My Revolutionary War Patriots, Colonel Joshua Burnham of Milford, New Hampshire

Colonel Burnham's Tavern, Milford, New Hampshire

This is #1 in a series of posts I intend to write this year for the 250th Anniversary of the USA. 

Colonel Joshua Burnham, my 5th great grandfather, was born on 26 January 1754 in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the son of Stephen Burnham (1715 - 1790) and Mary Andrews (b. 1712) of the Chebacco Parish of Ipswich, Massachusetts.  Many of his 12 siblings removed away from Massachusetts, just like he did.  Joshua died in Milford, New Hampshire on 7 June 1835, and his brother Stephen died in Lyndeborough, New Hampshire.  His brother Caleb died in Lake George, New York, and brothers David and Jonathan died in Vermont.  

Joshua was a founder of the town of Milford when it became a separate town from Amherst in 1794.   He had served in the Revolution as a private from New Hampshire enlisting in April 1775 after the Lexington Alarm under Captain Josiah Crosby for 8 months, and at the end of that term he re-enlisted under Captain Jones of the same regiment for one year.  He was at Bunker Hill, New York, Philadelphia, and was discharged at Aesopus (formerly Kingston), New York.  

Returning to Milford, he married Jemima Wyman on 21 January 1779 at Wilton, New Hampshire, a contiguous town.  She was the daughter of Increase Wyman and Catherine Unknown, born 10 February 1757 in Billerica, Massachusetts, and died on 6 September 1843 at the home of her daughter Jemima Burnham, who lived in South Boston (my 4th great grandmother).  In the Milford town records Joshua was on the committee to build a town pound in 1797, and was listed as a taxpayer in 1830. 

Joshua Burnham lived on the road to Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, now known as River Road, in a fine house that is still standing about two miles from the center of Milford. It was known as Colonel Burham's Tavern.  He sold this farm in 1822 to Jesse Hutchinson, the leader of the famous Hutchinson Family Singers, and they lived there for many years. Jesse and Polly raised 13 of their 16 children there, of whom half were part of the singing group.  The Hutchinson family entertained many important historical figures there, including Fredrick Douglass, General Tom Thumb, and P.T. Barnum.  The house remained in the Hutchinson family until 1949. 

In the biography of the Hutchinson family on pages 8 to 10, see below, is this passage:

"Right in the vicinity of these premises was Colonel Burnham, living in the little red house on the hill, which had been selected by his children as a home for his declining years, and situated where he could overlook the surrounding landscape, including a good view of the farm that was once the home of his family and which he had lost by unpaid debts. He was a frequent visitor to the place; and when the fruits were ripe, he would have free access offered by my father and the privilege of obtaining what fruit he desired. There was one very favorite apple, the flavor of which was delicious; and when the apples were ripe, this honorable old gentleman would be seen going and coming with his pockets full, and they were pockets! They were like bags, and he could carry almost half a peck in each one. He would come over, fill his pockets, and then trudge along towards home. He was occasionally visited by officers of the armies of the Revolution; and it was said that one of the staff of Washington was among them. My parents honored him by naming Joshua after him. He would frequently show his regard for his namesake by some token, and before passing into his dotage he called him to his house and presented him with a sash worn by him on parade while he was under George Washington's command. This article was carefully preserved, and is still, after the decease of both giver and receiver, an heirloom in the family.

In those early days among the pioneers, education was sometimes neglected. The colonel, though passing through seven years of renown as a discreet officer, could not write his own name, and while in business kept his accounts by characters. For instance, having sold cheese to a person, he would make a mark of that portion of cheese that that man received. His funeral was the first that I had ever witnessed, and the impression was depressingly suggestive." 

Joshua Burnham came upon hard times and lived in poverty in his older years. He applied for a military pension in 1818.  The application papers for his pension outlined his service, his life, family members and friends from the war.  They also described his poor health and need for a military pension.  He died on 7 June 1835 in Milford at age 93, and was buried in the small burial ground about a quarter mile from his tavern house, and buried in a plot near his friend Jesse Hutchinson.  His epitaph read "Soldier of the Revolution, zealous in his country's cause, Faithful to the constitution and obedient to it's laws".  His wife Jemima applied for, and received, a Revolutionary War Widow's pension in 1838, and she died in 1843. 

Col. J. Burnham's gravestone

For the truly curious:

Tombstone Tuesday - Joshua Burnham's gravestone:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/10/tombstone-tuesday-col-joshua-burnham.html  

2010 blog post "The Illiterate Colonel" (I have since discovered he was quite literate and signed many documents)   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/01/illiterate-colonel.html    

2017 blog post "Joshua Burnham Proves His Military Service"   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/06/joshua-burnham-proves-his-military.html  

2017 blog post "Jemima (Wyman) Burnham applies for a Revolutionary War Widow's Pension"   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/06/jemima-wyman-burnham-applies-for.html   

2014 blog post showing my BURNHAM lineage:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/05/surname-saturday-burnham-of-chebacco.html  

and in books:

A manuscript Old Houses of Milford, compiled in a notebook for Wadleigh Memorial Library, Milford, New Hampshire

The Story of the Hutchinsons by John Wallace Hutchinson, 1896 (see pages 8 -10 for the information on Colonel Joshua Burnham and his house he sold to Jesse Hutchinson of the Hutchinson family singers). 

The History of Milford, by George A. Ramsdell, Rumford Press, Concord, New Hampshire, 1901, see page 783.  

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "My Revolutionary War Patriots, Colonel Joshua Burnham of Milford, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted February 15, 2026, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/02/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-colonel.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ VERRY of Gloucester, Massachusetts

VERRY, VERY, VERREY, VARY

My 10^th great grandfather, Thomas Verry, died 29 October 1631 in Strood, Kent, England.  He left his wife a widow with four small children (another one had died about a month before his death).  The widow, Bridget, remarried to Edward Gyles sometime before 1635, which was about the time he immigrated to Salem, Massachusetts.  Bridget (my 10^th great grandmother) and Edward Gyles (also my 10^th great grandfather, see below) had five children together. 

Bridget is probably a granddaughter or kinswoman to Henry Scudder of Strood, Kent, England, who was the ancestor of other immigrants to New England.   There is an article in The American Genealogist, Volume 72, pages 285 – 300,  by Jane Fletcher Fiske, that explores her English origins.

On 6 October 1635 Edward Gyles was fined 40 shillings for “knoweing his wife carnally before marriage”.  By his first wife, he had two children, Hannah and Matthew (who died on Isles of Shoals in 1667).   Hannah Gyles was the step sister to Thomas Very, one of Bridget’s sons.  Hannah and Thomas Very were married by Governor Endicott "upon the 6^th of the 5^th mo. 1650” in Gloucester.   They were my 9^th great grandparents.

