My Revolutionary War Ancestors - Thomas Homan of Marblehead, Massachusetts

 

In memory of

THOMAS HOMAN

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

His Wife

TABITHA HOMAN,

died March. 11, 1837. AEt, 73.

Also two Daughters

TABITHA died Aug. 24, 1812, AEt. 35

HANNAH died Feb. 2, 1818, AEt. 32 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thomas and Tabitha had seven children:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For the truly curious:

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

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

Other blog posts about my Revolutionary War Ancestors: 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My Revolutionary War Patriots, Daniel Glover, Marblehead, Massachusetts

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

This painting depicts Glover's Regiment

rowing General Washington across the Delaware River

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

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

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

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

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

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

For the truly curious: 

My other patriot blog posts in this series: 

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

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

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

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

Books about General John Glover and his regiment:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Surname Saturday ~ Pitman of Marblehead, Massachusetts

PITMAN / PITTMAN / PETMAN / PICKMAN

Thomas Pitman, my 10^th great grandfather, was born about 1614 in England. His origins and his parents are unknown, but he had a brother named John Pitman who might have come over with him at the same time.   It is unknown when he first arrived in Salem, Massachusetts, and he lived in the part of town that became Marblehead.  He married a woman named Joan or Jane and had six children recorded in Salem.

Thomas Pitman made a will in 1694 and died that year.  He left his house to his son Thomas Pitman, and the rest of his estate to his daughters Sarah Dodd and Mary Fortune, and to the children of his brother John.  His house and land were sold on 21 March 1716/17 to Reverend John Barnard of Marblehead, who took down the house. [Essex Registry of Deeds, book 32, leaf 98].  Thomas Pitman, Jr. was married twice, first to Mary Dennis, and second to Margaret (Gould) Stilson, my 8^th great grandmother in another lineage.  Margaret was taken prisoner by Indians in Maine who had killed her husband and child in 1689. She was taken to Quebec with her daughter Mary, and ransomed back in 1695.

The daughter of Thomas Pitman and Joan, Mary (Pitman) Fortune, is my 9^th great grandmother.  She married Elias Fortune and had thirteen children.  See the lineage below.

For more information on Thomas Pitman see the book Marblehead in the Year 1700 by Sidney Perley, 1910, pages 36 and 61.  This book has been digitized and is available online at the Marblehead Museum website http://marbleheadmuseum.org/Marblehead-1700.pdf  

Also, Sidney A. Merriam, "Notes of Pitman Documents", The American Genealogist, Volume 18, pages 17 - 19. 

My PITMAN Genealogy:

Generation 1:  Thomas Pitman, born about 1614 in England, died July 1694 in Marblehead, Massachusetts; married about 1643 in Salem, Massachusetts to Joan or Jane Unknown. Six children born in Salem:

1.  Joseph Pitman, born about 1644– no further information

2.  Sarah Pitman, born about 1646, married Thomas Dodd

3.  Mary Pitman, born about 1648 , (see below – my 9^th great grandmother)

4. Elizabeth Pitman, born about 1650, married Henry Russell

5.  Thomas Pitman, born about 1652, married first Mary Dennis, married second to Margaret Gould, widow of James Stilson, (my 8^th great grandparents)

6.  John Pitman, born about 1660, died 1696 in Barbadoes, m. Charity Gale

Generation 2: Mary Pitman, born about 1648 in Salem, died 1734 in Marblehead; married about 1669 to Elias Fortune.  He was born about 1640 in England and died November 1705 in Marblehead. Thirteen chidren.

Generation 3:  Mary Fortune m. Samuel Hoyle

Generation 4: Mary Hoyle m. Peter Homan

Generation 5: William Homan m. Elizabeth Unknown

Generation 6:  Thomas Homan m. Tabitha Glover

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 ~ Pitman of Marblehead, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 18, 2017, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/11/surname-saturday-pitman-of-marblehead.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ JILLINGS of Newbury, Massachusetts

JILLINGS / GELLINS /  JILLENS / JILLINS

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

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

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

My JILLINGS genealogy:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Surname Saturday ~ BRIMBLECOMB of Marblehead, Massachusetts

BRIMBLECOMB / BRIMBLECOME / BRIMBELCOMB / BRIMBLETON etc.

Back on October 14^th I posted a  “Surname Saturday”story about the HOMAN  family, and mentioned that the immigrant Edward Homan had a wife named Richard.  I thought this was unusual, and I also thought that this might be a good clue to her identity.  Well, I did find out more about the BRIMBLECOMB family with records back in England!

