Surname Saturday ~ HUBBARD of New London, Connecticut

HUBBARD

There is not much known about Hugh Hubbard.  He does not have a sketch in the Great Migration series because he did not arrive in New England until much later.  There is no recent article or book about Hugh Hubbard listed in the compilation New Englanders in the 1600s. Several books state he was from Derbyshire, but there is no proof.

Hugh was born about 1640 in England and died in Connecticut in 1685.  He married Jane Latham in New London, Connecticut on 18 March 1673, and they had six children.  Only daughters survived childhood, so the Hubbard name daughtered out very early.  Jane was the daughter of Cary Latham and Elizabeth Masters.  After Hugh Hubbard’s death, she remarried to John William.  Jane died on 3 May 1739 at the great age of 91.  

"I was at home & Diging stones & old Ms. Williams the wife of John William of Groton was buried.  She Died Yesterday with Little Sickness worn out with Age being about 90.  She was one of the Daughters of Cary Latham the first of N. London who was Conteporary with my Grand father Robt Hempsted.  her first Husband was Hugh Hubbard who kept N. London ferry about Sixty years ago."  From The Diary of Joshua Hemptead of New London, Connecticut, Covering a Period of Forty-Seven Years from September 1711 to November 1758 by Joshua Hempstead, published by the New London County Historical Society, New London, Connecticut, 1901, pages 349- 350.  (Available to read at Google Books)

You can read very short sketches of Hugh Hubbard in the following books:

One Thousand Years of Hubbard History, 866 to 1895 compiled by Edward Warren, published by by Harlan Page Hubbard, 1895, page 46 (available at archive.org)

Genealogical Dictionary of New England Settlers, page 487

History of New London, Connecticut, by Francis Manwaring Caulkins, originally published 1895, reprinted by Applewood Books, Carlisle, Mass., page 313

My lineage from Hugh Hubbard:

Generation 1.  Hugh Hubbard, born about 1640 in England, died 1685 in Connecticut; married on 18 March 1673 in New London, Connecticut to Jane Latham, daughter of Cary Latham and Elizabeth Masters.  She was born about 1648 in New London, and died 3 May 1739 in Groton, Connecticut.  Six children born in New London:

1.      Mary Hubbard, born 13 November 1674

2.      Lydia Hubbard, born 7 Feb 1675 (see below)

3.      Joseph Hubbard, born November 1678, died November 1678

4.      Margaret Hubbard, born 14 April 1680

5.      Jane Hubbard

6.      Ann Hubbard married Gershom Brown in 1714

Generation 2:  Lydia Hubbard, born 7 February 1675 in New London, died before 18 June 1752; married on 14 October 1700 in New London to John Burrows, son of John Burrows and Hannah Colver.  He was born 2 September 1671 in New London and died 26 May 1752 in Groton.  Nine children.

Generation 3:  Desire Burris m. Moses Gore

Generation 4: Desire Gore m. Thomas Ratchford

Generation 5: Elizabeth Ratchford m. David Lyons

Generation 6: Thomas Ratchford Lyons m. Ann Skinner

Generation 7: Isabella Lyons m. Rev. Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Generation 8: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 9: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 10: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

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Surname Saturday ~ Burrows of Connecticut

Robert Burrows was an unmarried man who arrived in the New World aboard the Arabella, the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet in 1630.  I had several ancestors also on this voyage:  including Edward Convers and Thomas Mayhew.  Burrows traveled with his good friend Robert Parke, and they both settled in Wethersfield, Connecticut by 1639.  Later he removed to Mystic, and he was appointed the ferryman across the Mystic River by the General Court of Connecticut in 1660.  Governor Winthrop of Connecticut often visited him at Mystic.

Robert Burrows died in 1682.  His homestead at Mystic was occupied by his son John, and held by the Burrows family for 215 years, until 1904.  It was the home of Reverend Roswell Burrows in the seventh generation.  John Burrows died in 1716 without a will and was buried at the Wightman Burying Grounds under a large flat granite stone inscribed “J. B. 14 died 1716”.  All his children were born in Groton and baptized by the Reverend James Noyes of the First Congregational Church of Stonington.

John Burrows, Jr. lived in the part of New London that became Groton in 1705. They belonged to the Congregational Church in Stonington, and he is on record for being “re-admitted July 20, 1701, having been suspended for offense to Mr. Saltonstall”.  This was an episode of dissention in the church over the establishment of a new church east of the Thames River.  He was later dismissed to the church at Poquonnock in Groton.

For more about Robert Burrows:

Robert Burrows and his Descendants 1630 – 1974, by R. E. Burrows, Ann Arbor Michigan, 1975, Volumes I and II (this book is available to read, and searchable,  at Ancestry.com)

Families of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut, by Henry Reed Stiles, Part 1, page 168  (available to read, and searchable, at Google Book Search)

History of New London, Connecticut, by Francis Caulkins, Carlisle, Massachusetts: Applewood books, (originally published 1895), pages 301-302.

