Ancestors of Russell Edward Spooner II
Notes
2520.
John Hathaway
Listed as a head of household at the beginning of King Philip's War.
Testimony in Court of Taunton, Bristol Co., Mass on March 27, 1699: "Mr. John Hathway & John Richmond, sen, both of Taunton being of lawful age, testifieth that whereas one John Gingell was in Taunton in or about the year 1639, on in the year 1640 and about that time went from Taunton and was never since in said Taunton as we ever saw or heard of. And that Mr. Richard Williams late of Taunton deceased hath demanded and received lands upon the right of the sid John Gingell for about fifty six years and further saith not. In Taunton, in Bristol county, March the 27th, 1699, the above said John Hathaway and John Richmond made oat to the above written evidence before me, Thomas Leonard, Justice"
2522.
Shadrack Wilbore
Shadrach served for nearly 33 years as town clerk of Taunton. In 1687, during the Andros regime, he was imprisoned in Boston for a time for "scandalous, factious and seditious writing". He was released after apologizing, in a document in which he also mentioned his "great family of children" and the coldness of that time of the year (November). The village showed their appreciation of his efforts on their behalf by granting him 100 acres of land.
Shadrach was mentioned many times in the History of Tauton. He was said to have the finest penmanship. He was arrested at one point and thrown in prison for writing a position paper that disagreed with the Royal Government concerning taxation. He left a will that mentions all of his children and his daughter Rebecca specifically, calling her "the wife of Abraham Hathaway".
In 1668, Shadrach, John Hathaway and others were proprietors of the Tauton North Purchase which had been made from the Wampanoag Indians. They are on record as selling two 100 acre plots of land to be used to start the Chartley Iron Works, to James and Leonard. This iron works was later known as the Leonard Works of Norton.
2528.
Thomas Rose
Thomas (*) Rose is supposed to have arrived at Plymouth Colony via St. Kitts about 1648 or before bringing several children. Savage calls him Thomas and says it was probably he who died August 1658 at Ipswich, Massachusetts. Thomas had a brother, Joseph, who married Elizabeth Bumpus and lived in Marshfield, Massachusetts.
(*) Note: On the use of given name Thomas, the "Parkhurst Manuscripts: Early Families of New London and Vicinity, Vol. 22 P-R" note that "Thomas" Rose is only a supposition. Most genealogists agree that the first name of Immigrant Ancestor Rose is unknown, although since the name Thomas was repeated down into future generations, it might be Thomas. Neither is there any known relationship with Daniel Rose of Wethersfield, Conn., Robert Rose of Mass, or the Rose's of Long Island.
2529.
Joanna Ransford
Also spelled Joanne. She married second, Robert Fleming of Stonington, Conn., as early as 1669, when her son was nearly of age, and was his widow in Jan. 1681/2. She was living at or near Norwich, Conn., in 1695. She signed herself Joanna Olmstead after 1687, but no record has been found of any of her three marriages.
There is little known about the Widow Rose. There is no evidence to show she was Eames, or Rathbone, or Ransford; all names speculated for her maiden name. Her origins and maiden name are unknown. The first name of her husband is also unknown, although since the name Thomas was repeated down into future generations, it might be Thomas. Neither is there any known relationship with Daniel Rose of Wethersfield, Conn. or Robert Rose of Mass, or the Rose's of Long Island. It is possible she is an unrecorded daughter of another immigrant and married in America.
NOTES:
Savage's Dictionary of New England Settlers says, under Thomas Fleming: "FLEMING, ROBERT, Stonington 1669, had grant of land 30 Sept, that year. and died before 1681, leaving widow Joanna and daughter Mary Rose, possibly other children."
