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]).

Weathervane Wednesday ~ An Ancestral Church Found by Accident

I post another in a series of weather vane photographs every Wednesday.  This started with images of weathervanes from the Londonderry, New Hampshire area, but now I've found interesting weather vanes all across New England and across the globe.  Sometimes my weather vanes are whimsical, or historical, but all are interesting.  Often my readers tip me off to some very unique or unusual weathervanes, too!  If you know a great weather vane near you, let me know if you'd like to have it featured on this blog.

Today's weather vane was photographed in England.

Do you know the location of weathervane post #332?  Scroll down to find the answer.

This gilded weathercock is on top of the steeple of St. Martin's church in Dorking, Surrey, England.  We photographed it while stopping in Dorking with the Mayflower Historic Sites Tour a few weeks ago, to see the home of William Mullins, a Mayflower passenger.  I remembered that I had several ancestors who lived and were married in Dorking at St. Martin's, and we saw the church near the Mullins home.

The weathercock is an ancient Christian symbol, and can be seen on many churches in Europe, and in early colonial era churches in the United States. This church dates from the 1100s, and replaced an older building. The 210 foot spire was added in the 1870s, so the weathercock may not be as old as the rest of the building.  In the photograph we noticed a ladder up to the weathervane, so it might be undergoing repairs or gilding this year. It is a three dimensional weathercock, with spread wings. 

My 9th great grandparents, Roger Bassett and Ann Holland were married here at St. Martin's church in Dorking on 27 April 1623.  My 8th great grandfather, William Bassett was baptized here on 30 May 1624, and he came to the New World at age 11 in 1635, with his mother and stepfather, Hugh Burt, who settled in Lynn, Massachusetts.  

Click here for my BASSETT surname blog post:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/05/surname-saturday-bassett-of-lynn.html  


The St. Martin's, Dorking website:
http://www.stmartinsdorking.org/welcome-to-our-church/index.html  

Click here to see the entire collection of Weathervane Wednesday posts!  

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Weathervane Wednesday ~  An Ancestral Church Found by Accident", Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 29, 2017, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/11/weathervane-wednesday-ancestral-church_29.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 ~ Gardner of Boston? A Brickwall Ancestor

GARDNER, GARDINER, GARDENER

The location of the ropewalks in Boston on an 1814 map
This would be where the Public Garden is located now,
but at that time it was waterfront property, near wharves
on the Charles River (before Back Bay was filled in).
Photographed at the West End Museum in Boston, Massachusetts

I have two Gardner lineages, and they might be connected.  I don’t know because one is a brick wall I have been working on for about twenty five years.  If anyone knows a connection or any information, please leave a comment or email vrojomit@gmail.com  

My first GARDNER ancestor was Thomas Gardner, my 9th great grandfather.  He was an "Old Planter" with the Dorchester Company on Cape Ann in the early 1620s, and his family arrived in Massachusetts aboard the ship Zouch Phenix in 1624.  His first wife, Margaret, joined the church in Salem in 1639.  His second wife, Damaris, joined the church in 1641 as Shattuck, so the marriage to Gardner must be after that date. Two of her Shattuck children married two of Thomas Gardner’s children.  Damaris and Samuel Shattuck are my 10thgreat grandparents in another lineage.   

  

However, I don’t know if my second GARDNER lineage is from Thomas Gardner.  I have two GARDNER sisters who both married my 5^th great grandfather, Abijah Hitchings (1753 – 1826), a resident of Lynn, Massachusetts.  His first wife was Mary Gardner who married him on 24 June 1775 in Lynn, Massachusetts.  Mary and Abijah had five children together including Abijah, Jr. (1776 – 1868), my 4^th great grandfather. 

Mary must have died before 1792 when Abijah remarried to Sarah Gardner and their only child, Cynthia, was born on 7 October 1792 .  I had no birth record for either sister, Mary or Sarah Gardner.  Sarah’s death record in Lynn states that she was “dau. Of B. Gardner of Boston, ropemaker, wife of Abijah Hitchins, of paralysis of the brain”.   This was a huge clue.  I found that there was a ropemaker, Benjamin Gardner, who removed from Boston to Salem to run a big ropeworks.   The Salem vital records record the death of Benjamin Gardner “[ropemaker, NR 9], [m, of Boston, dropsy, CR 4], June 7, 1797, a. 77 y.”

There is a valuable resource for Salem genealogy besides the vital records.  It is The Diary of William Bentley, D. D.: Pastor of the East Church, Salem, Massachusetts, by William Bentley, edited by Joseph Gilbert Waters, Marguerite Dalrymple, and Alice G. Waters, published by the Essex Institute in four volumes.  Volume 1 covers 1784 – 1792, Volume 2 covers 1793 – 1802, Volume 3 covers 1803 – 1810 and Volume 4 covers 1811 – 1819.  There is also an index at the end of volume 4, and a separate subject index.  He was the minister of the Second Congregational Church, known as the East Church from 1783 until his death in 1819.  He also published a weekly column in the Salem Gazette. His original diary fills 32 volumes.  He is buried in Harmony Grove cemetery near the Hitchings family.

