Notes: My Old Dead Relatives

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5401	s/o Thomas READE & Kathrine	REED, Thomas (I30857)
5402	s/o Thomas STARRETT (1738—1822) & Rebecca LEWIS (1743–1813) m1 Jane SPEAR m2 1829 Martha McCARTER	STARRETT, Capt William (I15831)
5403	s/o Thomas STARRETT (1738—1822) & Rebecca LEWIS (1743–1813)	STARRETT, Isaac (I15829)
5404	s/o Thomas TUPPER & Ann HODGON —— He was a jurist in 1664, exciseman in 1667, constable in 1669. He was a selectman, town clerk, deputy to the General Court at Plymouth, representative to the court in Boston. He was a lieutenant in Sandwich before being promoted to Captain in 1690.	TUPPER, Capt Thomas Henry (I47525)
5405	s/o Thomas Weed & Mary White	WEEDE, Jonas (I32861)
5406	s/o Thomas WHEELER (1563—1634) & Rebecca SAYRE (1572—1653) —— Captain Edward Hutchinson was appointed to negotiate a treaty with the Indians and Capt. Thomas Wheeler with about 25 of his company was assigned to guard & assist him. On July 28th 1675 they marched from Cambridge to Sudbury, arriving at Brookfield August first where they were met by a party of Indians. The Indian Sachem agreed to meet the English the next morning at a point a short distance from Brookfield. When they arrived, there were no Indians there and proceeded four or five miles further beside a swamp, when they were attacked by 200 to 300 Indians. Eight of the men were killed by the first firing and three wounded. Capt. Thomas Wheeler had two horses shot out from under him and received a ball through his body. His son, whose arm was fractured by a ball, dismounted and placed his wounded father on the horse of a soldier that had been killed. They both escaped on the horse. The both died months later from their wounds. —— CAPT. THOMAS WHEELER, of Concord, Mass. This "gallant and intrepid" Indian fighter was among the most interesting and important characters of our colonial period, and was preeminent among the few pioneers through whose restless daring the frontiers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony were so persistently extended. He was born in England. The date of his arrival in America and the name of the ship in which he came are not known. Several historians assert that he was a resident of Concord as early as 1640, and even before this date he was in this country trading among the Indians. The first written record that refers to him, however, is in May 18, 1642, when he took the oath of freeman at Concord, Mass. The first definite information concerning his trading with the Indians is on July 1st, 1657, when, with three others, he bought from the colony the privilege of trading with the Indians, paying there for the sum of £25.	WHEELER, Thomas (I15664)
5407	s/o Thomas WHITE (1500—1679)	WHITE, Joseph (I43733)
5408	s/o Timothy Abbott and Phoebe Brown.	ABBOTT, Isaac (I13931)
5409	s/o Timothy Carver & Phoebe Baldwin	CARVER, Hosea Barnabas (I30166)
5410	s/o Uilleam of Mar — He was at Norham in 1292, probably in the camp of Robert de Brus, then Earl of Carrick.	OF MAR, Earl Domhnall I (I43932)
5411	s/o Uriah Bartlett LEACH (1830—1902) & Edith Lucinda SNOWMAN (1837—1905)	LEACH, Pearl Carl (I41105)
5412	s/o Walter de BURGH & Alice _____ m1 Isabel PLANTAGENET m2 _____ O’BRIEN	DE BURGH, William (I42563)
5413	s/o Walter G Gangelhoff (1884 – 1954) and Florence Josephine Brombach (1883 – 1981)	GANGELHOFF, Harold Urban (I6538)
5414	s/o Watson Doe Billington (1826-1898) & Clarissa Hopkins (1829-1914)	BILLINGTON, Henry Carr (I2259)
5415	s/o Wesley Cook BARTLETT & Evelyn OBER	STRONG, Elizabeth (I46886)
5416	s/o William AVERILL (1774—1857) & Mary HODGE (1774—1861)	AVERILL, Enos (I32727)
5417	s/o William BASSETT (1680—1744) & Abigail BOURNE (1684–1764)	BASSETT, Nathaniel (I47364)
5418	s/o William BENTNICK KG & Margaret HARLEY	CAVENDISH-BENTINCK, Lord William Henry KG PC (I46967)
5419	s/o William BLAKE & Agnes m1 Hannah BRECK (1622–1706); children: 1. John Blake (1640-1700) 2. Caleb Blake (1631-?) 3. Robert (1644-1676) m2 Mary Souther SHAW in Boston on 16 Aug 1654; child: 1. Hannah Blake (1657–1659) When John Thorne Blake and his twin sister Anne were born on 29 Aug 1618, in Pitminster, Somerset, their father, William, was 24 and their mother, Agnes, was 24. John was Christened on 29 Aug 1618 and because he and Anne were twins it seems likely that both were Christened on that date.	BLAKE, John Thorne (I15679)
5420	s/o William BONVILLE & Elizabeth HARRINGTON	BONVILLE, Lord William (I43308)
5421	s/o William Brewster (1535-1589) & Mary Simkinson (Smythe?) (1535-1579) Ancestor to President Zachary TAYLOR —— Brewster joined the first group of Separatists aboard the Mayflower on the voyage to North America. Brewster was accompanied by his wife, Mary Brewster, and his sons: Love Brewster and Wrestling Brewster.	BREWSTER, William (I40719)
5422	s/o William BRYANT & Rebecca ARNOLD	BRYANT, William (I31736)
5423	s/o William BULLARD & Mary	BULLARD, Isaac (I15590)
5424	s/o William Bustard of Nether Exe, England, earliest known ancestor of this line.	BUSTARD, John (I6154)
5425	s/o William Cantlin and Josephine O’Brien.	CANTLIN, Dennis Lafayette (I944)
5426	s/o William CAVENDISH, 2nd Duke of Devonshire & Rachel RuSSELL	CAVENDISH, William KG PC (I46963)
5427	s/o William COMSTOCK % Margaret DENNIS	COMSTOCK, William (I2582)
5428	s/o William Conant and Clarissa Palmer.	CONANT, Everett West (I631)
5429	s/o William DAWES (1570-1629) Ancestor of William DAWES, who rode with Paul REVERE during the Lexington Alarm	DAWES, William (I43974)
5430	s/o William DREW & Alice LLOYD —— At an early age he entered into the Canadian fishing trade with his father, William Sr. and brothers. William Drew was rated at Oyster River in 1648, 1649 (Drue)1650, 1657, 1659, 1661, 1662, 1663, 1666, and 1669 (early NH Census, Dover). His log house, “fortified against the indians” was built by Thomas BEARD. He was listed as a fisherman at Isles of Shoals. He lived on the south side of the River at Drew’s Point, where on a hilltop can be seen the cellar of the garrison house built by him or his son, Francis. Another garrison house built by William DAM was later known as the Drew Garrison house.	DREW, William (I3987)
5431	s/o William F. Farrington and Mary Davis.	FARRINGTON, Elvin D. (I828)
5432	s/o William GERRISH & Joanna LOWELL	GERRISH, John (I47242)
5433	s/o William GERRISH & Joanna LOWELL	GERRISH, Joseph (I47243)
5434	s/o William GERRISH & Joanna LOWELL	LOFTUS, Anne Catherine (I46932)
5435	s/o William GREGG & Ann ____ His father died when he was aged 12 years, and his mother died when he was aged 17 years.	GREGG, George (I47199)
5436	s/o William HEATH (1685—?) & Prudence BRIDGE (1692—?)	HEATH, John (I47351)
5437	s/o William Henry Carson and Eula Lee Costly.	CARSON, David Costley (I35583)
5438	s/o William Henry KRATZ & Kathryn DELANEY	KRATZ, Lawrence Blazius (I33158)
5439	s/o William Hilton & Sybil Lumley.	HILTON, William (I38780)
5440	s/o William Holyoke & Joane Fairchild	HOLYOKE, Thomas (I5039)
5441	s/o William HOUSE & Hannah HOLLISTER	HOUSE, Abner (I45992)
5442	s/o William HUTCHINS —— Per DNA testing of brothers and father, from Towcester, England and a direct link to Enoch Hutchings II of Kittery, Maine. It is logical this was his father as both him and his brother John were in Maryland and was the right age and time to assist with moving his possessions to New Hampshire as historical journals relate. —— On 7 July 1675 Thomas Withers deed land on Spruce Creek [Kittery, Maine] to Enoch Hutchings [YLR 2:176] No further information from Great Migration Project. 7 Dec `648 - Served on an inquest jury to determine the cause of death of Thomas Smith. They determined that he had stopped by a well to take a piss, and accidentally fell in. He was known to have convulsions (epilepsy?). —— Southhampton. -- The list of the names of passengers intended to shipe themselves, in the Bevis of Hampton of CL. Tounes, Robert Batten Mr. for New England, and thus by virtue of the Lord Treasurer's warrant of the second of May which was after the restraint and they some days gone to sea before the Kings mates proclamation came onto Southhampton. John Hutchinson Carpenter age 30 ffruancis Alcocke vizg age 26 Listed as servants of the Dummer brothers.	HUTCHINS, John (I4870)
5443	s/o William IDDINGS & Mary MOORE	IDDINGS, Henry (I15563)
5444	s/o William LOCKE (1745-1826) & Elizabeth "Betsy" BADD (1748-1802). m1 20 Sep 1792 to Abigail PAGE m2 19 Oct 1800 to Mercy DAME m3 about 1823 to Margaret PIERCE	LOCKE, John (I15532)
5445	s/o William LUNDY & Elizabeth HEPBURN	LUNDIE, Thomas (I46455)
5446	s/o William MERRICK (1615-1689) & Rebecca TRACY (1625-1686)	MERRICK, Stephen (I21519)
5447	s/o William MINTHORN & Hannah ELDRIDGE	MINTHORN, John (I35320)
5448	s/o WILLIAM NELSON and MARTHA FORD	NELSON, John (I43671)
5449	s/o William NOYES & Anne PARKER —— In 1638 Nicholas sailed back to England, perhaps to settle family affairs and to report on conditions in Massachusetts Bay. He returned to New England on the Jonathan which sailed from London soon after 12 Apr. 1639 and "came to Anchor in Boston Harbor." Also on the Jonathan were Anthony Somerby of Newbury and Mr. Peter Noyes of Sudbury, who, having come over on the “Confidence” in 1638 at age 47, found New England to his liking, and had returned home to Penton, near Andover, Hampshire to get his family. Peter was undoubtedly one of Nicholas' relatives.	NOYES, Nicholas (I40704)
5450	s/o William Pond (b 1550)	POND, William (I43634)
5451	s/o William POTE & Dorothy GATCHELL Greenfield, a mariner, was prosecuted for sailing his schooner out of Falmouth on 2 Sept. 1764. This so angered him that he dismantled his house and transported it to Wolf's Neck (Freeport, Maine). m1 16 Dec. 1758 to Jane Grant, by whom he had 8 issue. m2 Mary (Winslow) Merrill, the widow of Joshua Merrill, by whom he had no issue.	POTE, Capt Greenfield (I24583)
5452	s/o William POTTER (?—1619) & Hannah LANGFORD BEECHER (1584—1659) —— JOHN AND WILLIAM POTTER, OF NEW HAVEN, CONN., AND THEIR DESCENDANTS. https://archive.org/details/cu31924029843731/page/n207/mode/2up?view=theater The brothers JOHN POTTER1 and WILLIAM POTTER2 signed the Plantation Covenant, New Haven, Conn., June 4, 1639. It is probable that they came to America at the same date. There is a record of the arrival of William Potter: "Came in the Abigail' from London, 1635, aged 27; wife Frances, aged 26, and child Joseph, aged 20 weeks, and his mother, Hannah Beecher, she had married again after the death of her first husband." William Potter, in a will dated 1662, names children Nathaniel, Joseph, Hope, and Rebecca. Hannah Beecher, in her will, mentions son William Potter; her son John had died before her death. Stephen Dodd's East Haven Register has this account respecting John Potter (East Haven constituted a part of the town of New Haven for one hundred and forty-six years, 1785):- "In 1651 John Potter obtained 20 acres of the Fresh Meadow lands. In 1662, John Potter obtained a piece of land upon which to set his blacksmith shop. "On the 19th of August, 1680, Thomas Clark sold to Sergt. John Potter all that farm lying and being within the township of New Haven, and near and adjoining to a brook called by the name of Stoney Brook, which Thomas Clarke bought of Nathaniel Micklethwaite of the city of London, merchant, containeth by estimation 300 acres of upland, be it more or less, and 3 score acres of meadow, be it more or less, adjoining thereto; excepting always all the uplands that hath been formerly sold from the said farme or iron workes, reserving only all the Iron worke plates of Iron, and the moveables to himself, that are upon the premises.' "John Potter was to pay £40 per annum for 21 years, in wheat, pork, and peas. Sergt. John Potter did not resume the Iron business, as was contemplated when he bought the farm. "But in the year 1692, he and Thomas Pinion petitioned New Haven for liberty to set up a Bloomary on the first spring, or brook towards Foxson. In April, 'some of the townsmen having viewed the brooke that runs into Stoney River at the place or thereabouts, which was moved for by John Potter, formerly to set up a Bloomary; and for his encouragement allow him the use of said brooke, and 20 acres of land, not exceeding 30, near the first spring, the west side of Stoney River; and grant him the liberty of what Iron mines there are within the town bounds, and the use of what wood he needs in the commons for the work, if it proves effectual. And the aforesaid land is to be laid out and bounded to him, by the surveyor, and one or two of the townsmen. Always preserving the necessary highways, if there be any. This Bloomary was established, but there is no record of how long it existed." The estate of John Potter was rated at £25, and his family consisted then of four persons, himself, wife, and two children, viz., John, Jr., and Samuel. His house lot soon be- came the property of Alling Ball, and it is probable that he died as early as 1643. His name does not appear in the record of the first "seating of the meeting-house" in 1645-6. His widow, Elizabeth Potter, married, June, 1646, Edward Parker, who died in 1662, and she married a third time, Robert Rose, of Branford, Conn. The will of Elizabeth Rose was made July 20, 1677; she died before signing and sealing it, but the children agreed to its provisions, and, at a subsequent court, it was admitted. She names her sons, John and Samuel Potter, "my son John Parker, to have my house he lives in, and daughter Brooks, daughter Hall, and daughter Cook- all my grandchildren-to have £12 apiece. The rest to be divided to my three daughters, Mary, Hope, and Lydia." Sons, John Potter and John Parker, joint executors. Estate appraised by John Cooper and John Winston. JOHN POTTER, Jr.,3 born about 1635, baptized at New Haven, Conn., Oct. 17, 1641, died Dec. 24, 1706, was the eldest son of John Potter, the first settler. In 1662, he bought of John Tuttle, Jr., a homestead in East Haven, which the latter had received by deed of gift from his father, William Tuttle, of New Haven, 1661. In this deed John Potter is called blacksmith. "His will was proved in New Haven in 1706-7, in which he calls himself 70 years of age; wife Mary, and sons, John and Samuel, executors; desires to be buried in New Haven; leaves £5 to the church, in care of Rev. John Pierpont; Deacon Penderson and Deacon Bradley, trustees. Wife Mary to dispose of her own estate, as by agreement, before marriage, and she gave it away to her children. She was a laborious, loving, and tender-hearted wife to me, notwithstanding. Eldest son, John, to have shop and smith's tools, right in Branford. Son Samuel to have 6 acres for his house lot over against David Austin's house; 8 acres above Matthew Moulthrop's house; 4 acres of salt meadow that was Mr. Tuttle's, and 8 acres blumery'; also, the homestead that was his grandmother's, and a room in my house as long as he behaves himself well towards his mother- in-law, and, if she is removed by marriage or death, Samuel must come to terms with his brother John, and if Samuel marries, he shall not bring his wife into the house of his mother-in-law. Abigail, my dau., shall have the still that was my mother's. Will proved 1st Monday in Jan. 1706/7. Inventory, £416 4s. Od."	POTTER, William (I46797)
5453	s/o WILLIAM SPRAGUE and MILLICENT EAMES	SPRAGUE, Anthony (I43667)
5454	s/o William STICKNEY (1558—?) & Margaret PIERSON (1562—1593)	STICKNEY, William (I43644)
