Exploring Tewksbury, Massachusetts Old Center Burial Ground

I was reading a manuscript by Jan Koso of the MACE family genealogy, and delighted to learn that a branch of the Mace family left the Isles of Shoals and relocated to Tewksbury, Massachusetts.  My daughter married a young man from Tewksbury, and they now live there.

According to the Find A Grave website some members of the Mace family were buried at the Old Center Burial Ground in Tewksbury.  I knew that my daughter lived two houses away from a cemetery, and after consulting some maps I found the Old Center Burial Ground across the street from the larger cemetery. I waited until the spring weather arrived to check it out.  Early spring is a lovely time to explore cemeteries - before the poison ivy appears, before the snakes come out to bask, no autumn leaves obscuring the ground, and before the grass grows too long to hide the ticks. 

I brought my granddaughter along to explore with me.  She had walked through the larger, newer cemetery to walk her dogs with her Dad, but had never explored the tombstones.  We discussed the fact that some "old" family members were buried there (which brought up a lot of questions in her five year old mind), and she told me she could help find the gravestones because she knew the letter "M".  We were off to a good start!

We discussed the names on the stones we found, and the engravings.  My granddaughter was particularly interested in the engravings. We discussed the soul's head effigies (they looked like the skull heads in the Disney "Coco" movie), the weeping willows, and the portraits inside the little coffin shapes on these New England gravestones dating from the 1700s to the early 1800s.  It was difficult to read some of the inscriptions, especially for a 5 year old, so the next time we go cemetery exploring we will try the burial ground across the street which dates from the 1800s to today (burials are still taking place there).  The inscriptions will be easier to read.

A neighbor to this cemetery saw us exploring, and he kept his "social distance" by shouting to us about the Thomas Marshall buried in the corner of the cemetery with his three wives.  Of course we just had to run over and check out this interesting little plot!  My granddaughter was fascinated with the idea of someone having THREE wives!  We found that the tombstones for Mary and Phebe were labeled "2d wife of Mr. Thomas Marshall" and "3d wife of Mr. Thomas Marshall" but we never found wife #1.  My granddaughter thought maybe wife #1 ran away!  We'll have to look into this family history!

Memento mori
In Memory of
Mrs. Mary Marshall
2d wife of Mr.
Thomas Marshall
who died July
7th 1770. In
the 47th year 
of her age.

I asked my granddaughter what was her favorite part of exploring the cemetery that day.  She said she loved all of it, but her favorite tombstone at the burial ground was the only one with flowers.  We thought that someone must have loved that one special person very much to have planted flowers (crocus bulbs) that lasted almost 200 years later.  She also said that the broken tombstones made her sad, because no one could read them anymore.  Although this is a very old burial ground, we only saw two broken tombstones.  

And we found the Mace family, too, after all this exploring. 

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To Cite/Link to this post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Exploring Tewksbury, Massachusetts Old Center Burial Ground", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 27, 2021, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/04/exploring-tewksbury-massachusetts-old.html: accessed [access date]). 

Mace Family, Tewksbury, Massachusetts - Tombstone Tuesday

 These tombstones were photographed at the Old Center Burial Ground in Tewksbury, Massachusetts.

IN
memory of three
Children of Mr. Benjn &
Mrs. Rebekah Mace
died
Jonathan Feb 1802
AEt. 20.  Joel died Jan. 7, 1816
AEt.   Eli died Feb. 12, 1820
AEt. 29

In memory of

Mr. BENJAMIN

MACE,

who died

Nov. 30, 1828

AET. 82.

In memory of

Mrs. REBECA

widow of Mr.

Benjamin Mace,

who died 

March 31, 1829

AEt. 70. 

