Surname Saturday ~ KENDALL

Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/item/2012592351/

KENDALL

The Kendall Family goes back for many generations in Cambridgeshire, England.  John Kendall (1580 – 1660) had ten children, and seven came to Massachusetts.   They all lived near each other, often in contiguous communities.   I descend from Mabel and Thomas.

These Kendall children all came to Masachusetts:

1) Mabel (about 1606 – 1690) married William Reed and lived in Woburn, Massachusetts

2) John (about 1608 – 1690) married Elizabeth and lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts

3) Thomas ( about 1616 – 1681) married Rebecca and lived in Reading, Massachusetts

4) Francis (1620 – 1706) married Mary Tidd and lived in Woburn, Massachusetts

5) Elizabeth (1623 – 1696/7) married Morris Somes and lived in Gloucester, Massachusetts

6) Bethiah (d. 1668.9) married Theophilus Phillips and lived in Watertown, Massachusetts

7) Mary married Thomas Whitney and lived in Watertown, Massachusetts

Mabel and her husband William Read, my 10^th great grandparents, came to Massachusetts on the Defence with three children in 1635.  They settled in Woburn, where her brother Francis was living.  Eventually they had a total of nine children born in England, Dorchester, and Woburn.  William eventually returned to England and died at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1656.  Mabel married second to Henry Summers on 21 November 1660 in Woburn.  I descend from her daughter, Abigail, born 1634 in Dorchester, who married Francis Wyman as his second wife.

Mabel’s brother Thomas Kendall is my 9^th great grandfather.  He first settled in Charlestown with his brother Francis.  Later Thomas removed to Lynn and settled in the area that was later known as Reading.  This area became South Reading, and later Wakefield.  He was a Deacon of the church and selectman for many years.  He had ten daughters, and the Kendall name was not passed on in his line as a surname.  However, Sewell’s History of Woburn, pages 619 - 620 remembers him like this:

“Francis Kendall remembers likewise in his will the eight children of his brother Thomas (one of the first settlers of Reading, and a deacon of the church there) who were living, when he, said brother died.  It seems that this brother of Frnacis Kendall, of Woburn, Deacon Thomas Kendall of Reading, and Rebecca his wife, had ten daughters, but no son that lived.  But these daughters, in order to preserve their maiden name, Kendall, among their posterity, directed, eath of them, when married, that her first born son should have the given name Kendall, prefixed to his surname; as Kendall Peirson, Kendall Boutwell, Kendall Eaton, Kendall Briant, etc., etc, etc., which gave occasion to the following lines respecing these daughters in a Poem written by Lillie Eaton, Esq., of South Reading, and published with Flint's Historical Address upon the 200th anniversary of the founding of Reading.  In mentioning the vernerable matron, their mother, he observes:

"She had ten daughters; and each one

When married, christened her first son

Kendall; and thus we many infer

Why 'tis these names so oft occur"

                     -- Flint's Address, p. 64"

Thomas Kendall and his wife, Rebecca, were originally buried the old cemetery in Reading and then his grave was removed to the Wakefield Old Burial Ground.  His tombstone is described in Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and its Sybols, 1650 – 1815, by Allen Ludwig, Wesleyan University Press, 1999, page 84.  His gravestone has no dates, and the epitaph is:

Fugit Hora                               [Time Flies]   

Memento Te Esse Mortalem    [Remember that you are mortal]

Upon ye death of Thomas Kendel

Her in ye Earth is layd on of ye 7 of this Church Foundation

So to remaien tel ye powerful voice say ris, in her I a Gloris

Habitation

A Patarn of piati & Love & for peace

But now alas how short his race

Here we mourn & mourn we moust

To se zion sons like gold now laid

In dust

Rebecca’s epitaph reads:

Here lyeth the mother of ten

Who had 175 grand and great-grandchildren

Some Kimball Sources:

A Mills and Kendall Family History: American Ancestry and Descendants of Herbert Lee Mills and Bessie Delano Kendall, by Helen Schatvet Ullman, Boston: Newbury St. Press, 2002

The Kendall Family in America, by William Montgomery Clemens, reprinted by Higginson Book Company, 1919. Online at Archive.org 

