Ancestors of Russell Edward Spooner II
Notes
2930.
William Twining
In 1659 Eastham granted William Jr. three and one-half acres for a house lot adjoining William Twining, Sr. at Poche, on the east side of Town Cove. He also received 10 acres from his step-father-in-law Josiah Cooke in 1664. There were other lands received at Billingate (Wellfleet) and in Barnstable County. He deeded land at Bound Brook in Yarmouth to Peter Warden in 1669 and also 100 acres to Thomas Doggett in 1671, for 28 pounds. He served on the Grand Jury three times in 1671. In 1674, he deeded land at Princes Neck by River Sparrow, near Eastham, to John Yates, for 20 pounds. On May 5, 1693, he granted land at Poche to son-in-law Joseph Young.
In 1662 he was admitted and sworn to the Grand Jury at Eastham, and again three times in 1671. He was a deacon in the Eastham Congregational Church. As late as 1681 he was called "Deacon Twining." Sometime thereafter, he, his wife, and his son Stephen changed from the Congregational Church to the Society of Friends. From 1670 to 1700 there was a large migration from different parts of New England to Long Island, East New Jersey, and later Pennsylvania, because of persecution. In 1695 William is on the records for the last time as a voter, and the same year he and his wife removed to Newtown Pennsylvania, accompanied by his son Stephen and family. Son Stephen had purchased 500 acres near Newtown, and became a Quaker. Their names appear in the Middletown Meeting records in 1699. His son William (the third) remained in Eastham and Congregational.
His will was made out in 1697 and proved in April of 1705. It refers to his children and land still held on Cape Cod. He left his Massachusetts property to his son William.
3076.
Henry Hoskins
According to "Hoskins Families of Seventeenth Century America", William was "Born about 1615-1616, probably in County Cork, Ireland, son of Henry and Anne (Winthrop) Hoskins. Admitted at Scituate, Mass., 1 Jan. 1634/35." - p. 9.
3092.
John Young Sir
Rev. John was believed to have been educated at Oxford. He wrote and taught the Calvinistic System. Because the English ruler was Catholic he and many of the Parish were persecuted until conditions became intolerable. His brother Christopher and wife sailed with brother Joseph, Master of the ship "Love" for New England. Two years later Rev. John made application to sail and was refused (from the records of Westminister, was written in the margin "This man was forbyden passage by the commissners. and went not from Yarmouth".
One report places him at New Haven 1638-40. Woods, in his history of Long Island, where he makes Young a Minister at Hingham, England and came to New Haven with part of his church in 1640 and to begin the settlement of Southold, in Oct of that year.
(Farmers Register) says he died 1672 in his 74th year.
3094.
Henry Howland
Arthur and Henry Howland came to Plymouth several years after John. They settled at Marshfield in 1647, and Henry later moved to Duxbury where he was a constable. Both Arthur and Henry were Quakers, which sect originated in 1647 in England. The Quakers would never pay tithes and never yielded to any human law which traversed their conscience. Arthur particulary did more - he resisted tyranny with all the moral energy of enthusiam, bearing witness against blind obedience. Plymouth colonists were very bitter toward the Quakers and stringent laws were made punishing their refusal to contribute towards the support of the ministry of the colonial church, holding meetings in their faith and entertaining their traveling brethren. This led to the severest persecution and imprisonment, which made Plymouth a very undesirable place for the Quaker to reside. It is odd that the Pilgrims who left England and Holland in search of religious freedom were so unsympathetic to other sects. This difference in beliefs must have led to harsh family feelings between the brothers, particularly between Arthur and John as Arthur was a brought before the General Court many times, and John was a member of that Court.
Arthur's house at Marshfield was the headquarters of the persecuted Friends. He was arrested in 1657 and, refusing to pay bond, was sent to prison. While in prison, he wrote a letter to the General Court held in Plymouth, March 2 ,1658 which was found to be "full of factious, seditious, slanderous passages to be of dangerous consequences." He was fined, refused to pay the fines and went back to prison. In one instance, John Howland, Jr. was called before the General Court because he had warned his Uncle Arthur and other Quakers that the constables were on their way to arrest them.
3096.
Robert Bartlett
Robert Bartlett (1603-1676) came from Warwick, England in the 'Lion' 16 Sep 1632. He settled in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1632.
He was an original proprietor of Hartford 1639-40 where he was the the first selectman. He received 8 acres at Hartford in the division of 1639, and resided west of present Layfayette Street. He was made freeman
10 Apr 1645; served as chimney viewer 1650; owned land in East Hartford as late as 1664.
He removed to Northampton, Massachusetts in 1665, where he was killed by Indians.
3098.
Love Brewster
Love came in the Mayflower with his parents and brother, Wrestling, in 1620. He served as a Pequot War volunteer in 1637, and was a member of Miles Standish's Duxbury Massachusetts Company in 1643.
His will was dated 6 October 1650, inventory taken 31 January 1650/51.
3100.
John Pabodie
Perhaps born at St Albans, Hertfordshire, England; came to New England with sons Francis and William in 1635; settled in Plymouth, where "a palisade was made beyond the creek at Eagle's Nest where Standish, Brewster, and Paybody lived".
Freeman 7 Mar1637; removed to Duxbury 1637; granted a 10 acre lot at Bluefish in Duxbury January 2, 1637/38, between the lands of William Tubs and Experience Mitchell; granted a tract of 30 acres 2 Nov 1640; one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater 1645.
Will dated 16 Jul 1649 at Duxbury, wherein he left one whole shilling to each of his children, with the bulk of land going to grandchildren and other goods to wife Isabel. The will was proved 27 Apr 1667.
3102.
John Alden
SOURCE: Hubert Kinney Shaw, Families of The Pilgrims, The Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendents, Boston, Massachusetts, 1956
Bradford tells us that John Alden was hired at Southampton as a cooper. An act of Parliament (1543) required that a ship carrying beer should have a cooper aboard to replace lost "barrel-stock".
He was the seventh signer of the Mayflower Compact. In 1627, he was one of eight who assumed the Colony's debt. In 1634, he went with John Howland to the Kennebec (Maine) trading post.
He was a surveyor of highways; a member of a committee for raising a force against the Indians; deputy from Duxbury from 1641 to 1649; a member of the Colony's council of war, 1646, 1653, 1658 and 1667; treasurer, 1656-1658; Governor's Assistant, 1632-1641; and from 1650 to 1686. Twice he was Deputy Governor, 1664-1665 and in 1677.
About 1621, he married Priscilla Mullins (Molines), daughter of William, who with his wife also came in the Mayflower to Plymouth. (Both Mr. and Mrs. Mullins died in February, 1621, the first winter in Plymouth).
3108.
John Howland
John Howland came over on the Mayflower as one of the indentured servants of a wealthy couple named John and Kathrine Carver and they landed in America in December of 1620. John Carver died in the spring of 1621 and his wife Kathrine died in the summer of 1621.
John HOWLAND. Born in 1592 in Fen station, Huntingdonshire, England. John died in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts on 23 Feb 1672; he was 80. Buried in Burial Hill, Plymouth Massachusetts. Occupation: yeoman
-Mayflower index #19,049
Best remembered for having fallen off the Mayflower during a mighty storm, as recorded by Bradford "In sundry of these storms the winds were so fierece and the sea so high, as they could not bear a know of sail, but hwere forced to hull for divers days together. And in one of them, as they thus lay at hull in a mighty storm, a lusty (meaning good spirited) young man called John Howland, coming upon some occasion above the gratings was, with a seele of the ship, thrown into the sea; but it please God that he caught hold of the topsail halyards which hung overboard and ran out at length. Yet he held his hold (though he was sundry fathoms under water) till he was hauled up by the same rope to the brim of the water, and then with boat hook and other means got into the ship again and saved his life. And though he was something ill with it, yet he lived many years after and became a profitable member both in church and Commonwealth".
-when the Mayflower reached Cape Cod, John was among the party of 10 who were sent out to select the locations of their new homes. They were driven by a storm into Plymouth Harbor which they choose for the settlement. Prior to landing, the passengers drew up the Compact which became the basis for their government. John Howland, then twenty-eight, was the 13th signer.
Thirteenth signer of the Mayflower Compact. Came to America as an indentured servant of John Carver, possibly a scribe. Was to serve 7 years or until debt paid. Durning a storm, fell overboard and was rescued by Edward Doty. One of the exploring party after landing at Plymouth Rock. Member of the "Undertakers" group of settlers that bought the rights of the colony from the original investors. In 1634 placed in command of the Kennebec Trading Post. In 1641 appointed Deputy of the General Court, Died February 23, 1672, but not buried until May 29, 1672. Join the Pilgrims of South Hampton in 1620, Upon the death of John Carver and his wife, indenture was ended and he became head of the Carver Household. Presided over only witch trial at the colony. The wife of William Holmes a Lt. of John Standish was accused of being a witch by Dinah Sylvester. Was asked what evidence she had, she replied that "she came to me in the shape of a witch", when further questioned was determined that the shape was that of a bear. To discourage such nonsense, Dinah was fine 5 lbs and whipped.
3109.
Elizabeth Tilley
Parents died the first winter. Brothers and sisters remained in England. After her Husband John's death, she went to live with her Daughter Lydia Browne. She is not buried with her husband, but in the Brown Family Cemetery in Rhode Island.
"In 1847 it was believed that Elizabeth was the Carvers' daughter. In 1855 William Bradford's long-lost journal was discovered, and a transcript was published in 1856. Entitled "Of Plimoth Plantation", it is about the only written record of Plymouth Colony. It contained, among much other information, the fact that the Carvers were childless, and they had taken Elizabeth Tilley, then a young teenager, into their home when her parents and her uncle and aunt all died during the first winter at Plymouth. Her father was John Tilley, her mother usually accepted to be Joan Hurst Rogers, though some writers have said she was Elizabeth Comyngs. John Howland was the "servant" of the Carvers. At that time, the term "employee" had not been created; employees were called "servants". When Both Carvers died in the spring of the first year at Plymouth, John Howland inherited the Carvers' estate.
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