Genealogy:

Generation 1:  Robert  Burrows married about 1641 in Wethersfield, Connecticut to Mary, the widow of Samuel Ireland.  She died on 3 October 1672 in Mystic, Connecticut.  Two children.

Generation 2:  John Burrows, born about 1642 in Wethersfield, died 12 February 1716 in Groton, Connecticut; married on 14 December 1670 in New London, Connecticut to Mary Colver, daughter of Edward Colver and Ann Ellis.  She was born about 4 November 1652 in Roxbury, Massachusetts and died in 1731. Nine children.

Generation 3:  John Burrows, born 2 September 1671 in New London, died 26 May 1752 in Groton; married on 14 October 1700 to Lydia Hubbard, daughter of Hugh Hubbard and Jane Latham.  She was born 7 February 1675. Nine children.

Generation 4:  Desire Burris, born about 1718 in Groton, died in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, Canada; married on 27 May 1740 in Preston, Connecticut to Moses Gore, son of Samuel Gore and Hannah Draper.  He was born on 23 September 1709 in Roxbury, Massachusetts and died in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia.  Eight children

Generation 5:  Desire Gore m. Thomas Ratchford.

Generation 6: Elizabeth Ratchford m. David Lyons

Generation 7: Thomas Ratchford Lyons m. Ann Skinner

Generation 8: Isabella Lyons m. Rev. Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Generation 9: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 10: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 11: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts

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Surname Saturday ~ CHANDLER of Roxbury, Massachusetts

William Chandler of Roxbury came to the New World in 1637 with his wife and children.  In 1640 he was listed as owning twenty-two acres of land, with seven people in his family. He was not in Massachusetts long, and his story is very short.  The Roxbury records, says: "he lived a religious & godly life among us & fell into a Consumption to which he had, a long time, been inclined; he lay near a yeare sick, in all which time his faith, patience & Godliness & Contentation So Shined that Christ was much glorified in him — he was a man of \Yeake parts but Excellent faith and holiness; he was a Very thankful man, and much magnified God's goodness. He was poor, but God prepared the hearts of his people to him that he never wanted that which was (at least in his Esteem) Very plentiful and comfortable to him — he died in the year 1641, and left a Sweet memory and Savor behind him." 

Reverend John Eliot’s church records have “William Chandler, A Christian, Godly brother, died of Consumption month 11, day 26, 1641, and was buried 19 (11) 1641 in Roxbury”

Of William’s Children, his son William married Mary Dane, daughter of John Dane on 24 August 1658. After William Chandler died on 19 January 1642, Annis, his widow, married John Dane on 2 July 1643.  In another interesting family tree tangle, Hannah Chandler (1629 – 1711), daughter of William Chandler married my 9^th great grandfather, the Reverend Francis Dane (1615 – 1697) as his second wife about 1690.  I do not descend from their marriage, but from the Reverend Dane’s first marriage to Elizabeth Ingalls about 1639.  Reverend Francis Dane was Mary Dane’s brother.

I descend from William son, John Chandler, baptized at Bishop’s Stortford on 27 July 1634, just before the family immigrated to Massachusetts.  He married Elizabeth Douglas in 1658 and was the father of eight children. They removed to Woodstock, Connecticut, which was first known as New Roxbury, then Pomfret, and now Woodstock.

For more about the Chandler family you can read the compiled genealogy The Chandler Family: The Descendants of William and Annis Chandler who settled in Roxbury, Mass, by George Chandler, Worcester, Mass, 1883.  There is also a chapter about the Chandlers in the book Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut, by Edward Augustus Bowen (One of William’s descendants  married a descendant of Griffith Bowen), Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside Press, 1897, see pages 174 – 177.   Also see A Volume of Records Relating to the Early History of Boston, Volume 34, pages 368 – 369. The early vital records of Roxbury are very good for tracing this family.  There is information on William Chandler’s English ancestry at an article in The American Genealogist, Volume 73, pages 50 – 57.   For the Chandler’s in Connecticut you can see “Origin of Woodstock, Connecticut and Names of the First Planters”, by Rev. Abner Morse, New England Historic Genealogical Society Register, Volume 18, July 1864, pages 227 – 228.

My Chandler genealogy:

Generation 1: William Chandler, son of Henry Chandler and Anne Unknown, was born 12 October 1595 at Bishop’s Stortford, Herfordshire, England, died 26 November 1642 in Roxbury, Massachusetts; married on 6 November 1625 in Farnham, Essex, England to Annis Bayford as his second wife, daughter of Francis Bayford and Joan Unknown.  She was baptized on 12 June 1603 in Farnham,  and died on 15 March 1683 in Roxbury.  Six children.

Generation 2: John Chandler, born about 1634, died 15 April 1703 in Woodstock, Connecticut; married on 16 February 1658 in Roxbury to Elizabeth Douglas, daughter of William Douglas and Anna Mattle. Eight children.

