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From The Colburn Chronicles

Lieutenant Joseph Colburn, 1662-1718
Joseph Colburn was the youngest of Nathaniel and Priscilla’s eleven children. According to an old town history he was reputed the best hunter in Dedham in the late 1600’s. He “filled not only his purse with coin, but his chest with convenient corn and peas,” primarily from the bounty paid for killing wolves and hawks.

On May 21, 1690 A bill is Giuen to Joseph Colborn to Receiue of Daniel Pond Constable ten Shilings in Corn pay out of ye Towne Rate now in his hand for killing A Woolfe.

Joseph followed his father’s example and served the town as surveyor, fixing the lines between Dedham and Medfield in 1698 and between Dedham and Dorchester in 1700, and laying out numerous “High ways” and “Cart ways.” He also served on a committee "in repayering the meeting house," as Constable, and as Tithingman. A tithingman was an officer of Puritan towns responsible for making sure that their neighbors maintained good “family order” and “family governance”. If they deemed it necessary, tithingmen were empowered to remove children from “disorderly” homes and place them in others.

Nathaniel Colburn had owned land in the Pond Plain area of western Dedham since 1663. Sometime in the 1680’s his sons Joseph and Samuel began farming this property. When they actually moved there is uncertain: until at least 1682, Dedham citizens were forbidden to build residences more than two miles from the meeting house. He likely built his house there by 1685, so that he had a place to take the bride he married June 30 of that year, in Braintree. She was Mary Holbrook, born 1663 in St Johns, Glastonbury, Somersetshire, England.

In 1690 both Joseph and Samuel paid taxes independently of their father, at a rate suggesting they each owned a fair amount of property.

Joseph's most lasting creation still stands in the town of Westwood. In the Dedham records for May 14, 1700:
Lt. Joseph Colburn is agreed to provide timber and to make and set up a good sufficient pound for the use of the Town and is to Receive for his labor and Charge therein forty shillings out of the Town rate. Towns built pounds to keep stray animals away from crops. Originally built of wood, Dedham’s was remade later with stone walls.

The pound appears on the Town Seal of Westwood, designed by a Colburn descendant, Lucius Damrell. The seal also features the Avery Oak, over 600 years old when it blew down in a hurricane in 1938. The last of the many towns carved out of the original Dedham grant, the district known as West Dedham became Westwood in 1897.

Edward Cox quotes from an unspecified document that gives some hints about how Joseph Colburn earned his military rank:

Paid Lt. Joseph Colburn & Comp. that served her Majestie from the 20th of August to the 20th of September, 1706 36 No., 10 s., 10 d. Paid John Darbyshire that served as Pilot under Lt. Joseph Colburn from September the 4th to the 17th, 1706, 14 s.

That a pilot served under him suggests service on the water, perhaps the river Charles. One month is a short period for military service, so this is likely a record of his company's pay in the Massachusetts Militia for that month only. He was 45 at the time, and had already been in the service of Queen Anne for some time. Town records begin referring to him as Sergeant in 1700, and Lieutenant in 1703.

When Joseph Sr. died April 20, 1718 he left in his will “my sword,” among other items. Mary survived him by thirty-four years, dying January 30, 1752 in Dedham. Unusual for the times, they had only one child, Joseph Jr.

Colburn, Joseph (I1553)

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From the Corbin Collection Vol. 1:
2. Samuel Langton 1750 (sic) 2d. wife
Elizabeth Copley, Jan. 26 1665, a daughter of the wife (Elizabeth) of Nathaniel Phelps, by her first husband ____ Copley. She married Samuel Langton Dec. 1 1676 and after his death, Aug. 16 1683, she married David2 Alexander (John1). She died Jan. 8 1701 Nhn. (TR-OB-140). David Alexander killed 1704 at Deerfield. He m. 2d. July 31 (3-VR) 1701 Mary Weld. (Dfd. VR-148) (dau. of Daniel). She (Mary) m. 2. Apr. 18 1707 Samuel Smead & 3d. Nov. 28 1734 Joseph Younglove.
to Samuel Langton of Northampton

Elizabeth Copley, Jan. 26 1665, a daughter of the wife of Nathaniel Phelps by her first husband.
She married Samuel Langton, Dec. 1 1676 and after his death she married David Alexander

Title: The Corbin Collection Vol. I Hampshire Co., MA [on CD]
Author: Edited by Robert J. Dunkle
Publication: New England Historic Genealogical Society Boston, MA 2003
Note:
Corbin Collection Volume 1: Records of Hampshire County, Massachusetts. CD-ROM. Boston, Mass: New EnglandHistoric Genealogical Society, 2003. (Online database. NewEnglandAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008. )
Copyright 2003 New England Historic Genealogical Society; all rights reserved.
Note: m. (1) after 1683 to Elizabeth (Copley) widow of Praisever Turner who was killed Sept. 28 1675 in King Philips War; and also the widow of Samuel Langton: she died 1701 (Jan. 8 1701 Nhn.-OB-146).

Copley, Elizabeth (I10288)

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from the Diary of Statira Adelle Orcutt
My great great great great grandparents were John Sinclair and Elizabeth Bean, his wife. John Sinclair was born and married Elizabeth Bean.

A son, Samuel Sinclair was born. He married Sarah Mattson of this union a son, Richard Sinclair was born in Barnstead NH Dec 3, 1731 and died in Barnstead July 27, 1813. He married Polly Cilley. They resided in Barnstead where she died.

Six sons erer born, four of whom were in the Revolutionary War.

Bradbury b. Mar 8, 1754
Richard Jr. b. Oct 1756
Joshua b. April 16, 1760
Samuel b. May 11, 1762
John b. Jan 13, 1763
Joseph b. Apr 9, 1766

Col. Richard Sinclair died July 27, 1813. He served in the Revolutionary war as follows,

Richard Sinclair of Barnstead NH, Capt in Coln Thomas Barnletter regt. raised to join the continental army at West Point 1780. Time of engagement June 29, 1780 time of discharge, Oct 27, 1780. An abstract of Capt. Richard Sinclair's pay roll from his co. to West Point 1780 shows service to Jan 1781.

In 1760 during the French and Indian War, Richard Sinclair enlisted in Capt. Jeremiah Marston's company and served until the close of the war.

His son, Joseph Sinclair, born April 9, 1766 married Jan 15, 1789 to Olive Coolbreath. She was born Aug 5, 1766. They resided at ontime in Danville, Caledonia Co. Vermont. In 1826 they moved to Peacham VT. In 1828 they moved to Perry Ohio and built what is still know as the "Sinclair Tavern" on the North Ridge. Joseph Sinclair died May 12, 1845 and Olive Coolbreath Sinclair, his wife, died Oct 20, 1839. They were parents of a large family

Joseph Jr. b. Oct 15, 1789
Sally b. Aug 11, 1791 d. Sept 1, 1791
Betsy b. Jun 19, 1792 d. Dec 31, 1810
Greenlief b. Deec 22, 1796 d. Sept 19, 1876
Roxanna b. Sep 13, 1798 d. Dec 29, 1889
Milton b. July 11, 1800 d. Oct 6, 1852
Sally b Mar 10, 1802
Olive b. Jan 5, 1804 d. Jul 1, 1881
Arit b. April 5, 1806 d. Jan 23, 1836
Elizabeth b. Mar 11, 1811

There was a daughter, Statira. She married and died in Cormeaut Ohio Mar 31, 1832. I have often heard my grandmother tell about it. Don't you remember the shipwreak story (?)

Olive Sinclair was born in Danville, Caledonia Co. Vermont, Jun 5, 1804. She came to Perry Ohio with her parents in 1828 at the age of twelve years. She learned the tailor's trade. Sept 15, 1833 she married Amherst Call. In 1838, he built the house still standin at "Calls Corner" in Perry. They had six children, Statira, Corlista, Arit, Addison, Amherst and Solon (see Call record)

Sinclair, Richard (I30050)

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From the Files of the Pilot - Fifty Years ago (1864)
DIED
In this village on the 26 of Oct., 1864(sic), Mr. George Beers(sic), aged 42 years. The large concourse of people which followed the remains of Mr. Beers to the grave, was ample testimony of the esteem in which our citizens hold him. As a businessman, he was honest and upright and as a neighbor and friend, he was kind and amiable. An eloquent tribute was paid him at the grave by Adolph Wittmann, Esq., in a feeling address, which touched the hearts of all his hearers.
Manitowoc Pilot, Thurs., Nov. 5, 1914
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IN PROBATE: Manitowoc County Court.
State of Wisconsin, Manitowoc County.
In the matter of the estate of George Beer deceased.
On the 14th day of August, A.D. 1867, upon reading and filing the petition of Charles Luling, Administrator of the estate of said deceased, stating that he has fully administered said estate, and praying that time and place be appointed for examining and allowing his accounts of his administration.
It is ordered, that said application be heard before me, at the Probate Office, in the town and county of Manitowoc, on the ninth day of September, A.D. 1867, at 10 o'clock A.M.
And it is further ordered, that notice of such application and hearing be given by publishing a copy of this order for three successive weeks, once in each week, in the Manitowoc Tribune, a newspaper printed in said town and county prior to said hearing.
Geo. W. Barker, County Judge.
Manitowoc Tribune, August 22, 1867 P. 2

Beer, George Ehrhard (I64)

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From The Great Houses of Nottinghamshire and the County Families, (1881)by Leonard Jacks

