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1651 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Great Migration Begins":
GEORGE NORTON
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1629
FIRST RESIDENCE: Salem
REMOVES: Gloucester 1642, Wenham 1645, Salem
OCCUPATION: Carpenter. Innkeeper ("George Norton licensed to keep an ordinary upon the road where he dwells, and to sell strong waters to travellers," 29 June 1658 [EQC 2:100]; license renewed, 28 June 1659 [EQC 2:164]).
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Included in list of Salem church members compiled late in 1636 (with later annotation "dead") [SChR 5]; admission prior to 14 May 1634 implied by freemanship. 13 April 1645: "George Norton, a member of the church at Gloucester, was admitted to participate" in communion at Wenham [Fiske Notebook 31]. On 21 September 1645 Gloucester church issued a letter of dismission for George Norton, and on 28 September Wenham church, after examining his spiritual state, admitted him to the covenant [Fiske Notebook 36-38].
FREEMAN: 14 May 1634 [MBCR 1:368].
EDUCATION: Signed inventory of Mary Hersome of Wenham, 2 September 1646 [EQC 1:106].
OFFICES: Essex jury, 27 March 1638, 25 June 1639, 30 June 1640 [EQC 1:7, 11, 19]. Deputy of the Salem marshal (apparently for Gloucester), 2 November 1642 [EQC 1:52]. Essex grand jury (for Salem), 24 November 1657 [EQC 2:58]. Essex trial jury, 28 June 1659 [EQC 2:157].
Gloucester deputy to General Court, 8 September 1642, 10 May 1643 [MBCR 2:22, 33]. Gloucester member of committee on bounds between Ipswich and Gloucester, 3 May 1642 [MBCR 2:4]. Commissioner to end small causes at Gloucester, 10 May 1643 [MBCR 2:35].
On 29 May 1644 it was "ordered, (at the request of the town of Glocester,) that George Norton (as their eldest sergeant) shall exercise their military company" [MBCR 2:67].
ESTATE: In the 1636 Salem land grant received forty acres "above Mr. Cole" (in the "freeman's" section of the list) [STR 1:20, 26]. In the 25 December 1637 Salem division of marsh received three-quarters of an acre, with a household of five [STR 1:102].
In response to a petition, the General Court on 13 May 1640 granted to a "company" of men, including "Geo: Norton," "Jeffryes Creek, and land to erect a village there" [MBCR 1:289].
On 30 January 1643[/4] twelve acres meadow in the Great Meadow at Wenham laid out according to "former grants to Richard Prince Sarah the now wife of Daniell Rumbull in the right of George Norton and John White" [STR 1:181].
On 29 November 1659 administration on the estate of George Norton was granted to his wife, Mary Norton. The inventory of the estate of George Norton was taken 22 September 1659 and totalled £134 11s. 6d., with no real estate included. Freegrace Norton and John Norton, children of George Norton, petitioned for division of the estate, mentioning mother Mary Norton, and listing the children: Freegrace, aged 24; John, aged 22; Nathaniel, aged 20; George, aged 18; Mary, aged 16; Mehittabell, aged 14; Sarah, aged 12; Hannah, aged 10; Abigaill, aged 8; and Ellizabeth, aged 5 [EPR 1:304].
BIRTH: By about 1610 based on estimated date of marriage.
DEATH: Between June 1659 (tavern license) and 22 September 1659 (inventory).
MARRIAGE: By about 1635 Mary ____; she was admitted to Salem church 4 September 1637 [SChR 7]. She married (2) Ipswich 27 February 1659[/60] Philip Fowler (with whom she defended her administration of George's estate, November Term 1665 [EQC 3:285]). (Seversmith dismisses the undocumented claim that she was Mary Machias; he also argues convincingly that the claim that Mary was sister of Bethia Cartwright of Salem derives from a misreading of the will of Bethia [TAG 15:194-95].)
CHILDREN:
i FREEGRACE, b. about 1635; m. Ipswich 3 August 16[58-62] Lydia Spencer.
ii JOHN, bp. Salem 2 October 1637 [SChR 16]; m. Salem 3 April 1660 Mary Sharp.
iii NATHANIEL, bp. Salem 29 May 1639 [SChR 17]; m. by about 1665 Mary Mills, daughter of Richard Mills (eldest child b. about 1665 [TAG 15:197]; Mary Norton, daughter of "Nathanael & Mary, & grandchild of Mr. Mils" who "was in communion in the elder church in Stratford" was bp. in the "younger" church in Stratford on 28 September 1673 [TAG 9:18; see also FOOF 1:411]).
iv GEORGE, bp. Salem 28 March 1641 [SChR 18]; m. (1) Ipswich 7 October 1669 Sarah Hart; m. (2) Windsor 14 June 1683 Mercy (Barber) Gillett [CTVR 52], widow of John Gillett (son of JONATHAN GILLETT) and daughter of Thomas Barber [Manwaring 1:94].
v MARY, b. Gloucester 28 February 1643; m. Ipswich 14 October 1664 Thomas Hart.
vi MEHITABLE, b. about 1645; m. Ipswich 20 December 1664 Samuel Adams.
vii SARAH, bp. Wenham 15 February 1646/7 [Fiske Notebook 49]; m. Ipswich [blank] Feb. 1678 Samuel Hart.
viii HANNAH, b. about 1649; living 1689 [TAG 15:196 (evidence not cited)].
ix ABIGAIL, b. about 1651; prob. m. Andover 30 March 1676 Samuel Martin.
x ELIZABETH, b. about 1654; prob. m. Ipswich 13 November 1676 Josiah Bridges. (She did not marry John Wainwright [TAG 30:18; NEHGR 13:230].)
COMMENTS: In their 17 April 1629 letter to John Endicott, in a section informing him of various settlers being sent over that year, the Massachusetts Bay Company included "one Norton, a carpenter, whom we pray you respect as he shall deserve" [MBCR 1:396]. This has been assumed, with good reason, to be George Norton, since George was later referred to as a carpenter.
George Norton was presented at Salem Court for "lying and subborning witnesses to scandalize the church of Wenham, to pay 20s. for two lies and seven witnesses three days, and to confess before the assembly met at Wenham in the meeting house, as follows: `I do confess and acknowledge that I have sinfully endeavored to justify myself and my turbulent and factious agitations against the just and orderly proceedings of the church against me for my sin in that I have incessantly labored out of the pride of my heart to gather up witnesses of all sorts to testify against the dealing of the church with me seeking thereby to lay a scandal upon the church which cannot but greatly tend to the dishonor of God and the reproach of religion.' Refusing to make this confession, to sit one hour in the stocks" [EQC 1:156]. (The misbehavior of George Norton was the principal matter of church business at Wenham throughout 1648 and 1649 [Fiske Notebook 57-88].)
At November Term 1665, Mary Norton's new husband, Philip Fowler, in her right as administratrix of George Norton's estate, successfully sued Roger Preston for an incompleted lease on John Endicott's farm called "Groton." Norton had leased it for ten years, beginning 1 March 1655/6 for £18 per year, and was to build a strong and sufficient house, "in every way like that of Mr. Tredwell at Ipswich, except Norton was to make catted chimneys instead of brick, and was to leave the house tenantable at the end of the term ... in consideration for which he was to have one year of the rent of the farm free" [EQC 3:286]. Roger Preston had agreed to take over the lease starting 14 March 1659/60, but was reluctant after the death of Norton in 1659.
Savage stated that between his residences at Gloucester and Wenham, George Norton resided briefly at Ipswich, but this was his son of the same name [TAG 15:196].
With regard to the baptism of daughter Mary in Gloucester in 1643, Savage made the peculiar statement "unless this were mistake, as to me seems probable for Henry" [Savage 3:291]. Since the list of children of George Norton does include a daughter Mary of the right age, but no Henry of any age, it is hard to understand what Savage intended here.
In his treatment of George Norton, Herbert F. Seversmith provided baptismal dates for the last two daughters from the Salem church [TAG 15:196]. The dates are correct, but the first of them is for a son John rather than daughter Abigail. These two baptisms, in 1651 for John and 1653 for Elizabeth, are for children of "Mr. Norton," who at this time in Salem would be Francis Norton.
BIBILIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1939 Herbert F. Seversmith compiled a sketch of the life and family of George Norton, along with an examination of Norton's possible English ancestry; Seversmith thought the derivation from the Nortons of Sharpenhoe, Bedfordshire, was unlikely [TAG 15:193-207].

2. 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..."
 		Norton, Elizabeth (I2199)
 
1652 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Great Migration Begins," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"ANDREW WARNER
ORIGIN: Hatfield Broadoak, Essex
MIGRATION: 1633
FIRST RESIDENCE: Cambridge
REMOVES: Hartford 1636, Farmington 1648, Hartford 1650, Hadley 1659
OCCUPATION: Maltster [Goodwin Anc 1:28-29, citing John Pynchon account book].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Cambridge church prior to 14 May 1634 implied by freemanship. Hartford deacon by February 1639[/40] [HaBOP 57].
FREEMAN: 14 May 1634 [MBCR 1:369].
EDUCATION: He signed his will. His inventory included "books" valued at 10s. OFFICES: Committee to prepare inventory of Cambridge lands, 3 February 1634/5 [CaTR 12]; chosen Cambridge selectman, 23 November 1635 [CaTR 14]; hired by town to build fences, 8 February 1635/6 [CaTR 17]; licensed to haul alewives from the weir, and appointed to "see a cartway made to the weir," 23 April 1636 [CaTR 22].
ESTATE: On 4 November 1633 granted one acre for a cowyard in Cambridge [CaTR 6]; on 5 January 1633/4 the town of Cambridge sold to Andrew Warner a parcel of "swamp ground by the Old Field" [CaTR 7]; granted three acres of planting ground in the neck of land, 2 February 1633/4 [CaTR 7]; received a proportional share of five in the undivided meadow ground, 20 August 1635 [CaTR 13]; granted four acres of land, 8 February 1635/6 [CaTR 16].
In the inventory of Cambridge lands, on 4 June 1635, Andrew Warner held seven parcels: one house and about one rood for a backside and a garden in town; one acre in the West End; three acres and a half in the Ox Marsh; half an acre with a house in the Ox Marsh; twelve acres and a half in the Old Field; eighteen acres in the neck; and fifteen acres and a half in the Great Marsh [ CaBOP 11-12]. On 20 December 1636 sold to George Cooke "my dwelling house in Newtowne with the yards, cowhouse, cowyard & my part in the Ox Marsh, and all other parcels of land, meadow, saltmarsh & ox pasture ..." [CaBOP 41-42]. In February 1639[/40] lands recorded to "Andrew Warner Deacon to the Church of Christ there" included: "one parcel on which his dwelling house now standeth with other out houses, yards or gardens ... two acres"; "one parcel lying partly in the south meadow and partly in the oxpasture ... forty-six acres"; "one parcel lying in the south meadow ... three acres"; "one parcel in the forty acres containing ... seven acres more or less"; "one parcel lying in Hockanum ... eleven acres"; "one parcel lying in the little meadow ... one acre and two roods"; "one parcel of woodland ... thirty acres" [HaBOP 57-8]. By February 1639[/40] Andrew Warner sold four acres of land owned by John Sabell to John Beddell [HaBOP 118]. By March of 1648 Andrew Warner had acquired land at Farmington, but in 1650 he sold the land and returned to Hartford [Goodwin Anc 22, citing Farmington LR 2:36, 68]. In the mill rates of 1655-59, Andrew Warner paid moderate sums, showing an upper middle class standing [HaBOP 497]. On 18 November 1659 Andrew Warner sold his "now dwelling house," with his house lot and garden and orchard belonging to it, with "a parcel of upland" [HaBOP 58]. In February 1671[/2] the proportion in the undivided lands in Hartford assigned to Andrew Warner was forty-two acres [HaBOP 549]. In his will, dated 18 June 1681 and proved 31 March 1685, Andrew Warner bequeathed "my loving wife Easter Werner according to a former agreement signed under my hand one hundred pounds to be paid out of my moveable estate"; to "my wife one half of my now dwelling house ..., the use of half the garden plot adjoining ..., the use of half the orchard ..., & the use of half the yards adjoining to the house" during her natural life; to "my son Jacob Werner the one half of my dwelling house and the whole of the said house at his mother's decease with the houselot containing eight acres with all the edifices & buildings thereon"; to "my son Jacob Werner also ten acres of meadow land lying in the great meadow belonging to Hadley viz: my six acre lot of plowing land & four acres of grassland lying in the swamp or Aquevitie commonly so-called," he to maintain his mother for the rest of her life; to "my son Isaack Werner the one-half of my allotment in Hoccanum"; to "my daughter Ruth Werner four acres of meadow in the great meadow abutting against the middle highway"; to "my son Andrew Werner" 10s.; to "my son Robert Werner" 10s.; to "my son John Werner" 10s.; to "my daughter Hills" 10s. and to "my daughter Pratt" 10s.; residue to executors "only paying out five pounds which I give to Mary Taylor the wife of John Taylor"; "my dear wife Easter Werner and my loving son Dan[ie]ll Werner" to be executors [HamPR 1:248-49; Goodwin Anc 1:32-34]. The inventory of the estate of "Andr[ew] Warner Sr. deceased who died December 18, 1684, aged about [88?] years," taken 22 December 1684, totalled £356 11s. 4d., of which £253 was real estate: "4 acres land in Hoccanum," £20; 2 acres & a rood at the burying yard," £5; "house & homestead," £65; "6 acres in the great meadow on the south side of the middle way," £30; "4 acres in the swamp," £32 [given as £8 for all four acres, but this must be the value per acre to produce the final sum given in the right column]; "4 acres in said meadow," £24; "4½ acres in Hoccanum," £20; "one piece of skirts there," £2; and "12 acres of land over the river," £55 [HamPR 1:249]. The inventory of the estate of Esther Warner, dated 11 December 1693, totalled £99 15s. 3d., offset by £9 15s. 03d. in debts [Goodwin Anc 1:35, citing HamPR 3:5].
BIRTH: By about 1599 (based on date of marriage), son of John and Mary (Purchase) Warner [TAG 26:152-53].
DEATH: Hadley 18 December 1684 (from inventory).
MARRIAGE: (1) Thaxted, Essex, 5 October 1624 "Andrew Warner of Hatfield Magna married Mary Humfrey daughter of Robert of Thaxted" [TAG 26:152, 217]; she was baptized at Thaxted 13 February 1602[/3?], and was daughter of Robert and Ann (Holland) Humfrey [TAG 26:217-19]. She died by 1657.
(2) By 1657 Esther (Wakeman) Selden, widow of Thomas Selden (inventory December 1693) and sister of SAMUEL WAKEMAN; she died by 27 September 1693 when Thomas and Joseph Selden [her sons with her first husband] took out administration on her estate [Goodwin Anc 1:35, citing HamPR Box 129, File 9].
CHILDREN: With first wife
i JOHN, b. say 1625; m. Hartford 1649 [day and month not given] Anna Norton [HaVR 608; TAG 27:153-56].
ii MARY, b. say 1626; m. (1) Hartford 22 January 1645/6 John Steele [HaVR 606], son of JOHN STEELE; m. (2) in late 1655 or early 1656 WILLIAM HILLS.
iii ANDREW, b. say 1628; m. Milford 10 October 1653 Rebecca Fletcher, daughter of John Fletcher [Milford VR Barbour].
iv ROBERT, b. say 1630; m. (1) Middletown [blank] February 1654[/5?] Elizabeth Grant [ MidVR Barbour 476]; m. (2) Windsor 2 February 1674[/5] Deliverance (Hayes) Rockwell [CTVR 13].
v HANNAH, b. say 1635; m. by 1655 Daniel Pratt (their child Hannah aged three years 10 May 1658 [WMJ 110, 166]) [Goodwin Anc 1:37].
vi RUTH, b. about 1641 ("Wariner ___ about 16 ye 10 December 1657 [WMJ 369]); living unmarried on 18 June 1681 (date of father's will); perhaps m. John Kellogg [Warner Harrington 705].
vii DANIEL, b. say 1642; m. (1) by 1667 Mary _____ (Daniel Warner two and one quarter years old, son of Daniel Warner of Farmington, 19 May 1669 [WMJ 916]); m. (2) Hatfield 1 April 1674 Martha Boltwood [ Pynchon VR 48]. viii ISAAC, b. about 1644 (aged thirteen and a half 24 April 1658 [WMJ 106]); m. Hadley 31 May 1666 Sarah Boltwood [Pynchon VR 223]. With second wife ix JACOB, b. about 1658 (aged two years 22 July 1660 [WMJ 211]); m. (1) Rebecca _____; m. (2) by 1690 Elizabeth Goodman, daughter of RICHARD GOODMAN.
ASSOCIATIONS: One of the witnesses to the will of Andrew Warner was Mark Warner of Hadley, son of John Warner of Ipswich, Brookfield and Hadley, who was in turn son of William Warner of Ipswich. Both Andrew Warner and William Warner named sons Daniel.
COMMENTS: The record of 3 March 1635/6 which names Andrew Warner one of the Massachusetts Bay commissioners for the new settlements on the Connecticut is an error for ANDREW WARD [MBCR 1:171].
There is no date of death for the first wife of Andrew Warner and no date of marriage to his second wife, but the Winthrop medical records assist us in approximating the second event. Andrew Warner's youngest child, Jacob, was two years old on 22 July 1660 and therefore born about the middle of 1658 [WMJ 211]. Warner's first wife, baptized in 1603, would be far too old to have borne this child, and so Jacob must have been son of Warner's second wife. Beginning in November 1657 and continuing until March of the following year Winthrop treated Andrew Warner's wife (given name not stated) for lack of menstruation [WMJ 56, 63, 68, 79, 90]. Neither the doctor nor the patient thought she was pregnant, but she surely was, given Jacob's approximate date of birth.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1915 Frank Farnsworth Starr compiled an excellent and exhaustive study of Andrew Warner and his family, with much greater detail than is given above on all aspects of his life, including his landholding [Goodwin Anc 1:17-37]." 		Wakeman, Hester (I7917)
 
1653 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Great Migration Begins," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"ANDREW WARNER
ORIGIN: Hatfield Broadoak, Essex
MIGRATION: 1633
FIRST RESIDENCE: Cambridge
REMOVES: Hartford 1636, Farmington 1648, Hartford 1650, Hadley 1659
OCCUPATION: Maltster [Goodwin Anc 1:28-29, citing John Pynchon account book].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Cambridge church prior to 14 May 1634 implied by freemanship. Hartford deacon by February 1639[/40] [HaBOP 57].
FREEMAN: 14 May 1634 [MBCR 1:369].
EDUCATION: He signed his will. His inventory included "books" valued at 10s. OFFICES: Committee to prepare inventory of Cambridge lands, 3 February 1634/5 [CaTR 12]; chosen Cambridge selectman, 23 November 1635 [CaTR 14]; hired by town to build fences, 8 February 1635/6 [CaTR 17]; licensed to haul alewives from the weir, and appointed to "see a cartway made to the weir," 23 April 1636 [CaTR 22].
ESTATE: On 4 November 1633 granted one acre for a cowyard in Cambridge [CaTR 6]; on 5 January 1633/4 the town of Cambridge sold to Andrew Warner a parcel of "swamp ground by the Old Field" [CaTR 7]; granted three acres of planting ground in the neck of land, 2 February 1633/4 [CaTR 7]; received a proportional share of five in the undivided meadow ground, 20 August 1635 [CaTR 13]; granted four acres of land, 8 February 1635/6 [CaTR 16].
In the inventory of Cambridge lands, on 4 June 1635, Andrew Warner held seven parcels: one house and about one rood for a backside and a garden in town; one acre in the West End; three acres and a half in the Ox Marsh; half an acre with a house in the Ox Marsh; twelve acres and a half in the Old Field; eighteen acres in the neck; and fifteen acres and a half in the Great Marsh [ CaBOP 11-12]. On 20 December 1636 sold to George Cooke "my dwelling house in Newtowne with the yards, cowhouse, cowyard & my part in the Ox Marsh, and all other parcels of land, meadow, saltmarsh & ox pasture ..." [CaBOP 41-42]. In February 1639[/40] lands recorded to "Andrew Warner Deacon to the Church of Christ there" included: "one parcel on which his dwelling house now standeth with other out houses, yards or gardens ... two acres"; "one parcel lying partly in the south meadow and partly in the oxpasture ... forty-six acres"; "one parcel lying in the south meadow ... three acres"; "one parcel in the forty acres containing ... seven acres more or less"; "one parcel lying in Hockanum ... eleven acres"; "one parcel lying in the little meadow ... one acre and two roods"; "one parcel of woodland ... thirty acres" [HaBOP 57-8]. By February 1639[/40] Andrew Warner sold four acres of land owned by John Sabell to John Beddell [HaBOP 118]. By March of 1648 Andrew Warner had acquired land at Farmington, but in 1650 he sold the land and returned to Hartford [Goodwin Anc 22, citing Farmington LR 2:36, 68]. In the mill rates of 1655-59, Andrew Warner paid moderate sums, showing an upper middle class standing [HaBOP 497]. On 18 November 1659 Andrew Warner sold his "now dwelling house," with his house lot and garden and orchard belonging to it, with "a parcel of upland" [HaBOP 58]. In February 1671[/2] the proportion in the undivided lands in Hartford assigned to Andrew Warner was forty-two acres [HaBOP 549]. In his will, dated 18 June 1681 and proved 31 March 1685, Andrew Warner bequeathed "my loving wife Easter Werner according to a former agreement signed under my hand one hundred pounds to be paid out of my moveable estate"; to "my wife one half of my now dwelling house ..., the use of half the garden plot adjoining ..., the use of half the orchard ..., & the use of half the yards adjoining to the house" during her natural life; to "my son Jacob Werner the one half of my dwelling house and the whole of the said house at his mother's decease with the houselot containing eight acres with all the edifices & buildings thereon"; to "my son Jacob Werner also ten acres of meadow land lying in the great meadow belonging to Hadley viz: my six acre lot of plowing land & four acres of grassland lying in the swamp or Aquevitie commonly so-called," he to maintain his mother for the rest of her life; to "my son Isaack Werner the one-half of my allotment in Hoccanum"; to "my daughter Ruth Werner four acres of meadow in the great meadow abutting against the middle highway"; to "my son Andrew Werner" 10s.; to "my son Robert Werner" 10s.; to "my son John Werner" 10s.; to "my daughter Hills" 10s. and to "my daughter Pratt" 10s.; residue to executors "only paying out five pounds which I give to Mary Taylor the wife of John Taylor"; "my dear wife Easter Werner and my loving son Dan[ie]ll Werner" to be executors [HamPR 1:248-49; Goodwin Anc 1:32-34]. The inventory of the estate of "Andr[ew] Warner Sr. deceased who died December 18, 1684, aged about [88?] years," taken 22 December 1684, totalled £356 11s. 4d., of which £253 was real estate: "4 acres land in Hoccanum," £20; 2 acres & a rood at the burying yard," £5; "house & homestead," £65; "6 acres in the great meadow on the south side of the middle way," £30; "4 acres in the swamp," £32 [given as £8 for all four acres, but this must be the value per acre to produce the final sum given in the right column]; "4 acres in said meadow," £24; "4½ acres in Hoccanum," £20; "one piece of skirts there," £2; and "12 acres of land over the river," £55 [HamPR 1:249]. The inventory of the estate of Esther Warner, dated 11 December 1693, totalled £99 15s. 3d., offset by £9 15s. 03d. in debts [Goodwin Anc 1:35, citing HamPR 3:5].
BIRTH: By about 1599 (based on date of marriage), son of John and Mary (Purchase) Warner [TAG 26:152-53].
DEATH: Hadley 18 December 1684 (from inventory).
MARRIAGE: (1) Thaxted, Essex, 5 October 1624 "Andrew Warner of Hatfield Magna married Mary Humfrey daughter of Robert of Thaxted" [TAG 26:152, 217]; she was baptized at Thaxted 13 February 1602[/3?], and was daughter of Robert and Ann (Holland) Humfrey [TAG 26:217-19]. She died by 1657.
(2) By 1657 Esther (Wakeman) Selden, widow of Thomas Selden (inventory December 1693) and sister of SAMUEL WAKEMAN; she died by 27 September 1693 when Thomas and Joseph Selden [her sons with her first husband] took out administration on her estate [Goodwin Anc 1:35, citing HamPR Box 129, File 9].
CHILDREN: With first wife
i JOHN, b. say 1625; m. Hartford 1649 [day and month not given] Anna Norton [HaVR 608; TAG 27:153-56].
ii MARY, b. say 1626; m. (1) Hartford 22 January 1645/6 John Steele [HaVR 606], son of JOHN STEELE; m. (2) in late 1655 or early 1656 WILLIAM HILLS.
iii ANDREW, b. say 1628; m. Milford 10 October 1653 Rebecca Fletcher, daughter of John Fletcher [Milford VR Barbour].
iv ROBERT, b. say 1630; m. (1) Middletown [blank] February 1654[/5?] Elizabeth Grant [ MidVR Barbour 476]; m. (2) Windsor 2 February 1674[/5] Deliverance (Hayes) Rockwell [CTVR 13].
v HANNAH, b. say 1635; m. by 1655 Daniel Pratt (their child Hannah aged three years 10 May 1658 [WMJ 110, 166]) [Goodwin Anc 1:37].
vi RUTH, b. about 1641 ("Wariner ___ about 16 ye 10 December 1657 [WMJ 369]); living unmarried on 18 June 1681 (date of father's will); perhaps m. John Kellogg [Warner Harrington 705].
vii DANIEL, b. say 1642; m. (1) by 1667 Mary _____ (Daniel Warner two and one quarter years old, son of Daniel Warner of Farmington, 19 May 1669 [WMJ 916]); m. (2) Hatfield 1 April 1674 Martha Boltwood [ Pynchon VR 48]. viii ISAAC, b. about 1644 (aged thirteen and a half 24 April 1658 [WMJ 106]); m. Hadley 31 May 1666 Sarah Boltwood [Pynchon VR 223]. With second wife ix JACOB, b. about 1658 (aged two years 22 July 1660 [WMJ 211]); m. (1) Rebecca _____; m. (2) by 1690 Elizabeth Goodman, daughter of RICHARD GOODMAN.
ASSOCIATIONS: One of the witnesses to the will of Andrew Warner was Mark Warner of Hadley, son of John Warner of Ipswich, Brookfield and Hadley, who was in turn son of William Warner of Ipswich. Both Andrew Warner and William Warner named sons Daniel.
COMMENTS: The record of 3 March 1635/6 which names Andrew Warner one of the Massachusetts Bay commissioners for the new settlements on the Connecticut is an error for ANDREW WARD [MBCR 1:171].
There is no date of death for the first wife of Andrew Warner and no date of marriage to his second wife, but the Winthrop medical records assist us in approximating the second event. Andrew Warner's youngest child, Jacob, was two years old on 22 July 1660 and therefore born about the middle of 1658 [WMJ 211]. Warner's first wife, baptized in 1603, would be far too old to have borne this child, and so Jacob must have been son of Warner's second wife. Beginning in November 1657 and continuing until March of the following year Winthrop treated Andrew Warner's wife (given name not stated) for lack of menstruation [WMJ 56, 63, 68, 79, 90]. Neither the doctor nor the patient thought she was pregnant, but she surely was, given Jacob's approximate date of birth.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1915 Frank Farnsworth Starr compiled an excellent and exhaustive study of Andrew Warner and his family, with much greater detail than is given above on all aspects of his life, including his landholding [Goodwin Anc 1:17-37]." 		Humfrey, Mary (I7916)
 
1654 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Great Migration Begins," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"Timothy Tomlins
Origin: Unknown
Migration: 1632
First Residence: Cambridge
Removes: Lynn by 1634
Occupation: On 8 September 1636 "Mr. Tymothy Tomlins is licensed to keep a house of entertainment at Saugust" [MBCR 1:180]. In a case before Salem court on 9 July 1645, Timothy Tomlins deposed of William Prichett [Pritchard] that "[m]y wife and I were out of the house, and he drew more wine himself and drank too much" [EQC 1:82].
Church Membership: Admission to a Massachusetts Bay church prior to 4 March 1632/3 implied by freemanship.
Freeman: 4 March 1632/3 [MBCR 1:367].
Education The various tasks assigned Timothy Tomlins by the General Court presuppose some education.
Offices: "Mr. Tymothy Tomlyns" appointed to a committee to oversee the "powder & shot, & all other ammunition, in the several plantations where they live," 3 September 1634 [MBCR 1:125]; committee "to consider of the act of Mr. Endicott, in defacing the colors," 6 May 1635 [MBCR 1:145]; committee to make a colony-wide tax assessment, 8 September 1636, 1 August 1637 [MBCR 1:180, 201]; committee to "settle the bounds between Charistowne, Boston, & Linn," 6 June 1639 [MBCR 1:263]; committee "to set out the nearest, cheapest, safest, & most convenient way between Linn & Winnetsemet," 13 May 1640 [MBCR 1:289].
Deputy from Lynn to General Court, 3 March 1634/5, 8 September 1636, 18 April 1631, 17 May 1637, 26 September 1637, 2 November 1637, 12 March 1637/8, 2 May 1638, 13 March 1638/9, 22 May 1639, 13 May 1640, 7 October 1640 [MBCR 1:135, 178, 192, 194, 204, 205, 220, 227, 250, 256, 288, 301].
Essex jury, 27 June 1636 (foreman), 26 December 1637, 25 January 1641/2 [EQC 1:3, 7, 33]; grand jury, 26 December 1643, 9 July 1644 [EQC 1:57, 62].
Estate: Granted ten acres at Cambridge, on the west side of the river, 4 August 1634 [CaTR 8]. From the evidence of a mutilated entry in the Cambridge land inventory on 1 May 1635, this was the only parcel of land that he held [CaBOP 5].
Received eighty acres in the Lynn land grant of 1638 [EQC 2:270]. (Essex County deeds from 1660 and later refer to land granted to Timothy Tomlins by Lynn [ELR 2:5, 6, 3:43].)
On 28 September 1641, John Winthrop caused a statement to be recorded indicating that any persons claiming part of Long Island without leave from the Earl of Sterling, who held the King's patent, did so illegally. He specifically mentioned that "Edward Tomlins and Timothy Tomlins, together with one Hansard Knowles, clerk, & others, have lately entered and taken possession of some part of the Longe Iland..." and called them intruders [SLR 1:21-22]. The General Court seconded, this warning, directly ordering that "Mr. Edward [Tomlins] & Tymo: Tomlins, with John Poole, were admonished not to go to the Dutch because of scandal & offence" [MBCR 1:337].
Birth: Baptized Todenham, Gloucestershire, 11 January 1606/7, son of Edward and Mary ( ) Tomlins.
Death: Probably by 17 March 1645/6 when Elizabeth (Spencer) Tomlins appears as a widow, but certainly by December 1647 (when Nicolas Batty of Lynn was appointed guardian of the children of William Ballard in place of Timothie Tomlins who had since deceased [TAG 41:111, EQC 1:131]).
Marriage: Probably Elizabeth Spencer, daughter of Gerrard Spencer [TAG 41:109-18].
Child:
i Samuel, named in uncle Samuel's 1661 will [Waters 598].
Associations: Edward Tomlins of Lynn was brother of Timothy. (See sketch of Edward for further discussion of other possible relationships.)
Comments: By analysis of the committee of 3 September 1634 and the list of deputies of 3 March 1634/5, Timothy Tomlins is found to be representing Lynn in both cases.
On 7 March 1636/7 the General Court noted that "Tymothy Tomlins was contented to take only 10s. of John Stretton" [MBCR 1:194]; the details of the matter in dispute are not evident.
In Essex court on various dates between 31 December 1639 and 27 August 1644 as witness, surety or plaintiff [EQC 1:14, 22, 32, 45, 52, 64, 70]."

2. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"Jared Spencer
Origin: Stotfold, Bedford.
Migration: 1634 (based on grant of land at Cambridge on 1 September 1634 [CaTR 10]).
First Residence: Cambridge.
Removes Lynn 1636, Hartford 1660, Haddam 1662...
Associations: Jared Spencer was brother of William Spencer {1631, Cambridge} [GMB 3:1721-25], Thomas Spencer {1633, Cambridge} [GMB 3:1718-21], and Michael Spencer {1634, Cambridge} [TAG 27:84].
Elizabeth, the wife of Timothy Tomlins {1632, Cambridge}, was probably sister of Jared Spencer [TAG 41:109-18; GMB 3:1828-30]..."

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. 141-155:
"The Tomlins Brothers of Early New England and the Linkage with the Spencers of Bedfordshire, England
I. Origins of The Tomlins Family in England
The genealogy of the "Four Spencer Brothers" of Stotfold, county Bedfordshire, England, has been discussed in some detail in earlier publications from the present authors. The "Brothers", all of whom came to New England, were:
William Spencer (1601-1640)
Thomas Spencer (1607-1687)
Michael Spencer (1611-1653)
Gerard Spencer (1614-1683)
The Spencer brothers came to New England in the early 1630s, almost certainly as passengers in the first vessels of the Winthrop Fleet. William Spencer played an important role in the activities of the Massachusetts Bay Company and was a co-founder of both Cambridge (Newe Towne), Massachusetts, and Hartford, Connecticut. Thomas Spencer was a co-founder of Hartford and a veteran of the Pequot War of 1637. Both Michael and Gerard were among the earliest settlers in both Newe Towne and Lynn, Massachusetts.
It is not widely known that the Four Spencer Brothers had a sister, Elizabeth Spencer (b. 1602), who also came to New England, but whose history is shrouded in the dim ages of the past. The absence of any historical statements on Elizabeth is not unexpected because references to the wives of the early pioneers is almost totally lacking. Our only alternative is to study the records of their spouses and from that limited source attempt to visualize the life and experiences of the females in the wilderness of New England.
Elizabeth Spencer was married to Timothy Tomlins (Tomlyns), a member of a large family which was native to county Gloucestershire, England. The identification of the Tomlins family stems largely from the will of Samuel Tomlins "minister of Northaw in the county of Hertford" which was proved 11 October 1661. The Tomlins siblings of Samuel were listed as follows (not in order of birth):
Samuel Tomlins (-1661); m. Sara Washborne
Edward Tomlins (b. ca. 1605 - living in 1661)
Thomas Tomlins
Timothy Tomlins (d. 1645?) m. Elizabeth Spencer (b. 1602)
Ralph Tomlins
Mary Tomlins m. Thomas Willis of Lynn, Mass.
Elizabeth Tomlins; m. Nicholas Byfield
Ingra Tomlins
Benjamin Tomlins (possibly a son of Edward?)
We shall focus only on the three Tomlins siblings: Edward, Timothy, and Mary who came to New England even in advance of the "Great Migration" which dated from 1630 when the first vessels of the Winthrop Fleet put in their appearance at Boston.
From the records of C.E. Banks, Edward Tomlins was listed as a passenger on the "Four Sisters" which sailed from Gravesend on 5 April 1629 bound for Salem. This ship had been preceded in March of the same year by a group of six ships carrying 350 passengers. The surprising feature of this "convoy" was the fact that it preceded the first six vessels of the Winthrop fleet by one year. Although some of the passengers of 1629 remained at Salem, others eventually settled at Charlestown, Boston, Lynn, and Plymouth.
Neither Timothy Tomlins nor Mary Tomlins were identified as passengers on the "Four Sisters". However, only a handful of names actually were known, so there is no means of determining whether more than one of the Tomlins was present on this ship or others in the group.
Timothy and Edward Tomlins both became prominent in the affairs of the Massachusetts Bay Company and its governing arm, the General Court. Both brothers were important citizens of Lynn, one of the towns which came under the jurisdiction of the General Court. Thomas Willis, the husband of Mary Tomlins, also served as a deputy to the General Court.
We know that the parents of the Tomlins siblings, Edward and Mary Tomlins, were natives of co. Gloucester, but whether their children remained there before coming to New England, it is difficult to say. The REV. Samuel Tomlins, whose will we referenced earlier, was living at Northaw, Herts, just south of the area in Bedfordshire which was the home of the five Spencer siblings. Could the two families have been in contact before the emigration? This is a distinct possibility since the historians at Lynn have noted that all the early settlers who came in 1630 were heads of families.
There is something of an anomaly in the religious affiliations of the Tomlins siblings. It is presumed that the Rev. Samuel Tomlins was a Vicar of the Church of England. On the other hand, his brothers Edward and Timothy (and probably sister Mary), had close ties to the Puritans of New England or they would not have been participants in this great adventure. It would be interesting if we knew more about the history of the Tomlins family because of these apparent divergent religious affiliations.
Although the Tomlins seem to have been native to Gloucestershire, we note that C.E. Banks (an authority on the Great Migration) had the residence of Edward Tomlins listed as St. Dunstan-in-the-West, London. St. Dunstan was a famous old church on the north side of Fleet Street, dating from the 13th century. This area later became well known because of the "Old Cheshire Cheese" coffee shop and its relationship to several famous writers of the seventeenth century such as Dr. Johnson, Goldsmith, and Boswell.
II. The Arrival in New England
We note from the "History of Lynn" (Newhall) that fifty male settlers were listed in the influx of 1630 and all were identified as "heads of families". Both Edward and Timothy Tomlins were identified on this list of fifty settlers, as was Thomas Willis, the husband of Mary Tomlins. Newhall gives the distinct impression that these fifty settlers were passengers on one or more of the first eleven vessels of the Winthrop Fleet which reached New England in 1630.
A much different and undoubtedly more accurate record is provided by C.E. Banks who identifies Edward Tomlins as a passenger on one of six ships reaching New England a year in advance of the Winthrop vessels of 1630. These earlier vessels of 1629 did not sail as a unified "convoy", but rather came from several widely scattered ports in England with approximately 350 passengers. The six vessels were Talbot, Lyon's Whelp, Lyon, George Bonaventure, Four Sisters, and the Mayflower. In some cases, specific names of passengers could not be correlated with specific ships. Such was the case with Edward Tomlins.
Thus, it is clear that the arrival of the Tomlins families in New England was quite different from the arrival of the Four Spencer Brothers who almost certainly came with the Winthrop vessels of 1630 or 1631. Edward and Timothy Tomlins most likely spent the first year at Salem and then moved on to Lynn as part of the fifty families which came to Lynn in 1630. The same scenario undoubtedly applied to Thomas Willis, the husband of Mary Tomlins.
One of the striking aspects of the prior arrival of the Tomlins families in advance of the Spencer Brothers is the real possibility that Elizabeth Spencer Tomlins was in New England a year in advance of her brothers that is, 1629 compared to 1630. It seems certain that the Spencer Brothers (at least the two older ones, William and Thomas) could not have come before 1630 when the first vessels of the Winthrop Fleet came to Boston. We know Edward and Timothy Tomlins came in 1629 in advance of the Winthrop Fleet. The historian of Lynn (Newhall) states that all the males who came to Lynn in 1630 were heads of families. In any event, we have a strong probability that Elizabeth Spencer Tomlins arrived in the New World in advance of her brothers and may have been the trigger which launched her male siblings upon the "Great Adventure."
Both Timothy and Edward Tomlins became prominent in the affairs of the Massachusetts Bay Company and in its governing arm, the General Court. Both brothers were important citizens of Lynn, one of the towns which came under the jurisdiction of the General Court.
Savage also noted the presence of Ralph Tomlins in Massachusetts in 1636, but we find no mention of his name in any of the other early records. He was known to be a sibling of Edward and Timothy.
Before concluding the story of the arrival of the Tomlins siblings in New England, we must note that the name of Edward Tomlins appears once again as a passenger on the Susan and Ellen in 1635. His age was noted as 30 years. Also on the same ship was Benjamin Tomlins, age 18. There has been no agreement on the identity of this later Edward Tomlins. Some believe he was a son or a nephew of the Edward Tomlins who came to Salem in 1629 and to Lynn in 1630. Savage states that Edward of Lynn removed to Long Island (as did some other Lynn residents), but returned to Lynn in 1644 and eventually went back to London and thence to Dublin in 1679. The year 1645 may have been a turning point for the Tomlins families in Lynn because this marked the approximate year of Timothy'S death. There is further evidence that Elizabeth Spencer Tomlins returned to England because she was a beneficiary in the will of RichardA Spencer, proved 8 June 1646. (Waters) In this will, Elizabeth Spencer Tomlins was named a co-beneficiary (along with two other female relatives) of a messuage in Grace Church Street, London. Such an arrangement of income from property in England would have seemed unlikely if Elizabeth had remained in New England.
Elizabeth and Timothy Tomlins had one child, Samuel Tomlins, who is mentioned in the will of the Rev. Samuel Tomlins of Northaw, Herts, in 1661.
III. The Beginnings of Lynn, Massachusetts, and the Distribution of Land Allotments.
The beginnings of Lynn, Massachusetts, occurred even before the arrival of the first ships of the Winthrop Fleet at Salem in June of 1630. Indeed, the settlement at Lynn was begun by a handful of settlers from Salem in June of 1629. Unfortunately, the names have not been preserved, but the group was believed to consist of about five heads of families and a total of about 20 persons. We are greatly handicapped by a lack of original records on Lynn since none are known to be extant before the year of 1691.
The year of 1630 represented a milestone in the history of Saugus (Lynn) when the first ships of the Winthrop Fleet arrived at Salem and fifty heads of families decided to settle at Saugus.
The impression is created by Newhall that these fifty families were passengers on the first ships of the Winthrop Fleet which arrived in 1630. As discussed earlier, such was not the case, at least for Edward and Timothy Tomlins, who had come to Salem in 1629, a year ahead of the Winthrop vessels of 1630. No doubt there many others who came to Lynn in 1630 who actually were passengers in the six vessels of 1629 which had no apparent connection with the Winthrop Fleet of 1630.
The identity of the wife of Edward Tomlins never has been ascertained. One historian (Savage) listed another brother, Ralph Tomlins, as present in Massachusetts in 1636, but there is no further information on this individual. The same comment pertains to Benjamin Tomlins who came to New England in 1635.
A review of the history of Saugus (Great Migration Project) reveals a population which was distinct from most of the other towns under the Massachusetts Bay Company. They were a well-to-do class (perhaps wealthy?), each of whom came to New England with one or more male servants. Several of the emigrants carried the designation of "Mr." (Master). Such an appellation represented a class above that of the average "yeoman" who might be addressed as "Goodman" or "Goodwife". Despite a population of upper class individuals at Lynn, it did not seem to result in any sizeable land allotments in the first years of the town. This land policy apparently changed after a half dozen years or so when large landowners appeared on the town list. Thomas Willis, for instance, emerged as an owner of 500 acres, while his brother-in-law Edward Tomlins had 220 acres and Timothy Tomlins had 80 acres. Sometimes the acreage reflected an occupational status, for it was common for artisans (as one example) to have smaller land allotments. The Tomlins were engaged in several business enterprises (such as the corn mill) and hence probably had little need for large acreages of land.
As a first step, the early settlers received grants of a small lot for a house, varying in size from two to fifteen acres. Usually the size was about five acres. In addition, they had a small area of marsh or meadow and some plowland. It was apparent in these early years that the allotments of sizeable acreages were not considered of great value. These patterns of limited land distribution were quite customary in the towns under the control of the Bay Company. Saugus, however, probably was one of the slower towns in increasing land allotments.
Another interesting aspect of the slow development of Saugus was the rate at which heads of families achieved the rank of "Freeman". The MBC elevated 118 heads to "Freeman" on 18 May 1631, of whom only three were from Saugus. "Mr." Edward Tomlins was one these, a clear indication that Edward was one of the leaders in the community of more than fifty families.
Also of significance for the Tomlins family was the choice of two men for Freemanship from Saugus on 4 March 1632. One of these men was Timothy Tomlins. Clearly the Tomlins brothers were at the forefront in the early history of Saugus.
Perhaps the delay in electing Freemen at Saugus was caused by friction within the town church. The congregation was split into opposing factions and the early church was held in disfavor by such powerful figures as John Winthrop at Newe Towne. These difficulties were not resolved until 1636 when a reorganization of the church gave it a new lease on life.
IV. The Chronological History for the Tomlins Brothers and Thomas Willis
Almost the entire bulk of the records on the Tomlins family is to be found in six publications. The most important is the official record of the General Court of the MBC which was compiled by Nathaniel Shurtleff in 1853. The symbol "MBC" will designate this source. The letters "HL" will designate the "History of Lynn" by Lewis and Newhall, 1899. Under the same letters will be records found in the "History of Essex County" by D.H. Hurd, 1888. The letters "NR" will identify "The History of Cambridge" by L.R. Paige or "The Records of Cambridge 1630-1703" published in 1901. The letters "GMP" will identify the "Great Migration Project", a special study sponsored by the New England Historic Genealogical Society (Boston) since 1990.
1629-HL: A small group of men from Naumkeag (Salem) establish a settlement at Saugus (Lynn). This was three years after the settlement at Salem and one year before the arrival of the first Winthrop vessels at Boston.
1630-HL: Fifty new families appear at Saugus (there apparently were no unmarried males). Among the fifty heads of families were Edward and Timothy Tomlins and Thomas Willis.
18 May 1631-MBC: Mr. Edward Tomlins made a Freeman this date. (This clearly implied that Edward had achieved membership in the Puritan Church. He was a carpenter and built the first mill at Lynn in 1633. Of the 188 Freemen elevated this date, only three were from Saugus.)
4 March 1632-MBC: Timothy Tomlins was elevated to Freeman on the same date as William Spencer (at Newe Towne), but one year after his brother Edward had been made a Freeman.
14 May 1632-MBC: Mr. Edward Tomlins and John Sanford "are intreated by the Court to take notice of the ordnances, powder and shott, and to make reports to the next Court in what condition they are in." (This is the second mention of Edward Tomlins in the records of the General Court of the MBC).
12 July 1633-HL: The inhabitants at Lynn grant Mr. Edward Tomlins the privilege to build a corn mill at the mouth of the stream which flows from the Flax Pond. (Originally this pond was known as "Tomlins Pond". Of historical interest is the fact that the "Walden Pond" made famous by Thoreau is barely a stone's throw west of Tomlins Pond).
4 March 1634-MBC: The General Court meets at Boston. The Deputies who were present included William Spencer (for Newe Towne), John Spencer (for Ipswich), and Timothy Tomlins (for Lynn). Captain Mason was present who became the leader of the militia in the Pequot War of 1637. (This is the first mention of Timothy Tomlins in the records of the General Court of MBC).
14 May 1634-MBC: The General Court meets at Boston. Mr. Willis listed as present. (This is the first mention of Thomas Willis, the husband of Mary Tomlins Willis).
4 August 1634-NR Timothy Tomlins was granted ten acres of land on the west side of the River at Newe Towne. (The question arises as to how this entry can be reconciled with the presence of Timothy at Lynn dating from the year 1630. Newhall states that "Timothy was one of the first proprietors at Newe Towne, but he did not reside there." If this statement is true, could it mean that Timothy simply saw an opportunity to acquire land at Newe Towne and preserve it for possible future usage? Such an acquisition would have been contrary to the prescribed rules in the Bay towns, all of which had locked in the system of certain privileges reserved for the original settlers. However, Timothy Tomlins had visited Newe Towne earlier that year to attend the meeting of the General Court and no doubt was well acquainted with the established rules. Also, his brother-in-law, William Spencer, was a prominent figure in the circles of Newe Towne and might have used his influence on behalf of Timothy. There is no easy means of determining why Timothy possibly could have been a landowner at Newe Towne.
There is one aspect of the relationships between the Spencer and Tomlins families which should not be overlooked. This is the removal of the two younger Spencer brothers (Michael and Gerard) to Lynn from Newe Towne after several years at the latter location. It would seem highly probable that the presence of the Tomlins siblings at Lynn, as well as the presence of Elizabeth Spencer Tomlins, was the magnet which drew the Spencer brothers to the same location. These families also had the advantage of close communications due to the frequent visits of both Edward and Timothy Tomlins as deputies to the meetings of the General Court both at Newe Towne and at Boston.
3 September 1634-MBC: Timothy Tomlins was appointed as overseer of the powder and shot and all other ammunition in the Saugus plantation. (The appointment of Timothy was similar to other appointments made for each of the towns under the Bay Company).
On this same date, the Court issued the following directive: "It is ordered that Mr. Edward Tomlins, or any other put in place by the commissioners for war, shall have power to press men and carts, for ordering wages, to help towards the making of such carriages and wheels as are wanting for ordnances."
These two appointments for the Tomlins brothers indicate they were very much involved in the defensive arrangements for Saugus in the period leading up to the Pequot War of 1637.
6 May 1635-MBQ: Timothy Tomlins, along with eleven other committee members, (including William Spencer of Newe Towne) was appointed "to consider the act of Mr. Endicott in defacing the colonies (?) and to report to the Court how far they judge it to be censureable." (This seems comparable to the establishment of a grand jury for investigative purposes).
2 September 1635-MBC: The General Court meets at Newe Towne. Edward Tomlins is listed as a Deputy from Lynn. (This is the first mention of Edward as a Deputy to the General Court. He had been preceded by his brother Timothy in March of 1634 and his brother-in-law Thomas Willis in May of 1634).
March 1636-HL: Timothy Tomlins was licensed as a retailer at Lynn "to draw wine for the town of Saugus." He also was licensed to "keep a house of entertainment." (The latter item probably should be interpreted to mean "tavern" or "bar").
7 June 1636-MBC: Timothy Tomlins, along with William Spencer and Joseph Andrews, was placed on a committee to examine debts of persons as well as debts of the country.
8 September 1636-MBC: The General Court meets at Boston. There were 30 Deputies in attendance, including Mr. Timothy Tomlins (Lynn), Mr. William Spencer (Newe Towne), and Mr. JohnSpencer (Ipswich).
Undated 1637-HL: "Jarrett" Spencer settles at Lynn.
18 April 1637-BBC: The General Court meets at Boston, including LEIFT. Spencer and Timothy Tomlins. This was a special meeting for prosecuting the war against the Pequot Indians. All towns were assigned quotas of men for war service to make up a total of 160 in the Bay militia.
17 May 1637-MBC: The General Court was held at Newe Towne. Among the 32 Deputies were Timothy Tomlins and Mr. William Spencer. Further instructions for the Pequot War included the designation of Sgt. Tomlins (Timothy) as "canonere". (Probably signifies "chief of artillery").
August 1637-MBC: The General Court sets levies against 13 towns amounting to a total of 400 pounds. Representatives from the various towns agree to the local rates. Mr. Timothy Tomlins represented Saugus.
26 September 1637-MBC: The General Court meets at Newe Towne. Among the 27 Deputies were Timothy Tomlins and William Spencer. The Court orders a day of public thanksgiving for the successful campaign against the Pequots.
2 November 1637-MBC: The General Court meets at Newe Towne. Among the 31 Deputies was Timothy Tomlins. (There was no mention of any representation from the Spencer family).
20 November 1637-HL: The name of "Saugus" was changed to "Lynn".
Undated 1638-HL: "The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts" was organized. This was a forerunner of the local militia in America. The origin of the AHACM dates back to the reign of Henry VIII (1509-1547) in England. Six men from Lynn were among the first members, including Edward Tomlins. (Timothy Tomlins was not on the list of 1638).
March 1638-HL: At Lynn, a committee which had been appointed to divide the lands, completed their task. The allotments had a wide range, but usually were 30 to 60 acres. Only a small number of men exceeded 100 acres and several were as low as 10 acres.
One of the three largest landowners was Thomas Willis who had 500 acres. Edward Tomlins had 220 acres, while Timothy Tomlins had 80 acres.
The Spencer brothers, Michael and "Jarrett," each 30 acres. Here we see that the Tomlins families were several notches above the Spencer brothers in respect to land ownership at Lynn. I seems certain that this is a reflection of the fact that the Tomlins brothers would have been considered original proprietors and hence eligible for higher allotments than the Spencer brothers who had come on the scene at Lynn a few years after the original settlement. Actually, it is somewhat surprising that the Tomlins brothers had any substantial acreage allotted to them due to the fact that they were involved in several commercial enterprises rather than being restricted to "tillers of the soil". Their business interests included milling, liquor sales, and participation in the fishing industry at nearby Nahant.
12 March 1638-MBC: The General Court meets at Newe Towne. Thirty Deputies present, including Mr. William Spencer and Mr. Timothy Tomlins. At this meeting the Court ordered that all towns under its jurisdiction compile a compendium of local laws. The central committee of seven members, including Mr. William Spencer, was to make a summary of these laws "adding yet to the same or detracting therefrom and present a report to the Court."
2 May 1638-MBC: The General Court meets at Newe Towne. Among the 32 Deputies was Timothy Tomlins. (There was no mention of William Spencer as a Deputy, although the Court approved a grant of 300 acres to William along the Alewife River near Concord).
13 March 1639-MBC: The General Court meets at Boston. Among the 33 Deputies was Timothy Tomlins. (Although William Spencer was not listed as a Deputy, he was named along with three others to be members of "The Military Company of Massachusetts").
13 May 1639-HL: A committee of three, including Timothy Tomlins, was appointed to lay out the nearest, cheapest, safest way between Lynn and the Winnismet ferry.
Also, Timothy Tomlins and William Hathorne, who had been appointed to lay out the bounds of Lynn. made a report that they had fixed the bounds at the Charlestowne line, Reading Pond, the Ipswich River, and Salem.
Undated 1640-NR: Edward Tomlins reportedly removed to Long Island, but soon returned to Lynn. Presumably he returned to England in 1644. (As noted previously, there is a possibility that there were two Edward Tomlins, one being a son or nephew of the earlier Edward at Lynn. There has been no confirmation of this hypothesis). (There was also a report that Edward Tomlins was in Dublin in 1679).
September 1640-HL: At the September Court in Salem, John Pickering was found guilty in a defamation suit brought by Timothy Tomlins and ordered to pay damages.
1 June 1641-HL: Edward Tomlins at Lynn, having been arraigned for expressing opinions against singing in the churches, was discharged, he having retracted.
June 1642-HL: Mr. Edward Tomlins at Lynn "was appointed by the Court as a Commissioner to treat with the Indians." He also was appointed Clerk of Writs.
Undated 1644-HL: Edward Tomlins was a Deputy to the General Court. (This is the last record of the Tomlins brothers in the History of Lynn. From the probate records in England, it appears that Timothy Tomlin had died in 1645. Elizabeth Spencer Tomlins was listed as a widow and beneficiary in the will of RichardA Spencer, proved 8 June 1646. Elizabeth was designated as a co-beneficiary with the Bland sisters for income from certain properties located in London. This bequest carries the implication that Elizabeth may have returned to England after the death of her husband, Timothy Tomlins).
V. The Significance of the Chronological Record for the Tomlins Siblings and their Spencer Relatives.
The genealogy of the "Four Spencer Brothers" of county Bedfordshire, England, who came to New England in the early 1600s, was extensively documented a half century ago in The American Genealogist by Donald Lines Jacobus. However, little information was available on their sister, Elizabeth1 Spencer (1602-), who also was an early New England settler along with her husband, Timothy Tomlins. This gap in the records on Elizabeth can be remedied to some degree by looking at the history of Timothy Tomlins and his brother, Edward Tomlins.
Fortunately for the historian-genealogist, the Tomlins brothers were prominent leaders in their community of Lynn (Saugus), Massachusetts, just as the Spencer brothers were among the leaders in Newe Towne (Cambridge), Massachusetts, and Hartford and East Haddam, Connecticut.
We can make an assessment of the roles played by the Tomlins brothers largely by their participation in the activities of the governing body of the Massachusetts Bay Company, that is the General Court. During the early years of the Commonwealth, this Court exercised all the legislative executive, and judicial functions for at least thirteen towns under their control. The members of the original Court were known as "Assistants", but later they were aided in their deliberations by representatives (Deputies) from each town in the Commonwealth, usually being limited to two persons.
Neither the Tomlins or the Spencer brothers attained the rank of an Assistant on the Court, but on the other hand, during the decade of the 1630s, both families had members who were constantly present as Deputies at countless meetings in both Newe Towne (Cambridge) and Boston. Consequently, their lives were closely intertwined in apolitical as well as a family sense. One of the results of this close relationship probably was the eventual settlement of two of the younger Spencer brothers (Michael and Gerard) at Lynn after living their earliest years at Newe Towne.
Recently, the "Great Migration Project" of the New England Historic Genealogical Society has described the early settlers at Lynn as being mostly of the wealthy class, with one or several male servants, in contrast to so many settlers in other towns in the Bay area who were predominantly of the yeoman class largely oriented to agricultural pursuits.
It is quite apparent that the Tomlins brothers at Lynn did not fit into the yeoman class. Edward Tomlins was a carpenter and built an early mill at Lynn, perhaps the first in that area. Timothy, on the other hand, seemed adept at a variety of enterprises. He had an early liquor (wine) license at Lynn and also was authorized to operate a "house of entertainment" (tavern?).
In addition to their commercial interests, both Tomlins brothers were very active participants in the military defense of the settlements. The decade of the 1630s was characterized by intensive conflicts with the Indians, highlighted by the Pequot War of 1637. Timothy Tomlins was especially prominent in his capacity as "overseer" of the ordnance at Lynn and in his capacity as "canonere". It does not appear that either of the Tomlins brothers actually served in an active field capacity against the Indians (as did Sgt. Thomas Spencer), but rather might be considered as "quartermasters" in modern military terminology. Not only were they keepers of the ordnance, but also they were active in a production capacity related to "carriages and wheels" for military operations. The fact that Edward Tomlins in 1638 became a charter member of the "Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts" (as did William Spencer) is an indication of the esteem in which he was held by the General Court of the Bay Company.
Finally, what was the fate of the Tomlins brothers and especially of Elizabeth Spencer Tomlins? We need a great deal more research both in America and in England to elucidate an answer. We do know that Timothy Tomlins died at a relatively young age, probably in his mid-forties at Lynn in 1645. In this respect, his life was similar to that of his brother-in-law, William Spencer, who died at Hartford in 1640, barely 39 years of age. As we noted earlier, there is some evidence that Elizabeth Spencer Tomlins returned to England after the death of her husband. Elizabeth and Timothy Tomlins were known to have had a son, Samuel Tomlins, of whom nothing further is found in the records.
As for Edward Tomlins, it seems certain that he was still living in 1661 when the will of his brother, Samuel Tomlins, was proved on 11 October 1661 in county Hertfordshire, England. Not only was Edward named as a beneficiary, but the same was true for Samuel Tomlins, the son of Timothy and Elizabeth Spencer Tomlins. Just where Edward Tomlins was living at this stage in his life is a matter of conjecture. The last record of Edward at Lynn was in 1644 when he was chosen as a Deputy to the General Court of the Commmonwealth. Since there is no further mention of Edward Tomlins in the history of Lynn, it would be reasonable to expect that Edward, like his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Spencer Tomlins and her son Samuel, may all have returned to England. Some of the historians (such as Paige) believed that Edward Tomlins was living in Dublin in 1679.
As a final note, we do find a mention of a widow of Thomas Tomlins at Hartford in 1685 in the records of "Distribution of Lands". Elizabeth Tomlins had married a second time to John Large. Exactly how Thomas Tomlins was related to Edward and Timothy is unknown, although the earlier brothers at Lynn did have a sibling named Thomas. On the other hand, perhaps the Thomas Tomlins of Hartford was of the second generation. The exact relationship may not be known until much more research is done on the surname of Tomlins.
References:
Banks, C.E. "The Planters of the Commonwealth". Gen. Publ. Co., Baltimore, 1979.
Hurd, D. Hamilton (Editor). "History of Essex County, Massachusetts". Chap. XIII, "Lynn", by James R. Newhall, 1888.
Jacobus, Donald Lines. "The Four Spencer Brothers, Their Ancestors and Descendants". The American Genealogist. Beginning Vol. 27, No. 106, April 1951. Vol. 27-30. 1951-1954. (96 pp.).
Lewis, A. & J.R. Newhall "History of Lynn, Essex County, Mass., including Lynnfield, Saugus, Swampscott, and Nahant, 1629-1864". Publ. at Lynn by G.C. Herbert, 1899.
McCracken, George E. "Tomlyns, Willis, and Byfield - Elizabeth Spencer's Tomlyn Relatives". The American Genealogist, Vol.144, No. 1, Jan. 1965.
Newhall, J.R. "History of Lynn, 1864-1890". Publ. at Lynn by George C. Herbert, 1890.
Paige, L.R. "History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877". Cambridge University Press, 1877.
Savage, James. "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England". Four Vol., Gen. Publ. Co., Baltimore, 1990.
Shurtleff, N.B. (Editor). "Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England". Six Vol., Boston, 1853. Vol. I: 1628-1641.
Spencer, Jack T., Edith W. Spencer, Virgil Spencer. "A Comparative Analysis of Genealogical Records for Ancestors of the Four Spencer Brothers in England". Le Despencer, Jour. of Spencer Hist. Gen. Soc. Vol. 17, 1993.
Waters, Henry F. "Genealogical Gleanings in England". Two Vol. 1907. Reprint Gen. Publ. Co. of Baltimore, 1981.
"Great Migration Newsletter. "Focus on Lynn", New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1990.
"Original Distribution of the Lands in Hartford (Conn.) Among the Settlers, 1639". Conn. Hist. Soc. Collections, Vol. XIV, 1912."

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, partial excerpts concerning Timothy Tomlins from pp. 115-133 (see one of the four Spencer brothers for the full transcript and references):
"The Four Spencer Brothers of Bedfordshire in the Earliest Records of New England.
I. The Beginnings of the Massachusetts Bay Company.
The voluminous records of the Massachusetts Bay Company (six volumes) were commenced in England in 1628. After the arrival at Boston of the first six ships of the Winthrop Fleet in the summer of 1630, the records were maintained either at Boston or at Newe Towne (Cambridge). Weshall review all the entries for the decade from 1630 to 1640 because this is the period in which the Four Spencer Brothers (William, Thomas, Michael, and Gerard) first lived at Newe Towne in Massachusetts. Their sister Elizabeth, who was married to Timothy Tomlins, probably also spent some early years at Newe Towne since we believe Timothy was a resident there when he first went to New England...
II. The Chronological Records
The entire data found in the records of the General Court of the MBC as well as those kept for Newe Towne (and the Proprietors' Records) will be given in chronological order. The following abbreviations will be used:
MBC: Records of the General Court of the MBC.
NR: Newe Towne (Cambridge) Records, including those known as the "Proprietors' Records".
HL: The History of Lynn (generally by Lewis & Newhall).
4 March 1634-MBC: General Court meets at Boston. William Spencer (Newe Towne), John Spencer (Ipswich), and Timothy Tomlins (Lynn). John Spencer legally elected as "Deputy" from Ipswich. Capt. Mason present (probably the leader of the militia in the Pequot War of 1637).
6 May 1635-MBC: Mr. Spencer and Timothy Tomlins on a committee of thirteen (Jury?) "to consider the act of Mr. Endicott, in defacing the col's (colony?) and to report to the Court how far they consider it censureable." (It seems likely that Mr. Endicott had sent an unfavorable letter to England regarding the governance of the MBC).
2 September 1635-MBC: General Court meets at Newe Towne. There were 28 Deputies (Townsmen) present, including Mr. John Spencer (Ipswich) and Edward Tomlins (Lynn).
8 September 1636-MBC: General Court meets at Boston. Thirty "Deputies" (Townsmen) in attendance, including Mr. William Spencer (Newe Towne), Mr. John Spencer (Ipswich) and Mr. Tymothy Tomlins (Lynn).
18 April 1637-MBC: General Court meets at Boston. Thirty one Deputies were in attendance, including Leift. Spencer and Timothy Tomlins. This was a special meeting for prosecuting the war against the "Pecoits". One hundred and sixty men were to serve from all the towns, including 9 from Newe Towne, 17 from Ipswich, 8 from Newbury. Boston was listed for 26. The Court provided funds for an expedition.
17 May 1637-MBC: General Court meets at Newe Towne. Thirty two Deputies present, including Mr. William Spencer and Timothy Tomlins. Mr. John Spencer is discharged from being Captain at Newbury and Edward Bodman (?) is chosen Leiftenant at Newbury.
The Court assesses 400 pounds in taxes from 13 towns. Several representatives from the towns agree to a local tax rate, including Mr. Tymothy Tomlins (for Saugus).
27 September 1637-MBC: The General Court meets at Newe Towne. Twenty seven Deputies present, including William Spencer and Tymothy Tomlins. A day of public thanksgiving was ordered for the subduing of the "Pecoits".
2 November 1637-MBC: The General Court meets at Newe Towne. Thirty one Deputies present, including Tymothy Tomlins. There was no mention of a Spencer being present.
1638
March 1638-HL: At Lynn, a committee appointed to divide the lands completed their task. The allotments had a wide range, but usually were 30 to 60 acres. Only a small number of men exceeded 100 acres and several were as low as 10 acres.
One of the three largest landowners was Thomas Willis, husband of Mary Tomlins, who had 500 acres. Edward Tomlins had 220 acres. Timothy Tomlins had 80 acres.
The Spencer brothers, Michael1 and "Jarrett"1, each had 30 acres. Here we see that the Tomlins families were several notches above the Spencer brothers in respect to land ownership. Also, it is clear that the Tomlins brothers were very active in several commercial enterprises including liquor sales, milling, and the fishing industry.
12 March 1638-MBC: The General Court was held at Newe Towne. Thirty Deputies were present, including Mr. William Spencer and Mr. Tymothy Tomlins. At this meeting, the Court ordered that all towns under its jurisdiction compile a compendium of local laws. The central committee of seven members, including Mr. William Spencer, was to make a summary of these laws "adding yet to the same or detracting therefrom" and to present a report to the Court."

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, 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."

6. 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
"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..."
 		Tomlins, Timothy (I4515)
 
1655 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Great Migration Begins," II:770-72, by Robert Charles Anderson:
"Nathan Gillett
Origin: Chaffcombe, Somersetshire Migration: 1633 First Residence: Dorchester Removes: Windsor 1636 Church Membership: Admission to Dorchester church prior to 14 May 1634 implied by freemanship. Freeman: 14 May 1634 [MBCR 1:369]. In list of Windsor freemen, 11 October 1669 [CCCR 2:519]. Offices: Served in Pequot War, 1637 [CCCR 2:161]. Estate: In the grant of meadows beyond Neponset in Dorchester, "N. Gillet" held Lot #33, four acres [DTR 321]. (A grant of two acres of marsh on 27 June 1636 to "Jellets" may have been to Nathan as well as to Jonathan [DTR 17].) Granted fifty acres by Connecticut court for service in Pequot War, 12 October 1671 [CCCR 2:161, 251, 288]. In the Windsor land inventory in January 1640 Nathan Gillett held five parcels: a homestead of five acres (annotated "sold to his brother Jonathan"); three and a half acres in the Little Neck (annotated "sold to Mr. Warham"); "in meadow and upland adjoining in the second meadow twenty[?] acres more or less" (annotated "sold to Robart Hayward"); "in Long Meadow three acres more or less and adjoining to it two acres" (annotated "sold to J. Enows"); and "over the Great River begins one hundred sixty rods back & then is in breadth eleven rods, in length two miles and half" (annotated "this is now Owen Tudor's"). This list was amended 5 June 1660 to include "fifteen acres of land" granted to Nathan Gillet [WiLR 1:36]. On 31 May 1678 Nathan "Gillit" and John Moses came to an agreement allowing John Moses three rods of Gillett's land. "Elias Gillit and John Mosses Junior, both sons to the aged men above written, to perfect and settle the line," also agreed to the line as it was run [SimsLR 1«:109]. In an undated deed "Nathan Gillit of Windsor who is deceased did give unto his son Elias Gillit his heirs and assigns forever and ordered me so to record it to him and them ... as attest Jno Slater, Register" [SimsLR 1«:142]. The same John Slater noted that the record of "Nathan Gillit Senior's" land laid out in 1672 or 1673, being approximately eighty-six acres, was re-recorded in the town records, the original "being burnt" [SimsLR 1«:142]. "In the year 1687 or 88 Nathan Gillit of Windsor ... being disposed before his death to dispose of his land did in his lifetime make distribution to his children of said meadow lot in the township of Simsbury to each his proportion being personally himself present ... and is as followeth: "First to his son Elias being the eldest son living" three acres and three rood at Weatoug; to "Nathan Gillit Junior" one part of "Nathan Gillit Senior's" meadow in Simsbury; and to "Thomas Wapples of Hartford" Nathan being "his wife's father" meadow in Weatoug being approximately eleven acres and three roods [SimsLR 1«:143]. On 18 April 1688 "Nathan Gillyt senor of Windsor" deeded to "Nicholas Gozard of the town of Simsbury ... my son-in-law ... and husband to my daughter Elizabeth" fourteen acres of meadow. But Nathan died before signing the deed and "Elyas Gillit being the eldest son to my father that is now living" honored the deed to Gozzard 26 May 1692 [SimsLR 1-1/2:96-97]. On 19 April 1688 "Nathan Gillit Senr of Windsor" deeded to "Eliez[e]r Hill of the town of Simsbury ... husband to my daughter Sarah" a parcel of land, part upland, part meadow in Simsbury on the east side of the river. Elias confirmed this under the same conditions as the Gozzard deed [SimsLR 1«:125]. Birth: By about 1613 based on date of freemanship, son of Rev. William Gillett of Chaffcombe, Somersetshire. Death: Windsor 15 September 1689 [CTVR 57]. Marriage: By 1639 ____ ____. She was "above fifty years" old on 30 May 1667 [TAG 23:126, citing WMJ 730] and died at Windsor 21 February 1670/1 [WiVR]. Children (all born or baptized Windsor [Grant 40]):
i Elizabeth, b. 6 October 1639; m. by about 1672 Nicholas Gozzard (eldest child aged twenty-one in 1693 [Manwaring 1:453; TAG 56:130])
ii Abiah, b. 22 August 1641; m. (1) Windsor 3 December 1663 Isaiah Bartlett [Grant 28]; m. (2) Windsor 15 July 1669 John Slater [CTVR 12]
iii Child, d. Windsor 1646 [Grant 81] (probably a son since Elias is often called "the eldest son now living").
iv Rebecca, b. 14 June 1646; d. Windsor 13 July 1655 [Grant 81; CTVR 43].
v Elias, bp. 1 July 1649; m. (1) Simsbury 29 October 1676 Sarah Griffin [SimsVR Barbour 60], daughter of John Griffin; m. (2) between 1694 and 1699 Rebecca (Kelsey) Messenger, widow of Nathaniel Messenger and daughter of Mark Kelsey.
vi Sarah, b. 13 July 1651; m. Simsbury 29 December 1679 Eleazer Hill [SimsVR Barbour 61].
vii Benjamin, b. 29 August 1653; d. Windsor 13 July 1655 [Grant 81; CTVR 43].
viii Nathan, b. 17 August 1655; m. Windsor 30 June 1692 Rebecca Owen [WiVR Barbour 119], daughter of John Owen. (Stiles erred in giving him his nephew's wife in a second marriage [TAG 56:133].)
ix Rebecca, b. 8 December 1657; m. by 1684 Thomas Whaples [TAG 56:134, citing SimsLR 1«:109].
Associations: Jonathan Gillett was his brother. In his will of 1641 Rev. William Gillett, Rector of Chaffcombe, Somersetshire, made note of "land which my son Nathan made over to me by letter of attorney" [NYGBR 41:282-83]. Comments: In his 17 August 1677 accounting of "what children has been born in Windsor from our beginning hither," Matthew Grant says that Nathan Gillett had eight children, which apparently does not take into account the unnamed child who died in 1646 [Grant 91]. Although Nathan Gillett was an original grantee of land at Simsbury, and several of his children resided there, Nathan himself apparently never moved to Simsbury. Bibliographic Note: In addition to the many items listed under Jonathan Gillett, we are greatly aided with the family of Nathan Gillett by an article by George E. McCracken, "Nathan Gillett's Earlier Descendants" [TAG 56:129-40].
Sources:
DTR: Fourth Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston. 1880. Dorchester Town Records (Boston 1883).
TAG: The American Genealogist, Volume 9 to present (1932+).
Grant: "Matthew Grant Record, 1639-1681" in Some Early Records and Documents of and Relating to the Town of Windsor, Connecticut, 1639-1703 (Hartford 1930).
WiVR: Windsor Vital Records, typescript, Connecticut State Library (1918-29).
SimsVR Barbour: Simsbury Vital Records, Barbour Collection, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut.
CCCR: The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1776, 15 volumes (Hartford 1850-1890).
CTVR: Births Marriages and Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor and Fairfield and Entered in the Early Land Records of the Colony of Connecticut..., Edwin Stanley Welles, ed. (Hartford 1898).
Manwaring: A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Volume One, Hartford Probate District, 1635-1700, Charles William Manwaring, comp. (Hartford 1904).
RPCC: Records of the Particular Court of Connecticut, 1639-1663, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, Volume 22 (Hartford 1928; rpt. Bowie, Maryland, 1987).
WiLR: Windsor, Connecticut, Deeds (microfilm of original at Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut).
WMJ: Medical Journals of John Winthrop Jr., 1657-1669, manuscript, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
SimsLR: Simsbury, Connecticut, Deeds.
MBCR: Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., 5 volumes in 6 (Boston 1853-1854)."

2. "The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography": Entry for Clarence Preston Gillette, pg. 407: "The Gillette family in the United States is descended from two brothers, Nathan and Jonathan Gillet, of Devonshire, England, sons of Huguenot parents who fled from their home near Burge, France, to Scotland, in 1572. The sons sailed for America in 1630 in the ship 'Mary and John' with a company of 140 emigrants, and settled at Dorchester, Mass. They removed, to Windsor, Conn., in 1636, where their descendants remained for several generations."

3. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 297:
"Nathan (bro. of Jonathan), adm. freeman in Dorchester, 1634; came to Windsor, 1635; sold his place at Windsor (see p. 157, Vol. I) to his brother Jonathan, after whose death, 1677, it passed to his son, Jeremy, 1680; ret. to Simsbury, where he had 75 acres of land granted for services during Pequot War (Col. Records); his wife died at Simsbury, 21 Feb 1670. Children (Old Church Records)):
a. Elizabeth, b. 6 Oct 1639.
b. Abia, b. 33 Aug 1641.
c. Rebecca, b. 14 Jun 1646; d. 13 Jul 1655. - Col. Rec.
d. Elias, bp. 1 Jul 1649.
e. Sarah, bp. 13 Jul 1651.
f. Benjamin, b. 29 Aug 1653; d. 13 Jul 1655. - Col. Rec.
g. Nathan, b. 17 Aug 1655. - Col. Rec.
h. Rebecca, b. 8 Dec 1657.
(Had a ch. d. 1646. - O.C.R.)"

4. Excerpts from the book "The Filleys: 350 Years of American Entrepreneurial Spirit," by Donald G. Southerton, 2005:
"...by March of 1663, Windsor inhabitants... expanded west to unclaimed Massacoe, later named Simsbury. Although this section was never part of Windsor's town limits, the settlers had always considered it as belonging to the plantation. In 1647, the colony's General Court officially endorsed their claim: 'The Court thinks fit that Massacoe be purchased (possibly from the American Indians) by the county, and that there be a committee chosen to dispose of it to such inhabitants of Windsor.' A town committee of Windsor settlers interested in moving to Simsbury was formed to lay out lots in the new territory. The settlers met on Oct. 5, 1668, at the home of a local leader, John Moore, in Windsor. The committee agreed that by the first of May 1669, the settlers would have to fence in their respective properties. Furthermore, they agreed that failure to do so would result in a fine of 5 pounds.
25 people agreed to take land in quantities from 40 to 80 acres. The committee specified that those who took up the land were to make improvements by plowing, fencing, and constructing buildings. They also had to live on the land for two years. The costs to individual settlers for the Massacoe land grants are not known, but it was thought by local historians that the land fee probably consisted of only the expense incurred by the committee. These costs were kept minimal, usually just the administrative and land survey expenses. Any grantee not complying with the terms forfeited his land, usually to other inhabitants. Samuel Filley moved to Massacoe, along with his father-in-law, John Gillett, and his brother Nathan Gillett.
Readily available land provided a powerful motivation for the Windsor settlers. Furthermore, a three year tax abatement encouraged settlement in this area. The land, having already been 'conveniently' cleared by an earlier American Indian Tribe, required little labor to prepare it for cultivation.
Windsor records show that in 1669 Samuel was a freeman living in Massacoe, but there is no record of him having a land title. Perhaps he did not stay the two years required to finalize the land grant. It was a hard place to live with the settlement located near two rivers, and no roads, no bridges, and no market for its produce. It also lacked protection on two sides, making it vulnerable to an American Indian attack. Sometime in the 1670s, these economic and personal safety issues led many, including Samuel and his family, to return to their Windsor homes. Soon after this, the General Court in Hartford renamed Massacoe, as Simsbury."

5. 20 Mar 2008 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bart/Gillet.htm:
"Nathan Gillet born ca. 1608(?) probably in Chaffcombe, Somerset, married by 1639 (name of wife unknown), died 15 Sept. 1689 in Windsor, CT. His wife was born ca. 1617, died 21 Feb. 1670/1 in Windsor.[11]
The first record of Nathan in America is his admission to the Massachusetts Bay Colony 14 May 1634 which implies arrival by 1633 and admission to the Dorchester, MA, Church. Did he emigrate with his brother Jonathan? In Dorchester he held a grant of meadows beyond Neponset and lot #33, four acres.[12] By 1635 he removed to Windsor, CT. In 1637 he served in the Pequot War, for which service he received 12 Oct. 1671 a grant of 50 acres. Sometime before his father's death in 1641 Nathaniel by power of attorney conveyed some land in England to his father.
In the Windsor, CT, land inventory of Jan. 1640 Nathan Gillett held 5 parcels of land:
- a homestead of 5 acres granted in 1637 (sold to his brother Jonathan and then to his nephew Jeremiah)
- 3½ acres in the Little Neck (sold to Mr. Warham)
- 20 acres more or less in meadow & upland adjoining in the second meadow (sold to Robart Hayward)
- 3 acres more or less in Long Meadow & adjoining to it 2 acres (sold to J. Enows).
On 11 Oct. 1669 Nathan Gillet was listed as a freeman of Windsor.
Following the death of his wife, Nathan bought land in the new settlement of Simsbury, CT. On 9 Mar. 1679/80 the committee appointed by the General Court "for settling of ye plantation of Simsbury" determined that proprietor Nathan Gillit's land should be on the "eastside."[13]
In March 1687 Nathan conveyed lands to his eldest son Elias, his son Nathan, Jr., and to his son-in-law Thomas Wapples. He also made separate deeds to his 3 daughters. Nathan's children were all born in Windsor, CT:
a. Elizabeth Gillett born 6 Oct. 1639, married Nicholas Gozzard ca. 1671 in Salisbury, died after 10 Nov. 1697. Nicholas died intestate 3 Aug. 1692 at Simsbury. He was a son of Daniel Gozzard of Hartford.
On 18 Apr. 1688 Elizabeth's father deeded to Nicholas Gozard of Simsbury 14 acres of meadow but Nicholas died before signing the deed. Elyas Gillett honored the deed to Nicholas 26 May 1692 (Simsbury Deed 1½:96-97). Administration of Nicholas' estate was granted to widow Elizabeth. The inventory amounted to £206/10/-. The heirs were Widow Elizabeth, son Nathaniel Gozzard (age 16), son John Gozzard (age 11) and daughter Elizabeth Gozzard (age 21). On 10 Nov. 1697 Widow Elizabeth signed as Elizabeth Gozzard, Sr., the covenant on the occasion of the ordination of the Rev. Dudley Woodbridge as pastor at Simsbury.
b. Abiah Gillett born 22 Aug. 1641, married (1) Isaiah Bartlett 3 Dec. 1663 in Windsor, married (2) John Slater 15 July 1669 in Windsor, died 21 Nov. 1716 in Simsbury. Isaiah was born 13 June 1641 in Windsor, died 13 July 1665. He was the eldest son of John Bartlett. John Slater died 13 May 1713 at Simsbury. John Slater signed his will 15 Aug. 1712 with his mark. It was probated 6 July 1713 naming his wife Abiah, sons John Slater, Samuel Slater, Elias Slater and daughter Elizabeth Slater. The inventory taken 13 May 1713 came to £128/15/-.
c. [-?-] Gillett (probably a son) died 1646 in Windsor.
d. Rebecca Gillett born 14 June 1646, died 13 July 1655 in Windsor.
e. Elias Gillett baptized 1 July 1649 in Windsor, married (1) Sarah Griffin 29 Oct. 1676 in Simsbury, married (2) Rebecca (Kelsey) Messenger 1694 - 1699, died 15 Feb. 1731/2 in Windsor. Sarah born 25 Dec. 1654 (10 Feb. 1654/5?) in Windsor, died between 1 Feb. 1685/6 & 2 June 1700. She was a daughter of John & Hannah (Bancroft) Griffin. Rebecca Kelsey was born 2 Jan. 1659/60 in Windsor, a daughter of Mark & Rebecca (Hoskins) Kelsey and a widow of Nathaniel Messenger. The inventory of Elias Gillett's estate amounted to only £18/5/-.
f. Sarah Gillett born 13 (15?) July 1651, baptized 18 July 1651, married Eleazer Hill 29 Dec. 1679 in Simsbury. Eleazer died 3 Mar. 1724/5 at Windsor. On 19 Apr. 1688 Sarah's father deeded to Eliezr Hill of Simsbury, "husband to my daughter Sarah," a parcel of land, part upland, part meadow in Simsbury on the east side of the river.
g. Benjamin Gillett born 29 Aug. 1653, died 13 July 1655 in Windsor (the same day as the above Rebecca).
h. Nathan Gillett born 17 Apr. (Aug.?) 1655, married Rebecca OWEN 30 June 1692 in Windsor, died 30 Jan. 1757/8 (1751/2?) in Windsor. Rebecca was born 28 Mar. 1666 in Windsor, died before 1702-3. She was a daughter of John & Rebecca (Wade) Owen. Nathan had a Simsbury grant on 25 Jan. 1691/2 but it was revoked 18 Dec. 1695. In 1696 Nathan sold the land his father had conveyed to him in Mar. 1687/8. Nathan was a tailor. He stated that he was formerly of Windsor, late of St. Thomas in East on the Island of Jamaica, West Indies, now of Lebanon, Co. Windham. Their son Nathan Gillett was born ca.1698/1699, wife unknown, died in 1745 in Lebanon, CT.[14] In his will he left £50 to his honored father Nathan Gillett of Windsor.
i. Rebecca Gillett born 8 Dec. 1657, married Thomas WHAPLES before March 1687/8, died before 28 Aug. 1698. Thomas was born ca. 1656, died at Hartford between 10 Feb. 1712/3 & 3 Apr. 1713. He was a son of Thomas & Margery Whaples of Hartford. Rebecca's father deeded to his son-in-law Thomas Wapples of Hartford approximately 11 acres & 3 roods of meadow in Weatong. The inventory of Thomas Whaples' estate amounted to £203/01/01."
Footnotes:
[11] McCracken, George E., "Nathan Gillett's Earlier Descendants" (TAG, 1980), 56:129-139; Anderson, Robert C., "The Great Migration Begins" (1995), 2:770-772.
[12] Thomas, Wilma Gillet, "The Joseph Gillet/Gillett/Gillette Family of CT, OH & KS" (1953), 9.
[13] Donald L. Jacobus "Gillett Addenda" (TAG, 1950), 26:52.
[14] Clark, Mrs. William C., "Which Nathan Gillett Married Hannah Buckland?" (TAG, 1971), 47:79."