I descend from two of the daughters of Hannah and Thomas Very. The eldest daughter Hannah Very (my 8^th great grandmother) married Bartholomew Foster.  Abigail Very (also my 8^th great grandmother) married Ralph Andrews.  Abigail’s daughter, Susannah Andrews, married Hannah’s son, Benjamin Foster – they were first cousins and also my 7^th great grandparents.

Some VERRY resources:

The American Genealogist, Volume 60 pages 174 – 184; Volume 72, pages 285 – 300 (for the English origins of the widow Bridget Verry Gyles). 

Be very cautious using the VERRY family articles written by Jones Very for the Essex Institute Historical Collections in Volume 1, pages 115 – 116, and Volume 2, pages 35 – 38.  These articles were corrected in the TAG articles above.

The Great Migration Begins, page 764, page 2386 – see the sketch of Edward Giles (second husband of the widow Bridget Verry)

The Giles Memorial, by John Adams Vinton, 1864 for the GILES/GYLES family

My VERRY genealogy:

Generation 1:  Thomas VERRY, died 29 October 1631 in Stood, Kent, England; married Bridget Unknown.  Five children.  Bridget remarried to Edward Gyles as his second wife and had two more children.

Generation 2: Thomas VERY, born about 1625, died 28 March 1694 in Gloucester, Massachusetts; married on 6 May 1650 in Gloucester to Hannah Gyles (his step-sister), daughter of Edward Gyles and Unknown.  She was born about 1625 and died 25 August 1687 in Gloucester. Nine children, and I descend from two daughters.

Lineage A:

Generation 3A:  Hannah Very, born 31 March 1653 in Gloucester; married on 9 September 1668 to Bartholomew Foster.  He was born about 1646 and died 5 December 1689 in Gloucester.  Ten children.

Generation 4A:  Benjamin Foster m. Susanna Andrews (first cousins)

Generation 5A:  Lucy Foster m. William Younger

Generation 6A: Levi Younger m. Mary Wotten

Generation 7A: Levi Younger, Jr. m. Catherine Plummer Jones

Generation 8A:  Mary Esther Younger m. George Emerson

Generation 9A: Mary Katharine Emerson m. George E. Batchelder

Generation 10A: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 11A:  Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

Lineage B:

Generation 3B:  Abigail Very, born 16 June 1661 in Gloucester; marriage intention filed 12 December 1682 in Gloucester to Ralph Andrews.  He died on 25 February 1718.  Six children.

Generation 4B:  Susanna Andrews m. Benjamin Foster  (see above)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ VERRY of Gloucester, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 28, 2017,  (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/01/surname-saturday-verry-of-gloucester.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ FOSTER of Gloucester, Massachusetts

FOSTER, FORSTER, FOSTOR

I have another line of descent from Reginald Foster (1595 – before 1681), an early immigrant to Ipswich, Massachusetts. You can read all about this lineage at this blog post here:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/07/surname-saturday-foster-of-ipswich.html

Today’s sketch is about Bartholemew Foster, (about 1646 – 1689), my 8^th great grandfather, an early settler at Gloucester, Massachusetts – which is located very near Ipswich with my other line of FOSTERs.  He was the brother of Thomas Foster who settled in New London, Connecticut.  In 1669 he married Hannah VERY and also bought a house lot on what is now Front Street in Gloucester.   He owned a sloop (mentioned in his will) and was a mariner.  Apparently it was rare for a mariner in Gloucester (at this time period) to own property, and this fact was mentioned both in the Foster compiled genealogy book and in the History of Gloucester by Babson.

The Foster family was blessed with sons.  I found ten sons listed in the births for Gloucester, Massachusetts, and eight of those sons were mentioned in his will, along with his wife, Hannah.  They had no daughters.

I descend from Bartholemew’s youngest son, Benjamin (my 7^th great grandfather), who was born just a few months before his father Bartholemew’s death in 1689.  My 8^th great grandmother, Hannah (Very) Foster, remarried to Thomas Sawyer (b. 1674).  He was the great grandson of John Sawyer (1582 – 1660) and Agnes Sharpe of England, who was also my 9^th great grandfather.   You can read all about my Sawyer lineage at this blog post here:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/03/surname-saturday-sawyer-of-lancaster.html

My FOSTER lineage daughters out early with Lucy (Foster) Younger.  Benjamin Foster’s daughter Lucy (b. 1723) married William Younger of Gloucester.  They had four children, and I descend from their son Levi Younger (1756 – 1806), a mariner in Gloucester, my 6^th great grandparents.

Some FOSTER resources:

The Foster Genealogies, by Frederick C. Pierce, page 60 and page 1015

Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Volume 1

The History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann, by John James Babson, page 94

The Genealogist, Volume 17: 96-108, 234 – 248.

The Foster family sketch, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. 1974, 3:620.

My FOSTER genealogy:

Generation 1:  Bartholemew Foster, born about 1640, died on 5 December 1689 in Gloucester, Massachusetts; married on 9 September 1668 in Gloucester to Hannah Very, the daughter of Thomas Very and Hannah Gyles.  Ten children.

Generation 2:  Benjamin Foster, born 13 September 1689 in Gloucester; married on 23 August 1711 in Gloucester to Susanna Andrews, daughter of Ralph Andrews and Abigail Very (sister to Hannah Very above).  Eight children.

Generation 3:  Lucy Foster, born 15 June 1723 in Gloucester; married on 6 March 1750 in Gloucester to William Younger.  Four children.

Generation 4:  Levi Younger m. Mary Wotten

Generation 5:  Levi Younger, Jr. m. Catharine Plummer Jones

Generation 6:  Mary Esther Younger m. George Emerson

Generation 7: Mary Katharine Emerson m. George E. Batchelder.

Generation 8:  Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 9:  Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ FOSTER of Gloucester, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 31, 2016,  (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/12/surname-saturday-foster-of-gloucester.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ Susannah UNKNOWN, wife of Thomas Burnham

Who was Susannah, wife of Thomas Burnham of Ipswich, Massachusetts, my 7th great grandfather?

According to a microfilm at the Family History Library “Burnham Family Lineage Charts”, a book by Walter J. Burnham, 1966 a Thomas Burnham was born on 30 September 1673 and married 30 September 1700 to a woman named Susannah or Margaret Boardman, born 5 April 1681.  Both died in 1748.  According to the vital records of Ipswich, Massachusetts, another Thomas Burnham (my 1^st cousin 9 generations removed, son of James Burnham (1650 – 1729), married Margaret Boardman on 30 September 1708 in Ipswich.   These two Thomas Burnhams are two different people.  Susannah is not Margaret Boardman.  