New England Kendalls website  http://www.newenglandkendalls.com/

Notable descendant:  President Calvin Coolidge

The Deacon Thomas Kendall House survives at 1 Prospect Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts.  It is a federal style house, but the central chimney and inner rooms date back to Deacon Kendall, who lived there until 1681.  The house is on the National Register of Historic Places, but is privately owned.   See a photo at this Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deacon_Thomas_Kendall_House 

My KENDALL genealogy:

Generation 1:  John Kendall of Cambridgeshire, England

Lineage A:

Generation 2:  Mabel Kendall, born 1606 in England, died 5 June 1690 in Woburn, Massachusetts; married about 1625 in Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire, England to William Reed, son of Thomas Reed and Mary Cornwall.  He was baptized on 18 April 1601 in Brocket Hall, and died 9 April 1656 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.  Nine children.

Generation 3: Abigail Reed married Francis Wyman

Generation 4:  Nathaniel Wyman married Mary Winn

Generation 5:  Increase Wyman married Deborah Pierce

Generation 6:  Increase Wyman married Catherine Unknown

Generation 7: Jemima Wyman married Joshua Burnham

Generation 8: Jemima Burnham married Romanus Emerson

Generation 9:  George Emerson married Mary Esther Younger

Generation 10: Mary Katharine Emerson married George E. Batchelder

Generation 11: Carrie Maud Batchelder married Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 12: Stanley Elmer Allen married Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

Lineage B:

Generation 2: Thomas Kendall, born about 1616 in England, died 22 July 1681 in Reading, Massachusetts; married Rebecca about 1640 in Charlestown, Massachusetts.  Twelve children.

Generation 3: Rebecca Kendall, born 10 February 1644 in Reading, died 30 August 1713 in Reading; married 15 June 1665 in Reading to James Boutwell, son of James Boutwell and Alice Unknown.  He was born about 1642 and died 5 December 1716 in Reading.

Generation 4:  Sarah Boutwell married John Townsend

Generation 5:  Sarah Townsend married Brown Emerson

Generation 6:  John Emerson married Katherine Eaton

Generation 7: Romanus Emerson married Jemima Burnham (see above)

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Copyright © 2015, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Surname Saturday ~ TOWNSEND of Lynn, Massachusetts

TOWNSEND / TOWNSHEND

The Townsend family has published genealogies going back in time to Roger de Townshende and his wife Catherine Atherton who were born about 1325 AD.  It is a noble lineage that includes knights and ladies.  One Roger Townshend was knighted by King Henry VIII in 1518, and his son was also knighted by King Henry VIII in 1545. Some are buried at the High Cancel of Ludlow Church with recumbent figures in knightly armor.  Queen Elizabeth dined with Sir Thomas Townsend at Mergate Hall in July 1578.  His grandson, also named Thomas Townsend, left England and went to Lynn, Massachusetts.  This noble lineage was confirmed when I read a line by noted genealogist Gary Boyd Roberts, author of Genealogies of Connecticut Families, Vol. III, page 497 “A mass of circumstantial evidence to be embodied in a memorial volume when published has satisfied several expert genealogists and myself that Thomas Townsend son of Henry and Margaret was identical with the settler at Lynn.”

Thomas Townsend (1594 – 1677) was baptized at Bracon Ash, Norfolk, England.  He was granted 60 acres in Lynn, Massachusetts, near the ironworks.  He was made a freeman in 1639. He had come to America with  three sons,  and remarried to Mary Newgate.  I descend from two of his six children- Thomas and John.    Mary Newgate was described as “a cousin” to John Winthrop, but the true relationship has not been found.

Thomas Townsend (1636 – about 1700) was a farmer.  His daughter, Susannah (1672 – 1737) married Daniel Hitchings.  The Hitchings family has lived in Lynn and Salem, Massachusetts since the 1620s through my great grandfather,  Arthur Treadwell Hitchings, who was born in Salem in 1868. 

Little is known about Thomas Townsend’s brother, John (about 1640 – 1726), and his son, John jr. (1675 – 1757) who removed from Lynn to Reading (a contiguous town at that time).   His daughter married Deacon Brown Emerson of the Reading Congregational Church.

Some Townsend sources:

The Essex Genealogist, Volume 13, pages 152- 165, 218 – 228, Volume 14, 45 – 52. 

