Hannah Chipman Huckins, died 1696, Barnstable, Massachusetts - Tombstone Tuesday

 This tombstone was photographed at the Lothrop Hill Cemetery, Barnstable, Massachusetts

HERE LYETH INTERRED

Ye BODY OF

HANNAH HUCKINS

Ye WIFE OF

THOMAS HUCKINS

DEC'D NOVEMBER Ye 4

IN Ye 37 YEAR OF HER

AGE 1696

Hannah Chipman Huckins, my 8th great grandmother, is buried next to her mother, my 9th great grandmother, Hope Howland Chipman.  Hannah was born 14 January 1659 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.  Her grandparents were John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley, the Mayflower passengers.  Hannah married Thomas Huckins on 1 May 1680 in Barnstable, Massachusetts.  She had nine children with Thomas, and then she died young on 4 November 1696.  I descend from their daughter Hope Huckins (1689 - 1730) who married Benjamin Hamblin.  

Hannah's husband, Thomas Huckins has no known tombstone.  He remarried to Sarah Pope, the widow of Samuel Hinckley.  Thomas died before 15 October 1714. 

A previous blog post about my HUCKINS lineage:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/09/surname-saturday-huckins-of-barnstable.html   

A previous blog post with Hope Howland Chipman's tombstone:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/06/hope-howland-chipman-died-1683.html   

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To Cite/Link to this post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Hannah Chipman Huckins, died 1696, Barnstable, Massachusetts - Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 6, 2021, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/07/hannah-chipman-huckins-died-1696.html: accessed [access date]). 

Hope Howland Chipman, died 1683, Barnstable, Massachusetts - Tombstone Tuesday

 This tombstone was photographed at the Lothrop Hill Cemetery, Barnstable, Massachusetts

HERE LYETH

INTERRED Ye BODY OF

MRS. HOPE CHIPMAN Ye

WIFE OF ELDER JOHN

CHIPMAN AGED 54

YEARS WHO CHANGED

THIS LIFE A BETER

Ye 8 OF JANUARY

1683

The back and sides of this tombstone were encased in lead,
which was an old fashioned way of preserving the slate stone from the weather

Hope Howland Chipman is my 9th great grandmother, born 30 August 1629 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the daughter of Mayflower passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley.  She married John Chipman on 13 September 1646 in Plymouth, and they removed to Barnstable on Cape Cod.  They had twelve children, and I descend from her fifth daughter, Hannah (1659 - 1696) who married Thomas Huckins.  Hannah Huckins, my 8th great grandmother, is buried next to her mother - I'll post her tombstone in a future blog post.  

You can see my HOWLAND lineage at this link: 

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/08/surname-saturday-howland-mayflower.html   

Last week I featured Hope's husband's tombstone.  Elder John Chipman is buried in Sandwich:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/06/elder-john-chipman-died-1709-sandwich.html   

This tombstone and the Lothrop Hill Cemetery were recently featured in the Summer 2021 issue of The Mayflower Quarterly magazine by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.  

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To Cite/Link to this post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Hope Howland Chipman, died 1683, Barnstable, Massachusetts - Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 29, 2021, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/06/hope-howland-chipman-died-1683.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ HAMBLEN of Cape Cod, Massachusetts

HAMBLEN / HAMBLEN / HAMLEN / HAMLIN

James Hamblen, my 9^th great grandfather,  first appears in Barnstable, Massachusetts in 1639 with his wife Anne.  His birth, parents and origins are unknown.  His children were baptized in Barnstable, except for his two eldest who do not appear on the record (perhaps they were born in England?)  He became a freeman in 1642 and signed his will on 23 January 1683, naming his wife Anne, his sons James, John, Eleazer, Israel, and Bartholomew; and daughters Hannah, and Sarah.

I descend from John Hamblin (1644 – 1718), my 8^th great grandfather.  He received much of his father’s real estate.  His land was known as “Hamblen’s Plain” in West Barnstable.  I descend through his son, Benjamin (1687 – 1718), my 7^th great grandfather. He died young and his widow, Hope Huckins (a descendant of Mayflower passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley), remarried to Ebenezer Childs.

