Surname Saturday ~ SHAW of Hampton, New Hampshire

The SHAW memorial stone, Founder's Park, Hampton, New Hampshire

SHAW

There are very few early 1600 immigrants from Cheshire, England.  The non-conformists (Puritans) did not have a strong hold in that part of England.  My 10th great grandfather, Roger Shaw was from Cheshire.  His parents are unknown, but Edgar Joseph Shaw, a descendant, makes some good assumptions about Roger and Mary Shaw of Astbury and Hulme Walfield, Cheshire in a lengthy article in the New England Historical Genealogical Record.  (You can see the source for the article below) Roger Shaw’s oldest children were all baptized in Gawsworth, Cheshire, and his daughter Esther was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1638, which helps to estimate his arrival in New England.  

Roger Shaw (about 1600 – 1661) was made a freeman at Cambridge on 14 March 1638/9.  He bought a house lot and land from John Knight on 21 September 1639.  He must have been popular and literate, because he was elected to be a selectman on 8 November 1641 and also chosen to be town clerk.  The town records are in his handwriting.

Roger Shaw (my 10th great grandfather) removed to New Hampshire and bought land and buildings from John Cross in Hampton on 15 November 1647.  He was chosen to be juror in 1648 and 1649, and on a grand jury in 1651.  He was elected deputy in 1651 and 1652, and selectman on 23 March 1653/4 and constable in 1654.  

Roger Shaw remarried for a second time to Susanna, widow of William Tilton in 1653.  He signed a prenuptial agreement with her (providing for her Tilton sons).  She died on 28 January 1654/5.  Roger Shaw did not remarry, and he acknowledged his Tilton stepsons in his will by distributing 15 acres in Hampton and 5 acres of salt marsh to Samuel Tilton in 1660.  He promised 10 pounds to his wife’s youngest son, Daniel, which was given to Samuel, his guardian.  When Roger Shaw died his will gave bequests to his sons, Joseph and Benjamin Shaw, his daughters Margaret Ward, Ann Fogg, Hester Shaw and Marie Shaw, and to “my son Daniel Tilton”.

More SHAW resources:

New England Historic Genealogical Register, "English Origin of Roger and Ann Shaw",  by Edgar Joseph Shaw,  volume 158 (2004), pages  309 - 318.   This sketch acknowledges and fixes mistakes in previous works such as Savage in Gen. Dict. Of New England.

See also History of Hampton, by Joseph Dow, 1893, Volume II, pages 965 - 975 for genealogy of the early Shaw families in Hampton.

A very good blog post about Roger Shaw by genealogy blogger Jeanie Roberts
http://www.jeaniesgenealogy.com/2012/05/roger-shaw-of-hampton-new-hampshire.html

My SHAW genealogy:

Generation 1:  Roger Shaw, born about 1600 in England, died 29 May 1661 in Hampton, New Hampshire;  married first to Ann Unknown, mother of his children; married second to Susanna Unknown, widow of William Tilton.  Seven children.

Generation 2: Joseph Shaw, baptized on 12 November 1635 in Gawsworth, Cheshire, England, died 8 November 1720 in Hampton; married on 26 June 1661 in Hampton to Elizabeth Partridge, daughter of William Partridge and Ann Spicer.  She was born 14 February 1642/3 in Salisbury, Massachusetts.  Ten children.

Generation 3:  Elizabeth Shaw, born 23 August 1664 in Hampton Falls, died 17 October 1708 in Kingston, New Hampshire; married on 23 May 1682 in Hampton to Aaron Sleeper as his first wife, son of Thomas Sleeper and Joanna Unknown.  He married her sister, Sarah Shaw, as his second wife.   Ten children.

Generation 4: Moses Sleeper m. Margaret Sanborn

Generation 5:  Hepzibah Sleeper m. Samuel Lane

Generation 6:  Sarah Lane m. Eisha Batchelder

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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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ SHAW of Hampton, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 30, 2016,  (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/04/surname-saturday-shaw-of-hampton-new.html: accessed [access date]). 

A New Hampshire Man Imprisoned in the Tower of London, 1683, Facing Execution for Treason!

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

Almost a century before the American colonies rose up in resistance against Mother England during the Revolutionary War, a New Hampshire man rose up against the crown.  Edward Gove (about 1635 – 1691) was a large land holder in Hampton, New Hampshire. He was made a member of the assembly in 1680, and became the leader of a group opposed to the Royal Governor Edward Cranfield.

