Weathervane Wednesday ~ Weathervanes in Boston, England

I posted a series of weather vane photographs every Wednesday for the last several years.  This started with images of weathervanes from the Londonderry, New Hampshire area, but now I've found interesting weather vanes all across New England and across the globe.  This is the last weathervane post of the series!  I hope you've enjoyed these Weathervane Wednesday posts. 

Today's weather vanes were photographed in England.

Do you know the location of weathervane post #400?  Scroll down to find the answer.

These weathervanes were photographed on the tower above the "Boston Stump" or St. Botolph's church,  in Boston, Lincolnshire, England.  The name of the town "Boston" is thought to derive from "St. Botolph's town".  We were visiting Boston during our tour of England and Holland with the General Society of Mayflower Descendants Historic Sites Tour last year.

There appear to be eight weathervanes on the octagonal tower above the church.  Each is a gilded banner, and very shiny in the sunlight.  However, the tower is extremely tall at 272 feet height, and we could only see these weathervanes using the zoom lens on the camera.  You can see the sunlight glinting off the banners from a great distance.  This tower is so tall, sailors at sea use it as a landmark!

There is a "Puritan Path" of markers outside the
church, memorializing the Puritans who left
Lincolnshire for Boston, Massachusetts

"1630 John Cotton bids farewell to his parishoners on the the Arbella"

This church is very important in New England history.  The Puritan leader Rev. John Cotton was a vicar at St. Botolphs in the 17th century.  He encouraged a large number of his congregation, on board the ship Arbella and other ships in the Winthrop Fleet, to leave for New England in 1630.  By 1633 Rev. Cotton also left, and he founded and named Boston, Massachusetts.  There is a Cotton Chapel inside St. Botolph's church now, as well as a model of the Mayflower (the Pilgrim Fathers were imprisoned in Boston for trying to escape to Holland).   I had several ancestors believed to have been on board the Arbella, including Samuel and William Chesebrough, William Beamsley, Edward Converse, Mattias Irons, Edmund Lockwood, Thomas Mayhew, and Ezekiel Richardson.

Five men from Boston, England became Governors of Massachusetts - Richard Bellingham, Thomas Dudley, Simon Bradstreet, John Leverett and Francis Bernard.

I think that this church and it's weathervanes are a nice way to wrap up this series of 400 weathervane posts for "Weathervane Wednesday".  I can't think of a town or church in England that influenced migration and family history as much as the "Boston Stump".

I hope you enjoyed this series!

Click here to read about our day in Boston, Lincolnshire, England:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/11/along-pilgrim-trail-boston-lincolnshire.html

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Weathervane Wednesday ~ Weathervanes in Boston, England", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 30, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/01/weathervane-wednesday-weathervanes-in_23.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ WAY of Dorchester, Massachusetts

Second Church of Dorchester

WAY / WAYE

My 11^th great grandfather, Henry Way (1583 – 1667), lived in Bridport in the parish of Allington, Dorset, England where his six children were baptized.   Some say that he arrived in New England aboard the ship Mary and John with his wife Elizabeth Bachelor, and five children, but there is no passenger list for that ship.   They arrived at Nantasket on 30 May 1630 and settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts. The first record of Henry Way is in 1631 when his fishing boat rescued three men from a sinking ship [from The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, by John Winthrop, volume 2, page 71].  He signed a document to support the Dorchester school teacher on 7 February 1641/2 and he was admitted to the Second Church of Dorchester on 5 May 1643. 

Henry Way was a merchant, and he is often seen in records that have to do with mariners or boats. There was another merchant named “Mr. George Way” who had business in New England and might have been a kinsman.  George Way made a trip to Dorchester.

In a 1632 record “A shallop of one Henry Way of Dorchester, having been missing all the winter, it was found that the men in her, being five, were all killed treacherously by the eastern Indians.  Antoher shallop of his being sent out to seek out the other, was cast away at Aquamenticus, and two of the men drowned.” [ from The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, by John Winthrop, volume 2, page 95] In his book Great Migration Begins, Anderson believes that the author William Hubbard, in his book A General History of New England from Discover to MDCLXXX, 1815, page 198”erroneously supposed that these entries indicated that Henry Way not only owned the shallops, but was in one of them when the tragedies occurred”.

I descend from Hannah Way (b. 1615/6), my 10^th great grandmother who married Bray Wilkins.  You can read all about the WILKINS lineage at this link:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/03/surname-saturday-wilkins-of-dorchester.html  

Henry Way's youngest son, Richard Way (1624 - 1697) had four wives.  His second wife, Bethia Mayhew, is also my 10th great aunt.  I descend from her brother Rev. Thomas Mayhew (about 1620 - 1657) and her sister, Hannah Mayhew (1635 - 1723) who married Thomas Daggett in 1657. Yes, a double Mayhew lineage with a cousin connection, too! 

For more information on the WAY family:

The Great Migration Begins, by Robert Charles Anderson, 1995, Volume III, pages 1951 – 1953.

Way Family History, by Mary Elizabeth Way, published 1974.

The American Genealogist, Volume 61, pages 241 – 256.

My WAY genealogy:

Generation 1:  Henry Way, born about 1583, in Allington, Bridport, Dorset, England, died 24 March 1667 in Dorchester, Massachusetts; married 22 January 1615 in Bridport to Elizabeth Bachelor.  She was born about 1587 and died 23 June 1665 in Dorchester.  Six children.

Generation 2:  Hannah Way, baptized on 3 March 1615/6 in Allington, Bridport; married about 1636 to Bray Wilkins.  He was born about 1610 in Wales, and died 2 January 1702 in Middleton, Massachusetts.  Eight children.

Generation 3:  Margaret Wilkins m. Philip Knight

Generation 4:  Elizabeth Knight m. Samuel Towne

Generation 5:  Rebecca Towne m. Stephen Johnson

Generation 6:  Ruth Johnson m. Richard Cree

Generation 7:  Stephen Cree m. Hannah Smith

Generation 8:  Sarah Cree m. James Phillips

Generation 9:  Hannah Phillips m. Thomas Russell Lewis

Generation 10:  Hannah Eliza Lewis m. Abijah Franklin Hitchings

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 ~ WAY of Dorchester, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted March 24, 2018, (  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/03/surname-saturday-way-of-dorchester.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ Parkhurst of Boston and Watertown, Massachusetts

Parkhurst / Parkis / Parkes / Parkisse / P’rust

Not all immigrants to the New World stayed here. Many went back and forth.  My ancestor Isaac Allerton  (1586 – 1659)made as many as five voyages back and forth to England.  Another ancestor, Rev. Thomas Mayhew (1621 – 1657), died on a trip back to England when his ship disappeared and he was never seen again. Another ancestor, Rev. Stephen Bachiler, went back to England to escape an unfaithful wife, and died there in 1656. The subject of this post, George Parkhurst (1588 – 1675), my 10^th great grandfather, also returned to England after living here in New England for more than 10 years.

No one knows exactly when George Parkhurst arrived in Massachusetts.  We don’t even know if his first wife, Pheobe, immigrated to Massachusetts.   His first record of owning property was 1642 in Watertown, when a highway was laid out near his house. In 1644 he married a second wife, Susanna, widow of John Stimson of Watertown.   

George had nine children with his first wife, Pheobe, and five more with his second wife.  Of his children,  Deborah, my 10^th great grandmother, married John Smith of Watertown and went to Martha’s Vineyard,  and Elizabeth, my 9^th great grandmother, married Emanuel Hilliard and lived in New Hampshire and then married second to Joseph Merry and went to Martha’s Vineyard, too.   The names of all the children were puzzled out by William H. Whitmore in an article in the NEHGS Register, Volume 27, pages 364-369 “The Dalton and Batcheller Pedigree”. 

On 23 May 1655 George petitioned the General Court for permission to return to England.  His second wife, Susanna had already gone back to England with six of her children (five from George).  George wanted to go back to aid his elderly wife.  He was about 67 years old.  A few weeks later, a deed was recorded on 13 June 1655 when he sold his land, his last record in New England.

It is thought that the “Old George Parkhurst” buried 18 June 1675 in Ipswich, England is my 10^th great grandfather.  He was probably living with his cousin Nathaniel Parkhurst, who was taxed there in 1674.

Some resources for George Parkhurst information:

Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England & Their Origins, by John Brooks Threlfall, 1990, pages 256-288.

The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson, 1899 – 1986, by Willard Marshall Bollenback, Jr. , 2003, pages 275-276.

"The Family of George Parkhurst of Watertown and Boston, Mass.", by Edson Salisbury Jones, NEHGS Register, Volume 68, page 370 - 375.

Also,  The History of Martha’s Vineyard by Dr. Charles E. Banks, Volume II, pages 111 – 113.  You can also use the Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, and The Ancestry of Margaret Brooks Threfall, by John Threlfall, 1985.

My PARKHURST lineages:

Generation 1:  George Parkhurst, born about 1588 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England and died about 1675 in Ipswich, England;  married first about 1612 in England to Pheobe Leete; married second about 1644 in Watertown, Massachusetts to Susanna, widow of John Stimson.  Eleven children with Phoebe, five more with Susanna.  I descend from two daughters of Phoebe, Deborah and Elizabeth.

Lineage A:

Generation 2:  Deborah, born 1 August 1619 in Ipswich, England, died about 1686 on the island of Martha’s Vineyard; married about 1638 in Watertown to John Smith.  He was born about 1616 and died before 16 June 1674 in Edgartown, Massachusetts on the island of Martha’s Vineyard.  Five children.

Generation 3:  Deborah Smith m. Nathaniel Batchelder

Linage A1:

Generation 4: Nathaniel Batchelder m. Elizabeth Foss

Generation 5: Josiah Batchelder m. Sarah Page

Generation 6: David Batchelder m. Elizabeth Swett

Generation 7: Elisha Batchelder m. Sarah Lane

Generation 8: Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

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

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

Generation 11: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

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

Lineage A2:

Generation 4: Abigail Batchelder m. John Dearborn

Generation 5: Elizabeth Dearborn m. John Garland

Generation 6: Elizabeth Garland m. Richard Locke

Generation 7: Simon Locke m. Abigail Mace

Generation 8: Richard Locke m. Margaret Welch

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

Lineage B:

Generation 2: Elizabeth, born 18 May 1628 in Ipswich, England, died 6 October 1727 in Edgartown on the island of Martha’s Vineyard; married first to Emanuel Hilliard on 10 April 1640 in Watertown and had four children;  married second on 14 December 1659 in Hampton, New Hampshire to Joseph Merry. Four children.

Generation 3: Elizabeth Hilliard m. John Mayhew (son of Rev. Thomas Mayhew mentioned above)

Generation 4: John Mayhew m. Mehitable Higgins

Generation 5: John Mayhew m. Ruth Davis

Generation 6: Mary Mayhew m. Caleb Rand

Generation 7: Mary Rand m. Asahel Bill

Generation 8: Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill m. Caleb Rand Bill

Generation 9: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ Parkhurst of Boston and Watertown, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 31, 2015 ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/10/surname-saturday-parkhurst-of-boston.html : accessed [access date]).

Moving a lighthouse… in 1844 and in 2015

The Gay Head Lighthouse, photographed in 2004

On the island of Martha’s Vineyard, there is a lighthouse at Gay Head.   The first lighthouse was built in 1796, and it was wooden. In 1838 the parabolic lantern in the top of the lighthouse were lowered 14 feet in order to shine below the fog line.   In 1844 the wooden lighthouse was moved back 75 feet because the clay cliffs were eroding.  These colorful red and white cliff were what gave the area its name “Gay Head”, which was originally known to the Wampanoag Indians as “Aquinnah”.  This move was purported to cost $386.87.

In 1854 a new, more modern lighthouse was built on Gay Head, in a new location (further back from the cliffs again) with more lamps and reflectors.  This lighthouse was closed in 1956, and it was retrofitted to run automatically without a lighthouse keeper.  In 1986 the light was re-opened to the public for tours.  By 2013 the lighthouse was declared “excess property” by the Coast Guard and the town of Aquinnah acquired it.  The Martha’s Vineyard Museum now manages the tower and the tours.

In 2012 the lighthouse was only 46 feet from the eroding clay cliff.  The “Save the Gay Head Lighthouse Committee” was formed to move the lighthouse away from the cliffs to safety.  A plan was made in 2014, and in April 2015 the lighthouse was moved back 135 feet from the cliffs.  This move has cost over $3.5 million dollars.

My sister lives on Martha's Vineyard, and she was married on the top of the Gay Head Light house in 2006.  I know that the lighthouse has been a special place in her heart, even before the wedding, and it is special to many people who live on Martha’s Vineyard island.  She was so happy to be part of the committee to save the lighthouse, and became the landscape architect for the landscape design team.  You can see her proposed design and rendering for the park around the lighthouse at its new location at this link  (click on the image of the rendering at this link to enlarge): http://vineyardgazette.com/news/2014/07/17/site-chosen-relocating-gay-head-light?k=vg556b970b8a1db

And here is the completed landscape rendering and final design (you can see the old and the new locations of the lighthouse):

Lighthouse Relocation chair, Len Butler,
with landscape architect, Laurel Wilkinson,
(my little sister in a hard hat!)
Photo courtesy of Derrill Bazzy

At the many meetings and during the intensive research that went on as part of moving this enormous 400 ton brick lighthouse, my sister learned that in 1844 the original wooden lighthouse was moved by “John Mayhew of Edgartown”.   She thought that was wonderful, since our family is descended from the original Governor Thomas Mayhew of Martha’s Vineyard.  She asked me “Were we cousins?”

Well, we descend from three of Thomas Mayhew’s children, two from his first wife Abigail Parkhurst, and one from his second wife Jane.  There were many, many “John Mayhews” in the family tree.  Which one was the John who moved the lighthouse?

I asked a few fellow genealogists for help.  Janice Webster Brown, genealogist and fellow New Hampshire genealogy blogger at "Cow Hampshire",  leaped to the challenge and had a lineage for me before I could even get back to my computer that same day. Janice has a Mayhew ancestor, too. After some fiddling, here is our cousin connection:

                     Governor Thomas Mayhew m. Jane, widow of Thomas Paine

                                  I                                            I

Matthew Mayhew m. Mary Skiffe            Hannah Mayhew m. Thomas Daggett

                                  I                                            I

Paine Mayhew m. Mary Rankin                Thomas Daggett m. Elizabeth Hawes

                                  I                                            I

Thomas Mayhew m. Lydia Lothrop           Elizabeth Daggett m. John Butler

                                  I                                            I

Paine Mayhew m. Margaret Wass              Keziah Butler m. Samuel Osborn

                                  I                                             I

Arnold Mayhew m. Jerusha White             Samuel Osborn m. Sarah Wass 

                                 I                                              I

Constant Mayhew m. Rowena Phinney     Sarah Osborn m. Charles Skinner

                                 I                                              I

John Mayhew m. Deborah Jernegan          Ann Skinner m.  Thomas Ratchford Lyons

                                                                                I

                                                                    Isabella Lyons m. Rev. Ingraham E. Bill

                                                                                I

                                                                    Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

                                                                                I

                                                                    Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

                                                                                I

                                                                    Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts

                                                                                           (my grandparents)

Many years ago I received assistance on my three Mayhew lineages from Catherine Mayhew (imagine that! Another cousin!), the librarian at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum.  This spring Patricia Stano Carpenter, a fellow member of the Massachusetts Society of Genealogist, put me touch in Catherine Mayhew and Jane Manning, a genealogist on the island.  Catherine sent me the following excerpts from Banks History of Martha’s Vineyard, Volume II “Annals of Gay Head”, pages 28 – 31 in this email:

“Leavitt Thaxter’s will confirmed the relationship naming his “adopted and beloved children John Mayhew, Esquire, and Martha Leavitt Thaxter”.⁶

 After the children’s father died Constant Mayhew died at Williamsburg in December 1827 of typhoid fever, he left five children ranging in age from 10 years to 2 months of age. A few years later Thaxter and his wife ‘Patty’ Martha (Mayhew) took in the two middle children, raising them as their own.¹ The girl Martha Mayhew, also called Patty, was 13 when as “Martha Leavitt Mayhew, an adopted daughter of Leavitt Thaxter” she changed her name to Thaxter on 13 March 1832.⁵

 The boy John Mayhew never changed his name. His obituary says he came to Edgartown to attend Thaxter’s Academy by the time he was about 12, in 1834. At 18 he trained as a carpenter, then worked as a clerk in the custom house for about six years. In 1850 he established a successful express shipping business on the Islands while acting as purser for the steamboat company. Later he was also a general freight agent with the New Bedford, Nantucket & Martha’s Vineyard Steamboat Company for fifteen years.¹

 I would be very interested in any facts found about the purported move.”

And from the book:

“Gay Head Light

..  approved 1799 by the General Court of Mass. a tract of two acres and four rods passed into possession of the government.  The tower first built was of wood, forty feet high, and the lantern  supported by eight large pine beams, was reached by ladders.  …The wooden tower, which had been reduced ten feet in height, lasted sixty years … and the site can be seen yet [c1930].  The second and present tower was built in 1858-9 and is of brick construction sixty feet high.”

Another mystery?  Was the lighthouse really ever moved?  Or did John Mayhew just lop off the top of the wooden tower?  Well, at least we now know who was John Mayhew (1822 – 1899).  And yes, he was a cousin!

 More resources for the truly curious: 

The Gay Head Lighthouse    http://gayheadlight.org/

Gay Head Lighthouse at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum website

http://www.mvmuseum.org/gayhead.php

Gay Head Light Wikipedia article  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Head_Light

Save the Gay Head Lighthouse Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/SaveTheGayHeadLighthouse

“Gay Head Light reaches final destination after historic move” by Doug Fraser, for The Cape Cod Times, May 31, 2015, http://capecodtimes.com/article/20150531/NEWS/150539937

“Day Three: Cheers All Around as Historic Lighthouse Move is Complete” by Alex Elvin for The Vineyard Gazette, May 30, 2015  http://vineyardgazette.com/news/2015/05/30/day-three-cheers-all-around-historic-lighthouse-move-complete?k=vg556b970b8a1db

Stay tuned!  Both PBS's NOVA and the National Geographic channel filmed the Gay Head Lighthouse move for future broadcast as part of documentaries to be broadcast later.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Moving a lighthouse ... in 1844 and in 2015", Nutfield Genealogy,  July 2, 2015 ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/07/moving-lighthouse-in-1844-and-in-2015.html: accessed [access date]). 

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Reverend Mr. John Mayhew, d. 1688 Martha's Vineyard

This tombstone was photographed in West Tisbury, Massachusetts on the island of Martha's Vineyard.

HERE LYES YE BODY OF MR

JOHN MAYEW THAT WORTHY

LABORIOUS MINISTER OF YE

GOSPELL TO YE INHABITANTS

OF TISBURY & CHILMARK UNITED

TO YE CHRISTIAN INDIANS

WHO DIED FEBRUARY YE 2D

1688 AETATIS 37

Reverend John Mayhew is my 8th great grandfather.  He was born in 1652 and died very young.  He was married to Elizabeth Hilliard, of Hampton, New Hampshire who outlived him and died in 1746.  John Mayhew is best known for his ministry to the Wampanoag people on the island of Martha's Vineyard.  He learned their language, and made friends with the Indians on the island.  His wonderful relations with the Wampanoag nation kept the violence of King Phillip's War away from Martha's Vineyard, one of the few places in New England where there was no blood shed during this time period.  

After his early death, his father,  Thomas Mayhew, was moved to give up his life as a merchant and turned to continuing his son's ministry to the Indians.  John's son, Experience Mayhew, was also a missionary to the Praying Indians and published several religious books in the Wampanoag language, including a Psalter in 1709, sermons in 1724, and others. His book "Indian Converts", 1720, was a best selling book of its time.  In 1723 Harvard College granted him a masters of arts degree, which was unheard of for a man who had never stepped foot inside a school and was totally self educated. 