6. The book "The 'Mary and John," chapter "The Passengers," p. 37:
"Nathan Gillett came to Dorchester from England with his brother Jonathan in 1630. He was a freeman in 1634; removed to Windsor, Conn., in 1635; and in 1670 sold his property to his brother Jonathan and moved to Simsbury where he had 75 acres of land, received for his services in the Pequot War. He died between 1688 and 1692. His wife died Feb. 21, 1670. Children:
a. Elizabeth, b. 1639.
b. Abia, 1641-1670; m. 1663 Isaiah Bartlett; m. (2) 15 Jul 1669 John Slater.
c. Elias, b. 1649; m. 29 Oct 1676, Sarah Griffin, b. 23 Dec 1654, dau. of John and Anna (Bancroft) Griffin (per Vital Records of Simsbury, CT). He m. (2) Rebecah, dau. of Marke Killsey. [Five children listed.]
d. Rebecca, b. 1646, d.y.
e. Sarah, b. 1651; m. 29 Dec 1679, Eliezer Hill. [Three children listed.]
f. Nathan, b. 17 Aug 1655; d. possibly 30 Jan 1767, aged 102 years; m. 30 Jun 1692, Rebecca, b. 28 Mar 1666, d. bef. 1704, dau. of John Owen and Rebecca (Wade) Owen (per Ralph Dornfeld Owen's "Descendants of John Owen of Windsor, Conn., Philadelphia, 1941). Nathan m. (2) 30 Mar 1704 Hannah Buckland. [Two children from 1st wife and 6 children from 2nd wife listed.]"

7. Manuscript from the Windsor CT. Historical Society Library of Jay Mack Holbrook entitled "Conn. Colonists - Windsor 1635-1703" has the following listings for Gillets. I am not sure what the references refer to, but they appear to be a compilation of mentioned names in original sources. I have rearranged the entries to be chronological rather than alphabetical as presented by the book compiler:
Gillet, Nathan 610; landowner 1637, STI891:157.
Gillet, Elisabeth; birth 6 Oct 1639; CHS930:40; father: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, Abia; birth 22 Aug 1641; CHS930:40; father: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, child; death 1646; CHS930:81; father: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, Rebeca; birth 14 Jun 1646; CHS930:40; father: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, Rebeckah; birth 14 Jun 1646; WIN638:14; father: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, Daughter; death 1648; CHS930:81; father: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, Son; death 13 Jul 1651; CHS930:81; father: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, Elias; birth 1 Jul 1649; CHS930:40; father: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, Elias; birth 1 Jul 1649; WIN638:14; father: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, Sarah; birth 13 Jul 1651; CHS930:40; father: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, Sarah; birth 13 Jul 1651; WIN638:14; father: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, Nathan 610; landowner 1653, MAN904:84; spelling: Gyllett, Nathan.
Gillet, Benjamen; birth 29 Aug 1653; CHS930:40; father: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, Benjamin; birth 29 Aug 1653; WEL898:34; father: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, Benjamin; birth 29 Aug 1653; WIN638:14; father: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, Benjamin; death 13 Jul 1655; WEL898:43; father: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, Nathan; birth 17 Aug 1655; CHS930:40; father: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, Nathan; birth 17 Aug 1655; WEL898:41; father: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, Rebecca; death 13 Jul 1655; WEL898:44; father: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, Rebekah; birth 14 Jun 16 - ; WIN638:44; father: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, Nathan; birth Aug 1655; WIN638:14; father: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, Rebecca; birth, 8 Dec 1657; CHS930:40; father: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, Rebeca; birth, 8 Dec 1657; WEL898:44; father: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, Nathan 610; church rate-pence = 72, 1660; STI891:179, spelling Gillet, Nat.
Gillet, Nathan 610; freeman 1669, TRU852:519; spelling: Gillet.
Gillet, Benjamen; death previously, 1674; CHS930:40; father: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, Nathan; children born 8, 1677; CHS930:91.
Gillet, Nathan; petitioner 1680; STI891:917.
Gillet, Nathan Sr.; estate in pounds = 0; 1686; CHS930:160; taxable heads 1.
Gillet, Nathan Sr.; death, 15 Sep 1689; WEL898:57.
Gillet, Nathan's Wife; death, 1670; CHS930:83.
Gillet, Nathan 610; household size = 7, 7 Mar 1670; WYL924:194; spelling: Gyllet.
Gillet, Nathan's Wife; death, 21 Feb 1671; WIN638:44.
Gillet, Nathan's Wife; death, 21 Feb 1671; WEL898:22.
Gillet, Nathan 610; donation in pence = 30, 1676; CHS930:87; spelling: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, Nathan 610; church member, 1678; CHS930:10; spelling: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, Nathan 610; church member, 1678; CHS930:7; spelling: Gillet, Nathan.
Gillet, Nathan Sr.; estate in pounds = 0; 1686; CHS930:160; taxable heads 1."

8. "The American Genealogist," No. 223, Vol. 56, No. 3, July 1980, pp. 129-40, Article "Nathan Gillett's Earlier Descendants," by George E. McCracken:
"All writers on the Gillett family listed in our recent bibliography (TAG 55:170) are unanimous in stating that Jonathan Gillett had with him in Windsor, Connecticut, a brother named Nathan Gillett, yet the great majority of them, having once mentioned Nathan, drop him like a hot potato, and the few exceptions give brief and faulty accounts of him. It is therefore high time that some attention be given Jonathan's earlier descendants.
Before 1641 Nathan had by powers of attorney made some conveyance to his father, the Rev. William Gyllett, rector of Chaffcombe, Somersetshire, as indicated in the father's will. Whether he came to America with his brother Jonathan, either on the first trip or the second, is not certain, but Nathan was made a freeman of Massachusetts Bay in 1634 and by 1635 he had removed to Connecticut where he lived at Windsor, serving in the Pequot War in 1637, for which service he received in 1671 a grant of 50 acres (Connecticut Colonial Records 2:161).
His wife was so shy that her name has not been recorded, though she was above 50 in 1667 when a patient of John Winthrop (TAG 23:126), and her name is not stated by Matthew Grant when he listed her children, nor when she died in Windsor on 21 Feb 1670/1. Some have claimed her name was Elizabeth but we have seen no evidence of this.
Following the death of his wife, Nathan moved to the new settlement of Simsbury, but his death on 15 Sept. 1689 was recorded at Windsor but not at Simsbury. There was no probate of his estate, but in March 1687/8 he conveyed lands to his eldest son Elias, his son Nathan Jr., and to his son-in-law Thomas Wapples, and also made separate deeds to three daughters. Simsbury Deeds 1-1/2:109 under date of 31 May 1678 has an agreement by Nathan Gillett and John Moses, called forth by Elias Gillett and John Moses Jr. What this involved is not clear, since there was no intermarriage between Nathan's family and that of John Moses.
Children:
i. Elizabeth, b. Windsor, 6 Oct 1639, living 10 Nov 1697. (Elizabeth Gillett, born at Windsor, 6 Oct 1639, was last seen living in Simsbury, 10 Nov 1697, where she signed as Elizabeth Gozzard Sr. the covenant on the occasion of the ordination of the Rev. Dudley Woodbridge as a pastor at Simsbury. She married at an unknown date but about 1671, Nicholas Gozzard, said to be son of Daniel Gozzard of Hartford ("Heritage of Granby" 166 f.). His birth date has not been found but he died intestate at Simsbury, 3 Aug 1692. The marriage is proved by her father's deed dated 18 April 1688 (Simsbury Deeds 1-1/2:96). His probate shows administration granted to the widow Elizabeth, with John Slater and Ebenezer Hill as overseers (C.W. Manwaring, "Digest," 1:453). If Manwaring is wrong with the name of Ebenezer and it should be, rather, Eleazer, then the two overseers were brothers-in-law of the intestate. The inventory came to 206 pounds/10, and the heirs were named as the widow Elizabeth, sons Nathaniel (aged 16), John (aged 11) and daughter Elizabeth Goddard, but we have seen no evidence of this, and in 1790 there were 16 Gozards in Connecticut, all in the town of Granby and all living near together so that all the names occupy in the same column of the printed census... [Children listed.])
ii. Abiah, b. Windsor, 22 Aug 1641, d. Simsbury, 21 Nov 1716. (Abiah Gillett, named for her aunt Habiah who never came to America, was born at Windsor, 22 Aug 1641 and died at Simsbury, 21 Nov 1716, not in 1670, as wrongly claimed by some. She married, first, at Windsor, 3 Dec 1663, Isaiah Bartlett (eldest son of John Bartlett), born in Windsor, 13 Jun 1641, died 13 Jul 1665; second, at Windsor July 1669, John Slater, who died at Simsbury, 13 May 1715. This marriage is correctly given by Stiles under Bartlett (2:61) but under "John Slaughter" she is called widow of Elisha Bartlett and no more is said (2:692). The marriage is proved by a deed of her father dated 25 Aug 1688 (Simsbury Land Records 1-1/2:73), and this was later confirmed to her by her brother Elias. Inventory of the estate of John Slater was taken 13 May 1713, naming wife Abiah, sons John, Samuel, Elias, daughter Elizabeth Slater, and made son Elias Slater sole executor; witness: Mary Hoskins, Timothy Woodbridge... [Children follow.])
iii. Child, d. Windsor, 1646 (Matthew Grant's record), but not counted among the eight children he lists or computes at different places.
iv. Rebecca, b. Windsor, 14 Jun 1646, d. 13 Jul 1655.
v. Elias, bapt. Windsor, 1 Jul 1649, d. there, 15 Feb 1731/2.
vi. Sarah, bapt. Windsor, 18 Jul 1651.
vii. Benjamin, b. Windsor, 29 Aug 1653, d. there 13 Jul 1655, the same day as the first Rebecca.
viii. Nathan, b. Windsor, 17 April 1655, d. there, 30 Jan 1757 (aged 102).
ix. Rebecca, b. Windsor, 8 Dec 1657, d. by 28 Aug 1698."
[More detail follows in article about Nathan's children and other descendants.]
"... "We must now pay attention to Sgt. Jeremiah Gillett who died at Simsbury 24 Mar 1707/8, buried the next day, an enigmatic figure who must belong to the Gillett family originally of Chaffcombe, Somerset. All of the evidence about him and his offspring was carefully studied by Donald Line Jacobus for a client, W.B. Murray of Peoria, Illinois, and printed in TAG 25:174-91. The scant information available is all derived from Simsbury, and there is no evidence that he was ever of Windsor. On 14 May 1674 "Jeremy Gillett Senr" had a grant of 50 acres from the colony, which looks suspiciously like a grant for service as a veteran in the Pequot War of 1637, though this fact is not specifically stated. It may be that the service was performed by Jeremiah, brother of Jonathan and Nathan, and that he was in America at the time of the war but returned to England before 1641 when he is shown in his father's will to be there. It is not quite clear whether Mr. Jacobus thought that the brother was present in Connecticut in 1674, or that the Jeremiah afterwards call Sgt. Jeremiah was present or about to be present and acquired the grant as heir to his father, the brother of Jonathan and Nathan, but it is certainly clear that Mr. Jacobus had considered the idea that the sergeant was a descendant of either Jonathan or Nathan and rejected this idea as impossible.
With Mrs. S.C. Spencer of Carthage, Missouri, I have lately been engaged in a profitable correspondence, and she is inclined to believe that the sergeant was a son of Nathan, born later than the second Rebecca, and therefore born ca. 1658, though not recorded by Matthew Grant nor in the Colony records, or anywhere else as Nathan's son. This theory has engaged my attention for a considerable period but I supposed it was possible. The name Jeremiah does not appear in Grant's list of the children on page 40. If the sergeant were a tenth and youngest child of Nathan, then we are asked to believe that the careful Matthew Grant could have missed the birth of a child of a prominent resident of Windsor. Moreover, in the final years of his life Nathan carefully made deeds to convey his various properties to all of the then surviving children listed by Grant. There is no deed conveying anything to the sergeant.
To be sure, Nathan's Windsor property ultimately was owned by a Jeremiah Gillett, but the history of this property is shown in Stile's "Windsor" 1:157, confirmed by the wills of both Jonathan and his son Jeremiah, to have been bought by Jonathan and bequeathed by him, ultimately, to his son Jeremiah.
It should be noted that if Nathan did have a tenth child named Jeremiah, known to us as the sergeant, he would in 1674 have been Jeremiah Jr, since his first cousin of the same name was born in 1648, or, if the Jeremy Senr of 1674 was actually Jeremiah [bro. of Jonathan/Nathan], then he would have been Jeremy 3rd. Note, however, that I appear to have found some evidence to show that Jeremiah [bro. of Jonathan/Nathan] was recently dead in England in 1676 (see TAG 55:172).
The fact that the Jeremiah who died in 1708 was a sergeant is a bit puzzling, since Mr. Jacobus's view was that his children were all born in England and that he did not actually appear in Simsbury much before about 1690 despite the grant as early as 1674. How a newcomer would be elected sergeant is difficult to understand. The chronology of the birth of his children preclude the possibility that the sergeant was actually Jeremiah [bro. of Jonathan/Nathan], who must have been one of the older children of the Rev. William Gyllett.
The descendants of Sgt. Jeremiah Gillett may, however, claim without any doubt that they descend, somehow, from the Rev. Rector of Chaffcombe who died in 1641."

9. One page copied at the Windsor, CT Historical Society without title except for a page header entitled "Early Windsor Families," page 551 (may be Stiles book):
"Nathan Gillett (1637), from Dorchester, had a lot granted to him seventeen rods wide. He had three sons and five daughters. After the death of his wife, 1670, he removed to Simsbury. His lot was sold to his brother Jonathan, then to his nephew Jeremiah."

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 Waterton, 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.

12. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 290:
"Jeremiah (son of Jonathan) Gillett. In 1680 had the place in Windsor of his uncle Nathan G., who had removed to Simsbury in 1670; he m. 15 Oct 1685, Deborah Bartlett; he d. 1 Mar 1692/3; a wid. Deborah d. 29 Sep 1753, age abt. 74; poss. the same. Children:
a. Deborah, b. 6 Aug 1686; d. 22 Apr 1693.
b. Abigail, b. 21 Feb 1687; d. 16 Feb 1689.
c. Jeremiah, d. 21 Apr 1692."

13. "The New England Historical and Genealogical Register," v. 162, April 2008, p. 113, article: "Various English Wills Relating to New England Colonists: Gillett, Swaine, Cheney, and Tutty-Knight-Whitman," by Leslie Mahler:
"New Evidence in the English Ancestry of Jonathan Gillett and Nathan Gillett of Windsor, Connecticut.
The critical clue to the English ancestry of brothers Jonathan and Nathan Gillett of Windsor, Connecticut, was published a century ago by James H. Lea and John R. Hutchinson. They presented an abstract of the will of William Gillett, parson of Chaffcombe, Somerset, dated 1641, proved 16 April 1641, (1) which mentions 'land which my son Nathan made over to me by letter of Attorney,' as well as son Jeremiah and daughter Abiah (these two names were used by the Gillett family in Windsor). The will includes a statement regarding 'all my children in England,' implying that some children were overseas. A later article by George McCracken located a few more items relating to the Gillett family in England from bishops transcripts. (2) Work coordinated by Burton Spear in the 1990s located a marriage license dated 18 September 1609 for William Gillett, clerk and curate of Kingstone, Somerset, and 'Habiathia' Pye of Donyatt, Somerset. (3)
The will of Rev. William Tyes, dated 1 April 1623, proved 28 June 1623, (4) proves that Jonathan Gillett was a son of Rev. William Gillett (emphasis added):
'William Tyes by the p(ro)vidence of god pastor of the Church of Donniate w(i)thin the dioces of Bathe and Wells... give unto the Church of Donniate to be imployed in necessary uses about the same at the discretion of my executor within one yeare nexte after my decease ffortye shillings Item I give to the poore of the same p(ar)ishe whose names are menco(n)ed at the later end of this my last will and testament tenn pound Item I give to the poore people of the p(ar)ishe of Bromham in Wiltes where I was born ffoure pound Item I give to the poore of p(ar)ishe of Ilmi(n)ster ffortye shillings Item I give to the poore of Sainte James p(ar)ishe in Taunton but especiallye to them of Cannon Streate fforty shillings All w(hi)ch sev(er)all sumes I will to be distributed by my executor within one yeare nexte after my decease Item I give unto my wife Julian Tyes twenty pound and alsoe those two bonds by vertue where of there is ten pound yearely during her life five pound from my brother James Tyes in respecte of the Tenement that he enioyeth in Wiltes(hire) whereof I stand above fforty pound of the fyne and five pound from my kinsman Elias Tyes Clarke in Consideracon of a Tenem(en)t that I bought for him in Ileminster and payed the whole fyne Also I give unto my saied wife my househouldstuffe Item I give unto my brother John Tyes my best gowne and Cassoke and ten pound in money Item I give to his eldest sonn John in gold twenty two shillings Item I give my brother James Tyes his daughter Neiomey five pound Item I give unto my Cosin Elias Tyes twenty pound Item I give unto my Cozen Bancks her children tenn pound w(hi)che I will that John Tyes and Elias Tyes her brethren to be ymployed by them for their sister benefitt untill they shall come to the age of xxitie years Item whereas I have an estate for fowerscore and Nyneteene years determynable uppon the death of three lives as well in closes of meadow and pasture ground called Barrells scituate lyinge and beinge w(i)thin the p(ar)ishe of Rowd in the County of Wilte(shire) as alsoe the yearlye rents of these three sev(er)all Cottages or Tenements nowe in tennures or occupacons of Walter Clements John Barley als Okesey and Andrew Chandeler as by the Originall Lease therof made more plainely appeareth All w(hi)ch before recited p(re)mises and ev(er)ye of p(ar)te and p(ar)cell thereof I doe hereby give devise and bequeath unto Jonathan Gillet the sonne of Will(ia)m Gillett Clarke p(ar)son of Chafecombe in the Countie of Soms(e)t for and during all the tearme of the said ffowerscore and Nyneteen years that shalbe to come and unexpired after my decease upon Condicon the Mrs Elianor Willes widowe now resident and abidinge at my house in Donniate aforesaid shall have r(e)ceave take and gather to her p(ro)per use as well the rents p(ro)fitts and Commodities of the said two closes of meadowe and pasture as alsoe the yearly rents of the said three severall Cottages of Tenem(en)ts for the tearme and time of eighteene yeares to Commence & begin ymediately after my said decease yf she the said Elianor shall soe long live and noe longer otherwise Item I give to the said Elianor Willes a quarter of good wheate to be paid an delive(red) unto her w(i)thin one quart of a yeare after my decease Item I give to my cosen Margaret Hawkins her children ten pound to be imployed as before for her sisters children Item I give to Jonathan Gillett twenty pound and to the rest of my daughter in lawe Abia her children twenty pound to be devided equallye amonge them Item I give to my Cosen Richard Hancocke and James Hancocke their children to be equally devided amonge them (interlined tenn pound) Item I give to Susan Dell my wives kinswoman ffive pound Item I give to the children of Andrew Dell Sarah Dwellye and of Ann Gollape beinge of my wives kindred tenn pound equallye to be devided amonge them Item I give unto Rose Pullen my wives sister her children seaven pound to be equallie devided amonge them.'
The rest of his good and chattels unbequeathed were given to son-in-law William Gillett, who was named executor, with the legacies to be paid in one year. Cousins John and Elias Tyes were made overseers. William Tyes was rector of Donyatt since at least 1606, when he was listed in glebe terrier for that parish. (5) There is no record of him as a student of Cambridge or Oxford."
Footnotes:
(1) Taunton Wills, 1641, File 13, originally published in 'The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record,' 41 (1910):282-83, reprinted in 'English Origins of American Colonists,' from ‘The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record,' (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1991), 59-60. The Somerset wills were destroyed in World War II. There are good accounts of the Gillett brothers in Robert Charles Anderson, 'The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to the New England, 1620-1633,' 3 volumes. (Boston: NEHGS, 1995), 2:766-770 (Jonathan Gillett), 770-72 (Nathan Gillett).
(2) George E. McCracken, 'New Gillett Information from England,' 'The American Genealogist' 55 (1979): 170-73.
(3) Somerset Record Office, D/DOI 18 (bondsman was Roger Gillett of Chillington), cited in Burton Spear, ed., 'Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John 1630,' 27 vols. (Toledo, Ohio: Mary & John Clearing House, 1985-99), 25:35-36 (this reference was pointed out by David Morehouse of Hopkins, Minnesota).
(4) Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 56 Swann (FHL 0,092,092). The will calls Abiah daughter-in-law and her husband William Gillett son-in-law. A likely scenario is that Abiah was the stepdaughter of William Tyes, daughter of his wife Julian by a previous marriage.
(5) The Donyatt terrier for 1606 was published in 'Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset' 8 (1899):63.

14. The book "Dorset Pilgrims," 1989:
P. 62: "It is possible to be certain of the religious convictions of only a minority of our ships' passengers … there were only a few whose religious convictions are explicitly recorded." The book details Roger Clap who "persuaded his parents to let him live with a Huguenot family" and Henry Wolcott "who underwent a marked conversion to Puritan beliefs and whose plan to shift his family and fortune to the New World implies a powerful Puritan commitment"; "and there are a number of others in similar circumstances, such as … the Gillett brothers..."
Pp. 130-2: Concerning the Pequot War of 1637 "it is not hard to imagine the satisfaction of the returning soldiers as they disembarked and stumbled up the river bank. They had only been away three weeks and three days but it had been a baptism of fire, a strange, exhausting but, thanks be to God, triumphant experience for this motley company of Puritan companions-in-arms … Nor is it difficult to picture the joy and thankfulness with which the men were greeted by their families and neighbours, by their minister John Warham, their ruling elders John Witchfield, John Branker and William Hosford, their magistrates Roger Ludlow and William Phelps, and their constable Henry Wolcott … Of the returning warriors we know the names of some sixteen … had come by way of Dorchester, Mass. with the original 'Mary and John' company: Nathaniel Gillett, the son of the vicar of Chaffcombe, Somerset, and William Hayden, the man who had saved Mason's life by cutting the Pequot's bowstring, who also hailed from Somerset. They all lived within a stone's throw of one another..."

15. The publication "Search for the Passengers of the "Mary & John" 1630," by Burton W. Spear (Toledo, OH; The Mary & John Clearing House, 1989-2004), 2:97, "ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, FOUND ON THE FAMILIES, SINCE VOLUME 1 WAS PRINTED":
"The first volume of "Search For The Passengers Of The Mary & John-1630" was rushed into print in early 1985 in preparation for a tour of the home towns of the passengers, by eighty descendants. This group spent 15 days, from May 17 to May 30, visiting the birthplaces and churches of the passengers in England, Dorchester, Mass. & Windsor, Conn. New information was not only gathered from the ministers, archivists and speakers on the tour, but also from the tour members, themselves, who had been collecting information on their ancestors, for many years.
JONATHAN & NATHAN GILLETT- In a recent National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 1, Sept. 1983., the second crossing of Jonathan Gillett, is listed as, 31 Mar. 1633, on the ship, "Recovery of London". With him was his wife, Mary Dolbiar, who he married, 29 Mar. 1634 in Colyton, Devon. These dates conflict. They were probably married, 29 Mar. 1633. Nathan is not listed, but this was not a passenger list but a list of only those who had goods that were subject to duty. Also aboard were Stephen Terry and his wife, Jane Hardey and Sarah Hill, probably the wife of William Hill.
TAG Vol. 55, p. 170, provides additional information on the ancestry of Jonathan & Nathan Gillett. This article suggests this family has an English ancestry, rather than a French Huguenot ancestry. The original name was pronounced, "Gullet", in the 1600's. Later, there was a shift of emphasis from the first syllable and it began to sound French. The TAG article also adds more information about the father of Jonathan & Nathan and their cousins who remained in England."

16. The publication "Search for the Passengers of the "Mary & John" 1630," by Burton W. Spear (Toledo, OH; The Mary & John Clearing House, 1989-2004), 1:33-34:
"NATHAN GILLETT-b. England, d. 5 Sept. 1689, Windsor, Conn. m. ___, a. 1637, who d. 21 Feb. 1670, Simsbury, Conn.
Nathan Gillett was the younger brother of Jonathan and son of Rev. William Gillett, Rector of Chaffcombe, Somerset in 1609. It has been claimed that Nathan came on the "Mary & John" in 1630, but he may have accompanied Jonathan in 1634 when he returned with his bride in 1634. In his father's will in 1641, it was mentioned that land in England was turned over to Nathan by a letter of attorney. Nathan first settled in Dorchester, Mass. where he became a freeman in 1635. He served in the Pequot War in 1637, for which he received land in 1671. He moved to Windsor and finally to Simsbury, Conn.
Nine children (1639-1657) (TAG 56:129), 25 grandchildren, and 56 great-grandchildren identified.
Children:
1. Elizabeth Gillett-b. 6 Oct. 1639, d. after 1697. m. Nicholas Gozzard, Jr., a. 1671, who d. 3 Aug. 1692, Simsbury, Conn., s. of Nicholas Gozzard. Res: Simsbury. Three children (1672-1682), and 12 grandchildren.
2. Abiah Gillett-b. 22 Aug. 1641, Windsor, Conn. m. (1) Isiah Bartlett, 3 Dec. 1663, Windsor (1641-1665), s. of John Bartlett of Windsor. m. (2) John Slater, 15 July 1669, Windsor, who d. 13 May 1713, Simsbury. (Savage and Stiles calls him Slaughter). Res: Simsbury, Conn. One child by first husband (1664), and one by second (1669) (TAG 56:131), and 4 grandchildren.
3. Child-d. 1646, Windsor.
4. Rebecca Gillett-b. 14 June 1646, Windsor, d. 13 July 1655.
5. Elias Gillett-bpt. 1 July 1649, Windsor. m. (1) Sarah Griffin, 29 Oct. 1676 (b. 1654), dau. of John Girffin & Hannah Bancroft. m. (2) Rebecca Kelsey, dau. of Mark Kelsey & Rebecca Hoskins (Hoskins #3), and widow of Nathaniel Messenger. Estate: 18 pounds, 1732. Four children by first wife (1678-1685), and one by second (1700) (TAG 56:131), and 14 grandchildren.
6. Sarah Gillett-b. 13 July 1651, Windsor, Conn. m. Eleazer Hill, 29 Dec. 1679, Simsbury, who d. 3 Mar. 1724, Windsor. There was an Eleazer Hill (b. 1657), s. of Luke Hill & Mary Hoyt, who moved from Windsor to Simsbury in 1669. Four children (1681-1694) (TAG 56:132), and 3 grandchildren.
7. Benjamin Gillett-b. 29 Aug. 1653, Windsor. d. 13 July 1655, Windsor, same day as his sister Rebecca, age 13.
8. Nathan Gillett, Jr.-b. 17 Apr. 1655, Windsor, d. 30 Jan. 1757, Windsor. m. Rebecca Owen, 36 June 1692, Windsor (b. 1666), dau. of John Owen & Rebecca Wade. History of Windsor mistakenly, says he m. (2) Hannah Buckland, but she m. his nephew, Nathan Gillett (b. 1683), s. of Elias Gillett (#5 above). Four children (1693-1701) (TAG 56:133), and 15 grandchildren.
9. Rebecca Gillett-b. 8 Dec. 1657, Windsor, d. before 1698. m. Thomas Whaples, Jr. (1656-1713), s. of Thomas & Margery Whaples of Hartford. He m. (2) Mary ___. Seven children (1684-1691) (TAG 56:134), and 8 grandchildren.
References:
NER 100:272 (Gillett Ancestry).
TAG July 1980, p. 180 (Descendants).
Gillette Families, Some of the Descendants of Jonathan & Nathan Gillett, by Barton Ezra Gillett, 1955."

17. The publication "Search for the Passengers of the "Mary & John" 1630," by Burton W. Spear (Toledo, OH; The Mary & John Clearing House, 1989-2004), 2:87-88 [Also found verbatim in same publication 3:16-17]:
"MORE INFORMATION ON THE ANCESTRY OF JONATHAN & NATHAN GILLETT
In an article in The American Genealogist, Vol. 55, No. 3, p. 170, new information from England expands the Gillett ancestry in England. This article again disputes the French Huguenot ancestry of this family, as does others. One argument against the Huguenot ancestry is that the Gillett name was in the west counties of England before there were Protestants anywhere. There was a will of John Gyllet of Cranebourn, Dorset in 1502. In the 17th century the name may have been pronounced, "Gullett", and then later there was a shift of emphasis from the first to the last syllable, and then it began to sound French.
Rev. William Gylett, father of the emigrants, Jonathan & Nathan, was the rector of Chaffcombe, Somerset, England. The Chaffcombe parish records begin only in 1678, but the Bishop's Transcripts survive for the years 1611, 1621, 1623, 1634, 1638 & 1639, and they were all signed by Rev. William Gylett. They list the following baptisms: Elias, 11 Feb. 1611/2, s. of William Gylet, Thomas, 27 Mar. 1621, s. of William Gylett, parson & Andrew, Apr. 1623, s. of William Gylett, rector. This is the first record of Andrew. Previous to this recent TAG article, the will of Rev. William Gylett of 1641, was the primary source for information on the English roots of the emigrants, Jonathan & Nathan.
Rev. William Gylett had a brother, Richard. In the Bruton parish records there was a Richard Gylett, who m. Joan Esberg, 11 Aug. 1576, who possibly could have been the parents of Rev. William Gylett. Another Richard Gylett m. Urselah, 12 June 1638, who could have been the son of Richard, brother of William.
Also, there was a will, dated 1 July 1600, probated, 16 July 1600, for Richard Gillett of Caudle Haddon, Dorset, husbandman. He listed sons, Richard & William, which would satisfy the chronological & geographical requirements of the father of William Gylett.
The following ancestry combines the previously published information and the will of Rev. William Gylett & TAG 55:3.
REV. WILLIAM GYLETT- He became rector of Chaffcombe, Somerset on 4 Feb. 1609/10. He had a brother, Richard Gylett and a kinsman, Henry Hutchins. After his bequests his will states, "The rest of my goods I give to my son, William, whom I make my executor, Mr. Joseph Greenfield, Mr. Luffe, my brother Richard & my kinsman; Henry Hutchins, overseers. His will was proved, 16 Apr. 1641 (Taunton wills, 1641, file 13). His inventory was taken by two parishioners, Thomas Palmer & Lawrence Seley. It listed 259 pounds, 14 shillings & 8 six-pence, which included 13 pounds of silver plate & an equal sum of books. To each of his children, "in England", he left two silver spoons apiece and one "chayre" and one frame stool.
Children of Rev. William Gylett
1. William Gylett Jr.- b. before 1609, place unknown. His father left him land called Bomers lease, upon the condition that he pay one annuity, 12 pounds to his sister, Hebiah, 4 pounds, to his sister, Mary, 4 pounds, and to his brother, Jeremiah, 40 shillings. William Jr. also received the residual goods of his father's estate.Jonathan & Nathan probably received their share when they left for New England. Nathan evidently retained land in England after he emigrated, which he turned; overto his father by a letter of attorney. In his will, Rev. William listed his son, William as the next reversioner of this land and in his will stated, "shall surrender this unto Thomas (his brother), when requested. Thomas was about 20 at the time. There are three Gillett leases in the records of the manor of Chaffcomb Buller.
On 17 Oct. 1687, there was a lease to a William Gillett of Chaffcomb, yeoman, who held a lease for 99 years or the lives of himself and his son, Elias, of four closes of land of 10 acres called Murrens in Chaffcomb, and took a lease of the reversion of the like of Mary, dau. of Elias Gillett, 16 s.
On 10 Aug. 1676, a William & Jeremiah Gillett (prob.-sons of Rev. William Gylett), held for their lives, successfully, a cottage, 2 acres of land and certain demesne land, v.s. 2 closes called Morell & Millmore of acres, other closes called Parkemead, Spires Meade, Court Garden & Three Parkocke, conta 		Gillett, Nathan (I2244)
 
1656 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002), by Robert Charles Anderson, 1995. Note that the entry was later edited and republished in 2014 by the same author; see "The Winthrop Fleet; Massachusetts Bay Company Immigrants to New England 1629-1630" (NEHGS; Boston, 2014). The version below is the most current version:
"EDMUND LOCKWOOD
ORIGIN: Probably Combs, Suffolk ["Connecticut Ancestry 47:120-23].
MIGRATION: 1630 (based on request for freemanship on 19 October 1630 and jury service on 9 November 1630 [MBCR 1:79, 81]). (Edmund Lockwood was "Lockwood" of John Winthrop's 1629 list [WP 2:276].)
FIRST RESIDENCE: Unknown (probably Watertown).
REMOVES: Cambridge by 1632. "Mr Edmond Lockwood" was the third in the list of eight "Newtone Inhabitant" which is found at the beginning of the Cambridge town records, and probably dates from 1632 [CaTR 2].
FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 (as "Mr. Edmond Lockwood") and admitted 18 May 1631 (as "Mr. Edmond Lockewood") [MBCR 1:79, 366]. OFFICES: Deputy for Cambridge to Massachusetts Bay General Court (as Mr. Lockwood")., 9 May 1632 [MBCR 1:95].
Massachusetts Bay petit jury, 9 November 1630 (as "Mr. Edmond Lockwood"), [MBCR 1:81].
Cambridge constable (as "Mr. Edmond Lockwood"), 9 May 1632 [MBCR 1:81]. ESTATE: On 3 March 1634/5, "It is ordered, that Ruth [sic] Lockwood, widow, shall bring all the writings that her husband left in her hands to John Haynes, Esq., & Simon Bradstreete, on the third day of the next week, who shall detain the same in their hands till the next Court, when they shall be disposed of to those to whom they belong" [MBCR 1:134]. On 7 April 1635, "It is referred to the church of Waterton, with the consent of Rob[er]te Lockwood, executor of Edmond Lockwood, deceased, to dispose of the children & estate of the said Edmond Lockwood, given to them, to such persons as they think meet, which if they perform not within fourteen days, it shall be lawful for the Governor, John Hayne, Esq., & Simon Bradstreete, to dispose of the said children & estates as in their discretion, they shall think meet, as also to take an account of the said Rob[er]te Lockwood, & give him a full discharge" [MBCR 1:143-44]. On 2 June 1635, "In the cause of the children & widow of Edward Lockwood, (the elders & other of the church of Waterton being present,) and upon consideration of the order of Court in April last made in the case, which was found not to have been observed, because the estate was not computed & apportioned, it is now ordered, with consent of all parties, viz:, the church of Waterton, the widow of the said Edmond living, & the executor having consented to the former order, that the present Governor & the Secretary shall have power to call parties & witnesses for finding out the true estate, having consideration of the uncertainty of the will, & the debts, & other circumstances, to apportion the remainder of the estate to the wife & Children, according to their best discretion; & then the church of Waterton is to dispose of the elder children & their portions as shall be best for their Christian education & the preservation of their estate" [MBCR 1:151]. BIRTH: By about 1600 based on estimated date of marriage (but see COMMENTS below). [KP note: It appears the author did not update this statement in the revision since the COMMENTS do not address the birth at all; however, the his reference to "Connecticut Ancestry" does as 16 Jan 1598/1599 at Combs, Suffolk, England.] DEATH: Cambridge between 9 May 1632 [MBCR 1:95, 96] and 3 March 1634/5 [MBCR 1:134] (and probably closer to the earlier date, since Edmund Lockwood does not appear in any of the recorded Cambridge land grants beginning in August 1633). MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1625 ____ ____; she may have died in England before 1630.
(2) By 1632 Elizabeth Masters, daughter of JOHN MASTERS {1630, Watertown}. She married (2) CARY LATHAM {1639, Cambridge}. CHILDREN:
With first wife
i EDMUND LOCKWOOD, b. say 1625; m. Stamford 7 January [1655/6] Hannah Scott, daughter of THOMAS SCOTT {1634, Ipswich} [GM 2:6:209-13].
ii child LOCKWOOD, (one or more additional children by first wife implied by court order to the Watertown church "to dispose of the elder children" [MBCR 1:151]); no further record.
With second wife
iii JOHN LOCKWOOD, b. Cambridge [blank] November 1632 ("son of Edward Lockwood & Elisabeth his wife") [NEHGR 4:181]; d. at New London in 1683, unmarried [Lockwood Gen 10].
ASSOCIATIONS: In a discussion of financial transactions, John Winthrop wrote to his son John in Grot on 23 July 1630 saying "If money be brought to you or your Uncle Downinge for Goodman Lockwood, let Mr. Peirce be paid his bill of provisions for him, and bring the rest with you" [WP 2:306]. "Mr. Edmond Lockwood" was the third in the list of eight "Newtowne Inhabitants" which is found at the beginning of the Cambridge town records, and probably dates from 1632 [CaTR 2]. After NICHOLAS KNAPP was fined for quackery on 1 March 1630/1, "Mr. Will[ia]m Pelham and Mr. Edmond Lockewood hath promised to pay to the Court the sum of £5" [MBCR 1:83]. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: The 1889 Lockwood genealogy (Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, "Descendants of Robert Lockwood, History of the Lockwood Family in America," [Philadelphia 1889]) was deservedly described by Jacobus as "a genealogical atrocity" [TAG 31:222]. By lumping all the descendants of the first Edmund under his brother Robert, the posterity of this family through eldest son Edmund was misplaced. Donald Lines Jacobus began to sort the family out properly in 1930, with further contributions made in 1955 [FOOF 1:380-81; TAG 31:222-24]. In 1978 Harriet Woodbury Hodge published detailed arguments for a rearrangement of the Lockwood families that would restore to Edmund Lockwood his children ["Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford, Connecticut" (New York 1978), cited above as Lockwood Gen]."
In 2004 Robert Charles Anderson reviewed the evidence for the English ancestry of Edmund and Robert Lockwood ["Connecticut Ancestry" 47:119-30]."

2. This wife's name is unknown and unproved. There is a slight possibility it could be Ruth per the comment which follows per FHL Book 929.273 L814a or FHL film 1321248, item 6, 'Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford Connecticut,' by Harriet Woodbury Hodge, C.G., 1978:
"Edmund Lockwood, son of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood, bp. 9 Feb 1594 at Combs, co. Suffolk, England, d. before 3 March 1634/5 at Cambridge, Massachusetts,
1/ m. ___. [Children]:
a. Edmund, b. c1625 England, d. 31 Jan 1692/3 Stamford, CT, m. 1655/6 Hannah Scott, b. c1636 d. 1706. Ch:
i. John, b. c1658-60 without issue 1689-92.
ii. Mary, b. c1664, m. 1693 Joseph Garnsey.
iii. Joseph, b. 1666 d. 1750, 1/m. 1698 Elizabeth Ayres, 2/m. 1716 Margery Webb, 3/m. by 1740 Susannah ___.
iv. Edmund b. c 1668, died without issue 1740, naming bros and sis in his will.
v. Daniel, b. c1670, d. 1744, m. 1702 Charity Clements.
vi. Abigail, b. c1674, m. aft. 1707 Joseph Clark.
vii. Sarah, b. c1679, m. 1707 Michael Lounsberry.
2/m. c1631 Elizabeth Masters, dau of John (She 2/m. Cary Latham). [Children]:
a. John, b. __ Nov 1632 Cambridge, MA died without issue 1683 New London, CT. His brother Edmund Lockwood of Stamford, CT was sole heir of his estate.
"Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) and his Son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693)":
Edmund Lockwood of Combs, county Suffolk, the English progenitor, married there 3 September 1592 ALES Cowper (Cooper). Of their "Children, two sons came to Massachusetts in 1630 with the Winthrop Fleet:
1. Edmund Lockwood, baptized 9 February 1594 at Combs. (Charles E. Banks, 'The Winthrop Fleet of 1630,' Boston, 1930, pp. 79, 80.) He 1/m. before 1625 in England, ____, an unknown wife who perhaps d. shortly after her arrival in America. He 2/m before 1632 Elizabeth Masters, daughter of John Masters of Cambridge, Mass. (James Savage, 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 1860-1862, reprint: Baltimore, 1965, 3:104-5, 170-71 & Charles H. Pope, 'Pioneers of Massachusetts,' 1900, reprint Baltimore, 1969, pp. 289 and 404)...
1. Edmund Lockwood, (Edmund of England), bp. 9 February 1594 at Combs, co. Suffolk, d. before 3 March 1634/5 at Cambridge, Mass. He came in 1630 with the fleet, which brought Governor John Winthrop to New England. Edmund first settled at Watertown and then at New Towne (Cambridge) where he was called "Mr.," a title of respect. His request to be made freeman of the colony on 19 October 1630, was granted 18 May 1631. He was juryman 9 November 1630: was appointed constable at Cambridge in May 1632 and the same year he was one of two persons appointed to confer with the court about raising a public stock. (James Savage, 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 1860-1862, reprint: Baltimore, 1965, 3:104-5, 170-71 & Charles H. Pope, 'Pioneers of Massachusetts,' 1900, reprint Baltimore, 1969, pp. 289 and 404). In 1635 his brother Sergeant Robert Lockwood was appointed executor for Edmund's estate and Children. (James Savage, 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First settlers of New England, 1860-1862, reprint: Baltimore, 1965, 3:104-5, 170-71 & Charles H. Pope, 'Pioneers of Massachusetts,' 1900,, reprint Baltimore, 1969, pp. 289 and 404).
Edmund 1/m. before 1625 in England, ___, an unknown wife, who perhaps d. shortly after her arrival in America. On 3 March 1634/5 the court asked the widow "Ruth" to bring in writings left by her husband, Edmund Lockwood. (James Savage, 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 1860-1862, reprint: Baltimore, 1965, 3:104-5, 170-71). Other records show clearly that Edmund's widow was Elizabeth (Masters), whom he had m. at least three years previously (James Savage, 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First settlers of New England, 1860-1862, reprint: Baltimore, 1965, 3:104-5, 170-71 & Charles H. Pope, 'Pioneers of Massachusetts,' 1900, reprint Baltimore, 1969, pp. 289 and 404). Was Ruth in error for the name of the first wife? There is no proof of this theory, although some have made the assumption.
Edmund 2/m. before 1632 Elizabeth Masters. She was d/o John Masters of Watertown and Cambridge, who d. 21 December 1639 and by his will two days before his death named with others, his grandchild. John Lockwood and his daughter Elizabeth, wife of Cary Latham. Edmund's widow m. Mr. Latham and in 1646 moved to New London, Connecticut, taking her son John Lockwood with them. (James Savage, 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First settlers of New England, 1860-1862, reprint: Baltimore, 1965, 3:104-5, 170-71 & Charles H. Pope, 'Pioneers of Massachusetts,' 1900, reprint Baltimore, 1969, pp. 289 and 404 & Genevieve Lockwood Davis, 'Israel Lockwood, Some Ancestry and Descendants,' MS at Newberry Library, Chicago - Ohio Historical Society Library, Columbus - New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Library and elsewhere - includes much unpublished material furnished by Donald L. Jacobus). See Appendix 1, p.71.
The only known child of Edmund Lockwood and his first wife was:
i. Edmund Lockwood, b. about 1625 in England, m. 7 January at Stamford, Ct. Hannah Scott. Lack of mention of Edmund Lockwood, Jr. in the wiII of John Masters would indicate that Edmund, Jr. was by an earlier wife, reinforced by a court order 2 June 1635, after the death of Edmund Lockwood, Sr. to place out "elder children" (James Savage, 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First settlers of New England, 1860-1862, reprint: Baltimore, 1965, 3:104-5, 170-71 & Genevieve Lockwood Davis, 'Israel Lockwood, Some Ancestry and Descendants,' MS at Newberry Library, Chicago - Ohio Historical Society Library, Columbus - New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Library and elsewhere - includes much unpublished material furnished by Donald L. Jacobus).
There were undoubtedly one or two other children of Edmund1 Lockwood by first wife, but apparently none survived, for only Edmund, Jr. claimed the estate of his half -brother, John, in 1683.
The only known child of Edmund and Elizabeth (Masters) Lockwood was:
ii. JohnLockwood, b. November 1632 at Cambridge, Mass. (Vital Records, town or civil records. For Connecticut the source most often consulted has been the Barbour Index of vital records in the Connecticut State Library and widely available elsewhere on microfilm). He went to New London, Ct. with his mother and stepfather, Cary Latham. On 20 July 1658 Cary Latham conveyed to his son-in-law (i. e. step-son) John Lockwood (New London deeds 3:63) (Genevieve Lockwood Davis, 'Israel Lockwood, Some Ancestry and Descendants,' MS at Newberry Library, Chicago - Ohio Historical Society Library, Columbus - New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Library and elsewhere - includes much unpublished material furnished by Donald L. Jacobus). John lived at Foxen's Hill in New London and d. in 1683, unmarried (Francis M. Caulkins, 'History of New London,' 1895, pp. 89 and 312). New London deeds 5:18 contains a record that Edmund Lockwood of Stamford was declared heir of the estate of his brother, John Lockwood of New London by the County Court 3 June 1684. There are also deeds from Edmund Lockwood of Stamford, conveying lands inherited from his brother, John (New London deeds 5:76, 102 (Genevieve Lockwood Davis, 'Israel Lockwood, Some Ancestry and Descendants,' MS at Newberry Library, Chicago - Ohio Historical Society Library, Columbus - New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Library and elsewhere - includes much unpublished material furnished by Donald L. Jacobus & Francis M. Caulkins, 'History of New London,' 1895, pp. 89 and 312). Edmund Lockwood was the sole heir."

3. FHL Book 929.273 L814a or FHL film 1321248, item 6, 'Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford Connecticut,' by Harriet Woodbury Hodge, C.G., 1978, Appendix 1, has the following quote to which the author attributes her source as follows: "All material on pages 71-73, except for this compiler's interpolations in brackets, is copied verbatim from the following source: Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, "Descendants of Robert Lockwood," Philadelphia, 1889. pp. 633-42. [This book contains many verbatim copies of previously unpublished and published Lockwood records. Unfortunately, these records were often ignored or misinterpreted by the compilers of the genealogy.]" The portion of the appendix applying to Edmund's wives - see Edmund's notes for full transcription of appendix:
He, 'Mr. Lockwood' was one of the two persons appointed by the court May 9th, 1632, for New Towne (Cambridge) to confer with the court about the raising of a publick stock. At the same time he was appointed constable of New Towne. He died previous to March 3d, 1634-5, when his widow Ruth (?Elizabeth) was ordered by the court to place all writings left by her husband in the hands of John Haynes, etc. [i.e., Simon Bradstreete]. It is very probable that he was one of those first planters of Watertown who went thither with Sir Richard Saltonstall; that upon the planting of New Towne [Cambridge] the next year, either he moved thither, or he had settled so far to the east as to be within the bounds assigned to New Towne, and that he was a brother of Robert Lockwood of Watertown, who was executor of his estate. This supposition is favored by the facts, 1st. That on the 31st March 1631 (before New Towne was planted), he was a surety for Nicholas Knapp of Watertown. 2dly. On the 7th of March, 1635, the general court referred to the church of Watertown, with the consent of Robert Lockwood, executor of Edmund Lockwood, deceased, to dispose of the elder children of said Edmund Lockwood and the estate given to them at their discretion. It is probable that he had two wives, the first of whom was the mother of "the elder children" assigned to the care of the Watertown church. His second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of John Masters, of Watertown, by whom he had a son John, born in New Towne, November, 1632. After his decease his widow Elizabeth married Cary Latham, of New Towne, who moved to New London, Connecticut, and by him she had several children (see Caulkins' Hist. of New London, pp. 87, 306 and 312; also [NEHG] Reg. 2:180; 4:62; also Hist. of Norwalk, Ct. by Edwill Hale, D. D., pp. 184, 203, 218, etc.) It is probable that all of the name of Lockwood in New England are descended from Robert and Edmund, and there is not much doubt but that there is a misnomer of the widow of Edmund in the Court Records of Massachusetts Bay as printed 1:134 and Index.
P. 635 - March 3rd, 1634/5. It is ordered that Ruth Lockwood, Widd, shall bring all the writeings that her husband lefte in her hands to John Haynes, Esqr., & Simon Bradstreete, on the third day of nexte weeke, whoe shall detaine the same in their hands till the nexte Court, when they shall be disposed of to those to whome they belonge. (Records of Mass., vol. 1, p. 134.)
P. 635 - April 7th, 1635. It is refered to the church of Waterton, with the consent of Robte Lockwood, executr of Edmund Lockwood disceased, to dispose of the children and estate of the said Edmond Lock wood, gyven to them, to such psons as they thinke meete, wch if they pforme not within foureteene dayes, it shall be lawfull for the Gounr, John Haynes, Esqr, and Simon Bradstreete, to dispose of the said children & estate as in their discrecon they shall thinke meete, as also to take an accompt of the said Robte Lockwood, and give him a full discharge. (Records of Mass., vol. 1, pp. 143, 144.)
P. 635-6 June 2, 1635. In the cause of the children and widdowe of Edward (sic) Lockwood, (the elders and other of the church of Waterton being prsent,) and vpon consideracon of the order of the Court in Aprill last made in the case, wch was found not to have bene observed, because the estate was not computed and apportioned, it is nowe ordered, with consent of all pities, vs.: the Church of Watertown, the wad of said Edmund livening, and the executor having consented to the former order, that the present Gounr and the Secretary shall have power to call pties and witnesses for finding out the true estate, and having consideracon of the uncertainty of the will, and the debts, and other circumstances, to apporcon the remainder of the estate to the wife and Children, according to their best discrecon; and then the Church of Waterton is to dispose of the elder children and their psons as shal be best for their Christian educacon and the preservacon of their estate. (Records of Mass. vol. i, p. 151.)
P. 640 JohnLockwood, SON of EDMUND: John Lockwood died in 1683. 'We suppose this person to have been the son of Elizabeth, wife of Cary Lathan, by a former husband, Edward (sic) Lockwood, and the same whose birth stands on record in Boston, ninth month, 1632. He dwelt on Foxen's Hill, at a place known as the Wheller homestead. In the settlement of the estate, no heir appears but Edmund Lockwood, of Stamford, who is called his brother.' Caulkins' History of New London, p. 306 and on p. 87 quotes, "John Lockwood as a new inhabitant in 1654."
Vol. 1:181. In early records of Boston and Cambridge, copied from the Antiquarian Journal, by Dr. Pulsifer, it reads thus: "John the sonne of Edward (sic) Lockwood and Elizabeth his wife was borne (9) 1632."
P. 641 [Abstract: The will of John Masters of Suffolk County, Mass. He d. 21 December 1639. Estate to my wife for her lifetime; afterward to daughters Sarah Dobyson and Lidya Tabor; to grandchild John Lockwood; to Nathaniel Masters and Abraham Masters; remainder to daughter Elizabeth Latham.] (N.E.H. and G. Register, vol. 2, p. 180.)"

4. The book: "Genealogy of the Lockwood Family 1630-1888 - Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America from A.D. 1630," compiled by Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, printed privately by the family, 1889, Philadelphia: "...freeman of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay in New England, May 18th, 1631. (Records of Mass. vol.1, p.366. John Farmer, Gen'l Reg., p.181) Was of Cambridge in 1632. (John Farmer, ibid.) In Paige's History of Cambridge, Mass., 1632, p.32, the same 8 names are mentioned on p.8, as being the first 8 inhabitants of New Town, and in both lists Mr. Edmund Lockwood's name appears third..." (Note: see hardfile for numerous court records in which Edmund is mentioned. Note especially his willingness to pay the five pound fine of Nicholas Knapp who may have been his brother-in-law.) "He died previous to 3 Mar 1634-5, when his widow Ruth [?Elizabeth] was ordered by the court to place all writings left by her husband in the hands of John Haynes, etc...he was a brother of Robert Lockwood of Watertown, who was executor of his estate...to dispose of the elder children of said E.L. and the estate given to them at their discretion. It is probable that he had two wives, the first of whom was the mother of 'the elder children' assigned to the care of the Watertown church. His second wife was Elizabeth, dau. of John Masters, of Watertown, by whom he had a son John, born in New Towne, Nov. 1632. After his decease his widow married Cary Latham, of New Towne, who moved to New London, Conn., and by him she had several children. It is probable that all of the name of Lockwood in New England are descended from Robert and Edmund, and there is not much doubt but that there is a misnomer of the widow of Edmund in the Court Records of Massachusetts Bay."

5. The periodical "Connecticut Ancestry," vol. 27, no. 1 (Sept. 1984), "The Lockwoods of Norwalk, Connecticut," by Harriet Woodbury Hodge, C.G., pp. 9-11:
"Nearly a century ago, in 1889, two misguided compilers, Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood produced "Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America." Modern genealogists realize that nineteenth century family histories often contain errors, and this genealogy is among the most confused; but it continues to be used as a reliable source. In his "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus put in order the early Lockwoods of that town. In 1978 this compiler undertook a similar task for Stamford Lockwoods with "Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c.1625-1693) of Stamford." There remain the Lockwood founders of Norwalk and Greenwich with lines to be set straight.
The following account deals primarily with the descendants of Ephraim2, son of the immigrant brother Robert Lockwood. Ephraim was an original settler of Norwalk. There were a few hitherto unrecorded Lockwoods who may have emigrated from Norwalk, and others who moved to Norwalk from surrounding towns at an early date. They will be treated in appendices. References are abbreviated in the text, but full citations are listed at the end.
1. EDMUND LOCKWOOD, the progenitor in England, of Combs, co. Suffolk, married there 3 Sep. 1592 ALES COWPER (COOPER). The English antecedants of this couple are unknown. Their only known children, two sons, came to Massachusetts in 1630 with the Winthrop Fleet, [Banks, "The Winthrop Fleet," pp. 79, 80].
Children (LOCKWOOD), baptized Combs, Suffolk:
2. i EDMUND1 bp. 9 Feb. 1594/5; m. (1) ___; m. (2) ELIZABETH MASTERS.
3. ii ROBERT bp. 18 Jan. 1600/01; m. SUSANNAH, prob. NORMAN.
2. EDMUND1 LOCKWOOD, son of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood of England, bp. Combs, Suffolk, 9 Feb. 1594/5; d. Cambridge, MA before 3 March 1634/5. He m. (1) in England, an unknown wife; m. (2) prob. in Massachusetts bef. 1632 ELIZABETH MASTERS, daughter of John Masters of Watertown and Cambridge. Elizabeth m. (2) Cary Latham and moved with him and her son John Lockwood to New London, CT.
Children (LOCKWOOD), only two known, one by each wife:
i EDMUND2 b. England ca. 1625; d. Stamford, CT 31 Jan. 1692/3; m. there 7 Jan. 1655/6 HANNAH SCOTT, b. ca. 1636; d. Stamford 12 Apr. 1706, dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth (Strut) Scott of Rattlesden, Suffolk, England and Ipswich, MA. Edmund and Hannah had seven known children: JOHN, MARY, JOSEPH, EDMUND, DANIEL, ABIGAIL and SARAH, this family comprising the original Stamford Lockwood family, [Harriet W. Hodge, "Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood," etc.].
ii JOHN b. Cambridge, MA in Nov. 1632; d. unmarried at New London in 1683. His brother Edmund of Stamford was his sole heir.
3. ROBERT1 LOCKWOOD, son of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood of England, bp. Combs, co. Suffolk, 18 Jan. 1600/01; d. Fairfield, Connecticut 1658, [Banks, "The Winthrop Fleet"; Jacobus, "Families of Old Fairfield," hereinafter F.O.O.F., 1:380].
He m. prob. at Salem or Watertown, Massachusetts ca. 1633 SUSANNAH, prob. NORMAN, dau. of Richard Norman of Salem. She m. (2) Jeffrey Ferris.
Children (LOCKWOOD), first six b. Watertown, Massachusetts, [VR], others prob. all b. Connecticut:
i JONATHAN2 b. 10 Sep. 1634; d. Greenwich, CT 12 May 1688; m. MARY FERRIS; she m. (2) 1696 Thomas Merritt.
ii DEBORAH b. 12 Oct. 1636; m. (1) WILLIAM WARD; m. (2) JOHN TOPPING.
iii JOSEPH b. 6 Aug. 1638; d. Fairfield, CT 1717; m. (1) ISABEL? BEACHAM; m. (2) MARY (COLEY) (SIMPSON) STREAM. [His descendants are the only Lockwoods carried on in F.O.O.F., 1:385-387, 715-716 and 2:586-591].
iv DANIEL b. 21 March 1640; d. Fairfield, CT 1691; m. ABIGAIL SHERWOOD. [See F.O.O.F. 1:383, 387 for his only son, DANIEL, who had but two surviving daughters. The name Lockwood ends there on this line].
v EPHRAIM b. 1 Dec. 1641; d. Norwalk, CT 1685; m. MERCY ST. JOHN.
vi GERSHOM b. 6 Sep. 1643; d. Greenwich, CT 1718/9; his three? wives are all being questioned.
vii JOHN d. 1677 unmarried.
viii ABIGAIL m. bef. 1681 JOHN BARLOW.
ix SARAH d. CT 1 March 1650/1.
x SARAH b. 27 Feb. 1651/2; ?m. ABRAHAM ADAMS.
xi MARY m. (1) JONATHAN HUSTED; m. (2) JOSEPH KNAPP."

6. The periodical "Connecticut Ancestry," vol. 48, no. 2 (Nov. 2005), "Further Information Regarding the English Origins of the LOCKWOOD Family," by Scott Wesley Green , pp. 53-58:
"Introduction
In her book on the descendants of Edmund1 Lockwood, Harriet Woodburly Hodge repeated the long standing assertion that the immigrant brothers Edmund1 and Robert1 Lockwood had their origin in the town of Combs in County Suffolk, England.[1] In his "Great Migration" sketch of Edmund1 Lockwood, Robert Charles Anderson indicated that "further research is needed before this origin can be accepted".[2] In the December 2004 issue of this publication, Mr. Anderson reviewed the evidence and concluded "that the probability is very high that Edmund and Robert Lockwood were brothers and that they were the two children baptized at Combs, Suffolk."[3] His recently published "Great Migration" sketch of Robert1 Lockwood includes his baptism in Combs.[4] The purpose of the present article is to provide additional information on the English origins of the family. In particular the baptism record of Edmund2 Lockwood has been identified, and an additional generation has been added to the ancestral line. A consideration of other early connections based on the dual surname Lockwood alias Baker is also presented.
Combs Parish Transcripts Revisited
The 1638 will of the widow Alice Lockwood mentions her grandson Joseph Sowgate, but no other Sowgates.[5] This suggests that she had a daughter who married a Sowgate, and that this daughter was likely deceased. A review of the available parish transcripts for Combs yields 5 entries of relevance:[6]
baptism 8 Sept. 1629 of Mary, daughter of Joseph Sowgate
baptism 7 April 1631 of Joseph, son of Joseph Sowgate
burial 25 April 1631 of Joseph, son of Joseph Sowgate
baptism 19 Feb. 1631 [/32] of Joseph, son of Joseph Sowgate
burial 13 Jan. 1632[/33] of Barbara, wife of Joseph Sowgate
There was no other baptism in Combs for a Joseph Sowgate that would fit as Alice Lockwood's grandson. This leads to the conclusion that EdmundA and Alice (Cowper) Lockwood had a previously unidentified daughter Barbara. A closer examination of the parish transcripts yields the following suggestive record:[']
baptism 31 July 1603 of Barbara, daughter of "Edm." Lock
Could this be a daughter of EdmundA Lockwood, with the surname abbreviated? Note that it fits conveniently between known baptisms for his son Robert on 18 Jan. 1600/01 and his daughter Alice on 14 April 1605. There were only two other baptisms listed from 1568-1655 for children with surname given as Lock(e): [8]
31 July 1625 - Martha, daughter of Edw. Locke
30 August 1627 - Edm., son of Edm. Locke
The second of these would fit perfectly with what is known of Edmund2 Lockwood, who came to New England with his father Edmund1 (whose earlier son of that name had been buried 20 December 1625). The first could easily be a daughter of the Edward Lockwood who had later children baptized in Combs, beginning with son Edward on 29 April 1627. Thus it seems likely that the surname was abbreviated in all three cases. As Mr. Anderson pointed out, the original parish registers of Combs are not readily available, and the 19th-century handwritten transcription referenced here consistently uses abbreviations for given names, such as "Edw." and "Edm." Though it seems unlikely, it is possible that "Lock" for Lockwood is an abbreviation by this transcriber, rather than in the original record.
Two further records shed some additional light on EdmundA and Alice (Cowper) Lockwood's daughter Dorothy, whose married name was given in Alice's will as Manwood:[9]
baptism 12 July 1635 of John, son of John Manwood of Ipswich and Doro.
burial 21 August 1636 of John, son of John Manwood of Ipswich
EdwardB Lockwood alias Baker
The father of EdmundA Lockwood is seen to be EdwardB Lockwood from the following will dated 7 December 1603 and proved 13 April 1604:[10]
"In the name of God amen the viith day of December in the xlvth yeare of the reigne of or Soveigne Lathe Elizabeth by the grace of God of England, France & Ireland Queene defender of the Faith. I Edward Lockwood of Combes in the Coun of Suff yeoman beinge sick of body but of good & pfect remembrance thanks be unto God doe make & ordeine this my last will & testament in manner & forme followenige. First I give & bequeath my soule to Almightie God my creator & to Jesus Christ his onlie sonne or savior & redeemer & my bodie to be buried in the Churchyard of Combes aforesaid. Item I give & bequeath unto Edmund Lockwood my sonne all my land wch I bought of late of Palmer called & knowne by the name of Burbles wth one other peece of land wch I bought of late of Robert Gardner called & knowne by the name of Cocke brooke conteninge by affirmation fouer acres more or lesse will all such bonds & bills & all other things alreadie devised unto his hands. Item I give unto John Lockwood my sonne all my moveable goods not alreadie given nor bequeathed saveinge unto Joane Gardner the wife of Robert Gardner my daughter my best fetherbed, transome, blanket & coveringe belonginge to the said bedd. Item I give & bequeath unto Sara Paine the wife of Rober Paine my kinsewoman ten shillings of lawfull money of England wthin six months after my decease by the hands of my Executor. Item I give & bequeath unto my brother Thomas Lockwood's daughter ten shillings of lawfull money of England to be paid within six moneths after my decease by the hands of mine Executor. Item I give & bequeath unto the poore people of Combes viis & viiid of lawfull money of England to be paid wthin fourteene daies next after my decease by the hands of mine Executor. Item I give & bequeath unto Vincent Kinge my servant xxs of lawfull money of England to be paid upon the Feast of Philip & Jacob comonlie called May daie next after my decease by the hands of mine Executor. Item I give & bequeath unto all my god children wch shalbe liveinge wthin one moneth after my decease except Willpairn Wyles xiid a yeere to be paid by the hands of mine Executor. Item I will yt John Lockwood my sonne shall have my newe mansion house wherein I dwell with all houses & outhouses thereunto adioyninge & belonginge alsoe all such yeards, outyeards & gardens thereunto belonginge & the home close thereunto adioyninge newe in my tenure & occupacon & wood sufficient for his owne fire & to be spent upon the p[re]misses to be cutt downe in dewe & Convenient time for the space of one whole yeare & a day next after my decease freelie & absolutelie without payeinge anie rent or forme for the same dureinge the said terme. Last of all I make & ordeine John Lockwood my sonne my sole & onlie Executor of this my last will & testamt In wittnes whereof I have to these P ence sett my hand & seale the daie & yeare above written. Read, sealed & delined in the P ence of John Humfrey & of William Mines & of Mr John Wilton Sen. The Testator's marke & seale."
Edward Lockwood alias Baker appears on the 1568 Suffolk subsidy list (a tax list) in Stowe Hundred, town of Combes Cum Finbarow Parva (i.e. Combs with Little Finborough). Taxed on 5 Pounds in Goods; tax was 4 shillings and 2 pence.[11] His son John could be the John Baker alias Lockwoode baptized in Combs on 9 March 1571/72 (the father's name is blank). Mary, daughter of Edw. Baker alias Lockwoode was baptized in Combs 30 June 1577. She was buried there as daughter of Edw. Lockwood on 2 March 1590/91. Joan, wife of Edw. Lockwood, was buried in Combs 24 January 1591/92. Finally Edw. Lockwoode, widower, was buried in Combs 15 April 1604.[12]
Lockwood alias Baker antecedents
The origin of the alias surname is unclear. The 1568 Suffolk subsidy list shows only one other person with this dual surname -- Rychard Lockwoode alias Baker, who was taxed 2 shillings and 8 pence on 2 pounds in lands in Combes Cum Finbarow Parva.[13] Richard Lockwood had children baptized in Combs over the period 1570-1588, with surname given variously as Lockwood(e), Lockwood(e) alias Baker, Baker alias Lockwood(e) and possibly once as Baker. The last use of the dual surname was in 1582.[14]
The index to Suffolk and Sudbury wills leads to the following three wills involving the dual surname. Unfortunately there is probably a generation missing between these and Edward Lockwood alias Baker of Combs.
1. Will of John Lo[c]kwood otherwise Baker the elder of Wethertingisett, yeoman. Dated 13 February 1555 and proved 20 December 1555. Mentions sons Henry and John, sister Catherine, and Thom[a]s Stanhard and Nycholas Blomfyeld.[15]
2. Will of Frances Lo[c]kwood al[ia]s Baker of Devynhm (i.e. Debenham). Dated 30 December 1554 and proved 28 December 1555. Left money to the poor of Mendlesham. Left wife Johan tenement in Mendlesham that had been his father's for her life, and also meadow land in Brockford. After his wife's death the land is to be sold, with a hierarchy of people to be given the opportunity to purchase the lands before anyone else:
his brother George Lockwoode 1st
Rycharde Lockwoode 2nd
Thom[a]s Lockwoode 3r
John Lockwoode 4th
The relationship of the latter three to Frances is not stated. Also mentioned in the will are his daughters Mary, Elyzabeth and Margaret and his brother-in-law Edward Shepperd.[16]
3. Will of Johan Lockwood al[ia]s Baker of Devynhm, widow. Dated 29 June 1554 and proved 28 December 1555. Mentions daughters Margaret, Mary and Elyzabeth, brother-in-laws George Lockwood and Rychard Lockwood, sisters's child Sara Lockwood, brother Edward Shepperd and kinsman Wyllem Shepperd.[17]
The available parish transcripts for Mendlesham show the following entries for the Lockwood alias Baker sumame.[18]
marriage 9 June 1576 - Chas. Goddard of Mickfield and Alice Lockwood als. Baker
marriage 19 July 1579 - Simon Sheldrake and Judith Lockwood als. Baker
marriage 6 July 1580 - Jn. Lockwood als. Baker wid. and Itian Hill wid.
burial 9 August 1579 - Jn. Lockwod als. Baker, s. of Jn.
burial 11 October 1579 - Cicely Lockwod, w. of Jn. als. Baker
There were no baptisms with the dual surname.
The 1524 Suffolk subsidy list shows no one with the dual surname.[19] Perhaps the dual surname relates to the property mentioned in the will of Frances Lockwood above.
Genealogical Summary
EdwardB Lockwood alias Baker was buried in Combs 15 April 1604. He had a brother Thomas, a wife Joan (buried in Combs 24 January 1591/92) and the following four children:[20]
i. EdmundA Lockwood, but 23 Nov. 1638, m. 3 Sept. 1592 Alice Cowper.
ii. John Lockwood, possibly the John Baker alias Lockwoode bapt. 9 Mar. 1571/72.
iii. Joan Lockwood, m. 11 Feb. 1600/1 in Combs, Robert Gardner.[21]
iv. Mary Lockwood, bapt. 30 June 1577, bur. 2 March 1590/91.
EdmundA Lockwood married Alice Cowper in Combs 3 September 1592. He was buried there 23 November 1638.[22] He and Alice had the following children, baptized in Combs except as noted: [23]
i. Joan Lockwood, bapt. 4 June 1593; probably died young.
ii. Edmund Lockwood, bapt. 9 Feb. 1594/95; probably died young.
iii. Edward Lockwood, bapt. 3 Oct. 1596; living 14 Dec. 1638.
iv. Edmund1 Lockwood, bapt. 16 January 1598/99, d. between 9 May 1632 and 3 March 1634/35 and probably closer to the earlier date, since he was not on the land grant lists for Cambridge beginning August 1633.[24]
v. Robert1 Lockwood, bapt. 18 Jan. 1600/1. For further information on him and his family, see Mr. Anderson's article and Great Migration sketch.[25]
vi. Barbara Lockwood, bapt. 31 July 1603, bur. 13 Jan. 1632/33,[26] m. Joseph Sowgate. Children: [27]
(1) Mary Sowgate, bapt. 8 Sept. 1629.
(2) Joseph Sowgate, bapt. 7 April 1631, bur. 25 April 1631.
(3) Joseph Sowgate, bapt. 19 Feb. 1631/32. Mentioned in will of maternal grandmother Alice Lockwood.[28]
vii. Alice Lockwood, bapt. 14 Apr. 1605, m. ___ Hoddy; living 14 Dec. 1638.[29]
viii. William Lockwood, b. say 1607; living 27 Feb. 1638/39.[30]
ix. Martha Lockwood, bapt. 28 Oct. 1610, bur. 31 Jan. 1610/11.[31]
x. John Lockwood, bapt. 21 Dec. 1611; living 14 Dec. 1638. Note that the transcript of Alice Lockwood's will given in Mr. Anderson's article was missing the following clause between the bequests to son William and daughter Alice: "Item I give to John Lockwood my sonne ten pounds".[32]
xi. Dorothy Lockwood, b. say 1613,[33] m. John Manwood; living 14 Dec. 1638.[34] (1) John Manwood, bapt. 12 July 1635, bur. 21 Aug. 1636.[35]
xii. Mary Lockwood, bapt. Little Finborough 1 Aug. 1615,[36] bur. Combs 21 Dec. 1632.[37]
Edmund1 Lockwood was baptized in Combs 16 January 1598/99.[38] He emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1630, and died there between 9 May 1632 and 3 March 1634/35.[39] He and his first unknown wife had at least the following four children, baptisms and burials in Combs except as noted:[40]
i. Mary Lockwood, bapt. 5 October 1620. No further record, but since two children of Edmund1 Lockwood seem to have survived him to be raised by his brother Robert, as evidenced by the size of Robert's Watertown land grants, Mary could be one (Edmund2 is known to be the other).[41]
ii. Susan Lockwood, bapt. 10 Dec. 1622 in Little Finboroug,[42] bur. 5 Apr. 1624 in Combs.
iii. Edmund Lockwood, bur. 20 Dec. 1625.
iv. Edmund2 Lockwood, bapt. 30 Aug. 1627, d. 31 Jan. 1692/93 in Stamford, Fairfield Co., CT, m. 7 Jan. 1655/56 in Stamford, Hannah Scott.[43]
Edmund1 Lockwood and his second wife Elizabeth Masters had the following child.
v. John Lockwood, b. Nov. 1632 in Cambridge, MA, d. 1683 in New London, CT, unmarried.[44]
Footnotes:
1. Harriet Woodbury Hodge, C. G., "Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford, Connecticut" (New York, New York: Philip V. Lockwood, Publisher, 1978).
2. Robert Charles Anderson, "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633," 3 volumes (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society,1995), II (G-O): 1192-1194.
3. Robert Charles Anderson, "Robert Lockwood of Watertown, Stamford and Fairfield: English Ancestry, New England Connections and Children's Marriages", "Connecticut Ancestry," Volume 47, No. 2 (December, 2004): 119-130.
4. Robert Charles Anderson, "The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635," 7 volumes (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005), IV (I-L):308-315.
5. Registered Wills in either monastic or commissary courts of Bury St Edmunds, or Archdeaconry Court of Sudbury, Volume 53 (Gael), on FHL microfilm # 97,087, page 424.
6. Parish Register Transcripts for Combs, County Suffolk, England, on FHL microfilm # 993,236, items 4-5.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Archdeaconry Court of Sudbury, Registered Wills, Volume 41 (Coppinge), page 306 [FliL microfilm # 97,076].
11. 1568 Subsidy Return for County Suffolk, England, published on CD by The Archive CD Books Project, 5 Commercial Street, Cinderford, Glos. GL14 2RP, England, 2001, page 239.
12. See note 6.
13. See note
14. See note 6.
15. Archdeaconry Court of Sudbury, Registered Wills, Volume 20, page 229 [FHL microfilm # 97,061].
16. Archdeaconry Court of Sudbury, Registered Wills, Volume 20, page 230 [FHL microfilm # 97,061].
17. Archdeaconry Court of Sudbury, Registered Wills, Volume 20, page 232 [FHL microfilm # 97,061].
18. Parish Register Transcripts for Mendlesham, County Suffolk, England on FHL microfilm # 992,241, Item 17.
19. "Suffolk in 1524, Being the Return for a Subsidy granted in 1523," Suffolk Green Books, No. X (Woodbridge: George Booth, Church Street, 1910) on FHL microfilm # 496,952, Item 2.
20. See notes 6 and 10.
21. Ibid. Names given as Robert Garner and Joone Lockwood. Robert was a widower.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. See note 2.
25. See notes 3 and 4.
26. See note 6. -
27. Ibid.
28. See note 5.
29. See notes 5 and 6.
30. See note 5.
31. See note 6.
32. Ibid.
33. Since her previously unidentified sister Barbara was baptized in the year previously tentatively assigned to her, she has been moved down to a gap in known baptism records. Obviously this is still a guess.
34. See note 5.
35. See note 6.
36. Parish Register Transcripts for Little Finborough, County Suffolk, England on FHL microfilm # 993,248.
37. See note 6.
38. Ibid.
39. See note 2.
40. See note 6. In his "Great Migration" sketch of Edmund1 Lockwood, Mr. Anderson listed Edmund2 without baptism date, as his only known child by his first wife. He also pointed out that evidence suggested they had at least one other child. Last year's article noted the church records concerning Mary, Susan and the first Edmund, and indicated that certain Watertown land grants for Robert' imply Edmund had exactly two surviving children by his first wife. The present article adds the baptism date for Edmund2.
41. See notes 2 - 4.
42. See note 36.
43. See note 1.
44. See note 2."
 		Lockwood, Mrs. Edmund (I500)
 
1657 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"Jared Spencer
Origin: Stotfold, Bedford.
Migration: 1634 (based on grant of land at Cambridge on 1 September 1634 [CaTR 10]).
First Residence: Cambridge.
Removes Lynn 1636, Hartford 1660, Haddam 1662...
Marriage:
(1) By about 1638 ___ [TAG 27:165]. (See Comments below.)
(perhaps) (2) Rebecca (Porter) Clark, daughter of JohnPorter {1639, Windsor} and widow of John Clark [TAG 27:164-65]...

2. "The American Genealogist," Vol. 27 "The Four Spencer Brothers: Their Ancestors and Descendants," compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus, M. A., pp. 164-65:
"Ensign Gerard1 Spencer, baptized. at Stotfold, Beds, England, 25 Apr. 1615, died at Haddam, Conn., in 1685 (will 17 Sept. 1683, proved 3 Sept. 1685); married first, Hannah ___, who died before her husband made his will in 1683 and perhaps much earlier; perhaps married second, after 1677, Rebecca (Porter) Clark, baptized at Felsted, co. Essex, England, 16 Sept. 1630, died 9 Jan. 1682/3 (recorded at Saybrook), daughter of John and Anne (White) Porter of Windsor, and widow of John Clark of Saybrook.
Gerard settled in Lynn, Mass., later came to Hartford and thence to Haddam, Conn. There are several good accounts of him and his family in print, but some of them omit the daughter Sarah, proved by an undated deed in Haddam Deeds [1:49] given by "Steuen Backas with my wief Sarah of Norwich" to Daniel Brainerd of Haddam of one acre "that fell to us by portion of the estat of our father Garrard Spencer."
The second marriage is suggested for Gerard because there was, by elimination, no other adult Spencer in Connecticut of proper age to be the widow Clark's husband (and unencumbered with a wife known to be living) except his brother Thomas, who was an older man and resident at a greater distance from Saybrook. Nevertheless, she may have been a third wife of Sergt. Thomas Spencer. All that the records disclose is that she died under the name of Spencer, and the loss of the early New London probate records where her estate was settled may leave it forever a matter of conjecture who her Spencer husband was. Gerard's will does not even name all his children, and lack of reference to a wife may be explained in either of two ways. A second wife may have been provided for by prenuptial agreement; or such a marriage may have occurred after the will was made.
Since the Publication of Goodwin's "Genealogical Notes" in 1856, the early wife of Gerard who was mother of his children has always been named as Hannah. The present compiler follows these authorities, though confessing that he has not seen an original or quoted contemporary record so naming her. Still, such a record may exist. The birth dates assigned to the children below are mostly guesses.
Children:
i. John2, b. ca. 1636; d. 3 Aug. 1682.
ii. Mehitabel, b. ca. 1638; d. 1691; m. by 1661, Daniel Cone of Haddam, b. ca. 1627, d. 24 Oct. 1706 in 80th yr.; ten children.
iii. Hannah, b. ca. 1640; d. by 1691; m. ca. 1664, Daniel Brainerd of Haddam, b. ca. 1641, d. 1 Apr. 1715 ae. 74. He m. (2) 29 Nov. 1698, Hannah (Spencer) Sexton (No. 7, vii).
iv. Marah, b. ca. 1642; d. before 22 Dec. 1714; m. (1) in 1662, Thomas Brooks, who d. at Haddam, 18 Oct. 1668; four children; m. (2) in 1669, Thomas Shaylor of Haddam, who d. ca. 1692; five children.
v. Sarah, b. ca. 1644; living 1707; m. Dec. 1666, Stephen Backus of Norwich, b. ca. 1642, d. at Canterbury, in 1695, son of William; eight children.
vi. Elizabeth, b. ca. 1646; m. ca. 1666, Joseph Stannard of Saybrook, who d. 20 Aug. 1688.
vii. Thomas, b. ca. 1648; d. Feb. 1698/9.
viii. Samuel, b. ca. 1650; d. 7 Aug. 1705.
ix. Timothy, b. ca. 1652;d. 1704.
x. Ruth, b. ca. 1654; d. at Haddam, 28 Nov. 1744 ae. 90; m. Joseph Clark, whose will dated 24 Oct. 1716 is recorded in Haddam Deeds (2:255), son of William.
xi. William, b. ca. 1656; d. 1731.
xii. Nathaniel, b. ca. 1658; d. before 1722.
xiii. Rebecca, b. ca. 1660; d. before 1706; m. (1) ca. 1682, John Kennard of Haddam, who d. 1688; m. (2) after Feb. 1689, John Tanner."