Thomas Townsend Jr’s son Nathan can be found in the Mayflower Silver Book Volume 23 for 3 generations (he married Elizabeth Howland (about 1694 – 1707), granddaughter of Mayflower Passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley)  

Medieval Heritage: A multi-ancestor genealogy of Thomas Townsend, 1597 – 1677, who emigrated to New England about 1637, showing his lineage back to the time of William the Conqueror, by Rich Townsend, New Haven, Connecticut: 1985. (at the NEHGS library)

The Townshend Family of Lynn, in Old and New England: Genealogical and Biographical, by Charles Hervey Townshend, New Haven, Connecticut, 1882.  (at the NEHGS library and also online at Hathi Trust Digital Library)

The Townsend Society of America (Genealogy and DNA studies)

21 West Main Street

Oyster Bay, NY  11771

www.townsendsociety.org 

My TOWNSEND genealogy:

Generation 1:  Thomas Townsend, son of Henry Townsend and Margaret Forthe, was baptized 8 January 1594 in Bracon Ash, Norfolk, England, and died 22 December 1677 in Lynn, Massachusetts;  married first to Unknown in England; married second to Mary Newgate.  She was the daughter of John Newgate,  born about 1615 and died 28 February 1692 in Lynn.  Six children.

Lineage A:

Generation 2: Thomas Townsend, born about 1636, died before 22 July 1700 in Lynn;  married on 30 October 1661 at the Second Church in Boston, Massachusetts to Mary Davis, daughter of Samuel Davis and Anna Norcross.  She was born 21 May 1647 in Roxbury, Massachusetts and died after 1700. Thirteen children.

Generation 3:  Susannah Townend, born 5 November 1672 in Boston, died 12 May 1737 in Lynn; married on 19 October 1708 in Lynn to Daniel Hitchings, son of Daniel Hitchings and Eleanor Unknown.   He was born about 1660 in Lynn and died 15 January 1735 in Lynn.

Generation 4: Daniel Hitchings married Hannah Ingalls

Generation 5:  Abijah Hitchings married Mary Gardner

Generation 6: Abijah Hitchings married Mary Cloutman

Generation 7: Abijah Hitchings married Eliza Ann Treadwell

Generation 8: Abijah Franklin Hitchings married Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 9: Arthur Treadwell Hitchings married Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

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

Lineage B:

Generation 3:  John Townsend, born about 1640 in Lynn, died 14 December 1726 in Lynn; married first on 27 January 1669 in Lynn to Sarah Pearson, daughter of John Pearson and Maudlin Bullard.  She was born 20 January 1647 in Lynn and died 9 July 1689 in Lynn.  Three children.  He married second to Mehitable Brown.

Generation 4: John Townsend, born 17 March 1675 in Lynn, died January 1757 in Reading, Massachusetts; married on 28 April 1698 to Sarah Boutwell, daughter of James Boutwell and Rebecca Kimball.  She was born 7 July 1677 in Reading and died 18 September 1737 in Reading.  Six children.

Generation 5: Sarah Townsend, born 25 March 1705 in Lynn; married on 17 June 1725 in Reading to Brown Emerson, son of Peter Emerson and Mary Brown.  He was born 16 April 1704 in Reading and died 16 March 1774 in Reading.  Ten children.

Generation 6:  John Emerson married Katherine Eaton

Generation 7:  Romanus Emerson married Jemima Burnham

Generation 8:  George Emerson married Mary Esther Younger

Generation 9:  Mary Katharine Emerson married George E. Batchelder

Generation 10: Carrie Maude Batchelder married Joseph Elmer Allen

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

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Copyright © 2015, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Surname Saturday ~ BOUTWELL of Lynn and Reading, Massachusetts

BOUTWELL

Not much is known about James Boutwell or his origins in England.  He was made a freeman in Salem, Massachusetts on 14 February 1638/9.  The Lynn, Massachusetts court records mention a wife named Mary in 1640.  His will dated 22 August 1651 lists his wife as Alice, and his children John, James and Sarah.  He must have died soon because his will was probated four days later on 26 August 1651. 

His two sons, John and James Boutwell removed to Reading, Massachusetts from Lynn (a contiguous town).  I decend from Sargent James Boutwell and his wife, Rebecca, the daughter of Deacon Thomas Kendall.  Their gravestones are still standing at the Old Burying Ground in Wakefield, Massachusetts (formerly known as South Reading).    Their daughter, Sarah Boutwell, married John Townsend in Reading in 1698, and there my Boutwell line daughters out.

