The Wing Fort House, Sandwich, Massachusetts

While we were exploring Cape Cod a few months ago we had a serendipitous discovery.  We were lost on a back road, searching for the Quaker cemetery, when we stumbled across this historic home.  It was the Wing Fort House on Spring Hill Road in Sandwich, Massachusetts.  Of course, we stopped to take a few photos before continuing our search. This house was built by an a relative who became a Quaker, so we knew we were very close to our destination!

This garrison home was built in 1641 by Stephen Wing.  (I descend from his grandfather, the Reverend Stephen Batchelder (1561 – 1656) through his two children Nathaniel (1590 – 1630) and Ann (b. about 1603) who married John Sanborn).  It is puzzling why this was built as a garrison, since the native Wampanoags were friendly to the English settlers on Cape Cod.  Stephen Wing lived here with his family and his mother, Deborah Batchelder (my 10^th great aunt) who was the wife of the Reverend John Wing.

Stephen Wing was one of the first Quakers in Sandwich, Massachusetts.  The Plymouth Court records have some of the first legal proceedings against the early Quakers in Sandwich.  On March 2, 1657/8 “Lieut. Ellis, Stephen Winge and Thomas Butler, being summoned to answer for tumultuous carriage as aforesaid, [at a Quaker meeting] being examined, and not found so faulty as was supposed, were admonished and cleared.”  He was fined many times for refusal to take the oath of Fidelity because Quakers believed it a sin to take any oath. 

Descendants of the Wing family have lived in this house until 1942 when it was sold to the Wing Family of America (the family association) as a museum house.  Unfortunately, the tours run from June through September, so we missed seeing the inside of the house.  During the rest of the year the house is available by appointment to members of the Wing association.

 There have been several archaeological digs at the site of the Wing Fort House.  Most recently was an archaeological dig at this house in 2010 that revealed a small addition to the north side (a possible milk house?) and many 17^th, 18^th and 19^th century artifacts.  See the link below for a report on what was found. 

WING FORT HOUSE

HAS BEEN PLACED ON THE

NATIONAL REGISTER OF

HISTORIC PLACES IN 1976

BY THE UNITED STATES

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2019     239

STEPHEN WING

SON OF THE REV. JOHN AND DEBORAH

WING, CAME TO BOSTON IN 1632

WITH HIS MOTHER AND BROTHERS

JOHN, DANIEL, AND MATHEW, WITH

WHOM HE SETTLED IN SANDWICH IN 1637.

HE LIVED UPON THIS LAND AND BUILT

THIS HOUSE IN 1641.  HE WAS AN ORGINAL

MEMBER OF THE FIRST FRIENDS MEETING

IN AMERICA, ESTABLISHED AT SPRING

HILL IN 1658, AND SUFFERED GREAT

PERSECUTION AT THE HANDS OF THE

PLYMOUTH GOVERNMENT IN THE CAUSE

OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.  HE DIED IN

1710 AND LIES BURIED AT SPRING

HILL.

ERECTED IN 1910 BY THE WING

FAMILY OF AMERICA INCORPORATED.

For the truly curious:

The Wing Family of America website:    https://www.wingfamily.org/ 

“Tour the Wing Fort House from Your Own Home with Caretaker, Dave Wheelock”  (two parts)  via YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zp8afIPBFk 

Click here to see the reports on the 2010 archaeological dig (report and artifacts)  http://www.plymoutharch.com/wing-fort-house-excavations/  

“Mystery of Missing Family Members Still Unsolved After Archaeological Dig”, The Sandwich Enterprise, July 28, 2017,  https://www.capenews.net/sandwich/news/mystery-of-missing-family-members-still-unsolved-after-archaeological-dig/article_4a4bd723-40c8-5427-ae4e-a539e03fdab6.html 

A slide show of a visit to the Wing Fort House (no narration or captions):  https://vimeo.com/28244835 

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To Cite/Link to this post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “The Wing Fort House, East Sandwich, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 7, 2021, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-wing-fort-house-sandwich.html: accessed [access date]). 

