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GENEALOGY
OF
HISTORICAL CHARTS
COMPILED BY
1935
ADDITIONS COMPILED BY
2006
When reading this Genealogy, you will
notice that certain people (usually shown as
descendants of the person headlined at the top of the
page) are displayed in capital letters. We are direct
descendants of these people.
Line #1
In the early days of the New England colonization the name, “Hathaway” was often
spelled as it was usually pronounced, “Hadaway”. Four of the name came over from
England to America at, or about the same time, 1635; and Nicholas, from whom our line
is descended, came over in 1639. It is thought that these five Hathaways, or Hadaway, as
some spelled the name, were closely related; some of them may have been brothers,
although that is still to be proved. The family name is supposed to have originated in
Wales, although possibly in England. Due to the fact that so many of the early
Hathaways were named “John”, it is not surprising that historians have erred in the
compilation of their data. All the early data and records of Hathaways were very vague.
The early “comeoverers”, as they are sometimes called, may have been related in
England. There were many Hathaway families in England in the 1600's and there still
are. For the sake of convenience I have numbered these five emigrants from 1 to 5 and
give below an outline of each one, as I have it.
1. Arthur Hadaway (or Hathaway), Sr., settled at Marshfield in 1643, lived in Plymouth
in 1646 and afterwards removed to Dartmouth. He married, Nov. 20, 1652, Sarah Cooke
of Plymouth, a granddaughter of Richard Warren, Mayflower Pilgrim. There were many
descendants. In Braintree records, Nicholas Hathaway had a land grant for four heads,
Dec. 24, 1639/40. Two of these would be for Nicholas and his young son, John, and it
would appear that the other two might have been Arthur and John “of Barnstable.” For
further details, refer to #5226, line 2613, page 3, the first line numbered 3. Arthur
Hathaway and Sarah Cooke, his wife, had at least two children, both sons.
1. John Hathaway, born Sept. 17, 1653
2. Arthur Hathaway, Jr., born in 1655.
2. John Hathaway, “of Taunton”, was a very respectable man and owned a large landed
estate. He was often employed in the business of the colony. This family is almost
extinct. It is said that descendants of this family were defective, deaf mutes and some
blind. He died Nov. 3, 1695
4. John Hadaway (or) (Hathaway), Sr., “of Barnstable” was born in England in 1617, as
appears on Custom House records and by his own deposition dated Mar. 1, 1658/9.
He came to America in the “Blessing” in July, 1635 at the age of 18. He was before
the General Court in 1637. In Braintree records, Nicholas Hathaway (# 5120, Line #5)
had a land grant for four heads, Dec. 24, 1639/40. Two of these would be for Nicholas
and his young son, John; and it would appear that the other two might have been
Arthur and John “of Barnstable”. He resided at Yarmouth in 1649 and was
summoned before the Plymouth Court for lending a gun to an Indian. He resided at
Barnstable in 1656. He married, (1), July 1, 1656, at the age of 39, which was very
late in life for those days, Hannah Hallet, a daughter of Andrew Hallet and Mary ---, of
Barnstable. Andrew Hallet came to America in 1637 and was in Plymouth in Mar.
1638/9. He was a schoolmaster and was styled a “gentleman”, a title bestowed upon
few in the Colony. He was a man “possessed of a good estate.” Hannah Hallet “died
early”, and John Hathaway, Sr. married, (2) Elizabeth Coleman (born in Boston, Feb.
28, 1651/2, daughter of Edward Coleman of Yarmouth). She was 21 years of age at
the time of her marriage to John Hathaway, Sr. and she was 34 years younger than her
husband. They removed to Yarmouth. He was intemperate and wasted his own and
his wife's estate. His will was dated Aug. 3, 1689 and was probated Feb. 15, 1696/7.
In it he bequeathed to his second wife, Elizabeth, and to his sons, Thomas, John,
Gideon and Edward and to daughters (names not given) of his first wife, Hannah
Hallet; and his second wife (Elizabeth) to bestow on her two daughters. The only
names of children that can be found are mentioned in their father's will:
1. John Hathaway, Jr., born Aug. 6, 1658; by his first wife.
2. Hannah Hathaway, born 1662; by his first wife.
3. Edward Hathaway, born 1663 (?) if so, by his first wife.
At least one more daughter by his first wife.
Thomas Hathaway, first named in his father's will, but probably by his father's
second wife, Elizabeth.
Gideon Hathaway, probably by his second wife, Elizabeth.
Two other daughters by his second wife, Elizabeth.
5. NICHOLAS HATHAWAY, (#5120, line #5). Our line of descent.
New England Historic & Genealogical Society
The Chairman wishes to call attention to certain misapprehensions regarding the founders
of this section of the country. One class of persons are obsessed with the idea that the
founders were scions of noble houses, and swallow fabricated pedigrees with the greatest
of ease. Another class, among whom will be found eminent historians as James Truslow
Adams and several of our distinguished biographers, assert that the founders came from
the lower strata of English society. This view is as misleading as the other. The truth is
that the great bulk of the founders of New England came from the intelligent, self-
respecting middle class known as the yeomanry, and from the shopkeepers. But there
was also a goodly percentage, and, considering the emigration as a whole, a high
percentage, of the gentleman of England. The upper classes of New England were made
up of members of the English county families, well-to-do merchants from the towns, and
the clergy, who were graduates of the two universities.
Descent from good yeoman stock is a matter for congratulation; but, other things being
equal, there is no one who would not prefer to descend from seventeenth century
gentlemen. It is, therefore, somewhat amusing to read the loud assertions by various
investigators that the entire emigration of New England in the sixteen thirties came from
the lower orders of society; and their sneers at heraldry and gentility are a form of
inverted snobbery quite as amusing as that which seeks to fasten many of the honest
yeomen of the seventeenth century to gentle families which which they never had or
claimed any kinship.
Numbers
1, 1a and 1b
Line #1
The name MEYRICK, or MERRICK and variously spelled, means Guardian. The
motto of the Welsh Meyricks, “Without God, nothing, God and enough”. The Merrick
family boasts a coat of arms and a crest. The name has been traced by professional
genealogists back to Coel Codebog, a Briton King, 262 B.C. Burke's Peerage, edition of
1887, page 946, says in part:
“The Meyricks are of the purest and noblest Cambrian blood, and have
possessed the same ancestral estate at Bodorgan, Anglesey, Wales, without
interruption, upwards of a thousand years. They have the rate distinction
of being lineally descended both from the Sovereign Princes of Wales of the
Welsh royal family, and from King Edward I, whose eldest son was the first
Prince of Wales of the English royal family”
Carolyn Esther Merrick (#1, line #1) daughter of Webster Hathaway Merrick, (#2, line
#1) and Esther Lillian Anderson, (#3, line #1) was born May 14, 1925, in the Swedish-
American Hospital at Rockford, Ill.
Joan Gertrude Hathaway Merrick, (#1a, line #1) daughter of Webster Hathaway Merrick,
#2, line #1) and Esther Lillian Anderson, (#3, line #1), was born May 6, 1930, in the
Swedish-American Hospital at Rockford, Ill.
Lois Janet Anderson Merrick, (#1b, line #1), Daughter of Webster Hathaway Merrick (#2,
line 1) and Esther Lillian Anderson (#3, line #1) was born Aug. 22, 1932 ,
in Rockford Hospital at Rockford, Ill.
Numbers
2 and 3
Line #1
Webster Hathaway Merrick, (#2, line 1), son of Edward Clark Merrick
(#4, line #1) and Carrie Blanche Hathaway, (#5, line #1) was born at 8 AM on Tuesday,
October 20, 1891, at the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Boadicea T. Nash Hathaway
(#11, line #5) at the south-west corner of North Winnebago St. and Mulberry St. in
Rockford, Ill. He graduated from Ravenswood Grammar School, Chicago, in June 1906;
attended Lake View High School, Chicago for a year and graduated from the
Metropolitan Business College, Chicago in 1909. From 1910 to 1912 he was assistant
cashier for the Trowbridge & Niver Co., a municipal bond house then located at suite
400, First National Bank Bldg., Chicago; and he held the same position with the Hanchett
Bond Co., an outgrowth of the above mentioned concern, located at 39 S. La Salle St.,
Chicago. Moving to Rockford, Ill. April 25, 1912 with his mother, they made their home
with his mother's sister, Gertrude Lillian Hathaway Airis, (#10, line #5 sub line #1) and
her husband, John Walter Alexander Airis, at 818 Haskell Ave., Rockford. Mr. And Mrs.
Airis moved from Chicago to Rockford at the same time.
Three years employment with the Security Insurance Co. as assistant cashier was
followed by several months with the F. W. Woolworth Co.'s S. Main St. store as assistant
manager and then for the next three years he was assistant manager of the supply
department of the Western Department of the American Insurance Co. of Newark, New
Jersey, of which his mother's first cousin, Charles Ernest Sheldon, #20-2-1, line #5, page
2), was at that time and until his death on July 23, 1924, Western Department Manager
and the company's Vice President. Failing to pass the physical examinations for
enlistment in the army for service in the World War, and later in the draft, because of near
sightedness, he enlisted July, 1917 as a private in Company I, Tenth Regiment, Illinois
National Guard, then known as the Home Guard. Early in August, 1917 this militia
company was called, together with the rest of the Tenth Regiment, all of the Ninth
Regiment and the Eighth Regiment, (colored), for active training at Camp Lincoln,
Springfield, Ill. While at Springfield these three regiments were called for special service
on a coal mine strike that lasted until early October, 1917. Returning to Rockford he was
honorably discharged at that time, but continued his association with the company for
more than a year afterward.
He was employed as a mechanic for several months in 1919 in the shop of the
Ingersoll Milling Machine Co. and worked about a year in the shop of the Barber-Colman
Co., both in Rockford. From Aug. 11, 1920 until Sept. 23, 1928 he was Classified
Advertising Manager of the Rockford Morning Star, resigning to accept an offer in the
same capacity with the Rockford Daily Republic where he stayed exactly two years –
until the consolidation of all three of the Rockford newspapers in Sept. 1930.
The Rockford Journal, later styled the Rockford Daily Journal was organized by
the then Winnebago County Judge, the Hon. George T. Lidddell on Feb. 12, 1932 and he
was employed there in various capacities as advertising manager, covering both classified
and display advertising; Circulation Manager and Business Manager. The combination
of lack of adequate capital, multi-millionaire competition and the depression, brought an
early end to the Journal and it suspended publication in November, 1934. Leaving that
paper in February of that year because of the failure of the Journal to pay a living wage
and owed him a considerable amount in back wages, he was appointed a Deputy Assessor
by the Rockford Town Board and served under Assessor Gus S. Brown during the spring
and early summer of the years 1934 , 1935 and 1936. It is of interest to note Webster
Hathaway Merrick's grandmother's brother, Captain John Bird Nash, (#22, line #11),
served several terms as Rockford Township Assessor in the 1880's.
He married, July 16, 1924, Esther Lillian Anderson, (#3, line #1) daughter of John
Sanfred Anderson, (#6, line #3) and Harriet Amelia Bjork, (#7, line #3) of 1441
Greenwood Ave., Rockford, at the parsonage of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Zion
Church, corner of Sixth St. and Fifth Ave., Rockford. The Rev. Carl Solomonson
officiated. Esther Lillian Anderson was born on Second St. in Clinton, Iowa on Jan. 23,
1901. She graduated from the Jackson grammar school, (Rockford) and attended
Rockford High School. For a time she was employed in the mail order department of the
H. W. Buckbee Seed Farms of Rockford, owned by John T. Buckbee, later Congressman
from Illinois. From 1919 until the spring of 1924, just previous to her marriage, she was
employed in the payroll department of the National Lock Co. of Rockford. Mr. And Mrs.
Merrick and their children live (1935) in their own home at 1901 Latham St., Rockford,
Ill. There were three children, all girls, listed here in the order of their birth:
1. Carolyn Esther Merrick, (#1, line #1) born May 14, 1925 in the Swedish-American
Hospital, Rockford, Ill.
2. Joan Gertrude Hathaway Merrick (#1a, line #1) born May 6, 1930, in the Swedish-
American Hospital, Rockford, Ill.
3. Lois Janet Anderson Merrick, (1b, line #1) born Aug. 22, 1932 in Rockford Hospital,
Rockford, Ill.
Numbers
4 and 5
Line #1
Edward Clark Merrick, (#4, line #1), a son of William Wells Merrick, (#8, Line
#1) and Louisa Higgins Robin, (#9, Line #1) was born Apr. 22, 1854 at Boston, Mass.
He was educated in Boston where he graduated from the Charlestown High School,
which is located immediately across the street from Bunker Hill monument, in the class
of 1872. There were 47 boys in his graduating class and in later years they held class
reunions. At the reunion held in 1934 it was brought out that only four of this class were
still living. While in high school he was Cadet Captain of the First Company in the
military training class. Of his athletic activities during his early manhood he writes,
(summer of 1935) as follows:
“The principle game was baseball, in which I was greatly interested. I played the
game from the age of 12 (1866) until I was 21 or 22 (1875 or 1876) and I remember very
well how proud I was when I was invited to join a club (The Una Baseball Club) whose
members were considerably older than I. This club was considered the best amateur club
in Boston and for three years in succession (1870-72) we won the Amateur Championship
of New England; and we traveled all over New England, playing the clubs in the various
cities. I can assure you that these were the most enjoyable days of my early life.”
He attended Harvard Medical School in 1874 where Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes
was his professor in Anatomy; and President Elliott of Harvard University he remembers
very well. For the next nine years he was employed by a large firm of importers and
wholesalers of general merchandise and in 1883 he removed, with his brother, William
Oscar Merrick, to Rockford, Illinois, and together they opened a ladies' and gents'
furnishing goods store there under the name of “Merrick Bros.” They removed the
business to St. Paul, Minn. In 1889, stayed there about a year, closed out the business and
removed to Chicago early in 1890. William Oscar Merrick engaged in various enterprises
in Chicago for the first few years and in 1900 he entered the printing business in which he
is now (1936) engaged. Edward Clark Merrick engaged in the mortgage loan business
and operated his own office in the Reaper Block for 19 years. Closing out the business in
1913 he removed to a small farm property that he bought at Wauchula, Florida, which he
operated for two years, returning to Chicago in 1915. He later entered the employ of the
Aetna Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn., at 1827 Insurance Exchange Bldg.,
Chicago in 1917 as statistician and auditor which position he now (1936) holds.
He was married at 9 P.M. on Wednesday, March 14, 1888 to Carrie Blanche
Hathaway, (#5, line #1), a daughter of the late George Willington Hathaway, (#10, line
#5) and Mrs. Boadicea T. (Nash) Hathaway, (#11, line #5), at the home of Mrs. H. W.
Loomis on North Court St., Rockford, the Rev. Douglas C. Peabody of the Emanuel
Episcopal Church of Rockford, officiating. The following three newspaper stores will be
found of interest:
MERRICK---HATHAWAY
The date has been fixed and the ceremony will no doubt be performed, if nothing
unforeseen prevents, on Wednesday, the 14th. We refer to the approaching nuptials of
Miss Carrie Hathaway and Edward C. Merrick, of the firm of Merrick Bros., the notion
dealers. It is given out on the quiet that the ceremony will be performed at the home of
the bride's mother on North Church Street next Wednesday evening, Rev. Douglas C.
Peabody, officiating. Only the relatives of the contracting parties will be invited. After
the ceremony the following day the couple will take a short wedding trip, and return to
handsomely fitted up apartments at Mrs. Hathaway's. Mr. Merrick came here from
Boston seven years ago, and has since then been in business with his brother. He has
many friends. Miss Hathaway is a Rockford girl, was educated in Boston, and her many
friends and acquaintances will be pleased to read of her approaching matrimonial event.
Vive la Mr. And Mrs. Merrick.
AN IDEAL WEDDING
The Nuptials of Edward C. Merrick and Carrie B. Hathaway---
A Bride Most Fair, an Event Most Auspicious.
The hour was nine o'clock last night; the scene was the Loomis residence, the
speaker was Rev. D. C. Peabody, and the words were the simple but impressive words of
the marriage ritual according to the Episcopal church. One young lady who was present
struck the keynote when she said: “That's what I call an ideal wedding.” It was ideal, not
in the sense of elaboration or multitude of guests or gorgeousness of toilets, although the
latter was by no means lacking, but because every detail indicated the perfection of good
taste. The handful of favored guests were gracefully received by the bride's mother, Mrs.
Hathaway, and the hostess of the house, Mrs. Loomis. A bay window, banked with
flowers in tasty arrangement, indicated where the pair would stand to receive the seal of
the church upon their pledged troth. Mrs. Chandler Starr struck up Mendelsohn's
Wedding March, Rev. Peabody took his station, and the wedding party came in. Miss
May Loomis, the bridesmaid, leaning on the arm of W. O. Merrick, the groom's brother
and his best man; the bride followed, a vision of loveliness most refreshing to look upon,
accompanied by John H. Curtis, of Chicago, who gave her away according to the
requirements of the service. E. C. Merrick, the groom, entered from another room, and
met the radiant creature, whom he was soon to call his own, at the station by the bay
window. Always charming, with beauty of face than which Rockford possesses none
fairer, and with that gracefulness of heart which has shined with undisputed sway amid
the circle within which she has moved—Miss Hathaway needed not the accessories of the
dressmaker's highest art to proclaim her loveliness. But adorned in the pure white of the
bridal dress, she made a picture that held captive all eyes, and filled every male heart with
unspeakable envy for the Young Fortunatus who stood by her side. The costume was a
short suit of white, watered silk, veiled in Chantilly lace. Her only ornament was a
glistening diamond pin, the gift of one of her admiring gentlemen friends, who doubtless
allowed his envy to take this most graceful and expressive form. In her hand she carried a
bunch of rose buds, and wore at her breast a sprig of orange blossoms.
Second only to the lovely bride in beauty of face, and form and drapery, was the
bridesmaid, Miss May Lomis. “She looked like a dream” said one. “Have you ever
fancied what a blossom or rare feminine loveliness H. Rider Haggard's “She” might make
when her veil was cast aside and she stood revealed in all her supreme perfection? The
fancy struck me that Miss Loomis most worthily embodied that mystic ideal.” Allowing
for the very natural exuberance of expression of a devoted friend, the fact still remains
that a fairer twain than the bride and her made the favoring starlight never twinkled upon
in our fair city. Miss Loomis' costume was a dark green velvet skirt and bodice, with
light green drapery of surah silk. She carried a cluster of pink rose buds.
The house was made additionally attractive by a great number of fairy lamps which, with
vari-colored shades, threw mellow light upon the festive scene.
The congratulations, of course they were hearty; and of the refreshments, nothing more
need be said than that they were under the supervision of the mistress of the house, whose
skill in matters of the cuisine have won for her the reputation, if not the name, of “The
Delmonico of Rockford.” The bride and groom do not need an introduction to Rockford
people. Both are identified with the social life, and both have only friends to wish them
well, - no hostile hearts will speak with jealous depreciation at their present advent into
these happier realms. The bride has spent most of her life here, although for several years
she lived in Boston, acquiring the advantages, both educational and social, which the
“Hub” affords. The groom is a member of the firm of Merrick Brothers, young and
enterprising merchants, who have been steadily winning their way into increasing
public favor and confidence for the last five years, until they are recognized as two of our
most substantial and promising business men.
The array of exquisite presents indicated that excellent taste as well as an extravagant
outlay had united in their purchase. The groom gave the bride a sum of money, of what
fabulous amount no outsider may know; from the groom's father was a check for $600;
from J. F. Burns, Jr., a most brilliant pin in the form of a wreath, set with ten diamonds,
its monetary value undoubtedly was well up in the hundreds; a fancy folding bed, with
plate glass mirror, was a gift of the groom's brother; a very handsome cabinet and
bookcase combined was presented by George Hepburn, his intimate friend. There was a
solid silver, gold lined, bon bon case from a relative from Lewistown, Maine, Mrs. B. E.
May. This was a gem of a gift. From latter's daughter a little handkerchief, valued at
only $35. A dainty French clock, a beautiful carving set, rose jars, books, works of art,
bric-a-brac of varied character, made out an array that fairly made the spectators' eyes
glisten.
The wedding party lingered, , loth to leave a scene so replete with pleasant surroundings
and rosy with the halo of future delights, until the midnight hour struck. The bride and
groom left on the early morning Milwaukee train for the north. They did not lay out any
definite route for a bridal trip, but will follow the dictates of fancy for the next two weeks
or more.
They will be “At Home” after April 18, at 208 North Church Street.
The following were the guests so fortunate as to enjoy the ideal event; a star indicating
that the gentlemen is accompanied by his wife:
• Charles E. Sheldon, (#20 and 21, line #5, page #1, sub line 2-1)
• W. T. Robertson,
• J. H Curtis, Chicago.
Mrs. Warren Loomis.
Mrs. F. M. Loomis (#10 and 11, line #5, sub line 1)
Mrs. C. M. Hathaway. (#21, line #5)
Mrs. Fannie Moffatt.
Mrs. J. B. Nash (#22 and 23, line #11, sub line 9)
Mrs. M. L. Gorham.
Miss Kate Butterworth,
Miss Gertie Hamilton,
Miss Burton, Sterling
E. J. Cleveland,
W.O. Merrick, (#8 and 9, line #1, sub line 1)
Geo. Hepburn.
Frank Farnesworth
Geo. P. Perkins,
• Chan Starr,
• W. F. Woodruff,
Miss May Loomis,
Mrs. B. F. Hathaway
Mrs. B. T. Hathaway, (#10 and 11, line #5)
Mrs. Ireton,
Miss Flora Churchill
Mrs. Underwood
Miss Lily Gorham,
Miss Ella Richards,
Miss Dora Sheldon, (#20 and 21, Line #5, page #4, sub line 4)
Miss Marie Boynton, Sycamore
Master J. Nash(#22 and 23, line #11, page #2, sub line 3)
Fay Lewis,
J. F. Burns, Jr.,
S. K. Flint, Boston
CUPID'S CAPERS
---
If the question were asked any time during the past five or six years as to who was the
belle of Rockford society, probably no name would have been oftener mentioned than
that of Miss Carrie B. Hathaway. During all this time rumors have been constantly afloat
that she was to be married – now to this gentleman and now to that. So that when it was
announced that she was to wed E. C. Merrick, on Wednesday evening, there was a
diversity of opinion as to whether it was a bona fide fact or only another rumor.
The wedding, however, came off last evening and as was eminently appropriate, was an
elegant affair. It occurred at the residence of Mrs. Mary Loomis, on North Court Street,
in the presence of a select company of friends.
At nine o'clock, Mrs. Chan Starr seated herself at the piano and played a wedding march.
The bridal party came down stairs and marched to the bay window in the parlor, where
Rev. Douglas G. Peabody stood ready to perform the ceremony. The bridal couple were
attended by Miss May Loomis, who acted as bridesmaid, and Mr. W. O. Merrick, who
supported the groom. The parlor had been lavishly decorated with flowers and plants,
whose bright colors seemed a brilliant prophecy for the future of the young people. The
bride was arrayed in white moire silk and chantilly lace, low neck and short sleeves,
pointed in back and front, no train. She wore diamonds and a corsage of orange blossoms
and carried a bunch of white roses. To say that she looked enchanting, would be
superfluous as she was always so, but certain it is that she never looked better than on her
wedding night.
Miss May Loomis, the bridesmaid, wore a green plush skirt, with a waist and overdress
of a lighter shade of green surah, cut short, low neck, short sleeves, pointed in back and,
front trimmed with gold braid. She also wore diamonds, and a corsage bouquet of pink
rosebuds, and carried an elegant fan.
The ring ceremony was used and Mr. J. H. Curtis, of Chicago, gave the bride away.
After the ceremony, a wedding supper was served. The bride and groom left this morning
for the northwest. No one knows exactly where, but St. Paul and Minneapolis are
undoubtedly within the plane of the journey.
The presents were elegant, and there were lots of them. Prominent among the
remembrances were a check for a thousand dollars from Mr. Merrick's father, and elegant
diamond pin, a handsome folding bed, a beautiful cabinet, and any quantity of handsome
silver tableware. A thirty-five dollar handkerchief was noticed. Numerous other pretty
things were among them, but they were too many to remember.