This is another family that was lucky to descend from a Mayflower passenger.  Much of the genealogy of this family has been preserved in the book Mayflower Families through five generations, Volume 23, Part One: John Howland, GSMD. 

A notable descendant was Hannibal Hamlin (1809 – 1891) of Maine, the 15^th vice president of the United states under Abraham Lincoln. 

Some HAMBLEN resources:

Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, by Amos Otis, pages 525 – 526.

The Mayflower Quarterly, May 1984, page 80 “Hope (Huckens) (Hamblen) Childs of Barnstable, Massachusetts”. 

History of the Hamlin Family, by H. Franklin Andrews, 1844

Genealogical Dictionary of New England, by Savage, Volume II

My HAMBLEN genealogy:

Generation 1:  James Hamblen, born in England, died October 1690 at Barnstable, Massachusetts; married to Anne Unknown. Eight children.

Generation 2: John Hamblin, born 26 June 1644 in Barnstable, died 1718 in Barnstable; married in August 1667 in Barnstable to Sarah Bearse, daughter of Augustine Bearse and Mary Unknown.  Twelve children.

Generation 3:  Benjamin Hamblin, born 11 February 1687 in Barnstable, died before 8 March 1718; married on 29 May 1709 to Hope Huckins, daughter of Thomas Huckins and Hannah Chipman (granddaughter of Mayflower passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley). She was born 21 September 1689 in Barnstable and died after 4 January 1730 in Barnstable.  Four children.

Generation 4:  Hannah Hamblin, born about 1714 in Barnstable, and died 26 July 1791 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; married before 7 March 1734 to Jonathan Crosby, son of John Crosby and Hannah Bangs.  He was born 2 November 1705 in Harwich, Massachusetts, and died 26 July 1782 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.  Eleven children born in Harwich, and Connecticut.

Generation 5:  Ebenezer Crosby m. Elizabeth Robinson

Generation 6:  Rebecca Crosby m. Comfort Haley

Generation 7:  Joseph Edwin Healy m. Matilda Weston

Generation 8:  Mary Etta Healey m. Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 9:  Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ HAMBLEN of Cape Cod, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 7, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/07/surname-saturday-hamblen-of-cape-cod.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ BEARSE of Cape Cod

BEARSE /  BEARCE /  BIERCE /  BEARS / etc.

My 9^th great grandfather, Augustin (AKA Austin) Bearse (1618 – 1686) arrived on the ship Confidence from Southampton, England on 24 April 1638.  He came to Barnstable on Capt Cod with the first settlers in 1639, and had a twelve acre house lot bounded by John Crocker and Isaac Robinson (another one of my 9^th great grandfathers).  He joined Rev. Lothrop’s church in Barnstable in 1643.  The road from the town of Hyannis to his land was known as “Bearse’s Way”, and is now Bearse Road, near Iannough Road at the Airport Rotary.  He was made a freeman in 1652.

Augustine Bearse’s name is at the head of the list of members of Rev. Lothrop’s church.  His wife was Mary, and they had eleven children, with baptisms all recorded at the Barnstable church on the first Sunday after their birth.  These babies include who was carried 2 miles to church at 2 day old in the cold of January for his baptism.  Apparently he was a very devout Puritan to want to save the souls of his children so promptly.  These are the facts we know about him from primary source material.  He was living in 1686, but dead sometime before 1697. There is no death record for Augustine Bearse.

Most of the compiled genealogy books and local histories of Barnstable written up until the 20^th century repeat these simple facts about Augustine Bearse.  Then another story began to emerge that described Augustine Bearse as a Gypsy, who had to leave England because of his Romany origins, so he came to Massachusetts.  No Puritan woman would marry him, so he married “Mary Hyanno”, the daughter of the sachem Iannough (Hyannis), who was a red headed princess with Viking blood.  Yes, these fantastic details were told and repeated about the Bearse family in several books, journals and online. 

