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GENEALOGICAL GLEANINGS
IN ENGLAND
ABSTRACTS OF WILLS RELATING TO EARLY AMERICAN
FAMILIES, WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND
PEDIGREES CONSTRUCTED FROM
THE WILLS AND FROM OTHER RECORDS
By
HENRY F. WATERS, A.M.
With the Addition of
GENEALOGICAL GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND
(New Series) A-Anyon (1907)
VOLUME I
Baltimore GENEALOGICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
1969
Originally Published in Serial Form
New England Historical and Genealogical Register
July, 1883 — January, 1899
First Published Complete in Book Form
New-England Historic Genealogical Society
Boston, 1901
Reprinted with Permission
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Genealogical Gleanings in England
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By Henry F. Waters
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PUBLISHER'S NOTICE
The indexes of persons and places mentioned in these two volumes will be found on pages 1449-1643 in Volume II, just as they were originally published in 1901. The publisher has added the New Series, which was originally published in 1907, on pages 1645-1760 following the indexes; since the entries in the New Series were in alphabetical order, it was deemed unnecessary to add an index to the New Series.
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CONTENTS
VOLUME I Page
Henry F. Waters, Portrait and Autograph Frontispiece
Publisher's Notice v
Illustrations and Pedigrees, A List ix
Introduction by John T. Hassam xi
Genealogical Gleanings in England 1
VOLUME II
Illustrations and Pedigrees, A List v
Genealogical Gleanings in England 845
Index of Persons 1451
Index of Places 1593
New Series: Genealogical Gleanings in England 1645
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VOLUME I Page
Henry F. Waters, Portrait and Autograph Frontispiece
Publisher's Notice v
Illustrations and Pedigrees, A List ix
Introduction by John T. Hassam xi
Genealogical Gleanings in England 1
VOLUME II
Illustrations and Pedigrees, A List v
Genealogical Gleanings in England 845
Index of Persons 1451
Index of Places 1593
New Series: Genealogical Gleanings in England 1645
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ILLUSTRATIONS AND PEDIGREES.
VOL. I.
Page Henry F. Waters's Portrait and Autograph .... Frontispiece
The Early Home of John Harvard's Mother 180
Garsden Church 455
Washington Memorial Stone 399
Washington Tablet 455
Arms. Nicholson ........... 101
Washington impaling Butler 399
Fac-similes. Part of John Washington's Will and Probate, with George
Washington's endorsement ...... 523
Seal on Release of Mount Vernon estate, Va. . . . 523
Record of apprenticeship of Thomas Harvard to William Coxe, and of his admission as Freeman of the Cloth- workers' Company of London ...... 206
Autographs. William Byrd 103
John Harvard ......... xii
Thomas Stegge ......... 103
John West 151
Map showing Tring, Herts, and Luton, Bedfordshire, and Vicinity, 357
Tabular Pedigrees. Alsop 427
Ames ......... 279
Archedale ........ 318
Bedle 25
Brereton ........ 15
Brindley ........ 15
Brinley ......... 14
Bulkley 2«6
Burnell 568
Cogan ......... 351
Collins ......... 25
Cotton 92
Crane . . . . . 213
Crane ....„..,. 226
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Tabular Pedigrees. Disbrowe 250
Disbrowe ........ 251
Fawknor 99
Fenwick ........ 42
Hall 687
Harrison ........ 446
Haynes 453
Home 155
Houghton 258
Jadwyn 582
Jolliffe 262
Light 712
Lisle 91
Moody ......... 97
Morley 568
Piilmer 306
Palmer 327
Pemberton 331
Quiney 198
Rasing 182
Rogers 209
Rogers 213
Springett 576
Stagg 61
Thomson 67
Warnet 40
Washington 396
Willis 599
Woodhall 53
XI
INTRODUCTION.
The efforts made by the New England Historic Genealogi- cal Society, through its Committee on English Research, to pro- cure funds sufficient to enable it to make an exhaustive search of the English Records, on a plan never before attempted, for every- thing which concerns the family history of the early settlers of this country ; its great good fortune in securing the services of the eminent antiquary, Henry FitzGilbert Waters : his pecul- iar qualifications for the task, and the superiority of the method adopted by him, are all set forth in the New England Histori- cal and Genealogical Register for July, 1883 (xxxvii., 305) ; July, 1884 (xxxviii., 339) ; and January, 1888 (xlii., 40).
Mr. Waters sailed for England May 5, 1883, and at once en- tered upon his great work. The step thus taken was a most im- portant one, and marked a new departure in genealogical research. The notes printed in the Register for July, 1883 (xxxvii., 233), were the results of Mr. Waters's first few days' work among the records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Somerset House, London. They arrived here barely in time for publication in that number of the Register, and were a foretaste of what was to come. Before a twelvemonth had passed he had accumulated a vast amount of historical and genealogical material, including abstracts of more than six hundred wills relating to American families, and he has since then industriously added to his inval- uable collections, until they are now unequalled both in extent and in importance.
Some of the results of his researches, under the title of " Genea- logical Gleanings in England," have been given to the public in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, the organ of the Society. It has now been deemed advisable to reprint some of these " Gleanings " in a form more convenient for reference. The present volumes include the various instalments published in the Register from July, 1883, to January, 1899, inclusive.
In addition to these genealogical researches, Mr. Waters has made historical discoveries of the highest value. We owe to him the finding of the Winthrop map and the Maverick MS., two of
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the most important contributions made in our day to our early colonial history. For an account of the former, the reader is re- ferred to the "Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society " for June, 1884 (xxi., 211), and the Register for July, 1884 (xxxviii., 342). The Maverick MS. was printed in the "Proceed- ings of the Massachusetts Historical Society" for October, 1884 (xxi., 231), and in the Register for January, 1885 (xxxix., 33). These discoveries excited great attention among historical students, not only in this country, but also in England.
Mr. Waters also contributed "Papers in Egerton MS. 2395," to the Register for April, 1886 (xl., 175) ; the will of Alexander Selkirk — the real Robinson Crusoe — to the Register for Octo- ber, 1896 (1., 539), and the will of Thomas Hobson, carrier ("Hobson's choice, that or none"), to the Register for October, 1898 (Hi., 487). A facsimile of the will of Alexander Selkirk may be found in the Register for April, 1897 (li., 150).
Mr. Waters also made a most valuable collection of " Extracts from Marriage Licenses granted by the Bishop of London, 1598 to 1639," which he intended should be printed in the Register as an instalment of these Gleanings, but being unable, much to his regret, "to get it before the genealogical world through that chan- nel," and as it seemed to him "too valuable not to be published," he contributed it to the Historical Collections of the Essex Insti- tute (xxviii., 57-150).
To some of the various instalments of Gleanings published in the Register I added certain explanatory remarks by way of introduction, and these remarks it has been thought advisable to reprint here in this preface, in order not to break the continuity of Mr. Waters's notes.
The article in the Register for July, 1883 (xxxvii., 233-240) (pp. 1-8 this book), was introduced by a note from which the fol- lowing: extract is made :
It has been found almost impossible heretofore, in most cases, to establish satisfactorily the relationship between English and American families of the same name, and this failure to connect has been to the American genealogist the source of his greatest trouble. The searches now undertaken promise for the first time to meet and over- come this difficulty. The method adopted by Mr. Waters, so different from that of his predecessors, cannot fail to bring to light information which must necessarily have escaped the attention of all other investi- gators.
The article on "John Harvard and his Ancestry," Part I., in the Register for July, 1885 (xxxix., 265) (pp. 117-134 this book), was preceded by the following introductory note :
The Committee on English Research of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, under whose direction Mr. Waters is now pursu-
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ing his investigations in England, have on more than one occasion asserted that the method of search adopted by him — so different from that of his predecessors — would without fail enable him to bring to light what had escaped the notice of all other antiquaries. Striking proofs of the correctness of this statement have been already afforded by the remarkable discoveries Mr. Waters has hitherto made, and the following paper, in which the parentage and ancestry of John Harvard are for the first time conclusively shown, will add still another.
In 1842 the late James Savage, President of the Massachusetts His- torical Society and author of the " Genealogical Dictionary of New England," went to England for the express purpose of ascertaining what could be learned of the early history of John Harvard; but although Mr. Everett, then our minister to the court of St. James, ren- dered every assistance in his power, no trace of Harvard could be found, except his signature on taking his degrees at the University of Cam- bridge. Mr. Savage tells us that he would gladly have given five hun- dred dollars to get five lines about him in any capacity, public or private. Since that date others have made efforts equally unavailing.
The late Col. Joseph L. Chester, in a letter written the year before his death to the editor of the Register (Register, xxxvi., 319), says that he had carried about with him daily for many years a bit of pedi- gree of Harvard in the hope of being able to perfect it ; that he thought he had found the will of the father of John Harvard, but could not yet prove it ; that he disliked to put forward a mere theory, but hoped to come upon further evidence some day.
At a meeting of the New England Historic Genealogical Society held in Boston, June 3, 1885, a paper by Miss Frances B. James, of Cam- bridge, Massv was read, on " John Harvard's English Home, a Caveat in Behalf of Devonshire." It contained the results of some researches made by her in the summer of 1883, in Plymtree, co. Devon, England, where there formerly lived a family of Harward or Harvard, but no claim was made by her that any relationship could be shown to exist between this family and that of John Harvard.
Mr. William Rendle, in an article in the " Genealogist " for April, 18S4, on " Harvard University, U. S., and the Harvards of Southwark," gives a list of certain Harvards of the Parish of St. Saviour's noted by him, but he failed to find the baptism of John Harvard, and was unable to connect him with this family of Harvards. In the South London "Press" for April 11, 1885, and in the " Athenaeum" for April 18, 1885, Mr. Rendle has something further to say about the Harvards. He gives the date of baptism of a John Harvye, whom he says he believes to be the founder of Harvard College, but is unable to prove the fact, and offers no evidence to support it. These articles, however, contain nothing new. Everything of importance in them had been previously made known to us by Mr. Waters. The record of this very baptism had been already found by him, and a copy of it sent to the committee. Mr. Rendle's knowledge of it seems to have been obtained from a per- son to whom Mr. Waters had mentioned it as a discovery of his own, and its appropriation by Mr. Rendle without acknowledgment, and its publication in this manner, was certainly a most extraordinary pro- ceeding.
It had long been known that there was a family of Harvards in St. Saviour's Parish, Southwark; that John, son of Richard, was baptized
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there 11 Dec, 1606; another John, son of Robert, baptized 29 Nov., 1607; another John, son of John, baptized 2 Feb., 1611; and still another John, son of John, baptized 10 April, 1614; but whether the benefactor of the College was one of these, or whether he was of South- wark at all, has not been known, until now at last the proof is pre- sented to us by Mr. Waters. Colonel Chester, as we have seen, years ago surmised that he was the son of Robert Harvard, but, like a true gene- alogist, waited for evidence before making a positive statement. Prob- ably nearly every one in America who was interested in Harvard, and had given the subject much thought, suspected, at least, if not believe 1, that he was the son of Robert Harvard, of South wark. So that Mr. Rendle offers nothing new and merely adds his belief to theirs, for which he fails to offer evidence. That Southwark was a field for per- secution, and therefore its people must have been ready to emigrate to New England, carries no weight, for there was persecution in other parts of England ; and it would be difficult for Mr. Rendle or any other investigator to show that more people came to New England for relig- ion's sake from the county of Surrey than from the counties of Somer- set, Dorset, or Wilts, in all of which Harvards were to be found. Could he say that John Harvard was not from either of these counties, or from St. Katherine's near the Tower in co. Middlesex where a family of Harvards lived, or that he was not the son of Robert Harvey, alias Harverde, of Rugby in Warwickshire ?
Mr. Waters, however, is the first to show conclusively that John Har- vard, from whom the College takes its name, was one of the sons of Robert Harvard of the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark, London, and Katherine (Rogers) Harvard his wife, and that he was baptized in that parish Nov. 29, 1607. Ample proof of this is afforded "by the docu- mentary evidence now for the first time published, to which the atten- tion of the reader is directed. The parentage of John Harvard is no longer a mystery. Mr. Waters gives us here, among others, the wills of his father and mother, his brother Thomas Harvard, his uncle Thomas Harvard, his aunt by marriage Margaret Harvard, his step- fathers John Elletson and Richard Yearwood, and his father-in-law John Sadler.
But although so much has been accomplished that a few months ago would have been thought impossible, much remains to be done. There are other fields of research as yet unexplored, which will richly repay all the expenditure of time and labor which a thorough investigation of them will require.
The expense of the search thus far has been met by voluntary con- tributions of the Alumni, particularly the Harvard Club of New York.
The article in the Register for October, 1885 (xxxix., 325) (pp. 134-145 this book), was introduced by the following note:
The following is the tenth in the remarkable series of papers con- tributed to the Register by Mr. Waters, and modestly styled by him " Genealogical Gleanings in England." The article on " John Harvard and his Ancestry," published in the Register for July last, although it appears under a separate title, was the ninth in that series.
There is no need to enlarge upon the importance of Mr. Waters's dis-
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coveries in relation to John Harvard ; but it will not be out of place to make the announcement here that Harvard College, in grateful recog- nition of his patient labors in these' investigations, conferred upon him on Commencement Day, June 24, 1885, the honorary degree of Master of Arts. The words of President Eliot on that occasion were :
Henricum Fitz-Gilbert Waters investigatorem antiquitatis curiosum, de Uni- versitate ob genus Johanuis Harvard feliciter exquisitum bene meritum, artium maffistrum causa honoris.
At the Commencement Dinner President Eliot said :
The class of 1855, this day thirty years out of college, the class which boasts Agassiz the naturalist, Francis C. Barlow the general, Theodore Lyman the independent, and Phillips Brooks the great preacher and large minded man, has won a new distinction this year. One of its members, Henry Fitzgilbert Waters, genealogist and antiquai'ian, has discovered, by most patient and ingenious research, the family of John Harvard. We have only known about our first benefactor that he was a master of arts of Emmanuel College, and a non-conforming minister, that he had a well chosen library of three hundred volumes and some property, and that he was admitted a freeman in this colony in November, 1637, and died at Charlestown within a year, leaving his library and half of his estate to the infant college at Cambridge, which was thereafter called by his name. Nothing has been known about his family or the sources of his property, until now, when Mr. Waters has brought to light the wills of his father, two step-fathers, mother, brother, uncle, aunt, and father-in-law, besides other documents of importance in connection with these wills.
John Harvard, whose faith and piety planted this institution, was baptized in the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark, London, Nov. 29, 1607, being the son of Robert Harvard, a well-to-do butcher, and Katherine Rogers. The mother's maiden name was discovered through the will of William Ward, a goldsmith, who, in 1624, bequeathed a ring of gold to the value of 20s. to his brother Robert Harvard. Rose Rogers, the wife of William Ward, was the sister of Katherine Rogers, John Harvard's mother, so that William Ward could speak of Robert Harvard as his brother. The father, youngest brother, and older brother of our benefactor died in 1625, perhaps of the plague which raged that year in London, and the father disposed by will of a property con- siderable for those days, the widow and her two surviving sons receiving most of it. Katherine Harvard married John Elletson, a cooper, in January, 1626 ; but he died in the following June, leaving another considerable property to his widow Katherine. In December, 1627, John Harvard was entered at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, at the age of twenty, presumably by the advice of the Rev. Mr. Morton or the Rev. Mr. Archer, ministers of the parish of St. Saviour's, both of whom are remembered in the will of John Harvard's mother and in that of his brother Thomas. Five years later this mother appears as the widow and principal heir of Richard Yearwood, a grocer, who was mentioned in the will of her first husband, Robert Harvard, as " my good neighbor and friend Richard Yearwood." In July, 1635, Katherine (Harvard) (Elletson) Yearwood made her will and died, leaving her property, which had been derived from her three husbands, the butcher, the cooper, and the gro- cer, chiefly to her two sons, John and Thomas Harvard, with a preference, however, for the elder son, " John Harvard, clarke." In this year John took his master's degree at Cambridge. In February, 1637, he appeal's married to Ann Sadler, seven years younger than himself, and the daughter of a clergy- man settled at Ringmer in Sussex. In July, 1636, John's younger brother Thomas, a cloth woi'ker, being " sick and weak in body," made his will, in which he disposed of a fair property, a good portion of which he gave to his well beloved brother John. The executors named in this will were his brother John and Nicholas Morton, preacher; but when the will was proved on the 5th of May, 1637, only Mr, Morton appeared, John Harvard having sailed
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with his young wife for New England. In 1638 the young minister at Charles- town, dying at thirty years of age, became the first private benefactor of this college, started in the New World a stream of-beneficenee which has never ceased to flow in ever widening channels, and won for himself, and now at last for his family, an enduring remembrance.
In the twelve years from 1625 to 1637 John Harvard had lost his father, two step-fathers, his mother, and his two brothers, and almost the whole family property had fallen to him. He appears to have been the only scholar in the family, although his brother Thomas seems to have signed his name to his will. His father and mother both made their marks. The whole family con- nection were trades-people ; but his mother, by her marriages, came into pos- session of property enough to give a college education to her oldest son. The education of that one delicate youth has had far-reaching consequences indeed. No prince or potentate, civil or ecclesiastical, founded this college ; it spi'ang from the loins of the common people. It was founded by the General Court of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, and first endowed by an educated son of pious London trades-people. When I had read these Harvard wills, I asked myself how closely the college is bound — after two hundred and fifty years — to the sort of people who established it. I went to the admission books in which the occupations of jDarents of the students are recorded, and found to my great satisfaction that more than a quarter part of its students are to-day sons of tradesmen, shopkeepers, mechanics, salesmen, foremen, laborers, and farmers. I found sons of butchers, coopers, grocers, and cloth-workers — the Harvard trades — on the roll of its students to-day. May no exclusive policy or spirit ever separate the university which bears John Harvard's name from that laborious, frugal, self-respecting part of the community to which he and his belonged.
Since the article on John Harvard in the Register for July was printed, Mr. Dean, the editor, has received from Mr. E. S. Shuckburgh, the librarian of Emmanuel College, a facsimile, which is reproduced here, of Harvard's signature in 1635, when he took the degree of A.M. It is from the original University register in the custody of the Rev. H. Luard, D. D., registrar of the University. " There is," Mr. Shuck- burgh writes, "no doubt whatever about its genuineness. All persons admitted to a degree had to sign these books, which have been preserved since 1544 — unhappily not earlier." It is to be hoped that funds sufficient to prosecute still further these interesting investigations may be speedily obtained.
To the article in the Register for January, 1886 (xl., 34) (pp. 145-158 this book), was prefixed the following note, which was also printed in part in the London tr Athenreum" for Jan. 2,
1886 :
Mr. William Rendle has published in the " Athenfeum " of April 18, July 11, and Oct. 24, 1885, some communications as to the genealogy of John Harvard, and in certain quarters allusions have been made to a "controversy" on the subject. There is, properly speaking, no con- troversy at all. There is and can be no question whatever in the minds of those conversant with the facts in the case as to who discovered the parentage and ancestry of John Harvard. The credit of this remark- able discovery belongs undeniably to Mr. Henry F. Waters, and to him alone.
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The facts in the case are briefly these : Mr. Rendle seems to be a local antiquary who has, I believe, lived many years in Southwark, and who has spent much time among the records there, and has undoubt- edly there done good work. But unfortunately for Mr. Rendle, there is not in this case so far a single scrap of evidence to show that there is anything whatever in the Southwark records to establish the slight- est possible connection between the Harvards of that Borough and John Harvard of Emmanuel College and of New England. There were Har- vards in Southwark, it is true, and perhaps in other parts of Surrey, just as there were Harvards in Devonshire, Somerset, Dorset, Wilts, Middlesex, Warwickshire, and doubtless in other parts of England. The problem was to identify, among them all, the father of John Har- vard. So far as Mr. Rendle was concerned, this problem might have remained unsolved to the end of time, for there was nothing in the Southwark records which would have enabled him to solve it.
The proof of this relationship Mr. Waters discovered after much research in the records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. There he found, among others, the wills of John Harvard's father, mother, brother, uncle, aunt, two step-fathers, and father-in-law. This proved the whole family connection. If Mr. Waters had stopped there and gone not a step farther, it would have been enough to completely dispel the mystery which had so long enveloped the birth and early life of the benefactor of the noble University. After thus finally solving the problem, he went to Southwark merely for supplemental evidence, not at all necessary, however, to substantiate his case, and there in the parish registers he found the record of the baptism of John Harvard and other collateral matter.
Information of this visit of Mr. Waters to Southwark and its suc- cessful result was communicated to several persons. That Mr. Rendle was apprised of it by one of them can be shown by evidence both direct and circumstantial.
In articles published by Mr. Rendle in the " Genealogist " for April and July, 1884 (N. S., i., 107 and 182), he gives the names of the Harvards found by him in the records of St. Saviour's, Southwark. But there nowhere appears in his list the name of our John Harvard. He even quotes the late Chaplain Samuel Benson as saying that "he cannot find the name of John Harvard, the founder, but that he had no doubt he was born of this family of Harvard of St. Saviour's." Mr. Rendle then adds : " After careful, I will not say exhaustive, examination of the original books and papers, I am quite of the same opinion." On page 182 he quotes the entry in the books of Emmanuel College, where Har- vard is said to be of Middlesex, and in a foot-note talks of drawing the " attention of officials of Middlesex churches to the name of John Har- vard, and the dates circa 1605 and after." Mr. Rendle, although fully apprised of the fact that Harvard, Harverde, and Harvye were merely different forms of the same family name, had evidently overlooked the entry of Harvard's baptism, or had failed to recognize it, or to appreci- ate the importance of the entry, even if his eye had ever rested upon it, and was as late as July, 1884, turning to Middlesex for the record of it, having apparently given up all hope of finding it in Southwark. The " extremely diverse spelling " of the name, being already well known to him, will by no means account for this failure.
On the 11th of April, 1885, a date, be it remembered, subsequent to
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Mr. Waters's visit to Southwark and his discovery of the record of this baptism, Mr. Kendle published in the South London "Press" a letter, which, with some additions, he again published in the " Athenaeum " of April 18th.
In this letter he printed conspicuously in italics the record of this baptism, and added, " I believe " him " to be the founder " of Harvard College, but he neither then nor has he since offered any proof of his own to substantiate his belief or to show any reasonable grounds for it. Sometime, therefore, between July, 1884, and April, 1885, Mr. Kendle saw a great light. He evidently does not mean to tell us how or when this flashed upon him. But he unwittingly, in the very letter above referred to, shows us the source of his information in these sig- nificant words : " The clue, or rather the result of the clue, is before me. I believe that some American friends, anxious to do honor to their benefactor and his birth-place, are now among us. It would have been pleasant to me to have known them ; probably now I may." Of course he did not know " them." But when we consider that at the very time he penned these lines Mr. Rendle knew that the long search for John Harvard was over, that even the record of his baptism had been found and that Mr. Waters was the successful discoverer, the extremely disingenuous and misleading nature of this allusion to Ameri- can friends can be readily seen. What is the " clue " the result of which Mr. Rendle had before him ? Does he mean to say that some- body else had the clue and that he had only the result ? The general denial made by W. D. in the " Athenaeum " of July 11, 1885, is altogether too vague. It should be more specific if it is expected that much weight should be attached to it.
There seems indeed to be a confusion or haziness in Mr. Rendle's mind as to what constitutes not merely legal but even genealogical proof. Mr. Waters, on the other hand, like a true genealogist, has made a scientific treatment of the subject, and shows us step by step how he reached the successful result of his search, and on what his conclusions are based. He gives us the pedigree of Harvard and the proof by which it can be substantiated. That the search was an inde- pendent one is shown by Mr. Rendle's chief and only witness W. D., who, in the letter above referred to, kindly proves Mr. Waters's case for him by admitting that Mr. Rendle's offer of assistance was " neither acted on nor acknowledged " by Mr. Waters.
In an article in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for July, 1885, I expressed my astonishment at what I called this " extraordinary proceeding " on the part of Mr. Rendle. That such a proceeding is happily considered as extraordinary in England as it is here, and that the standard of literary morality is at least as high there as here, is shown by the fact that I have before me, as I write, letters from several English antiquaries whose names are known on both sides of the Atlantic, and who are fully cognizant of the facts in the case, who express surprise at what they call the " strange conduct " of Mr. Rendle. As these are private letters, not intended for publication, I have no right to quote them in this matter, but the evidence thus afforded is overwhelming.
