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]). 

A Traitor in My Family Tree? Yes! Part Two

A screenshot of JL Bell's blog Boston 1775
https://boston1775.blogspot.com/

One of the things I love about blogging is the comments I get on my blog. In yesterday’s post I referenced another blogger.  He commented back on my blog with a big hint about some additional information in an article he wrote in 2005.  Wow!  What lot of good genealogical information that was new to me!

My blog post yesterday was about Ebenezer Richardson and his two wives.  Yesterday, 22 February, was the anniversary of Ebenezer’s mistaken attempt to quell a Boston mob by firing bird shot into the crowd.  He injured one boy and killed another, probably causing the Boston Massacre two weeks later, on 5 March 1770.  I read about his story at Twitter in an “On This Day In History” tweet.  The names in the link caught my attention since they were all from my family tree.

In my blog post I gave some posts from J.L. Bell’s history blog Boston 1775 as sources. He wrote back in a comment that he had written an article in the New England Historic Genealogical Society’s magazine New England Ancestors about Ebenezer Richardson, and he said, “I think Rebecca (Fowle) (Richardson) Richardson died in 1753 after her sister Kezia (Fowle) Henshaw gave birth and before Kezia married Ebenezer Richardson. There’s no divorce on the record… I think the Rebecca Richardson who died in 1782 is therefore someone else.”

The article that J.L. Bell wrote is “’A Wretch of Wretches Prov’d with Child’: From Local Scandal to Revolutionary Outrage”, New England Ancestors, Volume 6 (2005), pages 22 – 24 and page 40, (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.)   I looked it up online with great enthusiasm, since both the RICHARDSON and the FOWLE families of Woburn are in my family tree.  As Bell stated in this article “When Kezia (Fowle) Hincher gave birth in 1752, she had been an unmarried widow for over five years. Naturally, her neighbors in Woburn, Massachusetts, gossiped about the father.  At first the mystery roiled local church politics.  Eventually, the fallout from this genealogical puzzle helped bring on the American Revolution.”  Yes, it was a great genealogical puzzle! 

Puzzling out my genealogical relationship to the main characters in this story was my main goal yesterday.  But last night, after reading the NEHGS article by J. L. Bell, I’m was determined to iron out the details of the lives of the two sisters, Rebecca and Kezia.  Fortunately, Bell had done all the work in preparing his article.  He believes there was no divorce, no bigamy, and that Rebecca had died before Ebenezer remarried to Kezia. His argument is laid out in his article. 

The magazine story also describes, in great detail, Ebenezer’s extra-marital affairs with his sister-in-law. She first accused her employer of being the father of her bastard child (she was house maid to the local minister), and he had to sue to restore his reputation.  It’s very juicy stuff for the 18^th century (things haven’t changed much, have they?).  And there are more details about Ebenezer’s treachery in colluding with the British customs officials more than fifteen years later, to the point of not sentencing him to hang, and leaving him free to escape to freedom in London.  He was so infamous that even in “1816 John Adams remembered Ebenezer this way: ‘Adultery, incest, perjury were reported to be his ordinary crimes’”. 

To me, another very interesting part of J. L. Bell’s article is how he describes how he found all the documentation to prove Ebenezer Richardson’s story. He puzzled out the intricacies of the sister’s relationships to him with vital records, church and town records, but he also found broadsides, trial records, Legal Papers of John Adams (he was the lawyer for the British side of the Boston massacre), and probate records. In the last paragraph of the article he gives a tip for ordering copies from the National Archives of Great Britain. Usually I read Bell’s work in the context of American history, but this article proves how history and genealogy work hand in hand.

If you missed part one of this blog post (yesterday) click on this link:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-traitor-in-my-family-tree.html 

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To Cite/Link to this post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "A Traitor in My Family Tree?  Yes!  Part Two", Nutfield Genealogy, posted February 23, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-traitor-in-my-family-tree-yes-part-two.html: accessed [access date]). 

A Traitor in my Family Tree?

Boston Massacre

On this date, 22 February, in 1770 a mob had gathered outside of Theophilus Lillie’s shop in Boston to protest his importation of British goods. This was during the “Intolerable Acts” when the folks in Boston decided to stop drinking tea and buying British goods, rather than pay the intolerable taxes on imported goods.  While reading about this incident in history, I was struck by the name of the shopkeeper and (thank you internet!)  I was researching his genealogy to find a link to my LILLIE ancestors of Reading, Massachusetts.  I wasn’t finding any links.

As I read further, I learned that the man who lived next door to the shop in the story was named Ebenezer Richardson.  He tried to disperse the crowd by firing bird shot into the crowd, which was mostly young boys and teenagers.  One teen was injured, and a 10 year old German boy named Christopher Sneider was killed.  Again, being a genealogist, I stopped at the name of Ebenezer Richardson.  I had a long line of Ebenezer Richardsons in my family tree, from the town of Woburn outside of Boston. It only took me a minute to confirm that one of these cousins in my tree was the same Ebenezer Richardson whose shot out his bedroom window foreshadowed the Boston Massacre, which took place soon after on 5 March 1770. 

