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Saturday, May 7, 2016

Surname Saturday ~ GIBBONS of Oyster River, New Hampshire

A map of Berwick, Maine
from Stackpole's Old Kittery and Her Families

GIBBONS

Ambrose Gibbons (my 11^th great grandfather) was involved with John Mason as early as 1620 as part of his plan to settle northern New England. He was an early settler in Maine, and one of the first settlers in the Piscataqua Region. In 1630 he arrived aboard the ship Warwick with Roger Knight and Thomas Spencer. Their wives arrived the next year. He was first granted land at Sanders Point (Newcastle) in 1634, and then he removed to Oyster River (Durham, New Hampshire). I have another ancestor, Alexander Gould, who lived in the Newcastle, Maine area until 1672. http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/10/surname-saturday-gould.html

According to Anderson in his Great Migration series, Ambrose Gibbons was well educated, and many letters survived that he sent back and forth to Mason in London. The “Gibbons Papers” describe to John Mason a detailed account of life in New England, and many forgeries of letters exist. You can see many of these letters in the New Hampshire Provincial and State Papers and in the Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628 – 1686.

Gibbons built the “Great House at Newichawannock”, which was a garrison on the South Berwick, Maine side of the Piscataqua River. He was succeeded as steward of the region by Humphrey Chadbourne. The settlement did not flourish, and demands from London for goods and trade items were not met with success. Ambrose Gibbons’ will bequeathed his entire estate to his grandson Samuel Sherburne (my 9^th great grandfather), with 21 pounds each to his other grandchildren Elizabeth, Mary, Henry, John, Ambrose, Sarah and Rebeckah.

His only child, Elizabeth Gibbons (1620 – 1667) married Henry Sherbourne as his first wife.

GIBBONS resources:

Ancestry of Joseph Waterhouse 1754 – 1837 of Standish Maine, by Walter Goodwin Davis, 1949 (available to read online at www.archive.org)

The Great Migration Begins, Robert Charles Anderson, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), Volume II, pages 745 – 749.

My GIBBONS genealogy:

Generation 1: Ambrose Gibbons, born about 1590 in England, died between 11 July 1656 (date of will) and 9 May 1657 (date of probate) in Oyster River, New Hampshire; married to Rebecca Unknown by about 1617 in England. She died 14 May 1655 in New Hampshire. One child.

Generation 2: Rebecca Gibbons, born about 1620 in England, died 3 June 1667 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; married 13 November 1637 to Henry Sherborne as his first wife. He was the son of Joseph Sherborne and Amy Cowelln, baptized on 28 March 1611 in Oldham, Hampshire, England, and died before 7 December 1680 probably on the Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire. Eleven children.

Generation 3: Samuel Sherburne, born a twin on 4 August 1638 in Portsmouth, died 4 August 1691 in Casco Bay, Maine; married on 15 December 1668 in Haverhill, Massachusetts to Love Hutchings, daughter of John Hutchins and Frances Unknown. She was born 16 July 1647 in Newbury, Massachusetts and died February 1739 in Kingston, New Hampshire. Ten children.

Generation 4: Elizabeth Sherburne m. Jonathan Sanborn

Generation 5: Margaret Sanborn m. Moses Sleeper

Generation 6: Hepzibah Sleeper m. Samuel Lane

Generation 7: Sarah Lane m. Elisha Batchelder

Generation 8: Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

Generation 9: George E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke

Generation 10: George E. Batchelder m. Mary Katharine Emerson

Generation 11: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ GIBBONS of Oyster River, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted May 7, 2016, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/05/surname-saturday-gibbons-of-oyster.html: accessed [access date]).

Saturday, December 26, 2015

Surname Saturday ~ HUTCHINGS of Haverhill, Massachusetts

HUTCHINGS

John Hutchings was a carpenter of unknown origin who lived in Essex County, Massachusetts. He may be the “John Hutchinson”, a carpenter and passenger on the ship Bevis which carried many Newbury settlers to Boston in 1638, but there is no proof. In 1659 – 60 John Hutchins built a meeting house in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where an Enoch Hutchins also lived. Enoch removed to Kittery, Maine where there were two other settlers named David Hutchins and Thomas Hutchins. There is no proof of kinship with these other local HUTCHINS settlers, but worth exploring!

John Hutchins gave his age as about 65 in a deposition in 1669. John lived first in Newbury where his son Joseph’s birth is recorded. He was one of the original 91 grantees of Newbury. He signed his will “I. H.” in 1674, so he was probably not literate. His will mentions his children by name.

John’s wife was Frances, another person of unknown origin. We don’t know her maiden name. [See the article below by Janet Ireland Delorey which proves she was not Frances Alcock] She appears in a 1653 record for being fined for wearing a silk hood and scarf “above the ordinary rank”. In 17^th century New England, according to the Sumptuary Laws Against Excess of 1651, it was forbidden to wear “intolerable excess and bravery in dress” above your social station in life.

For more information on HUTCHINGS:

The Essex Genealogist, “A Second Look at the Identity of Frances, Wife of John Hutchins of Newbury and Haverhill, Massachusetts”, by Janet Ireland Delorey, Volume 21, pages 46 – 49 and, The Essex Genealogist, “A Look at John Hutchins of Newbury and Haverhill” by David Kendall Martin, volume 27, pages 71 – 78.

