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VIII. DEBORAH BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 7 Dec. 1716. ? Did she marry 15 May 1735 (First Church Record) with ROBERT AMES, of New London ? Children of Richard and Elizabeth (Tiffany) Brockway: IX. ELIZABETH BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 22 June 1721; married there 5 Nov. 1740, (First Church Record) with SAMUEL WALLER, both of Lyme, and died at Lyme, 30 March 1742. X. CONSIDER BROCKWAY, twin, b. at Lyme, Conn., 1 Feb. 1723 [ 1723 – 24]; died there 17 Feb. 1747 – 48, and probably was not married. XI. ABIGAIL BROCKWAY, twin, b. at Lyme, Conn., 1 Feb. 1723 {1723 – 24]. She married 7 Nov. 1745, with BENJAMIN FOX, JR., who was born at New London, 29 Aug. 1715, and had several children. XII. SILENCE BROCKWAY, a daughter, b. at Lyme, Conn., 13 April 1726. XIII. EUNICE BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 24 Aug. 1732; died at Broadalbin, N.Y., in 1817. XIV. NATHAN BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 7 May 1736. Probably his wife’s name was ELIZAB ETH THOMPSON. He moved from Lyme after his marriage, to Stephentown, Rensseler Co., N.Y., and then in March 1792, to Broadalbin, Montgomery Co., N.Y., where he died 11 Aug. 1822, aged eighty-six years. -14- XV. TIFFANY BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 9 Aug. 1740; baptized there in the First Church, 10 Aug. 1740. -21- Children of Jedidah and Sarah (Fox) Brockway I. JONAH BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 16 -22- Jan. 1744 [1744 – 45]. II. GIDEON BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn. 14 Sept. 1746; died there 12 Dec. 1749. III. RACHEL BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 17 Aug. 1748; and died there 13 Dec. 1749. IV. RACHEL BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 5 Nov. 1750. Query: Did she marry 12 March 1770 (First Church Record), with WILLIAM LEVINGSTON, both of Lyme. V. NAOMI BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 5 May 1753. VI. LYDIA BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 20 April 1755. VII. LUCY BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 5 March 1757. VIII. GIDEON BROCKWAY, b. at Lyme, Conn., 6 April 1759. Naomi Brockway, born 5 May 1753, daughter of Jedediah and Sarah (Fox) Brockway.

The New England Historical and Genealogical Reister, October 1946, John Huntley and Some of his Descendants

LYME, CONNECTICUT VITAL RECORDS Richard Brockway was married to Rachell his now wife LLR2:294 [ ] 25 October 1697. The birth and death of the Children of Richard Brockway and Rachell

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Rachell was borne the 17 Augste 1698 Hanah was borne the 14 Augste 1700 Sarah was borne the 25 June 1703 Ruth was borne the 20 June 1706 Lydea was borne the 17 Aprill 1709 Richard was born the 4 Aprill 1711 Jedidiah was born the 23 October 1713 Deborah 7 December 1716 Rachel ye wife of Richard Brockway Departed this life ye 9th of April 1718 The above [ ] Richard Brockway was married to Elizabeth Tiffany [d. Consider Tiffany] his

second wife the 5th of May 1720. Elizabeth their first child was born the 22 June 1721 LLR2:394 Their twins were born the 1 February 1723 one of which is a son, and his name is Consider, the

other is a daughter her name is Abigail. Silence their daughter was born 13 April 1726 Unice their Daughter was born ye 24 August 1732 Nathan Brockway was born May 7 AD 1736 Tiffany Brockway was born ye 9th Day of August AD 1740 Elisabeth [1st wife Samuel Waller] daughter of Richard and Elisabeth Brockway died the 30th

Day of March AD 1742 Consider Brockway son of Richard and Elisabeth _____ ye 17 Day of February 1747/8 Jedidiah Brockway of Lyme in New London County was married to Sarah Fox of New London

in sd County the 3rd Day of October AD 1743 Jonah Brockway son of Jedidiah & Sarah Brockway was born January 16th: 1744 Gedeon Brockway son of Jedediah and Sarah Brockway was born September 14th: 1746. Died

the 12th Day of December 1749. Rachel Brockway Daughter of Jedediah & Sarah Brockway was born August 17th 1748 and died

the 13th Day of December 1749. Naomy Brockway Daughter of Jedediah and Sarah Brockway was born May 5th 1753. Lydia Brockway Daughter of Jedediah and Sarah Brockway was born April 20th 1755. Lucey Brockway Daughter of Jedediah and Sarah Brockway was born March 5th 1757 Gedeon Brockway son of Jedediah and Sarah Brockway was born the 6th Day of April 1759.

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BROWN FAMILY

Generation One: John Browne was born about 1500 and died before 1546, Horley, Surrey, England. He married Jone who was born about 1502, West Hoathley, Essex, England. Their children were: Thomas (born about 1524), Nicholas (born about 1526), Richard (born about 1528), Henry (born about 1530), Andrew (born about 1532), Reverand William (born February 1, 1533, England and died November 14, 1613, Horley, Surrey, England, married Magdalene Elsick), Katherine, Margaret and Jone.

Generation Two: Reverand William Brown, born February 1, 1533, England and died November 14, 1613, Horley, Surrey, England. He married Magdalene Elsick (born 1538, England and died September 7, 1604. Their children were Joseph, Sarah, Benjamin, Phebe and Edward. William Browne married secondly to Margaret Bonny on October 16, 1604.

Generation Three: Joseph Browne (born 1562, Harley, England and died October 15, 1633. Joseph Browne married Margery Patching (born February 17, 1563, Horsham, Sussex, England and died November 15, 1605, Rusper, Sussex, England. She was the daughter of Richard Patching (born 1532). Their children were: William, Stephen, Joseph, Sarah, Susanna, Phebe, John and Mary. He married secondly to Elizabeth Stone.

Generation Four: William Browne (born November 29, 1593, Rusper, Sussex, England and died July 2, 1650, Nassau, Long Island, New York. William Browne married on Jane Mills (born June 27, 1596, Rusper, Sussex, England and died in 1645 at sea coming to America. She was the daughter of Thomas Mills and Margaret. Their child was Phoebe Browne (born October 1, 1620, High Wycombe, England and died December 22, 1664, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. She married (1) Thomas Lee in England and (2) New London, New London, Connecticut to Greenfield Larrabee (born 1620, England and died October 17, 1661, New London, Connecticut. He was the son of Benjamin Larrabee and Deborah Ingersoll. Sarah married (3in Lyme, New London, Connecticut to James Cornish.

Information regarding Phebe Brown: She was born October 21, 1620, Rusper, Horsham, England and died December 22, 1664, Norwich Settlement, Connecticut Colony.

"New England Marriages Prior to 1700" compiled by Clarence Almon Torrey; p. 459; The Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc.;

Baltimore, Maryland; 1985 (974.0 NEa/Marriage SCGS)

1620, October 1: Phebe, daughter of William and Jane Browne was baptized at Rusper (Sussex) England. 1641ca (after): Phebe Lee and her three children settled at Saybrook, Connecticut Colony. "Effie Belle Randall of Bath, Ohio: her ancestors and descendants" by Theodore N. Woods; p. 67; published by T. N. Woods; Phoenix, Arizona; 1991 (CS71.R19 1991 LofC)

1664, September 28: Phebe, widow of Greenfield Larrabee, Jr. died at Norwich Village (New London) Connecticut Colony. (Glenda Nothngale, family researcher)

"A Potter-Richardson Memorial: the ancestral lines of William W. Potter of Michigan, and his wife, Margaret (Richardson) Potter" by Doreen Potter Hanna;

1957 (HeritageQuest 2) Frost, Josephine C. [View Citation] [Table of Contents] [Page Numbers]

"Ancestors of Evelyn Wood Keeler, wife of Willard Underhill Taylor" by Josephine C. Frost;

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Brooklyn, New York; 1939 (HeritageQuest) 3) "Black Hall: traditions and reminiscences" by Adeline Bartlett Allyn;: Case, Lockwood & Brainard; Hartford, Connecticut; 1908 (Heritag

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BURDICK FAMILY AND ALLIED LINES

Generation No. 1 Robert Burdett Born: 1507, Warwickshire, England Married: Died: 1558 Parents: Father: Mother: Spouse: Elizabeth Cockayne Born: 1515, Pooley, Warwickshire, England Died: Father: Thomas Cockayne (born 1479, Pooley & Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England and died

1537 Lady’s Choir In Ashburne, Derbyshire, England) Mother: Barbara Fitzherbert (born 1482, Etwall & Ash, Derbyshire, England. She was the

daughter of John Fitzherbert and Margaret Babington Children: 1. Thomas Burdett, born 1535 Warwickshire, England and died July 15, 1591. He married

Bridget Curzon (she was born in 1535 in England)

Generation No. 2 Thomas Burdett (Robert1) Born: 1535, England Died: July 15, 1591 Parents: Father: Robert Burdett Mother: Elizabeth Cockayne Spouse: Bridget Curzon Born: 1535, England Children: 1. Thomas Burdett, born 1565, England and died in Ireland. He married Ann Wilson (she

was born 1570, England. Her parents were Thomas Wilson.)

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Generation No. 3 Thomas Burdett (Robert1, Thomas2) Born: 1565, England Married: Died: Ireland Parents: Father: Thomas Burdett Mother: Bridget Curzon Spouse: Ann Wilson Born: 1570, England Died: Parents: Father: Thomas Wilson (born 1500, Strubby, Lincoln, England) Mother: Anne Cumerworth (born 1503, Strubby, Lincoln, England) Children: 1. Samuel Burdett, born 1602, England and died 1664, Ireland. He married Frances St.

Lawrence (she was the daughter of Nicholas St. Lawrence and Jane Montgomery. She was born 1617 in Ireland)

Generation No. 4

Samuel Burdett (Robert1, Thomas2, Thomas3) Born: 1602, England Married: Died: 1664, Ireland Parents: Father: Thomas Burdett Mother: Ann Wilson Spouse: Frances St. Lawrence Born: 1617, Ireland Parents: Father: Nicholas St. Lawrence Mother: Jane Montgomery Children: 1. Robert Burdick, born 1630, Devonshire, England and died October 25, 1692, Westerly,

Washington, Rhode Island. He married Ruth Hubbard (she was the daughter of Samuel Hubbard and Tacy Cooper. She was born January 11, 1640, Agawam (Springfield) Hampden, Massachusetts and died 1691, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island.

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Generation No. 5 Robert I. Burdick (Robert1, Thomas2, Samuel3, Samuel4) Born: 1630 Married: November 2, 1655 in Newport, Rhode Island Died: October 25, 1692, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island Parents: Father: Samuel Burdett Mother: Frances St. Lawrence Spouse: Ruth Hubbard Born: January 11, 1638/39, Agawan, Springfield, Massachusetts Died: 1691, Rhode Island Parents: Father: Samuel Hubbard Mother: Tase Cooper Children: 1. Infant Burdick 2. Thomas Burdick, born 1656, Newport, Rhode Island. 3. Naomi Burdick, born 1658, New Port, Rhode Island. 4. Ruth Burdick, born 1660, Newport, Rhode Island. 5. Deborah Burdick, born January 11, 1659/60, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. 6. Roger Burdick, born 1664, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. 7. Benjamin Burdick, born 1666, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. 8. Samuel Hubbard Burdick, born 1668, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island 9. Tacy Burdick, born December 2, 1670, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. 10. Robert Burdick, born 1674, Rhode Island. 11. Hubbard Burdick, born 1676, Providence, Rhode Island Notes: BURDICK, or BURDICT, BENJAMIN, Westerly, s. of Robert of the same, in his will of 25 Spr. 1736, names w. Jane, and s. Peter, Benjamin, John, David, William, Elisha, ds. Mary Lewis, and Rachel Sisson. ROBERT, Newport, made freem. 22 May 1655; rem. to Westerly bef. 1661, m. Ruth d. of Samuel Hubbard of N. had Robert, Hubbard, Thomas, Benjamin, and Samuel, beside Naomi, wh. m. Jonathan Rogers; Tacy, wh. m. Joseph Maxon; Ruth, wh. m. John Phillips; and Deborah, wh. m. Joseph Crandall; and d. 1692. THOMAS, Westerly 1680, s. of Robert. This name is oft. confound. with Burditt.

History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, from its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900 by Richard Anson Wheeler. Press of the Day Publishing Company, New London, Connecticut, 1900.

Robert Burdick, the immigrant ancestor of the Burdick family who came to Newport, Rhode Island from England in 1651. Robert Burdick was admitted a Freeman of Newport on May 22, 1655, and a Freeman of the Colony of Rhode Island on May 20, 1657. He married Ruth

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Hubbard, the first white child born at Agawam (now Springfield), Massachusetts on November 2, 1655. Robert Burdick gained early notoriety during a land dispute between the colonies of Rhode Island and Massachusetts over a tract of land known as the Pequot Country -- land taken by the English colonists in the Pequot War of 1637 -- which is now situated, largely, within New London County, Connecticut. Boundary disputes had been going on for some time between Massachusetts and Connecticut over land within the Pequot Country, but the conflict in this instance was primarily between Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The dispute was centered upon a small settlement located in Pequot Country, between Mystic and Pawcatuck, which, in 1658 was named Southertown, and which, today is mostly contained within Stonington, Connecticut and a small part of Westerly, Rhode Island. In October 1658, the colony of Massachusetts laid claim to this settlement, declared it to be a plantation with the name of Southertown, annexed it to Suffolk County, Massachusetts, and appointed special commissioners and a constable to administer the new plantation. In the meantime, the colony of Rhode Island purchased land in a transaction known as the Westerly Purchase to add to its Narrangansett settlement. Included in the Westerly Purchase was some of the land within the boundaries of Southertown. A group of Rhode Islanders, including the Newport farmer, Robert Burdick, and his neighbors Tobias Saunders and Joseph Clarke, laid claim within the new settlement. In retaliation for the Massachusetts claim to Southertown, the Rhode Island Assembly sent out the warning to all settlers within the area of dispute that their land would be confiscated if they put it under the governance of another colonial government (e.g. Massachusetts). On September 30, 1661, William Cheseborough, an early settler of Southertown from Plymouth Colony, testified before the General Court of Massachusetts of his concern that some thirty-six inhabitants of Rhode Island had come into Southertown and had divided and laid out lots. The General Court of Massachusetts issued a warrant to apprehend the Rhode Island men who had settled in Southertown. A stand-off ensued, and Robert Burdick, Tobias Saunders and Joseph Clarke were arrested (although Joseph Clarke was "upon extraordinary occasion ... set at liberty.") For two years, the colony of Rhode Island attempted, unsuccessfully, to negotiate the release of Burdick and Saunders. As a last resort, Rhode Island authorities abducted two Massachusetts officials, who were then exchanged for the release of Robert Burdick and Tobias Saunders. The issuance of the Charter of Connecticut by King Charles II on April 25, 1662 fixed the eastern boundary of Connecticut at the Pawcatuck River. Southertown was situated within this boundary, and thus under the jurisdiction of Connecticut. Later, the British Crown settled the conflict by dividing the disputed land between Connecticut and Rhode Island. The land where Robert Burdick had settled was awarded to Rhode Island, and became part of the area known as Westerly. The land that was awarded to Connecticut became part of the area known as Stonington. After his release from prison, Robert Burdick settled on the same land he was taken from and inprisoned over. He and his wife, Ruth, had eleven children, nine of whom survived to adulthood and had children of their own. He served as a deputy to the General Court of Rhode Island from Westerly for the years 1680, 1683 and 1685, and he was one of the earliest members of the Seventh Day Baptist Church (the Sabbatarians).

The Descendants of Robert Burdick of Rhode Island by Nellie Williard Johnson. The Syracuse Typesetting Co., Inc. Syracuse, N.Y., 1937.

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ST. LAWRENCE FAMILY

Generation No. 1 Christopher Saint Lawrence, Sixth Baron Howth No further information known Spouse: Anne Bermingham No further information known Children: 1. Christopher “the blind Lord” St. Lawrence, born 1518, Howth, Dublin, Ireland and died

October 24, 1589, Howth, Dublin, Ireland. He married Elizabeth Blunkett who was born 1522, Beaulieu, Louth, Ireland and died March 20, 1564. She was the daughter of John Plunkett and Anne Barnewall

Generation No. 2

Christopher “the blind Lord” Saint Lawrence, 7th Baron Howth (Christopher1) Born: 1518, Howth, Dublin, Ireland Died: October 24, 1589 Parents: Father: Christopher Saint Lawrence Mother: Anne Bermingham Spouse (1): Elizabeth Plunkett Father: Sir John Plunkett Child: 1. Sir Nicholas St. Lawrence, born about 1555 Spouse (2): Cecilia Cusack Father: Henry Cusack Notes: Sir Christopher St. Lawrence, 7th Baron Howth also went by the nick-name of 'the Blind Lord'.1 He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1544.1 He succeeded to the title of 7th Baron Howth [I., C. 1440] in 1558.1 He was invested as a Knight on 9 February 1570.1 In 1576 he was imprisoned for a period, being in conflict within the Pale with the Lord Deputy.1 On 8 July 1579 he was convicted of cruelty towards his wife and children (including ill treating his daughter Jane to the extent that she died). He was imprisoned and fined £1,000.1

Citations

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1. [S21] L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 151. Hereinafter cited as The New Extinct Peerage.

Generation No. 3

Sir Nicholas St. Lawrence, 8th Baron Howth (Christopher1, Christopher2) Born: About 1555 Married: Died: Parents: Father: Sir Christopher St. Lawrence, 7th Baron Howth Mother: Elizabeth Plunkett Spouse: Margaret Barnewall Born: 1556 in Ireland Died: Parents: Father: Sir Christopher Barnewall Children: 1. Margaret St. Lawrence 2. Sir Christopher St. Lawrence, 9th Baron Howth, died October 24, 1619 Spouse(2): Mary Whyte Father: Sir Nicholas Whyte Notes: Sir Nicholas St. Lawrence, 8th Baron Howth was invested as a Knight in 1588.2 He succeeded to the title of 8th Baron Howth [I., C. 1440] on 24 October 1589.2

Citations

1. [S15] George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume I, page 240. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Baronetage.