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. 211-236: [Note: this same exact entry appears unchanged in the periodical "Connecticut Nutmegger," vol. 29 (March 1997), pp. 592-615.]
"GERARD1 SPENCER - A PIONEER OF CAMBRIDGE, LYNN, HARTFORD, AND HADDAM.
I. THE BACKGROUND.
Gerard1 Spencer (16-1685) along with his older brothers, William (1601-1640), Thomas (1607-1687), and Michael (161 1-1653) were among the very first settlers in New England under the auspices of the Massachusetts Bay Company. Their sister, Elizabeth Spencer, also was a pioneer as the wife of Timothy Tomlins. Almost certainly all were among the first passengers of the Winthrop Fleet when the first contingent of eleven ships reached New England in 1630. If all of the Spencer siblings were not in this first contingent, it seems certain that at least Elizabeth and Timothy Tomlins were in the first convoy because they were at Saugus (Lynn), Massachusetts in 1630. We have confirmation that William1 Spencer was at Newe Towne (Cambridge) in 163 1 and very likely he and all his brothers were there in 1630 (Paige). William Spencer was one of the first eight settlers to be the founders of Cambridge, Massachusetts (Paige).
All of the Spencer siblings were born in the early 1600's in Stotfold, county Bedfordshire, England. Their parents were GerardA Spencer (1576- ) and Alice Whitbread. The Spencer ancestry in England dates from the Norman invasion of 1066 A.D. And the Battle of Hastings. Over the centuries, there were several lines of Spencer descendants, but the group of our immediate interest had lived in county Bedfordshire for many generations, especially in the towns of Edworth and Stotfold. All of the siblings were in their early adult years in the early 1600's, hence among the most eligible for a new life in New England. All appear to have embraced the Puritan faith as evidenced by their membership in the church and, for the males, the attainment of Freemanship in the political hierarchy.
The present authors have written extensively on William, Elizabeth, Thomas, and Michael Spencer in earlier articles. The present story on Gerard will complete the series for the five siblings who became the ancestors of hundreds (even thousands) of Spencer descendants living in many parts of the world and especially in the United States.
In examining the life of Gerard1 Spencer, we should note that he probably became the most affluent of the five siblings to judge by the extent of his land holdings when he died at Haddam, Connecticut, in 1685. In seeking an explanation for the greater value of his estate compared with his siblings, the fact that he lived to a remarkably old age (81) for his time is certainly an important element. We must recall that William1 died at 39, Michael1 at 42, and Elizabeth's husband (Timothy Tomlins) probably in his mid-forties. Consequently, two of the male siblings did not have sufficient longevity to acquire sizeable estates. Thomas1 enjoyed four score years and was an accomplished artisan in woodworking (turning). He also acquired a large family (9 children), although somewhat smaller than Gerard's family (13 children).
In addition to hard work, a long life, and good luck, there was perhaps an even greater factor influencing the growth of assets in this early period, namely the number of children in a family. We must recall that children assumed the work of an adult in their early teens, unlike the late twentieth century where young people often are dependent on parents into the early or mid-twenties. Hence, a sizeable family back in the early 1600's in New England had the foundation for a large work force with very little outlay in wages and associated benefits. These seem to be the multiple factors contributing to the greater wealth enjoyed by Thomas1 and Gerard1 Spencer.
In Gerard's case, he also seemed disposed to acquire land not immediately useful for crop production. Here we note a considerable list of parcels which were woodland, swamp, or meadow. Was this a deliberate plan to invest in land with little immediate value, but which might increase in value over an extended period? This pattern of land acquisition was especially noticeable in Gerard's land holdings at Hartford beginning in 1659 ("Land Distribution in Hartford, 1639") and in his holdings at Haddam beginning in 1662. In the very early period in New England, such additional acquisitions would not have been possible under the existing rules.
II. Contemporary Events in Gerard's Lifetime (17th Century).
We shall touch only briefly upon the forces which shaped history during Gerard's lifetime that spanned nearly all of the 1600's. In England in the early years of the century, the great struggle continued between the followers of Puritanism and the Church of England. Only ten years after the Winthrop Fleet set out for New England in 1630, a great English Civil War erupted leading eventually to the destruction of the monarchy and the rise to power of Oliver Cromwell. The year 1658 saw the death of Cromwell and the accession to the throne of Charles II by 1660.
The 1600's saw a continuing struggle between the English and Dutch for the control of New Amsterdam (New York) which extended even to the lower reaches of the Connecticut River Valley. The French, on the other hand, concerned themselves with the expansion of an empire in Nova Scotia, Quebec, and the exploration of the Mississippi Valley. By 1681, the French explorer La Salle had claimed the entire region to the mouth of the great river and called it "Louisiana". In the same year, William Penn founded Philadelphia.
Back in New England, the first witch was executed at Salem in 1648 and witchcraft trials were still in vogue as late as 1692. In 1650, the population of the New England colonies stood at 52,000. Twenty years later (1670) there were about 1 15,000 people in New England and 40,000 in Virginia. By 1680, New England had 155,000 people. The New England fishing industry in 1675 embraced 600 ships and employed 4,000 workers.
There were two major conflicts with the Indians in the 1600's. The Pequot War of 1637 was a short but bloody conflict in which Sgt. Thomas1 Spencer became involved directly on the battlefield. Nearly half a century later, the King Philip War (1675-1676) resulted in the destruction of scores of settlements and the death of many pioneer men, women, and children throughout much of New England. Suffield, Connecticut, where many of the Spencer pioneers lived, was destroyed and the inhabitants fled to more secure havens, principally Springfield, Massachusetts. Gerard1 Spencer held the rank of Ensign in the Haddam Train Band during the King Philip War. Since he was then 61 years of age, it seems doubtful if he was a direct participant in the campaigns against the Indians.
Despite the Indian threat and the prevalence of many regional and international struggles throughout the 1600's, it seems clear that Gerard1 Spencer and his large family successfully initiated new lives in three wilderness locations (Lynn, Hartford, Haddam) and attained a significant degree of prosperity.
III. The Family of Gerard1 Spencer
The Family of Gerard1 Spencer (16-1685). Ensign Gerard Spencer, son of GerardA Spencer and Alice Whitbread, was baptized at St. Mary's Parish, Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England, 25 April 1614. Gerard1 was in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from about 1630 to 1637 with his brothers, William, Thomas, and Michael Spencer, but emigrated to Lynn, Massachusetts in 1637. He spent the next 22 years at Lynn (until 1659), when he emigrated to Hartford for a period of two or three years. In 1662, he became one of a small group of pioneers who founded Haddam, Connecticut.
Gerard appears to have been married at least twice, first to "Hannah" about 1635 and then "Hannah Hills", who may have been one and the same. All the children (except possibly the last) were born at Lynn. Rebecca, the thirteenth Child, could have been born at Hartford. The name of Hannah Hills appears only once in the IGI records when Samuel, the eighth child was born.
(2) Rebecca (Porter) Clark (1630-1683) marr. Gerard1 in 1677 at Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut (IGI). Rebecca born 16 Sept 1630 at Felsted, Essex co. England; d. 9 Jan 1683 at Saybrook. (Goodwin calls her "Rebecca Howard"). (Jacobus uncertain if Rebecca marr. Gerard1).
Children
Chronologically, the first six children were by the "first Hannah" and the remaining seven by "Hannah Hills" who may have been different from the "first Hannah" whose surname is uncertain. There were no children by Rebecca (Porter)(Clark) Spencer... [KP note: Book details children of Gerard; however, I do not transcribe the information.]
III. Gerard's Years at Cambridge, ca1631-1637.
The town of Cambridge, Massachusetts, originally called "Newe Towne" by the early settlers, was founded either early in 163 1 or 1632 by eight settlers who were among the passengers on the first contingent of the Winthrop Fleet in 1630. One of the eight settlers was William1 Spencer (1601-1640), the oldest of the five Spencer siblings from county Bedfordshire, England. It is certain that Thomas1 Spencer (1607-1687), the second oldest brother, accompanied William1 on this great adventure to the New World. The dwellings of both William and Thomas in Newe Towne were shown on the earliest known map dated 1635 (Paige). There were no dwellings shown for the two youngest brothers, Michael1 (1611-1653) and Gerard1 (1614-1685). However, both Michael and Gerard were listed in 1635 as having small land grants of four acres each. Since there is no record of the Spencers in the known passenger lists among the first ships of "The Great Migration", we can only assume that the brothers came as a group. Michael was 19 in 1630, while Gerard was 16. It would be natural for the two younger brothers to come under the protective umbrella of the older brothers considering the extreme risks involved in such an unknown enterprise.
In the entire records of the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company from 1630 to 1641, there are only two entries for Gerard1 Spencer. On 19 March 1639 "Garrett Spencer is granted the fferry at Linn for 2 years, taking 2d for a person to the furthest place, and but a 1d a pson for more to the furthest place but a 1d for a single pson to the nearest place." A more detailed account described "The ferry from Needham's Landing in Lynn to Ballard's Landing in Saugus." Also in 1639, the General Court allocated 50 pounds towards a bridge spanning the Saugus River.
The second entry in the Court Records is dated 9 March 1637 when "Gerrett Spencer" was elevated to Freeman. These very limited entries contrast with those for his older brother William who had several dozen entries, mostly relating to his services for surveys of municipal boundaries.
The absence of records on Gerard i s reflected in the standard histories of early Cambridge (Paige and Brandon) which make no reference to him. Both Michael' and Gerard1 remained in Newe Towne until 1637 when they are listed as settlers at Lynn (Saugus). The present authors already have prepared a detailed report on the life of Michael1 Spencer at Lynn up to the time of his death in 1653.
IV. Gerard's Years at Lynn 1637-ca1659.
There undoubtedly were at least three major factors in the decision made by Michael and Gerard Spencer to emigrate from Cambridge to Lynn (Saugus) in 1637. During 1635 and 1636, there was great turmoil at Cambridge due to the nearly total evacuation of the population to Hartford under the leadership of the Rev. Thomas Hooker. Nearly all of the property in Cambridge changed hands, most of it sold ID the followers of the Rev. Thomas Shepard. Although William1 Spencer remained on at Cambridge until 1638 or 1639, his two younger brothers decided to move on to Lynn in 1637.
The second motivating factor for Michael and Gerard probably was the availability of land at Lynn. The land records at Cambridge showed an allocation of only four acres each to Michael and Gerard. The records at Lynn, however, showed an immediate allotment of thirty acres each in 1638 (Lewis and Newhall).
Finally, the presence of Elizabeth1 (Spencer) Tomlins at Lynn undoubtedly was influential in promoting the emigration of the two young brothers. Elizabeth's husband, Timothy Tomlins (-1645), was a leader from the very first days of Lynn. He served several terms as a Deputy to the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company. Timothy's brother, Edward Tomlins, also was a prominent figure in the early history of Lynn.
Lynn (Saugus) was first settled by five families who emigrated from nearby Salem in 1629. These individuals, of course, had come to New England in advance of the first vessels of the Winthrop Fleet which did not arrive until the summer of 1630. About 50 settlers arrived in Saugus in 1630, including Timothy and Edward Tomlins. Many of the settlers were described as having families. Since there is no later record of Elizabeth Tomlins on the passenger lists as an emigrant, it seems logical to believe that she had accompanied her husband Timothy to New England in 1630.
Newhall presents an interesting list of chronological events at Lynn which are repeated here covering the early and later years up to 1659 which seems the most likely date when Gerard1 Spencer emigrated to Hartford after spending 22 years of his adult life at Lynn.
1630. Wolves kill several swine belonging to the settlers, September 30.
1631. Governor Winthrop passed through the settlement, Oct. 28, and noted that the crops were plentiful.
1633. A corn mill, the first in the settlement, built on Strawberry Brook.
1634. The settlement sends its first representative, Capt. Nathaniel Turner, to the General Court.
1635. Philip Kertland, the first shoemaker, arrives.
1637. Name of the settlement changed from Saugus to Lynn. At this time there were 37 plows in the colony, most of them in Lynn. Settlement of Sandwich commenced by emigrants from Lynn.
1638. First division of lands among the inhabitants.
1639. Ferry established across Saugus river. First bridge built over Saugus River at Boston street crossing.
1643. Iron works established near Saugus river; the first in America.
1646. Lynn made a market town-Tuesday, the lecture day, being market day;
Perhaps the best account of Gerard's years at Lynn was summarized by Henry C. Spencer (Le DeSpencer 1993):
Gerard Spencer was a juryman from Lynn at a county court held the 25th of the 10th month, 1638. He was made Ensign of the trainband at Lynn. In September of 1639, Joseph Armitage and Gerard Spencer signed a bond as security for Daniel Salmon. In 1641, Gerard and another person made an oath as to the intent of William Ballard, deceased, to have a will and testified as to Ballard's stated desire concerning the disposal of his property. In February 1644, the estate of Abraham Belknap, late of Lynn, is recorded as being indebted to Gerard Spencer.
In June 1643, Gerard bore witness that a neighbor woman spoke contemptuously of infant baptism, heresy in Puritan New England. In December 1643, Gerard Spencer and John Deacon testified that Joseph Armitage sold wine at retail without license. At the same court, Gerard "deposed that on artillery training day coming from Salem with others, Edward Richard over took them and that he was distempered with drink, stumbled in his going and faltered in his speech".
Gerard had an interest in another case called the "case of a cow". The animal had evidently died prematurely and the decision rendered with the consent of Gerard Spencer "the defendant shall have 3 pounds and the benefit of the dead beast". During the same court, several men were presented for turning their cattle into the general field before the corn was gathered, and for that offense they were to pay damage to Gerard Spencer and two other men. Gerard served on trial juries in March and September 1639, June 1652, June 1657, and June 1658 and on the Grand Jury in November 1659.
Brother Michael Spencer died in 1653 in Lynn, and administration of his estate was granted to Gerard 29 November, 1653. The estate was small, and was ordered sold "for the bringing up of Michael's children".
Despite these accounts of somewhat minor events during the 22 or 23 years Gerard spent at Lynn, we have no clear record of his occupational activities. One early writer (Harold Spencer) described Gerard as a "journeyman" (a worker who has learned a handicraft or trade - distinguished from an apprentice). There seems no factual evidence that Gerard was an artisan like his brother Thomas1 Spencer who was a well-known "turner" in the Connecticut River Valley and who created a dynasty of woodworkers lasting more than a century and a half.
It has been noted from land records that Gerard was addicted to the acquisition of extensive property holdings in both Hartford and Haddam, Connecticut. From the records in both locations, he seemed interested not only in cultivable land, but also in the acquisition of extensive tracts of woodland, meadow (pasture), and swamp. Swamp grasses, of course, often were useful for haying purposes or even for the thatching of rooftops. Did this pattern of property holdings indicate a "visionary" man who could foresee the increasing value of non-cultivable land held over a period of time? Certainly by the time of his death in 1685, Gerard1 Spencer must have become one of the most affluent men in his local community or even in a regional setting.
The land records at Hartford indicated that his acquisitions began as early as 1659, although he was still listed as a member of the Grand Jury at Lynn in November of that year. He appears to have been actively purchasing land at Hartford up to and including 1664 (Hartford Land Distribution), but at the same time he was identified (along with his son John) as one of the original proprietors at Haddam, Connecticut, in 1662. Why was there this brief interlude at Hartford from about 1659 to 1662? Perhaps the availability of land at Haddam was not foreseen because it was not until 1662 that the General Court provided the funds to purchase the land in and around the Haddam area from the Indians. The original proprietors consisted of 28 men (families?) from Wethersfield, Windsor, and Hartford.
It is of interest that Gerard continued to hold property at Lynn (or adjacent to Salem) which he did not sell until 1679, almost at the end of his long agricultural career (Starr). The transaction was dated 15 May 1679: "Ensigne Jerard Spencer of Haddam in Connetticot sold to Capt. George Corwin, of Salem, two p'cells of land in Salem afores'd containing twenty five acres, be it more or less, twenty acres whereof lyeth within fence & in a greater p'cel containing the whole forty acres & is bounded on the great pond on ye east the rocks on ye northwest. Linn bounds on ye southwest, a swamp northeast & five acres on ye west side of ye pond."
V. Gerard's Years at Hartford 1659/60-1662.
After 22 years at Lynn and at age 45, Gerard1 Spencer decided to pull up stakes in 1659 or 1660 at Lynn, Massachusetts, and emigrate to Hartford, Connecticut, where his brother, Thomas1 Spencer (1607-1687), had been living for nearly a quarter century and had established a highly successful woodworking shop which was to continue with his descendants for several generations. Gerard probably no longer had any close kin folks in Lynn since his brother Michael had died in 1653 and his brother-in-law, Timothy Tomlins, had died in 1645.
Of course, Gerard himself had a large number of children ranging in age from John at 24 to Rebecca about one year of age. Gerard's other sons were Thomas age 12; Samuel age 10; Timothy age 8; William age 4; and Nathaniel age 2. Perhaps it was Gerard's concern for the future of these boys that led him to consider prospects for re-location. Still, locating in Hartford which was now completing nearly a quarter century of growth would hardly have opened up new vistas for the children. We can visualize a scenario where Gerard made the shift to Hartford late in 1659 as a "stopgap" while he awaited a move for the General Court to open up the territory south of Hartford along the Connecticut River. Actually, the nature of his purchases in Hartford lend support to this "temporary" arrangement because none of the purchases (nine in all) embraced any sizeable amount of cultivable land. One of the purchases, however, did include a house and barn in Hartford, so it seems certain that he did live in that town at least for a short period. He was, in fact, admitted as an inhabitant of Hartford in 1660.
Late in 1659 (Land Distribution Records of Hartford), Gerard Spencer bought nine parcels of land from John Norton who was moving to Farmington. These parcels ranged in size from 1.5 to 30 acres. One parcel included the following: "One percell of land Containing by estimation one Acre & Two rood (be it more or lesse) together wth a house and Barne Standing thereon, which percel of land abutts on the High way leading from the oxpasture to the mill on the weft: on land appoynted for a buriing place & Richard Lords land east. on John Stedmans land Sowth & on of: Goodwins land North."
Gerard signed a bond of indebtedness from John Norton for one hundred twenty two pounds and ten shillings. John Norton lost the paper stating this amount was repaid by Gerard Spencer, but did not report it until February of 1664. Finally, in 1667, the following note was entered in the Hartford land records:
"These presents witness that whereas Jarrad Spencer of Hartford was Indebted unto me John Norton of farmington the Sume of cwie Hundred Twenty Two pownds & Tenn Shillings for certaine percells of land & houseing Situate at hartford in the Colony of Conectcutt in New England, & that I the Sayd John Nortin did receiue of the Sayd Jarrad Spencer, obligation By Bond for the ample performance of the Sayd Sume to Content, & now at present the Sayd Instrument cannot be fownd So as to deliuered up unto him, These presents are to witnesse that I John Norton haue receiued of and from the Sayd Jarad Spencer ample & full Sattisfaction according to the Tenure thereof & I doe for my selfe Heires executo Administrators and afsignes fully acquit exonerat & difecharge the Sayd Jarred Spencer his heirs executors & assignes of & from that Sayd instrument or anything therin contained & of & from all dues depts demands or accounts of any Nature or kind that are or haue bene between us from the begining of the world unto this present day witnes my hand this Twenty Third of February 1664.
John Norton
witnefs Samuel Steele wm Edwards
This is a true Coppy of the origanell being Examined & Compared therewith, & recorded this 29th of January 1667
me John Allyn Secret'y & register."
There is additional confirmation of Gerard's presence in Hartford in 1660 when Simon Lobdell sued Gerard and daughter Hannah (age 19) because the latter refused to marry Lobdell as she had promised. We know that Lobdell was at Hartford in 1655 and was elevated to Freeman in 1657 (Savage). He was at Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1666.
An interesting aspect of Gerard's property holdings at Hartford is that there is no record in the Land Distribution listings of the dates when he sold these properties. This official record for Hartford extends well up into the 1700's, many years after the death of Gerard1 at Haddam in 1685. This is a strange anomaly since all the purchases at the earlier date seemed to have been listed in detail.
To summarize Gerard's short interlude at Hartford, it is possible that it spanned only a few months, perhaps from late in 1659 to the summer of 1662 when the family settled at Haddam.
There is the distinct impression that Gerard intended to settle permanently at Hartford (nine land purchases) and then suddenly shifted gears when an unexpected opportunity opened up at Haddam for more acquisitions of land.
VI. Gerard's Years at Haddam 1662-1685.
The founding of Haddam occurred in a significant year of Connecticut history for i t was in 1662 that John Winthrop, J r. made his historic trip to England in search of a Royal Charter for the colony. Up to that time there had been serious doubts about the legal basis (Fundamental Orders) upon which the colony rested. Winthrop's trip was an outstanding success and he returned with the Connecticut Charter of 1662 emanating directly from the Crown.
We find a direct Spencer connection with the ceremonies attendant upon Winthrop's return. Thomas1 Spencer and Nicholas Disbrow of Hartford designed "The Great Winthrop Chair" which is considered a classic of the period and is still preserved in the museum.
In this same year (1662), a large tract of land southeast of Hartford was purchased for a new Plantation to be known as "Thirty Mile Island" (Haddam and East Haddam). One source listed the General Court of Massachusetts as the purchaser, while other sources have listed Mathew Allyn and Samuel Willys of Hartford as the purchasers. Today, most of this tract would occupy the entire central section of Middlesex County. The price was a mere "30 coats" having an estimated value of one hundred dollars by early 19th century standards (Barber). The 28 young men, mostly from Hartford, Wethersfield, and Windsor included the surnames of ACKLEY, ARNOLD, BAILEY, BRAINARD, BROOKS, CLARKE, CONE, GATES, SHAYLER, SPENCER (GERARD1, JOHN2), two SMITHS, VENTRES, WELLS, BATES, BUTLER, CORBE, DIBBLE, GANES, HANNISON, JONES, LUXFORD, PARENTS, PIPER, STANNARD, WEBB, and WEST.
In the above list, we can count ten surnames of families which became related by marriage to the Gerard Spencer family. This seems a remarkable example of the intermarriages of pioneer families. If we were able to count the present-day descendants of these families, the list would surely be in the hundreds and more likely in the tens of thousands.
Roland Tyler of Haddam recently has drawn up a most interesting diagram of the "home lots" in the town for many of the original proprietors in 1662 (published by Barbara Dunekacke, 1989). [P. 226 of the book includes an illustrated map entitled "Plantation of Thirty-Mile Island, Haddam, Conn."] The settlement was not known as Haddam until 1668. The buildings still standing are marked with a black rectangle, while a rectangle with and "X" denotes the supposed location of some of the earliest dwellings. The layout of the settlement is most interesting because of the long rectangular shape of each of the home lots with a "common highway" bisecting most lots more or less evenly down the middle of the lot.
The map may be incomplete because there were 28 original proprietors, but only 18 settlers are shown on the diagram. Dunekacke notes there was another original settlement known as "The Lower Plantation" located about a mile and a half below the Haddam Court House which in the present day i s known as "Shailerville". Perhaps the ten missing proprietors on the "Thirty-Mile Island Plantation" were not located in the original Haddam settlement, but were situated at a short distance above or below the main group of settlers. This assumption may be supported if we note that the first "Meeting House" (no. 15 on the map) was located well below the primary home lots as if to accommodate some settlers who may have lived south of the main part of town.
Barber has given us some details of the original purchase of the Haddam territory from the Indians in 1662. The deed comprehended all the lands from the Straits, six miles east and west from the river, down to the lower side of Chester Meadow; excepting Thirty Mile Island, and 40 acres at "Pattaquonk" (Chester), Twenty Mile Island, and on the adjacent shores eastward, running up to Salmon River cove.
The pioneers settled generally on the rising ground, back from the town meadow, beginning at the eastern point of Walkley Hill, and so extending down to the grave yard, where some of their cellars are still visible.
The Indians had a place of resort, in a deep hollow on Haddam neck, to the northeast, which is still known by the name of "Indian Hollow", as the brook running through it is known by the name of "Indian Brook The northern part of Haddam was "Higganompos" which the English have changed to "Higganum". The western part of the area they called "Cockaponset" which the English have changed to "Punset".
Haddam was incorporated as a town in 1668. At that time it belonged to the county of Hartford, and so continued till the formation of Middlesex County in 1785 ... The town lies on both sides of the Connecticut River ... The part of the town lying on the east side of the River is called "Haddam Neck" This township is the commencement of the granitic district, extending to the mouth of the Connecticut River. It is considerably rough and broken, being hilly and stony.
Eight years after the original settlement of Haddam in 1662, the Connecticut Census of 1670 listed only two Spencers, the names of "Gerrard" and "JOHN" (clearly Gerard's oldest son). Thomas Spencer", next oldest son, was 22 and later became known as "Thomas of Saybrook", but apparently he was still a resident of Haddam in 1673 when he married Elizabeth Bates (IGI).
During his years at Haddam (1662-1685), Gerard1 was active both in military and civic affairs. He was listed as an Ensign in the Militia in 1672 and as an Ensign in Haddam's "trayne band" in King Philip's War. (Perhaps an honorary title since Gerard was in his sixties by that time).
In the area of civic affairs, Gerard served as a deputy to the General Court in 1678, 1679, 1680, and 1683. Like his older brother William1 who had served several times as a Deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts, Gerard remained active in these public affairs almost to the end of his life in 1685. Gerard also had attained the status of "Freeman" in Connecticut just as he had done in Massachusetts in the early years of his life at Lynn.
VII. The Will and Estate of Gerard1 Spencer.
The "Early Probate Records of Connecticut" by Manwaring contain a full version of the wills of both Gerard1 Spencer and his oldest son John2 Spencer (1636-1682). The will of Gerard is shown here verbatim:
"Spencer, Jarrad, Ensign, Haddam. Invt. 124 Pounds-12-00 of Estate not disposed of by Will. Taken 29 June, 1685, by Joseph Arnot & Alexander Rob. Will dated 17 September, 1683.
The last Will of Ensign Jarrad Spencer of Haddam: I give unto my son William the Land which I bought of Steven Luxford's Estate. How I come by it the Court Record will show. I give unto my son William 1-3 part of 48 acres lying by that wch was commonly called Welles his Brook. I give to my son Nathaniel my now Dwelling house wth the Lott that was the houselott, with an Addition lying by the side of it, granted by the Committe. I give unto my daughter Rebeckah that Houselott I bought of Thomas Smith. Likewise I give unto my daughter Rebeckah 1-3 part of the Lott by Welles his Brook. I give unto my son Thomas 40 acres on Matchamodus Side. I give unto my son Timothy Spencer the remainder of that 6 score acre lott whereof his 2 brothers had their shares. The other 6 score thereof I dispose of as followeth: To Grace Spencer, the daughter of my son John Spencer, 40 acres; to Alice Brooks, the daughter of my daughter Brooks, 40 acres; to Grace Spencer, the daughter of my son Samuel Spencer, I give the other 40 acres. I give unto Jarred Cone, the son of my daughter Cone, my Carbine. A pewter Flagon and Urim Bason I give to the Church at Haddam, if there be one within five years. It is my Will that my son John Spencer his Chidren and my son-in-law Daniel Cone his children have an equal proportion of my Estate with my other children. It is my Will that however my Estate falls out for portions to my children, that my daughter Ruth Clarke's portion shall be 15 Pounds, which was my Covenant with her father at her marriage, which 15 Pounds she hath received some part thereof, as my Books will testify; & to my son Joseph Clarke I give him 40 acres of land at Matchemodus. It is the humble request of Jarrad Spencer that the honoured Major John Talcott arid Capt. John Allyn would be pleased to oversee this his Will. I appoint my two Sons Daniel Brainard and William Spencer Adms. to the Estate.
Jarrad Spencer
Witness: John James, Joseph Arnot.
Court Record, Page 111-3, September, 1685: Adms. to Daniel Braynard and William Spencer, with the Will annexted."
In addition to the primary document of Gerard's will, an Annex to the will was found by Peter B. Miller and published in 1983 in Le DeSpencer.
"I give to my sonn Samuel two acres of swamp joyning to Daniel Cone on the other side to the Great River.
I give to my sonn Thymothy two Acres of swamp joyning to Samuells.
I give to my grandchild Gerrard Spencer ae acre joyning to Samuell and Thymothy.
And what there is remaining of the swamps I give to my sonn Thomas Spencer.
I give to my sonn Joseph Clarke forty acres of land at Matchimodus out of the first division and forty pounds right in the undivided land thoat (sic).
Like all wills with so many beneficiaries, it is extremely difficult to visualize exactly "who got what". In order to make the terms more understandable, we have arranged a chart in two columns. In the left column is a list of the beneficiaries in the will while in the right column is a description of the legacy to each individual (including the terms in the Annex to the will).
THE LEGATEES IN THE WILL OF GERARD1 SPENCER... [KP note: The author provides a lengthy list of the various children and grandchildren of Gerard and the specific legacies they received if any. I do not transcribe this chart since my interest in Gerard ends with his generation.]
It is interesting that not all of the assets of Gerard1 Spencer were described in his Will or in the Annex, but those items left out eventually were surveyed by the two administrators in 1685. Joseph Arnott and Alexander Rollo compiled a long list of these omitted assets. The total value of a II such items was estimated at 124 pounds and 12 shillings, representing a considerable proportion of the estate. Those items representing tangible real estate or livestock are shown in the following list.
1) 3 cowes.
2) 4 acres of land in the home field, not the old barn.
3) 4 acres of land in the home meadow.
4) 7 acres of land in ye upper devision in the upper meadow.
5) 4 acres of land in the lower devision in the upper meadow.
6) 3 acres of land in the equal devision.
7) 100 lot right of the undivided lands of Mathamootus.
8) 220 lot right of land called the plane.
9) 190 lot of undivided land on the west side of the great river.
There is no indication of how the two appraisers decided on the disposition of these numerous assets among the beneficiaries (items undeclared in the original Will or in the Annex). From an overall viewpoint, however, it seems that Gerard appeared to have given considerable thought as to how his assets would be divided among his heirs. We must also reflect on the fact that Gerard Spencer came to New England probably with no assets whatsoever and during one lifetime was able to accumulate an estate of considerable value, especially as measured by the amount of land which he had acquired.
In most of the wills of the 1600's, there seemed to be a highly unequal division of estates in favor of the sons compared with the allocations to the daughters. This may have reflected the general philosophy that the men were the breadwinners with primary responsibility for the welfare of their families. The daughters, on the other hand, were to be supported by their spouses and would have much less need for as large a share in the estate as their brothers. in Gerard's case, it seems that such a practice was not followed in toto. Gerard was even generous to some of his sons-in-law as direct benefactors without naming the spouses (Gerard's daughters) as the primary beneficiaries... [KP note: Author continues with more analysis of the children and what they received from Gerard's probate. I do not transcribe this information.]
In viewing Gerard's life in retrospect, we see that he achieved a degree of affluence greater than that of any of his three brothers. William1 and Michael1 died as relatively young men in their forties, which was certainly not uncommon in the 1600's. William1 undoubtedly was the best educated of the four because he held numerous important administrative posts both in Cambridge and in Hartford. Thomas1 enjoyed a longevity comparable to Gerard's and in addition was an artisan (chairmaker) of the first rank. Thomas1 also had the good fortune to raise a sizeable family.
As we have noted before, Gerard1 seemed to have a great skill as a land developer and farmer. Perhaps the greatest factor leading to his affluence was the presence of thirteen living children which provided him with an unexcelled labor pool. It was quite remarkable that so many of his children survived to adulthood when. it was a common experience in the general population for a large number to die in their infancy. We should not assume that Gerard was exploiting his children for it was a routine practice in that day and age for children (especially boys) of to, enter the labor force as apprentices. An extended education for children was yet scarcely dreamed of in New England despite the early establishment of such great institutions as Harvard University.
References:
Barber, John W. "History & Antiquities of Every Town in Connecticut With Geographical Descriptions". New Haven, 1830.
Callahan, North. "Connecticut Revolutionary War Leaders". Pequot Press, 1973.
Clark, Flora Spencer. "The Four Spencer Brothers in America". Le DeSpencer, Jour. of the Spencer Hist. & Gen. Soc., Jan. 1983.
Collins, Christopher. "Connecticut in the Continental Congress". Pequot Press, 1973.
Dunekacke, Barbara. "Plantation of Thirty-Mile Island, Conn. Explanatory". Le DeSpencer, Jour. of the Spencer Hist. & Gen. Society, Vol. 13, 1989.
Emmerton, James A & Henry F. Waters. "Gleanings From English Records About New England Families". The Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., Vol. 17, 1880.
Ferris, Mary W. "Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines". A Memorial Vol. Containing the American Ancestry of Mary Beman (Gates)
Dawes. Vol. 1. "Gates & Allied Families", 1931.
Field, David D. "A History of the Towns of Haddam and East Haddam". Middletown, Loomis & Richards, 1814.
Flansburg, Carol. "Excavation of the Homesite of Gen. Joseph Spencer". Le DeSpencer, Jour. of the Spencer Hist. & Gen. Soc., Vol. 15, May, 1991.
Goodwin, Nathaniel. "Genealogical Notes". Gen. Publ. Co., Baltimore, 1982.
Hills, W.S. & Thomas Hills. "Genealogical Data Relating to the Ancestry and Descendants of William Hills and Joseph Hills". Hills Family Gen. & Hist. Assoc., Boston, 1902.
Jacobus, Donald Lines. "The Four Spencer Brothers, Their Ancestors and Descendants". The American Genealogist, Vol. 27-30, 1951-1954.
Lancaster, Bruce. "The American Revolution". American Heritage Publ. Co., Inc., New York, 1958.
Lewis, Alonzo & James R. Newhall. "History of Lynn, Including Lynnfield, Saugus, Swampscott, and Nahant, 1629-1864". Published by George C. Herbert, Lynn, 1899.
Manwaring, Charles W. " Early Connecticut Probate Records". Vol.1, Hartford District, 1635-1700. H.S. Peck& Co., Hartford, 1904.
Miller, Peter. "The Last Will & Testament of Estate of Gerrard Spencer (1614-1685) of Haddam, Connecticut". Le DeSpencer, Jour. of the Spencer Hist. & Gen. Soc.. Vol. 6, Jan. 1983.
Miller, Peter. "Ensign Garrard Spencer". Le DeSpencer, Jour. of the Spencer Hist. & Gen. Soc. Vol. 9, Jan. 1986.
Newhall, J.R. "History of Lynn, 1864-1890". Published at Lynn by George C. Herbert, 1890.
Paige, Lucius R. "History of Cambridge, 16 30-1877, With a Genealogical Register". Cambridge, The Riverside Press, 1877.
Parker, Francis. "History of East Haddam". 1925(?). Savage, James. "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England". Four Vol., Gen. Publ. Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1990.
Shaylor, Harrison (Brig. Gen.). "Marah Spencer, Wife of Thomas Shaylor". The Amer. Gen., Vol. 45, 1969.
Spillman, Jane Shadel. "The Jared Spencer Flask". Le DeSpencer, Jour. of the Spencer Hist. & Gen. Soc., Vol. 16, Feb. 1992.
Spencer, Hal P. "Some Descendants of Gerard Spencer". Le DeSpencer, Jour. of the Spencer Hist. & Gen. Soc., Vol. I, 1977.
Spencer, Henry C.. "Spencer Homesite Now Part of Harvard Yard". Le DeSpencer, Jour. Spencer Hist. & Gen. Soc., August 1991.
Spencer, Jack 1. & Edith W. Spencer. "The Five Spencer Siblings of Bedfordshire, the Role of the Braintree Company, and the Beginnings of Cambridge, Massachusetts". Le DeSpencer, Jour. Spencer Hist. & Gen. Soc., Vol. 17, 1993.
Spencer, Jack T. & Edith W. Spencer. "Why and How Did the Spencer Siblings Come to America?". Le DeSpencer, Jour. of the Spencer Hist. & Gen. Soc., Vol. 18, 1994.
Starr, Frank Farnsworth. "The Thomas Spencer Family of Hartford, Connecticut, in the Line of Samuel Spencer of Cornwall, Connecticut, 1744-1818". Middletown, Conn.
Tritton, Diana. "The Thomas Spencer Family". Le DeSpencer, Jour. Spencer Hist. & Gen. Soc., Oct. 1989.
Waters, Henry F. "Genealogical Gleanings in England". Two Vol., Gen. Publ. Co., Baltimore, 1981.
Young, Alexander. "Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay From 1623 to 1636". Corner House Publishers, Williamstown, Mass. 1978.
"Original Distribution of the Lands in Hartford, Connecticut, Among the Settlers, 1639". Conn. Hist. Soc. Collections, Vol. XIV, 1912.
"Court Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1648-1655".
"Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849". The Essex Institute, Salem, 1916. Four Vol.
"The Records of the Town of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1703". Cambridge, 1901.
"Focus on Lynn". The Great Migration Newsletter, NEHGS, 1990.
International Genealogical Index, Salt Lake City, Edition of 1990.
Addendum
Cunningham, J.P. & Elizabeth A Warner. "Portrait of a River Town; The History and Architecture of Haddam, Connecticut". The Greater Middletown Preservation Trust, 1984."
 		Porter, Rebecca (I4857)
 
1658 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"John Finch
Origin: Unknown
Migration: 1632
First Residence: Watertown
Removes: Stamford 1642
Estate: Granted four acres in Beaverbrook Plowlands, 28 February 1636/7 [WaBOP 7]; granted four acres in Remote Meadows, 26 June 1637 [WaBOP 9]; granted a farm of ninety-one acres, 10 May 1642 [WaBOP 13]. (Presumably he had held a houselot and other small holdings prior to 1637. He does not appear in the early Watertown land inventories, and all lands known to be granted to him are at that time in the hands of John Wincoll, who purchased them from John Finch, presumably in mid-1642.)
Granted six acres by Stamford in October 1642 [TAG 10:42, 19:58].
An inventory of Stamford landholding was prepared on 1 March 1650, and John Finch's real estate is summarized there [Gillespie Anc 140, citing Stamford Town Records 1:43-44].
Birth: By about 1 595 based on estimated date of marriage.
Death: Stamford 5 September 1657 [TAG 10:44, 19:58].
Marriage:
(1) By about 1620 ___; not seen in any New England record.
(2) By about 1635 Martha (assuming she was the mother of his last four children), who married [blank] September 1658 John Green [TAG 10:113, 19:58].
Children:
With first wife:
i John, b. say 1620; m. (1) ___; m. (2) after 8 November 1652 Hannah (Marsh) Fuller, widow of Laun­celot Fuller.
With second wife:
ii Isaac, b. say 1635; m. (1) Stamford [blank] October 1658 Elizabeth Basset [TAG 10:113]; m. (2) by 1682 Ann ___.
iii Samuel, b. say 1638; m. by about 1663 Sarah Hoyt, daughter of SIMON HOYT.
iv Joseph, b. about 1647 (deposed 6 May 1700 aged about fifty-three); m. Stamford 23 November [1670] Elizabeth Austin.
v Abraham, b. say 1648; m. about 1670 ___ ___.
Associations: See Daniel Finch for possible relations among Finch immigrants.
Comments: As noted under Daniel Finch, John has been credited as the man who lost his belongings in a fire in September 1630, but this is more likely Daniel. On 7 November 1632 "John Finch is fined 10s. for wanting arms for his man, & for being absent himself from training" [MBCR 1:102], and this is the earliest record we have for him in New England.
Savage has assigned to this John the death at the hands of the Pequots suffered by Abraham, son of Daniel.
The grants of Beaverbrook Plowlands and Remote Meadows in 1637 were for four acres each, which indicates that the maximum size of his family at that time was four heads. This would account for himself, wife, and two eldest sons John and Isaac, both of whom were born by this time.
Bibliographic Note: In addition to the sources cited under Daniel Finch, we take note here of the magnificent work by Paul Prindle on John Finch, which we follow here in many instances [Gillespie Anc 138-51]. In particular we have relied on Prindle for the data on the marriages of the sons of John Finch, and refer the reader to his work for fuller citations on these men."

2. The book "Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke)," by Paul W. Prindle, 1976, pp. 138-42:
"1. JOHN FINCH, born say, about 1590 in England, died 5 September 1657 at Stamford, New Haven Colony ("Stamford Town Records," 1:19-20). It appears that he was married twice, for his putative son John seems to have been about 15 years older than his next-born child. John Finch Sr. married second, Martha, maiden surname undetermined. As John's widow, Martha married second, on 7 (September?) 1658, John Green (ibid., 1:74) of New Haven, widower of Mary Jarvis ("The Washington Ancestry, and Records of the McClain, Johnson and Forty Other Colonial American Families," 3:539, by Charles A. Hoppin)...
John (1) Finch and his unidentified first wife are believed to have had one child:
i. John Finch Jr., born say, about 1620, who died 19 June 1685 at Huntington ("Huntington Town Records, Including Babylon, Long Island, N.Y.," 1:432, by Charles R. Street). This John Finch was a mariner (ibid., 1:323-6). By his unidentified first wife he had a daughter Mary, wife of Nicholas Ellis, and a son John (ibid.). He may also have been the father of the Francis Finch who was an appraiser at Jamaica, Long Island, for the minister's rate in 1663. This Francis Finch was on a Jamaica tax list about 1681. He was called "My Kinsman" and received the home lot of Richard Bratnell of Jamaica under the terms of the latter's will dated 1 February 1662/3 ("The American Genealogist," 19:55).
John married, second, soon after 8 November 1652, Hannah Marsh, widow of Launcelot Fuller of New Haven. In 1656 John was recorded as living in Westchester County, New York ("Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:203).
The compiler's identification of the Westchester County and Huntington, Long Island, John Finch as son of John (1) Finch of Stamford is based on his belief that all the early Finches of New England and New York were of the same family, and because John Finch of Huntington had a son, also named John Finch, living there as late as 6 October 1683, when John Finch Jr. sold property ("Huntington Records," op. cit., 1:327-8). This son had moved to Stamford by 17 March 1684 ("Stamford Land Records," A:152). Daniel Finch of Stamford and Norwalk had no son named John, and Samuel Finch of Roxbury and his family apparently never moved west of that area.
References:
As cited.
Stamford Town Records.
"History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," by Donald Lines Jacobus, F.A.S.G."
 		Finch, Mrs. John (I5402)
 
1659 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"John Finch
Origin: Unknown
Migration: 1632
First Residence: Watertown
Removes: Stamford 1642
Estate: Granted four acres in Beaverbrook Plowlands, 28 February 1636/7 [WaBOP 7]; granted four acres in Remote Meadows, 26 June 1637 [WaBOP 9]; granted a farm of ninety-one acres, 10 May 1642 [WaBOP 13]. (Presumably he had held a houselot and other small holdings prior to 1637. He does not appear in the early Watertown land inventories, and all lands known to be granted to him are at that time in the hands of John Wincoll, who purchased them from John Finch, presumably in mid-1642.)
Granted six acres by Stamford in October 1642 [TAG 10:42, 19:58].
An inventory of Stamford landholding was prepared on 1 March 1650, and John Finch's real estate is summarized there [Gillespie Anc 140, citing Stamford Town Records 1:43-44].
Birth: By about 1 595 based on estimated date of marriage.
Death: Stamford 5 September 1657 [TAG 10:44, 19:58].
Marriage:
(1) By about 1620 ___; not seen in any New England record.
(2) By about 1635 Martha (assuming she was the mother of his last four children), who married [blank] September 1658 John Green [TAG 10:113, 19:58].
Children:
With first wife:
i John, b. say 1620; m. (1) ___; m. (2) after 8 November 1652 Hannah (Marsh) Fuller, widow of Laun­celot Fuller.
With second wife:
ii Isaac, b. say 1635; m. (1) Stamford [blank] October 1658 Elizabeth Basset [TAG 10:113]; m. (2) by 1682 Ann ___.
iii Samuel, b. say 1638; m. by about 1663 Sarah Hoyt, daughter of SIMON HOYT.
iv Joseph, b. about 1647 (deposed 6 May 1700 aged about fifty-three); m. Stamford 23 November [1670] Elizabeth Austin.
v Abraham, b. say 1648; m. about 1670 ___ ___.
Associations: See Daniel Finch for possible relations among Finch immigrants.
Comments: As noted under Daniel Finch, John has been credited as the man who lost his belongings in a fire in September 1630, but this is more likely Daniel. On 7 November 1632 "John Finch is fined 10s. for wanting arms for his man, & for being absent himself from training" [MBCR 1:102], and this is the earliest record we have for him in New England.
Savage has assigned to this John the death at the hands of the Pequots suffered by Abraham, son of Daniel.
The grants of Beaverbrook Plowlands and Remote Meadows in 1637 were for four acres each, which indicates that the maximum size of his family at that time was four heads. This would account for himself, wife, and two eldest sons John and Isaac, both of whom were born by this time.
Bibliographic Note: In addition to the sources cited under Daniel Finch, we take note here of the magnificent work by Paul Prindle on John Finch, which we follow here in many instances [Gillespie Anc 138-51]. In particular we have relied on Prindle for the data on the marriages of the sons of John Finch, and refer the reader to his work for fuller citations on these men."

2. The book "Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society," by Mary Beth Norton, 2011, pp. 232-36, contains a legal case concerning Hannah Marsh as both a spinster and during two marriages who was targeted by libel and gossip. Mentions she came to New Haven from Boston in 1645 after having recently arrived in America as a servant girl. Mentions husbands Lancelot Fuller and John Finch (John being the second husband). The case starts in 1645 and continues until Feb. 1665 when she was known as Hannah Finch. In April 1652 she is known as Goody Fuller.

3. The book "Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke)," by Paul W. Prindle, 1976, pp. 138-42:
"1. JOHN FINCH, born say, about 1590 in England, died 5 September 1657 at Stamford, New Haven Colony ("Stamford Town Records," 1:19-20). It appears that he was married twice, for his putative son John seems to have been about 15 years older than his next-born child. John Finch Sr. married second, Martha, maiden surname undetermined. As John's widow, Martha married second, on 7 (September?) 1658, John Green (ibid., 1:74) of New Haven, widower of Mary Jarvis ("The Washington Ancestry, and Records of the McClain, Johnson and Forty Other Colonial American Families," 3:539, by Charles A. Hoppin)...
John (1) Finch and his unidentified first wife are believed to have had one child:
i. John Finch Jr., born say, about 1620, who died 19 June 1685 at Huntington ("Huntington Town Records, Including Babylon, Long Island, N.Y.," 1:432, by Charles R. Street). This John Finch was a mariner (ibid., 1:323-6). By his unidentified first wife he had a daughter Mary, wife of Nicholas Ellis, and a son John (ibid.). He may also have been the father of the Francis Finch who was an appraiser at Jamaica, Long Island, for the minister's rate in 1663. This Francis Finch was on a Jamaica tax list about 1681. He was called "My Kinsman" and received the home lot of Richard Bratnell of Jamaica under the terms of the latter's will dated 1 February 1662/3 ("The American Genealogist," 19:55).
John married, second, soon after 8 November 1652, Hannah Marsh, widow of Launcelot Fuller of New Haven. In 1656 John was recorded as living in Westchester County, New York ("Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:203).
The compiler's identification of the Westchester County and Huntington, Long Island, John Finch as son of John (1) Finch of Stamford is based on his belief that all the early Finches of New England and New York were of the same family, and because John Finch of Huntington had a son, also named John Finch, living there as late as 6 October 1683, when John Finch Jr. sold property ("Huntington Records," op. cit., 1:327-8). This son had moved to Stamford by 17 March 1684 ("Stamford Land Records," A:152). Daniel Finch of Stamford and Norwalk had no son named John, and Samuel Finch of Roxbury and his family apparently never moved west of that area.
References:
As cited.
Stamford Town Records.
"History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," by Donald Lines Jacobus, F.A.S.G."
 		Marsh, Hannah (I5401)
 
1660 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"John Finch
Origin: Unknown
Migration: 1632
First Residence: Watertown
Removes: Stamford 1642
Estate: Granted four acres in Beaverbrook Plowlands, 28 February 1636/7 [WaBOP 7]; granted four acres in Remote Meadows, 26 June 1637 [WaBOP 9]; granted a farm of ninety-one acres, 10 May 1642 [WaBOP 13]. (Presumably he had held a houselot and other small holdings prior to 1637. He does not appear in the early Watertown land inventories, and all lands known to be granted to him are at that time in the hands of John Wincoll, who purchased them from John Finch, presumably in mid-1642.)
Granted six acres by Stamford in October 1642 [TAG 10:42, 19:58].
An inventory of Stamford landholding was prepared on 1 March 1650, and John Finch's real estate is summarized there [Gillespie Anc 140, citing Stamford Town Records 1:43-44].
Birth: By about 1 595 based on estimated date of marriage.
Death: Stamford 5 September 1657 [TAG 10:44, 19:58].
Marriage:
(1) By about 1620 ___; not seen in any New England record.
(2) By about 1635 Martha (assuming she was the mother of his last four children), who married [blank] September 1658 John Green [TAG 10:113, 19:58].
Children:
With first wife:
i John, b. say 1620; m. (1) ___; m. (2) after 8 November 1652 Hannah (Marsh) Fuller, widow of Laun­celot Fuller.
With second wife:
ii Isaac, b. say 1635; m. (1) Stamford [blank] October 1658 Elizabeth Basset [TAG 10:113]; m. (2) by 1682 Ann ___.
iii Samuel, b. say 1638; m. by about 1663 Sarah Hoyt, daughter of SIMON HOYT.
iv Joseph, b. about 1647 (deposed 6 May 1700 aged about fifty-three); m. Stamford 23 November [1670] Elizabeth Austin.
v Abraham, b. say 1648; m. about 1670 ___ ___.
Associations: See Daniel Finch for possible relations among Finch immigrants.
Comments: As noted under Daniel Finch, John has been credited as the man who lost his belongings in a fire in September 1630, but this is more likely Daniel. On 7 November 1632 "John Finch is fined 10s. for wanting arms for his man, & for being absent himself from training" [MBCR 1:102], and this is the earliest record we have for him in New England.
Savage has assigned to this John the death at the hands of the Pequots suffered by Abraham, son of Daniel.
The grants of Beaverbrook Plowlands and Remote Meadows in 1637 were for four acres each, which indicates that the maximum size of his family at that time was four heads. This would account for himself, wife, and two eldest sons John and Isaac, both of whom were born by this time.
Bibliographic Note: In addition to the sources cited under Daniel Finch, we take note here of the magnificent work by Paul Prindle on John Finch, which we follow here in many instances [Gillespie Anc 138-51]. In particular we have relied on Prindle for the data on the marriages of the sons of John Finch, and refer the reader to his work for fuller citations on these men."

2. The book "Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke)," by Paul W. Prindle, 1976, pp. 138-42:
"FINCH
No satisfactory account of the early generations of this prominent family has yet been published. In a series of articles entitled "Source Material for a Finch Genealogy," which began in "The American Genealogist," 19:50, Donald Lines Jacobus wrote, "The writer, although he has no personal interest in the Finch family, became intrigued by the difficulty of arranging in proper relationship the early generations of Finches -perhaps the most difficult family he has studied." Based on the material in Mr. Jacobus' article and on this compiler's own searches in original records, the following reconstruction of that portion of this difficult family which is involved in the subject pedigree is tentatively ventured. Because of the uncertainties involved in the reconstruction of this family's record, more details than are customarily given concerning siblings of members of the subject line will be presented.
1. JOHN FINCH, born say, about 1590 in England, died 5 September 1657 at Stamford, New Haven Colony ("Stamford Town Records," 1:19-20). It appears that he was married twice, for his putative son John seems to have been about 15 years older than his next-born child. John Finch Sr. married second, Martha, maiden surname undetermined. As John's widow, Martha married second, on 7 (September?) 1658, John Green (ibid., 1:74) of New Haven, widower of Mary Jarvis ("The Washington Ancestry, and Records of the McClain, Johnson and Forty Other Colonial American Families," 3:539, by Charles A. Hoppin).
It is possible, though proof is entirely lacking, that Martha was born a Brett. The 13 November 1646 will of Thomas Brett of Tenterden, County Kent, England, "gentleman," refers to "my sister Finche, now wife of Mr. John Finch" (The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 44:300). If the reference was to the subject John Finch (who was never styled "Mr." in colonial records) it would seem probable he would have been described as of New England, where he had lived for at least 16 years prior to the date of the will.
John Finch is believed to have been a brother of the Daniel Finch who was in 1636 the constable at Wethersfield, Connecticut Colony, a founder of Stamford in 1641, and who moved to Fairfield, New Haven Colony, by‘ 1649, where he died in March 1666/7. As will be seen below, it is significant that Daniel had no son named John Finch, and that his only grandson of that name, born 20 December 1699 at Branford, Connecticut Colony, died in 1721 without issue.
Henry Bond, in his "Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts:" 207, stated, "John Finch came over with Gov. Winthrop in 1630, and settled in Wat., where his wigwam and all his goods were burnt, Sept. 1630. He was a proprietor of Wat. 1636-7, was one of that small colony from Wat. that first settled Wethersfield, Conn., and was killed by an Indian, Oct. 30, 1637." This last statement, at least, is incorrect. It was Abraham Finch, son of Daniel, who was murdered on that date by Nepaupuck, an Indian, who confessed to the killing of "Abraham Finch, an English man att Wethersfield ... accordingly, his head was cutt off the next day and pittched upon a pole in the market place" (an entry dated 28 October 1639 (sic) in "Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, 1638-1649": 23, by Charles Hoadley). A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, II: 160, by Henry Savage, says this act was later called judicial murder, for the Connecticut Colony had on 1 May 1637 declared open war on the Pequot Indians, of whom Nepaupuck was an officer.
N.B. Shurtleff, in "Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay," I:102, reports John Finch being fined on 7 November 1632 for "wanting [i.e., lacking] arms for his man and for being absent himself from training."
A curious early reference to John Finch is found in the minutes of "a court of assistants held at Cambridge the 5th day of the 4th month 1638. Lawrence Waters's wife was enjoined to give John Finch 18 d. and Nice Theale to give John Finch 18 d. and Edward Lamb to give him 2 s. and Lamb was fined 15 s. 6 d. for his contempt and all of them were admonished to avoyd dancing" ("Descendants of Abraham, Daniel and John Finch of Connecticut," 1:252, by Claude B. Thummel, a typescript at the Connecticut State Library, Hartford). It is not clear why these individuals were ordered to make payments to John Finch. Perhaps defamation or slander of Finch was their offense.
Shurtleff makes several other references to Daniel Finch and to Samuel Finch, both probably brothers of John. Katherine, wife of Samuel Finch, must have been exceptionally sharp-tongued, for on 4 September 1638, "for speaking against the magistrates, aga[inst] the churches & against the elders, [she] was censured to bee whiped" (ibid., I:234). Although she promised on 4 June 1639 "to go to the ordinances & to carry herselfe dutifully to her husband" (ibid., 1:265), her resolution must have been short lived, for on 2 June 1640 the record bears the notation, "Gooddy Finch was censured to bee severely whiped to morrow, & so kept in prison" (ibid., I:297). By 1643 Samuel and Katherine were living in Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony ("Register," op. cit., 2:53).
At Watertown John Finch was granted four acres "of the Plowlands at Beverbroke Planes" by the town in February 1636/7, and another four acres "of the Remote or Westpine Meaddows" four months later, in each instance "allowing one Acre for a person & likewise for cattle valued at £20 the Head" ("Watertown Records, ... Volume I, Part 227, 9, by the Historical Society of Watertown). This means that in 1637 John's family consisted of only four persons and beasts. He must have increased his ownership of livestock by April 1638, for on that date he received 91 acres in the town's grant to "all the Townes Men that had not Farmes laid out formerly .... allowing 13 Acres of upland to every head of Persons & Cattle" (ibid.:13), indicating seven persons and cattle credited to him at that time.
As stated above, Daniel Finch, thought to have been a brother of John (1) Finch, was one of the 30 founders of Stamford. The names of eight of the 30 founders are lost, a portion of the original record having been broken off and lost long ago. It is possible that John Finch was one of these eight men, but since he was from Watertown and Stamford was settled by Wethersfield men, the probability seems doubtful. Bond's identification of John Finch as a resident of Wethersfield is questionable. In any event, John Finch was granted, at a town meeting in Stamford held in the fall of 1642, a house lot of one acre, two acres of marsh and three acres of woodland ("Stamford Town Records," 1:7-8). His land holdings at 1 March 1650 were described ibid.:43-4, in great detail, and included a house and home lot of one and one-half acres, and 10 acres of upland in the North Field (both of which he sold 15 November 1652 to Richard Ambler of Stamford), and three parcels of meadow aggregating seven acres in the East Field (three acres of which he sold 26 November 1652 to William Potter).
On 24 October 1653 John Finch Sr. purchased from Henry Ackerly of Stamford ("Stamford Town Records," 1:51-2):
"my now dwelling house in Stanford, w'th my barne and all other of my out houses ... upon my whom lot in ye streete called the Est Streete in Standford aforsayd, with thee ... orchards, gardens, yards & cet.; also a lott at the reere of ye sayd home lot called the pond lot, and sixe akers ... in a pertickeler inclosure by the sayd pond lot. Also, three akers of planting land in the South feild 8cthree akers more or lesse in the North feild, and four akers of medo [W] in the Est feild, mor or less, with all my right of accommodations of land & p[rivi]lidges in Stanford ... in consideration whereof the sayd john Finch is to pay ... the some of fiftie pound..."
Sometime in 1647 (the day and month are illegible) David Mitchell brought an action in court against John Finch to recover a sum of money due him. Finch's answer was not satisfactory to the court, which ordered him to pay Mitchell two pounds, five shillings "as ye du debt, and for damedge for want of du payment, ten shillings and ye charge of ye Court."
As noted in the Ferris section herein, John Finch was fined by the court 13 February 1648 for felling and removing timber on land of Jeffrey Ferris.
An inventory of the estate of John Finch Sr. was taken 9 February 1657/8 by Richard Law and Francis Holmes, who found its total value to be, "errowrs excepted," £98:12:04. Debts to be paid came to £74:15:05, leaving a clear estate of only £23:16:11. Included were his house and land, £40; Bible, 12 shillings; two oxen and one heifer, £15; 42 1/2 bushels of wheat, £9:11:03, and 35 bushels of peas, £6:02:06.
John (1) Finch and his unidentified first wife are believed to have had one child:
i. John Finch Jr., born say, about 1620, who died 19 June 1685 at Huntington ("Huntington Town Records, Including Babylon, Long Island, N.Y.," 1:432, by Charles R. Street). This John Finch was a mariner (ibid., 1:323-6). By his unidentified first wife he had a daughter Mary, wife of Nicholas Ellis, and a son John (ibid.). He may also have been the father of the Francis Finch who was an appraiser at Jamaica, Long Island, for the minister's rate in 1663. This Francis Finch was on a Jamaica tax list about 1681. He was called "My Kinsman" and received the home lot of Richard Bratnell of Jamaica under the terms of the latter's will dated 1 February 1662/3 ("The American Genealogist," 19:55).
John married, second, soon after 8 November 1652, Hannah Marsh, widow of Launcelot Fuller of New Haven. In 1656 John was recorded as living in Westchester County, New York ("Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:203).
The compiler's identification of the Westchester County and Huntington, Long Island, John Finch as son of John (1) Finch of Stamford is based on his belief that all the early Finches of New England and New York were of the same family, and because John Finch of Huntington had a son, also named John Finch, living there as late as 6 October 1683, when John Finch Jr. sold property ("Huntington Records," op. cit., 1:327-8). This son had moved to Stamford by 17 March 1684 ("Stamford Land Records," A:152). Daniel Finch of Stamford and Norwalk had no son named John, and Samuel Finch of Roxbury and his family apparently never moved west of that area.
John (1) Finch and his second wife, Martha, had at least four sons:
2. ii. Isaac Finch, born about 1635.
3. iii. Samuel Finch, born circa 1638.
iv. Joseph Finch, born probably in 1647 for he, aged about 53, testified 6 May 1700 ("Greenwich Early Records": 125). He died before 3 January 1714, when the inventory of his estate was exhibited for probate ("Fairfield Probate Records," 5:296).
Joseph Finch married Elizabeth Austin, daughter of John and Catherine Austin ("The American Genealogist," 48:96), on 23 November "[1670]" ("Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:201). The official transcript of the "Stamford Town Records" has the year as "16( )" (1:136) and erroneously shows (1:90) an Elizabeth, born 14 November 1669, to "Jos. Finch." The original record (1:76) has her as daughter of "lsac Finch" (Joseph's brother). Joseph and Elizabeth Finch lived in Greenwich, Connecticut Colony.
v. Abraham Finch, born about 1648. That he was a brother of Samuel Finch is proved by a deed dated 3 December 1686 in which Samuel Finch of Stamford "have of my own free & volentary will given unto my well beloved brother, Abraham Ffinch of Staford, ... five roods of upland" (Stamford Land Records, A2153).
The inventory of Abraham's estate was taken 4 December 1708, administration being granted to Samuel Blatchley of Stamford ("Fairfield Probate Records," 5:130-1). A deed recorded in "Stamford Land Records," F:171, proves that the wife of Samuel Blatchley was the only child of Abraham Finch.
Samuel "Blachley" and Abigail Finch had been married 6 April 1699 ("Stamford Town Records," 1:104).
References:
As cited.
Stamford Town Records.
"History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," by Donald Lines Jacobus, F.A.S.G."

SOURCES_MISC:
1. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), has many mentions of this individual besides the vital data that I do transcribe and include separately in the notes above. 		Finch, John (I5400)
 
1661 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"John Finch
Origin: Unknown
Migration: 1632
First Residence: Watertown
Removes: Stamford 1642
Estate: Granted four acres in Beaverbrook Plowlands, 28 February 1636/7 [WaBOP 7]; granted four acres in Remote Meadows, 26 June 1637 [WaBOP 9]; granted a farm of ninety-one acres, 10 May 1642 [WaBOP 13]. (Presumably he had held a houselot and other small holdings prior to 1637. He does not appear in the early Watertown land inventories, and all lands known to be granted to him are at that time in the hands of John Wincoll, who purchased them from John Finch, presumably in mid-1642.)
Granted six acres by Stamford in October 1642 [TAG 10:42, 19:58].
An inventory of Stamford landholding was prepared on 1 March 1650, and John Finch's real estate is summarized there [Gillespie Anc 140, citing Stamford Town Records 1:43-44].
Birth: By about 1 595 based on estimated date of marriage.
Death: Stamford 5 September 1657 [TAG 10:44, 19:58].
Marriage:
(1) By about 1620 ___; not seen in any New England record.
(2) By about 1635 Martha (assuming she was the mother of his last four children), who married [blank] September 1658 John Green [TAG 10:113, 19:58].
Children:
With first wife:
i John, b. say 1620; m. (1) ___; m. (2) after 8 November 1652 Hannah (Marsh) Fuller, widow of Laun­celot Fuller.
With second wife:
ii Isaac, b. say 1635; m. (1) Stamford [blank] October 1658 Elizabeth Basset [TAG 10:113]; m. (2) by 1682 Ann ___.
iii Samuel, b. say 1638; m. by about 1663 Sarah Hoyt, daughter of SIMON HOYT.
iv Joseph, b. about 1647 (deposed 6 May 1700 aged about fifty-three); m. Stamford 23 November [1670] Elizabeth Austin.
v Abraham, b. say 1648; m. about 1670 ___ ___.
Associations: See Daniel Finch for possible relations among Finch immigrants.
Comments: As noted under Daniel Finch, John has been credited as the man who lost his belongings in a fire in September 1630, but this is more likely Daniel. On 7 November 1632 "John Finch is fined 10s. for wanting arms for his man, & for being absent himself from training" [MBCR 1:102], and this is the earliest record we have for him in New England.
Savage has assigned to this John the death at the hands of the Pequots suffered by Abraham, son of Daniel.
The grants of Beaverbrook Plowlands and Remote Meadows in 1637 were for four acres each, which indicates that the maximum size of his family at that time was four heads. This would account for himself, wife, and two eldest sons John and Isaac, both of whom were born by this time.
Bibliographic Note: In addition to the sources cited under Daniel Finch, we take note here of the magnificent work by Paul Prindle on John Finch, which we follow here in many instances [Gillespie Anc 138-51]. In particular we have relied on Prindle for the data on the marriages of the sons of John Finch, and refer the reader to his work for fuller citations on these men."

2. The book "Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke)," by Paul W. Prindle, 1976, pp. 138-42:
"FINCH
No satisfactory account of the early generations of this prominent family has yet been published. In a series of articles entitled "Source Material for a Finch Genealogy," which began in "The American Genealogist," 19:50, Donald Lines Jacobus wrote, "The writer, although he has no personal interest in the Finch family, became intrigued by the difficulty of arranging in proper relationship the early generations of Finches -perhaps the most difficult family he has studied." Based on the material in Mr. Jacobus' article and on this compiler's own searches in original records, the following reconstruction of that portion of this difficult family which is involved in the subject pedigree is tentatively ventured. Because of the uncertainties involved in the reconstruction of this family's record, more details than are customarily given concerning siblings of members of the subject line will be presented.
1. JOHN FINCH, born say, about 1590 in England, died 5 September 1657 at Stamford, New Haven Colony ("Stamford Town Records," 1:19-20). It appears that he was married twice, for his putative son John seems to have been about 15 years older than his next-born child. John Finch Sr. married second, Martha, maiden surname undetermined. As John's widow, Martha married second, on 7 (September?) 1658, John Green (ibid., 1:74) of New Haven, widower of Mary Jarvis ("The Washington Ancestry, and Records of the McClain, Johnson and Forty Other Colonial American Families," 3:539, by Charles A. Hoppin).
It is possible, though proof is entirely lacking, that Martha was born a Brett. The 13 November 1646 will of Thomas Brett of Tenterden, County Kent, England, "gentleman," refers to "my sister Finche, now wife of Mr. John Finch" (The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 44:300). If the reference was to the subject John Finch (who was never styled "Mr." in colonial records) it would seem probable he would have been described as of New England, where he had lived for at least 16 years prior to the date of the will.
John Finch is believed to have been a brother of the Daniel Finch who was in 1636 the constable at Wethersfield, Connecticut Colony, a founder of Stamford in 1641, and who moved to Fairfield, New Haven Colony, by‘ 1649, where he died in March 1666/7. As will be seen below, it is significant that Daniel had no son named John Finch, and that his only grandson of that name, born 20 December 1699 at Branford, Connecticut Colony, died in 1721 without issue.
Henry Bond, in his "Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts:" 207, stated, "John Finch came over with Gov. Winthrop in 1630, and settled in Wat., where his wigwam and all his goods were burnt, Sept. 1630. He was a proprietor of Wat. 1636-7, was one of that small colony from Wat. that first settled Wethersfield, Conn., and was killed by an Indian, Oct. 30, 1637." This last statement, at least, is incorrect. It was Abraham Finch, son of Daniel, who was murdered on that date by Nepaupuck, an Indian, who confessed to the killing of "Abraham Finch, an English man att Wethersfield ... accordingly, his head was cutt off the next day and pittched upon a pole in the market place" (an entry dated 28 October 1639 (sic) in "Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, 1638-1649": 23, by Charles Hoadley). A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, II: 160, by Henry Savage, says this act was later called judicial murder, for the Connecticut Colony had on 1 May 1637 declared open war on the Pequot Indians, of whom Nepaupuck was an officer.
N.B. Shurtleff, in "Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay," I:102, reports John Finch being fined on 7 November 1632 for "wanting [i.e., lacking] arms for his man and for being absent himself from training."
A curious early reference to John Finch is found in the minutes of "a court of assistants held at Cambridge the 5th day of the 4th month 1638. Lawrence Waters's wife was enjoined to give John Finch 18 d. and Nice Theale to give John Finch 18 d. and Edward Lamb to give him 2 s. and Lamb was fined 15 s. 6 d. for his contempt and all of them were admonished to avoyd dancing" ("Descendants of Abraham, Daniel and John Finch of Connecticut," 1:252, by Claude B. Thummel, a typescript at the Connecticut State Library, Hartford). It is not clear why these individuals were ordered to make payments to John Finch. Perhaps defamation or slander of Finch was their offense.
Shurtleff makes several other references to Daniel Finch and to Samuel Finch, both probably brothers of John. Katherine, wife of Samuel Finch, must have been exceptionally sharp-tongued, for on 4 September 1638, "for speaking against the magistrates, aga[inst] the churches & against the elders, [she] was censured to bee whiped" (ibid., I:234). Although she promised on 4 June 1639 "to go to the ordinances & to carry herselfe dutifully to her husband" (ibid., 1:265), her resolution must have been short lived, for on 2 June 1640 the record bears the notation, "Gooddy Finch was censured to bee severely whiped to morrow, & so kept in prison" (ibid., I:297). By 1643 Samuel and Katherine were living in Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony ("Register," op. cit., 2:53).
At Watertown John Finch was granted four acres "of the Plowlands at Beverbroke Planes" by the town in February 1636/7, and another four acres "of the Remote or Westpine Meaddows" four months later, in each instance "allowing one Acre for a person & likewise for cattle valued at £20 the Head" ("Watertown Records, ... Volume I, Part 227, 9, by the Historical Society of Watertown). This means that in 1637 John's family consisted of only four persons and beasts. He must have increased his ownership of livestock by April 1638, for on that date he received 91 acres in the town's grant to "all the Townes Men that had not Farmes laid out formerly .... allowing 13 Acres of upland to every head of Persons & Cattle" (ibid.:13), indicating seven persons and cattle credited to him at that time.
As stated above, Daniel Finch, thought to have been a brother of John (1) Finch, was one of the 30 founders of Stamford. The names of eight of the 30 founders are lost, a portion of the original record having been broken off and lost long ago. It is possible that John Finch was one of these eight men, but since he was from Watertown and Stamford was settled by Wethersfield men, the probability seems doubtful. Bond's identification of John Finch as a resident of Wethersfield is questionable. In any event, John Finch was granted, at a town meeting in Stamford held in the fall of 1642, a house lot of one acre, two acres of marsh and three acres of woodland ("Stamford Town Records," 1:7-8). His land holdings at 1 March 1650 were described ibid.:43-4, in great detail, and included a house and home lot of one and one-half acres, and 10 acres of upland in the North Field (both of which he sold 15 November 1652 to Richard Ambler of Stamford), and three parcels of meadow aggregating seven acres in the East Field (three acres of which he sold 26 November 1652 to William Potter).
On 24 October 1653 John Finch Sr. purchased from Henry Ackerly of Stamford ("Stamford Town Records," 1:51-2):
"my now dwelling house in Stanford, w'th my barne and all other of my out houses ... upon my whom lot in ye streete called the Est Streete in Standford aforsayd, with thee ... orchards, gardens, yards & cet.; also a lott at the reere of ye sayd home lot called the pond lot, and sixe akers ... in a pertickeler inclosure by the sayd pond lot. Also, three akers of planting land in the South feild 8cthree akers more or lesse in the North feild, and four akers of medo [W] in the Est feild, mor or less, with all my right of accommodations of land & p[rivi]lidges in Stanford ... in consideration whereof the sayd john Finch is to pay ... the some of fiftie pound..."
Sometime in 1647 (the day and month are illegible) David Mitchell brought an action in court against John Finch to recover a sum of money due him. Finch's answer was not satisfactory to the court, which ordered him to pay Mitchell two pounds, five shillings "as ye du debt, and for damedge for want of du payment, ten shillings and ye charge of ye Court."
As noted in the Ferris section herein, John Finch was fined by the court 13 February 1648 for felling and removing timber on land of Jeffrey Ferris.
An inventory of the estate of John Finch Sr. was taken 9 February 1657/8 by Richard Law and Francis Holmes, who found its total value to be, "errowrs excepted," £98:12:04. Debts to be paid came to £74:15:05, leaving a clear estate of only £23:16:11. Included were his house and land, £40; Bible, 12 shillings; two oxen and one heifer, £15; 42 1/2 bushels of wheat, £9:11:03, and 35 bushels of peas, £6:02:06.
John (1) Finch and his unidentified first wife are believed to have had one child:
i. John Finch Jr., born say, about 1620, who died 19 June 1685 at Huntington ("Huntington Town Records, Including Babylon, Long Island, N.Y.," 1:432, by Charles R. Street). This John Finch was a mariner (ibid., 1:323-6). By his unidentified first wife he had a daughter Mary, wife of Nicholas Ellis, and a son John (ibid.). He may also have been the father of the Francis Finch who was an appraiser at Jamaica, Long Island, for the minister's rate in 1663. This Francis Finch was on a Jamaica tax list about 1681. He was called "My Kinsman" and received the home lot of Richard Bratnell of Jamaica under the terms of the latter's will dated 1 February 1662/3 ("The American Genealogist," 19:55).
John married, second, soon after 8 November 1652, Hannah Marsh, widow of Launcelot Fuller of New Haven. In 1656 John was recorded as living in Westchester County, New York ("Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:203).
The compiler's identification of the Westchester County and Huntington, Long Island, John Finch as son of John (1) Finch of Stamford is based on his belief that all the early Finches of New England and New York were of the same family, and because John Finch of Huntington had a son, also named John Finch, living there as late as 6 October 1683, when John Finch Jr. sold property ("Huntington Records," op. cit., 1:327-8). This son had moved to Stamford by 17 March 1684 ("Stamford Land Records," A:152). Daniel Finch of Stamford and Norwalk had no son named John, and Samuel Finch of Roxbury and his family apparently never moved west of that area.
John (1) Finch and his second wife, Martha, had at least four sons:
2. ii. Isaac Finch, born about 1635.
3. iii. Samuel Finch, born circa 1638.
iv. Joseph Finch, born probably in 1647 for he, aged about 53, testified 6 May 1700 ("Greenwich Early Records": 125). He died before 3 January 1714, when the inventory of his estate was exhibited for probate ("Fairfield Probate Records," 5:296).
Joseph Finch married Elizabeth Austin, daughter of John and Catherine Austin ("The American Genealogist," 48:96), on 23 November "[1670]" ("Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:201). The official transcript of the "Stamford Town Records" has the year as "16( )" (1:136) and erroneously shows (1:90) an Elizabeth, born 14 November 1669, to "Jos. Finch." The original record (1:76) has her as daughter of "lsac Finch" (Joseph's brother). Joseph and Elizabeth Finch lived in Greenwich, Connecticut Colony.
v. Abraham Finch, born about 1648. That he was a brother of Samuel Finch is proved by a deed dated 3 December 1686 in which Samuel Finch of Stamford "have of my own free & volentary will given unto my well beloved brother, Abraham Ffinch of Staford, ... five roods of upland" (Stamford Land Records, A2153).
The inventory of Abraham's estate was taken 4 December 1708, administration being granted to Samuel Blatchley of Stamford ("Fairfield Probate Records," 5:130-1). A deed recorded in "Stamford Land Records," F:171, proves that the wife of Samuel Blatchley was the only child of Abraham Finch.
Samuel "Blachley" and Abigail Finch had been married 6 April 1699 ("Stamford Town Records," 1:104).
References:
As cited.
Stamford Town Records.
"History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," by Donald Lines Jacobus, F.A.S.G."
 		Finch, Mrs. John (I5399)
 
1662 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"John Finch
Origin: Unknown
Migration: 1632
First Residence: Watertown
Removes: Stamford 1642
Estate: Granted four acres in Beaverbrook Plowlands, 28 February 1636/7 [WaBOP 7]; granted four acres in Remote Meadows, 26 June 1637 [WaBOP 9]; granted a farm of ninety-one acres, 10 May 1642 [WaBOP 13]. (Presumably he had held a houselot and other small holdings prior to 1637. He does not appear in the early Watertown land inventories, and all lands known to be granted to him are at that time in the hands of John Wincoll, who purchased them from John Finch, presumably in mid-1642.)
Granted six acres by Stamford in October 1642 [TAG 10:42, 19:58].
An inventory of Stamford landholding was prepared on 1 March 1650, and John Finch's real estate is summarized there [Gillespie Anc 140, citing Stamford Town Records 1:43-44].
Birth: By about 1 595 based on estimated date of marriage.
Death: Stamford 5 September 1657 [TAG 10:44, 19:58].
Marriage:
(1) By about 1620 ___; not seen in any New England record.
(2) By about 1635 Martha (assuming she was the mother of his last four children), who married [blank] September 1658 John Green [TAG 10:113, 19:58].
Children:
With first wife:
i John, b. say 1620; m. (1) ___; m. (2) after 8 November 1652 Hannah (Marsh) Fuller, widow of Laun­celot Fuller.
With second wife:
ii Isaac, b. say 1635; m. (1) Stamford [blank] October 1658 Elizabeth Basset [TAG 10:113]; m. (2) by 1682 Ann ___.
iii Samuel, b. say 1638; m. by about 1663 Sarah Hoyt, daughter of SIMON HOYT.
iv Joseph, b. about 1647 (deposed 6 May 1700 aged about fifty-three); m. Stamford 23 November [1670] Elizabeth Austin.
v Abraham, b. say 1648; m. about 1670 ___ ___.
Associations: See Daniel Finch for possible relations among Finch immigrants.
Comments: As noted under Daniel Finch, John has been credited as the man who lost his belongings in a fire in September 1630, but this is more likely Daniel. On 7 November 1632 "John Finch is fined 10s. for wanting arms for his man, & for being absent himself from training" [MBCR 1:102], and this is the earliest record we have for him in New England.
Savage has assigned to this John the death at the hands of the Pequots suffered by Abraham, son of Daniel.
The grants of Beaverbrook Plowlands and Remote Meadows in 1637 were for four acres each, which indicates that the maximum size of his family at that time was four heads. This would account for himself, wife, and two eldest sons John and Isaac, both of whom were born by this time.
Bibliographic Note: In addition to the sources cited under Daniel Finch, we take note here of the magnificent work by Paul Prindle on John Finch, which we follow here in many instances [Gillespie Anc 138-51]. In particular we have relied on Prindle for the data on the marriages of the sons of John Finch, and refer the reader to his work for fuller citations on these men."

2. The book "Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke)," by Paul W. Prindle, 1976, pp. 138-42:
"1. JOHN FINCH, born say, about 1590 in England, died 5 September 1657 at Stamford, New Haven Colony ("Stamford Town Records," 1:19-20). It appears that he was married twice, for his putative son John seems to have been about 15 years older than his next-born child. John Finch Sr. married second, Martha, maiden surname undetermined. As John's widow, Martha married second, on 7 (September?) 1658, John Green (ibid., 1:74) of New Haven, widower of Mary Jarvis ("The Washington Ancestry, and Records of the McClain, Johnson and Forty Other Colonial American Families," 3:539, by Charles A. Hoppin)...
John (1) Finch and his second wife, Martha, had at least four sons...
iv. Joseph Finch, born probably in 1647 for he, aged about 53, testified 6 May 1700 ("Greenwich Early Records": 125). He died before 3 January 1714, when the inventory of his estate was exhibited for probate ("Fairfield Probate Records," 5:296).
Joseph Finch married Elizabeth Austin, daughter of John and Catherine Austin ("The American Genealogist," 48:96), on 23 November "[1670]" ("Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:201). The official transcript of the "Stamford Town Records" has the year as "16( )" (1:136) and erroneously shows (1:90) an Elizabeth, born 14 November 1669, to "Jos. Finch." The original record (1:76) has her as daughter of "lsac Finch" (Joseph's brother). Joseph and Elizabeth Finch lived in Greenwich, Connecticut Colony...
References:
As cited.
Stamford Town Records.
"History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," by Donald Lines Jacobus, F.A.S.G."
 		Austin, Elizabeth (I5398)
 
1663 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"John Finch
Origin: Unknown
Migration: 1632
First Residence: Watertown
Removes: Stamford 1642
Estate: Granted four acres in Beaverbrook Plowlands, 28 February 1636/7 [WaBOP 7]; granted four acres in Remote Meadows, 26 June 1637 [WaBOP 9]; granted a farm of ninety-one acres, 10 May 1642 [WaBOP 13]. (Presumably he had held a houselot and other small holdings prior to 1637. He does not appear in the early Watertown land inventories, and all lands known to be granted to him are at that time in the hands of John Wincoll, who purchased them from John Finch, presumably in mid-1642.)
Granted six acres by Stamford in October 1642 [TAG 10:42, 19:58].
An inventory of Stamford landholding was prepared on 1 March 1650, and John Finch's real estate is summarized there [Gillespie Anc 140, citing Stamford Town Records 1:43-44].
Birth: By about 1 595 based on estimated date of marriage.
Death: Stamford 5 September 1657 [TAG 10:44, 19:58].
Marriage:
(1) By about 1620 ___; not seen in any New England record.
(2) By about 1635 Martha (assuming she was the mother of his last four children), who married [blank] September 1658 John Green [TAG 10:113, 19:58].
Children:
With first wife:
i John, b. say 1620; m. (1) ___; m. (2) after 8 November 1652 Hannah (Marsh) Fuller, widow of Laun­celot Fuller.
With second wife:
ii Isaac, b. say 1635; m. (1) Stamford [blank] October 1658 Elizabeth Basset [TAG 10:113]; m. (2) by 1682 Ann ___.
iii Samuel, b. say 1638; m. by about 1663 Sarah Hoyt, daughter of SIMON HOYT.
iv Joseph, b. about 1647 (deposed 6 May 1700 aged about fifty-three); m. Stamford 23 November [1670] Elizabeth Austin.
v Abraham, b. say 1648; m. about 1670 ___ ___.
Associations: See Daniel Finch for possible relations among Finch immigrants.
Comments: As noted under Daniel Finch, John has been credited as the man who lost his belongings in a fire in September 1630, but this is more likely Daniel. On 7 November 1632 "John Finch is fined 10s. for wanting arms for his man, & for being absent himself from training" [MBCR 1:102], and this is the earliest record we have for him in New England.
Savage has assigned to this John the death at the hands of the Pequots suffered by Abraham, son of Daniel.
The grants of Beaverbrook Plowlands and Remote Meadows in 1637 were for four acres each, which indicates that the maximum size of his family at that time was four heads. This would account for himself, wife, and two eldest sons John and Isaac, both of whom were born by this time.
Bibliographic Note: In addition to the sources cited under Daniel Finch, we take note here of the magnificent work by Paul Prindle on John Finch, which we follow here in many instances [Gillespie Anc 138-51]. In particular we have relied on Prindle for the data on the marriages of the sons of John Finch, and refer the reader to his work for fuller citations on these men."

2. The book "Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke)," by Paul W. Prindle, 1976, pp. 142-47:
"2. ISAAC FINCH, son of John (1) Finch and his second wife, Martha, was born about 1635, probably at Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, or at Wethersfield, Connecticut Colony. He died intestate between 27 August 1702, when he conveyed property, and 15 November 1702, when the inventory of his estate was made. Isaac married twice. In October 1658 (the day is illegible in the record) he married ("Stamford Town Records," 1:74) Elizabeth Bassett, q.v., daughter of John and Margery Bassett. Elizabeth's father died in 1653 when she was about 14 years old, and she was no doubt "apprenticed" to Jeremiah Whitnels of New Haven. "Stamford Land Records," A:103, record an acknowledgment dated 22 May 1688:
"These may certifi whome it may concern yt I, Isaak Ffinch of Sta'ford in ye county of Fairfield, being proper heir of Elizabeth Basset, which was formerly Jerimy Whitnels Maid of Newhaven & my former wife, doe own myself to have received of Philip Alcock of Newhaven twenty shillings as a legacy left by the aforesaid Whitnel unto ye aforesaid Basset. I say, received by me.
his Isaac X Finch mark"
Elizabeth had obviously died by that date and Isaac had married second, Ann, whose identity has not been established. Ann died 9 November 1703 ("Stamford Town Records," 1:135).
In his Finch article in "Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:201, Donald Lines Jacobus calls Isaac and Samuel probable children of John (1) Finch. That they were his sons is proved by testimony of William Potter, entered 27 January 1684/5 in "Stamford Land Records," A:36, who stated that he had "bought that lot, w'ch Danil Scolfild now lives upon, of Goodman Ffinch, w'ch was Isaak Ffinch & Samuel Ffinches father, 84:yt the Aforesaid John Ffinch tould him yt ye piece of medow..."
Isaac Finch gave testimony concerning the ownership of a horse at a hearing before the General Court at New Haven on 19 October 1659 ("Records of the Colony or jurisdiction of New Haven, 1653-1665": 325, by Charles Hoadly).
"Stamford Town Records" show that Isaac Finch gave testimony in 1660 at a hearing regarding a heifer which had died mysteriously. "Isaak Fenish" was in 1665 one of several witnesses who swore they had seen Robert Pennoyer "reell and stagger in ye street as he went drownkard like ... and it being ye thred tim of his offenc in ye kind, he is find treebl, acording to ye lawe. Ye find is 30 s." Two years later Isaac was one of several witnesses who testified against John "Osten" (i.e., Austin) "for swareing and cuseing, extremely agrevated p[er] the many oeths & Cuses." For being drunk, Austin was fined 30 shillings and charges. In 1667 Isaac's name was on the list of those intending to place a horse in the town's new horse pasture.
Isaac Finch served as a surveyor of highways for the East Field in 1667 and 1681; as fence viewer for that field in 1668 and 1671, and for the North Field in 1700, and as pounder for the North Field in 1698. He served on only three town committees. In 1667 it was Voted at a town meeting in Stamford "yt Mr. Lawe and Isack Finch are chosen to present the officers chosen by ye trayne bande to comitty at Fayrfielde for yeer [their] confermation." In that same year Isaac and one other man were named to lay out land granted to individuals by the town. At a town meeting in 1699 Isaac Finch Sr. was placed on a committee of three directed to renew the tree markings outlining the boundary line of the Sequestered Land.
A number of land transactions involving Isaac Finch were recorded in Stamford Town Records. He requested a house lot in 1670. In allotments of commonage he received lots in 1677, 1698 and 1699. The minutes of a town meeting held 22 December 1687 record that, "To Isaak Finch is sold ye dismall swamp yt lys on ye east sid of ye path, for 1.1s.0." Two years later Isaac sold this property to John Dean. On 22 February 1698/9 the town granted "to Isak Finch, for ye use of his son Isack, four acre of land."
"Stamford Land Records" show Isaac (2) Finch as grantor in 11 deeds, as grantee in only two, and as the recipient of five layouts by the town during the years 1679 to 1702. He also exchanged fencing with Benjamin Hoyt in 1684.
Two of Isaac's conveyances are of interest. On 26 February 1698/9 Isaac Finch Sr. made over to Joseph Finch, son of Isaac's brother Samuel (now deceased), land he had formerly given to Samuel, but which gift had never been recorded (A:314); and on 20 January 1700/1 Isaac gave to his son Abraham (A:358) nine acres:
"in ye woods neeare ye turne of ye mill river ... upon the condission yt hee doe give to my son Jacob Finch a good cow with calfe, or a calfe by her side, ye cows age to bee above three years old and not to bee above seven years old, and to be delivered to ye s'd Jacob or his order at his being fourteen years of age ..."
In May 1703 the General Assembly at Hartford authorized Abraham and Isaac Finch to sell land of their father, Isaac Finch, late of Stamford, deceased, in order to pay debts owing by his estate ("The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1689-1706," by Charles Hoadly). Subsequently, four administrator's deeds involving the estate of Isaac (2) Finch were recorded in "Stamford Land Records." In one (A:406) dated 25 August 1703:
"... Iseak Finch 8c An Finch, boath of Stanford ... by venue of an order from the Generall Asembly at Hartford may ye thirteenth 1703 to us as Administrators to ye Esteate of Iseak Finch, desest, by 8: with ye advice of Capt. Jonathan Selleck, Leuit. David Waterbery, to sell lands of s'd Iseack, desest, to pay just debts, there beeing noe personell Esteate, have for 8c in consideration of thirty three pounds in pay to us paid ... by Abraham Finch Sen'r Samuel Blachly, boath of s'd Stanford, ... sell ... all that Pond, the Pond lott, commonly so called, which was the s'd Iseake, desest ...
Similarly, on the same day, Isaac and Ann Finch sold to Jacob More of Stamford, for £ 22, three acres in the North Field, and on the following day sold to David Waterbury of Stamford, for an unstated amount, 27 acres of upland on Rockwells Ridge (ibid., A:406, 405). The fourth such deed was dated 13 January 1707/8 and recorded ibid., A:486. "Iseack Finch, now resident in Grinwich ... Administrator unto ye Estate of my honered father, Iseack Finch of Stanford, lately deseased, doe deliver unto William Price of Greenwich ... six acres of land within ye bounds of Stanford to be taken up to ye Estate of my honered father above s'd, upon the account of his wife's portion." The grantee, William Price, was the son-in-law of Jonathan Pettit, q.v., and his wife, Elizabeth (4) Finch.
"Fairfield Probate Records," 5:5-5a, show "An Inventory of the Estate of Isack Finch Sen'r, who is departed this Life. Taken in Stanford this 15th day of Novemb'r 1702" by David Waterbury, Daniel Scofield and Jonathan Bell, townsmen. The inventory shows no total value, but aggregated about £125. In addition to his house and home lot, four tracts of land and his right to the Sequestered Land, all appraised at £95:10:00, there were listed minor farm, household and personal effects, including "ye barrell of a Gun, & a Sword, £0:07:00," and 30 shillings "In Abraham Finch, his hands ... The Widow, Ann Finch, Relict of Isack Finch of Stanford, made oath to the Truth of ye Inventory before The authority in Stanford, Novemb'r 21:1702." The court approved the inventory 26 November 1702 and appointed the widow Ann, with her stepsons John and Isaac, as administrators, "and there being testimony Exhibited In Court Concerning what the decesed Isack Finch declared to be his will or minde Concerning ye disposeing of his Estate, and ye Witneses not being present, wherefore ye Court" deferred settlement. No further action is found in the probate records.
In his "Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:203, Donald Lines Jacobus gives Isaac (2) Finch nine children, calling the last four "prob. by second wife, but perhaps they belong to Isaac Jr." That they were children of Isaac Sr. is proved by two deeds recorded in "Stamford Land Records." On 3 March 1698/9 Joseph Brown of Stamford sold "unto Isaac Finch Sener of the same town ... al my right of land to be taken up in the woods ... according to my interest of Estat, which is sixty one pound and ten shillings" (ibid., A2315). This "right of land" was his right to future distributions of the Sequestered Land (also called the Southern Commons), which distributions were to be based on the 1687 list of taxable estates. In this tax list Joseph Brown was assessed at £61:10:00 (A:272).
On 14 March 1748/9 Benjamin Finch of North Castle, Westchester County, sold to Samuel Hait 3rd of Stamford, the £61:00:00 right of "my honnored father, Isaac finch, formerly of s'd Stamford, deceased, which he Bought, & was originally the Right of Joseph Brown sen'r of s'd Stamford, deceased" (E:291). Since Isaac Finch, father of Benjamin, is here stated to have bought the right, he is identified as being the Isaac Finch Sr. who purchased it in 1699 from Joseph Brown. Without the word "Bought" it would be possible to consider that Isaac Finch Jr. had inherited the right from his father, Isaac Sr., and was thus the father of Benjamin.
Confirmation of the fact that Benjamin Finch of North Castle was a son rather than a grandson of Isaac (2) Finch is found in a deed dated 17 January 1748/9 and recorded ibid., E:313, "Benjamin finch of North Castle ... [for] Eight Pounds & ten shillings ... sell & Confirm unto the s'd Samuel Hait ... seventy one pound Right in ye Com'on and undivided Land Called Sequest or Southern Commons in s'd Stanford, which s'd Right was my hon'd fathers, Mr. Isaac finch, Late of s'd Stanford, deceast."
Isaac (2) Finch's taxable estate was assessed in 1687 at £71:00:00 (ibid., A:272). Isaac (2) Finch and his first wife, Elizabeth Bassett, had five children. Unless otherwise noted, parenthetical references are to "Stamford Town Records":
i. John Finch, born 20 November 1659 (1:98), died 17 March 1702/3, as recorded in the inventory of his estate. He married twice. His first wife was Sarah Pettit, daughter of John Pettit Jr., q.v., and his wife, Sarah Scofield, q.v. He married second, Hannah, q.v., daughter of Richard and Mary Scofield, and widow of Joseph Webb, q.v., who had died 8 March 1683/4 (Fairfield Probate Records, 3: 125).
John Finch was childless. His will, dated 15 March 1702/3 but never proved or recorded, and the inventory of his estate, may be seen at the Connecticut State Library, Hartford. He made bequests to his "well beloved 8c Loving brother, Isaac ffinch"; to his brother Benjamin Finch; to his sister (i.e., sister-in-law) Elizabeth Pettit, and to his "Loving & welbeloved son in-Law, Joseph webb," and his "Loving Daughter in-Law, Sarah webb" - they were, of course, his stepchildren.
ii. Isaac Finch Jr., born 12 April 1662 (1298), whose given name is omitted in the birth record. He married Mary Rundle (or Ruddle) 27 April 1704 (1:122).
iii. Abraham Finch, born 5 July 1665 (1:76), died before 4 December 1708, when the inventory of his estate was taken ("Fairfield Probate Records," 5:130-1). He married Martha Couch, daughter of Simon and Mary Couch of Fairfield ("Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:161-2, 204).
4. iv. Elizabeth Finch, born 14 November 1669.
v. Martha Finch, born 19 January 1672 (1:76).
By his second wife, Ann, Isaac (2) Finch had four children, born and recorded at Stamford:
vi. Rebecca Finch, born 17 March 1682/3 (1:102).
vii. Sarah Finch, born 23January 1686/7 (1:102).
viii. Jacob Finch, born 9 October 1691, died 15 April 1702 (1:102).
ix. Benjamin Finch, born 29 June1695 (1:122). The record of this Benjamin Finch is not entirely clear. There were two others of that name shown in early records: Benjamin, born about 1682, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Austin) Finch of Greenwich, and Benjamin, born 8 October 1707 to Joseph and Abigail (Seeley) Finch, but "Stamford Probate Records," 3:369; 5:160-2, 384, clearly show this last Benjamin Finch to have died unmarried.
The marriage on 16 April 1717 of a Benjamin Finch to Elizabeth Palmer is given in "Greenwich Land Records," 1:450, the same wedding being also recorded, but under date of 18 April 1717, in "Greenwich Early Records" (sometimes called the "Common Place Books"). Spencer P. Mead, in his "Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich": 547, 549, has Benjamin Finch, born circa 1682, as marrying Elizabeth Palmer on 16 April 1717, and Benjamin Finch, born 1695, as marrying her on 18 April 1717, an obvious error. "Palmer Families in America," 1:123, by Horace W. Palmer, states that Elizabeth Palmer, born about 1696, daughter of James Palmer, q.v., and his wife, Sarah Denham, q.v., of Greenwich, married on 18 April 1717, Benjamin Finch, son of Isaac and Ann Finch, and had two daughters born by 1720.
"Greenwich Early Records" also show the marriage on 23 December 1727 of a Benjamin Finch and Susannah Peet or Peat; and on 13 December 1750 a Benjamin Finch married at Sharon, Connecticut, Sarah Knapp, daughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Finch) Knapp. All three of these marriages are tentatively attributed herein to the subject Benjamin Finch, born in 1695. He was known to have been a resident of North Castle, Westchester County, in 1749.
References:
As cited.
Stamford Town Records.
"History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," by Donald Lines Jacobus, F.A.S.G."

