The Great Mirgarion - 12th Great Grandfather Ralph HUDSON

12th Great Grandfather Ralph HUDSON / John HUDSON / Mary HUSDON / Katherine HODGES / Mary DeLand / Robert ROUNDY / John ROUNDY / Uriah ROUNDY / Shadrach ROUNDY  Almeda Sophia ROUNDY / Charles PARKER / Laura Elizabeth PARKER / Kirt DeMar WOOD/ LW / TR

11th great-grandfather Elias PARKMAN Sr. - Founder of Windsor - The Great Mirgration

11th great-grandfather Elias PARKMAN

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Ancestry Chain: TR / LW / Kirt DeMar WOOD / Charles PARKER / Almeda Sophia ROUNDY / Shardrach ROUNDY / Sucretia NEEDHAM / Daniel NEEDHAM IV / Daniel NEEDHAM III / Mary PARKMAN / Willam PARKMAN / Elizas PARKMAN Jr. / Elias PARKMAN Sr. Immigrant. 

11th Great Grandfather Captain William TRASK - Founder of Salam Massachusetts - The Great Migration

Ancestry Chain: 

Captain William Trask * “Old Planters” 1585-1666
11th great-grandfather
Sarah Trask * 1634-1696

William Parkman * 1658-1730

Mary Parkman * 1680-1730

Daniel Needham * III 1706-1803

Daniel Needham * IV 1729-1751

Lucretia Needham * 1760-1848

Shadrach Roundy * 1789-1872

Almeda Sophia ROUNDY * 1829-1912

Charles Sr. PARKER * 1853-1935

Laura Elizabeth PARKER * 1889-1970

Kirt DeMar WOOD * 1923-1987

Lark
TR

The Great Migration Begins: William FRENCH and Elizabeth

Immigrant Lt. William FRENCH b.15 Mar 1603 England, Married (1) 20 Nov 1631 in England - Elizabeth SYMMES [or GODFREY]. They immigrated together with small children in 1635 on the Ship 'Defence.' William and Elizabeth had nine children. Married (2) 6 May 1669 in Massachusetts - Mary LATHROP (they had four children together) widow of John STEARNS she married a third time after William's death. Lt. William FRENCH d. 20 Nov 1681 Massachusetts.



child v. Sarah FRENCH b. 1638 daughter of William and Elizabeth married Roxbury 15 Aug 1660 Jonathan Peake Sr., son of Christopher PEAKE.

Ancestry Chain: 12th great Grandfather Immigrant Lt. William FRENCH b.1603, 11th great Grandmother Sarah FRENCH b.1638, Jonathan PEAKE Jr. b.1663, Dorcas PEAKE b.1696, Nathaniel SANGER b.1724, Mary SANGER b.1746, Lucretia JEFFORDS b.1766, Amariah RAWSON b.1787, Adaline RAWSON b.1811, Mary DUNN b.1833, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Camilla SMITH b.1926, Lark, JR.

William GAGER 11th Great Grandfather - Great Migration Begins

WILLIAM GAGER ORIGIN: Little Waldingfield, Suffolk MIGRATION: 1630 FIRST RESIDENCE: Charlestown REMOVES: Boston 1630 OCCUPATION: Surgeon. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admitted to Boston church as member #8, which would be no later than 27 August 1630, as he was made deacon of the church on that day; the entry is followed by the annotation "dead since" [BChR 13; WJ 1:38]. EDUCATION: Sufficient to be a surgeon. OFFICES: 23 August 1630: "It was propounded what should be Mr. Gager's maintenance. Ordered, that he should have a house builded him against the next spring; is to have a cow given him, & £20 in money for this year, to begin the 20th of June, 1630, & after £30 per annum. All this to be at the common charge" [MBCR 1:74]. BIRTH: Baptized Little Waldingfield, Suffolk, 15 June 1592, son of "John Gagar." DEATH: 20 September 1630 [WJ 1:40]. MARRIAGE: By 1618 [Hannah MAYHEW]; d. Boston by 29 November 1630 [WP 2:320]. CHILDREN (all baptized and buried Little Waldingfield, Suffolk): i SARAH, bp. 6 August 1618; bur. 27 April 1627. ii JOHN, bp. 25 May 1620 (deposed 25 April 1653 aged "about thirty years" [WP 6:281]); m. by 1647 Elizabeth Gore [Granberry 224]. iii WILLIAM, bp. 31 March 1622; bur. 26(?) April 1622. iv WILLIAM, bp. 11 May 1623; bur. 12 April 1626. v REBECCA, bp. 11 May 1625; bur. [late May or early June] 1625. vi WILLIAM, bp. 27 April 1626; bur. 5 May 1626. vii THOMAS, bp. 13 July 1627; bur. 6 October 1627. viii SARAH, bp. 29 June 1628; d. Boston by 29 November 1630 [WP 2:320]. [m. 1642 Robert ALLYN] ix REBECCA, bp. 25 April 1630; d. Boston by 29 November 1630 [WP 2:320]. COMMENTS: In a letter directed to "our loving friend Mr. Gager at Litle Waldingfield in Suffolk" about 1629/30, John Winthrop wrote: Sir, Being informed of your good inclination to the furtherance of this work which (through the Lord's good providence) we are in hand with for the establishing of a church in N.E., and having sufficient assurance of your godliness and abilities in the art of surgery to be of much use to us in this work, being informed also, that the place where you live doth not afford you such sufficient and comfortable employment as your gifts do require, we have thought good to offer you a call to join with us, and become a member of our society: your entertainment shall be to your good content; if you like to accept this motion, we desire you would prepare to go with us this spring. If you come up to London we shall be ready to treat further with you [WP 2:199]. It was a fateful call. In a letter to his wife dated 29 November 1630, John Winthrop enumerated the twelve members of "my family" who had died by that date, and included among them "Mr. Gager and his man: Smith of Buxall and his wife and 2: children" [WP 2:320]. In his letter to the Countess of Lincoln Thomas Dudley reported that "about the beginning of September died Mr. Gager, a right godly man, a skillful chirugeon, and one of the deacons of our congregation ..." [Dudley 72]. When the last of the Gager children was baptized in Little Waldingfield, the main body of the Winthrop Fleet had already departed for New England. There were, however, several ships which sailed in May [Young's First Planters 311] and the Gager family (or at least the mother and newborn child) must have come across at that time. William Gager and his family, given their close connection with John Winthrop, very likely made the move from Charlestown to Boston in early September, and so that is given as the place of death of William, his wife and two daughters. The order of the Court to provide maintenance for Gager does not state the service that he was to provide, but it may have been as a surgeon to the whole colony. The starting date for his term of service, 20 June 1630, was a Sunday shortly after the Winthrop Fleet had arrived in New England, and was the day of their return from scouting out Charlestown as the place they would settle. On 29 October 1639 John Winthrop made out a will which was later revoked, in which was the following bequest: "I will that Jo[hn] Gager shall have a cow one of the best I shall have, in recompense of a heifer his father bought of me, and an 2 ewe goats and 10 bushels of Indian corn" [WP 4:147]. In about August 1646 William Morton of New London passed on to John Winthrop Jr. the desire of John Gager to "buy him a shirt cloth" [WP 5:94]. BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: Jacobus prepared an excellent treatment of this family, including the evidence needed to identify the wife of John Gager [Granberry 223-25].