Sources for Boutwell research:

Descendants of James Boutwell of Salem and Lynn, by Donald Erienkotter

“Descendants of Abraham Bryant,” New England Historic Genealogical Society Register, Volume 137, October 1983, page 238.

Genealogical History of the Town of Reading, Massachusetts by Lilley Eaton, Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers, 1874.

Vital Records of Reading, Massachusetts

My BOUTWELL genealogy:

Generation 1:  James Boutwell, born in England, died in August 1651; married to Alice Unknown.  Three children possibly born in Massachusetts.

Generation 2:  Sargent James Boutwell, born about 1642 in Massachusetts; died 5 December 1716 in Reading, Massachusetts; married on 15 June 1665 in Reading to Rebecca Kendall, daughter of Thomas Kendall and Rebecca Payne.  She was born 10 February 1644 in Reading, and died 30 August 1713 in Reading.  Ten children.

Generation 3: Sarah Boutwell, born 7 July 1677 in Reading, died 18 September 1737 in Reading; married on 28 April 1698 in Reading to John Townsend, so of John Townsend and Sarah Pearson.  He was born 17 March 1675 in Lynn and died January 1757 in Reading.  Six children.

Generation 4: Sarah Townsend, born 25 March 1705 in Lynn; married on 17 June 1725 in Reading to Deacon Brown Emerson, son of Peter Emerson and Mary Brown.  He was born 16 April 1704 in Reading and died 16 March 1774 in Reading.  Ten children.  Sarah Townsend and Brown Emerson are the ancestors of astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. of Derry, New Hampshire through two of their daughters.

Generation 5:  John Emerson m. Katherine Eaton

Generation 6:  Romanus Emerson m. Jemima Burnham

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 Allen (my grandparents)

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Copyright © 2015, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Surname Saturday ~ EMERSON of Ipswich, Massachusetts

EMERSON

Thomas Emerson (1584 – 1666)  lived at Bishop’s Stortford in Hertfordshire, England, where he was recorded in 1636 as a collector for the poor.  His children were recorded in the baptismal records at St. Michael’s church in Bishop’s Stortford.  He first appears in the records of Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1638 when he received a deed for 120 acres.  This land was known as “Turkey Shore” and remained in the Emerson family for generations.

Thomas Emerson was the father of two ministers, Rev. Joseph Emerson and Rev. John Emerson.  There is a long list of Puritan, Congregational and Unitarian ministers among his descendants, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, who also studied to be a minister.  I descend from two of Thomas Emerson’s children, the Rev. Joseph Emerson (1621 – 1680) and Elizabeth Emerson (1623 – 1700) who married John Fuller.

His will was recorded in Salem, Massachusetts:

The Will Of Thomas Emerson

Essex Probate Registry, Salem, Mass.

The 31st of Maye 1653

            I Thomas Emerson of Ispswich in the countye of Essex being att present, I prayse God, of good health and pfect memory, and well knowing that all men are borue to dye & depart this life, and that the tyme and place of there departure is to them unknown and uncertayne and sometymes sudden, I doe therefore declare and make knowne this my lasr will and Testament in the maner following:

            Inprimus/ I bequeath my soule into the hands of my blessed Creator and Redeemer my body to the earth to be densently buried In assured hope of a Joyfull resurection at the last day, and for my outward Estate I doe dispose of as followeth:

            I give and bequeath unto my sonne Joseph the some eighty pound of current paye of New England viz forty pound of it which I reserued out of my farme Given unto my sonne John to be payd unto the said Joseph my sonne acording to the couenant and agreement expressed in a papre of Indentors beareing date the six and twentieth of the ninth month 1648 the other forty pound to be payd unto him by my son Nathaniell (out of my house and land given unto him) within six months after the decease of me and my wife.