These stories originated with a paper written in the 1930s by Frankin Bearse, also known as Ele-watum, “From Out of the Past – Who Our Forefathers Really Were, A True Narrative of our White and Indian Ancestors” who filed this with the State of Connecticut to obtain benefits as an American Indian.   These claims were based on a diary written by a Zerviah Newcombe, a descendant of Augustine Bearse.

“Austin Bearse and His Alleged Indian Connections”, by Donald Lines Jacobus, The American Genealogist, 1938,  Volume 15, pages 111 - 118  rejects these claims of an Indian marriage, based on the fact that the supposed diary of Zerviah Newcomb has never been examined, and is perhaps false. No record of this diary has ever been found.  Jacobus wrote 8 pages in TAG refuting each detail of the Indian and Gypsy story written by Franklin Bearse.

Even so, the Indian princess story continued to flourish.  You can read about it in books like Bearse-Bears-Barss Family: Genealogy of Augustine Bearse (1618 – 1697) and Princess Mary Hyanno (1625 – 1702) of Barnstable, Massachusetts, by Dale L. Burley, 1979.  This myth of Mary Hyanno, “the flame haired princess of the Wampanoags”, is even repeated in a 2005 book Kindred Spirits: A New World History of the Families of Henry Wickoff Rogers & Grace Dean McLeod, by Geordon Hartt Rogers.   The genealogy of the descendants of Augustine and Mary Bearse is accurate in these books, but the origins of the original immigrant husband and his native wife are lacking in evidence.

However, there is an interesting essay in the NEHGS journal NEXUS, 1985, Volume 2, pages 95 -96, “Keeping an Open Mind” by Rev. Robert J. Good, Jr.  This essay about Austin Bearse and his supposed Wampanoag wife refutes some of the claims made by Jacobus.  “We tend to take the word of those who have rightly earned a position as unassailable as Jacobus’s.  Yet there are mysteries like this one which continue to haunt us and remain unresolved.  They require that we make our own decisions.”  Rev. Good makes several good points about mixed marriages during the 1600s in Massachusetts between the Puritans and the native people.  It was not as improbable as Jacobus imagined. 

I encourage you to read ALL these journal articles, and the primary source material, before making up your own mind.

For more information:

See the books and journal articles mentioned above

“Bearce/Bearse/Bierce Descendants” group on Facebook (where the argument continues!): https://www.facebook.com/groups/303262653109082/

My BEARSE genealogy:

Generation 1:  Augustine Bearse, born about 1618 in England, died about 1686 in Barnstable, Massachusetts; married to Mary Unknown.  Eleven children.

Generation 2:  Sarah Bearse, born 28 March 1646 in Barnstable, died 30 March 1712 in Barnstable; married in August 1667 in Barnstable to John Hamblin, son of James Hamblin and Anne Unknown. He was born 26 June 1644 in Barnstable, and died in 1718 in Barnstable.  Twelve children.

Generation 3:  Benjamin Hamblin m. Hope Huckins

Generation 4:  Hannah Hamblin m. Jonathan Crosby (removed from Cape Cod  to Nova Scotia)

Generation 5:  Ebenezer Crosby m. Elizabeth Robinson (descendant of Isaac Robinson above)

Generation 6:  Rebecca Crosby m. Comfort Haley

Generation 7:  Joseph Edwin Healey m. Matilda Weston (removed from Nova Scotia to Massachusetts)

Generation 8:  Mary Etta Healey m Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 9:  Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ BEARSE of Cape Cod”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted  September 23, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/09/surname-saturday-bearse-of-cape-cod.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ HUCKINS of Barnstable, Massachusetts

HUCKINS / HUGGINS / HUTCHINS

Thomas Huckins, my 9^th great grandfather, first appears as a member of the “Military Company of Massachusetts” muster roll in 1637 in Boston.  In 1659 this company became known as “The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts”, which still exists.  He was the 6^th man  (out of 23 original members) to sign the muster in 1638, and was an ensign in 1639.

By 1640 he removed to Barnstable on Cape Cod as one of the first settlers in town.  He was a freeman in Barnstable in 1647 and was granted a house lot in 1661. Over the years he held many civil positions including tax collector,  representative to the General Court, selectman, and a member of the Council of War in 1671.  He was in the military expedition to Kingston, Rhode Island in December 1675.

