My Revolutionary War Ancestors - Thomas Homan of Marblehead, Massachusetts

 

In memory of

THOMAS HOMAN

who died Jan. 17, 1832, AEt, 75.

His Wife

TABITHA HOMAN,

died March. 11, 1837. AEt, 73.

Also two Daughters

TABITHA died Aug. 24, 1812, AEt. 35

HANNAH died Feb. 2, 1818, AEt. 32 

[there is a verse under the grass that is illegible]

This is the 13th post I have written this year about a Revolutionary War Ancestor, on the anniversary of the 250th year since the American Revolution.  Thomas Homan was born 24 December 1758 in Marblehead, Massachusetts, the son of William Homan and Deliverance Gale.  On 28 November 1782, in Marblehead, he married Tabitha Glover.  She was baptized 10 February 1765 in Marblehead, the daughter of Daniel Glover and Hannah Jillings.  Her father, Daniel, was the brother of the famous General John Glover, who lead his contingent of Marblehead men to help General George Washington.  His regiment was made up entirely of mariners and fishermen, and they served in the battles of New York and New Jersey and helped General Washington cross the Delaware River.

Thomas served in the war early, before his marriage.  He was a private in the Massachusetts 5th Regiment under Captain Putnam in 1776.  This unit was raised by Colonel John Mansfield in May 1775 on the order of the Provincial Congress, and was composed of mostly coastal men and mariners from Danvers, Salem, Lynn, and Marblehead.  They were alongside General John Glover's unit during the Battle of Long Island in August 1776 and in the Defense of New York.  Thomas Homan enlisted on 1 January 1776 under Captain Enoch Putnam's Company and was stationed in Cambridge. In the spring they marched to New York.  They were driven out of New York by the British and when to New Jersey.  He was honorably discharged on 1 January 1777 at Fishkill, New Jersey.

In the Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775 - 1785 I found two mentions of Thomas Homan on page 203, "Homan, Thomas Marblehead.  Descriptive list of officers and crew of the ship "Junius Brutus" commanded by Capt. John Leach, dated Salem June 15, 1780; age 25 yrs, stature 5 ft. 7 in; complexion light, residence Marblehead" and also "Homan, Thomas. Seaman, sloop "Machias Liberty" commanded by Capt. Jeremiah Obrien; engaged Aug. 1, 1776; discharged Oct. 15, 1776; service 2 mos. 14 days; also Seaman, brigantine "Tyrannicide" commanded by Capt. Jonathan Harden; engaged March 4, 1777; discharged Aug. 29, 1777, roll sworn to in Suffolk Co."  These were statements that described his time as a privateer off the New England coast. 

There is a line in the manuscript US Revolutionary War Pension Payments Ledgers, 1818 - 1872, page 33 that Thomas Homan applied for and received a military pension "Massachusetts - Thomas Homan, private, monthly allowance $8, Yearly $48, commencing 23 June 1818, with a note in the margin  "died 19th Janry 1832".  This is confirmed by his death record in the Marblehead Vital Records. 

In the Essex Court records I found this line "For pension certification, T. H. swore to Circuit Court of Common Plea, Salem, "All his real estate is 1 rm in an old house much out of repair $70; 7 chairs w/canvas bottoms .42; 1 old desk $1; 1 maple table $3: $4.42. 1 pine table .75; 1 iron pot .50   1 kettle $1; 1 tea kettle .50; 1 pr tongs .17: $2.92. 1 pr andirons .67; 1 old looking glass .33: $1.00. Age 60, only occup is going out in the harbor fishing in a sm boat; wife a. 52, infirm & unable to do any labor of any conseq; 1 son a. 16."  On 17 July 1818 he swore to the court, Judge Wm Wetmore, the total value of his property (for pension evaluation?) was $78.34.

Thomas and Tabitha had seven children:

1. Hannah, born about 1783, died 1 February 1819 (see tombstone above), unmarried?

2. Thomas, born about 1785, died at sea (served on board the USS Constitution in 1812), married Sarah Bowden Dolliber and had two daughters. died in either 1820 or later as a merchant seaman

3. Tabby, born about 1787, died 26 August 1812 (see tombstone above), unmarried?

4. Polly, born about 1790, died 23 February 1800, unmarried?

5. Betsey Jillings, baptized 14 October 1792, died 6 April 1874, married Jabez Treadwell (my 4th great grandparents).  She had seven children with Jabez, and he died in 1840. She married second to John Russell of West Cambridge.  He was a cordwainer (shoemaker).  

6.  Jonathan Glover, born about 1795, died 1813 at sea on board the Privateer Polly 

7. Captain William, born 10 November 1803, died 19 November 1853, married to unknown and had a son George W. Homan in 1833.  Captain George W. Homan served at sea from 1847 as a boy on board his father's ship Atlas, until 1871 as the captain of the ship Lincoln to Peru and the Puget Sound. 

Thomas died on 20 January 1832 in Marblehead.  Thomas Homan's probate papers (died intestate) are filed in Essex County 3 July 1832, Case number 13757.  Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)  

https://www.americanancestors.org/DB515/rd/13767/13757-co1/245366433    His probate packet runs for over 45 pages with inventories, affadavits, and it was finally settled 21 May 1839, well after his death, and a few years after his wife's death!  His son, Capt. William Homan, was the last petitioner in the case. 

Tabitha Glover Homan is listed as the head of the household in the 1830 Federal Census of Marblehead.  She outlived her husband, dying on 13 March 1837.  Thomas and Tabitha are buried at the Old Burial Hill in Marblehead, Massachusetts.  She died testate and her probate records were recorded on 18 April 1837.  

For the truly curious:

Surname Saturday, HOMAN of Marblehead, 2027:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/10/surname-saturday-homan-of-marblehead.html 

Surname Saturday, GLOVER of Salem and Marblehead, 2017:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/09/surname-saturday-glover-of-salem-and.html 

Other blog posts about my Revolutionary War Ancestors: 

#1 Colonel Joshua Burnham of Milford, NH:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/02/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-colonel.html  

#2  Major Andrew Munroe of Lexington, MA:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-major.html  

#3 Jonathan Flint of Reading, Massachusetts:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-jonathan.html   

#4 Daniel Glover of Marblehead, Massachusetts:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-daniel.html  

#5 Levi Younger of Gloucester, Massachusetts:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-levi.html  

#6 Nathaniel Treadwell of Ipswich, Massachusetts:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-nathaniel.html 

#7 Captain Westley Burnham of Essex, Massachusetts:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-captain.html  

#8 Abner Poland, Sr. of Essex, Massachusetts    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/05/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-abner_02014071889.html   

#9 Abner Poland, Jr. of Essex, Massachusetts    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/05/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-abner_02014071889.html  

#10  Robert Wilson of Danvers, Massachusetts    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-robert.html   

#11  Amos Burnham of Ipswich, Massachusetts   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/06/my-revolutionary-war-ancestors-amos.html   

#12 George Flint of Reading, Massachusetts    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/07/my-revolutionary-war-ancestors-george.html  

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "My Revolutionary War Ancestors - Thomas Homan of Marblehead, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 19, 2026, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/08/my-revolutionary-war-ancestors-thomas.html: accessed [access date]). 

