tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68975286436588245412024-03-12T23:57:22.930-05:00The Dean/Beaver BlogFive generations of obsessive genealogists meet the blogThe Dean/Beavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05136987012902721546noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897528643658824541.post-82444528719941753502022-12-25T21:16:00.001-06:002022-12-25T21:17:31.643-06:00Mary Jane Robinson Houghton. Maybe<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> My great-great-grandmother is Julia Kinney Hancock. We have a lot of documentation about her mother, Mary Elizabeth Houghton Hancock. Mary Elizabeth's parents have always been difficult to securely document. There are a number of family trees out there on the intertubes that make various claims for her parents, but actual proof is sparse. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Here's what we know for certain:</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">There is a marriage recorded for Mary Elizabeth Houghton, age 26, and Thomas F Kenney (we spell it Kinney), age 28, in Boston, MA, for March 20, 1858. This records her parents' names as William and Mary J. Houghton. Hopefully, this is true. I only express doubt because some of the information on the record is clearly false. Both Thomas and Mary Elizabeth claimed to be born in Boston and to be the children of parents born in Boston. In fact, both were born in Nova Scotia and all of their later census records list English Canada as the birthplace of their parents. <span style="font-size: x-small;">[<span face=""Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (</span><a class="external free" href="https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC6Q-MCX" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #006600; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;" title="https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC6Q-MCX">https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC6Q-MCX</a><span face=""Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> : accessed 15 February 2016), Thomas F. Kenney and Mary E. Houghton, 20 Mar 1858; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 818,099.]</span></span></span></li></ul><div><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: georgia;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE-zlwau120Yrf4OjAG_OB7BMg6LiPMbBfXU2o5EqdmuCJi2IBLFYOKB5ENeNOEg4nljnqpfGT0AaWssNXPa57BjF6PLbTX_3zp8I9ipCGB-yKgb38trNUEALBKm32Xu6l2I_IYI42BxLSGJqWuRj5DJ-Ur79NFXmpSTW8_1unIXxuomAb2DOtx9uecQ/s4855/record-image_%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3513" data-original-width="4855" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE-zlwau120Yrf4OjAG_OB7BMg6LiPMbBfXU2o5EqdmuCJi2IBLFYOKB5ENeNOEg4nljnqpfGT0AaWssNXPa57BjF6PLbTX_3zp8I9ipCGB-yKgb38trNUEALBKm32Xu6l2I_IYI42BxLSGJqWuRj5DJ-Ur79NFXmpSTW8_1unIXxuomAb2DOtx9uecQ/s320/record-image_%20(1).jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are the transcribed marriage records for the city of Boston in 1858. Thomas Kenney/Kinney and Mary Elizabeth Houghton are second from the bottom. I really wish she had included her mother's maiden name and/or that we had the original documents</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span>The obituary of Julia Kinney Hancock, daughter of Thomas Kinney and Mary Elizabeth Houghton, states that she was born in Hall's Harbor, Nova Scotia, in 1859. Since Thomas Kinney was a mariner, he was away from home frequently. He had grown up in Yarmouth, 150 miles away from Hall's Harbor. If Mary Elizabeth was in Hall's Harbor when her daughter was born, it suggests that her family may have been from the area. Also, Hall's Harbor is small. It's not likely she was there because it was a major hub. The 1861 Canada Census has Thomas and Mary Elizabeth Kinney in Kings County (where Hall's Harbor is located). <span style="font-size: x-small;">[</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Nova Scotia Census, 1861," database, FamilySearch (<a class="external free" href="https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQQD-MY2" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #006600; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;" title="https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQQD-MY2">https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQQD-MY2</a><span style="background-color: white;"> : 8 November 2014), Thos F Kenny, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada; citing line 17; Library and Archives Canada film number M-881, Public Archives, Halifax; FHL microfilm 865,126.]</span></span></li></ul><div><span>My Great-Aunt Lilian, who is always proven right in the end, has Mary Elizabeth Houghton's mother's maiden name as Robinson. I don't know if that information was handed down in the family or if she found documentation. </span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>Finding a William and Mary J Houghton living in Kings County, Nova Scotia around the time of Mary Elizabeth's birth in 1831 has been a challenge. The names are quite common. I may have finally come up with a breakthrough, though, and it leads to an unexpected reason why we may know less about Mary Elizabeth's family than we do about the Kinney side, as well as why she and Thomas lied about their birthplaces: it looks like Mary Elizabeth was Catholic. Perhaps the couple eloped in order to avoid familial or religious barriers?</span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>I base this on the most likely records I can find of her parents, a William and Mary Houghton living in Hall's Harbor around the time that Mary Elizabeth would have been living there with her newborn daughter:</span></div><div><span><ul><li><span style="background-color: white;">There is a William Howton in the Canadian census in Kings County, Nova Scotia, in 1861.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> [</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Nova Scotia Census, 1861," database, FamilySearch (<a class="external free" href="https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQQD-9K4" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #006600; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;" title="https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQQD-9K4">https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQQD-9K4</a><span style="background-color: white;"> : accessed 18 November 2015), William Howton, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada; citing line 10; Library and Archives Canada film number M-881, Public Archives, Halifax; FHL microfilm 865,126.]</span></span></li><li><span style="background-color: white;">William Howton and his wife Mary J. are recorded in Kings County, Nova Scotia in the 1871 census, along with two daughters, Teressa and Louisa, ages 19 and 17. <span style="font-size: x-small;">[<a class="external free" href="http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/1871/pdf/4396663_00061.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #006600; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;" title="http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/1871/pdf/4396663_00061.pdf">http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/1871/pdf/4396663_00061.pdf</a>].</span> William is listed as 63, Roman Catholic, a farmer, and born in Ireland. Mary J is 60, Roman Catholic, and also listed as born in Ireland. However, when her daughter, Louisa Frances Murphy, died in 1934, her death certificate states that her mother was born in Canada. </span></li><li><span style="background-color: white;">In the 1891 census, William is recorded in Woodville, Kings, Nova Scotia, as an 87 year old widower. Woodville is about 10 miles from Halls Harbor. ["Canada Census, 1891," database, FamilySearch<span style="font-size: x-small;"> [<a class="external free" href="https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MW23-4FX" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #006600; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;" title="https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MW23-4FX">https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MW23-4FX</a> : accessed 18 November 2015), Wm Houghton, Woodville, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada; Public Archives, Ottawa, Ontario; Library and Archives Canada film number 30953_148119.] </span></span></li></ul></span></div><div><span>Unfortunately, it's hard to tie this William Houghton and Mary J. to Mary Elizabeth Houghton Kinney. There are indications, however, that Mary J.'s maiden name was Robinson, which is the name in Aunt Lil's records. </span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>In the records of the Catholic church, St. John the Evangelist, in Windsor, Nova Scotia, I found the baptism of Patrick Houghton, son of William Houghton and Jane Houghton nee Robinson. It would not be at all surprising if Mary J went by her middle name. That's incredibly common in Catholic communities where every other woman is named Mary. Patrick's baptism was sponsored by Michael Donahue and Bridget Houghton. Patrick was baptized September 29, 1835. This would make him a perfect age to be the brother of Mary Elizabeth. Windsor, however, is about 30 miles from Hall's Harbor. <span style="font-size: x-small;">[</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Canada, Nova Scotia Church Records, 1720-2001", database with images, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DQJQ-D4MM : 27 May 2021), Patrick Houghton, 1835.]</span></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn1W4zm5VxEJeniDhljB6lDJtcp_uaUenXH7lwk-dCk946VnW6OmP36bOB-xejpXM2wodZhEq4PhtqY2j8fSiQwCaVuXNXA4b9xwk40HNHkgGe5oyf3Z5vg6QGYOh2M-hR3UM8kgVHAYju6u4pGz0R2O8lR-pp5d3iKmJ8IZS_FuHoWQf2Q7zDWZS-JQ/s4632/record-image_%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3194" data-original-width="4632" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn1W4zm5VxEJeniDhljB6lDJtcp_uaUenXH7lwk-dCk946VnW6OmP36bOB-xejpXM2wodZhEq4PhtqY2j8fSiQwCaVuXNXA4b9xwk40HNHkgGe5oyf3Z5vg6QGYOh2M-hR3UM8kgVHAYju6u4pGz0R2O8lR-pp5d3iKmJ8IZS_FuHoWQf2Q7zDWZS-JQ/s320/record-image_%20(2).jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The baptismal record of Patrick Houghton from the 1835 records of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Windsor, Nova Scotia. The relevant record is in the upper right corner</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div>The same church records have evidence for a likely sibling of Patrick's, Jane. Again, the parents names are listed as William Houghton and Jane Robinson. She was baptized August 27, 1837. Her sponsors were Patrick Lyons and Elizabeth Doye (or Dolyle?)<span style="font-size: x-small;"> ["Canada, Nova Scotia Church Records, 1720-2001", database with images, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DXMX-4SMM : 27 May 2021), William Hauton in entry for Jane or Janne Hauton, 1837.]</span></div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPmrRIF-aKcf98mX-J9QYxYyaRoDZgm2J_SBSp7yT_Ato8FD_kpCwVGJIfiLt39bTQ-gmXfHCOM2NPwykbl4hifdOf5LWVdoIYVnpt0EGxa2PAGIghQ_Snmn9aUhN1Fl9fLpMELKSLTh8RXF0zTeJrO1Yfn6RE4og1ieo-0jL-hKqOC9sXNWj0ocpshw/s4353/record-image_%20(3).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3394" data-original-width="4353" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPmrRIF-aKcf98mX-J9QYxYyaRoDZgm2J_SBSp7yT_Ato8FD_kpCwVGJIfiLt39bTQ-gmXfHCOM2NPwykbl4hifdOf5LWVdoIYVnpt0EGxa2PAGIghQ_Snmn9aUhN1Fl9fLpMELKSLTh8RXF0zTeJrO1Yfn6RE4og1ieo-0jL-hKqOC9sXNWj0ocpshw/s320/record-image_%20(3).jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The record of Jane Houghton's baptism at St. John the Evangelist in Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1837. Her record is on the bottom right of the page.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />OK, but if these are siblings of Mary Elizabeth's, this begs two questions: 1) why isn't Mary Elizabeth's baptism in the records?; and 2) why are these records from a church so far from Hall's Harbor?</div><div><br /></div><div>The answer to the first question is just depressing: the records don't go back far enough to catch Mary Elizabeth's birth. The answer to the second question, though, may be that Kings County didn't have a church of its own and relied on an itinerant priest. Another possible sibling of Mary Elizabeth's is listed in the baptismal records of the same church, St. John the Evangelist in Windsor, in 1840. This record book, however, actually lists the locations in which the weddings, funerals, and baptisms took place. They are from a variety of areas around Windsor, such as Kentville and Horton. The record for the baptism of Lavinia Houton [sic], daughter of William Houghton and Jane Robinson, specifically states it took place in Cornwallis. Cornwallis was one of the original townships of Kings County. She was sponsored by James Houghton and Mary Porter <span style="font-size: x-small;">["Canada, Nova Scotia Church Records, 1720-2001", database with images, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DWHV-8JMM : 27 May 2021), William Houton in entry for Lavinia Houton, 1840.]</span></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAy07UItOm9Mw4nOHiABxahR15J08kE19Zkh0sJ4TND-1CKFWWztfjcM7sXzRCRgK0nlLAlrQfGBXBkmGSbjznCX_f5M8vvKKrLdTaFAKKM5TX8lGHzhpZ5me4g7097OQdVhBoEcSQOnGc68_BI88QjHU54-KZWJ4b5kPED4c6tkdWkE3Mca9-ZHg2Tg/s3978/record-image_%20(4).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3153" data-original-width="3978" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAy07UItOm9Mw4nOHiABxahR15J08kE19Zkh0sJ4TND-1CKFWWztfjcM7sXzRCRgK0nlLAlrQfGBXBkmGSbjznCX_f5M8vvKKrLdTaFAKKM5TX8lGHzhpZ5me4g7097OQdVhBoEcSQOnGc68_BI88QjHU54-KZWJ4b5kPED4c6tkdWkE3Mca9-ZHg2Tg/s320/record-image_%20(4).jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Baptismal record of Lavinia Houghton, March 24, 1840, in Kings County, Nova Scotia. Her record is on the right near the center.