Book Purge - First Parish Church of Scituate, Massachusetts - Part II

Scituate Harbor

Stower, Richard. A History of the First Parish Church of Scituate, Massachusetts: Its Life & Times, Scituate, MA: Converpage, nd

Page 51 - . . . The purpose of the Plymouth colony . . . was singular. It was an "experiment in Christian living." The Pilgrims came to New England to carry on their lives as the first Christians did. To be sure, the Pilgrims who came on the Mayflower and those who followed them to Plymouth sought a better life and economic [page 52] self-sufficiency. Still, no one can deny that the driving force for the emigration to the New World was "English Puritanism desiring to realize itself." They sought to restore the primitive, apostolic church "pure and unspotted by human accretions or inventions."  . . . 

Mayflower Compact

The Pilgrims were following their theology that people by mutual consent "combine together" to form a governmental structure which gives its due to King James but nevertheless [page 53] exacts "laws . . . for the general good of the colony . . . "  Thus, the Pilgrims expanded their view of their congregations toward a view of government.

Forty-one adult men of the original Plymouth settlers signed this understanding on November 11, 1620, and it provided a first step toward setting up a government that could claim legitimate authority over the conduct of Colony inhabitants. [William Bradford & Richard Warren were signers] . . . 

Book Purge - First Parish Church of Scituate, Massachusetts - Part I

Stower, Richard. A History of the First Parish Church of Scituate, Massachusetts: Its Life & Times, Scituate, MA: Converpage, nd

Page 1 - On January 18, 1634 a small group of people huddled together near the warm hearth in a simple house along the edge of Scituate Harbor and to the north of the cold brook, the Satuit, that gave the town its Wampanoag name. The house belonged to James Cudworth, a salter, and with him that evening were his wife, Mary, his friend, Timothy Hatherly, and several others who assembled there for a very serious purpose: to gather the first church in the town. Leading them in prayer was the Rev. John Lothrop, newly arrived from London, by way of Boston. Thus was assembled the First Church of Scituate, a settlement in the Plymouth Colony of the Pilgrims. 

The Rev. Samuel Deane, in his History of Scituate, Massachusetts (1831) wrote, "Few subjects are more agreeable (at least to many minds) than that of contemplaing the characters of the men who first broke the soil which we now cultivate, and few things can more excite the imagination, than to muse upon the st where hey lighted their domestic fires, or to walk over the green turf that covers their remains." 

Page 4 -  In order to appreciate the early history of the Scituate church we must understand the historical context in which it came to be gathered, first led by the Rev. Henry Jacob in the Southwark borough of London in 1616 and later by his successor, the Rev. John Lothrop, in Scituate in 1634. This means we must start in sixteenth century England with the rise of the Puritan movement; then to the split between

Ahnentafel #1027 - (--?--) (--?--)

(--?--) (--?--) Adgate

Born: probably England

Died: 1657 Saybrook Colony, Connecticut

Buried: Old Cemetery, Saybrook, New London, CT

Married: Thomas Adgate ca. 1650 Saybrook Colony, Connecticut

Thomas Adgate's name appears among those to whom land at Saybrook was granted in 1650. His wife died in 1657 and lies in an unmarked grave in the Old Cemetery. 

Based on names of daughters, her name could be either Elizabeth or Hannah. 

Old Saybrook was established in 1635, first families to investigate: 

• Backus, William
• Bagley, John - 1635

Small Notebook - New England / Virginia

Brooke, Ted, trans. "Buckingham County 1788 Personal Property Tax List, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 55, No. 3, 2017. [Virginia Personal Property Tax List, Buckingham Co., 1783, mf RG48: Auditor of Public Acconts, Library of Virginia, Richmond]

Continued from Volume 55, No. 2, Column headings:

• Date 1788
• Persons Nameds Charged with the Tax
• Names of White Tithes
• [Number of White Tithes]
• Blacks Above 16 [number]
• Blacks Under 16 & Above 12 [number]
• Horses [number]
• Studs
• Rate pr season
• Carriages

Note: No quantities are given for the last three columns: Studs, Rate pr Season and Carriages except in rare cases and are only shown here where they appear in the tax list. It appears that "Names of White Tithes" are given only where different from the name of "Persons names

Small Notebook - NGS / Indiana

Bates, Alan, et al. "Falls Cities Ferries: A Note," Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. XCV, No. 3, Sept. 1999.