My Revolutionary War Patriots, Levi Younger of Gloucester, Massachusetts

 

The Gloucester Fisherman's Memorial

This is #5 in a series of posts I am publishing this year for the 250th Anniversary of the USA. 

My 5th great grandfather Levi Younger was born on 7 February 1756 in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the son of William Younger and Lucy Foster.  He was the second of three sons, and his sister was the famous Thomasine AKA Tammy Younger, "The Witch of Dogtown".  All three brothers were mariners. 

On 17 July 1784, after the Revolutionary War, Levi married Mary Wotten in Gloucester.  She was the Daughter of John Wotton and Mary Hall of Gloucester. Mary was one of nine children in the Wotten family.  Together they had five children of their own, and I descend from their eldest son, Levi Younger, Jr. 

There is very little known about Levi's life in Gloucester.  I know he was a mariner, but was he a sailor?, a fisherman? a whaler? On 13 January 1776, when he was almost 20 years old he enlisted in Captain Bradbury Sanders' Company for a service of 7 months and 18 days.  This company was stationed at Gloucester for defense of the seacoast.  Gloucester is at the tip of Cape Ann, north of Boston, and a strategic seaport for New England.

At some point after his initial enlistment Levi must have re-enlisted in the militia, or perhaps he served as a privateer with a contract with a ship captain.  I can't find any further information on a re-enlistment.  However, he was apparently a seaman captured during the war, imprisoned on a prison ship Favorite, and later sent to prison in England and later exchanged. I found him listed as a mariner aboard the ship General Glover, captained by Nicholas Bartlett, with a crew of 66, captured on 18 October 1779 by the British navy. 

In the book Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the American Revolution, Volume XVII, page 1039: 

Younger, ------, List of prisoners to be returned in exchange for British Prisoners sent to New York in the cartel "Favorite" as returned by Robert Pierpont, commissary of Prisoners (year not given); said Younger, Seaman, to be exchanged for James Price, Seaman.

To confirm that this was actually Levi Younger, I was able to find this document in the Franklin Papers:

From Daniel Edwards et al.

als: American Philosophical Society

L’Orient April 8th: 1782.

Sir

Haveing had the good fortune to make our Escape from Forton Prison in England on the 13th March last and to take a small Sloop from Portsmouth in the Night in which 32 of us landed safe at Cape Bellflour from whence we marched to Le Hague where we met with a French Gentlemen a Commissary who gave us a Pass a pair of Shoes & 10 Livres each to go as far as St. Maloes. When we arrived there 19 of us being not able to travell any farther they went on board a Privateer for a Months Cruize 5 got Passes and have gone to Nantes in order to make the best of their way to America & 8 of us came here for the like purpose wanting to get home as soon as Possible haveing been a long time prisoners some of us sent to England from the West Indies & some from New York. We arrived here the 25th: Ultio. & the American Agent not being here nor no Continental Ships we were Obliged to take Lodgeings for 11 Days before we could get a Vessell to go on Board off & the Capt. has it not in his power to give us any thing but our Victuals for our Work he haveing his Complement of hands already Shipped however he has promissed us a passage home but cannot give us any Money untill he Arrives in Philadelphia. And as there is no other Vessell in the Harbour Bound to America that will Sail this 3 or 4 Months and this Ship being almost Ready to sail we have thought it best to come on Board of her upon them Conditions.

And as we are destitute of both Money and Clothes we have made bold to apply to your Excellency requesting (If you please) some Assistance that will enable us at least to satisfy the Gentleman who was so kind as to take us in and Board us for the above mentioned time. (his Name is John Dager)

Two of us belong to Continental Ships Joshua Goss Midshipman belonging to the Boston Frigate was taken in one of her Prizes on the 8th: of July 1778 by the Porcupine Ship of War of 24 Guns and Carried to England where he has been a Prisoner ever since untill this present Escape.- The Other Eliphalet Rogers belonging to the Alliance Frigate was taken in one of her Prizes the 18th: Septr. 1779 and has likewise been a Prisoner in Forton Prison untill this present time. Therefore they would be extremely Obliged to your Excellency (if in your Power) to advance them a trifle of their Wages as their Necessities at present are very Pressing- Your Excellencie’s granting this our Humble Petition would be gratefully Acknowledged by your Excellencies Most Obdt. Humble Servts.

Daniel Edwards Joshua Goss George Clark James Fuller Elipalet Rogers Robert Fulton Isaac Allen William James His Mark

p.s. There is two more prisoners arived here that wrote to your Excellency from Havre de Grace and two of their Companions that Escaped in the Cartell with the french are detained in the [Kian] at Brest who would be glad of your assistance in setting them at Liberty. their Names are Levi Younger & Bartholemew Cashwood

His Excellency Doctr. Franklin Esqr.

Addressed: His Excellency / Doctr. Franklin Esqr. / At / Paris.

Notation: [torn: Edwar]ds Daniel, [torn: Goss J]oshua, &c. L’ori-ent [torn] 1782.

It appears that when the ship General Glover was captured, the seamen were imprisoned by the British at the imfamous Forton Prison in Gosport, England. Some of the prisoners made an escape in March, and were taken to the Netherlands, and later to St. Malo.  They were separated, and some made it back to the colonies. It must have been quite an adventure, but by 1782 they were back home. This document addressed to Benjamin Franklin, who was the ambassador to Britain during the war, asks for Levi Younger to be released from the cartell in Brest, France. We know that Levi made it home, because in 1784 he married Mary Wotten in Gloucester. This is interesting to me because Benjamin Franklin is a cousin on my paternal side, and Levi Younger is on my maternal side of the family tree. 

Forton was an infamous prison.  It was originally a naval hospital, but later used during the American Revolution and the war of 1812 as a prisoner of war camp. The conditions were brutal, and many prisoners died or were hanged as traitors and pirates.  Most of the prisoners had spent time on prison ships in New York Harbor before being transferred to Forton.  

In the Salem Gazette, 11 March 1806, page 4, there was a notice for the estate of Levi Younger of Gloucester. "Notice is hereby given that the subscriber has been duly appointed administratix of the estate of Levi Younger of Gloucester, mariner, deceased, and has taken upon herself that by giving bends, as the law directs.  All persons having demands against the said estate, are requested to exhibit them for settlement- and those indebted to make payments to: Mary Carter, Admin'x Gloucester, Feb. 4th, 1806."  The Essex County Probate records state that Levi Younger died intestate.  His wife, Mary, had remarried to John Carter on 24 October 1801 in Gloucester.  We have not found a death record for Levi Younger, but he must have died sometime before 1801, leaving Mary with five children between the ages of 6 and 15 years old. 

I find the story of Levi Younger to be fascinating for many reasons. First, although we know almost nothing about his personal life, his harrowing capture, imprisonment and escape survive through federal records.  He must have had a very hard life, as a mariner in New England and died young. Perhaps he died at sea? Perhaps he died from his hardships as a prisoner of war.  Perhaps we will never know? 

In a twist of fate, Levi Younger, Jr., my 4th great grandfather, was also a privateer during the War of 1812, and he was also captured by the British.  He was held on board the prison ship Royal William. I'm not sure of how he was released, but by 1816 he was back in Gloucester and married my 4th great grandmother Catherine Plummer Jones on 23 October 1816.  She was the sister of Mary Lambert Jones Dominis, the mother-in-law to Queen Lili'oukalani. 