Meghan Markle’s New Hampshire Roots

Did you know that Meghan Markle’s paternal grandmother, Doris Mary Rita Sanders (born about 1920), daughter of Fred George Sanders and Gertrude May Merrill,  was born in New Hampshire? She has a New Hampshire lineage that goes back for another ten generations in New Hampshire!

I won’t give her entire family tree here, since it is easily seen online at the resources listed below, and also since it would be enormous!  But I will tell you a little about Meghan’s New Hampshire ancestors.   The newspapers recently were all aflutter about Meghan’s Wentworth and Hussey shared ancestry with her husband Harry, but that goes back more than fifteen generations before they share an ancestor.  You might be even more closely related to the new royal bride if you match some of this New Hampshire ancestry.

From the lists of surnames below, I can see that I share common ancestors with Meghan through BURNHAM, PAGE, BATCHELDER, SANBORN, TAYLOR, SWETT, STACY and GODFREY, and kinship with a few other New Hampshire surnames.

Are these surnames in your New Hampshire family tree?  If so, you might be a cousin!  I’ve listed the surnames in Meghan’s family tree, and the immigrant ancestors of those surnames.

SMITH from Center Harbor, Meredith and Hampton (immigrant ancestor John Smith abt. 1616 – 1674)

MUDGETT  from New Hampton and Brentwood  (immigrant Thomas Mudgett abt. 1640 – 1701)

DRAKE from Holderness and Hampton (Abraham Drake 1623 – 1709)

MERRILL from Plymouth and Holderness (untraced before 1768)

HUCKINS from Gilmanton, Madbury and Durham (Oyster River) (Robert Huckins 1620 – 1694)

BICKFORD from Newington and Dover (John Bickford 1607 – 1677)

PAGE from Hampton  (Robert Page 1604 – 1679)

HOBBS from Hampton (Morris Hobbs 1615 – 1706)

SHAW from Cambridge MA and Hampton, NH (Roger Shaw 1600 – 1661)

BATCHELDER from Hampton (Rev. Stephen Batchelder 1561 – 1656)

DOW from Hampton (Henry Dow 1605 – 1659)

TAYLOR from Hampton (Anthony Taylor 1607 – 1687)

GODFREY from Hampton (William Godfrey d.1671)

HUSSEY from Hampton ( Christopher Hussey 1598 – 1685)

SANBORN from Hampton (John Sanborn 1588 – 1650)

MEAD (untraced before Hannah Mead m. Joseph Mudgett b. 1731)

SCRIBNER from Dover  (John Scriven (1623 – 1675)

SWETT from Hampton (Benjamin Swett 1624 – 1677)

THOMAS from Durham (Oyster River) (James Thomas (1642 – 1718)

GODDARD from Durham (Oyster River)  (John Goddard (1608 – 1666)

TIBBETTS from Dover (Jeremiah Tibbetts 1631 – 1677)

BENMORE from Dover (Philip Benmore 1630 – 1676)

ADAMS from Durham (Charles Adams (1621 – 1694)

WEARE from Nantucket and Hampton (Nathaniel Weare 1605 – 1681)

ROBIE from Hampton (Henry Robie)

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Some of Meghan’s Essex County, Massachusetts ancestors:

LEE from Manchester

KILHAM from Wenham

LUNT from Newbury

BROWNE from Newbury

EATON from Salisbury and Haverhill

ROWLANDSON from Lancaster and Salisbury

WORTHEN (untraced)

TILTON from Lynn

BURNHAM from Ipswich

FRENCH from Salisbury

STACY from Salisbury

CARTER from Woburn

WHITCHER/WHITTIER from Salisbury, MA and Chester, NH

ELLSWORTH (untraced before Jeremiah Ellsworth 1692 – 1779 m. Hannah Tenney of Rowley, MA)

Some of the many online sources for Meghan’s ancestry:

From NEHGS    https://www.americanancestors.org/Royal-Ancestry-of-Meghan-Markle.aspx  

from Fame Chain  http://www.famechain.com/  

A chart of Meghan and Harry’s shared ancestry:

https://www.americanancestors.org/uploadedfiles/content/features/meghan-markle-chart.pdf

Famous Kin   https://famouskin.com/family-tree.php?name=80923+meghan+markle

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Meghan Markle’s New Hampshire Roots", Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 4, 2018, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/06/meghan-markles-new-hampshire-roots.html: accessed [access date]).

