Nutfield Genealogy: Blackman

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Saturday, June 17, 2017

Surname Saturday ~ BLACKMAN of Stratford, Connecticut

BLACKMAN / BLAKEMAN

Adam Blackman, my 10^th great grandfather, is of unknown origins, but it is thought he might be from Staffordshire, England. He matriculated at Christ’s College at Oxford University on 28 May 1617 at age 19. He was ordained as a priest of the Church of England, and he preached at Great Bowden, Leicestershire and in Derbyshire. During the 1630s he began to follow the Puritan movement.

It is not known when he came to New England with his family. He might have traveled under an assumed name since he was a “non-conformist”. In 1638 he lived at Scituate, Massachusetts. A plantation was ordered in Connecticut in 1639 and Rev. Adam Blakeman was installed as the first minister at Stratford. He was granted a four acre house lot across from the meetinghouse. He served as minister there until his death on 7 September 1665.

His daughter, Mary, is my 9^th great grandmother, and his grandson, Joshua Atwater, is my 8^th great grandfather. Rev. Blakeman’s will mentions Joshua Atwater:

“Item. Concerning my books which I intended for my son Benjamin, seeing his thoughts are after another course of life--that his thoughts be not to attend the work of Christ in the ministry, my wish is that my son Atwater (son-in-law) make his son Joshua a scholar and fit him for that work. I give unto him all my Latin books; but if not they shall be put into my estate and disposed of as my wife any my overseers shall think fit."

Some resources for Rev. Blackman:

The Descendants of Reverend Adam Blackman (1598 - 1665) and His Wife Jane, by Ellwood Count Curtis, Galactic Press, 2006

History And Genealogy Of The Families Of Old Fairfield, by Donald Lines Jacobus, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1976) Pp. 81-84

History Of Stratford, Connecticut, 1639-1939 by William Howard Wilcoxson, (The Stratford Tercentenary Commission, 1939) Pp. 69, 80-81.

My BLACKMAN genealogy:

Generation 1: Reverend Adam Blackman, born about 1598 in England, died 7 September 1665 in Stratford, Connecticut; married to Jane Unknown. Six children.

Generation 2: Mary Blackman, born about 1635, died 9 March 1709 in Salem, Massachusetts; married 6 May 1651 in Stratford to Joshua Atwater, son of John Atwater and Susan Narsin. He was baptized 2 June 1611 in Lenham, Kent, England and died 16 May 1676 in Boston, Massachusetts. Ten children.

Generation 3: Joshua Atwater m. Rebecca Unknown

Generation 4: Rebecca Atwater m. Lemon Beadle

Generation 5: Rebecca Beadle m. John Becket

Generation 6: Hannah Becket m. Joseph Cloutman

Generation 7: Mary Cloutman m. Abijah Hitchings

Generation 8: Abijah Hitchings m. Eliza Ann Treadwell

Generation 9: Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 10: Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

Generation 11: Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ BLACKMAN of Stratford, Connecticut”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 18, 2017, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/06/surname-saturday-blackman-of-stratford.html: accessed [access date]).

Saturday, June 3, 2017

Surname Saturday ~ ATWATER of Boston, Massachusetts and New Haven, Connecticut

ATWATER

Joshua Atwater, my 9^th great grandfather, was baptized on 2 June 1611 in Lenham, Kent, England as the son of John Atwater and Susan Narsin. He lived in Boston, but also went to New Haven, Connecticut with six other men looking for a new settlement about 1638. He married Mary Blackman on 6 May 1651 in Connecticut. She was the daughter of Reverend Adam Blackman and Jane Unknown of Boston. They had ten children, some born in Connecticut and the rest born in Boston.

Joshua Atwater was a merchant and shopkeeper, and he owned much land in Boston. Upon his death his widow married Reverend John Higginson of Salem, and she removed to Salem with the younger children. The oldest daughter, Ann AKA Hannah, married Jeremiah Dummer and was the mother of William Dummer who was the Lieutenant Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1716 – 1730. I descend from her brother Joshua Atwater, Jr. (b. 1658) who was a mercer (feltmaker) in Boston. When Mary (Blackman) (Atwater) Higginson outlived her second husband, she left a will which divided her estate between her daughter Ann Dummer, her daughter Mary Atwater Coney, and her granddaughter Rebecca Atwater Beadle.

Joshua Atwater, Jr. married Rebecca Unknown and had three children. His daughter, Rebecca, my 7^th great grandmother who was named in her grandmother's will, married Lemon Beadle on 4 January 1709 in Salem. They had two children before Lemon Beadle died in 1717, and Rebecca remarried to Samuel Phippen, widower of Mary Beadle (sister of Lemon). She had six more Phippen children.

Some ATWATER resources:

Atwater History and Genealogy, by Francis Atwater, Meriden, CT: The Journal Publishing Co., 1901 (Volume 1, pages 34 – 51)

Families of Ancient New Haven, by Donald Lines Jacobus

The Thwing Collection, NEHGS, pages 1906 - 1907

My ATWATER genealogy:

Generation 1: John Atwater m. Susan Narsin. At least two sons.

Generation 2: Joshua Atwater, baptized 2 June 1611 in Lenham, Kent, England, died 16 May 1676 in Boston, Massachusetts; married on 6 May 1651 in Stratford, Connecticut to Mary Blackman, daughter of Reverend Adam Blackman and Jane Unknown. She was born about 1635 and died 9 March 1709 in Boston. She married second to Rev. John Higginson of Salem. Ten Atwater children.

Generation 3: Joshua Atwater, born 10 April 1658 in Milford, Connecticut; married Rebecca Unknown. Three children.

Generation 4: Rebecca Atwater, born 25 February 1686 in Boston, died 1727 in Salem, Massachusetts; married on 4 January 1709 in Salem to Lemon Beadle, son of Samuel Beadle and Hannah Lemon. He was born 30 July 1680 in Salem, and died 17 November 1717. Two children. Rebecca married second to Samuel Phippen, widower of Mary Beadle (sister to Lemon Beadle).