Thomas Huckins was a member of Rev. Lothrop’s church.  In 1642 he married first to Mary Wells, who died in July 1648.  His second wife was the widow Rose Hyllier, who was my 9^th great grandmother.  He was accused of abusing a servant, but no fine was paid.

Thomas died at sea in 1679 when his vessel sank with his son, Joseph Huckins aboard, too. The records read “Mr. Thomas Huckens was cast away ye 9 of Nvemb 1679 & died in ye 62 year of is age. His Son Joseph Lost with him at ye Same time aged 24 years 1679”  [“Barnstable Mass Vital Records”, Mayflower Descendant, Volume 6, No. 3, July 1904].

Thomas Huckins, Jr., my 8^th great grandfather, was a carpenter and farmer in Barnstable.  He married Hannah Chipman in 1680 as his first wife (my 8^th great grandmother), and took a second wife, Sarah Pope, widow of Samuel Hinckley in 1698. His daughter, Hope Huckins (1689 – after 1730), is my 7^th great grandmother, who lived in Barnstable with her husband, Benjamin Hamblin, and had four children, and two more children with her second husband, Ebenezer Childs.

President Rutherford B. Hayes was a descendant of Thomas Huckins.

Some HUCKINS resources:

The History of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, Volume 1, page 28

Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, by Amos Otis, 1888, Volume 1, pages 58 - 63 [available online at Archive.org]

My HUCKINS genealogy:

Generation 1:    Thomas Huckins, born in Dorsetshire, England, died at sea 9 November 1679; married first about 1642 in Barnstable, Massachusetts to Mary Wells.  She was born about 1624 in England and died on 28 July 1648 in Barnstable (she gave Thomas three daughters).  He married second on 3 November 1648 in Barnstable to Rose Unknown who was the wife of Hugh Tilley.  She gave him four children.

Generation 2:  Thomas Huckins, born 25 April 1651 in Barnstable, died before 15 October 1714 in Barnstable; married first to Hannah Chipman, daughter of John Chipman and Hope Howland.  She was born 14 January 1659 in Plymouth and died 4 November 1696 in Barnstable (nine children).  He married second to Sarah Pope, the widow of Samuel Hinckley (one daughter).

Generation 3:  Hope Huckins, born 21 September 1689 in Barnstable, died after 4 January 1730 in Barnstable;  married first on 29 May 1709 to Benjamin Hamblin, son of John Hamblin and Sarah Bearse.  He was born on 11 February 1687 in Barnstable, and died before 29 May 1718 (four children).  Hope married second to Ebenezer Childs, son of Richard Childs and Elizabeth Crocker, born March 1691 in Barnstable, and died 17 January 1756 in Barnstable (2 children).

Generation 4:  Hannah Hamblin m. Jonathan Crosby

Generation 5: Ebenezer Crosby m. Elizabeth Robinson

Generation 6: Rebecca Crosby m. Comfort Haley

Generation 7.  Joseph Edwin Healy m. Matilda Weston

Generation 8.  Mary Etta Healy m. Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 9. Florence Etta Healey m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ HUCKINS of Barnstable, Massachusetts”,  Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 16, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/09/surname-saturday-huckins-of-barnstable.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ CHIPMAN of Cape Cod, Massachusetts

CHIPMAN

John Chipman, my 9^th great grandfather, arrived in New England on 14 July 1631 aboard the ship Friendship, with his uncle Richard Derby, from Devonshire, England when he was about 16 years old.  He married Hope Howland, daughter of Mayflower passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley, in 1646.  John Chipman became a member of the church at Barnstable, Massachusetts on 30 June 1653, and his wife joined on 7 August 1650.

He bought a homestead in Barnstable in 1649, the year he became a freeman. He removed to West Barnstable in 1659 and bought land from his brother-in-law, Lt. John Howland in 1672. He was a representative to the General Court in 1663-5, and again in 1668-9, selectman in 1665-8, and on the Council of War in 1667.  He was granted 100 acres between Taunton and Titicut in 1669 for his service. 