5455	s/o William Stover HORTON & Lucy E YOUNG	HORTON, Alton Wallace (I38494)
5456	s/o William TAPLEY & Elizabeth CASH	TAPLEY, William (I40351)
5457	s/o William Thorogood (1560-1625) & Anne Edwards (1558-1609)	THOROGOOD, Adam (I43701)
5458	s/o William WATKINS (1857–1935) & Elizabeth BROWN (1861—1935) According to Naturalization records, he was White, dark complexion, 5ft 8 inches, 145 lbs, black hair, brown eyes, no distinctive marks. —— USS Matagorda (AVP-22/AG-122) was a United States Navy Barnegat-class seaplane tender in commission from 1941 to 1946 that saw service in World War II. Following a supply and escort run to Puerto Rico and Trinidad, Matagorda departed Port of Spain, Trinidad, on 23 November 1942 and on 4 December 1942 arrived at Boston for alterations and overhaul. Voyage to Newfoundland On 5 January 1943, Matagorda departed Boston to carry troops and supplies to Naval Station Argentia, Newfoundland, returning to Boston on 14 January 1943. Return to the Caribbean After loading aviation supplies at Norfolk, Virginia, Matagorda arrived at San Juan, Puerto Rico, on 11 February 1943. She operated primarily out of Puerto Rico until early August 1943, escorting merchant ships and transporting ordnance and aviation supplies to bases in the Caribbean. She called at the Virgin Islands, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Trinidad. North Atlantic operations Matagorda departed San Juan on 3 August 1943 and steamed via Bermuda and Norfolk to Argentia, where she arrived on 26 August 1943. On 28 August 1943 she joined Convoy UT-1 and made a voyage to the United Kingdom, arriving at Pembroke, Wales, on 4 September 1943. After unloading cargo, she sailed via Iceland and Boston to Norfolk, arriving there on 27 September 1943. Between 5 October 1943 and 5 March 1944 she made two more round trips across the Atlantic Ocean. She carried men and cargo to Pembroke and Bristol, England, and made escort and supply runs to Casablanca, French Morocco, and Gibraltar. South Atlantic operations Departing Boston on 18 April 1944, Matagorda loaded seaplane supplies at Bayonne, New Jersey, and departed Bayonne on 22 April 1944 for Brazil, reaching Recife, Brazil, on 6 May 1944. Until the beginning of April 1945, she conducted extensive training and supply operations and ranged Brazilian waters from Belém to Florianópolis. In late May 1944 and again in July 1944 she tended seaplanes at Florianópolis. Matagorda interrupted this duty on 24 July 1944 and 25 July 1944, when she searched for and rescued the entire crew of 67 men from the American merchant ship SS William Gaston, torpedoed by a German submarine late on 23 July 1944 off the Brazilian coast. Again, while operating out of Fortaleza, she rescued five survivors of a downed Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina flying boat plus the crew from an assisting Martin PBM Mariner flying boat on 29 August 1944. Matagorda made numerous runs along the Brazilian coast during supply and training missions. Based at Recife, she visited many Brazilian ports including Vitória, Natal, the island of Fernando de Noronha, Bahia, and Rio de Janeiro. Voyages to the Caribbean Matagorda departed Recife on 1 April 1945, touched briefly at San Juan, Puerto Rico, and reached Norfolk on 14 April 1945. From 2 June 1945 to 6 July 1945 she made two runs to Bermuda and Puerto Rico, returning to Norfolk with men of seaplane squadrons. Conversion to press information ship Matagorda steamed to New York City on 10 July 1945 to begin conversion to a press information ship. As such her mission would be to provide all proper news facilities for the press and transport them to the coast of Japan where they would cover operations “Olympic” and “Coronet”, projected for the invasion of Japan in 1945 and 1946. She was reclassified as a "miscellaneous auxiliary" and redesignated AG-122 on 30 July 1945. The cessation of hostilities with Japan and end of World War II came on 15 August 1945 made the invasion of Japan unnecessary, and Matagorda's conversion was halted in early September 1945.	WATKINS, Francis Pierce (I7630)
5459	s/o William WOODCOCK & Alice WASHBURNE —— Woodcock’s Garrison was a well-known place of rendezvous in the great Indian war, and was probably for some years the only house, excepting its immediate neighbors, on the ‘Bay Road,’ between Rehoboth and Dedham.” It was near Ten Mile Hill in what is now North Attleborough or Plainville. Capt. Samuel Guild administered and agreed as an heir in the estate of his father John Woodcock of Attleborough, 1701-04. —— John Woodcock had a farm of three hundred acres on the Ten Mile River. Woodcock built his house in 1669 and was licensed the following year to open a public house or tavern. He was warned to "keep good order" and that "no unruliness or ribaldry be permitted there." Woodcock's house was just one of several "garrison houses" built for protection against possible Indian attacks. Similar "garrison houses" were located in settlements such as Dedham, Seekonk, and Swansea. In a cruel twist of fate, Woodcock's "garrison house" failed to offer protection for a member of his own family. In April 1676, during King Philip's War, Woodcock's son, Nathaniel, was killed by Indians while working in a nearby corn field. The Indians cut off Nathaniel's head and stuck it on a pole in front of the house. Nathaniel Woodcock was buried where he fell, and his grave is now in the center of what would become the Woodcock Cemetery.	WOODCOCK, John (I5506)
5460	s/o William WROTH of Durants, Middlesex, England	WROTHE, John (I15744)
5461	s/o William Young AITCHISON (1837-1908) & Harriet Amilia BABCOCK (1840-1894) —— The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 29 May 1923, Tue PROGRESSIVES ROUT FUNDAMENTALISTS IN BAPTIST CONVENTION Leaders Quit Atlantic City Meeting, Fearing Steam Roller Creedal Resolution on Christ’s Deity and Diving Origin of Bible Buried Atlantic City, Mary 28—All hope of the Fundamentalist faction in the Northern Baptist convention to force through the creedal statement reaffirming their belief in the deity of Christ and the divine inspiration of the Bible was abandoned this afternoon when it became know what the two leaders of the Fundamentalists, Dr. J C Massy, of Boston, and Dr. J. Marvin, dean of Pasadena, Dal., had left the convention for their home. … a long article detailing what happened at the convention … ending with: Dr. John Y. Aitchison who last night was re-elected general director of the General Board of Promotion which is in charge of the New World Movement, gave his annual report math the morning session. He warned the delegates that they must get over “uncertainty and irresolution and come with a clean skin out of any attacks of denominational measles.” Plea for New World Movement “We must go back with a clean slate, prepared to work as we have never worked before. We are going to get the entire $100,000,000 upon which we determined when we set out upon the New World Movement, but we are going to get about one-half of it in money, and the rest in experience. The experience is going to be as valuable to us as the money That experience is the foundation upon which we are going forth to build up a larger program than even the one which we conceived in Denver four years ago. “There are those who say that our program was too large. But we are far better off today than we would have been if we had not launched so broad an undertaking. This is a moment not of defeat but of triumph for our denomination.”	AITCHISON, Dr John Young (I2717)
5462	s/o Willis Arthur Sutfin and Elizabeth Jane Hamon	SUTFIN, Joseph Henry (I1047)
5463	s/o yeomen James HUBBARD & Naomi COOKE (COCKE)	HUBBARD, Rev Sameul (I15785)
5464	s/o Zachariah SYMMES & Sarah BAKER m1 abt 1652 Mary SPARHAWKE m2 bef 1676 Mary CHICKERING TORREY	SYMMES, Capt William (I32879)
5465	s/o Zina Druse and Sally Ann Lawrence.	DRUSE, Daniel L. (I636)
5466	s/o Benjamin (Corson) Courson and Jannetje Hoornbeek	COURSIN, Peter (I44303)
5467	s/o Goronwy ap Tudor Hen and Gwerful ferch Madog m1 Malia ferch Made abt 1315 in Wales m2 Margred ferch Thomas abt 1359 in Wales	AP GRONWY, Tudur (I10667)
5468	s/o Ole Svendsen and Ane Mortensdatter	ØYUM, Ole (I44957)
5469	s/o Pieter Wouterse van der Meulen and Dorcas Messenger	MILLS, Peter (I44315)
5470	s/o Robert, king of Scots & an unknown mistress. His father provided him with an annual allowance and granted him the lands of Liddisdale which had been forfeited by de Soulis. Between 1320-1326 Robert was also granted the lands of Fornauchi and Goulentyn in Perthshire, which had formerly belonged to the Menzies. In a confirmation charter granted by David II in 1342 he is referred to as "our dearest brother.	DE BRUCE, Sir Robert (I43272)
5471	Safe Fuller & Elizabeth Eliot, m 3 day of Nov 1608	Anna (I3255)
5472	Said to be the first white child born in Taunton. Died during the “Great Snow”. The snow was so deep that it prevented traveling, and it’s said that John lay dead in his house for a long time before the neighbors knew.	DEANE, John (I29707)
5473	Said to have been related to Hamelin de Ballon, Lord of Abergavenny. The Complete Peerage V6.P452	Berthe (I35236)
5474	Salem Witch participation: * 3 Jun 1692. Participated in search of the bodies of John PROCTOR & John WILLARD for signs of witchcraft. * 28 Jun 1692. Summoned to be a witness against John WILLARD & Martha CARRIER. * 30 Jul 1692. Summoned to appear at Court of Ayer & Terminal to testify agains Martha CARRIER. * 2 Aug 1692. Gave deposition against Martha CARRIER. * 8 Hue 1703. Signed petition denouncing the witch trials. —— The deposition of John Rogger of Billreca aged 50 yeares or Thereabouts Saith That about Seven yeares since Martha Carrier being a Nigh Neigbour unto this depon't and there hapening some difference betwixt us she gave forth severall threatning words as she often used to doe and in a short time after this deponent had two large lusty Sowes w'ch frequented home daily that were lost & this deponent: found one of them dead Nigh the s'd Carriers house w'th both Eares cut of & the other sow I Never heard of to this day; & the same summer to the best of my rembrance I had a Cow w'ch used to give a good Mess of milke twice a day & of a sudden she would give little or None Every Morning though a Nights she gave as formerly and this Continued above the space of a month in w'ch time I had three Meals milke on three severall Mornings not successively: and no more though One Night three of us Watched the Cow all night #[one night] yet I could have no milke in the morning of her & about the monthes End she gave milke as formerly she used, by all w'ch. I did in my Conscience beleive then in the day of it & have so done Ever since & doe yet beleive that Martha Carrier was the occasion of those Ill accidents. by Meanes of Witchcraft she being a very Malicous Woman & further Saith Not marke of J John Rogger Essex County Court Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 No. 315. Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Judicial Archives, Massachusetts State Archives, MA. —— To his Excellency the Governor, Council and Representatives of the Province of the Massachusets Bay, in Generall Court Assembled June 1703 The Address of severall Ministers of the County of Essex. Whereas in the year 1692 some of our neighbours of a good conversation, were apprehended and imprisoned upon suspition of Witchcraft, upon the complaint of some young persons under Diabolicall molestations; and upon their Tryall at the Court at Salem were condemned; great weight being layd upon the evidence of the Afflicted persons, their Accusers Sentence of Death was Executed on severall of them, others were Reprieved. But since it is apparent and hath been Acknowledged, that there were Errors and mistakes in the aforesaid Tryalls; and notwithstanding the care and conscientious endeavour of the Honorable Judges to do the thing that is right: yet there is great reason to fear that Innocent persons then suffered, and that God may have a controversy with the Land upon that account. We would therefore humbly propose to the consideration of this Honored Court, whether something may not, and ought not, to be publickly done to clear the good name and reputation of some who have suffered as aforesaid, against whom there was not as is supposed sufficient evidence to prove the guilt of such a crime and for whom there are good grounds of charity. Some of the condemned persons aforesaid, and others in behalf of their Relations who have suffered, have lately Petitioned this Honoured Court upon this Account. We pray that their case may be duely considered. [signed by] Thomas Barnard, Joseph Green, William Hubbard, Benjamin Rolfe, Samuel Cheever, Zech. Symmes, Joseph Gerrish, John Rogers, Jabez fitch, Jno Wise, Joseph Capen, Thomas Symmes July 9th 1703 In Council Read and sent down/. July 16th: 1703. In the House of Representatives Read.	ROGERS, John (I43943)
5475	Samuel and his brother Jonathan were killed in the same Indian attack.	BRADLEY, Samuel (I11022)
5476	Samuel and his father William were among the original 35 proprietors of Norwich in 1660.	HYDE, Samuel (I46866)
5477	Samuel Backus was the second s/o Joseph Backus. He was a quiet, enterprising farmer, prosperous in his own business, but having little to do with public affairs. He was an affectionate father, and kind husband. “The family had removed from the original home lot nearer the Landing, to what is now known as Yantic. Here he erected a grist mill — the second one in the settlement — receiving special grants from the town, and commenced the erection of the iron works.	BACKUS, Samuel (I18103)
5478	Samuel Cane's father settled at Phillipstown [Sanford] in 1739. Phillipstown was Samuel Cane's home until about 1700. Samuel Cane stated, in a 1785 census, that he had been at Sedgwick, Maine for 15 years. He is listed as one of the early settlers of Sedgwick, Maine.	CANE, Samuel (I4506)
5479	SAMUEL DAM DIED Mar. 8, 1872 Aged 87 years, 11 mos. The casket here the gem in heaven. Gone home to die no more.	DAME, Samuel (I247)
5480	Samuel Dam was one of the early settlers on Dame's Point, at the junction of Fresh Creek with the Cochecho River. It had been given to his father by "Town Clerk" Pomfrett. It seems that Samuel and his elder brother Pomfret both lived there for a while. Samuel's wife's name is not known, but they had children, the eldest of whom was named Samuel, born about 1724, who married and had a family. p268«s12»	DAM, Samuel (I35)
5481	Samuel Hayes on 3 Dec 1746 deeded land to his daughter Martha Pinkham.	HAYES, Martha (I216)
5482	Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is extensively quoted. During his lifetime, Twain became a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. Twain enjoyed immense public popularity. His keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature".	CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (I33858)
5483	Samuel lived in the old Peter Putnam home in Sutton, still standing in1995, it was built in 1724, and a Putnam family still lives there. This old farm is on the Centry Farm Road in Sutton, James O. Eaton was born in this house, his mother Alice Hathaway also. Samuel and Alice had 15 children.	EATON, Samuel (I21041)