There were present at the wedding from abroad: Mr. And Mrs. J. H. Curtis of Chicago,
Miss Marie Boynton of Sycamore; Miss Matie Burton of Sterling; E. J. Cleveland of
Chicago; and Mr. Flint of Boston.
Altogether the wedding was a most graceful one, and will be long remembered by the
lucky few who received the invitation cards, written by the bride's own fair hand.
Mr. and Mrs. Merrick will be gone two or three weeks, when they will return and occupy
apartments at Mrs. Hathaway's. May naught but sunshine lie in the path of their wedded
life.
Carrie Blanche Hathaway, (#5, line #1) was born August 28, 1865 at Rockford and
graduated from the Cambridge (Massachusetts) High School in 1881. She died July 1,
1920 at Rockford, of a complication of diseases that developed into paralysis from which
she had suffered terribly during the last 25 years of her life. Her age at death was 54
years, 10 months and 3 days and she is buried in the Hathaway family lot, lot 29, section
3, in Cedar Bluff cemetery, Rockford, where her parents and her grand-parents are buried.
Edward Clark Merrick lives (1936) at 4334 Greenview Ave., Chicago. There was one
child, a son:
William Wells Merrick, (#8, Line #1), son of Timothy Merrick, (#16, Line #1) and Judith
Wells (#17, line #1), was born August 23, 1817 at Louden (now Louden Center), New
Hampshire. He married, June 28, 1851, Louisa Higgins Robinson, (#9, line #1) at
Manchester, N.H. She was a daughter of John Robinson. (#18, line #9) and his wife,
whose name is not known. Louisa Higgins Robinson was born Oct. 18, 1818 at
Machiasport, Maine, and she died June 5, 1887 at Boston, Mass. William Wells Merrick,
when a young man, went first to Metheun, Mass, where he was a tanner, and it is thought
he was also a shoemaker, up to the time he left there for Boston. From then until his
death, fifty years later, he was engaged in the leather business for himself in Boston. He
died Sept. 5, 1892, aged 75 years. There were four children.
1 William Oscar Merrick was born May 29, 1852 at Boston, Mass. He was
educated at Boston where he attended for three years, Charlestown High School,
which is located immediately across the street from Bunker Hill monument. He
was a member of the class that graduated in 1871. He was one of the original
supporters of the idea of establishing a corps of Cadets in the high school and
was a Cadet Lieutenant in one of the first companies formed. He was a member
of the Una Baseball Club (as was his brother, Edward Clark Merrick, (#4, line #1),
the best amateur baseball in New England, winning the Amateur Championship
of New England in 1870, 1871 and 1872. He played first base and the out-field
and was most active in baseball for many years. His first employment after
leaving school was in a wholesale and jobbing shoe business on Pearl St. in
Boston. After two years he went with a leading wholesale house handling
fancy goods, Yankee notions, toys, games, cutlery, etc., where he remained
ten years. In March, 1883, he removed, with his brother, Edward Clark
Merrick (#4, line #1) to Rockford, Illinois, where they opened a ladies' and gent's
furnishing goods store under the name of “Merrick Bros.” They moved the
business to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1889, and they stayed there about a year,
removing to Chicago in 1890. William Oscar Merrick engaged in various
enterprises there for the next few years and about 1900 he associated himself
with Mr. H. G. Adair, a printer—now the H. G. Adair Printing Co., 107 N.
Wacker Drive, Chicago, and he has remained with this firm up to the present
(1936) time. He never married. With the exception of about two years when his
brother, Edward Clark Merrick, lived near Wauchula, Florida (1913-1915),
these two men have lived together all of their lives. They both live now (1936) at
4334 Greenview Av., Chicago, Ill.
2 EDWARD CLARK MERRICK, ( #4, LINE #1)
3 Robert Elmer Merrick, born Dec. 21, 1860 at Somerville, Mass., which is
a suburb of Boston. He died Aug. 21, 1861, aged exactly eight months.
4 Minnie Merrick, born Oct. 3, 1862 at Charlestown, Mass. Which is also
a suburb of Boston. She died Oct. 8, 1862, aged 5 days
Line #3
George Willington Hathaway, (#10, Line #5) son of Leonard Willington Hathaway,
(#20, line #5), and Caroline Maria Thompson, (#21, Line #5), was born Nov. 8, 1832 and
died at Rockford, Ill., April 20, 1874, age 41 years, 5 months and 12 days. He died of
consumption of the lungs, resulting in hemorrhages caused by his tearing off the doors of
his blazing barn to rescue his horses. He was engaged in the real estate business in
Rockford and sold fire insurance, his principal income being derived from buying
houses, remodeling them and then selling them. He married Boadicea T. Nash, (#11, line
#5), daughter of John Bird Nash, (#23, line #11) and Rachel Cutter Banks, (#23, line
#11). She was born in Parkman, Maine, Aug. 31, 1834 and died in Rockford, Ill.
Sept. 9, 1891, age 57 years, 9 days. George Willington Hathaway lived long enough after
his accident to convert his real estate holdings into cash, and he left his widow and his
children the sum of $20,000 on deposit with the Third National Bank of Rockford.
The widow and children spent the winter following his death at Jacksonville, Fla., as had
been the custom of the family for a number of years prior to her husband's death. She left
the money in the bank, subject to a power of attorney in favor of her late husband's
brother, Franklin Leonard Hathaway, (Hist . #20, sub line 10). The intention being that
Franklin could use a reasonable part of this fund in an effort to regain his health that had
been impaired as a result of the care and attention he had given his brother, George, in
George's last illness, and also that Franklin could take care of some odds and ends of
some business affairs that were needing attention when the family left for Florida.
However, when the family returned to Rockford, the fund was entirely exhausted and
Mrs. Hathaway was forced to immediately begin to earn a living for herself and family.
She opened a boarding house on N. Church St. in Rockford later moving to the south-
west corner of Mulberry and Winnebago Sts., where she also kept a few boarders. It was
conceded to be the best boarding house in Rockford, although successful only in earning
a living for the family. Both George Willington Hathaway and Boadicea T. Nash
Hathaway, his wife, are buried in the Hathaway family lot, lot 39, section 3 in Cedar
Bluff cemetery, Rockford. This lot was purchased from the cemetery association by
Caroline Maria Thompson Hathaway, (#21, Line #5) for the sum of $10 in 1854. It was
placed under perpetual care in 1923 by Webster Hathaway Merrick, (#2, line #1) upon
payment of $125. There were three children, listed in the order of their birth:
1 Gertrude Lillian Hathaway was born June 15, 1863, at Rockford, Ill., and married,
Oct. 29, 1879, at the age of a little over 16 years, in Wisconsin, Fred Mc Cord Loomis,
son of H. W. Loomis and Mary A. Loomis of Rockford. Fred Mc Cord
Loomis was born July 5, 1859 at Rockford and died July 19, 1933 at 2002 Lincoln Park
West, Chicago., Ill., age 74 years and 14 days. His father was born in 1815 and died Feb.
20, 1882, age 67, and his mother was born in 1827 and died July 29, 1896, age 69. Fred
Mc Cord Loomis and Gertrude Lillian Hathaway, his wife, had one child, a daughter,
Marie Loomis, born in 1883 at Rockford and Died Oct. 6, 1883 at Rockford, age “3
months”. Fred Mc Cord Loomis; H. W. Loomis, his father; Mary A. Loomis, his
mother and Marie Loomis, his daughter, are all buried in the Loomis family lot, lot 34,
section 4 in Greenwood cemetery, at Rockford. Gertrude Lillian Hathaway Loomis
divorced her husband Feb. 3, 1890 on the grounds of desertion at Rockford, (Winnebago
County court docket #12,039), the degree granted by Circuit Judge Crabtree. She
married, (2), Sept. 15, 1891, John Walter Alexander Airis, son of John Alexander Airis
and Janet Ballingel Fergrieve Airis at the home of his parents at Janesville, Wis. John
Alexander Airis was born in Windy Waces, near Kelso, in Roxburgshire, Scotland, June
18, 1815 and died Aug. 9, 1897 at Janesville, Wis., age 82 years, 1 month and 21 days.
Janet Ballingal Fergrieve Airis was born Jan. 1, 1818 at Aberdeen, in Aberdeenshire,
Scotland and died Aug. 22, 1914 at Janesville, Wis., age 96 years, 7 months and 21 days.
They are both buried in the Airis family lot in Oak Hill cemetery at Janesville. John
Walter Alexander Airis, one of eight children, was born Feb. 14, 1861 at Janesville, and
as a young man served Wells, Fargo & Co. Express, as express messenger and cashier at
Albuquerque and Silver City, New Mexico, and later operated a shoe store with
Alexander Richardson and with Charles H. Hemming, both of Janesville, at Rockford, Ill.
After closing the store, he obtained a traveling position with a shoe manufacturing
concern, covering the west coast, and later with the Irving Drew Co., manufacturers of
women's shoes, of Portsmouth, Ohio, he traveled in Illinois and Iowa. Retiring from the
road in 1930, he is (1935) employed by the Rockford Metal Specialty Co., in Rockford.
He lives (1935) with his nephew, Webster Hathaway Merrick (#2, line #1) and the latter's
family, at 1325 Burton St., Rockford, Ill. His wife, Gertrude Lillian Hathaway Airis, died
Jan 26, 1929, of bronchial pneumonia at Rockford, age 65 years, 7 months and 11 days.
She is buried in lot 346, division E in Willwood Burial Park, near Rockford. There were
no children.
3. George Warner (or Willington, or Warren) Hathaway, was born in 1867 at Rockford,
Ill. At the age of 17, (about 1884), he left Rockford in the company of a party of
friends of the family and went to Montana, where at Jennings, Lincoln County, he
homesteaded a quarter section of land and did a lot of prospecting and mining in his
own mines, of which he had nearly a dozen, all of them containing liberal deposits of
both silver and gold. In this work he was moderately successful, hampered though he
was by the lack of adequate capital for complete development. At one time he was
sheriff of Lincoln County, (Libby county seat), and for a time owned and operated a
saloon at Libby. He married, (1), Kate ---, whose father was at one time a Governor of
Utah. She died and was buried on July 26, 1904 in lot 318, section F, in the C. E.
Conrad Memorial cemetery, at Kalispell, Montana. George W. Hathaway married, (2),
Etta Williams, who had also been married previously and had at least one, possibly
two children by her first husband. George W. Hathaway and Etta Williams Hathaway,
his wife, separated and she obtained a divorce from him at Spokane, Wash. In 1923 or
1924. She has since married, (her third marriage) Louis Grindell of Spokane and in
1924 they lived there. George W. Hathaway died at his ranch near Jennings on Nov.
22, 1931, apparently from heart failure. He is buried beside the body of his first wife
at Kalispell. Waggener & Campbell, undertakers of Kalispell, had charge of the
funeral. There were no children by either marriage.
Numbers
6 and 7
Line #3
Johan (Americanized to John) Sanfred Anderson, (#6, line #3) son of Carl ?
August Anderson, (#12, line #3) and Mary Eng, (#13, line #3) was born Nov. 13, 1868 in
Sweden and came to America with his parents and three brothers, Edward Nathaniel
Anderson, Claus Theodore Anderson and Martin Alun Anderson and his sister, Selma
Frederica Anderson, in 1880 and settled at Rockford, Ill. On May 8, 1880. He was
11-1/2 years old when they came to America. He married, July 2, 1898, at Rockford,
Hedda (Americanized to Harriet) Amelia Bjork, (#7, Line #3), a daughter of John August
Johnson Bjork, (#14, line #7) and Rebecca Anderson, (#15, line #7), both of whom were
born in Sweden, and the latter a widow, coming to America in 1891 with her daughters,
Harriet and Charlotte. Harriet Amelia Bjork was born Nov. 11, 1873 in Sweden and
came to America when she was nearly 18. John Sanfred Anderson is an upholsterer by
trade and is employed (1936) as a working foreman by the Norberg-Fagerberg
Upholstering Co., 207 N. Water St., Rockford. Mr. And Mrs. Anderson live (1936)
in the family home at 1441 Greenwood Ave., Rockford. There were six children,
listed here in the order of their birth.
1 Alma Tholena Ruth Anderson, born Jan. 15, 1899 at Clinton, Iowa and died of
pneumonia and brain fever, Feb. 23, 1902 at Rockford, aged 3 years, one month
and 6 days. She is buried in her parents' lot, lot 2, section 22 in Scandinavian
cemetery, Rockford.
2 ESTHER LILLIAN ANDERSON (#3, LINE #1)
3 Ina Thelena May Anderson, born May 3, 1903, 1903 on Fourth Ave. in Rockford.
She graduated from Jackson grammar school and for several years was a milliner
employed in a number of Rockford stores and Chicago shops. She married
Paul Gustave Swanson, a son of Gustave Swanson and Ida Josephine (Berg)
Swanson, of Rockford, at the parsonage of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Zion
church, corner of Sixth St. and Fifth Ave., Rockford, on Jan. 17, 1925, Rev.
Carl Solomonson performing the ceremony. Paul Gustave Swanson was born
Oct. 19, 1894 in Rockford; he is a grammar school graduate and attended
Rockford High School. He was employed in the shop offices of the National
Lock Co. in Rockford, leaving there in 1918 to enter Army service. He
served in France, Siberia and in Russia. Returning to Rockford in 1920 he
resumed his position with the National Lock Co. and later in that year he, with
his brother, Harry Swanson and several other employees of the National Lock
Co. organized the Elco Tool & Screw Corporation at 1800 Broadway, Rockford,
of which Paul Gustave Swanson is (1936) Vice President and Sales Manager as
well as the largest stockholder. Mr. And Mrs. Swanson and their adopted
daughter live (1936) in their own home at 424 Calvin Park Blvd., Rockford.
There was one child (adopted), a daughter:
4 Ethel Irene Anderson, born Sept. 8, 1905 in Rockford. She graduated from
Jackson Grammar school and from Rockford High School in the class of
1923. She was employed for a time as a stenographer in the main offices
of the National Lock Co., Rockford. She married Aug. 14, 1926, at the
home of her parents, Millard May Van Deventer, adopted son of Elmer
Van Deventer and Minnie May (Brown) Van Deventer of New Milford, Ill.
Millard Ray Van Deventer was born Jan. 8, 1905 at Oregon, Ill. He is employed
as a retail store clerk by Schulze Baking Co. of Chicago, in Rockford, and
his wife, for a time after her marriage was employed as a stenographer
by Muller's Union Dairy Co., 216 S. Court St., Rockford. There were
three children, all girls, listed in the order of their birth:
1 Barbara Elaine Van Deventer, born May 26, 1928, in the Swedish
American hospital in Rockford. She entered grade 1 B in Hall Grammar
School in the class of February, 1933. At time of writing (March, 1936)
she is in grade 3 B.
2 Patricia Ann Van Deventer, born July 11, 1929 in the Swedish
American hospital in Rockford. She died Oct. 19, 1934, aged 5 years,
3 months and 8 days. She died in Swedish American hospital of acute
acidosis and was ill less than two hours. She is buried in her grandparents'
Anderson lot, lot 2, section 22 in the Scandinavian cemetery, Rockford.
3 Nancy Rae Van Deventer, born at 6 AM on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 1936
in the Swedish American hospital, Rockford.
5 Myrtle Davida Anderson, born Dec. 22, 1906 at Rockford. She is a graduate
of Jackson Grammar School (1920) and of Rockford High School in the class
of 1924. She is a Registered Nurse, a graduate of the Nurses' Training School
of the Swedish American Hospital, class of 1927. After several years of private
practice she accepted a position as an industrial nurse with the National Lock
Co., Rockford, which position she held until immediately prior to her
marriage. She was married at 9:30 AM, Saturday, Sept. 28, 1935 to George
Evald Hallden, the eldest of four sons of Oscar Knute Hallden and Tekla
Halldina (Hallman) Hallden of Rockford. Both of his parents were born in
Sweden. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Hugh M. Bannen, Pastor
of the Trinity Lutheran Church, Rockford, at the parsonage of the church.
George Evald Hallden was born July 21, 1908 in Rockford. He is employed
in the shop of the National Lock Co., Rockford. They live (1936) at 227
Smith Ave., Rockford. There were two children, both boys, listed in the order
of their birth:
1 John David Hallden, b. d. .
2 James Hallden, b. .
6. Helen Elizabeth Anderson, born , m. to William Weir, born .
There were two children:
1 Priscilla Weir, b. ,
2 William Weir, Jr. b. .
Line #7
Johan (Americanized to John) August Johnson Bjork, (#14, line #7) was born at
Boras, near Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1840. He entered the Swedish army as a young
man, and as was the custom in those days, the authorities changed his last name, which
was Johnson to Bjork. The spelling of this last name was later changed by American
born grandchildren to Burke. He had at least two brothers, both of whom held very high
positions in the Swedish army and were pensioned. He married Rebecka (Americanized
to Rebecca) Anderson, Anderson, (#15, line #7), one of three daughters of Andrew
Anderson (#30, line #15). John August Johnson Bjork died and was buried in Sweden in
1882, at the age of 42. Andrew Anderson spent 16 years in America, leaving his wife in
Sweden at the time, but he returned to Sweden where he later died. Rebecca Anderson
was born at Boras, near Gothenburg, Sweden on Oct. 30, 1833 and came to America in
1891 with two of her daughters, Hedda (Americanized to Harriet) Amelia Bjork (#7, line
#3) and Anna Charlotte (known as “Lottie” Bjork, settling at the home of another of Mrs.
Bjork's daughters, Davida Bjork, at Davis Junction, Ill., who had come to America in
1882 and had married August Lilly. Mrs. Bjork spent the latter years of her life about
equally divided between the home of her daughter Hedda (or Harriet) who had married
John Sanfred Anderson (#6, line #3) and was living at Rockford, Ill. and the home of
another daughter, Alma Caroline Bjork who had come to America in 1886 at the age of
15 and had married Oscar William Vickell and was living at Kingston, Ill. Rebecca
Anderson Bjork died Jan. 24, 1924 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Alma Carolina
Bjork Vickell, at Kingston, Ill., aged 90 years, 2 months and 24 days, and is buried in the
John Sanfred Anderson family lot, lot 2, section 22 in the Scandinavian cemetery,
Rockford, Ill. John August Johnson Bjork and Rebecca Anderson Bjork, his wife, had six
children, listed as follows, in the order of their birth.
1 Davida (known as “Ida”) Bjork was born in Svenlunga, Sweden, Sept. 23, 1861 and
came to America in 1882 at the age of 21. She married August Lilly, son of
Hokan Nelson and Ellen ---, both of Sweden. August Lilly was born at Bleking,
Sweden on Mar. 10, 1863. After their marriage they lived at Pingree Grove,
Davis Junction, Hampshire, Russell and Durand, Ill. During the greater part of
Mr. Lilly's adult life he was engaged in railroad work, latterly at Durand as a
section foreman for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway which was
later reorganized and known as the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific
Railroad. He held this position until his death from heart failure at Durand
on Nov. 22, 1930, aged 67 years, 8 months and 12 days. He is buried in the
Durand cemetery at Durand, Ill. Mrs. Lilly lives (1936) with her daughters
Florence Anna Lilly and Charlotte Irene Lilly and with Mrs. Elsie Victoria
(Palmquist) Lilly who is the wife of her son, Arthur William Lilly, at 32 W. 72nd
St., Chicago, Ill. during the winters and at the family home at Durand, Ill. in the
summers. There were seven children, listed as follows in the order of their birth:
1 Elmer Almon Lilly, twin brother of Carl Lilly (line #2, below), was born at
Pingree Grove, Ill. June 29, 1886 , and died of diphtheria at
Pingree Grove, Aug. 12m 1889, aged 3 years, 1 month and 13
days. He is buried in the cemetery at Davis Junction, Ill.
2 Carl Lilly, twin brother of Elmer Almon Lilly (line #1, above) was born
at Pingree Grove, Ill. June 29, 1886, and died at birth. He is also
buried in the cemetery at Davis Junction, Ill.
3 Florence Anna Lilly was born at Hampshire, Ill. June 17, 1888. She
served at Postmistress at Durand, Ill for seven years. She lives
(1936) with her mother, Mrs. Davida Bjork Lilly and with
her sister, Charlotte Irene Lilly and with Mrs. Elsie Victoria
(Palmquist) Lilly, who is the wife of her brother, Arthur
William Lilly, at 32 W. 72nd St., Chicago, lll. during the
winters and at the family home at Durand, Ill. during the
summers. She is not married.
4 Ada Ellen Lilly was born at Davis Junction, Ill. June 7, 1890.
She is (1936) a school teacher employed in the Kalamazoo,
Mich. Public schools. She is not married.
5 Arthur William Lilly was born at Davis Junction, Ill. Apr. 19, 1892
He served in the Aviation Corps of the army in America
during the World War. For several years following the war
he was employed by R. R. Donnelly & Sons, of Chicago. On
May 28, 1934 he was admitted to the Edward J. Hines Jr.
Memorial Hospital at Hines, Ill. Suffering from a severe
mental disorder, thought to have been brought on by his war
experiences. Abut the middle of 1935 he was removed to
another hospital in the southern part of the state and his condition
is reported as very much improved. He married Elsie Victoria
Palmquist, daughter of Martin Nels Palmquist and Christine (?)
Hultquist Palmquist, at Mount Vernon, Washington on June 10,
1924. She was born at Omaha, Nebr. March 12, 1898. She lives
(1936) with her husband's mother, Mrs. Davida Bjork Lilly's
and her two sisters-in-law, Florence Anna Lilly and Charlotte
Irene Lilly, at 32 W. 72nd St., Chicago, Ill. There are no
Children.
6 Roy Clarence Lilly was born at Russell, Ill. Mar. 23, 1894. He served
in the army in America during the World War. Following
the war he secured employment as a brakeman with the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, later reorganized
and known as the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific
Railroad. For a time he lived at Kingston, Ill. He lived at the
home of his mother's sister and her husband, Mr. & Mrs.
Oscar William Vickell, although his railroad headquarters
are at Bensonville, Ill., near Chicago. While living at Kingston
he played semi-professional baseball for several years with the
Kingston Township team as pitcher. He is not married.
7 Charlotte Irene Lilly was born at Durand, Ill. July 19, 1900. She is a
graduate and Registered Nurse, a graduate of the Nurses'
Training School of Augustana Hospital, Chicago. She lives
(1936) with her mother, Mrs. Davida Bjork Lilly, her sister,
Florence Anna Lilly and with Mrs. Elsie Victoria (Palmquist)
Lilly, at 32 W. 72nd St., Chicago, Ill. She is not married.
2 Otto Renhold Bjork was born in a village near Gothenburg, Sweden and died at
the age of two years.
3 Charles B. Bjork was born Oct. 9, 1868 at Svenlunga, Sweden. He came to
America in 1888 at the age of 20. Upon entering the United States
the Immigration authorities incorrectly spelled his name as “Burk”
but in later years his son, Elmer Carl Burke changed the spelling
to Burke, as he preferred this spelling. Others in the family followed
the change. Charles B. Burke married, Feb. 7, 1895, Betty C. Muratt,
daughter of --- Johanson and --- Bergson. He served 25 years as a
motorman on the street car lines of the Rockford (Illinois) City
Traction Co., until his death, June 21, 1923 of cancer at Rockford,
aged 54 years, 8 months and 12 days. He is buried in a cement box
in lot 59, section 17 in Cedar Bluff cemetery, Rockford. His widow, Mrs.
Betty C. Burke, and three of their sons, Elmer Carl Burke, William
Oscar Burke and Floyd Frank Burke live (1936) in their own home
at 1432 Fifth Ave., Rockford, Ill. There were 5 children, listed in the
order of their birth:
1 Edwin Barnard Burke was born at Gregory, Iowa, Dec. 7, 1896. He
married, (1), Gertrude Reinhart, daughter of John Reinhart and
Betty Kate (Fox) Reinhart of Rockford, at Rockford on Apr. 17,
1917. Gertrude (Reinhart) Burke passed away in childbirth about
Jan. 7, 920 and he married (2) Nov. 19, 1920, at Belvidere, Ill.,
May Regina Gustafson, daughter of August Peter Gustafson and
Minnie (Samuelson) Gustafson of Rockford. His second wife was
born May 25, 1900 at Rockford. There were no children by the
second wife. They live (1936) at 2222 Twelfth Ave., Rockford. Edwin
Barnard Burke is a draftsman in the employ of the Ingersoll Milling
Machine Co., Rockford. His child by his first wife was:
1 Gertrude Louise Burke, born and died Jan 9, 1920.
2 Elmer Carl Burke was born May 7, 1899 at Rockford and is engaged in
jewelry business with a partner, Emil August Johnson, under the
firm name of “Johnson & Burke”, their store located at 407 Seventh
St., Rockford. He lives (1936) with his mother, Mrs. Betty C.