Looking at records on Family Search from Modbury, Devonshire, England, I was able to find that there was a John Brimblecomb with a wife named Richard (!!) who had two children baptized in Modbury – 1.) Richard, a daughter, baptized on 3 August 1621, and 2.)John Brimblecomb, Jr. baptized on 2 March 1623.  This Richard, jr. would be the aunt of Richard Brimblecom (1646 – 1719) my 9^th great grandmother who married Edward Homan of Marblehead, Massachusetts.

The records from Modbury also show that Richard, jr. married Christopher Chrispin on 24 September 1658 in Modbury and had a daughter named Margaret.  But the Modbury records also show that Richard, jr. had an illegitimate daughter named Elizabeth on 25 August 1643 in Modbury. She was labeled a “bastard” in the records.  All these records naming women named “Richard”, as well as a man named John Brimblecomb with a wife named Tabitha seemed to me to be proof of the same family as my Richard Brimblecomb who married Edward Holman.   

Essex County Probate, Volume 3, page 283 shows a 1678 will for John “Brimbellcom” with a wife Tabitha, and names a son Philip and daughters Mary Tucker and Richard Holmon.   His estate was valued at 76 pounds and 6 shillings.  He left his house to Philip.

The Modbury records show that John Brimblecomb, jr. and wife Tabitha, had four children baptized there:

1. Mary, daughter, 16 July 1646

2. Mary, daughter, 16 June 1647

3. John, son, 10 August 1649

4. Philip, son, 28 October 1651

There was no record found of a daughter named Richard being baptized in Modbury.  But we can assume she was born to this family perhaps before the first Mary.  Richard married Edward Homan, and Mary married Andrew Tucker.  Philip Brimblecomb married an unknown wife around 1670, and married second to Sarah Fluent on 8 February 1680.

John Brimblecomb, the immigrant, my 10^th great grandfather, was a fisherman who lived in Marblehead from about 1661, when he bought a house from John Legg, to 1678, when he died.  He appears to be the same John Brimblecomb who was born and baptized in Modbury, Devonshire, England.

“The Last Will and Testament of John Brimbellcom Being in his perfecte memory the 11th maye 1678 Imprmis That first I Bequeue my Body to the Dust and my spiritte To god that gaue it as for my Estat firist I order That after the Charge of my fenerall (is paide) that all my Deptes Bee fully satisfied By my Excetors: secondly my will is that what Estate is Lefte After my Deptes is paide that Tabitha my wife shall fully and wholly Inioye it for the Terme of Her Naturall Life Thirdly my will is That after The death of my sd: wife That my soon Phillipe Brimbelcom and his Children after Him shall Inioye the full and whole Estat that shee shall Leave to saye my wife what is Leafte of what I Leave her :fourthly my will is That my Excecetors out of what Estat I Leave shall pave to my too Daughters Richard Holman and mary Tucker as a Legaci Twenty shilings a peece. fiftly my will is that my wife Tabitha and my soonn Philipe bee jointe Excecetrex and Exceceter of my whole Estate In Being By them To bee managed and Emproued as above further my will is Th.at my Trusty frinds John Codner and John Leg Bee my overseeres of my Excetors for the Emprouement of The Estate according to this my will and Testament my will further is that if my sd: sun Die without Issue that what is Lefte of my Estate after the death of my sd: wife and sonne and his Child or what Childrin he maye have that it shall bee Equally divided Betwext my too Daughters Richard and mary."

John (his I B mark) Brimbellcom.

Witness: John (his T C mark) Codner, John Legg.

Proved in Salem court 29: 9: 1678 by the witnesses.

Inventory of the estate taken Nov. 12, ,1678, by William Nick and Thaddeus Riddan : one halfe of a shallop & connue & what else belongs to ye half & boat, 15li.; one dweling house, out house and land with ye priviledge belonging to it, 40li.; one halfe of a servants time, 5li.; one bed filled with silke grasse with Rugg, Blankets, bedsteed & 2 pr. ould sheetes, 4li.; 3 Chests ould ones & ould barrells, 8s.; one muskett, one houldbert, one Cutles, one swoard & Belt, 2li.; 4 potts & a small Kittle, lli. 10s.; two pair pott hangers, two pair pott hooks, one fire shoovell & tonges, gridiron, &c., 10s.; pewter dishes, cupes & warming pann, 15s.; Table & forme & a spitt, 1 Os. ; one frying pan &. two ould Axes, 5s. ; three ould Chaires, two ,pailes, washing tubs, wooden Trays & a dresser, 6s.; wearin~ appa1·rell in all, 3li.; one spining wheele, 2s.; several lean swine, halfe a cow & Calfe, 3s. ; total, 7 6li. 6s. Signed by Thaddeus Riddan and Christopher Necke. Attested in Salem court 29: 9: 1678 by Tabitha Brimbelcom, one of the executors.