Who was Ebenezer Richardson?  Well, it turns out that his hot temper which led to this incident was not the first time he had displayed tawdry behavior.   In 1752 his wife’s sister gave birth to his child.  He married his own sister-in-law in Boston in January 1754 (his wife didn’t die until 1782).   

Ebenezer Richardson, upon fleeing Woburn, went to work for the British as an informer in Boston.  When he was found out, the British made him a Boston customs officer. His job was to collect the new  taxes from the hated Stamp Act and Townshend Acts. 

After the little Sneider boy died,  two thousand people attended his funeral.  On 20 April 1770 Richardson was found guilty of murder by a Boston jury. I’m not surprised- he was a very unpopular figure in Boston and rumored to be tarred and feathered.  The British judges thought the sentence unfair and didn’t sentence him to hang, and London sent a pardon.  The British also found him a new job in 1773 in Philadelphia.  But the good folks of Boston “informed” on Richardson and told the people of Philadelphia his story, including the scandal with his second wife.  He fled to London.

No more is known of Ebenezer Richardson.  Did he die in London?  Change his name?

Ebenezer Richardson, son of Timothy Richardson and Abigail Johnson, was born on 31 March 1718 in Woburn, Massachusetts.  He married first to Rebecca Fowle about 1740.  She was the widow of Phineas Richardson (she was the second cousin once removed of Phineas, and the second cousin twice removed of Ebenezer).   He married second to Kezia Fowle, sister to Rebecca and widow of Thomas Henshaw.   I have no further information on Kezia, and Rebecca died on 6 November 1782 in Woburn, long after the scandal.

The two Fowle sisters, Rebecca and Kezia, are my 1^st cousins 8 generations removed.  Their parents, John Fowle and Elizabeth Prescott are my 8^th great uncle and aunt.  John’s parents, James Fowle (1643 – 1690) and Abigail Carter (1648 – 1718) are my 8^th great grandparents.

Ebenezer Richardson is further removed from me.  He is my 3^rd cousin, 8 generations removed.  His great grandparents, John Richardson and Elizabeth Bacon, are my 9^th great uncle and aunt. His 2x great grandparents, Samuel Richardson (1602 – 1658) and Joanna Thake (1606 – 1666), are my 9^th great grandparents.  Interestingly, Elizabeth (Bacon) Richardson’s grandparents, Michael Bacon (1579 – 1648) and Alice Blower (1681 – 1648), are my 11^th great grandparents.

For more about this story:

Don't miss Part Two of this blog post:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-traitor-in-my-family-tree-yes-part-two.html

The Richardson Memorial: Comprising a Full History and Genealogy of the Posterity of these Three Brothers, Ezekiel, Samuel and Thomas Richardson, by John Adams Vinton, 1876, pages 242-244, page 265.

J.L. Bell, “Ebenezer Richardson Custom’s Informer”, Boston 1775, posted May 22, 2006, (http://boston1775.blogspot.com/2006/05/ebenezer-richardson-customs-informer.html: accessed 22 February 2018).

J. L. Bell, “Ebenezer Richardson as Cause of the American Revolution”, Boston 1775, posted April 9, 2015, (http://boston1775.blogspot.com/2015/04/ebenezer-richardson-as-cause-of.html: accessed 22 February 2018).

My RICHARDSON "Surname Saturday" post:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/01/surname-saturday-richardson-of-woburn.html

My FOWLE "Surname Saturday" post:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/12/surname-saturday-fowle-of-charlestown.html


The image above is from Paul Revere of Boston. The print was copied by Revere from a design by Henry Pelham for an engraving eventually published under the title "The Fruits of Arbitrary Power, or the Bloody Massacre," of which only two impressions could be located by Brigham. Revere's print appeared on or about March 28, 1770. - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.00174, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4415919

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To Cite/Link to this post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “A Traitor in my Family Tree?”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted February 22, 2018, (  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-traitor-in-my-family-tree.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ WYMAN of Woburn, Massachusetts

2015 Wyman Family Reunion
at the Francis Wyman Homestead
circa 1666, Burlington, Massachusetts

Francis Wyman (1617 – 1699), my 9^th great grandfather, is the immigrant ancestor of a large number of descendants.  He came over with his brother, John Wyman, along with his uncles, Samuel and Thomas Richardson in 1636.  The first record of all four of these kinsmen was in 1640 when they signed the town order for Charlestown Village – now known as Woburn, Massachusetts.  Francis was made a freeman in 1657. The two brothers became tanners in Woburn.

In 1658 his father, Francis Wyman, Senior, wrote in his will “I do give and bequeath unto my two sons Francis Wyman and John Wyman which are beyond sea ten pounds a piece of Lawful English money to be paid unto them by mine executor if they be in want and come over to demand the same.”

There is a Wyman Street in Woburn where John had a house.  And in 1666 Francis Wyman built his homestead that still stands on Francis Wyman Road in what is now the town of Burlington, Massachusetts.  It is now owned by the Francis Wyman Association.

Francis Wyman had several Scots prisoners of war as indentured servants in his tannery.  He also had a slave.  In his will he left “a Negro girl named Jebyna” to his wife.  100 years later four WYMAN households in Woburn still had one slave each.  [“Slavery was part of Winchester History” by Ellen Knight, Daily Times Chronicle, Winchester Edition, Feb. 24, 2000]   He is often confused with Frances WICOM/WICOMB, who testified against Margaret Scott of Rowley during the 1692 Salem witch trials.  Many books state that it was Francis Wyman, but they are different people, a woman from Rowley versus a man from Woburn.

Francis Wyman is buried in Woburn at the Old Burial Ground, and his epitaph reads:

"Here lyes ye body of Francis Wyman, aged about 82 years, died November 28th, 1699"  "Memento Mori-Fugit Hora."  "ye memory of ye just is blessed"

2012 Wyman Family Reunion

For more information:

The Francis Wyman Association     http://wymanassociation.org/

Wyman Genealogy  https://www.wyman.org/

The History of Woburn, Massachusetts by Samuel Sewall,  1869

The Richardson Memorial: Comprising a Full History and Genealogy of the three brothers Ezekiel, Samuel and Thomas Richardson,  by John Adams Vinton,  1876.

Some Descendants of Francis Wyman of Woburn, Massachusetts, by Mrs. Bernard Woodke, 1990 [manuscript at NEHGS Mss C 3920]

My WYMAN genealogy:

Generation 1:  Francis Wyman, son of Francis Wyman and Elizabeth Richardson, born 2 May 1617 in Westmill, Herfordshire, England, died 28 November 1699 in Woburn, Massachusetts; married second on 2 October 1650 in Woburn to Abigail Reed, daughter of William Reed and Mabel Kendall and mother of his children.  She was born 30 December 1634 in Dorchester, Massachusetts and died before 1699. He was previously married on 30 January 1644 in Woburn to Judith Pierce, daughter of John Pierce and Elizabeth Hart.  She was born about 1623 in Norwich, Norfolk, England and died in 1644, the year they were married.  Twelve children with his second wife, Abigail.

Generation 2: Nathaniel Wyman, born 25 November 1655 in Woburn, died 8 December 1717 in Woburn; married on 28 June 1692 in Woburn to Mary Winn, daughter of Increase Winn and Hannah Satell.  She was born 1 May 1670 in Woburn, and died 7 June 1743 in Woburn.  Twelve children.

Generation 3: Increase Wyman, born 1 March 1707 in Woburn, died 5 September 1739 in Woburn; married on 11 March 1730 in Woburn to Deborah Pierce, the daughter of Ebenezer Pierce and Mary Wilson.  She was born 17-9 in Woburn, and died in 1739.  Five children.

Generation 4:  Increase Wyman,  born 4 June 1732 in Burlington, Massachusetts, and died before 1776; married before 1755 to Catherine Unknown. Ten children.

Generation 5:  Jemima Wyman, born 10 February 1757 in Billerica, Massachusetts, died 6 September 1843 in South Boston, Massachusetts; married on 21 January 1779 to Colonel Joshua Burnham, son of Stephen Burnham and Mary Andrews.  He was born 26 January 1754 in Gloucester, Massachusetts and died 7 June 1835 in Milford, New Hampshire.  Eleven children.

Generation 6: Jemima Burnham m. Romanus Emerson

Generation 7:  George Emerson m. Mary Esther Younger

Generation 8: Mary Katharine Emerson m. George E. Batchelder

Generation 9: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ WYMAN of Woburn, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 6, 20116,  (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/08/surname-saturday-wyman-of-woburn.html: accessed [access date]). 

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Three James Voses, Bedford, New Hampshire

This tombstone was photographed at the Old Bedford Cemetery, in Bedford, New Hampshire

ERECTED

to the Memory of

Lieut. James Vose

who died

Oct. 5, 1808 in the

75 year of his age.

James who died Jan. 3.

1770 aged 10 months

James who died Sept. 27, 1775

in the 3 year of his age. 

children of James Vose

and Abigail his wife.

Lieutenant James Vose was born on 2 March 1735 in Milton, Massachusetts, and died on 5 October 1808 in Bedford, New Hampshire.  He married Abigail Richardson, who was born in Litchfield, New Hampshire.  They had eight children, including these two young sons both named James.

James Vose was the son of Lieutenant Robert Vose, born 25 October 1693 in Milton, Massachusetts, and died 20 April 1760 in Milton.  He married Abigail Sumner on 14 September 1721 in Milton, daughter of William Sumner and Hester Puffer.  His wife, Abigail Richardson is a great granddaughter of Ezekiel Richardson (1604 - 1647) and Susannah Bradford, early settlers at Woburn, Massachusetts. 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Three James Voses, Bedford, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 11, 2015, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/08/tombstone-tuesday-three-james-voses.html: accessed [access date]). 

Weathervane Wednesday ~ Moo! A Popular Ice Cream Spot in Massachusetts

Weathervane Wednesday is an on-going series of photographs I post weekly.  I started by publishing weather vanes from the Londonderry area, but now I've been finding interesting weather vanes all across New England.  Sometimes my weather vanes are whimsical, or historical, but all are interesting. Often, my readers tip me off to some very unique and unusual weather vanes, too!