Generation 3: Hannah Chandler, born 18 September 1669 in Roxbury, died 9 June 1692 in Roxbury; married on 7 July 1685 in Roxbury to Moses Draper as his first wife, son of James Draper and Marie Stansfield.  He was born on 15 September 1663 in Dedham, Massachusetts, and died 14 August 1693 in Boston, Massachusetts. Two children.

Generation 4: Hannah Draper m. Samuel Gore

Generation 5: Moses Gore m. Desire Burris

Generation 6: Desire Gore m. Thomas Ratchford

Generation 7: Elizabeth Ratchford m. David Lyons

Generation 8: Thomas Ratchford Lyons m. Ann Skinner

Generation 9: Isabella Lyons m. Rev. Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Generation 10: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 11: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 12: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (My grandparents)

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Surname Saturday ~ DRAPER of Roxbury, Massachusetts

DRAPER

1832 map of Roxbury, Massachusetts
from the Jamaica Plain Hstorical Society www.jphs.org 

It is not known when the James Draper first arrived in Massachusetts. In the history books he is nicknamed James “The Puritan” Draper, or sometimes James “The First” or “The Emigrant” Draper.  His oldest daughter, Miriam, was born in Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England on 7 February 1647.   His next daughter, Susanna,  was recorded in Roxbury in 1650.  James Draper and Marie Stansfield were married on 21 April 1646 in Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England.  He had several children born in Dedham between 1663 and 1668, and the last two children were born again in Roxbury.  James died in Roxbury on 13 July 1697.

At some point in 1654 James was named as a proprietor for the new town of Lancaster, Massachusetts but he remained in Roxbury and never lived there.  He owned several looms, and was a clothier in both England and Massachusetts.   James Draper was a large landowner in Roxbury, which was a separate town, but now is a neighborhood of Boston.  There are quite a few records of the Draper family in the Roxbury town records.

Marrian or Marie Draper’s gravestone is one of the oldest in the Westerly Burying Gound in Roxbury.  The epitaph reads “Here lyes ye body of Mrs. Marrian Draper, wife of Mr. James Draper, aged about 77 years.   Jan 1697”.   Click HERE to see a photo of this stone at www.findagrave.com  She came to America with her younger sister, Abigail, who married Samuel May of Boston on 7 May 1654.

Some DRAPER resources:

The Drapers in America, by Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper, New York: Polhemus Printing Company, 1892 (available to read or download online at http://archive.org/

“The English Genealogy of James Draper”, The American Genealogist, Volume XV, pages 237 to 242.

There is no mention of James Draper in The Great Migration series, nor in the book New Englanders in the 1600s by Martin Hollick.

The Town Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1647 – 1730: Being Volume One of the Original, by Robert J. Dunkle, edited by Ann S. Lainhart, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1997.

My Draper Genealogy:

Generation 1: James Draper, son of William Draper and Grace Mitchell, born 28 July 1622 in Heptonstall, Halifax, Yorkshire, England, died 13 July 1687 in Roxbury, Massachusetts; married on 21 April 1646 in Heptonstall to Marie Stansfield, daughter of Gideon Stansfield and Grace Eastwood.  She was born on 27 November 1625 in Heptonstall, and died between 1700 and 1701 in Roxbury.  Nine children.

Generation 2: Moses Draper,  born 15 September 1663 in Dedham, Massachusetts, died 14 August 1693 in Boston, Massachusetts; married on 7 July 1685 in Roxbury to Hannah Chandler, daughter of John Chandler and Elizabeth Douglas.  She was born 18 September 1669 in Roxbury, and died 9 June 1692 in Roxbury.  Two children.  Moses married second to Mary Thacher.

Generation 3: Hannah Draper, born 8 April 1686 in Roxbury, died 11 July 1741 in Norwich, Connecticut; married before 1704 to Samuel Gore, son of Samuel Gore and Elizabeth Weld.  He was born 20 October 1681 in Roxbury, and died 27 May 1756 in Norwich, Connecticut.  Nine children.

Generation 4:  Moses Gore m. Desire Burris

Generation 5:  Desire Gore m. Thomas Ratchford

Generation 6:  Elizabeth Ratchford m. David Lyons

Generation 7:  Thomas Ratchford Lyons m. Ann Skinner

Generation 8:  Isabella Lyons m. Rev. Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Generation 9: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 10: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

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

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Surname Saturday ~ BOWEN of Wales, Boston and England

BOWEN

Griffith Bowen is an ancestor I had researched many, many years ago.  When his name came up for a Surname Saturday sketch, I realized that there were many new articles and books on Griffith Bowen.  It was fun updating his files, and it just goes to show how valuable it is to work on a surname from my family tree every week.  My Bowen line daughters out in the first generation, but it was still worthwhile to learn all the newest research on Griffith Bowen.  This “exercise” is keeping me on my toes!

Griffith Bowen has a royal lineage going back to semi-mythical kings such as Beli Mawr, King of Britain 55 BC (probably more familiar to you as King Pelinore in the King Arthur myths).    This royal lineage could be an entire new blog post.  What a good idea!  Stay tuned….