Surname Saturday ~ SANBORN of Hampton, New Hampshire

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

SANBORN

I descend twice from the famous Reverend Stephen Bachiler of Hampton, New Hampshire.  My first Batchelder line descends from his son Nathaniel (1590 – 1630) down to my great grandmother Carrie Maude (Batchelder) Allen (1872 – 1963).  My second Batchelder line descends from daughter Ann Batchelder (b. about 1602) who married John Sanborn.   Their son, John Sanborn, Jr.(my 9^th great grandfather)  was about age fifteen when he came to the New World in 1632 with his grandfather and two brothers.  His father arrived in New England at a later date, and his mother perhaps never came to America and died in England. 

John Sanborn, Jr. received his house lot and land in 1640 in Hampton, New Hampshire.  In 1645 he received another grant of land.  He is in the court records frequently for selling and buying land, witnessing documents and for suits against his neighbors for trespassing.  In 1650 John Sanborn, Jr. was first elected a selectman, and held that position several more times over the years.  He served as a Lieutenant in King William’s War (1689).   When he died in 1692 the inventory of his estate was recorded by his neighbors, amounting to 294 pounds and 14 shillings.

John Sanborn married first Mary Tuck and had eleven children. Then he married Margaret Page, the widow of William Moulton, and had my 8^th great grandfather, Jonathan Sanborn (1672 – 1741).  He married Elizabeth Sherburne in 1692, had twelve children and removed to Kingston, New Hampshire.

Some SANBORN resources:

A Collection of Sanborn Family Genealogies,  compiled by Elmer Corliss Sanborn, Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1994.  (An addendum was published in 1996).

The American and English Sambornes: With A Notice of Rev. Stephen Bachiler, by Victor Channing Sanborn, 1895.

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register “The Sanborn Family” by Nathan Sanborn, Volume 10, pages 271 – 280 (continued in a later volume).

New Hampshire Genealogical Record,  “The Diary of Jonathan Sanborn of Hawke from 1774 – 1813” by Melinda Lutz Sanborn,  Volume 14 (1993), pages 80 – 83 and 115 to 129.

You can read about my BATCHELDER surname post HERE

My SANBORN genealogy:

Generation 1: John Sanborn, son of John Sanborn and Ann Batchelder, born about 1620 in Brimpton, Berkshire, England and died 10 October 1692 in Hampton, New Hampshire; married first to Mary Tuck; married second to Margaret Page, daughter of Robert Page and Lucy Warde, widow of William Moulton. 

Generation 2: Jonathan Sanborn, son of John Sanborn and Margaret Page, born 25 May 1672 in Hampton, died 20 June 1741 in Kingston, New Hampshire; married on 4 February 1692 in Hampton to Elizabeth Sherburne, daughter of Samuel Sherburne and Love Hutchings. She was born 5 February 1672 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.  Twelve children.

Generation 3: Margaret Sanborn, born 20 March 1698 in Hampton; married on 9 January 1714 in Kingston to Moses Sleeper, son of Aaron Sleeper and Elizabeth Shaw. He was born 22 February 1685 in Hampton, and died 23 January 1754 in Kingston.  They had fifteen children born in Kingston.

Generation 4: Hepzibah Sleeper, born 24 March 1742 in Kingston; married in 1760 to Samuel Lane, son of Samuel Lane and Elizabeth Blake.  He was born in 1741 and died 15 January 1822 in Hampton Falls.  Nine children.

Generation 5: Sarah Lane, born 24 March 1769 in Hampton Falls, died 27 February 1819 in Pittsfield, New Hampshire; married Elisha Batchelder, son of David Batchelder and Elizabeth Swett.  He was born 10 June 1763 in Hampton Falls, and died 11 October 1813 in Pittsfield. Four children.

Generation 6: Jonathan Batchelder, born about 1800 in Hampton, died before 4 November 1847 at the Concord State Asylum; married on 11 February 1822 in Belmont, New Hampshire to Nancy Thompson.  She was born about 1804 in Gilmanton, New Hampshire and died after 1847.  Two children.