The Great Migration Begins Sketches PRESERVED PURITAN Ancestry Chain: 11th gr grandfather William GAGER Immigrant b.1592, Sarah GAGER Immigrant b.1620, Hannah ALLYN b.1650, Joanna ROSE b.1678, Joanna AVERY b.1700, Hannah ALLEN b.1734, Lucretia NEEDHAM b.1760, Shadrach ROUNDY b.1789, Almeda Sophia ROUNDY b.1829, Charles PARKER b.1853, Laura Elizabeth PARKER b.1889, Kirt DeMar WOOD b.1923, Lark, TR.

THOMAS HOOKER 11th great-grandfather - The Great Migration Begins

THOMAS HOOKER ORIGIN: Rotterdam MIGRATION: 1633 in the Griffin [WJ 1:129] FIRST RESIDENCE: Cambridge REMOVES: Hartford 1636 OCCUPATION: Minister. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: On 11 October 1633 Winthrop reported a "fast at Newtown, where Mr. Hooker was chosen pastor, and Mr. Stone teacher, in such a manner as before at Boston" [WJ 1:137]. When Hooker moved to Hartford the church went with him, and he remained pastor there until his death. FREEMAN: 14 May 1634 [MBCR 1:369]. EDUCATION: Matriculated at Cambridge from Queen's College 1604, migrated to Emmanuel, B.A., 1607-8; M.A., 1611 [Venn 2:403; Morison 382-83]. His inventory included "books in his study" valued at £300. OFFICES: Arbiter, 7 May 1640 [RPCC 11]. ESTATE: Granted one acre for a cowyard at Cambridge, 4 November 1633 [CaTR 6]. Granted five acres of land and another three acres of land, 5 January 1633/4 [CaTR 7]. Granted "five acres of meadow ground in the mead next Watertown weir" and "thirty acres of salt marsh on the south side Charles River," 2 April 1635 [CaTR 12]. In the divison of meadow land on 20 August 1635 granted a proportional share of zero [CaTR 13]. Granted three acres, 8 February 1635/6 [CaTR 17]. In the 8 February 1635/6 list of "houses" in the town, "Mr. Tho[mas] Hooker" held four [CaTR 18]. In the Cambridge land inventory on 1 May 1635 Thomas Hooker held four parcels of land: "in the town one house with garden and backside about one rood"; "in Cowyard Row one cow house and yard about one acre"; "in Wigwam Neck about five acres"; and "in the Long Marsh about three acres" [CaBOP 3-4]. On 2 May 1636 "Thomas Hooker of the New Towne" sold to Nicholas Danforth "about one acre of land being the lot of Edward Hopkins" [CaBOP 38]. There is no entry in the Hartford land inventory of 1640 for Thomas Hooker, but his name is mentioned frequently as an abutter in other entries [HaBOP passim]. In his will, dated 7 July 1647 and proved apparently in 1649, "Thomas Hooker of Hartford" bequeathed to "my son John Hooker my housing and lands in Hartford, aforesaid, both that which is on the west, and also that which is on the east side of the River, to be enjoyed by him and his heirs forever, after the death of my wife, Susanna Hooker, provided he be then at the age of one and twenty years, it being my will that my said dear wife shall enjoy and possess my said housing and lands during her natural life"; to "my son John my library of printed books and manuscripts" provided he "deliver to my son Samuell" books to the value of £50, or the cash equivalent, and "if my son John do not go on to the perfecting of his studies, or shall not give up himself to the service of the Lord in the work of the ministry, my will is that my son Samuel enjoy and possess the whole library and mansucripts, to his proper use forever; only, it is my will that whatever manuscripts shall be judged meet to be printed ... and however I do not forbid my son John from seeking and taking a wife in England, yet I do forbid him from marrying and tarrying there"; to "my son Samuell, in case the whole library come not to him, as is before expressed, the sum of seventy pounds"; to "my daughter Sarah Hooker" £100 at marriage or at age twenty-one, "the disposal and further education of her and the rest, I leave to my wife"; to "the two children of my daughter Joannah Shephard deceased, and the child of my daughter Mary Newton, to each of them ten pounds"; "my beloved wife Susanna Hooker" to be executrix and to receive the residue of the estate; "my beloved friends Mr. Edward Hopkins and Mr. William Goodwyn" to be overseers [Hartford PD Case #2841; CCCR 1:498-501; Manwaring 1:16-18]. The inventory of the estate of "Mr. Thomas Hooker," taken 21 April 1649, totalled £1136 15s., including £450 in real estate: "housing and lands within the bounds of Hartford on both sides the rive," £450. There was also "an adventure in the Entrance," £50 [Hartford PD Case #2841; CCCR 1:501-02]. BIRTH: About 1586 (based on matriculation at Cambridge), son of Thomas Hooker of Marefield, Tilton, Leicestershire [DSGRM 5:122-24]. DEATH: Hartford 7 July 1647 [MHSC 4:8:544-45]. Eliot wrote This visitation of God was exceeding strange, it was sudden & general, as if the Lord had immediately sent forth an angel, not with a sword to kill, but with a rod to chastize, & he smote all, good & bad, old & young, or as if there were a general infection of the air; which went from north to south by degrees infecting all, yea, such as were on the seas near our coasts were so infected & smitted. And this is remarkable, that though few died, yet some did, and generally those that died were of our choicest flowers, & most precious saints, among others that were then taken to rest was that worthy & blessed light Mr. Hooker, who having a cold & preached twice on the Sabbath (Mr. Stone not being at home), and ministered both the sacrament the Lord's supper in the forenoon & baptism in the afternoon, he was so over spent, & his spirits sunk, that he never could recover them again [RChR 190]. MARRIAGE: Amersham, Buckinghamshire, 3 April 1621 Susannah Garbrand [Bucks Marr 4:13]. She married (2) after 7 December 1654 and before January 1669/70 WILLIAM GOODWIN [NEHGR 55:25]. (At a Particular Court held on 7 December 1654 Walter Gray was confessed to and was punished for "his gross abuse & evil in slandering Mr. Will[iam] Goodwyn & Mar. Hooker in charging them with the act of adultery" [RPCC 134-36].) CHILDREN: i JOANNA, b. say 1622; m. by about 1638 as his second wife Rev. Thomas Shepard of Cambridge [Young's First Planters 554-55]. (Although Young annotated this section of Shepard's memoirs to indicate that the marriage took place in October 1637, Shepard himself says the marriage was in the "year after those wars in the country," meaning the Pequot War of 1637.) ii MARY, b. say 1624; m. by about 1646 Rev. Roger Newton (she had one child by the date of her father's will, 7 July 1647; see TAG 14:99-103). iii ANNE, bp. Great Baddow, Essex, 5 January 1625/6; bur. Chelmsford, Essex, 23 May 1626. iv SARAH, bp. Chelmsford, Essex, 9 April 1628; bur. Chelmsford 26 August 1629. v SARAH, b. say 1630; m. by 1649 Rev. John Wilson, son of JOHN WILSON [NEHGR 61:128; Sibley 1:65-66]. vi JOHN, b. say 1631; returned to England and married there, Savage says he became a parish priest. vii SAMUEL, b. say 1633; Harvard 1653 [Sibley 1:348-52]; m. Plymouth 22 September 1658 Mary Willett [PCR 8:21], daughter of THOMAS WILLETT. viii Son, d. Cambridge late in 1634 [WP 3:177]. ASSOCIATIONS: One sister of Thomas Hooker, perhaps named Anne, married GEORGE ALCOCK and another sister, Dorothy, married John Chester, and had with him LEONARD CHESTER. Thomas Hooker spent a few years in the household of Francis Drake of Esher, Surrey, and made such a great impression that in his will of 13 March 1633/4 Drake made a bequest to"Johanna Hooker, who now is in New England," the daughter of Thomas Hooker [PCC 43 Seager]. This Francis Drake was cousin of the JOHN DRAKE who made a brief appearance in New England in the early 1630s, and who also received a bequest in his will. COMMENTS: At court 5 March 1644[/5] Walter Grey was found guilty of "laboring to inveigle the affections of Mr. Hooker's maid" [RPCC 33]. On 1 June 1654 Samuel Allen was ordered to pay Mistress Hooker three loads of wood for the one he confessed he stole from her [RPCC 127]. The last four children, according to the estimates made here, were born during a short span of time. Perhaps Samuel was born after the son who died in 1634. BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: Mather wrote a lengthy biographical sketch of Thomas Hooker [Magnalia 332-52]. Brief accounts of the life of Thomas Hooker have been published in the Dictionary of National Biography and the Dictionary of American Biography. In 1977 Frank Shuffleton wrote a comprehensive, full-length biography of Hooker [Thomas Hooker: 1586-1647 (Princeton 1977)].

The Great Migration Begins
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PRESERVED PURITAN

Ancestry Chain: 11th great-grandfather Rev. Thomas HOOKER Immigrant b.1586, Sarah HOOKER b.1630, Sarah WILSON b.1650, Elizabeth TORREY b.1685, Elizabeth GREEN b.1705, John ROUNDY b.1726, Uriah ROUNDY b.1756, Shadrach ROUNDY b.1789, Almeda Sophia ROUNDY b.1829,Charles PARKER b.1853, Laura Elizabeth PARKER b.1889, Kirt DeMar WOOD b.1923, Lark, TR.

