Ancestors of Russell Edward Spooner II
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5852.
John Marchant
John obtained freeman status in 1652. He was Ensign in 1664, Lieutenant in 1670.
5856.
Thomas Rogers
Came on the Mayflower, was the 18th signer of the Mayflower Compact and died that winter - January 11, 1621. Thomas Rogers and his son Joseph came to the colonies at Plymouth aboard the "Mayflower". His wife and the rest of the family came over later, although the only record of arival if for son John. There were three other children born in England.
5862.
Stephen Deane
Stephen embarked on the "Fortune" in July of 1621 and arrived at Provincetown on Cape Cod on November 9th. Listed as "probably from Southwark, miller".
Stephen was a miller by trade. The arrival at Plymouth of this second group caused some problems for the Colony. The Adventurers (the financial backers of the Pilgrims) had promised the new group an acre of land after arriving the new world, but they they brought "not so much as a bisket-cake, nor pot nor pan to dresse any meate in." Ashore, the first year's crop had not been good, and this new group represented additional mouths to feed. The mood at the colony turned worse when Thomas Weston, speaking for The Adventurers, accused the first Pilgrims of keeping the Mayflower too long, and then sending the ship home empty. (In fact, the first Pilgrims had been sent off so ill prepared that they would not have survived had the Mayflower not remained as a supply ship.) In order to appease the financiers of the venture, the Pilgrims were forced to fill the ship "Fortune" with goods, mostly timber, to return to England. On its return trip it was captured by the French and forced to land in Northern France where it was stripped of all its' cargo. Eventually it returned to London empty with its crew.
Stephen Deane was a successful business man. In 1627, he bought an additional acre from Phillip Delaney, presumably for his future marriage. In 1632, he obtained permission to set up the first corn (wheat) mill in the colony. According to Plymouth Court Records, "that in the case the said Stephen Deane can beat all of the corn that is, or shall be used in the Colony, it shall not be lawful for any other to set up a works of that kind except be it for his own use, or freely without toll or any other consideration whatsoever."
On March 10, 1633/34, Stephen purchased a dwelling house and land from William Bradford in the center of Plymouth. He died in September, 1634 with three children all under 7 years of age.
The Inventory of the estate of "Stephen Deane was taken 2 Oct 1634 by Stephen Hopkins and Robbert Hicks, and totalled 87# 19s. 6d. of which 42# real estate; the house and fens at Fresh Lake,2#; dwelling house & garden, 20#; mill, 20#.
On 5 Apr 1669 "Willam [sic] Twining of Eastham...for himself and merriam Deane his sister and for Sussana Snow sister to his wife; which three are the proper and joint heirs of their father Steven Deane his land" sold to Peter Warden for 8# "all the lands that belongs unto and were the purchase lands of Stephen Dean deceased".
The best treatment of the family of Stephen Deane may be found in John I. Coddington's article on the widow Mary Durante Ring and her children.
5880.
William Brown
William Brown came to Plymouth in on the Love, arriving in November 1635. He travelled with wife Mary, and is listed as "fisherman". There is no notation of origin nor destination. Both are listed at age 26.
5881.
Mary Murdock
Mary immigrated with her two siblings, and the family of Thomas Whitten on the Elizabeth and Anne, Roger Cooper, Master, sailing mid-May and arriving at Boston in midsummer with 102 passengers. She changed her name from Moorecocke to Murdock.
6184.
Christopher Young
Christopher Youngs, Born in England, died at Wenham, Mass, June 1647. He came to America from England in l635 in the ship "Love", of which his brother Joseph was master. He was a weaver. He married in England about 1635, Priscilla Elvin, who died about 1646, daughter of Richard Elvin of Great Yarmouth, England, Norfolk County. They had five children.
6194.
Richard Warren
When he came over on the Mayflower, he left behind his wife and five daughters, planning to have them sent over after things were more settled in the Colony. His wife and daughters arrived in America in 1623, on the ship Anne.
The only concrete things we know about Richard Warren's ancestry are that he was a merchant of London--whether he was born there or not is an entirely different question. We also know that his wife was named Elizabeth. He had five daughters baptized in England somewhere, and perhaps the true records will some day be brought to light.
Richard Warren is an ancestor to many famous Americans. Among them are Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Franklin D. Roosevelt; and Alan B. Shepard, Jr., the first American in space and fifth man to walk on the moon. A published lineage showing Winston Churchill as a descendant of Richard Warren has a questionable generation and is most likely in error. However, Winston Churchill does appear to be a descendant of Mayflower passenger John Howland's brother Arthur.
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