Torrey's New England Marriages Before 1700 has: "ROSE, [Thomas?] & Joanna ? ( --1693+), m/2 Robert FLEMMING by 1674, m/3 ? OLMSTEAD bef 1687; b=first born: 1659; ?CT
"FLEMMING, Robert ( --1681) & Joanna [ROSE], wid, m/3 OLMSTED bef 1687; b=first born: 8 Dec 1674; Stonington, CT
"OLMSTED, ? & Joanna (ROSE) [FLEMMING], w Robert; aft 18 Jul 1687; ? Stonington/Preston, CT"
History of the 1st Congregational Church Stonington, Connecticut, Pg 41: "In 1668 a census of the inhabitants of the town was ordered to be taken, embracing those only who were inhabitants or heads of families. February 2. There were found to be forty-three inhabitants, viz.: Robert Fleming"
Tidbits from above: The "b 8 Dec 1674" entry under Flemming shows she may have had children with Robert Flemming and we may have some half-cousins in the Flemming family. This is because b usually means "date of first born" in Torrey.
Torrey apparently found some evidence of her being alive in 1693.
The Mary described in Savage is likely the Mary Rose who married Robert Parke. Her descendants are cousins to Princess Diana, as Princess Diana is a Parke descendant.
2530.
Robert Allyn
Robert Allyn, the first of that name in this country, was probably born in England about 1608. He is known to have lived in Salem. Massachusetts, in 1636, and was admitted to the church there in 1642. He was a proprietor at Jeffery's Creek in 1638 and a constable there in 1648. In March, 1651, he emigrated with the Glouster Company to New London, Connecticut, and was allotted land on Cape Ann Lane. He later, in 1656, obtained a large tract of land on the east bank of the Thames, then called the Pequod river, at a place still called Allyn's Point. This was then in the town of New London but by changes in boundaries it soon became the town of Ledyard. He was one of a company which purchased land in Norwich or "New Norridge" where he was a constable in 1669. He died in 1683 in Ledyard leaving five children by his wife Sarah--a son John, and four daughters--Sarah, wife of George Geer; Mary, wife of Thomas Park; Hannah, wife of Thomas Rose; Deborah, who afterwards married John Gager Jr.
2532.
Stephen Gates
Stephen Gates arrived at Boston, Massachusetts on the ship Diligent, landing August 10, 1638. He travelled with wife Anne and daughters Elizabeth and Mary. He is listed "of Norwich, Norfolk", and bound for Hingham. Ages are not given.
He settled in Hingham, where he received a grant of three acres for a house lot, twelve acres for a "great lot" and a three acre planting lot. His house was on Town (now North) Street and was bounded on the north by the street, on the east by William Buckland's land, and on the west by the town swamp. In 1647, he received a grant of half an acre of salt marsh.
Stephen and his wife probably did not become members of the Hingham church until about May 3, 1646, when their children, Simon, Thomas, Isaac and Rebecca were baptized (birth dates of the children are not found in the town records).
He sold his house lot and other property to William Hersey, June 26, 1648, after which he may have removed for a time to Cambridge. By 1653, he had moved to Nashaway (Lancaster), where he became one of the town's largest proprietors. he was one of the petitioners for Lancaster's incorporation (April 3, 1654).
His house lot was "on the neck lying north to the house lot of John Whitcomb, Jr., bounded by the lot of said John Whitcomb south by the house lot of Nathaniel Joslin north by a range of lots easerly which lyeth on west side of Penicock River and westwardly a piece of entervail...nigh adjoinning to the North River, the said house lot being twenty acres more or less." Stephen also had two intervale lots, one of thirteen acres; the other of seven, and 314 acres of the upland division.
Stephen was admitted Freeman May 14, 1656 and served as constable in 1657. Stephen was fined 10 pounds because, as Constable, he failed to notify the voters about a town meeting. The court remitted the fine, when Stephen attributed his lapse to illness, but they relieved him of his constable's staff. In 1658, the sons of John Whitcomb killed three of Stephen's pigs. Whitcome agreed to pay for them, but then sought to be released from the obligation being "aged and weak and mean in estate." The Court decided in Gate's favor. By then, Stephen was living in Sudbury.