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Also 1st cousins 13 times removed, The common ancestor is John HOOKER b. abt 1524, +Thomas HOOKER b.1553 [half brother of *Mary b.1567], 11th great-grandfather Rev. Thomas HOOKER Immigrant b.1586,

The common ancestor is John HOOKER b. abt 1524, 12th great-grandmother *Mary HOOKER b.1567 [half sister to +Thomas b.1553], Rachel GREENE b.1596, Rachel PERNE Immigrant b.1619, William RAWSON b.1651, Nathaniel RAWSON b.1689, Nathaniel RAWSON b.1716, Abner RAWSON Rev.WarVet. b.1764, Amariah RAWSON b.1787, Adaline RAWSON b.1811, Mary DUNN b.1833, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Camilla SMITH b.1926, Lark, JR.

JOHN DRAKE 10 great grandfather - The Great Migration Begins

JOHN DRAKE 18 October 1630: applied for freemanship [MBCR 1:80]. 26 May 1631: John Reading of the Inner Temple, London, to John Winthrop, writing about the will of Isaac Johnson: "You write you have sent it over, John Drake sayth he copied it to that purpose, but none can be heard of" [WP 3:37]. 13 March 1633/4: Bequest in will of Francis Drake of Esher, Surrey, to "John Drake, my Cozen William Drake's sonne, twenty poundes to be sent unto him into New England" [Waters 580-81]. COMMENTS: The John Drake of the third item above, and almost certainly of the other two, was son of William Drake of Wiscombe Park, Devonshire, a junior line of the prominent Drakes of Ashe of the same county. The letter of John Reading shows that a John Drake had recently been in New England, at or shortly after the death of Isaac Johnson (September 1630); this John Drake, then, would have been in New England at the time of requesting freemanship in October 1630, but gone by the time the first group of freemen were admitted in May 1631. Presumably he returned on the Lyon in March 1630/1. He may have returned to New England shortly thereafter, or Francis Drake may simply have lost track of his cousin at this time. In any case, he is not the John Drake who appears briefly in Taunton, Plymouth Colony, late in the 1630s, moves to Windsor, Connecticut, and dies there in 1659 [TAG 63:193-206, 65:87-88]. Douglas Richardson has discovered that John Drake of Windsor derived from Hampton in Arden, Warwickshire [Frederick L. Weis, Ancestral Roots ..., 7th edition (Baltimore 1992), p. 197]. The Great Migration Begins Sketches PRESERVED PURITAN Ancestral Chain: John DRAKE Immigrant b.1585 and Elizabeth ROGERS Immigrant b.1581, John DRAKE Immigrant b.1625, Mary DRAKE b.1666, Catherine MARSHALL b.1699, Catherine FOWLER b.1723, Lydia NOBLE b.1768, Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797, Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Camilla SMITH b.1926, Lark, JR. John and Elizabeth ROGERS DRAKE are gr. gr. grandparents of Governor Oliver WOLCOTT signer of the Declaration of Independents.