MARRIAGE:
1. Not found in the book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011).

DEATH:
1. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), p. 169: "p. 175 [1:135], An Finch dyed the 9 of November 1703."
 		Ann (I5397)
 
1664 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"John Finch
Origin: Unknown
Migration: 1632
First Residence: Watertown
Removes: Stamford 1642
Estate: Granted four acres in Beaverbrook Plowlands, 28 February 1636/7 [WaBOP 7]; granted four acres in Remote Meadows, 26 June 1637 [WaBOP 9]; granted a farm of ninety-one acres, 10 May 1642 [WaBOP 13]. (Presumably he had held a houselot and other small holdings prior to 1637. He does not appear in the early Watertown land inventories, and all lands known to be granted to him are at that time in the hands of John Wincoll, who purchased them from John Finch, presumably in mid-1642.)
Granted six acres by Stamford in October 1642 [TAG 10:42, 19:58].
An inventory of Stamford landholding was prepared on 1 March 1650, and John Finch's real estate is summarized there [Gillespie Anc 140, citing Stamford Town Records 1:43-44].
Birth: By about 1 595 based on estimated date of marriage.
Death: Stamford 5 September 1657 [TAG 10:44, 19:58].
Marriage:
(1) By about 1620 ___; not seen in any New England record.
(2) By about 1635 Martha (assuming she was the mother of his last four children), who married [blank] September 1658 John Green [TAG 10:113, 19:58].
Children:
With first wife:
i John, b. say 1620; m. (1) ___; m. (2) after 8 November 1652 Hannah (Marsh) Fuller, widow of Laun­celot Fuller.
With second wife:
ii Isaac, b. say 1635; m. (1) Stamford [blank] October 1658 Elizabeth Basset [TAG 10:113]; m. (2) by 1682 Ann ___.
iii Samuel, b. say 1638; m. by about 1663 Sarah Hoyt, daughter of SIMON HOYT.
iv Joseph, b. about 1647 (deposed 6 May 1700 aged about fifty-three); m. Stamford 23 November [1670] Elizabeth Austin.
v Abraham, b. say 1648; m. about 1670 ___ ___.
Associations: See Daniel Finch for possible relations among Finch immigrants.
Comments: As noted under Daniel Finch, John has been credited as the man who lost his belongings in a fire in September 1630, but this is more likely Daniel. On 7 November 1632 "John Finch is fined 10s. for wanting arms for his man, & for being absent himself from training" [MBCR 1:102], and this is the earliest record we have for him in New England.
Savage has assigned to this John the death at the hands of the Pequots suffered by Abraham, son of Daniel.
The grants of Beaverbrook Plowlands and Remote Meadows in 1637 were for four acres each, which indicates that the maximum size of his family at that time was four heads. This would account for himself, wife, and two eldest sons John and Isaac, both of whom were born by this time.
Bibliographic Note: In addition to the sources cited under Daniel Finch, we take note here of the magnificent work by Paul Prindle on John Finch, which we follow here in many instances [Gillespie Anc 138-51]. In particular we have relied on Prindle for the data on the marriages of the sons of John Finch, and refer the reader to his work for fuller citations on these men."

2. The book "Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke)," by Paul W. Prindle, 1976, p. 32:
"Elizabeth Bassett, dau. of John (1) Bassett and his wife, Margery, was born at New Haven about 1639. She married at Stamford, in October 1658, Isaac Finch ("Stamford Town Records," 1:74), q.v. for the record of their children."

3. Mentioned in the will of her mother "goodwife [Margery] Baset" dated Jun 1953. Refer to the book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), p. 106; original town pages 116-17 [1:99]. Mentions Margery's her sons Robert and Emery as well as her eldest children "{viz: John Emery, John Web, Sar([ah Basset]) & Elizabeth Basset}." Bequeaths the care of Elizabeth at New Haven to her son Robert until she is of age or marries. No husband mentioned. Witness was John Bishopp.

4. The book "Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke)," by Paul W. Prindle, 1976, pp. 142-47:
"2. ISAAC FINCH, son of John (1) Finch and his second wife, Martha, was born about 1635, probably at Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, or at Wethersfield, Connecticut Colony. He died intestate between 27 August 1702, when he conveyed property, and 15 November 1702, when the inventory of his estate was made. Isaac married twice. In October 1658 (the day is illegible in the record) he married ("Stamford Town Records," 1:74) Elizabeth Bassett, q.v., daughter of John and Margery Bassett. Elizabeth's father died in 1653 when she was about 14 years old, and she was no doubt "apprenticed" to Jeremiah Whitnels of New Haven. "Stamford Land Records," A:103, record an acknowledgment dated 22 May 1688:
"These may certifi whome it may concern yt I, Isaak Ffinch of Sta'ford in ye county of Fairfield, being proper heir of Elizabeth Basset, which was formerly Jerimy Whitnels Maid of Newhaven & my former wife, doe own myself to have received of Philip Alcock of Newhaven twenty shillings as a legacy left by the aforesaid Whitnel unto ye aforesaid Basset. I say, received by me.
his Isaac X Finch mark"
Elizabeth had obviously died by that date and Isaac had married second, Ann, whose identity has not been established. Ann died 9 November 1703 ("Stamford Town Records," 1:135).
In his Finch article in "Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:201, Donald Lines Jacobus calls Isaac and Samuel probable children of John (1) Finch. That they were his sons is proved by testimony of William Potter, entered 27 January 1684/5 in "Stamford Land Records," A:36, who stated that he had "bought that lot, w'ch Danil Scolfild now lives upon, of Goodman Ffinch, w'ch was Isaak Ffinch & Samuel Ffinches father, 84:yt the Aforesaid John Ffinch tould him yt ye piece of medow..."
Isaac Finch gave testimony concerning the ownership of a horse at a hearing before the General Court at New Haven on 19 October 1659 ("Records of the Colony or jurisdiction of New Haven, 1653-1665": 325, by Charles Hoadly).
"Stamford Town Records" show that Isaac Finch gave testimony in 1660 at a hearing regarding a heifer which had died mysteriously. "Isaak Fenish" was in 1665 one of several witnesses who swore they had seen Robert Pennoyer "reell and stagger in ye street as he went drownkard like ... and it being ye thred tim of his offenc in ye kind, he is find treebl, acording to ye lawe. Ye find is 30 s." Two years later Isaac was one of several witnesses who testified against John "Osten" (i.e., Austin) "for swareing and cuseing, extremely agrevated p[er] the many oeths & Cuses." For being drunk, Austin was fined 30 shillings and charges. In 1667 Isaac's name was on the list of those intending to place a horse in the town's new horse pasture.
Isaac Finch served as a surveyor of highways for the East Field in 1667 and 1681; as fence viewer for that field in 1668 and 1671, and for the North Field in 1700, and as pounder for the North Field in 1698. He served on only three town committees. In 1667 it was Voted at a town meeting in Stamford "yt Mr. Lawe and Isack Finch are chosen to present the officers chosen by ye trayne bande to comitty at Fayrfielde for yeer [their] confermation." In that same year Isaac and one other man were named to lay out land granted to individuals by the town. At a town meeting in 1699 Isaac Finch Sr. was placed on a committee of three directed to renew the tree markings outlining the boundary line of the Sequestered Land.
A number of land transactions involving Isaac Finch were recorded in Stamford Town Records. He requested a house lot in 1670. In allotments of commonage he received lots in 1677, 1698 and 1699. The minutes of a town meeting held 22 December 1687 record that, "To Isaak Finch is sold ye dismall swamp yt lys on ye east sid of ye path, for 1.1s.0." Two years later Isaac sold this property to John Dean. On 22 February 1698/9 the town granted "to Isak Finch, for ye use of his son Isack, four acre of land."
"Stamford Land Records" show Isaac (2) Finch as grantor in 11 deeds, as grantee in only two, and as the recipient of five layouts by the town during the years 1679 to 1702. He also exchanged fencing with Benjamin Hoyt in 1684.
Two of Isaac's conveyances are of interest. On 26 February 1698/9 Isaac Finch Sr. made over to Joseph Finch, son of Isaac's brother Samuel (now deceased), land he had formerly given to Samuel, but which gift had never been recorded (A:314); and on 20 January 1700/1 Isaac gave to his son Abraham (A:358) nine acres:
"in ye woods neeare ye turne of ye mill river ... upon the condission yt hee doe give to my son Jacob Finch a good cow with calfe, or a calfe by her side, ye cows age to bee above three years old and not to bee above seven years old, and to be delivered to ye s'd Jacob or his order at his being fourteen years of age ..."
In May 1703 the General Assembly at Hartford authorized Abraham and Isaac Finch to sell land of their father, Isaac Finch, late of Stamford, deceased, in order to pay debts owing by his estate ("The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1689-1706," by Charles Hoadly). Subsequently, four administrator's deeds involving the estate of Isaac (2) Finch were recorded in "Stamford Land Records." In one (A:406) dated 25 August 1703:
"... Iseak Finch 8c An Finch, boath of Stanford ... by venue of an order from the Generall Asembly at Hartford may ye thirteenth 1703 to us as Administrators to ye Esteate of Iseak Finch, desest, by 8: with ye advice of Capt. Jonathan Selleck, Leuit. David Waterbery, to sell lands of s'd Iseack, desest, to pay just debts, there beeing noe personell Esteate, have for 8c in consideration of thirty three pounds in pay to us paid ... by Abraham Finch Sen'r Samuel Blachly, boath of s'd Stanford, ... sell ... all that Pond, the Pond lott, commonly so called, which was the s'd Iseake, desest ...
Similarly, on the same day, Isaac and Ann Finch sold to Jacob More of Stamford, for £ 22, three acres in the North Field, and on the following day sold to David Waterbury of Stamford, for an unstated amount, 27 acres of upland on Rockwells Ridge (ibid., A:406, 405). The fourth such deed was dated 13 January 1707/8 and recorded ibid., A:486. "Iseack Finch, now resident in Grinwich ... Administrator unto ye Estate of my honered father, Iseack Finch of Stanford, lately deseased, doe deliver unto William Price of Greenwich ... six acres of land within ye bounds of Stanford to be taken up to ye Estate of my honered father above s'd, upon the account of his wife's portion." The grantee, William Price, was the son-in-law of Jonathan Pettit, q.v., and his wife, Elizabeth (4) Finch.
"Fairfield Probate Records," 5:5-5a, show "An Inventory of the Estate of Isack Finch Sen'r, who is departed this Life. Taken in Stanford this 15th day of Novemb'r 1702" by David Waterbury, Daniel Scofield and Jonathan Bell, townsmen. The inventory shows no total value, but aggregated about £125. In addition to his house and home lot, four tracts of land and his right to the Sequestered Land, all appraised at £95:10:00, there were listed minor farm, household and personal effects, including "ye barrell of a Gun, & a Sword, £0:07:00," and 30 shillings "In Abraham Finch, his hands ... The Widow, Ann Finch, Relict of Isack Finch of Stanford, made oath to the Truth of ye Inventory before The authority in Stanford, Novemb'r 21:1702." The court approved the inventory 26 November 1702 and appointed the widow Ann, with her stepsons John and Isaac, as administrators, "and there being testimony Exhibited In Court Concerning what the decesed Isack Finch declared to be his will or minde Concerning ye disposeing of his Estate, and ye Witneses not being present, wherefore ye Court" deferred settlement. No further action is found in the probate records.
In his "Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:203, Donald Lines Jacobus gives Isaac (2) Finch nine children, calling the last four "prob. by second wife, but perhaps they belong to Isaac Jr." That they were children of Isaac Sr. is proved by two deeds recorded in "Stamford Land Records." On 3 March 1698/9 Joseph Brown of Stamford sold "unto Isaac Finch Sener of the same town ... al my right of land to be taken up in the woods ... according to my interest of Estat, which is sixty one pound and ten shillings" (ibid., A2315). This "right of land" was his right to future distributions of the Sequestered Land (also called the Southern Commons), which distributions were to be based on the 1687 list of taxable estates. In this tax list Joseph Brown was assessed at £61:10:00 (A:272).
On 14 March 1748/9 Benjamin Finch of North Castle, Westchester County, sold to Samuel Hait 3rd of Stamford, the £61:00:00 right of "my honnored father, Isaac finch, formerly of s'd Stamford, deceased, which he Bought, & was originally the Right of Joseph Brown sen'r of s'd Stamford, deceased" (E:291). Since Isaac Finch, father of Benjamin, is here stated to have bought the right, he is identified as being the Isaac Finch Sr. who purchased it in 1699 from Joseph Brown. Without the word "Bought" it would be possible to consider that Isaac Finch Jr. had inherited the right from his father, Isaac Sr., and was thus the father of Benjamin.
Confirmation of the fact that Benjamin Finch of North Castle was a son rather than a grandson of Isaac (2) Finch is found in a deed dated 17 January 1748/9 and recorded ibid., E:313, "Benjamin finch of North Castle ... [for] Eight Pounds & ten shillings ... sell & Confirm unto the s'd Samuel Hait ... seventy one pound Right in ye Com'on and undivided Land Called Sequest or Southern Commons in s'd Stanford, which s'd Right was my hon'd fathers, Mr. Isaac finch, Late of s'd Stanford, deceast."
Isaac (2) Finch's taxable estate was assessed in 1687 at £71:00:00 (ibid., A:272). Isaac (2) Finch and his first wife, Elizabeth Bassett, had five children. Unless otherwise noted, parenthetical references are to "Stamford Town Records":
i. John Finch, born 20 November 1659 (1:98), died 17 March 1702/3, as recorded in the inventory of his estate. He married twice. His first wife was Sarah Pettit, daughter of John Pettit Jr., q.v., and his wife, Sarah Scofield, q.v. He married second, Hannah, q.v., daughter of Richard and Mary Scofield, and widow of Joseph Webb, q.v., who had died 8 March 1683/4 (Fairfield Probate Records, 3: 125).
John Finch was childless. His will, dated 15 March 1702/3 but never proved or recorded, and the inventory of his estate, may be seen at the Connecticut State Library, Hartford. He made bequests to his "well beloved 8c Loving brother, Isaac ffinch"; to his brother Benjamin Finch; to his sister (i.e., sister-in-law) Elizabeth Pettit, and to his "Loving & welbeloved son in-Law, Joseph webb," and his "Loving Daughter in-Law, Sarah webb" - they were, of course, his stepchildren.
ii. Isaac Finch Jr., born 12 April 1662 (1298), whose given name is omitted in the birth record. He married Mary Rundle (or Ruddle) 27 April 1704 (1:122).
iii. Abraham Finch, born 5 July 1665 (1:76), died before 4 December 1708, when the inventory of his estate was taken ("Fairfield Probate Records," 5:130-1). He married Martha Couch, daughter of Simon and Mary Couch of Fairfield ("Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:161-2, 204).
4. iv. Elizabeth Finch, born 14 November 1669.
v. Martha Finch, born 19 January 1672 (1:76).
By his second wife, Ann, Isaac (2) Finch had four children, born and recorded at Stamford:
vi. Rebecca Finch, born 17 March 1682/3 (1:102).
vii. Sarah Finch, born 23January 1686/7 (1:102).
viii. Jacob Finch, born 9 October 1691, died 15 April 1702 (1:102).
ix. Benjamin Finch, born 29 June1695 (1:122). The record of this Benjamin Finch is not entirely clear. There were two others of that name shown in early records: Benjamin, born about 1682, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Austin) Finch of Greenwich, and Benjamin, born 8 October 1707 to Joseph and Abigail (Seeley) Finch, but "Stamford Probate Records," 3:369; 5:160-2, 384, clearly show this last Benjamin Finch to have died unmarried.
The marriage on 16 April 1717 of a Benjamin Finch to Elizabeth Palmer is given in "Greenwich Land Records," 1:450, the same wedding being also recorded, but under date of 18 April 1717, in "Greenwich Early Records" (sometimes called the "Common Place Books"). Spencer P. Mead, in his "Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich": 547, 549, has Benjamin Finch, born circa 1682, as marrying Elizabeth Palmer on 16 April 1717, and Benjamin Finch, born 1695, as marrying her on 18 April 1717, an obvious error. "Palmer Families in America," 1:123, by Horace W. Palmer, states that Elizabeth Palmer, born about 1696, daughter of James Palmer, q.v., and his wife, Sarah Denham, q.v., of Greenwich, married on 18 April 1717, Benjamin Finch, son of Isaac and Ann Finch, and had two daughters born by 1720.
"Greenwich Early Records" also show the marriage on 23 December 1727 of a Benjamin Finch and Susannah Peet or Peat; and on 13 December 1750 a Benjamin Finch married at Sharon, Connecticut, Sarah Knapp, daughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Finch) Knapp. All three of these marriages are tentatively attributed herein to the subject Benjamin Finch, born in 1695. He was known to have been a resident of North Castle, Westchester County, in 1749.
References:
As cited.
Stamford Town Records.
"History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," by Donald Lines Jacobus, F.A.S.G."

MARRIAGE:
1. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), p. 77; author's notes in ( ): "Page 88 [1:74] Isac Finch & Elizabeth Basset, married, 8: [16]58. (Oct 1658)."
 		Bassett, Elizabeth (I5395)
 
1665 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"John Finch
Origin: Unknown
Migration: 1632
First Residence: Watertown
Removes: Stamford 1642
Estate: Granted four acres in Beaverbrook Plowlands, 28 February 1636/7 [WaBOP 7]; granted four acres in Remote Meadows, 26 June 1637 [WaBOP 9]; granted a farm of ninety-one acres, 10 May 1642 [WaBOP 13]. (Presumably he had held a houselot and other small holdings prior to 1637. He does not appear in the early Watertown land inventories, and all lands known to be granted to him are at that time in the hands of John Wincoll, who purchased them from John Finch, presumably in mid-1642.)
Granted six acres by Stamford in October 1642 [TAG 10:42, 19:58].
An inventory of Stamford landholding was prepared on 1 March 1650, and John Finch's real estate is summarized there [Gillespie Anc 140, citing Stamford Town Records 1:43-44].
Birth: By about 1 595 based on estimated date of marriage.
Death: Stamford 5 September 1657 [TAG 10:44, 19:58].
Marriage:
(1) By about 1620 ___; not seen in any New England record.
(2) By about 1635 Martha (assuming she was the mother of his last four children), who married [blank] September 1658 John Green [TAG 10:113, 19:58].
Children:
With first wife:
i John, b. say 1620; m. (1) ___; m. (2) after 8 November 1652 Hannah (Marsh) Fuller, widow of Laun­celot Fuller.
With second wife:
ii Isaac, b. say 1635; m. (1) Stamford [blank] October 1658 Elizabeth Basset [TAG 10:113]; m. (2) by 1682 Ann ___.
iii Samuel, b. say 1638; m. by about 1663 Sarah Hoyt, daughter of SIMON HOYT.
iv Joseph, b. about 1647 (deposed 6 May 1700 aged about fifty-three); m. Stamford 23 November [1670] Elizabeth Austin.
v Abraham, b. say 1648; m. about 1670 ___ ___.
Associations: See Daniel Finch for possible relations among Finch immigrants.
Comments: As noted under Daniel Finch, John has been credited as the man who lost his belongings in a fire in September 1630, but this is more likely Daniel. On 7 November 1632 "John Finch is fined 10s. for wanting arms for his man, & for being absent himself from training" [MBCR 1:102], and this is the earliest record we have for him in New England.
Savage has assigned to this John the death at the hands of the Pequots suffered by Abraham, son of Daniel.
The grants of Beaverbrook Plowlands and Remote Meadows in 1637 were for four acres each, which indicates that the maximum size of his family at that time was four heads. This would account for himself, wife, and two eldest sons John and Isaac, both of whom were born by this time.
Bibliographic Note: In addition to the sources cited under Daniel Finch, we take note here of the magnificent work by Paul Prindle on John Finch, which we follow here in many instances [Gillespie Anc 138-51]. In particular we have relied on Prindle for the data on the marriages of the sons of John Finch, and refer the reader to his work for fuller citations on these men."

2. The book "Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke)," by Paul W. Prindle, 1976, pp. 138-42:
"FINCH
No satisfactory account of the early generations of this prominent family has yet been published. In a series of articles entitled "Source Material for a Finch Genealogy," which began in "The American Genealogist," 19:50, Donald Lines Jacobus wrote, "The writer, although he has no personal interest in the Finch family, became intrigued by the difficulty of arranging in proper relationship the early generations of Finches -perhaps the most difficult family he has studied." Based on the material in Mr. Jacobus' article and on this compiler's own searches in original records, the following reconstruction of that portion of this difficult family which is involved in the subject pedigree is tentatively ventured. Because of the uncertainties involved in the reconstruction of this family's record, more details than are customarily given concerning siblings of members of the subject line will be presented.
1. JOHN FINCH, born say, about 1590 in England, died 5 September 1657 at Stamford, New Haven Colony ("Stamford Town Records," 1:19-20). It appears that he was married twice, for his putative son John seems to have been about 15 years older than his next-born child. John Finch Sr. married second, Martha, maiden surname undetermined. As John's widow, Martha married second, on 7 (September?) 1658, John Green (ibid., 1:74) of New Haven, widower of Mary Jarvis ("The Washington Ancestry, and Records of the McClain, Johnson and Forty Other Colonial American Families," 3:539, by Charles A. Hoppin).
It is possible, though proof is entirely lacking, that Martha was born a Brett. The 13 November 1646 will of Thomas Brett of Tenterden, County Kent, England, "gentleman," refers to "my sister Finche, now wife of Mr. John Finch" (The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 44:300). If the reference was to the subject John Finch (who was never styled "Mr." in colonial records) it would seem probable he would have been described as of New England, where he had lived for at least 16 years prior to the date of the will.
John Finch is believed to have been a brother of the Daniel Finch who was in 1636 the constable at Wethersfield, Connecticut Colony, a founder of Stamford in 1641, and who moved to Fairfield, New Haven Colony, by‘ 1649, where he died in March 1666/7. As will be seen below, it is significant that Daniel had no son named John Finch, and that his only grandson of that name, born 20 December 1699 at Branford, Connecticut Colony, died in 1721 without issue.
Henry Bond, in his "Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts:" 207, stated, "John Finch came over with Gov. Winthrop in 1630, and settled in Wat., where his wigwam and all his goods were burnt, Sept. 1630. He was a proprietor of Wat. 1636-7, was one of that small colony from Wat. that first settled Wethersfield, Conn., and was killed by an Indian, Oct. 30, 1637." This last statement, at least, is incorrect. It was Abraham Finch, son of Daniel, who was murdered on that date by Nepaupuck, an Indian, who confessed to the killing of "Abraham Finch, an English man att Wethersfield ... accordingly, his head was cutt off the next day and pittched upon a pole in the market place" (an entry dated 28 October 1639 (sic) in "Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, 1638-1649": 23, by Charles Hoadley). A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, II: 160, by Henry Savage, says this act was later called judicial murder, for the Connecticut Colony had on 1 May 1637 declared open war on the Pequot Indians, of whom Nepaupuck was an officer.
N.B. Shurtleff, in "Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay," I:102, reports John Finch being fined on 7 November 1632 for "wanting [i.e., lacking] arms for his man and for being absent himself from training."
A curious early reference to John Finch is found in the minutes of "a court of assistants held at Cambridge the 5th day of the 4th month 1638. Lawrence Waters's wife was enjoined to give John Finch 18 d. and Nice Theale to give John Finch 18 d. and Edward Lamb to give him 2 s. and Lamb was fined 15 s. 6 d. for his contempt and all of them were admonished to avoyd dancing" ("Descendants of Abraham, Daniel and John Finch of Connecticut," 1:252, by Claude B. Thummel, a typescript at the Connecticut State Library, Hartford). It is not clear why these individuals were ordered to make payments to John Finch. Perhaps defamation or slander of Finch was their offense.
Shurtleff makes several other references to Daniel Finch and to Samuel Finch, both probably brothers of John. Katherine, wife of Samuel Finch, must have been exceptionally sharp-tongued, for on 4 September 1638, "for speaking against the magistrates, aga[inst] the churches & against the elders, [she] was censured to bee whiped" (ibid., I:234). Although she promised on 4 June 1639 "to go to the ordinances & to carry herselfe dutifully to her husband" (ibid., 1:265), her resolution must have been short lived, for on 2 June 1640 the record bears the notation, "Gooddy Finch was censured to bee severely whiped to morrow, & so kept in prison" (ibid., I:297). By 1643 Samuel and Katherine were living in Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony ("Register," op. cit., 2:53).
At Watertown John Finch was granted four acres "of the Plowlands at Beverbroke Planes" by the town in February 1636/7, and another four acres "of the Remote or Westpine Meaddows" four months later, in each instance "allowing one Acre for a person & likewise for cattle valued at £20 the Head" ("Watertown Records, ... Volume I, Part 227, 9, by the Historical Society of Watertown). This means that in 1637 John's family consisted of only four persons and beasts. He must have increased his ownership of livestock by April 1638, for on that date he received 91 acres in the town's grant to "all the Townes Men that had not Farmes laid out formerly .... allowing 13 Acres of upland to every head of Persons & Cattle" (ibid.:13), indicating seven persons and cattle credited to him at that time.
As stated above, Daniel Finch, thought to have been a brother of John (1) Finch, was one of the 30 founders of Stamford. The names of eight of the 30 founders are lost, a portion of the original record having been broken off and lost long ago. It is possible that John Finch was one of these eight men, but since he was from Watertown and Stamford was settled by Wethersfield men, the probability seems doubtful. Bond's identification of John Finch as a resident of Wethersfield is questionable. In any event, John Finch was granted, at a town meeting in Stamford held in the fall of 1642, a house lot of one acre, two acres of marsh and three acres of woodland ("Stamford Town Records," 1:7-8). His land holdings at 1 March 1650 were described ibid.:43-4, in great detail, and included a house and home lot of one and one-half acres, and 10 acres of upland in the North Field (both of which he sold 15 November 1652 to Richard Ambler of Stamford), and three parcels of meadow aggregating seven acres in the East Field (three acres of which he sold 26 November 1652 to William Potter).
On 24 October 1653 John Finch Sr. purchased from Henry Ackerly of Stamford ("Stamford Town Records," 1:51-2):
"my now dwelling house in Stanford, w'th my barne and all other of my out houses ... upon my whom lot in ye streete called the Est Streete in Standford aforsayd, with thee ... orchards, gardens, yards & cet.; also a lott at the reere of ye sayd home lot called the pond lot, and sixe akers ... in a pertickeler inclosure by the sayd pond lot. Also, three akers of planting land in the South feild 8cthree akers more or lesse in the North feild, and four akers of medo [W] in the Est feild, mor or less, with all my right of accommodations of land & p[rivi]lidges in Stanford ... in consideration whereof the sayd john Finch is to pay ... the some of fiftie pound..."
Sometime in 1647 (the day and month are illegible) David Mitchell brought an action in court against John Finch to recover a sum of money due him. Finch's answer was not satisfactory to the court, which ordered him to pay Mitchell two pounds, five shillings "as ye du debt, and for damedge for want of du payment, ten shillings and ye charge of ye Court."
As noted in the Ferris section herein, John Finch was fined by the court 13 February 1648 for felling and removing timber on land of Jeffrey Ferris.
An inventory of the estate of John Finch Sr. was taken 9 February 1657/8 by Richard Law and Francis Holmes, who found its total value to be, "errowrs excepted," £98:12:04. Debts to be paid came to £74:15:05, leaving a clear estate of only £23:16:11. Included were his house and land, £40; Bible, 12 shillings; two oxen and one heifer, £15; 42 1/2 bushels of wheat, £9:11:03, and 35 bushels of peas, £6:02:06.
John (1) Finch and his unidentified first wife are believed to have had one child:
i. John Finch Jr., born say, about 1620, who died 19 June 1685 at Huntington ("Huntington Town Records, Including Babylon, Long Island, N.Y.," 1:432, by Charles R. Street). This John Finch was a mariner (ibid., 1:323-6). By his unidentified first wife he had a daughter Mary, wife of Nicholas Ellis, and a son John (ibid.). He may also have been the father of the Francis Finch who was an appraiser at Jamaica, Long Island, for the minister's rate in 1663. This Francis Finch was on a Jamaica tax list about 1681. He was called "My Kinsman" and received the home lot of Richard Bratnell of Jamaica under the terms of the latter's will dated 1 February 1662/3 ("The American Genealogist," 19:55).
John married, second, soon after 8 November 1652, Hannah Marsh, widow of Launcelot Fuller of New Haven. In 1656 John was recorded as living in Westchester County, New York ("Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:203).
The compiler's identification of the Westchester County and Huntington, Long Island, John Finch as son of John (1) Finch of Stamford is based on his belief that all the early Finches of New England and New York were of the same family, and because John Finch of Huntington had a son, also named John Finch, living there as late as 6 October 1683, when John Finch Jr. sold property ("Huntington Records," op. cit., 1:327-8). This son had moved to Stamford by 17 March 1684 ("Stamford Land Records," A:152). Daniel Finch of Stamford and Norwalk had no son named John, and Samuel Finch of Roxbury and his family apparently never moved west of that area.
John (1) Finch and his second wife, Martha, had at least four sons:
2. ii. Isaac Finch, born about 1635.
3. iii. Samuel Finch, born circa 1638.
iv. Joseph Finch, born probably in 1647 for he, aged about 53, testified 6 May 1700 ("Greenwich Early Records": 125). He died before 3 January 1714, when the inventory of his estate was exhibited for probate ("Fairfield Probate Records," 5:296).
Joseph Finch married Elizabeth Austin, daughter of John and Catherine Austin ("The American Genealogist," 48:96), on 23 November "[1670]" ("Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:201). The official transcript of the "Stamford Town Records" has the year as "16( )" (1:136) and erroneously shows (1:90) an Elizabeth, born 14 November 1669, to "Jos. Finch." The original record (1:76) has her as daughter of "lsac Finch" (Joseph's brother). Joseph and Elizabeth Finch lived in Greenwich, Connecticut Colony.
v. Abraham Finch, born about 1648. That he was a brother of Samuel Finch is proved by a deed dated 3 December 1686 in which Samuel Finch of Stamford "have of my own free & volentary will given unto my well beloved brother, Abraham Ffinch of Staford, ... five roods of upland" (Stamford Land Records, A2153).
The inventory of Abraham's estate was taken 4 December 1708, administration being granted to Samuel Blatchley of Stamford ("Fairfield Probate Records," 5:130-1). A deed recorded in "Stamford Land Records," F:171, proves that the wife of Samuel Blatchley was the only child of Abraham Finch.
Samuel "Blachley" and Abigail Finch had been married 6 April 1699 ("Stamford Town Records," 1:104).
References:
As cited.
Stamford Town Records.
"History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," by Donald Lines Jacobus, F.A.S.G."
 		Finch, Joseph (I5394)
 
1666 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"John Finch
Origin: Unknown
Migration: 1632
First Residence: Watertown
Removes: Stamford 1642
Estate: Granted four acres in Beaverbrook Plowlands, 28 February 1636/7 [WaBOP 7]; granted four acres in Remote Meadows, 26 June 1637 [WaBOP 9]; granted a farm of ninety-one acres, 10 May 1642 [WaBOP 13]. (Presumably he had held a houselot and other small holdings prior to 1637. He does not appear in the early Watertown land inventories, and all lands known to be granted to him are at that time in the hands of John Wincoll, who purchased them from John Finch, presumably in mid-1642.)
Granted six acres by Stamford in October 1642 [TAG 10:42, 19:58].
An inventory of Stamford landholding was prepared on 1 March 1650, and John Finch's real estate is summarized there [Gillespie Anc 140, citing Stamford Town Records 1:43-44].
Birth: By about 1 595 based on estimated date of marriage.
Death: Stamford 5 September 1657 [TAG 10:44, 19:58].
Marriage:
(1) By about 1620 ___; not seen in any New England record.
(2) By about 1635 Martha (assuming she was the mother of his last four children), who married [blank] September 1658 John Green [TAG 10:113, 19:58].
Children:
With first wife:
i John, b. say 1620; m. (1) ___; m. (2) after 8 November 1652 Hannah (Marsh) Fuller, widow of Laun­celot Fuller.
With second wife:
ii Isaac, b. say 1635; m. (1) Stamford [blank] October 1658 Elizabeth Basset [TAG 10:113]; m. (2) by 1682 Ann ___.
iii Samuel, b. say 1638; m. by about 1663 Sarah Hoyt, daughter of SIMON HOYT.
iv Joseph, b. about 1647 (deposed 6 May 1700 aged about fifty-three); m. Stamford 23 November [1670] Elizabeth Austin.
v Abraham, b. say 1648; m. about 1670 ___ ___.
Associations: See Daniel Finch for possible relations among Finch immigrants.
Comments: As noted under Daniel Finch, John has been credited as the man who lost his belongings in a fire in September 1630, but this is more likely Daniel. On 7 November 1632 "John Finch is fined 10s. for wanting arms for his man, & for being absent himself from training" [MBCR 1:102], and this is the earliest record we have for him in New England.
Savage has assigned to this John the death at the hands of the Pequots suffered by Abraham, son of Daniel.
The grants of Beaverbrook Plowlands and Remote Meadows in 1637 were for four acres each, which indicates that the maximum size of his family at that time was four heads. This would account for himself, wife, and two eldest sons John and Isaac, both of whom were born by this time.
Bibliographic Note: In addition to the sources cited under Daniel Finch, we take note here of the magnificent work by Paul Prindle on John Finch, which we follow here in many instances [Gillespie Anc 138-51]. In particular we have relied on Prindle for the data on the marriages of the sons of John Finch, and refer the reader to his work for fuller citations on these men."

2. The book "Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke)," by Paul W. Prindle, 1976, pp. 138-42:
"FINCH
No satisfactory account of the early generations of this prominent family has yet been published. In a series of articles entitled "Source Material for a Finch Genealogy," which began in "The American Genealogist," 19:50, Donald Lines Jacobus wrote, "The writer, although he has no personal interest in the Finch family, became intrigued by the difficulty of arranging in proper relationship the early generations of Finches -perhaps the most difficult family he has studied." Based on the material in Mr. Jacobus' article and on this compiler's own searches in original records, the following reconstruction of that portion of this difficult family which is involved in the subject pedigree is tentatively ventured. Because of the uncertainties involved in the reconstruction of this family's record, more details than are customarily given concerning siblings of members of the subject line will be presented.
1. JOHN FINCH, born say, about 1590 in England, died 5 September 1657 at Stamford, New Haven Colony ("Stamford Town Records," 1:19-20). It appears that he was married twice, for his putative son John seems to have been about 15 years older than his next-born child. John Finch Sr. married second, Martha, maiden surname undetermined. As John's widow, Martha married second, on 7 (September?) 1658, John Green (ibid., 1:74) of New Haven, widower of Mary Jarvis ("The Washington Ancestry, and Records of the McClain, Johnson and Forty Other Colonial American Families," 3:539, by Charles A. Hoppin).
It is possible, though proof is entirely lacking, that Martha was born a Brett. The 13 November 1646 will of Thomas Brett of Tenterden, County Kent, England, "gentleman," refers to "my sister Finche, now wife of Mr. John Finch" (The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 44:300). If the reference was to the subject John Finch (who was never styled "Mr." in colonial records) it would seem probable he would have been described as of New England, where he had lived for at least 16 years prior to the date of the will.
John Finch is believed to have been a brother of the Daniel Finch who was in 1636 the constable at Wethersfield, Connecticut Colony, a founder of Stamford in 1641, and who moved to Fairfield, New Haven Colony, by‘ 1649, where he died in March 1666/7. As will be seen below, it is significant that Daniel had no son named John Finch, and that his only grandson of that name, born 20 December 1699 at Branford, Connecticut Colony, died in 1721 without issue.
Henry Bond, in his "Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts:" 207, stated, "John Finch came over with Gov. Winthrop in 1630, and settled in Wat., where his wigwam and all his goods were burnt, Sept. 1630. He was a proprietor of Wat. 1636-7, was one of that small colony from Wat. that first settled Wethersfield, Conn., and was killed by an Indian, Oct. 30, 1637." This last statement, at least, is incorrect. It was Abraham Finch, son of Daniel, who was murdered on that date by Nepaupuck, an Indian, who confessed to the killing of "Abraham Finch, an English man att Wethersfield ... accordingly, his head was cutt off the next day and pittched upon a pole in the market place" (an entry dated 28 October 1639 (sic) in "Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, 1638-1649": 23, by Charles Hoadley). A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, II: 160, by Henry Savage, says this act was later called judicial murder, for the Connecticut Colony had on 1 May 1637 declared open war on the Pequot Indians, of whom Nepaupuck was an officer.
N.B. Shurtleff, in "Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay," I:102, reports John Finch being fined on 7 November 1632 for "wanting [i.e., lacking] arms for his man and for being absent himself from training."
A curious early reference to John Finch is found in the minutes of "a court of assistants held at Cambridge the 5th day of the 4th month 1638. Lawrence Waters's wife was enjoined to give John Finch 18 d. and Nice Theale to give John Finch 18 d. and Edward Lamb to give him 2 s. and Lamb was fined 15 s. 6 d. for his contempt and all of them were admonished to avoyd dancing" ("Descendants of Abraham, Daniel and John Finch of Connecticut," 1:252, by Claude B. Thummel, a typescript at the Connecticut State Library, Hartford). It is not clear why these individuals were ordered to make payments to John Finch. Perhaps defamation or slander of Finch was their offense.
Shurtleff makes several other references to Daniel Finch and to Samuel Finch, both probably brothers of John. Katherine, wife of Samuel Finch, must have been exceptionally sharp-tongued, for on 4 September 1638, "for speaking against the magistrates, aga[inst] the churches & against the elders, [she] was censured to bee whiped" (ibid., I:234). Although she promised on 4 June 1639 "to go to the ordinances & to carry herselfe dutifully to her husband" (ibid., 1:265), her resolution must have been short lived, for on 2 June 1640 the record bears the notation, "Gooddy Finch was censured to bee severely whiped to morrow, & so kept in prison" (ibid., I:297). By 1643 Samuel and Katherine were living in Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony ("Register," op. cit., 2:53).
At Watertown John Finch was granted four acres "of the Plowlands at Beverbroke Planes" by the town in February 1636/7, and another four acres "of the Remote or Westpine Meaddows" four months later, in each instance "allowing one Acre for a person & likewise for cattle valued at £20 the Head" ("Watertown Records, ... Volume I, Part 227, 9, by the Historical Society of Watertown). This means that in 1637 John's family consisted of only four persons and beasts. He must have increased his ownership of livestock by April 1638, for on that date he received 91 acres in the town's grant to "all the Townes Men that had not Farmes laid out formerly .... allowing 13 Acres of upland to every head of Persons & Cattle" (ibid.:13), indicating seven persons and cattle credited to him at that time.
As stated above, Daniel Finch, thought to have been a brother of John (1) Finch, was one of the 30 founders of Stamford. The names of eight of the 30 founders are lost, a portion of the original record having been broken off and lost long ago. It is possible that John Finch was one of these eight men, but since he was from Watertown and Stamford was settled by Wethersfield men, the probability seems doubtful. Bond's identification of John Finch as a resident of Wethersfield is questionable. In any event, John Finch was granted, at a town meeting in Stamford held in the fall of 1642, a house lot of one acre, two acres of marsh and three acres of woodland ("Stamford Town Records," 1:7-8). His land holdings at 1 March 1650 were described ibid.:43-4, in great detail, and included a house and home lot of one and one-half acres, and 10 acres of upland in the North Field (both of which he sold 15 November 1652 to Richard Ambler of Stamford), and three parcels of meadow aggregating seven acres in the East Field (three acres of which he sold 26 November 1652 to William Potter).
On 24 October 1653 John Finch Sr. purchased from Henry Ackerly of Stamford ("Stamford Town Records," 1:51-2):
"my now dwelling house in Stanford, w'th my barne and all other of my out houses ... upon my whom lot in ye streete called the Est Streete in Standford aforsayd, with thee ... orchards, gardens, yards & cet.; also a lott at the reere of ye sayd home lot called the pond lot, and sixe akers ... in a pertickeler inclosure by the sayd pond lot. Also, three akers of planting land in the South feild 8cthree akers more or lesse in the North feild, and four akers of medo [W] in the Est feild, mor or less, with all my right of accommodations of land & p[rivi]lidges in Stanford ... in consideration whereof the sayd john Finch is to pay ... the some of fiftie pound..."
Sometime in 1647 (the day and month are illegible) David Mitchell brought an action in court against John Finch to recover a sum of money due him. Finch's answer was not satisfactory to the court, which ordered him to pay Mitchell two pounds, five shillings "as ye du debt, and for damedge for want of du payment, ten shillings and ye charge of ye Court."
As noted in the Ferris section herein, John Finch was fined by the court 13 February 1648 for felling and removing timber on land of Jeffrey Ferris.
An inventory of the estate of John Finch Sr. was taken 9 February 1657/8 by Richard Law and Francis Holmes, who found its total value to be, "errowrs excepted," £98:12:04. Debts to be paid came to £74:15:05, leaving a clear estate of only £23:16:11. Included were his house and land, £40; Bible, 12 shillings; two oxen and one heifer, £15; 42 1/2 bushels of wheat, £9:11:03, and 35 bushels of peas, £6:02:06.
John (1) Finch and his unidentified first wife are believed to have had one child:
i. John Finch Jr., born say, about 1620, who died 19 June 1685 at Huntington ("Huntington Town Records, Including Babylon, Long Island, N.Y.," 1:432, by Charles R. Street). This John Finch was a mariner (ibid., 1:323-6). By his unidentified first wife he had a daughter Mary, wife of Nicholas Ellis, and a son John (ibid.). He may also have been the father of the Francis Finch who was an appraiser at Jamaica, Long Island, for the minister's rate in 1663. This Francis Finch was on a Jamaica tax list about 1681. He was called "My Kinsman" and received the home lot of Richard Bratnell of Jamaica under the terms of the latter's will dated 1 February 1662/3 ("The American Genealogist," 19:55).
John married, second, soon after 8 November 1652, Hannah Marsh, widow of Launcelot Fuller of New Haven. In 1656 John was recorded as living in Westchester County, New York ("Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:203).
The compiler's identification of the Westchester County and Huntington, Long Island, John Finch as son of John (1) Finch of Stamford is based on his belief that all the early Finches of New England and New York were of the same family, and because John Finch of Huntington had a son, also named John Finch, living there as late as 6 October 1683, when John Finch Jr. sold property ("Huntington Records," op. cit., 1:327-8). This son had moved to Stamford by 17 March 1684 ("Stamford Land Records," A:152). Daniel Finch of Stamford and Norwalk had no son named John, and Samuel Finch of Roxbury and his family apparently never moved west of that area.
John (1) Finch and his second wife, Martha, had at least four sons:
2. ii. Isaac Finch, born about 1635.
3. iii. Samuel Finch, born circa 1638.
iv. Joseph Finch, born probably in 1647 for he, aged about 53, testified 6 May 1700 ("Greenwich Early Records": 125). He died before 3 January 1714, when the inventory of his estate was exhibited for probate ("Fairfield Probate Records," 5:296).
Joseph Finch married Elizabeth Austin, daughter of John and Catherine Austin ("The American Genealogist," 48:96), on 23 November "[1670]" ("Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:201). The official transcript of the "Stamford Town Records" has the year as "16( )" (1:136) and erroneously shows (1:90) an Elizabeth, born 14 November 1669, to "Jos. Finch." The original record (1:76) has her as daughter of "lsac Finch" (Joseph's brother). Joseph and Elizabeth Finch lived in Greenwich, Connecticut Colony.
v. Abraham Finch, born about 1648. That he was a brother of Samuel Finch is proved by a deed dated 3 December 1686 in which Samuel Finch of Stamford "have of my own free & volentary will given unto my well beloved brother, Abraham Ffinch of Staford, ... five roods of upland" (Stamford Land Records, A2153).
The inventory of Abraham's estate was taken 4 December 1708, administration being granted to Samuel Blatchley of Stamford ("Fairfield Probate Records," 5:130-1). A deed recorded in "Stamford Land Records," F:171, proves that the wife of Samuel Blatchley was the only child of Abraham Finch.
Samuel "Blachley" and Abigail Finch had been married 6 April 1699 ("Stamford Town Records," 1:104).
References:
As cited.
Stamford Town Records.
"History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," by Donald Lines Jacobus, F.A.S.G."

3. The periodical "The Connecticut Nutmegger," 22:419, 520, "Data on John Finch," by Shirley N. Martin:
"The Genealogical Register of First Settlers of New England, printed in Lancaster, Mass. 1829 and reprinted with corrections by New England Historic Genealogical Society April 1849 and the new print 1989 still has the same John Finch killed by Nepaupuck, a Pequot Captain 30 Oct 1637 at "Weathersfield." (This was Abraham Finch Jr., John Finch).
Abraham Finch Jr. killed at Weathersfield. Historical marker on his home lot, Broad St., Wethersfield states Abraham Finch Jr. killed Indian Massacre at Wethersfield 23 Apr 1637.
Memorial History of County of Hartford Vol. II 1633-1884 states: "Abraham Finch Jr. killed Indian massacre at Wethersfield May 12 1637." "It is not true as some have that John Finch was also killed as he lived to remove to Stamford with brother, Daniel Finch."
John Finch mar. Martha Brett and had: John, Isaac, Samuel, Martha & Joseph. (One record only lists a son Abraham.)
John Finch received land in Watertown, Mass. from 1634 to May of 1642. He received payment at a court held at Cambridge, Mass. 5 April 1638 and sold 4 acres at Watertown in 1641. He was assigned a lot at Stamford, Conn. October 1642. John died Stamford before 16 May 1657 and his widow, Martha, mar. after 5 September 1657 John Green."

4. The book "The Great Migration Begins," by Robert Charles Anderson, pp. 667-69::
"DANIEL FINCH
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1630
FIRST RESIDENCE: Watertown
REMOVES: Wethersfield 1635, Stamford 1641, Fairfield 1653
FREEMAN: 18 May 1631 [MBCR 1:366].
OFFICES: On jury to try John Endicott for battery, 3 May 1631; on committee to distribute estate of "Mr. Crispe & his company" 18 October 1631 [MBCR 1:86, 92].
Appointed constable at Wethersfield 26 April 1636 [CCCR 1:1, 4, 5, 6].
ESTATE: Presumably had houselot and other small holdings in Watertown, but left before beginning of recorded grants in 1636; any holdings he might have had would have been sold to a later immigrant.
A description of the Wethersfield land of Abraham Finch, dated 26 April 1641, refers to "his father's adventure land" and notes that one of the boundaries is "the house lot of that late Dan[iel] Fince's" [TAG 19:52, citing WetLR 1:188].
In his will, dated 5 March 1666/7 and proved 16 March 1666/7, Daniel Finch of Fairfield bequeathed to son Nathaniel, under 18, "my books"; to grandson Abraham Finch 40s.; to Roger Knap's wife 20s.; to Joseph James' wife 10s.; to Henry Castel's wife £7; "unto the two children that be with their mother" 20s. apiece; to John Sturgis 10s.; and he mentioned, his wife; the inventory was taken 11 March 1666/7 [TAG 19:61, abstracting Fairfield PR 2:18].
BIRTH: By about 1585 based on estimated date of first marriage.
DEATH: Fairfield between 5 March 1666/7 (date of will) and 11 March 1666/7 (inventory).
MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1610___ ___; not seen in any New England record.
(2) After 25 December 1657 (marriage agreement [TAG 19:61, citing Fairfield PR 1:37]) Elizabeth Thompson, widow of John Thompson; she died by 1658.
(3) By 4 April 1660 Mary Dickerson, widow of Thomas, who outlived Daniel and married (3) Nicholas Pinion of East Haven.
CHILDREN:
With first wife
i ABRAHAM, b. say 1610; m. by 1637 Dorothy Moulton, daughter of ROBERT MOULTON of Charlestown and Salem; d. 1637 [Manwaring 1:11]. The widow married (2) John Edwards and (3) Richard Tousley. (See FOOF 1:718-20 for discussion of Abraham's placement as son of Daniel.)
With third wife
ii NATHANIEL, b. say 1662; m. (1) by 1691 Mary Hemingway, daughter of Samuel Hemingway; m. (2) by 1694 "her sister Elizabeth, but the marriage was denounced by all parties concerned and invalidated by the Court," although the couple did have a child; m. (3) Mary Hoadley, daughter of William Hoadley and widow of Jonathan Frisbie and Robert Darby [FOOF 1:202].
ASSOCIATIONS: The problem of the possible relationships of the various early Finch immigrants is a difficult one. Jacobus sorted out some of the problems in an appendix in Families of Old Fairfield [FOOF 1:718- 20]. He demonstrated there that the Abraham Finch killed by the Pequots in 1637 was son of Daniel, thus overcoming a defect in the records, which would otherwise lead one to assume another Abraham of an earlier generation.
A relation between Daniel and John Finch is likely, since both first lived in Watertown, and John moved to Stamford (directly from Watertown) shortly after Daniel moved there (from Wethersfield). Also, John's son Isaac named a son Abraham. From Daniel's will we know that they are not father and son. They could be brothers, but Daniel seems to be nearly a generation older than John, since Daniel's eldest son married only a few years after John's marriage.
Samuel Finch of Roxbury has also been counted a brother of Daniel and/or John, but this seems less likely. John named a son Samuel. According to Jacobus, Samuel lived for a time at Wethersfield, but this has not been confirmed.
COMMENTS: Under an uncertain date, but early in October 1630, Winthrop noted in his journal that "Finch, of Watertown, had his wigwam burnt and all his goods." Pope has assumed that this referred to John, but Daniel is more likely, since Daniel was known to be in New England by 1630, whereas our first independent record of John Finch was in 1632.
Since Daniel did not share in the first recorded grant of land in Watertown (1636), and was constable of Wethersfield in April 1636, he must have been one of those who made the move to Wethersfield in 1635.
He appears in the earliest lists of those planning to settle Stamford, and of those receiving land there.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: Jacobus described the Finches as "perhaps the most difficult family he has studied," and proceeded to expend much effort on them [FOOF 1:200-04; TAG 19:50-61, 118-25, 188-92, 249-56, 20:60-63, 188-89, 240, 21:158-60]. We have relied heavily on the work of Jacobus here, as little new material has come to light since he wrote."
 		Finch, Abraham (I5393)
 
1667 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"John Finch
Origin: Unknown
Migration: 1632
First Residence: Watertown
Removes: Stamford 1642
Estate: Granted four acres in Beaverbrook Plowlands, 28 February 1636/7 [WaBOP 7]; granted four acres in Remote Meadows, 26 June 1637 [WaBOP 9]; granted a farm of ninety-one acres, 10 May 1642 [WaBOP 13]. (Presumably he had held a houselot and other small holdings prior to 1637. He does not appear in the early Watertown land inventories, and all lands known to be granted to him are at that time in the hands of John Wincoll, who purchased them from John Finch, presumably in mid-1642.)
Granted six acres by Stamford in October 1642 [TAG 10:42, 19:58].
An inventory of Stamford landholding was prepared on 1 March 1650, and John Finch's real estate is summarized there [Gillespie Anc 140, citing Stamford Town Records 1:43-44].
Birth: By about 1 595 based on estimated date of marriage.
Death: Stamford 5 September 1657 [TAG 10:44, 19:58].
Marriage:
(1) By about 1620 ___; not seen in any New England record.
(2) By about 1635 Martha (assuming she was the mother of his last four children), who married [blank] September 1658 John Green [TAG 10:113, 19:58].
Children:
With first wife:
i John, b. say 1620; m. (1) ___; m. (2) after 8 November 1652 Hannah (Marsh) Fuller, widow of Laun­celot Fuller.
With second wife:
ii Isaac, b. say 1635; m. (1) Stamford [blank] October 1658 Elizabeth Basset [TAG 10:113]; m. (2) by 1682 Ann ___.
iii Samuel, b. say 1638; m. by about 1663 Sarah Hoyt, daughter of SIMON HOYT.
iv Joseph, b. about 1647 (deposed 6 May 1700 aged about fifty-three); m. Stamford 23 November [1670] Elizabeth Austin.
v Abraham, b. say 1648; m. about 1670 ___ ___.
Associations: See Daniel Finch for possible relations among Finch immigrants.
Comments: As noted under Daniel Finch, John has been credited as the man who lost his belongings in a fire in September 1630, but this is more likely Daniel. On 7 November 1632 "John Finch is fined 10s. for wanting arms for his man, & for being absent himself from training" [MBCR 1:102], and this is the earliest record we have for him in New England.
Savage has assigned to this John the death at the hands of the Pequots suffered by Abraham, son of Daniel.
The grants of Beaverbrook Plowlands and Remote Meadows in 1637 were for four acres each, which indicates that the maximum size of his family at that time was four heads. This would account for himself, wife, and two eldest sons John and Isaac, both of whom were born by this time.
Bibliographic Note: In addition to the sources cited under Daniel Finch, we take note here of the magnificent work by Paul Prindle on John Finch, which we follow here in many instances [Gillespie Anc 138-51]. In particular we have relied on Prindle for the data on the marriages of the sons of John Finch, and refer the reader to his work for fuller citations on these men."

2. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), p. 47: "Page 58 [1:48] lists a 20 Feb 1659 land transaction involving Daniel Schofield which bounds to land of "Isack Fenish." The author has a footnote that reads: "Isaac Finch was identified as the son of John Finch, Sr. (d. 7 Sept. 1657, STR 1:19, 20), by Jacobus ("Families of Old Fairfield," 1:203) and Prindle ("Gillespie Ancestry," 141). This relationship is solidified by the testimony of William Potter (Stamford Land Records A:36), who stated that he "bought that lot wch Daniel Scholfield now lives upon from Goodman Finch wch was Isaak Finch & Samuel Finches father."

3. The book "Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke)," by Paul W. Prindle, 1976, pp. 142-47:
"2. ISAAC FINCH, son of John (1) Finch and his second wife, Martha, was born about 1635, probably at Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, or at Wethersfield, Connecticut Colony. He died intestate between 27 August 1702, when he conveyed property, and 15 November 1702, when the inventory of his estate was made. Isaac married twice. In October 1658 (the day is illegible in the record) he married ("Stamford Town Records," 1:74) Elizabeth Bassett, q.v., daughter of John and Margery Bassett. Elizabeth's father died in 1653 when she was about 14 years old, and she was no doubt "apprenticed" to Jeremiah Whitnels of New Haven. "Stamford Land Records," A:103, record an acknowledgment dated 22 May 1688:
"These may certifi whome it may concern yt I, Isaak Ffinch of Sta'ford in ye county of Fairfield, being proper heir of Elizabeth Basset, which was formerly Jerimy Whitnels Maid of Newhaven & my former wife, doe own myself to have received of Philip Alcock of Newhaven twenty shillings as a legacy left by the aforesaid Whitnel unto ye aforesaid Basset. I say, received by me.
his Isaac X Finch mark"
Elizabeth had obviously died by that date and Isaac had married second, Ann, whose identity has not been established. Ann died 9 November 1703 ("Stamford Town Records," 1:135).
In his Finch article in "Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:201, Donald Lines Jacobus calls Isaac and Samuel probable children of John (1) Finch. That they were his sons is proved by testimony of William Potter, entered 27 January 1684/5 in "Stamford Land Records," A:36, who stated that he had "bought that lot, w'ch Danil Scolfild now lives upon, of Goodman Ffinch, w'ch was Isaak Ffinch & Samuel Ffinches father, 84:yt the Aforesaid John Ffinch tould him yt ye piece of medow..."
Isaac Finch gave testimony concerning the ownership of a horse at a hearing before the General Court at New Haven on 19 October 1659 ("Records of the Colony or jurisdiction of New Haven, 1653-1665": 325, by Charles Hoadly).
"Stamford Town Records" show that Isaac Finch gave testimony in 1660 at a hearing regarding a heifer which had died mysteriously. "Isaak Fenish" was in 1665 one of several witnesses who swore they had seen Robert Pennoyer "reell and stagger in ye street as he went drownkard like ... and it being ye thred tim of his offenc in ye kind, he is find treebl, acording to ye lawe. Ye find is 30 s." Two years later Isaac was one of several witnesses who testified against John "Osten" (i.e., Austin) "for swareing and cuseing, extremely agrevated p[er] the many oeths & Cuses." For being drunk, Austin was fined 30 shillings and charges. In 1667 Isaac's name was on the list of those intending to place a horse in the town's new horse pasture.
Isaac Finch served as a surveyor of highways for the East Field in 1667 and 1681; as fence viewer for that field in 1668 and 1671, and for the North Field in 1700, and as pounder for the North Field in 1698. He served on only three town committees. In 1667 it was Voted at a town meeting in Stamford "yt Mr. Lawe and Isack Finch are chosen to present the officers chosen by ye trayne bande to comitty at Fayrfielde for yeer [their] confermation." In that same year Isaac and one other man were named to lay out land granted to individuals by the town. At a town meeting in 1699 Isaac Finch Sr. was placed on a committee of three directed to renew the tree markings outlining the boundary line of the Sequestered Land.
A number of land transactions involving Isaac Finch were recorded in Stamford Town Records. He requested a house lot in 1670. In allotments of commonage he received lots in 1677, 1698 and 1699. The minutes of a town meeting held 22 December 1687 record that, "To Isaak Finch is sold ye dismall swamp yt lys on ye east sid of ye path, for 1.1s.0." Two years later Isaac sold this property to John Dean. On 22 February 1698/9 the town granted "to Isak Finch, for ye use of his son Isack, four acre of land."
"Stamford Land Records" show Isaac (2) Finch as grantor in 11 deeds, as grantee in only two, and as the recipient of five layouts by the town during the years 1679 to 1702. He also exchanged fencing with Benjamin Hoyt in 1684.
Two of Isaac's conveyances are of interest. On 26 February 1698/9 Isaac Finch Sr. made over to Joseph Finch, son of Isaac's brother Samuel (now deceased), land he had formerly given to Samuel, but which gift had never been recorded (A:314); and on 20 January 1700/1 Isaac gave to his son Abraham (A:358) nine acres:
"in ye woods neeare ye turne of ye mill river ... upon the condission yt hee doe give to my son Jacob Finch a good cow with calfe, or a calfe by her side, ye cows age to bee above three years old and not to bee above seven years old, and to be delivered to ye s'd Jacob or his order at his being fourteen years of age ..."
In May 1703 the General Assembly at Hartford authorized Abraham and Isaac Finch to sell land of their father, Isaac Finch, late of Stamford, deceased, in order to pay debts owing by his estate ("The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1689-1706," by Charles Hoadly). Subsequently, four administrator's deeds involving the estate of Isaac (2) Finch were recorded in "Stamford Land Records." In one (A:406) dated 25 August 1703:
"... Iseak Finch 8c An Finch, boath of Stanford ... by venue of an order from the Generall Asembly at Hartford may ye thirteenth 1703 to us as Administrators to ye Esteate of Iseak Finch, desest, by 8: with ye advice of Capt. Jonathan Selleck, Leuit. David Waterbery, to sell lands of s'd Iseack, desest, to pay just debts, there beeing noe personell Esteate, have for 8c in consideration of thirty three pounds in pay to us paid ... by Abraham Finch Sen'r Samuel Blachly, boath of s'd Stanford, ... sell ... all that Pond, the Pond lott, commonly so called, which was the s'd Iseake, desest ...
Similarly, on the same day, Isaac and Ann Finch sold to Jacob More of Stamford, for £ 22, three acres in the North Field, and on the following day sold to David Waterbury of Stamford, for an unstated amount, 27 acres of upland on Rockwells Ridge (ibid., A:406, 405). The fourth such deed was dated 13 January 1707/8 and recorded ibid., A:486. "Iseack Finch, now resident in Grinwich ... Administrator unto ye Estate of my honered father, Iseack Finch of Stanford, lately deseased, doe deliver unto William Price of Greenwich ... six acres of land within ye bounds of Stanford to be taken up to ye Estate of my honered father above s'd, upon the account of his wife's portion." The grantee, William Price, was the son-in-law of Jonathan Pettit, q.v., and his wife, Elizabeth (4) Finch.
"Fairfield Probate Records," 5:5-5a, show "An Inventory of the Estate of Isack Finch Sen'r, who is departed this Life. Taken in Stanford this 15th day of Novemb'r 1702" by David Waterbury, Daniel Scofield and Jonathan Bell, townsmen. The inventory shows no total value, but aggregated about £125. In addition to his house and home lot, four tracts of land and his right to the Sequestered Land, all appraised at £95:10:00, there were listed minor farm, household and personal effects, including "ye barrell of a Gun, & a Sword, £0:07:00," and 30 shillings "In Abraham Finch, his hands ... The Widow, Ann Finch, Relict of Isack Finch of Stanford, made oath to the Truth of ye Inventory before The authority in Stanford, Novemb'r 21:1702." The court approved the inventory 26 November 1702 and appointed the widow Ann, with her stepsons John and Isaac, as administrators, "and there being testimony Exhibited In Court Concerning what the decesed Isack Finch declared to be his will or minde Concerning ye disposeing of his Estate, and ye Witneses not being present, wherefore ye Court" deferred settlement. No further action is found in the probate records.
In his "Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:203, Donald Lines Jacobus gives Isaac (2) Finch nine children, calling the last four "prob. by second wife, but perhaps they belong to Isaac Jr." That they were children of Isaac Sr. is proved by two deeds recorded in "Stamford Land Records." On 3 March 1698/9 Joseph Brown of Stamford sold "unto Isaac Finch Sener of the same town ... al my right of land to be taken up in the woods ... according to my interest of Estat, which is sixty one pound and ten shillings" (ibid., A2315). This "right of land" was his right to future distributions of the Sequestered Land (also called the Southern Commons), which distributions were to be based on the 1687 list of taxable estates. In this tax list Joseph Brown was assessed at £61:10:00 (A:272).
On 14 March 1748/9 Benjamin Finch of North Castle, Westchester County, sold to Samuel Hait 3rd of Stamford, the £61:00:00 right of "my honnored father, Isaac finch, formerly of s'd Stamford, deceased, which he Bought, & was originally the Right of Joseph Brown sen'r of s'd Stamford, deceased" (E:291). Since Isaac Finch, father of Benjamin, is here stated to have bought the right, he is identified as being the Isaac Finch Sr. who purchased it in 1699 from Joseph Brown. Without the word "Bought" it would be possible to consider that Isaac Finch Jr. had inherited the right from his father, Isaac Sr., and was thus the father of Benjamin.
Confirmation of the fact that Benjamin Finch of North Castle was a son rather than a grandson of Isaac (2) Finch is found in a deed dated 17 January 1748/9 and recorded ibid., E:313, "Benjamin finch of North Castle ... [for] Eight Pounds & ten shillings ... sell & Confirm unto the s'd Samuel Hait ... seventy one pound Right in ye Com'on and undivided Land Called Sequest or Southern Commons in s'd Stanford, which s'd Right was my hon'd fathers, Mr. Isaac finch, Late of s'd Stanford, deceast."
Isaac (2) Finch's taxable estate was assessed in 1687 at £71:00:00 (ibid., A:272). Isaac (2) Finch and his first wife, Elizabeth Bassett, had five children. Unless otherwise noted, parenthetical references are to "Stamford Town Records":
i. John Finch, born 20 November 1659 (1:98), died 17 March 1702/3, as recorded in the inventory of his estate. He married twice. His first wife was Sarah Pettit, daughter of John Pettit Jr., q.v., and his wife, Sarah Scofield, q.v. He married second, Hannah, q.v., daughter of Richard and Mary Scofield, and widow of Joseph Webb, q.v., who had died 8 March 1683/4 (Fairfield Probate Records, 3: 125).
John Finch was childless. His will, dated 15 March 1702/3 but never proved or recorded, and the inventory of his estate, may be seen at the Connecticut State Library, Hartford. He made bequests to his "well beloved 8c Loving brother, Isaac ffinch"; to his brother Benjamin Finch; to his sister (i.e., sister-in-law) Elizabeth Pettit, and to his "Loving & welbeloved son in-Law, Joseph webb," and his "Loving Daughter in-Law, Sarah webb" - they were, of course, his stepchildren.
ii. Isaac Finch Jr., born 12 April 1662 (1298), whose given name is omitted in the birth record. He married Mary Rundle (or Ruddle) 27 April 1704 (1:122).
iii. Abraham Finch, born 5 July 1665 (1:76), died before 4 December 1708, when the inventory of his estate was taken ("Fairfield Probate Records," 5:130-1). He married Martha Couch, daughter of Simon and Mary Couch of Fairfield ("Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:161-2, 204).
4. iv. Elizabeth Finch, born 14 November 1669.
v. Martha Finch, born 19 January 1672 (1:76).
By his second wife, Ann, Isaac (2) Finch had four children, born and recorded at Stamford:
vi. Rebecca Finch, born 17 March 1682/3 (1:102).
vii. Sarah Finch, born 23January 1686/7 (1:102).
viii. Jacob Finch, born 9 October 1691, died 15 April 1702 (1:102).
ix. Benjamin Finch, born 29 June1695 (1:122). The record of this Benjamin Finch is not entirely clear. There were two others of that name shown in early records: Benjamin, born about 1682, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Austin) Finch of Greenwich, and Benjamin, born 8 October 1707 to Joseph and Abigail (Seeley) Finch, but "Stamford Probate Records," 3:369; 5:160-2, 384, clearly show this last Benjamin Finch to have died unmarried.
The marriage on 16 April 1717 of a Benjamin Finch to Elizabeth Palmer is given in "Greenwich Land Records," 1:450, the same wedding being also recorded, but under date of 18 April 1717, in "Greenwich Early Records" (sometimes called the "Common Place Books"). Spencer P. Mead, in his "Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich": 547, 549, has Benjamin Finch, born circa 1682, as marrying Elizabeth Palmer on 16 April 1717, and Benjamin Finch, born 1695, as marrying her on 18 April 1717, an obvious error. "Palmer Families in America," 1:123, by Horace W. Palmer, states that Elizabeth Palmer, born about 1696, daughter of James Palmer, q.v., and his wife, Sarah Denham, q.v., of Greenwich, married on 18 April 1717, Benjamin Finch, son of Isaac and Ann Finch, and had two daughters born by 1720.
"Greenwich Early Records" also show the marriage on 23 December 1727 of a Benjamin Finch and Susannah Peet or Peat; and on 13 December 1750 a Benjamin Finch married at Sharon, Connecticut, Sarah Knapp, daughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Finch) Knapp. All three of these marriages are tentatively attributed herein to the subject Benjamin Finch, born in 1695. He was known to have been a resident of North Castle, Westchester County, in 1749.
References:
As cited.
Stamford Town Records.
"History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," by Donald Lines Jacobus, F.A.S.G."

MARRIAGE:
1. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), p. 77; author's notes in ( ): "Page 88 [1:74] Isac Finch & Elizabeth Basset, married, 8: [16]58. (Oct 1658)."

2. Marriage to second wife Ann ___ not found in the book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011).
 		Finch, Isaac (I5392)
 
1668 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"John Finch
Origin: Unknown
Migration: 1632
First Residence: Watertown
Removes: Stamford 1642
Estate: Granted four acres in Beaverbrook Plowlands, 28 February 1636/7 [WaBOP 7]; granted four acres in Remote Meadows, 26 June 1637 [WaBOP 9]; granted a farm of ninety-one acres, 10 May 1642 [WaBOP 13]. (Presumably he had held a houselot and other small holdings prior to 1637. He does not appear in the early Watertown land inventories, and all lands known to be granted to him are at that time in the hands of John Wincoll, who purchased them from John Finch, presumably in mid-1642.)
Granted six acres by Stamford in October 1642 [TAG 10:42, 19:58].
An inventory of Stamford landholding was prepared on 1 March 1650, and John Finch's real estate is summarized there [Gillespie Anc 140, citing Stamford Town Records 1:43-44].
Birth: By about 1 595 based on estimated date of marriage.
Death: Stamford 5 September 1657 [TAG 10:44, 19:58].
Marriage:
(1) By about 1620 ___; not seen in any New England record.
(2) By about 1635 Martha (assuming she was the mother of his last four children), who married [blank] September 1658 John Green [TAG 10:113, 19:58].
Children:
With first wife:
i John, b. say 1620; m. (1) ___; m. (2) after 8 November 1652 Hannah (Marsh) Fuller, widow of Laun­celot Fuller.
With second wife:
ii Isaac, b. say 1635; m. (1) Stamford [blank] October 1658 Elizabeth Basset [TAG 10:113]; m. (2) by 1682 Ann ___.
iii Samuel, b. say 1638; m. by about 1663 Sarah Hoyt, daughter of SIMON HOYT.
iv Joseph, b. about 1647 (deposed 6 May 1700 aged about fifty-three); m. Stamford 23 November [1670] Elizabeth Austin.
v Abraham, b. say 1648; m. about 1670 ___ ___.
Associations: See Daniel Finch for possible relations among Finch immigrants.
Comments: As noted under Daniel Finch, John has been credited as the man who lost his belongings in a fire in September 1630, but this is more likely Daniel. On 7 November 1632 "John Finch is fined 10s. for wanting arms for his man, & for being absent himself from training" [MBCR 1:102], and this is the earliest record we have for him in New England.
Savage has assigned to this John the death at the hands of the Pequots suffered by Abraham, son of Daniel.
The grants of Beaverbrook Plowlands and Remote Meadows in 1637 were for four acres each, which indicates that the maximum size of his family at that time was four heads. This would account for himself, wife, and two eldest sons John and Isaac, both of whom were born by this time.
Bibliographic Note: In addition to the sources cited under Daniel Finch, we take note here of the magnificent work by Paul Prindle on John Finch, which we follow here in many instances [Gillespie Anc 138-51]. In particular we have relied on Prindle for the data on the marriages of the sons of John Finch, and refer the reader to his work for fuller citations on these men."

2. See "The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England 1620 -1633," compiled by Robert Charles Anderson, Vol. 2, Pages 1029 - 1033 (New England Historic Genealogical Society: 1995, Boston , MA), entry for "Simon Hoyt," children:
"xii. SARAH, b. say 1647; m. by about 1663 Samuel Finch, son of JOHN FINCH [Gillespie Anc 147-51]."

3. The book "Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke)," by Paul W. Prindle, 1976, p. 295:
"SARAH HOYT, daughter of Simon (2) Hoyt and his second wife, Susanna Smith, was born about 1647, probably at Fairfield, New Haven Colony. She married Samuel Finch, q.V. for the record of their children. He was a son of John Finch. Sarah Finch, widow, died 19 March 1712/3 (Stamford Town Records, 1:126)."

4. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), p. 129, original record page 138 [1:114], shows a transaction dated the "2d month, 1665" wherein "Samuell Finch" signs for the "full portion of my wives of the estate of Simon Hoyte." The author includes the following footnote: "Samuel2 Finch, son of John1 Finch, married Sarah2 Hoyt, dau. of Simon1 and Susanna (Smith) Hoyte. Source: Jacobus, "Families of Old Fairfield, 1:203-4."

5. The book "Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke)," by Paul W. Prindle, 1976, pp. 147-50:
"3. SAMUEL FINCH, son of John (1) Finch and his second wife, Martha, was born about 1638, probably in Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, or in Wethersfield, Connecticut Colony. He died at Stamford, Connecticut Colony, 23 April 1698 ("Stamford Town Records,' 1:135).
Samuel married Sarah Hoyt, q.v., daughter of Simon and Susanna (Smith) Hoyt. Sarah died 19 March 1712/3 (ibid., 1:126).
Samuel Finch witnessed a deed dated 31 December 1662 (ibid., 1:81), so must have attained his majority by that date. Proof that he was a son of John (1) Finch is given above in the account of his brother Isaac (2) Finch, based upon testimony recorded in Stamford Land Records, A:36.
"Stamford Town Records,' 1:138, contain a receipt signedby Samuel Finch and "Datted ye 2d month 1665. Witnes all men by this presents yt I, Samuell Finch, have received ye full portion of my wives of ye estate, Simon Hoyte." Years later an agreement was made, 1 February 1674/5, between the brothers Moses,nJoshua, Samuel and Benjamin Hoyt, and Thomas Lyon, Samuel Finch and Samuel Firman "conser'ing ye distribution of ye estate of our deceased mother, Sus'ana Bates." She was the wife of Robert Bates and the former wife of Simon Hoyt. Lyon, Finch and Firman were her sons-in-law. Among the detailed provisions of the agreement was one that "Thomas Lyon & Samuel Ffinch [were] to have ye horses & mares, you'g & old, runing in ye woods of Norwake, equally between us, & twenty shillings to each of us" ("Stamford Land Records," A261).
In 1667 Samuel Finch signified his intention of using the town's new horse pasture for one horse. He was propounded as a freeman of the Connecticut Colony on 14 October 1669 ("The American Genealogist," 19:53).
Samuel filled a variety of town offices. He served as fence viewer in 1679 and 1690; as surveyor of "cartways" in 1680 and of highways in 1685, and ten years later Samuel Finch Sr., Benjamin Hait and Sgt. Samuel Hait were named as surveyors for "ye whole town ... who are to dewide ye town according to their discreshion & call ym to work, ever' person yt are capable." Samuel Finch was made a sheepmaster in 1685, a lister in 1689, and a pounder in 1694. He served on only two town committees, in each instance being charged with the duty of laying out land. In 1678 he was asked "to lay out ye land granted to ye Souldiers upon Noroton Hill" (they were Stamford's veterans of King Philip's War), and in 1690 he was one chosen to lay out land granted by the town to an individual.
A few of Samuel's land rights and transactions were recorded in Stamford Town Records. In 1667 he was among those named as having rights to take up commonage. He drew lot No. 12 in the 1677 distribution, and in that same year there was granted to "Joshuah Hoyt, Danell Simkins, and Sam. Finch and Abram Finch, Richard Ayrs yt swamp com'only cald Shoresmag ... in consideration of their maintaining ye floud gats at Tilesome for ever" ("Stamford Land Records," A:92). The 16 acres were laid out three days later. This grant by the town was also recorded in "Stamford Town Records" in the minutes of a town meeting held 16 April 1677. At a town meeting held 22 December 1687, Samuel Finch, by "outcry" (i.e., at auction), bought "ye swamp on ye north of Slason wolfe pit, and so to Ambl'rs cartway," and at that same meeting he also purchased "Andralls swamp" for £1:13:00.
Also recorded in "Stamford Land Records" were three deeds in which Samuel Finch was the grantor, and a like number in which he was grantee, during the period 1675 to 1697. He also received seven grants or layouts of land from the town of Stamford, the last of which was made "9 of March 168/9" (sic - 1698/9 intended) and recorded ibid., A:337, laying out to his sons, "Samuell Finch &: Joseph Finch, for their fathers Estate, upon the west side of Norwoaton river, thirteen acres of land." The only deeds of interest are Samuel's purchase in 1675 of 2 1/2 acres in the East Field, with fencing, from (his brother) Abraham Finch (A:152), and the 1686 deed, noted above in the birth record of Abraham, by which Samuel conveyed land to his brother Abraham by deed of gift (A:153).
On 28 September 1697 Samuel Finch Sr. of Stamford executed four deeds of gift, each witnessed by Abraham Ambler and Samuel Hait, and signed by Samuel Finch with his signature. They were not recorded in Stamford Land Records, however, but were recorded in Fairfield Probate Records, 4:153-153a, as though they collectively constituted a will and testament:
"This Deed of Gift Testifieth yt I, Samuell Finch of Stanford, ... do grant ... thes following percells of land and meado 8c my personall Estate to ye persons herafter mentioned, as followeth: ... unto my Son Samuell Finch, that house, farm and lot which [he] now lives upon. . .as his proper Right 8c Interest. . .and all my land near tilesom brooke; and also that peice of land on ye west side of. . .ye north feild; and my long lot of land upon Shiphand ... and ... one halfe of all my out land, devided or undevided, Exepting what hereafter I shall Give in perticular of said lands; more, I Give him one four year old Steer to be posessd of, all this after my decease ... It is to be understood that halfe my Salt medow in ye East feild Shall be Said Samuells as the other lands.
"I Give, Grant and Conforme unto my wel beloved wife, Sarah Finch, one halfe of my hous and one halfe of the seler and halfe ye barne and one therd part of ye homsted belonging to ye house, dureing ye term of her widowhood, & after her decease or marriage, to remaine and be unto my Son Joseph Finch. also one therd part of all my personall Estate whatever, Excepting what I shall hereafter Give in perticular, [and] one therd part of all ye remainder when due debts are paid. I Give to my wife one bed and beding. I Give to my Said wife, not to be valued by apprisement, 8cdo order my wife to be in Equall proportion with Joseph to pay my Just debts, & therefore in perticular I Give to my s'd wife, one halfe of my Corn, English and Indian graine, and one halfe of that oldest percell of Swine; and one halfe of those debts due to me...
"I give, grant & Conferm to my Son Joseph Finch ye halfe of my dwelling house, barne 8c seler & two therds of my homested belonging to Said house, & ye peice of Land at Shiphand at ye rocke, 8c halfe of my Land and meddoe not mentioned, Excepting what I Shall give in perticular. also, I Give him, after my wives marriage or decease, yt part of houseing & land She posest, Granted by me to her; also I give Joseph my oxen, Cart, plows & harnes, Iron & wooden, belonging thereunto, & my steel trap 8c one halfe of ye Crop of Com, boath English & Indian, & halfe my percell of oldest swine, devided all between him and my wife. also I Give him his bed and beding, not to be Apprised With ye Estate, and order him to pay half myjust debts, and to receave one halfe of the debts due to me...
"I, Samuel Finch Sen'r of Stanford do Give, Grant, make over 8c Conferme unto my four daughters, Sarah Holly, martha Mead, Susannah Seely, & Rachill Finch, as followeth: I give unto Sarah one half of that East Swampe I bought of the Towne ... I give unto my daughter Susanna one halfe of ye East Swampe ... more, out of my personal] estate, fifty shillings more then Sarah 8: Martha ... I give unto my daughter Rachill Finch five pounds out of my Estate & her bed 8c beding, not to be Apprised. [In addition he gave to each of his four daughters] ... one quarter part of that Estate I have not given in perticular, to be posesed of it after my decease and Settlement of my Estate."
An inventory of the estate of Samuel Finch was taken 20 May 1698 by Abraham Ambler and Daniel Scofield. The total appraised value of £321:09:03 included his house, barn, homestead and three acres of land at Shippan, £104; "the house and home lott yt Sam'll Finch ]u'r dwels in," £60; other tracts of land, £64, and (what must have been a magnificent one) a "great Brase Ketle," £3:10:00. On 1 November 1698 the Probate Court accepted the "writeing" and inventory, and appointed the "widow, Sarah Finch, Relict of the s'd Samuell Finch, to Administer on ye s'd Estate with ye advice of Mr. Abraham Ambler and Mr. Samuell Hait" (ibid., 4:153a-154)
On 1 July 1713 the Probate Court appointed Joseph Finch of Stamford as administrator on the estate of "Sarah ffinch, late of Stanford, Widow, being dec'd." A bond of £ 60 was executed (ibid., 5:379).
Samuel (3) Finch and his wife, Sarah Hoyt, had six children. Unless otherwise noted, parenthetical references are to "Stamford Town Records":
5. i. Sarah Finch, born about 1663.
ii. Samuel Finch Jr., born about 1666. As shown in the birth records of their children, his wife's name was Sarah. A Sarah Gold on 5 December 1692 married a man named Finch (1:96) whose given name in the original record is partly missing due to the loss of the left-handedge of the page. The official transcript of the record shows the name as (Sa)muel Finch, but Donald Lines Jacobus, in his "Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:231, read the name as Israel Finch. Since the eldest child of Samuel and Sarah Finch was born 2 March 1692/3 (1:122), only three months after the subject marriage, the soundness of the transcript appears questionable.
6. iii. Martha Finch, born circa 1669.
iv. Susanna Finch, born say, in 1672. On 5 December 1692 she married (O)badiah Seeley (1:96), son of Obadiah Seeley ("Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:526).
v. Rachel Finch, born about 1674.
vi. Joseph Finch, born circa 1677. He died 18 December 1752 ("Stamford Births, Marriages and Deaths," 1:100). On 7 August 1703 he married Abigail Seeley (1:122), perhaps a sister of the Obadish Seeley Jr. who married Joseph's sister Susanna."
References:
As cited.
Stamford Town Records.
"History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," by Donald Lines Jacobus, F.A.S.G."