He subsequently removed to Cambridge, where he rented a farm, made his will (dated June 9, 1662), and died sometime before the end of September, when his estate was inventoried.
The will, proved October 7,1662, mentions his wife, sons Simon and Thomas, and daughters Elizabeth and Mary (Maynar).
2534.
John Freeman
John Freeman came to Sudbury, Massachusetts on the Abigail of London sailing from Plymouth, England on June 4, 1635. She arrived in Boston about October 8, 1635 with sallpox aboard. John traveled with his first wife, Mary, son John and daughter Cicely. John's origin is not stated, but he is listed as bound for Sudbury. Ages given are John-35, Mary-30, John, Jr.-9, Cicely-4.
John is listed as Proprietor of Sudbury in 1639, and his son Joseph Freeman, was probably the representative of Sudbury in 1691.
2535.
Elizabeth Noyes
Elizabeth Noyes was baptized in 1625 at Foxcott (Hampshire) England.
"Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town"; by Sumner Chilton Powell; Wesleyan University Press; Middletown, Connecticut; 1963 (974.4 POW GuilfordHS) (974.42 S94Po LAPL)
2536.
Thomas Harris
Thomas Harris was born in England about the year 1618, his age being stated as about forty in 1658. He was, therefore, a boy of twelve when he crossed the Atlantic. He left his mother's home in Charlestown before 1642, when, in September, he was a member of the Ipswich company of militia which set out on the expedition to disarm Passaconoway, the Sagamore of Merrimac, for which he was paid three shillings on Dec. 4, 1643.
Like his three brothers he owned a house-lot on Holmes Street in Rowley in 1643, but it is doubtful if he ever occupied it and in 1644 he sold it to Richard Holmes and Richard Bailey, confirming the sale in 1654 by a deed in which he calls himself a seaman.
On November 15, 1647, at Ipswich, Thomas Harris married Martha Lake, daughter of John Lake of North Benfleet, county Essex, England, and Margaret (Reade) Lake of New London and Ipswich, and by this marriage he gained a powerful connection with the Winthrop and Symonds families. In 1648 he purchased from William Symonds a house and lot in Ipswich which became his homestead, the lot being adjacent to one which he had previously purchased from John Warner.
He was a subscriber to Major Denison's salary in 1648, signed the loyalist petition to King Charles II in 1666, was elected tythingman in 1667 and was on the list of commoners in 1678. In 1653 he was charged, under the sumptuary laws, with allowing his wife to wear silk, but was discharged "on proof of his wife's education and bringing up." In 1665, when Samuel Symonds deposed that his cousin Harris was still going to sea, he bought the clay-pit meadow, across the road and opposite his house, from John Baker. He and his wife were executors of the estate of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Lake, in 1672.
Thomas Harris died August 2, 1687, in Ipswich. His will, dated July 12, and proved September 14, 1687, made his wife Martha his sole executrix. To her he left his dwelling-house, barn, orchard and garden, three marsh lots at Plum Island, two-thirds of a planting lot at Middle Island, part of a planting lot on the south side of the highway and all of a planting lot on the north side of the highway in the town (Ipswich), one-half of the clay-pit meadow, two-thirds of the marsh lot "at the hundreds," his share in his boat, four cows, four oxen and all the sheep and swine. He also gave her a life interest in all of the household furniture and farm implements. To his son John he gave "the new house which I built in Ipswich," two marsh lots at Plum Island, the remainder of the planting lot in town, one-third of the planting lot at Middle Island, one-half of the clay-pit meadow, one-third of the marsh "at the hundreds" and two oxen. John was also to have one-third of the house lot and orchard after the death of his mother. To his sons William and Ebenezer he left his dwelling-house, barn and shop and the other lands not already given to John, after their mother's death. The brothers were directed to offer such property as they wished to sell to each other before disposing of it outside of the family. The will was witnessed by Daniel Epps, Sr., and James Chute, Sr.