Edward Cranfield had been appointed Governor in 1682 by the king, and came to New Hampshire with the plan of transforming the colony into plantations for the gentry. He attempted to nullify many land deeds existing in New Hampshire for his plan.  He also dissolved the Council, which was a very unpopular move.  Edward Gove and a group of other men opposed the new Governor.

Gove and eleven others (Jonathan Thing, Nathaniel Ladd, Joseph Hadley, Robert Wadley, Thomas Rawlins/Rollins, Mark Baker, John Sleeper, John Gove (Edward’s son), and others)  were arrested and brought before the court in Portsmouth on 1 February 1682/3.   The entire group was found guilty of treason, but only Edward Gove was sentenced to death by Judge Richard Waldron.  This was the charge:

“You, Edward Gove shall be drawn on a hedge to the place of execution, and there you shall be hanged by ye neck, and when yet living be cut down and cast on the ground, and your bowels shall be taken out of your belly, and your privy members cut off and burnt while you are yet alive, your head shall be cut off and your body divided into four parts, and your head and quarters shall be placed where our Sovereign Lord the King pleaseth to appoint.  And the Lord have mercy on your soul”

His desperate wife presented this petition:

“The wretchd & Deplorable Condition of her selfe and family, but chiefely her husband, who by means of a distemper of Lunacy or some such like, which he have benn Subject unto (by times) from his youth, and yet is untill now (as his mother was before him) (though at some times seemingly very Rationall) which have occationed him Irationally and evily to demeane himselfe (by means of some unhappy provocation) to such actions whereby he have incured unto himselfe the Sentence of Death; past upon him by yor Maties Court in the same Province, with Loss of all his Estate; and is now sent over into England to attend yor Maties further pleasure therein, on whose Royall favour only now depends all possibility of Releise. And for as much as he never had the least expression of disloyalty or Disafection to yor Maties person, Crown & Dignety or Interest neither then, nor at any other time that wee know of nor nothing tending that way (when Rationall) but the Contrary, as he would have pleaded at his tryall had be been himselfe and doubt not but he would upon tht accompt now begg for his own life either to the Honorable Govt here or of yor Royall Majties there, but he being not capable of so doeing.
Your most deploreable Supplicant Doe in most Humble wise Pray your Sacred Majties favourable admitance of her humble Request for the life of her said Husband (by your Majties Gratious pardon) or what way soever it shall seem good to yor Majties, yor poore petitioner haveing no knowlidge of Law, of the privilidges that a Subject may plead, and yor Majties poore Petitioner, and all her Distressed family, Shall as in duty they are bound ever pray for yor Majties long life and Happy Reigne.
HANNAH GOVE”

No New Hampshire authorities wanted to carry out the sentence, and Mrs. Gove’s petition was ignored (yet survived for us to find in the records!).   On 2 April 1683 he was put on the ship Richard to England and sent to prison in the Tower of London, where it was assumed his sentence would be carried out by the royal executioners.  During his time in prison, King Charles II died and King James II ascended the throne.  Gove successfully petitioned the new king to pardon him on 26 August 1685, but he was not released.  On 12 April 1686 the king sent a letter to the President and Council of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, stating that Gove had been pardoned. 

In the meantime, the unpopular Royal Governor Cranfield tried to continue his plans in New Hampshire.  The sentence Gove had received did not push the people into submission, but made them more rebellious.  The new King removed Cranfield, and he was escorted to the Massachusetts border with a rope around his neck.   England sent him to Barbados to serve as a customs official.

Gove returned to Hampton, New Hampshire, where he died in 1691.  Most of his land was returned to him, which he left to his sons in his will.

Edward Gove is buried at the Pine Grove Cemetery in Hampton.   He holds the distinction of being the only New England colonist convicted of treason and sentenced to be drawn and quartered.  This incident is known in New Hampshire history as “Gove’s Rebellion”. 