Burke, and his brothers, William Oscar Burke and Floyd Frank
Burke at the family home at 1432 Fifth Ave., Rockford. He is
not married.
3 Alma Caroline Burke was born Aug. 16, 1902 at Rockford. For two
years she attended the Nurses' Training School of Washington Park
Hospital, Chicago, leaving there just prior to her marriage to William
Ray Mc Ginty of Chicago. They live (1936) at 6808 S. Danta Ave.,
Chicago. There was one child, a daughter:
1 Betty Mc Ginty
4 William Oscar Burke was born May 30, 1905 at Rockford. He is a
mechanic in the employ of the National Lock Co. at Rockford. He
lives (1936) with his mother, Mrs. Betty C. Burke, and his two
brothers, Elmer Carl Burke and Floyd Frank Burke at the family
home at 1432 Fifth Ave., Rockford. He is not married.
5 Floyd Frank Burke was born Jan. 14, 1908 at Rockford. He has, since
childhood, been an unusually talented pianist and all around
musician; in his school days and for some time thereafter, he played
with several Rockford orchestras. In 1934 he organized his own
orchestra, naming it, “Floyd Burke's Orchestra”, which is well
known in this locality as one of Rockford's finest musical organi-
zations. He married Helen ---, but they are not now living
together. He lives (1936) with his mother, Mrs. Betty C. Burke and
his two brothers, Elmer Carl Burke and William Oscar Burke in the
family home at 1432 Fifth Ave., Rockford. There are no children.
4 Alma Caroline Bjork was born in Sweden April 13, 1871. She came to America
in 1886 at the age of 15 and later married Oscar William Vickell. Shortly
after their marriage they settled at Kingston, Ill. Where Mr. Vickell became
station agent for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, which was
later reorganized and was known as the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul &
Pacific Railroad. He holds (1936) that position from which he has for the
past five years expected to be pensioned. Alma Caroline (Bjork) Vickell
died of cancer Mar. 18, 1931 at Kingston, Ill., and was buried in the
Scandinavian cemetery, Rockford. Her body was dis-interred May 18, 1932
and was buried in lot 271, division E in Willwood Burial Park which is
located a few miles west of Rockford. There were no children.
5 HEDDA (OR HARRIET) AMELIA BJORK, (#7, LINE #3)
6 Anna Charlotte Bjork, (known as “Lottie”), was born Dec. 17, 1876 at Hols-
junga, (Vesterjutland), Sweden. She came to America with her mother and
her older sister, Hedda (or Harriet), (#7, Line #3) in 1891, when she was
15 years old. They visited at the home of a sister, Davida Bjork at Davis
Junction, Ill., who had married August Lilly. Anna Charlotte Bjork married
Edwin Carlson, son of Carl Abrahamson and Johanna Person Abrahamson of
Kolaby, Vesterjutland, Sweden who were married in 1863. Edwin Carlson
was born at Kolaby, Vesterjutland, Sweden, Apr. 5, 1870 and he came to America
May 6, 1890. He is a tailor by trade and operated his own tailoring business
on Seventh St., Rockford from 1894 until 1929. He was employed by
Peterson Bros. Clothing Co. (now out of business). On Broadway, Rockford
until 1932 when that firm retired from business. From 1932 to date (1936) he
has been employed by Bill Peterson, Inc., Clothiers, at 408 E. State St.,
Rockford, as a tailor. He is also a lay minister of the Swedish Lutheran
Mission Church. They live (1936) in the lower apartment of their own
two-family home at 1613 E. State St., Rockford. There were six children,
listed in the order of their birth:
1 Elsie Charlotte Marie Carlson was born May 2, 1898 at Rockford.
She married, Jan 30, 1918 at Rockford, Lawrence Albert Farb, son
of Alfred Farb and Abeline (Venstrom) Farb. Lawrence Albert
Farb was born July 10, 18--. He is a farmer and they live (1936)
on their farm on Maple Drive Road, east of Rockford. There were
four children, listed in the order of their birth:
1 Adeline Charlotte Farb, born Oct. 6, 1920 at Rockford, Ill.
2 Eleanor Virginia Farb, born August 20, 1923 at Rockford Ill.
Died June 8, 1930 of pneumonia at Rockford, aged
6 years, 9 months and 18 days. She is buried in the
Scandinavian cemetery at Rockford.
3 Paul Albert Farb, born Jan. 2, 1928 at Rockford.
4 Marline Gladdis Farb, born Sept. 27, 1931 at Rockford
2 Edna Anna Sophia Carlson, born Sept. 9, 1900 at Rockford.
Married, Nov. 28, 1923 at Rockford, Frederick Seele, son of August Seele
and Mary (---) Seele. Frederick Seele was born Mar. 14, 1895. He is
a landscape gardner and horticulturist, employed by the Park Board of
the City of Rockford, Ill. They live (1936) in the upper apartment
of the two-family apartment building that is owned by Mrs. Seele's parents,
Mr. And Mrs. Edwin Carlson, at 1613 E. State St., Rockford. There
were three children, listed in the order of their birth:
1 Elaine Marie Seele, born Oct. 7, 1924 at Rockford. She died
12 hours after birth and is buried in the Scandinavian cemetery,
Rockford
2 Charlotte Louise Seele, born April 20, 1926 at Rockford
3 Frederick Seele, Jr., born Jan. 29, 1934 at Rockford
3 Everett Harold Edwin Carlson was born Oct. 15, 1902 at Rockford.
He married, Mar. 20, 1929, at Rockford, Anna Cecelia Wilhelmenia
Beebe, daughter of William Henry Jackson Beebe and Emma Eugenia
(Erickson) Beebe of Rockford. She was born Oct. 4, 19-- at
Rockford. Everett Harold Edwin Carlson for some time prior to the fall
of 1935, was a butter salesman in the employ of the Johnson Home
Creamery, 1210 Eleventh St., Rockford, resigning from that firm to
purchase a neighborhood grocery store on Tenth St. in Rockford, which
he is now (1936) operating. They live at 2222 Tenth St., Rockford.
There was one child, a son:
1 Robert Everett Carlson, born July 5, 1930 at Rockford
4 Eskell Carl Arvin Carlson was born Aug. 31, 1904 at Rockford. He
married, June 2, 1931, Pearl Ardis Shaw, daughter of Albert James
Shaw and Gertrude Mable (Doolittle) Shaw of Rockford. She
was born Mar. 14, 1908 at Rockford. Eskell Carl Arvid Carlson
is employed as a milk route driver by the Ferm Dairy, 1411 Ninth St.
Rockford. They live (1936) at 2340 Sixteenth Ave., Rockford.
There was one child, a daughter:
1 Camilla Louise Carlson, born Oct. 9, 1934 at Rockford
5 Emmett Nathaniel Bjork Carlson was born Apr. 22, 1908 at Rockford.
As a result of an accident, he was bedridden for four years and died
May 31, 1924 at Rockford, aged 16 years, 1 month and 9 days. He
is buried in his parents' lot, lot 10, sections 20 in the Scandinavian
cemetery at Rockford.
6 Elliott Gidrick Brunoff Carlson was born Aug. 16, 1911 at Belvidere,
Ill. He is employed as a machinist by the Ingersoll Milling Machine
Co. of Rockford. He lives (1936) with his parents at 1613 E. State
St., Rockford. He is not married.
Line #13
1. TIMOTHY MERRICK
2. JUDITH WELLS
Timothy Merrick, (#16, line #1), son of Jacob Merrick, (#38, line #1)
and Judith Barker (#33, lin3 #1), was born Oct. 23, 1780 at New Hampton, N.H.,
and married, Jan. 19, 1811, Judith Wells (#17, line #1) who was born July 28, 1782
and died Aug. 18, 1862, aged 80. Timothy Merrick was a farmer and he died Nov.
27,1871, aged over 91. There were six children, listed in the order of their birth:
1 Asa B. Merrick, born Nov. 12, 1811; married Apr. 15, 1835, Martha Bailey
who died July 26, 1883, aged 71. He died Sept. 30, 1871, aged 59 and they
had two children:
1. LaRoy S. Merrick, born March 11, 1836 in New Hampshire, married,
Nov. 5, 1858, Mary Blaisdell, daughter of Charles Blaisdell and they
had a son born Aug. 30, 1859. LaRoy S. Merrick never liked his
first name so he discarded it and took the name “Charles” instead, by
which he was known all his adult life.
2 Lovicy Ann Merrick, born Nov. 19, 1841 and died July 30, 1848,
aged nearly 7. The birth record in the Merrick family bible shows
her first name spelled, “Lovicy”, and the death record in the same
book gives the spelling as, “Lovisa”, and it was by the latter name
that she was known.
2 Joshua W. Merrick, born Sept. 9, 1813; married Nov. 19, 1840 (according
to the family bible) or Sept. 1842 (according to the Merrick
(printed) genealogy), Sarah Angier and there was no issue. He died
Jan. 23, 1896 at New Hampton, N.H., aged 82 and his widow died
there Dec. 17, 1898, aged 84.
3 Mary Merrick, born June 13, 1815 (family bible record) or June 6, 1815,
(Merrick (printed) Genealogy); married John L. Gilman Aug. 18, 1840,
he of Somersworth, N.H., and he died May 4, 1877, aged 66. She
died Oct. 17, 1897, aged 82. There was one child:
1 Lawrin A. Merrick, born Nov. 15, 1842; died Aug. 19, 1932, aged
92.
4 WILLIAM WELLS MERRICK, (#8, LINE #1) born Aug. 23, 1817.
5 Nancy Merrick, born Dec. 31, 1819; married Sept. 26, 1847, Benjamin
Wentworth of Somersworth, N.H. She died Dec. 4, 1875, aged nearly
56.
6 Sarah Merrick, born Nov. 26, 1822 (family bible record) or Nov. 26, 1821
(Merrick (printed) genealogy). She never married. She died Oct.
23,1893, aged nearly 71.
Line #9
Leonard Willington Hathaway, (#20, line #5) oldest child and son of
Warren Hathaway, (#40, line #5) and Jemima Dudley, (#41, line #5), was born
April 24, 1809 at Sutton, Mass. . He died of typhoid fever , Mar. 29, 1852 at
Rockford, Ill., age 42 years, 11 months and 5 days. He is buried in the Hathaway
family lot, lot 29, section 3 in Cedar Bluff cemetery, Rockford. He was apprenticed to a
shoemaker who was called “a fine bootman”, in another town, and every Sunday he
walked several miles to spend the day with his little sister, Betsey, who worshipped him
to the day of her death. As a young man he taught penmanship. His father died when he
was only 8 years old. He married, Apr. 3, 1831, Caroline Maria Thompson, (#21, line
#5). daughter of Elisha Thompson, Jr., (#42, line #21) and Matilda Richardson, (#43, line
#21) of Charlton, Mass. Caroline Maria Thompson was born Jan. 23, 1814, and died
Aug. 2, 1898 at Rockford , aged 84 years, 6 months and 9 days. She is buried in the
same lot as her husband. She purchased this lot from the cemetery associated for $10 on
Jan. 11, 1854, immediately following the opening of the cemetery. Webster Hathaway
Merrick, (#2, line #1) placed this lot under perpetual care” in 1923 on payment of the
required fee of $100. Leonard Willington, his wife and children moved from
Chicago to Rockford, Ill. In 1847, 14 years after the first white settler, Germanicus Kent,
came to Rockford and Northern Illinois. There were ten children born to them, six of
them dying under the age of 4-1/2 years, of children's' diseases – scarlet fever and
measles. The children are listed in the order of their birth:
1 GEORGE WILLINGTON HATHAWAY, (#10, line #5)
2 Harriet Jane Hathaway, born Feb. 21, 1835. She married, Dec. 20, 1855,
Carlton Williams Sheldon, son of ---- Sheldon and Eunice Hosford. For
a great many years Carlton Williams Sheldon was a fire insurance agent,
with offices in the Third National Bank Bldg., Rockford, and was a member
of the Board of Directors of the bank for many years. He died in 1914, aged 78,
at Rockford. His widow died Mar. 6, 1918, aged 83 years and 15 days, at
Rockford. They are buried in the Sheldon family lot, lo5 25, section 7 in Cedar
Bluff cemetery, Rockford. There were six children, listed in the order of their
birth:
1 Charles Ernest Sheldon, born July 29, 1857 at Rockford. He established
at Rockford, the Western Department of the Security Insurance Co.
of New Haven, Conn. And also the Western Department of the
American Insurance Co. of Newark, New Jersey. For many years he was
the Western Department Manager of both companies. He later
relinquished the management of the Security Insurance Co. in order
to devote his entire time to the American Insurance Co. of which he
later on became one of the Vice Presidents. He was considered one
of the most capable fire insurance executives in the middle west and
it has been said, authoritatively, that he received the largest salary
of any man in Rockford. He left an estate well in excess of a
million dollars. He married, Feb. 8, 1883, Fannie Hunter Penfield,
of Rockford, and he died July 23, 1924 at Rockford, aged 66 years,
11 months and 24 days. He is buried in the Sheldon family lot in
Greenwood cemetery, Rockford. His widow lives (1935) in the family
home at 1817 National Ave., Rockford. There were five children listed
in the order of their birth:
1 Mary Penfield Sheldon, born Dec. 20, 1883 at Rockford. She
married Harry B. Elmers, son of Edmund P. Elmers and
Hattie I. Elmers of Chicago, Ill. At the home of her parents, 1817
National Ave., Rockford. He is an Assistant Manager of the
Western Department of the American Insurance Co. of
Newark, N.J. At Rockford, Ill. (1935) They live (1935) at 136
Douglas St., Rockford. There were three children, listed
in the order of their birth:
1 Anne Elizabeth Elmers, born Apr. 1914 at Rockford. She
graduated with honors in 1935, from Rockford College.
She was President of the International Relations Club
and was one of three to make the Honorary Forensic
Fraternity (national), and was in charge of the
memorial services for Miss Jane Addams in the
college chapel. She is employed (135) in New York
City.
2 Jean Sheldon Elmers, born Feb. 1916, at Rockford
3 Charles Sheldon Elmers, born June, 1922 at Rockford
and died July, 1923 at Rockford.
2 Margaret Sheldon, born Apr. 30, 1887 at Rockford. She married,
Oct. 30, 1914, Norman Frederick Thompson, Jr., son of
Norman Frederick Thompson, Sr. and Adaline Eliza
Emerson, of Rockford, at the home of her parents, 1817
National Ave., Rockford. Norman Frederick Thompson, Jr.
was born Mar. 14, 1884 at Rockford, received his A.B. Degree
from Yale in 1906; was President of the Burson Knitting Co. of
Rockford and a director of the Manufacturers National Bank
of Rockford, of which his father was President for a great
many years. He resigned his position with the Burson
Knitting Co. to accept the Presidency of a clock company
at Winsted, Conn. Which failed during the depression. He
died at Winsted, Conn. March 31, 1933, aged 49 years and
17 days. Following her husband's death, Mrs. Thompson
removed to Rockford with her younger daughter, Adalyn,
and they are making their home (1935) with her mother
at the Sheldon family home, 1817 National Ave., Rockford.
Mrs. Thompson is employed by Rockford College, one of
the foremost schools for women in the country, as
librarian. There were three children, listed in the order
of their birth:
1 Margaret Thompson, born Aug. 17, 1915, at Rockford
2 Norman Frederick Thompson III, born Nov. 7, 1916, at
Rockford. Attending (1935) Yale College, as did his
father, grandfather and great grandfather before
him.
3 Adalyn Thompson, born Apr. 28, 1923 at Rockford.
Living (1935) with her mother at the home of her
grandmother at 1817 National Ave., Rockford, Ill.
3 Elizabeth Harriet Sheldon, born Aug. 13, 1888 at Rockford .
She married Shaler Gordon Smith of Baltimore, Maryland,
son of Frederick H. Smith of Pittsburgh, Pa. & Elizabeth
(Gordon) Smith of Augusta, Ga., at the home of her
parents, 1817 National Ave., Rockford, Ill. Shaler Gordon
Smith is an executive, in charge of the “City Department” of
the Western Department of the American Insurance Co. of
Newark, N.J., at Rockford. They live (1935) at 1837 Harlem
Blvd., Rockford. There were four children, listed in the
order of their birth.
1 Elizabeth Shaler Smith, born March 1917 at Rockford.
Was a member of the 1935 graduating class of Rockford
High School, graduating with the very highest honors
in her class. She was the first senior in recent years to
finish high school with “A” grades in every subject
and she was awarded the honor of having her name
inscribed on the A B L cup. She was chosen class
speaker for the commencement exercises and in
addition has served as first semester senior class
secretary, as home room vice president and president;
edited the faculty section of the high school annual
and was elected to the National Honor Society in her
junior year. She has been selected as one of 14
winners of a President's Scholarship at De Pauw
University, Greencastle, Ind., in the college of
Liberal Arts.
2 Julia Penfield Smith, born May 1919 ,at Rockford.
3 Priscilla Smith, born Nov. 1921, at Rockford
4 Shaler Gordon Smith, Jr., born Dec. 1923, at Rockford.
4 Sybil Sheldon, born May 8, 1895 at Rockford. She lives
(1935) at Louisville, Kentucky where she is employed in
Welfare work. She is not married.
5 Janet Barbara Sheldon, born Jan. 24, 1902 at Rockford. She
married, June 28, 1930, Othniel Glanville Williams IV,
of Winsted, Conn. And they live there. There are two
children, listed in the order of their birth:
1 Othniel Glanville Williams, V, born May, 1933 at
2 Charles Sheldon Williams, born March, 1935 at Winsted,
Conn.
2 George Porter Sheldon, born July 27, 1859. He was employed for
a great many years as a fire insurance examiner in the Western
Department offices of the American Insurance Co., of Newark,
New Jersey, of which his brother, Charles Ernest Sheldon was
Manager of the Western Department and Vice President of the
company. George Porter Sheldon died Mar. 4, 1934 at Rockford
aged 75 years, 7 months and 7 days. He is buried in the Sheldon
family lot, lot 25, section 7 in Cedar Bluff cemetery, Rockford. He
never married.
3 Edgar Sheldon, born Oct. 13, 1861 at Rockford, and died of croup
Feb. 3, 1862 at Rockford, aged 3 months and 20 days. He was
buried in the family garden, later removed to the Hathaway lot,
lot 29, section 3 in Cedar Bluff cemetery and finally buried in the
Sheldon family lot, lot 25, section 7 in the same cemetery.
4 Dora Eunice Sheldon, born Mar. 7, 1876 at Rockford. She
married, (1), George Hart of Rockford and later on she divorced
him. She married, (2) John B. Benson and they removed to
Aberdeen, Washington where he owns and operates (1935) a book
and stationery store; and is a member of the Board of Directors
and a Vice President of the Security Savings & Loan Society. Their mail
address (1935) is Post Office Box 1017, Aberdeen, Wash. There are
no children. Mr. Benson's sister married a man named Slade and
he and his wife died, leaving a daughter Bernice Slade, born Mar. 6, 1906.
At the age of 11 she made her home with Mr. And Mrs. Benson
until her marriage, Feb. 28, 1932 to Donald Murchison. Their home
(1935) is at Hoquiam, Washington.
5 Edna Harriet Sheldon, born in 1872 at Rockford and died of dip-
theria at Rockford on Feb. 6, 1874, aged less than 2 years. She was
buried in the family garden, later removed to the Hathaway family
lot, lot 29, section 3 in Cedar Bluff cemetery, and was finally buried
in the Sheldon family lot, lot 25, section 7 in the same cemetery.
6 Ethel Alice Sheldon, born Sept. 27, 1878 at Rockford. She married
June 20, 1905, the Rev. Edward Breckenridge Montgomery, who is
the pastor of a church, (1935) at Adrian, Mich. There were two
children, listed in the order of their birth:
1 Harriet Hathaway Montgomery, born Oct. 3, 1906. Graduated
from Wooster College in Ohio. Married William Kaler
and she still (1935) teaches in a high school in one of the
suburbs of Detroit, Mich. Where they live.
2 Margaret Breckenridge Montgomery, born Apr. 23, 1910. She
had two years kindergarten training at Oberlin College,
taught after that in Fostoria, Ohio and in Detroit. Margaret
is a very pretty girl. When in Fostoria she boarded with a
woman who gave her beauty treatments and taught her a
lot about the work and she worked at it in Detroit.
Moving to New York City, she took up stenotypy at
Columbia University, and she was soon able to teach
in a night school. She accepted a position with the Barbizon-
Plaza Hotel, Central Park at Sixth Ave., as a hostess. She married,
June 29, 1935, Edward Reid Caddy at St. Barnabas Chapel,
Newark, N.J. They are living at 37-19 65th St., Woodside,
Long Island, N.Y. He is known as “Reid”, was left an
orphan at an early age and was brought up by his father's
mother at Cadiz, Ohio. He worked his way through school
and college and also a two year course in hotel admini-
stration at Cornell University. He now has a night job as
auditor in a hospital in Brooklyn, a relative, Miss Eva
Caddy being the Matron of the Hospital.
3 Lucina M. Hathaway, born July 3, 1837, died Aug. 15, 1838 of scarlet fever, at
Chicago, aged 1 year and 22 days. She was buried in a Chicago cemetery
that was located down town, along the river. This cemetery was later
subdivided into business lots and most of the bodies therein were removed
to a common grave elsewhere, possibly her body among them.
4 Alonzo Warren Hathaway, born Apr. 14, 1839; died Feb. 17, 1842 of scarlet fever or
measles, at Chicago, aged 2 years, 10 months and 3 days. He was buried in a
Chicago cemetery that was located down town, along the river. This cemetery
was later subdivided into business lots and most of the bodies were removed
to a common grave elsewhere, probably his body among them.
5 John Leonard Hathaway, born May 30, 1841; died Feb. 16, 1842 of scarlet
fever or measles, at Chicago, aged 8 months and 16 days. He was
buried in a Chicago cemetery that was located down town, along the
river. This cemetery was later subdivided into business lots and most
of the bodies therein were removed to a common grave elsewhere,
probably his body among them.
6 Henry Elisa Hathaway, born Mar. 15, 1843; died Jan. 27, 1845 of scarlet fever
or measles, at Chicago, aged 1 year, 10 months and 12 days. He was
buried in a Chicago cemetery that was located down town along the river.
This cemetery was later subdivided into business lots and the bodies
therein were removed to a common grave elsewhere, probably his body
among them.
7 Charles Henry Hathaway, born May 20, 1845; died Apr. 7, 1848 of scarlet
fever or measles, at Rockford, Ill., aged 2 years, 10 months and 17 days. His body
was buried in the family garden until the opening of Cedar Bluff cemetery in
Rockford, when, in 1854, his mother purchased, for $10.00, lot 29, section
3 and his body was placed therein. The monument is inscribed, “Our
Darlings, Charlie and Carrie” and the headstone over the grave in which Charles
and his sister, Caroline, are supposed to rest, is marked, “C.M.H.”, the
initials of his sister.
8 Caroline Maria Hathaway, born Oct. 28, 1847, probably at Rockford, but
possibly in Chicago, died Mar. 9, 1852 of typhoid fever at Rockford,
aged 4 years, 4 months and 11 days. Her body was buried in the family
garden until the opening of Cedar Bluff cemetery when, in 1954, her mother
purchased, for $10, lot 29, section 3 and her body was placed therin. The
monument is inscribed, “Our Darlings, Charlie and Carrie” and the headstone
over the grave in which she and her brother, Charles, are supposed to rest, is
marked with her initials, “C.M.H.”