There is also a book Record of the parish List of Deaths, 1785 – 1819 by William Bentley, edited by Ira J. Patch.  This book had the entry “June 7 1797, Benjamin Gardner, Dropsey aet 77., 1st marriage forty years, 2nd marriage 5 years, a son and daughter Hitchins survive by first wife, He was of Boston, married 1751, Lived and married in Marblehead 2nd time, there two years. Thence to Salem, here twenty years, See Day Book”.   The day book refers to his diary which had an entry “June 7 1797, Died this morning suddenly, Mr. Benjamin Gardner, Ropemaker.  He had within a week moved in with his daughter Hitchins, feeling infirmities which took him in his labours.  He was born in Boston. At the commencement of the war he removed to Marblehead where he married his second wife and thence removed to Salem. This second wife died 6 apr 1787 and since this time he has lived with the widow Hawkes. He lived upon terms of intimate friendship with Mr. Josiah Gaines who died 18 May 1796. He was industrious to the close of his life and had never known sickness. He was in his 77th year. He was a most worthy, consistent and industrious man.  I loved him and visited him often. He was married in 1751. His wife died in Salem in 1781. He married again on Nov., 1782 in Salem.”

This is how I found out that my 6^th great grandfather, Benjamin Gardner, was a rope-maker, was married twice, and had died on 7 June 1797 in Salem.  I was able to find a marriage in Boston on 1 December 1751 at the West Church [Boston Marriages 1700 – 1809] of Benjamin Gardner to Sarah Kendall/Randall (seen with both spellings depending on the transcription). 

However, beyond this, I am stumped.  There are no records of a Benjamin Gardner’s birth in Boston, or elsewhere in Massachusetts,  born about 1720.  I don’t know if he is from the “Muddy River” (now Brookline) Gardners of Boston, or if he is a descendant of Thomas Gardner mentioned above, or from another Gardner family.  My only hint is that in Volume 1 of the Bentley diary, on page 176 there is this entry “27 sep 1789-  Benja. Gardiner and children, death of a brother at Boston” (meaning he made a pastoral visit to Benjamin Gardner and children upon the occasion of the death of his brother in Boston).   I was able to find the death record of Thomas Gardner in a record and an obituary in Boston “Thomas Gardner died 22 Sep 1789 in Boston, ropemaker, 67 years old”. 

Independent Chronicle. Weekly & Semi-Weekly; 19 Sept. 1776 - 1 Mar. 1820.

09-24-1789, Volume: XXI; Issue: 1091, page 3:  "Died last Tuesday night, Mr. Thomas Gardner, ropemaker.  His funeral will be tomorrow at 4 o'clock from his dwelling house in West Boston, which his friends and acquaintances are desired to attend, without further invitation."

Who are the parents of Benjamin and Thomas Gardner, the brother ropemakers of Boston?  I visited the West End Museum in Boston a few years ago when they had a big exhibit on the rope-makers of the age of sail in Boston.  We found the Gardner rope-works on the map (located on the waterfront marsh that is now the Public Garden), but no clues to the identity of the Gardner family who operated this business.  It is amazing to me that I have found so much personal and business information on the Gardner rope-maker brothers in Boston and Salem, but not their birth records or parentage!

This is another map on display at the West End Museum in Boston.
It shows the ropewalk on the Charles River, now the Back Bay neighborhood

A model of a ropewalk at the West End Museum in Boston, Massachusetts
This long building is where the ropes were twisted in long lengths inside, away from weather
There is a surviving ropewalk building at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut

For more information on GARDNER family:

Thomas Gardner Society, Inc. http://thomasgardnersociety.org   (also on Facebook)

Gardner Memorial: A biographical and genealogical record of the descendants of Thomas Gardner, planter, Cape Ann, 1624, Salem (Naumkeag), 1626 – 1674, through his son Lieut. George Gardner, compiled by Frank Augustine Gardner, Salem, Mass, 1933.  Available online at the Hathi Trust Digital Library website:

 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015002304239;view=1up;seq=1

See my previous Surname Saturday post on Thomas Gardner at this link:  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/01/surname-saturday-gardner-of-salem.html

A brief biography of William Bentley at Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bentley

The Diary of William Bentley, DD at the Hathi Trust website (links to all four volumes)

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008651372

My 2012 blog post about my visit to the West End Museum in Boston for their special exhibit on the ropewalks of Boston:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-west-end-museum-of-boston.html

My GARDNER genealogy:  

Generation 1:  Unknown Gardner, had two sons A.) Benjamin born 1720 possibly in Boston, and B.) Thomas Gardner born about 1722, died 22 September 1789 in Boston.  Both sons were rope-makers.

Generation 2:  Benjamin Gardner, born about 1720 and died 7 June 1797 in Salem; married first on 10 October 1751 at the West Church in Boston to Sarah Randall, daughter of Stephen Randall and Sarah Cannon.  She was the mother of three children.  Sarah Randall was born 16 October 1729 in Boston and died 1781 in Salem.  He married second on 2 November 1782 in Salem to Mary Briers, widow of Michael Ferguson and John Bassett.  She was the daughter of Elias Briars and Mary Pitman, baptized 29 December 1728 in Marblehead, and died 6 April 1787 in Salem.