Some Brimblecomb resources:

There is a Brimblecomb genealogy in The Essex Antiquarian, Volume 12, pages 34 – 38. 

England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J7SH-1QD : 30 December 2014, John Bremblecombe in entry for Richard Bremblecombe, 03 Aug 1621); citing MODBURY,DEVON,ENGLAND, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 916,861.

My Surname Saturday post on HOMAN:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/10/surname-saturday-homan-of-marblehead.html  

My BRIMBLECOMB genealogy:

Generation 1:  John Brimblecomb, born about 1595 probably in Modbury, Devonshire, England, and died in March 1658 in Modbury, married Richard UNKNOWN. Two known children.

Generation 2:  John Brimblecomb, baptized on 2 March 1623 in Modbury, Devonshire, and died between 11 May and 29 November 1678 in Marblehead, Massachusetts; married to Tabitha Unknown. Five children baptized in Modbury.

Generation 3:  Richard Brimblecomb, born in 1646 in Modbury, died December 1719 in Marblehead; married about 1668 to Edward Homan.  He was born about 1646 and died December 1713 in Marblehead.  Five children born in Marblehead.

Generation 4:  Edward Homan m. Elizabeth Gould

Generation 5:  Peter Homan m. Mary Hoyle

Generation 6:  William Homan m. Elizabeth Unknown

Generation 7:   Thomas Homan m. Tabitha Glover

Generation 8:  Betsey Jillings Homan m. Jabez Treadwell

Generation 9:  Eliza Ann Treadwell m. Abijah Hitchings

Generation 10:  Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 11:  Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ BRIMBLECOMB of Marblehead, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 28, 2017, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/10/surname-saturday-brimblecomb-of.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ FORTUNE of Marblehead

FORTUNE / FORTIN

Elias Fortune, my 9^th great grandfather, first  arrived in Marblehead as a fisherman for Moses Maverick, my 10^th great grandfather in another lineage.    He was granted a lot of land in Marblehead, Massachusetts in 1673 [Essex Register of Deeds, book 39, leaf 22].  Not much is known about Elias, except that he built a house on his lot and lived there.  This house was gone in 1729 when his son, Samuel Fortune, sold this land to his brother-in-law. [Essex Registry of Deeds, Book 55, leaf 96].

Elias married Mary Pittman, the daughter of another Marblehead fisherman, Thomas Pittman, and they had thirteen children.  Elias Fortune’s will left his estate to his wife, and eight surviving children. (See below).   I descend from his daughter, Mary, who married Samuel Hoyle, my 8^th great grandparents.

Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638- 1881. Online database. American Ancestors.org.  New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014 https://www.americanancestors.org/DB515/i/13765/9780-co1/245240739   accessed October 9, 2017.   Probate no. 9780, page 4

"The Last Will and Testament of Elias Fortune

Of Marblehead in the County of Essex

I Elias Fortune being sick in body, but sound memory, and being desirous to

settle the estate lent me by God, Doe by these patents revoke all former Wills by

me made, and declare this onely to be my last Will and Testament ??? I commit my

soul into the hands of God my Creator and Redeemer, my body to the earth dec-

ently to be buried, my temporall estate I dispose of as followes, I will that all

my just Debts be firstly satisfied by my Exectutrix hereafter named, and as to the

Remainder of my estate, I will that ye who of ye same, Reall and personal with all

the profits and benefits thereof so abide and remain in the hands and possession of

my dear wife Mary for her comfortable maintenance, so long as she continues, and

remains a Widdow, and for ye educating of my children till they shall come of Age,

and furthermore I do will, that after my wife’s decease, if not remarried, what ever

of my estate, Reall or personal shall be found left, descend to and be enjoyed by my children

equally part and part alike, and hold to by them and their Heirs for ever, being named

Elias, John, Samuel, Elizabeth, Sarah, Mary, Rebecca, Anna,  Elias namely my eldest

son to have my ??? and I do also hereby give liberty to my wife Mary, in case of

her reall need, to alienate in her life time, so much as shall be judged by her friends

necessary, of any part of the Reall estate, whither of that given her by her father

or any other any other, that she may not be brought to want; for case my wife see cause to marry

again, I doe then give her Ten pound, of such of the moveables as she shall take

the estate then left, I will it be forthwith distributed equally among my children

my eldest son Elias to have the first choice, and be executor, take the inheritance

of his Uncle Thomas Pitman in the affair, desiring there may be no strife among my chil-

dren, but that all acquainted in their determination, impairing also my children

Hereby to make any ?? of any part of their lands one to another for

conveniency sake, I appoint my dear wife Mary full and solo Executrix

of this my Will and my Brother Thomas Pitman Overseer of this my will

and to see that all my children may have their just Right according to this my Will.