9 Luther Albert Hathaway, also known as Albert Luther Hathaway, was born
Feb. 5, 1850 at Rockford and died Jan 27, 1928 at Chicago of cancer of the
liver and bladder trouble, aged 77 years, 11 months and 22 days. He
married (1), Jeanie --- , and he married (2), Mary L. Van Alstine , Apr. 30,,
1877. She was a sister of Walter Van Alstine who lived in Rockford a
great many years prior to his death a few years ago (Written 1935). She
deserted her husband and ran off with a Mr. Smith (an intimate friend of
her husband's) and took her two children, Ferre and Vera. Nothing further
is known of her. He married (3), Frieda Estelle Morrison (Morrison being
the Americanized spelling of the original German name). Her mother's
name was Mary Bahrt Morrison. Freida Morrison Hathaway died in 1923 (?)
and is supposed to have been buried in Mt. Greenwood cemetery, Chicago,
as is her husband and her daughter, Florence (?). Under date of May 22,
1935, Charles F. Johnson, Vice President of the Mt. Greenwood Cemetery
Association, 111th St. and California Ave., Chicago, writes that A. L. Hathaway
purchased, Sept. 12, 1900, the south one half of lot 208 in section 9 and
that the following burials are shown on their records:
Fredericka M. Hathaway, buried Oct. 11, 1901. This may be
Freida, Al's third wife, but if so, her death date, as given
above, and the cemetery record of her burial do not agree.
Frances E. Hathaway, (may be “Florence”), removed to this lot
from Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago, on May 15, 1902.
Harry Hathaway, buried Apr. 4, 1909
Albert L. Hathaway, buried Jan. 28, 1928.
There were four children, not listed in the order of their birth:
1 Florence Hathaway, (may be Frances E), buried, supposedly in Mt.
Greenwood cemetery, Chicago.
2 Frank E. Hathaway; married and has children. Lives (1935) at
2256 N. Keeler Ave., Chicago
3 George D. Hathaway, married and has children. Lives (1935) at
2957 Lowe Ave., Chicago.
4 Blanche Hathaway; married William Roy Buckwalter and lives (1935)
in Apartment EE, 2914 Mildred Ave., Chicago.
10 Franklin Leonard Hathaway, born Aug. 10, 1852 at Rockford, Ill., and died
May 25, 1876 at Rockford, aged 23 years, 9 months and 15 days. He died
of consumption, thought to have been contracted as the result of the care
and attention he gave his brother, George Willington Hathaway (#10, line #5)
in his last illness.
Line #21
John Bird Nash, (#22, line #11), son of Jonathan Nash, (#44, line #11)
and Anna (or Anne) Bird, (#45, line #11), was born July 8, 1794 at Parkman, Maine. He
married Rachel Cutter Banks, (#23, line #11), daughter of Joseph Banks and Lydia ---.
Rachel Cutter Banks was born July 16, 1797 at North Yarmouth, Me, and died May 2,
1877 at Rockford, Ill., age 79 years, 9 months and 16 days. Her father, Joseph
Banks was born at Freeport, Me. And served in the American Navy during the
Revolutionary War. Her brother Alfred Banks' son, George Banks lives (1935)
at Irene, Ill. Aged over 90 years. John Bird Nash died in 1883, aged 83 (?), at
Rockford and is buried beside the body of his wife, who died in 1877, in the Nash
family lot, lot 23, section 7 in Cedar Bluff cemetery, Rockford. There were eleven
children, listed in the order of their birth:
1 Sarah A. Nash, born Feb. 19, 1817; married Winslow Morse and had at least
one child, a daughter:
1 Sarah A. Morse, married a man named Blethen. It is possible that
she was married more than once because she is supposed to have
been the mother of the following three children, not listed, as
far as is known, in the order of their birth:
1 Elizabeth A. Gallagher.
2 Lena Mason.
3 Levi Winslow Blethen.
2 Joanna Nash, born July 26, 1819; married John B. Jones. There is a record
of at least one child, a son:
1 Augustus B. Jones; married and had at least four children, not listed,
as far as is known, in the order of their birth:
1 Eudora Jones, married, (1), a Mr. Sargent; married, (2) a
Mr. Hatch and they lived (1910) at Denver, Colo. She
was the mother of at least one child by each marriage:
1 Rodney G. Sargent.
2 Willard P. Hatch.
2 John B. Jones.
3 Louis Jones.
4 Ralph Donovan Jones.
3 Jacob Nash, Sr., born Nov. 14, 1821; married a girl named Foss and there
were at least two children, lot listed, as far as is known, in the order of
their birth:
1 Jacob Nash, Jr.
2 Lizzette Nash; married a man named Downing.
4 Lydia Nash, born Aug. 18, 1823, married, but there is no record of who he was,
nor if there were any children.
5 Amaranth L. Nash, born about 1824; married Solomon Hancock. She died
about 1911 at Boston and her body was cremated by the New England
Cremation Society, of which she was a member. Her ashes were
deposited in a copper urn and placed in her husband's grave in Cambridge
cemetery in Boston. There were no children.
6 William Nash, born July 29, 1825 and died in his early childhood.
7 John Bird Nash, Jr., born Mar. 25, 1827 and died in his early childhood.
8 Nancy Nash, born May 2, 1828 and died in her early childhood.
9 John B. Nash, born Feb. 14, 1831; served in the Civil War as Captain of
Company G, 105th Illinois Infantry. Later on for a number of years he was
Assessor of Rockford Township in Winnebago County, Ill., county seat of
Rockford. He also served, for a number of years, the old First ward in
Rockford, as Alderman. He married Polly McKee of Belvidere, Ill.
John B. Nash was a Mason of high degree and his wife was a member
of the Order of the Eastern Star. Following her husband's death she
became a resident of the Eastern Star and Masonic Home located south,
and immediately joining the city limits of the city of Rockford. She lived
there for some years until her death on Mar. 19, 1931. John B. Nash died
Feb. 1, 1893 in Rockford, age 61 years, 11 months and 17 days. They are
both buried in the Nash family lot, lot 23, section 7 in Cedar Bluff
cemetery, Rockford. There were three children, all sons, listed in order
of their birth:
1 Guy Nash, born Oct. 23, 1859 in DeKalb county, Ill. And died of
locomotor ataxia in Rockford on Jan. 12, 1890, age 30 years,
2 months and 19 days. He is buried in the Nash family lot.
2 Earl L. Nash, born Dec. 10, 1862 at Flora, Ill. For a number of years he
was an undertaker in Chicago, but has retired. He married, June 19,
1884, Lottie A. Stanley, daughter of Amasa Goodell Stanley and
Harriet Helme of Rockford, Ill. Lottie A. Stanley was born in
1863. They live (1935) at Orlando, Florida and their mail address
is Post Office Box 958. There were three children, listed in the
order of their birth:
1 First child, name not known. Died a few months old .
2 George Stanley Nash, born at Rockford, Ill. Is a prominent
citizen of Orlando, Fla., having served as City Com-
missioner for six years; President of the Orlando Rotary
Club; Publicity Director for the Orlando Chamber of
Commerce, and is a past Commander of the American
Legion post there. He is a Knight Templar Mason. He was
married but his wife died May 19, 1931. There are no children.
3 Fae E. Nash, married A. Carl Ackerman, an executive of Mont-
gomery Ward & Co. and they live (1935) at Oakland, Calif.
There is one child, a son:
1 Frederick L. Ackerman, a graduate of the Oregon
Agricultural College and an expert electrical
engineer.
3 Jay Bird Nash, born Feb. 28, 1878, at Rockford and for a great
many years has been employed in an executive capacity by
Marshall Field & Co. in Chicago. He married Leona A. Agnew of
Rockford on Nov. --, 18--. They live (1935) at 832 Sunnyside Ave.,
Chicago, Ill. There was one child a son:
1 Jay Bernard Nash, born Sept. 9, 1903
10 Nancy M. Nash, born May 6, 1833 at Parkman, Maine; married Walter
Johnson, and there was at least one child, a son:
1 Walter H. Johnson; lives (1909) at Lewiston, Maine.
11 BOADICEA T. NASH, (#11, LINE #5) born Aug. 31, 1834
Line #23
(41) Jemima Dudley, b. about 1789, m. 1808, d. soon after 1817, or 1840 (?)
m. Warren Hathaway, (40), b. 1786, d. 1817.
son of Simeon Hathaway and Bettee Willington.
(328) Lieutenant Samuel Dudley, Sr., b. 1666, m. (1), Mrs. Abigail (Rogers)
King, 1704 or 1705, daughter of Samuel Rogers and Sarah Wads,
m (2) , m. (3) , m. (4) , d. 1775 at age 109.
1. MATILDA RICHARDSON
Elisha Thompson, Jr., (#42, line #21), son of Captain Elisha Thompson, Sr.,
(#84, line #21) and Abigail Dresser, (#85, line #21), was born Sept. 13, 1783, at
Charlton, Mass. He married, Dec. 25, 1806, Matilda Richardson, (#43, line #21),
daughter of Nathan Richardson, (#86, line #43) and Mary Belknap, (#87, line #43).
Matilda Richardson was born Nov. 30, 1787 at Brookfield, Mass., lived at Charlton
and died at Grafton, Mass. There was at least one child, a daughter:
1 CAROLINE MARIA THOMPSON, (#21, line #5).
Line #43
(344) Samuel Richardson, III, b. 1670, m. (1), 1703 or 1704, m. (2), d. 754
m (1) Susannah Richardson, (345) his second cousin, b. 1684, d. 1726,
daughter of John Richardson and Susannah Davis,
m (2), Esther --- , b. , d. 1754
1. BETTEE WILLINGTON
Simeon Hathaway, Sr., (#80, line #5), son of Major Joshua Hathaway,
(#160, line #5) and Mrs. Mary (Reed) Evans, (#161, line #5), was a private in the
American Revolution in 1775 and was given an order for a Bounty Coat, or its
equivalent in money, for his services. He married, (1), Mar. 4, 1777, (Waltham Vital
Records), or Sept. 4, 1777, (Middlesex County Sessions), at Watertown, Mass. To Bettee
(Betty or Betsey) Willington (#81, line 5), a daughter of John Willington, (#162,
line #81) and Bettee (or Betsey or Betty) Warren, ( #163, line #81) the latter a
descendent of Richard Warren, Mayflower Pilgrim. Bettee Willington, (wife of
Simeon Hathaway, Sr.) was born Mar. 15, 1756 or 1757 at Sutton, Mass. And
died May 20, 1792. Sutton Vital Records quotes her gravestone in the Ormsby (family)
burial ground, “died Mar. 20, 1792, age 36” which would make her born in 1756,
which is most likely correct. She died three days after the birth of her tenth child,
Prudence, who was born Mar. 17, 1792. Simeon Hathaway, Sr. married (2) Lucy
Burdon on June 17, 1793, (Sutton Vital Records) and the same records show the birth of
their first child, Lucy Hathaway, on Jan 5, 1793, which must be incorrect. History of
Sutton says that Simeon Hathaway's roof and chimney were blown from his house in the
great September gale of 1815. Lucy Burdon was born in 1768 and bore him 11
children. Family correspondence tells that both sets of children, 21 in all, lived together
in perfect harmony under one roof and that Lucy (Burdon) Hathaway was a wonderful
mother to them all. Children:
(166) Samuel Stearns, b. 1760, m. (1), 1752, m. (2), 1762, d. 1776, m.(1)
Jemima Hoyt, (167), b. 1729, d. about 1760
daughter of Benjamin Hoyt and Katherine Baker. m. (2),
Sarah Ann Grover, b. , d. 1777.
(664) John Stearns, Sr., b. 1657, m. (1), 1681, m. (2) 1713, d. , m(1),
Judith Lawrence, (665), b. 1660, d. ,
daughter of George Lawrence and Elizabeth Crispe, m. (2),
Mary Norcross, b. 1663, d. ,
daughter of Richard Norcross and Mary Brooks.
Timothy Mirick, Sr., (#128, line #1) son of James Mirick, (#256, line #1) and
Margaret ---, (#257, line #1), was born Sept. 28, 1666 at Newbury, Mass. Married,
May 9, 1696, Mary Lancaster,(#129, line #1), daughter of Joseph Lancaster (#358, line
#129) Amesbury, Mass. Timothy Mirick, Sr. died Mar. 15, 1719 at
Newbury, aged 52. There were seven children, listed in the order of their birth:
(161) Mary Reed, b. about 1727, m. (1) 1737 (?), m. (2), m. (1) Bailey
Evans, b. , d. , m. (2), Major Joshua Hathaway,
(160), b. 1728, d. 1807, son of Isaac Hathaway and
Rebecca Warren.
John Willingnton, (#162, line #81) son of Josiah Willington (#324, line #81)
and Mary --- , (#325, #81), was born Oct. 3, 1736 (or 1738) at Weston, Mass.
He married, Dec. 7, 1756, Bettee (or Betty or Betsey) Warren, (#163, line #81),
daughter of Phineas Warren, (#326, line #163) and Grace Hastings, (#327, line
#163). They were married Dec. 7, 1756, at Waltham, Mass. Bettee Warren
was born Nov. 9, 1739 at Waltham, Mass. There were several children, of whom
I have a record of four:
For the English ancestry of John Warren, Jr., see the next page.
The following chart showing the English ancestry of John Warren, Jr. back to
Wiliam the Conqueror is taken from “Your Family Tree”, by David Starr Jordan
who admits that there are possibly errors in it. A prominent British scientist not
long ago (written 1936) made the statement that there is NO authentic British
pedigree running back to the time of William the Conqueror.
Reginald de Warren, brother of William de Warren, 3rd Earl of Surrey; Ada, wife
of Prince Henry of Scotland, and Gundred, wife of Roger de Newburgh,
2nd Earl of Warwick; married Ada (or Adelia) de Mowbray.
William de Warren, (born before 1071), died May 11, 1138, Earl of Warren,
Second Earl of Surrey, married Isabel, Countess di' Vermandois and he was
her second husband. She was a daughter of Hugh the Great. Her first
husband was Robert de Bellemont, Earl of Leicester. She died 1131.
William de Warren's daughter, Isabel, married Roger Bigod.
For John Putnam, Sr.'s English ancestry, please see next page.
The following English ancestry of JOHN PUTNAM, SR. is taken
from “Your Family Tree” by David Starr Jordan.
Samuel Stearns, Sr., (#166, line #83), son of Captain John Stearns,
Jr., (#332, line #83) and Deliverance Bigelow, (#333, line #83) of Lexington,
Mass. was born in 1720. He married, (1) Aug. 19, 1752, Jemima Hoyt, (#167,
line #83), daughter of Benjamin Hoyt, (#334, line #167) and Katherine Baker, (#335,
line #167). Jemima Hoyt was born Dec. 25, 1729, lived in Monadnook, bore her
husband four children and died about 1760. Samuel Stearns, Sr. married, (2),
(published Nov. 27) 1762, Sarah Ann Grover of Grafton, Mass. by whom he had
six children. He was a soldier in the American Revolution, serving in 1775
in Captain Samuel Warren's Company. He died in camp, of pleurisy, Mar. 17,
1776, and his estate was administrated by his widow, Sarah, who died Apr. 9,
1777. Most of the above was obtained from the Stearns Genealogy, vol. II, page
75. The same book, page 76, lists the children as follows:
(334) Benjamin Hoyt, bap. 1716, m. (1), 1726, m (2), 1738, m. (3),
about 1752, d. ,
m. (1), Katherine Baker, (335), b. , d. 1735,
daughter of --- Baker and --- --- .
m. (2), Mrs. Joanna (---) Battin, widow of John Battin,
m. (3) Susanna --- .
(684) John Scott, b. about 1648, m. 1672, d. between 1715 and 1720,
m. Hannah Duncan, (685), b. , d. ,
daughter of Samuel Duncan and Mary --- .
Samuel Richardson IV, (#172, line #43), son of Samuel Richardson III,
(#344, line #43) and Susannah Richardson, (#345, line #43), was born Sept.
15,1704 at Woburn, Mass. He lived at Exeter, N.H. In 1720 and later at
Brookfield, Mass. He married Mary --- , (#173, line #43) who was born at
Exeter, N.H. In 1720. He died after 1769. There was at least one child, a son:
Abel Belknap, (#174, line #87) of Woburn, Mass., son of Captain Samuel
Belknap, (#348, line #87) and Mary Josepha Lydia Stearns, (#349, line #87), was
born Jan. 13, 1739 and married, (1), Oct. 6, 1765, Mary Richardson, (#175, line #87),
a daughter of Stephen Richardson, (#350, Line #175) and Mary Sawyer, (#351, line
#175). Mary Richardson was born Apr. 20, 1738/9 and is supposed to have died
Apr. 28, 1772, although her daughter, Mary Belknap, (#87, line #43) is recorded as
born May 16, 1772. Possibly these last two dates should be reversed. Abel Belknap
lived at Woburn, Mass. And at Newburgh, N.Y. He married, (2) Hannah Williams,
a daughter of Colonel John Williams. Abel Belknap died Nov. 15, 1804. There was
at least one child by his first wife, a daughter:
James Mirick, Sr., (#256, line #1) son of John Mirick, (#512,
line #1) of St. Davids, Pembrokeshire, Wales, was born in Wales in 1612
and came to America in the ship “James” in the spring of 1636 with his
three brothers, William, born 1603; John, born 1614; Thomas, born 1620;
and (probably) his sister, Sarah Mirick, (#2791, line #1395). James Mirick, Sr.
was in Charlestown in 1636; he married, 1652 or 1653, Margaret --- , (#257, line
1). He was a fisherman and cooper by trade and owned his own place of business on
the waterfront of Charlestown. If the supposition that he was born in St. Davids,
Pembrokeshire, Wales, is correct, his choice of occupation is easily accounted for,
as St. Davids depended entirely upon its fishing for the support of its population.
In 1657 he removed to Newbury and became a farmer. The records of Charlestown
show that “James Mirick (Sr.), aged 52 years in 1664, deeded to his son, James
(Jr.) in Newbury, lands situated in Newbury.” The date of his death is not found
in the records, but he died before his wife, who died Apr. 2, 1708 at Newbury.
There were eight children, listed in the order of their birth:
Isaac Hathaway, (#320, line #5), son of Ensign Jacob Hathaway, Sr.,
(#640, line #5) and Philippi Chase, (#641, line #5), was born July 16, 1704.
He married Rebecca Warren, (#321 line #5), a daughter of Joshua Warren,
(#643, line #321) and Rebecca Church, (#643, line #321). Rebecca Church
was of Mayflower descent from Richard Warren. Isaac Hathaway died June 7
or 17, 1744 or 1749 (various records disagree). The following inscription
appears on the considerably ornamented slate stone above his grave: “In
memory of Isaac Hathaway, died June Ey 7th, 1749 in the 45th year of his age.”
Also: “There are more persons in Freetown bearing the name of the Hathaways
than any other and have been for years past, and next to the Hathaways comes
the Chases.” It is the oldest inscription to be found in the old burying ground
near the First Christian Chapel in Freetown, Mass. There was a division of the estate
of Isaac Hathaway in May 1750; his widow, Rebecca (Warren) Hathaway was
guardian over Daniel, Susanna and Prudence. There were seven children,
listed in the order of their birth:
Phineas Warren, (#326), line #163), son of Joshua Warren, Sr., (#652,
line #163) and Rebecca Church, (#653, line #163), was born June 21, 1718 and lived
at Watertown and at Waltham, Mass. He married, May 3, 1739, Grace Hastings,
(#327, line #163), a daughter of Joseph Hastings, Jr., (#654, line #327) and Lydia
Browne, (#655, line #327). Grace Hastings was born, or baptized, Apr. 2, 1720
and died Sept. 7, 1805, aged 85 (one reference says that she was 87 when she died).
Phineas Warren had a fine record in the American Revolutionary War. He died June
30,1797, aged 79. The Abridged Compendium says he died in 1799. There were
at least two children, probably more. They are not listed here in the order of their
birth:
1 BETTEE (OR Betty or Betsey) WARREN, (#163, LINE #81).
2 Lieutenant William Warren, born 1751; wounded at Battle of Bunker Hill;
member of Continental Army; married, 1777, Robey (or Rebecca)
Hathaway, a daughter of Major Joshua Hathaway, (#160, line #5), and
Mrs. Mary (Reed Evans, (#161, line #5). Robey Hathaway was born in
1757, died 1822. Lieutenant William Warren died in 1831. There was at
least one child, a son:
1 Oliver W. L. Warren, (1791-1847) of Danville, N.Y.; married
Olive Smith, (1792-1842), and they had among others:
1 William G. W. Warren, (1819-1859); married, (1), 1839,
Rachel Roberts, (1824-1853), and they had:
1 Julia Ann Marian Warren, (1843-1907), artist,
married, (1), 1862, Henry Westlake Smith, (1865-1901),
Sergeant, United States Volunteers, Civil War; and had:
1 Fannie Elizabeth Smith (1865-1901); married
George Washington Ives, (b. 1860) and had:
1 Professor Walter Ives, (b. 1860) married
Mary A. Parks.
2 Grace Elizabeth Ives, born Aug. 30, 1886 at
Rubicon, Wis.; pupil, School of
Applied Art, Battle Creek, Mich.;
pupil, Firside Industries, Adrian, Mich.
Compiling genealogy of Ives, Smith,
Warren and Pardee families. Member,
Gen. Soc. Of Mayflower Descendants.
Married, Sept. 7, 1904, William August
Albert Maluge (b. Apr. 22, 1877 at
Wilton, Wis., son of Carl Maluge and
Mary Ann Battalia. They live (1934) at
301 N. Peach St., Marshfield, Wis.
3 William Lovell Ives, b. 1888; m. Alma Beulow.
4 Carrie Nell Ives, b. 1889; m. William
Carpenter.
5 George Smith Ives, born 1891.
6 Clifford Elihu Ives, born 1894, m. Leta Fay
Albin.
7 Sarah Rosemond Ives, b. 1897, m. Homer G.
Spry.
8 Irene Edna Ives, b. 1900, m. Hillyer Estes.
Line #327
(658) Samuel Rogers, b. 1634, to America 16--, m. (1), 1657, m. (2), 16--,
d. ; m. (1) Judith Appleton, b. , d. 1659, daughter of
Samuel Appleton and Mary Everard, m. (2), Sarah Wade,
(659) b. , d. , daughter of Jonathan Wade and
--- --- .
Elisha Putnam, (#330, line #165), son of Deacon Edward Putnam, Sr.
(#660, line #165) and Mary Hale, (#661, line #165), was born Nov. 3, 1685. He
married, (1) Hannah Marble (?); he married, (2) Sept. 15, 1714 or 1715,
Susannah Fuller, (#331, line #165, a daughter of Jonathan Fuller, (#662, line
#331) and Susannah Trask, (#663, line #331). Susannah Fuller's mother,
Susannah Trask, was a daughter of Ann Putnam and Ann Putnam's brother,
Edward Putnam, was the father of Elisha Putnam. Susannah Fuller was born
Oct. 15, 1695 at Salem and she lived at Topsfield. Elisha Putnam came from
Salem and died Jan. 10, 1745. There were more than the two children listed
below:
(1324) Thomas Fuller, Jr., b. 1644, m. (1), 1669, m. (2), d. 1716, 1717 or
1718. m. (1) Ruth Richardson (1325), b. , d. ,
daughter of Thomas Richardson, Jr. and Mary --- ,
m. (2) --- ---, b. , d.
.
Captain John Stearns, Jr., (#332, line #83), sixth child and son of John
Stearns, Sr., (#664, line #83) and Judith Lawrence, (#665, line #83), was born
in 1692 at Lexington, Mass. and was baptized May 11, 1710 at Watertown.
Another reference says that he was one of several children baptized on that date at
Lexington. He married, Aug. 10, 1715, Deliverance Bigelow, (#333, line #83), a
daughter of Samuel Biglo, Sr., (#666, line #333) and Mary Flagg, (#667, line
#333). Deliverance Bigelow was born Sept. 22, 1695. Captain John Stearns, Jr.
was a blacksmith; bought 50 acres of land at Worcester on May 20, 1717, had two
children baptized at Watertown and removed to Worcester by 1722. He was a
Captain of Rangers, organized to repel Indians in 1648 ? (probably 1748 is
meant). The death dates of Captain John Stearns, Jr. and his wife are not know, but
they were both living in 1762. There were thirteen children, of whom I have a
record of one:
Benjamin Hoyt, (#334, line #167), son of Ephriam Hoyt, (#668, line
#167) and Hannah Godfrey, (#669, line #167), was baptized with other children
of his parent's on Dec. 16, 1716. He lived at Ipswich, Mass. And also at
Hampton Falls, N.H. His Marriage Intentions were read at Lynn, Mass. The
Church Record 5, Hamlet Parish Church, states that he was married, (1), Nov.