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>Other children baptized at the same church to William Houghton and Jane Robinson include:</div></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Henry, on July 1, 1849, at 10(?) months old, sponsored by James Lyons and Mary Sullivan <span style="font-size: x-small;">["Canada, Nova Scotia Church Records, 1720-2001", database with images, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DWHG-V6N2 : 27 May 2021), Wm Houghton in entry for Henry Houghton, 1849.] </span></li><li>Agnes (baptized at 5 months old on May 30, 1850), sponsored by Joseph Henderson and Bridget Thompson <span style="font-size: x-small;">["Canada, Nova Scotia Church Records, 1720-2001", database with images, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:D7BM-YY2M : 27 May 2021), William Haughton in entry for Agnes Haughton, 30 May.]</span></li><li>Theresa, on October 17, 1851, sponsored by . In this record, the mother's name is listed as Mary Jane Robinson and the location is Cornwallis. Her sponsors names are hard to read, but I think it says Patt Sarsfield and Johanna Sulivan. <span style="font-size: x-small;">["Canada, Nova Scotia Church Records, 1720-2001", database with images, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DW2P-9DMM : 27 May 2021), William Haughton in entry for Teresa Haughton, 1850.] </span></li></ul></div></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Are Henry, Agnes, and Theresa from the same family? Are they all (or any of them) siblings of Mary Elizabeth? It's hard to tell. I suspect not, though, since they do not show up in the census with our "target" William and Mary J. Houghton in 1861. With such common last names, though, it's hard to tell. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">One last record that might be relevant:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The baptism of Anne Houghton, lawful daughter of William Houghton and Janet Robinson, on Oct 22, 1833. She was sponsored by Neil Kelly and Bridget Lyons. Note that Patrick had been sponsored by a Bridget Houghton and Jane Houghton was sponsored by a Patrick Lyons. Could these be relatives? Or just frustratingly common Irish names? Anne was not baptized in the same church as the others. She was baptized in St. Gregory, Liverpool, Nova Scotia, which is on the opposite side of the peninsula from Kings County. ["Canada, Nova Scotia Church Records, 1720-2001", database with images, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DH6S-SPMM : 27 May 2021), Wiliam Houton in entry for Anne Houton, 1833.]</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Here's what I'd really like for Christmas: a baptismal record for Mary Elizabeth Houghton herself. Short of that, I'd at least like the baptismal records for the daughters listed in the 1861 census (Theresa and Louisa) so I can directly connect them to the same family. </span></p><div><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div></span></div><p></p>The Dean/Beavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05136987012902721546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897528643658824541.post-2757361970279815262022-12-11T15:44:00.000-06:002022-12-11T15:45:04.887-06:00Killers of the King<p>I just finished an interesting book called <i>Killers of the King</i> by Charles Spencer. It follows the history of the men who were directly involved in the execution of Charles I and what happened to them afterward. (Spoiler alert: they were mostly killed in horrible ways. To quote the immortal Omar Little, "You come at the king, you best not miss.") </p><p>The book is interesting in its own right but I kept thinking about the relationship this history had to our own genealogy. A large chunk of our ancestors -- the Kinney line but also some on the Manary side -- came to New England through the Great Puritan Migration. That migration took place in the context of the English Civil War, the Protectorate, and the Restoration. After the Restoration, some of the regicides fled to the Massachusetts colonies where they were protected by the authorities and population alike. The colonists were mostly not big fans of the Stuarts. </p><p>Wikipedia has a list of all the regicides <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regicides_of_Charles_I" target="_blank">here</a>. They were all major supporters of Parliament in the Civil War and many of them were Puritans, so I ran the names through Wikitree to see if we're related to any of them. Not surprisingly, we are, although mostly not in the ways I had expected. Many of our colonial ancestors were 2nd-5th cousins of these men, but in most cases it was our ancestors in colonial Virginia, not Massachusetts. My guess is that is because our colonial Virginian ancestors (the Hancock line, essentially) was more "aristocratic" and the leaders of the Parliamentarians were still fairly aristocratic/wealthy, despite their opposition to the king. By marriage, however, we're more likely to be related to these men through our Kinney or Manary connections, since their family members often ended up moving to the Massachusetts Puritan colonies.</p><p>We're distantly related to many of the regicides, but here are a few who have closer ties:</p><p>General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Ludlow" target="_blank">Edmund Ludlow</a> was my 12th great-uncle and one of Cromwell's great supporters. Cromwell named him military commander in Ireland until he objected when Cromwell declared himself Lord Protector. Ludlow was a member of the jury that convicted Charles I and he signed the death warrant. His brother Gabriel's grandchildren moved to Virginia and became our ancestors. Ludlow fled England after the restoration and lived the rest of his life in Switzerland. He was the only regicide who is known to have survived long enough to see the downfall of the Stuarts. He kept chronicles and letters and so his work is one of the main sources cited in the <i>Killers of the King</i>. He's the only regicide with anything like a direct relationship to us. <a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ludlow-6" target="_blank">Sara Ludlow Carter</a>, my 10th great-grandmother, who moved with her brothers to the Virginia colony sometime around 1660, was the great niece of Edmund Ludlow. Her descendants married into the Hancock family.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEguKV36SDuy9GnZivbpSGhZ9Hcohqr9xNl1Ags4RcG_AgVPjnbFrkEkvW0C_25NxqAG2-Ag2GLkzSe14F665GwCoUUWCrLbxYUiaDlWUrriruJ0RYP8kl6a-maNQAUF-6pweAdNURpEOvrC9zi8vU_7eVC9bVJnsidlTGbSkjGj4TsJf9jwHHXwXV9yiA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3694" data-original-width="2309" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEguKV36SDuy9GnZivbpSGhZ9Hcohqr9xNl1Ags4RcG_AgVPjnbFrkEkvW0C_25NxqAG2-Ag2GLkzSe14F665GwCoUUWCrLbxYUiaDlWUrriruJ0RYP8kl6a-maNQAUF-6pweAdNURpEOvrC9zi8vU_7eVC9bVJnsidlTGbSkjGj4TsJf9jwHHXwXV9yiA" width="150" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Edmund Ludlow</div><p></p><p>Colonel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Scrope" target="_blank">Adrian Scrope</a> is a 2nd cousin many times removed, again through our relationship to Edmund Ludlow, who was his uncle (or maybe great uncle?). Cromwell appointed Scrope head of security during the trial of Charles I, and he signed the death warrant. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Charing Cross in 1660. Parliament had originally just fined him for his role in the trial, but was executed after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Richard_Browne,_1st_Baronet,_of_London" target="_blank">Richard Browne</a>, Mayor of London, testified that he had confessed that he was unrepentant. Browne, incidentally, was a distant relative of ours by marriage. We're related to his uncle's wife. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyeVg9OGzPwN_LqJH5tAuq13XuNM8wtfurgu4xzi9Em6JUifCeVw6PflurV8J4mKG9TvrHaLVKqNpuJ5dSvz-I_ZB2CXS9Xf4trQJfgYh_sXpImdjQB9aHrEqsLnnfJjo1aJ8Z1_GdEaUzExcr90JiaN4XKPXitpfGbZcMBUELfZRlvJeBLa-t3-g30A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2990" data-original-width="2400" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyeVg9OGzPwN_LqJH5tAuq13XuNM8wtfurgu4xzi9Em6JUifCeVw6PflurV8J4mKG9TvrHaLVKqNpuJ5dSvz-I_ZB2CXS9Xf4trQJfgYh_sXpImdjQB9aHrEqsLnnfJjo1aJ8Z1_GdEaUzExcr90JiaN4XKPXitpfGbZcMBUELfZRlvJeBLa-t3-g30A" width="193" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Adrian Scrope</div><br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-ZYIS9sUtB0dfg326NoYDOpktlrH3RW4oe1IUZiFYnS3iKlnG5tj_A4jr7C2BoEfw2LCpoETDPAin4LABkTpZl-20HB5QehPgkVoTNrOlKrR6ZMoa_OVv-LDYXi0n9hbsGUK4843eJIOYQg69fRN1ilvo4CpbGV9oe7_aplR4E5f6h3H-NeRfh_ucKQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="833" data-original-width="553" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-ZYIS9sUtB0dfg326NoYDOpktlrH3RW4oe1IUZiFYnS3iKlnG5tj_A4jr7C2BoEfw2LCpoETDPAin4LABkTpZl-20HB5QehPgkVoTNrOlKrR6ZMoa_OVv-LDYXi0n9hbsGUK4843eJIOYQg69fRN1ilvo4CpbGV9oe7_aplR4E5f6h3H-NeRfh_ucKQ" width="159" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Adrian Scrope in more difficult times (he's being disembowled in the lower picture)</div><p></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wallop" target="_blank">Edward Wallop</a>, another signatory, was found guilty but sentenced to life in prison and to a trip by sledge to the gallows at Tyburn. The sledge ride was the foreplay to execution at that time period, but Wallop was merely dragged through the city on the sledge and shown the gallows before being returned to prison. He was also some kind of 2nd or 3rd cousin of Edmund Ludlow, and therefore of ours, but it doesn't seem worth figuring out the details since he's even farther from us than Adrian Scrope. Spencer quotes a Dutch visitor's letter about January 27, 1662, "We walked with thousands of people to Tyburn and saw there Lord Monson, Sir Henry Mildmay and Mr. Wallop lying in their tabards on a little straw on a hurdle being dragged through under the gallows, where some articles were read to them and then torn up. After that they were again dragged through the streets back to the Tower." (p. 245)</p><p>My husband and children are first cousins (many times removed) of the wife of Colonel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dixwell" target="_blank">John Dixwell</a>. Dixwell escaped by claiming to be unwell and asking Parliament for an extension before he handed himself into the court. He was granted the extension but he used it to liquidate some assets and flee to Europe. He was mistakenly reported as dead to the Royalists so he moved again to the Americas and managed to live a long and happy life in Connecticut under the assumed named of James Davids. Joe and the kids to are related to Dixwell through his third wife Bathsheba Howe.</p><p>They are also direct descendants of Augustine Garland's brother in law, William Newbold. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_Garland" target="_blank">Augustine Garland</a> was a lawyer and the first committee chairman for Charles I's trial. Surprisingly, he was granted life in prison, perhaps because he pleaded he had no real choice. In his own trial he told the judge, "My Lord, I did not know which way to be safe in any thing, without doors was misery, within doors was mischief" (Spencer p.244). He forfeited his estate and was transported to a prison in Tangiers where he died.</p><p>We're not really related to the Big Cheese, Oliver Cromwell, but we do have connections through marriage. The Manary line is descended from Sarah Bucknam Dexter, who lived in the Massachusetts colony in the mid-1700's. Her brother Samuel was married to one of Cromwell's sister's descendants, Deborah Sprague. Through that same connection to Cromwell's sister, Frances, we are related by marriage to two other signatories of the death warrant: her husband Colonel Edward Whalley and their son-in-law, Lieutenant William Goffee. Both had been powerful members of Cromwell's inner circle. 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When she visits, my mother often brings a treasure-trove of genealogical materials from my grandmother's stored belongings. This week, she brought this oil painting. On the back it says "Painted by Julia Kinney as a girl". Julia, who was my great-great-grandmother, was born in 1859. I'd guess her "girlhood" to be anytime before 1880. Before she reached the age of 20, Julia had lived in Nova Scotia, Boston, San Francisco, and Whidbey Island, Washington. This landscape doesn't particularly remind me of any of those areas, but it's more "east coast-y" than west. On the other hand, she very well may have copied some other painting and not seen this landscape in real life.<br />
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If you look closely, you'll see that the human figures are a bit stiff but the animals and landscape are quite good. Joe wanted to know if she kept painting, and if the family has any of her other work. Honestly, I don't know. Maybe some of my cousins do?The Dean/Beavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05136987012902721546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897528643658824541.post-41242573837338376602019-07-21T22:28:00.000-05:002019-07-21T22:33:55.855-05:00Deans and the Whiskey RebellionI was reading <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QJLQZI/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1" target="_blank">Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton</a> when I was struck by his description of the Whiskey Rebellion, specifically, of its epicenter as west-central Pennsylvania. The Whiskey Rebellion took place from 1791-1794, and guess who was living in west-central Pennsylvania at that time? The early Dean family! Specifically, my 6xgreat-grandfather, James Dean, who died around 1795 (his wife was probably already dead by this point), and his son and daughter-in-law, my 5xgreat-grandparents, Abraham and Sarah Stewart Dean.<br />
