Israel Stoughton

Other Events and Attributes:

• Arrival: 1630, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
• Residence: 1632, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
• Probate: 17 Jul 1644, , Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA

Notes:

Baptized Great Coggeshall, Essex, England, 18 February 1602/3, son of Rev. Thomas and Katherine (_____) Stoughton. Came from Rotherhithe, Surrey to Massachusetts Bay in 1632. He settled in Dorchester, but returned to England in 1644 and died there. Died in Lincoln, England, 1644.

Married in Rotherhithe, Surrey, England, 27 March 1627, Elizabeth Knight. She died at Dorchester on 6 August 1681.

Israel was brother of THOMAS STOUGHTON of Dorchester and Windsor was an elder brother of Israel Stoughton, and = Rev. John Stoughton, who, although he did not come to New England, did marry the widow of the Rev. Ralph Cudworth of Great Coggeshall, Essex, and Aller, Somersetshire, thus making Thomas and Israel stepuncles of James Cudworth of Scituate.

Colonel Israel Stoughton's house was situated at the northeast corner of Savin Hill Avenue and Pleasant Street.
He had the distinction of building the first mill in New England to grind corn by water. It stood in the Neponset River at the Lower Mills. In the early years of the settlement, Massachusetts had to buy corn from Virginia and from the local Narragansetts. In 1631 Chief Chickatawbut donated a hogshead to the Governor. In 1634 food was still scarce, and Massachusetts bought 400 bushels of corn from the Narragansetts. Israel Stoughton set up a water mill at the Lower Mills to grind the grain.

Stoughton's mill is mentioned both in the town records and in those of the Massachusetts Bay colony. Said to be the first grist mill in the country, it was installed to grind corn purchased from native Americans due to the shortages in the colony.

Dorchester Town Records

Nov. 3, 1633 ... it is generally agreed that Mr. Israel Stoughton shall build a water mill, if he see cause.

Jan. 6, 1633/4 ...it is ordered that Mr. Israell Stoughton shall have the privaladge of a weare at Naponset adjoyning to his mill ...

Nov. 3, 1634 ... it also ordered that their shall be a sufficient cartway be made to the mill at Naponset ...

and from the 1859 History of the Town of Dorchester, p. 33:

The town granted leave to Mr. Israel Stoughton to build a water mill [in 1633], and in January following, the mill and a bridge over Neponset being completed ...

Stoughton gained his title from his command of the Massachusetts forces during the Pequot War. He served as representative in 1634 and was the Governor's Assistant for many years.

Sources:

Orcutt, William Dana. Good Old Dorchester: A Narrative History of the Town, 1630-1893. Cambridge: University Press, 1908.

History of the Town of Dorchester, Massachusetts. By a Committee of the Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society. 1859.

Israel Stoughton
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Israel Stoughton (1603?-1644) was an early English colonist in Massachusetts, and later a Parliamentarian officer in the First English Civil War.

Life
Born in England, a younger brother of John Stoughton, he emigrated to New England in 1632. He settled at Dorchester, of which he was admitted a freeman on 5 November 1633. He was chosen representative for Dorchester in the assemblies of 1634 and 1635.

When the colony was disturbed by the antinomian disputes, Stoughton wrote a book which attacked the constitution of the colony and offended the general court. The author somewhat strangely petitioned that the book might be ‘forthwith burnt, as being weak and offensive.’ In spite of Stoughton's subsequent submission, he was declared incapable of holding office for three years. This sentence, however, was remitted in 1636, and Stoughton was chosen assistant in 1637.

He was entrusted with the command of the Massachusetts force against the Pequot Indians, where he took brutal measures. Stoughton was annually chosen as assistant till 1643, and in 1639 he, together with John Endecott acted as a commissioner on behalf of Massachusetts to settle a boundary dispute with Plymouth Colony.

Stoughton visited England towards the end of 1643 or the beginning of 1644, returned to America, and crossed again towards the end of 1644. He was then appointed a lieutenant-colonel in the parliamentary army, and soon afterwards died at Lincoln. His children included William Stoughton, best known as the chief magistrate of the Salem witch trials.