5484	Samuel probably grew up at Boston, Suffolk Co, MA. He had located in Andover, Essex Co, MA before 1670. He had purchased a 20 acre lot there in the south-end and built his home there. Samuel was a carpenter by trade. He was married to an unidentified first wife around 1669 and she died around 1672 at Andover. As a 29 year old widower, Samuel courted a daughter of Richard Barker but he was rejected by the family. He next turned his attentions to a recent widow, Sarah (Hooper) Hawkes, who also had a young child, and was quite wealthy from her first husband. They lived on Samuel's lot in Andover and prospered for a while. Samuel was granted a meadow and swamp land in Andover's division of common lands on 6 March 1675 . King Philip's War soon erupted and on 8 April 1676, Andover was attacked by the Indians. Samuel probably took his family to the Abbot Garrison House, where all the South-end residents had gathered for safety. The town only lost one resident in the battle. Samuel received another grant of land on 10 March 1678 from Andover. He took an oath of allegiance in Andover on 11 February 1679 . Samuel completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter before moving to Salem. In 1668, John Turner hired Samuel to build an elegant house, constructed on a splendid site overlooking the harbor. The house had peaks over the seven gables that rose up shapely. This is the house that became famous as the House of the Seven Gables in the Hawthorne story of Salem's past. --William Colehour www.colehour.com He was arrested on Sep. 1, 1692 and logged in the Salem jail, indicted on two counts, first with bewitching a sixteen year old Martha Sprague, and second having made a covenant with the devil some twenty years previously. Also, arrested were his wife Sarah and daughter Mary who after weeks of imprisonment, testified against him. Also arrested were Rebecca Nurse, Mary Estey, Abigail Faulkner, Mary Parker, John Proctor and his wife Elizabeth, and Elizabeth Howe. All were accused and imprisoned, and at a court held at Salem were condemned. Despite recanting his confession, Samuel Warwell received a sentence of death on Sept. 17 and was hanged on Sept. 22, 1692 with seven others. His wife Sarah, then 42 and mother of a young child, was also found guilty, but her daughter Mary age 20 also accused of witchcraft was found not guilty and her execution was stayed. From the History of Essex County: "Samuel Wardwell was an eccentric man given to palmistry and fortune telling, and not averse to prophesying a little on occasion. He was accused of tormenting Martha Sprague (a teenage girl) of Boxford, by wicked arts and also of having a covenant with the devil some twenty years before by which he promised to honor, worship and believe the devil, contrary to the Statute of King James the First in that behalf; after much persuasion, and in the hope of saving his life, he made a confession. But very soon he recanted and declared his innocence and was one of the three hanged from Andover." "Samuel and Sarah were forced to pay for their own subsistence while in prison as well as to pay the jailer. In order to settle the account, the government seized all of their cows and hogs, as well as 8 loads of hay, 6 acres of corn and a set of carpentry tools. Then the government had the problem of what to do with the children, who were ages 1 to 19 years. The father was dead and the mother still in prison. The selectmen of Andover placed or bonded them as follows: Samuel was placed with John Ballard, his uncle, for 1 year. William was placed with Corpl. Saml. Frye to age 21, and to learn the trade of weaver. Eliakim, age 5, was placed with Daniel Poor until 21. Elizabeth was placed with John Steven until 18. At 21, Eliakim migrated to York, Maine. They were exonerated in 1703 & their property returned." From "The Delusion of Satan" by Francis Hill: "(Samuel) Wardwell was the only accused witch besides Margaret Jacobs to confess, recant his confession, and not go back on the recantation. He was from Andover, as were four of the others tried on September 17. By this time the Andover witch-hunt had peaked. Witches there were being arrested and examined in considerable numbers, though no new arrests were being made in Salem Village or elsewhere. Wardwell had a reputation for fortune-telling and, when examined on September 1 by John Higginson, said he was in the snare of the devil. Urged to go on, he concocted an elaborate tale of agreeing to serve Satan till he was sixty and being baptized by him in the river. He was "dipped all over," he said. But on September 13 Wardwell declared to the grand jury inquest, at which the accused were appearing before they went to their trials, that his whole confession was lies. He said "he knew he should die for it whether he owned it or no," meaning he would hang as a result of his confession whether he stuck to it or not. This seems a reasonable attitude, given that confessors were now being tried. Wardwell was not to know they would all be reprieved. A stark reminder of the horrific effects of the imprisonments for witchcraft comes in the form of a petition about Wardwell's case from the selectmen of Andover to the Ipswich court: "Samuel Wardwell and his wife of Andover were lately apprehended and committed to prison for witchcraft, and have left several small children who are uncapable of providing for themselves and are now in a suffering condition. We have thought it necessary and convenient that they should be disposed of in some families whether there may be due care taken of them. We therefore humbly pray your honours to inform us what is our duty in this case." It seems that the afflicted girls were as afraid as ever that the condemned would win the crowd's sympathy. They seized every opportunity for new insults and mockeries. As Wardwell spoke on the ladder, protesting his innocence, tobacco smoke from the executioner's pipe wafted into his face and made him splutter and cough. The afflicted girls shouted that the devil stopped him from speaking. It seems not to have occurred to them, or anyone else, that the devil could have no possible motive for preventing a disciple from making his case." Indictment v Samuel Wardwell, No. 1 Essex in the Province [unclear: ] of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Anno R R's & Reginae Gulielmi & Mariae Angliae &c Quarto Annoq'e Domini 1692. ss/ The Juriors for our Sov'r Lord and Lady the King and Queen doe present That Samuel Wardell of Andivor In the County of Essex Carpenter on or about the fifteenth day of August In the yeare aforesaid and divers other days and times as Well before as after Certaine detestable Arts called Witchcraft and Sorceries Wickedly Mallitiously and felloniously hath used practised & Exercised at and in the Towne of Boxford in the County of Essex aforesaid in upon and against one Martha Sprague of Boxford in the County of Essex Aforesaid Single Woman by which said Wicked Acts the said Martha Sprague the day & Yeare Aforesaid and divers other days and times #[both] before and after was and is Tortured Aflicted Consumed Pined Wasted and Tormented, and also for sundry other Acts of Witchcraft by the said Samuel Wardell Comitted and done before and since that time against the peace of our Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queen theire Crowne and dignity And the forme in the Statute in that case made and Provided. (Reverse) Indictm't against Samuel Wardell for bewitching Martha Sprague Billa Vera Ponet Se ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 27 ) Examination of Samuel Wardwell: The Examination and Confession of Sam'll wardwell. taken Sept 1st 92. before John Higginson Esq one of theire majties Justices of peace for the County of Essex After the returneing of negative answers to severall questions He said he was sensible he was in the snare of the devil, He used to be much discontented that he could get no more work done, and that he had been foolishly Led along with telling of fortunes, which sometymes came to pass, He used also when any creature came into his field to bid the devil take it, and it may be the devil took advantage of him by that Constable foster of Andover said that this wardwell told him once in the woods that when he was a young man he could make all his cattell come round about him when he pleased. The said wardwell being urged to tell o truth he proceeded thus, That being ones in a discontented frame he saw some catts together with the appearance of a man who called himself a prince of the aire & promised him he should live comfortably and be a captain and requyred said wardwell to honor him which he promised to doe, and it was about twenty yeares agoe. He said the reas/o his discontent then was because he was in love with a maid named Barker who slighted his love, And the first Appearance of the catt then was behind Capt bradstreets house, about a week after that A black man appeared in the day tyme at the same place and called himself prince and lord and told him the said wardwell he must worship and believe him, and promised as above, with this addition that he should never want for any thing but that the black man had never performed any thing, And further that when he would goe to prayer in his family the devil wold begin to be angry He saith also that at that tyme when the devil appeared & told him he was prince of the aire that then he syned his book by makeing a mark like a square with a black pen and that the devil brought him the pen and Ink He saith further he Covenanted with the devil untill he should arryve to the age of sixty years and that he is now about the age of 46 years. And at that tyme the devil promeised on his part as is above exprest, he said it was about a 4tnight agoe since he began to afflict, and confesses that mary Lilly and Hannah Tayler of Ridding were of his company Further he saith that martha Sprague was the first he afflicted, that the devil put him upon it and threatned him there unto And that he did it by pincheing his coat & buttons when he was discontented, and gave the devil a comission so to doe, He sayes he was baptised by the black man at Shaw shin river alone and was dipt all over and beleeves he renounced his former baptisme. Wardwell's Confession I used, when any creature came into my field to bid the devil take it, and when I was a young man I could make all my cattle come round about and follow me. Once I saw some cats together with the appearance of a man who called himself " The Prince of Air ", and he promised me I should be a captain if I would honor him, which I promised to do. The reason I was discontented was because I was in love with a maid named Barker who slighted my love. The first appearance of the cat was behind Captain Bradstreet's house. The next week a black cat was behind Capt. Bradstreet's house, about a week after that a black man appeared in the daytime at the same place and time and called himself Prince and Lord and told him that said Wardwell he must worship and beleive him, and promised him as above, with this addition that he should never want for anything but that the black man had never performed anything and further that when he would go to prayer in his family the devil would begin to be angry. He said also that at that time when the devil appeared and told him he was Prince of the Air, that then he signed his book by making a mark like a square with a black pen and that the devil brought him the pen and the ink. He saith further he honor the devil until he should arrive at the age of 56 years and that he is now about the age 46 years and at the that time the devil promised on his part, as is above expressed he said it was about a fortnight ago since he began to afflict , and confess that Mary Lilly and Hannah Tayler of Ridding were of his company, further he saith that Martha Sprague was the first he afflicted, that the devil did it by pinching his coattails and buttons when he was discontented and gave the devil a commission to do. He says he was baptised by the black man at Shaw Shin river alone and was dipped all over and beleives he renounced his former baptism. John Higginson Esq. The deposition of Ephraim Tosser of Andover aged about 54 testifieth and sayeth he heard Samuel Wardwell the prisoner now at the bar tell my wife that she should have five girls before she would have a son; which thing came to pass, and I heard him tell Dority Eames her fortune and I have heard said Dority say after that he believed Wardwell was a witch or else he could never tell what he did and I took notes that said Wardwell would look into their hand and then would cast his eyes down upon the ground always before he told anything, this I have both heard and seen several times. While Sarah Wardwell was in prison her children were disposed as of follows: 1) Mary age 20 accused of witchcraft but found not guilty married John Wright. 2) Samuel age 17 was placed with his uncle John Ballard. 3) William age 14 was placed out with Samuel Frye until age 21, to learn the trade of a weaver. 4) Eliakim age 9 was placed with Daniel Poor until age 21. 5) Elizabeth age 2 was placed with John Stevens until age 18. 6) Rebecca was an infant in arms during the mothers imprisonment. (Account of Samuel Wardwell Jr. -- Cases of Samuel and Sarah Wardwell) To: To the Honourable Committee Sitting in Salem Sept 13. 1710. An Account of what was seiz'd and taken away by the Sheriffe or his Deputy and assistants out of the Estate of Samuel Wardwell late of Andover Deceased who suffered the paines of Death under condemnation on the Sorrowfull tryalls for witchcraft in the year 1692. viz Seis'd and taken away 5 Cowes at 2 P 10-00-00 1 Heifer & a yearling 2-5-00 1 Horse 3-0-00 9 Hogs 7-0-0 8 Loads of Hay 4-0-0 A set of Carpenters Tools 1-10-0 6 Acres of corn upon the ground. 