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The Whiskey Rebellion began in the Appalachian area, among the Scotch-Irish small farmers, who were enraged by a whiskey tax that was far more punitive and inconvenient to them than to the larger distilleries of the coast. Many small farmers made whiskey as a more efficient way of transporting their crops for sale across poor roads. The tax was detrimental to one of their primary money-making enterprises and the required inspections were problematic given their dispersed farmsteads and difficult traveling conditions.<br />
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The resistance to the tax had its most formal expression on July 27, 1791, when a group of community leaders gathered at Redstone Old Fort in Fayette County and signed a proclamation declaring their grievance. The most prominent politician present was Albert Gallatin, later Thomas Jefferson's secretary of treasury. Among those who signed the statement was one "John Canon", possibly from Washington County.<br />
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There is <i>a </i>John Canon (or Canan) who was the son-in-law of James Dean, husband of Abraham's sister, Margary. Could he have been the signatory? We do know he was a civic leader, according to this <a href="https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=4426&body=S" target="_blank">biography of his son</a>, also named John, who was a Pennsylvania representative:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "opensans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">John Canan, his father, was born in Ireland in 1746; his mother, Margery Dean, also born there, came to America before the Revolution, and they were married here. John Canan was second lieutenant in the 2d Pennsylvania Regiment in 1777. In 1786 and '87 he was a member of the general assembly from Bedford county. He was also a member of the supreme executive council from 1787 to 1790. Under the constitution of 1790 he was appointed an associate judge and he was again a member of the assembly from Huntingdon county from 1791 to '94, and senator from Huntingdon and Bedford from 1795 to 1799. He owned a large estate in land, and late in life entered the forge and furnace business, being unfortunate in his investment. He died in 1831, at the age of 85 years. Margery Dean Canan died in 1815, when she was 55 years old.</span></blockquote>
Neither this John Canan or his son were from Washington county, but they were definitely from the area.<br />
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I haven't had a lot of time to do genealogy this summer, but I hope to look into this more in the future. Regardless of which side of the Whiskey Rebellion our ancestors supported -- if we ever know -- they definitely lived through the heart of it.<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "opensans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>The Dean/Beavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05136987012902721546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897528643658824541.post-58457523062899812562019-05-21T18:22:00.001-05:002019-05-21T18:22:47.598-05:00A Little More Rooney InfoI have written previous blog posts (<a href="http://thedeanbeaverblog.blogspot.com/2016/06/overview-of-rooneys.html" target="_blank">here </a>and <a href="http://thedeanbeaverblog.blogspot.com/2015/08/rooneys-of-columbus.html" target="_blank">here</a>) about John and Eliza Rooney, my 3xgreat-grandparents. When I first got interested in genealogy, I was surprised to find that they had died and were buried in Osakis, MN, which is only about 45 minutes from where I live now.<br />
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Today, I went to the <a href="https://www.dchsmn.org/" target="_blank">Douglas County Historical Society</a>, which has a lot of really lovely people who help do genealogical research. On their webpage, it said they had a family file on John and Eliza Rooney. It turned out they didn't have much, and they weren't able to find any obituaries. They did have a page from what is clearly one of those county history books that were so popular in the U.S. in the early 20th century. The page had an entry for A.A. Rooney, John and Eliza's youngest son. Here's what is says that's of interest to the wider family:<br />
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A.A. Rooney, one of the well-known and successful farmers of Osakis township, Douglas county, was born in Dodge county, Wisconsin, on September 17, 1870, the son of John and Elizabeth (Kelly) Rooney, who were born in Ireland and there received their education in the common schools, grew to manhood and womanhood and were married. In 1848 they decided that they would leave the land of their birth and seek a home in America, where so many of their countrymen had come. After landing in New York they decided to locate there, and for the next seven years that was their home. In the fall of 1854 they removed to Dodge county, Wisconsin, where they lived until 1887, when they became residents of Minneapolis, where they resided for the next two years. In 1889 they located in Austin, Minnesota, and lived there three years, after which they removed to Farmington, where they remained until 1901. They then removed to Osakis township, Douglas county, and there Mr. Rooney died in 1907. They were the parents of the following children: Patrick, Thomas, Isabelle, Lizzie [This is Elizabeth, who married a Cunningham and is my direct ancestor], Anna, Frank, Stephen, Margaret, Isabelle, Jennie, and A.A. [his name was Ambrose Aloysius]. The first-born Isabelle is now deceased. The family are devout members of the Catholic church.</blockquote>
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A.A. Rooney received his education in the public schools of Dodge county, Wisconsin. As a young man he started farming for himself, at Austin, Minnesota. In 1901 he moved to Osakis township, Douglas county, where he is now the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of land, which is well developed and improved with good and substantial buildings.</blockquote>
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The genealogy volunteer at the historical society asked me if I was related to the Rooney family that owned the hardware store in town. I had to say "I don't know!" Maybe I'll find out as I trace more of Ambrose's descendants.<br />
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The useful new information in this biographical sketch is the description of their movements, which were too frequent to be caught in the census. They moved to Minneapolis around the same time as their daughter, Elizabeth Rooney Cunningham. The Cunningham's stayed, but the Rooney's moved on. Perhaps I'll be able to find more information at the historical society.The Dean/Beavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05136987012902721546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897528643658824541.post-73145412921826149262019-01-19T13:24:00.000-06:002019-01-19T13:24:04.668-06:00Mystery solved!I have written before about my great-great-grandparents, <a href="http://thedeanbeaverblog.blogspot.com/2017/01/david-philip-dean.html" target="_blank">David Philip Dean</a> and <a href="http://thedeanbeaverblog.blogspot.com/2017/01/sarah-jane-jennie-brattain-dean.html" target="_blank">Sarah "Jennie" Brattain Dean</a>. I had always wondered how they met. David Philip Dean was born in Iowa, and he lived there until he was an older adult, when most of the family moved to Washington. Jennie, however, was from Indiana. How did they come together? At first, I thought David may have been visiting his mother's brothers, who did have farms in Indiana, but the <a href="http://thedeanbeaverblog.blogspot.com/2017/12/david-and-jennie-dean-family-bible.html" target="_blank">Dean family bible</a> made it clear that they were married in Iowa.<br />
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Recently, my mother found the original marriage certificate for David and Jennie among my grandmother's documents. One of the witnesses listed is "Jackson Wisehart". Wisehart is Jennie's mother's maiden name. Indeed, her mother, Louisa Wisehart Brattain, had an older brother named Andrew Jackson Wisehart (yes, really). Jackson was married to Hiram Brattain's younger sister, Christena. Hiram Brattain was Louisa's husband and Jennie's father. So, Andrew Jackson Wisehart was Jennie's uncle by birth and by marriage.<br />
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So, why was Andrew Jackson Wisehart present at the wedding of David and Jennie? The documents I found for him suggested he was born and died in Indiana. So, I searched further and I found this copy of his obituary:<br />
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If you click on it, you'll be able to see it better. Basically, it turns out that Jackson Brattain spent a chunk of time in DesMoines, Iowa, building a business there from 1872-1894, before returning to Indiana. His niece must have visited him and her aunt there, met David, and married him in 1876. I wonder if she was there because her aunt, Christena, was ill and needed some help with her younger children. Sadly, Christena died almost a year to the day after the wedding of her niece.<br />
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Mystery solved!<br />
<br />The Dean/Beavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05136987012902721546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897528643658824541.post-67227926334163519592018-11-15T14:55:00.001-06:002018-11-15T14:55:21.457-06:00Wehner, Wiemer, Ruffertshofer, Manary PhotographsMy mother gave me a box of photographs from my father's maternal line. She found it among my grandmother's things. It includes a number of travel photo albums from the middle of the 20th century, but also some family portraits I hadn't seen before. I'm posting them here to share with the rest of the family. I'll get around to the travel albums later, but most of them aren't of as much interest.<div>
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<b>Oldest Generation (First Generation Immigrants):</b></div>
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Charlotte Friedericke Wehner, nee von Heinrich, born March 3, 1807, in Wielselthal, Prussia (now part of Poland). She was the matriarch of the family that moved to Sebewaing, MI, around 1860. Uncertain when this picture was taken. She lived until April 24, 1900, but she doesn't look to be in her 90s in the picture. Perhaps late 1800s? I do not have a photo of her husband, Johann Gotlieb Wehner.</div>
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Augusta Wehner Wiemer, born November 26, 1837, somewhere in Prussia. She immigrated to Sebewaing, MI, with her parents and married Friedrich William Wiemer (sometimes spelled Weimer, I wish they'd decide which it was) in 1862. William was also from the area of Prussia that today is in Poland, so it is possible they knew each other before moving to Michigan. Augusta died in 1926. William died in 1911. Not certain when these photos were taken. Again, probably late 1800s.</div>
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Ernestina Wiemer Anderson, the third child of William and Augusta, was born in Sebewaing, MI, on Valentines Day in 1862. She died in 1929. This photograph looks like it was taken in the early 1900s.</div>
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Christiana Wiemer Ruffertshofer, the fifth child of Augusta and William, was born May 27, 1871 and died November 6, 1957. She married Frederick Ruffertshofer in 1891. This picture was part of the same set of pictures that include her parents, so I'm guessing they were all taken in the late 1800s. I don't know why the picture is sideways and not cropped like the others. If I figure it out, I'll fix it.</div>
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Mary Wiemer Fitzgerald was the sixth child of William and Augusta. I didn't know her married name was Fitzgerald until I read it on the back of this picture. She was born around 1876, so I would guess this picture was taken in the 1890s. </div>
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I believe this is a picture of Frederick H. Wiemer, the youngest son and seventh child of William and Augusta. The back of the photograph says "Herman Wiemer". I know nothing about him except that he was born around 1877.</div>
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Christiana and Frederick Ruffertshofer had four sons and one daughter. John Frederick Ruffertshofer was the eldest son, born 1894. He married Myrtle (I don't know her last name). I believe this must be a wedding photograph of them. According to the note on the back, Fred stole from Dow and was fired, making him "a disgrace to the family".<br />
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Mabel Ruffertshofer, the only daughter, was born October 5, 1892, on the farm in Monitor Township, Bay County, MI. She married Otto Manary in 1909. He was born October 22, 1878 on the adjacent farm.<br />
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These are mostly mixed pictures showing the fifth generation of children with their elders. I love this picture of four generations of Wehmer/Wiemer/Ruffertshofer/Manary women. The picture is dated May 7, 1911, and shows, clockwise, Mabel Ruffertshofer Manary, Viola Manary Drescher (as a baby), Christiana Wiemer Ruffertshofer, and Augusta Wehner Wiemer<br />
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My grandmother, Ilau Manary Dean, I'd guess around 1940.<br />
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This is a picture of Otto Manary and his first grandchild, Z. I don't know exactly when it was taken, but Z was born in December of 1937 and Otto died in 1941, so I'm guessing 1938-ish.<br />
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She doesn't fit into my direct ancestral line, but here's a picture of Otto Manary's sister, Eleanor Manary Johnson (at least, I think it says Johnson on the back of her photo. I didn't know her married name before seeing it.) Her children's names were Hazel and Ernie. Eleanor was born around 1881.<br />