Rev. John WILSON 11th great grandfather - Great Migration Begins

JOHN WILSON ORIGIN: Sudbury, Suffolk MIGRATION: 1630 FIRST RESIDENCE: Boston RETURN TRIPS: Made two brief trips to England, leaving in 1631, returning the last of May 1632 on the Whale [WJ 1:62, 93], and leaving again in 1634 [WP 3:61, 175; WJ 1:205] OCCUPATION: Minister. On 23 August 1630 it was ordered that "Mr. Wilson should have after £20 per annum till his wife come over, his year to being the 10th of July last" [MBCR 1:73]. Teacher at Boston, 27 August 1630 [WJ 2:267]. Installed as pastor of the First Church of Boston 23 November 1632 [WJ 1:114]. On 17 May 1637 a lottery was taken to choose Mr. John Wilson or Mr. John Eliot to "go forth with the soldiers against the Pequots" and Mr. Wilson was chosen [MBCR 1:195]. On his return by 20 November 1637 he was given £20 as a "gratuity for going with the soldiers" [MBCR 1:215]. FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1631 and admitted 2 July 1632 [MBCR 1:80, 367]. EDUCATION: John Wilson was educated at Eton and Cambridge. He was admitted at King's College, Cambridge, on 23 August 1605, aged fourteen, B.A. 1609-10, M.A. 1613 [Venn 4:429; Morison 408]. He wrote numerous religious tracts and a Latin poem in memory of Rev. John Harvard [NEHGR 61:40]. His inventory included "a parcel of old books given by Mr. Wilson to his son John Wilson as part of his portion long ago, which at his death he was to possess & also a parcel of new books which young Mr. Wilson & his brother Mr. Danforth were to divide as the will directs" valued at £19 4s. 6d. OFFICES: Committee to examine Mr. Samuel Hutchinson for soundness of judgement, 7 October 1641 [MBCR 1:338]. ESTATE: On 1 April 1634 Mr. John Wilson, pastor of the church of Boston, was granted two hundred acres of land next to Medford [MBCR 1:114]. On 6 June 1639 "Mr. John Wilson, pastor of Boston" was granted one thousand acres of land at "Pecoit" in any place "so as it may not hinder a plantation" [MBCR 1:263]. On 10 May 1648 it was ordered that his 1500 acres in Pequot country be laid out adjoining Mr. Winthrop's [MBCR 2:241-42]. In his will, dated 31 May 1667 and proved 21 August 1667, "John Wilson Sr., pastor of the Church of Christ at Boston, ... being now aged and many weaknesses attending of me," bequeathed to "John Wilson Jun. the son of my son Edmond Wilson, Doctor of Physick, late of London, deceased" £233 6s. 8d. "to be paid to his lawful guardian within two years"; "to my grandchild Bridget Prideaux, the daughter of the abovesaid Edmond Wilson deceased, the now wife of Nicholas Prideaux, merchant in Barbados" £100; to "my son John Wilson, pastor of the Church at Medfield, and to my daughter, Mary Danforth, the wife of Samuel Danforth of Roxbury, pastor of that Church to whom I have by deed made and signed the same day ... given and granted all my houses and lands" and residue of goods; "my two sons John Wilson and Samuel Danforth" joint executors; to "Sarah, Elizabeth, John and Susanna, my grandchildren by my son John Wilson" £25 apiece; to "my grandchildren, John, Mary, Elizabeth and Samuel, children of my daughter Mary Danforth" £25 apiece "as also to such children as my said daughter shall bear within the space of two years next"; to "my son John Wilson ... all my old books and my new books more lately bought of Mr. Usher or of any others in New England to be divided between my son John Wilson and my daughter Mary Danforth, two third parts to my said son ... and one third part to her my said daughter"; to "my beloved cousin Mr. Edward Rawson at Boston" £100; to "Mrs. Anna Paige my kinswoman" £20; to "my brother John Mansfield and his children I do give £10 vizt. to him and his wife £5 and the other £5 to be equally divided between his children"; to "my dear cousin Mrs. Sarah Higginson" £5; to the church "over whom I am an overseer" £10; to "my beloved brother and fellow Elder over the same Church, Mr. James Penn" £3; to "my beloved brethren Capt. James Johnson, Mr. Richard Truesdale, Mr. Jacob Eliot, deacons" 40s.; "to my ancient and good friend Mrs. Norton as a small expression of my affectionate love to her" 20s; to "my faithful and good friends Gaudy James and Ann his wife" £5 "as a testimony of my thankfulness to them for their love and service done unto me"; to "my cousin Benjamin Brisco" 40s.; to "my cousin William Smith" 40s.; to "my Reverend and beloved brethren and fellow laborers in the works of the ministry Mr. Richard Mather of Dorchester, Mr. John Allene of Dedham, Mr. Zechariah Symes Sr. of Charlestown, Mr. John Sherman of Watertown, Mr. Jonathan Mitchel of Cambridge, Mr. Thomas Shephard of Charlestown and Mr. Michael Wigglesworth" 10s. apiece; to "Mr. Thomas Thacher and Mr. James Allen" 20s.; if estate is insufficient, legacies to be abated proportionally except legacies to be given "to my grandchildren the children of my son Edmond Wilson"; "moreover and above what is aforenamed I do give to my grandchild