Here is the story of Griffith Bowen’s brief time in the New World. In 1638 he sold his estate in Wales.  He left sailed for New England with his wife and several children and arrived in Boston sometime later in 1638.  In the First Church of Boston there is a record “Taken in for members of ye congregation the 6^th of ye same 12 month (1638) Griffyn Bowen & his wife Margarett”.   He was granted a lot and made a freeman in 1639. His house was located approximately on the corner of today’s Essex and Washington Streets in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood. 

In 1649 he sailed back to London with his wife and several children, leaving the others in Massachusetts.  He lived first in Swansea, Glamorgan, South Wales, and then in 1669 removed to St. Savior, Southwark, London. There are many records of Griffith Bowen’s later years in England for bankruptcy, imprisonment for debt, and litigation.  Some of this litigation was against his eldest son.

It is not known where or when Griffith Bowen died, and no will or administration of his estate has been found in England. His estate in Suffolk County, Massachusetts was appraised at 535 pounds, and was settled 21 February 1683.

Some sources for information on Griffith Bowen:

Bowen Genealogy, by Jesse Montgomery Seaver, Philadelphia, PA, 1931 

My Ancestors: In Memory of John Paine and Mary Ann May of East Woodstock, CT by Lyman May Paine, privately published, 1914.

The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Massachusetts, by John William Linzee, privately printed, Boston, 1918 (available to read at Google Books)

Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies of the United States, Who Were Themselves Notable or Left Descendants Notable in American History, by Gary Boyd Roberts, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2008.

The American Genealogist, Volume 76, pages 263 to 278.

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My Bowen Genealogy:

Generation 1:  Frances Bowen and Ellen Franklin of Wales

Generation 2: Griffith Bowen, born about 1600 in the county of Glamorgan, Wales, died about 1676 probably in London, England; married about 1627 to Margaret Fleming about 1627 in Wales.   

Children:

1.      Margaret, see below

2.      Francis, born about 1630 in Wales

3.      William, born about 1632 in Wales, died about 1686 as “A Christian Captive to the Turks” (his ransom from Roxbury arrived too late to save his life).

4.      Henry, born about 1633/4 in Wales, died 13 March 1724 in Woodstock, CT

5.      Mary, born about 1635 in Wales, married Benjamin Child

6.      Elizabeth, born about 1637, married Isaac Addington

7.      Esther, baptized 17 February 1639 in Boston

8.      Abigail, baptized 25 April 1641 in Boston

9.      Penuel, born 10 March 1644, baptized 5 May 1644 in Roxbury, MA

10.  Deriah, baptized 11 April 1647 in Boston at age 6 days

Generation 3: Margaret Bowen, born about 1628 in Wales, died 13 September 1692 in Roxbury, Massachusetts; married o 24 December 1647 in Roxbury to John Weld.  He was born 28 October 1623 in England, died 20 September 1691 in Roxbury.

Generation 4: Elizabeth Weld m. Samuel Gore

Generation 5: Samuel Gore m. Hannah Draper

Generation 6: Moses Gore m. Desire Burris

Generation 7: Desire Gore m. Thomas Ratchford

Generation 8: Elizabeth Ratchford m. David Lyons

Generation 9: Thomas Ratchford Lyons m. Ann Skinner

Generation 10: Isabella Lyons m. Rev. Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Generation 11:  Caleb Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 12: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

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

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Surname Saturday ~ WELD of Roxbury, Massachusetts

Harvard University's Weld Boathouse,
donated by George Walker Weld (1840 - 1905)

WELD

The first Weld in New England was Captain Joseph Weld.  He was a protestant, and his family in England was Roman Catholic. He came in June 1632 on board the William & Francis with his wife Elizabeth; daughter Elizabeth, age 10; Mary, age 8, Hannah, age 6, and Thomas his brother.  He left his son John, who came to Massachusetts later.  He was a freeman in 1636 and settled in Roxbury, where he became a property owner, proprietor, and captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company (Winthrop was Colonel and Thomas Dudley was the Lieutenant Colonel).

Joseph Weld was supposed to be the richest man in Massachusetts and one of the first donors to Harvard College.  He owned an estate in West Roxbury that is now owned by Harvard. Today at Harvard University there are many buildings donated by and named after the Weld family, including the famous Victorian era Weld boathouse on the Charles River that is the subject of many picturesque postcards of Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

There are many sources for information on the Weld family. One is the book History of the Weld Family from 1632 to 1878, by Charlotte Fowler Weld,   and Descendants of Edmund Weld of Sudbury, England by William Addsion Weld, 1992.  A look at the New England Historic Genealogical Society online catalog will give you two pages of WELD compiled genealogies, and manuscripts such as The Family of Weld Who Came to the Town of Roxbury in Massachusetts Bay, New England in the Year 1632 for Conscience Sake, by William Weld Gordon.

There is a lengthy sketch of Joseph Weld, b. 1599, in The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634 - 1635, Volume VII, pages 280 – 288, and a sketch of his brother Thomas Weld b. 1595, in Volume III, pages 1961-1963. The Roxbury records are a good source for information on the early generations of Welds.