BUNNY Park hall, a mansion of considerable importance, is owned and occupied by Miss Hawksley, niece of the late Mrs. Forteath, to whom the estate was bequeathed by Lord Rancliffe, the last of the barons of that title. The property originally belonged to the Parkyns , an old and distinguished family whose estates seem to have got into other hands, or to have been worn away by the friction of legal machinery. The baronetcy is still maintained, but the title does not carry any large rent roll. The family of which Sir Thomas Parkins, baronet, is the head, can claim long descent, and a distinguished and protracted connection with this county. Towards the latter end of the sixteenth century Richard Parkyns, Recorder of Nottingham and Leicester, who was by no means dependent upon the emoluments of his office, purchased the manor of Bunny, then as now of considerable extent. His descendant, Mr. Isham Parkyns, also of Bunny, held the rank of colonel during the Civil Wars, and in consideration of the determined and courageous resistance he offered to the power of the Usurper, which is said to have implied his own impoverishment, his son was created a baronet in the year 1681. In 1795, little more than a hundred years later, the family acquired a higher rank, and Thomas Boothby Parkyns was made Baron Rancliffe, an Irish peer. On the death of the second Lord Rancliffe, in 1850, who succeeded to the Bunny estates, the peerage became extinct. By marriage the family is connected with several distinguished and titled houses. Mr. Mansfield Parkyns, who formerly lived at Woodborough Hall, married a daughter of Lord Chancellor Westbury, and one of the daughters of the first baron was espoused to Sir Richard Levinge, an Irish baronet.George Augustus Henry Anne Parkyns, second and last Baron Rancliffe, who died at Bunny Park, has not been dead long enough to be forgotten by Nottingham people. His political connection with the county town was as memorable as that of the late Sir Robert Clifton, and between the two there is something in common. For a long period Lord Rancliffe represented Nottingham in Parliament, and his popularity was as remarkable as it was long-lived. At the age of fifteen he was the bearer of a title and the possessor of very considerable property to which he subsequently contrived to add the ancient belongings of the Parkyns family. The newly fledged lordling was brought up into the immediate care of Lord Moira, who considered that he could have had better training than that to be obtained in a fashionable regiment. On his marriage with the Earl of Granard’s daughter, the young lord left the army and became equerry to the Prince of Wales, afterwards George the Fourth. As soon as he reached manhood’s estate, Lord Rancliffe was returned to Parliament for Minehead, under the good old system of purchase which obtained them. Lord Rancliffe sat for this place for seven months, and it is said that his constituents never saw him or knew what lie was like. In 1812 there was a vacancy in the representation of Nottingham on the resignation of Mr. D. P. Coke, and a number of persons interested in the election went to Bunny, and induced Lord Rancliffe to stand in the Whig interest. A sharp contest ensued, and Lord Rancliffe was returned, his success being largely due to the influence exercised upon the constituency by Lady Raneliffe. The other successful candidate was Mr. John Smith, who was returned at the head of the poll. In 1818 and again in 1826, Lord Rancliffe was returned for Nottingham, and he did not withdraw from Parliamentary life until four years later, after representing the borough for twenty-eight years. He died at Bunny, in 1850, at the age of sixty-five, and of him, one of the principal biographers says:—" Lord Rancliffe was what might be considered a good party man, but by no means a good political leader. He was neither fitted by natural endowments, nor yet by the habits he cultivated for the post of a leader; still his views were sound and constitutional on most political subjects, and his votes, which were uniformly in accordance with his professions, were calculated to advance the cause of social progress and the diffusion of civil and religious liberty throughout the world."There is very little at Bunny to remind one of Lord Rancliffe’s connexion with the house. Either lie or those who followed him evidently contemplated enlarging the place, and commenced the necessary alterations. But the plan was never carried out, and Bunny is an unfinished mansion at the present time. The introduction of a new staircase or flight of steps was contemplated, and amongst the litter of a partially finished apartment there are some of the pieces which were to form this new work, so long since abandoned. Not that Bunny Hall requires any enlargement. It is a large and spacious mansion with, on the ground floor, a continuous suite of rooms said to be among the biggest in the whole county. These, the drawing room, the library, and the dining room, are entered from a long corridor lighted from above, terminating in a billiard hall, and ornamented at intervals with glass cases containing birds. In one ease is an albatross; in another the graceful form and exquisite plumage of a flamingo. At the end of the suite of rooms is a small conservatory opening into the drawing room, which is furnished in sumptuous fashion. The walls are decorated with graceful designs and in lively colours, and the furniture is bright and elegant. There are some rare old cabinets here, amongst them a Louis Quatorze and one of Florentine Mosaic, and some valuable pieces of china. The fireplace is the work of Italian artists. It is supported by slabs of marble of exquisite purity, bearing on either the perfectly sculptured form of some beauteous goddess. Both drawing and dining rooms are destitute of pictures ; it was never intended that those walls, so expensively and artistically decorated, should be hidden by picture frames. In the dining room there is another fine cabinet and a number of quaint high-backed chairs, which are said to have been made and carved in the reign of Elizabeth. The windows overlook a square of cheerful gardens enclosed by a low and open wall. The library is between the drawing and dining rooms, and there are in it a great number of books. On one of the tables there is a small bust of the First Napoleon, engaged in sketching a plan of the battle of Marengo. A special value is attached to this ornament. The house contains a number of portraits, about which one is able to get but little information. They are all of them said to be members of the ancient family of Parkyns, and one which hangs over the antique mantelpiece in the billiard hall, a gentleman in armour, may, perhaps, be safely described as that of Mr. Isham Parkyns, who took such a prominent part in the Civil Wars. Possibly Vanderbank’s portraits of Sir Thomas and Lady Parkyns are among the collection, part of which has been consigned to the housekeeper’s room. The family, of which these portraits remind one, at one time had great influence in the county. They were settled in Berkshire before they came here, but they should certainly be classed among the old Nottinghamshire families. One of them, buried in the fine old church at Bunny, the Sir Thomas Parkyns of the last century, was an extraordinary man. He was a great wrestler, he studied physic for the benefit of his neighbours, and he wrote in dead and living languages. He distributed scraps of Latin over the parish with becoming impartiality, and tombstone and horse block were alike inscribed with the language of Maro and Flaceus. It was his mission to encourage the spread of muscular Christianity, and to give a classic turn to bucolic life. The whimsical epitaph on his monument is not inappropriate, applied, as it is, to a worshipper of muscle, who once said, "I receive no limberham, no darling sucking bottle who must not rise at Midsummer until eleven of the clock, till the fire has aired his room and clothes of his colliquative sweats, raised by high sauces and spicey forced meats, where the cook does the office of the stomach with the emetic tea table set out with bread and butter for breakfast; I’ll scarce admit a sheepeater none but beefeaters will go down with me." The Parkyns’ were good friends to Bunny. When they lived at the hall they built and endowed schools and almshouses in the parish, restored the church, and they are said to have dispensed charity and hospitality with a lavish hand. What is generally called a tower gives an imposing appearance to Bunny Ball. This is an elevated piece of brickwork, which in the distance looks like the tower of a church. It rises to a considerable height, and from its summit, which is reached by an oak staircase, you may see objects that are very far away. The brickwork is old and it is evident that the house is old too. On the front of the brickwork is a coat of arms, and the date recorded on the stonework is 1723. The lower part of the tower is ivy-grown, with here and there some odd sprays of ragwort.

Perkins, Aden (I33504)