Benjamin Mace, the son of Daniel Mace, was born in Newbury, Massachusetts on 26 November 1746 and died in Tewksbury on 30 November 1828.  He married Rebecca French in Tewksbury on 22 April 1777.  She was the daughter of Jonathan French and Rebecca Gray, and she died 31 March1829. They had eight children all born in Tewksbury:

1. Rebecca, born 4 August 1777 and died in Tewksbury 1 October 1843

2. Benjamin, born 12 September 1779, and died at Lexington, Indiana on 12 August 1826. He married first to Mary Jones Hardy about 1804 in Brentwood, New Hampshire, daughter of Peter Hardy and Dorcas Jones. He married second to Mary Ross of Lexington, Indiana on 7 November 1823 or 1824. 

3. Jonathan, born 9 March 1782, died in Tewksbury 23 February 1802

4. Ira, born 11 June 1784, and died in Sandown, New Hampshire after April 1843.  He married Sally Fellows on 14 January 1813 in Hampstead, New Hampshire. 

5. Isaac, born 11 June 1784 and removed to Perry, New York with his wife Adella Unknown. 

6. Judith, born 2 October 1788, married in Tewksbury to John Carter, died in Tewksbury 6 January 1861

7. Eli, born 25 February 1791, died 3 February 1820, served in the Revolutionary War

8. Hannah, born 11 June 1793, married Deacon Josiah Kittredge 29 December 1812, died 9 May 1828 at Amherst, New Hampshire. 

9. Abigail, born 6 April 1796, married Stephen Hill in Billerica, Massachusetts May 1816, and died there 18 January 1829.

10. Abraham, born 1 September 1798.  He married first Betsy Johnson of Tewksbury about 1823 (intention filed in Tewksbury on 27 September 1823). He married second to Mary Johnson, intention filed in Tewksbury 30 October 1830.  He married third about 1860 to Harriet N. Gage, daughter of John Gage and Dorcus Merrill.  

11. Joel, born 1 December 1800, died in Tewksbury on 7 January 1816.

Thank you to Jan Koso for his manuscript on the Mace family for this information. According to his manuscript, Benjamin Mace is my half first cousin, 8 generations removed.  We both descend from Robert Mace (1652 - 1732/3), an early settler on the Isles of Shoals off the coast of New Hampshire. Robert Mace had two wives, and I descend from his second wife, Hannah Gibbons, and Benjamin descends from the first un-named wife. 

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To Cite/Link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Mace Family, Tewksbury, Massachusetts - Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 20, 2021, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/04/mace-family-tewksbury-massachusetts.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ KELLY of the Isles of Shoals

The Isles of Shoals
straddling New Hampshire and Maine

My ancestor Roger Kelly’s story is similar to the story of John FROST posted on June 11^th.  Not much about him is known except for court records and deeds.  Both men lived on the Isles of Shoals, where there is a dearth of vital records, but plenty of court records because most of the inhabitants crossed the law because of physical altercations, drunkenness or other petty crimes. It was known as a lawless place, and because of this Roger Kelly was often in the records because he was not only the local constable, but he was also a judge, and he found himself on both sides of the law.

Diane Rapaport wrote about Roger Kelly.  She is a lawyer, and a genealogist, and Roger Kelly’s story must have fascinated her.  Much of what I know about Roger, my 10^th great grandfather, came from Diane Rapaport’s article on him in the New England Ancestors journal, and from the book Pioneer Irish in New England (see below for both sources).   There is no proof that Roger Kelly was from Ireland, but he is generally thought to be of Irish origins. It would be nice to have at least one Irish ancestor in my family tree, but so far the closest I can prove is two Scots Irish ancestors.

Some books and articles claim that Roger Kelly came from Ireland with two brothers.  There is no proof of this although William Kelly lived at Great Island (New Castle, New Hampshire) and Charles lived at Kittery, Maine, both places close by to the Isles of Shoals.   Roger Kelly’s first record in the New World was a civil suit naming him as the mate of the Hope in the West Indies.  He served 15 weeks in a prison in Boston in 1664 for this suit for damages.  