Today's weather vane is from a town in Essex County, Massachusetts.

Do you know the location of weather vane #186? Scroll down to see the answer!

Today's weathervane was spotted at Richardson's Ice Cream in Middleton, Massachusetts.  This dairy farm is operated by the 8th and 9th generations of the Richardson family.  Not only are these Richardsons wonderful ice cream makers, but they are also distant cousins! We both descend from Thomas Richardson of Westmill, Hertfordshire, England.  His three sons, Samuel, Ezekiel and Thomas settled in Charlestown and Woburn, Massachusetts, and his daughter Elizabeth married Francis Wyman in 1617 and they became early Woburn settlers, too.  I descend from both Elizabeth (Richardson) Wyman (1593-1630) and Samuel Richardson (about 1602 - 1658).

In 1952 Ben and Hazen Richardson made their first ice cream and sold it in a stand on the side of Route 114.  By 1962 they had expanded to over 50 flavors. In 1978 they expanded to wholesale ice cream, and supplied ice cream stands all over New England, including Mack's Apples ice cream in Londonderry, New Hampshire.  I grew up enjoying the original ice cream stand, and later I found their ice cream in Londonderry when I married and moved to New Hampshire.  You can find Richardson's ice cream sold at Mack's Apples in the summer.  Yum!

Richardson's Ice Cream, Middleton, Massachusetts   www.richardsonsicecream.com 

Click here to see the entire series of 186 different Weathervane Wednesday posts! 

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The URL for this post is
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/12/weathervane-wednesday-moo-popular-ice.html

Copyright (c) 2014, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Ebenezer Crosby and Sarah Richardson, Chebogue Cemetery, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

This tombstone was photographed at the Chebogue Cemetery, at Town Point, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

EBENEZER CROSBY

DIED

Nov, 1863

aged 91 yrs

SARAH RICHARDSON

DIED

Oct. 1823

Aged 47 yrs

CROSBY

Ebenezer Crosby is my 4th Great Grand Uncle, son of Ebenezer Crosby and Elizabeth Robinson.  He was born in 1772 and died on 13 December 1863 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.  He married Sarah Richardson, the daughter of Reuben Richardson.  He was the brother of my 4th great grandmother, Rebecca Crosby (b. 1789), who married Comfort Haley (1787 - 1874).  Ebenezer lived to be 91 years old, which was quite a feat in those times!

Ebenezer Crosby, senior was an early settler at Chebogue.  He arrived in Nova Scotia with his parents, Jonathan Crosby and Hannah Hamblin, with the six families that sailed up the coast from Connecticut.  The Crosby family originally lived on Cape Cod, and they are Mayflower descendants.  You can see a blog post with a photo of Jonathan and Hannah Crosby's tombstone in the Chebogue cemetery HERE.

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http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/07/tombstone-tuesday-ebenezer-crosby-and.html

Copyright (c) 2014, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Colonel Loammi Baldwin

DISSEMINATOR OF THE APPLE

IN HONOR OF HIM CALLED

THE BALDWIN

WHICH PROCEEDED FROM A TREE

ORIGINALLY GROWING WILD

ABOUT TWO MILES NORTH

OF THIS MONUMENT

A PARTICIPANT WITH THE

RANK OF MAJOR

IN THE BATTLES OF

LEXINGTON AND CONCORD

A COLONEL OF 

THE 26TH REGIMENT OF

THE CONTINENTAL ARMY

WITH GENERAL WASHINGTON

DURING THE OCCUPATION

OF NEW YORK

AND IN THE BATTLE

OF TRENTON

LOAMMI BALDWIN

PATRIOT

PUBLIC OFFICIAL

BORN JANUARY 21, 1745, N.S.  [New Style]

IN NORTH WOBURN

MASSACHUSETTS

DIED OCTOBER 20, 1807 

ONE OF THE PROPRIETORS

AND

PRINCIPAL CONSTRUCTOR

OF THE MIDDLESEX CANAL

A MEMBER OF

THE COMMITTEE TO SIGN

THE PAPER MONEY OF

MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY

FIRST SHERIFF OF

MIDDLESEX COUNTY

UNDER THE STATE CONSTITUTION

A LEADER OF AFFAIRS

IN WOBURN 

ERECTED IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE WILL

OF HIS GRANDDAUGHTER

CATHERINE RUMFORD GRIFFITH

BY HIS GREAT-GRANDSONS ROSWELL PARK

LOAMMI FRANKLIN BALDWIN AND BALDWIN COOLIDGE

EXECUTORS AND TRUSTEES

A.D. MCMXVII

Loammi Baldwin is my 2nd cousin 7 generations removed.  I was driving through Woburn, Massachusetts when I saw this monument.  The name Loammi jumped out at me.  How many Loammi's do you know?  It's a very unusual Biblical name, and one I remembered was found in my family tree.  I knew that Loammi Baldwin was an officer in the American Revolutionary War, but I didn't know that he was also a horticulturalist, civil engineer and politician.  