Generation 7: George E. Batchelder, born 13 August 1822 in Chichester, New Hampshire, died 3 April 1848 in Chichester; married 7 September 1845 in South Boston, Massachusetts to Abigail M. Locke, daughter of Richard Locke and Margaret Welch.  She was born 10 September 1825 in South Boston, and died 15 January 1888 in Chichester.  Two children.

Generation 8: George E. Batchelder, born 8 October 1848 (posthumously), died 28 July 1914 in Cambridge, Massachusetts; married on 28 October 1869 in Chichester to Mary Katharine Emerson, daughter of George Emerson and Mary Esther Younger.  She was born 25 December 1847 in South Boston, and died 23 April 1932 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Nine children.

Generation 9: Carrie Maude Batchelder, born 22 September 1872 in Chichester, died 21 January 1963 at the Sea View Convalescent and Nursing Home in Rowley, Massachusetts; married on 1 November 1892 in Essex, Massachusetts to Joseph Elmer Allen, son of Joseph Gilman Allen and Sarah Burnham Mears.  He was born 24 September 1870 in Essex, and died 12 March 1932 at the Masonic Home in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.  Five children.

Generation 10: Stanley Elmer Allen, born 14 January 1904 in Cambridge, died 6 March 1982 in Beverly; married on 14 February 1925 in Hamilton, Massachusetts to Gertrude Matilda Hitchings, daughter of Arthur Treadwell Hitchings and Florence Etta Hoogerzeil.  She was born 1 August 1905 in Beverly, and died 3 November 2001 at the Pilgrim Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Peabody, Massachusetts. Seven children. (My grandparents).

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ SANBORN of Hampton, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 23, 2016,  (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/04/surname-saturday-sanborn-of-hampton-new.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ SLEEPER of Hampton, New Hampshire

The SLEEPER Memorial Stone at Founder's Park, Hampton, New Hampshire

SLEEPER

Thomas Sleeper came to Hampton, New Hampshire around 1640 as a weaver.  He received a grant of land in 1646.  He built his home on Shaw’s Hill, in a part of town that was remote from the other residents. This part of Hampton was once known as Sleepertown or Sleepytown.    In November 1675 several Indians were seen trying to burn down his home in Hampton, but the plot was thwarted.  Later he bought land in Kingston where his descendants lived.  

His wife, Joanna, was a witness twice against Goodwife Eunice Cole “Goody Cole”, the only woman convicted of witchcraft in New Hampshire.  On 4 September 1656 she testified that she had seen a black cat torture a man in his sickbed on the same evening when Goodwife Cole had been there at noon.  And in October 1656 she testified with Thomas Moulton’s wife that they had been talking about Goodwife Cole when they heard mysterious scraping noises outside the window.  Eunice Cole was found guilty and sentenced to be flogged and imprisoned for the rest of her life in Boston.

Since the Cole family was impoverished they could not pay for Goody Cole’s jail boarding.  The town was ordered to pay instead.  Eventually she was released from jail because the town of Hampton figured that it was less expensive to pay her charity to live at home than to pay her jail fees. She died impoverished and in abject poverty.   A memorial stone was dedicated to Goody Eunice Cole at the Green Memorial Park in Hampton on 17 August 1963.

See this link for another blog post about a famous SLEEPER descendant, Henry Davis Sleeper (1878 – 1934), architect and designer of Beauport Mansion in Gloucester, Massachusetts

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/07/beauport-mansion-gloucester.html

Henry Davis SLEEPER's Beauport Mansion, Gloucester, Massachusetts

Some SLEEPER resources:

Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623 – 1660, by Charles Henry Pope,  1908, page 191.

The History of the Town of Hampton, by Joseph Dow,  1893, Volume 1, page 220

Witch Hunting in Seventeenth Century New England: A Documentary History, by David D. Hall, page 214.

Robert Sleeper, Sr Family History: Epping, New Hampshire to Warren Center, PA: with Accounts of the Sleeper Family Dating from Thomas Sleeper of Hampton, NH, by V. Sleeper- Terry, 1999.