References
Thompson, Roger, "Stoughton, Israel", on the website of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Subscription or UK public library membership required). The first edition of this text is available as an article on Wikisource: "Stoughton, Israel". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Stoughton, Israel". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

Israel married Elizabeth Knight on 27 Mar 1627 in Rotherhithe, Surrey, England. Elizabeth (daughter of William Knight and Elizabeth) was born in 1607 in Rotherhithe, London, England; died on 6 Aug 1681 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Israel Stoughton was born in 1628 in , , , England; died in 1647 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA.
2. Susanna Stoughton was born in 1630 in , , , England; died in 1650 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA.
3. William Stoughton was born on 30 Sep 1631 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 7 Jul 1701 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA.
4. Hannah Stoughton was born in Apr 1637 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 27 Mar 1670 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA.
5. John Stoughton was born on 10 Mar 1638 in Dorchester, Dorset, England; died on 16 May 1665.
6. Rebecca Stoughton was born in Aug 1641 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1702.
7. Thomas Stoughton was born on 30 Jul 1644 in Dorchester, Dorset, England.

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Dissident Preacher and Writer. Fellow of Queens College, Cambridge.

Stoughton matriculated pensioner from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1573, received his B.A. from Queens College 1577, his M.A. 1580. He was ordained deacon and priest at Lincoln Cathedral on Feb. 13, 1582, and was brought to the attention of Robert, 3rd Lord Rich by John Butler of Thoby Priory, Essex, and continued to benefit from Rich's patronage for many years. He was rector of Naughton from 1586 until 1594, at which time he was made curate of Great Burstead, Essex. He published A general treatise against poperie, and in defence of the religion by publike avthoritie professed in England and other churches reformed (Cambridge, 1598), which was dedicated to Lord Rich. In 1600 he was instituted vicar at Coggeshall at Lord Rich's presentation, but due to his nonconformity he was admonished by Bishop Richard Vaughan and deprived of Coggeshall by the High Commission in 1606. Despite being removed from his living it was reported in 1606 that he 'doeth often expound the Word in his deske'. In 1610 at Great Totham, Essex, he signed the dedicatory epistle to his work The dignitie of Gods children. By 1616 he had returned to his native Sandwich, where he remained living in poverty until his death. He continued to expound on his beliefs, publishing Two Profitable Treatises in 1616, followed up in 1622 with The Christians Sacrifice, a text of some 251 pages, which was dedicated to his patron, who had since purchased the title Earl of Warwick. He signed the dedicatory epistle to this on 20 Aug. 1622 from 'my poore lodging in the poor Hospitall called S. Bartholomewes by Sandwich in Kent', and further stated he was now 'ready to be dissolved, and to laye down my earthly Tabernacle...the time of my departing being at hand...' Two days later he appended the work with The Authors postscript to his Children as it were his Last Will and Testament unto them.

At the end of his life he recalled being present at Hampton Court 43 years earlier, where he heard ministers preaching before Queen Elizabeth.

In 1606 Stoughton was a legatee, along with others, in the will of Timothy Saint Nicholas, who 'moste humblie thanckinge them for their faithefull endeavor and for their earnest labour and paines for the instruction of my conscience and the consciences of many men in the knowledge of Gods truthe and relligion'. Described as 'a silenced preacher', he received a bequest in the 1610 will of Alice Wade of Bildeston, Suffolk, and in 1612 was mentioned in the will of his first cousin Thomas Stoughton of St Paul's Parish, Canterbury. In the 1619 will of Charles Eure, esquire, fourth son of William, 2nd Lord Eure, Stoughton being described as of St Bartholomews in Sandwich, Kent, received the generous bequest of £10.

Thomas married Katherine Evelyn Montpesson in 1585 in Naughton, Suffolk, England. Katherine was born in 1564 in Naughton, Suffolk, England; died on 18 Apr 1603 in Naughton, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: , , , USA

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Francis left a will on 28 July 1551 at Sandwich, Kent, England. He provided for his wife, his only son, Thomas and his sister Alice. He bequeathed to his son, Thomas, more than 3 pounds yearly to keep him in school. He left is brother, Thomas Stoughton of St Martin's Canterbury, his lands, tenements, etc. until his son reached 21. He asked to be buried in the chancel of St John's in the Church of St Peter, Sandwich. He died between 28 July 1551 and 30 Sep 1557 when his estate was probated at Sandwich.

Francis married Agnes Tringall. Agnes was born in 1535 in Naughton, Suffolk, England; died in 1557 in Naughton, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Mary Exhurst. Mary was born in 1505 in Ash, Kent, England; died in 1550 in Ash, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]