John and Hope Chipman had twelve children.  When Hope died in 1684, John remarried to Ruth Sargent, widow of both Jonathan Winslow and Richard Bourne.  She outlived John by two years.  He died in 1709 and she died in 1711.  I descend from John and Hope’s fifth child, Hannah Chipman (1659 – 1696), my 8^th great grandmother, who married Thomas Huckins in 1680.  Hope died a few months after giving birth to her ninth child.  Their daughter Hope Huckins (1689 – after 1730) is my 7^th great grandmother.

Some CHIPMAN resources:

John Howland of the Mayflower: The First Five generations: Documented Descendants through his third Child Hope Howland, wife of John Chipman, by Elizabeth Pearson White,  Volume III

The American Genealogist, Volume 61, pages 2 – 6 [English origins]

The Hamlin Family: A Genealogy James Hamlin of Barnstable, Massachusetts,  by Henry Franklin Andrews, 1902, page 88

The Chipman Family, by Alberto Lee Chipman, 1920 [call # CS71 .C541 1920 at NEHGS]

My HOWLAND blog post:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/08/surname-saturday-howland-mayflower.html

My CHIPMAN genealogy:

Generation 1:  John Chipman, son of Thomas Chipman, born about 1620 in Bryant’s Puddle, Dorset, England, died 8 January 1709 in Sandwich, Massachusetts; married on 13 September 1646 in Plymouth, Massachusetts to Hope Howland, daughter of Mayflower passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley.  She was born 30 August 1629 in Plymouth, and died 8 January 1684 in Barnstable.  Twelve children.

Generation 2:  Hannah Chipman, born 14 January 1659 in Plymouth, died 4 November 1696 in Barnstable; married on 1 May 1680 in Barnstable to Thomas Huckins, son of Thomas Huckins and Rose Unknown.  He was born 25 April 1651 in Barnstable and died before 15 October 1714 in Barnstable.  Nine children.

Generation 3: Hope Huckins m. Benjamin Hamblin

Generation 4:  Hannah Hamblin m. Jonathan Crosby

Generation 5:  Ebenezer Crosby m. Elizabeth Robinson

Generation 6:  Rebecca Crosby m. Comfort Haley

Generation 7: Joseph Edwin Healy m. Matilda Weston

Generation 8: Mary Etta Healey m. Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 9: Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

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

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ CHIPMAN of Cape Cod, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 9, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/09/surname-saturday-chipman-of-cape-cod.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ GOODSPEED of England and Barnstable, Massachusetts

Cape Cod, Massachusetts

GOODSPEED

In England, Robert Goodspeed wrote a will in 1658 which named his sons Roger, Bennet and Thomas.  They had all gone to the New World, but he left them 6 pounds, 13 shillings and 4 pence each y if they returned within ten years of his death.  I don’t know if any of the sons ever collected their portion.

The son, Roger Goodspeed is an early Cape Cod settler who came to Barnstable, Massachusetts in the spring of 1639.  He married Alice Layton on 1 December 1641.  Roger was admitted to the Barnstable church in 1644, and in 1651 he was made a freeman.   By 1653 he left Goodspeed’s Hill in Barnstable and removed to the village of Mistick, which is now known as Marston’s Mills, where he had a six acre house lot and 16 acres to plant.  He bought more land in 1659 and in 1665, and in 1667 the town granted him another 16 acres.

On 6 April 1678 Roger Goodspeed signed a document, with his mark, conveying all his land to his sons John and Ebenezer, except for six acres, on the condition that they support him and Alice for the remainder of their lives.  Alice wrote a will in 1689, which named her children:

"To my son Ebenezer Goodspeed what is due to me from my son, John Goodspeed, for my ox with my half cow my son John Goodspeed owes to me, also my dwellin ghouse with all my other estate whatsoever except my wearing clothes and one colt, one gowne to my daughter-in-law Lydia Goodspeed and to my Granson Benjamin Goodspeed, son of Ebenezer, one colt.  Son Ebenezer to be executor, and loving friends James Hamlin and Job Crocker to be my over Seers."