[S21] L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 151. Hereinafter cited as The New Extinct Peerage

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Generation No. 4

Christopher St. Lawrence (Christopher1, Christopher2, Nicholas3) Born: About 1576, Ireland Married: Died: October 24, 1619 Parents: Father: Sir Nicholas St. Lawrence, 8th Baron Howth Mother: Margaret Barnewall Spouse: Elizabeth Wentworth Born: About 1575, Gosley, Essex, England Died: 1629 Father: John Wentworth Mother: Dorothy Southwell Children: 1. Nicholas St. Lawrence, born 1597, Ireland, married 1615 to Jane Montgomery (she was

born about 1598, Ireland and died 1678. She was the daughter of George Montgomery and Susan Steynings

Notes: He and Elizabeth Wentworth were separated before 1605.1 He died on 24 October 1619. Sir Christopher St. Lawrence, 9th Baron Howth gained the rank of Colonel of Foot.1 He was

invested as a Knight before 1600.1 He fought in the Battle of Carlingford, where he commanded the rear of vanguard against the rebel Earl of Tyrine.1 He fought in the Battle of Kingsale on 24 December 1601, and afterwards pursued the fugitive Earl of Tyrone.1 He succeeded to the title of 9th Baron Howth [I., C. 1440] circa 11 May 1607.1 In 1608 he was imprisoned in Dublin and London on suspicion of conspiring with the Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell, but was released.1

[S21] L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 151. Hereinafter cited as The New Extinct Peerage.

Generation No. 5

Nicholas St. Lawrence (Christopher1, Christopher2, Nicholas3, Christopher4) Born: 1597, Ireland Married: 1615 Died: 1644 Parents: Father: Christopher St. Lawrence Mother: Elizabeth Wentworth

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Spouse: Jane Montgomery Born: 1598 Died: 1678 Parents: Father: George Montgomery (born about 1570, Ireland and died January 5, 1620) Mother: Susan Steynings (born about 1573 and died before 1614) Children: 1. Frances St. Lawrence, born about 1617, Ireland, married Samuel Burdett (he was born

about 1602, England and died about 1664, Ireland. He was the son of Thomas Burdett and Ann Wilson.

Notes: The most famous Protestant bishop, George Montgomery, was a Scot appointed by James

I in 1605 ... He had no hesitation in being translated to Meath in 1610. ... Nicholas St. Lawrence, 10th Baron Howth was born circa 1599.1 He was the son of Sir

Christopher St. Lawrence, 9th Baron Howth and Elizabeth Wentworth.1 He married Jane Montgomery, daughter of George Montgomery, in 1615.1 He died in 1643/44, without surviving male issue.1 Nicholas St. Lawrence, 10th Baron Howth succeeded to the title of 10th Baron Howth [I., C. 1440] on 24 October 1619.1 In December 1641 he professed his loyalty to the King.1

1. [S21] L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 151. Hereinafter cited as The New Extinct Peerage.

Howth's history is long by our standards, typical by Celtic standards. A sixth century monastery

relic remains on Ireland's Eye, an island just out from the harbor. St Mary's Abbey, dating to the 11th century, stands as ruins in the middle of town. Howth Castle is a historically defining landmark, but public ally inaccessible - Its extents have been in continuous ownership and use by the Saint Lawrence family since being acquired by a Norman noble in 1177. The castle itself was built in the mid-16th century.

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BARNEWALL FAMILY HISTORY Sir Patrick Barnewall Born: Before 1544 and lived at Turvey, County Dublin, Ireland. Spouse: Unknown Children: 1. Margaret Barnewall, born 1560 and married Nicholas St. Lawrence.

Citations

1. [S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 265. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.

The Family of Barnewall In Ireland

de Berneval Origins. . . Normandy France

"The Barnewalls," came from little Britain, where they are at this day a great surname." In 1066 "le Sieur do Barneville" was one of the knights in the train of William the Conqueror, as Bromton's list runs:

Barneville et Berners,

Cheyne et Chalers.

In 1078 the Conqueror, having pursued the insurgent Saxons to the Roman wall, returned to York in triumph, and there bestowed upon Roger de Barneville the manor of Newton in Cleveland, and various other lands which his immediate descendants possessed until the 14th century. Roger, together with his brother Hugh, on the declaration of the Holy War at the Council of Clermont in 1095, hastened to receive upon their habits the consecrated cross. In the following year they joined the banner of Duke Robert, wintered in Apulia, and early in 1097 sojourned for some days at Constantinople, where, in the Blanchernal palace, de Barneville and the rest of the Duke of Normandy's retainers did homage to the Emperor A1exius, and received for this acknowledgement the most expensive presents. The subsequent achievements of de Barneville against the Sultan Kilidge Anslan, the Solyman of Tasso, are the theme of the most glowing eulogies from the Latin historians. Roger ultimately fell before the walls of Antioch. His third son Roger was one of the military retainers of Robert de Bruce, and finally became a monk in the abbey of St. Sauveur le Vicomte. The family was also established in the 12th century in Southamptonshire.

In 1170 Jordan de Barneville was one of the knights bound to render military service for his possessions in the Duchy of Normandy, which he lived to see subdued by Philip Augustus, to whom, in 1204, he vowed allegiance. At the close of the 12th century, the family is traced in the

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records of Essex, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Wiltshire, Middlesex, and a highly respectable branch at Hockworthy in Devonshire.

About the same time some of its members passed into Ireland, where, "upon their first arrival,"they won great possessions at Beerhaven, but were at length, by conspiracy of the Irish, headed by the O'Sullivans, all slain, except one young man, who then studied the common laws in England; Hugh alias Ulfran de Barneville, to whom, on his return, King John, in 1215, granted the lands of Drymnagh and Tyrenure in the Vale of Dublin, which his posterity held until the reign of James the First, when it was granted to Sir Adam Loftus. This Hugh gave 20 ounces of gold to the crown for the custody of the son of William Traim, and the daughter of Adam Rudipat, his wife, and of their lands during their minority, which was accordingly granted to him, saving the dower of Adam Rudipat's widow. Hugh died without issue, whereupon Reginald de Barneville, his brother, succeeded as his heir, acquired considerable accession of property by royal grant, and was the direct ancestor of the Lords of Trimlestown. About this time the Augustinian monastery of Odder was founded by one of the family.

In 1277 and the immediate subsequent years, Gilbert de Barneval was summoned to perform military service against Llewellyn, Prince of Wales. Members of the family were at this time considerable landed proprietors in Middlesex, Devonshire, and Yorkshire. In 1319 John de Berneville was knight of the shire for Somersetshire.

In 1348 and previously, Sir Wolfran Barnewall was seised of Kilbrue in the county of Meath, with the advowson of its church, and about the same time Reginald de Barnewell was seised of Tyrenure in the vale of Dublin, as hereafter mentioned.

In 1373 John de Barneval, knight, was summoned to a great council to be held in Dublin. In 1433 John Barnewall, the ancestor of the Lords of Kingsland, was sheriff of the county of Meath.

In 1435. Christopher Barnewall of Crickstown, was Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland, he was the son of Sir Wolfran de Barnewall by the daughter of the celebrated Lord Furnival. In 1462 Robert Barnewall, for his good services to the king's father when in Ireland, had a grant constituting him a baron of parliament, to hold said dignity to him and his heirs male by the title of Lord and Baron of Trimlestown, with an annuity of £10 payable by the Prior and Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, out of the farms of the Salmon-leap.and Chapelizod; and the further privilege of being of the King's Council in Ireland during life. At the same period, Sir Nicholas Barnewall of Crickstown, the lineal ancestor of Sir Aylmer Barnewail, baronet, and brother of said Robert Lord Trimlestown, was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland.

In 1474, when the brotherhood of St. George was constituted by parliament of 13 of "the most noble and worthy persons within the four shires," Barnaby Barnewal, brotber of Christopher of Crickstown C. J. of the K. B., was one of the three for the county Meath They were to assemble annually at Dublin, on St. George's day to express their zeal for English government, and thence were styled the fraternity of St. George To their captain, who was to be chosen, for one year, on their anniversary, were assigned as his train 120 archers on horseback, and 40 other horsemen with one attendant to each. The archers were to receive sixpence daily pay, the others, for themselves and their attendants, fivepence, with an annual stipend of four marks. Thus was the defence of the English pale entrusted to 200 men and 13 officers, with such tumultuary levies as

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might be raised on any sudden emergency. To support this armament the fraternity was empowered to demand 12 pence in the pound out of all merchandises sold in Ireland, except hides and the goods of freemen of Dublin and Drogheda. They were also empowered to make laws for the regulation of their society, to elect new members on vacancy, and their captain had authority to apprehend outlaws, rebels, and all who refused due obedience to law.

In 1487 Christopher, the second Lord Trimlestown, was one of the Irish nobles deceived by the pretensions of Lambert Simnel, for which, however, he received pardon in 1488. Lord Trimlestown sat in the parliament of 1490, and, attending the Earl of Kildare into Connaught, was present at the battle of Knocktow.

In 1495 Thomas Barnewall was second Baron of the Exchequer in England.

In 1509 John (afterwards third Baron of Trimlestown) was nominated second justice of the Court of King's Bench. In 1522 be was appointed Treasurer of Ireland, and High Treasurer in 1524. In 1532 he received a fee-farm grant of certain lands in the county Louth, and in 1534 was constituted Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, which office he held till his decease. The annals of the Four Masters, speaking of the invasion of Munster, by the Lord Deputy against the O'Briens, in 1510, records an engagement which took place near O'Brien's Bridge, in which, amongst others "on the English side," fell Barnewall of Crickstown. In 1536 the aforesaid Barnewall, Lord of Trimlestown, while chancellor of Ireland, was joined with Sir William Brabazon in a foray on the lands of O'Connor in Carbury. In 1537 he was one of those deputed to parley with O'Neill, on which occasion he affected a peace with that chieftain. His son Peter was solicitor general of Ireland in 1534. In the parliament of 1541 the Baron of Trimlestown was one of the sitting lords. In 1547 Patrick Barnewall, of the Kingsland line, was a sergeant-at-law, and in 1550 was [305] created Master of the Rolls, while in 1559 James Barnewall was Attorney-General for Ireland. At the hosting of Tara, Robert Barnewall attended to do military service, in right of lands in the county of Dublin; and in 1560 Patrick Barnewall, Baron of Trimlestown, was one of the sitting lords in the parliament held by the Lord Deputy Sussex.

The name of Barnewall is probably Norman and appears to have been derived from de Berneval (or Barneval or Barneville) during the 11th century or much earlier. During the 12th Century Sir Michael de Berneval or Barneval was the first of the family who settled in Ireland landing at Berehaven in the County of Cork. This was during the period of conquest of Ireland by Strongbow, in the reign of Henry II. According to records, Berneval before Strongbow landed in Leinster. He is also mentioned in the records of the Tower of London, London, England as one of the chief captains of the expedition to Ireland in 1172. Sir Michael may have been a direct descendant to Alanus de Berneval, who was a successful soldier and “Companion in Arms” to the famous Norman invader, William the Conqueror. Burkes Peerage and Baronetage gives the lineage of this family. This name is later spelled Barnewall, Barnwell or Barnwall. Even though Norman in origin the Barnewall family was in England with the Conqueror and in Ireland as early as 1172. The Irish Lineage’s of the family is as follows: Sir Michael de Berneval of Cork County and his son was: Alanus de Berneval, who left two sons, Hugo and Reginald. He was succeeded by the eldest son:

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Hugo de Berneval, who received two marks as the King’s gift for his expenses on going on into Ireland, 23rd August 1212. The King’s mandate, sent to Geoffry de Marisco, directed that Hugh de Berneval should have seisin of his land at Drumenagh and Terenure in the vale of Dublin, 12 December 1216. He d.s.p. before 24th January 1220 - 1221, when a mandate for seisin of his lands was granted to his brother and heir: Reginald de Berneval, who was restored to the lands in Drumenagh and Terenure on 24th January 1228-1229. He had a grant, 27th November 1233, of £ 20 per year for his maintenance on the King’s service (mandate dated 28th September 1234). He was succeeded by his son: Ulphram (or Wolfram) de Berneval, of Drumenagh, who was constable of Dublin Castle, 12 December 1279 - 1281, sheriff of Dublin in 1284 - 1289. He was a witness, in 1289, to a deed between Hugh Tyrell and the Prior and |Convent of the All Saints, near Dublin. He married Mary Molyneux, only daughter and heiress of Sir William Molyneux, Knight of Molagh, county Meath, and was succeeded by his son: Reginald de Berneval, of Drumenagh, who paid five shillings for Drumenagh, as subsidy to the King for the war against the Scots in 1299. He married a daughter of Sir Conway Clifford, Knight and was succeeded by his son: Reginald de Berneval, of Drumenagh. In 1309 he gave thirty shillings for the army of Loxenedy, and in 1313 he paid his service for the expedition to the Castle Keyvening, under Piers Gaveston. He died in 1331, seised of a water mill, dovecote, and profits of the Courts of Drumenagh and Terenure, county Dublin, when he was succeeded by his son: Ulphram de Berneval, of Drumenagh, who had livery of his estates, 2nd September 1331, (16) Edward III. He married Sarah daughter of Berford of Moynet, and was succeeded by his son: Reginald de Berneval, of Drumenagh, who contributed towards the expedition to Mallow, under Walter de Bermingham in 1372 and in 1374 paid royal service to the expedition to Kilkenny under William of Windsor. He married Jannetta, daughter of Cusac of Killeen, and left two sons: 1. Ulphram (or Wolfram) de Berneval, who succeeded to Drumenagh. He was living seised of the Manor of Ballythermot, in 1400. His descendants continued to reside at Drumenagh until the reign of James I, when his line terminated in an heiress, Elizabeth, daughter of Marcus Barneval of Drumenagh, who married James Barnewall of Bremore, and sold the property, 1st February 1607, to Sir Adam Loftus, Knight of Rathfarnham. 2.Nicholas de Berneval, ancestor of the baronets of Crickstown county Meath married a daughter of Clifford, and died before 1386, having had a son: Sir Christopher de Berneval, of Crickstown. The custody of forty eight shillings rent issuing out of Lucyansiston, Meath held by Nicholas de Berneval, deceased, of Roger, Earl of Ulster, the King’s Ward, and in the King’s hands by the minority of Christopher de Berneval, his son and heir, was granted to Richard Plunkett in April, 1386. Sir Christopher married Eleanor Rochford, daughter of Sir Nicholas Rochford, Knight of Rathcoffie, county Kildare, and Kilbride, county Meath and had issue: 1. Christopher De Berneval (Sir) his successor. 2. John de Berneval of Frankstown , Sheriff of Meath 1435-6, ancestor of the Viscounts of Kingsland. 3. Barnaby De Berneval one of the Barons of the Exchequer. Sir John de Berneval of Frankstown may have married Genet Netterville? and they had a son named: 1. Richard Barnewall of Fieldstown. Sir Richard Barnewall of Fieldstown married in 1479 to Catherine de la Field, daughter of John de la Field, and heiress of Fieldstown and they had a son named:

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1. Roger Barnewall married Alison Barnewall the daughter of Christopher and Elizabeth (Plunkett) Barnewall. Sir Roger Barnewall and Allison had a son named: 1. Patrick Barnewall. Sir Patrick Barnewall, of Fieldstown was granted the priory of Grace Dieu, in County Dublin, in 1540, after the dissolution. Patrick married Anne Luttrell and they had a son named: 1. Christopher Barnewall. Sir Christopher Barnewall, Knight, built Turvey House, in County Dublin, about 1565 from the ruins of Grace Dieu Abbey and he died on 05 Aug 1575 in Turvey. He married Marion Sharl the daughter of Patrick Sharl. There are spectacular tombs with effigies of him and his wife, dated 1589 in the square tower of Lusk. He had issue: 1. Sir Patrick Barnewall, ancestor of the Viscounts Barnewall of Kingsland. 2. Margaret Barnewall who married Nicholas St. Lawrence the 8th Baron of Howth.

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SOUTHWELL FAMILY

Generation One Sir Richard Southwell, Knight Born: About 1518, Windham Manor, Norfolk, England Married: (1) 1540; (2) 1543, Danbury, Essex, England Died: 1564 Parents: Father: Francis Southwell Mother: Dorothy Tendring Spouse(1): Thomasine Darcy Born: Children: 1. Elizabeth Southwell Spouse(2): Mary Darcy Parents: Father: Thomas Darcy Mother: Elizabeth De Vere Children: 2. Dorothy Southwell 3. Mary Southwell 4. Sir Richard Southwell, Knight 5. Thomas Southwell 6. Catherine Southwell [Graham-Smith01272003.GED]: Sir Richard became a very wealthy young man at the age of 10 upon the deaths of his father and uncle. In 1519 he entered the household of Sir Thomas Wyndham and shared the home with Henry Howard. Henry, a distant cousin of the Southwells by the Darcy family, would one day become the Earl of Surrey. Sir Richard was made Sheriff of Norfolk in 1534. He spent much of his life as an intimate of the royal family, which led to his being named to represent County Norfolk in Parliament in 1539. While still married to his first wife, Thomasine Darcy, he fathered two illegitimate children with Mary Darcy, whom he married after the death of Thomasine.

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Sir Richard Southwell

by Hans Holbein, the Younger, 1536 Oil on Wood

Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

The details in this biography come from the History of Parliament, a biographical dictionary of Members of the House of Commons.