Next, Roger shows up in the Isles of Shoals with his wife, Mary, as a tavern owner on Smuttynose Island, with frequent lawsuits.  So he moved to Hog Island (now Appledore Island in Maine) to be out of the jurisdiction of the New Hampshire court (yes, the Isles of Shoals are in both New Hampshire and Maine).   In 1666 he was in court for selling wine without a license.  He was a land owner and made constable in 1667, and later selectman.  He became the representative for the islands at the Massachusetts General Court.  Because of his influence on Smuttynose Island he was made Justice of the Peace.   He was both litigant and defendant on several occasions.

Being a magistrate on the Isles of Shoals made Roger Kelly an unpopular figure.   He suffered a lot of verbal abuse, and even physical attacks by the islanders who preferred to live freely in a state of drunkenness and disorder.   In his old age he suffered from blindness, as described by his son Charles in a 1698 deed transferring land in Kittery from Roger.   His daughter, Sarah Kelly, my 9^th great grandmother, married John Frost of Star Island.   His grandson, John Frost, Jr. was in the court records in 1705 for a disagreement with Roger Kelly over a church bell.   

Some KELLY resources:

“Off shore Antics:  The Case of the Smuttynose Sailor Who Became Judge”, by Diane Rapaport, New England Ancestors,  2004, Volume 5.3, pages 48 -49. 

Pioneer Irish in New England, by Michael O’Brien, New York, New York: P. J. Kennedy & Sons, 1937.

Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, by Charles Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin Davis, 1939, page 396.

Also see Suffolk County, Massachusetts Court Records,   New Hampshire Court Records,  York County, Maine deeds.

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My KELLY genealogy:

Generation 1:  Roger Kelly, born about 1629, origins unknown; married Mary Unknown, six children.

Generation 2:  Sarah Kelly married about 1674 to John Frost.  He was the son of John Frost and Rose Unknown, and died 7 April 1677 in York County, Maine.  Four children.

Generation 3:  Ithamar Frost m. Unknown

Generation 4: Sarah Frost m. John Mace

Generation 5: Ithamar Mace m. Rachel Berry

Generation 6: Abigail Mace m. Simon Locke

Generation 7:  Richard Locke m. Margaret Welch

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

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 ~ KELLY of the Isles of Shoals", Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 2, 2016,  (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/07/surname-saturday-kelly-of-isles-of.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ LEWIS of Saco, Maine

The Saco River in Maine

LEWIS

Thomas Lewis (1590 – about 1640), my 10^th great grandfather, was a draper and a wine merchant, educated at the Shrewsbury School between 1600 and 1605.  On 12 February 1629 in London the “Council for the Affairs of New England in America” granted him and Capt. Richard Bonython land north of the Saco River. Thomas Lewis came to Maine on the ship Elizabeth in 1631.  His wife and children came from England to Maine in 1637.

In 1640 the executors of his estate left his daughters Judith (Lewis) Gibbons of Saco, Maine and Elizabeth (Lewis) Haywood of Barbados, part of the estate originally held by Richard Bonython and Thomas Lewis.  Judith Gibbons is my 9^th great grandmother.   She inherited 32 square miles of the great Saco patent.  Her husband, James Gibbons acquired another 100 acres of the Biddeford side of the Saco River in 1642.

There is a book The Ancestry of Charity Haley, 1755 – 1800, by Walter Goodwin Davis, 1916 that describes Thomas Lewis, his property in Maine, and Judith’s descendants.   The English ancestry of the Lewis family at St. Chad’s church in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England was published in the New England Historical Genealogical Register Volume 101, 1947, pages 3 to 23 in the article “Ancestry of Thomas Lewis and his Wife Elizabeth Marshall of Saco, Maine” by Walter Goodwin Davis.  There is a great sketch of Thomas Lewis in The Great Migration Begins, by Anderson, Volume II. 