My SLEEPER genealogy:

Generation 1:  Thomas Sleeper, born about 1607 probably in England, died 30 July 1696 in Hampton, New Hampshire; married in September 1649 in Hampton to Joanna UNKNOWN.  She was born about 1623 and died 5 February 1703 in Kingston, New Hampshire.  Eight children.

Generation 2:  Aaron Sleeper, born 20 February 1661 in Hampton, died 9 May 1732 in Kingston, New Hampshire; married first on 23 May 1682 in Hampton to Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of Joseph Shaw and Elizabeth Partridge.  She was born 23 August 1664 in Hampton Falls, died 17 October 1708 in Kingston. Ten children.  Aaron Sleeper was married second to her sister, Sarah Shaw, born 5 December 1676 in Hampton Falls, and died 9 May 1732 in Kingston.  Two children.

Generation 3:  Moses Sleeper, born 22 February 1685 in Hampton, died 13 January 1754 in Kingston; married on 9 January 1714 in Kingston to Margaret Sanborn, daughter of Jonathan Sanborn and Elizabeth Sherburne.  She was born 20 March 1698.  Fifteen children.

Generation 4:   Hepzibah Sleeper, born 24 March 1742 in Kingston; married about 1760 to Samuel Lane, son of Samuel Lane and Elizabeth Blake.  He was born in 1741 in Hampton Falls, and died 15 January 1822 in Hampton Falls.  Nine children.

Generation 5:  Sarah Lane m. Elisha Batchelder

Generation 6:  Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

Generation 7:  George E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke

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

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 ~ SLEEPER of Hampton, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 16, 2016, (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/04/surname-saturday-sleeper-of-hampton-new.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ Smith of Exeter and Hampton, New Hampshire

Early Settlers at Hampton, New Hampshire.  Robert Smith is found between
Rev. Stephen Bachiler and James Wedgewood -
just below the south east corner of the Meeting House Green

SMITH

Robert Smith, my 10^th great grandfather, a tailor, lived first in Exeter, New Hampshire where he signed the Exeter Combination Agreement in 1639.   He served as a juror and magistrate in Exeter before removing to Hampton. At Hampton he was elected a Selectman in 1654 and a constable in 1671.  He had six children with his wife, Susannah, who was killed by lightening in 1680 “slaine by ye thunder”. In 1673 he deposed that his age was about 61, and in 1695 he deposed that his age was about 83.  In 1671, after his wife’s death, he was listed as a member in full communion of the church pastored by Reverend Seaborn Cotton. Robert Smith died in Hampton in 1706, testate.

I descend from his only daughter, Meribah, was born about 1635 and married Deacon Francis Page of Hampton on 2 December 1669.  Of the five sons, four married and lived nearby.  One son, Israel, died in Boston and administration of his estate was given to his father, Robert Smith, on 20 May 1676.  He divided the estate equally among the five sons, including Francis Page as one of his sons.  His son, Joseph Smith, married Dorothy, a daughter of Rev. Seaborn Cotton, about 1694.

Robert and Susannah Smith are both buried at the Old Burying Ground, also known as “Pine Grove Cemetery”. 

Some SMITH resources:

“The Two Families of Sarah (Libbey) (Smith) Dolbear of Hampton and Rye, New Hampshire” by Steven Edwrd Sullivan, The American Genealogist, 1998, Volume 73, pages 258 – 271.

The Ancestry of the Children of Robert Croll Stevens and Jane Eleanor (Knauss) Stevens, by Robert Croll Stevens, 1982, Volume 1, page 37.  [available to read online at FamilySearch.org https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE1898640 ]

“Preliminary Account of the Descendants of Robert Smith (1611 – 1709) of Exeter & Hampton, N.H., through the Fifth Generation” by Danny D. Smith, 1980 [typescript at the Maine State Library, Augusta].

A memorial biography to Robert Smith at Find a Grave can be seen at this link  (along with a link to the memorial for Susannah):  http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16885925

My SMITH genealogy:

Generation 1:  Robert Smith, born about 1611 in England, died 30 August 1706 in Hampton, New Hampshire; married to Susannah Unknown.  Six children.  I descend from his only daughter.