In witness where of I have hereunto sett my hand and seale this nineteenth

Day of January: Anno Dom: one thousand, seven hundren and four/five.

Signed, Sealed and declared                                   Elias    EL         Fortune

In the presence of:                                                       his marke

Thomas   TD Dod   son

His marke

James Hawkings

Thomas dod Junr

Samuel Cheever"

For more about Elias Fortune:

Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630 - 1850, by Daniel Vickers, 1994, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press,  see page 134.

Marblehead in the Year 1700, by Sidney Perley, see page 52 (available online at the Marblehead Museum website http://marbleheadmuseum.org/Perley%20Final-1.pdf )

My FORTUNE genealogy:

Generation 1:  Elias Fortune, born about 1640, probably in England; died November 1705 in Marblehead, Massachusetts; married about 1669 to Mary Pitman, daughter of Thomas Pitman and Joan Unknown.  She was born about 1648 in Salem, Massachusetts, and died 1734 in Marblehead.  Thirteen children.

Generation 2:  Mary Fortune, born 1680 in Salem, died October 1710 in Marblehead, married on 16 November 1699 in Marblehead to Samuel Hoyle, so of John Hoyle and Anne Knight.  He was born 15 January 1677 in Marblehead, and died October 1710 in Marblehead.

Generation 3:  Mary Hoyle m. Peter Homan

Generation 4:  William Homan m. Elizabeth Unknown

Generation 5:  Thomas Homan m. Tabitha Glover

Generation 6: Betsey Jillings Homan m. Jabez Treadwell

Generation 7: Eliza Ann Treadwell m. Abijah Hitchings

Generation 8:  Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 9:  Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~  FORTUNE of Marblehead”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 21, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/10/surname-saturday-fortune-of-marblehead.html: accessed [access date]).

Surname Saturday ~ HOMAN of Marblehead

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For more about the HOMAN family:

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

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

My HOLMAN genealogy:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Generation 7:   Eliza Ann Treadwell m. Abijah Hitchings

Generation 8:  Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 9:  Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

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

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

Surname Saturday ~ ALLERTON , a Mayflower Passenger

ALLERTON

My 11^th great grandfather, Isaac Allerton (1586 – 1659) arrived in New England on board the Mayflower in 1620 with his pregnant wife and three children.  His origins are unknown.  There was another passenger on board named John Allerton, but their kinship is unknown.  Isaac’s sister Sarah was married to fellow Mayflower passenger Digory Priest (they were married on the same day as Isaac and his wife, Mary Norris).   He was the fifth man to sign the Mayflower compact, listed after Carver, Bradford, Winslow and Brewster.  Only Brewster and Allerton used the prefix “Mr.”

Upon arriving in Cape Cod bay, many of the Mayflower passengers fell ill, and half died that first winter including John Allerton, and Isaac’s wife, Mary, and their new infant child born on board the ship.  Isaac was left a widower with three young children who survived the winter.  He remarried to Fear Brewster, daughter of Elder William Brewster, in 1623.

Isaac Allerton acted as a business agent in the colony’s dealing with the Plymouth Company in England.  He was named assistant governor to Bradford until 1624.  He returned to England in 1626 to obtain supplies for the colony and to renegotiate their agreements with the investors on paying off their debt. He returned again to England in 1628 for a grant for a trading post in Kennebeck, Maine.  He made  a third voyage in 1630, and he was dismissed as the agent for the colony for mishandling their funds.

In 1632 the trading post on the Kennebec River was destroyed by the French.  He set up another trading post at what is now Machias, and he began fishing out of Marblehead.  He is considered one of the founders of Marblehead, where he lived briefly.   He was persuaded to leave Marblehead for his religious views.  The post at Machias was destroyed by the French in 1634.  He removed from Massachusetts to New Haven, Connecticut, where he lived until his death in 1659.

Isaac Allerton is an ancestor to Presidents Zachary Taylor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Remember Allerton, my 10^th great grandmother, was only about five years old when she was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620. She lost an infant sibling and her mother before they settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts.  Her father and two other siblings survived.  She married Moses Maverick, and had six children. She died sometime between the baptism of her child in 1652 and 1656 when her husband remarried to Eunice, the widow of Thomas Roberts.   I descend from her third child, Abigail Maverick (1645 – 1686), my 9^th great grandmother.

Some ALLERTON resources:

(There are many, many resources available on Mayflower passengers, but these two books are the best in my opinion)

The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620 - 1633, by Robert Charles Anderson, 1995, Volume 1, pages 35 – 39 for a sketch on Isaac Allerton and his children.

Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Seventeen: Isaac Allerton [one of the Silver books series], 1998, pages 1 – 3 for Isaac Allerton, pages 4 – 6 for Moses Maverick and Remember Allerton, and pages 9 – 10 for Abigail Maverick and Samuel Ward.  Martha Ward and John Tuttle are outlined on pages 26 – 27, and Martha Tuttle and Mark Haskell are on pages 65 – 66.

My ALLERTON genealogy:

Generation 1:  Isaac Allerton, born about 1586 in England, died between 1 and 15 February 1659, New Haven, Connecticut; married on 4 November 1611 in Leyden, Holland to Mary Norris, daughter of Edward Norris and Elizabeth, his wife.  She was born 1587 in Newbury, Berkshire, England, and died 25 February 1621 on board the Mayflower, off the coast of Cape Cod, New England. They had four children.

Generation 2:  Remember Allerton, born about 1614 in Leyden, Holland, died before 22 October 1656; married before 6 May 1635 in Marblehead, Massachusetts to Moses Maverick, son of John Maverick and Mary Gye.  He was baptized 3 November 1611 in Huish, Devonshire, England.  Six children.

Generation 3:  Abigail Maverick m. Samuel Ward

Generation 4:  Martha Ward m. John Tuthill

Generation 5:  Martha Tuthill m. Mark Haskell

Generation 6:   Lucy Haskell m. Jabez Treadwell

Generation 7:   Nathaniel Treadwell m. Mary Hovey

Generation 8:   Jabez Treadwell m. Betsey Jillings Homan

Generation 9:   Eliza Ann Treadwell m. Abijah Hitchings

Generation 10:  Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 11:  Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ ALLERTON , a Mayflower Passenger”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 29, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/07/surname-saturday-allerton-mayflower.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ MAVERICK of Dorchester, Massachusetts

A Map of Boston Harbor
Please note the locations of Noddle's Island,
Thompson's Island and Dorchester 

MAVERICK / MADERICKE / MATHERICKE / MAUERRICKE

John Maverick, my 11^th great grandfather, graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from Exeter College at Oxford University on 8 July 1599, and with a Master’s degree on 7 July 1603.  At the time of his second degree he was already an ordained minister at the town of Exeter. He was also called to be the rector at Beaworthy, in Devon, until he resigned just before coming to New England with the Winthrop fleet.  He arrived on the ship Mary and John on 30 May 1630.  John Maverick became a freeman in Dorchester on 18 May 1631, and he was the minister there until he died in 1636.

John Maverick married Mary Gye at Islington in 1600.  She had a long royal ancestry stretching back to the Plantagenets sketched out in the New England Historic Genealogical Register Volume 115, pages 248 – 253.  They had a son, Samuel, who married the widow Amias (Cole) Thompson, who was the wife of David Thompson (1592 – 1628), my 9^th great grandfather, who lived on Thompson’s Island in Boston Harbor.  Another son, Moses, was my 10^th great grandfather.

Moses Maverick’s first wife was my 10^th great grandmother.  Her name was Remember Allerton, and she was a five year old passenger on the Mayflower, along with her parents and siblings. Moses owned land in Dorchester, which he sold and removed to Salem in 1634.  He lived in Marblehead, contiguous to Salem, in 1635.  He rented Noddle’s Island in Boston Harbor, now known as East Boston near the airport. There is still a Maverick subway station in East Boston, and a Maverick Square. It’s interesting that two of my ancestors owned islands in Boston Harbor.

Samuel and Moses Maverick were notorious slave owners, both Indians and Africans.  The first colonial slave ship was built in Marblehead in 1636, and Moses Maverick was probably an investor.  Moses was part of the effort to split the peninsula of Marblehead off from Salem, and he was one of the first Marblehead selectmen.   There are many stories and books about Samuel and Moses Maverick so I won’t repeat them here.  They are some of my most notorious “black sheep” ancestors. You can read more about Samuel and Moses Maverick and their slaves at Bill West’s blog post here:  http://westinnewengland.blogspot.com/2012/01/thomas-slave.html

Moses and Remember had seven children. Their daughter, Abigail Maverick (1645 – 1686) is my 9^th great grandmother.  She was the first wife of Samuel Ward of Salem, and they had seven children.  Major Samuel Ward died on the Expedition to Quebec, Canada led by Sir William Phips.  This was a fleet of 30 ships from Boston, and about two thousand men, which suffered a great loss.  Four ships sank and many men died.  Some of the surviving men brought back smallpox, which spread throughout Boston and Dorchester, killing another 57 people.

Some MAVERICK resources:

The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620 - 1633, by Robert Charles Anderson, 1995, Volume II, pages 1241 – 1243 for a sketch of John Maverick and his children.

Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Seventeen: Isaac Allerton [one of the Silver books series], 1998, pages 4 – 6 for Moses Maverick and Remember Allerton, and pages 9 – 10 for Abigail Maverick and Samuel Ward.  Martha Ward and John Tuttle are outlined on pages 26 – 27, and Martha Tuttle and Mark Haskell are on pages 65 – 66. 

Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies of the United States, by Gary Boyd Roberts, 2008, page 377.

Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, by Douglas Richardson and Kimball G. Everingham, 1990, page 370.

There is an entire blog about Samuel Maverick at this link [unknown author]:  http://samuelmaverick.blogspot.com/

My MAVERICK genealogy:

Generation 1:  John Maverick, son of Peter Maverick and Dorothy Tucke, baptized 28 October 1578 in Awliscombe, Devonshire, England, died 3 February 1636 at Dorchester, Massachusetts;  married on 28 October 1600 to Mary Gye, daughter of Robert Gye and Drace Dowrish.  She died after 9 October 1666 in Massachusetts. Nine children.

Generation 2:  Moses Maverick, baptized 3 November 1611 in Huish, Devonshire, England and died 28 January 1686 in Marblehead, Massachusetts; married before 6 May 1635 in Marblehead to Remember Allerton, daughter of Isaac Allerton and Mary Norris (Mayflower passengers).  She was born about 1614 in Leyden, Holland and died before 22 October 1656.  Six children.

Generation 3: Abigail Maverick, baptized 12 January 1645 in Salem, Massachusetts, died before January 1686; married about 1662 in Ipswich to Samuel Ward, son of Samuel Ward and Mary Hilliard.  He was baptized 18 November 1638 in Hingham, Massachusetts and died between 30 July 1689 and 12 March 1691 during the Expedition to Quebec, Canada.

Generation 4:  Martha Ward m. John Tuthill

Generation 5:  Martha Tuthill m. Mark Haskell

Generation 6: Lucy Haskell m. Jabez Treadwell

Generation 7: Nathaniel Treadwell m. Mary Hovey

Generation 8: Jabez Treadwell m. Betsey Jillings Homan

Generation 9: Eliza Ann Treadwell m. Abijah Hitchings

Generation 10: Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 11: Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “ Surname Saturday ~ MAVERICK of Dorchester, Massachusetts“, Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 22, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/07/surname-saturday-maverick-of-dorchester.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday - Gould

GOULD

I have two lineages descending from Alexander Gould of Maine.  I also have two more Gould lineages descending from Richard Gould, whose children lived in Essex County, Massachusetts.  Considering that Alexander Gould's children removed to Marblehead, in Essex County, it has been fun keeping all these Goulds in line!

A map of Muscongus Bay, Maine

Alexander Gould was deeded a tract of land dated August 8, 1660 at Broad Bay, Maine from his father-in-law, John Brown of New Harbor. The book The History of Ancient Sheepscot and Newcastle, Maine states "Sander Gould had three daughters, Margaret, Mary and Elizabeth.  William Stilson married Margaret and resided on the premises till killed by the Indians. Their children James and Margaret survived and in the next cetury laid claim to these lands."  Alexander Gould's origins are unknown.  There are several deeds filed in Essex County, Massachusetts that mention Alexander or Sander Gould.

Generation 1. Alexander Gould, born about 1636, died about 1672 at Muscongus, Maine; married about 1659 in New Harbor, Maine to Margaret Brown, daughter of John Brown and Margaret Hayward, born aobut 1638 at Pemaquid, Maine, died about 1675 at New Harbor. Four children.  Margaret was previously married to Morris Chamblet and had one son, Samuel.

1st Gould lineage:
Generation 2. Margaret Gould, born about 1661 in New Harbor, died about December 1750; married about 1675 to her first husband, James Stilson, son of Vincent Stilson and Grace Unknown, who died on 2 August 1689 at Muscongus Island in an Indian attack.  Five children.  She married second on 30 March 1696 to Thomas Pitman, son of Thomas Pitman, born 1652 in Marblehead, Massachusetts, died in April 1736 in Marblehead.