DEATH:
1. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), p. 152; author's notes in ( ): "p. 159 [1:126]: Death, Widow sarah Finch, deceased, March the 19th in Stamford 1712/13. (This is Sarah2 (Hoyt) Finch, daughter of Simon1 Hoyt,and widow of Samuel2 Finch (son of Stamford Planter John1 Finch), who died on 23 April 1698 (Jacobus, "Families of Old Fairfield," 1:202)."
 		Finch, Samuel (I5390)
 
1669 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"John Finch
Origin: Unknown
Migration: 1632
First Residence: Watertown
Removes: Stamford 1642
Estate: Granted four acres in Beaverbrook Plowlands, 28 February 1636/7 [WaBOP 7]; granted four acres in Remote Meadows, 26 June 1637 [WaBOP 9]; granted a farm of ninety-one acres, 10 May 1642 [WaBOP 13]. (Presumably he had held a houselot and other small holdings prior to 1637. He does not appear in the early Watertown land inventories, and all lands known to be granted to him are at that time in the hands of John Wincoll, who purchased them from John Finch, presumably in mid-1642.)
Granted six acres by Stamford in October 1642 [TAG 10:42, 19:58].
An inventory of Stamford landholding was prepared on 1 March 1650, and John Finch's real estate is summarized there [Gillespie Anc 140, citing Stamford Town Records 1:43-44].
Birth: By about 1595 based on estimated date of marriage.
Death: Stamford 5 September 1657 [TAG 10:44,19:58].
Marriage:
(1) By about 1620 _____; not seen in any New England record.
(2) by about 1635 Martha (assuming she was the mother of his last four children), who married [blank] September 1658 John Green [TAG 10:113, 19:58].
Children:
With first wife:
i John, b. say 1620; m. (1) ___; m. (2) after 8 November 1652 Hannah (Marsh) Fuller, widow of Launcelot Fuller.
With second wife:
ii Isaac, b. say 1635; m. (1) Stamford [blank] October 1658 Elizabeth Basset [TAG 10:113]; m. (2) by 1682 Ann ___.
iii Samuel, b. say 1638; m. by about 1663 Sarah Hoyt, daughter of Simon Hoyt.
iv Joseph, b. about 1647 (deposed 6 May 1700 aged about fifty-three); m. Stamford 23 November [1670] Elizabeth Austin.
v Abraham, b. say 1648; m. about 1670 ___ ___.
Associations: See Daniel Finch for possible relations among Finch immigrants.
Comments: As noted under Daniel Finch, John has been credited as the man who lost his belongings in a fire in September 1630, but this is more likely Daniel. On 7 November 1632 "John Finch is fined 10s. for wanting arms for his man, & for being absent himself from training" [MBCR 1:102], and this is the earliest record we have for him in New England.
Savage has assigned to this John the death at the hands of the Pequots suffered by Abraham, son of Daniel.
The grants of Beaverbrook Plowlands and Remote Meadows in 1637 were for four acres each, which indicates that the maximum size of his family at that time was four heads. This would account for himself, wife, and two eldest sons John and Isaac, both of whom were born by this time.
Bibliographic Note: In addition to the sources cited under Daniel Finch, we take note here of the magnificent work by Paul Prindle on John Finch, which we follow here in many instances [Gillespie Anc 138-51]. In particular we have relied on Prindle for the data on the marriages of the sons of John Finch, and refer the reader to his work for fuller citations on these men."

2. Per "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus, comp. and ed. page 235: "A John Green had a son John b. at New Haven, 26 Dec 1651, but otherwise does not appear in New Haven records. He may be the same whose wife Mary d. at Stamford, 14 Nov. 1657; and who m. there (2) Sep 1658, Martha Finch, presumably widow of John...We suppose him father of Joseph, Benjamin, and perhaps John, of Stamford in the next generation. Of these, Benjamin had a dau. Sarah bapt. at Fairfield, 10 May 1696."

3. The periodical "The Connecticut Nutmegger," 22:419, 520, "Data on John Finch," by Shirley N. Martin:
"The Genealogical Register of First Settlers of New England, printed in Lancaster, Mass. 1829 and reprinted with corrections by New England Historic Genealogical Society April 1849 and the new print 1989 still has the same John Finch killed by Nepaupuck, a Pequot Captain 30 Oct 1637 at "Weathersfield." (This was Abraham Finch Jr., John Finch).
Abraham Finch Jr. killed at Weathersfield. Historical marker on his home lot, Broad St., Wethersfield states Abraham Finch Jr. killed Indian Massacre at Wethersfield 23 Apr 1637.
Memorial History of County of Hartford Vol. II 1633-1884 states: "Abraham Finch Jr. killed Indian massacre at Wethersfield May 12 1637." "It is not true as some have that John Finch was also killed as he lived to remove to Stamford with brother, Daniel Finch."
John Finch mar. Martha Brett and had: John, Isaac, Samuel, Martha & Joseph. (One record only lists a son Abraham.)
John Finch received land in Watertown, Mass. from 1634 to May of 1642. He received payment at a court held at Cambridge, Mass. 5 April 1638 and sold 4 acres at Watertown in 1641. He was assigned a lot at Stamford, Conn. October 1642. John died Stamford before 16 May 1657 and his widow, Martha, mar. after 5 September 1657 John Green."

4. The book "Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke)," by Paul W. Prindle, 1976, pp. 138-42:
"FINCH
No satisfactory account of the early generations of this prominent family has yet been published. In a series of articles entitled "Source Material for a Finch Genealogy," which began in "The American Genealogist," 19:50, Donald Lines Jacobus wrote, "The writer, although he has no personal interest in the Finch family, became intrigued by the difficulty of arranging in proper relationship the early generations of Finches -perhaps the most difficult family he has studied." Based on the material in Mr. Jacobus' article and on this compiler's own searches in original records, the following reconstruction of that portion of this difficult family which is involved in the subject pedigree is tentatively ventured. Because of the uncertainties involved in the reconstruction of this family's record, more details than are customarily given concerning siblings of members of the subject line will be presented.
1. JOHN FINCH, born say, about 1590 in England, died 5 September 1657 at Stamford, New Haven Colony ("Stamford Town Records," 1:19-20). It appears that he was married twice, for his putative son John seems to have been about 15 years older than his next-born child. John Finch Sr. married second, Martha, maiden surname undetermined. As John's widow, Martha married second, on 7 (September?) 1658, John Green (ibid., 1:74) of New Haven, widower of Mary Jarvis ("The Washington Ancestry, and Records of the McClain, Johnson and Forty Other Colonial American Families," 3:539, by Charles A. Hoppin).
It is possible, though proof is entirely lacking, that Martha was born a Brett. The 13 November 1646 will of Thomas Brett of Tenterden, County Kent, England, "gentleman," refers to "my sister Finche, now wife of Mr. John Finch" (The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 44:300). If the reference was to the subject John Finch (who was never styled "Mr." in colonial records) it would seem probable he would have been described as of New England, where he had lived for at least 16 years prior to the date of the will.
John Finch is believed to have been a brother of the Daniel Finch who was in 1636 the constable at Wethersfield, Connecticut Colony, a founder of Stamford in 1641, and who moved to Fairfield, New Haven Colony, by‘ 1649, where he died in March 1666/7. As will be seen below, it is significant that Daniel had no son named John Finch, and that his only grandson of that name, born 20 December 1699 at Branford, Connecticut Colony, died in 1721 without issue.
Henry Bond, in his "Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts:" 207, stated, "John Finch came over with Gov. Winthrop in 1630, and settled in Wat., where his wigwam and all his goods were burnt, Sept. 1630. He was a proprietor of Wat. 1636-7, was one of that small colony from Wat. that first settled Wethersfield, Conn., and was killed by an Indian, Oct. 30, 1637." This last statement, at least, is incorrect. It was Abraham Finch, son of Daniel, who was murdered on that date by Nepaupuck, an Indian, who confessed to the killing of "Abraham Finch, an English man att Wethersfield ... accordingly, his head was cutt off the next day and pittched upon a pole in the market place" (an entry dated 28 October 1639 (sic) in "Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, 1638-1649": 23, by Charles Hoadley). A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, II: 160, by Henry Savage, says this act was later called judicial murder, for the Connecticut Colony had on 1 May 1637 declared open war on the Pequot Indians, of whom Nepaupuck was an officer.
N.B. Shurtleff, in "Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay," I:102, reports John Finch being fined on 7 November 1632 for "wanting [i.e., lacking] arms for his man and for being absent himself from training."
A curious early reference to John Finch is found in the minutes of "a court of assistants held at Cambridge the 5th day of the 4th month 1638. Lawrence Waters's wife was enjoined to give John Finch 18 d. and Nice Theale to give John Finch 18 d. and Edward Lamb to give him 2 s. and Lamb was fined 15 s. 6 d. for his contempt and all of them were admonished to avoyd dancing" ("Descendants of Abraham, Daniel and John Finch of Connecticut," 1:252, by Claude B. Thummel, a typescript at the Connecticut State Library, Hartford). It is not clear why these individuals were ordered to make payments to John Finch. Perhaps defamation or slander of Finch was their offense.
Shurtleff makes several other references to Daniel Finch and to Samuel Finch, both probably brothers of John. Katherine, wife of Samuel Finch, must have been exceptionally sharp-tongued, for on 4 September 1638, "for speaking against the magistrates, aga[inst] the churches & against the elders, [she] was censured to bee whiped" (ibid., I:234). Although she promised on 4 June 1639 "to go to the ordinances & to carry herselfe dutifully to her husband" (ibid., 1:265), her resolution must have been short lived, for on 2 June 1640 the record bears the notation, "Gooddy Finch was censured to bee severely whiped to morrow, & so kept in prison" (ibid., I:297). By 1643 Samuel and Katherine were living in Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony ("Register," op. cit., 2:53).
At Watertown John Finch was granted four acres "of the Plowlands at Beverbroke Planes" by the town in February 1636/7, and another four acres "of the Remote or Westpine Meaddows" four months later, in each instance "allowing one Acre for a person & likewise for cattle valued at £20 the Head" ("Watertown Records, ... Volume I, Part 227, 9, by the Historical Society of Watertown). This means that in 1637 John's family consisted of only four persons and beasts. He must have increased his ownership of livestock by April 1638, for on that date he received 91 acres in the town's grant to "all the Townes Men that had not Farmes laid out formerly .... allowing 13 Acres of upland to every head of Persons & Cattle" (ibid.:13), indicating seven persons and cattle credited to him at that time.
As stated above, Daniel Finch, thought to have been a brother of John (1) Finch, was one of the 30 founders of Stamford. The names of eight of the 30 founders are lost, a portion of the original record having been broken off and lost long ago. It is possible that John Finch was one of these eight men, but since he was from Watertown and Stamford was settled by Wethersfield men, the probability seems doubtful. Bond's identification of John Finch as a resident of Wethersfield is questionable. In any event, John Finch was granted, at a town meeting in Stamford held in the fall of 1642, a house lot of one acre, two acres of marsh and three acres of woodland ("Stamford Town Records," 1:7-8). His land holdings at 1 March 1650 were described ibid.:43-4, in great detail, and included a house and home lot of one and one-half acres, and 10 acres of upland in the North Field (both of which he sold 15 November 1652 to Richard Ambler of Stamford), and three parcels of meadow aggregating seven acres in the East Field (three acres of which he sold 26 November 1652 to William Potter).
On 24 October 1653 John Finch Sr. purchased from Henry Ackerly of Stamford ("Stamford Town Records," 1:51-2):
"my now dwelling house in Stanford, w'th my barne and all other of my out houses ... upon my whom lot in ye streete called the Est Streete in Standford aforsayd, with thee ... orchards, gardens, yards & cet.; also a lott at the reere of ye sayd home lot called the pond lot, and sixe akers ... in a pertickeler inclosure by the sayd pond lot. Also, three akers of planting land in the South feild 8cthree akers more or lesse in the North feild, and four akers of medo [W] in the Est feild, mor or less, with all my right of accommodations of land & p[rivi]lidges in Stanford ... in consideration whereof the sayd john Finch is to pay ... the some of fiftie pound..."
Sometime in 1647 (the day and month are illegible) David Mitchell brought an action in court against John Finch to recover a sum of money due him. Finch's answer was not satisfactory to the court, which ordered him to pay Mitchell two pounds, five shillings "as ye du debt, and for damedge for want of du payment, ten shillings and ye charge of ye Court."
As noted in the Ferris section herein, John Finch was fined by the court 13 February 1648 for felling and removing timber on land of Jeffrey Ferris.
An inventory of the estate of John Finch Sr. was taken 9 February 1657/8 by Richard Law and Francis Holmes, who found its total value to be, "errowrs excepted," £98:12:04. Debts to be paid came to £74:15:05, leaving a clear estate of only £23:16:11. Included were his house and land, £40; Bible, 12 shillings; two oxen and one heifer, £15; 42 1/2 bushels of wheat, £9:11:03, and 35 bushels of peas, £6:02:06.
John (1) Finch and his unidentified first wife are believed to have had one child:
i. John Finch Jr., born say, about 1620, who died 19 June 1685 at Huntington ("Huntington Town Records, Including Babylon, Long Island, N.Y.," 1:432, by Charles R. Street). This John Finch was a mariner (ibid., 1:323-6). By his unidentified first wife he had a daughter Mary, wife of Nicholas Ellis, and a son John (ibid.). He may also have been the father of the Francis Finch who was an appraiser at Jamaica, Long Island, for the minister's rate in 1663. This Francis Finch was on a Jamaica tax list about 1681. He was called "My Kinsman" and received the home lot of Richard Bratnell of Jamaica under the terms of the latter's will dated 1 February 1662/3 ("The American Genealogist," 19:55).
John married, second, soon after 8 November 1652, Hannah Marsh, widow of Launcelot Fuller of New Haven. In 1656 John was recorded as living in Westchester County, New York ("Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:203).
The compiler's identification of the Westchester County and Huntington, Long Island, John Finch as son of John (1) Finch of Stamford is based on his belief that all the early Finches of New England and New York were of the same family, and because John Finch of Huntington had a son, also named John Finch, living there as late as 6 October 1683, when John Finch Jr. sold property ("Huntington Records," op. cit., 1:327-8). This son had moved to Stamford by 17 March 1684 ("Stamford Land Records," A:152). Daniel Finch of Stamford and Norwalk had no son named John, and Samuel Finch of Roxbury and his family apparently never moved west of that area.
John (1) Finch and his second wife, Martha, had at least four sons:
2. ii. Isaac Finch, born about 1635.
3. iii. Samuel Finch, born circa 1638.
iv. Joseph Finch, born probably in 1647 for he, aged about 53, testified 6 May 1700 ("Greenwich Early Records": 125). He died before 3 January 1714, when the inventory of his estate was exhibited for probate ("Fairfield Probate Records," 5:296).
Joseph Finch married Elizabeth Austin, daughter of John and Catherine Austin ("The American Genealogist," 48:96), on 23 November "[1670]" ("Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:201). The official transcript of the "Stamford Town Records" has the year as "16( )" (1:136) and erroneously shows (1:90) an Elizabeth, born 14 November 1669, to "Jos. Finch." The original record (1:76) has her as daughter of "lsac Finch" (Joseph's brother). Joseph and Elizabeth Finch lived in Greenwich, Connecticut Colony.
v. Abraham Finch, born about 1648. That he was a brother of Samuel Finch is proved by a deed dated 3 December 1686 in which Samuel Finch of Stamford "have of my own free & volentary will given unto my well beloved brother, Abraham Ffinch of Staford, ... five roods of upland" (Stamford Land Records, A2153).
The inventory of Abraham's estate was taken 4 December 1708, administration being granted to Samuel Blatchley of Stamford ("Fairfield Probate Records," 5:130-1). A deed recorded in "Stamford Land Records," F:171, proves that the wife of Samuel Blatchley was the only child of Abraham Finch.
Samuel "Blachley" and Abigail Finch had been married 6 April 1699 ("Stamford Town Records," 1:104).
References:
As cited.
Stamford Town Records.
"History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," by Donald Lines Jacobus, F.A.S.G."

5. 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]"

MARRIAGE:
1. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), p. 77; author's notes in ( ): "p. 87 [1:74]: John Green & Martha Finch, maried 7: [16]58. (Sept. 1658)"

2. Martha was widow of John Finch.
 		Martha (I854)
 
1670 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"John Finch
Origin: Unknown
Migration: 1632
First Residence: Watertown
Removes: Stamford 1642
Estate: Granted four acres in Beaverbrook Plowlands, 28 February 1636/7 [WaBOP 7]; granted four acres in Remote Meadows, 26 June 1637 [WaBOP 9]; granted a farm of ninety-one acres, 10 May 1642 [WaBOP 13]. (Presumably he had held a houselot and other small holdings prior to 1637. He does not appear in the early Watertown land inventories, and all lands known to be granted to him are at that time in the hands of John Wincoll, who purchased them from John Finch, presumably in mid-1642.)
Granted six acres by Stamford in October 1642 [TAG 10:42, 19:58].
An inventory of Stamford landholding was prepared on 1 March 1650, and John Finch's real estate is summarized there [Gillespie Anc 140, citing Stamford Town Records 1:43-44].
Birth: By about 1595 based on estimated date of marriage.
Death: Stamford 5 September 1657 [TAG 10:44, 19:58].
Marriage:
(1) By about 1620 ___; not seen in any New England record.
(2) By about 1635 Martha (assuming she was the mother of his last four children), who married [blank] September 1658 John Green [TAG 10:113, 19:58].
Children:
With first wife:
i John, b. say 1620; m. (1) ___; m. (2) after 8 November 1652 Hannah (Marsh) Fuller, widow of Laun­celot Fuller.
With second wife:
ii Isaac, b. say 1635; m. (1) Stamford [blank] October 1658 Elizabeth Basset [TAG 10:113]; m. (2) by 1682 Ann ___.
iii Samuel, b. say 1638; m. by about 1663 Sarah Hoyt, daughter of SIMON HOYT.
iv Joseph, b. about 1647 (deposed 6 May 1700 aged about fifty-three); m. Stamford 23 November [1670] Elizabeth Austin.
v Abraham, b. say 1648; m. about 1670 ___ ___.
Associations: See Daniel Finch for possible relations among Finch immigrants.
Comments: As noted under Daniel Finch, John has been credited as the man who lost his belongings in a fire in September 1630, but this is more likely Daniel. On 7 November 1632 "John Finch is fined 10s. for wanting arms for his man, & for being absent himself from training" [MBCR 1:102], and this is the earliest record we have for him in New England.
Savage has assigned to this John the death at the hands of the Pequots suffered by Abraham, son of Daniel.
The grants of Beaverbrook Plowlands and Remote Meadows in 1637 were for four acres each, which indicates that the maximum size of his family at that time was four heads. This would account for himself, wife, and two eldest sons John and Isaac, both of whom were born by this time.
Bibliographic Note: In addition to the sources cited under Daniel Finch, we take note here of the magnificent work by Paul Prindle on John Finch, which we follow here in many instances [Gillespie Anc 138-51]. In particular we have relied on Prindle for the data on the marriages of the sons of John Finch, and refer the reader to his work for fuller citations on these men."

2. Per the book "The Story of the Early Settlers of Stamford, Connecticut, 1641 - 1700," by Jeanne Majdalany, page 161: "John Finch-bc1590, d1657, m1 ___, m2 Martha Betts. She m1658 John Green. John Finch [and his brother Daniel] came to America in 1630 on the 'Arbella' ... While they were in Watertown, Mass., he Finch house and belongings were destroyed in a fire... John Finch lived next to [Daniel on the north side of North St. (where the Ferguson Library is today) in Stamford] by 1650 but three later moved to the north side of East Street where his son John continued to live..."

3. Father: Abraham Finch per LDS Ordinance Index and Ancestral File. Apparently there is no documentation for this or Anderson would have mentioned it in his Great Migration series.

4. The periodical "The Connecticut Nutmegger," 22:419, 520, "Data on John Finch," by Shirley N. Martin:
"The Genealogical Register of First Settlers of New England, printed in Lancaster, Mass. 1829 and reprinted with corrections by New England Historic Genealogical Society April 1849 and the new print 1989 still has the same John Finch killed by Nepaupuck, a Pequot Captain 30 Oct 1637 at "Weathersfield." (This was Abraham Finch Jr., John Finch).
Abraham Finch Jr. killed at Weathersfield. Historical marker on his home lot, Broad St., Wethersfield states Abraham Finch Jr. killed Indian Massacre at Wethersfield 23 Apr 1637.
Memorial History of County of Hartford Vol. II 1633-1884 states: "Abraham Finch Jr. killed Indian massacre at Wethersfield May 12 1637." "It is not true as some have that John Finch was also killed as he lived to remove to Stamford with brother, Daniel Finch."
John Finch mar. Martha Brett and had: John, Isaac, Samuel, Martha & Joseph. (One record only lists a son Abraham.)
John Finch received land in Watertown, Mass. from 1634 to May of 1642. He received payment at a court held at Cambridge, Mass. 5 April 1638 and sold 4 acres at Watertown in 1641. He was assigned a lot at Stamford, Conn. October 1642. John died Stamford before 16 May 1657 and his widow, Martha, mar. after 5 September 1657 John Green."

5. The book "Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke)," by Paul W. Prindle, 1976, pp. 138-42:
"FINCH
No satisfactory account of the early generations of this prominent family has yet been published. In a series of articles entitled "Source Material for a Finch Genealogy," which began in "The American Genealogist," 19:50, Donald Lines Jacobus wrote, "The writer, although he has no personal interest in the Finch family, became intrigued by the difficulty of arranging in proper relationship the early generations of Finches —perhaps the most difficult family he has studied." Based on the material in Mr. Jacobus' article and on this compiler's own searches in original records, the following reconstruction of that portion of this difficult family which is involved in the subject pedigree is tentatively ventured. Because of the uncertainties involved in the reconstruction of this family's record, more details than are customarily given concerning siblings of members of the subject line will be presented.
1. JOHN FINCH, born say, about 1590 in England, died 5 September 1657 at Stamford, New Haven Colony ("Stamford Town Records," 1:19-20). It appears that he was married twice, for his putative son John seems to have been about 15 years older than his next-born child. John Finch Sr. married second, Martha, maiden surname undetermined. As John's widow, Martha married second, on 7 (September?) 1658, John Green (ibid., 1:74) of New Haven, widower of Mary Jarvis ("The Washington Ancestry, and Records of the McClain, Johnson and Forty Other Colonial American Families," 3:539, by Charles A. Hoppin).
It is possible, though proof is entirely lacking, that Martha was born a Brett. The 13 November 1646 will of Thomas Brett of Tenterden, County Kent, England, "gentleman," refers to "my sister Finche, now wife of Mr. John Finch" (The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 44:300). If the reference was to the subject John Finch (who was never styled "Mr." in colonial records) it would seem probable he would have been described as of New England, where he had lived for at least 16 years prior to the date of the will.
John Finch is believed to have been a brother of the Daniel Finch who was in 1636 the constable at Wethersfield, Connecticut Colony, a founder of Stamford in 1641, and who moved to Fairfield, New Haven Colony, by‘ 1649, where he died in March 1666/7. As will be seen below, it is significant that Daniel had no son named John Finch, and that his only grandson of that name, born 20 December 1699 at Branford, Connecticut Colony, died in 1721 without issue.
Henry Bond, in his "Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts:" 207, stated, "John Finch came over with Gov. Winthrop in 1630, and settled in Wat., where his wigwam and all his goods were burnt, Sept. 1630. He was a proprietor of Wat. 1636-7, was one of that small colony from Wat. that first settled Wethersfield, Conn., and was killed by an Indian, Oct. 30, 1637." This last statement, at least, is incorrect. It was Abraham Finch, son of Daniel, who was murdered on that date by Nepaupuck, an Indian, who confessed to the killing of "Abraham Finch, an English man att Wethersfield ... accordingly, his head was cutt off the next day and pittched upon a pole in the market place" (an entry dated 28 October 1639 (sic) in "Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, 1638-1649": 23, by Charles Hoadley). A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, II: 160, by Henry Savage, says this act was later called judicial murder, for the Connecticut Colony had on 1 May 1637 declared open war on the Pequot Indians, of whom Nepaupuck was an officer.
N.B. Shurtleff, in "Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay," I:102, reports John Finch being fined on 7 November 1632 for "wanting [i.e., lacking] arms for his man and for being absent himself from training."
A curious early reference to John Finch is found in the minutes of "a court of assistants held at Cambridge the 5th day of the 4th month 1638. Lawrence Waters's wife was enjoined to give John Finch 18 d. and Nice Theale to give John Finch 18 d. and Edward Lamb to give him 2 s. and Lamb was fined 15 s. 6 d. for his contempt and all of them were admonished to avoyd dancing" ("Descendants of Abraham, Daniel and John Finch of Connecticut," 1:252, by Claude B. Thummel, a typescript at the Connecticut State Library, Hartford). It is not clear why these individuals were ordered to make payments to John Finch. Perhaps defamation or slander of Finch was their offense.
Shurtleff makes several other references to Daniel Finch and to Samuel Finch, both probably brothers of John. Katherine, wife of Samuel Finch, must have been exceptionally sharp-tongued, for on 4 September 1638, "for speaking against the magistrates, aga[inst] the churches & against the elders, [she] was censured to bee whiped" (ibid., I:234). Although she promised on 4 June 1639 "to go to the ordinances & to carry herselfe dutifully to her husband" (ibid., 1:265), her resolution must have been short lived, for on 2 June 1640 the record bears the notation, "Gooddy Finch was censured to bee severely whiped to morrow, & so kept in prison" (ibid., I:297). By 1643 Samuel and Katherine were living in Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony ("Register," op. cit., 2:53).
At Watertown John Finch was granted four acres "of the Plowlands at Beverbroke Planes" by the town in February 1636/7, and another four acres "of the Remote or Westpine Meaddows" four months later, in each instance "allowing one Acre for a person & likewise for cattle valued at £20 the Head" ("Watertown Records, ... Volume I, Part 227, 9, by the Historical Society of Watertown). This means that in 1637 John's family consisted of only four persons and beasts. He must have increased his ownership of livestock by April 1638, for on that date he received 91 acres in the town's grant to "all the Townes Men that had not Farmes laid out formerly .... allowing 13 Acres of upland to every head of Persons & Cattle" (ibid.:13), indicating seven persons and cattle credited to him at that time.
As stated above, Daniel Finch, thought to have been a brother of John (1) Finch, was one of the 30 founders of Stamford. The names of eight of the 30 founders are lost, a portion of the original record having been broken off and lost long ago. It is possible that John Finch was one of these eight men, but since he was from Watertown and Stamford was settled by Wethersfield men, the probability seems doubtful. Bond's identification of John Finch as a resident of Wethersfield is questionable. In any event, John Finch was granted, at a town meeting in Stamford held in the fall of 1642, a house lot of one acre, two acres of marsh and three acres of woodland ("Stamford Town Records," 1:7-8). His land holdings at 1 March 1650 were described ibid.:43-4, in great detail, and included a house and home lot of one and one-half acres, and 10 acres of upland in the North Field (both of which he sold 15 November 1652 to Richard Ambler of Stamford), and three parcels of meadow aggregating seven acres in the East Field (three acres of which he sold 26 November 1652 to William Potter).
On 24 October 1653 John Finch Sr. purchased from Henry Ackerly of Stamford ("Stamford Town Records," 1:51-2):
"my now dwelling house in Stanford, w'th my barne and all other of my out houses ... upon my whom lot in ye streete called the Est Streete in Standford aforsayd, with thee ... orchards, gardens, yards & cet.; also a lott at the reere of ye sayd home lot called the pond lot, and sixe akers ... in a pertickeler inclosure by the sayd pond lot. Also, three akers of planting land in the South feild 8cthree akers more or lesse in the North feild, and four akers of medo [W] in the Est feild, mor or less, with all my right of accommodations of land & p[rivi]lidges in Stanford ... in consideration whereof the sayd john Finch is to pay ... the some of fiftie pound..."
Sometime in 1647 (the day and month are illegible) David Mitchell brought an action in court against John Finch to recover a sum of money due him. Finch's answer was not satisfactory to the court, which ordered him to pay Mitchell two pounds, five shillings "as ye du debt, and for damedge for want of du payment, ten shillings and ye charge of ye Court."
As noted in the Ferris section herein, John Finch was fined by the court 13 February 1648 for felling and removing timber on land of Jeffrey Ferris.
An inventory of the estate of John Finch Sr. was taken 9 February 1657/8 by Richard Law and Francis Holmes, who found its total value to be, "errowrs excepted," £98:12:04. Debts to be paid came to £74:15:05, leaving a clear estate of only £23:16:11. Included were his house and land, £40; Bible, 12 shillings; two oxen and one heifer, £15; 42 1/2 bushels of wheat, £9:11:03, and 35 bushels of peas, £6:02:06.
John (1) Finch and his unidentified first wife are believed to have had one child:
i. John Finch Jr., born say, about 1620, who died 19 June 1685 at Huntington ("Huntington Town Records, Including Babylon, Long Island, N.Y.," 1:432, by Charles R. Street). This John Finch was a mariner (ibid., 1:323-6). By his unidentified first wife he had a daughter Mary, wife of Nicholas Ellis, and a son John (ibid.). He may also have been the father of the Francis Finch who was an appraiser at Jamaica, Long Island, for the minister's rate in 1663. This Francis Finch was on a Jamaica tax list about 1681. He was called "My Kinsman" and received the home lot of Richard Bratnell of Jamaica under the terms of the latter's will dated 1 February 1662/3 ("The American Genealogist," 19:55).
John married, second, soon after 8 November 1652, Hannah Marsh, widow of Launcelot Fuller of New Haven. In 1656 John was recorded as living in Westchester County, New York ("Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:203).
The compiler's identification of the Westchester County and Huntington, Long Island, John Finch as son of John (1) Finch of Stamford is based on his belief that all the early Finches of New England and New York were of the same family, and because John Finch of Huntington had a son, also named John Finch, living there as late as 6 October 1683, when John Finch Jr. sold property ("Huntington Records," op. cit., 1:327-8). This son had moved to Stamford by 17 March 1684 ("Stamford Land Records," A:152). Daniel Finch of Stamford and Norwalk had no son named John, and Samuel Finch of Roxbury and his family apparently never moved west of that area.
John (1) Finch and his second wife, Martha, had at least four sons:
2. ii. Isaac Finch, born about 1635.
3. iii. Samuel Finch, born circa 1638.
iv. Joseph Finch, born probably in 1647 for he, aged about 53, testified 6 May 1700 ("Greenwich Early Records": 125). He died before 3 January 1714, when the inventory of his estate was exhibited for probate ("Fairfield Probate Records," 5:296).
Joseph Finch married Elizabeth Austin, daughter of John and Catherine Austin ("The American Genealogist," 48:96), on 23 November "[1670]" ("Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:201). The official transcript of the "Stamford Town Records" has the year as "16( )" (1:136) and erroneously shows (1:90) an Elizabeth, born 14 November 1669, to "Jos. Finch." The original record (1:76) has her as daughter of "lsac Finch" (Joseph's brother). Joseph and Elizabeth Finch lived in Greenwich, Connecticut Colony.
v. Abraham Finch, born about 1648. That he was a brother of Samuel Finch is proved by a deed dated 3 December 1686 in which Samuel Finch of Stamford "have of my own free & volentary will given unto my well beloved brother, Abraham Ffinch of Staford, ... five roods of upland" (Stamford Land Records, A2153).
The inventory of Abraham's estate was taken 4 December 1708, administration being granted to Samuel Blatchley of Stamford ("Fairfield Probate Records," 5:130-1). A deed recorded in "Stamford Land Records," F:171, proves that the wife of Samuel Blatchley was the only child of Abraham Finch.
Samuel "Blachley" and Abigail Finch had been married 6 April 1699 ("Stamford Town Records," 1:104).
References:
As cited.
Stamford Town Records.
"History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," by Donald Lines Jacobus, F.A.S.G."

6. The book "The Great Migration Begins," by Robert Charles Anderson, pp. 667-69::
"DANIEL FINCH
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1630
FIRST RESIDENCE: Watertown
REMOVES: Wethersfield 1635, Stamford 1641, Fairfield 1653
FREEMAN: 18 May 1631 [MBCR 1:366].
OFFICES: On jury to try John Endicott for battery, 3 May 1631; on committee to distribute estate of "Mr. Crispe & his company" 18 October 1631 [MBCR 1:86, 92].
Appointed constable at Wethersfield 26 April 1636 [CCCR 1:1, 4, 5, 6].
ESTATE: Presumably had houselot and other small holdings in Watertown, but left before beginning of recorded grants in 1636; any holdings he might have had would have been sold to a later immigrant.
A description of the Wethersfield land of Abraham Finch, dated 26 April 1641, refers to "his father's adventure land" and notes that one of the boundaries is "the house lot of that late Dan[iel] Fince's" [TAG 19:52, citing WetLR 1:188].
In his will, dated 5 March 1666/7 and proved 16 March 1666/7, Daniel Finch of Fairfield bequeathed to son Nathaniel, under 18, "my books"; to grandson Abraham Finch 40s.; to Roger Knap's wife 20s.; to Joseph James' wife 10s.; to Henry Castel's wife £7; "unto the two children that be with their mother" 20s. apiece; to John Sturgis 10s.; and he mentioned, his wife; the inventory was taken 11 March 1666/7 [TAG 19:61, abstracting Fairfield PR 2:18].
BIRTH: By about 1585 based on estimated date of first marriage.
DEATH: Fairfield between 5 March 1666/7 (date of will) and 11 March 1666/7 (inventory).
MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1610___ ___; not seen in any New England record.
(2) After 25 December 1657 (marriage agreement [TAG 19:61, citing Fairfield PR 1:37]) Elizabeth Thompson, widow of John Thompson; she died by 1658.
(3) By 4 April 1660 Mary Dickerson, widow of Thomas, who outlived Daniel and married (3) Nicholas Pinion of East Haven.
CHILDREN:
With first wife
i ABRAHAM, b. say 1610; m. by 1637 Dorothy Moulton, daughter of ROBERT MOULTON of Charlestown and Salem; d. 1637 [Manwaring 1:11]. The widow married (2) John Edwards and (3) Richard Tousley. (See FOOF 1:718-20 for discussion of Abraham's placement as son of Daniel.)
With third wife
ii NATHANIEL, b. say 1662; m. (1) by 1691 Mary Hemingway, daughter of Samuel Hemingway; m. (2) by 1694 "her sister Elizabeth, but the marriage was denounced by all parties concerned and invalidated by the Court," although the couple did have a child; m. (3) Mary Hoadley, daughter of William Hoadley and widow of Jonathan Frisbie and Robert Darby [FOOF 1:202].
ASSOCIATIONS: The problem of the possible relationships of the various early Finch immigrants is a difficult one. Jacobus sorted out some of the problems in an appendix in Families of Old Fairfield [FOOF 1:718- 20]. He demonstrated there that the Abraham Finch killed by the Pequots in 1637 was son of Daniel, thus overcoming a defect in the records, which would otherwise lead one to assume another Abraham of an earlier generation.
A relation between Daniel and John Finch is likely, since both first lived in Watertown, and John moved to Stamford (directly from Watertown) shortly after Daniel moved there (from Wethersfield). Also, John's son Isaac named a son Abraham. From Daniel's will we know that they are not father and son. They could be brothers, but Daniel seems to be nearly a generation older than John, since Daniel's eldest son married only a few years after John's marriage.
Samuel Finch of Roxbury has also been counted a brother of Daniel and/or John, but this seems less likely. John named a son Samuel. According to Jacobus, Samuel lived for a time at Wethersfield, but this has not been confirmed.
COMMENTS: Under an uncertain date, but early in October 1630, Winthrop noted in his journal that "Finch, of Watertown, had his wigwam burnt and all his goods." Pope has assumed that this referred to John, but Daniel is more likely, since Daniel was known to be in New England by 1630, whereas our first independent record of John Finch was in 1632.
Since Daniel did not share in the first recorded grant of land in Watertown (1636), and was constable of Wethersfield in April 1636, he must have been one of those who made the move to Wethersfield in 1635.
He appears in the earliest lists of those planning to settle Stamford, and of those receiving land there.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: Jacobus described the Finches as "perhaps the most difficult family he has studied," and proceeded to expend much effort on them [FOOF 1:200-04; TAG 19:50-61, 118-25, 188-92, 249-56, 20:60-63, 188-89, 240, 21:158-60]. We have relied heavily on the work of Jacobus here, as little new material has come to light since he wrote."

DEATH:
1. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), p. 21, author's notes in ( ): "Page 25 [1:19] Iseak Finch & Mary Rundle was maried, the 27th day of Aprill, 1704. (5 Sept. 1657. This death was again recorded in STR 1:20.)"

2. The book "Stamford Town Records, Volume 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, (Boston: NEHGS, 2011), pp. 64-65:
"Page 77 [1:66]
([Inventory of estate]) of John Finch, senior, deceast, taken the 9th of 12mo. 1658 [1657/8], by Rich Law & Frances Holmes. [Footnote: Since John Finch died on 5 Sept. 1657 (STR 1:19, 20), it follows that his inventory was taken the following February, i.e., 9 Feb. 1657/8.] £ s d:
Imprimus House & land - 40. 00. 0
It. A fether bed & bolster - 06. 10. 0
It. A blew bottle & a traye - 00. 01. 1
It. A pigen & one traye - 00. 01. 6
It. 3 wedges, a chaine, 2 shakles, wth boults & beetle rings & spit - 01. 04. 0
It. A cros cut saw, - 00. 03. 0
It. One tramell pot & pot hooks - 00. 16. 0
It.Two pease hooks & one broken one - 00. 05. 0
It. 2 howes, one bridle, a spade - 00. 06. 6
It. A sadle - 00. 05. 0
It. 2 rings, 3 iron pikes, 2 hamers - 00. 05. 0
It. One friing pan - 00. 02. 6
It. 2 base cittles - 02. 00. 0
Page 78 [1:66]
It. A barrill, a churne & coopper ware - 00. 12. 0
It. 2 trayes, one title cittle - 00. 02. 2
It. A paire scalles, 2 falli-g axes - 00. 06. 0
It. A chest & a meale trough - 00. 12. 0
It. A sive - 00. 01. 6
It. A seed box - 00. 01. 0
It. A wooll p. yarn - 00. 02. 0
It. 4 wheeles - 00. 02. 6
It. one bible - 00. 12. 0
It. the plow & irons - 00. 13. 0
It. the carte & wheeles, 2 paire of rings, 2 yoakes & irons - 03. 18. 6
It. 4 bushells endy come - 00. 10. 8
It. A cobler & traces - 00. 02. 0
It. 2 small pillows & too coverleds - 00. 06. 0
It. More, one traye - 00. 01. 0
([It.]) A corbine & a sword - 00. 15. 0
([It.] A fouling peice & sworde - 01. 05. 0
([It.] A 3 pitch forkes - 00. 03. 0
([It.] One old cubbord - 00. 02. 0
([It.] 2 long forms - 00. 06. 0
([It.] A hemp comb - 00. 08. 0
([It.] A bag & 1/2 bush salt - 00. 04. 0
([It.] A 2 oxen & one heifer - 15. 00. 0
([It.] A one sow & 2 shoates - 01. 06. 8
([It.] 2 swine in the woods - 01. 00. 0
([It.] A half bush, old roap, 2 hogsheads - 00. 08. 0
([It.] 421/2 bushells wheat - 09. 11. 3
([lt.] 35 bush pease - 06. 02. 6
([It.] In debts
([It.] A corbine & a sword - 0. 15. 0
Sum is (errowrs excepted) - 98. 12. 4
Debts to be paid out of the estate
Imprms - 60. 06. 8"

SOURCES_MISC:
1. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), has many mentions of this individual besides the vital data that I do transcribe and include separately in the notes above.

2. Per the book "The Story of the Early Settlers of Stamford, Connecticut, 1641 - 1700," by Jeanne Majdalany (including genealogies comp. with Edith M. Wicks), pp 161-163: Also references Paul W. Prindle records. 		Finch, John (I853)
 
1671 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"Michael Spencer
Origin: Stotfold, Bedford.
Migration: 1634 (based on grant of land at Cambridge on 1 September 1634 [CaTR 10]).
First Residence: Cambridge.
Removes: Lynn.
Church Membership: Admission to Lynn church by March 1637/8 implied by freemanship...
Estate: ...On 30 November 1654, "Thomas Robins of Salem had some of the estate of Michaell Spencer, deceased, a bill of 52s. 6d., 2 cows with rent of same for one year, & a rug of 18s. Court ordered, with consent of Garrud Spencer, administrator of said deceased, that Robins was to have it as he had a child of the deceased to bring up. The child's name was Michaell Spencer, and he was six years old" [EQC 1:378; EPR 1:159]...
Birth: Baptized Stotfold, Bedford, 5 May 1611, son of Gerard and Alice (Whitbread) Spencer [TAG 27:84].
Death: By 29 November 1653 (appointment of administrator).
Marriage. By about 1640 Isabel ___. She married (2) by 30 November 1654 Thomas Robbins [EQC 1:378; EPR 1:159] and died at Salem on 9 October 1674. (On 31 March 1657, "Thomas Robins and Henry Skerry [were] bound for the appearance of Elizabeth Robins when the court shall call for her" [EQC 2:32]. At the same court, "Thomas Robins [was] bound to bring his wife, Isbaell Robans, to next court at Salem to answer suspicion against her" [EQC 2:37]. On 1 July 1657, "Thomas Robins [was] bound for his wife's appearance to answer to a charge of concealing things stolen by her son. She was fined, and ordered to pay Rob[er]t Lord" [EQC 2:48].)
Children:
I. John Spencer, b. by 1640 (granted land at Westerly in 1661 [TAG 27:168]); m. by 1666 Susanna (eldest known child b. 20 April 1666 [RIVR 1:East Greenwich:146; Austin 186-88; TAG 27:168]). (Jacobus assembled the evidence, from Rhode Island records, for the placement of this man as a son of Michael Spencer [TAG 27:163-64].)
ii. SUSANNAH Spencer, b. say 1644; m. Salem 1 August 1664 Daniel Bacon.
iii. Michael Spencer, b. about 1648 (aged six on 30 November 1654 [EQC 1:378]); m. Salem 7 December 1671 Rebecca Sweetman, daughter of Thomas SWEETMAN {1637, Cambridge} (on 10 December 1677, "Thomas Swaetman of Cambridge" deeded land in Cambridge to "Michael Spenc[e]r, shipcarpenter, of the same town," in return for lifetime maintenance of himself and of "Isabell Swaetman the wife of the said Thomas" [MLR 8:287])..."

2. "The American Genealogist," Vol. 27 "The Four Spencer Brothers: Their Ancestors and Descendants," compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus, M. A., pp. 163-64:
"Michael(1) Spencer, baptized at Stotfold, Beds, England, 5 May 1611, died at Lynn, Mass., in 1653; married Isabel ___, who died at Salem, Mass., 9 Oct. 1674... married second, Thomas Robbins, a carpenter, of Salem, born about 1618, living 1681. Robbins married second, 11 Mar. 1674/5, Mary (Gould), widow of Richard Bishop.
Michael is the only one of the four brothers of whose family we lack a complete account. Administration on his estate was granted, 29 Nov. 1653, to Gerard Spencer, who was also then living in Lynn, and Gerard was called his brother when he brought in the inventory. The estate was small and was ordered sold "for the bringing up of Michael's children." On 30 Nov. 1654, we read that Thomas Robbins of Salem had some of the estate and, with the consent of Gerard Spencer, was to keep it, as Robbins had a child of the deceased to bring up, Michael, aged six years. This is almost certain evidence that Michael's widow had married Robbins, especially as in 1657 she is mentioned as having a young son.
It is possible that Isabel was not the first wife of Michael Spencer, and that he had more children than have been discovered. His proved son Michael settled in East Greenwich, R.I., where a John Spencer had earlier settled. That, and the fact that John named a son Michael, establishes a presumption that John was an older son of Michael of Lynn. There is, moreover, some direct evidence. The will of Michael2 of East Greenwich in 1723 named his friend and kinsman Major Thomas Fry and Thomas Spencer overseers. The latter was a son of John2, and obviously chosen because he was a relative.
Major Thomas Fry was a prominent man, later Deputy-Governor. Michael Spencer witnessed a deed, 11 Mar. 1688/9, which this Thomas Fry of East Greenwich had from his father, Thomas Fry, Sr. On 14 July 1710, Thomas Fry deeded to his "cousin" John Spencer, for love, 13-1/2 rods for a burial place. This was John3 Spencer Jr., son of John2. It thus appears that both Spencer families of East Greenwich, those of John and Michael, were related in some way to Thomas Fry.
The notion that John Spencer of East Greenwich was nephew of John Spencer of Newbury has already been considered and dismissed as false in the first chapter of our account. We conclude that John was son of Michael1.
Children (incomplete record):
i. John2, b. say 1638; of age by 1661; d. 1684.
ii. Susannah, b. ca. 1643; deposed 12 Oct. 1725 ae. about 85; m. at Salem, Mass., 4 Aug. 1664, Daniel3 Bacon (Daniel2, Michael1) of Salem, b. ca. 1641. It is likely that Susannah lived at Salem with her mother and step-father. Both John2 and Michael2 Spencer named a dau. Susannah, though that was also the name of John2's wife and hence not evidential in his case.
iii. Michael, b. ca. 1648; d. 16 Mar. 1722/3.
iv. William, b. say 1652; d. 1712/13. He is placed in this family with great misgiving, and may not have been connected with the four brothers at all. If he was, he can only be placed as a son of Michael(1). He first appears of record in Saybrook in 1606, about the time he must have married. Since his wife was an East Haddam girl, and he later settled there, it has been surmised that his uncle Gerard1 took him there as a child. It will be noted that if a child of Michael and born in the last year of his father's life, he would have been 34 at marriage, and still older if born earlier."
 		Isabel (I4858)
 
1672 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"Robert Lockwood
Origin: Combs, Suffolk [Connecticut Ancestry 47:120-23].
Migration: 1633.
First Residence: Watertown.
Removes: Stamford 1646, Fairfield 1650.
Church Membership: Admission to Watertown church prior to 9 March 1636/7 implied by freemanship.
Freeman: Massachusetts Bay, 9 March 1636/7 (second in a sequence of four Watertown men) [MBCR 1:372]. Admitted freeman of Connecticut, 20 May 1652 [CCCR 1:231].
Education: His inventory included "a Bible" valued at 5s. [Fairfield PR 1:42].
Offices: On 21 May 1657, "Rob[er]t Loockuet" was appointed Sergeant of the Fairfield train band [CCCR 1:299].
Estate: Granted thirty-five acres in the Great Dividend in Watertown, Lot #13 in the second division, 25 July 1636 [WaBOP 4]. Granted six acres in the Beaverbrook Plowlands, Lot #22, 28 February 1636/7 WaBOP 6]. Granted six acres in the Remote Meadows, Lot #24, 26 June 1637 [WaBOP 9]. Granted a Farm of one-hundred thirty-four acres, Lot 147, 10 May 1642 [WaBOP 12].
In the Inventory of Grants at Watertown, Robert Lockwood held seven parcels: "an homestall of eighteen acres"; "two acres of marsh in Pine Marsh"; "one acre of meadow ... in Pine Meadow"; "thirty-five acres of upland ... being a Great Dividend in the second division & the thirteen lot"; "sixteen acres & half... of upland beyond the Further Plain & the third lot"; "six acres of plowland ... in the Hither Plain"; and "six acres of Remote Meadow ... & the twenty-four lot" [WaBOP 82].
In the Inventory of Possessions, Robert Lockwood held one parcel: "four acres of Remote Meadow ... & the ninth lot" [WaBOP 118].
In the Composite Inventory, Robert Lockwood held eight parcels: "an homestall of eighteen acres"; "two acres of meadow in Pine Marsh"; "one acre in Pond Meadow"; "thirty-five acres upland being a Great Dividend in the 2 division & the 13 lot"; "six acres of plowland in the Hither Plain & the 24 lot"; "sixteen acres & half upland beyond the Further Plain & the 3 lot"; "six acres of meadow in the Remote Meadows & the 24 lot"; and "a Farm of one-hundred thirty-four acres upland in the 2 division" [WaBOP 25-26].
On 27 February 1639[/40], the weir at Watertown, owned by Thomas Mayhew, had for some time been leased to "Ro[bert] Lockwood, Is[aac] Sternes & Henery Jackson" [SLR 1:13]
On 29 September 1645, "Rob[er]t Lockwood of Watertowne" sold to "Edward Garfield of the same town one acre of meadow in Pond Meadow" [SLR 1:71]. On 30 April 1646, "Robert Lockwood of Watertown" sold to "Bryan Pendleton of the same all his land granted by the town (as by the transcript appeareth) with all the housing thereupon, also four acres of Remote Meadow purchased of William Bridges (only one acre of meadow in Pond Meadow formerly sold excepted)" [SLR 1:71].
On 10 April 1650, "Richard Denton have appointed Elias Bayly of Stamford my lawful attorney to demand and (if need be) by all warrantable means to recover and receive for me whatsoever is due unto me, from Robert Lockwood of Faierfield in New England, and to him, I have given full power upon receipt of the said debt to give unto Robert Lockwood full security of what he hath purchased of me in Stamford. ... The lands purchased of Richard Denton now at Maspeag by Robert Lockwood of Faierfield (viz:) One home lot with the building thereon & all other lands, marsh & upland, which is laid out, or is to be laid out" [Stamford TR 1:41]. After an accounting of the debt, "Robert Lockwood, now of Faierfield," surrendered title to the lands to John Bishop.
An undated entry covering a full page in the first volume of Fairfield town records sets forth the details of the proprietary share acquired by Robert Lockwood in that town [Fairfield TR A:120]:
"Robert Lockwood hath purchased of Mr. Rodger Ludlow Esquire and John Cable: all & all maner of messuages houses gardens orchards backside lands tenements meadows pasture feedings accommodations or allotments whatsoever to him and his heirs forever: that Henrie Graye had or ought to have had, which premises the said Mr. Ludlow & John Cable did purchase of Mr. Alexander Bryand of Milford, who purchased the said premises of the said Henrie Graye, and so passed by deed and assigned from the first purchaser to the last as is expressed, wherein the said deed Henrie Graye doth covenant & promise that true and rightful owner of all and singular the premises before by these presents expressed
"The particulers follow:
"Four acres and half in Sasqua Necke abutted on the south with the land of John Barlow and the north with 16 acres and a quarter of the land that was Mr. William Frost
"Also four acres and three quarters that was John Fosters bounded with the land of Stapls and Heages
"And seven acres and half of the land that was Henrie Graye's abutting the south on the said John Foster's land on the north the land of Daniell Bulkley and the common to west the river east highway or near it
"In the neck of land commonly called Uncoway Neck seventeen acres next to Mr Tainters on the southwest
"In the homelot two acres
"Meadow on the whole nine acres and half and 14 rod which was the said Henry Gray's
"In the meadow before the town four acres and half and 35 rod 6 foot between the meadow of John Barlow and the meadow of Daniell Frost had from his father.
"In the milne river seaven acres between John Nichols and old Sheratt"
On "Feb: 8:1655," "Henry Lyon hath purchased of Robart Lockwood parcel of land lying at Sasquatt Neck being in quantity three acres more or less bounded on the east with a highway the land of Steven Hedges on the north on the west with a swamp on the south with the land of Robart Lockwood" [Fairfield TR A:41]. On 16 February 1673[/4?], "Jone Baldwin administratrix on the estate of her husband Nath: Baldwin deceased by a deed under her hand acknowledged that her said deceased husband did in his lifetime sell to Robert Lockwood befor[e] the said Robert death, sold him a parcel of land over the creeke being in quantity [even acres more or less: bounded on the northeast and southeast with highwayes: on the southwest with the land pertayning to the sons of Thomas Moorhouse deceased: on the northwest with the meadowe of Mr. Gold" [Fairfield TR A:127].
The inventory of the estate of "Robert Lockwood deceased in Fairfeild," taken 11 September 1658, totalled £464 3s., of which £110 was real estate: "housing & lands," £110 [Fairfield PR 1:42-43].
On 20 October 1658, "the widow Lockwood" presented her husband's inventory, and the court appointed "the widow Susanna Lockwood to be administratrix"; "the deceased having left no will, the Court orders as followeth: that the widow shall have a third part of the state and the rest of the children being nine in number, their names are Jonathan, Joseph, Daniell, Epraim, Gershom, John, Abigail, Sarah and Mary, shall have the rest of the estate divided amongst them as followeth, the eldest son Jonathan is to have a double portion only that estate which the said Jonathan received of his father before his death being here made to appear to be fifty-seven pounds, twelve shillings, is to be reckoned to be part of his double portion, and ... the rest of the estate is to be divided among the rest of the children only each of the sons are to have a third part more than [each] of the daughters ...; Deborah being married hath received her portion of her father before his death" [Fairfield PR 1:43].
On 17 May 1659, "Susanna Lockwood" sued John Cable "in an action of the case to the damage of £120," and the court found for the defendant [RPCC 200]. (This dispute may have involved the land which Roger Ludlow and John Cable had sold to Robert Lockwood many years before.)
On 28 May 1661, "whereas Jeffery Ferris by marriage with his wife Susanna now deceased stands engaged to pay certain legacies due to the children of Robert Lockwood deceased according to the administration entered in court 20 October 1658 and whereas he sayeth that Joseph & Daniell hath received their portions already as also that they have received the portions of Epraim & Gershom & that they are to stand engaged to see it paid according to the court order and that he intends at the first opportunity to clear himself thereof at a court and whereas John & the three daughters portions are still in his hand, he having removed out of this jurisdiction and security being demanded, he doth by these presents bind over all his housing and accommodations that he hath in Greenwich that the legacies shall be truly paid" [Fairfield PR 1:65, 67].
On 1 December 1681, "Jonathan Hewsteed of Greenwich having marrying Mary Lockwood the daughter of Robert and Susanna Lockwood" acknowledged having received his wife's portion of her parents' estates from "Daniell Lockwood, Joseph Lockwood and Will[ia]m Ward administrators upon the estate of their father and mother" [Fairfield PR 3:314]. On 28 December 1681, "John Barlowe of Fairfeild," noting that "there was a portion due out of the estate of my father-in-law Robert Lockwood deceased and of the estate of my mother -in-law Susanna Ferris deceased unto she that is now my wife Abigal their daughter, and whereas that my brother-in-law Will[ia]m Ward in his lifetime and my brother-in-laws Joseph and Daniel Lockwood were appointed by the court to administer on the abovesaid estate," acknowledged having received his wife's portion [Fairfield PR 3:313].
Birth: Baptized Combs, Suffolk, 18 January 1600/1, son of Edmund Lockwood [Connecticut Ancestry 47:120-23].
Death. Between 21 May 1657 (when he was appointed sergeant at Fairfield [CCCR 1:299]) and 11 September 1658 (date of inventory).
Marriage: By 1634 Susanna Norman, daughter of Richard Norman {1626, Salem} [NYGBR 5 8:395-96; GMB 2:1334-36]. She married (2) about 1659 Jeffrey Ferris {1634, Watertown} [GM:2:517-21] and died at Greenwich on 23 December 1660 (recorded at Stamford) [TAG 10:118, citing Stamford TR 1:98].
Children:
i. Jonathan Lockwood, b. Watertown 10 September 1634 [NEHGR 6:380; WaVR 1:3]; m. by 6 January 1664[/5?] Mary Ferris, daughter of Jeffrey Ferris [GM 2:2:519-20].
ii. Deborah Lockwood, b. Watertown 12 October 1636 [NEHGR 7:159; WaVR 1:4]; m. (1) by 20 October 1658 William Ward, son of Andrew WARD {1633, Watertown} [GMB 3:1918-21 (which misstates the estimated date of marriage)]; m. (2) by 1678 John Topping [FOOF 1:265, 645 (citing "Marriage agreement between Ebenezer Hawley and Hester Ward, daughter of Mrs. Deborah Topping of Southampton, 19 Apr. 1678")].
iii. Joseph Lockwood, b. Watertown 6 August 1638 [NEHGR 7:160; WaVR 1:5]; m. (1) by an unknown date ___ Beacham, daughter of Robert Beacham (in his will of 24 November 1689, "Rob[er]t Beacham of Maxemas Farms in Fairfeild" included bequests to "my grandchild Robert Lockwood," "my grandchild Susana Lockwood," "my other two grandchildren John and Sarah Lockwood," and made "my loving son-in-law Joseph Lockwood" sole executor [Fairfield PR 4:36]); possibly m. (2) after 1689 Mary (Coley) (Simpson) Stream, widow of Peter Simpson and John Stream [FOOF 1:383].
iv. Daniel Lockwood, b. Watertown 25 March 1640 [NEHGR 7:162; WaVR 1:8]; m. by about 1669 Abigail Sherwood (eldest known child b. about 1669 [FOOF 1:383]), daughter of Thomas Sherwood [FOOF 1:383, 548-49].
v. Ephraim Lockwood, b. Watertown 1 December 1641 [NEHGR 7:281; WaVR 1:9]; m. Norwalk 8 June 1665 Mercy St. John [Norwalk LR 1:49], daughter of Mathias St. John [FOOF 1:513].
vi. Greshom Lockwood, b. Watertown 6 September 1643 [NEHGR 7:283; WaVR 1:11]; m. (1) ___ ___ ["Connecticut Ancestry" 47:130]; m. (2) Oyster Bay 3 August 1697 Elizabeth (Townsend) Wright [Oyster Bay TR 1:515], daughter of John Townsend and widow of Gideon Wright ["Connecticut Ancestry" 47:130; FOOF 1:384-85].
vii. John Lockwood, b. say 1646; the inventory of the estate of "John Lockwood" was taken "by us as selectmen of the town of Norwocke in February last Anno 1675 [probably 1675/6]" (including a debt "from the country for wages as a soldier") and presented by Ephraim Lockwood [Fairfield PR 3:23-24]; apparently unm.
viii. Abigail Lockwood, b. say 1648; m. by about 1668 John Barlow (eldest known child b. about 1668), son of Thomas Barlow [Fairfield PR 3:313; FOOF 1:29].
ix. Sarah Lockwood, b. say 1650; d. Fairfield 1 March 1650[/1] [CTVR30].
x. Sarah Lockwood, b. Fairfield 27 February 1651[/2?] [CTVR 30]; she may have married Abraham Adams [Connecticut Ancestry 47:130; FOOF 1:9-10].
xi. Mary Lockwood, b. say 1654; m. (1) by 1681 Jonathan Huestis [Fairfield PR 3:314; TAG 30:127-28, 73:204-5]; m. (2) by 1713 Joseph Knapp (on 28 April 1713, "Joseph Knap of the town of Gree[n]wich ... & Mary his wife formerly Mary Heusted relict of Jonathan Heusted of the said Greenwich deceased" deeded to Jonathan Jessup land formerly held by Jonathan Huestis [Greenwich LR 2:85; FOOF 1:317-18]).
Associations: Brother of Edmund Lockwood {1630, Cambridge} [GMB 2:1192-94]. Two features of the landholding of Robert Lockwood illuminate further the life of Edmund Lockwood. First, prior to 1639, Robert Lockwood had sold to John Masters "five acres of marsh at the oyster bank near the river" [CaTR 53]. This was probably land originally in the possession of Edmund Lockwood who had resided in Cambridge before his death. Robert Lockwood was executor of the estate of Edmund Lockwood, whose widow had married John Masters [KP note: author in the notes of Edmund notes his second wife was Elizabeth Masters, dau. of John Masters].. Second, in the grants of land in the Beaverbrook Plowlands and the Remote Meadows, which were based on household size, Robert Lockwood received six acres. At the date of these grants, in late 1636 and early 1637, the immediate household of Robert Lockwood was four persons (himself, his wife, and his two eldest children). The most likely explanation for the additional two household members is that they were the orphaned children of Edmund Lockwood and his first wife. One of these children was the son Edmund. The identity of the second of these children is unknown, but this tells us that in 1637 there were only two surviving children by this first marriage.
At the same time that Robert Lockwood sold his Watertown lands to Bryan Pendleton and Edward Garfield, Nicholas Knapp sold all his Watertown lands to the same men [SLR 1:71]. Knapp also made the migration to Fairfield [Connecticut Ancestry 47:125-26].
Comments: Based on the birth of a son at Watertown on 10 September 1634 [WaVR 1:3], the year of immigration of this immigrant had been placed as 1634. However, the pattern of his landholding in Watertown and the presence in New England of the woman he married several years earlier lead us to conclude that he had actually arrived by 1633 Connecticut Ancestry 47:123]. He may even have come over with his brother Edmund Lockwood in 1630. In any case, we have chosen to include him in this volume.
Although Robert Lockwood created no surviving records during his residence at Stamford, we place him there from 1646 to 1650 for two reasons. First, he left Watertown at the same time that others of that own, especially Nicholas Knapp, made the move to Stamford [GMN:8]. Second, in 1650, when he was already at Fairfield, he sold land in Stamford which had been the proprietary share of the Rev. Richard Denton [Stamford TR 1:41], who had left Stamford prior to 1646. This and would have been the residence of Robert Lockwood during his sojourn at Stamford.
In 1654 two members of the family of Robert Lockwood became embroiled in the witchcraft trial of Goody Knapp. On 13 May 1654, "Susan Lockwood, wife of Robert Lockwood," and "Deborah Lockwood, of the age of 17 or thereabout," gave depositions of events on the day of Goody Knapp's execution [NHCR 2:82-83; Witchhunting 74-86].
Bibliographic Note: In 1889 Frederic A. Holden and F. Dunbar Lockwood compiled a genealogy of the descendants of the Lockwood brothers ["Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America from A.D. 1630," Philadelphia 1889)].
In 1927 Clarence A. Torrey identified the wife of this immigrant NYGBR 58:395-96]. Donald Lines Jacobus treated Robert Lockwood and his descendants in the course of his work on the families of Fairfield [FOOF 1:380-87]. In 1978, building on the work of Jacobus and correcting the "Lockwood Family," Harriet Woodbury Hodge published an account of the immigrant Edmund Lockwood, thus correcting earlier accounts of Robert Lockwood ["Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and His son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford, Connecticut" (New York 1978)]. In 1984 Harriet Woodbury Hodge published an account of the agnate descendants of Ephraim Lockwood, son of this immigrant ["Connecticut Ancestry" 27:9-18, 64-70, 141-47].
In 2004 Robert Charles Anderson published a study of this immigrant, concentrating on his English origin, his landholding and the marriages of his children ["Connecticut Ancestry" 47:119-30]."

2. "Connecticut Ancestry," periodical published by the Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc., Dec. 2004, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 119-130: "Robert Lockwood of Watertown, Stamford and Fairfield: English Ancestry, New England Connections and Children's Marriages," by Robert Charles Anderson, FASG, (may be contacted at 2 Fenway, Deny, NH 03038, or at ). Note that the following is a partial transcript of the full transcript in the notes of Robert Lockwood; the full article is well written by one of the very best modern genealogists and should be consulted in conjunction with the following notes:
"Genealogical Summary
Robert1 Lockwood was almost certainly the child of that name baptized at Combs, Suffolk, on 18 January 1600[/1], son of Edmund and Alice (Cowper) Lockwood. He died, probably at Fairfield, between 21 May 1657 (when he was appointed sergeant at Fairfield) and 11 September 1658 (when his inventory was taken), and probably closer to the latter date. He married by 1634 Susanna2 Norman, baptized 31 July 1617 at Charminster, Dorset, daughter of Richard1 and Florence (___) Norman of Salem. Massachusetts.(54) After 20 October 1658 (when she was still referred to as "widow Lockwood"), she married (2) Jeffrey Ferris, and she died at Greenwich on 23 December 1660.(55) Robert Lockwood arrived in New England no later than 1633 (and perhaps as early as 1630). As a resident of Watertown he was granted by the town a full proprietary share, which he sold in 1646, at which time he removed to Stamford, where he purchased the proprietary share of Rev. Richard Denton, which he disposed of in 1650. By 1650 he had removed to Fairfield, where he purchased the proprietary share originally granted to Henry Gray.
Children(i-vi born Watertown(56)):
i. Jonathan Lockwood, b. Watertown 10 September 1634. He m. by 6 January 1664[/5?] Mary Ferris, daughter of Jeffrey Ferris.(57)
ii. Deborah Lockwood, b. Watertown 12 October 1636. She m. (1) by 20 October 1658 William Ward, son of Andrew Ward.(58) She m. (2) by 1678 John Topping.(59)
iii. Joseph Lockwood, b. Watertown 6 August 1638. He m. (1) by an unknown date Beacham, daughter of Robert Beacham.(60) He possibly m. (2) after 1689 Mary (Coley) (Simpson) Stream, widow of Peter Simpson and John Stream.(61)
iv. Daniel Lockwood, b. Watertown 25 March 1640. He m. by about 1669 Abigail Sherwood, daughter of Thomas Sherwood of Fairfield.(62)
v. Ephraim Lockwood, b. Watertown 1 December 1641. He m. Norwalk 8 June 1665 Mercy St. John,(63) daughter of Mathias St. John.(64)
vi. Gershom Lockwood, b. Watertown 6 September 1643. He m. (1) 65 He m. (2) Oyster Bay 3 August 1697 Elizabeth (Townsend) Wright, daughter of John Townsend and widow of Gideon Wright.(66)
vii. JohnLockwood, b. say 1646. The inventory of the estate of"John Lockwood" was taken "by us as selectmen of the town of Norwocke in February last Anno 1675 [probably 1675/6]" (including a debt "from the country for wages as a soldier") and presented by Ephraim Lockwood; apparently unmarried.(67)
viii. Abigail Lockwood, b. say 1648. She m. by about 1668 John Barlow, son of Thomas Barlow.(68)
ix. Sarah Lockwood, b. say 1650; d. Fairfield 1 March 1650[/1].(69)
x. Sarah Lockwood, b. Fairfield 27 February 1651[/2?].(70) She was living on 28 May 1661.(71) She may have married Abraham Adams.(72)
xi. Mary Lockwood, b. say 1654. She m. (1) by 1681 Jonathan3 Huestis (Angel2, Robert1).(73) She m. (2) by 1713 Joseph Knapp.(74)
Footnotes:
54. TAG 77(2002):102-3; Anderson, "Great Migration Begins," 2:1334-36.
55. Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn Jr. and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, "The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, "Volume 2, C-F (Boston, 2001), pp. 517-21 (cited hereafter as Anderson et al., Great Migration).
56. "Watertown Records: Vital Records," pp. 1:3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11; Register 6:380, 7:159, 160, 162, 281, 283.
57. Anderson et al., "Great Migration," 2:517-21; Jacobus, "Old Fairfield," 1:382.
58. Fairfield Probate Records 1:43; Anderson, Great Migration Begins 3:1918-21 (which misstates the estimated date of marriage).
59. Jacobus, "Old Fairfield," 1:645 (citing "Marriage agreement between Ebenezer Hawley and Hester Ward, dau. of Mrs. Deborah Topping of Southampton, 19 Apr. 1678").
60. In his will of 24 November 1689, "Rob[er]t Beacham of Maxemas Farms in Fairfeild" included bequests to "my grandchild Robert Lockwood," "my grandchild Susana Lockwood," "my other two grandchildren John and Sarah Lockwood," and made "my loving son-in-law Joseph Lockwood" sole executor [Fairfield Probate Records 4:36].
61. Jacobus, "Old Fairfield," 1:383.
62. Jacobus, "Old Fairfield," 1:383, 548-49 (in her will of 29 January 1691/2, widow Abigail Lockwood made brother Matthew Sherwood one of her overseers).
63. Norwalk Deeds 1:49.
64. Jacobus, "Old Fairfield," 1:513.
65. Holden and Lockwood claim that she was "Lady Ann Millington from England, daughter of Lord Millington," an unsupported and highly unlikely identification (Lockwood Family 16-17). In 1930 Jacobus called her "Ann [?Millington] of Windsor," but in 1955 he referred to her simply as "(first wife)" and gave to Gershom, son of this Gershom, wife Ann Millington (Jacobus, "Old Fairfield," 1:384-85; TAG 31:224). This latter Gershom had a son named Millington (TAG 31:226), which may be the origin of the proposed Millington connection.
66. John Cox, Jr., ed., "Oyster Bay Town Records," Volume I, 1653-1690 (New York, 1916), p. 515. In 1955 Jacobus argued that this Elizabeth died and that Gershom had a third wife, also named Elizabeth. In presenting the estate papers for Gershom, Jacobus states that "The prenuptial contract of Gershom with his widow was dated 2 Oct. 1716" (TAG 31:225-26). This prenuptial contract has not been found, but the will of Gershom Lockwood, dated 2 October 1716, refers to "what I have [given] to my dear & loving wife Elizabeth as in my deed of gift to her" (Fairfield Probate Records Case #3836). If Jacobus mistook this reference to a deed of gift as a prenuptial contract, then we have evidence for only one wife named Elizabeth.
67. Fairfield Probate Records 3:23-24.
68. Fairfield Probate Records 3:313. The eldest child of John and Abigail (Lockwood) Barlow was born about 1668 (Jacobus, "Old Fairfield," 1:29.
69. Edwin Stanley Welles, ed., Births Marriages and Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor and Fairfield and Entered in the Early Land Records of the Colony of Connecticut (Hartford, 1898), p. 30 (cited hereafter as Welles, "Birth, Marriages and Deaths ... of Connecticut").
70. Welles, "Births Marriages and Deaths ... of Connecticut," p. 30.
71. Fairfield Probate Records 1:65, 67.
72. In a footnote to his account of Abraham Adams, son of Edward Adams of Fairfield, Jacobus reports that "Mr. Clarence A. Torrey of Dorchester, Mass., ... suggests from circumstantial evidence that the mother of the Adams children may have been Sarah Lockwood" (Jacobus, "Old Fairfield," 1:9-10). The "circumstantial evidence" was that Sarah Lockwood was available, that Abraham Adams used the names Deborah and Susannah for daughters, and that the children of Daniel Burr with his first wife (one of whom married a Lockwood) chose Adams as their attorney (letters from CAT to DLJ dated 18 and 19 December 1929, and letter of DLJ to CAT dated 20 December 1929, Folder #2, Correspondence of DLJ and CAT, Connecticut Historical Society.
73. Fairfield Probate Records 3:314; TAG 30:127-28, 73:204-5.
74. On 28 April 1713, "Joseph Knap of the Town of Gree[n]wich ... & Mary his wife formerly Mary Heusted relect of Jonathan Heusted of the said Greenwich deceased" deeded to Jonathan Jessup land formerly held by Jonathan Huestis [Greenwich Deeds 2:85]."

3. Some references to Robert in the following biography of Edmund Lockwood from "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002), by Robert Charles Anderson, 1995. Note that the entry was later edited and republished in 2014 by the same author; see "The Winthrop Fleet; Massachusetts Bay Company Immigrants to New England 1629-1630" (NEHGS; Boston, 2014). The version below is the most current version:
"EDMUND LOCKWOOD
ORIGIN: Probably Combs, Suffolk ["Connecticut Ancestry 47:120-23].
MIGRATION: 1630 (based on request for freemanship on 19 October 1630 and jury service on 9 November 1630 [MBCR 1:79, 81]). (Edmund Lockwood was "Lockwood" of John Winthrop's 1629 list [WP 2:276].)
FIRST RESIDENCE: Unknown (probably Watertown).
REMOVES: Cambridge by 1632. "Mr Edmond Lockwood" was the third in the list of eight "Newtone Inhabitant" which is found at the beginning of the Cambridge town records, and probably dates from 1632 [CaTR 2].
FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 (as "Mr. Edmond Lockwood") and admitted 18 May 1631 (as "Mr. Edmond Lockewood") [MBCR 1:79, 366]. OFFICES: Deputy for Cambridge to Massachusetts Bay General Court (as Mr. Lockwood")., 9 May 1632 [MBCR 1:95].
Massachusetts Bay petit jury, 9 November 1630 (as "Mr. Edmond Lockwood"), [MBCR 1:81].
Cambridge constable (as "Mr. Edmond Lockwood"), 9 May 1632 [MBCR 1:81]. ESTATE: On 3 March 1634/5, "It is ordered, that Ruth [sic] Lockwood, widow, shall bring all the writings that her husband left in her hands to John Haynes, Esq., & Simon Bradstreete, on the third day of the next week, who shall detain the same in their hands till the next Court, when they shall be disposed of to those to whom they belong" [MBCR 1:134]. On 7 April 1635, "It is referred to the church of Waterton, with the consent of Rob[er]te Lockwood, executor of Edmond Lockwood, deceased, to dispose of the children & estate of the said Edmond Lockwood, given to them, to such persons as they think meet, which if they perform not within fourteen days, it shall be lawful for the Governor, John Hayne, Esq., & Simon Bradstreete, to dispose of the said children & estates as in their discretion, they shall think meet, as also to take an account of the said Rob[er]te Lockwood, & give him a full discharge" [MBCR 1:143-44]. On 2 June 1635, "In the cause of the children & widow of Edward Lockwood, (the elders & other of the church of Waterton being present,) and upon consideration of the order of Court in April last made in the case, which was found not to have been observed, because the estate was not computed & apportioned, it is now ordered, with consent of all parties, viz:, the church of Waterton, the widow of the said Edmond living, & the executor having consented to the former order, that the present Governor & the Secretary shall have power to call parties & witnesses for finding out the true estate, having consideration of the uncertainty of the will, & the debts, & other circumstances, to apportion the remainder of the estate to the wife & Children, according to their best discretion; & then the church of Waterton is to dispose of the elder children & their portions as shall be best for their Christian education & the preservation of their estate" [MBCR 1:151]. BIRTH: By about 1600 based on estimated date of marriage (but see COMMENTS below). [KP note: It appears the author did not update this statement in the revision since the COMMENTS do not address the birth at all; however, the his reference to "Connecticut Ancestry" does as 16 Jan 1598/1599 at Combs, Suffolk, England.] DEATH: Cambridge between 9 May 1632 [MBCR 1:95, 96] and 3 March 1634/5 [MBCR 1:134] (and probably closer to the earlier date, since Edmund Lockwood does not appear in any of the recorded Cambridge land grants beginning in August 1633). MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1625 ____ ____; she may have died in England before 1630.
(2) By 1632 Elizabeth Masters, daughter of JOHN MASTERS {1630, Watertown}. She married (2) CARY LATHAM {1639, Cambridge}. CHILDREN:
With first wife
i EDMUND LOCKWOOD, b. say 1625; m. Stamford 7 January [1655/6] Hannah Scott, daughter of TTHOMAS SCOTT {1634, Ipswich} [GM 2:6:209-13].
ii child LOCKWOOD, (one or more additional children by first wife implied by court order to the Watertown church "to dispose of the elder children" [MBCR 1:151]); no further record.
With second wife
iii JOHN LOCKWOOD, b. Cambridge [blank] November 1632 ("son of Edward Lockwood & Elisabeth his wife") [NEHGR 4:181]; d. at New London in 1683, unmarried [Lockwood Gen 10].
ASSOCIATIONS: In a discussion of financial transactions, John Winthrop wrote to his son John in Grot on 23 July 1630 saying "If money be brought to you or your Uncle Downinge for Goodman Lockwood, let Mr. Peirce be paid his bill of provisions for him, and bring the rest with you" [WP 2:306]. "Mr. Edmond Lockwood" was the third in the list of eight "Newtowne Inhabitants" which is found at the beginning of the Cambridge town records, and probably dates from 1632 [CaTR 2]. After NICHOLAS KNAPP was fined for quackery on 1 March 1630/1, "Mr. Will[ia]m Pelham and Mr. Edmond Lockewood hath promised to pay to the Court the sum of £5" [MBCR 1:83]. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: The 1889 Lockwood genealogy (Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, "Descendants of Robert Lockwood, History of the Lockwood Family in America," [Philadelphia 1889]) was deservedly described by Jacobus as "a genealogical atrocity" [TAG 31:222]. By lumping all the descendants of the first Edmund under his brother Robert, the posterity of this family through eldest son Edmund was misplaced. Donald Lines Jacobus began to sort the family out properly in 1930, with further contributions made in 1955 [FOOF 1:380-81; TAG 31:222-24]. In 1978 Harriet Woodbury Hodge published detailed arguments for a rearrangement of the Lockwood families that would restore to Edmund Lockwood his children ["Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford, Connecticut" (New York 1978), cited above as Lockwood Gen]."
In 2004 Robert Charles Anderson reviewed the evidence for the English ancestry of Edmund and Robert Lockwood ["Connecticut Ancestry" 47:119-30]."