Mrs. Harris, on January 1, 1696, pointing out to the court that the will did not mention two of the Harris children, Elizabeth Gallop and Margaret Staniford, "which so fell out by the fault of him that wrote the same," requested authority to settle the personal property on these two daughters.
Madam Rebecca Symonds, widow of Mrs. Harris's uncle by marriage, Deputy-Gov. Samuel Symonds, in her will made in 1695, left to "my cousin Martha Harris a good scarf of equal value with my best scarf." The date of Martha Harris's death is not known.
2537.
Martha Lake
A desendant on her father's side in the thirty-first generation of Charlemagne, Frankish king and Roman emperor, by his wife Hildegarde, daughter of the Swabian duke Godfrey; in the thrity-second of Pepin the Short, the first Carlovingian king of the Franks; in the thirty-fourth of Pepin of Heristal, mayor of the palace under the last Merovingian kings, who died A.D. 714.
2538.
Thomas Clarke
Called "Sgt. Thomas".
2540.
Garrett Church
Garrett Church emigrated to America about 1634. He is found as early as 1636 in Watertown records. Admitted as Freeman 2 May 1649 at Watertown. He was admitted to the Watertown Church prior to 2 May 1649. He married Sarah there in 1637.
Garrett Church was one of the Proprietors of Watertown, Massachusetts in 1636. On January 20, 1681 Garrett sold to Oliver Wellington twelve acres in Watertown, the fourth lot in the fourth division and the fifth lot "in that tract of land." On August 22, 1682 "Garrat Church of Watertown, planter," sold to Samuell Sternes of Watertown four acres of meadow in that town. On 9 December 1684 Garrett Church of Watertown, planter, sold to John Sherman of Watertown two acres of plowland in the Further Plain in Watertown. On 19 May 1685 Garrett Church of Watertown, planter, sold to Thomas Rice, late of Sudbury, two acres of meadow in Watertown called "Little Cherry Meadow" within "the land called farm land & is bounded with a farm granted to Bullard"
Born abt 1611 in England. Garrett died in Watertown before 3 Feb 1685/1686; he was 74.
2628.
Quentin Pray
Quinton Pray, born near 1595, died June 17, 1667 at Braintree and his death was the first of recorded at Lynn, where about 1646 he was employed in the Iron Works as a "fineryman".
He deposed October 27, 1653, aged 58 in the case of John Giffard vs. the Iron Works Co., and again at other times in the litigation concerning that company. He was in Braintree about 1651, and resided close by the site of the forge on Monatiquot River near Elm, Adams, and Middle Streets. His homestead was the next east of the Thomas Thayer homestead grant, and his property became involved in the lawsuits that followed bankruptcy of the Iron Works in 1653.
"Goodwife Prey" deposed April 27, 1652 in the case of Wilson vs. Faxon (Court Rec. #142 & 184) and "Quinton Pray finer" sold or mortgaged all his personal property to pay a debt of =9C40 owed to Thomas Savage and John Payne, to his sons Richard Thayer, John Pray, and Henry Neale, including "my right of cattle bred of the cows which was sometimes my son John Heardmans, and also my right of said Herdmans lands in Braintree", etc., December 26, 1664 (Court Rec. #2053-(3)
His wife, Joan survived him and was made administrator of his estate but her death is not found. See Register 55, page 280, for some account of this family.
The ancient name of this family in England is Priory-. Quinton Pray, born in 1595 as a deposition shows, came to Lynn, Massachusetts as an iron-worker about 1640. He removed to Braintree and died there 17 June, 1667
He was one of the superintendents of the Pioneer Iron Works at Lynn and Braintree.
He was in Braintree about 1651 and resided close by the site of the forge on Monatiquot River near Elm, Adams, & Middle Sts. next east of the Thomas Thayer homestead grant, and his property became involved in the lawsuits that followed bankruptcy in 1653.
2634.
John Curtis
Known to be around Dover sawmills 1657-58.
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