Mr. Rendle's pamphlet, a copy of which I have only lately seen, will, I understand, be reviewed elsewhere and by abler hands than mine. I will therefore not take up space to point out certain inaccuracies in it,
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which are patent to every one who has given much thought to the sub- ject. I will content myself with calling attention to the fact that it furnishes not an iota of proof of the connection of John Harvard of Southwark with John Harvard of New England, except what is taken from Mr. Waters's pamphlet on the subject. This indebtedness Mr. Rendle is, however, careful to acknowledge, and he has conspicuously marked with a W. the source of information thus obtained. It is instructive to notice how plentifully sprinkled Mr. Rendle's page's are with this initial letter.
I freely admit — now that Mr. Waters has conclusively shown that John Harvard was a Southwark man, and has put this statement in print so that all may read — that Mr. Rendle's local knowledge as a Southwark antiquary may enable him to carry on still further the inves- tigations in that Borough, and I certainly trust that he may supplement and add to the already accumulating data concerning the early life of the benefactor of America's oldest and most famous University. Any such supplemental and corroborative material will command the atten- tion of antiquaries on both sides of the ocean, and will deserve and receive due recognition on their part.
The article on ft John Harvard and his Ancestry," Part II., in the Register for October, 1886 (xl., 362) (pp. 180-197 this book), was preceded by the following introduction :
In the article in the Register for July, 1885 (xxxix., 265), entitled " John Harvard and his Ancestry," which formed the ninth instalment of his " Genealogical Gleanings in England," Mr. Waters conclusively established the fact that John Harvard was one of the sons of Robert Harvard of the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark, London, aud Kath- erine (Rogers) Harvard, his wife, and that he was baptized in that parish Nov. 29, 1607. In support of this statement he published, among others, the wills of Harvard's father, mother, brother, uncle, aunt, two step-fathers, and father-in-law.
In the present paper he continues still further the investigations so successfully begun. He here gives us, with other new and important matter now for the first time published, the probate of the will of Thomas Rogers of Stratford-on-Avon, Harvard's maternal grandfather, the wills of Rose Reason, his aunt, and Thomas Rogers, Jr., his uncle, both on his mother's side, with extracts from the Parish Registers of Stratford, setting forth the baptisms, marriages, and burials of the Rogers family. Harvard's grandfather, Thomas Rogers, was, at the time of his death, an alderman of Stratford, and the house which he built there in 1596 is still standing. From it John Harvard's father and mother were married in 1605. It is one of the oldest and certainly the best remaining example of ancient domestic architecture in Strat- ford. The illustration in this number is a heliotype copy, slightly reduced, of an excellent photograph just taken.
When it is remembered that the late Hon. James Savage, LL.D., the author of the " Genealogical Dictionary of New England," made a voy- age to England for the express purpose of ascertaining what could be learned of the early history of John Harvard, and that he would gladly have given, as he himself tells us, five hundred dollars to get five lines
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about him in any capacity, public or private, but that all his efforts were without avail, the accumulation of material now brought to light by the perseverance of Mr. Waters is certainly most surprising. From being almost a semi-mythical figure in our early colonial history, John Harvard bids fair to become one of the best known of the first genera- tion of settlers on these shores. The mystery which surrounded him is now dispelled. No better illustration could be given of the impor- tance" of the work Mr. Waters is doing in England, no more striking instance could be found of the extraordinary success which is attending his labors there.
The Committee earnestly hope that funds sufficient to carry on still further these valuable investigations may be speedily raised.
That the interest excited by Mr. Waters's discovery of the par- entage and ancestry of John Harvard is not confined to those who speak the English language, is shown by an editorial article in the Paris journal, r'La Renaissance," which was reprinted in the Reg- ister for April, 1886 (xl., 180).
The article on the " Family of John Rogers of Dedhara," in the Register for April, 1887 (xlL, 160) (pp. 209-236 this book), was introduced as follows :
The article in the Register for October, 1886 (xl., 362), on "John Harvard and his Ancestry, Part Second," which, although published under a separate title, formed the fourteenth instalment of Mr. Waters's " Genealogical Gleanings in England," related especially to the family of John Harvard's maternal grandfather, Thomas Rogers of Stratford on Avon, co. Warwick. Mr. Waters's investigations in this direction resulted in the accumulation of a mass of material in regard not only to this but to other families of the name of Rogers, but a part of which is as yet ready for publication.
The article in the present number of the Register, the sixteenth in the series of " Genealogical Gleanings," concerns more particularly the Rogers family of Essex Co., England, and of Essex Co., Massachusetts. It is by no means complete, nor is it intended to be a final report of the results of Mr. Waters's signally successful researches. Mr. Waters has evidently thought it advisable simply to " report progress " in this line of search rather than to wait until he could perfect his work so as to present a finished pedigree of this family. The latter course would necessitate a long delay, while the course he has adopted, although open to the objection of being perhaps a fragmentary and unsatisfactory mode of dealing with the subject, has the positive merit of enabling him to make at once available for the use of antiquaries some of the new and important discoveries he has made in relation to this family.
As is well known to the readers of the Register, the Committee on English Research have repeatedly asserted that the method of search adopted by Mr. Waters would without fail enable him to bring to light what had escaped the notice of all previous investigators, and they have from time to time called attention to the most striking points in the evidence relied upon to support this assertion. The Harvard dis- coveries undoubtedly made the most impression on the minds of the general public, but Mr. Waters's whole work, in every part, is proof
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enough to the mind of the trained antiquary that here at last is a new departure in genealogical investigation which cannot fail to produce results not otherwise to be attained. And this present paper on the Essex Rogers is by no means inferior to the Harvard papers as evidence of the truth of the statements above referred to.
It has long been a tradition in New England that the Rev. Nathaniel Rogers of Ipswich, Mass., son of the Rev. John Rogers of Dedham, co. Essex, England, was a descendant of John Rogers the Martyr. This tradition was disproved by the late Col. Joseph L. Chester, himself a descendant of the Ipswich minister. Indeed, it was through the re- searches that he then made into the history of this branch of the Rog- ers family that Colonel Chester was first led to turn his attention to the genealogical pursuits in which he subsequently became preeminent. His " Life of John Rogers the Martyr," published in London in 1861, was his earliest antiquarian work, and was the means of first bringing him to the notice of genealogists in this country and England. Although the result of these investigations was personally unsatisfactory to him, as he himself tells us, and his disappointment was great in finding that the Martyr could not have been the ancestor of the Ipswich minister, he never lost his interest in the subject, and continued almost to the day of his death to accumulate material in relation to the Rogers family in all its branches.
Through the kindness of Augustus D. Rogers, Esq., of Salem, Mass., I am permitted to make the following extracts from three letters writ- ten to him by Colonel Chester.
In the first, dated Jan. 13, 1877, after referring to his " Life of John Rogers the Martyr," he says :
I may say generally that I have since discovered nothing to vary the con- clusions I then arrived at, but much to confirm them. We shall never, I fear, carry the Rogers pedigree back beyond Richard Rogers of Wethersfield. I have sought earnestly in vain to ascertain who his father was, but I quite accept Candler's statement that he was of the North of England. ... I have often been at Dedham, where the bust of John Rogers is still in the chan- cel of the church. I have spared no pains to ascertain his parentage, but in vain. My Rogers collections alone would make a small libi'ary.
In the second, bearing date Feb. 17, 1877, he says :
For eighteen years I have been collecting everything I could lay my hands on, from every possible source, concerning the Rogers families, all over Eng- land. All this material I have kept carefully worked up in pedigree form, and, with all my personal interest in the descent, I have never been able to get back a step beyond Richard Rogers of Wethersfield, nor even ascertain Avho was the father of John Rogers of Dedham. If any further progress is ever made it will be by accident. But my impression is that the earlier ances- tors of the family were of a rank in life so humble that they never got into the public records. If I could think of anything more to do, you may be sure that I would do it. . . . My Rogers collections are enormous, and I know of nothing that has escaped me.
The third is dated March 9, 1878, and he there says :
You must recollect that I take as deep an interest in the Rogers pedigree as you or anybody else can, as there is no doubt about my descent from Rev. John Rogers of Dedham, and if I had been able to add anything to what I have heretofore published, I should have clone so. I have been pursuing these
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inquiries here for now nearly twenty years, and you may be sure I have left no stoue unturned.
It will be seen that these letters were written but a few years before the death of the writer.
It is with no wish to detract from the fame of Colonel Chester — for that is now secure, and he is admitted by all to have been preeminent among the genealogists of our day, without a superior indeed either in this country or in England — that attention is called to the fact that in the history of the very family in which Colonel Chester had the greatest interest, for it was his mother's mother's family, to which he had devoted so much exhaustive labor with the tireless energy and perse- verance for which he was so remarkable, discoveries have now been made by Mr. Waters which but a short time ago would have been pronounced impossible.
Mr. Waters now shows us that the Rev. John Rogers of Dedham was the son of John Rogers, a Chelmsford shoemaker, and that this shoe- maker and the Rev. Richard Rogers were probably brothers, the sons of another John Rogers, when John Rogers the Martyr was living else- where. Nor has this discovery been made by accident, as Colonel Chester prophesied, but by a laborious, systematic, and exhaustive search on a plan never before attempted. It is another proof that the baffled investi- gator hereafter need never despair of his case, that genealogical prob- lems apparently impossible of solution are by no means to be abandoned as hopeless. It is a reminder also of the necessity of establishing a permanent fund, by means of which we can carry on these investiga- tions on a grander scale than ever before, and with proportionately greater results.
Of surpassing interest as were these discoveries of the parentage of John Harvard and John Rogers, they were followed by the equally remarkable establishment of the ancestry of Roger Williams and George Washington. All of these problems had long baffled the efforts of the most eminent antiquaries, and their solution by Mr. Waters forms a series of perhaps the most brilliant achieve- ments in the whole history of genealogy.
But the story of the final determination of the Washington ancestry — ending as it did the long search first begun by Sir Isaac Heard in 1791, in the lifetime of Washington, and since then continued by other genealogists without success, until at last brought to a close by Mr. Waters nearly a century afterward — is best told in Mr. Waters's own words, and to his account the reader is referred.
It has been thought advisable to reprint here for the sake of convenience (pp. 523-539) the article on the f' Wills of the Amer- ican Ancestors of General George Washington," communicated by the late Joseph M. Toner, M.D., of Washington, D.C., to the Register for July, 1891 (xlv., 199-215).
But Mr. Waters has by no means limited himself to the work of preparing complete and finished pedigrees of noted families,
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nor has he confined his attention to determining the parentage of historic personages, however famous. His aim has been to make accessible in print everything which can serve to connect Ameri- can families, distinguished or obscure, with the parent stock in England. Nowhere else can there be found in print genealogical data bearing on this connection which concern so large a number of the families of our early settlers. These pages contain wills relating not only to New England families, but to those of Vir- ginia, Maryland, South Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, and the West Indies. These researches, in short, have been conducted in no narrow spirit, and they should interest every one of English descent in every part of our country.
The valuable table prepared by J. Challenor Covington Smith, Esq., late Superintendent of the Department for Literary Inquiry, Principal Registry of the Court of Probate, Somerset House, Lon- don, giving the numbers of the Calendars, the names and dates of the several registers — as well as his paper explaining the method of identifying the Will Registers of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, which was contributed by him to the Register for July, 1892 (xlvi., 299-303) — may be found reprinted here (pp. 569-573). The genealogical investigator cannot foil to appreciate its great usefulness.
Page 845 has been divided. The probate of the will of William Dyre and the Editor's note at the top of that page are to be found in Vol. I. The will of Nicholas Pynchon which fills the rest of the page begins Vol. II.
The index to these volumes of " Genealogical Gleanings " is the work of Miss Edna F. Calder.
In the Index of Persons, the names of those whose wills were probated, or whose estates were administered upon, are printed in full-face type, the number of the page on which such will or administration is to be found being printed in italics.
John T. Hassam.
Boston, Jan. 1, 1901.
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Gregory Coffin, of Stepney, co. Middlesex, mariner, shipped on board the William & Jane of London, Mr. John Baker commander, on a voy- age to New England and Bilboe, by will dated 15 February, 1660, proved 20 August, 1662, appointed John Earle of Shadwell, mariner, his attor- ney, and left all his estate to the said John Earle and his wife, Joane Earle, whom he appointed joint executors. Laud, fol. 105.
John Cockerell, of Great Cogshall, co. Essex, clothier, made his will 14 July, 1662, proved 12 August, 1662. He bequeathed to his wife Mary all the lands and tenements in Bradwell, in the county aforesaid, which were her jointure ; and also lands, &c, in Cressiug, which he had lately purchased of one Mr. Jermyn and one Joseph Raven, during her natural life, and after her decease then to his son John Cockerell and his heirs for- ever. He devised to her also that part of the messuage which he had late- ly purchased of John Sparhauke, then in the tenure and occupation of Mis- tress Crane, for life, with remainder to son John, &c. The residue of his estate to son John at age of twenty-one years. He made bequests to two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, and to the child his wife was then going withall. He appointed said wife executrix, and directed her to redeem the mortgage which he had made to Mrs. Hester Sparhauk of the messuage he then lived in, and which was in the occupation of the said Mrs. Crane.
Laud, 106.
Benjamin Kaine furnished an account of his goods and chattels, 16 October, 1654. Among the items was a tenement in Shoe Lane, and prop- erty in the hands of Mr. Coddington, his attorney, in Bow Lane, and in keeping of other persons (among whom a Mr. Walter Gibbons, cutler in Ilolborn). Thomas Blumfield spoken of, and called a brother of Mr. Withers. By his will, of same date, he gave his whole estate to his daugh- ter Anna Kaine, except some particular legacies, viz., to his father Mr. R4 Kaine of Boston in New England, to whom he left {inter alia) a Japan cane with a silver head, which was in the trunk at Mr. Blumfield's, to his dear mother, to his cousin Dr. Edmond Wilson, to his Colonel, Stephen Winthrop, to Cornet Wackfield, to Mr. Mastin, to Mr. Richard Pery and his wife, to Mr. William Gray, late of Burchin lane ; the said Gray and Pery to be trustees for his estate in Englaud ; to his servants John Earle and Thomas Lamb. The will was signed in Glasgow, in presence of Nicho- las Wackfield and Richard Pery. On the sixteenth of May, 1662, emana- vit comissio Simoni Bradstreet prox. consanguineo in hoc regno auglire remanenti dicti deftmcti, etc. Laud, 67.
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[This was Benjamin, only son of Capt. Robert Keayne, of Boston, founder of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. He married Sarah, daughter of Gov. Thomas Dudley. Gov. Simon Bradstreet, named in the probate, married another daughter, Anne (see Beg. viii. 313 ; ix. 113; x. 130). Bradstreet sailed, Novem- ber, 1657, for England, as the agent of the colony, and remained there three years, returning July 17, 1661. Probably the application for probate on Keayne's will was made before Bradstreet left England. For notices of the Keayne family, see Reg. vol. vi. pp. 89-92, 152-8 ; xxxv. 277.— Editor. _
See Savage Gen. Diet. iii. 1, where the date of Benjamin Keayne's death is incor- rectly given. See also Suffolk Deeds, Lib. i. fol. 83 and 84.
John Morse, of Boston, in New England, salt-boiler, by deed of mortgage dated Nov. 9, 1654, recorded with Suffolk Deeds, Lib. 2, f. 180, conveyed to his uncle, Mr. Robert Keaine of said Boston, " my third part of that tennement or howse in shoe lane in London which comes to me by the right of my wife mary Jupe now mary morse which was left and given to hir by rars Grace Jupe hir mother by will before hir de- cease with all the right title or Interest that myself and wife or either of vs haue therein," and also their interest in one half part of five certain tenements in Gravel Lane, in the Parish of St. Buttolph without Aldgate, London, to secure the pay- ment of £32. See also fol. 86 and 182, See fol. 183 and 184 for a bond and an order from said John Morse to Mr. Simeon or Symon Smith of Southwark to pay " my Couzen major Benjamin Keajne " of London, £15 advanced by " my vnckell m' Robert Keajne " to pay for the passage of said Morse, his wife, and his wife's bro- ther Benjamin Jupe from New England back to Old England. This sum was to be paid at the Golden Crown in Birchin Lane, London, on or before April 26, 1655, out of the rents belonging to his said wife, or brother Benjamin Jupe, remaining in the hands of said Smith as executor. — J. T. H.]
Captain Humphrey Atherton, 25 December, 1661, proved 3 July, 1662, by John Atherton, his brother and one of the executors. He named his brother Francis and his two sisters, Elizabeth Osborne, widow, late wife of Robert Osborne, and Anne Parker, wife of Richard Parker, of the city of Bristol. There was due to him by bond from Lieut. Col. Maurice KiDgswell the sum of one hundred pounds, of which he ordered twenty pounds to be given to his worthy friend Mr. Richard Smith, one of the life guard to his Grace the Duke of Albemarle, to buy him a mourning suit and a cloak, thirty pounds apiece to his two sisters and ten pounds apiece to his two brothers, John and Francis Atherton, and also ten pounds apiece more which was owing unto him by Mr. William Walker at the Green Dragon in Cornhill, London. To the said Richard Smith he de- vised fourteen pounds owing to him by bill from Capt. Nathaniel Disbor- ough. The residue of his estate, with arrears due from his Majesty for his service at Dunkirk, he left to his brothers, whom he named executors.
Laud, 9L
[It is singular that this Capt. Humphrey Atherton died about the same time as our Maj. Gen. Humphrey Atherton of Dorchester. The latter died Sept. 16, 1661, less than a year before his English namesake. For facts concerning the Atherton family, see Register, ii. 382 ; x. 361 ; xxxii. 197 ; xxxv. 67. — Ed.]
John Burges, the elder, of Westly, lying sick in Richman's Island, in New England, 11 April, 1627, proved 24 May, 1628, by Joanna Burges. alias Bray, relict and executrix. Besides his wife, he mentioned his three sons, Robert, John and William ; and he enumerated, among other things, his bark, called the Annes, with her boat, tackling and provisions, and what she had gained that summer, his whistle and chain, and all his instruments that belonged to the sea. Barrington, 45.
[Richmond's or Richman's island is situated near Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Wal- ter Bagnall had a trading post there from 1628 till October 3, 1631, when he was killed by the Indians: The same year, Robert Trelawney and Moses Goodyearo of Plymouth obtained from the Council of Plymouth a grant which included this
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island. John Winter was their agent there. The papers relating to this planta- tion, fortunately preserved to this day and discovered by the late J. VVingate Thorn- ton, A.M., are in press, edited by James P. Baxter, A.M., and will soon be issued as a volume of the Collections of the Maine Historical Society.— Ed.]
Capt. John Wilcocks, late of Plymouth, now of Accomac, intending to go on service against the Indians, made his will, dated in Elizabeth City, Virginia, 10 September, 1622, proved the last of June, 1628. He named wife Temperance, his daughter in law, Grace Burges, legitimate daughter of his said wife, and his sisters Katherine and1 Susanna Wilcocks.
Barrington, 55.
Edward Green, late of Bristol, grocer, and now at present at Capt. Robert Dudley's in the county of Middlesex, in Virginia, 22 August, 1697, proved 9 August, 1698, by Robert Green, his brother and executor. He desired his body to be buried in a decent and christian manner at the dis- cretion of John Barnard, then residing at John Walker's in King and Queen County in Virginia. The residue of his estate he left to his brother Robert Green of Bristol, haberdasher of hats. The witnesses to his signa- ture were Robert Dudley, Senior, William Reynolds and Robert Dudley.
Lort, 186.
Benjamin Williams, of Stoake, near Guldeford, co. Surrey, school- master, 2 July, 1695, proved 22 September, 1698, by Nathaniel Williams his brother and executor. To cousin Susanna Hall, John, Samuel and Dan- iel Hall, now or late of Whetenhurst in co. Gloucester, twenty shillings apiece, within six months after decease of the testator. To cousins Anna Cliffold (Clifford?), of Bisley, and her two brothers, Richard and Nathan- iel Tindall of Nibley, and to my cousin Joseph Tindall, of Nibley, some- time of Trotton Hinton, ministers, ten shillings apiece, within six months, &c. To my cousins Samuel, Thomas and Benjamin Williams, of New England, and to my cousin Elizabeth Bird, of Dorchester in New England, and to the eldest child of my cousin Williams, of New England, deceased, in case there (are) any of them living, and also to the eldest child of my cousin Joseph Williams, deceased, in case he have left any living and who shall be living at the time of my decease, to every and each of the said last mentioned persons the sum of twenty shillings, within one year, &c. To the poor of the parish of Eastingtou fifty shillings, and to the poor of the par- ish of Whetenhurst fifty shillings, any poor people of my father's kindred principally recommended. To my brother in law Nathaniel Williams, of Brandley, in co. Worcester, and his heirs forever, all those my freehold, ten- ements, lands tenements and hereditaments, &c, in Eastington and Framp- ton, and elsewhere in Gloucestershire, and all the residue ; he to be exec- utor.
Note that the name Nathaniel is by my mistake omitted, and also the eld- est child of my cousin Hannah Parmater is to be comprehended. B. W.
Lort, 208.
[The children of Richard Williams, one of the first settlers of Taunton, N. E., were 1. John, 2. Samuel, 3. Joseph, 4. Nathaniel, 5. Thomas, 6. Benjamin, 7. Elizabeth, wife of John Bird, 8. Hannah, wife of John Parmenter. See Reg. v. 4144. All these children, except John, who may have died young, are named in the above will.
Emery, in his " Ministry of Taunton," i. 43-5, quotes " a manuscript of con- Biderable antiquity," but evidently not written before 1718, which states that " Richard Williams was descended from a family of that name in Glamorganshire, in Wales, and found a wife in Gloucestershire, England." The same manuscript
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states that his wife was Frances Dighton, sister of Katharine, second wife of Gov. Thomas Dudley. Baylies, in his " Historical Memoir of New Plymouth.'' part i.
6284, says there was a tradition that Williams was a relative of Oliver Cromwell, e also prints (i. 272) a letter from the Rev. Roger William*, in which reference is made to *' my brother." Baylies thinks this may he Richard Williams, of Taunton.
John Bird, the husband of Elizabeth Williams, was a son of Thomas Bird of Dorchester. See Bird Genealogy, Reg. xxv. 21-30. — Ed.]
Thomas Beavay, waterman, of the city of Bristol, 21 Jan. 1656, proved by Mary Beavay, widow and executrix, 24 April, 1657. To be buried in the churchyard of St. Phillipps. To son Thomas Beavay, now a planter in Virginia, my best suit of clothes and all belonging to it. To my godson, Samuel Gosner, a small boat or twenty shillings in money. To godson Edward Martin the younger, twenty shillings. To godson Thomas Webb, twenty shillings. To wife Mary, the passage boat, with all the term of years that is yet to come. Ruthen, 145.
Ezekiel Sherman, of Dedham, clothier, the last of December, 1656, proved 12 May, 1657, by Martha Sherman, widow and sole executrix. To son Ezekiel one hundred pounds at age of twenty-one years. To daughters Grace and Hannah one hundred pounds each, at the age of twenty-one. To daughter now born eighty pounds at the age of twenty-one. To my broth- er John Sherman ten pounds within a year and a day after my decease. To Mary Sherman five pounds at the same time. After decease of wife Mar- tha, son Ezekiel to enter on lands, &c. If he die without lawful issue, then the property to go equally among the daughters then living. Wife Martha to be executrix. The overseers to be Robert Stevens, of Ded- ham, my father-in-law, and Robert Stevens of Ardleigh, brother-in-law.
William Grindell one of the witnesses. Ruthen, 147.
[Ezekiel Sherman probably was of the same family with the Rev. John Sherman, of Watertown, whose ancestors came from Dedham, co. Essex, England. See " Sherman Family,"' Reg. xxiv. 66.— W. B. Trask.]
William Sdmpner, of Waltham Holy Cross, co. Essex, 12 February, 1656, proved 7 May, 1657, by Roger Sumpner, one of the executors. To daughter Susan Williams, daughter Mary Sumpner, son William ; wife Jane and youngest son Roger executors. The overseers to be brother Roger Sumpner and brother-in-law AVilliam Sawdrie. Ruthen, 148.