Charles Eliot Goodspeed (1867 – 1950), founder of Goodspeed’s Book Shop in Boston in 1898, was a descendant of Roger Goodspeed.   Goodspeed’s Book Shop was a venerable used book seller on Beacon Street, seller of manuscripts, genealogies, first editions and other valuable books, which closed in 1993. Goodspeed’s Books is still warmly remembered in Boston, and if you Google the name you will still find catalogs, memorabilia and other items for sale from this book shop.  Charles Eliot Goodspeed was also an early member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. 

Roger Goodspeed is not listed in Martin Hollick’s New Englanders in the 1600s, nor is he listed in the Great Migration series of books.   The English origins of Roger Goodspeed were described in an article by G. Andrews Moriarty in the October 1928 NEHGS Register.   There is an older compiled genealogy book, History of the Goodspeed Family, by Weston Arthur Goodspeed, Volumes I and II, Chicago, 1907, available online to read at this link: 

http://archive.org/stream/historyofgoodspe01ingood/historyofgoodspe01ingood_djvu.txt

There is a sketch of Roger Goodspeed and his descendants at the database called “New Englanders in Nova Scotia” at the NEHGS website.  This database names more than 650 New England families who settled in Nova Scotia beginning in 1759.  It is a series of articles written by Fred E. Crowell in the 1920s and 1930s for the Yarmouth Herald.  There is a complete name index for these articles. You can find this database at the website www.americanancestors.org 

My Goodspeed genealogy:

Generation 1:  Nicholas Goodspeed, died between 21 July 1557 and 24 September 1558.

Generation 2:  Robert Goodspeed, born about 1532, died before 8 November 1600 in Wingrave, Buckinghamshire, England; married on 30 October 1552 in Wingrave to Isabell Allen.  She died in Wingrave before 9 March 1584.

Generation 3: Robert Goodspeed; married Alice Harris

Generation 4: Roger Goodspeed, born about 1615 in Wingrave, died 1665 in Barnstable, Massachusetts; married on 1 December 1641 in Barnstable to Alice Layton.  She died 10 January 1689 in Barnstable. Seven children.

Generation 5: Ruth Goodspeed, born 10 April 1652 at Misteake, now Marston’s Mills, Massachusetts, died in 1691; married on 2 February 1675 in Barnstable to John Davis, son of John Davis and Hannah Linnell.  He was born 6 January 1650 in Barnstable, and died 1729 in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Five children.

Generation 6:  Benjamin Davis m. Mary Robinson

Generation 7: Ruth Davis m. John Mayhew

Generation 8: Mary Mayhew m. Caleb Rand

Generation 9: Mary Rand m. Asahel Bill

Generation 10: Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill m. Isabella Lyons

Generation 11: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 12: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 13: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Surname Saturday ~ Davis of Cambridge, Concord and Barnstable, Massachusetts

DAVIS

Our wedding, First Congregational Church,
Holden, Massachusetts, founded by the
Reverend Joseph Davis (1720 - 1799)
My second cousin, 8 generations removed. 

I’m intrigued with the unusual name Dolor Davis, my 10^th great grandfather.  I've seen it spelled many ways: Dollar, Daller, Dollard, etc.  His name comes from the Latin root word for “sorrow”, hence the popular Spanish name Dolores for girls.  I've only seen it in this particular family, not in any other New England family. He passed the name Dolor on to one of his grandsons.

Dolor Davis first appears in the Cambridge, Massachusetts records in 1634 when he obtained a grant of land, along with Simon Wilard, his brother-in-law.   On 17 April 1635 his family arrived from England aboard the ship Elizabeth  which listed “Margaret Davies, aged 32; John Davies, 9; Marie Davies, 4, and Elizabeth Davies, 1”.  In August 1635 both Simon Willard and Dolor Davis sold their land in Cambridge and went to Concord, where his first wife, Margerie, sister to Simon Willard, died in 1656.  He later removed to Barnstable where he married again after 1660 to Joanna Hull, who is mentioned in his will.  Dolor Davis died in Barnstable in 1673.  He had six children, five who married and left descendants in Massachusetts.