Item/ I give and bequeath unto Nathaniell Emerson my sonne my house wherein I now dwell with all my upland and meddow and the marsh I bought of my sonne Joseph wh was sometymes Mr Woodsmansys with all the aptenances and priveledges thereunto belonging payeing forty pound out of it as above exprest alsoe a little p'sel of meddoe lyeing within the marsh before mentioned after the decease of me and my wife

Item/ I give unto my daughter Elisabeth Fullor the best feather bed and boulster with a paire of blanketts and the best coverlet and bedsted to injoy for hir use untill hir daughter Susana atayne the age of Twenty yeares or day of hir mariage if shall happen sooner and then she to injoy them alsoe. I give unto my sayd daughter the great carved chest and the carved box with a little Trunck with all y is in it and a small carved chest with what is in it

Item/ I give unto my sonne James Emerson the some of forty pounds out of my stock of cattell to be payd unto him if he shall come ouer into this country ( or send by a certayne surtifficate of his being liueing) within two yeares after the decease of me and my wife. In case my sayd sonne dye before then my will is that my sonne Joseph his sonne Joseph shall have ten pound of it and my sonne Nathaiell ten pound and my daughter Fullor hir foure sonnes the other Twenty pound or if any of them dye the surviuors ton injoye the same

Item/ my will is that Elisabeth Emerson my wife shall Injoye the yearely rent of the farme with six head of cattell wintering at the sayd farme and if they doe not winter soe many to make it up as is agreed as alsoe the house wherein I dwell with the upland and meddow and marsh bought of my sonne Joseph Joseph with all aptenances belonging thereunto and alsoe all my household goods and all my cattell I shall leave both oxen and cowes and all other young cattell whasoeuer to injoy them freely without let or disturbance of any person whatsoeuer dureing the tyme that she doth continue my widdow provided allways and it is my will and meaneing that if the sayd Elisabeth my wife doth marry that then she shall have only the yearley Rent of the aforesayd farme dureing the tyme of hir naturall life and the wintering of the aforesayd six head of cattell alsoe to have the little featherbed and one boulster and two payre of sheets and two cowes The rest of the cattell and household stufe to be disposed of as in this my will exprsst

            And futher my will is that my sonne Nathaniell incase he doe injoye the house and Land by the marriage of my wife that then he shall paye the some of six pound by the yeare to his mother duering the terme of hir naturall life for the rest of my household goods I leave to my wife to dispose of what shee shall thinke fitt to my sonne Joseph and the rest to be devided betweene my sonne Nathaniell and my daughter Fuller futher I make my loveing wife Elisabeth Emerson sole execotrix to this my last will and Testament and doe desire my much honored and faithful frends Mr Samule Symonds and Major Gen Daniell Denison to be overseeres to see y this my will be fullfilled.

In witness to this my last will I have hereunto sett my hand and seale the day and yeare first exprest

signed sealed and c in the psents of us

Robert Lord

Daniel Houey

January the 4th 1660.

Memorandum/ thes ar to testifie unto any home it may consern that I have given unto my sonne John Emerson his portion Ful in y Consideration of y agreement betwixt us about my farme he dully performming the Covenant of y sady indenters betwixt us during the terme of my life and his mothers as alsoe thos engagments their spesified afterwards acording to our mutuall agreement acording to the sixtenth line of this will

Signed: Thomas Emerson

Memorandum/ in consideration of the ten Lins Canseld on the other sie conserning my sonne James my will is that he shall have the some of five pound payd to him by my sonne Mathaniell within two years afters the decease of the longest liver of my wife or myself in case he shall come or send by certain sertifficat y he is then living

Alsoe in refrans to ye eighteen line of this my will for six months there exprest is thus to be understood that my son Nathaniell should paye that forty pound to my son Joseph the sumee of ten pounds a year till it be fully discharged unles he y said Nathaniell shall sell my house and land I now dwell in and the it is to be payd to my sonne Joseph presently

Alsoe in refrens to the twent fifth line of this my will it is to be understood that what there mentoned as to my daughter Fullor is my intent that it shall be holy and fully devided betwen hir two daughters at y age of twenty years or at y day of mariage Susanna and Elisabeth.

Alsoe my will is that my loving wife Elisabeth Emerson shall injoy for hir use halfe the fruit of the orchard during her natural life, the the particules above mentioned I witnes to be my own act

In the presents of

George Giddinge

Daniel Houey

Pfued by the oaths of George Giddinge, Daniell Houey and Robert Lord respectiuely before Mr Symon Bradstreet and Major Gen Denison the clerks being prsent the 10th day of May 1666 to be the last will of Thomas Emerson with the additions

As attest Robert Lord- clerk

[George Giddings (1609 – 1676) is also my 9^th great grandfather]

Some Emerson sources:

Stone –Gregg Genealogy:  The Ancestors and Descendants of Galen Luther Stone and his wife Carrie Marston Gregg, by Alicia Crane Williams, (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1987)

The Emerson-Benson Saga: The Ancestry of Charles F. Emerson and Bessie Benson and the Struggle to Settle the United States Including 194 Allied Lines by Edmund K. Swigart, (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1994).