Generation 3. James Stilson (about 1680 - 1772) m. Hannah Odiorne
Generation 4. Hannah Stilston (1706 - 1776) m. Thomas Mead
Generation 5. Hannah Mead (1730 - before 1759) m. James Wilkinson
Generation 6. William Wilkinson (d. after 1840) m. Mercy Nason
Generation 7. Aaron Wilkinson (1802 - 1879) m. Mercy F. Wilkinson
Generation 8. Robert Wilson Wilkinson (1830 - 1874) m. Phebe Cross Munroe
Generation 9. Albert Munroe Wilkinson (1860 - 1908) m. Isabella Lyons Bill
Generation 10. Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my paternal grandparents)

2nd Gould lineage:
Generation 2. Elizabeth Gould, born 1667 in Marblehead, died after 26 December 1719; married on 27 October 1692 in Marblehead to Edward Homan, son of Edward Homan, born 1668 and died in July 1714 in Marblehead.  Six children.

Generation 3. Peter Homan (b. 1699) m. Mary Hoyle
Generation 4. William Homan (b. 1725) m. Elizabeth Unknown
Generation 5. Thomas Homan (b. about 1758 - 1832) m. Tabitha Glover
Generation 6. Betsey Jillings Homan (1792- 1874) m. Jabez Treadwell
Generation 7. Eliza Ann Treadwell (1812 - 1896) m. Abijah Hitchings
Generation 8. Abijah Franklin Hitchings (1841- 1910) m. Hannah Eliza Lewis
Generation 9. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings (1868 - 1937) m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil
Generation 10. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen

No books or articles have been written about Alexander Gould, but he is mentioned in deeds and local histories.

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday - Gould", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 22, 2011, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/10/surname-saturday-gould.html: accessed [access date]). 

Tombstone Tuesday- More from Marblehead, Massachusetts

This

Stone is set up to

Perpetuate the me-

mory of Mr.

JOSEPH HOMAN,

Who departed this

Life Decr. 3d 1789

Aged 80 year &

7 months

An honest man's the noblest

work of God

[Joseph Homan was born 27 May 1708 in Marblehead,

he was the brother to my 7x Great Grandfather,

Peter Homan (b. 1699)]

ERECTED in memoryof

SARAH HOMAN, wife

of Mr. Joseph Homan

who, after a life adorned

with the profession &

practice of Christianity

suddenly expired April

20th 1783 Aged 73 years

My flesh shall slumber in the ground

the last trumpet's joyful sound

Then burst the chains with sweet surpriz

And in my Savior's image rise.

[Sarah Bray was born about 1710 and

married Joseph Homan in Marblehead on 17 September 1730]

Here lyes ye Body of

JOSEPH HOMAN only son

of Mr. JOSEPH & Mrs. SARAH

HOMAN who departed this

life Feby. 28th 1759 in ye

22nd year of his age

The Homan Family at Marblehead's Old Burial Ground

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Copyright 2011, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Tombstone Tuesday- Marblehead, Massachusetts

These gravestones were photographed at Old Burial Hill in Marblehead, Massachusetts.  This graveyard was established in 1638.

This stone is

erected in memory of

Benjamin Glover, who

died May 1759

aged 19 months

of Benjamin Glover

who died Sep. 10th 1762

aged 6 weeks

And of Jonathan Glover

who died Sept. 20th 1771

Aged 5 months

Sons of Coln. Jonathan

and Abigail Glover

[Jonathan Glover (1731 - 1797) was the brother to

Daniel Glover (1735 - 1790) my 6x Great Grandfather and also

brother to General John Glover (1732 -    1797). 

Jonathan was  married to Abigail Burnham (1726 - 1787) ]

In Memory of

Mrs. TABITHA JILLINGS

the relict of

Mr. JONATHAN GLOVER

from who the present

families of this name

descended.  She died

March  7, 1785 Aged

76 years

[Tabitha Bacon (1712 - 1785) was married to Jonathan Gover (1702 - 1737),

my 7x Great Grandparents, and parents of the brothers described above]

In memory of

THOMAS HOMAN

who died Jan. 17, 1832 Aet 75

His Wife

TABITHA HOMAN

died Mar. 11, 1837, Aet. 73

Also his Daughters

TABITHA died Aug. 24, 1812, Aet. 24

HANNAH died FEb. 2, 1819, Aet 31

[poetry is illegible]

[Thomas Homan and Tabitha Glover were my 5x great grandparents

the daughters were the sister of Betsey Jillings Homan (1792 - 1874)

my 4x Great Grandmother]

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Copyright 2011, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

"Old Ironsides" during the Civil War

USS Constitution
berthed at Charlestown, Mass.

“Old Ironsides” was built in Boston in 1797, one of the first six frigates constructed for the new American Navy. The USS Constitution earned her fame during the War of 1812 in the battle against the British ship Guerriere. The enemy said the cannonballs were bouncing off the sides of the Constitution, thus she earned the name “Old Ironsides”. An article in a Boston newspaper on 14 September 1830 stated that the Navy was going to scrap the Constitution. Two days later a 21 year old Oliver Wendall Holmes published a sentimental poem to "Old Ironsides" in the same newspaper, and school children began sending in pennies for her repair.