For the truly curious:

History of Hampton, by Joseph Dow, 1893 (available online at Google Books and at the Hampton, NH Lane Library website http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/history/dow/index.htm )

“Hampton’s Gove – Ahead of his Time”, by Doug Gove, Rockingham County Newspaper, July 8, 1988, transcribed for the Hampton, NH Lane Library website 

http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/history/hampton350th/page_19.htm

Biography of Edward Gove, an excerpt from The History and Genealogy the American Family of Gove, By William Henry Gove, 1922 transcribed for the Hampton, NH Lane Library website http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/biog/gove.htm

For more information about Royal Governor Edward Cranfield, see The History of New Hampshire by Jeremy Belkap, 1813, Volume II, page 369 (available online at Google Books)

The magistrate Richard Waldron was a notoriously cruel man in New Hampshire history.  Click this link to see a blog post about another sentence he issued against the Quakers, and how he died at the hands of the Native people he had abused during his time in office:

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-women-went-from-dover.html

A few years ago I helped my Godfather with his Gove lineage.  His mother was a Gove.  We had a lot of fun tracing this line, and looking for a reprint or original copy of the Gove compiled genealogy listed above.  I previously blogged about his Gove family in Nahant, Massachusetts at this link:  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/10/tombstone-tuesday-greenlawn-cemetery.html

Here is his descent from Edward Gove:

Generation 1:  Edward Gove, born about 1635 in England, died 29 May 1691 in Hampton; married about 1660 to Hannah Partridge, daughter of William Partridge and Ann Spicer.  She was born about 1638.

Generation 2: Ebenezer Gove, born 23 June 1671 in Hampton, died 16 April 1758 in Hampton; married on 20 December 1692 in Hampton to Judith Sanborn, daughter of John Sanborn and Judith Coffin.  She was born 8 August 1675 and died about 1760.

Generation 3: Edward Gove, born 29 May 1696 in Hampton Falls, died 10 July 1765 in Hampton; married on 18 June 1728 to Mary Moulton, daughter of Daniel Moulton and Mary Unknown.  She was born 16 December 1706 and died 20 October 1793 in Hampton Falls.

Generation 4: Winthrop Gove, born 3 November 1732 in Hampton, died 3 June 1808 in Hampton; married 3 June 1754 to Elizabeth Ring, daughter of Jonathan Ring and Esther Batchelder.

Generation 5: Levi Gove, born 29 June 1759 in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, died in Seabrook, New Hampshire; married Mary Chase, daughter of Charles Chase and Mary Griffith.  She was born 19 April 1760 in Hampton, died 19 September 1852 in Seabrook. 

Generation 6:  William Gove, born 15 February 1794 in Seabrook, New Hampshire, died 1834 in Seabrook; married in 1815 to Elizabeth Chase, daughter of Aquila Chase and Anna Moulton.  She was born 28 November 1796 in Seabrook, and died 1882 in Lynn, Massachusetts.

Generation 7: Worthen Augustus Gove, born 12 July 1819 in Seabrook, died 28 March 1885 in Nahant, Massachusetts; married on 15 January 1836 in Lynn to Emeline A. Spencer, daughter of William Spencer and Mary Gale Homan.  She was born 12 April 1819 in Beverly, Massachusetts, died 9 February 1897 in Dorchester, Massachusetts.

Generation 8: Charles Edward Gove, born 23 July 1839 in Lynn, died 26 January 1920 in Nahant; married Elvira E. Whitney, daughter of Charles Whitney and Adeline Strong.  She was born 26 November 1833 in Dublin, New Hampshire and died 15 April 1901 in Nahant.

Generation 9: George Alvah Gove, born 17 September 1870 in Nahant, died 1945 in Beverly, Massachusetts; married on 16 April 1894 to Frances L. Harris, sister to the wife of George’s brother Charles.  She was born 12 April 1873 in New London, Connecticut, died 1962 in Beverly, Massachusetts.

Generation 10: Grace Mildred Gove, born 18 October 1897 in Nahant, died 18 March 1834 in Beverly; married Erwin McKenney as his first wife.

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "A New Hampshire Man Imprisoned in the Tower of London, 1683, Facing Execution for Treason!", Nutfield Genealogy, posted February 10, 2014, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-new-hampshire-man-imprisoned-in-tower.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ TRACY of Duxbury, Massachusetts

TRACY

Stephen Tracy was a Separatist living in Leiden, Holland with the other English religious refugees who became known as the “Pilgrims” of Plymouth, Massachusetts.  He worked in Leiden as a “sayworker” (one who weaves bedding and tablecloths).   On 2 January 1621 in Leiden he married his wife, Tryphosa Lee, another English woman. 

Stephen Tracy came to New England aboard the Ann, which arrived in Plymouth in late June 1623. His wife and eldest daughter, Sarah, arrived in Massachusetts in 1625 aboard the ship Jacob.  They settled in the town of Duxbury where Stephen was the constable.   Ralph and George Partridge were his neighbors.  