9-00-00 36.15.00 "Samuel Wardwell, a carpenter by trade, lived with his wife and several small children in the south end of the town. Up to 1692 he was regarded as an eccentric but harmless individual who sometimes told fortunes, played with magic, and perhaps in jesting moods even claimed supernatural powers. His peculiarities attracted the attention of the witch hunters, and he was shortly charged by Martha Sprague, of Boxford one of those involved in the case of Abigail Faulkner of having practiced upon her "certain detestable arts called witchcraft and sorceries." In a second and more precise indictment it was alleged that Wardwell had twenty years before made a covenant with the "evill speritt," in which he had promised to honor, worship, and believe the "devill." Witnesses against him were not only the familiar group of Salem Village girls but also three respectable citizens of Andover: Joseph Ballard and Thomas Chandler, neighbors of his in the south end, both of whom had been selectmen; and Ephraim Foster, who for years had been clerk of the proprietors. This was a formidable array of accusers. Like many others, Wardwell, in his anxiety and terror, was led to make a complete "confession." While he was in a discontented mood because of a thwarted clandestine love affair with "a maid named Barker," he had seen some "catts" meeting together behind Mr. Bradstreet's house. One of them, assuming the form of a black man, told him that if he would only sign the book, he should "live comfortably and be a captain," like Dudley Bradstreet. Following the classic example of Faust, Wardwell attached his name to the contract, was then baptized in the Shawsheen River, and abandoned his church affiliation. When Wardwell later was released from "brain-storming," he declared that the urgency of his tormentors had persuaded him, under emotional stress, that he must have done the deeds attributed to him. From that hour until his execution he never again weakened. He regretted that he had even once "belyed" himself and announced that even though it might cost him his life, he would stick to the truth. No one of sufficient importance intervened in the poor man's behalf, and he was hanged on September 22, 1692, together with seven others. Even as the noose was being adjusted around his neck, Wardwell declared in a firm voice that he was innocent. While he was speaking a puff of smoke from the executioner's pipe blew across his face and some misguided girl shouted, "The Devil doth hinder his words!" On this occasion the Reverend Nicholas Noyes, of the First Church in Salem, not content with mere watching, addressed the multitude of spectators, saying, "What a sad thing it is to see eight firebrands of hell hanging there!" Wardwell's example was used in later trials as a threat to others of what might be their fate if they recanted their confessions. The injustice in his case reached beyond his grave. On January 2, 1693, his wife was brought before the Court of Trials, where a jury delivered the familiar verdict that she was "guilty of covenanting with the Devill." Meanwhile the selectmen of Andover notified the Court of Quarter Sessions at Ipswich that the four Wardwell children were in suffering condition, and then proceeded to bind them out to other households in the neighborhood until they should be mature enough to pursue some gainful occupation. To pay the expenses of Wardwell's trial, the sheriff seized property of his amounting to 36 pounds, 15 shillings, including five cows, nine hogs, eight loads of hay, and six acres of corn upon the ground. Furthermore both Wardwells had to provide their own subsistence while they were in prison. Eventually Sarah Wardwell was reprieved and released. In 1712, his mother meanwhile having died, Samuel Wardwell, Jr., requested and received compensation for the financial loss which his family had suffered. Unfortunately it was too late to bring his father back to life." -Extracted from chapter 8 of an out-of-print book called Andover: Symbol of New England, by Claude M. Fuess. -- http://worldconnect.rootsweb..com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=samuelwardwell&id=I7155	WARDWELL, Samuel (I8209)
5485	Samuel served in the Revolutionary war. He was a captain of the militia in his own town. After the war he moved from Ipswich, MA to Whitefield, Lincoln Co., ME. They settled in a wilderness and began life by cutting the forest to make a clearing. On this location they made a house and raised their family and lived and died, Samuel at age 88, Sarah at 92.	CARLETON, Capt Samuel (I37060)
5486	Samuel Shackford was a blockmaker, was in early Portsmouth Maryland, were he had a successful business with his brother John. They owned a wharf together. He is listed on a tax rate list for Portsmouth in 1698, fined for not reporting for Muster 18 May 1693, a New Hampshire resident in 1692 and one of the original proprietors of Barrington New Hampshire. m 2nd Frances Hoyt PEABODY (b. 1670 / 1672 - d. 25 February 1749) 10 May 1716. s/o William Shackford (1640-1720) and Deborah Trickey (1646-1720) of Dover, NH.	SHACKFORD, Capt Samuel (I3604)
5487	Samuel was one of 7 children. He was raised in Boxford.	CARLETON, Samuel (I36736)
5488	Samuel Yeomans was married October 19, 1684, to Mary Ellis and they had four sons and five daughters	YEOMANS, Samuel (I10882)
5489	Samuel, son of Deacon Samuel & his wife Margaret Unknown, born about 1629; was one of the petitioners to the General Court for the First Settlement of Northfield, then known as Squakheag, 5/31/1671. He was a resident of Northampton, Mass., at this time. The first petition was refused & another one was sent the next spring signed by 23 men including Samuel Wright Senior. This petition was granted & he was one of the sixteen heads of families who took house-lots & settled there. His lot was on the west side of the street "which they or their heirs had in the second settlement". The Indians continued friendly until spring of 1675. Brookfield was destroyed in August of that Year. (King Philip's War). A squad of twenty soldiers was sent by Major Pynchon to garrison Northfield who were put under command of Sergeant Samuel Wright. A battle between Hatfield Indians & Captains _____ & Beers was fought in town of Whately August 25. Sept 1st the Indians fell upon Deerfield & Thursday, Sept 2d, on Northfield. It was the season of drying flax; & ignorant of what had happened the day before to their neighbors at Deerfield, the people of Northfield went about their work as usual on that morning. The soldiers & settlers appeared to have been scattered in the meadow & house-lots when the assault was made. According to Rev. Mr. Hubbard "some were killed in their homes, others as they were coming out of the meadows, the rest: men, women, & children fled to their fort, unable to rally out & repel the enemy. The savages kept around them, killed many of their cattle, destroyed their grain (wheat which was harvested & in the stook) burnt the houses that were outside the stockade & laid all waste. The number of whites officially reported as killed was eight & one was Sgt. Samuel Wright. After another attack by the Indians on 9/4 the Squakheag families having thus been driven from their new homes returned to their old homes in Hadley & Northampton. In the second settlement of Squakheag or Northfield in 1685 to 90, Samuel Wright's heirs were assigned 60 acres. The homestead of this Samuel Wright who went to Northampton with his father had continued in his line from 1657 until the compilation of the New England Historical & Genealogical Register in 1886. He married, 11/24/1653, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Burt who was a companion of Deacon Samuel Wright in the settlement of Springfield. She survived him & married 2d, 9/26/1684, Nathaniel Dickinson of Hatfield. —— Samuel Wright Jr. had an illegitimate child with Elizabeth Burt's sister, Mary Burt [(Source?) This was probably his brother Judah]. They were among the first to move to Northampton, in 1655 or 1656. After moving to Northampton, he settled on Bridge Street where the house of John L. Draper stood. In addition to the 3 acres for a homelot, he was granted 34 acres of meadow land. After living on this homestead about 17 years, and serving the town as one of its selectmen and in other offices, he went with his family, in company with 15 other families, as pioneer settlers, to a place about 35 miles up the Connecticut River, called by the Indians from whom it was purchased, Squakeag. This place was named by the English "Northfield" because it was the northernmost settlement on the river, became the future home of Samuel Wright Jr. and many of his descendants. Samuel Wright Jr must have lived within the meadow fence & not on the plains. Here they built small huts near each other, and ran a stockade around a number of them for a fort into which they might flee, if attacked. All went peacefully for 2 years until the King Philip war broke out in 1675. In the latter part of August, the safety of Northfield was threatened, and so 20 men were sent up and placed under command of Lt. Samuel Wright. On Thursday 2 September 1675, as Lt. Wright and the men under him were in the field gathering flax, they were attacked by King Philip's men. Lt. Wright was killed, aged ca 45 yrs; also 2 sons of Elder William Janes, their preacher and 5 others, and wounded Samuel Wright III. The rest, men women, and children, fled inside the small stockade, and were shut in there 5 days. What days and nights of terror those must have been to the widow and fatherless children with the savages burning and destroying outside, and liable to break in at any time and put them all to death. The day after the attack, Capt. Beers, not knowing what had happened set out from Hadley, with 36 mounted men, to bring away the soldiers and inhabitants, but on reaching the outskirts of the town, fell into an ambush, and he and the larger part of his men were killed, but 13 escaped and fled back to Hadley. Immediately Major Treat with more than 100 men prepared to go up for the relief of Northfield, where he arrived Monday afternoon on 6 September. One account is that immediately set about burying those killed on 2 September. The first found was the body of Lt. Wright, which was taken up the bank and buried in the first grave opened in present Northfield Cemetery. His burial was hardly finished when Maj. Treat was struck with a spent ball from the thicket. Upon consulting with his officers, it was decided to take the 100 or more people that had been shut inside the stockade and start back to Hadley that night. In their journey down through the wilderness what fears they must have had; fears of falling into an ambush and meeting the same fate as came to Capt. Beers and Co., on this same route 3 days before, and the fate that came to the 80 young soldiers at Bloody Brook, a few days later. His inventory was taken March 30, 1676, and amounted to 326£ 14S. House & home lot 60£ had wheel right tools 61/ 3 horses & heofer 15.5, Land in meadow & pasture 163£ sae, grindstone & loom 61/ sheep & swine 10£10s, yoke of oxen & steers 15£, 4 cattle 4 mares & [c]olt 14£, arms & ammunition 65/, bedding & clothing 14£5s. Widow Elizabeth & son Sam'l admin. Widow & heirs made an agreement (for her & those of age) March 30, 1680, She was to have use of 1/2 house 1/2 barn 1/2 homelot which was next to the meadow including all the orchard half the pasture lying next the house containing 13 acres. 1/8 other land & movables. Samuel to have double share. Court to appoint men to divide the estate Men were appointed but not ?. Explanation "half the homelot" may mean that next to Hawley Sheet lot on the side south the land. (Or it may mean lower side of lot below swamp.)	WRIGHT, Sgt Samuel (I46295)
5490	Samuel³, s/o Philip², as in Fam. 3 was of O.R. Captain; grant of land, 30 May, 1697; killed 15 Sept. 1707. His wife was Elizabeth, who aftewards m. Amos Pinkham. We can find no children belonging to Samuel. Amos and Elizabeth had children as appears in "Pinkham."	CHESLEY, Capt Samuel (I35360)
5491	Sara's middle name confirmed by her sister, Ann. —— MRS. SARA O'KEEFE TO WED She Will Be Married March 30 to James W. Walker Here Mrs. Sara Mitchell O'Keefe of Old Westbury, L. I., widow of John E.O'Keefe Jr., and James W. Walker, son of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Walker of 1 Sutton Place, obtained a marriage license yesterday afternoon at the Municipal Building. They plan to be married on March 30 at the Ritz-Carlton. The bride-elect, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ledyard Mitchell of Grosse Pointe, Mich., and East Hampton, L. I., made her debut in the 1935-36 season in Detroit. In 1937, she was married to Mr. O'Keefe, who died in September, 1943, while on active duty as a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve. [New York Times, 20 March 1948] —— WALKER--Sara Mitchell, of Hobe Sound, FL., formerly of Oyster Bay, L.I. Died at home, Monday, Sept. 23, 1996 after a long illness. Survived by her husband, James Wear Walker; brother W. Ledyard Mitchell and sister Ann Campbell of Michigan; son John O'Keefe of Dover, MA, daughters Sheila O'Keefe Todd of Denver CO, and Hilary Walker Gilmore of Toalatin, OR; grandchildren, William Walker Todd, Whitney DeForest Todd, James Bridger Todd, James Tucker Gilmore and Eliza Johnstone Gilmore. Private services will be held for family members in Kennebukport, ME. [New York Times, 24 September 1996]	MITCHELL, Sara Adeline (I43146)
5492	Sarah (d/o Aquila 1), married Charles Annis (1).	CHASE, Sarah (I34492)
5493	SARAH BABB WIFE OF P. J. CARLETON DIED SEPT. 8, 1894 AE. 67 YRS. 10 MOS.	BABB, Sarah Smith (I37361)
5494	Sarah from Newton, Mass	CLARK, Sarah (I39332)
5495	Sarah HOWARD has often been mistaken for her aunt by the same name.	HOWARD, Sarah (I13155)
5496	Sarah Jenkins was NOT his wife. Researchers have determined that this identification is incorrect, and that Mary Doggett was his wife and the mother of at least his first five children. —— George was a clothier (maker of cloth) from England. He emigrated in 1632 most likely and became a respected churchman and community leader. He is credited with being a founder of Barnstable in 1639. It is thought that he was a member of Rev. John Lathrop's church in England which was dissolved in 1632 and most of the members immigrated to the Plymouth colony at that time. He shows up in 1633 in records of that area and era. He later joined Rev. Lathrop's Church in Scituate (1636) but in 1639 they all removed to Barnstable where Rev. Lathrop founded the Congregational Church in America. https://familysearch.org/tree/person/LR7Y-PJM/details ——— COMMENTS: On 4 December 1638, "Georg[e] Lewes" was fined 3s. for non-appearance at Court [PCR 1:104]. On 5 April 1641, "[w]hereas Georg[e] Lewes attached certain corn of Thomas Roberts in the hands of Captain Standish, and neither came nor anyone for him to prosecute his suit, was nonsuited, & the corn released" [PCR 2:12]. On 8 June 1655, the "Court do allow unto George Lewis, of Barnstable, for charge and trouble about the said Anthony Gilpin [recently deceased] in his sickness and all other times, the sum of six pounds three shillings and four pence, besides ten shillings for the wintering of an heifer, and two shillings and six pence which was brought in upon account afterwards" [PCR 3:83]. The Plymouth section of the 1643 Plymouth Colony list of men able to bear arms includes an entry for "George Lewes," with a mark to indicate that this item was interlineated [PCR 8:188]. This item is puzzling, as George Lewis also appears in his proper place in the Barnstable section [PCR 8:193], and there is no other evidence for this or any other George Lewis in Plymouth. This may be a simple clerical error.	LEWIS, George (I42730)
5497	Sarah Leech m. John Millite s. Thomas 3 July 1663[1] at Gloucester Sarah Smith w. Morris died 20 Jan 1724/25[2] at over 80 years old.	LEACH, Sarah (I46003)
5498	Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, commonly known as Margaret Fuller, (May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850) was an American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. She was the first full-time American female book reviewer in journalism. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States. She had a relationship with Giovanni Ossoli, with whom she had a child. All three members of the family died in a shipwreck off Fire Island, New York, as they were traveling to the United States in 1850. Fuller's body was never recovered.	FULLER, Sarah Margaret (I8782)
5499	Sarah saved son, Travis, from drowning in an old well.	COLT, Sarah (I36375)
5500	Sarah Scammon was of English Descent and her ancestors, the Waldrons, were among the first settlers in New Hampshire in the early 1600s. Sarah's sister, Mary Scammon, married James Sinclair, the s/o John Sinclair Sr, who emigrated as an indentured prisoner of war from Cromwell's wars.	SCAMMON, Sarah (I33286)

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s/o Thomas READE & Kathrine

REED, Thomas (I30857)

5402

s/o Thomas STARRETT (1738—1822) & Rebecca LEWIS (1743–1813)
m1 Jane SPEAR
m2 1829 Martha McCARTER

STARRETT, Capt William (I15831)

5403

s/o Thomas STARRETT (1738—1822) & Rebecca LEWIS (1743–1813)

STARRETT, Isaac (I15829)

5404

s/o Thomas TUPPER & Ann HODGON
——
He was a jurist in 1664, exciseman in 1667, constable in 1669. He was a selectman, town clerk, deputy to the General Court at Plymouth, representative to the court in Boston. He was a lieutenant in Sandwich before being promoted to Captain in 1690.

TUPPER, Capt Thomas Henry (I47525)

5405

s/o Thomas Weed & Mary White

WEEDE, Jonas (I32861)

5406

s/o Thomas WHEELER (1563—1634) & Rebecca SAYRE (1572—1653)
——
Captain Edward Hutchinson was appointed to negotiate a treaty with the Indians and Capt. Thomas Wheeler with about 25 of his company was assigned to guard & assist him. On July 28th 1675 they marched from Cambridge to Sudbury, arriving at Brookfield August first where they were met by a party of Indians. The Indian Sachem agreed to meet the English the next morning at a point a short distance from Brookfield. When they arrived, there were no Indians there and proceeded four or five miles further beside a swamp, when they were attacked by 200 to 300 Indians. Eight of the men were killed by the first firing and three wounded. Capt. Thomas Wheeler had two horses shot out from under him and received a ball through his body. His son, whose arm was fractured by a ball, dismounted and placed his wounded father on the horse of a soldier that had been killed. They both escaped on the horse. The both died months later from their wounds.
——
CAPT. THOMAS WHEELER, of Concord, Mass. This "gallant and intrepid" Indian fighter was among the most interesting and important characters of our colonial period, and was preeminent among the few pioneers through whose restless daring the frontiers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony were so persistently extended. He was born in England. The date of his arrival in America and the name of the ship in which he came are not known. Several historians assert that he was a resident of Concord as early as 1640, and even before this date he was in this country trading among the Indians. The first written record that refers to him, however, is in May 18, 1642, when he took the oath of freeman at Concord, Mass. The first definite information concerning his trading with the Indians is on July 1st, 1657, when, with three others, he bought from the colony the privilege of trading with the Indians, paying there for the sum of £25.

WHEELER, Thomas (I15664)

5407

s/o Thomas WHITE (1500—1679)

WHITE, Joseph (I43733)

5408

s/o Timothy Abbott and Phoebe Brown.

ABBOTT, Isaac (I13931)

5409

s/o Timothy Carver & Phoebe Baldwin

CARVER, Hosea Barnabas (I30166)

5410

s/o Uilleam of Mar
—
He was at Norham in 1292, probably in the camp of Robert de Brus, then Earl of Carrick.

OF MAR, Earl Domhnall I (I43932)

5411

s/o Uriah Bartlett LEACH (1830—1902) & Edith Lucinda SNOWMAN (1837—1905)

LEACH, Pearl Carl (I41105)

5412

s/o Walter de BURGH & Alice _____
m1 Isabel PLANTAGENET
m2 _____ O’BRIEN

DE BURGH, William (I42563)

5413

s/o Walter G Gangelhoff (1884 – 1954) and Florence Josephine Brombach (1883 – 1981)

GANGELHOFF, Harold Urban (I6538)

5414

s/o Watson Doe Billington (1826-1898) & Clarissa Hopkins (1829-1914)

BILLINGTON, Henry Carr (I2259)

5415

s/o Wesley Cook BARTLETT & Evelyn OBER

STRONG, Elizabeth (I46886)

5416

s/o William AVERILL (1774—1857) & Mary HODGE (1774—1861)

AVERILL, Enos (I32727)

5417

s/o William BASSETT (1680—1744) & Abigail BOURNE (1684–1764)

BASSETT, Nathaniel (I47364)

5418

s/o William BENTNICK KG & Margaret HARLEY

CAVENDISH-BENTINCK, Lord William Henry KG PC (I46967)

5419

s/o William BLAKE & Agnes
m1 Hannah BRECK (1622–1706); children:
1. John Blake (1640-1700)
2. Caleb Blake (1631-?)
3. Robert (1644-1676)
m2 Mary Souther SHAW in Boston on 16 Aug 1654; child:
1. Hannah Blake (1657–1659)

When John Thorne Blake and his twin sister Anne were born on 29 Aug 1618, in Pitminster, Somerset, their father, William, was 24 and their mother, Agnes, was 24. John was Christened on 29 Aug 1618 and because he and Anne were twins it seems likely that both were Christened on that date.

BLAKE, John Thorne (I15679)

5420

s/o William BONVILLE & Elizabeth HARRINGTON

BONVILLE, Lord William (I43308)

5421

s/o William Brewster (1535-1589) & Mary Simkinson (Smythe?) (1535-1579)
Ancestor to President Zachary TAYLOR
——
Brewster joined the first group of Separatists aboard the Mayflower on the voyage to North America. Brewster was accompanied by his wife, Mary Brewster, and his sons: Love Brewster and Wrestling Brewster.

BREWSTER, William (I40719)

5422

s/o William BRYANT & Rebecca ARNOLD

BRYANT, William (I31736)

5423

s/o William BULLARD & Mary

BULLARD, Isaac (I15590)

5424

s/o William Bustard of Nether Exe, England, earliest known ancestor of this line.

BUSTARD, John (I6154)

5425

s/o William Cantlin and Josephine O’Brien.

CANTLIN, Dennis Lafayette (I944)

5426

s/o William CAVENDISH, 2nd Duke of Devonshire & Rachel RuSSELL

CAVENDISH, William KG PC (I46963)

5427

s/o William COMSTOCK % Margaret DENNIS

COMSTOCK, William (I2582)

5428

s/o William Conant and Clarissa Palmer.

CONANT, Everett West (I631)

5429

s/o William DAWES (1570-1629)
Ancestor of William DAWES, who rode with Paul REVERE during the Lexington Alarm

DAWES, William (I43974)

5430

s/o William DREW & Alice LLOYD
——
At an early age he entered into the Canadian fishing trade with his father, William Sr. and brothers.
William Drew was rated at Oyster River in 1648, 1649 (Drue)1650, 1657, 1659, 1661, 1662, 1663, 1666, and 1669 (early NH Census, Dover).
His log house, “fortified against the indians” was built by Thomas BEARD.
He was listed as a fisherman at Isles of Shoals.
He lived on the south side of the River at Drew’s Point, where on a hilltop can be seen the cellar of the garrison house built by him or his son, Francis. Another garrison house built by William DAM was later known as the Drew Garrison house.

DREW, William (I3987)

5431

s/o William F. Farrington and Mary Davis.

FARRINGTON, Elvin D. (I828)

5432

s/o William GERRISH & Joanna LOWELL

GERRISH, John (I47242)

5433

s/o William GERRISH & Joanna LOWELL

GERRISH, Joseph (I47243)

5434

s/o William GERRISH & Joanna LOWELL

LOFTUS, Anne Catherine (I46932)

5435

s/o William GREGG & Ann ____
His father died when he was aged 12 years, and his mother died when he was aged 17 years.

GREGG, George (I47199)

5436

s/o William HEATH (1685—?) & Prudence BRIDGE (1692—?)

HEATH, John (I47351)

5437

s/o William Henry Carson and Eula Lee Costly.

CARSON, David Costley (I35583)

5438

s/o William Henry KRATZ & Kathryn DELANEY

KRATZ, Lawrence Blazius (I33158)

5439

s/o William Hilton & Sybil Lumley.

HILTON, William (I38780)

5440

s/o William Holyoke & Joane Fairchild

HOLYOKE, Thomas (I5039)

5441

s/o William HOUSE & Hannah HOLLISTER

HOUSE, Abner (I45992)

5442

s/o William HUTCHINS
——
Per DNA testing of brothers and father, from Towcester, England and a direct link to Enoch Hutchings II of Kittery, Maine. It is logical this was his father as both him and his brother John were in Maryland and was the right age and time to assist with moving his possessions to New Hampshire as historical journals relate.
——
On 7 July 1675 Thomas Withers deed land on Spruce Creek [Kittery, Maine] to Enoch Hutchings [YLR 2:176]
No further information from Great Migration Project.

7 Dec `648 - Served on an inquest jury to determine the cause of death of Thomas Smith. They determined that he had stopped by a well to take a piss, and accidentally fell in. He was known to have convulsions (epilepsy?).
——
Southhampton. -- The list of the names of passengers intended to shipe themselves, in the Bevis of Hampton of CL. Tounes, Robert Batten Mr. for New England, and thus by virtue of the Lord Treasurer's warrant of the second of May which was after the restraint and they some days gone to sea before the Kings mates proclamation came onto Southhampton.

John Hutchinson Carpenter age 30
ffruancis Alcocke vizg age 26

Listed as servants of the Dummer brothers.

HUTCHINS, John (I4870)

5443

s/o William IDDINGS & Mary MOORE

IDDINGS, Henry (I15563)

5444

s/o William LOCKE (1745-1826) & Elizabeth "Betsy" BADD (1748-1802).
m1 20 Sep 1792 to Abigail PAGE
m2 19 Oct 1800 to Mercy DAME
m3 about 1823 to Margaret PIERCE

LOCKE, John (I15532)

5445

s/o William LUNDY & Elizabeth HEPBURN

LUNDIE, Thomas (I46455)

5446

s/o William MERRICK (1615-1689) & Rebecca TRACY (1625-1686)

MERRICK, Stephen (I21519)

5447

s/o William MINTHORN & Hannah ELDRIDGE

MINTHORN, John (I35320)

5448

s/o WILLIAM NELSON and MARTHA FORD

NELSON, John (I43671)

5449

s/o William NOYES & Anne PARKER
——
In 1638 Nicholas sailed back to England, perhaps to settle family affairs and to report on conditions in Massachusetts Bay. He returned to New England on the Jonathan which sailed from London soon after 12 Apr. 1639 and "came to Anchor in Boston Harbor." Also on the Jonathan were Anthony Somerby of Newbury and Mr. Peter Noyes of Sudbury, who, having come over on the “Confidence” in 1638 at age 47, found New England to his liking, and had returned home to Penton, near Andover, Hampshire to get his family. Peter was undoubtedly one of Nicholas' relatives.

NOYES, Nicholas (I40704)

5450

s/o William Pond (b 1550)

POND, William (I43634)

5451

s/o William POTE & Dorothy GATCHELL
Greenfield, a mariner, was prosecuted for sailing his schooner out of Falmouth on 2 Sept. 1764. This so angered him that he dismantled his house and transported it to Wolf's Neck (Freeport, Maine).

m1 16 Dec. 1758 to Jane Grant, by whom he had 8 issue.
m2 Mary (Winslow) Merrill, the widow of Joshua Merrill, by whom he had no issue.

POTE, Capt Greenfield (I24583)

5452

s/o William POTTER (?—1619) & Hannah LANGFORD BEECHER (1584—1659)
——
JOHN AND WILLIAM POTTER, OF NEW HAVEN, CONN., AND THEIR DESCENDANTS.
https://archive.org/details/cu31924029843731/page/n207/mode/2up?view=theater
The brothers JOHN POTTER1 and WILLIAM POTTER2 signed the Plantation Covenant, New Haven, Conn., June 4, 1639. It is probable that they came to America at the same date. There is a record of the arrival of William Potter: "Came in the Abigail' from London, 1635, aged 27; wife Frances, aged 26, and child Joseph, aged 20 weeks, and his mother, Hannah Beecher, she had married again after the death of her first husband." William Potter, in a will dated 1662, names children Nathaniel, Joseph, Hope, and Rebecca. Hannah Beecher, in her will, mentions son William Potter; her son John had died before her death. Stephen Dodd's East Haven Register has this account respecting John Potter (East Haven constituted a part of the town of New Haven for one hundred and forty-six years, 1785):-
"In 1651 John Potter obtained 20 acres of the Fresh Meadow lands. In 1662, John Potter obtained a piece of land upon which to set his blacksmith shop.
"On the 19th of August, 1680, Thomas Clark sold to Sergt. John Potter all that farm lying and being within the township of New Haven, and near and adjoining to a brook called by the name of Stoney Brook, which Thomas Clarke bought of Nathaniel Micklethwaite of the city of London, merchant, containeth by estimation 300 acres of upland, be it more or less, and 3 score acres of meadow, be it more or less, adjoining thereto; excepting always all the uplands that hath been formerly sold from the said farme or iron workes, reserving only all the Iron worke plates of Iron, and the moveables to himself, that are upon the premises.'
"John Potter was to pay £40 per annum for 21 years, in wheat, pork, and peas. Sergt. John Potter did not resume the Iron business, as was contemplated when he bought the farm.
"But in the year 1692, he and Thomas Pinion petitioned New Haven for liberty to set up a Bloomary on the first spring, or brook towards Foxson. In April, 'some of the townsmen having viewed the brooke that runs into Stoney River at the place or thereabouts, which was moved for by John Potter, formerly to set up a Bloomary; and for his encouragement allow him the use of said brooke, and 20 acres of land, not exceeding 30, near the first spring, the west side of Stoney River; and grant him the liberty of what Iron mines there are within the town bounds, and the use of what wood he needs in the commons for the work, if it proves effectual. And the aforesaid land is to be laid out and bounded to him, by the surveyor, and one or two of the townsmen. Always preserving the necessary highways, if there be any. This Bloomary was established, but there is no record of how long it existed."
The estate of John Potter was rated at £25, and his family consisted then of four persons, himself, wife, and two children, viz., John, Jr., and Samuel. His house lot soon be- came the property of Alling Ball, and it is probable that he died as early as 1643. His name does not appear in the record of the first "seating of the meeting-house" in 1645-6. His widow, Elizabeth Potter, married, June, 1646, Edward Parker, who died in 1662, and she married a third time, Robert Rose, of Branford, Conn. The will of Elizabeth Rose was made July 20, 1677; she died before signing and sealing it, but the children agreed to its provisions, and, at a subsequent court, it was admitted. She names her sons, John and Samuel Potter, "my son John Parker, to have my house he lives in, and daughter Brooks, daughter Hall, and daughter Cook- all my grandchildren-to have £12 apiece. The rest to be divided to my three daughters, Mary, Hope, and Lydia." Sons, John Potter and John Parker, joint executors. Estate appraised by John Cooper and John Winston.
JOHN POTTER, Jr.,3 born about 1635, baptized at New Haven, Conn., Oct. 17, 1641, died Dec. 24, 1706, was the eldest son of John Potter, the first settler. In 1662, he bought of John Tuttle, Jr., a homestead in East Haven, which the latter had received by deed of gift from his father, William Tuttle, of New Haven, 1661. In this deed John Potter is called blacksmith. "His will was proved in New Haven in 1706-7, in which he calls himself 70 years of age; wife Mary, and sons, John and Samuel, executors; desires to be buried in New Haven; leaves £5 to the church, in care of Rev. John Pierpont; Deacon Penderson and Deacon Bradley, trustees. Wife Mary to dispose of her own estate, as by agreement, before marriage, and she gave it away to her children. She was a laborious, loving, and tender-hearted wife to me, notwithstanding. Eldest son, John, to have shop and smith's tools, right in Branford. Son Samuel to have 6 acres for his house lot over against David Austin's house; 8 acres above Matthew Moulthrop's house; 4 acres of salt meadow that was Mr. Tuttle's, and 8 acres blumery'; also, the homestead that was his grandmother's, and a room in my house as long as he behaves himself well towards his mother- in-law, and, if she is removed by marriage or death, Samuel must come to terms with his brother John, and if Samuel marries, he shall not bring his wife into the house of his mother-in-law. Abigail, my dau., shall have the still that was my mother's. Will proved 1st Monday in Jan. 1706/7. Inventory, £416 4s. Od."

POTTER, William (I46797)

5453

s/o WILLIAM SPRAGUE and MILLICENT EAMES

SPRAGUE, Anthony (I43667)

5454

s/o William STICKNEY (1558—?) & Margaret PIERSON (1562—1593)

STICKNEY, William (I43644)

5455

s/o William Stover HORTON & Lucy E YOUNG

HORTON, Alton Wallace (I38494)

5456

s/o William TAPLEY & Elizabeth CASH

TAPLEY, William (I40351)

5457

s/o William Thorogood (1560-1625) & Anne Edwards (1558-1609)

THOROGOOD, Adam (I43701)

5458

s/o William WATKINS (1857–1935) & Elizabeth BROWN (1861—1935)

According to Naturalization records, he was White, dark complexion, 5ft 8 inches, 145 lbs, black hair, brown eyes, no distinctive marks.
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USS Matagorda (AVP-22/AG-122) was a United States Navy Barnegat-class seaplane tender in commission from 1941 to 1946 that saw service in World War II.
Following a supply and escort run to Puerto Rico and Trinidad, Matagorda departed Port of Spain, Trinidad, on 23 November 1942 and on 4 December 1942 arrived at Boston for alterations and overhaul.
Voyage to Newfoundland
On 5 January 1943, Matagorda departed Boston to carry troops and supplies to Naval Station Argentia, Newfoundland, returning to Boston on 14 January 1943.
Return to the Caribbean
After loading aviation supplies at Norfolk, Virginia, Matagorda arrived at San Juan, Puerto Rico, on 11 February 1943. She operated primarily out of Puerto Rico until early August 1943, escorting merchant ships and transporting ordnance and aviation supplies to bases in the Caribbean. She called at the Virgin Islands, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Trinidad.
North Atlantic operations
Matagorda departed San Juan on 3 August 1943 and steamed via Bermuda and Norfolk to Argentia, where she arrived on 26 August 1943. On 28 August 1943 she joined Convoy UT-1 and made a voyage to the United Kingdom, arriving at Pembroke, Wales, on 4 September 1943. After unloading cargo, she sailed via Iceland and Boston to Norfolk, arriving there on 27 September 1943. Between 5 October 1943 and 5 March 1944 she made two more round trips across the Atlantic Ocean. She carried men and cargo to Pembroke and Bristol, England, and made escort and supply runs to Casablanca, French Morocco, and Gibraltar.
South Atlantic operations
Departing Boston on 18 April 1944, Matagorda loaded seaplane supplies at Bayonne, New Jersey, and departed Bayonne on 22 April 1944 for Brazil, reaching Recife, Brazil, on 6 May 1944. Until the beginning of April 1945, she conducted extensive training and supply operations and ranged Brazilian waters from Belém to Florianópolis. In late May 1944 and again in July 1944 she tended seaplanes at Florianópolis.
Matagorda interrupted this duty on 24 July 1944 and 25 July 1944, when she searched for and rescued the entire crew of 67 men from the American merchant ship SS William Gaston, torpedoed by a German submarine late on 23 July 1944 off the Brazilian coast. Again, while operating out of Fortaleza, she rescued five survivors of a downed Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina flying boat plus the crew from an assisting Martin PBM Mariner flying boat on 29 August 1944.
Matagorda made numerous runs along the Brazilian coast during supply and training missions. Based at Recife, she visited many Brazilian ports including Vitória, Natal, the island of Fernando de Noronha, Bahia, and Rio de Janeiro.
Voyages to the Caribbean
Matagorda departed Recife on 1 April 1945, touched briefly at San Juan, Puerto Rico, and reached Norfolk on 14 April 1945. From 2 June 1945 to 6 July 1945 she made two runs to Bermuda and Puerto Rico, returning to Norfolk with men of seaplane squadrons.
Conversion to press information ship
Matagorda steamed to New York City on 10 July 1945 to begin conversion to a press information ship. As such her mission would be to provide all proper news facilities for the press and transport them to the coast of Japan where they would cover operations “Olympic” and “Coronet”, projected for the invasion of Japan in 1945 and 1946. She was reclassified as a "miscellaneous auxiliary" and redesignated AG-122 on 30 July 1945.
The cessation of hostilities with Japan and end of World War II came on 15 August 1945 made the invasion of Japan unnecessary, and Matagorda's conversion was halted in early September 1945.

WATKINS, Francis Pierce (I7630)

5459

s/o William WOODCOCK & Alice WASHBURNE
——
Woodcock’s Garrison was a well-known place of rendezvous in the great Indian war, and was probably for some years the only house, excepting its immediate neighbors, on the ‘Bay Road,’ between Rehoboth and Dedham.” It was near Ten Mile Hill in what is now North Attleborough or Plainville.
Capt. Samuel Guild administered and agreed as an heir in the estate of his father John Woodcock of Attleborough, 1701-04.
——
John Woodcock had a farm of three hundred acres on the Ten Mile River. Woodcock built his house in 1669 and was licensed the following year to open a public house or tavern. He was warned to "keep good order" and that "no unruliness or ribaldry be permitted there." Woodcock's house was just one of several "garrison houses" built for protection against possible Indian attacks. Similar "garrison houses" were located in settlements such as Dedham, Seekonk, and Swansea. In a cruel twist of fate, Woodcock's "garrison house" failed to offer protection for a member of his own family. In April 1676, during King Philip's War, Woodcock's son, Nathaniel, was killed by Indians while working in a nearby corn field. The Indians cut off Nathaniel's head and stuck it on a pole in front of the house. Nathaniel Woodcock was buried where he fell, and his grave is now in the center of what would become the Woodcock Cemetery.

WOODCOCK, John (I5506)

5460

s/o William WROTH of Durants, Middlesex, England

WROTHE, John (I15744)

5461

s/o William Young AITCHISON (1837-1908) & Harriet Amilia BABCOCK (1840-1894)
——
The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 29 May 1923, Tue
PROGRESSIVES ROUT FUNDAMENTALISTS IN BAPTIST CONVENTION
Leaders Quit Atlantic City Meeting, Fearing Steam Roller
Creedal Resolution on Christ’s Deity and Diving Origin of Bible Buried
Atlantic City, Mary 28—All hope of the Fundamentalist faction in the Northern Baptist convention to force through the creedal statement reaffirming their belief in the deity of Christ and the divine inspiration of the Bible was abandoned this afternoon when it became know what the two leaders of the Fundamentalists, Dr. J C Massy, of Boston, and Dr. J. Marvin, dean of Pasadena, Dal., had left the convention for their home.
… a long article detailing what happened at the convention … ending with:
Dr. John Y. Aitchison who last night was re-elected general director of the General Board of Promotion which is in charge of the New World Movement, gave his annual report math the morning session.
He warned the delegates that they must get over “uncertainty and irresolution and come with a clean skin out of any attacks of denominational measles.”
Plea for New World Movement
“We must go back with a clean slate, prepared to work as we have never worked before. We are going to get the entire $100,000,000 upon which we determined when we set out upon the New World Movement, but we are going to get about one-half of it in money, and the rest in experience. The experience is going to be as valuable to us as the money That experience is the foundation upon which we are going forth to build up a larger program than even the one which we conceived in Denver four years ago.
“There are those who say that our program was too large. But we are far better off today than we would have been if we had not launched so broad an undertaking. This is a moment not of defeat but of triumph for our denomination.”

AITCHISON, Dr John Young (I2717)

5462

s/o Willis Arthur Sutfin and Elizabeth Jane Hamon

SUTFIN, Joseph Henry (I1047)

5463

s/o yeomen James HUBBARD & Naomi COOKE (COCKE)

HUBBARD, Rev Sameul (I15785)

5464

s/o Zachariah SYMMES & Sarah BAKER
m1 abt 1652 Mary SPARHAWKE
m2 bef 1676 Mary CHICKERING TORREY

SYMMES, Capt William (I32879)

5465

s/o Zina Druse and Sally Ann Lawrence.

DRUSE, Daniel L. (I636)

5466

s/o Benjamin (Corson) Courson and Jannetje Hoornbeek

COURSIN, Peter (I44303)

5467

s/o Goronwy ap Tudor Hen and Gwerful ferch Madog
m1 Malia ferch Made abt 1315 in Wales
m2 Margred ferch Thomas abt 1359 in Wales

AP GRONWY, Tudur (I10667)

5468

s/o Ole Svendsen and Ane Mortensdatter

ØYUM, Ole (I44957)

5469

s/o Pieter Wouterse van der Meulen and Dorcas Messenger

MILLS, Peter (I44315)

5470

s/o Robert, king of Scots & an unknown mistress.

His father provided him with an annual allowance and granted him the lands of Liddisdale which had been forfeited by de Soulis. Between 1320-1326 Robert was also granted the lands of Fornauchi and Goulentyn in Perthshire, which had formerly belonged to the Menzies. In a confirmation charter granted by David II in 1342 he is referred to as "our dearest brother.

DE BRUCE, Sir Robert (I43272)

5471

Safe Fuller & Elizabeth Eliot, m 3 day of Nov 1608

Anna (I3255)

5472

Said to be the first white child born in Taunton.
Died during the “Great Snow”. The snow was so deep that it prevented traveling, and it’s said that John lay dead in his house for a long time before the neighbors knew.

DEANE, John (I29707)

5473

Said to have been related to Hamelin de Ballon, Lord of Abergavenny. The Complete Peerage V6.P452

Berthe (I35236)

5474

Salem Witch participation:
* 3 Jun 1692. Participated in search of the bodies of John PROCTOR & John WILLARD for signs of witchcraft.
* 28 Jun 1692. Summoned to be a witness against John WILLARD & Martha CARRIER.
* 30 Jul 1692. Summoned to appear at Court of Ayer & Terminal to testify agains Martha CARRIER.
* 2 Aug 1692. Gave deposition against Martha CARRIER.
* 8 Hue 1703. Signed petition denouncing the witch trials.
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The deposition of John Rogger of Billreca aged 50 yeares or Thereabouts Saith
That about Seven yeares since Martha Carrier being a Nigh Neigbour unto this depon't and there hapening some difference betwixt us she gave forth severall threatning words as she often used to doe and in a short time after this deponent had two large lusty Sowes w'ch frequented home daily that were lost & this deponent: found one of them dead Nigh the s'd Carriers house w'th both Eares cut of & the other sow I Never heard of to this day; & the same summer to the best of my rembrance I had a Cow w'ch used to give a good Mess of milke twice a day & of a sudden she would give little or None Every Morning though a Nights she gave as formerly and this Continued above the space of a month in w'ch time I had three Meals milke on three severall Mornings not successively: and no more though One Night three of us Watched the Cow all night #[one night] yet I could have no milke in the morning of her & about the monthes End she gave milke as formerly she used, by all w'ch. I did in my Conscience beleive then in the day of it & have so done Ever since & doe yet beleive that Martha Carrier was the occasion of those Ill accidents. by Meanes of Witchcraft she being a very Malicous Woman & further Saith Not
marke of J
John Rogger
Essex County Court Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 No. 315. Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Judicial Archives, Massachusetts State Archives, MA.
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To his Excellency the Governor, Council and Representatives of the Province of the Massachusets Bay, in Generall Court Assembled June 1703
The Address of severall Ministers of the County of Essex.
Whereas in the year 1692 some of our neighbours of a good conversation, were apprehended and imprisoned upon suspition of Witchcraft, upon the complaint of some young persons under Diabolicall molestations; and upon their Tryall at the Court at Salem were condemned; great weight being layd upon the evidence of the Afflicted persons, their Accusers Sentence of Death was Executed on severall of them, others were Reprieved.
But since it is apparent and hath been Acknowledged, that there were Errors and mistakes in the aforesaid Tryalls; and notwithstanding the care and conscientious endeavour of the Honorable Judges to do the thing that is right: yet there is great reason to fear that Innocent persons then suffered, and that God may have a controversy with the Land upon that account.
We would therefore humbly propose to the consideration of this Honored Court, whether something may not, and ought not, to be publickly done to clear the good name and reputation of some who have suffered as aforesaid, against whom there was not as is supposed sufficient evidence to prove the guilt of such a crime and for whom there are good grounds of charity. Some of the condemned persons aforesaid, and others in behalf of their Relations who have suffered, have lately Petitioned this Honoured Court upon this Account. We pray that their case may be duely considered.
[signed by] Thomas Barnard, Joseph Green, William Hubbard, Benjamin Rolfe, Samuel Cheever, Zech. Symmes, Joseph Gerrish, John Rogers, Jabez fitch, Jno Wise, Joseph Capen, Thomas Symmes
July 9th 1703 In Council
Read and sent down/.
July 16th: 1703. In the House of Representatives
Read.

ROGERS, John (I43943)

5475

Samuel and his brother Jonathan were killed in the same Indian attack.

BRADLEY, Samuel (I11022)

5476

Samuel and his father William were among the original 35 proprietors of Norwich in 1660.