Across the street from this monument, at 2 Alfred Street in Woburn, is the Loammi Baldwin mansion.  It is currently a restaurant, but it is still standing, and the outside of the building has a sign saying it was part of the National Register of Historic Places.  The house was moved from nearby to make room for a supermarket.   Just south of the house, near the lawn, is the remains of a section of the Middlesex Canal.  This was once a major waterway between downtown Boston and the Merrimack River.  Loammi Baldwin was a proprietor (shareholder) in this canal, which lasted until railroads took over transporting goods from Boston to Middlesex County and New Hampshire, and vice versa. 

You will often read that Loammi Baldwin was a great friend of Count Rumford, another politician, military leader and scientist who lived in Woburn at the same time period.  This is true, but more important, Count Rumford, the alias of Benjamin Thompson, was also Loammi's second cousin, one generation removed. I think that relationship is often overlooked by historians.  Click HERE to learn more about Count Rumford. 

                                               Samuel Richardson m. 1632  Joanna Thake

                                                                                  I                                            

                                      Joseph Richardson m. 1666 Hannah Greene

                                            I                                                         I    

           James Fowle m 1688. Mary Richardson             Joseph Richardson m. 1693 Mary Bloggett

                                I                                                                    I

            Mary Fowle m. 1714 James Simonds                Ruth Richardson m. James Baldwin

                                 I

            Ruth Simonds m. Benjamin Thompson               Loammi Baldwin (1745 - 1807)

                                 I                                                       m. 1772 Mary Fowle (first cousin)

       Benjamin Thompson "Count Rumford" (1752-1814)

        

Here is my kinship to Loammi Baldwin:

(you can see I am a first cousin, 6 generations removed from Count Rumford)

                                               Samuel Richardson m. 1632 Joanna Thake

                                                                                I

                                             Joseph Richardson m. 1666 Hannah Greene

                                                 I                                                    I

                  Mary Richardson m. 1688 James Fowle           Ruth Richardson m. James Baldwin

                                                I                                                      I

             Mary Fowle m. 1714 James Simonds                    Loammi Baldwin (1745 - 1807)

                                                I

             Caleb Simonds m. 1746 Susanna Converse

                                                I

              Ruth Simonds m. 1785 Andrew Munroe

                                                I

              Luther Simonds Munroe m. 1826 Olive Flint

                                                I

              Phebe Cross Munroe m. 1853 Robert Wilson Wilkinson

                                                I

              Albert Munroe Wilkinson m. 1894 Isabella Lyons Bill

                                                I

              Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. 1926  Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents) 

Here's something fun that I didn't know about the Baldwin Apple.  Genealogy Blogger Janice Brown, the author of the blog Cow Hampshire, told me that there was a monument to the Baldwin Apple.  The monument above states that Baldwin apple originated two miles north of Woburn.  This is in the town of Wilmington, Massachusetts.  The Rumford Historical Society erected this impressive monument to the apple here near the site of the original tree.

THIS MONUMENT

MARKS THE SITE OF THE FIRST

BALDWIN APPLE TREE

FOUND GROWING WILD NEAR HERE.

IT FELL IN THE GALE OF 1815

THE APPLE FIRST KNOWN AS THE 

BUTTERS, WOODPECKER

OR PECKER APPLE

WAS NAMED AFTER

COL. LOAMMI BALDWIN

OF WOBURN

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ERECTED IN 1895

BY THE 

RUMFORD HISTORICAL 

ASSOCIATION

[on the left side of the monument]

EXACT SPOT

340 FEET WEST

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10 DEGREES NORTH

In an interesting twist, Colonel Loammi Baldwin was also a cousin to Johnny Appleseed.  You can read the story of Johnny Appleseed HERE.   I always wondered if Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman took Baldwin apple seeds with him on his journey to the Midwest.  Does anyone know the answer to that question? 

                                                Joseph Richardson m. 1666 Hannah Greene

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Mary Richardson m. 1688 James Fowle                    Joseph Richardson m. Mary Bloggett

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Mary Fowle m. 1714 James Simonds                        Ruth Richardson m. James Baldwin

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James Simonds m. 1740 Anna Lawrence                  Colonel Loammi Baldwin (1744/45 - 1807)

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Elizabeth Simonds m. 1769 Nathaniel Chapman

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Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman (1744 - 1854) 

Click here for my blog post about Johnny Appleseed

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/08/on-trail-of-johnny-appleseed.html 

Click here for my blog post about Count Rumford

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/05/count-rumford-house.html

Click here for my blog post about the Middlesex Canal
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-middlesex-canal.html  

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Colonel Loammi Baldwin", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 14, 2013, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/10/colonel-loammi-baldwin.html , accessed [access date]).  

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Josiah Richardson, Litchfield, New Hampshire

These tombstones were photographed at the Litchfield, New Hampshire Presbyterian Church cemetery.