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The Dean/Beavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05136987012902721546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897528643658824541.post-64412590395116872122018-08-11T19:28:00.000-05:002018-08-11T19:28:00.365-05:00Stephen Deane and Elizabeth Ring (again)Stephen Deane (sometimes Dean) was born around 1605, based on his date of marriage. He arrived in Plymouth in 1621 on the <i>Fortune </i>and was admitted as a freeman before 1633. <div>
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By 1630, he married Elizabeth Ring. We've heard about her before because she married Josias Cooke after she Stephen's death. We're descendants of their son Josiah, too. Stephen and Elizabeth had three children, Elizabeth (born around 1630), Miriam (1632), and Susanna (1634). Elizabeth married William Twining of Eastham. Miriam married John Wing, and Susanna, our ancestor, married Joseph Rogers and, after his death, Stephen Snow.</div>
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Stephen Deane was well enough educated to sign his deeds and to own a bible and other books. As noted in the previous post, Elizabeth may also have been literate. Stephen owned a corn mill near Plymouth and bought Godbert Godbertson's house in 1633. He only served on one committee, the one to assess taxes in 1634. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Anderson, Robert Charles 1995 <i>The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633</i>. New England Historic Genealogical Society.</span></div>
The Dean/Beavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05136987012902721546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897528643658824541.post-14023727770722152042018-08-04T18:36:00.000-05:002018-08-04T18:36:24.769-05:00Josias Cooke and Elizabeth Ring DeanJosias Cooke was born around 1610, based on the age stated in his will. He arrived in Plymouth in 1633. He was admitted as a freeman in January 1636/7. He is not related to Francis Cooke, at least not closely.<br />
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In September of 1635, Josias married Elizabeth Dean, widow of Stephen Dean (who is also one of our ancestors) and daughter of widow Mary Ring. Her parents may have been William and Mary Ring of Ufford, Suffolk. Elizabeth already had three children with her first husband (we're descended from their youngest child, Susanna). She and Josias had three more: Anna, who married Mark Snow; Bethia, who married Joseph Harding; and Josiah, our other ancestor, who married Deborah Hopkins.<br />
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Both Josias and Elizabeth may have been educated. Josias had enough education to serve as town clerk. Both he and his wife had books mentioned in their estates at their times of death.<br />
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Josiah was a tavern keeper. He served on a number of juries, surveying and land purchase committees, and as constable of Plymouth in 1640. He moved to Eastham by 1647, when he served as the Eastham deputy to the Plymouth general court, and given a license to sell wine at Nauset (Eastham) in June 1648. He was on the 1643 list of men allowed to bear arms. He must have been well respected, given the number of times he served as deputy, selectman, or notary. He was not above spats, however. In March 1633, he was fined for fighting with Edward Doty (another of our ancestors). Doty, apparently, drew blood. He also involved in a number of petty lawsuits.<br />
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He died in Eastham in October 1673. Elizabeth outlived him. She died in Eastham in May 1687. At his death, his estate was worth 104 pounds, 17s, not including the real estate.<br />
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- Deborah Cooke -- Moses Godfrey<br />
- Moses Godfrey -- Martha Collins<br />
- Joseph Godfrey -- Mehitable Hamilton<br />
- Sarah Godfrey -- Isaac Kenney<br />
- Mehitable Kenney -- Israel Doane<br />
- Olive Doane -- Simeon Kinney<br />
- Thomas Kinney -- Mary Elizabeth Houghton<br />
- Julia Kinney -- Ernest Hancock<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Anderson, Robert Charles 1995 <i>The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633</i>. New England Historic Genealogical Society.</span>The Dean/Beavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05136987012902721546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897528643658824541.post-59615751492356820812018-07-28T19:56:00.000-05:002018-07-28T19:56:08.374-05:00Francis Cooke and Hester MahieuFrancis Cooke was born around 1583. He moved to Leiden before 1603, where he met and married Hester Mahieu. They had seven known children, six of whom survived to adulthood.<br />
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Francis and Hester were members of the Puritan congregation in Leiden, although they were not part of the original congregation that left England together. Hester was a French Walloon, and upon marriage Francis joined the Walloon church in Norwich and then Leiden. Either Francis or Hester probably had some level of education because upon Francis's death his estate included one Bible and four older books.<br />
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Francis came to Plymouth aboard the <i>Mayflower </i>with his eldest son John, who would have been around 13 at the time. (I will note that Anderson gives John Cooke his own chapter, even though he was still a child in his father's household at the time of his arrival. No such courtesy was afforded to the Carpenter sisters or Mary Chilton, of course). Hester and their three other children, including our ancestor Jacob Cooke, arrived on the <i>Anne </i>in 1623. Jacob was the second son, born around 1618. He would have been a toddler at the time of the voyage. Later, he married Damaris Hopkins, the daughter of Stephen Hopkins, another <i>Mayflower </i>passenger.<br />
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Francis was listed as a freemen before 1633. Like most respectable men of the Massachusetts colony, Francis fulfilled a variety of offices, including committees for laying out land and highways. He was listed among the men able to bear arms in 1643. He died in Plymouth in April 1663, and his estate was valued at over 86 pounds. After his death, there were a number of court cases relating to the distribution of his land between his children.<br />
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- Jacob Cooke -- Elizabeth Lettice<br />
- Sarah Cooke -- Robert Bartlett<br />
- Lemuel Bartlett -- Mary Doty<br />
- Lemuel Bartlett -- Hannah Tinkham<br />
- Lydia Bartlett -- Thomas Kinney<br />
- Simeon Kinney -- Olive Doane<br />
- Thomas Kinney -- Mary Elizabeth Houghton<br />
- Julia Kinney -- Ernest Hancock<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Anderson, Robert Charles 1995 <i>The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633</i>. New England Historic Genealogical Society.</span>The Dean/Beavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05136987012902721546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897528643658824541.post-30054246931486294232018-07-21T14:15:00.000-05:002018-07-21T14:15:14.146-05:00Henry Cobb and Patience HurstHenry Cobb and his first wife, Patience Hurst, daughter of James Hurst, arrived in Plymouth in 1632. Perhaps it's better to say that both Henry and Patience were in Plymouth and married by that date. It's not clear from the documentation whether they married in Massachusetts colony or before arrival. Patience's father was also an early immigrant to the region (but I haven't reached the H book, yet, so I don't know how early).<br />
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Henry was born around 1607, based on his year of marriage. His background is unknown. He and Patricia had seven known children. We're the descendants of their eldest son, John.<br />
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Henry was a tavernkeeper. Although the family started in Plymouth, they had moved to Scituate by 1634 and to Barnstable by 1639. Most of our Kinney ancestry comes from the Barnstable area, which is out on the arm of Cape Cod. Interestingly, when the Cobbs left Scituate, they sold their lot and house to Manasseh Kempton, another of our ancestors, the husband of Juliann Carpenter.<br />
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Both Henry and Patience were members of the church. Henry was ordained a ruling elder in Barnstable in April 1670. He was a freeman before 1633. Henry had at least some education. He was able to sign his own name, as seen on some surviving documentation. His estate included 24s of books. Henry served a number of offices, including deputy and excise collector for Barnstable, and on a number of juries. While a Barnstable deputy, he was fined for "defect in appearance". He was also one of the men authorized to bear arms in 1643.<br />
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After Patricia's death, Henry married Sarah Hinckley in December 1649. They had seven children. Henry died sometime between February of 1678 and June of 1679. Patience was buried in Barnstable in May 1648. At his death, Elder Cobb's estate was valued at 80 pounds, including his house and land.<br />
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- John Cobb -- Martha Nelson<br />
- Ebenezer Cobb -- Mercy Holmes<br />
- Hannah Cobb -- Jacob Tinkham<br />
- Jacob Tinkham -- Lydia Dunham<br />
- Hannah Tinkham -- Lemuel Bartlett<br />
- Lydia Bartlett -- Thomas Kinney<br />
- Simeon Kinney -- Olive Doane<br />
- Thomas Kinney -- Mary Elizabeth Houghton<br />
- Julia Kinney -- Ernest Hancock<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Anderson, Robert Charles 1995 <i>The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633</i>. New England Historic Genealogical Society.</span>The Dean/Beavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05136987012902721546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897528643658824541.post-84364677754757030452018-07-14T20:06:00.000-05:002018-07-14T20:06:19.449-05:00Mary ChiltonHere's another...interesting organizational choice in Anderson's <i>The Great Migration Begins</i>. Our ancestor, Mary Chilton, is not given her own entry. Neither is her mother, whose name may or may not have been Susanne. Instead, both are listed under Mary's father, James Chilton. OK, again, maybe there's some justification in Anderson always listing the head of the household, who will usually be a man. But here's the thing: James Chilton never made it to Plymouth. The Chilton family were passengers on the <i>Mayflower</i>. James died before the <i>Mayflower </i>reached the colony, in December of 1620, while it was still anchored off the coast of Cape Cod. He may have never set foot on the land. His wife died soon after, in January of 1621. Only Mary survived.<br />
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James Chilton was a tailor. He was born around 1556, probably at Canterbury, Kent, the son of Lionel Chilton. He married by 1586, but his wife's name is not known for certain. Together they had ten known children. Mary was the youngest, burn in 1607. The family moved to Leiden, part of the Puritan community there, where at least one of their older daughters married. Anderson cites a notarial record from Leiden describing an assault on James and his daughter in April 1619. Some historians believe this assault was one of the events that encouraged the Puritans to find a new, safer, home for their religious beliefs.<br />
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The Chiltons took only their youngest child with them on the <i>Mayflower</i>. Mary was about 13 at the time. Her eldest sister, Isabella, migrated in 1632 with her husband, Roger Chandler. There is no further record of the other children. James and his wife died in the first major infection that swept through the <i>Mayflower </i>passengers. He did sign the Mayflower Compact before his death. Tradition claims that their daughter, Mary, was the first Mayflower passenger to step onto Plymouth Rock. She married John Winslow by May of 1627.<br />
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Notably, this is one of the few cases where our descent from the early Puritans is not through the Kinney line, but rather through my paternal grandmother's Manary line.<br />
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- Susanna Winslow -- Robert Latham<br />
- James Latham -- Deliverance Alger<br />
- Anne Latham -- Nicholas Wade<br />
- John Wade -- Sarah Arbuckle<br />
- Hannah Wade -- James McGregor<br />
- John McGregor -- Susan Baker<br />
- Ellen McGregor -- William Manary<br />
- Joseph Manary -- Rebecca Wilson<br />
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There's a whole other blog post to be written about the way Anderson organizes his volume by the male head of household, with women as the afterthought, tucked away in the "married" section. Even when women came to the Massachusetts Colony as single, independent people, they don't all get their own entry. Take Juliann. She and her three other sisters are hidden away under their youngest sister Priscilla's entry. It's not clear why the other sisters don't get their own independent entries, since all but one was in Plymouth before 1633. The last of the five sisters may also have been there, I just don't have the documentation to know at this point. They're probably discussed in more detail under their husbands' entries.</div>
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Anyway, here's the story of five sisters: Juliann, Agnes, Alice, Mary, and Priscilla, all daughters of Alexander Carpenter, who probably arrived as single women at Plymouth, or perhaps married men who then came to Plymouth, or both. </div>
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Alexander Carpenter was from Wrington, Somersetshire. His five daughters were born between 1583 and 1598, although all dates are conjectural. He moved his family to Leiden by 1611, along with many of the other Puritans. Alexander never came to Massachusetts, but his daughters did. William Bradford wrote a letter to Mary Carpenter of Wrington, who was his wife Alice's sister, in August of 1644 or 1646 noting that the Carpenter sisters' mother had recently died and invited Mary to join them in Plymouth. Although Anderson doesn't lay it out in detail, I assume this means a) the Carpenter sisters were close kin to Alice Carpenter Bradford; b) the Carpenter sisters' mother, who is unnamed at least in Anderson's book, had also come to Massachusetts. Anderson notes that all of the sisters seem to have married a little later than was the norm for women of the time. This seems consistent (to me, at least) with their independence in coming to the colony on their own.</div>
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Juliann, our ancestor, was probably the eldest sister. She married George Morton. After she was widowed, she married Manasseh Kempton before May 1627. We are descended from their daughter, Patience Kempton. The second sister, Agnes, married Samuel Fuller. Alice married Edward Southworth and after his death William Bradford (yes, the one whose wife was her kin). Mary never married but lived until 1687 (Go girl!). Priscilla married William Wright and then John Cooper.<br /><div>
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Is this a good time to point out how ridiculously inbred the Puritans were? By 1633, the English population of the Massachusetts Colony was still pretty small. Plus, they'd followed a type of chain migration, bringing their brothers and sisters, cousins, and in-laws to the colony once they'd settled in, narrowing their matrimonial choices even further. It's no surprise that we are descended from so many people who are listed in Anderson's book. If you have any ancestry from the early Great Migration period, you most likely are related to a significant percentage of the very small, very endogamous community that perched on the edge of Wampanoag territory.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Juliann Carpenter -- Manasseh Kempton</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Patience Morton -- </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Thomas Faunce -- </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Martha Faunce -- </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Mary Doty -- </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Lemuel Bartlett -- </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Lydia Bartlett -- Thomas Kinney</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Simeon Bartlett Kinney -- </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Olive Doane Kinney </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Thomas Kinney -- Mary Houghton Kinney</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Julia Kinney Hancock -- Ernest Hancock</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">References:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Anderson, Robert Charles 1995 <i>The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633</i>. New England Historic Genealogical Society.</span></div>
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The Dean/Beavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05136987012902721546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897528643658824541.post-87733897008280733802018-06-30T15:31:00.000-05:002018-06-30T15:31:00.564-05:00Peter and Martha Brown (or Browne)<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Here's another in my series of ancestors who are documented in Robert Charles Anderson's </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The Great Migration Begins</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. </span>Peter Brown is one of our <i>Mayflower </i>ancestors. He was born around 1600, based on his date of marriage. His wife, Martha, arrived on the <i>Fortune </i>in 1621. Her first husband, William Ford, died on the voyage. Martha arrived with their two children and gave birth to another child almost immediately upon landing. By 1626, she married Peter. She died in 1630 or 1631, after bearing him two daughters, Mary and Priscilla. Peter quickly remarried, to a woman named Mary (last name unknown), but he did not live much longer. He died sometime before October 10, 1633, when his estate was inventoried.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Peter was listed as a freeman by 1633. It's not clear if he was educated. The only book in his estate was a bible. His estate was worth over 100 pounds, but was complicated by the fact that his household included his own children from two different wives and his his wives each had children from a previous marriage. Our ancestor, Peter's daughter Mary, was placed upon her father's death in the household of John Doane, of Plymouth. She would have been around seven years old. John Doane is also one of our ancestors, as Mary's descendants eventually intermarried with his.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Peter had a brother, John, who also came to Massachusetts by 1632 and lived in Duxbury.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Mary Browne -- Ephraim Trinkham</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Helkiah Tinkham -- Ruth Cooke</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Jacob Tinkham -- Hannah Cobb</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Jacob Tinkham -- Lydia Dunham</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Hannah Tinkham -- Lemuel Bartlett</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Lydia Bartlett -- Thomas Kinney</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Thomas Kinney -- Mary Houghton</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Julia Kinney Hancock -- Ernest Hancock</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Anderson, Robert Charles 1995 <i>The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633</i>. New England Historic Genealogical Society.</span>The Dean/Beavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05136987012902721546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897528643658824541.post-45919611099830235002018-06-23T21:29:00.000-05:002018-06-23T21:29:02.589-05:00William and Mary Brewster<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt=" A page from the "Brewster Book," containing some of the family birth and death records for William and Mary Brewster and their children. " height="400" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50a02efce4b046b42952af27/t/50afb080e4b01c11f0eb6c04/1432981315458/DSC00620.JPG?format=1500w" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="300" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A page from the Brewster family Bible. http://mayflowerhistory.com/brewster-william/</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">William and Mary Brewster were founding members of the separatist congregation at the heart of the <i>Mayflower </i>voyage. They were in Scrooby until 1608, when they fled with other members of the congregation to Leiden, where William became an elder, teacher, and printer. They were a leading family among those who undertook that first voyage to Plymouth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">William was born around 1566, probably in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire. His father's name was also William Brewster. Mary's maiden name is unknown. They were married by 1593.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">William was well educated. He entered Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1580, although he did not graduate. At the time of his death, an inventory of his estate found nearly 400 books, in English and in Latin, worth 42 pounds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Massachusetts colony did not have a formal minister, so William took on many of those duties, including preaching. He continued to do so after the family moved to Duxbury, after Mary's death on April 17, 1627. William died in Duxbury, April 10, 1644. They had six children, one of whom died in infancy. The surviving children were: Jonathan (born in 1593, clearly named before his parents converted), Patience, Fear, Love, and Wrestling. We are descended from his daughter Patience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">William Brewster -- Mary (unknown)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> - Patience Brewster -- Thomas Prence</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> - Mercy Prence -- John Freeman</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> - Edmund Freeman -- Sara Mayo</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Ruth Freeman -- Israel Doane</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> - Edmund Doane -- Elizabeth Osborn</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> - Israel Doane -- Desire Nickerson<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> - Israel Doane -- Mehitable Kinney </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> - Olive Doane Kinney -- Simeon Kinney</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> - Thomas Kinney -- Mary Houghton Kinney</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> - Julia Kinney Hancock -- Ernest Hancock</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">References:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Anderson, Robert Charles 1995 <i>The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633</i>. New England Historic Genealogical Society.</span></span>The Dean/Beavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05136987012902721546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897528643658824541.post-62177870885885746392018-06-16T20:47:00.000-05:002018-06-16T20:47:00.511-05:00William and Elizabeth Bassett<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="File:Reverend James Keith Parsonage, West Bridgewater MA.jpg" height="240" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Reverend_James_Keith_Parsonage%2C_West_Bridgewater_MA.jpg/800px-Reverend_James_Keith_Parsonage%2C_West_Bridgewater_MA.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Reverend James Keith Parsonage, built in Bridgewater, MA in 1662. It would have been a substantial part of the town where William (and possibly Elizabeth) Bassett lived. Photograph by John Phelan, wikicommons.</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">I'm continuing my series of ancestors who are documented in Robert Charles Anderson's </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">The Great Migration Begins</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">There was more than one William Bassett in the Massachusetts colony during the Great Migration. This particular William Bassett was probably born around 1600, based on his marriage age. He and his first wife, Elizabeth, came to the colony in 1621 on the <i>Fortune</i>. While they originally lived in Plymouth, they moved to Duxbury by 1637 and Bridgewater by 1656. William was a blacksmith and a freeman before 1632/3. He must have been educator for his estate included more than twenty books, mostly about theology. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">William served in a number of committees and offices, including on juries and as a constable for Duxbury. He was listed as one of the men allowed to bear arms in 1643. He had an estate of at least 100 acres, and the final inventory of his estate valued more than 123 pounds without the land. More than 9 pounds of that was books, and a substantial amount more were his blacksmiths tools. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">It is unclear when Elizabeth died. She is not mentioned in any documentation after 1627, but William did not remarry until after 1651. Sometime between 1651 and December 12, 1664, he married Mary Tilden Lapham, daughter of Nathaniel Tilden and widow of Thomas Lapham. They did not have children.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">We are descendants of William and Elizabeth's second son, Nathaniel, born around 1630. He married Dorcas Joyce, the daughter of John Joyce. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"> - Nathaniel Bassett -- Dorcas Joyce</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"> - Hannah Bassett -- Joseph Covell</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Sarah Covell -- </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">William Nickerson</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"> - Mercy Nickerson -- Heman Kenney</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"> - Isaac Kenney -- Sarah Godfrey</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"> - Mehitable Kenney -- Israel Doane</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> - Olive Doane -- Simeon Bartlett Kinney</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"> - Thomas Kinney -- Mary Houghton Kinney</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"> - Julia Kinney Hancock -- Ernest Hancock</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Anderson, Robert Charles 1995 <i>The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. </i>New England Historic Genealogical Society.</span>The Dean/Beavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05136987012902721546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897528643658824541.post-14128328011484610952018-06-09T20:23:00.000-05:002018-06-09T20:23:07.909-05:00Robert Bartlett and Mary Warren Bartlett<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;">Continuing my series on ancestors who can be found in Anderson's <i>The Great Migration Begins</i> (1995).</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;">Robert Bartlett arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts Colony, in 1623 on the <i>Anne</i>. He was a wine cooper, a freeman by 1632/3, and probably illiterate, since he signed all deeds with a mark. His origins are unknown, but it is estimated he was born in 1604, based on his date of marriage.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;">Highlights of his career in Plymouth include being summoned before the court on May 1, 1660, and convicted of "speaking contemptuously of singing of psalms". He also served on various committees, particularly those related to laying out or surveying highways and land. He was on the list of men in Plymouth who were permitted to bear arms in 1643. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;">Before 1629, he married Mary Warren, the daughter of his neighbors Richard and Elizabeth Warren. Robert, Mrs. Elizabeth Warren (the mother-in-law) and his brother-in-law Thomas Little appear frequently in documentation pertaining to land and crops in and around Plymouth. He seems to have owned quite a bit of land. He received one acre upon arrival (as did all of <i>Anne's </i>passengers), but subsequent documents mention at least 100 acres of land.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Robert and Mary had eight known children: Benjamin, Rebecca, Mary, Sarah, Joseph, Elizabeth, Lydia, and Mercy. We are descendants of the second son, Joseph, who was born around 1639 and married Hannah Pope, daughter of Thomas Pope.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;">Robert gave a spoken will on September 19, 1676. In October, the inventory of his estate totaled 170 pounds, 16s, 6d, including 100 pounds in real estate, 2 houses and a barn.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Joseph Bartlett -- Hannah Pope</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"> -Robert Bartlett -- Sarah Cooke</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Lemuel Bartlett -- Mary Doty</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Lemuel Bartlett -- Hannah Tinkham</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Lydia Bartlett -- Thomas Kinney</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Simeon Bartlett Kinney -- Olive Doane</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Thomas Kinney -- Mary Elizabeth Houghton</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Julia Kinney -- Ernest Hancock</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Anderson, Robert Charles 1995 <i>The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633</i>. New England Historic Genealogical Society.</span>The Dean/Beavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05136987012902721546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897528643658824541.post-75805795902297273932018-05-19T14:23:00.000-05:002018-05-19T14:23:54.644-05:00Julia Etta Kinney<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The latest post in my series about my great-great grandparents focuses on Julia Etta Kinney, wife of Ernest Justus Hancock, who was the focus of my last post. She is one of my four great-great grandparents born outside the United States (all four in Canada), but her family's history is in Massachusetts, going back to the <i>Mayflower</i>. The Kinneys were a sea-faring family; most of the men were ships captains, owned ship-building companies, or served as port authorities. Over their history, they tended to move from Massachusetts to Nova Scotia and back again as if the border didn't exist. Julia's grandfather and father, though, eventually re-located to the west coast, which is how she came to living in Coupeville, Washington, and meet her husband.<br />
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Julia was born in 1859 in Hall's Harbour, Nova Scotia, the daughter of Captain Thomas Kinney and Mary Elizabeth (Houghton) Kinney. Thomas Kinney was working on the west coast by 1851 (1), while Julia and her mother stayed on the east coast, which may be why Julia was an only child. According to a biography published in the <i>Island County Times</i> in 1947, her family moved to Yarmouth when she was four and then Boston the next year (2). Her parents had been married in Boston, so it is possible that they moved to be near her mother's family. In 1868, when she was 11, she and her mother moved to San Francisco to join her father. In 1871, they moved up the coast to Coupeville.<br />
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Julia was unusually well-educated, compared to the other children in Coupeville. She had, after all, gotten her elementary education in Boston and San Francisco, while many of the other Coupeville families had come from less developed areas. Perhaps it was inevitable, then, that she would become a teacher.<br />
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References:<br />
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1) Lewis and Dryden<br />
2) Island County TimesThe Dean/Beavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05136987012902721546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897528643658824541.post-49561918159532534162018-02-21T10:27:00.000-06:002018-02-21T10:29:37.340-06:00President's DayHappy President's Day! In honor of his birthday, here's our connection to our first president:<br />
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Yup, for those of us on the Hancock line, George Washington is my 4x great-grandfather's sister-in-law's great-grandmother's maternal cousin's brother-in-law.<br />
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I literally laughed for about ten minutes while writing that.<br />
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Also interesting, though, is that the Ammon family (who married into the Hancocks and gave us the Ammon first name) attended the church where George and Mary Washington were married, at the same time that they were parishioners.<br />
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<img src="http://www.okmoviequotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/1-Spaceballs-quotes.gif" /><br />
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(props to Joe for the Gif)<br />
<br />The Dean/Beavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05136987012902721546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897528643658824541.post-67552648001209029722018-01-18T22:32:00.000-06:002018-06-04T16:18:37.011-05:00Edward and Rebecca Bangs, times twoI'm continuing my series of ancestors who are documented in Robert Charles Anderson's <i>The Great Migration Begins</i>. The history of Edward and Rebecca Bangs is much less salacious than that of <a href="http://thedeanbeaverblog.blogspot.com/2018/01/reverend-stephen-bachiler-most-notable.html" target="_blank">Stephen Bachiler</a>, but they are part of the reason that we are descended from basically everyone who lived on the outer arm of Cape Cod in the 17th and 18th centuries.<br />
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Edward Bangs was born in England sometime around 1591. He arrived in Massachusetts in 1623 on the <i>Anne</i>. He would have been about 32 years old. He initially lived in Plymouth where he was given four acres of land, which suggests his household consisted of four people. If the other three people were a wife and children, they must have died fairly early. By 1633, he married Lydia Hicks, who had also come to Massachusetts on the <i>Anne</i>. She was baptized at St. Mary Magdalen in Bermondsey, Surrey, September 6, 1612, so she would have been 21 or younger at the time of their marriage. The couple had one son, John, who was born sometime between 1631 and 1634. Lydia died soon after. By 1635, Edward re-married to Rebecca (her last name is uncertain) and they had nine children together. Rebecca may have been the daughter of Edmund Hobart, but there's no proof.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Nauset Lighthouse in Eastham, Massachusetts, which is<br />
only 300 years too young for Edward Bangs to have ever<br />
seen it.</td></tr>
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Edward and Rebecca Bangs moved to Eastham by 1645. Eastham is on the outer arm of Cape Cod. They owned land <br />
around an area called "Warren's Wells". I have no idea where that would be. Edward was an innkeeper at least part of the time. At other times he is referred to as a "yeoman". In 1657 he was granted permission to sell wine and "strong waters" in Eastham, but only "for the refreshment of the English, and not to be sold to the Indians." In 1664, there is a record of him importing six gallons of liquor for his establishment.<br />
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Innkeeper Bangs was clearly an engaged citizens. He held a number of offices, including deputy to Plymouth Court for Eastham, serving on juries, and serving many committees, including committees to divide land, assess taxes, and reunite Plymouth and Duxbury. He must have been known for his integrity or at least his willingness to serve.<br />
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It's not certain when Rebecca died, but she died before Edward because she is not mentioned in his will. Edward Bangs died between October 19, 1677, when he wrote his will, and March 5, 1677/8, the probate date. He was buried in the Eastham Cove Burial Ground, along with a large number of distant relatives.<br />
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We're related to Edward and Rebecca Bangs through two of their children. First, we're related through their eldest surviving son, Jonathan, not be be confused with John, who was the son of Edward's first wife, Lydia.<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;">Edward Bangs -- Rebecca (unknown) Bangs</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Jonathan Bangs -- Mary Mayo Bangs</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Mary Bangs Nickerson -- Thomas Nickerson</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Thomas Nickerson -- Lydia Covell Nickerson</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Desire Nickerson -- Elisha Nickerson</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Sarah Nickerson Kinney -- Nathan Kinney III</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Thomas Kinney -- Lydia Bartlett</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Simeon Kinney -- Olive Doane Kinney</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Thomas Kinney -- Mary Houghton Kinney</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Julia Kinney Hancock -- Ernest Hancock</span><br />
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We're also related through Edward and Rebecca's daughter, Hannah Bangs Doane.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Edward Bangs -- Rebecca (unknown) Bangs</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Hannah Bangs Doane -- John Doane Jr.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Hannah Doane Collins -- John Collins</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Martha Collins Godfrey -- Moses Godfrey</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Joseph Godfrey -- </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Mehitable Hamilton Godfrey</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Sarah Godfrey Kinney -- Isaac Kinney</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Mehitable Kinney Doane -- Israel Doane</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Olive Doane Kinney -- Simeon Kinney</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Thomas Kinney -- Mary Houghton Kinney</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> - Julia Kinney Hancock -- Ernest Hancock</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">References:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Anderson, Robert Charles 1995 The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. New England Historic Genealogical Society.</span><br />
<br />The Dean/Beavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05136987012902721546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897528643658824541.post-81110923036369054452018-01-11T22:48:00.000-06:002018-06-04T16:19:40.539-05:00Reverend Stephen Bachiler, a most notable crank<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1caexkTXPunjhDqPghwAVleQsiIdS453rh2lYaDSOI_eePxYsjvU2s7InOCpTSWoAp0XLCP15JcZOv06UDbDMqocBlX7NwLKDfbT3_tIEDrAc9TZXB7mjGYn5fbRsOS7H8iTBiyo7xxcH/s1600/Bachiler_coat-of-arms._By_Sylvanus_Morgan%252C_1898.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="402" data-original-width="389" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1caexkTXPunjhDqPghwAVleQsiIdS453rh2lYaDSOI_eePxYsjvU2s7InOCpTSWoAp0XLCP15JcZOv06UDbDMqocBlX7NwLKDfbT3_tIEDrAc9TZXB7mjGYn5fbRsOS7H8iTBiyo7xxcH/s320/Bachiler_coat-of-arms._By_Sylvanus_Morgan%252C_1898.jpg" width="309" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bachiler coat of arms</td></tr>
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<span id="goog_603873407"></span><span id="goog_603873408"></span>Stephen Bachiler is my 13th great-grandfather. He led quite an interesting life.<br />
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He was born around 1560 in England and received a B.A. from St. John's college in Oxford in 1585/6. He was married four times, to progressively younger women, but Deborah was a daughter from his first wife, whose name might have been Anne, and who may have been the sister of Reverend John Bate. They were married by 1590 and she died before 1624.<br />
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Reverend Bachiler was frequently in trouble. Scandal and discord followed in his wake. He became the vicar of Wherwell, Hampshire, in 1587. He had puritanical leanings (in the theological sense) and was a notable nonconformist. In 1593 the Star Chamber cited him for making "lewd speeches tending seditiously" about Queen Elizabeth and her government. He was removed from his vicarage during a purge of Puritans in 1605, under James I. In 1614, he was once again before the Star Chamber when Reverend George Wighley accused him, his son Stephen, John Bate (who may have been his brother-in-law and/or cousin), of libeling and ridiculing him in verse. In the 1620s, the Bachilers moved to Newton Stacey a village in Hampshire. Somehow he incited his parishioners to act against the sheriff of the parish, who had to petition for aid to the King in Council.<br />
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Reverend Bachiler clearly knew other Puritans. Some of his children moved to the Netherlands, presumably to be part of the Puritan community there. In 1621, Adam Winthrop, father of Governor John Winthrop, made note in his journal of dining with Bachiler. Bachiler would have been well aware of the Puritan colony in Massachusetts. In the 1630s he joined a group of London merchants to form the Plough Company, which sent two shiploads of settlers to New England.<br />
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Stephen Bachiler himself arrived in New England in 1632, aboard the <i>William and Francis</i>, the second of the Plough Company's ships. He was already at least 70 years old. His first wife, Anne, was already dead, and he had married twice more. It's not clear who came with him on this voyage, but his youngest daughter with Anne, Theodate Bachiler Hussey, was already in New England with her husband. Reverend Bachiler first settled at Lynn with her and tried to form a new church. However, there was constant unrest within the congregation. Furthermore, he didn't get along any better with the authorities in New England than he had in England. He is believed to have been the only dissenting vote among the ministers against the expulsion of Roger Williams, the founder of Providence. For these reasons, presumably, Bachiler was pushed out of his position as minister in Lynn by 1636.<br />
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He may have moved from Lynn to Ipswitch, but in 1637 he moved to Yarmouth. Rather, apparently, he <i>walked </i>there. In winter. Considering he was about 77 at the time, that's pretty impressive. He didn't stay in Yarmouth long. The next year he left for Newbury. Again, he did not stay long and moved on to Hampton in 1639. Governor Winthrop noted that "Mr. Batchellor had been in three places before, and through his means, as was supposed, the churches fell to such divisions, as no peace could be till he was removed."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the Hussey-Bachiler chair. It is in the Met.<br />
Reverend Bachiler once sat here.</td></tr>
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In 1641, Bachiler was pushed out of Hampton when he "did solicit the chastity of his neighbor's <br />
wife." The subsequent scandal kept him from finding employment in other parishes. He moved to Strawberry Bank, which is now Portsmouth. While living there, in 1648, he married Mary Magdalene Bailey, who was some 60 years his junior. Unsurprisingly, the marriage between the 26 year old widow and the 88 year old minister was...rocky. In 1650 they were brought to the Quarterly Court because, essentially, Mary was living with another man. In 1651, when Mary got pregnant despite being estranged from her husband, George Rogers was sentenced to 40 strokes for adultery. His partner, Mary, "for her adultery shall receive 40 strokes save one at the first town meeting held at Kittery six weeks after the delivery and be branded with the letter A." Some scholars believe Mary Bachiler was the inspiration for Nathaniel Hawthorn's novel, <i>The Scarlet Letter</i>.<br />
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Reverend Bachiler returned to England, probably in 1651. He died and was buried in London on October 31, 1656. He was around 96 years of age.<br />
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Because some of his children stayed in New England, he counts a number of famous Americans among his descendants. These include Richard Nixon, Jennie Jerome (Winston Churchill's mother), Gerald Ford, H.H. Dow (founder of Dow Chemical), Meghan Markle (soon to marry into the British royal family), Daniel Webster, and John Whittier.<br />
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Our relationship to Reverend Bachiler (down to my great-great grandmother):<br />
Stephen Bachiler -- Anne<br />
- Deborah Bachiler Wing -- John Wing<br />
- Daniel Wing -- Hannah Swift Wing<br />
- Lydia Wing Abbot Hamilton -- Thomas? Hamilton<br />
- Daniel Hamilton -- Mary Smith<br />
- Samuel Hamilton -- Bethia Stewart Hamilton<br />
- Mehitable Hamilton Godfrey -- Joseph Godfrey<br />
- Sarah Godfrey Kinney -- Isaac Kinney<br />
- Mehitable Kinney Doane -- Israel Doane<br />
- Olive Doane Kinney -- Simeon Kinney<br />
- Thomas Kinney -- Mary Houghton Kinney<br />
- Julia Kinney Hancock -- Ernest Hancock<br />
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References:<br />
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Anderson, Robert Charles 1995 The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. New England Historic Genealogical Society.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Bachiler" target="_blank">Stephen Bachiler on Wikipedia</a>The Dean/Beavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05136987012902721546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897528643658824541.post-81726184285655010352017-12-30T14:41:00.000-06:002017-12-30T14:41:31.896-06:00David and Jennie Dean Family Bible<br />
I blogged previously about the serendipitous events that brought the <a href="http://thedeanbeaverblog.blogspot.com/2017/11/welsheimer-bible.html" target="_blank">Philip and Catherine Welsheimer Family Bible </a>into my life. For Christmas, I received another priceless gift: the family Bible of David Philip Dean and his wife Sara "Jennie" Brattain Dean. They would be my great-great grandparents. David was the grandson of Philip and Catherine Welsheimer. Their Bible was found among my grandmother's things. I assume it was sent to her by my great-aunt, Lillian Huffstetler.<br />
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I wanted to share some pictures and items from the Bible so other family members can see it.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTH0v4FwLI6GXlUJ7we-U8HfnNCzEUSq9oT8ru6Lje6pNLTPWjHe3FosFoELrIphq1v3hteXlO7utaRtuD_TZ607-RCtVnnEBySk5hM2BqCljCqNi8GMfaSJvKatyZobIKoJXpk1xUqVlE/s1600/IMG_0590.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTH0v4FwLI6GXlUJ7we-U8HfnNCzEUSq9oT8ru6Lje6pNLTPWjHe3FosFoELrIphq1v3hteXlO7utaRtuD_TZ607-RCtVnnEBySk5hM2BqCljCqNi8GMfaSJvKatyZobIKoJXpk1xUqVlE/s320/IMG_0590.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Outside cover</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside cover. The text reads:<br />
Family Bible of David P. Dean and Sarah Jane Brattain-Dean who were married August 22, 1876<br />
DesMoines, Iowa The above names were written by Eva D. Trowbridge July 14, 1961 at the home of<br />
Manie Dean Edmundson 3227 Wright Ave Bremerton, Wash<br />
[Eva and Manie were daughters of David and Sarah]</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frontpiece of the Bible. It dates to 1863. I don't know<br />
if the Bible belonged to one of them prior to marriage<br />
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Note the pages pinned on the side. I removed the<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is what was written on the back of the tract pinned to the opposite page of the Bible's frontpiece. On the top is the name "Ann Dean" in very faint letters. Ann was David's mother, Anna Welsheimer Dean, who died in 1905, which means she is not the person who wrote the rest of the page. I suspect it was David Dean who did so:<br />
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This tract was given to D.P. Dean , about the year 1860 or 61. He was walking along the road on his way to his Uncle Jim Finch's [David's paternal aunt, Sara, had married James Finch], when two men on passing by in a one-horse buggy handed him this tract and one other. This circumstance is very vivid in my mind at this time, Feb 16, 1920, 69-70 years ago. This piece of road was what is now Court Avenue between 20th and 30th sts, DesMoines, Iowa.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A number of newspaper clippings were stored in the Bible, including this one from January 30, 1907, describing the wedding of David and Sarah's daughter, Madge, to Herbert Swenson, in Altoona, Iowa. (Clicking on the picture should give you a larger version to read)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is a sadder clipping. This is an obituary for David and Sarah's son, Ralph, who died at 18 in June of 1918. From the newspaper account it sounds like he had suffered from illness for much of his life. A number of clippings related to Ralph were in the Bible. He was obviously much missed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An interesting clipping that showed how David and Sarah kept in touch with their extended family. The article is from a Middletown, Indiana, newspaper and about the wedding of L.K. Wisehart in 1908 or 1909. I don't know who L.K. was, but the article mentions he was the son of Richmond Wisehart. Richmond was Sarah Brattain Dean's maternal uncle, the brother of her mother, Louisa Wisehart.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's a fun clip! Apparently in 1936 David Dean grew a 2lb tomato and a 7lb potato! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This advertisement answered a question I had long had: when, exactly, did the Dean family move to Washington? The answer, apparently, is sometime soon after Dec 7, 1910, when they sold their farm and equipment in Altoona, Iowa</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lillian Dean's wedding to Raymond Stiles in November 1911, Whidbey Island, Washington</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The church bulletin announcing Sarah Brattain Dean's death. April 6, 1919</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The pages before the New Testament have family records. This is the marriages page. It appears there are two different hands that wrote here. Below, I put the notes by that second hand in {}. That second hand seems to take over entirely after 1907, but perhaps earlier. Although the first hand could be Sarah and the later David, I have an alternative theory: the first hand is Anne Welsheimer Dean's. After her death in 1905 (or perhaps when she was incapacitated earlier), either Sarah or David took over adding to the Bible. That theory is based on a) the fact that the hand seems to disappear before 1905 (I think, some entries are hard to tell); b) the writing has an archaic look to me; and c) the handwriting reminds me somewhat of the Welsheimer family Bible, which was written by one of Anne's parents.<br /><br />The writing is as follows:<br />Aug 22nd 1876 Mr. David Philip Dean to Miss Sarah Jane Brattain<br />{Ceremony took place at residence of J. Wisehart SE Corner 12th and Court Ave. DesMoines, Iowa}<br /><br />Miss Mary Louanna Dean to Mr. Will Edmundson Dec 29 1897 {At home near Altoona NW4 NW4 12.79.23}<br /><br />Ethel Gertrude Dean to William Casebeer Dec. 25, 1900 last Christmas of the 19th century {at same house as above described}<br /><br />[note: not clear if this entry is in the first or second hand]: Madge Estella Dean to Mr. Herbert L. Swenson Jan. 30th, 1907 {at same house as above described}<br /><br />{Aura Dean to Karl E. Hodges at the house of her uncle Ro E. Fulton 915 Queen Anne Ave. Seattle Washington, Sept. 7, 1910.<br /><br />Lillian Dean to Raymond C. Stiles. Wesley M.C. NE Corner East 11? Des Moines St. DesMoines Iowa Nov 8, 1911<br /><br />Eva Dean to Robert W. Trowbridge at M.E.C. in Coupeville Washington Nov. 15th 1911.<br /><br />Carl Dean to Vera Hancock Sept 1916<br /><br />Merl to Irene Cotte in Chicago June 1919<br /><br /><br />Another mystery solved! I have often wondered how David and Sarah met, since she was from Indiana and he was from Iowa. I wondered if he'd visited some of his mother's kin who lived not far from Sarah's family. However, based on this entry, it appears that Sarah was actually in Iowa visiting her mother's Wisehart kin, although I'm not sure who.<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The second page of Family Records includes the births. Most of this page is written in the original handwritting from the first page, perhaps Sarah's. There are some notes of deaths, but I think those come from Eva and Marnie, as noted on the inside cover of the Bible. I've put their notes in {} below.<br /><br />Mary Louanna Dean July 26, 1877<br />Madge Estella Dean, Sept 14, 1878 {D- April 12 '66}<br />Ethel Gertrude Dean, Oct. 29, 1879<br />Daisy Dean, May 8, 1881.<br />Harvey Edwin Dean, April 18, 1883<br />Aura Dean, Sept. 10, 1884 {D - Aug 5 '64}<br />Eva Dean, Aug. 31, 1886<br />Edna Dean, Oct. 10, 1887<br />Jimmie [Jimmie is crossed out and James written in} Dean, Feb. 16, 1889<br />Infant Son, Aug. 10, 1890.<br />Lillian Dean, July 21, 1891 {D - May 9 '62}<br />David Merlin Dean, Feb. 24, 1894.<br />Carl Phillip Dean, Dec. 14, 1895.<br />Ralph Hiram Dean, June 18, 1899.<br /><br />I suppose it's good they stopped having kids, as they'd completely run out of room on the page! I will note that this is 14 children in a span of 22 years</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The final page of the Family Records is the saddest, the list of deaths. The first five names are in the same hand. The next two may be in the same hand that wrote the comments and later entries on the marriage page. The final deaths, those of Sarah and David themselves, appear to have been written by Eva and Marnie in the 1960s.<br /><br />First hand:<br />Harvey Edwin Dean, Feb. 7, 1885.<br />Daisy Dean, Feb. 8, 1885.<br />Edna Dean, Feb. 5, 1890.<br />Jimmie Dean, Feb. 9, 1890.<br />Infant Son, Aug. 10, 1890.<br /><br />Second Hand:<br />Ethel Gertrude Dean, Feb. 11, 1901.<br />Ralph Hiram Dean, June 12, 1918<br /><br />Eva and Marnie:<br />Sarah Jane (Brattain) Dean, B. Nov 7, 1854, D. 1919<br />David Philip Dean, B. Feb 16 1852, D. Apr 16 1941</td></tr>
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The deaths page is particularly heartbreaking. Six of their fourteen children died young. Harvey and Daisy died on subsequent days in 1885. Perhaps there was some disease that went through the family? Harvey would have been six and Daisy three. Something similar happened five years later, in February of 1890, when two children died within days of each other. Edna would have been two and Jimmie just shy of his first birthday. Later that year, the unnamed son was likely a stillbirth. And, as discussed above, their youngest child died at eighteen. We forget, sometimes, how lucky we are to live in this age of medical miracles. </div>
The Dean/Beavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05136987012902721546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897528643658824541.post-44891182661811290542017-11-29T22:03:00.000-06:002017-11-29T22:03:01.210-06:00Philips. Lots and lots of Philips.<span style="font-family: inherit;">A few weeks ago, I came in contact with a distant cousin, Philip Hodges. We share a great-great grandfather, David Philip Dean. I sent a short email laying out the history of the name "Philip" in our family. I realized I'd never written it up for this blog, so here it is:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The first known Philip in our direct ancestry was Johannes Philip Welsheimer. "Johannes" was his baptismal name. Normally, this name is not used except in legal and religious contexts. So, he would have been known as "Philip". Philip was born around 1730 in Berlin and immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1766. He was one of a surprisingly large number of "Pennsylvania Dutch" to enter that colony in the early to mid 1700's. <a href="http://www.lynnheidelberg.org/beginnewlife.html" target="_blank">This article</a> discusses some of the legal and practical barriers that were put in place to ensure the new Germany-speaking settlers wouldn't change the essentially English character of the colony. Whatever his reasons for emigrating, he was dedicated to his new country and eventually </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">served in the Revolutionary War as a gunsmith. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">His son, also named Philip, immigrated to the U.S. with his father. He was born in 1757 in Berlin, which made him 9 at the time of immigration. He may have been the only family member to come with Philip I, or he may have had a brother named Frederick. It's also possible that a wife or daughters were present but not considered important enough to record. Philip II was a stocking weaver. His original apprenticeship papers have been preserved. They were drawn up between his father and a stocking maker named Adam Edleman in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1770. The name Edleman suggests that the Welsheimers were part of the German-American community in Pennsylvania and may have preferred to make important deals, like apprenticeships, with fellow Germans. Philip II eventually married a woman named Catherine Hull whose ancestry I have not been able to trace but may have been a member of the Hull/Holl family, a Germany Dutch family involved in cloth manufacturing. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;">Regardless of his feelings about his fellow Germany immigrants, he, too, served in the Revolutionary War, in the 3rd </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;">Battalion</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;"> of the York County Militia. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Philip II was quite successful and bought a good deal of land in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">In July of 1811, he left home in Cumberland township, Pennsylvania, to walk to the coast where he planned to find a ship headed back to Germany. He wished to buy high-quality looms there that he could not purchase in the United States. However, he died of (apparently) natural causes en route to the ship. His body was found weeks later on the road. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Philip Welsheimer III was the son of the stocking weaver. He was born in 1791 in what is now West Virginia. He grew up there, was a successful farmer, and married Catharine Duley. Their family Bible was the subject of <a href="http://thedeanbeaverblog.blogspot.com/2017/11/welsheimer-bible.html" target="_blank">a previous post on this blog</a>. He moved his family from West Virginia/West Pennsylvania to South Salem, Ohio in the 1830s. He died there in 1864. South Salem is where the Dean family was living, as well. Philip's daughter, Anna, married Abram Dean. In 1847, Abram and Anna Welsheimer Dean moved to Des Moines, Iowa. Their youngest son was born there. He was named David Philip Dean, in honor of his grandfather. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">David Philip was the last common ancestor I shared with Philip Hodges. However, the name lives on in both lines, clearly. I'm descended from David Philip's son, Carl Philip Dean, and then Carl's son Philip Carlyle Dean. Both my father and brother are Philips. Except for Anna, who passed the name into the Dean family, we have an unbroken line of Philips back to the 1730s!</span></div>
The Dean/Beavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05136987012902721546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897528643658824541.post-39750081161606629062017-11-24T16:49:00.000-06:002017-11-25T21:24:06.099-06:00Welsheimer BibleEarlier this Fall, I was contacted by Suzanne Godfrey who was looking through her mother's estate. Her mother had owned an antique store. Among the wares was a family bible from 1828 belonging to <a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Welsheimer-2" target="_blank">Philip Welsheimer</a> and his wife <a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Duley-70" target="_blank">Catherine Duley</a>, my 4xgreat grandparents. Because I had made a Wikitree page for them, Suzanne contacted me and offered to send the bible. I'm so grateful!<br />
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It's an amazing book. It includes a list of family members and dates written before the New Testament, locks of hair (not clear from whom), letters, and school reports.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If the outside of the Bible had any decoration it has long since worn off.<br />
The Bible is about 12"x14"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The inside front. On the left it says "DWU(?) 3.50", presumably a price.<br />
On the right it says "Philip Welshimer"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The front page of the Bible. Publication date 1828, probably in New York.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These pages are before the New Testament. The first page lists the marriage of the couple who presumably first owned the Bible, Philip and Catherine Welsheimer:<br />
Philip Welshimer and Catharine Duley was married March the 28th AD1814.<br />
Philip Welsheimer Sr. was born in Burkley Co. Virginia March the 11th 1791.<br />
[Note: Berkeley County is now in West Virginia]</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Second page of the family records:<br />
Daniel Welshimer son of Philip and Catharine Welshimer was born January the 30th AD1815<br />
William H. Welshimer son of Philip and Catharine Welshimer was born November the 12th AD1816<br />
James Welshimer son of Philip and Catharine Welshimer was born January the 22nd AD1818<br />
Anna Welshimer daughter of Philip and Catharine Welshimer was born January the 16th AD1819<br />
[Anna later married Abram Dean and is my 3xgreat-grandmother]</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The third page of the family records (but the dates are later than on page four):<br />
David Welshimer son of Philip and Catharine Welshimer was born July the 9th 1833<br />
Catharine Welshimer daughter of Philip and Catharine Welshimer was born July the first 1835<br />
Mary E. Welshimer daughter of Philip and Catharine Welshimer was born March the 21st 1838<br />
Samuel F. Welshimer son of Philip and Catharine Welshimer was born February the 27th AD1842 </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The fourth page of the family records (but the dates are actually earlier than page three):<br />
John H. Welshimer son of Philip and Catharine Welshimer was born April the 10th AD1820<br />
Maria Welshimer daughter of Philip and Catharine Welshimer was born Dec the 7th AD1821<br />
Emily Welshimer daughter of Philip and Catharine Welshimer was born February the 10th AD1823<br />
Sydney Welshimer daughter of Philip and Catharine Welshimer was born Dec the 16th AD1824<br />
Frederick Welshimer son of Philip and Catharine Welshimer was born July the 1st AD1827<br />
Ludowick Welshimer son of Philip and Catharine Welshimer as born February the 22nd AD1829<br />
Philip Welshimer son of Philip and Catherine Welshimer was born June the 8th AD1831<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Maria died January the --- AD1822 aged --- days</span><br />
Katharine the wife of Philip Welshimer Sen departed this life Oct 14th 1849<br />
Frederick Welshimer son of Philip and Katharine Welshimer died February 13th AD1852<br />
John Welshimer son of Philip and Katharine Welshimer died February 15th AD1852<br />
Philip Welshimer Sen departed this life July 21st AD1864 aged 73 years 4 months and 10 days</td></tr>
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Most of the entries are written in the same hand, but, except for the death of Maria in 1822, the deaths listed on the last page are written in a different hand. This makes me think that most of the entries were written by Catharine Welshimer, since the first death listed, after Maria's, is hers in 1849. In that entry, and in the later death entries, her name is spelled differently ("Katharine") as well. Whoever wrote the original had lovely handwriting. </div>
The Dean/Beavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05136987012902721546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897528643658824541.post-14196214949108361412017-11-20T11:44:00.000-06:002017-11-25T21:18:56.602-06:00Patriotism and Symbols of HateWhile the rest of us were celebrating Veterans Day, someone drew a swastika on the chalkboard in the student center at my university. There are arguments over who drew the symbol and what it means. Many students assume the swastika is related to other white supremacist propaganda that sprang up recently on campus. The College Republicans issued a statement saying it was a liberal false-flag operation. Regardless of who is to blame, this symbol of hate hurts the whole community.<br />
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My family and I are not the direct targets of white supremacy. I can only imagine how people who <i>are </i>the direct targets must feel right now. I do feel hurt and betrayed by the use of this symbol, though, on behalf of other members of my community and as a proud American.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grandpa Cunningham in Germany, 1947</td></tr>
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Both of my grandfathers were part of the World War II war effort, as were both of my husband's grandfathers. My maternal grandfather was a career Air Force officer who spent most of the war in Ohio but was sent to Germany and France soon after to help with the reconstruction of those nations. He saw first-hand the destruction the Nazis had wrought. He left behind a young family (my mother was just an infant) in order to serve his country.<br />
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My paternal grandfather was a Marine. He stormed the beaches in the South Pacific and fought in well-known battles like Guadalcanal and the invasion of Okinawa. He literally went through hell, and would later say that the only thing that got him through that war was the knowledge that, if the U.S. won, his sons would not have to fight it again. He first son, my father, was born while my grandfather was fighting overseas. He did not meet him until a year later.<br />
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My husband's maternal grandfather was an Army doctor in Michigan. His father's father was on submarine crews in the Atlantic. [UPDATE: My apologies, but I got this wrong. My husband's maternal grandfather was stationed in Michigan for part of the war but spent part of it in the South Pacific. He was certainly in New Guinea at one point. His paternal grandfather's submarine duty was also in the South Pacific, not the Atlantic.] They sacrificed so much. It sickens me to think that some punk kid whose greatest sacrifice has probably been using an older-model smart phone would draw the symbol of their defeated enemies on a chalkboard.<br />
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I don't usually consider our students to be entitled or bratty. I'm making an exception for this one. Similarly, I don't usually believe in significant differences between the generations, but in this case I can't believe that any Millennial (or GenXer or Baby Boomer) who would draw that symbol is worthy to kiss my grandfathers' boots, or those of any member of the Greatest Generation who gave so much to free our country and others of that taint of fascism.<br />
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I blogged last time about <a href="http://thedeanbeaverblog.blogspot.com/2017/11/hiram-brattain-and-civil-war.html" target="_blank">Hiram Brattain</a>, my only direct ancestor to fight in the Civil War. I feel similarly about the symbolism of the Confederate flag. With all due respect to those who have Southern ancestry (as I do myself), that flag is a sign of treason. Our nation went through unspeakable horror to remain an undivided nation and rid ourselves of slavery. Whenever I see the Confederate flag flying, especially here in the North, I'm literally sickened that the descendants of men and women who gave, in Lincoln's words, "the last full measure of devotion...that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from this earth," would display such absolute contempt for their ancestors and our country.The Dean/Beavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05136987012902721546noreply@blogger.com0