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Rawleigh Travers

For the Travers family see William and Mary Quarterly, IV, 27, 203.

8 Feb 1787/88 in Richmond County, Virginia. Mr. Raleigh Travers, a member of the county court, appeared in behalf of his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Wilkes.

Travers, Rawleigh (I769)

Rent Rolls 1764

Virginia Census, 1607-1890 Virginia Census, 1607-1890

Name:

Geo Hampton

State:

VA

County:

Frederick County

Township:

Rent Rolls

Year:

1764

Record Type:

Rent Role

Database:

VA Early Census Index

Source Information:

Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. Virginia Census, 1607-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.

Original data: Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.

Description: This database contains indexes to the Virginia (U.S.A.) portions of the 1800-1870 U.S. Federal Censuses as well as indexes to the 1840 Pensioners Lists, the 1850 and 1860 Slave Schedules, the 1890 Veterans Schedules, and other early censuses. Information contained in these indexes can include name, state, county, township, year of record, and name of record set.

Hampton, George (I26600)

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GEORGE HAMPTON
of Georgia

John Hampton applied for revolutionary pension while living in Jackson
County, Georgia. He entered the service in North Carolina in 1778 and
participated in General John Ashe's Defeat at Briar Greek, Georgia. He served
with General Thomas Sumter's forces in engagements at Ramsour's Mill, King's
Mountain, Fishing Creek and Musgrove's Mill. Captain Wade Hampton, General
Andrew Pickins, Colonel John Purvis and Captain Williams are mentioned in the
application papers.

Hampton, George (I26600)

ROBERT CUSHMAN (1576 - 1624)

Robert Cushman was a member of the Mayflower Group. He was sent over to England from Holland to buy supplies and work out financial arrangements with the merchants.

He started out on the Mayflower, but had to give up the voyage, probably without too great regret. He later sailed to New England on the "Fortune", sent from England. He was among 35 people who brought little in the way of food or other supplies. It soon developed that Cushman had come over only to persuade the Pilgrims to sign an agreement with the merchants - the one that they had refused to sign at Southampton, England. Also he had brought a letter telling them that a patent had been secured for them, and that if they would sign up and produce a cargo for the "Fortune", they would get supplies. They signed up. In fact, they almost had to, for the merchants by having the patent in their possession held the only legal title to the plantation.

Cushman, Robert, Deacon, "The Fortune" (I26639)

Robert Cushman the negotiator

Robert Cushman was responsible for making many of the arrangements prior to the journey aboard the Mayflower. This put his life in jeopardy along with other organizers, as they British government had grounds for an arrest by virtue of being a dissenter to the current religion, fleeing the country without legal permission. While in Holland the British still tried to arrest them. Whenever he returned to England he needed to be in hiding to avoid arrest. However, he still managed to negotiate with Weston and with the help of others to obtain provisions for the journey, and was also respponsible for negotiations with the Merchant Adventurers. He stayed behind when the Mayflower set sail, with the intention to sail on the "Speedwell," which the Puritans had purchased and had many difficulties eventually forced to return to England. While aboard he suffered from chest pains convinced him to remain that summer of 1620.

He sailed on "The Fortune" along with many others including Jonathan Brewster, son of Gov. Brewster.Shortly after arriving he preached sermon, "The Sin of Self-Love" in which he exhorted the assembly to take responsibilty for their financial debts to the many backers that helped finance their journey to America as Pilgrims. A short two weeks later he sailed back to London, England on the same ship along with beaver pelts and other goods alued at around 500 British Pounds, which cut their debt by aprox, half. Robert left his son Thomas, then 14, in the care of Bradford.The ship was seized by the French before she reached London, meaning a loss of income to the colony. Robert died in 1624/5 of the Plague. Thomas apopted by Bradford upon news of his death.

Source: Mayflower, by Nathaniel Philbrick, Viking, 2006.

Cushman, Robert, Deacon, "The Fortune" (I26639)

Samuel Smith

Family Tree Book; Genealogical and Biographical, Listing the Relatives of General William Smith and of W Thomas Smith

By William Alexander Smith
Publication date: 1922

501 B -500-E- Samuel Smith Sr., third son of Thomas Smith Sr., born about 1684, was left by his father the lands at Keyworth. We do not know whether or not this estate was located in Hertforshire, but are of the opinion that it was or that his wife's people lived in Hereford County, as there is a tradition that his son, John Smith, the Emigrant to America, was born in Hertford County. He sold his lands and moved to London and was there a merchant (Goldsmith). He was afterwards known as Samuel Smith, of Gaddesby, Leices- ter County He probably came into possession of this estate after the death of his brother, Thomas Smith Jr., with whom he had business dealings and to whom he was indebted in the sum of 4,000 pounds at his death in 1 727. He first started to loaning money in London in partnership with his brother,
Thomas Smith Jr., who ran the Nottingham end of it. After the death of Thomas Smith Jr. in 1727, this end in London was taken over by the younger brother, Abel Smith Sr. , and from this came Smith and Payne, and then Smith, Payne, and Smith, now one of the large Banks of London. Samuel Smith Sr. died intestate in London in 1751, and when his estate was wound up, it was found then to be practically all personal property, and when divided among his six surviving children, each received as much as 40,000 pounds, so says Harry Tucker Easton in his book, "The History of A Banking House (Smith, Payne, and Smiths). We suspect that an error was made and it should have been 4,000 pounds, as six times that or 24,000 pounds or $120,000.00, was a large fortune in that day. Gen. Smith, who knows more than we of English
traditions, thinks 40,000 pounds is correct. Samuel Smith Sr. married Elizabeth Cartlitch, the daughter of John Cartlitch. Of the children born to Samuel Smith Sr. and Elizabeth Cartlitch we only know of the following:

(A) John Smith No. 4, born 1716, died 1717.
(B) Anne Smith, born 1718.
(C) John Smith No. 5, born 1719, who perhaps ran away from home, came to America about 1735, and to whom we shall hereafter refer as John Smith, No. 1 , the Emigrant to America. -502-
(D) Thomas Smith No. 3, of Nottingham and Keyworth, born 1720, died 1765, married Dorothy Lister.
(E) Samuel Smith Jr., born 1722, died 1789, married Elizabeth Watson.

There were evidently more children, as six shared in the division of the estate in 1751; One of the above five had died in infancy. We have some doubt as to whether or not John Smith No. 5, the Emigrant to America, had kept in
correspondence with his parents, and we suspect that the estate was settled up without his ever sharing in it. The only reason for this presumption is that English historians do not seem to know anything of him after his birth in 1719. We shall give more of the history of book.

(901) To those who wish more data, you can find considerable in Burke's Landed Gentry under the titles as follows: "Smith of Woodhall Park, Smith of Goldings, Smith of Bramcote, Smith of Duffield, Smith of Wilford House, Smith of Shottesbroke Park, Smith of Midhurst, Smith of Mount Clare and Dorrien-Smith of Tresco Abbey." Also in Burke's
1921 Edition of Peerage and Baronetage, page 1378 "The Marquis of Linconshire," Sir Charles Carrington, whose ancestor Robert Smith took the name of Carrington on being elevated to peerage; page 2297, Sir Maurice Bromley-Wilson, whose ancestor took the name of Bromley upon being elevated to peerage and subsequently it was changed to Bromley-Wilson ; also page 2049, Earl Stanhope, whose ancestor the 4th Lord Stanhope married Catherine Smith.

These books can be found in nearly all of the larger libraries in large cities. Burke's Tables do not profess to be complete, or more than a skeleton sufficient to connect the now living with the early ancestors and give their branches. It is inaccurate in that it gives Thomas Smith Sr. as the son of John Smith and Frances Wilcocke, when in fact he was the son of John Smith by Elizabeth Garton, the first wife. He only mentions three children of Samuel Smith Sr. when in fact he had as many as seven. A more complete and correct Genealogical Table can be found in "The Smith Family" by Compton Reade, with some other information.

"History of A Banking House (Smith, Payne, and Smiths)"
byHarry Tucker Easton, published in 1903, also gives us some interesting information. The data in these books was taken largely from a book entitled "Stemmata Smithiana Ferraria", compiled by John Augustus Smith in 1865. These words translated mean: "A True, Faithful History of the
Smith Family," He was a great grandson of Samuel Smith Sr. and Elizabeth Cartlitch. We will refer to him in the historical part of
the book. (901)

Smith, Samuel (I27091)

Samuel Smith and Business

Source: "The History of a Banking House (Smith, Payne, & Smith)" by Harry Tucker Easton

"Samuel Smith, Sr., third son of Thomas Smith, Sr., born about 1684, was left by his father the lands at Keyworth. We do not know whether or not this estate was located at Hertfordshire, but are of the opinion that it was or that his wife's people lived in Hereford County, as there is a tradition that his son, John Smith, the emigrant to America, was born in Herford County. He sold his lands and moved to London and was there a merchant (Goldsmith). He was afterwards known as Samuel Smith of Gaddesby, Leicester County. He probably came into possession of this estate after the death of his brother, Thomas Smith, Jr., with whom he had business dealings and to whom he was indebted in the sum of 4,000 pounds at his death in 1727. He first started loaning money in London in partnership with his brother, Thomas Smith, Jr., who ran the Nottingham end of it. After the death of Thomas in 1727, the end in London was taken over by the younger brother, Abel Smith, Sr., and from this came Smith, Payne, and Smith, now one of the largest banks of London. Samuel Smith, Sr., died intestate in London in 1751, and when his estate was wound up, it was found then to be practically all personal property, and when divided among his six surviving children, each received as much as 40,000 pounds."

Smith, Samuel (I27091)

Samuel Travers's Will

On Sep 7, 1698 an order was given to appraise the estate of Captain Samuel Travers, deceased. Samuel Travers left a will but it has been lost.

On Feb 6 1705/6 Elizabeth Travers, daughter of Samuel Travers, dec. petitioned that her father's will was proved in Richmond Co., naming as executors his wife Frances, his dau. Elizabeth and his brother Capt Rawleigh Travers. The widow died "soon after". Rawleigh died leaving his brother's estate intermingled with his own. Elizabeth, sole surviving executor and now of age, demanded that the executors of her uncle render up to her the unadministered part of her father's estate. The petition was granted and it was ordered that the estates be divided.

On Feb 17, 1720/1 Charles Colston and his wife Rebecca and Winifred Travers, unmarried, divided the land Samuel Travers of Richmond Co. devised to his daughters.

The distribution of the estate of Samuel Travers on Feb 17, 1721/2 was made to the daughters specified in the will of Samuel Travers.

Allerton, Frances (I26553)

Sara Reder Cushman

Birth:
1 585
City of Canterbury
Kent, England

Death:
Oct. 11, 1616, Netherlands

Born in the Netherlands.Wife of Deacon Robert Cushman and mother of Elder Thomas Cushman and Sarah Cushman Hoskins. Robert and Thomas migrated to Plymouth Colony aboard the "Fortune" 4 years after Sara's death.She is buried at St. Peters, Leiden, Zuid-Holland Province, Netherlands.

Family links:
Spouse:
Robert Cushman (1577 - 1625)*

Children:
Thomas Cushman (1608 - 1691)*
Sarah Cushman Hoskins (1615 - 1638)*

Burial:
Saint Peter's Cemetery
Leiden
Leiden Municipality
Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

Created by: ReLyRoTh
Record added: Nov 26, 2005
Find A Grave Memorial# 12508965

Source: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12508965&ref=acom

Reder, Sarah (I26638)

Section 907 of the Smith Family Tree Book page 149

JOHN SMITH NO. 3 from Smith Family Tree Book

John Smith No. 3 was the son of John Smith No. 2 and Mary Flake Smith, his wife, (1772-1854) married Mary Bellyew (Bellew) (1775-1872).

Approachable and cordial, he was familiarly called Jack by his contemporaries, and Uncle Jacky by younger people. Reared on the farm on Smith's Creek, near Lilesville in Anson County, N. C, his education was limited to the common schools of the country. He was five feet and eleven inches high, of medium weight and light build, active and energetic. At four score he could jump ditches three and four feet wide.

Merchandising and farming, running cotton gins and grist mills were his occupation. The most financially successful of all the Smith fam'ly, he added tract of land to tract of land and negro to negro until he was easily the largest landowner in the county and owned more slaves than any other person in Anson or adjoining counties. He was also the largest stockholder in the Bank of Wadesborough.

For many years he was an active Justice of the Peace. The office in his day carried the respect given it as handed down from the old English landlords-proprietors. In that day a Magistrate must be a gentleman of substance, intelligence and discretion, for the officer must decide many causes of differences, the higher courts being held at long intervals. As a Magistrate and Judge he must give judgment against the plaintiff or defendant one or the other in every case. He regarded the office as a public trust and held the scales of justice with equipoise. His reasoning faculties were so potent and convincing that he rarely failed to indicate his decision to the satisfaction of the losing party.

He was elected and served as a member of the House of Representatives in 1825. He was re-elected in 1826, but declined to serve longer. Many of the members of the Legislature thought patriotism consisted in opposition to anything new, especially when the proposition required the expenditure of money. The subject of State aid to railroads was before the House. They were unknown and untried, but the subject of our sketch believed in the future of his state and desired its material prosperity. Progressive in the conduct of his private business, he was favorable to any move portending to the welfare, uplift and benefit of the state, and was found among the advocates of the measure. He had never seen a railroad engine car or track—was totally ignorant of their construction, yet in his speech in favor thereof, became so enthusiastic, he offered of his own private means to donate one hundred thousand rails toward it. One can laugh now at the old gentleman's ignorance but we must admire his progressive generous spirit.

His residence was commodious, situated on the public highway leading from the county seat of Anson to the county seat of Montgomery. Known as the "White House" because it was the first painted house in this section, it was noted for hospitality. No stranger seeking entertainment was refused.

His wife was Mary Bellyew, (sometimes spelled Belliew, Bel'ew, Bellue) of French extraction. She was raised in that section of the county, now known as Home's School House, some two or three miles from Pee Dee River. Her father was a gentleman of substance, owning land on Flatfork Creek, Cedar Creek, Brown Creek and other lands besides. She brought to her husband a handsome wedding dot. With a fair face, pearly teeth, raven hair, blue eyes and elegant form, she was a picture of health and beauty. Skilled in all domestic arts, she told the writer that she worked with her own hands the cotton of which her wedding gown was made, twisted the lint from the seed, (Eli Whitney had not invented the cotton gin, and a pound of lint a day was considered a day's work) spun the lint into thread and wove it into cloth so fine it could be rolled and drawn through her thimble. With her small, shapely hands and long tapering fingers she wrought dainty needlework for her house.

She was a good housekeeper and kind to her servants. Her butler, maids and cooks looked to her guiding hand with affection and reverence. Her wish was their law, because they loved their mistress. When she came to choose her slaves given her by will, one and all said, "Please Mistis take me". After Emancipation in the dark and dreadful days of Reconstruction, many of them abided with their mistress and shared in her adversity as they had shared in the halcyon day of prosperity.

She survived her husband many years, living her 97 years with mind active and interested in affairs, and memory unclouded. Her recollections of her youthful days in the Revolution and incidents told her by her mother were clear and distinct. When a baby, her mother to aid in the work, would carry her to the field, lay her in the shade of a tree and while chopping back and forth leave her in the care of a large dog, a mixture of the mastiff and terrier. One day her mother was distant about one hundred yards when the dog left his charge and came to her. She said to him, "Go back to my baby". The dog obediently went. In a few minutes the dog came back. Again she scolded the dog and ordered it back. He reluctantly started but turned and looking at her, whimpered and whined. Assured that something must be wrong she hastily followed the dog to find a large, poisonous snake lying beside her baby. She stole quietly to the other side and snatched her baby up . "That was me," she smilingly said. The dog then seized the snake and shook it to death. The shaking was so violent, the concussion of the snake's large body against the dog's head bruised it so badly, the swelling closed the dog's eyes for several days.

She also related to the writer the following incident of the Revolution: The Captain of the Patriots Company, of which her father was a member, assembled his company and crossed the Pee Dee River to repel an advance of Tories from Cumberland County. While away on this expedition the Tories made a foray into Anson County from South Carolina, came to her home, took the horses, drove off the cows, robbed the house and pillaged the premises, carrying away her wash-pot. The loss of the pot seemed to grieve her more than the loss of the stock for it was impossible to procure another from England while the war continued (there was no foundry in the Provinces) and she had no vessel which she could substitute in which she could boil the weekly wash.

John Smith and his wife were loyal members of the Methodist Church and when the Southern Methodists separated from the parent church in 1845 on the question of slavery, they went with and affiliated with the M. E. Church South. He gave the land and material aid toward the building of Olivet Church, located in a beautiful grove not far from his residence. My father related the following incident, but 1 do not remember that he said it occurred at Olivet Church. The Methodists had a week day appointment. It rained hard and unremittedly. Only the minister arrived. Later a hunter sought refuge in the church from the rain. The minister spent the night with one of his flock. Said his host, "You surely had no congregation?" "Didn't I? Let me tell you the house was full of the Spirit of God and it was the best meeting I ever had, for every sinner in the house was converted and every Christian got happy."

John Smith and his wife were both generous contributors to the various needs of the Church. Both were life members of the Missionary Society, evidenced by parchment, framed and preserved to this day.

He died in 1854 and was laid to rest, amid the tears of his slaves and the grief-stricken hearts of children and friends, in the Smith and Nelme graveyard, five miles east of Wadesboro—God's Acre—enclosed by a hedge of cedar, planted by Presley Nelme, which was kept neatly and artistically trimmed during his life but by neglect, to our shame, is now grown into a hedge of large trees.

By his will he made ample provision for his wife, bequeathing his residence and its contents to her. The residence was surrounded by 2000 or more acres of land, and the personal property consisted of stock, tools, wagons, carriage, a year's supply of food and fifty negroes of her own choice.

Smith, John (I27095)

Sorting out the children of Lewis Ellzey Based On His Will and the Will of 2nd Wife Mary

Lewis Ellzey signed a long and complex will on October 1, 1785 (6?). He died in December 1786. The will appears to have identified all of his children, or at least the children who survived him. Lewis made some provision for each of the following

Son William Ellzey
Daughter Elizabeth, wife of William Hancock
Daughter Mary, widow of William West deceased
Son Thomasin Ellzey
Daughter Sarah, wife of William Turner
Daughter Patience, wife of Thomas Byrd
Daughter Stacy who married first Burgess Berkley (deceased) and second Benjamin Grayson
Daughter Sibyl Ellzey Beckwith

It is known from other sources that Lewis Ellzey was married twice. Both wives were widows. The first was Elizabeth Travers Cave. The second wife was Mary Griffin (maiden name unknown). The question is, which of the two wives was the mother of each of Lewis Ellzey's eight children.