For the truly curious:

Kaminkow, Marion and Jack. Mariners of the American Revolution. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1996 

 Franklin Papers, Volume 37, page 116, letter from Daniel Edwards about the Escape from Forten Prison

Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the American Revolution, Vol. XVII, page 1039

The first blog post in this series

Patriot #1 Colonel Joshua Burnham of Milford, New Hampshire:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/02/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-colonel.html   

Patriot #2 Major Andrew Munroe of Lexington, Massachusetts    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-major.html  

Patriot #3 Jonathan Flint of Reading, Massachusetts    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-jonathan.html  

Patriot #4  Daniel Glover of Marblehead, Massachusetts    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-daniel.html  

The Younger family:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/12/surname-saturday-younger-of-gloucester.html   

Tammy Younger, the Witch of Dogtown:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/02/tammy-younger-witch-of-dogtown.html  

A blog post on Levi Younger, Jr. and his capture during the War of 1812:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/01/levi-younger-mariner-and-prisoner-of.html  

Also,

An interesting article about Forton Prison during the American Revolution:

https://allthingsliberty.com/2021/01/plight-of-the-seamen-incarceration-escape-or-secured-freedom/  

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "My Revolutionary War Patriots, Levi Younger of Gloucester, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 14, 2026, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-levi.html: accessed [access date]). 

My Revolutionary War Patriots, Daniel Glover, Marblehead, Massachusetts

 This is #4 in my series of blog posts about my ancestors who served in the American Revolution.

This painting depicts Glover's Regiment

rowing General Washington across the Delaware River

Daniel Glover is my 6th great grandfather, the son of Jonathan Glover, Jr. and Tabitha Bacon, born in January 1734/35 in Salem, Massachusetts.  He married Hannah Jillings on 1 December 1757 in Newbury, Massachusetts and had four children.  She was the daughter of Thomas Jillings and Hannah Mirick of Newbury. 

Daniel's father died when he was very young, about four years old, leaving his mother a widow with four young boys.  Tabitha Bacon Glover was very resourceful, but left destitute.  Her husband left no will so she applied for the guardianship of her sons - twins Jonathan and Samuel, John, and the youngest, Daniel, my ancestor.  John would become the very famous Brigadier General John Glover of the American Revolutionary War, and his brothers all were members of his Marblehead regiment.  Tabitha left Salem with her children to live with her sister in Marblehead, where she raised her family. Twenty years later, when her sons were grown, Tabitha remarried to Daniel's father-in-law, Thomas Jillings. 

Daniel became a blockmaker by trade, who crafted wooden pieces for ship builders, including the "block" or pulleys used in the rigging. He was also the captain of several of his brother's ships.  His two brothers Jonathan (hatmaker) and John (cordwainer or shoemaker) were successful in their businesses and invested in ships sailing out of Salem. He captained the family owned schooner "Three Brothers" according to the Salem Gazette in 1768. Many newspaper accounts in Salem mention a Captain Glover in their shipping news, but not all give a first name or name Daniel. He is known to have commanded the brigantines "Ranger" and "Benjamin".  

During the American Revolution, Daniel's brother John Glover formed the 14th Massachusetts Regiment, which formed up under the new Continental Army in Boston.  General Washington ordered Glover to take his ship "Hannah" (named for his wife Hannah Gale) as a privateer to plunder British shipping off the New England coast. Washington was impressed, and this is considered the birth of the United States Navy.  George Washington asked Glover's regiment to join him as mariners for the Battle of Brooklyn in New York, the Battle of Pell's Point, and for rowing Washington and his troops across the Delaware River for the Battle of Trenton. All the Glover brothers participated in these events of the Revolutionary War. The story of Glover's Regiment was covered recently in Ken Burns new documentary about the Revolutionary War, and in the books I list below. 

Daniel came home from the Revolutionary War to live in Beverly and Marblehead. He had two sons and two daughters - Jonathan, Hannah, Tabitha and John.  I descend from his daughter Tabitha, born in 1765, who married Thomas Homan in Marblehead on 28 November 1782 and had seven children.  

Despite belonging to this famous family of mariners and patriots, there are very few records on Daniel Glover.  He is an enigma.  Daniel died sometime before 1790 when his wife Hannah was listed in the first federal census as a widow. His burial place is unknown.  Hannah, his widow, died in Salem on 4 October 1810. The Salem and Marblehead records do not list his death record. He left no probate records or will.  His house survives in Marblehead at 11 Mechanic Court and is known locally as "The Old Hammond House".  

For the truly curious: 

My other patriot blog posts in this series: 

#1  Colonel Joshua Burnham, Milford, New Hampshire:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/02/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-colonel.html   

#2  Major Andrew Munroe, Lexington and Danvers (now Peabody), Massachusetts:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-major.html  

#3  Jonathan Flint, Reading, Massachusetts:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-jonathan.html  

My Glover lineage:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/09/surname-saturday-glover-of-salem-and.html   

Books about General John Glover and his regiment:

The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier Mariners who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware, by Patrick K. O'Donnell, 2022, Atlantic Monthly Press. 

Saving Washington's Army: The Brilliant Last Stand of Genral John Glover at the Battle of Pell's Point, New York, October 18, 1776, by Phillip Thomas Tucker, 2022, Skyhorse Publishing.  

General John Glover and his Marblehead Mariners, by George A. Brillias, 1960, Henry Holt and Company. 

General John Glover and his Marblehead Regiment in the Revolutionary War: A Paper Read Before the Marblehead Historical Society, May 14, 1903, by Nathan P. Sanborn and C. H. B. Quennell, published in 2021 by Barakaldo Books. 

The image above is the painting Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze, 1851, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.  

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "My Revolutionary War Patriots, Daniel Glover, Marblehead, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 7, 2026, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-daniel.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ KING of Lynn, Massachusetts

KING / KINGE

My 10^th great grandfather, Daniel King (1599 – 1672),  was born in Watford, Hertfordshire in England.  His son, Daniel King, Jr., stated in 1653 that he owned land in Beaconfield, Buckinghamshire, near where he married Elizabeth Guy in 1624 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.  He was in Uxbridge, Middlesex, England in 1639.  Soon after this date, he probably left for New England with his wife and children.

Daniel King’s first record in New England was a court appearance on 30 June 1641 in Salem, Massachusetts.  He was a woolen draper and a merchant, and described as “gentleman” or “Mr.” in the records.  His land in Lynn is located in what is now the town of Swampscott.  He appears in the records for many land transactions, as well as several suits such as when his bull gored his neighbor’s mare who was “great with foal” in 1646 (Essex Quarterly Court Records 1:258).  That same year he was fined for “supposed neglect of training” when he told the court he was lame and would provide a man to train for the militia in his place. 

In 1670 Daniel King conveyed the western part of his farm to his son Ralph, with provisions to three sons-in-law that they could cut wood (Essex Deeds, 3:99, 5:54).    His will is dated 7 February 1671, and was proved on 26 June 1672. He left his estate to his son Daniel, and it mentions his daughters Hannah Blaney, Elizabeth Redding, and Sarah Needham.