Generation 3:  Mary Gardner, born in Boston, died before 1792; married on 24 June 1775 in Lynn, Massachusetts to Abijah Hitchings, son of Daniel Hitchings and Hannah Ingalls.  He was born 18 January 1753 in Lynn and died 27 March 1826 in Salem. Four children.  Mary's sister, Sarah Gardner, was Abijah's second wife. 

Generation 4: Abijah Hitchings, Jr. m. Mary Cloutman

Generation 5: Abijah Hitchings III m. Eliza Ann Treadwell

Generation 6: Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 7: Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

Generation 8: Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ Gardner of Boston?  A Brickwall Ancestor", Nutfield Genealogy, posted March 4, 2017, (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/03/surname-saturday-gardner-of-boston.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ HARKER of Lynn, Massachusetts and Southampton, New York

Not much is known about William Harker of Lynn, Massachusetts, my 9^th great grandfather.  It is interesting to note that although he had an unusual surname, there was another Harker family nearby in Boston.  An Anthony Harker arrived in Boston in 1633 on board The Griffin, and was employed by Thomas Leverett, one of the Puritan church elders under Rev. John Cotton. I don’t know if these two Harker families were kin.

We know that William Harker was a young man living in Lynn before about 1640.  In 1640 a group of men from Lynn formed a plantation on Long Island, New York and signed an agreement with the Shinnecock Indians.  By 1643 there were 43 families living there, and Southampton became the first English colony in New York state.  The “Indian Deed of December 13, 1640 was signed by thirteen men from Lynn: John Gosmer, Edward Howell, Danial How, Edward Needham, Thomas Halsey, John Cooper, Thomas Sayre, Edward Harington, Job Sayre, George Welbe, Allen Bread, William Harker, and Henry Walton; and also signed by nine Indians: Pomatuck, Mandusk, Mocomanto, Pathemanto, Wylennett, Wainmenowog, Heden, Watemexoted, and Chchepuchat.  Later, in Southampton, William Harker deposed that he was 24 years old and from “Gincenshire” (Lincolnshire?). 

But William Harker didn’t stay in Long Island.  He came back to Lynn, where he married a woman named Elizabeth and had at least one child, named Sarah.  According to the Salem Quarterly Court Records on 26: 4: 1650 (Old Style) William Harker was freed from militia training due to “bodily infirmity”.   He died about 1661 in Lynn, and his will bequeathed his estate to Robert and Sarah Ingalls, my 8^th great grandparents.

Robert Ingalls (about 1621 – 1698) was a farmer in Lynn, the son of immigrants Edmund Ingalls and Ann Tripp.  He made a deed 1 January 1685/6 that gave his estate to his sons, including the farms and lands inherited from his father-in-law William Harker.  His deed stated “freely granted to my 3 sons, to be possessed and enjoyed in equal parts and shares between them in Lynn or elsewhere: viz:  my dwelling house and out houses with all my lands given to me by my father-in-law William Harker, which was for that good end that it should be continued unto my children…”  One of those sons, Nathaniel Ingalls (about 1660 – 1736), was my 8^th great grandfather. 

Some HARKER resources:

Sketches from Local History, by William Donaldson Halsey, 1935 (history of Long Island, see page 9 for mention of William Harker)

The Early History of Southampton, L.I., New York with Genealogies, by George Rogers Howell, 1887 (see pages 18, 428, 450)

The Ingalls Genealogy, by Dr. Charles Burleigh, 1903

The Essex Genealogist, "Edmund Ingalls and his Descendants of Lynn (Part One)" by Marcia W. Lindbert, C. G., Volume 19, pages 43- 48.

My HARKER genealogy:

Generation 1: William Harker, died 1661 in Lynn, Massachusetts; married Elizabeth Unknown.  One known child.

Generation 2:  Sarah Harker, born about 1625, died 8 April 1696; married about 1646 to Robert Ingalls.  He was born about 1621 in Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, England and died 3 Janary 1698 in Lynn.  Eight children.

Generation 3:  Nathaniel Ingalls, born about 1660 in Lynn, died about 1736; married Anne Collins. Ten children.

Generation 4:  Hannah Ingalls, born about 1708, died before 15 April 1798; married on 30 March 1735 in Lynn to Daniel Hitchings, son of Daniel Hitchings and Susannah Townsend.  He was born 19 October 1709 in Lynn and died 25 April 1760 in Lynn.  Twelve children.

Generation 5:  Abijah Hitchings, born 18 January 1753 in Lynn, died 27 March 1826 in Salem, Massachusetts; married first on 24 June 1775 in Lynn to Mary Gardner, mother of four children.  She was the daughter of Benjamin Gardner and Sarah Randall.  He married second to Sarah Gardner (probably her sister) before 1792, mother of two more children.

Generation 6:  Abijah Hitchings, son of Abijah Hitchings and Mary Gardner, born about 1775 in Lynn, died 26 July 1868 in Salem; married on 21 December 1795 in Salem to Mary Cloutman, daughter of Joseph Cloutman and Hannah Becket.  She was born about 1775 in Salem and died 28 November 1853 in Salem.  Eleven children.

Generation 7:  Abijah Hitchings, born 18 January 1809 in Salem, died 18 January 1864 in Salem; married on 4 December 1836 to Eliza Ann Treadwell, daughter of Jabez Treadwell and Betsey Jillings Homan.  She was born 27 August 1812 in Salem, and died 31 January 1896 in Salem.  Four children.