Fortunately Mary Griffin Ellzey survived her husband Lewis. Her will dated December 29 1788 provides for three of the above eight children. Mary identifies the children as my son Thomazin Ellzey, and my daughters Sarah Turner and Syball Beckwith. Based on their date of birth, Patience Ellzey Byrd and Stacy Ellzey Grayson are also believed to be the daughters of Mary Griffin rather than Elizabeth Travers. They likely predeceased their mother.

We know that William Ellzey and Elizabeth Ellzey Hancock survived Mary Griffin Ellzey. Since they are not listed in Mary's will we can safely assume that Mary was the step-mother rather than the mother of William and Elizabeth. Based on life events, William estimated date of birth was well within the period of Lewis' marriage to Elizabeth Travers Cave.

Whether Mary Ellzey West is the daughter of Elizabeth Travers Ellzey or Mary Griffin Ellzey is a guess. My guess is that she is the daughter of Elizabeth. Reason: My sense is that when writing his will, Lewis Ellzey may have grouped the children by marriage. First, he provides for son William by the first marriage to Elizabeth. "I give and devise to my son William Ellzey etc." The provisions of the will related to son William are followed by items related to two daughters, Elizabeth Ellzey Hancock, and Mary Ellzey West.

After making provision for Mary West, Lewis appears to me to switch to his second family beginning with provisions related to son Thomasin, son of Mary Griffin. After son Thomasin he mentions Sarah Turner, Stacy Grayson, and Sibyl Beckwith.

Note: The will of Mary (Griffin) Ellzey is a short one. It is included in the General Notes (by another Ancestry member) attached to Mary's profile.

Travers, Elizabeth (I517)

The Echols family name

The distinguished surname Echols is one of the most notable Anglo-Saxon surnames, and its historical trail has emerged from the mists of time to become an influential surname of the middle ages and of the present day.

In an in-depth research of such ancient manuscripts as the Domesday Book compiled in 1086 A.D., by Duke William of Normandy, the Ragman Rolls (1291-1296) collected by King Edward Ist of England, the Curia Regis Rolls, The Pipe Rolls, the Hearth Rolls, parish registers, baptismals, tax records and other ancient documents, researchers found the first record of the name Echols in Lancashire where they were seated from very ancient times, some say well before the Norman conquest and the arrival of duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D.

Confusing to most, we found many different spellings in the archives researched. Although your name, Echols, occurred in many manuscripts, from time to time the surname was often, spelt Eccles, Ecles, Eckles, Eyckles, Accles, Ackles, and these changes in spelling frequently occurred, even between father and son. There is one record, a father and eight sons. In the graveyard where they are buried, all nine have different spellings of their surnames. Many reasons were revealed for these spelling variations, but mainly church officials and scribes spelt the name as it was told to them.

The family name Echols is one of the most notable of the ancient Anglo-Saxon race. This founding race of England, a fair-skinned people led by General/Commanders Hengist and Horsa, settled in Kent from about the year 400 A.D. The Angles, on the other hand, occupied the eastern coast.

The Anglo-Saxon five century domination of English society was an uncertain time, and the nation divided into five separate kingdoms, a high king being elected as supreme ruler.

By 1066, King Harold came to the throne of England which was enjoying reasonable peace and prosperity. However, the Norman invasion from France and their victory at the Battle of Hastings, found many of the vanquished Saxon land owners to be forfeited their land by Duke William and his invading nobles. They became oppressed under Norman rule, and some moved northward to the midlands, Lancashire and Yorkshire, even into Scotland.

The family name Echols emerged as a notable English name in the county of Lancashire where they were recorded as a family of great antiquity seated at Eccles with manor and estates in that shire. But like many other families they moved north into Scotland and were granted lands in a Barony in Dumfriesshire which they named Eccles. They later branched to Eccles in Berkwickshire. John Eccles of Berkwickshire rendered homage to King Edward I of England on his brief conquest of Scotland in I296. Sir Mathew Eccles of Dumfriesshire was a Judge. The Eccles Clan in Dumfriesshire became a distinguished clan and flourished until the 17th century. Notable amongst the family at this time was Sir Mathew Eccles of Dumfriesshire.

For the next two or three centuries, the surname Echols flourished and played a significant role in the political development of England. During the I 6th, I 7th and 18th centuries, England was ravaged by religious and political conflict. Puritanism, Catholicism, Royalist and parliamentary forces shed much blood. Many families were freely "encouraged" to migrate to Ireland, or the "colonies. " Some were rewarded with grants of lands, others were banished.

In Ireland, settlers became known as the Adventurers for land in Ireland. These Protestant. settlers undertook to maintain the Protestant faith. In Ireland they settled in the counties of Wicklow and Tyrone and acquired the estates of Eccles Ville and the head of the family was Kildonan in Wicklow.

Meanwhile, the New World beckoned and migration continued, some voluntarily from Ireland, but mostly directly from England or Scotland, their home territories. Some clans and families even moved to the European continent.

Kinsmen of the family name Echols were amongst the many who sailed aboard the armada of small sailing ships known as the “White Sails” which plied the stormy Atlantic. These overcrowded ships were pestilence ridden; sometimes 30% to 40% of the passenger list never reaching their destination, their numbers reduced by many diseases and the elements, and many were buried at sea.

Principal amongst the settlers who could be considered a kinsman of the surname Echols, or a variable spelling of that family name was Anne Eccles, who settled in Virginia in 1698. James, John, Mary, Robert, Samuel, Thomas, and William Eccles all arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania between 1840 and 1865.

The trek from the port of entry was also arduous and many joined the wagon trains to the prairies or to the west coast. During the American War of Independence, many loyalists made their way north to Canada about 1 790, and became known as the United Empire Loyalists.

20th century notables of this surname, Echols, include many distinguished persons: Sir John Eccles; Lord Eccles; Viscount David McAdam Eccles, K. C V. O., British Politician and Company Director, Member of the House of Lords; General Ronald Eccles; Sir John Carew Eccles, M.B. B.S. D.Phil, Australian Neurophysiologist, Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine.

John Echols an Englishman came to America about the end of the 16th century or the beginning of the17th century from England and settled in Caroline County, Virginia. There he married a red-headed woman named Mary Cave. Mary's Father was also from England and he and John Echols paid the transportation for others to come to the colonies to in exchange for land here. John Cave was also and importer of fine wines.

When John Echols came to the colonies records show that at least three other Echols were already in America, but this John was known as the "Ole Englishman."

More About John Echols:

Immigration: End of the 16th or the beginning of the 17th century

Nationality: English

Religion: John was a Quaker

Residence: Settled in Caroline Co., VA
Notes for Mary Cave:"a tall, redheaded woman." (Milner Echoles in his 1850 history)

More About John Echols and Mary Cave:

Marriage: 1688, Essex County, Virginia (Source: Echols, Milner, History of the Echols Family, (Written by Milner Echols in 1850 at approximately age 78)

Children of John Echols and Mary Cave are:
62 i. William Echols, born 1699 in :probably in King and Queen Co., VA; died Apr 1771 in Halifax Co., VA; married Sarah Turner Abt. 1710. ii. John Echols, born 1682 in First born son of John Echols the Englishman; died 20 Dec 1750 in Beaufort Co., NC. iii. Abraham Echols, born Unknown; died 1749 in Lunenburg Co., VA; iv. Richard Echols, born 1694 in King and Queen Co.,VA; died Aft. 15 Jan 1778 in Pittsylvania Co., VA; married Catherine Evans. v. Eleanor Echols, born 1676; died 1773; married Nicholas Gillinine; born Unknown; died Unknown. vi. Ann Echols, born Abt. 1700 in King and Queen Co.,VA; died 28 Oct 1740 in Raleigh Parish, Amelia Co., VA; married George Marchbanks Abt. 1721 in Amelia Co., VA; born Unknown; died Unknown. vii. Joseph Echols More About Joseph Echols:Medical Information: He had asthma which prevented him from lying down. He didn't lay down for forty years. He had an instrument that fit his forehead and sat up and slept.

Cave, Mary (I2055)

The funeral for Milton J. ''Jack'' Fitzer, a retired road surveyor, will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Lake Oswego chapel. Vault interment will be in Sunset Hills Cemetery.

Mr. Fitzer died of heart disease Friday in a Tualatin hospital. He was 76.

He was born June 29, 1916, in Robinsdale, Minn. He married Clarice Lillian Smith on Dec. 28, 1944, while he was serving in the U.S. Navy. He worked for the Los Angeles County road department for 22 years as a surveyor before retiring in 1976.

He moved to Oregon in 1976, first to Scappoose and, in 1989, to Southwest Portland. He had served in volunteer positions in the Latter-Day Saints church, including as a bishop.

Survivors in addition to his wife include his daughters, Carole Ruland of Portland and Gayle Travis of Tigard; sons, Michael of Stockton, Calif., and Stephen of Houston; sisters, Philomine Case of Minneapolis, Rose Ackerman of Motley, Minn., Neva Schaper of Brooklyn Park, Minn., and Angeline Hoff of Minneapolis; brothers, Bernard and Charles, both of Crystal, Minn., and Lucian of Minneapolis; 14 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

The family suggests remembrances be contributions to the American Heart Association or the Latter-Day Saints missionary fund.

The Oregonian; Mon 01 Mar 1993; Fourth Edition, pg D14

Fitzer, Milton John "Jack" (I27618)

The Granger family of this history came from England; however, the family originated in Normandy, and came to England with William the Conqueror at the time of the Norman Conquest. The name Granger appears on the “Roll of Battle Abbey” in Sussex. Granger simply means “farmer.”

Launcelot Granger (c. 1626- 9/3/1689). There is a limited amount of space in this book for the history of each family involved—a much more detailed story of the Grangers, Launcelot and his descendants, can be found in the 487 pg. book: Launcelot Granger of Newbury, MA and Suffield, CT, by James Nathaniel Granger (Lockwood and Brainard, 1893). Launcelot came from England, and there was sort of a legend carried down though the early Granger generations concerning the difficulties Launcelot encountered trying to obtain his inheritance in England.

Quoting below, the story:

Laun celot Granger was born in the west of England, and, when a lad of twelve or fourteen years of age, he was stolen from his mother (his father being dead) and brought to Plymouth in Massachusetts, where he was sold (apprenticed) to serve two years for his passage. He had served on the ship as a cabin boy He afterwards married a lady named Adams, and settled east of Boston, where he lived till he had two children. Being the eldest of his family he returned to England to obtain his inheritance. On the way from the place where he landed to his mother's house, to which he traveled on foot, he had to pass though an uninhabited country and, just before night, stopped at a little cottage. The old man of the house told him that frequent robberies had been committed on the road a short distance ahead, and advised him to put up for the night. But, not knowing but what he would be in as much danger at the cottage as on the road, and being in haste, he determined to proceed. After he had advanced some distance into the woods he perceived by the light of the moon a man step into the road before him and move on slowly until a second one joined him. When he came up to them they demanded his money He told them he had but one crown, which was barely sufficient to pay his expenses to his friends, who lived at some distance. They however told him he must give up his money or they would take his life. He replied that if they got his money they must fight for it, on which they attacked him with their swords, while he defended himself with his quarter-staff With the butt end of this he knocked down one and dispatched him, and the other ran away When he arrived at the next village he made oath to what he had done, before a magistrate, and was suffered to proceed on his journey. The inhabitants of the village found the man who was slain to be one of their 'honest' citizens. When he arrived at his mother's house, he found his younger brother in possession of the estate, and very much displeased to see him, and, it is supposed, hired assassins to dispatch him. As he walked out with them, under the pretense of viewing the farm, they attacked him behind a wood, with their swords, but he defended himself so manfully with his quarter-staff that he killed two of them and the other fled. He returned and made known what he had done to the magistrate, who, upon investigation, acquitted him of all blame. Meeting, however, with difficulties in obtaining his inheritance, he abandoned it and returned to America. "Launcelot was a man of great resolution; was of full medium height and stockily built."

Launcelot makes his first appearance in America on a tax list dated 12/19/1648; he was living in the “Mass. Bay Colony,” in the town of Ipswich. He was at least 21 at the time and a “well-to-do” man. Shortly after he moved north to the town of Newbury, MA. In Newbury on 1/5/1654 he married Joanna Adams, daughter of a strict puritan, Robert Adams; Launcelot was not a puritan. As a rule, the puritans had nothing to do with people outside their faith—however, as Launcelot was fairly wealthy, an exception was made! Immediately after his marriage, he leased a home from Richard Kent Jr. on “Kent’s Island” in Newbury.

quoting below from the previously mentioned Granger genealogy a description of this home:

This house (torn down in 1884) was built by Richard Kent Jr., in 1653, and after it was vacated by Launcelot (about 1674) was occupied by the Kent family. It was, as I have said, a house of the best class then built in the colony. It was forty-eight feet long by twenty-two wide, two storied with an attic. Between the inner and the outer shell the house was lined with brick up to the top of the first story- a protection against the Indians, who were most troublesome in the early days. Indeed, Mr. Kent shows a musket with which an Indian was killed upon the Island. In the east end of the house was the "great" or "company" room, with its large fireplace and closet in the chimney At the other end was the kitchen, with its still larger fireplace, its oven, and large milk and cheese pantry. Behind was the usual "lean-to" which was also provided with a fireplace and chimney closet. The second floor, which projected a foot beyond the lower, was divided practically the same as the latter. It was in all respects a typical house of colonial New England, with all the features to be found in those of the better class, and it is accurately represented in the picture which forms the frontispiece of this book It will always be a matter of regret that the old house was destroyed, but of pleasure that a picture of it was taken before it was demolished. Had it-stood it would have been a place of pilgrimage for those who are descended ended from its first occupant.

Here Launcelot lived from January 1654, until at least the summer of 1674, when he started for Suffield. Here all his children were born; here was the cradle of the family, its first abiding-place, its first hearthstone. The spot is worthy of a visit from all who take interest in their ancestor. It can be best reached by the traveler from Newburyport, whence a carriage and driver will quickly take one over the three miles of good road which leads to Kent Island.

Floor plans of Launcelot’s home in Newbury, MA.

Nineteenth century picture of this house still standing

Launcelot lived in Newbury to 1674 and then moved to Suffield, CT. The reason he moved was in part to find better land, but mostly to escape puritan bigotry and fanaticism! A Rev. Parson Parker dictated the local laws, and some of the “crimes” in Newbury included: women wearing silk bonnets, men wearing their hair below their ears, and anyone repeating foolish proverbs!

Granger genealogy:

Can my readers wonder that Launcelot and his pretty daughters may have been inclined to remove into the wilderness where Parson Parker had no jurisdiction, and where the young men could repeat proverbs and the young women wear silk bonnets if they wished?

I n Suffield, on 9/14/1674 the Grangers were granted the following property: Launcelot 60 acres, George (next gen. in family line) 40 acres, Thomas 40 acres. On route to Suffield, Launcelot traveled the rough trail of the “Bay Path” across Mass; the “King Philips War” broke out, and postponed his wife and children making the journey until 1678. On 6/12/1678, after peace was assured, the town committee took up final distribution of the lands; Launcelot and his oldest sons were granted lots on High St.

The “Bay Path”- the trail Launcelot traveled on route to Suffield.

Granger genealogy:

The home lots assigned to Launcelot Granger and his two sons were among the choicest upon the High street, lying just north of the meeting-house, which may be called the center of the settlement. Each had a frontage of twelve rods upon the road, and each contained eight acres. Launcelot's lot was in the center, that of Thomas on the south. while George abutted to the north. Launcelot's lot is almost opposite the present Gay mansion in Suffield, and the famous Gideon Granger owned and lived upon the lot set off to Thomas.

T he “famous Gideon Granger” mentioned in the above quote was Post Master General of the United States. In 1900 there was a tree still alive on High St. across from the Gay Mansion—this tree was the “Launcelot Granger Tree.”

The Suffield homes of Launcelot & George Granger, and Rev. John Younglove.

Granger genealogy:

Launcelot was back in Suffield with his wife and ten of his eleven children as we nave seen in 1678 when his home lot was set off to him. Henceforth he continued to reside there till his death in 1689. On his home lot he built his house and at the same time he planted in the road in front of his dwelling a maple tree. This stands today by the wayside, knotted and twisted with age, one of the two old domestic trees of the town, and still known as the "Launcelot Granger tree." It stands directly opposite the Gay mansion on the High Street, and cannot be overlooked by any one seeking to find it. It seems as though some steps might be taken to preserve as far as possible this relic of our ancestor.

Launcelot Granger died at his house in Suffield on the 3d day of September, A. D. 1689. He was buried in the graveyard which stood opposite the meeting-house on the High Street. The church of the present day a fine brick building abuts the graveyard, and under the very shadow of its walls is the ground in which all the proprietors and their families were laid to rest. No stone marks his grave (its exact spot is unknown), but both Launcelot and Joanna sleep their last sleep on the crest of this gentle Suffield hill which overlooks a valley teeming with wealth and marked with a beauty rarely to be found elsewhere in the land.

CH (born at Newbury, MA.):

John (1/15/1655-4/5/1725), md. Martha Poor.
Thomas (d. 3/14/1730), md. Mindwell Taylor.
George (b. 11/28/1658).
Robert (d. 8/8/1709), was killed by Indians; Robert was never married. He lived at North Brookfield, Mass., where his sister, Rebecca (Granger) Woolcot, had been killed by Indians in 1693. The war with them was nearly over when he too fell at their hands. With a companion he was shot from his horse as he passed down the road, nearly on the very spot where Mrs. Woolcot was killed sixteen years before!
Mary, Md. John Burbank Jr.
Elizabeth (3/13/1662-3/20/1692) md. Vicary Sikes.
Dorothy (b. 2/17/1665), md. Dr. Robert Old.
Rebecca (d. 7/27/1693), md. Joseph Woolcot; she was killed by Indians!
Samuel (8/2/1668-4/22/1721), md. Esther Hanchett.
Hannah (d. 9/9/1729), md. Thomas Taylor.
Abraham (b. 4/17/1673) md. 1st Hannah Hanchett, 2nd Hannah ?.

Granger, Launcelot (I24821)

The Times of Their Lives
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
Times of Their Lives in Plymouth Colony

Table of Contents
Illustration Credits
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Partakers of Our Plenty: The Pilgrim Myth
2. I Will Harry Them Out of the Land! The Early Years, 1606-1627
3. There be Witches Too Many: Glimpses of the Social World
4. In an Uncivil Manner: Sex-related Crimes, Violence & Death
5. A Few Things Needful: Houses and Furnishings
6. Still Standing in the Ground: The Archaeology of Early Plymouth
7. The Time of Their Lives: Plimoth Plantation
Sources & Notes
Index

An Excerpt:
Chapter 1: Partakers of Our Plenty: The Pilgrim Myth

So who were the Pilgrims? This question has been a vexing one for modern historians, and depending on the source consulted, different definitions emerge. Were they all of the Mayflower’s passengers, or were they only the minority of religious dissenters among the group? Does the term refer to those who came on four other ships, the Fortune, Anne, Little James and Charity which arrived during the first seven years of the Colony? Might the term apply to all of the residents of Plymouth Colony during its existence as a separate colony until 1691? There is no modern consensus regarding this matter, and little wonder, for the people of Plymouth never perceived themselves as a group who would at the end of the eighteenth century come to be known as Pilgrims. However, if we change the tense of the verb in the question from were to are, a reasonably concise definition can be offered. The Pilgrims are a quasi-mythic group of people who are looked upon today as the founders of America, and whose dedication to hard work and noble purposes gave rise to our nation as we know it. What most of us know about them we learned as early as grade school, especially around Thanksgiving time. Stern and godfearing, possessed of the loftiest motives, the women dressed in somber attire with white collars, and the men also dressed in grey and black, with buckles on their hats, belts, shoes, and for all we know, even on their undergarments. Some modern Plymouth residents refer to them as the "Grim Pills." This is the image with which we are all so familiar, but its origins lie more in early nineteenth century America than in the reality of a time two hundred years earlier.

With the final stroke of the pen at the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 by representatives of France, England and her newly independent former American colonies, the American Republic came into being. A decade later the early Plymouth settlers were first referred to as Pilgrims in a sermon delivered in Plymouth by the Reverend Chandler Robbins, who used a phrase from a copy of Bradford’s history, ". . . but they knew they were pilgrims," a quotation from the New Testament. Note the use of the lower case "p" in the term; Bradford was using it in a generic sense, and in no way singling out the Plymouth party as the sole bearers of the name. In fact, until the early nineteenth century, the term "pilgrim" was used to designate any early group of settlers. Those who were adults in 1783 almost certainly retained a strong bond with England, since they were displaced English people. Although separated by an ocean, English colonists still followed the precepts of English law and custom. By 1660, however, a large proportion of the colonial population had never laid eyes on England.

By the time the first generation born in the new Republic had come of age, such a bond with the old mother country held little if any significance. By the early nineteenth century, the new nation needed a myth of epic proportion on which to found its history. Who better than the Pilgrims, a term which by that time had narrowed its definition to apply solely to the settlers of Plymouth, whose piety, fortitude and dedication to hard work embodied a set of ideals that could make every American proud? To be sure, Plymouth was the second oldest permanent English colony in North America, but Virginia, established at Jamestown in 1607, was hardly a candidate for a national symbol, since it was initially settled by men only, who were looked upon as a rowdy crowd, interested simply in personal gain. Too, relations with the native Powhatan Indians were marked by periods of conflict from the very beginning in Virginia, whereas the Plymouth settlers concluded a peace treaty with the local Wampanoag people which lasted for over half a century, and was honored throughout that time. So it was that Plymouth was chosen to represent the beginnings of the infant nation, and the nineteenth century construction of the Pilgrims’ way of life reflects more of the values of that time than the reality which it was meant to represent. The word "construction" is of particular importance. Although we frequently hear references to reconstructing the past, this is an impossibility since a complete reconstruction is beyond our grasp, simply because we do not have access to all of the complexities of life in earlier times. What we do is construct the past, and in so doing, decide what is important and what is not. Such constructions invariably reflect, to a greater or lesser extent, the values and biases of the time when they were written. Our image today of the Pilgrims was strongly influenced by the people of the time when it was created, and incorporates as much if not more of how people in the early 1800s saw the world in which they lived.

The Pilgrim myth had matured into a robust tale by 1820, the two hundredth anniversary of the landing of the Plymouth band of settlers. The Pilgrim Society had been established in 1819, and one of the first items on its agenda was the construction of Pilgrim Hall, claimed by many to be America’s oldest museum, and which stands today on Main Street in Plymouth. When it first opened, it contained a remarkable assortment of objects, some with genuine "Pilgrim" provenience, but others which had no relationship to Plymouth whatsoever, including Algerian pistols, a pitchfork from Bunker Hill, and assorted sea shells. The quantity of "Mayflower Furniture" which lacked any provenience was so great that a Pilgrim Society member suggested that it was enough to have sunk the ship.

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The year 1820 also marked the two hundredth anniversary of the founding of Plymouth, and was celebrated with great enthusiasm. On that occasion the great American orator Daniel Webster gave an address which extolled the virtues of the Pilgrims as they were perceived in those early decades of the nineteenth century. Appropriately, it was delivered while standing by a fragment of Plymouth Rock which at the time reposed in Town Square. He referred to the rock in his remarks, making both the rock and the Pilgrim myth accessible for the first time to an audience far beyond the confines of the town of Plymouth itself.

The Pilgrim myth did not materialize overnight, but rather was the final and defining episode of an ongoing process which stretches back at least to the later seventeenth century. The Plymouth settlers used several terms to designate themselves. One pair of the terms relates to the make-up of the Mayflower’s passengers. A minority among them were serious dissenters against the established church, the majority made the crossing in the hope of improving their lot over what it had been in England, where chronic unemployment and increasing shortage of land was making life very difficult for many. The former group was referred to as "Saints," the latter as "Strangers." Two other names were used by the Plymouth settlers to designate themselves, "Old Comers" and "Old Planters," or simply "Planters," but future generations of Plimothians, and later the entire country, would refer to them simply as the "Forefathers." The evolution of the national view of the Forefathers combined with another potentially powerful symbol, Plymouth Rock, form two more strands in the fabric of the Pilgrim myth.

In 1769, a small group of young Plymouth men, all from the more well-to-do families of the town, joined together to form a social organization which they called the Old Colony Club. Among its stated purposes was the establishment of a social environment of a more refined nature than that of the local inns and taverns. One of their first accomplishments was the designation of December 22 to celebrate the date of the landing of the Mayflower passengers in Plymouth Harbor. They were even more specific than that, however, and stated that the day would commemorate the landing on Plymouth Rock. The day soon became an annual celebration observed by the people of Plymouth, and as time passed, by people in all parts of America, where it became known as Forefathers’ Day, and was observed by speeches, parades, and other festive events. It was, in fact, the predecessor of Thanksgiving, but with its emphasis on keeping alive in people’s memories both the landing and the rock on which it was supposed to have occurred. While December 22 was the date on which it was usually celebrated, from time to time it would slip back to December 20. The celebration of Forefathers’ Day continued into the nineteenth century, and it is still observed in Plymouth, although it had been eclipsed by Thanksgiving in the rest of the country by the opening years of the twentieth century. The Pilgrim myth was given concrete form when in 1859 construction began on an eighty-one foot tall monument on a hill overlooking the town of Plymouth. Thirty years in the making, and still standing, when completed it was appropriately named the "National Monument to the Forefathers."

In describing the monument, James Baker writes, "Although it was dedicated to the Pilgrims, they were represented only in the smallest bas-relief elements. Their attributed virtues — Faith, Law, Education, Freedom and Morality — completely overshadowed the human Pilgrim men and women." The monument in fact is an eighty-one foot high metaphor, the symbolism of which cannot be missed, for the "virtues" mentioned are represented by very large, full, rounded statues, four seated on pedestals around the base, and the fifth, representing Faith, standing on top. In spite of efforts by a number of writers, some clearly of the "debunking" school, but more objective and serious historians as well, it is this image and the relationships which it implies, which has come down to us to this day.

The earliest symbol to be associated with the Plymouth settlers is the famous, or perhaps infamous, chunk of granite known as Plymouth Rock. Most Americans know of it, and even a breed of chicken has been named after it. Lacking hard numbers, it is not possible to say that it is the most popular attraction in modern Plymouth, but one has the intuitive sense that such is the case.

What, if any, factual basis supports the attribution of the Rock as the first spot on which theMayflower passengers set foot? There is one slender thread which, however thin, cannot be entirely dismissed. In 1741, ninety-five year old Thomas Faunce asked to be taken for what he thought might be his last look at a certain granite boulder on the beach in Plymouth. Faunce lived two miles south of the town and was brought to the waterfront in a chair. Before a small gathering of people, with tearful eyes, he identified a rock, directly below Cole’s Hill, as that which was the very spot "which had received the footsteps of our fathers on their first arrival." He had been told this by his father, who had arrived in Plymouth on the Anne in 1623, and who in turn had been told by one of the original party of settlers. This is, of course, a third hand account, and as such, not of the greatest reliability, yet it does lend a touch of authenticity to what otherwise would be a story made up of whole cloth. What are the facts? We know from the account in Mourt’s Relation, published in London in 1622, that a group of passengers and crew left the Mayflower in a shallop on Wednesday 6 December 1620, searching for a suitable harbor and place to settle. Shallops were small craft, primarily propelled by a number of oarsmen, although they did have a mast and a single sail, and featured a leeboard which allowed the boat to sail into the wind in the same way a centerboard or a fixed keel would, and the usual rudder on the stern used for steering. Two days later, on a stormy Friday night, the group reached Plymouth Harbor, found themselves close to an island, and "fell upon a place of sandy ground, where our shallop did ride safe and secure all that night." On the Monday, after sounding the depth of the harbor, they "marched also into the land." There is no mention of the rock. William Bradford’s account in his history, Of Plymouth Plantation, is identical. And in case Faunce was referring to the first time the Mayflower docked in Plymouth Harbor on December 16, 1620, Mourt’s Relation only picks up the story two day’s later: "Monday the 18th day, we went a-land, [the shallop] manned with the master of the ship and three or four sailors." Bradford simply mentions that after their arrival they "afterwards took better view of the place, and resolved where to pitch their dwelling." These are the only contemporary accounts of the time when the Mayflower passengers actually arrived on the mainland at Plymouth.

So the matter stands, but whether or not Plymouth Rock as we know it today was ever trod upon by one or more Mayflower passengers, is immaterial in the context of the Pilgrim myth. What does matter is that it is possessed of a symbol of great power, as witness the hundreds of thousands of people who pay homage by gazing upon it from above, separated from it by only a sturdy iron railing.

The final component of the myth of the Pilgrims which made its appearance very early in the nineteenth century, is what is referred to today as the Mayflower Compact. Finding themselves outside the area which was covered by a patent which gave them rights to settle in Virginia, and in William Bradford’s words, "Occasioned partly by the discontented and mutinous speeches that some of the strangers amongst them had let fall from them in the Ship," a covenant was drawn up of a type with which they were very familiar, as covenant agreements were used as a basis for social regulation in England by numerous Puritan and Separatist groups. The document was signed on November 11, 1620 while the Mayflower lay at anchor off Cape Cod.

As is befitting a story of mythic proportions, the Mayflower Compact has been endowed with an importance which far transcends reality. In 1802, President John Quincy Adams had this to say:

[The Mayflower Compact] is perhaps the only instance in human history of that positive social compact which speculative philosophers have imagined as the only legitimate course of government. Here was a unanimous and personal assent by all the individuals of the community to the association, by which they became a nation.

Having become an integral part of the Pilgrim myth, this perception of the significance of the Mayflower Compact remains with us to this day. A well known historian, Henry Steele Commager, commented in a television production in the early 1970's:

They drew up one of those familiar church or sea compacts, but it was of epic making proportions, the Mayflower Compact that some claim to be the first of all written constitutions. It was drawn up democratically, it was signed by the heads of families and also by some of the servants and hired help. Imagine that, in seventeenth century England or on the European continent. It was based on the principle that political authority comes from below not from above, and that government derives all of its authority from the consent of the governed. New ideas these in politics, but ideas which were to be the very foundations of American political theory and political practice, and that were to spread throughout the globe.

Many see it as a forerunner to the American Constitution and it did indeed provide for "political authority [coming] from below not from above" and embody the principle that "government derives all of its authority from the consent of the governed." But a close examination of the list of signatories shows that only four of the ten adult servants aboard the Mayflower signed, and none of the women. As for it containing "ideas which were to be the very foundation of American political theory and political practice, and that were to spread throughout the globe," this is, to put it mildly, a bit of an overstatement. In fact, in 1619, Virginia had established the House of Burgesses which, within limits, provided for a similar type of representative government, although membership in this case was restricted to male landowners. This is not, however, to decry the fact that the basis of Plymouth government was a belief in the rule of law, not nearly as clearly formulated as it is today, but visibly present in what can be seen by 1671 as an embryonic bill of rights.

The myth of the Pilgrims, with its three central themes, the Forefathers, the Rock and the Compact, became increasingly pervasive in the American collective consciousness during the nineteenth century. It would receive even greater attention, this time on an international scale, when in 1858, just one year before construction began on the Forefathers’ monument, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote an epic poem, The Courtship of Myles Standish. Its popularity was almost instantaneous, and more than 10,000 copies sold in London in a single day. Along with The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, it would endow four rather ordinary colonists with heroic and romantic qualities which, although greatly exaggerated, would be perceived as such by those who read the poems. Most of us are familiar with the central story line of The Courtship, but far fewer have read the poem in its entirety, which in a way is a mercy. According to Longfellow, Myles Standish, who was in his late twenties or early thirties upon his arrival in Plymouth, became enamored of Priscilla Mullins, the daughter of William Mullins, who died in the sickness of the winter of 1620-1621. Priscilla was seventeen. Standish, however, could not muster the courage to approach Priscilla and make a personal offer of marriage, so he prevailed on his friend John Alden, who was twenty-one, to act on his behalf. When Alden approached Priscilla with Standish’s offer, she spoke the now immortal words, "Why don’t you speak for yourself, John?" Whether as a result of Standish’s request or not, and it seems highly unlikely that such was the case, John and Priscilla were married in 1623, and produced ten children, six girls and four boys. There was until the 1960's a line of canned goods produced in Massachusetts with the brand name John Alden, which carried a slogan in small print on its label: "It speaks for itself," referring of course to the can’s contents, whether peas, corn, beans or some other vegetable.

It was not until the opening years of the twentieth century that Thanksgiving was added as a central component of the myth of the Pilgrims, joining the other four, the Pilgrims themselves, the Forefathers, the Rock, and the Compact. Just why it should have taken so long for this to occur is not entirely clear, but James Baker offers an explanation which is both logical and convincing. Nineteenth century depictions of the event almost always involve conflict between the settlers and the native peoples. A print from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated, 1869, shows people seated around a table, complete with a turkey at one end, under attack by a group of native people, with an arrow stuck in the door and another in the table which appears to have barely missed the turkey. One man is lifting his musket from its rack on the wall to defend his family, and the others show expressions of alarm, except for the man at the head of the table, who stands with hands folded in prayer, and a woman at the opposite end whose head is bowed. It would appear that the attack took place just as the family was giving thanks.

How this violent image became transformed into a peaceful encounter between colonists and Indians is explained by Baker as follows:

It was only after the turn of the century, when the western Indian wars were over and the "vanishing red man" was vanishing satisfactorily, that the romantic (and historically correct) idyllic image of the two cultures sitting down to an autumn feast became popular. . . . By the first World War, popular art . . . school books, and literature had linked the Pilgrims and the First Thanksgiving indivisibly together, so much so that the image of the Pilgrim and the familiar fall feast almost ousted the Landing and older patriotic images from the popular consciousness.

This is the image that we carry today, and at holiday time stores are filled with depictions of clean shaven Pilgrim men, buckled hats and all, equally well scrubbed women with little white caps, Indians, usually with a single feather stuck in a headband, and of course turkeys, turkeys, and more turkeys, both in cardboard cutouts and in the frozen food section of supermarkets. Schools the nation over present Thanksgiving plays; most Americans are familiar with such productions, and many have participated in them. By far the most memorable of these is to be seen in the film Addams Family Values in which Wednesday Addams and some of the other "misfits" at a summer camp are cast as Indians in a Thanksgiving play. After being greeted by a pretty young blond Pilgrim maiden, she tells the Indians that they are not different from themselves, except that the Pilgrims wear shoes and have last names. The Indian members of the cast have revised their part of the script, unbeknownst to the camp counselors, and Wednesday delivers a short speech which is both funny and sadly true:

I am Pocohantas, a Chippewa maiden.Wait, we cannot break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be forced to live in mobile homes on reservations. Your people will wear cardigans and drink highballs. We will sell our bracelets by the roadside. You will play golf and enjoy hot hors d’oeuvres. My people will have pain and degradation. Your people will have stick shifts. The gods of my tribe have spoken. They say, Do not trust the Pilgrims.

The Indians then proceed to tie the Pilgrim maiden who greeted them to a stake and pour gasoline around her feet (we are spared seeing the match applied), the Indians burn the village, and the scene closes with two Pilgrims being spit roasted together over a fire. Regardless of the mixup between Plymouth and Virginia, and between the Chippewa and the Wampanoag, there is far more than a little truth in Wednesday’s, a.k.a. Pocohantas’s words. For an important segment of the American people, Thanksgiving is hardly a day to celebrate in a festive way. To Native Americans, Thanksgiving has come to symbolize the beginning of what would eventually become the tragic destruction of their culture.

In 1970, Thanksgiving was declared a National Day of Mourning by Native Americans, and Plymouth was chosen as the location where it would be observed. Native peoples, both local and others from as distant as various western states, converged on Plymouth, assembling on the waterfront adjacent to the Rock and Mayflower II, anchored and secured to the wharf nearby. Attendance some years has exceeded five thousand, and while some occasions are marked by more overt protest than others, the Day of Mourning overshadows all other events in town on that day. Drums and singing are a constant part of the event, and speeches, often delivered with great passion, are also a regular feature of the program. On many occasions, Native Americans boarded the ship and climbed into the rigging, and more than once Plymouth Rock has been either painted red or buried in sand, and sometimes both. The participants fast during the day, taking food only after sundown.

There is a significant and understandable irony in the selection of Plymouth and Thanksgiving as the site and date of the Day of Mourning. This selection underlines the power of the Pilgrim myth in the minds of all Americans. Only in the way it is observed is there a dramatic difference. It is historical fact that the Plymouth settlers and their Wampanoag compatriots enjoyed one of the longest periods of peace in colonial history. There were Indian residents within the jurisdiction of the town of Plymouth, and the court records of the Colony tell us that they were treated in much the same way as were Europeans for various offences, and occasionally, received a lighter punishment for the same transgression as was meted out to the settlers. In fact, the second execution in the Colony, involving three Englishman, was carried out in 1638 because they had murdered and robbed a Nipmuck messenger from the chief sachem of the Narragansett. But in other colonies, particularly Virginia, Indian-European relations were strained from the outset. So one could argue that Jamestown would be a more suitable place for the Day of Mourning to be observed, but the power of the Pilgrim myth is such that Plymouth and Thanksgiving were perceived as the appropriate place and time.