[There seems to be a similarity in early names between this family and that of the Sumner or Somner family of Bicester, co Oxford, who settled in Dorchester, Mass., before 1637. See Reg. viii. 128e ; ix. 300.— W. B. T.]
John Mason, of Mashburie, co. Essex, husbandman, 2 December, 1656, proved 7 May, 1657, by Sarah Mason, his widow and executrix. Real estate in Much Waltham to wife for twelve years and then to John Mason, the eldest son, he to pay certain legacies to daughters Mary, Lydia and Sa- rah Mason. Stileman's Croft, in Good Easter, Essex, to wife for six years, and then to son David Mason, he to pay to two (sic) other children, Abra- ham Arthur Mason and Samuel Mason, five pounds at age of twenty-one years. Ruthen, 150.
Roger Baker, of Wapping, co. Middlesex, 15 August, 1676, proved 24 January, 1 687, by Mary Johnson, alias Baker, wife of Thomas Johnson and daughter and residuary legatee of the testator named in the will. He mentions some land in Maryland, in Virginia, which he directs to be sold.
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He leaves to his brother-in-law Abraham Hughs, of Ockingham, co. Berks, yeoman, ten pounds. The residue to two daughters, Houner Baker and Mary Baker, both under twenty years of age. Failing them, then to the four youngest children of his sister Mary Cleves, widow, ten pounds apiece, and the rest to such child or children as brother John Baker shall have then living. Extou, 1.
John Hill, of London, merchant, 14 December, 1665, proved 8 Feb- ruary, 1687. To wife Sarah one thousand pounds. To daughter Sarah one thousand pounds and a silver bason. To daughter Elizabeth eight hundred pounds and a silver " sully bub pott." To daughter Hannah eight hundred pounds and a silver sugar box. Wife now great with child. If it prove a son then he is to have land and tenements in Win- thorpe and Croft and elsewhere in Lincolnshire, of the yearly value of twenty-four pounds, and six hundred pounds in money. Whereas my brother Valentine Hill, late of New England, deceased, did owe me at the time of my (sic) decease, above three hundred pounds, not yet satisfied, I give and bequeath the said debt unto the children of my said brother Hill and to the children of my bvother-in-law Mr. Thomas Cobbett, to be equally divided amongst them, share and share alike. To my niece Bridget Cob- bett five pounds. To cousin Garrett's children ten pounds, to be equally divided among them. To cousin Thomas Browne and his wife forty shil- lings, for rings. To cousin John Browne forty shillings. To brother Hutchinson and sister each forty shillings, and cousin Elizabeth Meredith twentv shillings, to buy rings. To my brother Nathaniel Hunt and brother Richard Hunt, each five pounds. To brother-in-law John Miles and to his wife, each five pounds, and to their son John Miles, five pounds. To my maid-servant Prudence, forty shillings if dwelling with me at time of my death. To my cousins Charles, Margaret and Katherine Watkins, each twenty shillings, for rings. To the poor saints in London ten pounds, to be distributed at the discretion of my overseers. To the poor of the parish where I now dwell, forty shillings. The residue to wife Sarah, who is ap- pointed executrix. Friends Mr. William Allen, Mr. William Sawyer, and Mr. Robert Wakeling, overseers. Witnesses, Nathaniel Hunt and Charles Watkin. Exton, 16.
[Valentine Hill was extensively engaged in real estate and other transactions in Boston, Lynn, Rnmney Marsh, Dover, Oyster River and Pascataqua River, between the years 1637, when he was of Boston, and 1660. In 1651 he conveyed to Mr. Tho- mas Cobbett, of Lynn, styled " Clarke," afterwards minister of Ipswich, and oth- ers, all grants of land made to him, the said Hill, by the town of Dover, at Oyster River, and the saw-mills erected thereon. Suffolk Deeds, Lib. i. 182. See Regis- ter, vii. 49, and Wentworth Genealogy, i. 138. — \V. B. T.]
John Pargiter, of St. Martins in the Fields, co. Middlesex, 8 Febru- ary, 1687, proved 24 February, 1687, by John and Samuel Pargiter, sons and executors. To the four sous of my brother William Pargiter, deceased, viz., Robert, Edward, Samuel and William, and to his daughter Knight's children. To my cousin Frances Meade, wife to Mr. Francis Meade, of Battersea. To Mr. Thomas Pargiter, son to my brother Thomas Pargi- ter, deceased, to his son, my godson. To my sister Pargiter, his mother- in-law. To George Pargiter, his brother. To my cousin Sarah Louell at Virginia, by Yorke River, ten pounds. To Elizabeth, widow of cousin Robert Pargiter, deceased. To cousin Austin, of Hampton, and his wife. To cousin Benjamin Billings by, bookseller, and his wife. To cousin Cal-
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Iendrine and his wife Alary. To my cousin Brewer. To my sister Bla- grave. To Daniel and Deborah Blagrave. To Mr. Somer, draper. To my grandson John Fleetwood and my grand-daughter Mary Fleetwood. My worthy friend Sir William Cowper, the elder. Sir Gerald Fleetwood (father of John and Mary). To my son John Pargiter, lands, &c, at Nordley wood, Ashley and Abbots Ashley, or any part of Shropshire, Pamber and Bramley in Hampshire, large house next the Northumberland House in the Strand, the Standard Tavern in the Strand, &c. &c. Son Sam- uel Pargiter. Exton, 21.
John Anthony, of Rhode Island, iu America, mariner, 16 June, 1701, proved 10 December, 1703. To son John Anthony all the estate. Rich- ard and Elinor Potts executors. Proved by Eleanor Potts.
Degg, 205.
[Query.— Which John Anthony was this? See Anthony Genealogy, Register, xxxi. 417.— Ed.]
Thomas Reade, aboard the ship " Kingsoloman," now riding in the hope, being bound a voyage to Virginia. All my estate to loving brother William Reade, of the parish of St. Sepulchres, London, corn chandler, who is made executor. Signed 2 October, 1662, in presence of John Budd, scr. and Robert Bray. Proved by William Reade, 22 June, 1G63.
Juxon, 84.
Robert Rand, of Barham, co. Suffolk, 27 February, 1651, proved the last of March, 1651, and a commission issued to Jane Rand, the widow, no executor having been named in the will. To William Brooke, my grand- child, all my hooks and one hatchet and one pair of cobirons and one hale. To William Brooke, my son-in-law, all my wearing apparel and the " dobbe " house, and my cart and my biggest Danske chest and two brass pans and four pieces of pewter ; and all the rest pewter that is mine to be divided among his children. To my son Robert, after my wife's decease, if he do come over, my best feather bed and my best bedstead. To wife Jane all the moveable goods, &a, "not disposed before of," and excepting three cows which are letten to Lionel Cooke until next Michaelmas, which, after decease of wife, are to go to son-in-law William Brooke.
Bowyer, 64.
Dennis Geere, of " Sagust," in New England, 10 December, 1635, approved 6 August, 1637, before us, Tho. (sic) Winthrop Govr, Tho. Dud- ley dep Govr, Jo. Endecott. To wife Elizabeth three hundred pounds. To Elizabeth and Sarah Geere, my two daughters, three hundred pounds apiece. To cousin Ann Pankhurst so much as shall make her portion fifty pounds. To Elizabeth Tuesley twelve pounds to makeup that eight pouuds I owe her twenty. Roger Carver, of Bridhemson,* and John Russell, of Lewis, in Sussex, appointed overseers for estate in old England. My child- ren to be paid at day of marriage, or at age of eighteen years. And where- as the Lord our God of- his great goodness, since my coming into New England, hath discovered to me all usury to be unlawful, I do hereby charge my executor to restore all such moneys as any in England can make appear I have received from them by way of usury, whether it were 6 or 8 per cent, not thinking hereby to merit anything at the hands of God
* This, or Brighthelmston, is the old name for Brighton, as I am assured by J. C C. Smith, Esq., who kindly called this and the succeeding will to my notice. H. F. "W.
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but laboring hereby to attend my duty and manifest my distaste against every evil way. Of the estate in New England, to Thomas Topper five pounds, Thomas Braiues three pounds, Thomas Launder three pounds, Benjamin Nye thirty shillings, Thomas Grenuill ten shillings, all which de- ducted and paid together with the sending my two servants with my child into England, the residue shall be employed to the advancement of such works as in the wisdom of my executors for that purpose shall seem good for the plantations settled within the Patent qf the Massachusetts ; and for the discharging of these legacies and sums, and the right ordering of my estate for the public good I appoint for my executors John Winthrop, the elder, and John Humphry, esquires, John Wilson and Hugh Peter, Preach- ers. Witnesses, Edmond Freeman and John Greene.
28 June, 1642. Emanavit comissio Edwardo Moonke avunculo Eliza- bethe Geere et Sare Geere filiarum dicti defuncti durante minori etate, &c. It appeared that the widow Elizabeth had departed this life.
Campbell, 79.
[Dennis Geere with his family embarked June 15, 1635, in the Abigail of Lon- don, Hackwell master, " having brought Certificate from the minister of Thisel- worth," probably Isleworth in Middlesex. Those who embarked that day were Dennis Geere, 30 ; Elizabeth Geere, uxor, 22 ; Elizabeth Geere, 3 ; Sara Geere, 2, children ; Anne Pancrust, lfi ; Eliz: Tusolie, 55; Constant Wood, 12." (Reg. xiv. 315.) His fellow passengers, Anne Pancrust and Eliz: Tusolie, are no doubt the "cousin Ann Pankhurst " and "Elizabeth Tuesley:' mentioned in the will. " Thomas Brane, husbandm. 40," and " Tho: Launder, 22," were also fellow pas- sengers, having embarked in the Abigail, July 1,1635. (Reg. xiv. 318.) In the " Addenda " to Winthrop's Journal, under date of " 1635, Dec. 10," among the " gifts bestowed upon the colony," is this entry : " Denis Geere of Sagus gave by his will (at the motion of Mr. Hugh Peter) £300."— Ed.]
Thomas Geere, of the parish of Falmer, near Lewes, co. Sussex, 6 March, 1649. proved 25 April, 1650, by Dennis Geere, son and executor. To wife Mary. To eldest son Thomas Geere and his wife Mercy, and their children, Mercy and Mary. To grand-children Dennis and Richard Geere and grand child Thomas Geere. To the poor of Falmer and the poor of Stamer. Youngest son, Dionice Geere, executor. Friend John Russell, of Southover, near Lewes, and Stephen Towner, of Kingston, to be overseers. Witnesses, Richard Banckes and Tho. Russell.
Pembroke, 51.
Dorothy Parker, of Mildenhall, co. Wilts, widow, 10 October, 1649, proved 11 April, 1650, by Benjamin Woodbridge, one of the executors. To son Mr. Thomas Parker, of New England, two hundred pounds now in hands of my brother, Mr. Richard Stevens, of Stanton Bernard, co. Wilts, not doubting that if he die unmarried he will bestow what remains at his death, thereof, upon the children of my daughters Sarah Baylie and Elizabeth Avery. Of the other one hundred pounds in my brother Ste- vens' his hand I give five pounds to my son Mr. Thomas Bayly and the re- mainder to my daughter Sarah Bayly and her four children, John Wood- bridge, Benjamin AVoodbridge, Sarah Kerridge and Luce Sparhawke, equal- ly. For the one hundred pounds due to me from my son Avery, for which his house was mortgaged, I bestow it upon my daughter Avery and her children. To my son-in-law Mr. Timothy Avery, &c. My loving daugh- ter Sarah Bayly to be executrix in trust with her son, my grandson, Mr. Benjamin Woodbridge, executor, with his mother. Son Mr. Thomas Bay- lie and Cousin Mr. John Taylor to be overseers. Witnesses, John Barges and Anthony Appleford. Pembroke, 54.
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[An abstract of this will, made by the late Horatio G. Somerby for the Hon. Fran- cis E. Parker of Boston, was published in the Register, xxxii. 337. Mr. Waters has thought that a fuller abstract would be of service to the readers of the Register. —J. T. H.
_ Mrs. Dorothy Parker was the widow of the Rev. Robert Parker, the famous Pu- ritan author. Benjamin Woodbridge, the executor who proved the will, was the first graduate of Harvard College. See Woodbridge Genealogy, Reg. xxxii. 292-6. See also the " Woodbridge Record," New Haven, 1883, large 4to., compiled from the papers of Louis Mitchell, Eeq., by his brother Donald G. Mitchell, Esq. The willof the Rev. John Woodbridge, of Stanton, Wilts, the father of Rev. John and Benjamin "Woodbridge, is printed in this work from a copy lately obtained in Eng- land.— Ed.]
Edward Bell, of St. Brevells, co. Gloucester, 16 August, 1649, proved 21 January, 1649. He mentions nephew John Gorges, Esq. In a codi- cil. 20 August, 1649, he mentions lady Elizabeth Gorges of Ashton Phil- lips, Mrs. Mary Cutts, " my " godson Mr. Edward Perkins, Mr. Thomas Pole, &c. &c. He discharges sundry persons (among whom Mr. Wymond Bradbury, deceased) " of all debts owing by them to me or my brother William which became due unto me by his gift." Pembroke, 3.
[1 suppose that this Edward Bell was a brother of Ann, daughter of Edward Bell of Writtle, Essex. Ann Bell was the first wife of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, and her eldest son, John Gorges, probably the " nephew John Gorges, Esq." named in this will, was the father of Ferdinando Gorges, author of " America Painted to the Life." See Johnson's Wonder Working Providence, edited by William F. Poole, LL.D., and the notice of it by the Rev. Edmund F. Slafter in the Register, xxii. 213-19. " Lady Elizabeth Gorges of Ashton Phillips " was no doubt the fourth wife and wid- owof Sir Ferdinando. See Register, xxix. 42-7. Wymond Bradbury may be Wy- mond Bradbury of Wicken Bonant, co. Essex, whom the late John M. Bradbury, Esq., supposed to be the father of Thomas Bradbury, of Salisbury, Mass. (see Reg- ister, xxiii. 262-6), but if so he died before 1650. — Editor.]
Nathaniel Parker, of East Berghoult, co. Suffolk, Esq., 5 August, 1684, proved 19 August, 1684. To be buried at the East end of the churchyard near the church of Great Wenham, co. Suffolk. He mentions his farm of Great Wilsey in Wrating, co. Suffolk. To nephew Philip Par- ker, Esq., son and heir apparent of Sir Philip Parker, Baronet, all ray farm called the Priory in Great Wenham and East Berghoult, and the advowson of the church of Great Weuham, for life, and then to his sou Philip. Neph- ew Calthorp Parker, son of Sir Philip Parker. Nephew Sir Philip Parker. Niece Mercy Parker, nieces Dorothy and Mary Parker, daughters of my late brother Sir Philip Parker, Knight. Niece Mary Parker, daughter of Hen- ry Parker, Esq., my late brother. Nephew Henry Parker, son of said brother. My nephew Philip Guidon, Esq. To John Gurdon, son of my nephew Mr. Nathaniel Gurdon. To Sir John Barker, Baronet. To my godson Winiff Sergeant. My god-daughter Elizabeth Walker. My god-daughter the daughter of my nephew Bernard Saltingstall. My nephew in law Anthony Gaudy, Esq., and my god-son Anthony Gaudie, son of the aforesaid, and his sister Winifred Gaudie. My cousin Elizabeth Garnish, widow. Hare, 104.
Jane Williams, of Whetenhurst, co. Gloucester, spinster, 31 May, 1650r proved 30 June, 1655. To brother Samuel Williams my Scottish print bible. To my brother Richard Williams and my sister Elizabeth Wil- liams that are in New England, each of them twenty shillings apiece. To Benjamin Williams and Nathaniel Williams, the two sons of my brother Samuel Williams, ten pounds apiece when they reach the age of twenty- one years. To John Hall, the younger, my sister's eldest son, ten pounds
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and a standing bedstead that is in his father's parlour chamber, my brother- in-law John Hall's. To Samuel, Daniel and Susanna Hall, the other three children of my brother-in-law, John Hall, twenty pounds apiece at 21. Brother-in-law John Hall to be executor. Aylett, 292.
[It is evident that the Richard Williams, named ahove, as in New England, was Richard Williams of Taunton, Mass. (ante, p. 3).
See also Register, li. 209. — Ed.] t
William Goodrich, of Walton Head, co. York, 21 September, 1662, proved 2") January, 1664. My two daughters, Sarah and Elizabeth. My daughter Mary and her husband Matthew Elwald. My nephews Sir John Good ri eke and Sir Francis Goodrick. My wife Sarah. My son William Goodrick. Hyde, 4.
[See Register, xxxvi. 384.— H. F. W.]
Joseph Holland, citizen and clothworker of London, 25 December, 1658, with codicil dated 29 December, 1658. proved 17 January, 1658. To be buried on the south side of the christening pew in the parish church of St. Sepulchre, London, between my two former wives. To Elizabeth, my now wife, late the wife and administratrix of Jeffery Cumber, deceased. To son Joseph Holland the lease of my house in Green Arbour in said pa- rish. To son-in-law John Perry and Johanna, his wife, my daughter, and their sons John Perry and Josias Perry and daughter Elizabeth Perry. To my said daughter Johanna, certain needle work " wrought by my first wife, her mother." To daughter Elizabeth, wife of Richard Bessy, in Vir- ginia. To my son Nathaniel Holland, of Waterton in New England twen- ty pounds in goods ; to son Samuel Holland, in Virginia, thirty pounds in goods or money; and to each a bible. To son-in-law Miles Rich and daugh- ter Prudence, his wife. To good friend Mr. John White, grocer, of above- named parish, and his wife. To Mr. John Andrewes in Fleet Lane. To my servant John Arnott. To the poor of said parish, in bread, twenty shillings, to such as Master Gouge will distribute unto. The executor to be Master John White ; the overseer to be Master Andrews. The wit- nesses to the body of the will were Hen: Travers Scr: Ellen Booth (her mark). The witnesses to the codicil were Hen: Travers, John Arnatt and Thomas Bargett. Pell, 9.
[The family of Nathaniel Holland of Watertown, named in this will, is found in Bond's Watertown, p. 302. Dr. Bond erroneously conjectures that he was a son of John and Judith Holland of Dorchester, Mass., and he has been followed by other writers. — Ed.]
[I find a grant of land on record in the Virginia Land Registry Office, of 189 acres, to Edward Besse. on the south side of Chickahominy River, April 7, 1651, Book No. 2, p. 321. The names Arnott, Gouge, Booth, Perry and Travers appear in the early annals of Virginia. Francis Willis, the ancestor of the worthy Vir- ginia family of that name, married, about the middle of the 17th century, Ann Rich. — R. A. Brock, of Richmond, Va.]
Margaret Lane, of London, widow, 16 January, 1661, with addition made 3 September, 1 662. To be buried in the grave of my late husbaud, Edmond Lane, in the parish church of St. Dunstan's in the East, Loudon. To my sister Martha, wife of William Eaton, now, I think, in New Eng- land, one hundred pounds within one year next after my decease. To her five children twenty pounds, to be equally divided amongst them, and also within the like time, to their said father or mother for their use, and whose
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acquittance shall be a sufficient discharge to my executor for the same. To my cousin Sarah Barett, daughter of my late brother Daniel Jenkin, de- ceased, and now wife of John Barett, twenty pounds. To her eldest daugh- ter, Sarah Barett, thirty pounds, and to her son John Barett and her other daughter, Mary Barett, twenty pounds apiece. To the three children of my late sister Priscilla Hamoud, deceased, late wife of William Hammond, ten pounds apiece within one year after my decease. To Thomas Jenkins, eldest son of said deceased brother Daniel Jenkins. To my other cousin Daniel Jenkins, son of said deceased brother, &c. &c.
The addition, or codicil, mentions cousin Thomas Jenkins, of Minster, co. Kent, who is appointed overseer, the said 3 August (sic) 1662.
The witnesses to the will were Henry Travers, Scr. in Smithfield, Jo. Newland, Micah Machell and Samuel Fox, his servants.
Elizabeth Jenkin, relict and administratrix, with the will annexed, of Daniel Jenkins, deceased, executor of above will, received commission to administer on the estate of the above, 5 August, 1667. Carr, 107.
[" William Eaton of Staple, husbandman, Martha, his wife, three children and one servant," embarked for New England in 1637 (Reg. xv. 29). They settled at Watertown (Bond's Watertown, p. 202). They had two children born in this country, making in all five children, the number named by Mrs. Lane. — Ed.]
Edmund Mcninges, of Denge, co. Essex, the unprofitable servant of God, 2 October, 1666, proved 18 July, 1667, by Hopestill Muuinges, ex- ecutor. To wife Markiet ten pounds within one month after my decease, and the household goods which her father gave her, and that is to say, one bed, one table, cubbord, one guite (sic) chest, one brass pot, one dripping pan and four little platters. To second son, Return, twenty pounds within one year after demand be made for it. To third son, Takeheed, forty pounds within six months after my decease. To eldest daughter, Harry (sic) ten pounds within one year after demand be made for it. To second daughter, Rebecca, ten pounds. Eldest son, Hopestill, to be executor. If wife Markit prove with child, then to such child ten pounds at age of twen- ty-one years, &c. Testator made his mark in presence of William Cooch, John Spencer and Takeheed Muninge. Carr, 95.
[Edmund Munnings, aged 40, came to New England in 1635, in the Abigail, Robert llackwell, master, bringing with him his wife Mary, aged 30 years, daugh- ters Mary and Anna, and son Mahalaleel, respectively nine, six and three years of age. He settled in Dorchester, where he had grants of land, among them that of Moon Island, " layd to Dorchester" by the General Court, June 2, 1641. This Island contained about twenty acres of land, and was used for pasturage, it may have been, for two and a half centuries. On the northerly side was a high bluff: souther- ly it was connected at very low water, by the bars or flats of the island, with the pro- montory of Squantum. This island is named on the Dorchester Records, in 1637 and 1638, " Mannings Moone." It is, however, no longer an island, having recently been joined to Squantum by an artificial isthmus in connection with the great Boston sewer, the reservoir of which is being built here.
Mr. Munnings had three sons, born and baptized in Dorchester, bearing the sin- gular names of Hopestill, born April 5, 1637, Return, Sept. 7, 1640, and Take Heed, Oct. 20, 1642. The Dorchester Church Records say that Hopestill went to England. We have also evidence that the father returned and died in his native clime. Return removed to Boston. Goody Munnings, the mother, was admitted to the Dorchester church, 16. 2. 1641. On the " 9 (8) 59, Mahallaeell Munings " was dismissed from this church " vnto ye new," or second " church at Boston, & dyed ye 27 (12)59, being drowned in ye Millcreek at Boston in ye night."— Dor- chester Church Records. He married Hannah, daughter of John Wiswall. The widow subsequently married Thomas Overman. By the inventory of the estate of Mahalaleel Munninss, made in 1659, and proved Jan. 30, 1660, occupying three
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large folio pages in volume three of Suffolk wills and inventories, pages 229 to 231, the last inventory in the hook, it would appear that he invested largely in English goods, and was a prominent merchant of his day. In 16G7 widow Alunnings was taxed three pence, among those rated for lands at the neck in Dorchester, at a half penny per acre for the plow land. Mahalaleel went to England, it may have been with his father, and is doubtless the person who returned to New England in the Speedwell in 1656, Capt. Locke, master, notwithstanding the slight discrepancy in age, as given at the two arrivals.
The name of Edmund Munnings, on the 7th of 12 mo. 1611, is affixed to the list, consisting of seventy-one, of the inhabitants of Dorchester, who agreed that a rate of twenty pounds per annum should be paid out of the rents of Thompson's island towards the maintenance of a school in Dorchester. We are not certain that Mr. Munnings was there subsequent to 1641. On the 8th of March, 1663-4, his name stands the fifteenth on the list of rights in the New Grant of undivided land, which did belong to William Stoughton. Mr. Munnings had an interest in 10 acres, 3 quarters, 12 pole. Mr. Savage says Mr. Munnings " had probably gone home, I think, to Maiden, co. Essex, there at least, was somehow connected with Joseph Hills, who before coming over had given M. £11 in a bill for bringing one bullock for the use of H." Maldon is a few miles only from Dengie, and is " locally in the hundred of Dengie." See Register, i. 132; vii. 273; viii. 75 ; x. 176; xiv. 316; Fourth Report of the Record Commissioners, Boston, pages 29, 32, 106, 120; Sav- age's Genealogical Dictionary, iii. 255 ; Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Eng- land, ii.20; iii. 206; History of Dorchester, p. 68 ; King's Handbook of Boston Harbor, pp. 100, 106.— W. B. Trask.]
John Norris the elder, of Westminster, co. Middlesex, yeoman, 8 June, 1667, proved 4 (or 5) July, 1667. To son William Norris seventy-five pounds to make up the twenty-five pounds formerly given him to one hun- dred pounds, &c., and also house, &c, at Mooret-clack,* co. Surrey, which I bought of him, and a tenement at Tame in co. Oxford, held by lease. To son John Norris ninety pounds, to make up the ten pounds formerly given him to one hundred pounds, and a tenement at Mooretclack, bought of son William, &c. To grand child Annanias Andrews thirty pounds at age of twenty-one or day of marriage. To grand child John Andrews thirty pounds at twenty-one. To daughter Elizabeth Bell, now beyond the seas, forty pounds, if she be living and come to England to receive the same her- self, and that Samuel Bell, her husband, shall not meddle or have to do therewith. To grand-child Edward Norris, son of Christopher Norris, thirty pounds, five pounds whereof to put him forth an apprentice, and the remaining twenty-five pounds, with the benefit and increase, at age of twenty-one years. Remainder to two sons, William and John Norris. equally. Carr, 95.
Sir Robert Peake, Knight, citizen and goldsmith of London, 15 May, 1666, with codicil made 27 September, 1666, proved 26 July, 1667, by Gregory and Benjamin Peake. To my cousin and sometime servant, George Lyddall, in Virginia, gentleman, three hundred pounds in three years (one hundred pounds per year payable on Michaelmas day). To my sometime servant, Michael Tucker, in Virginia, husbandman, ten pounds. To servant Elizabeth Essington, of London, widow, twenty pounds. To my cousin James Waters, the son of Joseph Waters, fifty pounds. To my
cousin Waters, relict of Samuel Waters, skinner, deceased, twenty
pounds. To friend Doctor James Hide of Oxford, and his wife Margaret Hide, fifty pounds, and to their son Robert, my godson, fifty pounds. To my good friend and valentine Mary St. Loe, of the Parish of Dunstans in the East, London, widow, one thousand pounds in ten years (one hundred pounds a year, payable on Michaelmas day). To Mrs. Mary Burton, wife
* Mortlake.
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of Mr. Thomas Burton of Loudon, gentleman, and their son Robert, my godson, &c. To my godson Tristram Huddlestone, son of Nicholas Hud- dlestone of London, skinner, &c. To good friend Thomas Pulteney, of London, Salter, and his wife, &c. To Edward Hunt, of London, vintner, and Elizabeth his wife. To my friend Edward Jerman. To good friend Richard Loans, of London. To John Peake, Esq., eldest son of Sir Wil- liam Peake, Knight, of London, Alderman, and his brother Benjamin, sec- ond son of Sir William, &c. To Mrs. Elizabeth Vanbrugh, wife of Mr. Giles Vanbrugh, merchant, both my singular good friends — and to others.
Carr, 96.
[Much about the English family of Waters will be found in Eiumerton and Wa- ters'* Gleaning from English Records, pp. 121-30. — Ed.]
[In the Virginia Land Registry Office the following grants are recorded : George Lyddal, " Gentleman," 1750 acres in York County, Nov. 25, 1654; " Captain i" George Lyddal, 2390 acres in New Kent County (formed from York County in 1654) Jan. 20, 1657. Book No. 4, p. 214. The name Lyddall is a favored Christian name in a number of Virginian families, notably in the Bowles and Bacon. I find on record in Henrico County court, in June, 1754, the will of Langston Bacon. Wife Sarah is named, and also as Executors, Nathaniel Bacon, Lyddal Bacon and John Williamson. John Lyddall Bacon, Esq. is at this date President of the State Bank of Richmond. — R. A. Brock, of Richmond, Va.]
William Burges, of South River, County of Ann Arundell, Province of Maryland, 11 July, 1685. To son Edward Burges five thousand pounds of tobacco in casque within one year, provided he deliver to my executors one half of certain live stock that belonged to the estate of George Pud- dington, deceased. To William and Elizabeth, the children of said sou Edward. To son George Burges five thousand pounds of tobacco in casque, within one year. To sons William, John, Joseph, Benjamin and Charles, and daughters Elizabeth, Ann and Susanna Burges. To daughter Susan- nah, the wife of Major Nicholas Sewall, five pounds in money and my seal ring. To my grandson Charles Sewall and my granddaughter Jane Sew- all. To son William my messuage, &c, near South River, Ann Arundell county, which I purchased of one George Westall, and on a part whereof is a town called London. Wife Ursula to have the use of it till son Wil- liam accomplish the age of twenty-one years. (It is again referred to as the town or port of London.) Also to son William a tract in Baltimore County, near land of Col. George Wells, containing four hundred and eighty acres. To son John a tract near Herring Creek, in Ann Arun- dell County, containing eight hundred acres. To sou Joseph a tract lately bought of Richard Beard, gentleman, near the South River, &c, con- taining thirteen hundred and forty acres. To son Benjamin a tract near the Ridge, in Ann Arundell County, which I bought of Thomas Besson, containing three hundred acres, and another near the head of South River, containing four hundred acres. To son Charles my interest in land bought of Vincent Low, near the head of Sasafras River, in Cecil County, formerly granted to Nicholas Painter, since deceased, and containing sixteen hundred acres, also a tract lately purchased by me from said Vincent Lowe, on the south side of the Susquehanock River in said county of Baltimore, containing five hundred acres. (These sons appear to have been all under twenty-one years of age.) Wife Ursula to be executrix, and Major Nicholas Sewall, Major Nicholas Cassaway and Captain Henry Hanslapp, supervisors. The wit- nesses were Thomas Francies, Michael Cusack, John Harrison, William Elridge (his mark) and John Edwards.
o July, 1689. Emanavit Comissio Micajae Perry attornato unice depu-
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tato per Ursulam Moore als Burges (uxorem Mordeeai Moore) jam in com. de Ann Arundell in Provincia de Maryland comorand. relictam et execu- tricem, &c. &c. Ent. 91.
Thomas Brinley, of Datchett, co. Bucks, Esq., 13 September, 1661, with codicil of 16 October, 1661, proved 11 December, 1661. My third of tenements in the town of Newcastle upon Tyne, and two thirds of the manor of Burton in Yorkshire, to eldest son, Francis Brinley and his heirs. My half of the township or manor of Wakerfield, heretofore parcell of the Lordship of Raby, and my lands and tenements in Wakerfield, county and Bishoprick of Durham, purchased in the names of William Wase of Dur- ham and of Robert Worrall, lately deceased, and of Michael Lambcroft, lately deceased, and of John Maddocke, of Cuddington, co. Chester, in trust for the use of me, the said Thomas Brinley, and the said Robert Worrall and our heirs and assigns forever, to my wife, Anne Brinley, during her natural life ; at her death to eldest son, Francis Brinley. My lands in Hor- ton and Stanwell, in the several counties of Middlesex and Bucks, &c, by me purchased of Henry Bulstrode of Horton, to wife Anne for life ; then to my second son, Thomas Brinley, a lease of ninety-nine years. Certain other lauds, &c., lately bought of James Styles, the elder, of Langley, to wife Anne ; at her death to my third son, William Brinley. A legacy to daughter Mary Silvester, widow, and her daughter, my granddaughter, Mary Silvester the younger, who are both left destitute of subsistence by the decease of my said daughter's late husband, Peter Silvester, &c. To the children of my daughter Grissell, the now wife of Nathaniel Silvester, gentleman, dwelling in New England, in the Parts of America, in an island called Shelter Island, one hundred pounds within one year after my decease.
The witnesses to the will were Robert Style and Rose Baker. In the codicil he bequeaths legacies to his brother Lawrence Brinley and Richard Brinley his son, both of London, merchants, to the intent that they shall with all convenient speed sell that half of said lands, &c. (in Wakerfield), for the best rate and value that they can get for the same, &c.
The witnesses to this codicil were William Wase, Budd Wase, William Carter and William Brinley. The will was proved by the widow, Anne Brinley. May, 193.
[Thomas Brinley, who made this will, was the father of Francis Brinley, who emigrated to Barbadoes, but, the climate not being " suited to his habits and con- stitution," came to New England and settled at Newport, K. I., as eariy as 1652. Francis Brinley wrote an " Account of the Settlements and Governments in and about the Lands of Narraganset Bay," which is printed in the Massachusetts His- torical Collections, 1st S., vol. v. pp. 217-20. A catalogue of hij library is printed in the Register, xii. 75-8.
Brief genealogies of the Brinley family wdl be found in Bridgman's King's Chapel Epitaphs, 219-228, and in the Heraldic Journal, vol. ii. pp. 31-2. The for- mer is by the Hon. Francis Brinley, now of Newport, R. I. From it we learn that Thomas Brinley, " one of the auditors of the Revenue of King Charles the First and of King Charles the Second," besides the children named above in his will- Francis, Thomas, William, Mary, widow of Peter Sylvester, and Grizzell, wife of Nathaniel Sylvester — had three other daughters who lived to be married, namely : Rose, who married Giles Baker, lord of the manor of Riple in Kent ; one, christian name unknown, who married William Coddington, governor of Rhode Island ; and the other, whose christian name is also unknown, who married Richard Hackle, Esq. Grizzell was baptized at St. James's Church, Clerkenwell, Jan. 6, 1635-6. Ab- stracts of the wills of Peter and Nathaniel Sylvester will be found later in this arti- cle.—Ed.]
Laurence Brinley, citizen and haberdasher of Loudon, 10 August, 1662, proved 11 December, 1662, by the oaths of Samuel and Richard
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Brinley, sons and executors named in the will. The following bequests appear: to Mary Limbrey twenty pounds ; to Philip Limbrey, of Virginia, twenty pounds ; to my sister Susan Gregory, of Exon (Exeter J, widow, ten pounds ; to my cousin Elizabeth Brinley, of London, widow, and her two daughters, twenty pounds apiece to buy them a ring ; to Master Cala- my, my dearly beloved pastor and faithful minister of Jesus Christ, five pounds ; to poor Presbyterian ministers out of their places for conscience sake, thirty pounds, to be disposed of according to the discretion of my ex- ecutors with Mr. Calamy ; to my daughter Jenne Jackson, the wife of ,
the sum of twenty pounds, and, in case Weaver's Hall money cometh in, eighty pounds ; to my daughter-in-law Elizabeth Earnly, widow, the sum of twenty pounds ; to my son Nathaniel Brinley fifty pounds when he com- eth out of his time. I do constitute and appoint my two sons Samuel and Richard Brinley to be my executors, and give ten pounds apiece to them. The residue, &c, to my five children, viz., Nathaniel, Susannah, Hester, Philip and Isaac Brinley, according to equal proportions. My real estate of land in Ireland and England, after my decease, to be sold accord- ing to the uttermost value, for the payment of my wife's and the children's portions.
The witnesses -to this will were William Webb, Richard Brinley and John Jackson. Laud, 151.
Nathaniel, son of Laurence Brinley, of London, merchant, was a leg- atee to the amount of five pounds, under the will of Henry Hazlewood, citizen and currier of London, proved in the same year as the foregoing will. Laud, 108.
[From Lipscombe's History of Buckinghamshire, published in 1847.] In an account of the church at Datchett are found the following copies of in- scriptions on a slab in the floor of the nave :
Here lieth the body of Thomas Brinley, Esq., who was one of the audi- tors of the Revenue of King Charles the First and of King Charles ye Second. Born in the City of Exeter. He married Anne, youngest daugh- ter of Wm Ware* of Petworth, in Sussex, gent., who had issue by her five sons and seven daughters. He dyed the 15th day of October in the year of our Lord 1661.
Here also lieth buried ye body of the above said William Ware,* who died the 19th of Sept. 1642, aged 62 years and 5 months.
Vol. iv. page 441.
[From Visitation of London, 1634, vol. i., printed by the Harleian Soc]
LAWRENCE BRINLEY, of Wlllenhall, descended out of Stafford.
Richard Brinley of WilIenhall=Joane, da. of . , in com. Stafford.
, . . Reeve.
Brit
Thomas Brinley, eld. son,
one of Hio Ma"" auditors,
living 1634.
3 Lawrence Brinley=Mary, da. of John Minifie,
of London, merchant, living 1634.
of Hunyton, com. Devon.
I Sam' Brinley, eld. son.
Ill I
Lawrence. Richard. Mary. Anne
(Signed) Law. Brinley.
* This is undoubtedly a mistake for Wase ; for a pedigree of which family see Berry's Sussex Genealogies, p. 125, and Dallawav's History of the Western Division of Sussex, Vol. 2, Part ii. p. 123. It will be noticed that William Wase and Budd Wase were wit- nesses of Thomas Brinley's will.— H. F. W.
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15
[From Randall Holmes's Heraldic Collections for Cheshire, Harleian MS., No. 2119 British Museum.]
CHRISTOPHER BRINDLEY of Wildgoose House, near Leeke, co. Staff.
Rafe, of Cheshire, had land in Nantwich, per deeds.
Lawrance, of Willnall, co. Staff.=da. to Flecher, John,
2 son; recovered land in Nantwich, of same place. of Owsley,
or near it ; he obt. before he had pos- co. Stafford, session of his land he recovered.
"Richard of Exeter.
William Brindley of Willnall=Anne, da. to Tunkes,
Witlm was found heir to his uncle, per office, ex relation of Sam. Smith.
Lawrance, of London, marchant.
Thomas Brindley, the King's Auditor.
of Billson.co. Staff.
Thomas George= da. to
of Willnall, of the | Hatley. 1637. Hide,
co. Staff.
William. Anne. Sarah.
|
Robert= 1Alice, 2Margaret, of Willnall. ux. ux. Richard Richard Soley, jr. Soley, of of Dudley, Sturbridge, co. Wore, co. Wore. son ot Richard, by his 1st wife |
3Johane, 4Elizabeth, ux. Edvv. ux. Sam. Soley, of Smyth, of Bristow; SutLon Col. 2d to Tho. field, co. Jackson, Wore. 1637 of Bristow. |
|
Richard. Anne. Elizabeth. |
Margaret. [Fol. 67 A.] |
RAFE de BRERETON, test. (temp. Cong.) to Venables' Deed.
William Brereton, of Brereton, in com. Chester.
William Brereton of Brereton=
Isolda ux. Gilbert de Stocke, fil. Ranus (sic) de Prayers, dni. villa? de Stoke. With her he had the town of Brunlea.
Brindley de Brindley.
Piers Brindley of Brindley.
John Brindley of Brindley=Beatrix, da. and heir to John (or Jenkin) Bressey,
of Wistaston.
Thomas Brindley of Brindley—Alice, dau. and heir to David, son of Patrick de Crew.
William de Brindley=Margery, coh. to Tho3. Bulkley, John Brindley. Hugh Brindley.
of Wolstanwood.
Thomas de Brindley=Katherme, dau. to Piers Venables, of Kinderton. . 21 H. 6.
William de Brindley (21 H. 6.)
Thomcs Brindley of Wolstanwood, near Wich Malbank (1 R. 3).
John Brindley of Brindley.
(Whence the main line of Brindley of Brindley descended.)
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[Abstracts of deeds in evidence.] William, son of Thomas de Brindley, gives to Richd RefTs, parson of Bastomley, all his lands, tenements, &c, in the Hundred of Wich Malbank. Dated at Wolstanwood on the Feast of Epiphany — 21 II. 6.
A lease of a messuage in Rottenrow in Wich Malbank, by Thomas Brind- ley of Wolstanwood, near Wich Malbank, to Hugh Boston of the Wich, gentleman, dated 6 February, 1 R. 3.
A lease of Crofts in Copenhall and Wolstanwood, and a messuage and two crofts in Wighterson, near Nantwich, made by Thomas Brindeley of Wolstanwood aforesaid, to Hugh Boston, gent, aforesaid, of same date.
Mr. Garside to pay me for this pedigree for Mr. Sam. Smyth of Sutton Coldfield, 1637. Ff. 40, 67 A. and 68.
Peter Silvester of London, merchant, now inhabitant in the parish of Saint James, Dukes Place, in London, 26 January, 1657, proved 11 February. 1657. Whereas my dear mother, Mary Silvester, of London, widow, did oblige herself by promise to give unto me the sum of one thou- sand pounds of lawful money of England, for which said sum of one thou- sand pounds, &c, my said mother, at my request, hath this day become bound by obligation of the penalty of two thousand pounds unto Thomas Middleton of Stratford Bow, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, condi- tioned for the payment of the said one thousand pounds within six years after the date of the said bond unto me or to Mary my now wife, &c. &c. I do give and bequeath the said sum to wife Mary. To only daughter Mary six hundred pounds at the age of one and twenty years or day of marriage. If she die in the mean time, then two hundred pounds of it to my dear and loving wife, one hundred pounds to my brother Nathaniel Sil- vester, one hundred pounds to brother Joshua Silvester, one hundred and fifty pounds to brother Giles Silvester, and fifty pounds to my sister Cart- wright. The said sum of six hundred pounds to be sent to my loving bro- ther Constant Silvester, now resident in the Barbados, he to become bound for the payment, as above. To each and every of my own brothers and brothers-in-law forty shillings apiece to make each of them a ring to wear in remembrance of me. To my uncle Jeofrie Silvester the sum of twenty- five pounds. To my cousin Joseph Gascoigne fifteen pounds. To my Aunt Gascoigne five pounds, and to her daughter Anne Gascoigne five pounds. To loving friend Richard Duke, scrivener, forty shillings to make him a ring. To the poor of the parish of St. James, Duke's Place, five pounds. Thomas Middleton, Esq., to be sole executor, and loving uncle Nathaniel Arnold overseer, and I give him fifty pounds.
The witnesses to the above were Edw: Warren, Hum: Richardson and Richard Duke, scr. Wootton, 95.
Giles Silvester, of London, merchant, 2 March, 1670, proved 26 May, 1671. To such child or children as my wife now goeth with, the sum of three hundred pounds at his, her or their age of one and twenty years, if sons, and at age of twenty-one, or on day of marriage, which shall first hap- pen, if daughters. To my nephew, Constant Silvester, the four pictures that were my late fathers. The residue of the estate to loving wife, Anne Silvester, who is appointed executrix. I entreat and appoint, my dear and loving brother, Constant Silvester Esquire, and my good friend Redmaine Burrell to be overseers. To each of them forty shillings, for rings.
Grant of administration on the estate of the above was made to Constant Silvester, natural and lawful brother of the deceased, the widow Anne Sil- vester having renounced the executorship. Duke, 68.
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Constant Silvester made his will 7 April, 1671, proved 7 October, 1671, by Grace Silvester, relict and executrix. All my lands, plantations, houses and tenements in the island of Barbados, &c, to wife Grace and to Henry Walrond, Senr Esq., brother of the said Grace, Col. Richard Haw- kins, Samuel Farmer, Esq., and Mr. Francis Raynes (being all of the said island of Barbados) for one thousand years from the day of my decease, in trust, &c. ; wife Grace to enjoy one moiety during her natural life, and my eldest son, Constant, to enjoy two thirds of the other moiety during his mother's life, and my second son, Humphrey Silvester, to have and hold the remaining third of said other moiety during his mother's life. After her death Constant to have two thirds of the whole, and Humphrey the remaining third. If there should be more sons, the eldest son (in that case) to have a double share, and each other son a single share. If wife Grace should marry again, then she to have one third, instead of one half, of the above described property. To daughters Grace and Mary two thou- sand pounds sterling each at day of marriage, or at age of twenty-one years, and, over and above that, the sum of one hundred pounds sterling each, to buy them a jewel at the age of sixteen years.
Item, I give and bequeath to my brother Nathaniel Silvester, his heirs and assigns forever, one sixth part of all the lands which I and my said brother hold in partnership in Shelter Island, upon the coast of New Eng- land; so that, whereas he had a third part of the said lands before, now he shall have a moiety. And the remaining moiety of the said lands I give and bequeath to my two sons before named, equally, and to the heirs of their bodies lawfully begotten, forever ; and, for want of such issue, to my brother Joshua Silvester and the heirs of his body, forever ; and, for want of such issue, to my brother Nathaniel, his heirs and assigns, forever. To brother Joshua Silvester eight hundred pounds sterling. To my sister Mary Cartwright a mortgage on the estate made over to me by her deceased hus- band, Isaac Cartwright, during her natural life, and after her decease to my nephew, Constant Cartwright, he paying out of the same to each of his sis- ters, Mary and Anne, two hundred pounds sterling at their day of marriage or arrival at age of twenty-one years, whichever shall first happen. To my neph- ew Richard Kett, six hundred pounds sterling, and sixty pounds sterling per annum so long as he shall remain upon my Plantation after my decease, to keep the accompts thereof and taking care no injury or prejudice be done to the estate by any without giving notice thereof to my trustees before- named.
Wife Grace to be executrix so long as she remain unmarried, then the other trustees, &c. To each of these fifty pounds sterling apiece to buy them what they shall think fit to remember me by after my decease.
The witnesses were Henry Walrond, Grace Walrond, Peter Blackler, Anne Guillett, Dorothy Marshall, Samuel Ainseworth, juur and Will. Swepson.
17 June 1702 emanavit commissio Dominaa Gratise Pickering, uxori Domini Henrici Pickering, Barouetti, filiae naturali et legitimaa dicti Con- stantii Silvester defuncti, etc. etc. Duke, 124.
In the Chancel Aisle of the church in Brampton (co. Huntington), is a stone with this inscription : " Here lieth the body of Constant Silvestei Esqre who departed this life the 2nd September, 1671." The church Regis- ter contains the following: " Mr Humphrey Silvester, son of Mr Constant
3
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Silvester & Mw Grace his wife, was buried April ye sixteenth 1673." " M' Constant Silvester was buried the 4th day of September a: d: 1671."
Add. MS. 24493, Fol. 341, Brit. Mus. (Joseph Hunter's Colls.).
The following is an abstract of the last will and testament of Nathan- iel Sylvester of Shelter Island, proved 2 October, 1680. He calls him- self the right, true and lawful owner and proprietor of one moiety or half part, in fee simple, of all that Island whereon he was then dwelling, for- merly called Manhausack-Ahaqua-Shuwamock, now Shelter Island, &c. &c. also of one moiety or half part, in possession and reversion, of one other Island, formerly called Robert's Island. He gives and bequeaths to his en- deared wife Grizzell Sylvester, Francis Brinley, James Lloyd, Isaac Arnold, Lewis Morris and Daniel Gould, all the above described property, and also the other moiety or half part of Shelter Island which is claimed in partner- ship by my brother Constant Sylvester and Thomas Middleton, or any part or parts thereof which may happen to fall due unto me from the said Con- stant Sylvester and Thomas Middleton by reason of the great disburse- ments made by me for the said moiety, &c, in their behalf since the year 1652 until this present year, and likewise by reason of the great sums of money which my brother Constant doth in particular stand indebted unto me, as per accounts doth appear, and furthermore by reason of the confis- cation of the said moiety, &c. &c, by the Dutch men of war at their taking of New York with their fleet of nineteen men of war, they also taking and surprising the said moiety, &c. &c, as by the chief commanders of the said Dutch men of war their instrument of confiscation and Bill of Sale «iven unto me for the same, as doth at large appear, the said commanders also sending one of their men of war to Shelter Island where the Captain land- ed with about fifty soldiers, taking possession of the said moiety, &c, and to strike the greater dread in my family they beset my house, the better to obtain the money which they forced from me and myself constrained to pay to prevent their suing of said moiety, &c. &c. The above described prop- erty is to be held in trust for certain purposes. Reference is made to his wife's jointure, as by a deed left in hands of brother William Coddington of Rhode Island may at large appear. My children to be brought up in the fear of God, and to have such education bestowed upon them as may be conveniently gotten in these parts of the world, and as shall seem meet to my endeared wife, their mother, &c. My brother Joshua to be convenient- ly maintained both with diet, lodging, clothing and necessaries, decent and becoming him, as hitherto he hath enjoyed, that he may in no manner of way want, and in no wise put off from the Island, unless he shall think good to live elsewhere, &c. To son Giles (certain property) ; to son Nathaniel ; to son Peter ; to daughter Patience at age of twenty-one or marriage ; to daughter Elizabeth at twenty-one or marriage ; to daughter Mary at twen- ty-one or marriage; to daughter Ann at twenty-one or marriage ; to daugh- ter Mercy at twenty-one or marriage. To sons Constant and Benjamin at twenty-one. Son Nathaniel (a minor) to have certain bricks lying at Tho- mas Moore Senior's farm and at the Oyster Pond. Son Peter (also a minor) to have^aart of the said bricks. Property at Southold spoken of. The executors of the above will to be wife Grizzell Sylvester, brother-in- law Francis Brinley, son-in-law James Lloyd, cousin Isaac Arnold, Lewis Morris and Daniel Gould.
The witnesses were John Colling, Ann Colling (by mark), Peter Al- dritchand Jaques Guillott. These made deposition 2 October, 1680, under authority given by the Governor 2 September, 1680.
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Additional MS. 24493, Fol. 344, British Museum (Joseph Hunter's Collections).
[On the 9 of June, 1651, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Rouse, Constant Sylvester and Nathaniel Sylvester, purchased Shelter Island, on the east end of Long Island, for sixteen hundred pounds ot good merchantable Muscovado sugar, from Stephen Goodyeare, of New Haven, who had purchased it May 18, 1641, from the agent of the Earl of Sterling. Full particulars of the transactions of Nathaniel Sylvester in re- lation to Shelter Island will be found in Thompson's Long Island, vol. i. pp. 364-9. Nathaniel Sylvester died in March, 1680, according to Thompson, who gives an account of his descendants. Savage, in his Genealogical Dictionary (iv. 99), says : " There is no slight reason to believe this Nathaniel to be the son of the celebrated poet Joshua Sylvester, translator of the divine rhapsodies of Du Bartas.'" I do not know what reason Mr Savage, who was a cautious genealogist, had for thinking so. It is possible that he was a son, or more likely a grandson. — Ed.]
Samuel Ward, the elder, of Ipswich, clerk, 19 October, 1639, proved 24 April, 1640, by Nathaniel and Joseph Ward, sons of the deceased and ex- ecutors of his will; to whom he left all his books, all his loadstones, shells, papers, pictures and maps. Item — I will and bequeath all that money which doth belong to me upon the house where I now dwell, situate in Ipswich aforesaid (which money was given by many gentlemen and townsmen my friends), to be equally divided between them and their heirs forever; also all my lands and houses in Brickelsea, both free and copy, equally, &c. &c, on condition that every year during the natural life of Deborah, my loving wife, and Samuel Ward, my eldest son, they pay to the said Deborah and Samuel twenty pounds a year apiece, — to either of them at four times or terms in the year, — upon the feast-day of the Nativity of our Lord God, upon the feast day of the Annunciation of our Blessed Lady St. Mary tlte Virgin, upon the feast day of St. John the Baptist, and upon the feast day of St. Michael the Archangel, by even and equal portions, &c , at the now dwell- ing house of Mr. Robert Knapp in Ipswich ; or, in lieu of said twenty pounds a year to son Samuel, to keep and maintain him in a comely and de- cent manner for and during his natural lite, at the election and choice of the said Nathaniel and Joseph. To my mother forty shillings yearly, to be paid her at her now dwelling house in Weatherstield, quarterly. My watch to my daughter Deborah, and my fair English Bible, printed anno domini 1633, to my said daughter Deborah, only my wife to have the use of said bible during her life. Sundry chattels to daughter Abigail, after decease of wife. All the plate and wearing clothes to son Nathaniel. My Greek Testament, of Robert Stephens print, to my brother John Ward. My best gloves to my son Robert Bolton. A Greek Testament to son John Bolton. To Margaret my maid, twenty shillings. To John Boggas, my servant, ten shillings. To the poor of the parish of St. Mary Tower and of St. Mary Key in Ipswich, either of them twenty shillings apiece. To Mr. Robert Knapp, my ancient friend, a pair of gloves of five shillings price, or a book of the same value.
The witnesses to the signature were Thomasin Willis and Daniel Ray.
Coventry, 47.
[The Rev. Samuel Ward, B.D., the maker of the above will, was the town preacher at Ipswich, and a celebrated Puritan author. He was the eldest son of the Rev. John Ward of Haverhill, in Suffolk, and brother of the Rev. Nathaniel Ward, author of the Massachusetts Body of Liberties, or code of laws adopted in 1641. Samuel Ward married, January 2, 1604-5, Deborah Bolton, widow, of Isle- ham, Cambridgeshire. It seems from this will that she had two sons, Robert and John Bolton, by her first husband. For further details of his life, see a brief me-
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moir of Rev. Samuel Ward, appended to the editor's memoir of the Rev. Nathaniel Ward (Albany, 1868). An abstract of his will, furnished by the late Col. Chester, will be found on pages 154-5 of that work. — Ed.]
Margaret Simonds, late widow of John Simonds, late of Kunckles Alley in London, deceased, her nuncupative will, August, 1G65 ; To daugh- ter Margaret Burton, who is now beyond the seas. Proved 6 March, 1667, by Margaret Burton. Hene 36.
Timothy Snape, London, yeoman, one of the sons of Edmond Snape, late of the parish of St. Saviors, in Southwark, co. Surrey, clerk, deceased, being bound forth on a voyage to Virginia in the parts beyond the seas, executed his will 10 September, 1624, proved 9 July, 1629. He names brothers and sisters, Samuel, Nathaniel and John Snape, Hannah, now wife of John Barker, citizen and haberdasher of London, and Sarah Snape, spinster. Ridley, 67.
Samuel Ive, of Portsmouth, 13 July, 1667, proved 17 August, 1667, by John Ive, brother and executor. To sister Sarah Putland, of Strood, wife of Elias Putland, four score pounds. To brother John Ive. To Mary Al- deridge or any other of our kindred. To my brother Thomas Ive twenty pounds. To Mary Alderidge, my sister's daughter, twelve pence. To Rob- ert Reynolds, carver, all my working tools and the time of my servant John Rauly which he has yet to serve, only six months of the time I do give to the said John Rauly. To MrU Reynolds what goods I have in the house, except my desk and trunk of linen and wearing clothes, which I do give to my brother Thomas Ive if he live to come home ; or, else, to my brother John Ive, to whom all the residue. Carr, 107.
[Much about the Ive family will be found in Emmerton and Waters's Gleanings from English Records, pp. 60-1. — Ed.]
William Quicke, citizen and grocer of London, 26 October, 1614, proved 21 January, 1614. He mentions daughter Apphia, wife Elizabeth, daughter Elizabeth, daughter Debora, brother Nicholas Quicke and his children, the rest of brothers' and sisters' children, kinswoman Mary Mar- shall the younger, brother-in-law Thomas Hodges, merchant taylor, &c.
" I give and bequeath to and amongest my three daughters aforesaid, all my pte of all such landes, tenements and hereditaments as shall from time to time be recovered, planted and inhabited eyther in Virginia or in the somer Ilandes heretofore called the Bermoodas togither wth all such mynes and mineralls of gold, silver and other mettalls or treasure, perles, precious stones or any kinde of wares and mercbandices, comodities or profitts what- soever which shalbe obtayned or gotten in or by the said voyages and plan- tations accordinge to the adventure and portion of money that I have em- ployed to that use." Rudd, 1.
[John Smith, in his " Generall Historie," Ed. 1626, page 126, gives the name of William Quicke in the List of the Adventurers for Virginia. — R. A. Brock, of Richmond, Va.] *
Nathaniel Warde, of Old Winsor, co. Berks, Doctor in Divinity, 3 December, nineteenth of K. Charles, proved 11 February, 1667. He men- tions wife Susanna and marriage contract, a bond of one thousand pounds unto Mr Thomas Hanchett and Mr Solomon Smith, in trust for said wife. Son Nathaniel to be executor. The witnesses were Robert Aldridge, Eliz- abeth Reynolds and (the mark of) Edward Stokes. Hene, 26.
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Smalehope Bigg, of Cranbrooke in the County of Kent, clothier, 3 May, 1638, proved 3 October, 1638, by John Bigg. Brother John Bigg, of Maidstone, to be executor. To the poor of Cranbrooke ten pounds. To my Aunt Mary Bridger of West Peckharn and her two sons, Robert and Thomas Betts ; to my kinswomen, the wife of William Hunt of Brench- lev, Anne Bottinge of Brenchley, widow, and the wife of John Saxby of Leeds ; to Judith, wife of Thomas Tadnall, late of Dover; to Godfrey Mar- tin of Old Romney and his sisters ; to the children of Robert Pell of New Romney, jurat, deceased.
To my kinsfolk Thomas Bate, of Lydd, James Bate, Clement Bate, the wife of William Batchelor, John Compton, Edward White and Martha his wife, all which are now resident in New England, twenty shillings each. I give ten pounds to be distributed to them or to others in New England by my mother and my brother John Stow. To Peter Master of Cranbrook who married my sister. To my mother Rachell Bigg one hundred pounds. Lands &c. at Rye in County Sussex to my wife Ellin. To my sisters Pa- tience Foster and Elizabeth Stow in New England. To Ilopestill Foster, son of my sister three hundred pounds. To Tliomas and John Stow, sons of my sister Stow two hundred pounds each. To Elizabeth Stow and the other three children (under age) of my said sister Stow. Lands in Hors- monden to my brother John Bigg. Lands at Wittersham, Lidd and Cran- brook to Samuel Bigg, my brother's son, at the age of twenty-three years. My friends John Nowell of Rye, gentleman, James Holden and Thomas Bigg the elder, of Cranbrook, clothiers, to be overseers. To my cousin Hunt's children and John Saxbey's children; to the two sons of my Aunt Betts; to my cousin Bottenn's children; to my cousin Pell's children, viz., Joan Pell, Elizabeth Pell, Richard Pell and Thomas Baytope's wife.
After a hearing of the case between John Bigg, brother and executor pi the one part, and Helleu alias Ellen Bigg (the relict), Patience Bigg alias Foster, wife of Richard Foster, and Elizabeth Bigg alias Stow, wife of Richard (sic) Stow, testator's sisters, of the other part, sentence was pro- nounced to' confirm the will 4 April, 1639 (the widow having previously died, as shown by date of probate of her own will which follows).
Consistory Court, Canterbury, Vol. 51, Leaf 115.
Ellen Bigge, of Cranbrooke, widow of Smalehope Bigge, of Cran- brook, clothier, 24 November, proved 12 February, 1638. To be buried in Cranbrooke Cemetery, near my husband. To Samuel Bigge, son of my brother John Bigge, of Maidstone. Lands and tenements at Rye in the County of Sussex to my only sister Mary, wife of Edward Benbrigg, jurat, of Rye, for her life, remainder to her son John Benbridge ; to Anne Ben- bridge, alias Burrish, and Elizabeth and Mary Benbrig, daughters of my aforesaid sister Mary. To John Benbrigg, clerk, Thomas Benbrigg and Samuel Benbrigg, sons of my deceased sister Elizabeth ; also her daughters Anne Benbrigge, alias Puttland, and Elizabeth Benbrigg (the last named under age). My said sister Mary Benbrigg and her son John Benbrigg to be executors. To Peter Master, son of my brother Peter Master, of Cran- brooke; to my sister-in-law Katherine Master. To William Dallett (son of my dec'd sister Bridgett) and his son (under age). To William Ed- wards, son of my sister Mercy. To Thomas Pilcher, Elizabeth Pilcher alias Beinson, Judith Pilcher alias Burges, and Anne Pilcher, son and daughters of my uncle John Pilcher of Rye, deceased. To Mary, wife of Robert Cushman and their son Thomas (under age). James Holden of
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Cranbrooke, clothier, and my brother-in-law Peter Master of Cranbrooke, mercer, to be overseers.
Archdeaconry, Canterbury, Vol. 70, Leaf 482.
Will of John Bigg, of Maidstone, co. Kent., jurat, begun Aug. 17, 1640, finished March 27, 1641, probated Feb. 7, 1642.
Mr. Andrew Broughton, Exr, friends James Bolden of Cranbrook and Thomas Lamb of Staplehurst, overseers. Legacies to Roger Ball, John Bowdeu, William Whetston, Samuel Browne, Samuel Skelton, widow Clarke, widow Peirce Susan the wife of Daniel Clarke my ancient servant, William Lawramau, William Ayerst, Richard Weller Senr, of Cranbrook, — Cheeseman, my porter and fetcher in of my water, old goodman Greensmith of Loose, widow Darby of Staplehurst. old goodman Humphry or his wife of Harresham, widow Warren late of Sandwich, Mr. Harber Minister of Raish beside Malliuge, Mr. Elmeston schoolmaster of Maidstone, Mr. Goodacker and Mr. Bramston, brother to widow Charleton of Loose, "two poore godlie ministers, I think of Sussex," Damarys Wilson now living with me and her father and mother, Mary Tatnell daughter of Thomas T. now living with me and her sister Judah Tatnell.
Also to Packnam Johnson, now living with me, my sister Johnson his mother, my cousin Milles widow, living at Raysh,my cousin Botten, widow, living at Brenchley, my aunt Bredger of Peckham, my cousin Hunt's wife of Brenchley, my cousin Saxbey's wife of Leeds, my cousin Gaskyne and my cousin Betes living about Lengly. My mother Bigg, my sister Foster, my brother Stowe, all these living in New England. Hopestill Foster, Thomas Stowe, John Stowe, Nathaniel Stowe, Samuel Stowe, my brother Stowe's two daughters, Elizabeth Stowe,. Thankful Stowe.
My wife Sibella Bigg. Elizabeth Pell dwelling with me. My cousin Beatupes wife of Tenterden. Marie Terrie in New England. My cousin Godfrey Martyne, my cousin Smith's wife of Laclomi, late Saltman. My cousin William Boysse. John Crumpe, son of Thomas Crumpe. My brother Beaccons. Cousin Yonge of Canterbury. My brother Peter Masters of Cranbrooke and his four children. My cousin James Bate of New England. My cousin Lyne of New England. Clement Bate and William Bachelor. Edward Whitt, John Compton, John Moore, Thomas Bridgdeu, Goodman Beale that went from Cranbrook and my cousin Betts there. My brother Robert Swinocke and his wife. Mr. John London. My mother Mrs. Dorothie Maplisden, my brother Mr. Jervis Maplisden and his wife, my brother Mr. Nyuion Butcher and his wife, Mr. Thomas Swynocke, my brother in law, Mr. Wilson and his wife, my brother Wildinge, Mrs. Marie Duke. Mr. Elmeston of Cranbrook. James Holden of Cranbrook. My brother Smallhope Bigg, late of Cranbrook. My brother Beaccon's will. Mr. William Randolph. Mr. Robert Drayner.
Crane, 11.
A copy of this will was printed in the Register, xxix. 256. — H. F. W.
[See will of Christopher Gibson, Suffolk Probate Records, vi. 64. He and Hope- still Foster, Jr., married sisters, daughters of James Bate.
For the foregoing abstracts of the wills of Smalehope Bigg and his widow, Mrs. Ellen Bigge, the readers of the Register are indebted to the kindness of Joseph Eedes, Esq., who has, moreover, given me numerous clews and references to other
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American names, to be followed up hereafter. Indeed all my fellow workers here are constantly exhibiting proof of that good will and kindly fellowship which my experience, in America as well as England, has shown me to be characteristic of the brotherhood of antiquaries. Henry F. Waters.
By an instrument dated Sept. 10, 1653, recorded with Suffolk Deeds, lib. i. fol. 318, Hopestill Foster of the one part and Thomas, Nathaniel and Samuel Stowe of the other part, all of New England, lor the purpose of ending the " many & vn- comfortable differences " which have arisen concerning the wills of their deceased uncles Mr. Smallhope Bigg and Mr. John Bigg both of the County of Kent in old England, and which " haue occasioned much trouble each to other p'tic & likewise vncomfortable suits att Lawe," agree that each party shall " enioy what they now enioy namely Hopestill fibster or his assignes the one half of all those lauds In Crambrooke Withersham & Lidd wch mr Smallhop [ ] Bigg gaue vnto Samuell Bigg his Brothers Sonne & Thomas Stowe and his sonne John as heires to John Stowe his Uncle deceased And Nathaniell & Samuell Stowe the other half of the said land and likewise quietly & peacably to enioy the lands of mr John Bigg of 60u a yeare or thereabout wch hoe deuided as by his will is exprsed Unto Hopstill fibster 15u a yeare, John Stowe 15u a year, Thomas Nathaniell & Samuell ye remainder." — John T.
H ASSAM.
Smallhope Bigg, in his will, mentions sisters Patience Foster and Elizabeth Stow They were the wives of Hopestill Foster of Dorchester (see Dorchester Antiq. Soci- ety's Hist Doich., p. 118) and John Stow of Roxbury (see the Apostle Eliot's Ch. Records. Register, xxxv. 244). Of the kinsmen whom he names, Edward White, Dorchester, Mass , had married in 1616, at St. Dunstan's Church, Cranbrook, Kent, Martha King, according to a pamphlet printed in 1863, entitled, In Memoriam Lieut. W. Greenough White ; John Coaipton was probably the person of the name who settled at Roxbury (Reg. xxxv. 244), and William Batcbelor may have been the Charlestown settler who had wives Jane and Rachel (Wyman's Charlestown, i. 42). Clement Bate settled at Hingham (Barry's Hanover, p. 245) and James Bate at Dorchester (Hist. Dorch. p. 106) . For the parentage of the latter, see Reg- ister, xxxi. 142.
John Bigg in his will (Reg. xxix. 259), mentions as persons " that went from Cranbrook,'' 'Edward Whitt [White], John Compton, John Moore, Thomas Brigden and Goodman Beale." — Editor.]
Thomas Bell, senior, of London, merchant, 29 January, 1671, proved 3 May, 1072, by Susanna Bell, his relict and sole executrix.
I give unto Mr. Johu Elliott, minister of the church and people of God at Roxbury in New England and Captaiue Isaac Johnson, whom I take to be an officer or overseer of and in the said church, and to one such other like godly person now bearing office in the said church and their successors, the minister and other two such Head Officers of the church at Roxbury, as the whole church there, from time to time, shall best approve of succes- sively, from time to time forever, all those my messuages or tenements, lands and hereditaments, with their and every of their appurtenances, scit- uate, lying and being at Roxbury in New England aforesaid, iu the parts beyond the seas — To Have and To Hold to the said Minister and Officers of the said church of Roxbury for the time being and their successors, from time to time forever, — In Trust only notwithstanding to and for the main- tenance of a Scoole-master and free schoole for the teaching and instruc- tion of Poore mens children at Roxbury aforesaid forever, And to and for no other use, intent or purpose whatsoever.
Whereas my son Thomas Bell did pay unto me the sum of three hun- dred pounds which he received in marriage with his wife, I therefore give. &C, over and besides two hundred pounds formerly given him, the sum of twelve hundred pounds within twelve months after my decease. If he be dead then to his wife Jane the sum of five hundred pounds. To grand child Clement Bell three hundred pounds at the age of one and twenty. To grand child Thomas Bell three hundred and fifty pounds ; to grand child
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Simon Bell one hundred and fifty pounds at one and twenty. Whereas I gave in marriage with my daughter Susan to John Wall deceased the sum of three hundred pounds and afterwards the sum of four hundred pounds to Mr John Bell her now husband, I do give to Mr John Bell and to said Susan his wife the sum of eighty pounds between them. To grand child John Wall the sum of one hundred and twenty pounds at the age of one and twenty. To Simon Baxter, my son-in-law, and Sarah his wife eighty pounds, and for Edward and Simon their sous, and to Sarah and Susan Baxter, my grand children, one hundred pounds apiece at age of one and twenty or on day of marriage, &c. To my daughter Mary Turpin, wife of John Turpin ; to Edward Bell, son of my brother Edward, at age of twenty one years ; to Elizabeth and Sarah Bell, at age of twenty one ;
to Susanna , late wife of Edward Bell, and to her two children which
she had by the said Edward ; to the poor of the parish of Allhallows Bar- king, London, where I now dwell, &c.
I do hereby give and bequeath unto Thomas Makins, my sister's son, in New England, the sum of twenty pounds and to the other child of my said sister, whose name I remember not, twenty pounds. And to all the child- ren of my sister Christian, on her body begotten, who married one Chap- pell* or Chapman, I give and bequeath twenty pounds apiece, &c. To my cousin Ann Bugg, widow, an annuity of three pounds for life. To cousin Thomas Wildboare (my cousin Sarah's son) ten pounds at age of twenty one, and to Susan, her daughter, ten pounds. To said cousin Sarah Wild- boare the sum of twenty pounds, and her husband to have no power over it. A legacy to Mr Isaac Daffron. The sum of one hundred pounds to be dis- tributed among poor necessitous men late ministers of the Gospel, of which number I will that that Mr Knoles and Mr John Colling, both late of New England be accounted. Legacies to the said Mr Knoles and Mr Samuel Knolls his son, Mr John Colling and one Mr Ball. To my cousin Mr John Bayley of little Warmfield, in co. Suffolk and his wife aud daughter Mar- tha and his other four children ; to my cousin William Whood and his wife; to my uncle's daughter of S' Edmuudsbury whose husband's name is John Cason ; to Mary Bell, daughter of brother Bell. Houses iu Grace church St., London, to wife Susan for life, then to son Thomas. I omit to give anything to his daughter. Eure, 56.
[Thomas Bell of Roxbury and his wife " had letters of Dismission granted & sent to England an0 1(354 7m0," according to the Apostle Eliot's records (Reg. xxxv. 245). Thomas Meakins and his wife Catherine were admitted to the church in Boston, Feb. 2, 1633-4. His son Thomas settled in Brain tree, and thence removed to Roxbury and Hadley (Savage). " Alr Knoles and Mr John Colling," mentioned as " ministers of the Gospel," were the Rev. Hanserd Knollys and the Rev. John Collins. Knollys preached at Dover, N. 11., awhile, and returned in 1641 to Eng- land. He died in London, September 19, 1691, aged 93. See his Life and Times, London, 1692, and articles by A. H. Quint, D.D., in the Congregational Quarterly, xiii. 38-53 ; and by J. N. Brown, D.D., in Sprague's Annals of the American Pul- pit, vi. 1-7. A society in England for publishing Baptist historical works was named for him. The Rev. John Collins, graduated H. C. 1649, returned to Eng- land, was chaplain to Gen. Monk, and afterwards pastor of an Independent Church in London, where he died, Dec. 3, 1687. (See Sibley's Harvard Graduates, i. 186- 91.) He was a son of Edward Collins, of Cambridge, N. E., who with sons Daniel, John and Samuel and daughter Sible, are mentioned in 1639, in the will of his bro- ther Daniel Collins, of London. (Emmerton and Waters's Gleanings, p. 20.) Mr. Waters sends us, as confirmatory of his queries four years ago, in Emmerton and Waters's Gleanings, p. 21, about the Collins family, the two following short pedigrees :
* Perhaps William Chappell of New London. (See Savage's Gen. Diet. i. 363.)— H. F. W.
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Sain1 Bedle of Wolverston, Suff.— Abigail, dau. of ... Collins in com. E,<sex.
!
John. Samuel. Nathan'l. Dorothy. Abigail.
Have we not here, Mr. Waters adds, Abigail widow of Samuel Bedle, wife of William Thompson, sister of Daniel Collins, Dorothy daughter of above and first wife of John Bowles, and Abigail her sister wife of Michael Powell ?
John Collyns of London, Salter= Abigail, dau. of Thos. Rose of Exmouth, co.
| Devon, 3d wife.
Daniel Collyns of London, merch1. 1633, s. p.=Sibil, dau. of Thos. Francklyn of
London, goldsmith.
— Editor.]
Nathaniel Eeles, of Harpenden in the County of Hartford, 28 March, 1678, with codicil of 9 April, 1678, proved 12 February, 1678. To wife Sarah one third of household goods and the lease of Denhames house and land, and the money made of her lands at Boringdon, now in the hands of Mr Combes of Hemsted, for her natural life, and my watch and largest English bible in folio, with annotations thereon, in two volumes, and Deodate's Annotations, and all the books I have of Mr Carill upon Job, &c. Certain property to three daughters at day of marriage or age of twenty four years. To son Nathaniel ten pounds and my sealing ring, he having formerly received his portion, for which I have a writing under his hand. To son John ten pounds, he having received his portion and part formerly, the said ten pounds to be paid to him within one year after my decease, or be then or as soon as may well be after sent over to him into Virginia, if he be then living ; and if he die before the time limited for the payment thereof to him, I give the said ten pounds unto my son Nathaniel. To son Isaac my lease of Denhames, with the rents and pro- fits thereof, after the decease of my wife, and all my books, he to pay ten pounds unto my son Daniel within one year after the decease of my wife. To sons Jacob, Joseph and Jeremiah, to each one hundred and fifty pounds for to educate, maintain, and put them forth to callings and for the setting them up in their trades after they shall have served up their apprenticeships or times with them to whom my wife shall put them ; and the like sum of one hundred and fifty pounds to son Daniel for the same ends and purposes.
The portions to my four sons last named shall be paid unto them at their ages of twenty four years or when they shall have served out their appren- ticeships and need the same to set up with, at the discretion of my wife. To daughter Sarah two hundred pounds ; to daughters Rebecca and Mary one hundred and fifty pounds each ; and to every of my sons and daughters I give a practice of Piety (a book so called) and Mr Alley his Treatise of Conversion and Mr Baxter his call to the unconverted, and a new bible to such as need the same. To my very loving brother Mr William Eeles and my dear and loving sister Mrs Foster, both which I appoint to be overseers of this my will, I give twenty pounds to each of them and desire them, by all the love they ever bare to me, to give my destitute and afflicted wife the best assistance, counsel and advice they can in all cases, from time to time, as need shall require. To loving sisters M" Eeles and Mrs Pearse, to each of them ten pounds, to buy them rings. My dear and loving wife Sarah to be sole executrix. The one hundred pounds in Mr Coombe's hand is of right my wife's during her life.
The witnesses to the will were William Eele, John Eeles, Will : Eeles
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junr and Jos: Marlow. All but the first named were witnesses to the codicil. King, 1 6.
[In Calamy and Palmer's Nonconformist's Memorial (1802), Vol. II., page 306, under the head of Harden, in Hertfordshire, we learn that Mr. Nathaniel Eeles (of Emmanuel College, Cambridge) was born at Aldenham in that county, of good pa- rentage. Having prosecuted his Btudies till he was senior bachelor and then stu- died two years at Utrecht, he was ordained a Presbyter, returned to England and preached at Caddington in Bedfordshire. In 1643 he was called by the people of Harding to be their preacher. There he continued till the year 1661, when he was ejected. He preached in private in sundry places till 1672, when he took out a li- cense for his own house at Harding, where he preached, gratis, to all who would come. He died 18 December, 1678, aged 61, leaving, we are told, a wife and ten children.— H. F. W.
I do not know of any present representative of the name Eeles in Virginia. I find that Samuel Eale and John Stith received a grant of 500 acres in Charles City Co., Va., in 1652. Va. Land Registry, Book 5, p. 268.— R. A. B.]
Marmaduke Goode, of Ufton, in Berkshire, clerk, 5 September, 1678, proved 20 February, 1678, by Samuel and Mary Goode, executors. To brother Samuel Goode all that messuage or tenement, with the appurte- nances, lying in Sulhamsteed Abbots and South Bannister which I hold by lease from Francis Perkins Esquire, to said Samuel to enjoy the same dur- ing his natural life; and, after his death, I give the said messuage &c. to my niece Mary Goode, the daughter of my brother John Goode, to enjoy for the remaining term of the said lease. To my brother John Goode, citi- zen of London, & to Susanna his now wife all my house, tenement, lands and hereditaments &c. in Sylchester in the County of Southhampton, which I purchased of John Carter of Sylchester, and after their decease, to my neph- ew Marmaduke Goode, son of the said John Goode, he to pay to his sisters, Elizabeth, Susanna and Anne, forty pounds apiece within twelve months after he shall be possessed of the said lands and premisses at Silchester. To my brother William Goode my messuages or tenements, &c. called or known by the name of the Heath lands or heath grounds, situated, lying & being in the several parishes of Ufton and Sulhamsteed, in the county of Berks, and which I lately purchased of Richard Wilder of Tlieale in the parish of Tylehurst, in the said County of Berks, innholder, during his natural life and afterwards to my nephew Robert Goode, sou of the said William Goode and his heirs forever, he to pay to his two sisters, Elianor and Mary, forty pounds within twelve months, &c. To my sister Mary Haines and her two maiden daughters fifty pounds apiece within one year after my decease ; to my brother John Goode in Virginia ten pounds with- in twelve months after my decease, according to the appointment of my brother John Goode, citizen of London ; to my brother Thomas Goode, in Ireland, ten pounds (in the same way) ; to my sister Ann Wickens of Up- ton ten pounds ; to my servant Alice Payee ten pounds ; to my servant Hugh Larkum five pounds. All the rest of the property to brother Sam- uel Goode and niece Mary Goode, daughter of my brother John Goode, who are appointed joint executors.
The witnesses were Samuel Brightwell and Robert King.
King, 17.
[By family tradition John Goode came to Virginia from Whitby, England, about 1660, with his wife, and purchased the plantation of one Gough (situated on the south side of James River, about four miles from the city of Manchester) which he named " Whitby." His descendants have intermarried with many prominent fam- ilies of Virginia, including the Harrisons, Blunds, Turpins, Gordons, Scotts, Cookes
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and others. Col. Thomas F. Goode and Hon. John Goode of Virginia, and Prof. G. Brown Goode of the Smithsonian Institution, are descendants of John Goode. " Whitby " is now the property of A. D. Williams, Esq., Richmond, Virginia.— R. A. B]
Mary Hoskins, of Richmond in the County of Surrey, widow, 30 July, 1678, proved 28 February, 1G78. To my dear mother Anne Githins, wid- ow, all my plate and linen and diamond locket aud five hundred pounds within three mouths after my decease. To M" Mariana Carletou, the wife of Matthew Carleton, gentleman, my best diamond ring aud twenty pounds. Ten pounds apiece to be paid to the three children of my late deceased bro- ther John Githins in Meriland, Philip, John aud Mary Githins. To Mary Evererd, daughter of Robert Evererd of Godstone, five pounds and five pounds to Richard Nye, whom I placed with Mr Taw. Twenty pounds to be laid out in placing two boys to trades, whereof one to be of Oxted and the other of Godstone. All my houses in the Maze in Southwark, held of S' Thomas Hospital and all other personal estate, &c. to my loving brother William Githins, Gentleman, whom I appoint executor.
The witnesses were Thomas Jenner, Richard Smith (by mark), Wine- frut King of Petersham and Jeoffrey Glyd. King, 19.
The pedigree of the Hoskins Family of Oxted is given in various MSS. in the British Museum. The marriage of any Hoskins with the testatrix named above has not been found.
[The name Everard has had most prominent representatives in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina, and is a favored Christian name in the distinguished Meade family of Virginia. — R. A. B.]
Anne Jones, of S* Clement Danes in the County of Middlesex, wid- ow, 20 February, 1676, proved 6 February, 1678. To Bridget Waite, wife of William Waite (certain household effects) aud the lease of my house wherein I now dwell, she paying the rent, &c. All the rest to my son Thomas Daniell who is in Virginia, beyond the seas. Aud I do hereby make my said son Thomas Daniell full and sole executor, and my friends Charles Stepkin Esq. and Mr Richard Southey overseers, they to keep the estate in trust for my said son Thomas Daniell. In case he die before he comes from beyond the seas, then I bequeath to Edward Jones and Patience Jones, son & daughter of Johu Jones, of the parish of S' Clement Danes, taylor, five pounds apiece ; and all the rest of my estate to Mark Work- man and Elizabeth Workman, son and daughter of Mark Workman, late of the parish of S' Mary Magdalen, old Fish Street Loudon, deceased, equally.
The witnesses were Richard Southey, Junr. John Searle and Ro: Stone.
King, 19.
[I find of record in the Virginia Land Registry, Book No. 8, p. 428, a grant of 130 acres in the Counties of Isle of Wight and " Nanzimond," Va., to Owen Daniell, in 1695 — R. A. B.J
Robert Lucas, of Hitchin, in the County of Hertford, in his will of 13 January, 1678, proved 14 February, 1678, speaks of land purchased of William Papworth of New England, lying close to land which was here- tofore that of the testator's father, Simon Lucas, deceased, and lands here- tofore the lands of William Willis. King, 21.
[ Query. Where did William Papworth reside ? — Ed.]
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Anthony Roby, of the Province of Carolina, 6 December, 1686, proved 1 1 July, 1688. To mother Early Roby, in England, all my estate in Caro- lina or elsewhere ; if she be dead then to her next heirs then living. My friend Andrew Percivall Esquire, of the said Province, to be sole executor.
The witnesses were David Harty, James Wyatt and John Shelton.
Exton, 99.
John Reed, mariner, 4 April, 1688, proved 6 July, 1688. I bequeath all my concerns aboard the ship Richard, of London, John Reade Master, riding at anchor in the York River, to my loving wife Mary Reade of Bris- tol. I desire my loving friend Capt. Trim, commander of the ship Judy, riding at anchor in York River, to take accompt.
The witnesses were Benjamin Eyre, George Lodge and Charles Perkes.
Exton, 99.
[John Read was granted 145 acres in Gloucester Co., March 18, 1652. Va. Land Registry Office, Book 5, p. 280. There are grants within a short period thereaf- ter to Alexander Argubell and James Read or Reade.
The Eyres-have been continuously seated in Northampton Co., Va., from the 17th century. They early intermarried with the Severns, Southeys and Lyttletons, and these latter names are now favored Christian names in the family. — R. A. B.]
Henry Woodhouse, of the parish of Linhaven, of lower Norfolk in Virginia, 29 January, 1686, owned to be his will 31 January, 1686-7, and proved 24 July, 1688. To eldest son Henry Woodhouse my plantation where I live (containing five hundred acres, and described) ; to second son, Horatio, property called Moyes land (adjoining the above) ; to son John (other real estate) ; to sou Henry two negroes Roger and Sarah ; to daugh- ters Elizabeth and Lucy, daughter Mary, wife of William More, and daughter Sarah, wife of Cason More. Exton, 102.
[I find the following grants of land to the name Woodhouse, of record in the Va. Land Registry Office : Thomas Woodhouse, 200 acres in James City Co., March 24, 1644, Book No. 2, p. 1 ; Henry Woodhouse, 200 acres in Lynhaven parish, Lower Norfolk Co., April 5, 1649, p. 167 ; the same, 275 acres in same, May 11, 1652, Bk. No. 3, p. 254 ; the same, 749 acres in the same, April 3, 1670, Book No. 6, p. 357 , Hamond Woodhouse. 340 acres in Charles City Co., April 20, 1669, Book No. 6, p. 216.— R. A. B.]
Michael Griggs, of County Lancaster, Colony of Virginia, gentle- man, 17 April, 1687, proved 10 September, 1688. To my father-in-law Robert Schofield. To wife Anne Griggs the residue. The witnesses were William Lee, Richard Farrington and William Carter.
The above will was proved at London "juramento Annae Bray, als Griggs (modo uxoris Richardi Bray) relictae dicti defuncti et executricis," &c.
Exton, 117.
[William Lee was doubtless the son of Col. Richard Lee, the founder of the dis- tinguished family of the name in Virginia.
The name Bray is of early seating in Virginia. John Bray received a grant of 200 acres in " Worrosquinack " Co., June 4, 1636. Va. Land Records, Book No. l,p. 362. His descendants intermarried with the Harrison and other prominent families. The Brays intermarried early also with the Plomer, Plommer, Plum- mer or Plumer family. — R. A. B.]
John Curtis, of Boston, Co. Middlesex, New England, mariner, be- longing to Majesty's ship the English Tyger, appoints Robert Chipchace in County Middlesex, Old England, his attorney and sole executor, 31 Jan- uary, 1689-90, in presence of Thos. Coall and Tho' Browne. Proved 3 December, 1690, by Robert Chipchace. Dyke, 200.
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Elizabeth Bretland, late the wife of William Bretland, deceased, Barbados, 6 October, 1 687. Legacies to daughters Elizabeth Taylor and Millecent Acklam ; to grandson Peter Jones ; to grandsons John and Jacob Legay. I give and bequeath to my brother Adam Coulson's children, of Reading near Boston, in New England, the sum of one hundred pounds, to be equally divided among them or the survivor of them.
Cousin Edward Munday and Mr John Mortimer of London, merchants, to be executors of the will.
Item I give unto my brother Adam Coulson's children, of Reading, near Boston, in New England, one negro woman, by name Sarah, being my own proper purchase, or to the survivor of them, to be sent to them the first opportunity after my decease. I leave, according to the desire of' my dear husband, Mr. Edward Munday, to my three daughters, Elizabeth, Mille- cent and Mary, thirty five pounds of silver, at twelve ounces to the pound.
Friends, Capt. Elisha Mellowes and Mr. John Hooker, to be executors for that portion of the estate in the Barbados.
The witnesses made deposition as to this will 3 April, 1689. It was en- tered and recorded in the Secretary's Office, 17 February, 1689. Proved in London 5 December, 1690. Dyke, 199.
[Adam Colson, of Reading, Mass., married Sept. 8, 1668, Mary, daughter of Jo- siah Dustin. He was schoolmaster there from 1679 to 1681. He died March 1, 1687. See Eaton's Reading, p. 58, and Savage. — Ed.]
Robert Hathorne, the elder, of the parish of Bray in the county of Berks, yeoman, 15 February, 1689, proved 16 February, 1691. He left all his estate to his son Robert Hathorne, the younger, of the parish of Bray in the county of Berks. Fane, 49.
[The testator of the above will was doubtless a brother of Major William Hath- orne of Salem, Massachusetts, ancestor of the distinguished writer Nathaniel Haw- thorne. (See Emmerton & Waters's Gleanings from English Records.) — H. F. W.]
Edward Gadsby, of Stepney, in the county of Middlesex, mariner, bound out to sea " with Mr Penn to Virginy " in the Charity of London, appointed John Duffield, citizen and barber-surgeon of London, his attorney, &c. 30 January, 1692, proved 28 April, 1696. He wished all his estate to be given to his brother Samuel Gadsby, of Woodborough, in the Coun- ty of Nottingham, basket-maker. Bond, 47.
Daniel Johnson, of Lynn in New England, trumpeter, 22 June, 1695, appointed Patrick Hayes of Bermondsey in the County of Surrey, vict- ualler, to receive and collect his bounty or prizernoney, pursuant to their Majesties' Gracious Declaration of 23 May, 1689, and all such money, &c. as should be due to him for service in any of their Majesties' ships, frigates or vessels or any merchant ships, &c. He gave and bequeathed all unto his beloved children (without naming them) equally to be divided among them. Proved 6 April, 1696. Bond, 51.
[There was a Daniel Johnson at Lynn, Mass., who married March 2, 1674, Mar- tha Parker, and had Abigail, born April 21, 1675, Stephen and Nathaniel, twins, born Feb. 14, 1678, Sarah, born July 5, 1680, Elizabeth, born March 7, 1682, and Simon, born Jan. 25, 1684 (Savage). — Ed]
John Rolfe. of James City in Virginia, Esquire, 10 March, 1621, proved 21 May, 1630, by William Pyers. Father-in-law Lieut. William
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Pyers, gentleman, to have charge of the two small children of very tender age. A parcell of land in the country of Toppahannah between the two creeks over against James City in the continent or country of Virginia to son Thomas Rolfe & his heirs ; failing issue, to my daughter Elizabeth; next to my right heirs. Land near Mulberry Island, Virginia, to Jane my wife during her natural life, then to daughter Elizabeth. To my servant Robert Davies twenty pounds.
The witnesses were Temperance Yeardley, Richard Buck, John Cart- wright, Robert Davys and John Milwarde. Scroope, 49.
[It would appear that John Rolfe was three times married, his first wife bear- ing him in 1609 one male child, which died on the Island of Bermuda. His second wife was Pocahontas, and his third Jane Pyers, or Poyers, of the text, the mother of the daughter Elizabeth. The son Thomas appears to have married in England, having issue Anthony, whose daughter Hannah married Sir Thomas Leigh of co. Kent, the descendants of that name and of the additional highly respectable names of Bennet and Spencer being now quite numerous. Died prior to 8 Nov. 1682. See Richmond Standard, Jan. 21, 1882.
The witness Richard Buck (sometimes rendered Bucke) was doubtless the minis- ter of the name at Jamestown, who died sometime prior to 1624, leaving a widow, and children — Mara, Gershom, Benoni and Peleg. — R. A. B.]
Sir George Yardley/, 12 October, 1627, proved 14 February, 1628. To wife Temperance all and every part and parcell of all such household stuff, plate, linen, woollen or any other goods, moveable or immoveable, of what nature or quality soever, as to me are belonging, and which now at the time of the date hereof are being and remaining within this house in James City wherein I now dwell. Item, as touching and concerning all the rest of my whole estate consisting of goods, debts, servants, " negars," cattle, or any other thing or things, commodities or profits whatsover to me belonging or appertaining either here in this country of Virginia, in England or elsewhere, together with my plantation of one thousand acres of land at Stanly in Warwicke River, my will and desire is that the same be all and every part aud parcell thereof sold to the best advantage for tobac- co and the same to be transported as soon as may be, either this year or the next, as my said wife shall find occasion, into P^ngland, and there to be sold or turned into money, &c. &c. The money resulting from this (with sundry additions) to be divided into three parts, of which one part to go to said wife, one part to eldest son Argoll Yeardley, and the other part to son Francis & to Elizabeth Yeardley equally.
The witnesses were Abraham Peirsey, Susanna Hall and William Clay- borne, Scr.
A codicil, dated 29 Oct. 1627, was witnessed by the same scrivener.
Ridley, 9.
Commission to administer on the estate of Sir George Yeardley, late in Virginia, deceased, was issued 14 March, 1627-8, to his brother Ralph Yeardley during the absence of the widow, relict, Temperance Yeardley, in the parts beyond the seas, &c. Admon Act Book for 1628.
[From the Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series (London, 1860), we learn that Governor Francis West and the Council of Virginia certified to the Privy Coun- cil, 20 December, 1627, the death of Governor Sir George Yeardley and the election of Captain Francis West to succeed him in the government. In July, 1629, Ed- mund Rossingham sent in a petition to the Privy Council stating that he was agent to his uncle Sir George Yeardley, late Governor of Virginia, who dying before any satisfaction was made to the petitioner for being a chief means of raising his estate to the value of six thousand pounds, Ralph Yeardley, the brother, took administra-
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tion of the same. He prayed for relief and that his wrongs might he examined into. This was referred, July 11, 1629, to Sir Dudley Diggs, Sir Maurice Abbott, Tho- mas Gibbs and Samuel Wrote, late commissioners for that plantation, to examine into the true state of the case. Annexed is the report of Gibbs and Wrote, made 25 Sept. 1629, describing in detail the petitioner's employments from 1613, and award- ing three hundred and sixty pounds as due to him in equity ; also an answer by Ralph Yeardley, administrator, &c, to Rossingham's petition. In January or February, 1630, Rossingham sent in another petition praying for a final determination. In it he styles Ralph Yeardley an apothecary of London. On the nineteenth of February the Privy Council ordered Ralph Yeardley to pay two hundred pounds to the peti- tioner out of his brother's estate, twelve hundred pounds having already come into the administrator's hand.
Captain Yeardley was chosen Governor of Virginia in 1618, in place of Lord De la Warr, who is said to have died in Canada, and he departed immediately thither with two ships and about three hundred men and boys. On the twenty-eighth of November Chamberlain writes that Captain Yeardley, " a mean fellow," goes Gov- ernor to Virginia, two or three ships being ready. To grace him the more the King knighted him this week at Newmarket, " which hath set him up so high, that he flaunts it up and down the streets in extraordinary bravery, with fourteen or fifteen fair liveries after him." He arrived in Virginia in April, 1619, and is said to have brought the colony from a very low state to an extremely flourishing condition. He was governor again 1626-27. — H. F. W.
Colonel Argoll Yeardley married Sarah, daughter of John Custis, of Northamp- ton Co., Va., a native of Rotterdam and the founder of the socially distinguished family of the name in Virginia.
"Colonel" Francis Yeardley (died August, 165?) married Sarah the widow of Adam Thorowgood and of John Gookins, the latter being her first husband.
The name Yeardley, or properly Yardly, is still represented in the United States, but I know of none of the name in Virginia.
One Abraham Piersey, or Percy, was treasurer of the colony of Virginia in 1619. He may have been the father of the first witness. The other witness was doubtless Col. William Clayborne, or Claiborne, as it is now rendered, the son of" the rebel " of the same name, who had the command of a fort in New Kent county in 1676 (Major Lyddal serving with him), and who distinguished himself in the Indian wars of Bacon's Rebellion. There was of record in King William County, Va., a certificate of his valorous service, signed by Gov. William Berkeley and attested by Nathaniel Bacon (senior, of the Council) and Philip Ludwill. — R. A. B ]
Edward Cole, of East Bergholt, in the county of Suffolk, clothier, 18 August, 1649, proved the last of May, 1652. To wife Abigail; to young- est son Peter Cole ; to my two daughters Sarah and Mary Cole ; to the children of my son Edward Cole; to my grandchildren in New England twenty pounds.
The witnesses were John Layman and Richard Royse.
Bowyer, 103.
Robert Feverteare, the elder, of Kelshall in the county of Suffolk, yeoman, 24 June, 1656, proved 5 September, 1656. To wife Elizabeth. Frances Brothers of Kelshall owes me on bond. To Edmund Feveryeare, my brother, the sum of forty shillings within six months after my decease. To William Feveryeare, my brother, three pounds. To Margaret Feveryeare, my sister, forty shillings within six months, &c. To Margery, my sister, wife of Robert Goodwin, forty shillings within twelve months, &c. ; also eight pounds- within twelve months, &c. To Anne, my sister, wife of John Miles, five pouods within six months, &c. To Richard Eade, mine uncle, twenty shillings ; to Mary Minstrell, my former servant, twenty shillings within six mouths, &c. To Robert Goodwin, the elder, my new suit of apparel. To Henry Minstrel, the elder, a legacy. Brother William and wife Elizabeth to be executors and residuary legatees. Berkeley, 333.
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Clement Chaplin, of Thetford, in the county of Norfolk, Clerk, 16 Au- gust, 1656, proved 23 September, 1656, by Sarah Chaplin his relict and sole executrix. To wife, Sarah, all my houses and lands in Hartford and Weathersfield in New England, to her and her heirs forever. Loving bro- ther Thomas Chaplin of Bury S* Edmunds in old England, and my kins- man Mr. William Clarke, of Rocksbury in New England to be supervi- sors. Witnessed by Elizabeth Gurnham (her mark) and John Spincke.
Berkeley, 332.
[The testator of the above will, son of William Chaplin " of Seraer " (see the Can- dler MS. No. 6071 ofHarleian Collection, British Museum), we are told was a chand- ler in Bury, went over into New England, and was one of the elders in the congre- gation whereof Mr. Hooker was minister. His wife Sarah was one of five daugh- ters and co-heiresses of Hinds, a goldsmith in Bury. Her sister Elizabeth was
wife of Thomas Chaplin (mentioned above), linen draper in Bury, alderman and jus- tice of the peace for the County of Suffolk, her sister Margaret Hinds was married to George Groome of Kattlesden, Justice of the Peace, Abigail Hinds was married to Richard Scott of Braintree (who married secondly Alice Snelling), and Anne Hinds
was married to Alliston. Mr. Chaplin had, besides the brother Thomas whom
he names, a brother William of Blockeshall, who had issue, a brother Richard, of Semer (sine prole), a brother Edmund of Semer, who had many children, and a bro- ther Capt. Robert Chaplin of Bury, who had issue. A 6ister Martha is said to have been married to Robert Parker of Wollpit, who went into New England, another
sister, whose name is not given, was wife of Barret of Stratford, and mother
of a Thomas Barret, and a third sister (also unnamed) was married to Smith
of Semer. Alderman Thomas Chaplin had a daughter Anne who was married to Jasper Shepheard, an alderman of Bury, and a daughter Abigail married to Robert Whiting of in Norfolk.— II. F. W.]
John Smith, citizen and merchant tailor of London, by reason of age weak in body, 17 December, 1655, proved 20 October, 1656, by Sarah Whiting, daughter and executrix. To wife the sum of five pounds in money, as a token and remembrance ot my love, and I will and appoint that it shall & may be lawful for her to dwell and abide in my dining-room and wainscot chamber belonging to my dwelling house in the old Bailey, London, by the space of three months next after my decease ; and I con- firm the indenture bearing date 30 August, 1654, between me and Thomas Fitz Williams, of the one part, and my said wife, known by the name of Sarah Neale, and Vincent Limborowe, of the other part, &c. &c. To the children of my loving daughter, Sarah Whiting, ten pounds apiece towards putting them out to be Apprentices, &c, and also forty pounds apiece to the sons at twenty four years of age and to the daughters at twenty one.
Likewise I give to the children of my cousin William Smith, in New England, and Mary, his now or late wife, the sum of three pounds apiece, to be paid to them, the said children, at the ages as above is limited to my grandchildren, &c. &c.
Legacies to brother Thomas Smith and to the daughter of James Smith, son of brother Thomas. To grandchild John Whiting, son of daughter Sa- rah Whiting, the half part of certain lands, tenements, &c. in Ilogsden, alias Hoxden, in the County of Middlesex, and to the male and female issue of the said John ; failing such issue, then to grandchild Nathaniel Whiting, &c. &'c. ; with remainder to grandchildren Robert and Stephen Whiting ; then to Samuel Whiting, another son of my said daughter, &c. The other moiety to grandchild Nathaniel Whiting ; then to John ; then to Robert and Joseph ; then to Stephen Whiting. Legacy to son-in-law Timothy Whiting. Berkeley, 337.
[There was a Nathaniel Whiting in Dedham who had sons John, Samuel and Tim- othy.—H. F. W.l
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Josias Firmin, the elder, of Naylaud, Co. Suffolk, tanner, 27 August, 1638, proved the last of November, 1638. To the poor of Nayland. To wife Anne, houses and lands iu Nayland and also in Stoke next Nayland (called Noke meadow in Stoke), then to Gyles Firmin my youngest son and his heirs, but if he die before he arrives at twenty four years of age, then to the rest of my children. Lauds in Stoke called Edinondes Field, after death of wife, to eldest son Josias Firmin and his son Josias, my grand child. To John Firmin, my son, ten pounds within one year after my decease. To my daughter Mary, now wife of Robert Smith, forty five pounds. To daughter Martha Firmin one hundred pounds at age of twen- ty one. To daughter Sara Firmin tenement, &c. at Foxyearth, co. Essex, which I purchased of one Thomas Partridge, &c, to said Sara at age of twenty years. To grand child, John Firmin, son of Josias Firmin. Sons Josias and Gyles and my three daughters. Executors to be wife Anne and son in law Robert Smith of Naylaud, mercer. Lee, 146.
[See abstracts of wills and extracts from parish registers relating to the name of Firmin in Emmertonand Waters's Gleanings, pp. 34-9. — Ed.]
Jose Glover, of London, being by the providence of God forthwith to embark myself for some parts beyond the seas, 16 May, 1638, proved 22 December, 1638, by Richard Daveys, one of the executors, power being reserved for John Harris, another executor. To my dear and loving wife all my estate, &c. both in New England and old England for life, she to maintain and liberally educate all my children. After her decease the property to go to two eldest sons, Roger and John, equally. To my three daughters, Elizabeth, Sara and Priscilla, four hundred pounds apiece (then follows a reference to a decree and order of the court of chancery), my three daughters to release to Edmond Davyes Esq. and Thomas Younge, merchant of London, at day of marriage or arrival at full age, all their in- terests, &c. in tenements, &c. in Dorenth* and Stone in co. Kent, &c. To my ancient, faithful servant John Stidman fifty pounds. To all my bro- thers & sisters that shall be living (except my sister Collins) five pounds. To friend Mr Joseph Davies and his wife five pounds apiece. The execu- tors to be John Harris, my loving uncle, warden of the College of Win- chester, and Richard Davies, my ancient loving friend. The witnesses were E. Davies, Joseph Davyes, Thomas Yonge, Samuel Davyes & John Davyes. Lee, 176.
[See the article by J. Hammond Trumbull, LL.D., on the christian name of Mr. Glover, in the Register, xxx. 26-8. His will, from a copy preserved on the Middle- sex Court Files, is printed in full in the Register, xxiii. 136— 7. — Ed.]
Sir Robt Carr, of Ithall, co. Northumberland, knight. All estate in America, &c. to eldest son William Carr, the other estate in England be- ing formerly settled. To James Deane, my now servant and his heirs, for and in consideration of his service, a plantation within any of the six islands granted unto me, except in Carr's Island. This having been read to him, 29 May, 1067, he did declare, &c. Proved 16 July, 1667, when commis- sion was issued to William Carr, natural son and lawful heir and principal legatee named in the will of Sir Rob* Carr, knight, lately of Carr's Island, in New England, in the parts beyond the seas. Carr, 90.
[See notice of Sir Robert Carr, with remarks on his will, in the Register, xxiv. 167.— Ed. 1
* Darent.
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Nowell Hilton of Charlestown, co. Middlesex in New England, mar- iner, appoints bis trusty and loving kinsman Nathaniel Cutler, of the pa- rish of Stepney in co. Middlesex, sawyer, his attorney, &c. The amount due for my service done or to be done on board of any of his Maties ships, vessels or frigates, &c. Signed G October, 1687, in presence of Mary Story (her mark), Cuthbert Stoy (sic) and Samuel Sapp, at the two Anchors and three Stars on Wappiug Wall. 17 September 1G89 emanavit comissio Nath11 Cutler, &c. Ent, 123.
[Nowell Hilton, the testator, was born in Charlestown, May 4, 1663. He was a son of William Hilton of Charlestown by his second wife Mehitable, a daughter of Increase Nowell. After the death of his father his mother married (2) 29: 8th, 1684, Deacon John Cutler. Timothy Cutler, a son of Deacon John Cutler, mar- ried, Dec. 22, 1673, Elizabeth Hilton, a sister of the testator. See the articles en- titled " Some of the Descendants of William Hilton,"' Register, xxxi. 179. See also Wyman's Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, 255, 257, 504, 710. This will was printed in full in the Register, xxxii. 50. — John T. Hassam.]
Thomas Golledge, his will in form of a letter written from Charde in Somerset, 10 May, 1645, and addressed to his wife Mrs. Mary Golledge at Chichester; proved by Mary Golledge, 1 June, 1648.
" My Deere Wyffe I am now goinge in the service of my Lord and Master Jesus Christ. I knowe not howe hee will dispose of my fraile lyfe in breife I shall desire thow wilt take all fitt opportunity yf the Lord soe dispose to leave thee wth out an husband as to transport my sweete poore in- nocent children into New England or some such place voyd of Trouble be- cause the Lord ys ready to shoote his fiery darts of wrath against this sin- full land and you wthout an husband and they wthowt a ffather may suffer the black darknesse of Egiptian Popery or Athisme pray sell what of mine is to bee sould for though I cannot wthowt helpe of a lawyer make a fformall will yet my desire in breife ys that thow bee my sole executor & have full power." Essex, 98.
Notes on Abstracts previously printed. Joseph Holland. Will Dec. 25, 1658. [Page 9.]
[ We have received the following note from Prof. Arthur L. Perry, LL.D., of
Williams College :
If Mr. Waters's abstract of the will of Joseph Holland of London, citizen and cloth worker, discredits one conjecture of Dr. Bond in his history of Watertown, it strikingly confirms another conjecture of that author in the same volume. A John Perry died in Watertown in 1674, aged 61. Another John Perry of Watertown married Sarah Clary, of Cambridge, Dec. 1667. Bond says the first John was " probably father " of the second John. Joseph Holland's will makes that guess a certainty. He leaves bequests " to son-in-law John Perry and Johanna his wife, my daughter, and their sons John Perry and Josias Perry and daughter Elizabeth Perry.'''' In another clause : " To my said daughter Johanna certain needle work wrought by my first wife, her mother.'' In another clause he leaves twenty pounds in goods " to my son Nathaniel Hoi/and of Water/ on in New England." The first John Perry was therefore brother-in-law of Nathaniel Holland, and the second his nephew. The Perrys came to Watertown eight years (1666) after this will was drawn (1658). They were clothworkers, i. e. weavers and tailors, like the Hollands in London. The London names, John and Johanna and Josiah and Joseph, were kept up constantly among the Perrys in Watertown and after their removal to Wor- cester in 1751, and some of them are not even yet disused as christian names in the family. It is a matter of record in the family Bibles that the two Perrys came to Watertown from London. Inferentially, therefore, but certainly, they were among the heirs mentioned in Joseph Holland's will.
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That will was drawn before the great fire of London in 1666. The mother of Mrs. John Perry the elder was already buried in St. Sepulchre Church in 1658 ; and the good Joseph Holland, citizen and clothworker, directed that his own body should be buried " on the south side of the christening pew " of that parish church.
A grandson of the second John Perry, Nathan, became deacon of the old South Church in Worcester in 1783, and continued in that office till his death in 1806 ; his son Moses succeeded in the office immediately, and continued in it till bis death in 1842 ; and his son Samuel succeeded his father and sustained the office thirty-five years longer, making ninety-four years of continuous service in one family.
Arthur L. Perry, Seventh generation from first John.]
Nathaniel Downeinge of London, gentleman, 7 May, 1616, proved 14 May, 1616, by his wife Margaret Downeinge. To be buried in the parish Church of St. Dionis Backchurch, London, or elsewhere it shall please my executrix. To the poor of St. Dionis and of St. Gabriel Fanchurch, Lon- don. To my brother Joseph Downeinge, now dwellings in Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk, twenty pounds. To my sister Abigail Goade, wife of John Goade, skinner, twenty pounds, and to their son, John Goad, forty shillings to make him a cup. To my sister Susanna Kirby, wife of Johu Kirby, skinner, twenty pounds. To my mother in law Mary Cellyn, wid- ow, ten pounds and the " Hope [hoop] Ringe " which was my mother's. To my brother Joshua Downinge the seal ring of gold that I do wear on my hand. And to my brother Emanuel Downeinge I give the like ring of gold of the same value & fashion. The residue to my wife Margaret Downe- inge, whom I make sole executrix. Whereas I am now seized in fee of and in the late dissolved monastery of the " Fryers Carmelites, or the White- ffryers," in Ipswich in the County of Suffolk, with the appurtenances, &c. — this to wife Margaret and her heirs forever. Cope, 48.
Sir George Downing of East Hatley, in the County of Cambridge, Knight and Baronet; 24 August, 1683, with codicil added 7 July, 1684; proved 19 July, 1684. My body to be interred in the vault which I have made uuder the chancel at Crawden, alias Croyden, in the county of Cam- bridge, by the body of my wife Frances. Son George Downing, Esq., and son William named. Houses in or near King Street, in the city of West- minster, lately called Hampden House, which I hold by long lease from the Crown, and Peacock^Court there, which I hold by lease from the Col- legiate Church of St. Feter, Westminster ; all which are now demolished and rebuilt, or rebuilding, and called Downing Street. To Edward Lord Viscount Morpeth and Sir Henry Pickering,* Baronet, my son-in-law, in trust, &c. Bequests to sons Charles and William Downing, and to three daughters, Lucy, Mary and Anne, at age of twenty-one years or day of marriage. The guardianship and custody of the persons of these three daughters entrusted to my dear daughter Frances Cotton. Bequests to daughter Cotton's children, Francis, John and Thomas, and to Elizabeth and Frances, the two daughters of my late daughter Pickering deceased ; also to nephew John Peters, niece Lucy Spicer, nephew Joshua Down- ing and Mr Edmond Woodroffe, one of my clerks in my office in the Ex- chequer. Hare, 139.
* This Sir Henry Pickering was son and heir of Sir Henry Pickering of Whaddon, who was created a Baronet 2 January, 1660. He was of Barbados in 1695, and had two wives, Philadelphia, daughter of Sir George Downing, by whom he had two daughters, Mary and Anne (who both died without issue), and secondly, Grace, daughter of Constant Silvester, Esq. (See Reg. xxxvii. 385.) At his death, iu 1705, the title became extinct. (See Add. MS. 24493, British Museum.)— H. F. W.
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This Indenture made the Thirteenth day of Sept. Anno Doiri. one thou- sand seuen hundred and in the twelfth yeare of the Reigne of our Soue- raign Lord William the third, by the grace of God of England, Scotland, ffrance and Ireland King, defender of the Faith &ca.
Between Charles Downing of London in the Kingdome of England Esqr of the one part and Thorndike Procter of Salem in the Countey of Essex within his Majties Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New Eng- land in America, yeoman, on the other part [then follows the ordinary phraseology of conveyance of a tract of three hundred acres in Salem which was] formerly the farme of Emanuel Downing of Salem aforesaid Gent: Deceased, Grandfather of the said Charles Downing, purchased by the said Emanuel Downing of one Robert Cole unto whome the same was granted by the said town of Salem one thousand six hundred thirty and five* [together with other parcels of land which had belonged to Emanuel Downing. And the grantor warrants the purchaser that he may hold these premisses] free and clear or well and sufficiently Indemnified saued and kept harmless of and from all and all manner of former and other gifts, grants, bargaines, sales, leases, releases, mortgages, Joyntures, Dower, Judgments, Executions, Extents, wills, Entails, tfines, ^forfeitures, titles, troubles, charges and Incumbrances whatsoever had, made, done, commit- ted, knowledged or suffered by the said Charles Downing, Sr George Down- ing, Baron', late father of the said Charles, and the abouesaid Emanuel Downing or any of them.
This Indenture was signed by the grantor, Charles Downing, Esqre, and his wife, Sarah Downing, and their seals affixed on the day and year first abovewritten. Deeds of Essex Co., Mass., Book 7, Lvs. 7 to 10.
The will of Sir George Downing, Knight of the Bath & Baronet, pro- viding (in default of male issue to his cousin) for the foundation of a new college in the University of Cambridge, "which college shall be called by the name of Downing College," was dated 20 December, 1717, and proved 13 June, 1749. Lisle, 179.
[The foregoing extracts show clearly enough the connection of this family with New England, a family whose name, associated as it is with a street in which has been, for so many years, the official residence of the Prime Minister of England, the centre of the greatest and most wide-spread empire of modern times, and with a college in one of the most famous universities of the world, is known wherever the English language is spoken, and bids fair to last so long as English history shall be read.
From some MS. notes furnished me by my very obliging friend Mr. T. 0. Noble, whose authority on matters connected with the history of the great metropolis of the world and its surrounding parishes is unquestioned, I find that Sir George Downing was rated for a house in " New Pallace " (New Palace Yard, Westmin- ster) for twenty years previous to 1683, that in 1728 the rentals of the whole of Downing Street (for assessment) amounted to less than £1000, and in 1828 the total was £3000. At the present time (1883) the whole street is occupied by the offices of the government and the residences of the First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, &c. From the " Memorials of Westminster," by the Rev. Mac- kenzie E. C. Walcott, we learn that " The official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury formerly belonged to the Crown : King George I. gave it to Baron Bothmar, the Hanoverian Minister, for life. After his death King George II. offered the house to Sir Robert Walpole, who only accepted it upon the condition that it should be attached to the Premiership forever. Since that time, therefore, Downing Street is inseparably connected with the name of every successive Prime Minister of Eng- land." Chapter 111. of the Appendix to these Memorials gives us additional in- formation, including a list of the successive occupants of the official residence down
* This must be a mistake for 1G38. (See Book of Grants, Salem, edited by William P. Uphain, Esq.)— H. F. W.
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to July 6, 1846. " Sir Robert Walpole accepted it in 1732, and came to reside here 22 Sept. 1735." " In the small waiting-room of No. 14, for the first and only time in their lives met Sir Arthur Wellesley and Lord Nelson ; the latter was well known to Sir Arthur from the prints in the shop windows ; they conversed together for some minutes ; on parting Lord Nelson went out of the room and asked the name of the stranger whose conversation and appearance had made a deep impression upon
him."
Lam informed by William H. Richardson, Esq., F.S.A., who is now annotating " The Annals of Ipswiche, by N. Bacon,"* that George Downing, who was un- doubtedly the father of Emanuel and Nathaniel Downing, was master of the Gram- mar School, Ipswich, about the years 1607 to 1610. Ilis son Emanuel, baptized in the parish church of St. Lawrence, Ipswich, 12 August, 1585, married at Groton, Suffolk, 10 April, 1622, Lucy (baptized 27 January, 1601), daughter of Adam Win- throp, Esq., and sister of Governor John Winthrop. Mr. Downing was a lawyer of the Inner Temple, London, Attorney in the Court of Wards, and seems to have lived in the parishes of St. Bridget and of St. Michael, Cornhill. He came over to New England in 1638, took up his abode in Salem, was admitted into the church 4 November of the same year, and frequently represented the town in the General Court of the colony. The date of his death is not known, nor has any record yet been found of any will made by him. We have seen what became of his farm in Salem. His town residence was conveyed, 8 August, 1656, by Lucie Downing of Salem, with consent of Emanuel Downing her husband (as is recited in the deed) to their son Lieut. Joseph Gardner, as the dower of their daughter Ann on her mar- riage with Lieut. Gardner. It was described as a messuage or tenement in Salem situated upon four acres of ground entire, having the Common on the east, the 6treet or highway that runs from the meeting-house to the harbor on the south, and the lane that goes to the North River on the West. This property comprises the various estates now included between St. Peter, Ess?x, Newbury and Browne Streets. Lieut. Gardner and his wife sold various lots at either end to sundry members of the Gardner family, and to Deacon Richard Prince and Mr. William Browne, Jr. The house, which stood where the residence of the late Col. Francis Peabody stands, remained as the- homestead of Mrs. Gardner. After the untimely loss of her first husband, who was killed in the great Swamp Fight, 19 December, 1675, she took for a second husband Simon Bradstreet, Esq. ; but by the terms of the marriage contract of 2 May, 1676, the ownership of the homestead remained with her. It was afterwards commonly known as the Bradstreet house, and was torn down in 1750, having previously been used as a tavern. On page 75 of the first vol- ume of the Register, and on page 185 of the fourth volume of Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, may be seen an engraving representing this house, in which Sir George Downing probably passed his boyhood while under the tuition of the Rev. John Fisk, preparing for entrance into Harvard College, from which he was graduated in that famous first class of 1642. For a long account of him and his family, and a list of his published works, see Sibley's Harvard Graduates, vol. i. pp. 28-51.
Nathaniel Downing, brother of Emanuel and uncle of Sir George, was baptized in the church of St. Mary at the Tower, Ipswich, 8 October, 1587. He married, 6 May, 1613, Margaret, daughter of Doctor Daniel Selyne (or Selin), a French phy- sician, who died"l9 March, 1614-15, and in his will (Rudd, 2^) mentions his son- in-law Nathaniel Downing. Mr. Downing seems to have had one son, Daniel, bap- tized at St. Dionis Backchurch, 5 April, 1614, and buried five days afterwards.
In the Whitehall Evening Post of Febr. 11, 1764, is this letter":
" To the Printer &c. Sir
By the death of Sir Jacob Garrard Downing Bar1 an estate of about 5 or 6000 pr annum falls to the University of Cambridge, to build a college, to be called Downing College. The late Sir George Downing, of Gamlingay, in Cambridge- shire, B.ir*, having left it to the late Sir Jacob Garrard, and his Heirs male ; & for want of such Issue, to the rev. Mr Peters, late Lecturer of S' Clement-Danes & his Heirs male : both of whom having died without such Issue, the Estate descends as above. The Original of the Family was Dr Calibut Downing, one of the Preachers in the Rebel Army, & a great man with Rump: and his son, afterwards Sir Geo: Downing & the first Baronet of the Family, was made Envoy from Cromwell to the States-General, and got a great Estate, owing to this Incident. When King Charles
* The valuable MS. referred to in note, pp. 197-3, vol. xxxvii. Keg.
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the 2d was travelling in Disguise in Holland, to visit the Queen Mother, attended only by Lord Falkland, & putting up at an Inn, after he had been there some Time, the Landlord came to these strangers and said, there was a Begsar-man at the Door, very shabbily dressed, who was very importunate to be admitted to them ; on which the King seemed surprised, & after speaking to Lord Falkland, bid the Landlord admit him. As soon as this Beggar-man entered, he pulled off his Beard (which he had put on for a Disguise) & fell on his knees, & said he was Mr Downing, the Resident from Oliver Cromwell ; & that he had received Advice of this intended visit from his Majesty to the Queen ; and that, if he ventured any farther, he would be assassinated ; & begged secrecy of the King, for that his Life depended upon it, & departed. The Kins was amazed at this, & said to Lord Falkland, How could this be known ? there were but you & the Queen knew of it. Therefore the Queen must have mentioned this to somebody who gave Advice of it to his Enemies. How- ever, the King returned back, whereby this Design was prevented Upon this, after the Restoration, Sir George Downing was rewarded, made a Baronet & Farmer of the Customs, &c. &c, whereby this large Estate was raised.
Besides the above Estate of Sir Jacob Garret Downing Bar', which devolves on the University of Cambridge, another fine Estate, with a handsome house at Put- ney, falls to his Lady."
In the London Chronicle of Jan. 9, 1772, is this Article :
" We are assured that the Heirs at Law [B. P. Ewer of Bangor who married a Barnardiston] of Sir Jacob Downing Bar' have applied for a Royal Charter to found & incorporate the College at Cambridge. A spot is fixed upon for erecting this ed- ifice, which is a spacious Piece of ground, fit for the Purpose, on the South Side of the Town, opposite the Physic Garden, & between Pembroke & Emanuel Colleges. A Design is preparing & Application making to the Owners of the Ground which belongs to several Bodies Corporate ; & as soon as an Act of Parliament can be ob- tained to impower them to sell, this noble Benefaction will be carried into imediate Execution." — n. f. w.
The English genealogical works which attempt to give the ancestry of Sir George Downing, baronet, give it erroneously. The error seems first to have been promul- gated by Anthony a Wood in his Athenae Oxoniensis, published 1691-2, where, in an account of Dr. Calybute Downing, the Puritan writer, son of Calybute Down- ing of Shennington, Gloucestershire, Sir George is called his son. The error has been copied into several Baronetages. Dr. Downing's ancestry has been carried back through his grandfather, Arthur, of Lexham in Norfolk, to his great-grand- father Geoffrey Downing of Norwich, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Wingfield. There are no indications of a relationship between this family and that of George Downing of Ipswich, Suffolk, who, as Mr. Waters shows, was father of Emanuel, the father of Sir George. Savage names Mary, wife of Anthony Stoddard ; James ; Anne, wife of Capt. Joseph Gardner and afterwards of Gov. Simon Brad- street ; John ; and Dorcas, as other children of Emanuel Downing ; and there was probably also a son Joshua (Mass. Hist. Coll. 4th S. vi. 79). Emanuel Downing an- nounces his intention to leave New England in the fall of 1654 with Gen. Sedgwick (Ibid. p. 84). He was living as late as Sept. 6, 1658, in Edinburgh (Ibid. p. 86). His wife was living in England, June 27, 1662 (Ibid. p. 514). The place and date of death of neither are known. Interesting letters from Emanuel Downing and other members of his family, are printed in the volume of the Mass. Hist. Coll. cited.
Henry Downing, father of Col. Adam Downing, distinguished as an officer in William lll.'s army in Ireland, may have been, as represented by Burke (Ext. and Dorm. Baronetage, ed. 1844, p. 163 ; Landed Gentry, ed. 1853, i. 453), a son of Dr. Calybute. We find no evidence that Sir George had a brother Henry.
It is not probable that Wood obtained his information from the family, for the deed of which Mr. Waters gives an abstract proves that Shades Downing, son of Sir George, knew that his grandfather's name was Emanuel so late as 1700, eight years after the publication of Wood's Athenas. The following letter, copied for us by G. D. Scull, Esq., of Oxford, England, from the original, shows that Wood, while engaged on his work, applied to the Rev. Increase Mather for information about the Downings, but with little success :
" Sir
I have yours of 20th Instant. There never was any Dr Downing in New
'■uiil. It is true yl Sir George Downing (who was knighted by Charles 2lld)
education in yc Colledge there ; but had no other degree there besides yl of
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Bachelor of Art. Nor do any in that colledge proceed further than Master of arts after seven years standing, as 'tis in Oxford and Cambridge. We never (which is pity) had any Doctors. I am ashamed to tell you that I cannot procure any further account concerning non conformist writers. I have really laboured to grat- ify you to my power. I heartily wish there were more publick spirits in the world.
Sir Your servant, 1. Mather.
London July 23—1691. To Mr Anthony Wood near Merton College in Oxford."
An equally inexplicable error will be pointed out in this article when we come to the will of Sir William Phips, who is represented in English books to be ances- tor of the present Marquis of Norman by. Both errors have years ago been pointed out by our countrymen. The second volume of Hutchinson's Massachusetts, which was reprinted in England in 1768, gives the true christian name of the father' of Sir George Downing. — Editor.]
Thomas Warnett, now of James City in Virginia, merchant, 13 Feb- ruary, 1G29, proved 8 November, 1630, by Thomazine Warnet, relict and executrix. To Mns Elizabeth Pott one Corfe and crosse cloth of wrought gold and to Dr John Pott (1) live thousand of several sorts of nayles. To Francis Pott four score pounds of tobacco which he oweth me. To Mr Francis Boultou, minister, one firkin of butter, one bushel of white salt, six pounds of candles, one pound of pepper, one pound of ginger, two bush- els of meal, one rundlett of ink, six quires of writing paper and one pair of silk stockings. To John Johnson's wife six pounds of soap, six pounds of white starch and one pound of blue starch. To John Browning's wife one thousand of pins, one pair of knives carved with two images upon them, twelve pounds of white starch and two pounds of blue starch. To the wife of Mr John Uptone one sea green scarf edged with gould lace, twelve pounds of white starch aud two pounds of blue starch. To my friend Mr Thomas Burges my second best sword aud my best felt hat. To John Gre- vett's wife one pair of sheets, six table, napkins, three towels and one table cloth marked with T. W., six pounds of soap, six pounds of white starch and one pound of blue starch. To Thomas Key's wife one gilded looking glass. To Sarg' John Wane's (2) wife four bushels of meal and one rundlett of four gallons of vinegar, one half pound of " threed " of several colours, twenty needles, six dozen of silk and thred buttons, one pewter candlestick & one pewter chamberpot. To Roger Thompson's wife one half bushel of white salt, one pound of pepper aud one jar of oil. To Benjamin Symes (3) one weeding hoe. To George Mulestou one ' howing" hoe & one axe. To John Goundry one bar of lead of twenty pound weight and three pound. To John Hattone one black felt hat, one suit of grey kersie, oue shirt marked T. W., four pairs of Irish stockings, two pairs of my own wearing shoes, one bar of lead and six pounds of powder. To John Southerne (4) six pounds of caudles, one Poland cap furred and one pair of red slippers. To Michael Batt (5) his wife two bushels *of meal.
The rest of my temporal estate in Virginia, my debts being paid aud legacies paid & discharged, to wife Thomazine, whom I appoint executrix. Friends John Southerne and James Stome overseers. To the former one black beaver hat and gold band, one doublet of black chamlet and one pair of black hose ; and to James Stome my best sword and a gold belt.
The witnesses were Francis Boltone (G) & John Southerne.
Scroope, 105.
[The following, from Harl. MS. (Brit. Mas.), 1561, f. 142, undoubtedly gives the pedigree of the testator of the above will, and indicates his place of residence before his miijration.
40 GENEALOGICAL GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND.
John Warnet of = Susan, d. of Ridley
Henipsted, Sussex. of Wliellebeech, Sussex.
Francis Warnet= Anne, d. of Thomas \Varnet=Thomazin,d. Catharine. Susan,
of Hempsted, ob. v. p.
Edw. Buys, of Southwark of co. Kent, in co. Surrey, 1623.
and heir of uxr Edmond
VV m. Hall of Jordan of Gat-
Woodalling, wick, co. Surrey, co. Norfolk.
I I I
Edmond Warnett. Thomas, 3 y. old 1623. Judith.
H. F. W.
1. Dr. John Pott, the legatee mentioned, was doubtless the John Pott, A.M., M.D., physician for the colony of Virginia, who arrived with his wife Elizabeth in October, 1621, in the ship George. He was appointed on the recommendation of Dr. Theodore Gulston, the founder of the Gulstonian lectureship of Anatomy, still maintained by the London College of Physicians. In the Virginia Land Records, Book No. 1, p. 8, he appears as a grantee, on August 11th, 1624, of three acres of land in " James Cittie," and is mentioned as a " Doctor of Physicke " and a mem- ber of the " Councill." Francis West, the governor of the colony and a younger brother of Lord Delaware, departing for England March 5th, 1628, Dr. Pott suc- ceeded him as governor, and so served until some time in March, 1630, when he was superseded by Sir John Harvey. Pott was then arraigned for pardoning Ed- ward Wallis, condemned for murder and cattle stealing. This was the first trial by jury in the colony. Pott was found guilty and confined to his plantation at Har- rope, now Williamsburg, until the King's pleasure could be ascertained. Gover- nor Harvey forwarded the recommendation of the Council for his pardon, and Mrs. Pott crossed the ocean and pleaded her husband's cause. The commissioners to whom the petition was referred reported to the King that " condemning him for felony was very rigorous, if not erroneous," and recommended that he should be restored to liberty and his estate, and the practice of his profession.
2. I find in the State Land Registry a grant of 300 acres to John Wayne (render- ed in the Index, Waine) in Charles River County (as the County of York was first called), May 10th, 1638. Book No. 1, p. 561).
3. It may be recalled that Benjamin Symmes is reported in 1648 as having founded in the colony a free school, which he endowed with two hundred acres of land, a good house, forty milch cows and other appurtenances.
4. There is a grant also of record to John Southerne, " Gent.'' (in all probability him of the will), of twenty-four acres in "James Cittie," September 1st, 1627. Book No. 1, p. 55.
5. Michaell Batt appears as a grantee of one acre of land in " James Cittie Is- land," September 20th, 1643, Book No. I, p. 890. Grants also appear contempo- raneously to John, William and Henry Batt, Batte or Batts, as the name is various- ly rendered. The descendants of William and Henry Batte (as the name now ob- tains), brothers, are quite numerous in Virginia, and of high respectability.
6. The Rev. Francis Boulton, Boltone or Bolton, as the name is variously render- ed, who had been recommended by the Earl of Southampton for some vacant parish in Virginia, arrived in the colony in the ship George, as above, and was assigned to Elizabeth City, to reside with Captain Thomas Newce. — R. A. Brock, of Richmond, Virginia.]
William Pepperell of St. Stephens by Launceston, in the County of Cornwall, 5 June, 1655, proved 15 October 1655, by Jane Pepperell, his widow, and William Pepperell, his son. Daughter Alice (under 12) and Jane Pepperell, second son Robert, wife Jane, son Thomas (under 12) and eldest son William. Richard Call my brother-in-law, John Roe of Launces- ton, Thomas Facy of St. Thomas, and Robert Pepperell my brother (of whose unfained affection and fidelity I have had long and frequent experi- ments), to be overseers. The witnesses were Nevill Blighett, Will Blag- don and Nicholas Dodge. Aylett, 387.
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[The testator could not have been the grandfather of Sir William Pepperrell, bart., the captor of Louisburg. Possibly he may have been his great-grand- father. William Pepperrell, the father of the baronet, was horn about 1646, having died Feb. 13, 1733-4, in his 87th year. Usher Parsons, M.D., in the biog- raphy of the son (Boston, 1856) , states that the father was born in Tavistock, De- vonshire : but ten years later (Register, xx. 1) he calls him a native of Wales. The Wentworth Genealogy (ed. 1878, p. 307) calls him a native of Cornwall. " Tra- dition," according to Dr. Parsons, " says that he spoke broad Welsh, as Boll and Woll for Bill and Will." He had three sisters. One married a Phillips, another a Gilbert, and the third, Grace, died unmarried. His children were Andrew, Mary, Margery, Joanna, Miriam, William the baronet, Dorothy and Jane. For an ac- count of the descendants of the baronet, among whom is Edward Walford, M.A., of London, Eng., editor of the Antiquarian Magazine, see Register, xx. 1-6. — Editor.]
George Fenwick, of "Worminghurst, co. Sussex, Esquire, 2 February, 1656, with codicil of 9 March, 1656, proved 27 April, 1657, by Elizabeth Fenwick, daughter and executrix. To wife Katherine, &c. &c. ; to my most natural and dear mother, M™ Dorothy Clavering ; to brother Claudius and his heirs male my lands in Brenckborn and Nether Framlington in the county of Northumberland ; to my nephew Thomas Ledgard and his heirs male land in Thirston and Tillington in Northumberland ; to my sister Ledgard and my sister Cullick each fifty pounds ; to my brother Ledgard and my brother Cullick, each ten pounds ; to my sister Cullick's children one hundred pounds apiece ; to my niece Clifton fifty pounds, and to niece Bootflower's boy fifty pounds ; to my daughter Elizabeth and daughter Dorothy ; to Ralph Fenwick, a scholar of Christ Church, Oxford, ten pounds a year ; to my daughters land in Sussex that descends to them from their uncle Edward Apsley, Esquire, deceased.
The above he declared to be his will 10 March, 1656. In the codicil he bequeaths to his sister Cullick and her children all his estate in New Eng- land ; and also five hundred pounds to the public use of that country of New England if " my " loving friend Edward Hopkins think fit. He makes bequests to his friend Robert Leeves and to his servant Moses Fryer. To Dame Elinor Selby of Barwick he leaves ten pounds and desires her to undertake the education of Dorothy. His father-in-law Sir Arthur Hessle- ngg to accept the mean remembrance of forty shillings to buy a ring. He also mentions his cousin Lawrence and his wife, his cousin Strickland and his lady, his ancient acquaintance and dearly beloved friend Sir Thomas Widdrington, his dear and good friend Mr Edward Hopkins, late warden of the fleet, his friend Aaron Gourdon, Dr. of Physic, his friend Mr Tempest Milner, alderman of London, and the latter's kinsman Robert Key, his father-in-law, Mr Claveringe, and Thomas Burrell of Brinckborn, North- umberland. He gives six pounds per annum to Tristram Fenwick for life, forty shillings to Mr Ogle of Leith in Scotland, and twenty shillings to the widow Clarke of Weldon. Ruthen, 138.
[The family of Forster, of Newham, from which Col. George Fenwick and hissis- ter Mrs. Elizabeth Cullick derived their descent, are said by Mundy to be descended out of the house of Forster of Etherston. In this latter family the baptismal name of Reignold often occurs, suggesting the possible origin of Reginald Forster of Ip- swich. They bore Argent, a chevron vert between three bugle-horns stringed sable. " these verses were sett about the Amies," says Mundy :
" let us derly them hold to mind ther wortliynes that wch our parent's old hath left us'to posses."
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Col. Fcnwick's first wife and the mother of his children, was Alice, relict of Sir John Botteler, knight, and daughter of Sir Edward Apsley of Thackharn in county Sussex, knight. One of her sisters, Elizabeth, was the wife of Sir Albert Morton, Secretary of State to King James. His second wife, Catherine, was eldest daugh- ter of the famous Sir Arthur Hazelrigg of Noseley Hall, in Leicestershire. The monument erected to the memory of Col. Fenwick in the church at Berwick, which he is said to have been principally instrumental in building, shows that he died 15 March, 1656. It will be noticed that his sister Elizabeth, wife of Capt. John Cul- lick, does not appear on the following pedigree, probably not having been born until after 1615, when the visitation was made. The " sister Ledgard " was Mary, wife of Thomas Ledgard.
The following pedigree is extracted from Richard Mundy's copy of Visitations of Northumberland, 1575 and 1615, Harl. MS. 1554, ff. 20,54:
Thomas dom9 = de ffenwick miles An0 4. E. 2.
Willm de ffenwick = miles 17. E. 3.
Robertus de ffenwick = Elinor. Petrus, &c.
Johannes Fenwick = Elizebetha filia Alani de Hetton. miles |
Johannes Fenwick = Alanus.
Armiger I
John Fenwick=
Johannes Fenwiek= Catherina filia
dom Eshenden miles
Wilmi Plumpton militis.
Johannes Fenwick miles = Elizebetha filia Rogeri de Woderington. I
Henericus Fenwick =
Mary, d. & h. of Wm.=John Fenwick of Fenwick=Eliz. d. Sr Roger Woderington . Strother 1 wife |
issue.
Gerard Fenwicke = .... d. & heire of Sr Walter Boura-hton
6 son
of ... . in co. Northumberland.
Tristram ffenwick = Margarett, d. of ... Ogel of Bothell. 3 son j
i i i i
George ffenwick = Dorathey d. of Gregory2 William3 Margerett, ux.
of Brinckborne, 1615.
John Forsterof Robert Ogle.
Newham.
I I I I I I . I
George ffenwick William2 Mary Gregory3 Henry4 Claudius* Margarett 12yereold 1615. — u. f. w.]
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William Hathorne, of Binfield in the County of Berks, yeoman, 18 May, 1650, proved 2 May, 1651, by Sara Hathorne, the widow and exec- utrix. To the poor of the parish of Binfield twenty shillings, to be dis- tributed on the day of my burial. To Robert Hathorne, my son, all that my messuage or tenement now in the tenure of my brother-in-law John Lawrence, situate and being in Bray, in the County of Berks, together with all barns, stables, outhouses, orchards, gardens, backsides, easments, profits and hereditaments thereto belonging ; and also that my cottage closes and parcels of land, pasture and meadow, lying and being in Bray aforesaid, and hereafter particularly mentioned. That is to say, one barn with two or- chards and five closes of pasture and meadow called Neatherhouse barn, neathouse mead, the two Butts, Bishopps cloase and the backside, containing in all eighteen acres, more or less, lying together near unto the said mes- suage and abutting upon Oakely Greene towards the North, — (other lots, of four acres and of eighteen acres respectively, abutting upon Oakely Green towards the South), one cottage, with a hay house and backside, late in the tenure of Richard Braiser, containing one acre, more or less, abutting upon Okely Greene aforesaid towards the North ; also one close and one pidle of pasture ground called Godlers, containing seven acres, adjoining to a lane leading out of Okeley Greene into Didworth Green towards the South, to have unto the said Robert Hathorne my son & his heirs forever, upon trust, &c. — that they shall give and pay unto William Hathorne, my eldest son, his executors or assigns, the sum of one hundred pounds of law- ful money of England within two years next after ray decease, and unto John Hathorne, my son, &c, twenty pounds within three years, &c. Item, I give unto Nathaniel Hathorne, my son, twenty shillings in money. Fur- ther unto John Hathorne twenty pounds, if living, otherwise to his wife and children, within one year next after my decease. To Edmond Ha- thorne, ray youngest son (thirty acres and more in Bray) upon the trust and confidence and to the end, intent and purpose that the said Edmond Hathorne, ray son, his heirs or assigns, shall give and pay unto Elizabeth, my daughter, the wife of Mr Richard Davenporte, her executors or as- signs, the sum of forty pounds of lawful money of England within two years next after my decease. To Anne, my daughter, wife of Hugh Smith, twenty shillings, and to Elizabeth, her daughter, five shillings. To Robert, Sara, Anne and Katherine, the children of my son-in-law Philip Lee, five shillings apiece.
The residue, my debts being paid, my funeral expenses discharged and this my last will and testament in all things duly performed, to Sara Ha- thorne, my wife, whom I ordain and make sole executrix.
The witnesses were John Sowthey als Hayle, Thomas Dyer and Robert Southey als Hayle. Grey, 87.
Sara Hathorne (by mark) of Binfield in the County of Berks, widow, 5 September, 1655, proved 14 March, 1655, by Nathaniel Hathorne, son and sole executor. To the poor of Binfield twenty shillings, to be bestowed on such as have most need, at the discretion of my executors, on the day of burial. To Robert Hathorne, my son, a round table in the chamber over the Hall, with a drawer to him, a great joyned chair in the parlor, my elm chest in the chamber over the parlor, a great pair of andirous standing in the parlor, two pillow beares, one of them Holland pillow beare and the other of them a flaxen pillow beare, two silver spoons, one of my best joined stools in the hall, a cupboard cloth wrought with blue at the ends
44 GENEALOGICAL GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND.
and a great brazen candlestick. To Anne, my daughter, the wife of Hugh Smith, my best feather bed and bolster belonging to him, a feather pillow, two blankets, my green rug, my green sea curtains and valians to them, two pair of my better sheets, the fourth part of all my pewter, my lesser brass pot and pothooks, my little skillett, all my wearing apparell, three of my bigger milk bowls, a low leather chair, my best green matted chair, the biggest chest that was her fathers and ten pounds of lawful money of Eng- land. To my two grandchildren Anne Lee and Katherine Lee, twenty shillings apiece. To all the residue of my grandchildren, that is to say, Sara Hathorne, Elizabeth Hathorne and Elizabeth Hathorne, Susanna Hathorne, Nathaniel Hathorne, William Smith and Elizabeth Smith, the several sums often shillings apiece. To Anne Middleton, my late servant, ten shillings.
The residue to son Nathaniel Hathorne, who is to be sole executor. The witnesses were John Yonges and Henrie Otwaie (by mark).
Berkley, 34.
[The foregoing will of William Hathorne of Binfield confirms the guess made in 1879, as to the English home of the American family of Hathorne, and the inter- marriage of Lieut. Richard Davenport, of New Engiand, with that family. (See Gleanings from English Records, &c, by Emtnerton and Waters, Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., where sundry abstracts of English wills may be found, and paternal and maternal pedigrees of the distinguished author Nathaniel Hawthorne.) Bin- field, Bray and Oakley Green are all in the North Eastern part of Berkshire, a little West and South West of Windsor. From a History and Antiquities of the Hun- dred of Bray, by Charles Kerry, London, 1861, I learn that there was a manor of Cruchfields and Hawthorne, that a William Hawthorne was one of the tenants of " Queen Lease " in the parish of Bray and Manor of Bray, 1650 ; in the " Ren- tall of the Manor of Bray, 1650," William Hawthorne is charged one pound per an- num for all lands holden of the manor, Thomas Hawthorne is charged three shil- lings, the heivs of Robert Hawthorne five shillings, and William Hawthorne, Jr., five pence. In " The Assert Rent of Bray, 1658," under the title "Oakley," I find "Ttobert Hauthorne for house and lands," 6ix shillings four pence, "Tho- mas Hauthorne ditto," three shillings three pence halfpenny, and " Henery Hau- thorne for lands," seven shillings. William Hawthorne was one of the church wardens in Bray, A.D. 1600. By Indenture dated 10 January, 6 James (1609), Sir John Norris confirmed unto William Goddard, William Hathorne, Thomas Westcottand five others, and their heirs, all those piddles or parcels of ground severally lying in certain hamlets and tithings of the parish of Bray in the county of Berks, whereupon small cottages and other edifices were erected and built, con- taining in the whole, by estimation, five acres," &c, intrust for the "relief of such poor, impotent and aged persons as from time to time thereafter should be dwelling within the said parish, and to the intent that the poorest and most aged and impotent persons of the said parish should be provided for ever of houses and habitation." By an Indenture dated 14 January, 1621, it appears that William Hawthorn and Thomas Westcott, who were the surviving trustees, associated with themselves eight other substantial inhabitants of the parish as feoffees in trust, &c. By Indenture of feoffment bearing date 1 September, 1657, it appears that Thomas Wilcox was the surviving trustee. On page 1 10 of the History may be found " The Legend of Hawthorn," which narrates the finding of two pots of gold on Haw- thorn Hill, near Cruchfield (but a little way from Binfield), and on page 111 sun- dry notices of the name of Hawthorne, gathered from court rolls, registers and other authentic sources ; from which it appears that John Hothorndied 1520, leaving Hen- ry Hothorn his son and heir. Henry died 1531, leaving Roger his son and heir. In 1535 a field of Thomas Hothorne adjoined one held by John Bysshop in " Cryche- feld." In 1533 Thomas Hothorne was appointed collector for the lands he (Bys- shop) held called " Chaunters " by the yearly rent of twenty shillings nine pence. William Hothorn died 1538, leaving William bis son and heir. William Haw- thorne was a copyhold tenant 1601 and church warden 1600-02. Thomas Hawthorn jun. purchased " Brownings" in Holyport, 1602. John Hawthorne held a coppice at Binfield called " Picking's Points," 1605. One of this family married Anne, daughter of Gilbert Loirgins, circa 1605. And Robert Hawthorne's name occurs 1656 to 1664.— H. F. w.]
GENEALOGICAL GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND. 45
Nathaniel Hathorne, of Cookham in County Berks, gentleman, 27 September, 1652, proved 29 July, 1654, by Martha Hathorne, the relict and executrix. To wife Martha eight hundred pounds in lieu of her joint- ure and thirds, &c. My manor of South Braham* in the county of Som- erset. Estates in the counties of Devon, Somerset and Berks. My four brothers-in-law, Thomas Loggins, John Whistler, Ralphe Whistler and Tho- mas Whistler, gentleman. My three own sisters, Elizabeth, Mary and Anne, and John Laurence, the husband of Anne. My son-in-law Wil- liam Mattingly and Jone his wife. My kinsman William Eldridge and Judith his wife. Anne Winche, the wife to my nephew John Winch. My nephew William Winche. The poor of Cookham and South Braham. Wife Martha to be executrix, and two loving kinsmen, Dr. Daniel Whist- ler of Gresham College, and John Winche, of London, haberdasher, to be overseers. One of the witnesses was John Hathorne. Alchin, 251.
[This testator was, of course, brother to the foregoing William Hathorne and un- cle to the American immigrant.
It is with a peculiar satisfaction, it must be confessed, that the compiler of these Gleanings, himself a native of Salem, has at last been able to prove beyond a doubt whereabouts in " Our Old Home," that elder England beyond the seas, we must look for the ancestry of the most widely known among the distinguished sons of old Salem, the most original of the prose writers of our New England, and the one whose writings are most native to her soil ; a satisfaction tinged with the regret, however, that the discovery was not made in the great writer's life-time. We can easily imagine with what delight he would have made a pilgrimage into Berk- shire, how gladly he would have loitered about Binlield and Bray, Cruchfield and Oakley Green, making new sketches to illustrate his English Note Book, and how eagerly his quaint and vivid fancy would have seized even upon the scanty materi- als offered to it in the Legend of Hawthorn Hill and its pots of gold, to weave therefrom a story that should rival in weirdness any of his " Legends of New England."
The eldest son and namesake of William Hathorne of Binfield, and first Ameri- can ancestor of the distinguished writer, was, next to Governor Endicott, by far the most important personage in the civil history of Salem during the first genera- tion. By sheer force of natural talent and commanding character, this son of a plain English yeoman easily came to the front rank among the many wise and ac- tive New England men who were then engaged in the tremendous and to them solemn task of founding a state, opening up the wilderness, treating with " the barbarious Heathen," justly and peaceably if possible, but with fire and sword if need be, allotting lands to the new comers in proportion to their means and ability and to the numbers of their families, establishing offices of record, settling disputes, levying taxes, ma'iing provision for meeting-house and school-house, regarding justice and morality, a careful religious training and the free education of all, as the only sure basis of good order and sound government, the only firm and stable foundation whereon to erect the superstructure of a mighty new state. In all this work Major William Hathorne bore a prominent part, whether as an enterprising and prosperous merchant, a trusted citizen and deputy, an honored speaker of the House, a wise and influential magistrate in the highest court, or an active and suc- cessful commander in the wars ; and his career illustrates most happily the wonder- ful capacity of the Anglo-Saxon race, that imperial race of modern times, its adapt- ability and readiness to cope with new conditions of life, to adjust itself to strange and heretofore untried surroundings, its plain and homely common sense, its union of native practical sagacity and sound judgment with a love of law and order, and at the same time a spirit of adventure, which has made Great Britain not only the most prosperous of nations, but the greatest colonizing people in the world, the mother of Nations, and which is so conspicuously manifested in the marvellous ca- reer of her daughters, the " Greater Britain "