I descend from Daniel’s son, Daniel, Jr., (1625 – 1690), my 9^th great grandfather.  He was a merchant involved with the triangle trade between New England, the West Indies and England.  He lived for a time on the island of St Christopher/ St. Kitts, and then came to Salem to be an innkeeper.  He married Tabitha Walker in 1647.  He probably died in Salem before 2 April 1690, when on an indenture he was described as “Daniel King Sr. late of Salem, yeoman deceased”  (Essex County Deeds 8:154 – 155). 

Next, I descend from Daniel King, Jr.’s daughter Hannah King (b. 1681), my 8^th great grandmother, who married John Bacon in 1701.  They had six children, and passed on the name Tabitha to my 7^th great grandmother, Tabitha Bacon.  She had a granddaughter named Tabitha Glover (1765 – 1837) my 5^th great grandmother.  My 4^th great grandmother, Betsey Jillings Homan, had a sister named Tabby Homan, which was probably really yet another Tabitha!

Some KING resources:

“The King Family in England” by George Austin Morrison, Jr., The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 31 (1900), pages 136 – 139

The Essex Genealogist, Volume 9, pages 82 -92

The New England Historic Genealogical Society Register, Volume 65, page 84

The History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts: Including Lynnfield, Saugus, Swampscott, and Nahant, by Alonzo Lewis and James R. Newhall, 1865.

My KING genealogy:

Generation 1:  Daniel King, son of Ralph King and Audrey Unknown,  baptized on 1 January 1599 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, died before 26 May 1627 in Lynn, Massachusetts; married on 4 October 1624 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England to Elizabeth Guy, daughter of John Guy and Agnes Martin.  She was born about 1606 and died 26 February 1677 in Lynn.  Five children.

Generation 2:  Daniel King, born about 1625 in England, died before 2 April 1690 in Salem, Massachusetts; married on 11 March 1662 in Lynn to Tabitha Walker, daughter of Richard Walker and Jane Talmadge.  She was born 9 November 1647 in Reading, Massachusetts.  Eleven children.

Generation 3: Hannah King, born about 1681; married on 24 January 1701 in Salem to John Bacon, son of Daniel Bacon and Susannah Spencer.  He was born 24 January 1680/1 in Salem, and died before 29 February 1715/16 in Salem.  Six children.

Generation 4: Tabitha Bacon m. Jonathan Glover

Generation 5:  Daniel Glover m. Hannah Jillings

Generation 6:  Tabitha Glover m. Thomas Homan

Generation 7:  Betsey Jilling Homan m. Jabez Treadwell

Generation 8:  Eliza Ann Treadwell m.  Abijah Hitchings

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 ~ KING of Lynn, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 6, 2017, (  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/12/surname-saturday-king-of-lynn.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ WALKER of Lynn, Massachusetts

WALKER

There were many men named Richard Walker in Massachusetts in the 1600s. According to the book The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620 - 1633, there were men named Richard Walker in both Salem and Boston in the 1630s, and a Richard Walker marriage record in Ipswich in 1661.  None of these men appear to be related to the Richard Walker of Lynn.  

Richard Walker (about 1611 – 1687) was my 10^th great grandfather.  The first written record of him was made in Lynn, Massachusetts when he became a freeman on 4 March 1633/4.  He also lived in Boston, and in Reading, towns which border Lynn.  He served many offices in Lynn such as selectman and as Deputy to the General Court.  He was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1638, and Captain of the Reading militia in 1651.  In 1670 he was made Deputy governor of Nova Scotia under Sir Thomas Temple. 

Richard Walker was married twice.  First to Jane Talmage, and had a son named Shubal (Shubael).  His second wife was my 10^th great grandmother, Sarah, who had four children, including a daughter, Tabitha (b. 1647), my 9^th great grandmother, who married Daniel King of Salem.

According to Robert Charles Anderson’s book The Great Migration Begins, volume III, page 1911 “On June 1676 Richard Walker, aged about sixty-five years, and William Cowdrey, aged about seventy-three years, deposed that “they were present when Mr. Daniell King of Lyn made his will, and afterward Mr. John Blanoe understanding that he was not mentioned was much troubled and sent his wife to her father and to them to induce him to include him”  [ Essex Quarterly Court Records 6:300].    The Daniel King mentioned was the father of my 9^th great grandfather, Daniel King, husband of Tabitha Walker.  The John Blaney mentioned was his brother-in-law, husband to his sister Hannah King.

Some WALKER resources:

The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620 – 1633, by Robert Charles Anderson, Volume III, pages 1908 – 1912 for a sketch of Richard Walker

History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, by John L. Shorey, 1865

A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England, by John Farmer, 1829, page 302

Genealogical Dictionary of First Settlers of New England, by Joseph Savage

My WALKER lineage:

Generation 1:  Richard Walker, born about 1611 probably in England, died 18 May 1687 in Lynn, Massachusetts; married first to Jane Talmadge (one child), married second to Sarah Unknown (four children).  Sarah Walker died 21 December 1695 in Lynn.

Generation 2:   Tabitha Walker, born 9 November 1647 in Reading; married on 11 March 1662 in Lynn to Daniel King, son of Daniel King and Elizabeth Guy.  He was born about 1636 in Salem and died about 1695. Eleven children.

Generation 3:  Hannah King m. John Bacon

Generation 4:  Tabitha Bacon m. Jonathan Glover

Generation 5:  Daniel Glover m. Hannah Jillings

Generation 6:  Tabitha Glover m. Thomas Homan

Generation 7:  Betsey Jillings Homan m. Jabez Treadwell

Generation 8:  Eliza Ann Treadwell m. Abijah Hitchings

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 (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ WALKER of  Lynn, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 30, 2017, (  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/12/surname-saturday-walker-of-lynn.html: accessed [access date]).

Surname Saturday ~ BACON of Dedham, Newton, and Salem, Massachusetts

The grave of Tabitha (Bacon) (Glover) Jillings
at Marblehead, Massachusetts

BACON / BACCON

Michael Bacon (1569 – 1648), my 11^th great grandfather, came from Suffolk County, England with his wife, three sons, a daughter, and their families to Dedham, Massachusetts.  He was one of the original signers of the Dedham agreement in 1633.  That record says he was from Ireland. According to tradition, he returned to England and was back in Dedham by 1640. 

Michael Bacon’s will is dated 14 April 1648, and he died on 18 April.   His will mentions his sons Michael, Daniel and John, and his daughter Sarah Bancroft.  His wife Alice died on 2 April of the same year.  I descend from son Daniel Bacon (about 1620 – 1691), my 10^th great grandfather. 

Daniel Bacon was an original proprietor at Woburn, Massachusetts.  You can read his name on the list of the 32 original signers of the Woburn Orders 18 December 1640.  He removed to Bridgewater , and then later exchanged his land in Woburn (with his nephew Michael Bacon) for land in a part of Cambridge that is now the town of Newton, Massachusetts.  This deed states that he was formerly of Bridgewater, now of Cambridge.  His wife, Mary Read, was from Bridgewater.  Daniel Bacon was a tailor. His seven children are recorded in Newton.

In the next generation I descend from Daniel Bacon, Jr. (about 1641 – 1720), my 9^th great grandfather.  He was a ship carpenter and had a small shipyard in Salem, Massachusetts on a creek that was known as Knocker’s Hole.  This land is near Mill Street in Salem today.   The History of Salem, by Sidney Perley, lists many ships built by Daniel Bacon in this shipyard.   Daniel Bacon married Susanna Spencer.  In his will he left everything to his wife, with the agreement that when she passed away the property would be divided into five parts for his five children.