A remarkable event took place on Thanksgiving Day 1971 which completely escaped media attention. Only those who participated in it, and those to whom they might have mentioned it, were, and still are, aware of it. James Deetz, then a senior staff member of Plimoth Plantation, an outdoor living history museum in Plymouth which shows what the settlement might have been like in 1627, taught a course on Native American history during the Harvard Summer School session that year. Among the class members were a number of Native Americans who had been enrolled in Harvard’s newly established American Indian Program. In the course of the summer, Deetz developed friendships of varying degrees with a number of these Indian students, and they visited his home, a large Victorian-style house in Plymouth, for socializing at regular intervals, including nearly every weekend. By the time Thanksgiving approached, it was decided that the house, which had been the scene of so many parties, be used to entertain some eighty-odd Native American high school students who were coming to Plymouth to observe and participate in the Day of Mourning. The high school students, from groups all over America, were part of a program then in existence known as "A Better Chance," formed to expose American Indian students to a variety of educational experiences which would be very different from those obtained in mostly reservation classrooms. Plans were accordingly made. A traditional Thanksgiving dinner would be provided after sundown, [with food] enough to feed more than a hundred people. Late in the afternoon, some ninety Native Americans appeared at the Deetz home, and when it became apparent that the house, large as it was, could not possibly accommodate all that was planned, last minute arrangements were made to use a nearby church hall. At the beginning, there was a palpable tension in the air, and understandably, if one puts oneself in the place of the high school students, finding themselves suddenly in an alien environment, and perceived as not necessarily friendly. For two hours, conversation was minimal, and it was to the credit of the Harvard American Indian students that they served as mediators between the two parties. Once everyone adjourned to the church hall, however, the atmosphere underwent an immediate change. The Harvard group had brought a drum and there was singing and dancing, this alternating with live bluegrass music, the Plymouth group having among them a number of excellent musicians. Before the evening had ended, around ten p.m. when the high school students boarded their bus to return to Boston, it was concluded by all that the festivity had been an outstanding success. But the remarkable, wonderful thing about the entire affair was that it was the first time in three and a half centuries that such a celebration had taken place in Plymouth. It had not been planned in any way to be such an event, but the ethnic make-up of the participants was very close to that of the group who celebrated Harvest Home in Plymouth in the fall of 1621.

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Thomas Glascocke, from Essex England circa 1643

Thomas Glascocke (b. 06 June 1613, d. 03 June 1667)

Thomas Glascocke (son of Henry Glascocke and Margery Fitch) was born 06 June 1613 in Moreton, Essex County, England, and died 03 June 1667 in Lancaster County, Virginia. He married Jane Juett on 17 June 1634 in St. Mary's Whitechapel in the Co. of Middlesex, England.

Notes for Thomas Glascocke:
From Martha C. Mordecai
Index Library, Vol. 62, London Marriage Licenses, page 120.

Guildhall Library, City of London Libraries, London EC.2, MS 10,091/16:
17 Mo Jun 1634...
"This day appeared personally Thomas Glascock of ye parishe of St.Mary Whitechappell in ye county of Middlesex, joyner and a batcheloraged about 23 yeares and at his owne government & alledgeth that heintendeth to marry Jane Juet of ye same place, maiden aged about 23years & att her own government, her parents being deceased & thatthere is noe lawful lett or impediment by reason of any precontract, consanguinity, affinity or otherwise, to hinder this intended marriage, he made faith and desired license for them to be married in ye parish churche of St. Mary Staynings, London.

(Signed)Thomas Glascock
(Signed) Row: Jennings--(Rowland Jennings, surrogate of the VicarGeneral of the Bishop of London)"
(See The Glas(s)cocks of England and America by Rev. Lawrence A.Glassco on page 231 for a copy of the license).
By signing his name Thomas shows he was of the Gentry class.

Thomas had moved to VA with his family by 1643 because on 30 Aug 1643 he received two land patents. From the patents we know his wife's name was "Jane". The reason for moving might have been the 1642 Civil War in England instigated by a power struggle between King Charles Iand the Parliment led by Oliver Cromwell.

One of the 1643 patents was for 130 acres in Warwick River Co."parallel to his own and land of John Leyden and adjacent to land of "Thomas Davis" possibly for transporting three persons to Virginia from England. This was for land on the lower part of the penninsula between the James and York Rivers and situated near the James River somewhat between Newport News, Hampton and Yorktown. John Leyden is listed in the records as an "Ancient Planter", one who arrived in Virginia before 1616. He arrived with John Smith and the firstsettlers, at age 27, on the "Susan Constant" in 1607.

On 30 Aug 1643, Thomas also patented 200 acres "a mile and a half upon the south side of Peankatanke River, adjacent Christopher Boyce" for transporting 4 persons to Virginia, which included Thomas and his wife, Jane. In 1652 he was appointed Justice of the Peace for the Peankatanke area by the Burgesses, sitting at Jamestown. The Peankatanke River was north of his other patent, between the York and the Rappahannock Rivers. It flows into the Chesapeak Bay just a few miles below the mouth of the Rappahannock. The first patent on the Rappahannock was granted in 1642, and only four others before Thomas'. The south shore of the Peankatanke was inhabited by the Chiskiake Indians. It is believe that the Glascocks lived in this are for about 9 years.

On 28 Jul 1652 Thomas was granted a patent for 600 acres about 30 miles north of his Peankatanke land, on Morattico Creek in Lancaster Co. of VA. Two hundred of these acres were received in exchange for the surrender of his first patent for the land on the Peankatanke River and the remaining 400 acres were for transporting eight more persons to the colony.

On 9 Jan 1662, Thomas received another patent for 280 acres adjoining the land he had at the head of the Morattico Creek for transporting 6 more persons. It is most likely that he moved his family north onto the Morattico Creek property during the early 1660s. Morattico Creek was named for the "Moraughtacund Indians".

"Thomas Glassocks's land, in Lancaster Co., is on a narrow seaboard peninsula of VA called the 'Northern Neck' which is bounded on the east by Chesapeake Bay, on the north by the Potomac River (River of Swans), and on the south by the Rappahannock River (Quick Rising Waters). Only fifteen to twenty miles wide, it runs inland between the great rivers for about a hundred miles. The Glascock land is located on the point of land at the junction of the Morattico and the Lancaster (formerly also called the Morattico) Creeks where they flow into the Rappahannock River, and is thus surrounded on three sides by water. The land is situated uphill from the little fishing village of Simonson. The East Creek (Lancaster Creek) is the boundary between Richmond and Lancaster Counties... This area was one of the most densely inhabited parts of Powhaten's Empire, and the hardest fighting must have occurred along the Rappahannock near the 'Indian Banks'area."
(Source: The Glas(s)cock--Glassco Saga, by Lawrence A. Glassco)

The Thomas Glascock Family (Thomas Glascock & Jane Juet & children -the immigrants) have their family name inscribed on the American Immigrant Wall of Honor on Ellis Island in New Jersey (near the Statueof Liberty - next island in New York).
The family appears on Panel # 706 which was just recently installed inlate December, 2003.
I have chosen to have the Thomas Glascock Family - our immigrant ancestors of about 1643- to be honored on the Wall of Honor at Ellis Island.

Although our Glascock family did not immigrate through Ellis Island, this wall has been chosen to honor immigrants to the USA. The wall contains the names of President George Washington's great grandfather and John F. Kennedy's great grandparents among others. If you travel to Ellis Island be sure and see the wall where Thomas Glascock & Jane(Juet) Glascock & children are honored.

More About Thomas Glascocke and Jane Juett:
Marriage: 17 June 1634, St. Mary's Whitechapel in the Co. of Middlesex, England.

Children of Thomas Glascocke and Jane Juett are:

+Thomas Glascock, b. Abt. 1645, Moreton, Essex County, England, d. Bef. 1701, Lancaster County, Virginia.

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Glasscock, Thomas (I26657)

Thomas Lucy 1483-1525

This Thomas had the wardship of William Catesby of Ashby St. Ledgers, Northamptonshire, whose mother, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Empson, he married. He lived in London, in the parish of St. Bride's, Fleet Street, and was a sewer, or server, to the King when the Court was in residence at Westminster. The King granted him custody of the royal park of Fulbroke, across the river from Cherlecote. He reclaimed the rights from Thelesford which his grandfather had renounced, taking back the profits from the glebe lands of Cherlecote church and the advowson of the Vicarage. He also enclosed common land which the Brothers had had the use of for two centuries, and withheld the oblations left to Thelesford in his mother's will. He desired to be buried in the Church of the Grey Friars in Smithfield, London. He left three sons, dividing between them his manors of Cherlecote, Claybrook (Leicestershire) and Bickering and Sharpenhoe (Bedfordshire).

This Thomas Lucy was the grandfather of the Thomas Lucy who was able, with his wife's fortune (Joyce Acton), to rebuild the old house of de Cherlecotes (now called Charlecote) into its present form.

Lucy, Sir Thomas (I26759)

to go through- rawleigh travers

Name: Rawleigh Travers
Sex:M
Birth:1622 in England
Death:14 DEC 1670 in Lancaster County, Virginia - admin
Note:

===1670-1674 Lancaster County Order Book; Antient Press: pg 174
Lancaster County Court 14th of December 1670
- Coission of Administracon accordinge to Acte upon ye Estate of Mr. RALEIGH TRAVERS (deced) is granted unto ELIZ:, his Widd: & Relict, shoe giveing security accordinge to Acte. Mr. WILL: BALL, Mr. WALTER WHARTON, Mr. THOMAS BANKES & Mr THO: MARSHALL are ordered to apprize ye Estate. Mr. BALL & WHARTON were sworne in Cort , the two others Mr. BALL is ordered to sweare. An Inven:rie thereof to bee exhibited to ye neve Cort., Mr. EDWARD DALE & DNE: THERRYOTT doe in Cort. become security for the sde. Mrs. TRAVERS
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1670-1674 Lancaster County Order Book; Antient Press: pg 203
Lancaster County Court 8th of November 1671
- It appeareing to this Cort, by ye peticon of ROBT. BECKENGHAM & ELIZ: his Wife. Administratrx. to ye Estate of Mr. RA: TRAVERS (deced), that at a Cort, helde for this County Mar: the 9th 1669, order was granted unto the saide TRAVERS for 795 lb. of tobaccoe & ca: agt. ye Estate of Mr. DAVYD FOX (deced), wch: beinge out of date, it is ordered that a scire facias be yssued out to revive ye saide order
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Contributed by: James Hughes

URL: http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bevangenealogy&id=I60548
URL title: Ancestries of Errol S. BEVAN and Hollie C. ATKINSON BEVAN to ADAM and EVE including REINHARDT Cousins and more

Notes from TRAVERS Msg Board by Linda Boyd Lawhon:

. RAWLEIGH1 TRAVERS married Elizabeth (--?--) circa 1655. He died before 14 May 1670 in Richmond County, Virginia.
· On 9 Mar 1653 in Virginia Rawleigh Travers, received 300 a on south side Rappa. River, 2 miles s'ly from James Bagnal; trsp. 6 persons. (Nugent, CP I:241). · On 6 Dec 1653 in Lancaster County, Virginia. He received a POA from Tho Paine to sue Moore Fauntleroy. (Fleet, VCA I:190) · On 5 Feb 1654/55 in Lancaster County, Virginia Nich. Forman was to view Mr. Raleigh Travers' tobacco house and report. (Fleet, VCA I:191). · On 19 Apr 1655 in Lancaster County, Virginia, Tho. Purifye to Raughley Travers, 650 a. (Duvall, VCA S2V2, p. 50). · On 24 Oct 1665 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, Raleigh Travers, 3, 650 acres: 3350 acres on the s side of Potomac Riv. SSW of Pot. Cr. & NE upon a maine SW upon the head of a br at said Cr. which divides this land & Land commonly known by the name of the fort land, ESE. 300 acres upon head of a br of Pot. Cr NE against land of Capt Brent, SE upon land of John Withers. Granted to Gerrard Fowke 18 Nov 1662 and assigned to Travers 11 Nov 1663. (Nugent, CP IP 535-536). · In 1667 in Lancaster County, Virginia, John Carpenter and Mary his wife, extrx of the will of Anthony Stevens, heir apparent of the sd. Anthony, sold 500 acres call ...Fairweather, to Raleigh Travers. (Lancaster County, DB 4:35). · In Mar 1669 in Lancaster County, Virginia, Rawleigh Travers to John Chinn, Qtr part of the mill lying at the head of Morratico Creek. Signed Ra:Travers & Elizabeth Travers. (Duvall, VCA S2V2 p. 43). · On 11 May 1670 in Lancaster County, Virginia, Elizabeth Travers, POA, to cousin Will Travers re mill sold to John Chinn. Wit. Robert Beckingham and James Lane. (Duvall, VCA S2V2 p. 43).

ELIZABETH (--?--), the wife of Rawleigh Travers. Her maiden name has not been found. · She married 1 Thomas Stephens. On 17 Nov 1654 in Lancaster County, Virginia: Thomas Stephens, late of this colony died intestate and Elizabeth Stephens, his relict, was granted administration of his estate by the Gov. · She married 2 Raleigh Travers. On 14 Dec 1670 in Lancaster County, Virginia,: Commission of administration on the estate of Mr. Raleigh Travers, deceased, was granted to Elizabeth, his widow and relict. On 14 Dec 1670 in Lancaster County, Virginia,: Dominick Therriott by Elizabeth the now wife of Robt. Beckingham and late widow of Mr. Raleigh Travers became security for the sd. Elizabeth for the Administration on the estate of her late husband Raleigh Travers, and Robert Beckingham and John Chyn gave bond for the Adm. 31 Dec 1672. · She married 3 Robert Beckingham before 14 Dec 1670 in Lancaster County, Virginia. On 24 Nov 1671 in General Court of, Virginia, Elizabeth , as Mrs. Elizabeth Beckingham, was ordered by the court to testify whether some land held in controversie had been the property of her first husband, Thomas Stevens, or whether the property had been purchased by her second husband, Mr. Rawleigh Travers. (McIlwaine, Minutes of the Council & General Court of Colonial Virginia, pp. 270, 271, 287). On 8 Mar 1675/76 in Lancaster County, Virginia,: probate of the will of Mr. Robert Beckingham, deceased, was granted to Mrs. Elizabeth Beckingham, the widow & relict · She married 4 Thomas WILKES circa 1677 in Lancaster County, Virginia. On 4 Jun 1677 in Lancaster County, Virginia,: an inventory of the estate of Robert Beckingham was admitted to court by Mrs. Elizabeth Wilke, being the relict of Robert Beckingham, deceased. On 4 Jul 1686 in Lancaster County, Virginia,: an inventory of the estate of Thomas WILKS was presented to court by Eliza WILKES. Will Book 5:104, rec. 16 Jul 1686. On 8 Feb 1687/88 in Richmond County, Virginia, Mr. Raleigh Travers, a member of the county court, appeared in behalf of his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth WILKES. · She married 5 George Spencer. (12 Nov 1693 Middlesex Co.,Va., Will of Elizabeth Wormeley, Rec. 5 Mar 1693: Mother:Mrs. Elizabeth Spencer.) · She married 6 William Mann. On 4 Feb 1696 in Richmond County, Virginia,: William MAnne as marrying the relict of George Spencer is granted an attachment against the estate of Samuel Jordan. (Boddie, HSF, Vol. 2, p. 255). On 15 Feb 1697 in Lancaster County, Virginia, Mrs. Elizabeth Man, the wife of Mr. Wm. Man, of this county personally appeared before us, Capt. David Fox & Capt. Richard Nusom, Justices of ye peace for this county -- she doth freely of her own accord & free will & without any compulsion or threatening acknowledge ye bill of sale made to William Draper, his heirs... for ye mill called Foxes mill as she hath formerly appointed her attorneys Mr. Charles Harris & Mr. John Tavenor to doe for her .... (Sparacio, Will Abstracts of Lancaster County, Virginia 1690-1709, p. 63). On 7 Mar 1697 in Lancaster County, Virginia, Know all men by these presents I Elizabeth Man of Lancaster County, in Virginia doo authorize and appoint Joseph Tayloe my true and lawfull Attourney for me ... indenture of sale of part of Morraticon Mill ... Wit. Samll Jones, Wm. Downman. Signed Elizth: (her mark) Man.

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URL (Click on link) http://image.lva.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=521&last=&g_p=P5&co llection=LO Patent
Title Traverse, Raleigh.
Publication 24 October 1665.
Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41.
Note Location: Westmoreland County.
Description: 3650 acres on the south side of Potomack River bounded S. S. W. upon Potomack Creek.
Source: Land Office Patents No. 5, 1661-1666 (v.1 & 2 p.1-369), p. 521 (Reel 5).

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CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 3; Pg 240
RAWLEIGH TRAVERS, 300 acs. on the S. side of Rappa. River., about 2 mi. Sly. from the plantation of Mr. James &gnat, 9 Mar. 1653, p. 28. Trans. of 6 pers: Mary Marloe, Jon. Heath, Antho., Negro, Margt., Negro; & 100 acs. by assignment from Mr. Spry to Mr. Bagnall, wch. was found lesse than the bounds of a former pattent mentioned.
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CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 4; Pg 333
MR. JOHN PAINE, 610 acs. on the head of the Eastern Br. of Pepoticke Cr. on N. side of Rappa. Riv. 6 Oct. 1656, p. 42, (64). Trans. of 13 pers: Marga. Paine, Jno. Paine, Junr., Wm. Emaston, Morris Williams, Elizabeth Pusie, Jno. Capell, Raughley Travers, Rich. Peacocke, Mary Smith, Law. Thompson, Wm. Walker, Tho. Jelly.
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CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 4; Pg 358
CAPT. EDWARD STREATER, 3000 acs. Westmoreland Co., 19 Mar. 1657, p. 143, (210). Upon S. side of Patomeck Riv. at the head of Niopsco Cr., N. E. upon Ochaquim Riv., S. E. to Freston pointe, to Mussell Island. Granted unto Elizabeth Burbage 30 Mar. 1655 but now deserted for want of seating & now granted for trans. of 60 pers: Miles Atkinson, Wm. Brickwell, Rich. Hogson, Thompson Symons, Wm. Massinborne, Eliz. Hooper, Jno. Ward, Jno. Debarr, Mary Benfor, Rob. Niccolls, Rich. Goodman, Jno. Throught, Wm. Higginbottom, Jno. Morgan, Bryan Harkin, Rich. Stanton, Donaugho Bryan, Wm. Stephens, Wm. Sharpe, Eliz. Brooke, Dennis Shollman, Edwd. Jones, Edwd. Tanner, Roger Preston, Tho. Beedes, Robert Mason, Wm. Wildy (or Wildes), Andrew Bonny (?), Elia. Ackers, Rob. Brenore, Wm. Mundy, Rowland Trevers, Edmond Methoe, Wm. Hurden, Clemence Herbert, Paul Waller, Garrett Sennett, Edwd. Legge, Wm. Paine, Roger Wilkins, Margarett Davis, Mary Leamore, Jno. Clerke, Jno. Henland, George Merritt, Rich. Browne, Rob. Younge, Tho. Ringe, Wm. Webb, Jno. Tunstead, Jno. Mackey, Fra. Stephens, Sam. Yates, Nath. Pally, Jno. Peury, Wm. Breeham, Wm. Greens, Richard Nelmes, Wm. Rayle, Wm. Clemence.
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CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 4; Pg 374
RAWLEIGH TRAVERS 300 acs. on S. side of Rappa. Riv., about 2 mi. from the plantation of Mr. James Bagnall. 15 Oct. 1657, p. 202, (295). Renewal of patent dated 9 Mar. 1653. The following names appear: Samuel! Cole, Tho. Goodry, John Granger, Eliz. Packing- ton, Thomas Arther, Tho. Tillett.

MR. RALEIGH TRAVERSE, 3650 acs. W'moreland Co., 24 Oct. 1665, p.
1, (521). 3350 acs. on S. side of Potomack Riv., S.S.W. on Potomack Cr. &c. N.E. upon a maine Sw. upon the head of a br. at sd. Cr. which divides this & land commonly known by the name of the fort land, E.S.E. &c; 300 acs. upon the head of a br. of Potomack Cr. &c. N.E. against land of Capt. Brent, S.E. upon land of Jno. Withers. Granted unto Col. Gerrard Fowke 18 Nov. 1662 & assigned to sd. Travers 11 Nov. 1663.
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CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 6; Pg 50
MR. RAWLEIGH TRAVERS, 580 acs. S. side Rappa. Co., aboute 3 mi. from the Riv., 12 Sept. 1668, p. 194. Beg. nere a run of Occupaso Cr., adj Cornelius Nowell, & Vall. Allin, to E'wd. of Chickahomani Path, towards Potobaco Towne &c, Trans. of 12 pers: Eliz. Hall, Geo. Hearne, Jane Strydick, An Lorkin, Robt. Metcale, Aug. Sanderson, Geo Spivy, James Young, Eliz. Jones, Eli. Uty, Jane Blundall, Eliz. Plume.
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CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS PATENT BOOK No. 6; Pg 79
MR. JOHN BLAGRAVE, 800 acs. Staff. Co.. S. side of Oquia Cr.. adj. Mr. Edward Sanders, the maine run of Aquokeeke Cr.. Mr. Rowland Travers, &c; 25 Oct. 1669, p. 309. Trans. of 16 pers: Ann Chapman. James Gregory, Tho. Gibson, Morris Filcher, Hen. Lee, Jno. Bright. Tho. Allen, Alice Hamford, Dorothy Rowles. Mich. Hollis, Robt. Humfryes, Jno. Pell. Jno. Watts, Rich. Jones, Rich. Watts, Sara Beverly.
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Old Rappahannock Co Deed Book 1 - 1656-1662; Antient Press; pg 122 - 123
TO ALL TO WHOM these presents shall come I SAMUELL MATHEWS Esqr. Govenour & Capt. General of Virga. send greeting Now know ye that I the said SAMUELL MATHEWS Esqr with the consent of the Councell of State do give & grant unto Mr. HENRY CORBIN Three hundred acres of land in the County of LANCASTER upon the West (missing) side of MORATICON CREEK opposite the land of EDWARD M(missing) S. S. W. upon a branch of MORATICO CREEK deviding this Land & the land of Capt. MORE FANTLEROY NW upon the head of said Neck E. S. E. upon MORATICO CREEK & upon the North side another Branch of MORATICO CREEK the said land being formerly granted unto JOHN SHARPE by Patent dated 10th of October 1655 & by him deserted & granted unto the said HENRY CORBIN by order of the Quarter Court bearing date with these presents by & for the transportation of Six persons into this Colony whose names are in the records men coned in this Pattent to have & to hold the said Land &c. Given under our hands at JAMES CITY the 30th day of November 1659
SAMUELL MATHEWS
W. CLAYBORNE Secr.
NOW ALL MEN that I HENRY CORBIN gent for a valluable consideracon from RAW LEIGH TRAVERS of the County of LANCASTER in Virginia gent have sould all & every part of the Three hundred acres of land in the Pattent within specified with all & every its appurtenances to the above named RAWLEIGH TRAVERS his heirs & assignes for ever so that neither of the said HENRY CORBIN my heirs & assignes shall make claim or demand any right or interest. to this Pattent or the Land within specified but from all & every part & parcel! thereof with all its appurtenances shal be by these presents for Ever debarred, In Witness whereof I the said HENRY CORBIN & ALICE my Wife have this fifth day of November in the year 1660 & in the twelvth year of the reign of Our Sovereign KING CHARLES put our hands & seals
in presence of JOHN HARRIS, HENRY CORBIN
ROBERT MIDDLETON ALICE CORBIN
KNOW ALL MEN by these presents that I HENRY CORBIN do hereby appoint my loveing Friend Mr. HUMPHRY BOTH my true & lawfull Attorney to acknowledge in Court a Bill of Sale made to Mr. RAWLEIGH TRAVERS for a parcel! of land as per Pattent lying in MORATICO CREEK & what my said Attorney shall do I do hereby ratify as if I myself were there personally as witness my hand & seale this 20th day of December 1660
in presence of ANDREW GILSON, HENRY CORBIN
THOMAS BRADLEY
KNOW ALL MEN by these presents that I ALICE CORBYN do appoint Capt, HUMFRY BOOTH of Rappahanock County my lawful! Attorney for me to acknowledge a Deed of Sale made the Fifth day of November 1660 by my Husband Mr. HENRY CORBIN to Mr. RAWLEIGH TRAVERS for Three hundred acres of land in MORATICO CREEK as by Pattent bearing date the 20th day of November 1659 will appear which Bill of Sale is indorsed thereof I have & do hereby acknowledge to have freely consented to & do by these presents for Ever quit any right I have or may have to it or to any part thereof as witness my hand this fifth day of November 1660 & in the Twelvth year of the Reign of our Sovrn. Lord KING CHARLES the Second
in presence of JOHN HARRIS, ALICE CORBYNROBERT MIDDLETON

Father: Virginia Travers

Marriage 1 Female MNU Travers
Married: ABT 1642 in England

Children
William Travers b: 1644 in England

Marriage 2 Elizabeth {Unproven} Husseyb: BEF 1637 in England
Married: AFT 17 NOV 1654 in Lancaster County, Virginia

Children
John Traversb: 1656 in Lancaster County, Virginia
Elizabeth Traversb: BEF 1660 in Lancaster County, Virginia
Rawleigh Traversb: 1660 in Northumberland County, Virginia
Million Traversb: 1660 in Lancaster County, Virginia
Giles Travers b: ABT 1661 in Lancaster County, Virginia

Travers, Rawleigh (I767)

Transcript of Million Travers Will & Other Info

Individual Report for Million Travers

( originally submitted byelizabeth31858 )

Name: Million Travers Ge nder: F

Born: Abt 1662 Place: Gloucester Co, Virginia

Christened: Place:

Died: Bef 8 Jun 1727 Place: Richmond Co, Virginia

Buried: Place:

Father:

Mother:

Spouse: William Downman (Abt 1655 - Bef 4 Jun 1712)

Married: Abt 1700 Place: Lancaster Co, Virginia

Children: 1 Rawleigh Downman (1680-1719)

2 Million Downman (1683-1750)

3 Priscill a Downman (1701-1741)

(these are children missing from this list ~ Robert & Elizabeth…. By Lavonne Maiorano)

General

* Married Raleigh Downman son of Wm., who died 1712, leaving Raleigh, Robt Travers, Wm, Million, Eliz., Prisca—see Hayden Va. Gen.. I think it more prob that Million Travers mard Wm. Downman above, who died in 1712, hence the names of her children, Raleigh, Travers, Million, Eliz. from William and Mary College Quarterly, 1896, Pedigree of the Travers Family.

12 Nov 1693: Mentioned in Elizabeth Wormeley's will as sister Million Downman.

31 Mar 1727: Will, Richmond Co., VA, Parish N. Farnham. In the name of God amen. I Millan [sic] Downman of the County of Richmond and in the Parrish of North Farnham being in perfect health and memory but considering the uncertainty of this life I do make this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following, first: I give my soul into the hand of almighty God who gave it me and I Bequeath my body to the Earth to receive Christian Burial and as for the worldly goods God hath Blest me with I Bestow as followeth. I give unto my son Travers Downman four Negroes and their increase Mary, James, Anne, and Flora. I give them to him and his heirs for ever they are already received. Item I give unto my above said son one feather Bed and furniture if not received already. I lend unto my Daughter Priscilla

Heale five negroes with heir increase for the term of her life Dinah, King, Robin, Dick, and Hester, and I give the above said negroes and their increase unto the heirs Lawfully Begotten of her Body but for want of such heirs the above said negroes and increase shall return to my sons and Daughters or my next heirs at Law. Item I give unto my aforesaid Daughter tenn [?] sheep. Item I give unto my two grand sons William and Rawleigh sons of my son Rawleigh Downman the ith [?] part of that Estate left by my sister Elizabeth Wormley but the same shall remain in the hands of my two sons to be mannaged for their best advantage untill they come to twenty years of age and then they shall have it themselves. I lend unto my Daughter Elizabeth Downman During her life one Negroe Woman and her increase and I give the above

said Negroe to her heirs Lawfully Begotten of her body but for want of such heirs the above negroe and increase shall return to my sons or my next heirs at Law. I order as much of this Estate as I possess as will be four parts and each part made equall by men [?] to that part my Daughter Heale had which parts I give to be equally divided to my sons William Downman and Travers Downman and my two Daughters Millian Glasscock and Elizabeth Downman each one taking their part by Lott. Item I give unto my Daughter Elizabeth one feather bed and furniture, and all the rest of my Estate I give to be equally Divided Between my two sons and my three Daughters William Downman and Travers Downman

Millian Glasscock Elisabeth Downman and Priscilla Heale, after my Debts and Legacies paid I give all my wearing cloths to be equally Divided Between my three Daughters. Lastly I make and appoint my two sons to be whole and sole executors of this my Last Will and Testament. Signed seald and declared in presence of us.

8 Jun 1727: Will probated, Bk 5, p. 75-76, Richmond Co. VA. William Glasscock, Tobias Phillips, and Caron Brannon in open court made oath that they are acquainted with the handwriting of Mrs: Million Downman Late Deceased, and that they do verily believe this Will was wrote by her, also William Downman Gent. made oath in court that he found this writing amongst the said Million Downman's papers and doth verily believe to be her own handwriting. Whereupon on the motion of the said William Downman the same is ordered to be Recorded. Test. W: Beckwith Clk. Court.' Richmond Co., VA, Will Book 5, pp. 75-76.

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Allerton, Isaac (I26533)

Who Was Thomas' Father?

Thomas Maxey Hampton's parentage is pure speculation at this time and based on the following arguments:

1) Thomas was born in Jackson Co., Georgia abt 1800.

2) George, Joseph, Benjamin and John (all brothers) are on the Tax Index for Jackson Co., Georgia in 1799. They are the sons of William and Lydia Hampton. All of them lived in Abbeville, North Carolina for a while and William died there. George may have died there as well. John raised his family in Jackson Co., Georgia and the others may have lived there briefly as well.

3) Thomas named his firstborn son George Claiborn Hampton... Claiborn was for Olive's father and George may have been for Thomas' father.

4) On March 7, 1809, I found a George Hampton in Jackson Co., witnessing a will along with Job Rogers.

5) On January 7, 1811, I found George Hampton in Jackson Co., giving an oath along with Job Rogers.
NICHOLAS HOBSON, 3/7/1809:5/1/1809
Wife: Sally. Sons: William, John, Matthew, Baker, Christopher, Francis, Allen. Daus: JimmySmith, Polly, Patsy, Agnes. Exrs:John, Matthaw and Baker Hobson. Wits: George Hampton, Job Rogers.

Joseph Humphrey (1745-1811) who married Rebecca Phelps. They lived in Franklin County. His LWT was produced in the Jackson Court Ordinary by the oaths of Job Rogers and George Hampton on 7 January 1811.

6) Found a marriage in Frederick Co., Virginia between a George Hampton and Winney Howell on Aug 5, 1787. The date would work for parents of Thomas. The problem is, on the same page I found a marriage for a Joseph Hampton to a Nancy Ann Tate in 1796. This Joseph married Ann Nancy Tate and is the son of George Hampton and Mary Colson who also had a son named George. This could be the George who married Winney Howell. This George and Joseph are only a couple years younger than our George and Joseph.

Hampton, George (I26600)

Will & burial

Please See below

Richmond County, Virginia Order; Wills and Inventories (1692-1709) f30v - William COLSTON, clerk, will; 27 Oct 1701, 3 Dec 1701 to be interred by the body of wife Anne; dau. Susannah 150 L to be paid out of money now in the hands of Capt. John PURVIS, merchant, in London; son William; son Charles 640 ac. bought of Capt. Thomas BEALE and Joseph RUSSELL; Thomas READ, that now lives with me, to have his maintenance out of my est. until 18 provided he continue with my two sons; Rawleigh TRAVERS; s-i-1 Thomas BEALE; Rawleigh TRAVERS and Thomas BEALE to be ex. during the minority of sons William and Charles; wits: Daniel HORNBY, Thomas BARLOW, Ellen FOSTER. [William COLSTON, first clerk of the Rich. Co. court, mar. by 1681, Anne (GOOCH) BEALE, wid. of Capt. Thomas BEALE. MRC, p.42.]3. Records of Colonial Gloucester Co, VA Page 126.

Colston, William (I26590)

WILL OF COLONEL RICHARD LEE, VIRGINIA PATRIARCH

WILL OF COLONEL RICHARD LEE OF VIRGINIA, AND LATELY OF STRATFORD LANGTON IN THE COUNTY OF ESSEX, ESQUIRE: [EXCERPT]

Item. I give and bequeath to the five younger children, viz.: William, Hancock, Betsey, Anne, and Charles, the plantation wheron John Baswell now lives . . . including Bishops Neck and to the utmost extent of my land towards Brewer's, and also 4000 acres on the Potomac, also two plantations before bequeathed to my wife, after her death be divided between them . . . also the rest of my cattle, hogs, corn, household stuffs . . . upon said plantations (for the benefit of the listed children) . . . but the said land only to be divided among the male children (Lee, Edmunds 62-63).

Item. My will is that my horses, mares, and colts be equally divided in two parts, one whereof to be and belonging to my three eldest children, and the other to my five youngest, and shall be sold as they increase toward raising money for their portions, and in case any of the three eldest children die before they come to the age of 18 years, that then his or their portion come to the survivors or survivor of them, and in case they all died that the whole personal estate equally to return to the five youngest children, but the land only to the male children, and if the five youngest children die before they come to the age aforesaid or the females married, then their parts to be divided among the three eldest or survivors of survivor of them (Lee, Edmunds 62-63).

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Lee, Hancock (I26565)

William Lucy 1511-1551

William married Anne, daughter of Richard Fermor of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, a merchant of the Staple of Calais. The second of their five daughters, Jane, marrried George Verney of Compton and is buried at Compton Verney. The third, Maria, married Christopher Hales of Meriden, friend of the reformers Bullinger and Sturmius, an exile at Zurich during the Marian persecutions with his elder brother, John Hales of Coventry. William Lucy, an ardent friend to the New Learning, connected by marriage with Bishop Latimer, engaged John Foxe the martyrologist to be his son's tutor.

Lucy, Sir William (I26757)

William Travers (Politician)

William Travers (Virginia politician)
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Col. William Travers (c. 1630 - 1679) was an early settler and politician of Colonial Virginia.

William Travers was born in England around 1630. His brother was Rawleigh Travers who also emigrated to Virginia by 1653. The first record of William in the Colony was in 1656 when he was witness to a will. He received 500 acres of land on Morattica Creek from Thomas Chetwood in 1661.

As Captain, with Colonel John Washington, Captain John Lee, Mr. William Mosely, and Mr. Robert Beverly, he was appointed to settle the bounds of Northumberland and Westmoreland Counties. He was given the title of by the Virginia House of Burgesses. In 1675, as Colonel of Rappanhannock Co., the Royal Council of Virginia appointed him to a commission to employ Indians in defense of the Colony.

William was Burgess for Lancaster Co. and Speaker of the House of Burgesses in 1676. He married Rebecca (Brookes?). Their son Samuel married Frances Allerton the granddaughter of Mayflower passenger Isaac Allerton and great granddaughter of William Brewster. He died in Lancaster Co., Virginia in 1679.

References

Ancestral Records and Portraits: A Compilation from the Archives, Volume 2, Colonial Dames.

Travers, Colonel William (I788)

William Witcher came to the American colonies from England. He served in the Virginia Militia during the American Revolution. He led his company into the battle of Stono Ferry, SC, in 1779. He also fought in the battle of Guilford Courthouse, NC, in 1781. During the Indian Expeditionary Wars he became a Brevet Colonel.

Witcher, William Reuben Sr (I14213)

WITCHER, William. Capt.-Col County Militia. Indian Expeditions 1776-1777. Member of the Committee of Safety. Vestryman, Justice; led Company to Stono Inlet. S.C. 1779. Led Co to Hillsboro to support Gen. Green Winter 1780. Fought with Col. Campbell's riflemen at Guilford.

Witcher, William Reuben Sr (I14213)

Isaac, born in England, was in Dorchester, MA by 1634. By 1640, he was at Windsor, CT, and he m. Mary WOODFORD, dau of Thomas WOODFORD of Hartford, CT, in 1653.
In 1656, the couple removed with Mary's father to Northampton, MA. There were 12 children living at the time of his death.
The only record of Isaac in England was in his grandfather's will, in which he received L8, much less than the others, so it is presumed that he had already received his legacy to cross to America, perhaps to find out what happened to his father.
The year before he m., he and Samuel Rockwell were given permission by the Selectmen of Windsor to live together in Isaac'shome, as long as they didn't have wild parties. This house was on a three acre lot which also included a barn and orchard.
Isaac purchased this land from John Stiles, plus another lot from Rockwell and a meadow lot from Richard Sam, and a second house from Thomas Parsons.
One year after their marriage, the couple sold out to Rockwell and moved to Northampton, then in the northern wilderness. He was one of the first settlers. At Northampton, they owned farm land in Manhan Meadow, and a home lot of four acres.
When Eleazer Mather, the first preacher, settled at Northampton, 163 1/2 acres was given to him to give to people who came to settle. Both Isaac and his father-in-law, Thomas WOODFORD, gave six acres toward this land.
In 1656, Isaac was chosen to be a
Selectman. On 18 JUN 1661, Isaac, Mary, and Thomas all signed the Church Covenant. On this record, Isaac contributed to Harvard College by giving nine pounds of flax worth nine shillings.
In MAR 1678, Isaac was appointed one of the first Tythingmen in Northampton. On 27 FEB 1681, he was appointed to stake out highways , and on 7 MAR 1698, he was appointed overseer of the poor.