HYDE, Samuel (I46866)

5477

Samuel Backus was the second s/o Joseph Backus. He was a quiet, enterprising farmer, prosperous in his own business, but having little to do with public affairs. He was an affectionate father, and kind husband. “The family had removed from the original home lot nearer the Landing, to what is now known as Yantic. Here he erected a grist mill — the second one in the settlement — receiving special grants from the town, and commenced the erection of the iron works.

BACKUS, Samuel (I18103)

5478

Samuel Cane's father settled at Phillipstown [Sanford] in 1739. Phillipstown was Samuel Cane's home until about 1700. Samuel Cane stated, in a 1785 census, that he had been at Sedgwick, Maine for 15 years. He is listed as one of the early settlers of Sedgwick, Maine.

CANE, Samuel (I4506)

5479

SAMUEL DAM
DIED
Mar. 8, 1872
Aged 87 years, 11 mos.
The casket here the gem in heaven.
Gone home to die no more.

DAME, Samuel (I247)

5480

Samuel Dam was one of the early settlers on Dame's Point, at the junction of Fresh Creek with the Cochecho River. It had been given to his father by "Town Clerk" Pomfrett. It seems that Samuel and his elder brother Pomfret both lived there for a while. Samuel's wife's name is not known, but they had children, the eldest of whom was named Samuel, born about 1724, who married and had a family. p268«s12»

DAM, Samuel (I35)

5481

Samuel Hayes on 3 Dec 1746 deeded land to his daughter Martha Pinkham.

HAYES, Martha (I216)

5482

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is extensively quoted. During his lifetime, Twain became a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. Twain enjoyed immense public popularity. His keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature".

CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (I33858)

5483

Samuel lived in the old Peter Putnam home in Sutton, still standing in1995, it was built in 1724, and a Putnam family still lives there. This old farm is on the Centry Farm Road in Sutton, James O. Eaton was born in this house, his mother Alice Hathaway also. Samuel and Alice had 15 children.

EATON, Samuel (I21041)

5484

Samuel probably grew up at Boston, Suffolk Co, MA. He had located in Andover, Essex Co, MA before 1670. He had purchased a 20 acre lot there in the south-end and built his home there. Samuel was a carpenter by trade. He was married to an unidentified first wife around 1669 and she died around 1672 at Andover. As a 29 year old widower, Samuel courted a daughter of Richard Barker but he was rejected by the family. He next turned his attentions to a recent widow, Sarah (Hooper) Hawkes, who also had a young child, and was quite wealthy from her first husband. They lived on Samuel's lot in Andover and prospered for a while. Samuel was granted a meadow and swamp land in Andover's division of common lands on 6 March 1675 . King Philip's War soon erupted and on 8 April 1676, Andover was attacked by the Indians. Samuel probably took his family to the Abbot Garrison House, where all the South-end residents had gathered for safety. The town only lost one resident in the battle. Samuel received another grant of land on 10 March 1678 from Andover. He took an oath of allegiance in Andover on 11 February 1679 . Samuel completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter before moving to Salem. In 1668, John Turner hired Samuel to build an elegant house, constructed on a splendid site overlooking the harbor. The house had peaks over the seven gables that rose up shapely. This is the house that became famous as the House of the Seven Gables in the Hawthorne story of Salem's past.
--William Colehour www.colehour.com

He was arrested on Sep. 1, 1692 and logged in the Salem jail, indicted on two counts, first with bewitching a sixteen year old Martha Sprague, and second having made a covenant with the devil some twenty years previously. Also, arrested were his wife Sarah and daughter Mary who after weeks of imprisonment, testified against him. Also arrested were Rebecca Nurse, Mary Estey, Abigail Faulkner, Mary Parker, John Proctor and his wife Elizabeth, and Elizabeth Howe. All were accused and imprisoned, and at a court held at Salem were condemned. Despite recanting his confession, Samuel Warwell received a sentence of death on Sept. 17 and was hanged on Sept. 22, 1692 with seven others.

His wife Sarah, then 42 and mother of a young child, was also found guilty, but her daughter Mary age 20 also accused of witchcraft was found not guilty and her execution was stayed.

From the History of Essex County: "Samuel Wardwell was an eccentric man given to palmistry and fortune telling, and not averse to prophesying a little on occasion. He was accused of tormenting Martha Sprague (a teenage girl) of Boxford, by wicked arts and also of having a covenant with the devil some twenty years before by which he promised to honor, worship and believe the devil, contrary to the Statute of King James the First in that behalf; after much persuasion, and in the hope of saving his life, he made a confession. But very soon he recanted and declared his innocence and was one of the three hanged from Andover."
"Samuel and Sarah were forced to pay for their own subsistence while in prison as well as to pay the jailer. In order to settle the account, the government seized all of their cows and hogs, as well as 8 loads of hay, 6 acres of corn and a set of carpentry tools. Then the government had the problem of what to do with the children, who were ages 1 to 19 years. The father was dead and the mother still in prison. The selectmen of Andover placed or bonded them as follows: Samuel was placed with John Ballard, his uncle, for 1 year. William was placed with Corpl. Saml. Frye to age 21, and to learn the trade of weaver. Eliakim, age 5, was placed with Daniel Poor until 21. Elizabeth was placed with John Steven until 18. At 21, Eliakim migrated to York, Maine. They were exonerated in 1703 & their property returned."

From "The Delusion of Satan" by Francis Hill:

"(Samuel) Wardwell was the only accused witch besides Margaret Jacobs to confess, recant his confession, and not go back on the recantation. He was from Andover, as were four of the others tried on September 17. By this time the Andover witch-hunt had peaked. Witches there were being arrested and examined in considerable numbers, though no new arrests were being made in Salem Village or elsewhere. Wardwell had a reputation for fortune-telling and, when examined on September 1 by John Higginson, said he was in the snare of the devil. Urged to go on, he concocted an elaborate tale of agreeing to serve Satan till he was sixty and being baptized by him in the river. He was "dipped all over," he said. But on September 13 Wardwell declared to the grand jury inquest, at which the accused were appearing before they went to their trials, that his whole confession was lies. He said "he knew he should die for it whether he owned it or no," meaning he would hang as a result of his confession whether he stuck to it or not. This seems a reasonable attitude, given that confessors were now being tried. Wardwell was not to know they would all be reprieved.
A stark reminder of the horrific effects of the imprisonments for witchcraft comes in the form of a petition about Wardwell's case from the selectmen of Andover to the Ipswich court: "Samuel Wardwell and his wife of Andover were lately apprehended and committed to prison for witchcraft, and have left several small children who are uncapable of providing for themselves and are now in a suffering condition. We have thought it necessary and convenient that they should be disposed of in some families whether there may be due care taken of them. We therefore humbly pray your honours to inform us what is our duty in this case."

It seems that the afflicted girls were as afraid as ever that the condemned would win the crowd's sympathy. They seized every opportunity for new insults and mockeries. As Wardwell spoke on the ladder, protesting his innocence, tobacco smoke from the executioner's pipe wafted into his face and made him splutter and cough. The afflicted girls shouted that the devil stopped him from speaking. It seems not to have occurred to them, or anyone else, that the devil could have no possible motive for preventing a disciple from making his case."

Indictment v Samuel Wardwell, No. 1
Essex in the Province [unclear: ] of the Massachusetts Bay in New England

Anno R R's & Reginae Gulielmi & Mariae Angliae &c Quarto Annoq'e Domini 1692.

ss/ The Juriors for our Sov'r Lord and Lady the King and Queen doe present That Samuel Wardell of Andivor In the County of Essex Carpenter on or about the fifteenth day of August In the yeare aforesaid and divers other days and times as Well before as after Certaine detestable Arts called Witchcraft and Sorceries Wickedly

Mallitiously and felloniously hath used practised & Exercised at and in the Towne of Boxford in the County of Essex aforesaid in upon and against one Martha Sprague of Boxford in the County of Essex Aforesaid Single Woman by which said Wicked Acts the said Martha Sprague the day & Yeare Aforesaid and divers other days and times #[both] before and after was and is Tortured Aflicted Consumed Pined Wasted and Tormented, and also for sundry other Acts of Witchcraft by the said Samuel Wardell Comitted and done before and since that time against the peace of our Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queen theire Crowne and dignity And the forme in the Statute in that case made and Provided.

(Reverse) Indictm't against Samuel Wardell for bewitching Martha Sprague Billa Vera Ponet Se

( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 27 )

Examination of Samuel Wardwell:
The Examination and Confession of Sam'll wardwell. taken Sept 1st 92. before John Higginson Esq one of theire majties Justices of peace for the County of Essex

After the returneing of negative answers to severall questions He said he was sensible he was in the snare of the devil, He used to be much discontented that he could get no more work done, and that he had been foolishly Led along with telling of fortunes, which sometymes came to pass, He used also when any creature came into his field to bid the devil take it, and it may be the devil took advantage of him by that Constable foster of Andover said that this wardwell told him once in the woods that when he was a young man he could make all his cattell come round about him when he pleased. The said wardwell being urged to tell o truth he proceeded thus, That being ones in a discontented frame he saw some catts together with the appearance of a man who called himself a prince of the aire & promised him he should live comfortably and be a captain and requyred said wardwell to honor him which he promised to doe, and it was about twenty yeares agoe. He said the reas/o his discontent then was because he was in love with a maid named Barker who slighted his love, And the first Appearance of the catt then was behind Capt bradstreets house, about a week after that A black man appeared in the day tyme at the same place and called himself prince and lord and told him the said wardwell he must worship and believe him, and promised as above, with this addition that he should never want for any thing but that the black man had never performed any thing, And further that when he would goe to prayer in his family the devil wold begin to be angry He saith also that at that tyme when the devil appeared & told him he was prince of the aire that then he syned his book by makeing a mark like a square with a black pen and that the devil brought him the pen and Ink He saith further he Covenanted with the devil untill he should arryve to the age of sixty years and that he is now about the age of 46 years. And at that tyme the devil promeised on his part as is above exprest, he said it was about a 4tnight agoe since he began to afflict, and confesses that mary Lilly and Hannah Tayler of Ridding were of his company Further he saith that martha Sprague was the first he afflicted, that the devil put him upon it and threatned him there unto
And that he did it by pincheing his coat & buttons when he was discontented, and gave the devil a comission so to doe, He sayes he was baptised by the black man at Shaw shin river alone and was dipt all over and beleeves he renounced his former baptisme.

Wardwell's Confession
I used, when any creature came into my field to bid the devil take it, and when I was a young man I could make all my cattle come round about and follow me. Once I saw some cats together with the appearance of a man who called himself " The Prince of Air ", and he promised me I should be a captain if I would honor him, which I promised to do. The reason I was discontented was because I was in love with a maid named Barker who slighted my love. The first appearance of the cat was behind Captain Bradstreet's house. The next week a black cat was behind Capt. Bradstreet's house, about a week after that a black man appeared in the daytime at the same place and time and called himself Prince and Lord and told him that said Wardwell he must worship and beleive him, and promised him as above, with this addition that he should never want for anything but that the black man had never performed anything and further that when he would go to prayer in his family the devil would begin to be angry. He said also that at that time when the devil appeared and told him he was Prince of the Air, that then he signed his book by making a mark like a square with a black pen and that the devil brought him the pen and the ink. He saith further he honor the devil until he should arrive at the age of 56 years and that he is now about the age 46 years and at the that time the devil promised on his part, as is above expressed he said it was about a fortnight ago since he began to afflict , and confess that Mary Lilly and Hannah Tayler of Ridding were of his company, further he saith that Martha Sprague was the first he afflicted, that the devil did it by pinching his coattails and buttons when he was discontented and gave the devil a commission to do. He says he was baptised by the black man at Shaw Shin river alone and was dipped all over and beleives he renounced his former baptism.

John Higginson Esq.

The deposition of Ephraim Tosser of Andover aged about 54 testifieth and sayeth he heard Samuel Wardwell the prisoner now at the bar tell my wife that she should have five girls before she would have a son; which thing came to pass, and I heard him tell Dority Eames her fortune and I have heard said Dority say after that he believed Wardwell was a witch or else he could never tell what he did and I took notes that said Wardwell would look into their hand and then would cast his eyes down upon the ground always before he told anything, this I have both heard and seen several times.

While Sarah Wardwell was in prison her children were disposed as of follows:

1) Mary age 20 accused of witchcraft but found not guilty married John Wright.
2) Samuel age 17 was placed with his uncle John Ballard.
3) William age 14 was placed out with Samuel Frye until age 21, to learn the trade of a weaver.
4) Eliakim age 9 was placed with Daniel Poor until age 21.
5) Elizabeth age 2 was placed with John Stevens until age 18.
6) Rebecca was an infant in arms during the mothers imprisonment.

(Account of Samuel Wardwell Jr. -- Cases of Samuel and Sarah Wardwell)

To: To the Honourable Committee Sitting in Salem Sept 13. 1710. An Account of what was seiz'd and taken away by the Sheriffe or his Deputy and assistants out of the Estate of Samuel Wardwell late of Andover Deceased who suffered the paines of Death under condemnation on the Sorrowfull tryalls for witchcraft in the year 1692.

viz Seis'd and taken away

5 Cowes at 2 P 10-00-00
1 Heifer & a yearling 2-5-00
1 Horse 3-0-00
9 Hogs 7-0-0
8 Loads of Hay 4-0-0
A set of Carpenters Tools 1-10-0
6 Acres of corn upon the ground. 9-00-00
36.15.00

"Samuel Wardwell, a carpenter by trade, lived with his wife and several small children in the south end of the town. Up to 1692 he was regarded as an eccentric but harmless individual who sometimes told fortunes, played with magic, and perhaps in jesting moods even claimed supernatural powers. His peculiarities attracted the attention of the witch hunters, and he was shortly charged by Martha Sprague, of Boxford one of those involved in the case of Abigail Faulkner of having practiced upon her "certain detestable arts called witchcraft and sorceries." In a second and more precise indictment it was alleged that Wardwell had twenty years before made a covenant with the "evill speritt," in which he had promised to honor, worship, and believe the "devill." Witnesses against him were not only the familiar group of Salem Village girls but also three respectable citizens of Andover: Joseph Ballard and Thomas Chandler, neighbors of his in the south end, both of whom had been selectmen; and Ephraim Foster, who for years had been clerk of the proprietors. This was a formidable array of accusers.
Like many others, Wardwell, in his anxiety and terror, was led to make a complete "confession." While he was in a discontented mood because of a thwarted clandestine love affair with "a maid named Barker," he had seen some "catts" meeting together behind Mr. Bradstreet's house. One of them, assuming the form of a black man, told him that if he would only sign the book, he should "live comfortably and be a captain," like Dudley Bradstreet. Following the classic example of Faust, Wardwell attached his name to the contract, was then baptized in the Shawsheen River, and abandoned his church affiliation.

When Wardwell later was released from "brain-storming," he declared that the urgency of his tormentors had persuaded him, under emotional stress, that he must have done the deeds attributed to him. From that hour until his execution he never again weakened. He regretted that he had even once "belyed" himself and announced that even though it might cost him his life, he would stick to the truth. No one of sufficient importance intervened in the poor man's behalf, and he was hanged on September 22, 1692, together with seven others. Even as the noose was being adjusted around his neck, Wardwell declared in a firm voice that he was innocent. While he was speaking a puff of smoke from the executioner's pipe blew across his face and some misguided girl shouted, "The Devil doth hinder his words!" On this occasion the Reverend Nicholas Noyes, of the First Church in Salem, not content with mere watching, addressed the multitude of spectators, saying, "What a sad thing it is to see eight firebrands of hell hanging there!"

Wardwell's example was used in later trials as a threat to others of what might be their fate if they recanted their confessions. The injustice in his case reached beyond his grave. On January 2, 1693, his wife was brought before the Court of Trials, where a jury delivered the familiar verdict that she was "guilty of covenanting with the Devill." Meanwhile the selectmen of Andover notified the Court of Quarter Sessions at Ipswich that the four Wardwell children were in suffering condition, and then proceeded to bind them out to other households in the neighborhood until they should be mature enough to pursue some gainful occupation. To pay the expenses of Wardwell's trial, the sheriff seized property of his amounting to 36 pounds, 15 shillings, including five cows, nine hogs, eight loads of hay, and six acres of corn upon the ground. Furthermore both Wardwells had to provide their own subsistence while they were in prison. Eventually Sarah Wardwell was reprieved and released. In 1712, his mother meanwhile having died, Samuel Wardwell, Jr., requested and received compensation for the financial loss which his family had suffered. Unfortunately it was too late to bring his father back to life."

-Extracted from chapter 8 of an out-of-print book called Andover: Symbol of New England, by Claude M. Fuess.
-- http://worldconnect.rootsweb..com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=samuelwardwell&id=I7155

WARDWELL, Samuel (I8209)

5485

Samuel served in the Revolutionary war. He was a captain of the militia in his own town. After the war he moved from Ipswich, MA to Whitefield, Lincoln Co., ME. They settled in a wilderness and began life by cutting the forest to make a clearing. On this location they made a house and raised their family and lived and died, Samuel at age 88, Sarah at 92.

CARLETON, Capt Samuel (I37060)

5486

Samuel Shackford was a blockmaker, was in early Portsmouth Maryland, were he had a successful business with his brother John. They owned a wharf together. He is listed on a tax rate list for Portsmouth in 1698, fined for not reporting for Muster 18 May 1693, a New Hampshire resident in 1692 and one of the original proprietors of Barrington New Hampshire.

m 2nd Frances Hoyt PEABODY (b. 1670 / 1672 - d. 25 February 1749) 10 May 1716.

s/o William Shackford (1640-1720) and Deborah Trickey (1646-1720) of Dover, NH.

SHACKFORD, Capt Samuel (I3604)

5487

Samuel was one of 7 children. He was raised in Boxford.

CARLETON, Samuel (I36736)

5488

Samuel Yeomans was married October 19, 1684, to Mary Ellis and they had four sons and five daughters

YEOMANS, Samuel (I10882)

5489

Samuel, son of Deacon Samuel & his wife Margaret Unknown, born about 1629; was one of the petitioners to the General Court for the First Settlement of Northfield, then known as Squakheag, 5/31/1671. He was a resident of Northampton, Mass., at this time. The first petition was refused & another one was sent the next spring signed by 23 men including Samuel Wright Senior. This petition was granted & he was one of the sixteen heads of families who took house-lots & settled there. His lot was on the west side of the street "which they or their heirs had in the second settlement".

The Indians continued friendly until spring of 1675. Brookfield was destroyed in August of that Year. (King Philip's War). A squad of twenty soldiers was sent by Major Pynchon to garrison Northfield who were put under command of Sergeant Samuel Wright. A battle between Hatfield Indians & Captains _____ & Beers was fought in town of Whately August 25. Sept 1st the Indians fell upon Deerfield & Thursday, Sept 2d, on Northfield. It was the season of drying flax; & ignorant of what had happened the day before to their neighbors at Deerfield, the people of Northfield went about their work as usual on that morning. The soldiers & settlers appeared to have been scattered in the meadow & house-lots when the assault was made. According to Rev. Mr. Hubbard "some were killed in their homes, others as they were coming out of the meadows, the rest: men, women, & children fled to their fort, unable to rally out & repel the enemy. The savages kept around them, killed many of their cattle, destroyed their grain (wheat which was harvested & in the stook) burnt the houses that were outside the stockade & laid all waste. The number of whites officially reported as killed was eight & one was Sgt. Samuel Wright.

After another attack by the Indians on 9/4 the Squakheag families having thus been driven from their new homes returned to their old homes in Hadley & Northampton.

In the second settlement of Squakheag or Northfield in 1685 to 90, Samuel Wright's heirs were assigned 60 acres. The homestead of this Samuel Wright who went to Northampton with his father had continued in his line from 1657 until the compilation of the New England Historical & Genealogical Register in 1886.

He married, 11/24/1653, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Burt who was a companion of Deacon Samuel Wright in the settlement of Springfield. She survived him & married 2d, 9/26/1684, Nathaniel Dickinson of Hatfield.
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Samuel Wright Jr. had an illegitimate child with Elizabeth Burt's sister, Mary Burt [(Source?) This was probably his brother Judah].

They were among the first to move to Northampton, in 1655 or 1656. After moving to Northampton, he settled on Bridge Street where the house of John L. Draper stood. In addition to the 3 acres for a homelot, he was granted 34 acres of meadow land. After living on this homestead about 17 years, and serving the town as one of its selectmen and in other offices, he went with his family, in company with 15 other families, as pioneer settlers, to a place about 35 miles up the Connecticut River, called by the Indians from whom it was purchased, Squakeag. This place was named by the English "Northfield" because it was the northernmost settlement on the river, became the future home of Samuel Wright Jr. and many of his descendants. Samuel Wright Jr must have lived within the meadow fence & not on the plains. Here they built small huts near each other, and ran a stockade around a number of them for a fort into which they might flee, if attacked.
All went peacefully for 2 years until the King Philip war broke out in 1675. In the latter part of August, the safety of Northfield was threatened, and so 20 men were sent up and placed under command of Lt. Samuel Wright. On Thursday 2 September 1675, as Lt. Wright and the men under him were in the field gathering flax, they were attacked by King Philip's men. Lt. Wright was killed, aged ca 45 yrs; also 2 sons of Elder William Janes, their preacher and 5 others, and wounded Samuel Wright III. The rest, men women, and children, fled inside the small stockade, and were shut in there 5 days. What days and nights of terror those must have been to the widow and fatherless children with the savages burning and destroying outside, and liable to break in at any time and put them all to death. The day after the attack, Capt. Beers, not knowing what had happened set out from Hadley, with 36 mounted men, to bring away the soldiers and inhabitants, but on reaching the outskirts of the town, fell into an ambush, and he and the larger part of his men were killed, but 13 escaped and fled back to Hadley. Immediately Major Treat with more than 100 men prepared to go up for the relief of Northfield, where he arrived Monday afternoon on 6 September. One account is that immediately set about burying those killed on 2 September. The first found was the body of Lt. Wright, which was taken up the bank and buried in the first grave opened in present Northfield Cemetery. His burial was hardly finished when Maj. Treat was struck with a spent ball from the thicket. Upon consulting with his officers, it was decided to take the 100 or more people that had been shut inside the stockade and start back to Hadley that night. In their journey down through the wilderness what fears they must have had; fears of falling into an ambush and meeting the same fate as came to Capt. Beers and Co., on this same route 3 days before, and the fate that came to the 80 young soldiers at Bloody Brook, a few days later.

His inventory was taken March 30, 1676, and amounted to 326£ 14S. House & home lot 60£ had wheel right tools 61/ 3 horses & heofer 15.5, Land in meadow & pasture 163£ sae, grindstone & loom 61/ sheep & swine 10£10s, yoke of oxen & steers 15£, 4 cattle 4 mares & [c]olt 14£, arms & ammunition 65/, bedding & clothing 14£5s. Widow Elizabeth & son Sam'l admin. Widow & heirs made an agreement (for her & those of age) March 30, 1680, She was to have use of 1/2 house 1/2 barn 1/2 homelot which was next to the meadow including all the orchard half the pasture lying next the house containing 13 acres. 1/8 other land & movables. Samuel to have double share. Court to appoint men to divide the estate Men were appointed but not ?. Explanation "half the homelot" may mean that next to Hawley Sheet lot on the side south the land. (Or it may mean lower side of lot below swamp.)

WRIGHT, Sgt Samuel (I46295)

5490

Samuel³, s/o Philip², as in Fam. 3 was of O.R. Captain; grant of land, 30 May, 1697; killed 15 Sept. 1707. His wife was Elizabeth, who aftewards m. Amos Pinkham. We can find no children belonging to Samuel. Amos and Elizabeth had children as appears in "Pinkham."

CHESLEY, Capt Samuel (I35360)

5491

Sara's middle name confirmed by her sister, Ann.
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MRS. SARA O'KEEFE TO WED
She Will Be Married March 30 to James W. Walker Here

Mrs. Sara Mitchell O'Keefe of Old Westbury, L. I., widow of John E.O'Keefe Jr., and James W. Walker, son of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Walker of 1 Sutton Place, obtained a marriage license yesterday afternoon at the Municipal Building. They plan to be married on March 30 at the Ritz-Carlton.

The bride-elect, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ledyard Mitchell of Grosse Pointe, Mich., and East Hampton, L. I., made her debut in the 1935-36 season in Detroit. In 1937, she was married to Mr. O'Keefe, who died in September, 1943, while on active duty as a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve.

[New York Times, 20 March 1948]
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WALKER--Sara Mitchell, of Hobe Sound, FL., formerly of Oyster Bay, L.I. Died at home, Monday, Sept. 23, 1996 after a long illness. Survived by her husband, James Wear Walker; brother W. Ledyard Mitchell and sister Ann Campbell of Michigan; son John O'Keefe of Dover, MA, daughters Sheila O'Keefe Todd of Denver CO, and Hilary Walker Gilmore of Toalatin, OR; grandchildren, William Walker Todd, Whitney DeForest Todd, James Bridger Todd, James Tucker Gilmore and Eliza Johnstone Gilmore. Private services will be held for family members in Kennebukport, ME.
[New York Times, 24 September 1996]

MITCHELL, Sara Adeline (I43146)

5492

Sarah (d/o Aquila 1), married Charles Annis (1).

CHASE, Sarah (I34492)

5493

SARAH BABB
WIFE OF
P. J. CARLETON
DIED SEPT. 8, 1894
AE. 67 YRS. 10 MOS.

BABB, Sarah Smith (I37361)

5494

Sarah from Newton, Mass

CLARK, Sarah (I39332)

5495

Sarah HOWARD has often been mistaken for her aunt by the same name.

HOWARD, Sarah (I13155)

5496

Sarah Jenkins was NOT his wife. Researchers have determined that this identification is incorrect, and that Mary Doggett was his wife and the mother of at least his first five children.
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George was a clothier (maker of cloth) from England. He emigrated in 1632 most likely and became a respected churchman and community leader.
He is credited with being a founder of Barnstable in 1639.
It is thought that he was a member of Rev. John Lathrop's church in England which was dissolved in 1632 and most of the members immigrated to the Plymouth colony at that time. He shows up in 1633 in records of that area and era. He later joined Rev. Lathrop's Church in Scituate (1636) but in 1639 they all removed to Barnstable where Rev. Lathrop founded the Congregational Church in America.
https://familysearch.org/tree/person/LR7Y-PJM/details
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COMMENTS: On 4 December 1638, "Georg[e] Lewes" was fined 3s. for non-appearance at Court [PCR 1:104]. On 5 April 1641, "[w]hereas Georg[e] Lewes attached certain corn of Thomas Roberts in the hands of Captain Standish, and neither came nor anyone for him to prosecute his suit, was nonsuited, & the corn released" [PCR 2:12].
On 8 June 1655, the "Court do allow unto George Lewis, of Barnstable, for charge and trouble about the said Anthony Gilpin [recently deceased] in his sickness and all other times, the sum of six pounds three shillings and four pence, besides ten shillings for the wintering of an heifer, and two shillings and six pence which was brought in upon account afterwards" [PCR 3:83].
The Plymouth section of the 1643 Plymouth Colony list of men able to bear arms includes an entry for "George Lewes," with a mark to indicate that this item was interlineated [PCR 8:188]. This item is puzzling, as George Lewis also appears in his proper place in the Barnstable section [PCR 8:193], and there is no other evidence for this or any other George Lewis in Plymouth. This may be a simple clerical error.

LEWIS, George (I42730)

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Sarah Leech m. John Millite s. Thomas 3 July 1663[1] at Gloucester
Sarah Smith w. Morris died 20 Jan 1724/25[2] at over 80 years old.

LEACH, Sarah (I46003)

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Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, commonly known as Margaret Fuller, (May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850) was an American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. She was the first full-time American female book reviewer in journalism. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States.
She had a relationship with Giovanni Ossoli, with whom she had a child. All three members of the family died in a shipwreck off Fire Island, New York, as they were traveling to the United States in 1850. Fuller's body was never recovered.

FULLER, Sarah Margaret (I8782)

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Sarah saved son, Travis, from drowning in an old well.

COLT, Sarah (I36375)

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Sarah Scammon was of English Descent and her ancestors, the Waldrons, were among the first settlers in New Hampshire in the early 1600s.

Sarah's sister, Mary Scammon, married James Sinclair, the s/o John Sinclair Sr, who emigrated as an indentured prisoner of war from Cromwell's wars.

SCAMMON, Sarah (I33286)

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