My LEWIS genealogy:

Generation 1:  Thomas Lewis, son of Andrew Lewis and Mary Herring, born about 1590 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, died before 28 April 1640 in Maine; married 29 August 1618 at St. Chad’s Church, Shrewsbury, Shropshire to Elizabeth Marshall, daughter of Roger Marshall and Katherine Mytton.  Eight children.

Generation 2: Judith Lewis, born 1626 in Shrewsbury, died 1699 in Saco, Maine;  married about 1646 in Saco to James Gibbons.  He was born about 1614 in England and died after 1692 in Maine. Eight children.

Generation 3:  Hannah Gibbons m. Robert Mace

Generation 4:  John Mace m. Sarah Frost

Generation 5:  Ithamar Mace m. Rachel Berry

Generation 6:  Abigail Mace m. Simon Locke

Generation 7: Richard Locke m. Margaret Welch

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

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 ~ LEWIS of Saco, Maine", Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 25, 2016,  (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/06/surname-saturday-lewis-of-saco-maine.html: accessed [access date]).

Surname Saturday ~ BATES of New Castle (Great Island), New Hampshire

BATES

There is nothing about William Bates in vital records, or in Pope’s Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire.   In the Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, page 82, mentions William Bates bought land at New Castle, New Hampshire from Elizabeth Fabes in 1704, and his two daughters Mary and Judith.  No mention in Hollick’s New Englanders in the 1600s or the Genealogical Dictionary of New England.   Also, there is no mention of William Bates in the New Hampshire State and Provincial Papers. No hits on the NEHGS database.  Nothing!

I found lots of information online, but none with reliable sources, about William Bates.  My favorite was a marriage with a wife named WALLIS.  Where did this come from?*

William Bates is my 8^th great grandfather.  His daughter Mary is my 7^th great grandmother.  Mary Bates married Jotham Berry on 11 November 1731 in Rye, New Hampshire.  The rest of this lineage is very straightforward, with lots of sources for births, marriages and deaths.  I’d love to know more about William, and his ancestry. 

My BATES genealogy:

Generation 1:  William Bates, born about 1675, died before 1731; married Unknown.  Two daughters

Generation 2:  Mary Bates, born about 1712, married on 11 November 1731 in Rye, New Hampshire to Jotham Berry as his first wife.  He was the son of Samuel Berry and Abigail Webster, born abut 1711 and died after 1790 (his second wife was Tryphene Philbrick, widow of John Saunders).  Six children with Mary Bates.

Generation 3: Rachel Berry m. Ithamar Mace

Generation 4: Abigail Mace m. Simon Locke

Generation 5: Richard Locke m. Margaret Welch

Generation 6: Abigail M. Locke m. George E. Batchelder

Generation 7: George E. Batchelder m. Mary Katharine Emerson

Generation 8:  Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 9:  Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

*UPDATE!  At noon today I found a private message on Facebook from genealogist Nancy Riley referencing the History of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire: From its settlement in 1638, to the autumn of 1892, Volume II, page 1047 "Marriages - William Beats and Mary Walles, September 10, 1702" - So this is the source for the marriage of William Bates to Mary Wallis!  Thanks, Nancy!

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ BATES of New Castle (Great Island), New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 18, 2016,  (    http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/06/surname-saturday-bates-of-new-castle.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ FROST of the Isles of Shoals off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire

The Isles of Shoals

FROST

John Frost, my 10^th great grandfather, may be the son of George Frost, an early settler at Winter Harbor (now Biddeford), Maine. There is no proof, and there are no further records of George having descendants, although there are records of John and William Frost in this area.  John Frost received grants of land in York in 1663 and 1669.  He was killed by the Indians and his estate was divided between his widow, Rose, and children: John, Phillip and Annis, wife of Alexander Maxwell.

John Frost, Jr., my 9^th great grandfather, was presented at court for “abusing his father-in-law, Roger Kelly”.  He lived, along with the Kellys, on the Isles of Shoals off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire.  These islands were notorious for violence and lack of order.  Roger Kelly was the local constable assigned to the Isles, and he was often abused by the drunken sailors and Shoalers who were resisting arrest.  He was extremely unpopular on the Isles.