Generation 8: 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 Captain Thomas Russell Lewis and Hannah Phelps.  She was born about 1844 probably in Salem, and died 15 February 1921 at the Danvers State Hospital, Danvers, Massachusetts.  Two children.

Generation 9:  Arthur Treadwell Hitchings, born 10 May 1868 in Salem, died 7 March 1937 in Hamilton, Massachusetts; married on 25 December 1890 in Beverly 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.  Eight children.

Generation 10:  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 ~ HARKER of Lynn, Massachusetts and Southampton, New York", Nutfield Genealogy, posted February 25, 2017, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/02/surname-saturday-harker-of-lynn.html: accessed [access date]).

Surname Saturday ~ BATCHELDER of Hampton, New Hampshire

BATCHELDER / BACHILER / BACHELLOR / BATCHELLER

The memorial at Founder's Park, Hampton, New Hampshire

A LITTLE BAND OF PIONEERS

UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF

REV. STEPHEN BACHILER

OF SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND

SEEKING A LARGER LIBERTY

IN OCTOBER 1638

SETTLED IN THE WILDERNESS

NEAR THIS SPOT

TO PLANT A FREE CHURCH

IN A FREE TOWN

THEY WERE JOINED IN 1639 BY OTHERS

AND IN THAT YEAR

THE TOWN WAS INCORPORATED

TO DO HONOR TO 

THE FOUNDERS AND FATHERS OF HAMPTON

TO EXALT THE IDEALS

FOR WHICH THEY TROVE

AND AS AN INSPIRATION TO POSTERITY

THIS MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED

OCTOBER 14, 1935

UPDATE - 10 September 2018 - see the 3 part series that updates this lineage.  Part 1 is at this link:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/09/batchelder-family-do-over-part-1.html 

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Stephen Bachiler, my 11^th great grandfather,  graduated from St. John’s College in Oxford, England in 1585 and became the vicar of the Church of the Holy Cross and St. Peter in Wherwell, Hampshire, England.  He was a “non-conformist” and was dismissed from his church.  In 1608 he went to Leyden, Holland with the separatists.  He came to New England on 5 June 1632 on board the ship William and Francis.  He was over 70 years old at the time, and traveled with some of his grandchildren.   Of his own children, only two daughters, Theodate Hussey and Deborah Wing, later came to New England.

First he went to Lynn, where he was the first minister, from August 1632 until 1636.  Then he was in Yarmouth, on Cape Cod, in 1637 and Newbury in 1638.  From 1638 until 1641 he lived at Hampton, New Hampshire where he founded another church.  He separated from his wife, Mary, and asked the court for a divorce, and then, about age 93, he left for England.  The court records in York show her being branded with the letter A on 15 October 1651, for adultery.  The Reverend Bachiler died nearly 100 years old in London and was buried on 31 October 1656.

Another one of my 9^th great grandfathers, Rev. Samuel Skelton (1623 – 1695), the first minister at Salem, Massachusetts, said of Rev. Bachiler “Little has come down to us concerning him,  owing, it is said, to the fact that he differed about clerical associations and other subjects from most of the principal persons in Massachusetts."   He was a follower of the “Old Puritan” religion, and the new 17^th century form of Puritanism in the New World was different from the Jacobean form.  Perhaps this is why he wandered around New England and settled in New Hampshire, away from the Puritan authorities.

There are many other stories and interesting associations between the Rev. Stephen Bachiler and other early settlers and ministers in New England. There are too many stories to tell them all here in a short blog post. Please see some of the sources listed below if you would like more information on his life.

More BATCHELDER resources:

Great Migration Begins, by Robert Charles Anderson, Volume 1, pages 61 – 69.

Batchelder, Batcheller Genealogy, by Frederick Pierce, 1898. Also online at Archive.org

Descendants of Rev. Stephen Bachiler, Founder, Hampton, Rockingham Co., NH Facebook group:

https://www.facebook.com/DESCENDANTS-OF-REV-STEPHEN-BACHILER-FOUNDER-HAMPTON-ROCKINGHAM-CO-NH-364188593479/timeline/

The Lane Memorial Library in Hampton, New Hampshire has a webpage for Rev. Stephen Bachiler and it contains many useful links to biographies, journal articles and other research: http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/biog/bachilertoc.htm

There is a discussion group for descendants of Rev. Stephen Batchelder at Genealogy Wise:  http://www.genealogywise.com/group/batchelderfamily

Some Notable Descendants of Reverend Stephen Batchelder from Wikipedia

Leon Leonwood Bean (L. L. Bean)

Lady Randolph Churchill

Sir Winston Churchill

James Dean

Major General Henry Dearborn

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Thomas Stearns Eliot (T.S. Eliot)

Gerald Ford

Louis L'Amour

President Richard Nixon

Daniel Webster

John Greenleaf Whittier

Nathaniel Hawthorne (now you know how he got the idea for "The Scarlett Letter") 

My BATCHELDER genealogy:

Generation 1:  Rev. Stephen Batchelder, born 1560 in Wherwell, Hampshire, England, died about 31 October 1656 in London, England; married first to Ann Bate, about 1586 in Wherwell, (mother of 10 children and I descend from two of them); married second to Christian Weare on 2 March 1624 in Abbotts Ann, Hampshire, England; married third to Helena Unknown, widow of the Rev. Thomas Mason on 26 March 1627 in Abbotts Ann;  married fourth to Mary Unknown, widow of Robert Beedle,  in 1648 in Beedle Wherwell, Hampshire, England. 