4. FHL Book 929.273 L814a or FHL film 1321248, item 6, "Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford Connecticut," by Harriet Woodbury Hodge, C.G., 1978:
"Foreword. Edmund Lockwood, The Forgotten Ancestor.
In 1630 two Lockwood brothers, 'Mr.' Edmund, aged 36 and Sergeant Robert, aged 36, came to New England with the Winthrop Fleet. Both men were sons of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood of Combs, co. Suffolk, England. (See Phi more and Blagg, 'Suffolk County Registers, Marriages,' 1:123 and Banks, 'Winthrop Fleet of 1630,' pp. 79, 80. Both brothers have many American descendants living today, those of Robert far more numerous than those of his brother, Edmund. Unfortunately, few of the Edmund Lockwood family acknowledge him as one of their forefathers, believing erroneously that they are descendants of Robert. The 'Edmund Lockwood Family Society' is today an exclusive group with a mere handful of members. How has this situation come about?
James Savage, who published his 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England' in 1860-2, recognized that Edmund Lockwood had progeny into the third generation. But in 1889, two unbelievably inept compilers, Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, threw together a thick tome entitled 'Descendants of Robert Lockwood, History of the Lockwood Family in America.' This book, replete with multiple errors, assumes, as its title suggests, that all early American Lockwoods were descendants of Sgt. Robert Lockwood. His brother, Edmund Lockwood, is consigned to an appendix, which omits any mention of the records of Edmund's surviving son, Edmund Lockwood of Stamford, Connecticut. Then, confronted with the six surviving children of Edmund Lockwood, the compilers divide them up and add them to the families of two sons of Robert Lockwood: Ephraim of Norwalk and Jonathan of Greenwich. The original errors are compounded in the Lockwood genealogy, tangling inextricably the lines of both Edmund and Robert Lockwood.
In 1930 Donald Lines Jacobus, who called the Holden and Lockwood compilation 'a genealogical atrocity' ('The American Genealogist,' 31:222 ff.), corrected the Connecticut Lockwood families through the first two generations in the 'History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield.' Unfortunately, this work has only recently become widely available through a reprinted edition, is as yet unknown to many Lockwood researchers and does not 'come down' far enough on Stamford, Norwalk and Greenwich lines to help identify later Lockwoods. Jacobus cautioned (TAG, 31:222), that no one should accept the 1889 Lockwood genealogy without extensive verification.
Jacobus, using carefully studied probate records, showed that no Connecticut Lockwood of suitable age could have been father of Abraham Lockwood (c1670-1747) of Rhode Island (Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, p. 125) or of Richard Lockwood (1678-1757) of Delaware. The old Lockwood genealogy simply inserts Abraham and Richard into Connecticut families to which they clearly do not belong! The Delaware and Rhode Island Lockwoods are separate lines and must look elsewhere for their ancestry.
Additionally, two English Lockwood pedigrees are shown on preface pages xxiv and xxv of the Holden and Lockwood 1889 genealogy. Caveat! No connection to any American Lockwood has been proved or can be inferred.
The present compilation is limited in scope and does not attempt to correct more than a few of the errors in 'The Descendants of Robert Lockwood.' We have focused on retrieving the descendants of Edmund Lockwood, reworking the lineages. We have carried out all the male lines and a few females' families through five generations, insofar as they can be determined. Some have eluded us and we hope other researchers may provide us with the careers of more fifth generation descendants of Edmund Lockwood, from original material. We have included here a few sixth generation families, whose records have not been published heretofore. This book contains much new material, principally from original deeds.
Harriet W. Hodge, C. G.'
References:
Donald Lines Jacobus, 'History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield,' vol. 1, pp. 380-85, 715-16; vol. 2, p. 1075. (N.B. In this work, Fairfield, CT Lockwood families are carried on, but not those of Stamford, Norwalk and Greenwich.)
Donald Lines Jacobus, 'An Atrocious Lockwood Blunder,' 'The American Genealogist,' 31:222-28.
Charles Henry Pope, 'The Pioneers of Massachusetts,' pp. 289, 330.
Charles E. Banks, 'The Winthrop Fleet of 1630,' Boston, 1930, pp. 79, 80.
Robert Lockwood, son of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood, bp. 18 Jan 1600 at Combs, co. Suffolk, England, d. 1658 at Fairfield, Connecticut, m. Susannah, prob. dau of Richard Norman of Salem, Mass. She 2/m. Jeffrey Ferris. Children:
1. Jonathan, b. 10 Sep 1634 Watertown, MA, d. 12 May 1688 Greenwich, CT, m. Mary Ferris who 2/m. 1696 Thomas Merritt. Ch:
a. Robert, d. 1732/3 m. Mary ___.
b. Jonathan, died without issue 1689.
c. Gershom, d. 1757 m. Hannah ____.
d. Joseph, - n.f.i.
e. Abigail m. Thomas? Baxter.
2. Deborah, b. 12 Oct 1636, Watertown, MA, 1/ m. William Ward 2/m. John Topping.
3. Joseph, b. 6 Aug 1638, Watertown, MA, d. 1717, Fairfield, CT, 1/m. ___ Beacham, 2/m. Mary (Coley)
(Simpson) Stream. Ch: (by 1/w.)
a. Robert, d. c1715, 1/m. ____, 2/m. Mary () Butler.
b. Susanna, 1/m. Nathaniel Burr, 2/m. Benjamin Rumsey.
c. John, d. 1736, m. Elizabeth Sarah, without issue
4. Daniel, b. 21 Mar 1640 Watertown, MA, d. 1691 Fairfield, CT, m. Abigail Sherwood. Ch:
a. Daniel, b. 1669 d. 1698, m. Abigail Burr who 2/m. Elnathan Hanford and 3/m. Nathaniel Sherman.
b. Abigail, b. c1674, m. Samuel Robinson.
c. Mary, b. c1681, m. Nathan Morehouse.
5. Ephraim, b. 1 Dec 1641 Watertown, MA d. 1685 Norwalk, CT, m. Mercy St. John. Ch:
a. John, b. 1665/6 died without issue1690/1.
b. Daniel, b. 1668 d. 1712, m. Sarah Benedict
c. Sarah, b. 1670, m. John Platt, Jr.
d. Ephraim, b. 1673, d.y.
e. Eliphalet, b. 1675/6, m. Mary Gold.
f. Joseph, b. 1680, d. 1760, 1/m. Mary Weed, 2/m. Hannah ___.
g. James, b. 1683, 1/m. Lydia Smith, 2/m. Mercy (Bushnell) (Bostwick) Gaylord.
6. Gershom, b. 6 Sep 1643 Watertown, MA, d.1718/9 Greenwich, CT, 1/m. ____ of Windsor, CT, 2/m. 1697 Elizabeth (/Townsend) Wright, 3/m. Elizabeth ___. Ch: (by 1/w.)
a. Gershom, d. by 1761, m. Ann Millington.
b. Hannah, 1/m. John Burwell, 2/m. Thomas Hanford.
c. Elizabeth, d. 1702, m. 1693/4 John Bates.
d. Joseph, d. 1748, m. ?Sarah Green.
e. Sarah, b. c1679, d. 1765, 1/m. 1699/1700 Nathaniel Selleck, 2/m. 1713/4 Benjamin Hickock, 3/m. 1755 Samuel Kellogg.
7. John, d. 1677, unmarried.
8. Abigail, m. before 1681 John Barlow.
9. Sarah, d. 1 Mar 1650/1 Connecticut.
10. Sarah, b. 27 Feb 1651/2 Connecticut, ? m. Abraham Adams.
11. Mary, 1/m. Jonathan Husted, 2/m. Joseph Knapp.
Edmund Lockwood, son of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood, bp. 9 Feb 1594 at Combs, co. Suffolk, England, d. before 3 March 1634/5 at Cambridge, Massachusetts,
1/ m. ___. [Children]:
a. Edmund, b. c1625 England, d. 31 Jan 1692/3 Stamford, CT, m. 1655/6 Hannah Scott, b. c1636 d. 1706. Ch:
i. John, b. c1658-60 without issue 1689-92.
ii. Mary, b. c1664, m. 1693 Joseph Garnsey.
iii. Joseph, b. 1666 d. 1750, 1/m. 1698 Elizabeth Ayres, 2/m. 1716 Margery Webb, 3/m. by 1740 Susannah ___.
iv. Edmund b. c 1668, died without issue 1740, naming bros and sis in his will.
v. Daniel, b. c1670, d. 1744, m. 1702 Charity Clements.
vi. Abigail, b. c1674, m. aft. 1707 Joseph Clark.
vii. Sarah, b. c1679, m. 1707 Michael Lounsberry.
2/m. c1631 Elizabeth Masters, dau of John (She 2/m. Cary Latham). [Children]:
a. John, b. __ Nov 1632 Cambridge, MA died without issue 1683 New London, CT. His brother Edmund Lockwood of Stamford, CT was sole heir of his estate.
Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693):
Edmund Lockwood of Combs, county Suffolk, the English progenitor, married there 3 September 1592 ALES COWPER {COOPER}. Of their "Children, two sons came to Massachusetts in 1630 with the Winthrop Fleet:
1. Edmund Lockwood, baptized 9 February 1594 at Combs. (Charles E. Banks, 'The Winthrop Fleet of 1630,' Boston, 1930, pp. 79, 80.) He 1/m. before 1625 in England, ____, an unknown wife who perhaps d. shortly after her arrival in America. He 2/m before 1632 Elizabeth MASTERS, daughter of John Masters of Cambridge, Mass. (James Savage, 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 1860-1862, reprint: Baltimore, 1965, 3:104-5, 170-71 & Charles H. Pope, 'Pioneers of Massachusetts,' 1900, reprint Baltimore, 1969, pp. 289 and 404).
2. Robert. Lockwood, baptized 18 January 1600 at Combs (Charles E. Banks, 'The Winthrop Fleet of 1630,' Boston, 1930, pp. 79, 80.), d. 1658 at Fairfield, Connecticut. He m. SUSANNAH, probably daughter of Richard Norman of Salem, Mass. (James Savage, 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 1860-1862, reprint: Baltimore, 1965, 3:104-5, 170-71 & Charles H. Pope, 'Pioneers of Massachusetts,' 1900, reprint Baltimore, 1969, pp. 289 and 404). Robert Lockwood lived at Watertown, Mass. 1634-1646, then moved to Fairfield, Ct. After his death his widow m. Jeffrey Ferris and she d. at Greenwich 23 December 1660 (James Savage, 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First settlers of New England, 1860-1862, reprint: Baltimore, 1965, 3:104-5, 170-71 & Charles H. Pope, 'Pioneers of Massachusetts,' 1900, reprint Baltimore, 1969, pp. 289 and 404 & Donald Lines Jacobus, 'History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield,' New Haven, 1930, 1: 715, 381). Robert's progeny are far more numerous than those of his brother, Edmund, but this compilation makes no attempt to trace his descendants…
The American FAMIL Y:
I. Edmund Lockwood, (Edmund of England), bp. 9 February 1594 at Combs, co. Suffolk, d. before 3 March 1634/5 at Cambridge, Mass. He came in 1630 with the fleet, which brought Governor John Winthrop to New England. Edmund first settled at Watertown and then at New Towne (Cambridge) where he was called "Mr.," a title of respect. His request to be made freeman of the colony on 19 October 1630, was granted 18 May 1631. He was juryman 9 November 1630: was appointed constable at Cambridge in May 1632 and the same year he was one of two persons appointed to confer with the court about raising a public stock. (James Savage, 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 1860-1862, reprint: Baltimore, 1965, 3:104-5, 170-71 & Charles H. Pope, 'Pioneers of Massachusetts,' 1900, reprint Baltimore, 1969, pp. 289 and 404). In 1635 his brother Sergeant Robert Lockwood was appointed executor for Edmund's estate and Children. (James Savage, 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First settlers of New England, 1860-1862, reprint: Baltimore, 1965, 3:104-5, 170-71 & Charles H. Pope, 'Pioneers of Massachusetts,' 1900,, reprint Baltimore, 1969, pp. 289 and 404).
Edmund 1/m. before 1625 in England, ___, an unknown wife, who perhaps d..shortly after her arrival in America. On 3 March 1634/5 the court asked the widow "Ruth" to bring in writings left by her husband, Edmund Lockwood. (James Savage, 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 1860-1862, reprint: Baltimore, 1965, 3:104-5, 170-71). Other records show clearly that Edmund's widow was Elizabeth (Masters), whom he had m. at least three years previously (James Savage, 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First settlers of New England, 1860-1862, reprint: Baltimore, 1965, 3:104-5, 170-71 & Charles H. Pope, 'Pioneers of Massachusetts,' 1900, reprint Baltimore, 1969, pp. 289 and 404). Was Ruth in error for the name of the first wife? There is no proof of this theory, although some have made the assumption.
Edmund 2/m. before 1632 Elizabeth MASTERS. She was d/o John Masters of Watertown and Cambridge, who d. 21 December 1639 and by his will two days before his death named with others, his grandchild. John Lockwood and his daughter Elizabeth, wife of Cary Latham. Edmund's widow m. Mr. Latham and in 1646 moved to Newv London, Connecticut, taking her son John Lockwood with them. (James Savage, 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First settlers of New England, 1860-1862, reprint: Baltimore, 1965, 3:104-5, 170-71 & Charles H. Pope, 'Pioneers of Massachusetts,' 1900, reprint Baltimore, 1969, pp. 289 and 404 & Genevieve Lockwood Davis, 'Israel Lockwood, Some Ancestry and Descendants,' MS at Newberry Library, Chicago - Ohio Historical Society Library, Columbus - New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Library and elsewhere - includes much unpublished material furnished by Donald L. Jacobus). See Appendix 1, p.71.
The only known child of Edmund Lockwood and his first wife was:
i. Edmund Lockwood, b. about 1625 in England, m. 7 January at Stamford, Ct. Hannah SCOTT. Lack of mention of Edmund Lockwood, Jr. in the wiII of John Masters would indicate that Edmund, Jr. was by an earlier wife, reinforced by a court order 2 June 1635, after the death of Edmund Lockwood, Sr. to place out "elder children" (James Savage, 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First settlers of New England, 1860-1862, reprint: Baltimore, 1965, 3:104-5, 170-71 & Genevieve Lockwood Davis, 'Israel Lockwood, Some Ancestry and Descendants,' MS at Newberry Library, Chicago - Ohio Historical Society Library, Columbus - New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Library and elsewhere - includes much unpublished material furnished by Donald L. Jacobus).
There were undoubtedly one or two other children of Edmundl Lockwood by first wife, but apparently none survived, for only Edmund, Jr. claimed the estate of his half -brother, John, in 1683.
The only known child of Edmund and Elizabeth (Masters) Lockwood was:
ii. JohnLockwood, b. November 1632 at Cambridge, Mass. (Vital Records, town or civil records. For Connecticut the source most often consulted has been the Barbour Index of vital records in the Connecticut State Library and widely available elsewhere on microfilm). He went to New London, Ct. with his mother and stepfather, Cary Latham. On 20 July 1658 Cary Latham conveyed to his son-in-law (i. e. step-son) John Lockwood (New London deeds 3:63) (Genevieve Lockwood Davis, 'Israel Lockwood, Some Ancestry and Descendants,' MS at Newberry Library, Chicago - Ohio Historical Society Library, Columbus - New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Library and elsewhere - includes much unpublished material furnished by Donald L. Jacobus). John lived at Foxen's Hill in New London and d. in 1683, unmarried (Francis M. Caulkins, 'History of New London,' 1895, pp. 89 and 312). New London deeds 5:18 contains a record that Edmund Lockwood of Stamford was declared heir of the estate of his brother, John Lockwood of New London by the County Court 3 June 1684. There are also deeds from Edmund Lockwood of Stamford, conveying lands inherited from his brother, John (New London deeds 5:76, 102 (Genevieve Lockwood Davis, 'Israel Lockwood, Some Ancestry and Descendants,' MS at Newberry Library, Chicago - Ohio Historical Society Library, Columbus - New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Library and elsewhere - includes much unpublished material furnished by Donald L. Jacobus & Francis M. Caulkins, 'History of New London,' 1895, pp. 89 and 312). Edmund Lockwood was the sole heir."

5. "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus, comp. and ed. pages 380,381: "Sergt., Fairfield Trainband, May 1657. Came to America about 1630, brother of Edmund; settled in Watertown, Mass.; freeman of Mass. Bay, Mar. 1636/7. Removed to Fairfield abt. 1646; freeman of Conn., May 1652. Married Susannah, prob. dau. of Richard Norman of Salem, Mass. She m. (2) Jeffrey Ferris.. Inv. 11 Sep 1658. Widow Susannah to administer; nine children: eldest son Jonathan, Joseph, Daniel, Ephraim, Gershom, John, Abigail, Sarah, Mary; Deborah, being married, hath received portion. Jeffrey Ferris agreed to pay portions to the children, and mention was made of what he shall pay William Ward and Joseph and Daniel Lockwood on account of the children. Children, first six recorded at Watertown:
a. Jonathan, b. 10 Sep 1634.
b. Deborah, b 12 Oct 1636; m. (1) before 20 Oct 1658, Ens. William Ward; m. (2) John Topping, of Southhammmpton, Long Island.
c. Joseph, b. 6 Aug 1638.
d. Daniel, b. 21 Mar. 1640.
e. Ephraim, b. 1 Dec 1641.
f. Gershom, b. 6 Sep 1643.
g. John, died in 1677, unmarried. Inventory about 1677, presented by Ephraim Lockwood.
h. Abigail, m. John Barlow, Jr. He receipted, 28 Dec. 1681, for the portion of his wife Abigail in estate of father-in-law Robert Lockwood and mother-in-law Susannah Ferris.
i. Sarah, d. 1 Mar 1650/51 (Colonial Records).
j. Sarah, b. 27 Feb 1651/52 (Colonial Records); possibly she was the first wife of Lt. Abraham Adams.
k. Mary, m. (1) Jonathan Husted, of Greenwich, who receipted for her portion, 1 Dec. 1681; m. (2) Joseph Knapp, of Greenwich."

6. Per "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus, comp. and ed. pages 715: "...Robert was son of Edmond of Combs, Co. Suffolk, and bapt. 18 Jan. 1600; his brother Edmond was bapt. 9 Feb. 1594. They came in the Winthrop fleet, 1630. (Charles E. Banks: The Winthrop Fleet [1930], pp. 79, 80.)"

7. Per the book "The Story of the Early Settlers of Stamford, Connecticut, 1641 - 1700," by Jeanne Majdalany (including genealogies comp. with Edith M. Wicks), page 176/7: "Two Lockwood brothers from Combes, Suffolk, sons of Edward, came to America on the 'Arbella' in 1630. Edmund, thirty-six, came with his wife [Kerry's note: I cannot yet substantiate that there was his wife on the ship and I suspect this may be wrong.] and Child; Robert was thirty. They settled first in Cambridge, MA and then to Watertown, MA where Edmund died in 1634. Robert's family moved to Norwalk, CT sometime after 1645. For a brief time he owned Rev. Denton's home in Stamford between 1644 and 1650 when it was turned over to John Bishop. After he died in 1658, his wife married Jeffrey Ferris. Robert's oldest son Jonathan, had a home on 'River Street' by 1660; he sold it to his cousin Edmond in 1665 and moved to Greenwich. There is some confusion over a possible sister Rose to the two brothers Edmund and Robert." Additional references: Harriet Woodbury Hodge, "Some Descendants of Edmond Lockwood of Cambridge, Mass." If he was in fact on the Arbella and not the Elizabeth, the Lockwood genealogy book referenced below speaks of the Arbella voyage: "Not over 300 persons were at the New England plantation when Gov. Winthrop and the Mass. Co. arrived at Salem 22 Jun 1630. The 'Arbella' was named in compliment to Lady Arbella Johnson, and was formerly known as the 'Eagle'. Four vessels, viz. Arbella, Talbot, Ambrose, and Jewell, set out first, as the rest were not ready, and the 'Arbella' was admiral of the fleet. She was of 350 tons, 28 guns, and had 52 men. In this vessel were almost all the principal members of the company with such of their families as accompanied them...The Arbella was commanded by Capt. Peter Milborne. Some were from the west of England, but the greatest number came from about London. The Arbella sailed from Southampton on 2 Mar and Cowes on the 29th, 1629-30, and anchored off Yarmouth, and 8 Apr. the voyage was finally commenced."

8. Per book "New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial," comp. William Richard Cutter, Reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 1994, p. 1937: "Robert Lockwood, the founder of this family, was born in England, died in Fairfield, CT, in 1658. He emigrated to America in 1630 and settled first in Watertown, MA, and in 1646 removed to Fairfield. He married Susannah ___. Children: Ephraim...; Gershom, born 6 Sep 1643, died 12 Mar 1718, married Lady Ann Millington...; John; Abigail; Sarah; Mary; Jonathan, born 1634; Deborah, b 1636; Joseph, b. 1638; Daniel, b. 1640." Page 35 adds: "...His name is recorded as a settler in Fairfield as early as 1641..."

9. The book: "Genealogy of the Lockwood Family 1630-1888 - Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America from A.D. 1630," compiled by Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, printed privately by the family, 1889, Philadelphia [Caution! See notes in separate note above about the unreliability of this book):
"Robert Lockwood came from England about 1630 and setled in Watertown, Mass. where 6 of his 10 children were born, and where their births are recorded. He was made freeman 9 Mar 1636/7. (Mass. Rec., I.,372) He was executor of the estate of Edmund Lockwood, supposed to be his brother...Abt. 1646 he removed from Watertown, Mass., to Fairfield, Conn., where he died 1658. (Boltons's Hy. Westchester Co. N.Y.,p.108.) He was made a freeman of Conn. 20 May 1652. (Trumbull's Conn. Col. Rec.,I,231) 'This Court Goun'r John Winthrop (of Conn.) presiding, doth confirme...Robert Lockwood to be Sergeants at Fairfield.' (ibid,I,299) He was appointed Serg. at Fairfield in May, 1657. (Rev. Bouton's Hist. Dis. in 1851, p.59) His name is recorded as a settler at Fairfield as early as 1641. (N.E.H. and G. Reg.,7,157) The names and dates of the births of his first 6 children are printed in nearly all the early historical works of New England. An inventory of his property was made 11 Sep 1658...He left no Will. 'Aprile ye 30th, 1646, he sold to Bryan Pendleton all the land granted to him by the town, also four acres of remote meadow, bought of Mr. Bridge, except on acre of patch meadow, sold Sept. 29th, 1645, to Edward Garfield" [ancestor to Pres. Garfield]. (Bond's Watertown) In 1650 Robert Lockwood, of Fairfield, deeded to Rev. John Bishop the house and lot which he had purchased of Elias Bayley, Rev. Denton's attorney. (Hy. Stamford, p. 50.)...His widow, Susannah, was appointed administratrix. The estate was administered upon by her 20 Oct 1658. The widow, Mrs. Susannah Lockwood, m. Jeffrey Ferris, and died at 'Grinwich', 23 Dec 1660. (Hy. Stamford, CT, p158) Inventory of the estate of Robert Lockwood. Recorded. Probate Records, Vol. 1648 to 1656, page 42, 43, and 44, taken 11 Sep 1658 (per Town Clerk's Office, Fairfield, Conn., 5 apr, 1881 in pounds and shillings]: In Waring cloths 3,10; Bible 0,5; A piece of Stuff and cloth 1,7; Bedding to one bed 7,10; Two other beds and bedding 6,0; One bed more and bedding 6,0; Four pillow cases and Sum other linen 1,15; Three table cloths 1,3; Sheets, pops, cotton, wool, and other ness 12,10; Wooden Ware 1,15; Brass and peuter 4,10; Chayres, Cushings, and table 1,6; Three painted dishes and looking glass 0,10; pot hangers, frying pan, tounges 1,0; 2 ferkins of butter with some pork 3,10; Working tools 3; Cart, plow, Harrow and chaines 6; 3 old axes and a candlestick 0,8; Spinning Wheels and Cradle 0,12; 4 Oxen 30; 11 Cous 40; 5 three year old 15; 4 two year old 10; 5 three year old 10; 3 Calves 3; Horses and Mares 84; Sheep 3; Suine 20; Housing and Lands 110; Corn and Hay 40; Sum depts due 30. Total 464,63...the Courte orders the followeth, that the widow shall have a third part of said estate, and the children shall have the rest of the estate divided among them. Their names are: Jonathan, Joseph, Daniel, Ephraim, Gershom, John, Abigail, Sarah, Mary, Deborah. The eldest son, Jonathan, is to have a double portion...The rest of the estate is to be divided among the rest of the children, only each of the sons are to have a third part more than each of the daughters. The sons are to have their portion at 21 years of age, the daughters at 18 years of age, unless they marry sooner, then to have it at marriage. Deborah, being married, has received her portion of her father before his death..."

10. The book: "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before 1692" by James Savage, published by Genealogical Publishing Co., 1981, Baltimore, vol.3, p.105: "Robert...removed to Fairfield after 1645, but before 1652...John, Abigail, Sarah, and Mary, perhaps all born at Fairfield..."

11. From FHL book 929.273-K727kaa: "The Ancestral Lines of Mary Lenore Knapp," compiled by Alfred Averill Knapp, M.D., 1800 Columbia Terrace, Peoria, Illinois; 1947. Note the discrepancy from Susannah's supposed married date of 28 May 1661 and death date a year earlier 23 Dec. 1660:
'11-G-41. Robert Lockwood, son of 12-G-32. Edmund Lockwood & ?
B. At Combs, Co. Suffolk, England. Bapt. Jan. 18, 1600
D. 1658. No will. Inventory 9-11-1658, by John Banks. Wife, Administrator.
M. Susannah Norman. 11-G-42. (which see) First 6 children recorded in Watertown."
"11-G-42. SUSANNAH Norman, dau. of 12-G-33. Richard Norman & ? of Salem, Mass.
D. Dec. 23, 1660, at Greenwich, Conn.
M. 1st, Robert Lockwood. 11-G-41. (which see)
2nd, Jeffrey Ferris, of Greenwich. Marriage contract signed 5-28-1661. He d. 1666. He was the guardian of Robert's children.
Robert and Susannah had:
1. Jonathan Lockwood, b. 9-10-1634.
2. Deborah Lockwood, b. 10-12-1636. m. 1st, before 10-2-1658, Ensign Williams Ward. 2nd, John Tapping.
3. Joseph Lockwood, b. 8-6-1638.
4. Daniel Lockwood, b. 3-21-1640. 10-G-44. (which see)
5. Ephraim Lockwood, b. 12-1-1641.
6. Gershom Lockwood, b. 9-6-1643.
7. John Lockwood, d. 1677. Single. Inventory about 1677.
8. Abigail Lockwood, m. John Barlow, Jr.
9. Sarah Lockwood, d. 3-1-1650/1. Perhaps 1st wife of Lieut. Abraham Adams.
10. Mary Lockwood, m. 1st, Jonathan Husted, 2nd, Joseph Knapp, of Greenwich, probably.
11. Deborah Lockwood, probably.
Robert Lockwood was in Watertown, Mass. May 30, 1630: Came with Winthrop & Saltonstall, perhaps on the "Mary and John," probably not on the "Arabella." Removed to Fairfield, Conn. about 1646. Was Freeman in Mass. Bay Colony, 3-9-1631. Freeman in Conn. 5-20-1652. Sergt. of Fairfield Train Band. He was Exect. of his bro. Edmund Lockwood's will. Susannah gave evidence in the Witchcraft trial of Goodwife Knapp and was present at her hanging. Because of the intimate relationship between Robert Lockwood and Nicholas Knapp in their business relations and movements, it is believed by many that Elinor, wife of Nicholas, was a sister of Robert Lockwood. I consider it very probable."

12. "Great Migration Newsletter," Vols. 1-15, by Robert Charles Anderson, 2007, p. 8, (1990 issue) in commenting on 1646 migration patterns from Watertown:
"An important goal of the Great Migration Study Project is to identify groups of families of individuals who migration... Specifically, if we see several families moving together, we can reasonably hypothesize that they may have been associated at some time in the past.
The early migration from Watertown to Wethersfield on the Connecticut river in 1635 and 1636 is well known, and the later migration of some of these same families form Wethersfeild to the new town of Stamford, around 1640 and 1641, is also documented. Some years later several families moved directly form Watertown to Stamford, as evidenced principally by their sale of Watertown lands in late 1645 and early 1646 [Ancestors in my database are capitalized]:
Nicholas Theale...
William Potter...
Nicholas Knapp - Sold to Brian Pendleton on 7 May 1646 (Suffolk Deeds 1:71).
Robert Lockwood - Sold to Brian Pendleton on 7 May 1646 (Suffolk Deeds 1:71).
John Ellet - Sold to Thomas Wincoll on 29 June 1646 (Suffolk Deeds 1:74).
John Waterbury...
Richard Ambler...
Gregory Taylor...
We should not be surprised that, once Stamford was founed by migrants from Wethersfield who had even earlier lived in Watertown, a few Watertown families would also move to Stamford. One would not predict, however, that they would wait for several years after Stambord was founded, and that then eight families would all move within the space of a year, or two at most.
The conclusion that some of these families might share a common origin in England, although certainly not proven, does become a sound working hypothesis, ad will direct research in English sources. as the Project proceeds, it should uncover many more clusters of families such as this, which are seen to move togeter in a concerted way."

13. "Great Migration Newsletter," by Robert Charles Anderson, Vol. 14, No. 3, p. 1, (July-Sept 2005 issue) in commenting on tracking proprietary rights and how they provide "us a deeper understanding of the lives of these immigrants":
"Robert Lockwood was certainly a resident of Watertown by 1633, and may have arrived in New England as early as 1630 (GM 2:4:308-15; "Connecticut Ancestry" 47:119-30]. As an admitted inhabitant of Watertown, he received a full proprietary share, and began to accumulate his share of the various divisions of land entailed by such a share. Since he remained in Watertown until 1646, this grew to the full complement of lands granted to all of the earliest proprietors: homelot; two samll parcels of marsh and meadow; Great Dividend lot; Beaverborok Plowlands lot; remote Meadows lot; Land in Lieu of Township lot; and a Farm of 134 acres [WaBOP 4, 7, 9, 12, 25-26, 82, 118]. In 1645, in preparation for his move to Stamford, Lockwood sold one of these parcels to Edward Garfield and the rest to Bryan Pendleton [SLR 1:71].
Robert Lockwood did not create any records at Stamford during the four years of his residence there, but on 12 April 1650, shorltly after he removed to Fairfield, as "Robert Lockwood of Faierfield," he reached an agreement with an agent of Rev. Richard Denton, whereby he relinquished his rights in the lands which he had purchased from Denton, but which he had apparently not yet paid for. This land included "one home lot ... & all other lands, marsh & upland, which is laid out, or is to be laid out: [Stamford TR 1:41], which certainly constituted a full proprietary share.
Finally, in an undated Fairfield record, Roger Ludlow and John Cable sold to Robert Lcokwood the lands which "Henrie Gray had or ought to have had," which they in turn had purchased from Alexander Bryan of Milford [Fairfield TR A:120]. Again, the description tells us that this too was a full proprietary share.
The picture we obtain is an orderly progression of moves, and of transfers of land carried out by Robert Lockwood. He acquired a full proprietery share in Watertown and sold it in 1646. Upon arriveal in Stamford in 1646, he purchased the share which had originally been granted to Rev. Richard Denton. Upon arrival in Fairfield in 1650, he purchased a full share that had already passed through three hands."

14. "The American Genealogist," 77[2002]:102-3: "The English Origin of Richard1 Norman of Salem, Massachusetts," by Leslie Mahler:
"...Children of Richard1 and Florence (___) Norman, i-v bp. at Charminster, co. Dorset...
iv. SUSAN Norman, bp. 31 July 1617; m. by 1635, Robert1 Lockwood. This identification is based on a record of 17 July 1637, when Sergeant Lockwood refused the grant of a house lot in Salem "beyond his father Norman's." This appears to be a reference to Robert Lockwood of Watertown, who later removed to Fairfield, Conn., and whose wife was named Susanna.[10]
Footnotes...
10. Robert1 Lockwood and his family, see Donald Lines Jacobus, comp. and ed., "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," 3 vols. (Fairfield, Conn., 1930-32), 1:380-81, 715."

15. In the following quote, a brother William seems to be identified with Gershom Lockwood, both being sons of Gershom (1643-1719). I have seen no reference elsewhere to this William.
Per "Lockwood Genealogy" below: "Born in Greenwich, CT...Was taxed ₤47 in 1694-95. He was admitted a freeman of the Colony Feb. 7, 1693-94. (Col. Rec. Conn.) 'In A.D.1687 Gershom Lockwood and William Lockwood his brother, agreed during this year to build a bridge across Myanos river at Dumpling pond, and receive in payment "whatever the Town should see fit to give, after the work was done." A good way to insure good workmanship, and at the present day most builders would shrink from such a test.' (Hy. Greenwich, p. 70) His wife was named Mary __."
The above author gives a source for this comment, which is the book "Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut," by Spencer P. Mead, available online at https://archive.org/stream/yehistorieofyeto00mea#page/48/mode/2up which I accessed 12 Dec 2016.
As has been noted by many modern day historians, the authors of the "Lockwood Genealogy" have made many mistakes in the earliest generations of the Loc 		Lockwood, Robert (I3154)
 
1673 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Great Migration," VI:436-39, by Robert Charles Anderson:
"Michael Spencer
Origin: Stotfold, Bedford.
Migration: 1634 (based on grant of land at Cambridge on 1 September 1634 [CaTR 10]).
First Residence: Cambridge.
Removes: Lynn.
Church Membership: Admission to Lynn church by March 1637/8 implied by freemanship.
Freeman: [blank] March 1637/8 [MBCR 1:374].
Education: Signed his bill of exchange on 19 January 1648[/9] [EQC 4:385].
OFFICEHOldING: Essex petit jury, 24 September 1639 [EQC 1:12].
Estate: On 1 September 1634, "Michaell Spencer" was granted four acres "on the west side the river" in Cambridge [CaTR 10]. In the Cambridge land inventory on 10 October 1635, "Michaell Spencer" held one parcel: "on the south side the river about four acres" [CaBOP 30].
In the 1638 division of land at Lynn, "Micaell Spenser" received thirty acres [EQC 2:270].
On 17 March 1667/8, "Danyell Salmon of Lynn ..., husbandman," sold to "John Hathorne of the same town ... a parcel of salt marsh or meadow lying & being in Linn, in Rumney Marsh, containing by estimation six acres ... being sold unto the aforementioned Salmon by the town of Lin, or selectmen thereof, being three two-acre lots, being given by the town to Michaell Spencer, Nathaniell Whiting & Jerard Spencer" [ELR 3:37].
On 29 November 1653, "Garrod Spencer of Linn was appointed administrator of Mihill Spencer's estate" [EQC 1:320; EPR 1:1 59]. On 6 March 1653/4, "Garrard Spencer brought in an inventory of the estate of his brother, Michaell Spencer. Amount, £22 4s. l0d. Garrard Spencer and Capt. William Trask of Salem were ordered to dispose of the estate for the bringing up of Michael's children" [EQC 1:327; EPR 1:159].
On 30 November 1654, "Thomas Robins of Salem had some of the estate of Michaell Spencer, deceased, a bill of 52s. 6d., 2 cows with rent of same for one year, & a rug of 18s. Court ordered, with consent of Garrud Spencer, administrator of said deceased, that Robins was to have it as he had a child of the deceased to bring up. The child's name was Michaell Spencer, and he was six years old" [EQC 1:378; EPR 1:159].
On 26 June 1655, "Sergeant Garrard Spencer, administrator of [the] estate of Michael Spencer," sued Edward Richards for debt, for "about £5 which he was to pay to Mr. Dan[ie]ll King" [EQC 1:391].
Birth: Baptized Stotfold, Bedford, 5 May 1611, son of Gerard and Alice (Whitbread) Spencer [TAG 27:84].
Death: By 29 November 1653 (appointment of administrator).
Marriage. By about 1640 Isabel ___. She married (2) by 30 November 1654 Thomas Robbins [EQC 1:378; EPR 1:159] and died at Salem on 9 October 1674. (On 31 March 1657, "Thomas Robins and Henry Skerry [were] bound for the appearance of Elizabeth Robins when the court shall call for her" [EQC 2:32]. At the same court, "Thomas Robins [was] bound to bring his wife, Isbaell Robans, to next court at Salem to answer suspicion against her" [EQC 2:37]. On 1 July 1657, "Thomas Robins [was] bound for his wife's appearance to answer to a charge of concealing things stolen by her son. She was fined, and ordered to pay Rob[er]t Lord" [EQC 2:48].)
Children:
I. JohnSpencer, b. by 1640 (granted land at Westerly in 1661 [TAG 27:168]); m. by 1666 Susanna (eldest known child b. 20 April 1666 [RIVR 1:East Greenwich:146; Austin 186-88; TAG 27:168]). (Jacobus assembled the evidence, from Rhode Island records, for the placement of this man as a son of Michael Spencer [TAG 27:163-64].)
ii. SUSANNAH Spencer, b. say 1644; m. Salem 1 August 1664 Daniel Bacon.
iii. Michael Spencer, b. about 1648 (aged six on 30 November 1654 [EQC 1:378]); m. Salem 7 December 1671 Rebecca Sweetman, daughter of Thomas SWEETMAN {1637, Cambridge} (on 10 December 1677, "Thomas Swaetman of Cambridge" deeded land in Cambridge to "Michael Spenc[e]r, shipcarpenter, of the same town," in return for lifetime maintenance of himself and of "Isabell Swaetman the wife of the said Thomas" [MLR 8:287]).
Associations: Michael Spencer was brother of William Spencer {1631, Cambridge} [GMB 3:1721-25], Thomas Spencer {1633, Cambridge} [GMB 3:1718-21], and Jared Spencer {1634, Cambridge} [TAG 27:84].
Elizabeth, the wife of Timothy Tomlins {1632, Cambridge}, was probably sister of Michael Spencer [TAG 41:109-18; GMB 3:1828-30].
Comments: In his will of 17 March 1645[/6?], "Richard Spencer of London, gent.," included bequests to "Jarrard Spencer, Thomas Spencer, Michaell Spencer, sons of my brother Jarrard Spencer deceased, the sum of fifty pounds apiece, and unto the children of William Spencer, son of my said brother deceased, to be divided between them equally, the sum of fifty pounds" [Waters 514-15, abstracting PCC 79 Twisse; TAG 27:81-83]. On 19 January 1648[/9], "Michaell Spencer of Linne did constitute Mr. Thomas Broughton of Watertowne in New England, merchant, & Mr. Samuel King of London, woollendraper, his true & lawful attorneys granting them power jointly & severally for him &c., to ask leave &c. of the executors of the last will & testament of Richard Spencer late of London, linendraper, ... a certain legacy bequeathed to the said Michael" [Aspinwall 190]. Daniel Spencer of London, executor of the estate of Richard Spencer, refused to pay the legacy [EQC 4:385-86].
On 29 September 1640, "Michaell Spencer" sued John Pickering for defamation [EQC 1:21]. On 2 January 1650[/1], "Micaell Spencer" sued William Sergeant for "detaining corn and other goods" [EQC 1:205].
Some accounts of this family include a son William. Jacobus stated that "He is placed in this family with great misgiving, and may not have been connected with the four brothers at all" [TAG 27:164].
Bibliographic Note: In 1951 Donald Lines Jacobus prepared an account of three generations of agnate ancestry of the four Spencer brothers [TAG 27:79-87] and then compiled genealogical summaries of the families of the four brothers, their sons and grandsons [TAG 27:161-65]."

2. The book "Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut," Lucius Barnes Barbour, 1982 ed.: "Gerald Spencer, son of Michael and Elizabeth, bp. May 26, 1576 (Eng.) mar. Alice. Children:
William, bp. Oct 11, 1601 m. Agnes.
Thomas, bp. Mch 29, 1607, m/1 (), m/2 Sarah Bearding.
Michael, bp. May 5, 1611.
Gerald, bp Apl 25, 1614, m. Hannah.

3. The book "The Thomas Spencer Family of Hartford, Connecticut in the Line of Samuel Spencer of Cromwell, Connecticut 1744-1818," comp. by Frank Farnsworth Starr for James J. Goodwin, Hartford, Conn., copy in Connecticut Historical Society Library, Hartford, CT, pp. 8-10:
"From the foregoing bill of exchange, it will be seen that Michael Spencer, a legatee of Richard Spencer of London, and brother of Jarrard, Thomas and William, was living in New England in 1648.
Paige's History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, p. 659, states that Michael Spencer owned land on the south side of the river, in that town, in 1635. His name appears among the list of the 'inhabitants of the towne of Lynn,' to whom lands were granted in 1638. His name was 55th in the list, and he was given 30 acres. (Essex County Court Papers, vol. 16, p. 77.)
We find this entry concerning Michael Spencer on the Land Records of Hartford, Connecticut: - 'Land in Hartford upon Coneckticott River belonging to Mikill Spencer and to his heirs forever. On p sill on which his dwelling house now standeth with other outthouses yerdes and dardins tharein being wich he bought of John Bidwell contain. by estima three roodes be it more of les, abutting on the hyway leading to the mill on the South and on the Widow Bettes her land towerd the West and on the buriing place on the East, and on Seath Grantes land on the North. One p sill wich he boughtt of John Bidwell Contain, by Estima, two roodes be it more of less being a Iland Abutting on the River on the South & on a creek coming out of the Rifer betwen that Iland and the hyway on the North.' (Hartford, Conn., Land Records. Book of Distributions, p. 457.)
Whether he actually resided in this house or not it is impossible to determine; but if he did, it was not for any great length of time, as about Feb. 1646, or soon after, he sold the house and lot to Peter Busicer. (Hartford, Conn., Land Records. Book of Distributions, p. 339.) He died some time prior to November, 1653, at which date is this entry on the Court Records of Essex County, Massachusetts: -
'9th month 1653, No 32. The Admininstrat'on of the estate of Mikill Spencer is grainted to Garrod Spencer of Linn & he is to bring in an inventory of his Estate the next Court.' (Essex County, Mass., Court Records, vol. 1648-55.)
'6th of 1st mo. 1653-4, No. 67. Garrard Spencer brought in into this Court an Inventory of 22-4s.-10d. of his Brother Michael Spencer & Bush... onions at sea ventured & debts 10s this Court doth Joyne Capt. Will'm Trask of Salem w'th ye the saide Garrard Spencer for the disposng of he Estate for the bringing up of the children of ye said Michaell Spencer.' (Essex County, Mass., Court Records, vol. 1648-55.)
'30th of 9th mo 1654, No. 38. Whereas there is in the hand of Thomas Robins of Salem of ye estate of Michaell Spencer deseased a bill of 52s, 6d & 2 cowes w'th ye rent of y'm for one yere & a Rugg of 18s. The Court doth order and agree w'th the Consent of Garrard Spencer Administrar'r to ye estate of ye s'd Michall... In consideration of a child of the s'd Michall put unto him to bring upp, until he be 21 yeers ould w'h child by name is Michaell Spencer of about 6 yeers ould.' (Essex County, Mass., Court Records, vol. 1648-55.)"

4. The book "Spencer Family Record of the Springfield, VT. and Evansville, Wis. Spencers. (Descendants of Garrard Spencer of Haddam, Conn. Emigrant of 1630," by William Henry Spencer, New York, Tobias A. Wright, 1907, children of Gerat Spencer:
"William Spencer, bapt. Oct. 11, 1601, at St. Mary's Parish, Stotfold, emigrated with his three brothers to New England, 1630. Settled in "New Town," now Cambridge, Mass., till 1638, when he moved to Hartford, Conn. Was Selectman, Deputy to Court, a Commissioner to revise the laws, etc. He d. 1640, leaving wife Agnes and three children.
Elizabeth Spencer, bap. Oct. 21, 1602; m. Tomlyers as appears in Richard's will.
John Spencer, bap. June 22, 1604, at Stotford.
Henry Spencer, bap. Aug. 11, 1605, at Stotfold; buried Oct. 20, 1607.
Thomas Spencer, bap. March 29, 1607 at Stotfold; emigrated to New England, 1630, with three brothers. Settled in Cambridge (New Town) till 1637; then moved to Hartford, Conn. Freeman 1634; in Pequoit War 1637; Sergt. Train Band, 1650; he m. (1) ___, who d. 1644; left three sons; m. (2) 1645, Sarah Reading; had six children; he d. 1687.
Richard Spencer, bap. Dec. 11, 1608, at Stotfold; d. May 6, 1614.
Michael Spencer, bap. May 5, 1611, at Stotfold; emigrated ot New England, 1630, with his three brothers. Lived at Cambridge and Lynn, Mass.; d. 1653; had two children. His first wife unknown; m. (2) widow Robbins. It is not known that any descendants of this emigrant brother are living.
Garrard Spencer, bapt. April 25, 1614, at St. Mary's Parish, Stotfold; emigrated to New England, 1630, with his three brothers, Thomas, William, and Michael. Settled in Cambridge till 1637; moved to Lynn, thence to Hartford in 1660, and to Haddam, Conn., in 1662. He was made Freeman in 1637; Ensign of Lynn Train Band, 1636; Deputy from Haddam to General Court from 1674 to 1680. His will of Sept. 17, 1683, probated in 1685, at Hartford."

5. The following partial excerpt concerning Thomas' brothers is from "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III (see notes of Thomas Spencer for full transcript):
"Thomas Spencer
Origin: Stotfold, Bedfordshire
Migration: 1633... Birth: Baptized Stotfold, Bedfordshire, 29 March 1607, son of Gerard and Alice (Whitbread) Spencer [TAG 27:162]...
Associations: Thomas Spencer was brother of William Spencer of Cambridge and Hartford, and of Michael Spencer and Gerard Spencer of Lynn [TAG 27:79-87, 161-65]. In this article Jacobus makes the three sons by the first wife of Thomas Spencer slightly younger than we do here..."

6. Partial excerpt from the biography of William Spencer from the book "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III (see notes of William Spencer for full citation):
"William Spencer
Origin: Stotfold, Bedfordshire
Migration: 1631... Birth: Baptized Stotfold, Bedfordshire, 11 October 1601, son of Gerrard and Alice (Whitbread) Spencer [TAG 27:162]...
Associations: William Spencer was brother of Thomas Spencer of Cambridge and Hartford, and of Michael Spencer and Gerard Spencer of Lynn [TAG 27:79-87, 161-65]..."

7. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"Jared Spencer
Origin: Stotfold, Bedford.
Migration: 1634 (based on grant of land at Cambridge on 1 September 1634 [CaTR 10]).
First Residence: Cambridge.
Removes Lynn 1636, Hartford 1660, Haddam 1662...
Associations: Jared Spencer was brother of William Spencer {1631, Cambridge} [GMB 3:1721-25], Thomas Spencer {1633, Cambridge} [GMB 3:1718-21], and Michael Spencer {1634, Cambridge} [TAG 27:84].
Elizabeth, the wife of Timothy Tomlins {1632, Cambridge}, was probably sister of Jared Spencer [TAG 41:109-18; GMB 3:1828-30]..."

8. "The American Genealogist," Vol. 27 "The Four Spencer Brothers: Their Ancestors and Descendants," compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus, M. A., pp. 163-64:
"Michael(1) Spencer, baptized at Stotfold, Beds, England, 5 May 1611, died at Lynn, Mass., in 1653; married Isabel ___, who died at Salem, Mass., 9 Oct. 1674... married second, Thomas Robbins, a carpenter, of Salem, born about 1618, living 1681. Robbins married second, 11 Mar. 1674/5, Mary (Gould), widow of Richard Bishop.
Michael is the only one of the four brothers of whose family we lack a complete account. Administration on his estate was granted, 29 Nov. 1653, to Gerard Spencer, who was also then living in Lynn, and Gerard was called his brother when he brought in the inventory. The estate was small and was ordered sold "for the bringing up of Michael's children." On 30 Nov. 1654, we read that Thomas Robbins of Salem had some of the estate and, with the consent of Gerard Spencer, was to keep it, as Robbins had a child of the deceased to bring up, Michael, aged six years. This is almost certain evidence that Michael's widow had married Robbins, especially as in 1657 she is mentioned as having a young son.
It is possible that Isabel was not the first wife of Michael Spencer, and that he had more children than have been discovered. His proved son Michael settled in East Greenwich, R.I., where a John Spencer had earlier settled. That, and the fact that John named a son Michael, establishes a presumption that John was an older son of Michael of Lynn. There is, moreover, some direct evidence. The will of Michael2 of East Greenwich in 1723 named his friend and kinsman Major Thomas Fry and Thomas Spencer overseers. The latter was a son of John2, and obviously chosen because he was a relative.
Major Thomas Fry was a prominent man, later Deputy-Governor. Michael Spencer witnessed a deed, 11 Mar. 1688/9, which this Thomas Fry of East Greenwich had from his father, Thomas Fry, Sr. On 14 July 1710, Thomas Fry deeded to his "cousin" John Spencer, for love, 13-1/2 rods for a burial place. This was John3 Spencer Jr., son of John2. It thus appears that both Spencer families of East Greenwich, those of John and Michael, were related in some way to Thomas Fry.
The notion that John Spencer of East Greenwich was nephew of John Spencer of Newbury has already been considered and dismissed as false in the first chapter of our account. We conclude that John was son of Michael1.
Children (incomplete record):
i. John2, b. say 1638; of age by 1661; d. 1684.
ii. Susannah, b. ca. 1643; deposed 12 Oct. 1725 ae. about 85; m. at Salem, Mass., 4 Aug. 1664, Daniel3 Bacon (Daniel2, Michael1) of Salem, b. ca. 1641. It is likely that Susannah lived at Salem with her mother and step-father. Both John2 and Michael2 Spencer named a dau. Susannah, though that was also the name of John2's wife and hence not evidential in his case.
iii. Michael, b. ca. 1648; d. 16 Mar. 1722/3.
iv. William, b. say 1652; d. 1712/13. He is placed in this family with great misgiving, and may not have been connected with the four brothers at all. If he was, he can only be placed as a son of Michael(1). He first appears of record in Saybrook in 1606, about the time he must have married. Since his wife was an East Haddam girl, and he later settled there, it has been surmised that his uncle Gerard1 took him there as a child. It will be noted that if a child of Michael and born in the last year of his father's life, he would have been 34 at marriage, and still older if born earlier."

9. "The American Genealogist," 27:161: "The Four Spencer Brothers: Their Ancestors and Descendants," by Donald Lines Jacobus:
"The New England Spencers made efforts to obtain payment of the £50 apiece bequeathed to them by their uncle, Richard Spencer of London, whose chief heir and executor was their cousin, Daniel Spencer of London. On 8 (11) 1648, i.e. 8 Jan. 1648/9, Garrard [Gerard] Spencer appointed Thomas Broughton of Watertown, Mass., and Samuel King of London, England, his attorneys to collect his legacy under the last will of Richard Spencer, late of London, linen draper, deceased and the same date, "Michaell Spencer of Linne" did likewise ["Aspinwall Notarial Records" (1903), 182, 190]. On 19 Jan. 1648, i.e. 1648/9, Michaell Spenser (as he signed his name) signed in Boston a bill of exchange to Mr. Thomas Ruck, "haberdasher att the Seauen starres on London bridge," for £30, "part of the Legacy gyuen mee by my Unckle Richard Spencer," and directed to "my Louinge Cousen, Mr Danyell Spenser Grocer in Friday Streete in London." This bill of exchange was protested, 5 Apr. 1650, by a London notary, who swore that upon presentation "the said Danyell Spencer answered, that hee will pay noe monneyes nor haue to doe with the sayd bill of exchange." [Quarterly Courts of Essex County," 4:385; quoted also in Waters, op. cit., 515.]
The cousin Daniel Spencer was at death of Cony Hatch, Co. Middlesex, citizen and grocer of London, and left a will dated 26 July 1665, proved 6 Nov. 1668 [Waters, op. cit., 913]. He evidently died a wealthy man, mentioning messuages or lands in Lothbury, near Greene's Court, London; in Hitchin, Hippoletts and Preston, co. Hertford, including the Red Lion Inn in Hitchin; in Gravesend and Rochester, Kent, and in Tilbery, Essex. He named wife Sarah; eldest son Samuel; son Daniel; daughters Rebecca and Hannah Spencer; daughters Mary wife of Thomas Thatch and Anne wife of William Tilsley; and kinsman William Carter. The son Samuel died by 1674, leaving a widow Rebecca and daughter Mary Spencer. No mention was made of the American cousins.
Whether the legacies were ever collected, we are not prepared to state. The amount at stake was sufficient to have made it worth the trouble and cost of suing through an attorney in England. Possibly a search of Chancery records would reveal something of interest. An action of this nature, naming the parties at interest, would be of immense value if brought after the death of Michael Spencer in 1653, for it should name his surviving Children. We have full records of the families of the other three brothers, but, as we shall presently see, the New England records are very defective with respect to the children of Michael Spencer.
Before concluding this chapter, it seems advisable to dispose of an error which occurs in many printed sources to the effect that the four Spencer brothers were accompanied to New England by a fifth brother, the John who was baptized at Stotfold, 22 Jan. 1603/4.
It has already been pointed out that neither John nor his heirs were named in the will of his uncle Richard and that he consequently had probably died without issue prior to 1645-6. Nevertheless, he has often been identified with a Mr. John Spencer, who came on the "Mary and John," 1634, settled at Newbury, Mass., which he represented in the General Court, 1635; was made Captain in 1637; was a follower of Wainwright and accused of heresy and returned to England in 1638. His will, made 1 Aug. 1637, "before Mr. Spencer's going to England," was proved 29 Mar. 1649. He made his chief heir his nephew John Spencer, with remainder to the testator's brother Thomas Spencer and his children, and children of his brother Nicholas Kidwel and sister Rachel Kidwel and mentioned also the children of his cousin Anne Knight of Newbury, and of his cousin Gardner.
Austin in his "Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island" (p. 186) suggests that John Spencer, head of the Rhode Island family, may have been son of Michael [of Stotfold and Lynn] and also may have been identical with the nephew John named in the will of John of Newbury. With the first of these suggestions we are in accord, since there is evidence for placing John of Rhode Island as son of Michael, but he was not the nephew of John of Newbury. The records have been so long available in print that we consider it unnecessary here to repeat the full details, which may be found by consulting "The Probate Records of Essex County, 1:107-8; Waters, "Genealogical Gleanings in England," 467-8, 553; and "Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire," 650-1. The following pedigree of the family of John Spencer of Newbury is based on these sources. There were two brothers and one sister:
i. Thomas Spencer, gent., b. ca. 1593 by age stated in marriage license; bur. at Kingston-upon-Thames, Co. Surrey, 29 June 1648; m. at St. Peter's, Paul's Wharf, 25 Sept. 1623, Penelope (Jernegan) Fillioll, bapt. at Shalford, Essex, 24 Oct. 1591, widow of Western Fillioll, by whom she had a daughter Anne Fillioll who was living unmarried in 1656. The will of Thomas, dated 22 June 1648, was proved 23 Aug. 1648. Children, bapt. at Chertley, Surrey (dates not given in sources consulted):
1. John, eldest son; heir of his uncle John of Newbury, Mass.; apparently came to New England, but d. in Jamaica, W. I., unm., before Dec. 1656 when adm'n on his estate was granted to his half-sister Anne Filliol, his mother Penelope, brother Thomas and sister Rachel Spencer having renounced.
2. Thomas, a physician, of Plymouth, co. Devon.
3. Penelope, m. at Newbury, Mass., 15 Jan. 164-, John Treworgye and left descendants in New England. It is of interest that their son James named a daughter Penelope and had a grandson named Spencer Treworgye.
4. Rachel, living unm. in 1656.
ii. John, of Newbury, Mass.; dignified in the records by the prefix of respect (Mr.); returned to England, and bur. at Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, 23 June 1648, six days before his brother Thomas. His will was proved in Essex County, Mass. (supra).
iii. Rachel, m. Nicholas Kydwell of Kingston-upon-Thames, whose will, dated 25 July 1676, was proved 16 Sept. 1679. Only surviving Child:
1. Rachel, m. John Gatton."

10. 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.159-160:
"THE EARLY DAYS IN NEWE TOWNE (CAMBRIDGE)...
In 1630 or 1631, when the Spencer siblings made their arrival in New England (Elizabeth perhaps in 1629), they were all very young adults and all of the males were unmarried. William1 Spencer, the oldest, was about age 30. The second sibling, Elizabeth, was about 27 years of age and most likely already married to Timothy Tomlins of Gloucestershire. Elizabeth1 Spencer very likely came to the New World at least one or two years in advance of her four brothers, settling first at Salem and later at Lynn. Thomas1 Spencer, the subject of this article, was 23 years of age in 1630 and came to New England as a young bachelor. Michael1 Spencer was 19 and Gerard1 was was only 16 years of age. We believe that all four brothers probably came at the same time (1630?) in the first vessels of the Winthrop Fleet. All of their names appear in the very early records of Newe Towne (Cambridge), Massachusetts.
In the past, some historians have believed that the Spencer brothers were members of the famous "Braintree Company" of County Essex, England, whose members first settled at Wollaston (Quincy) south of Boston. There is clear evidence now (records of the General Court at Newe Towne) that William1 Spencer already was at Cambridge at least one year before the Braintree Company came to that town in the late summer of 1632. Hence, the Spencer siblings did not have a close affiliation with the Rev. Thomas Hooker, the leader of the Braintree Company. Indeed, both William1 and Thomas1 seem not to have been in the first and second contingents (or perhaps a third) of Hooker's congregation which went to Hartford in 1635 and 1636. Thomas, nevertheless, was a member from Hartford of Major JohnMASON's army which fought the Pequot War of 1637. William Spencer, a leading figure in Cambridge, does not appear among the Hartford residents until about 1638 (or more likely 1639), perhaps attracted by the presence of his brother Thomas who apparently had become an "inhabitant" by virtue of his service in the Pequot War."

11. 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. 79-114, provides a long article on "Why and How did the Spencer Siblings of Bedfordshire Come to America," "The First Generation of the Spencer Siblings in America," and "The Five Spencer Siblings of Bedfordshire, the Role of the Braintree Company, and the Beginnings of Cambridge, Massachusetts." I have fully transcribed all three of these chapters within the notes of Thomas Spencer, the immigrant, who is my direct ancestor. Rather than include the same lengthy article in all four of the other immigrant Spencers, I include this reference only to the notes of Thomas Spencer. The same author does include many (but not all) of the important facts from the three chapters in later chapters which focus on the individual siblings and which I fully transcribe in their individual notes.

12. 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."

13. 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."

14. 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. 115-133:
"THE FOUR Spencer BROTHERS of Bedfordshire IN The EARLIEST Records of NEW England.
I. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY COMPANY.
The voluminous records of the Massachusetts Bay Company (six volumes) were commenced in England in 1628. After the arrival at Boston of the first six ships of the Winthrop Fleet in the summer of 1630, the records were maintained either at Boston or at Newe Towne (Cambridge). Weshall review all the entries for the decade from 1630 to 1640 because this is the period in which the Four Spencer Brothers (William, Thomas, Michael, and Gerard) first lived at Newe Towne in Massachusetts. Their sister Elizabeth, who was married to Timothy Tomlins, probably also spent some early years at Newe Towne since we believe Timothy was a resident there when he first went to New England.
William spent most of his early years at Newe Towne, but removed to Hartford late in the 1630s. His younger brother Thomas had emigrated to Hartford earlier, probably in 1635. Michael arid Gerard also lived in Newe Towne for several years, but emigrated to Lynn about 1637.
In a later chapter we will review the history of Timothy Tomlins and Eizabeth Spencer Tomlins at Lynn. Timothy's brother Edward also was a prominent citizen of Lynn.
There is another Spencer in the early records of MBC who did not appear to be a direct relative of the Four Spencer Brothers. John Spencer of Newbury represented that town for several years in the meetings of the General Court of the MBC. John of Newbury apparently was a native of Kingston-on-the-Thames, county Surrey. Actually, the Four Spencer Brothers also had a brother John who was born in 1604 and was the third child after William (b. 1601) and Elizabeth (b. 1602). D.L. Jacobus in his extensive publications on the Spencer siblings could not say exactly what happened to John of Bedfordshire other than that he probably died before 1646. On the other hand, there was a John Spencer on the same ship with William when he made his second voyage back to New England in the spring of 1633. C.E. Banks lists this passenger as John Spencer of Kingston-on-the-Thames and a settler at Newbury.
The first Court of Assistants of the Massachusetts Bay Company met at Charlestowne on 23 August 1630, the same year of the arrival of the first ships in the Winthrop Fleet Only the names of the Governor Deputy Governor, and seven Assistants were listed at this initial meeting. They met again on 7 September with ten Assistants present. An important meeting was held 19 October when the names of 77 men were considered for election as Freemen. None of the Spencer siblings or relatives were on this list. Several meetings were held in 1631 with still no mention of any of the Spencer family in the Bay records.
The records of Newe Towne itself give us the very first proof of the presence of William Spencer in the initial group of eight men who settled in the town early in 1631. The other settlers were Thomas Dudley (Deputy Governor), Symon Bradstreet, Edmund Lockwood, Daniell Patrike, John Poole, John Kirman, and Symon Sackett. There was no mention of the other Spencer siblings.
The next mention of William Spencer was on 7 Jan 1632 when the "paling" (fence) list was completed for Newe Towne. This list gave the number of rods assigned for each settler, including 12 for William and two for Thomas. Here we have the first mention of Thomas Spencer which seems ample proof that he (like William) was in New England at least by 1631 (which does not preclude the possibility that both came with the first Winthrop arrivals in 1630).
The next notation for William1 Spencer was 4 March 1632 on which date he was elevated to Freeman. Timothy Tomlins, husband of Elizabeth1 Spencer, also became a Freeman this date, just a year after his brother Edward achieved the same title. These dates probably indicate that the Tomlins siblings as well as the Spencer siblings all had reached New England at least by 1631, and very likely a year earlier.
II. The CHRONOLOGICAL Records
The entire data found in the records of the General Court of the MBC as well as those kept for Newe Towne (and the Proprietors' Records) will be given in chronological order. The following abbreviations will be used:
MBC: Records of the General Court of the MBC.
NR: Newe Towne (Cambridge) Records, including those known as the "Proprietors' Records".
HL: The History of Lynn (generally by Lewis & Newhall).
Before listing the actions and dates from 1629 to 1640, we will include a page from the Newe Towne records showing entries made in the handwriting of William Spencer who served as Town Clerk from 1632 to 1635. The record shows land grants to certain individuals ranging from two to six acres or less.
1632
Early 1632-NR: There were eight inhabitants at Newe Towne, including William Spencer.
7 January 1632-NR:"Palings" (fences) were ordered for all property owners. William Spencer was assigned 12 rods; Thomas Spencer assigned 2 rods.
9 May 1632-MBC: Mr. William Spencer and Mr. Lockwood represented Newe Towne at the General Court meeting. In all, eight "plantations" were represented by two delegates each.
1633
2 March 1633-NR: Granted William Spencer the swamp on the other side of the creek.
5 August 1633-NR: Lots granted for "cowyards". William Spencer given 3 "roods", or about 3/4 acre. Thomas Spencer given 1 rood (1/4 acre).
1634
5 February 1634-NR: An order to survey the townlands by a committee of five, including William Spencer, who was to maintain a book of records.
4 March 1634-MBC: General Court meets at Boston. William Spencer (Newe Towne), John Spencer (Ipswich), and Timothy Tomlins (Lynn). John Spencer legally elected as "Deputy" from Ipswich. Capt. Mason present (probably the leader of the militia in the Pequot War of 1637).
14 May 1634-MBC: General Court meets at Boston. Mr. Spencer and Mr. Edward Tomlins in attendance (probably representing Lynn).
1 Sept. 1634-NR: William Spencer's page of notes made for this date has been used to illustrate his handwriting. Also, on this date, William and "George St" were to measure out the lots granted by the Towne. This is the first indication of many of the surveys undertaken by William, not only in Newe Towne, but also to establish boundaries for many of the adjacent towns such as Watertowne and Charlestowne.
The date of 1 September 1634 is most important for another reason. Under the Heading of Lots granted on the west side of the river we find Michael1 Spencer for four acres and Garrard1 Spencer for four acres. This is the first mention of the two younger Spencer brothers in New England. Michael was 23 years old and Garrard 20. Usually we associate their names with Lynn. Now we can feel confident that Newe Towne was the focus for all four brothers at least during the first few years after their arrival in New England. Actually, the history of Lynn (Paige) states that "Jarrett" Spencer came to Lynn in 1637 and was granted the privilege by the General Court of operating a ferry in 1639.
1635
4 January 1635-NR: Eight "Townsmen" attended a meeting in Newe Towne, including William Spencer. It was ordered that there shall be a foot bridge made over the creek at the end of Spring street and a causeway... Thomas Hosmer and William Spencer to see it is done at public charge.
8. February 1635-NR: Meeting of Townsmen. Nine present, including William Spencer and Mr. Andrews. William Spencer and John Bridge were to hire men to fence one acre for the dry cattell to lye in nights. Included in the record this date is a list of men who had houses in the town and in other sections. The term "house" probably included a dwelling or any other type of structure on the same property. For example, the Governor, John Haynes, had six "houses" in town. William Spencer had two houses in town, while Thomas Spencer had only one. W ill i a m also had two houses in the "Westend", which perhaps meant "West Field". It may significant that there is no mention of the Tomlins brothers or of the younger Spencer siblings (Michael and Garrard).
4 March 1635-MBC: Mr. Spencer and Ephraim Childe named to assist a committee of three in determining the boundary between Watertowne and Newe Towne. Also, William Spencer was on a committee of nine to go aboard any friendly ship at anchor after 24 hours, "take notice of what commodities she has to sell, confer about the prices ... to buy all such commodities as they shall judge to be useful for the country ... which goods being so bought, shall be laid up by the said merchants in some maggasen (warehouse?) near to where the said ship anchors; and the said merchants shall at any time during the space of 20 days after the said goods are landed ... sell to any inhabitant within this jurisdiction such commodities as he needs, after profit, and not above..." (This is the only instance in which we see William Spencer in a completely different role than was customary for him under the General Court. There is no indication in later records as to whether he actually participated in this commercial arrangement).
21 April 1635-NR: William Spencer and George Steele were directed to measure all the meadow ground undivided belonging to the Newe Towne. After measuring and deciding on each man's proportion, Spencer and Steele were to see that stakes were set to mark the boundaries. William was allotted 2 1/2 acres of the meadow. His brother Thomas received one acre.
1 May 1635-NR: This record included a description of property owned by each propietor in Newe Towne. William Spencer "in the town one dwelling house with other outhouses and a garden and backside about one roode" (one quarter acre, or about 11,000 square feet). "John Pratt southeast Spring street on the southwest Creek Lane northwest." (See town map of 1635 for Newe Towne). Thomas Spencer in the Towne one house with a garden plot and backside about one roode John Haynes Esqr on the southeast Long southwest Creek Lane northwest Spring street southeast.
6 May 1635-MBC: Mr. Spencer and Timothy Tomlins on a committee of thirteen (Jury?) "to consider the act of Mr. Endicott, in defacing the col's (colony?) and to report to the Court how far they consider it censureable." (It seems likely that Mr. Endicott had sent an unfavorable letter to England regarding the governance of the MBC).
20 August 1635-NR: Townsmen ordered that William Spencer and George Steele "should measure all the meadow ground belonging to Newe Towne. And when it is measured and decided to every man his proportion, they are to measure every man's generally and cause stakes to be set at each end and to have three pence the acre for same." There follows a list of 71 names with the acres specified for each. The range is from 6 acres down to one-half acre, with most getting one or two acres. William Spencer had 2 1/2 acres and Thomas one acre. William Andrews had 2 1/2 acres.
2 September 1635-MBC: General Court meets at Newe Towne. There were 28 Deputies (Townsmen) present, including Mr. John Spencer (Ipswich) and Edward Tomlins (Lynn).
5 October 1635-NR: Record shows William Spencer owns land in the "Old Field".
10 October 1635-NR: Record shows Michael Spencer "on the south side the river about four acres." (This is the second reference to Michael in the Newe Towne records). Also, the record shows a list of owners in several areas, including "the Great Marsh, 55 acres more or less, William Spencer northwest, Charles River southwest, and John Steele northeast." (The Great Marsh or Swamp lay just north of the "Fresh Pond" which is still on modern maps in what is now part of West and North Cambridge. It was approximately two miles from the center of old Newe Towne).
October 1635-NR: (exact date not given). "Edmond Anger bought of Thomas Spencer one house with garden plot and backside, about one roode. Mrs. Clover southeast ... southwest, Creek Jane northwest, Spring street northeast." (This is a significant entry. Possibly it indicates that Thomas may have had a connection with the first group of Hooker's congregation which went to Hartford late in 1635. In Love's History of Hartford, he states that Thomas Spencer "probably" removed from Newe Towne in 1637. However, Love further states "who were the brave pioneers of Hartford in 1635? When did they remove to Sukiaug (Hartford) and where did they build their huts? No attempt ever has been made to answer these questions in detail. Love adds that many houses were empty at Newe Towne on 5 October 1635."
In Winthrop's journal under the date of 15 October 1635 he said: "About sixty men, women and little children went by land toward Connecticut with their cows, horses, and swine." (Although a group from Dorchester went to Windsor that year, Love believes Winthrop was making reference to the Hartford emigrants).
23 November 1635-NR: The records states "at a general meeting of the whole was then chosen to order business of the whole Towne for the year following..." (Nine members were chosen, including William Spencer and William Andrews, the latter also designated Constable). "It is further ordered that the Towne book shall be at William Spencer's house."
7 December 1635-NR: William Spencer and four others met in the Towne session. It appears in this instance that William was acting as one of the five Townsmen to conduct the business of Newe Towne. William Spencer and Mr. Bambrigg were ordered to view the fence at Pyne Swamp and judge if its height meets the required standard.
December 1635-NR: Garard Spencer on the west side of four acres. (This is the second reference to Gerard in the Newe Towne records, the first having been in September of 1634. However, his brother Michael Spencer is not mentioned at this time.).
1636
3 March 1636-MBC: The General Court was held at Newe Towne. There were 27 representatives, including Mr. William Spencer (Newe Towne) and Mr. John Spencer (Ipswich).
Mr. Hutchingson and Mr. William Spencer are deputed to take the accounts of Mr. Simkins and to return the same into the next Court.
Also, William Spencer and two others "deputed to set out the bounds of the new plantation above Charles River, against all other townes that join upon it al... so, they are to view the meadows about Blue Hills to in form the next General Court to what townes it may most conveniently be laid (assigned?)."
Also, a plantation was authorized at Wenicummett (now Hampton, NH, ten miles south of Portsmouth). Mr. Dumer and Mr. John Spencer "shall have power to press men to build a house forthwith, in some convenient place..." (This order authorized a settlement much farther north than the Bay Company had reached up to this time. It was more than 40 miles from Newe Towne "as the crow flies" and probably at least 50 miles over the primitive roads of that day).
At the meeting of 3 March 1636, the General Court issued an important policy declaration regarding the governance of the new towns on the Connecticut River, but seemingly aimed at Hartford. The Court named seven "overseers" for Connecticut who were to act like the General Court of MBC in legislative, judicial, and executive functions. One of the seven was William Phelpes, an ancestor of Eunice Phelps, who was to marry John5 Spencer (1758-1832) of Suffield, Connecticut.
13 April 1636-MBC: William Spencer and two others issued a statement on the boundaries of Newe Towne and Roxbury (to the south). They also issued another statement setting the boundaries for the meadow ground by the Naponset River near Blue Hills. These lines related to Dorchester, Mt. Wollaston (Quincy) and Boston.
23 April 1636-NR: "Mr. Spencer and Thomas Hosmer are to make a sufficient pale (fence) and gate over the highway over against their ground before the 20th day present month upon pain of ten shillings apiece." (This is the last reference to William Spencer in the "Propietors' Records" of Newe Towne).
28 April 1636-MBC: A statement issued setting the bounds between Boston and Charlestowne which is signed by William Spencer, Abraham Palmer, and William Cheesebrough.
25 May 1636-MBC: General Court held at Boston. John Spencer (Newbury) in attendance.
"Mr. William Spencer and two others to take a perfect account of Nicholas Simpkins and to report to the Court in one month.
A committee of 13 was set up (including William Spencer) to establish valuations of properties and tax levies for each town under the jurisdiction of the Court. A deadline of June 15 was set for the report.
8 September 1636-MBC: General Court meets at Boston. Thirty "Deputies" (Townsmen) in attendance, including Mr. William Spencer (Newe Towne), Mr. John Spencer (Ipswich) and Mr. Tymothy Tomlins (Lynn).
A committee of three including William Spencer is "chosen to examine the accounts of all such persons as the country owes money ... and such debts as are owing to the country and report to the Court.
The committee set up to review the accounts of Nicholas Simpkins made its report to the Court. Simpkins owed 44 pounds to the "country".
27 October 1636-MBC: "Newe Towne presented a book of their records under the hands of William Andrews constable, John Benjamin, and William Spencer."
7 December 1636-MBC: General Court meets at Boston. Twenty three Deputies in attendance, but William Spencer was absent. Mr. John Spencer of Ipswich was present.
1637
9 March 1637-MB: General Court sets up committee of seven, including William Spencer, to hear complaints of soldiers who had been in the expedition to Block Island. It was to meet at Boston every fifth day of the week for four weeks. The committee was to make recompense to any soldiers who suffered losses. (The Block Island expedition of August 1637 was aimed at the Pequot Indians who had murdered some whites. The settlers destroyed much Indian property (canoes, wigwams, crops) and killed one Indian. The same expedition attacked the Indians at New London and killed 13).
The Court ruled that "no person shall henceforth be chosen to any office in the Commonwealth but such as is a Freeman."
The Court noted certain dangers from the Indians (Pequot War). A security system was established with watches. Trainband (militia) officers were appointed by all towns, including the following for Newe Towne: Mr. George Cooke, captain; Mr. William Spencer, leiftenant; Mr. Sam Shepard, ensign. For Newbury, Mr. John Spencer, captain.
18 April 1637-MBC: General Court meets at Boston. Thirty one Deputies were in attendance, including Leift. Spencer and Timothy Tomlins. This was a special meeting for prosecuting the war against the "Pecoits". One hundred and sixty men were to serve from all the towns, including 9 from Newe Towne, 17 from Ipswich, 8 from Newbury. Boston was listed for 26. The Court provided funds for an expedition.
17 May 1637-MBC: General Court meets at Newe Towne. Thirty two Deputies present, including Mr. William Spencer and Timothy Tomlins. Mr. John Spencer is discharged from being Captain at Newbury and Edward Bodman (?) is chosen Leiftenant at Newbury.
August 1637-MBC: No list of Deputies at this meeting of the Court.
Capt. Jeanison and Leift. William Spencer "appointed to view Shaushin and consider whether it be fit for a plantation, and if not, to certify what they think may be fit for Capt. Patrick. (The Shasheen River is about twelve miles northwest of Cambridge between Burlington and Bedford).
The Court assesses 400 pounds in taxes from 13 towns. Several representatives from the towns agree to a local tax rate, including Mr. Tymothy Tomlins (for Saugus).
19 September 1637-MBC: "George Spencer, who received fish of ... William Brumfield, was censured to make double restitution and to be whipped." (The relationship of George Spencer to the other Newe Towne Spencers is not known).
27 September 1637-MBC: The General Court meets at Newe Towne. Twenty seven Deputies present, including William Spencer and Tymothy Tomlins. A day of public thanksgiving was ordered for the subduing of the "Pecoits".
2 November 1637-MBC: The General Court meets at Newe Towne. Thirty one Deputies present, including Tymothy Tomlins. There was no mention of a Spencer being present.
20 November 1637-MBC: A committee of three, including Mr. Spencer, "shall take a view of the places upon the river (Concord), and shall set out a place ... for 50 or 60 families." (This was in response to a petition from Watertowne for more meadow space). "Those that are to view the place which Mr. Spencer desireth and if it be convenient, to certify the Court."
This same date the General Court issued an order listing fifty eight men of Boston to be disarmed, as well as names for Salem, Newbury, Roxbury, Ipswich, and Charlestowne. Mr. John Spencer of Newbury was on this list. This order was aimed at the supporters of Mr. Wheelwright and Mrs. Hutchinson.
The General Court set up a committee of thirteen to take order for a college at Newe Towne. (This is the first reference to Harvard College).
(There were no references to the Spencers in the "Proprietors' Records of Cambridge" for the year 1637 and none in the "Town Records of Cambridge, 1630-1703.")
Undated 1637-HL: "Jarrett" Spencer came to Lynn in 1637 and was admitted as a Freeman the same year. Before 1660, he removed to Haddam, Connecticut. (The Lynn historian made no mention of the fact that Gerard1 Spencer was resident in Hartford for a short time before he went on to Haddam).
In 1637, a large number of people removed from Lynn and commenced a new settlement at Sandwich.
1638
March 1638-HL: At Lynn, a committee appointed to divide the lands completed their task. The allotments had a wide range, but usually were 30 to 60 acres. Only a small number of men exceeded 100 acres and several were as low as 10 acres.
One of the three largest landowners was Thomas Willis, husband of Mary Tomlins, who had 500 acres. Edward Tomlins had 220 acres. Timothy Tomlins had 80 acres.
The Spencer brothers, Michael1 and "Jarrett"1, each had 30 acres. Here we see that the Tomlins families were several notches above the Spencer brothers in respect to land ownership. Also, it is clear that the Tomlins brothers were very active in several commercial enterprises including liquor sales, milling, and the fishing industry.
12 March 1638-MBC: The General Court was held at Newe Towne. Thirty Deputies were present, including Mr. William Spencer and Mr. Tymothy Tomlins. At this meeting, the Court ordered that all towns under its jurisdiction compile a compendium of local laws. The central committee of seven members, including Mr. William Spencer, was to make a summary of these laws "adding yet to the same or detracting therefrom" and to present a report to the Court.
Also at this meeting, the Court set up a large committee of 29 persons, including Mr. William Spencer, and many other leaders, to study "diverse complaints made concerning oppression in wages, in prices of commodities, in smiths' works, in excessive prices for the work of draughts and teams and the like..."
2 May 1638-MBC: The General Court was held at Newe Towne.
Thirty two Deputies were in attendance, including Tymothy Tomlins. There was no mention of William Spencer being present as a Deputy.
Although not present at this session of the Court, the record shows Mr. William Spencer "was granted 300 acres of ground beyond Concord on the Alewife River."
"It was ordered that Newe Towne henceforward is to be called Cambridge."
5 June 1638-MBC: The General Court met at Cambridge. No Deputies were listed. Mr. Willard and Mr. Spencer were added to the committee about Mr. Gurlin's land. (This is the next to last reference to William Spencer in the MBC records).
(There were no references to William Spencer in the Town Records of Cambridge for the year 1638).
1639
13 March 1639-MBC: The General Court met at Boston. Thirty three Deputies were present, including Timothy Tomlins.
At this session, William Spencer and three others "... shall be called the Military Company of the Massachusetts. There followed a list of six detailed guidelines under which the Military Company would operate. One of the provisions allocated 1,000 acres of land ...for the use of the present company." Also, the Court made sure the Company would always be subject to the "civil government and jurisdiction..."
This record of 13 March 1639 was the last mention of any of the Spencer siblings in Volume I of the "Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1641".
Undated Entries in "Proprietors' Records". Probably 1639-NR:
"Symon Crosby bought of William Spencer one house with three acres of ground at the west ende the waye to Watertowne northeast. Robert Holme north. Mr. Cook south." (This entry probably refers to a building (house?) about a mile west of the center of Newe Towne near the Great Swamp).
Also under the Symon Crosby purchase: "Bought an acre of ground of Mr. George Cooke ... the end to the Great Creek to the east. The west end of it Anttonie Colebie ground. The north upon ... which he bought of William Spencer. The south upon the Ox Marsh." (The Ox Marsh area was on the south edge of the central part of Newe Towne. Hence, it appears William Spencer owned this land just beyond the south side of the center of Newe Towne).
Also, Symon Crosby "bought of Antonie Coleby one house and two acres of land more or less. Butted on the east with his one land: William Spencer. Upon the east Mr. Beniamine... South upon the Ox Marsh, and north Joseph Lake (?). (This area appears also to be just on the south side of central city next to the Ox Marsh).
(The foregoing items are the only entries for 1639(?) in the "Propietors' Records of Cambridge" with reference to the Spencers).
Undated 1639-HL: The General Court authorized Garrett Spencer to operate a ferry at Lynn for two years. In the same year, however, the General Court allowed the town of Saugus 50 pounds to build a bridge over the Saugus River. The bridge may have been the reason for the limited period in which the ferry would operate.
III. The SIGNIFICANCE of The Chronological Record FOR The FOUR Spencer BROTHERS
A number of conclusions and hypotheses may be derived from a study of the chronological records for the Four Spencer Brothers in early New England, including the following:
1. The evidence is very strong that all Four Spencer Brothers were at Newe Towne (Cambridge) at least by 1631 and they could have been there in 1630, the year in which the first contingent of vessels, in the Winthrop Fleet reached the shores of New England.
2. William1 Spencer (1601-1640), oldest of the Spencer Brothers, looms large in the history of the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company (MBC) and Newe Towne (Cambridge), although he never attained the rank of "Assistant" on the Court which acted as the legislative, judicial, and executive arm of the Commonwealth.. On the other hand, William did serve for many years as a "Deputy" to the Court, representing Newe Towne at most of the meetings of the Court in the 1630s.
3. William Spencer definitely served as a "Townsman" in Newe Towne, a small select group of half dozen or so members who conducted the affairs of the Towne a few years after its founding. In the earliest years, the town affairs were conducted by all the Freemen at monthly sessions.
4. During nearly a decade of service for the General Court and for Newe Towne, William Spencer carried out an enormous number of assignments, most of which required a wide assortment of capabilities and talents. He was especially adept at keeping official records and at surveying boundaries of many towns under the control of the MBC. He was also involved in business affairs, especially in regard to imports which were unloaded from ships in Boston Harbor and in the sale of the commodities from the same source. It seems unlikely he was much involved in direct agricultural operations because he owned almost no "plowland" suitable for raising crops. He did own 55 acres at the "West End" of Newe Towne which was mainly in the "Great Swamp" area. The land record of 1635 lists William with two and one half acres probably in the "Old Field" west of town.
5. None of the other three Spencer brothers ever seemed to own much land at Newe Towne. Thomas is shown with one acre, probably of plowland. Michael was listed with four acres on the south side of the River. In 1635, Gerard was listed with four acres on the west side. Thus, at this date, none of the Four Brothers apparently owned any sizeable acreage at Newe Towne suitable for cop tillage. On the other hand, Newe Towne had a record in the early years for doling out only small allotments of land. Perhaps this is one of the factors which induced many settlers to move on to other locations such as Hartford and Lynn.
6. During his relatively short life (by modern standards), William Spencer was married to Agnes Harris who bore three children between 1633 and 1636. In her second marriage to William Edwards, Agnes became the ancestress of half dozen men and women who became famous in American history.
7. William Spencer was believed to be a close associate of the Rev. Thomas Hooker who along with many followers laid the foundation of Hartford in 1635 and 1636. William, however, remained at Cambridge until nearly the end of the decade. This raised a question C the degree of loyalty which he might have had to the spiritual leader.
8. William Spencer also possessed some military skills. He was a charter member of "The Ancient and Honorable Military Company of Massachusetts".This organization dated back to the reign of Henry VII (1509-1547) in England and was the forerunner of militia organizations in the U.S.
9. The first mention of William Spencer's youngest two brothers, Gerard and Michael, occurred on 1 September 1634 when each was granted four acres of land at Newe Towne. Eventually, both brothers moved on to become residents of Lynn. We are not sure of the exact date when the two youngest brothers came to New England. In the History of Lynn (Lewis and Newhall), Gerard came to the town in 1637.
10. William Spencer was a primary surveyor for determining the early boundaries of Newe Towne, Watertowne, Charlestowne, and other towns under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Bay Company.
11. The first mention of Thomas1 Spencer was in January of 1632 when the "paling" (fence) list was published. This is almost certain proof that William's next younger brother (like William) came to New England at least by 1631.
12. All four Spencer Brothers were elected to the status of "Freeman" in the Bay Commonwealth, although at different years in the decade. This signified the prior attainment of church membership in the Puritan framework.
13. William was well acquainted with John Spencer of Newbury (or Ipswich) who was a frequent participant at the meetings of the General Court. John apparently was not a close relative of the Four Brothers. Eventually, John Spencer of Newbury returned to England after falling into disfavor with the General Court because of his association with dissendent religious factions such as those led by Mrs. Hutchinson and others.
14. There is hardly any indication that Thomas1 Spencer played any significant role in the public affairs of Newe Towne or of the General Court of Massachusetts. He was six years younger than his brother William and would have been 24 years of age in 1631 when the brothers seem most likely to have arrived in New England. At that time, William was thirty years of age. It seems quite apparent that William was well educated for his time as demonstrated by the many administrative roles he played in the early life of the Commonwealth. William and Thomas differed widely in their interests as well as capabilities. In the long run, however, perhaps Thomas had a greater influence on history because of his military experience in the Pequot War as well as being the father of a large number of twelve children. Because of his large family, Thomas has many hundreds (perhaps thousands) of descendants in the U.S. and elsewhere.
15. Thomas1 Spencer probably emigrated to Hartford either with the first or second group of Hooker's settlers (1635 and 1636). The records at Newe Towne indicate that he sold his town property to Edmond Angier in October of 1635. In Love's history of Hartford, the author designates 1637 as the year when Thomas Spencer removed to that city. At the same time, Love admits there is no accurate record of the first group of emigrants in 1635. In John Winthrop's journal under the date of 15 October 1635, he notes about sixty men, women, and little children went by land toward Connecticut. It is believed this statement referred to the disciples of Rev. Hooker.
16. Michael1 and Gerard1 Spencer almost certainly moved to Lynn by 1637. In March of 1638, the land allotments at Lynn showed that each brother owned 30 acres. One might infer that they left Cambridge because of the small acreage which had been available there for several years. The 30 acres at Lynn was modest compared to the property owned by Edward and Timothy Tomlins who owned 220 acres and 80 acres respectively at Lynn in 1638.
17. The year 1638 yielded signs of impending change for William1 Spencer who since 1631 had been prominent in the affairs of Newe Towne (now Cambridge) and the General Court of the Commonwealth. In the May and June meetings of the Court in 1638, his name did not appear as a Deputy from Cambridge. Most remarkably, however, William was granted 300 acres by the Court beyond Concord along the Alewife River. This was at least 20 miles from Cambridge and not conceivably of any practical use for William at that time. Is it possible that William was planning to follow Thomas to Hartford in 1638 and that the General Court hoped this large land grant might be an inducement to hold him at Cambridge? It is an interesting hypothesis. William had undertaken scores of tasks for 		Spencer, Michael (I4429)
 
1674 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Mangum-Mangham-Mangrum Journal," Issue No. 43, Jan. 2001, (formerly "Mangum Family Bulletin"), James L. Parham, editor, p. 29: The John Mangum - Frances Bennett Controversy Although not directly stated, John Mangum's wife was apparently named Frances, an "assumption" based on the "fact" that Frances Mangum was the administrator of his estate in 1737. A Frances Mangum was also called "granddaughter" in the will of Richard Bennett Jr. dated 1720. These two are the only known records of Frances Mangum. The problem is that, given just these two records, there are several situations that potentially fit those records. Was Frances (granddaughter of Richard Bennett Jr.) the Frances who married John Mangum [Theory 1], or was she possibly a daughter of John and Frances, named after her mother [Theory 2]? [Theory 1] If we assume that there was only one Frances who was both wife of John Mangum and granddaughter of Richard Bennett Jr., we cannot unequivocally state that her maiden name was Bennett. If she was a daughter of one of the Bennett sons, her maiden name was truly Bennett. Also, if her mother were unmarried she would again have the maiden name "Bennett" from her mother. However, if she was a child of a married daughter of Richard Bennett Jr., then her maiden name would be her father's surname and her father's surname was likely not Bennett. Admittedly, most Mangum researchers now believe, or have at least accepted, that there were indeed two different individuals named Frances [Theory 2], one the mother and the other the daughter.1 The former would be Frances Bennett, "supposed" (but unnamed in his will) daughter of Richard Bennett Jr. who married John Mangum and the latter would be the child (of John Mangum and Frances Bennett Mangum), named as granddaughter in Richard Bennett Jr.'s will. Researchers justify this theory by pointing out that "apparent" ages of the various individuals concerned infer that the granddaughter of Richard Bennett Jr. was too young to be wife of John Mangum just after 1700. Therefore she must be John & Frances's daughter. A cursory examination of the available records is not definitive but there is some justification for researchers feeling that Richard Bennett Jr.'s grandchildren were very young to be marrying before 1710.2 But, considering the "very young" marriageable age of females in the colonies, and the present uncertainties of ages and marriage dates of the individuals involved, it is difficult to totally eliminate the possibility that John Mangum married Frances, granddaughter of Richard Bennett Jr. Also, it seems significant that Richard Bennett Jr. did not mention a daughter named Frances in his will. It is not unheard of for that to occur, especially when a child has already received their inheritance. In fact, Richard Jr.'s daughter Ann (who married John Bell) received her portion by deed on 30 August, 1694 from her grandfather Richard Bennett Sr. She was therefore not mentioned in the will of her father Richard Bennett Jr. However, there is no known record indicating that a daughter Frances also received an earlier inheritance. A Mrs. Muriel Bennett Minium published a book in 1990 on this particular Bennett line titled "Bennetts on the Bias." In the book she skillfully weaves Bennett history with royal history in England, tracing the ancient English Bennett lineages on into the American Colonies. In private communications to the editor, and in her post-book newsletter, she suggested another possible solution to the John Mangum-Frances issue. She has proposed that Richard Bennett Jr.'s daughter Silvester, who was mentioned in his will, might actually have been named Silvester Frances Bennett or maybe Frances Silvester Bennett [Theory 2A]. This theory would explain why Richard Bennett Jr. did not mention a daughter Frances in his will. According to this theory he actually did, but he called her by her other name, that is, Silvester. Unfortunately, this quite reasonable (and possibly true) theory remains only a theory. No actual direct evidence has been found to substantiate it. Some researchers apparently believe that the preponderance of evidence points either to the theory that there were two Frances Mangums, one the mother and one the daughter [Theory 2] or more likely the modified theory that Silvester was actually Silvester Frances [Theory 2A]. A few others, including this editor, do not actually disagree but are uncomfortable with the "loose end" of a competing theory [Theory 1] that has not been fully eliminated. We have not seen enough evidence, direct or indirect, to pronounce the issue resolved beyond a reasonable doubt. Each individual researcher must use his/her own judgment on how to deal with this issue. This editor has decided that he will continue to consider the issue of Frances' true identity unresolved, while at the same time concurring that Theory 2A [John's wife as Silvester Frances Bennett] is presently the most likely one. It would not seem prudent to consider the issue totally resolved until more definitive evidence is found. - Lynn Parham
[Notes:]
1. John Bennett Boddie, in his book "17th Century Isle of Wight," page 302, published in 1938 apparently originated the theory that John Mangum married a daughter of Richard Bennett Jr. He appears to base this on the fact that Richard Bennett Sr. deeds land to and mentions a John Mangum in his will and the fact that Richard Jr. mentioned a granddaughter Frances Mangum in his will. He gave no name to that "daughter" of Richard Bennett Jr., wife of John Mangum, because he probably had not seen John Mangum's estate record in 1737 that listed Frances Mangum as administrator. We wonder if he would have altered his theory in any way had he known that this second record of a Frances Mangum existed?
2. According to researchers the first children of John & Frances Mangum were probably born about 1703-1705. Unfortunately, neither the parentage nor the birthdates of these early Virginia Mangums can be directly established.
2. Per website http://home.inu.net/sadie/index.htm for father John Magnum. See his notes for full and lengthy text of wills, deeds, bio. info, and misc. info which includes mention of this individual. "Frances, Born Alb Par, Surry, Va CA 1710 (Named in will of gr/father Richard Bennet, Jr.1720 I-O-W Co, Va)." References: 17th Century Isle of Wight, (Boddie); Virginia Historical Families (Boddie); Southside Virginia Families (Boddie); Isle of Wight Co.,Va Deeds (Hopkins); Surry Co., Va Deeds & Crt. Orders (Hopkins); Isle of Wight Deeds (Eliza T. Davis); Surry Co. Deeds & Wills, (Davis); Wills & Adms. IOW Co. (Chapman); Cavaliers & Pioneers, Vols I & II (Nugent); LDS Records. Some citations:
a. "Will of Richard Bennett, Jr. of Isle of Wight Co., Va. 1720. Named: Sons: Richard Bennett & James Bennett. Also named: Jane Cofer & her children, Robert, John, Magdalen & Richard Cofer (relationship not stated), Granddaughter Frances Mangum. Exrs.: Jane Cofer, William Allen. Overseers: "Friends" John Carter & James Carter. Wts: John Carter, James Carter, William Allen, Sr. Estate appr'd. by Arthur Jones, Thomas Ward, William Bell."

BIRTH:
1. Caution should be used in accepting exact birth dates on any second generation Mangums. There are no records of any of the births of any of the Mangums of the second generation (after the first generation of John Mangum, the immigrant, and his wife Frances Bennett). Any dates given here and with all other genealogies that I have seen by other family researchers are conjecture. Most records we have of this generation are by association of later wills and other transactions and by association of time and locality. As quoted from the book "Pleasant Mangum and All His Kin," comp. by James Lynn Parham, longtime editor of the Mangum Family Bulletin and the premier researcher on early Mangums, 1997, pp. 41-45: "The determination of the children of the immigrant John Mangum has been mostly a matter of edutated guesswork. We know that Mary and Sarah Mangum, mentioned in Sarah Lancaster's will of 1722, were daughters of John Mangum. Both were apparently minors at that time. Frances, mentioned in the will of Richard Bennett, Jr., may have been a daughter of John, but that theory is controversial [kp: based on the interpretation of Robert Bennett's will where it says my granddaughter Frances Mangum]. John who married Olive Savidge, was most likely the eldest son of John and Frances. Two other probably sons, James and William, both married Marys and recorded some of their children's births in the Albemarle Parish [kp: which began in 1739, but has many missing pages in the extant copy]... For various other reasons, some researchers have assigned other children to John and Frances. Among those is Henry Mangum who recorded his children's births in the Mill Swamp Baptist Church records of Isle of Wight County, beginning in 1746. His tie to John the immigrant lies in the fact that he was in the same general area and his age was approximately the ages of John's other children."
Many researchers also include Nicholas, Joseph, and Samuel as children merely on possible association by time and locality. Others consider Nicholas as a possible separate immigrant, Samuel as a son of second generation William Mangum, Sr., and Joseph as a son of second generation Nicolas (or possible first generation) Mangum. Unfortunately there is no proof on the these latter three one way of the other.
Most birthdates assigned to the spouses of these individuals are also conjecture based on arbitrary dates given to the Mangum family births.

MARRIAGE:
1. "George Addison Mangum Collection," FHL film 2056024 with copy of a family group sheet of John and Frances Bennett Mangum on file, theorizes that Frances may have married William Rogers, but he does not give any reasons why for this thinking. He does have two question marks next to the entry.

SOURCES_MISC:
1. FHL Film 1697868 and book "The Mangums of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Utah, and Adjoining States," by John T. Palmer, Ph.D. Santa Rosa, CA 95409, 1993, 3rd ed., 		Mangum, Frances (I254)
 
1675 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Mangum-Mangham-Mangrum Journal," Issue No. 49, July 2002, (formerly "Mangum Family Bulletin"), James L. Parham, editor, pp. 21-28, article includes scanned images of the actual documents. The editor notes: "The will of Lovelis Savidge (and inventory) [involves]... Mangums in early Virginia. In this case we believe that John Mangum Jr., son of the immigrant, married into this Savidge family, probably marrying Olive Savidge who is mentioned in the will as Ollife Manggam. The will image is very poor in some sections, and the handwriting is difficult to read. My transcription probably has many errors, so be careful in using this information... (EDITOR'S Comments ON The Will/INVENTORY of LOVELIS SAVIDGE: On 17 March 1697/8 the will of Robert Savidge named sons Charles and Lovelis and dau. Olive. (Probated 3 May 1698. Surry County Bk 5, page 155.). We believe the Lovelis Savidge of the will [below] is that son of Robert mentioned in his 1697/8 will. Lovelis probably named a daughter after his aunt Olive Savidge, and this daughter married John Mangum (Jr.), son of the immigrant John Mangum. There are several records which show that this John Mangum (Jr.) was married to Olive and some of these will be presented in later parts of this series. Note that the clerk who transcribed the will spelled the surname "Savidg", omitting the "e". Olive is spelled "Ollife Manggam." It is unknown if this official record of the will is a faithfully copy of the original will. Of course, Lovelis could not write his name and he had a quite peculiar signature mark like an upside down "L". The spelling in the will was quite poor, even more so than is usual in the antiquated writings of the time. Note also that a James Bennit witnessed the will. There still seemed to be a tie between these "second generation" Mangums and Bennetts. It is unfortunate that I could not decipher the parish where Lovelis resided. If you can make it out from the image supplied, or if you by chance run across a better copy of the will in your Virginia microfilm searches, please let me know. Also, in my copies, the first part of the second page was totally black. That part of the will does not seem to contain anything significant, but if anyone sees the original, or a better microfilm copy, please make a note of it, and if possible a copy for me. Finally, I could not decipher that 'inserted' word after "..of Lovelis Savage..." from beginning of second line of the inventory. Maybe you can?). [Note also that the will is confusing in that is seems to list two separate sons, Lovelis and Lovlis, each receiving a feather bed - I believe this to be a slip of the pen and they are one and the same.]:
Will of LOVELIS SAVIDGE, dated 6 Oct. 1728. Surry Co., VA. Probated 21 May 1729. Surry County Wills, Deeds, Etc, Book 7, pg. 943. (1715-1730). Inventory returned to court 20 Aug. 1729, pg. 965: 'In the name of God Amen I Lovelis Savidg living in ____ Creek Parish in the County of Surry Being Week and Sickly in body but of Perfect mind and memory thanks be to God theirfore and calling to Mind of the mortality of my body and knowing that it is ordained for all Persons once to dye theirfore I appoint and ordain this to be my last Will & Testament that ___ found thereto be buried in a desent like manner according to ye discretion of my Executer as hereafter named and for all the worly Estate that God hath ___ me with in this Life I doo heare Devise and dispose of the same in this following manner and form. I give and bequeth unto my Son Lovelis Savidg all my Land after his Mother's debts and one feather Bead. I give and bequef unto my Daughter Ollife Manggam and I give and bequef to my Son Lovlis Savidg one feather bead. I give One puter dish to my Son Robert Savidg and One puter dish. I give to my grandson Charls Savidg and I leand all the rest of my Estate in ____ unto my Wife During her life and after her desese to return to my Son Lovelis Savidg & I depose that my Estate Shall not be Praised and I doo hereon Apoint my Son Lovlis Savidg my only & Soully Execter of this my Last Will and Testament and I doo hereby disallow revok and disannul all former Wills maite by me maid before this time ____ and confairming this to be my Last Will and Testament IN WITNESS whereof heir I have Set my hand and Seal the 6 day October in 1728 - - Sined Sealed Published Prenounced and declared by me Lovlis Savidg my Last Will & Testament. John Coker, Anthony Evans, James (his mark "O") Bennit.
At a court for Surry County May the 21st 1729 The within mentioned Will of Lovlis Savidge Deceid was Presented in Court by Lovlis Savidge Executor thereof who made Oath thereto & gave bond with the Security according to Law and being proved by the oaths of John Coker, Anthony Evans, Witness thereto the same is ordered to be recorded and is Recorded by Jr Allen CC
INVENTORY of Estate of LOVELIS SAVIDGE, (Surry County, VA Wills, Deeds, Etc., 1715-1730, Book 7, pg. 965-20 Aug. 1729): 'A true and perfect Inventory of all and Singular of goods and Chatles of Lovelis Savage [___] Deseast taken this 19th day of August Ano Dom 1729. To 4 head of Cattel, To 7 head of hogs, To 3 feather beads and furniture, To _ Puter dishes & falginas?, To 16 Puter Plates, 1 qt ___, To 1 Puter bason, 1 Spitts Iron, To 1 Iron Pott, 1 Iron Kittle, To 1 gride Iron, 1 Iron Pot Rake, To 1 frying pan, 1 Pr Stilards?, To 1 ___ of Weages?, 1 Pesel, To 3 fixed gunes, 1 old house, To 1 ond Maier's Sadle & Bridle, To 2 Old Chests, 2 Old trunks, To 2 Honey Jugs, 1 Spice Morter, To 1 Pessel, 2 brass Candlesticks, To 1 brass Sadle, 1 brass Shimer, To 1 Woolen & Spining Wheale, To 1 Pr of Cotton Cards, 2 Cheans, To 1 brass Skilet of 2 qts, To 1 Pr of fire Tongs, 1 Pr Flesh forkes, To 2 Wather Pailes - - - The above Inventy Taken and Returned by me - Lovelis (his mark "é") Savage Juneor Exexq.
The Court held for Surry County, August the 20th 1729. The above mentioned Inventory of ye Estate of Lovelis Savidge deceed this presented by Lovelis Savidge Executr of the Last Will & Testament of the Said deceed was Ordered to be Recorded and (the rest of the text was cut off from the copy)."

2. Virginia Court actions (1741-1751) mentioning: John Mangum (II), his wife Olive Savidge, and his orphaned Children; his brothers James, William, and Samuel Mangum; and miscellaneous Savages/Savidges. We know that Olive Savidge had brothers Love/Love Jr./Loveliss and Robert since all three are identified in the 1728 will of Loveliss Sr.. The relationship of the other Savages/Savidges - Benjamin, Henry, William and his wife Mary, and John - is undetermined from these documents and further research is needed. (Henry and Loveliss Savidge are named in the same document which would indicate some type of relationship.)
From the book "Surry County, Virginia, Court Orders, 1741-1751, An Every Name Index," by T.L.C. Genealogy, PO Box 403369, Miami Beach, FL 33140-1369, 1992, copy in the Walter Cecil Rawls Library in Courtland, Surry, Virginia. Court books are: 1 = 1741-1744; A = 1744-1749; B = 1749 -1751. The second part of the code is the page number and then the month of the court term (in Julian calendar nomenclature). Court books can be seen on FHL films 34129 and 34130 as well as FHL books 975.5562 P2hw (sev. volumes). The following are my brief extractions from the various listed cases:
James Mangum:
A-563 Jun 1749 James Mangum on a jury.
B-020 Oct 1749: Dinah a Negro girl belonging to James Mangum was adjudged to be 8 years old.
B-106 Jun 1750: James Mangum Plt. vs. Thomas Eldridge Admr. of Thomas King decd.
B-225 May 1751: James Mangum Plt. vs. Thomas Eldridge Admr. of Thomas King decd.
John Mangum:
1-087 Feb 1742/3: Indentures between John Mangum with his wife Olive and Zachariah Madere.
1-234 Jul 1744: Widow Olive Mangum obtains adminstration over estate of her deceased husband John Mangum with William Mangum and James Nicholson acting as sureties.
1-235 Jul 1744: Samuel Maget, Robert Judkins, Bartholomew Figures and William Owen swore before Howell Briggs, Gent., to appraise and inventory the slaves and personal estate of John Mangum, decd.
A-013 Dec 1744: Inventory of estate of John Mangum returned to Court and ordered to be recorded.
A-058 Jun 1745: William Mangum and James Nicholson acting as sureties of Olive Mangum are concerned about their role and petitions to have the estate turned over to them by Olive Mangum concerning the estate of her decd. husband John Mangum.
John's Orphans:
A-323 Jun 1747: "Ordered that the Church Wardens of Albemarle Parish bind out the orphans of John Mangum according to Law."
Olive Mangum:
1-087 Feb 1742/3: Indentures between John Mangum with his wife Olive and Zachariah Madere.
A-058 Jun 1745: William Mangum and James Nicholson acting as sureties of Olive Mangum are concerned about their role and petitions to have the estate turned over to them by Olive Mangum concerning the estate of her decd. husband John Mangum.
A-387 Oct 1747: Olive Mangum and Samuel Maget are witnesses to the will of John Richardson, decd., presented by Elizabeth Richardson, widow.
Widow Olive Mangum
1-234 Jul 1744: Widow Olive Mangum obtains adminstration over estate of her deceased husband John Mangum with William Mangum and James Nicholson acting as sureties.
Samuel Mangum:
A-024 Feb 1744/5: Samuel Mangum, deft. in lawsuit by Thomas Jones for debt.
A-266 Feb 1746/7: Plt. against Samuel Mangum, carpenter, Deft. for debt. Suit abated because Deft. not inhabitant of this County.
B-214 May 1751: Samuel Mangum, Plt. vs. Agniss Washington Deft. suing for 30 sh. owed for construction of a building. Deft. won.
B-216 May 1751: Herod Clary, a witness for Agness Washington in the suit of Samuel Mangum, motions for payment from Deft. for his two days in court.
William Mangum:
1-184 Nov 1743: William Mangum serving on Jury of Grand Inquest.
1-234 Jul 1744: Widow Olive Mangum obtains adminstration over estate of her deceased husband John Mangum with William Mangum and James Nicholson acting as sureties.
A-058 Jun 1745: William Mangum and James Nicholson acting as sureties of Olive Mangum are concerned about their role and petitions to have the estate turned over to them by Olive Mangum concerning the estate of her decd. husband John Mangum.
A-070 Jul 1745: William Mangum serving on jury.
A-313 Jun 1747: William Mangum and three others appointed to appraise the slaves and estate of Arthur Sherrod, decd.
A-415 Jan 1747/8: John Holt Plt. vs. William Mangum & Charles Clary Deft.: Debt.
A-463 May 1748: Attachment of John Ruffin, Gent., against estate of William Mangum. A Humphrey Bailey also involved.
A-475-476 Jun 1748: Attachment of Thomas Pritlaw against estate of William Mangum. Effects are in the hands of Joseph Jeffries, Edmund Barrow, Thomas Bell, and Jonathan Ellis. James Nicolson, William Rogers, and Bufort Pleasant names as additional garnishees.
A-493 Aug 1748: Attachment of Thomas Pritlow against estate of William Mangum. Beuford Pleasant also named as a garnishee.
A-540 May 1749: William Mangum vs. Joseph Jeffries.
A-570 Jun 1749: Thomas Pritloe vs the Estate of William Mangum.
Benjamin Savage:
A-088 Sep 1745: Benjamin Savage plaintiff vs. Elias George deft. Benj. did not show up and last by default. No type of case given but deft. asked to recover 5 shilling for expenses.
A-400 Nov 1747: Benjamin Savage to be paid for plank to repair Cyprus Swamp Bridge. Paid with 271 lbs. of tobacco.
Henry Savage:
B-203 Apr 1751: Henry Savage, Loveless Savage, James Moore, John Mooring and Lewis Long had garnished an unnamed debtor.
B-306 Aug 1751: Henry Savage, Loveless Savage, James Moore, John Mooring and Lewis Long had garnished Edward Long. Robert Davis, John Hay and wife Judith (excutrix of Charels Binns dec'd) added as garnishees.
Love Jr. Savage:
A-513 Dec 1748: Sale and indenture between Joseph Lancaster and Love Savage Junior.
Love Savidge:
B-143 Oct 1750: Judith Binns, exctrx. of Chalres Binns, Gent. vs Love Savidge concerning debt.
Loveless Savage:
B-203 Apr 1751: Henry Savage, Loveless Savage, James Moore, John Mooring and Lewis Long had garnished an unnamed debtor.
B-234 May 1751: Judith Binns, exctrx. of Chalres Binns, Gent. vs Loveless Savage concerning debt.
B-306 Aug 1751: Henry Savage, Loveless Savage, James Moore, John Mooring and Lewis Long had garnished Edward Long. Robert Davis, John Hay and wife Judith (excutrix of Charels Binns dec'd) added as garnishees.
Robert Savidge:
A-438 Apr 1748: Sale and indenture between William George and Robert Savidge.
B-149 Oct 1750: Judith Binns, exctrx. of Chalres Binns, Gent. vs Robert Savidge concerning promissory note of 38 sh. 8 pence.
Robert Savage:
B-196 Apr 1751: Sale and indenture between John Wall with wife Mary and Robert Savage, all of County of Surry.
William Savage:
A-016 Jan 1744/5: Indenture of a sale between William Savage and his wife Mary with James Adams.
William Savidge:
B-133 Sep 1750: Sale and indenture between Joseph Lancaster with wife William and John Savidge, all of County of Surry.
Mary Savage:
A-016 Jan 1744/5: Indenture of a sale between William Savage and his wife Mary with James Adams.
John Savidge:
B-134 Sep 1750: Sale and indenture between Joseph Lancaster with wife Mary and John Savidge, all of County of Surry.

BIRTH:
1. Assumed by me to be of at least age 21 at the time he was executor of his father's will dated 6 Oct 1728.

DEATH:
1. Was executor of his father's estate with the inventory recorded in court 20 Aug 1729.
 		Savidge, Lovelis (I3387)
 
1676 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Mangum-Mangham-Mangrum Journal," Issue No. 49, July 2002, (formerly "Mangum Family Bulletin"), James L. Parham, editor, pp. 21-28, article includes scanned images of the actual documents. The editor notes: "The will of Lovelis Savidge (and inventory) [involves]... Mangums in early Virginia. In this case we believe that John Mangum Jr., son of the immigrant, married into this Savidge family, probably marrying Olive Savidge who is mentioned in the will as Ollife Manggam. The will image is very poor in some sections, and the handwriting is difficult to read. My transcription probably has many errors, so be careful in using this information... (EDITOR'S Comments ON The Will/INVENTORY of LOVELIS SAVIDGE: On 17 March 1697/8 the will of Robert Savidge named sons Charles and Lovelis and dau. Olive. (Probated 3 May 1698. Surry County Bk 5, page 155.). We believe the Lovelis Savidge of the will [below] is that son of Robert mentioned in his 1697/8 will. Lovelis probably named a daughter after his aunt Olive Savidge, and this daughter married John Mangum (Jr.), son of the immigrant John Mangum. There are several records which show that this John Mangum (Jr.) was married to Olive and some of these will be presented in later parts of this series. Note that the clerk who transcribed the will spelled the surname "Savidg", omitting the "e". Olive is spelled "Ollife Manggam." It is unknown if this official record of the will is a faithfully copy of the original will. Of course, Lovelis could not write his name and he had a quite peculiar signature mark like an upside down "L". The spelling in the will was quite poor, even more so than is usual in the antiquated writings of the time. Note also that a James Bennit witnessed the will. There still seemed to be a tie between these "second generation" Mangums and Bennetts. It is unfortunate that I could not decipher the parish where Lovelis resided. If you can make it out from the image supplied, or if you by chance run across a better copy of the will in your Virginia microfilm searches, please let me know. Also, in my copies, the first part of the second page was totally black. That part of the will does not seem to contain anything significant, but if anyone sees the original, or a better microfilm copy, please make a note of it, and if possible a copy for me. Finally, I could not decipher that 'inserted' word after "..of Lovelis Savage..." from beginning of second line of the inventory. Maybe you can?). [Note also that the will is confusing in that is seems to list two separate sons, Lovelis and Lovlis, each receiving a feather bed - I believe this to be a slip of the pen and they are one and the same.]:
Will of LOVELIS SAVIDGE, dated 6 Oct. 1728. Surry Co., VA. Probated 21 May 1729. Surry County Wills, Deeds, Etc, Book 7, pg. 943. (1715-1730). Inventory returned to court 20 Aug. 1729, pg. 965: 'In the name of God Amen I Lovelis Savidg living in ____ Creek Parish in the County of Surry Being Week and Sickly in body but of Perfect mind and memory thanks be to God theirfore and calling to Mind of the mortality of my body and knowing that it is ordained for all Persons once to dye theirfore I appoint and ordain this to be my last Will & Testament that ___ found thereto be buried in a desent like manner according to ye discretion of my Executer as hereafter named and for all the worly Estate that God hath ___ me with in this Life I doo heare Devise and dispose of the same in this following manner and form. I give and bequeth unto my Son Lovelis Savidg all my Land after his Mother's debts and one feather Bead. I give and bequef unto my Daughter Ollife Manggam and I give and bequef to my Son Lovlis Savidg one feather bead. I give One puter dish to my Son Robert Savidg and One puter dish. I give to my grandson Charls Savidg and I leand all the rest of my Estate in ____ unto my Wife During her life and after her desese to return to my Son Lovelis Savidg & I depose that my Estate Shall not be Praised and I doo hereon Apoint my Son Lovlis Savidg my only & Soully Execter of this my Last Will and Testament and I doo hereby disallow revok and disannul all former Wills maite by me maid before this time ____ and confairming this to be my Last Will and Testament IN WITNESS whereof heir I have Set my hand and Seal the 6 day October in 1728 - - Sined Sealed Published Prenounced and declared by me Lovlis Savidg my Last Will & Testament. John Coker, Anthony Evans, James (his mark "O") Bennit.
At a court for Surry County May the 21st 1729 The within mentioned Will of Lovlis Savidge Deceid was Presented in Court by Lovlis Savidge Executor thereof who made Oath thereto & gave bond with the Security according to Law and being proved by the oaths of John Coker, Anthony Evans, Witness thereto the same is ordered to be recorded and is Recorded by Jr Allen CC
INVENTORY of Estate of LOVELIS SAVIDGE, (Surry County, VA Wills, Deeds, Etc., 1715-1730, Book 7, pg. 965-20 Aug. 1729): 'A true and perfect Inventory of all and Singular of goods and Chatles of Lovelis Savage [___] Deseast taken this 19th day of August Ano Dom 1729. To 4 head of Cattel, To 7 head of hogs, To 3 feather beads and furniture, To _ Puter dishes & falginas?, To 16 Puter Plates, 1 qt ___, To 1 Puter bason, 1 Spitts Iron, To 1 Iron Pott, 1 Iron Kittle, To 1 gride Iron, 1 Iron Pot Rake, To 1 frying pan, 1 Pr Stilards?, To 1 ___ of Weages?, 1 Pesel, To 3 fixed gunes, 1 old house, To 1 ond Maier's Sadle & Bridle, To 2 Old Chests, 2 Old trunks, To 2 Honey Jugs, 1 Spice Morter, To 1 Pessel, 2 brass Candlesticks, To 1 brass Sadle, 1 brass Shimer, To 1 Woolen & Spining Wheale, To 1 Pr of Cotton Cards, 2 Cheans, To 1 brass Skilet of 2 qts, To 1 Pr of fire Tongs, 1 Pr Flesh forkes, To 2 Wather Pailes - - - The above Inventy Taken and Returned by me - Lovelis (his mark "é") Savage Juneor Exexq.
The Court held for Surry County, August the 20th 1729. The above mentioned Inventory of ye Estate of Lovelis Savidge deceed this presented by Lovelis Savidge Executr of the Last Will & Testament of the Said deceed was Ordered to be Recorded and (the rest of the text was cut off from the copy)."

2. Virginia Court actions (1741-1751) mentioning: John Mangum (II), his wife Olive Savidge, and his orphaned Children; his brothers James, William, and Samuel Mangum; and miscellaneous Savages/Savidges. We know that Olive Savidge had brothers Love/Love Jr./Loveliss and Robert since all three are identified in the 1728 will of Loveliss Sr.. The relationship of the other Savages/Savidges - Benjamin, Henry, William and his wife Mary, and John - is undetermined from these documents and further research is needed. (Henry and Loveliss Savidge are named in the same document which would indicate some type of relationship.)
From the book "Surry County, Virginia, Court Orders, 1741-1751, An Every Name Index," by T.L.C. Genealogy, PO Box 403369, Miami Beach, FL 33140-1369, 1992, copy in the Walter Cecil Rawls Library in Courtland, Surry, Virginia. Court books are: 1 = 1741-1744; A = 1744-1749; B = 1749 -1751. The second part of the code is the page number and then the month of the court term (in Julian calendar nomenclature). Court books can be seen on FHL films 34129 and 34130 as well as FHL books 975.5562 P2hw (sev. volumes). The following are my brief extractions from the various listed cases:
James Mangum:
A-563 Jun 1749 James Mangum on a jury.
B-020 Oct 1749: Dinah a Negro girl belonging to James Mangum was adjudged to be 8 years old.
B-106 Jun 1750: James Mangum Plt. vs. Thomas Eldridge Admr. of Thomas King decd.
B-225 May 1751: James Mangum Plt. vs. Thomas Eldridge Admr. of Thomas King decd.
John Mangum:
1-087 Feb 1742/3: Indentures between John Mangum with his wife Olive and Zachariah Madere.
1-234 Jul 1744: Widow Olive Mangum obtains adminstration over estate of her deceased husband John Mangum with William Mangum and James Nicholson acting as sureties.
1-235 Jul 1744: Samuel Maget, Robert Judkins, Bartholomew Figures and William Owen swore before Howell Briggs, Gent., to appraise and inventory the slaves and personal estate of John Mangum, decd.
A-013 Dec 1744: Inventory of estate of John Mangum returned to Court and ordered to be recorded.
A-058 Jun 1745: William Mangum and James Nicholson acting as sureties of Olive Mangum are concerned about their role and petitions to have the estate turned over to them by Olive Mangum concerning the estate of her decd. husband John Mangum.
John's Orphans:
A-323 Jun 1747: "Ordered that the Church Wardens of Albemarle Parish bind out the orphans of John Mangum according to Law."
Olive Mangum:
1-087 Feb 1742/3: Indentures between John Mangum with his wife Olive and Zachariah Madere.
A-058 Jun 1745: William Mangum and James Nicholson acting as sureties of Olive Mangum are concerned about their role and petitions to have the estate turned over to them by Olive Mangum concerning the estate of her decd. husband John Mangum.
A-387 Oct 1747: Olive Mangum and Samuel Maget are witnesses to the will of John Richardson, decd., presented by Elizabeth Richardson, widow.
Widow Olive Mangum
1-234 Jul 1744: Widow Olive Mangum obtains adminstration over estate of her deceased husband John Mangum with William Mangum and James Nicholson acting as sureties.
Samuel Mangum:
A-024 Feb 1744/5: Samuel Mangum, deft. in lawsuit by Thomas Jones for debt.
A-266 Feb 1746/7: Plt. against Samuel Mangum, carpenter, Deft. for debt. Suit abated because Deft. not inhabitant of this County.
B-214 May 1751: Samuel Mangum, Plt. vs. Agniss Washington Deft. suing for 30 sh. owed for construction of a building. Deft. won.
B-216 May 1751: Herod Clary, a witness for Agness Washington in the suit of Samuel Mangum, motions for payment from Deft. for his two days in court.
William Mangum:
1-184 Nov 1743: William Mangum serving on Jury of Grand Inquest.
1-234 Jul 1744: Widow Olive Mangum obtains adminstration over estate of her deceased husband John Mangum with William Mangum and James Nicholson acting as sureties.
A-058 Jun 1745: William Mangum and James Nicholson acting as sureties of Olive Mangum are concerned about their role and petitions to have the estate turned over to them by Olive Mangum concerning the estate of her decd. husband John Mangum.
A-070 Jul 1745: William Mangum serving on jury.
A-313 Jun 1747: William Mangum and three others appointed to appraise the slaves and estate of Arthur Sherrod, decd.
A-415 Jan 1747/8: John Holt Plt. vs. William Mangum & Charles Clary Deft.: Debt.
A-463 May 1748: Attachment of John Ruffin, Gent., against estate of William Mangum. A Humphrey Bailey also involved.
A-475-476 Jun 1748: Attachment of Thomas Pritlaw against estate of William Mangum. Effects are in the hands of Joseph Jeffries, Edmund Barrow, Thomas Bell, and Jonathan Ellis. James Nicolson, William Rogers, and Bufort Pleasant names as additional garnishees.
A-493 Aug 1748: Attachment of Thomas Pritlow against estate of William Mangum. Beuford Pleasant also named as a garnishee.
A-540 May 1749: William Mangum vs. Joseph Jeffries.
A-570 Jun 1749: Thomas Pritloe vs the Estate of William Mangum.
Benjamin Savage:
A-088 Sep 1745: Benjamin Savage plaintiff vs. Elias George deft. Benj. did not show up and last by default. No type of case given but deft. asked to recover 5 shilling for expenses.
A-400 Nov 1747: Benjamin Savage to be paid for plank to repair Cyprus Swamp Bridge. Paid with 271 lbs. of tobacco.
Henry Savage:
B-203 Apr 1751: Henry Savage, Loveless Savage, James Moore, John Mooring and Lewis Long had garnished an unnamed debtor.
B-306 Aug 1751: Henry Savage, Loveless Savage, James Moore, John Mooring and Lewis Long had garnished Edward Long. Robert Davis, John Hay and wife Judith (excutrix of Charels Binns dec'd) added as garnishees.
Love Jr. Savage:
A-513 Dec 1748: Sale and indenture between Joseph Lancaster and Love Savage Junior.
Love Savidge:
B-143 Oct 1750: Judith Binns, exctrx. of Chalres Binns, Gent. vs Love Savidge concerning debt.
Loveless Savage:
B-203 Apr 1751: Henry Savage, Loveless Savage, James Moore, John Mooring and Lewis Long had garnished an unnamed debtor.
B-234 May 1751: Judith Binns, exctrx. of Chalres Binns, Gent. vs Loveless Savage concerning debt.
B-306 Aug 1751: Henry Savage, Loveless Savage, James Moore, John Mooring and Lewis Long had garnished Edward Long. Robert Davis, John Hay and wife Judith (excutrix of Charels Binns dec'd) added as garnishees.
Robert Savidge:
A-438 Apr 1748: Sale and indenture between William George and Robert Savidge.
B-149 Oct 1750: Judith Binns, exctrx. of Chalres Binns, Gent. vs Robert Savidge concerning promissory note of 38 sh. 8 pence.
Robert Savage:
B-196 Apr 1751: Sale and indenture between John Wall with wife Mary and Robert Savage, all of County of Surry.
William Savage:
A-016 Jan 1744/5: Indenture of a sale between William Savage and his wife Mary with James Adams.
William Savidge:
B-133 Sep 1750: Sale and indenture between Joseph Lancaster with wife William and John Savidge, all of County of Surry.
Mary Savage:
A-016 Jan 1744/5: Indenture of a sale between William Savage and his wife Mary with James Adams.
John Savidge:
B-134 Sep 1750: Sale and indenture between Joseph Lancaster with wife Mary and John Savidge, all of County of Surry.

DEATH:
1. Was executor of his father's estate with the inventory recorded in court 20 Aug 1729. Assuming an age of majority of 21 to act legally, birth was before 1708.

2. LDS Ordinance Index for the one entry they have as of 4 Oct 2004 shows a death of Jun 1790 at Martin, Allendale, South Carolina.
 		Savidge, Robert (I3385)
 
1677 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The Mangum-Mangham-Mangrum Journal," Issue No. 52, July 2003, (formerly "Mangum Family Bulletin"), James L. Parham, editor, pp. 24-26, [article includes scanned images of the actual documents]. The editor notes: "The translations of the Old English below were done quickly and the main effort was to try to retain the gist of the information rather than spending a lot of time trying to decipher every word.
"Court Records Relating To Will of John Richardson, (Surry County, Virginia Orders 1744-1749, page 387. Surry Court 20 Oct. 1747): 'The last will & Testament of John Richardson dec'ed was presented in Court by Elizabeth Richardson, widow & relict of the said John & Executrix therein named who made oath thereto according to Law and the same was proved by the Oaths of Samuel Maget & Olive Mangum the witnesses thereto and by the Court order'd to be recorded and on the motion of the said Executor a Certificate is granted her for obtaining a Probate thereof in due Form. Order'd that Samuel Maget, Benjamin Ellis, Thomas Alsobrooke, James Nicolson or any three of them being first Sworn before Robert Gray gentl? Do appraised in current money the 'slaves & Personal Estate of John Richardson dec'ed and returned the appraisement to the next Court.' (EDITOR'S NOTE: We believe that one of John & Olive Mangum's daughters married into the Richardson family. On 26 Jan. 1752 Zilpah, son of Arthur Richardson and wife Mary was christened with Olave Mangum as one of the godparents in the Albemarle Parish, Surry Co., VA.)"

2. This daughter is speculative and not proven. There are two documents that lead us to this speculation. First, when the father John died, his children were noted in plural as orphans in the orphan's court. Second, Olive, the mother, is noted as a godparent at the birth of the offspring of this daughter - a godparent can be grandparents but not necessarily always. These two documents are as follows:
A. "The Mangum-Mangham-Mangrum Journal," Issue No. 51, January 2003, (formerly "Mangum Family Bulletin"), James L. Parham, editor, pp. 13-15, article includes scanned images of the actual documents: This Part 9 [of a series in the Journal] of the old Virginia records continues to delve more deeply into the records of the second John Mangum (II) of Virginia... [This record shows that John who died in 1744 had children of which the individual of this database would probably have been one.]:
Orphans of John Mangum, (Surry County, Virginia Orders, 1744-1749, page 323, 16 June 1747 Court): 'Ordered That the Church Warden of Albemarle Parish bond out the Orphans of John Mangum according to Law.' (Editor's Comments: The... record concerns the Orphans of John Mangum. This shows that John Mangum (II) had children and they or at least some of them were minors in 1747. Oh, how do we wish they had been named! ED.)"
B. 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
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.

3. Additional comments from other researchers on the same subject:
A. 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, pp. 4-5, issue of John Mangum and Frances Mangum, first Child: " John Mangum, b. ca. 1703, Albemarle Parish, Surry Co., VA, m. Olive Savidge, dau. of Robert Savage. His [John Mangum's] estate was administered 20 Dec 1744, Surry Co., VA, by Olive Savidge Mangum, m. bef. 6 Oct 1728 who was godparent to four children born in the Albemarle Parish of Surry Co., VA. Parents of these godChildren included William Huler (Hulen) and wife, Selah; Robert Purrier (Pryor/Prior) and wife Frances; and Arthur Richardson and wife, Mary. [Kerry's note: see Olive Savidge's database for my comment and belief that John Palmer is in error believing Olive Savidge who married John Mangum was the daughter of Robert Savidge and not Lovelis Savidge.]
B. Website of Lynn Parham at http://mywebpages.comcast.net/lynn.parham/savidge.htm: "We believe John Mangum Jr., son of the immigrant John Mangum, married Olive Savidge. She was apparently a daughter of Robert Savidge of Surry Co., Virginia. In his will of 1697 he names his sons Charles and Lovelis and his daughter Olive. The 1728 will of Loveless Savidge mentions an Olive Manggum. John Mangum Jr. died in 1744 and his estate was administered by Olive Mangum. Olive was a godparent to several children in the Albemarle Parish, Surry Co., Virginia after John's death. We suspect those children were Olive & John's grandchildren. We also suspect that another child was John Mangum (John III) who moved to Mecklenburg Co., Virginia. His son, John, was a Revolutionary War patriot. His descendants were the subject of a book by Mrs. Delta Ivy Mangum Hale." [Kerry's note: Lynn appears to have later changed his mind from the above quote as to Olive Mangum being the daughter Robert Savidge - see the notes in this database for Olive Savidge.]

4. Birth from LDS Ordinance Index with no documentation; in fact, they had Albemarle County which many mistake for Albemarle Parish within Surry then Sussex County.
 		Richardson, Arthur (I3403)
 
1678 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography":
a. Entry for George Barber, pg. 169: "...a descendant of Thomas Barber who came from Bedfordshire, England, to Windsor, Conn., in 1635, and won local fame by his services in the Pequot war. From him and his wife Jane (or Joan), the line is through their son Thomas and wife Mary Phelps.
b. Entry for Charles Russel Barber, pg. 399: "...a descendant of Thomas Barber, who came from England in 1635, settling at Windsor, Conn. From Thomas and his wife Jane ___ the descent was through Thomas and Mary Phelps."

2. Partial excerpt from the biographical sketch of Thomas Barber included in the book "Great Migration," which is a highly dependable modern research publication (see Thomas' notes for full transcript):
"Thomas Barber...
First Residence: Windsor...
Church Membership: Either he or his wife was a member of the Windsor church since their children were baptized there...
Estate: ...A will, written or not, is implied in the probate of Thomas Barber, but none has been found.
On 4 February 1662[/3], the distribution of Thomas Barber's estate was as follows: "to John and Sarah jointly as their father willed," the house and barn and all the home lot, land over the river, half the 24-acre lot, half the marsh, and to John a cow, as well as £20 more to John and Sarah. Thomas Barber's share comprised "a mare that he claims as a gift from his father," half his father's tools, the 14-acre upland lot, half the out lot, half the marsh, and his proportion, being £33 15s "Sam[ue]ll Barber" received £33 15s, as did "Mercey" and "Josias." "And what the estate amounts to more than the inventory when debts are paid shall be distributed betwixt the four younger children Thomas, Sam[ue]ll, Mercey and Josias and if any child die before they come to age sons 21 years daughters 18 years the portion of the deceased shall be divided amongst the survivors equally" [RPCC 263]. (The land owned jointly by Sarah and John is more fully detailed in the holdings of Timothy Hall, Sarah's husband [WiLR 1:87].)
On 4 February 1662/3, "Samuell Barber manifesting his desire thereto was then placed an apprentice unto his brother Thomas until he accomplish the age of twenty-one years [RPCC 262]. On the same day, "Mercey Barber with her consent and desire is placed with Lt. Walter Filer and his wife until she be eighteen years of age unless she marry before" (RPCC 262]. On the same day, "Josias Barber according to his desire is placed with Deacon John Moore until he accomplish the age of twenty-one years" [RPCC 262]. On 30 January 1664[/5?], "Mercy Barber made choice of Lt. Walter Fyler to be her guardian" [RPCC 264]...
Children:
i John, bp. Windsor 24 July 1642 [Grant 24; CTVR 33]; m. Springfield 2 September 1663 Bathsheba Coggins [CTVR 10; Grant 25].
ii Thomas, b. Windsor 14 July 1644 [Grant 24; CTVR 33]; m. Windsor 17 December 1663 Mary Phelps [Grant 25; CTVR 10], daughter of William Phelps [GMB 3:1446].
iii Sarah, bp. Windsor 19 July 1646 [Grant 24; CTVR 33]; at Windsor 26 November 1663 Timothy Hall [Grant 62].
iv Samuel, bp. Windsor 1 October 1648 (Grant 25; CVR 33]; m. (1) Windsor 1 December 1670 Mary Coggins [CTVR 12; Grant 25 (surname of bride not .given)]; m. (2) Windsor 25 January 1676[/7] Ruth Drake [CTVR 14; Grant 25].
v Mercy, bp. Windsor 12 October 1651 (published as "Mary" [CTVR 33]; m. Windsor 8 July l669 John Gillett [CTVR 12; Grant 40], son of Jonathan Gillett [GMB 2:768].
vi Josiah, b. Windsor 15 February 1653/4 [CTVR 40]; m. (1) Windsor 22 November 1677 Abigail Loomis [Grant 74; CTVR 14]; m. (2) by 12 March 1701/2 Sarah (___) Drake, widow of Enoch Drake [Manwaring 1:551].
Comments: ...Grant, in his list compiled 17 August 1677, reported that "Thomas Barber Snr." had six children born in Windsor [Grant 90]..."

3. FHL book 929.273 B233bd, "The Connecticut Barbers, A Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Barber of Windsor, Connecticut," 2nd Ed., Donald S. Barber, pp. 5-6: "Lt. Thomas Barber, baptized Windsor, CT, 14 Jul 1644, d. Simsbury, CT, 10 May 1713, m. Windsor 17 Dec 1663 Mary Phelps, b. 2 Mar 1644/5, d. 13 Feb 1725/6, dau. of William Sr. and Mary (Dover) Phelps. After Thomas and Mary were married, they lived in a house built by Thomas in Windsor, on a lot he purchased in 1664. About 1670/1 he moved his family to Simsbury along with his brother Samuel and family. On March 3, 1676/7 during the so-called 'King Phillip's War,' Lt. Thomas Barber of the original military company of Simsbury was instrumental in saving the Simsbury residents, according to an old tradition. Some of Phillip's Wampanoag Indians threatened to attack the town. Thomas 'ascended the roof of his house, in the place called Hopmeadow, and beat an alarm on his drum. The wind being favorable, the alarm was heard in Windsor, some seven or eight miles off.' The Windsor militia, hearing the alarm, quickly assembled, rushed to Simsbury and were able to evacuate safely the people of Simsbury to safety in Windsor, where they stayed for several months. King Phillip burned and destroyed everything on March 26th, 1676. Eventually they returned to their community and began the task of rebuilding. Once the town was rebuilt life in Simsbury was due to change. Up to this point the grain grown by the farmers had to be hauled to the Warham Gristmill in Windsor. This was no easy task, due to weather conditions not always being favorable, the roads leaving much to be desired even for the oxen, and the lessening danger of attacks by Indians or wild animals. Thomas Barber had proven his leadership ability during the King Phillip's War, and now his skills, along with those of 3 other men, were contracted by the town for a more peaceful pursuit, that of building and running a sawmill and gristmill. The Simsbury gristmill built by these men in about 1680 was still in operation until the early 1950s, when the mill was operated as a Jute Yarn factory under the ownership of R.H. Ensign. After that the mill was idle for about 30 years. In 1985 major renovations took place. The Ensign-Bickford Company dismantled the entire building board by board and reassembled it. The present-day building is beautifully restored, winning for the owners the Greater Hartford Architecture Conservancy Award. The Hop Brook Restaurant was recently located for a time in the present structure. This was an absolutely delightful place beside the brook, for lunch or dinner. Thomas Barber's carpentry skills, passed on from his father, were much in demand, and he later built the first church in Simsbury, in 1683. He was hired by the town in 1671 to build 'a meeting house for public worship,' but for 12 years there was a bitter argument over which side of the river it would be built on. Finally 2 slips of paper were placed in a hat, and one was drawn, in favor of the West side of the river. Once it was completed, the new building was used for 60 years. [Sources: 1909 Barber Gen; Lure of the Litchfield Hills; Barbour Index; Lyman Barber Gen; CT Hist Soc: LB Barbour Manuscripts.] children of Thomas and Mary:
a. John, b. Windsor, 1 Nov 1664, m. Mary Holcomb.
b. Mary, b. Windsor, 11 Jan 1666/7.
c. Sarah, b. Windsor, 2 Jul 1669, d. 31 Mar 1748, m. Simsbury 26 Nov 1701 Andrew Robe, b. 30 May 1662. Sarah had no children.
d. Joanna, b. 1670(?), m. (1) Simsbury 3 Jan 1710/1 Josiah Adkins, bapt. 16 Jan 1686/7, d. Hartford, CT, 25 Jun 1713, son of Thomas and Jane (Williams) Adkins. Joanna and Josiah had no children. Joanna m. (2) Benjamin Colt, born abt. Apr 1669, d. at Hartford May or June 1739, son of John and Hester (Edwards) Colt... Benjamin res. Windsor 1710, East Windsor in 1722, and later in Hartford. [One child noted of Joanna and Benjamin.]
e. Anne, b. Simsbury 1671, d. there 15 Nov 1722, m. Simsbury ('both of Simsbury') 4 Dec 1701 Jonathan Higley, b. Windsor 16 Feb 1675/6, d. May 1716, son of Captain John and Hannah (Drake) Higley. [Notes children born of this couple.]
f. Thomas, b. Simsbury 7 Oct 1671 (?confused with birthdate of Thomas, son of Samuel), m. Abigail Buel.
g. Samuel, b. Simsbury 17 May 1673, m. Sarah Holcomb.
h. Child, b. Simsbury 1677, d. young."

4. FHL book 929.273 B233w, "Descendants of Thomas Barber of Windsor, Connecticut, 1614-1909," John Barber White:
Pp. 15-19: "The Hartford Probate Records contain the following regarding the settlement of Thomas Barber's estate: 'Barber, Thomas, Windsor, Invt. ₤132-14-00; taken 10, Oct. 1662, by Benj. Newberry and John Moore. 'Court Record, Page 187 - 4 Feb., 1662-3, Invt approved. Samuel was placed with his brother Thomas Barber to learn a trade; Mercy (Mary) Barber was placed with Lt. Walter Fyler and his wife until 18 years of age, unless she marries before, with her Master's and Dame's and eldest brother's approbation; Josias Barber was placed with Dea. John Moore until 21 years of age to learn a trade; Thomas Barber doth engage to take Samuel Barber's portion and after two years from the present to allow 6% simple interest per annum. John Barber took Josias' portion upon the same terms. Page 188 - 6 Jun 1662, Dist. to John and Sarah jointly. House and Home lot as their Father willed - 126-13-04. To Thomas Barber by Gift & his portion - 13-00-00. To Samuel, Mercy & Josias each - 36-15-00. By Capt Newberry, Deacon Moore, Sgt. Alvord.' He died on Sept. 11th, and his wife Joan on Sept. 10th, 1662. Children: John, bp. 24 Jul 1642; Thomas, b. 14 Jul 1644; Sarah, bp. 19 Jul 1646; Samuel, bp. 1 Oct 1648; Mary, bp. 12 Oct 1651; Josiah, b. 15 Feb 1653. In the Hartford Probate records it will be observed that the name of the fifth child of Thomas and Joan Barber is given as Mercy instead of Mary, as shown above. Also some records seem to indicate that she married a Hale, but the Gillett family records furnish conclusive evidence of her marriage to John Gillett. It is possible that in the records showing the name of Hale, her marriage was confused with that of her sister Sarah's to Timothy Hall, as a confusion of the names Hale and Hall is quite common."
Pp. 21-22: "Thomas Barber, b. July 14, 1644; m. Dec 17, 1663, Mary Phelps, who was b. Mch. 2, 1644. She was the dau. of William Phelps, Sr., known as 'Ould Mr. Phelps,' and his second wife, Mary (Dover) Phelps. The old Windsor records show that in 1664, Thomas Barber bought land in Windsor 'whereon he builded, the lot of Samuel Pond, except about 1-1/2 acres next to Silver Street on which Pond's house stood, and which doubtless faced the Hollow Fall Road.' Other records show that Thomas and his brothers John and Samuel were among the original grantees of Simsbury, having received a portion of the 'Meadow Lands' lying along the River Massaco, under an order of the General Court, of Hartford, of December, 1666, which stipulated that 'within two years the person to whom granted should improve them by plowing, mowing, building, fencing, etc.' In 1669 Massaco was set off from Windsor and made a separate township under the name of Simsbury, to which Thomas and his brother Samuel, with their families, removed in 1670 or 1671, and began improving the lands at that place which they had inherited from their father Thomas. Thomas Barber was lieutenant of the first military company of Simsbury, and was known as Lieut. Thomas. He built the first saw-mill and grist-mill in Simsbury, also the first church regarding the location of which there was some contention among the settlers, which was finally decided by lot, and the location fixed in the southern end of Terry's Plains. Thomas Barber died in Simsbury, May 10, 1713. His estate was valued at ₤488 18s 3d. Children:
a. John, b. Nov. 1, 1664; m. Mary Holcomb.
b. Mary, b. Jan. 11, 1666.
c. Sarah, b. July 12, 1669; m. Andrew Robe; no issue. The name of the husband of Sarah Barber, third child in the above family, is given in some records as 'Roe,' and it has been claimed that he was an ancestor of the Rev. A.S. Roe. The name, however, is given 'Robe' in the Simsbury records, and in his will Thomas Barber mentions his daughter Sarah, wife of Andrew Robe. The evidence is also fairly conclusive that there was no issue.
d. Joanna, b. 1670; m. Jan. 3, 1710-11, Josiah Adkins.
e. Anne, b. 1671; m. Jonathan Higley.
f. Thomas, b. Oct. 7, 1672; m. Abigail Buel.
g. Samuel, b. May 17, 1673; m. Sarah Holcomb.
h. Child, b. 1677; d. young.

5. 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. 97:
"Mary Phelps, b. Windsor, Ct., 2 Mar 1644, bp. 19 Jul 1644, m. Lieut. Thomas Barber, 13 Dec 1660, the son of Thomas Barber, (who was the first of his name in New England, coming with Francis Stiles in 1635.)
Mr. Barber first settled in Windsor, where he built a house in 1671, soon removing to Simsbury, where he died 10 Mar 1701 (or 3), in his 55th year, leaving an estate of 488 pounds, 18 shillings and 3 pence.
Children [all with surname Barber]:
I. John, b. Windsor, Ct. 1 Nov 1662, m. Mary Holcomb.
II. Mary, b. Windsor, 11 May 1666.
III. Sarah, b. Windsor, 12 Jul 1669. m. 26 Nov 1701, Andrew Robe. No issue.
IV. Joanna, b. Windsor abt. 1670, m. Josiah Adkins, 3 Jan 1710-11. No issue.
V. Anna, b. Windsor abt 1670, m. Jonathan Higley.
VI Thomas, b. Simsbury, Ct., 7 Oct 1671, m. Abigail Buell.
VII. Samuel, b. Simsbury, 17 May 1673, m. Sarah Holcomb.
VIII. A child, b. Windsor in 1677, died young."

6. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 50: "Barber, Thomas, first of name in New England, came to Windsor 1635, with the Saltonstall party under Mr. Francis Stiles; was then ae. 21 years. The Court at Hartford, 28 Mch., 1637, 'ord. that Mr. Francis Stiles shall teach George Chapple, Thomas Cooper and Thomas Barber, his servants, in the trade of a carpenter, according to his promise, for their service of their term, behind 4 days in a week only to saw and slit their own work.' He was made freeman 1645; was a soldier in the Pequot fight (see p. 69, Vol. I.); 1648, dft. in Ct.; Sgt. Barber, for his disorderly conduct striking Lieut. Cook, was adjudged to forfeit his office and pay £5. He rem. to Simsbury, where he contracted to build the first meeting house. He m. Jane ___, 7 Oct 1640 (Old Ch. Rec.); he d. 11, she d. 10 Sept., 1662 (Col. Rec.). Land gr. W. prob. 1640 (see p. 151, Vol. I.) Ch. (Old Ch. Rec.):
A. John, bp. 24 July 1642.
B. Thomas, b. 14 July 1644.
C. Sarah, bp. 19 Jul 1646.
D. Samuel, bp. 1 Oct 1648.
E. Mary, bp. 12 Oct 1651; m. a Hale; set. Suffld. [No Hale in book.]
F. Josiah, b. 15 Feb. 1653.

7. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 50: "Barber, Thomas (son of Thomas), m. 13 Oct 166-, Mary (dau. Wm., Sen.) Phelps, 17 Dec 1663 (Col. Rec.); 1664 he bought at W. land 'whereon he builded'; the lot of Samuel Pond, except about 1-1/2 acres next to Silver street, on which P.'s house stood, and which doubtless faced the Hollow Fall road; rem. 1671 to Simsbury, where, 1682, he was a townsman; d. at S. 1701 (03?); estate £488, 18s, 3d. She b. W. 2 Mch, bp. 19 July 1644. Ch. b. at W. (O.C.R.):
A. John, b. 1 Nov 1662; m. Mary Holcomb.
B. Mary, b. 11 Jan 1666.
C. Sarah, b. 12 Jul 1669; m. And. Robe.
D. Joanna, b. abt. 1670; m. Josiah Adkins.
E. Anne, m. Jonathan Higley.
F. Thomas, b. 7 Oct 1671, m. Abigail Buel.
G. Samuel, b. 17 May 1673, m. Sarah Holcomb.
(Thos.B. Jr. is cr (O.C.R.) in 1677 with 4 ch b. in W.)

8. "The American Genealogist," 68(Jul 1990):161-166, "The English Origin of William1 Phelps of Dorchester, Mass., and Windsor, Conn., with Notes on His Marriages," by Myrtle Stevens Hyde:
"William1 Phelps of Dorchester, Mass., and Windsor, Conn....
Children (Phelps) of William, v-viii by his second wife Anne (Dover) (bp. Crewkerne), ix-xi either by Anne or by a third wife (see discussion above)...
xi. Mary (again) b. in March 1644, bp. 2 March (Windsor Early Recs. p. 55; Windsor VR), prob. d. Simsbury 13 Feb. 1725/6 as "Marey Barber ye Eldest" (Albert C. Bates, "Simsbury, Connecticut, Births, Marriages and Deaths..." [Hartford 1898] p. 158); m. Windsor 17 Dec. 1663 Thomas Barber (Welles p. 10, as "Marsey")."

9. FHL book 929.273 B695bo "Ancestral Lines, Third Edition," compiled by Carl Boyer, 3rd [Santa Clarita, CA; 1998], pp. 69-70:
"Thomas1 Barber, born perhaps in Bedfordshire, England, in 1614, died in Windsor, Connecticut, 11 Sept. 1662.
On 7 Oct. 1640 he married Jane or Joan, whose last name is not known. It has been said that she was a daughter of one of the first Dutch settlers of the Connecticut River Valley, and was the first white woman to land in Connecticut. She died 10 Sept. 1662, the day before her husband...
In 1641 he was granted about 600 acres in an area known to the Indians as Massaco. In the town meeting at Northampton, Mass., 24 June 1661, it was voted to ask him to move there, but apparently he chose not to do so. When he died at Windsor a little over a year later he left an estate valued at £132.14s. The probate records showed that his daughter Mercy (Mary) was placed with Lt. Walter Fyler and his wife, and Josias (Josiah) was placed with Deacon John Moore.
Children, born in Windsor:
i. John2, bapt. 24 July 1642; d. Suffield, Mass. (now Conn.), 17 Jan. 1712; m. (1) Springfield 2 Sept. 1663 Bathsheba Coggin, m. (2) 1 May 1669 Mrs. Hannah (Gardner?) Bancroft.
ii. Thomas, b. 14 July 1644; d. Simsbury, Conn., 10 May 1713; m. 17 Dec. 1663 Mary Phelps.
iii. Sarah, bapt. 19 July 1646; m. Windsor 26 Nov. 1663 Timothy2 Hale.
iv. Samuel, bapt. 1 Oct. 1648; d. 1709; m. (1) 1 Dec. 1670 Mary Coggins, m. (2) 25 Jan. 1677 Ruth3 Drake.
v. Mary, bapt. 12 Oct. 1651; m. 8 July 1669 John2 Gillett.
vi. Josiah, b. 15 Feb. 1653; d. c. 1731; m. (1) 22 Nov. 1677 Abigail Loomis, m. (2) 5 Nov. 1701 Mrs. Sarah (Porter) Drake."

MARRIAGE:
1. Note the discrepancy of marriage dates between the Barber and Phelps history books. Barber had 17 Dec 1663 with first son John b. 1 Nov 1664. Phelps has 13 Dec 1660 with John b. 1 Nov 1662. Phelps has a four year gap between the birth of John and his next sibling Mary on 11 May 1666. I have selected Barber's date for the time being subject to further research.

DEATH:
1. Per above notes, there is a discrepancy in death dates for Thomas Barber between the Phelps and Barber history books. I choose the Barber date for now subject to further research.

ACTION:
1. I originally had two undocumented additional wives for Thomas: Anne Chase, m. 27 Apr 1681, and Mary Dow, no marriage date. They don't seem correct in light of the quotation above. Check out "The Chase Family Story" compiled by Richard Chase Fassett & Rosalind Chase Bush, just in case. 		Barber, Thomas (I2182)
 
1679 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The New England Historical and Genealogical Register," v. 162, April 2008, p. 113, article: "Various English Wills Relating to New England Colonists: Gillett, Swaine, Cheney, and Tutty-Knight-Whitman," by Leslie Mahler:
"New Evidence in the English Ancestry of Jonathan Gillett and Nathan Gillett of Windsor, Connecticut.
The critical clue to the English ancestry of brothers Jonathan and Nathan Gillett of Windsor, Connecticut, was published a century ago by James H. Lea and John R. Hutchinson. They presented an abstract of the will of William Gillett, parson of Chaffcombe, Somerset, dated 1641, proved 16 April 1641, (1) which mentions 'land which my son Nathan made over to me by letter of Attorney,' as well as son Jeremiah and daughter Abiah (these two names were used by the Gillett family in Windsor). The will includes a statemeny regarding 'all my children in England,' implying that some children were overseas. A later article by George McCracken located a few more items relating to the Gillett family in England from bishops transcripts. (2) Work coordinated by Burton Spear in the 1990s located a marriage license dated 18 September 1609 for William Gillett, clerk and curate of Kingstone, Somerset, and 'Habiathia' Pye of Donyatt, Somerset. (3)
The will of Rev. William Tyes, dated 1 April 1623, proved 28 June 1623, (4) proves that Jonathan Gillett was a son of Rev. William Gillett (emphasis added):
'William Tyes by the p(ro)vidence of god pastor of the Church of Donniate w(i)thin the dioces of Bathe and Wells... give unto the Church of Donniate to be imployed in necessary uses about the same at the discretion of my executor within one yeare nexte after my decease ffortye shillings Item I give to the poore of the same p(ar)ishe whose names are menco(n)ed at the later end of this my last will and testament tenn pound Item I give to the poore people of the p(ar)ishe of Bromham in Wiltes where I was born ffoure pound Item I give to the poore of p(ar)ishe of Ilmi(n)ster ffortye shillings Item I give to the poore of Sainte James p(ar)ishe in Taunton but especiallye to them of Cannon Streate fforty shillings All w(hi)ch sev(er)all sumes I will to be distributed by my executor within one yeare nexte after my decease Item I give unto my wife Julian Tyes twenty pound and alsoe those two bonds by vertue where of there is ten pound yearely during her life five pound from my brother James Tyes in respecte of the Tenement that he enioyeth in Wiltes(hire) whereof I stand above fforty pound of the fyne and five pound from my kinsman Elias Tyes Clarke in Consideracon of a Tenem(en)t that I bought for him in Ileminster and payed the whole fyne Also I give unto my saied wife my househouldstuffe Item I give unto my brother John Tyes my best gowne and Cassoke and ten pound in money Item I give to his eldest sonn John in gold twenty two shillings Item I give my brother James Tyes his daughter Neiomey five pound Item I give unto my Cosin Elias Tyes twenty pound Item I give unto my Cozen Bancks her children tenn pound w(hi)che I will that John Tyes and Elias Tyes her brethren to be ymployed by them for their sister benefitt untill they shall come to the age of xxitie years Item whereas I have an estate for fowerscore and Nyneteene years determynable uppon the death of three lives as well in closes of meadow and pasture ground called Barrells scituate lyinge and beinge w(i)thin the p(ar)ishe of Rowd in the County of Wilte(shire) as alsoe the yearlye rents of these three sev(er)all Cottages or Tenements nowe in tennures or occupacons of Walter Clements John Barley als Okesey and Andrew Chandeler as by the Originall Lease therof made more plainely appeareth All w(hi)ch before recited p(re)mises and ev(er)ye of p(ar)te and p(ar)cell thereof I doe hereby give devise and bequeath unto Jonathan Gillet the sonne of Will(ia)m Gillett Clarke p(ar)son of Chafecombe in the Countie of Soms(e)t for and during all the tearme of the said ffowerscore and Nyneteen years that shalbe to come and unexpired after my decease upon Condicon the Mrs Elianor Willes widowe now resident and abidinge at my house in Donniate aforesaid shall have r(e)ceave take and gather to her p(ro)per use as well the rents p(ro)fitts and Commodities of the said two closes of meadowe and pasture as alsoe the yearly rents of the said three severall Cottages of Tenem(en)ts for the tearme and time of eighteene yeares to Commence & begin ymediately after my said decease yf she the said Elianor shall soe long live and noe longer otherwise Item I give to the said Elianor Willes a quarter of good wheate to be paid an delive(red) unto her w(i)thin one quart of a yeare after my decease Item I give to my cosen Margaret Hawkins her children ten pound to be imployed as before for her sisters children Item I give to Jonathan Gillett twenty pound and to the rest of my daughter in lawe Abia her children twenty pound to be devided equallye amonge them Item I give to my Cosen Richard Hancocke and James Hancocke their children to be equally devided amonge them (interlined tenn pound) Item I give to Susan Dell my wives kinswoman ffive pound Item I give to the children of Andrew Dell Sarah Dwellye and of Ann Gollape beinge of my wives kindred tenn pound equallye to be devided amonge them Item I give unto Rose Pullen my wives sister her children seaven pound to be equallie devided amonge them.'
The rest of his good and chattels unbequeathed were given to son-in-law William Gillett, who was named executor, with the legacies to be paid in one year. Cousins John and Elias Tyes were made overseers. William Tyes was rector of Donyatt since at least 1606, when he was listed in glebe terrier for that parish. (5) There is no record of him as a student of Cambridge or Oxford."
Footnotes:
(1) Taunton Wills, 1641, File 13, originally published in 'The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record,' 41 (1910):282-83, reprinted in 'English Origins of American Colonists From The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record' (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1991), 59-60. The Somerset wills were destroyed in World War II. There are good accounts of the Gillett brothers in Robert Charles Anderson, 'The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to the New England, 1620-1633,' 3 volumes. (Boston: NEHGS, 1995), 2:766-770 (Jonathan Gillett), 770-72 (Nathan Gillett).
(2) George E. McCracken, 'New Gillett Information from England,' 'The American Genealogist' 55 (1979): 170-73.
(3) Somerset Record Office, D/DOI 18 (bondsman was Roger Gillett of Chillington), cited in Burton Spear, ed., 'Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John 1630,' 27 vols. (Toledo, Ohio: Mary & John Clearing House, 1985-99), 25:35-36 (this reference was pointed out by David Morehouse of Hopkins, Minnesota).
(4) Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 56 Swann (FHL 0,092,092). The will calls Abiah daughter-in-law and her husband William Gillett son-in-law. A likely scenario is that Abiah was the stepdaughter of William Tyes, daughter of his wife Julian by a previous marriage.
(5) The Donyatt terrier for 1606 was published in 'Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset' 8 (1899):63.
 		Julian (I4600)
 
1680 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86(1955):132-148, 209-221, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America," by George E. McCracken:
"10. Simon Feake, second son of James Feake of Wighton (no. 7) by wife Agnes, appears in his father's will in 1539, and, though without his father's name, stands at the head of the 1634 pedigree as Simon Feake of Kerdeston, while in the 1664 pedigree his father's name is given as James Feake of Wighton. In the will of his brother William in 1595 he is mentioned as having children then living. Although Simon is not specifically said to be dead, there is nothing to prove he is not, and if no error has been made in putting the family together, he is the Simon Feake of Kettleston, co. Norfolk, tanner, whose undated will was probated June 12, 1570 (Consistory Court of Norwich: 42 [Brygge]. He mentions wife Alice; leaves £10 to son John Feake, and to any one of the rest of his children xxvi s viii d. This sum is one-third of four pounds, so the other children were probably three in number, for this man died in early life. In the will of his brother William the children of Simon are each left £3/6/8, unless they had already received this sum, and since this is precisely one-third of ten pounds, we think it probable that Simon had four children in all, of whom one may have died before 1595. Property in Wesingsett, Walsingham, Sherington, and Holte, all in Norfolk, is bequeathed. The children would all seem to have been minors, as brother Robert is named executor. Children: 4:
17. i. John.
18. ii. (poss.) Mary, m. Thomas Gibbons, at St. James's Clerkenwell, Dec. 2, 1593. As she was not daughter of Simon's brothers William, Edmond or James, we put her here.
19. iii. (poss.) Henry, matriculated pensioner from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Lent 1584/5; was then of Norfolk; migrated to Caius; B.A. 1588/9; ordained priest at Norwich, Jan. 1, 1595/6, rector of Warham St. Mary and St. Margaret, Norfolk (Venn and Venn, "Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part I, 2:128). We know nothing of his subsequent history and place him here because his putative brother named a son Henry. He may have been father of a Henry Feekes who m. Alice Foorde, July 30, 1620, at St. James's, Clerkenwell, and was buried there as Henry Feakes, householder, Dec. 2, 1622. Katherine, daughter of this couple, was baptized Nov. 10, 1622, buried Aug. 29, 1623, same parish.
20. iv. Another, d. before 1595."

SOURCES_MISC:
1. FHL book 929.273-K727kf: "Knapp's N' Kin, The Ancestral Lines of Frederick H Knapp and Others," compiled by: Frederick H Knapp, Rt. #2, Box 438C, AB Hwy, Richland, Missouri, 65556; 1987; Revised/Updated 1991. It notes the following sources, none of which I have yet reviewed:
-NYG&HR, Vol. 11, by J.J. Latting.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 86, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 87, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 47 (1893).
-TAG, Vol. 27, by J.L. Jacobus.
-Anc. Heads of NE Fam., by Holmes.
-Norfolk Rec. Soc., Vol. VI, p. 76.
-Topography Hist. of co. Norfolk, Eng., vol. 9, p. 209 (1808). 		Alice (I4836)
 
1681 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86(1955):132-148, 209-221, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America," by George E. McCracken:
"11. James Feake, third son of James Feake of Wighton (no. 7) by wife Agnes, married, by license dated Dec. 5, 1562, Parnell Ward, and died intestate, in the Parish of St. John Zachary, London, September 1590, administration granted again in 1594 (PCC Administrations 96A). Like his brother William he was a goldsmith of London, and Sir Ambrose Heal lists him for the year 1585 in his impressive but disappointing book, "The London Goldsmiths 1200-1800" (Cambridge, 1935), p. 150. James appears in his father's will in 1539 but not in any of the pedigrees. He is mentioned as deceased in the will of his brother William in 1595 and, though not named, is implied to be deceased in the nuncupative will of Parnell Feake of St. John Zachary, London, widow, dated on the 25th or 26th Oct. 1593, probated Nov. 8, 1593 (Prerogative Court of Canterbury: 80 Nevell; abstracted in "New England Historical and Genealogical Register " 47:515; Henry F. Waters, "Genealogical Gleanings in England" [Boston 1901] p. 789). She, lying sick in her house, did declare unto her three daughters Margaret, Judith, and Ann Feake, being attendant upon her, that her mind and will was that William Feake her son should have the disposition of all whatsoever she had ... And that her said son William should bestow so much of her goods upon every of her said daughters, and her son James, as he thought good. And made the said William Feake her son sole executor of the said her will. And also made William Feake, her husband's brother, Mr. Padmere, and Robert Padmere, overseers. Children: 7 (order probably chronological):
21. i. William, executor of mother's will, not mentioned in uncle William's will; probably father to two daughters baptised at St. Vedast's, London: Mary (April 23, 1597), Hanna (Nov. 19, 1598).
22. ii. James, mentioned in wills of mother and uncle; apprenticed to William Feake, goldsmith, for nine years beginning Christmas 1582.
23. iii. Margaret, mentioned in both wills.
24. iv. Judith, mentioned in both wills.
25. v. Anne, mentioned in both wills.
26. vi. Parnell, mentioned only in uncle's will; probably too young to testify at probating of mother's will.
27. vii. Mary, mentioned only in uncle's will; probably m. James Cole, St. Vedast's, Oct. 29, 1598."

SOURCES_MISC:
1. FHL book 929.273-K727kf: "Knapp's N' Kin, The Ancestral Lines of Frederick H Knapp and Others," compiled by: Frederick H Knapp, Rt. #2, Box 438C, AB Hwy, Richland, Missouri, 65556; 1987; Revised/Updated 1991. It notes the following sources, none of which I have yet reviewed:
-NYG&HR, Vol. 11, by J.J. Latting.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 86, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 87, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 47 (1893).
-TAG, Vol. 27, by J.L. Jacobus.
-Anc. Heads of NE Fam., by Holmes.
-Norfolk Rec. Soc., Vol. VI, p. 76.
-Topography Hist. of co. Norfolk, Eng., vol. 9, p. 209 (1808). 		Ward, Parnell (I4834)
 
1682 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86(1955):132-148, 209-221, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America," by George E. McCracken:
"13. William Feake, fifth son of James Feake of Wighton (no. 7) by wife Agnes, appears in the will of his father in 1539 as youngest of five brothers. According to General Delafield, he later presented to the Goldsmiths' Company a silver-gilt cup of which an illustration appears in Delafield (2:491). The cup was melted down in 1663, its cover in 1665, and the whole then remade with the Feake arms and those of his wife's family, the Wetheralls. On this cup are said to be annulets which indicate that William was a fifth son, thereby confirming the evidence from the will. The goldsmith appears also as son of James in both 1623 and 1664 pedigrees, though in the latter instance, as printed, he is definitely called the eldest, Simon and Robert being younger, and the other brothers omitted. This is doubtless an editor's error, derived from the fact that the empty space to the left of Simon's family was utilized for William. The wills of both William and his wife state that he was born at Wighton.
At an early age he removed to London where he must have been apprenticed to some goldsmith. Neither in the list of apprentices obtained by Mr. Torrey nor in Sir Ambrose Heal's list of goldsmiths before 1800 (op. cit. 150) do we find the name of the goldsmith to whom he was apprenticed but the latter says there was a William Feake, goldsmith of London, whose will was probated in 1620. The year of probate is quite wrong, derived from litigation in his wife's estate in that year. Mr. Torrey found at least four of his apprentices named Feake: there must have been many others with different names, and it is still possible that the archives of the Goldsmiths' Company may contain other data about William. In any case, he must have amassed a considerable fortune before he died in May 1595, resident of the Parish of St. Edmund the King, Lombard Street. Both he and his son James are wrongly called grocers in the 1623 pedigree as printed.
William Feake married, at the Church of St. Mary Woolnoth, London, on Nov. 12, 1564, Mary Wetherall of London. The 1623 pedigree gives her father's occupation as aurifaber but does not give his first name. Research into her ancestry is not complete but it is probable that she was a daughter of Thomas Wetherall, citizen and goldsmith of London, buried at the same church on April 27, 1554. His will, probated in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury: (I More), has been read by Delafield who says it mentions wife Margaret and alludes to children not named. The registers of St. Mary Woolnoth contain no reference to Mary Wetherall's baptism but show the following entries of the children of Thomas and Margaret Wetherall:
i. Richard, bap. Nov. 19, 1540, bur. Nov. 30, 1540.
ii. Henry, bur. Dec. 11, 1541.
iii. Thomas, bur. Oct. 18, 1543.
iv. Christopher, bap. Feb. 25, 1542/3.
v. Thomas, bap. April 12, 1548, probably the citizen and homer of London, d. 1572, will probated [PCC:3 Peter (not examined)].
vi. Christian, bap. April 14, 1551, bur. Oct. 4, 1563.
To these we should add the marriage on July 16, 1554, of Margaret Wetherall to William Ynchorem [Ingraham?]. Margaret may have been another daughter but, as there are no Ynchorem baptisms in this register, and the date of marriage follows hard after the burial of Thomas, we think it more probable that this was a second marriage of his widow.
In any case it would seem clear that our Mary was too old to have been, as Colonel Banks appears to have thought possible, the daughter of John Wetherhill of London, goldsmith, whose will dated May 17, 1578, probated June 18, 1578 (PCC:27 Langley) directs burial in the same church, in which also testator's child [Thomasyn, buried July 18, 1571] and brother [Thomas] already lie buried. John's wife was named Elizabeth, probably the Elizabeth Wetherhill of the same parish whose will was probated in 1585 [PCC:26 Brudenell; not examined]. They had a daughter Leah, wife of Humphrey Streate, married Sept. 23, 1577, and also other children: John (buried Nov. 9, 1590), Philip, Sarah, Anne the elder, Mary, Martha, Christian, Margaret (baptised Dec. 17, 1559, married Robert Molesworth, haberdasher, of same parish, Dec. 18, 1582, by license dated Dec. I I, 1582), Elizabeth, Susan (baptised April 30, 1562), Rebecca (married, Sept. 27, 1585, Thomas Child, of same parish), Rachel (baptised Sept. 12, 1564), and Anne the younger (baptised Nov. 16, 1567, married in double wedding with sister Margaret, by license dated same day, Thomas Lodge, of St. Osith, co. Surrey, gent.).
The Wetherall arms on the silver-gilt cup are: Argent two lions passant guardant sable, on a chief of the second three covered cups or, and are stated in Burke's "Encyclopaedia" of Heraldry to have been borne by a Lincolnshire family of the same name. He does not identify the family further and no success has been had in locating them. No Wetheralls appear in any of the Lincolnshire Visitations.
The Feake arms on the same cup are: Sable a fesse dancetté or, in chief three fleurs-de-lis argent; Crest: out of a coronet or demi-ostrich with wings spread argent holding in the beak a horse's shoe. These arms also appear in the 1623 pedigree as borne by William's son Edward and in the 1634 pedigree as borne by William's great-nephew John Feake of London, goldsmith (no. 45). They are also the same as those recently registered with the Committee on Heraldry of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (see New England Historical and Genealogical Register 107:269) as those of William's grandson, Lieutenant Robert Feake (no. 49). We do not know whether the arms were actually granted first to William or to one of his relatives and then used on the cup when it was remade seventy years after his death.
William's will was dated May 7, 1595, probated May 19, 1595 (PCC:34 Scott; abstracted in "New England Historical and Genealogical Register," Henry F. Waters [faded print] in Delafield 2:544). The date of probate is wrongly given as May 18, 1582, by Henry Wilder Foote, "Robert Feke, Colonial Portrait Painter" (Cambridge, Mass., 1930) p.18. Burial is directed in the Church of St. Edmund the King, "where I am a parishioner, at my pew door." This parish is unfortunately one of those for which the registers have not survived.
To twenty poor men of the poorest of my Company of Goldsmiths, 20 gowns of 20s a piece and 12d a piece for their dinner; to ten other poor men gowns of like price and 12d a piece for their dinner. To every of my brethren's children now in London & every of my men & women servants a cloak or gown.
My goods &c. (after debts paid and funerals discharged) into three parts "according to the ancient and laudable use & custom of the City of London," one part to beloved wife Mary; second part unto and amongst Thomas, John, Edward, Sarah, and Rebecca, my children, minors; third part I reserve unto myself to be disposed of &c.
To poor prisoners in seven prisons, the hospitals., poor and towardly scholars in Cambridge, the Goldsmiths' Company &c. A house for six poor men or women at Wighton in Norfolk where I was born. Poor goldsmiths' widows; the Governors of Bridewell.
To James, Parnell, Mary, Margaret, Judith, and Anne, children of my brother James Feake, deceased, £10 each.
I have heretofore given to some of the children of my brother Edmond [sic] Feake £10 a piece. I do now give to every of his other children (saving Anne Feake now dwelling with me), £10 a piece. To the same Anne £16, besides the £4 I have in my hands and received to her use of the gift and bequest of her mother's brother. I have already given to some of my sister Jygg's children 40s a piece. I now give 40s to every of her other children. I have heretofore given to some of the children of my brother John Angell 40s. I do now give the like sum to every of his other children. I have heretofore given to some of the children of my brother William Angell 40s. I do now give the like sum to every of his other children. [Note that the Jygg and Angell relatives receive only one-fifth as much as the other nieces and nephews, one of the evidences that they enjoyed only a half or step relationship with testator.]
£3/6/8 to every of the children of my brother Simon Feake to whom I have not already given the like sum.
To my son James Feake £300, he entering into bond to my executrix to pay unto my son William and Mary his wife, during their lives and the life of the longer liver, 10s weekly. To son-in-law Thomas Barneham and Mary his wife, £200. I hold for divers years yet to come, by virtue of two several leases, one from the Goldsmiths' Company and the other from Mr. Younge, grocer, all my now dwelling house in Lumbard Street and three tenements in Birchen Lane. To wife Mary a life interest and remainder to son James Feake.
The wife is to keep and maintain son Thomas at his learning & study in the University [of Cambridge] until he reaches the age of thirty. Son John is to be apprenticed to some honest merchant and to have £100. Son-in-law Thomas Barneham standeth bound to pay son Edward £200 at aet. 21 and son James likewise is bound to pay son John the same sum at aet. 21.
Residue to wife Mary, sole executrix. She gets a messuage in Lumbard Street called or known by the name of the Sign of Noah, now in occupation of Noah Farmer, goldsmith, and my two tenements, divided into three, being in St. Swythens Lane, which I bought of Mr. Nicholas Herrick, for life; remainder to son Thomas, then to son William, then to son James, next to son John, next to son Edward, lastly to my daughters Mary, Sarah, Rebecca. [In this list Thomas comes first as a prospective clergyman; then the other sons in order of birth, followed by the daughters in order of birth.]
As this will exhibits great wealth and great generosity not only to the relatives but to the poor and to charitable institutions, it is clear that in this man the Feake family attained its highest peak of prosperity.
A commission dated May 20, 1625, was granted to Judith Feake, relict and administratrix of James Feake, deceased, while he lived executor of the will of Mary Feake, deceased, while she lived relict and executrix of William Freake [per Waters], likewise deceased, to administer the goods of said William according to the tenor of his will not fully administered by the said Mary Feake, his relict. The said Judith had died by June 1626 when Francis Dowse took administration of the estate (PCC: Administration Account Book f. 87-4), and in December 1634 Alice Dixon, daughter of William's son James, succeeded as administratrix, Robert Feake (her brother, no. 49) having renounced his right to serve in the preceding month. No light on the identity of this Francis Dowse is to be found in W.B.H. Dowse's "Lawrence Dowse of Legbourne" (Boston 1926), and this Francis was much too old to have been the Francis Dowse, with wife Katherine, discussed by John Insley Coddington ("The American Genealogist" 29:161-9).
Mary, widow of William Feake, died Aug. 21, 1619 (1623 pedigree). She, widow, of London, late wife and executrix of William Feake, late citizen and goldsmith of London, deceased, made her own will March 9, 1618 sub Angliae, probated Aug. 23, 1619 (PCC: 97 Parker; abstracted in "New England Historical and Genealogical Register" 47:5 15-18; Waters, op. cit. 789-91; also abstracted in Delafield 2:544). Burial is directed in the "church of St. Edmund the King near the place where my husband lieth buried."
To every of my sons and daughters and their wives and husbands and every of their children. To Sarah Bullocke, my servant. To poor prisoners of eight prisons, to the hospitals, to other poor and needy people. To the Parish of Wighton in Norfolk where my husband was born. To the Company of Goldsmiths. To the Governors of Bridewell.
To son James Feake, to son Edward Feake, 20 acres in Home, Surrey, called the Moores, which I lately bought of one Nicholas Hurling To son John Feake a messuage by the Sign of Noah and the two tenements in three in St. Swythens Lane which I bought of my son Thomas Feake. To son John for life certain properties in Godstone als Walcombstead, Surrey, a messuage called Maynard's bought of my son-in-law William Smyth of London, mercer. After John's decease, then to grandson Samuel Feake, son of my son John, remainder to Judith Feake, daughter of said John, lastly to right heirs of John.
To son James two messuages in Lumbard Street now in tenure of Anthony Bradshaw and Robert Davies, goldsmiths. To every of the children of my son John £20 a piece. To daughter Rebecca Bournford £600 and certain goods of her late husband sold unto me by the late Sherriffes of London by force of an extent. Said Rebecca to occupy the house in Bow Lane which I hold of the Company of Goldsmiths for life, then to Samuel and Henry Bournford, her children.
To Alice Feake, daughter of son James, £ioo. To son-in-law William Smith, £300 on condition he pay son William Feake £20 per annum for life. To Katherine Smith, daughter of said William and Sarah his wife, £100. To daughter-in-law Mary Feake, wife of William. To daughter Barnham. Mention is made also of the lunacy of Mary Barnham and of the dwelling house of son James in Lumbard Street. James Feake and Robert Feake, my grandchildren, to either of them, £100 etc. Son James Feake is named sole executor.
A definitive sentence pronouncing for the will of Marie Feake, late of St. Edmund the King, City of London, widow, dated Jan. 27, 1619/20 (PCC: 8 Soame, no. 43), shows a dispute between James Feake, son and executor of said Marie, and William, John, Thomas, and Edward Feake, Sarah Feake als Smith, and Rebecca Bournford als Feake, children of deceased.
There is also attached to the probate record a memorandum apparently in the hand of the executor James Feake, naming the following persons as left out of the will: Mrs. Blacklicke and her sister Ransom; Barnabye Gregorye and his sister Amey; cousin Sale; brother Edward Boyes; sister Bournford; cousin Bullock. Of these we shall be able to identify only the two Gregoryes, cousin Sale, and cousin Bullock.
As there is a gap of at least seven years between the births of James and Thomas, there may have been other children who died vita patris. Children: 8
30. i. Mary, b. ca. 1565, aet. 49+ in 1614, obviously not born before summer of 1565 as her parents married Nov. 12, 1564. She wrongly appears as seventh child in the 1623 pedigree. Before May 7, 1595, she m. Thomas Barneham (d. ca. 1614), eldest child of Thomas Barneham (d. ca. April 1, 1576) by wife Alice Cressey of London; grandson of Francis Barneham, Sheriff of London, by wife Alice Bradbridge; great-grandson of Stephen Barneham of Southwick, co. Southampton (see Harleian Society 42:168 f.; 54:8; 64:150; The Ancestor 9:191-209, and an article in preparation by John Insley Coddington). At an inquest post mortem (vol. 412, no. 9, 17 Feb. [11], James I-1613/14), held at Stratford Langthorne [co. Essex] before William Smyth [her brother-in-law?], "Mary Barnham, widow, lunatic, enjoys lucid intervals, say Geoffrey Thurgad[?], William Pullyn, Tobias Dixon [later her niece's husband], John Silvester, Wm. Feake, etc. She is incapable of managing her lands. Fifteen years ago she was capax eruditionis. William Feake is her brother and next heir, and she is aet. 49 and more." She was still living in 1619 and still a lunatic when her mother made her will. Her only child Isaac was baptised at St. Botolph's Bishopsgate, Nov. 19, 1595, but died before 1614.
31. ii. William, b. ca. 1566. As the bequests he receives in the wills of his parents are relatively small, though of course of much greater purchasing power then than now, and are not capital funds but annuities to be paid periodically by others, it seems possible that William was regarded as not quite competent to manage his own affairs. Delafield, however, discovered that he was Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths in 1621, which does not suggest incompetence. Sir Ambrose Heal (op. cit.) lists a William who could be this man as goldsmith in 1632 and says there is a will probated in i666. This we have not found but, if authentic, it may be that of another William (no. 67). Our man was already married on May 7, 1595, to a wife Mary. Both were living in 1619, and are marked "s.p." but not "d.s.p." in the 1623 pedigree.
32. iii. James, b. ca. 1567, aet. 34 on July 1, 1601; d. ca. 1625.
33. iv. Thomas, minor in 1595, b. after 1574; coelebs in the 1623 pedigree; matriculated pensioner from Trinity, at Cambridge, Easter 1589; scholar 1590; B.A. 1592/3, M.A. 1596.; by father's will was to be kept at the University until aet. 30; living 1619, no wife mentioned, in his mother's will.
34. v. John, second eldest of minor children in 1595.
35. vi. Edward, third eldest of minor children in 1595.
36. vii. Sarah, elder of minor daughters in 1595; by 1619 had m. William Smyth of London, mercer, who was probably man of that name before whom the inquest post mortem of Thomas Barnham was held in 1614. By 1619 this couple had a daughter Katherine.
37. viii. Rebecca, youngest child in 1595; shown, for reason not apparent, as eldest child in 1623 pedigree; by 1619 had m. William Bournford of London, grocer, and was then his widow with two sons Samuel and Henry."