There is also a dearth of records on the births, marriages and deaths on the Isles.  What I have on these generations that lived there comes from court records or local history. Ithamar Frost, my 8^th great grandfather, has very few records and I don’t know the name of his wife.  But he had two children, including Sarah, my 7^th great grandmother, who married John Mace, another native Shoaler. Their son, Ithamar Mace, my 6^th great grandfather, left the Isles of Shoals to live on the mainland in Rye.  That makes a total of four generations of FROSTs who lived on the Isles. Today no one lives year round on the Isles of Shoals and the village of Gosport is gone.

This is not the FROST family which can claim the poet Robert Frost as a descendant.  The poet descends from Nicholas Frost (1592 – 1663), who also lived in York County, Maine after being banished from Massachusetts in 1634.  There is a good sketch of Nicholas Frost in the Great Migration books.

My FROST genealogy:

Generation 1:  John Frost, born in England and died 7 April 1677 in York County, Maine; married to Rose Unknown.  Three children.

Generation 2:  John Frost, born about 1635, and died 1718 on Star Island at the Isles of Shoals off the coast of New Hampshire; married in 1674 in York to Sarah Kelly, daughter of Roger Kelly.  Four children.

Generation 3:  Ithamar Frost, born about 1678 in the Isles of Shoals, married to Unknown.  Two children.

Generation 4: Sarah Frost, married first about 1726 to John Mace, son of Robert Mace and Hannah Gibbons (three children).  He was born about 1693 on the Isles of Shoals and died before 1737; married second on 17 March 1737 in Gosport on the Isles of Shoals to Arthur Randall, three more children.

Generation 5: Ithamar Mace, born about 1729 on the Isles of Shoals and died before 9 November 1806; married on 6 December 1764 in Rye, New Hampshire to Rachel Berry, daughter of Jotham Berry and Mary Bates.  Three children.

Generation 6: Abigail Mace m. Simon Locke

Generation 7: Richard Locke m. Margaret Welch

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

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 ~ FROST of the Isles of Shoals off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 11, 2016,  (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/06/surname-saturday-frost-of-isles-of.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ MACE of the Isles of Shoals off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine

The Isles of Shoals

MACE

The Isles of Shoals are a group of islands six miles off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire.  Both states have wrangled over the state line which now makes the border between Appledore Island, Smuttynose and Cedar Island in Maine and Lunging Island and Star Island in New Hampshire.

The island were used for fishing by the native Americans and the first European explorers in the 1600s.  It was “discovered” by Captain John Smith in 1614, and there is a monument with his map in Rye Harbor, New Hampshire that overlooks a nice view of the isles.  Fishermen first resided on Appledore and Star Island, where they formed a little town called Gosport.   The town was evacuated during the Revolutionary War, and the island remained more or less abandoned until the 1800s when a hotel was built by Thomas Laighton and Levi Thaxter. 

Robert Mace (1652 - ?) my 8^th great grandfather, was a resident of Gosport.  He appears in several court records testifying in cases involving his neighbors in Gosport who were accused of wife abuse, defamation and other crimes.  He was probably a fisherman, and he owned a pew at the meetinghouse in Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1700.

Robert’s son, John Mace (1693 – 1737), my 7^th great grandfather, was born on the Isles of Shoals.  He married his wife, Sarah Frost in Gosport, and was taxed in Rye in 1724.  According to the Essex County, Massachusetts Probate, he was a mariner.  His estate was administered in Newbury, Essex County on 5 July 1737. 

Ithamar Mace (1729 – 1806), my 6^th great grandfather, was born in Gosport and named after his maternal grandfather, Ithamar Frost.  He enlisted in the French and Indian War and was taken prisoner for nine years.  He married Rachel Berry in Rye, New Hampshire and had three children born in Rye.  Their daughter, Abigail (1767 – 1803), my 5^th great grandmother, married Simon Locke, a descendant of John Locke and Elizabeth Berry, first settlers at Locke’s Neck in Rye.

For more information on the MACE family, please contact Jan A. Koso.  I previously published a blog post about Jan’s Mace Genealogy Project (the link to Jan’s website is no longer valid, please contact him at jakoso@gmail.com or at mace-genealogy@comcast.net  ) :

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/01/jan-kosos-mace-genealogy-project.html

I'm also descended of Rev. Joseph Hull, an early minister at Gosport on the Isles of Shoals.  You can read my blog post about my HULL lineage (and the updated information on the HULL family) at this link: 

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/12/surname-saturday-hull-update.html

Click here to see the Capt. John Smith Monument in Rye Harbor
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/01/400th-anniversary-of-john-smiths.html 

My MACE lineage:

Generation 1: Robert Mace, born about 1652 in England; married first to  Hannah Gibbons, daughter of James Gibbons and Judith Lewis, and had three children; married second to unknown and had two more children.  Hannah was born about 1669 in Saco, Maine. 

Generation 2: John Mace, son of Robert Mace and Hannah Gibbons, born about 1693 in Gosport, died before 5 July 1737; married about 1726 to Sarah Frost, daughter of Ithamar Frost. Three children. 

Generation 3:  Ithamar Mace, born about 1729 in Gosport, died before 9 November 1806; married to Rachel Berry, daughter of Jotham Berry and Mary Bates.  She was baptized on 3 July 1743 in Rye, New Hampshire and died 9 November 1806 in Rye, New Hampshire. Three children. 

Generation 4:  Abigail Mace, born 1 February 1767 in Rye, died 18 February 1803; married on 14 February 1792 in Greenland to Simon Locke as his first wife.  He was the son of Richard Locke and Elizabeth Garland, born in September 1770 in Rye, and died 31 July 1863 in Rye.  Seven children (he had eight more children with his second wife, Elizabeth Locke Allen, the daughter of Jude Allen and Dorcas Marden.)

Generation 5: Richard Locke m. Margaret Welch
Generation 6: Abigail M. Locke m. George E. Batchelder
Generation 7:  George E. Batchelder, Jr. m. Mary Katharine Emerson
Generation 8: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen
Generation 9: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~  MACE of the Isles of Shoals off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine", Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 4, 2016,  ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/06/surname-saturday-mace-of-isles-of.html: accessed [access date]). 

J. A. Koso's Mace Genealogy Project

J. A. Koso is a distant cousin and has authored a website on the New England Mace Family. He has been researching the descendants of Robert Mace of Gosport (c 1652 - c 1733) from the Isles of Shoals off New Hampshire and Maine, for about three decades.

The project has many lines charted to the 20th Century. Many branches traced throughout the United States. The website also has links for the sharing of Mace family photos: http://www.newenglandmace.com/

If you have a Mace in your family, J. A. Koso would like to hear from you. He has been working on a manuscript, and collecting Mace family information. The Genealogy of the Descendants of Robert Mace of Gosport, New Hampshire is in the process of being compiled for publication in both book and CD-ROM.

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Here is an excerpt of J. A. Koso's manuscript on the Mace Family Tree:

43. ANDREW4 MACE (Richard3, Andrew2, Robert1) was baptized Hampton, New Hampshire, 25 December 1757,[1 ] and died Readfield, Maine, 6 April 1845.[ 2] He married (1) East Kingston, New Hampshire, 15 March 1779, JANE HALE.[ 3] She was born [town], New Hampshire, around 1756, and died Readfield, Maine, 11 September 1794, at age 38 years.[4 ] She is possibly the daughter of Eliphalet and Elizabeth (-----) Hale who was born Exeter, New Hampshire, 9 May 1751.[ 5] He published for marriage(2) Readfield, Maine, November 27, 1795 and certificate issued Readfield, Maine, December 15, 1795, SARAH/SALLY BROWN. She was born Readfield, Maine, 5 September 1768, and died there, 27 March 1845, at age 77 years.[ 6]