John Wilson the son of Edmond Wilson a silver goblet, and to his sister Prideaux the cover thereof"; to "my son John Wilson I give the gold ring with the seal"; to "my daughter Mary Danforth an enamelled gold ring"; "my honored friend Mr. Thomas Danforth of Cambridge and my loving kinsman Mr. Edward Rawson" overseers; to "Mr. Thomas Danforth the sum of 40s." [SPR 6:1-4]. The inventory of the estate of Mr. John Wilson was taken 19 August 1667 and totalled £419 14s. 6d., including "the house" valued at £300 [SPR 5:53-54]. BIRTH: About 1591 [Venn 4:429], son of Rev. William Wilson [Venn 4:433; Magnalia 1:303]. DEATH: Boston 7 August 1667, aged 68. "About two of the clock in the morning, my honored Father, Mr. John Wilson, Pastor to the church of Boston, aged about 78 years and an half, a man eminent in faith, love, humility, self-denial, prayer, soundess of mind, zeal for God, liberality to all men, esp[ecial]ly to the s[ain]ts & ministers of Christ, rested from his labors & sorrows, beloved & lamented of all, and very honorably interred the day following" (the record of Samuel Danforth [RChR 206]). MARRIAGE: By about 1617 Elizabeth Mansfield, daughter of John and Elizabeth Mansfield. She died about 1658 [Magnalia 1:311]. She did not accompany her husband in 1630, and her unwillingness to come to New England was the subject of several letters from Margaret Winthrop to her son John in May 1631; she first reported that "Mr. Wilson is now in London and promised me to come and see you. He cannot yet persuade his wife to go, for all he hath taken this pains to come and fetch her. I marvel what mettle she is made on. Sure she will yield at last, or else we shall want him exceedingly in New England" [WP 3:33]. In her second letter she noted that WILLIAM CODDINGTON "is gone to Sudbury to Mr. Wilson," and in her third letter that "if he go it must be without his wife's consent, for she is more averse than ever she was" [WP 3:34, 36]. John Wilson's wife did return with him in 1632, however, for they had a child born and baptized in Boston in 1633. When John Wilson made a second trip to England in 1634, she was "at first very much affected with her husband's departure, but she is now well pacified" [WP 3:175]. CHILDREN: i EDMUND, b. say 1618; m. say 1645 _____ _____. Remained in England [NEHGR 61:41; Venn 4:427; Foster 4:1654]. ii [Rev.] JOHN, b. say 1624; Harvard College 1642 [Sibley 1:65-66]; baptized Boston 3 March 164[3/]4 [BChR 39]; m. by 1649 Sarah Hooker (eldest child bp. Boston 8 July 1649 [BChR 316]), daughter of Rev. THOMAS HOOKER [NEHGR 61:128; Sibley 1:65-66]. iii ELIZABETH, b. say 1630; "baptized in her infancy into the fellowship of the church" and received into the Boston church 19 November 1648 [BChR 51]; m. 1650 Rev. Ezekiel Rogers of Rowley (Rogers took as his second wife "a virgin daughter of the well-known Mr. John Wilson, in hopes of issue by her; but God also took her away, with the child she had conceived by him" [Magnalia 1:311, 412]; on 24 February 1650[/1] Emmanuel Downing reported to John Winthrop Jr. that "Mr. Rogers of Rowly hath last week buried his wife and child within a few days after she was brought to bed," and the following day Adam Winthrop reported the same [WP 5:97, 99]). iv MARY, b. Boston 12 September 1633 [BVR 2]; bp. there 15 September 1633 [BChR 278]; m. (1) [5 November] 1651 Rev. Samuel Danforth (the day and month of the marriage are given in many secondary sources, but the contemporary record of this marriage has not been found; Mather supplies the year [Magnalia 59-65, at 62; Sibley 1:88-92, at 91]); m. (2) Joseph Rock (on 17 September 1682 "Sister Danforth now Rock is dismissed [from Roxbury church] to the First Church at Boston" [RChR 95]). ASSOCIATIONS: Through his wife he was brother-in-law to the powerful and wealthy Capt. Robert Keayne. In his 1656 will Keayne bequeathed to his sister, wife of Rev. John Wilson [SPR Case #171]. COMMENTS: John Winthrop reported dramatically on the attempted return voyage of John Wilson to England in 1634: returning in the winter time, in a small and weak ship, bound for Barnstaple, were driven by foul weather upon the coast of Ireland, not known by any in the ship, and were brought, through many desparate dangers, into Galloway, where they parted, Mr. Winthrop taking his journey over land to Dublin, and Mr. Wilson by sea, and being come within sight of Lundy, in the mouth of Severn, they were forced back by tempest to Kinsale, where some ships perished in their view. Mr. Wilson, being in Ireland, gave much satisfaction to the Christians there about New England [WJ 1:205]. BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: Cotton Mather wrote one of his longer memorials on Rev. John Wilson [Magnalia 1:302-21]. In 1907 J. Gardner Bartlett published the "Ancestry and Descendants of Rev. John Wilson of Boston, Mass." [NEHGR 61:36-41, 127-33]. A brief account of John Wilson appears in the Dictionary of American Biography.

