Surname Saturday ~ WEARE of Newbury and Hampton, New Hampshire

WEARE / WYER 

The two brothers, Nathaniel and Peter Weare, first settled in Newbury, Massachusetts.  Nathaniel wear was one of the 91 proprietors of Newbury (first grantees of land) in December 1642.  Nathaniel later removed to Nantucket, where he died in 1681, and Peter removed to York, Maine where he died about 1690. Nathaniel Weare (1605 – 1681) was my 10^th great grandfather.

Nathaniel’s daughter, Hester, married Capt. Benjamin Swett in 1647 and removed to Hampton, New Hampshire with her brother, Nathaniel Weare, Jr. and his family.  They settled in what is now Hampton Falls.  Both Captain Swett and Nathaniel, Jr. had been leasing land in Newbury from John Woodbridge.   Hester’s husband, Capt. Swett, died fighting the Indians in 1677, during King Philip's War, and she remarried to Ensign Stephen Greenleaf of Newbury.   He was from the same family as the famous poet Stephen Greenleaf Whittier.  It is a coincidence that the poet Whittier died years later at the same farm in Hampton Falls that was the Swett homestead. 

Nathaniel Weare’s deposition 26 October 1695 “…that about the year of our Lord God 1655 my brother in-law Capt. Benjamin Swett and my self had a lease of the honorable Mr. John Woodbridge of Newberry his farme for seven years, the Northerly or northwesterly side of the sd. Farme was bounded in part with ye land of old Mr. Pike, at the South or the southeasterly corner of the s’ Pik’s land was a springe that was called the watering place nere to which those that had to doe or sd they had to do with ye sd Mr. Pik’s land, did I remember clame a litell pece of land, the quantity or bounds thereof I know not, but the slipe of land, so claymed and the watering place was within the fence of the sd woodbridge’s farme and improved by us that dwelt on the sd farm and by no other as I know of while wee lived on the farm which was to ye yeare 1661 or 1662, and to the best of my remembrance the fence that is betwene the farm of ye sd wood bridge and the sd Pik’s land stands in the same pace as it did for about forty years agoe”.   The signature of Nathaniel Weare, Jr.  [above] is from this deposition at that date.

Some WEARE resources:

“The Swett Family”, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 6 [1852], pages 49 -  61.

“The Nathaniel Weares”, by F. B. Sanborn of Concord, Mass.  Reprinted from The Granite Monthly, 1909, pp.157-166, online at the website for the Hampton Public Library  https://archive.org/details/sim_granite-state-monthly_1909-05_41_5/page/nundefined/mode/1up      

Descendants of Thomas Farr of Harpswell, Maine and Ninety Allied Families, by Edith Bartlett Sumner, 1959, pages 311 – 313. 

Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, by Noyes, Libby and Davis, page 726.

My WEARE genealogy:

Generation 1:  Nathaniel Weare, born about 1605 in England, died 1 March 1681 on Nantucket Island; married about 1629 in England to Sarah Unknown.  Five children.

Generation 2: Hester Weare, born about 1630 in England, died 16 January 1718 at Hampton Falls, New Hampshire;  married on 1 November 1647 in Hampton to Benjamin Swett, son of John Swett and Phebe Unknown.  He was baptized on 12 May 1624 in Wymondham, Norfolk, England and died 29 June 1677 during an Indian raid at Black Point, Scarborough, Maine. Eleven children.

Generation 3: Joseph Swett m. Sarah Andrews

Generation 4: Benjamin Swett m. Elizabeth Norton

Generation 5: Elizabeth Swett m. David Batchelder

Generation 6: Elisha Batchelder m. Sarah Lane

Generation 7: Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

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

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

Generation 10: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

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

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~  WEARE of Newbury and Hampton, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted February 6, 2016, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/02/surname-saturday-weare-of-newbury-and.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ GARDNER of Salem, Massachusetts

GARDNER

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

Thomas Gardner is my 9^th great grandfather.  He was an "Old Planter" with the Dorchester Company on Cape Ann in the early 1620s, and his family arrived in Massachusetts aboard the ship Zouch Phenix in 1624.  His first wife, Margaret, joined the church in Salem in 1639.  His second wife, Damaris, joined the church in 1641 as Shattuck, so the marriage to Gardner must be after that date. Two of her Shattuck children married two of Thomas Gardner’s children.   Damaris was probably a Quaker, or sympathetic to the Quakers because she appears in several records for being absent from meeting, or “present at a Quaker meeting”.   Damaris and Samuel Shattuck are my 10^th great grandparents in another lineage.   Damaris died one month before Thomas.