What is interesting to me is that when I was growing up in Holden, Massachusetts, we lived on Davis Hill.  It wasn't until a few years ago that I discovered one of Dolor Davis’s descendants was the Reverend Joseph Davis (1720 - 1799), my second cousin, 8 generations removed.  He was the first minister in Holden, founder of the First Congregational Church where I was married, and where my father had his funeral.  The Davis homestead is now known as The Starbard Building, and is town offices near to the historic old Town Hall in Holden.  His farm and land were on Davis Hill, within walking distance of the church.  It is a small world indeed!

My cousin moved to Northborough, Massachusetts (not far from Holden) in the 1980s and lived on a street called Davis Road. I just recently learned that another early branch of Dolor Davis’s descendants removed to Northborough, and lived on this road in the 1700s. This branch was headed by the Deacon Isaac Davis (1749 – 1826), who was also a member of the Congregational Church.  Isaac Davis is more distantly related, being a third cousin ten generations removed.  There has been much serendipity with my immediate family and our distant Davis cousins!

Some Davis sources:

Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634 – 1635, by Richard Charles Anderson, Volume II, page 292 – 297.

“The First Settlers of Barnstable”, copied by David Hamblen, New England Historic Genealogical Register, Volume II, January 1848, page 64.

Dolor Davis, A Sketch of his Life with a Record of His Earliest Descendants, by Horace Davis, 1881

The First Congregational Church, Holden, Massachusetts, history page http://www.fccholden.org/history.html

A chart of three generations of Northborough, Massachusetts Davises http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~northboro/three_generations.htm

My Davis genealogy:

Generation 1:  Dolor Davis, son of Ichabod Davis, born about 1593 in Kent, England, died on 2 June 1673 in Barnstable, Massachusetts; married first to Margery Willard, daughter of Richard Willard and Margerie Humphrie, on 29 March 1624 in East Farleigh, Kent, England.  She was born on 6 November 1602 in Horsmonden, Kent, England, and died about 1656 in Concord, Massachusetts.  Dolor Davis married second to Joanna Hull, after 1660, in Barnstable.  She was the widow of John Bursley and the daughter of the Reverend Joseph Hull, my 9^th great grandfather in another lineage.

Generation 2: John Davis, son of Dolor Davis and Margery Willard, born about 1626, died in January 1703 in Barnstable; married on 15 March 1649 in Barnstable to Hannah Linnell, daughter of Robert Linnell and Pinninah House.  Eleven children.

Generation 3: John Davis, born 6 January 1650 in Barnstable, died 1729 in Falmouth; married first on 2 February 1675 in Barnstable to Ruth Goodspeed, daughter of Roger Goodspeed and Alice Layton.  She was born 10 April 1652 at Misteake (now Marston’s Mills), Massachusetts, and she died in 1691.  John Davis married second to Mary Hamblin on 22 February 1692 in Barnstable.  He married third on 8 May 1699 in Falmouth to Hannah Lombard.  He had five children with Ruth, three children with Mary, and 1 with Hannah.

Generation 4: Benjamin Davis, born 8 September 1670 in Barnstable, died 1754; married first on 22 November 1704 in Falmouth to Mary Robinson, daughter of John Robinson and Elizabeth Weeks.  She was born 12 December 1683 in Falmouth, and died in November 1721.  He married second on 27 April 1726 in Falmouth to Mary Dimmock, daughter of John Dimmock and Elizabeth Lumbert.  He had nine children with his first wife and three children with his second wife.

Generation 5: Ruth Davis, born 5 July 1705 in Falmouth, died 16 January 1790 in Chilmark, on Martha’s Vineyard; she married on 29 October 1730 at Falmouth to John Mayhew, son of John Mayhew and Mehitable Higgins.  He was born in 1701 and died on 16 January 1790.  Five children.

Generation 6:  Mary Mayhew m. Caleb Rand

Generation 7: Mary Rand m. Asahel Bill

Generation 8:  Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill m. Isabella Lyons

Generation 9: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 10: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 11: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo