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WEEKS
The Wickes or Atwick or Weeks family lived in Staines,
England. In 1638 Robert Wickes died and
left a will which stated “to pay my son John Wickes now living in New England
200 pounds at the featst of the birth of our Lord God next coming” and to another
son “To my son William, 300 pounds, as follows, 30 pounds in three months and
the remainder in three years and he is to have 10 pounds paid to him every half
year in the meantime, and if he should die, or never come to claim it, then to
be divided between my sons John and Robert and their children”.
The son William Weeks was living on the island of Martha’s
Vineyard off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts by the first recorded
division of land in 1653. On 10 April
1655 he was granted land “near the pines in the middle of the island”.
There was a legal complaint against William Weeks on 22
February 1660 by William Lambert. He is
mentioned as having an ordinary (tavern).
On 28 January 1661 he was fined for selling strong liquor and had to pay
Governor Thomas Mayhew 10 shillings.
There were more records of his tavern business and litigation in the
1680s. On 29 December 1688 he is on the records
for a land sale, and on 3 August 1689 his widow Mary sold the house lot. There was no will or inventory of William
Week’s estate.
There is an interesting record of William Weeks in 1667
involving a shipwreck in the Elizabeth Islands (next to Martha’s Vineyard). The local Indians looted his boat and his
provisions onboard, even taking clothing from his son. The record lists the goods that were
lost. It was signed by Governor Mayhew
on 22 November 1667.
For more Weeks family information see the book History
of Martha’s Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts (three volumes) by Charles
Edward Banks, 1911, which is available online at this link: http://archive.org/stream/historyofmarthas00bank#page/n9/mode/2up
My Weeks Lineage:
Generation 1: Richard Atweeke or Atwick, died sometime
before 1592, Staines, Middlesex, England
Generation 2: Robert Wickes, died about 1638 in Staines;
married Sarah Enderley
Generation 3: William Weeks, born about 1620 in Staines,
died 1688 in Edgartown, Massachusetts on the island of Martha’s Vineyard; married Mary Butler. Six children.
Generation 4: Elizabeth Weeks, born about 1648 on Martha’s
Vineyard island; married 1 May 1667 in Barnstable, Massachusetts to John
Robinson, son of Isaac Robinson and Margaret Hanford. He was born about 1640 and died after 1714 in
Connecticut.
Line A:
Generation
5: Isaac Robinson, son of John Robinson and Elizabeth Weeks, born 30 January
1670; married first to Hannah Harper on 1 March 1690 in Barnstable. She was the daughter of Robert Harper and
Prudence Butler, born May 1670 in Sandwich, Massachusetts. Eight children.
Generation
6: Peter Robinson, born 15 December 1701 in Falmouth, died after 1772; married
on 18 July 1724 in Falmouth to Martha Green, daughter of Isaac Greene and Sarah
Unknown. She was born 28 October 1705 in
Falmouth. Seven children.
Generation
7: Jabez Robinson, born 9 June 1726 in Falmouth; married on 7 January 1748 to
Tabitha Green, daughter of William Green and Joanna Mendall. She was born 18 December 1726 in Falmouth.
Five children.
Generation
8: Elizabeth Robinson, born 17 June 1750 in Falmouth, died 27 June 1837;
married on 8 September 1774 to Ebenezer Crosby, son of Jonathan Crosby and
Hannah Hamblin. He was born 26 August
1747 in Mansfield, Connecticut, and died 26 February 1826 in Yarmouth, Nova
Scotia. Eleven children.
Generation
9. Rebecca Crosby m. Comfort Haley
Generation
10: Joseph Edwin Healy m. Matilda Weston
Generation
11: Mary Etta Healey m. Peter Hoogerzeil
Generation
12: Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings
Generation
13: Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my maternal
grandparents)
Line B:
Generation
5: Mary Robinson, born 12 December 1683
in Falmouth, Massachusetts, and died in November 1721; married on 22 November
1704 in Falmouth to Benjamin Davis, son of John Davis, Jr. and Ruth Goodspeed. He was born 8 September 1679 in Barnstable,
and died in 1754. Nine children.
Generation
6: Ruth Davis m. John Mayhew
Generation
7: Mary Mayhew m. Caleb Rand
Generation
8: Mary Rand m. Asahel Bill
Generation
9: Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill m. Isabella
Lyons
Generation
10: Caleb Rand Bill m. Anna Margareta Bollman
Generation
11: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe
Wilkinson
Generation
12: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my paternal grandparents)
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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo
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