The Richardson family plot
I don't know whose tombstone fell face down....
It may be a son, Jonathan Richardson, who died in 1803

JOSIAH RICHARDSON
DIED
July 20, 1848
AEt 25
By death removed from .... and pains
He calmly laid his body on the grave.
His soul in heaven with .... ever reigns
Through  ... triumphant in his power to save

JOSIAH RICHARDSON
DIED
May 13, 1851
AET. 66

LUCY
wife of
JOSIAH RICHARDSON
DIED
Oct. 14, 1871
AE. 83 yrs. 6 mos.
I go dear friends; yet think of me

The Richardson Genealogy:

Generation 1:  Thomas Richardson, son of Thomas Richardson, born 14 May 1543 in Westmill, Hertfordshire, England, died 7 January 1634 in Westmill; married Katherine Duxford.  He is my 10th great grandfather.

Generation 2:  Ezekiel Richardson, son of Thomas Richardson, was born about 1604 in England, died 21 October 1647 in Woburn, Massachusetts.  He married Susannah Bradford.  He was my 9th great grand uncle.

Generation 3:  Theophilus Richardson, son of Ezekiel Richardson, was born 22 December 1633 in Charlestown, Massachusetts; died 28 December 1674 in Woburn, Massachusetts.  He married Mary Champney.

Generation 4:  John Richardson, son of Theophilus Richardson, was born 16 January 1667/8 in Woburn, Massachusetts, died 20 October 1749 in Woburn.  He married first Deborah Brooks, and second Lydia Pratt.

Generation 5:  Josiah Richardson, son of John Richardson and Deborah Brooks, was born 14 February 1700/1 in Woburn, Massachusetts.  He settled in Dunstable (now Litchfield, New Hampshire).  He married Phebe Unknown.

Generation 6:  Josiah Richardson, son of Josiah Richardson, was born 28 September 1729 in Dunstable, Massachusetts, died 13 May 1851 in Litchfield, New Hampshire.  He married Lucy Unknown.

Generation 7:  Josiah Richardson, son of Josiah Richardson, died 20 July 1848 in Litchfield, New Hampshire


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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Surname Saturday ~ Green of Malden, Massachusetts

NOTE
This blog post has been updated at this link:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/07/surname-saturday-green-of-malden.html 

GREEN

Thomas Green arrived in Massachusetts on the ship Planter in 1635/6.  In 1646 he was living at Lady Deborah Moody’s farm in Lynn, Massachusetts, and by 1650 he was a resident of Malden.  He had a 63 acre farm located in what is now the Melrose and Wakefield border.  He was a farmer, and was a selectman in 1658 and a juror several times for Middlesex County.

There were two other Thomas Greens living in Malden at this time period.  This Thomas Green is called “senior” and his son “junior”.  The other Thomas Green has no suffix after his name.  Thomas Green left a will dated 12 November 1667 and proved on 15 January 1667/8.  It doesn’t name a wife, but names all his children. 

His son, William Greene, my 9x great grandfather, was born in Topsfield in 1635 and settled also in Malden.  He was made a freeman in Malden in 1668 and was a selectman in 1678, 1683, and 1702.   Thomas’s grandson, Isaac Green, my 8x great grandfather, left Malden and settled in Falmouth, on Cape Cod, where he is buried.

Some sources for information on the Green family:

Descendants of Thomas Green of Malden, Massachusetts by Samuel S. Green and also The Greenes of Rhode Island with Historical Records of England Ancestors by Louise Brownell Clarke, New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1903.   There are lots of Greens/Greenes buried at Bell Rock Cemetery in Malden that are descendants of these Greens, but none of my direct line have stones that are still visible there.  You can see these Green gravestones at www.FindAGrave.com   

My Green Genealogy:

Generation 1: Thomas Green, born 17 May 1606 in Kegworth, Leicestershire, England, son of John Greene and Ann Scargell, died 19 December 1667 in Malden, Massachusetts; married on 26 June 1627 in Hertfordshire, England to Elizabeth Lynde, daughter of Thomas Lynde and Elizabeth Unknown.   Ten children.

Generation 2: Hannah Green, born 7 February 1647 in Woburn, died 20 May 1721 in Norwich, Connecticut; married on 5 November 1666 in Woburn to Joseph Richardson, son of Samuel Richardson and Joanna Thake.  Four children.

Generation 3: Mary Richardson married James Fowle

Generation 4: Mary Fowle married James Simonds, Jr.

Generation 5: Caleb Simonds married Susanna Converse

Generation 6: Ruth Simonds married Andrew Munroe

Generation 7: Luther Simonds Munroe married Olive Flint

Generation 8: Phebe Cross Munroe married Robert Wilson Wilkinson

Generation 9: Albert Munroe Wilkinson married Isabella Lyons Bill

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

My second Green lineage:

Generation 2: William Green, born 15 December 1635 in England, died 30 Decmeber 1705 in Malden; married first on 13 March 1659 to Elizabeth Wheeler, daughter of Isaac Wheeler and Frances Watson.  Three children.  He married second to Isabel Farmer.

Generation 3: Isaac Greene, born 27 December 1674 in Malden, died 4 January 1740 in Falmouth, Massachusetts; married Sarah Unknown. Four children.