During the Civil War, the Constitution was already considered old fashioned, and she was used as a training ship for cadets. She was berthed at Annapolis, the Naval Academy. At the outbreak of war, the Constitution was ordered to relocate in New York City Harbor, and several companies of Massachusetts volunteers were stationed on board. She spent most of the war near Newport, Rhode Island. Her sister ship United States was captured at Norfolk, Virginia, and this left “ Old Ironsides” the only remaining ship of the six original frigates in the US Navy.

How did I know about “Old Ironsides” rescue during the Civil War? I found out through researching my Great Great Grandfather’s Civil War service. He served twice in the war, and I knew his regiments through his obituaries and pension papers. In reading the regimental histories I found out that he was part of one of the regiments of Massachusetts Volunteers who rescued the Constitution and towed her north for protection. Great Great Grandfather Abijah Franklin Hitchings was from Salem, Massachusetts, originally a sail maker. Many of the men in his regiment were fishermen, ship builders, or held other maritime occupations. It is no doubt this is why they were the perfect choice for this particular mission.

Great Great Grandfather Hitchings was part of Company “I” of the 8th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the Salem Zouaves with the fancy red uniforms. After his 90 days serving outside of Baltimore, he re-enlisted in Company “H” of the 19th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, where he was wounded at Fredericksburg . At his funeral in 1910, four members of the Salem Zouaves served as pallbearers.

Here is an excerpt from the book The United States Naval Academy, by Park Benjamin, Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1900, page 231.

" Just as day was breaking, Captain Haggerty came back with my brother and Commodore Blake. I invited the commodore to the quarter-deck where we could be alone. and told him who I was, and why I was there, and asked what he desired.
The old man burst into tears, and shed them like rain for a moment, and then broke out:- "Thank God! Thank God! Won't you save the Constitution?"
I did not know that he referred to the ship Constitution, and I answered:- "Yes, that is what I am here for."
"Are those your orders? Then the old ship is safe."
"I have no orders," said I; "I am carrying on the war now on my own hook;" I cut loose from my orders when I left Philadelphia. What do you want me to do to save the Constitution?"
'I want some sailor men,' he answered; 'for I have no sailors' I want to get her out, and get her afloat. 
"Oh, well," said I, "I have plenty of sailor men from the town of Marblehead, where their fathers built the Constitution."

Another excerpt from Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major General Benjamin F. Butler, by Benjamin Franklin Butler, A. M. Thayer & Co. Publishers, Boston, Massachusetts, 1892, page 195.

"Immediately after breakfast, I detailed a company, the Salem Zouaves, Captain Deveraux, the best drilled company I had, as guard on board the Constitution. I also detailed a company of Marbleheaders, who were fishermen, to help work the ship under the command of Lieutenant (afterwards Admiral) Rogers. He worked with a will, and I shall never forget my delight at his efficiency. He transferred all the upper deck guns and their carriages on board the Maryland, thus lighting the Ship. We got up her anchors, which were several feet deep in the mud, and after very strenuous efforts on the part of all of us, the Constitution, attached to the Maryland, was worked around and down the bay into deep water." "

Re-enactors playing Salem Zouaves
in their distinctive red uniforms

The Constitution retired from active service in 1881, and was berthed for fifteen years in the harbor at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. In 1897, her 100th birthday, she was towed to Boston. She is still a commissioned US naval war ship. For many years she continued as a training ship. She is serving a new role in educational outreach at the Charlestown Navy Yard. All the crew is active duty US Naval personnel wearing 1812 uniforms.



A. F. Franklin's photo
if it were color you would
see his red Zouave uniform

On 10 April 2011, a group of men re-enacted the Salem Zouaves rescuing the Constitution at the Charlestown Navy yard as part of the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War. You can read about it at their Facebook page “Salem Zouaves” with photos and videos, or you can follow their blog at http://salemzouaves.org/

For more information:

Captain George S. Blake Saved the USS Constitution http://www.historynet.com/captain-george-s-blake-saved-the-uss-constitution.htm

“History of the Salem Light Infantry: 1805 – 1890″ by George Mantum Whipple. It is available online at Google Books

“Salem Zouaves” by Capt. J. P. Reynolds, is a journal of the Salem Zouaves held at the Clements Library at the University of Michigan. You can read a transcript of this journal at the web page http://www.cunninghamfamily.us/1861_journal.htm

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Copyright 2011, Heather Wilkinson Rojo