There is an article in the NEHGS Register, Volume 47, pages 543- 459 about the Bowen family.  In the second generation in Massachusetts, John Weld married Margaret Bowen, daughter of Griffith Bowen of Wales.  They are my 10^th great grandparents.

My Weld genealogy:

Generation 1:  Thomas Weld and Alice Unknown

Generation 2:  Thomas Weld, born about 1532 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England, died 8 April 1597 in Sudsbury; married Margaret Unknown.  She died 13 July 1593 in Sudbury.

Generation 3: Edmund Weld, born about 1559 in Sudbury, died 1608 in Sudbury; married on 12 April 1585 at St. Peter’s Church in Sudbury to Amy Brewster.

Generation 4:  Joseph Weld, baptized 7 April 1599 in Terling, Essex, England, died 7 October 1646 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; married first  on 11 October 1620 in Sudbury to Elizabeth Wise. She died in October 1638 in Roxbury.  Eight children.  He married second to Barbara Clapp, widow of Anthony Stoddard on 20 April 1639 and had four more children.

Generation 5.  John Weld, son of Joseph Weld and Elizabeth Wise, baptized on 28 October 1623 in Terling, died 20 September 1691 in Roxbury; married on 24 December 1647 in Roxbury to Margaret Bowen, daughter of Griffith Bowen and Margaret Fleming.  She was born 2 April 1629 in Gower, Glamorgan Wales, and died 1 September 1692 in Roxbury. Nine children.

Generation 6:  Elizabeth Weld, born 14 November 1655 in Roxbury, and died in 1725; married on 28 August 1672 in Roxbury to Samuel Gore, son of John Gore and Rhoda Unknown.  He was born about 1647 in Roxbury, died 27 May 1756 in Norwich, Connecticut.

Generation 7: Samuel Gore m. Hannah Draper

Generation 8: Moses Gore m. Desire Burris

Generation 9: Desire Gore m. Thomas Ratchford

Generation 10: Elizabeth Ratchford m. David Lyons
Generation 11: Thomas Ratchford Lyons m. Ann Skinner
Generation 12: Isabella Lyons m. Rev. Ingraham Ebenezer Bill
Generation 13: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman
Generation 14: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson
Generation 15: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Surname Saturday ~ Gore of Roxbury, Massachusetts

GORE

After several Surname Saturdays with brick wall ancestors, or ancestors with little information to tell, the Gore family has too much information to fit into a blog post!  I’ll try to summarize this lineage as best as I can…

The immigrant ancestor in this line was John Gore, born about 1606 in England, educated at Queen’s College in Oxford, and graduated on 24 January 1627/8.  He has English origins going back generations, and was from a wealthy family.  When John came to Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1638 he brought his entire family with him.  In 1644 he sent letters back to England to act as executor of his father’s will and estate.   He had 188 acres of land in Roxbury by 1643, and was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1638.  He was town clerk for many years, and so was his son, John Gore, junior.  When I look at the early records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, I am reading my ancestor’s handwriting.

John Gore had ten children, and I descend from his son, Samuel.   He was a carpenter and selectman in Roxbury, and married Elizabeth Weld, the granddaughter of Captain Joseph Weld (1599 – 1646), one of the founders of Roxbury.  Joseph Weld was supposed to be the richest men in Massachusetts, and one of the first donors to Harvard College.  The Welds were financially well off for many, many generations in Massachusetts.

John Gore’s inventory of his estate showed over 812 pounds of real estate and buildings.  His will names all his living children.   The widow Rhoda Gore, was left 188 acres, out of the 4,000 acres left to the children.  During the second and third of her four marriages, she was still negotiating for some of that land, and there were several letters of administration filed as late as 1693, after her death.

There are many sources for information on the Gore family.  I would suggest that the first place to read up on this family is the book Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634 -1635, Volume III, pages 114 – 120, by Richard Charles Anderson, NEHGS, 2009 for a sketch of the first generation.   The article “The Gore Family of Roxbury: New Evidence and Suspected Connections” in the NEHGS Register 1994, Volume 148, pages 61 – 65 show some of the English origins of the Gore family.

There are many compiled genealogies of various lineages descended of John Gore.  I have used The John Gore Family by Mary Walton Ferris, 1943, and A Brief Genealogy of the Gore Family: especially in the line of Gov. Christopher Gore by William H. Whitmore, Boston, 1875. 

Despite what many New England Gore descendants believe, Vice President Al Gore is NOT a descendant of John Gore of Roxbury, Massachusetts.

My Gore genealogy:

Generation 1: John Gore, son of Richard Gore and Elizabeth, born about 1606 in England, died 2 June 1657 in Roxbury, Massachusetts; married before 1632 in England to Rhoda Unknown.  Ten children.

Generation 2: Samuel Gore:  born about 1647 in Roxbury, died 26 July 1692 in Roxbury; married on 28 August 1672 in Roxbury to Elizabeth Weld, the daughter of John Weld and Margaret Bowen.  She was born 14 November 1655 in Roxbury, and died in 1725. Seven children.