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from THE GREAT MIGRATION BEGINS ~ George Ruggles & Philip Squire
GEORGE RUGGLES
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1633
FIRST RESIDENCE: Boston
REMOVES: Braintree 1639, Boston by 1662
OCCUPATION: Weaver [ SLR 8:45].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: "George Ruggell" was admitted to Boston church in November 1633 [ BChR 17]. On 16 February 1639/40 "George Ruggle and Elizabeth his wife" were recommended to "the Church of Christ at Mount Wollystone [Braintree]" [BChR 27].
FREEMAN: 4 March 1633/4 [ MBCR 1:368].
ESTATE: Granted "a houseplot and gardenstead to be laid out near unto the new mill," 12 June 1637 [ BTR 1:19].
On 5 November 1638 James Hawkins sold to Henry Garrold "one dwelling house in the town, wherein George Ruggle lived, and which he formerly bought of Mr. Brenton, together with a garden plot joining to it" [BTR 1:37].
On 25 January 1640/1 John Button was authorized to sell land to Martin Saunders or George Ruggles. They purchased twenty-two acres, but as late as 26 May 1645 had not paid for the land; at that time four acres were added to the twenty-two, because of the rockiness of the land [BTR 1:58, 59, 71, 82].
On 29 September 1645 George Ruggles of Braintree sold to the Undertakers of the Ironworks twenty acres in Braintree [SLR 1:62].
On 23 April 1662 George Ruggles entered a claim for one acre in the New Field in Boston "which land hath been & is detained long since" [SLR 3:526].
On 13 March 1661/2 George Ruggles of Boston, yeoman, in respect to the fact that "within some short time" his son John Ruggles was to "marry and take to wife Rebecca Farnworth one of the daughters of Joseph Farnworth late of Dorchester, deceased," and the fact that she brought a considerable estate with her, George gave them a dwelling house with a barn, yards, orchards and homelot, containing three acres in Braintree, also four acres of land in Braintree, also twenty-one acres of woodland near the sawmill in Braintree [SLR 13:184].
On 10 March 1667/8 Thomas Hill of Boston and his wife confirmed the 1662 sale by Thomas Munt and his wife (later the wife of Thomas Hill) to George Ruggles of Boston, weaver, of twenty-six rods of land in Boston [SLR 5:485].
On 11 April 1668 George Ruggalls of Boston, weaver, "in consideration of the fatherly love and affection which I have and bear unto my daughter Rachel, the wife of Phillip Squier of Boston, aforesaid, distiller...," deeded a parcel of land adjoining the land on which Squier built his house [SLR 7:78-79]. Elizabeth his wife acknowledged this deed and made one of her own 30 August 1669 conveying this land to the Squiers [SLR 7:80-81].
On 27 July 1669 administration on the estate of George Ruggles was granted to Elizabeth Ruggles "his relict in behalf of herself and seven children" [ SPR 5:162].
The inventory of the estate of George Ruggles was taken 18 June 1669 and totalled £372 19s. 7d., including £250 in real estate: "the house, land and shop here in Boston," £200; and "ten acres of land or thereabouts in Braintry," £50 [SPR 5:161].
On 19 April 1670 "Elizabeth Rugalls of Boston ... widow, the relict of Georg[e] Rugalls of Boston aforesaid late deceased, weaver," sold to "Sarah one of his [George Ruggles's] daughters, late wife of John Wilmott, mariner, deceased," land which George Ruggles had bought of Thomas and Elinor Hill, the land to go to Sarah's son John Wilmot at Sarah's death [SLR 6:253-54].
On 16 July 1673 "Elizabeth Ruggles of Boston ... widow, relict and administratrix of the estate of George Ruggles her late husband deceased ... with the free consent of my sons John Ruggles & Samuel Ruggles" sold to Phillip Squire of Boston, distiller, all that piece and parcel of land scituate lying and being between the said Phillip Squire's now dwelling house and an highway or street that leads from the water mill in Boston towards Charlestown ferry" [SLR 8:219-20].
On 10 June 1673 Elizabeth Ruggles and Samuel Ruggles agreed that she would give "her son Samuel Ruggles a parcel of land adjoining to the house & ground of the said Samuel" that had been hired for five years by "Phillip Squire" from "his mother Ruggles" and that Samuel was to pay his mother 5s. per year "if god continue his mother's life" and at the end of five years he was to pay her 15s. a year. His mother was to pay her son Samuel £12 by 1674 [SLR 8:219, 11:120].
On 3 May 1681, "John Rugle and Samuel Rugle sons of George Rugle of Boston, deceased," agreed to a division of the estate of "their father and mother deceased" which gave John two-thirds and Samuel one-third in the common rights [SLR 13:223-24].
BIRTH: By about 1608 based on estimated date of marriage.
DEATH: Boston shortly before 18 June 1669 [SPR 5:161].
MARRIAGE: By 1633 Elizabeth _____; on 2 February 1633/4 "Elizabeth Ruggell the wife of our brother George Ruggell" was admitted to Boston church [BChR 17]. She died probably at Boston, shortly before 3 May 1681 (when her sons John and Samuel called her deceased) [SLR 13:223-24].
CHILDREN:
i ELIZABETH, bp. Boston 8 December 1633 [BChR 278]; m. Boston 24 April 1655 William Browne [ BVR 52].
ii MARY, bp. Boston 3 January 1635/6 [BChR 280]; presumably one of the seven children living at her father's death, but no further record.
iii JOHN, bp. Boston 31 December 1637 [BChR 282]; on 9 June 1657 John Harbert the elder and John Harbert the younger of Braintree sold to "John Ruggles son of George Ruggles of the same town" an acre and a half [SLR 3:279]; m. Braintree 18 March 166[1/]2 Rebecca Farnsworth [ BrVR 717].
iv GEORGE, b. Braintree 5 May 1640 [ NEHGR 3:247]; d. there July 1641 [NEHGR 3:247].
v RACHEL, b. Braintree 15 February 1642[/3] [NEHGR 3:247]; m. by 1665 Philip Squire (eldest known child b. Boston 5 January 1665 [BVR 97]).
vi Daughter, b. Braintree 16 February [blank] (probably 1644/5) [BrVR 631]; no further record.
vii SARAH, b. Braintree 29 September [blank] (probably 1646) [BrVR 631]; m. (1) by about 1669 John Wilmot (in deed of 19 April 1670 John and Sarah (Ruggles) Wilmot have son John [SLR 6:253-54]); m. (2) by 1671 John Smith (about July or August 1671 John and Sarah Smith presented the inventory of the estate of John Wilmot, deceased [SPR 7:132]).
viii SAMUEL, b. Braintree 3 January 1648[/9] [BrVR 628]; m. by 1673 Sarah _____ (eldest child b. Boston 1 October 1673 [BVR 129]). (Sarah's surname is given as Howard, but there is no evidence for this. Howard and Hayward families in early Braintree and vicinity do not have an appropriate Sarah.)
ix MEHETABEL, b. Braintree 16 July 1650 [BrVR 631]; m. say 1666/7 Humphrey Richards.
ASSOCIATIONS: George Ruggles may have been closely related to JOHN RUGGLES.
In 1914 Edward Joy Paul published some records of various Ruggles families in Sudbury, Suffolk, and vicinity, and proposed that he had found the English origin of George and JEFFREY RUGGLES, but this material constitutes only clues and speculation [The Ancestry of Katharine Choate Paul ... (Milwaukee 1914), pp. 185-86].
COMMENTS: His widow petitioned, 27 July 1669, that her youngest son Samuel might have one half of the house, as her husband desired; on the same day Elizabeth Ellis deposed to the same effect [NEHGR 31:321, citing SPR Case #194]. That same day, John Nutin, aged about twenty-four years, deposed that "he living in the house with George Ruggels heard him often times say that he did intend the giving of his son Samuell the new end of the house joining to his old house that he lived in and further ... adds that what he heard as above was in the time of the building of the new house and diverse times since and never heard him speak of his disposing it otherwise" [SPR NS 3:279]. She formally transferred the land to Samuel on 5 October 1670 [SLR 8:45].
The Great Migration Begins
Sketches
PRESERVED PURITAN

Ruggles, George (I18082)

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From the History of Little Nine Partners, of North East Precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess County, vol. 1, by Isaac Huntting, Pine Plains, New York, copyright 1897, pp. 134-135. Available at https://ia600301.us.archive.org/3/items/historyoflittlen01hunt/historyoflittlen01hunt.pdf

"Of these earliest settlers little is known to me in history except John Row, of whom I make personal mention. Johannes Rauh—Rau, now Rowe—was one of the Palatines who settled on the east bank of the Hudson. He was born in 1696 in Germany, and is supposed to have come to this country with his father, Nicholas, with the first immigrations of the Palatines in 1710 to 15, when he was yet a minor of fifteen or eighteen years, and located on the Hudson at Germantown, then a part of Livingston Manor, Columbia Co., N. Y. Richard Sackett, a native of New England, and enterprising, was appointed commissioner in 1711-15 to look after the Palatines at 'the camp' in Germantown on the Hudson River, in making pitch, tar and turpentine for the English navy. He had previously, in 1704, obtained a patent for a tract of land in the Oblong, and through his acquaintance and influence with the Palatines he induced some Palatines to settle on his tract in the Oblong. John Rowe appears in 1741 as purchaser of three quarters of 'Gore Lot, No. 3.' . 'The Gore,' a little strip of land between the Great and Little Nine Partners, was surveyed and divided into four lots in April, 1740, by Jacob Ter Bush (Judge Bush). Lot three was owned by Jacob Hoff and Isaac Germond of Crum Elbow, one quarter; Cornelius Van Wyck and Theodorus Van Wyck of Rombout, each one quarter, and the heirs of Jan DeGraff one quarter. August 15, 1741, 'Johannes Rau, of Crum Elbow, yeoman,' bought of Cornelius Van Wyck and Theodorus Van Wyck their interests, one quarter each, for fifty pounds, and the next day, August 10, bought of Jacob Hoff and Isaac Germond their undivided one quarter for fifty pounds. The other quarter interest in the heirs of Jan DeGraff was not purchased. The lot was bounded south by 'Lot No. 18' in the Great Nine Partners, east by the heirs of Col. Henry Filkins, 'being easterly part of the Gore,' north by the 'Upper Nine Partners,' — Little Nines—and West by Augustine Graham's assigns, containing seven hundred and fifteen acres, of which he owned the undivided three quarters. At the time of this purchase in August, 1741, he was living on the south part of the Silas Smith-Steger farm in the long house now gone—it was there in 1832 and later— which it is supposed he built. Here with him Christian Henry Rauch, the first Moravian missionary to this section after trials and exposures in many ways and no abiding place for the first year of his labors, commencing in August, 1740, found a home in 1741, and taught school and practiced medicine, the first 'schoolmaster' in the present town boundaries, His practice of medicine was limited and his knowledge of it not enough to have the dignity of 'Doctor.' Here, too, at 'Hannas Rowe's,' Charles Clinton, with his corps of surveyors, put up, Thursday night. May 5. 1743, when running his 'outline' boundary line of the Little Nine Partner tract, and wrote two letters the next morning, one to James Alexander, one of the then proprietors of the Little Nines, of New York, and the other to Robert Livingston, of Ancram."

Rauh, Johannes Jurgen (I49664)

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From the LA Herald newspaper of the time:

LOUIS MESMER MARRIED. THE MILLIONAIRE MAKES MRS. SWAN HIS BRIDE.

The Couple Quietly Make Their Way to San Diego and Are Wedded and then go to San Francisco on a Honeymoon Trip.

A local sensation waa created yesterday by a rumor that Mr. Louis Mesmer, the millionaire capitalist, had quietly married a charming Los Angeles woman. That statement was made last evening by Constable Richardson, a relative of the bride.

The lady who now bears the name of Mr. Mesmer and will share in his happiness was formerly Mrs. Jennie E. Swan of Martin Street. She is an exceedingly handsome woman, of fine figure and most prepossessing manners. She is about 35 years of age, but looks younger. It is said that Mr. Mesmer is upwards of 61 years old, but he is hearty and active as a man of 40.

The story is given to a Herald reporter Iast evening, is substantially as follows: For the last six months the relatives of Mrs. Swan have expected a consummation of Mr. Mesmer's apparent hopes, for it was no longer a secret to them that he was deeply enamoured with the lady. Last Saturday Mr. Mesmer left the city, ostensibly for San Francisco. He went there finally, and with him went a charming bride. He first visited San Diego, where he and Mrs. Swan were married.