In the book Burnham Genealogy, written by Roderick Henry Burnham in 1869 my 7^th great grandfather, Thomas Burnham, married a Susannah, maiden name unknown.  They are not listed in the vital records.  They had six children, including a son Nathan who died at Fort Ticonderoga during the French and Indian War in 1758 . His son, Nathan, Jr. , was an early settler at Dunbarton, New Hampshire.  

So who was Susannah?  She would be my 7^th great grandmother and I cannot find her in the primary source records.  Nor is their son in the vital records – Stephen Burnham, my 6^th great grandfather, who removed from Essex County and went to Amherst, New Hampshire to the part of town that is now the town of Milford.  Stephen is member #3 of the first nineteen members of the First Congregational Church in Milford, founded in 1788.  His name is on the first list of tax payers in Milford, 1 April 1794. 

Stephen Burnham and his wife, Mary Andrews, had seven sons who all served in the Revolutionary War.  Colonel Joshua Burnham, Susannah’s grandson, my 5^th great grandfather.  Colonel Burnham lived on his parents land in Milford, New Hampshire where he built a tavern that still stands on North River Road.  It is not far from where I live now.

Does anyone have a clue to the identity of Susannah?

My lineage from Susannah UNKNOWN:

Generation 1:  Susannah UNKNOWN, married Thomas Burnham, son of John Burnham and Elizabeth Wells.  Six children.

Generation 2: Stephen Burnham, born about 1715 in Ipswich, died about 1790 in Milford, New Hampshire; married 16 August 1735 in Ipswich to Mary Andrews, daughter of Thomas Andrews and Mary Smith.  She was born about 1712 in Ipswich. Thirteen children.

Generation 3:  Colonel Joshua Burnham, born 26 January 1754 in Gloucester, died 7 June 1835 in Milford, New Hampshire; married on 21 January 1779 to Jemima Wyman, daughter of Increase Wyman and Catherine UNKNOWN.  She was born 10 February 1757 in Billerica, and died 6 September 1843 in South Boston. Eleven children.

Generation 4:  Jemima Burnham, born 9 May 1783 in Milford, died 5 August 1868 at 88 Emerson Street in South Boston; married on 22 November 1810 to Romanus Emerson, son of John Emerson and Katherine Eaton.  He was born 1 September 1782 in Townsend, and died 10 October 1852 in South Boston. Seven children.

Generation 5:  George Emerson m. Mary Esther Younger

Generation 6: Mary Katharine Emerson m. George E. Batchlder

Generation 7: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 8:  Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

  

Here are a few more ancestresses with UNKNOWN maiden names or unknown parents:

Catherine UNKNOWN, wife of Increase WYMAN (b. 1732) Billerica, Massachusetts

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/10/surname-saturday-unknown-another.html

Margery UNKNOWN, (d. 1687) wife of three different men who were all my 10^th great grandfathers!  Believe it or not!  William Godfrey (d. 1671), Thomas Webster (1570 – 1634), and John Marrian, all of seacoast New Hampshire. 

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/03/surname-saturday-godfrey-of-hampton-new.html

Hannah SMITH married George Lillie in 1659 in Reading, Massachusetts.  Who are her parents?   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/07/surname-saturday-smith-of-reading.html

UNKNOWN wife of William BATES (about 1675 – before 1731), resident of Rye?, New Hampshire  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/06/surname-saturday-bates-of-new-castle.html 

Margaret WELCH (about 1796 – 1860 ) married  Captain Richard LOCKE 1823 in Chichester, New Hampshire.  She might be from Kittery, Maine.

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/05/surname-saturday-welch-of-kittery-maine.html

Nancy Thompson (1804 – after 1847) married Jonathan BATCHELDER in 1822 in Belmont, New Hampshire. 

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/05/surname-saturday-thompson-of-gilmanton.html

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ Susannah UNKNOWN, wife of Thomas Burnham", Nutfield Genealogy,  posted Novemberr  26, 2016, (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/11/surname-saturday-susannah-unknown-wife.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ JORDAN of Ipswich and Newbury, Massachusetts

JORDAN / JORNDAINE / JORDEN / JORDON / JURDEN

Stephen Jordan (abt 1590 – 1669/70), my 9^th great grandfather, arrived in New England aboard the Mary & John with Rev. Thomas Parker of Wiltshire, England.  They sailed from Southampton in March 1634 and arrive in Boston on 24 May 1634.  He is on a list of men who took an oath of allegiance at Southampton.  He settled first in Ipswich and then in Newbury.  He was literate and signed his own deeds, and his inventory included “one great bible”. 

Stephen Jordan’s first grant of land in Ipswich was in 1639/40.  In 1650 he was one of four men who were too old to train with the militia.  He wrote his will on 5 April 1667 and it was proved on 29 March 1670.  His only two children were girls, so this surname daughtered out very early.  I descend from his daughter Jane, who married Lt. John Andrews.   I descend from three of Jane’s five children, from the three sons, William (two lineages under William), Thomas and Joseph seen below.

Some JORDAN sources:

The Great Migration:  Immigrants 1634 and 1635, Volume IV, pages 114 – 116.

The Ancestry of Dr. J. P. Guilford, by Joan S. Guilford, Volume I, pages 460 – 462.

My JORDAN genealogy:

Generation 1:  Stephen Jordan, born about 1590 in England, died 8 February 1669/70 in Newbury, Massachusetts; married about 1615 in England to Unknown (two daughters);  married about 1660 to Susanna, widow of Nathaniel Merrill.  She died 25 January 1673 in Newbury (no known children).

Generation 2:  Jane Jordan, born 1622 in England, died after 1705 in the Chebacco Parish of Ipswich, Massachusetts; married 1645 in Ipswich to John Andrews, son of John Andrews and Sarah Conant.  He was born about 1620 in England and died 20 April 1708 in the Chebacco Parish.  Five children.

Lineage A:

Generation 3: William Andrews, born 1649 in Ipswich, died 7 February 1716/7 in the Chebacco Parish; married on 20 October 1672 in the Chebacco Parish to Margaret Woodward, daughter of Ezekiel Woodward and Anne Beamsley.  Twelve children

Lineage A1:

Generation 4: John Andrews born 2 February 1676 in Ipswich, died 25 March 1753 in the Chebacco Parish; married on 11 January 1706 in Ipswich to Elizabeth Story, daughter of Seth Story and Elizabeth Cross.  She was born 4 October 1687.  Three children.