Generation 3: Samuel Gore, born 20 October 1681 in Roxbury, died 27 May 1756 in Norwich, Connecticut; married before 1704 to Hannah Draper, daughter of Moses Draper and Hannah Chandler.  She was born 8 April 1686 in Roxbury, died 11 July 1741 in Norwich. Nine children.

Generation 4: Moses Gore, born 23 September 1709 in Roxbury, died in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia;  married on 27 May 1740 in Preston Connecticut to Desire Burris, daughter of John Burrows and Lydia Hubbard. Eight children.

Generation 5: Desire Gore, born 20 September 1740 Groton, Connecticut and died 11 April 1813 in Horton, Kings County, Nova Scotia; married on 1 December 1760 in Groton to Thomas Ratchford.  He ws born 19 June 1741 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, died 27 December 1813 in Horton.

Generation 6: Elizabeth Ratchford m. David Lyons

Generation 7: Thomas Ratchford Lyons m. Ann Skinner

Generation 8: Isabella Lyons m. Rev. Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Generation 9: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 10: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

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

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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Surname Saturday ~ Ratchford of Massachusetts and Nova Scotia

RATCHFORD

This lineage begins with James Radsford, who was born about 1719 and married Margaret Ball on 26 December 1738 in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts.  This couple is a true brick wall to my genealogy research, since I do not know the origins or parents of either one.  The name Radsford is often spelled as Ratchford in the Bridgewater records, and it is the spelling adopted by the descendants.  They had five sons, no daughters, in the vital records. 

I descend from Thomas Ratchford, the second son.   He married Desire Gore on 1 December 1760 in Groton, Connecticut.  She was the daughter of Moses Gore and Desire Burris/Burrows/Burroughs.   About 1763 he settled in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia.  He was part of the New England Planter movement, who came to Nova Scotia for the free land given away after the Acadian expulsion.  Records of his family can be found in the Township Book of Cornwallis.

Their daughter, Elizabeth Ratchford, is my 5^th Great Grandmother.  She married David Lyons on 25 May 1779 in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia.  He was a recent settler from Connecticut to Nova Scotia.  They had twelve children in Cornwallis, and left many, many descendants.  My branch came back to New England.  I found much information about this lineage of Ratchfords in my ancestor, Reverend I. E. Bill’s, journals.  The Rev. Bill married Isabella Lyons Bill, the granddaughter of Elizabeth Ratchford and David Lyons.

I haven’t found any further Radsford or Ratchford records in Plymouth County, Massachusetts to trace this lineage back further than James Radsford, my 7^th Great Grandfather.

My Ratchford genealogy:

Generation 1:  James Radsford, born about 1719; married on 26 December 1738 to Margaret Ball.  They had five sons in the Bridgewater, Massachusetts Vital Records.

Generation 2: Thomas Ratchford, born 19 June 1741 in Bridgewater, died 27 December 1813 in Horton, Kings County, Nova Scotia; married on 1 December 1760 in Groton, Connecticut to Desire Gore, daughter of Moses Gore and Desire Burris.  She was born 20 September 1740 in Groton, and died 11 April 1813 in Horton.  Three children.

Generation 3: Elizabeth Ratchford, born about 1764 and died 18 March 1845 in Nova Scotia; married on 25 May 1779 in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia to David Lyons.  Twelve children.

Generation 4:  Thomas Ratchford Lyons m. Ann Skinner

Generation 5: Isabella Lyons m. Ebenezer Ingraham Bill

Generation 6: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 7: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 8: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Surname Saturday ~ Lyons, Loyalists from Connecticut to Nova Scotia?

Isabella Lyons (1806 - 1872)
wife of Rev. I. E. Bill

LYONS

This is another brickwall line, and I was reluctant to post it as a Surname Saturday name until I realized that someone out there in cyber space may have the answer to my lineage problems.  So here is the story…

My line begins with David Lyons.   He appears in Nova Scotia records for the first time when he purchased land from Thomas M. Beckwith near the Pereau River on 6 April 1803.   He appears in the 1790 Federal Census of Stratford, Connecticut.   According to an article in Connecticut Ancestry “Connecticut Loyalists Who Went to Canada” 1974, Volume 17, No. 2, a “Daniel Lyon” was granted land in Canning, Nova Scotia.  Is this the same man?

On 25 May 1779 in Cornwallis, Kings County, Nova Scotia David Lyons married Elizabeth Ratchford, the daughter of Thomas Ratchford and Desire Gore, other new Nova Scotia planters from New England.  I know little else about Thomas and Elizabeth. David Lyons and his family are listed in the Cornwallis Township book, which gives the names and some dates for the twelve children’s births.