Revolutionary War Service: Private in Captain Ezra Currier's company of Colonel Abraham Drake's Regiment of New Hampshire militia raised to re-inforce the Continental Army near Stillwater September 1777. Served from 8 September 1777 to 16 December 1777 (3 months, 8 days). Corporal in Captain John Eastman's Company of Colonel Thomas Bartlett's Regiment of militia raised by New Hampshire for defense of West Point 1780. Served from 7 July 1780 to 24 October 1780 (3 months, 17 days).[7 ]

He served as sergeant in Capt. Quinby's New Hampshire Company in the Revolutionary War.[8 ]

“Chapter 86: Resolve on the petition of Andrew Mace, Granting him a pension for the loss of his hands while performing military duty. On the Petition of Andrew Mace of Readfield, praying for Relief from Government, for himself, and his family, under the Distressing Misfortune of losing both his Hands, by the discharge of a piece of Artillery, while performing Military duty under the Orders of his Commanding Officer, on the first Tuesday of May - 1804.

Resolved for Reason set forth in said Petition, that there be allowed and paid out of the Treasury of this Commonwealth to Andrew Mace, the sum of twelve dollars a month from the time he received his wounds to the present day, and hereafter the same sum pr. month to be paid him semiannually untill the further order of the General Court.

And be it further Resolved that there be paid to the said Andrew Mace from Treasury of this Commonwealth, the sume of one hundred and fifty dollars, as Compensation for his expense and Suffering, while under the Care of his Phisicians February 15, 1806.”[ 9]

He is listed as a Defendant in an Ejectment Cause in June of 1802 in Readfield.[ 10]

They resided in District 1 - East Readfield where they were members of the East Readfield Methodist Society and appeared on the Readfield Voters List.[11 ]

Children of Andrew Mace and Jane Hale born East Kingston, New Hampshire[12 ]:

i Polly5 Mace, b 15 August 1779; d [place] 25 May 1862; m Readfield, Maine, 22 February 1801, John Young
Children of John Young and Polly Mace born Farmington, Maine[12 ]:
a. Lois Young, b 27 May 1801; m Hiram Cole; 9 children
b. Dolly Young, b 11 March 1803; d - August 1887; m Elijah T. Jacobs
c. Helena Young, b 24 January 1805; m Almond Dillingham
d. Mary Jane Young, b 1807; d 1893; m 1834, Henry W. Priest[14 ]
e. Rosina Young, b 20 March 1809; m [place], 6 February 1838, Joseph A. Bruce; 4 children; res. Creighton, Nebraska
f. John Hale Young, b 5 January 1811; m [place], 17 April 1837, Mary Ann Bruce
g. Eliza Ann Young, b 28 October 1812; m [place, date], Alfred D. Barker
h. Julia Ann Young, b 18 November 1814; m(1) [place, date], John Dyke; m(2) [place, date], ___ Baker
i. Joanna/Joan Young, b 19 July 1817; d 1896; m [place], 1842, John A. Hamblin/Hamlin[ 15]
j. Joel B. Young, b 30 April 1819; shot California/Mexico border
k. Aaron Dudley Young, b 22 April 1821; d 1854; went to California for the Gold Rush
l. David I. Young, b 6 March 1823; m fall 1845, Abbie J. Farnham; 10 Children b, 8 d. y.
m. Abigail Butterfield Young, b 21 December 1824; m Norwich, Connecticut, 3 July 1849, Oren Bennet Gibson; 7 children

