Israel Stoughton^{[1, 2]}

1603 - 1644  (41 years)

• Name	Israel Stoughton  [3, 4, 5]
  Birth	18 Feb 1603	Coggeshall, Essex, England   [4, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Arrival	1630	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA   [6, 7]
  Residence	1632	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA   [6]
  Death	1 Jul 1644	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA   [6, 8, 9]
  Probate	17 Jul 1644	, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA   [9]
  Person ID	I14052	Master
  Last Modified	24 Jul 2021

  
  

  Father	Thomas Stoughton, Reverend,   b. 3 Sep 1557, Naughton, Suffolk, England d. 6 Dec 1622, Sandwich, Kent, England (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Katherine Evelyn Montpesson,   b. 1564, Naughton, Suffolk, England d. 18 Apr 1603, Naughton, Suffolk, England (Age 39 years)
  Marriage	1585	Naughton, Suffolk, England   [10]
  Family ID	F3753	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Knight,   b. 1607, Rotherhithe, London, England d. 6 Aug 1681, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 74 years)
  Marriage	27 Mar 1627	Rotherhithe, Surrey, England
  Children	1. Israel Stoughton,   b. 1628, , , , England d. 1647, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 19 years)   2. Susanna Stoughton,   b. 1630, , , , England d. 1650, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 20 years)   3. William Stoughton,   b. 30 Sep 1631, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 7 Jul 1701, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 69 years) + 4. Hannah Stoughton,   b. Apr 1637, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 27 Mar 1670, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 32 years)   5. John Stoughton,   b. 10 Mar 1638, Dorchester, Dorset, England d. 16 May 1665 (Age 27 years) + 6. Rebecca Stoughton,   b. Aug 1641, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 1702 (Age 60 years)   7. Thomas Stoughton,   b. 30 Jul 1644, Dorchester, Dorset, England
  Family ID	F3765	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 18 Feb 1603 - Coggeshall, Essex, England Marriage - 27 Mar 1627 - Rotherhithe, Surrey, England Arrival - 1630 - Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA Residence - 1632 - Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA Death - 1 Jul 1644 - Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA Probate - 17 Jul 1644 - , Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Baptized Great Coggeshall, Essex, England, 18 February 1602/3, son of Rev. Thomas and Katherine (_____) Stoughton. Came from Rotherhithe, Surrey to Massachusetts Bay in 1632. He settled in Dorchester, but returned to England in 1644 and died there. Died in Lincoln, England, 1644. Married in Rotherhithe, Surrey, England, 27 March 1627, Elizabeth Knight. She died at Dorchester on 6 August 1681. Israel was brother of THOMAS STOUGHTON of Dorchester and Windsor was an elder brother of Israel Stoughton, and = Rev. John Stoughton, who, although he did not come to New England, did marry the widow of the Rev. Ralph Cudworth of Great Coggeshall, Essex, and Aller, Somersetshire, thus making Thomas and Israel stepuncles of James Cudworth of Scituate. Colonel Israel Stoughton's house was situated at the northeast corner of Savin Hill Avenue and Pleasant Street. He had the distinction of building the first mill in New England to grind corn by water. It stood in the Neponset River at the Lower Mills. In the early years of the settlement, Massachusetts had to buy corn from Virginia and from the local Narragansetts. In 1631 Chief Chickatawbut donated a hogshead to the Governor. In 1634 food was still scarce, and Massachusetts bought 400 bushels of corn from the Narragansetts. Israel Stoughton set up a water mill at the Lower Mills to grind the grain. Stoughton's mill is mentioned both in the town records and in those of the Massachusetts Bay colony. Said to be the first grist mill in the country, it was installed to grind corn purchased from native Americans due to the shortages in the colony. Dorchester Town Records Nov. 3, 1633 ... it is generally agreed that Mr. Israel Stoughton shall build a water mill, if he see cause. Jan. 6, 1633/4 ...it is ordered that Mr. Israell Stoughton shall have the privaladge of a weare at Naponset adjoyning to his mill ... Nov. 3, 1634 ... it also ordered that their shall be a sufficient cartway be made to the mill at Naponset ... and from the 1859 History of the Town of Dorchester, p. 33: The town granted leave to Mr. Israel Stoughton to build a water mill [in 1633], and in January following, the mill and a bridge over Neponset being completed ... Stoughton gained his title from his command of the Massachusetts forces during the Pequot War. He served as representative in 1634 and was the Governor's Assistant for many years. Sources: Orcutt, William Dana. Good Old Dorchester: A Narrative History of the Town, 1630-1893. Cambridge: University Press, 1908. History of the Town of Dorchester, Massachusetts. By a Committee of the Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society. 1859. Israel Stoughton From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Israel Stoughton (1603?-1644) was an early English colonist in Massachusetts, and later a Parliamentarian officer in the First English Civil War. Life Born in England, a younger brother of John Stoughton, he emigrated to New England in 1632. He settled at Dorchester, of which he was admitted a freeman on 5 November 1633. He was chosen representative for Dorchester in the assemblies of 1634 and 1635. When the colony was disturbed by the antinomian disputes, Stoughton wrote a book which attacked the constitution of the colony and offended the general court. The author somewhat strangely petitioned that the book might be ‘forthwith burnt, as being weak and offensive.’ In spite of Stoughton's subsequent submission, he was declared incapable of holding office for three years. This sentence, however, was remitted in 1636, and Stoughton was chosen assistant in 1637. He was entrusted with the command of the Massachusetts force against the Pequot Indians, where he took brutal measures. Stoughton was annually chosen as assistant till 1643, and in 1639 he, together with John Endecott acted as a commissioner on behalf of Massachusetts to settle a boundary dispute with Plymouth Colony. Stoughton visited England towards the end of 1643 or the beginning of 1644, returned to America, and crossed again towards the end of 1644. He was then appointed a lieutenant-colonel in the parliamentary army, and soon afterwards died at Lincoln. His children included William Stoughton, best known as the chief magistrate of the Salem witch trials. References Thompson, Roger, "Stoughton, Israel", on the website of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Subscription or UK public library membership required). The first edition of this text is available as an article on Wikisource: "Stoughton, Israel". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. Attribution This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Stoughton, Israel". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

  
  

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