Lineage A:

Generation 2: Nathaniel Batchelder, born about 1590, died 1630 in the Netherlands; married to Hester Mercer, born about 1602 in Ypres, Belgium, died before 1631 in the Netherlands, mother of five children.  She was the daughter of Jan LeMercier and Jeanne LeClerc of Normandy, France.

Generation 3: Nathaniel Batchelder, born about 1630 in England, died 1710 in Hampton, New Hampshire; married on 10 December 1596 to Deborah Smith, daughter of John Smith and Deborah Parkhurst.  She was born before 1645 at Edgartown, Massachusetts on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, and died 8 March 1676 in Hampton, New Hampshire.  Nine children, and I descend from two of them.  He married second to Margery.  He did not come to New England, but some of his children did settle there.

Lineage A1:

Generation 4: Nathaniel Batchelder, born 24 December 1659 in Hampton, died about 1745 in Hampton Falls; married in 1685 in Hampton to Elizabeth Foss, daughter of John Foss and Mary Berry.  She was born in 1666 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and died in 1746. Nine children.

Generation 5:  Josiah Batchelder, born 1 July 1695 in Hampton, died 9 October 1759 in Hampton Falls; married on 31 January 1723 to Sarah Page, daughter of Francis Page and Hannah Nudd.  She was born 18 October 1698 and died in May 1781.  Six children.

Generation 6: David Batchelder, born 13 January 1736 in Hampton Falls, died 11 March 1811 in Hampton Falls; married on 24 July 1760 in Hampton Falls to Elizabeth Swett, daughter of Benjamin Swett and Elizabeth Norton.  She was born 1742 in Hampton Falls, and died 12 August 1769.  Five children.  David married second to Mary Emery on 1 January 1771 in Newbury, Massachusetts and had eight more children.

Generation 7:  Elisha Batchelder, son of David Batchelder and Elizabeth Swett, born 10 June 1763 in Hampton Falls, died 11 October 1813 in Pittsfield, New Hampshire; married Sarah Lane, daughter of Samuel Lane and Hepzibah Sleeper.  She was born 24 March 1769 in Hampton Falls, died 27 Feb 1819 in Pittsfield.  Four children.  Three children. 


NOTE 10 September 2018 -  The generations below do not descend from Elisha Batchelder.  Jonathan Batchelder, my 4th great grandfather, is the son of Nathaniel Batchelder (1732 - 1778) and his wife Mary Longfellow (1735 - 1814). 

Generation 8:  Jonathan Batchelder, born about 1800 in Hampton, died before 4 November 1847 at the Concord State Asylum, Concord, New Hampshire; married on 11 February 1822 in Belmont, New Hampshire to Nancy Thompson.  She was born about 1804 in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, and died after 1847 in Warner, New Hampshire.  Two children.

Generation 9:  George E. Batchelder, born 13 August 1822 in Chichester, New Hampshire, died 3 April 1848 in Chichester; married on 7 September 1845 in South Boston, Massachusetts to Abigail M. Locke, daughter of Richard Locke and Margaret Welch.  She was born 10 September 1825 in South Boston, and died 15 January 1888 in Chichester.  Two children.

Generation 10:  George E. Batchelder, born 8 October 1848 in Chichester, died 28 July 1914 in Cambridge; married on 28 October 1869 in Chichester to Mary Katharine Emerson, daughter of George Emerson and Mary Esther Younger.  She was born 25 December 1847 in South Boston, and died 23 April 1932 in Roxbury, Massachusetts.  Nine children.

Generation 11:  Carrie Maude Batchelder, born 22 September 1872 in Chichester, died 21 January 1963 at the Sea View Convalescent and Nursing Home, Rowley, Massachusetts; married on 1 November 1892 in Essex, Massachusetts to Joseph Elmer Allen, son of Joseph Gilman Allen and Sarah Burnham Mears.  He was born on 24 September 1870 in Essex and died 12 March 1932 at the Masonic Home in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.  Five children.

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

Lineage A2:

Generation 4: Abigail Batchelder, born 28 December 1667 in Hampton, died 14 November, 1736 in North Hampton; married on 4 November 1689 in Hampton to John Dearborn, son of Henry Dearborn and Elizabeth Marrian.  He was born 10 October 1666 in Hampton, died 22 November 1750 in Hampton. Eight children.

Generation 5:  Elizabeth Dearborn m. John Garland

Generation 6:  Elizabeth Garland m. Richard Locke

Generation 7: Simon Locke m. Abigail Mace

Generation 8: Richard Locke m. Margaret Welch

Generation 9: Abigail M. Locke m. George E. Batchelder (see above)

Lineage B:

Generation 2: Ann Batchelder, born 1601 in Wherwell; married John Sanborn about 1619 in Southampton, Hampshire, England. Three children.  She married second on 20 January 1632/3 in Strood, Kent, England to Henry Atkinson.

Generation 3:  John Sanborn m. Margaret Page

Generation 4: Jonathan Sanborn m. Elizabeth Sherburne

Generation 5: Margaret Sanborn m. Moses Sleeper

Generation 6: Hepzibah Sleeper  m. Samuel Lane

Generation 7: Sarah Lane m. Elisha Batchelder (see above)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ BATCHELDER of Hampton, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 17, 2015, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/10/surname-saturday-batchelder-of-hampton.html:  accessed [access date]).

The Double Amputee Mystery

Researching this tombstone opened up a whole new can of worms for me…

JAMES TYLER HITCHINGS

Born in Lynn

Oct. 20 1795

Died

Oct. 29, 1863

Whilst wandering the Central Cemetery in Beverly for my HITCHINGS ancestors, I found this tombstone.  My maternal grandmother was Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (1905 - 2001), a descendant of Daniel Hitchings (1632 - 1731) an early settler at Lynn, Massachusetts.  I wasn’t looking for James Tyler Hitchings, but I thought I had found a relative when I took this photograph.  The name HITCHINGS is relatively rare, and most of the Essex County HITCHINGS are all descendants of the same family founded by Daniel Hitchings of Lynn.

After searching my family tree, I found many James Tyler Hitchings.  Which one was this James buried in Beverly?  I found several generations of James Tyler Hitchings, but none matched the dates on this tombstone, although the others were very close to the same time period.  What was going on?  Was my family tree research wrong?  Was the tombstone wrong?

It turned out that when I searched the vital records, there was another James Tyler Hitchings born in Lynn who matched this tombstone exactly.  He was the son of Thomas Hitchings (1762 – 1871) and Ruth Burchstead of Lynn, and the grandson of Ezra Hitchings born about 1740 in England.  Ezra was not a descendant of the early colonial settler Daniel Hitchings at all!

Through Google I found a reference to an article in The Essex Genealogist, Volume 15 [1994], page 102, which had this statement “…Ezra Hitchings (Hitchins), b. in England abt. 1740; d. at Lynn bef. 5 Jan 1830.  he arrived late at Lynn and there is no known connection to Daniel and Joseph Hitchings of Lynn (Marcia Wiswall Lindberg, "Hitchings... an Unconnected Family", TEG, 12 [1992]; 108.” 

Or course I went directly to the New England Historic Genealogical Society website to pull up the second TEG article.  This one listed the children of Ezra Hitchings, including the first child, Thomas:  “i. Thomas2, b. 15 Nov 1762, d. at Saugus, age 77 (Amer. Anc, 5:82), m. at Lynn 10 Jan 1787, Ruth Burchstead, bpt. at Lynn, 26 July 1767; d. at Saugus, "of Lynn, wid. Thomas, 1 Nov. 1843, a. 76 y"  (Sau. VR), dau. of Dr. [Henry] & Elizabeth (Newhall) Burchstead.  Children b. at Lynn 1. Thomas, b. 14 Apr 1787.  2. Benjamin Burchstead, b. 8 Jan. 1789; m. at Lynn, 5 Jan 1812, Jane Ballard. 3. Ruth, b. 24 Sept. 1790. 4. Ezra, b. 9 Apr 1793 5. James Tyler, b. 20 Oct 1795.  6. Tura, b. 9 Oct 1797. 7. Mira b. 2 Dec 1799. 8. George, b. 14 Jan 1802 9. Rozzel, b. 2 Dec 1803”.  Here was the James Tyler from the tombstone. 

However…

If there is no known relationship or kinship between the family of Ezra Hitchings and Daniel Hitchings, why did they both live in Lynn, Massachusetts?  Ezra Hitchings of England could have settled anywhere in the New World- why did he chose to live in Lynn with the only other know family in Massachusetts named HITCHINGS?  Why did both families have so many descendants named “James Tyler Hitchings”?   

Also, neither one of the TEG articles nor the American Ancestors journal articles mentioned this little tidbit I found while I was Googling for information on Ezra Hitchings- from The Acts and Resolves, Public and Private of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay: Volume XVI, being Volume XI of the Appendix, containing resolves, etc. 1757 - 1760, by John Henry Clifford, Alexander Strong Wheeler and William Cross Williamson, Boston: Wright & Potter Co, State Printers, 18 Post Office Square, 1909, page 687:

“Order allowing 15 pounds to Ezra Hitchings

A Petition of Ezra Hitchings of Lynn.  Setting forth that he was at the taking of Fort Cumberland in the year 1755 and in January 1756, while in the service of his majesty he lost both his leggs.  Praying an allowance.

Read and Ordered that the sum of fifteen pounds be paid out of the publick Treasury to the Petr. in full consideration for his Sufferings mentions.  Passed January 23

Legislative Records of the Council xxiii, 592, Mass. Archives ixxix, 264

Mass. Archives ixxix, 264.  House Journal pp. 88, 209”

If this Ezra Hitchings of Lynn, Massachusetts is the same Ezra that was the grandfather of the James Tyler Hitchings buried in Beverly, then he was 16 years old at the time he was injured at the Battle of Fort Cumberland, Maryland during the French and Indian War (possibly Braddock’s Defeat?).  He lost his legs soon after the battle (due to injuries?)  He was married on 9 March 1762 in Lynn and fathered 8 children after these devastating injuries.   The only other Ezra Hitchings in the records at that time period is his son, Ezra Hitchings, born 15 April 1765, ten years after the battle at Fort Cumberland.

Were the descendants of Daniel Hitchings, already living in Lynn, close enough kin to assist Ezra with his devastating injuries? (Just imagine how difficult life would be as a double amputee in 1766).

Or was there ANOTHER totally unrelated Hitchings family in Lynn, with another EZRA?  According to all the vital records, the only Ezra Hitchings listed are descendants of the Ezra born in England about 1740.  

According to Wikipedia, the population of Lynn, Massachusetts in 1790 was 2,291 people.  It was a small place in the 1760s, not the large city that it is today with over 90,000 people. 

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo,  "The Double Amputee Mystery", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 3, 2015, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-double-amputee-mystery.html:  accessed [access date]).

Surname Saturday ~ PEARSON of Lynn and Reading, Massachusetts

There were two John PEARSON  immigrant families in Massachusetts, one lived in Rowley, and the other lived in Lynn.  As far as I can tell, they are not related to each other.  Be careful researching, because both John Pearsons lived at the same time in the same county (Essex County).  The John Pearson (about 1615 – 1679) who settled at Lynn is my 9^th great grandfather.  He was in Lynn about 1637 and removed to Reading about 1639 (now the town of Wakefield).   He married Maudlin (sometimes spelled Madeline),  probably the daughter of Robert Bullard, and they had five children.

John Pearson’s will mentions his wife “Maddlin”, son John, daughters Sarah Townsend, Mary Burnap and Bethia Carter, as well as a servant John Lilly.  He is buried in the old cemetery at Wakefield (originally in the town of Reading).   His tombstone carved with the name "John Person" and is described in the book Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and Its Symbols, 1650 - 1815, by Allen Ludwig, 2000, page 83. 

His daughter Sarah married John Townsend of Lynn on 27 January 1669 in Lynn.  They had three children.  My Pearson line daughters out early.  For more information on the TOWNSEND lineage, please see the blog post published on 16 May 2015 at this link:  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/05/surname-saturday-townsend-of-lynn.html 

For more information on the PEARSON family of Lynn see The Essex Genealogist, Volume 13, pages 200 – 209, Volume 14, pages 39 – 44.

My PEARSON genealogy:

Generation 1:  John Pearson, born about 1615 probably in Yorkshire, England,  died 17 April 1679; married to Maudlin/Madeline Bullard, daughter of Robert Bullard and Ann Unknown.  Five children.

Generation 2: Sarah Pearson, born 20 January 1647 in Lynn, died 9 July 1689 in Lynn;  married on 27 January 1669 in Lynn to John Townsend as his first wife, son of Thomas Townsend and Mary Newgate.   Three children.  He was born about 1640 in Lynn, and died 14 December 1726 in Lynn.  Thomas remarried second to Mehitable Brown on 23 April 1690 in Lynn. 

Generation 3:  John Townsend married Sarah Boutwell

Generation 4:  Sarah Townsend married Brown Emerson

Generation 5:  John Emerson married Katherine Eaton

Generation 6:  Romanus Emerson married Jemima Burnham

Generation 7: George Emerson married Mary Esther Younger

Generation 8:  Mary Katharine Younger married George E. Batchelder

Generation 8:  Carrie Maud Batchelder married Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 9:  Stanley Elmer Allen married Gertrude Matilda Hitchings

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Family Reunions, 2015", Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 6, 2015 ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/06/surname-saturday-pearson-of-lynn-and.html : accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ BASSETT of Lynn, Massachusetts

BASSETT

The first BASSETT in this family to come to America was William Bassett (1624 – 1703), my 8^th great grandfather, who was baptized in Dorking, Surrey, England.  He was about ten or eleven years old when he immigrated to New England on board the ship Abigail with his mother and stepfather, Hugh Burt.     

About 1646 William married Sarah, maiden name unknown.  William and Sarah had twelve children born in Lynn, Massachusetts.  William served as an ensign in Captain Gardner’s company in Salem, and later he was raised to Captain and granted three acres in Lynn. 

