Saturday, January 30, 2021

Ahnentafel #1057 & 1063 - Isabella Button / Buxton?

Isabella Button(?), some people say Buxton

Born: ca. 1633
Died: unknown

Buried: unknown

Married by 1656 Rowland Powell, possibly in England or in Massachusetts.  Marriage is not recorded in Gloucester, MA where they lived.

History of Gloucester, MA: Rowland Powell recorded land, in 1659, to John Collins, which had the same

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Ahnentafel #1056 & #1062 - Rowland Powell

Rowland Powell

Born: ca. 1629
  • Rowland Powell baptized Dec. 26, 1619 St. James Garlickhithe, London, England, son of Rowland & Elizabeth (--?--) Powell
  • Rowland Powell was baptized in Lydbury, Shropshire, England August 15, 1630, son of Thomas 
  • Rowland Powell was baptized May 1, 1631 at St. Dunstan in East London, son of Rowland Powell
  • Rowland Powell born Oct. 9, 1636 in Low Dinsdale, Durham, England, son of John Powell
  • Rowland Powell born May 1, 1631 son of Rowland & Emylyn (Salisbury) Powell
  • the family is said to be of Welsh origins . . . 
Died: ca 1718 Lebanon, Connecticut

Buried:

Married: by 1657 Isabella Button/Buxton(?), possibly in England, possibly in Massachusetts, not in Gloucester, MA

History of Gloucester, MA: The first ordering, settling and disposing of lots, was made by Mr. Endicott and Mr. Downing, commissioners, 2d month, 1642. How many people were then here is not known:

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Ahnentafel #1039 - Hannah Lake

Hannah Lake aka Ann 

Baptized July 3, 1621 North Benfleet, Essex, England
Died: after 1698

Buried: unknown

Married: by 1644 John Gallop in Boston, Massachusetts

Immigration: 1635 on the Abigail arriving in New England on October 6 after a 10 week voyage. She came with her mother and sister Martha as well as her aunt Elizabeth (Reade) Winthrop the wife of Governor John Winthrop, Jr.  Hannah's brother stayed in England. 
 
Records:
1623 - November 20 - Wickford, Essex, England - Edmund Reade, Hannah's grandfather wrote his will, mentioning her parents, brother and herself:

I give and bequeath unto my son-in-law, John Lake, and to my Daughter Margarett Lake, forty shillings apiece to make ym rings, and to John Lake and Anna [Hannah] Lake, theire children, 20

Sunday, January 24, 2021

Ahnentafel #1038 - John Gallop


Captain John Gallop also written as Gallup, Galloup, Galloupe ang Gallupe

Baptized: Jan. 25, 1620/21, St. Mary's Church, Bridport, Dorset, England
St. Mary's Church, Bridport, Dorset
Died: Dec. 19, 1675 in the Narragansett Swamp fight in present South Kingston, Rhode Island

Buried: Dec. 1675 near Wickford, Rhode Island

Married: Hannah Lake by1644 in Boston, MA

Immigration:1633 with his mother and siblings.  John's father immigrated on his own in 1630. 

Occupation: 
  • soldier 
  • Indian interpreter
  • representative at the General Court in Stonington, CT from Oct. 1665 to May 1667
Military Service: Soldier in Pequot War and captain of the 1st Connecticut Company during King Philip's War, John Gallop was killed in action at the Great Swamp Fight.

Friday, January 22, 2021

Ahnentafel #1037 - Mary Andrews

Mary Andrews

Born: ca. 1631
Died: after 1700

Buried: unknown

Married: 
1) 1648 William Hodges in Massachusetts
2) ca. 1654/55 Peter Pitts

Records:
1652 - March 13 - Taunton, MA - Mary is mentioned in her father Henry's will:

gives to daughter Mary Hedges, wife of William Hedges, a house and land, with reversionary interest to her son John Hedges, who is to have also a silver cup

1653/54 - Taunton, MA - Mary is mentioned in her mother Mary (--?--) Andrews' will:  "unto my Daughter Mary hodgis my best stammell petticoat which I bought of Edward Case and my cloath gounne and to my soninlaw William hodgis one of the Coslets in my hous." 

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Ahnentafel #1036 - William Hodges

William Hodges - may have been Hedges

Born: 1620, England
Died: April 2, 1654 Taunton, Massachusetts

Buried: unknown 

Married: Mary Andrews in 1648 Massachusetts 

Immigrant: arrived in Massachusetts ca. 1633

Biography:
William Hodges went to Taunton (perhaps from Salem) soon after Taunton was purchased by the first proprietors and his name is in the second list of early settlers made out by the Town Clerk, John Wilbore. His first certain appearance on the records is in August 1643, in the list of males at Taunton between the ages of 16 and 60, able to bear arms. On March 24, 1643/4 the town voted "that a sufficient carte-way be made from the houses into the woods behind the ground of William Hodges, William Evans and Aaron Knapp, where it is most convenient."  At Plymouth Court, Oct. 4, 1648, William Hodges was accused "for yt the sd. Hedgges, knowing of one yt hath traded shote unto the Indians, and refusing to declare who it is, by a sommons sent unto him is required to appeer at the next Generall