Generation 2:  Meribah Smith, born aobut 1635; married Francis Page, son of Robert Page and Lucy Warde. 

Generation 3:   Francis Page m. Hannah Nudd

Generation 4:  Sarah Page m. Josiah Batchelder

Generation 5: David Batchelder m. Elizabeth Swett

Generation 6: Elisha Batchelder m. Sarah Lane

Generation 8: Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

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

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

Generation 11: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ Smith of Exeter and Hampton, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 9, 2016, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/01/surname-saturday-smith-of-exeter-and.html:  accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ SHERBORNE of Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Piscataqua 1667

Revised 20 September 2018

SHERBORNE / SHERBORN  / SHERBURN / SHERBURNE

My 10^th great grandfather, Henry Sherborne,  was baptized in Odiham, Hampshire, England as the son of Joseph Sherburne.  Henry came to New England aboard the James in 1632.  He was a ferryman and tavern keeper in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.  He was listed as a church warden at Strawberry Bank and he served as the clerk of the county court, and held many other offices in Portsmouth, including selectman.   His brother John was in New England by about 1642.

On 13 November 1637 he married Rebecca Gibbons, the daughter of Ambrose Gibbons, and had eleven children.  He married second to Sarah, the widow of Walter Abbott (my 8^th great grandparents).   In 1668 Henry was in court for beating his wife, Rebecca, and she was also fined for “beating her husband & breaking his head”. 

There is no known death date for Henry Sherborne, but on 7 December 1680 when he failed to appear in court his daughter Mary said “[m]y father Henry Sherborned died about the year ’80 or ’83.  His death we was not sensible of”.   In 1671 he was in court with his new wife, Sarah, for “disorderly living and fighting”.   There are many lawsuits and fines in the court records for Henry Sherborne for fighting and lawsuits against his neighbors for numerous complaints.

In the New Hampshire Provincial Papers is a document which names Henry’s son, Samuel, my 9^th great grandfather, who was granted a parcel of land for “taking into custody & Christian keeping of the said Henry Sherburne’s daughter Rebecca Sherburne (who is both dumb & wanting of understanding)”.    Samuel was with the military sent to Maine during King Philip’s War in 1691.  He was “killed by the heathen” at Casco Bay.  His last child was born after his death.

Henry’s daughter, and twin to Samuel, Elizabeth, married Tobias Lear, ancestor of the Tobias Lear (1762 – 1816) who was secretary to George Washington.   Tobias Lear's third wife was a Dandridge, a relative of Martha Washington.  He died in George Washington's house in Philadelphia. 

Some SHERBORNE resources:

The Great Migration Begins, Volume III, pages 1666 - 1669

Provincial Papers: Documents and Records Relating to the Province of New Hampshire, Volume 1 (1623 – 1686), compiled by Nathaniel Bouton, 1867

Portsmouth Records: A transcript of the first thirty five pages of the Earliest Town Book of Portsmouth, New Hampshire with notes, by Frank W. Hackett, 1886

Rambles about Portsmouth: Sketches of persons, localities and incidents of two centuries, by Charles W. Brewster,   pages 51 – 52 “Sherburne Family”   [available online at http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/AFJ7267.0002.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext]

"Captain Samuel Sherburne of Hampton", Seacoastonline, by Cheryl Lassiter, posted December 14, 2015, http://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20151214/NEWS/151219581/0/SEARCH 

My SHERBORNE genealogy:

Generation 1: Henry Sherborne, son of Joseph Sherborne and Amy Cowlln, baptized 28 March 1611 in Odiham, Hampshire, England, died before 7 December 1680; married first on 13 November 1637 to Rebecca Gibbons, daughter of Ambrose Gibbons and Rebecca Unknown.  She was born about 1620 in England and died 3 June 1667 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.  Eleven children.  He married second before December 1670 to Sarah, widow of Walter Abbott.

Generation 2:  Samuel Sherburne, born 4 August 1638 at Little Harbor (now Rye, New Hampshire), died 4 August 1691 in Casco Bay, Maine; married on 11 December 1668 in Haverhill, Massachusetts to Love Hutchings, daughter of John Hutchins and Frances Alcock.  Three children.  