My line continues through their son, Thomas Ratchford Lyons, who married twice. His first wife, and my 4^th great grandmother, was Ann Skinner.  She gave him seven children.  I only know a little about this generation from vital records in the Cornwallis Township Book and from a journal written by a son-in-law.  Their daughter, Isabella Lyons, married the Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill, who wrote extensively about his life, his family and his conversion to the Baptist faith.  There is also some information about the Lyons family in the family sketches chapters of The History of King’s County, Nova Scotia by Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, 1910 (available to read online at archive.org at this link http://archive.org/details/historykingscou00eatogoog ).

Other LYONS researchers have uncovered information about a Patrick Lyons in Nova Scotia.  This Patrick Lyons lived previously in Connecticut, where he witnessed a will.  Patrick Lyons left a will mentioning his father’s burial in County Monaghan, Ireland, and a brother Edmund in Castleblaney.  Could he be the father, brother or kinsman of David Lyons? Was the family of Irish descent?  Were they Loyalists?

My LYONS lineage:

Generation 1:  Patrick Lyons?

Generation 2: David Lyons, born about 1759 in Connecticut? Died May 1812 in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia; married on 25 May 1779 in Cornwallis to Elizabeth Ratchford, daughter of Thomas Ratchford and Desire Gore.  She was born about 1764 and died on 18 March 1845 in Nova Scotia.

Generation 3: Thomas Ratchford Lyons, born 3 March 1780 in Cornwallis, died 1859 in Sackville, Nova Scotia; married first on 30 September 1802 in Cornwallis to Ann Skinner, daughter of Charles Skinner and Sarah Osborn.  She was born 9 March 1786 in Cornwallis and died 19 October 1815 in Cornwallis.  He married second to Anne Griffin.

Generation 3: Isabella Lyons, born 28 January 1806 in Cornwallis, died April 1872 in Carleton, New Brunswick; she married on 20 April 1826 in Cornwallis to Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill, son of Asahel Bill and Mary Rand.  He was born on 19 February 1805 in Billtown, Cornwallis and died 4 August 1891 in St. Martin’s, New Brunswick.

Generation 4: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 5: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 6: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Boston Tea Party ~ 16 December 1773

The newly re-opened Boston Tea Party Museum

The Boston Tea Party took place on 16 December 1773, and was an act of violence and treason. There is no official list of participants, especially since the men who threw the tea into the harbor were committing a crime. There is a list at the Boston Tea Party Museum website that contains the names of men “documented” to have been at the event. http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/. There is a list of participants at this link, too:  https://familypedia.fandom.com/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party_participants   

In various records I've found several members of my family tree who claimed to have been at the Boston Tea Party. Who knows for sure? What do you think?

Robert Hichborn was the brother in law to my 6x great grandfather Daniel Glover (1735 – abt 1790). He had several famous military brothers in law, including General John Glover (1732 – 1797). Robert Hichborn was a sailmaker and shipbuilder who lived on Anne Street in Boston’s North End, near the site of the Boston Tea Party. He was a member of the Sons of Liberty and was also an officer in the American Revolution. In the Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings Volume 20, page 11, he was listed along with 25 men, including Paul Revere, to guard the tea (guard?). This is the same bunch accused of tossing it into the harbor.

Nathaniel Frothingham (1746 – 1825) is a 2^nd cousin seven generations removed, grandson of my 7x great aunt Hannah (Rand) Frothingham (1672 – 1760), great grandson of my ancestors Thomas Rand and Sarah Edenden. He was a Boston coachmaker or “chaisemaker”and is listed on the Tea Party Museum website, as well as on the SAR list.

Major Robert Davis (1747 – 1798) was a descendant of my ancestors John Gore and Rhoda Gardner. He was an officer in the American Revolution, and a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. He was said to have been a member of the Boston Tea Party in compiled genealogies, and was also a Freemason. He is on the museum list, and the SAR list has him as an “importer of groceries and liquors”. I wonder if he was involved with importing tea?

John Holyoke (1743 – 1807) was married to Elizabeth Treat (1747 – 1830) my 2^nd cousin 8 generations removed. He served in the American Revolution and claimed to have participated in the Boston Tea Party. “Mr. HOLYOKE never, never confirmed the tale; the whole party was pledged to secrecy” [ Holyoke, A North American Family 1637 - 1992, John Gibbs Holyoke, Gateway Press, Inc. (Baltimore, 1993)] He is not on the lists at the museum or SAR. I’m inclined to think he was telling his grandchildren a tall tale.

Serendipity! Last year I was pleased to find out that fellow genealogy blogger, Deb Ruth, had made a “cousin connection” with me when she was researching her husband’s ancestor James Starr. She was excited to find out that James was a member of the Sons of Liberty, and he had participated in the Boston Tea Party. Starr is listed on the museum website. She wrote about our cousin connection at this link: http://deb-adventuresingenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/11/surprise-connection-hello-cousin.html

There was a Josiah Snelling listed on the page of participants from the Boston Tea Party museum, but there are no details about him. My 4x great grandmother, Catherine Plummer (Jones) Dominis, had a sister, Sarah Dargue Jones (1794 – 1875) who married Enoch Howes Snelling in Boston. Enoch had three cousins named Josiah Snelling, born in 1735, 1741 and 1757. The last one would have been only 16 years old in 1773. All these Snellings lived along the waterfront in Boston, mostly in the North End, where Paul Revere lived, too. I’m pretty sure that the Josiah Snelling on the list is one of these cousins, or maybe even one I don’t have in my Snelling database.