Generation 4:  Martha Green, born 28 October 1705 in Falmouth, married on 18 July 1724 in Falmouth to Peter Robinson, son of Isaac Robinson and Hannah Harper (great great grandson of Rev. John Robinson, pastor to the Mayflower Pilgrims in England and in Leyden, Holland). Seven children.

Generation 5: Jabez Robinson, born 9 June 1726 in Falmouth; married on 7 January 1748 to Tabitha Green, daughter of William Green and Joanna Mendall (a possible 2^nd cousin and a third Green lineage?)  Five children.

Generation 6: Elizabeth Robinson, born 17 June 1750 in Falmouth, died 27 July 1837; married on 8 September 1774 to Ebenezer Crosby, son of Jonathan Crosby and Hannah Hamblin. They removed from Falmouth, Massachusetts to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Eleven children.

Generation 7: Rebecca Crosby, born 19 December 1789 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; married on 12 August 1808 in Chebogue, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia to Comfort Haley, son of Comfort Haley and Abigail Allen.  Eleven children.

Generation 8: Joseph Edwin Healy, born 12 August 1823 in Belfast, Maine or Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, died on 17 June 1862 at the Battle of Saint Charles, Arkansas during the Civil War; married on 3 February 1848 to Matilda Weston, daughter of Zadoc Weston and Mary Clements.  Four children.

Generation 9: Mary Etta Healey, born 19 May 1852 in Beverly, Massachusetts, died 23 July 1932 in Beverly, Massachusetts; married on 14 March 1870 in Salem, Massachusetts to Peter Hoogerzeil, son of the immigrant Peter Hoogerzeil of Dordrecht, Holland, and Eunice Stone. Six children.

Generation 10: Florence Etta Hoogerzeil, born 20 August 1871 in Beverly, died 10 February 1941 in Hamilton, Massachusetts; married on 25 December 1890 in Beverly to Arthur Treadwell Hitchings, son of Abijah Franklin Hitchings and Hannah Eliza Lewis.  Nine children.

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

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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Surname Saturday ~ Richardson of Woburn, Massachusetts

RICHARDSON

Samuel Richardson was executor of his father’s estate in 1634 in Hutchins, England and then came to America with his brother Thomas, to follow his brother Ezekiel who was already in Massachusetts.  He was granted a lot in Charlestown and became a member of the church there.  All three brothers were granted lots in 1638 in what is now Malden, Massachusetts.   In 1640 all three brothers, and others, were on a committee of seven to draw up the boundaries for a new settlement to be called “Charlestown Village”.  They all had new house lots next to each other on a road that became known as Richardson’s Row in what is now Woburn, Massachusetts.

Samuel was the richest man in Woburn in 1645, and became a selectman.   He left no will, but had deeded some land earlier in 1657 to his sister “Susanna  Richardson, now Brooks, during her lifetime and ten to my cousin [sic nephew] Theophilus Richardson”. 

Samuel’s son, Joseph Richardson (my 8x great grandfather), was in the Great Swamp Fight on 19 December 1675.  This was one of the great battles of the King Philip’s War against the Narragansett tribe.   It took place in a frozen swamp near the present day Kingston, Rhode Island, when the frozen water made an assault possible on a large native fortification.  It is thought that 300 native people died, and many families fled into the harsh environment to only die later of exposure.  It was a battle that changed the war in favor of the colonists and the Narragansett were eventually defeated when their sachem Canonchet was captured the next spring.  King Philip (also known as Metacomet) was killed in August 1676, ending the conflict.

Sources for researching the Richardsons of Woburn:

The Richardson Memorial by John Vinton, Brown Thurston & Co., Portland, Maine, 1876 and Samuel Richardson and Josiah Ellsworth. By Ruth Richardson Privately Published. 1974.   There are several sketches and articles about Samuel, Ezekiel and Thomas Richardson, and the English origins of Joanna (Thake) Richardson,  in the New England Historic Genealogical Society Register and in The Great Migration Begins, Volume III by Anderson.  For a complete list of these articles and sketches see pages 197 and 198 of New Englanders in the 1600s by Martin Hollick, NEHGS, 2012 expanded edition.

My Richardson genealogy:

Generation 1:  Samuel Richardson, baptized on 22 December  1602 in Westmill, Hertfordshire, England, died 23 March 1658 in Woburn (the part now known as Winchester), Massachusetts; married on 18 October 1632 in Great Hormstead, England to Joanna Thake, daughter of William Thake and Joan Wood.  She was baptized on 2 February 1606 in Barkway, England and died 20 June 1666 in Woburn, Massachusetts.   Nine children.

Generation 2: Joseph Richardson, born on 27 July 1643 in Woburn, Massachusetts, died on 5 March 1717/18 in Woburn; married on 5 November 1666 in Woburn to Hannah Green, daughter of Thomas Greene and Elizabeth Lynde.  She was born on 7 February 1647 in Woburn, and died on 20 May 1721 in Norwich, Connecticut.

Generation 3: Mary Richardson, born 22 March 1669 in Woburn, died 23 October 1748 in Woburn; married first on 2 October 1688 in Woburn to James Fowle, son of James Fowle and Abigail Carter.  He was born 4 March 1667 in Woburn and died 19 March 1714 in Woburn. Then had twelve children.  Mary married second to Samuel Walker. 