You can read a short sketch about John Mayhew in The Annals of Chilmark, Volume II, pages 32 - 34.  

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Surname Saturday ~ DAGGETT of Plymouth, Watertown, and Martha’s Vineyard

DAGGETT/DOGGETT

John Daggett, my 11^th great grandfather,  arrived in Massachusetts with the Winthrop Fleet. He arrived in Salem in 1630 and was one of the original settlers of Watertown, and had a lot next to Sir Richard Saltonstall.  He became part of Governor Thomas Mayhew’s company that settled Martha’s Vineyard, an island off Cape Cod.  His son Thomas Daggett had already settled there.  He married in Plymouth in 1667 to Bathsheba Pratt, his second wife, and he probably died there in 1673.

In the second generation, Thomas Daggett, my 10^th great grandfather, married Governor Thomas Mayhew’s daughter, Hannah.  Governor Mayhew described him as “My son Doggett, that hath more language than any other Englishman upon the island and is a considerable young man.”   He was Clerk of the Courts and later a Justice of the County Courts.

In the third generation, Captain Thomas Daggett was in the town militia.  He removed to Bristol, Rhode Island for a while, but returned to Martha’s Vineyard, where he died.  The inventory of his estate showed that he owned 1,393 pounds in real estate.

There is an article about Alice Brotherton, wife of John Doggett of Martha’s Vineyard, in The American Genealogist, Volume 72, pages 89 to 102.  The sketch of John Doggett can be found in The Great Migration Begins, Volume I, pages 568 to 570.   

My DAGGETT genealogy:

Generation 1: John Daggett, born 4 October 1602 in Boxford, Suffolk, England, died in May 1673 in Plymouth, Massachusetts; married in 29 August 1622 in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, England to Alice Brotherton.  He married second to Bathsheba Pratt.

Generation 2: Thomas Daggett, born between 1630 and 1632 in Watertown, Massachusetts; married on 23 September 1657 in Edgartown to Hannah Mayhew, daughter of Governor Thomas Mayhew.  She was born 15 June 1635 and died 7 February 1723 in Edgartown, Massachusetts. Eleven children.  He married second to Elizabeth Humphrey and third to Joan Unknown.

Generation 3:  Captain Thomas Daggett, son of Thomas Daggett and Hannah Mayhew, born about 1658 and died 28 August 1726 in Edgartown; married on 22 January 1684 in Bristol, Rhode Island to Elizabeth Hawes.   Ten children.

Generation 4: Elizabeth Daggett, born about 1690 in Edgartown, died after 1753; married on 16 December 1708 in Edgartown to John Butler, son of John Butler and Priscilla Norton.  He was born about 1674 and died after 6 February 1754.  Six children.

Generation 5: Keziah Butler married Samuel Osborn

Generation 6: Samuel Osborn married Sarah Wass

Generation 7: Sarah Osborn married Charles Skinner

Generation 8: Ann Skinner married Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Generation 9: Isabella Lyons married Rev. Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Generation 10:  Caleb Rand Bill married Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 11: Isabella Lyons Bill married Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 12: Donald Munroe Wilkinson married Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

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Surname Saturday ~ Parkhurst of Watertown, Massachusetts

PARKHURST

This is another ancestor who arrived in New England in the 1600s and returned to England.  George Parkhurst arrived in New England sometime before 1640 judging by some of his children’s marriage dates.  He is in the records in Watertown, Massachusetts in 1642 when a road was laid out near his house.  With his first wife he had nine children, but it is unknown whether or not she came to America with him.  In 1644 he married Susanna, the widow of John Stimson, and had five more children.

At some point before 1655 Susannah went back to England.  George Parkhurst sold 12 acres of John Stimson’s land on 13 June 1655 and petitioned the General Court for the sale because he was elderly (67 years old), and his wife had returned to England with six of the children, and he wanted to go be with her.  He must have returned to England soon after this date.   He is probably the “Old George Parkhurst” buried on 18 June 1675 in St. Lawrence, Ipswich, England.

I descend from both Deborah and Elizabeth Parkhurst, the daughters of George and his first wife, Phebe Leete.  Deborah married John Smith of Martha’s Vineyard who is my 9^th great grandfather.  I also descend from his brothers Thomas and Francis.  Elizabeth Parkhurst also married a man from Martha’s Vineyard, Joseph Merry, and her first husband was from New Hampshire, where she lived and had four children.   Deborah and Elizabeth’s siblings married and removed to Woburn and Concord, Massachusetts and to Rhode Island and New Jersey.  They were a very diverse bunch, which descendants all over the East Coast!

Some sources for researching this family are Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England and Their Origins by John Threlfall, 1990, pages 257 – 269, and also The History of Martha’s Vineyard by Dr. Charles E. Banks, Volume II, pages 111 – 113.  You can also use the Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, and The Ancestry of Margaret Brooks Threfall, by John Threlfall, 1985.

My Parkhurst genealogy:

Generation 1: George Parkhurst, son of John Parkhurst of Ipswich, England, buried on 18 June 1675 in St. Lawrence, Ipswich, England; married first about 1612 in Ipswich, England to Phebe Leete, daughter of Robert Leete and Alice Grundy.  She was baptized on 20 December 1585 in Little Eversden, Cambridge, England, and died sometime before 1643.  He married second about 1644 in Massachusetts to Susanna Unknown, the widow of John Stimson of Watertown, Massachusetts.

Lineage A:

Generation 2:  Deborah Parkhurst, baptized on 1 August 1619 at St. Margaret’s in Ipswich, England, died about 1686 on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts; married about 1638 in Watertown to John Smith, son of John Smith and Isabella Drake.  He was born about 1616 in Hampton, Hampshire, England and died before 16 June 1674 in Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard. They had five children.

Generation 3:  Deborah Smith m. Nathaniel Batchelder

Lineage A1

Generation 4:  Nathaniel Batchelder m. Elizabeth Foss

Generation 5:  Josiah Batchelder m. Sarah Page

Generation 6: David Batchelder m. Elizabeth Swett

Generation 7: Elisha Batchelder m. Sarah Lane

Generation 8: Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

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

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

Generation 11: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

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

Lineage A2:

Generation 4: Abigail Batchelder m. John Dearborn

Generation 5: Elizabeth Dearborn m. John Garland

Generation 6: Elizabeth Garland m. Richard Locke

Generation 7: Simon Locke m. Abigail Mace

Generation 8: Richard Locke m. Margaret Welch

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

See above

Lineage B:

Generation 2: Elizabeth Parkhurst, baptized on 18 May 1628 at St. Margaret’s in Ipswich, England; died 6 October 1727 probably in Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard; married first on 10 April 1640 in Watertown to Emanuel Hilliard.  He died 20 October 1657 at sea.  Elizabeth married second on 14 December 1659 in Hampton, New Hampshire to Joseph Merry as his second wife.  He died 5 April 1710 in Edgartown.  She had four children with her first husband and four more with her second husband.

Generation 3:  Elizabeth Hilliard m. Reverend John Mayhew

Generation 4: John Mayhew m. Mehitable Higgins

Generation 5: John Mayhew m. Ruth Davis

Generation 6: Mary Mayhew m. Caleb Rand

Generation 7: Mary Rand m. Asahel Bill

Generation 8: Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill m. Caleb Rand Bill

Generation 9: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

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

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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Surname Saturday ~ HILLIARD of Hampton, New Hampshire

HILLIARD

The New Hampshire Marine Memorial

At Hampton Beach, New Hampshire

On 10 October 1657 my 9^th great grandfather, Emanuel Hilliard, was granted a farm in Hampton, New Hampshire by his wife’s uncle, the Reverend Timothy Dalton.  One of Emanuel’s four sons was named Timothy (probably not a coincidence). 

Just ten days later Emanuel Hilliard was one of eight people on board the boat “Rivermouth”, which was lost between Hampton, New Hampshire and Boston on 20 October 1657.  All were presumed drowned at sea.  His estate was appraised on 19 November 1657 in Hampton [Old Norfolk County, Massachusetts Deeds, Volume 1, page 74 – remember that at this time this part of New Hampshire was actually part of Massachusetts]  He left a widow and four children.

His widow Elizabeth Parkhurst, remarried in 1659 to Joseph Merry and had four more children. He was about 62 years old when the last child was born.  His gravestone in Edgartown states that he lived to be 103 years old. 

For more information on Emanuel Hilliard of Hampton:

The Probate of Emanuel Hilliard can be seen at the Lane Memorial Library website (the public library of Hampton, New Hampshire) http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/history/probate/emanuelhilliard1657.htm

The History of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire by Joseph Dow, Salem, Massachusetts: Salem Press, 1893, Volume II, page 746 has a sketch on the Hilliard family.

The relationship between the Daltons, Hilliards, Parkhursts and other Hampton families was puzzled out by William H. Whitmore in an article “The Dalton and Batcheller Pedigree” in The New England Historic Genealogical Register, October 1873, Volume 27, pages 364 – 369.   This relationship was mangled in a book The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, by Charles Henry Pope, 1908, and is still seen on the internet. Beware!

My Hilliard lineage:

Generation 1:  Emanuel Hilliard, died 20 October 1657 at sea; married on 10 April 1640 in Watertown, Massachusetts to Elizabeth Parkhurst, daughter of George Parkhurst and Phebe Leete.  She was born on 18 May 1628 and died on 6 October 1727 probably in Edgartown, on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.  Four children.   She remarried on 14 December 1659 in Hampton to Joseph Merry.  He was born in 1607 and died on 5 April 1710 in Edgartown.

Generation 2:  Elizabeth Hilliard, born 22 January 1654, died 1746 in Chilmark on Martha’s Vineyard; married in 1672 in Tisbury on Martha’s Vineyard to Reverend John Mayhew, son of Governor Thomas Mayhew and Jane Gallion.  He was born in 1652 and died 2 February 1689 in Chilmark.  Five children.

Generation 3:  John Mayhew m. Mehitable Higgins

Generation 4:  John Mayhew m. Ruth Davis

Generation 5:  Mary Mayhew m. Caleb Rand

Generation 6:  Mary Rand m. Asahel Bill

Generation 7:  Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill m. Isabella Lyons

Generation 8:  Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 9:  Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

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

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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Surname Saturday ~ MAYHEW of Martha's Vineyard

MAYHEW

THIS ROCK MARKS THE PLACE ON THE WAYSIDE WHERE THE

REV. THOMAS MAYHEW Jr.

SON OF GOV. MAYHEW

FIRST PASTOR OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST ON MARTHA'S VINEYARD,

AND THE FIRST MISSIONARY TO THE INDIANS OF NEW ENGLAND,

SOLEMNLY AND AFFECTIONATELY TOOK LEAVE OF THE INDIANS

WHO, IN LARGE NUMBERS, HAD FOLLOWED HIM DOWN FROM THE

WESTERN PART OF THE ISLAND, BEING HIS LAST WORSHIP AND

INTERVIEW WITH THEM BEFORE EMBARKING FOR ENGLAND IN 

1657, FROM WHENCE HE NEVER RETURNED, NO TIDINGS EVER

COMING FROM THE SHIP OR ITS PASSENGERS.

IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF HIM

THOSE INDIANS RAISED THIS PILE OF STONES

1657    1901

ERECTED BY THE MARTHA'S VINEYARD CHAPTER DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

THE LAND GIVEN FOR THIS PURPOSE BY CAPT. BENJAMIN COFFIN CROMWELL OF TISBURY

THE BOULDER BROUGHT FROM GAY HEAD A GIFT FROM THE NOW RESIDENT INDIANS

TABLET PURCHASED WITH DONATIONS FROM MAYHEW DESCENDANTS

More than twenty years ago my sister moved to Martha’s Vineyard and married a lobsterman.  At the wedding her best friend, a Mayhew descendant, showed me the plaque in the church that said it had been founded by Reverend Thomas Mayhew in the 1600s. I have met many Mayhew descendants since then, including Katherine Mayhew, the genealogy expert at the Martha’s Vineyard historical society.  So, I was flabbergasted to learn that I was also a descendant of the same Mayhew family! (And my sister was quite impressed.)

Thomas Mayhew was baptized at Tisbury, England and left with the Great Migration in 1631 to come to Massachusetts.  He first settled in Medford, and then became the governor of the island of Martha’s Vineyard.  He led a settlement there in 1641 with his son, Thomas, Jr. The Mayhews were very successful at establishing friendly relations with the Wampanoags on the island.  Even when King Phillip’s war was raging in the rest of New England, the Wampanoags remained allies with the settlers on Martha’s Vineyard.

The son, Reverend Thomas Mayhew was one of the most successful Christian missionaries in New England.  He established towns of praying Indians, schools, and churches.  In 1657 Reverend Thomas Mayhew went to England for an appeal for missionary funds, and his ship was never seen again and presumed lost.  The Elder Mayhew carried out his son’s ministries to the Wampanoag for the next 25 years.

The grandson, John Mayhew, carried on the mission after his grandfather’s death in 1682.  He died early at age 37 in 1688.  His wife was Elizabeth Hilliard of Hampton, New Hampshire. Her aunt, Deborah (Parkhurst) Smith, is also my 10^th great grandmother. A great grandson, Experience Mayhew, became the first person to translate the Lords' prayer into the  Wampanoag language.  He published several books in the Wampanoag language (Psalms and the Gospel of John) and was a Congregational minister. He wrote the book Indian Converts in 1727 about his Experiences (no pun intended).

For more Mayhew information:

Great Migration Begins, by Richard Charles Anderson, Boston: NEHGS, 1995, Volume II, pages 1243 – 1246

Divided we Stand: Watertown, Massachusetts, by Roger Thompson, Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001

The History of Martha's Vineyard by Dr. Charles Banks, Volume III Family Genealogies: pp. 298 - 328 (the Mayhews) also can be seen online at http://history.vineyard.net/mayhew.htm

Martha's Vineyard Historical Society http://www.mvmuseum.org/ You can send genealogy queries at kayanddonald@yahoo.com, address your query to (who else?) Katherine Mayhew!

My Mayhew genealogy:

Generation 1: Matthew Mayhew, son of Thomas Mayhew and Alice Waterman, born about 1550, died about 1614, married on 2 October in Tisbury, Wiltshire, England to Alice Barter, daughter of Edward Barter and his wife, Edith.

Generation 2: Governor Thomas Mayhew, born about 1593 and died 25 March 1682 in Tisbury, on the island of Martha's Vineyard; married first about 1620 in England to Abigail Parkhurst; married second about 1634 in England to Jane Gallion. I am descended of two children, by Abigail - Thomas and Hannah who married Thomas Daggett/Doggett.

Line A:

Generation 3: Reverend Thomas Mayhew born about 1620 in England, died about November 1657 at sea on a voyage to England; married to Jane Unknown. Six children. I am descended of two children, John (see below) and Jedediah Mayhew who married Benjamin Smith.

