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1. The book "The Averell-Averill-Avery family: a record of the descendants of William and Abigail Averell of Ipswich, Mass.," by Clara A. Avery (Press of Evangelical Publishing House, 1906), pp. 123-25:
"MEMORANDA
Greensleet, Greensled, Greenslit.
* An Inv. of the Est. of Thomas Greenslet late (of Salem) dec'd presented 1677, Mar. 27th.; on file [Case 11851], Essex Co. P. R.
The Inv. of Thomas Greenslet deaseased Salem 21 Mar. 1676
An Greenslet admx. testified to the truth of the inventory of her late husband Thomas Greenslet before the Court held at Ipswich the 27 of March 1677. Robert Lord Cleric
Between this date in 1676, and Nov. 28, 1682, Widow Ann ( ---- ) Greensleet m. Jacob Pudeator (this name being a corruption of the surname Pointdexter) of Salem, Mass., whose will was proved at the last date, before the Court at Salem. Mention is made in the will of Ann's children by her previous marriage, and a debt of £5 is forgiven her son John "Greenfield," and bequests to the same amt. made to "the other fouer of my wives children: that is to say Tho Greenslid, and Ruth, & Samuel & James Greensled"
His "loving wife Ann" was named as exx and was to have the use of his property during her life; and at her decease it was to go to his cozen (nephew?) Isaac Pudeater. At the end of the instrument he adds: "I have desired my loving freind s cozen Mr John Browne Senr, Mr Francis Scevey (Seavey?), and John Massey to be the overseers of this my will." Among names of debtors to the estate, and for very small amounts, appear those of Samll Verey, Senr £2. 10s, Ensign Bancroft; Jacob Baun Esq., Price Edwards [Essex P. R., Vol. 302, p. 25; Inv. same vol. and page].
Widow Ann (Greensleet) Pudeator was executed for witchcraft 1692 at Salem; and Dec. 10, 1694, an inventory of the est. was presented and admn granted Mr Philip English, attorney for Grace Pudeater, Legatee [Essex P. R., Vol. 303, p. 198; Case 22909].
James Greensleet starts action against the estate but lets it fall, and Ruth Greenslate alias Bridges receives her legacy of £5 from the estate of her step-father, Jacob Pudeator.
Some of Ann's children were at Casco Bay, near Portland, Me., in 1692. The Inv. of the estate of "John Greensit, late of Salem (prob, son of Ann, above mentioned), who dec'd Oct ye 24, 1693," was presented Oct. 30, 1693, and admn was granted his widow, Abigail Grenslitt [Essex Probate, Vol. 303, pp. 165, 166].
It is possible that "Joan Greensleet a single woman" who was m. at Boston, Nov. 10, 1643, to James2 Avery, son of Christopher1 Avery of Cape Ann and Gloucester, Mass. (progenitors of the Groton Avery Clan), was of this Greensleet stock, and a relative of Ann the wife of John Averell. Joan Greenslade was admitted to the First Church of Boston in 1643, and dismissed after her marriage to unite with the church at Gloucester in 1644 [see The Groton Avery Clan, pp. 43-4-5, for Greenslade, etc]."

2. Unverified from the Internet:
A. A mariner and fisherman with crew of The Margery arriving 1642- 3 (2), in Falmouth 1648 (2), Scarborough 1658 (1), Scarborow and Falmouth 4 July 1663 (17) and Salem 1668 (1), permission to go from the Barbadoes to Antigua in the sloop True Friendship 7 Oct 1679 (17 from Hotton),
B. Thomas Greenslade was also known as Greenslett.2 He was born say 1624 in England.3 He migrated to Casco Bay, Maine, aboard the ship Margery in 1643.1 Marriage before 1650. He died in July 1674. It is Perley who states, "Thomas Greenslet lived in Salem in 1673." (Probably based on the 1673 Salem Ct records regarding Sarah Lambert's child. I have found no records yet which would indicate Thomas and Ann were in Salem before 1673.) Thomas Greenslet died c. July 1674. An exact date is not known. "July 1674" is given by Sidney Perley, History of Salem. The first document I have with Ann Greenslet's name on it is the Inventory of Thomas Greenslet's Estate, File #11851, dated March 1677, which is when the inventory was recorded. The inventory clearly states Ann Greenslet administratrix for her husband Thomas Greenslet his estate. He died without a will and his estate was inventoried l in March 1677 at Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts; died intestate.5 His estate was probated on 27 March 1677 at Court at Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts.6
"Most researchers agree that Thomas and Ann had 5 children. We do not know their birth dates or birth places. Assumptions have been made that the children were born between 1650-1660 in Casco Bay, Maine. There are no records, no documentation for this. I have not found any mention in any Maine records that Thomas Greenslade's wife was ever in Casco Bay, Maine, but it is assumed she came there at some time and lived with him there. Very scant records exist for Thomas Greenslade for the years he was in Casco Bay. Based upon a 1666 record of a defaulted mortgage there, my assumption is he left Casco Bay after 1666 and went to Salem, MA. Ann went to Salem with him. He owned no property. He died intestate in 1674 and left more debts than money to pay them. About 3 years later (c. 1677) Thomas Greenslade's widow Ann married her neighbor Jacob Pudeator, who was about 20 years younger than she was. Jacob's wife Isabel had died in 1676. Her inquest and the questions to witnesses indicate that the court might have thought Isabel Pudeator's death needed inquiry. Jacob and Isabel Pudeator had no children. The source for the names of the 5 Greenslade children is the 1681 will of Ann's second husband Jacob Pudeator. Ann's children named in Pudeator's will were: John, Thomas, Samuel, James, and Ruth. Thus, because they were left legacies by Pudeator, we know these 5 were alive when the will was written in 1681."7
Citations
1. Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin, editor, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Portland, ME: Southward Press, 1928-1939), p. 289, "with crew of -The Margery - arriving 1642-3."
2. Probate Records of Essex County Massachusetts: Vol. III, 1675-1681 (Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1920), III:121. Estate of Thomas Greenslett, 27 Mar 1677, q.v.
3. Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 289, "a Devon-Somerset name." Prob. b. ca. 1624.
4. Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, p. 289, from estimated birth dates of children. Ann, his widow, swore to his estate inventory in 1677.
5/6Probate Records of Essex County Vol. III, III:121; Estate of Thomas Geeenslett. Administration upon the estate of Thomas Greenslett, intestate, was granted Mar. 27, 1677, to Ann Greenslett, who was to pay the debts as far as the inventory, which was 31i. 16s. 2d., would allow. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 287.
Inventory of the estate of Thomas Greenslet taken Mar. 21, 1676-7 by Edmund Batter and John Massey: one flocke bed & apertenances. Hi.; 2 old Chests with raggs, 6s.; a lampe, ticke & Hauke, 4s. ; table, 2 wheels & Chairs, 10s. 6d.; one Irone pott, 6s. 8d. ; wood & old bedsteed, 7s.; potts, 2s.; 2 swine. Hi. ; total, 31i. 16s. 2d. The debts many & not knowne. Attested in Ipswich court Mar. 27, 1677 by An Greenslet administratrix of the estate of her late husband Thomas Greenslet. Essex County Probate Files, Docket 11,851.
7. Greenslip List on Rootsweb, online http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/GREENSLIT/, Helen Greenslit Graves on 30 Apr 2006 and 26 Jul 2000.
8. Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 289.
C. Posting by Helen Greenslit Graves:
"... regarding Ann Greenslet Pudeator, here's some background info on Ann which will lead up to her execution as a witch in Salem in 1692. It's pretty slim:
Scarce info has been found for Ann, wife of Thomas Greenslet. Her maiden name, her DOB, and her birthplace are unknown; who her parents were and if she had any siblings is also unknown. The date of her marriage to Thomas Greenslet and where the marriage took place is unknown. Although the names of her children (Thomas, Ruth, John, Samuel, and James) appear in her 2nd husband's will, where and when ANY of them were born is unknown.
Their births are estimated as occurring between 1650-1660. Since Thomas Greenslet's name appears on a list of residents for Falmouth during this time period, the family must have lived there and that is probably where all 5 children were born. However, no birth or baptism records have been found. Worth noting: Ann Greenslet's name appears nowhere in early Falmouth, Maine, records.
1666-1673 gap. The last record for Thos Greenslet being in Maine was 1667 when he defaulted on a mortgage. The next record is 1673 when Salem Town paid Thomas Greenslet to take in Sarah Lambert's young child to care for. There was a law regarding schooling children and making sure they learned how to read English. Apparently, Thomas Greenslet did not do this. The child was taken away from the Greenslet household that same year. Sidney Perley's 'History of Salem' refers to this, but what he says is misleading. Sounds like it was one of Thomas Greenslet's children who wasn't schooled, but that was not the case. It was an unrelated young child who Salem Town was paying the Greenslet's to raise.
It is Perley who states, "Thomas Greenslet lived in Salem in 1673." (Probably based on the 1673 Salem Ct records regarding Sarah Lambert's child. I have found no records yet which would indicate Thomas and Ann were in Salem before 1673.
Thomas Greenslet died c. July 1674. An exact DOD is not known. "July 1674" is given by Sidney Perley, 'History of Salem'. The first document I have with Ann Greenslet's name on it is the Inventory of Thomas Greenslet's Estate, File #11851, dated March 1677, which is when the inventory was recorded. The inventory clearly states Ann Greenslet administratrix for her husband Thomas Greenslet his estate. Ann's birth has been estimated as being c. 1622-1627, so she was 47-52 when her husband died in 1674. In 1674, if their 5 children were born 1650-1660, some of the younger children were probably still at home. It is believed that the eldest child was son Thomas, and that he was probably born c. 1650. If correct, by 1674, Thomas Jr. was 24 years old, a mariner and working on ships in/out of Salem. There are later references that his brothers Samuel and John were in Casco Bay fighting Indians in 1676. From these references, it has been assumed that perhaps James was the youngest child and may have still been in the Greenslet home in 1674 when his father died. Where daughter Ruth was in 1674 is unknown, but she appears in Ipswich in 1677.
19 Sept 1677 Ruth Greenslip (sic) married Josiah Bridges in Ipswich.
1680 Thos. & Ann's son John Greenslet married Abigail Curtis, d/o William Curtis/Curtice and Alice Rumball. Marriage date and place have not been found. Since her parents continued to live in Salem, it is assumed the marriage took place there. (This is my line.)
JACOB PUDEATOR was born ca 1642, so he was 17-20 years younger than his neighbor Ann Greenslet. According to Sidney Perley, he arrived in Salem c. 1666 when he was 24 years old and married Isabel Mosier. They had no children. Jacob Pudeator was a blacksmith and owned ppty near Salem Commons. According to Perley, Isabel was a drunkard and a railer, and squandered Jacob's money for rum. (Perley prob got this from Essex Co. Court Records.)
Isabel Pudeator died 3 March 1675/76. There was an inquest into her death. Essex Court Records reveal that Ann Greenslet, the Pudeator's neighbor, had nursed Isabel prior to her death, so we know that Ann Greenslet lived not far from the Pudeator house on Salem Commons and was referred to as 'Nurs'. How much nursing she did, is not known. The testimony regarding Isabel Pudeator's death is interesting, in that the doctor who tended to her was amazed that she had died, as he had left her on the mend. Hmmm.
Within the year after Isabel died (March 1677-March 1678) Jacob Pudeator married his neighbor Ann Pudeator. He was about 35 years old and she was about 55 years old -- not a typical union. Most men sought younger wives and he was still young enough to start a family. Ann Pudeator was not rich; she owned no property. I have yet to find an "advantage" for Jacob to marry her... unless he owed her something for offing his drunkard wife. The record for their marriage has not been found. However, Ann appears as Jacob Pudeator's wife on a deed dated March 1678, so we know they were married by then.
The marriage lasted about 5 years (1677-1682). Jacob Pudeator died c. August 1682 and his will was proved in Essex Court 28 Sept 1682. In his will, Jacob Pudeator named his wife's 5 children as John, Thomas, Ruth, Samuel, and James and left all but John legacies of 5 pounds each. John Greenslit has purchased a house and lot from Jacob in 1681 and John still owned Jacob 5 pounds. John's legacy was that Jacob forgave him his 5 pound debt. Jacob devised to his beloved wife Ann the rest of his property to use during her natural life, but upon her death it was to go to his 'cozen' Isaac Pudeator. When Jacob died age 40 in 1682, his widow Ann (Greenslet) was about 60 years old.
1682-1692. Nothing is known of Ann's life in these 10 years. No doubt she lived in Jacob Pudeator's house on his ppty located on Salem Commons. She may have leased out his smithy for income.
WHEREABOUTS OF ANN's CHILDREN IN 1692. From trial records, her son Thomas Greenslet was in Salem at one time to give testimony to the strength of the Rev. George Burroughs. But it is speculated that since Thomas was a mariner, he probably was in and out of Salem on ships. There is no record that he testified in his mother's behalf.
There is no record of her son Samuel who was named in the 1682 will. Since Jacob Pudeator listed him and devised him a legacy, it is assumed he was alive in 1682, but where he was living or what happened to him after that, is unknown. There is no record that he received his legacy 1682-1694. (Jacob Pudeator's estate was settled in 1694.)
Ann's son John Greenslit was married, had small children, and lived in Salem until c. 1689 when he left 'to go to sea' and never returned. Assumed dead, John's young widow remarried 2-Thomas Mason. They lived in Salem in 1692; however, there is no record that Ann's ex-daughter in law spoke up for her in her behalf. John Greenslet's children were old enough in 1692 to know that their grandmother Greenslet had been accused of witchcraft, found guilty, and hung.
Ann's daughter Ruth was married to Josiah Bridges, had young children, and lived in Boxford in 1692. No record exists that Josiah and Ruth Bridges spoke up in Ann's behalf.
Ann's son James is a mystery. He was named in the 1681 Pudeator will so we know he was alive then. Nothing further is known of him, except in 1694 he was paid his 5 pound Pudeator legacy. What was left of Jacob Pudeator's estate after Ann was hung in 1692 was administered to by Phillip English, Salem merchant, in 1694. He submitted an inventory to Essex Court and also listed all of his expenses. He paid James Greenslet's attorney the 5 pounds owed to James and he paid Ruth Greenslet alias Bridges her 5 pound legacy. No mention is found in Phillip English's records that he paid Thomas, Jr., or Samuel their legacies.
This is the sketchy background info on Ann Greenslet Pudeator. In Essex Court Records, she is referred to as 'Nurs' and we know she "nursed" her neighbor Isabel Pudeator just before she died. When the sheriff came to arrest Ann for witchcraft, they found pots of various sizes in her house. Who knows what was in them (perhaps herbs and medicinal mixes she concocted) but it seemed proof that she was mixing evil potions.
Ann Greenslet Pudeator was hung on 22 Sept 1692 -- accused by neighbors as well as by some of the young girls.
Many of us have scratched our heads and speculated as to why certain ancestors were accused. Why Ann Pudeator?
In her book, "The Devil in the Shape of a Woman", Carol F. Karlsen doesn't have much to say about Ann Pudeator. In the book she attributes accusations to plain anger, and supports it by saying "Ann Pudeator's crime was scolding. John Best (Jr.), speaking about how he had several times found Pudeator's cow among his father's when he rounded up the herd, explained that the reason he 'did conclude said pudeator was a wich' was that she 'would chide me when I came houme for turning the cow bak.'
Later on in the book, during a section where Ms. Karlsen is discussing women who were mid-wives and healers (she thinks that this is could be a connection to why they were accused of witchcraft as she says 22 of those accused witches were mid-wives and/or healers) Ms. Karlson has this to say of Ann Pudeator:
"The problem is further complicated by the presence among witches of women like Ann Pudeator who turned these housewifery skills to profit when widowed or at other times of economic need."
HUH? I think Ms. Karlsen made a giant assumptive leap there. Yes, Ann was a widow. Yes, she is referred to in Essex Court records as 'Nurs Greenslad' during the inquest testimony for the dead Isabel Pudeator. But this 'Nurs' reference could have been because she had been called in by Jacob Pudeator to tend to his ill wife. She was their neighbor. We have no proof, no documentation, that Ann Greenslet practiced as a nurse-healer for profit. Ann said the pots they found in her house contained soap." 		Greenslade, John (I5781)
 
4602 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Averell-Averill-Avery family: a record of the descendants of William and Abigail Averell of Ipswich, Mass.," by Clara A. Avery (Press of Evangelical Publishing House, 1906), pp. 123-25:
"MEMORANDA
Greensleet, Greensled, Greenslit.
* An Inv. of the Est. of Thomas Greenslet late (of Salem) dec'd presented 1677, Mar. 27th.; on file [Case 11851], Essex Co. P. R.
The Inv. of Thomas Greenslet deaseased Salem 21 Mar. 1676
An Greenslet admx. testified to the truth of the inventory of her late husband Thomas Greenslet before the Court held at Ipswich the 27 of March 1677. Robert Lord Cleric
Between this date in 1676, and Nov. 28, 1682, Widow Ann ( ---- ) Greensleet m. Jacob Pudeator (this name being a corruption of the surname Pointdexter) of Salem, Mass., whose will was proved at the last date, before the Court at Salem. Mention is made in the will of Ann's children by her previous marriage, and a debt of £5 is forgiven her son John "Greenfield," and bequests to the same amt. made to "the other fouer of my wives children: that is to say Tho Greenslid, and Ruth, & Samuel & James Greensled"
His "loving wife Ann" was named as exx and was to have the use of his property during her life; and at her decease it was to go to his cozen (nephew?) Isaac Pudeater. At the end of the instrument he adds: "I have desired my loving freind s cozen Mr John Browne Senr, Mr Francis Scevey (Seavey?), and John Massey to be the overseers of this my will." Among names of debtors to the estate, and for very small amounts, appear those of Samll Verey, Senr £2. 10s, Ensign Bancroft; Jacob Baun Esq., Price Edwards [Essex P. R., Vol. 302, p. 25; Inv. same vol. and page].
Widow Ann (Greensleet) Pudeator was executed for witchcraft 1692 at Salem; and Dec. 10, 1694, an inventory of the est. was presented and admn granted Mr Philip English, attorney for Grace Pudeater, Legatee [Essex P. R., Vol. 303, p. 198; Case 22909].
James Greensleet starts action against the estate but lets it fall, and Ruth Greenslate alias Bridges receives her legacy of £5 from the estate of her step-father, Jacob Pudeator.
Some of Ann's children were at Casco Bay, near Portland, Me., in 1692. The Inv. of the estate of "John Greensit, late of Salem (prob, son of Ann, above mentioned), who dec'd Oct ye 24, 1693," was presented Oct. 30, 1693, and admn was granted his widow, Abigail Grenslitt [Essex Probate, Vol. 303, pp. 165, 166].
It is possible that "Joan Greensleet a single woman" who was m. at Boston, Nov. 10, 1643, to James2 Avery, son of Christopher1 Avery of Cape Ann and Gloucester, Mass. (progenitors of the Groton Avery Clan), was of this Greensleet stock, and a relative of Ann the wife of John Averell. Joan Greenslade was admitted to the First Church of Boston in 1643, and dismissed after her marriage to unite with the church at Gloucester in 1644 [see The Groton Avery Clan, pp. 43-4-5, for Greenslade, etc]."

2. Unverified from the Internet:
A. A mariner and fisherman with crew of The Margery arriving 1642- 3 (2), in Falmouth 1648 (2), Scarborough 1658 (1), Scarborow and Falmouth 4 July 1663 (17) and Salem 1668 (1), permission to go from the Barbadoes to Antigua in the sloop True Friendship 7 Oct 1679 (17 from Hotton),
B. Thomas Greenslade was also known as Greenslett.2 He was born say 1624 in England.3 He migrated to Casco Bay, Maine, aboard the ship Margery in 1643.1 Marriage before 1650. He died in July 1674. It is Perley who states, "Thomas Greenslet lived in Salem in 1673." (Probably based on the 1673 Salem Ct records regarding Sarah Lambert's child. I have found no records yet which would indicate Thomas and Ann were in Salem before 1673.) Thomas Greenslet died c. July 1674. An exact date is not known. "July 1674" is given by Sidney Perley, History of Salem. The first document I have with Ann Greenslet's name on it is the Inventory of Thomas Greenslet's Estate, File #11851, dated March 1677, which is when the inventory was recorded. The inventory clearly states Ann Greenslet administratrix for her husband Thomas Greenslet his estate. He died without a will and his estate was inventoried l in March 1677 at Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts; died intestate.5 His estate was probated on 27 March 1677 at Court at Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts.6
"Most researchers agree that Thomas and Ann had 5 children. We do not know their birth dates or birth places. Assumptions have been made that the children were born between 1650-1660 in Casco Bay, Maine. There are no records, no documentation for this. I have not found any mention in any Maine records that Thomas Greenslade's wife was ever in Casco Bay, Maine, but it is assumed she came there at some time and lived with him there. Very scant records exist for Thomas Greenslade for the years he was in Casco Bay. Based upon a 1666 record of a defaulted mortgage there, my assumption is he left Casco Bay after 1666 and went to Salem, MA. Ann went to Salem with him. He owned no property. He died intestate in 1674 and left more debts than money to pay them. About 3 years later (c. 1677) Thomas Greenslade's widow Ann married her neighbor Jacob Pudeator, who was about 20 years younger than she was. Jacob's wife Isabel had died in 1676. Her inquest and the questions to witnesses indicate that the court might have thought Isabel Pudeator's death needed inquiry. Jacob and Isabel Pudeator had no children. The source for the names of the 5 Greenslade children is the 1681 will of Ann's second husband Jacob Pudeator. Ann's children named in Pudeator's will were: John, Thomas, Samuel, James, and Ruth. Thus, because they were left legacies by Pudeator, we know these 5 were alive when the will was written in 1681."7
Citations
1. Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin, editor, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Portland, ME: Southward Press, 1928-1939), p. 289, "with crew of -The Margery - arriving 1642-3."
2. Probate Records of Essex County Massachusetts: Vol. III, 1675-1681 (Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1920), III:121. Estate of Thomas Greenslett, 27 Mar 1677, q.v.
3. Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 289, "a Devon-Somerset name." Prob. b. ca. 1624.
4. Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, p. 289, from estimated birth dates of children. Ann, his widow, swore to his estate inventory in 1677.
5/6Probate Records of Essex County Vol. III, III:121; Estate of Thomas Geeenslett. Administration upon the estate of Thomas Greenslett, intestate, was granted Mar. 27, 1677, to Ann Greenslett, who was to pay the debts as far as the inventory, which was 31i. 16s. 2d., would allow. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 287.
Inventory of the estate of Thomas Greenslet taken Mar. 21, 1676-7 by Edmund Batter and John Massey: one flocke bed & apertenances. Hi.; 2 old Chests with raggs, 6s.; a lampe, ticke & Hauke, 4s. ; table, 2 wheels & Chairs, 10s. 6d.; one Irone pott, 6s. 8d. ; wood & old bedsteed, 7s.; potts, 2s.; 2 swine. Hi. ; total, 31i. 16s. 2d. The debts many & not knowne. Attested in Ipswich court Mar. 27, 1677 by An Greenslet administratrix of the estate of her late husband Thomas Greenslet. Essex County Probate Files, Docket 11,851.
7. Greenslip List on Rootsweb, online http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/GREENSLIT/, Helen Greenslit Graves on 30 Apr 2006 and 26 Jul 2000.
8. Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 289.
C. Posting by Helen Greenslit Graves:
"... regarding Ann Greenslet Pudeator, here's some background info on Ann which will lead up to her execution as a witch in Salem in 1692. It's pretty slim:
Scarce info has been found for Ann, wife of Thomas Greenslet. Her maiden name, her DOB, and her birthplace are unknown; who her parents were and if she had any siblings is also unknown. The date of her marriage to Thomas Greenslet and where the marriage took place is unknown. Although the names of her children (Thomas, Ruth, John, Samuel, and James) appear in her 2nd husband's will, where and when ANY of them were born is unknown.
Their births are estimated as occurring between 1650-1660. Since Thomas Greenslet's name appears on a list of residents for Falmouth during this time period, the family must have lived there and that is probably where all 5 children were born. However, no birth or baptism records have been found. Worth noting: Ann Greenslet's name appears nowhere in early Falmouth, Maine, records.
1666-1673 gap. The last record for Thos Greenslet being in Maine was 1667 when he defaulted on a mortgage. The next record is 1673 when Salem Town paid Thomas Greenslet to take in Sarah Lambert's young child to care for. There was a law regarding schooling children and making sure they learned how to read English. Apparently, Thomas Greenslet did not do this. The child was taken away from the Greenslet household that same year. Sidney Perley's 'History of Salem' refers to this, but what he says is misleading. Sounds like it was one of Thomas Greenslet's children who wasn't schooled, but that was not the case. It was an unrelated young child who Salem Town was paying the Greenslet's to raise.
It is Perley who states, "Thomas Greenslet lived in Salem in 1673." (Probably based on the 1673 Salem Ct records regarding Sarah Lambert's child. I have found no records yet which would indicate Thomas and Ann were in Salem before 1673.
Thomas Greenslet died c. July 1674. An exact DOD is not known. "July 1674" is given by Sidney Perley, 'History of Salem'. The first document I have with Ann Greenslet's name on it is the Inventory of Thomas Greenslet's Estate, File #11851, dated March 1677, which is when the inventory was recorded. The inventory clearly states Ann Greenslet administratrix for her husband Thomas Greenslet his estate. Ann's birth has been estimated as being c. 1622-1627, so she was 47-52 when her husband died in 1674. In 1674, if their 5 children were born 1650-1660, some of the younger children were probably still at home. It is believed that the eldest child was son Thomas, and that he was probably born c. 1650. If correct, by 1674, Thomas Jr. was 24 years old, a mariner and working on ships in/out of Salem. There are later references that his brothers Samuel and John were in Casco Bay fighting Indians in 1676. From these references, it has been assumed that perhaps James was the youngest child and may have still been in the Greenslet home in 1674 when his father died. Where daughter Ruth was in 1674 is unknown, but she appears in Ipswich in 1677.
19 Sept 1677 Ruth Greenslip (sic) married Josiah Bridges in Ipswich.
1680 Thos. & Ann's son John Greenslet married Abigail Curtis, d/o William Curtis/Curtice and Alice Rumball. Marriage date and place have not been found. Since her parents continued to live in Salem, it is assumed the marriage took place there. (This is my line.)
JACOB PUDEATOR was born ca 1642, so he was 17-20 years younger than his neighbor Ann Greenslet. According to Sidney Perley, he arrived in Salem c. 1666 when he was 24 years old and married Isabel Mosier. They had no children. Jacob Pudeator was a blacksmith and owned ppty near Salem Commons. According to Perley, Isabel was a drunkard and a railer, and squandered Jacob's money for rum. (Perley prob got this from Essex Co. Court Records.)
Isabel Pudeator died 3 March 1675/76. There was an inquest into her death. Essex Court Records reveal that Ann Greenslet, the Pudeator's neighbor, had nursed Isabel prior to her death, so we know that Ann Greenslet lived not far from the Pudeator house on Salem Commons and was referred to as 'Nurs'. How much nursing she did, is not known. The testimony regarding Isabel Pudeator's death is interesting, in that the doctor who tended to her was amazed that she had died, as he had left her on the mend. Hmmm.
Within the year after Isabel died (March 1677-March 1678) Jacob Pudeator married his neighbor Ann Pudeator. He was about 35 years old and she was about 55 years old -- not a typical union. Most men sought younger wives and he was still young enough to start a family. Ann Pudeator was not rich; she owned no property. I have yet to find an "advantage" for Jacob to marry her... unless he owed her something for offing his drunkard wife. The record for their marriage has not been found. However, Ann appears as Jacob Pudeator's wife on a deed dated March 1678, so we know they were married by then.
The marriage lasted about 5 years (1677-1682). Jacob Pudeator died c. August 1682 and his will was proved in Essex Court 28 Sept 1682. In his will, Jacob Pudeator named his wife's 5 children as John, Thomas, Ruth, Samuel, and James and left all but John legacies of 5 pounds each. John Greenslit has purchased a house and lot from Jacob in 1681 and John still owned Jacob 5 pounds. John's legacy was that Jacob forgave him his 5 pound debt. Jacob devised to his beloved wife Ann the rest of his property to use during her natural life, but upon her death it was to go to his 'cozen' Isaac Pudeator. When Jacob died age 40 in 1682, his widow Ann (Greenslet) was about 60 years old.
1682-1692. Nothing is known of Ann's life in these 10 years. No doubt she lived in Jacob Pudeator's house on his ppty located on Salem Commons. She may have leased out his smithy for income.
WHEREABOUTS OF ANN's CHILDREN IN 1692. From trial records, her son Thomas Greenslet was in Salem at one time to give testimony to the strength of the Rev. George Burroughs. But it is speculated that since Thomas was a mariner, he probably was in and out of Salem on ships. There is no record that he testified in his mother's behalf.
There is no record of her son Samuel who was named in the 1682 will. Since Jacob Pudeator listed him and devised him a legacy, it is assumed he was alive in 1682, but where he was living or what happened to him after that, is unknown. There is no record that he received his legacy 1682-1694. (Jacob Pudeator's estate was settled in 1694.)
Ann's son John Greenslit was married, had small children, and lived in Salem until c. 1689 when he left 'to go to sea' and never returned. Assumed dead, John's young widow remarried 2-Thomas Mason. They lived in Salem in 1692; however, there is no record that Ann's ex-daughter in law spoke up for her in her behalf. John Greenslet's children were old enough in 1692 to know that their grandmother Greenslet had been accused of witchcraft, found guilty, and hung.
Ann's daughter Ruth was married to Josiah Bridges, had young children, and lived in Boxford in 1692. No record exists that Josiah and Ruth Bridges spoke up in Ann's behalf.
Ann's son James is a mystery. He was named in the 1681 Pudeator will so we know he was alive then. Nothing further is known of him, except in 1694 he was paid his 5 pound Pudeator legacy. What was left of Jacob Pudeator's estate after Ann was hung in 1692 was administered to by Phillip English, Salem merchant, in 1694. He submitted an inventory to Essex Court and also listed all of his expenses. He paid James Greenslet's attorney the 5 pounds owed to James and he paid Ruth Greenslet alias Bridges her 5 pound legacy. No mention is found in Phillip English's records that he paid Thomas, Jr., or Samuel their legacies.
This is the sketchy background info on Ann Greenslet Pudeator. In Essex Court Records, she is referred to as 'Nurs' and we know she "nursed" her neighbor Isabel Pudeator just before she died. When the sheriff came to arrest Ann for witchcraft, they found pots of various sizes in her house. Who knows what was in them (perhaps herbs and medicinal mixes she concocted) but it seemed proof that she was mixing evil potions.
Ann Greenslet Pudeator was hung on 22 Sept 1692 -- accused by neighbors as well as by some of the young girls.
Many of us have scratched our heads and speculated as to why certain ancestors were accused. Why Ann Pudeator?
In her book, "The Devil in the Shape of a Woman", Carol F. Karlsen doesn't have much to say about Ann Pudeator. In the book she attributes accusations to plain anger, and supports it by saying "Ann Pudeator's crime was scolding. John Best (Jr.), speaking about how he had several times found Pudeator's cow among his father's when he rounded up the herd, explained that the reason he 'did conclude said pudeator was a wich' was that she 'would chide me when I came houme for turning the cow bak.'
Later on in the book, during a section where Ms. Karlsen is discussing women who were mid-wives and healers (she thinks that this is could be a connection to why they were accused of witchcraft as she says 22 of those accused witches were mid-wives and/or healers) Ms. Karlson has this to say of Ann Pudeator:
"The problem is further complicated by the presence among witches of women like Ann Pudeator who turned these housewifery skills to profit when widowed or at other times of economic need."
HUH? I think Ms. Karlsen made a giant assumptive leap there. Yes, Ann was a widow. Yes, she is referred to in Essex Court records as 'Nurs Greenslad' during the inquest testimony for the dead Isabel Pudeator. But this 'Nurs' reference could have been because she had been called in by Jacob Pudeator to tend to his ill wife. She was their neighbor. We have no proof, no documentation, that Ann Greenslet practiced as a nurse-healer for profit. Ann said the pots they found in her house contained soap." 		Greenslade, Thomas (I5780)
 
4603 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Averell-Averill-Avery family: a record of the descendants of William and Abigail Averell of Ipswich, Mass.," by Clara A. Avery (Press of Evangelical Publishing House, 1906), pp. 123-25:
"MEMORANDA
Greensleet, Greensled, Greenslit.
* An Inv. of the Est. of Thomas Greenslet late (of Salem) dec'd presented 1677, Mar. 27th.; on file [Case 11851], Essex Co. P. R.
The Inv. of Thomas Greenslet deaseased Salem 21 Mar. 1676
An Greenslet admx. testified to the truth of the inventory of her late husband Thomas Greenslet before the Court held at Ipswich the 27 of March 1677. Robert Lord Cleric
Between this date in 1676, and Nov. 28, 1682, Widow Ann ( ---- ) Greensleet m. Jacob Pudeator (this name being a corruption of the surname Pointdexter) of Salem, Mass., whose will was proved at the last date, before the Court at Salem. Mention is made in the will of Ann's children by her previous marriage, and a debt of £5 is forgiven her son John "Greenfield," and bequests to the same amt. made to "the other fouer of my wives children: that is to say Tho Greenslid, and Ruth, & Samuel & James Greensled"
His "loving wife Ann" was named as exx and was to have the use of his property during her life; and at her decease it was to go to his cozen (nephew?) Isaac Pudeater. At the end of the instrument he adds: "I have desired my loving freind s cozen Mr John Browne Senr, Mr Francis Scevey (Seavey?), and John Massey to be the overseers of this my will." Among names of debtors to the estate, and for very small amounts, appear those of Samll Verey, Senr £2. 10s, Ensign Bancroft; Jacob Baun Esq., Price Edwards [Essex P. R., Vol. 302, p. 25; Inv. same vol. and page].
Widow Ann (Greensleet) Pudeator was executed for witchcraft 1692 at Salem; and Dec. 10, 1694, an inventory of the est. was presented and admn granted Mr Philip English, attorney for Grace Pudeater, Legatee [Essex P. R., Vol. 303, p. 198; Case 22909].
James Greensleet starts action against the estate but lets it fall, and Ruth Greenslate alias Bridges receives her legacy of £5 from the estate of her step-father, Jacob Pudeator.
Some of Ann's children were at Casco Bay, near Portland, Me., in 1692. The Inv. of the estate of "John Greensit, late of Salem (prob, son of Ann, above mentioned), who dec'd Oct ye 24, 1693," was presented Oct. 30, 1693, and admn was granted his widow, Abigail Grenslitt [Essex Probate, Vol. 303, pp. 165, 166].
It is possible that "Joan Greensleet a single woman" who was m. at Boston, Nov. 10, 1643, to James2 Avery, son of Christopher1 Avery of Cape Ann and Gloucester, Mass. (progenitors of the Groton Avery Clan), was of this Greensleet stock, and a relative of Ann the wife of John Averell. Joan Greenslade was admitted to the First Church of Boston in 1643, and dismissed after her marriage to unite with the church at Gloucester in 1644 [see The Groton Avery Clan, pp. 43-4-5, for Greenslade, etc]."

2. Internet Blog accessed 19 Jan 2019: "The Pardoning of Ann Pudeator," by daseger (22 sep 2015) [https://streetsofsalem.com/2015/09/22/the-pardoning-of-ann-pudeator/]:
"As is my custom on this date, the day on which the final eight victims of the Salem Witch Trials met their deaths, I am writing about this enduring event in the spirit of commemoration and remembrance. This late September day proved to be the beginning of the end in 1692; conversely in our own time everyone in Salem is now getting ready for a celebratory Halloween season. The fear must have been palpable then; the excitement so now. The fact that we celebrate tragedy here in Salem always saddens me, every single day, but particularly on this poignant one at the very end of summer. I’d like to focus on one of the “eight firebrands from hell” who died on this day long ago, but also about the process(es) of exoneration for the victims of 1692: a more hopeful topic. Or is it?
Ann Greenslit Pudeator was just one victim of September 22, 1692. She fits the traditional stereotype of an accused “witch”: older ( in mid-70s), widowed (twice), and a healer of sorts–she definitely functioned as a nurse; I’m not sure I would go so far as to call her a midwife. She was often in a vulnerable position, but was nevertheless assertive. When her first husband died she was left destitute and with five children. To provide for her family, she began nursing, and included among her patients her neighbor Isabel Pudeator, the ailing (alchoholic?) wife of Salem blacksmith Jacob Pudeator. Isabel died, Ann remarried the much younger and wealthier Jacob, who himself died five years later, leaving his not-inconsiderable property to Ann and her children: a conspicuous inheritance which enhanced her vulnerability. Several years later the finger-pointing and Trials began, and Ann was accused, tried, found guilty, and sentenced to hang for “Certaine detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries Wickedly Mallitiously and felloniously practiced and Exercised At and within the Township of Salem”. A succession of neighbors gave evidence against her, but not a single person–including any of her five children—spoke for her: not in 1692 or for 265 years thereafter.
So that brings me to the topic of the legal exoneration of the victims of the Salem Witch Trials, a process that occurred in three distinct phases over several centuries: in 1711 the Massachusetts colonial legislature reversed the attainders of “George Burroughs and others” (22 in all, “some put to death, others living still under the life sentence”) for witchcraft and paid a total of £600 in restitution to their heirs. For whatever reason, several victims did not have family members serving as advocates in this process, including Ann Pudeator. It was not until 1946 that her descendant H. Vance Greenslit of New Orleans commenced his campaign for her pardon, which remarkably took eleven years to accomplish via a Massachusetts state legislature resolution in March of 1957. A very illuminating 1954 New York Times article explains the hold-up: concerns that tourists would be less inclined to visit a witchless Salem (!!!!), that descendants might expect reparations for a sullied escutcheon, which would be costly, and the opponents’ main argument that Massachusetts has no business tampering with the Crown’s work anyway–Massachusetts was a British colony in 1692; if anyone is going to absolve witches, it will have to be Queen Elizabeth II. One petitioner offered this solution: Take the whole matter to the United Nations.” Both Her Majesty’s Government and the United Nations neglected to rule on the matter, and so the Massachusetts Legislature quietly passed an oddly-worded resolution that relieved the descendants of “Ann Pudeator and others” from “disgrace or cause for distress”. It took another 44 years–and the energetic initiative of one of our Department’s graduate students, Paula Keen–for the “others” to be formally exonerated in a bill signed by acting Governor Jane Swift on November 1, 2001. And just like that and their fellow victim Ann Pudeator before them, Bridget Bishop, Susannah Martin, Alice Parker, Margaret Scott, and Wilmot Redd were cleared summarily with the simple stroke of a pen."

3. Link to an article in the "New Yorker" magazine dated 11 Sep 1954 entitled "Poor Ann!", by Daniel Lang: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1954/09/11/poor-ann
The article talks of the efforts to have Ann Pudeator pardoned.

4. Unverified from the Internet:
A. A mariner and fisherman with crew of The Margery arriving 1642- 3 (2), in Falmouth 1648 (2), Scarborough 1658 (1), Scarborow and Falmouth 4 July 1663 (17) and Salem 1668 (1), permission to go from the Barbadoes to Antigua in the sloop True Friendship 7 Oct 1679 (17 from Hotton),
B. Thomas Greenslade was also known as Greenslett.2 He was born say 1624 in England.3 He migrated to Casco Bay, Maine, aboard the ship Margery in 1643.1 Marriage before 1650. He died in July 1674. It is Perley who states, "Thomas Greenslet lived in Salem in 1673." (Probably based on the 1673 Salem Ct records regarding Sarah Lambert's child. I have found no records yet which would indicate Thomas and Ann were in Salem before 1673.) Thomas Greenslet died c. July 1674. An exact date is not known. "July 1674" is given by Sidney Perley, History of Salem. The first document I have with Ann Greenslet's name on it is the Inventory of Thomas Greenslet's Estate, File #11851, dated March 1677, which is when the inventory was recorded. The inventory clearly states Ann Greenslet administratrix for her husband Thomas Greenslet his estate. He died without a will and his estate was inventoried l in March 1677 at Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts; died intestate.5 His estate was probated on 27 March 1677 at Court at Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts.6
"Most researchers agree that Thomas and Ann had 5 children. We do not know their birth dates or birth places. Assumptions have been made that the children were born between 1650-1660 in Casco Bay, Maine. There are no records, no documentation for this. I have not found any mention in any Maine records that Thomas Greenslade's wife was ever in Casco Bay, Maine, but it is assumed she came there at some time and lived with him there. Very scant records exist for Thomas Greenslade for the years he was in Casco Bay. Based upon a 1666 record of a defaulted mortgage there, my assumption is he left Casco Bay after 1666 and went to Salem, MA. Ann went to Salem with him. He owned no property. He died intestate in 1674 and left more debts than money to pay them. About 3 years later (c. 1677) Thomas Greenslade's widow Ann married her neighbor Jacob Pudeator, who was about 20 years younger than she was. Jacob's wife Isabel had died in 1676. Her inquest and the questions to witnesses indicate that the court might have thought Isabel Pudeator's death needed inquiry. Jacob and Isabel Pudeator had no children. The source for the names of the 5 Greenslade children is the 1681 will of Ann's second husband Jacob Pudeator. Ann's children named in Pudeator's will were: John, Thomas, Samuel, James, and Ruth. Thus, because they were left legacies by Pudeator, we know these 5 were alive when the will was written in 1681."7
Citations
1. Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin, editor, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Portland, ME: Southward Press, 1928-1939), p. 289, "with crew of -The Margery - arriving 1642-3."
2. Probate Records of Essex County Massachusetts: Vol. III, 1675-1681 (Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1920), III:121. Estate of Thomas Greenslett, 27 Mar 1677, q.v.
3. Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 289, "a Devon-Somerset name." Prob. b. ca. 1624.
4. Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, p. 289, from estimated birth dates of children. Ann, his widow, swore to his estate inventory in 1677.
5/6Probate Records of Essex County Vol. III, III:121; Estate of Thomas Geeenslett. Administration upon the estate of Thomas Greenslett, intestate, was granted Mar. 27, 1677, to Ann Greenslett, who was to pay the debts as far as the inventory, which was 31i. 16s. 2d., would allow. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 287.
Inventory of the estate of Thomas Greenslet taken Mar. 21, 1676-7 by Edmund Batter and John Massey: one flocke bed & apertenances. Hi.; 2 old Chests with raggs, 6s.; a lampe, ticke & Hauke, 4s. ; table, 2 wheels & Chairs, 10s. 6d.; one Irone pott, 6s. 8d. ; wood & old bedsteed, 7s.; potts, 2s.; 2 swine. Hi. ; total, 31i. 16s. 2d. The debts many & not knowne. Attested in Ipswich court Mar. 27, 1677 by An Greenslet administratrix of the estate of her late husband Thomas Greenslet. Essex County Probate Files, Docket 11,851.
7. Greenslip List on Rootsweb, online http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/GREENSLIT/, Helen Greenslit Graves on 30 Apr 2006 and 26 Jul 2000.
8. Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 289.
C. Posting by Helen Greenslit Graves:
"... regarding Ann Greenslet Pudeator, here's some background info on Ann which will lead up to her execution as a witch in Salem in 1692. It's pretty slim:
Scarce info has been found for Ann, wife of Thomas Greenslet. Her maiden name, her DOB, and her birthplace are unknown; who her parents were and if she had any siblings is also unknown. The date of her marriage to Thomas Greenslet and where the marriage took place is unknown. Although the names of her children (Thomas, Ruth, John, Samuel, and James) appear in her 2nd husband's will, where and when ANY of them were born is unknown.
Their births are estimated as occurring between 1650-1660. Since Thomas Greenslet's name appears on a list of residents for Falmouth during this time period, the family must have lived there and that is probably where all 5 children were born. However, no birth or baptism records have been found. Worth noting: Ann Greenslet's name appears nowhere in early Falmouth, Maine, records.
1666-1673 gap. The last record for Thos Greenslet being in Maine was 1667 when he defaulted on a mortgage. The next record is 1673 when Salem Town paid Thomas Greenslet to take in Sarah Lambert's young child to care for. There was a law regarding schooling children and making sure they learned how to read English. Apparently, Thomas Greenslet did not do this. The child was taken away from the Greenslet household that same year. Sidney Perley's 'History of Salem' refers to this, but what he says is misleading. Sounds like it was one of Thomas Greenslet's children who wasn't schooled, but that was not the case. It was an unrelated young child who Salem Town was paying the Greenslet's to raise.
It is Perley who states, "Thomas Greenslet lived in Salem in 1673." (Probably based on the 1673 Salem Ct records regarding Sarah Lambert's child. I have found no records yet which would indicate Thomas and Ann were in Salem before 1673.
Thomas Greenslet died c. July 1674. An exact DOD is not known. "July 1674" is given by Sidney Perley, 'History of Salem'. The first document I have with Ann Greenslet's name on it is the Inventory of Thomas Greenslet's Estate, File #11851, dated March 1677, which is when the inventory was recorded. The inventory clearly states Ann Greenslet administratrix for her husband Thomas Greenslet his estate. Ann's birth has been estimated as being c. 1622-1627, so she was 47-52 when her husband died in 1674. In 1674, if their 5 children were born 1650-1660, some of the younger children were probably still at home. It is believed that the eldest child was son Thomas, and that he was probably born c. 1650. If correct, by 1674, Thomas Jr. was 24 years old, a mariner and working on ships in/out of Salem. There are later references that his brothers Samuel and John were in Casco Bay fighting Indians in 1676. From these references, it has been assumed that perhaps James was the youngest child and may have still been in the Greenslet home in 1674 when his father died. Where daughter Ruth was in 1674 is unknown, but she appears in Ipswich in 1677.
19 Sept 1677 Ruth Greenslip (sic) married Josiah Bridges in Ipswich.
1680 Thos. & Ann's son John Greenslet married Abigail Curtis, d/o William Curtis/Curtice and Alice Rumball. Marriage date and place have not been found. Since her parents continued to live in Salem, it is assumed the marriage took place there. (This is my line.)
JACOB PUDEATOR was born ca 1642, so he was 17-20 years younger than his neighbor Ann Greenslet. According to Sidney Perley, he arrived in Salem c. 1666 when he was 24 years old and married Isabel Mosier. They had no children. Jacob Pudeator was a blacksmith and owned ppty near Salem Commons. According to Perley, Isabel was a drunkard and a railer, and squandered Jacob's money for rum. (Perley prob got this from Essex Co. Court Records.)
Isabel Pudeator died 3 March 1675/76. There was an inquest into her death. Essex Court Records reveal that Ann Greenslet, the Pudeator's neighbor, had nursed Isabel prior to her death, so we know that Ann Greenslet lived not far from the Pudeator house on Salem Commons and was referred to as 'Nurs'. How much nursing she did, is not known. The testimony regarding Isabel Pudeator's death is interesting, in that the doctor who tended to her was amazed that she had died, as he had left her on the mend. Hmmm.
Within the year after Isabel died (March 1677-March 1678) Jacob Pudeator married his neighbor Ann Pudeator. He was about 35 years old and she was about 55 years old -- not a typical union. Most men sought younger wives and he was still young enough to start a family. Ann Pudeator was not rich; she owned no property. I have yet to find an "advantage" for Jacob to marry her... unless he owed her something for offing his drunkard wife. The record for their marriage has not been found. However, Ann appears as Jacob Pudeator's wife on a deed dated March 1678, so we know they were married by then.
The marriage lasted about 5 years (1677-1682). Jacob Pudeator died c. August 1682 and his will was proved in Essex Court 28 Sept 1682. In his will, Jacob Pudeator named his wife's 5 children as John, Thomas, Ruth, Samuel, and James and left all but John legacies of 5 pounds each. John Greenslit has purchased a house and lot from Jacob in 1681 and John still owned Jacob 5 pounds. John's legacy was that Jacob forgave him his 5 pound debt. Jacob devised to his beloved wife Ann the rest of his property to use during her natural life, but upon her death it was to go to his 'cozen' Isaac Pudeator. When Jacob died age 40 in 1682, his widow Ann (Greenslet) was about 60 years old.
1682-1692. Nothing is known of Ann's life in these 10 years. No doubt she lived in Jacob Pudeator's house on his ppty located on Salem Commons. She may have leased out his smithy for income.
WHEREABOUTS OF ANN's CHILDREN IN 1692. From trial records, her son Thomas Greenslet was in Salem at one time to give testimony to the strength of the Rev. George Burroughs. But it is speculated that since Thomas was a mariner, he probably was in and out of Salem on ships. There is no record that he testified in his mother's behalf.
There is no record of her son Samuel who was named in the 1682 will. Since Jacob Pudeator listed him and devised him a legacy, it is assumed he was alive in 1682, but where he was living or what happened to him after that, is unknown. There is no record that he received his legacy 1682-1694. (Jacob Pudeator's estate was settled in 1694.)
Ann's son John Greenslit was married, had small children, and lived in Salem until c. 1689 when he left 'to go to sea' and never returned. Assumed dead, John's young widow remarried 2-Thomas Mason. They lived in Salem in 1692; however, there is no record that Ann's ex-daughter in law spoke up for her in her behalf. John Greenslet's children were old enough in 1692 to know that their grandmother Greenslet had been accused of witchcraft, found guilty, and hung.
Ann's daughter Ruth was married to Josiah Bridges, had young children, and lived in Boxford in 1692. No record exists that Josiah and Ruth Bridges spoke up in Ann's behalf.
Ann's son James is a mystery. He was named in the 1681 Pudeator will so we know he was alive then. Nothing further is known of him, except in 1694 he was paid his 5 pound Pudeator legacy. What was left of Jacob Pudeator's estate after Ann was hung in 1692 was administered to by Phillip English, Salem merchant, in 1694. He submitted an inventory to Essex Court and also listed all of his expenses. He paid James Greenslet's attorney the 5 pounds owed to James and he paid Ruth Greenslet alias Bridges her 5 pound legacy. No mention is found in Phillip English's records that he paid Thomas, Jr., or Samuel their legacies.
This is the sketchy background info on Ann Greenslet Pudeator. In Essex Court Records, she is referred to as 'Nurs' and we know she "nursed" her neighbor Isabel Pudeator just before she died. When the sheriff came to arrest Ann for witchcraft, they found pots of various sizes in her house. Who knows what was in them (perhaps herbs and medicinal mixes she concocted) but it seemed proof that she was mixing evil potions.
Ann Greenslet Pudeator was hung on 22 Sept 1692 -- accused by neighbors as well as by some of the young girls.
Many of us have scratched our heads and speculated as to why certain ancestors were accused. Why Ann Pudeator?
In her book, "The Devil in the Shape of a Woman", Carol F. Karlsen doesn't have much to say about Ann Pudeator. In the book she attributes accusations to plain anger, and supports it by saying "Ann Pudeator's crime was scolding. John Best (Jr.), speaking about how he had several times found Pudeator's cow among his father's when he rounded up the herd, explained that the reason he 'did conclude said pudeator was a wich' was that she 'would chide me when I came houme for turning the cow bak.'
Later on in the book, during a section where Ms. Karlsen is discussing women who were mid-wives and healers (she thinks that this is could be a connection to why they were accused of witchcraft as she says 22 of those accused witches were mid-wives and/or healers) Ms. Karlson has this to say of Ann Pudeator:
"The problem is further complicated by the presence among witches of women like Ann Pudeator who turned these housewifery skills to profit when widowed or at other times of economic need."
HUH? I think Ms. Karlsen made a giant assumptive leap there. Yes, Ann was a widow. Yes, she is referred to in Essex Court records as 'Nurs Greenslad' during the inquest testimony for the dead Isabel Pudeator. But this 'Nurs' reference could have been because she had been called in by Jacob Pudeator to tend to his ill wife. She was their neighbor. We have no proof, no documentation, that Ann Greenslet practiced as a nurse-healer for profit. Ann said the pots they found in her house contained soap." 		Ann (I5779)
 
4604 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Averell-Averill-Avery family: a record of the descendants of William and Abigail Averell of Ipswich, Mass.," by Clara A. Avery (Press of Evangelical Publishing House, 1906), pp. 123-25:
"MEMORANDA
Greensleet, Greensled, Greenslit.
* An Inv. of the Est. of Thomas Greenslet late (of Salem) dec'd presented 1677, Mar. 27th.; on file [Case 11851], Essex Co. P. R.
The Inv. of Thomas Greenslet deaseased Salem 21 Mar. 1676
An Greenslet admx. testified to the truth of the inventory of her late husband Thomas Greenslet before the Court held at Ipswich the 27 of March 1677. Robert Lord Cleric
Between this date in 1676, and Nov. 28, 1682, Widow Ann ( ---- ) Greensleet m. Jacob Pudeator (this name being a corruption of the surname Pointdexter) of Salem, Mass., whose will was proved at the last date, before the Court at Salem. Mention is made in the will of Ann's children by her previous marriage, and a debt of £5 is forgiven her son John "Greenfield," and bequests to the same amt. made to "the other fouer of my wives children: that is to say Tho Greenslid, and Ruth, & Samuel & James Greensled"
His "loving wife Ann" was named as exx and was to have the use of his property during her life; and at her decease it was to go to his cozen (nephew?) Isaac Pudeater. At the end of the instrument he adds: "I have desired my loving freind s cozen Mr John Browne Senr, Mr Francis Scevey (Seavey?), and John Massey to be the overseers of this my will." Among names of debtors to the estate, and for very small amounts, appear those of Samll Verey, Senr £2. 10s, Ensign Bancroft; Jacob Baun Esq., Price Edwards [Essex P. R., Vol. 302, p. 25; Inv. same vol. and page].
Widow Ann (Greensleet) Pudeator was executed for witchcraft 1692 at Salem; and Dec. 10, 1694, an inventory of the est. was presented and admn granted Mr Philip English, attorney for Grace Pudeater, Legatee [Essex P. R., Vol. 303, p. 198; Case 22909].
James Greensleet starts action against the estate but lets it fall, and Ruth Greenslate alias Bridges receives her legacy of £5 from the estate of her step-father, Jacob Pudeator.
Some of Ann's children were at Casco Bay, near Portland, Me., in 1692. The Inv. of the estate of "John Greensit, late of Salem (prob, son of Ann, above mentioned), who dec'd Oct ye 24, 1693," was presented Oct. 30, 1693, and admn was granted his widow, Abigail Grenslitt [Essex Probate, Vol. 303, pp. 165, 166].
It is possible that "Joan Greensleet a single woman" who was m. at Boston, Nov. 10, 1643, to James2 Avery, son of Christopher1 Avery of Cape Ann and Gloucester, Mass. (progenitors of the Groton Avery Clan), was of this Greensleet stock, and a relative of Ann the wife of John Averell. Joan Greenslade was admitted to the First Church of Boston in 1643, and dismissed after her marriage to unite with the church at Gloucester in 1644 [see The Groton Avery Clan, pp. 43-4-5, for Greenslade, etc]."

2. Some would have us believe that Thomas Greenslade was the son of Edward Greenslade of Boston. There does not seem to be any proof for such a connection except a surname similarity; however, even the surname similarity is in question since the available records for Edward only show thus far a spelling of Greenlief or Greensled. Very little can be found about Edward. Perhaps he was related or not. Perhaps he is a brother or not. What can be thus far found is as follows:
A. American Ancestors "Suffolk County, MA: Index to Probate Records, 1636-1893" accessed 19 Jan 2019[https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/suffolk-county-ma-index-to-probate-records-1636-1893/image?rId=1085512248&volumeId=40195&pageName=52&filterQuery=] shows: "1668, Edward Greensled, Administration, Mislaid docket." In looking at the Suffolk Probates, apparently there is no existing paperwork.
B. American Ancestors "Boston, MA: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (Thwing Collection)" accessed 19 Jan 2019 [https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/boston-ma-inhabitants-and-estates-of-the-town-of-boston-1630-1822-thwing-collection/image?volumeId=14226&pageName=9665&rId=260111342] shows:
Edward Greenlief
September 27, 1654 27 (7) 1654 admitted an inhabitant (TR 2:120)
July 30, 1655 30 (5) 1655 Edward Greenlief granted leave to set a house of 18 ft. deep & 12 ft. to the front from the end of Mr. Batts tan house paying 2.6 for the school use as long as he improves it as a dye house (TR 2:126) Water St.

3. Savage's "Genealogical Dictionary," p. 310: "GREENSLAD, GREENLY, GREENSLATE, or GREENSLEDGE, THOMAS, Scarborough 1658, Salem 1668, d. July 1674. Compare Willis, I. 64, with Genealog. Reg. V. 264 and IX. 85."

4. Unverified from the Internet:
A. A mariner and fisherman with crew of The Margery arriving 1642- 3 (2), in Falmouth 1648 (2), Scarborough 1658 (1), Scarborow and Falmouth 4 July 1663 (17) and Salem 1668 (1), permission to go from the Barbadoes to Antigua in the sloop True Friendship 7 Oct 1679 (17 from Hotton),
B. Thomas Greenslade was also known as Greenslett.2 He was born say 1624 in England.3 He migrated to Casco Bay, Maine, aboard the ship Margery in 1643.1 Marriage before 1650. He died in July 1674. It is Perley who states, "Thomas Greenslet lived in Salem in 1673." (Probably based on the 1673 Salem Ct records regarding Sarah Lambert's child. I have found no records yet which would indicate Thomas and Ann were in Salem before 1673.) Thomas Greenslet died c. July 1674. An exact date is not known. "July 1674" is given by Sidney Perley, History of Salem. The first document I have with Ann Greenslet's name on it is the Inventory of Thomas Greenslet's Estate, File #11851, dated March 1677, which is when the inventory was recorded. The inventory clearly states Ann Greenslet administratrix for her husband Thomas Greenslet his estate. He died without a will and his estate was inventoried l in March 1677 at Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts; died intestate.5 His estate was probated on 27 March 1677 at Court at Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts.6
"Most researchers agree that Thomas and Ann had 5 children. We do not know their birth dates or birth places. Assumptions have been made that the children were born between 1650-1660 in Casco Bay, Maine. There are no records, no documentation for this. I have not found any mention in any Maine records that Thomas Greenslade's wife was ever in Casco Bay, Maine, but it is assumed she came there at some time and lived with him there. Very scant records exist for Thomas Greenslade for the years he was in Casco Bay. Based upon a 1666 record of a defaulted mortgage there, my assumption is he left Casco Bay after 1666 and went to Salem, MA. Ann went to Salem with him. He owned no property. He died intestate in 1674 and left more debts than money to pay them. About 3 years later (c. 1677) Thomas Greenslade's widow Ann married her neighbor Jacob Pudeator, who was about 20 years younger than she was. Jacob's wife Isabel had died in 1676. Her inquest and the questions to witnesses indicate that the court might have thought Isabel Pudeator's death needed inquiry. Jacob and Isabel Pudeator had no children. The source for the names of the 5 Greenslade children is the 1681 will of Ann's second husband Jacob Pudeator. Ann's children named in Pudeator's will were: John, Thomas, Samuel, James, and Ruth. Thus, because they were left legacies by Pudeator, we know these 5 were alive when the will was written in 1681."7
Citations
1. Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin, editor, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Portland, ME: Southward Press, 1928-1939), p. 289, "with crew of -The Margery - arriving 1642-3."
2. Probate Records of Essex County Massachusetts: Vol. III, 1675-1681 (Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1920), III:121. Estate of Thomas Greenslett, 27 Mar 1677, q.v.
3. Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 289, "a Devon-Somerset name." Prob. b. ca. 1624.
4. Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, p. 289, from estimated birth dates of children. Ann, his widow, swore to his estate inventory in 1677.
5/6Probate Records of Essex County Vol. III, III:121; Estate of Thomas Geeenslett. Administration upon the estate of Thomas Greenslett, intestate, was granted Mar. 27, 1677, to Ann Greenslett, who was to pay the debts as far as the inventory, which was 31i. 16s. 2d., would allow. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 287.
Inventory of the estate of Thomas Greenslet taken Mar. 21, 1676-7 by Edmund Batter and John Massey: one flocke bed & apertenances. Hi.; 2 old Chests with raggs, 6s.; a lampe, ticke & Hauke, 4s. ; table, 2 wheels & Chairs, 10s. 6d.; one Irone pott, 6s. 8d. ; wood & old bedsteed, 7s.; potts, 2s.; 2 swine. Hi. ; total, 31i. 16s. 2d. The debts many & not knowne. Attested in Ipswich court Mar. 27, 1677 by An Greenslet administratrix of the estate of her late husband Thomas Greenslet. Essex County Probate Files, Docket 11,851.
7. Greenslip List on Rootsweb, online http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/GREENSLIT/, Helen Greenslit Graves on 30 Apr 2006 and 26 Jul 2000.
8. Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 289.
C. Posting by Helen Greenslit Graves:
"... regarding Ann Greenslet Pudeator, here's some background info on Ann which will lead up to her execution as a witch in Salem in 1692. It's pretty slim:
Scarce info has been found for Ann, wife of Thomas Greenslet. Her maiden name, her DOB, and her birthplace are unknown; who her parents were and if she had any siblings is also unknown. The date of her marriage to Thomas Greenslet and where the marriage took place is unknown. Although the names of her children (Thomas, Ruth, John, Samuel, and James) appear in her 2nd husband's will, where and when ANY of them were born is unknown.
Their births are estimated as occurring between 1650-1660. Since Thomas Greenslet's name appears on a list of residents for Falmouth during this time period, the family must have lived there and that is probably where all 5 children were born. However, no birth or baptism records have been found. Worth noting: Ann Greenslet's name appears nowhere in early Falmouth, Maine, records.
1666-1673 gap. The last record for Thos Greenslet being in Maine was 1667 when he defaulted on a mortgage. The next record is 1673 when Salem Town paid Thomas Greenslet to take in Sarah Lambert's young child to care for. There was a law regarding schooling children and making sure they learned how to read English. Apparently, Thomas Greenslet did not do this. The child was taken away from the Greenslet household that same year. Sidney Perley's 'History of Salem' refers to this, but what he says is misleading. Sounds like it was one of Thomas Greenslet's children who wasn't schooled, but that was not the case. It was an unrelated young child who Salem Town was paying the Greenslet's to raise.
It is Perley who states, "Thomas Greenslet lived in Salem in 1673." (Probably based on the 1673 Salem Ct records regarding Sarah Lambert's child. I have found no records yet which would indicate Thomas and Ann were in Salem before 1673.
Thomas Greenslet died c. July 1674. An exact DOD is not known. "July 1674" is given by Sidney Perley, 'History of Salem'. The first document I have with Ann Greenslet's name on it is the Inventory of Thomas Greenslet's Estate, File #11851, dated March 1677, which is when the inventory was recorded. The inventory clearly states Ann Greenslet administratrix for her husband Thomas Greenslet his estate. Ann's birth has been estimated as being c. 1622-1627, so she was 47-52 when her husband died in 1674. In 1674, if their 5 children were born 1650-1660, some of the younger children were probably still at home. It is believed that the eldest child was son Thomas, and that he was probably born c. 1650. If correct, by 1674, Thomas Jr. was 24 years old, a mariner and working on ships in/out of Salem. There are later references that his brothers Samuel and John were in Casco Bay fighting Indians in 1676. From these references, it has been assumed that perhaps James was the youngest child and may have still been in the Greenslet home in 1674 when his father died. Where daughter Ruth was in 1674 is unknown, but she appears in Ipswich in 1677.
19 Sept 1677 Ruth Greenslip (sic) married Josiah Bridges in Ipswich.
1680 Thos. & Ann's son John Greenslet married Abigail Curtis, d/o William Curtis/Curtice and Alice Rumball. Marriage date and place have not been found. Since her parents continued to live in Salem, it is assumed the marriage took place there. (This is my line.)
JACOB PUDEATOR was born ca 1642, so he was 17-20 years younger than his neighbor Ann Greenslet. According to Sidney Perley, he arrived in Salem c. 1666 when he was 24 years old and married Isabel Mosier. They had no children. Jacob Pudeator was a blacksmith and owned ppty near Salem Commons. According to Perley, Isabel was a drunkard and a railer, and squandered Jacob's money for rum. (Perley prob got this from Essex Co. Court Records.)
Isabel Pudeator died 3 March 1675/76. There was an inquest into her death. Essex Court Records reveal that Ann Greenslet, the Pudeator's neighbor, had nursed Isabel prior to her death, so we know that Ann Greenslet lived not far from the Pudeator house on Salem Commons and was referred to as 'Nurs'. How much nursing she did, is not known. The testimony regarding Isabel Pudeator's death is interesting, in that the doctor who tended to her was amazed that she had died, as he had left her on the mend. Hmmm.
Within the year after Isabel died (March 1677-March 1678) Jacob Pudeator married his neighbor Ann Pudeator. He was about 35 years old and she was about 55 years old -- not a typical union. Most men sought younger wives and he was still young enough to start a family. Ann Pudeator was not rich; she owned no property. I have yet to find an "advantage" for Jacob to marry her... unless he owed her something for offing his drunkard wife. The record for their marriage has not been found. However, Ann appears as Jacob Pudeator's wife on a deed dated March 1678, so we know they were married by then.
The marriage lasted about 5 years (1677-1682). Jacob Pudeator died c. August 1682 and his will was proved in Essex Court 28 Sept 1682. In his will, Jacob Pudeator named his wife's 5 children as John, Thomas, Ruth, Samuel, and James and left all but John legacies of 5 pounds each. John Greenslit has purchased a house and lot from Jacob in 1681 and John still owned Jacob 5 pounds. John's legacy was that Jacob forgave him his 5 pound debt. Jacob devised to his beloved wife Ann the rest of his property to use during her natural life, but upon her death it was to go to his 'cozen' Isaac Pudeator. When Jacob died age 40 in 1682, his widow Ann (Greenslet) was about 60 years old.
1682-1692. Nothing is known of Ann's life in these 10 years. No doubt she lived in Jacob Pudeator's house on his ppty located on Salem Commons. She may have leased out his smithy for income.
WHEREABOUTS OF ANN's CHILDREN IN 1692. From trial records, her son Thomas Greenslet was in Salem at one time to give testimony to the strength of the Rev. George Burroughs. But it is speculated that since Thomas was a mariner, he probably was in and out of Salem on ships. There is no record that he testified in his mother's behalf.
There is no record of her son Samuel who was named in the 1682 will. Since Jacob Pudeator listed him and devised him a legacy, it is assumed he was alive in 1682, but where he was living or what happened to him after that, is unknown. There is no record that he received his legacy 1682-1694. (Jacob Pudeator's estate was settled in 1694.)
Ann's son John Greenslit was married, had small children, and lived in Salem until c. 1689 when he left 'to go to sea' and never returned. Assumed dead, John's young widow remarried 2-Thomas Mason. They lived in Salem in 1692; however, there is no record that Ann's ex-daughter in law spoke up for her in her behalf. John Greenslet's children were old enough in 1692 to know that their grandmother Greenslet had been accused of witchcraft, found guilty, and hung.
Ann's daughter Ruth was married to Josiah Bridges, had young children, and lived in Boxford in 1692. No record exists that Josiah and Ruth Bridges spoke up in Ann's behalf.
Ann's son James is a mystery. He was named in the 1681 Pudeator will so we know he was alive then. Nothing further is known of him, except in 1694 he was paid his 5 pound Pudeator legacy. What was left of Jacob Pudeator's estate after Ann was hung in 1692 was administered to by Phillip English, Salem merchant, in 1694. He submitted an inventory to Essex Court and also listed all of his expenses. He paid James Greenslet's attorney the 5 pounds owed to James and he paid Ruth Greenslet alias Bridges her 5 pound legacy. No mention is found in Phillip English's records that he paid Thomas, Jr., or Samuel their legacies.
This is the sketchy background info on Ann Greenslet Pudeator. In Essex Court Records, she is referred to as 'Nurs' and we know she "nursed" her neighbor Isabel Pudeator just before she died. When the sheriff came to arrest Ann for witchcraft, they found pots of various sizes in her house. Who knows what was in them (perhaps herbs and medicinal mixes she concocted) but it seemed proof that she was mixing evil potions.
Ann Greenslet Pudeator was hung on 22 Sept 1692 -- accused by neighbors as well as by some of the young girls.
Many of us have scratched our heads and speculated as to why certain ancestors were accused. Why Ann Pudeator?
In her book, "The Devil in the Shape of a Woman", Carol F. Karlsen doesn't have much to say about Ann Pudeator. In the book she attributes accusations to plain anger, and supports it by saying "Ann Pudeator's crime was scolding. John Best (Jr.), speaking about how he had several times found Pudeator's cow among his father's when he rounded up the herd, explained that the reason he 'did conclude said pudeator was a wich' was that she 'would chide me when I came houme for turning the cow bak.'
Later on in the book, during a section where Ms. Karlsen is discussing women who were mid-wives and healers (she thinks that this is could be a connection to why they were accused of witchcraft as she says 22 of those accused witches were mid-wives and/or healers) Ms. Karlson has this to say of Ann Pudeator:
"The problem is further complicated by the presence among witches of women like Ann Pudeator who turned these housewifery skills to profit when widowed or at other times of economic need."
HUH? I think Ms. Karlsen made a giant assumptive leap there. Yes, Ann was a widow. Yes, she is referred to in Essex Court records as 'Nurs Greenslad' during the inquest testimony for the dead Isabel Pudeator. But this 'Nurs' reference could have been because she had been called in by Jacob Pudeator to tend to his ill wife. She was their neighbor. We have no proof, no documentation, that Ann Greenslet practiced as a nurse-healer for profit. Ann said the pots they found in her house contained soap." 		Greenslade, Thomas (I5778)
 
4605 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Early Settlement of Stamford, Connecticut 1641-1700…," by Jeanne Majdalany, p. 157:
"DAN, DANN, Francis - d1724, m1685 Elizabeth Clason (d aft 1749, d/o Stephen).
Francis Dan went from Barbados to Stamford about 1684. He lived west of Mill River north of the road. Later in the northern part of Stamford there was an area known as Dantown. Descendants:
A. Elizabeth - b1686, mc 1712 John Jones.
B. John - b1691, m1719 Deborah Green (b1701, d/o Benjamin).
C. David - bc1693, m1724 Hannah Lockwood (b1701, d/o Joseph).
D. Abigail - b1700.
E. Francis - bc1704, d1706.
F. Rebecca - b1706.
G. Jonathan - b1709.
References: Harvey M. Dann, "Dan and Montgomery Chronicles"; William B. Lapham, "The Clason Memorial."

MARRIAGE:
1. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), p. 127; author's notes in ( ): "Page 135 [1:112] Mariage: John Dan & Deborah Green, maried in Stamford, by Capt. Joseph Bishop, Justice October first day 1719 (This marriage was again recorded in Stamford Vital Records, 1:136, 203.)"
 		Dan, John (I922)
 
4606 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Early Settlement of Stamford, Connecticut 1641-1700…," by Jeanne Majdalany, p. 163:
"GREEN, John - bc1610, d1693, m1 Mercy (or Mary) Jarvis (d1657), m2 1658 Martha (Brett?) Finch (wd/o John).
John Green's background is uncertain because there were several John Greens who came to America in the early 1630s. He was in New Haven before 1650 and in Stamford by 1654 where he lived on the north side of East Street. He was a shepherd in 1669 and was a constable and a deputy several times. He moved to Bedford, NY in 1680 and died there. His sons Joseph and Benjamin returned to Stamford about 1685. They lived at the east end of town north of the road.
Note: The two Sarahs (dau. of John and dau. of Benjamin) may be wrong re. their husbands. Descendants:
A. John - b1651, d young.
B. Joseph - b1656, d1710, mc1680 Elizabeth (d1721).
1. Mary - b1681, d1714 m1707 John Perry.
2. Elizabeth - b1683, d1716, m1 Ebenezer Darling, m2 Dr John Drew.
3. Waitstill - b1685, d1730, m1 1707 David Waterbury, m2 1713 Stephen Bishop.
4. Joseph - b1687, m1712 Sarah Brown.
5. John - b1691, d1728, m1717 Sarah Crissy (b1693, d/o John).
6. Mercy - b1694, m1723 Benjamin Bunnell.
7. Nathaniel - b1697, m1722 Elizabeth Frost.
C. John - b1660, d1728, m1683 Abigail
1. Abigail - b1685, m1709 Stephen Clason.
2. Sarah - b1688, d1713, m1710 Stephen Holmes.
3. Deborah - b1690, m1712 Cornelius Delevan.
4. Martha - b1692, m1716 Nehemiah Churcher (or Churchill).
[The rest is cut off due to a poor copying job]"
 		Elizabeth (I868)
 
4607 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Early Settlement of Stamford, Connecticut 1641-1700…," by Jeanne Majdalany, pp. 154-55:
"CLASON, CLAUSON, CLOYSON, Stephen - dc1700, m1655 Elizabeth Periment (b1631, d1714).
Stephen Clason was married in Stamford in 1654, but who Elizabeth Periment was remains a mystery. Eardeley suggests that her name was Penoyer. Stephen's son Stephen moved to Bedford. His two grandchildren, children of the late Jonathan, lived with him, according to his will. The witch trial of his wife took place in the early 1690s.
The Clasons lived on the east side of West Street from 1654 to the late 1670's when they moved west of Mill River north of the road. Descendants:
A. Jonathan - b1656, d1685, m1681 Sarah Roberts (b1661, d1684, d/o Thomas).
1. Stephen - b1682, d1746, m1709 Abigail Green (d/o John).
2. Sarah - b1683.
B. Stephen - b1658, m1 1692 Rebecca Jones (wd/o Samuel Drake, wd/o Joseph), m2 Rogers. Bedford, N.Y.
C. Rebecca - b1660.
D. David - b1662, d1721, m1688 Mary Hardy (b1659, d1716, d/o Richard)…
E. Samuel - d1723, m1693 Hannah Dunham (d1721)…
F. Elizabeth - bc1665, m1685 Francis Dan.
G. Abigail? - mc1713 Stephen Holmes (she div & m1717 Daniel Holly).
H. Daniel - bp1675.
References: William B Lapham, Genealogical History of the Clason Family."

BIRTH:
1. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), p. 106: "p. 116 [1:98], ([Sa])rah, daughter to Thomas Roberts born the 4th Septem[ber] Anno 1661."

MARRIAGE:
1. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), p. 20; author's notes in ( ): "Page 24 [1:18] Jonathan Cloyson & Sarah Roberts maried the 16th 10mo 1680. (16 Dec 1680)"

DEATH:
1. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), p. 20; author's notes in ( ): "Page 24 [1:18] Sarah wife to Jonathan Cloyson, died the 30:6:1684. (30 Aug 1684)"
 		Roberts, Sarah (I925)
 
4608 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Early Settlement of Stamford, Connecticut 1641-1700…," by Jeanne Majdalany, pp. 154-55:
"CLASON, CLAUSON, CLOYSON, Stephen - dc1700, m1655 Elizabeth Periment (b1631, d1714).
Stephen Clason was married in Stamford in 1654, but who Elizabeth Periment was remains a mystery. Eardeley suggests that her name was Penoyer. Stephen's son Stephen moved to Bedford. His two grandchildren, children of the late Jonathan, lived with him, according to his will. The witch trial of his wife took place in the early 1690s.
The Clasons lived on the east side of West Street from 1654 to the late 1670's when they moved west of Mill River north of the road. Descendants:
A. Jonathan - b1656, d1685, m1681 Sarah Roberts (b1661, d1684, d/o Thomas).
1. Stephen - b1682, d1746, m1709 Abigail Green (d/o John).
2. Sarah - b1683.
B. Stephen - b1658, m1 1692 Rebecca Jones (wd/o Samuel Drake, wd/o Joseph), m2 Rogers. Bedford, N.Y.
C. Rebecca - b1660.
D. David - b1662, d1721, m1688 Mary Hardy (b1659, d1716, d/o Richard)…
E. Samuel - d1723, m1693 Hannah Dunham (d1721)…
F. Elizabeth - bc1665, m1685 Francis Dan.
G. Abigail? - mc1713 Stephen Holmes (she div & m1717 Daniel Holly).
H. Daniel - bp1675.
References: William B Lapham, Genealogical History of the Clason Family."