80 ii Richard J. Mace, Senior, b 27 July 1781
iii Anne Mace, b 25 January 1783; m pos. Readfield, Maine, c 1803, Abizah Scott
Children of Abizah Scott and Anne Mace born [place][ 16]:
a. Albert Scott; m Alivda Mayo
b. Nancy Scott; m Henry ____
c. Mary Scott; m Hiram Averill
81 iv Andrew J. Mace, b 8 December 1784
82 v Isaac Mace, b 25 February 1786

vi Jane Mace, b 16 July 1789; m pos. Readfield, Maine, 26 December 1809, Joseph Morrill

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1 Hampton 1:381

2. Georgia Hewins Lilly, Readfield, Maine, Epitaph, (Hallowell, ME, 1929) [hereinafter Epitaph], Book 2:8; East Kingston Cemetery

3 NHTR, East Kingston, 1:102; Linda C. Buxton, Town Clerk of the Town of Kensington, State of New Hampshire, 95 Amesbury Road, Kensington, NH 03833, "The following is a True Copy of Vital Records located in Kensington, New Hampshire: Marriage between Andrew Mace and Jenny Hale took place in Kensington, NH on March 15, 1779, married by Reverend Jeremiah Fogg, 2:6."

4. National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Records Book (NEHGS Lib: ME-100-32)[hereinafter DAR, RB] Readfield families, p. 32; Epitaph, Book 2:8; Dale Potter Clark, Old Settlers Series, Readfield, Maine (publication info) [hereinafter Old Settlers Series], p. __; East Readfield Cemetery

5 Charles Henry Bell, History of the Town of Exeter, New Hampshire (Bowie, MD, 1990), p. 63g

6 Letter from Martha D. Vining, Town Clerk, Readfield, Maine, dated 17 May 200 list the marriage record of Andrew Mace and Sarah Brown; DAR, RB, Readfield families, p. 32; Epitaph Book, 2:8; East Readfield Cemetery

7 DAR Application file

8 Old Settlers Series

9 Secretary of the Commonwealth, Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts (Boston?, 1889), pp. 653, 654

10 Kennebec County, ME Court Index 1799-1854, Plaintiff/Defendant, Surname Beginning M, Case #'s 286, 2152, 1:47, Box 9, File 21 (Maine State Archives)

11 Old Settler Series

12 NHTR, East Kingston, 1:102, 526; DAR, RB, Readfield families, p. 32; Epitaph, Book 2:8; Underwood p. 103; NSDAR application file; NHVRs; Hallowell VRs, 4:61

13 Information from Clarence M Cummings; DAR records/DAR PI likely

14 NSDAR ID# 88465

15 NSDAR ID# 67388

16 Information from Clarence M Cummings; DAR records/DAR PI likely

Tombstone Tuesday - Leavitt Cemetery, Chichester, New Hampshire

The William F. Locke Family Plot. William (1826 - 1870) was the brother to my ancestor, Abigail M. Locke (1825 - 1888), wife of George E. Batchelder of Chichester. Abigail and William F. were the children of Richard and Margaret Locke (below).

Margaret Welch, wife of Richard Locke,
She is a Brickwall Ancestor- I have not idea who are her parents or family.
She was born aobut 1796 probably in Kittery, Maine, and died 11 March 1860 in Chichester, New Hampshire.

Richard Locke, son of Simon Locke and Abigail Mace. He is my 4x great grandfather. Captain Richard Locke went to Boston in 1811 to learn the blacksmith's trade, later was a sea captain and died in Chichester, New Hampshire in 1864, having made his will ten days before. He was listed in the 1850 census as a farmer, with his real estate valued at $10,000. His household in the Federal Census of 1850 included his wife, Margaret; his widowed daughter Abigail; his daughter Mehitable; his father, Simon; and his infant grandson, George E. Batchelder. He is a direct descendant of John Locke (1627 - 1695) who was killed by the Indians in Rye, New Hampshire whilst cutting hay on the marsh. (Locke Genealogy page 71)

Epitaph:
Richard Locke
died March 23, 1864
AE 70 ys
I am again we hope to meet there when the days of life are fled
then in heaven with joy to greet thee where no farewell tears shed

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