The Bulkeley Genealogy: Rev. Peter Bulkeley, by Donald Lines Jacobus (New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, Co, 1933).

The Ipswich Emersons: AD 1636 – 1900, by Benjamin Kendall Emerson (Boston: Press of David Clapp & Son, 1900).   Available online   https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6902776M/The_Ipswich_Emersons._A.D._1636-1900. 

My EMERSON genealogy:

Generation 1: Thomas Emerson, born 26 July 1584 in Sedgefield Parish, County Durham, England, the son of Robert Emerson and Susan Crabbe, died 1 May 1666 in Ipswich, Massachusetts; married on 1 July 1611 in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, England to Elizabeth Brewster, who died 10 August 1638 in Ipswich. [She is not a descendant of William Brewster of the Mayflower]  They had nine children and I descend from two of them.

Lineage A:

Generation 2: Reverend Joseph Emerson, born between 1620 and 1621 in Bishop’s Stortford, died 3 January 1680 in Concord, Massachusetts; married first to Elizabeth Woodmansey about 1646 in Boston, Massachusetts, one child; married second on 7 December 1665 in Concord to Elizabeth Bulkeley, the daughter of Rev. Edward Bulkeley and Lucyann Coy.  She was born in 1638 and died 4 September 1693 in Reading, Massachusetts.  Seven children.

Generation 3:  Peter Emerson, born 1673 in Mendon, Massachusetts, died 19 January 1751 in Reading; married on 11 November 1696 in Reading to Mary Brown, daughter of John Brown and Anna Fiske. Ten children.

Generation 4:  Deacon Brown Emerson, born 16 April 1704 in Reading, died 16 March 1774 in Reading; married on 17 June 1725 in Reading to Sarah Townsend, daughter of John Townsend and Sarah Boutwell.  She was born 25 March 1705 in Lynn, Massachusetts.  Ten children.

Generation 5: John Emerson, baptized 5 April 1739 in South Reading, died 14 November 1809 in Hancock, New Hampshire; married on 20 December 1764 in Reading to Katherine Eaton, daughter of Noah Eaton and Phebe Lilley.  She was born 19 December 1744 in Reading and died 21 January 1809 in Hancock.  Eleven children.

Generation 6: Romanus Emerson, born 1 September 1782 in Townsend, Massachusetts, died 10 October 1852 in South Boston, Massachusetts; married on 22 November 1819 in Boston to Jemima Burnham, daughter of Colonel Joshua Burnham and Jemima Wyman.

Generation 10: George Emerson, born 11 July 1817 in South Boston, died 11 January 1890 in Dorchester; married on 11 August 1845 in Boston to Mary Esther Younger, daughter of Levi Younger and Catherine Plummer Jones.  Eight children.

Generation 11: Mary Katharine Emerson, born 25 December 1847 in South Boston, died 23 April 1932 in Roxbury; married on 28 October 1869 in Chichester, New Hampshire to George E. Batchelder, son of George E. Batchelder and Abigail M. Locke.  Nine children.

Generation 12: Carrie Maude Batchelder, 22 September 1872 in Chichester, New Hampshire, died 21 January 1963 in Rowley, Massachusetts; married on 1 November 1892 in Essex, Massachusetts to Joseph Elmer Allen, son of Joseph Gilman Allen and Sarah Burnham Mears.

Generation 13: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

Lineage B:

Generation 2: Elizabeth Emerson, born about 1623 in Bishop’s Stortford, died 1700 in Massachusetts; married to John Fuller, son of Roger Fuller and Jane Gowan. He was born about 1620 in England and died 4 June 1666 in Ipswich.  Nine children.

Generation 3:  James Fuller m. Mary Rindge

Generation 4: Dorothy Fuller m. Josiah Stone

Generation 5: Josiah Stone m. Martha Ashby

Generation 6: Josiah Stone m. Susanna Hix

Generation 7: Eunice Stone m. Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 8: Peter Hoogerzeil m. Mary Etta Healey

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 ~ EMERSON of Ipswich, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 10, 2015, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/01/surname-saturday-emerson-of-ipswich.html: accessed [access date]).