Generation 5:  Abigail Andrews m. Jeremiah Burnham

Generation 6:  Abigail Burnham m. Isaac Allen

Generation 7: Joseph Allen m. Judith Burnham

Generation 8: Joseph Allen m. Orpha Andrews

Generation 9:  Joseph Gilman Allen m. Sarah Burnham Mears

Generation 10: Joseph Elmer Allen m. Carrie Maude Batchelder

Generation 11:  Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

Lineage A2:

Generation 4: Rachel Andrews, born 1695, died 6 August 1777 in Windsor, Vermont;  married on 14 July 1714 in Ipswich to Zachariah Story, son of Seth Story and Elizabeth Cross (see above).  He was born 14 March 1684 in Ipswich and died 16 February 1774 in Windsor, Vermont.  Ten children.

Generation 5:  Deborah Story m. Westley Burnham

Generation 6:  Westley Burnham m. Molly Woodbury

Generation 7: Henry Burnham m. Sally Poland

Generation 8:  Sarah Ann Burnham m. Samuel Mears

Generation 9:  Sarah Burnham Mears m. Joseph Gilman Allen (see above)

Linage B:

Generation 3:  Thomas Andrews, born 1654 in Ipswich, died 22 March 1718/19 in the Chebacco Parish; married on 9 February 1681 to Mary Belcher, daughter of Jeremy Belcher and Mary Lockwood.  She was born 21 Jul 1660 and died 31 March 1731 in Ipswich.  Two children.

Generation 4:  Thomas Andrews m. Mary Smith

Generation 5:  Mary Andrews m. Stephan Burnham

Generation 6:  Joshua Burnham m. Jemima Wyman

Generation 7:  Jemima Burnham m. Romanus Emerson

Generation 8:  George Emerson m. Mary Esther Younger

Generation 9:  Mary Katharine Emerson m. George E. Batchelder

Generation 10: Carrie Maud Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen (see above)

Lineage C:

Generation 3: Joseph Andrews, born 1657 in the Chebacco Parish, died between 13 February and 5 March 1724/5 in the Chebacco Parish; married on 1657 in the Chebaaco Parish; married on 16 February 1680/81 in the Chebacco Parish to Sarah Ring, daughter of Daniel Rindge and Mary Kinsman.  She was born 17 August 1659 in Ipswich and died after 1714.  Nine children.

Generation 4:  John Andrews m. Elizabeth Wallis

Generation 5:  John Andrews m. Martha Cogswell

Generation 6:  James Andrews m. Lucy Presson

Generation 7:  Orpha Andrews m. Joseph Allen ( see above)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ JORDAN of Ipswich and Newbury, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 15, 2016,  ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/10/surname-saturday-jordan-of-ipswich-and.html: accessed [access date]).

Surname Saturday ~ BELCHER of Ipswich, Massachusetts

BELCHER

Jeremy AKA Jeremiah BELCHER, my 9^th great grandfather, was born about 1614 in England and arrived in New England aboard the ship Susan & Ellen in 1635 as part of the Winthrop Fleet.   The passenger list has a 25 year old woman named Mary Clifford listed next to him.  It is supposed by some that this woman became his first wife because of two reasons.  First, he had a grandson named Clifford Belcher, and second, he had two daughters named Mary (one by his unknown first wife, and another by his second wife Mary Lockwood).  I descend from the second daughter named Mary, born in Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1660 and who married Thomas Andrews in 1681/2.   Her sister Judith married his brother, John Andrews. 

Jeremy Belcher was made a freeman at Ipswich on 13 March 1638/9 and he was granted land and also purchased much land. He appears in the records selling and buying land.  He was a selectman, served on juries, and was a sergeant for the Ipswich militia.  His marriage contract with Mary Lockwood in 1652 granted her land for life in her own right.  He died in 1692/3 and she outlived him and died in 1700.  Jeremy was able to sign all his deeds, but his second wife, Mary signed by mark.

For more information on the BELCHER family see:

The New England Historic Genealogy Society Register, Volume 60, pages 249 – 256, and pages 358 – 364.

Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634 – 1635, Volume 1, pages 231 – 237.  

“Belcher Genealogy Research” at Rootsweb  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genbel/main/belchers1.html    

Just for fun, a parody blog "The Journal of Constant Belcher" by Tim Abbott, http://constantbelcher.blogspot.com/  (not a relative or descendant!)

My BELCHER genealogy:

Generation 1:  Jeremy Belcher, born about 1614 in England, died 21 March 1693 in Ipswich, Massachusetts; married first to Unknown (four children); married second on 30 September 1652 in Ipswich to Mary Lockwood, daughter of Edmund Lockwood and his wife, Elizabeth (seven more children). 

Generation 2:  Mary Belcher, daughter of Jeremy Belcher and Mary Lockwood, born 12 July 1660 In Ipswich, died 21 March 1731 in Ipswich; married on 9 February 1681 to Thomas Andrews, son of John Andrews and Jane Jordan.  He was born in 1654 in Ipswich and died 22 March 1718/19 in the Chebacco Parish of Ipswich.  Two children.

Generation 3:  Thomas Andrews married Mary Smith

Generation 4:  Mary Andrews m. Stephen Burnham

Generation 5: Joshua Burnham m. Jemima Wyman

Generation 6: Jemima Burnham m. Romanus Emerson

Generation 7: George Emerson m. Mary Esther Younger

Generation 8:  Mary Katharine Emerson m. George E. Batchelder

Generation 9: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 10: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ BELCHER of Ipswich, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 8, 2016, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/10/surname-saturday-belcher-of-ipswich.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ SMITH of Ipswich, Massachusetts

Smith is not a fun surname to research.  And I’ve done it three times already!

SMITH of Weathersfield, Connecticut and Hadley, Massachusetts https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/11/surname-saturday-smith-of-wethersfield.html 

SMITH of Exeter and Hampton, New Hampshire   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/01/surname-saturday-smith-of-exeter-and.html   

SMITH of Reading, Massachusetts

 https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/07/surname-saturday-smith-of-reading.html   

My 9^th great grandfather, John Smith, came to New England with his mother, Alice Barnes Smith.  She was the daughter of Thomas Barnes and Rebecca Alabaster, baptized on 6 June 1596 at St. Mary’s Parish Church in Hadleigh, Suffolk, England.  She married Samuel Marryon in 1611, was widowed and then married John Smith in 1619.   John Smith apparently died some time before 1635 when Alice brought her son, John Smith, Jr., to Ipswich, Massachusetts.  According to the records at the Hadleigh Parish church there were four men named John Smith/Smyth buried at the church between 1621 when John Smith was born and 1635 when he came to Ipswich. 

Alice (age 40) and John (age 13) are listed as passengers aboard The Planter with the Hasfell family from Sudbury, Suffolk, England.  The Planter left London on 10 April 1635 and arrived in Massachusetts on 7 June 1635.  Richard Haffield was granted land in Ipswich in 1635.  Another new arrival, Samuel Appleton, from Little Waldingfield (2 miles from Sudbury) was granted land in 1635, too.  John Smith eventually became a tenant farmer on Appleton’s land.

John’s son, John Smith (1654 – 1736) lived in Ipswich and his daughter, Mary Smith (1685 – 1731) was my 7^th great grandmother.  She married Thomas Andrews in 1711 and lived her entire life in Ipswich.  Their daughter, Mary Andrews (born about 1712) married Stephen Burnham in 1735 in Ipswich and they removed to Milford, New Hampshire.  Stephen and Mary were the third and fourth members to join the First Congregational Church in Milford, and are on the list of the first 19 members of the church, formed in 1788.

UPDATE 8 October 2016:
Gordon Harris of Ipswich sent in this link to a photo of John Smith's gravestone at the Old North Burying Ground in Ipswich:
https://ipswich.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/d93_john_smith_1713.jpg

My SMITH genealogy:

Generation 1:  John Smith, baptized 11 June 1593 in Hadleigh, Suffolk, England as the son of William Smith and Elizabeth Mudd, died before 1635; married on 17 June 1619 in Hadleigh to Alice Barnes, the widow of Samuel Marryon.  She was baptized at Hadleigh on 6 June 1596 as the daughter of Thomas Barnes and Rebecca Alabaster.  Two children.

Generation 2: John Smith, born about 1621 in England, died in Ipswich, Massachusetts; married Elizabeth Unknown. Eight children born in Ipswich.

Generation 3: John Smith, born 29 October 1654 in Ipswich, died 24 April 1736 in Ipswich; married Elizabeth Unknown. 

Generation 4:  Mary Smith, born 27 September 1685 in Ipswich, died 31 March 1731 in Ipswich; married 8 April 1711 in Ipswich to Thomas Andrews, son of Thomas Andrews and Mary Belcher.  He was born in 1682 in Ipswich and died 13 February 1746 in Ipswich.  Six children.

Generation 5: Mary Andrews, born about 1712 in Ipswich; married on 16 August 1735 in Ipswich to Stephen Burnham, son of Thomas Burnham and Susannah Boardman.  He was born about 1715 in the Chebacco Parish of Ipswich, and died 1790 in Milford, New Hampshire.  Thirteen children.

Generation 6: Colonel Joshua Burnham, born 26 January 1754 in Gloucester, died 7 June 1835 in Milford; married on 21 January 1779 to Jemima Wyman, daughter of Increase Wyman and Catherine Unknown.  She was born 10 February 1757 in Billerica, Massachusetts and died 6 September 1843 in South Boston.  Eleven children.

Generation 7: Jemima Burnham m. Romanus Emerson

Generation 8: George Emerson m. Mary Esther Younger

Generation 9: Mary Katharine Emerson m. George E. Batchelder

Generation 10: Carrie Maud Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 11: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ SMITH of Ipswich, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 1, 2016,   (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/10/surname-saturday-smith-of-ipswich.html: accessed [access date]).

Surname Saturday ~ BAKER of Ipswich, Massachusetts

BAKER

There were three men named John Baker living in New England in the early 1600s.  One lived in Charlestown, Massachusetts, another in Dover, New Hampshire, and the third was my 10^th great grandfather, John Baker of Ipswich.  He arrived in Massachusetts in 1637.  He was listed as a “grocer” from Norwich, Norfolk, England on the passenger list for the Rose of Yarmouth.  His first three children were baptized at St. Peter’s, Mancroft, Norwich, England.

"Aprill 8, 1637. The examination of John Baker, borne in Norwich in Norffolkke, Grocar, aged 39 yrs, and Elizabeth he wife aged 31 yrs, with three children, -Elizabeth John and Thomas, -and four servants, Marcy Alxasrson aged 24 yrs, Anne Alxarson aged 20 yrs, and Bridgett Boulle aged 32 yrs, and Samuell Arres aged 14 yrs, as all desiroues to goe for Charles Towne in New England ther to inhabitt and remaine." (New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 14, page 32.)  Note that he was NOT the John Baker who settled in Charlestown, which often causes confusion!   

John Baker settled in Ipswich.  He was made a freeman there on 2 June 1641 (two men named John Baker were on that list!).  He had a house lot on High Street.  He was licensed to sell wine in 1644 and 1647, and in 1652 to sell beer, and was an inn-holder in 1664, 1665 and 1666. He had three more children born in Ipswich.  

"He appears to have been a man of property, his name standing one of the forty-four highest of one hundred and fifty-seven subscribers to the compensation of Major Denison, the military leader, in 1648." (Hammatt's Papers 1:22.)

John Baker bought land in Topsfield, adjacent to Ipswich, and conveyed a 150 acre farm to his son Thomas Baker in 1661, on the condition that Thomas pay ten pounds a year to his father John; his mother, Elizabeth;  and daughter Elizabeth.  John Baker died in the 1680s, probably in Ipswich.

Some additional BAKER resources:

Ancestry of the Children of Robert Croll Stevens and Jane Eleanor (Knauss) Stevens, Volume II: The Genealogy of John Christian Croll 1707 – 1758, by Robert Croll Stevens, 1985, (unpaginated, families are numbered- Baker is 164) available online at a Family History Center Library.

Great Migration Begins, Volume I, by Robert Charles Anderson, 1995, page 74

Ancestry of Priscilla Baker, by William S. Appleton, 1870, pages 3 – 5.

My BAKER lineage:

Generation 1:  John Baker, son of John Baker, born about 1598 in Norwich, Norfolk, England and died in the 1680s in Ipswich, Massachusetts; married to Elizabeth Unknown, born about 1612.  Six children.

Generation 2:  Martha Baker, born 1643 in Ipswich, died after 1670 in Ipswich; married on 22 June 1670 in Topsfield to Thomas Andrews, son of Robert Andrews and Grace Melburn.  He was born about 1645 in Boxford, Berkshire, England and died 1 April 1724 in Boxford, Massachusetts.  One child for Martha Baker and Thomas Andrews. 

Generation 3: Sarah Andrews m. Joseph Swett

Generation 4: Benjamin Swett m. Elizabeth Norton

Generation 5: Elizabeth Swett m. David Batchelder

Generation 6: Elisha Batchelder m. Sarah Lane

Generation 7:  Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

Generation 8: George E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke

Generation 9: George E. Batchelder m. Mary Katharine Emerson

Generation 10: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 11: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ BAKER of Ipswich, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted February 20, 2016, (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/01/surname-saturday-baker-of-ipswich.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ ANDREWS of Boxford, Massachusetts

ANDREWS

Note:  I have previously blogged about another ANDREWS family from Essex, County, Massachusetts at this post “ANDREWS of Essex, Massachusetts(Ipswich’s Chebacco Parish” – the descendants of John Andrews and Jane Jordan,my 8th great grandparents.    This sketch of Robert Andrews (about 1612 – 1668) of Topsfield and Boxford, my 10^th great grandfather,  is not to be confused with Robert Andrews (1593 – 1634/5) of Ipswich.

Robert Andrews was in Boxford, Massachusetts in 1656, and he owned land in both Rowley and Topsfield.  He died in Topsfield on 29 May 1668.  His will names his wife, sons and daughters.

Estate of Robert Andrews of Boxford (Rowley Village)

Essex Probate Docket # 709

In the name of God amen Know all Christian people this may or shall concearne yt I Robart Andrews of Rowley village in the County of Esex being verey sick & weack of body but blesed be god in prfect cence & memorey doe mack this my last will & testiment revoking all other former will wtsoever.

Impr. I bequeath my soule to Allmighty God that gave it me in whome I trust through the merits of Jesus Christ to be receaived into Eternall happiness forever and my body to the earth from whence it came to be deciently burried in ye burring place of Topsfield according as my wife and Children shall see meet.

It I give & bequeath unto my eldest sonn Thomas Andrews the house yt I now Live in and nine(s)core Ackers of Land being upland & Medow & yt Land yt I bought of Zacheus Gould only my well beloved wife is to have duering her life time, the kiching and hall & Kiching Chamber & halfe the seller & the new feeld & the eight Ackers peeice & halfe the orchard & if ther be not Land enufe for her to manuer then my sd sonn with ye help of my son Robart is to breack her up three Ackers more or let her have three Ackers yt is allready broacken up and the same to injoy duering her life without the Lett hinderanc or molestation of my sd sonn or aney other prson under him and my sonn Thomas is to shingle the house and at my wives deceas the said land orchard and rooms is to returne to my son Thomas & his haires forever my said sonn Paying unto my three youngest daughters Rebeckah, Sarah & Ruth twenty pound pr each when she shall be twenty yeares of Age and if eaither of them shall die before yt time then yt prt shall be equally devided between the other two and allso his is to pay unto my Daughter Mary the wife of Isack Comins five pound three years after my deceas & for the new whip saw and all other Carpenters tools shall be for the use of my wife sonn Thomas & Robert.

It. I give and be bequeath unto my sonn Robart Andrews eight(s)core Ackers of Land from Piebroock to ye clay pits and ye fatti medow and the fishing broock medow & becaus my sonn Thomas & Robart should not wrong one another in wood I desier ther Land may be ped by them selves & two other honest men and Robart is to pay unto my Daughter Elizabeth the wife of Samuell Symons five pounds three years after my deceas and to my daughter Hanah Pebody five pounds fouer years after my deceas.

It. I give unto my sonn John the Lot comonly called the seller Lott and the Medow belonging unto it but the medow shall be for the use of my wife & Thomas untell my sonn John shall be one and twenty years of Age and then to returne to him without aney further truble he paying to my seaven Grandchildren twenty shillings pr each when they shall come to the age of fourteen years.

It. I give unto my sonn Joseph ye Land in the Topsfeeld yt I bought of John Wilds, Senr. with all the previledgs therunto belonging.

It. I give unto my well beloved wife all my Cattell & other moveable goods and the Doung that is now in ye yard & half the barne & Lintos and my sonn Thomas the other halfe and he and his brother Robart is to set up the other Lintoos & Lay in for the use of ther mother eavery year duering her Life twelve Loads of hay and if eaither of my sonns should die before they are married then yt Land yt is given to them to be equally devided amongst the Survivers Leaving my said wife sole Executrix and in Testimony hereof I have Set my hand and Seale this Sixteenth day of May in the yeare of our Lord one thousand Six hundred Sixty & eight.

Robart (his / mark) Andrews, Senr (seal)

Witness:

Robert (his G mark) Smith

James Hanscombe

Proved in Salem court 2: 5m: 1668 by the witnesses. Essex County Probate Files, Docket 709

Inventory of the estate was taken by Frances Pabody, Isack Comings, and Edman Towne. Attested 1:5m: 1668 by Grace Andrewes wife of the deceased

[Source: Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol 13 leaf 67]

My ANDREWS genealogy:

Generation 1:  Robert Andrews, born about 1612 in England, died 29 May 1668 in Topsfield, Massachusetts; married about 1637 to Grace Unknown.  She died on 25 December 1700 in Topsfield, Massachusetts.  Eleven children.

Generation 2: Thomas Andrews, born abut 1645 and died 1 April 1725.  He married first to Martha Baker, daughter of John Baker and Elizabeth Unknown.  She died about 1670.  He married second to Mary Belcher, and married third to Rebecca Unknown.  One child with Martha Baker.

Generation 3: Sarah Andrews, daughter of Thomas Andrews and Martha Baker.  She was born about 1670 in Boxford, Massachusetts, and died about 1763; married on 20 November 1701 in Hampton to Joseph Swett, son of Benjamin Swett and Hester Weare.  He died before January 1721 and Sarah remarried second to Charles Treadwell, my half 7^th great granduncle in a different lineage.

Generation 4:  Benjamin Swett m. Elizabeth Norton

Generation 5:   Elizabeth Swett m. David Batchelder

Generation 6:  Elisha Batchelder m. Sarah Lane

Generation 7:  Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

Generation 8: George E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke

Generation 9:  George E. Batchelder m. Mary Katharine Emerson

Generation 10: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 11: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ ANDREWS of Boxford, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted February 13, 2016,  (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/02/surname-saturday-andrews-of-boxford.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ WEARE of Newbury and Hampton, New Hampshire

WEARE / WYER 

The two brothers, Nathaniel and Peter Weare, first settled in Newbury, Massachusetts.  Nathaniel wear was one of the 91 proprietors of Newbury (first grantees of land) in December 1642.  Nathaniel later removed to Nantucket, where he died in 1681, and Peter removed to York, Maine where he died about 1690. Nathaniel Weare (1605 – 1681) was my 10^th great grandfather.

Nathaniel’s daughter, Hester, married Capt. Benjamin Swett in 1647 and removed to Hampton, New Hampshire with her brother, Nathaniel Weare, Jr. and his family.  They settled in what is now Hampton Falls.  Both Captain Swett and Nathaniel, Jr. had been leasing land in Newbury from John Woodbridge.   Hester’s husband, Capt. Swett, died fighting the Indians in 1677, during King Philip's War, and she remarried to Ensign Stephen Greenleaf of Newbury.   He was from the same family as the famous poet Stephen Greenleaf Whittier.  It is a coincidence that the poet Whittier died years later at the same farm in Hampton Falls that was the Swett homestead. 