Next I descend from the youngest son, John Bacon, who was already deceased when his father wrote his will.  His children inherited from their grandfather.  John Bacon (1681 – 1716), 8^th great grandfather, was also a shipwright.  After his early death, his wife remarried to Joseph Willard.  I descend from John Bacon’s daughter Tabitha who married Jonathan Glover.  Tabitha and Jonathan had four sons, and all served in the Revolutionary War.   One of these sons was the famous Major General John Glover (1732 – 1797), the maritime hero of the American Revolutionary War.   I descend from their son youngest, Daniel Glover (b. 1734/5). 

Some BACON resources:

The History of Salem, by Sidney Perley (three volumes)

Bacon Genealogy: Michael Bacon of Dedham, 1640, and his descendants, by Thomas Williams Baldwin, 1915.

The Genealogical Dictionary of New England, by James Savage, Volume 1, page 90

My BACON genealogy:

Generation 1:  Michael Bacon, baptized on 6 December 1579 in Winston, Suffolk County, England, died on 18 April 1648 in Dedham, Massachusetts; married on 20 September 1607 in Winston to Alice Blower.  She was born about 1581 and died 2 April 1648 in Dedham.  Five children.

Generation 2:  Daniel Bacon, born about 1620, died 7 September 1691 in Newton, Massachusetts; married about 1640 to Mary Read, daughter of Thomas Read and Rachel Unknown.  She died on 4 October 1691 in Newton.  Eight children.

Generation 3: Daniel Bacon, born about 1641, died 1720; married on 1 August 1664 in Salem to Susannah Spencer, daughter of Michael Spencer and Isabel Unknown.  She was born about 1643 probably in Lynn, Massachusetts, and died 1719 in Salem.  Seven children.

Generation 4:  John Bacon was born 24 January 1681 in Salem, died 29 February 1716 in Salem; married on 20 January 1702 in Salem to Hannah King, daughter of Daniel King and Tabitha Walker.  She was born aobut 1681.  Six children.

Generation 5:  Tabitha Bacon, baptized on 20 July 1712 (with three of her siblings) in Salem, Massachusetts, died 7 March 1785 in Marblehead, Massachusetts; married on 23 February 1727 in Salem to Jonathan Glover, son of Jonathan Glover and Abigail Henderson.  He was born 14 December 1702 in Salem, and died August 1737 in Salem.  Four children.  Tabitha remarried to Thomas Jillings on 15 July 1756.

Generation 6:  Daniel Glover m. Hannah Jillings (step siblings)

Generation 7:  Tabitha Glover m. Thomas Homan

Generation 8:  Betsey Jillings Homan m. Jabez Treadwell

Generation 9:  Eliza Ann Treadwell m. Abijah Hitchings

Generation 10: Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 11:  Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ BACON of Dedham, Newton, and Salem, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 23, 2017, (  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/11/surname-saturday-bacon-of-dedham-newton.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ HENDERSON of Saco, Maine and Salem, Massachusetts

HENDERSON

In the late 1600s the early Maine settlers were in conflict with the Native people of the seacoast, and there were many massacres that killed people on both sides.  Large numbers of settlements were completely abandoned.  Many of these settlers fled to Salem and Marblehead, Massachusetts.  Some historians believe that the traumas experienced by many of these people, especially the children, may have led to the witch hysteria.

Peter Henderson (about 1649 – after 1700), my 9^th great grandfather, was a fisherman from Saco, Maine. He married his probable brother’s step-daughter, Abigail Bully in 1670 in Saco (now Biddeford Poole, Maine).  The John Henderson who married Ellen Booth, the widow of Nicholas Bully is considered to be his brother or close kin.   In 1671 Peter was granted 12 acres of land next to John’s property.

Peter first appeared in the Salem records around 1677, after the first massacres in Maine.  In Salem Peter Henderson was known as a Master Mariner and “Fisher Captain”.  In 1683 he paid taxes in Salem and appeared in a lawsuit against Robert Bray, Sr., and Richard Bale “for abusive carriages on board to the master. Bale was fined and ordered to be whipped.”   Also in 1683 Peter Henderson’s ship “ketch, Sara, was chased ashore by pirates at Funchal [Madeira].  There was another incident with pirates in 1697 concerning Henderson’s ketch, Margaret.

Two of Peter’s sons, Peter and Benjamin, married two Beadle sisters, Elizabeth and Abigail.  See my BEADLE genealogy at this link:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/05/surname-saturday-beadle-of-salem.html   I descend from the daughter, Abigail Henderson (1676 – 1737), my 8^th great grandmother, who married Jonathan Glover in 1699.  Abigail and Jonathan Glover were the grandparents of Major General John Glover (1732 – 1797) of Marblehead, the Revolutionary War hero.  Click this link for my GLOVER genealogy:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/09/surname-saturday-glover-of-salem-and.html

Some HENDERSON resources:

History of Saco and Biddeford, by George Folsom, 1830

Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, by Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin Davis, 1928-1939

“The Henderson Family of Salem” by G. Andrews Moriarty, Jr., Essex Institute Historical Collections, Volume 48 (1912), page 328. 

My HENDERSON genealogy: 

Generation 1:  Peter Henderson, born about 1649, died after 27 September 1700 in Salem, Massachusetts; married on 29 December 1670 in Salem to Abigail Bully, daughter of Nicholas Bully and Eleanor Booth.  She was born 1 February 1655 in Saco, Maine.  Five children.

Generation 2:  Abigail Henderson, born October 1676 in Salem, died 29 April 1737 in Salem; married on 31 March 1699 in Salem to Jonathan Glover, son of John Glover and Mary Guppy. He was born 13 April 1677 in Salem and died March 1736.  Six children

Generation 3: Jonathan Glover m. Tabitha Bacon

Generation 4: Daniel Glover m. Hannah Jillings.

Generation 5: Tabitha Glover m. Thomas Homan

Generation 6: Betsey Jillings Homan m. Jabez TREAdwell

Generation 7:  Eliza Ann Treadwell m. Abijah Hitchings

Generation 8:  Abijah Franklin Hithcings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 9:  Gertrude Maria

Generation 10:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ HENDERSON of Saco, Maine and Salem, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 9, 2017, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/12/surname-saturday-henderson-of-saco.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ GUPPY of Salem, Massachusetts

GUPPY  / GUPPI / GUPPE / GUPPIE /  GUPPEY

Reuben Guppy (about 1601 – about 1684), my 10^th great grandfather, was first recorded in the New World in Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1641.  That same year he was recorded in Salem, too.  In 1641 he was also in court “for running away to the eastward from his wife, who was about to be confined in childbirth and for stealing, blasphemy, lying and swearing”.   He was sentenced to be whipped. 

See this letter in the John Winthrop Papers, Vol. 1 -5, 1557 - 1649 database at www.americanancestors.org, Winthrop Papers, volume 4, pages 323 – 324.