Generation 4: Mary Fowle married James Simonds, Jr.

Generation 5: Caleb Simonds married Susanna Converse

Generation 6:  Ruth Simonds married Andrew Munroe

Generation 7: Luther Simonds Munroe married Olive Flint

Generation 8: Phebe Cross Munroe married Robert Wilson Wlkinson

Generation 9. Albert Munroe Wilkinson married Isabella Lyons Bill

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

My second Richardson lineage:

Generation 1: Thomas Richardson, born 14 May 1543 in Westmill, Hertfordshire, England, died 7 January 1634 in Westmill; married on 24 August 1590 in Westmill to Katherine Duxford, daughter of Richard Duxford and Katherine Unknown.  Seven children:

1.       Elizabeth Richardson (my 9x great grandmother) born 12 January 1593,  in Westmill and died 22 June 1630 in Westmill, married on 1 May 1617 in Westmill to Francis Wyman as his first of three wives.  I descend from their first son, Francis Wyman (1617 – 1699) who married Abigail Reed and settled in Woburn, Massachusetts

2.       John Richardson, born about 1596

3.       James Richardson, born about 1600

4.       Samuel Richardson (see above) my 9x great grandfather

5.       Ezekiel Richardson, born about 1602, died 21 Oct 1647 in Woburn, Massachusetts

6.       Margaret Richardson, born about 1607

7.       Thomas Richardson, born 3 July 1608 in Westmill, died 28 August 1651 in Woburn

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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Surname Saturday ~ Carter of Woburn, Massachusetts

Capt. John Carter, son of Thomas Carter, Woburn Old Burial Ground

There are two Thomas Carters who were first settlers of Woburn, Massachusetts.   It is easy to keep their stories and families separate if you recognize that their ages are about thirty years apart.  One was the first minister, and the other a lowly blacksmith.  Their children have similar names, and both had wives named “Mary”.  

My ancestor Thomas Carter was born about 1585 in England.  It is unknown when he immigrated, or on which ship he arrived.  He was admitted as a freeman in 1636. Thomas Carter was a blacksmith, and served once as constable but was fined for being late in directing witnesses to a trial.  He lived first at Charlestown, but was described as being “of Woburn” (the borders seem to be a bit confused in those days.)  His  1650 will names his wife, Mary, sons Thomas, Samuel, Joseph and John, daughters Mary and Hannah, grandsons Caleb and Joseph Carter, John Brinsmead and John Green.   Among his assets was a Scotsman named Matthew, valued at 14 pounds.

Among my Woburn ancestors, another, Francis Wyman, a tanner, owned several Scotsmen who were prisoners of war from the Battle of Dunbar.  Another was a Scots prisoner, William Munroe.  It is interesting that these men stayed and intermarried in the communities where they were once held captive and in servitude. 

Randy Seaver posted Thomas Carter’s will recently at his blog GeneaMusings http://www.geneamusings.com/2012/11/amanuensis-monday-will-of-thomas-carter.html

The best sources for Thomas Carter, the blacksmith, are the town histories of Charlestown and Woburn, and the vital records.  There is a short sketch of Thomas Carter in the book The New England Ancestory of Dana Converse Backus, by Mary E. N. Backus, 1949.

My lineage from Thomas Carter:

Generation 1: Thomas Carter, born about 1585 in England; died about 1652 in Woburn, Massachusetts; married Mary Unknown, who died 6 March 1665 in Woburn.  Six children.

Generation 2: John Carter, born about 1617, died 14 September 1692 in Woburn; married about 1642 in Woburn to Elizabeth Kendall.  She was born about 1613 in England, died 6 May 1691 in Woburn.  Five children, I descend from two Carter daughters.

Line A.  

Generation 3.  Abigail Carter, born 21 April 1648 in Woburn, died 11 May 1718 in Woburn; married in 1666 in Woburn to Lt. James Fowle, son of George Fowle and Mary Tufts. 

Generation 4.  Capt. James Fowle m. Mary Richardson

Generation 5. Mary Fowle m. James Simonds, Jr.

Generation 6. Caleb Simonds m. Susanna Convers

Generation 7. Ruth Simonds m. Andrew Munroe

Generation 8. Luther Simonds Munroe m. Olive Flint

Generation 9. Phebe Cross Munroe m. Robert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 10. Albert Munroe Wilkinson m. Isabella Lyons Bill

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

Line B.

Generation B.

Generation 3.  Hannah Carter, born 19 January 1651 in Woburn, died 10 August 1691 in Woburn; married on 1 January 1669 to James Converse, son of James Converse and Anna Long.  He was born on 16 November 1645 in Woburn and died on 8 July 1706 in Woburn.

Generation 4. Robert Converse m. Mary Sawyer

Generation 5. Susanna Converse m. Caleb Simonds (they were first cousins once removed)

(See Above)

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ Carter of Woburn, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 18, 2013, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/01/surname-saturday-carter-of-woburn.html: accessed [access date]).