Born ABT 1518/9, first son of Francis Southwell by Dorothy, dau. and coheiress of William Tendring of Little Birch, Essex; brother of Francis and Robert. Educ. L. Inn, adm. 3 Feb 1526. Married first Thomasine, dau. of Roger Darcy of Danbury, Essex; and secondly Mary, dau. of Thomas Darcy of Danbury, widow of Robert Leeche of Norwich. Succeeded family 2 Sep 1512; uncle 30 Mar 1514. Kntd. Feb/Aug 1540. J.p. Norf. 1531-54; sheriff, Norf. and Suff. 1534-5; receiver, ct. augmentations, Norf. and Suff. 24 Apr 1536-17 Jan 1542; commr. for survey of monasteries, Norf. and Suff. 1537, for suppression 1539, of Admiralty in Nov 1547, relief, Norf. and Norwich 1550; other commissions from 1535; custos rot. Norf. by Feb 1537; gen. surveyor, office of gen. surveyors by Feb 1542; second gen. surveyor, ct. gen. surveyors of the King's lands 16 Nov 1542-7; v.-treasurer of the wars Jul 1544, treasurer Aug 1544; PC 12 Mar 1547, Aug 1553-Nov 1558; steward, duchy of Lancaster, Cambs., Norf. and Suff. 1553-58/59; keeper of the armoury, Greenwich and Tower 19 Sep 1553-31 Jul 1559; master, the Ordnance 11 May 1554-31 Jul 1559.

Of Suffolk origin, the Southwells acquired Wood Rising through the marriage of Richard Southwell's grandfather and namesake, Member for Yarmouth in 1455. His father, an auditor of the Exchequer, was a younger son, but on the death of his uncle Sir Robert Southwell, a friend and servant of Henry VII, Southwell succeeded to a considerable estate. Early in 1515 his wardship was sold to Sir Robert's widow, Ursula Bohun, and William Wotton, but four years later it passed to Sir Thomas Wyndham who presumably arranged the marriage of his ward to his stepdaughter, a sister of Thomas Darcy, later 1st Baron Darcy of Chiche.

In the later part of this time of his wardship he lived with the family of his cousin, Henry Howard. In 1534 and 1535, through the influence of the Howards, Sir Richard served as Sheriff of Norfolk. Nothing further is known of Southwell's education and upbringing until his entry into Lincoln's Inn, where he retained chambers as late as 1545, when already of age, but his family had long been clients of the dukes of Norfolk and it is possible that he was brought up in

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the ducal household. He seems to have been well educated for when put in charge of Cromwell's son he is said to have personally instructed the young man in pronunciation and etymology.

Southwell was placed on the commission of the peace in 1531 but in the same year he was involved with two of his brothers in the murder of Sir William Pennington and in 1532 he was obliged to pay £1,000 for a pardon which was later confirmedby Act of Parliament (25 Hen. VIII, c.32). Cromwell seems to have helped Southwell in this affair and by 1535 he was one of the minister's trusted agents in East Anglia. It was to Cromwell's patronage that Southwell and his younger brother Robert owed their advancement in augmentations. Southwell was particularly active in the Dissolution, although his conservative sympathies appear in his appeal of Mar 1536 on behalf of Pentney priory. During the Pilgrimage of Grace the Earl of Surrey reported to his father the 3rd Duke of Norfolk that he had taken counsel from ‘my friend Mr. Southwell’ in the raising of forces in Norfolk.

Southwell's career in the Commons may have begun with the Parliament of 1536, when he would have been a likely successor to Sir James Boleyn as one of the knights for Norfolk if the disgrace of Anne Boleyn had involved her uncle's exclusion from the King's general request for the re-election of the previous Members. At the next election Southwell and Edmund Wyndham were returned for the shire on the strength of a royal nomination, although not without a challenge from Sir Edmund Knyvett; the resulting quarrel brought both Knyvett and Southwell before the Star Chamber and led Southwell to complain to Cromwell at being made to suffer for doing his duty to the King. In the event both men seem to have been consoled, Knyvett by being pricked sheriff in 1539 and Southwell by his knighthood. The damaged state of the return for Norfolk in 1542 leaves one of the names illegible, but as Southwell was a signatory of the Act for an exchange of lands between the King and the Duke of Norfolk he was probably the knight concerned; if so, he again sat with his younger brother Robert, returned for Surrey and knighted at the opening of the Parliament, as he had done in 1539 and perhaps in 1536. After the close of the first session Southwell was sent to view the fortifications of Berwick and his appointment to an embassy to Scotland in Jan 1543 probably made him miss at least part of the second session. Neither brother is known to have sat in Henry VIII's last Parliament, although one or both may have done so for a borough whose Members’ names are lost; that Richard Southwell was passed over for Norfolk could have reflected the county's desire for a change.

Between the close of Henry VIII's reign and the accession of Mary, Southwell's propensity for time-serving brought him little reward. His part in the destruction of the Earl of Surrey may have owed something to the personal friction between them during their service at Boulogne, but it was essentially a move to ingratiate himself with the King and the rising house of Seymour, to which he was related by marriage. Named by Henry one of the assistants to the executors of his will, Southwell was brought on to the Privy Council by the Protector Somerset on 12 Mar 1547. As a Catholic and a sheepmaster, however, he had little sympathy with the Protector's religious and social policies: by Jul 1548 he had been put off the full Council, being bracketed with the ‘assistants’, and in the following year he joined other conservatives in an alliance with the Earl of Warwick to overthrow the Protector. Southwell did not long maintain his restored position and when Warwick turned on the conservative party he was committed to the Tower and fined £500 ‘for certain bills of sedition written with his hand’. He sat in neither of Edward

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VI's Parliaments but as a Privy Councillor he signed Acts for the restitution of Sir William Hussey and for the fine and ransom of the Duke of Somerset during the third session of the Parliament of 1547.

Southwell also signed the device for the succession of King Edward, who gave the crown to Jane Grey and his name appears on a list thought to be of those expected to support her, but in the event he rallied to Mary who gave him charge of her armoury and restored him to the Privy Council.

He attended its sittings regularly until Dec 1555 after which he seems to have retired into Norfolk until early in 1557 when he resumed attendance. A supporter of Bishop Gardiner, he was described by Renard as the prime mover of the plan to marry the Queen to the Earl of Devon, and Sir Nicholas Throckmorton was to recall at his trial hearing Southwell (one of his judges) speak against the Spanish marriage in the Commons. He was returned for Norfolk to the first three Parliaments of the reign, taking precedence over his fellow-Councillors Sir Henry Bedingfield and Sir John Shelton. As a Councillor, it was probably he rather than his younger brother who was the ‘Sir R. Southwell’ appointed to the committee to determine whether John Foster and Alexander Nowell were eligible to sit in the Parliament of Oct 1553 and to whom on 28 Nov 1553 the bill for the confirmation of letters patent was committed on its second reading. A year later, on 26 Nov, the bill for seditious rumours was committed to him and at about the same time, when the Queen was supposedly pregnant, he is said to have burst out in the Lords:

‘Tush, my masters, what talk ye of these matters? I would have you take some order for our young master that is now coming into the world apace, lest he find us unprovided’.

He carried two bills to the Lords on 17 Dec 1554. His subsequent disappearance from the Commons may have been due to ill health or to a loss of favour at court or of influence in his shire, where both the knights in 1555 were men of Protestant sympathies.

Southwell was not reappointed to the Privy Council on the accession of Elizabeth and in Jul 1559 he surrendered his offices in exchange for an annuity of £165. He had added considerably to his inheritance, making full use of his opportunities as a surveyor and receiver, and by 1546 held over 30 manors in Norfolk alone.

The succession to his property was complicated since Sir Richard was to father two children by Mary Darcy, while still married to Thomasine Darcy, her aunt, and while she was married to the Norwich alderman Robert Leeche. It was not an uncommon practice for men of power to keep a mistress, and Sir Richard was a man of power. If Sir Richard was a friend of Henry VIII, renown for his philandering ways, we can presume they may have had similar ideas. Sir Richard, did, however, marry Mary following the death of his first wife. This is suggestive that the first marriage was an arranged, loveless union, and that he and Mary were in love. Following their marriage the couple had at least three more children.

The heir male was thus Thomas, son of Sir Robert Southwell. Southwell had settled lands on his elder son Sir Richard, as early as 1545 and in his will of 24 Jul 1561 he made no distinction between his children on the score of legitimacy. The only child of his first marriage, Elizabeth, was married to George Heneage and the only child born after his second, Catherine, was then the wife of Thomas Audley of Berechurch, Essex. Southwell bequeathed over 10,000 sheep to

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members of his family and left his personal armour to his ‘cousin and friend’ Sir Henry Bedingfield and other armour to the young 4th Duke of Norfolk, whom he named an executor: despite his betrayal of Surrey the 3rd Duke had appointed Southwell an executor of his will of 1554. Although he had not had the strength to sign his name in 1561, Southwell survived until 11 Jan 1564 and his will, to which he had added a codicil on the day of his death, was proved on 22 Jun by Norfolk, Sir Thomas Cornwallis and Francis Gawdy. Several portraits of Southwell survive.

It appears by the account of Ambrose Jermyn, Esq. in the 37th of Henry VIII, that he was lord of the following manors: Woodrising, Cranworth, Butler's, or Boteteur's in Letton; Whinburgh cum membris; Westfield, Skoultom, Carbroke, Woodhall, Carbroke Magna, or the preceptory manor, with the impropriate rectory, &c. Saham Toney, Insoken, and Outsoken, Cressingham Parva, Tottington, Campsey, and Mortimer's, Thexton, Morton cum Ringland, Kypton in Wesenham, West Rudham, Tofts, Bircham, Burnham, Lexham's, Geyton, Brancaster, Burnham Thorp, alias Wymondham's, Horsham, and Walsoken, Popinhoe in Norfolk.

Sources: N. Williams, Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk D. M. Loades, Two Tudor Conspiracies

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CHAMPION FAMILY Henry Champion Born: About 161- Married: (1) August 1647, Saybrook, Connecticut (2) March 21, 1696/97, Old Lyme,

Connecticut Died: February 17, 1708/09 Buried: Duck River Cemetery, Old Lyme, Connecticut Parents: Father: Mother: Spouse: Sarah (maiden name unknown) Born: Died: Parents: Father: Mother: Children, born in Saybrook, Connecticut 1. Sarah Champion, born 1649, married December 9, 1673 to Henry Bennett and

died March 31, 1727. 2. Mary Champion, born 1651 and married Aaron Huntley. She died December

10, 1732 age 84 (Lyme Towne Records, Book 2 page 6_. 3. Stephen Champion, born 1653 and died May 1660. 4. Henry Champion, born 1654, married in 1684 to Susanna DeWolfe and died

July 1704. 5. Thomas Champion, born April, 1656 and married August 23, 1682 to Hannah

Brockway. 6. Rachel Champion, born about 1658 and married Thomas Tanner. Spouse(2): Deborah (widow of Lewis Jones)

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Notes: Henry Champion, the immigrant ancestor, came to the American colonies and settled at Saybrook, Conn. as early as 1657. His land is described in the records of 1660, when they were first kept. Before 1660 he had sold his lot on the town plot to Jonathan Rugg. He removed, with his family, to the east side of the Connecticut river, and became one of the most active founders of Lyme, being propounded a freeman May 12, 1670. The records of that town were begun in 1674, and on June 18, 1674, a record of his land is made; he owned several lots at this time. He lived in the house which he had built on the hill just east of the meeting-house, near the old burying-ground, and he very likely was a farmer as the rest of the settlers were. His ear-mark was recorded March 24, 1673-74. In March 12, 1671, representatives of the town of New London entered a complain against Henry Champion and several of his fellow townsmen in the court at Hartford. The trouble between the town was a strip of land between Birde Brook and Niantic river, including Black Point in Lyme, which both towns claimed by virtue of previous grants. New London was fined nine pounds and Lyme five pounds, and these fines were afterwards remitted. His name occurs frequently in the records as a grantor or grantee of land. He was a witness of the will of Tobiah Colls, of Saybrook, Sept. 2, 1664, and was a beneficiary in it, as were the other two witnesses. When Sir Edmund Andros received the government of Connecticut in October, 1687, he ordered an inventory to be taken, Aug. 27, 1688, and Henry Champion's property was valued at 37 pounds. At this time he had given much of his property to his sons. Nov. 12, 1706, there is a deed of gift to his grandson Henry, eldest son of Henry, his son, in which he gives part of his home lot on Meeting House Hill, and "said Henry

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was not to put any tenant on this tract during the liftime of his grandfather or his wife Deborah," who signed the deed of consent "as per marriage agreement." His wife was probably a sister or daughter of one of the early settlers of Saybrook. His second wife was evidently very shrewd, as she induced the old man to make a very good marriage settlement on her and finally involved him in a lawsuit with the widow of his eldest son, who maintained a strong fight for her rights in the property of her husband. His second wife's name was Deborah, whom he married March 21, 1697-98. He died Feb. 17, 1708-09, said to be ninety-eight years old.

Genealogical and family history of norther 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 Publishing Company, 1910

Henry Champion of Saybrook and Lyme, Connecticut Vital Records of Lyme, Connecticut

Barbour Collection, Connecticut Vital Record, Saybrook, 1646-1850

In Saybrook Recrods, page 10, it states that Henry Champion owned the following land: One parsel lying on the East side of the Great River Connecticut, whereon a house now standeth containing by estimation six ackers, the ends abutting against the land of Morgayn Bowers South East, and the land of Joseph Jarrit North West. Also one parsell in the planting field on the East side of the Great River Connecticut, by estimation four ackers, the end abuts agains Blacke Halle River North East, and against the great Marsh South West, the side abuts against the Lance of Will Bechous North West. Prior to 1660, and previously to the foregoing record being entered, Henry had sold his lot “lying within the town plot” in Saybrook to Jonathan Rudd. This lot contained five roods, and “the one side abuts against the highway North and the other side abusts against the lands of Thomas Mirall and William Waller south the one end abuts against the land to Thomas Rood East and the other end abuts against the highway West”. This lot appears to have been the corner lot situated on the South side of the East and West road, and on the Ease side of the North and South Road. Henry and Sarah were married by the Reverend Mr. Sylvester Nash of Saybrook in August 1657. They lived in Saybrook where he assisted in the development of the town. About 1670, they moved to the east side of the Connecticut River and settled in the part of Lyme known as “Meetign House Hill”. He was admitted a freeman there on May 12, 1760 and owned land. The records were begun in 1674 and on June 18, 1674, the following entries were made:

Henry Champean’s lto one the necke beyond the little stone brook, bounded East by the highway to a little tree by the marsh fronting North to the highway, West and South by the marsh, containing aighteen ackers (18 acres), more or less;

Henry Champeon allowing John Laye Junion two ackers on the other side of the River adjoyningg to John Lay’s medow.

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Henory Champean Senior's meadow upon Russ oylande containing three ackers, three quarders more or less bounded West upon the medow of Renald Mervines, Southwardly upon the slow, North by the Coave, Eastwardly by the meadow of John Laye Senior.

Henory Champean's meadow on his home lotte contayning tow ackers (2 acres), and three guarders more or less, bounded South on the Cricke and the land of Peter Pratte, North on his own uplande, South West upon the Cove.

Henory Champean's home lot that he bought of Beltishaser (Belthazar) De Wolf, contayning ten ackers of upland more or less, bounded East on the highwaie, Northerly on John Laye Senior, and Westerly on the Cove, Southerly upon the medow of his own and the mouth of the Cricke.

Henory Champean's Calf Pasture Land containing twenty ackers more or less bounded North upon the highwaie, East upon thee commons, Southwardly upon the land of Richard Smith, Westerly on the Commons, with one dwelling house beulte (built) upon it.

Henory Champean hath laid out to him at Big Medow tow ackers and a half more or less, bounded South on the medow of Widow Waller at a pine tree, Easterly by a cricke, (creek) Northerly by the River and a little oylande. The foregoing records are dated June 18th 1674, and are recorded in the First Book of the Town Records of Lyme on pages 23 aqnd 24, under attestation of Mathew Griswould and Renald Mervines, who were the town surveyors.

According to; Genealogy of the Puritans, Hinman 520, In 1671, Henry was involved in a land dispute between the towns of Lyme and New London. Hinman also states; P 520, "Few families in the connecticut colony have been more prosperous than that of Henry champion, sen.

He built his house near the old burying ground and occupied himself chiefly with agriculture.

He married twice, had six children, and died at about the age of 97 years. The September following his death, an agreement was entered into between the heirs and the Widow Deborah regarding the distribution of the estate, and the original of this agreement has been preserved.

This is from "Champion Genealogy, P 23" This is but a meager sketch of one whose life, however obscure, has an interest for his posterity. He was not of base degree, but of independent, if not gentle, condition, and had left the green homes of Old England and her pleasant firesides, to war with wild beasts and the still fiercer Pequots, exacting a hard and scanty subsistence from the soil which he had found a howling wilderness."

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Early Marriages in Lyme, Connecticut, Before 1740

Henry Champion was married in August, in the year 1647.

Henory Champion married Debrah Jones March 21, 1697/8.

In the Lyme Town Records, Book 2, page 6, is the following: “We the heirs of Henry Champion dec’d…do mutually agree to divide the estate of our honored

father above sd. Into 4 equal shares; one to the children of Henry Champion dec’d, son of Henry aforesd; One to children of Thomas dec’d; and one to Sarah Benet, and one to Mary Huntley, daus. Of sd. Henry Champion.