"Thomas Gorges and Edward Godfrey to John Winthrop

To the Right Wor[shipfu]ll John Withrope Esqr. these present speed in Boston

Aggamenticus 1 March 1640/1

Most honoured Sir, one Reuben Guppy of late comminge into our plantation and pretendinge much Religeon and great zeal for the Ordinances of God was entertained by a planter, but since ther haue come diuers reports unto vs of his misdeameanors with you, and that fear of punishment doue him away, and likewise this day I haue reccaued a letter from Captain Vnderhill which expresseth the desier of Mr. Endicott to haue him returned which letter I haue sent you heerinclosd.  the desier we haue to satisfy his request, and to ridd such fellows out of our Prouince, which haue brought such a scandall on it haue caused vs to omitt noe opportunity of sendinge him, therfore by Sampson Salter, M[aste]r of the Makeshift you shall receaue him. resolued we are that this Prouince shall be noe refuge for Runnaways, for none comminge from another Plantation shall be entertained heer without a Certificate of good demeanour, or vppon the knowledge of some of the Inhabitants.  thus with our seruices tendered to you; commendinge you to the protection of the Almighty we Rest Yourse in all due respects

THO: GORGES

EDW: GODFREY”

Reuben Guppy is a terrific Black Sheep ancestor, who was in and out of court records for the rest of his life.  He left a lot of records for theft, lawsuits, dodging rent, and for turning in his neighbors for various crimes.  My favorite was a record by Sargeant Dixie who had seen Guppy stuff a hen in his breeches. [Essex Antiquarian, Volume 3 (1899), page 191 from Salem Quarterly Court Records, dated 30: 1: 1641] In another interesting case in 1657 he accused his neighbor Richard Pitfold of bestiality. [Essex Antiquarian, Volume 11 (1907), page 135]  However, the origins of Reuben Guppy are still unknown, and his exact birth and death dates are still undiscovered.

By 1650 he owned a lot of land which he deeded to his son John in 1681. This land was left to the granddaughter, Bethia Guppy who married Thomas Marston.  The land left the family when it was sold to Mr. and Mrs. Marston, of Boston, in 1769 for three pounds, six shillings and eight pence [Essex Register of Deeds, Book 125, leaf 278].

In 1648 Reuben Guppy was in Agamenticus again (now York, Maine) where he was found to be estranged from his wife and brought back to Salem, Massachusetts by the authorities.  That same year the court ordered “That the 2 eldest children of Reuben Guppy be placed out, the boy till the age of 21 years and the mayde till the age of 18 years.”  The girl was probably my 9^th great grandmother, Mary Guppy, who was placed with the Verin family, and then with the John Porter, Sr. family.  Mary Guppy married John Glover in 1661.

The Guppy family was involved in a famous 1684 robbery of 500 pounds known as “The Corwin Robbery” [History of Salem, by Sidney Perley, Volume III, pages 184 – 188].  Reuben Guppy, his son John Guppy, and Abigail (wife of son John) were all accused. John, a former servant in the home of George Corwin, and several other former servants, an African slave named David, and several neighbors, plotted to steal the money.  John Guppy was named as an accessory to the crime. Two others, William Godsoe and his wife, were sentenced to be branded with the letter B in the forehead. Thomas Gatchell, Nathaniel Pickman and John Collier were sentenced to pay treble damages, be severely whipped 39 stripes or pay ten pounds (I wonder which one they chose?)  According to History of Salem,  page 187“The branding was done by constable Flinder, for which he was paid two pounds. The Godsoes disappeared from Salem”. 

Reuben Guppy was still living in 1684.  He had deposed in court in 1665 that he was 60 years old, which would place his birth at about 1605.

Some GUPPY resources:

The History of Salem, by Sidney Perley

The Genealogical Dictionary of New England by James Savage, 1969, Volume II, page 324

My GUPPY lineage:

Generation 1:  Reuben Guppy, born about 1601 probably in England, died after 1684 in Salem, Massachusetts; married Eleanor or Ellen.  Four children.

Generation 2:  Mary Guppy, born about 1640; married 2 January 1661 in Salem to John Glover, son of Charles Glover and Elizabeth Unknown.  He was born about 1638 in Salem, and died May 1695 in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Eight children.

Generation 3:  Jonathan Glover m. Abigail Henderson

Generation 4:  Jonathan Glover m. Tabitha Bacon

Generation 5: Daniel Glover m. Hannah Jillings

Generation 6: Tabitha Glover m. Thomas Homan

Generation 7: Betsey Jillings Glover m. Jabez Treadwell

Generation 8: Eliza Ann Treadwell m. Abijah Hitchings

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 ~ GUPPY of Marblehead”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 2, 2017, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/12/surname-saturday-guppy-of-salem.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ JILLINGS of Newbury, Massachusetts

JILLINGS / GELLINS /  JILLENS / JILLINS

Thomas Jillings, my 7^th great grandfather, is a mystery.  I don’t know his parents, or his birthdate, or where he came from.  His origins are completely unknown.  I don’t know his occupation, or if he owned land or wrote a will (nothing in the Essex County Probate records).  I don’t even know where he died because he didn’t leave a gravestone or death record. 

The first record I have of Thomas Jillings is his marriage to Hannah Mirick in 1725 in Newbury, Massachusetts.  She was the daughter of Isaac Mirick, and great granddaughter of Rev. Sion “John” Mirick of Wales.  They had eight children all recorded in the Newbury Vital Records. I descend from their daughter, Hannah, my 6th great grandmother, born in 1737 and married Daniel Glover, brother to Brigadier General John Glover of the American Revolution.  Hannah was Daniel’s step sister, because his mother, Tabitha (Bacon) Glover, married second to Thomas Jillings as his second wife the year before Hannah married Daniel Glover.

Their daughter, Tabitha Glover, married Thomas Homan (my 5th great grandparents).  They named their daughter, my 4th great grandmother, Betsey Jillings Homan.   As I was working on this lineage, working backwards from the present time, I knew that Betsey's peculiar middle name would be a hint towards her ancestry.  I was right! 

My JILLINGS genealogy:

Generation 1:  Thomas Jillings, born about 1700; married on 18 November 1725 in Newbury, Massachusetts to Hannah Mirick, daughter of Isaac Mirick and Mary Newell.  She was born 11 March 1702 in Charlestown, Massachusetts and died 25 October 1754 in Newbury. Eight children.

Generation 2: Hannah Jillings, born 25 November 1737 in Newbury, died 4 October 1810 in Salem, Massachusetts; married on 1 December 1757 in Newbury to Daniel Glover, son of Jonathan Glover and Tabitha Bacon.  Tabitha (Bacon) Glover married second to Thomas Jillings (see above).  So Hannah and Daniel were step-siblings.  They had four children.

Generation 3:  Tabitha Glover, baptized 10 February 1765, died 13 March 1837 in Marblehead; married on 28 November 1782 in Marblehead to Thomas Homan, son of William Homan and Elizabeth Unknown.  He was born about 1758 and died 20 January 1832 in Marblehead.  Seven children.

Generation 4:  Betsey Jillings Homan, baptized on 14 October 1792 in Marblehead, died 6 April 1874 in Salem; married on 17 November 1811 in Marblehead to Jabez Treadwell, son of Nathaniel Treadwell and Mary Hovey.  He was born 17 October 1788 in Ipswich, and died 4 November 1840 in Salem.  Seven children.

Generation 5: Eliza Ann Treadwell, born 27 August 1812 in Salem, died 31 January 1896 in Salem; married on 4 December 1836 in Salem to Abijah Hitchings, so of Abijah Hitchings and Mary Cloutman.  He was born 18 January 1809 in Salem, and died 18 January 1864 in Salem.  Four children.

Generation 6:  Abijah Franklin Hitchings, born 28 October 1841 in Salem, died 19 May 1910 in Salem; married on 22 September 1864 in Salem to Hannah Eliza Lewis, daughter of Thomas Russell Lewis and Hannah Phillips.  She was born about 1844 probably in Salem, and died 15 February 1921 in Danvers, Massachusetts. Two children.

Generation 7:  Arthur Treadwell Hitchings, born 10 May 1868 in Salem, died 7 March 1937 in Hamilton, Massachusetts; married on 25 December 1890 in Beverly, Massachusetts to Florence Etta Hoogerzeil, daughter of Peter Hoogerzeil and Mary Etta Healey.  She was born 20 August 1871 in Beverly, and died 10 February 1941 in Hamilton, Massachusetts.  Eight children.

Generation 8: Gertrude Matilda Hitchings, born 1 August 1905 in Beverly, died 3 November 2001 in Peabody, Massachusetts; married on 14 February 1925 in Hamilton to Stanley Elmer Allen, son of Joseph Elmer Allen and Carrie Maude Batchelder.  He was born 14 January 1904 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and died 6 March 1982 in Beverly.  Seven children. (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ JILLINGS of Newbury, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 4, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/11/surname-saturday-jillings-of-newbury.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ HOMAN of Marblehead

Edward Homan Probate 1713, naming his wife as "Richard"

Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)  https://www.americanancestors.org/DB515/i/13767/13732-co5/30230114

HOMAN / HOLMAN / HOLEMAN / HOLMEN / HOLDMAN / HOOMAN / HAMMON / HOEMAN

Two brothers, Gabriel and Edward Homan, settled in Marblehead, Massachusetts in the mid 1600s.  Edward Homan (about 1646 – 1713) is my 9^th great grandfather.  He was one of the first fourteen householders in Marblehead before 1660.  He married about 1668 to Richard Brimblecomb, the DAUGHTER of John and Tabitha Brimblecomb of Marblehead.  Her name Richard can be seen in his last will and testament written in 1713.  They had five children born in Marblehead.  The Edward Homan house is still standing in Marblehead at 29 – 31 Circle Street, and is dated about 1670, and the right side of the house was built about 1802 or 1803.

Edward Homan, Jr. (1668 – 1714), my 8^th great grandfather, died a year  after his father in Marblehead.  He married Elizabeth Gould in 1692 in Marblehead, and they had six children.  Edward, Jr. was called “a planter” and “a cooper”, and he bought land from Christopher Lattamore in 1680 [Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 89].

Peter Homan (b. 1699) was my 7^th great grandfather.  He married in 1723 to Mary Hoyle, daughter of Samuel Hoyle and Mary Fortune of Marblehead.  They had seven children.  Their eldest, William Homan (b. 1725), my 6^th great grandfather, married about 1758 to Elizabeth and had a son named Thomas (about 1758 – 1832), my 5^th great grandfather.  Thomas Homan’s wife, Tabitha Glover, was the niece of Brigadier General John Glover (1732 – 1797) of Revolutionary War fame.   Thomas served in the American Revolutionary War, too, under Capt. Putnam as a private in Massachusetts in 1776 for one year.  He applied for a pension in 1818.

Betsey Jillings Homan (1792 – 1874), my 4^th great grandmother, was the last in this line of HOMANs.  She married Jabez Treadwell of Ipswich, and they resided in Salem, where their seven children were born. 

For more about the HOMAN family:

The Holmans in America, by David Emory Holman, 1909, Volume 1

The Edward Homan House, MACRIS (Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System)  http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=MAR.1228 accessed September 7, 2017

My HOLMAN genealogy:

Generation 1:  Edward Homan, born about 1646, died December 1713 in Marblehead; married about 1668 to Richard Brimblecomb, daughter of John Brimblecomb and Tabitha Unknown.  She was born about 1646 probably in Modbury, Devonshire, England, and died December 1719 in Marblehead, Massachusetts.  They had five children.

Generation 2:   Edward Homan born about 1668 in Marblehead, died July 1714 in Marblehead; married on 27 October 1692 in Marblehead to Elizabeth Gould, daughter of Alexander Gould and Margaret Brown.  She was born about 1667 and died after 26 December 1719.  Six children.

Generation 3:   Peter Homan was born 26 June 1699 in Marblehead; married on 12 December 1723 in Marblehead to Mary Hoyle, daughter of Samuel Hoyle and Mary Fortune.  She was baptized on 21 March 1702/3 in Marblehead.  They had seven children.

Generation 4:  William Homan, baptized 25 July 1725 in Marblehead; married to Elizabeth Unknown; at least one child.

Generation 5:  Thomas Homan, born about 1758 and died 20 January 1832 in Marblehead; married on 28 November 1782 in Marblehead to Tabitha Glover, daughter of Daniel Glover and Hannah Jillings.  She was baptized on 10 February 1765 and died 13 March 1837 in Marblehead.  They had seven children.

Generation 6:  Betsey Jilling Homan, baptized on 14 October 1792 in Marblehead, died 6 April 1874 in Salem, Massachusetts; married on 17 November 1811 in Marblehead to Jabez Treadwell, son of Nathaniel Treadwell and Mary Hovey.  He was born 17 October 1788 in Ipswich, and died 4 November 1840 in Salem.  Seven children.

Generation 7:   Eliza Ann Treadwell m. Abijah Hitchings

Generation 8:  Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 9:  Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ HOMAN of Marblehead”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 14, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/10/surname-saturday-homan-of-marblehead.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ SPENCER of Lynn, Massachusetts

SPENCER / SPENSER

Four Spencer brothers all came to settle in New England at about the same time.  Michael Spencer (1611 – 1653), my 10^th great grandfather, and his brothers, my 10^th great grand uncles (William Spencer, Thomas Spencer and Jared Spencer) probably did not arrive together on the same ship.  Elizabeth, the wife of Timothy Tomlins, was probably their sister.

The eminent genealogist Donald Lines Jacobus wrote a series of articles in the 1951 and 1952 issues of The American Genealogist on the ancestors and descendants of these four Spencers.  I would encourage you to read these articles if you are a Spencer descendant, as well as the long sketch about Michael Spencer in the Great Migration series. 

Michael Spencer died young, leaving his widow Isabel with small children.  At least one of these children, Michael, was named in a guardianship record naming Isabel’s second husband, Thomas Robbins.  My 9^th great grandmother, Susannah Spencer, probably lived with her mother and stepfather in Salem, too.  She was married there in 1664 to Daniel Bacon.

Some SPENCER resources:

"The Four Spencer Brothers: Their Ancestors and Descendants" by Donald Lines Jacobus, The American Genealogist, Volume 27, pages 79- 87, and pages 161 - 185 (continued in Volume 28). 

The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634 – 1635, Robert Charles Andeson, Volume VI, pages 436-439.