SOURCES_MISC:
1. FHL book 929.273-K727kf: "Knapp's N' Kin, The Ancestral Lines of Frederick H Knapp and Others," compiled by: Frederick H Knapp, Rt. #2, Box 438C, AB Hwy, Richland, Missouri, 65556; 1987; Revised/Updated 1991. It notes the following sources, none of which I have yet reviewed:
-NYG&HR, Vol. 11, by J.J. Latting.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 86, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 87, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 47 (1893).
-TAG, Vol. 27, by J.L. Jacobus.
-Anc. Heads of NE Fam., by Holmes. 		Wetherall, Mary (I4802)
 
1683 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86(1955):132-148, 209-221, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America," by George E. McCracken:
"13. William Feake, fifth son of James Feake of Wighton (no. 7) by wife Agnes, appears in the will of his father in 1539 as youngest of five brothers...
William Feake married, at the Church of St. Mary Woolnoth, London, on Nov. 12, 1564, Mary Wetherall of London. The 1623 pedigree gives her father's occupation as aurifaber but does not give his first name. Research into her ancestry is not complete but it is probable that she was a daughter of Thomas Wetherall, citizen and goldsmith of London, buried at the same church on April 27, 1554. His will, probated in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury: (I More), has been read by Delafield who says it mentions wife Margaret and alludes to children not named. The registers of St. Mary Woolnoth contain no reference to Mary Wetherall's baptism but show the following entries of the children of Thomas and Margaret Wetherall:
i. Richard, bap. Nov. 19, 1540, bur. Nov. 30, 1540.
ii. Henry, bur. Dec. 11, 1541.
iii. Thomas, bur. Oct. 18, 1543.
iv. Christopher, bap. Feb. 25, 1542/3.
v. Thomas, bap. April 12, 1548, probably the citizen and homer of London, d. 1572, will probated [PCC:3 Peter (not examined)].
vi. Christian, bap. April 14, 1551, bur. Oct. 4, 1563.
To these we should add the marriage on July 16, 1554, of Margaret Wetherall to William Ynchorem [Ingraham?]. Margaret may have been another daughter but, as there are no Ynchorem baptisms in this register, and the date of marriage follows hard after the burial of Thomas, we think it more probable that this was a second marriage of his widow.
In any case it would seem clear that our Mary was too old to have been, as Colonel Banks appears to have thought possible, the daughter of John Wetherhill of London, goldsmith, whose will dated May 17, 1578, probated June 18, 1578 (PCC:27 Langley) directs burial in the same church, in which also testator's child [Thomasyn, buried July 18, 1571] and brother [Thomas] already lie buried. John's wife was named Elizabeth, probably the Elizabeth Wetherhill of the same parish whose will was probated in 1585 [PCC:26 Brudenell; not examined]. They had a daughter Leah, wife of Humphrey Streate, married Sept. 23, 1577, and also other children: John (buried Nov. 9, 1590), Philip, Sarah, Anne the elder, Mary, Martha, Christian, Margaret (baptised Dec. 17, 1559, married Robert Molesworth, haberdasher, of same parish, Dec. 18, 1582, by license dated Dec. I I, 1582), Elizabeth, Susan (baptised April 30, 1562), Rebecca (married, Sept. 27, 1585, Thomas Child, of same parish), Rachel (baptised Sept. 12, 1564), and Anne the younger (baptised Nov. 16, 1567, married in double wedding with sister Margaret, by license dated same day, Thomas Lodge, of St. Osith, co. Surrey, gent.).
The Wetherall arms on the silver-gilt cup are: Argent two lions passant guardant sable, on a chief of the second three covered cups or, and are stated in Burke's "Encyclopaedia" of Heraldry to have been borne by a Lincolnshire family of the same name. He does not identify the family further and no success has been had in locating them. No Wetheralls appear in any of the Lincolnshire Visitations.
The Feake arms on the same cup are: Sable a fesse dancetté or, in chief three fleurs-de-lis argent; Crest: out of a coronet or demi-ostrich with wings spread argent holding in the beak a horse's shoe. These arms also appear in the 1623 pedigree as borne by William's son Edward and in the 1634 pedigree as borne by William's great-nephew John Feake of London, goldsmith (no. 45). They are also the same as those recently registered with the Committee on Heraldry of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (see New England Historical and Genealogical Register 107:269) as those of William's grandson, Lieutenant Robert Feake (no. 49). We do not know whether the arms were actually granted first to William or to one of his relatives and then used on the cup when it was remade seventy years after his death...
 		Ynchorem, William (I5804)
 
1684 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86(1955):132-148, 209-221, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America," by George E. McCracken:
"13. William Feake, fifth son of James Feake of Wighton (no. 7) by wife Agnes, appears in the will of his father in 1539 as youngest of five brothers...
William Feake married, at the Church of St. Mary Woolnoth, London, on Nov. 12, 1564, Mary Wetherall of London. The 1623 pedigree gives her father's occupation as aurifaber but does not give his first name. Research into her ancestry is not complete but it is probable that she was a daughter of Thomas Wetherall, citizen and goldsmith of London, buried at the same church on April 27, 1554. His will, probated in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury: (I More), has been read by Delafield who says it mentions wife Margaret and alludes to children not named. The registers of St. Mary Woolnoth contain no reference to Mary Wetherall's baptism but show the following entries of the children of Thomas and Margaret Wetherall:
i. Richard, bap. Nov. 19, 1540, bur. Nov. 30, 1540.
ii. Henry, bur. Dec. 11, 1541.
iii. Thomas, bur. Oct. 18, 1543.
iv. Christopher, bap. Feb. 25, 1542/3.
v. Thomas, bap. April 12, 1548, probably the citizen and homer of London, d. 1572, will probated [PCC:3 Peter (not examined)].
vi. Christian, bap. April 14, 1551, bur. Oct. 4, 1563.
To these we should add the marriage on July 16, 1554, of Margaret Wetherall to William Ynchorem [Ingraham?]. Margaret may have been another daughter but, as there are no Ynchorem baptisms in this register, and the date of marriage follows hard after the burial of Thomas, we think it more probable that this was a second marriage of his widow.
In any case it would seem clear that our Mary was too old to have been, as Colonel Banks appears to have thought possible, the daughter of John Wetherhill of London, goldsmith, whose will dated May 17, 1578, probated June 18, 1578 (PCC:27 Langley) directs burial in the same church, in which also testator's child [Thomasyn, buried July 18, 1571] and brother [Thomas] already lie buried. John's wife was named Elizabeth, probably the Elizabeth Wetherhill of the same parish whose will was probated in 1585 [PCC:26 Brudenell; not examined]. They had a daughter Leah, wife of Humphrey Streate, married Sept. 23, 1577, and also other children: John (buried Nov. 9, 1590), Philip, Sarah, Anne the elder, Mary, Martha, Christian, Margaret (baptised Dec. 17, 1559, married Robert Molesworth, haberdasher, of same parish, Dec. 18, 1582, by license dated Dec. I I, 1582), Elizabeth, Susan (baptised April 30, 1562), Rebecca (married, Sept. 27, 1585, Thomas Child, of same parish), Rachel (baptised Sept. 12, 1564), and Anne the younger (baptised Nov. 16, 1567, married in double wedding with sister Margaret, by license dated same day, Thomas Lodge, of St. Osith, co. Surrey, gent.).
The Wetherall arms on the silver-gilt cup are: Argent two lions passant guardant sable, on a chief of the second three covered cups or, and are stated in Burke's "Encyclopaedia" of Heraldry to have been borne by a Lincolnshire family of the same name. He does not identify the family further and no success has been had in locating them. No Wetheralls appear in any of the Lincolnshire Visitations.
The Feake arms on the same cup are: Sable a fesse dancetté or, in chief three fleurs-de-lis argent; Crest: out of a coronet or demi-ostrich with wings spread argent holding in the beak a horse's shoe. These arms also appear in the 1623 pedigree as borne by William's son Edward and in the 1634 pedigree as borne by William's great-nephew John Feake of London, goldsmith (no. 45). They are also the same as those recently registered with the Committee on Heraldry of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (see New England Historical and Genealogical Register 107:269) as those of William's grandson, Lieutenant Robert Feake (no. 49). We do not know whether the arms were actually granted first to William or to one of his relatives and then used on the cup when it was remade seventy years after his death...
 		Wetherall, Christopher (I5803)
 
1685 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86(1955):132-148, 209-221, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America," by George E. McCracken:
"13. William Feake, fifth son of James Feake of Wighton (no. 7) by wife Agnes, appears in the will of his father in 1539 as youngest of five brothers...
William Feake married, at the Church of St. Mary Woolnoth, London, on Nov. 12, 1564, Mary Wetherall of London. The 1623 pedigree gives her father's occupation as aurifaber but does not give his first name. Research into her ancestry is not complete but it is probable that she was a daughter of Thomas Wetherall, citizen and goldsmith of London, buried at the same church on April 27, 1554. His will, probated in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury: (I More), has been read by Delafield who says it mentions wife Margaret and alludes to children not named. The registers of St. Mary Woolnoth contain no reference to Mary Wetherall's baptism but show the following entries of the children of Thomas and Margaret Wetherall:
i. Richard, bap. Nov. 19, 1540, bur. Nov. 30, 1540.
ii. Henry, bur. Dec. 11, 1541.
iii. Thomas, bur. Oct. 18, 1543.
iv. Christopher, bap. Feb. 25, 1542/3.
v. Thomas, bap. April 12, 1548, probably the citizen and homer of London, d. 1572, will probated [PCC:3 Peter (not examined)].
vi. Christian, bap. April 14, 1551, bur. Oct. 4, 1563.
To these we should add the marriage on July 16, 1554, of Margaret Wetherall to William Ynchorem [Ingraham?]. Margaret may have been another daughter but, as there are no Ynchorem baptisms in this register, and the date of marriage follows hard after the burial of Thomas, we think it more probable that this was a second marriage of his widow.
In any case it would seem clear that our Mary was too old to have been, as Colonel Banks appears to have thought possible, the daughter of John Wetherhill of London, goldsmith, whose will dated May 17, 1578, probated June 18, 1578 (PCC:27 Langley) directs burial in the same church, in which also testator's child [Thomasyn, buried July 18, 1571] and brother [Thomas] already lie buried. John's wife was named Elizabeth, probably the Elizabeth Wetherhill of the same parish whose will was probated in 1585 [PCC:26 Brudenell; not examined]. They had a daughter Leah, wife of Humphrey Streate, married Sept. 23, 1577, and also other children: John (buried Nov. 9, 1590), Philip, Sarah, Anne the elder, Mary, Martha, Christian, Margaret (baptised Dec. 17, 1559, married Robert Molesworth, haberdasher, of same parish, Dec. 18, 1582, by license dated Dec. I I, 1582), Elizabeth, Susan (baptised April 30, 1562), Rebecca (married, Sept. 27, 1585, Thomas Child, of same parish), Rachel (baptised Sept. 12, 1564), and Anne the younger (baptised Nov. 16, 1567, married in double wedding with sister Margaret, by license dated same day, Thomas Lodge, of St. Osith, co. Surrey, gent.).
The Wetherall arms on the silver-gilt cup are: Argent two lions passant guardant sable, on a chief of the second three covered cups or, and are stated in Burke's "Encyclopaedia" of Heraldry to have been borne by a Lincolnshire family of the same name. He does not identify the family further and no success has been had in locating them. No Wetheralls appear in any of the Lincolnshire Visitations.
The Feake arms on the same cup are: Sable a fesse dancetté or, in chief three fleurs-de-lis argent; Crest: out of a coronet or demi-ostrich with wings spread argent holding in the beak a horse's shoe. These arms also appear in the 1623 pedigree as borne by William's son Edward and in the 1634 pedigree as borne by William's great-nephew John Feake of London, goldsmith (no. 45). They are also the same as those recently registered with the Committee on Heraldry of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (see New England Historical and Genealogical Register 107:269) as those of William's grandson, Lieutenant Robert Feake (no. 49). We do not know whether the arms were actually granted first to William or to one of his relatives and then used on the cup when it was remade seventy years after his death...
 		Wetherall, Thomas (I5802)
 
1686 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86(1955):132-148, 209-221, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America," by George E. McCracken:
"13. William Feake, fifth son of James Feake of Wighton (no. 7) by wife Agnes, appears in the will of his father in 1539 as youngest of five brothers...
William Feake married, at the Church of St. Mary Woolnoth, London, on Nov. 12, 1564, Mary Wetherall of London. The 1623 pedigree gives her father's occupation as aurifaber but does not give his first name. Research into her ancestry is not complete but it is probable that she was a daughter of Thomas Wetherall, citizen and goldsmith of London, buried at the same church on April 27, 1554. His will, probated in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury: (I More), has been read by Delafield who says it mentions wife Margaret and alludes to children not named. The registers of St. Mary Woolnoth contain no reference to Mary Wetherall's baptism but show the following entries of the children of Thomas and Margaret Wetherall:
i. Richard, bap. Nov. 19, 1540, bur. Nov. 30, 1540.
ii. Henry, bur. Dec. 11, 1541.
iii. Thomas, bur. Oct. 18, 1543.
iv. Christopher, bap. Feb. 25, 1542/3.
v. Thomas, bap. April 12, 1548, probably the citizen and homer of London, d. 1572, will probated [PCC:3 Peter (not examined)].
vi. Christian, bap. April 14, 1551, bur. Oct. 4, 1563.
To these we should add the marriage on July 16, 1554, of Margaret Wetherall to William Ynchorem [Ingraham?]. Margaret may have been another daughter but, as there are no Ynchorem baptisms in this register, and the date of marriage follows hard after the burial of Thomas, we think it more probable that this was a second marriage of his widow.
In any case it would seem clear that our Mary was too old to have been, as Colonel Banks appears to have thought possible, the daughter of John Wetherhill of London, goldsmith, whose will dated May 17, 1578, probated June 18, 1578 (PCC:27 Langley) directs burial in the same church, in which also testator's child [Thomasyn, buried July 18, 1571] and brother [Thomas] already lie buried. John's wife was named Elizabeth, probably the Elizabeth Wetherhill of the same parish whose will was probated in 1585 [PCC:26 Brudenell; not examined]. They had a daughter Leah, wife of Humphrey Streate, married Sept. 23, 1577, and also other children: John (buried Nov. 9, 1590), Philip, Sarah, Anne the elder, Mary, Martha, Christian, Margaret (baptised Dec. 17, 1559, married Robert Molesworth, haberdasher, of same parish, Dec. 18, 1582, by license dated Dec. I I, 1582), Elizabeth, Susan (baptised April 30, 1562), Rebecca (married, Sept. 27, 1585, Thomas Child, of same parish), Rachel (baptised Sept. 12, 1564), and Anne the younger (baptised Nov. 16, 1567, married in double wedding with sister Margaret, by license dated same day, Thomas Lodge, of St. Osith, co. Surrey, gent.).
The Wetherall arms on the silver-gilt cup are: Argent two lions passant guardant sable, on a chief of the second three covered cups or, and are stated in Burke's "Encyclopaedia" of Heraldry to have been borne by a Lincolnshire family of the same name. He does not identify the family further and no success has been had in locating them. No Wetheralls appear in any of the Lincolnshire Visitations.
The Feake arms on the same cup are: Sable a fesse dancetté or, in chief three fleurs-de-lis argent; Crest: out of a coronet or demi-ostrich with wings spread argent holding in the beak a horse's shoe. These arms also appear in the 1623 pedigree as borne by William's son Edward and in the 1634 pedigree as borne by William's great-nephew John Feake of London, goldsmith (no. 45). They are also the same as those recently registered with the Committee on Heraldry of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (see New England Historical and Genealogical Register 107:269) as those of William's grandson, Lieutenant Robert Feake (no. 49). We do not know whether the arms were actually granted first to William or to one of his relatives and then used on the cup when it was remade seventy years after his death...
 		Wetherall, Henry (I5800)
 
1687 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86(1955):132-148, 209-221, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America," by George E. McCracken:
"13. William Feake, fifth son of James Feake of Wighton (no. 7) by wife Agnes, appears in the will of his father in 1539 as youngest of five brothers...
William Feake married, at the Church of St. Mary Woolnoth, London, on Nov. 12, 1564, Mary Wetherall of London. The 1623 pedigree gives her father's occupation as aurifaber but does not give his first name. Research into her ancestry is not complete but it is probable that she was a daughter of Thomas Wetherall, citizen and goldsmith of London, buried at the same church on April 27, 1554. His will, probated in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury: (I More), has been read by Delafield who says it mentions wife Margaret and alludes to children not named. The registers of St. Mary Woolnoth contain no reference to Mary Wetherall's baptism but show the following entries of the children of Thomas and Margaret Wetherall:
i. Richard, bap. Nov. 19, 1540, bur. Nov. 30, 1540.
ii. Henry, bur. Dec. 11, 1541.
iii. Thomas, bur. Oct. 18, 1543.
iv. Christopher, bap. Feb. 25, 1542/3.
v. Thomas, bap. April 12, 1548, probably the citizen and homer of London, d. 1572, will probated [PCC:3 Peter (not examined)].
vi. Christian, bap. April 14, 1551, bur. Oct. 4, 1563.
To these we should add the marriage on July 16, 1554, of Margaret Wetherall to William Ynchorem [Ingraham?]. Margaret may have been another daughter but, as there are no Ynchorem baptisms in this register, and the date of marriage follows hard after the burial of Thomas, we think it more probable that this was a second marriage of his widow.
In any case it would seem clear that our Mary was too old to have been, as Colonel Banks appears to have thought possible, the daughter of John Wetherhill of London, goldsmith, whose will dated May 17, 1578, probated June 18, 1578 (PCC:27 Langley) directs burial in the same church, in which also testator's child [Thomasyn, buried July 18, 1571] and brother [Thomas] already lie buried. John's wife was named Elizabeth, probably the Elizabeth Wetherhill of the same parish whose will was probated in 1585 [PCC:26 Brudenell; not examined]. They had a daughter Leah, wife of Humphrey Streate, married Sept. 23, 1577, and also other children: John (buried Nov. 9, 1590), Philip, Sarah, Anne the elder, Mary, Martha, Christian, Margaret (baptised Dec. 17, 1559, married Robert Molesworth, haberdasher, of same parish, Dec. 18, 1582, by license dated Dec. I I, 1582), Elizabeth, Susan (baptised April 30, 1562), Rebecca (married, Sept. 27, 1585, Thomas Child, of same parish), Rachel (baptised Sept. 12, 1564), and Anne the younger (baptised Nov. 16, 1567, married in double wedding with sister Margaret, by license dated same day, Thomas Lodge, of St. Osith, co. Surrey, gent.).
The Wetherall arms on the silver-gilt cup are: Argent two lions passant guardant sable, on a chief of the second three covered cups or, and are stated in Burke's "Encyclopaedia" of Heraldry to have been borne by a Lincolnshire family of the same name. He does not identify the family further and no success has been had in locating them. No Wetheralls appear in any of the Lincolnshire Visitations.
The Feake arms on the same cup are: Sable a fesse dancetté or, in chief three fleurs-de-lis argent; Crest: out of a coronet or demi-ostrich with wings spread argent holding in the beak a horse's shoe. These arms also appear in the 1623 pedigree as borne by William's son Edward and in the 1634 pedigree as borne by William's great-nephew John Feake of London, goldsmith (no. 45). They are also the same as those recently registered with the Committee on Heraldry of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (see New England Historical and Genealogical Register 107:269) as those of William's grandson, Lieutenant Robert Feake (no. 49). We do not know whether the arms were actually granted first to William or to one of his relatives and then used on the cup when it was remade seventy years after his death...
 		Wetherall, Richard (I5798)
 
1688 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86(1955):132-148, 209-221, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America," by George E. McCracken:
"13. William Feake, fifth son of James Feake of Wighton (no. 7) by wife Agnes, appears in the will of his father in 1539 as youngest of five brothers...
William Feake married, at the Church of St. Mary Woolnoth, London, on Nov. 12, 1564, Mary Wetherall of London. The 1623 pedigree gives her father's occupation as aurifaber but does not give his first name. Research into her ancestry is not complete but it is probable that she was a daughter of Thomas Wetherall, citizen and goldsmith of London, buried at the same church on April 27, 1554. His will, probated in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury: (I More), has been read by Delafield who says it mentions wife Margaret and alludes to children not named. The registers of St. Mary Woolnoth contain no reference to Mary Wetherall's baptism but show the following entries of the children of Thomas and Margaret Wetherall:
i. Richard, bap. Nov. 19, 1540, bur. Nov. 30, 1540.
ii. Henry, bur. Dec. 11, 1541.
iii. Thomas, bur. Oct. 18, 1543.
iv. Christopher, bap. Feb. 25, 1542/3.
v. Thomas, bap. April 12, 1548, probably the citizen and homer of London, d. 1572, will probated [PCC:3 Peter (not examined)].
vi. Christian, bap. April 14, 1551, bur. Oct. 4, 1563.
To these we should add the marriage on July 16, 1554, of Margaret Wetherall to William Ynchorem [Ingraham?]. Margaret may have been another daughter but, as there are no Ynchorem baptisms in this register, and the date of marriage follows hard after the burial of Thomas, we think it more probable that this was a second marriage of his widow.
In any case it would seem clear that our Mary was too old to have been, as Colonel Banks appears to have thought possible, the daughter of John Wetherhill of London, goldsmith, whose will dated May 17, 1578, probated June 18, 1578 (PCC:27 Langley) directs burial in the same church, in which also testator's child [Thomasyn, buried July 18, 1571] and brother [Thomas] already lie buried. John's wife was named Elizabeth, probably the Elizabeth Wetherhill of the same parish whose will was probated in 1585 [PCC:26 Brudenell; not examined]. They had a daughter Leah, wife of Humphrey Streate, married Sept. 23, 1577, and also other children: John (buried Nov. 9, 1590), Philip, Sarah, Anne the elder, Mary, Martha, Christian, Margaret (baptised Dec. 17, 1559, married Robert Molesworth, haberdasher, of same parish, Dec. 18, 1582, by license dated Dec. I I, 1582), Elizabeth, Susan (baptised April 30, 1562), Rebecca (married, Sept. 27, 1585, Thomas Child, of same parish), Rachel (baptised Sept. 12, 1564), and Anne the younger (baptised Nov. 16, 1567, married in double wedding with sister Margaret, by license dated same day, Thomas Lodge, of St. Osith, co. Surrey, gent.).
The Wetherall arms on the silver-gilt cup are: Argent two lions passant guardant sable, on a chief of the second three covered cups or, and are stated in Burke's "Encyclopaedia" of Heraldry to have been borne by a Lincolnshire family of the same name. He does not identify the family further and no success has been had in locating them. No Wetheralls appear in any of the Lincolnshire Visitations.
The Feake arms on the same cup are: Sable a fesse dancetté or, in chief three fleurs-de-lis argent; Crest: out of a coronet or demi-ostrich with wings spread argent holding in the beak a horse's shoe. These arms also appear in the 1623 pedigree as borne by William's son Edward and in the 1634 pedigree as borne by William's great-nephew John Feake of London, goldsmith (no. 45). They are also the same as those recently registered with the Committee on Heraldry of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (see New England Historical and Genealogical Register 107:269) as those of William's grandson, Lieutenant Robert Feake (no. 49). We do not know whether the arms were actually granted first to William or to one of his relatives and then used on the cup when it was remade seventy years after his death...
 		Wetherall, Christian (I5794)
 
1689 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86(1955):132-148, 209-221, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America," by George E. McCracken:
"13. William Feake, fifth son of James Feake of Wighton (no. 7) by wife Agnes, appears in the will of his father in 1539 as youngest of five brothers...
William Feake married, at the Church of St. Mary Woolnoth, London, on Nov. 12, 1564, Mary Wetherall of London. The 1623 pedigree gives her father's occupation as aurifaber but does not give his first name. Research into her ancestry is not complete but it is probable that she was a daughter of Thomas Wetherall, citizen and goldsmith of London, buried at the same church on April 27, 1554. His will, probated in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury: (I More), has been read by Delafield who says it mentions wife Margaret and alludes to children not named. The registers of St. Mary Woolnoth contain no reference to Mary Wetherall's baptism but show the following entries of the children of Thomas and Margaret Wetherall:
i. Richard, bap. Nov. 19, 1540, bur. Nov. 30, 1540.
ii. Henry, bur. Dec. 11, 1541.
iii. Thomas, bur. Oct. 18, 1543.
iv. Christopher, bap. Feb. 25, 1542/3.
v. Thomas, bap. April 12, 1548, probably the citizen and homer of London, d. 1572, will probated [PCC:3 Peter (not examined)].
vi. Christian, bap. April 14, 1551, bur. Oct. 4, 1563.
To these we should add the marriage on July 16, 1554, of Margaret Wetherall to William Ynchorem [Ingraham?]. Margaret may have been another daughter but, as there are no Ynchorem baptisms in this register, and the date of marriage follows hard after the burial of Thomas, we think it more probable that this was a second marriage of his widow.
In any case it would seem clear that our Mary was too old to have been, as Colonel Banks appears to have thought possible, the daughter of John Wetherhill of London, goldsmith, whose will dated May 17, 1578, probated June 18, 1578 (PCC:27 Langley) directs burial in the same church, in which also testator's child [Thomasyn, buried July 18, 1571] and brother [Thomas] already lie buried. John's wife was named Elizabeth, probably the Elizabeth Wetherhill of the same parish whose will was probated in 1585 [PCC:26 Brudenell; not examined]. They had a daughter Leah, wife of Humphrey Streate, married Sept. 23, 1577, and also other children: John (buried Nov. 9, 1590), Philip, Sarah, Anne the elder, Mary, Martha, Christian, Margaret (baptised Dec. 17, 1559, married Robert Molesworth, haberdasher, of same parish, Dec. 18, 1582, by license dated Dec. I I, 1582), Elizabeth, Susan (baptised April 30, 1562), Rebecca (married, Sept. 27, 1585, Thomas Child, of same parish), Rachel (baptised Sept. 12, 1564), and Anne the younger (baptised Nov. 16, 1567, married in double wedding with sister Margaret, by license dated same day, Thomas Lodge, of St. Osith, co. Surrey, gent.).
The Wetherall arms on the silver-gilt cup are: Argent two lions passant guardant sable, on a chief of the second three covered cups or, and are stated in Burke's "Encyclopaedia" of Heraldry to have been borne by a Lincolnshire family of the same name. He does not identify the family further and no success has been had in locating them. No Wetheralls appear in any of the Lincolnshire Visitations.
The Feake arms on the same cup are: Sable a fesse dancetté or, in chief three fleurs-de-lis argent; Crest: out of a coronet or demi-ostrich with wings spread argent holding in the beak a horse's shoe. These arms also appear in the 1623 pedigree as borne by William's son Edward and in the 1634 pedigree as borne by William's great-nephew John Feake of London, goldsmith (no. 45). They are also the same as those recently registered with the Committee on Heraldry of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (see New England Historical and Genealogical Register 107:269) as those of William's grandson, Lieutenant Robert Feake (no. 49). We do not know whether the arms were actually granted first to William or to one of his relatives and then used on the cup when it was remade seventy years after his death...
 		Margaret (I4807)
 
1690 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86(1955):132-148, 209-221, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America," by George E. McCracken:
"13. William Feake, fifth son of James Feake of Wighton (no. 7) by wife Agnes, appears in the will of his father in 1539 as youngest of five brothers...
William Feake married, at the Church of St. Mary Woolnoth, London, on Nov. 12, 1564, Mary Wetherall of London. The 1623 pedigree gives her father's occupation as aurifaber but does not give his first name. Research into her ancestry is not complete but it is probable that she was a daughter of Thomas Wetherall, citizen and goldsmith of London, buried at the same church on April 27, 1554. His will, probated in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury: (I More), has been read by Delafield who says it mentions wife Margaret and alludes to children not named. The registers of St. Mary Woolnoth contain no reference to Mary Wetherall's baptism but show the following entries of the children of Thomas and Margaret Wetherall:
i. Richard, bap. Nov. 19, 1540, bur. Nov. 30, 1540.
ii. Henry, bur. Dec. 11, 1541.
iii. Thomas, bur. Oct. 18, 1543.
iv. Christopher, bap. Feb. 25, 1542/3.
v. Thomas, bap. April 12, 1548, probably the citizen and homer of London, d. 1572, will probated [PCC:3 Peter (not examined)].
vi. Christian, bap. April 14, 1551, bur. Oct. 4, 1563.
To these we should add the marriage on July 16, 1554, of Margaret Wetherall to William Ynchorem [Ingraham?]. Margaret may have been another daughter but, as there are no Ynchorem baptisms in this register, and the date of marriage follows hard after the burial of Thomas, we think it more probable that this was a second marriage of his widow.
In any case it would seem clear that our Mary was too old to have been, as Colonel Banks appears to have thought possible, the daughter of John Wetherhill of London, goldsmith, whose will dated May 17, 1578, probated June 18, 1578 (PCC:27 Langley) directs burial in the same church, in which also testator's child [Thomasyn, buried July 18, 1571] and brother [Thomas] already lie buried. John's wife was named Elizabeth, probably the Elizabeth Wetherhill of the same parish whose will was probated in 1585 [PCC:26 Brudenell; not examined]. They had a daughter Leah, wife of Humphrey Streate, married Sept. 23, 1577, and also other children: John (buried Nov. 9, 1590), Philip, Sarah, Anne the elder, Mary, Martha, Christian, Margaret (baptised Dec. 17, 1559, married Robert Molesworth, haberdasher, of same parish, Dec. 18, 1582, by license dated Dec. I I, 1582), Elizabeth, Susan (baptised April 30, 1562), Rebecca (married, Sept. 27, 1585, Thomas Child, of same parish), Rachel (baptised Sept. 12, 1564), and Anne the younger (baptised Nov. 16, 1567, married in double wedding with sister Margaret, by license dated same day, Thomas Lodge, of St. Osith, co. Surrey, gent.).
The Wetherall arms on the silver-gilt cup are: Argent two lions passant guardant sable, on a chief of the second three covered cups or, and are stated in Burke's "Encyclopaedia" of Heraldry to have been borne by a Lincolnshire family of the same name. He does not identify the family further and no success has been had in locating them. No Wetheralls appear in any of the Lincolnshire Visitations.
The Feake arms on the same cup are: Sable a fesse dancetté or, in chief three fleurs-de-lis argent; Crest: out of a coronet or demi-ostrich with wings spread argent holding in the beak a horse's shoe. These arms also appear in the 1623 pedigree as borne by William's son Edward and in the 1634 pedigree as borne by William's great-nephew John Feake of London, goldsmith (no. 45). They are also the same as those recently registered with the Committee on Heraldry of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (see New England Historical and Genealogical Register 107:269) as those of William's grandson, Lieutenant Robert Feake (no. 49). We do not know whether the arms were actually granted first to William or to one of his relatives and then used on the cup when it was remade seventy years after his death...
 		Wetherall, Thomas (I4806)
 
1691 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86(1955):132-148, 209-221, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America," by George E. McCracken:
"13. William Feake, fifth son of James Feake of Wighton (no. 7) by wife Agnes...
As there is a gap of at least seven years between the births of James and Thomas, there may have been other children who died vita patris. Children: [8]
i. Mary, b. ca. 1565, aet. 49+ in 1614, obviously not born before summer of 1565 as her parents married Nov. 12, 1564. She wrongly appears as seventh child in the 1623 pedigree. Before May 7, 1595, she m. Thomas Barneham (d. ca. 1614), eldest child of Thomas Barneham (d. ca. April 1, 1576) by wife Alice Cressey of London; grandson of Francis Barneham, Sheriff of London, by wife Alice Bradbridge; great-grandson of Stephen Barneham of Southwick, co. Southampton (see Harleian Society 42:168 f.; 54:8; 64:150; The Ancestor 9:191-209, and an article in preparation by John Insley Coddington). At an inquest post mortem (vol. 412, no. 9, 17 Feb. [11], James I-1613/14), held at Stratford Langthorne [co. Essex] before William Smyth [her brother-in-law?], "Mary Barnham, widow, lunatic, enjoys lucid intervals, say Geoffrey Thurgad[?], William Pullyn, Tobias Dixon [later her niece's husband], John Silvester, Wm. Feake, etc. She is incapable of managing her lands. Fifteen years ago she was capax eruditionis. William Feake is her brother and next heir, and she is aet. 49 and more." She was still living in 1619 and still a lunatic when her mother made her will. Her only child Isaac was baptised at St. Botolph's Bishopsgate, Nov. 19, 1595, but died before 1614.
ii. William, b. ca. 1566. As the bequests he receives in the wills of his parents are relatively small, though of course of much greater purchasing power then than now, and are not capital funds but annuities to be paid periodically by others, it seems possible that William was regarded as not quite competent to manage his own affairs. Delafield, however, discovered that he was Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths in 1621, which does not suggest incompetence. Sir Ambrose Heal (op. cit.) lists a William who could be this man as goldsmith in 1632 and says there is a will probated in i666. This we have not found but, if authentic, it may be that of another William (no. 67). Our man was already married on May 7, 1595, to a wife Mary. Both were living in 1619, and are marked "s.p." but not "d.s.p." in the 1623 pedigree.
iii. James, b. ca. 1567, aet. 34 on July 1, 1601; d. ca. 1625.
iv. Thomas, minor in 1595, b. after 1574; coelebs in the 1623 pedigree; matriculated pensioner from Trinity, at Cambridge, Easter 1589; scholar 1590; B.A. 1592/3, M.A. 1596.; by father's will was to be kept at the University until aet. 30; living 1619, no wife mentioned, in his mother's will.
v. John, second eldest of minor children in 1595.
vi. Edward, third eldest of minor children in 1595.
vii. Sarah, elder of minor daughters in 1595; by 1619 had m. William Smyth of London, mercer, who was probably man of that name before whom the inquest post mortem of Thomas Barnham was held in 1614. By 1619 this couple had a daughter Katherine.
viii. Rebecca, youngest child in 1595; shown, for reason not apparent, as eldest child in 1623 pedigree; by 1619 had m. William Bournford of London, grocer, and was then his widow with two sons Samuel and Henry."

SOURCES_MISC:
1. FHL book 929.273-K727kf: "Knapp's N' Kin, The Ancestral Lines of Frederick H Knapp and Others," compiled by: Frederick H Knapp, Rt. #2, Box 438C, AB Hwy, Richland, Missouri, 65556; 1987; Revised/Updated 1991. It notes the following sources, none of which I have yet reviewed:
-NYG&HR, Vol. 11, by J.J. Latting.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 86, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 87, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 47 (1893).
-TAG, Vol. 27, by J.L. Jacobus.
-Anc. Heads of NE Fam., by Holmes. 		Barnham, Thomas (I4823)
 
1692 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86(1955):132-148, 209-221, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America," by George E. McCracken:
"13. William Feake, fifth son of James Feake of Wighton (no. 7) by wife Agnes...
As there is a gap of at least seven years between the births of James and Thomas, there may have been other children who died vita patris. Children: [8]
i. Mary, b. ca. 1565, aet. 49+ in 1614, obviously not born before summer of 1565 as her parents married Nov. 12, 1564. She wrongly appears as seventh child in the 1623 pedigree. Before May 7, 1595, she m. Thomas Barneham (d. ca. 1614), eldest child of Thomas Barneham (d. ca. April 1, 1576) by wife Alice Cressey of London; grandson of Francis Barneham, Sheriff of London, by wife Alice Bradbridge; great-grandson of Stephen Barneham of Southwick, co. Southampton (see Harleian Society 42:168 f.; 54:8; 64:150; The Ancestor 9:191-209, and an article in preparation by John Insley Coddington). At an inquest post mortem (vol. 412, no. 9, 17 Feb. [11], James I-1613/14), held at Stratford Langthorne [co. Essex] before William Smyth [her brother-in-law?], "Mary Barnham, widow, lunatic, enjoys lucid intervals, say Geoffrey Thurgad[?], William Pullyn, Tobias Dixon [later her niece's husband], John Silvester, Wm. Feake, etc. She is incapable of managing her lands. Fifteen years ago she was capax eruditionis. William Feake is her brother and next heir, and she is aet. 49 and more." She was still living in 1619 and still a lunatic when her mother made her will. Her only child Isaac was baptised at St. Botolph's Bishopsgate, Nov. 19, 1595, but died before 1614.
ii. William, b. ca. 1566. As the bequests he receives in the wills of his parents are relatively small, though of course of much greater purchasing power then than now, and are not capital funds but annuities to be paid periodically by others, it seems possible that William was regarded as not quite competent to manage his own affairs. Delafield, however, discovered that he was Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths in 1621, which does not suggest incompetence. Sir Ambrose Heal (op. cit.) lists a William who could be this man as goldsmith in 1632 and says there is a will probated in i666. This we have not found but, if authentic, it may be that of another William (no. 67). Our man was already married on May 7, 1595, to a wife Mary. Both were living in 1619, and are marked "s.p." but not "d.s.p." in the 1623 pedigree.
iii. James, b. ca. 1567, aet. 34 on July 1, 1601; d. ca. 1625.
iv. Thomas, minor in 1595, b. after 1574; coelebs in the 1623 pedigree; matriculated pensioner from Trinity, at Cambridge, Easter 1589; scholar 1590; B.A. 1592/3, M.A. 1596.; by father's will was to be kept at the University until aet. 30; living 1619, no wife mentioned, in his mother's will.
v. John, second eldest of minor children in 1595.
vi. Edward, third eldest of minor children in 1595.
vii. Sarah, elder of minor daughters in 1595; by 1619 had m. William Smyth of London, mercer, who was probably man of that name before whom the inquest post mortem of Thomas Barnham was held in 1614. By 1619 this couple had a daughter Katherine.
viii. Rebecca, youngest child in 1595; shown, for reason not apparent, as eldest child in 1623 pedigree; by 1619 had m. William Bournford of London, grocer, and was then his widow with two sons Samuel and Henry."

SOURCES_MISC:
1. FHL book 929.273-K727kf: "Knapp's N' Kin, The Ancestral Lines of Frederick H Knapp and Others," compiled by: Frederick H Knapp, Rt. #2, Box 438C, AB Hwy, Richland, Missouri, 65556; 1987; Revised/Updated 1991. It notes the following sources, none of which I have yet reviewed:
-NYG&HR, Vol. 11, by J.J. Latting.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 86, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 87, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 47 (1893).
-TAG, Vol. 27, by J.L. Jacobus.
-Anc. Heads of NE Fam., by Holmes. 		Smith, William (I4818)
 
1693 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86(1955):132-148, 209-221, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America," by George E. McCracken:
"13. William Feake, fifth son of James Feake of Wighton (no. 7) by wife Agnes...
As there is a gap of at least seven years between the births of James and Thomas, there may have been other children who died vita patris. Children: [8]
i. Mary, b. ca. 1565, aet. 49+ in 1614, obviously not born before summer of 1565 as her parents married Nov. 12, 1564. She wrongly appears as seventh child in the 1623 pedigree. Before May 7, 1595, she m. Thomas Barneham (d. ca. 1614), eldest child of Thomas Barneham (d. ca. April 1, 1576) by wife Alice Cressey of London; grandson of Francis Barneham, Sheriff of London, by wife Alice Bradbridge; great-grandson of Stephen Barneham of Southwick, co. Southampton (see Harleian Society 42:168 f.; 54:8; 64:150; The Ancestor 9:191-209, and an article in preparation by John Insley Coddington). At an inquest post mortem (vol. 412, no. 9, 17 Feb. [11], James I-1613/14), held at Stratford Langthorne [co. Essex] before William Smyth [her brother-in-law?], "Mary Barnham, widow, lunatic, enjoys lucid intervals, say Geoffrey Thurgad[?], William Pullyn, Tobias Dixon [later her niece's husband], John Silvester, Wm. Feake, etc. She is incapable of managing her lands. Fifteen years ago she was capax eruditionis. William Feake is her brother and next heir, and she is aet. 49 and more." She was still living in 1619 and still a lunatic when her mother made her will. Her only child Isaac was baptised at St. Botolph's Bishopsgate, Nov. 19, 1595, but died before 1614.
ii. William, b. ca. 1566. As the bequests he receives in the wills of his parents are relatively small, though of course of much greater purchasing power then than now, and are not capital funds but annuities to be paid periodically by others, it seems possible that William was regarded as not quite competent to manage his own affairs. Delafield, however, discovered that he was Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths in 1621, which does not suggest incompetence. Sir Ambrose Heal (op. cit.) lists a William who could be this man as goldsmith in 1632 and says there is a will probated in i666. This we have not found but, if authentic, it may be that of another William (no. 67). Our man was already married on May 7, 1595, to a wife Mary. Both were living in 1619, and are marked "s.p." but not "d.s.p." in the 1623 pedigree.
iii. James, b. ca. 1567, aet. 34 on July 1, 1601; d. ca. 1625.
iv. Thomas, minor in 1595, b. after 1574; coelebs in the 1623 pedigree; matriculated pensioner from Trinity, at Cambridge, Easter 1589; scholar 1590; B.A. 1592/3, M.A. 1596.; by father's will was to be kept at the University until aet. 30; living 1619, no wife mentioned, in his mother's will.
v. John, second eldest of minor children in 1595.
vi. Edward, third eldest of minor children in 1595.
vii. Sarah, elder of minor daughters in 1595; by 1619 had m. William Smyth of London, mercer, who was probably man of that name before whom the inquest post mortem of Thomas Barnham was held in 1614. By 1619 this couple had a daughter Katherine.
viii. Rebecca, youngest child in 1595; shown, for reason not apparent, as eldest child in 1623 pedigree; by 1619 had m. William Bournford of London, grocer, and was then his widow with two sons Samuel and Henry."

SOURCES_MISC:
1. FHL book 929.273-K727kf: "Knapp's N' Kin, The Ancestral Lines of Frederick H Knapp and Others," compiled by: Frederick H Knapp, Rt. #2, Box 438C, AB Hwy, Richland, Missouri, 65556; 1987; Revised/Updated 1991. It notes the following sources, none of which I have yet reviewed:
-NYG&HR, Vol. 11, by J.J. Latting.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 86, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 87, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 47 (1893).
-TAG, Vol. 27, by J.L. Jacobus.
-Anc. Heads of N.E. Fam., by Holmes. 		Bournford, William (I4817)
 
1694 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86(1955):132-148, 209-221, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America," by George E. McCracken:
"13. William Feake, fifth son of James Feake of Wighton (no. 7) by wife Agnes...
As there is a gap of at least seven years between the births of James and Thomas, there may have been other children who died vita patris. Children: [8]
i. Mary, b. ca. 1565, aet. 49+ in 1614, obviously not born before summer of 1565 as her parents married Nov. 12, 1564. She wrongly appears as seventh child in the 1623 pedigree. Before May 7, 1595, she m. Thomas Barneham (d. ca. 1614), eldest child of Thomas Barneham (d. ca. April 1, 1576) by wife Alice Cressey of London; grandson of Francis Barneham, Sheriff of London, by wife Alice Bradbridge; great-grandson of Stephen Barneham of Southwick, co. Southampton (see Harleian Society 42:168 f.; 54:8; 64:150; The Ancestor 9:191-209, and an article in preparation by John Insley Coddington). At an inquest post mortem (vol. 412, no. 9, 17 Feb. [11], James I-1613/14), held at Stratford Langthorne [co. Essex] before William Smyth [her brother-in-law?], "Mary Barnham, widow, lunatic, enjoys lucid intervals, say Geoffrey Thurgad[?], William Pullyn, Tobias Dixon [later her niece's husband], John Silvester, Wm. Feake, etc. She is incapable of managing her lands. Fifteen years ago she was capax eruditionis. William Feake is her brother and next heir, and she is aet. 49 and more." She was still living in 1619 and still a lunatic when her mother made her will. Her only child Isaac was baptised at St. Botolph's Bishopsgate, Nov. 19, 1595, but died before 1614.
ii. William, b. ca. 1566. As the bequests he receives in the wills of his parents are relatively small, though of course of much greater purchasing power then than now, and are not capital funds but annuities to be paid periodically by others, it seems possible that William was regarded as not quite competent to manage his own affairs. Delafield, however, discovered that he was Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths in 1621, which does not suggest incompetence. Sir Ambrose Heal (op. cit.) lists a William who could be this man as goldsmith in 1632 and says there is a will probated in i666. This we have not found but, if authentic, it may be that of another William (no. 67). Our man was already married on May 7, 1595, to a wife Mary. Both were living in 1619, and are marked "s.p." but not "d.s.p." in the 1623 pedigree.
iii. James, b. ca. 1567, aet. 34 on July 1, 1601; d. ca. 1625.
iv. Thomas, minor in 1595, b. after 1574; coelebs in the 1623 pedigree; matriculated pensioner from Trinity, at Cambridge, Easter 1589; scholar 1590; B.A. 1592/3, M.A. 1596.; by father's will was to be kept at the University until aet. 30; living 1619, no wife mentioned, in his mother's will.
v. John, second eldest of minor children in 1595.
vi. Edward, third eldest of minor children in 1595.
vii. Sarah, elder of minor daughters in 1595; by 1619 had m. William Smyth of London, mercer, who was probably man of that name before whom the inquest post mortem of Thomas Barnham was held in 1614. By 1619 this couple had a daughter Katherine.
viii. Rebecca, youngest child in 1595; shown, for reason not apparent, as eldest child in 1623 pedigree; by 1619 had m. William Bournford of London, grocer, and was then his widow with two sons Samuel and Henry."

SOURCES_MISC:
1. FHL book 929.273-K727kf: "Knapp's N' Kin, The Ancestral Lines of Frederick H Knapp and Others," compiled by: Frederick H Knapp, Rt. #2, Box 438C, AB Hwy, Richland, Missouri, 65556; 1987; Revised/Updated 1991. It notes the following sources, none of which I have yet reviewed:
-NYG&HR, Vol. 11, by J.J. Latting.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 86, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 87, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 47 (1893).
-TAG, Vol. 27, by J.L. Jacobus.
-Anc. Heads of NE Fam., by Holmes. 		Feake, Rebecca (I4816)
 
1695 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86(1955):132-148, 209-221, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America," by George E. McCracken:
"13. William Feake, fifth son of James Feake of Wighton (no. 7) by wife Agnes...
As there is a gap of at least seven years between the births of James and Thomas, there may have been other children who died vita patris. Children: [8]
i. Mary, b. ca. 1565, aet. 49+ in 1614, obviously not born before summer of 1565 as her parents married Nov. 12, 1564. She wrongly appears as seventh child in the 1623 pedigree. Before May 7, 1595, she m. Thomas Barneham (d. ca. 1614), eldest child of Thomas Barneham (d. ca. April 1, 1576) by wife Alice Cressey of London; grandson of Francis Barneham, Sheriff of London, by wife Alice Bradbridge; great-grandson of Stephen Barneham of Southwick, co. Southampton (see Harleian Society 42:168 f.; 54:8; 64:150; The Ancestor 9:191-209, and an article in preparation by John Insley Coddington). At an inquest post mortem (vol. 412, no. 9, 17 Feb. [11], James I-1613/14), held at Stratford Langthorne [co. Essex] before William Smyth [her brother-in-law?], "Mary Barnham, widow, lunatic, enjoys lucid intervals, say Geoffrey Thurgad[?], William Pullyn, Tobias Dixon [later her niece's husband], John Silvester, Wm. Feake, etc. She is incapable of managing her lands. Fifteen years ago she was capax eruditionis. William Feake is her brother and next heir, and she is aet. 49 and more." She was still living in 1619 and still a lunatic when her mother made her will. Her only child Isaac was baptised at St. Botolph's Bishopsgate, Nov. 19, 1595, but died before 1614.
ii. William, b. ca. 1566. As the bequests he receives in the wills of his parents are relatively small, though of course of much greater purchasing power then than now, and are not capital funds but annuities to be paid periodically by others, it seems possible that William was regarded as not quite competent to manage his own affairs. Delafield, however, discovered that he was Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths in 1621, which does not suggest incompetence. Sir Ambrose Heal (op. cit.) lists a William who could be this man as goldsmith in 1632 and says there is a will probated in i666. This we have not found but, if authentic, it may be that of another William (no. 67). Our man was already married on May 7, 1595, to a wife Mary. Both were living in 1619, and are marked "s.p." but not "d.s.p." in the 1623 pedigree.
iii. James, b. ca. 1567, aet. 34 on July 1, 1601; d. ca. 1625.
iv. Thomas, minor in 1595, b. after 1574; coelebs in the 1623 pedigree; matriculated pensioner from Trinity, at Cambridge, Easter 1589; scholar 1590; B.A. 1592/3, M.A. 1596.; by father's will was to be kept at the University until aet. 30; living 1619, no wife mentioned, in his mother's will.
v. John, second eldest of minor children in 1595.
vi. Edward, third eldest of minor children in 1595.
vii. Sarah, elder of minor daughters in 1595; by 1619 had m. William Smyth of London, mercer, who was probably man of that name before whom the inquest post mortem of Thomas Barnham was held in 1614. By 1619 this couple had a daughter Katherine.
viii. Rebecca, youngest child in 1595; shown, for reason not apparent, as eldest child in 1623 pedigree; by 1619 had m. William Bournford of London, grocer, and was then his widow with two sons Samuel and Henry."

SOURCES_MISC:
1. FHL book 929.273-K727kf: "Knapp's N' Kin, The Ancestral Lines of Frederick H Knapp and Others," compiled by: Frederick H Knapp, Rt. #2, Box 438C, AB Hwy, Richland, Missouri, 65556; 1987; Revised/Updated 1991. It notes the following sources, none of which I have yet reviewed:
-NYG&HR, Vol. 11, by J.J. Latting.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 86, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 87, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 47 (1893).
-TAG, Vol. 27, by J.L. Jacobus.
-Anc. Heads of NE Fam., by Holmes. 		Feake, Sarah (I4815)
 
1696 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86(1955):132-148, 209-221, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America," by George E. McCracken:
"13. William Feake, fifth son of James Feake of Wighton (no. 7) by wife Agnes...
As there is a gap of at least seven years between the births of James and Thomas, there may have been other children who died vita patris. Children: [8]
i. Mary, b. ca. 1565, aet. 49+ in 1614, obviously not born before summer of 1565 as her parents married Nov. 12, 1564. She wrongly appears as seventh child in the 1623 pedigree. Before May 7, 1595, she m. Thomas Barneham (d. ca. 1614), eldest child of Thomas Barneham (d. ca. April 1, 1576) by wife Alice Cressey of London; grandson of Francis Barneham, Sheriff of London, by wife Alice Bradbridge; great-grandson of Stephen Barneham of Southwick, co. Southampton (see Harleian Society 42:168 f.; 54:8; 64:150; The Ancestor 9:191-209, and an article in preparation by John Insley Coddington). At an inquest post mortem (vol. 412, no. 9, 17 Feb. [11], James I-1613/14), held at Stratford Langthorne [co. Essex] before William Smyth [her brother-in-law?], "Mary Barnham, widow, lunatic, enjoys lucid intervals, say Geoffrey Thurgad[?], William Pullyn, Tobias Dixon [later her niece's husband], John Silvester, Wm. Feake, etc. She is incapable of managing her lands. Fifteen years ago she was capax eruditionis. William Feake is her brother and next heir, and she is aet. 49 and more." She was still living in 1619 and still a lunatic when her mother made her will. Her only child Isaac was baptised at St. Botolph's Bishopsgate, Nov. 19, 1595, but died before 1614.
ii. William, b. ca. 1566. As the bequests he receives in the wills of his parents are relatively small, though of course of much greater purchasing power then than now, and are not capital funds but annuities to be paid periodically by others, it seems possible that William was regarded as not quite competent to manage his own affairs. Delafield, however, discovered that he was Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths in 1621, which does not suggest incompetence. Sir Ambrose Heal (op. cit.) lists a William who could be this man as goldsmith in 1632 and says there is a will probated in i666. This we have not found but, if authentic, it may be that of another William (no. 67). Our man was already married on May 7, 1595, to a wife Mary. Both were living in 1619, and are marked "s.p." but not "d.s.p." in the 1623 pedigree.
iii. James, b. ca. 1567, aet. 34 on July 1, 1601; d. ca. 1625.
iv. Thomas, minor in 1595, b. after 1574; coelebs in the 1623 pedigree; matriculated pensioner from Trinity, at Cambridge, Easter 1589; scholar 1590; B.A. 1592/3, M.A. 1596.; by father's will was to be kept at the University until aet. 30; living 1619, no wife mentioned, in his mother's will.
v. John, second eldest of minor children in 1595.
vi. Edward, third eldest of minor children in 1595.
vii. Sarah, elder of minor daughters in 1595; by 1619 had m. William Smyth of London, mercer, who was probably man of that name before whom the inquest post mortem of Thomas Barnham was held in 1614. By 1619 this couple had a daughter Katherine.
viii. Rebecca, youngest child in 1595; shown, for reason not apparent, as eldest child in 1623 pedigree; by 1619 had m. William Bournford of London, grocer, and was then his widow with two sons Samuel and Henry."

SOURCES_MISC:
1. FHL book 929.273-K727kf: "Knapp's N' Kin, The Ancestral Lines of Frederick H Knapp and Others," compiled by: Frederick H Knapp, Rt. #2, Box 438C, AB Hwy, Richland, Missouri, 65556; 1987; Revised/Updated 1991. It notes the following sources, none of which I have yet reviewed:
-NYG&HR, Vol. 11, by J.J. Latting.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 86, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 87, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 47 (1893).
-TAG, Vol. 27, by J.L. Jacobus.
-Anc. Heads of NE Fam., by Holmes. 		Feake, Thomas (I4812)
 
1697 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86(1955):132-148, 209-221, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America," by George E. McCracken:
"13. William Feake, fifth son of James Feake of Wighton (no. 7) by wife Agnes...
As there is a gap of at least seven years between the births of James and Thomas, there may have been other children who died vita patris. Children: [8]
i. Mary, b. ca. 1565, aet. 49+ in 1614, obviously not born before summer of 1565 as her parents married Nov. 12, 1564. She wrongly appears as seventh child in the 1623 pedigree. Before May 7, 1595, she m. Thomas Barneham (d. ca. 1614), eldest child of Thomas Barneham (d. ca. April 1, 1576) by wife Alice Cressey of London; grandson of Francis Barneham, Sheriff of London, by wife Alice Bradbridge; great-grandson of Stephen Barneham of Southwick, co. Southampton (see Harleian Society 42:168 f.; 54:8; 64:150; The Ancestor 9:191-209, and an article in preparation by John Insley Coddington). At an inquest post mortem (vol. 412, no. 9, 17 Feb. [11], James I-1613/14), held at Stratford Langthorne [co. Essex] before William Smyth [her brother-in-law?], "Mary Barnham, widow, lunatic, enjoys lucid intervals, say Geoffrey Thurgad[?], William Pullyn, Tobias Dixon [later her niece's husband], John Silvester, Wm. Feake, etc. She is incapable of managing her lands. Fifteen years ago she was capax eruditionis. William Feake is her brother and next heir, and she is aet. 49 and more." She was still living in 1619 and still a lunatic when her mother made her will. Her only child Isaac was baptised at St. Botolph's Bishopsgate, Nov. 19, 1595, but died before 1614.
ii. William, b. ca. 1566. As the bequests he receives in the wills of his parents are relatively small, though of course of much greater purchasing power then than now, and are not capital funds but annuities to be paid periodically by others, it seems possible that William was regarded as not quite competent to manage his own affairs. Delafield, however, discovered that he was Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths in 1621, which does not suggest incompetence. Sir Ambrose Heal (op. cit.) lists a William who could be this man as goldsmith in 1632 and says there is a will probated in i666. This we have not found but, if authentic, it may be that of another William (no. 67). Our man was already married on May 7, 1595, to a wife Mary. Both were living in 1619, and are marked "s.p." but not "d.s.p." in the 1623 pedigree.
iii. James, b. ca. 1567, aet. 34 on July 1, 1601; d. ca. 1625.
iv. Thomas, minor in 1595, b. after 1574; coelebs in the 1623 pedigree; matriculated pensioner from Trinity, at Cambridge, Easter 1589; scholar 1590; B.A. 1592/3, M.A. 1596.; by father's will was to be kept at the University until aet. 30; living 1619, no wife mentioned, in his mother's will.
v. John, second eldest of minor children in 1595.
vi. Edward, third eldest of minor children in 1595.
vii. Sarah, elder of minor daughters in 1595; by 1619 had m. William Smyth of London, mercer, who was probably man of that name before whom the inquest post mortem of Thomas Barnham was held in 1614. By 1619 this couple had a daughter Katherine.
viii. Rebecca, youngest child in 1595; shown, for reason not apparent, as eldest child in 1623 pedigree; by 1619 had m. William Bournford of London, grocer, and was then his widow with two sons Samuel and Henry."

SOURCES_MISC:
1. FHL book 929.273-K727kf: "Knapp's N' Kin, The Ancestral Lines of Frederick H Knapp and Others," compiled by: Frederick H Knapp, Rt. #2, Box 438C, AB Hwy, Richland, Missouri, 65556; 1987; Revised/Updated 1991. It notes the following sources, none of which I have yet reviewed:
-NYG&HR, Vol. 11, by J.J. Latting.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 86, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 87, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 47 (1893).
-TAG, Vol. 27, by J.L. Jacobus.
-Anc. Heads of NE Fam., by Holmes. 		Feake, William (I4811)
 
1698 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86(1955):132-148, 209-221, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America," by George E. McCracken:
"13. William Feake, fifth son of James Feake of Wighton (no. 7) by wife Agnes...
As there is a gap of at least seven years between the births of James and Thomas, there may have been other children who died vita patris. Children: [8]
i. Mary, b. ca. 1565, aet. 49+ in 1614, obviously not born before summer of 1565 as her parents married Nov. 12, 1564. She wrongly appears as seventh child in the 1623 pedigree. Before May 7, 1595, she m. Thomas Barneham (d. ca. 1614), eldest child of Thomas Barneham (d. ca. April 1, 1576) by wife Alice Cressey of London; grandson of Francis Barneham, Sheriff of London, by wife Alice Bradbridge; great-grandson of Stephen Barneham of Southwick, co. Southampton (see Harleian Society 42:168 f.; 54:8; 64:150; The Ancestor 9:191-209, and an article in preparation by John Insley Coddington). At an inquest post mortem (vol. 412, no. 9, 17 Feb. [11], James I-1613/14), held at Stratford Langthorne [co. Essex] before William Smyth [her brother-in-law?], "Mary Barnham, widow, lunatic, enjoys lucid intervals, say Geoffrey Thurgad[?], William Pullyn, Tobias Dixon [later her niece's husband], John Silvester, Wm. Feake, etc. She is incapable of managing her lands. Fifteen years ago she was capax eruditionis. William Feake is her brother and next heir, and she is aet. 49 and more." She was still living in 1619 and still a lunatic when her mother made her will. Her only child Isaac was baptised at St. Botolph's Bishopsgate, Nov. 19, 1595, but died before 1614.
ii. William, b. ca. 1566. As the bequests he receives in the wills of his parents are relatively small, though of course of much greater purchasing power then than now, and are not capital funds but annuities to be paid periodically by others, it seems possible that William was regarded as not quite competent to manage his own affairs. Delafield, however, discovered that he was Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths in 1621, which does not suggest incompetence. Sir Ambrose Heal (op. cit.) lists a William who could be this man as goldsmith in 1632 and says there is a will probated in i666. This we have not found but, if authentic, it may be that of another William (no. 67). Our man was already married on May 7, 1595, to a wife Mary. Both were living in 1619, and are marked "s.p." but not "d.s.p." in the 1623 pedigree.
iii. James, b. ca. 1567, aet. 34 on July 1, 1601; d. ca. 1625.
iv. Thomas, minor in 1595, b. after 1574; coelebs in the 1623 pedigree; matriculated pensioner from Trinity, at Cambridge, Easter 1589; scholar 1590; B.A. 1592/3, M.A. 1596.; by father's will was to be kept at the University until aet. 30; living 1619, no wife mentioned, in his mother's will.
v. John, second eldest of minor children in 1595.
vi. Edward, third eldest of minor children in 1595.
vii. Sarah, elder of minor daughters in 1595; by 1619 had m. William Smyth of London, mercer, who was probably man of that name before whom the inquest post mortem of Thomas Barnham was held in 1614. By 1619 this couple had a daughter Katherine.
viii. Rebecca, youngest child in 1595; shown, for reason not apparent, as eldest child in 1623 pedigree; by 1619 had m. William Bournford of London, grocer, and was then his widow with two sons Samuel and Henry."

SOURCES_MISC:
1. FHL book 929.273-K727kf: "Knapp's N' Kin, The Ancestral Lines of Frederick H Knapp and Others," compiled by: Frederick H Knapp, Rt. #2, Box 438C, AB Hwy, Richland, Missouri, 65556; 1987; Revised/Updated 1991. It notes the following sources, none of which I have yet reviewed:
-NYG&HR, Vol. 11, by J.J. Latting.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 86, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 87, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 47 (1893).
-TAG, Vol. 27, by J.L. Jacobus.
-Anc. Heads of NE Fam., by Holmes. 		Feake, Mary (I4810)
 
1699 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86(1955):132-148, 209-221, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America," by George E. McCracken:
"14. Edmond or Edward Feake, youngest son of James Feake of Wighton, (no. 7) by wife Agnes, was born posthumously in 1539, and is not mentioned in his father's will or in any of the pedigrees. He is called Edmond in his brother William's will – the two independent abstracts of this will are agreed as to this reading – but he is called Edward Feake of Foulsom in the County of Norfolk, tanner, in the apprentice papers of his son Robert. Foulsham is in Eynesford Hundred, about twelve miles southeast of Wighton, very close to Kettleston where Edmond's brother Simon, also a tanner, had lived when he died in 1570. We should have thought it probable that the name Edward in the apprentice papers was wrongly read, were it not for the fact that William Feake named a son of his Edward. In any case, despite the discrepancy in the first name, we feel sure that the tanner of Foulsham was brother of the goldsmith of London, William Feake. We know nothing more of him than that, since his youngest child was named Audlea, his wife may have been a member of the Audley family. Children: 6 (order uncertain):
38. i. Anne, mentioned as living in her uncle William's house in 1595; mentioned in her brother Robert's will in 1612 as Ann Bullock; probably the cousin Bullock omitted from Mary Feake's will in 1619.
39. ii. Robert, d. 1612 in London.
40. iii. William. mentioned in brother Robert's will in 1612.
41. iv. Elizabeth, mentioned as Elizabeth Gregorye in brother Robert's will in 1612; m. Barnabas Gregory, Feb. 8, 1601/2, St. Mary Woolnoth, both of that parish, and had by 1619 children Barnabye and Amy, omitted from Mary Feake's will.
42. v. Susan, unm. in 1612 when mentioned in brother Robert's will.
43. vi. Audlea, unm. in 1612 when mentioned in brother Robert's will."

SOURCES_MISC:
1. FHL book 929.273-K727kf: "Knapp's N' Kin, The Ancestral Lines of Frederick H. Knapp and Others," compiled by: Frederick H. Knapp, Rt. #2, Box 438C, AB Hwy, Richland, Missouri, 65556; 1987; revised/updated 1991. It notes the following sources, none of which I have yet reviewed:
-NYG&HR, vol. 11, by J.J. Latting.
-NYG&HR, vol. 86, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, vol. 87, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, vol. 47 (1893).
-TAG, Vol. 27, by J.L. Jacobus.
-Anc. Heads of NE Fam., by Holmes.
-Norfolk Rec. Soc., vol. VI, p. 76.
-Topography Hist. of co. Norfolk, Eng., vol. 9, p. 209 (1808). 		Audley (I4833)
 
1700 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86(1955):132-148, 209-221, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America," by George E. McCracken:
"32. James Feake, second son and third child of William Feake (no. 13) by wife Mary Wetherall, was born doubtless in London, ca. 1567. His age was given on July 1, 1601, as 34 (High Court of Adm. Examinations, no. 34, found by Colonel Banks and recorded by Mr. Torrey). Though of the children not minors in 1595 he is named first in the will of his father, James comes after William in the list of children who were to have the remainder of a certain property. The 1623 pedigree makes him third child and second son, but wrongly calls him a grocer instead of a goldsmith.
He married at St. Nicholas Acons Church, London, on Jan. 29, 1592/3, Judith Thomas, daughter of Robert Thomas, citizen and draper of London, by his first wife Judith Fisher, daughter of William Fisher. On the Thomas family see the excellent article by Mr. Torrey in "The American Genealogist" 16:95-101; also Delafield, op cit., 2:545 note, which adds the interesting fact that Robert Thomas had arms granted to him thrice in the month of February 1606, on one occasion his residence being given as Spanby Hall, co. Lincoln. No success has attended efforts to find this Thomas family in Lincolnshire and there appear to be no Thomas wills from Spanby. The will of Robert Thomas, dated Feb. 14, 1609/10, names, among others, the four Feake grandchildren listed below and also states that as James Feake had threatened to go to court to get his wife's portion, his wife and children were to be disinherited if he did so. James Feake was executor of his mother's will in 1619 but was dead by May 20, 1625, when his widow Judith Feake was appointed administratrix of his father's will. She died in the parish of St. Mary Woolnoth but was buried in the Church of St. Edmund the King on Dec. 24, 1625. Children: 4:
48. i. James, b. Feb. 13, 1598/9, d. probably ca. 1625.
49. ii. Robert, d. Feb. 1, 1660/1, at Watertown, Mass.
50. iii. Alice, mentioned in wills of maternal grandfather Robert Thomas in 1610 and of paternal grandmother Mary Feake in 1619; m. Tobias Dixon of London, mercer, Feb. 15, 1619/20, license granted by the Bishop of London, Feb. 14, 1619/20, this record calling him haberdasher and her spinster daughter of James Feake, City of London, marriage to take place at Stepney, co. Middlesex. It was for Tobias Dixon that Tobias Feake was doubtless named. He had already given testimony at the inquest post mortem of Thomas Barnham in 1614. He removed from England to Germany after 1625 and took with him his wife's nephew Tobias Feake and probably also her niece Judith, Tobias' sister. Later, both children were sent to America to live with their uncle Robert Feake at Watertown. By 1634 Tobias Dixon was back in London when his wife took administration in her grandfather's estate, and he was still there in 1639 when he was named attorney to sell property (see no. 48). Whether the Dixons had issue, we do not know.
51. iv. Judith, mentioned as living in 1610 in her maternal grandfather's will but not mentioned in her paternal grandmother's will in 1619, so we conclude she had died. She does not appear at all in the 1623 pedigree. She has been wrongly identified as the wife of Lieutenant William Palmer of Yarmouth, Mass., and Newtown, Long Island, but she was much too old to have given birth to all her children after 1650. Since her parents were married in 1593, and their elder son not born until 1599, it is well within the range of possibility that both Judith and her sister Alice were born before their brothers."

2. This individual mentioned in the following article about Robert Feake per "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III:
"Robert Feake
Occupation: Goldsmith. He served an apprenticeship with his father, James Feake, for eight years beginning 21 September 1615, but probably never practiced his craft in the New World [NYGBR 86:212]...
Birth: About 1602, son of James and Judith (Thomas) Feake [NYGBR 86:144-45]..."

3. "The American Genealogist," 1940:95-101: The Thomas Family of London, England (Maternal Ancestry of Lieutenant Robert Feake)," by Clarence Almon Torrey, of Dorchester, Mass.:
"It has long been known that the mother of Lieut. Robert Feake, who came in the Winthrop Fleet in 1630, was Judith Thomas, daughter of Robert Thomas, draper, of London, England. A search of English records made in the interest of the writer resulted in securing additional information about the Thomas family. It was learned that Robert Thomas, draper, was a man of very great wealth for the time in which he lived and that his first wife, Judith's mother, was Judith Fisher, daughter of William Fisher. The marriage date of James Feake and Judith Thomas is given, and the names of the members of the Thomas family closely related to Robert Thomas are mentioned.
The records here given include the following items:
1. The Thomas pedigree at the College of Heraldry, London.
2. Abstracts of London parish records.
3. Allegations for Marriage License of Robert Thomas and Margaret Thomas.
4. Abstracts of Thomas wills and administrations.
5. Abstract of the Inquisition Post Mortem of Robert Thomas.
6. Data from the Roll of the Drapers' Company of London. (From the records of the Drapers' Company it was learned that Robert Thomas secured his freedom Apr. 12, 1568, from which it appears that he was born about 1547.)
The Thomas Pedigree at the College of Heraldry, London. The information supplied in pedigree chart form is here condensed as follows:
Robert Thomas, citizen and Draper of London. Died 8 June 1610, buried 26 same month. Judith Fisher, daughter of William Fisher, 1st wife. Ellen Muffett, 2nd wife. Children by first wife:
William Thomas, married Martha, daughter of William Benett of London.
Humphrey Thomas, second son, married Jane, daughter of ___ Cotton. Child: Robert Thomas.
John Thomas.
Judith, married to ffeake of London, goldsmith; had issue.
Sara, married to George Southcott, Kt. of Dartmouth, Co. Devon. Child: Thomas Southcott.
Extracts from London Pariah Records
1. The Registers of St. Nicholas Acons
Baptisms - Page
1575 Suzan Thomas the daughter of John Thomas, Dec. 18. 7
1578 Margaret Thomas the daughter of John Thomas, July 13. 8
1580 An Thomas the daughter of John Thomas, Sep. 11. 8
1582 Bartholmew Thomas the sonne of John Thomas, Sep. 2. 9
1607 Thomas Southcott the soonne of George Southcott knight, Feb. 14, [1607/8]. 15
1610 Sara Southcott daughter of George Southcott, Knight, Oct. 7. 15
Marriages
1574 John Thomas and Jocamine Broghe, Jan. 23, [1574/5]. 62
1592 James ffeeke and Judith Thomas, Jan. 29, [1592/3]. 63
Burials
1582 Margaret Thomas, daughtr of John Thomas, Hosyer, Dec. 14. 92
1582 Suzan daughtr of the sayd Jo. Thomas, Dec. 16. 92
1582 Agnes, his [i.e. John Thomas'] daughtr, Jan. 3, [1582/3]. 92
1588 Juththe, wiefe of Mr Thomas, Drap. Meh. 6, [1588/9]. 94
1602 Edward Thomas, the sonne of Robert Thomas, Draper, Dec. 27. 98
1610 Mr Robert Thomas, wth Herrauld C &c. p. [pest], June 26. 100
1613 John Thomas, Draper, Sep. 12. 101
1615 Humfrey Thomas, draper, Feb. 12, [1615/16]. 101
1639 William Thomas Essquire, in the Valt on the sough side, Aug. 28. 109
2. The Registers of St. Pancras, Soper Lane
Marriage
1589 Robert Thomas of St Nicholas Aeon & Ellen Lynaker of this par. Jan. 26, [1589/90]. (Harleian Society Publications, vol. 45) 444.
Burial
1588 William Lynakers, Nov. 20. (Harleian Society Publications, vol. 44) 290
Allegations for Marriage Licences issued by the Bishop of London.
1613 May 29, Robert Thomas, of St Botolph, Aldgate, London, Draper, & Margaret Thomas, of St Alban's, Wood Street, London, Spr, dau. of Simon Thomas, decd., at All Hallows Stayning, London. (Harleian Society Publications, Vol. 26, page 21.)
Abstract of the Will of Robert Thomas, St. Katherines. Dated 16 July 1557. Proved 15th June 1566. P.C.C. Crymes 17.
Robert Thomas of the precinct of St. Katherines by the Tower of London, gunner.
To my son Robert Thomas my house that one Robert Bowle, mariner now lives in.
To my daughter Katherine Thomas my house that Mrs. Ellethe now lives in.
To my daughter Alice Thomas my house or tenements that I now live in, after the decease [of] my wife Elizabeth.
The rest of all my goods etc. to my said wife Elizabeth Thomas.
Elizabeth my wife sole executrix, and I will that she bring up our said children in goodness and virtue.
John Bassett my uncle, of the said precinct, gunner, overseer.
Witnesses: John Bassett aforesaid, Stephane Bull of the said precinct,
also gunner.
Probate 15th June 1566 to William Thomas, brother of the defunct.
Abstract of the Will of William Thomas of the Parish of St. Catherine's near the Tower. Dated 27 Oct. 1609. Proved 15 January 1609-10. P.C.C. Wingfield 8.
William Thomas of the precinct of St. Catherine's nigh the Tower of London, servant to the King's Majesty...
To be buried in the green churchyard in St. Catherine's as near as may be to the place where my former wife and children were laid
My loving wife Sara Thomas shall have and enjoy the house in which I now dwell in St. Catherine's also the three tenements which are now in the occupations of Allen MontgomeryThomas Lee and his tenant and the lease that I hold of the same premisses in the name of one house made from one Mr Mabee to me ... Further I give to said Sara all my goods and chattels, etc.
Concerning the lease which I hold on divers tenements in Bush Alley in St. Catherine's made to one Arnold Newmar and passed to me by conveyance, I give and bequeath that lease to my loving cousin William Thomas of East Smithfield, co. Middlesex, compassmaker, and Susan wife except one room now in occupation of the aforesaid Thomas Lee. This room to remain to Sara my wife during the time, etc.
And for one obligation which I have to me made from my cousin Robert Thomas of London, draper, and William Thomas his son for them to pay to my Executors or Assigns £300 within 6 months after my decease. This sum to be distributed as follows: To the four children of said William Thomas of East Smithfield £10 each.
To my cousin Thomas Hudson £10, and to his daughter £5.
To my cousin Agnes the wife of William Thistleton £20.
To her two sons £5 each.
To my cousin Margaret the wife of William Upner £20.
To her two daughters £5 each on their marriage day or at 21 years of age.
To my cousin Richard Hudson in Lincolnshire 5£, as well as the £10
which I lent him.
To Robert Collingworth in Lincolnshire £10, and to my cousin Honor
Collingworth and her sister Elizabeth £5 each. And to the children of Richard Hudson, Robert Collingworth, and Elizabethe sister of Honor, I give £30 to be divided equally among them, on their attaining the age of 21 or on their marriages.
To the two daughters of Francis Gidfield, namely Ellen and Agnes £20 each at the age of 21 or on their marriages.
To John Ovendall £5.
To the poor of the "french Church" in London £5.
40 shillings to the poor of St. Catherine's.
To Mary Fuller 20 shillings and to Mr Randall Parker preacher in St.
Catherine's 40 shillings.
Executors: Wife Sara; my cousin James Fexe of London, goldsmith: said William Thomas, cousin in East Smithfield: and Edmund Ansell my kinsman.
To James Fexe and Edmund Ansell each a silver cup of 8 ounces.
Overseers: Cousin Robert Thomas, of London, draper; cousin John Thomas of St. Catherine's.
To John Thomas my furred gown.
Witnesses: Thomas Abbot, sci: John Greene: Thomas Lee.
Probate granted to Executors.
Abstract of the Will of Robert Thomas, St. Nicholas Acons. Dated 14 Feb. 1609-10. Proved 18 Oct. 1610. P.C.C. 88 Wingfield.
Robert Thomas, citizen and draper of London, of the parish of St. Nicholas Acon, London.
My body to the earth.
I stand bound to one William Muffett, late of Chippinge Barnett, Co. Hertford, gent. deceased and to his Exors and Administrators to leave to my present wife Ellen Thomas the sum of £2000 at the time of my death. To Ellen Thomas ... and all such plate as she brought with her now being in my house, so the property is not altered. To her my house in which I live. She shall care for my children.
I have given to my eldest son William Thomas £500 to set up his trade and £300, which I bestowed on copyhold lands for him, which I bought of my uncle William Thomas, late of St. Katherines. And also in consideration of a marriage with Mrs. Benette's daughter have assured him and his heirs males my lands called Spenbye in Lincoln, being to the value of £3000. Yet nevertheless I bequeath to Sir George Southcott, Knight and Humfrey Thomas my exors. £800 to allow him a yearly portion of £60 only for his maintenance. An Indenture tripartite made between his father-in-law Mr. Benet, himself and myself touching the settling of my land Spendye [sic].
Upon my son Humfrey's marriage I assured and made over to him the house he now lives in and £500 stock, which house and stock cost me £1000 and did also enter into bond with one Mr. Sillyard to leave my son £1000 more.
Also to his (Humfrey's) son Robert £100. And also further to him all my lands in Essex called Dagman with 12 acres of Marsh by the Thames side, which one John Hardwood now holds. To my son John Thomas £1500 provided he makes a general release of all actions and demands, the said legacies excepted. My shop in Candleweekestreete and all the rest of those houses that are upon the same lease to son John.
Lands in Hartfordshire with my copyhold there called Beech Hide to my son Humfrey Thomas and to his heirs.
To my brother Symon Thomas, his two daughters £70 apiece to be paid to them the day of their marriages.
To my daughter Judith Feake £1000 in full satisfaction of her marriage money and Child's part. To her four children James, Robert, Alice and Judith £100 apiece.
James Feake; my son-in-law 'hathe given out threatening wordes that he would go to law with me for his portion.' If the said James refuses to release my exors. from all Actions and demands, within a quarter of a year after my decease, then this my said, legacy to his wife with the legacies to his children are cancelled, and I leave him to be relieved by the law.
To my daughter the Lady Sara Southcott and to her husband £1000. To her son Thomas Southcott £100 to be bestowed in land to the use of him and his mother. To Sara Thomas, my brother William's daughter £10 at the day of her marriage.
To my maid servant Mary Handlye £10.
To the relief of the poor children in Christ's Hospital in London £10.
To the Company of Drapers whereof I am free £20 for a dinner to the Livery of the same Company, who go to my funeral.
Executors: Sir George Southcott, Knight, Humfrey Thomas.
Overseers: My brother William Thomas, and I give to him a black gown, and to his wife a black gown, my son-in-law James Feake, and Clement Bucke, and to each of them and their wives black gowns.
Witnesses: Humfrey Clarke, Hugh Farye.
Memorandum. Alterations were made 6. June 1610 in the presence of Humfrey Were; Clement Burke, John Curwen, and Thomas Astley.
Probate: 12th Oct. 1610 to George Southcott, Knight and Humfrey Thomas, Executors.
Abstract of the Will of John Thomas, of St. Nicholas, London. Dated 8th Sept. 1613. Proved 15th Sept. 1613. P.C.C. 79 Capell.
John Thomas, citizen and draper of London.
To be buried in the parish church of St. Nicholas, near Lumberdstreate in London as near the place where my late father and mother are buried as possible.
At my funeral there is to be a sermon preached by Mr. Daye, sometimes preacher in St. Magnus Church near Newefishstreet, London, to whom I give 40 s.
There is owing to me the sum of £500 by Sir George Southcote, knight, of the legacy of my late father Robert Thomas, deceased.
From the £500: to Sir George £5, to his wife Dame Sara Southcott £5, to their son Robert Southcott £50, to my sister Mrs. Feake, wife of James Feake and his children £150 equally amongst them, to my brother William Thomas £30, to my cousin Robert Thomas, son of my brother Humfrey Thomas
£50, to Sara Hill, wife of Richard Hill, draper, £100.
To my brother Humfrey Thomas £5. To my uncle William Thomas and his wife 40 s. apiece for rings.
To Thomas Agar Clothworker £5. To Thomas Astley 40 s. To John Maxwell 40 s. To Richard Westrawe 40 s.
To my loving brother in law James Feake Goldsmith [? - -]
To my friend William Sales, merchant tailor a ring with a ruby.
Executor: James Feake.
Overseers: My brother Humfrey Thomas, my uncle William Thomas
Witnesses: Edward Charnock, writer, [?] Watson and Thomas Wannerton, servant to the writer.
Probate: 15th Sept. 1613, to James Feake, Exor.
Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1559-1571 - Page:
1560 3 Dec. John Thomas, citizen and draper of London, to sister Eliz. Wave, als. T. 14
1562 19 Sep. Anne Thomas, ala. Plomnier, Oxford (Oxon.), wid., to son James T., ala. P. 31
1562 ult. Oct. Amy Thomas, ala. Plommer, Oxford (Oxon.), wid., to daur. Elizabeth Wave, als. Thomas, ass. Plommer. 32
1565 23 Nov. Robert Thomas, city of London, ''goonu" ?gunner, to relict Elizabeth T. 64
Abstract of the Inquisition Post Mortem of Robert Thomas, Gent.
Writ. 14 Aug. 10 Jas. 1 (1613).
Inquisition, Brentwood, Essex, 28 June. 11 Jas. 1 (1613).
Dagenham. A messuage called "Pettitts," near Edristreet; tenure unknown; worth 40/- p.a. 10a. land in le West marshe, called "Oxlease als. Oxenlease"; held of the King in chief by knight service, by what part of a knight's fee is unknown; worth 40/- p.a. By his will, dated 14 Feb. 7 Jas. 1 (1609/10), [extract given], he left £1000 to his son Humfrey; £100, and his lands called "Dagman," with 12 a. marsh by the Thames, to his grandson Robarte, son of Humfrey. He died in the parish of St. Nicholas Acon, London, 26 May 8 Jas. 1 (1610). Heir his son William Thomas, aged 36 and upwards at the taking of the inquisition. Chancery Inq. p.m. Series 2, Vol. 545, no. 87.
Court of Wards Inq. p.m. Vol. 89, no. 333.
Drapers' Apprentices Before 1610 of the Name of Thomas. [Abbreviation. A after a date indicates that that is the year when the apprentice was bound.]
Thomas,
William, 1488 A. to George Bnlstrode.
Sampson, 1510 A. to Richard Forth, made free 1514.
David, 1532 made free by Sir William Balye.
William, 1533 free by William Wyf old.
William,
1546 A. to Walt Williams, free 1553 Oct. 11.
1571 frees his apprentice Lodowiek Croft.
1573 frees his apprentice William Thomas.
John, 1547 A. to Richard Champion, free 1554.
second master George Palmer.
1560 Dec. 3. Admon P. C. C. to sister Elizabeth Wase als. Thomas.
John, 1551, A. to Robert Taylor.
John, 1553, A. to Thomas Caltou, free 1561.
Henry, 1559, A. to Richard Bynd, free 1567, March 23 other masters Richard Lamb, Richard Carter.
Robert, 1559 A. to William Carow, free 1568 April 12
1583 frees his aliprentice Jervise Eyre
1593, 1599, 1601, warden; 1606 master
1590 frees his apptentice Edward Handen
1610 P.C.C. 88 Wingfleld, many relations.
1598 loan to Queen £20.
1610 June 26 bur. with Heralds St. Nicholas Acons
From the English records in this paper we have learned that Robert Thomas, wealthy draper of London, had brothers William and Simon Thomas, and uncles William Thomas and Robert Thomas of St. Katherine by the Tower, London. Although we have the names of two uncles of Robert Thomas, draper, we lack the names of his parents.
His niece, Margaret Thomas, daughter of his brother Simon Thomas, married in 1613, by licence, Robert Thomas of St. Botolph, Aldgate. The groom and bride were probably relatives but the relationship has not been learned. The John Thomas mentioned in the register of St. Nicholas Acons was probably a relative of Robert Thomas, draper.
The baptisms of Robert's children have not been found in any of the printed records of London churches. The records of some of the churches, including those of St. Botolph, Aldgate, have not been published.
The will of his uncle William Thomas mentions a cousin [?nephew] William Thomas of East Smithfield, co. Middlesex, and relatives in Lincolnshire. Perhaps Robert's father and uncles were born in Lincolnshire.
If the earlier history of this branch of the Thomas family is secured, the information will be offered to "The American Genealogist" for publication."

SOURCES_MISC:
1. FHL book 929.273-K727kf: "Knapp's N' Kin, The Ancestral Lines of Frederick H Knapp and Others," compiled by: Frederick H Knapp, Rt. #2, Box 438C, AB Hwy, Richland, Missouri, 65556; 1987; Revised/Updated 1991. It notes the following sources, none of which I have yet reviewed:
-NYG&HR, Vol. 11, by J.J. Latting.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 86, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 87, by Geo. McCracken.
-NYG&HR, Vol. 47 (1893).
-TAG, Vol. 27, by J.L. Jacobus.
-Anc. Heads of NE Fam., by Holmes. 		Thomas, Judith (I4792)
 

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