BIRTH:
1. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), p. 20: "Page 24 [1:18] Jonathan, son to Stephen Cloyson, born the 11:12:1655"

MARRIAGE:
1. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), p. 20; author's notes in ( ): "Page 24 [1:18] Jonathan Cloyson & Sarah Roberts maried the 16th 10mo 1680. (16 Dec 1680)"

DEATH:
1. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), p. 20; author's notes in ( ): "Page 24 [1:18] Jonathan Cloyson, died 10:4:1685. (10 Jun 1685)"
 		Clason, Jonathan (I924)
 
4609 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson, pp. 389-92:
"EDMUND BRIDGES
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1635 on the James
FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
REMOVES: Rowley by 1641, Ipswich by 1660, Salem by 1670, Ipswich by 1684
OCCUPATION: Blacksmith [EPR Case #3295].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Lynn church prior to 7 September 1639 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 7 September 1639 [MBCR 1:376].
EDUCATION: Signed his deed of 1682 and his will.
OFFICES: Essex County grand jury, 30 September 1651, 26 September 1654, 25 September 1660 [EQC 1:232, 362, 2:225]. Petit jury, 30 September 1662, 30 September 1673, 28 November 1676, 27 September 1681 [EQC 2:434, 5:224, 6:215, 8:150]. Replacement juror, 30 November 1675 [EQC 6:73].
ESTATE: "Edward Bridges" received ten acres in the Lynn land division of 1638 [EQC 2:271].
On 14 April 1660, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, and Anthony Potter sold to Elder John Whipple of Ipswich part of a six-acre lot that had previously been Henry Kingsbury's [ILR 1:247-248].
On 26 June 1663, Zacheus Gould of Topsfield sold a small parcel of land to Edmond Bridges and Daniel Black. Bridges and Black immediately mortgaged the property back to Gould, with Bridges accepting one-third of the responsibility for the mortgage and Black two-thirds [ILR 2:162-64].
On 22 February 1663/4, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, sold to Nicholas Wallis six acres of meadow in Ipswich [ILR 3:204-5].
On 9 December 1670, Edmond Bridges of Salem, blacksmith, sold to Ensign John Gould of Topsfield, yeoman, an eight-acre parcel of land with a dwelling house and barn in Topsfield, also a parcel of ten acres of meadow, swamp and upland in Topsfield [ELR 3:101].
On 12 April 1682, Edmund Bridges Sr. of Salem, blacksmith, made a one year mortgage with Mrs. Eliza[beth] Turner of Salem, widow, for his "dwelling house & shop & wharf, with sixty poles of ground with it" MLR 6:49].
In his will, dated 6 January 1684[/5] and proved 31 March 1685, Edmond Bridges Sr. of Ipswich, blacksmith, in "weakness of body and many infirmities often prevailing," stated that "I have already given unto all my children but Mary [their] portions as was suitable and convenient to my estate," but in addition bequeathed to "John Bridges my rapier'; to "Josiah Bridges ... my musket'; to "Fayth Bridges" a pewter platter marked with an "EBA"; to "Bethiah Bridges, the fellow or other pewter platter with the same marks"; to "my daughter Mary," £20 in goods; to "my beloved wife Mary Bridges" use of the whole estate during her life unless she marry, then £10; residue of estate at death of wife or her remarriage to be equally divided among "John Bridges my son, my son Josiah Bridges, my daughter Faith Bridges alias Black, Bethiah Bridges alias Peabodie, and Mary Bridges"; "my beloved wife Mary Bridges & my son John Bridges" executors; "Daniel Epps" with "Lieut. John Appleton" overseers [EPR Case #3295].
The inventory of the estate of Edmond Bridges, taken 16 January 1684[/5], totalled £215 6s. 6d., of which £90 was real estate: "the homestead with all the housing belonging to it," £70; and "9 acres of land," £20 [EPR Case #3295].
An undated account of debts showed £175 12s. 2-1/2d. in sums owed by Bridges, including amounts to settle the entitlements of the Littlehale heirs [EPR Case #3295].
BIRTH: About 1612 (aged 23 in 1635 [Hotten 107]; deposed "aged about forty-six years" in September 1658 [EQC 2:117]). In May 1661 he was released from training "except twice a year" [EQC 2:281].
DEATH: Ipswich 13 January 1684/5.
MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1636 Elizabeth ___. She died at Ipswich 31 December 1664. (Some secondary sources, including Savage, propose an earlier wife Alice, but no supporting evidence for this has been found, so we assume here two wives only for Edmund Bridges.)
(2) Ipswich 6 April 1665 Mary (Langton) Littlehale, widow of Richard [EQC 6:118], born about 1625 (deposed 24 November 1685 "aged sixty years" [EQC 9:545]); she died at Ipswich 24 October 1691. (On 15 March 1664/5, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich acknowledged that "I have nothing to do directly nor indirectly anyways to dispose of or having any interest at all of Mary Litelhale['s] accommodation at Haverhill notwithstanding she is to be my wife, but leaveth it wholly to the said Mary to dispose of for her own use and her four children which she hath by Rich[ar]d Litelhale" [ILR 5:108]).
CHILDREN:
With first wife
i EDMUND, b. about 1636 (deposed June 1664 "aged about twenty-seven years" [EQC 3:160, 183]; deposed for 27 March 1666 court "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 3:312]; deposed in June 1674 "aged about thirty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); Topsfield 11 January 1659/60 Sarah Towne, daughter of William Towne [Amos Towne Anc 4- 6].
ii HACKALIAH, b. say 1638 (fined for running away from his father September 1655 [EQC 1:404]); accused by Sarah French for getting her with child September 1656, case discharged [EQC 2:2]; whipped for fornication and ordered to discharge the town about bringing up the child of Mary Quilter, September 1657 [EQC 2:54]; "Hackoliah Bridges drowned at the Gay Head December the 23rd 1671 his estate being inventoried and prized amounted to the just sum of twenty-eight pounds eighteen shillings and eight pence, the said estate was committed into the hand of Mr. Richard Sarson as administrator upon the said estate," who presented the inventory on 25 January 1671/2 [Dukes LR 1:311]; "Hackaliah Bridges being cast away and dying intestate," Essex administration was granted on 8 February 1671/2 "to Obadiah Bridges, his brother, who was to bring in an inventory" [EQC 5:1; EPR 2:253]; apparently unmarried.
iii MEHITABLE, b. Rowley 26 March 1641; no further record.
iv JOHN, b. say 1643; m. (1) Ipswich 5 December 1666 Sarah How; m. (2) Andover 1 March 1677/8 Mary (Tyler) Post, widow of Richard.
v FAITH, b. about 1645 (deposed at court June 1674 "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); m. after 1660 and by March 1664 Daniel Black [EQC 3:130, 192-94].
vi OBADIAH, b. about 1647 (deposed at court September 1667 "aged about twenty years" [EQC 3:444]; deposed at court November 1669 "aged about twenty-four years" [EQC 4:195]); m. (1) Ipswich 25 October 1671 Mary Smith; m. (2) by 1677 Elizabeth ___ (his administratrix [EQC 6:344]).
vii BETHIA, b. say 1649; m. Boxford or Topsfield 26 October 1668 Joseph Peabody (marriage recorded in both towns).
viii JOSIAH, b. about 1654 (deposed 2 March 1676 "aged about twenty-two years" [EQC 6:239]); m. (1) Ipswich 13 November 1676 Elizabeth Norton; m. (2) Ipswich 19 September 1677 Ruth Greenslip.
With second wife
ix MARY, b. Ipswich 14 April 1667; living 1684/5.
ASSOCIATIONS: The inventory of Roger Lancton of Haverhill was taken 24 January 1671[/2] at the request of "Mr. Edmon Bridges and Samewall Varnum related to the said Rodger who deceased without a will" [EPR 2:260]. The relationship was evidently through Edmund's second wife.
COMMENTS: On 13 July 1635, "Edmond Bridges," aged 23, was enrolled at London for passage to New England on the James [Hotten 107].
Edmund Bridges was excused for neglect of public service, at his request, July 1647 [EQC 1:119]. He did take some responsibilities, since he was named executor of the will of Thomas Scott of Ipswich, written 8 March 1653/4 [EPR 1:169; ILR 1:190]. He also deposed as attorney to John Caldwell in November 1653, saying that, "being in Goodman Bridges' shop, Goodman ___ being present, he heard him say that a woman and her daughter, gathering berries, saw four women, Mrs. Perkins, Goody Evens, Goody Dutch, etc. As they approached them, the four women sat upon the ground, but when they came near, the women had vanished. He could not say that they were witches" [EQC 1:325].
In September 1660 Faith Bridges and Daniel Black were in court over his unlawful seduction of her without her father's permission [EQC 2:243].
While still minors Edward and Hackaliah were in trouble for things like lying, fornicating and getting drunk [EQC 2:3, 40-42, 52-54, 68]. Edmund's children kept unsavory company and were often called to depose in court about unlawful events they witnessed. Sometimes they were more than witnesses. Andrew Mansfield of Lynn deposed in September 1667 that "in hay time, two or three of Goodman Bridges' sons of Ipswich overtook him on this side of Lynn bridge and stayed there to light their pipes." The youngest, Hackaliah, was charged with feloniously assaulting a man upon the highway that night, but the court found for Bridges [EQC 3:444-45]." 		Peabody, Joseph (I5406)
 
4610 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson, pp. 389-92:
"EDMUND BRIDGES
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1635 on the James
FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
REMOVES: Rowley by 1641, Ipswich by 1660, Salem by 1670, Ipswich by 1684
OCCUPATION: Blacksmith [EPR Case #3295].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Lynn church prior to 7 September 1639 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 7 September 1639 [MBCR 1:376].
EDUCATION: Signed his deed of 1682 and his will.
OFFICES: Essex County grand jury, 30 September 1651, 26 September 1654, 25 September 1660 [EQC 1:232, 362, 2:225]. Petit jury, 30 September 1662, 30 September 1673, 28 November 1676, 27 September 1681 [EQC 2:434, 5:224, 6:215, 8:150]. Replacement juror, 30 November 1675 [EQC 6:73].
ESTATE: "Edward Bridges" received ten acres in the Lynn land division of 1638 [EQC 2:271].
On 14 April 1660, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, and Anthony Potter sold to Elder John Whipple of Ipswich part of a six-acre lot that had previously been Henry Kingsbury's [ILR 1:247-248].
On 26 June 1663, Zacheus Gould of Topsfield sold a small parcel of land to Edmond Bridges and Daniel Black. Bridges and Black immediately mortgaged the property back to Gould, with Bridges accepting one-third of the responsibility for the mortgage and Black two-thirds [ILR 2:162-64].
On 22 February 1663/4, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, sold to Nicholas Wallis six acres of meadow in Ipswich [ILR 3:204-5].
On 9 December 1670, Edmond Bridges of Salem, blacksmith, sold to Ensign John Gould of Topsfield, yeoman, an eight-acre parcel of land with a dwelling house and barn in Topsfield, also a parcel of ten acres of meadow, swamp and upland in Topsfield [ELR 3:101].
On 12 April 1682, Edmund Bridges Sr. of Salem, blacksmith, made a one year mortgage with Mrs. Eliza[beth] Turner of Salem, widow, for his "dwelling house & shop & wharf, with sixty poles of ground with it" MLR 6:49].
In his will, dated 6 January 1684[/5] and proved 31 March 1685, Edmond Bridges Sr. of Ipswich, blacksmith, in "weakness of body and many infirmities often prevailing," stated that "I have already given unto all my children but Mary [their] portions as was suitable and convenient to my estate," but in addition bequeathed to "John Bridges my rapier'; to "Josiah Bridges ... my musket'; to "Fayth Bridges" a pewter platter marked with an "EBA"; to "Bethiah Bridges, the fellow or other pewter platter with the same marks"; to "my daughter Mary," £20 in goods; to "my beloved wife Mary Bridges" use of the whole estate during her life unless she marry, then £10; residue of estate at death of wife or her remarriage to be equally divided among "John Bridges my son, my son Josiah Bridges, my daughter Faith Bridges alias Black, Bethiah Bridges alias Peabodie, and Mary Bridges"; "my beloved wife Mary Bridges & my son John Bridges" executors; "Daniel Epps" with "Lieut. John Appleton" overseers [EPR Case #3295].
The inventory of the estate of Edmond Bridges, taken 16 January 1684[/5], totalled £215 6s. 6d., of which £90 was real estate: "the homestead with all the housing belonging to it," £70; and "9 acres of land," £20 [EPR Case #3295].
An undated account of debts showed £175 12s. 2-1/2d. in sums owed by Bridges, including amounts to settle the entitlements of the Littlehale heirs [EPR Case #3295].
BIRTH: About 1612 (aged 23 in 1635 [Hotten 107]; deposed "aged about forty-six years" in September 1658 [EQC 2:117]). In May 1661 he was released from training "except twice a year" [EQC 2:281].
DEATH: Ipswich 13 January 1684/5.
MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1636 Elizabeth ___. She died at Ipswich 31 December 1664. (Some secondary sources, including Savage, propose an earlier wife Alice, but no supporting evidence for this has been found, so we assume here two wives only for Edmund Bridges.)
(2) Ipswich 6 April 1665 Mary (Langton) Littlehale, widow of Richard [EQC 6:118], born about 1625 (deposed 24 November 1685 "aged sixty years" [EQC 9:545]); she died at Ipswich 24 October 1691. (On 15 March 1664/5, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich acknowledged that "I have nothing to do directly nor indirectly anyways to dispose of or having any interest at all of Mary Litelhale['s] accommodation at Haverhill notwithstanding she is to be my wife, but leaveth it wholly to the said Mary to dispose of for her own use and her four children which she hath by Rich[ar]d Litelhale" [ILR 5:108]).
CHILDREN:
With first wife
i EDMUND, b. about 1636 (deposed June 1664 "aged about twenty-seven years" [EQC 3:160, 183]; deposed for 27 March 1666 court "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 3:312]; deposed in June 1674 "aged about thirty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); Topsfield 11 January 1659/60 Sarah Towne, daughter of William Towne [Amos Towne Anc 4- 6].
ii HACKALIAH, b. say 1638 (fined for running away from his father September 1655 [EQC 1:404]); accused by Sarah French for getting her with child September 1656, case discharged [EQC 2:2]; whipped for fornication and ordered to discharge the town about bringing up the child of Mary Quilter, September 1657 [EQC 2:54]; "Hackoliah Bridges drowned at the Gay Head December the 23rd 1671 his estate being inventoried and prized amounted to the just sum of twenty-eight pounds eighteen shillings and eight pence, the said estate was committed into the hand of Mr. Richard Sarson as administrator upon the said estate," who presented the inventory on 25 January 1671/2 [Dukes LR 1:311]; "Hackaliah Bridges being cast away and dying intestate," Essex administration was granted on 8 February 1671/2 "to Obadiah Bridges, his brother, who was to bring in an inventory" [EQC 5:1; EPR 2:253]; apparently unmarried.
iii MEHITABLE, b. Rowley 26 March 1641; no further record.
iv JOHN, b. say 1643; m. (1) Ipswich 5 December 1666 Sarah How; m. (2) Andover 1 March 1677/8 Mary (Tyler) Post, widow of Richard.
v FAITH, b. about 1645 (deposed at court June 1674 "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); m. after 1660 and by March 1664 Daniel Black [EQC 3:130, 192-94].
vi OBADIAH, b. about 1647 (deposed at court September 1667 "aged about twenty years" [EQC 3:444]; deposed at court November 1669 "aged about twenty-four years" [EQC 4:195]); m. (1) Ipswich 25 October 1671 Mary Smith; m. (2) by 1677 Elizabeth ___ (his administratrix [EQC 6:344]).
vii BETHIA, b. say 1649; m. Boxford or Topsfield 26 October 1668 Joseph Peabody (marriage recorded in both towns).
viii JOSIAH, b. about 1654 (deposed 2 March 1676 "aged about twenty-two years" [EQC 6:239]); m. (1) Ipswich 13 November 1676 Elizabeth Norton; m. (2) Ipswich 19 September 1677 Ruth Greenslip.
With second wife
ix MARY, b. Ipswich 14 April 1667; living 1684/5.
ASSOCIATIONS: The inventory of Roger Lancton of Haverhill was taken 24 January 1671[/2] at the request of "Mr. Edmon Bridges and Samewall Varnum related to the said Rodger who deceased without a will" [EPR 2:260]. The relationship was evidently through Edmund's second wife.
COMMENTS: On 13 July 1635, "Edmond Bridges," aged 23, was enrolled at London for passage to New England on the James [Hotten 107].
Edmund Bridges was excused for neglect of public service, at his request, July 1647 [EQC 1:119]. He did take some responsibilities, since he was named executor of the will of Thomas Scott of Ipswich, written 8 March 1653/4 [EPR 1:169; ILR 1:190]. He also deposed as attorney to John Caldwell in November 1653, saying that, "being in Goodman Bridges' shop, Goodman ___ being present, he heard him say that a woman and her daughter, gathering berries, saw four women, Mrs. Perkins, Goody Evens, Goody Dutch, etc. As they approached them, the four women sat upon the ground, but when they came near, the women had vanished. He could not say that they were witches" [EQC 1:325].
In September 1660 Faith Bridges and Daniel Black were in court over his unlawful seduction of her without her father's permission [EQC 2:243].
While still minors Edward and Hackaliah were in trouble for things like lying, fornicating and getting drunk [EQC 2:3, 40-42, 52-54, 68]. Edmund's children kept unsavory company and were often called to depose in court about unlawful events they witnessed. Sometimes they were more than witnesses. Andrew Mansfield of Lynn deposed in September 1667 that "in hay time, two or three of Goodman Bridges' sons of Ipswich overtook him on this side of Lynn bridge and stayed there to light their pipes." The youngest, Hackaliah, was charged with feloniously assaulting a man upon the highway that night, but the court found for Bridges [EQC 3:444-45]." 		Bridges, Bethiah (I5405)
 
4611 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson, pp. 389-92:
"EDMUND BRIDGES
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1635 on the James
FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
REMOVES: Rowley by 1641, Ipswich by 1660, Salem by 1670, Ipswich by 1684
OCCUPATION: Blacksmith [EPR Case #3295].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Lynn church prior to 7 September 1639 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 7 September 1639 [MBCR 1:376].
EDUCATION: Signed his deed of 1682 and his will.
OFFICES: Essex County grand jury, 30 September 1651, 26 September 1654, 25 September 1660 [EQC 1:232, 362, 2:225]. Petit jury, 30 September 1662, 30 September 1673, 28 November 1676, 27 September 1681 [EQC 2:434, 5:224, 6:215, 8:150]. Replacement juror, 30 November 1675 [EQC 6:73].
ESTATE: "Edward Bridges" received ten acres in the Lynn land division of 1638 [EQC 2:271].
On 14 April 1660, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, and Anthony Potter sold to Elder John Whipple of Ipswich part of a six-acre lot that had previously been Henry Kingsbury's [ILR 1:247-248].
On 26 June 1663, Zacheus Gould of Topsfield sold a small parcel of land to Edmond Bridges and Daniel Black. Bridges and Black immediately mortgaged the property back to Gould, with Bridges accepting one-third of the responsibility for the mortgage and Black two-thirds [ILR 2:162-64].
On 22 February 1663/4, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, sold to Nicholas Wallis six acres of meadow in Ipswich [ILR 3:204-5].
On 9 December 1670, Edmond Bridges of Salem, blacksmith, sold to Ensign John Gould of Topsfield, yeoman, an eight-acre parcel of land with a dwelling house and barn in Topsfield, also a parcel of ten acres of meadow, swamp and upland in Topsfield [ELR 3:101].
On 12 April 1682, Edmund Bridges Sr. of Salem, blacksmith, made a one year mortgage with Mrs. Eliza[beth] Turner of Salem, widow, for his "dwelling house & shop & wharf, with sixty poles of ground with it" MLR 6:49].
In his will, dated 6 January 1684[/5] and proved 31 March 1685, Edmond Bridges Sr. of Ipswich, blacksmith, in "weakness of body and many infirmities often prevailing," stated that "I have already given unto all my children but Mary [their] portions as was suitable and convenient to my estate," but in addition bequeathed to "John Bridges my rapier'; to "Josiah Bridges ... my musket'; to "Fayth Bridges" a pewter platter marked with an "EBA"; to "Bethiah Bridges, the fellow or other pewter platter with the same marks"; to "my daughter Mary," £20 in goods; to "my beloved wife Mary Bridges" use of the whole estate during her life unless she marry, then £10; residue of estate at death of wife or her remarriage to be equally divided among "John Bridges my son, my son Josiah Bridges, my daughter Faith Bridges alias Black, Bethiah Bridges alias Peabodie, and Mary Bridges"; "my beloved wife Mary Bridges & my son John Bridges" executors; "Daniel Epps" with "Lieut. John Appleton" overseers [EPR Case #3295].
The inventory of the estate of Edmond Bridges, taken 16 January 1684[/5], totalled £215 6s. 6d., of which £90 was real estate: "the homestead with all the housing belonging to it," £70; and "9 acres of land," £20 [EPR Case #3295].
An undated account of debts showed £175 12s. 2-1/2d. in sums owed by Bridges, including amounts to settle the entitlements of the Littlehale heirs [EPR Case #3295].
BIRTH: About 1612 (aged 23 in 1635 [Hotten 107]; deposed "aged about forty-six years" in September 1658 [EQC 2:117]). In May 1661 he was released from training "except twice a year" [EQC 2:281].
DEATH: Ipswich 13 January 1684/5.
MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1636 Elizabeth ___. She died at Ipswich 31 December 1664. (Some secondary sources, including Savage, propose an earlier wife Alice, but no supporting evidence for this has been found, so we assume here two wives only for Edmund Bridges.)
(2) Ipswich 6 April 1665 Mary (Langton) Littlehale, widow of Richard [EQC 6:118], born about 1625 (deposed 24 November 1685 "aged sixty years" [EQC 9:545]); she died at Ipswich 24 October 1691. (On 15 March 1664/5, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich acknowledged that "I have nothing to do directly nor indirectly anyways to dispose of or having any interest at all of Mary Litelhale['s] accommodation at Haverhill notwithstanding she is to be my wife, but leaveth it wholly to the said Mary to dispose of for her own use and her four children which she hath by Rich[ar]d Litelhale" [ILR 5:108]).
CHILDREN:
With first wife
i EDMUND, b. about 1636 (deposed June 1664 "aged about twenty-seven years" [EQC 3:160, 183]; deposed for 27 March 1666 court "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 3:312]; deposed in June 1674 "aged about thirty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); Topsfield 11 January 1659/60 Sarah Towne, daughter of William Towne [Amos Towne Anc 4- 6].
ii HACKALIAH, b. say 1638 (fined for running away from his father September 1655 [EQC 1:404]); accused by Sarah French for getting her with child September 1656, case discharged [EQC 2:2]; whipped for fornication and ordered to discharge the town about bringing up the child of Mary Quilter, September 1657 [EQC 2:54]; "Hackoliah Bridges drowned at the Gay Head December the 23rd 1671 his estate being inventoried and prized amounted to the just sum of twenty-eight pounds eighteen shillings and eight pence, the said estate was committed into the hand of Mr. Richard Sarson as administrator upon the said estate," who presented the inventory on 25 January 1671/2 [Dukes LR 1:311]; "Hackaliah Bridges being cast away and dying intestate," Essex administration was granted on 8 February 1671/2 "to Obadiah Bridges, his brother, who was to bring in an inventory" [EQC 5:1; EPR 2:253]; apparently unmarried.
iii MEHITABLE, b. Rowley 26 March 1641; no further record.
iv JOHN, b. say 1643; m. (1) Ipswich 5 December 1666 Sarah How; m. (2) Andover 1 March 1677/8 Mary (Tyler) Post, widow of Richard.
v FAITH, b. about 1645 (deposed at court June 1674 "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); m. after 1660 and by March 1664 Daniel Black [EQC 3:130, 192-94].
vi OBADIAH, b. about 1647 (deposed at court September 1667 "aged about twenty years" [EQC 3:444]; deposed at court November 1669 "aged about twenty-four years" [EQC 4:195]); m. (1) Ipswich 25 October 1671 Mary Smith; m. (2) by 1677 Elizabeth ___ (his administratrix [EQC 6:344]).
vii BETHIA, b. say 1649; m. Boxford or Topsfield 26 October 1668 Joseph Peabody (marriage recorded in both towns).
viii JOSIAH, b. about 1654 (deposed 2 March 1676 "aged about twenty-two years" [EQC 6:239]); m. (1) Ipswich 13 November 1676 Elizabeth Norton; m. (2) Ipswich 19 September 1677 Ruth Greenslip.
With second wife
ix MARY, b. Ipswich 14 April 1667; living 1684/5.
ASSOCIATIONS: The inventory of Roger Lancton of Haverhill was taken 24 January 1671[/2] at the request of "Mr. Edmon Bridges and Samewall Varnum related to the said Rodger who deceased without a will" [EPR 2:260]. The relationship was evidently through Edmund's second wife.
COMMENTS: On 13 July 1635, "Edmond Bridges," aged 23, was enrolled at London for passage to New England on the James [Hotten 107].
Edmund Bridges was excused for neglect of public service, at his request, July 1647 [EQC 1:119]. He did take some responsibilities, since he was named executor of the will of Thomas Scott of Ipswich, written 8 March 1653/4 [EPR 1:169; ILR 1:190]. He also deposed as attorney to John Caldwell in November 1653, saying that, "being in Goodman Bridges' shop, Goodman ___ being present, he heard him say that a woman and her daughter, gathering berries, saw four women, Mrs. Perkins, Goody Evens, Goody Dutch, etc. As they approached them, the four women sat upon the ground, but when they came near, the women had vanished. He could not say that they were witches" [EQC 1:325].
In September 1660 Faith Bridges and Daniel Black were in court over his unlawful seduction of her without her father's permission [EQC 2:243].
While still minors Edward and Hackaliah were in trouble for things like lying, fornicating and getting drunk [EQC 2:3, 40-42, 52-54, 68]. Edmund's children kept unsavory company and were often called to depose in court about unlawful events they witnessed. Sometimes they were more than witnesses. Andrew Mansfield of Lynn deposed in September 1667 that "in hay time, two or three of Goodman Bridges' sons of Ipswich overtook him on this side of Lynn bridge and stayed there to light their pipes." The youngest, Hackaliah, was charged with feloniously assaulting a man upon the highway that night, but the court found for Bridges [EQC 3:444-45]." 		Bridges, Hackaliah (I5396)
 
4612 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson, pp. 389-92:
"EDMUND BRIDGES
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1635 on the James
FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
REMOVES: Rowley by 1641, Ipswich by 1660, Salem by 1670, Ipswich by 1684
OCCUPATION: Blacksmith [EPR Case #3295].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Lynn church prior to 7 September 1639 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 7 September 1639 [MBCR 1:376].
EDUCATION: Signed his deed of 1682 and his will.
OFFICES: Essex County grand jury, 30 September 1651, 26 September 1654, 25 September 1660 [EQC 1:232, 362, 2:225]. Petit jury, 30 September 1662, 30 September 1673, 28 November 1676, 27 September 1681 [EQC 2:434, 5:224, 6:215, 8:150]. Replacement juror, 30 November 1675 [EQC 6:73].
ESTATE: "Edward Bridges" received ten acres in the Lynn land division of 1638 [EQC 2:271].
On 14 April 1660, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, and Anthony Potter sold to Elder John Whipple of Ipswich part of a six-acre lot that had previously been Henry Kingsbury's [ILR 1:247-248].
On 26 June 1663, Zacheus Gould of Topsfield sold a small parcel of land to Edmond Bridges and Daniel Black. Bridges and Black immediately mortgaged the property back to Gould, with Bridges accepting one-third of the responsibility for the mortgage and Black two-thirds [ILR 2:162-64].
On 22 February 1663/4, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, sold to Nicholas Wallis six acres of meadow in Ipswich [ILR 3:204-5].
On 9 December 1670, Edmond Bridges of Salem, blacksmith, sold to Ensign John Gould of Topsfield, yeoman, an eight-acre parcel of land with a dwelling house and barn in Topsfield, also a parcel of ten acres of meadow, swamp and upland in Topsfield [ELR 3:101].
On 12 April 1682, Edmund Bridges Sr. of Salem, blacksmith, made a one year mortgage with Mrs. Eliza[beth] Turner of Salem, widow, for his "dwelling house & shop & wharf, with sixty poles of ground with it" MLR 6:49].
In his will, dated 6 January 1684[/5] and proved 31 March 1685, Edmond Bridges Sr. of Ipswich, blacksmith, in "weakness of body and many infirmities often prevailing," stated that "I have already given unto all my children but Mary [their] portions as was suitable and convenient to my estate," but in addition bequeathed to "John Bridges my rapier'; to "Josiah Bridges ... my musket'; to "Fayth Bridges" a pewter platter marked with an "EBA"; to "Bethiah Bridges, the fellow or other pewter platter with the same marks"; to "my daughter Mary," £20 in goods; to "my beloved wife Mary Bridges" use of the whole estate during her life unless she marry, then £10; residue of estate at death of wife or her remarriage to be equally divided among "John Bridges my son, my son Josiah Bridges, my daughter Faith Bridges alias Black, Bethiah Bridges alias Peabodie, and Mary Bridges"; "my beloved wife Mary Bridges & my son John Bridges" executors; "Daniel Epps" with "Lieut. John Appleton" overseers [EPR Case #3295].
The inventory of the estate of Edmond Bridges, taken 16 January 1684[/5], totalled £215 6s. 6d., of which £90 was real estate: "the homestead with all the housing belonging to it," £70; and "9 acres of land," £20 [EPR Case #3295].
An undated account of debts showed £175 12s. 2-1/2d. in sums owed by Bridges, including amounts to settle the entitlements of the Littlehale heirs [EPR Case #3295].
BIRTH: About 1612 (aged 23 in 1635 [Hotten 107]; deposed "aged about forty-six years" in September 1658 [EQC 2:117]). In May 1661 he was released from training "except twice a year" [EQC 2:281].
DEATH: Ipswich 13 January 1684/5.
MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1636 Elizabeth ___. She died at Ipswich 31 December 1664. (Some secondary sources, including Savage, propose an earlier wife Alice, but no supporting evidence for this has been found, so we assume here two wives only for Edmund Bridges.)
(2) Ipswich 6 April 1665 Mary (Langton) Littlehale, widow of Richard [EQC 6:118], born about 1625 (deposed 24 November 1685 "aged sixty years" [EQC 9:545]); she died at Ipswich 24 October 1691. (On 15 March 1664/5, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich acknowledged that "I have nothing to do directly nor indirectly anyways to dispose of or having any interest at all of Mary Litelhale['s] accommodation at Haverhill notwithstanding she is to be my wife, but leaveth it wholly to the said Mary to dispose of for her own use and her four children which she hath by Rich[ar]d Litelhale" [ILR 5:108]).
CHILDREN:
With first wife
i EDMUND, b. about 1636 (deposed June 1664 "aged about twenty-seven years" [EQC 3:160, 183]; deposed for 27 March 1666 court "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 3:312]; deposed in June 1674 "aged about thirty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); Topsfield 11 January 1659/60 Sarah Towne, daughter of William Towne [Amos Towne Anc 4- 6].
ii HACKALIAH, b. say 1638 (fined for running away from his father September 1655 [EQC 1:404]); accused by Sarah French for getting her with child September 1656, case discharged [EQC 2:2]; whipped for fornication and ordered to discharge the town about bringing up the child of Mary Quilter, September 1657 [EQC 2:54]; "Hackoliah Bridges drowned at the Gay Head December the 23rd 1671 his estate being inventoried and prized amounted to the just sum of twenty-eight pounds eighteen shillings and eight pence, the said estate was committed into the hand of Mr. Richard Sarson as administrator upon the said estate," who presented the inventory on 25 January 1671/2 [Dukes LR 1:311]; "Hackaliah Bridges being cast away and dying intestate," Essex administration was granted on 8 February 1671/2 "to Obadiah Bridges, his brother, who was to bring in an inventory" [EQC 5:1; EPR 2:253]; apparently unmarried.
iii MEHITABLE, b. Rowley 26 March 1641; no further record.
iv JOHN, b. say 1643; m. (1) Ipswich 5 December 1666 Sarah How; m. (2) Andover 1 March 1677/8 Mary (Tyler) Post, widow of Richard.
v FAITH, b. about 1645 (deposed at court June 1674 "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); m. after 1660 and by March 1664 Daniel Black [EQC 3:130, 192-94].
vi OBADIAH, b. about 1647 (deposed at court September 1667 "aged about twenty years" [EQC 3:444]; deposed at court November 1669 "aged about twenty-four years" [EQC 4:195]); m. (1) Ipswich 25 October 1671 Mary Smith; m. (2) by 1677 Elizabeth ___ (his administratrix [EQC 6:344]).
vii BETHIA, b. say 1649; m. Boxford or Topsfield 26 October 1668 Joseph Peabody (marriage recorded in both towns).
viii JOSIAH, b. about 1654 (deposed 2 March 1676 "aged about twenty-two years" [EQC 6:239]); m. (1) Ipswich 13 November 1676 Elizabeth Norton; m. (2) Ipswich 19 September 1677 Ruth Greenslip.
With second wife
ix MARY, b. Ipswich 14 April 1667; living 1684/5.
ASSOCIATIONS: The inventory of Roger Lancton of Haverhill was taken 24 January 1671[/2] at the request of "Mr. Edmon Bridges and Samewall Varnum related to the said Rodger who deceased without a will" [EPR 2:260]. The relationship was evidently through Edmund's second wife.
COMMENTS: On 13 July 1635, "Edmond Bridges," aged 23, was enrolled at London for passage to New England on the James [Hotten 107].
Edmund Bridges was excused for neglect of public service, at his request, July 1647 [EQC 1:119]. He did take some responsibilities, since he was named executor of the will of Thomas Scott of Ipswich, written 8 March 1653/4 [EPR 1:169; ILR 1:190]. He also deposed as attorney to John Caldwell in November 1653, saying that, "being in Goodman Bridges' shop, Goodman ___ being present, he heard him say that a woman and her daughter, gathering berries, saw four women, Mrs. Perkins, Goody Evens, Goody Dutch, etc. As they approached them, the four women sat upon the ground, but when they came near, the women had vanished. He could not say that they were witches" [EQC 1:325].
In September 1660 Faith Bridges and Daniel Black were in court over his unlawful seduction of her without her father's permission [EQC 2:243].
While still minors Edward and Hackaliah were in trouble for things like lying, fornicating and getting drunk [EQC 2:3, 40-42, 52-54, 68]. Edmund's children kept unsavory company and were often called to depose in court about unlawful events they witnessed. Sometimes they were more than witnesses. Andrew Mansfield of Lynn deposed in September 1667 that "in hay time, two or three of Goodman Bridges' sons of Ipswich overtook him on this side of Lynn bridge and stayed there to light their pipes." The youngest, Hackaliah, was charged with feloniously assaulting a man upon the highway that night, but the court found for Bridges [EQC 3:444-45]."
 		Elizabeth (I2198)
 
4613 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson, pp. 389-92:
"EDMUND BRIDGES
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1635 on the James
FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
REMOVES: Rowley by 1641, Ipswich by 1660, Salem by 1670, Ipswich by 1684
OCCUPATION: Blacksmith [EPR Case #3295].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Lynn church prior to 7 September 1639 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 7 September 1639 [MBCR 1:376].
EDUCATION: Signed his deed of 1682 and his will.
OFFICES: Essex County grand jury, 30 September 1651, 26 September 1654, 25 September 1660 [EQC 1:232, 362, 2:225]. Petit jury, 30 September 1662, 30 September 1673, 28 November 1676, 27 September 1681 [EQC 2:434, 5:224, 6:215, 8:150]. Replacement juror, 30 November 1675 [EQC 6:73].
ESTATE: "Edward Bridges" received ten acres in the Lynn land division of 1638 [EQC 2:271].
On 14 April 1660, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, and Anthony Potter sold to Elder John Whipple of Ipswich part of a six-acre lot that had previously been Henry Kingsbury's [ILR 1:247-248].
On 26 June 1663, Zacheus Gould of Topsfield sold a small parcel of land to Edmond Bridges and Daniel Black. Bridges and Black immediately mortgaged the property back to Gould, with Bridges accepting one-third of the responsibility for the mortgage and Black two-thirds [ILR 2:162-64].
On 22 February 1663/4, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, sold to Nicholas Wallis six acres of meadow in Ipswich [ILR 3:204-5].
On 9 December 1670, Edmond Bridges of Salem, blacksmith, sold to Ensign John Gould of Topsfield, yeoman, an eight-acre parcel of land with a dwelling house and barn in Topsfield, also a parcel of ten acres of meadow, swamp and upland in Topsfield [ELR 3:101].
On 12 April 1682, Edmund Bridges Sr. of Salem, blacksmith, made a one year mortgage with Mrs. Eliza[beth] Turner of Salem, widow, for his "dwelling house & shop & wharf, with sixty poles of ground with it" MLR 6:49].
In his will, dated 6 January 1684[/5] and proved 31 March 1685, Edmond Bridges Sr. of Ipswich, blacksmith, in "weakness of body and many infirmities often prevailing," stated that "I have already given unto all my children but Mary [their] portions as was suitable and convenient to my estate," but in addition bequeathed to "John Bridges my rapier'; to "Josiah Bridges ... my musket'; to "Fayth Bridges" a pewter platter marked with an "EBA"; to "Bethiah Bridges, the fellow or other pewter platter with the same marks"; to "my daughter Mary," £20 in goods; to "my beloved wife Mary Bridges" use of the whole estate during her life unless she marry, then £10; residue of estate at death of wife or her remarriage to be equally divided among "John Bridges my son, my son Josiah Bridges, my daughter Faith Bridges alias Black, Bethiah Bridges alias Peabodie, and Mary Bridges"; "my beloved wife Mary Bridges & my son John Bridges" executors; "Daniel Epps" with "Lieut. John Appleton" overseers [EPR Case #3295].
The inventory of the estate of Edmond Bridges, taken 16 January 1684[/5], totalled £215 6s. 6d., of which £90 was real estate: "the homestead with all the housing belonging to it," £70; and "9 acres of land," £20 [EPR Case #3295].
An undated account of debts showed £175 12s. 2-1/2d. in sums owed by Bridges, including amounts to settle the entitlements of the Littlehale heirs [EPR Case #3295].
BIRTH: About 1612 (aged 23 in 1635 [Hotten 107]; deposed "aged about forty-six years" in September 1658 [EQC 2:117]). In May 1661 he was released from training "except twice a year" [EQC 2:281].
DEATH: Ipswich 13 January 1684/5.
MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1636 Elizabeth ___. She died at Ipswich 31 December 1664. (Some secondary sources, including Savage, propose an earlier wife Alice, but no supporting evidence for this has been found, so we assume here two wives only for Edmund Bridges.)
(2) Ipswich 6 April 1665 Mary (Langton) Littlehale, widow of Richard [EQC 6:118], born about 1625 (deposed 24 November 1685 "aged sixty years" [EQC 9:545]); she died at Ipswich 24 October 1691. (On 15 March 1664/5, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich acknowledged that "I have nothing to do directly nor indirectly anyways to dispose of or having any interest at all of Mary Litelhale['s] accommodation at Haverhill notwithstanding she is to be my wife, but leaveth it wholly to the said Mary to dispose of for her own use and her four children which she hath by Rich[ar]d Litelhale" [ILR 5:108]).
CHILDREN:
With first wife
i EDMUND, b. about 1636 (deposed June 1664 "aged about twenty-seven years" [EQC 3:160, 183]; deposed for 27 March 1666 court "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 3:312]; deposed in June 1674 "aged about thirty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); Topsfield 11 January 1659/60 Sarah Towne, daughter of William Towne [Amos Towne Anc 4- 6].
ii HACKALIAH, b. say 1638 (fined for running away from his father September 1655 [EQC 1:404]); accused by Sarah French for getting her with child September 1656, case discharged [EQC 2:2]; whipped for fornication and ordered to discharge the town about bringing up the child of Mary Quilter, September 1657 [EQC 2:54]; "Hackoliah Bridges drowned at the Gay Head December the 23rd 1671 his estate being inventoried and prized amounted to the just sum of twenty-eight pounds eighteen shillings and eight pence, the said estate was committed into the hand of Mr. Richard Sarson as administrator upon the said estate," who presented the inventory on 25 January 1671/2 [Dukes LR 1:311]; "Hackaliah Bridges being cast away and dying intestate," Essex administration was granted on 8 February 1671/2 "to Obadiah Bridges, his brother, who was to bring in an inventory" [EQC 5:1; EPR 2:253]; apparently unmarried.
iii MEHITABLE, b. Rowley 26 March 1641; no further record.
iv JOHN, b. say 1643; m. (1) Ipswich 5 December 1666 Sarah How; m. (2) Andover 1 March 1677/8 Mary (Tyler) Post, widow of Richard.
v FAITH, b. about 1645 (deposed at court June 1674 "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); m. after 1660 and by March 1664 Daniel Black [EQC 3:130, 192-94].
vi OBADIAH, b. about 1647 (deposed at court September 1667 "aged about twenty years" [EQC 3:444]; deposed at court November 1669 "aged about twenty-four years" [EQC 4:195]); m. (1) Ipswich 25 October 1671 Mary Smith; m. (2) by 1677 Elizabeth ___ (his administratrix [EQC 6:344]).
vii BETHIA, b. say 1649; m. Boxford or Topsfield 26 October 1668 Joseph Peabody (marriage recorded in both towns).
viii JOSIAH, b. about 1654 (deposed 2 March 1676 "aged about twenty-two years" [EQC 6:239]); m. (1) Ipswich 13 November 1676 Elizabeth Norton; m. (2) Ipswich 19 September 1677 Ruth Greenslip.
With second wife
ix MARY, b. Ipswich 14 April 1667; living 1684/5.
ASSOCIATIONS: The inventory of Roger Lancton of Haverhill was taken 24 January 1671[/2] at the request of "Mr. Edmon Bridges and Samewall Varnum related to the said Rodger who deceased without a will" [EPR 2:260]. The relationship was evidently through Edmund's second wife.
COMMENTS: On 13 July 1635, "Edmond Bridges," aged 23, was enrolled at London for passage to New England on the James [Hotten 107].
Edmund Bridges was excused for neglect of public service, at his request, July 1647 [EQC 1:119]. He did take some responsibilities, since he was named executor of the will of Thomas Scott of Ipswich, written 8 March 1653/4 [EPR 1:169; ILR 1:190]. He also deposed as attorney to John Caldwell in November 1653, saying that, "being in Goodman Bridges' shop, Goodman ___ being present, he heard him say that a woman and her daughter, gathering berries, saw four women, Mrs. Perkins, Goody Evens, Goody Dutch, etc. As they approached them, the four women sat upon the ground, but when they came near, the women had vanished. He could not say that they were witches" [EQC 1:325].
In September 1660 Faith Bridges and Daniel Black were in court over his unlawful seduction of her without her father's permission [EQC 2:243].
While still minors Edward and Hackaliah were in trouble for things like lying, fornicating and getting drunk [EQC 2:3, 40-42, 52-54, 68]. Edmund's children kept unsavory company and were often called to depose in court about unlawful events they witnessed. Sometimes they were more than witnesses. Andrew Mansfield of Lynn deposed in September 1667 that "in hay time, two or three of Goodman Bridges' sons of Ipswich overtook him on this side of Lynn bridge and stayed there to light their pipes." The youngest, Hackaliah, was charged with feloniously assaulting a man upon the highway that night, but the court found for Bridges [EQC 3:444-45]."

2. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts," vol. II 1656-1662 (Salem, Mass., The Essex Institute, 1912), pp. 270-71:
"Copy of the distribution of the land in Lynn, in 1638, paper addressed "For William Langlye": … widdow Bancraft, 100 acres … Jerrerd Spencer, 30 acres … Micaell Spenser, 30 acres … Abraham Beltnap, 40 acres … Will. Partridge, upland, 10 acres … Edward [Edmund?] Bridges, 10 acres… Copy taken from the town book of the records of Lynn, 10: 1: 1659-60, by Andrew Mansfeild, town recorder."
 		Bridges, Edmund (I2197)
 
4614 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson, pp. 389-92:
"EDMUND BRIDGES
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1635 on the James
FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
REMOVES: Rowley by 1641, Ipswich by 1660, Salem by 1670, Ipswich by 1684
OCCUPATION: Blacksmith [EPR Case #3295].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Lynn church prior to 7 September 1639 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 7 September 1639 [MBCR 1:376].
EDUCATION: Signed his deed of 1682 and his will.
OFFICES: Essex County grand jury, 30 September 1651, 26 September 1654, 25 September 1660 [EQC 1:232, 362, 2:225]. Petit jury, 30 September 1662, 30 September 1673, 28 November 1676, 27 September 1681 [EQC 2:434, 5:224, 6:215, 8:150]. Replacement juror, 30 November 1675 [EQC 6:73].
ESTATE: "Edward Bridges" received ten acres in the Lynn land division of 1638 [EQC 2:271].
On 14 April 1660, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, and Anthony Potter sold to Elder John Whipple of Ipswich part of a six-acre lot that had previously been Henry Kingsbury's [ILR 1:247-248].
On 26 June 1663, Zacheus Gould of Topsfield sold a small parcel of land to Edmond Bridges and Daniel Black. Bridges and Black immediately mortgaged the property back to Gould, with Bridges accepting one-third of the responsibility for the mortgage and Black two-thirds [ILR 2:162-64].
On 22 February 1663/4, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, sold to Nicholas Wallis six acres of meadow in Ipswich [ILR 3:204-5].
On 9 December 1670, Edmond Bridges of Salem, blacksmith, sold to Ensign John Gould of Topsfield, yeoman, an eight-acre parcel of land with a dwelling house and barn in Topsfield, also a parcel of ten acres of meadow, swamp and upland in Topsfield [ELR 3:101].
On 12 April 1682, Edmund Bridges Sr. of Salem, blacksmith, made a one year mortgage with Mrs. Eliza[beth] Turner of Salem, widow, for his "dwelling house & shop & wharf, with sixty poles of ground with it" MLR 6:49].
In his will, dated 6 January 1684[/5] and proved 31 March 1685, Edmond Bridges Sr. of Ipswich, blacksmith, in "weakness of body and many infirmities often prevailing," stated that "I have already given unto all my children but Mary [their] portions as was suitable and convenient to my estate," but in addition bequeathed to "John Bridges my rapier'; to "Josiah Bridges ... my musket'; to "Fayth Bridges" a pewter platter marked with an "EBA"; to "Bethiah Bridges, the fellow or other pewter platter with the same marks"; to "my daughter Mary," £20 in goods; to "my beloved wife Mary Bridges" use of the whole estate during her life unless she marry, then £10; residue of estate at death of wife or her remarriage to be equally divided among "John Bridges my son, my son Josiah Bridges, my daughter Faith Bridges alias Black, Bethiah Bridges alias Peabodie, and Mary Bridges"; "my beloved wife Mary Bridges & my son John Bridges" executors; "Daniel Epps" with "Lieut. John Appleton" overseers [EPR Case #3295].
The inventory of the estate of Edmond Bridges, taken 16 January 1684[/5], totalled £215 6s. 6d., of which £90 was real estate: "the homestead with all the housing belonging to it," £70; and "9 acres of land," £20 [EPR Case #3295].
An undated account of debts showed £175 12s. 2-1/2d. in sums owed by Bridges, including amounts to settle the entitlements of the Littlehale heirs [EPR Case #3295].
BIRTH: About 1612 (aged 23 in 1635 [Hotten 107]; deposed "aged about forty-six years" in September 1658 [EQC 2:117]). In May 1661 he was released from training "except twice a year" [EQC 2:281].
DEATH: Ipswich 13 January 1684/5.
MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1636 Elizabeth ___. She died at Ipswich 31 December 1664. (Some secondary sources, including Savage, propose an earlier wife Alice, but no supporting evidence for this has been found, so we assume here two wives only for Edmund Bridges.)
(2) Ipswich 6 April 1665 Mary (Langton) Littlehale, widow of Richard [EQC 6:118], born about 1625 (deposed 24 November 1685 "aged sixty years" [EQC 9:545]); she died at Ipswich 24 October 1691. (On 15 March 1664/5, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich acknowledged that "I have nothing to do directly nor indirectly anyways to dispose of or having any interest at all of Mary Litelhale['s] accommodation at Haverhill notwithstanding she is to be my wife, but leaveth it wholly to the said Mary to dispose of for her own use and her four children which she hath by Rich[ar]d Litelhale" [ILR 5:108]).
CHILDREN:
With first wife
i EDMUND, b. about 1636 (deposed June 1664 "aged about twenty-seven years" [EQC 3:160, 183]; deposed for 27 March 1666 court "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 3:312]; deposed in June 1674 "aged about thirty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); Topsfield 11 January 1659/60 Sarah Towne, daughter of William Towne [Amos Towne Anc 4- 6].
ii HACKALIAH, b. say 1638 (fined for running away from his father September 1655 [EQC 1:404]); accused by Sarah French for getting her with child September 1656, case discharged [EQC 2:2]; whipped for fornication and ordered to discharge the town about bringing up the child of Mary Quilter, September 1657 [EQC 2:54]; "Hackoliah Bridges drowned at the Gay Head December the 23rd 1671 his estate being inventoried and prized amounted to the just sum of twenty-eight pounds eighteen shillings and eight pence, the said estate was committed into the hand of Mr. Richard Sarson as administrator upon the said estate," who presented the inventory on 25 January 1671/2 [Dukes LR 1:311]; "Hackaliah Bridges being cast away and dying intestate," Essex administration was granted on 8 February 1671/2 "to Obadiah Bridges, his brother, who was to bring in an inventory" [EQC 5:1; EPR 2:253]; apparently unmarried.
iii MEHITABLE, b. Rowley 26 March 1641; no further record.
iv JOHN, b. say 1643; m. (1) Ipswich 5 December 1666 Sarah How; m. (2) Andover 1 March 1677/8 Mary (Tyler) Post, widow of Richard.
v FAITH, b. about 1645 (deposed at court June 1674 "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); m. after 1660 and by March 1664 Daniel Black [EQC 3:130, 192-94].
vi OBADIAH, b. about 1647 (deposed at court September 1667 "aged about twenty years" [EQC 3:444]; deposed at court November 1669 "aged about twenty-four years" [EQC 4:195]); m. (1) Ipswich 25 October 1671 Mary Smith; m. (2) by 1677 Elizabeth ___ (his administratrix [EQC 6:344]).
vii BETHIA, b. say 1649; m. Boxford or Topsfield 26 October 1668 Joseph Peabody (marriage recorded in both towns).
viii JOSIAH, b. about 1654 (deposed 2 March 1676 "aged about twenty-two years" [EQC 6:239]); m. (1) Ipswich 13 November 1676 Elizabeth Norton; m. (2) Ipswich 19 September 1677 Ruth Greenslip.
With second wife
ix MARY, b. Ipswich 14 April 1667; living 1684/5.
ASSOCIATIONS: The inventory of Roger Lancton of Haverhill was taken 24 January 1671[/2] at the request of "Mr. Edmon Bridges and Samewall Varnum related to the said Rodger who deceased without a will" [EPR 2:260]. The relationship was evidently through Edmund's second wife.
COMMENTS: On 13 July 1635, "Edmond Bridges," aged 23, was enrolled at London for passage to New England on the James [Hotten 107].
Edmund Bridges was excused for neglect of public service, at his request, July 1647 [EQC 1:119]. He did take some responsibilities, since he was named executor of the will of Thomas Scott of Ipswich, written 8 March 1653/4 [EPR 1:169; ILR 1:190]. He also deposed as attorney to John Caldwell in November 1653, saying that, "being in Goodman Bridges' shop, Goodman ___ being present, he heard him say that a woman and her daughter, gathering berries, saw four women, Mrs. Perkins, Goody Evens, Goody Dutch, etc. As they approached them, the four women sat upon the ground, but when they came near, the women had vanished. He could not say that they were witches" [EQC 1:325].
In September 1660 Faith Bridges and Daniel Black were in court over his unlawful seduction of her without her father's permission [EQC 2:243].
While still minors Edward and Hackaliah were in trouble for things like lying, fornicating and getting drunk [EQC 2:3, 40-42, 52-54, 68]. Edmund's children kept unsavory company and were often called to depose in court about unlawful events they witnessed. Sometimes they were more than witnesses. Andrew Mansfield of Lynn deposed in September 1667 that "in hay time, two or three of Goodman Bridges' sons of Ipswich overtook him on this side of Lynn bridge and stayed there to light their pipes." The youngest, Hackaliah, was charged with feloniously assaulting a man upon the highway that night, but the court found for Bridges [EQC 3:444-45]."

SOURCES_MISC:
1. Per family group sheet archive record submitted by Lila Nicholes, 74 W. North Temple, SLC. Utah 84103 (6 ggdau). References "Essex Antiquarian, vol 12, p 126 and Boxford Vital Rec. p 16. 		Bridges, Josiah (I1797)
 
4615 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson, pp. 389-92:
"EDMUND BRIDGES
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1635 on the James
FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
REMOVES: Rowley by 1641, Ipswich by 1660, Salem by 1670, Ipswich by 1684
OCCUPATION: Blacksmith [EPR Case #3295].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Lynn church prior to 7 September 1639 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 7 September 1639 [MBCR 1:376].
EDUCATION: Signed his deed of 1682 and his will.
OFFICES: Essex County grand jury, 30 September 1651, 26 September 1654, 25 September 1660 [EQC 1:232, 362, 2:225]. Petit jury, 30 September 1662, 30 September 1673, 28 November 1676, 27 September 1681 [EQC 2:434, 5:224, 6:215, 8:150]. Replacement juror, 30 November 1675 [EQC 6:73].
ESTATE: "Edward Bridges" received ten acres in the Lynn land division of 1638 [EQC 2:271].
On 14 April 1660, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, and Anthony Potter sold to Elder John Whipple of Ipswich part of a six-acre lot that had previously been Henry Kingsbury's [ILR 1:247-248].
On 26 June 1663, Zacheus Gould of Topsfield sold a small parcel of land to Edmond Bridges and Daniel Black. Bridges and Black immediately mortgaged the property back to Gould, with Bridges accepting one-third of the responsibility for the mortgage and Black two-thirds [ILR 2:162-64].
On 22 February 1663/4, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, sold to Nicholas Wallis six acres of meadow in Ipswich [ILR 3:204-5].
On 9 December 1670, Edmond Bridges of Salem, blacksmith, sold to Ensign John Gould of Topsfield, yeoman, an eight-acre parcel of land with a dwelling house and barn in Topsfield, also a parcel of ten acres of meadow, swamp and upland in Topsfield [ELR 3:101].
On 12 April 1682, Edmund Bridges Sr. of Salem, blacksmith, made a one year mortgage with Mrs. Eliza[beth] Turner of Salem, widow, for his "dwelling house & shop & wharf, with sixty poles of ground with it" MLR 6:49].
In his will, dated 6 January 1684[/5] and proved 31 March 1685, Edmond Bridges Sr. of Ipswich, blacksmith, in "weakness of body and many infirmities often prevailing," stated that "I have already given unto all my children but Mary [their] portions as was suitable and convenient to my estate," but in addition bequeathed to "John Bridges my rapier'; to "Josiah Bridges ... my musket'; to "Fayth Bridges" a pewter platter marked with an "EBA"; to "Bethiah Bridges, the fellow or other pewter platter with the same marks"; to "my daughter Mary," £20 in goods; to "my beloved wife Mary Bridges" use of the whole estate during her life unless she marry, then £10; residue of estate at death of wife or her remarriage to be equally divided among "John Bridges my son, my son Josiah Bridges, my daughter Faith Bridges alias Black, Bethiah Bridges alias Peabodie, and Mary Bridges"; "my beloved wife Mary Bridges & my son John Bridges" executors; "Daniel Epps" with "Lieut. John Appleton" overseers [EPR Case #3295].
The inventory of the estate of Edmond Bridges, taken 16 January 1684[/5], totalled £215 6s. 6d., of which £90 was real estate: "the homestead with all the housing belonging to it," £70; and "9 acres of land," £20 [EPR Case #3295].
An undated account of debts showed £175 12s. 2-1/2d. in sums owed by Bridges, including amounts to settle the entitlements of the Littlehale heirs [EPR Case #3295].
BIRTH: About 1612 (aged 23 in 1635 [Hotten 107]; deposed "aged about forty-six years" in September 1658 [EQC 2:117]). In May 1661 he was released from training "except twice a year" [EQC 2:281].
DEATH: Ipswich 13 January 1684/5.
MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1636 Elizabeth ___. She died at Ipswich 31 December 1664. (Some secondary sources, including Savage, propose an earlier wife Alice, but no supporting evidence for this has been found, so we assume here two wives only for Edmund Bridges.)
(2) Ipswich 6 April 1665 Mary (Langton) Littlehale, widow of Richard [EQC 6:118], born about 1625 (deposed 24 November 1685 "aged sixty years" [EQC 9:545]); she died at Ipswich 24 October 1691. (On 15 March 1664/5, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich acknowledged that "I have nothing to do directly nor indirectly anyways to dispose of or having any interest at all of Mary Litelhale['s] accommodation at Haverhill notwithstanding she is to be my wife, but leaveth it wholly to the said Mary to dispose of for her own use and her four children which she hath by Rich[ar]d Litelhale" [ILR 5:108]).
CHILDREN:
With first wife
i EDMUND, b. about 1636 (deposed June 1664 "aged about twenty-seven years" [EQC 3:160, 183]; deposed for 27 March 1666 court "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 3:312]; deposed in June 1674 "aged about thirty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); Topsfield 11 January 1659/60 Sarah Towne, daughter of William Towne [Amos Towne Anc 4- 6].
ii HACKALIAH, b. say 1638 (fined for running away from his father September 1655 [EQC 1:404]); accused by Sarah French for getting her with child September 1656, case discharged [EQC 2:2]; whipped for fornication and ordered to discharge the town about bringing up the child of Mary Quilter, September 1657 [EQC 2:54]; "Hackoliah Bridges drowned at the Gay Head December the 23rd 1671 his estate being inventoried and prized amounted to the just sum of twenty-eight pounds eighteen shillings and eight pence, the said estate was committed into the hand of Mr. Richard Sarson as administrator upon the said estate," who presented the inventory on 25 January 1671/2 [Dukes LR 1:311]; "Hackaliah Bridges being cast away and dying intestate," Essex administration was granted on 8 February 1671/2 "to Obadiah Bridges, his brother, who was to bring in an inventory" [EQC 5:1; EPR 2:253]; apparently unmarried.
iii MEHITABLE, b. Rowley 26 March 1641; no further record.
iv JOHN, b. say 1643; m. (1) Ipswich 5 December 1666 Sarah How; m. (2) Andover 1 March 1677/8 Mary (Tyler) Post, widow of Richard.
v FAITH, b. about 1645 (deposed at court June 1674 "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); m. after 1660 and by March 1664 Daniel Black [EQC 3:130, 192-94].
vi OBADIAH, b. about 1647 (deposed at court September 1667 "aged about twenty years" [EQC 3:444]; deposed at court November 1669 "aged about twenty-four years" [EQC 4:195]); m. (1) Ipswich 25 October 1671 Mary Smith; m. (2) by 1677 Elizabeth ___ (his administratrix [EQC 6:344]).
vii BETHIA, b. say 1649; m. Boxford or Topsfield 26 October 1668 Joseph Peabody (marriage recorded in both towns).
viii JOSIAH, b. about 1654 (deposed 2 March 1676 "aged about twenty-two years" [EQC 6:239]); m. (1) Ipswich 13 November 1676 Elizabeth Norton; m. (2) Ipswich 19 September 1677 Ruth Greenslip.
With second wife
ix MARY, b. Ipswich 14 April 1667; living 1684/5.
ASSOCIATIONS: The inventory of Roger Lancton of Haverhill was taken 24 January 1671[/2] at the request of "Mr. Edmon Bridges and Samewall Varnum related to the said Rodger who deceased without a will" [EPR 2:260]. The relationship was evidently through Edmund's second wife.
COMMENTS: On 13 July 1635, "Edmond Bridges," aged 23, was enrolled at London for passage to New England on the James [Hotten 107].
Edmund Bridges was excused for neglect of public service, at his request, July 1647 [EQC 1:119]. He did take some responsibilities, since he was named executor of the will of Thomas Scott of Ipswich, written 8 March 1653/4 [EPR 1:169; ILR 1:190]. He also deposed as attorney to John Caldwell in November 1653, saying that, "being in Goodman Bridges' shop, Goodman ___ being present, he heard him say that a woman and her daughter, gathering berries, saw four women, Mrs. Perkins, Goody Evens, Goody Dutch, etc. As they approached them, the four women sat upon the ground, but when they came near, the women had vanished. He could not say that they were witches" [EQC 1:325].
In September 1660 Faith Bridges and Daniel Black were in court over his unlawful seduction of her without her father's permission [EQC 2:243].
While still minors Edward and Hackaliah were in trouble for things like lying, fornicating and getting drunk [EQC 2:3, 40-42, 52-54, 68]. Edmund's children kept unsavory company and were often called to depose in court about unlawful events they witnessed. Sometimes they were more than witnesses. Andrew Mansfield of Lynn deposed in September 1667 that "in hay time, two or three of Goodman Bridges' sons of Ipswich overtook him on this side of Lynn bridge and stayed there to light their pipes." The youngest, Hackaliah, was charged with feloniously assaulting a man upon the highway that night, but the court found for Bridges [EQC 3:444-45]." 		Bridges, Mehitable (I928)
 
4616 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson, pp. 389-92:
"EDMUND BRIDGES
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1635 on the James
FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
REMOVES: Rowley by 1641, Ipswich by 1660, Salem by 1670, Ipswich by 1684
OCCUPATION: Blacksmith [EPR Case #3295].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Lynn church prior to 7 September 1639 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 7 September 1639 [MBCR 1:376].
EDUCATION: Signed his deed of 1682 and his will.
OFFICES: Essex County grand jury, 30 September 1651, 26 September 1654, 25 September 1660 [EQC 1:232, 362, 2:225]. Petit jury, 30 September 1662, 30 September 1673, 28 November 1676, 27 September 1681 [EQC 2:434, 5:224, 6:215, 8:150]. Replacement juror, 30 November 1675 [EQC 6:73].
ESTATE: "Edward Bridges" received ten acres in the Lynn land division of 1638 [EQC 2:271].
On 14 April 1660, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, and Anthony Potter sold to Elder John Whipple of Ipswich part of a six-acre lot that had previously been Henry Kingsbury's [ILR 1:247-248].
On 26 June 1663, Zacheus Gould of Topsfield sold a small parcel of land to Edmond Bridges and Daniel Black. Bridges and Black immediately mortgaged the property back to Gould, with Bridges accepting one-third of the responsibility for the mortgage and Black two-thirds [ILR 2:162-64].
On 22 February 1663/4, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, sold to Nicholas Wallis six acres of meadow in Ipswich [ILR 3:204-5].
On 9 December 1670, Edmond Bridges of Salem, blacksmith, sold to Ensign John Gould of Topsfield, yeoman, an eight-acre parcel of land with a dwelling house and barn in Topsfield, also a parcel of ten acres of meadow, swamp and upland in Topsfield [ELR 3:101].
On 12 April 1682, Edmund Bridges Sr. of Salem, blacksmith, made a one year mortgage with Mrs. Eliza[beth] Turner of Salem, widow, for his "dwelling house & shop & wharf, with sixty poles of ground with it" MLR 6:49].
In his will, dated 6 January 1684[/5] and proved 31 March 1685, Edmond Bridges Sr. of Ipswich, blacksmith, in "weakness of body and many infirmities often prevailing," stated that "I have already given unto all my children but Mary [their] portions as was suitable and convenient to my estate," but in addition bequeathed to "John Bridges my rapier'; to "Josiah Bridges ... my musket'; to "Fayth Bridges" a pewter platter marked with an "EBA"; to "Bethiah Bridges, the fellow or other pewter platter with the same marks"; to "my daughter Mary," £20 in goods; to "my beloved wife Mary Bridges" use of the whole estate during her life unless she marry, then £10; residue of estate at death of wife or her remarriage to be equally divided among "John Bridges my son, my son Josiah Bridges, my daughter Faith Bridges alias Black, Bethiah Bridges alias Peabodie, and Mary Bridges"; "my beloved wife Mary Bridges & my son John Bridges" executors; "Daniel Epps" with "Lieut. John Appleton" overseers [EPR Case #3295].
The inventory of the estate of Edmond Bridges, taken 16 January 1684[/5], totalled £215 6s. 6d., of which £90 was real estate: "the homestead with all the housing belonging to it," £70; and "9 acres of land," £20 [EPR Case #3295].
An undated account of debts showed £175 12s. 2-1/2d. in sums owed by Bridges, including amounts to settle the entitlements of the Littlehale heirs [EPR Case #3295].
BIRTH: About 1612 (aged 23 in 1635 [Hotten 107]; deposed "aged about forty-six years" in September 1658 [EQC 2:117]). In May 1661 he was released from training "except twice a year" [EQC 2:281].
DEATH: Ipswich 13 January 1684/5.
MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1636 Elizabeth ___. She died at Ipswich 31 December 1664. (Some secondary sources, including Savage, propose an earlier wife Alice, but no supporting evidence for this has been found, so we assume here two wives only for Edmund Bridges.)
(2) Ipswich 6 April 1665 Mary (Langton) Littlehale, widow of Richard [EQC 6:118], born about 1625 (deposed 24 November 1685 "aged sixty years" [EQC 9:545]); she died at Ipswich 24 October 1691. (On 15 March 1664/5, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich acknowledged that "I have nothing to do directly nor indirectly anyways to dispose of or having any interest at all of Mary Litelhale['s] accommodation at Haverhill notwithstanding she is to be my wife, but leaveth it wholly to the said Mary to dispose of for her own use and her four children which she hath by Rich[ar]d Litelhale" [ILR 5:108]).
CHILDREN:
With first wife
i EDMUND, b. about 1636 (deposed June 1664 "aged about twenty-seven years" [EQC 3:160, 183]; deposed for 27 March 1666 court "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 3:312]; deposed in June 1674 "aged about thirty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); Topsfield 11 January 1659/60 Sarah Towne, daughter of William Towne [Amos Towne Anc 4- 6].
ii HACKALIAH, b. say 1638 (fined for running away from his father September 1655 [EQC 1:404]); accused by Sarah French for getting her with child September 1656, case discharged [EQC 2:2]; whipped for fornication and ordered to discharge the town about bringing up the child of Mary Quilter, September 1657 [EQC 2:54]; "Hackoliah Bridges drowned at the Gay Head December the 23rd 1671 his estate being inventoried and prized amounted to the just sum of twenty-eight pounds eighteen shillings and eight pence, the said estate was committed into the hand of Mr. Richard Sarson as administrator upon the said estate," who presented the inventory on 25 January 1671/2 [Dukes LR 1:311]; "Hackaliah Bridges being cast away and dying intestate," Essex administration was granted on 8 February 1671/2 "to Obadiah Bridges, his brother, who was to bring in an inventory" [EQC 5:1; EPR 2:253]; apparently unmarried.
iii MEHITABLE, b. Rowley 26 March 1641; no further record.
iv JOHN, b. say 1643; m. (1) Ipswich 5 December 1666 Sarah How; m. (2) Andover 1 March 1677/8 Mary (Tyler) Post, widow of Richard.
v FAITH, b. about 1645 (deposed at court June 1674 "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); m. after 1660 and by March 1664 Daniel Black [EQC 3:130, 192-94].
vi OBADIAH, b. about 1647 (deposed at court September 1667 "aged about twenty years" [EQC 3:444]; deposed at court November 1669 "aged about twenty-four years" [EQC 4:195]); m. (1) Ipswich 25 October 1671 Mary Smith; m. (2) by 1677 Elizabeth ___ (his administratrix [EQC 6:344]).
vii BETHIA, b. say 1649; m. Boxford or Topsfield 26 October 1668 Joseph Peabody (marriage recorded in both towns).
viii JOSIAH, b. about 1654 (deposed 2 March 1676 "aged about twenty-two years" [EQC 6:239]); m. (1) Ipswich 13 November 1676 Elizabeth Norton; m. (2) Ipswich 19 September 1677 Ruth Greenslip.
With second wife
ix MARY, b. Ipswich 14 April 1667; living 1684/5.
ASSOCIATIONS: The inventory of Roger Lancton of Haverhill was taken 24 January 1671[/2] at the request of "Mr. Edmon Bridges and Samewall Varnum related to the said Rodger who deceased without a will" [EPR 2:260]. The relationship was evidently through Edmund's second wife.
COMMENTS: On 13 July 1635, "Edmond Bridges," aged 23, was enrolled at London for passage to New England on the James [Hotten 107].
Edmund Bridges was excused for neglect of public service, at his request, July 1647 [EQC 1:119]. He did take some responsibilities, since he was named executor of the will of Thomas Scott of Ipswich, written 8 March 1653/4 [EPR 1:169; ILR 1:190]. He also deposed as attorney to John Caldwell in November 1653, saying that, "being in Goodman Bridges' shop, Goodman ___ being present, he heard him say that a woman and her daughter, gathering berries, saw four women, Mrs. Perkins, Goody Evens, Goody Dutch, etc. As they approached them, the four women sat upon the ground, but when they came near, the women had vanished. He could not say that they were witches" [EQC 1:325].
In September 1660 Faith Bridges and Daniel Black were in court over his unlawful seduction of her without her father's permission [EQC 2:243].
While still minors Edward and Hackaliah were in trouble for things like lying, fornicating and getting drunk [EQC 2:3, 40-42, 52-54, 68]. Edmund's children kept unsavory company and were often called to depose in court about unlawful events they witnessed. Sometimes they were more than witnesses. Andrew Mansfield of Lynn deposed in September 1667 that "in hay time, two or three of Goodman Bridges' sons of Ipswich overtook him on this side of Lynn bridge and stayed there to light their pipes." The youngest, Hackaliah, was charged with feloniously assaulting a man upon the highway that night, but the court found for Bridges [EQC 3:444-45]." 		Bridges, John (I920)
 
4617 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson, pp. 389-92:
"EDMUND BRIDGES
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1635 on the James
FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
REMOVES: Rowley by 1641, Ipswich by 1660, Salem by 1670, Ipswich by 1684
OCCUPATION: Blacksmith [EPR Case #3295].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Lynn church prior to 7 September 1639 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 7 September 1639 [MBCR 1:376].
EDUCATION: Signed his deed of 1682 and his will.
OFFICES: Essex County grand jury, 30 September 1651, 26 September 1654, 25 September 1660 [EQC 1:232, 362, 2:225]. Petit jury, 30 September 1662, 30 September 1673, 28 November 1676, 27 September 1681 [EQC 2:434, 5:224, 6:215, 8:150]. Replacement juror, 30 November 1675 [EQC 6:73].
ESTATE: "Edward Bridges" received ten acres in the Lynn land division of 1638 [EQC 2:271].
On 14 April 1660, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, and Anthony Potter sold to Elder John Whipple of Ipswich part of a six-acre lot that had previously been Henry Kingsbury's [ILR 1:247-248].
On 26 June 1663, Zacheus Gould of Topsfield sold a small parcel of land to Edmond Bridges and Daniel Black. Bridges and Black immediately mortgaged the property back to Gould, with Bridges accepting one-third of the responsibility for the mortgage and Black two-thirds [ILR 2:162-64].
On 22 February 1663/4, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, sold to Nicholas Wallis six acres of meadow in Ipswich [ILR 3:204-5].
On 9 December 1670, Edmond Bridges of Salem, blacksmith, sold to Ensign John Gould of Topsfield, yeoman, an eight-acre parcel of land with a dwelling house and barn in Topsfield, also a parcel of ten acres of meadow, swamp and upland in Topsfield [ELR 3:101].
On 12 April 1682, Edmund Bridges Sr. of Salem, blacksmith, made a one year mortgage with Mrs. Eliza[beth] Turner of Salem, widow, for his "dwelling house & shop & wharf, with sixty poles of ground with it" MLR 6:49].
In his will, dated 6 January 1684[/5] and proved 31 March 1685, Edmond Bridges Sr. of Ipswich, blacksmith, in "weakness of body and many infirmities often prevailing," stated that "I have already given unto all my children but Mary [their] portions as was suitable and convenient to my estate," but in addition bequeathed to "John Bridges my rapier'; to "Josiah Bridges ... my musket'; to "Fayth Bridges" a pewter platter marked with an "EBA"; to "Bethiah Bridges, the fellow or other pewter platter with the same marks"; to "my daughter Mary," £20 in goods; to "my beloved wife Mary Bridges" use of the whole estate during her life unless she marry, then £10; residue of estate at death of wife or her remarriage to be equally divided among "John Bridges my son, my son Josiah Bridges, my daughter Faith Bridges alias Black, Bethiah Bridges alias Peabodie, and Mary Bridges"; "my beloved wife Mary Bridges & my son John Bridges" executors; "Daniel Epps" with "Lieut. John Appleton" overseers [EPR Case #3295].
The inventory of the estate of Edmond Bridges, taken 16 January 1684[/5], totalled £215 6s. 6d., of which £90 was real estate: "the homestead with all the housing belonging to it," £70; and "9 acres of land," £20 [EPR Case #3295].
An undated account of debts showed £175 12s. 2-1/2d. in sums owed by Bridges, including amounts to settle the entitlements of the Littlehale heirs [EPR Case #3295].
BIRTH: About 1612 (aged 23 in 1635 [Hotten 107]; deposed "aged about forty-six years" in September 1658 [EQC 2:117]). In May 1661 he was released from training "except twice a year" [EQC 2:281].
DEATH: Ipswich 13 January 1684/5.
MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1636 Elizabeth ___. She died at Ipswich 31 December 1664. (Some secondary sources, including Savage, propose an earlier wife Alice, but no supporting evidence for this has been found, so we assume here two wives only for Edmund Bridges.)
(2) Ipswich 6 April 1665 Mary (Langton) Littlehale, widow of Richard [EQC 6:118], born about 1625 (deposed 24 November 1685 "aged sixty years" [EQC 9:545]); she died at Ipswich 24 October 1691. (On 15 March 1664/5, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich acknowledged that "I have nothing to do directly nor indirectly anyways to dispose of or having any interest at all of Mary Litelhale['s] accommodation at Haverhill notwithstanding she is to be my wife, but leaveth it wholly to the said Mary to dispose of for her own use and her four children which she hath by Rich[ar]d Litelhale" [ILR 5:108]).
CHILDREN:
With first wife
i EDMUND, b. about 1636 (deposed June 1664 "aged about twenty-seven years" [EQC 3:160, 183]; deposed for 27 March 1666 court "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 3:312]; deposed in June 1674 "aged about thirty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); Topsfield 11 January 1659/60 Sarah Towne, daughter of William Towne [Amos Towne Anc 4- 6].
ii HACKALIAH, b. say 1638 (fined for running away from his father September 1655 [EQC 1:404]); accused by Sarah French for getting her with child September 1656, case discharged [EQC 2:2]; whipped for fornication and ordered to discharge the town about bringing up the child of Mary Quilter, September 1657 [EQC 2:54]; "Hackoliah Bridges drowned at the Gay Head December the 23rd 1671 his estate being inventoried and prized amounted to the just sum of twenty-eight pounds eighteen shillings and eight pence, the said estate was committed into the hand of Mr. Richard Sarson as administrator upon the said estate," who presented the inventory on 25 January 1671/2 [Dukes LR 1:311]; "Hackaliah Bridges being cast away and dying intestate," Essex administration was granted on 8 February 1671/2 "to Obadiah Bridges, his brother, who was to bring in an inventory" [EQC 5:1; EPR 2:253]; apparently unmarried.
iii MEHITABLE, b. Rowley 26 March 1641; no further record.
iv JOHN, b. say 1643; m. (1) Ipswich 5 December 1666 Sarah How; m. (2) Andover 1 March 1677/8 Mary (Tyler) Post, widow of Richard.
v FAITH, b. about 1645 (deposed at court June 1674 "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); m. after 1660 and by March 1664 Daniel Black [EQC 3:130, 192-94].
vi OBADIAH, b. about 1647 (deposed at court September 1667 "aged about twenty years" [EQC 3:444]; deposed at court November 1669 "aged about twenty-four years" [EQC 4:195]); m. (1) Ipswich 25 October 1671 Mary Smith; m. (2) by 1677 Elizabeth ___ (his administratrix [EQC 6:344]).
vii BETHIA, b. say 1649; m. Boxford or Topsfield 26 October 1668 Joseph Peabody (marriage recorded in both towns).
viii JOSIAH, b. about 1654 (deposed 2 March 1676 "aged about twenty-two years" [EQC 6:239]); m. (1) Ipswich 13 November 1676 Elizabeth Norton; m. (2) Ipswich 19 September 1677 Ruth Greenslip.
With second wife
ix MARY, b. Ipswich 14 April 1667; living 1684/5.
ASSOCIATIONS: The inventory of Roger Lancton of Haverhill was taken 24 January 1671[/2] at the request of "Mr. Edmon Bridges and Samewall Varnum related to the said Rodger who deceased without a will" [EPR 2:260]. The relationship was evidently through Edmund's second wife.
COMMENTS: On 13 July 1635, "Edmond Bridges," aged 23, was enrolled at London for passage to New England on the James [Hotten 107].
Edmund Bridges was excused for neglect of public service, at his request, July 1647 [EQC 1:119]. He did take some responsibilities, since he was named executor of the will of Thomas Scott of Ipswich, written 8 March 1653/4 [EPR 1:169; ILR 1:190]. He also deposed as attorney to John Caldwell in November 1653, saying that, "being in Goodman Bridges' shop, Goodman ___ being present, he heard him say that a woman and her daughter, gathering berries, saw four women, Mrs. Perkins, Goody Evens, Goody Dutch, etc. As they approached them, the four women sat upon the ground, but when they came near, the women had vanished. He could not say that they were witches" [EQC 1:325].
In September 1660 Faith Bridges and Daniel Black were in court over his unlawful seduction of her without her father's permission [EQC 2:243].
While still minors Edward and Hackaliah were in trouble for things like lying, fornicating and getting drunk [EQC 2:3, 40-42, 52-54, 68]. Edmund's children kept unsavory company and were often called to depose in court about unlawful events they witnessed. Sometimes they were more than witnesses. Andrew Mansfield of Lynn deposed in September 1667 that "in hay time, two or three of Goodman Bridges' sons of Ipswich overtook him on this side of Lynn bridge and stayed there to light their pipes." The youngest, Hackaliah, was charged with feloniously assaulting a man upon the highway that night, but the court found for Bridges [EQC 3:444-45]."