The Great Migration Begins Sketches PRESERVED PURITAN Ancestry Chain: 11th great grandfather Rev. John WILSON Immigrant b.1588, Rev. John WILSON Jr. b.1621, Sarah WILSON b.1650, Elizabeth TORREY b.1685, Elizabeth GREEN b.1705, John ROUNDY b.1726, Uriah ROUNDY b.1756, Shadrach ROUNDY b.1789, Almeda Sophia ROUNDY b.1829, Charles PARKER b.1853, Laura Elizabeth PARKER b.1889, Kirt DeMar WOOD b.1923, Lark, TR.

Robert DIBBLE 11th Gr. Grandfather - The Great Mirgation Begins

ROBERT DIBBLE ORIGIN: Unknown (but see COMMENTS below) MIGRATION: 1634 on the Recovery FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Dorchester church prior to 6 May 1635 implied by freemanship. FREEMAN: 6 May 1635 (fourth in a sequence of five Dorchester men) [MBCR 1:371]. EDUCATION: Signed petition of 7 February 1641[/2] (as "Robert Deeble") [DTR 106]. OFFICES: On 18 March 1637/8, "Robert Deeble is chosen bailiff for half a year or till another be chosen and it is ordered that he shall levy all fines, rates and amercements for the plantation" [DTR 32]. "Good[man] Deeble shall be bailiff for this year," 13 February 1638/9 [DTR 38]. "It is ordered that Robert Deeble is to be continued bailiff for the year following with the same power according to the order of the former year," 31 October 1639 [DTR 42]. ESTATE: On 17 December 1635, the town of Dorchester "ordered that Robert Deeble shall have enlargement of two goad in length from his house upward, and that his son T[homas] Deeble shall have six goad next him, to go with a right line up from the pale before his house on condition for Thommas Deeble to build a house within one year or else to lose that goad granted him" [DTR 13]. "Robert Deeble and his son" to have thirty acres in the "great lots at the bounds betwixt Roxbury and Dorchester at the great hill," 4 January 1635/6 [DTR 14]. In the 18 March 1637/8 division of land, "Robert Deeble" received two acres and three-quarters and twenty-two rods in the neck and two acres and three-quarters and twenty rods in the Cow's Pasture [DTR 31]. "There is granted to Robert Deeble 1 acre of land joining to his own home lot and next to Mr. Adderton's towards the Dead Swamp," 31 October 1639 [DTR 40]. BIRTH: By about 1586 based on estimated date of marriage. DEATH: After 7 February 1641[/2] [DTR 106] (and possibly after 1646 [DTR 286]). (Savage claimed that Robert Dibble "was living there [Dorchester] in 1652" [Savage 2:46], but no evidence for this is seen.) MARRIAGE: By about 1611 _____ _____. She is not seen in any New England record. CHILDREN: i FRANCES, b. about 1611 (aged 24 in 1635 [Hotten 285]); no further record. ii THOMAS, b. about 1613 (aged 22 in 1635 [Hotten 285]); m. (1) by 1637 Miriam _____ (eldest known child b. Windsor 29 August 1637 [Grant 31]); m. (2) Windsor 25 June 1683 Elizabeth (_____) (Hawks) Hinsdale ("Tho[mas] Dible Senior of Windsor [and] Eliz[abeth] Hensdell of Hadly" [CTVR 52]), widow of John Hawks and ROBERT HINSDALE {1637, Dedham} [Hinsdale Gen 62]. ASSOCIATIONS: Abraham Dibble appeared in Boston by 1648, and resided later in Haddam and Suffield in Connecticut; and John Dibble appeared in Springfield in the early 1640s [Savage 2:46]. Nothing other than identity of surname suggests a relationship among these three men. Research in English records might resolve this problem. COMMENTS: On 31 March 1634, "Robert Dible" appears on the list of passengers on the Recovery of London, preparing to depart for New England from Weymouth [NGSQ 71:171, 77:250]. On 20 March 1634/5, "Thomas Dible, husbandman," aged 22, and "Francis Dible, soror [sister]," aged 24, appear on the passenger list of the Marygould preparing to depart for New England from Weymouth [Hotten 285; GMN 7:9]. Pope claims that Robert Dibble moved to Windsor, as did his son Thomas, but no record of Robert Dibble is found in Windsor, or elsewhere in Connecticut. On 7 February 1641[/2], "Robert Deeble" signed a Dorchester petition with regard to the establishment of a free school [DTR 106]. In an undated account of the constables, possibly from 1646, "Robert Deeble" was paid £1 [DTR 286]. Robin Bush found the baptisms of three children of a Robert Dibble at St John's, Glastonbury, Somersetshire, including a daughter "Frauncisca" baptized on 17 June 1609 [M&JCH 25:31]. This entry is tantalizing but by itself is not sufficient to make the identification. These baptisms as published seem to contain some inaccuracies, and further research is needed. The Great Migration Begins Sketches PRESERVED PURITAN Ancestry Chain: Robert DIBBLE Immigrant b.1581, Thomas DIBBLE Immigrant- b.1614, Samuel DIBBLE b.1643, Thankful DIBBLE b.1685, Joseph BRONSON b.1708, David BRONSON b.1733, Sylvanus BRONSON b.1769, Mary BRONSON b.1806, Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Camilla SMITH b.1926, Lark, JR