11,1726 , to Katherine Baker, (#335, line #167). She is thought to have been born
at Ipswich, although her birth date is not found in the Ipswich Vital Records. She
died at Ipswich Feb. 2, 1735. Benjamin Hoyt removed to Shrewsbury, Mass.
1742/5. He married, (2), according to the Ipswich Vital Records, Joanne
(---) Battin, widow of John Battin of York. He married, (3) about 1752, Susannah--- .
His first wife, Hannah Godfrey, bore him at least one child, a daughter:
Joseph Scott, (#342, line #171), son of John Scott, (#684, line #171)
and Hannah Duncan, (#685, line #171) was born Mar. 27, 1682 at Roxbury,
Mass. and married, May 27, 1708, Hannah Prior, (#343, line #171), daughter
of James Prior, (#686, line #343) of Boston and Susannah --- , (#687, line #343).
Hannah Prior was born Sept. . 1, 1687 at Boston. Her husband Joseph Scott
died after 1753 at Sturbridge, Mass. There was at least one child, a daughter:
Ensign Jacob Hathaway, Sr., (#640, line #5), son of John Hathaway,
Jr., (#1280, line #5) and Hannah Burt, (#1281, line #5), was born in a garrison
house at Taunton, Mass., where his parents had fled for safety from Freetown
during King Philip's War. He married, Jan. 28, 1696, Philippi Chase, (#641,
line #5), a daughter of Benjamin Chase, (#1282, line #641) and Philippi Sherman,
(#1283, line #641). Philippi Chase was born July 5, 1679 at Freetown, Mass. And
was married at Taunton. Her father, Benjamin, Chase, made his will Sept. 6,
1730, and he bequeathed to his daughter, Philippi and to her husband land in
Freetown, excepting a lot 3 rods square which was to be reserved for a burying
place. To Philippi he left 20 pounds and the furniture that he had moved to her and
her husband's home. Ensign Jacob Hathaway, Sr. was a selectman from Freetown
for 25 years and was a Quaker. There were eleven children, listed in the order
of their birth:
1 Jacob Hathaway, Jr., born 1721; married Deborah (Kent) Hathaway,
widow of Shadrach Hatheway. Note how our Jacob, Jr. spelled his
last name. Mrs. Deborah (Kent) Hatheway's first husband was a
relative of her second husband's. Jacob Hatheway and his wife
lived at Suffield.
2 Benjamin Hathaway.
3 Hanna Hathaway.
4 Nathan Hathaway.
5 Joseph Hathaway.
6 ISAAC HATHAWAY, (#320, line #5).
7 Philip Hathaway. The name “Philip” came down from the Hon. Philip
Sherman, (#2566, line #1283).
8 John Hathaway.
9 Guilford Hathaway. The name “Guilford” came from Guilford Dudley
in the ancestry of his mother, Deborah Kent.
10 Jael Hathaway, born while his father was in “goal” (jail) for his
religious views. Jael Hathaway remained a “Loyalist.”
11 Betsey Hathaway
Numbers
646 and 647
Line #323
Joseph Tisdale, (#646, line #323), son of John Tisdale, (#1292, line
#323) and Sarah Walker, (#1293, line #323), was born in 1656 and died in
1722. He married Mary Leonard, (#647, line #383), daughter of Judge
Thomas Leonard, (#1294, line #647) and Mary Watson, (#1295, line #647).
Mary Leonard was born in 1663 and died in 1726. There was at least one
child, a daughter:
Joshua Warren, Sr., (#652, line #163) son of Captain Daniel Warren,
(#1304, line #163) and Mary Barron, (#1305, line #163), was born July 4,
1668 , at Watertown, Mass. He married, about 1695 or 1696, Rebecca Church,
(#653, line #163), daughter of Caleb Church, (#1306, line #653) and Joanna
Sprague, (#1307, line #653). Rebecca Church was a twin sister of Isaac Church,
the only set of twins known in our genealogy. Rebecca Church, a direct descendent of
Richard Warren, (#5226, line #2613) of the Mayflower, was born June 27, 1678 and
died Apr. 1, 1757, aged 78. Joshua Warren, Sr., was born June 27, 1760 at
Waltham, Mass., aged 91. There were eleven children, listed by Savage in the
following order:
Joseph Hastings, Jr., (#654, line #327), son of Joseph Hastings, Sr.,
(1308, line #327) and Martha Shepherd, (#1309, line #327), was born Jan. 3,
1684 or 1685. As his parents were married Jan. 8, 1684, it is most likely that
he was born in 1685. He married, Oct. 2, 1716, Lydia Browne, (#655, line #327),
daughter of Captain Abraham Browne, (#1310, line #655) and Mary Hyde,
(#1311, line #655). Lydia Browne was a sister of Deacon Samuel Browne who
was the father of Beulah Browne, and she was the mother of Mary Williams, who
was the mother of Eunice (Hosford) Sheldon and she was the mother of Carlton
Williams Sheldon, who entered the Hathaway line by marrying Harriet Jane
Hathaway, (#20-2, line #5), daughter of Leonard Willington Hathaway, (#20,
line #5). Lydia Browne was born Dec. 30, 1697 and died before Dec. 15,
1730. Joseph Hastings, Jr. was a housewright and resided at Watertown and
Waltham. He was a selectman in 1748 and he died after 1748. There was at
least one child, a daughter:
Francis Dudley, Sr., (#656, line #41, supposedly (but not proved), a son
of John Dudley, (#1312, line #41) of Charlestown, was born in England in 1640.
He is thought to have been a relative of Governor Thomas Dudley, Joseph
Dudley and Paul Dudley. Paul Dudley was an original landed proprietor of
Sutton, the town name undoubtedly given for the Sutton-Dudley family name
in England. Francis Dudley, Sr. emigrated to America and settled with his
father at Charlestown in 1663 and later on lived at Concord. He married,
Oct. 26, 1665, Sarah Wheeler, (#657, line #41), a daughter of George Wheeler,
(#1314, line #657) and Katherine --- , (#1315, line #657). Our Dudley line
went from England to Ireland, and some of them were “Friends”. Francis
Dudley, Sr. was a soldier in King Philip's war and received pay for his
services. He is known to have been living in 1702 and is supposed to have died
the following year. His war record may be found in the State House at Boston.
There were six children, not listed here in the order of their birth:
John Stearns, Sr., (#664, line #83), fourth son of Charles Stearns,
(#1328, line #83) and Rebecca Gibson, (#1329, line #83), was born Jan. 24,
1657 at Cambridge, Mass. He married (1), 1691, Judith Lawrence, (#665,
line #83), a daughter of George Lawrence (#1330, line #665) and Elizabeth
Crisps, (#1331, line #665). Judith Lawrence was born May 12, 1660. John
Stearns, Sr. married (2) Apr. 2, 1713, Mary Norcross of Watertown, a
daughter of Richard Norcross and Mary Brooks. Mary Norcross was born
July 10, 1663. John Stearns, Sr. and his first wife, Judith Lawrence, were parents
of seven children, of whom I have a record of two:
1 Captain Thomas Stearns, born 1694, baptized May 11, 1701. He had
the trade of a housewright (carpenter). He operated “Stearns Tavern”,
an inn at Worcester, Mass. He married (1), Sarah --- , by whom he
had two children, Eunice and Abigale Fullerton. He married, (2)
Dec. 29, 1729, Mary Jennison (b. Aug. 21, 1708), a daughter of the
Hon. William Jennison and Elizabeth --- , of Worcester. Captain
Thomas Stearns was the executor of the will of his father-in-law,
the Hon. William Jennison. In his own will dated Feb. 20, 1770, he
mentions his wife, Mary; sons William Jennison and Thomas;
daughters Eunice, Abigail Fullerton, Sarah Warland, Lucy Hubbard,
Mary Raymond, Lydia Campbell and Martha Stearns. After Captain
Thomas Stearns' death, Jan. 16, 1772, his widow continued the inn.
She died in 1837, aged 90 (Worcester Vital Records).
2 CAPTAIN JOHN STEARNS, JR., (#332, line #83)
Numbers
666 and 667
Line #333
Samuel Biglo (or Bigelow and variously spelled), Sr., (#666, line
#333, son of John Biglo, Sr., (#1332, line #333) and Mary Warren (#1333,
line #333), was born Oct. 28, 1653. He married, June 3, 1674 (the same
day as his sister, Mary), Mary Flagg, (#667, line #333), a daughter of
Lieutenant Thomas Flagg, (#1334, line #667) and Mary --- , (#1335,
line #667). Mary Flagg was born Jan. 14, 1658 and died Sept. 7, 1720.
Samuel Biglo, Sr. was a prominent man in Watertown, an innholder, as
we find he was licensed as such from 1702 to 1718. He represented the
town in the General Court, 1708, 1709 and 1710. His will was dated
Sept. 30, 1720 and was proved Feb. 21, 1731. Their ten children, all born
in Watertown, were:
Ephriam Hoyt, (#668, line #167) of Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, was
born Oct. 16, 1671. He married, Apr. 25, 1693, Hanna Godfrey, (#669, line
#167) of Hampton. There was at least one child, a son:
Lieutenant John Dresser, Jr., (#680, line #85), a son of John Dresser,
Sr., (#1360, line #85) and Mary --- , (#1361, line #85), was born in 1639 in
America. He married, Nov. 27, 1662, at Rowley, Mass., Martha Thurley,
(#681, line #85), a daughter of Richard Thurley (or Thurlow), (#1362, lineage
#681) and Jane --- , (#1363, line #681). He was a Representative to the
Massachusetts General Court from 1691 to 1713 and he died Mar. 14, 1723 (another
reference says that he died in 1724). Martha Thurley died June 29, 1700, at
Rowley, Mass., as did her husband. There was at least one child, a son:
John Scott, (#684, line #171), son of Benjamin Scott, (#1368, line
#171) and Margaret --- , (#1369, line #171), was born about July 2, 1648 at
Cambridge, Mass. He married, May 29, 1672, at Roxbury, Mass., Hannah
Duncan, (#685, line #171), daughter of Samuel Duncan, (#1370, line
#685) and Mary --- , (#1371, line #685). John Scott died between 1715 and
1720 at Roxbury. There was at least one child, a son:
Isaac Stearns, (#698, line #349), son of John Stearns, Sr., (#1396,
line #349) and Mary Lothrop (or Lathrop), (#1397, line #349), was born
Dec. 23, 1661. He married, June 4, 1684, Mary Merriam, (#699, line #349)
of Billerica, Mass., born June 14, 1664, daughter of Joseph Merriam, Jr., (#1398,
line #699) and Sarah Stone, (#1399, line #699). Isaac Stearns died in 1739. There
were at least two children, daughters:
1 Sarah Stearns, married, 1725, Ebeneezer Johnson, (1699-1756) who
died while a member of the Crown Point Expedition. He was a son
of Major William Johnson (1629-1704); Assistant, Massachusetts
Bay Colony, 1684-1686 and 1689-1691. He was a Deputy of the
Massachusetts General Court and was appointed Major in King
William's War. He married Esther Wiswell, daughter of Elder Thomas
Wiswell). Ebeneezer Johnson and his wife Sarah Stearns, had at least
one child, a son:
1 William Johnson, born 1733; of Woburn, Westfield and Littleton,
Mass. He married, 1760, Sarah Kendell, (b. 1734), daughter of
Nathaniel Kendall and Sarah Carter. There was at least one
child, a son:
1 Nathaniel Johnson, born 1762; was a soldier in the American
Revolution. He married, 1787, Molly Wright, daughter
of Peter Wright and Ellen Chase. There was at least
one child, a son:
1 Nathaniel Kendall Johnson, (1787-1816); married
1811, Nancy Kidder, daughter of Captain
Francis Kidder (of Littleton, Mass.) and an
officer in the American Revolution) and
Abigail Russell, daughter of John Russell.
2 MARY JOSEPHA LYDIA STEARNS, (#349, line #87).
Numbers
1292 and 1293
Line #323
John Tisdale, (#1292, line #323), married Sarah Walker, (#1293, line
#323) and there was at least one child, a son:
Benjamin Chase, Sr., (#1282, line #641). Most of the information given
below is taken from “Some of the Descendants of William Chase of Roxbury and
Yarmouth, Mass.” contributed by John Carroll Chase of Derry, N.H., as compiled
for him by George Walter, Chamberlaid, M. S. of Malden, Mass. Published
in the January 1933 number of the N.E. Hist. & Gen. Reg., vol. LXXXVII. Some
additional data has been added from other sources, including Savage and the
Compendium.
Benjamin Chase, Sr., son of William Chase, Sr., ( 2564, line #641) and
Mary ---, , (#2565, line #641), was born in 1639 at Yarmouth and was baptized
at Roxbury, Apr. 18, 1652. He was a cooper by trade and lived at Portsmouth,
R.I. and at Freetown, Mass. He married, about 1673, Philippi (spelled variously,
Philippa, Philippe and Phillipi) Sherman, (#1283, line #641), daughter of the
Honorable Philip Sherman, (#2566, line #1283) and Sarah Odding, (#2567, line
#1283). Philippi Sherman was born Oct. 1, 1652 and was the thirteenth and
last child of her parents. Benjamin Chase, Sr. was admitted freeman at
Portsmouth, R.I. In May, 1674, and lived at Freetown as early as 1679 where
he was chosen surveyor June 2, 1685, and constable June 1686 (Plymouth
Colony Records, vol. 6, pp. 167, 187). He was chosen assessor there in
1691, and was a selectman in 1698, 1699 and 1705. On Mar. 6, 1705 he was
appointed guardian of his granddaughter, Sarah Makepeace. He and his wife
joined the Sabbatarian Church at Newport, R.I., April 17, 1717.
In his will, dated Sept. 6, 1730 he bequeathed to his sons Benjamin
(Jr.) and Walter, his lands at Freetown; to his grandson, Benjamin Grinnell his
40 acre lot in Middleborough; to his daughter, Bethia Dunham one half of a lot
in Middleborough and a cow; to his daughter, Philippe Hathaway and his
son-in-law, (Ensign) Jacob Hathaway (#640, line #5) land in Freetown,
excepting a lot 3 rods square which was to be reserved for a burying place; to
his daughter, Philippe, 20 pounds and the furniture that he had moved to his
son-in-law's house; to his granddaughter, Sarah, wife of Isaac Hathaway (who
was the third child and son of John Hathaway, Jr., (#1280, line #5) and Hannah
Burt, (#1281, line #5) one cow; and to his grandchild, Daniel Grinnell, 5 acres.
(Bristol County Probate Records).
Benjamin Chase, Sr. died at Freetown, Mass. between Sept. 6, 1630,
when his will was dated, and July 25, 1731. when it was proven. A list of his
children follows.
Children of Benjamin Chase, Sr. and Philippi Chase, his wife:
1 Mary Chase, born about 1674. She was not mentioned in her father's will
which was dated Sept. 6, 1730. It is very likely that she was not living
at the time the will was drawn. She married Thomas Makepeace and
there was at least one child, a daughter:
1 Sarah Makepeace, who married, Mar. 6, 1705, Isaac Hathaway who
was a son and third child of John Hathaway, Jr., (#1280, line
5) and Hannah Burt, (#1281, line #5). Sarah Makepeace's
grandfather, Benjamin Chase, Sr., (#1282, line #641), was
appointed her guardian Mar. 6, 1705, which was the date of
her marriage and that would indicate that her mother was
dead at the time, thus explaining why her mother was not
mentioned in her grandfather's will. One cow was bequeathed
to Sarah Makepeace.
2 There was evidently another daughter, name not given, who married a Mr.
Grinnell and they had at least two children:
1 Benjamin Grinnell, who was bequeathed a 40 acre lot in Middle-
borough, by his grandfather, Benjamin Chase, Sr. in his
will dated Sept. 6, 1730.
2 Daniel Grinnell, who was bequeathed five acres of land by his
grandfather, Benjamin Chase, Sr., in his will dated
Sept. 6, 1730.
3 PHILIPPI CHASE, (#641, line #5).
4 Benjamin Chase, Jr., born July 15, 1682 in the region which appears in
the records in July 1683 as the town of Freetown. He also lived at
Portsmouth, R.I. He married, at Taunton, June 23, 1703, Mercy
Simmons. Soon after his marriage, he moved from Portsmouth
to Freetown. He was baptized at the Sabbatarian, (Seventh Day
Baptist Church), at Newport, R.I., Sept. 25, 1716 and his wife
was baptized at the same church May 15, 1717 or 1718. They
had eight children, all born at Freetown. In his father's will,
dated Sept. 6, 1730, Benjamin Chase, Sr. bequeathed to his
sons, Benjamin Chase, Jr. and Walter Chase, lands in Freetown.
Benjamin Chase, Jr. died at Westerly, R.I. In 1767.
5 Walter Chase, born at Freetown, Oct. 23, 1684; lived at Freetown and
he died there. He married at Taunton, Jan. 29, 1706/7,
Deliverance Simmons (perhaps a sister of Mary Simmons).
They had 12 children. In his father's will, dated Sept. 6, 1730,
Benjamin Chase, Sr. bequeathed to his sons, Benjamin Chase,
Jr. and Walter Chase, lands in Freetown.
6 Bethia Chase, born at Freetown, Dec. 3. 1686 and was living when her
father made his will, Sept. 6, 1730, in which he bequeathed her
one half of a lot in Middleborough and a cow. She married
a Mr. Dunham.
Numbers
1304 and 1305
Line #163
Captain Daniel Warren, Sr., (#1304, line #163), son of John Warren,
Jr., (#2608, line #163) and Margaret --- , (#2609, line #163), was born in 1628 in
England and came to America with his parents and a sister, Mary, and a brother,
John, in the “Arbella”, embarking Apr. 8, 1630 at Yarmouth and arriving at
Salem, Mass. On June 12, 1630. The “Arbella” was a member ship in the
fleet under the command of Sir Richard Saltonstall. They settled at Watertown,
Mass. And he married, Dec. 10, 1650, Mary Barron, (#1305, line #163),
daughter of Ellis Barron, (#2610, line #1305) and Grace --- , (#2611, line
#1305). Mary Barron died Dec. 13, 1715 or 1716. Daniel Warren, Sr. was a
Captain in King Philip's War and swore fidelity in 1652; was elected a
Selectman and served 12 years between 1680 and 1698. There were 9
children, listed by Savage in the following order, but if the birth dates as
given, are correct, he did not list them in the order of their birth. Note that
the birth date of Daniel Warren, Jr. and the birth date of Susannah Warren
are 2 months and 20 days apart.
1 Mary Warren, born Nov. 29, 1651; married, (1), May 29, 1668, John
Child; married, (2), Apr. 13, 1677, Nathaniel Fiske.
2 Daniel Warren, Jr., born Oct. 6, 1663; freeman, 1690; married, Dec. 19,
1678, Elizabeth Whitney, daughter of John Whitney.
3 Hannah Warren married, Sept. 24, 1675, David Mead.
4 Sarah Warren, born July 4, 1658.
5 Elizabeth Warren, born Sept. 17, 1660; married, Feb. 6, 1681,
Jonathan Tainter.
6 Susannah Warren, born Dec. 26, 1663 and died under 15 years of age.
7 Ensign John Warren, born Mar. 5, 1666; died 1703; married Mary Browne,
born Oct. 6, 1662, daughter of Jonathan Browne, Sr., (#2620, line #655)
and Mary Shattuck, (#2621, line #65). There was at least one child, a
son:
1 Captain Daniel Warren, (1689-1748), Colonial service; married, 1712,
Rebecca Garfield, (1683-1720), daughter of Captain Benjamin
Garfield who was a Representative to the General Court 11 times.
Captain Daniel Warren married, (2) Elizabeth Bridge, daughter
of Edward Bridge, Jr., who was a son of Edward Bridge, Sr.
who was an emigrant pilgrim. Captain Daniel Warren and
(presumedly) his first wife, Rebecca Garfield, were parents of
at least one child, a son:
1 Silas Warren, Sr., (1720-1792); married, 1742, Elizabeth
Newton (died 1794), and they had at least one child, a
son:
1 Silas Warren, Jr., (1753-1848), Corporal in the
American Revolution; married, (1), 1777
Anna Newton Warren, (1761-1797), daughter
of Elijah Warren. There was at least one child,
a son:
1 Eli Warren, (1782-1868); married, 1802,
Sinthia Legg, (1779-1863), daughter of
William Legg and had at least one child,
a son:
1 Levi Legg Warren, (1808-1884); married (1)
Mary Ann Wood, (1814-1900),
daughter of Asa Wood and Polly
Stoddard, daughter of Ezekiel
Stoddard, who was a private in the
American Revolution.
8 JOSHUA WARREN, (#652, line #163).
9 Grace Warren, born Mar. 4, 1672; married, Jan. 20, 1691, Joseph Morse.
Numbers
1314 and 1315
Line #657
George Wheeler, (#1314, line #657), fourth son and fourth child of
Thomas Wheeler, Sr., (#2628, line #657) and his second wife, if he had two
wives, whose name is not known. He was born in England and was baptized
in Cranford, Bedfordshire county, March 28, 1605. He married (1), in England,
(probably) Mary Studd, May 12, 1628. He married (2), in England, Katherine
or Catherine) --- , (#1315, line #657). In 1638 he and his second wife came from
Cranfield and settled at Concord, Mass. His second wife was born 1610 in
England and died 1684 in America. Probably of all the Wheelers who came
to America before 1640, none were of more distinction or importance to
the town in which he lived, then George Wheeler. He died in Concord, Mass.
May , 1687. There were eight children, of whom I have a record of four, not
listed, as far as I know, in the order of their birth:
1 Mary Wheeler.
2 SARAH WHEELER, (#657, line #41).
3 William Wheeler, baptized Aug. 8, 1630, therefore born in England.
He died young, probably under the age of one year.
4 William Wheeler, Baptized July 20, 1631, therefore born in England.
Numbers
1324 and 1325
Line #331
William Trask, Jr., (#1326, line #663), son of Captain William Trask, Sr.,
#2652, line #663) and Sarah --- , (#2653, line #663), was born Sept. 9, 1640.
He married, Jan. 18, 1667, Ann Putnam, (#1327, line #663), daughter of
Lieutenant Thomas Putnam, (#1320, line #165) and Ann (Holyoke) Putnam, (#1321,,
line #165). Ann Putnam was born Aug. 25, 1645, and she died Nov. 14, 1676,
aged 31 years, eleven days after the birth of her last child. Her husband's will
was probated June 30, 1691. There were several children, of whom I have
found a record of one, the last born:
John Biglo (or Bigelow and variously spelled), Sr., (#1332, line
#333), was born in England in 1616 or 1617 and came from England to America
in 1630. He settled in Watertown and served in the Pequot War and in King
Phillip's War, as a soldier. He took the Oath of Allegiance in 1652. He was
a blacksmith by trade and was chosen a Surveyor of Highways in 1652 and
in 1660; Constable in 1665, 1670 and in 1671; and he became a freeman
Apr. 18, 1690. He married, (1), Aug. 30, 1642, at Watertown, by Mr. Nowell,
Mary Warren, (#1333, line #333), a daughter of John Warren, Jr., (#2608,
line #163) and Margaret --- , (#2609, line #163). Their marriage was the first
one recorded in the Watertown Town Records. Mary Warren was born in
England in 1628 and she came to America in 1630 with her parents in the
“Arbella”, embarking at Yarmouth, England on Apr. 8, arriving at Salem,
Mass. On June 12, 1630. Their homestead at Watertown consisted of six
acres. After bearing thirteen children she died, Oct. 19, 1691. John Biglo, Sr.
married, (2), Oct. 2, 1694, Sarah Bemis, a daughter of Joseph Bemis and
--- --- , of Watertown. He died July 14, 1703. The Bigelow Family
Genealogy lists the thirteen children in the following order:
1 John Biglo, Jr., born Oct. 27, 1643; married Rebecca Olmsted, a
daughter of Captain Nicholas Olmsted and Sarah (Loomis)
Olmsted. Rebecca Olmsted was born Mar. 12, 1647/8. They
moved to Hartford, Conn.,and purchased land there May 3,
1669. There were no children.
2 Jonathan Biglo, Sr., born Dec. 11, 1646; lived at Hartford, Conn.
Where he went as a young man; married, 1671, Rebecca Shepard, a
daughter of Sergeant John Shepard and Rebecca (Greenhill)
Shepard. Rebecca Shepard was born at Hartford in 1650 and
died before 1686. He married, (2), Mary Olcott, a daughter of
Samuel Olcott, by whom he had several children. She died Mar. 7,
1697 and he married (3), Mary Benton, by whom he had no
children. He died Nov. 7, 1711 and his third wife and widow
married, for her second husband, May 13, 1713, Deacon John
Shepard who was a brother of her first husband's first wife.