Monday, January 18, 2021

In Memoriam - Warren Thomason


Warren Lee Thomason

Born: March 2, 1971 Aurora, IL
Died: January 2, 2021 Aurora, IL

Buried: January 9, 2021 Maple Hill Cemetery, Fairfield, IL

Married: (--?--)

Children:
Michael md. Jannea (--?--)
  • Benjamin
David md. Kayla (--?--)
Matthew

Ahnentafel:
1. Warren Lee Thomason
2. Warren Thomason
3. Linda Whitlow
6. Lea Roy Whitlow

Ahnentafel #1034 - Thomas Lovell

Thomas Lovell

Born: ca. 1610
Died: Jan. 2, 1709/10 Ipswich, MA

Buried:

Married: Ann (--?--)

Possibly married twice 1) unknown and 2) Demaris (--?--) Robinson.  I have no idea if this is true. 

Immigrant, but have found no record of his arrival. 

Records:
There are two Thomas Lovell's in the records of Ipswich & Essex County or it's possible that the majority of the Ipswich / Essex County records are really about a Thomas Lovell, a currier [leather dresser], who migrated to New England from Dublin, Ireland ca. 1640.  He appears not to have been married when he migrated.  He had two sons: Alexander b. 1657, d. age 2 and Nathaniel b. 1658, living 1707.  Take all the records below with a grain of salt.

1646 - Salem, MA - Thomas Lovell appeared in the Essex County court at Salem as a witness with Thomas Robins against Peter Sims alias Ford for stealing Indian corn out of the water mill. 

Sunday, January 17, 2021

In Memoriam - Nancy Butler

Nancy Elizabeth Butler

Born: July 6, 1955, Geff, Illinois
Died: January 13, 2021 Belleville, Illinois

Buried: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Dahlgren, IL

Never married, no children. 

Ahnentafel:
1. Nancy Butler
2. Minor Butler
3. Rachel Hutchcraft
4. Charles Butler
5. Nancy Hall 
8. Isaac Butler
9. Nancy (--?--)

Saturday, January 16, 2021

Ahnentafel #1033 - Judith Gater

Judith Gater

Baptized: March 19, 1589/90 in Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England
Died: after 1654, Ipswich, Massachusetts

Buried: Old Burying Ground, Ipswich, MA

Married: John Perkins, October 9, 1608 Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England
St. John the Baptist, Hillmorton
photo by A.R. Thomson


Immigration: Left England December 1, 1630 on the Lyon with her husband and five of her seven  children ranging in age from 7 to 22 The ship landed at Nantasket, Massachusetts on February 5, 1630/31, a voyage of 67 days. 

Records:
1631 - Boston, MA - Judith was admitted to membership in the First Church of Boston as member #108. 

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Ahnentafel #1032 - John Perkins

John Perkins

Baptized: Dec. 23 1583 Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England
Died: between March 28 & Sept. 26, 1654 Ipswich, Massachusetts

Buried: Old Burying Ground, Ipswich, MA

Married: Judith Gater, Oct. 8, 1608 Hillmorton, Warwick, England

Immigration: On the Lyon sailed from Bristol on December 1, 1630 and landed Feb. 5, 1630/31 at Natasket, Massachusetts

Biography: John Perkins, senior, as he is called on the records, the immigrant ancestor . . . was among the earliest emigrants from the mother country, sailing from Bristol, England, Dec. 1, 1630 in the ship Lyon, William Pierce, master, bound for Boston in America, taking with him his entire family, consisting them of his wife and five children. His fellow passengers were, the afterward divine, Rev. Roger Williams, and others; twenty in all. After a stormy pa saissage of sixty-seven days they arrived at Nantasket, Feb. 5, 1631, and on the 6th came to an anchor before Boston. The following extract from Prince's Annals of New England gives a graphic account of the condition of the colony at the time of

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Ahnentafel #1031 - Mary (--?--)

Mary (--?--) 

Born: ca. 1620 in England
Died: Feb. 6, 1710/11 Norwich, Connecticut

Buried: Old Norwichtown Cemetery, Norwich, CT

Married: Thomas Leffingwell ca. 1645 probably in New England.  Some people claim that Thomas Leffingwell returned to England to marry her.  There is no evidence to back this up. 