Nathaniel Weare’s deposition 26 October 1695 “…that about the year of our Lord God 1655 my brother in-law Capt. Benjamin Swett and my self had a lease of the honorable Mr. John Woodbridge of Newberry his farme for seven years, the Northerly or northwesterly side of the sd. Farme was bounded in part with ye land of old Mr. Pike, at the South or the southeasterly corner of the s’ Pik’s land was a springe that was called the watering place nere to which those that had to doe or sd they had to do with ye sd Mr. Pik’s land, did I remember clame a litell pece of land, the quantity or bounds thereof I know not, but the slipe of land, so claymed and the watering place was within the fence of the sd woodbridge’s farme and improved by us that dwelt on the sd farm and by no other as I know of while wee lived on the farm which was to ye yeare 1661 or 1662, and to the best of my remembrance the fence that is betwene the farm of ye sd wood bridge and the sd Pik’s land stands in the same pace as it did for about forty years agoe”.   The signature of Nathaniel Weare, Jr.  [above] is from this deposition at that date.

Some WEARE resources:

“The Swett Family”, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 6 [1852], pages 49 -  61.

“The Nathaniel Weares”, by F. B. Sanborn of Concord, Mass.  Reprinted from The Granite Monthly, 1909, pp.157-166, online at the website for the Hampton Public Library  https://archive.org/details/sim_granite-state-monthly_1909-05_41_5/page/nundefined/mode/1up      

Descendants of Thomas Farr of Harpswell, Maine and Ninety Allied Families, by Edith Bartlett Sumner, 1959, pages 311 – 313. 

Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, by Noyes, Libby and Davis, page 726.

My WEARE genealogy:

Generation 1:  Nathaniel Weare, born about 1605 in England, died 1 March 1681 on Nantucket Island; married about 1629 in England to Sarah Unknown.  Five children.

Generation 2: Hester Weare, born about 1630 in England, died 16 January 1718 at Hampton Falls, New Hampshire;  married on 1 November 1647 in Hampton to Benjamin Swett, son of John Swett and Phebe Unknown.  He was baptized on 12 May 1624 in Wymondham, Norfolk, England and died 29 June 1677 during an Indian raid at Black Point, Scarborough, Maine. Eleven children.

Generation 3: Joseph Swett m. Sarah Andrews

Generation 4: Benjamin Swett m. Elizabeth Norton

Generation 5: Elizabeth Swett m. David Batchelder

Generation 6: Elisha Batchelder m. Sarah Lane

Generation 7: Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

Generation 8: George E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke

Generation 9: George E. Batchelder m. Mary Katharine Emerson

Generation 10: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 11: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~  WEARE of Newbury and Hampton, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted February 6, 2016, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/02/surname-saturday-weare-of-newbury-and.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ SWETT of Newbury, Massachusetts

SWETT / SWEET / SWETE

John Swett, my 10^th great grandfather,  was one of the original 91 grantees of Newbury, Massachusetts on 18 May 1642.  He died in Newbury on 13 January 1652.

John Swett’s son, Benjamin, baptized on 12 May 1624 in Wymondham, Norfolk, England, was my 9^th great grandfather.  He married Hester Weare, a daughter of Nathaniel Weare, who was also one of the original Newbury grantees.   The Weare and Swett families removed together from Newbury to Hampton around 1662.  In 1670 Benjamin Swett received a grant of 100 acres from Hampton.   He became the captain of the militia.  During King Philip’s War he was killed at Black Point (Scarborough, Maine) in an Indian raid in 1677.

Benjamin Swett’s widow administered his estate in probate records found in Essex County, Massachusetts.  His estate was valued at 558 pounds, 19 shillings.  The widow remarried to Ensign Steven Greenleaf of Newbury in 1678. 

I descend from Benjamin’s son, Captain Joseph Swett (1658 – 1721) my 8^th great grandfather, who was also the head of the militia and led a company to Saco, Maine in 1703.  He was several times a representative of Hampton to the General Court.   His son, Captain Benjamin Swett (1710 – 1762), my 7^th great grandfather, was also the head of the Hampton militia (three generations!).

Some SWETT resources:

“The Swett Family”, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 6 [1852], pages 49 -  61.

Swett Genealogy:  Descendants of John Swett of Newbury, Massachusetts, by Everett Schemerhorn Stackpole, 1888.

History of Newbury, Massachusetts 1635 – 1902, by John James Currier, 1902.

I found this handy website  “John Swett of Newbury: A Collection of Genealogical Research Papers”  http://swett-genealogy.com/

My SWETT genealogy:

Generation 1:  John Swett, born about 1583 in Norfolk, England, died 13 January 1652; married to Phebe Unknown.  Five children.

Generation 2:  Benjamin Swett, baptized on 12 May 1624 in Wymondham, Norfolk, England and died in an Indian raid on 29 June 1677 in Black Point (now the town of Scarborough), Maine;  married on 1 November 1647 in Hampton to Hester Weare, the daughter of Nathaniel Weare and Sarah Unknown.  She was born about 1630 in England and died 16 January 1718 in Hampton Falls.  Eleven children.

Generation 3: Joseph Swett, born 21 January 1658 in Newbury, died before January 1721 in Hampton; married on 20 November 1701 in Hampton to Sarah Andrews, daughter of Thomas Andrews and Martha Baker.  She was born about 1670 in Boxford, Massachusetts.  Six children.

Generation 4:  Benjamin Swett, born 2 May 1710 in Hampton, died 6 June 1762 in Hampton Falls; married on 20 July 1732 in Hampton to Elizabeth Norton, daughter of Bonus Norton and Mary Goodhue.  She was born 31 March 1703 in Hampton and died 25 March 1759 in Hampton Falls.  Four children.  Benjamin remarried to Mary Green.

Generation 5:  Elizabeth Swett, born 29 May 1742 in Hampton Falls, died 12 August 1769; married on 24 July 1760 in Hampton Falls to David Batchelder, son of Josiah Batchelder and Sarah Page. He was born 13 January 1736 in Hampton Falls, and died 11 March 811 to Hampton Falls.  David remarried to Mary Emery in 1771 in Newbury and had eight more children.

Generation 6:  Elisha Batchelder m. Sarah Lane

Generation 7: Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

Generation 8: George E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke

Generation 9:  George E. Batchelder m. Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 10: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ SWETT of Newbury, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 30, 2016, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/01/surname-saturday-swett-of-newbury.html: accessed [access date]). 

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Margaret (Morrison) Hodge, died 1829, Londonderry, New Hampshire

This tombstone was photographed at the Valley Cemetery, Londonderry, New Hampshire

Sacred to the Memory of

Mrs. Margaret

wife of Mr. Perkins A. Hodge

and daughter of the late Rev.

Wm & Mrs. Jane Morrison

who died April 13

in 1829

aged 36 years.

Earth cannot give

what heaven's high will denies.

Margaret Morrison was the daughter of the Reverend William Morrison and Jane Fullerton of Londonderry, who are also buried at Valley Cemetery.  Margaret was born on 11 September 1791 in Londonderry, and died on 13 April 1829 in what is now the town of Derry.  She was married on 22 January 1828 in Londonderry to Perkins Andrews Hodge, who was born 9 February 1795 in Francestown, New Hampshire and died 14 March 1837 in Sartartia, Mississippi, but is also buried here.

Perkins Andrews Hodge was the son of Samuel Hodge and Hannah Andrews.  Hannah Andrews was the daughter of Isaac Solomon Andrews and Lucy Perkins.  Both of her parents are my 1st cousins 7 generations removed.  Our common ancestors are Andrews, Ingalls, Perkins, Woodward, Thompson, Knight, Gifford and Cogswell - all from Ipswich, Massachusetts. 

The epitaph on this stone comes from the sacred poetry of Henry Kirke White. 

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Surname Saturday ~ RINDGE, RING from Ipswich, Massachusetts

RINDGE/RING

Daniel Rindge arrived as an immigrant first to Roxbury, Massachusetts, and in 1639 he removed to Ipswich.  He bought the Emerson house in 1648 as his homestead.  He was a fisherman and also ran a tavern for several  years.  He was licensed to keep an “ordinary” but “not to draw beer above a penny a quart, and to provide meate [food] for men & cattell”.   In 1649 Daniel Ringe was ordered to “attend on the green (South Green) and the cow herd was obliged to keep the herd on one Sunday in four.”  [This ordinance referred to dividing up the duty of watching the cows]. 

Daniel Rindge’s will was dated 5 February and proved 25 March 1661.

The last will and testament of Daniel Rindge of Ipswich, this 5th day of february, 1661. In the name of God, amen, I Daniel Rindge, being of pfect memory and understanding do dispose of what outward estate that God hath given me, and in the manner as followeth:

In the first place I commit my soul to almighty God and my body to decent buryall:

I give unto Mary, my beloved wife, one third part of my ffarme now in the hands of Daniel Davison, during the terme of her natural life; and after her decease to be divided amongst my three sonnes,--the eldest to have a double share thereoff.

I give and bequeathe unto my three sonnes, Daniel, roger and Isaack, my ffarme above Sd, to bee divided amongst them: the eldest to have a double part; then the two youngest to be equal, and they to take possession thereof at the age of one-and-twenty: my wives third part being reserved for her, during her life; and then her third part of be divided according to ye proportion above sayd.

I give and bequeathe unto my three daughters, Mary, Susanna, and Sarah, thirty pounds to each of them, and they to have possession thereof, at the age of sixteen, or at the time of their marriage.

I leave my house and lands now in ye possession of Thomas Wayt, unto my wife, * * and I will when my youngest two daughters shall bee of age, that if they desire it, they may have the same for their portions: allowing the overplus of their portions to my other Daughter, as part of her portion; or if they so desire it not, to be left to ye executors to dispose of for ye discharge of my daughters portions.

My mind and will is that if my eldest son shall dye without children, that his portion shall be left to the two younger Brothers, the elder of them two to have a double share thereof, provided that he allow to each of his sisters five pounds: and if both the eldest dye childless, the youngest to inherit their portions, allowing to each of my Daughters ten pounds, or if the youngest leave no children, the two eldest inherit his portion, the eldest having a double share: and if the two youngest leave no children the eldest to inherit their portions, paying to each of my Daughters Ten pounds.

If my wife marryeth, my mind is, her husband shall give sufficient security for what estate he is possessed of by my wife, for the discharge of my children's portions.

The remainder of my estate I leave to my wife to dispose of at her decease equally amongst all my children.

My mind is that if my wife marryeth, my children shall have liberty if they desire it, to be disposed of to good services, if they shall think meet to whom they are * * which so confirmed, I have here unto set my hand, this third day of February, 1661.

Daniell Ringe

I constitute and appoint my loving friends, Deacon William Goodhue, and Daniel Hovey, sen'r, of Ipswich, and my wife, executors and executrix of this my Last will and Testament and Rich'd Hubbard and John Dane, sen'r, overseers. In ye presence of Robert Kinsman, jun'r, and Richard Jacob.

Proved in Court, held at Ipswich, the 25th March, 1662, by the oath of Robert Kinsman and John Dane to be the will and testament of Daniel Ringe to the best of your knowledge,--by me

Robert Lord, Clerk

My RINDGE / RING genealogy:

Generation 1:   Daniel Rindge, died 6 February 1662 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, married Mary Kinsman, daughter of Robert Kinsman.  She was born about 1631 in Ipswich. Six children.

Lineage A:

Generation 2:   Mary Rindge, born about 1648, died 16 October 1732 in Ipswich; married on 20 October 1672 in Ipswich to James Fuller, son of John Fuller and Elizabeth Emerson.  He was born about 1647 and died 21 June 1725 in Ipswich.  Nine children.

Generation 3:  Dorothy Fuller, born 18 December 1684 and died 1756 in Beverly, Massachusetts; married about 21 October 1715 in Ipswich to Josiah Stone, son of Nathaniel Stone and Mary Balch.  Six children.

Generation 4: Josiah Stone m. Martha Ashby

Generation 5: Josiah Stone m.  Susanna Hix

Generation 6: Eunice Stone m. Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 7:  Peter Hoogerzeil m. Mary Etta Healey

Generation 8: Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Generation 9: Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

Lineage B:

Generation 2:  Sarah Ring, born 17 August 1659 in Ipswich, died after 1714; married 16 February 1680/1 in the Chebacco Parish of Ipswich to Joseph Andrews, son of John Andrews and Jane Jordan.  He was born about 1618 in England and died 20 April 1708 in the Chebacco Parish. Five children.

Generation 3: John Andrews m. Elizabeth Wallis

Generation 4: John Andrews m. Martha Cogswell

Generation 5: James Andrews m. Lucy Presson

Generation 6: Orpha Andrews m. Joseph Allen

Generation 7: Joseph Gilman Allen m. Sarah Burnham Mears

Generation 8:  Joseph Elmer Allen m. Carrie Maude Batchelder

Generation 9: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

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