Christopher PEAKE 12th Gr. Grandfather - The Great Mirgation Begins

CHRISTOPHER PEAKE ORIGIN: Unknown MIGRATION: 1634 FIRST RESIDENCE: Roxbury OCCUPATION: Tanner. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: "Christopher Peake a single man" was admitted to Roxbury church among those who arrived in 1634 [RChR 80]. FREEMAN: 4 March 1634/5 [MBCR 1:370]. EDUCATION: He signed his will. His inventory noted that "the best of his clothes & books [had been] disposed of to his children." ESTATE: In an early listing of Roxbury estates, Christopher Peake owned an undetermined amount of land and was valued at £6 8s. personal estate [RBOP 4]. He received ten acres in the 20 January 1657[/8] division of the thousand acres at Dedham [RBOP 6]. In the Roxbury list of possessions, compiled in 1652 or 1653, Christopher Peake held nine parcels, the first five of which had been granted to him: "his house and lot thereto, eleven acres"; "two acres of salt marsh in Gravelly Point"; "seven acres and a half"; "in the last division the second part of the three allotments being the eighth lot ... [being] twenty acres and one quarter"; "in the thousand acres near Deddam ten acres"; "ten acres bought of Jeames Morgan"; "three acres of salt marsh "; "an acre of meadow"; and "two acres in bare-marsh" [RBOP 38]. In his will, dated 2 April 1666 and proved 2 August 1666, "Christopher Peake of Rocksbury" appointed "my wife Dorcas, sole executrix," and "Mr Edward Denison & Mr. Thomas Weld, both of Roxsburye," overseers; "rents of my house, lands & moveables to my wife, she maintaining the reparation of that the whole time of her life, excepting a little pasture where I intend to make a tan yard, if God please to let me live"; "that little pasture, being about two acres ... [to] my three sons, Jonathan, Joseph, & Ephraim" equally; "my two daughters, at the day of marriage, if God so dispose of them, both Dorcas and Sarah," £10 each in moveable goods; "after my wife's decease, I bequeath my goods unto my children, Jonathan, Dorcas, Joseph, Ephraim, and Sarah ... my eldest son to have a double portion, the rest of my children to have a part alike"; "my son Jonathan hath already received four acres of land by the Great Pond, which shall be accounted as a part of his double portion, with a cow" [SPR 1:473-74]. The inventory of the estate of Christopher Peake was taken 8 June 1666 and totalled £531 17s. 2d., including £340 1s. in real estate: "a dwelling house and barn with other outhousing and orchard," £80; "5 acres of plowland & meadow upon the foreside of the dwelling house," £50; "3 acres of plowland & meadow behind the house," £27; "1 acre of fresh meadow near the house," £10; "Jonathan Peake's 4 acres, part of 12 acres of the pond lot," £12; "7 or 8 acres more of the same lot with the crop upon the land," £32; "7 acres & ½ about Gambling End with a crop of land [sic] upon some of the land," £31 15s.; "6 acres of meadow near Gravely Point," £30; "10 acres in the 1000 acres near Dedham," £4; "2 acres more or less at Bare Marsh," £6; "21 acres in the middle division," £25 6s.; "12 acres near Rockey Swamp," £12; and "2 acres of pasture more or less where he intended to set up tanvats," £20 [SPR 4:271-73]. BIRTH: By about 1612 based on date of marriage. DEATH: Roxbury 23 May 1666 [RChR 178]. MARRIAGE: Roxbury 3 January 1636[/7] DORCAS FRENCH, daughter of Thomas French [Parker-Ruggles 425-56]. "Sister Peake" was admitted to the Roxbury church 6 June 1652 [RChR 87]. She married (2) after 1679 as his third wife GRIFFIN CRAFTS. She died Roxbury 30 December 1697. CHILDREN: i JONATHAN, b. Roxbury 17 December 1637; m. Roxbury 15 August 1660 Sarah French. ii DORCAS, b. Roxbury 1 March 1639; m. after 1675 and before 1682 John Curtis, son of WILLIAM CURTIS [Parker-Ruggles 426, 465-66, citing SLR 16:342; NEHGR 51:166]. iii HANNAH, bp. Roxbury 12 February 1642[/3] [RChR 114]; bur. Roxbury 5 October 1660 [RChR 177]. iv JOSEPH, bp. Roxbury 23 March 1644[/5] [RChR 116]; living 1666; no further record. v Child, d. Roxbury 13 April 1647 ("a newborn child of Christopher Peake" [RChR 173]). vi Child, bur. Roxbury 10 May 1649 ("buried unbaptized [an infant of] Bro. Peake" [RChR 174]). vii EPHRAIM, bp. Roxbury 11 April 1652 [RChR 119]; living 1666; no further record. viii SARAH, bp. Roxbury 9 March 1655[/6] [RChR 121]; living 1666; no further record. ASSOCIATIONS: Among the debts owed by the estate of Christopher Peake was £97 2s. 4d. to "Sir W[illiam] Peak his brother" [SPR 4:273]. COMMENTS: Although Christopher Peake apparently did not arrive in New England until 1634, he is included here because his wife, DORCAS FRENCH, did arrive in 1633.