On 1 January 1632/3 he became a freeman.  He served on many committees for the town of Duxbury, and appears in many early records.   In the 1627 cattle division “Stephen Tracie, Triphosa Tracie, Sarah Tracie, Rebecka Tracie” were the fifth through eighth names on the list for the tenth company. 

Sometime in the 1640s Stephen Tracy returned to England.  He is not seen in any later Plymouth Colony records.   His will was proved on 20 March 1654/5 in London, leaving his land to his son, his cow and mare to his daughter Ruth, and his cattle “to be equally divided among my five children living in New England”.  It is unknown if his wife, Tryphosa, died in New England or England.

For more information on the Tracy family see The Great Migration Begins, Volume III, pages 1832 -1834.   There is a compiled genealogy The Tracy Genealogy, by Sherman Weld Tracy, 1936. 

My Tracy Genealogy:

Generation 1:  Stephen Tracy, baptized 28 December 1596 at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, son of Stephen Tracy and Agnes Erdley, died between 1652 and 1653 in England; married on 2 January 1621 in Leiden, Holland to Tryphosa Lee.  She is probably the daughter of Joos Lee and Anne Hungerford.  Five children.

Generation 2:  Sarah Tracy, born about 1623 in Leiden, Holland, died 16 November 1708 in Duxbury, Massachusetts; married 16 November 1638 in Plymouth, Massachusetts to George Partridge.  He was born about 1605 in England and died 7 July 1695 in Duxbury.  Ten children.

Generation 3:  Elizabeth Partridge m. James Allen

Generation 4:  John Allen m. Margaret Homes

Generation 5: Rebecca Allen m. Wilmot Wass

Generation 6: Sarah Wass m. Samuel Osborn

Generation 7: Sarah Osborn m. Charles Skinner

Generation 8: Ann Skinner m. Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Generation 9: Isabella Lyons m. Rev. Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

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)

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Surname Saturday ~ PARTRIDGE of Duxbury, Massachusetts

 Partridges by John James Audubon

PARTRIDGE

My 10^th great grandfather George Partridge arrived from England to Duxbury, Massachusetts about 1636.  He was a single man, and there is no evidence he was married before he wed Sarah Tracy in 1638.  He was given a grant of land at Powder Point in 1636 and later accumulated about 200 acres in Duxbury.  At town meetings he was elected to serve the community as constable, surveyor of highways and in a grand-jury.   I was fascinated to see that he served as a private in Captain Myles Standish’s militia, since Capt. Standish is also my 8^th great grandfather in a different lineage. Two of Standish's sons signed George Partridge's will, including my ancestor, Alexander Standish, my 7th great grandfather. 

George Partridge had ten children. Two of his daughters married sons of Samuel Allen, and two Partridge children married two children of Governor William Brewster, the Mayflower passenger.  One daughter married a son of Peter Thacher, which was interesting to me since I have Thacher first cousins, their descendants.  I descend from daughter Elizabeth (1643 – 1722) who married James Allen. 

Since very little is known about George Partridge, we don’t even know his occupation, I’ll paste his last will and testament here:

"On ye 26th day of June in ye year of our Lord 1682. I George Partridge yeoman living in Duxborough being in sound mind and good and perfect remembrance praysed be ye Lord for it make & ordaine this my last will and testament in manner and form following first I commend my soul unto Almighty God my maker and Redeemer and my body I will that it be decently buryed and funerall charges paid together with all my just and lawful debts out of my estate. 

"I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Sarah Partridge all my houses & lands in Duxburough to say uplands and meadows and all my cattell and all my household stuff for her own proper use and behoofe during her natural life on the condition that my wife do as much for my daughter Mercy as we have done for ye rest of our daughters already married and that she give my grand-daughter Bethyah Allen as much as she in prudence shall think fit and if any part of my moveables remain at my wife's decease my will is that it be disposed of by her amongst my children as she thinks meet and fit. I give to my eldest son John Partridge at my decease half my uplands and half my meadow lands lying and being at Middleborough with ye priviledges and appurtenances thereunto belonging to him & his heirs forever. 

"Item--I give six pounds sterling to my son John Partridge at his mother's decease to be paid in current pay. 

"I give to my son James Partridge the other and remayning half both of my uplands and meadow lands lying and being at Middleborough with ye priviledges and appurtenances  thereunto belonging to him after my decease & to his heirs forever. 

"Item--I give to my son James all my houses and all my lands both uplands and meadow lands in Duxborough and also ye Island at ye Glade with all ye priviledges and appurtenances belonging to ye aforesd lands at his mother's decease to him and his heirs forever if my son James will live in the house with his mother quietly during her life. I do hereby constitute and make my beloved wife Sarah Partridge sole executrix & administratrix of this my last will & testament as witness my hand and seal this 29th of June one thousand six hundred and eighty two. 

          GEORGE PARTRIDGE [Seal] 

         "In ye presence of us witnesses 

           ALEXANDER STANDISH 

           JOSIAH STANDISH 
In case that any estate belonging unto me beyond sea should be brought over hither before my wife's decease my will is that she should dispose thereof amongst my children according to her discretion.

Source: At genealogylibrary.com: Descendants of George Partridge of Duxbury, MA, by George Henry Partridge, The Plimpton Press, Norwood, MA 1915 

Other sources for information on the Partridge family are the History of Duxbury, by Justin Winsor, 1849 (available to view and download at https://archive.org ) and also The Great Migration series.

My PARTRIDGE genealogy:

Generation 1: George Partridge, born in England, died 7 July 1695 in Duxbury, Massachusetts; married on 16 November 1638 to Sarah Tracy, daughter of Stephen Tracy and Tryphosa Lee.  She was born about 1621 in Leyden, Holland and died 16 November 1708 in Duxbury.  Ten children.

Generation 2:  Elizabeth Partridge, born 14 February 1643 in Duxbury, Massachusetts, died 8 August 1722 in Chilmark, on the island of Martha’s Vineyard; married about 1662 in Duxbury to James Allen, son of Samuel Allen and Ann Whitmore.   He was born about 1636 in Braintree, Massachusetts and died on 25 July 1714 in Tisbury, on the island of Martha’s Vineyard.  Twelve children.

Generation 3:  John Allen m. Margaret Homes

Generation 4:  Rebecca Allen m. Wilmot Wass

Generation 5: Sarah Wass m. Samuel Osborn

Generation 6: Sarah Osborn m. Charles Skinner

Generation 7: Ann Skinner m. Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Generation 8: Isabella Lyons m. Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Generation 9:  Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 10: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 11: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

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Surname Saturday ~ ALLEN of Braintree, Massachusetts

Mount Wollaston, now Quincy, Massachusetts
as it appeared in 1840

Although some earlier works stated that Samuel Allen was a son of George Allen,  there is no proof of this.  In The Great Migration, Volume 1, page 34 the author, Robert Charles Anderson, rejects the notion, too, in his sketch for George Allen.  The sketch for Samuel Allen is on pages 39 to 40.

 

A man named Samuel Allen was admitted as a freeman in the Massachusetts Bay Colony on 6 May 1635, stating that he had been a member of a church in Massachusetts.  There is no church record that exists.  In Braintree, then called Mount Wollaston, a lot was granted to Samuel Allen on 24 February 1639/40.  This is the first know record of my Samuel Allen, my 10^th great grandfather.  He was also a town clerk, selectman, surveyor of highways, and constable.   His will was dated 16 September 1669 in Braintree:

The last will and testament of Samuel Allen of Braintree, in the county of Suffolk in New England, being very weake in body, yet of perfect memory and understanding. What debts I owe, be paid with as much speed as may be convenient. I give unto my sonn Samuel Allen 20 pounds, to bee paid him or his out of my Estate. 10 pounds within one year after my decease and 10 pounds within three years after the first payment bee made. Unto my sonn, Janes Allen, 5 pounds to bee paid him or his within three years after my decease. Unto my sonn- in- law; Josiah Standish, 10 pounds to bee paid him or his, 5 pounds within one year after my decease & the other within two years after the first payment bee made. Unto my sonn-in-law, Nathaniel Greenwood 5 pounds, to bee paid him or his within three years after my decease. Unto my daughter Abigail 30 pounds, to bee paid unto her when she shall bee at the age of 21 years. The rest of my estate as house & land & what else remains, I leave between my beloved wife and my sonn Joseph Allen, that is to say that my wife shall have half the bennifit of house & land & whatever estate may be left after discharge of the legacies during her life, & the other half to my sonn Joseph. Provided they joyne in what is necessary for the support of such as are left in the family. My will is that my wife shall have liberty to give unto any of our children the whole value of 20 pounds where she shall see need. I make my wife and my sonn Joseph, my Executrix and Executor of this my will

Witness the hand of

Samuel Allen

Witnesses, Francis Elliott, John French, Thomas Holbrook.

Know all men, by these present's that I Margaret Allen the Late wife of Samuel Allen now deceased: & Joseph Allen my Sonne both Of the Towne of Brantry in the Goverment of the Massachussets in New England. for & in consideraton of Twenty pounds. given & appointed to her Paide. by the abovesaide Samuel Allen deceased. to his sonne Samuell Allen of Bridgwater in the Goverment of New Plimouth. Wee the abovesaide Margaret Allen & Joseph Allen doe hereb'y acknowledge to here bargained, sold & assigned. ' by this will * * over to the abovesaide Samuell Allen of Bridgewater twelve Acres of Land. Lying & being within the Towneship of Brantry. butting Upon the River called Monatt** beginning at the Upper corner of their Lot next the River neere the Saw Mill & on the North side of the River. & running downe the river soe far as the Cartway at the Bridge to a crooked Ash tree & running in Length the same bredth as its by the River til it makes Up the full Sume of twelve Acres of Land; which Land with Wood. Timber Stones & all other pvilages conteined within the limit's before Specified, I the saide Margaret Allen & Joseph Allen abovesaid doe by these presents. fully, freely, absolutely, aLienate, bargaine, Enfeoffe comirrie & for ever maKe over Unto the aforesaide Samuell Allen of Bridgewater all our claime, title & interest that doth. did or any waise may appeare formerly to belong to Us or any of o'r heires Executo'rs, or adm'rs Unto the aforesaide Samuell Allen of Bridgewater his heires, Executo'rs or adm'rs & assignes; Together with all benefits pvilages & imunities thereUnto belonging To have, hold, occupy & enjoy as his & theire proper Land. peaceably to Enjoy for ever: without any claime. title & adm'rs. or amy Other person or person's whatsoever for or to any part or perSon Of any of the land before Specified as from Us apperteining & Hereun'to have Set o'r hand & Seale. Margaret Allen her Marke & a Seale

Joseph Allen & a Seale

the late being interlined in ye 2d line before Sealing

Signed Sealed & Delivered in the presence of us Daniell

Preston, Samuell Greenwood, Nathaniel Greenewood

This instrument was acKnowledged by Margaret Allen & Joseph Allen as theire Act & deede. Novemb'r 16th 1672 before Edward Ting Assist.

Recorded & Compared Nov'r 21st 1672 p: Isaac Addington Cler.

My ALLEN genealogy:

Generation 1:  Samuel Allen, born about 1598 In England and died 5 August 1669 in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts; married first about 1630 in England to Ann Whitmore (four children), married second to Margaret French, the widow of Edward Lamb (three children).

Generation 2:  James Allen, born about 1636 in Braintree (now Quincy) and died 25 July 1714 in Tisbury, Massachusetts on the island of Martha’s Vineyard; married about 1662 in Duxbury, Massachusetts to Elizabeth Partridge, daughter of George Partridge and Sarah Tracy.  She was born 14 February 1643 in Duxbury, and died 8 August 1722 in Chilmark, Massachusetts on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Twelve children.

Generation 3:  John Allen born 1682 in West Tisbury, and died 17 October 1767 in Chilmark; married on 1 March 1716 in Chilmark to Margaret Homes, daughter of William Homes and Katherine Craighead.  She was born 28 February 1696 in Straban, Tyrone, Ireland and died 26 April 1778 in Chilmark.  Thirteen children.

Generation 4:  Rebecca Allen, born 25 February 1717 in Chilmark, died 29 May 1790 in Pleasant River, Maine;  married in 1732 in Chilmark to Wilmot Wass, son of John Wass and Ann Wilmot.  He was born 9 February 1712 in Boston, and died before 18 July 1793 in Windsor, Connecticut.  Twelve children.

Generation 5:  Sarah Wass m. Samuel Osborn

Generation 6: Sarah Osborn m. Charles Skinner

Generation 7:  Ann Skinner m. Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Generation 8: Isabella Lyons m. Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Generation 9:  Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 10:  Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 11:  Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

The image above is from Wikimedia Commons, "The New English Canaan of Thomas Morton", by Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Boston, 1883 "This view of Mount Wollaston is taken from Rev. William P. Lunt's Two Discourses on the Occasion of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the First Congregational Church, Quincy", page 37.

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