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Carter, James. Diseases & Death in the Nineteenth Century: A Genealogical Perspective, National Genealogical Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 4, Dec. 1988.

Abstract: The study of diseases and causes of death yields important findings for the genealogist. Death certificates (limited in number prior to the twentieth century) contain useful information for identifying ancestors; the mortality schedules of several nineteenth-century federal censuses provide the month and cause of death; and church registers, within some denominations, yield some information on deaths of members. However, having a knowledge of the meanings of variou medical terms used in these records is also of interest to genealogical researchers. Information obtained in this manner not only better informs them about their forebears but also could lead to the detection of a familial or inherited disease in specific familes. To help the genealogist in the study of medically oriented records, this article treats three areas. First, a brief history of medicine and the medical profession during the nineteenth century is

Book Purge - Genealogies

Arthaud, John. A Head Family History, Boston, MA: Newbury Street Press, 1999. 

Pages 145-152 Appendix B - Lingan Fmily  

George Lingan d. Calvert Co., MD ca. 1710, md. Anne (--?--). Children: 

1. Thomas Lingan md. Martha Cockshutt

2. Anne b. say 1670, d. by 8/7/1718 md. Edward Boteler

3. Martha Lingan md. Josiah Wilson, a gentleman, who died in Prince Georges Co., MD b/t 11 Nov & 5 Dec. 1717. His will named his wife Martha, five sons and 1 daughter. Sons Josiah & Lingan were named executors and the first division was to occur when Lingan reached 16.  Josiah was the son of James.  See Shearer, Ralph & Star Wilson Rowland. Wilsons & Burchells & Related Families, 1608-1976 for more information. 

4. Katherine Lingan md. 1) ca. 1690 Henry Boteler (brother of Edward above), b. say 1667 Calvert Co., MD, d. Prince Georges Co., MD 1713. 2) by 1722 Richard Normandsell.  Richard died by 1729. Katherine died by November Court 1725. 

1a. Martha Lingan b. b/t 1706 & 1722

1b. Ann Lingan b. before 1722

1c. Elizabeth Lingan b. before 1722

1d. Thomas Lingan b. b/t 1722 & 1734

1e. George Lingan b. b/t 1722 & 1734

Book Purge

Beverley Minster, Yorkshire, England

Continental Historical Bureau. History of Jefferson County, Illinois 1810-1962, Mt. Vernon, IL: Continental Historical Bureau, 1962.

Pages 2-3 -  The admission of the Illinois to the Union occurred December 3, 1818; the County of Jefferson was organized March 26, 1819, a periof of 113 days later.  The official beginning of Mt. Vernon took place June 7, 1819, seventy-three days after the organization; it wa only 186 days after the state had officially been admitted to the Union until Mt. Vernon was officially born.

The procedure took place int he following manner: After Illinois became the twenty-first state of the federal union and the legislature was in legal functioning order, an Act of the Legislature was passed March 26, 1819, which created Jefferson County. The Act also provided for five Commissioners to select a permanent seat of justice and to designate it as such. These Commissioners were appointed yb the Legislature instead of the citizens of the county. The five who were authorized wree: Ambrose Maulding, Lewis Barker. James Richardson and Richard Graham. 

Pages N4-N5 - New Hope (Webb) Missionary Baptist Church.  The exact date this church was organized is not known.  It is on record of being ost to the annual Baptist Association in the year 1858.  It is presumed the church existed for quite some time previous to this date. 

The first minutes on record are of 1862. New Hope had no pastor at that time. Messengers to the

Ahnentafel #1449 - Comfort Mann

Comfort Mann

Born: 1633, Braintree, Essex Co., England

Died: 1685 Elizabeth, Essex Co., NJ

Buried: 1685 First Presbyterian Church, Elizabeth, New Jersey

Married: April 1647 Samuel Marsh in New Haven, Connecticut

Children: 

Mary

Samuel

Comfort

Hannah

Elizabeth

John

Joseph

Ahnentafel #1448 - Samuel Marsh

Samuel Marsh

Born: by 1628 Essex, England

Died: September 1683, Elizabeth, Essex Co., New Jersey

Buried: September 1683 First Presbyterian Church, Elizabeth, Essex Co., New Jersey

Married: April 1647, Comfortt Mann in New Haven, Connecticut

Records:

1683, June 10 - Essex Co., NJ - Samuel Marsh, Sr. made his will.  His wife is not mentioned.  Children listed: John, Joseph, Elizabeth & Samuel. 

Children: 

Mary b. 1648

Samuel b. 1649

Comfort b. 1652

Notebook - Dad's Families # 10, Part 1

Dove, Milton. Dove Trails: The History & Genealogy of the Dove & Related Families, no imprint, nd. Available on Family Search.

*=date has been verified, any other date is estimated.  [Some dates are contradicted in the body of the book . . . ]

Dove Descendancy Chart:

Gen. 1. Christopher 1509 England -1589*

Gen. 2 a Thomas 

Gen. 2 b. William I 1540 England - 1610 md. Katherina Martison 1562*

Gen. 3. Elizabeth, Eden, Martison

Gen. 3 a. William II 1570 England - 1635 md. Alice Clark, England 1592*

Gen. 4 William III 1599* England - 1678 Dorchester Co. VA, arrived Jamestown 1618, md. 1629 in Jamestown, VA

Gen. 5 (incomplete) William IV 1630 VA - 1701 Dorchester Co. MD md. 1654 VA

Gen. 6 (incomplete) William V 1658 VA - 1723 Anne Arundel Co. MD md. 1684 Dorchester Co., MD

Ahnentafel #1236 - William O'Dell

William O'Dell

Born: November 14, 1634, Cranfield, Bedford, England

Died: by 1700 Rye, Westchester County, NY

Buried: Unknown

Married: Sarah Vowels/Vowles, 1665 in Rye, Westchester Co., NY.  

Other names: Used spelling Woodhull instead of O'Dell in a petition dated Oct. 2, 1662.  

Biography: Odell. William, was perhaps a son of William Odell of Concord, Mass. (Savage.) If so, he came over at the age of five years in 1639 with his father, who settled in Fairfield. William Odell was one of the first settlers of Rye. He was with the Hastings planters in 1662, and continued here apparently until his death, which occurred between 1697 and 1700. He had land in the various divisions during his life. His house-lot, afterward John Brondige's, was about the northern part of Mr. J.E. Corning's garden. He married a daughter of Richard Vowles of Rye. Our records mention his sons John and Samuel. The latter is not mentioned by Mr. Bolton in the pedigree which he gives of William Odell's descendants (History of Westchester Co., Vol. II, p. 536); according to which, William had five sons, Stephen, John, Michael, Isaac and Jonathan. Perhaps the first name should read Samuel.

Ahnentafel #1232 - Samuel Denton

Samuel Denton

Coley Church built ca. 1513

Born: May 1631, near Halifax, Yorkshire, England

Baptized: 29 May 1631, Coley Chapel, Halifax, Yorkshire, England. Now known as St. John the Baptist Church

Died: March 20, 1712/13 Hempstead, Nassau Co., New York

Buried: Prospect Cemetery, Long Island City, Queens Co., New York

Married: 1656 Mary Rock Smith, Hempstead, New York

Immigration; 1635 with his parents to Wethersfield, Connecticut

Biography:

Samuel Denton was baptized in Coley Chapel, Halifax, Yorkshire on 29 May 1631 probably by his

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

William Bradford - governor of Plymouth Colony

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 - The marriage intention of William

Ahnentafel #1079 - Mary Norton

Mary Norton

Born: ca. 1635 Bedfordshire, England

Died: Unknown

Buried: Unknown

Married: Samuel Rockwell, April 7, 1660, Windsor, CT

Ahnentafel #1076 - Nathaniel Loomis

Nathaniel Loomis

Born: ca. 1626 Essex, England

Died: Windsor, Connecticut, August 19, 1688

Buried: Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, CT

Married: Elizabeth More, November 24, 1653, Windsor, Connecticut

Immigration: April 11, 1638 from London to July 17, 1638 to Dorchester, Massachusetts on the Susan & Ellen 

Records:

Nathaniel was a member of the Windsor Troop of Horse during King Philip's War.

1640 - Hartford, CT - Nathaniel purchase land from George Phelps estate - 14 acres in breadth seventeen rods in length, towards Hartford. 

1654 - Windsor, CT - Nathaniel admitted as freeman.