The Great Migration Begins Sketches PRESERVED PURITAN Ancestry Chain: Christopher PEAKE 1634 Immigrant b.1612, Sr. Jonathan PEAKE b.1637, Jonathan PEAKE b.1663, Dorcas PEAKE b.1696, Nathaniel SANGER b.1724, Mary SANGER b.1746, Lucretia JEFFORDS b.1766, Amariah RAWSON b.1787, Adaline RAWSON b.1811, Mary DUNN b.1833, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Camilla SMITH b.1926, Lark, JR.

Edward FULLER - 13th Great Grandfather - The Great Migration Begins

EDWARD FULLER ORIGIN: Leiden, Holland MIGRATION: 1620 on Mayflower FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth ESTATE: In the 1623 Plymouth division of land Samuel Fuller Junior received three acres as a passenger on the Mayflower [PCR 12:4]. He was not included in the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle. BIRTH: Baptized Redenhall, Norfolk, 4 September 1575, son of Robert Fuller [NEHGR 55:192]. DEATH: Plymouth shortly after 11 January 1620/1 [Bradford 446]. MARRIAGE: By about 1605 _____ _____; she d. Plymouth shortly after 11 January 1620/1 [Bradford 446]. CHILDREN: i MATTHEW, b. say 1605; m. by about 1630 Frances _____ [TAG 61:198-99; MF 4:5-6]. (Although he wrote before the demonstration that Matthew was son of Edward, Paul Prindle prepared an excellent account of Matthew Fuller and his family [Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie ... (n.p. 1976), pp. 157-62].) ii SAMUEL, b. about 1608; as "Samuell Fuller Junior" he is the third person in the eighth company (and in the household of his uncle Samuel Fuller) in the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle [PCR 12:11]; "Sammell Fowller" appears in the "1633" list of Plymouth freemen, just ahead of those admitted on 1 January 1634/5 [PCR 1:4]; assessed 9s. in the Plymouth tax list of 27 March 1634 [PCR 1:28]; m. Scituate 8 April 1635 Jane Lothrop, daughter of Rev. John Lothrop [NEHGR 9:286]. ASSOCIATIONS: Brother of SAMUEL FULLER of Leiden and Plymouth. [Samuel was on the Mayflower]. COMMENTS: In his list of passengers on the Mayflower Bradford included "Edward Fuller and his wife, and Samuel their son" [Bradford 442]. In the accounting of the Mayflower families made in 1651, Bradford reported that "Edward Fuller and his wife died soon after they came ashore, but their son Samuel is living and married and hath four children or more" [Bradford 446]. The question of the paternity of Matthew Fuller was examined exhaustively by Bruce C. MacGunnigle, Robert M. Sherman and Robert S. Wakefield in 1986, and they came to the conclusion that Matthew was a son of EDWARD FULLER [TAG 61:194-99]. They also noted that the evidence connecting EDWARD FULLER and SAMUEL FULLER to Robert Fuller of Redenhall, Norfolk, is not so strong as might be desired, leaving open the possibility that future research might lead to a different ancestry for the two brothers [TAG 61:194]. Extensive data on the Fullers of Redenhall and vicinity were published in 1901 by Francis H. Fuller [NEHGR 55:192-96, 410-16]. Jeremy Bangs cites a document placing Edward Fuller in Leiden [MQ 51:58]. In his third volume treating early settlers on the Penobscot, Philip Howard Gray sets forth a completely new structure for the family of Edward Fuller, including children not previously suspected [Penobscot Pioneers, Volume 3 (Camden, Maine, 1993), pp. 62-66]. Gray employs a style of logic and argumentation not normally found in the genealogical literature, and his conclusions are not adopted here. BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: Bruce C. MacGunnigle has published the definitive treatment of Edward Fuller and his descendants in the fourth volume of the Mayflower Society's Five Generations Project.

The Great Migration Begins Sketches PRESERVED PURITAN Ancestry Chain: Edward FULLER on Mayflower b.1575 and wife on Mayflower, son Samuel FULLER on Mayflower b.1612, Mary FULLER b.1644, Sarah WILLIAMS b.1675, Benjamin ROATH b.1701, Mary ROTH b.1726, Mary SANGER b.1746, Lucretia JEFFORDS b.1766, Amariah RAWSON b.1787, Adaline RAWSON b.1811, Mary DUNN b.1833, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898,Camilla SMITH b.1926, Lark, JR.