(Source: "Origin of the Families Named Sheldon", (Source: "Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England", Vol. 4, p. 69). A-2 and A-3; NEHGR, # 80 (1926

Sheldon, Isaac (I4544)

6.1.1659 (Digital archive, NRA diploma collection, page 63487 and Kielland collections package 2), citizen Karsten Løtke pledged for his debt of 200 riksdaler to Morten Seehusen's house, farm and land, which Løtke's brother-in-law Phillip Jørgensen previously used. On the 20th day, the Seehusen could move into the house and then, without notice, use it for four years for annual rent 20 riksdaler and thereby shorten the mortgage. On February 27, 1963, he transferred the property to Morten Seehusen to full property. Neighbors were Knut Klaussen and Lars Sørensen. Three seals: Karsten Løtke, Jakop Thomassen and Johan Lange. Listed at Stavanger City Hall 16.3.1659, and included in the city's book page 140.

27.2.1663 (Kielland's collections packages 2-1 and 2-3 - reference to "ad dipl" and Erichsen, 1903, page 296) Anne widow after Karsten Lytke sold a farm to Morten Seehusen . It had previously been mortgaged to Morten Seehusen. Knut Klaussen and Lars Sørensen were neighbors.

7.12.1664 (SAS, PA 11 Kiekand, package 10A and in summary in SBA, PA Axel Kielland, package 2), Mayor Severin Pedersen Godtzen sold to his brother-in-law Morten Seehusen and my daughter Elisabet ("Lisebeth") Severinsdatter for 200 riksdaler a reason and property called Jesper Bager's Land. It lies directly above his inherent ground. They must keep it in its lifetime. Basic Rent. Signed by Severin Godzen and Elisabet Trane. Severin Godzen's seal . Inscription below of 22.3.1688 by Lisbet Trane as a widow: Her brother-in-law and dear daughter Elisabet Sørensdatter have now paid the 200 riksdalen. He has deducted debts and paid for debts in Hamburg.

29.8.1667 (Digital Archive, City Court Protocol BB7, page 52 and Erichsen, 1903, page 375), the late Laurits Falmersen owned a farm on Skagen called Horkens farm . Children's guardian Morten Seehusen and postmaster Søren Pedersen put it up for sale.

28.6.1668 (Erichsen, 1903, pages 403-404 and Kielland's collections package 2, add 3) sold Peder Sørensen (Erichsen adds: Godtsen) in Kvinesdal to Morten Seehusen : Erik Hanssen's grounds - a sea house with grounds and bulwark. It lay between the public at the floor of the deceased Iver Nilsen on one side and the estate of Herman Baker on the other. The deceased Willum Anderssen had purchased the widow of the late city bailiff Jakop Sørensen.

9.9.1674 (Erichsen, 1903, page 461) Peder Sørensen had read a letter of purchase at a house and mound in Stavanger that he now lives in and uses. Previously, the deceased belonged to Peder Knutsen . Morten Seehusen and Knut Klaussen sell their parts for 240 riksdaler.

10.2.1675 (Kielland's collections package 2, add 3 with reference to "ad diploma") baker Jørgen Klaussen sold to councilor Morten Seehusen a plot behind his sister Maren Evertsdatter , now inherent house and land. Just above the Seehusen's own kitchen windows. In length from Tverrgaten beyond the beach. With Nedre Algate to Jens Jenssen's Hiermanns - who councilor deceased Laurits Pedersen owned before - 21 years old. In width from the lower street to Tverrgaten to Maren Evertsdatter's 15.5 cubits. On to Jens Jenssen Hierman's nearest property across the well 21 cubits. Width along Jens Jenssen Hiermann to the lower gate 15.5 cubits. The ground was deserted. Basic rent for senior lecturer in Stavanger 5 Danish shilling and for parish priest 10 shilling. Witnesses Laurits Sørensen, Jørgen Klaussen's brother-in-law and Jørgen Heer citizen (seal a fish and on the helmet a standing bird).

7.3.1676 (Gundersen, 1953, page 90) pledged skipper Knut Olsen to Morten Seehusen for 100 riksdaler houses and property. 6% interest.

4.7.1678 (Kielland, Package 2 add 3, page 11), councilor Søren Torkelsen owned a house that was inherited until his son belongs to Jakop Sørensen. When shifted by him 28.04.1670 went got Morten Seehusen outlays in the house for 20 thalers. This court sold the Seehusen in 1678, a purchase letter published 4.7.1678 to citizen Ole Mortensen Vestmann.

24.11.1678 (Digital archive, mortgage book I, pages 64b-65) Ole Vestmann pledged his house and grounds called Horkens farm as parish priest to Sola Kristian Klaussen Jæger for 80 riksdaler. 5% interest. Witness Councilman Morten Seehuusen and Town Hall and City Writer Jørgen Kortsen.

14.2.1679 (Kielland's collections package 2, add 3 and Gundersen, 1953, page 92) sold Maren Evertsdatter - widow after Laurits Jenssen joins councilor Seehusen's house and plot between Almenngaten in the east and Jens Jenssen Hiermann's property in the west. Her husband had inherited the property from her parents. Hook Cabinet. Basic Rent.

27.11.1679 (Gundersen, 1953, page 92) Maren Evensdatter widowed Laurit Jenssen to Morten Seehusen a house between Almanngata in the east and Jens Jenssen Hiermann's house in the west.

23.8.1682 (HA med referanse til pantebok I side 17b) skjøtet Hertvig Godtzen og Hans Sørensen til rådmann Morten Seehusen på Arnegårds grunner.

28.8.1682 (SAS, Pantebok 1A, 1682-1686, side 17b-18) solgte medtjener Hartvig Godtzen og teologistudent Hans Godtzen til deres svoger rådmann Morten Seehusen Arnegårds grunner. Det var utlagt på skiftet etter deres avdøde stefar. Salgssum 400 riksdaler. Viser til at moren eller hennes barn kan løse inn eiendommen innen 20 år. Vitner er deres kjære mor (Under dokumentet skriver hun Lisbet Godtzen enke etter borgermester Søren Pedersen) og deres bror magister Jens Godtzen, Godske Godtzen og Henrik Godtzen.

10.7.1685 (Kielland, pakke 4c) oppbudsbo etter tidligere postmester Peder Lauritsen (han var i live). En sjøgrunn hvorpå Peder Lauritsens avbrente hovedvåning hadde stått med tvers ovenfor beliggende hage 160 riksdaler. En grunn ovenfor gaten som avdøde Peder Godkesen sist bode på 44 riksdaler. En hage ved Kleven, mellom Grimsageren og Morten Seehusens hage. Taksert til 24 riksdaler. Videre en sjøgrunn på Stranden fra sjøen opp gjennom, hvor det står to hus – som hører til andre. Taksert til 30 riksdaler. Vist til skifte etter tidligere rådmann Søren Pedersen 26.6.1671, som var Peder Lauritsens formann i ekteskapet. Barn: Peder Sørensen, Povel Sørensen, Kirsten Sørensen og Jannikke Sørensdatter (gm Matias Tanke).

27.2.1686 (jamfør Kiellands samlinger pakke 2, legg 3) rådmann Seehusen kjøpte på auksjon to grunner som tilhørte og hadde vært bebodd av magister Klaus Lauritssen Scaboes enke Maren Schønnebøl. Den ene lå nedenfor Seehusens beboede grunn, den andre ved Hospitalet. 320 riksdaler 1 ort. Det var avdøde Marchen Henriksdatter og tidlige medtjener Laurits Klaussen til Domkirkens eiendommer. En del av Harestad i Goa skiprede med 3 pund korn i landskyld ble solgt til Klaus og Peder Lauritssønner for 170 riksdaler. Bak på dokumentet: Auksjonsskjøte på Marcken enke etter Hr. Lars’ grunn her nedenfor meg og så den grunnen ved Hospitalet for min sønn Hans Seehusen.

26.8.1691 (Erichsen, 1906, side 461-462 og SAS pantebok II side 47-48) solgte Johanne – enke etter Henrik Pettersen Reimers til Hans Lodhof vever en hagegrunn kalt Frans badskjærs grunn. mellom Albert Marckhes hus og Morten Seehuusens hage. Årlig sedvanlig grunnleie. Lovverge Kort Høyer og Wibolt Jæger er vitner.

27.9.1692 (Digitalarkivet, Pantebok 1b, side 100ff - https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/23503/101, HA med referanse til pantebok II side 100, Erichsen, 1906, side 469 og Kielland, pakke 2, legg 3 side 15b) skjøtet predikant til Stavanger domkirke Hartig Godtzen og med sin hustrues samtykke, til sin svoger rådmann Morten Seehusen to hageplasser ved Breiavatnet. Den ene like opp og nord ved min svoger Morten Seehusens hage, som jeg av min mormor matrone Johanna enke etter Her Henrik har tilforhandlet meg. Den andre hageplassen den tilforhandlede hage er liggende, som jeg av Sr. Jakop Skredders arvinger har kjøpt, og på samme hagegrunn har min svigermor sitt hus oppsatt som hun årlig der av bør gi for hele grunnen en riksdaler. Har mottatt betalingen på 80 riksdaler.

19.6.1693 (SAS, Pantebok 1b, side 102b-103b) skjøtet tidligere rådmann Morten Seehusen til borger Søren Pedersen Brun og hans hustru Ingeborg Gundersdatter en grunn på Skagen. Den ligger til sjøen mellom avdøde Thomas Kristensens tidligere tilhørende grunn i sør og til almenningen i nord. Årlig grunnleie. Vitner Lauritz Søfrensen og Kristen Lauritzen (i underskriften skriver han Kristen Lauritzen Hilm) begge borgere.

16.2.1694 (SAS Pantebok II side 125-126 - http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:tl_read?show=126&uid=17118&urnread_imagesize=full&hode=ja&ls=1&x=11&y=4, Erichsen, 1906, side 481 og Kielland, pakke 2, legg 3 side 15b) skjøtet Morten Seehusen med sin hustrues samtykke til Nils Olsen Urtegårdsmann på en hage nedenfor Hospitalet langs ved Jan Prahls hage. Årlig grunnleie 2 riksdaler. Vitner Laurtiz Søfrensen, Heilman og J. Praele. Lest for retten 23.2.1694.

29.8.1698 (NRA, Localia, pakke 43a, jamfør Gundersen, 1953, side 221-222 og SAS, pantebok IIa side 39b-40) solgte Peder Jenssen og hans hustru Anne Karstensdatter til Beate Karstensdatter sin andel i en grunn i Krigen på Strandgaten mellom Elisabeth – enke etter Morten Seehusen og Jørgen Pedersens enke. Av en etterskrift på dokumentet i NRA framgår det at eiendommen var benefisert gods. Tre segl: Peder Jensen med et bumerke, Kristen Jensen Brun med et dyr som holder et kors og Bartun.

Seehuusen, Morten Hanssøn (I9333)

Children
During the first peace of any substantial length (780–782), Charles began to appoint his sons to positions of authority within the realm, in the tradition of the kings and mayors of the past. In 781 he made his two younger sons kings, having them crowned by the Pope. The elder of these two, Carloman, was made king of Italy, taking the Iron Crown which his father had first worn in 774, and in the same ceremony was renamed "Pippin." The younger of the two, Louis, became king of Aquitaine. Charlemagne ordered Pippin and Louis to be raised in the customs of their kingdoms, and he gave their regents some control of their subkingdoms, but real power was always in his hands, though he intended each to inherit their realm some day. Nor did he tolerate insubordination in his sons: in 792, he banished his eldest, though illegitimate, son, Pippin the Hunchback, to the monastery of Prüm, because the young man had joined a rebellion against him.

The sons fought many wars on behalf of their father when they came of age. Charles was mostly preoccupied with the Bretons, whose border he shared and who insurrected on at least two occasions and were easily put down, but he was also sent against the Saxons on multiple occasions. In 805 and 806, he was sent into the Böhmerwald (modern Bohemia) to deal with the Slavs living there (Czechs). He subjected them to Frankish authority and devastated the valley of the Elbe, forcing a tribute on them. Pippin had to hold the Avar and Beneventan borders, but also fought the Slavs to his north. He was uniquely poised to fight the Byzantine Empire when finally that conflict arose after Charlemagne's imperial coronation and a Venetianrebellion. Finally, Louis was in charge of the Spanish March and also went to southern Italy to fight the duke of Benevento on at least one occasion. He took Barcelona in a great siege in the year 797 (see below).

Charlemagne's attitude toward his daughters has been the subject of much discussion. He kept them at home with him, and refused to allow them to contract sacramental marriages – possibly to prevent the creation of cadet branches of the family to challenge the main line, as had been the case with Tassilo of Bavaria – yet he tolerated their extramarital relationships, even rewarding their common-law husbands, and treasured the bastard grandchildren they produced for him. He also, apparently, refused to believe stories of their wild behaviour. After his death the surviving daughters were banished from the court by their brother, the pious Louis, to take up residence in the convents they had been bequeathed by their father. At least one of them, Bertha, had a recognised relationship, if not a marriage, with Angilbert, a member of Charlemagne's court circle.

Charlemagne, Emperor Charles I Emperor Of The Holy Roman Empire (I36683)

Colby Smith, who was prominent in America's War of Independence, settled in the 89th District in 1798 and was granted property by the Governor of Georgia in Honor of his service to America. He, his children, and his grandchildren owned property reaching from Harrison to Irwins Crossroads and were among the founers and leaders of the early churches of this area, throughout Georgia and other adjoining states. He died in 1840 at the age of 85. The marker on his grave was erected July 1920 by the General Samuel Elbert Chapter of the D.A.R. He was the son of Thomas Smith and Anita Colby. He and his wife Anna Henry had 9 children, 73 grandchldren and over 200 great-grandchildren. 37 of his great grandson's [sic] served in the Confederate Armies of Georgia. He served as constable in Chatham County, North Carolina in 1790 prior to settling in Washington County, Georgia with other sturdy yeoman families of BRANTLEY, PEACOCK, WOOD, YOUNG, AND IRWIN. He is the forbearer of thousands of American's [sic], many of whom were prominent in the fields of Government, Medicine, and the Ministry. Location: Located in roadside park on Ga. 15 at Montgomery Rd. 7 miles S. of Tennille.

Smith, Colby (I27103)

David Motly (Motley) is mentioned in David Ellington's Revolutionary War Pension as his cousin, enlisting at same time and place as Ellington, and wounded in the leg at Battle of Guilford. Content Source:The National Archives Publication Number: M804 Publication Title: Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files Publisher: NARA National Archives Catalog ID: 300022 National Archives Catalog Title: Case Files of Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Applications Based on Revolutionary War Service, compiled ca. 1800 - ca. 1912, documenting the period ca. 1775 - ca. 1900 Record Group: 15 Short Description: NARA M804. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files. State: Virginia Veteran Surname: Ellington Veteran Given Name: David M Pensioner Surname: [BLANK] Pensioner Given Name: [BLANK] Service: Va. Pension Number: R. 3288 Veteran Surname Starts With: E

Motley, David James (I46)

DINAH GREENE (Fones,James, James,John') was born December 24, 1715. She married, March 16, 1735, Randall Rice, son of Captain John and Elnathan (Whipple) Rice of Warwick, to whom was left by his father's will, dated August 17, 1753, proved February 10, 1755, the home at Warwick: "to son Randall all homestead both sides the way and all other lands, stocks and movables." Inventory of the estate, ;£3361 9s. 6d.

Children:
759. John Rice, born March 19, 1736.
760. Job Rice, bom February 20, 1737.
761. Olney Rice, bom February 12, 1738.
762. Thomas Rice, bom November 11, 1739.
763. RoBY Rice, bom February 20, 1741.
764. Fones Rice, bom April 30, 1743.
765. William Rice, bom September 28, 1744.
766. Mary Rice, bom September 28, 1746.
767. Phebe Rice, born October 12, 1747.
768. Nathan Rice, bom May 28, 1749.
769. Elnathan Rice, born September —, 1753.

Greene, Dinah G (I27496)

Due to his service in King Philip's War the descendants of Captain John Whipple are eligible as members of The Society of Colonial Wars.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=engstrom&id=I039 50

Whipple, John Sr Capt (I27576)

Estate dispute court case- 17 April 1673

Suffolk County Court, Cambridge, Massachusetts Case No. 1214 - Testimony of Mathew Gibbs 17 April 1673 Testimony of Mathew Gibbs in 1673 court case started filed by Joseph Bradish (full brother of Mathew’s wife, Mary Bradish Gibbs), against John Bradish (Mary and Joseph’s half-brother) and others. The Court proceedings appear to have been filed because Robert Bradish (Joseph and Mary’s father), following the death of his first wife, married a second time to Vashti Bradish. When Robert died, Vashti was left a life estate in his land, with the balance of the estate to be split between Robert’s children. Somewhere along the way, the Court (or Executors) apparently allowed her to tap into the value of the principle of the estate to the extent that the cash flow from the estate did not cover her needs, or the executors of her Estate sold Robert’s land. The end result was the likelihood that all of the proceeds of the remaining estate would go to Vashti’s only surviving son (by Robert), John. When Joseph went to the Executor of Vashti’s estate, Thomas Savage (Thomas Savage is listed as an Executor of Vashti’s estate - it is unclear whether he was also an executor for the remainder of Robert’s estate), he was advised that he had sold the land. This triggered Joseph’s action. It appears that Joseph’s action was filed on his own behalf, as well as on behalf of his brothers and sisters. Mathew Gibbs’ testimony was a small part of the action, and is one of half a dozen recorded testimonies in the court records. Mathew Gibbs’ testimony indicates that he was 58 years old when the testimony was taken on 17 April 1673, giving him a birth year of 1615. Source: Suffolk County Court Documents - 1673 - Case #1214

Gibbs, Matthew (I1470)

Excerpt from 'Greene Family of Rhode Island' pg 83-85

(Captain) JAMES GREENE "of Nassauket" (James, John), eldest son, was bom June 6 1659. He was admitted freeman of the Colony on June 26, 1683, when twenty-four years of age. In October, 1685, he joined with others in a petition to the General Assembly for settling a plantation
in the Narragansett and the Niantic countries. On May 5, 1696, he was
Deputy from Warwick, and November 14, 1711, he was allowed the use of
;£3oo bills of credit for four years free of interest, he paying for printing and signing the same, for nine months' service and expenses in accompanying his uncle. Major John Greene, Agent of the Colony in 1668 to England.

He resided at Nassauket, Warwick, where he built a house in 1687 which was still standing (1887). He married, January 29, 1688-9, Mary,
daughter of Captain John and Margaret Fones of Newport, Jamestown, and
Kingstown. Captain Fones, one of the prominent planters of Kingstown
(called Rochester during Andros's administration), was a member of the
court-martial at Newport for trial of Indians, August 24, 1676; was Deputy, 1679-80-81. On May 26, 1686, he was appointed Justice of the Peace by President and Council then governing New England. He was Clerk of the Court of Commissioners, June 23, 1686, and Deputy and Assistant, 1698-99.

Captain Fones died December 20, 1703, and left by will a legacy of land to his " daughter Mary." Captain James Greene died March 12, 1712, and was buried in his father's burial ground at Old Warwick. His wife died March 20 1721, aged fifty years.

His will was dated March 11 1712, "widow Mary, administratrix," to whom he bequeathed half his farm; also, "I give and bequeath unto my eldest son Fones Greene the other half of my housing and farms where I
now live, to enjoy after my decease, to him his heirs and assigns forever and further my will is that in consideration of the above ; said housing and farms which I have given to my son Fones, that he shall pay unto my son James Greene one hundred pound to be paid to him in two year after my decease but if my wife should marry, as is above promised then my will is, that my son Fones shall enjoy that part of my housing and farms which is given to her at the time of her marriage he paying the above sd fourty pounds according as it is above promised to be to him his heirs and assigns forever" (Appendix I.).

Children:
104. Fones, bom March 23, 1689-90, married (i) Dinah Batty, (2) Rebecca Tibbitts.
105. James, bom April 2, 1692, married (i) Roby Carr, (2) Susannah .
106. Mary, bom March 16, 1693, died October 21, 1695.
107. Daniel, bom April 7, 1696. No further record.
108. Elisha, bom August 5, 1698, married (i) Martha Brown, (2) Abigail Fenner.
109. Deliverance, bom February 12, 1 700-1, married John Holden, died s. p. no.
110. Mary, bom September 25, 1703, married Resolved Rhodes.
111. John, bom February 26, 1705-6, died December 8, 1757, unmarried (see No.111).
112. Jeremiah, bom December i6, 1708, died April 17, 1758; married (i) Anne Wylis.
113. Samuel, bom June 8, 1711, died February 18, 1778; married (i) Mary Whitford, (2) Elizabeth Stanbrough.

Greene, James (Captain) II (I27549)

Greene, Fones of Warwick, yeoman. Will dated 10 July 1758;, proved 14 aug 1758, pgs 428-433. Mentioned: Wife, Rebecca Greene, Sons James Green, Thomas Greene, & Job Greene. Daughter Dinah Rice.

Greene, Fones (I27519)

He died Middlesex Co., Va. 1733. His will is recorded in Middlesex Co. Will Book B, 1712-1734, p. 418-419. March 10, 1733. His death is recorded in Christ Church Parish Register, Middlesex Co., Va. No marriage record has been found. The births of their children are recorded in Christ Church Parish Register, Middlesex Co., Va. The first child is recorded born in 1707, so they were likely married l705-1706.

Recorded in Essex County Deeds & Wills, Book No. 10, 1699-1702, p.133, is a record of Thomas Merriwether claiming land for having imported Ralph to the Colony of Virginia, a "headright" claim. There is no record of an indenture having been served by Ralph and, at his death, Thomas Merriwether left the land he received for the importation to Ralph Shelton. Merriwether's will states his relationship to every other heir in his will except Ralph. Ralph was a witness to Merriwether's will, signing his own name as "Ralph Shelteon". Merriwether's will is recorded in Essex Co, VA.

At his death in 1733, Ralph left this land to his oldest son, Thomas, who died ten years later, in 1742. His death is recorded in Christ Church Parish Register. Thomas left the land he inherited from his father, Ralph, to his eldest son, Reuben. Reuben later sold the land.

There is no Peter Shelton on this line as claimed. In the Christ Church Parish Register, Middlesex Co, Va. where the births of this man's children are recorded his name is recorded as "Chilton" not "Shelton". His will does not mention a Ralph.

The births of the children of Ralph and Mary Shelton are recorded in Christ Church Parish Register, Middlesex Co, Va.

2. Thomas, b. 11-9-1707, d. 3-24-1742. He married Mary Probert on 1-14-1730. His death and their marriage are recorded in Christ Church Parish Register. His estate records are recorded in Middlesex County Order Book 15, pages 424, 423, 441, 471; and Order Book 16, pages 12, 61.
Thomas and Mary's children -- births recorded in Christ Church Parish Register -- were:
3. Reuben b. 5-16-1733
3. Josiah b. 1735
3. Mary b. 2-21-1737/8 d. 8-5-1742
3. Thomas b. 5-2-1740
3. Micajah b. 6-20-1742

2. Ralph, b. 10-23-1709, d. 1789 in Henry Co., Va. He married Mary Daniel 6-10-1731 and at her death married Elizabeth (surname unknown). It has been argued that Ralph married a Susannah between Mary and Elizabeth. However, it became clear that the deed giving rise to the confusion on record in Henry Co. was that of the son Ralph, III (called Ralph, Jr., in Henry Co.). The evidence of this was (1) Ralph, d. 1789, was literate and signed his own name; and (2) there is a deed in Lunenburg Co. where Ralph and Elizabeth--with Elizabeth signing as wife--sold land in 1778 with the body of the deed stating they were "of Henry Co." at the time of the sale. That deed covered land which was a grant to Ralph, the father, in Lunenburg Co. Court Order books in Henry County where records concerning the filing of the will and handling of the estate are recorded refer to Elizabeth as "the widow and relick" of Ralph Shelton, Sr.

The children of Ralph and his various wives are:
3. Azariah
3. Ezekiah
3. Aesop
3. Jeremiah
3..Mary
3. John
3. Ralph
3. Paletiah
3. Roger
3. Abbegial
3. Eliphaz
3. Liberty
3. James
3. Katherine
3. Sarah
3. Elizabeth
3. Rhea
3. Susannah

2. Crispin, b. 4-1-1713 d. 1794 m. Lettetia m. 2d Lettice. No Marriage bond or surname of have been found. His will is filed in Pittsylvania Deed and Will Book 9, page 524.
The children of Crispin are:
3. Abraham -will recorded Pitt. Deed and Will Book 11, page 182
3. Gabriel - will recorded Pitt. Deed and Will Book 11, p254
3. Lewis
3. Armistead -b. 1753, d. 1844 - will recorded Pitt. Co. Will Book 1, page 494
3. Beverly
3. Spencer
3. Vincent
3. Elizabeth
3. Lucy
3. Jane
3. Susanne
3. William (His birth is recorded in 1735 but
is presumed to have died.)

2. Reuben b. 2-1-1715, d. 10-18-1715
2. Mary b. 1-21-1716, d. 7-18-1719

Reuben and Mary died in Middlesex Co. and their deaths are recorded in the Christ Church Parish Register.

2. Catherine b. 1-26-1719 m. 12-31-1743 George Blakely
2. Elizabeth b. Elizabeth m. William Davis
2. John b. 7-14-1722, d. 1804 m. Elizabeth____. His will is recorded in Pittsylvania Deed and Will Book 11, p. 269.
The children of John are:
3. Abraham
3. Jane
3. France
3. William
3. Joel
3. Claibone
3. Martha
3. Charlotte
3. Lucy
3. Nancy
3. Lettice
3. Mary

2. Benjamin b. 6-18-1724, d. 1799.
2. James b. 2-23-1726, d. 1798, m. Jane_____. His will is recorded in Lunenburg County Will Book 4, p. 228.
The children of John are:
3. Rachel
3. Heniretta
3. Benjamin
3. Caty
3. Stephen
3. David
3. Thomas

2. Daniel b. 5-17-1729, d. 1808/9 m. Letttice ____. The surname of Lettice is given often as "Young" which is based strictly on the name of one of the sons. Daniel's will is filed in Pittsylvania County Deed and Will Book 11, page 332.
The children of Daniel are:
3. Susanne
3. Clary
3. Milly
3. Ann
3. Polly
3. Young
3. Leroy
3. Daniel
3. Tunstall
3. Willis

Shelton, Ralph Sr (I12478)

ISAAC SHELDON
Windsor & Northampton

ISAAC SHELDON is the original immigrant to America of our line of Sheldons coming from England. We have no proof from whence in England he originated, though the lineage developed by T. Gardner Bartlett, presented in 1926, seems possible. See The Sheldons of Derbyshire, England.

The history of our branch of the family — from which the Sheldons in Suffield, Connecticut are descended — begins with Isaac Sheldon, who was born about 1629. For a long time it was supposed that this same Isaac Sheldon was the man who seems to have been in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1634, and that he removed to Windsor, Connecticut in 1634/1635 with part of the congregation of the Rev. John Warham as one of the original settlers of Windsor. On the original town records is a date that makes it appear Isaac was there on 10 January 1640, and owned at that time some few acres of land. This has caused no small amount of controversy, and it is likely we will never know the real answer.

In 1651 or 1652, Isaac Sheldon (at about 22 years of age) bought of John Stiles a home lot of three acres with Dwelling House, barn and orchard, at the very least, possibly other land, including a meadow lot, at Windsor, Connecticut.

At a meeting of Windsor’s Selectmen on 13 September 1652, an order was passed giving permission for Isaac Sheldon to share his home with Samuel Rockwell: "It is asented yt Isack Shelden and Samuell Rockwell shall keepe house together in ye house yt is Isackes, so [long] thay cary themselves soberly and doe not intertayne Idel persones to ye evell Expenc of time by night or daye" (Windsor, Connecticut, Town Acts, 1650-1714, fo. 11).

MARRIAGE
His bachelor life didn't last long, for in 1653, Isaac married MARY WOODFORD at Hartford, Connecticut. She was born in 1636 at Windsor or Hartford, the daughter of Thomas and Mary (Blott) Woodford of Hartford, Connecticut and Northampton, Mass.

In 1654, Isaac sold his place in Windsor to Samuel Rockwell, and removed to Northampton, Mass. where he was one of the first Settlers. He owned farm land in "Manhan Meadow," and a home lot of four acres. He was a Selectman in 1656 and a leading man in town affairs. In 1660 he was assigned a home lot on Bridge Street, which was handed down from father to son at least to 1896.

When the Rev. Eleazar Mather settled in Northampton as pastor of the church, 163-1/2 acres of land were placed at his disposal, to be given by him to such persons as came to Northampton to settle through his influence. Isaac Sheldon got six acres and his father-in-law, Thomas Woodford, six acres. Isaac and his wife, together with Thomas Woodford, signed the church covenant on 18 June 1661.

It is on record that Isaac contributed to Harvard College 9 pounds of flax, valued 9s. There were many contributors in Northampton, each one giving what he could.

In March 1678, Isaac was appointed one of the first Tithingmen in Northampton, whose duty it was to have charge of the morals of the community. On 27 Feb 1681, he was appointed to a committee to stake out highways.

Mary Woodford Sheldon died 17 April 1684 at Northampton, Mass.

After Mary's death, Isaac remarried in 1686, Mehitabel (Gunn) Ensign at Northampton. She was the daughter of Thomas Gunn, born in Windsor, Conn. on 28 July 1644. She had first married David Ensign on 22 October 1663, but divorced him in October of 1682 "because of his misconduct". She had five children by Ensign.

The last civil appointment we have for Isaac Sheldon was as overseer of the poor, on 7 Mar 1698.

Isaac Sheldon died 27 July 1708 (at age 78 years) and is buried at the Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Massachusetts. .

Since his will is signed with his mark, we also know that he was unschooled.

Mehitable (Gunn Ensign) Sheldon died 30 Jan 1720/21 also at Northampton.

The records show that Isaac had 14 children and 115 grandchildren. In view of this good beginning, the numerical strength of this branch of the family through all generations is not surprising.

CHILDREN by MARY WOODFORD
All but the first born at Northampton
Mary, born 1654 at Windsor, Conn. She married John Bridgeman on 11 Dec 1670 at Northampton, Mass., and died 1728 in Mass.
Isaac, born 4 September 1656. He married 25 Nov 1685, Sarah Warner, and succeeded to the old homestead at Northampton. Isaac died 29 March 1712 in Northampton, Mass.
Captain John, born 8 Dec 1658; died 1733 at Hartford, Conn. He married [1] Hannah Stebbins on 5 Nov 1679; and [2] Elizabeth (-) Pratt, on 20 April 1708.
Thomas Sheldon, born 6 Aug 1661. He married 1685, Mary Hinsdale. Thomas died 7 June 1725 at Northampton, Mass.
Ruth (twin) Sheldon, born 27 August 1663. She married [1] Joseph Wright on 6 Nov 1679; and [2] Samuel Strong on 27 Oct 1698 at Northampton, Mass.
Thankful (twin) Sheldon, born 27 Aug 1663. She married 23 Feb 1681, Benjamin Edwards. Died 1741, Mass.
Mindwell Sheldon, born 24 February 1666. She married [1] John Pomeroy on 30 April 1684; and [2] John Lyman on 19 April 1687. Mindwell died 8 April 1735 at Northampton, Mass.
JOSEPH SHELDON, born 1 Feb 1668; died in Boston, Mass., 1708. He married Mary Whiting and resided in Suffield, Conn.
Hannah Sheldon, born 29 June 1670. She married Samuel Chapin on 24 Dec 1690, and resided in Springfield Mass.
Eleazer Sheldon, born 4 Aug 1672; died 13 Dec 1673 at Northampton, Mass.
Samuel Sheldon, born 9 November 1675; died 1745 at Boston, Mass. He married by 26 Jan 1700, Mary Warner and resided in New Marlborough, Mass.
Ebenezer Sheldon, born 1 March 1678; died 1755, Mass. He married Mary Hunt on 16 Dec 1701 at Northampton, Mass.
Mercy Sheldon, born 4 Feb 1682; died 24 February 1682.

CHILD by MEHITABEL GUNN ENSIGN
Jonathan Sheldon, born 29 May 1687. He married Mary Southwell on 30 Dec 1708 and resided in Northampton Mass. and Suffield Conn.

PRIMARY RESOURCES Sheldon. History of Deerfield (pg. 292). Northampton, Mass., Registry of Probate, Probate Records, Book 3 (pg. 188). Will of Isaac Sheldon. www.geocities.com/joannsaemann/ Official Website of the Burch, Nickel, Sheldon, Griffin, Saema

Sheldon, Isaac (I4544)

JOHN GREENE (1597-1659), the pioneer in this country, with his wife and children, sailed from Southampton (England) on April 16, 1635, on the ship JAMES and landed in Boston, Massachusetts on June 3, 1635. They settled in Salem but were driven out by religious persecutions, and soon after went to Providence (Rhode Island). Here he was one of the twelve to who Roger Williams conveyed land in his 'initial deed', thusly called because the men are mentioned only by their initials, and one of the twelve original members of the first Baptist Church in Providence. He was of the party who with Samuel Gorton purchased Shawomet, later called Warwick (Rhode Island), from the Indians. His is the only name of a white man signed as a witness to the deed. His own plot, called Occupassnatuxet, more commonly known as Pastuxet, remained in the family until 1782, when it was bought by Governor John Francis, whose heirs are still in possession.

In August 1637, he was accused of having spoken contemptuously against magistrates and stood 'bound in a 100 marks to appear at the next Quarter Court', by order of the Massachusetts authorities.

In September following, for the same offense, he was fined $20.00 and was to be committed until the fine was paid, and enjoined not to come into the jurisdiction of Massachusetts upon pain of fine or imprisonment at the pleasure of the Court. A few months later the same court of Massachusetts received a letter from Greene with which he charged the court with usurping the power of Christ over churches and men's consciences. The court again ordered him not to come into their jurisdiction under pain of imprisonment and further censure.

In 1643 came the summons to the Warwick men to appear in Boston to answer to the complaints of Pomham and Soconoco, 'as to some unjust and injurious dealing toward them by yourself'. Then soldiers were sent to bring them by force to Boston, after the accused refused to go, declaring they were legal subjects of the King of England, and beyond the limits of Massachusetts authority. On their arrival, there was a parley during which the officers declared that the Warwick settlers 'held blasphemous errors of which they must repent' or go to Boston for trial. Greene escaped capture but was banished like the rest.

Apparently Mrs. Joanne "Joan" Tattershall Greene did not die at sea in 1635 as has been recorded by others. Joan sought refuge with the Indians in the area called Occupassnatuxet (aka Pastuxet, now Warwick), Rhode Island, from the Massachusetts authorities in 1643. The event was so trying that she died there from shock.

After Joanne's death in 1643, John Greene returned to England and remarried twice. First to Alice Daniels of Gillingham on May 08, 1644 Gillingham, County Dorset, England, who died soon after marriage. Then to Phillippa "Phillis" Arnold of London on October 20, 1645 in London, County Middlesex. Three years later, however, when he, 3rd wife Phillippa, and Samuel Gorton returned from England, he had the satisfaction of landing in Boston, justified by the King of England.

Like others of this company of Shawomet settlers, Greene held responsible positions under the charter and was magistrate, assistant member of the town council, representative in the assembly, and commissioner from 1654 to 1657.

John Greene died in Warwick, Rhode Island in January of 1659."

Greene, John (I27569)

John Greene and Joanne Tatersole, were married at St. Thomas Cathedral, Salisbury, Wiltshire, 4 Nov 1619. The marriage and baptism of their seven children are all recored in the Parish Register at the St. Thomas Church at Salisbury, Eng. She was the first of his three wives.

The Greene Genealogy by General G. S. Greene, 1902, states that she was born in 1598 at Gillingham, Dorset, England, the daughter of Richard Tattershall and his wife, Marjorie (Fox), and that she died in 1636 at Southhampton, England. According to an LDS record, she died aboard the ship JAMES during their passage. However, others believe that she arrived in Boston with her family on June 3, 1635, and she died in Boston. It is also claimed that she is buried with her husband behind the Shawomet Baptist Churchyard in Warwick, R. I. Others claim that it was John's second wife, Alice, who is buried with him.

The children of John & Joanne Greene (born in Salisbury, England and baptized at St. Thomas Church):
1. Dep. Gov. John Greene b. Aug. 15, 1620, d. Nov. 27, 1708
2. Peter Greene bpt. March 10, 1622
3. Richard bpt. March 25, 1624
4. James bpt. June 21, 1626
5. Thomas Greene bpt. June 4, 1628
6. Joan Greene bpt. Oct. 3, 1630, m. John Hade/Haden
7. Mary Greene bpt. May 19, 1633, m. James Sweet

Greene, John (I27569)

John Greene was the surgeon of Salisbury, Wilkes County, England before sailing for the Colonies. He and his family left Southampton aboard the ship JAMES on 16 April 1635 arriving in Boston on 3 June 1635. They settled in Salem until religious persecution forced them out. They settled in R.I. , where he was one of the twelve that Roger Williams gave deed land to.