My SPENCER genealogy:

Generation 1:  Michael Spencer, son of Gerard Spencer and Alice Whitbread, baptized on 5 May 1611 in Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England, died before 29 November 1653 in Lynn, Massachusetts; married about 1640 to Isabel Unknown. Three (possibly four) children.

Generation 2:  Susannah Spencer, born about 1643 in Lynn, died 1719 in Salem, Massachusetts; married on 1 August 1664 in Salem to Daniel Bacon, son of Daniel Bacon and Mary Read.  He was born about 1641 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and died 1720 in Salem. Seven children.  

Generation 3:  John Bacon and Hannah King

Generation 4:  Tabitha Bacon and Jonathan Glover

Generation 5:  Daniel Glover and Hannah Jillings

Generation 6:  Tabitha Glover  and Thomas Homan

Generation 7:  Betsey Jillings Homan and Jabez Treadwell

Generation 8:  Eliza Ann Treadwell and Abijah Hitchings

Generation 9:  Abijah Franklin Hitchings and Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 10:  Arthur Treadwell Hitchings and Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ SPENCER of Lynn, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 7, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/10/surname-saturday-spencer-of-lynn.html:  accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ GLOVER of Salem and Marblehead, Massachusetts

GLOVER

John Glover (about 1638 – 1695) Is my 9^th great grandfather.  He was also the great grandfather of the famous Brigadier General, John Glover, of the American Revolution.  He is of unknown origin, but might be related to the Charles and Elizabeth Glover who lived in Salem, and removed to Gloucester.  John Glover was a cordwainer (shoemaker).  He appears in the court records for assault in 1670, and for excessive drinking in February 1677/8. In 1680 he was accused of stealing.

From the Essex Institute Historical Collections (Salem, Massachusetts) Volume 2, No. 3, 1860,  page 148:  "john Glover maryed to Mary Guppy by Major Hathorn the 2d January 1660; theire son John Borne ye 29th 6th mo., 1661; theire son William borne 15th March 1663; da'r Mary born ye 1st 3d mo. 1666; da. Sarah borne ye 5th mo. '68; Hana 24th 4th '70; son Benjamin born ye 28th March 1674; Ebenezer born April 13th, 1685" This document does not name my 8^th great grandfather, Johnathan Glover (1677 – 1736), but he was named as a nephew in the will of one of John Glover’s brothers [The Essex Antiquarian, Vol. 9, p. 119 and Vol. 11, p. 118; Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, Vol. IV, 1667-1671 (Salem: The Essex Institute, 1914), page 274].  His birth is in the Salem town clerk records with no parents listed, and published in the tan books.

John left a will which was probated on 13 May 1695 [Essex County Probate #11025]  His son, Jonathan, my 8^th great grandfather.  Jonathan died without a will.  His son, Jonathan Glover, Jr. (1702 – 1737) is my 7^th great grandfather, and he died only a year after his father, leaving his wife, Tabitha Bacon, with four small children.  Three of the four sons grew up to all serve in the American Revolution, and the third son became Brigadier General John Glover (1732 – 1797).  I descend from the youngest son, Daniel Glover, my 6^th great grandfather.

Daniel Glover was a blockmaker and a ship’s captain.  He married his step-sister, Hannah Jillings in 1757.  (His mother remarried to Thomas Jillings in 1756, the previous year).   He captained some of the ships owned by his brothers, including a schooner named Three Brothers.  Some of the maritime notices of Capt. Daniel Glover as master of ships to Europe and the West Indies appear in The Georgia Gazette 1764 and the Boston Evening Post 1765. [see the website by Doug Sinclair on the life of Daniel Glover http://dougsinclairsarchives.com/glover/danielglover.htm  ]   

Daniel Glover had four children, and I descend from his daughter Tabitha (b. 1765) who married Thomas Homan in 1782 and had seven children. She is my 5^th great grandmother.

Some GLOVER resources:

"Of Ships, Shoes, and Sealing Wax: The Early Career of John Glover." By George Billias,  Essex Institute Historical Collections 92 (1956): 376-387.

Memoir of General John Glover of Marblehead,  by W. P. Upham, 1863

My GLOVER genealogy:

Generation 1:  John Glover, born about 1638, died May 1695 in Marblehead, Massachusetts; married on 2 January 1661 in Salem, Massachusetts to Mary Guppy, daughter of Reuben Guppy and his wife Eleanor.  She was born about 1640. Eight children.

Generation 2: Jonathan Glover, born 13 April 1677 in Salem, died March 1736; married on 31 March 1699 in Salem to Abigail Henderson, daughter of Peter Henderson and Abigail Bully.  She was born in October 1676 in Salem, and died 29 April 1737 in Salem.  Six children.

Generation 3:  Jonathan Glover, born 14 December 1702 in Salem, died August 1737 in Salem; married on 23 February 1727 in Salem to Tabitha Bacon, daughter of John Bacon and Hannah King.  Four sons, one died young and three served in the American Revolution including Brigadier General John Glover (1732 – 1797).

Generation 4: Daniel Glover, born January 1734/5 in Salem; married on 1  December 1757 in Newbury, Massachusetts to Hannah Jillings, daughter of Thomas Jillings and Hannah Mirick.  She was born 25 November 1737 in Newbury, and died 4 October 1810 in Salem.  Four children.

Generation 5:  Tabitha Glover, baptized on 10 February 1765, died 13 March 1837 in Marblehead; married on 28 November 1782 in Marblehead to Thomas Homan, son of William Homan and his wife Elizabeth.  He was born about 1758 and died 20 January 1832 in Marblehead.  Seven children.

Generation 6:  Betsey Jillings Homan m. Jabez Treadwell

Generation 7:  Eliza Ann Treadwell m. Abijah Hitchings

Generation 8:  Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 9:  Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ GLOVER of Salem and Marblehead, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted  September 30, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/09/surname-saturday-glover-of-salem-and.html: accessed [access date]). 

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Nathaniel and Rebecca Raymond, Beverly, Massachusetts

This double tombstone was photographed at the Old North Beverly (Conant Street) Cemetery in Beverly, Massachusetts.  Most of the burials here were parishioners of the Second Congregational Church (Second Parish).  

Here lyes Buried                     Here lyes Buried

the Body of Mr.                     the Body of Mrs

NATHANIEL RAYMOND        REBECKAH RAYMOND

Who Departed this                Wife to NATHANIEL

Life Janry ye 8 1749               RAYMOND  Who

Aged 78 Years                         Departed this life

& 10 Months                          Decr ye 2d 1760

                                                  Aged 80 Years

                                                  & 11 Months

Nathaniel Raymond was the son of John Rayment and Judith Glover, born on 15 March 1670/ 71 in Beverly, and died 8 January 1749/50 in Beverly.  He married Rebecca, daughter of Lot Conant and Elizabeth Walton, granddaughter of founding father Roger Conant.  Rebecca was born 31 January 1671 in Beverly and died 5 December 1760 in Beverly.  They had eight children.   One of their daughters, Mary Raymond (born 1710) married my 5^th great grand uncle, William Preston (1705 – 1766) and resided in Chester, New Hampshire.  Another son, George Raymond (1707 – 1807) married Abigail Kettle (1710 – 1786), my 6^th great aunt born in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Nathaniel and Rebecca Raymond, Beverly, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 22, 2016, (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/11/tombstone-tuesday-nathaniel-and-hannah.html: accessed [access date]).