It is not definitely known what day the lady met the gentleman in the city of bay 'n' climate, but it is asserted they were married Monday by a Catholic priest. They then proceeded to San Francisco on a honeymoon trip. Mr. Tony Mesmer, a son of the newly married gentleman, was seen last evening and asked regarding the marriage. He said he knew nothing of it beyond the rumors He had heard. He admitted, however, that he had interviewed the conductor of the train on which his father went to San Diego, asking him if the lady was with him. The conductor informed him that Mr. Mesmer went to San Diego, "All by his lonesome." He is not in that condition now, however, for he has the undeniable pleasure of being in the charming presence of one of Los Angeles' handsomest women.

Family: Louis Aloise Mesmer / Jennie Elizabeth Hipes (F10089)

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From the Log of the Mayflower: "Deacon Thomas Blossom and his son were well known as of Pastor Robinson's flock at Leyden. They returned moreover to Holland from Plymouth, England (when they gave up the voyage) via London.
The father went to New Plymouth ten years later, the son dying before that time. Letter dated at Leyden, Dec. 15, 1625, he says: --"God hath taken away my son who was with us in the ship (Mayflower) when I went back again."
Thomas & his wife, Ann, also resided in Pieterskerkhof, Leyden, Holland before Plymouth, MA. He, his wife & family set said for New England in July of 1620 on the ship 'Speedwell' which sailed from Leyden to Southampton to redezvous with the larger ship the 'Mayflower'. Both ships sailed from Southampton on August 4, 1620 with the Blossoms still aboard the Speedwell. They sailed down the channel, but Speedwell proved unseaworthy. Both ships put into Dartmouth for repairs & departed again on August 23. After sailing for 100 leagues, Speedwell was discovered to be leaking so badly that they were forced to return to England where most of the passengers were crowded onto the Mayflower to continue the voyage. The Blossoms, with other Pilgrims, returned to Leyden. Thomas was a passenger on the 2nd 'Mayflower' which arrived at Plymouth Colony on May 15, 1629. Pilgrim Church ~ Letters of his, which still survive, indicate he was a deacon & an educated man.

Blossom, Deacon Thomas Francis (I22821)

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From the Philadelphia Gazette, Aug. 4, 1743, Philadelphia. Printed by B. Franklin, Post-Master at the New Printing Office near Markey. States:
Williamsburg July 8. We hear from King & Queen Co., the last Sunday night in the Eveing Two hopeful daughters of Mr. Richard Tunstall, Clerk of Court of that Co., one about 12 and the other about 10 years of age (their father and mother being from home) went into the Mattapony to wash; and going out of their depth were unfortunately drowned.
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Tunstall, Colonel Richard (I23712)

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From The Source: The early settlers of Maryland: an index to names of immigrants compiled from records of land patents, 1633-1680, Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland (Google eBook): Edward Rutlidge listed as transported in 1670 and this is consistent with a number of other sources. Also a John Rutlidge (same spelling as Edward with an "i" instead of an "e" in Rutlidge), as immigrated in 1640. That would seem to indicate there is a distinct difference in meaning between "transported" AND "immigrated." This source states that "immigrated" means the individual provided his/her own transportation to Maryland and "transported" means someone other than the individual indexed paid the transportation.

Edward was transported in 1670 my John Boreing and married John's daughter Ann Boreing. Records indicate that John Boreing lived in Virginia well before 1670. John immigrated from England to Virginia; then later removed to Maryland with daughter (Ann), Edward Rutlidge and others. John's first wife is known only as Anne, but he had daughter Ann with this woman sometime before 1670. They split up and he married the widow of Roger Sidwell, Margaret Sidwell, between 1677 and 1679. She died and John remarried Anne, now reported to be Ann Sawyer whose family was well established in Virginia. John Boreing's first son, John, was born in 1680.

Given this information, it would seem that Edward Rutlidge lived in Virginia, not England, before he was transported to Maryland by John Boreing. It also seems that he was the son of John Rutlidge, also of Virginia originally, who was born in England.

Rutledge, Edward (I27067)

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From the will of Anthony Irby in 1797, named are wife, Catherine and sons, Charles and William Irby. Anthony Irby was married three times. He also married Sarah Unknown and Elizabeth Beville. Edmund and Wilmouth were the children of Anthony and Elizabeth.

Irby, Anthony (I25116)

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From the WM & MARY Quarterly:

The will of Thomas Branch, Senior, of Renrico County, dated 25th 8br [October] 1688 was proved in Henrico County in February 1694. He alludes to himself as "being in a sickly Cracy Condition but of sound and perfect memory" [evidently his "Cracy Condition" was physical, not mental!]. To my three sons, Thomas, Matthew and James, 5 shillings each; residue of goods and chattles to wife Elizabeth, but should she die before testator then said goods and chattles to be equally divided between testator's aforesaid 3 sons "only I give to my two daughter Elizabeth Richardson and Martha Ward, s shillings each to buy a ring. Wife, Elizabeth, whole and sole executrix. Witnesses: William Glover, Chris-
topher Branch, Ann Branch.

The will of Elizabeth Branch, Senior, of Varina Parish, Henrico County, dated 2 August 1697, was proved 20 August 1697. To son Thomas Branch, bed that standeth with the head to the partition on the left hand the door as one cometh in, with all furniture belonging thereto, also 5 pair sheets (one pair being Holland), my long table and form, a great copper kettle, an iron pot known by the name of the long pot, and one betmettle skillet; son Matthew Branch, 1 pair "new curtains and vallens to the I)ed he hath had already," five pair sheets (one being Holland),
chest of drawers, drawing table and small forme, biggest brass kettle, second great pot, one pot called the new pot being made of iron, chafing dish, pair fire dogs; son James Branch, feather bed that standeth on the right hand as one cometh from the door to the chimney with the curtains and vallens and all other furniture belonging to said bed; 5 pair sheets (one being Holland) half this present crop of wheat, one great iron pot, one small iron pot, small brass kettle, negro Man Mingo; daughter Elizabeth Richardson, suit of wearing clothes, my riding gown. and twelve pence in money; son-in-law Melchizedeck Richardson, half crown to buy him a pair of gloves; son-in-law Richard Ward, half crown to buy him a pair of gloves; granddaughter Martha Branch, all my wearing clothes in general, linneii and wollen, shoes and hose; three sons Thomas, Matthew and
James, before mentioned, residue of estate to be qually divided between them except that half the wheat, after James hath his, is to be divided between Thomas and Matthew, and 2 COWS called Nanny and Cherry and one cow calfe and half an ox which I give to son James and other half of said ox to son Thomas; residue of goods and chattles to be equally divided between sons Thomas and Matthew; sons Thomas and James executors.
Witnesses: Joseph Tanner, John X Cocke.

December 1, 1697, Thomas Branch of County and Parish of Henrico to John Cocke and Obedience, his wife, the daughter and one of the coheirs of John Branch, late deceased. For L 5 sterling, conveys 100 acres at "Kingsland" or near thereto in county aforesaid, formerly given to Jane (the grandmother of said Obedience), and wife of William Branch (son of Christopher Branch) and father to John Branch, and to the heirs of said William Branch as by deed on record in Henrico Court may appear, etc."
(Henrico Records, Vol. 1697-1704, P. 39.)

Branch, Thomas James (I46767)

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from William Prescott's Genealogical Memoir of the Prescott Families in America. 1870

Mr. P. sold his lands in Shevington, parish of Standish, in Lancashire, to Richard Prescott of Wigan, and removed into Yorkshire, residing for some time in Sowerby, in the parish of Halifax, where several of his children were born. From conscientious motives, and to avoid per secution, he left his native land, his cherished home in Yorkshire, to seek an asylum in the wilderness of America. He first landed at Barbadoes in 1638, where he became an owner of lands. In 1640 he came to New England, landed at Boston, and immediately settled in Watertown, where he had large grants of lands allotted him. But in 1 643 he associated himself with Thomas King and others, for the purpose of purchasing of Sholan, the Indian Sachem of the Nashaway tribe of Indians, a tract of land for a township, which tract was to be ten miles in length and eight in breadth.