Mary (Benton) Biglo Shepard died Dec. 23, 1752, aged over 90.
Jonathan Biglo, Sr.'s children are listed in the order of their birth,
but the Bigelow Family Genealogy does not state by which wife
they were born:
1 Jonathan Biglo, Jr., born Mar. 22, 1673; married, Dec. 14, 1699,
Mabel Edwards.
2 Rebecca Biglo; date of birth not given, but she was living Feb. 23,
1696 when she was admitted a member of the First Church
in Hartford. Conn.
3 John Biglo, married, Jan. 11, 1710, Abigail Richards; moved to
New Jersey.
4 Mary Biglo, married Jan. 11, 1700, John Williams. She was
living in 1716 when she receipted for her share of her
father's estate.
5 Sarah Biglo, married, Nov. 4, 1709, John Biglo, her cousin and
son of Joshua Biglo of Watertown.
6 Violet Biglo, married Sept. 1, 1709, Stephen Taylor and she was
living in 1717 when she receipted for her share of her
father's estate.
7 Samuel Biglo, baptized Mar. 13, 1686, died young.
8 Abigail Biglo, baptized Nov. 2, 1690,; married Joseph Sackett
and lived at Westfield, Mass. She was living in 1714 when
she receipted for her share of her father's estate.
9 Joseph Biglo, born 1690; married, May 21, 1713, Sarah Spencer.
10 Daniel Biglo, baptized Mar. 26, 1693; married Hannah
Bidwell and they lived in Hartford.
11 Samuel Biglo, baptized Mar. 31, 1695; married Mahitable
(Spencer?).
12 A child, died Mar. 5, 1697.
3 Mary Biglo, born Mar. 14, 1648; married, June 2, 174, Michael Flagg, Sr.,
a son of Lieutenant Thomas Flagg, (#1334, line #667) and Mary
--- , (#1335, line #667) of Watertown, where they lived and died.
Michael Flagg, Sr. was born Mar. 23, 1651 and died about 1711.
Mary Biglo died earlier, as he married, (2), 1704, Mary Earle.
Mary Biglo's children:
1 Abigail Flagg, born 1685.
2 Michael Flagg, Jr., born 1689.
3 Mary Flagg, born 1691; married, 1711, William Hager.
4 Daniel Biglo, Sr. was born Dec. 1, 1650; married Abigail (or Abial)
Pratt who was a tailor by trade. They settled in Framingham in
1686 and he died about 1715. She died later. Their children,
listed below, were all born at Framingham:
1 Abigail Biglo, born Oct. 28, 1689; married, Mar. 8, 1727, Abraham
Belknap (not our Abraham Belknap, #2784, line #87, but very
likely related to him). They lived in Framingham and at Natick.
He was born July 28, 1695 and died 1754; she died about 1734.
2 Daniel Biglo, Jr., born Nov. 24, 1691; married Rebecca Eames;
lived in Framingham.
3 Abiel Biglo, born Jan. 20, 1693; married, Oct. 11, 1718, Jonathan
Stone, Sr., son of Nathaniel Stone and Sarah (Wayt) Stone.
He was born Mar. 24, 1690 and died, leaving 4 children. She
married, (2), June 15, 1743, Samuel Walker of Natick. She
was admitted to the church Nov. 17, 1728. Her four children,
by her first husband, were:
1 Jonathan Stone, Jr., lived in Worcester.
2 Reuben Stone, married and lived in Rutland.
3 Simson Stone married Hannah Kendall and lived in
Rutland.
4 Levi Stone.
4 Susanna Biglo, born Mar. 4, 1696; married, June 9, 1715, Stephen
Jennings, Jr., son of Stephen Jennings, Sr. and Hannah
(Stanhope) Jennings. He was born in 1688. They lived in
Framingham where she was admitted to the church Mar. 3.
1722. He was admitted Feb. 1749. He died Oct. 8, 1763 and
she died Oct. 24, 1768. Children:
1 Stephen Jennings, III.
2 David Jennings.
3 Ephriam Jennings.
4 Susanna Jennings.
5 Abigail Jennings.
6 Joseph Jennings.
5 Ephriam Biglo, born May 12, 1698; married Lydia Johnson;
lived in Holliston.
6 Lydia Biglo, born Jan. 2, 1702; married Sept. 30, 1731, Martin
Pratt of Hopkinton, son of Nathaniel Pratt and Abigail (--- )
Pratt. He was born in Watertown, Dec. 13, 1703. They lived
at one time in Westborough, Mass. Where she was admitted
to the church in 1738 by letter from Hopkinton. Their three
children:
1 Lydia Pratt, born 1734 at Hopkinton.
2 Benjamin Pratt, born 1736 at Hopkinton.
3 Joseph Pratt, born Apr. 7, 1738 at Westborough, Mass.
5 SAMUEL BIGLO, SR., (#666, line #333).
6 Joshua Biglo, Sr., born Nov. 5, 1655; married, Oct. 20, 1676, Elizabeth
Flagg, a daughter of Lieutenant Thomas Flagg, (#1334, line #667)
and Mary (--- ) Flagg, (#1335, line #667). She was born Mar. 22,
1657 (Begelow Family Genealogy) or Jan. 22, 1654 (Compendium).
She died Aug. 9, 1729. He was a soldier in King Philip's War in
Captain Ting's company and was wounded. In consideration of his
war services the General Court gave him a grant of land in Narragansett
#2, now Westminster. They lived in Watertown and in Westminster.
All of their children who are listed below, were born in Watertown.
1 Joshua Biglo, Jr., born Nov. 25, 1677; married Hannah Fiske, a
daughter of Nathaniel Fiske and --- --- . He died in 1728 and
they had at least one child, a son:
1 John Bigelow, Sr., born 1715; married --- --- and had:
1 John Bigelow, Jr., (1743-1822); married --- --- and
had:
1 Johnathan Bigelow, (1773-1819); married
--- --- and had:
1 Samuel Bigelow, (1807-1901).
2 Jonathan Biglo, born Mar. 22, 1679
3 John Biglo, born Dec. 20, 1681; married Hannah --- and he
died in 1770. They had at least one child, a son:
1 David Bigelow, Sr., (1706-1799); married Edith Day
and had:
1 David Bigelow, Jr., (1732-1820); married
Patience Foote and had at least two
children:
1 Erastus Bigelow, (1765-1855); married
Lucy Roote and had:
1 Anson Bigelow, (1794-1869);
Eliza Moores, (1799-1845).
2 Asa Bigelow, (1779-1850); married Lucy
Isham and had:
1 --- Bigelow, (1779-1850);
Minister to France; married
Jane Tunis Poulyney.
4 Benjamin Biglo, born Jan. 20, 1681.
5 Jabez Biglo There is no record of his birth date.
6 Elizabeth Biglo, born Aug. 3, 1687.
7 David Biglo, born Apr. 30, 1694.
8 Joseph Biglo, born Dec. 29, 1695.
9 Daniel Biglo, born Aug. 29, 1697.
10 Ebenezer Biglo, born Sept. 4, 1698; married Hannah Browne, a
daughter of Jonathan Browne. This is not our Jonathan
Browne, sr., (#2620, line #6550) but it may have been
his son, Jonathan Browne, Jr. who was born in 1666.
There was at least one child, a son:
1 Thomas Biglo, Sr., married Mary Griffith and had:
1 Dr. Thomas Bigelow, Jr., married Janet C.
Gordon.
11 Gershom Biglo, born Sept. 6, 1701.
12 Eleizer Biglo, born Mar. 14, 1705.
7 Elizabeth Biglo, born June 15, 1657; married Lieutenant John Stearns, Sr., and
lived in Billerica, Mass. Where their children were born. She
died Apr. 18, 1694. Their Children:
1 Elizabeth Stearns, born Sept. 23, 1677.
2 John Stearns, Jr., born Jan. 22, 1680.
3 Sarah Stearns, born Mar. 21, 1682.
4 Mary Stearns, born July 23, 1684.
5 John Stearns, Jr. born Nov. 26, 1686.
6 Isaac Stearns, born May 1, 1698.
7 Abigail Stearns, born Aug. 22, 1691.
8 Sary Biglo, born Sept. 29, 1659; married, July 23, 1679, Isaac Leonard, Jr.,
(b. Oct. 5, 1655), son of Isaac Leonard, Sr., and Mary (Stearnes) Leonard.
They moved to Framingham, near the Sherburne line where they lived
for many years. In 1711 he served the town of Framingham as one of
it's Selectmen. He died Sept. 15, 1737. Their children:
1 Isaac Leonard, III, born May 10, 1680; married Nov. 19, 1706,
Sarah Howe. They resided at Sherburne.
2 Sarah Leonard, born Mar. 16, 1682.
3 Abigail Leonard, born Mar. 11, 1684.
4 Mary Leonard, born Apr. 12, 1686; married William Bond of
Watertown.
5 William Leonard, born Feb. 12, 1688.
6 Ebenezer Leonard, born Aug. 31, 1690; married, Oct. 14, 1714,
Deborah Haynes; resided at Oxford, Mass.
7 Samuel Leonard, born Oct. 4, 1692.
8 Hannah Leonard, born Sept. 16, 1694; married, May 2, 1715,
Obadiah Walker, Sr.; resided at Marlborough, Mass.; and had:
1 Silas Walker.
2 Hannah Walker.
3 Obadiah Walker, Jr.
9 Elizabeth Leonard, born July 27, 1696.
10 Moses Leonard, born Apr. 29, 1699; married, Lydia --- and they
resided at Framingham, Mass.
9 James Biglo, Sr., date of birth not known; resided at Watertown, Mass. And
he married, (1), March 25, 1687, Patience Browne, a daughter of
Jonathan Browne. This is not the Patience Browne who was a daughter
of our Jonathan Browne, (#2620, line #655) as she was married Mar. 6
1669. Patience (Browne) Biglo died and James Biglo, Sr. married (2)
July 2, 1693, Elizabeth Child, a daughter of John (or Jonathan)
Child. She died Apr. 20, 1707 and he married (3), June 15, 1708,
Joanna Erickson of Boston. He died in Weston, Mass., Jan. 20, 1728
and his widow married, (2), Jan. 8, 1729, Adam Smith of Boston.
The Bigelow Family Genealogy lists four children, but does not state by
which wife they were born.
1 James Biglo, Jr.
2 John Biglo.
3 Patience Biglo,
4 Abraham Biglo.
10 Martha Biglo, born Apr. 1, 1662; married twice, her second husband was
Obadiah Woods of East Hartford, Conn. Who died Apr. 11, 1712.
The Bigelow Family Genealogy has no further record of her family.
11 Abigail Biglo, born Feb. 4, 1664; married, Dec. 10, 1684, Benjamin
Harrington, Sr., son of Robert Harrington and Susannah (---)
Harrington. He was born in Watertown, Jan. 26, 1662 and died in
1724. She died Jan. 12, 1754; and they had:
1 Benjamin Harrington, Jr., born Oct. 2, 1685.
2 Abigail Harrington, born Mar. 1, 1689.
3 Isaac Harrington, born Feb. 2, 1693.
4 Thankful Harrington, born Sept. 20, 1701.
12 Hannah Biglo, born Mar. 4, 1666 and died Mar. 8, 1666.
13 A son, born and died Dec. 18, 1667.
Line #333
(Stearne or Sterne)
(1396) John Stearns, Sr., b. 1631, m. (1), 1653, m. (2), 1656, d. 1668,
m. (1), Sarah Mixer, b. , d. 1656,
m. (2), Mary Lothrop (or Lathrop), (1397), b. 1640,
d. after 1735. She m. (3) Isaac Mixer, Jr. and she was his third wife.
He died 1716. She m. (2) Captain William French and he died 1681.
She was the daughter of Thomas Lothrop (or Lathrop) and Mrs.
Sarah Linnell Eiver, his first wife.
(or Chace)
1 Elizabeth Flagg, born Jan. 22, 1654. She married Joshua Biglo (or
Bigelow), Sr., (1655-1745), a son of John Biglo, (#1332, line #333) and
Mary Warren, (#1333, line #333). Joshua Bigalow, Sr., was a soldier
in King Philip's War. They had at least one child, a son:
1 Joshua Bigelow, Jr., (1677-1728); married Hannah Fiske and had:
1 John Bigelow, Jr., (1743-1822); married --- --- and they had:
1 Jonathan Bigelow, (1773-1819); married --- ---
and they had:
1 Samuel Bigelow, born 1807, died 1901.
2 MARY FLAGG, (#667, line #333).
3 Rebecca Flagg, born July 5, 1660.
Line #667
(or Thurlow)
(Sweetman or Swetman)
(or Shepherd)
(Adkinson, Atkeson)
John Stearns, Sr., (#1396, line #349) son of Isaac Stearns, Sr.,
(#2792, line #349) and Mary Barker, (#2793, line #349), was born Dec.
23,1631, probably at Watertown, Mass. He married, (1) Sarah Mixer and
she died in 1656. He was married, (2), by Thomas Hinckley, probably the
future Governor of Massachusetts, Dec. 20, 1656, to Mary Lothrop (Lathrop),
(#1397, line #349). She was born or baptized Oct. 4, 1640, daughter of
Thomas Lothrop, Sr., (#2794, line #1397) of Barnstable, and Mrs. Sarah (Linnell)
Ewer, (#2795, line #1397). John Stearns, Sr. was her first husband and he
died March 5, 1668/9. His widow married, (2), May 6, 1669, Captain William
French, (b. 1604), who came from England in the “Defense” to Cambridge,
Mass. In 1635. He was an original proprietor of Billerica, Mass. In 1652 he
was an officer in King Philip's War and was a member of the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery Company. He served as a Representative to the Massachusetts General
Court. He married, (1), in England, Elizabeth Godfrey and he died Nov. 20, 1681,
aged 78. Captain William French and his second wife, Mrs. Mary (Lathrop)
Stearns, had the following children:
Mrs. Mary (Lothrop) Stearns French married (3), June 29, 1687,
Isaac Mixer, Jr. of Watertown, Mass. Who came to America in the
“Elizabeth” in 1634, and there was no issue. She was his third wife as
he was her third husband. He died Nov. 22, 1718 and his widow was
still living in 1735, aged 95. John Stearns, Sr. and his second wife,
Mary Lothrop, had six children as follows:
“G. H. R. D.” in the Boston Transcript of Feb. 18, 1929, says that the
father of Rev. John Lothrop, (#5588, line #1397), was:
Thomas Lathrop, who married Mary --- , and that HIS father was:
Robert Lathrop, who married Ellen --- , and that HIS father was:
Robert de Lowthrop.
John Lathrop.
“The Sterling Genealogy” says that the father of the Rev. John Lathrop
(#5588, line #1397) was:
1 JOHN HATHAWAY, JR., (#1280, line #5), born Aug. 16, 1650.
2 Abraham Hathaway, married Rebecca Wilbore; he died in 1725.
3 Isaac Hathaway, born 1655; married Mary Pitts; he died in 1722.
4 Ephrium Hathaway, born 1661; married Elizabeth Talbot and he died in
1718.
5 Abigale Hathaway, married James Phillips and she died in 1690.
6 Rebecca Hathaway, married Jural Talbot and she died in 1742.
Line #2561
William Chase, Sr., (#2564, line #641). The following are brief extracts
from “Some of the Descendants of William Chase of Rosbury and Yarmouth,
Mass.” contributed by John Carroll Chase of Derry, N.H., as compiled for him
by George Walter Chamberlain, M.S., of Malden, Mass. Published in the
January 1933 number of the N.E. Hist. & Gen. Reg., vol. LXXXVII. Some
additional data from other sources has been added, including Savage and the
Compendium.
William Chase, Sr. was born in England about 1600. He was a carpenter
by trade. He married in England before 1627, Mary ---, (#2565, line #641) and
they had a son, William Chase, Jr., who was born to them in England in 1622
according to one record, but another record says “as early as 1627”. They came
to America with Winthhrop (later to become Governor) and his fleet in 1630
and settled at Roxbury, Mass. He also lived at Yarmouth where all but his
first child were born. He was the first of the Chase name to settle in New
England. William Chase, Sr. and his family lived at Roxbury from 1630 to 1638;
and the following information about him and his family has been copied from the
records of the church at Roxbury, kept by Rev. John Eliot:
“William Chase, he came with the first company, 1630; he brought one
child, his son William, a child of ill qualities, and a sore affliction to his
parents. He was much afflicted by the long and tedious affliction of his wife;
and after his wife's recovery she bare him a daughter, who they named Mary
borne aboute the middle of the 3rd month (May) 1637. He did after remove
(intending) to Scituate, but after went with a company who maide a new
plantation at Yarmouth.” (Roxbury Church Records, pp. 73-74).
“Mary Chase, the wife of William Chase. She had a paralitik humor
wich fell into her backbone, so yet she could not stir her body, but as she was
lifted, and filled her with great torture, & caused her backbone to go out of
joynt, & bunch out from the beginning to the end of wich infirmity she lay
4 years & a halfe, & a great part of the time a sad spectakle of misery: But
it pleased God to raise her againe, & she bore children after it.” (Ib., p. 75).
William Chase was named, Oct. 19, 1630, among those (who desire to
be made freemen;” and he was made a freeman of the Massachusetts Bay
Colony on May 14, 1634. (Reg. Vol. 3, pp. 90, 92). “In 1639 he moved to
Yarmouth on Cape Cod, was appointed constable for the town of Yarmouth by the
General Court of the Plymouth Colony, Mar. 5, 1638/9, and took the oath of
office June 4, 1639.” (Plymouth Colony Records, vol. 1, pp. 118, 125).
“His life at Yarmouth was not a peaceful one . . . (was censured for
certain actions, disagreements – evidently inclined to be self-important – brief
authority). Carpenter by trade . . built house for Dr. Thomas Starr which was
sold to Andrew Hallet. (Swift's History of Yarmouth, p. 29) in 1642 mortgaged
to Stephen Hopkins (Mayflower Pilgrim) as security for debt of 5 pounds “his house
and lands in Yarmouth containing eight acres of upland and six acres more laying at
the Stony Cove.” (Plymouth Colony Deeds, vol. 1, p. 83).
At the General Court held at Plymouth, June 6, 1654, the Great Enquest”
presented “William Chase, Senr. Of Yarmouth for driving one pair of oxen in
the yoke upon the Lords day, in time of exercise, about five miles.” (Ib. vol.
3, p. 52).
“The estate of John Derby of Yarmouth was indebted to William Chase,
Feb. 22, 1655 (Mayflower Desc. Vol. 14, p. 112). William Chase was a
surveyor of highways in Yarmouth 1657. Will dated May 4, 1659 and witnessed
by Richard Hoar and Mary Dennis: To my son BENJAMINE . . . one heifer
calfe and 2 steer calves. “To my son William who hath had of mee alreddy a good
portion the sume of five shillings . . . All the rest . . . to Mary, my wife . . at her
death she was to dispose of one-third as she desired, the other 2/3 to go to
Benjamin. Inventory follows . . . before Governor Thomas Prence. Mary Chase
died on or before Oct. 6, 1659 when the division of the estate was made. Inquest
followed – natural death. There were three children, listed in the order of their
birth:
1 William Chase, Jr., born in England “as early as 1627”, although one
reference states that he was born in 1622. He died at Yarmouth Feb. 27,
1684/5. He married, (1) about 1644, --- ; married (2) --- ---. Said to
have had 4 children by each wife and that his second wife was
Elizabeth Holder, but this has been proved to have been impossible in
a comparison of ages . . . She was born in 1664 in Newport, R.I. No
other Holder family has been found in New England before 1700.
William Chase, Jr. was “a child of ill qualitys, & a sore affliction to
his parents.” From Record of General Court held at Plymouth, Mar. 6,
1654/5: “William Chase, Junr. For goeing into the house of Richard
Berry and taking away by violence a p'cell of flax and a smale p'cell
of hose yarns, was sentenced to sitt in the stockes an houre on a
training day att Yarmouth.” (vol. 3, p. 74). He lived near Herring
river, on the East side of Bass river in Old Yarmouth, in the part
which is now either Dennis or Harwich. His estate settled by order
of the General Court June 2, 1685. His children:
1 William Chase III, probably by his father's first wife; born at Yarmouth about
1645. He lived at Portsmouth, R.I., Dartmouth,
Freetown and Swansea. He married, (1), at Portsmouth, Hannah
Sherman (b. Feb. 1647/8), one of the thirteen children of the
Honorable Philip Sherman, (#2566, line #1283) and Sarah (Odding)
Sherman, (#2567, line #1283), who were our emigrant ancestors.
William Chase III married, (2), at Portsmouth, Dec. 6, 1732, Priscilla
Perry. His will was dated Jan. 23, 1732/3 and he died at Portsmouth
in 1737 (before Aug. 16). He had six children by his first wife.
2 Jacob Chase, probably by his father's first wife, was born about 1647 at
Yarmouth and he married Mary Hall. He died at Swansea.
3 Jacob Chase, probably by his father's first wife, was born Apr. 6, 1649,
at Yarmouth. He married, 1669, Elisabeth Baker, daughter of
Francis Baker and Isabel (Twining) Baker, of Yarmouth.
4 Elizabeth Chase, probably by her father's first wife, was born before 1656 at
Yarmouth and married May 27, 1674, Daniel Baker, son of Francis
Baker and Isabel (Twining) Baker of Yarmouth.
5 Abraham Chase, probably by his father's second wife, was born at
Yarmouth and married Elizabeth ---; and he died at Tiverton, R.I.
6 Joseph Chase, probably by his father's second wife, was born at
Yarmouth about 1673. He lived at Portsmouth, R.I. He married
Sarah Sherman, a daughter of Sampson (or Samson) Sherman, Sr.
and Isabel (or Isabella) Tripp (or Trip). Sampson Sherman, Sr. was
one of the thirteen children of the Honerable Philip Sherman, (#2566,
line #1283) and Sarah (Odding) Sherman, (#2567, line #1283), who
were our emigrant ancestors. Joseph Chase and Sarah (Sherman) Chase,
his wife, were members of the Society of Friends.
7 Benjamin Chase, probably by his father's second wife, was born at
Yarmouth, lived at Portsmouth, R.I. And at Tiverton (then in Mass., but
since 1747 in Rhode Island). He married at Portsmouth, Nov. 21, 1696,
Amie Borden, daughter of John Borden and Mary (Earle) Borden. Amie
Borden was born at Portsmouth, May 30, 1678, and died at Freetown
of the Society of Friends.
8 Samuel Chase, probably by his father's second wife, was born at
Yarmouth, lived at Portsmouth, R.I. And at Swansea. He married
at Portsmouth, 1699, Sarah Sherman, (b, at Portsmouth) Apr. 10,
1682), a daughter of Samuel Sherman and Martha (Tripp) Sherman.
Samuel Sherman was one of the thirteen children of the Honorable
Philip Sherman, (#2566, line #1283), who were our emigrant
ancestors. Samuel Chase died before 1758. He and his wife at at
least one child, a daughter:
1 Martha Chase, who married Ezekiel Fowler, son of Samuel
Fowler and Hannah Bowen who was a daughter of Samuel
Bowen. Ezekiel Fowler died at Salem in 1736 and his
widow married, (2) Samuel Bowen in 1749. He was,
undoubtedly, a relative of her first husband's mother.