Thomas Gardner was the first superintendent of the Salem Colony, and was succeeded by Roger Conant.  He was licensed as an innkeeper in the 1660s but this was amended to retail liquor to strangers, not to townspeople in 1667.  He held many civic positions over the years in Salem ranging from constable and fence viewer to juror and selectman.   Many of his descendants lived in Salem, Boston and Nantucket.  There is a long list of his famous descendants on his page at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gardner_(planter) 

For more information on the descendants of Thomas Gardner:

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

The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants 1620 – 1633, by Robert Charles Anderson, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995, Volume 2, pages 731- 737.

Descendants of Thomas Gardner: Cape Ann (1624 – 1626), Naumkeag/Salem (1626 – 1674), compiled by Jean W. Henderson, Silver City, New Mexico (privately printed), 1997

Gardner Memorial: A biographical and genealogical record of the descendants of Thomas Gardner, planter, Cape Ann, 1624, Salem (Naumkeag), 1626 – 1674, through his son Lieut. George Gardner, compiled by Frank Augustine Gardner, Salem, Mass, 1933.  Available online at the Hathi Trust Digital Library website http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015002304239;view=1up;seq=1

Thomas Gardner Family of Cape Ann, by Mary Walton Ferris, privately printed, 1943 (two volumes)

Thomas Gardner and his Nantucket descendants, by Howard Greene, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1917.

For more about Damaris (---) (Shattuck) Gardner, see The American Genealogist Volume 30, pages 165 -68)

My GARDNER genealogy:

Generation 1: Thomas Gardner, born about 1592 in England, died 29 December 1674 in Salem, Massachusetts; married first to Margaret, mother of his children; married second to Damaris, the widow of Samuel Shattuck.  Nine children.

Generation 2: Sarah Gardner, born about 1627 and died 5 April 1686 in Beverly, Massachusetts; married about 1650 to Benjamin Balch, son of John Balch and Margery Uknown.   He was born about 1628 in Beverly and died after January 1715 in Beverly. Eleven children.

Generation 3:  Mary Balch m. Nathaniel Stone

Generatoin 4: Josiah Stone m. Dorithy Fuller

Generation 5: Josiah Stone m. Martha Ashby

Generation 6: Josiah Stone m. Susanna Hix

Generation 7: Eunice Stone m. Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 8: Peter Hoogerzeil m. Mary Etta Healey

Generation 9: Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

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

This may be a possible descendant of Thomas Gardner?

Generation 1:  Unknown Gardner, had two sons 1) Benjamin born 1720 possibly in Boston 2) Thomas Gardner born about 1722, died 22 September 1789 in Boston.  Both were ropemakers.

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

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

Generation 4: Abijah Hitchings m. Mary Cloutman

Generation 5: Abijah Hitchings m. Eliza Ann Treadwell

Generation 6: Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 7: Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

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

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Surname Saturday ~ FOLGER of Watertown, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts

A replica of the Pope Valuables Chest
at Plimoth Plantation

FOLGER

John Folger (my 9^th great grandfather), his wife Meribah, and son Peter arrived in New England on board the ship Abigail with the Reverend Hugh Peter in 1635. He lived first at Watertown, and then removed to the island of Martha’s Vineyard with Thomas Mayhew (my 10^th great grandfather).  He died intestate about 1660. 

In the second generation, Peter Folger was my 8^th great grandfather, and his wife Mary Morrill was an indentured servant for Rev. Hugh Peters.  Peter saved his money for seven years and paid 20 pounds to buy her out of servitude and declared “it was the best appropriation of money he ever made”.  There is too much information about Peter Folger to include in one blog post, but I'll put the highlights here. 

Peter went to Nantucket in 1663 to be an Indian interpreter for Tristram Coffin.  He was very influential in assisting the first settlers on this island with negotiations with the native people.  In the records Peter appears as a surveyor, miller, weaver, blacksmith, school master, and the clerk of the records.  His poem “A Looking Glass for the Time” was published on 23 April 1676. This poem gives his opinions on religious freedom and government, including freedom of speech.  

In the next generation, Peter had 12 children. One daughter was Bethshua, my 7^th great grandmother, and another was Abiah, mother of the famous Benjamin Franklin.  Several authors have attributed Benjamin Franklin’s wit to his grandfather, Peter.  Others have compared Franklin’s concepts of religious freedom and free speech in the Articles of Confederation with his grandfather’s writing. 

My 7^th great grandmother, Bethshua Folger, married Joseph Pope and lived in Salem, Massachusetts.   Their initials and wedding date is carved upon a "Valuables Chest” that was passed down in the family and auctioned off at Christie’s in 2000 for a record breaking $2,422,500.00  [see the link below for the full story].  The Popes were wealthy Quakers, who had been persecuted by the Salem authorities in earlier days.  During the witch craft hysteria of 1692 Joseph and Bethshua were accusers against John Proctor (also my ancestor), and Bethshua claimed to be tortured by some of the accused witches, including Giles and Martha Corey, and Rebecca Nurse (sister to another ancestor, Edmund Towne, my 9^th great grandfather).   When he died, Joseph Pope’s gravestone was described as “a pretentious stone of slate” by Jasper Marsh  [in the Historical Collections of the Danvers Historical Society, Volume 10, page 93].

Some sources for more information on the Folger family:

Mayflower Quarterly, Volume 72, pages 243- 264 (Peter Folger and his descendants)

Away Off Shore: Nantucket and Its People, by Nathaniel Phibrick, New York: Penguin Books, 2011

History of Martha’s Vineyard by Charles Edward Banks, Boston, 1911

History of Watertown, by Henry Bond and Horatio Gates Jones, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1860.

“The Folger Family” by William Coleman Folger in the NEHGS Register July 1862, Volume XVI, pages 269 – 274.

The Devil Hath Been Raised: A Documentary History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Outbreak of March 1692, by Richard B. Trask, Danvers, Massachusetts: Danvers Historical Society, 1992, pages 38 and 57.

A previous blog post about Joseph Pope and Bethshua Folger’s “Valuables Chest”

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/09/treasure-chest-thursday-at.html

My Folger lineage:

Generation 1:  John Folger, born about 1590 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, died about 1660 on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, in Massachusetts;  married before 1618 in England to Meribah Gibbs, daughter of John Gibbs and Alice Elmy.  She was born about 1595 in Freyn, Norwich, Norfolk, England and died about 1635 on Martha’s Vineyard.  They had five children.

Generation 2:  Peter Folger, born about 1618 in Norfolk and died about 1690 in Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard; married on 23 June 1644 in Watertown, Massachusetts to Mary Morrill.  She was born about 1623 in England and died 1704 on Nantucket.  They had twelve children.

Generation 3:  Bethshua Folger, born about 1650 on Nantucket island and died in Salem, Massachusetts; married in 1679 in Salem Village (now Danvers), Massachusetts to Joseph Pope, son of Joseph Pope and Damaris Unknown.  Nine children

Generation 4:  Jerusha Pope m. George Flint

Generation 5: George Flint m. Hannah Phelps

Generation 6: Phebe Flint m. John Flint

Generation 7: Olive Flint m. Luther Simonds Munroe

Generation 8: Phebe Cross Munroe m. Robert Wilson Wilkinson

Generation 9: Albert Munroe Wilkinson m. Isabella Lyons Bill

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

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ FOLGER of Watertown, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 1, 2014, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/11/surname-saturday-folger-of-watertown.html: accessed [access date]). 

Abiah Folger and Josiah Franklin

This simple obelisk is located at the Granary Burial Ground in Boston. Benjamin Franklin erected this memorial to his parents, Abiah Folger and Josiah Franklin, and I decided to write about it this week for Independence Day. After all, it was the day the Declaration of Independence was ratified, and Ben was one of the signers.

Abiah Folger, Franklin’s mother, was born 15 August 1667 on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, daughter of Peter Folger and Mary Morrill. Peter Folger came from Norwich, England to Massachusetts with his father John in 1635. In 1663 he went to Nantucket as an Indian interpreter for Tristram Coffin. Mary Morrill was a servant to Reverend Hugh Peters, so Peter bought her for 20 pounds to pay off her servitude. He declared it was the best appropriation of money he ever made. Now you know where Benjamin got is sense of humor! (from History of Nantucket, by Obed Macy, 1835)

Abiah Folger married Josiah Franklin on 25 November 1689 at the Old South Church in Boston. Josiah was from Ecton, Northamptonshire, born on 23 December 1657, and he died on 16 January 1745. He had previously been married to Anne Child, who left him with seven children when she died on 9 July 1689. You can see he wasted no time in remarrying Abiah, who not only raised his other children, but she had ten more! Benjamin was number eight, and the youngest son.

How do I know so much about this family? Well, my 7x great grandmother was Bethshua Folger, Abiah’s sister! Yes, Benjamin Franklin is my first cousin 8 generations removed. Bethshua (also known as Bathsheba) was born about 1650 on Nantucket Island, and she married Joseph Pope in 1679 in Salem, Massachusetts.

I previously blogged about my Franklin connection here in my post http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/09/treasure-chest-thursday-at.html about the Franklin Chest, also known as the Pope Valuables Chest.

For more FRANKLIN blog posts, click here:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/search/label/Franklin 

For my POPE family genealogy:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/11/surname-saturday-pope-of-salem.html 


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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Abiah Folger and Josiah Franklin", Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 29, 2010, (  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/06/abiah-folger-and-josiah-franklin.html: accessed [access date]).