p. 35

A Brief History of the Negotiation and Purchase from Sholan, Chief of the Nashaway tribe of Indians, of the territory of which the town of Lancaster, Mass.. was afterward composed; together with its subsequent settlement, and ite suffering and final destruction by fire by the Indians. " Early in the seventeenth century, some eight years before the set tlement of Plymouth, many of the tribes of Massachusetts Indians had been swept over by a dreadful pestilence, reducing their numbers from many thousands to a few hundreds. In this severe affliction the Nashaway tribe suffered, though not equally with the others. The Nasbaways had also been greatly reduced by the wars and incursions of the Maquas or Mohawks, a powerful and warlike tribe on the Mohawk River, N. Y. This tribe had become the scourge and terror of all the New England Indians. These circumstances induced the peaceful Sholan, the Sachem of the Nasbaways, to seek the friendship and protection of the English. Sholan occasionally visited Watertown for the purpose of trading with Mr. Thomas King, who resided there. He recommended Nashawogg as a place well suited for a plantation. ' He told King of the choice intervales, the woods and waters abounding in supplies, — that the Great Spirit had been very bountiful to the place, and that his people would rejoice in the presence of that great people who had come from a distant world.1 "* Finally King decides to visit the place, perilous though the undertak ing might seem. He accordingly takes the journey through the wilderness, and becomes enamoured with the place and returns to Watertown. He makes such favorable report of the adaptation of the territory to agricultural and mechanical purposes, &c., that in 1643 he enters into an association and agreement with John Prescott of Watertown, Harmon Garrett of Charlestown, Thomas Skidmore of Cambridge, Stephen Day of Cambridge (the earliest printer in any of the colonies), a Mr. Simonds, and sundry others whose names have not been transmitted, for the pur pose of purchasing the tract (ten miles by eight, as above stated). According to Mr. Willard, in his elaborate address at the two-hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of Lancaster, the above purchase was made, and the territory of Nashaway first " opened upon the view of the white man while the good Sholan or Shaumaun exercised a peaceful rule in this, his little empire, over the tribe of the Nashaways. His principal place of residence was on a gentle eminence, between the two lakes of the Washacum in Chocksett (a corruption or contraction of Woonksechaucksett or Woonksechatixett), now Sterling." The purchasers entered into an agreement to appear and begin the plantation at a specified time. The deed of Sholan was sanctioned by the General Court, but there were many circumstances which combined to retard the growth of the plantation, all the associates except Mr. Prescott refusing or neglecting to fulfill their contracts, though choosing to retain their interest in the property purchased. It is stated by Sir. Willard that "one only of the associates, John Prescott the stalwart blacksmith, was ' faithful among the faithless.' He turned not back, but vigorously pursued the interests of the plantation till his exertions were crowned with success." Mr. Prescott having chosen this for his future home, he with others petitioned for a bridge over Sudbury River. But the subject being delayed by the General Court, Mr. Prescott, nothing daunted, attempts the perilous adventure of swimming his horse across Sudbury River in the autumn of 1646, but unfortunately he lost his horse and lading in the river, escaping with his own life only. About one week later, his wife and children being upon another horse, attempted to pass the river and came near being drowned. Upon this narrow escape Mr. Willard utters the following significant reflection : " One plunge more by that last horse, or a little deeper water, and American literature would not now be graced by the brilliant classic history of Ferdinand and Isabella, of the Conquest of Mexico, and the Conquest of Peru." To which may since be added, The Life of Charles the Fifth. The settlement at Nashaway was treated by the General Court with indifference and culpable neglect. They had repeatedly been denied those little helps and aids which are so essential to all new settlements. The inhabitants petitioned for an act of incorporation, and asked that it be known by the name of Prescott. The General Court objects, quibbles about a name, pretending that " it smacked too much of man- worship or man-service." The question was finally settled by a compromise, and it was on the 18th day of May, old style (28th of May, new style), 1653, incorporated into a township by the name of Lancaster. This was in honor of Mr. Prescott, it being the name of his native county in England. Mr. Prescott has the reputation of being the first settler in Nashaway, now Lancaster, although Mr. Willard remarks that Richard Linton, Lawrence Waters, his son-in-law, and John Ball, were the first inhabitants, and that they had tilled the soil and were ready to receive Mr. Prescott on his arrival. I do not see this stated by any other writer, and if correct they might be hired and sent there by Mr. Pres cott and others to prepare for their own accommodation when they should remove there. The phrase that " they had tilled the soil and were ready to receive Mr. Prescott on his arrival " is significant of this fact. At the time of the incorporation there were but nine families in the town. In one year, that is, by the spring of 1654, there were twenty families there. In answer to a petition of the inhabitants of the plantation, John Prescott, Thomas Sawyer (who married Mary, the eldest daughter of Mr. Prescott), Edward Breck, Nathaniel Hadlock, William Kerley and Ralph Houghton were appointed prudential managers of the town by the General Court. Mr. Prescott was a genuine and influential member of the original Puritan stock of New England. Like most of the early emigrants to New England, he left his native home to escape the relentless persecutions with which the Puritans and non-conformists were harassed. Like many of his contemporaries, he was a man of marked character, devoting his time to mechanical and agricultural pursuits, which were well calculated to fit and prepare him for the trials and hardships incident to, and inseparable from, the early settlers joined pioneers of the wilderness of America. He soon became distinguished among his compeers, and had not long to wait for an opportunity to develop his genius and bravery. At a very early day he became a leading spirit, and a prominent and influential man, as very many of his descendants have been in each and every subsequent generation, and to him more than to any other is to be attributed the successful issue of that laborious and hazardous enterprise of settling on the " Nashaway " and of subduing the wilderness and converting the soil into fruitful fields and productive meadows. Mr. Prescott was a man of strict integrity and of great energy and perseverance. Having also a commanding influence, he took an active part in all measures calculated to improve and enhance the interest and prosperity of the town. He took the oath of fidelity in 1652, and was admitted a freeman in 1669. By occupation, he was not only an agriculturist, but both a blacksmith and millwright. In Nov., 1658, he received a grant of land of the inhabitants, on condition that he would build a "corn mill". He built the mill in season to commence grinding '. on the 23d of the next May 1654. The erection of a saw mill soon followed. " The town voted that if he would erect one he should have the grant of certain privileges and a large tract of land lying near his mill, for him and his posterity forever, and to be more exactly record-d when exactly known. In consideration of these provisions ' Goodman Prescott,' forthwith erected his mill. Its location was on the spot where the Lancaster Manufacturing Company have extensive works. The people from all the neighboring towns came to Prescott's grist mill. The stone of this mill was brought from England, and now lies in fragments in the vicinity of the factory."

Prescott, John Sr (I98)

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from William Prescott's Prescott Families in America1870

P 39 Mr. Prescott had in his possession, and which he brought with him from England, a coat of mail, armor and habiliments complete, such as were worn by warriors of that and preceding ages ; hence it is inferred that some of his ancestors had been warriors, and probably had received the order of knighthood. It has been stated and believed that John had himself served under Cromwell. Of this armor and its owner the following anecdotes are related: " Mr. Prescott, being a strong athletic man and of a stern counte nance, whenever he had any difficulty with the Indians, would clothe himself with his coat of mail, helmet, cuirass and gorget, which gave him a fierce and frightful appearance. The Indians at one time having stolen from him a horse, he put on his armor and pursued them, and in a short time overtook them. They were surprised that he should venture to pursue them alone, and a chief approached him with uplifted tomahawk. Mr. Prescott told him to strike, which he did, and finding the blow made no impression on his cap, was greatly astonished, and asked Mr. P. to let him put on, and then strike it while on his head, as he had done when on Mr. Prescott's head. The helmet being too small for the head of the chief, the stroke settled the helmet down to his ears, scraping off the skin on both sides of his head. They then gave him up his horse, supposing him to be something more than human." " At another time the Indians set fire to his barn. Old John put on his armor, rushed out, drove them off and let out his cattle and horses from the burning stable." " Again the Indians set fire to his saw mill. The old hero, armed cap-a-pie, as before, drove them off and extinguished the fire. At another time they attacked his house. He had several muskets but no one in the house, save his wife, to assist him. She loaded the guns and he discharged them with fatal effect. The contest continued for nearly half an hour, Mr. Prescott all the while giving orders as if to soldiers, so loud that the Indians could hear him, to load their muskets, though he had no soldiers but his wife. At length they withdrew carrying off several of their dead or wounded."* On another occasion, as is related of him, sundry Indians made their appearance at his old mill, and hoisted the water gate, when he, Pres cott, took his favorite gunfi which he brought with him from England,

P 40 heavily loaded, and started toward the mill, when the Indians retired to the hills near by. Having shut down the gate and fixed the mill, Mr. Prescott concluded it prudent to retire to his house or garrison, but did so backward, with his eye upon the foe until he reached his home, when the Indians gave a whoop, such as none but Indians can give ; when Mr. Prescott concluded to give them a specimen of his sharp- shooting, upon which (to use a new coined term) they skedadled. Upon afterward visiting the place, blood was plainly seen upon the ground.

Prescott, John Sr (I98)

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From: "The Complete Book Of Emigrants 1607-1776"
At College Land, Henrico Co., 23 Jan. 1622?
Lieutenant Thomas Osborne by Bona Nova Noveber 1619; servants Daniell Sherley 30 by Bona Nova 1619,
Peeter Jorden 22 by London Merchant 1620,
Richard Davis 16 by Jonathan 1620.
Richard Lapworth by Abigail.
John Watson by William & Thomas.
Edward Hobson by Bona Nova 1619.
Christopher Branch by London Merchant; Mary his wife by the same ship; Thomas his son 9 months.
William Browinge by Bona Nova.
Matthew Edlow by Neptune 1618.
William Weldon by Bona Nova 1619.
Francis Wilton by Jonathan.
Ezekiah Raughton by Bona Nova; Margrett his wife by Warwick. William Price by Star.
Robert Campion by Bona Nova.
Leonard Moore by Bona Nova.
Thomas Baugh by Supply.
Thomas Parker by Neptune.
Theoder Moyses by London Merchant.

Christopher Branch came by the London Merchant in 1620, and was at "College Land" after the massacre of 1622. Christopher had a son Thomas only 9 months old at that time.

Christopher came to Virginia in the ship London Merchant in March, 1619-1620, and settled in the present Henrico County where they were living "att ye Colledg Land" in February 1623-4 with their son Thomas 2 Branch, nine months old. Christopher" Branch later patented land and first lived at or near Arrowhattocks on the north side of James River finally settling at Kingsland on the south side of the river (almost opposite Arrowhattocks) in the present Chesterfield County, near Proctor's Creek, at that time, and for many years afterwards, Henrico.

Christopher' Branch was one of the viewers of tobacco in Henrico in 1639 and in an Assembly convened January 1639 was one of the representatives for Henrico County.

The lineage of Christopher Branch:
i. Lionel Branch of London
m. Valentia Sparke
ii. Richard Branch of Abingdon, in Berkshire, England, born ante 1509 died 1544 (the earliest identified ancestor of this family).
iii.-1. Thomas Branch, of London, draper, who, dying in 1565 without issue,
iii.-2. William Branch (born post 1524; died 1602) had, as eldest son, Thomas Branch, who died in 1603, without giving issue, and as second son,
ii. Christopher" Branch was b. 1602, England d. Virginia, 1681 m. Mary Addie, spinster, daughter of Francis Addie, of Darten, County York, husbandman. w. September 2, 1619, St. Peter's, Westcheap, London
iii. William Branch d. before his father m. Jane
iii. Thomas Branch (Christopher 1) of Henrico County. He was born 1620; died about 1694 or 5. He lived on a part of the "Kingsland" tract on the south side of James River, Henrico County. Thomas Branch married Elizabeth (whose surname is unknown).
* Thomas 2 and Elizabeth Branch, had issue:
iv.-1. Thomas3 Branch, of Henrico County.
iv.-2. Matthew 3 Branch, of Henrico County.
iv.-3. James 3 Branch, of Henrico County.
iv.-4. Elizabeth 3 Branch married Melchizedeck Richardson.*
iv.-5. Martha 3 Branch married Richard Ward.*
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The will of Edward Deeley, of Henrico Parish and County, dated October 18, 1688, probated June 1, 1689, makes bequests as follows: to cousin Matthew Branch, land and plantation, all tobacco I have in hands of William Glover and John Davis will all materials provided to go towards the house now building and what remain-.; unfinished to be at said Branch's cost; to said Branch a negro during term of ten years and then lie to be free; to James Branch, a cow and calf; to each of Thomas Branch, Junr' his daughters, one cow; to Richard Ward's daughter, a cow; to
Robert Broadway. my horse; to Dorothy Blackman, a young mare, to William Blackman, Junr, John Blackman, Elizabeth B1ackman, Henrico Parish Church, John Bromfield, William Blackman, Charles Douglasse, Mr. Good, Joshua Step, and William Glover, bequests; my brother Thomas Jefferson, executor (Henrico Records).
note: "Cousin" applied to Matthew Branch may have meant nephew, as that was the common acceptation of the term at this date.
*Elizabeth, wife of Thomas may have been Deeley's sister.

>From the WM & MARY Quarterly:
The will of Thomas Branch, Senior, of Renrico County, dated 25th 8br [October] 1688 was proved in Henrico County in February 1694. He alludes to himself as "being in a sickly Cracy Condition but of sound and perfect memory" [evidently his "Cracy Condition" was physical, not mental!]. To my three sons, Thomas, Matthew and James, 5 shillings each; residue of goods and chattles to wife Elizabeth, but should she die before testator then said goods and chattles to be equally divided between testator's aforesaid 3 sons "only I give to my two daughter Elizabeth Richardson and Martha Ward, s shillings each to buy a ring. Wife, Elizabeth, whole and sole executrix. Witnesses: William Glover, Christopher Branch, Ann Branch.

The will of Elizabeth Branch, Senior, of Varina Parish, Henrico County, dated 2 August 1697, was proved 20 August 1697. To son Thomas Branch, bed that standeth with the head to the partition on the left hand the door as one cometh in, with all furniture belonging thereto, also 5 pair sheets (one pair being Holland), my long table and form, a great copper kettle, an iron pot known by the name of the long pot, and one betmettle skillet; son Matthew Branch, 1 pair "new curtains and vallens to the I)ed he hath had already," five pair sheets (one being Holland),
chest of drawers, drawing table and small forme, biggest brass kettle, second great pot, one pot called the new pot being made of iron, chafing dish, pair fire dogs; son James Branch, feather bed that standeth on the right hand as one cometh from the door to the chimney with the curtains and vallens and all other furniture belonging to said bed; 5 pair sheets (one being Holland) half this present crop of wheat, one great iron pot, one small iron pot, small brass kettle, negro Man Mingo; daughter Elizabeth Richardson, suit of wearing clothes, my riding gown. and twelve pence in money; son-in-law Melchizedeck Richardson, half crown to buy him a pair of gloves; son-in-law Richard Ward, half crown to buy him a pair of gloves; granddaughter Martha Branch, all my wearing clothes in general, linneii and wollen, shoes and hose; three sons Thomas, Matthew and James, before mentioned, residue of estate to be qually divided between them except that half the wheat, after James hath his, is to be divided between Thomas and Matthew, and 2 COWS called Nanny and Cherry and one cow calfe and half an ox which I give to son James and other half of said ox to son Thomas; residue of goods and chattles to be equally divided between sons Thomas and Matthew; sons Thomas and James executors.
Witnesses: Joseph Tanner, John X Cocke.

* December 1, 1697, Thomas Branch of County and Parish of Henrico to John Cocke and Obedience, his wife, the daughter and one of the coheirs of John Branch, late deceased. For L 5 sterling, conveys 100 acres at "Kingsland" or near thereto in county aforesaid, formerly given to Jane (the grandmother of said Obedience), and wife of William Branch (son of Christopher Branch) and father to John Branch, and to the heirs of said William Branch as by deed on record in Henrico Court may appear, etc. (Henrico Records, Vol. 1697-1704, P. 39.)

3- William 2 Branch (Christopher 1) of Henrico County, who died in 1676, many years before his father.* He married Jane and they had:
i. William 3 Branch, who died without issue.
ii. John 3 Branch, of whom hereafter.
iii. Sarah 3 Branch, nothing further is known of her.
iv. Mary 3 Branch, married first, Thomas Jefferson; second, Joseph Mattox**

name of Mrs. Jane Branch-Baugh-Gower has proved, so far, fruitless. She was born about 1640 (Deposition, made Xber 1, 1688, stating her age as about 48 years. Henrico Records, ( Vol. 1688-97, p. 25.) The will of Jane Gower, of Parish and County of Henrico, dated December 7, 1709 was proved in Henrico Court January, 1710; grandson William Cox mid my daughter Mary Cox, all my outlands; granddaughters, Obedience Turpin and Priscilla Wilkinson, to be equally divided between them, the land I now live on called the great Stone; grandson William Farrar, feather bed, rugg, pair blankets, pair sheets, pillow and boul-ster, grandson Abel Farrar, feather bed, boulster, pillow, blanket, rug and pair sheets; granddaughter Mary Womack, four silver spoons; granddaughter Mary
Wilkinson 4 silver spoons; granddaughter Obedience Turpin, four silver spoons; granddaughter Martha Wilkerson. chest of drawers, oval table, diaper table cloth. one dozen napkins; to Priscilla Farrar. bed, boulster, blanket, rug; to John Spike, bed he lies on with furniture thereto belonging; to William NVomeck, two breeding sow; daughter Mary Cox, all stock except 2 cows; granddaughter Priscilla Farrar. silver porringer; my sister Hatcher, damask gown and petticoat; grandson Abell Farrar, iron pot, silver tumbler, table standing in the chamber, two pewter dishes; granddaughter Priscilla Farrar, iron pot, table with drawer in it, pewter
dish; grandson William Farrar, 2 pewter dislies. my biggest tumbler, silver;
granddaughter Judith Womack, box iron and heaters; daughter Mrs. Mary Cox, residue of estate and she named as executrix. (Henrico Records, Vol. 1710-I714, p. 35.)
The mention of "my sister Hatcher" in Mrs. Jane Gower's will but serves to make the problem of Mrs. Gower's family name more intricate. It must suffice here to state that no positive, and very little circumstantial, evidence has been adduced to settle the question. The statement in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. XVII, p. 401, that Mrs. Jane Gower was the daughter of Edward Hatcher of Henrico is erroneous as the only Edward Hatcher (of that period) was born about 1633 (Henrico Records) and was therefore only about seven years old at the time of Mrs. Gower's birth.
* For an account of the Jefferson descent see Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. XXIII, p. 173, et seq.

County, was born about 1658 (Henrico Records, Vol. 1710-14, p. 48), and died in 1728. In a deed dated December 2, 1697, be is called "Thomas Branch, the eldest sons of Thomas Branch, who was the eldest son of Christopher Branch, late of Henrico, deceased" (Henrico Records). Thomas Branch married Elizabeth, daughter of George Archer, of Henrico County.

The will of Thomas Branch, of Henrico County, dated December 4, 1727, was probated December, 1728

Henrico County Orphans Court 12 October, 1688, "Mr. Joseph Royall Guard of ye orphon of Geo Archer decd doth give acct that he bath taken up two mares belonging to ye Orphs one of which he hath deld to Tho Branch who marryed Eliza Archer (one of ye sd Orphs) wch delvy ye sd Branch in Court acknowledgeth and ye other he hath exchanged wth Sam" Knibb for another wch now hath a foal." Henrico Records, Orphans Court 1677-99, p. 23.

Will of Thomas Branch, dated December 4, 1727, probated December, 1728, son Thomas, negro girl Hannah, large copper kettle, high bed and bedstead, rug, blankets, curtains, vallence, pair best sheets, boulster and cases (standing in upper chamber on right hand of the stairs), great looking glass, chest of drawers in the lower chamber, six largest Russia chairs leather, silver tumbler, gun, large table cloth and form, pair andirons, large iron pot called the soap pot; son William, negro boy Tom, negro girl Sarah, bed in ye chamber, bedstead, rug, blanket, pair sheets, great chest in lower room, one bole, six Russia leather chairs of the second sort, three silver spoons, oval table, brass kettle about 18 or 20 gallons; son James 280 acres land on deep bottom of Proctor's Creek, negro
woman Pegg, two negro children Matt and Jack, bed, bedstead, rug, blanket, sheets "which his brother Thomas and he airways lie on," new iron pot and pot hooks, 3 silver spoons, six of the old high leather chairs; daughters Tabitha Mitchell, Agnes Worsham, Elizabeth Punch, Frances Tanner, Amey Branch, each 10 shillings credit in a London store, daughter Mary Tatum L 16 credit in some London store; daughter Martha, bed and bedstead, rug, blanket and sheets "which she and her sister now lies on in the lower chamber" and 12 shillings to buy a ring, one chest that she calls hers; daughter Margery, L 8 currency to buy a bed; sons William and James, 3 old guns; wife Elizabeth during widowhood. for maintenance
of her and her family labor and benefit of 3 negros, viz. - Mingo, Doley, and
Peter and if she marries said Mingo and Doley to my son Thomas, said Peter to my son James; wife Elizabeth, during life, use, profits and increase of residue of personal estate and my goods movable and immovable and all crop now on plantation except legacies herein mentioned, and after daughters -who are unmarried. Wife Elizabeth, executrix and guardian to all my children that are under age. Witnesses: Richard Ward, Junior, Higginson X King, Charles Griffith. Henrico Records, Vol. 1725-37, p. 221 ).