2 Mary Chase, born about May 15, 1637; buried at Barnstable or at Yarmouth,
as “daughter of Goodman Chase, ye elder,” buried Oct. 28, 1652.
(Reg. Vol. 9, p. 286).
3 BENJAMIN CHASE, SR. (#1282, line #641).
Line #2567
1 Samson Sherman, Sr., born 1642 at Portsmouth, Rhode Island and died
in 1720; married Isabel (or Isabella) Tripp (or Trip) on Mar. 4, 1675.
She was born in 1657 and died in 1716. She was a daughter of John
Tripp (or Trip). Savage lists six children and gives them in the
following order:
1 Philip Sherman, born Jan. 16, 1676.
2 Sarah Sherman, born Sept. 24, 1677; married Joseph Chase of
Portsmouth, R.I. He was a son of William Chase, Jr. who was
a son of William Chase, Sr., (#2564, line #641), our emigrant
ancestor.
3 Alice Sherman, born Jan. 12, 1680.
4 Samson Sherman, Jr., born Jan. 28, 1682.
5 Abiel Sherman, born Oct. 15, 1684.
6 Job Sherman, born Nov. 8, 1687; married Bridget Gardiner and he
died in 1747. Among other children they had:
1 Isabel Sherman, (1717-1753); married John Watson, (1710-
1791), in 1736 and she was his second wife.
2 John Sherman, (1644-1734); married Sarah Spooner and they had, among
other children:
1 Philip Sherman, (died 1740), married Hannah Wilson and they had,
among others, a son:
1 Jabez Sherman, (1704-1774), a Lieutenant in the British
` Navy. He married Jedidah Hawes.
3 Sarah Sherman, married Thomas Mumford, (1625-1692) who came to
Portsmouth, R.I. From England about 1650, purchased land and
settled at South Kingston, near Point Judah, R.I. In 1655.
4 Samuel Sherman, married Martha Tripp who was born at Portsmouth, R.I.
In 1648 and she was one of thirteen children as also her husband .
Among other children they had a daughter:
1 Sarah Sherman, born at Portsmouth, Apr. 10, 1682; married, 1699,
Samuel Chase who was a son of William Chase, Jr. who was a son
of William Chase, Sr., (#2564, line #641) and May --- . (#2565,
line #641), our emigrant ancestors. Samuel Chase died before
1758. There was at least one child, a daughter:
1 Martha Chase, married Ezekiel Fowler son of Samuel Fowler
and Hannah Bowen who was a daughter of Samuel
Bowen. Ezekiel Fowler died about 1736 at Salem and
his widow married, (2) Samuel Bowen who was,
undoubtedly a relative of her first husband's mother.
5 Hanna Sherman, born Feb. 1647/8. She married William Chase, III and
was his first wife. He was a son of William Chase, Jr. and the latter's
first wife. William Chase, Jr. was a son of William Chase, Sr.,
(#2564, line #641), our emigrant ancestor. William Chase III
married, (2) at Portsmouth, R.I., Dec. 6, 1732, Priscilla Perry. He
died at Dartmouth in 1737 (before Aug. 16) and his will was dated
Jan. 23, 1732/3. He had six children by his first wife.
6 PHILLIPI ( or PHILIPPI) SHERMAN, (#1283, line #641).
Numbers
2588 and 2589
Line #647
Willington - “This family claims descent from the youngest son of the
very ancient and noble family of Willington of Umberleigh, county Devon,
England; afterwards of Castle Willington, county Tipperary, Ireland.”
Roger Willington, (#2592, line #81) was born about 1609 or 1610 in
England. He was one of the first settlers of Watertown, Mass. The family
name was spelled “Willington” in England and in Ireland, and was so
spelled by Roger Willington, which is proved by his signature; and was so
spelled by our branch of the family, but the eastern branch changed it to
“Wellington”, beginning with Roger Willington's children. Roger
Willington's first home was on the site of Mt. Auburn cemetery. He was a
planter; was a selectman many times from 1678 to 1691, meetings being
recorded as held at “Father Willington's”. He was admitted a freeman in
1690, the same day as were two of his sons, Benjamin and Palgrave. He
married about 1637, Mary Palgrave, (#2593, line #81) (also spelled
“Palsgrave”, a daughter of Dr. Richard Palgrave, (#5186, line #2593) and
Ann Harris, (#5187, line #2593). Roger Willington died Mar. 11, 1698 and
left a “good estate”. There were six children, listed by Savage in the
following order:
1 John Wellington, note change in spelling of last name), born July 25, 1638;
lived in Cambridge; married Susannah Straight, a daughter of Captain
Thomas Straight; probably had no children. Bond says he was a
freeman in 1677, but this means no more than that he took the
Oath of Allegiance, for he was not admitted a freeman. He made
his will Jan. 4, 1715, and died Aug. 23, 1726. His widow died
Jan. 27, 1729.
2 Mary Wellington, born Feb. 10, 1641; married, (1), May 21, 1662,
Henry Maddock; she married, (2), Sept. 16, 1679, John Coolidge,
(1604-1691), a son of William Coolidge of Cottenham, Cambridge,
England. John Coolidge came from England to Watertown, Mass.
About 1630; freeman, 1636; selectman, 1639 and later; Deputy
to the Massachusetts General Court, 1658. Mrs. Mary (Wellington)
Maddock and her second husband, John Coolidge, had at least one
child, a son:
1 Simon Coolidge, (1632-1693); married, (1), Hannah Barron.
He married, (2), Priscilla Rogers. There was at least one child,
but I don't know which wife was the mother of:
1 Obadiah Coolidge, Sr., (1663-1706); married
Elizabeth Rouse of Hartford, Conn. And they had:
1 Obadiah Coolidge, Jr., (1695-1741); married
Rachel Goddard of Watertown, and they had:
1 Josiah Coolidge, (1718-1780); married
Mary --- and they had:
1 Calvin Coolidge, (1780-1853); married,
1814, Sarah Thompson and they
had:
1 Calvin Gelusha Coolidge, (1815-
1878); married, 1844, Sarah
Almeda Brewer, and they
had:
l Colonel John Calvin
Coolidge (184-1925), of
Plymouth, Vt.; married,
1868, Victoria Josephine,
(1846-1885), daughter
of Hiram D. Moore, they
had:
1 Calvin Coolidge, born July 4, 1872, at Plymouth, Vt.; A. B.
Amherst, 1895; admitted to the bar, 1897; was council-
man, city solicitor and clerk of Courts at Northampton,
Mass., and Mayor, 1910 and 1911; member of Mass.
General Court, 1907-1908; Massachusetts Senate,
1914-1915; Lieutenant Governor, 1917-1918, and
Governor two terms, 1919, 1920; Vice President
of the United States upon the death of President
Harding, Aug. 2, 1923, elected President of the United
States for term, Mar. 4, 1925 to Mar. 4, 1929. after
retiring from the Presidency, he removed to Northampton,
Mass. where he died. His widow is (1936) still living.
He married Oct. 4, 1905, Grace Anna Goodhue (b. Jan. 9,
1879, only child of Andrew J. Goodhue, 1848-1923) and
Caroline B. Amdrews. Calvin Coolidge and his wife,
Grace Anna (Goodhue) Coolidge, had:
1 John Coolidge, b. Northampton, Mass. Sept. 7, 1906.
2 Calvin Coolidge, Jr., born Apr. 13, 1908, died July 7,
1924.
2 Abbie G. Coolidge, (187-1890).
3 Joseph Wellington was born Oct. 9, 1643; married, 1, Sarah --- who died
Feb. 5, 1684, leaving no children. He married, (2), June 6, 1684,
Elizabeth Straight, youngest daughter of Captain Thomas Straight.
Elizabeth was a sister of Susannah Straight who married John
Wellington, the first child of Roger Willington. Joseph Wellington
took the Oath of Allegiance in 1677 and he died Oct. 30, 1714.
There were four children by the second marriage.
4 BENJAMIN WELLINGTON, (#1296, line #81).
5 Oliver Wellington was born Nov. 3, 1646; took the Oath of Allegiance in
1677; married, late in life, Mrs. Ann (Bridge) Livermore, widow of
Samuel Livermore and a daughter of Mathew Bridge. Oliver
Wellington died Aug. 30, 1727 and his wife died Aug. 28, 1727 -
just two days previous to her husband's death.
6 Palgrave Wellington was born in 1653; lived in Watertown; married, Jan. 29,
169-, Sarah Bond, a daughter of William Bond. She bore her
husband no children and she died young. Palgrave Wellington was a
Physician; was made a freeman the same day in 1690 as was his
father, Roger Willington and his brother, Benjamin Wellington.
Palgrave Wellingnton died Oct. 22, 1715.
Line #2593
(or Palsgrave)
Joseph Morse, Jr., (2596, line #649), son of Joseph Morse, Sr.,
(#5192, line #649) and Deborah ( or Dorothy) --- , (#5193, line #649), was
born about 1610 in England. He embarked at Ipswich, England, in Apr., 1634
on the ship, “Elizabeth” and was a fellow passenger with an ancestor of ours,
Deacon Thomas Hastings, (#2616, line #327) and his first wife, Susan ---.
Joseph Morse, Jr. was appointed a freeman May 6, 1635. He married
Hannah Pierce, (#2597, line #649), daughter of John Pierce, (#5194, line
#2597) and Elizabeth --- , (#5195, line #2597). Joseph Morse, Jr. died Mar.
4, 1690. There was at least one child, a son:
1 JONATHAN MORSE, (#1298, line #649).
Line #2597
William Shattuck, Sr., (#2598, line #1299) was born in 1621 or 1622
in England and was a weaver. He came to America in 1642 and settled in
Watertown, Mass. He married, 1642, aged about 20, Susanna (or Susannah)
--- , (#2599, line #1299) and he died Aug. 14, 1672, about 50 years of age, or as
Savage has it, 58. In his will, dated 11 days before his death, he spelled his
name “Shathock” and he named all of his ten children in the document. His
widow married, (2), Nov. 18, 1673, Richard Norcross and she was his second
wife. She died Dec. 11, 1686. The ten children are listed by Savage in the
following order:
1 Susanna (or Susannah) Shattuck, born 1643; married, Apr. 12, 1661,
Joseph Morse; married, (2), July 5, 1678, John Fay; married, (3)
William Brigham.
2 MARY SHATTUCK, (#2621, line #655).
3 John Shattuck, born Feb. 11, 1647.
4 Philip Shattuck, born 1648.
5 Joanna Shattuck, never married; died Feb. 4, 1673.
6 William Shattuck, Jr., born 1653.
7 Rebecca Shattuck, born 1655; married, Feb. 7, 1672, Samuel Church.
8 ABIGAIL SHATTUCK, (#1299, line #649).
9 Benjamin Shattuck, died young.
10 Samuel Shattuck, born Feb. 28, 1666.
Numbers
2608 and 2609
Line #163
John Warren, Jr., (2608, line #163), son of John Warren, Sr. of
Nayland, county Suffolk, England, and his first wife, Elizabeth Scarlett,
was born in England in 1585 and she was baptized Aug. 1, 1585 in the
town of his birth. He came to America in the “Arbella”, embarking Apr. 8,
1630 at Yarmouth, England and arrived at Salem, Mass. June 12, 1630. The
“Arbella” was a member ship in the fleet under the command of Sir Richard
Saltonstall. John Warren, Jr. was about 45 when he came to America. Soon
after arriving here he worked with Abraham Browne, (#1310, line #655),
another of our ancestors. He settled at Watertown, Mass.; was appointed a
freeman Apr. 18, 1631 and was chosen a Selectman from 1636 to 1640. He
married Margaret ---, (#2609, line #163) who died Nov. 6, 1662 and she is
thought to be the mother of all his children. Savage says that John Warren, Jr.
came to America with his wife in 1630, and with their four children (daughters),
but he fails to give their names, although he does name one daughter and two
sons who were born, he says, before 1630 in England. Savage also says that
their daughter, Elizabeth, was born in America, but he gives no date; and he
also states that there may have been more than four children although he can
find no record of any more births or deaths. Late in life John Warren, Jr. came
under the censure of the laws unwisely leveled at dissension from the religious
course of the major part of the inhabitants, and Bond informs us that pro-
ceedings were taken against him in 1651, 1654 and 1661. In 1651 he and
Thomas Arnold were each fined 20 shillings for an offense against the laws
concerning banishment. He was independent, harbored Quakers, etc. In 1654 he
was fined for neglect of public worship 14 sabbaths, 3 pounds, 10 shillings.
Mar. 14, 1658 or 1659 he was to be warned for not attending public worship,
“but old Warren was not to be found in town”. In 1661 the house of “Old
Warren” and Goodman Hammond were ordered to be searched for Quakers;
but finally he died in peace on Dec. 13, 1667, aged 82. He had a good estate
in lands in Watertown, Mass. Their children:
Richard Church, (#2612, line #653) was born in England in 1608 and
came to America in 1630 with Winthrop's fleet. He requested admission as a
freeman, Oct. 19, 1630, yet did not take the office, but removed from Weymouth
to Plymouth and was recorded a freeman of that colony, Oct. 4, 1632. In the
Chamberlain Collection in the Boston (Massachusetts) Public Library is an
ancient letter from Governor Bradford to Governor Winthrop, dated Plymouth,
Feb. 6, 1631/2 – extract quoted:
“We have therefore given warnings to all our people not to receive
any as servants . . . but to acquaint us first therewith that we may inquire of
their certificates of dismission . . . Richard Church came likewise as a
sojourner to work for ye present. However, he is still heare residents
longer than he purposed, and what he will doe, neither we nor I thinke
himselfe knows, but if he resolve heare to stay, we shall require of him to
procure a dismission, but he did confirm to us at the first that he was one of
Mr. Webb's men and free to go to England, or whither he would, ye which
ye rather believe because he came to us from Wessagasscusett upon ye falling
out with his partner”.
In the Pilgrim Republic”, Goodwin says: “But Church knew that he would
stay in Plymouth and join his fortunes with those of Richard Warren's orphaned
daughter, Elizabeth Warren”. Note – Richard Warren was dead (he died in 1628),
but her mother, Elizabeth (---) Warren was alive). Richard Church married,
1635 or 1636, Elizabeth Warren, (#2613, line #653), daughter of Richard
Warren, (#5226, line #2613) and Elizabeth --- , (#5227, line #2613). Elizabeth
Warren was born in England and came to America in 1623 with her mother
and her four sisters in the “Ann”. Richard Church was a carpenter and was one
of the designers and builders of the first regular church edifice in Plymouth
in 1649 and was at Charlestown in 1653 “and for final residence, sat down at
Hingham in 1657”, says Savage. Giving evidence at Sandwich, Aug. 25, 1664, he
called himself 56 years old and he made his will at Hingham, Dec. 25, 1668 (O.S.).
He died two days later, Dec. 27, 1668, aged over 60, at Dedham, Mass. And was
buried at Hingham. His will provided for his widow, Elizabeth, and equal
portions to all his children, without naming them except that Joseph, on account
of his lame hand, should have a double portion. His widow died at Hingham,
Mass. Mar. 9, 1669 or Mar. 4, 1670. “To name their children”, says Savage,
“in order, is not easy, perhaps not all of them with confidence”. Savage lists
them in the following order:
1 Joseph Church, who had a lame hand, and because of that he received a
double portion of his father's estate.
2 Colonel Benjamin Church, born 1639; grew up in his father's trade, a
carpenter, but instinctively allied himself to the martial family of
Southworth, his wife being Alice Southworth, a daughter of Constant
Southworth and a grand-daughter of Mrs. (Governor ) Bradford.
Goodwin in his “Pilgrim Republic” has the following to say about
Benjamin Church: “A year before the war he was making for
himself a home at Saconet. At the peace he became a pioneer of
Bristol, on the Mount Hope lands, but finally returned to Saconet, which
later became “Little Compton”. He was made a local magistrate
and represented his town in the Plymouth legislature, and after its
union, in that of Massachusetts. He refused a military commission
under the tyrant, Androe, but in 1689 he went against the Maine Indians
as Major, commander in chief of the united troope of Massachusetts
and Plymouth. At the end of the campaign, Plymouth gave him 42
pounds as her share of his salary, but Massachusetts shamefully
refused to pay her part. In 1690 he was persuaded to go again, but
was poorly supported and an officer of equal rank was placed over him
by Massachusetts, which colony once more refused to pay her share of
his pay and expenses. He was so destitute after reaching Boston that
he was forced to beg his lodging from Captain Alden until he could
send to his brother for a horse. The officers, whom he had held sharply
to their duty, spread slanderous reports about him, and these were greedily
received at Boston; but on reaching Plymouth, Church at once dissipated
the malicious tales. Plymouth, in her great poverty from the War, gave
him 14 English pounds, but owing to the disregard of his claims by
Massachusetts, he could only meet his debts incurred for recruiting
and sustenance by selling a portion of his land at a sacrifice. This
treatment cut Church to the heart; yet in 1692, as the danger grew,
Governor Phippe was able to enlist his services one more. On his
return, Massachusetts, now a province, paid his last wages (it must
have cost her a pang), but ignored her previous debts to him. In 1698
Church again raised a force for Maine and returned with valuable
captures of cannon, stores and peltry. Massachusetts took to herself
this prize-of-war and paid the soldiers their bare wages. The General
Court once voted to dismiss them with half pay, but Governor Stoughton
indignantly visited the hall and procured a reconsideration. Still, Church
was left to pay his own recruiting expenses. So late as 1704, Church,
then a Colonel, conducted a vigorous campaign against the Maine
hostiles. His force of 1200 men, including several Plymouth Indians,
operated in whale boats along the coasts and rivers. Once more the
Massachusetts Court haggled over his pay, but finally gave him his
wages, with a vote of thanks, and munificently added the pittance of
15 pounds, English, toward his expenses in raising troops. Church
had a contempt for meanness and imbecility, and by making enemies
of mean and little men, suffered the indignities and losses which
their secret slanders could induce from men far better than themselves.
Long after his death, the generation which then ruled Massachusetts,
(1734), sought to make some atonement for the sins of their fathers
by giving his heirs 500 acres of land near his old home. In 1718,
Church, then 78 years old, was living in peace and honor on his
farm at Little Compton, where his ancient friends, the Scant,
dwelt around him in the habits of civilization. Hearing that his
sister's only son had died while abroad, he mounted his horse and
paid her (Mrs. John Irish, Jr.), a visit of condolence. While returning,
his horse stumbled and the venerable Colonel received injuries which
soon proved fatal. His wife survived but a year. They left five sons and
two daughters. Their widespread posterity should enthusiastically
join in crowning of Saconet Heights with a far seen monument
worthy of their great ancestor, so loyal and loving, heroic and wise -
“the Myles Standoffish of the second generation”. Other children of
Richard Church and Elizabeth Warren were:
3 Richard Church, Jr., who died young.
4 CALEB CHURCH, (1306, line #653).
5 Nathaniel Church.
6 Hannah Church; baptized Aug. 8, 1647.
7 Abigail Church; married Dec. 19, 1666, Samuel Thaxter and she died
Dec. 25, 1677.
8 Charles Church, as Savage has it, “killed by casual”, Oct. 30, 1659.
9 Deborah Church, born Jan. 27, 1657; married John Irish, Jr., says Savage,
quoting from Winsor: “ as his second wife”; though another author,
giving the date of this marriage as May, 1708, calls her “Priscilla”.
10 And perhaps another, Mary Church, who died at Duxbury, Apr. 30, 1662.
Line #2613
John Shepard, (#2618, line #1309) whose father spelled the family
name, “Shepard” and “Shepherd”, and whose mother is unknown, married
Sarah Goble, (#2619, line #1309), daughter of Thomas Goble I, (#5238, line
2619). John Shepard died at Concord, Mass. Dec. 15, 1669 and his widow,
Sarah Goble, died between Nov. 30, 1717 and Feb. 10, 1718, at Concord.
There were at least two children, probably more, those listed here being
twin daughters:
1 Mary Shepherd, born Feb. 11, 1662 or 1663; twin sister of Martha
Shepherd. Note that the sur name has been changed from
“Shepard” to “Shepherd”.
2 MARTHA SHEPHERD, (#1309, line #327).
Line #2619
1 Mary Browne, born Oct. 6, 1662; married John Warren, born Mar. 5, 1666;
died 1703, son of Captain Daniel Warren, (#1304, line #163) and Mary
Barron, (#1305, line #163). There was at least one child, a son:
1 Captain Daniel Warren, (1689-1748), Colonial service; married,
1712, Rebecca Garfield, (1683-1720), daughter of Captain
Benjamin Garfield.
2 Elizabeth Browne, born Sept. 19, 1664.
3 Jonathan Browne, Jr., born Oct. 25, 1666; died young.
4 Patience Browne, born Mar. 6, 1669.
5 CAPTAIN ABRAHAM BROWNE, (#1310, line #655).
6 Samuel Browne, born Oct. 21, 1674.
7 Lydia Browne, born Mar. 31, 1677.
8 Ebenezer Browne, born Sept. 10, 1679.
9 Benjamin Browne, born Feb. 27, 1682.
10 William Browne, born Sept. 3, 1684.
Line #2621
Job Hyde, (#2622, line #1311, a son of Deacon Samuel Hyde, (#5244,
line #1311) and Temperance --- , (#5245, line #1311), was born in 1643. He
married, 1663, Elizabeth Fuller, (#2623, line #1311) born about 1650, a
daughter of John Fuller, (#5246, line #2623) and Elizabeth --- , (#5247,
line #2623). (Note – John Fuller was not a son of Dr. Samuel Fuller who
married Elizabeth --- of Plymouth). Job Hyde and his wife, Elizabeth, both
died in Nov. 1685, he aged about 42 years. There was at least one child, a
daughter:
John Putnam, Sr., (#2640, line #165), son of Nicholas Puttenham and
Margaret (Goodspeed) Puttenham, was born at Aston Abbotts, near Aylesbury,
County Bucks, England, in 1583. Family tradition has the name of a place
in County Warwick, where it is unknown. David Starr Jordan, in his book,
“Your Family Tree”, says that John Putnam was baptized at Wingrave, County
Bucks, England, on Jan. 17, 1579 of 1580. He married, 1611, Priscilla Deacon,
(#2641, line #165). Three sons, Thomas, Nathaniel and John, Jr., were all
baptized, according to one reference, between 1612 and 1627 at Aston Abbotts,
although Savage says that John, Jr. was born in 1630. These three brothers,
together with their three sisters, Sarah, Elizabeth and Phoebe, and their
parents, came to Salem, Mass. From England, according to Farmer, in 1641,
although the Abridged Compendium and Savage both say it was in 1640.
John Putnam, Sr. settled at Salem where he received a grant of land at Salem
Village near Danvers, Mass. He became the principal land owner there, was a
farmer, a mistake, though it is true that he was received that year into the church,
as had been his wife in 1641. John Putnam died Dec. 30, 1662, at Danvers,
Mass. There were six children, not listed, as far as is known, in the order
of their birth:
Sergeant Thomas Hale, Sr., (#2644, line #661), was born 1604 in
England; came to Newbury, Mass. In 1634; freeman, 138; removed to
Haverhill, Mass. In 1649. He was a selectman there and also later at
Newbury. Was a resident of Salem in 1659 and a Sergeant of Militia. He
married in England, (1) Thomasine Dowsett, (#2645, line #661), and he
married, (2), Margaret Tamorin, daughter of Sir Henry Tamorin. The Newbury
pioneers were all interwoven in blood and Thomas Hale, Sr. was probably
connected with many of his neighbors in Newbury, Oldtown and Rowley. He
died in 1682. there were at least two children:
Lieutenant Thomas Fuller, Sr., (#2648, line #331), was born 1618 in
England and came to America in 1638 and settled at Woburn and Middleton,
Mass. He married, (1), June 13, 1643, Elizabeth Tidd. (#2649, line #331).
daughter of John Tidd, (#5299, line #2649) and Margaret --- , (#5299, line
#2649) of Woburn. He was a blacksmith and had meadow land granted to him
in 1648. He was a selectman during the years 1663, 1664 and in 1685.