2. Anderson, Robert Charles; The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (NEHGS, 1999-2011), Vol V, p. 229.
"Mary Lancton, daughter of Roger Lancton and Jane ____, b. about 1625 (deposed 24 Nov 1685 that she was "aged sixty years". Mary Lancton m. Richard Littlehale 15 Nov 1647, Haverhill. 		Langton, Mary (I919)
 
4618 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson, pp. 389-92:
"EDMUND BRIDGES
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1635 on the James
FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
REMOVES: Rowley by 1641, Ipswich by 1660, Salem by 1670, Ipswich by 1684
OCCUPATION: Blacksmith [EPR Case #3295].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Lynn church prior to 7 September 1639 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 7 September 1639 [MBCR 1:376].
EDUCATION: Signed his deed of 1682 and his will.
OFFICES: Essex County grand jury, 30 September 1651, 26 September 1654, 25 September 1660 [EQC 1:232, 362, 2:225]. Petit jury, 30 September 1662, 30 September 1673, 28 November 1676, 27 September 1681 [EQC 2:434, 5:224, 6:215, 8:150]. Replacement juror, 30 November 1675 [EQC 6:73].
ESTATE: "Edward Bridges" received ten acres in the Lynn land division of 1638 [EQC 2:271].
On 14 April 1660, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, and Anthony Potter sold to Elder John Whipple of Ipswich part of a six-acre lot that had previously been Henry Kingsbury's [ILR 1:247-248].
On 26 June 1663, Zacheus Gould of Topsfield sold a small parcel of land to Edmond Bridges and Daniel Black. Bridges and Black immediately mortgaged the property back to Gould, with Bridges accepting one-third of the responsibility for the mortgage and Black two-thirds [ILR 2:162-64].
On 22 February 1663/4, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, sold to Nicholas Wallis six acres of meadow in Ipswich [ILR 3:204-5].
On 9 December 1670, Edmond Bridges of Salem, blacksmith, sold to Ensign John Gould of Topsfield, yeoman, an eight-acre parcel of land with a dwelling house and barn in Topsfield, also a parcel of ten acres of meadow, swamp and upland in Topsfield [ELR 3:101].
On 12 April 1682, Edmund Bridges Sr. of Salem, blacksmith, made a one year mortgage with Mrs. Eliza[beth] Turner of Salem, widow, for his "dwelling house & shop & wharf, with sixty poles of ground with it" MLR 6:49].
In his will, dated 6 January 1684[/5] and proved 31 March 1685, Edmond Bridges Sr. of Ipswich, blacksmith, in "weakness of body and many infirmities often prevailing," stated that "I have already given unto all my children but Mary [their] portions as was suitable and convenient to my estate," but in addition bequeathed to "John Bridges my rapier'; to "Josiah Bridges ... my musket'; to "Fayth Bridges" a pewter platter marked with an "EBA"; to "Bethiah Bridges, the fellow or other pewter platter with the same marks"; to "my daughter Mary," £20 in goods; to "my beloved wife Mary Bridges" use of the whole estate during her life unless she marry, then £10; residue of estate at death of wife or her remarriage to be equally divided among "John Bridges my son, my son Josiah Bridges, my daughter Faith Bridges alias Black, Bethiah Bridges alias Peabodie, and Mary Bridges"; "my beloved wife Mary Bridges & my son John Bridges" executors; "Daniel Epps" with "Lieut. John Appleton" overseers [EPR Case #3295].
The inventory of the estate of Edmond Bridges, taken 16 January 1684[/5], totalled £215 6s. 6d., of which £90 was real estate: "the homestead with all the housing belonging to it," £70; and "9 acres of land," £20 [EPR Case #3295].
An undated account of debts showed £175 12s. 2-1/2d. in sums owed by Bridges, including amounts to settle the entitlements of the Littlehale heirs [EPR Case #3295].
BIRTH: About 1612 (aged 23 in 1635 [Hotten 107]; deposed "aged about forty-six years" in September 1658 [EQC 2:117]). In May 1661 he was released from training "except twice a year" [EQC 2:281].
DEATH: Ipswich 13 January 1684/5.
MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1636 Elizabeth ___. She died at Ipswich 31 December 1664. (Some secondary sources, including Savage, propose an earlier wife Alice, but no supporting evidence for this has been found, so we assume here two wives only for Edmund Bridges.)
(2) Ipswich 6 April 1665 Mary (Langton) Littlehale, widow of Richard [EQC 6:118], born about 1625 (deposed 24 November 1685 "aged sixty years" [EQC 9:545]); she died at Ipswich 24 October 1691. (On 15 March 1664/5, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich acknowledged that "I have nothing to do directly nor indirectly anyways to dispose of or having any interest at all of Mary Litelhale['s] accommodation at Haverhill notwithstanding she is to be my wife, but leaveth it wholly to the said Mary to dispose of for her own use and her four children which she hath by Rich[ar]d Litelhale" [ILR 5:108]).
CHILDREN:
With first wife
i EDMUND, b. about 1636 (deposed June 1664 "aged about twenty-seven years" [EQC 3:160, 183]; deposed for 27 March 1666 court "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 3:312]; deposed in June 1674 "aged about thirty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); Topsfield 11 January 1659/60 Sarah Towne, daughter of William Towne [Amos Towne Anc 4- 6].
ii HACKALIAH, b. say 1638 (fined for running away from his father September 1655 [EQC 1:404]); accused by Sarah French for getting her with child September 1656, case discharged [EQC 2:2]; whipped for fornication and ordered to discharge the town about bringing up the child of Mary Quilter, September 1657 [EQC 2:54]; "Hackoliah Bridges drowned at the Gay Head December the 23rd 1671 his estate being inventoried and prized amounted to the just sum of twenty-eight pounds eighteen shillings and eight pence, the said estate was committed into the hand of Mr. Richard Sarson as administrator upon the said estate," who presented the inventory on 25 January 1671/2 [Dukes LR 1:311]; "Hackaliah Bridges being cast away and dying intestate," Essex administration was granted on 8 February 1671/2 "to Obadiah Bridges, his brother, who was to bring in an inventory" [EQC 5:1; EPR 2:253]; apparently unmarried.
iii MEHITABLE, b. Rowley 26 March 1641; no further record.
iv JOHN, b. say 1643; m. (1) Ipswich 5 December 1666 Sarah How; m. (2) Andover 1 March 1677/8 Mary (Tyler) Post, widow of Richard.
v FAITH, b. about 1645 (deposed at court June 1674 "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); m. after 1660 and by March 1664 Daniel Black [EQC 3:130, 192-94].
vi OBADIAH, b. about 1647 (deposed at court September 1667 "aged about twenty years" [EQC 3:444]; deposed at court November 1669 "aged about twenty-four years" [EQC 4:195]); m. (1) Ipswich 25 October 1671 Mary Smith; m. (2) by 1677 Elizabeth ___ (his administratrix [EQC 6:344]).
vii BETHIA, b. say 1649; m. Boxford or Topsfield 26 October 1668 Joseph Peabody (marriage recorded in both towns).
viii JOSIAH, b. about 1654 (deposed 2 March 1676 "aged about twenty-two years" [EQC 6:239]); m. (1) Ipswich 13 November 1676 Elizabeth Norton; m. (2) Ipswich 19 September 1677 Ruth Greenslip.
With second wife
ix MARY, b. Ipswich 14 April 1667; living 1684/5.
ASSOCIATIONS: The inventory of Roger Lancton of Haverhill was taken 24 January 1671[/2] at the request of "Mr. Edmon Bridges and Samewall Varnum related to the said Rodger who deceased without a will" [EPR 2:260]. The relationship was evidently through Edmund's second wife.
COMMENTS: On 13 July 1635, "Edmond Bridges," aged 23, was enrolled at London for passage to New England on the James [Hotten 107].
Edmund Bridges was excused for neglect of public service, at his request, July 1647 [EQC 1:119]. He did take some responsibilities, since he was named executor of the will of Thomas Scott of Ipswich, written 8 March 1653/4 [EPR 1:169; ILR 1:190]. He also deposed as attorney to John Caldwell in November 1653, saying that, "being in Goodman Bridges' shop, Goodman ___ being present, he heard him say that a woman and her daughter, gathering berries, saw four women, Mrs. Perkins, Goody Evens, Goody Dutch, etc. As they approached them, the four women sat upon the ground, but when they came near, the women had vanished. He could not say that they were witches" [EQC 1:325].
In September 1660 Faith Bridges and Daniel Black were in court over his unlawful seduction of her without her father's permission [EQC 2:243].
While still minors Edward and Hackaliah were in trouble for things like lying, fornicating and getting drunk [EQC 2:3, 40-42, 52-54, 68]. Edmund's children kept unsavory company and were often called to depose in court about unlawful events they witnessed. Sometimes they were more than witnesses. Andrew Mansfield of Lynn deposed in September 1667 that "in hay time, two or three of Goodman Bridges' sons of Ipswich overtook him on this side of Lynn bridge and stayed there to light their pipes." The youngest, Hackaliah, was charged with feloniously assaulting a man upon the highway that night, but the court found for Bridges [EQC 3:444-45]."
 		Bridges, Obadiah (I870)
 
4619 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson, pp. 389-92:
"EDMUND BRIDGES
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1635 on the James
FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
REMOVES: Rowley by 1641, Ipswich by 1660, Salem by 1670, Ipswich by 1684
OCCUPATION: Blacksmith [EPR Case #3295].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Lynn church prior to 7 September 1639 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 7 September 1639 [MBCR 1:376].
EDUCATION: Signed his deed of 1682 and his will.
OFFICES: Essex County grand jury, 30 September 1651, 26 September 1654, 25 September 1660 [EQC 1:232, 362, 2:225]. Petit jury, 30 September 1662, 30 September 1673, 28 November 1676, 27 September 1681 [EQC 2:434, 5:224, 6:215, 8:150]. Replacement juror, 30 November 1675 [EQC 6:73].
ESTATE: "Edward Bridges" received ten acres in the Lynn land division of 1638 [EQC 2:271].
On 14 April 1660, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, and Anthony Potter sold to Elder John Whipple of Ipswich part of a six-acre lot that had previously been Henry Kingsbury's [ILR 1:247-248].
On 26 June 1663, Zacheus Gould of Topsfield sold a small parcel of land to Edmond Bridges and Daniel Black. Bridges and Black immediately mortgaged the property back to Gould, with Bridges accepting one-third of the responsibility for the mortgage and Black two-thirds [ILR 2:162-64].
On 22 February 1663/4, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, sold to Nicholas Wallis six acres of meadow in Ipswich [ILR 3:204-5].
On 9 December 1670, Edmond Bridges of Salem, blacksmith, sold to Ensign John Gould of Topsfield, yeoman, an eight-acre parcel of land with a dwelling house and barn in Topsfield, also a parcel of ten acres of meadow, swamp and upland in Topsfield [ELR 3:101].
On 12 April 1682, Edmund Bridges Sr. of Salem, blacksmith, made a one year mortgage with Mrs. Eliza[beth] Turner of Salem, widow, for his "dwelling house & shop & wharf, with sixty poles of ground with it" MLR 6:49].
In his will, dated 6 January 1684[/5] and proved 31 March 1685, Edmond Bridges Sr. of Ipswich, blacksmith, in "weakness of body and many infirmities often prevailing," stated that "I have already given unto all my children but Mary [their] portions as was suitable and convenient to my estate," but in addition bequeathed to "John Bridges my rapier'; to "Josiah Bridges ... my musket'; to "Fayth Bridges" a pewter platter marked with an "EBA"; to "Bethiah Bridges, the fellow or other pewter platter with the same marks"; to "my daughter Mary," £20 in goods; to "my beloved wife Mary Bridges" use of the whole estate during her life unless she marry, then £10; residue of estate at death of wife or her remarriage to be equally divided among "John Bridges my son, my son Josiah Bridges, my daughter Faith Bridges alias Black, Bethiah Bridges alias Peabodie, and Mary Bridges"; "my beloved wife Mary Bridges & my son John Bridges" executors; "Daniel Epps" with "Lieut. John Appleton" overseers [EPR Case #3295].
The inventory of the estate of Edmond Bridges, taken 16 January 1684[/5], totalled £215 6s. 6d., of which £90 was real estate: "the homestead with all the housing belonging to it," £70; and "9 acres of land," £20 [EPR Case #3295].
An undated account of debts showed £175 12s. 2-1/2d. in sums owed by Bridges, including amounts to settle the entitlements of the Littlehale heirs [EPR Case #3295].
BIRTH: About 1612 (aged 23 in 1635 [Hotten 107]; deposed "aged about forty-six years" in September 1658 [EQC 2:117]). In May 1661 he was released from training "except twice a year" [EQC 2:281].
DEATH: Ipswich 13 January 1684/5.
MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1636 Elizabeth ___. She died at Ipswich 31 December 1664. (Some secondary sources, including Savage, propose an earlier wife Alice, but no supporting evidence for this has been found, so we assume here two wives only for Edmund Bridges.)
(2) Ipswich 6 April 1665 Mary (Langton) Littlehale, widow of Richard [EQC 6:118], born about 1625 (deposed 24 November 1685 "aged sixty years" [EQC 9:545]); she died at Ipswich 24 October 1691. (On 15 March 1664/5, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich acknowledged that "I have nothing to do directly nor indirectly anyways to dispose of or having any interest at all of Mary Litelhale['s] accommodation at Haverhill notwithstanding she is to be my wife, but leaveth it wholly to the said Mary to dispose of for her own use and her four children which she hath by Rich[ar]d Litelhale" [ILR 5:108]).
CHILDREN:
With first wife
i EDMUND, b. about 1636 (deposed June 1664 "aged about twenty-seven years" [EQC 3:160, 183]; deposed for 27 March 1666 court "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 3:312]; deposed in June 1674 "aged about thirty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); Topsfield 11 January 1659/60 Sarah Towne, daughter of William Towne [Amos Towne Anc 4- 6].
ii HACKALIAH, b. say 1638 (fined for running away from his father September 1655 [EQC 1:404]); accused by Sarah French for getting her with child September 1656, case discharged [EQC 2:2]; whipped for fornication and ordered to discharge the town about bringing up the child of Mary Quilter, September 1657 [EQC 2:54]; "Hackoliah Bridges drowned at the Gay Head December the 23rd 1671 his estate being inventoried and prized amounted to the just sum of twenty-eight pounds eighteen shillings and eight pence, the said estate was committed into the hand of Mr. Richard Sarson as administrator upon the said estate," who presented the inventory on 25 January 1671/2 [Dukes LR 1:311]; "Hackaliah Bridges being cast away and dying intestate," Essex administration was granted on 8 February 1671/2 "to Obadiah Bridges, his brother, who was to bring in an inventory" [EQC 5:1; EPR 2:253]; apparently unmarried.
iii MEHITABLE, b. Rowley 26 March 1641; no further record.
iv JOHN, b. say 1643; m. (1) Ipswich 5 December 1666 Sarah How; m. (2) Andover 1 March 1677/8 Mary (Tyler) Post, widow of Richard.
v FAITH, b. about 1645 (deposed at court June 1674 "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); m. after 1660 and by March 1664 Daniel Black [EQC 3:130, 192-94].
vi OBADIAH, b. about 1647 (deposed at court September 1667 "aged about twenty years" [EQC 3:444]; deposed at court November 1669 "aged about twenty-four years" [EQC 4:195]); m. (1) Ipswich 25 October 1671 Mary Smith; m. (2) by 1677 Elizabeth ___ (his administratrix [EQC 6:344]).
vii BETHIA, b. say 1649; m. Boxford or Topsfield 26 October 1668 Joseph Peabody (marriage recorded in both towns).
viii JOSIAH, b. about 1654 (deposed 2 March 1676 "aged about twenty-two years" [EQC 6:239]); m. (1) Ipswich 13 November 1676 Elizabeth Norton; m. (2) Ipswich 19 September 1677 Ruth Greenslip.
With second wife
ix MARY, b. Ipswich 14 April 1667; living 1684/5.
ASSOCIATIONS: The inventory of Roger Lancton of Haverhill was taken 24 January 1671[/2] at the request of "Mr. Edmon Bridges and Samewall Varnum related to the said Rodger who deceased without a will" [EPR 2:260]. The relationship was evidently through Edmund's second wife.
COMMENTS: On 13 July 1635, "Edmond Bridges," aged 23, was enrolled at London for passage to New England on the James [Hotten 107].
Edmund Bridges was excused for neglect of public service, at his request, July 1647 [EQC 1:119]. He did take some responsibilities, since he was named executor of the will of Thomas Scott of Ipswich, written 8 March 1653/4 [EPR 1:169; ILR 1:190]. He also deposed as attorney to John Caldwell in November 1653, saying that, "being in Goodman Bridges' shop, Goodman ___ being present, he heard him say that a woman and her daughter, gathering berries, saw four women, Mrs. Perkins, Goody Evens, Goody Dutch, etc. As they approached them, the four women sat upon the ground, but when they came near, the women had vanished. He could not say that they were witches" [EQC 1:325].
In September 1660 Faith Bridges and Daniel Black were in court over his unlawful seduction of her without her father's permission [EQC 2:243].
While still minors Edward and Hackaliah were in trouble for things like lying, fornicating and getting drunk [EQC 2:3, 40-42, 52-54, 68]. Edmund's children kept unsavory company and were often called to depose in court about unlawful events they witnessed. Sometimes they were more than witnesses. Andrew Mansfield of Lynn deposed in September 1667 that "in hay time, two or three of Goodman Bridges' sons of Ipswich overtook him on this side of Lynn bridge and stayed there to light their pipes." The youngest, Hackaliah, was charged with feloniously assaulting a man upon the highway that night, but the court found for Bridges [EQC 3:444-45]." 		Bridges, Faith (I865)
 
4620 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson, pp. 389-92:
"EDMUND BRIDGES
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1635 on the James
FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
REMOVES: Rowley by 1641, Ipswich by 1660, Salem by 1670, Ipswich by 1684
OCCUPATION: Blacksmith [EPR Case #3295].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Lynn church prior to 7 September 1639 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 7 September 1639 [MBCR 1:376].
EDUCATION: Signed his deed of 1682 and his will.
OFFICES: Essex County grand jury, 30 September 1651, 26 September 1654, 25 September 1660 [EQC 1:232, 362, 2:225]. Petit jury, 30 September 1662, 30 September 1673, 28 November 1676, 27 September 1681 [EQC 2:434, 5:224, 6:215, 8:150]. Replacement juror, 30 November 1675 [EQC 6:73].
ESTATE: "Edward Bridges" received ten acres in the Lynn land division of 1638 [EQC 2:271].
On 14 April 1660, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, and Anthony Potter sold to Elder John Whipple of Ipswich part of a six-acre lot that had previously been Henry Kingsbury's [ILR 1:247-248].
On 26 June 1663, Zacheus Gould of Topsfield sold a small parcel of land to Edmond Bridges and Daniel Black. Bridges and Black immediately mortgaged the property back to Gould, with Bridges accepting one-third of the responsibility for the mortgage and Black two-thirds [ILR 2:162-64].
On 22 February 1663/4, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, sold to Nicholas Wallis six acres of meadow in Ipswich [ILR 3:204-5].
On 9 December 1670, Edmond Bridges of Salem, blacksmith, sold to Ensign John Gould of Topsfield, yeoman, an eight-acre parcel of land with a dwelling house and barn in Topsfield, also a parcel of ten acres of meadow, swamp and upland in Topsfield [ELR 3:101].
On 12 April 1682, Edmund Bridges Sr. of Salem, blacksmith, made a one year mortgage with Mrs. Eliza[beth] Turner of Salem, widow, for his "dwelling house & shop & wharf, with sixty poles of ground with it" MLR 6:49].
In his will, dated 6 January 1684[/5] and proved 31 March 1685, Edmond Bridges Sr. of Ipswich, blacksmith, in "weakness of body and many infirmities often prevailing," stated that "I have already given unto all my children but Mary [their] portions as was suitable and convenient to my estate," but in addition bequeathed to "John Bridges my rapier'; to "Josiah Bridges ... my musket'; to "Fayth Bridges" a pewter platter marked with an "EBA"; to "Bethiah Bridges, the fellow or other pewter platter with the same marks"; to "my daughter Mary," £20 in goods; to "my beloved wife Mary Bridges" use of the whole estate during her life unless she marry, then £10; residue of estate at death of wife or her remarriage to be equally divided among "John Bridges my son, my son Josiah Bridges, my daughter Faith Bridges alias Black, Bethiah Bridges alias Peabodie, and Mary Bridges"; "my beloved wife Mary Bridges & my son John Bridges" executors; "Daniel Epps" with "Lieut. John Appleton" overseers [EPR Case #3295].
The inventory of the estate of Edmond Bridges, taken 16 January 1684[/5], totalled £215 6s. 6d., of which £90 was real estate: "the homestead with all the housing belonging to it," £70; and "9 acres of land," £20 [EPR Case #3295].
An undated account of debts showed £175 12s. 2-1/2d. in sums owed by Bridges, including amounts to settle the entitlements of the Littlehale heirs [EPR Case #3295].
BIRTH: About 1612 (aged 23 in 1635 [Hotten 107]; deposed "aged about forty-six years" in September 1658 [EQC 2:117]). In May 1661 he was released from training "except twice a year" [EQC 2:281].
DEATH: Ipswich 13 January 1684/5.
MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1636 Elizabeth ___. She died at Ipswich 31 December 1664. (Some secondary sources, including Savage, propose an earlier wife Alice, but no supporting evidence for this has been found, so we assume here two wives only for Edmund Bridges.)
(2) Ipswich 6 April 1665 Mary (Langton) Littlehale, widow of Richard [EQC 6:118], born about 1625 (deposed 24 November 1685 "aged sixty years" [EQC 9:545]); she died at Ipswich 24 October 1691. (On 15 March 1664/5, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich acknowledged that "I have nothing to do directly nor indirectly anyways to dispose of or having any interest at all of Mary Litelhale['s] accommodation at Haverhill notwithstanding she is to be my wife, but leaveth it wholly to the said Mary to dispose of for her own use and her four children which she hath by Rich[ar]d Litelhale" [ILR 5:108]).
CHILDREN:
With first wife
i EDMUND, b. about 1636 (deposed June 1664 "aged about twenty-seven years" [EQC 3:160, 183]; deposed for 27 March 1666 court "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 3:312]; deposed in June 1674 "aged about thirty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); Topsfield 11 January 1659/60 Sarah Towne, daughter of William Towne [Amos Towne Anc 4- 6].
ii HACKALIAH, b. say 1638 (fined for running away from his father September 1655 [EQC 1:404]); accused by Sarah French for getting her with child September 1656, case discharged [EQC 2:2]; whipped for fornication and ordered to discharge the town about bringing up the child of Mary Quilter, September 1657 [EQC 2:54]; "Hackoliah Bridges drowned at the Gay Head December the 23rd 1671 his estate being inventoried and prized amounted to the just sum of twenty-eight pounds eighteen shillings and eight pence, the said estate was committed into the hand of Mr. Richard Sarson as administrator upon the said estate," who presented the inventory on 25 January 1671/2 [Dukes LR 1:311]; "Hackaliah Bridges being cast away and dying intestate," Essex administration was granted on 8 February 1671/2 "to Obadiah Bridges, his brother, who was to bring in an inventory" [EQC 5:1; EPR 2:253]; apparently unmarried.
iii MEHITABLE, b. Rowley 26 March 1641; no further record.
iv JOHN, b. say 1643; m. (1) Ipswich 5 December 1666 Sarah How; m. (2) Andover 1 March 1677/8 Mary (Tyler) Post, widow of Richard.
v FAITH, b. about 1645 (deposed at court June 1674 "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); m. after 1660 and by March 1664 Daniel Black [EQC 3:130, 192-94].
vi OBADIAH, b. about 1647 (deposed at court September 1667 "aged about twenty years" [EQC 3:444]; deposed at court November 1669 "aged about twenty-four years" [EQC 4:195]); m. (1) Ipswich 25 October 1671 Mary Smith; m. (2) by 1677 Elizabeth ___ (his administratrix [EQC 6:344]).
vii BETHIA, b. say 1649; m. Boxford or Topsfield 26 October 1668 Joseph Peabody (marriage recorded in both towns).
viii JOSIAH, b. about 1654 (deposed 2 March 1676 "aged about twenty-two years" [EQC 6:239]); m. (1) Ipswich 13 November 1676 Elizabeth Norton; m. (2) Ipswich 19 September 1677 Ruth Greenslip.
With second wife
ix MARY, b. Ipswich 14 April 1667; living 1684/5.
ASSOCIATIONS: The inventory of Roger Lancton of Haverhill was taken 24 January 1671[/2] at the request of "Mr. Edmon Bridges and Samewall Varnum related to the said Rodger who deceased without a will" [EPR 2:260]. The relationship was evidently through Edmund's second wife.
COMMENTS: On 13 July 1635, "Edmond Bridges," aged 23, was enrolled at London for passage to New England on the James [Hotten 107].
Edmund Bridges was excused for neglect of public service, at his request, July 1647 [EQC 1:119]. He did take some responsibilities, since he was named executor of the will of Thomas Scott of Ipswich, written 8 March 1653/4 [EPR 1:169; ILR 1:190]. He also deposed as attorney to John Caldwell in November 1653, saying that, "being in Goodman Bridges' shop, Goodman ___ being present, he heard him say that a woman and her daughter, gathering berries, saw four women, Mrs. Perkins, Goody Evens, Goody Dutch, etc. As they approached them, the four women sat upon the ground, but when they came near, the women had vanished. He could not say that they were witches" [EQC 1:325].
In September 1660 Faith Bridges and Daniel Black were in court over his unlawful seduction of her without her father's permission [EQC 2:243].
While still minors Edward and Hackaliah were in trouble for things like lying, fornicating and getting drunk [EQC 2:3, 40-42, 52-54, 68]. Edmund's children kept unsavory company and were often called to depose in court about unlawful events they witnessed. Sometimes they were more than witnesses. Andrew Mansfield of Lynn deposed in September 1667 that "in hay time, two or three of Goodman Bridges' sons of Ipswich overtook him on this side of Lynn bridge and stayed there to light their pipes." The youngest, Hackaliah, was charged with feloniously assaulting a man upon the highway that night, but the court found for Bridges [EQC 3:444-45]."

2. Undocumented from Internet accessed 22 Jan 2019:
A. Daniel was taken prisoner by the army of Oliver Cromwell at the Battle of Dunbar in 1651. He was shipped to Massachusetts as an indentured servsnt. (better than left to rot in an English prison) and worked at the Saugus Iron Works. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Worcester September 3, 1651. Oliver Cromwell's Army beat up the Scots at Worcester, as they had a year to the day earlier at Dunbar. He was one of the Scotch Soldiers that Cromwell sent over to this country to be sold. He was one of the prisoners after the Battle of Worcester September 3, 1651 at or near Dunbar Scotland. Daniel Blacke arrived in the colonies aboard the ship John and Sarah on May 13, 1652. He was put into service at the Lynn Iron Works. The first we know of him is from Essex court records, where we find that "1660, September, Daniel Blake is fined 65 pounds, and respited for 4 pounds, conditionally, for making love to Edmund Bridge's daughter, without her parent's consent." This daughter was Faith Bridges, who he afterward married. It does not appear that he owned land in Boxford, he did own a small tract in Toipsfield. It is said that Daniel and Faith appeared in court about marital problems in 1664. It also said that the town of Rowley describes Daniel as living alone with property of 1 house on 10 acres, 1 horse, 4 cows and 1 young cattle with a tax of 2 shillings. Daniel is also said to be "cripple" this was in 1679. Being alone I imagine they were divorced.
B. He was one of the Royalist Scotch Soldiers that Cromwell sent over to this country to be sold. He was one of the prisoners after the Battle of Worcester September 3, 1651 at or near Dunbar Scotland. Daniell Blacke arrived in the colonies aboard the John and Sarah, master John Greene, which sent sail from Gravesend and arrived in Boston, Massachusetts on May 13, 1652.
He put into service at the Lynn Iron Works. He was probably employed by the iron company here, as we find by court records that he sued Henry Leonard for a debt of 5 pounds 12 s. 10 d. and received satisfaction by the court at Ipswitch, in September, 1673.
The first we know of him is from Essex court records, where we find that: "1660, September, Daniel Blake is fined 5 pounds, and respited for 4 pounds, conditionally, for making love to Edmund Bridge's daughter, without her parent's consent. This daughter was Faith Bridges, who he afterward married.
Excerpt from trial:Daniell Blake fined 5li. for making love to the daughter of Edmond Bridges, without consent of her parents. Execution respitted.
The examination of Daniel Black and Faith Bridges,concerning his notorious, evil carriage: First, said Black confessed that contrary to the mind of her father, he stayed with her in her father's house late upon the last day of June, 1660, when the family were in bed, it being about ten o'clock when Edmund Bridges went to bed that night. Second, that having taken William Danford from his master Pritchett's work, to go with him to Rowly, they carried a bottle of wine to the house of Edmund Deere in Ipswich; and being there, he employed the said William as his messenger and instrument to draw the said young wench to him at Deere's house, from her father's house, her father and mother being absent from home; that she stayed at Deere's house half and hour, when Deere and his wife were not at home.
Edmund Bridges bound for his daughter's appearance.
William Danford said that Daniel Black said to him that he could "beteame to stabb him" because he stayed so long, and this was after the wench was come to him at Deere's house.
Danford was bound to appear at next Ipswich court in this case.
Sureties: William Vselton and John Marshall. "Gudm Bridges I pray let me be remembered to you and let me intrete your leniti toward Daniell blak or giue or produs bond for him rather then imprison him I would haue Cam my self but my ocasions will not let me he is like to loes his korn if he li by it and if you and he do take up so much of the matter as you can Conuenientli which he is willing to doe it may do well on both parties "Yours Daniell Clark."
Warrant, dated, 4:5: 1660, to the constables of Ipswich, Rowley and Toppesfeild for the arrest of Daniel Black and William, an Irish man servant of William Pritchett; also to summon John Brewer, Obidiah Bridges and the wife of Edmund Deere, as witnesses; signed by Samuel Symonds.'97Sept. 25, 1660.
Later in 1664 both Daniel and his wife, Faith, appeared in court, both haveing summoned the other, for the treatment each had for the other. She claimed he had kicked her out of their home in the middle of a snow storm without sock or coat and she had to walk 1/2 mile for shelter. He claimed she was running around on him with two or three of the local men and would not cook or clean or treat him as a husband. The upshot of all this was that the court decided: "Upon complaint made against Daniel Black and his wife, court orders that they should sit one hour in the stocks for domestic disturbances. They were instructed not to miscall each other while so confined. For the future that said Black was not to threaten his wife or miscall her and to live peaceably with her, and she was to be orderly and not to gad about. She was further ordered not be in the company of the two men nor come to their house unless her husband sent her on business, and if either of them offended against this order, they were to be whipped." The stocks were probably located in or near the meeting house green in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
He resided near what is now the Junction of route 97 and the Kelsey Road in Boxford, Massachusetts. That part of Boxford was in Rowley prior to 1680. In the General Register the tax was for 2 shillings and according to the register Daniel Black was a cripple and he had 0 heads, 1 house, 10 acres land, 1 hourse, 4 cows, 1 young cattle, Boxford 1687. "On the 12th of June in 1688 the Selact men of Boxford met to hear the poorer & did order Daniell Black Juner to help his father as much as hee head need of in hay time & to give a Count of it to the Selact men."
It does not appear that he owned land in Boxford, he did own a small tract in Topsfield in 1663, near Boxford, Fish Brook.
Daniel Black was appointed Tithing-man to see that the sabbath was well kept and this was aggreable to the Act of the General Court on May 23, 1677. 		Black, Daniel (I864)
 
4621 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson, pp. 389-92:
"EDMUND BRIDGES
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1635 on the James
FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
REMOVES: Rowley by 1641, Ipswich by 1660, Salem by 1670, Ipswich by 1684
OCCUPATION: Blacksmith [EPR Case #3295].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Lynn church prior to 7 September 1639 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 7 September 1639 [MBCR 1:376].
EDUCATION: Signed his deed of 1682 and his will.
OFFICES: Essex County grand jury, 30 September 1651, 26 September 1654, 25 September 1660 [EQC 1:232, 362, 2:225]. Petit jury, 30 September 1662, 30 September 1673, 28 November 1676, 27 September 1681 [EQC 2:434, 5:224, 6:215, 8:150]. Replacement juror, 30 November 1675 [EQC 6:73].
ESTATE: "Edward Bridges" received ten acres in the Lynn land division of 1638 [EQC 2:271].
On 14 April 1660, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, and Anthony Potter sold to Elder John Whipple of Ipswich part of a six-acre lot that had previously been Henry Kingsbury's [ILR 1:247-248].
On 26 June 1663, Zacheus Gould of Topsfield sold a small parcel of land to Edmond Bridges and Daniel Black. Bridges and Black immediately mortgaged the property back to Gould, with Bridges accepting one-third of the responsibility for the mortgage and Black two-thirds [ILR 2:162-64].
On 22 February 1663/4, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, sold to Nicholas Wallis six acres of meadow in Ipswich [ILR 3:204-5].
On 9 December 1670, Edmond Bridges of Salem, blacksmith, sold to Ensign John Gould of Topsfield, yeoman, an eight-acre parcel of land with a dwelling house and barn in Topsfield, also a parcel of ten acres of meadow, swamp and upland in Topsfield [ELR 3:101].
On 12 April 1682, Edmund Bridges Sr. of Salem, blacksmith, made a one year mortgage with Mrs. Eliza[beth] Turner of Salem, widow, for his "dwelling house & shop & wharf, with sixty poles of ground with it" MLR 6:49].
In his will, dated 6 January 1684[/5] and proved 31 March 1685, Edmond Bridges Sr. of Ipswich, blacksmith, in "weakness of body and many infirmities often prevailing," stated that "I have already given unto all my children but Mary [their] portions as was suitable and convenient to my estate," but in addition bequeathed to "John Bridges my rapier'; to "Josiah Bridges ... my musket'; to "Fayth Bridges" a pewter platter marked with an "EBA"; to "Bethiah Bridges, the fellow or other pewter platter with the same marks"; to "my daughter Mary," £20 in goods; to "my beloved wife Mary Bridges" use of the whole estate during her life unless she marry, then £10; residue of estate at death of wife or her remarriage to be equally divided among "John Bridges my son, my son Josiah Bridges, my daughter Faith Bridges alias Black, Bethiah Bridges alias Peabodie, and Mary Bridges"; "my beloved wife Mary Bridges & my son John Bridges" executors; "Daniel Epps" with "Lieut. John Appleton" overseers [EPR Case #3295].
The inventory of the estate of Edmond Bridges, taken 16 January 1684[/5], totalled £215 6s. 6d., of which £90 was real estate: "the homestead with all the housing belonging to it," £70; and "9 acres of land," £20 [EPR Case #3295].
An undated account of debts showed £175 12s. 2-1/2d. in sums owed by Bridges, including amounts to settle the entitlements of the Littlehale heirs [EPR Case #3295].
BIRTH: About 1612 (aged 23 in 1635 [Hotten 107]; deposed "aged about forty-six years" in September 1658 [EQC 2:117]). In May 1661 he was released from training "except twice a year" [EQC 2:281].
DEATH: Ipswich 13 January 1684/5.
MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1636 Elizabeth ___. She died at Ipswich 31 December 1664. (Some secondary sources, including Savage, propose an earlier wife Alice, but no supporting evidence for this has been found, so we assume here two wives only for Edmund Bridges.)
(2) Ipswich 6 April 1665 Mary (Langton) Littlehale, widow of Richard [EQC 6:118], born about 1625 (deposed 24 November 1685 "aged sixty years" [EQC 9:545]); she died at Ipswich 24 October 1691. (On 15 March 1664/5, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich acknowledged that "I have nothing to do directly nor indirectly anyways to dispose of or having any interest at all of Mary Litelhale['s] accommodation at Haverhill notwithstanding she is to be my wife, but leaveth it wholly to the said Mary to dispose of for her own use and her four children which she hath by Rich[ar]d Litelhale" [ILR 5:108]).
CHILDREN:
With first wife
i EDMUND, b. about 1636 (deposed June 1664 "aged about twenty-seven years" [EQC 3:160, 183]; deposed for 27 March 1666 court "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 3:312]; deposed in June 1674 "aged about thirty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); Topsfield 11 January 1659/60 Sarah Towne, daughter of William Towne [Amos Towne Anc 4- 6].
ii HACKALIAH, b. say 1638 (fined for running away from his father September 1655 [EQC 1:404]); accused by Sarah French for getting her with child September 1656, case discharged [EQC 2:2]; whipped for fornication and ordered to discharge the town about bringing up the child of Mary Quilter, September 1657 [EQC 2:54]; "Hackoliah Bridges drowned at the Gay Head December the 23rd 1671 his estate being inventoried and prized amounted to the just sum of twenty-eight pounds eighteen shillings and eight pence, the said estate was committed into the hand of Mr. Richard Sarson as administrator upon the said estate," who presented the inventory on 25 January 1671/2 [Dukes LR 1:311]; "Hackaliah Bridges being cast away and dying intestate," Essex administration was granted on 8 February 1671/2 "to Obadiah Bridges, his brother, who was to bring in an inventory" [EQC 5:1; EPR 2:253]; apparently unmarried.
iii MEHITABLE, b. Rowley 26 March 1641; no further record.
iv JOHN, b. say 1643; m. (1) Ipswich 5 December 1666 Sarah How; m. (2) Andover 1 March 1677/8 Mary (Tyler) Post, widow of Richard.
v FAITH, b. about 1645 (deposed at court June 1674 "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); m. after 1660 and by March 1664 Daniel Black [EQC 3:130, 192-94].
vi OBADIAH, b. about 1647 (deposed at court September 1667 "aged about twenty years" [EQC 3:444]; deposed at court November 1669 "aged about twenty-four years" [EQC 4:195]); m. (1) Ipswich 25 October 1671 Mary Smith; m. (2) by 1677 Elizabeth ___ (his administratrix [EQC 6:344]).
vii BETHIA, b. say 1649; m. Boxford or Topsfield 26 October 1668 Joseph Peabody (marriage recorded in both towns).
viii JOSIAH, b. about 1654 (deposed 2 March 1676 "aged about twenty-two years" [EQC 6:239]); m. (1) Ipswich 13 November 1676 Elizabeth Norton; m. (2) Ipswich 19 September 1677 Ruth Greenslip.
With second wife
ix MARY, b. Ipswich 14 April 1667; living 1684/5.
ASSOCIATIONS: The inventory of Roger Lancton of Haverhill was taken 24 January 1671[/2] at the request of "Mr. Edmon Bridges and Samewall Varnum related to the said Rodger who deceased without a will" [EPR 2:260]. The relationship was evidently through Edmund's second wife.
COMMENTS: On 13 July 1635, "Edmond Bridges," aged 23, was enrolled at London for passage to New England on the James [Hotten 107].
Edmund Bridges was excused for neglect of public service, at his request, July 1647 [EQC 1:119]. He did take some responsibilities, since he was named executor of the will of Thomas Scott of Ipswich, written 8 March 1653/4 [EPR 1:169; ILR 1:190]. He also deposed as attorney to John Caldwell in November 1653, saying that, "being in Goodman Bridges' shop, Goodman ___ being present, he heard him say that a woman and her daughter, gathering berries, saw four women, Mrs. Perkins, Goody Evens, Goody Dutch, etc. As they approached them, the four women sat upon the ground, but when they came near, the women had vanished. He could not say that they were witches" [EQC 1:325].
In September 1660 Faith Bridges and Daniel Black were in court over his unlawful seduction of her without her father's permission [EQC 2:243].
While still minors Edward and Hackaliah were in trouble for things like lying, fornicating and getting drunk [EQC 2:3, 40-42, 52-54, 68]. Edmund's children kept unsavory company and were often called to depose in court about unlawful events they witnessed. Sometimes they were more than witnesses. Andrew Mansfield of Lynn deposed in September 1667 that "in hay time, two or three of Goodman Bridges' sons of Ipswich overtook him on this side of Lynn bridge and stayed there to light their pipes." The youngest, Hackaliah, was charged with feloniously assaulting a man upon the highway that night, but the court found for Bridges [EQC 3:444-45]." 		Bridges, Mary (I850)
 
4622 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson, pp. 389-92:
"EDMUND BRIDGES
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1635 on the James
FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
REMOVES: Rowley by 1641, Ipswich by 1660, Salem by 1670, Ipswich by 1684
OCCUPATION: Blacksmith [EPR Case #3295].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Lynn church prior to 7 September 1639 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 7 September 1639 [MBCR 1:376].
EDUCATION: Signed his deed of 1682 and his will.
OFFICES: Essex County grand jury, 30 September 1651, 26 September 1654, 25 September 1660 [EQC 1:232, 362, 2:225]. Petit jury, 30 September 1662, 30 September 1673, 28 November 1676, 27 September 1681 [EQC 2:434, 5:224, 6:215, 8:150]. Replacement juror, 30 November 1675 [EQC 6:73].
ESTATE: "Edward Bridges" received ten acres in the Lynn land division of 1638 [EQC 2:271].
On 14 April 1660, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, and Anthony Potter sold to Elder John Whipple of Ipswich part of a six-acre lot that had previously been Henry Kingsbury's [ILR 1:247-248].
On 26 June 1663, Zacheus Gould of Topsfield sold a small parcel of land to Edmond Bridges and Daniel Black. Bridges and Black immediately mortgaged the property back to Gould, with Bridges accepting one-third of the responsibility for the mortgage and Black two-thirds [ILR 2:162-64].
On 22 February 1663/4, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, sold to Nicholas Wallis six acres of meadow in Ipswich [ILR 3:204-5].
On 9 December 1670, Edmond Bridges of Salem, blacksmith, sold to Ensign John Gould of Topsfield, yeoman, an eight-acre parcel of land with a dwelling house and barn in Topsfield, also a parcel of ten acres of meadow, swamp and upland in Topsfield [ELR 3:101].
On 12 April 1682, Edmund Bridges Sr. of Salem, blacksmith, made a one year mortgage with Mrs. Eliza[beth] Turner of Salem, widow, for his "dwelling house & shop & wharf, with sixty poles of ground with it" MLR 6:49].
In his will, dated 6 January 1684[/5] and proved 31 March 1685, Edmond Bridges Sr. of Ipswich, blacksmith, in "weakness of body and many infirmities often prevailing," stated that "I have already given unto all my children but Mary [their] portions as was suitable and convenient to my estate," but in addition bequeathed to "John Bridges my rapier'; to "Josiah Bridges ... my musket'; to "Fayth Bridges" a pewter platter marked with an "EBA"; to "Bethiah Bridges, the fellow or other pewter platter with the same marks"; to "my daughter Mary," £20 in goods; to "my beloved wife Mary Bridges" use of the whole estate during her life unless she marry, then £10; residue of estate at death of wife or her remarriage to be equally divided among "John Bridges my son, my son Josiah Bridges, my daughter Faith Bridges alias Black, Bethiah Bridges alias Peabodie, and Mary Bridges"; "my beloved wife Mary Bridges & my son John Bridges" executors; "Daniel Epps" with "Lieut. John Appleton" overseers [EPR Case #3295].
The inventory of the estate of Edmond Bridges, taken 16 January 1684[/5], totalled £215 6s. 6d., of which £90 was real estate: "the homestead with all the housing belonging to it," £70; and "9 acres of land," £20 [EPR Case #3295].
An undated account of debts showed £175 12s. 2-1/2d. in sums owed by Bridges, including amounts to settle the entitlements of the Littlehale heirs [EPR Case #3295].
BIRTH: About 1612 (aged 23 in 1635 [Hotten 107]; deposed "aged about forty-six years" in September 1658 [EQC 2:117]). In May 1661 he was released from training "except twice a year" [EQC 2:281].
DEATH: Ipswich 13 January 1684/5.
MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1636 Elizabeth ___. She died at Ipswich 31 December 1664. (Some secondary sources, including Savage, propose an earlier wife Alice, but no supporting evidence for this has been found, so we assume here two wives only for Edmund Bridges.)
(2) Ipswich 6 April 1665 Mary (Langton) Littlehale, widow of Richard [EQC 6:118], born about 1625 (deposed 24 November 1685 "aged sixty years" [EQC 9:545]); she died at Ipswich 24 October 1691. (On 15 March 1664/5, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich acknowledged that "I have nothing to do directly nor indirectly anyways to dispose of or having any interest at all of Mary Litelhale['s] accommodation at Haverhill notwithstanding she is to be my wife, but leaveth it wholly to the said Mary to dispose of for her own use and her four children which she hath by Rich[ar]d Litelhale" [ILR 5:108]).
CHILDREN:
With first wife
i EDMUND, b. about 1636 (deposed June 1664 "aged about twenty-seven years" [EQC 3:160, 183]; deposed for 27 March 1666 court "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 3:312]; deposed in June 1674 "aged about thirty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); Topsfield 11 January 1659/60 Sarah Towne, daughter of William Towne [Amos Towne Anc 4- 6].
ii HACKALIAH, b. say 1638 (fined for running away from his father September 1655 [EQC 1:404]); accused by Sarah French for getting her with child September 1656, case discharged [EQC 2:2]; whipped for fornication and ordered to discharge the town about bringing up the child of Mary Quilter, September 1657 [EQC 2:54]; "Hackoliah Bridges drowned at the Gay Head December the 23rd 1671 his estate being inventoried and prized amounted to the just sum of twenty-eight pounds eighteen shillings and eight pence, the said estate was committed into the hand of Mr. Richard Sarson as administrator upon the said estate," who presented the inventory on 25 January 1671/2 [Dukes LR 1:311]; "Hackaliah Bridges being cast away and dying intestate," Essex administration was granted on 8 February 1671/2 "to Obadiah Bridges, his brother, who was to bring in an inventory" [EQC 5:1; EPR 2:253]; apparently unmarried.
iii MEHITABLE, b. Rowley 26 March 1641; no further record.
iv JOHN, b. say 1643; m. (1) Ipswich 5 December 1666 Sarah How; m. (2) Andover 1 March 1677/8 Mary (Tyler) Post, widow of Richard.
v FAITH, b. about 1645 (deposed at court June 1674 "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); m. after 1660 and by March 1664 Daniel Black [EQC 3:130, 192-94].
vi OBADIAH, b. about 1647 (deposed at court September 1667 "aged about twenty years" [EQC 3:444]; deposed at court November 1669 "aged about twenty-four years" [EQC 4:195]); m. (1) Ipswich 25 October 1671 Mary Smith; m. (2) by 1677 Elizabeth ___ (his administratrix [EQC 6:344]).
vii BETHIA, b. say 1649; m. Boxford or Topsfield 26 October 1668 Joseph Peabody (marriage recorded in both towns).
viii JOSIAH, b. about 1654 (deposed 2 March 1676 "aged about twenty-two years" [EQC 6:239]); m. (1) Ipswich 13 November 1676 Elizabeth Norton; m. (2) Ipswich 19 September 1677 Ruth Greenslip.
With second wife
ix MARY, b. Ipswich 14 April 1667; living 1684/5.
ASSOCIATIONS: The inventory of Roger Lancton of Haverhill was taken 24 January 1671[/2] at the request of "Mr. Edmon Bridges and Samewall Varnum related to the said Rodger who deceased without a will" [EPR 2:260]. The relationship was evidently through Edmund's second wife.
COMMENTS: On 13 July 1635, "Edmond Bridges," aged 23, was enrolled at London for passage to New England on the James [Hotten 107].
Edmund Bridges was excused for neglect of public service, at his request, July 1647 [EQC 1:119]. He did take some responsibilities, since he was named executor of the will of Thomas Scott of Ipswich, written 8 March 1653/4 [EPR 1:169; ILR 1:190]. He also deposed as attorney to John Caldwell in November 1653, saying that, "being in Goodman Bridges' shop, Goodman ___ being present, he heard him say that a woman and her daughter, gathering berries, saw four women, Mrs. Perkins, Goody Evens, Goody Dutch, etc. As they approached them, the four women sat upon the ground, but when they came near, the women had vanished. He could not say that they were witches" [EQC 1:325].
In September 1660 Faith Bridges and Daniel Black were in court over his unlawful seduction of her without her father's permission [EQC 2:243].
While still minors Edward and Hackaliah were in trouble for things like lying, fornicating and getting drunk [EQC 2:3, 40-42, 52-54, 68]. Edmund's children kept unsavory company and were often called to depose in court about unlawful events they witnessed. Sometimes they were more than witnesses. Andrew Mansfield of Lynn deposed in September 1667 that "in hay time, two or three of Goodman Bridges' sons of Ipswich overtook him on this side of Lynn bridge and stayed there to light their pipes." The youngest, Hackaliah, was charged with feloniously assaulting a man upon the highway that night, but the court found for Bridges [EQC 3:444-45]." 		Bridges, Edmund (I503)
 
4623 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson, pp. 389-92:
"EDMUND BRIDGES
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1635 on the James
FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
REMOVES: Rowley by 1641, Ipswich by 1660, Salem by 1670, Ipswich by 1684...
CHILDREN...
i EDMUND, b. about 1636 (deposed June 1664 "aged about twenty-seven years" [EQC 3:160, 183]; deposed for 27 March 1666 court "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 3:312]; deposed in June 1674 "aged about thirty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); Topsfield 11 January 1659/60 Sarah Towne, daughter of William Towne [Amos Towne Anc 4- 6]..."

2. Internet Wikipedia accessed 21 Jan 2019 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Cloyce
"Sarah Cloyce
Sarah Cloyce (later Cloyes) (née Towne) (bap. 3 September 1648 – 1703) was accused of witchcraft but never indicted by a grand jury in the Salem Witch Trials
Background
She was the daughter of William and Joanna Towne, who had emigrated to Salem from Great Yarmouth in England about 1640. Sarah, who was probably the youngest of their eight children, married firstly to Edmund Bridges, by whom she had six children, and secondly to Peter Cloyce (later Cloyes), a widower, by whom she had three more children.[citation needed]
Salem Witch Trials
Sarah was accused of witchcraft the day after she had defended her sister Rebecca against the same charge by walking out of church, and pointedly slamming the church door (an action seemingly without precedent in New England), when Rebecca was being denounced. A few days later she was named in warrants and arrested, and transferred to Boston prison. The complaint was filed by Jonathan Walcott and Nathaniel Ingersoll, accusing Sarah of having afflicted Abigail Williams, the niece of the Reverend Samuel Parris, as well as tormenting Mary Walcott.[1]
On April 11, 1692, she was brought before an examiner and refused to confess, attacking her accusers, Tituba and her husband John with great spirit: "oh you are grevious liars". She was then sent to jail in Salem, where her sister Rebecca was already being held. Both Sarah and her sister Mary were suspected of bewitching their niece, Rebecca Towne, daughter of their late brother Edmund Towne.[2]
On September 9, 1692, an indictment was made out against Sarah, "for certain detestable arts called witchcraft and sorceries, wickedly, maliciously and feloniously hath used practiced and exercised... in, upon and against one Rebecca Towne of Topsfield...and also for sundry other acts of witchcraft." [3]
Sarah petitioned the court for an opportunity to present evidence which supported her innocence, and to exclude spectral evidence (testimony that the spirit of someone did something).
Last years
While Sarah waited in jail, her sisters were executed for witchcraft. However, by December, 1692, the indictments against Sarah were marked "ignoramus", literally meaning "we do not know." On January 3, 1693, the Superior Court of Judicature dismissed charges against Sarah, and her husband, Peter Cloyes, paid her fees for release. Subsequently, she and her husband relocated, first to Salem End (West Framingham).[4]
She spent the last ten years of her life trying to clear her sisters' names. After her death, her two sisters were eventually found to be innocent. In 1706 the repentant accuser Ann Putnam Jr. named Rebecca, Mary and Sarah specifically as among those whom she had falsely accused: And particularly, as I was a chief instrument of accusing Goodwife Nurse and her two sisters, I desire to lie in the dust, and to be humble for it, in that I was a cause, with others, of so sad a calamity to them and their families; for which cause I desire to lie in the dust, and earnestly beg forgiveness of God, and from all those unto whom I have given just cause of sorrow and offense, whose relations were taken away or accused.[5]
In 1712, the Church reversed the sentence of excommunication it had pronounced on Rebecca, as they no longer wished "to reproach her memory nor give grief to her children".[6]
In popular culture
In the short story, Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne (himself a descendant of one of the Salem witch trial magistrates), a social criticism of Puritan culture, a character named Goody Cloyse addresses the devil, confessing to practicing witchcraft. It is a shock to the protagonist (Brown) as she had taught him his catechism in his youth. She makes a reference to "...that unhanged witch, Goody Cory...", a possible reference to Martha Corey, who actually was hanged as a witch in 1692.[citation needed]
Sarah Cloyce/Cloyes is the protagonist and narrator of the 1985 public television miniseries chronicling the trials American Playhouse: Three Sovereigns for Sarah. She was portrayed by the English actress Vanessa Redgrave.
References
1. Witches of Massachusetts - C-2, LegendsOfAmerica.com; accessed October 23, 2015
2. Witches of Massachusetts - C-2, LegendsOfAmerica.com; accessed October 23, 2015.
3. Witches of Massachusetts - C-2, LegendsOfAmerica.com; accessed October 23, 2015
4. Timeline of the Salem Witch Trials, salemwitchtrials.com; accessed December 23, 2014.
5. Upham, Charles W. (2000) [1867], Salem Witchcraft, 2, Dover Publications (pg. 510); ISBN 0-486-40899-X
6. Witches of Massachusetts - C-2, LegendsOfAmerica.com; accessed October 23, 2015.
External links
The Towne Family Association
Further reading
Upham, Charles (1980). Salem Witchcraft. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 2 vv, v. 2 pp. 60, 94, 101, 111, 326. ISBN 048640899X"
 		Towne, Sarah (I4425)
 
4624 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson, pp. 389-92:
"EDMUND BRIDGES
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1635 on the James
FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
REMOVES: Rowley by 1641, Ipswich by 1660, Salem by 1670, Ipswich by 1684...
CHILDREN...
iv JOHN, b. say 1643; m. (1) Ipswich 5 December 1666 Sarah How; m. (2) Andover 1 March 1677/8 Mary (Tyler) Post, widow of Richard..." 		Tyler, Mary (I3153)
 
4625 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson, pp. 389-92:
"EDMUND BRIDGES
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1635 on the James
FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
REMOVES: Rowley by 1641, Ipswich by 1660, Salem by 1670, Ipswich by 1684...
CHILDREN...
iv JOHN, b. say 1643; m. (1) Ipswich 5 December 1666 Sarah How; m. (2) Andover 1 March 1677/8 Mary (Tyler) Post, widow of Richard..." 		How, Sarah (I1048)
 
4626 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson, pp. 389-92:
"EDMUND BRIDGES
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1635 on the James
FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
REMOVES: Rowley by 1641, Ipswich by 1660, Salem by 1670, Ipswich by 1684...
CHILDREN...
vi OBADIAH, b. about 1647 (deposed at court September 1667 "aged about twenty years" [EQC 3:444]; deposed at court November 1669 "aged about twenty-four years" [EQC 4:195]); m. (1) Ipswich 25 October 1671 Mary Smith; m. (2) by 1677 Elizabeth ___ (his administratrix [EQC 6:344])..."
 		Elizabeth (I5404)
 
4627 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson, pp. 389-92:
"EDMUND BRIDGES
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1635 on the James
FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
REMOVES: Rowley by 1641, Ipswich by 1660, Salem by 1670, Ipswich by 1684...
CHILDREN...
vi OBADIAH, b. about 1647 (deposed at court September 1667 "aged about twenty years" [EQC 3:444]; deposed at court November 1669 "aged about twenty-four years" [EQC 4:195]); m. (1) Ipswich 25 October 1671 Mary Smith; m. (2) by 1677 Elizabeth ___ (his administratrix [EQC 6:344])..." 		Smith, Mary (I5403)
 
4628 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson, pp. 389-92:
"EDMUND BRIDGES
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1635 on the James
FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
REMOVES: Rowley by 1641, Ipswich by 1660, Salem by 1670, Ipswich by 1684...
CHILDREN...
viii JOSIAH, b. about 1654 (deposed 2 March 1676 "aged about twenty-two years" [EQC 6:239]); m. (1) Ipswich 13 November 1676 Elizabeth Norton; m. (2) Ipswich 19 September 1677 Ruth Greenslip..."

2. The book "The Averell-Averill-Avery family: a record of the descendants of William and Abigail Averell of Ipswich, Mass.," by Clara A. Avery (Press of Evangelical Publishing House, 1906), pp. 123-25:
"MEMORANDA
Greensleet, Greensled, Greenslit.
* An Inv. of the Est. of Thomas Greenslet late (of Salem) dec'd presented 1677, Mar. 27th.; on file [Case 11851], Essex Co. P. R.
The Inv. of Thomas Greenslet deaseased Salem 21 Mar. 1676
An Greenslet admx. testified to the truth of the inventory of her late husband Thomas Greenslet before the Court held at Ipswich the 27 of March 1677. Robert Lord Cleric
Between this date in 1676, and Nov. 28, 1682, Widow Ann ( ---- ) Greensleet m. Jacob Pudeator (this name being a corruption of the surname Pointdexter) of Salem, Mass., whose will was proved at the last date, before the Court at Salem. Mention is made in the will of Ann's children by her previous marriage, and a debt of £5 is forgiven her son John "Greenfield," and bequests to the same amt. made to "the other fouer of my wives children: that is to say Tho Greenslid, and Ruth, & Samuel & James Greensled"
His "loving wife Ann" was named as exx and was to have the use of his property during her life; and at her decease it was to go to his cozen (nephew?) Isaac Pudeater. At the end of the instrument he adds: "I have desired my loving freind s cozen Mr John Browne Senr, Mr Francis Scevey (Seavey?), and John Massey to be the overseers of this my will." Among names of debtors to the estate, and for very small amounts, appear those of Samll Verey, Senr £2. 10s, Ensign Bancroft; Jacob Baun Esq., Price Edwards [Essex P. R., Vol. 302, p. 25; Inv. same vol. and page].
Widow Ann (Greensleet) Pudeator was executed for witchcraft 1692 at Salem; and Dec. 10, 1694, an inventory of the est. was presented and admn granted Mr Philip English, attorney for Grace Pudeater, Legatee [Essex P. R., Vol. 303, p. 198; Case 22909].
James Greensleet starts action against the estate but lets it fall, and Ruth Greenslate alias Bridges receives her legacy of £5 from the estate of her step-father, Jacob Pudeator.
Some of Ann's children were at Casco Bay, near Portland, Me., in 1692. The Inv. of the estate of "John Greensit, late of Salem (prob, son of Ann, above mentioned), who dec'd Oct ye 24, 1693," was presented Oct. 30, 1693, and admn was granted his widow, Abigail Grenslitt [Essex Probate, Vol. 303, pp. 165, 166].
It is possible that "Joan Greensleet a single woman" who was m. at Boston, Nov. 10, 1643, to James2 Avery, son of Christopher1 Avery of Cape Ann and Gloucester, Mass. (progenitors of the Groton Avery Clan), was of this Greensleet stock, and a relative of Ann the wife of John Averell. Joan Greenslade was admitted to the First Church of Boston in 1643, and dismissed after her marriage to unite with the church at Gloucester in 1644 [see The Groton Avery Clan, pp. 43-4-5, for Greenslade, etc]."

3. Unverified from the Internet:
A. A mariner and fisherman with crew of The Margery arriving 1642- 3 (2), in Falmouth 1648 (2), Scarborough 1658 (1), Scarborow and Falmouth 4 July 1663 (17) and Salem 1668 (1), permission to go from the Barbadoes to Antigua in the sloop True Friendship 7 Oct 1679 (17 from Hotton),
B. Thomas Greenslade was also known as Greenslett.2 He was born say 1624 in England.3 He migrated to Casco Bay, Maine, aboard the ship Margery in 1643.1 Marriage before 1650. He died in July 1674. It is Perley who states, "Thomas Greenslet lived in Salem in 1673." (Probably based on the 1673 Salem Ct records regarding Sarah Lambert's child. I have found no records yet which would indicate Thomas and Ann were in Salem before 1673.) Thomas Greenslet died c. July 1674. An exact date is not known. "July 1674" is given by Sidney Perley, History of Salem. The first document I have with Ann Greenslet's name on it is the Inventory of Thomas Greenslet's Estate, File #11851, dated March 1677, which is when the inventory was recorded. The inventory clearly states Ann Greenslet administratrix for her husband Thomas Greenslet his estate. He died without a will and his estate was inventoried l in March 1677 at Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts; died intestate.5 His estate was probated on 27 March 1677 at Court at Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts.6
"Most researchers agree that Thomas and Ann had 5 children. We do not know their birth dates or birth places. Assumptions have been made that the children were born between 1650-1660 in Casco Bay, Maine. There are no records, no documentation for this. I have not found any mention in any Maine records that Thomas Greenslade's wife was ever in Casco Bay, Maine, but it is assumed she came there at some time and lived with him there. Very scant records exist for Thomas Greenslade for the years he was in Casco Bay. Based upon a 1666 record of a defaulted mortgage there, my assumption is he left Casco Bay after 1666 and went to Salem, MA. Ann went to Salem with him. He owned no property. He died intestate in 1674 and left more debts than money to pay them. About 3 years later (c. 1677) Thomas Greenslade's widow Ann married her neighbor Jacob Pudeator, who was about 20 years younger than she was. Jacob's wife Isabel had died in 1676. Her inquest and the questions to witnesses indicate that the court might have thought Isabel Pudeator's death needed inquiry. Jacob and Isabel Pudeator had no children. The source for the names of the 5 Greenslade children is the 1681 will of Ann's second husband Jacob Pudeator. Ann's children named in Pudeator's will were: John, Thomas, Samuel, James, and Ruth. Thus, because they were left legacies by Pudeator, we know these 5 were alive when the will was written in 1681."7
Citations
1. Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin, editor, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Portland, ME: Southward Press, 1928-1939), p. 289, "with crew of -The Margery - arriving 1642-3."
2. Probate Records of Essex County Massachusetts: Vol. III, 1675-1681 (Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1920), III:121. Estate of Thomas Greenslett, 27 Mar 1677, q.v.
3. Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 289, "a Devon-Somerset name." Prob. b. ca. 1624.
4. Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, p. 289, from estimated birth dates of children. Ann, his widow, swore to his estate inventory in 1677.
5/6Probate Records of Essex County Vol. III, III:121; Estate of Thomas Geeenslett. Administration upon the estate of Thomas Greenslett, intestate, was granted Mar. 27, 1677, to Ann Greenslett, who was to pay the debts as far as the inventory, which was 31i. 16s. 2d., would allow. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 287.
Inventory of the estate of Thomas Greenslet taken Mar. 21, 1676-7 by Edmund Batter and John Massey: one flocke bed & apertenances. Hi.; 2 old Chests with raggs, 6s.; a lampe, ticke & Hauke, 4s. ; table, 2 wheels & Chairs, 10s. 6d.; one Irone pott, 6s. 8d. ; wood & old bedsteed, 7s.; potts, 2s.; 2 swine. Hi. ; total, 31i. 16s. 2d. The debts many & not knowne. Attested in Ipswich court Mar. 27, 1677 by An Greenslet administratrix of the estate of her late husband Thomas Greenslet. Essex County Probate Files, Docket 11,851.
7. Greenslip List on Rootsweb, online http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/GREENSLIT/, Helen Greenslit Graves on 30 Apr 2006 and 26 Jul 2000.
8. Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 289.
C. Posting by Helen Greenslit Graves:
"... regarding Ann Greenslet Pudeator, here's some background info on Ann which will lead up to her execution as a witch in Salem in 1692. It's pretty slim:
Scarce info has been found for Ann, wife of Thomas Greenslet. Her maiden name, her DOB, and her birthplace are unknown; who her parents were and if she had any siblings is also unknown. The date of her marriage to Thomas Greenslet and where the marriage took place is unknown. Although the names of her children (Thomas, Ruth, John, Samuel, and James) appear in her 2nd husband's will, where and when ANY of them were born is unknown.
Their births are estimated as occurring between 1650-1660. Since Thomas Greenslet's name appears on a list of residents for Falmouth during this time period, the family must have lived there and that is probably where all 5 children were born. However, no birth or baptism records have been found. Worth noting: Ann Greenslet's name appears nowhere in early Falmouth, Maine, records.
1666-1673 gap. The last record for Thos Greenslet being in Maine was 1667 when he defaulted on a mortgage. The next record is 1673 when Salem Town paid Thomas Greenslet to take in Sarah Lambert's young child to care for. There was a law regarding schooling children and making sure they learned how to read English. Apparently, Thomas Greenslet did not do this. The child was taken away from the Greenslet household that same year. Sidney Perley's 'History of Salem' refers to this, but what he says is misleading. Sounds like it was one of Thomas Greenslet's children who wasn't schooled, but that was not the case. It was an unrelated young child who Salem Town was paying the Greenslet's to raise.
It is Perley who states, "Thomas Greenslet lived in Salem in 1673." (Probably based on the 1673 Salem Ct records regarding Sarah Lambert's child. I have found no records yet which would indicate Thomas and Ann were in Salem before 1673.
Thomas Greenslet died c. July 1674. An exact DOD is not known. "July 1674" is given by Sidney Perley, 'History of Salem'. The first document I have with Ann Greenslet's name on it is the Inventory of Thomas Greenslet's Estate, File #11851, dated March 1677, which is when the inventory was recorded. The inventory clearly states Ann Greenslet administratrix for her husband Thomas Greenslet his estate. Ann's birth has been estimated as being c. 1622-1627, so she was 47-52 when her husband died in 1674. In 1674, if their 5 children were born 1650-1660, some of the younger children were probably still at home. It is believed that the eldest child was son Thomas, and that he was probably born c. 1650. If correct, by 1674, Thomas Jr. was 24 years old, a mariner and working on ships in/out of Salem. There are later references that his brothers Samuel and John were in Casco Bay fighting Indians in 1676. From these references, it has been assumed that perhaps James was the youngest child and may have still been in the Greenslet home in 1674 when his father died. Where daughter Ruth was in 1674 is unknown, but she appears in Ipswich in 1677.
19 Sept 1677 Ruth Greenslip (sic) married Josiah Bridges in Ipswich.
1680 Thos. & Ann's son John Greenslet married Abigail Curtis, d/o William Curtis/Curtice and Alice Rumball. Marriage date and place have not been found. Since her parents continued to live in Salem, it is assumed the marriage took place there. (This is my line.)
JACOB PUDEATOR was born ca 1642, so he was 17-20 years younger than his neighbor Ann Greenslet. According to Sidney Perley, he arrived in Salem c. 1666 when he was 24 years old and married Isabel Mosier. They had no children. Jacob Pudeator was a blacksmith and owned ppty near Salem Commons. According to Perley, Isabel was a drunkard and a railer, and squandered Jacob's money for rum. (Perley prob got this from Essex Co. Court Records.)
Isabel Pudeator died 3 March 1675/76. There was an inquest into her death. Essex Court Records reveal that Ann Greenslet, the Pudeator's neighbor, had nursed Isabel prior to her death, so we know that Ann Greenslet lived not far from the Pudeator house on Salem Commons and was referred to as 'Nurs'. How much nursing she did, is not known. The testimony regarding Isabel Pudeator's death is interesting, in that the doctor who tended to her was amazed that she had died, as he had left her on the mend. Hmmm.
Within the year after Isabel died (March 1677-March 1678) Jacob Pudeator married his neighbor Ann Pudeator. He was about 35 years old and she was about 55 years old -- not a typical union. Most men sought younger wives and he was still young enough to start a family. Ann Pudeator was not rich; she owned no property. I have yet to find an "advantage" for Jacob to marry her... unless he owed her something for offing his drunkard wife. The record for their marriage has not been found. However, Ann appears as Jacob Pudeator's wife on a deed dated March 1678, so we know they were married by then.
The marriage lasted about 5 years (1677-1682). Jacob Pudeator died c. August 1682 and his will was proved in Essex Court 28 Sept 1682. In his will, Jacob Pudeator named his wife's 5 children as John, Thomas, Ruth, Samuel, and James and left all but John legacies of 5 pounds each. John Greenslit has purchased a house and lot from Jacob in 1681 and John still owned Jacob 5 pounds. John's legacy was that Jacob forgave him his 5 pound debt. Jacob devised to his beloved wife Ann the rest of his property to use during her natural life, but upon her death it was to go to his 'cozen' Isaac Pudeator. When Jacob died age 40 in 1682, his widow Ann (Greenslet) was about 60 years old.
1682-1692. Nothing is known of Ann's life in these 10 years. No doubt she lived in Jacob Pudeator's house on his ppty located on Salem Commons. She may have leased out his smithy for income.
WHEREABOUTS OF ANN's CHILDREN IN 1692. From trial records, her son Thomas Greenslet was in Salem at one time to give testimony to the strength of the Rev. George Burroughs. But it is speculated that since Thomas was a mariner, he probably was in and out of Salem on ships. There is no record that he testified in his mother's behalf.
There is no record of her son Samuel who was named in the 1682 will. Since Jacob Pudeator listed him and devised him a legacy, it is assumed he was alive in 1682, but where he was living or what happened to him after that, is unknown. There is no record that he received his legacy 1682-1694. (Jacob Pudeator's estate was settled in 1694.)
Ann's son John Greenslit was married, had small children, and lived in Salem until c. 1689 when he left 'to go to sea' and never returned. Assumed dead, John's young widow remarried 2-Thomas Mason. They lived in Salem in 1692; however, there is no record that Ann's ex-daughter in law spoke up for her in her behalf. John Greenslet's children were old enough in 1692 to know that their grandmother Greenslet had been accused of witchcraft, found guilty, and hung.
Ann's daughter Ruth was married to Josiah Bridges, had young children, and lived in Boxford in 1692. No record exists that Josiah and Ruth Bridges spoke up in Ann's behalf.
Ann's son James is a mystery. He was named in the 1681 Pudeator will so we know he was alive then. Nothing further is known of him, except in 1694 he was paid his 5 pound Pudeator legacy. What was left of Jacob Pudeator's estate after Ann was hung in 1692 was administered to by Phillip English, Salem merchant, in 1694. He submitted an inventory to Essex Court and also listed all of his expenses. He paid James Greenslet's attorney the 5 pounds owed to James and he paid Ruth Greenslet alias Bridges her 5 pound legacy. No mention is found in Phillip English's records that he paid Thomas, Jr., or Samuel their legacies.
This is the sketchy background info on Ann Greenslet Pudeator. In Essex Court Records, she is referred to as 'Nurs' and we know she "nursed" her neighbor Isabel Pudeator just before she died. When the sheriff came to arrest Ann for witchcraft, they found pots of various sizes in her house. Who knows what was in them (perhaps herbs and medicinal mixes she concocted) but it seemed proof that she was mixing evil potions.
Ann Greenslet Pudeator was hung on 22 Sept 1692 -- accused by neighbors as well as by some of the young girls.
Many of us have scratched our heads and speculated as to why certain ancestors were accused. Why Ann Pudeator?
In her book, "The Devil in the Shape of a Woman", Carol F. Karlsen doesn't have much to say about Ann Pudeator. In the book she attributes accusations to plain anger, and supports it by saying "Ann Pudeator's crime was scolding. John Best (Jr.), speaking about how he had several times found Pudeator's cow among his father's when he rounded up the herd, explained that the reason he 'did conclude said pudeator was a wich' was that she 'would chide me when I came houme for turning the cow bak.'
Later on in the book, during a section where Ms. Karlsen is discussing women who were mid-wives and healers (she thinks that this is could be a connection to why they were accused of witchcraft as she says 22 of those accused witches were mid-wives and/or healers) Ms. Karlson has this to say of Ann Pudeator:
"The problem is further complicated by the presence among witches of women like Ann Pudeator who turned these housewifery skills to profit when widowed or at other times of economic need."
HUH? I think Ms. Karlsen made a giant assumptive leap there. Yes, Ann was a widow. Yes, she is referred to in Essex Court records as 'Nurs Greenslad' during the inquest testimony for the dead Isabel Pudeator. But this 'Nurs' reference could have been because she had been called in by Jacob Pudeator to tend to his ill wife. She was their neighbor. We have no proof, no documentation, that Ann Greenslet practiced as a nurse-healer for profit. Ann said the pots they found in her house contained soap."
 		Greenslade, Ruth (I1796)
 
4629 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson, pp. 64-67:
"WILLIAM ANDREWS
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1634
FIRST RESIDENCE: Cambridge
REMOVES: Hartford 1637
OCCUPATION: Schoolmaster at Hartford, 1643, 1648, 1650, 1655 (and probably other years) [HaTR 65, 87,94, 108].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Cambridge church prior to 4 March 1634/5 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 4 March 1634/5 (as "Mr. Will[ia]m Andrewes," first in a sequence of nineteen Cambridge men [MBCR 1:370]).
EDUCATION: Sufficient to be schoolmaster and town recorder at Hartford. His inventory included "1 ring, 3 spoons & books" valued at £3 10s.
OFFICES: Cambridge selectman, 23 November 1635 [CaTR 14]. Constable, 23 November 1635 [CaTR 14].
Connecticut jury, 5 March 1644/5 [CCCR 1:122].
On 12 January 1651[/2], "Mr. William Andrewes was chosen recorder for the town of Hartford" [HaTR 97].
ESTATE: On 1 December 1634, William Andrews was granted five acres in the Westend Field in Cambridge [CaTR 101. On 20 August 1635, he received a proportional share of 2-½ in the undivided meadow [CaTR 13].
In the Cambridge land inventory on 10 October 1635, "William Andrewes" held two parcels: "in the town one house with backside about half a rood"; and "in Westend Field about five acres" [CaBOP,29]. In the 8 February 1635/6 listing of those with houses in Cambridge, William Andrews was credited with two in the town [CaTR 18]. On 25 September 1637, "Mr. Samuell Sheeperd ... bought of Mr. Will[iam] Andrews his house & all his land & rights in the common that lay in Newtowne" [CaBOP 41].
Granted thirty acres at Hartford on 3 January 1639/40 [HaTR 23]. In the Hartford land inventory he held eleven parcels: one acre and one rood "on which his dwelling house now standeth with other outhouses, yards & gardens"; two acres of upland; eighteen acres and two roods of upland (annotated "four acres of this sold to J: Ensign"); two roods and twenty-five perches in the Little Meadow; eight acres in the South Meadow; four acres, three roods and twenty perches of "meadow lying in Hockanuin"; six acres of swamp in the Great Swamp; six acres and three roods of "swamp lying in Hockanum"; one acre and one rood of "Indian Ground lying in the South Meadow which he had of John Crow" (annotated "March 7th 1657," presumably indicating the date of purchase); "[o]ne parcel of upland (which he had of Mr. Thomas Wells, magistrate) containing 40 acres and is in exchange for all his upland on the east side of the Great River"; and "one parcel of upland which he received of the town containing thirteen acres" [HaBOP 388-90].
On 8 April 1645, the earmark of "Will[ia]m Andrewes" was recorded at Hartford [HaTR 336].
In his will, dated 1 Apri11659 and proved on an unknown date, William Andrews bequeathed to "Abigail, my wife, my house, barn and homelot as it is enclosed between my son Edward Grannis and me," also "all my meadow and swamp lying in the South Meadow and that lyeth in the place called Hockanum, and all my upland elsewhere, during the time of her natural life," also some cattle and all other moveables so long as she remains unmarried; if she marry again, "such of the moveables as she can conveniently spare shall be disposed of among our children as she seeth meet"; to "my son John one working steer"; "Abigail, my wife, shall dispose of my land, meadow, swamp, housing and homelot among our children, to every one of them some, as she shall think fit"; "I hereby do make Abigail, my wife, my sole executrix ... and I do also entreat my friend Edward Stebbing and my brother George Grave to assist my wife and to see this my will executed & performed" [HaPR 2:129; Manwaring 1:92].
The inventory of the estate of "William Andrewes of Hartford," taken 8 August 1659, totalled £211 14s. lid., of which £90 was real estate: "his house, barn and homelot," £22; "meadow land, 9 acres 3 roods," £42; "swamp land, 3 acres 1 rood," £13; and "upland ground, 49 acres," £13 [HaPR 2:130; Manwaring 1:92].
On 20 January 1674/5, "Abigail Berding of Hartford ... widow for and in consideration of my natural love unto my son John Andrews & my son Thomas Andrews & my son Sam[ue]ll Andrews & my son-in-law Thomas Spencer Junior & in pursuance of the last will & testament of my loving husband William Andrews sometimes of Hartford deceased" deeded "unto them the said John Andrews, Thomas Andrews & Thomas Spencer Junior all that houselot & the buildings & fences thereon that sometimes pertained to my said husband William Andrews situate & being in Hartford as it is now divided, possessed & enjoyed by them, and unto him the said John Andrews one piece of land lying in the south meadow of the aforenamed Hartford, containing by estimation three roods, ... as also one acre of woodland on the west side of Rocky Hill, & unto them the said John Andrews, Thomas Andrews & Sam[ue]ll Andrews all other my lands whatsoever" in Hartford, "provided that none of the abovenamed grantees or their heirs shall or may make any alienation of the premises during the natural life of me the said Abigail Berding without my special allowance & consent in writing, & also that during the term of the natural life of me the said Abigail Berding the said John Andrews, Thomas Andrews & Samuell Andrews shall well & truly pay or cause to be paid from each of them every year yearly, the full sum of two pounds ten shillings" [HaPR 1:25; Hartford PD Case #478].
On 4 April 1683, "the widow Bearding's last will & inventory of her estate was exhibited in court & proved & ordered to be recorded" [HaPR 4(court):68]. The will was nuncupative, consisting of two depositions. "George Graves aged about 52 years and Samuell Andrewes aged about 36 years" testified "that we were with widow Abigail Bardin about three weeks before she died and she did before us declare that her will was that after her death the said Samuell Andrewes should have what was due to her from Gherrard Spencer and that the said Samuell should pay her debts and funeral charges, also that her daughter Hester Spencer should have all her other goods excepting some few things she had given away before; Samuel Andrewes excepteth only of the above written that he remembers not his grandmother's words that he should pay her debts and funeral charges but owneth that he will do it" [Hartford PD Case #478]. "Paul Peck Senior aged about 60 years testifieth that a day or two before widow Bardin died she told him that her will was that Samuel! Andrewes should have what was due to her from Gherrard Spencer and that the rest of her goods she gave to her daughter Hester Spencer except some few small things she had given away before" [Hartford PD Case #478]. The inventory of "the estate of the widow Beardin deceased March 26 1682/3" totalled £1910s. [Hartford PD Case #478].
BIRTH: By about 1607 based on estimated date of marriage (but possibly earlier [TAG 35:56]).
DEATH: Between 1 April 1659 (date of will) and 8 August 1659 (date of inventory).
MARRIAGE: By about 1632 Abigail ___. (She may have been sister of George Graves of Hartford [TAG 35:56].) She married (2) Nathaniel Barding [Manwaring 1:182-83; TAG 35:56] and died 26 March 1682/3 (unless this is the date the inventory was taken, in which case she probably died somewhat earlier) [Hartford PD Case #478].
CHILDREN:
i JOHN, b. say 1632; m. (1) by 1669 ___ Lilly; m. (2) by 1675 Mary ___ [TAG 35:58 (for discussion of both marriages)].
ii ABIGAIL, b. say 1634; bur. Fairfield [blank] May 1653 [CTVR 30].
iii ELIZABETH, b. say 1636; m. Hartford 3 May 1655 Edward Grannis [CTVR 32].
iv THOMAS, b. Hartford 4 May 1638 [CTVR 31]; m. by about 1670 Hannah Kirby, daughter of John Kirby (in the settlement of the estate of John Kirby in 1677 in the list of children is "Hannah, wife of Thomas Andrews, age 27 years" [Manwaring 1:212; TAG 35:58]).
v ESTHER, b. Hartford [blank] September 1641 [CTVR 31]; m. by about 1666 Thomas Spencer, son of THOMAS SPENCER [TAG 27:166-67, 35:57; GMB 3:1720].
vi SAMUEL, b. Hartford 20 October 1645 [CTVR 31; HaVR 576 (omits day of birth)]; m. about 1668 Elizabeth Spencer, daughter of THOMAS SPENCER [TAG 27:163, 35:59; GMB 3:1720].
ASSOCIATIONS: Francis Andrews of Hartford and Fairfield and John Andrews of Farmington may have been younger half-brothers of William Andrews [TAG 35:57, 59].
COMMENTS: In our earlier discussion of WILLIAM ANDREWS of Lynn, we gave reasons for believing that the first Cambridge William Andrews, the subject of the present sketch, was the freeman of 4 March 1634/5 [GMB 1:46]. In his discussion of the present William Andrews, Jacobus distinguishes carefully between the two men of the name at Cambridge, and concludes that the Mary Andrews, wife of William, who died at Cambridge on 19 January 1640 was wife of the second man of that name, and not of the Hartford man [TAG 35:55].
On 6 June 1636, the town of Cambridge agreed "with Mr. Andrewse for his man to keep the calves for 12s. a week so long as we think good only we are to provide him a man for the present if he shall require it of us" [CaTR 23].
On 26 October 1636, the Massachusetts Bay General Court acknowledged that "Newe Towne presented a book of their records under the hands of Will[iam] Andrews, constable, John Beniamin, & Will[iam] Spencer" [MBCR 1:182].
Barbour claimed that the Christian Andrews who married John Birchard, son of THOMAS BIRCHARD, was a daughter of this William Andrews ["Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut" (Baltimore 1977), pp. 9-10], but she was daughter of the widow Catherine Andrews [TAG 64:88-891.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1958 Donald Lines Jacobus compiled an account of this William Andrews and his sons, carefully distinguishing him from other men by the name of William Andrews [TAG 35:55-59].
In 1991 Edward H. Little prepared a summary of the life and family of William Andrews ["Colonial Ancestors ..." (Camden, Maine, 1991), 1-7]."

2. The book "Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut," Lucius Barnes Barbour, 1982 ed.: "William Andrews died 1659. Early member 1st Church [of Hartford]. Name on Founders' Monument [in downtown Hartford]. Mar. 1st Mary Jan. 19, 1639/40 (Savage) at Cambridge. M/2 Abigail Mch 20, 1682/3 who m. Nathaniel Bearding. [Kerry's note: date of 2nd marriage is evidently wrong considering William died in 1659. Additionally, Nathaniel Bearding notes Abigail as being the mother of Samuel Andrews in his will which would make a marriage between William Andrews and Abigail more likely before 1645 unless Nathaniel was speaking of Abigail in a generic sense without specifying whether she was the natural mother or stepmother.] Children:
Samuel, b. Oct. 20, 1645 (HTR) m. Elizabeth Spencer.
Abigail, died May 1653 (HTR) in Fairfield.
Christian, m. John Birchard.
John, died June 6, 1690 m. Mary.
Elizabeth, m. Edward Grannis May 3, 1654 (HTR).
Thomas, b. May 4, 1638 (Conn Land Rec) m. Hannah Kirby dau of John.
Esther, b. Sept 1641 (Conn Land Rec) m. Thomas Spencer Jr. of Suffield.
William Andrews, freeman Mass. Mch 4, 1634-5; constable, Newtown Oct 1636; an original proprietor of Hartford; received 30 acres in the division of 1639-40; his home lot was south of the Little River on land now included in the West Park. He was the first schoolmaster, teaching from 1643 until 1656; town clerk 1651-8. Will dated April 1, inv. Aug 8, 1659 ₤211.14.11, mentions his second wife Abigail and also names 'bro George Grave'.
Samewell Andrewes sun of William Andrewes was borne Oct. 21, 1645."
[Kerry's note: we can assume that George Graves was the brother-in-law to William making Abigail's maiden name Graves.]

3. FHL book 929.273 Sp33 "The Spencers of the Great Migration," by Jack Taif Spencer and Edith Woolley Spencer (Gateway Press, Baltimore; 1997) vol. 1, pp. 107-108:
"L.R. Paige in the History of Cambridge provided a map showing the general pattern of land distribution prior to 1635, about four years after the arrival of the first settlers in 1631. There was also a second map showing the location of lots in the town itself in 1635 and a list of names for the new owners in 1642. The change between the two years was nearly one hundred percent because of the departure of the Hooker Company from Cambridge in 1635 and 1636. Actually, the turnover in the population of Newe Towne in 1635 and 1636 was almost complete. On the lot plan for 1635 there were 63 names. If each name is compared with the same lots in 1642, there is scarcely a repeat owner in the same location. Nearly all had emigrated to Hartford.
The street map of Cambridge in 1635 identifies the location of William Spencer's property as No. 31 at the intersection of Mt. Auburn St. and Creek Lane. The house of Sgt. Thomas Spencer was at No. 32 on Creek Lane. The Rev. Thomas Hooker was at No.4. Others were Matthew Allen No. 38, 56, 60; William Andrews No. 41. We note that neither Michael Spencer or Gerard Spencer are shown on this map, but it is a certainty they were in Newe Towne at this time (1635) because of land grants which had been made to each in 1634. Perhaps both of the younger brothers were living with one or the other of their older brothers."

4. FHL book 929.273 Sp33 "The Spencers of the Great Migration," by Jack Taif Spencer and Edith Woolley Spencer (Gateway Press, Baltimore; 1997) vol. 1, pp. 105-106:
"Since the achievement of "Freemanship" was so important a designation, how was such a distinction attained in the Puritan society? First of all, Freemanship was entirely dependent upon membership in the Church, which in turn was dependent on a "Confession of Faith". This latter step constituted an important hurdle to overcome before attaining the desired goal. In its essentials, the Confession required each candidate to recount step by step how he or she had arrived at a "saving grace".
Fortunately, the MBC maintained full records of the names and dates of those persons who attained the status of Freemen in the various communities under the jurisdiction of the General Court. These dates give important clues as to the presence of individuals in each community. It does not necessarily indicate time of arrival, because "Confession of Faith" often required months and even years to be attained.
In the following tabulation for attainment of "Freeman", we will list only the names of the Spencer siblings or individuals possibly related in future generations as collateral families. The other names are included because they were prominent in the affairs of the MBC.
16 May 1631 - a total of 18, including William Spencer, Timothy Tomlyns (husband of Elizabeth Spencer).
1 April 1633 - a total of 78, including Rev. Thomas Hooker, Thomas Spencer, James Parker
4 March 1634 - many, including Mr. William Andrews Robert Parker.
6 March 1635 - many, including Joseph Andrews
6 May 1635 - many, including Robert Andrews, George Phelpes.
26 May 1636 - many, including Barnaby Deryfall (Derifield) brother to Ann Deryfall first wife of Sgt. Thomas1 Spencer. Also Mr. William Coddington for whom Ann Deryfall worked as a maid servant.
9 March 1637 - Gerrett (Gerard1) Spencer.
17 May 1637 - John Hanchet.
March, 1638 - Michael Spencer
3 May 1638 - Thomas Sweetman, whose daughter Rebecca married Michael Spencer, son of Michael. Michael's son owned the land on which the famous Harvard yard is now located.
13 March 1638 - Mr. Joseph Peck, Mr. Robert Peck.
13 May 1640 - William Andrews. There were two Freemen in Cambridge bearing this name, one being a ship captain.
2 June 1641 - William Parker."

5. FHL book 929.273 Sp33 "The Spencers of the Great Migration," by Jack Taif Spencer and Edith Woolley Spencer (Gateway Press, Baltimore; 1997) vol. 1, partial excerpts from pp. 261-263 (see notes of Thomas2 Spencer for full transcript):
"The Families Immediately Related to Thomas1 and Thomas2 in Hartford.
Because a rather complex relationship existed among the immediate relatives of Thomas1 in Hartford, the present authors have prepared a separate article (1995) on the interrelationships of Thomas1 and Thomas2 to the Andrews, Graves, and Bearding families. A brief summary is presented in the following notes along with the accompanying chart.
Linkages among the Andrews, Graves, Bearding and Spencer Families in Hartford [KP note: reformatted for my transcription]:
William1 Andrews (-1659)
m.(l) Mary Britton. Children by Wife#1:
-John2 (ca.1632-1690)
-Abigail2 (1634-1653)
-Elizabeth2 (1636-)
-Thomas2 (1638-)
m.(2) Abigail Graves (-1683). [Abigail marries Nathaniel1 Bearding as his second wife.] children by Wife #2:
-Esther2 (1641-1698) [Esther marries Thomas2 Spencer.]
-Samuel2 (1645-1712)
Thomas1 Spencer (1607-1689)
m.(1) Ann Derifall (1610-1645). Children by Wife #1:
-Obadiah 2 (c.1639-1712)
-Thomas 2 (1641-1689) [Thomas marries Esther2 Andrews.]
-Samuel 2 (1643-1727)
m. (2) Sarah Bearding (-1674). [Sarah is child from Nathaniel1 Bearding's first wife.] children by Wife #2:
-Sarah2 (ca1646-1712)
-Elizabeth2 (1648)
-Gerard2 (1651-1712)
-Hannah2 (1653-1713)
-Mary 2 (1655-1690)
-Martha2 (1658-1704)
Nathaniel1 Bearding (-1674)
m. (1) ___. Children by Wife #1:
-Sarah2 Bearding [Becomes 2nd wife of Thomas1 Spencer]
m. (2)Abigail (Graves) Andrews (-1683) [Abigail marries William1 Andrews as his second wife.]
The first list on the left shows the children descended from William1 Andrews, while the list on the right shows the one child (Sarah) of Nathaniel1 Bearding. Sandwiched between these two lists are the descendants of Thomas1 Spencer and his two wives, Ann Derifall and Sarah Bearding. Connecting lines indicate the intermarriages.
Abigail (Graves) Andrews (d. 1683) was the second wife of William1 Andrews of Hartford and the mother of Esther Andrews (1641-1698) who married Thomas2 Spencer (later of Suffield). Esther Andrews had a brother, Samuel Andrews (1645-1712), who married Elizabeth2 Spencer, a half sister to Thomas2 Spencer.
In later life, Abigail. (Graves) Andrews married Nathaniel Bearding as his second wife. Earlier, Nathaniel Bearding had a daughter Sarah who became the second wife of Sgt. Thomas1 Spencer.
All of the above is totally unintelligible unless the reader makes a careful study of the chart."

6. Obadiah, the son of this William Andrews, has several records for immorality which are detailed in the book "Sex in Middlesex, Popular Mores in a Massachusetts County, 1649-1699," by Roger Thompson (Amherst, MA; The Univ. of Mass. Press; 1986), pp. 60-61, 69.

7. The book "Colonial Ancestors. Four lineal genealogies of eastern Connecticut families…," by Bernice Andrews (Livingston) Rieg (Camden, Maine; Penobscot Press, 1991), pp. 1-7 [Note: I neglected to copy the source list.]:
"WILLIAM ANDREWS
"Andrews" is a patronymic - son of Andrew - and Scottish roots dominate over other possible geographic origins in the British Isles. A popular name in Scotland, where St. Andrew of course is the patron saint, contrariwise its occurrence in England is rare. The surname, "Andrews," contains connotations of "manly," and "strong."
The American line begins with William Andrews of Hartford, an original proprietor, and follower of the great congregationalist, Thomas Hooker. William served in Hartford both as school teacher and town clerk, important and responsible offices. Others of the family in America, besides being farmers, as almost all the early people were, have been military men and small, independent businessmen.
In more than one generation, the absence or loss of the father has shown the wife or widow to be strong and capable, as will be seen.
WILLIAM1 ANDREWS, whose place and date of birth are not known, died in Hartford, Conn., between 01 Apl 1659, when his will was written, and 08 Aug of the same year, when the inventory of his estate was taken by Edward Stebbing, George Grave and George Barnard.[1] William married ABIGAIL (? - GRAVE), thought to have been the sister of George Grave, Senior, of Hartford; after her husband's death, Abigail married second, Nathaniel Berden (or, Bearding) who died 14 Sep 1674;[2] and she died in Hartford, 20 Mch 1682/3.[3]
Abigail (? - Grave) (Andrews) Berden's nuncupative exhibited in Court 04 Apl 1683, presents an interesting family relationship, since her son Samuel, in his recollections of his mother's instructions, referred to his mother as, "Grandmother"! This was possible because Samuel, son of William and Abigail Andrews, married Elizabeth Spencer, daughter of Thomas Spencer and his second wife, Sarah Berden, daughter of Nathaniel and his first wife. Thus, when the widow Abigail Andrews married Nathaniel Berden, she became step-mother to Sarah (Berden) Spencer and step-grandmother to Sarah's daughter, Elizabeth Spencer, the wife of her son Samuel Andrews.
There is much confusion regarding the wife (wives) of this William Andrews as he, an early settler of Hartford, but an even earlier resident of Newtowne (Cambridge), has been mixed up with the mariner, William Andrews of Cambridge, Mass.[5] Many writers have accepted as fact that the Mary Andrews who died in Cambridge, Mass., 19 Jan 1639/40, was the wife of the Hartford William, and that Abigail was a second wife. This seems improbable as William of Hartford had a son, Thomas, born and recorded in Hartford, 04 May 1638.[6] After the death of his wife Mary on 19 Jan 1639/40, the Cambridge William married Reana James of Watertown about August 1640, their marriage contract being dated 11 Aug 1640. He died in 1652, leaving an only son Samuel.
Confusion also exists as to the exact relationship (if any) between William Andrews of Hartford on the one hand, and John Andrews of Farmington and Francis Andrews of Fairfield on the other. The possibility exists that the latter two are sons by an earlier marriage of William's; it is also possible that they are younger brothers or half brothers of William. There may be no relationship at all, but some kind of relationship does appear likely. [7]
However this may be, the three sons of William Andrews by his wife, Abigail, are well established: in a conveyance of land dated 20 Jan 1674/5, Abigail referred to the "Naturall Love to my son John Andrews & my son Thomas Andrews & my son Samll Andrews & my son in law Thomas Spencer Junior & in persueance of the Last will & testament of my Loueing husband William Andrews..."[8]
In all probability, William and his family reached Hartford from Cambridge in the year 1637.[9] As indicated above, the birth of Thomas is recorded as of 04 May 1638.[10] William received 30 acres of land in the 03 Jan 1639/40 division,[11] altogether 11 parcels were recorded in the original distribution[12] as belonging to him. His home lot was south of the Little River in land now probably included in Bushnell Park.[13]
About six years after his arrival in Hartford, William Andrews was appointed teacher. According to the general town meeting held in April 1643, it was ordered:
"yt mr Androwes Sholld teach the chilldren in the Scoole one yere nextt ensewing from the 25 of march, 1643, & yt he Shall haue for his paynes 16l & tharefore the Tounsmen Shall go & inquier who will ingeage them Selues to Send thare childeren & all yt do So Shall pay for one querter at the leaste & for more if thay do send them after the pportion of twenty shilings the yeare & if thay go any weckes more then a euen quarter thay Shall pay 6d p weck & if any wolld Send thare childeren & and are not abell to pay for thare teaching: thay Shall glue Notes of it to the tounsmen & thay Shall pay it at the Tounes charges & mr androues shall kepe the acount betwen the childrens scolling & him Selfe & Send nottes at the Tymes of payment & demand it & if his wages doth not So cam in then the Tounsmen must colectt & pay it, or if The ingagmentes corn not to Sixtene poundes then thay Shall pay wt is wanting at the Tounes Charges"[14]
In 1644, William was a member of the jury.[14] On 09 Apl 1646, Edward Stebbing complained against Samuel Marten and William Andrews because they loaded 97 bushels of corn aboard a vessel at Hartford which departed without the men entering the corn according to "order." They had to provide £40 in bail as guarantee they would appear at the next court.[16] In 1651, William Andrews was appointed Town Clerk,[17] a position he kept until just before his death in 1659; thus, it is his handwriting that appears in those early records. That William was able to read and write, to be Recorder and Schoolmaster, indicates that he came from a family of the financial means and position to have provided him with an education.
By the year 1659, William Andrews was sick and weak in body though not in mind; indeed, the year before John Winthrop, Jr. had called him, "senex," a term which Winthrop rarely used for men much under 70 years of age.[18] Obviously this problem of William's age raises again the question of his wife (wives): at the normal age for marrying did he marry an unknown woman by whom he had John Andrews of Farmington and Francis Andrews of Fairfield? Or were they younger brothers? Certainly John and Francis hadto have some close relationship to William to explain Abigail and Elizabeth (daughters of William and Abigail) being permitted to live away from Hartford with these two younger families.[19]
It was in this year of 1659 that William wrote his last will and testament, but apparently did not have the strength to sign his name; as presented in Manwaring's Digest:
"...Will dated 1 April, 1659; I, William Andrews, being sick and weak, but of perfect memory, do in this my last Will & Testament give and bequeath to Abigail, my wife, my House, Barne & House Lott as it is Inclosed between my son Edward Grannis and mee; allsoe, I doe give & bequeath to Abigail, my wife, all my Meadow & Swamp Land lieinge in the South Meadow and that lieth in the place called Hockanum, and all my Upland Ground elsewhere, during the time of her naturall life; allsoe, I give to the sd. Abigail 2 Cowes, one yearling Calf; also I give to Abigail, my wife, fower yards of Kersey with 3 dozen of Buttons and silke, and all other of my Moveable Goods, during the time that she liveth unmarried. If she marry (again), then my Will is, that such of the Moveables as shee can conveniently spare shall be disposed off amonge our Children as shee seeth meete, with the advice of the Overseers. My Will is, to give to my son John one workinge steer; alsoe, that Abigail, my wife, shall dispose of my Land, Meadow, Swamp, Howsing and Homelott amonge our Children, to every one of them some, as shee shall think fitt with the advice and Consent of the Overseers. I doe make Abigail, my wife, Executrix, and I doe Intreat my friend Edward Stebbinge and my Brother George Grave to assist and to see this my Will performed.
Witness: Edward Stebbing,
George Grave. [Not signed]"[20]
The inventory, taken 08 Aug 1659 by Edward Stebbing, George Grave and John Barnard, amounted to £211.14.00.[21]
It is interesting to note that Nathaniel Berden, in his will dated 07 Jan 1673, mentioned his wife, Abigail, son-in-law Thomas Spencer the elder, Samuel Andrews and wife Elizabeth to whom he left £40 to be paid after "the decease of my wife his mother." In addition to Elizabeth, the other four daughters of Thomas and Sarah (Berden) Spencer are mentioned by name, i.e. Sarah, Hannah, Mary and Martha. Next in order appear John Andrews, Thomas Andrews, and Jarred Spencer, "my grandchild," who would have been the only son of the above mentioned Thomas and Sarah (Berden) Spencer.[22]
Children of William and Abigail (?-Grave) Andrews:[23]
i. John2 Andrews, b. (say 1632 or a little later), d. Hartford, Conn., 06 Jun 1690; m. Mary (___), prob. a second wife.
Children, Andrews, prob. by different mothers:
(1) Samuel3, b. Jan 1669/70.
(2) Mary, b. Feb 1681/2; living in Nov 1698.
ii. Abigail Andrews, b. (say 1634); d. at Fairfield, Conn., and bur. May 1653, at which time she was called daughter of William of Hartford; apparently she had been staying with Francis Andrews, whose exact relationship with William of Hartford has been the subject of speculation.
iii. Elizabeth Andrews, b. (say 1636); d. bf 1663; m. at Hartford, 03 May 1655, Edward Grannis, who d. at New Haven, 10 Dec 1719. The marriage record calls her of Farmington, daughter of William of Hartford. Edward settled later at New Haven, where in 1662 he m. (2) Hannah Wakefield.
Child of Edward and Elizabeth (Andrews) Grannis:
(1) Joseph, b. Hartford, 31 Mch 1656, apparently d. young.
iv. Thomas Andrews, b. Hartford, 04 May 1638.
v. Esther Andrews, b. Hartford, -- Sep 1641, d. Suffield, Conn., 06 Mch 1697/8; m. prob. by 1665 to Thomas Spencer, Jr., b.c. 1641, d. Suffield, 23 Jul 1689, son of Sergt. Thomas and Ann (Derifall) Spencer. In 1657, John Winthrop, Jr. had written in his medical journal that Esther dwelt with Ens. Talcott, was sixteen years old, and had a pain in the head and stomach; the next year,. his records show she had a toothache!
Children, Spencer, b.c. 1666-1680: Esther, Elizabeth, Thomas, Samuel, William, and Anna. [24] [25]
vi Samuel Andrews, b. Hartford, 20 Oct 1645, d. there bt 01 Jan 1711/12 (date of will) and 29 Jan 1711/12 (date of inventory); m. c. 1668 Elizabeth Spencer, by Hartford, 26 Mch 1648, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Berden) Spencer. Elizabeth survived her husband.
Children, Andrews, order of birth unknown:
Nathaniel; John; Abigail, m. John Stedman of Farmington; Thomas; Elizabeth, m. William Day; Samuel, bp. Hartford, 14 Nov 1686. [24]"

8. The periodical "The American Genealogist," 35[1959]:55-58, "Andrews Families of Western Connecticut," by Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., F.A.S.G.:
"Under the above heading we hope to publish from time to time data on the early generations of the Andrews families of western Connecticut. The chief aim is to bring together new or corrective information relating to the first three or four generations, and even for this period no pretense is made that the research has been exhaustive or that our account is in any way definitive. Others who have found new and important data affecting the very early generations are invited to submit it.
I. William Andrews of Hartford
William1 Andrews of Hartford, Conn., came, according to Savage [Gen. Dict., 1:56], from Cambridge, Mass., where his wife Mary died 19 Jan. 1640; was the first schoolmaster and town clerk; Abigail (who married second, Nathaniel Barding) is called his second wife; the three sons are named, John, Thomas and Samuel, and but one daughter, Elizabeth, is named.
William Andrews was chosen Register (town clerk) at Hartford 12 Jan. 1651/2 and was succeeded by John Allyn 11 Apr. 1659, a few days after Andrews made his will, in which he described himself as in poor health. His Hartford lands were entered without date, yet he was a very early and probably an original settler. The lands of Francis Andrews were entered February 1639/40. In the Secretary's Book, the lands of William and Francis Andrews are entered on successive pages, those of William first. [Conn. Hist. Soc. Coll. 14:xi, xv, 235, 388]. In these records he is usually entitled "Mr." and it is worth noting that Francis bought land from William.
It is certain that William was in Hartford before 1640 when he became schoolmaster, and in fact he had a child born there in 1638. Although many of the Hartford settlers came from Cambridge, I think he was a different man from the William Andrews of Cambridge whose wife Mary died there 19 Jan. 1639/40. One reason for this conclusion is that William's wife Abigail is the proved mother of William's three sons -- proved by William's will which called the children "our" children as well as by the fact that Abigail's second husband gave them legacies, and finally by a deed of Abigail Barding which calls John, Thomas and Samuel Andrews her sons. Since the mother of Thomas (born 1638) was Abigail, it could not have been the Hartford William's wife Mary who died at Cambridge in 1640. Furthermore, Cambridge Church Records (p. 7) give us the family of a "Samuel Andrews (son of Mr William Andrews deceased)" who joined the church there with his wife Elizabeth 10 Dec. 1658 and had children Samuel, William, John (1661), Elizabeth (1663), Thomas (1665), Mary (1666), and Thomas again (1668). Samuel the son of William of Hartford also had a wife Elizabeth, but a different history and a different group of children. It is a curious coincidence that the same names occur in the Cambridge and Hartford families.
William Andrews in 1658, the year before his death, was called "senex" by Winthrop, who rarely applied that term to men much under 70. Even if 65 at the time, this would make William born as early as 1593 and his known children could all have been born after he was 40. This raises the question whether he could have had children by a former wife.
He certainly married Abigail, most probably a sister of George Grave [later called Graves], Sr., of Hartford but possibly sister of Grave's unknown first wife. His will, made 1 Apr. 1659, when he was "sick and weak," gave virtually all his property to his wife Abigail, making casual mention of his "son Edward Grannis," and giving to "my son John" a steer. He asked his wife to dispose of his lands among "our Children" with the advice and consent of the overseers, whom he named as "my friend Edward Stebbing" and "my Brother George Grave." They witnessed the will and he died before 8 Aug. 1659 when the inventory was taken by the said Stebbing and Grave together with John Barnard [Manwaring's Digest, 1:92].
The widow soon married Nathaniel Berding, Barding or Bearding, who died 14 Sept. 1674. His will of 7 Jan. 1673/4 made liberal provision for his wife Abigail. He gave to "my son-in-law Thomas Spencer, the elder," £15; to Samuel Andrews and Elizabeth his wife, £40, to be paid to him after the decease of "my wife his mother"; to Sarah, Hannah, Mary and Martha Spencer, the four daughters of Thomas Spencer the elder, £10 between them; to John Andrews, £1; to Thomas Andrews, £1; and the residue to Jarred Spencer, "my grandchild, whoe is the son of Thomas Spencer the eldest." He made Paul Peck, Sr., and George Graves his overseers, and they, with Caleb Stanley took the inventory [ibid., 1:182-3].
It should be noted that Nathaniel Bearding was a widower with one child of his own, Sarah Bearding, who married at Hartford, 11 Sept. 1645, as his second wife, Sergt. Thomas1 Spencer, baptized at Stotfold, co. Bedford, England, 29 Mar. 1607, died at Hartford 11 Sept. 1687, and became the mother of Jared [Gerrard] Spencer and of five daughters, one of whom, Elizabeth Spencer, married Samuel2 Andrews, her grandfather's stepson. To complicate matters, Thomas2 Spencer, son of Sergt. Thomas by his first wife, Ann Derifield, married Esther2 Andrews.
Soon after her second husband's death, on 20 Jan. 1674/5, Abigail Berden of Hartford, Widdow, "for Naturall Love to my son John Andrews & my son Thomas Andrews & my son Samll Andrews & my son in law Thomas Spencer Junior & in persueance of the Last will & testament of my Loueing husband William Andrews...." conveyed the house and various lands to them. On 16 Feb. 1675/6, John, Thomas and Samuell Andrews conveyed to Bevill Waters, and on 28 May 1677 John Andrews and Mara his wife, Thomas Andrews and Hannah his wife, and Samuell Andrews and Elizabeth his wife, appeared and acknowledged the deed; Abigaile Berding had consented 24 Apr. 1677, calling John, Thomas and Samuel her sons. [Hartford Deeds, 1:25, 344.]
Abigail (Grave?) (Andrews) Bearding died 20 March 1682/3 and by nuncupative will proved 4 Apr. 1683 gave to Samuel Andrews what was due to her from Gerrerd Spencer, and to her daughter Hester Spencer the residue. This was established by the testimony of George Graves, aged about 52 [George, Jr., presumably her nephew], Samuel Andrews, aged about 36 [her son], and Paul Peck, Sr., aged about 60 [Manwaring's Digest, 1:271].
The fact that the daughter Abigail died in young womanhood at Fairfield, where Francis Andrews who had been at Hartford with William Andrews had settled, and that the daughter Elizabeth at marriage was called of Farmington where John Andrews lived, while that John's eldest son and namesake settled in Hartford, suggests a relationship. Francis and John (of Farmington) were young enough perhaps to have been sons of William by a former marriage, yet we cannot suppose that William had two sons named John, as his will mentions one son John without any distinguishing appellation. If brothers of William, possibly Francis and John (of Farmington) were much younger half-brothers.
Children of William and Abigail (Grave?) Andrews:
i. John2, b. (say 1632).
ii. Abigail, b. (say 1634); d. at Fairfield (called daughter of William of Hartford), buried May 1653 (entered in Hartford without place of death, but also in Colony records among Fairfield deaths).
iii. Elizabeth, b. (say 1636); m. at Hartford, 3 May 1655, Edward Grannis. The marriage record calls her of Farmington, daughter of William of Hartford. Their only recorded child, Joseph, b. at Hartford 31 Mar. 1656, apparently d. young. Edward later settled in New Haven, m. (2) in 1662 Hannah Wakefield, and d. 10 Dec. 1719.
iv. Thomas, b. 4 May 1638 at Hartford (Colony record).
v. Esther, b. Sept. 1661 at Hartford (Colony record); d. at Suffield 6 Mar. 1697/8; m. probably by 1665, Thomas2 Spencer, b. ca. 1661, d. at Suffield 23 July 1689. Children: Esther, Elizabeth, Thomas, Samuel, William, and Anna (born ca. 1666 to 1680); see supra, 27:166-7. In 1657 Winthrop mentioned Hester Andrews who "dwells with Ens. Talcot."
vi. Samuel, b. 20 Oct. 1645 (Hartford record)."

9. The periodical "Connecticut Nutmegger," by Jack T. Spencer, CSG, "The Families Linked to Sgt. Thomas Spencer, a Co-Founder of Hartford," vol. 29, pp. 14-27:
"I. BACKGROUND
Sgt. THOMAS1 SPENCER was one of the "Four Spencer Brothers" of Bedfordshire, England, who were among the earliest settlers of New England and who almost certainly were passengers in the earliest vessels of the Winthrop Fleet in 1630 or 1631. THOMAS1 was the second oldest of the Spencer Brothers. The older was WILLIAM1 SPENCER (1601-1640). The two youngest brothers were MICHAEL1 SPENCER (1611-1653) and GERARD SPENCER (1614-c.1683). There also was a sister, ELIZABETH1 SPENCER (1602- ) who came to New England as the wife of TIMOTHY TOMLYNS and settled at Lynn, Massachusetts.
The male Spencer siblings (William, Thomas, Michael, Gerard) first settled at Newe Towne (Cambridge, Massachusetts.) A few years later the two older brothers, along with other pioneers, became co-founders of Hartford, Connecticut. Michael and Gerard eventually settled at Lynn, Massachusetts, but Gerard made another move in later years to become the "patriarch" of Haddam, Connecticut.
All of the Spencer siblings were born at Stotfold, co. Bedfordshire, England. Their parents were GERARDA SPENCER (1576- ) and ALICE WHITBREAD SPENCER. These Spencers were descendants of a long line of this surname in Bedfordshire whose ancestry can be traced back with certainty to the middle of the 14th century. Tracing the general lineage to even earlier times, we know that the original ancestors came to England with William the Conqueror in 1066 and participated in the Battle of Hastings. In the ensuing two or three centuries, the "Despencers" ranked among the highest of the Norman nobility, sometimes gaining and sometimes losing (their lives) for this close relationship.
In earlier publications (see reference list), we have described the important activities undertaken by WILLIAM1 SPENCER in the founding of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was the first Town Clerk of Cambridge and later served as a "Selectman" for several years. William played even more important roles for the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company, especially in regard to surveying and setting the boundary lines for many of the towns under the control of the Court. For many years he served as a Deputy representing Newe Towne at the frequent meetings of the General Court in Cambridge and in Boston.
As for ELIZABETH1 SPENCER, we already have documented the activities of her husband, TIMOTHY TOMLINS (see reference list), who was a co-founder of Lynn, Massachusetts in 1630. Timothy, like William Spencer, was a prominent leader in Lynn and served as a Deputy to the General Court and in many other civic and military capacities before his untimely death about 1645.
II. THE FAMILY OF SGT. THOMAS1 SPENCER
The Family of THOMAS1 SPENCER (1607- 1687) and two wives: 1) ANN DERIFALL (1610- ) and SARAH BEARDING (d. before 1674). Ann was a sister of Barnabas Derifall of Braintree, MA. Sarah was the daughter of Nathan Bearding of Hartford. Ann married Thomas ca. 1638; Sarah married Thomas on 11 Sept. 1645 at Hartford. Thomas d. 1 Sept. 1687 at Hartford.
Children by Ann Derifall:
OBADIAH2 SPENCER (Thomas1, GerardA, MichaelB, JohnC-D, RobertE, JohnF, RobertH, ThomasI, HenryJ), b. ca. 1639 at Hartford, CT. Took Freeman's Oath at Hartford 20 May 1658. m. MARY DISBOROUGH, dau. of Nicholas Disborough. Mary d. before 1709. They had children. d. May 1712 at Hartford, CT.
THOMAS2 SPENCER (Thomas1), b. ca. 1641 at Hartford, CT. m. ESTHER2 ANDREWS. She d. 6 Mar 1698 at Suffield. Esther was the dau. of William1 and Abigail (Graves) Andrews of Hartford, CT. d. 23 July 1698 at Suffield, CT.
SPENCER2 (Thomas1) b. ca. 1643 at Hartford, CT. m. SARAH ___ (ca. 1660-1733). She d. at Windham, CT. d. 24 Oct 1727 at Windham, CT.
Children by Sarah Bearding
SARAH2 SPENCER (Thomas1) b. ca. 1646 at Hartford, CT. m. THOMAS HUXLEY at Suffield, C. He d. 21 July 1721 at Suffield. A dau. Elizabeth Huxley m. James King, who was. b. 14 Mar 1675 at Ipswich, MA. James d. 15 July 1757 at Suffield. He had a large landed estate. d. 24 Oct. 1712.
ELIZABETH2 SPENCER (Thomas1) b. bp. 26 Mar 1648 at Hanford, CT. m. SAMUEL2 ANDREWS of Hartford, brother of Esther2 Andrews who m. Thomas2 SPENCER. Samuel Andrews was the son of William1 Andrews and Abigail (Graves) Andrews of Hartford. Samuel d. Jan 1712 at Hartford. d. ?
GERARD2 SPENCER (Thomas1). b. ca 1651 at Hartford, CT. m. HANNAH PRATT (1658-1692) on 22 Dec 1680. She was dau. of John Pratt, d. 1712 at Hartford, CT.
HANNAH2 SPENCER (Thomas1) b. 15 April 1653 at Hartford, CT. m. (1) GEORGE SEXTON, Jr. m. (2) DANIEL Brainerd, Sr. Nov. 1698. d. 1713.
MARY2 SPENCER (Thomas1), b. 18 May 1655 at Hartford, CT. m. THOMAS ROOT, 7 Oct 1675. He was of Westfield, MA., son of John Root. He d. 16 Aug. 1709. d. 4 Nov. 1690 at Westfield, MA.
MARTHA2 SPENCER (Thomas1). B. 19 Mar 1658 at Hartford, CT. m. ANDREW BARTON (BENTON), Jr (1653-1704). He was the son of Andrew Barton Sr., Andrew Jr. d at Hartford, 5 Feb 1704.
All of the children of Sgt. Thowas1 Spencer was born at Hartford, CT, between 1639 and 1658. When the last child was born in 1658, Sgt. Thomas was 51 years of age. ANN DERIFALL, who was mother of the first three children, was born about 1610 in England. The year of birth probably is quite accurate since Ann was listed as age 24 on the passenger list of the "Elizabeth" which sailed from Ipswich, co. Essex, the last of April 1634 (Tepper). The exact year of Ann's death is unknown, although it probably can be set down as 1645 judging by the approximate date of Sarah Bearding's first child in 1646. Ann Derifall was only about 35 years of at the time of her death.
Our interest in the Spencer ancestral line, ultimately will focus on the second son of THOMAS1 SPENCER, that is, THOMAS2 SPENCER, who was born in Hartford about 1641 and died in Suffield, CT. in 1689. THOMAS2 married ESTHER2 ANDREWS of Hartford.
III. THE RELATIVES OF ANN DERIFALL AND HER ASSOCIATION WITH WILLIAM CODDINGTON OF RHODE ISLAND
A careful search of the IGI (International Genealogical Index, 1990) offers no useful clue to the immediate relatives of Ann Derifall in England. The fact that Ann Derifall sailed from Ipswich in eastern England in 1634 has inclined historians to believe that she was perhaps a native of East Anglia. Indeed, there were Derifalls who lived in Little Baddow, co. Essex, which was the residence of Rev. THOMAS HOOKER when he left for New England in 1633. Of interest is the fact that BARNABAS DERIFALL came to New England in that same year, although there is no evidence that he was a member of the BRAINTREE COMPANY sponsored by Rev. Hooker.
The discovery of the connection between the DERIFALLS and the SPENCERS in Connecticut can be credited to Mrs. William C. Clark who published a genealogical study in 1951 in the NEHGS Register. This report proved that Barnabas Derifall of Braintree, Massachusetts, was a brother of Ann Derifall. In the will of Barnabas Derifall prepared in 1680, he named three Spencer brothers (OBADIAH2, THOMAS2, SAMUEL2) as beneficiaries of his estate. These clearly were the same names as the sons of Ann Derifall and Thomas Spencer.
Savage states that Barnabas "Doryfall" came to Boston in the "Mary and Jane," probably on the same ship with WILLIAM CODDINGTON and his second wife, MARY MOSLEY. Not only did Barnabas Derifall have this contact with Coddington, but the latter also owned property at Braintree where Barnabas was an original proprietor.
William Coddington originally was a native of Boston, Lincolnshire, a city often associated with the names of the earliest Pilgrim fathers. Coddington was a powerful figure in the contingent of Puritan leaders who came to America in the very first vessels of the Winthrop Fleet in 1630.
Besides the Derifalls who lived in co. Essex (Little Baddow), there also were families with this surname who lived in London in the area of St. Bride, Fleet Street. The time scale (IGI) was the late 1500's and early 1600's. There were Coddingtons in the same district in this period. We do know also, that William Coddington was in London in 1632, but was postponing his return to New England until 1633 because his new wife was expecting a child. Mary Mosley was a native of the Chelmsford area in co. Essex.
Thus, we have more than one possible scenario for the contact between Barnabas Derifall and William Coddington. Perhaps they had first made contact in London prior to the departure for New England in the "Mary and Jane" in 1633 or they became acquainted later during the actual voyage. However, as we now note above, the Derifalls at Little Baddow in co. Essex could have made their first Puritan connections with the Rev. Thomas Hooker rather than William Coddington.
ANN DERIFALL did not come to New England until 1634 and it is recorded that she became a maid servant to the family of William Coddington, an association not too surprising when we note the close contacts her brother Barnabas must have enjoyed with the Coddington family. Barnabas lived the entire remainder of his life at Braintree until his death in 1680. He became a member of the Boston church in 1633 (year of his arrival) and was elected to Freeman in 1636. His lands were located chiefly in what is now West Quincy, Massachusetts. Barnabas Derifall had no children.
As a final note in the history of William Coddington, he retained his properties at Braintree until 1638, at which time he removed to Rhode Island along with the followers of Anne Hutchinson as a result of religious differences with John Winthrop and other Puritan leaders in Boston and Cambridge. This date of 1638 for Coddington's departure coincides well with the marriage of Ann Derifall to Thomas Spencer and with the sale of his property in Cambridge and his departure for Hartford. The Pequot War of 1637 had become history and Thomas joined other veterans of that war in occupying lots on Sentinel Hill in Hartford. A new life had begun for Sgt. Thomas Spencer and Ann Derifall. William Coddington, too, had begun a new life in Rhode bland which eventually would lead him to be Governor of that new colony for several terms.
IV. UNRAVELING THE SPENCER-ANDREWS-GRAVES-BEARDlNG CONNECTIONS
The second wife of Sgt. Thomas Spencer was SARAH2 BEARDING (BARDING) of Hartford, Connecticut. Since Sarah's father; NATHANIEL BEARDING, also appears in the records as the husband of ABIGAIL (GRAVES) ANDREWS-BEARDING, some writers have overlooked the fact that Sarah Bearding had no blood relationship to Abigail her stepmother.
We shall present one chart of the ANDREWS-GRAVES-BEARDING-SPENCER connections so that the reader can understand more clearly exactly what happened among the various intermarriages.
The first list on the left shows the children descended from WILLIAM ANDREWS, while the list on the right shows the one child (Sarah) of NATHANIEL1 BEARDING. Sandwiched between these two lists are the descendants of THOMAS1 SPENCER and his two wives, ANN DERIFALL and SARAH BEARDING. Connecting lines indicate the intermarriages…
[The author has a chart titled "Interrelations of the Andrews-Graves-Bearding-Spencer Families in Cambridge and Hartford." The relationships can be simply reduced down to the following: (1) Nathaniel1 Bearding's second wife was Abigail Graves, who married as William1 Andrews as his second wife. (2) Nathaniel1 Bearding and Abigail Graves had a daughter Sarah Bearding who married Thomas1 Spencer as his second wife. (3) William1 Andrews and Abigail had a daughter Esther2 Andrews who married Thomas1 Spencer's son Thomas2 Spencer, whose mother was Ann Derifall, the first wife of Thomas1 Spencer.]
THE CHRONOLOGY OF FAMILY INTERRELATIONSHIPS
1634. WILLIAM1 ANDREWS is first mentioned in the history of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Wife #1 was Mary Britton. One child was born about 1632 (John), one in 1634 (Abigail), one in 1636 (Elizabeth), and one in 1638 (Thomas).
1637. WILLIAM1 ANDREWS and his first wife emigrated to Hartford, Connecticut.
1638. William Andrews has a son, THOMAS1 ANDREWS, born in Hartford. This was the last of the four children born to wife number one.
1638-1641. Somewhere in this interval, the first wife of William Andrews dies at Hartford.
1641. William Andrews marries ABIGAIL GRAVES at Hartford (IGI records). The first child, ESTHER2 ANDREWS, is born to William's second wife.
1645. The second child, SAMUEL2 ANDREWS, is born to William Andrews and Abigail (Graves) Andrew. This year also saw the marriage of THOMAS2 SPENCER and SARAH BEARDING, daughter of NATHANIEL BEARDING.
1659. WILLIAM1 ANDREWS dies at Hartford.
1660(?). ABIGAIL (GRAVES) ANDREWS marries NATHANIEL BEARDING of Hartford.
From this chronological arrangement, we can see clearly that ABIGAIL (GRAVES) ANDREWS was a stepmother to SARAH BEARDING and that no genetic relationship existed.
When SAMUEL2 ANDREWS married ELIZABETH2 SPENCER, these individuals had no genetic connections despite the fact that Abigail Graves was the mother of Samuel2 Andrews and the step-grandmother Elizabeth2 Spencer. Likewise, when Esther2 Andrews and Thomas2 Spencer were married, no genetic connection existed since Thomas2 Spencer was the son of Ann Derifall and Esther was the daughter of Abigail (Graves) Andrews.
We have gone into considerable detail to explain these relationships since a cursory examination of the lineage might lead one to some mistaken conclusions. Perhaps the key which finally clarified the relationships was the discovery in the IGI records of the marriage of Wlliam1 Andrews to Abigail Graves in Hartford in 1641.
V. THE EARLY HISTORY OF WILLIAM1 ANDREWS OF CAMBRIDGE AND HARTFORD
Besides the unusual familial relationships among the ANDREWS-GRAVES-BEARDING-SPENCER coalition, there have been some mystifying genealogical questions about the ancestors and immediate relatives of Williarn1 Andrews. There was a large number of immigrants with the surname of ANDREWS who came to New England in the "Great Migration" of the 1630's. Their probably were nearly a half dozen "William Andrews" settling in various towns under the control Massachusetts Bay Company including Newe Towne (Cambridge), Charlestown, Lynn, and Salem. New Haven also was the location for at least one Andrews. The William Andrews of Cambridge, of course, is the main focus of our interest because he was the parent of ESTHER2 Andrews who married THOMAS1 SPENCER. Some historians, however, have confused the William1 Andrews of Cambridge with other men holding the same Christian name.
In order to settle this question, a careful study was made of at least four important records on the history of Cambridge and Hartford. This list included "History of Cambridge" by L.R. Paige; the so-called "Proprietors Records of Cambridge" beginning in 1630; the "History of Hartford" by Love; and finally the many references found in the International Genealogical Index (1991 edition).
These combined references confirm that WILLIAM1 ANDREWS was one of the earliest settlers at Cambridge and that he was the only William Andrews there up to the end of 1637. In September of 1637. William Andrews sold all of his property to Samuel Shepherd and moved on to Hartford, Connecticut. Love confirms that William Andrews was at Hartford in 1637.
Why has so much confusion prevailed in the literature regarding the two wives of William1 Andrews of Cambridge and Hartford? We believe most of the fault can be attributed to the erroneous statements Pope in "The Pioneers of Massachusetts" published in Boston in 1900. Pope had a correct date (25 Sept 1637) for William's sale of his property in Cambridge. However, Pope's statements regarding the death of "wife Mary d. Jan 19. 1640" and a second marriage to Reanna James of Watertown seem to have no connection whatever to our own William Andrews of Cambridge and Hartford. Apparently Pope followed the trail of some other William Andrews, of whom there were several in the Massachusetts Bay area.
The Paige "History of Cambridge" mentions WILLIAM1 ANDREWS in only three places in the early part of the book. William was in a list of inhabitants in 1634 and again on a list of 1635. On 23 November 1635, William is identified as a "Selectman" and appointed to the position of Constable. There the story ends except for the sale of his property in September of 1637.
One of the better histories of the descendants of William1 Andrews of Cambridge is to be found in "Colonial Ancestors," edited by Edward Little. Here, however, the identification of William's history at Cambridge adopts Pope's version which as we have seen is quite erroneous.
There are literally hundreds of William Andrews to be found in England in the early 1600's (IGI), but one entry was found in Lincoln of Lincolnshire where a William Andrews had married a MARY BRITTON on 16 May 1631. St. Botolph (IGI-C0003). Since the first child of William1 Andrews was born about 1632, the chronological fit is almost perfect. Although William1 Andrews was first mentioned in the Cambridge History in 1634 there is a strong likelihood that he was there earlier and that his first child (John2) was born in Newe Towne about 1632. Incidentally, co. Lincolnshire was the scene of much early activity by the Puritans, including the imprisonment of several leaders in the city of Boston before the Pilgrim fathers fled to Holland.
Since William1 Andrews was in the direct line of the Suffield (CT) Spencer and the Spencer pioneers of the Western Reserve of Ohio (Portage County), it is important to highlight the details of his life in Hartford (subsequent to his Cambridge experiences). As we have noted, William and his first wife emigrated from Newe Towne (Cambridge) Hartford in 1637. Although they appear not to have been in the original Hooker group which went to Hartford in 1635 and 1636. William was still considered an original proprietor and a founding father of the city. This is evidenced by the proprietor list of 3 Jan 1640 which gave the names of those inhabitants who had a right to undivided lands (Love). William Andrews had an allocation of 30 acres, while Thomas1 Spencer was listed with 14 acres. It seems that NATHANIEL BEARDING was not rated as a "standard" proprietor because his name was on a list for only 6 acres and was included with those individuals granted lots "at the town's courtesy, with liberty to fetch wood and keep swine or cows by proportion on the common."
During his lifetime in Hartford, William Andrews appears not to have been among the primary leaders of the community. It seems clear, however, that he had been well educated for his time judging by his appointment as one of the first teachers in the town in 1643. He was a member of a jury in 1644 and in 1651 was appointed to the post of Town Clerk. We are reminded of William1 Spencer who held a similar post in Newe Towne as well as Hartford (albeit the latter post was very brief). William Andrews remained as Town Clerk until the time of his death in 1659.
In his will dated 1 April 1659, William1 Andrews seems to have left more authority in the hands of his wife, ABIGAIL (GRAVES) ANDREWS, than was customary for the time (in contrast perhaps to the will of William1 Spencer who died in 1640). Essentially, Abigail Andrews was to remain in control of all the property in Hartford. In case of her remarriage, however, most of the property was to pass to their children. Abigail was to retain the power of Executrix. Based on these limitations, it seems clear that Abigail did not transfer much wealth to her second husband, Nathaniel1 Bearding, due to the restrictions imposed in the will of her first husband.
V. THE BEARDING CONNECTION IN HARTFORD
As to the history of the BEARDINGS (BARDING, BERDEN) in England, there are not many useful clues. Every county in England reported in the IGI (International Genealogical Index) was surveyed for possible leads. In no instance was there found the surname of "Bearding" or "Barding." There were, however, numerous records of BERDEN in many of the northern, central, and southern counties of England. This leads to the conclusion that the Nathaniel1 Bearding (Barding) of Hartford probably originated with the surname of BERDEN in England.
As for the NATHANIEL1 BEARDING of Hartford, his origin remains largely obscured. There is no indication of his being an early resident of Cambridge in the company of Hooker, but he does appear on the list of Hartford settlers in 1640 and Savage even lists him at Hartford in 1636. Nothing seems to be known of his lineage in England. A still more mysterious aspect of Nathaniel is that there is no known official record of a marriage prior to that with ABIGAIL (GRAVES) ANDREWS. We are certain, however, that his daughter, SARAH2 BEARDING, was by Nathaniel's first wife rather than his second wife (see the chronological chart). Nathaniel Bearding died at Hartford on 14 Sept 1674.
The will of Nathaniel Bearding, dated 7 Jan 1673, is preserved in Manwaring's Probate Records. The principal beneficiaries included his widow, Abigail (Graves) Andrews-Bearding, and Thomas1 Spencer (the elder, a son-in-law). Nathaniel provided for all of his daughter's six children (wife of Thomas1 Spencer). Nathaniel also named SAMUEL2 ANDREWS as a legatee, a child by his wife's first marriage to William1 Andrews. Nathaniel was mindful also of the fact that Samuel was married to ELIZABETH2 SPENCER, one of Nathaniel's granddaughters.
Nathaniel had an omission in his will. He did not name ESTHER2 ANDREWS. There also was one rather unusual inclusion, the name of which was the name of JOHN2 ANDREWS, a son by the first wife of William1 Andrews. John2 Andrews was not a blood relative to either Nathaniel or Abigail, but undoubtedly he must have been raised by Abigail Graves after she married William Andrews in 1641 in Hartford.
Although ESTHER2 (ANDREWS) SPENCER was not under the will of Nathaniel Bearding, she was named in her mother's nuncupative will when Abigail died in 1683. Abigail also named Esther's brother, SAMUEL2 ANDREWS, as a beneficiary.
VI. THE RELATIVES OF ABIGAIL GRAVES IN CAMBRIDGE AND HARTFORD
The early records of Newe Towne (Cambridge) and New Haven indicated that there were other immigrants with the GRAVES surname, but their relationship to ABIGAIL (GRAVES) ANDREWS remained unknown until a will of ANN GRAVE was published by H.F. Waters in 1907. ANN GRAVE of England was a resident of "St. Bultolph without Aldgate" London. Three of the beneficiaries in her will made in 1675 were "GEORGE GRAVE the elder of Hartford in Connecticut in New England and JOHN GRAVE of Guilford in the County of New Haven in New England and to their own natural sister also in New England..." The evidence seems very clear that ANN GRAVE of London had been married to a sibling of ABIGAIL, GEORGE, and JOHN GRAVE.
There were several immigrants with the GRAVES surname in the early 1630's in New England, but with a positive identification of GEORGE GRAVES and JOHN GRAVES as siblings of ABIGAIL (GRAVES) ANDREWS, we can review the historical literature on these two individuals.
The first mention of GEORGE GRAVES is found in Paige's "History of Cambridge" where his property is mentioned as located almost on the boundary between Newe Towne (Cambridge) and Charlestowne in 1633. Actually, George's property was within the limits of Newe Towne, but he is never mentioned again in Paige's voluminous history. Love in his "History of Hartford" identifies GEORGE GRAVES as one of the founders in 1636, which would place him among the main Thomas Hooker group which arrived that year. Also, George Graves may well have brought his sister Abigail from Newe Towne since she did not marry WILLIAM1 ANDREWS until 1641 (IGI record). In the record of "Land Distributions in Hartford" for the ensuring years, there were at least 30 references to DEACON GEORGE GRAVES and at least two references to his son, "MARSHALL" GEORGE2 GRAVES.
"Deacon" George Graves was married twice. The IGI (B0142) lists a marriage of George Grave and "Anne Kyne" on 21 Sept. 1623, co. Herts, "Much Haddam." The second marriage was to Sarah Ventres (Kenneth Graves) who was the mother-in-law of Deacon's son George. It seems probable that George-2 and John-2 were born in England, based on the fact that Deacon George first appears in the Charlestowne records in 1634. Mary-2, born 1635, therefore would seem to have born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
What of Abigail Grave's brother, John-1 Grave? It seems clear that his permanent residence was at Guilford, New Haven, but we do not know if he had an earlier residence at Charlestowne, possibly with his brother George and sister Abigail. New Haven was not settled until 1638, so there is a possibility that John-1 Graves is revealed in the 1670 Census of Connecticut. There also an Edward Graves in Hartford in 1669 who does not appear related to the descendants of Deacon George Graves.
As to the origin of this particular Graves family in England, there seem to be few clues excepting for two references, one being the marriage mentioned above in co. Hertfordshire. The second reference is found in Cussand's History of Hertfordshire (Mary K. Talcott in the Register). In 1621, co. Herts, Burroughs of Hartford, there was a mention of "George Graue" (sic) in the list of freeholders of that community.
VII. RETROSPECT
We have now reviewed considerable detail the known histories of the spouses and close relatives of St. Thomas-1 Spencer (1607-1687) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and Hartford, Connecticut. As one of the original five Spencer siblings who were among on the very early pioneers of New England and as the ancestor of perhaps hundreds and even thousands of modern-day Spencer descendants in the U.S., we would like to know as much as possible about those relatives who surrounded Sgt. Thomas during his lifetime. The foregoing pages have documented all of the presently known historical facts, especially regarding the Andrews, Derifall (Derifield), Graves, and Bearding (Berden) families.
In our next segment, we shall examine the colorful life of Sgt. Thomas Spencer and his achievements in war and in peace. Although perhaps not as well educated or as brilliant as his older brother, William-1 Spencer (1601-1640), yet Sgt. Thomas lived twice as long and had three times as many children. Thus, Thomas-1 achieved his immortality as surely as William-1 achieved his, bu 		Andrews, William (I2191)
 
4630 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Griswold Family, the First Five Generations in America," comp. and ed. by Esther Griswold French and Robert Lewis French, May 1990, printed by The Griswold Family Association, 116 Garden St., Wethersfield, CT, 06109, pages 6-24. The authors note that their book updates Vol. II, "The Griswold Family England - America," which was published 50 years ago:
"Hannah (Ann, Anna) (daughter of Edward) bp. 19 Jun 1642. Whilte there is no direct proof that the following record is correct, presumptive evidence indicates that this is the Hannah who married Jonas Westover. Search has not revealed any other Hannah Griswold who could have been his wife. Also, the fact that Jonas was one of the original settlers of Killingworth and had a lot next to Edward Griswold, as well as witnessing the deed of gift Edward made in favor of his youngest son John, points to the marriage.
Hannnah and Jonas Westover were married in Windsor, Conn. Nov. 19, 1663. He was made a freeman of Windsor in 1658 and of Killingworth in 1669. They were members of the First Church in Killingworth. Their children were recorded, the first in Windsor, the rest in Killingworth. There were others recorded in Simsbury where he later moved, and where he died in January 1708/9.
Colonial Records show a lot granted at Windsor in 1661 to Jonas Westover at Bowfield. There was no home of family there of record.
The will of Jonas Westover, Sen., of Simsbury is dated 20 Sep 1702. In it he names his wife; sons Jonah and Jonathan; daughters Margaret, Hannah, Jane, Mary and Johana. Witnesses were Dudley Woodbridge and Nathaniel Holcomb, Sen.
Hannah's will dated 1Aug 1713 states that she is of Symsbury, 'relict of Jonah Westover deceased." She left legacies to her six daughters of 40 shillings each, and the remainder to be divided equally to daughters Hannah Alverd, Mary Case, John Byington and Johanna. Additional items were left to the two sons, Jonah and Jonathan. She died 3 May 1714.
Children, Westover:
Jonas, b. 20 Sep 1664, Windsor, Conn.
Margaret, b. 19 Feb 1665/6, Killingworth; m. Joseph Alvord.
Hannah, b. 8 Apr 1668, Killingworth; m. Joseph Alvord.
Elizabeth, b. 3 May 1670, Killingworth (died young not in wills).
Jane, b. 26 Mar 1672, Killingworth; m. ___ Byington.
Sarah, d. 15 Aug 1718.
Mary, m. Samuel Case.
Jonathan.
Joanna, m. Stephen Wilton.
References: Records of Windsor, Killingworth, Simsbury, Conn. Stiles: Ancient Windsor; Conn. Colony Records I:191, 195; III:214; Hartford Probate Records."

2. From the book "The Griswold Family: England-America," by Glenn E. Griswold, 1935, vols. 2 and 3, pps. 13-34: ANN, Anna, (Hannah), bapt. June 19, 1642 (Edward). While at present we have no direct proof that the following record is correct, circumstances and the records thus far as­sembled, would tend to show the almost certain proof. Search has not revealed the birth of any Hannah Griswold who could have been the wife of Jonas Westover. In view of the fact that Anna and Hannah were easily, and were very frequently con­founded in the records, usually by mistake in the sound of the name, it has been thought that the only person possible would be Ann or Anna, daughter of Edward. Hence all the records that have been found are placed here.
She m. Windsor, Conn., Nov., 19, .1663, JONAS WESTOVER, s. of John, who d. in Simsbury Jan. 15, 1708/9. Farmer. Removed to Killingworth with Edward Griswold and Samuel Buell. Made... [Insert: NOTATION for Griswold Family, 1935, p 22. For identity of husband of Sarah's daughter Sara see Stiles' Windsor, II, 465, 506, 565, and also Phelps Family, 1899, I, 89, 98. m.w.f. June, 1940.
Colonial records show, Westover, Jonas, bapt. Sept. 20, 1664, s. of Jonas. Lot granted at Windsor 1661 to Jonas Westover, at Bowfield. No home or family there of record.
Vol. I, 191, Particular Court, June 7, 1649, "Jonas Westover acknowledged himselfe bound to this Commonwealth in a Recog­nizance of 20 pounds and a recognizance of John Bissell and Robert Haward provided that said Westover appeares at the perticular Courte in Sept. next and carry good behavior in the meantime." Vol. I, 195. "This Courte frees Jonas Westover and his security for appearance and good behavior."
Vol. III, 214. Petition in this Court by Jonas Westover and others for abatement of common fence laid upon them by the Committee in Symsbury, May 1697.
The will of Jonas Westover, Sen. Simsbury, Sept. 20, 1702; d. Jan. 1708/9.
I, Jonah Westover, Sen. being very sick, I do make this my last will and testament. I give to my wife 10 pounds out of my per­sonal estate; also the house and household goods that are necessary for her use during life; also 1/3 part of my land to her order during life; also all my land that I stand possessed of, I give, to my two sons Jonah and Jonathan, to be equally divided between them; also my housing, after their mothers decease. I do will unto my daughters that each of their portions (with what they have re­ceived) shall be 15 pounds. What bas been paid to my daughters already: to Margaret, 5 pounds; to Hannah, 3 pounds; to Jane, 2-12-06; to Mary 9:00-06. I appoint my son Jonah and my son-in-law Samuel Case to be my executors. And as for my son Jonathan and my daughter Johanna, they shall be paid their portions as they come to lawful age. Dudley Woodbridge. Nathaniel Holcomb, Sen. Jonah Westover.
The will of Hannah of Symsbury, dated Aug. 1, 1713.
In the name of God Amen, I Hannah Westover, of Simsbury, in the county of Hartford, and Colony of Connecticut, relict of Jonah Westover, of the town County and Colony aforsd, decd. being weak and sick in body, yet of sound mind and judgment and of perfect memory, do dispose of what I have: First of all and principally, I give and bequeath my soul to God that gave it, and my body to Christian burial and touching my worldly goods, I give in manner following: First, I give and bequeath to my six daughters, 40 shillings to each daughter, and the remainder if any be, to be equally divided to my daughter Hannah Alverd and my daughter Mary Case, Jane Barington, and Johanna. Second: to Jonah my stack of rye. Third: I give also to my daughter Johanna my biggest pig, and the smaller pig I give to my son Jonathan. August the first 1713. This being my will and testament I set my hand this first day of August, 1713. John Slater, Hannah Westover. Samuel Adams.
The estate of William Case, Symsbury, Mar. 1700; Jonas Westover is mentioned as one of the distributors. Hinman, pg. 95, 163, states: Among the first settlers of Windsor. Jonas West­over. Shown from the early land records.
Westover, Jonah, Sen. Simsbury, father of Jonah, Jr. d. 1708. Samuel Case m. his dau. Children: Jonah, Jonathan, Margaret, Hannah, Jane, Mary, Joanna.
Goodwin Notes: Samuel Case m. Mary dau. Jonah Westover. Hannah, relict Jonah, the elder, d. May 3, 1714.
Windsor and Simsbury, Conn. records; Stiles Ancient Windsor.

3. Worldconnect has some entries showing birth 4 May 1628 to parents Gabriel Westover and Joanne Gifford or Jefford.

4. FHL book 929.273 L995m "Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Rice Lyon and his Wife Harriet Wade Rice...," by Patty Barthell Myers (2003), pp. 357-60:
"EDWARD1 GRISWOLD, son of George Griswold and his first wife Dousubel (___) and half-brother of Matthew Griswold...
[Children...]
vii HANNAH GRISWOLD, b. Windsor, Conn., 19 Jun 1642; m. JONAS WESTOVER. See The Westover Line...
(Edward Elbridge Salisbury & Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury, Gen. & Biog. Monographs on the Fam. of Griswold, Wolcott, Pitkin, Ogden, et.al.; pp: 10-13; Nash, Fifty Puritan Ancestors, pp. 102-5; Ruth Lee Griswold, Griswold Family, pp. 188-9; Richard A. Wheeler, History of Stonington, Conn., p. 537; Alvan Talcott, Families of Early Guilford, Conn., pp. 530-1; Esther Griswold French and Robert Lewis French, The Griswold Family, The First Five Generations in America, p. 13 et seq.; Savage sv Edward, George, Francis, Joseph Griswold; Torrey sv Edward, George, John, Joseph, Francis Griswold; James Bemis.)"

5. The book "The Ancestry of Allen Grinnell Cleaver and Martha Irene Jessup," by William Jessup Cleaver (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1989), pp. 486-90, 494-95:
"1. EDWARD GRISWOLD, son of George and Dousabell--, was baptized 26 July 1607 in Wooten Wawen, a chapelry of Henley in Warwickshire, England. He married in England Margaret-- and they emigrated to New England in 1639 with perhaps six children and his younger brother Matthew. Margaret died in Killingsworth, Connecticut 23 August 1670. Her gravestone marked "M. G. 1670" is the oldest in the cemetery. Edward married, second, in 1672/3 Sarah (--) Bemis, widow of James Bemis of New London. Edward may be buried in the empty space beside Margaret's stone in Clinton. He died in 1691 in his 84th year...
Children of Edward Griswold and Margaret...
i. FRANCIS, b. about 1629 in England.
ii. Sarah, bapt. at Kenilworth, England 1631, died young.
iii. George, bapt. at Kenilworth, England 1633; d. at Windsor, Conn. 3 Sept. 1674; m. 3 Oct. 1655 Mary Holcomb, daughter of Thomas.
iv. Sarah, bapt. at Kenilworth, England 1635, d. at Windsor 6 Nov. 1715, m. (1st) at Windsor 10 Nov. 1650 Samuel Phelps, son of William, who d. 15 May 1669. They settled at Windsor, had nine children. She m. (2nd) at Windsor 21 July 1670 Nathan Pinney.
v. Lydia, bapt. 1637. Kenilworth, England.
vi. John, d. at Windsor, 1642.
vii. Ann, bapt. at Windsor, 19 June 1642; known as Hannah; d. at Simsbury, 3 May 1714; m. at Windsor 19 Nov. 1663 Jonas Westover of Killingsworth and Simsbury.
viii. Mary, bapt. at Windsor, 13 Oct. 1644; m. at Windsor 19 Mar. 1661 Timothy Phelps, son of William.
ix. Deborah, bapt. at Windsor 28 June 1646; d. at Killingsworth 7 Feb. 1717; m. at Windsor 13 Nov. 1662, Samuel Buell, son of William.
x. Joseph, bapt. at Windsor 12 Mar. 1647/8; d. at Windsor 14 Nov. 1716; m. 10 or 14 June or July 1670, Mary Gaylord.
xi. Samuel, bapt. at Windsor 18 Nov. 1649; d. 6 July 1672. Inventory taken 26 Feb. 1672/3. Administered by George Griswold.
xii. JOHN, bapt. at Windsor 1 Aug 1652. (4)(6)(8)"
 		Westover, Jonas (I2065)
 
4631 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Howard Leytham Stoker Von Dollen Family Histories," FHL 929.273 H833a, by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Ave., Omaha, Nebraska, 68124, p. 88 [FHL book 929.273 P684pn: "Graybill/Stoker/Eller/Smith/Koons/Pitt Connections," by Norman E. 'Gene' Pitt, 1996, pp. 119-123, has almost the same verbatim except what I note in brackets]: "Elizabeth, b. 1756; d. 1777; m. Henry Repp [10 Jun 1777 to Heinrich Reb, s/o Caspar Reb of Bucks Co., PA]."

2. FHL Book 929.273, film 6005243, "John Jacob Eller and His Descendants with Other Pre-1800 Eller Immigrants to America," by the Eller Family Association, 1998, 817-297-1280, supplemental information, p. 437: "Deed Book W.R.3, p. 294, Fred'k Co., MD shows a deed, recorded 18 Nov 1782, from Peter Eller of Rowan Co., N.C. to Henry Raep of Fred'k Co., MD, his brother-in-law doubtless, in which Eller deeded to Raep all his right, title and interest in land purchased by his father, George Michael Eller, from Edward Gaither 14 Apr 1772."

3. Index of miscellaneous deeds from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. I am not sure of the relationship, if any, of all the parties herein listed and this is for reference only:
"Some Frederick County Maryland Deeds:
E-125 Joseph Grable to Jacob Funk, March 20, 1753
E-509 Joseph Grable to Jacob Funk, August 21, 1754 Agreement
F-244 Joseph Grable to Jacob Funk, May 28, 1757
F-393 Joseph Grable from James ___, February 11, 1758
K-782 Joseph Grable to Jacob Roland, November 19, 1766
K-782 Samuel Grable from Leonard White, November 14, 1766
K-743 Joseph Grable to Jacob Funk - Release
K-803 Martin Garver from Jacob Danner, December 19, 1766
K-1284 Henry Eller to Jacob Flora, June 6, 1767
L-515 John Garver from Jacob Danner, October 1, 1768
N-396 Leonard Kitzmiller from Samuel Stringer, October 10, 1770
N-505 Peter Wampler from Richard Coroxal, December 15, 1770
S-96 George Michael Eller from Edward Gaither
O-3 Henry Eller to David Buzzard, January 14, 1771
L-665 John Grable to Jacob Roland, May 1772
P-128 Henry Eller from Leonard Kitzmiller, June 13, 1772
P-110 Leonard Kitzmiller to Samuel Carver, June 13, 1772
BD1-539 John Garver to Jacob Danner, May 22, 1775- did not find
BD6-34 John Grabill to Jacob Danner, June 20, 1775
WR-2-543 Peter Grable to Michael Christ, May 26, 1779
WR-3-71 John Grabell to Wm. Renner, July 27, 1782
GM2-444 Peter Wampler, 1782
WR-4-98 Peter Grable to Michael Christ, May 26, 1779
WR-6-4 Henry Eller to Philip Fishburn, June 22, 1784
WR-6-84 Henry Eller to Francis B. Sappington, August 19, 1784
WR-3-205 John Grable from John Bowman, Bill of Sale
WR-7-332 John Grable and others to George Kitzburger, June 12, 1787
WR-7-616 John Grable to Paul Clapsdale, December 4, 1787
WR-8-505 John Grable from John Shuk, June 8, 1789 Bill of Sale
WR-9-194 John Grable from Sam Cole, April 30, 1790
WR-9-250 John Grable from Joseph Boyer, June 1, 1790
WR-9-46 Peter Grable from Martin Sheets, July 8, 1790
WR-9-546 Peter Grable from Henry Repp, December 7, 1790
WR-11-279 John Garber and others, September 24, 1791, Agreement
WR-11-210 John Wampler to Lazarus Findburg, November 21, 1792
WR-11-199 Joseph Wampler from Michael Baer, November 19, 1792
WR-11-587 Joseph Eller from Jacob Baer, May 31, 1793
WR 12-41 John Garber, Upton Scott and others, May 9, 1794 Agreement
WR 12-445 John Grable from Balser Riam, June 3, 1794
WR 12-447 John Grable from Balser Riam, June 3, 1794
WR 12-456 John Grable to Christian Ebey, June 6, 1794
WR 12-451 John Grable to Christian Ebey, June 6, 1794
WR 12-535 John Grable from Conrad Cragon, August 14, 1794
WR 12-516 John Grable to Rebecca Reynolds, July 30, 1794
WR 13-153 John Grable to Conrad Hi , March 26, 1795
WR 13-126 Joseph Eller from Frederick Murray, March 24, 1795
WR 13-449 Martin Garber from Richard Cook, August 11, 1795
WR 13-263 Martin Garber from Philip Fishburn, May 6, 1795
WR 15-481 John Grable from Negro Bill, July 5, 1797
WR 15-595 Joseph Eller from John Kerr, September 6, 1797
WR 15-518 Martin Garber from Richard Coal, August 8, 1797
WR 15-519 Joseph Grable from Martin Garber, August 8, 1797
WR 15-395 David Wampler from Joseph Grable, June 8, 1797
WR 17-44 Jacob Grable from Wm. Hardin, May 24, 1798
WR 19-71 David Wampler from Christian Simmons, October 8, 1799
WR 12-245 Peter Wampler from Samuel Chase, March 1794
WR 16-463 John Wampler from Joseph Baker, May 2, 1795
WR 17-302 John Garber from ___ Scott, October 2, 1798
WR 19-247 Joseph Eller from Jacob Young, January 16, 1800
WR 19-250 Joseph Eller to Jacob Pofsbarger, January 17, 1800
WR 19-252 Joseph Eller to Michael Minor Sr., January 17, 1800
WR 19-444 John Wampler to John Iler, April 16, 1800
WR 21-466 John Grable from Christian Leasner, September 17, 1801
WR 21-541 Jacob Garber to Joseph Baker, October 21, 1801
WR 23-227 Martin Carver and others to Samuel Garber, July 29, 1802
WR 23-228 Samuel Garber from Christian Garber and others, July 29, 1802
WR 23-229 Samuel Garber and others to Christian Garber, July 29, 1802
WR 23-231 John Garber from John Wampler, July 29, 1802
WR 23-234 John Wampler to Martin Garber, July 29, 1802
WR 22-548 Moses Grable from Craig Marshall, May 15, 1802
WR 20-41 Martin Garber from Wm. Head, June 21, 1800
WR 20-43 Martin Garber from Peter Kramer, June 28, 1800
WR 22-4 Moses Grable to Michael Freeze, November 3, 1801
WR 25-579 John Garber from Israel Bigler, May 8, 1804
WR 26-71 John Garber from Anna Garber and others, September 5, 1804
WR 27-544 Joseph Grable to Peter Grable, October 10, 1805
WR 39-561 John Grable from Peter Grable, May 22, 1811
WR 42-380 John Grable and others to State of Maryland, May 31, 1813
WR 44-85 John Grable to Louis Mottier, April 5, 1813"

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1. Assumed an age of 20 from date of marriage.

MARRIAGE:
1. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 6-14: " Neither [George Michael of his brother Henry are] shown in the records of the Evangelical Lutheran or the German Reformed Churches of Frederick Co., MD except for the marriage of Elizabeth, daughter of George Michael Eller who is recorded in the Evangelical Lutheran Church as having married Henrich Reb, 10 Jun 1777. Very probably Reb was a member of the church."
Also on page 15: "Elizabeth Eller, m. 10 Jun 1777, Henrich Reb, son of Caspar Reb of Bucks Co., Penna. Her marriage was recorded by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick City, Maryland which gave the residence as Peiff (Pipe Creek) and called her George Michael Eller's daughter. Witnesses were Jacob, George and Joseph Eller, Michael and Barbara Krault, Frederick Reutenbach, Conrad Spohn, Michael Ungerer and Marie Schmausin. She was shown to be a married daughter in her father's estate settlement but her married name was not legible. (Minute Book and Proceedings of the Orphan's Court, 1777-1784, Frederick Co., Md.) Jacob and George Eller who witnessed her marriage doubtless were her brothers. Joseph Eller probably was her cousin, son doubtless of Henry Eller."
 		Repp, Henrich (I3621)
 
4632 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Howard Leytham Stoker Von Dollen Family Histories," FHL 929.273 H833a, by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Ave., Omaha, Nebraska, 68124, pp. 88-89 [same information more or less is found in FHL book 929.273 P684pn: "Graybill/Stoker/Eller/Smith/Koons/Pitt Connections," by Norman E. 'Gene' Pitt, 1996, pp. 119-123 - any additional info is shown bracketed]: "Conrad and Katherine Dick were living in Frederick County, Maryland as early as 1755, when 100 acres were registered on August 15, and named Mon Hime, perhaps after Manheim Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania or Manheim, Germany. He sold this land in [Mar] 1764 and 10 years later there is a record of buying 200 acres in Rowan County, North Carolina. His early deeds shows he was a weaver by trade. Conrad later was granted [70 acres of] land [in Wilkes County] next to his son-in-law, Peter Eller, which he sold to him. Another Dick, which is probably some relation, named Susan Dick, married Devault Koons, who in turn were the grandparents of George Koons, who married Mary Eller. Children:
a. John [b. abt 1767/9]; m. Mary ___; John sold land to Michael Stoker in Wilkes Co., NC.
b. Marie Catherine, christened 28 Mar 1758 [in Frederick Co., MD].
c. Elizabeth [b. 1750]; m. Peter Eller."
[d. George.]

2. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 17-31: "Peter Eller was born, say about 1746 and died in that part of Wilkes County, North Carolina that in 1799 became Ashe County, before 29 Jul 1799 on which date the administration of his estate was given to Betsey and John Eller. He married, say about 1767, probably in Frederick County, Maryland, Elizabeth Dick, daughter of Conrad and Catherine Dick who were living in Frederick Co. as early as 15 Aug 1755 when all of that tract of 'land called Mon Hime' lying on a small creek leading into Beaver Dam Branch in Frederick Co., MD containing 100 acres, was surveyed and patented to Conrad Dick. (B.C. and G.S. No. 5, folio 127, Hall of Records, Annapolis, MD) Beaver Branch is a branch of Little Pipe Creek. Conrad and Catherine Dick, she relinquishing her dower right, sold this land to William Aldridge on 23 Mar 1764 after which they disappear from the Frederick Co. records. He was called a weaver in the deed. (Book J, pp. 244, 245, Frederick Co. Deeds.) Mon Hime, apparently, was his own name for this land and may have been named for the township of Manheim in Bavaria located about 80 miles south of Nurnberg. On 28 March 1758, Marie Catherine Dick, daughter of Conrad Dick and his wife Anna Catherine Dick, was christened in the German Reformed Church of Frederick Co., Maryland.
Conrod Dick (sic) purchased 200 acres of land from Martin Sheets in Rowan Co., NC in 1774. The land was located on Hodge's Fork, a branch of the Uwaree River, now in Davidson or Randolph Co. He sold this land to Adam Bowers, 20 Dec 1785. (Book 10, p. 388, Rowan Co. Deeds.) Coonrod Dick (sic), doubtless the same, was granted 70 acres of land on Rones Creek in Wilkes Co., NC, 28 Nov 1792. A record on film at the Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City (FNCW 5B Land Entries, 1778-1781 and 1783-1785, Wilkes Co., NC) shows that this land was entered 20 Feb 1779 but the order for survey, dated 10 Mar 1787, in the Sec'y of State's office in Raleigh, NC, shows that Coonrod Dick's name had been written in over another name that the original entry may have been made for someone else who later assigned his right to Coonrod (Conrad) Dick. The land was surveyed for Conrod Dick (sic), 13 Apr 1795, and found to contain only 70 acres. Jno. Eller and Mich. Stucker (Stoker) signed the survey as chain carriers. (Grant #1258, Secretary of State Office, Raleigh, N.C.) In view of the fact that Peter Eller, son-in-law of Conrad Dick, entered land on Rones Creek about a year later (24 July 1780), it is reasonable to suppose that the two settled in North Carolina at the same time. Whether they came directly form Frederick County, Md. or not is not clear but the fact that Conrad Dick sold his land in Frederick County, Md. in Mar 1764 and didn't show up in NC until ten years later suggests that he may have lived in some intermediate place, say Virginia, meantime. Conrad Dick sold his 70 acres to Peter Eller, 3 Mar 1797. (Deed Book D, p. 165, Wilkes Col, NC.)
A John Dick, son perhaps of Conrad Dick, was granted 86-1/2 acres on the south fork of New River in Ashe Co., on 27 Jun 1797. John Dick Jr. and Jesse Ray attested the survey. John Dick and John Dick Jr. doubtless were father and son. John Dick was also granted 400 acres of land on the south fork of New River on 13 Jun 1798. This grant was accompanied by a document saying that it was issued to correct errors in an earlier grant not identified but probably the one dated 27 Dec 1797 for 400 acres that, on 3 Jan 1783, had been ordered to be surveyed probably for Robert Nall and actually surveyed for John Dick 22 July 1787. John Nall and Alexander Johnson attested the survey. On 1 Dec 1798, John Dick was granted an additional 100 acres on the south fork of New River. This land was first ordered to be surveyed for William Nall on 11 Nov 1779 and actually surveyed for Robert Nall 24 Jun 1794. How it came to be granted later to John Dick is not clear but very likely it was by assignment. (Grants 1484, 1749, 1547 and 1471, Secretary of State's Office, Raleigh, NC.) That John Dick and his wife Mary once lived in Rowan Co. is indicated by a deed of that county dated 3 Sep 1795 wherein John Dick, of Wilkes Co., sold to Jacob Helfer of Rowan Co., 200 acres of land including improvements located on Bear Creek in Rowan Co. He signed the deed 'Johannes Dick' in German script in his own hand. His wife Mary signed with a mark. (Book 14, p. 523, Rowan Co. Deeds.)
Land grants in North Carolina originated with an entry application which was filed in the county where the land was situated and if not lost are now on file there. This was followed, sometimes soon and sometimes years later by an order from the land office for the tract to be surveyed. Sometimes soon and sometimes years later the survey was made and a surveyor's plat filed with the Secretary of State in Raleigh. Then came the grant which may have been issued reasonably near the date of the survey or sometimes several years later. These grants, orders to survey and the survey itself are on file now in the Secretary of State's office at Raleigh. The two grants to Peter Eller totaling 350 acres on Rones Creek in Wilkes County (now Ashe) mentioned above has an entry date of 10 Mar 1780 in Wilkes Co., NC records. (Land Entries 1778-1781, 1783-1795 Wilkes Co., NC, on film at the Gen. Soc. of the LDS Church in Salt Lake City.) This was followed by a warrant of survey, dated 24 Jul 1780. The survey was made 28 Mar 1787 and the grant issued 18 May 1789. Apparently Peter Eller merely retained his entry privilege and did not ask for a survey and grant until some years later, probably about the time he removed there for his farm on Reedy Creek in Rowan (now Davidson County,) North Carolina. The same situation also applied to the Conrad Dick grant of 150 acres on Rones Creek. The Wilkes county entry date is 20 Feb 1779 whereas the order to survey was issued 10 Mar 1787, the grant 28 Nov 1792 and strangely enough the survey was not made until 13 Apr 1795. Very likely it was a resurvey because it showed that instead of containing 150 acres the tract contained only 70 acres, the same acreage that Conrad Dick sold to Peter Eller, 3 Mar 1797 (supra). Quite often there would be an acreage discrepancy between entry and survey. The reason for this was that the entries were estimates and the surveys actual. Instances are also found where a person would make an entry and not follow through, then at a later date make a new entry on the same land. The Wilkes County, NC entries mentioned above were found on microfilm at the Gen. Soc. of the LDS Church. ((FNCW 5B, Land Entries 1778-1781, 1783-1795, Wilkes Co., NC.) The writer is indebted to Honorable Thad Eure, Secretary of State of North Carolina for his letter of 2 Dec 1955 which explains early land grant procedure in North Carolina.
The date of birth for Elizabeth Dick, wife of Peter Eller, is not known. Her eldest son John Eller was born about 1767-1769 and her youngest son George after 1790. This would indicate that she was born not later than about 1749 or 1750. The 1800 census of Ashe County, N.C. states her age as over 45. She probably was alive in 1830 and, according to the Federal Census of Ashe County of that year, living with her son Jacob, her age being shown as between 70 and 80. The fact that her daughter did not have herself baptized for her mother as well as her father at Nauvoo, Ill. in 1841 as shown below, indicates either that she was then living or, as is more likely, that she had embraced the Mormon faith and was baptized in her own lifetime. [KP: This statement now appears in error since it has been found that Catherine Eller Stoker was baptized for Elizabeth White, her mother in 1843, who appeared to have remarried to Luke White, whose baptism was done by Catherine's daughter Mary (Polly) Stoker in 1841.]
Proof of many facts concerning Peter Eller and his family was gleaned from the microfilm records of the Index to Nauvoo (Illinois) Baptisms for the Dead of the [LDS Church] that are in the custody of the Gen. Soc. of the Church in Salt Lake City. They show the following [Kerry's note: baptisms are currently not done cross-gender; however, when first introduced in 1841 on the banks of the Mississippi River, there were indeed indiscriminate cross-gender proxies.]:
1. That Catherine Stoker, wife of Michael Stoker and daughter of Peter Eller had herself baptized in 1841 for:
a. Her deceased grandfather, Kinrod (Conrad) Dick. (Book A, p. 37)
b. Her deceased grandmother, Catherine Dick (Book A, p. 37)
c. Her deceased father, Peter Eller. (Book A, p. 41)
d. Her deceased brother, John Eller. (Book A, p. 42)
e. Her deceased daughter Rebecca Stoker. (Book C, p. 338)
2. Eller Stoker, son of Catherine Stoker had himself baptized in 1841 for:
a. His deceased uncle, George Eller. (Bk. A, p. 41)
3. Michael Stoker, son of Catherine Stoker had himself baptized in 1841 for:
a. His deceased aunt, Barbara Pertune. It is not clear whether this aunt was a sister of his mother or father. (Book A, p. 94)
From the above it is apparent that Catherine (Eller) Stoker in 1841 was living in or near Nauvoo, Illinois. When she and her husband embraced the faith is not known but indications are that it was some years prior to 1841 when they lived in Jackson County, Ohio...
Many counties were formed from what originally was Rowan County, namely Surry and Guilford in 1770, Burke and Wilkes in 1777, Randolph in 1779, Iridell in 1788, Stokes in 1789, Buncomb in 1791, Ashe in1799, Davidson in 1822, Yancey in 1833, Davie in 1836 and Yadkin in 1850. Some of these counties were grandchildren of Rowan County; for instance Wilkes was taken partly from Burke and partly from Surry, Randolph from Guilford, Buncomb and Yancy form Burke, Ashe from Wilkes and Stokes and Yadkin from Surry. These facts must be kept in mind when tracing early Rowan County families.
Land transactions in western North Carolina between 1740 and 1780 were so frequently unrecorded and in some cases titles supplied by the Earl of Granville and other British proprietors were considered so worthless that property owners found it necessary to have their land holdings legalized by grants from the state. This situation may explain why Peter Eller and many other settlers who are known to have lived in Rowan, and what is now Davidson County, of Western North Carolina during the period cannot be found in the records of that time. They must have done something to support themselves and their families and about all they could have done was farm lands that, by squatter rights, they assumed they owned or lands upon which they worked as laborers or tenants. [Kerry's note: Many may have finally gone for the actual grant after the Revolution since a new local and more responsive government was finally in place.]...
Peter Eller added other property to his holdings on 27 Dec 1797 when two parcels of 50 and 25 acres were granted to him by the State of NC. These parcels were surveyed for him on 21 Mar and 11 May respectively. John Dick, Jr., and Leonard Fouts attested the first survey and Michael Stuckard [Stoker] and Peter Eller, Jr. the second. (Grants 1479 and 1532, Secy. of State's Office, Raleigh, NC.) On 3 Mar 1797 he purchased from Conrad Dick, of Wilkes Co., his father-in-law, doubtless, 70 acres of land in Wilkes Co. The deed was witnessed by John and George Koons. (Deed Book D, p. 165, Wilkes Co., NC.) As already mentioned this land had been entered 20 Feb 1779 and surveyed for Conrad Dick 13 Apr 1795 with Jno. Eller and Mich.Stuckers [Stoker] attesting the survey as chain carriers. The land had been granted to him in the amount of 150 acres on 28 Nov 1792 but when surveyed was found to contain only 70 acres. (Grant 1258, Secy. of State's Office, Raleigh, NC.)...
The personal estate of Peter Eller was sold and an accounting reported to the Nov. 1799 court of Wilkes Co., NC by John Eller, Adr. The property, 111 individual sales, consisted of household utensils and furniture, farm yard tools and accessories, including one tomahawk, ten sheep, fifteen head of cattle, among which were a yoke of yearlings and one yearling bull, hogs, geese, bee hives, etc. The widow took a good deal of the furniture and household accessories including interestingly enough a trumpet which indicates that the early Ellers possessed musical interest. Other items taken by her were one lot of books, a chest, five head of hogs, four cows, one mare colt, two sheep, oven, hammer and anvil, and a pair of saddle bags. Other purchasers were John Eller, Peter Eller, Elizabeth Eller Jr., Michael Stucker (Stoker), Michael Bumgardner, Leonard Bumgardner, John Dick, Leonard Pfouts, Jacob Huntsinger, Daniel Dickson, James Dickson, James Cash, William Cash, Henry Michael Sr., Henry Michael Jr., Daniel Michael, Thomas Baker, Alexander Smith who purchased the tomahawk and some of the farm animals and other items, David Smith, Frederick Younce, Christian Shear, Abraham Shear, Coonrod Coldiron, David Ingram, Balsar Raime, Conrat Grub, William Colward, George Miller, John Calloway, Allen Nowlin, John Holman and John Tirey. The amount of the sale, including the items taken by the widow totaled 300 pounds, 18 shillings, 7 pence. (Will Book 1, pp. 540-41, Wilkes Co., NC.)"

3. A partial quote from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT, from an article entitled: "Conrad and Katherine Dick":
"Conrad and Katherine Dick were living in Frederick County, Maryland as early as 1755, when 100 acres were registered on August 15, and named Mon Hime, perhaps after Manheim township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania or Manheim, Germany. He sold this land in 1764 and 10 years later there is a record of buying 200 acres in Rowan County, North Carolina. His early deeds shows he was a weaver by trade.
Conrad later was granted land next to his son-in-law, Peter Eller, which he sold to him.
Another Dick, which is probably some relation, named Susan Dick, married Devault Koons, who in turn were the grandparents of George Koons, who married Mary Eller.
Children:
1. John Dick, m. Mary; John sold land to Michael Stoker in Wilkes County, N.C.
2. Marie Catherine Dick, christened on March 28, 1758.
3. Elizabeth Dick, m. Peter Eller."

4. The following was posted on the Internet at a site concerning "Brethren-Genealogy" by Dwayne Wrightsman 30 Aug 2009 at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BRETHREN/2009-08/1251658713 accessed 2 May 2015. See comments about this posting in a separate note below by Rose Green:
"Conrad Dick was the head of the German Dick family that settled in Wilkes/Ashe County, NC, in 1788. His daughter, Maria Elizabetha Dick (baptized 18 December 1746, Evangelisch-Reformierte, Altrip, Pfalz) was married to Peter Eller who also settled with the Dicks in Wilkes/Ashe in 1788. Conrad's son, John Dick, and John's son, John Dick Jr., also arrived in Wilkes/Ashe in 1788. The younger John Dick was a Brethren elder who worked with elder Joseph Roland and elder Isham Gibson with the Long Creek Brethren in Muhlenberg, KY, and with the Sugar Creek Brethren in Sangamon, IL.
The Conrad Dick family is not well known in Brethren history compared to the Adam Dick family (of the Conestoga and Conewago congregations of Lancaster and York Counties, PA). We do not know if these two Dick families were related.
The wife of Conrad Dick was Anna Catharina. Her surname is not given in the literature. However, by checking German Reformed Church records it appears that she was born Anna Catharina Gross, 22 August 1717, Evangelisch-Reformierte, Altrip, Pfalz, daughter of Peter and Elsabetha Gross. At age 18 she married the widower Hans Jakob Bargeld, 15 November 1735, Altrip, Pfalz. By this marriage she bore two sons, Joh. Michel and Joh. Christoffel, whose births, 6 January, 1738, and 9 April, 1741, respectively, were recorded in the Evangelisch-Reformierte, Altrip, Pfalz, church records. Hans Jakob Ba(a)rgeld died 10 May 1744. On 22 February 1746, the widow Catharina Baargeldin married Johann Conrad Dick of Heddesheim. The marriage was recorded in the Evangelisch-Reformierte, Altrip Pfalz, church records. On 18 December 1746, their daughter Maria Elizabeth Dick was baptized, Evangelische-Reformierte, Altrip Pfalz. This was the daughter of Conrad Dick who married Peter Eller, oldest son of George Michael Eller of Frederick County, MD.
Given that Conrad Dick's wife was a widow of a widower, it is possible that Conrad Dick himself had been previously married. Since wife Anna Catharina (nee Gross) was born in 1717, Conrad Dick may have been born earlier than the "about 1725" birth year usually assigned to him in various genealogical accounts. Church birth/baptism records for Conrad Dick and for Adam Dick have not been found. Adam Dick's birth year was 1709 and his death year was 1785 according his German tombstone inscription, Mummerts Cemetery, Hamilton Twp., York Co., PA. Conrad Dick's birth and death years are both unknown.
Heddesheim and Altrip were villages on the outskirts of Manheim/Mannheim, Germany. When Conrad Dick bought 100 acres on a small creek leading into the Beaver Dam Branch of Little Pipe Creek in Frederick County, MD, in 1755, he named his tract "Mon Hime" apparently after his being from Manheim/Mannheim. Conrad Dick could neither read nor write. His family's immigration is unknown, but it was probably sometime between 1747 and 1753. He was naturalized in Maryland in 1760.
In 1758, a second daughter, Maria Catherine Dick, was born to Conrad and Anna Catharina Dick. She was baptized 28 March 1758, German Reformed Church, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland. Apparently the Conrad Dick family was not yet Brethren at that time even though they lived in the Beaver Creek - Pipe Creek among many Brethren families who were picking up and moving to North Carolina.
Conrad Dick sold his "Mon Hime" property on Beaver Creek in Frederick, Maryland, in 1764. Ten years later (1774) he bought 200 acres on Hodge's Fork of the Uwharrie River in North Carolina. He and his son John and his son-in-law Peter Eller settled in various parts of the Rowan County area of North Carolina until they converged in Wilkes County in 1788. Whether or not they were Brethren is unknown but what is known is that they associated with the Brethren on the Uwharrie River, on the Forks of the Yadkin, and on Reedy Creek prior to joining the Brethren settlement on the New River in Wilkes County, NC."

5. FHL book 929.273 D55h "History of Peter and Christina Shutt Dick Family; Frederick Co. Maryland; Wilkes Co. North Carolina; Muhlenberg Co. Kentucky; Sangamon Co. Illinois; Cass Co. Illinois," compiled by Muriel M. Hoffman; Anchor, Illinois; 1970; Chapter II "Ancestry of Peter Dick":
"Peter Dick was born Oct. 27, 1780 in North Carolina, the son of John and Elizabeth Rolland Dick, also natives of one of the Carolinas, who died in Kentucky when very old. The ancestry was German.(2) (We have reason to believe that John may be a native of Maryland.) Nowhere else is the mother's name recorded except as Mary on a deed in North Carolina.
Morgan District, Wilkes Co. N. Car. 1790 census
John Dick, 1 male over 16; 3 males under 16; 5 females
The following paragraphs are from research contributed by Miss Wilda Chase of Lincoln, Neb. from her Dick family history. The North Carolina research was done by a Dick-Eller descendant and the Kentucky research about Conrod Dick II by a Baptist preacher in Kentucky and that material was given to Miss Chase...
Coonrod Dick appears to be the first found ancestor of this family but little is known about him. He does not appear on any passenger list of those coming to this country. His given name is found spelled variously as Coonrod, Conrad, Kinrod, Koonrod, etc. He was of German birth.
Conrad Dick was in Frederick Co. Md. 15 Aug. 1755 when all that tract of land called "Mon Hime" lying on a small creek leading into Beaver Dam Branch and containing 100 acres was surveyed and patented to him. (B.C. and G.S. #5, folio 127, Hall of Records, Annapolis, Md.) On Mar. 23, 1764 Conrad Dick signed by mark a deed for this land to William Aldridge, his wife, Catherine consenting (J 224-5). Here they disappear from Maryland records.
He appears to be identical with the Conrad Dick found in Wilkes County, North Carolina with others from Frederick Co. Md. 20 Feb.1779, Coonrod Dick enters 150 acres of land (868). 28 March 1792, he was granted 70 acres (1068) which he sold to Peter Eller 3 March 1797. It seems strange he is not found on any census list. He cannot have been living with any of his known children as their families do not include any one of his age. The only possible explanation seems to be that his name was misread and appears as Conrad Fite in the printed census records.
No tombstone nor death records are found for either Conrad or his wife, Catherine (Anna Catherine, on other information). That she was the mother of his children is shown in the marriage record of their granddaughter, Catherine Eller Stoker, and in the baptism of their daughter, Maria Catherine. Probable children of this couple, order of birth unknown were:
1. John Dick. The fact that Elizabeth Eller's son acted as agent for the sale of part of his land after he moved to Kentucky, plus the fact that he had children Coonrad and Catherine makes it seem probable he was their son.
2. Elizabeth Dick married Peter Eller (see later paragraphs).
3. Maria Catherine Dick christened Frederick Co. 28 March, 1758."

CHRISTENING:
1. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 17-31: "Peter Eller was born, say about 1746 and died in that part of Wilkes County, North Carolina that in 1799 became Ashe County, before 29 Jul 1799 on which date the administration of his estate was given to Betsey and John Eller. He married, say about 1767, probably in Frederick County, Maryland, Elizabeth Dick, daughter of Conrad and Catherine Dick who were living in Frederick Co. as early as 15 Aug 1755 when all of that tract of 'land called Mon Hime' lying on a small creek leading into Beaver Dam Branch in Frederick Co., MD containing 100 acres, was surveyed and patented to Conrad Dick. (B.C. and G.S. No. 5, folio 127, Hall of Records, Annapolis, MD) Beaver Branch is a branch of Little Pipe Creek. Conrad and Catherine Dick, she relinquishing her dower right, sold this land to William Aldridge on 23 Mar 1764 after which they disappear from the Frederick Co. records. He was called a weaver in the deed. (Book J, pp. 244, 245, Frederick Co. Deeds.) Mon Hime, apparently, was his own name for this land and may have been named for the township of Manheim in Bavaria located about 80 miles south of Nurnberg. On 28 March 1758, Marie Catherine Dick, daughter of Conrad Dick and his wife Anna Catherine Dick, was christened in the German Reformed Church of Frederick Co., Maryland."
 		Dick, Maria Catherine (I3615)
 
4633 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Israel Barlow Story": parents are Luther Dalrymple, b. 1792 at Massachusetts, and Sarah (Sally) Hammond, b. 1794 at Easton, Washington, NY. First husband was Amasa Reynolds.

2. Censuses:
1880 US: Can't find.
1900 US: Fifth Ward, Logan, Cache, Utah, p. 288B:
Cordelia M. Barlow, Oct 1822, 77, m. 55 years, 3 total children with 2 living, NY NY NY.

3. Reviewed Rootsweb.com Worldconnect Dec 2002.

BIRTH:
1. Ancestral File. Parents are Luther Dalrymple and Sally Hammond.

MARRIAGE:
1. Amasa Branan Reynolds: Ancestral File. Marriage 11 Jan 1846 at Bolton, Warren, NY. Had at least three children born between 1847 and 1858 in Bolton.

2. Israel Barlow: The book "The Israel Barlow Story," p. 13.

DEATH:
1. The book "The Israel Barlow Story," p. 553.

BURIAL:
1. Ancestral File.

SOURCES_MISC:
1. Nauvoo LDS Land and Records Office research file (copy in my possession as of 2 Jun 2007) provides the following information (also partially viewable at www.earlylds.com). 		Dalrymple, Cordelia Maria (I247)
 
4634 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Mangums of Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, and Utah and Adjoining States," by John T. Palmer, Santa Rosa, 1992, FHL film 1697868, p. 6: "John Mangum, b. ca 1734, Albemarle, VA, d. 1794 in Newberry Co., SC, m. Mary ___, b. ca. 1734, [d.] bef. 1794 in Newberry Co. John (footnote 16) came to Craven Co., SC from Lunenberg, later called Mecklenburg Co., VA, just before or during the Rev. War and settled in the Bush River community. (Footnote 17) (By 1790 John, Joseph, and William Mangum were all identified in SC as heads of household, all residing in Chesterfield, Charleston, and Newberry Counties.)
Footnote 16: John Mangum had sold 92 acres of land in Sussex Co. in 1760 to Levi Gilliam for five pounds.the land was on the south side of Hornet Swamp. Mary Mangum joined with er husband John Mangum in the sale of the land. The deed, dated 18 Dec 1760, was not recorded in Sussex Co. until 19 Aug 1762.
Footnote 17: Allen, Saxon, and Newman, Supplement to "Family Gleanings," "Ancestors to Rebecca Mangum Newman," pp. 12-13, publisher and publication date unknown.

2. One undocumented and unverified contribution to the LDS Pedigree Resource File indicates this individual could be Mary Lewis, b. 1734, Albemarle Parish, Isle of Wight, Virginia. Some other LDS group sheets also show the same but again undocumented.

3. 10. Issue 11/12, "Mangum Family Bulletin," Sept./Dec. 1971:
Sussex Co., VA, Deed Index, (1754-1833) (From microfilm in the Virginia State Library, Richmond, VA)
(1) 18 Dec. 1760 Jno Mangum & wife to Lewis Gilliam (B-324)
(2) 19 Feb. 1761 Jno Mangum & wife from Thos Newson & wife (B-169)

4. Issue No. 1 "Mangum Family Bulletin," March 1969, "Register of Albemarle Parish, Surry & Sussex Counties, Virginia 1739-1778." Gertrude R. B. Richards, ed. Printed by the University Press of Virginia:
1. Arthur, son of Wm. Mangum and wife Mary; born May 2, c. 1741.
2. John, son of Reuben Cook and wife Mary; born Jan 2, c. Feb. 26, 1758; gdpts John Weathers, Edward Weaver Jr., Agnes Mangum.
3. Elizabeth, dau. of Burrell Green and wife Lucy; born May 26, c. Aug 20, 1769; gdpts James Mangum Jr., Betty Mangum, Ann Avery.
4. Lucy, dau. of Edward Jones and wife Elisa; born Jul 23, c. Aug. 29, 1762; gdpts John Robinson, Sarah Jones, Elisa Mangum.
5. Sarah, dau. of Samuel Mangum and wife Elisa; born Jul 1, c. Aug. 20, 1769; gdpts Thos. Smith, Mary Camp, Selah Smith.
6. Henry, son of Wm. Mangum and wife Mary; born Jan. 24, c. Mar. 28, 1773; gdpts Peter Randall, Seth Williams, Lucy Green.
7. Sarah, dau. of Wm. Mangum and wife Mary; born Oct. 14, 1743, c. Apr. 29, 1744; gdpts James Mangum, Priscilla Rogers, Mary Mangum.
8. Joseph, son of William Rogers and wife Frances; born Nov. 4, 1743, c. Mar. 18, 1743/4; gdpts Joseph Rogers, Jonatan(?) Ellis, Selah Mangum.
9. James, son of James Mangum and wife Mary; born Jan. 22, 1743/4, c. Apr. 29, 1744; gdpts Wm. Mangum, Samuel Mangum, Mary Mangum.
10. James, son of Wm. Mangum and wife Mary; born Jun. 2, c. 1734.
11. Thomas, son of Isham Green and wife Patty; born Jan. 8, c. Apr. 3, 1768; gdpts James Mangum, Joel Wilkason, Bathis Burrow.
12. John, son of Thos. Gibbons and wife Anne; born Mar 26, c. May 9, 1767; gdpts Lourence? Gibbons, James Mangum, Elisa Gibbons.
13. William, son of James Mangum and wife Mary; born Jan. 4, 1746-1747, c. Apr. 12, 1747; gdpts Wm. Rogers, Richd Woodroffe Jr, Mary Rogers.
14. Micajah, son of Natl Clanton and wife Mary; born Jul. 21, c. Aug. 28, 1748; gdpts Henry Pritchet, James Mangum, Tahpenes Nusom.
15. Rebakah, dau. of John Mangum and wife Lydia; born Feb. 14, c. Apr. 11, 1762; gdpts James Mangum Jr., Lucy Mangum, Mary Richason.
16. Eppes, son of Burrell Brown and wife Amy; born Dec. 17, 1766, c. Feb. 8, 1767; gdpts Francis Eppes, James Mangum Jr., Lucy Freeman.
17. Elizabeth, dau. of John Hobbs and wife Elisa; born Jul. 19, c. Aug. 29, 1767; gdpts John Mangum, James Mangum Jr., Sarah Battle, Susanna Harrison?
18. James, son of James Cain Jr. and wife Lucratia; born Feb. 28, c. May 16, 1756; gdpts John Mangum, Nathan Freeman, Martha Freeman.
19. Claiborne, son of Peter Cain and wife Martha; born Sept. 24, c. Dec. 20, 1761; gdpts James Cain Jr., John Mangum, Angelica Cain.
20. Lucy, dau. of John Mangum and wife Mary; born Nov. 30, 1758, c. Mar. 31, 1759.
21. William, son of John Mangum and wife Mary; born Nov. 12, 1756, c. Jan. 16, 1757; gdpts James Milner, John Baily, Anne Pare.
22. Jesse, son of David Holloway and wife Frances; born Jul. 20, 1750, c. Jan. 20, 1750/1; gdpts Nathl Johnson, John Mangum, Sarah James.
23. John, son of James Bane and wife Eliza; born Jan. 1, c. Feb. 23, 1752; gdpts Richard Andrews, John Mangum, Susanna Bane.
24. Suky, dau. of John Husky and wife Faith; born Aug. 30, c. Oct. 26, 1760; gdpts John Mangum, Lucy Cain, Winny Robertson.
25. Sarah, dau. of John Mangum and wife Mary; born Nov. 6, 1760, d. Apr. 26, 1761; gdpts John Roland, Sarah Andrews, Agnes Carter.
26. Lucy, dau. of James Mangum and wife Mary. Born Jul. 26, 1741, c. Jan. 31, 1741/2.
27. William, son of Wm Mangum and wife Mary; born May 16, 1736.
28. Betty, dau. of Benja. Wellborn and wife Betty; born Feb. 29, c. Jun. 1, 1772; gdpts John Malone, Winnefred Robinson, Mary Mangum.
29. ( )hn, son of Wm. Huler and wife Selah; born Apr. 6, c. May 19, 1754; gdpts Thos Atkinson, Olave Mangum, Lydia Dinkens.
30. Elizabeth, dau. of Robt. Purrier and wife Frances; born Jun. 10, c. Aug. 19, 1753; gdpts Wm. Carril, Wm. Waller, Olave Mangum
31. Zilpah, son of Arthur Richardson and wife Mary; born Dec. 10, 1751, c. Jan. 26, 1752; gdpts Robert Priorm, Mary Waller, Olave Mangum
32. Selah, dau. of Wm. Hulen and wife Selah; born May 10, c. Jun. 14, 1752; gdpts Robert Pryor, Olave Mangum, Frances Pryor.
Editor's Note: c. is abbreviation for christened; gdpts for godparents. Godparents are sometimes aunts and uncles of the children being christened.

5. Some clarification of dates of county formations is important. Many people confuse the correct location in dealing with the original colonial ancestors of this part of Virginia.
James City County was one of eight original shires designated in 1634. At that time it extended toward the southwest between Charles City and Isle of Wight (then Warrosquyoake), being terminated later by the boundary with North Carolina. South of the James River it was separated from Isle of Wight county by Lawne's Creek and from Charles City County (later Prince George County) by Upper Chippokes Creek. James City was made the capitol of the colony in 1639 by an Act of the Assembly. James City was the original Jamestown founded in 1607, America's earliest English settlement.
The part of James City County that became Surry County was inhabited by the Quiyoughcohanocks, allies of the Algonquian Powhatan Confederacy, when Jamestown settlers visited in 1607. Early settlers reported that they were entertained very graciously during their first visit. John Rolfe's marriage to Pocohontas in 1614 helped to keep peace between Indians and English settlers for a time. Pocohontas died in England in 1616, however, and by 1622 the Powhatans had decided to rid their lands of the English settlers. On Good Friday, 11 April 1622, Indians living in English settlements all over the small colony rose up and attacked their English hosts, murdering and mutilating them in their homes. At Pace's Pains on the south shore of the James, one Indian, a Christian named Chanco, refused to murder Richard Pace, warning him of the impending massacre instead. Three hundred and forty-seven English people were killed then. A list made the following February showed 1,277 people left alive in the colony.
Richard Pace was only one of the settlers on the south shore of James River. In May 1625 The Virginia Company of London listed sixteen settlers in the area that became Surry County. The Virginia Company's development of Virginia did not meet the expectations of the company stockholders or the English government. Sir Francis Wyatt, the last governor under the Virginia Company, became the first crown appointed governor 24 May 1624.
The crown honored patents issued by the Company and granted more lands to encourage settlement. Individuals could acquire one headright by paying the transportation cost of one person into the colony. One headright could be exchanged for fifty acres of Virginia land. Soon headrights were being sold, the system became corrupted, and in 1705 the General Assembly attempted to reform it. The 1705 act explicitly stated that individuals could not claim an individual headright more than once or claim headrights for sailors, and land claimants were required to submit sworn statements verifying their headright lists in county courts.
By 1640 James City County's population south of James River was sufficient to support a new parish, and Lawne's Creek Parish was established. Lawne's Creek itself was the dividing line between James City County and the later Surry County from the original Isle of Wight County. John Mangum, the original immigrant, had land strattling Lawne's Creek in both Surry and Isle of Wight Counties. Southwark Parish was separated from James City Parish in 1647. County court records begin with 1652, when Surry was formed from the part of James City County that lay southwest of James River. The south end of Surry County eventually is known as Albemarle Parish within in Surry County. From 1738 the only Anglican parish in the Sussex County area was Albemarle. Soon afterward Arthur Allen built his Jacobean brick house, now known as Bacon's Castle because it was occupied as a fort or "castle" during Bacon's Rebellion in 1676.
Reports to the Bishop of London by the ministers of Lawne's Creek and Southwark parishes in the year 1724 were recorded by Bishop Meade. They were not prosperous parishes. In 1738 Albemarle Parish was created from those parts of Lawne's Creek and Southwark parishes that lay southwest of Blackwater River. The remaining parts of Lawne's Creek and Southwark were united into Southwark Parish. The entire area of Albemarle Parish was incorporated into Sussex County when it was formed from the southwestern end of Surry County in 1754.
Sussex County was formed in 1753 from the part of Surry County that was south of the Blackwater River. "Whereas many inconveniencies" attended the inhabitants of the county of Surry, "by reason of the large extent thereof," the General Assembly enacted a law forming Sussex County from the southwestern part of Surry in November 1753. The boundaries of Sussex County followed those of Albemarle Parish established in 1738. Part of Surry County had been added to Brunswick County in 1732. Thus the parish and county were bounded by Surry County on the northeast, by Southampton County on the southeast, Prince George County on the northwest and Brunswick County on the southwest. Brunswick County was divided by an Act of the Assembly in October 1780, forming Greensville County, which now borders Sussex on the southwest. Sussex, Virginia, is the county seat of Sussex County. The Dillard House, built in 1802, was the repository of the clerk's records until the courthouse was built. The county is named for Sussex County in England.
In some early records of Surry County before Sussex was formed, we see mention of Upper and Lower Parishes of Surry County. I assume the Lower Parish is what was eventually called Albemarle Parish of Surry, then Sussex County. We know that the Mangums had land transactions in Pigeon Creek in the 1740s and Hornet Swamp in the 1760s. Both of these areas were south of the Blackwater River in what was Albemarle Parish of Surry or Sussex County depending on the County formation dates as explained above. Some of the Mangums eventually end up in Lunenburg County, Virginia, which in turns splits the southern part of its Cumberland Parish off in 1761 to form St. James Parish, which in turn and in entirety becomes Mecklenburg County in 1764-65. Brunswick County separates Sussex County from Mecklenburg County to the west. These counties are just above the state line from North Carolina. Some people erroneously put down Albemarle County which is a county in Northern Virginia in no way associated with our family of these Southern Virginia locations.

SOURCES_MISC:
1. The book "Births and Deaths 1717-1778 from the Albemarle Parish Register of Surry and Sussex Counties, Virginia," by John Bennett Brodie, 1958, Genealogical Publishing Co., copy in Courtland, Virginia library. 		Mary (I1850)
 
4635 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography": V. 25, p. 80, entry for Mahlon Loomis (b. 1826): "From...Joseph Loomis...and his wife Mary White, the line continues through Nathaniel and Elizabeth Moore..."

2. Per 9 Feb 2002 email of Ellen Baker : Nathaniel (b. around 1626, member of CT Calvary in 1658, under command of Major John Mason, was a member of Windsor Troop of Horse in King Philip's War, m. Elizabeth Moore, had 12 children, Elizabeth (m. William Burnham), Lt. Nathaniel Jr.(m. Elizabeth (or Rebecca?) Ellsworth), Abigail (m. Lt. Josiah Barber, wheelright), Josiah (m. Mary Rockwell), Jonathan (m. Sarah Graves), David (m. Lydia Marsh), Hezekiah (m. Mary Porter), Moses (Joanna Gibbs), Mindwell (m. Jonathan Brown), Ebenezer (m. Jemima Whitcomb), Mary (m. Joseph Barber) and Rebecca (m. Josiah Rockwell)).

3. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, pp. 433-434, {bracketed notes from "Genealogy of the Descendants of Joseph Loomis of Windsor" by Elias Loomis}: "Nathaniel Loomis, m. Elizabeth (dau. John) Moore, 27 Nov 1654 ('Col. Rec.' says 1 Nov 1653); adm. Windsor church 3 May 1663; wife adm. 28 Sep 1673 (O.C.R.); she had previously owned the Half-Way Covenant 31 Jan 1657 (O.C.R.); 'Nathaniel L.'s wife d. 18 Jan 1719' (East Windsor Church Record); he bought of John Moses a house and land at Windsor on 'the island,' which Moses had purchased of Joseph Loomis, Sr., 2 r. 6 ft. wide, bd. E. by St.; W. by Jon Porter's lot' N. and S. by Matt. Allyn. After King Phillip's War he removed to E. side of Conn. River. To the Conn. Relief Fund for Poor of other Colonies, 1676, he contrib. 5s. - O.C.R. Children (b. Windsor, bp. O.C.R.):
A. {Elizabeth, b. 7 Aug 1655; m. John Lee, 27 Dec 1682.}
B. Nathaniel (Lieut.) b. 20 Mar 1656/7; d. 29 Sep 1733 in 77th year (E.W.O.); he m. Elizabeth (dau. Josiah) Ellsworth, 23 Dec 1680, 'he 24 yrs. old the 20th of next March, she 23 years old 11 of last Nov.' (O.C.R.); she b. 11 Nov 1657; d. 1743. He bought land in E. Windsor 1689; app. Lieut. 1707; will dated 26 May 1729; no issue.
C. Abigail, b. 27 Mar, bp. 1 Apr 1659; m. Josiah Barber of Simsbury 22 Nov 1677; d. {9} Feb 1700/1.
D. Josiah, b. 17, bp. 24 Feb 1660.
E. Jonathan, b. 30 Mar., bp. 3 Apr 1664.
F. David, b. 11, bp. 12 Jan 1667.
G. Hezekiah, b. 21, bp. 28 Feb 1668.
H. Moses, b. 15, bp. 21 May 1671.
I. Mindwell, b. 20 Jul 1673; m. Jonathan Brown 1 Oct 1696.
J. Ebenezer, b. 22 Mar 1674/5.
K. Mary, b. 5 Jan 1679; {m. Joseph Barber, 6 May 1708.
L. Rebecca, b. 10 Dec 168-; m. Josiah Rockwell 14 Dec 1713 {of Lebanon}."

4. "New England Historical and Genealogical Register," v. 5, p. 228, Article: "Records of Ancient Windsor":
"Nathaniel Loomis, m. Elisabeth Moore, 24 Nov; chil. Elisabeth, b. 7 Aug 1655; Nathaniel, b. 20 Mar 1656; Abigayl, b. 27 Mar 1659; Josia, b. 17 Feb 1660; Jonathan, b. 30 Mar 1664; David, b. 11 Jan 1667; Hezekiah, b. 21 Feb 1668; Moses, b. 15 May 1671; Mindwell, b. 20 Jul 1673; Ebenezer, b. 22 Mar 1674; Mary, b. 5 Jan 1679; Rebek, 10 Dec 1682."

5. The book "Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884," v. II, Chapter 27 "Early Windsor Families," p. 554:
"Joseph Loomis (1640) had a lot granted to him 35 rods wide. He had two children born here. He died, 1658. (This lot is now occupied by Thomas W. Loomis.) Of the sons, Joseph married Sarah Hill, 1645, and had two sons and two daughters. He married second, Mary Chauncey in 1659, and had five sons and two daughters. By gift of his father in 1643 he received a lot twelve rods wide, next north of Matthew Allen, on which he built. John married Elizabeth Scott, and had eleven sons and two daughters. He had his father's homestead. Thomas married Hannah Fox, 1653, and had two sons and two daughters. He married for a second wife Mary Judd, and two sons and five daughters. By gift of his father he received a lot twelve rods wide, east of the highway, between his brother Joseph and H. Wolcott, Jr. Nathaniel married Elizabeth Moore, and had seven sons and five daughters, 1655-1680. He bought the lot and house of John Moses on the west side of the street, directly opposite Joseph Loomis, Jr. Nathaniel was among the early settlers on the east side of the Great River. Samuel had two sons and three daughters, 1660-1670. He bought Mr. Witchfield's place. He removed to Westfield, Mass."

6. Elias Loomis "Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America," update of 1875 edition published by Elisha S. Loomis, Berea, Ohio, third (1908) edition, chapter: "The Descendants of Joseph Loomis (1590-1658) in America," subchapter "First Generation, children of Joseph Loomis of Windsor, CT.," pp. 126-128:
"Genealogical investigations have been unable to establish definitely the order of the children of Joseph Loomis, and it is considered advisable to give here the conflicting evidence:
Possible order of children:
1. Mrs Olmsted, b. 1615, md. 1640. [Sarah]
2. Mrs. Hull, b. 1617, md. 1641. [Elizabeth]
3. Joseph, b. 1618, md. 1646.
4. Mrs. Skinner, b. 1620, md. 1638. [Mary]
5. John, b. 1622, md. 1648.
6. Thomas, b. 1624, md. 1653.
7. Nathaniel, b. 1626, md. 1653.
8. Samuel, b. 1628, md. 1653.
Probably, however, the order was as follows:
Joseph, b. 1615.
Sarah, b. 1617.
Elizabeth, b. abt 1619.
Mary, b. abt 1620.
John, b. 1622.
Thomas, b. 1624.
Nathaniel, b. 1626.
Samuel, b. 1628."

7. The book "Dorset Pilgrims," 1989:
pp. 188-90: In a section of the book talking about the creation of a troop of horse in March 1658, which was the first for Connecticut: "In New England's earliest days, horses were too scarce and the country too unfamiliar for a cavalry arm to be practicable; but in time the possibilities of fast movement against Indians and no doubt the example of Cromwell's cavalry made the institution of the troop of horse a more attractive proposition … The troop of thirty-seven men, seventeen from Windsor, fourteen from Hartford, six from Wethersfield, was only about half the strength of a cavalry troop of the day, for the settlements could still boast only a limited number of able-bodied men with the means to support the horse, armour and accoutrements of a trooper … It is the social significance of these volunteers that is for the moment our principal concern, for the relationships reveal much about the social structure of Windsor and the colony. The horse, like the foot, had its roots in the English shires, but, by a long-standing tradition which can be traced back to the Middle Ages, recruits came from the gentry and superior yeomanry, with an obligation and the means to provide their own mounts, accoutrements and weapons. They were thus set apart from the foot by being socially select volunteers … Most of those thirty-seven troopers were men of good family with intimate connections in the Great River neighbourhood … The official connections were impressive … George Phelp's brother was a magistrate and founding commissioner … Corporal Nicholas Olmstead was married to one of the Loomis girls, sister to troopers Nathaniel and Thomas … Most of the troop were sons of the first settlers, up-and-coming young men of a second generation."
pp. 200-1: Among the [horse] troopers [organized in 1658] … there were only two brothers. Thomas and Nathaniel Loomis were the sons of Joseph Loomis who … came from East Anglia; he and his family of five sons probably came from the Huitt party in 1638. He was a man of substance, receiving from the plantation grants valued at ₤which placed him among the most wealthy which placed him among the most wealthy. His large home lot of 26 acres was prominent on the Island next to old Henry Wolcott on the Rivulet bank of Plymouth Meadow. He did not, however, play any notable role in Windsor's affairs nor indeed, with one exception, did his sons, save that three of them served as town constable. The exception was the second son, John, who was a townsman and a deputy and, with a family of thirteen children, inherited his father's homestead. His true importance was as a deacon of Windsor church, an office which he exercised with authority for many years. Neither of our troopers, Thomas and Nathaniel, achieved distinction, though they lived respectably and comfortably, Thomas with four and Nathaniel with twelve children. Nathaniel married deacon Moore's daughter. This marriage, together with that of his brother Joseph to Mary Chauncey, daughter of Warham's successor as minister, and brother John's becoming a deacon, were to bring the family well within the ambit of church dignity and influence.h
p. 245: "Windsor's early chronicler, Stiles, estimated that about 125 Windsor men served in King Philip's War [1675], mostly as dragoons. Of the twenty-eight serving in the winter campaign we only know the names of those who were killed or died of wounds. For the rest we are dependent on mentions in dispatches, petetions for pensions and an old book of rates which lists eighteen troopers … The latter include original members of the troop of horse (… Nathaniel Loomis …) together with two sons of old members (…) and four brothers or nephews (… Joseph Loomis …)"

8. The book "Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Rice Lyon and his wife Harriet Wade Rice with related families," by Patty Barthell Myers (2003), pp. 448-51:
"JOSEPH LOOMIS, b. Eng., c1590; d. Windsor, Conn., 25 Nov 1658. He m. Messing, County Essex, England 30 Jun 1614 MARY WHITE. She was bpt. Shalford, England, 24 Aug 1590; d. Windsor, Conn., 23 Aug 1652, d/o Robert White and Bridget Allgar of Messing.
Joseph Loomis was a woolen draper in Braintree, Essex Co., England; sailed from London 11 Apr 1638 in the Susan and Ellen, and arrived at Boston 17 Jul 1638, living for about a year at Dorchester, Mass. It is mentioned in the town records of Windsor, Vol. 1, that on the 2d of Feb., 1640, he had granted him from the Plantation 21 acres adjoining Farmington Aver, on the west side of the Connecticut river; also several large tracts of land on the east side of the Connecticut, partly from the town and partly by purchase. He probably came to Windsor in the summer or autumn of 1639, and he is generally supposed to have come in the company with Rev. Ephraim Huet, who arrived at Windsor 17 Aug 1639. He brought with him five sons, all of whom were freemen 7 Oct 1669, and three daughters. The marriages of these children are recorded in the town records of Windsor, as were the births of their children, but as the dates of birth of Joseph's children are not recorded, it is difficult to determine the order of seniority. His house was situated near the mouth of the Farmington river on the "Island," so called because at every great freshet it became temporarily an island by the overflowing of the Connecticut river.
In the Records of particular Court for the colony of Connecticut, Vol 2, p. 115, is recorded the agreement of the children of Mr. Joseph Loomis, respecting the division of the estate of said deceased as approved by the Court 2 Dec 1658.
Loomis, Joseph, Windsor. Died 25 November, 1658. Inventory £178.10.00. Taken by Henry Clarke, John Moore.
Court Record, Page 115 -- 2 December, 1658. An Agreement for a Division of the Estate by the Children of Joseph Loomis, Decd, and approved by this Court of Magistrates to be an Equal Division. To Joseph Loomis, to Nicholas Olmsted, to Josiah Hull, to John Loomis, to Thomas Loomis, to Nathaniel Loomis, to Mary Tudor, to Samuel Loomis.
The agreement of the children of Mr. Joseph Loomis respecting the division of the estate of ye father deceased approved by The Court 2 December 1658: We whose names are hereunto subscribed doe by these prsents testify that it is our mutual and joynt agreement to attend an equal division of the estate of Mr. Joseph Loomis, our father, lately deceased, wch said estate being distributed in an equal prption we doe by these prsents engage to set down Satisfied and contented respecting any future trouble or demands about the fore said estate now presented by Inventory to ye Court of Magistrates.
Witness our hand, 2nd December, 1658.
Joseph Loomis, Josias Hull, Thomas Loomis, Mary Tudor, Nicholas Olmstead, John Loomis, Nath. Loomis, Samll Loomis.
(Manwaring, Charles W., A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Hartford District. Vol. 1, 1650-1663, pp. 135-6.)
It is believed that the order in which the children were named in the division of the estate indicates the relative ages of the children. Further, Joseph Loomis, the younger, and John Loomis had land granted to them from the Windsor Plantation in 1643. The other sons acquired no land until several years afterward. The marriages of the sons, as recorded at Windsor, took place in the order of the names mentioned above.
i. JOSEPH2 Loomis, b. Eng. c1615; d. Windsor, Conn., 26 Jun 1687; m/1 Windsor 17 Sept 1646 SARAH HILL., who d. 23 Aug 1653; m/2 28 Jun 1659 MARY SHERWOOD, b. c1639, d/o Thomas and Mary (Fitch) Sherwood. ("Some Early Records and Documents of and Relative to the Town of Windsor, Conn., 1639-1703," p. 39.) Inventory of his estate was made 12 Jul 1687 by Henry Wolcott, John Wolcott and John Loomis and amounted to £281.14.08. Children named were Joseph age 38; John 36; Mary 34; Hannah 25; Matthew 23; Stephen 20; James 17; Nathaniel 14; Isaac 9. (Manwaring, Vol. 1, 1677-1687, p. 332.) Children by Sarah: Sarah b. 22 Jul 1647, d. 1654; Joseph b. 15 Jul 1649, d. East Windsor 26 Feb 1715, m/1 Lydia Drake, d/o John, m/2 widow Abigail Birge; John b. 1 Oct 1651, d. Windsor 3 Nov 1732, m/1 Mary (___), m/2 Esther Gillett; Mary b. 3 Aug 1653, living 1687. Children by Mary: Sarah (again) b. 1 Apr 1660, d. inf.; Hannah b. 2 Feb 1662, living 1687; Matthew b 4 Nov 1664, d. 12 Apr 1688, m. Mary Gaylord; Isaac b. 10 Jul 1666, d. young; Stephen b. 1 Sept 1668, d. 1711, m. Esther Colt; James b. 31 Oct 1669, d. Bolton 29 Dec 1750, Mindwell (___); Nathaniel b. 8 Aug 1673, d. East Windsor 1730, m. Elizabeth (___); Isaac (again) b. 28 Oct 1677, d. 17 Mar 1704.
ii. SARAH Loomis, b. Eng., c1617; m. 1640 CAPT. NICHOLAS OLMSTEAD of Hartford, s/o James Olmstead and Joyce Cornish of Hartford. He d. 31 Aug 1684. Children (OLDMSTEAD): Sarah b. 1641 m. George Gates (Torrey); Mabel b. 20 Nov 1646, m/1 Daniel Butler, m/2 Michael Taintor (Torrey); Rebecca b. Mar 1648, m. John Bigelow (Torrey); John b. 3 Feb 1650; Joseph; Samuel; Thomas prob. m. Hannah Mix. (Savage sv Nicholas Olmstead.)
iii ELIZABETH Loomis, b. Eng. c1619; d. aft 1665; m. Windsor 20 May 1641 JOSIAH HULL of Windsor, d. 16 Nov 1675, s/o George. He was deputy to the General Court 1659, 60, 62. He then removed to Killingworth where he was deputy 1667-74. Children (HULL): Josiah b. Sept 1642; John b. 17 Dec 1644; Elizabeth b. 18 Feb 1647; Mary b. 2 Oct 1648; Martha b. 10 Jun 1650: Joseph b. 10 Aug 1652; Sarah b. 9 Aug 1654; Naomi b. 17 Feb 1657, m. Thomas Burnham; Rebecca b. 10 Aug 1659; George b. 28 Apr 1662, d. soon; Thomas b. 29 May 1655. (Savage & Torrey sv Josiah Hull. NOTE: Savage says Josiah Hull m. Elizabeth, d/o Joseph Bemis, but this is incorrect.)
iv MARY Loomis, b. Eng., c1620; d. 19 Aug 1680; m/1 JOHN SKINNER of Hartford, d. 30 Oct 1650; m/2 13 Nov 1651 OWEN TUDOR of Windsor, d. 30 Oct 1690. Children (SKINNER): Mary b. 1 Dec 1637, m. Robert Reeve; Ann b. 1639 m. John Colt; John b. 1641, m. Mary Easton; Joseph b. 1643, m. Mary Filley; Richard b. 1646. Children by Owen Tudor (TUDOR): Samuel (twin) b. 5 Dec 1652, m. 1685 Abigail (Filley) Bissell, wid. of John Bissell; Sarah (twin) b. 5 Dec 1652, m. James Porter; Owen b. 2 Mar 1654, d. unm.; Anne (twin) b. 16 Oct 1657; Jane (twin) b. 16 Oct 1657, m. Samuel Smith of Wethersfield; Mary b. 6 Mar 1661, m/1 John Orton, m/2 John Judson. (Manwaring, Vol. I, 1687-1695, p. 513; Savage sv Owen Tudor.)
v DEACON JOHN Loomis, b. Eng. c1622; d. Windsor 1 Sept 1688; m. 3 Feb 1648/9 ELIZABETH SCOTT, d/o Thomas of Hartford. Children: John b. 9 Nov 1649, m/1 ___; m/2 30 Dec 1696 Sarah (Boltwood) Warner, widow of Isaac Warner and d/o Robert Boltwood; Joseph b. 7 Nov 1651, m. Hannah (___); Thomas b. 3 Dec 1653, m. Sarah White, d/o Daniel of Hatfield, Sarah m/2 John Bissell; Samuel b. 29 Jun 1655, d. young; Daniel b. 16 Jun 1657, m/1 Mary Ellsworth, d/o Josiah, m/2 widow Hannah Drake; James b. 19 Sept 1659, d. young; Timothy b. 27 Jul 1661, m. Rebecca Porter; Nathaniel b. 8 Jul 1663, m. Ruth Porter; David b. 30 May 1665, d. inf.; Samuel (again) b. 12 Aug 1666, m/1 Elizabeth White, d/o Daniel of Hatfield, m/2 widow Elizabeth Church; Isaac b. 31 Aug 1668, d. age 20; Elizabeth b. 8 May 1671, m. John Brown; Mary b. 7 Aug 1673, d. inf. (Savage sv John Loomis; Loomis Genealogy.)
vi. THOMAS Loomis, b. Eng., c1624; d. 28 Aug 1689. He was of Windsor and m/1 1 Nov 1653 HANNAH FOX who d. 25 Apr 1662; m/2 1 Jan 1662/3 MARY JUDD, d. 8 Aug 1684, d/o Thomas Judd and Sarah Freeman. He was freeman in 1654, admitted to the church 3 Apr 1663. Children by Hannah: Thomas b. 29 Oct 1654, d. soon; Thomas (again) b. 17 Mar 1656, Hannah Porter; Hannah b. 8 Feb 1657/8, m. William Judd; Mary b. 16 Jan 1659/60, m. Michael Taintor of Branford. Children by Mary: Elizabeth b. 21 Jan 1663/4. living 1690; Ruth b. 16 Oct 1665, m. Joseph Colt; Sarah b. 1 Feb 1667/8, m. Wakefield Dibble; Jeremiah b. 3 Jul 1670, d. age 2; Mabel b. 27 Oct 1672, living 1690; Mindwell b. 6 Aug 1676, living 1690; Benjamin b. 20 May 1679, living 1690. (Savage sv Thomas Loomis; Loomis Genealogy.)
vii. NATHANIEL Loomis. b. Eng., c1626; d. 19 Aug 1688; will dated 17 Aug 1688; m. 24 Nov 1654 ELIZABETH MOORE, d/o John; she m/2 John Case, and she d. 23 Jul 1728, aged 90. Children: Elizabeth b. 7 Aug 1655, m. John Lee; Nathaniel b. 20 Mar 1657, m. Elizabeth Ellsworth, d/o Josiah; Abigail b. 27 Mar 1659, m. Josiah Barber of Simsbury; Josiah b. 17 Feb 1661, m. Mary Rockwell; Jonathan b. 30 Mar 1664, m. ___; David b. 11 Jan 1668, m. Lydia Marsh; Hezekiah b. 21 Feb 1669, m. Mary Porter; Moses b. 15 May 1671, m. Joanna Gibbs; Mindwell b. 20 Jul 1673, Jonathan Brown; Ebenezer b. 22 Mar 1675, m. Jemima Whitcomb; Mary b. 5 Jan 1680, m. Joseph Barber; Rebecca b. 10 Dec 1682, m. Josiah Rockwell. (Savage sv Nathaniel Loomis, Hezekiah Loomis.)
viii SAMUEL Loomis, b. Eng. c1628; m. ELIZABETH JUDD.
(William Richard Cutter, New England Family History, p. 985; (Elias Loomis, Desc. of Joseph Loomis)"

9. The book "Emerson-Benson Saga …," by Edmund K. Swigart (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1994), pp. 351-53:
"JOSEPH1 LOOMIS (JOHNA LUMACE, JOHNB LUMMYS, THOMASC) was born by 1590, perhaps in Braintree, county Lincoln, England, and died 25 November 1658 at Windsor, CT. He was the son of JOHNA LUMACE, a tailor of Thaxted and Braintree and AGNESA LINGWOOD and JANE MARLAN?, daughter of WILLIAMB and MARGARETA (PERYE) MARLAN? of Braintree. He was also the grandson of JOHNB LUMMYS, a carpenter of Thaxted, and Kryster [sic: Krysten] (Christian (___). JOSEPH1 married 30 June 1616 at Messing, county Essex, England, MARY1 WHITE, daughter of ROBERTA, a wealthy yeoman, and BRIDGETA (ALLGAR) WHITE of Shalford, county Essex. MARY1 was baptized 24 August 1590 at Shalford and died 23 August 1652 at Windsor. MARY1's younger sister, ANNA1, married ancestor JOHN1 PORTER.
United States President Ulysses Simpson Grant (18th Chief Executive), Stephen Grover Cleveland (22nd and 24th), and Gerald Rudolph Ford, (38th), were descendants of MARY1's parents and Millard Fillmore (13th President), of her and her parents.
JOSEPH1 was a woolen draper, He and his wife lived in Braintree until 1628. They moved to London and from there sailed with their eight children 11 April 1638 aboard the "Susan and Ellen", the same ship that ancestor Rev. PETER1 BULKELEY had taken in 1635. The LOOMIS family arrived in Boston 11 July 1638, they may have spent their first year in Dorchester, MA, but moved by land in the summer of 1639 to Windsor, CT, "Probably in the company of Reverend Ephraim Huet who arrived there August 17, 1639" (ref. 3). "On 2 Feb. 1640 he had granted to him 21 acres on the west side of the Connecticut River adjoining the Farmington River" (ref. 6). JOSEPH1 continued to acquire land and served on juries in 1642 and in 1644 with Nathaniel1 Foote, brother of ancestor MARYA FOOTE. "On 6 January 1650, he was sued by" [ancestor WILLIAM1 BUELL] "for trespass and for damage to the extent of seven bushels of corn; one may infer that his stock got away from him" (ref. 3).
JOSEPH1 apparently left no will. His estate was valued at 178 pounds 10 shillings, with "a 'debt in England'" (ref. 3) of 12 pounds 14 shillings 6 pence against it. On December 1658, his wife having predeceased him, his five sons and three daughters (two represented by their husbands) signed an agreement in place of a will to divide JOSEPH's estate equitably among them.
The children of JOSEPH1 and MARY1 (WHITE) LOOMIS, all probably born in Braintree, county Lancaster, England, and probably not all listed in the correct order of birth, were.
I Joseph2, b. 1615, ca. 1616; d. 26 Jun 1687 at Windsor, CT; m. 1/wf 17 Sep 1646, Sarah2 Hill 2/wf 28 Jun 1659, Mary Sherwood.
II Sarah2, b. ca. 1617-8?; d. 1667, 1687, perh. at Hartford, CT; m. by 28 Sep 1640, Nicholas Olmstead.
III. ELIZABETH2, b. ca. 1620?; d. aft. 1665, prob. of Killingworth, CT; m by 20 May 1640-1 at Windsor, CT, JOSIAH2 HULL (see HULL).
IV Mary2, b. 1620?; d. 19 Aug. 1680, prob. at Windsor, CT: m. 1/hs by 1637-8, by 1633, John Skinner, m. 2/hs 13 Nov 1651, prob. at Windsor, Owen Tudor.
V John2, b. ca. 1622?, 1620; d. 2 Sep 1688 at Windsor, CT; m. 3, 6? Feb 1648-9 Elizabeth2 Scott (Thomas1).
VI Thomas2, b. ca. 1624?; 2 Aug 1689, prob. at Windsor, CT; m. 1/wf 1 Nov 1653 Hannah Fox/Fowkes who d. 1662, prob. at Windsor; m. 2/wf 1 Jan 1562-3, Mary2 Judd (Thomas1).
VII Nathaniel2, b. ca 1626?; d. 19 Aug 1688, prob. at Windsor, CT; m. as 1/hs 24 Nov 1653-4, Elizabeth2 Moore (John1) who m. 2/hs aft. 3 Nov 1991, John Case.
VIII Samuel2, b. 1628?; d. 1 Oct 1689, prob. at Westfield, MA; m. 27, 29? Dec 1653, Elizabeth2 Judd (Thomas1), sis. of Mary2 who m. Samuel2's older? bro., Thomas2 as 2/wf.
REFERENCES
1) Brainerd, Dwight, "Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd," [Portland, ME, Anthoensen Press, 1948], [hereinafter Brainerd, D.], 301-2.
2) Colket, M. B., op. cit., 196.
3) Ferris, M. W., op. cit., Dawes-Gates, II:453-62; 567-72.
4) Parke, N. G., op. cit., 78.
5) Pierce, R. Andrew, personal correspondence, research and material on the Hull and Loomis lines, 25 May 1993, MAT, Swigart, E. K., Washington, CT.
6) Pitman, H. M., op. cit., 391-2, 396.
7) Roberts, G. B., op cit., 182.
8) Roberts, Gary B., review of the Emerson-Benson ancestral lines and material on the Lingwood, Loomis and White lines, NEHGS Library, Boston, MA, 19 May 1993 with Swigart, E. K., MAT, Swigart, E. K., Washington, CT.
9) Savage, J., op. cit. II:494; III:112-3.
10) Torrey, C. A., op. cit., 139, 401, 472, 545, 677, 757."

CHRISTENING:
1. The christening, marriage, and burial registers for Braintree no longer exist prior to 1660. They were destroyed by a sexton who used pages to start fires.

DEATH:
1. Will dated 17 Aug 1688 at Hartford, Hartford, Connceticut.

SOURCES_MISC:
1. Per family group sheet archive record submitted by Hazel May Beckstead, 4729 N. Walnut Grove, Rosemead, Calif.. References: "Gen. Biog. Rec. New London Co., Conn. Stiles Fam. Hist. p. 28, His. Hudson Mohawk Valley N.Y. p 725, vol 2 Vitals Boxford, Mass. pp. 94, 95, History of Ancient Windsor Conn. vol II Loomis Gen."

2. Per 9 Feb 2002 email of Ellen Baker : Ellen lists her sources as follows. This file was created by the posts of Vickie L. (VanMeter) Smithson (all) and Mark Allen (on Philip's child Philip Jr.)of the Loomis Surname Forum at Genforum.Com. Info. came from Nan Wolf (web site). Info. was also obtained over at Rootsweb Worldconnect Project. The following books were used to make additions to this summary: Descendants of Joseph Loomis (1590-1658) In America And his Antecedents In the Old World. The Original Published by Elias Loomis LLD, 1875. Revised by Elisha S. Loomis Ph.D. 1908; Lion passengers Title: Passengers on the "Lion" from England to Boston, 1632 Author: Sandra Sutphin Olney Publication: 1992 Heritage Books Inc. Two volume set; Windsor Genealogies Title: The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor Connecticut 1635-1891 Author: Henry R. Stiles, A.M., M.D., Publication: Volume II, 1992 Picton Press; and Our American Ancestry Author: Gates, Frederick Taylor Publication: 1928, Montclair, NJ FHL R929.2 G223GF FHL film #1421664 item 5. 		Loomis, Nathaniel (I2368)
 
4636 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography," v. 2, p. 298, entry for Frederick Law Olmsted (b. 1822): "...a descendant of James Olmsted, the first of the family in this country, who came over probably from the county of Essex, England, and arrive in Cambridge, Mass., in 1632, accompanied by his wife, Joyce Cornish, and son Nicholas. The latter married Sarah Loomis, (etc.)" The same encyclopedia has 20 or so entries as "Olmsted" and 3 or so as "Olmstead." I use the former.

2. The following is a biography of Nicholas Olmstead's father James. Citation Information: "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III:
"JAMES OLMSTEAD
Origin: Fairstead, Essex
Migration: 1632 on Lyon [Hotten 150] First Residence: Cambridge Removes: Hartford 1636 Church Membership: Admission to church membership prior to 6 November 1632 implied by freemanship, presumably to Watertown, since Cambridge church was not yet organized. Probably joined the church at Cambridge when it was formed in 1633, and remained with this church when it went to Hartford. Freeman: 6 November 1632 [MBCR 1:367]. Education: In his inventory were "3 bibles & 3 other books" (£2 5s.) and "15 quire of paper" (6s. 3d.). Offices: Cambridge constable to pay "James Omsted" 10s. for making the highway by William Butler's pales, 2 June 1634 [CaTR 8]; "James Olmsted" chosen constable of Cambridge for year following 3 November 1634 [CaTR 10]; elected selectman 3 February 1634/5 [CaTR 11]; committee to survey town lands, 3 February 1634/5 [CaTR 12]. Estate: On 5 August 1633 granted one acre cowyard at Cambridge [CaTR 5]; assigned proportional share of five in division of meadows (one of the largest in town), 20 August 1635 [CaTR 13]; granted five acres (as "James Homsted"), 8 February 1635/6 [CaTR 17]; in list of those with houses, 8 February 1635/6 [CaTR 18]. In the Cambridge land inventory, under date of 4 June 1635, "James Olmsteade" was credited with eight parcels of land: half a rood in town with one house and backside; "one house and about one acre" in Cowyard Row; four acres in the Old Field; one acre in Wigwam Neck; twenty-two acres and a half in the Neck; two acres in the Ox Marsh; five acres and a half in the Long Marsh; and nineteen acres in the Great Marsh [CaBOP 8]. Although there is no record of the transaction, most of James Olmsted's land in Cambridge came into the possession of Edward Goffe, and the houselot and cowyard row lot are now part of Harvard Yard [Morison, maps facing pp. 188, 192]. In the Hartford land inventory of February 1639[/40] James Olmstead held thirteen parcels of land in Hartford: two acres with dwelling house, outhouses, yards and gardens; one acre, three roods and thirty perches in the Little Meadow; five acres and twenty-four perches of meadow and swamp in the North Meadow; thirty-two acres, three roods and nine perches of meadow and swamp in the North Meadow; four acres and thirty-two perches on the east side of the Great River; twenty-six acres in the Old Oxpasture; two acres, three roods and eight perches in the Venturers' Field; sixteen acres, three roods and eight perches in the Cowpasture; eight acres and two roods of meadow and swamp in the South Meadow; two acres, three roods and thirty-one perches of meadow and swamp at Hockanum; four acres, two roods and thirty-three perches in the Neck of Land; seven acres, three roods and sixteen perches in the Neck of Land; twenty acres, two roods and twenty-four perches in the Cowpasture [HaBOP 314-17]. In an undated will (attested 28 September 1640) James Olmstead of Hartford divided his estate equally between his two sons Nicholas and Nehemiah (dependent upon a settlement to be made on Nicholas by his father-in-law Joseph Loomis), with small legacies to "my cousin Rebecca Olmstead that now dwelleth with me," and to servant Will[iam] Corby. In a later agreement between the e xecutors and the two sons of James, kinsmen Richard and John Olmstead were given £5 apiece, and the Hartford church £20 [Manwaring 1:28-29; CCCR 1:446-47]. The inventory, taken 28 September 1640, totalled £397 19s. 2d., and included "2 acres of English corn of the ground" and "13 acres of ground broke up," but this certainly did not include all his land [CCCR 1:448-49]. Birth: Baptized at Great Leighs, Essex, 4 December 1580, son of James and Jane (Bristow) Olmstead. Death: Hartford before 28 September 1640 (date of inventory). Marriage: Great Leighs, Essex, 26 October 1605 Joyce Cornish; buried Fairstead, Essex, 21 April 1621. Children (all but first baptized Fairstead, Essex):
i FAITH, bp. Great Leighs 7 January 1606[/7]; bur. Fairstead 3 March 1627/8.
ii FRANCES, bur. Fairstead 14 February 1609/10. (This event is published at one point as a burial and at another as a baptism [Olmsted Gen xi, 5], but the transcript has it as a burial.)
iii MABEL, bp. 30 September 1610; bur. Fairstead 18 February 1621/2.
iv Nicholas, bp. 15 February 1612/3; m. by about 1645 Sarah Loomis, daughter of Joseph Loomis (eldest known child d. 1646 and next child b. 20 November 1646 [Grant 81; HaVR Barbour 237]; among the "Children of Mr. Joseph Loomis" who received a distribution on 2 December 1658 was "Nicholas Olmsted" [Manwaring 1:135-36]).
v James, bp. 22 January 1615/6; no further record.
vi Nehemiah, bp. 10 November 1618; m. by about 1655 Elizabeth Burr, daughter of JEHU BURR, as the first of her three husbands.vii Mary, bp. 18 April 1621; bur. Fairstead 24 April 1621.
Associations: Three children of Richard Olmstead, nephew of James, came to New England: Richard (bp. 1612), John (bp. 1617) and Rebecca (b. say 1620) [Olmsted Gen 5]. It has been claimed that they came to New England in 1632 with their greatuncle, but there is no evidence to prove this, and they may well have come later.
Bibliographic Note: The standard genealogy for the Olmstead family is Henry King Olmsted and Geo. K. Ware, "Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America Embracing the Descendants of James and Richard Olmsted and Covering a Period of Nearly Three Centuries, 1632-1912," (New York 1912) [cited above as Olmsted Gen]. This presents the records obtained as a result of research in England (supervised by Frederick Law Olmsted!), including speculations on earlier generations [x-xv]. The parish register entries above are taken from this work, augmented by examination of a transcript of the register at the Essex Record Office in Chelmsford."

3. The book "The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647 - 1697" by John M. Taylor, pp. 96-100, 151, 156. Nicholas Olmstead served on a jury in which Nathaniel and Rebecca Greensmith of Hartford in 1662-63 were accused and executed as witches in Hartford, CT.

4. Website of Stephen M. Lawson (Email:sml@kinnexions.com) : "Nicholas Olmsted - bap. Feb. 15, 1612, Fairsted, Essex, England; d. Aug. 31, 1684, Hartford, CT (will dated Aug. 20, 1683 and proved Nov. 25, 1684). Son of James Olmsted and Joyce Cornish. To Boston and Hartford with father. Served in Pequot War. Surveyor of highways, 1646; townsman for North side betwen 1653 and 1683; Corporal 1658; freeman 1669; deputy to General Court 1672 and 1673. Served in King Philip's War and made Capt. Aug. 26, 1675. Married first Sep. 28, 1640, Hartford, CT Sarah Loomis (b. 1617, Essex, England; d. 1667, Hartford, CT), daughter of Joseph Loomis and Mary White. Sarah was the mother of all children of Nicholas, except his youngest. Nicholas married second about 1667/8." Second wife: "Mary - Possibly surnamed Thurston and/or she was perhaps the widow Mary Lord. She was not the widow of Dr. Thomas Lord whose widow married Gregory Wolterton as his third wife. Mary was the mother of Nicholas' youngest child." For children of marriages with brief descriptive biography of each see website.

5. Per 9 Feb 2002 email of Ellen Baker : Sarah Loomis(b. in 1617, m. Capt. Nicholas Olmsted/Olmstead, served in the Pequot War in 1637, Captain (King Philip's War) 1675, a Townsman of Northside Hartford for 9 years between 1653 and 1683. He was Corporal of the Hartford Troop of Horse in 1658, Freeman and Rate Maker in 1669, and Deputy to the General Court in 1672 and 1673, had 9 children, Sarah (m. George Gates, a "chimneyviewer," equivalent to a fire commissioner), Elizabeth (m. Samuel Butler, was both a Deacon and an Ensign. He was the Town school master for Haddam, CT and a founder of the city. His name appears on the founding fathers plaque in the city), Mary (died in infancy), Rebecca (m.
John Bigelow), John (died young), Samuel (m.Mary Lord), Joseph (farmer & first Deacon in the Church at East Hartford, fence viewer, surveyor and selectman, m. Elizabeth Butler), Thomas (m. Hannah Mix) and Mabel (m. #1 Daniel Butler, Sergeant; m. #2 Michael Taintor)).

6. The book "Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut," Lucius Barnes Barbour, 1982 ed.: "Capt. Nathaniel Olmsted, son of James and Joyce (Cornish) bp. Feb. 15, 1612, Eng, d. Aug. 31, 1684, mar/1 bef 1640 Sarah Loomis dau. of Joseph Loomis and Mary White. Mar/2 Mary or Hannah (), widow of Thomas Lord. Children:
Mary, b. Nov. 20, 1646 (HTR), d. 1646.
Rebecca, b. Mch 12, 1647-8 (HTR) m. John Bigelow.
John, bp Feb 3, 1649-50 (HTR), died young.
Sarah, b. 1641, m. George Gates.
Mabel, m/1 Daniel Butler, m/2 Michael Taintor.
Joseph, b. 1654 (E. Hfd) m. Elizabeth Butler.
Samuel, b. 1653, m. Mary Lord dau. of William (see Hfd Times, Oct 19 or 29, 1903).
Thomas, m/1 Hannah Mix, m/2 Martha Begelow.
Elizabeth, m/1, m/2 Samuel Butler as 2nd wife.
Served in the Pequot War 1637; surveyor of highways 1647; townsman 1654-8-67; list and rate maker 1669; freeman 1669; deputy 1672-3; Lieut. 1673; townsman 1671-9-83; appointed Captain of a company sent to New London in 1675; was in active service in King Philip's War. (See Hfd Times Nov 16, 1903)."

7. Per 12 Feb 2002 email from Dave Francis :
a. Nicholas Olmstead came to New England at the age of 20 with his father. The Pequots had become very insolent, and had committed numerous outrages, and threatened the extermination of the whites. Therefore on May 1, 1637, when Hartford was but a year old, and there were but 800 souls in the Colony, the General Court of Connecticut declared open war upon them, and on the 9th of May 90 men were drafted to prosecute it. I have never seen a list of the names, nor do I know how many participated. Frequently it is stated that it was 70 who destroyed the Pequot Fort. Nicholas Olmstead was of the force which was led by Capt. Mason, and was especially mentioned in the Captain's report as one of them who kindled the fire that burned it. The kindling of a fire in that day, be it remembered, was no simple striking of a match. (But I have learned that the fire was started in a still simpler manner, with a brand from the Indian's own campfire.) He next comes into prominence when he was appointed on a committee named by the General Court, along with Lieut. Thomas Bull (205-11) and Robert Webster (219-12c) to view, lay out, and settle Mattatuck, now Waterbury, and later was appointed to have active management of the undertaking. He served as townsman, selectman, for the north side of the town of Hartford for nine years between 1653 and 1683. He was 'list and rate maker', probably equivalent to assessor, in 1669. His name frequently occurs in the records as appraiser or overseer of estates. In 1658 he was corporal of the Hartford troop of horse. He was appointed Lieut. of a company of 160 men raised 14 Aug. 1673 for service against an expected attack by the Dutch from New Amsterdam. As Lieut. he served during the term of King Philip's War, which began 20 June 1675. In July of that year he was in command of troops sent to New London and Huntington on occasion of alarms. In August, 1673, he was made Captain of the troop. My notes have accumulated over a long term of years, and I have been careless at times - most of the time - about crediting their source. The Olmstead Genealogy, 1912 edition, contains the large majority of the data concerning each generation, although most of my material was gathered before that period.
b. Will: "In the Name of God Amen I Nicholas Olmsted of Harttford in the Colony of Coneticut do make this my last will and Testament reuoking and annulling all other wills foremerly made by word or deede: being in health of body and of perfeckt remembrance yet not knowing how soone my sollem change may come: allso knowing itt is my duty to set my house in order before I dye: I do therefore giue my spirret unto God that gaue itt mee and my body to comely buriall: and as for that part of my estate God hath graciously giune mee in this worlde I do after my just depts being payed and funerall expences discharged dispose of as followeth: I giue unto my louing wife fiue pounds a yeare during her widdow hood after mee: and fouer pounds the yeare after her marraige during her naturall life: to be payed her yearely by my son Samuell forty shillings by my son Joseph forty shillings and by my son Thomas twenty shillings: and by the same rate of proportion if itt bee fouer pounds p annum: I giue unto my louing wife one cow as her owne proper estate and two swine and sum poultry and order my son Samuell and my son Thomas to keepe her one cow as long as shee remayns my widdow. - and do giue her free liberty to keepe two swine and sum poultry in my yardes: I do furder giue unto my louing wife all her fyer wood as long as shee remains my widdow to bee
prouided for her one third partt by my son Tho and two parts by my son Samuell: I giue my wife the use of my parlor and the chamber ouer the parlor with what sellerage shee may want allso the use of my ouens and the well: with the use of any of my housall goods shee wanteth whilst shee remayns my widdow and liueth in my house: but if she marry or remoue from my house my will is that these housall goods bee retrned to my son Thomas... I giue unto my louing son Samuell Olmsted my dwelling house in Harttford after my desease onely the use of sum part of itt vnto his mother as is aboue exprest: and do furder giue unto my son Samuell halfe my barne and all that part of my home lott not giune to my son Tho: I giue the other halfe of the barne to my son Tho and I giue my barne yard eaqually to my son Samuell and to my son Thomas with my well in the same: I giue my son Thomas that part of my home lott nixt Mr Haynes and Mr Hookers home lotts: to bee diuided from my son Samuells partt of my home lott as followeth from the barne to the Highway to bee deuided by the fence that fences in the barne yards: and aboue the barne from the midle of the barne flower uppon a just bredgth up to Jerremyah Addams Home lott: the remainder of my home lott I giue unto my son Samuell and His Heires foreuer:... I giue unto my son Thomas my meadow lott in the long meadow lying betwene Decon Butlers and Lt Joseph Wadsworths land: I giue unto my son Thomas my upland lott in the west diuision in Harttford on the west side the great riuer to him and his Heirs foreuer... I giue unto my son Samuell all the rest of my meadow lands and uplands on the west side the great riuer in Harttford and to his Heires foreuer... I giue unto my son Joseph Olmsted and his Heirs foreuer all that diuision of up land and the swamp lands belonging to the same uppon which he hath bult on the east side the great riuer... I giue unto my son Joseph all my meadow lands on the east side the great riuer att my desease hee paying twenty shillings vnto his sister Gates and forty shillings p annum to his mother... I giue my farme of land lying in the woods ajoyning to Jerremyah Addams land in the roade to New London unto my son Samuell and my son Thomas to bee equally deuided betwene them... I giue to my daughter Sarah Gates twenty shillings to bee payed her within three yeares after my desease: I giue all my right and title to that lands purchased of Joshua son of Vncas by the towne of Harttford on the east side the great riuer to my son Samll Butler my daughter Rebecah Biglo and to my daughter Mabell Butler to bee equally deuided betwene them: ... I giue unto my son Samll my son Joseph and my son Thomas all my right in a parcell of lands giune by Joshua son of Vncas in his last will and Testament to bee diuided amongst seuerall persons in Harttford1... I giue unto my daughter Biglo forty shillings in stock or housall goods after my desease... I giue unto my daughter Butler three pounds in stock or housall goods after my desease... I do make my son Thomas Olmsted executor of this my last will and Testament giuing him my seruant lad if his time be not expired and all the remainder of my stock housall goods and moueable estate whatsoeuer not otherwayes disposed of by this my last will and testament: I do order all my sons Samuell Joseph and Thomas carefully to performe what I haue respecktiuely giune vnto my louing wife as itt is aboue expressed: and do furder order all my estate giune vnto my son Samuell be improued by my son Thomas vntill my son Samll come to liue att Harttford the said Tho paying what Samll should do to his mother vntill Samuell doeth injoy the same I do request ordaine and appoynt my louing freinds Mr William Pitkin and Caleb Stanly to bee my ouerseers to see this my last will and Testament be performed: In witness whereof I haue set my hand and seale this 20e of August in the yeare of or Lorde One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty and Three: Signed sealed and declared to be my last will and Testament in presence & witnes of us Caleb Stanly, Timothy Cowles, Nocho: Olmstead [Seal]" Note: The house lot, and house built by him, was on Front St., now Nos. 30-32 and 34 near the Little or Park River. The house was taken down in or about 1835. (Genealogy of the Olmstead Family In America).

8. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 538: "...Hon. Nicholas Olmstead, who was representative at Hartford and served in the Pequot war.. and wife Sarah Loomis..."

9. From the book "The Descendants (by the Female Branches) of Joseph Loomis, who Came from Braintree, England, in the Year 1638 and Settled in Windsor, CT, in 1639," by Elias Loomis (Yale Professor), 1880, v. 1, p. 15:
"A daughter of Joseph Loomis, whose Christian name is believed to have been Sarah, married Capt. Nicholas Olmsted of Hartford, in 1640. He married for his second wife Mrs. Mary Lord. He was a military officer and died Aug. 31, 1684. Children:
A. Sarah, b. ___, m. Capt. George Gates 1662. Haddam.
B. Mary, b. 20 Nov 1646, m. Samuel Butler.
C. Rebecca, b. 12 Mar 1647-8, m. John Bigelow. He d. 1721, ae. 78.
D. John, bap. 3 Feb 1649-50. d. young.
E. Samuel, b. 1653, m. Mary ___. He d. 13 Jan 1726, ae. 73. East Haddam. She d. Oct 1739.
F. Deac. Joseph, b. 1654, m. Elizabeth Butler. He d. 5 Oct 1726. East Hartford.
G. Thomas, b. ___, m. Hannah Mix 25 Jun 1691. He d. 1741. West Hartford.
H. Mabel, b. ___, m. 1st Daniel Butler, who d. 28 Mar 1692; m. 2d, Michael Taintor Aug 1697.

10. Elias Loomis "Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America," update of 1875 edition published by Elisha S. Loomis, Berea, Ohio, third (1908) edition, chapter: "The Descendants of Joseph Loomis (1590-1658) in America," subchapter "First Generation, children of Joseph Loomis of Windsor, CT.," pp. 126-128:
"Sarah, b. 1617; m. Sep. 28, 1640, Capt. Nicholas, d. Aug. 1684, son of James and Joyce (Cornish) Olmsted of Hartford, who came in the 'Lion', arriving at Boston, Sept. 16th, 1633. He was Capt. in the Pequod war, 1675. The Olmstead's old family seat in Fairsted, Co. Essex, Eng., still exists. James Olmsted, 'first settler,' Hartford, Conn., was bapt. at Great Leighs (or Lees Magna), Co. Essex, Eng., Dec. 4, 1580 (parish register.) The name of his wife was Joyce Cornish, m. at Great Leighs, Oct. 26, 1605, bur. Eng. Apr. 21, 1621. James was the son of James, b. 1550, d. Dec. 2, 1595, who m. Aug. 12, 1676, Jane Bristow, he being son of Thomas, b. 1521, who was son of James, b. 1496, the son of John, b. 1470, and Alice Hankley, b. 1473, d. 1533. See Frederick Law Olmstead (sen.) in his 'Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in Eng.,' chap. LII. Ch'n: 1. Sarah, 2. Mary, 3. Rebecca, 4. John, 5. Samuel, 6. Deac. Joseph, ancestor of Frederick E. Church, b. May 4, 1826, a distinguished landscape painter, N.Y. City, also ancestor of Gen. James S. Wadsworth, b. Oct 30, 1807, Maj. Gen. U.S. Army; also ancestor of Norman White, b. Aug 8, 1857, Vice-Pres. of Am. Bible Society, N.Y. City; also ancestor of Dr. Aaron L. Chapin, b. Feb. 6, 1817, Pres. Beloit Coll., for more than 20 years; and also ancestor of Denison Olmsted, b. June 18, 1791, who executed the first state geological survey in this country, and who was a noted meteorologist, a voluminous author and Prof. Nat. Phil., Yale College. 7. Thomas, 8. Mabel. He m. 2nd, Mrs. Mary Lord; he was a military officer and d. Aug. 31, 1684."

11. FHL book 929.273 F597g "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England…," by Ernest Flagg (Hartford, 1926), p. 278:
"Sarah [Loomis], about 1617; d. 1667; m. Sept. 28, 1640, as his first wife, Capt. Nicholas Olmstead, grandson of James and Jane (BristowB) OlmsteadB, and who served in the Pequot War."

12. The book "Dorset Pilgrims," 1989:
pp. 120-1: In regards to the Mystic Fort battle of the Pequot War in which Capt. Mason and his troop burn down the wigwams in the Indians' Mystic Fort: "All this took place in the space of a few minutes. Mason then turned round and marched back up the alley … he now realized that the space between the wigwams was too constricted for swordplay let alone the cumbersome business of loading and firing matchlock muskets. In any case the English were heavily outnumbered. So on the spur of the moment he decided, We must burn them. Stepping back into the same wigwam he went to its fireplace, seized a firebrand and with the help of Lieut. Bull and Nicholas Olmstead of Hartford set alight the thatch with which the wigwams were covered … In no time the fort was blazing. It burnt down within half an hour. The effect on the Indians were catastrophic … Perhaps four hundred were killed, in the space of an hour … The holocaust was caused by Mason's decision that the only way to save his outnumbered English force was to fire the fort. It had been a desperate venture from the start..."
pp. 188-90: In a section of the book talking about the creation of a troop of horse in March 1658, which was the first for Connecticut: "In New England's earliest days, horses were too scarce and the country too unfamiliar for a cavalry arm to be practicable; but in time the possibilities of fast movement against Indians and no doubt the example of Cromwell's cavalry made the institution of the troop of horse a more attractive proposition … The troop of thirty-seven men, seventeen from Windsor, fourteen from Hartford, six from Wethersfield, was only about half the strength of a cavalry troop of the day, for the settlements could still boast only a limited number of able-bodied men with the means to support the horse, armour and accoutrements of a trooper … It is the social significance of these volunteers that is for the moment our principal concern, for the relationships reveal much about the social structure of Windsor and the colony. The horse, like the foot, had its roots in the English shires, but, by a long-standing tradition which can be traced back to the Middle Ages, recruits came from the gentry and superior yeomanry, with an obligation and the means to provide their own mounts, accoutrements and weapons. They were thus set apart from the foot by being socially select volunteers … Most of those thirty-seven troopers were men of good family with intimate connections in the Great River neighbourhood … The official connections were impressive … George Phelp's brother was a magistrate and founding commissioner … Corporal Nicholas Olmstead was married to one of the Loomis girls, sister to troopers Nathaniel and Thomas … Most of the troop were sons of the first settlers, up-and-coming young men of a second generation."

13. The book "Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Rice Lyon and his wife Harriet Wade Rice with related families," by Patty Barthell Myers (2003), pp. 448-51:
"SARAH Loomis, b. Eng., c1617; m. 1640 CAPT. NICHOLAS OLMSTEAD of Hartford, s/o James Olmstead and Joyce Cornish of Hartford. He d. 31 Aug 1684. Children (OLDMSTEAD): Sarah b. 1641 m. George Gates (Torrey); Mabel b. 20 Nov 1646, m/1 Daniel Butler, m/2 Michael Taintor (Torrey); Rebecca b. Mar 1648, m. John Bigelow (Torrey); John b. 3 Feb 1650; Joseph; Samuel; Thomas prob. m. Hannah Mix. (Savage sv Nicholas Olmstead.)
(William Richard Cutter, New England Family History, p. 985; (Elias Loomis, Desc. of Joseph Loomis)"

14. The book "Emerson-Benson Saga …," by Edmund K. Swigart (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1994), pp. 351-53:
"JOSEPH1 LOOMIS (JOHNA LUMACE, JOHNB LUMMYS, THOMASC) was born by 1590, perhaps in Braintree, county Lincoln, England, and died 25 November 1658 at Windsor, CT. He was the son of JOHNA LUMACE, a tailor of Thaxted and Braintree and AGNESA LINGWOOD and JANE MARLAN?, daughter of WILLIAMB and MARGARETA (PERYE) MARLAN? of Braintree. He was also the grandson of JOHNB LUMMYS, a carpenter of Thaxted, and Kryster [sic: Krysten] (Christian (___). JOSEPH1 married 30 June 1616 at Messing, county Essex, England, MARY1 WHITE, daughter of ROBERTA, a wealthy yeoman, and BRIDGETA (ALLGAR) WHITE of Shalford, county Essex. MARY1 was baptized 24 August 1590 at Shalford and died 23 August 1652 at Windsor. MARY1's younger sister, ANNA1, married ancestor JOHN1 PORTER.
United States President Ulysses Simpson Grant (18th Chief Executive), Stephen Grover Cleveland (22nd and 24th), and Gerald Rudolph Ford, (38th), were descendants of MARY1's parents and Millard Fillmore (13th President), of her and her parents.
JOSEPH1 was a woolen draper, He and his wife lived in Braintree until 1628. They moved to London and from there sailed with their eight children 11 April 1638 aboard the "Susan and Ellen", the same ship that ancestor Rev. PETER1 BULKELEY had taken in 1635. The LOOMIS family arrived in Boston 11 July 1638, they may have spent their first year in Dorchester, MA, but moved by land in the summer of 1639 to Windsor, CT, "Probably in the company of Reverend Ephraim Huet who arrived there August 17, 1639" (ref. 3). "On 2 Feb. 1640 he had granted to him 21 acres on the west side of the Connecticut River adjoining the Farmington River" (ref. 6). JOSEPH1 continued to acquire land and served on juries in 1642 and in 1644 with Nathaniel1 Foote, brother of ancestor MARYA FOOTE. "On 6 January 1650, he was sued by" [ancestor WILLIAM1 BUELL] "for trespass and for damage to the extent of seven bushels of corn; one may infer that his stock got away from him" (ref. 3).
JOSEPH1 apparently left no will. His estate was valued at 178 pounds 10 shillings, with "a 'debt in England'" (ref. 3) of 12 pounds 14 shillings 6 pence against it. On December 1658, his wife having predeceased him, his five sons and three daughters (two represented by their husbands) signed an agreement in place of a will to divide JOSEPH's estate equitably among them.
The children of JOSEPH1 and MARY1 (WHITE) LOOMIS, all probably born in Braintree, county Lancaster, England, and probably not all listed in the correct order of birth, were.
I Joseph2, b. 1615, ca. 1616; d. 26 Jun 1687 at Windsor, CT; m. 1/wf 17 Sep 1646, Sarah2 Hill 2/wf 28 Jun 1659, Mary Sherwood.
II Sarah2, b. ca. 1617-8?; d. 1667, 1687, perh. at Hartford, CT; m. by 28 Sep 1640, Nicholas Olmstead.
III. ELIZABETH2, b. ca. 1620?; d. aft. 1665, prob. of Killingworth, CT; m by 20 May 1640-1 at Windsor, CT, JOSIAH2 HULL (see HULL).
IV Mary2, b. 1620?; d. 19 Aug. 1680, prob. at Windsor, CT: m. 1/hs by 1637-8, by 1633, John Skinner, m. 2/hs 13 Nov 1651, prob. at Windsor, Owen Tudor.
V John2, b. ca. 1622?, 1620; d. 2 Sep 1688 at Windsor, CT; m. 3, 6? Feb 1648-9 Elizabeth2 Scott (Thomas1).
VI Thomas2, b. ca. 1624?; 2 Aug 1689, prob. at Windsor, CT; m. 1/wf 1 Nov 1653 Hannah Fox/Fowkes who d. 1662, prob. at Windsor; m. 2/wf 1 Jan 1562-3, Mary2 Judd (Thomas1).
VII Nathaniel2, b. ca 1626?; d. 19 Aug 1688, prob. at Windsor, CT; m. as 1/hs 24 Nov 1653-4, Elizabeth2 Moore (John1) who m. 2/hs aft. 3 Nov 1991, John Case.
VIII Samuel2, b. 1628?; d. 1 Oct 1689, prob. at Westfield, MA; m. 27, 29? Dec 1653, Elizabeth2 Judd (Thomas1), sis. of Mary2 who m. Samuel2's older? bro., Thomas2 as 2/wf.
REFERENCES
1) Brainerd, Dwight, "Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd," [Portland, ME, Anthoensen Press, 1948], [hereinafter Brainerd, D.], 301-2.
2) Colket, M. B., op. cit., 196.
3) Ferris, M. W., op. cit., Dawes-Gates, II:453-62; 567-72.
4) Parke, N. G., op. cit., 78.
5) Pierce, R. Andrew, personal correspondence, research and material on the Hull and Loomis lines, 25 May 1993, MAT, Swigart, E. K., Washington, CT.
6) Pitman, H. M., op. cit., 391-2, 396.
7) Roberts, G. B., op cit., 182.
8) Roberts, Gary B., review of the Emerson-Benson ancestral lines and material on the Lingwood, Loomis and White lines, NEHGS Library, Boston, MA, 19 May 1993 with Swigart, E. K., MAT, Swigart, E. K., Washington, CT.
9) Savage, J., op. cit. II:494; III:112-3.
10) Torrey, C. A., op. cit., 139, 401, 472, 545, 677, 757."

CHRISTENING:
1. LDS IGI FHL fillm 0820789, source 0962701 Item 4, batch P020501, sht. 00, extracted record: Nic Holmested, son of James Holmested, ch. 15 Feb 1612 at Fairsted, Essex, England.

SOURCES_MISC:
1. The book "The Genealogy of the Olmsted Family" by Henry King Olmsted, et al, 1912. 		Olmstead, Nicholas (I2374)
 
4637 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography," v. 2, p. 298, entry for Frederick Law Olmsted (b. 1822): "...a descendant of James Olmsted, the first of the family in this country, who came over probably from the county of Essex, England, and arrive in Cambridge, Mass., in 1632, accompanied by his wife, Joyce Cornish, and son Nicholas. The latter married Sarah Loomis, (etc.)"

2. Website : "Nicholas Olmsted - bap. Feb. 15, 1612, Fairsted, Essex, England; d. Aug. 31, 1684, Hartford, CT (will dated Aug. 20, 1683 and proved Nov. 25, 1684). Son of James Olmsted and Joyce Cornish. To Boston and Hartford with father. Served in Pequot War. Surveyor of highways, 1646; townsman for North side betwen 1653 and 1683; Corporal 1658; freeman 1669; deputy to General Court 1672 and 1673. Served in King Philip's War and made Capt. Aug. 26, 1675. Married first Sep. 28, 1640, Hartford, CT Sarah Loomis (b. 1617, Essex, England; d. 1667, Hartford, CT), daughter of Joseph Loomis and Mary White. Sarah was the mother of all children of Nicholas, except his youngest. Nicholas married second about 1667/8." For children of marriages with brief descriptive biography of each see website.

3. Per 9 Feb 2002 email of Ellen Baker : Sarah (b. in 1617, m. Capt. Nicholas Olmsted/Olmstead, served in the Pequot War in 1637, Captain (King Philip's War) 1675, a Townsman of Northside Hartford for 9 years between 1653 and 1683. He was Corporal of the Hartford Troop of Horse in 1658, Freeman and Rate Maker in 1669, and Deputy to the General Court in 1672 and 1673, had 9 children, Sarah (m. George Gates, a "chimneyviewer," equivalent to a fire commissioner), Elizabeth (m. Samuel Butler, was both a Deacon and an Ensign. He was the Town school master for Haddam, CT and a founder of the city. His name appears on the founding fathers plaque in the city), Mary (died in infancy), Rebecca (m. John Bigelow), John (died young), Samuel (m.Mary Lord), Joseph (farmer & first Deacon in the Church at East Hartford, fence viewer, surveyor and selectman, m. Elizabeth Butler), Thomas (m. Hannah Mix) and Mabel (m. #1 Daniel Butler, Sergeant; m. #2 Michael Taintor)).

4. From the book "The Descendants (by the Female Branches) of Joseph Loomis, who Came from Braintree, England, in the Year 1638 and Settled in Windsor, CT, in 1639," by Elias Loomis (Yale Professor), 1880, v. 1, p. 15:
"A daughter of Joseph Loomis, whose Christian name is believed to have been Sarah, married Capt. Nicholas Olmsted of Hartford, in 1640. He married for his second wife Mrs. Mary Lord. He was a military officer and died Aug. 31, 1684. Children:
A. Sarah, b. ___, m. Capt. George Gates 1662. Haddam.
B. Mary, b. 20 Nov 1646, m. Samuel Butler.
C. Rebecca, b. 12 Mar 1647-8, m. John Bigelow. He d. 1721, ae. 78.
D. John, bap. 3 Feb 1649-50. d. young.
E. Samuel, b. 1653, m. Mary ___. He d. 13 Jan 1726, ae. 73. East Haddam. She d. Oct 1739.
F. Deac. Joseph, b. 1654, m. Elizabeth Butler. He d. 5 Oct 1726. East Hartford.
G. Thomas, b. ___, m. Hannah Mix 25 Jun 1691. He d. 1741. West Hartford.
H. Mabel, b. ___, m. 1st Daniel Butler, who d. 28 Mar 1692; m. 2d, Michael Taintor Aug 1697.

5. Elias Loomis "Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America," update of 1875 edition published by Elisha S. Loomis, Berea, Ohio, third (1908) edition, chapter: "The Descendants of Joseph Loomis (1590-1658) in America," subchapter "First Generation, children of Joseph Loomis of Windsor, CT.," pp. 126-128:
"Genealogical investigations have been unable to establish definitely the order of the children of Joseph Loomis, and it is considered advisable to give here the conflicting evidence:
Possible order of children:
1. Mrs Olmsted, b. 1615, md. 1640. [Sarah]
2. Mrs. Hull, b. 1617, md. 1641. [Elizabeth]
3. Joseph, b. 1618, md. 1646.
4. Mrs. Skinner, b. 1620, md. 1638. [Mary]
5. John, b. 1622, md. 1648.
6. Thomas, b. 1624, md. 1653.
7. Nathaniel, b. 1626, md. 1653.
8. Samuel, b. 1628, md. 1653.
Probably, however, the order was as follows:
Joseph, b. 1615.
Sarah, b. 1617.
Elizabeth, b. abt 1619.
Mary, b. abt 1620.
John, b. 1622.
Thomas, b. 1624.
Nathaniel, b. 1626.
Samuel, b. 1628."
Concerning Sarah:
"Sarah, b. 1617; m. Sep. 28, 1640, Capt. Nicholas, d. Aug. 1684, son of James and Joyce (Cornish) Olmsted of Hartford, who came in the 'Lion', arriving at Boston, Sept. 16th, 1633. He was Capt. in the Pequod war, 1675. The Olmstead's old family seat in Fairsted, Co. Essex, Eng., still exists. James Olmsted, 'first settler,' Hartford, Conn., was bapt. at Great Leighs (or Lees Magna), Co. Essex, Eng., Dec. 4, 1580 (parish register.) The name of his wife was Joyce Cornish, m. at Great Leighs, Oct. 26, 1605, bur. Eng. Apr. 21, 1621. James was the son of James, b. 1550, d. Dec. 2, 1595, who m. Aug. 12, 1676, Jane Bristow, he being son of Thomas, b. 1521, who was son of James, b. 1496, the son of John, b. 1470, and Alice Hankley, b. 1473, d. 1533. See Frederick Law Olmstead (sen.) in his 'Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in Eng.,' chap. LII. Ch'n: 1. Sarah, 2. Mary, 3. Rebecca, 4. John, 5. Samuel, 6. Deac. Joseph, ancestor of Frederick E. Church, b. May 4, 1826, a distinguished landscape painter, N.Y. City, also ancestor of Gen. James S. Wadsworth, b. Oct 30, 1807, Maj. Gen. U.S. Army; also ancestor of Norman White, b. Aug 8, 1857, Vice-Pres. of Am. Bible Society, N.Y. City; also ancestor of Dr. Aaron L. Chapin, b. Feb. 6, 1817, Pres. Beloit Coll., for more than 20 years; and also ancestor of Denison Olmsted, b. June 18, 1791, who executed the first state geological survey in this country, and who was a noted meteorologist, a voluminous author and Prof. Nat. Phil., Yale College. 7. Thomas, 8. Mabel. He m. 2nd, Mrs. Mary Lord; he was a military officer and d. Aug. 31, 1684."

6. The following mentions of the Loomis family is from a biography of Nicholas Olmstead's father James. Citation Information: "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III:
"James OLMSTEAD
Origin: Fairstead, Essex... Estate: ...In an undated will (attested 28 September 1640) James Olmstead of Hartford divided his estate equally between his two sons Nicholas and Nehemiah (dependent upon a settlement to be made on Nicholas by his father-in-law Joseph Loomis), with small legacies to "my cousin Rebecca Olmstead that now dwelleth with me," and to servant Will[iam] Corby...
iv [son] Nicholas, bp. 15 February 1612/3; m. by about 1645 Sarah Loomis, daughter of Joseph Loomis (eldest known child d. 1646 and next child b. 20 November 1646 [Grant 81; HaVR Barbour 237]; among the "Children of Mr. Joseph Loomis" who received a distribution on 2 December 1658 was "Nicholas Olmsted" [Manwaring 1:135-36])..."

7. FHL book 929.273 F597g "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England…," by Ernest Flagg (Hartford, 1926), p. 278:
"Mary White1, wife of Joseph Loomis1, bap. Aug. 24, 1590; dau. of Robert and Bridget (AllgarA) WhiteA of Messing, Essex, England; m. June 30, 1614 in England; d. Aug. 23, 1652. (Matthew Grant's O.C.R.)
Their children:
-Joseph, about 1615; d. June 26, 1687; m. Sept. 17, 1646, Sarah, dau. of William Hill and granddau. af Richard Lyman1; m. (2), June 28, 1659, Mary Chauncey, who d. April 22, 1681. He was a trooper in King Philip's War, as was his brother, Nathaniel.
-Sarah, about 1617; d. 1667; m. Sept. 28, 1640, as his first wife, Capt. Nicholas Olmstead, grandson of James and Jane (BristowB) OlmsteadB, and who served in the Pequot War.
-Elizabeth, about 1619; m. May 20, 1641, Josias Hull, son of George of Windsor, who d. Nov. 16, 1675.
-Mary, about. 1620; d. Aug. 19, 1680; m. 1638, John Skinner of Hartford; m. (2), Nov. 13, 1651, Owen Tudor.
-John, (Deacon), 1622; d. Sept. 1, 1688; m. Feb. 3, 1648-9, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Scott and sister of the first wife of John Stanley2, who d. May 7, 1696.
-Thomas, 1624; d. Aug. 28, 1689; m. Nov. 1, 1653, Hannah Fox, (M.G.O.C.R.); m. (2), Jan. 1, 1662-3, Mary, dau. of Deacon Thomas Judd1, who d. Aug. 8 1684. Thomas Loomis was a trooper in 1658 under Major John Mason."

8. The book "Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Rice Lyon and his wife Harriet Wade Rice with related families," by Patty Barthell Myers (2003), pp. 448-51:
"JOSEPH LOOMIS, b. Eng., c1590; d. Windsor, Conn., 25 Nov 1658. He m. Messing, County Essex, England 30 Jun 1614 MARY WHITE. She was bpt. Shalford, England, 24 Aug 1590; d. Windsor, Conn., 23 Aug 1652, d/o Robert White and Bridget Allgar of Messing.
Joseph Loomis was a woolen draper in Braintree, Essex Co., England; sailed from London 11 Apr 1638 in the Susan and Ellen, and arrived at Boston 17 Jul 1638, living for about a year at Dorchester, Mass. It is mentioned in the town records of Windsor, Vol. 1, that on the 2d of Feb., 1640, he had granted him from the Plantation 21 acres adjoining Farmington Aver, on the west side of the Connecticut river; also several large tracts of land on the east side of the Connecticut, partly from the town and partly by purchase. He probably came to Windsor in the summer or autumn of 1639, and he is generally supposed to have come in the company with Rev. Ephraim Huet, who arrived at Windsor 17 Aug 1639. He brought with him five sons, all of whom were freemen 7 Oct 1669, and three daughters. The marriages of these children are recorded in the town records of Windsor, as were the births of their children, but as the dates of birth of Joseph's children are not recorded, it is difficult to determine the order of seniority. His house was situated near the mouth of the Farmington river on the "Island," so called because at every great freshet it became temporarily an island by the overflowing of the Connecticut river.
In the Records of particular Court for the colony of Connecticut, Vol 2, p. 115, is recorded the agreement of the children of Mr. Joseph Loomis, respecting the division of the estate of said deceased as approved by the Court 2 Dec 1658.
Loomis, Joseph, Windsor. Died 25 November, 1658. Inventory £178.10.00. Taken by Henry Clarke, John Moore.
Court Record, Page 115 -- 2 December, 1658. An Agreement for a Division of the Estate by the Children of Joseph Loomis, Decd, and approved by this Court of Magistrates to be an Equal Division. To Joseph Loomis, to Nicholas Olmsted, to Josiah Hull, to John Loomis, to Thomas Loomis, to Nathaniel Loomis, to Mary Tudor, to Samuel Loomis.
The agreement of the children of Mr. Joseph Loomis respecting the division of the estate of ye father deceased approved by The Court 2 December 1658: We whose names are hereunto subscribed doe by these prsents testify that it is our mutual and joynt agreement to attend an equal division of the estate of Mr. Joseph Loomis, our father, lately deceased, wch said estate being distributed in an equal prption we doe by these prsents engage to set down Satisfied and contented respecting any future trouble or demands about the fore said estate now presented by Inventory to ye Court of Magistrates.
Witness our hand, 2nd December, 1658.
Joseph Loomis, Josias Hull, Thomas Loomis, Mary Tudor, Nicholas Olmstead, John Loomis, Nath. Loomis, Samll Loomis.
(Manwaring, Charles W., A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Hartford District. Vol. 1, 1650-1663, pp. 135-6.)
It is believed that the order in which the children were named in the division of the estate indicates the relative ages of the children. Further, Joseph Loomis, the younger, and John Loomis had land granted to them from the Windsor Plantation in 1643. The other sons acquired no land until several years afterward. The marriages of the sons, as recorded at Windsor, took place in the order of the names mentioned above.
i. JOSEPH2 Loomis, b. Eng. c1615; d. Windsor, Conn., 26 Jun 1687; m/1 Windsor 17 Sept 1646 SARAH HILL., who d. 23 Aug 1653; m/2 28 Jun 1659 MARY SHERWOOD, b. c1639, d/o Thomas and Mary (Fitch) Sherwood. ("Some Early Records and Documents of and Relative to the Town of Windsor, Conn., 1639-1703," p. 39.) Inventory of his estate was made 12 Jul 1687 by Henry Wolcott, John Wolcott and John Loomis and amounted to £281.14.08. Children named were Joseph age 38; John 36; Mary 34; Hannah 25; Matthew 23; Stephen 20; James 17; Nathaniel 14; Isaac 9. (Manwaring, Vol. 1, 1677-1687, p. 332.) Children by Sarah: Sarah b. 22 Jul 1647, d. 1654; Joseph b. 15 Jul 1649, d. East Windsor 26 Feb 1715, m/1 Lydia Drake, d/o John, m/2 widow Abigail Birge; John b. 1 Oct 1651, d. Windsor 3 Nov 1732, m/1 Mary (___), m/2 Esther Gillett; Mary b. 3 Aug 1653, living 1687. Children by Mary: Sarah (again) b. 1 Apr 1660, d. inf.; Hannah b. 2 Feb 1662, living 1687; Matthew b 4 Nov 1664, d. 12 Apr 1688, m. Mary Gaylord; Isaac b. 10 Jul 1666, d. young; Stephen b. 1 Sept 1668, d. 1711, m. Esther Colt; James b. 31 Oct 1669, d. Bolton 29 Dec 1750, Mindwell (___); Nathaniel b. 8 Aug 1673, d. East Windsor 1730, m. Elizabeth (___); Isaac (again) b. 28 Oct 1677, d. 17 Mar 1704.
ii. SARAH Loomis, b. Eng., c1617; m. 1640 CAPT. NICHOLAS OLMSTEAD of Hartford, s/o James Olmstead and Joyce Cornish of Hartford. He d. 31 Aug 1684. Children (OLDMSTEAD): Sarah b. 1641 m. George Gates (Torrey); Mabel b. 20 Nov 1646, m/1 Daniel Butler, m/2 Michael Taintor (Torrey); Rebecca b. Mar 1648, m. John Bigelow (Torrey); John b. 3 Feb 1650; Joseph; Samuel; Thomas prob. m. Hannah Mix. (Savage sv Nicholas Olmstead.)
iii ELIZABETH Loomis, b. Eng. c1619; d. aft 1665; m. Windsor 20 May 1641 JOSIAH HULL of Windsor, d. 16 Nov 1675, s/o George. He was deputy to the General Court 1659, 60, 62. He then removed to Killingworth where he was deputy 1667-74. Children (HULL): Josiah b. Sept 1642; John b. 17 Dec 1644; Elizabeth b. 18 Feb 1647; Mary b. 2 Oct 1648; Martha b. 10 Jun 1650: Joseph b. 10 Aug 1652; Sarah b. 9 Aug 1654; Naomi b. 17 Feb 1657, m. Thomas Burnham; Rebecca b. 10 Aug 1659; George b. 28 Apr 1662, d. soon; Thomas b. 29 May 1655. (Savage & Torrey sv Josiah Hull. NOTE: Savage says Josiah Hull m. Elizabeth, d/o Joseph Bemis, but this is incorrect.)
iv MARY Loomis, b. Eng., c1620; d. 19 Aug 1680; m/1 JOHN SKINNER of Hartford, d. 30 Oct 1650; m/2 13 Nov 1651 OWEN TUDOR of Windsor, d. 30 Oct 1690. Children (SKINNER): Mary b. 1 Dec 1637, m. Robert Reeve; Ann b. 1639 m. John Colt; John b. 1641, m. Mary Easton; Joseph b. 1643, m. Mary Filley; Richard b. 1646. Children by Owen Tudor (TUDOR): Samuel (twin) b. 5 Dec 1652, m. 1685 Abigail (Filley) Bissell, wid. of John Bissell; Sarah (twin) b. 5 Dec 1652, m. James Porter; Owen b. 2 Mar 1654, d. unm.; Anne (twin) b. 16 Oct 1657; Jane (twin) b. 16 Oct 1657, m. Samuel Smith of Wethersfield; Mary b. 6 Mar 1661, m/1 John Orton, m/2 John Judson. (Manwaring, Vol. I, 1687-1695, p. 513; Savage sv Owen Tudor.)
v DEACON JOHN Loomis, b. Eng. c1622; d. Windsor 1 Sept 1688; m. 3 Feb 1648/9 ELIZABETH SCOTT, d/o Thomas of Hartford. Children: John b. 9 Nov 1649, m/1 ___; m/2 30 Dec 1696 Sarah (Boltwood) Warner, widow of Isaac Warner and d/o Robert Boltwood; Joseph b. 7 Nov 1651, m. Hannah (___); Thomas b. 3 Dec 1653, m. Sarah White, d/o Daniel of Hatfield, Sarah m/2 John Bissell; Samuel b. 29 Jun 1655, d. young; Daniel b. 16 Jun 1657, m/1 Mary Ellsworth, d/o Josiah, m/2 widow Hannah Drake; James b. 19 Sept 1659, d. young; Timothy b. 27 Jul 1661, m. Rebecca Porter; Nathaniel b. 8 Jul 1663, m. Ruth Porter; David b. 30 May 1665, d. inf.; Samuel (again) b. 12 Aug 1666, m/1 Elizabeth White, d/o Daniel of Hatfield, m/2 widow Elizabeth Church; Isaac b. 31 Aug 1668, d. age 20; Elizabeth b. 8 May 1671, m. John Brown; Mary b. 7 Aug 1673, d. inf. (Savage sv John Loomis; Loomis Genealogy.)
vi. THOMAS Loomis, b. Eng., c1624; d. 28 Aug 1689. He was of Windsor and m/1 1 Nov 1653 HANNAH FOX who d. 25 Apr 1662; m/2 1 Jan 1662/3 MARY JUDD, d. 8 Aug 1684, d/o Thomas Judd and Sarah Freeman. He was freeman in 1654, admitted to the church 3 Apr 1663. Children by Hannah: Thomas b. 29 Oct 1654, d. soon; Thomas (again) b. 17 Mar 1656, Hannah Porter; Hannah b. 8 Feb 1657/8, m. William Judd; Mary b. 16 Jan 1659/60, m. Michael Taintor of Branford. Children by Mary: Elizabeth b. 21 Jan 1663/4. living 1690; Ruth b. 16 Oct 1665, m. Joseph Colt; Sarah b. 1 Feb 1667/8, m. Wakefield Dibble; Jeremiah b. 3 Jul 1670, d. age 2; Mabel b. 27 Oct 1672, living 1690; Mindwell b. 6 Aug 1676, living 1690; Benjamin b. 20 May 1679, living 1690. (Savage sv Thomas Loomis; Loomis Genealogy.)
vii. NATHANIEL Loomis. b. Eng., c1626; d. 19 Aug 1688; will dated 17 Aug 1688; m. 24 Nov 1654 ELIZABETH MOORE, d/o John; she m/2 John Case, and she d. 23 Jul 1728, aged 90. Children: Elizabeth b. 7 Aug 1655, m. John Lee; Nathaniel b. 20 Mar 1657, m. Elizabeth Ellsworth, d/o Josiah; Abigail b. 27 Mar 1659, m. Josiah Barber of Simsbury; Josiah b. 17 Feb 1661, m. Mary Rockwell; Jonathan b. 30 Mar 1664, m. ___; David b. 11 Jan 1668, m. Lydia Marsh; Hezekiah b. 21 Feb 1669, m. Mary Porter; Moses b. 15 May 1671, m. Joanna Gibbs; Mindwell b. 20 Jul 1673, Jonathan Brown; Ebenezer b. 22 Mar 1675, m. Jemima Whitcomb; Mary b. 5 Jan 1680, m. Joseph Barber; Rebecca b. 10 Dec 1682, m. Josiah Rockwell. (Savage sv Nathaniel Loomis, Hezekiah Loomis.)
viii SAMUEL Loomis, b. Eng. c1628; m. ELIZABETH JUDD.
(William Richard Cutter, New England Family History, p. 985; (Elias Loomis, Desc. of Joseph Loomis)"

9. The book "Emerson-Benson Saga …," by Edmund K. Swigart (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1994), pp. 351-53:
"JOSEPH1 LOOMIS (JOHNA LUMACE, JOHNB LUMMYS, THOMASC) was born by 1590, perhaps in Braintree, county Lincoln, England, and died 25 November 1658 at Windsor, CT. He was the son of JOHNA LUMACE, a tailor of Thaxted and Braintree and AGNESA LINGWOOD and JANE MARLAN?, daughter of WILLIAMB and MARGARETA (PERYE) MARLAN? of Braintree. He was also the grandson of JOHNB LUMMYS, a carpenter of Thaxted, and Kryster [sic: Krysten] (Christian (___). JOSEPH1 married 30 June 1616 at Messing, county Essex, England, MARY1 WHITE, daughter of ROBERTA, a wealthy yeoman, and BRIDGETA (ALLGAR) WHITE of Shalford, county Essex. MARY1 was baptized 24 August 1590 at Shalford and died 23 August 1652 at Windsor. MARY1's younger sister, ANNA1, married ancestor JOHN1 PORTER.
United States President Ulysses Simpson Grant (18th Chief Executive), Stephen Grover Cleveland (22nd and 24th), and Gerald Rudolph Ford, (38th), were descendants of MARY1's parents and Millard Fillmore (13th President), of her and her parents.
JOSEPH1 was a woolen draper, He and his wife lived in Braintree until 1628. They moved to London and from there sailed with their eight children 11 April 1638 aboard the "Susan and Ellen", the same ship that ancestor Rev. PETER1 BULKELEY had taken in 1635. The LOOMIS family arrived in Boston 11 July 1638, they may have spent their first year in Dorchester, MA, but moved by land in the summer of 1639 to Windsor, CT, "Probably in the company of Reverend Ephraim Huet who arrived there August 17, 1639" (ref. 3). "On 2 Feb. 1640 he had granted to him 21 acres on the west side of the Connecticut River adjoining the Farmington River" (ref. 6). JOSEPH1 continued to acquire land and served on juries in 1642 and in 1644 with Nathaniel1 Foote, brother of ancestor MARYA FOOTE. "On 6 January 1650, he was sued by" [ancestor WILLIAM1 BUELL] "for trespass and for damage to the extent of seven bushels of corn; one may infer that his stock got away from him" (ref. 3).
JOSEPH1 apparently left no will. His estate was valued at 178 pounds 10 shillings, with "a 'debt in England'" (ref. 3) of 12 pounds 14 shillings 6 pence against it. On December 1658, his wife having predeceased him, his five sons and three daughters (two represented by their husbands) signed an agreement in place of a will to divide JOSEPH's estate equitably among them.
The children of JOSEPH1 and MARY1 (WHITE) LOOMIS, all probably born in Braintree, county Lancaster, England, and probably not all listed in the correct order of birth, were.
I Joseph2, b. 1615, ca. 1616; d. 26 Jun 1687 at Windsor, CT; m. 1/wf 17 Sep 1646, Sarah2 Hill 2/wf 28 Jun 1659, Mary Sherwood.
II Sarah2, b. ca. 1617-8?; d. 1667, 1687, perh. at Hartford, CT; m. by 28 Sep 1640, Nicholas Olmstead.
III. ELIZABETH2, b. ca. 1620?; d. aft. 1665, prob. of Killingworth, CT; m by 20 May 1640-1 at Windsor, CT, JOSIAH2 HULL (see HULL).
IV Mary2, b. 1620?; d. 19 Aug. 1680, prob. at Windsor, CT: m. 1/hs by 1637-8, by 1633, John Skinner, m. 2/hs 13 Nov 1651, prob. at Windsor, Owen Tudor.
V John2, b. ca. 1622?, 1620; d. 2 Sep 1688 at Windsor, CT; m. 3, 6? Feb 1648-9 Elizabeth2 Scott (Thomas1).
VI Thomas2, b. ca. 1624?; 2 Aug 1689, prob. at Windsor, CT; m. 1/wf 1 Nov 1653 Hannah Fox/Fowkes who d. 1662, prob. at Windsor; m. 2/wf 1 Jan 1562-3, Mary2 Judd (Thomas1).
VII Nathaniel2, b. ca 1626?; d. 19 Aug 1688, prob. at Windsor, CT; m. as 1/hs 24 Nov 1653-4, Elizabeth2 Moore (John1) who m. 2/hs aft. 3 Nov 1991, John Case.
VIII Samuel2, b. 1628?; d. 1 Oct 1689, prob. at Westfield, MA; m. 27, 29? Dec 1653, Elizabeth2 Judd (Thomas1), sis. of Mary2 who m. Samuel2's older? bro., Thomas2 as 2/wf.
REFERENCES
1) Brainerd, Dwight, "Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd," [Portland, ME, Anthoensen Press, 1948], [hereinafter Brainerd, D.], 301-2.
2) Colket, M. B., op. cit., 196.
3) Ferris, M. W., op. cit., Dawes-Gates, II:453-62; 567-72.
4) Parke, N. G., op. cit., 78.
5) Pierce, R. Andrew, personal correspondence, research and material on the Hull and Loomis lines, 25 May 1993, MAT, Swigart, E. K., Washington, CT.
6) Pitman, H. M., op. cit., 391-2, 396.
7) Roberts, G. B., op cit., 182.
8) Roberts, Gary B., review of the Emerson-Benson ancestral lines and material on the Lingwood, Loomis and White lines, NEHGS Library, Boston, MA, 19 May 1993 with Swigart, E. K., MAT, Swigart, E. K., Washington, CT.
9) Savage, J., op. cit. II:494; III:112-3.
10) Torrey, C. A., op. cit., 139, 401, 472, 545, 677, 757."

CHRISTENING:
1. The christening, marriage, and burial registers for Braintree no longer exist prior to 1660. They were destroyed by a sexton who used pages to start fires.

SOURCES_MISC:
1. Per family group sheet archive record submitted by Hazel May Beckstead, 4729 N. Walnut Grove, Rosemead, Calif.. References: "Gen. Biog. Rec. New London Co., Conn. Stiles Fam. Hist. p. 28, His. Hudson Mohawk Valley N.Y. p 725, vol 2 Vitals Boxford, Mass. pp. 94, 95, History of Ancient Windsor Conn. vol II Loomis Gen."

2. Per 9 Feb 2002 email of Ellen Baker : Ellen lists her sources as follows. This file was created by the posts of Vickie L. (VanMeter) Smithson (all) and Mark Allen (on Philip's child Philip Jr.)of the Loomis Surname Forum at Genforum.Com. Info. came from Nan Wolf (web site). Info. was also obtained over at Rootsweb Worldconnect Project. The following books were used to make additions to this summary: Descendants of Joseph Loomis (1590-1658) In America And his Antecedents In the Old World. The Original Published by Elias Loomis LLD, 1875. Revised by Elisha S. Loomis Ph.D. 1908; Lion passengers Title: Passengers on the "Lion" from England to Boston, 1632 Author: Sandra Sutphin Olney Publication: 1992 Heritage Books Inc. Two volume set; Windsor Genealogies Title: The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor Connecticut 1635-1891 Author: Henry R. Stiles, A.M., M.D., Publication: Volume II, 1992 Picton Press; and Our American Ancestry Author: Gates, Frederick Taylor Publication: 1928, Montclair, NJ FHL R929.2 G223GF FHL film #1421664 item 5. 		Loomis, Sarah (I2363)
 
4638 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography," v. 27, p. 325, entry for David Edward Skinner (b. 1867): "His first paternal American ancestor was John Skinner, born at Braintree, England, who was one of the founders of Hartford, Conn., in 1636, the line of descent from John and his wife Mary Loomis being through their son John and his wife Mary Easton, (etc.)"

2. Per 9 Feb 2002 email of Ellen Baker : John Jr.: Corporal of Train Band, a form of militia organized around towns in New England.

3. The book "Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut," Lucius Barnes Barbour, 1982 ed.:
"John Skinner died 1650, mar. Mary Loomis who m. Owen Tudor Nov. 13, 1651. She died Aug. 19, 1680, dau. of Joseph Loomis of Windsor. Early member 1 Ch. Name on Founders Monument. Children:
Mary, b. 1633, m. Robert Reeve.
Ann, b. 1635, m. John Colt.
John, b. 1637, m. Mary Easton.
Joseph, b. 1639, m. Mary Filley Apl. 5, 1666.
Richard, b. 1643.
[Kerry's note: The birthdates of the children look suspicious especially considering the same author in his separate full entry for John, the Child, shows a 1641 birthdate which varies from the 1637.]
An original proprietor; his home lot in 1639 was on the west side of Main St. a little below the present corner of Pearl St. but this was given to Richard Olmsted, he receiving in exhange a lot on the highway now Trumbull St.; juror 1639. John Talcott, in his will Aug. 12, 1659, mentions his kinsman John Skinner as 'living in his service' and as John Talcott's mother was Anne, daughter of William Skinner, it is probable that John Skinner Sr. came from Braintree, Co. Essex, Eng."

4. The book "Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut," Lucius Barnes Barbour, 1982 ed.: "Corp. John Skinner, son of John and Mary (Loomis) was born 1641, died Sept 15, 1690, mar. Mary Easton who died June 18, 1695, dau. of Joseph Easton and Hannah. [Kerry's note: notice the variance in birthdates from this entry vs. that of his father which shows a birth for this John in 1637.] Children:
Mary, b. Dec. 1, 1664 (HTR) m. Joshua Carter May 21, 1691 (HTR).
John, b. Mch 1, 1666 (HTR) m. Rachel Pratt.
Joseph, b. Aug 26, 1669 (HTR) m/1 Dorothy Hosmer, m/2 Elizabeth Olmsted.
Nathaniel, b. Apl 5, 1672 (HTR) m.
Richard, b. Jan 16, 1674-5 (HTR). Think this Richard died in Hfd 1716.
Sarah, b. Nov. 4, 1677 (HTR) m. Dea. John Goodwin.
Thomas, b. Nov. 15, 1680 (HTR) m. Sarah Grant.

5. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 687: "John Skinner, of Hartford, one of the Hooker party and orig. proprietor there. As John Talcott in his will, dated 12 Aug 1659, mentions his kinsman, John Skinner, as 'living in his service,' and as Talcott's mother was Ann (dau. of William) Skinner, it is prob. that John Skinner, Sen., came form Braintree, Co. Essex, Eng. - 'Hartford Co. Memorial History,' i. 259. There seems also to be a family tradition that after the Revolution in England, three Skinner brothers (one of whom had been a High Sheriff) fled to this country, one of whom settled in Connecticut, another in Vermont, and the third in Maryland. John Skinner m. Mary (dau. Joseph, Sen.) Loomis of Windsor, and d. 1650. Will dated 23 Oct 1651 ('Probate Records Hartford.' ii.), contains this entry: 'A Courte of Magistrates of Hartford, 18 Jan 1655, orders Mr. Loomis (Joseph, his father-in-law) to distribute the estate among the following chiildren: Mary, age 18; Ann, age 16; John, age 14; Joseph, age 12; Richard, age 8, and to his wife, m. to Owen Tudor.' Mrs. Skinner m. (2) Owen Tudor of Windsor, 13 Nov 1654, and removed with her children to Windsor, where she d. 19 Aug 1680. Children:
A. Mary, b. 1638; m. Robert Reeve of Hartford.
B. Ann, b. 1639; m. John Colt, ancestor of Hartford Colts.
C. John, b. 1641.
D. Joseph, b. 1643.
E. Richard, b. 1646; res. Hartford; desc. removed to Colchester."
[Note: Stiles' book does not have biographies of Reeves, Colts, Eastons, or Gaines.]

6. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 687: "John Skinner (son of John), m. Mary (dau. of Joseph) Easton, who d. 18 Jun 1695; he d. 15 Sep 1690; res. Hartford. Children:
A. Mary, b. 1 Dec 1664; m. Joshua Carter 21 May 1691.
B. John, b. 1 Mar 1666/7; m. Rachel Pratt, 22 Feb 1693, who d. 17 Aug 1748, age 77; he d. 27 Oct 1743.
C. Joseph (Dea.), b. 26 Aug 1669.
D. Nathaniel, b. 5 Apr 1672; m. Mary Gillet, 13 Jun 1706; rem. to Colchester; was father of Rev. Thos. Skinner, pastor of W. Chester, CT, 1740-62.
E. Richard, b. 16 Jan 1674.
F. Sarah, b. 4 Nov 1677.
G. Thomas, b. 15 Nov 1680."

7. From the book "The Descendants (by the Female Branches) of Joseph Loomis, who Came from Braintree, England, in the Year 1638 and Settled in Windsor, CT, in 1639," by Elias Loomis (Yale Professor), 1880, v. 1, p. 108:
A. "Mary Loomis, daughter of Joseph Loomis, m. John Skinner of Hartford, who d. in 1650. She d. 19 Aug 1680. Children:
a. Mary, b. 1637, m. Robert Reeve.
b. Ann, b. 1639, m. John Colt.
c. John, m. Mary ___. He d. 15 Sep 1690. She d. 18 Jun 1695.
d. Joseph, b. 1643, m. Mary Filley of Windsor 5 Apr 1666. She d. 15 Apr 1711.
e. Richard, b. 1646."
B. "Children of John Skinner, Hartford:
a. Mary, b. 1 Dec 1664, m. Joshua Carter 21 May 1691.
b. John, b. 1 Mar 1666-7, m. Rachel Pratt 22 Feb 1693. he d. 27 Oct 1743. She d. 17 Aug 1748, ae. 77.
c. Deac. Joseph, b. 26 Aug 1669, m. Mary Grant 13 Mar 1694. She d. 26 Aug 1734. He d. 7 Feb 1748.
d. Nathaniel, b. 5 Apr 1672, m. Mary Gillett 13 Jun 1706. Colchester.
e. Richard, b. 16 Jan 1674, m. Sarah Gaines 25 Dec 1702.
f. Sarah, b. 4 Nov 1677.
g. Thomas, 15 Nov 1680, m. Sarah Grant 19 Jul 1705."

8. FHL publication "The Skinner Kinsmen. The Descendants of John Skinner of Hartford, Connecticut," compiled by Mrs. Natalie R. Fernald (The Pioneer Press; Washington, D.C.):
"John Skinner(1) was born in Braintree, County Essex, England. He was a member of Rev. Thomas Hooker's company, which came to America in 1635 and settled at Hartford, Conn., and he was one of the original proprietors of the settlement, 1636. He married in Windsor, Conn., Mary, dau. of Deacon Joseph Loomis. John died Oct. 30, 1650. Mary married second, Owen Tudor, from Wales, Nov. 13, 1651. Mary died Aug. 19, 1680; Owen died Oct. 30, 1690.
Children:
-Mary(2), b. Dec. 1, 163, m. Robert Reeve of Hartford, abt. 1654-60. He married, second, Elizabeth, dau. of John Nott, of Wethersfield, Conn. He d. 1679-80.
-Ann, b. 1639, m. as second wife, Capt. John Colt, who came to Hartford in 1638 and lived to an age of more than 100 years. His first wife was Mary Fitch.
-John, b. 1641, m. Mary, dau. of Joseph Easton. He died Sept. 15, 1690, in Hartford, Conn. She died June 18, 1695.
-Joseph, b. 1643, m. Apr. 5, 1666, Mary, daughter of William and Margaret Filley, of Windsor, Conn., and settled in Windsor. She was b. 1646, d. Apr. 13, 1711. He d. May 31, 1724.
-Richard, b. 1646-7.

9. FHL publication "The Skinner Kinsmen. The Descendants of John Skinner of Hartford, Connecticut," compiled by Mrs. Natalie R. Fernald (The Pioneer Press; Washington, D.C.), pp. 4-9:
"Corporal John Skinner (2) John (1) born in Hartford, Conn., 1641, married 1662, Mary, daughter of Deacon Joseph Easton, passed all his life in Hartford, dying there Sept. 15, 1690. She d, June 18, 1695. Both buried in Hartford Cemetery.
Children: From record of First Church, Hartford (p. 160), Stiles, Ancient Windsor (vol. 2, p. 305), and Memorial History of Hartford County (p. 273). [KP note: there appears to be several errors in the following list of children and their marriages – see "Corrections" added by compiler which follows this list.]
-Mary (3), b. Dec. 1, 1664, m. May 21, 1691, Joshua son of Joshua Carter, of Deerfield, Mass., he b. June 6, 1668. Lived at Rocky Hill. He d. 1735.
-John (3) b, Mar. 1, 1666-7, m. Rachel, daughter of Daniel Pratt, Feb. 22, 1693; he d. Oct. 27, 1743; she d. Aug. 17, 1748; aged 77.
-Deacon Joseph (3) b. Aug. 26, 1669, m. Mary, daughter of Samuel sad Mary (Porter) Grant, of Windsor, Mar. 13, 1694; he d. May 31, 1729 or Feb. 7, 1748; she d. Aug. 26, 1734.
-Nathaniel (3) b. Apr. 5, 1672.
-Sarah (3) b. Nov. 4, 1677.
-Richard (3) b. Jan. 16, 1675, perhaps the one who married Sarah Gaines, Dec. 25, 1762.
-Thomas (3) b. Nov. 15, 1680, m. Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Anna (Filley) Grant, July 19, 1705; he d. Mar. 16, 1761.
CORRECTIONS.
A study of the original records of Windsor, Conn., has convinced me that the early genealogists whose work has heretofore been widely accepted, fell into some errors concerning the marriages of the children of Corporal John Skinner (pp. 5-6). There is credible evidence that:
Deacon Joseph married 1st Dorothy Hosmer, 2nd Elizabeth Olmstead, and did not marry Mary Grant. [KP note: The compiler may have confused this Joseph with Joseph3 (Joseph2, John1) who may be the husband of Dorothy Hosmer and Elizabeth Olmstead.]
Richard did not marry Sarah Gaines. She was the wife of Richard (3) Joseph (2).
Thomas. Some doubt is thrown on the identity of his wife by the fact that Thomas (3), Joseph (2) married Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Grace Grant on July 19, 1705."
CONTEMPORARY Records .
From Mainwaring, Digest of the Early Conn. Probate Records.
of Joseph Easton, Sen, who died Aug. 14, 1688.
Item: I give unto my son-in-law John Skiner fourty shillings beside what he has already received of me.
His daughter Mary Skiner shares in the household goods.
Corpll John Skinner, Hartford, Died 15, Sept., 1690. Invt. ₤874-08.06. Taken by Caleb Stanley, Ciprian Nichols and Stephen Hosmer. Will dated 18 July 1690 (vol. 1, p. 442).
I John Skinner of Hartford doe see Couse to make this my last Will and Testament: I give to my wife Mary Skinner (with special Privileges of House and Home) an my Moveable Estate at what kind soever, she paying out of the same such legacies as I shall appoint her unto my children, making her sole Executrix: I give to my Eldest son John Skiner the one half of my home lott on which my dwelling house standeth, he to have the North side next to his Uncle John Easton's Land. I give to my son Joseph Skiner all other half of my house lott. I doe give unto my son Joseph Skiner all my right and Interest I have in a wood Lott that was formerly my Father Skiner's Lott in the ox Pasture, ajoyning on Mr. Haynes his Land South, on the river on the West, and on Thomas Cadwell's Land, on the North and upon Mr. Hooker's Land on the East, Joseph Skinner to pay his Brother Nathaniel Skiner ₤10, also to pay his brother Richard ₤, also to pay his brother Thomas ₤10, I give to my son Thomas Skiner 24 acres of Land which I bought of Mr. Steven Hollister, Richard Hall and John Welles of Wethersfield, as it stands recorded to me in the Book of Land for the Towne of Wethersfield, to him and his heirs forever. I give to my daughter Mary Skinner ₤0. I give to my daughter Sarah ₤30. I desire my loving brother John Easton, my friend Caleb Stanly and my brother Joseph Easton to be Overseers.
John Skinner Ls
Witnesses. Caleb Stanly; Joseph Easton (vol. 1, pp. 506-507).
Court Record, p. 24, 5 Mar. 1690-1,Will approved.
Mary Skinner, Widow, Hartford. Died 18 June 1695. Inv. ₤291-00-06. Taken by Ciprian Niccols and Thomas Bunce. Will dated 18 June 1695.
I Mary Skinner of Hartford, being weeke in Body yet sound in mind, do make this my last Will and Testament: I give to my son John Skinner, one Cow, 4 sheep and 40 shillings. I give to my son Joseph Skinner all the Trooper's furniture, with the best of the Horses, which he shall choose. I give to my son Nathaniel ₤3 in money, being part of what is in his Brother Josephfs Hand. I give to my son Richard one Cow, 2 steers, 2 yearlings, one horse, also 8 sheep, also 40 shillings in money.
I give to my son Thomas Skinner one Cow, 2 yearling Calves, one Horse, 12 Sheep and 40 shillings. I give to my daughter Mary Carter ₤3 and to my grand daughter Mary, the daughter of Mary Carter ₤. I give to my daughter Sarah Skinner '20 in Money, in her Brother Johnfs Hand. I give to my son Joshua Carter 4 sheep. I appoint my son Joseph to by my Executor.
Mary X Skinner.
Witness. John Easton, Joseph Easton. Court Record, p. 88, 9 July 1695: Will proved (p. 507).
From Connecticut Historical Society Collections.
Feb. 17, 1644, John Skiner app't Chimnevewer, South Side.
Feb. 16, 1670, he was chosen Fence veiwer; 1676; Surveyor; 1679, Townsman of South Side (vol. 6, p. 148).
Dec. 24, 1685, John Skinner should have too rod wid of the east sid of the hiway upon rocki hill the hole bredth of his lot and the said Skinner is too alow too rods of the west sid of the way upon rocki hill the same bredth (p. 217).
John Skinner rec'd land beginning at Windsor bounds 5 rod wide containing 15 acres, Nov. 1674.
Lots to Wethersfield Bownds John Skiner receives 2 bredth 32 lenth 100 con't 20 acres (vol. 14, p. 565).
June 12, 1666, John Skinner drew 66 acres land situate on East Side ye River next to Windsor Bownds (p. 494).
From Hartford County Deeds
Land in Hartford upon Conecticutt belonging to John Skiner & his heirs forever.
One parcell of land which be Bought of Ens: Nath: Standly with a messuage or Tenement Standing thereon, containing all that land with in these abutments viz, QA the High way on the Sowth & on the west & on Yohu Monica big land on the North, & on Capt. John Allyne land on the East us appeares by the deed dated the 24 of december 1623. Signed by Nat. Standly & Witnessed by John & Anna Allyn recorded March 14, l681-2.
One parcell of land which be bought of Daniel Butlar lyeing in the ox pasture containing by estimation fifteen acres be it more or less, a butting on the little river on the South on Mr. Haines his land on the East Mr. Hookerss land on the West and on Samll Wadsworths land on the North
as appeares by a deed dated March 14: 1681-2 Signed by Daniel Butler & witnessed by John Allyn & Steven Hosmore, acknowledged March 14: 1681-2 before John Allyn Assist & then recorded.
One parcell of land which he bought of Samll Andrews lyeing on the west side of Rocky Hill containing by estimation Thirteen acres be it more or less, & it is a butted on the north side on land belonging to Thomas Andrews & Samuel Burr, & on the South side on land belonging to Jonath. Gilbert Thomas Catlin Samll Pattrick & Phillip Davis and the ends abut on the High way of the west side Rocky Hill on the east on the Little River on the west as more at large appeares by his deed dated 26 of May, 1682. Signed by sayd Samll Andrews & acknowledged then before John Allyn Assist & then recorded:
One parcell of land which he Bought of Thomas Catlin containing by estimation eighteen acres & Two roodes be it more or less a butting on Mr. Samuel Willys his land on the north & upon land sometime Mr. Jonathan Gilberts land west & upon weathersfield Bownd Sowth, & uppn a Highway leading to Weathersfield Bownd on the east as appears by his deed dated May 16, 1682, acknowledged May 26, 1682, before John Allyn Assistant & Feb. 2, 1682 recorded.
One parcell of land which he Bought of John Bunce containing by estimation nineteen acres & halfe be it more or less & a butts on John Easton Land north on John Bunces land east on Mr. Haines his land South & on a High Way Lying on Rocky Hill west as appears by his deed dated the 12th of September 1683, Acknowledged November the 6th 1683 before John Allyn Assist: recorded Feb. 2d 1684.
One parcell of land which he bought of John Bunce containing by estimation Twenty acres be it more or less & a butts on sayd John Bunce his land on the east on John Eastons Land North on Mr. Haines land on the Sowth on a Highway on Rocky Hill on the west as appears by his deed dated the 12th of September 1683 acknowledged the 8th of November 1683 before John Allyn Assist. & recorded January the 20th 1684.
One parcell which he bought of Mrs Mary Gilbert executrix of the Last Will & Testament of Mr. Jonathan Gilbert of Hanford deceased Lyeing on the west side of Rocky Hill & contains by estimation Twenty-eight acre be it more or less & is all that parcell of Land with in these abutments viz. on Weathersfields Bownds on the Sowth on Mr. Caleb Emersons Land on the west & on the sayd Skiners own land on the east and on a drift Highway next Mr Willys his land on the north as appeares by his deed dated the 7th of January, 1684 then acknowledged before John Allyn Assist. and recorded January 20th, 1684."10. The book "Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Rice Lyon and his wife Harriet Wade Rice with related families," by Patty Barthell Myers (2003), pp. 448-51:
"MARY Loomis, b. Eng., c1620; d. 19 Aug 1680; m/1 JOHN SKINNER of Hartford, d. 30 Oct 1650; m/2 13 Nov 1651 OWEN TUDOR of Windsor, d. 30 Oct 1690. Children (SKINNER): Mary b. 1 Dec 1637, m. Robert Reeve; Ann b. 1639 m. John Colt; John b. 1641, m. Mary Easton; Joseph b. 1643, m. Mary Filley; Richard b. 1646. Children by Owen Tudor (TUDOR): Samuel (twin) b. 5 Dec 1652, m. 1685 Abigail (Filley) Bissell, wid. of John Bissell; Sarah (twin) b. 5 Dec 1652, m. James Porter; Owen b. 2 Mar 1654, d. unm.; Anne (twin) b. 16 Oct 1657; Jane (twin) b. 16 Oct 1657, m. Samuel Smith of Wethersfield; Mary b. 6 Mar 1661, m/1 John Orton, m/2 John Judson. (Manwaring, Vol. I, 1687-1695, p. 513; Savage sv Owen Tudor.)
(William Richard Cutter, New England Family History, p. 985; (Elias Loomis, Desc. of Joseph Loomis)"


 		Skinner, John (I2330)
 
4639 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography," v. 27, p. 325, entry for David Edward Skinner (b. 1867): "His first paternal American ancestor was John Skinner, born at Braintree, England, who was one of the founders of Hartford, Conn., in 1636, the line of descent from John and his wife Mary Loomis being through their son John and his wife Mary Easton, (etc.)."

2. Per 9 Feb 2002 email of Ellen Baker : Mary (b. around 1620, m. #1 John Skinner, one of the original proprietors of Hartford, Connecticut, and his name is on the Founder's Monument there and in 1640 owned 22 acres in a division of upland in Hartford, Connecticut, east of the river, had 5 children, Mary (m. Robert Reeve), Ann (m. John Colt Jr.), John Jr. (Corporal of Train Band, a form of militia organized around towns in New England, m. Mary Easton), Joseph (m. Mary Filley) and Richard (m. Mary Grant?); Mary m. #2 Owen Tudor, had 5 children, Sarah (twin) (m. James Porter), Samuel (twin) (m. #1 Abigail Filley; m. #2 Joanna Taylor), Owen Jr. (never married), Jane (m. Samuel Smith), and Mary (m.#1 John Orton; m. #2 John Judson)).

3. The book "Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut," Lucius Barnes Barbour, 1982 ed.:
"John Skinner died 1650, mar. Mary Loomis who m. Owen Tudor Nov. 13, 1651. She died Aug. 19, 1680, dau. of Joseph Loomis of Windsor. Early member 1 Ch. Name on Founders Monument. Children:
Mary, b. 1633, m. Robert Reeve.
Ann, b. 1635, m. John Colt.
John, b. 1637, m. Mary Easton.
Joseph, b. 1639, m. Mary Filley Apl. 5, 1666.
Richard, b. 1643.
[Kerry's note: The birthdates of the children look suspicious especially considering the same author in his separate full entry for John, the Child, shows a 1641 birthdate which varies from the 1637.]
An original proprietor; his home lot in 1639 was on the west side of Main St. a little below the present corner of Pearl St. but this was given to Richard Olmsted, he receiving in exhange a lot on the highway now Trumbull St.; juror 1639. John Talcott, in his will Aug. 12, 1659, mentions his kinsman John Skinner as 'living in his service' and as John Talcott's mother was Anne, daughter of William Skinner, it is probable that John Skinner Sr. came from Braintree, Co. Essex, Eng."

4. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 767, assistance from Dr. Mary Tudor of South Windsor and Chas. J. Hoadly and George E. Hoadley of Hartford, CT:
"Owen Tudor, came from Wales to Windsor, 1649; res. on the Island (see p. 167, vol. 1); m. 13 Nov 1651, Mary (dau. Joseph) Loomis, Sen., and wid. of John Skinner of Hartford; she was admitted to Windsor Church 28 Apr 1661, ' and then, 12 May, had five ch. bp.' (O.C.R.); she d. 19 and bu. 20 Aug 1680 (O.C.R.); he d. at Windsor 30 Oct 1690. Children (O.C.R.):
A. Samuel, twin, b. 5 Dec (O.C.R. says 26 Nov) 1652.
B. Sarah, twin, b. 5 Dec (O.C.R. says 26 Nov) 1652, m. James S. Porter of Windsor, 15 Jan 1679.
C. Owen, b. 12 Mar 1654; d. unmd. 1717; rem. to E.W. abt 1680.
D. Jane (O.C.R.) (not Ann as some accounts have it), b. 15 Oct 1657; m. Samuel Smith, 28 Oct 1680; d. prior to 1717/18.
E. Mary, b. 6 Mar 1660; m. (1) John Orton of Farmington; (2) 5 Jul 1699, Isaac (s. of Lieut. Jos and Sarah Porter) Judson of Woodbury, Conn.; she was his 3d wife."

5. From the book "The Descendants (by the Female Branches) of Joseph Loomis, who Came from Braintree, England, in the Year 1638 and Settled in Windsor, CT, in 1639," by Elias Loomis (Yale Professor), 1880, v. 1, p. 129: "Mary Loomis, daughter of Joseph Loomis, married for her second husband Owen Tudor, 13 Nov 1651. She d. 19 Aug 1680. He d. 30 Oct 1690. Windsor, CT. Children:
A. Samuel, b. 5 Dec 1652, m. 1st Abigail (Filley) widow of ___ Bissel 30 Oct 1685. She d. 6 Jul 1727. East Windsor, CT.
B. Sarah, b. 5 Dec 1652, m. James Porter 15 Jan 1679.
C. Owen, b. 12 Mar 1654, unmarried, c. 1717.
D. Ann, b. 16 Oct 1657, m. Samuel Smith 28 Oct 1680.
E. Mary, b. 6 Mar 1660, m. Isaac Judson."

6. From the book "The Descendants (by the Female Branches) of Joseph Loomis, who Came from Braintree, England, in the Year 1638 and Settled in Windsor, CT, in 1639," by Elias Loomis (Yale Professor), 1880, v. 1, p. 108: "Mary Loomis, daughter of Joseph Loomis, m. John Skinner of Hartford, who d. in 1650. She d. 19 Aug 1680. Children:
A. Mary, b. 1637, m. Robert Reeve.
B. Ann, b. 1639, m. John Colt.
C. John, m. Mary ___. He d. 15 Sep 1690. She d. 18 Jun 1695.
D. Joseph, b. 1643, m. Mary Filley of Windsor 5 Apr 1666. She d. 15 Apr 1711.
E. Richard, b. 1646."

7. Elias Loomis "Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America," update of 1875 edition published by Elisha S. Loomis, Berea, Ohio, third (1908) edition, chapter: "The Descendants of Joseph Loomis (1590-1658) in America," subchapter "First Generation, children of Joseph Loomis of Windsor, CT.," pp. 126-128:
"Genealogical investigations have been unable to establish definitely the order of the children of Joseph Loomis, and it is considered advisable to give here the conflicting evidence:
Possible order of children:
1. Mrs Olmsted, b. 1615, md. 1640. [Sarah]
2. Mrs. Hull, b. 1617, md. 1641. [Elizabeth]
3. Joseph, b. 1618, md. 1646.
4. Mrs. Skinner, b. 1620, md. 1638. [Mary]
5. John, b. 1622, md. 1648.
6. Thomas, b. 1624, md. 1653.
7. Nathaniel, b. 1626, md. 1653.
8. Samuel, b. 1628, md. 1653.
Probably, however, the order was as follows:
Joseph, b. 1615.
Sarah, b. 1617.
Elizabeth, b. abt 1619.
Mary, b. abt 1620.
John, b. 1622.
Thomas, b. 1624.
Nathaniel, b. 1626.
Samuel, b. 1628."
Concerning Mary:
"Mary, b. Eng., abt. 1620; m. 1st, 1638, John Skinner of Hartford, d. 1650; m. 2nd., Nov. 13, 1651, Owen Tudor, d. Windsor, Conn., Oct. 30, 1690. She d. there Aug. 19, 1690. Ch'n - by Skinner - 1. Mary, 2. Ann, ancestress of Elisha Colt, of Hartford, Conn., b. Feb 26, 1758, Comptroller of Conn., 1806-1818; also ancestress of Samuel Colt, of Hartford, b. July 19, 1814, inventor of the revolving pistol. 3. John, ancestor of Hon. Nathaniel Shipman, b. Aug. 22, 1828, Judge U.S. Court, Hartford, Conn. 4. Joseph, 5. Richard, ancestor of Ichabod L. Skinner, b. Sept. 2, 1767, engineer of the National Road from Wheeling, W. Va. By Tudor - 6. Samuel, ancestor of Charles Jeremy Hoadley, of Hartford, b. Aug. 1, 1827, State Librarian of Conn.; also ancestor of Capt. Owen Tudor, b. Mch. 23, 1777, U.S.Navy; also ancestor of the two brohthers, Hon. Gideon Welles, b. July 1, 1802, Sec'y of the U.S. Navy, 1861-9, and Hon. Thaddeus Welles, b. Feb. 23, 1806, repeatedly State Senator, Conn. 7. Sarah, 8. Owen, 9. Ann, 10. Mary, ancestress of Prof. William Seymor Tyler, D. D., LL. D., (Harvard), b. Harford, Pa., Sept. 2, 1810, d. Nov. 19, 1897, a noted teacher, theologian, Latin and Greek author, philologist, etc."

8. FHL book 929.273 F597g "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England…," by Ernest Flagg (Hartford, 1926), p. 278:
"Mary White1, wife of Joseph Loomis1, bap. Aug. 24, 1590; dau. of Robert and Bridget (AllgarA) WhiteA of Messing, Essex, England; m. June 30, 1614 in England; d. Aug. 23, 1652. (Matthew Grant's O.C.R.)
Their children:
-Joseph, about 1615; d. June 26, 1687; m. Sept. 17, 1646, Sarah, dau. of William Hill and granddau. af Richard Lyman1; m. (2), June 28, 1659, Mary Chauncey, who d. April 22, 1681. He was a trooper in King Philip's War, as was his brother, Nathaniel.
-Sarah, about 1617; d. 1667; m. Sept. 28, 1640, as his first wife, Capt. Nicholas Olmstead, grandson of James and Jane (BristowB) OlmsteadB, and who served in the Pequot War.
-Elizabeth, about 1619; m. May 20, 1641, Josias hull, son of George of Windsor, who d. Nov. 16, 1675.
-Mary, about. 1620; d. Aug. 19, 1680; m. 1638, John Skinner of Hartford; m. (2), Nov. 13, 1651, Owen Tudor.
-John, (Deacon), 1622; d. Sept. 1, 1688; m. Feb. 3, 1648-9, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Scott and sister of the first wife of John Stanley2, who d. May 7, 1696.
-Thomas, 1624; d. Aug. 28, 1689; m. Nov. 1, 1653, Hannah Fox, (M.G.O.C.R.); m. (2), Jan. 1, 1662-3, Mary, dau. of Deacon Thomas Judd1, who d. Aug. 8 1684. Thomas Loomis was a trooper in 1658 under Major John Mason."

9. The book "Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Rice Lyon and his wife Harriet Wade Rice with related families," by Patty Barthell Myers (2003), pp. 448-51:
"JOSEPH LOOMIS, b. Eng., c1590; d. Windsor, Conn., 25 Nov 1658. He m. Messing, County Essex, England 30 Jun 1614 MARY WHITE. She was bpt. Shalford, England, 24 Aug 1590; d. Windsor, Conn., 23 Aug 1652, d/o Robert White and Bridget Allgar of Messing.
Joseph Loomis was a woolen draper in Braintree, Essex Co., England; sailed from London 11 Apr 1638 in the Susan and Ellen, and arrived at Boston 17 Jul 1638, living for about a year at Dorchester, Mass. It is mentioned in the town records of Windsor, Vol. 1, that on the 2d of Feb., 1640, he had granted him from the Plantation 21 acres adjoining Farmington Aver, on the west side of the Connecticut river; also several large tracts of land on the east side of the Connecticut, partly from the town and partly by purchase. He probably came to Windsor in the summer or autumn of 1639, and he is generally supposed to have come in the company with Rev. Ephraim Huet, who arrived at Windsor 17 Aug 1639. He brought with him five sons, all of whom were freemen 7 Oct 1669, and three daughters. The marriages of these children are recorded in the town records of Windsor, as were the births of their children, but as the dates of birth of Joseph's children are not recorded, it is difficult to determine the order of seniority. His house was situated near the mouth of the Farmington river on the "Island," so called because at every great freshet it became temporarily an island by the overflowing of the Connecticut river.
In the Records of particular Court for the colony of Connecticut, Vol 2, p. 115, is recorded the agreement of the children of Mr. Joseph Loomis, respecting the division of the estate of said deceased as approved by the Court 2 Dec 1658.
Loomis, Joseph, Windsor. Died 25 November, 1658. Inventory £178.10.00. Taken by Henry Clarke, John Moore.
Court Record, Page 115 -- 2 December, 1658. An Agreement for a Division of the Estate by the Children of Joseph Loomis, Decd, and approved by this Court of Magistrates to be an Equal Division. To Joseph Loomis, to Nicholas Olmsted, to Josiah Hull, to John Loomis, to Thomas Loomis, to Nathaniel Loomis, to Mary Tudor, to Samuel Loomis.
The agreement of the children of Mr. Joseph Loomis respecting the division of the estate of ye father deceased approved by The Court 2 December 1658: We whose names are hereunto subscribed doe by these prsents testify that it is our mutual and joynt agreement to attend an equal division of the estate of Mr. Joseph Loomis, our father, lately deceased, wch said estate being distributed in an equal prption we doe by these prsents engage to set down Satisfied and contented respecting any future trouble or demands about the fore said estate now presented by Inventory to ye Court of Magistrates.
Witness our hand, 2nd December, 1658.
Joseph Loomis, Josias Hull, Thomas Loomis, Mary Tudor, Nicholas Olmstead, John Loomis, Nath. Loomis, Samll Loomis.
(Manwaring, Charles W., A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Hartford District. Vol. 1, 1650-1663, pp. 135-6.)
It is believed that the order in which the children were named in the division of the estate indicates the relative ages of the children. Further, Joseph Loomis, the younger, and John Loomis had land granted to them from the Windsor Plantation in 1643. The other sons acquired no land until several years afterward. The marriages of the sons, as recorded at Windsor, took place in the order of the names mentioned above.
i. JOSEPH2 Loomis, b. Eng. c1615; d. Windsor, Conn., 26 Jun 1687; m/1 Windsor 17 Sept 1646 SARAH HILL., who d. 23 Aug 1653; m/2 28 Jun 1659 MARY SHERWOOD, b. c1639, d/o Thomas and Mary (Fitch) Sherwood. ("Some Early Records and Documents of and Relative to the Town of Windsor, Conn., 1639-1703," p. 39.) Inventory of his estate was made 12 Jul 1687 by Henry Wolcott, John Wolcott and John Loomis and amounted to £281.14.08. Children named were Joseph age 38; John 36; Mary 34; Hannah 25; Matthew 23; Stephen 20; James 17; Nathaniel 14; Isaac 9. (Manwaring, Vol. 1, 1677-1687, p. 332.) Children by Sarah: Sarah b. 22 Jul 1647, d. 1654; Joseph b. 15 Jul 1649, d. East Windsor 26 Feb 1715, m/1 Lydia Drake, d/o John, m/2 widow Abigail Birge; John b. 1 Oct 1651, d. Windsor 3 Nov 1732, m/1 Mary (___), m/2 Esther Gillett; Mary b. 3 Aug 1653, living 1687. Children by Mary: Sarah (again) b. 1 Apr 1660, d. inf.; Hannah b. 2 Feb 1662, living 1687; Matthew b 4 Nov 1664, d. 12 Apr 1688, m. Mary Gaylord; Isaac b. 10 Jul 1666, d. young; Stephen b. 1 Sept 1668, d. 1711, m. Esther Colt; James b. 31 Oct 1669, d. Bolton 29 Dec 1750, Mindwell (___); Nathaniel b. 8 Aug 1673, d. East Windsor 1730, m. Elizabeth (___); Isaac (again) b. 28 Oct 1677, d. 17 Mar 1704.
ii. SARAH Loomis, b. Eng., c1617; m. 1640 CAPT. NICHOLAS OLMSTEAD of Hartford, s/o James Olmstead and Joyce Cornish of Hartford. He d. 31 Aug 1684. Children (OLDMSTEAD): Sarah b. 1641 m. George Gates (Torrey); Mabel b. 20 Nov 1646, m/1 Daniel Butler, m/2 Michael Taintor (Torrey); Rebecca b. Mar 1648, m. John Bigelow (Torrey); John b. 3 Feb 1650; Joseph; Samuel; Thomas prob. m. Hannah Mix. (Savage sv Nicholas Olmstead.)
iii ELIZABETH Loomis, b. Eng. c1619; d. aft 1665; m. Windsor 20 May 1641 JOSIAH HULL of Windsor, d. 16 Nov 1675, s/o George. He was deputy to the General Court 1659, 60, 62. He then removed to Killingworth where he was deputy 1667-74. Children (HULL): Josiah b. Sept 1642; John b. 17 Dec 1644; Elizabeth b. 18 Feb 1647; Mary b. 2 Oct 1648; Martha b. 10 Jun 1650: Joseph b. 10 Aug 1652; Sarah b. 9 Aug 1654; Naomi b. 17 Feb 1657, m. Thomas Burnham; Rebecca b. 10 Aug 1659; George b. 28 Apr 1662, d. soon; Thomas b. 29 May 1655. (Savage & Torrey sv Josiah Hull. NOTE: Savage says Josiah Hull m. Elizabeth, d/o Joseph Bemis, but this is incorrect.)
iv MARY Loomis, b. Eng., c1620; d. 19 Aug 1680; m/1 JOHN SKINNER of Hartford, d. 30 Oct 1650; m/2 13 Nov 1651 OWEN TUDOR of Windsor, d. 30 Oct 1690. Children (SKINNER): Mary b. 1 Dec 1637, m. Robert Reeve; Ann b. 1639 m. John Colt; John b. 1641, m. Mary Easton; Joseph b. 1643, m. Mary Filley; Richard b. 1646. Children by Owen Tudor (TUDOR): Samuel (twin) b. 5 Dec 1652, m. 1685 Abigail (Filley) Bissell, wid. of John Bissell; Sarah (twin) b. 5 Dec 1652, m. James Porter; Owen b. 2 Mar 1654, d. unm.; Anne (twin) b. 16 Oct 1657; Jane (twin) b. 16 Oct 1657, m. Samuel Smith of Wethersfield; Mary b. 6 Mar 1661, m/1 John Orton, m/2 John Judson. (Manwaring, Vol. I, 1687-1695, p. 513; Savage sv Owen Tudor.)
v DEACON JOHN Loomis, b. Eng. c1622; d. Windsor 1 Sept 1688; m. 3 Feb 1648/9 ELIZABETH SCOTT, d/o Thomas of Hartford. Children: John b. 9 Nov 1649, m/1 ___; m/2 30 Dec 1696 Sarah (Boltwood) Warner, widow of Isaac Warner and d/o Robert Boltwood; Joseph b. 7 Nov 1651, m. Hannah (___); Thomas b. 3 Dec 1653, m. Sarah White, d/o Daniel of Hatfield, Sarah m/2 John Bissell; Samuel b. 29 Jun 1655, d. young; Daniel b. 16 Jun 1657, m/1 Mary Ellsworth, d/o Josiah, m/2 widow Hannah Drake; James b. 19 Sept 1659, d. young; Timothy b. 27 Jul 1661, m. Rebecca Porter; Nathaniel b. 8 Jul 1663, m. Ruth Porter; David b. 30 May 1665, d. inf.; Samuel (again) b. 12 Aug 1666, m/1 Elizabeth White, d/o Daniel of Hatfield, m/2 widow Elizabeth Church; Isaac b. 31 Aug 1668, d. age 20; Elizabeth b. 8 May 1671, m. John Brown; Mary b. 7 Aug 1673, d. inf. (Savage sv John Loomis; Loomis Genealogy.)
vi. THOMAS Loomis, b. Eng., c1624; d. 28 Aug 1689. He was of Windsor and m/1 1 Nov 1653 HANNAH FOX who d. 25 Apr 1662; m/2 1 Jan 1662/3 MARY JUDD, d. 8 Aug 1684, d/o Thomas Judd and Sarah Freeman. He was freeman in 1654, admitted to the church 3 Apr 1663. Children by Hannah: Thomas b. 29 Oct 1654, d. soon; Thomas (again) b. 17 Mar 1656, Hannah Porter; Hannah b. 8 Feb 1657/8, m. William Judd; Mary b. 16 Jan 1659/60, m. Michael Taintor of Branford. Children by Mary: Elizabeth b. 21 Jan 1663/4. living 1690; Ruth b. 16 Oct 1665, m. Joseph Colt; Sarah b. 1 Feb 1667/8, m. Wakefield Dibble; Jeremiah b. 3 Jul 1670, d. age 2; Mabel b. 27 Oct 1672, living 1690; Mindwell b. 6 Aug 1676, living 1690; Benjamin b. 20 May 1679, living 1690. (Savage sv Thomas Loomis; Loomis Genealogy.)
vii. NATHANIEL Loomis. b. Eng., c1626; d. 19 Aug 1688; will dated 17 Aug 1688; m. 24 Nov 1654 ELIZABETH MOORE, d/o John; she m/2 John Case, and she d. 23 Jul 1728, aged 90. Children: Elizabeth b. 7 Aug 1655, m. John Lee; Nathaniel b. 20 Mar 1657, m. Elizabeth Ellsworth, d/o Josiah; Abigail b. 27 Mar 1659, m. Josiah Barber of Simsbury; Josiah b. 17 Feb 1661, m. Mary Rockwell; Jonathan b. 30 Mar 1664, m. ___; David b. 11 Jan 1668, m. Lydia Marsh; Hezekiah b. 21 Feb 1669, m. Mary Porter; Moses b. 15 May 1671, m. Joanna Gibbs; Mindwell b. 20 Jul 1673, Jonathan Brown; Ebenezer b. 22 Mar 1675, m. Jemima Whitcomb; Mary b. 5 Jan 1680, m. Joseph Barber; Rebecca b. 10 Dec 1682, m. Josiah Rockwell. (Savage sv Nathaniel Loomis, Hezekiah Loomis.)
viii SAMUEL Loomis, b. Eng. c1628; m. ELIZABETH JUDD.
(William Richard Cutter, New England Family History, p. 985; (Elias Loomis, Desc. of Joseph Loomis)"

10. The book "Emerson-Benson Saga …," by Edmund K. Swigart (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1994), pp. 351-53:
"JOSEPH1 LOOMIS (JOHNA LUMACE, JOHNB LUMMYS, THOMASC) was born by 1590, perhaps in Braintree, county Lincoln, England, and died 25 November 1658 at Windsor, CT. He was the son of JOHNA LUMACE, a tailor of Thaxted and Braintree and AGNESA LINGWOOD and JANE MARLAN?, daughter of WILLIAMB and MARGARETA (PERYE) MARLAN? of Braintree. He was also the grandson of JOHNB LUMMYS, a carpenter of Thaxted, and Kryster [sic: Krysten] (Christian (___). JOSEPH1 married 30 June 1616 at Messing, county Essex, England, MARY1 WHITE, daughter of ROBERTA, a wealthy yeoman, and BRIDGETA (ALLGAR) WHITE of Shalford, county Essex. MARY1 was baptized 24 August 1590 at Shalford and died 23 August 1652 at Windsor. MARY1's younger sister, ANNA1, married ancestor JOHN1 PORTER.
United States President Ulysses Simpson Grant (18th Chief Executive), Stephen Grover Cleveland (22nd and 24th), and Gerald Rudolph Ford, (38th), were descendants of MARY1's parents and Millard Fillmore (13th President), of her and her parents.
JOSEPH1 was a woolen draper, He and his wife lived in Braintree until 1628. They moved to London and from there sailed with their eight children 11 April 1638 aboard the "Susan and Ellen", the same ship that ancestor Rev. PETER1 BULKELEY had taken in 1635. The LOOMIS family arrived in Boston 11 July 1638, they may have spent their first year in Dorchester, MA, but moved by land in the summer of 1639 to Windsor, CT, "Probably in the company of Reverend Ephraim Huet who arrived there August 17, 1639" (ref. 3). "On 2 Feb. 1640 he had granted to him 21 acres on the west side of the Connecticut River adjoining the Farmington River" (ref. 6). JOSEPH1 continued to acquire land and served on juries in 1642 and in 1644 with Nathaniel1 Foote, brother of ancestor MARYA FOOTE. "On 6 January 1650, he was sued by" [ancestor WILLIAM1 BUELL] "for trespass and for damage to the extent of seven bushels of corn; one may infer that his stock got away from him" (ref. 3).
JOSEPH1 apparently left no will. His estate was valued at 178 pounds 10 shillings, with "a 'debt in England'" (ref. 3) of 12 pounds 14 shillings 6 pence against it. On December 1658, his wife having predeceased him, his five sons and three daughters (two represented by their husbands) signed an agreement in place of a will to divide JOSEPH's estate equitably among them.
The children of JOSEPH1 and MARY1 (WHITE) LOOMIS, all probably born in Braintree, county Lancaster, England, and probably not all listed in the correct order of birth, were.
I Joseph2, b. 1615, ca. 1616; d. 26 Jun 1687 at Windsor, CT; m. 1/wf 17 Sep 1646, Sarah2 Hill 2/wf 28 Jun 1659, Mary Sherwood.
II Sarah2, b. ca. 1617-8?; d. 1667, 1687, perh. at Hartford, CT; m. by 28 Sep 1640, Nicholas Olmstead.
III. ELIZABETH2, b. ca. 1620?; d. aft. 1665, prob. of Killingworth, CT; m by 20 May 1640-1 at Windsor, CT, JOSIAH2 HULL (see HULL).
IV Mary2, b. 1620?; d. 19 Aug. 1680, prob. at Windsor, CT: m. 1/hs by 1637-8, by 1633, John Skinner, m. 2/hs 13 Nov 1651, prob. at Windsor, Owen Tudor.
V John2, b. ca. 1622?, 1620; d. 2 Sep 1688 at Windsor, CT; m. 3, 6? Feb 1648-9 Elizabeth2 Scott (Thomas1).
VI Thomas2, b. ca. 1624?; 2 Aug 1689, prob. at Windsor, CT; m. 1/wf 1 Nov 1653 Hannah Fox/Fowkes who d. 1662, prob. at Windsor; m. 2/wf 1 Jan 1562-3, Mary2 Judd (Thomas1).
VII Nathaniel2, b. ca 1626?; d. 19 Aug 1688, prob. at Windsor, CT; m. as 1/hs 24 Nov 1653-4, Elizabeth2 Moore (John1) who m. 2/hs aft. 3 Nov 1991, John Case.
VIII Samuel2, b. 1628?; d. 1 Oct 1689, prob. at Westfield, MA; m. 27, 29? Dec 1653, Elizabeth2 Judd (Thomas1), sis. of Mary2 who m. Samuel2's older? bro., Thomas2 as 2/wf.
REFERENCES
1) Brainerd, Dwight, "Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd," [Portland, ME, Anthoensen Press, 1948], [hereinafter Brainerd, D.], 301-2.
2) Colket, M. B., op. cit., 196.
3) Ferris, M. W., op. cit., Dawes-Gates, II:453-62; 567-72.
4) Parke, N. G., op. cit., 78.
5) Pierce, R. Andrew, personal correspondence, research and material on the Hull and Loomis lines, 25 May 1993, MAT, Swigart, E. K., Washington, CT.
6) Pitman, H. M., op. cit., 391-2, 396.
7) Roberts, G. B., op cit., 182.
8) Roberts, Gary B., review of the Emerson-Benson ancestral lines and material on the Lingwood, Loomis and White lines, NEHGS Library, Boston, MA, 19 May 1993 with Swigart, E. K., MAT, Swigart, E. K., Washington, CT.
9) Savage, J., op. cit. II:494; III:112-3.
10) Torrey, C. A., op. cit., 139, 401, 472, 545, 677, 757."

BIRTH:
1. Birthplace may be Messing, Essex, England.

CHRISTENING:
1. The christening, marriage, and burial registers for Braintree no longer exist prior to 1660. They were destroyed by a sexton who used pages to start fires.

SOURCES_MISC:
1. Per family group sheet archive record submitted by Hazel May Beckstead, 4729 N. Walnut Grove, Rosemead, Calif.. References: "Gen. Biog. Rec. New London Co., Conn. Stiles Fam. Hist. p. 28, His. Hudson Mohawk Valley N.Y. p 725, vol 2 Vitals Boxford, Mass. pp. 94, 95, History of Ancient Windsor Conn. vol II Loomis Gen."

2. Per 9 Feb 2002 email of Ellen Baker : Ellen lists her sources as follows. This file was created by the posts of Vickie L. (VanMeter) Smithson (all) and Mark Allen (on Philip's child Philip Jr.)of the Loomis Surname Forum at Genforum.Com. Info. came from Nan Wolf (web site). Info. was also obtained over at Rootsweb Worldconnect Project. The following books were used to make additions to this summary: Descendants of Joseph Loomis (1590-1658) In America And his Antecedents In the Old World. The Original Published by Elias Loomis LLD, 1875. Revised by Elisha S. Loomis Ph.D. 1908; Lion passengers Title: Passengers on the "Lion" from England to Boston, 1632 Author: Sandra Sutphin Olney Publication: 1992 Heritage Books Inc. Two volume set; Windsor Genealogies Title: The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor Connecticut 1635-1891 Author: Henry R. Stiles, A.M., M.D., Publication: Volume II, 1992 Picton Press; and Our American Ancestry Author: Gates, Frederick Taylor Publication: 1928, Montclair, NJ FHL R929.2 G223GF FHL film #1421664 item 5.

3. Per family group sheet archive record submitted by Joyce Pierce Christensen, 3847 S. 9th E., SLC, Utah. References: "Am. Pub. F, Vol. 26, Yr. 1932, pg. 550, Americana.

ACTION:
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4640 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography," v. 34, p. 415, entry for John Clarence Hull (b. 1878): "...a descendent of George and Thomasene (Mitchell) Hull, who came from Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England, and arrived in Boston in 1629, becoming early settlers of Dorchester, Mass. From them the descent is through their son, Josiah, and his wife, Elizabeth Loomis, (etc.)."

2. Per 9 Feb 2002 email of Ellen Baker : Elizabeth (b. around 1619, m. Lt. Josiah Hull, deputy to the General Court in 1659, 1660 and 1662, was the first town recorder of Killingworth, serving in this capacity from Oct 2, 1665 to Nov 5, 1675, was a Lieutenant of the Train Band (1666) and was again elected to serve as deputy to the General Court in 1667 and 1674, had 11 children, Josiah Jr. (m. Elizabeth Talmage?), John (m. Abigail Kelsey), Elizabeth (m. Israel Dibble), Mary (m. #1 John Grant, in King Philip's War, was perambulator, fence viewer, lister, constable and collector; #2 John Cross), Martha (m. John Nettleton), Joseph (fought in the Narragansett War, m. Elizabeth Farnham Swan?), Sarah (m. ?), Naomi (m. Thomas Burnham Jr.), Rebecca (m. John Lyon?), George (died a child) and Thomas (m. Hannah Sheather)).

3. "New England Historical and Genealogical Register," v. 5, p. 228, Article: "Records of Ancient Windsor":
"Josias Hull, m. Elizabeth Loomis, 20 May, 1641; he d. 16 Nov 1675; chil. Josias, b. __ Sep 1642; John, b. 17 Dec 1644; Elisabeth, b. 18 Feb 1646; Mary, b. 2 Oct 1648; Martha, b. 10 Jun 1650; Joseph, b. 10 Aug 1652; Sara, b. 9 Aug 1654; Naomy, b. 17 Feb 1656; Rebeca, b. 10 Aug 1659; George, b. 28 Apr 1662; Thomas, b. 29 May 1665."

4. From the book "The Descendants (by the Female Branches) of Joseph Loomis, who Came from Braintree, England, in the Year 1638 and Settled in Windsor, CT, in 1639," by Elias Loomis (Yale Professor), 1880, v. 1, p. 59:
"Elizabeth Loomis, daughter of Joseph Loomis, m. Josiah Hull, 20 May 1641. Mr. Hull was Deputy to the General Court in 1659, '60 and '62. In 1662 he removed to Killingworth from which place he was Deputy, 1667-74. He d. 16 Nov 1675. His wife was living in 1665. Children:
A. Lt. Josiah, b. 6 Sep 1642, m. Elizabeth ___. He d. Sep. 1670. His widow m. 2d, ___ Tallmadge, and she d. 2 Oct 1677.
B. Lt. John, b. 17 Dec 1644, m. Abigail Kelsey 3 Dec 1668, who d. 12 May 1717. He d. 24 Jul 1728.
C. Elizabeth, b. 18 Feb 1647.
D. Mary, b. 2 Oct 1648, m. John Grant 2 Aug 1666.
E. Martha, b. 10 Jun 1650, m. John Nettleton, 29 May 1669. He d. 18 Mar 1691.
F. Joseph, b. 10 Aug 1652, m. ___. He d. 1709."

5. Elias Loomis "Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America," update of 1875 edition published by Elisha S. Loomis, Berea, Ohio, third (1908) edition, chapter: "The Descendants of Joseph Loomis (1590-1658) in America," subchapter "First Generation, children of Joseph Loomis of Windsor, CT.," pp. 126-128:
"Genealogical investigations have been unable to establish definitely the order of the children of Joseph Loomis, and it is considered advisable to give here the conflicting evidence:
Possible order of children:
1. Mrs Olmsted, b. 1615, md. 1640. [Sarah]
2. Mrs. Hull, b. 1617, md. 1641. [Elizabeth]
3. Joseph, b. 1618, md. 1646.
4. Mrs. Skinner, b. 1620, md. 1638. [Mary]
5. John, b. 1622, md. 1648.
6. Thomas, b. 1624, md. 1653.
7. Nathaniel, b. 1626, md. 1653.
8. Samuel, b. 1628, md. 1653.
Probably, however, the order was as follows:
Joseph, b. 1615.
Sarah, b. 1617.
Elizabeth, b. abt 1619.
Mary, b. abt 1620.
John, b. 1622.
Thomas, b. 1624.
Nathaniel, b. 1626.
Samuel, b. 1628."
Concerning Elizabeth:
"Elizabeth, b. a. 1619, in England; m. Windsor, May 20, 1641, Josiah, eldest child of George Hull, of Windsor. Mr. Hull was Deputy to the General Court in 1659, '60 and 62. In 1662 he removed to Killinworth from which place he was Deputy, 1667-74. He d. Nov. 16, 1675. His wife was living in 1665. Their children, b. Windsor, Conn., were: 1. Lieut. Josiah, 2. Lieut. John, who was ancestor of Capt. Gustavus A. Hull, b. Apr. 18, 1827, U.S. Army, San Francisco, Cal.; also ancestor of Henry H. St. Clair, b. Oct. 18, 1850, Assistant Editor of N.Y. Tribune. 3. Elizabeth, 4. Mary, 5. Martha, ancestress of Rev. Titus Coan, b. Feb. 1, 1801, Missionary to Sandwich Islands, serving 50 years. 6. Joseph, 7. Sarah, 8. Naomi, 9. Rebecca, 10. George, 11. Thomas."

6. FHL book 929.273 F597g "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England…," by Ernest Flagg (Hartford, 1926), p. 278:
"Mary White1, wife of Joseph Loomis1, bap. Aug. 24, 1590; dau. of Robert and Bridget (AllgarA) WhiteA of Messing, Essex, England; m. June 30, 1614 in England; d. Aug. 23, 1652. (Matthew Grant's O.C.R.)
Their children:
-Joseph, about 1615; d. June 26, 1687; m. Sept. 17, 1646, Sarah, dau. of William Hill and granddau. af Richard Lyman1; m. (2), June 28, 1659, Mary Chauncey, who d. April 22, 1681. He was a trooper in King Philip's War, as was his brother, Nathaniel.
-Sarah, about 1617; d. 1667; m. Sept. 28, 1640, as his first wife, Capt. Nicholas Olmstead, grandson of James and Jane (BristowB) OlmsteadB, and who served in the Pequot War.
-Elizabeth, about 1619; m. May 20, 1641, Josias hull, son of George of Windsor, who d. Nov. 16, 1675.
-Mary, about. 1620; d. Aug. 19, 1680; m. 1638, John Skinner of Hartford; m. (2), Nov. 13, 1651, Owen Tudor.
-John, (Deacon), 1622; d. Sept. 1, 1688; m. Feb. 3, 1648-9, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Scott and sister of the first wife of John Stanley2, who d. May 7, 1696.
-Thomas, 1624; d. Aug. 28, 1689; m. Nov. 1, 1653, Hannah Fox, (M.G.O.C.R.); m. (2), Jan. 1, 1662-3, Mary, dau. of Deacon Thomas Judd1, who d. Aug. 8 1684. Thomas Loomis was a trooper in 1658 under Major John Mason."

7. The book "Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Rice Lyon and his wife Harriet Wade Rice with related families," by Patty Barthell Myers (2003), pp. 448-51:
"JOSEPH LOOMIS, b. Eng., c1590; d. Windsor, Conn., 25 Nov 1658. He m. Messing, County Essex, England 30 Jun 1614 MARY WHITE. She was bpt. Shalford, England, 24 Aug 1590; d. Windsor, Conn., 23 Aug 1652, d/o Robert White and Bridget Allgar of Messing.
Joseph Loomis was a woolen draper in Braintree, Essex Co., England; sailed from London 11 Apr 1638 in the Susan and Ellen, and arrived at Boston 17 Jul 1638, living for about a year at Dorchester, Mass. It is mentioned in the town records of Windsor, Vol. 1, that on the 2d of Feb., 1640, he had granted him from the Plantation 21 acres adjoining Farmington Aver, on the west side of the Connecticut river; also several large tracts of land on the east side of the Connecticut, partly from the town and partly by purchase. He probably came to Windsor in the summer or autumn of 1639, and he is generally supposed to have come in the company with Rev. Ephraim Huet, who arrived at Windsor 17 Aug 1639. He brought with him five sons, all of whom were freemen 7 Oct 1669, and three daughters. The marriages of these children are recorded in the town records of Windsor, as were the births of their children, but as the dates of birth of Joseph's children are not recorded, it is difficult to determine the order of seniority. His house was situated near the mouth of the Farmington river on the "Island," so called because at every great freshet it became temporarily an island by the overflowing of the Connecticut river.
In the Records of particular Court for the colony of Connecticut, Vol 2, p. 115, is recorded the agreement of the children of Mr. Joseph Loomis, respecting the division of the estate of said deceased as approved by the Court 2 Dec 1658.
Loomis, Joseph, Windsor. Died 25 November, 1658. Inventory £178.10.00. Taken by Henry Clarke, John Moore.
Court Record, Page 115 -- 2 December, 1658. An Agreement for a Division of the Estate by the Children of Joseph Loomis, Decd, and approved by this Court of Magistrates to be an Equal Division. To Joseph Loomis, to Nicholas Olmsted, to Josiah Hull, to John Loomis, to Thomas Loomis, to Nathaniel Loomis, to Mary Tudor, to Samuel Loomis.
The agreement of the children of Mr. Joseph Loomis respecting the division of the estate of ye father deceased approved by The Court 2 December 1658: We whose names are hereunto subscribed doe by these prsents testify that it is our mutual and joynt agreement to attend an equal division of the estate of Mr. Joseph Loomis, our father, lately deceased, wch said estate being distributed in an equal prption we doe by these prsents engage to set down Satisfied and contented respecting any future trouble or demands about the fore said estate now presented by Inventory to ye Court of Magistrates.
Witness our hand, 2nd December, 1658.
Joseph Loomis, Josias Hull, Thomas Loomis, Mary Tudor, Nicholas Olmstead, John Loomis, Nath. Loomis, Samll Loomis.
(Manwaring, Charles W., A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Hartford District. Vol. 1, 1650-1663, pp. 135-6.)
It is believed that the order in which the children were named in the division of the estate indicates the relative ages of the children. Further, Joseph Loomis, the younger, and John Loomis had land granted to them from the Windsor Plantation in 1643. The other sons acquired no land until several years afterward. The marriages of the sons, as recorded at Windsor, took place in the order of the names mentioned above.
i. JOSEPH2 Loomis, b. Eng. c1615; d. Windsor, Conn., 26 Jun 1687; m/1 Windsor 17 Sept 1646 SARAH HILL., who d. 23 Aug 1653; m/2 28 Jun 1659 MARY SHERWOOD, b. c1639, d/o Thomas and Mary (Fitch) Sherwood. ("Some Early Records and Documents of and Relative to the Town of Windsor, Conn., 1639-1703," p. 39.) Inventory of his estate was made 12 Jul 1687 by Henry Wolcott, John Wolcott and John Loomis and amounted to £281.14.08. Children named were Joseph age 38; John 36; Mary 34; Hannah 25; Matthew 23; Stephen 20; James 17; Nathaniel 14; Isaac 9. (Manwaring, Vol. 1, 1677-1687, p. 332.) Children by Sarah: Sarah b. 22 Jul 1647, d. 1654; Joseph b. 15 Jul 1649, d. East Windsor 26 Feb 1715, m/1 Lydia Drake, d/o John, m/2 widow Abigail Birge; John b. 1 Oct 1651, d. Windsor 3 Nov 1732, m/1 Mary (___), m/2 Esther Gillett; Mary b. 3 Aug 1653, living 1687. Children by Mary: Sarah (again) b. 1 Apr 1660, d. inf.; Hannah b. 2 Feb 1662, living 1687; Matthew b 4 Nov 1664, d. 12 Apr 1688, m. Mary Gaylord; Isaac b. 10 Jul 1666, d. young; Stephen b. 1 Sept 1668, d. 1711, m. Esther Colt; James b. 31 Oct 1669, d. Bolton 29 Dec 1750, Mindwell (___); Nathaniel b. 8 Aug 1673, d. East Windsor 1730, m. Elizabeth (___); Isaac (again) b. 28 Oct 1677, d. 17 Mar 1704.
ii. SARAH Loomis, b. Eng., c1617; m. 1640 CAPT. NICHOLAS OLMSTEAD of Hartford, s/o James Olmstead and Joyce Cornish of Hartford. He d. 31 Aug 1684. Children (OLDMSTEAD): Sarah b. 1641 m. George Gates (Torrey); Mabel b. 20 Nov 1646, m/1 Daniel Butler, m/2 Michael Taintor (Torrey); Rebecca b. Mar 1648, m. John Bigelow (Torrey); John b. 3 Feb 1650; Joseph; Samuel; Thomas prob. m. Hannah Mix. (Savage sv Nicholas Olmstead.)
iii ELIZABETH Loomis, b. Eng. c1619; d. aft 1665; m. Windsor 20 May 1641 JOSIAH HULL of Windsor, d. 16 Nov 1675, s/o George. He was deputy to the General Court 1659, 60, 62. He then removed to Killingworth where he was deputy 1667-74. Children (HULL): Josiah b. Sept 1642; John b. 17 Dec 1644; Elizabeth b. 18 Feb 1647; Mary b. 2 Oct 1648; Martha b. 10 Jun 1650: Joseph b. 10 Aug 1652; Sarah b. 9 Aug 1654; Naomi b. 17 Feb 1657, m. Thomas Burnham; Rebecca b. 10 Aug 1659; George b. 28 Apr 1662, d. soon; Thomas b. 29 May 1655. (Savage & Torrey sv Josiah Hull. NOTE: Savage says Josiah Hull m. Elizabeth, d/o Joseph Bemis, but this is incorrect.)
iv MARY Loomis, b. Eng., c1620; d. 19 Aug 1680; m/1 JOHN SKINNER of Hartford, d. 30 Oct 1650; m/2 13 Nov 1651 OWEN TUDOR of Windsor, d. 30 Oct 1690. Children (SKINNER): Mary b. 1 Dec 1637, m. Robert Reeve; Ann b. 1639 m. John Colt; John b. 1641, m. Mary Easton; Joseph b. 1643, m. Mary Filley; Richard b. 1646. Children by Owen Tudor (TUDOR): Samuel (twin) b. 5 Dec 1652, m. 1685 Abigail (Filley) Bissell, wid. of John Bissell; Sarah (twin) b. 5 Dec 1652, m. James Porter; Owen b. 2 Mar 1654, d. unm.; Anne (twin) b. 16 Oct 1657; Jane (twin) b. 16 Oct 1657, m. Samuel Smith of Wethersfield; Mary b. 6 Mar 1661, m/1 John Orton, m/2 John Judson. (Manwaring, Vol. I, 1687-1695, p. 513; Savage sv Owen Tudor.)
v DEACON JOHN Loomis, b. Eng. c1622; d. Windsor 1 Sept 1688; m. 3 Feb 1648/9 ELIZABETH SCOTT, d/o Thomas of Hartford. Children: John b. 9 Nov 1649, m/1 ___; m/2 30 Dec 1696 Sarah (Boltwood) Warner, widow of Isaac Warner and d/o Robert Boltwood; Joseph b. 7 Nov 1651, m. Hannah (___); Thomas b. 3 Dec 1653, m. Sarah White, d/o Daniel of Hatfield, Sarah m/2 John Bissell; Samuel b. 29 Jun 1655, d. young; Daniel b. 16 Jun 1657, m/1 Mary Ellsworth, d/o Josiah, m/2 widow Hannah Drake; James b. 19 Sept 1659, d. young; Timothy b. 27 Jul 1661, m. Rebecca Porter; Nathaniel b. 8 Jul 1663, m. Ruth Porter; David b. 30 May 1665, d. inf.; Samuel (again) b. 12 Aug 1666, m/1 Elizabeth White, d/o Daniel of Hatfield, m/2 widow Elizabeth Church; Isaac b. 31 Aug 1668, d. age 20; Elizabeth b. 8 May 1671, m. John Brown; Mary b. 7 Aug 1673, d. inf. (Savage sv John Loomis; Loomis Genealogy.)
vi. THOMAS Loomis, b. Eng., c1624; d. 28 Aug 1689. He was of Windsor and m/1 1 Nov 1653 HANNAH FOX who d. 25 Apr 1662; m/2 1 Jan 1662/3 MARY JUDD, d. 8 Aug 1684, d/o Thomas Judd and Sarah Freeman. He was freeman in 1654, admitted to the church 3 Apr 1663. Children by Hannah: Thomas b. 29 Oct 1654, d. soon; Thomas (again) b. 17 Mar 1656, Hannah Porter; Hannah b. 8 Feb 1657/8, m. William Judd; Mary b. 16 Jan 1659/60, m. Michael Taintor of Branford. Children by Mary: Elizabeth b. 21 Jan 1663/4. living 1690; Ruth b. 16 Oct 1665, m. Joseph Colt; Sarah b. 1 Feb 1667/8, m. Wakefield Dibble; Jeremiah b. 3 Jul 1670, d. age 2; Mabel b. 27 Oct 1672, living 1690; Mindwell b. 6 Aug 1676, living 1690; Benjamin b. 20 May 1679, living 1690. (Savage sv Thomas Loomis; Loomis Genealogy.)
vii. NATHANIEL Loomis. b. Eng., c1626; d. 19 Aug 1688; will dated 17 Aug 1688; m. 24 Nov 1654 ELIZABETH MOORE, d/o John; she m/2 John Case, and she d. 23 Jul 1728, aged 90. Children: Elizabeth b. 7 Aug 1655, m. John Lee; Nathaniel b. 20 Mar 1657, m. Elizabeth Ellsworth, d/o Josiah; Abigail b. 27 Mar 1659, m. Josiah Barber of Simsbury; Josiah b. 17 Feb 1661, m. Mary Rockwell; Jonathan b. 30 Mar 1664, m. ___; David b. 11 Jan 1668, m. Lydia Marsh; Hezekiah b. 21 Feb 1669, m. Mary Porter; Moses b. 15 May 1671, m. Joanna Gibbs; Mindwell b. 20 Jul 1673, Jonathan Brown; Ebenezer b. 22 Mar 1675, m. Jemima Whitcomb; Mary b. 5 Jan 1680, m. Joseph Barber; Rebecca b. 10 Dec 1682, m. Josiah Rockwell. (Savage sv Nathaniel Loomis, Hezekiah Loomis.)
viii SAMUEL Loomis, b. Eng. c1628; m. ELIZABETH JUDD.
(William Richard Cutter, New England Family History, p. 985; (Elias Loomis, Desc. of Joseph Loomis)"

8. The book "Emerson-Benson Saga …," by Edmund K. Swigart (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1994), pp. 351-53:
"JOSEPH1 LOOMIS (JOHNA LUMACE, JOHNB LUMMYS, THOMASC) was born by 1590, perhaps in Braintree, county Lincoln, England, and died 25 November 1658 at Windsor, CT. He was the son of JOHNA LUMACE, a tailor of Thaxted and Braintree and AGNESA LINGWOOD and JANE MARLAN?, daughter of WILLIAMB and MARGARETA (PERYE) MARLAN? of Braintree. He was also the grandson of JOHNB LUMMYS, a carpenter of Thaxted, and Kryster [sic: Krysten] (Christian (___). JOSEPH1 married 30 June 1616 at Messing, county Essex, England, MARY1 WHITE, daughter of ROBERTA, a wealthy yeoman, and BRIDGETA (ALLGAR) WHITE of Shalford, county Essex. MARY1 was baptized 24 August 1590 at Shalford and died 23 August 1652 at Windsor. MARY1's younger sister, ANNA1, married ancestor JOHN1 PORTER.
United States President Ulysses Simpson Grant (18th Chief Executive), Stephen Grover Cleveland (22nd and 24th), and Gerald Rudolph Ford, (38th), were descendants of MARY1's parents and Millard Fillmore (13th President), of her and her parents.
JOSEPH1 was a woolen draper, He and his wife lived in Braintree until 1628. They moved to London and from there sailed with their eight children 11 April 1638 aboard the "Susan and Ellen", the same ship that ancestor Rev. PETER1 BULKELEY had taken in 1635. The LOOMIS family arrived in Boston 11 July 1638, they may have spent their first year in Dorchester, MA, but moved by land in the summer of 1639 to Windsor, CT, "Probably in the company of Reverend Ephraim Huet who arrived there August 17, 1639" (ref. 3). "On 2 Feb. 1640 he had granted to him 21 acres on the west side of the Connecticut River adjoining the Farmington River" (ref. 6). JOSEPH1 continued to acquire land and served on juries in 1642 and in 1644 with Nathaniel1 Foote, brother of ancestor MARYA FOOTE. "On 6 January 1650, he was sued by" [ancestor WILLIAM1 BUELL] "for trespass and for damage to the extent of seven bushels of corn; one may infer that his stock got away from him" (ref. 3).
JOSEPH1 apparently left no will. His estate was valued at 178 pounds 10 shillings, with "a 'debt in England'" (ref. 3) of 12 pounds 14 shillings 6 pence against it. On December 1658, his wife having predeceased him, his five sons and three daughters (two represented by their husbands) signed an agreement in place of a will to divide JOSEPH's estate equitably among them.
The children of JOSEPH1 and MARY1 (WHITE) LOOMIS, all probably born in Braintree, county Lancaster, England, and probably not all listed in the correct order of birth, were.
I Joseph2, b. 1615, ca. 1616; d. 26 Jun 1687 at Windsor, CT; m. 1/wf 17 Sep 1646, Sarah2 Hill 2/wf 28 Jun 1659, Mary Sherwood.
II Sarah2, b. ca. 1617-8?; d. 1667, 1687, perh. at Hartford, CT; m. by 28 Sep 1640, Nicholas Olmstead.
III. ELIZABETH2, b. ca. 1620?; d. aft. 1665, prob. of Killingworth, CT; m by 20 May 1640-1 at Windsor, CT, JOSIAH2 HULL (see HULL).
IV Mary2, b. 1620?; d. 19 Aug. 1680, prob. at Windsor, CT: m. 1/hs by 1637-8, by 1633, John Skinner, m. 2/hs 13 Nov 1651, prob. at Windsor, Owen Tudor.
V John2, b. ca. 1622?, 1620; d. 2 Sep 1688 at Windsor, CT; m. 3, 6? Feb 1648-9 Elizabeth2 Scott (Thomas1).
VI Thomas2, b. ca. 1624?; 2 Aug 1689, prob. at Windsor, CT; m. 1/wf 1 Nov 1653 Hannah Fox/Fowkes who d. 1662, prob. at Windsor; m. 2/wf 1 Jan 1562-3, Mary2 Judd (Thomas1).
VII Nathaniel2, b. ca 1626?; d. 19 Aug 1688, prob. at Windsor, CT; m. as 1/hs 24 Nov 1653-4, Elizabeth2 Moore (John1) who m. 2/hs aft. 3 Nov 1991, John Case.
VIII Samuel2, b. 1628?; d. 1 Oct 1689, prob. at Westfield, MA; m. 27, 29? Dec 1653, Elizabeth2 Judd (Thomas1), sis. of Mary2 who m. Samuel2's older? bro., Thomas2 as 2/wf.
REFERENCES
1) Brainerd, Dwight, "Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd," [Portland, ME, Anthoensen Press, 1948], [hereinafter Brainerd, D.], 301-2.
2) Colket, M. B., op. cit., 196.
3) Ferris, M. W., op. cit., Dawes-Gates, II:453-62; 567-72.
4) Parke, N. G., op. cit., 78.
5) Pierce, R. Andrew, personal correspondence, research and material on the Hull and Loomis lines, 25 May 1993, MAT, Swigart, E. K., Washington, CT.
6) Pitman, H. M., op. cit., 391-2, 396.
7) Roberts, G. B., op cit., 182.
8) Roberts, Gary B., review of the Emerson-Benson ancestral lines and material on the Lingwood, Loomis and White lines, NEHGS Library, Boston, MA, 19 May 1993 with Swigart, E. K., MAT, Swigart, E. K., Washington, CT.
9) Savage, J., op. cit. II:494; III:112-3.
10) Torrey, C. A., op. cit., 139, 401, 472, 545, 677, 757."

CHRISTENING:
1. The christening, marriage, and burial registers for Braintree no longer exist prior to 1660. They were destroyed by a sexton who used pages to start fires.

MARRIAGE:
1. Ancestry.com's "American Marriages Before 1699": Josias Hull and Elizabeth Loomis, 20 May 1641 at Windsor, CT.

SOURCES_MISC:
1. Per family group sheet archive record submitted by Hazel May Beckstead, 4729 N. Walnut Grove, Rosemead, Calif.. References: "Gen. Biog. Rec. New London Co., Conn. Stiles Fam. Hist. p. 28, His. Hudson Mohawk Valley N.Y. p 725, vol 2 Vitals Boxford, Mass. pp. 94, 95, History of Ancient Windsor Conn. vol II Loomis Gen."

2. Per 9 Feb 2002 email of Ellen Baker : Ellen lists her sources as follows. This file was created by the posts of Vickie L. (VanMeter) Smithson (all) and Mark Allen (on Philip's child Philip Jr.)of the Loomis Surname Forum at Genforum.Com. Info. came from Nan Wolf (web site). Info. was also obtained over at Rootsweb Worldconnect Project. The following books were used to make additions to this summary: Descendants of Joseph Loomis (1590-1658) In America And his Antecedents In the Old World. The Original Published by Elias Loomis LLD, 1875. Revised by Elisha S. Loomis Ph.D. 1908; Lion passengers Title: Passengers on the "Lion" from England to Boston, 1632 Author: Sandra Sutphin Olney Publication: 1992 Heritage Books Inc. Two volume set; Windsor Genealogies Title: The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor Connecticut 1635-1891 Author: Henry R. Stiles, A.M., M.D., Publication: Volume II, 1992 Picton Press; and Our American Ancestry Author: Gates, Frederick Taylor Publication: 1928, Montclair, NJ FHL R929.2 G223GF FHL film #1421664 item 5. 		Loomis, Elizabeth (I2365)
 
4641 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography," v. 47, p. 633, entry for Everett Roswell Filley (b. 1894): "His first paternal American ancestor was William Filley, who came to this country from England in 1640 and settled in Windsor, Conn. From him and his wife, Margaret, the descent was through Samuel and Ann Gillet (etc.)"

2. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 250:
"William Filley, m. Margaret ___, 2 Sep 1642 (O.C.R.); she adm. to Windsor church, 17 Jul 1751; he adm. to 'ch. communion, 8 Mar 1673.' (O.C.R.); those marked thus (*) bp. 3 Aug 1651. O.C.R.:
a. Samuel, * b. 24 Sep 1643.
b. John, * b. 15 Dec 1645; (Sheldon's 'Doct. Hist. Suff.' says he m. Abigail {prob. dau. Abraham} Dyble of Suffield, 1 Feb 1681, and d. there, 1690, leaving three daus., since when the name is extinct upon Suff.
Record.)
c. Mary *.
d. Elizabeth *, b. 4 Mar 1650; m. David Winchel, 1669.
e. Hannah, bp. 3 Jul 1653; (prob. the H. who {acc. to Sheldon's 'Doc. Hist. Suff.'} m. Joseph Harmon of Suffield {b. Springfield, 1647}, at Windsor 1673, and had 3 children; she d. at Suffield 28 Aug 1729; he d. 28 Oct 1729.)
f. Abigail, b. 21, bp. 22 (another entry in O.C.R. says 28) Aug 1658.
g. Deborah, b. 21 Mar, bp. 24 Nov 1661; prob. the D. who m. John Sackett of Wethersfield 1 Dec 1686. - Col. Rec.
h. William, b. 7 Mar, bp. 12 Nov 1664/5."

3. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, v. 5, p. 225, Article: "Record of Marriages and Births, in Windsor, CT":
"William Filly, (of Simsbury) and Margaret (his wife) were m. 2 Sep 1642; chil. Samuel, b. 24 Sep 1643; John, b. 15 Dec 1645; Mary, b. ___ ___; Elizabeth, b. 4 Mar 1650; Abigal, b. 21 Aug 1658; Debroa, b. 21 Mar 1661; William, b. 7 Mar 1665."

4. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, v. 5, p. 247, Article: "List of Freemen of Windsor, CT":
"7 Oct 1669. Acount taken of all such Persons as dwell within the Limets of Windsor, and have bin approved of to be freemen, and alowed to take the oath of freedom: ffilly William..."

5. DFAW, v. XI, No. 4, Summer 1994, article "The Captain Oliver Filley Family," by Eileen Phelps, 151 Wintonbury Ave., Bloomfield, CT, 06002:
"The history of the Filley family in America begins with William Filley, an immigrant from England. William owned land in Windsor in the year 1640 and records show he married in 1642. William fathered eight children, three sons and five daughters. Many of the early Filley family owned land and lived in Massaco (Simsbury) and Wintonbury. Samuel, one of the men of the second generation, had a house laid out for him in Massaco on Hopmeadow Street in 1667..."

6. Typescript of Dorothy Steffee Roberts, Hale, Michigan, Nov. 1989, on file at Windsor, CT. Historical Society:
"William Filley's Arrival in Windsor? Several different versions exist concerning William Filley's arrival in Windsor, and they are all interesting. Just in case any of you readers want to do some researching on your own, I'll review the versions I have in my collection:
A. (Condensed from the Filley Family Records, Mormon Genealogical Center, SLC, UT, 1977.) It is quite certain that he (William Filley) was on of the party which accompanied (Major) William Holmes in the vessel which sailed from Plymouth Colony and ascended the Connecticut in 1633 and landing at the mouth of the Farmington River, erected there the first house (trading post) built in Connecticut. In the records of the town of Windsor, under date of Sept. 1655, there appears the following:
'William Filley hath purchased of George Alexander, his house and orchard and house lot containing nine acres more or less. As it is bounded south east by John Warham and Daniel Clark, in length 50 ro. - northwest by Job Drake, in length 50 ro. - north east by Ye Mill Brook, according to the running of it, southwest by Daniel Clark. Also wood land 28 acres on the north it is bounded by ye land of Thomas Newel, dec. 50 ro. - south by parcells of land above written have been peacible and quietly possessed by William Filley these twenty years he and his heirs and successors forever may enjoy it, desiring ye privalege of ye law and possession. We underwritten declare our acceptation as witness our hands this 11 day of April 1654. Benjamin Newberry, Commissioner; Henry Wolcott, Register; Thomas Bissel, Selectman.'
So it would seem from the above that William Filley was in the occupation of his house and land in Windsor prior to 11 April 1634 - as we have no account of the settlement of any other company or persons in Windsor after the settlement of the Homes party in 1633. It is assumed that William Filley died in Windsor, although there is no record or stone to mark his grave. This is not unusual. There have been very few marked graves of the first settlers found. During the battles with the Pequot Indians, graves were not marked for security reasons.
B. More recently reported in the 'Filley, Philley Family Newsletter,' put out quarterly by John C. Philley of Morehead University in Kentucky, is another possible theory on when and how William Filley came to Windsor.
'From Vol. 20 of the 'Colonial and Revolutionary Lineages of America,' (published by the American Historical Company, Inc. in 1959), it is found on page 253 that 'William Filley, immigrant ancestor, came from Devon, England, in 1639, with Rev. Ephraim Huit, landed in New Plymouth or Massachusetts Colony, and from there removed to Connecticut, where we find him at Windsor, in 1640. He resided at Simsbury, Connecticut. Mr. Filley, like many others, owing to religious persecution, 'burned the bridge behind him.' That he came from Devonshire there is no doubt, as at that period there were no others of the name Filley anywhere else in England; hence he could have come from nowhere else. He left no record of his ancestors, having destroyed all traces of his antecedents when he left England.' The two sources quoted for this information were H.R. Stiles' 'The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, CT,' v. 2, p. 250. Vol. V, p. 225 of the 'New England Historical and Genealogical Register.'
Of particular note in this entry is the certainty expressed regarding William Filley in county Devon, England. Furthermore, his association with Rev. Huit is of interest.
Additional Information in Vol. 14 of America Families-Genealogical and Heraldic published again by the American Historical Society, Inc. (date not given). Identical information regarding William Filley is included.
Information about Loomis, one of the founders of Windsor, Ct. was the following: 'Joseph Loomis, born probably in England about 1590, was a woolen draper in Braintree, England. He sailed from London, April 11, 1638, in the ship 'Susan and Ellen,' and arrived in Boston July 17, 1638. He bought land in Windsor, CT, Feb. 24, 1640, and therefor probably came there from Boston in the summer or autumn of 1639. He is generally supposed to have come in company with Ephraim Hut and others, many of whom came to be responsible for the founding of Windsor, Conn.
All of this suggests that William Filley came from Devon County, England to New England aboard the 'Susan and Ellen; in 1638 with E. Huit.
John Philley remarks, 'Sounds logical? Now we'll have to search those passenger lists again. Elsewhere in this issue I have listed "The Founders of Windsor and the First Congregational Church.' The list was supplied to me by the Windsor Historical Society. Note that William Filley, Rev. Ephraim Huit and Joseph Loomis are listed.'
C. Through the past decades, many researchers had hopefully pursued the possibility that a John (T)illey, who did come over on the ship 'Mary and John,' and did have land in Ancient Windsor (see Ancient Windsor map, upper right), was actually our William Filley, with either careless printing by an early recorder, or a deliberate effort by William Filley to erase his former identity. Not so! A record of John Tilley's land is given in "A History of Ancient Windsor,' vol. II, by Styles, which also reports the lands of William Filley."

7. Excerpts from the book "The Filleys: 350 Years of American Entrepreneurial Spirit," by Donald G. Southerton, 2005:
"In the spring of 1639, Reverend Ephraim Huit, an ousted Anglican minister, left his Warwickshire parish in England with a few loyal followers. He traveled into the neighboring counties of Dorset, Somerset, and Dorchester, gathering a group to take with him on the ten week voyage to America, in search of New Jerusalem. After arriving in Boston the group grew in number, adding other people already in Massachusetts, and set out for a new destination - Windsor, Connecticut - deep inland in the Connecticut River valley at the confluence of the Farmington and Connecticut Rivers It is here during the early settling of Connecticut that the story of 24 year old Englishman William Filley begins. He was the first of the Filleys in America.
We know nothing of William before his arrival in Windsor, Connecticut, but having been born in the early seventeenth century (1615)...
William's origins are unknown and no records exist about him before he settled in Windsor in the late 1630s. There are several thoughts on his place of [the next two pages missing in my copy of the book]...
By 1640, Windsor's population had reached 300. William took possession of a lot north of the town's Palisado, which was a stockade built in 1636 during the period of unrest before the Pequot War. The lots were close physically and the townspeople were bound religiously, forming a 'heavenly village.' Early maps show the location of Filley homestead near the banks of the 'Rivulet,' the Farmington River, on Mill Street...
William married in Sept. of 1642. His wife Margaret was 21 and he was 27. Women married young in New England compared to England. Marrying young was a reflection on the ease by which a young couple could acquire land and set up a farm.
Little is known about Margaret; in fact researchers are unable to determine her last name. However, records indicate that she was born around 1621. It may be that she, like her husband, had been a servant.
Nevertheless, the couple married in Windsor. Connecticut law required that prior to their wedding, they sign a contract of espousal and in a publicly displayed announcement proclaim their intent to marry. After an eight day lapse, they celebrated the actual wedding ceremony. In what was felt to be a divinely ordained social structure, the husband was assumed to be superior to his wife in all senses.
The Filley's first Child, Samuel, was born in September of 1643. Six others followed in the next 22 years. In fact, Samuel would marry before his youngest brother, William, was born in 1664. New England's material abundance did not constrain family size as lack of it had in England. New England families were large by British or European standards and out-migration was low. William and Margaret's children would stay in the Windsor area since there was plenty of surplus land...
We know nothing of the Filley farm...
The neighbors, bound by church and community, lived in lots closely adjacent to William and Margaret and they shared meadows for cattle grazing... Early land records documented William's neighbors on Mill Road, including William Phelps, who owned 285 acres and was one of the town's early [my copy of book missing the next two pages]...
In 1662, Windsor and the Connecticut Commonwealth responded to the fall of the Puritan-based Cromwellian government and the rise of the Restoration in England by negotiating with the new monarch, Charles II. In so doing they gained a new Royal Charter. This granted Connecticut residents the unique right 'to have and to hold...for ever' this place 'in New England in America.' On Oct. 9, the Connecticut General court transferred the region's government from a self-governing commonwealth to that of a British Royal Colony. This legal maneuver changed little for the settlers with the exception of giving sovereignty to the king. They gave up on freedom or rights of self-determination; however, all freemen were required to take an oath of allegiance. Town records indicate that William and his neighbors complied by taking the oath.
...Town records show that William was appointed and served as the town constable for a term beginning in March of 1662. As constable, William was responsible for enforcing the town's local ordinances... As a constable, he was responsible for the enforcement of the local laws and ordinance. Punishments for criminals included being locked in the town's stocks, a fine, or forty lashes by the town 'whipper.' Whipping were administered on the community's lecture day at the town square's signpost...
Property records in 1686 show William and Margaret's material assets to have included a house with six acres, 18 acres of additional farmland, a horse, two oxen, two cows, and one swine. When compared to other Windsor settlers in the 1686 records, the Filleys had prospered... As Puritans they would have seen this affluence as a sign of divine grace...
Probate records show no records of William's estate...
Insight in 17th century New England entrepreneurialism can be gained through William Filley and his family. First, William Filley was drawn to cross the formidable Atlantic Ocean, most likely when he was a youth. Although popular myth promotes Puritan religious zeal compelling the exodus of English settlers to the New World, perhaps in William's case and that of hundreds of others, fiscal opportunity and the abundance of land were the key attributes. His accumulations of land holdings and large family confirm this motivation. Filley moved to increasing larger lots over sixteen years, a trend his prodigy would model. An indication that religion was perhaps a less significant driving force is found in William's long-delayed admittance to church communion (in 1673). William resided in the Puritan community for over thirty years before officially joining the local church.
We have no record of William's or Margaret's deaths near the end of the 17th century..."

8. The book "History of Ancient Windsor," by Stiles:
V. 1, p. 156: "Filley, William. Under date of Feb. 4, 1640, on the records appears the name of Wm. Filley, followed by a blank space, evidently left for a description of his first lot of land. He sold, without date, a lot on Silver St., 11-1/2 r. wide, to Simon Mills, but no ho. named in deed. He also bo't the Humphrey Hide pl. but prob. did not res. there. Sept. 26, 1655, he bo't of Geo. Alexander the Jasper Rawlins' pl. and prob. res. there."
V. 1, p. 88: "1675. For tax for support of Rivulet Verry according to holdings: ...Will Filley; Family a house (and) Two oxen..."

9. Typescript on file at Windsor, CT. Historical Society, author unknown:
"Our Founders of Ancient Windsor. In 1633 William Filley arrived with the Holmes party from Plymouth Colony and in 1635 Jonathan Gillett and Begat Eggleston arrived with the Reverend Warham group from Dorchester, MA to become a part of the founders of Windsor, Connecticut.
Although William Filley arrived with the first group of settlers, records of his homes and lands are sketchy until his purchase in 1655 from George Alexander the old Jasper Rawlins place. Notice that prior to 1655 he did own a piece of land north of the settlement on the Rivulet (Farmington River). Cross comparing of records in 'History of Ancient Windsor' by Stiles Vol. II p. 155 (Eggleston), p. 157 (Gillett), p. 156 (Filley), and p. 165 (Rawlins), we can locate our pioneer homesteads of early Windsor.
Living with their parents during their teen years on opposite sides of the beautiful Mill Brook, Samuel Filley, son of William Filley, and Anna Gillett, dau. of Jonathan Gillett, were married in 1663...
[Map included and in my file no. 5342.]

10. From the booklet "The Settlement of Windsor, Connecticut," by Kent Avery, Donna Siemiatkoski, and Robert Silliman, reprinted 2002 by the Windsor Historical Society. The booklet contains various editions of a list of the "Founders of Ancient Windsor" with the latest and most accurate being amended and approved June 1996. The list names the heads of households in Windsor by June 1641. Family related ancestors included are as follows. ST=Saltonstall Party of 1635 (Lords and Gentlemen); D=Dorchester, Mass; H=Huit Party from England arrived in Massachusetts on the Susan and Ellen, 1638; *=Arrived at Dorchester on the Mary and John in 1630:
Thomas Barber (ST. 1635)
William Filley (D. 1640)
Jeremiah Gillett
Jonathan Gillett (D. 1635)*
Nathan Gillett (D. 1635)*
Edward Griswold (H. 1639)
Matthew Griswold (H. 1639)
Joseph Loomis (H. 1639)
George Phelps (D. 1635)*
William Phelps (D. 1635)*
John Porter, Sr. (H. 1639)
The second and third generations of these founders intermarried children from many other names among the Founders. The booklet also gives some history of the founding from which I quote the following:
"The Connecticut River valley was first explored in 1614 when the Dutch explorer Adriaen Block sailed up the river as far as the Hartford area. However, the Dutch at New Amsterdam (now New York City) did not take advantage of the river valley until 1633 when they built a fort at the present site of Hartford.
The valley was also explored by the English, both Pilgrims from the Plymouth Colony and Puritans from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In April of 1631 representatives of the River Indians went to Boston and then to Plymouth to ask that each colony make settlements in the valley..." [The local Indians were seeking to preserve peace in the valley by protection from their more warlike enemies including the encroaching Pequots from the southeast and the Mohawks from the northwest.]
"...In 1633 groups from New Amsterdam, Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies explored and/or attempted to settle in the valley. During the early months of 1633, the Dutch were becoming apprehensive about the English colonies possibly settling on what they considered their land..." [The Dutch erected a fort at the present site of Hartford with two cannons and named it "House of Hope."]
"The Plymouth Colony decided to go ahead with their explorations in the late summer of 1633... under the command of Lt. William Holmes... This party landed on Sep. 26, 1633, at the junction of today's Connecticut and Farmington Rivers and immediately erected... a 'Palizado' or stockade fort.
"In the late summer of 1633 the Massachusetts Bay Colony decided to reconsider the possibilities of settling... A party led by John Oldham explored an overland route to Connecticut. They traveled westerly following an ancient Indian trail known as the Old Connecticut Path, then known as the Great Trail, until they reached the valley. His positive report encouraged the MBC to send their first party to settle the valley in 1634. Ten adventurers were the first settlers of Wethersfield. After this party of Puritans arrived in the valley, many more followed.
"At this time the MBC was ripe for a massive migration. The colony was established in 1628 by Puritans from England who were seeking to 'purify' the community's civil, economic and religious lifestyle in response to the abuses of church and state power in England. Led by Gov. John Winthrop, these Puritans felt called by God to attempt to live personal and public lives pleasing to Him in the unspoiled wilderness to form a model Christian society for the world to emulate. After a few years in the Massachusetts Bay, some of the colonists began to feel that Winthrop's version of the Puritan vision was too restrictive. He believed that God governed society through only a few select men. For these theological and political ideals as well as for the practical concern of the desire to move from the overcrowded seacoast to the new land along the fertile river, Puritans from the towns of Watertown, Dorchester and Newtown were eager to consider the possibilities opened up by Oldam's explorations in the valley.
"As a result, an advance party from Dorchester under the leadership of Roger Ludlow explored the Windsor area in the late spring of 1635 followed by a permanent settlement of 60 men, women and children in October. They probably moved just before winter to thwart the plans of yet another group of explorers, the 'Lords and Gentlemen.'
"This party of about 20 men under Francis Stiles was sent form England by Sir Richard Saltonstall. They claimed the right to settle the valley by a patent granted in 1631 by the Earl of Warwick to Saltonstall and other noblemen of England. The Stiles group arrived in Boston from England on June 16, 1635, and stayed in Boston for ten days before leaving for Windsor. They sailed up the Connecticut River..."
"All the land within the present borders of Windsor was legally purchased from these Indians [Podunk, Poquonocks, Sicaogs and Tunxis]."
"...disaster struck in the winter of 1633-34 when a smallpox epidemic spread through the River Indians tribes killing most of them..."
"The Pequots continued to conquer most of the tribes in Connecticut until they were finally stopped in the Pequot War in 1637 when the men in the river settlements united to fight after the Wethersfield massacre on April 23. After the Pequots were defeated, the River Indians, and the Englishmen were able to maintain a peaceful coexistence."
In regards to the Plymouth group "just one month after the trading post was completed... the Dutch governor at New Amsterdam sent 70 men to evict the Plymouth settlers from their trading post. When the Dutch force reached Windsor, they found the Plymouth settlers so well entrenched that after a few hostile demonstrations they returned to New Amsterdam. After this one attempt to dislodge the Windsor settlers, the Dutch took no further action against the settlement at Windsor... The trading post stayed undisturbed for nearly two years after the Dutch conflict until in 1635 two groups of settlers came from the MBC to settle on land in what is now Windsor."
"The Dorchester group who arrived in Windsor in 1636 was actually a Puritan congregation established by the Rev. John White in Plymouth, England, in 1630. Seeking a creative solution to the problems of political and religious oppression in England, the Puritans decided to emigrate to the New World to perform an 'errand in the wilderness,' to develop a model society under God free from the corruption of England. Rev. White encouraged 140 people to covenant with God and each other to live as a Christian community in the New World. Rev. John Warham and Rev. John Maverick were chosen as ministers. Others in company included... established gentlemen... William Phelps; and young, mostly single men such as... George Phelps. After a day of prayer, fasting and preaching, they boarded the Mary and John where they met together every day for worship and preaching during the ten weeks of their voyage. Landing in the New World, they established their new community in Dorchester under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Bay Colony headed by Governor John Winthrop."
"After a few years differences arose between Winthrop and some of the other ministers including Rev. Thomas Hooker, Warham and Maverick concerning the basis of authority in the government by a very few people whereas others saw that all the governed should have a voice in the government. Since these two ideas could not coexist, the problems of overcrowding the seaside colony and the inducement of a lucrative fur trade in the fertile inland valley helped the Dorchester group under Warham and the Newtown group under Hooker to decide to move west as congregations to develop their vision of the Puritan community under God."
"The Dorchester group traveled to the Connecticut River Valley following the Old Connecticut Path. It is debated whether the group continued all the way to Windsor on the Old Connecticut path or rather went through Agawam (now Springfield), Massachusetts, and traveled south along the Connecticut River until they reached Windsor. Most likely they took the Old Connecticut Path all the way since there were no known paths to Agawam large enough for a group of that size until the Bay Path was discovered in 1648."
"After walking for 14 days, the group reached Windsor at the end of October and settled on the east side of the Connecticut River across from the mouth of the Scantic River. For temporary shelter they dug into the sides of the low hills along the Connecticut River making homes that were enclosed on three sides by dirt, in front by posts and on the roof by wood and thatch."
"The unusually harsh winter came early that year freezing the river over by mid-November and preventing the ship laden with their possessions and provisions from sailing upriver from Long Island Sound. Some settlers traveled downriver, freed a ship and returned to the Bay Colony. Some returned to Dorchester overland through the snow. Still others decided to stay, subsisting through the winter on acorns, malt, grain and possibly receiving some food from the Indians and other groups of settlers. Undeterred from the harshness of the first winter, the Dorchester community renewed their determination to settle permanently in the Conn. River Valley. By the end of April of 1636 most of the congregation of the Dorchester church had removed to what is now Windsor, taking their church records with them and leaving a few townsmen remaining to reorganize a new church under the ministry of the Rev. Richard Mather who arrived from England a few months later."
"The land the Dorchester settlers started building on was owned by the Plymouth group. This piece of land was from a second land purchase from the Indians stretching from the Farmington River in the south to what is now Hayden Station in the north. The Dorchester settlers refused to acknowledge that the land belonged to the Plymouth group. The Plymouth group, who had not actually settled this second piece of land, was forced to stay in the Plymouth Meadow at the junction of the two rivers and eventually sold their land to Matthew Allyn. In 1640, two years after this sale, the Plymouth House and lot was declared to be within the jurisdiction of the orders of Windsor."
"In 1637 because of the threat of a Pequot attack, the Dorchester settlers constructed a palisade or fence of wooden posts on the higher ground north of the Farmington River. Here the settlers constructed more permanent homes. After the threat of Indian attack subsided and the homes of their families were completed, the settlers built their first meetinghouse for their church in 1639. The site of the meetinghouse in the center of what is now the Palisado Green is marked by a monument to the early settlers of Windsor."
"A few days after the Dorchester group reached Windsor, another group arrived...'The Lords and Gentlemen,' this group envisioned developing the Connecticut Valley into large manor-like estates upon which they would continue to enjoy the lifestyle to which they were accustomed in England. They claimed the right to settle under the Warwick Patent... giving them the right to settle anywhere in what is now Connecticut. This group included the Stiles brothers...as well as their servants and apprentices including... Thomas Barber..."
"Although the Stiles party wanted to settle the highland around the area that is now the Palisado Green, the Dorchester settlers allowed them to settle only in the northernmost part of Plymouth's second land purchase, the land just south of what is now Hayden Station..."
"In March 1636 the General court of Massachusetts established a commission of eight members to govern the river towns, including Agawam (now Springfield), for one year. Windsor's representatives were William Phelps and Roger Ludlow."
"Early in the following year the town of Dorchester changed its name to Windsor, Newtown to Hartford, Watertown to Wethersfield. The changes from Massachusetts names to wholly new names reflected the fact that the three towns were no longer under Massachusetts jurisdiction but constituted the separate colony of Connecticut."
"The three settlements in Windsor were merging into one identity with most of the Plymouth group leaving, the Dorchester group continuing to be the most prominent..."
"In May 1638 Rev. Thomas Hooker preached a sermon in which he propounded the theological basis of a democratic government. These beliefs were actually put into words by Roger Ludlow, a brilliant legal mind trained at Oxford University. Known as the 'Fundamental Orders of 1639,' this document expressed Rev. Hooker's belief that 'the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people.' Thus, Roger Ludlow and Thomas Hooker were the primary contributors to the first written constitution in the world, which expressed the right of the people to govern themselves."
"Meanwhile, large-scale emigration into Windsor continued until about 1641 when it became a trickle, reflecting both the exodus of Puritans from England and the end of that Exodus when the Puritans finally secured political power there in 1641. In most cases people migrated first to the MBC then on to the Connecticut River Valley. One of these later groups which emigrated in 1638 from England to Massachusetts and then to Windsor was led by the Rev. Ephraim Huit, who then assisted Warham in his work. That group of immigrants, many of whom came over on the Susan and Ellen included John Porter and Joseph Loomis (who married the White sisters), John Bissell, Edward and Matthew Griswold and Daniel Clarke...."

11. On file with me (file 2656) are various maps of early Windsor, Connecticut that are copies of those found at the Windsor Historical Society. Included are:
A. "Plan of Ancient Windsor, 1640-1654." Also includes a blow-up of the Palisado. Ancestral "Heads of Households" shown on the plan include John Bancroft, Thomas Barber, William Filley, Jonathan Gillett, Nathan Gillet, Edward Griswold, Jos. Loomis, Wm. Phelps, Jr., Wm. Phelps, Sr., John Porter.
B. "Map of Windsor, 1633-1650." Shows many ancestral heads of households.
C. A map entitled "Southern New England in the 17th Century," which also shows the "Great Trail" leading from Dorchester, Mass. to Windsor, Connecticut.
D. Misc. other Windsor maps in the same time periods locating ancestral heads of households and their land.

BIRTH:
1. Estimated age of 25 at time of marriage in 1642.
 		Filley, William (I1886)
 
4642 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography," V. 8, p. 223, entry for Alfred Loomis: "...a descendent of Joseph Loomis, a native of England, who came to America on the ship "Susan and Ellen," arriving in Boston in July, 1638, and settling in Windsor, Conn., in the following year. From Joseph Loomis and his wife Mary White, the line of descent is traced through their son Deacon John, who married Elizabeth Scott..."

2. Per 9 Feb 2002 email of Ellen Baker : John Loomys(b. in 1622, on May 3, 1643, he had been granted from the Plantation 40 acres of land. He resided in Farmington from 1652 to 1660, when he returned to Windsor, and was Deacon of the Windsor church. He was deputy to the General Ct. in 1666 and '7, also from 1675 to 1687, m. Elizabeth Ann Scott, had 13 children, John Jr. (Deacon, m. #1 Mary Judd; m.# 2 Sarah Boltwood Warner), Joseph (Deacon, m. Hannah Marsh), Thomas (died young, m. Sarah White), Samuel (died an infant), Daniel (sergeant, m. #1 Mary Ellsworth; m. #2 Hannah Mills Drake?), James (died a child), Timothy (m. Rebecca Porter), Nathaniel (Ensign, m. Ruth Porter), David (died an infant), Samuel (Deacon, m.#1ElizabethWhite; m.#2 Elizabeth Noble Church), Isaac (died young), Elizabeth (m. John Brown), and Mary (died a child)).

3. Per 19 Feb 2002 email of Ellen Baker : "Deacon John LOOMIS Sr. Born in 1622 in Braintree, Essex, England. John died in Windsor, Conn. on 2 Sep 1688, he was 66. 'He was admitted to the Windsor Church on 11 Oct 1640. On 3 May 1643, he had granted him from the Plantation 40 acres of land. He resided in Farmington from 1652 to 1660, when he returned to Windsor, and was Deacon of the church. He was deputy to the General Court in 1666 and '7, also from 1675 to 1687. His monument is still preserved in the Windsor burying ground. His will is preserved in the Probate office at Hartford, and his name is signed John Loomys.' The Loomis Family in America, by Elias Loomis. On 3 Feb 1648 when John was 26, he married Elizabeth Ann SCOTT, in Windsor, Conn. Elizabeth Ann SCOTT. Born abt 1620 in Windsor, Conn. Elizabeth Ann died in Windsor, Conn. on 7 May 1696, she was 76."

4. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, pp. 432-433, {bracketed notes from "Genealogy of the Descendants of Joseph Loomis of Windsor" by Elias Loomis}: John (Dea.) (son of Joseph), admitted to Windsor Church 11 Oct 1640 (Old Church Records); had the homestead at Windsor; was a contributor to the Conn. Fund for Relief of Poor in Other Colonies, 1676, to amt. of 6s. (O.C.R.); m. 6 (3, O.C.R.) Feb 1648/9, Elizabeth (dau. of Thomas) Scott, who embarked 'last of Apr 1634 from Ipswich, Eng., in the 'Elizabeth' with his wife Elizabeth and three children, and who was an orig. pppr. of Hartford, Conn.' 'Hartford Co. Memorial History'; Dea. John L. was deputy from Windsor to General Court, 1666, '67, '75-'87. He died Windsor (will dated 27 Aug), 2 Sep 1688, age 66; widow died 7 May 1696; she was b. Eng. abt. 1625, and adm. Windsor Church 1655 (O.C.R.) They resided at Farmington, 1652-60. Children (b. and bp. Windsor, O.C.R.):
A. John (Deacon), b. 9 Nov 1649.
B. Joseph (Deacon), b. and bp. 7 Nov 1651.
C. Thomas, b. and bp. 3 Dec 1653; m. Sarah (dau. of Daniel) White of Hartford, 31 Mar 1680; he d. 12 Aug 1688. {She m. (2) John Bissell 12 Nov 1689; rem. to Lebanon.}
D. Samuel, b. 29 Jun 1655; d. same month.
E. Daniel (Sergeant), b. 16 Jun 1657 (O.C.R. gives date of his bp. as 2 Jun 1656).
F. James, b. 19 Sep 1659; d. 14 Dec 1669.
G. Timothy (Mr.), b. 27, bp. 28 Jul 1661.
H. Nathaniel (Ensign), b. 8, bp. 12 Jul 1663.
I. David, b. 30 May, bp. 4 Jun, d. 30 Jun 1665. - O.C.R.
J. Samuel (Deacon), b. 12, bp. 19 Aug 1666.
K. Isaac, 31 Aug, bp. 6 Sep 1668; d. 12 Dec 1688.
L. Elizabeth, b, 8, bp. 14 May 1671; m. John Brown, 4 Feb 1691/2 {she d. 11 Dec 1723 - ancestors of John Brown, the Liberator.}.
M. Mary, b. 7, bp. 10 Aug 1673; d. 14 May {1675?}."
[Same book does not contain in Scott family biographies.]

5. "New England Historical and Genealogical Register," v. 5, p. 228, Article: "Records of Ancient Windsor":
"John Loomis, b. Elisabeth Scot, dau. of Thomas Scot of Hartford, 6 Feb 1648; child. John, b. 9 Nov 1649; Joseph, b. 7 Nov 1651; Thomas, b. 3 Dec 1653; Samuel, b. 29 Jun 1655; Daniel, b. 16 Jun 1657; James, b. 19 Sep 1659; Timothy, b. 27 Jul 1661; Nathaniel, b. 8 Jul 1663; David, b. 30 May 1665; Samuel, b. 12 Aug 1666, d. 1665[?]; Isark, b. 31 Aug 1668; Elisabeth, b. 8 May 1671; Mary, b. 7 Aug 1673, dec'd 14 May 1674."

6: "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"Thomas SCOTT
Origin: Unknown.
Migration: 1634 (based on grant of land at Cambridge on 4 August 1634 [CaTR 9]).
First Residence: Cambridge.
Removes: Hartford 1636.
Education: His inventory included "1 great Bible & other small books" valued at ₤l [CCCR 1:456].
OFFICEHOldING: Hartford member of Connecticut Colony committee to regulate the trade in corn, 5 April 1638 [CCCR 1:18]. Committee to "view those parts by Unxus Sepus [later Farmington] which may be suitable" for settlement, 16 January 1639/40 [CCCR 1:42].
Estate: … "The 6th November, 1643. The last will and testament of Tho[mas] Scott, of Hartford, deceased, as it was spoken by him to Edward Stebbing and Tymothy Standly who were sent for by him for that end, to whom he expressed his will as followeth: I do give to my wife and son Thomas, the one half of my house and half of my barn and half of my houselot. I do also give unto them my two lots in the North Meadow, and my lot in the Little Meadow, as also the swamps at both ends. I do in like manner give unto them all my corn in my house and barns, both here at Hartford and at Tunxis Cepus, as also two cows and my two elder steers and five hogs, with half my household stuff. I do give them my carts and plows and the tackling belonging to them. And my mind is that if my son Tho[mas] depart this life before my wife, at his death that the one half of the meadow, cattle and household stuff before given to him and my wife, shall be equally divided betwixt my other children then living; and my mind is that my wife shall have power at her death to dispose of and give away the other half of that which is given to her and my son as she seeth fit, except my housing and land, which my mind is shall then come to the rest of my children, at the death of the longest liver of my wife or my son Thomas. I do also make my wife executrix to receive and pay my debts; and my mind is that my youngest daughter do remain with my wife so long as she seeth meet, with the advice of those that oversee my will. My mind also is, that all my daughters be disposed of, both in service and marriage, by my wife and overseers, and that my daughters shall receive their portions, either at the day of their marriage or at twenty years of age, which shall first happen, my mind being that all the remainder of my estate which is not by this my will given to my wife and son Thomas (after my debts are discharged) shall be equally divided among them. The sum and substance of this was expressed by Tho[mas] Scott aforesaid in the presence of us. But before he had named the overseers of his will, the Lord pleased to put an end to his life and prevented him in that and what else he would have said, and therefore the relict of the said Thomas with the approbation of the court hath desired John Talcott, W[illia]m Westwood, Ed[ward] Stebbing and Andrew Warner to assist in seeing the will of the dead performed. And these overseers, understanding from these that are the witnesses of his will, that he often expressed that his mind was his wife and son Thomas should be comfortably provided for, and finding that no provision is made for fuel and firing, do think fit and very agreeable to the mind of the deceased, though prevented by death from expressing himself. in that particular, which yet they leave to the consideration and confirmation of the court, that the widow & Thomas should have liberty to cut & fetCh fire-wood for their own use out of the field commonly called the Adventurers' Field, until the other children, or some of them, do divert it to such improvement as will receive prejudice if this liberty should be continued; and that they should have liberty to cut & fetch any such fuel for their own use out of that piece of ground called the Ox Pasture, during each of their natural lives. They also think fit and agreeable to the mind of the deceased, that the boy servant shall continue with the relict of the said Thomas, during his time. All which they leave to the consideration and confirmation of the court, if they approve thereof [CCCR 1:453-55; Manwaring 1:32-33].
The inventory of the estate of "Tho[mas] Scott deceased," taken 6 January 1643/4, totalled £174 12s. 4d., with no real estate included [CCCR 1:455-56]. (The inventory refers to "the goods... delivered'to the widow Scott for her use" and to "goods of Tho[mas] Scott set apart for his 3 daughters.")
On 9 March 1652[/3?], "whereas Thomas Scott sometime of Hartford... did give & bequeath unto his wife & unto his son Thomas by his last will & testament one messuage or tenement with a barn & other outhouses as also a houselot with the yard or garden therein contained which houselot is esteemed two acres..., and one parcel of meadow with the swamp adjoining lying in the North Meadow esteemed two acres, two roods & twenty-seven perches..., and one parcel more of meadow & swamp lying in the North Meadow of meadow & swamp esteemed twenty & one acres, three roods & eighteen perches..., and one parcel of meadow lying in the Little Meadow esteemed one acre..., and one parcel lying in the old Ox Pasture esteemed eighteen acres..., and one parcel lying for cow pasture, esteemed thirty acres..., and one parcel lying in the Venturers' Field esteemed six acres, twenty-eight perches..., and one parcel lying in the Neck of Land esteemed five acres, twenty-four perches ..., all which parcels of land & half the building & buildings & half the houselot the said Thomas Scott bequeathed to his said wife & to his son Thomas Scott during the time of the natural life of both of them & after their decease unto his daughters Mary Scott, Sarah Scott & Elizabeth Scott ..., the said Mary Porter & Sarah Standly & Elizabeth Loomis with the consent of every of their husbands, viz; Robert Porter, John Standly & John Loomys all now or late of Farmington ... [sold] … all & singular those parcels of land, dwelling house & other buildings on the premises before expressed & were given to us by our father's will & is in reversion after the death of our mother now Anne Ford & after the decease of our said brother Thomas Scott, unto Thomas Cadwell of Hartford ...; it is also agreed upon by the parties abovesaid that if the said Thomas Scott shall survive his mother Ann Ford & that the said Thomas Scott shall be left by the overseers of the will to be paid for & maintained by his brothers & sisters either all or by any of them & that the said Thomas Cadwell shall pay eight pounds by the year during the term of his natural life for every year or part of a year, then we do bind ourselves to free the land & houses from any charges or claims for the maintenance of the said Thomas Scott, during the time of his natural life" [CTLR 2: 123-24; HaBOP 476-79; Manwaring 1:33-35]. (When this deed was registered, the copyist added a header which gave the grantees as "Mary Porter & Sarah Standly & Elizabeth Standly of Farmington." The married surname given for Elizabeth is a careless error by the clerk, as her only husband was John Loomis.)
Birth: By about 1597 (based on estimated date of marriage).
Death: 6 November 1643 (died while dictating a nuncupative will on that date [CCCR 1:453-54; Manwaring 1:32-33]). (At a Connecticut Particular Court in early 1644 [probably in March], the "jury find that John Ewe, by misadventure, was the cause of the death of Tho[mas] Scott. The said John Ewe is fined to pay five pounds to the country and ten pounds to the widow Scotte" [CCCR 1:103; RPCC 25]).
Marriage: By about 1622 Ann ____. "Ann Scott widow" married (2) at Hartford 7 November 1644 Thomas FORD {l 630, Dorchester} [HaVR 605; GMB 1:688-90]. She died at Northampton on 5 May 1675 [Corbin, citing Northampton church records].
Children:
i Thomas SCOTT, b. say 1622 (see Comments below); living 9 March 1652[/3?] [CTLR 2:123-24; Manwaring 1:33-35], unmarried; no further record.
ii Mary SCOTT, b. say 1624; m. Hartford 7 November 1644 Robert Porter [Ha\TR 605].
iii Sarah SCOTT, b. say 1626; m. Hartford 5 December 1645 John Stanley [HaVR 606], son of JohnSTANLEY {1634, Died at sea} [TAG 80:217-20].
iv Elizabeth SCOTT, b. say 1628; m. Windsor 3 February 1648[/9?] John Loomis [Grant 48], son of Joseph LOOMIS {1638, Windsor} [Dawes-Gates 2:567-72; Windsor Hist 2:432-33].
Associations: Thomas Scott may have been brother of Sarah (Scott) Graves, wife of Thomas Graves of Hartford [TAG 82:107-10].
Comments: Although Savage had suggested that the Cambridge records for a Thomas Scott applied to the Hartford man of that name, Pope included the Cambridge records in his sketch for Thomas SCOTT {1634, Ipswich} [Savage 4:39; Pope 404]. The records for Thomas Scott of Cambridge are continuous from late 1634 until early 1635, whereas Thomas Scott of Ipswich was made a freeman on 4 March 1634/5 [MBCR 1:370], demonstrating that these were two separate men. The disappearance of Thomas Scott from Cambridge shortly before a man of the same name appeared at Hartford indicates that the records in these two towns pertain to the same man, participating in the larger migration from Cambridge to Hartford.
The order in which the daughters of Thomas Scott were presented in the deed of 9 March 1652[/3?] matches the order in which they were married. These three marriages took place over a span of four years, suggesting that the three daughters were close in age. The estimated ages for the daughters are based on these observations and on our usual rule that women first married at about the age of twenty.
Given this result, we are then forced to state that the son Thomas must have been either the oldest child or the youngest child. From the will, the inventory and the later deed of sale by the three daughters, we conclude that Thomas was not competent to care for himself. In the will of the immigrant the daughters are clearly stated to be minors, but Thomas is not. If Thomas is assumed to be the oldest child, he would have been about twenty-one years old at the time of the will, based on the estimated dates of birth of the daughters, whereas, if he were the youngest Child, he would only be about thirteen years old at the time of the will. We conclude, therefore, that he was the oldest, although the alternative placement remains possible."

7. The book "Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Rice Lyon and his wife Harriet Wade Rice with related families," by Patty Barthell Myers (2003), pp. 448-51:
"DEACON JOHN Loomis, b. Eng. c1622; d. Windsor 1 Sept 1688; m. 3 Feb 1648/9 ELIZABETH SCOTT, d/o Thomas of Hartford. Children: John b. 9 Nov 1649, m/1 ___; m/2 30 Dec 1696 Sarah (Boltwood) Warner, widow of Isaac Warner and d/o Robert Boltwood; Joseph b. 7 Nov 1651, m. Hannah (___); Thomas b. 3 Dec 1653, m. Sarah White, d/o Daniel of Hatfield, Sarah m/2 John Bissell; Samuel b. 29 Jun 1655, d. young; Daniel b. 16 Jun 1657, m/1 Mary Ellsworth, d/o Josiah, m/2 widow Hannah Drake; James b. 19 Sept 1659, d. young; Timothy b. 27 Jul 1661, m. Rebecca Porter; Nathaniel b. 8 Jul 1663, m. Ruth Porter; David b. 30 May 1665, d. inf.; Samuel (again) b. 12 Aug 1666, m/1 Elizabeth White, d/o Daniel of Hatfield, m/2 widow Elizabeth Church; Isaac b. 31 Aug 1668, d. age 20; Elizabeth b. 8 May 1671, m. John Brown; Mary b. 7 Aug 1673, d. inf. (Savage sv John Loomis; Loomis Genealogy.)
(William Richard Cutter, New England Family History, p. 985; (Elias Loomis, Desc. of Joseph Loomis)"

8. The book "Emerson-Benson Saga …," by Edmund K. Swigart (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1994), pp. 351-53:
"JOSEPH1 LOOMIS (JOHNA LUMACE, JOHNB LUMMYS, THOMASC) was born by 1590, perhaps in Braintree, county Lincoln, England, and died 25 November 1658 at Windsor, CT. He was the son of JOHNA LUMACE, a tailor of Thaxted and Braintree and AGNESA LINGWOOD and JANE MARLAN?, daughter of WILLIAMB and MARGARETA (PERYE) MARLAN? of Braintree. He was also the grandson of JOHNB LUMMYS, a carpenter of Thaxted, and Kryster [sic: Krysten] (Christian (___). JOSEPH1 married 30 June 1616 at Messing, county Essex, England, MARY1 WHITE, daughter of ROBERTA, a wealthy yeoman, and BRIDGETA (ALLGAR) WHITE of Shalford, county Essex. MARY1 was baptized 24 August 1590 at Shalford and died 23 August 1652 at Windsor. MARY1's younger sister, ANNA1, married ancestor JOHN1 PORTER.
United States President Ulysses Simpson Grant (18th Chief Executive), Stephen Grover Cleveland (22nd and 24th), and Gerald Rudolph Ford, (38th), were descendants of MARY1's parents and Millard Fillmore (13th President), of her and her parents.
JOSEPH1 was a woolen draper, He and his wife lived in Braintree until 1628. They moved to London and from there sailed with their eight children 11 April 1638 aboard the "Susan and Ellen", the same ship that ancestor Rev. PETER1 BULKELEY had taken in 1635. The LOOMIS family arrived in Boston 11 July 1638, they may have spent their first year in Dorchester, MA, but moved by land in the summer of 1639 to Windsor, CT, "Probably in the company of Reverend Ephraim Huet who arrived there August 17, 1639" (ref. 3). "On 2 Feb. 1640 he had granted to him 21 acres on the west side of the Connecticut River adjoining the Farmington River" (ref. 6). JOSEPH1 continued to acquire land and served on juries in 1642 and in 1644 with Nathaniel1 Foote, brother of ancestor MARYA FOOTE. "On 6 January 1650, he was sued by" [ancestor WILLIAM1 BUELL] "for trespass and for damage to the extent of seven bushels of corn; one may infer that his stock got away from him" (ref. 3).
JOSEPH1 apparently left no will. His estate was valued at 178 pounds 10 shillings, with "a 'debt in England'" (ref. 3) of 12 pounds 14 shillings 6 pence against it. On December 1658, his wife having predeceased him, his five sons and three daughters (two represented by their husbands) signed an agreement in place of a will to divide JOSEPH's estate equitably among them.
The children of JOSEPH1 and MARY1 (WHITE) LOOMIS, all probably born in Braintree, county Lancaster, England, and probably not all listed in the correct order of birth, were.
I Joseph2, b. 1615, ca. 1616; d. 26 Jun 1687 at Windsor, CT; m. 1/wf 17 Sep 1646, Sarah2 Hill 2/wf 28 Jun 1659, Mary Sherwood.
II Sarah2, b. ca. 1617-8?; d. 1667, 1687, perh. at Hartford, CT; m. by 28 Sep 1640, Nicholas Olmstead.
III. ELIZABETH2, b. ca. 1620?; d. aft. 1665, prob. of Killingworth, CT; m by 20 May 1640-1 at Windsor, CT, JOSIAH2 HULL (see HULL).
IV Mary2, b. 1620?; d. 19 Aug. 1680, prob. at Windsor, CT: m. 1/hs by 1637-8, by 1633, John Skinner, m. 2/hs 13 Nov 1651, prob. at Windsor, Owen Tudor.
V John2, b. ca. 1622?, 1620; d. 2 Sep 1688 at Windsor, CT; m. 3, 6? Feb 1648-9 Elizabeth2 Scott (Thomas1).
VI Thomas2, b. ca. 1624?; 2 Aug 1689, prob. at Windsor, CT; m. 1/wf 1 Nov 1653 Hannah Fox/Fowkes who d. 1662, prob. at Windsor; m. 2/wf 1 Jan 1562-3, Mary2 Judd (Thomas1).
VII Nathaniel2, b. ca 1626?; d. 19 Aug 1688, prob. at Windsor, CT; m. as 1/hs 24 Nov 1653-4, Elizabeth2 Moore (John1) who m. 2/hs aft. 3 Nov 1991, John Case.
VIII Samuel2, b. 1628?; d. 1 Oct 1689, prob. at Westfield, MA; m. 27, 29? Dec 1653, Elizabeth2 Judd (Thomas1), sis. of Mary2 who m. Samuel2's older? bro., Thomas2 as 2/wf.
REFERENCES
1) Brainerd, Dwight, "Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd," [Portland, ME, Anthoensen Press, 1948], [hereinafter Brainerd, D.], 301-2.
2) Colket, M. B., op. cit., 196.
3) Ferris, M. W., op. cit., Dawes-Gates, II:453-62; 567-72.
4) Parke, N. G., op. cit., 78.
5) Pierce, R. Andrew, personal correspondence, research and material on the Hull and Loomis lines, 25 May 1993, MAT, Swigart, E. K., Washington, CT.
6) Pitman, H. M., op. cit., 391-2, 396.
7) Roberts, G. B., op cit., 182.
8) Roberts, Gary B., review of the Emerson-Benson ancestral lines and material on the Lingwood, Loomis and White lines, NEHGS Library, Boston, MA, 19 May 1993 with Swigart, E. K., MAT, Swigart, E. K., Washington, CT.
9) Savage, J., op. cit. II:494; III:112-3.
10) Torrey, C. A., op. cit., 139, 401, 472, 545, 677, 757."
 		Scott, Elizabeth (I2371)
 
4643 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography," V. 8, p. 223, entry for Alfred Loomis: "...a descendent of Joseph Loomis, a native of England, who came to America on the ship "Susan and Ellen," arriving in Boston in July, 1638, and settling in Windsor, Conn., in the following year. From Joseph Loomis and his wife Mary White, the line of descent is traced through their son Deacon John, who married Elizabeth Scott..."

2. Per 9 Feb 2002 email of Ellen Baker : John Loomys (b. in 1622, on May 3, 1643, he had been granted from the Plantation 40 acres of land. He resided in Farmington from 1652 to 1660, when he returned to Windsor, and was Deacon of the Windsor church. He was deputy to the General Ct. in 1666 and '7, also from 1675 to 1687, m. Elizabeth Ann Scott, had 13 children, John Jr. (Deacon, m. #1 Mary Judd; m.# 2 Sarah Boltwood Warner), Joseph (Deacon, m. Hannah Marsh), Thomas (died young, m. Sarah White), Samuel (died an infant), Daniel (sergeant, m. #1 Mary Ellsworth; m. #2 Hannah Mills Drake?), James (died a child), Timothy (m. Rebecca Porter), Nathaniel (Ensign, m. Ruth Porter), David (died an infant), Samuel (Deacon, m.#1ElizabethWhite; m.#2 Elizabeth Noble Church), Isaac (died young), Elizabeth (m. John Brown), and Mary (died a child)).

3. Per 19 Feb 2002 email of Ellen Baker : "Deacon John LOOMIS Sr. Born in 1622 in Braintree, Essex, England. John died in Windsor, Conn. on 2 Sep 1688, he was 66. 'He was admitted to the Windsor Church on 11 Oct 1640. On 3 May 1643, he had granted him from the Plantation 40 acres of land. He resided in Farmington from 1652 to 1660, when he returned to Windsor, and was Deacon of the church. He was deputy to the General Court in 1666 and '7, also from 1675 to 1687. His monument is still preserved in the Windsor burying ground. His will is preserved in the Probate office at Hartford, and his name is signed John Loomys.' The Loomis Family in America, by Elias Loomis. On 3 Feb 1648 when John was 26, he married Elizabeth Ann SCOTT, in Windsor, Conn. Elizabeth Ann SCOTT. Born abt 1620 in Windsor, Conn. Elizabeth Ann died in Windsor, Conn. on 7 May 1696, she was 76."

4. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, pp. 432-433, {bracketed notes from "Genealogy of the Descendants of Joseph Loomis of Windsor" by Elias Loomis}: John (Dea.) (son of Joseph), admitted to Windsor Church 11 Oct 1640 (Old Church Records); had the homestead at Windsor; was a contributor to the Conn. Fund for Relief of Poor in Other Colonies, 1676, to amt. of 6s. (O.C.R.); m. 6 (3, O.C.R.) Feb 1648/9, Elizabeth (dau. of Thomas) Scott, who embarked 'last of Apr 1634 from Ipswich, Eng., in the 'Elizabeth' with his wife Elizabeth and three children, and who was an orig. pppr. of Hartford, Conn.' 'Hartford Co. Memorial History'; Dea. John L. was deputy from Windsor to General Court, 1666, '67, '75-'87. He died Windsor (will dated 27 Aug), 2 Sep 1688, age 66; widow died 7 May 1696; she was b. Eng. abt. 1625, and adm. Windsor Church 1655 (O.C.R.) They resided at Farmington, 1652-60. Children (b. and bp. Windsor, O.C.R.):
A. John (Deacon), b. 9 Nov 1649.
B. Joseph (Deacon), b. and bp. 7 Nov 1651.
C. Thomas, b. and bp. 3 Dec 1653; m. Sarah (dau. of Daniel) White of Hartford, 31 Mar 1680; he d. 12 Aug 1688. {She m. (2) John Bissell 12 Nov 1689; rem. to Lebanon.}
D. Samuel, b. 29 Jun 1655; d. same month.
E. Daniel (Sergeant), b. 16 Jun 1657 (O.C.R. gives date of his bp. as 2 Jun 1656).
F. James, b. 19 Sep 1659; d. 14 Dec 1669.
G. Timothy (Mr.), b. 27, bp. 28 Jul 1661.
H. Nathaniel (Ensign), b. 8, bp. 12 Jul 1663.
I. David, b. 30 May, bp. 4 Jun, d. 30 Jun 1665. - O.C.R.
J. Samuel (Deacon), b. 12, bp. 19 Aug 1666.
K. Isaac, 31 Aug, bp. 6 Sep 1668; d. 12 Dec 1688.
L. Elizabeth, b, 8, bp. 14 May 1671; m. John Brown, 4 Feb 1691/2 {she d. 11 Dec 1723 - ancestors of John Brown, the Liberator.}.
M. Mary, b. 7, bp. 10 Aug 1673; d. 14 May {1675?}."

5. "New England Historical and Genealogical Register," v. 5, p. 228, Article: "Records of Ancient Windsor":
"John Loomis, m. Elisabeth Scot, dau. of Thomas Scot of Hartford, 6 Feb 1648; child. John, b. 9 Nov 1649; Joseph, b. 7 Nov 1651; Thomas, b. 3 Dec 1653; Samuel, b. 29 Jun 1655; Daniel, b. 16 Jun 1657; James, b. 19 Sep 1659; Timothy, b. 27 Jul 1661; Nathaniel, b. 8 Jul 1663; David, b. 30 May 1665; Samuel, b. 12 Aug 1666, d. 1665[?]; Isark, b. 31 Aug 1668; Elisabeth, b. 8 May 1671; Mary, b. 7 Aug 1673, dec'd 14 May 1674."

6. The book "Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884," v. II, Chapter 27 "Early Windsor Families," p. 554:
"Joseph Loomis (1640) had a lot granted to him 35 rods wide. He had two children born here. He died, 1658. (This lot is now occupied by Thomas W. Loomis.) Of the sons, Joseph married Sarah Hill, 1645, and had two sons and two daughters. He married second, Mary Chauncey in 1659, and had five sons and two daughters. By gift of his father in 1643 he received a lot twelve rods wide, next north of Matthew Allen, on which he built. John married Elizabeth Scott, and had eleven sons and two daughters. He had his father's homestead. Thomas married Hannah Fox, 1653, and had two sons and two daughters. He married for a second wife Mary Judd, and two sons and five daughters. By gift of his father he received a lot twelve rods wide, east of the highway, between his brother Joseph and H. Wolcott, Jr. Nathaniel married Elizabeth Moore, and had seven sons and five daughters, 1655-1680. He bought the lot and house of John Moses on the west side of the street, directly opposite Joseph Loomis, Jr. Nathaniel was among the early settlers on the east side of the Great River. Samuel had two sons and three daughters, 1660-1670. He bought Mr. Witchfield's place. He removed to Westfield, Mass."

7. Elias Loomis "Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America," update of 1875 edition published by Elisha S. Loomis, Berea, Ohio, third (1908) edition, chapter: "The Descendants of Joseph Loomis (1590-1658) in America," subchapter "First Generation, children of Joseph Loomis of Windsor, CT.," pp. 126-128:
"Genealogical investigations have been unable to establish definitely the order of the children of Joseph Loomis, and it is considered advisable to give here the conflicting evidence:
Possible order of children:
1. Mrs Olmsted, b. 1615, md. 1640. [Sarah]
2. Mrs. Hull, b. 1617, md. 1641. [Elizabeth]
3. Joseph, b. 1618, md. 1646.
4. Mrs. Skinner, b. 1620, md. 1638. [Mary]
5. John, b. 1622, md. 1648.
6. Thomas, b. 1624, md. 1653.
7. Nathaniel, b. 1626, md. 1653.
8. Samuel, b. 1628, md. 1653.
Probably, however, the order was as follows:
Joseph, b. 1615.
Sarah, b. 1617.
Elizabeth, b. abt 1619.
Mary, b. abt 1620.
John, b. 1622.
Thomas, b. 1624.
Nathaniel, b. 1626.
Samuel, b. 1628."

8. FHL book 929.273 F597g "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England…," by Ernest Flagg (Hartford, 1926), p. 278:
"Mary White1, wife of Joseph Loomis1, bap. Aug. 24, 1590; dau. of Robert and Bridget (AllgarA) WhiteA of Messing, Essex, England; m. June 30, 1614 in England; d. Aug. 23, 1652. (Matthew Grant's O.C.R.)
Their children:
-Joseph, about 1615; d. June 26, 1687; m. Sept. 17, 1646, Sarah, dau. of William Hill and granddau. af Richard Lyman1; m. (2), June 28, 1659, Mary Chauncey, who d. April 22, 1681. He was a trooper in King Philip's War, as was his brother, Nathaniel.
-Sarah, about 1617; d. 1667; m. Sept. 28, 1640, as his first wife, Capt. Nicholas Olmstead, grandson of James and Jane (BristowB) OlmsteadB, and who served in the Pequot War.
-Elizabeth, about 1619; m. May 20, 1641, Josias hull, son of George of Windsor, who d. Nov. 16, 1675.
-Mary, about. 1620; d. Aug. 19, 1680; m. 1638, John Skinner of Hartford; m. (2), Nov. 13, 1651, Owen Tudor.
-John, (Deacon), 1622; d. Sept. 1, 1688; m. Feb. 3, 1648-9, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Scott and sister of the first wife of John Stanley2, who d. May 7, 1696.
-Thomas, 1624; d. Aug. 28, 1689; m. Nov. 1, 1653, Hannah Fox, (M.G.O.C.R.); m. (2), Jan. 1, 1662-3, Mary, dau. of Deacon Thomas Judd1, who d. Aug. 8 1684. Thomas Loomis was a trooper in 1658 under Major John Mason."

9. The book "Dorset Pilgrims," 1989:
pp. 200-1: Among the [horse] troopers [organized in 1658] … there were only two brothers. Thomas and Nathaniel Loomis were the sons of Joseph Loomis who … came from East Anglia; he and his family of five sons probably came from the Huitt party in 1638. He was a man of substance, receiving from the plantation grants valued at ₤which placed him among the most wealthy which placed him among the most wealthy. His large home lot of 26 acres was prominent on the Island next to old Henry Wolcott on the Rivulet bank of Plymouth Meadow. He did not, however, play any notable role in Windsor's affairs nor indeed, with one exception, did his sons, save that three of them served as town constable. The exception was the second son, John, who was a townsman and a deputy and, with a family of thirteen children, inherited his father's homestead. His true importance was as a deacon of Windsor church, an office which he exercised with authority for many years. Neither of our troopers, Thomas and Nathaniel, achieved distinction, though they lived respectably and comfortably, Thomas with four and Nathaniel with twelve children. Nathaniel married deacon Moore's daughter. This marriage, together with that of his brother Joseph to Mary Chauncey, daughter of Warham's successor as minister, and brother John's becoming a deacon, were to bring the family well within the ambit of church dignity and influence."

10. The book "Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Rice Lyon and his wife Harriet Wade Rice with related families," by Patty Barthell Myers (2003), pp. 448-51:
"JOSEPH LOOMIS, b. Eng., c1590; d. Windsor, Conn., 25 Nov 1658. He m. Messing, County Essex, England 30 Jun 1614 MARY WHITE. She was bpt. Shalford, England, 24 Aug 1590; d. Windsor, Conn., 23 Aug 1652, d/o Robert White and Bridget Allgar of Messing.
Joseph Loomis was a woolen draper in Braintree, Essex Co., England; sailed from London 11 Apr 1638 in the Susan and Ellen, and arrived at Boston 17 Jul 1638, living for about a year at Dorchester, Mass. It is mentioned in the town records of Windsor, Vol. 1, that on the 2d of Feb., 1640, he had granted him from the Plantation 21 acres adjoining Farmington Aver, on the west side of the Connecticut river; also several large tracts of land on the east side of the Connecticut, partly from the town and partly by purchase. He probably came to Windsor in the summer or autumn of 1639, and he is generally supposed to have come in the company with Rev. Ephraim Huet, who arrived at Windsor 17 Aug 1639. He brought with him five sons, all of whom were freemen 7 Oct 1669, and three daughters. The marriages of these children are recorded in the town records of Windsor, as were the births of their children, but as the dates of birth of Joseph's children are not recorded, it is difficult to determine the order of seniority. His house was situated near the mouth of the Farmington river on the "Island," so called because at every great freshet it became temporarily an island by the overflowing of the Connecticut river.
In the Records of particular Court for the colony of Connecticut, Vol 2, p. 115, is recorded the agreement of the children of Mr. Joseph Loomis, respecting the division of the estate of said deceased as approved by the Court 2 Dec 1658.
Loomis, Joseph, Windsor. Died 25 November, 1658. Inventory £178.10.00. Taken by Henry Clarke, John Moore.
Court Record, Page 115 -- 2 December, 1658. An Agreement for a Division of the Estate by the Children of Joseph Loomis, Decd, and approved by this Court of Magistrates to be an Equal Division. To Joseph Loomis, to Nicholas Olmsted, to Josiah Hull, to John Loomis, to Thomas Loomis, to Nathaniel Loomis, to Mary Tudor, to Samuel Loomis.
The agreement of the children of Mr. Joseph Loomis respecting the division of the estate of ye father deceased approved by The Court 2 December 1658: We whose names are hereunto subscribed doe by these prsents testify that it is our mutual and joynt agreement to attend an equal division of the estate of Mr. Joseph Loomis, our father, lately deceased, wch said estate being distributed in an equal prption we doe by these prsents engage to set down Satisfied and contented respecting any future trouble or demands about the fore said estate now presented by Inventory to ye Court of Magistrates.
Witness our hand, 2nd December, 1658.
Joseph Loomis, Josias Hull, Thomas Loomis, Mary Tudor, Nicholas Olmstead, John Loomis, Nath. Loomis, Samll Loomis.
(Manwaring, Charles W., A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Hartford District. Vol. 1, 1650-1663, pp. 135-6.)
It is believed that the order in which the children were named in the division of the estate indicates the relative ages of the children. Further, Joseph Loomis, the younger, and John Loomis had land granted to them from the Windsor Plantation in 1643. The other sons acquired no land until several years afterward. The marriages of the sons, as recorded at Windsor, took place in the order of the names mentioned above.
i. JOSEPH2 Loomis, b. Eng. c1615; d. Windsor, Conn., 26 Jun 1687; m/1 Windsor 17 Sept 1646 SARAH HILL., who d. 23 Aug 1653; m/2 28 Jun 1659 MARY SHERWOOD, b. c1639, d/o Thomas and Mary (Fitch) Sherwood. ("Some Early Records and Documents of and Relative to the Town of Windsor, Conn., 1639-1703," p. 39.) Inventory of his estate was made 12 Jul 1687 by Henry Wolcott, John Wolcott and John Loomis and amounted to £281.14.08. Children named were Joseph age 38; John 36; Mary 34; Hannah 25; Matthew 23; Stephen 20; James 17; Nathaniel 14; Isaac 9. (Manwaring, Vol. 1, 1677-1687, p. 332.) Children by Sarah: Sarah b. 22 Jul 1647, d. 1654; Joseph b. 15 Jul 1649, d. East Windsor 26 Feb 1715, m/1 Lydia Drake, d/o John, m/2 widow Abigail Birge; John b. 1 Oct 1651, d. Windsor 3 Nov 1732, m/1 Mary (___), m/2 Esther Gillett; Mary b. 3 Aug 1653, living 1687. Children by Mary: Sarah (again) b. 1 Apr 1660, d. inf.; Hannah b. 2 Feb 1662, living 1687; Matthew b 4 Nov 1664, d. 12 Apr 1688, m. Mary Gaylord; Isaac b. 10 Jul 1666, d. young; Stephen b. 1 Sept 1668, d. 1711, m. Esther Colt; James b. 31 Oct 1669, d. Bolton 29 Dec 1750, Mindwell (___); Nathaniel b. 8 Aug 1673, d. East Windsor 1730, m. Elizabeth (___); Isaac (again) b. 28 Oct 1677, d. 17 Mar 1704.
ii. SARAH Loomis, b. Eng., c1617; m. 1640 CAPT. NICHOLAS OLMSTEAD of Hartford, s/o James Olmstead and Joyce Cornish of Hartford. He d. 31 Aug 1684. Children (OLDMSTEAD): Sarah b. 1641 m. George Gates (Torrey); Mabel b. 20 Nov 1646, m/1 Daniel Butler, m/2 Michael Taintor (Torrey); Rebecca b. Mar 1648, m. John Bigelow (Torrey); John b. 3 Feb 1650; Joseph; Samuel; Thomas prob. m. Hannah Mix. (Savage sv Nicholas Olmstead.)
iii ELIZABETH Loomis, b. Eng. c1619; d. aft 1665; m. Windsor 20 May 1641 JOSIAH HULL of Windsor, d. 16 Nov 1675, s/o George. He was deputy to the General Court 1659, 60, 62. He then removed to Killingworth where he was deputy 1667-74. Children (HULL): Josiah b. Sept 1642; John b. 17 Dec 1644; Elizabeth b. 18 Feb 1647; Mary b. 2 Oct 1648; Martha b. 10 Jun 1650: Joseph b. 10 Aug 1652; Sarah b. 9 Aug 1654; Naomi b. 17 Feb 1657, m. Thomas Burnham; Rebecca b. 10 Aug 1659; George b. 28 Apr 1662, d. soon; Thomas b. 29 May 1655. (Savage & Torrey sv Josiah Hull. NOTE: Savage says Josiah Hull m. Elizabeth, d/o Joseph Bemis, but this is incorrect.)
iv MARY Loomis, b. Eng., c1620; d. 19 Aug 1680; m/1 JOHN SKINNER of Hartford, d. 30 Oct 1650; m/2 13 Nov 1651 OWEN TUDOR of Windsor, d. 30 Oct 1690. Children (SKINNER): Mary b. 1 Dec 1637, m. Robert Reeve; Ann b. 1639 m. John Colt; John b. 1641, m. Mary Easton; Joseph b. 1643, m. Mary Filley; Richard b. 1646. Children by Owen Tudor (TUDOR): Samuel (twin) b. 5 Dec 1652, m. 1685 Abigail (Filley) Bissell, wid. of John Bissell; Sarah (twin) b. 5 Dec 1652, m. James Porter; Owen b. 2 Mar 1654, d. unm.; Anne (twin) b. 16 Oct 1657; Jane (twin) b. 16 Oct 1657, m. Samuel Smith of Wethersfield; Mary b. 6 Mar 1661, m/1 John Orton, m/2 John Judson. (Manwaring, Vol. I, 1687-1695, p. 513; Savage sv Owen Tudor.)
v DEACON JOHN Loomis, b. Eng. c1622; d. Windsor 1 Sept 1688; m. 3 Feb 1648/9 ELIZABETH SCOTT, d/o Thomas of Hartford. Children: John b. 9 Nov 1649, m/1 ___; m/2 30 Dec 1696 Sarah (Boltwood) Warner, widow of Isaac Warner and d/o Robert Boltwood; Joseph b. 7 Nov 1651, m. Hannah (___); Thomas b. 3 Dec 1653, m. Sarah White, d/o Daniel of Hatfield, Sarah m/2 John Bissell; Samuel b. 29 Jun 1655, d. young; Daniel b. 16 Jun 1657, m/1 Mary Ellsworth, d/o Josiah, m/2 widow Hannah Drake; James b. 19 Sept 1659, d. young; Timothy b. 27 Jul 1661, m. Rebecca Porter; Nathaniel b. 8 Jul 1663, m. Ruth Porter; David b. 30 May 1665, d. inf.; Samuel (again) b. 12 Aug 1666, m/1 Elizabeth White, d/o Daniel of Hatfield, m/2 widow Elizabeth Church; Isaac b. 31 Aug 1668, d. age 20; Elizabeth b. 8 May 1671, m. John Brown; Mary b. 7 Aug 1673, d. inf. (Savage sv John Loomis; Loomis Genealogy.)
vi. THOMAS Loomis, b. Eng., c1624; d. 28 Aug 1689. He was of Windsor and m/1 1 Nov 1653 HANNAH FOX who d. 25 Apr 1662; m/2 1 Jan 1662/3 MARY JUDD, d. 8 Aug 1684, d/o Thomas Judd and Sarah Freeman. He was freeman in 1654, admitted to the church 3 Apr 1663. Children by Hannah: Thomas b. 29 Oct 1654, d. soon; Thomas (again) b. 17 Mar 1656, Hannah Porter; Hannah b. 8 Feb 1657/8, m. William Judd; Mary b. 16 Jan 1659/60, m. Michael Taintor of Branford. Children by Mary: Elizabeth b. 21 Jan 1663/4. living 1690; Ruth b. 16 Oct 1665, m. Joseph Colt; Sarah b. 1 Feb 1667/8, m. Wakefield Dibble; Jeremiah b. 3 Jul 1670, d. age 2; Mabel b. 27 Oct 1672, living 1690; Mindwell b. 6 Aug 1676, living 1690; Benjamin b. 20 May 1679, living 1690. (Savage sv Thomas Loomis; Loomis Genealogy.)
vii. NATHANIEL Loomis. b. Eng., c1626; d. 19 Aug 1688; will dated 17 Aug 1688; m. 24 Nov 1654 ELIZABETH MOORE, d/o John; she m/2 John Case, and she d. 23 Jul 1728, aged 90. Children: Elizabeth b. 7 Aug 1655, m. John Lee; Nathaniel b. 20 Mar 1657, m. Elizabeth Ellsworth, d/o Josiah; Abigail b. 27 Mar 1659, m. Josiah Barber of Simsbury; Josiah b. 17 Feb 1661, m. Mary Rockwell; Jonathan b. 30 Mar 1664, m. ___; David b. 11 Jan 1668, m. Lydia Marsh; Hezekiah b. 21 Feb 1669, m. Mary Porter; Moses b. 15 May 1671, m. Joanna Gibbs; Mindwell b. 20 Jul 1673, Jonathan Brown; Ebenezer b. 22 Mar 1675, m. Jemima Whitcomb; Mary b. 5 Jan 1680, m. Joseph Barber; Rebecca b. 10 Dec 1682, m. Josiah Rockwell. (Savage sv Nathaniel Loomis, Hezekiah Loomis.)
viii SAMUEL Loomis, b. Eng. c1628; m. ELIZABETH JUDD.
(William Richard Cutter, New England Family History, p. 985; (Elias Loomis, Desc. of Joseph Loomis)"

11. The book "Emerson-Benson Saga …," by Edmund K. Swigart (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1994), pp. 351-53:
"JOSEPH1 LOOMIS (JOHNA LUMACE, JOHNB LUMMYS, THOMASC) was born by 1590, perhaps in Braintree, county Lincoln, England, and died 25 November 1658 at Windsor, CT. He was the son of JOHNA LUMACE, a tailor of Thaxted and Braintree and AGNESA LINGWOOD and JANE MARLAN?, daughter of WILLIAMB and MARGARETA (PERYE) MARLAN? of Braintree. He was also the grandson of JOHNB LUMMYS, a carpenter of Thaxted, and Kryster [sic: Krysten] (Christian (___). JOSEPH1 married 30 June 1616 at Messing, county Essex, England, MARY1 WHITE, daughter of ROBERTA, a wealthy yeoman, and BRIDGETA (ALLGAR) WHITE of Shalford, county Essex. MARY1 was baptized 24 August 1590 at Shalford and died 23 August 1652 at Windsor. MARY1's younger sister, ANNA1, married ancestor JOHN1 PORTER.
United States President Ulysses Simpson Grant (18th Chief Executive), Stephen Grover Cleveland (22nd and 24th), and Gerald Rudolph Ford, (38th), were descendants of MARY1's parents and Millard Fillmore (13th President), of her and her parents.
JOSEPH1 was a woolen draper, He and his wife lived in Braintree until 1628. They moved to London and from there sailed with their eight children 11 April 1638 aboard the "Susan and Ellen", the same ship that ancestor Rev. PETER1 BULKELEY had taken in 1635. The LOOMIS family arrived in Boston 11 July 1638, they may have spent their first year in Dorchester, MA, but moved by land in the summer of 1639 to Windsor, CT, "Probably in the company of Reverend Ephraim Huet who arrived there August 17, 1639" (ref. 3). "On 2 Feb. 1640 he had granted to him 21 acres on the west side of the Connecticut River adjoining the Farmington River" (ref. 6). JOSEPH1 continued to acquire land and served on juries in 1642 and in 1644 with Nathaniel1 Foote, brother of ancestor MARYA FOOTE. "On 6 January 1650, he was sued by" [ancestor WILLIAM1 BUELL] "for trespass and for damage to the extent of seven bushels of corn; one may infer that his stock got away from him" (ref. 3).
JOSEPH1 apparently left no will. His estate was valued at 178 pounds 10 shillings, with "a 'debt in England'" (ref. 3) of 12 pounds 14 shillings 6 pence against it. On December 1658, his wife having predeceased him, his five sons and three daughters (two represented by their husbands) signed an agreement in place of a will to divide JOSEPH's estate equitably among them.
The children of JOSEPH1 and MARY1 (WHITE) LOOMIS, all probably born in Braintree, county Lancaster, England, and probably not all listed in the correct order of birth, were.
I Joseph2, b. 1615, ca. 1616; d. 26 Jun 1687 at Windsor, CT; m. 1/wf 17 Sep 1646, Sarah2 Hill 2/wf 28 Jun 1659, Mary Sherwood.
II Sarah2, b. ca. 1617-8?; d. 1667, 1687, perh. at Hartford, CT; m. by 28 Sep 1640, Nicholas Olmstead.
III. ELIZABETH2, b. ca. 1620?; d. aft. 1665, prob. of Killingworth, CT; m by 20 May 1640-1 at Windsor, CT, JOSIAH2 HULL (see HULL).
IV Mary2, b. 1620?; d. 19 Aug. 1680, prob. at Windsor, CT: m. 1/hs by 1637-8, by 1633, John Skinner, m. 2/hs 13 Nov 1651, prob. at Windsor, Owen Tudor.
V John2, b. ca. 1622?, 1620; d. 2 Sep 1688 at Windsor, CT; m. 3, 6? Feb 1648-9 Elizabeth2 Scott (Thomas1).
VI Thomas2, b. ca. 1624?; 2 Aug 1689, prob. at Windsor, CT; m. 1/wf 1 Nov 1653 Hannah Fox/Fowkes who d. 1662, prob. at Windsor; m. 2/wf 1 Jan 1562-3, Mary2 Judd (Thomas1).
VII Nathaniel2, b. ca 1626?; d. 19 Aug 1688, prob. at Windsor, CT; m. as 1/hs 24 Nov 1653-4, Elizabeth2 Moore (John1) who m. 2/hs aft. 3 Nov 1991, John Case.
VIII Samuel2, b. 1628?; d. 1 Oct 1689, prob. at Westfield, MA; m. 27, 29? Dec 1653, Elizabeth2 Judd (Thomas1), sis. of Mary2 who m. Samuel2's older? bro., Thomas2 as 2/wf.
REFERENCES
1) Brainerd, Dwight, "Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd," [Portland, ME, Anthoensen Press, 1948], [hereinafter Brainerd, D.], 301-2.
2) Colket, M. B., op. cit., 196.
3) Ferris, M. W., op. cit., Dawes-Gates, II:453-62; 567-72.
4) Parke, N. G., op. cit., 78.
5) Pierce, R. Andrew, personal correspondence, research and material on the Hull and Loomis lines, 25 May 1993, MAT, Swigart, E. K., Washington, CT.
6) Pitman, H. M., op. cit., 391-2, 396.
7) Roberts, G. B., op cit., 182.
8) Roberts, Gary B., review of the Emerson-Benson ancestral lines and material on the Lingwood, Loomis and White lines, NEHGS Library, Boston, MA, 19 May 1993 with Swigart, E. K., MAT, Swigart, E. K., Washington, CT.
9) Savage, J., op. cit. II:494; III:112-3.
10) Torrey, C. A., op. cit., 139, 401, 472, 545, 677, 757."

CHRISTENING:
1. The christening, marriage, and burial registers for Braintree no longer exist prior to 1660. They were destroyed by a sexton who used pages to start fires.

MARRIAGE:
1. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"Thomas SCOTT
Origin: Unknown.
Migration: 1634 (based on grant of land at Cambridge on 4 August 1634 [CaTR 9]).
First Residence: Cambridge.
Removes: Hartford 1636....
Children:...
iv Elizabeth SCOTT, b. say 1628; m. Windsor 3 February 1648[/9?] John Loomis [Grant 48], son of Joseph LOOMIS {1638, Windsor} [Dawes-Gates 2:567-72; Windsor Hist 2:432-33]...

SOURCES_MISC:
1. Per family group sheet archive record submitted by Hazel May Beckstead, 4729 N. Walnut Grove, Rosemead, Calif.. References: "Gen. Biog. Rec. New London Co., Conn. Stiles Fam. Hist. p. 28, His. Hudson Mohawk Valley N.Y. p 725, vol 2 Vitals Boxford, Mass. pp. 94, 95, History of Ancient Windsor Conn. vol II Loomis Gen."

2. Per 9 Feb 2002 email of Ellen Baker : Ellen lists her sources as follows. This file was created by the posts of Vickie L. (VanMeter) Smithson (all) and Mark Allen (on Philip's child Philip Jr.)of the Loomis Surname Forum at Genforum.Com. Info. came from Nan Wolf (web site). Info. was also obtained over at Rootsweb Worldconnect Project. The following books were used to make additions to this summary: Descendants of Joseph Loomis (1590-1658) In America And his Antecedents In the Old World. The Original Published by Elias Loomis LLD, 1875. Revised by Elisha S. Loomis Ph.D. 1908; Lion passengers Title: Passengers on the "Lion" from England to Boston, 1632 Author: Sandra Sutphin Olney Publication: 1992 Heritage Books Inc. Two volume set; Windsor Genealogies Title: The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor Connecticut 1635-1891 Author: Henry R. Stiles, A.M., M.D., Publication: Volume II, 1992 Picton Press; and Our American Ancestry Author: Gates, Frederick Taylor Publication: 1928, Montclair, NJ FHL R929.2 G223GF FHL film #1421664 item 5. 		Loomis, John (I2366)
 
4644 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson 1899-1986," by W. M. Bollenbach, Jr. (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 2003), pp. 267-68:
"RICHARD1 NORMAN, born England, probably Dorchester, by about 1587, died Salem MA after 22 April 1653 but before 27 June 1664; married England about 1611 (birth 1612) (___), possibly Margaret Alford)), born there say 1590, died Marblehead MA after 1645.
Richard1 was in Cape Ann (Gloucester) MA by 1626, living in Salem 6 September 1628, and in Marblehead in 1645. He came to America as an employee of the Dorchester Company, a group of capitalists and adventurers who established a small colony at Cape Ann in 1623. It is not certain that he was an original member of this group, which undoubtedly received additions from England from time to time, but we know that he and his family were among those who, upon the failure of the Cape Ann venture, moved to Naumkeag in 1626 under the leadership of Roger Conant, and were established there upon the arrival of the Endicott migration in 1628. Testifying in 1680, Richard Brackenbury of Beverly, aged eighty, said that he came to New England with the late Governor Endicott and that when "wee came ashore at the place now called Salem ... wee found living (there) Old Goodman Norman and his sonn... and others" who "owned that they came over upon the account of a company in England called by the name of Dorchester Company or Dorchester Merchants; they had sundry houses built at Salem... and they declared that they had a house built at Cape Ann for the dorchester company." These pre-Endicott settlers became known in Salem history as the "old planters".
He participated in the various grants made to the colonists in 1636, 1637 and 1640, and undoubtedly had received a previous allotment of land of considerable size, as it is recorded that he and his son John sold one hundred acres to Capt. William Trask in 1636, and that Governor Endicott bought land near the head of Bass River, originally granted to Richard Norman and others, which purchase was confirmed to the governor by grant in 1643.
Norman probably was not of the Puritan persuasion and in 1650 we find him living on "Darby Fort side" (Marblehead), where he may have settled some years previously, beyond the immediate influence of the Salem church-state, and where his defective fences caused his appearance in court. The last record we have of him is in 1653, when Richard Norman "the elder" made over his house and ten acre lot in "Marvellhead upon Darbe Fort side" to his son Richard (Torrey 538).
Children, surname NORMAN...
ii. MARGARET, born England say 1613; married (1) Salem MA by about 1633 Robert1 Morgan, born England 1601, died Beverly MA 1672, a cooper, who lived in that part of Salem first called Cape Ann Side and later organized as Beverly; married (2) Salisbury MA about 1673 Samuel1 Fowler, born England 1618, died Salisbury 1711 (Torrey 518 and 280). Robert united with the Salem church in 1650 and was made a freeman on 29 April 1652. He signed the petition of the settlers on Cape Ann Side to be set off as a separate town in 1659, and when the Beverly church was organized he kept the first book of records. He was clerk of the writ in 1671, in which year he stated that he was seventy years of age...
("MA & ME Families in Ancestry of W. G. Davis", W. G. Davis, 1996; Colket 221; Pope 330; Savage III:288; "Great Migration Begins", 1:1334, R. C. Anderson, 1995)" 		Fowler, Samuel (I5440)
 
4645 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Phelps Family of America and their English Ancestors," comp. by Oliver Seymour Phelps of Portland, Oregon and Andrew T. Servin of Lenox, Massachusetts, 1899,
A. Pp. 138-139:
"Charles Phelps, b. Hebron, Ct., 26 July 1702, m. 17 Feb 1726, Hepzibah Stiles, b. Boxford, Mass., 7 Nov 1709, d. Hebron, Ct., dau. or Robert and Ruth (Bridges) Stiles. Mr Phelps settled in Hebron, Ct., where he died. Children b. Hebron, Ct.:
I. Amy, b. 11 Nov 1726.
II. Zuriah, b. 3 Apr 1729, m. Dorothy.
III. Charles, b. 22 Sep 1732, m. Hannah Dennison.
IV. Lydia (Lidu), b. 1 Mar 1738, m. Job Stiles Jr.
V. Ashbel, b. 28 Apr 1743, m. possibly Jemima Buell.
VI. Bethuel, b. 25 Apr 1744, m. Caroline Lord.
VII. Timothy, b. 29 May 1745, m. Sarah Skinner.
VIII. James, b. 29 May 1745. (Note - This James is given by Dr. C.A. Phelp's tree, and also in Stiles' old, though not in 2nd edition. We think this an error.)"
B. Pp. 219-220: "Dr. Charles Phelps, b. Hebron, CT, 22 Sep 1735, m. 10 Nov 1757, Hannah Dennison, (dau. of William and Hannah Dennison), b. Groton, CT, 1738, d. Stonington, CT, 10 Sep 1797, in her 59th year. He m. 2nd, 14 Feb 1798, Sally Swan, (dau. of Thomas and Anna Swan), b. 5 Oct 1772. After Mr. Phelps's death she m. 2nd. Henry Hubbard. She d. in Stonington CT, 10 Sep 1841, in her 69th year. Dr. Phelps studied medicine, settled in Stonington, CT, where he practiced medicine for many years and was a prominent man. He was the Justice of the Peace, Judge of Probate and promininently connected with the church. At that time money was raised in the churches by lottery. The following is a copy of one of the tickets issued by him. He died in Stonington, 17 Aug 1808 in his 76th year.
'No. 2452. Stonington-point Meeting House Lotter. This ticket shall entitle the bearer to such prize as may be drawn aginst its number, subject to a decuction of eight per cent. Stonington July 20, 1793. Chs. Phelps.'
Children by 1st wife, Hannah Dennison, b. Stonington, CT:
I. William, d. unm. 5 Nov 1786, b. 26 Sep 1758.
II. Hannah, b. 15 Dec 1760, m. Andrew Huntington.
IIII. Charles, b. 23 Feb 1763, m. Elizabeth Smith.
IV. Hepsibah, b. 13 May 1765, m. Capt. Ephraim Williams.
V. Martha, b. 8 May 1767, m. Frederick Allen.
VI. Joseph D., b. 15 May 1769, m. Hannah Babcock.
VII. (Twin) Ann, b. 8 Aug 1772, m. Nathaniel Palmer.
VIII. (Twin) Nancy, b. 8 Aug 1772, d. in infancy.
IX. John, b. 8 Jul 1774, d. 16 Aug 1775.
X. Stiles, b. 20 Jun 1777, m. Betsey Dennison.
XI. Jonathan, Hundtingon, b. 13 Oct 1779, m. Mary Brown.
XII. Polly, b. 18 Jan 1785, d. unm. 5 Oct 1847.
Children by 2nd wife Sally Swan:
XIII. Benjamin Franklin, b. 2 Dec 1799, m. Arabel Wallace.
XIV. Sally, b. 15 Oct 1802, d. unm. 20 May 1820.
XV. Swan William, b. 24 Jan 1807, d. 7 Feb 1809.
XVI. Charles E., b. 1818, d. unm. 22 May 1833. [Kerry's note: incorrect since his father died 10 years before his birth.]"

2. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 571: "Charles Phelps (son of Timothy, g.son of Lt. Timothy, gg.son of William) m. 26 Feb 1726, Hepzibah (dau. Robert) Stiles; she was of the Massachusetts Stiles family, and therefore was not, as has been claimed, a cousin of Pres. Stiles of Yale College; she was born Boxford, Mass., 7 Nov 17(prob. '09). Children (b. Hebron, CT.):
A. Amay, b. 11 Nov 1726.
B. Zuriah, b. 3 Apr 1729.
C. Charles, b. 22 Sep 1732.
D. Ashbel, b. 28 Apr 1743.
E. Timothy, b. 29 May 1745.
F. Bethuel, b. 25 Apr 1748."
[Book does not have any Stiles biography of this line.]

BIRTH:
1. Website 4 Sep 2007 www.douglaslibrary.org/barbour. The Douglas Library in Hebron, Connecticut has "Town of Hebron Vital Records: Barbour Collection 1708-1854," p. 97: "Charl[e]s Phelps, s. Charles, b. Sep. 22, 1732, v. 1. p. 12."
No marriage or death record. No records for either of his two wives.

2. Note the contradiction in birth years in the Phelps of America book quoted above. One quote says 1732 and the other 1735.
 		Phelps, Charles (I2091)
 
4646 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Phelps Family of America and their English Ancestors," comp. by Oliver Seymour Phelps of Portland, Oregon and Andrew T. Servin of Lenox, Massachusetts, 1899, p. 109:
"William Phelps, b. Windsor, Ct., 4 Feb 1669, m. 1st Abigail Mudge, who. d. Windsor, Ct., 24 Apr 1705. he m. 2nd, Ruth Barber, 18 Apr 1706, dau. of Samuel and Mary (Coggens) Barber, she b. Windsor, 24 Jul 1683, where she died 2 Aug 1747. Mr. Phelps settled in Windsor, Ct., where he died 1733.
Children b. Windsor by 1st wife, Abigail Mudge.
I. William, b. 16 Mar 1702, m. ___ Moore, 2nd. Anna Biship.
II. Ebenezer, b. 2 Apr 1705, m. Mindwell Eggleston.
Children by 2nd wife, Ruth Barber:
III. Caleb, b. 11 Jan 1708, m. Mary Moore, 2nd Mary Henderson.
IV. Jacob, b. 18 Jan 1711, m. Abigail Alvord.
V. Ruth, b. 23 Jan 1713, m. Samuel Phelps. [First cousins; Samuel was son of Samuel Phelps, brother to Ruth's father William.]"

2. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 50: "Barber, Samuel (son of Thomas), m. (1) 1 Dec 1670, Mary Coggins, who d. 19 May 1676 (Col. Rec.); m. (2) 25 Jan., 1676-7, Ruth (dau. John) Drake (O.C.R.), who d. 13 Nov 1731 (W.C.R.); he owned Half-way Covenant in W. church 12 Oct., 1671(O.C.R.); res. at W. on the paternal homestead, which he bought of his bro. John, 1671; contrib. 2s. 6d. to the Conn. relief fund for the poor of other colonies, 1676; rem. to Simsbury. W. Rec. say Sam'l, Sen. d. 12 Mch 1708; if so, he must have ret. to W. in his later days.
A. Ch. by 1st mar. (O.C.R.):
a. Thomas, b. 7 Oct 1671; bu. 31 Oct 1673.
b. Samuel, b. 26 Jan 1673, m. Martha Ponder of Westfield, 18 Jun 1713; she prob. the Martha (wid.) d. Aug., 1758, ae. about 80 (Why. Ch. rec.).
B. By 2d. mar.:
c. John, b. 25 Jan 1676, m. Jane Alford, 24 Jul 1717.
d. Hannah, b. 4 Oct 1681. - O.C.R.
e. Ruth, b. 24 Jul 1683; m. Wm. Phelps; sett. W. near where Wm. Cook res. 1859.
f. Elizabeth, b. 9 Feb 1684; m. Daniel Loomis; res. W. near where R.W. Loomis res. 1859.
g. David, b. 12 May 1686 (Col. Rec.); m. Hannah Post; sett. at Hebron on ld. giv. him by his fath.
h. Sarah, b. 28 Aug 1698; m. (1) Stephen Palmer; sett. Poq., W.; m. (2) a Phelps; rem. to Wstfld.
i. William, m. Esther Brown, 5 Nov 1700; res. Poq., W.; d. 17 Jul 1704.
j. Mary, b. 25 Sep 1704; m. Peter Brown; sett. W. near where Julius Ransom res. 1859.
k. Mindwell, d. unm'd 3 Dec 1712 (W.R..); her bro. Joseph app. adm'r on her est. 17 Mar 1713; est. £61, 11s.
l. Joseph, m. Mary Loomis, 6 May 1708.
m. Benjamin, m. Hannah Lewis, 30 Jun 1720; sett. Poq., W., near William Barne's res. 1859.

3. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 568: "William Phelps (son of Lt. Timothy, g.son of William), m. (1) Abigail Mudge, 7 Dec 1699, who d. Windsor 24 Apr 1705; (2) Ruth (dau. Samuel and Mary Coggens) Barber, 18 Apr 1706; she b. Windsor 24 Jul 1683. Children (b. Windsor, by first wife):
A. William, b. 16 Mar 1702.
B. Ebenezer (Ens.), b. 2 Apr 1705.
(By second wife):
C. Caleb, b. 11 Jan 1708.
D. Jacob, b. 18 Jun 1711.
E. Ruth, b. 23 Jan 1713; m. Samuel (s. Samuel and Abigail Eno) Phelps, 1732; rem. to Harwinton, CT, where she d. 21 Dec 1749/50."

4. FHL book 929.273 D789td (film 1321147) "The Descendants of John Drake of Windsor, Connecticut," comp. by Frank B. Gay (Rutland, VT; 1933), pp. 18-19:
"Ruth Drake (John2, John1), born Dec. 1, 1657, at Windsor, Conn.; married Jan. 25, 1676, at Windsor, as second wife, Samuel Barber, baptized Oct. 1, 1648, son of Thomas and Jane Barber. Samuel Barber married (1) Mary Coggens, Dec. 1, 1670. They had Thomas, born Oct. 7, 1671, who died Oct. 1673, and Samuel, born Jan. 26, 1673. Mary, wife of Samuel, died May 19, 1676. Samuel barber's will was dated Feb. 21, 1708/9, proved Apr. 4, 1709, Inventory ₤598/04/10. Ruth Barber, widow of Samuel, made her will Nov. 13, 1716. It was proved Dec. 1731. She died Nov. 13, 1731.
Children of Samuel and Ruth (Drake) Barber:
I. William, b. - -; d. 1704, leaving son William.
II. Hannah, b. Oct. 4, 1681; not mentioned in will of father or mother.
III. Ruth, b. July 24, 1683; m. William Phelps, Apr. 18, 1706.
IV. Elizabeth, b. Feb. 9, 1685; m. Daniel Loomis, Jr., Nov. 10, 1709.
V. David, b. May 12, 1686.
VI. Joseph, b. - -.
VII. Benjamin, b. - -.
VIII. John, b. - -.
IX. Mindwill, b. - -; d. unm., Dec. 3, 1712.
X. Sarah, b. Aug. 28, 1698; m. Stephen Palmer, Oct. 17, 1717.
XI. Mary, b. - -; m. Peter Brown, July 22, 1696.
Children mentioned in wills of both father and mother.
Samuel Barber died Mar. 12, 1708/9."

5. FHL book 929.273 L995m "Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Rice Lyon and his Wife Harriet Wade Rice...," by Patty Barthell Myers (2003), pp. 357-60:
"EDWARD1 GRISWOLD, son of George Griswold and his first wife Dousubel (___) and half-brother of Matthew Griswold...
[Children...]
viii MARY GRISWOLD, bpt. Windsor 13 Oct 1644; d. 1690; m. 19 May 1661/2 TIMOTHY PHELPS, b. Windsor 1 Sept 1639; d. 1719, s/o William Phelps and his second wife, Mary Dover. Children (PHELPS): Timothy m. Martha Crow, d/o Christopher Crow and Mary Burr; Joseph m. Sarah Hosford; William m/1 Abigail Mudge, m/2 Ruth Barber, d/o Samuel Barber & Mary Coggens; Cornelius m. Sarah Mansfield; Mary d. in her teens; Samuel m. Abigail Eno, d/o James Eno and Abigail Bissell; Nathaniel m/1 Hannah Bissell, d/o Samuel Bissell & Abigail Holcomb, m/2 Abigail Pinney; Sarah m. David Marshall; Abigail m. Samuel Filer; Hannah m/1 Thomas Phelps, m/2 James3 Eno (James2,1); Ann m. David Porter, s/o John Porter & Joanna Gaylord; Martha m. Samuel Holcomb...
(Edward Elbridge Salisbury & Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury, Gen. & Biog. Monographs on the Fam. of Griswold, Wolcott, Pitkin, Ogden, et.al.; pp: 10-13; Nash, Fifty Puritan Ancestors, pp. 102-5; Ruth Lee Griswold, Griswold Family, pp. 188-9; Richard A. Wheeler, History of Stonington, Conn., p. 537; Alvan Talcott, Families of Early Guilford, Conn., pp. 530-1; Esther Griswold French and Robert Lewis French, The Griswold Family, The First Five Generations in America, p. 13 et seq.; Savage sv Edward, George, Francis, Joseph Griswold; Torrey sv Edward, George, John, Joseph, Francis Griswold; James Bemis.)"
 		Barber, Ruth (I4508)
 
4647 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Phelps Family of America and their English Ancestors," comp. by Oliver Seymour Phelps of Portland, Oregon and Andrew T. Servin of Lenox, Massachusetts, 1899, p. 110:
"Lieut. Samuel Phelps, b. Windsor, Ct., 29 Jan 1675, m. Abigail Eno 3 Jun 1706, dau. of James and Abigail (Bissel) Eno. She b. Windsor, Ct., 1 Mar 1686, d. there 25 Dec 1749. Mr. Phelps settled in Windsor. He died there previous to 1749. His will dated 26 Oct 1741 in Hartford. Probate mentions Samuel, James, Hezekiah, Josiah and Abigail. Mrs. Phelps' will, dated 21 Dec 1749, probated in Hartford, to daughter Abigail 'I grant my green riding hood, black silk crape gown and black taffeta apron: all the rest of wearing apparel, to be divided between my four sons.' children b. Windsor, CT:
a. Abigail, b. 8 Mar 1707, m. Jehiel Grant, 29 Feb 1743. (He was son of Thomas Grant of Torrington, CT.)
b. Samuel, b. 5 Apr 1708-10, m. Ruth Phelps, 2nd, Damarius Gilender.
c. James, b. 12 Aug 1713, d. 3 Apr 1718.
d. Matthew, b. 25-28 Jan 1715, d. unm. 1743.
e. Mary, b. 20 Feb 1718, d. 15 Mar 1718.
f. James b. 23 Jan 1720, m. Hester Fowler.
g. Tabitha, b. 18 Jan 1721, m. Ebenezer Moore, 21 Feb 1739, son of Wm. Moore. She d. before 1749. No Issue.
h. Joshua, b. 13 Oct, 1729, m. Hannah Birge.
i. Hezekiah, b., m. Lydia Griswold."

2. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 242; Abigail is third in line from the original immigrant James Eno who came to Windsor in 1648:
"James (son of James) Eno, b. 26 Dec 1678 (O.C.R.) Abigail (dau. of Samuel and Abigail Holcomb) Bissell (O.C.R.), who was b. 6 Jul 1661; d. 19 Apr 1728; he d. 16 Jul 1714; both buried in Old Burying-ground, Simsbury. He was probably the J. who was one of 11 petitioners, 1705, for a grant of land for services in the Swamp Fight, in King Philip's War. Ch.:
a. James, b. 23 Sep 1679. - O.C.R. Sgt. of W. and Union; m. (1) 5 Apr 1703, Mary (dau. of John and gd. dau. Matthew Grant), b. 23 Jan 1675; d. 6 Mar 1704; (2) 15 Jul 1708, Hannah (dau. Lt. Timo. and Mary (Griswold) Phelps, b. 16 Aug 1684; d. Mar. 1728; he d. 1764. Joseph Eno and Mary Loomis were executors of will of Jmes Eno of Union, died 1764.
b. Ann, b. 10 Apr. 1682; d. 10 Jun 1760; m. 6 Apr 1699, Joseph (s. of John and Sarah Spencer) Case of Htfd. and W.; res. Sims., and was mother of Rev. Benejah Case, Y.C., 1733.
c. William, b. 5 Jan (15 Dec.?) 1684. Lieut. d. Sims. 1763; m. 1709, Mary North; freeman at S., Oct 1717; Lieut. S. train-band, May 1726.
d. Abigail, b. 1 Mar 1686/7; m. 3 Apr 1707, Samuel Phelps.
e. Mary, b. 5 May 1691; d. 15 Sep 1697.
f. John b. 5 Jan 1693.
g. Samuel, b. 7 Jul 1696. Capt. Of W.; m. 24 Dec 1735, Eunice (dau of Thos. and May Drake) Marshall, b. 3 May 1709; d. 7 May 1792; he was one of the builders of the free bridge over the Tunxis at W., 1749; Lieut. Train-band W., Oct 1740; Capt., May 1744; Deputy, Oct. 1748/9 and 1754/5; Justice of Hartford County, 1749-1770. He d. 17 Aug 1778.
h. Susannah, b. 16 May 1699.
i. David, b. 12 Aug 1702, Simsbury; m. Oct 20, 1723, Mary Gillet, b. Feb. 29, 1702-3; d. Simsbury, Nov. 23, 1760, dau. of Nathan and third in descent from Nathan Gillet, who came from England to Connecticut, 1634. David died in the Cape Breton campaign, June 1745."

3. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 568:
"Samuel Phelps (son of Lt. Timothy, g.son of William), m. 3 Apr 1707 Abigail (Dau. James and Abigail Bissell) Enos, b. Windsor 1 Mar 1686; he resided Windsor. Will of Lt. Sam'l P. of W., dated 26 Oct 1741, mentions Samuel, James, Hezekiah, Joshua, and Abigail. Will of Abigail Phelps of Windsor, dated 25 Dec 1749: 'to dafter Abigail I grante my greene Riding whood black Silk Crape goun, and Black Tafity appron, and all ye rest of rest of my wearing apparel to be divided between my four sons (Hartford Probate Records). - R.T.S. Children (b. Windsor):
a. Abigail, b. 8 Mar 1707.
b. Samuel, b. 5 Apr 1710; sett. Harwinton, Conn.
c. James, b. 12 Aug 1713; d. 3 Apr 1718.
d. Matthew, b. 25 Jan 1714/15.
e. Mary, b. 20 Feb, d. 15 Mar 1718/19.
f. James, b. 23 Jan 1719/20. m. ___.
g. Tabitha, b. 18 Jan 1721.
h. Joshua, b. 13 Oct 1729; m. Hannah (dau. Jeremiah and Mary Griswold) Birge.
i. Hezekiah (Dr.), m. Lydia (dau. Samuel) Griswold, and d.1752; will dated 9 Jun 1752, left one daughter Lydia. In Griswold Family it is said he left a son. This would seem to be a mistake, unless he were a posthumous son. - R.T.S."

4. FHL book 929.273 L995m "Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Rice Lyon and his Wife Harriet Wade Rice...," by Patty Barthell Myers (2003), pp. 357-60:
"EDWARD1 GRISWOLD, son of George Griswold and his first wife Dousubel (___) and half-brother of Matthew Griswold...
[Children...]
viii MARY GRISWOLD, bpt. Windsor 13 Oct 1644; d. 1690; m. 19 May 1661/2 TIMOTHY PHELPS, b. Windsor 1 Sept 1639; d. 1719, s/o William Phelps and his second wife, Mary Dover. Children (PHELPS): Timothy m. Martha Crow, d/o Christopher Crow and Mary Burr; Joseph m. Sarah Hosford; William m/1 Abigail Mudge, m/2 Ruth Barber, d/o Samuel Barber & Mary Coggens; Cornelius m. Sarah Mansfield; Mary d. in her teens; Samuel m. Abigail Eno, d/o James Eno and Abigail Bissell; Nathaniel m/1 Hannah Bissell, d/o Samuel Bissell & Abigail Holcomb, m/2 Abigail Pinney; Sarah m. David Marshall; Abigail m. Samuel Filer; Hannah m/1 Thomas Phelps, m/2 James3 Eno (James2,1); Ann m. David Porter, s/o John Porter & Joanna Gaylord; Martha m. Samuel Holcomb...
(Edward Elbridge Salisbury & Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury, Gen. & Biog. Monographs on the Fam. of Griswold, Wolcott, Pitkin, Ogden, et.al.; pp: 10-13; Nash, Fifty Puritan Ancestors, pp. 102-5; Ruth Lee Griswold, Griswold Family, pp. 188-9; Richard A. Wheeler, History of Stonington, Conn., p. 537; Alvan Talcott, Families of Early Guilford, Conn., pp. 530-1; Esther Griswold French and Robert Lewis French, The Griswold Family, The First Five Generations in America, p. 13 et seq.; Savage sv Edward, George, Francis, Joseph Griswold; Torrey sv Edward, George, John, Joseph, Francis Griswold; James Bemis.)"
 		Eno, Abigail (I2127)
 
4648 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Phelps Family of America and their English Ancestors," comp. by Oliver Seymour Phelps of Portland, Oregon and Andrew T. Servin of Lenox, Massachusetts, 1899, p. 112:
"Anne Phelps, b. Windsor, Ct., 2 Oct 1686, m. David Porter[4], 3 Jun 1707, son of (John[3], John[2], John[1] Porter in Windsor, Ct., 1639) John[3] and Joana (Gaylord) Porter, b. Windsor, where he resided up to 1715, then removing to Hebron, one of the early settlers, where he died. His wife d. 24 Jan 1767. Children [all surnamed Porter]:
I. David, b. Windsor, 13 Sep 1708, m. Ruth Mack.
II. Anne, b. Windsor, 25 Sep 1710, m. Thomas Judd.
III. Jerusha, b. Windsor, 12 Sep 1712, m. ___ Perrin.
IV. John b. Windsor, 18 Apr 1714, m. Sarah Mack.
V. Tabitha, b. Hebron, 11 Nov 1716.
VI. Pelatiah, b. Hebron, 13 May 1718, m. Sarah Allen.
VII. Increas, b. Hebron, 18 Feb 1722, m. 1st Mary Niles, 2nd Abigail Kellogg.
VIII. Lydia, b. Hebron, 6 Nov 1724, m. Simon Burroughs."

2. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 623; note Sarah, sister of this David is also in mu database married to John Skinner.
I. "David Porter (son of John, grandson of John, g.grandson of John), m. Anne Phelps 13 Jan 1706/1707; was one of the first settlers of Hebron, Conn. Parents John Porter and Joanna Gaylord. Children:
A. David, b. 13 Sep 1708.
B. Jerusha, b. 15 Sep 1712
C. John, b. 18 Apr 1714."
II. "John Porter (son John, grandson of John), m. Joanna (dau. Walter) Gaylord, 16 Dec 1669 (O.C.R.); she d. 4 Jan 1699; he contributed 3s. to Conn. Relief Fund for Poor of other Colonies, 1676. - O.C.R. Children (O.C.R.*):
A. Joanna, * b. 7 Feb 1670; m. Peter Mills, 21 Jul 1692.
B. Mary * b. 20 Nov 1672; m. Hez. Loomis 30 Apr 1690.
C. John, * b. 17 Jan 1674.
D. Sarah, * b. 1, bp. 3 Jun 1677.
E. Ann, * Ann b. 26 Aug 1679.
F. Daniel, b. 13 Nov 1681.
G. Martha, b. 16 Sep 1683.
H. David, b. 3 Oct 1685.
I. Isaac, twin, b. 23 Sep 1686, d. 10 Oct 1689.
J. Martha, twin, b. 23 Sep 1686.
K. Lydia, twin, b. 28 Nov 1689., d. 5 Feb 1690.
L. Esther, twin, b. 28 Nov 1689.

FHL book 929.273 L995m "Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Rice Lyon and his Wife Harriet Wade Rice...," by Patty Barthell Myers (2003), pp. 357-60:
"EDWARD1 GRISWOLD, son of George Griswold and his first wife Dousubel (___) and half-brother of Matthew Griswold...
[Children...]
viii MARY GRISWOLD, bpt. Windsor 13 Oct 1644; d. 1690; m. 19 May 1661/2 TIMOTHY PHELPS, b. Windsor 1 Sept 1639; d. 1719, s/o William Phelps and his second wife, Mary Dover. Children (PHELPS): Timothy m. Martha Crow, d/o Christopher Crow and Mary Burr; Joseph m. Sarah Hosford; William m/1 Abigail Mudge, m/2 Ruth Barber, d/o Samuel Barber & Mary Coggens; Cornelius m. Sarah Mansfield; Mary d. in her teens; Samuel m. Abigail Eno, d/o James Eno and Abigail Bissell; Nathaniel m/1 Hannah Bissell, d/o Samuel Bissell & Abigail Holcomb, m/2 Abigail Pinney; Sarah m. David Marshall; Abigail m. Samuel Filer; Hannah m/1 Thomas Phelps, m/2 James3 Eno (James2,1); Ann m. David Porter, s/o John Porter & Joanna Gaylord; Martha m. Samuel Holcomb...
(Edward Elbridge Salisbury & Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury, Gen. & Biog. Monographs on the Fam. of Griswold, Wolcott, Pitkin, Ogden, et.al.; pp: 10-13; Nash, Fifty Puritan Ancestors, pp. 102-5; Ruth Lee Griswold, Griswold Family, pp. 188-9; Richard A. Wheeler, History of Stonington, Conn., p. 537; Alvan Talcott, Families of Early Guilford, Conn., pp. 530-1; Esther Griswold French and Robert Lewis French, The Griswold Family, The First Five Generations in America, p. 13 et seq.; Savage sv Edward, George, Francis, Joseph Griswold; Torrey sv Edward, George, John, Joseph, Francis Griswold; James Bemis.)"
 		Porter, David (I2132)
 
4649 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Phelps Family of America and their English Ancestors," comp. by Oliver Seymour Phelps of Portland, Oregon and Andrew T. Servin of Lenox, Massachusetts, 1899, p. 113:
"Martha Phelps, b. Windsor, 12 Nov 1688, m. Corpl. Samuel Holcomb[3], 13 Oct 1709 (son of Sergt. Benjamin[2] and Sarah (Eno) Holcomb, b. 29 Mar 1683, (of Thomas[1] Holcomb in Dorchester, 1634). Corporal Holcomb settled in Poquonock, Ct., whre he died 13 Aug 1792 [s/b 1722], and where his wife died. Children, b. in Poquonock [all surnamed Holcomb]:
I. Martha, b. 6 Aug 1710, d. young.
II. Samuel, b. 16 Feb 1712, d. young.
III. Deborah, b. 20 Jul 1716.
IV. Sarah, b. 24 Dec 1717.
V. Rebecca, b. Aug 1719, m. John Barnard.
VI. Sophia, b. 16 Jan 1720.
VII, Samuel, b. 2 Jan 1721, m. Bersheba Phelps, dau. of Isaac and Sarah Phelps. See descendants of of George Phelps for Children.
VIII. Martha, b. 8 Nov 1722, m. William Phelps [(4), son of William Phelps(3) and Hannah Hayden, Samuel (2), and emigrant William(1)]."

2. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, pp. 394-395: "Samuel Holcombe (Corp.), ([son of ]Sgt. Benajah, [gr. son of emigrant] Thomas), m. Martha Phelps, 13 Oct 1709; he d. 13 Aug 1722, age 37; bu. Old Cemetery, Poq. - W.F.H. Children:
A. Martha, b. 6 Aug 1710; d. ?
B. Samuel, b. 16 Feb 1712; d. 3 Oct 1751, age 39. - W.F.H.
C. Deborah, b. 20 Jul 1716.
D. Sarah, b. 24 Dec 1717.
E. Rebecca, b. Aug 1719; m. John Barnard.
F. Sophia, b. 16 Jan 1720.
g. Martha, b. 8 Nov 1722."
[At the time Stiles' book was published, he noted: "An extensive Genealogy of the Holcombes is in preparation by Wm. Frederic Holcombe, M.D., of... New York City."

3. FHL book 929.273 L995m "Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Rice Lyon and his Wife Harriet Wade Rice...," by Patty Barthell Myers (2003), pp. 357-60:
"EDWARD1 GRISWOLD, son of George Griswold and his first wife Dousubel (___) and half-brother of Matthew Griswold...
[Children...]
viii MARY GRISWOLD, bpt. Windsor 13 Oct 1644; d. 1690; m. 19 May 1661/2 TIMOTHY PHELPS, b. Windsor 1 Sept 1639; d. 1719, s/o William Phelps and his second wife, Mary Dover. Children (PHELPS): Timothy m. Martha Crow, d/o Christopher Crow and Mary Burr; Joseph m. Sarah Hosford; William m/1 Abigail Mudge, m/2 Ruth Barber, d/o Samuel Barber & Mary Coggens; Cornelius m. Sarah Mansfield; Mary d. in her teens; Samuel m. Abigail Eno, d/o James Eno and Abigail Bissell; Nathaniel m/1 Hannah Bissell, d/o Samuel Bissell & Abigail Holcomb, m/2 Abigail Pinney; Sarah m. David Marshall; Abigail m. Samuel Filer; Hannah m/1 Thomas Phelps, m/2 James3 Eno (James2,1); Ann m. David Porter, s/o John Porter & Joanna Gaylord; Martha m. Samuel Holcomb...
(Edward Elbridge Salisbury & Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury, Gen. & Biog. Monographs on the Fam. of Griswold, Wolcott, Pitkin, Ogden, et.al.; pp: 10-13; Nash, Fifty Puritan Ancestors, pp. 102-5; Ruth Lee Griswold, Griswold Family, pp. 188-9; Richard A. Wheeler, History of Stonington, Conn., p. 537; Alvan Talcott, Families of Early Guilford, Conn., pp. 530-1; Esther Griswold French and Robert Lewis French, The Griswold Family, The First Five Generations in America, p. 13 et seq.; Savage sv Edward, George, Francis, Joseph Griswold; Torrey sv Edward, George, John, Joseph, Francis Griswold; James Bemis.)"
 		Holcomb, Samuel (I2133)
 
4650 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Phelps Family of America and their English Ancestors," comp. by Oliver Seymour Phelps of Portland, Oregon and Andrew T. Servin of Lenox, Massachusetts, 1899, p. 137:
"Timothy Phelps, b. Hebron, Ct., 29 Jan 1692/3, m. Hannah Calkins, 29 Jul 1714. Mr. Phelps settled in Hebron, Ct., where he died 28 Sept 1768. Children, b. in Hebron:
I. Hannah, b. 25 Dec 1715, m. Joseph Sweetland.
II. Timothy, b. 29 Jun 1718, m. Hannah Northman.
III. Asa, b. 25 Feb 1721, d. 8 Oct 1787.
IV. Martha, b. 23 May 1723, m. Samuel Young.
V. Mary, b. 7 Mar 1726, d. 1726.
VI. Jeremiah, b. 30 Jul 1729, m. Mehitable Holt.
VII. Jemima, b. 30 July, 1729.
VIII. Mary, b. 20 Dec 1731, unm., d. 4 May 1756.
(Says one authority this Timothy had nine children.)"

2. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 571: "Timothy Phelps (son of Timothy, g.son of Lt. Timothy, gg.son of William) m. Hannah Calkins, 29 Jul 1714; he d. 28 Sep 1768. Children (b. Hebron, CT):
A. Timothy, b. 29 Jun 1718; m. Hannah Northam, 16 Sep 1742. Issue: Rachel, Timothy, Others.
B. Asa, b. 25 Feb 1721.
C. ___, b. 23 May 1723.
D. Jemima, b. 30 Jul 1729.
E. Mary, b. 28 Dec 1729."
[Book does not have any Calkin biography.]

BIRTH:
1. Rootsweb.com Worldconnect 16 Nov 2007 database "hgibson" shows Hannah Calkin, b. 4 Jul 1694 at Norwich, New London, CT, dau. of Samuel Calkin, b. Oct 1663, and Hanna Gifford, b. 7 Jan 1670/71, both at Norwich.

MARRIAGE:
1. Website 4 Sep 2007 www.douglaslibrary.org/barbour. The Douglas Library in Hebron, Connecticut has "Town of Hebron Vital Records: Barbour Collection 1708-1854," p. 103:
"Timothy Phelps, m. Hannah Calkin, July 29, 1714, v. 1, p. 62."
Same source has no birth nor death record for Hannah.

DEATH:
1. LDS IGI member submitted info shows d. 29 Dec 1755 at Hebron. Notes father as Samuel Hugh Calkins.
 		Calkins, Hannah (I2112)
 

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