Thomas Branch, of Henrico, later Chesterfield County. His will bears date October 30, 1765, and recorded in Chesterfield County, devises to William Branch, land and plantation whereon my brother William Branch formerly lived on Appomattox
River; residue of estate to Henry Mitchell, Edward Osborne, Robert Goode, son of Robert Goode, deceased, Josiah Tatum, Branch Tanner, Christopher Branch, Tho Branch Willson and John Goode, and they are named as executors. (Chesterfield County Will Book, No. i, p. 536.)

William Branch, of Henrico, later Chesterfield County. The will of William Branch, of Henrico, dated October 4, 1741, and recorded in Chesterfield County, devised to brother Thomas Branch, whole estate real and personal and he is named as executor. (Chesterfield County Will Book, No. 1, P. 336.)

James Branch, of Henrico County, will dated August 5, 1736, probate October, 1737, devises to sister Martha Branch, a negro girl; to sister Margery Branch, a negro girl; brother Thomas Branch L 10 currency; brothers Thomas and William Branch, residue of estate and they are named as executor.-,. Witnesses: John
Worsham, Edward Osborne, Jr.; Josiah Tatum. (Henrico Records, Vol. 1725-37.)

Tabitha Branch married Mitchell.

Agnes Branch married, first, Edward Osborne; second, John Worsham. Administration on the estate of Edward Osborne, deceased, was granted to Agnes Osborne, at Henrico Court September 1724. Benjamin Branch and Thomas Branch, Jr., sureties
(Henrico Records, Vol. 1719-24). On October 11, 1726, John Worsham, Jr, and Agnes, his wife, convey two negroes (Lucy and Sarali) to said Agnes' sons William and Joseph Osborne (Henrico Records, Vol. 1725-37, p. 62).

Elizabeth 4 Branch married first, Robert Goode; second, Page Punch; third, Edward Curd

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from: http://home.clara.net/wfha/wales/listfram.htm
EDWARDS, Thomas N., b. Oct 14, 1690, Denbighshire, son of John EDWARDS. Thomas m.
Mar 14, 1714, to Isabella DOWNING, b. 1692. Children: Robert, b. Feb 24, 1716; Joshua, b.
Mar 11, 1718; William, b. Apr 9, 1720, d. 1816; Thomas, b. Jul 7, 1723; Leonard, b. May 20,
1725; John, b. 1727; Jacob, b. 1729; Martha, b. 1731; Soloman; and Frankie. The family
emigrated ca. 1740 to North Carolina, USA. Thomas d. ca. 1760/62; Isabella d. 1783.
Submitted by: Robert Edwards

Edwards, Thomas (I30)

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From: http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/gonzalesrangersf-k.htm
Galba Fuqua, 16, was born in Alabama, a Gonzales resident and Private rifleman in the Gonzales Rangers. The Fuqua family are said to have originated with French immigrant William Fuqua (Farqua) (married Jane) to the American colony of Virginia as early as 1685. According to descendant Gerald Duvall, William Farqua came to America fleeing Catholic persecution, had a son Ralph Fuqua who had a son Joseph, the father of Silas, Benjamin and Ephraim Fuqua. Both Ralph and Joseph served in the American Revolution against the British. Galba Fuqua was the son of Silas and Sally Taney Fuqua. After wife Sally’s death between 1825 and 1828, Silas went to Texas with his children where he died in 1834. A letter to Stephen F. Austin from Silas Fuqua of 28 Mar 1828 expressed satisfaction with Texas and inquired about assistance and information. Silas Fuqua’s land grant was on the east bank of the San Marcos River in current CaldwellCo on the GonzalesCo line. According to his land certificate, Silas Fuqua arrived in the DeWitt Colony with a family of 6 on 11 May 1830. Galba Fuqua’s single uncle Benjamin Fuqua also came to the DeWitt Colony in 1830 where he received a quarter sitio of land on the west bank of the San Marcos just north of the Silas Fuqua league. Ben Fuqua was purported to be a mechanic and mercantile business man who owned a structure called "Luna" in inner Gonzales town on his brother Silas Fuqua's town lots. It may have been a blacksmith or mercantile business although some have speculated that it might have been a Grog Shop alluded to by author Edwards in his 1836 Texas which he critically termed "the center of attraction for both young and old of the Texians". Benjamin Fuqua married Nancy King (they had a daughter Mary), older sister of William King, also a member of the Gonzales Relief force. Family legends say that both Galba and Benjamin Fuqua were treated like sons by John and Parmelia King after the death of Silas Fuqua and the marriage of Benjamin to Nancy King. Legend says that teenage Relief Force members John Gaston, Galba Fuqua and William King were all good friends as well as the three families. Susannah Dickerson, a survivor of the Alamo related that during the battle Galba Fuqua burst into the Alamo chapel where she was hiding and he tried to tell her something.Because both jaws were broken, she could not understand him before he rushed back to the battle.

Fuqua, Galba (I20304)

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From: http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/oldgonzales18.htm#fuqua
Benjamin Fuqua first joined the Austin Colony in 1828, but moved to the DeWitt Colony in 1830where he received a quarter league of land as a single man on the San Marcos River north of Gonzales just inside current Guadalupe County. The following letter from Richard Ellis in Alabama recommended the Fuquas to Stephen F. Austin:
"State of Alabama, Town of Tuscumbia 3rd Jany. 1828 D COLO I beg leave to introduce to your aquantence and notice Mr Silus, Ephram and Benjmn Fuqua and Mr Job Ingram and Kye Ingram, these Gentlemen have emigrated to your Coloney to become permanent settlers---The Mr Fuquas are Mechanics. two of them of the best kind; they are honest and respectable men and are determined to suport the Government to which they go, I have had much conversation with Mr Silus Fuqua, on the present and future prospects of your coloney; and tho he has never seen it, he has a most corect idea of its great advantages, you will find him an inteligent man and I have no doubt will be an acquisition to your Setlement, I have known these gentlemen twelve years, the Mr Ingrams I have not known personaly but from their universal good character and the Gentlemen they go with, I feel no hesitation to recomend them to your attention...........RICHARD ELLIS."
Benjamin was a representative from the Austin Municipality and a signer of the Declaration of the People of Texas declaring the intention of Texans to fight for the restoration of the Constitution of 1824 and support of a separate state of Texas within the Republic of Mexico. He was a mechanic (artisan) and mercantile businessman and was said to have owned the structure in inner Gonzales town called Luna which has been suggested as possibly one of the Grog Shops alluded to in David Edwards History of Texas. It may simply have been Benjamin Fuqua's general business establishment. Luna was on property deeded to Benjamin's brother Silas Fuqua who was a neighbor of John King. Benjamin Fuqua married King's oldest daughter Nancy. Benjamin Fuqua's nephew, Galba Fuqua and nephew by marriage, William King (Nancy King Fuqua's brother), were members of the Gonzales Relief Force to the Alamo and both died there in Mar 1836.

Fuqua, Silas (I15122)

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FROM: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gibbs-191

Mathew was listed as a "Planter" in Charlestown. Accord to [Savage] he "was of Charlestown, Suffolk Co, MA prior to 1654" He relocated his family to Sudbury, Middlesex Co, MA Lived the balance of his life in greater Sudbury. He and his sons were Soldiers in the King Philip's war (1675-78).

Mathew Gibbs was born in about 1615 in an unknown, unproven location. He is NOT listed in the Lenham, Kent, England Parish Records.

Mathew was a deponent in a Middlesex Co., Massachusetts case in 1673 where he stated that he was 58 years of age, so Mathew was born about 1615. (from Gibbs researcher David Charles Gibbs)

Possible parents: Are Unknown and not confirmed. (Gibbs researcher David Charles Gibbs, has a posted Rant on these errors, and why he can't have Five dads) Listed as Henry, William, Stephan, Thomas and John.

Note: There is some evidence to indicate his father was Henry, a manservant of Edmund Hobart (also a direct descendant of John Putnam). At this time, I do not have enough evidence to conclude this. JEP 1-1999

Immigration and Residences
We do not have any proof or records to confirm his immigration. [Farmers] claimed a Mathew Gibbs was in New Haven in 1639, he is first recorded in a Charlestown Land record in 1650 and relocated to Sudbury. Middlesex Co in Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Was in Charlestown, MA between 1650-54, when he moved to Sudbury, MA. Received grant of land in 1659 and 1670 which he called "Lanham". In 1673 and 1678, he purchased additional land to add to his farm.

Mathew Gibbs married Mary Bradish about 1651 at Sudbury / Charlestown / Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mary Bradish's parents were Robert Bradish (d.1659) and Mary (Howe) Bradish who died at Cambridge in September 1638. Robert remarried by 1639 Vashti (unknown) Morrill, widow. In the probate of Robert Bradish's will is recorded his daughter Mary and her husband Mathew Gibbs who she married by 1652. Based upon this record Mathew Gibbs was admitted to Charlestown church 23 September 1652.

Children:
Mary
Hannah
Matthew Jr. a Twin
Thomas a Twin
Elizabeth
Thomas 3rd son
John - last child.

Mathew Gibbs and Mary Bradish's known children were:

Elizabeth, whose birth is not documented who is mentioned in her father's will as being the wife of John R______ of Duxbury, MA.
John , b. abt 1662, Sudbury, MA; d. 2 Apr 1718 in Lanham, MA; m. 27 Apr 1688 Anne Gleason who was b. abt 1668 at Sherborn, MA and d. 1692.

Death
He died about 1666 in Sudbury, Massachusetts. Massachusetts.