A Historical Sketch of Haverhill, In the County of Essex, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by Leverett Saltonstall, 1816, see page 135.

Descendants of John Hutchings of Newbury and Haverhill, Massachusetts, by Edwin Colby Byam, 1975.

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My HUTCHINS genealogy:

Generation 1: John Hutchins, born about 1604 in England, died 6 February 1686 in Haverhill, Massachusetts; married to Frances Unknown who died 5 April 1694 in Haverhill. Six children.

Generation 2: Love Hutchings, born 16 July 1647 in Newbury, died February 1739 in Kingston, New Hampshire; married on 15 December 1668 to Samuel Sherborne, son of Henry Sherborne and Elizabeth Unknown. He was born 4 August 1638 in Portsmouth and died 4 August 1691 in Casco Bay, Maine. Ten children.

Generation 3: Elizabeth Sherburne m. Jonathan Sanborn

Generation 4: Margaret Sanborn m. Moses Sleeper

Generation 5: Hepzibah Sleeper m. Samuel Lane

Generation 6: Sarah Lane m. Elisha Batchelder

Generation 7: Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

Generation 8: George E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke

Generation 9: George E. Batchelder m. Mary Katharine Emerson

Generation 10: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ HUTCHINGS of Haverhill, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 26, 2015, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/12/surname-saturday-hutchings-of-haverhill.html: accessed [access date]).

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Surname Saturday ~ SHERBORNE of Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Piscataqua 1667

Revised 20 September 2018

SHERBORNE / SHERBORN / SHERBURN / SHERBURNE

~~My 10^th great grandfather,~~ Henry Sherborne, was baptized in Odiham, Hampshire, England as the son of Joseph Sherburne. Henry came to New England aboard the James in 1632. He was a ferryman and tavern keeper in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was listed as a church warden at Strawberry Bank and he served as the clerk of the county court, and held many other offices in Portsmouth, including selectman. His brother John was in New England by about 1642.

On 13 November 1637 he married Rebecca Gibbons, the daughter of Ambrose Gibbons, and had eleven children. He married second to Sarah, the widow of Walter Abbott (my 8^th great grandparents). In 1668 Henry was in court for beating his wife, Rebecca, and she was also fined for “beating her husband & breaking his head”.

There is no known death date for Henry Sherborne, but on 7 December 1680 when he failed to appear in court his daughter Mary said “[m]y father Henry Sherborned died about the year ’80 or ’83. His death we was not sensible of”. In 1671 he was in court with his new wife, Sarah, for “disorderly living and fighting”. There are many lawsuits and fines in the court records for Henry Sherborne for fighting and lawsuits against his neighbors for numerous complaints.

In the New Hampshire Provincial Papers is a document which names Henry’s son, Samuel, my 9^th great grandfather, who was granted a parcel of land for “taking into custody & Christian keeping of the said Henry Sherburne’s daughter Rebecca Sherburne (who is both dumb & wanting of understanding)”. Samuel was with the military sent to Maine during King Philip’s War in 1691. He was “killed by the heathen” at Casco Bay. His last child was born after his death.

Henry’s daughter, and twin to Samuel, Elizabeth, married Tobias Lear, ancestor of the Tobias Lear (1762 – 1816) who was secretary to George Washington. Tobias Lear's third wife was a Dandridge, a relative of Martha Washington. He died in George Washington's house in Philadelphia.

Some SHERBORNE resources:

The Great Migration Begins, Volume III, pages 1666 - 1669

Provincial Papers: Documents and Records Relating to the Province of New Hampshire, Volume 1 (1623 – 1686), compiled by Nathaniel Bouton, 1867

Portsmouth Records: A transcript of the first thirty five pages of the Earliest Town Book of Portsmouth, New Hampshire with notes, by Frank W. Hackett, 1886

Rambles about Portsmouth: Sketches of persons, localities and incidents of two centuries, by Charles W. Brewster, pages 51 – 52 “Sherburne Family” [available online at http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/AFJ7267.0002.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext]

"Captain Samuel Sherburne of Hampton", Seacoastonline, by Cheryl Lassiter, posted December 14, 2015, http://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20151214/NEWS/151219581/0/SEARCH

My SHERBORNE genealogy:

Generation 1: Henry Sherborne, son of Joseph Sherborne and Amy Cowlln, baptized 28 March 1611 in Odiham, Hampshire, England, died before 7 December 1680; married first on 13 November 1637 to Rebecca Gibbons, daughter of Ambrose Gibbons and Rebecca Unknown. She was born about 1620 in England and died 3 June 1667 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Eleven children. He married second before December 1670 to Sarah, widow of Walter Abbott.

Generation 2: Samuel Sherburne, born 4 August 1638 at Little Harbor (now Rye, New Hampshire), died 4 August 1691 in Casco Bay, Maine; married on 11 December 1668 in Haverhill, Massachusetts to Love Hutchings, daughter of John Hutchins and Frances Alcock. Three children.

Generation 3: Elizabeth Sherburne, born 5 February 1672 in Portsmouth; died 25 April 1755 in Kingston, New Hampshire; married 4 February 1692 in Hampton, New Hampshire to Jonathan Sanborn, son of John Sanborn and Margaret Page. He was born 25 May 1672 in Hampton, died 20 June 1741 in Kingston. Twelve children.