Removing to Salem in 1664, he was appointed a Sergeant in 1665 and a
Lieutenant in 1665. He married (2), Aug. 25, 1694, Mrs. Sarah (Nutt) Wyman
who died in 1686. He married, (3), Harriet (Palmer) Wilson. All his children
were by his first wife, Elizabeth Tidd. He made his will June 9, 1698, and it was
probated at Salem on July 4, 1698. The legatees were sons Thomas, Benjamin
and Jacob, and daughters, Dean, Ruth Wilkins and her daughter, Deborah Shaw.
The above has been approved for the Colonial Dames. Their children, as
above, follow:
Captain William Trask, Sr., (#2652, line #663) was born about 1600
in England; came to Salem in 1628, before Endicott. He was a freeman. In
1630, a Captain in 1632 and was a Representative to the General Court in
1635, 1636, 1637 and in 1639. He was an officer under Endicott against the
Pequot Indians and was granted much land for services in the war. He
married Sarah ---, (#2653, line #663), of whom there is no record. He died
May 16, 1666, and there was at least one child, a son:
John Peabody, (#2728, line #341, was born in 1590 in England and
came from England to America in 1640, landing at Plymouth, Mass. He was
an original landed proprietor of Bridgewater, Mass. In 1645. He married
Isabel ---, (#2729, line #341) and he died in 1667. There was at least one
child, a son:
Nicholas Davis, (#2764, line #691) was born about 1595 and came
to America in 1635 at the age of 40 with his wife, Sarah ---, (#2765, line #691)
who was born about 1587 and who was about 48 at the time of the crossing.
They came to America in the “Planter” and his nephew, William Lock
accompanied them. There was at least one child, a son:
John Atkinson, Sr., (#2790, line #1395), was born about 1640 in
England; came to Boston and removed to Newbury, Mass. In 1663. He
married, 1664, Sarah Mirick (Meyrick, Merrick), (#2791, line #1395),
daughter of John Mirick, (#512, line #1) and Elizabeth ( --- ) Mirick,
(#513, line #1). According to the Merrick (printed) Genealogy, she came
to America with her four brothers (one of whom was James Mirick, Sr.,
(#256, line #1) our emigrant ancestor), in the “James” in the spring of
1638, and married John Atkinson in 1646. There is some basis for this
marriage date because their daughter, Jane Atkinson, (#1395, line #697)
married Thomas Cheney, (#1394, line #697) and this latter couple's daughter,
Jane Cheney, (#697, line #87) was born June 5, 1667, which was about
twenty-three years after her grand-parent's marriage date; and that is a
reasonable length of time. To offset this, however, John Atkinson, Sr. and
Sarah Mirick, his wife had another child, a son, John Atkinson, Jr. who was
born 1666/7. All sources of the above data seem to be authentic, however, further
research is necessary. John Atkins, Sr. and Sarah Mirick, his wife, had several
children, of whom I have a record of two:
1 JANE ATKINSSON, (#1395, line #697).
2 John Atkinson, Jr., born 1666/7, married (1), Sarah Woodman (b. 1670),
a daughter of Sergeant Jonathan Woodman and Hannah Hilton, who was
a daughter of Edward Hilton. There was at least one child, a son:
1 Thomas Atkinson, born 1694; married 1719, Mary pike (b. 1695),
a daughter of Major Robert Pike (d. 1706) and Susanna
Worcester. There was at least one child, a son:
1 Humphrey Atkinson, (1720-1775); married, 1743, removed
to Buxton, Maine, 1760; married Sarah Hals and there
was at least one child, a son:
1 Theodore Atkinson, (1760-1830); married, 1786, Dolly
French and they had at least one child, a son:
1 Bradbury Atkinson, (1805-1863); married, 1827,
Elizabeth Peavy (d. 1875), a daughter of
Abraham Peavey and Olive (Downs) Peavey.
Numbers
2792 and 2793
Line #349
Isaac Stearns, Sr., (#2792, line #349) came from Nayland, County
Suffolk, England, He was born in England in 1605 and was married there
in 1622, to Mary Barker, (#2793, line #349) of Stoke (or Stock), Nayland,
County Suffolk, England, daughter of John Barker, (#5586, line #2793) and
Margaret Williams, (#5587, line #2793). John Barker and his wife, Margaret
Williams, never emigrated to America and there was no relationship between
them and the Barkers who did. Accompanied by Charles Stearns, (#1328,
line #83), his brother, Isaac Stearns, Sr., his wife, Mary Barker and two
(possibly three) children, embarked on the “Arbella” under the command
of Sir. Richard Saltonstall, at Yarmouth, England, Apr. 8, 1630 and arrived
at Salem, Mass. June 12, 1630. Very shortly thereafter they removed to
Watertown, Mass. Which they founded in 1630 or 1631 (references differ).
He was the first man admitted freeman in that place, 1631. He was a Selectman
there several times and served on the committee which had charge of building
the first bridge across the Charles River at Watertown. Savage says there were
three children born in England, but other references give only two. Isaac
Stearns, Sr. died June 19, 1671, and his widow died Apr. 2, 1677 at Watertown,
Mass. Their eight (or nine) children are listed as follows:
Thomas Lothrop, Sr., #2794, line #1397, son of Rev. John Lothrop,
(#5588, line #1397) and an “unknown” first wife, (#5589, line #1397) who
who died in 1623; was born in England in 1621, according to “Genealogical
Notes on Barnstable Families”, by Otis. “N.D.K.” in the Boston Transcript,
August 26, 1935, writes that “Hannah Howse (House) was the first wife of Rev.
John Lothrop. She had a sister, Penninah Howse, who married Robert Linnell
(Lynnell) and the two girls were daughters of Rev. John Howse who died at
Eastwell, county Kent, England, Aug. 30, 1630. The above is taken from the
Register, vol. 66, pp. 356/7; vol. 89, p. 284, and vol. 67, pp. 260/1”. The
following quotation is from the record of Rev. John Lothrop as found in
Lathrop Family Memoirs”, p. 34: “son Thomas and brother Larnett's daughter,
widow Ewer, were married in the Bay (Boston), Dec. 11, 1639”. “O. M.” in the
Boston Transcript says: “Mrs. Sarah (Linnell) Ewer, (#2795, line #1397), daughter
of Robert Linnell, (#5590, line #2795) and Penninah Howse, (#5591, line #2795),
married, (2), at Barnstable, Mass., Dec. 11, 1639, Thomas Lothrop, Sr. (her
cousin, although she was 14 years his senior and she with four children at
that time), eldest son of the Rev. John Lothrop. Thomas Lothrop, Sr. was
born in England in 1621 and he joined his father's church in America May 14, 1637
and died in 1701”. Sarah Linnell, (#2795, line #1397), was born in England in 1604
or 1607 (probably the latter), married, (1), in England, Thomas Ewer, a tailor,
and they came to America in 1635 with their two children, Elizabeth and
Thomas. Two other children born to them in America were Sarah and John.
There has always been a controversy as to whether Sarah Linnell
(Lynnell) was a daughter of Robert Lynell or a daughter of William Learned,
caused, undoubtedly, by the fact that the name Linnell was spelled in many ways
in those days – Linnett, Larnett, which could seem to be Larned, and so gives color
to the William Larned idea. Otis, in “Barnstable Families” and Swift's “Barnstable”
both say she was Sarah Linnell, daughter of Robert and Penninah (House) Linnell.
The Learned Genealogy, page 18 says: “A Sarah Leonards daughter of William
Leonards, was baptized at Ware, England, Sept. 30, 1604. She married in
England, Jan. 13, 1623/4 Thomas Ewer, a tailor and came with him and their two
children to this country in the “James”, June, 1635. He was then 40, she 28:
(if so, then she was born in 1607 instead of 1604); their daughter Elizabeth, their
son, Thomas 1-1/2. (Hatten's List of Emigrants”, p. 88). Regardless of her
ancestry, she was admitted to the church in Charlestown, Mass., Dec. 12, 1635
and her first husband, Thomas Ewer, was admitted Jan. 3, 1635/6 and he died in
1638.
Thomas Lothrop, Sr. and his second wife, Mrs. Sarah (Linnell) Ewer, had five
children, as follows:
(or Lynnell)
The deductions noted below regarding the probable origin of JAMES MIRICK
were made by Rev. Edward A. Mirick of the John Mirick branch of the family, from
family traditions, historical gleanings from “Burke's Landed Gentry,” Doon's
“Visitation of of Pembrokeshire” edited by Sir Samuel Rhys Meyrick, and
from other sources. The date of birth of Rt. Rev. Roland Mirick is historical;
the other dates are based upon a computation of 33 years to the generation, which
in actual comparison of a long line of Miricks has been found to hold good.
While many of the conclusions are reached by deduction, nothing is stated which
might not reasonably be considered as not only possible, but very probable.
His deductions are to be found on this page and also on pages 2048, 1024 and 512.
John Shepherd, Jr., (#5122, line #2561), son of John Shepherd, Sr.
and Rebecca Waller, both of England, was born about 1599 in England and
came to America in July, 1635 at the age of 36 in the “Defiance”, with his
wife, Margaret Squire, (#5123, line #2561), daughter of Henry Squire of
England. They settled at Braintree, Mass. There was at least two children,
probably more.
John Pierce, (#5194, line #2597), was born in 1588 in England and
came from England to Watertown, Mass. In 1637. He was a Deputy to the
(Massachusetts ?) General Court and died 1661. He married Elizabeth --- ,
(#5195, line #2597) who was born in England in 1601. She lived at Watertown,
Mass. And died in 1666. There was at least one child, a daughter:
Richard Warren, (#5226, line #2613), was probably from Essex, although
very possibly from Kent, England. His name is on the Mayflower passage list
from London to Southampton, joining the Mayflower there when it set sail for
America on Sept. 6, 1620. He was over 45 when he came to America and his
true ancestry is very much in doubt, in fact very little is know of him. England
was alive with Warrens in the 1600's and there were many Richard Warrens.
Professional genealogists have about given up hope of ever tracing his true lineage.
His occupation is thought to have been that of a farmer. He left his wife,
Elizabeth --- , (#5227, line #2613), and his five daughters, all of whom were born
in England, in England and they came to America in 1623. Richard Warren
was the 12th signer of the “Mayflower Compact” and participated in the “Third
Exploration” that resulted in a fight with the Indians on Dec. 17 and 18, 1620,
at a place that has since been described as “The First Encounter”. In 1650
Governor Bradford wrote his “Journal of the Pilgrims” and says in regard to the
division of cattle in 1627, “the ninth lot fell to Richard Warren and his companie”
and “to this lott fell one of the four black Heyfers that came in the “Jacob”, and
two shee goats”. In 1627 only 42 of the 99 persons who reached Plymouth on
the Mayflower (some references say that there were 101 and others say there
were 102), were still living there. In Bradford's list, published in his book,
(above referred to) only ten male persons, including Richard Warren, had the
right to use the prefix, “Mr.” before their names. Richard Warren joined the
Leydon Pilgrims in July, 1620 at Southampton when the Mayflower and the Speedwell
made their first attempts to sail for America. He was known in America as “the
grave Mr. Warren.”. He died in 1628, and Secretary Morton, who knew him
well, said of him, “He was a useful instrument, and during his life bore a deep
share in the difficulties and troubles of this first settlement”. His wife,
Elizabeth --- , came to America in 1623, together with their five daughters, she
at the supposed age of 43, having been born, according to some references, in
1580. She is said to have been 48 when her husband died in 1628, and she lived
45 years after he died, making her 93 when she died on Oct. 12, 1673. Savage
says that she was 90 when she died, but he agrees with the above date of her
death. When she was borne up Burial Hill, it was entered upon the Colonial
records that she, “having lived a Godly life, came to her grave as a shock of
corn, fully ripe”. There were two sons born to them after their arrival in
America. It should be remembered that various historical works disagree in
considerable detail regarding Richard Warren, particularly about dates and the
number of his children, but the above data is thought to be authentic. Savage
lists their children in the order given below, and while this does not coincide
entirely with the famous Warren Genealogy, Savage claims that he has every
reason to believe his arrangement is correct. He lists the five daughters and
two sons as follows:
1 Mary Warren, came to America with her mother and four sisters in
1623; married, 1628, Robert Bartlett, (1603-1676) who came from
England to Plymouth Colony in the “Anne” in 1623. They had at
least four children, not listed here in the order of their birth:
1 Benjamin Bartlett, (1638-1691); married, 1658, Sarah Brewster
and they had at least one child, a son:
1 Ichabod Bartlett, (1664-1717); married, (1), 1699,
Elizabeth Waterman, (1609-1708), daughter of
Joseph Waterman. Ichabod Bartlett married, (2),
Sarah Snow, daughter of Anthony Snow and Abigail
Warren who was a daughter of Richard Warren
(#5226, line #2613). See line #5 below.
2 Lydia Bartlett, 1648-1691); married James Barnaby of Plymouth,
who died about 1677. They had at least one child, a son:
1 James Barnaby, (1670-1726); married Joanna Harlow,
(1669-1725), daughter of Sergeant William Harlow.
James Barnaby and his wife, Joanna Harlow had at
least one child, a son:
1 Captain Ambrose Barnaby, Sr., (1706-1775);
married, 1728, Elizabeth Gardiner of Swansea,
granddaughter of Lieutenant Samuel Gardiner.
Captain Ambrose Barnaby and his wife,
Elizabeth Gardiner had at least one child,
a son:
1 Ensign Ambrose Burnaby, Jr., (1745-1802);
married Phylena Burt of Berkley. Thereafter
was at least one child, a son:
1 Rev. James Barnaby, (1787-1877);
married Abigail Burt, daughter
of Lieutenant Abner Burt of Berkley.
3 Rebecca Bartlett married Sergeant William Harlow, (1624-1691) who
later was a Lieutenant Governor of Plymouth Colony. They had
at least one child, a son:
1 William Harlow, Jr., born 1650; married, (1), Lydia
Cushman, daughter of Elder Thomas Cushman. He
married, (2), Mary Allerton, daughter of Isaac
Allerton.
4 Elizabeth Bartlett married Anthony Sprague, (1636-1719), son of
William Sprague. She died in 1713. They had at least one
child, a son:
1 Jeremiah Sprague, (1682-1759); married Priscilla Knight,
(1685-1775), and they had at least one child, a son:
1 Knight Sprague, (1711-1804), soldier in the
Indian Wars and in the American Revolution.
He married, (1), Mary Lewis and there was at
least one child, a daughter:
1 Sarah Sprague, (1738-1831), married, 1762
Richard Southgate, Jr., (1742-1822) of
Bridgewater, Vermont. He was a soldier
in the American Revolution and was a
son of Richard Southgate, Sr. (1714-
1798) of Leisester, Mass. And his wife,
Emily Brown, daughter of Samuel Brown.
1 Ann Warren, came to America with her mother and her four sisters in
1623; married, Apr. 9, 1623, Thomas Little, who came from England
and was at Plymouth colony in 1630. He purchased 1000 acres of land
at Marshfield, Mass. in 1650 and was a member of Plymouth Military
Company. He died at Soituate in 1671 or 1672.
3 Sarah Warren came to America with her mother and her four sisters in
1623; married, Mar. 28, 1634, John Cooke, son of Francis Cooke
(1583-1663), 17th Signer of the Mayflower Compact; came to
America in 1620 on the Mayflower; married at Leyden, Holland, 1603,
Hester Mahieu, a Wallcon and Heugenot – she died between 1666 and
1675). John Cooke died Nov. 23, 1695. Sarah Warren and her husband,
John Cooke, had at least one child, a daughter:
1 Sarah Cooke, born 1635; married Arthur Hathaway of Mansfield and
they afterwards removed to Dartmouth. They left a great
number of descendants as is shown by the several volumes of
them in the Boston Library. Arthur Hathaway and his wife,
Sarah Cooke, had at least one child, a son:
1 John Hathaway, born Sept. 17, 1653.
4 ELIZABETH WARREN, (#2613, line #653).
5 Abigail Warren came to America with her mother and her four sisters in
1623; married, 1639, Anthony Snow of Marshfield. There was at least
one child, a daughter:
1 Sarah Snow married Ichabod Bartlett (see the third #1 line on preceeding
page). She was his second wife.
6 Nathaniel Warren, Sr., born 1624 in America and married, 1645, Sarah
Walker and he died in 1669, or 1667. His widow married a man named
Blackwell and she died in 1700. Nathaniel Warren, Sr. and Sarah Walker,
his wife, had 12 children, listed by Savage as follows:
1 Richard Warren, born 1646, married Sarah --- and they moved to
Middleborough where he died in 1696 or 1697. There was at
least one child, a son:
1 John Warren, (1690-1768), married, 1713, Naomi Bates and
they had, probably among others, a son:
1 James Warren, (1714-1800); married, 1744, Abigail
Thomas, (1722-1807). He was a soldier in the
American Revolution. There was at least one
child, a son:
1 Edward Warren, (1760-1814) of Watertown,
Conn., and was a soldier in the Revolution.
He married Mary Steele and they had at least
one child, a son:
1 Alanson Warren, (1793-1856); resided
at Watertown, Conn. And married, 1818,
Sarah M. Hickox, (1799-1866), daughter of
Major Caleb Hickox and Ruth Scoville who
was a descendent of General John Mason,
(1600-1672).
2 Jabez Warren, who died young.
3 Sarah Warren, born Aug. 29, 1649; married John Blackwell and they
had at least one child, a daughter:
1 Alice Blackwell, born 1681; married William Spooner who was
born in 1680. There was at least one child, a daughter:
1 Alice Spooner, born 1718; married Roger Haskell,
(1711-1750) and they had at least one child:
1 Rebecca Haskell, (1743-1838), married
Captain John Granger, (1734-1783), and
they had at least one child, a daughter:
1 Rhoda Granger, (1779-1809); married
Seth Taylor, who died in 1811.
4 Hope Warren, born Mar. 17, 1651.
5 Jane Warren, born Jan. 10 or Dec. 31, 1651, probably the latter date;
married, Sept. 19, 1672, Benjamin Lombard of Barnstable.
6 Elizabeth Warren, born Sept. 5, 1654; married a Mr. Green.
7 Alice Warren, born Aug. 2, 1656; married 1674, Thomas Gibbs and
she died in 1725. There was at least 1 child, a daughter:
1 Abigail Gibbs who married, in 1697, Jireh Swift, son of
William Swift, and they had at least one child, a son:
1 Nathaniel Swift, (1708-1790); married, 1730, Abia
Tupper and they had at least one child, a son:
1 Isaac Swift, (1753-1802), a surgeon in the
American Revolution. He married, 1775,
Patience Case and they had at least one
child, a daughter:
1 Patience Swift, (1784-1819), married,
1816, Rev. Thomas Lippencott, (1791-1869),
a son of Barzillai Lippencott, (1760-1812)
and Elizabeth Ellet.
8 Mercy Warren, born Feb. 20, 1658; married Jonathan Delano.
9 Mary Warren, born Mar. 9, 1660; married, but the name of her
husband is not known.
10 Nathaniel Warren, Jr., born Mar. 19, 1662; married Phebe
Murdock and he died in 1707. There were no children.
11 John Warren, born Oct. 23, 1663; died young.
12 James Warren, born Nov. 7, 1665; died 1667, says Savage. He also
says in another place in his same book, that he married, 1687,
Sarah Dotey (or Doten), eldest daughter of the 2nd Edward
Dotey (or Doten) who came on the Mayflower, and that they
had nine children.
7 Joseph Warren, Sr., born in 1627, in America; married about 1651, Priscilla
Faunce (born about 1633 or 1634), a sister of the famous ruling elder,
Thomas Faunce. She was a daughter of John Faunce who came to
America in 1623 in the “Anne” and his wife, Patience Morton who was
born in 1615 in England. Priscilla Faunce died in 1707. Joseph Warren,
Sr. was a Representative to the General Court, by annual election from
1681 to 1686 and he died in 1696 or 1698. There were six children,
according to Savage, who lists them in the following order:
1 Mercy Warren, born Sept. 23, 1653; married, 1674 or in Feb.
1675, Major John Bradford. (1653-1736), living with him
nearly 62 years. She died Mar., 1747. Major John Bradford
was a son of Major William Bradford, (1624-1703/4) and his wife,
Alice Richards, (1627-1671). Major William Bradford was a
son of Governor Bradford. Mercy Warren and her husband,
Major John Bradford, had at least one child, a son:
1 Lieutenant Samuel Bradford, (1683-1740); married, 1714,
Sarah Grey, and they had at least one child, a son:
1 Gideon Bradford, Sr., born 1718 or 1719; was married
and he had at least one child, a son:
Gideon Bradford, Jr., born 1752; married and had
at least one child, a son:
1 Zebediah Bradford.
2 Abigail Warren, born Mar. 15, 1655 and died young.
3 Joseph Warren, Jr., born Jan. 8, 1657; married in 1692, Mehitable
Wilder.
4 Patience Warren, born in March, 1660; married 1686, Samuel Lucas
who was born in 1661 in West England. He was killed in 1715 or
1716 in King Philip's War. There was at least one child, a son:
1 Joseph Lucas, born in 1689; was Deacon of the First Church.
He married Meletiah --- and there was at least one child,
a son:
1 Barnabus Lucas, born 1729; married Anna Pierce and
5 Elizabeth Warren, born Aug. 15, 1652 (?), probably 1662);
married Jan. 19, 1688, Josiah Phinney.
6 Benjamin Warren, born Jan. 8, 1670; married, 1697, Hannah Morton,
(1677-1715), and he died in 1746. There was at least one child,
a son:
1 Nathaniel Warren, (1706-1767), married Sarah Morton who was
born in 1718, and there was at least one child, a daughter:
1 Ruth Warren, born 1758; married Thomas Morton and
they had at least one child, a daughter:
1 Jane Morton who married Chandler Burgess,
(1786-1851).
Numbers
5228 and 5229
Line #1307
Note: The Tidd genealogy, to be found in the Newberry Library, Chicago, Ill.
Is considered authentic. It gives the name “Tidd” as also being spelled,
“Tead”, “Tedd” and “Todd”.
John Tidd, Sr., (#5298, line #2649) was said to have been from
Hartford, England and was Sergeant of the Militia camp. He was a tailor
by trade. He came to America and settled at Charlestown, Mass. where he
was a landed proprietor. In 1640 he removed to Woburn where he is recorded
as selling land in 1652 and was a town officer. He married (1), Margaret --- ,
(#5299, line #2649) and she died in 1651. He married, (2), Alice --- . His
will is dated 1656 and he died Apr. 27, 1657. There was at least one child by
his first wife, a daughter:
(or House)
Lord Samson Leonard, (#10352, line #647), son of John Leonard, Jr.,
(#20704, line #647) and Elizabeth Harmon, (#20705, line #647), was born in
1545 and died in 1615. He was the eleventh Lord of Dacre. He married
Baroness Margaret Fiennes, (#10353, line #647) and she died in 1611. She
had a very long line of distinguished ancestors, including King Alfred the Great,
William the Conqueror, King Henry I of England, King Henry III of England,
Kings Edward I, II and III of England, Llewellyn the Great, a long list of Barons
Dacre( from whom her husband was descended), William de Percy, Robert
Stafford the standard bearer of the Conquest, Sir Edward Neville; the great
Baronial lines of Monceaux, Fiennes and Despenser. Lord Samson Leonard
and Baroness Margaret Fiennes, his wife, had at least one child, a son:
Thomas Browne, (#10480, line #655) was born in England and lived
at Hawkedon, county Suffolk, near Bury, St. Edmunds, England. He married
Joan --- (#10481, line #655) and there was at least one child, a son:
Rev. John Howse, (#11182, line #5591, was born, married and he
died in Eastwell, county Kent, England, (where he was the pastor of a church),
Aug. 30, 1630. He married --- --- , (#11183, line #5591) and there were
four children, not listed in the order of their birth:
1 Thomas Howse; whose will was drawn in London, England, Oct. 18, 1643.
2 PENNINAH HOWSE, (#5591, line #2795).
3 HANNAH HOWSE, (#5589, line #1397).
4 Samuel Howse, lived in Scituate, Mass.
Numbers
20704 and 20705
Line #647
John Leonard, Jr., (#20704, line #647), son of John Leonard, Sr.,
(#41408, line #647) and --- --- , (#41409, line #647), was born in
1508 and died in 1590. He married Elizabeth Harmon, (#20705, line
#647) and there was at least one child, a son:
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