WILL OF WILLIAM BASSETT, proved 22 May 1703

"In the name of God everlasting Amen: I William Bassett Senr. of Lyn in ye County of Esex in Newengland being of good & perfect memory & Rationally Disposed And having attained to ye years of a good old age & being very sensable of ye decay of nature & ye many Distempers & Infirmities that do attend my outward (mein?) not knowing how soone my great & last chang may come have therefor taken this opportunity to settle ye affaires of my family & so leave this as my last will and testament. Impr: as for my precious mortall soul I freely resign it to him that gave it & to my Redeemer Jesus Christ which by his precious blood hath ransome my soul from Death. as for my body which is fraile I comend it to ye dust willing a decent Interment thereof suitable to my Rank & quality. Although worms my skin destroy yet in my flesh I shal see God - Amen. As for the disposall of my outward Estate which God of his Goodness hath given me - my will is that after my funerall charges & lawfull debts bee paid I bequeathe to my deare & loving wife who hath bin carefull of mee & industrious in her place for ye procurement of what outward Estate I have I bequeath unto her the Improvement of my whole Estate during her naturall life and all the moveable estate in my house which is mine to be at her disposall - as shee shall see cause: Item: I give to my eldest son willm Bassett all ye housing land meddowes marshes and movalbes within y bounds of Lyn township or Elsewhere to bee at his absolut disposall: further it is to bee under stood that my son willm Bassett is to pay out of such Estate all such Legasies as I shall give to ye rest of my children as followeth: Item: I give to my son John Bassett five pounds in mony: Item: I give to my son Elisha Bassett fivetie shillings in mony: Item: I give to my son Samuel Bassett fivetie shillings in mony: Item: I give to my daughter Elizebeth Bassett allias Richards forty shillings in mony: Item: I give to my daughter Sarah Elwell fortie shillings in mony: Ittem: I give to my daughter Merriam Sandy fortie shillings: Ittem: I give to my daughter Mary Ruck fortie shillings in mony: Ittem: I give to my daughter Rachel Silsbe fortie shillings in mony: Ittem: I give to my daughter Rebeckah Bassett fortie shillings in Mony: Ittem: I give to my Hannah Lille fortie shillings in mony -- and if any of ye above named Children Except my son Willm should then to be divided Equaly amongst them all. It is to be understood that these legasies are to be paid with-in a one yeare after my disease and my wives and my will is that neither str? nor waste be made But to the end foresaid. Ittom my will is that my son William Bassett bee sole Executtor to this my last will and testament. Heare unto I have sett to my hand and seale this tenth day of february in the yeare of our 1701. Sighned William Bassett with a seale--Wittnessed by Before sighning it is to be understood that my son William Bassett is to have my whole Estate as is above mentioned to him & his heirs for ever."  

Witnesses: Samuel Johnson, Lois Rogers, Ezekiel Rogers.

In the third generation, William Bassett (1647 – 1732), my 7^th great grand uncle, married Sarah Hood (1657 – 1729).   They were early Quakers.  Sarah was accused of witchcraft in 1692 and sent to prison in Boston with her 22 month old child (possibly Ruth).  After her imprisonment she had another daughter she named Deliverance.  I descend from his sister, Hannah (born about 1670), who married John Lillie of Reading.

William and Hannah’s sister, Elizabeth Bassett (1650 – after 1703), married my 8^th great grandfather, John Proctor (1631 – 1692) who was hanged as a witch on 19 August 1692.  Elizabeth was John Proctor’s third wife, and I descend from his first wife, Martha.  Elizabeth (Bassett) Proctor was also condemned to be hanged but was finally pardoned because she was pregnant.  Her child was born January 27, 1693.  This family was plagued with witchcraft accusations and imprisonments.  

After she was set free, Elizabeth and her children and step children were impoverished, her house had been looted while she was in prison with John, and she was considered legally dead because she had been condemned to hang and she couldn’t claim her husband’s property.

Some sources for information on the Bassett family:

The Great Migration:  Immigrants to New England 1634 - 1635, Volume I, pages 190 to 195.  

The Bassett Family Association  www.BassettBranches.org   

The Essex Genealogist, Volume 18, pages 28 - 39. 

My BASSETT genealogy:

Generation 1:  Roger Bassett, married on 27 April 1623 at St. Martin’s church, Dorking, Surrey, England to Ann Holland. 

Generation 2:  William Bassett, baptized on 30 May 1624 in Dorking, died 31 March 1703 in Lynn, Massachusetts;  married about 1646 in Lynn to Sarah Unknown.  She was born between 1623 and 1627 in Dorking and died after 1700 in Lynn. Twelve children.

Generation 3:   Hannah Bassett, born about 1670 in Lynn; married to John Lillie.  He was born 5 December 1662 in Reading, and died in Woburn, Massachusetts.  Six children.

Generation 4:  Phebe Lilley m. Noah Eaton

Generation 5: Katherine Eaton m. John Emerson

Generation 6:  Romanus Emerson m. Jemima Burnham

Generation 7:  George Emerson m. Mary Esther Younger

Generation 8:  Mary Katharine Emerson m. George E. Batchelder

Generation 9: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

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

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Surname Saturday ~ TOWNSEND of Lynn, Massachusetts

TOWNSEND / TOWNSHEND

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

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

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

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

Some Townsend sources:

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

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

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

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

The Townsend Society of America (Genealogy and DNA studies)

21 West Main Street

Oyster Bay, NY  11771

www.townsendsociety.org 

My TOWNSEND genealogy:

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

Lineage A:

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

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

Generation 4: Daniel Hitchings married Hannah Ingalls

Generation 5:  Abijah Hitchings married Mary Gardner

Generation 6: Abijah Hitchings married Mary Cloutman

Generation 7: Abijah Hitchings married Eliza Ann Treadwell

Generation 8: Abijah Franklin Hitchings married Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 9: Arthur Treadwell Hitchings married Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

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

Lineage B:

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

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

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

Generation 6:  John Emerson married Katherine Eaton

Generation 7:  Romanus Emerson married Jemima Burnham

Generation 8:  George Emerson married Mary Esther Younger

Generation 9:  Mary Katharine Emerson married George E. Batchelder

Generation 10: Carrie Maude Batchelder married Joseph Elmer Allen

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

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