Records:
Some people claim she is Mary White, daughter of Edward & Martha (King) White who came to Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1635 on the Abigail. According to the Great Migration study Edward & Martha's daughter Mary was bapt. 1627 in Cranbrook, Kent England and migrated to

Sunday, January 10, 2021

Ahnentafel #1030 - Thomas Leffingwell

Lieutenant  Thomas Leffingwell 

Name has been spelled Leafphingwell, Levingwell, Lephingwell, Lefingwell, Leapinvill, Lepingwell, Leppingwell, Leapingwell

Born: ca. 1623 England
Died: 1714 Norwich, Connecticut

Buried: Founders Cemetery, Norwich, CT

Married: Mary White(?) by 1648(?) probably in Saybrook, Connecticut. There is a story that Thomas returned to England to marry, but no evidence to back it up. 

Biography: About the year 1637, only a short time after the first settlement of New England, there appears among the forests of Connecticut a young hunter calling himself Thomas Leffingwell. The prototype, perhaps, of Cooper's Deerslayer, he was even at that early day on friendly terms with the Mohegan Indians, and especially their young chief Uncas; nor is it improbable, that occasionally he lived among them, acquiring their language and sharing their adventures. Very dim, however, are the glimpses which we then obtain of him. He was gifted, tradition tells us, with unusual physical strength, which, for a time at least, appeared in his descendants; he was endowed, as we know, with that courage

Friday, January 8, 2021

Ahnentafel #1029 - Elizabeth Goodwin

Elizabeth Goodwin 

Born: ca. 1620, Essex, England
Died: after 1686

Buried: probably in Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, CT

Married: ca. 1638 John Crow in Hartford, CT

Immigration 1632 on the Lyon with her parents.  They lived first at Cambridge, Massachusetts and removed to Hartford, Connecticut in 1636.  

Records:
1632 - June - The Lyon set sail from London with Elizabeth, her parents and aunt, uncle and cousin.

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

In Memoriam - Gerold Legg

Gerold Ray Legg 

Born: June 7, 1940, Wayne Co., IL
Died: January 4, 2021, Good Samaritan Hospital, Mt. Vernon, IL

Buried: January 12, 2021, Pin Oak Cemetery, Wayne Co., IL

Married: Patricia Robertson, August 31, 1963 at Elmer Legg's home in Sims, IL

Children: 
Lanny Legg md. Stacy Rigg
  • Aspen Legg
  • Rigger Legg
Lisa Legg (twin) md. Michael Scarbrough
  • Amy Scarbrough

Ahnentafel #1028 - John Crow

Hartford Founder's Monument
John Crow

Born: 1606 Essex, England
Died: Jan. 16, 1685/6 Hartford, Connecticut

Buried: Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, CT

Married: 1) (--?--)
2) ca. 1640 Elizabeth Goodwin

Biography:
John Crow was one of the first settlers [of Hartford] and one of the original proprietors of our soil. He was a large land-owner and lived near the site of the late Ozias Roberts homestead, - an old unused well remaining there to-day. He owned a tract of land extending from near the present Hockanum bridge north to the neighborhood of "Smith's Lane," and running eastward to the end of the three-mile lots. Crow Hill, in the river swamp, still retains his name. He married Elizabeth Goodwin, only daughter of William Goodwin. With his father-in-law he bought 776 acres of land on this side of the river in 1639, a

Monday, January 4, 2021

Ahnentafel #1026 - Thomas Adgate

Thomas Adgate tombstone
Here lies the body of Deacon Thomas Adget
Who died July 1707 in ye 87th year of his age
Deacon Thomas Adgate

Born: 1623, England
Died: July 21, 1707, Norwich, Connecticut

Buried: Old Norwich Town Cemetery

Married: 1) (--?--) ca. 1650, probably in     Saybrook Colony
2) 1659 Mary (Marvin) Bushnell in Saybrook, Connecticut

Religion: Congregational, served as deacon in Saybrook from continuously from 1646 until his move to Norwich in 1660 where he was appointed a deacon of the Norwich church. 

Civic Offices: 
Townsman in Norwich in 1674, 1676, 1679, 1680, 1682, 1684, 1686 Townsmen or selectmen were elected to perform the business of the town

Saturday, January 2, 2021

Ahnentafel #1025 - Elizabeth Scudder

Elizabeth Scudder 

Born:  ca. 1625 Strood, Kent, England
Died:  ca. 1688 Norwich, Connecticut

Buried: unknown

Married: Nov. 28, 1644 Samuel Lothrop in Barnstable, MA by Mr. Freeman

Biography: She is reported by Savage as a sister to that John Scudder who was in Barnstable in 1640. Samuel Lothrop had made the acquaintance of Miss Scudder in Boston, where he commenced his business life as house builder, afterwards combining with this extensive farming operations. Their marriage was recorded by his father [Rev. John Lothrop] on the Barnstable Church Register as follows: "My sonn Samuel & Elizabeth Scudder marryed at my house by Mr. Freeman, Nov. 28, 1644." 

They settled in Barnstable, where his house stood next that of John Scudder. 

In 1648 he removed to New London, Connecticut, then called Pequot. . . . His house lot in the new plantation was the third in order from that of John Winthrop, Jr., Esq. . . .