5 Jul 1697: "Agreement of "ye Widow and Children of Mathew gibbs Sen'r late of Sudbury in ye County of Midd'x in ye Province of ye Massachusetts Bay in New England husband man dece'd", mentioning "ye widow Mary Gibbs", "her Son in Law John Russell of Duxbury in ye County of Plimouth who married w'th Elisabeth one of ye Daughter of ye s'd Dece'd", "her two Sonnes Mathew Gibbs & John Gibbs", "Sam'll Winch who married w'th Hanah another of ye Daughters of s'd Dece'd", "Thomas ffrost who married w'th Mary another of ye Daughters of ye s'd Mathew Gibbs Dece'd", signed and acknowledged by Mary Gibbs, Mathew Gibbs, John Gibbs, John Russell, Sam'll Wwinch & Thomas ffrost." (Massachusetts Probate Court, 1648-1967)

Mathew Gibbs died in 1697. His Will was probated 5 July 1697 at Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. In his will he mentions his widow Mary Gibbs; son-in-law John Ru__ew(?) of Duxbury who married daughter Elizabeth.

Gibbs is large family from England and Scotland dating back to the Norman Conquest and in Normandy a long history too. The name is a diminutive of the Norman Guiselbertus which was shortened first to Gilbert and then to Gibbs.

A Gibbs family came from Fenton Manor in Darlington Parish, Devonshire, England.

Gibbs, Matthew (I1470)

2221

From: The Morehead Family of North Carolina and Virginia by: John Motley Morehead III, published in 1921 Found digitized at: archive.org and openlibrary.org Pages 45-50, Digital pages 147-157 John Morehead, who may be called the IVth, his (great) grandfather, John, being the 1st, was born in Pittsylvania county, and in 1790 was married to Miss Obedience Motley (1768-1863), daughter of Captain Joseph Motley, of Amelia County. Captain Motley was of Welsh descent and a member of the Church of England, but of them more will be said later. Of John Morehead IV and his family, who later made their home in Rockingham County, North Carolina, his granddaughter, Mrs. Annie Morehead Whitfield, has left record that “his accomplishments and occupations were so varied that as need might be, he could and did officiate as a squire and marry people, or pray with the sick and dying; and that earlier in his career he had taught dancing school, when young Obedience Motley, one of his pupils, sometimes worried him so that he would lay the fiddle bow on her shoulders and remonstrate vehemently.” She says he “built Mt. Carmel Church near their home in Rockingham County.” She also gives a letter from Colonel James T. Scales of “Thornfield”, Henry County, Virginia, dated March 28, 1892, in which it is said: “Our grandfather (John Morehead, Rockingham, NC) was a grand old man, far ahead of his age, hence his misfortunes. Slavery slowed the development of the country, and in vain he tried to accomplish what he saw was bound to be in the future. Had he lived north of Mason and Dixon, he would have been a splendid success. The Moreheads got their intellect from him, and his moral nature was of the highest order. He thanked Providence for everything sent, joys or afflictions. His wife told him she believed if he broke a leg, he would thank Providence. ‘Yes, Biddy (his abbreviation of Obedience), I would, because it was not my neck’, was the reply... As each of his children would leave the paternal roof to try his fortunes in the world, with hand on head his parting benediction was, ‘Remember, my child, death before dishonor.’ Generous to a fault, ‘his pity gave ere his charity began.’ It was enough for him to know and see the suffering of a fellow creature.” He is said to have been about a dozen years older than his wife. “He is the central figure in our pedigree,” adds Colonel Scales, “rising above all others.” Mrs. Whitfield adds: “He was a poet, a soldier, a planter, fond of the chase and of the companions of life, whether old or young; he was a great favorite with all who knew him. He was quite young when he went into the Revolutionary Army (supposed to be eighteen); was in the command of General Greene in the celebrated campaign including the battle of Cowpens, and the famous retreat through North Carolina to Guilford Court House. He was not in the battle there, however, as he had been detailed to take charge of prisoners. His canteen, containing two compartments, is still shown (at that date) with other relics, by my brother Jimmie. (Later) This canteen is deposited in the Museum at the Guilford Battle Ground...He died at the old home in Rockingham and is buried with his family there...He never applied for a pension or bounty, nor did his widow, because their patriotism led them still to spare their country, already so impoverished.” His wife, Mrs. Obedience (Motley) Morehead, lived to be ninety five years old, dying, in 1863, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Annie Morehead Hobson, at Mocksville, Davie County, North Carolina, so that she was born in 1768. As a child she knew some of the horrors of the Revolution. She was one of ten children, who were early orphaned through the treachery of a Tory friend, and her young life so beclouded with sorrows that she never afterward could look upon a motherless child without tears and sympathy. She must have been handsome and wise, too, in her youth, as her beloved father (Captain Joseph Motley) seemed to have been companion and teacher and so impressed upon her his ideas of integrity and honor that her old age was characterized by an almost sternness to herself and unflinching discharge of what she considered her duty...She remembered the ‘Red Coats’ with vivid repugnance, as they often frightened her and the other little ones by their raids upon the peaceful mother and children, writes Mrs. Annie Morehead Whitfield. Her father, Captain Joseph Motley, who had fought under Colonel Washington in the French and Indian Wars and was at Braddock’s defeat, was too old to be in service, but six of his sons were, and not expecting women and children to be in danger, he was hidden in the woods when the raids occurred so that he might be left to care for his family. The meat and provisions were hidden also, and only the children and ‘good old Rachel’ knew where, continues the record. She said she used to climb upon the fence and look up and down the road to see if the ‘Red Coats’ would come and find these and thus relieve her childish bosom which was bursting with the mighty secret. And one day, while the mother was sick in bed, and caring for a young infant, there came galloping into the yard a number of Tories. Rushing into the house they demanded: Where’s Captain Motley? Where are his sons? Where are your provisions? Give us something to eat. And scattering the little flock of frightened children, one of them, a neighbor and so called friend exclaimed, Why, Mrs. Motley, you need bleeding and I shall bleed you! No, no! was the reply, bleeding would kill me in this condition!’ But, seizing her arm, despite her struggles and cries, he pierced the vein with his knife, and the little children saw the red life blood spouting from the dear mother’s arm as she fainted away into unconsciousness...The Tories hurried away; the good servant applied restoratives and brought back the dying mother to temporary life, ere the father came to his home. Seeing his wife’s condition, and knowing what must be the consequences, he seized his gun and started out vowing vengeance upon the murderer; but the good mother called him back, importuning for their children’s sake that he think not of vengeance: I must die, and you would probably be killed in the struggle and who will take care of the little ones? He put aside the gun, to soothe and comfort, if possible, the dying hours. The mother’s grave was carefully guarded by Rachel, and every day she and the children carried rice and other food there. This must have been a relic of Rachel’s African superstition. Long years afterwards, when the little Obedience had become a wife and mother, with a home of her own whose doors ever stood open to the stranger, with old-time hospitality, there came, on a dreary, wintry evening, a party of travelers, asking a night’s shelter and rest, bespeaking favor especially for an aged sick man who was lying, very feeble, in one of their wagons. The husband, John Morehead, with his wonted cordiality, bade them welcome, and soon had every one busy providing for the comfort of the guests. The sick man was borne into the ‘big room,’ as the parlor was then called, his couch drawn near the fire there, rather than have him carried away upstairs. The supper made ready and eaten, Grandpa (John Morehead) came into the back room and tenderly taking his wife aside, said: Whom do you think you have fed and nourished? The sick man is ____. What, Mr. Morehead! (That is the way she always pronounced it). Not my mother’s murderer! And as the reviving of her sorrowful childhood with its many trials came up before her, she exclaimed: Take him away; I cannot shelter him under my roof! Now, Biddy, we must forgive as we hope to be forgiven, was the reply, which prevailed, after the first agonizing emotion passed away. Later in the evening she went into the room where the sick man lay and sympathized with him, hearing patiently the account of his pains and weariness, etc. Then turning full upon him, she asked him if he remembered Captain Motley (sometimes called Squire Motley) and leading up to the incident of her mother’s sickness and bleeding to death at the hands of a Tory, she said: I am that woman’s child and you are my mother’s murderer. May God forgive you and make it possible for me to do so, too. He hid his face under the sheet and cried and moaned remorsefully. Did not this seem retribution! It was near this house that her husband, John Morehead, built the Mt. Carmel Church and often had to do the preaching himself. He was a Presbyterian, as his people generally were. Obedience’s early life, the record continues, was spent in busy industrious efforts to help the family, help the soldier brothers and friends and father. She often told me that the girls learned to spin and weave their clothes and sheets, etc., while occasionally, like a gleam of sunshine there was brought from ‘home,’ England, some elegant fine goods for state occasions. The record speaks of her discipline: Yet all seemed to have loved her, and when, in later years, there came poverty and reverses in consequence of some land speculations, the servants clung to her skirts and begged to remain with her...She was a very handsome old lady, large and commanding in presence, very dignified manner, pale benevolent face, very gray hair, keen bright gray eyes. She inspired respect form all. She had second sight and could sew beautifully when past eighty...I remember the old place: the grand room hung around closely with pictures all of one size, the high backed leather seated chairs in stiff straight row all around the three sides with corner ones fitted in; the desk with a ‘dream book’ in the library which gave great delight to Henrietta Hobson and myself. These chairs had belonged to my poor old father (Captain Motley) and were to be given to Jose (my brother) who was his namesake, but they perished in the fire that destroyed the old house. What a treasure, the record continues, they and the cunning little dressing tables, with their brass locks, etc. would be today! They were all scented with lavender and rosemary. John and Obedience Morehead had a large family. All their sons were educated in the University of North Carolina, and in turn, taught their sisters.

Morehead, Squire John IV (I377)

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Frøiset, Risnes, Masfjorden, Hordaland

Riisnes, Signi Hognesdatter (I39512)

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Frøyset bnr 2 i Masfjorden, Hordaland

Family: Martinus Olson Tangedal / Karen Daae (F9367)

2224

Frøyset, Lindås, Hordaland

Daae, Karen Andrea (I39624)

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Frøyset, Lindås, Hordaland

Daae, Ludvig (I39507)

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Frøyset, Masfjorden

Daae, Ludvig (I39668)

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Frøyset, Masfjorden (2 år da hun døde)

Daae, Karen (I39740)

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