Generation 4: Reverend John Mayhew, born about 1652 in Edgartown on the island of Martha's Vineyard, died on 2 February 1689 in Chilmark, on the island of Martha's Vineyard; married in 1672 at Tisbury to Elizabeth Hilliard, born 22 January 1654 in Hampton, New Hampshire, died 1746 in Chilmark, daughter of Emmanuel Hilliard and Elizabeth Parkhurst. Five children.

Generation 5: John Mayhew, born 1676 in Chilmark, died 3 March 1736 in Chilmark; married on 27 November 1700 in Chilmark to Mehitable Higgins, daughter of Owen Higgins and Seaborn Tew. Seven children.

Generation 6: John Mayhew, born 1701 died on 16 January 1790; married on 29 October 1730 in Falmouth, Massachusetts to Ruth Davis, born 5 July 1705 in Falmouth, died 16 Jan 1790 in Chilmark, daughter of Benjamin Davis and Mary Robinson (a descendant of Reverend John Robinson of the Pilgrims). Five children.

Generation 7: Mary Mayhew, born 22 May 1734 on Martha's Vineyard, died in Nova Scotia; married Caleb Rand, born 10 January 1730 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, died 25 September 1776 in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, son of Caleb Rand and Katherine Kettell. Eleven Children.

Generation 8: Mary Rand m. Asahel Bill
Generation 9: Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill m. Isabella Lyons

Generation 10: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 11: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

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

Line B: 

Generation 3:  Hannah, born 15 June 1635 and died 7 February 1723 in Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard; married on 23 September 1657 in Edgartown to Thomas Daggett as his third wife.  She had eleven children.

Generation 4:  Thomas Daggett m. Elizabeth Hawes

Generation 5: Elizabeth Daggett m. John Butler

Generation 6: Keziah Butler m. Samuel Osborn

Generation 7: Samuel Osborn m. Sarah Wass

Generation 8: Sarah Osborn m. Charles Skinner

Generation 9: Ann Skinner m. Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Generation 10: Isabella Lyons m. Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Generation 11: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 12: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

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

Line C: 

Generation 4: Jedediah Mayhew, born 1656 and died 6 January 1736 in Edgartown; married Benjamin Smith, son of John Smith and Susannah Hinckley.  He was born 7 January 1658 and died 4 July 1720.  Eight children.

Generation 5:  Jedediah Smith m. Reverend Samuel Osborn, yet he had an illegitimate son by Mercy Norton.  This child is my  8th great grandfather, Samuel Osborn, Jr., the husband of Keziah Butler (see generation 6 above in Line B)   Yes, this is quite a story- the minister's illegitimate child, but I'm saving it for another blog post! 

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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Surname Saturday ~ Call of Charlestown, Massachusetts

Charlestown, Massachusetts

CALL / CAULE

Thomas Call, my 9^th great grandfather, was born in Faversham, Kent England in 1597.  He arrived in Massachusetts with his wife, Bennett, and three children on the ship Hercules in 1637.  He went on to have six more children.  He built his home on beside the Mystic River in Charlestown, about two and half miles from Bunker Hill.    His second wife, Joanna, was the widow of Daniel Shepardson.  Thomas Call was a baker, and so was his son, John, who married Hannah Kettell.    One of his sons, Thomas, Jr , married his step-sister Lydia Shepardson.

In the next generation John Call, my 8^th great grandfather, John Call was less than one year old when his family arrived in Massachusetts from England.  He fought in King Phillip’s War.  He was admitted to the church on 29 April 1662 and became a deacon of the First Church in Charlestown.  His wife was the daughter of Richard Kettell, an ancestor of Henry David Thoreau.

To read about the early generations of Calls in Massachusetts you can check the Bicentennial Book of Malden by A. W. McClure, 1850, page 240 has a short sketch of Thomas Call.  There is also a short sketch of Thomas Call in A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, by James Savage, 1969, Volume 1, pages 329 - 330.

My Call genealogy:

Generation 1: Thomas Call, son of Richard Call and Edith Bennet, born 15 June 1597 in Hernhill, Faversham, Kent, England, died 17 May 1676 in Malden, Massachusetts; married on 25 June 1619 In Hernhill to Bennett Harrison? Who died about 1644 in Malden.  Thomas married second after 26 July 1644 in Malden to Joane, widow of Daniel Shepardson.  Nine children.

Generation 2: John Call, baptized on 6 March 1636 in Faversham, died 19 April 1697 in Charlestown, Massachusetts; married on 26 June 1656 in Charlestown to Hannah Kettell, daughter of Richard Kettell and Hester Ward.  She was born on 27 October 1637 in Charlestown, and died 27 August 1708 in Charlestown.  Eight children.

Generation 3: Mehitable Call, baptized on 30 June 1668 in Charlestown, died on 25 November 1727 in Charlestown; married on 2 December 1685 in Charlestown to John Rand, son of Thomas Rand and Sarah Edenden.  He was born 6 February 1662 in Charlestown and died 4 September 1737 in Charlestown. 

Generation 4:  Caleb Rand m. Katherine Kettell ( his second cousin)

Generation 5: Caleb Rand m. Mary Mayhew

Generation 6: Mary Rand m. Asahel Bill

Generation 7:  Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill m. Isabella Lyons

Generation 8: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 9: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

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

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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo