In Memoriam - Sharon Dove

Sharon A. Dove 

Born: June 2, 1942, Wayne County, IL

Died: March 28, 2921 Fairfield Memorial Hospital, Fairfield, IL

Buried: Mt. Zion / Farnsworth Cemetery, March 31, 2021

Ahnentafel:

1. Sharon Dove

2. Keith Dove

3. Bernice Harper

4. Joseph Mason Dove

5. Clara Bell Wood

6. Charlie Harper

7. Cora Anderson

8. William Dove

9. Alice Goss

10. William Wood

11. Phoebe Solomon

Ahnentafel #1087 - Anne Peck

Interior, St. Andrew Church

Anne Peck

Born: 1619 Hingham, Norfolk, England

Baptized: 1619 St. Andrew Church, Hingham, Norfolk, England

Died: 1672 Norwich, Connecticut

Buried: Founders Cemetery, Norwich, Connecticut

Ahnentafel #1086 - John Mason

Major John Mason

Born: ca. 1600, England

Died: between May 9 & June 6, 1672 Norwich, Connecticut

Buried: Norwich Burying Ground

Married: 

1) (--?--) by 1638 in England or in Connecticut. 

2) Anne Peck, July 1639, Hingham, Massachusetts

Occupation:  Soldier, served in English army under Lord Fairfax in the Netherlands fighting on behalf of the Dutch against Spain. In 1630 he was in Sir Horace Vere's forces engaged in the battle of Bois-le-Duc.

• Made Captain by 1637
• Made Major June 1654

Magistrate:

• Deputy for Dorchester to Massachusetts Bay General Court, March 4, 1634/35, Sept. 2, 1635
• Connecticut Deputy Governor: May 1660, May 1661, May 1662, October 1662, May 1663, May 1664, May 1665, May 1666, May 1667, May 1668

Ahnentafel #1085 - Anne Reve

Anne Reve or Reeve

Born: ca. 1590, Gosford, Essex, England

Died: after 1669 Hartford, Connecticut

Buried: Unknown

Married: August 8, 1611, Thomas Fitch in St. Mary's Church, Bocking Essex, England

Immigration: between 1648 and 1650 to Connecticut with her sons Thomas, Samuel and Joseph. 

Records:

1620 - September 23 - Essex - Anne was mentioned in her father, John's will. 

1633 - Bocking, Essex - Anne was the sole executor of her husband, Thomas' will. 

1649 - Bocking, Essex - Anne was sole executor of her son, Nathaniel's will. 

Ahnentafel #1084 - Thomas Fitch

Aerial view of St. Mary the Virgin Church in Bocking, England

Thomas Fitch

Born: between 1574 & 1583 probably in Braintree, Essex, England

Died: ca. 1632 England

Buried:  Unknown

Married: August 8, 1611, Annie Reve, Church of St. Mary, Bocking, Essex

Occupation: clothier - the Bocking-Braintree area of Essex was a center for the cloth industry from Saxon times forward. As early as 1303, Bocking had a fulling mill for treating woven cloth.  In the late fifteenth century, Essex possessed a considerable woolen industry making broadcloths, a wool fabric, tightly woven in a plain or twill pattern and having a sheen. By 1556 there were three fulling mills in Bocking. By the late 16th and early 17th century the broadcloth industry had been replaced by the manufacture of worsted.  This is made from long-staple wool that has been combed and then firmly twisted into yarn. Work would have been done in people's homes. The raw wool combed, spun into yarn, the yarn then woven into cloth and the cloth taken to the mill for fulling. 

Clothiers bought the wool, parceled it out to workers, collected the woven cloth, ran it through fulling mills and dyed it. 

Ahnentafel #1081 - Alice Carpenter

Alice Carpenter

Born: by 1590 Somersetshire, England

Died: March 26, 1670, Plymouth Plantation, MA

Buried: March 30, 1670 Plymouth Plantation, MA

Married:

1) May 28, 1613, Edward Southworth, Leiden, Holland

2) August 14, 1623, William Bradford in Plymouth Plantation

Immigration: She arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts July 14, 1623 on the Anne. 

Records:

1623 - Plymouth, MA - Alice received a single share in the land allotment because she came on the ship Anne

Ahnentafel #1080 - William Bradford

Governor William Bradford

Born: ca. 1588, Yorkshire, England

Baptized: March 19, 1589/90 Austerfield, Yorkshire, England

Died: May 9, 1657 Plymouth Plantation, MA

Buried: May 1657 Burial Hill, Plymouth Plantation, MA 

Tombstone: 

HI - William Bradford of Austerfield Yorkshire, England was the son of William and Alice Bradford. He was Governor of Plymouth Colony from 1621 to 1633, 1635, 1637, 1639 to 1643, 1645 to 1657

God is my strength [in Hebrew]. Under this stone rest the ashes of Will'm Bradford a zealous puritan & sincere christian Gov. of Ply. Col. from April 1621 to 1657 (the year he died aged 69) except 5 yrs. which he declined. Oua patres difficillime adepti sunt nolite turpiter relinquere. [What our forefathers with so much difficulty secured, do not basely relinquish.]

Married:

1) December 10, 1613 Dorothy May in Amsterdam, Holland