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The list of participants from the Boston Tea Party Museum can be seen at this link:

http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/participants-in-the-boston-tea-party

A list of participants from the Old South Meetinghouse website:
https://www.osmh.org/boston-tea-party/who-dumped-the-tea 

There is also a running theme at J.L. Bell's Blog "Boston 1775" about the participants at the Boston Tea Party. He writes posts every December about the possible men who were documented to be at the event, believe it or not. You can find his blog at this link http://boston1775.blogspot.com/

From my Christmas Ornament collection

This blog post was orginally published 16 December 2011 at this link:
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/12/boston-tea-party-16-december-1773.html

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To Cite/Link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Boston Tea Party ~ 16 December 1773", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 14, 2012, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/12/boston-tea-party-16-december-1773.html: accessed [access date]). 

The Boston Tea Party ~ 16 December 1773

On my Christmas Tree, 2011

The Boston Tea Party took place on 16 December 1773, and was an act of violence and treason.  There is no official list of participants, especially since the men who threw the tea into the harbor were committing a crime.  There is a list at the Boston Tea Party Museum website that contains the names of men “documented” to have been at the event. http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/.   The “Sons of Liberty” chapter of the SAR has a list of 58 men at this link http://www.revolutionarywararchives.org/tealist.html

In various records, I’ve found several members of my family tree who claimed to have been at the Boston Tea Party.   Who knows for sure?  What do you think?

Robert Hichborn was the brother in law to my 6x great grandfather Daniel Glover (1735 – abt 1790).  He had several famous military brothers, including General John Glover (1732 – 1797).   Robert Hichborn was a sailmaker and shipbuilder who lived on Anne Street in Boston’s North End, near the site of the Boston Tea Party.  He was a member of the Sons of Liberty and was also an officer in the American Revolution.   In the Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings Volume 20, page 11, he was listed along with 25 men, including Paul Revere, to guard the tea (guard?).  This is the same bunch accused of tossing it into the harbor.   

Nathaniel Frothingham (1746 – 1825) is a 2^nd cousin seven generations removed, grandson of my 7x great aunt Hannah (Rand) Frothingham (1672 – 1760), great grandson of my ancestors Thomas Rand and Sarah Edenden.  He was a Boston coachmaker or “chaisemaker” and is listed on the Tea Party Museum website, as well as on the SAR list.

Major Robert Davis (1747 – 1798) was a descendant of my ancestors John Gore and Rhoda Gardner.  He was an officer in the American Revolution, and a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company.  He was said to have been a member of the Boston Tea Party in compiled genealogies, and was also a Freemason.  He is on the museum list, and the SAR list has him as an “importer of groceries and liquors”.  I wonder if he was involved with importing tea?

John Holyoke (1743 – 1807) was married to Elizabeth Treat (1747 – 1830) my 2^nd cousin 8 generations removed.  He served in the American Revolution and claimed to have participated in the Boston Tea Party.  “Mr. HOLYOKE never, never confirmed the tale; the whole party was pledged to secrecy” [ Holyoke, A North American Family 1637 - 1992, John Gibbs Holyoke, Gateway Press, Inc. (Baltimore, 1993)]  He is not on the lists at the museum or SAR.  I’m inclined to think he was telling his grandchildren a tall tale.

Serendipity! Last month I was pleased to find out that fellow genealogy blogger, Deb Ruth, had made a “cousin connection” with me when she was researching her husband’s ancestor James Starr.  She was excited to find out that James was a member of the Sons of Liberty, and he had participated in the Boston Tea Party.  Starr is listed on the museum website.  She wrote about our cousin connection at this link: http://deb-adventuresingenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/11/surprise-connection-hello-cousin.html

There was a Josiah Snelling listed on the page of participants from the Boston Tea Party museum, but there are no details about him.   My 4x great grandmother, Catherine Plummer (Jones) Dominis, had a sister, Sarah Dargue Jones (1794 – 1875) who married Enoch Howes Snelling in Boston.  Enoch had three cousins named Josiah Snelling, born in 1735, 1741 and 1757.  The last one would have been only 16 years old in 1773.  All these Snellings lived along the waterfront in Boston, mostly in the North End, where Paul Revere lived, too.  I’m pretty sure that the Josiah Snelling on the list is one of these cousins, or maybe even one I don’t have in my Snelling database.

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The list of participants from the Boston Tea Party Museum can be seen at this link:

http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/participants-in-the-boston-tea-party

There is also a running theme at J.L. Bell's Blog "Boston 1775" about the participants at the Boston Tea Party.  He writes posts every December about the possible men who were documented to be at the event, believe it or not.  You can find his blog at this link http://boston1775.blogspot.com/

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Copyright 2011, Heather Wilkinson Rojo