Aaron Huntley on behalf of wife Henry Benet John Waide and children

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FOX FAMILY

Generation No. 1 Thomas Fox Born: About 1619, England Married: (1) About 1640; (2) 1647 Died: 1658, Concord, Massachusetts Parents: Father: Mother: Spouse(1): Rebecca Wheate? Born: Died: 1647 Parents: Father: Mother: Children of Thomas and Rebecca Wheate Fox: 1. Mary Fox, born 1642 and died 1642. 2. Elizabeth Fox, born 1642 and died 1676. She married in 1665 to John Ball,Jr. (he died

in 1675 (2d 2) 3. Eliphalet Fox, born about 1644 and died 1711. Married (1) in 1665 to Mary Wheeler; in

1681 to Mary (Stone) Hunt and lastly to May (Bishop) Coburn. Spouse(2): Hannah Brooks Born: Died: About 1690 Parents: Father: Mother: Children to Thomas and Hannah Brooks Fox: 4. Hannah Fox, born 1658 and died 1669. She married her step-brother, Daniel Lester. 5. Thomas Fox, born 1650. 6. Samuel Fox, born about 1651 and died 1727. He married (1) 1676 to Marry Moore?, (2)

Joanna Way?; (3) in 1690 to Bathshua (Rogers) Smith and (4) in 1715 to Hester Allen. 7. John Fox, born about 1653 and died 1730. He married (1) in 1678 to Sharah Larrabee;

(2) about 1690 to Hannah (Isbell) Stedman; (3) in1707 to Susannah ()arker) Forster and (4) in 1719 to Mary Lester.

8. David Fox, born about 1656. He married (1) in 1678 to Lydia Jaquith and (2) in about 1694 to Mary Hayward or Howard.

9. Isaac Fox, born about 1657 and died 1735. He married (1) in 1678 to Abigail Osborn and (2) in 1720 to Elizabeth Beebe.

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Notes: Thomas Fox was made a freeman in 1644. He appears to have been a man who stood well among his neighbors and was evidently educated above the above the average. Although “feeble and weak in body” he signed his will with his own hand, his name being neat and legible. The will dated 1658 made his wife, Hannah, executrix. She and her young sons, Thomas, Samuel and John, moved to New York, Connecticut where she became the third wife of Andrew Lester and had three son by him, Timothy 1662, Joseph 1664 and Benjamin, 1666. She later married a third husband.

The first Thoms Fox was a brother-in-law of Moses Wheate so it is very likely that his first wife was Rebecca Wheate. Possibly she was a sister of Wheate’s wife, Tamasin. He probably married her in England but possibly a sister, Rebecca, of Moses Wheate came with his family and married Thomas Fox in Concord.

In 1640 Thomas Fox was a member of the Concord Church. He lived near the “Great Swamp” north of the church on the road to Billerica.

John Ball Jr. Tailor of Watertown and Lancaster married in 1643 to Elizabeth Pierce. They had four children.

In 1676, John, Elizabeth and son, Joseph (1669-1675) were killed by Indians. In 1711 Hannah claimed £4.25s compensation for loss in witchcraft trial in 1692. It should be noted that there were two men named Thomas Fox who lived in Concord soon after

its settlement. They may be related, but proof of this is lacking Descendants of John Fox of New London, Ct. (Fourth

son of THOMAS FOX), compiled by George Henry Fox, M.D.

Generation No. 2 John Fox (Thomas1) Born: About 1653, Concord, Massachusetts Married: (1) 1678; (2) about 1683, New London, Connecticut; (3) June 2, 1678, New London,

Connecticut; (4) 1719 Died: Possibly in New London, Connecticut Spouse(1): Sarah Larrabee Born: 1660 Died: Parents: Father: Greenfield Larrabee Mother: Children of John and Sarah Larrabee Fox: 1. John Fox, born June 1, 1680, New London, Connecticut and died in 1711. He married in

1711 to Elizabeth Clark (She was born in 1679 and died in 1742). 2. Thomas Fox, born in 1682, New London, Connecticut and died young. 3. Benjamin Fox, born in 1686/1688, New London, Connecticut and died in 1746. He

married (1) to Naomi Rogers and (2) to Susannah Daniels. 4. Jonathan Fox, born about 1691, New London, Connecticut and died in 1713. He married

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Hannah (Isbell) Stedman Born: Died: Parents: Father: Robert Isbell Mother: Ann Children of John and Hannah Isbell Lester Fox: 5. Hannah Fox, born 1693 and died 1713. She married in 1712 to Samuel Fox “the

younger”.

Notes: HANNAH ISBELL, daughter of Robert and Ann ( ) Isbell, born probably Salem, Mass., about 1642. Married New London, Conn., August 6, 1668, also recorded at Killingworth, Conn., as (2) wife, Thomas Stedman, who died 1701.

Hannah (Isbell) Stedman married (2) John Fox, son of Thomas Fox.

According to New London Records "Married Thomas Stedman who had by his (2) wife, a son, John, and a daughter, Ann. Testified to by Mrs. Elizabeth Trueman and Mrs. Susanna Fox, March 4, 1708-09." Probably the reason for this testimony was to prove that Thomas Stedman married Hannah Isbell, as the New London County Court Records at Norwich, Conn., state "Thomas Stedman and Hannah Nicholls, August 6, 1668." After death of her father, Robert Isbell, her mother, Ann ( ) Isbell, married William Nicholls, so whoever made above entry of the marriage must have inadvertently written Hannah Nicholls instead of Hannah Isbell, as both New London and Killingworth Records give her name as Hannah Isbell and same marriage date, August 6, 1668. "Thomas Stedman married Hannah Isbell, daughter of Robert Isbell and step-daughter of William Nicholls." (Reference, History of New London, by Frances M. Calkins.)

Spouse(4): Mary Lester No further information known. Children of John and Mary Lester Fox: They have two children who died as infants. Notes: A sister of Sarah Larrabee, John’s first wife, was the mother of Joshua Hempstead who

in his Diary speaks of an “Uncle Fox”. Sarah, daughter of Greenfield Larrabee Hannah, daughter of Robert Isbell and widow of Thomas Stedman Mary, daughter of Daniel Lester (buried in “Ye Ancientest Burial Ground” in New London.

Generation No. 3 Benjamin Fox (John2, Thomas1) Born: About 1680, New London, Connecticut Married: (1) February 25, 1707/8; (2) January 17, 1728

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Died: Will proved March 13, 1745/46 Parents: Father: John Fox Mother: Sarah Larrabee Spouse(1): Naomi Rogers Born: 1686 Died: October 28, 1725 Parents: Father: Jonathan Rogers Mother: Naomi Burdick Children of Benjamin and Naomi Rogers Fox: 1. Thomas Fox, never married. 2. Benjamin Fox, born 1715. In 1745, he married Abigail Brockway. 3. Rachel Fox, married David Lester. 4. Jesse Fox married Alithea Chapman. 5. Sarah Fox married Jedediah Brockway. 6. Lucy Fox, died 1750. She married Charles Thompson. (handwritten note says 1736). 7. Lydia Fox, in 1736 married Peter Douglas. He was born in 1715 Spouse(2): Susanna Daniels Born: Died: Parents: Father: John Daniels Mother: Agnes Baker Children of Benjamin and Susanna Daniels Fox: 8. Hannah Fox, born 1728 and died 1793. She married Michael Powers 9. Naomi Fox. 10. Margaret Fox. 11. Daniel Fox, born about 1734. 12. Stephen Fox, born about 1736 and died about 1775. He married in 1764 to Jane

Whipple. 13. Joseph Fox, born about 1743 and died 1788. He married Elizabeth Coit. 14. Tacy Fox, born about 1744. In 1771, she married Anthony Whipple. Notes: Benjamin Fox’s will, dated February 23, 1745/46 and proved March 13, 1745/46 names wife, Susannah, sons, Thomas, Benjamin, Jesse, John, Daniel, Stephen and Joseph; daughters Sarah, Lydia Douglas, Lucy Thompson, Hannah, Margaret, Naomi and Tacy; and son-in-law, David Lester. Son, Benjamin Fox, Jr., was named executor and the inventory was dated March 17, 1745/46. In a deed of 1718, John Fox deeded son, Benjamin, a farm in Montville, calling him “my only child which it hath pleased God to continue in the land of the living.” Benjamin settled on this farm and had descendants living in Montville in 1909.

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HUBBARD FAMILY

Generation No. 1

Thomas Hubbard Born: Married: Died: May 26, 1555, England Parents: Father: Mother: Spouse: Unknown Children: 1. James Hubbard. 2. Richard Hubbard. He was christened in Mendelsham, Suffolk, England on September

13, 1562. 3. Elizabeth Hubbard. She was christened in Mendelsham, Suffolk, England on September

13, 1562. Notes: Thomas Hubbard was a gentleman residing at Horden-on-the-Hill, in Essex, England, "of good estate and great estimation," and "zealous and religious in the true service of God." Discovered by an informer to Bishop Bonner, he was seized, imprisoned and burned May 26, 1555. It is believed that the story of Thomas Highbed in Fox's Book of Martyrs, refers to him.

Generation No. 2 James Hubbard (Thomas 1) Born: Married: Died: Mendelsham, Suffolk, England Parents: Father: Thomas Hubbard Mother: Spouse: Naomi Cocke Born: Died: Mendelsham, Suffolk, England Parents: Father: Thomas Cocke Mother:

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Children: 1. Rachel Hubbard was born in England and died in Fairfield County, Connecticut. She

married John Brandish in England. (He died in Fairfield County, Connecticut. They came to America in 1622 and lived in Salem, Massachusetts, Wethersfield, Connecticut and Fairfield, Connecticut. After the death of John Brandish, Rachel married secondly Anthony Wilson of Fairfield, Connecticut. Rachel and John Brandish had four children.

2. Benjamin Hubbard. 3. James Hubbard. He was christened on August 14, 1603 in Mendelsham, Suffolk, England. 4. Sarah Hubbard, born 1598. She married John Jackson (who was born and died in

England). Sarah, the eldest daughter, and her husband, John Jackson, lived in Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. They had a son, Robert Jackson, who served four years under Oliver Cromwell.

5. Thomas Hubbard was born in 1604. He married Esther who was born and died in England. They lived in Freeman Lane, near Hosley, Southwark, London.

6. Samuel Hubbard was born May 10, 1610. Notes: James Hubbard was a yeoman of Mendelsham, Suffolk, England, 80 miles northwest of London. His Testament (printed in 1549) "which he hid in his bedstraw lest it should be found and burned in Queen Mary's days," was brought to America by his son Samuel, and is possibly in the Library of Alfred University, at Alfred Centre, NY. He and Naomi Cocke reportedly had ten children. Benjamin, James, Rachel, and Samuel came to America, but probably none of the others. Six are identified in Day's, "1000 Years of Hubbard History."

Generation No. 3 Samuel Hubbard (James2, Thomas 1) Born: May 10, 1610, Mendelsham, Suffolk, England Married: January 4, 1635/6, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Died: 1689, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island at 79 years of age. Parents: Father: Thomas Hubbard Mother: Naomi Cocke Spouse: Tacy Cooper Born: February 12, 1608/9, England Died: About 1697, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island Parents: Father: Mother: Children: 1. Naomi Hubbard was born on November 18, 1637, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut and

died November 28, 1637, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut at less than one year of age. 2. Naomi Hubband was born on October 19, 1638, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut and

died on May 5, 1643, Springsfield, Hampden, Massachusetts at 4 years of age. 3. Ruth Hubbard was born January 11, 1639/0. 4. Rachel Hubbard was born March 10, 1641/2.

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5. Samuel Hubbard was born March 25, 1644, Springsfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. He died young.

6. Bethiah Hubbard was born December 19, 1646, Springsfield, Hampden, Massachusetts and died April 17, 1707, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island at 60 years of age. She married to Joseph Clarke, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. (Joseph was born on April 2, 1643, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island and died January 11, 1727/8, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island at 83 years of age. He was christened on September 30, 1643 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island.

7. Samuel Hubbard was born on November 30, 1649, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island and died on January 20, 1670/1, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island at 21 years of age.

Notes: From the Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island and "1000 Years of Hubbard History," we learn: He says of himself: "Such was the pleasure of Jehovah towards me, I was born of good parents, my mother brought me up in the fear of the Lord, in Mendelsham, in catechising me and hearing choice ministers, & c." Oct 1633 - Salem, MA. He came this month from England. 1634 - He went to Watertown, MA, where he says he joined the church, "by giving account of my faith." Oct 1635 - With a party of about one hundred, he started to march through the wilderness to the Connecticut Valley; winter coming on before they reached their destination they suffered much from exposure, and insufficient food. Samuel Hubbard remained at Windsor during the winter where he married to Tacy Cooper by Mr. Ludlow. Tacy Cooper had come to Dorchester, MA, 9 Jun 1634, and was one of the party. In 1636, shortly after their marriage, they went to Wethersfield, CT. 10 May 1639 - Springfield, MA. He moved here at this date, in search of peace, and a church was soon gathered; he says: "I gave acct. of my faith" and that there were "five men in all...my wife soon after added." To escape persecution under the harsh laws of Massachusetts they agin moved 10 May 1647 to Fairfield, CT. His stay here was short: "God having enlightened both, but mostly my wife, into his holy ordinances of baptizing only of visible believers, and being very zealous for it, she was mostly struck at and answered two terms publicly, where I was also said to be as bad as she, and sore threatened imprisonment to Hartford jail, if not to renounce it or to remove; that Scripture came into our mouths, if they persecute you in one place, flee to another; and so we did 2 day of October, 1648, we went for Rhode Island, and arrived there 12 day. I and my wife upon manifestation of our faith were baptized by brother John Clarke, 3 day Nov 1648." 7 Aug 1651 - He was sent by the church to visit the brethren in prison at Boston, viz: John Clarke, Obadiah Holmes and John Crandall. Oct 1652 - "I and my wife had hands laid on us by brother Joseph Torrey." He was admitted Freeman of Newport, RI in 1655. 1 Oct 1657 - "Brother Obadiah Holmes and I went to the Dutch and Gravesend and to Jamaica and to Flushing and to Hamsted and to Cow Bay." They came home 15 Nov 1657. In 1664 he was chosen to be General Solicitor, in case of inability of Lawrence Turner. He writes: "My wife took up the keeping of the Lord's holy Seventh Day Sabbath. the 10th day March, 1665. I took it up 1 day April 1665; our daughter Ruth, 25 Oct 1666; Rachel, 15 Jan 1666; Bethiah, Feb 1666; our son Joseph Clarke, 23 Feb 1666." 7 Apr 1668 - "I went to Boston to public dispute with those baptised there." Jul 1668 - He wrote his cousin, John Smith, of London, from Boston, where he had been to a

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disputation: "Through God's great mercy, the Lord have given me in this wilderness, a good, diligent, careful, painful and very loving wife; we, through mercy, live comfortably, praised be God, as co- heirs together of one mind in the Lord, traveling through this wilderness to our heavenly Sion, knowing we are pilgrims as our fathers were, and good portion being content therewith. A good house, as with us judged, 25 acres of ground fenced, and four cows which give, one young heifer and three calves, and a very good mare, a trade, a carpenter, a health to follow it, and my wife very diligent and painful, praised be God. This is my joy and crown, in humility I speak of it, for God's Glory, I trust all, both sons in law and daughters are in visible order in general; but in especial manner my son Clarke and my three daughters, with my wife and about 14 walk in the observation of God's holy sanctified 7 day Sabbath, with much comfort and liberty, for so we and all ever had and yet have in this Colony." 16 Dec 1671 - He wrote to his children at Westerly, about the differences between those favoring the seventh day observance and the rest of the church. Several spoke on both sides. Mr. Hubbard gave his views. Brother Torrey said they required not my faith. Other discussion followed: "They replied fiercely, it was a tumult. J. Torrey stopped them at last." With his wife, one daughter, and four other persons he formed the first Seventh Day Baptist Church in America. He writes: "We entered into a church covenant the 23rd day of December, 1671, viz: William Hiscox, Stephen Mumford, Samuel Hubbard, Roger Baxter, sister Hubbard, sister Mumford, Rachel Langworthy," &c. Their church was not formed without a depature by their former associates from that spirit of toleration and "soul liberty" which Roger Williams claimed; for the members who united on Dec. 23, had been excommunicated Dec. 7, when the Rev. Obidiah Holmes preached against their doctrine of Seventh Day observance, and even declared "they had left Christ, and gone after Moses." There is extant a letter from Roger Williams to Samuel Hubbard, in which he argues the position taken by the latter, and cites various texts against his views; but it is written in a very different spirit from that shown by the Newport church, and recognizes the conscientious motives which actuated Hubbard. "Bro' Hiscox and I send this Church to N. London and Westerly, 7 day Mar 1675," and again March, 1677/8 and 1686. 1675 - He says: "I have a testament of my grandfather Cocke's, printed 1549, which he hid in his bedstraw, lest it be found and burned, in Queen Mary's days." 1 Nov 1675 - He wrote Mr. Henry Reeves, at Jamaica; "Very sudden and strange changes these times afford in this, our age, everywhere, as I hear and now see in N.E. God's hand seems to be stretched out against N. England, by wars by the natives, and many Englishmen fall at present." "This island doth look to ourselves as yet, by mercy not one slain, blessed be God." "My wife and 3 daughters, who are all here by reason of the Indian war, with their 15 children, desire to remember their christian love to you." Nov 1676, he writes: "In the midst of these troubles of the war [King Philip's] Lieut. Joseph Torrey, Elder of Mr. Clarke's Church, having one daughter living at Squamicut and his wife being there, he said unto me `Come, let us send a boat to Squamicut, my all is there, and part of yours.' We sent a boat, and his wife, his daughter and son in law and all their children and my two daughters, and their children [one had eight, the other three, with an apprentice boy] all came. ...My son Clarke came afterwards before winter, and my other daughter's husband in the spring, and they have all been at my house to this day." Feb 26, 1676, he writes a nephew at Rye: "I bless my God, my condition is comfortable, and I am very well contented with knowing it is more to give than to receive. ...My wife and daughter Langworthy desired me to write about flax, yet if you bring some 20 pound if at a pound of flax for a pound of wool, it's so at Stonington; if bring Indian Corn it's now 4 pound of wool a bushel and I think it wiil be more."

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Sep 2, 1677, he writes: "Truely Children for the present I am not altogether beset with thoughts (as its judged from Satan) I have been in very sore exercise, ever since br. Hiscox came to ye and a week before, occasioned by a sudden sentence of the Ch. declaring yet I have not the gift of prophesying publickly in the church tho' hereto fore judged by those brethren of the Old Ch. Yet by most here and encouraged in it, was so sorely set on, that I was horribly tempted to deny all, yet kept; but sorely harried. I pray be silent in this manner for the present." 29 Jun 1678 - He wrote Dr. Stennett, of London: "From my own house in Mayford, in Newport," &c. "Last winter the Lord visited me with a very sore cough as long as strength, and breath did last, oft 5 times together only a little respite; my dear wife oft took her farewell of me, my dear brethren watched me in their terms. Major Cranston [his physician] I sent for - he judged none help or hope for sure, but for present refreshment he gave me a small vial of spirits, which I took, and had some sleep, but my cough rather increased." He was visited by the church which drew into the other room agreeing to seek God's face for me poor one. "The next day I would have gone to town to give public praise, but was advised not to go," &c. "Our Governor died the 19th day of June, 1678, buried 20th day, all this island was invited, many others were there, judged near a thousand people, our brother Hiscox spake there excellently," &c. 1680 - Taxed 6s. 2d. In 1683, Samuel Hubbard went by water to visit friends at Rye, returning by Fairfield, Milford, New Haven, Guilford, Lyme, New London, and Westerly, arriving home after six weeks absence, Sept 25. In a letter dated May 23, 1684, he says: "What marvelous rich grace...hath made known his holy sabbath to such poor worms: first to my wife, I next, the first settlers or planters in N.E. (one brother and one sister came over with the practice of it)." 19 Dec 1686 - He wrote to John Thronton, of Providence: "My old brother who was before me, you and brother Joseph Clarke (only alive) in that ordinance of baptism, I next and my wife in New England, although we stept before you in other ordinances: Oh! let us strive still to be first in the things of God," &c. ..."My wife and I counted up this year 1686: My wife a creature 78 years, a convert 62 years, married 50 years and independent and joined to a church 52 years, a baptist 38 years, a Sabbath Keeper 21 years. I a creature of 76 years, a convert 60 years and independent and joined to a church 52 years, a baptist 38 years, a Sabbath Keeper 21 years. We are by rich grace bornup and adorned with rich mercies above many, as to have all my three daughters in the same faith and order, and 2 of their husbands and 2 of my grandaughters and their husbands also with us. O praise the Lord for his goodness endures forever! Not to us, not to us poor creatures. These may be my last lines unto you, farewell." 7 May 1688 - He wrote Richard Brooks, of Boston: "The mesles is not gone here. My daughter Rachel have them and some of her family." " From "1000 Years of Hubbard History," we learn: "Samuel Hubbard, youngest son of James and Naomi (Cocke) Hubbard, was born in Menddelsham (a market town about eighty miles northeast of London), Suffolk County, in 1610. He arrived in Salem Mass., in October, 1633, and probably came in the ship James, Grant, master, which left Gravesend, England late in August, 1633, and arrived in Massachusetts Bay October 10, 1633." "1000 Years of Hubbard History," says this about Samuel Hubbard's diary: "Copious notes were made from this diary by Dr, Isaac Backus, a Baptist historian of about 1777. These notes are now possessed by Ray Greene Huling, of New Bedford, Mass., though the original diary and other valuable manuscripts of Samuel Hubbard disappeared about 1852. There are living descendants of this Samuel Hubbard through Bethiah Hubbard and Joseph Clarke of various names, but none of the name of Hubbard." "Tacy Cooper who was born in England in 1608 and came to Dorchester, Mass., June 9, 1634,

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and to Dorchester (Windsor), Ct., in 1635. She had brothers Robert, of Yarmouth, Norfolk, and John of London, Eng. Robert returned to England from America in 1644." In May 1647, "Samuel was now with his wife imbibing freely and preaching ardently the doctrines of Anabaptism." Upon arrival in Rhode Island, 12 Oct 1648, "I and my wife upon manifestation of our faith were baptised by brother Joseph Clarke, 3 day of November, 1648." "He was a zealous Baptist and public religious disputant. For twenty three years he belonged to the First Baptist Church of Newport."

Generation No. 4

Ruth Hubbard (Samuel3, James2, Thomas 1) Born: January 11, 1639/0, Springsfield, Hampden, Massachusetts Married: November 2, 1655, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island Died: After 1690/1, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island Parents: Father: Samuel Hubbard Mother: Tacy Cooper Spouse: Robert Burdick Born: 1630 Died: 1692, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island at 62 years of age. Parents: Father: Mother: Children: 1. Unnamed son Burdick who died in 1683, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. 2. Thomas Burdick was born in 1656, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. He married (1) in

1678 to Martha in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island and (2) on February 9, 1737/8 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island to Penelope Rhodes.

3. Naomi Burdick was born in 1658, Newport, Newport, Rhodeland. On March 2, 1677/88 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, she married Jonathan Rogers. (He was born December 3, 1655 and died in 1697 at 41 years of age.)

4. Ruth Burdick was born in 1660, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. She married about 1682 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island to John Phillips.

5. Deborah Burdick was born in 1662. 6. Benjamin Burdick was born in 1666 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island and died in

1741, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island at 74 years of age. He married (1) in 1690, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island to Mary Reynolds and (2) Jane Shelly. He made a will in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island on April 25, 1736 which was probated on April 27, 1741.

7. Samuel Burdick was born in 1668 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island and died in 1756, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island at 87 years of age. He married in 1690, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island to Mary Foster. (She was born June 14, 1675 and died in 1768, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island at 93 years of age.) Samuel made a will on September 2, 1752, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island which was probated on April 30, 1756.

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8. Tacy Burdick was born in 1670, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island and died after 1746/7. She married Joseph Maxson in 1691, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. (He was born in 1672 and died September 1750, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island at 78 years of age). Joseph Maxson made a will on April 24, 1747 which was probated on October 29, 1750.

9. Robert Burdick was born in 1674, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island and died in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. He married in 1720 to Dorcas Lewis, Westerly Washington, Rhode Island.

10. Hubbard Burdick was born in 1676, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island and died in 1758, Washington County, Rhode Island at 81 years of age. He married in 1714 to Hannah Maxon, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. (Hannah died about 1752). Hubbard made a will on March 19, 1751/2 which was probated on April 19, 1758 in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island.

Notes: Robert Burdick was baptized in Newport, Newport Co, RI, November 19, 1652. Religion: religion unknown. Robert's will was probated in Westerly, Washington Co, RI, October 25, 1692. 19 Nov 1652 - Robert Burdick was baptized by Joseph Torrey. 1656 - Made a Freeman. 1 Nov 1661 - Westerly. He and Tobias Saunders were arrested by Walter Palmer, Constable, and soon after brought before Governor John Endicott, charged with forcible entry and intrusion into the bounds of Southertown, in the Pequot country. He acknowledged he was upon same land and built a small house there. They were committed to prison, both refusing to find security for appearance at General Court. 22 May 1662 - In a letter from Rhode Island to Massachusetts, mention is made of the imprisonment by the latter state of Robert Burdick and Tobias Saunders, for not producing their deeds of Narragansett lands. 18 May 1669 - His name was in a list of inhabitants of Westerly. 17 May 1671 - He took oath of allegiance. July 1675 - He and his family came to Newport on account of the Indian war, returning to Westerly subsequently. 17 Sep 1679 - He took oath of allegiance. 1680-83-85 - Served as Deputy. 25 Sep 1683 - Samuel Hubbard, having returned to Newport, from a journey to Rye, &c., detailed some events of the trip. He says, "at Westerly, the first day after the Sabbath, brother Burdick buried a son," and among others there, were grandson John Phillips, and Ruth his wife, and Bejamin Burdick; "a very great burial, above twenty horses." 17 May 1691 - He and his wife Ruth, sold John Macoone 100 acres, for 10 pounds. 8 Mar 1692 - He made an agreement with his son-in-law, Joseph Crandall, by which the latter was to take care of his father-in-law and find him with suitable meat, drink, washing, lodging, and apparel, &c., for life, in consideration of which Joseph Crandall was to have the dwelling house and land adjoining, forever, and until Robert Burdick's death, to have use also of oxen, cart, two cows and eight swine, and then to be returned to be disposed of by will, except the cart and wheels. 25 Oct 1692 - He died without perfecting his will, an agreement was made by his sons and sons-in-law. What their father had disposed of by legacy to children was to stand, and what remained, to be divided into nine parts. To son-in-law John Phillips, one part. The other eight parts to daughters Naomi Rogers and Tacy Maxson, only his wearing apparel to be divided between his

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sons, Thomas, Benjamin, and Samuel. The lands of the deceased that are undivided, to go to sons Samuel, Robert, and Hubbard Burdick. To son Thomas, two oxen and a hog. To daughter Deborah Crandall, bed, warming pan, &c. To son Benjamin, heifer, swine, and an iron pot. To son Samuel, a heifer and a swine. To son Robert, a cow. To son Hubbard, a cow. To daughter Naomi Rogers, a swine, &c. To daughter, Tacy Maxson, a swine. Inventory, 2 oxen, 2 cows, 2 heifers, 6 swine, mare, wearing apparel, warming pan, pewter, &c.

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LARRABEE FAMILY

Generation No. 1 Greenfield Larrabee Born: Married: Died: October 17, 1661 Parents: Father: Mother: Spouse: Phoebe Brown Born: October 1, 1620 Died: December 22, 1664 Parents: Father: William Brown (born November 29, 1593 and died about 1650) Mother: Jane Mills (born June 27, 1596 and died 1645) Children: 1. Sarah Larabee, born March 3, 1658, Old Saybrook, Saybrook Colony (now Middlesex

County), Connecticut. She married John Fox, son of Thomas Fox and Hannah Brooks on June 2, 1678, New Haven, Connecticut.

Thomas Fox of Concord, William Freeman Fox Savage, online

The Florence Fox Harrop Papers”, Flroence fox Collection of A. Gulbransen Robert Wylie Family History, Robert Wylie, March 1, 2003

Descendants of Thomas Fox of Concord, Simeon Moses Fox, 1909 New London Vital Statistics, online.

Corrections to Thomas Fox of Concord, Simeon Moses Fox

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MERWIN AND SMITH FAMILIES

Generation One John Merwin Born: 1490 Married: Died: Late 1553 Parents: Father: Mother: Spouse: Isabelle Bartlett Born: Died: Parents: Father: _____ Bartlett Mother: Isabelle Children: 1. Thomas Merwin, born 1525 and married a lady named Smith.

Generation No. 2 Thomas Merwin (John1) Born: 1525 Married: Buried: April 1586, Amersham, England Parents: Father: John Merwin Mother: Isabelle Bartlett (Her mother’s name was Katherine who was born 1470, and died before May 16, 1525 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England. She was buried in churchyard of Amersham. Spouse: ________ Smith No further information known Children: 1. Mary Merwin, born about August 6, 1606, Amersham, England and died after 1669,

Windsor, Connecticut. She married Robert Tinker on January 26, 1601. 2. Anthony Merwin who died about April 4, 1634.

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MUNSELL FAMILY

Generation No. 1 Thomas Munsell Born: About 1640, England Married: October 20, 1675, Winsor, Hartford, Connecticut Died: 1712, New London, New London, Connecticut Parents: Father: Mother: Spouse: Lydia Way Born: About December 1652/53, New London, New London, Connecticut Died: December 7, 1713, New London, New London, Connecticut Parents: Father: George Way (born about 1614) Mother: Elizabeth Smith (born about 1630) Children: 1. Jacob Munsell, born 1676, New London, New London, Connecticut 2. Elisha Munsell, born about 1678, Norwich, New London, Connecticut 3. John Munsell, born August 19, 1690, Lyme, New London, Connecticut 4. Thomas Munsell, born 1692, Connecticut 5. Samuel Munsell, born about 1695, New London, New London, Connecticut 6. Mary Munsell, born 1695 in New London, New London, Connecticut, married David

Huntley (see Huntley information for more detail) 7. Deliverance Munsell, born about 1696, New London, New London, Connecticut 8. Mercy Munsell, born about 1700, New London, New London, Connecticut 9. Abigail Munsell, born about 1702, New London, New London, Connecticut. Notes: Thomas Munsell was on record as a resident of New London, New London, Connecticut

in 1681. The Munsells resided in New London, Connecticut in the portion known as the Great Neck. Thomas was a carpenter.

From various records, it appears that the Ways were Quaker. The Will of John Bancroft of Windsor, Connecticut on May 15, 1744 was witnessed by Jacob

Munsell, Mary Phelps, Sarah Segar Legatees: wife Rachel – John, son of Thomas, brother, Cosiah Munsell (Keziah?)

Thomas Munsell married Lydia Way, daughter of George Way, sometime after October 20, 1675. Thomas and Lydia were charged with cohabiting – Newport, Rhode Island Court Book A. Thomas owned himself guilty to they were married sometime thereafter. Information found on page 537, Way section of The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell” Court records found in Newport, Rhode Island Court Book A:24/6

The Diary of Joshua Hempsted (New London Histocial Society Collections Vol. I, 1901) lists the following banns published at New London: Mercy Munsell and Thomas Leach, March 1, 1712; Deliverance Munsell and John Smith, May 31, 1713 and Mary Munsell and David Huntley, July 1, 1916.

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Lydia Way Munsell died at the age of 80 from drowning in a well. Sterns, “Genealogy and Family History of New Hampshire”

Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell 1844-1910, Dean Crawford Smith, edited by Melinda Lutz Sanborn, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1992

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ROGERS FAMILY

Generation No. 1

James Rogers (John2, William1) Born: 1615, Dedham, England Married: Died: February 16, 1686, New London, Connecticut Parents: Father: John Rogers Mother: Spouse: Elizabeth Rowland Born: 1620 Died: 1709, New London, Connecticut Parents: Father: Samuel Rowland Mother: Children: 1. Jonathan Rogers, born December 31, 1655, Milford, Connecticut and died 1697, Gull

Island. 2. Joseph Rogers, born May 14, 1656, Milford, Connecticut and died 1697, Waterford,

Connecticut. 3. Elizabeth Rogers, born April 15, 1658, New London, Connecticut and died June 10,

1716. She married Samuel Beebe, February 9, 1681, New London, Connecticut. Samuel Beebe died in July 1741, Plum Island, New York.

Generation No. 2

Jonathan Rogers (James3, John2, William1) Born: December 31, 1655, Milford, Connecticut Married: March 2, 1677, Westerly, Rhode Island Died: 1697, Gull Island Parents: Father: James Rogers Mother: Elizabeth Rowland Spouse: Naomi Burdick Born: 1658, Newport, Rhode Island Died: June 1732, New London, Connecticut Parents: Father: Robert Burdick Mother: Ruth Hubbard Children:

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1. Ruth Rogers, born in 1678, New London, New London, Connecticut and died in 1718. She married William Beebe about 1692 in New London, New London, Connecticut. (He was born in 1670/71, New London, New London, Connecticut and died December 27, 1750, New London, New London, Connecticut. He was the son of Samuel Beebe.)

2. Elizabeth Rogers, born 1681, New London, New London, Connecticut. She married James Smith on January 8, 1702. (He was born May 4, 1674, New London, New London, Connecticut, was christened April 12, 1674, New London, New London, Connecticut and died October 3, 1750. He was the son of Richard Smith and Bathsheba Rogers.)

3. Naomi Rogers, born 1686, New London, New London, Connecticut and died October 20, 1725, New London, New London, Connecticut. She married Benjamin Fox on February 25, 1708, New London, New London, Connecticut. (He was born 1688, New London, New London, Connecticut and died February 26, 1756, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut.)

4. Content Rogers, born 1688, New London, New London, Connecticut and died July 1768, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. She married (1) May 1, 1707, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island to Jonathan Maxon (he was born in 1680, New London, New London, Connecticut and died November 20, 1732, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. He was the son of John Maxon and Mary Mosher.). Content married (1) to Richard Lake and (3) on January 24, 1756 to Timothy Peckham.

5. Jonathan Rogers, born 1690, New London, New London, Connecticut and died 1777, New London, New London, Connecticut. He married Judith Potter on November 24, 1711, New London, New London, Connecticut. (She was born in 1691 and was the daughter of Ichabod Potter and Margaret Helme).

6. Rachel Rogers, born 1692, New London, New London, Connecticut and died in 1754. She married Samuel Fox “the younger” on November 28, 1714, New London, New London, Connecticut. (He was born about 1691 and died in 1745. He was the son of Samuel Fox and Bathsheba Rogers.)

7. Katherine Rogers, born 1694, New London, New London, Connecticut. She married William Brookfield on April 15, 1720. (He was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey).

The following is from Backus' history of the Baptists, vol. 1, published in Boston in 1777.

"A new sect came out from among the Baptists about this time, who have caused not a little trouble to themselves and others, of whom 1 have collected the following brief account, chiefly from the letters preserved by Mr. Samuel Hubbard. In the close of the year 1674, the family of Mr. James Rogers of New London, called Mr. Crandal over from Westerly, who preached among them, and baptized his sons John and James, and an Indian named Japhet. This alarmed the other denomination, and Mr. Bradstreet, minister at New London, said be hoped the next court would take a course with them. They sent to Newport, and elder Hickox, Mr. Hubbard and his son Clarke were sent to visit them in March, 1675, when Jonathan Rogers was also baptized, and all four of them were received as members of their church by prayer and laying on of hands. Hereupon John Rogers' father-in-Law, took his wife and children from him; and upon her complaints against him, he was carried before their deputy governor, and committed to Hartford goal, from whence he wrote to Mr. Hubbard, April 6th, 1675. How long he continued there I do not find, only he visited the church at Newport, the next September. On September 18th, 1676, those four members went with a boat, and brought elder Hickox and Mr. Hubbard to New London again, when old Mr. Rogers, his wife, and daughter,

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were all baptized and received into that church; whereupon they were called before the magistrate, but were soon released; though-from that time they began to imprison the Rogerses for working on the first day of the week. and when Mr. Hickox and Mr. Hubbard visited them again, and held worship with them two miles out of town, on their sabbath, Nov. 23, 1677, and Joseph Rogers' wife had next morning given them a satisfying account of her experiences, John must needs have them go up to town to baptize her there. Mr. Hubbard opposed it, but John carried the day; and while Mr. Hickox was preaching at town, the constable came and took him, and they all went before the magistrate; where also was the minister, Mr. Bradstreet, who had much to say about the good way their fathers had set up. Upon which Mr. Hubbard, obtaining leave to speak, said, `you are a young man, but I am an old planter of about forty years, a beginner of Connecticut, and have been persecuted for my conscience from this colony, and I can assure you, that the old beginners were not for persecution, but we had liberty at first.' After further discourse, the magistrate said could you not do it elsewhere? `A good answer,' says Mr. Hubbard and so they were released and went to Samuel Rogers' house, where his brother John put himself forward, prayed, and then went out to the water and baptized his sister: upon which Mr. Hickox was seized again, as supposing he had done it, but John came before the magistrate, and was forward to make known his act therein; so the others were released and returned home." "Jonathan Rogers, had married Naomi Burdick, grand daughter to Mr. Hubbard, and on March 2, 1678, elder Hickox baptized her at Westerly, together with James Babcock, George Lamphere, and two others, and on the 5th of May following, Joseph Clarke wrote from thence to his father Hubbard, that John and James Rogers with their lather were in prison; having previously excommunicated Jonathan, chiefly because he did not retain their judgment, of the unlawfulness of using medicine, nor accuse himself before authority, for working on the first day of the week." Hereupon the church at Newport sent messengers to New London about this matter, who reported on their return that, "a practice was started up (out of conscience,) that because the world, yea, most professors, pray in their families mornings and nights, and before meats and after, in a customary way, therefore to forbear prayer in their families, or at meats publickly except some are led forth upon some special occasion; saying they find no command in the word of God for it.' ..... "The church repeatedly sent and labored with them but to no effect." ..... "From this-beginning proceeded a sect which has continued to this day, who from their chief leader have been called Rogerenes. In their dialect, and many other things, they have been like the first Q.uakers in this country (?) though they have retained the external use of baptism and the supper, and have been singular in refusing the use of means and medicines for their bodies. Their greatest zeal has been discovered going from meeting to meeting, and from town to town, as far as Norwich and Lebanon, (the one 14, the other 24 miles,) to testify against hireling teachers, and against keeping the first day of the week as a sabbath, which they call the idol sabbath. And when the authority have taken them up and fined them therefor, and have sometimes whipt them for refusing to pay it, they have soon published accounts of all such persecutions, which has been the very means of keeping their sect alive. When the Small Pox was very terrible in Boston, in 1721, and great fear of it was discovered in the country, John Rogers their founder, was confident he could go in where it was and not catch it: and to prove his faith, went 100 miles to Boston, but catched the distemper, came home and died with it, and scattered it in his family: yet his successors still kept on in their way. So late down as 1763, some of

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them repeatedly came and clapped shingles and pieces of boards around the meeting house in Norwich town, as well as delivered messages to the worshippers against their keeping of the Lord's day ..... Besides these there have been some sabbatarian Baptists in that place, from the beginning to the present time, though not a distinct church."

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TINKER FAMILY

Generation No. 1 Randall Tinker (Possible Name) Born: Married: Died: Parents: Father: Mother: Spouse: Unknown Child of Randall Tinker: 1. Robert Tinker born in 1565, Cluar Parish, New Windsor, Berkshire, England and died

June 2, 1624, New Windsor, Berkshire, England.

Generation No. 2 Robert Tinker (Randall1) Born: 1565, Cluar Parish, New Windsor, Berkshire, England Married: (2) February 13, 1590/91, New Windsor, Berkshire, England; (2) January 26, 1601,

Amersham, Buckhamshire, England Died: June 2, 1624, New Windsor, Berkshire, England Parents: Father: Randall Tinker? Mother: Spouse(1): Agnes/Anne Berrington Born: October 10, 1568, Cluar Parish, New Windsor, Berkshire, England Died: December 1600, New Windsor, Berkshire, England Parents: Father: Thomas Berrignton Mother: Dorothy Matthew Spouse(2): Mary Merwin Born: About 1575, Amersham, England Died: After 1669, Windsor, Connecticut Parents: Father: Thomas Merwin Mother: ___ Smith Children:

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1. Sarah Tinker, born November 22, 1601, New Windsor, England and died May 1, 1617, New Windsor, England.

2. Helen Tinker, born 1604, New Windsor, England and married William Hubbard. 3. Mary Tinker, born August 6, 1606, New Windsor, Berkshire, England and died after

1669, Norwalk, Connecticut. She married on November 1, 1627, New Windsor, Berkshire, England to Matthew St. John Sension. (He was born in 1605, Berkshire, England and died October 19, 1669, Norwalk, Connecticut. She married secondly to Amos Richardson.

4. Robert Tinker, born February 20, 1608, Cluar Parish, New Windsor, Berkshire, England and died February 12, 1626, New Windsor, England.

5. Rhoda Tinker, born June 16, 1611, Cluar Parish, New Windsor, Berkshire, England and died before August 6, 1694, Windsor, Connecticut. She married (1) to Thomas Hobbs; (2) to Walter Hoyt (he died about 1646 in an accident at sea) and (3) Walter Hoyt (he died before January 10, 1698/99, Norwalk, Connecticut or Windsor, Connecticut.

6. John Tinker, born July 13, 1613, Cluar Parish, New Windsor, Berkshire, England or Yorkshire and died October 21, 1662, Hartford, Connecticut. He married (1) Alice Homan Smith by December 9, 1649 or 1651, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. (She was the daughter of John Homan Smith and Mary. She was born December 20, 1629, England and died November 29, 1714, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. He married (2) Sarah Wilshire Barnes on July 1648, Boston, Massachusetts (she was born between August 1620-1627, London and died in the summer of 1648 in Boston, Massachusetts.

7. Anne Tinker, born July 21, 1616, Cluar Parish, New Windsor, Berkshire, England and died before 1683. She married in, St. Margaret Moses, London to Thomas Thornton. (He was born about 1607 and died February 15, 1700, Boston, Massachusetts.

8. Sarah Tinker, born July 26, 1619, Cluar Parish, New Windsor, Berkshire, England and died June 5, 1652, Scituate, Massachusetts. She married about 1638 to Thomas King who died September 24, 1691, Scituate, Massachusetts.

Notes: John Tinker's mother, Mary Merwin, came to New England from New Windsor, Berkshire, England, remarried Humphrey Collins and moved to Windsor, Conn, with 4 acres on the Farmington River next.to Bascombe and Sension.

Generation No. 3

John Tinker (Randall1, Robert2) Born: July 13, 1613, Cluar Parish, New Windsor, Berkshire, England or Yorkshire Married: (1) by December 9, 1649-1641, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; (2) July 1648, Boston, Massachusetts Died: October 21, 1662, Hartford, Connecticut Buried: Center Cemetery Parents: Father: Robert Tinker Mother: Mary Merwin Spouse: Alice Homan Smith

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Born: December 20, 1629, England Died: November 29, 1714, Lyme, New London, Connecticut Parents: Father: John Homan Smith (Abt. 1603 – Btwn. 1628-1713) Mother: Mary Children 1. Sarah Tinker, born January 2, 1651, Lancaster, Suffolk, Massachusetts 2. Mary Tinker, born July 2, 1653, Lancaster, Massachusetts. 3. John Tinker, born August 14, 1655, Lancaster, Massachusetts. 4. Amos Tinker, born October 28, 1657, New London, New London, Connecticut. 5. Samuel Tinker, born April 1659/60, Lyme, New London, Connecticut 6. Son Tinker, born March 28, 1660, New London, New London, Connecticut. 7. Rhoda Tinker, born February 23, 1662, New London, New London, Connecticut. Spouse(2): Sarah Wilshire Barnes Born: Between August 1620-1627, London Died: Summer 1648, Boston, Massachusetts Parents: Father: Mother: He married (2) Sarah Wilshire Barnes on July 1648, Boston, Massachusetts (she was born between August 1620-1627, London and died in the summer of 1648 in Boston, Massachusetts

Generation No. 4 Samuel Tinker (Randall1, Robert2, John3) Born: April 1, 1659, New London, Connecticut Married: June 1, 1682 Died: April 28, 1733, Lyme, New London, Connecticut Parents: Father: John Tinker Mother: Alice Homan Smith Spouse: Abigail Durant Born: Died: December 24, 1728, Southold, Long Island, New York Parents: Father: George Durant Mother: Elizabeth Blake Children: 1. Jordon Tinker, born about 1683, New London, New London, Connecticut. 2. John Tinker, born about 1685. 3. Samuel Tinker, born about 1687 and died November 19, 1791. 4. Abigail Tinker, born 1689, New London, New London, Connecticut.

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5. Alice Tinker, born about 1693, New London, New London, Connecticut. 6. Mary Tinker, born 1695, New London, New London, Connecticut 7. Rhoda Tinker, born February 23, 1697 and died February 18, 1776. 8. Elizabeth Tinker, born 1697, New London, New London, Connecticut and married to

January 7, 1728 to Mathew Lirzonry.

Generation No. 5 Samuel Tinker (Randall1, Robert2, John3, Samuel4) Born: About 1702 Married: November 19, 1721 Died: February 28, 1755, Lyme, New London, Connecticut Parents: Father: Samuel Tinker Mother: Abigail Durant Spouse: Jemima Smith Born: Died: Parents: Father: John Smith Mother: Mary Children: 1. Tamor or Temperance Tinker, born August 4, 1722, Lyme, New London, Connecticut

and died 1743. 2. Mary Tinker, born December 1, 1724, Lyme, Connecticut and married on December 2,

1742 to David Huntley. 3. Samuel Tinker, born June 11, 1727. 4. Seth Tinker, born November 5, 1730, Lyme, New London, Connecticut and married on

June 21, 1756, Lyme, New London, Connecticut to Elizabeth Harris. 5. Abigail Tinker, born October 1732, Lyme, New London, Connecticut and died May 13,

1751. She married on April 16, 1750 to Josiah Smith

Notes: John Tinker was baptised as "son of Robert Tinker"; 18 July 1613 at New Windsor, Berkshire. John Tinker's mother came to NE FROM NEW WINDSOR, BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND remarried Humphrey Collins and moved to Windsor, Conn, with 4 acres on the Farmington River next to Bascombe and Sension. His mother was Mary Merwin

Gave his eldest son the name Randall suggests he related to Randall Tinker, clerk of choir at St. George's Chapel, Windsor (There was also a Philip Tinker floating around connected to the choir; confessor to King's household. Robert married first Anne Berrington and then Mary Merwin, daughter of Thomas Merwin of Amersham Parrish married at Amersham 6 Jan 1600/1. 1615 he is working in the church as warden. Jan 23, 1622 will dated leaving property in Clewer and Winkfield. Second wife Alice Smith came over on the Planter with her brother "settling Sudbury and Lancaster". Alice Smith b.29 Dec 1629 in England

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It is said that John came to the new world in 1637 on the ship Planter. John died while on a business trip. One source said he was the Assistant to Governor Winthrop of Connecticut. He also wrote letters to Governor Winthrop of Massachusetts. After John's first wife died, he was to bring up her younger child. In 1640, he bought 1/6 interest in the ship, Susan and Ellen to carry supplies to the Connecticut Colony. He then settled in Windsor, owning land in Wethersfield, Conn. With partners he was given liberty to make pitch and tarre.. About 1648, he moved to Boston and married. He was in England in the spring and summer of 1653.where he saw Wm. Wiklsheer,the Ironmonger on Pissing Alley in Bredstreet, London. There seems to be some question where John and Alice's children were born. Louis Burns says that the first 4 were born in Lancaster, Suffolk, Mass. while the second Amos and Samuel were born in New London, New London, Conn. The material from the Church of the Latterday Saints have Sarah, John,& Amos born in Lancaster, Suffolk, England with Mary, Amos, baby son, Samuel, and Rhoda born in Lancaster, Worcester, Mass. John was an, agent of Governor Winthrop's family, and public official. He was a man of great enterprise and character as well as considerable management ability. In 1638-1640 several people gave him power of attorney to handle their affairs in New Windsor and Workingham, Berkshire when he went to England. He helped to establish the town of Groton . I n 1655 he was fined for selling strong water to Indians. He had traded them for furs. In 1652 , as an attorney-at-law. he won a suit in the Middlesex Court. His title of Mr. or Master, very rare in those days, is evidence that he was either a graduate of a university or had high social rank in England. As John should have been so trusted and honored, indicates not only his own high character but throws a favorable light on his antecedents.John was a writer of a petition to England to gain right to start the plantation of Groton, MA.

JOHN TINKER

John Tinker born about 1614(1) appears in the records of Boston, MA as early as 1635. He is said to have been born in England. We know that his mother was living in the Colonies in 1639, for while on a business trip to England, John Tinker

wrote a report or letter to John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and enclosed a "letter to my mother" and asked the Governor to see that she received it. It did not mention her name. A Sarah Tinker aged 15 came to Boston in the ship "Blessing" in July 1635, her name listed with the William Vassel family, she may have been a relative of John Tinker.

John Tinker was consistently referred to in the Records as "Master Tinker" or "Mr. Tinker", a term reserved for those who are either exceptionally well educated or hold a high social position. John Tinker's social position in England is unknown, but he was a highly educated man. He acted as an Attorney for many of the most prominent men of Boston. He was a scrivener and wrote many legal documents extant today. He acted as a confidential business agent for John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, for many years, and was possibly even part of the Winthrop household. His name was included on an undated tailor's bill sent to Governor Winthrop as receiving several articles of clothing. Other names on this bill were Winthrop family members and others in the household, it was endorsed by Gov. Winthrop "ffamilye Bill".

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He was a trader or merchant, conducting business with the Indians locally and engaging in the shipping trade with England and the West Indies. He owned a part interest in the ship "Susan and Ellen" and traveled at times as "supercargo"(2) on that ship and others. He entered partnerships with several of the sons of Gov. Winthrop at various times, but his particular friend was John Winthrop Jr who was instrumental in convincing John Tinker to move to the new community of Pequot or New London, in the Connecticut Colony.

By 1640 Capt. John Tinker was among those listed as land owners in the town of Wethersfield(3). It is not known if he ever lived there, but he did leave Boston for Connecticut in 1640(4).

In 1643 He formed a partnership with John Griffen and Michael Humphrey of Windsor to manufacture pitch and tar(5) and to collect turpentine(6). These products were needed by the British Navy and were nearly the only product that England allowed to be exported from the Colonies.(7) Tinker owned large tracts of land in that part of Windsor called Massaco, which later became Simsbury, CT. He returned to Boston by 1648 and divested himself of the Windsor land holdings in 1654(8).

The Aspinwall Notarial records of Boston verified the divorce of a Sarah Barnes from her husband William Barnes by Order of the Court dated 6 (4) 1648(9). Sarah had been deserted by Her husband, William Barnes "of Glouster", and according to the law at that time she was able to obtain a divorce after a period of three years. The divorce was not recorded until 29 (8),1649, and the record immediately following this certifies the marriage of Sarah Barnes to John Tinker. The very next record concerned the property of John Tinker's wife Sarah, and referred to Gregory Willshere of Breadstreet, in London,(10) Ironmonger, as Tinker's "trusty and welbeloved brother". "A letter dated April 1, 1653, from Robert Hawthorne of Bray, to his brother William Hawthorne of New

England was addressed to the care of Mr Tinker at Wm. Willsheers house, Ironmonger....in Bredstreet, London."(11) It would seem then, that John Tinker's first wife was SARAH [WILLSHERE] BARNES, sister of Gregory Willshere or Wiltshire.

At the time the records were recorded Sarah [Willshere] Barnes Tinker had already died. Only three weeks had passed from the date of the divorce until Sarah's Inventory in Suffolk County Records was taken 22 (5) 1648. The inventory and Will from records of Suffolk County, MA are erroneously listed under the name of Henry Kemball(12).

Sarah [Wiltshire] Barnes Tinker had two daughters at the time of her death, Mary and Alice(13). The eldest daughter was entrusted to the care of Richard Cooke, tailor of Boston, and the younger daughter to the care of John Tinker. It is possible that the wife of Richard Cooke might be the sister of Sarah. In 1651 the Inventory of one Henry Sandyes(14) mentions debts owed to a very great number of people throughout the state of Massachusetts, including John Tinker and "Jno Tinker's other wife's sister" indicating that Sarah [Willshere] Barnes Tinker had a sister living in the Boston area at that time.

John Tinker married before Dec. 9, 1649 as his second wife ALICE SMITH daughter of John and Mary [____] Smith of Boston, Sudbury and Lancaster, MA, born Nov. 20, 1629 and died in Lyme, CT on her birthday, Nov. 20, 1714, at age 85(15). While the record of John Tinker's second marriage has not been found, there is an entry in Aspinwall's Notarial Records in which both

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John and Alice act as witnesses to a land transaction in which Amos Richardson was the attorney, dated Dec. 9, 1649. On this date Alice signed her name Alice Tinker.

Although he was listed as an original proprietor of Groton or Groaten, MA along with brothers in law Richard Smith and Amos Richardson, he lived there only a short time if at all(16). Amos Richardson, tailor, remained in Boston, Richard Smith moved to Sudbury and John Tinker located in Lancaster.

The family was in Lancaster, MA by 1655 and lived there through 1659. John Tinker was granted a sizable real estate holding to entice him to that area. His education and skills in government were needed. He was Clerk of the Town during his entire residence in that place. He never relinquished his private enterprise and remained a trader with the Indians. He was even termed "the Nashaway Trader", Nashaway being the Indian name for the Lancaster area. In 1659, John Tinker sold his land and future rights to land in Lancaster, to Major Simon Willard(17), and removed to Pequot in the Connecticut Colony.

Some of the most important men in the Boston, Lancaster, MA areas organized themselves into a group termed "The Atherton Partners" and purchased a large tract of land in the "Narragansett Lands" an area that was something of a buffer zone between the colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut. The Atherton Partners were John Winthrop Jr., Major Humphrey Atherton, Capt. Hutchinson, William Hudson, John Tinker, Amos Richardson, and Richard Smith Sr, but the presence in the Pequot area of several men called at various times Richard Smith Sr. precludes a positive identification of the Richard Smith in the Atherton Company as the same man from Sudbury and Lancaster. Both John Tinker and Amos Richardson were married to sisters of Richard Smith(18). Amos Richardson in 1653 deals with a millwright in Boston whom he called brother and later brother in law. John Tinker, in a 1659 letter to Governor John Winthrop Jr. in Hartford stated that he had just arrived in Pequot and his wife's brother had moved to Pequot with him. Pending an agreement on terms, John Tinker proposed that his brother in law might help the Governor to keep his Saw-Mill working over the winter. Subsequent letters indicate that the proposal was never acted upon. Alice [Smith] Tinker's brother was Richard Smith of Boston, Groton, Sudbury and Lancaster, MA and later of Lyme, CT. He was termed a "Millwright" in Lancaster, MA(19). Amos Richardson and Richard Smith had land dealings in Saybrook and Amos Richardson signed over to Master Richard Smith all interest and right to land in Saybrook which he had received by deed from John Comstock, signed April 9, 1660. The land appeared in the Saybrook records as there had not yet been a separation making Saybrook and Lyme distinct jurisdictions. Before his death John Tinker gave Amos Richardson a deed for 240 acres of land "on the east side of the river" in trust for his eldest son, an action usually reserved for a relative.

In 1659 the area called Pequot encompassed what today is Groton, Stonington, New London, Waterford, Niantic and parts of Saybrook later called Lyme. John Tinker's land holdings or rights to land were scattered, and were in areas that stretched from the "Narragansett lands", now Rhode Island, to Stonington, CT and along the coast to Saybrook, CT(20). His major business holdings, wharfs and warehouses, were located in the town of New London where he resided with his family.

There is an original document in the Connecticut Archives(21) that was written in the hand of John Tinker himself in which, Mateteamo, a Chief of the Mohegan Indians, for love and

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affection gave a gift of land to John Tinker on Dec. 30, 1659. A tract of land was also granted to John Tinker by the Town of New London in October 1659(22).

In Pequot John Tinker was active in local and Colonial government as well as Ecclesiastical affairs. Richard Blinman, the minister of the First Congregational Church of New London, left the area soon after John Tinker arrived. Before leaving, Rev. Richard Blinman sold to John Tinker, The Harbour's Mouth Farm, located on the west side of the mouth of the Thames River. Today this area can be identified as being at Great Neck, near Pleasure Beach, Waterford, CT. The Harbour's Mouth Farm was later called "Tinker's Farm"(23). The town was without a minister for some time and John Tinker frequently served the congregation as a preacher until the new minister arrived(24). He also carried on his shipping trade business and in 1660 John Tinker was licensed by the Colony to distill and sell liquor in New London and to suppress by law anyone else attempting to do the same. He was granted a monopoly in this area(25).

The government of the Colony of Connecticut was located at Hartford, CT. The Governor, the Council, and the General Court, conducted the business of the Colony. There was a need to oversee the civil matters at the local level too and before "County Courts" were established in 1666, "Assistants" were appointed in major communities to hold court and direct the Government business. In May 1660 the General Court at Hartford granted New London the right to have an Assistant and Commissioners with power to hold Court on small cases. John Tinker was appointed Assistant for the New London area along with Commissioners, Obediah Bruen, James Rogers, Lt. Smith (Samuel) and John Smith(26).

Serving in the capacity of Chief Magistrate of the Court at New London, John Tinker evidently refused to prosecute an individual who had allegedly made derogatory remarks about the King of England(27). This caused three overly zealous men to accuse John himself of a treasonous act. They were William Thompson, the Indian Missionary, Richard Haughton, and William Morton, the Constable. John Tinker brought charges against his accusers for defamation. He died while attending the General Court session at Hartford in October 1662, before the suit had been resolved. The charges of treason against John Tinker were regarded by the court to have no substance and the men who had sought to malign his character sustained fines. The moderator hearing the charges at the trial of Constable Morton, answered Morton's demand for "justice for the king" by saying to Morton "he should have justice, if it were to hang half a dusen of you."(28)

As an expression of respect, the expense of John Tinker's last illness and funeral amounting to £8-6-4 was assumed by the Public Treasury of the Colony of Connecticut by vote of the General Court. He was probably buried in the Center Church Yard in Hartford, as were many of the important men of the Colony in the early days, even though their residence was in another part of the Colony. If there was a stone for John Tinker, it no longer exists.

In 1663, much too long after the death of John Tinker, it became evident that the widow Tinker was "with child". Since this was not to be tolerated in a Puritan Community, Alice was forced to face the Court and be examined(29). It is not clear who made the complaint, but Alice admitted the circumstance and further shocked the community by stating that the father of her unborn child was the 21 year old son of the former minister, Jeremiah Blinman. Alice paid a fine. In other Court cases there was frequently a choice of punishment, a woman could be forced to wear some sort of identification pinned to her bonnet proclaiming her sin, but for affluent sinners, the Court was satisfied to exact punishment in the form of money, the usual fine for "impurity" being

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£5. It is probable that the Court accepted Alice's statement about Jeremiah Blinman, as he too paid a fine of £5 in 1663. But Jeremiah was not the father of the child, and we will never know why he was thus accused. The father was Lt. Samuel Smith, one of the commissioners of New London, and a married man. It was thought that a women in labor would be unable to lie about the paternity of her child. The Court so firmly believed this evidence, that it was sufficient to cause a man to become legally responsible for the financial support of a child when he was identified under these circumstances(30). Perhaps this was what led Samuel Smith to desert his wife and move to Virginia and finally the Carolinas, perhaps he feared the censure of his peers, but more likely he simply did not want to face up to such an unsettling circumstance. Smith spent a great deal of time at the local Tavern and evidently talked freely as a result. When his wife, Rebecca, applied for a divorce on grounds of desertion, there were letters and depositions supplied that indicated that Samuel Smith had told numerous people that he must leave town before Mrs. Tinker's baby was born, as he was responsible(31). It would even seem that he took the daughter of the local Tavern owner with him when he left. There were also documents saying Samuel Smith offered to pay a significant sum of money, a reward, to anyone who would take the child and deliver it to him, whether it was weaned or not. So it is the more surprising that several printed sources feign ignorance to the reason that Lt. Smith left town and even suggest that it was an act of self sacrifice on his part to allow his wife to marry another man. Rebecca Smith received her divorce in 1667, returned to her family in Wethersfield, and did indeed marry again.

Alice Tinker had a child in the spring of 1664. She then remarried before Jan. 27, 1664/5(32) to Attorney and Scrivener, William Measure. William Measure was born about 1636(33), died on Mar. 24, 1688(34) and his Inventory, registered in Boston, MA was dated July 27, 1688. Gov.E. Andros granted Administration to his relict, Alice, on Jun. 26, 1688. George Dennison, a magistrate of Stonington, CT, was ordered to appear at the Court at Hartford as a result of performing this marriage. Frances Caulkins speculated that it was because of the "scandalous behavior of Alice Tinker"(35) but in her book Miss Caulkins says it was because Capt. Dennison had received his commission from Massachusetts Colony and Connecticut probably did not consider that he had the authority to perform the marriage. What ever the case, George Dennison had a long history of refusing to submit to Connecticut authority, and it will be noted that he refused to appear before the Connecticut Court to answer these charges against him.

William and Alice [Smith] Tinker Measure took the Tinker children and moved to Lyme, CT. soon after their marriage. William Measure's name appears frequently in Town records and it is clear that he was very active in civic affairs. At a Lyme Town meeting on Jan. 18, 1680/81 William Measure was granted the license to run "an ordinary" or an Inn. At the same meeting "Mr. Wm Measure was chosen and Agreed with to keep A Schoole and to teach Children to Read Wright and Cost Accounting According to theire Capasitys" (36).

Amos and Samuel Tinker as well as Alice and William Measure obtained land from the Town of Lyme "by grant". It was by right of John Tinker, who must have been a proprietor of Lyme, as in later divisions of the town property, descendants of John Tinker received headrights by virtue of being descendants of John Tinker. John Tinker Jr. never claimed the land in Stonington or Groton that was put in trust for him by his father, and that land was sold years later by Samuel Tinker with approval of the Court(37). John Tinker Jr does not appear in any record after the death of his father. So on Jun. 18, 1688 when Amos Tinker presented a grievance at a Lyme Town Meeting because his brother John Tinker, deceased, had not received his portion of the land in

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the fourth division, the fact that the Town did grant land to John Tinker (Jr) indicates "head rights"(38). At a much later date land was laid out in the right of Mary as "daughter of John Tinker"(39). This was after Mary's death and the only reason for mentioning her father would be to establish her right to the land. It is something of a mystery that William Measure did not marry Alice before the birth of Sarah, but possibly as long as Alice remained the legal widow of John Tinker, the law looked upon all of her children as children of John. Sarah [Tinker] Hudson, claimed her "headright" in land of the fourth division of Lyme by virtue of being "daughter of John Tinker"(40). All of John Tinker's heirs received grants of land in Lyme, with the exception of Rhoda. The only knowledge of Rhoda is her birth and mention of her in her father's will.

CHILDREN:John and Alice [Smith] Tinker

1. SARAH TINKER born Boston Jan. 2, 1652(41) died there Aug. 28, 1652(42).

2. MARY TINKER born Boston July 2,1653(43) baptized First Congregational Church Boston July 8, 1653(44). In Lyme, CT Mary married 1. about 1676 WILLIAM WALLER JR. son of Ensign William and Elizabeth [Marvin] Waller born about 1650. The couple had three daughters before William died about 1681. Sometime in December 1685 she married 2. JAMES STANCLIFT. See Appendix A:WALLER

3. JOHN TINKER born Boston Aug. 4, 1655 baptized there Sept. 3, 1655 mentioned in father's will in 1662. No further records. He died before June 18, 1688 when his brothers demanded and received an allotment of land "in the right of their brother, John Tinker deceased", in the fourth division of Lyme.

4. AMOS TINKER born Lancaster, MA Oct. 28, 1657(45) baptized First Church of Boston May 16, 1658 (16 day 3mo) died New London, CT May 8, 1730 in his 73rd year(46) buried in "Ye Towne's Antientest Burial Place" New London, CT married Lyme, CT June 1, 1682(47) SARAH DURANT daughter of George and Elizabeth [Blake] Durant of Lyme and Middletown, CT. He lived in the Lyme area until the death of his mother and then returned to New London.

5. SAMUEL TINKER born Lancaster, MA or New London, CT April 1, 1659(48) died Lyme, CT Apr. 28, 1733 and buried Duck River Cemetery, Lyme, CT under a stone carved by William Stanclift(49). He married ABIGAIL DURANT daughter of George and Elizabeth [Blake] Durant of Lyme and Middletown, CT who died Southold, Long Island Dec. 24, 1728(50). Samuel lived Lyme, CT until sometime after 1692, he moved to Shelter Island and then to Southold, Long Island, NY. After the death of his wife he returned to Lyme, CT to live with his son, Samuel.

6. MALE- TINKER born New London, CT April 1, 1660. Alice was ill before the child was born and according to a letter written by John Tinker in New London to John Winthrop (Jr), Governor of the Connecticut Colony in Hartford, she wanted little to eat other than oatmeal. This was in short supply and John Tinker asked the governor to send some as soon as possible. The wife of Governor Winthrop sent the oatmeal from Hartford for Alice. John wrote to extend his thanks in a letter dated (12: 1mo; 1659/60) Mar. 12, 1659/60 and mentioned that the baby was due very soon. In a subsequent letter dated (4th: 2mo: 1660) or April 4, 1660 John Tinker told Gov. Winthrop "My wife through Gods mercy, was delivered the last Lords day, erly in the morning of a sonne"(51). Interesting that this was exactly one year to the day from the date of Samuel's birth as listed in Lancaster, MA Records. No further records of this child have ever

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been found, and the fact that John Tinker's death was included in Lancaster, MA records when he died in Connecticut, brings up the possibility that Samuel's birth may have also been registered in Lancaster records even though he was born in New London, but with an error in year. The confusion in the records concerning the birthdate of Samuel Tinker makes it likely that this was Samuel.

7. RHODA TINKER born New London, CT Feb. 23, 1661, mentioned in father's Probate records as an heir, but no further record of her has been found.

8. SARAH TINKER born New London or Lyme,(52) CT in the spring of 1664(53) died Sept. 11, 1746(54) buried Presbyterian Cemetery, Brookhaven, Long Island married Lyme, CT Jun. 17, 1686(55) JONATHAN HUDSON born 1658 and died April 5, 1729 aged 71 years and buried in the "Old Quaker Burying Ground" or Sylvester Manor Cemetery, Shelter Island, Long Island, NY. Sarah was listed in the Lyme Land Records as "daughter of John Tinker", and received a headright allowance of land commensurate with that given to an heir of an original proprietor.

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Footnotes:

1. .Appearing in Boston in 1635, already a well educated man, might indicate a University education gained in England before coming to the Colonies.

2. .A "supercargo" was the business manager or overseer, and the one responsible for the cargo, in John Tinker's case he was also the owner of a significant portion of that cargo.

3. .GENEALOGIES AND BIOGRAPHIES OF ANCIENT WETHERSFIELD by Stiles, Page 705

4. .In THE WINTHROP PAPERS, A letter written by John Tinker to Governor John Winthrop, dated Mar. 10, 1640, had an endorsement by Gov. Winthrop which said "Jo: Tinker, at his depture to Conetecutt".

5. .PUBLIC RECORDS OF THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT 1665-1678 by J. Hammond Trumbell, Page 114

6. .GENEALOGIES AND BIOGRAPHIES OF ANCIENT WINDSOR by Stiles, Page 416

7. .HISTORY OF SIMSBURY, GRANBY AND CANTON by Noah Phelps, page 89

8. .ibid Page 765

9. .EARLY HISTORY OF BOSTON Vol.32; Aspinwall Notarial Records, Records of William Aspinwall Recorder of the Suffolk County Court 1644 through 1651, Page 251. The month in ( ), year starts Mar. 25. A SEARCH FOR POWER, The Weaker Sex in Seventeenth-Century New England, by Lyle Koehler, Appendix 1, No.5, cites the date of the divorce as 1647. The application for divorce filed by Sarah against William Barnes of Gloucester was filed 19 (8) 1647.

10. 10.Breadstreet was where some of the Stancliffes lived in London at that time.

11. .THE ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS OF JOSEPH WESCOT TINKER, A Descendant of John Tinker of Boston, 1638, compiled by James Libbie, 1900, page 10.

12. .See NEHGR Vol.7, Page 174 for the abstract of the Estate. Also see TAG 11:50 which concludes that in examining the original documents, the Estates were distinct and separate and that the inclusion of the abstract of Sarah [Wiltshire] Barnes Tinker's Estate under this name was an error.

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13. .NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT AND VICINITY EARLY FAMILIES, Compiled by Charles Dyer Parkhurst in 36 Volumes. Vol. 27, page 117

14. .NEHGR October 1853, Suffolk County Wills, Page 335-6

15. .THE DIARY OF JOSHUA HEMSTED, Collections of the New London County Historical Society, Vol I, page 40 "Ms Measurs Amos Tinkers Mother died....We made ye Coffin for his Mothr. Very aged woman of 85 years to a day. She was buried between Meetings."

16. .HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF GROTON by Caleb Butler, Page 13

17. .HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF HARVARD, MA by Henry S. Nourse, 1874, page 15

18. 8.In the Genealogy of AMOS RICHARDSON OF BOSTON AND STONINGTON by Rosell L. Richardson, the author does not believe that the wife of Amos was really Mary Smith, daughter of John Smith of Boston and Sudbury, nor does he believe that Richard Smith in Atherton Company is the same man found in Groton and Sudbury, MA. While the identification of the Richard Smith of the Atherton Company is not clear, it does seem certain that Richard Smith, brother of Alice [Smith] Tinker was in the area. Charles Dyer Parkhurst of New London , CT, Donald Lines Jacobus and William Durant have all researched the family and have all accepted Mary Smith as wife of Amos Richardson.

19. .THE ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS OF JOSEPH WESCOT TINKER, A Descendant of John Tinker of Boston, 1638, compiled by James Libbie, 1900, page 10 "About 1659, however there came a Richard Smith and family to Lyme, Conn., from Lancaster, MA where he appears as a millwright, and was closely associated Mr Tinker...."

20. .John Tinker and Richard Smith listed among "First Settlers of Lyme".

21. .Connecticut Archives Series II, Indians Volume 1, Document 57a

22. .NEW LONDON LAND AND PROPERTY Vol.5, page 98

23. .New London Land and Property Vol.8, page 38

24. .EARLY HISTORY OF THE FIRST CHURCH OF NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT by Rev. S. Leroy Blake, page 93

25. .PUBLIC RECORDS OF THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT with notes and Appendix by J. Hammond Trumbell A. M. 1852, page 360

26. .PUBLIC RECORDS OF THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT with notes and Appendix by J. Hammond Trumbell A. M. 1852, page 347

27. .HISTORY OF NEW LONDON by Frances Manwaring Caulkins, page 149-150, protest of William Morton, constable of New London and one of the accusers of John Tinker.

28. .Taken from a statement made by William Thompson in 1664.

29. .New London Court Records 1661-1667 "Presentments" page 27 Dated March 17, 1663/4 on the same page of Court records is an order to sell so much of Lt. Samuel Smith's property as may be needed to pay his debts. Seems to indicate that he has already left town, so would guess the time about 1-2 months before the child of Alice was due.

30. .A SEARCH FOR POWER, The Weaker Sex in Seventeenth-Century New England, by Lyle Koehler, page 185.

31. .Connecticut Archives, Series I, Crimes and Misdemeanors Vol. III Documents 194 through 210. There were letters written by Samuel Smith to his wife Rebecca, letters written by the Town fathers to coax Lt. Smith to return, but there were also many unflattering depositions.

32. .NEW LONDON TOWN RECORDS, Page 132 indicating sale of land that had been granted to John Tinker and signed by William Measure and his wife Alice Measure on Jan. 27 1664. Note that in the old calendar January would be at the end of the year, so if the child was born in May 1664, it would be before this January date.

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33. .NEW LONDON COUNTY COURT RECORDS Vol.VII page 80. On Feb. 23, 1663/4 William Measure aged 28 gave testimony in a court case.

34. .GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND by James Savage, Vol.III, page 193. William was the only entry under the name Measure/Masuer.

35. .Private notes of Frances Manwaring Caulkins, housed at the New London Historical Society.

36. .Lyme Records 1667-1730, Compiled and Edited by Jean Chandler Burr, 1968, page 38.

37. .NEW LONDON LAND AND PROPERTY Vol.5, page 98. Sept. 30, 1684 Samuel Tinker with approval of the Court sold the land left with Amos Richardson by his father and specifies that it was land granted to his father in Oct. 1659.

38. .The right to land inherited by an heir of an original proprietor of Lyme, CT was sometimes referred to in Lyme Land Records as "head rights".

39. .LYME LAND AND PROPERTY RECORDS Vol. 5, page 279, Dated Apr. 12, 1735

40. .LYME LAND AND PROPERTY RECORDS Vol. 5, page 19 Deed of Sale from Sarah Hudson widow of Jonathan Hudson to John Tillitson dated June 8, 1731.

41. .A REPORT OF THE RECORD COMMISSIONERS, Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths 1630-1699; City Document No. 130 page 33

42. .A REPORT OF THE RECORD COMMISSIONERS, Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths 1630-1699; City Document No. 130 page 37

43. .A REPORT OF THE RECORD COMMISSIONERS, Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths 1630-1699; City Document No. 130 Town Records page 40

44. .A REPORT OF THE RECORD COMMISSIONERS, Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths 1630-1699; City Document No. 130 First Church Records page 44

45. .LANCASTER RECORDS, by Henry S. Noure, APPENDIX page 452

46. .Cedar Grove Cemetery Publication Vol I, No.3, page 244

47. .Lyme Land Records LLR1, page 95.

48. .This date listed in the Hartford District Probate Records, Vol III, page 3-4 of John Tinker and repeated in the LANCASTER RECORDS, by Henry S. Noure, APPENDIX page 452. The Durant manuscript states that Samuel was born in New London same date. Samuel's gravestone indicates he was born 1663, which is an error.

49. .This is a triple arched brownstone with lettering only and still easily read "HERE LYETH Ye BODY OF SAMUEL TINKER SENr DIED APRIL Ye 28 1733 IN Ye 71 YEAR OF HIS AGE" which would have put his birthyear at 1663. This date in error as Samuel listed in father's probate records in 1662. THE ANCESTORS OF SILAS TINKER IN AMERICA by A. B. Tinker, 1889, page 8, agrees with date, but says he was in his 75th year, no source given for the statement.

50. .Salmon Records of Southold, LI

51. .Letter in THE WINTHROP PAPERS from John Tinker dated 4th: 2 mo: 1660 saying that a son was born the previous Sunday, and according to the Minor Diary 1660 "The second month is Aprile 30 days & sabath day the first and sabath day the 8.".

52. .LYME LAND AND PROPERTY RECORDS Vol. 5, page 19, specified that she was born in Lyme, but other records indicate Alice and William Measure lived New London this date.

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53. .Date based on March date of mother's Court appearance, Samuel Smith's statement that he had but nine weeks before the child was born and must leave town, and the fact that he had left town by March, when Court ordered some of his property sold to satisfy his debts.

54. .The stone for Sarah Hudson widow of Jonathan Hudson, clearly reads age 72, which after considering all related facts must be considered an error and should read 82. A child born 1674 could in no way be considered a daughter of John Tinker, specially since her mother was married to William Measure that date, and aged 45. If born 1674, she was married at age 12 and had first child at age 13, while not impossible, that is certainly not likely.

55. .VITAL RECORDS OF LYME, CONNECTICUT, Taken from the Land Records of Lyme, Literally Transcribed under the Direction of Verne M. Hall and Elizabeth B. Plimpton, page 234 or LLR1:135. Children of Jonathan and Sarah [Tinker] Hudson born Lyme LLR1:33; SARAH born Mar. 27, 1687; DEBRAH born Oct. 27, 1688; JONATHAN born Jan. 6, 1689; HANNAH born Apr. 6, 1693.

It is said that John came to the new world in 1637 .

John died while on a business trip. One source said he was the Assistant to Governor Winthrop of Connecticut. He also wrote letters to Governor Winthrop of Massachusetts. After John's first wife died, he was to bring up her younger child. In 1640 he bought 1/6 interest in the ship, SUSAN AND ELLEN to carry supplies to the Connecticut Colony. He then settled in Windsor, owning land in Wethersfield,Conn. With partners he was given liberty to make pitch and tarre.. About 1648, he moved to Boston and married. He was in England in the spring and summer of 1653.where he saw Wm. Wiklsheer,the Ironmonger on Pissing Alley in Bredstreet, London

There seems to be some question where John and Alice's children were born. Louis Burns says that the first 4 were born in Lancaster, Suffolk, Mass. while the second Amos and Samuel were born in New London, New London, Conn. The material from the Church of the Latterday Saints have Sarah, John,& Amos 1 born in Lancaster, Suffolk, England with Mary, Amos2,baby son, Samuel, and Rhoda born in Lancaster, Worcester, Mass.

John was an, agent of Governor Winthrop's family, and public offcial. He was a man of great enterprise and character as well as considerable management ability. In 1638-1640 several people gave him power of attorney to handle their affairs in New Windsor and Workingham, Berkshire when he went to England. He helped to establish the town of Groton . In 1655 he was fined for selling strong water to Indians. He had traded them for furs. In 1652 , as an attorney-at-law. he won a suit in the Middlesex Court.

His title of Mr. or Master, very rare in those days, is evidence that he was either a graduate of a university or had high social rank in England. As John should have been so trusted and honored, indicates not only his own high character but throws a favorable light on his antecedents.

Another Source:. Immigrant to New England. By the terms of his father's will in 1623, John was to inherit a messuage or tenement in Burnham, Bucks, following his mother's death or remarriage. Sometime prior to 1638 he and his mother, the widow Mary Collins, immigrated to New England, settling first probably at Dorchester, where two of his married sisters, Mary Sension and Anne Thornton, already resided. He may have come by 1636, possibly with John Hawthorne and William Knight, both of erkshire, who settled then in Salem. In 1638, John Tinker returned to England on business, commissioned by Governor Winthrop to look after his affairs in England. In 1640, he returned from England and settled in Windsor, CT, where his mother & several sisters then resided. They were joined there by Tinker's nephew, Miles

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Merwin; the two may have sailed from England together. John Tinker acquired a 26-acre tract of land with housing at Poqonnoc in Windsor on the east side of the Rivulet or Farmington River. Walter Hoyt, then of Windsor and his probable brother-in-law, owned a 50-acre tract opposite Tinker's farm. On 14 Apr 1654, then a resident of Boston since 1648, Tinker sold these premises to Edward Griswold, Thos Holcomb and Samuel Phelps. Besides this property in Windsor, Tinker also owned a houselot and other lands in Wethersfield. On 3 May 1654, John Tinker was made a freeman of the Mass Bay Colony. About 1655, he moved to Lancaster, where he served as town clerk and selectman. In August 1659, JohnTinker moved with his family to New London, CT, where he settled on a 240-acre farm on the east side of the Thames River, within present-day Groton. He took charge of the disorganized affairs of Governor John Winthrop the younger, traveling often to Boston and Hartford. He served as Moderator of the Town Meeting and Deputy to the General Court for New London. His estate amounted to 145 pounds 15 shillings.

Note: His estate amounted to 145 pounds and 15 shillings. On 10 Mar 1663/4 the Connecticut General Court ordered that the charge and expenses of his sickness and funerall shall be paid by the Publique Treasure and was 8,6.4 pounds.

With others , he petitioned the General Court to establish Groton, Mass. On Jul 23,1655 it was granted and John was appointed a town selectman for 2 years. About 1655, he moved from Boston to Lancaster and was a town clerk and a selectman. On Nov 13,1655 he was fined ten shillings for selling a gill of strong water to 3 Indians. On Oct 19,1958 he contracted with the General Court for the fur trade of Lancaster and Groton. In August of 1659 he moved his family to New London. Here he took charge of the affairs of Governor John Winthrop the younger, going to Boston and Hartford. On Feb 25, 1659/60 he was Moderator of the New London Town Meeting and served as a Deputy to the General Court there in1660. On May 17,1660, he was chosen by the Court as an Assistant [or magistrate] for New London for the ensuing year. He also sat on bankruptcy and appraised estates. Event: appointed 9/1657-selectman & clerk Lancaster, Mass.

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Generation One

John Wolterton Born: 1520 Married: Died: 1605 Parents: Father: Mother: Spouse: Ann Born: 1530 Died: 1614 Parents: Father: Mother: Children: 1. Richard Wolterton, born about 1550, Welbourne, Norfolk, England and died

about 1618. He was married to Mary Beasley on February 4, 1577/78, Heigham, England. She died about 1590.

Generation 2

Richard Wolterton (John1) Born: About 1550, Welbourne, Norfolk, England Married: February 4, 1577/78, Heigham, England Died: About 1618

Parents: Father: Mother: Spouse: Mary Beasley Born: Died: About 1590 Parents: Father: Mother:

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Children: 1. Sarah Wolterton, born in October, 1583, Hingham, Norfolk, England and died

after 1657, Hartford, Connecticut. She married Thomas Waller about 1600 (he was born about 1580 in England and died before 1657.

Generation 3

Thomas Waller (Richard2, John1) Born: About 1580, England Married: About 1600 Died: Before 1657 Parents: Father: Mother: Sarah Wolterton Born: October 1582, Hingham, Norfolk, England Died: After 1657, Hartford, Connecticut Parents: Father: Mother: Children: 1. Bridget Waller (See Brockway line for more information) Notes: Sarah Wolterton was baptized at Heigham, Norfolk, England on October 5, 1582, the daughter of Richard and Mary (Bensley) Wolterton. She married Thomas Waller in the early 1600's and had at least 4 children: Richard, Bridget, Matthew and William. Her sons, Matthew and William were early settlers in Salem Massachusetts. It is not known when Sarah came to New England or if her husband also came here. She was a widow Waller, living at her brother, Gregory Wolterton's at Hartford, Connecticut, in December 1657. Sarah's grandson, Wolston Brockway, (her daughter Bridget's younger son) began appearing in Saybrook records in 1659. He may have come over with his grandmother or Waller cousins. There is also the chance that Bridget was also here with a second husband. Waller, Thomas ( -by 1657) & Sarah Wolterton (bp 1582-1658+); m. c1603 probably Norfolk, England.

Supplement to Torrey's New England Marriages prior to 1700, by Melinde Lutz Sanborn, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1991, pg.65.

There is a marriage record for Bridget Waller and William Brockway in 1628 at St. Giles Without Cripple Gate, London, Bridget is the daughter of Thomas Waller and Sarah Wolterton. Two of Bridget;s brothers, Mathew and William Waller went to New England and both eventually settled in Lyme, CT. Wolston's Maternal Grandmother, Sarah Woltertlon Waller came to CT and was seen by a Medical Doctor at the home of her

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Brother, Gregory Wolterton. He was an early settler of Hartford, CT. He mentions Wolston and his oldest son, William in his Will. When the first Church was being built in Lyme, one of Wolston's Waller Uncles came to him and told him that the stakes for the Meeting House were partly on his land. Much later a Brockway girl mentions in her Will leaving something to Cousin Waller. Also, Wolston and Hannah named on of their girls, Bridget. It is said that the name was not very much used in those days.

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INDEX

(Briggs), Mary (___ - ___), 6 (Browne), Jone (___ - ___), 27 (Champion), Sarah (___ - ___), 53 (Homan Smith), Mary (___ - ___), 95 (Wolterton), Ann (1530 - 1614), 108 Barnewall, Margaret (1556 - ___), 40 Bartlett, Isabelle (___ - ___), 86 Beasley, Mary (___ - Abt. 1590), 108 Bermingham, Anne (___ - ___), 39 Briggs, Hannah (Abt. 1642 - 1686/87), 6 Briggs, William (___ - ___), 6 Brockway, Jedediah (1713 - ___), 10 Brockway, Naomi (1753 - ___), 11 Brockway, Richard (1673 - 1761), 9 Brockway, William (1585 - 1641), 6 Brockway, Wolston (1638 - 1717), 6 Brooks, Hannah (__ - 1690), 58 Brown, Phoebe (1620 - 1664), 80 Brown, William (1533 - 1613), 27 Brown, William (1593 - 1650), 80 Browne, John (Abt. 1500 - Bfe. 1546), 27 Browne, Joseph (1562 - 1633), 27 Browne, Phoebe (1620 - December 22,

1664), 27 Browne, William (1593 - 1650), 27 Burdett, Robert (1507 - 1558), 29 Burdett, Samuel (1620 - 1664), 30 Burdett, Thomas (1535 - ___), 29, 30 Burdick, Naomi (1658 - 1732), 89 Burdick, Robert (1630 - 1692), 72 Burdick, Robert I (1630 - 1692), 31 Champion, Henry (___ - 1709), 53 Cockayne, Elizabeth (1515 - ___), 29 Cooper, Tacy (1609 - Abt. 1697), 68 Cumerworth, Anne (1503 - ___), 30 Darcy, Mary (___ - ___), 48 Durant, Abigail (___ - 1728), 95 Elsick, Magdaline (1538 - 1604), 27 Fox, Benjamin (Abt. 1680 - 1745), 60 Fox, John (Abt. 1653 - __), 59 Fox, Rachel (___ - 1718), 9 Fox, Sarah (1721 - __), 11 Fox, Thomas (Abt. 1619 - 1658), 58 Homan Smith, Alice (1629 - 1714), 94 Homan Smith, John (Abt. 1603 - Btwn.

1628 - 1713), 95

Hubbard, James (___ - ___), 67 Hubbard, Ruth (1639 - 1691), 31 Hubbard, Ruth (1639 - Aft 1691), 72 Hubbard, Samuel (1610 - 1689), 68 Hubbard, Thomas (___ - 1555), 67 Larrabee, Greenfield (___ - 1661), 80 Larrabee, Sarah (1658 - ___), 80 Larrabee, Sarah (1660 - ___), 59 Merwin, John (1490 - 1553), 86 Merwin, Mary (Abt. 1575 - Aft. 1669), 93 Merwin, Thomas (1525 - 1586), 86 Mills, Jane (1596 - 1645), 27, 80 Montgomery, Jane (1598 - 1678), 42 Munsell, Thomas (Abt. 1640 - 1712), 87 Patching, Margery (1563 - 1605), 27 Plunkett, Elizabeth (___ - ___), 39 Plunkett, Sir John (___ - ___), 39 Rogers, James (1615 - __), 89 Rogers, John (___ - ___), 89 Rogers, Jonathan (1655 - 1697), 89 Rogers, Naomi (1686 - 1725), 61, 90 Rowland, Elizabeth (1620 - 1709), 89 Rowland, Samuel (___ - ___), 89 Saint Lawrence, Christopher (___ - ___), 39 Saint Lawrence, Christopher “the blind

Lord” (1518 - 1589), 39 Smith, Jemima (___ - ___), 96 Southwell, Francis (___ - ___), 48 Southwell, Sir Richard (1518 - 1564), 48 St. Lawrence, Christopher (Abt. 1576 -

1619), 41 St. Lawrence, Frances (1617 - ___), 30 St. Lawrence, Frances (Abt. 1617 - Abt.

1664), 42 St. Lawrence, Nicholas (1597 - 1644), 41 St. Lawrence. Sir Nicholas (Abt. 1555 -

___), 40 Tendring, Dorothy (___ - ___), 48 Tinker, John (1613 - 1662), 94 Tinker, Randall (___ - ___), 93 Tinker, Robert (1565 - 1624), 93 Tinker, Samuel (1659 -1733), 95 Tinker, Samuel (Abt. 1702 - 1755), 96 Waller, Bridget (1617.18 - ___), 6 Waller, Thomas (Abt. 1580 - Bef. 1657),

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Way, Lydia (Abt. 1652 - 1713), 87 Wentworth, Elizabeth (Abt. 1575 - 1629),

41 Wilson, Thomas (1500 - ___), 30

Wilson. Ann (1570 - ___), 30 Wolterton, John (1520 - 1605), 108 Wolterton, Richard (Abt. 1550 - Abt. 1618),

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