Greene, John (I27569)

John Whipple (1), the immigrant, was born in England, 1617. He was a house carpenter and was employed by Mr. Stoughton in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1632. His house was near what is now called Neponset. He removed to Ipswich and became a proprietor of that town in 1638. His brother, Matthew Whipple, also settled at Ipswich and was the ancestor of many Essex county and New Hampshire families. John Whipple returned to Dorchester and was a freeman and deputy to the general court, May 13, 1640. He was one of the court's commissioners of valuation in 1640. He was engaged in trade with William Paine and others in 1647. He had the rank of cornet in the military service. He was a town officer of Dorchester. He and his wife joined the Dorchester church, in 1641. He sold his house and lot at Dorchester, in 1658, to James Minot, and removed to Providence, Rhode Island, but he returned again to Ipswich and sold land there May 31, 1673. He was recorded as a purchaser July 27, 1659, at Providence, and drew lot 45 as proprietor February 19, 1665. He took the oath of allegiance in 1666. He was a deputy from Providence to the general assembly in 1666-69-70-72-74-76-77. He was licensed to keep a tavern at Providence in 1674. He was treasurer of the town from 1668 to 1683; town clerk 1670-71-72-76-77-81-82-83. He was in the Providence town council in 1669. He was virtually a resident of Providence after 1659. He refused to abandon his home during King Philip's war and was one of those entitled to the Indian prisoners, who were sold for a term of years to the planters. John Whipple died May 16, 1685, at Providence, aged about sixty-eight years, according to his gravestone there.

He married, 1639, Sarah (???), born 1624 and died 1666, according to her gravestone. Their children: John, baptized March 9, 1640, married, December 4, 1663, Mary Olney; Sarah, baptized February 6, 1641-42, married John Smith, Jr.; Samuel, baptized March 17, 1644; Eleazer, baptized March 8, 1646 (see forward); Mary, baptized April 9, 1648, married Epenctus Olney; William, born 1652, baptized May 16, 1652, married Mary (???); Benjamin, baptized June 4, 1654, married, April 1, 1686, Ruth Mathewson; David, baptized September 28, 1656, married, May 15, 1675, Sarah Harndon; married (second) Hannah Tower; Abigail, born at Providence, married, January 16, 1682, William Hopkins, son of Thomas Hopkins; Joseph, born at Providence, married, May 20, 1684, Alice Smith; Jonathan, born 1664, died September 8, 1721; married Margaret Angell; married (second) Anne (???).

From [http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/a/l/l/John-G-Allen/GENE3-0001.html]

Whipple, John Sr Capt (I27576)

John Whipple (c. 1617 - 1685)[2] was an early settler of Dorchester in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who later settled in Providence in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, where the family became well established.

The first mention of Whipple's name in colonial records was in October 1632 when he was ordered to pay a small fine to his master, Israel Stoughton, for wasting powder and shot.[2] In 1637 he received a grant of land in Dorchester, and in 1641 he and his wife joined the church there.[2] During the next 17 years, he raised a large family in Dorchester, where eight of his 11 children were baptized.[2] In 1658 he sold his homestead and lands in Dorchester and moved with his family to Providence, where he was received as a purchaser on 27 July 1659.[2]

In February 1665 he was given a lot in a division of lands, and the following year took an oath of allegiance in Providence.[2] In 1666 he served as a deputy to the General Assembly, a position he held for seven of the next 11 years.[2] In 1669 and again in 1670 he was paid for allowing the Providence Town Council to meet at his house,[3] probably referring to his tavern for which he was later granted a license in 1674.[2] He held a number of positions in Providence, including treasurer in 1668, surveyor in 1670 and 1671, selectman in 1670 and 1674, and moderator in 1676.[4]

The year 1675 brought the most devastating event to afflict Rhode Island for the entire colonial period when King Phillips War erupted, bringing the bulk of its destructive force on the Rhode Island colony. All of Warwick and Pawtuxet were destroyed, and much of Providence was as well. As the war wound down in 1676, Indian captives were given as slaves to those residents who remained during the war, and on 14 August 1676 Whipple was so entreated as being one of those "who staid and went not away."[2]

Whipple wrote his will on 8 May 1682, and it was proved three years later on 27 May 1685. His wife had died in 1666, aged about 42,[1] and he and his wife were buried on their own land, but were later moved to the North Burial Ground after its opening in 1700.[2]

With his wife Sarah, Whipple had 11 children, the first eight born in Dorchester, and the remainder born in Providence.[5] His oldest son, John, married first Mary Olney, the daughter of Thomas Olney and Mary Small, and secondly Rebecca Scott, the widow of John Scott (son of Richard Scott and Catharine Marbury).[2] Sarah married John Smith, Samuel married Mary Harris, and Eleazer married Alice Angell, the daughter of Thomas and Alice Angell.[6] Mary married Epentus Olney, the son of Thomas Olney and Mary Small, William's wife was named Mary, and Benjamin married Ruth Mathewson.[6] David married first Sarah Hearndon, and secondly Hannah Tower, and Abigail married first Stephen Dexter, the son of colonial President Gregory Dexter, and secondly William Hopkins, the son of Thomas Hopkins.[7] Whipple's tenth child, prominent merchant Joseph Whipple, married Alice Smith, and his youngest child, Jonathan, married first Margaret Angell, the daughter of Thomas Angell, and secondly a woman named Anne.[8]

A grandson of Whipple, Joseph Whipple, Jr. became deputy governor of the colony, and a great grandson, Joseph Whipple, III, was also a deputy governor.[9] Another great grandson, Stephen Hopkins was a governor of the colony, Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, and signer of the Declaration of Independence.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Whipple_(settler)

https://www.geni.com/people/Capt-John-Whipple/6000000002995151858

Whipple, John Sr Capt (I27576)

List of Birth Dates for Avery Mustain’s Children from his 1801 Bible
Background – This record was written on the inside cover of Avery Mustain's 1801 bible and submitted as part of his Revolutionary War pension application. It helped establish that he was married to Mary and that as his widow she would be eligible for a pension payment.

The record lists (1) his children and (2) his grandchildren through his oldest daughter, Saludy. It is assumed that Clark H. Moore is the grandson mentioned in Avery's will as Clark Mustain. Based on Clark’s birth in 1807 and Saludy's age, she is the only one of Avery’s children who could be the mother. Saludy didn't marry Samuel Dalton until 1809, two years after Clark was born. Clark's father is unknown as is whether he married Saludy (or died soon after conceiving Clark).

Transcription:
Register of the names of the sons and daughters of Avery Mustain and Mary, his wife.
Drury Mustain was born March the 17th day, 1783.
Joel Mustain was born February 6th day, 1785.
Saludy Mustain was born March 31st day, 1787.
Haley Mustain was born May 6th, 1789.
Shadrack Mustain was born July the 11th, 1792.
Molley Avery Mustain was born August 21st, 1794.
Sherwood Mustain was born September 27th, 1796.
Thomas Mustain was born December 29th, 1798.
Elizabeth Mustain was born March 7th, 1801.
Clark H. Moore was born in the year the year of our Lord 1807.
Clark H. Moore was born February the 7 day in the year of Lord 1807.
Polly Dalton, daughter to Samuel Dalton and Saludy his wife, was born Feb. 12th, 1810.
Avery Dalton was born Dec. 9th, 1811.
Elizabeth Dalton was born July 25th, 1813.

Mustain, Avery Solomon (I22298)

Maren Madsen Schou
born 22 februar 1834, Katshegne, Vigerslev Parish,Odense County
baptize d 23 march 1834 in Vigerslev Churcg

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1845 Census:

Samtlige personer i husstanden Odense, Skovby, Vigerslev, Kalshegne, et huus, 2,
FT-1845, B5976

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Anne Jørgensdatter 48 Gift Hans kone Klinte sogn, Odense Amt
Lars Madsen Skov 14 Ugift Deres børn Heri sognet [Wigerslev]
Maren Madsen Skov 11 Ugift Deres børn do [Wigerslev]
Hans Madsen Skov 8 Ugift Deres børn do [Wigerslev]
Rasmus Madsen Skov 6 Ugift Deres børn do [Wigerslev]

Scove, Hans Madsen (I31128)

Mustain family researchers and local history buffs believe that Jesse's house was built by his father, Thomas Mustain. In her book Tracks Along the Staunton, Diane Popek states: "Around 1750 Thomas Mustain, on the original grant by King George II of England, built a rock-wall house, a landmark of Pittsylvania County ." We believe that this rock-wall house built in 1750 was the first floor of our home. Thomas went on to built a larger home (timber frame with an English basement that is on his original land grant and on what is now Telegraph Road) and that his son, Jesse, went on to add the other two floors in the 1770's when he came of age, married, and began his family.

Thomas Mustain was listed among the local tithables of 1750. At a Court held for Halifax County, May 1752, it was ordered that Thomas Mustain, Joseph Ironmonger, George Whiffon and Daniel Smith do appraise the estate of Isaac Cloud, deceased. His land grant was signed by Royal Governor Dinwiddie and drawn up on the 29th day of November 1756. This was an original crown Grant made by King George II in the thirtieth year of his reign for 400 acres for the tidy sum of forty shillings. In 1767 Thomas appears on the list of tithables taken by John Donelson in Pittsylvania County's first tax list. In 1769 the vestry of Camden Parish planned to build a church "near Thomas Mustain's."

Thomas Mustain was born about 1725 in VA and died 1791 in Pittsylvania County, VA. He married Mary (probable maiden name Haley) about 1748. He and Mary had the following children:

Jesse - born @1749 Pittsylvania County, VA; married Jenny @1776 and married #2 Polly Brewis, daughter of Robert Brewis, on June 11, 1793 in Pittsylvania County, VA; died 1794 Pittsylvania County, VA
Rebecca -
Molly - married John Paterson on June 30, 1794
Mary Ann -
Sally - born @1767; married Price Skinner on June 30, 1794
Avery - born February 26, 1756; married Mary "Polly" Shelton Barber on March 17, 1780; died August 31, 1833 in Pittsylvania County, VA.
Anna - Married William Buckner @1768 and married #2 Jeremiah Buckner on September 9, 1782 in Pittsylvania County, VA; died in Kentucky
Milly - Born @1755; married Jesse Keesee; died August 1838 in VA
Tabitha - married James Bruce on February 13, 1782 in Halifax County, VA.
Winifred - married Zachariah Lewis
Saludy - born 1772 in Pittsylvania County, VA; married Claiborn Shelton on May 16, 1785; died 1812 at Chimney Rock, OH

Jesse Mustain had the following children:
Thomas - born @1777; married Martha Irby on November 19, 1801; died October 29, 1814 in Charles County, VA
Priscilla - born January 6, 1778; married William Shelton in December 1798
Jesse - married Tabitha Hicks
John - born September 6, 1782; married Elizabeth Legrand Glenn on January 11, 1829; died March 1, 1869 in Blandinsville, IL
Susanna - born @1785; married Walker Goodwin
James W - born @1787; married Sarah Shelton; died June 18, 1850
Winifred - never married and served as overseer of the poor of Camden Parish
Tabitha - married Meredith Jennings on Dec 14, 1807

In 1777, Thomas Mustain and both of his sons, Jesse and Avery Mustain, are listed as having taken the Oath of Allegiance while serving in Captain Crispin Shelton's Company in the defense of Virginia during the revolution.

Pittsylvania Country courts records mention Jesse more than once. On September 21, 1779 he was recorded as being severely in debt to the Commonwealth of Virginia. In October of 1782 a case was dismissed in which he was accused of misconduct.

Prior to 1782 Jesse had already set up housekeeping with his (already large family) separate from his father. Jesse is listed on the 1782 Heads of Households with 8 white souls. His father, Thomas, is listed with 7 white souls. The first census of the United States taken in 1785 lists Jesse Mustain with 9 white souls, 1 dwelling, and 3 other buildings. Thomas is listed with 4 white souls, 1 dwelling, and 4 other buildings. Jesse's younger brother, Avery, is listed with 4 white souls, no dwelling and no other buildings. (Avery built his home in 1788 - date is on north cornice of house - on Whitethorn Creek.)

On November 6, 1791, Thomas Mustain, "being weak in body," wrote his will:
To my beloved wife Mary Mustain, a sufficient maintenance suitable to her circumstance, as long as she remains a widow; To my son Jesse, 200 acres to be taken off the upper end of the tract that I now live on: Beginning at the upper N corner and running down the N line onto the S line, making his complement; The balance of the tract of land I live on to be sold to the highest bidder giving 18 months credit; To daughters, Rebecca and Molly, twenty shillings each; To daughters Mary Ann and Sally, ten pounds each;
To son Avery Mustain and daughters Anna Buckner, Milly Keesee, Tabetha Bruce, Winney Lewis, and Saludy Shelton one equal part of the money from the sale of the land; To Thomas Mustain, son of Jesse Mustain and his wife Jenny, has promised to live with me and my wife during our lives for which I give and bequeath unto the said Thomas Mustain a tract of land on both sides of Mayes Creek, 170 acres, and 1/3 of my moveable property; The balance of my moveable property to be divided among my last six named children. I appoint son, Jesse Mustain, and Joel Shelton executors.

Signed by Thomas Mustain (with his X). Witnessed by Frances Irby, Nathaniel Farris, and Griffith Dickinson. Vincent Shelton and Charles Lewis, Jr. gave security for the executors. This will was entered into court on November 21, 1791.

Unfortunately, it was not long before Jesse died. Family lore says he fell from his horse while intoxicated. On June 1, 1795, Polly Mustain, widow of Jesse, mortgaged her dower of 66 2/3 acres to Samuel and David Pannill for thirty pounds. On August 21, 1797, Jesse's son Thomas was made legal guardian to Jesse's minor children. Also in 1797, the whole plantation, including Polly's dower, was sold to Benjamin Gosney and passed out of the Mustain family.

In 1817, Gosney sold the property to Richard Whitehead for $2,840. When Whitehead bought roughly the other half of the Mustain tract in 1811, he had, in effect, the land to which Thomas Mustain was given patent by George II. Around 1836, Richard Whitehead made structural changes to the house: moving the south and north doors (front and back) on the 2nd floor, as well as adding a wall to make a center hallway corresponding to the new placement of doors. Richard and his wife, Pency, were buried together near the house, but in 1934 they were removed to Chatham, VA.

Mustain, Thomas Averleigh (I22314)

Rice City in Coventry

Rice City was originally founded along the Great North Road around 1736 by two men named Adam and Gabriel Love. This section of Coventry was known as the Seven Mens Land in the original Shawmut Purchase.

In 1711 Providence needed a road to Connecticut for trading but it did not come to fruition until 1714 when Rhode Island workers began constructing a road at the Weybosset Bridge in Providence to the colony line. This road, which became known as the Great North Road, passed through the lands of Adam Cason, John Burlingame, Randall Rice, Captain John Waterman, Thomas Havens, and Captain Richard Rice (See: Hopkins Hollow). The road was completed in 1716 at 60 miles long and was used to transport goods and people from Providence to Norwich.

Because the road was heavily traveled it was in constant need of repair. The demand of maintaining the road became too great for all the towns along the road so in 1794 it was decided to turn it into a toll road. In October 1795 the Providence Norwich Turnpike Society was incorporated and a toll was charged for the use of this road, making it the second toll road in Rhode Island.

In 1747 Caleb Greene, bought 200 acres of his father’s (John Greene) land complete with a homestead located along the north side of the Great North Road. In 1795 Caleb sold one acre of this property to Benjamin Clarke. In February 1805 a toll gate was constructed on this property on the north side of the turnpike within five miles of the Connecticut border. The toll booth was a one story wooden building that sat in the road with a small window and a door. The date of construction of the toll booth is not known but is believed to be mid-18th century.

The toll for use of this road was 12 and a half cents for four-wheeled vehicles drawn by more than two horses, 10 cents for four-wheeled vehicles drawn by two horses, and eight cents for pleasure carriages drawn by one horse. The toll was waved if the person was traveling by foot, horseback or on town business.

Benjamin Clarke sold the one acre to Stephen M. Pierce in 1808. In 1819 it was sold again, this time to Stephen Walker and Pardon Tillinghast. This property included a dwelling house, barn, tannery and building which was mostly likely the toll booth that became known as Walkers Toll. The Turnpike operated until December 1865 when the company deeded all the rights and title to the land to the Town of Coventry.

Rice City was named after the Rice Family that resided and operated a Tavern along Plainfield Pike. Today, Rice City lies between Flat River Road and Sisson Road. Other roads making up Rice City are Vaughn Hollow Road, Potter Road and Plainfield Pike. The building that was originally the toll booth can still be seen today on the property of 732 Plainfield Pike.

Rice, Randall (I27497)

The earliest record is Isaac becoming a freeman in Dorchester, Mass. By 1640 he is in Windsor, Ct. where in 1653 he married Mary Woodford who was the daughter of Thomas and Mary Woodford of Hartford. In 1655 they removed to Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusettes.

Isaac per depostion he gave in 1879, he was born abt. 1829 in Ashford, Parish of Bakewell Co. Derby, England. Families from Debyshire settled in Concord, CT, between 1640 and 1650. Before 13 Sep 1652, Isaac bought from John Stiles, a house and a 3 acre in Windsor, CT. In 1656 he moved to Northampton, MA. His will is dated 21 Jun 1708 and proved on 1 Sep 1708. Named in his will are, his wife, Meritable, sons Isaac, John, Thomas, Joseph, Samuel, Ebeenezer, and Jonathan. Daughter's named are Mary Bridgeman, Ruth Strong, Thankful Edwards, Mindwell Lyman, and Hannah Chapin.

Source: English Origins of New England Families, Second Series Vol. III, Pg. 202 and Hampshire Probate Records, Vol. 3, Pg. 188

Sheldon, Isaac (I4544)

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The following information is from the Book "Greene's of Rhode Island" It is about Fones Greene and his family.

104. FONES • GREENE "of Nassauket" (James \ James \ John'), eldest son, was born in Warwick, March 23, 1689-90. He resided in the house which he inherited, built by his father in 1687. He was married (i), March 15, 1710-11, by Edward Carr, head warden, to Dinah, daughter of Sampson and Dinah Batty (or Beatty) of Jamestown, R. L She was drowned March 21, 171 o- 11, only six days after her marriage by the upsetting of a boat in going from Newport to Jamestown. He married (2), Feb ruary 29, 171 2, Rebecca, daughter of Henry and Rebecca Tibbitts of North Kingstown, R. L, who died February 18, 1765, in the seventy-first year of her age. He was Deputy from Warwick, May 5, 1724. He died July 29, 1758, aged sixty-seven years. His will was duly executed on the loth of July previous, witnessed by Thomas Rice, Jr., Anne Rice, and Jeremiah Lippitt, in which provision was made for his wife during her life, and also for his son James (see below).

Children:
316. James, born December 2, 1713, married Patience Waterman.
317. Dinah, born December 24, 1715, married Captain Randall Rice.
318. Job, bom August 8, 1717, married Mercy Greene.
319. Thomas, born November 22, 1719, married (i) Pliebe Greene, (2) Mary (Waterman) Greene.
320. Mary, born March 18, 1723, died May 2, 1742, aged nineteen.
321. FoNES, born July 29, 1727, married Mary Waterman, died s. p., at Surinam, South America.

Greene, Fones (I27519)