Generation 3:  Elizabeth Sherburne, born 5 February 1672 in Portsmouth; died 25 April 1755 in Kingston, New Hampshire; married 4 February 1692 in Hampton, New Hampshire to Jonathan Sanborn, son of John Sanborn and Margaret Page.  He was born 25 May 1672 in Hampton, died 20 June 1741 in Kingston.  Twelve children.

Generation 4:  Margaret Sanborn m. Moses Sleeper

Generation 5:  Hepzibah Sleeper m. Samuel Lane

Generation 6: Sarah Lane m. Elisha Batchelder
(correction, Jonathan Batchelder is NOT a son of Elisha Batchelder and 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: Carried 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 ~  SHERBORNE of Portsmouth", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 19, 2015  ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/12/surname-saturday-sherborne-of-portsmouth.html: accessd [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ PAGE of Hampton, New Hampshire

Memorial Stone to the PAGE family
at Founder's Park in Hampton, New Hampshire

PAGE

Robert Page married his wife, Lucy, in South Walsham, Norfolk, England on 8 October 1629.  They were examined in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England before leaving England on 11 April 1637 and he gave his age as thirty three years in the deposition.  In their party on board the immigrant ship Rose they had three children: Francis, Margaret and Susannah, and two servants- William Moulton, age twenty, and “Anne Wadd”, fifteen years old (sister to Robert’s wife Lucy Warde).  They deposed that they were “desirous to passe into New England to inhabit.”  They arrived in Boston on June 8^th and first settled in Salem, Massachusetts.

In 1639 Robert Page received ten acres of land for a house lot in Hampton, New Hampshire.  This land was owned by his descendants for six generations, abutting the meeting house on the south, and between the house lots of William and Robert Marston.  He was made a freeman on 18 May 1642 in Hampton.   Robert built the first sawmill in Hampton.   Out of 76 taxpayers in Hampton in 1659, his tax was the highest.

This area of New Hampshire was known at this time as the county of Norfolk, Massachusetts.   Robert Page was a representative to the General Court, and served as a marshal for Norfolk County.  He was also the only deacon of the church from 1671 until his death in 1679 and was succeeded by his son Francis, my 9^th great grandfather.   See the Essex County, Massachusetts probate files for his will proved on 11 November 1679 and also see the Norfolk County, Massachusetts Deeds, Volume 3, page 28.  (This is a case of looking in Massachusetts records for this New Hampshire family!)

I descend from two of Robert Page’s children- Francis, mentioned above, and his daughter, Margaret who married John Sanborn, grandson of the Rev. Stephen Bachiler of Hampton.   Another daughter, Rebecca, married his servant William Marston.  Francis Page was born about 1633 and also resided in Hampton.  He was a selectman, juror, and town moderator.  He was elected to be a deacon soon after his father’s death.  Francis had a son, Francis, who was my 8^th great grandfather (see below).

For more PAGE information:

History of Hampton, New Hampshire by Joseph Dow

The New England Ancestry of Dana Converse Backus, page 118

The History and Genealogy of the Page Family from the years 1257 to the Present, by Charles Nelson Page, 1911

New England Historic Genealogical Society Register, “The English Ancestry of Robert Page of Hampton, NH”, by George Chamberlain, Volume 66, pages 180 – 183.

My PAGE genealogy:

Generation 1:   Robert Page, son of Robert Page and Margaret Goodwin, born about 1604 in England, died 22 September 1679 in Hampton, New Hampshire;  married on 8 October 1629 in South Walsham, Norfolk, England to Lucy Warde, daughter of Francis Warde and Susanna Brown.  Seven children, and I descend from two- Francis and Margaret.

Lineage A:

Generation 2: Margaret Page, born about 1630, died 13 July 1699 in Hampton; married to John Sanborn, son of John Sanborn and Ann Batchelder.  He was born about 1620 in England and died 10 October 1692 in Hampton, New Hampshire.  Margaret and John Sanborn had one child.  She was previously married to William Moulton on 18 April 1663 in Hampton.  William Moulton was the stepson of William Estow, who had been her father’s servant. 

Generation 3:  Jonathan Sanborn, born 25 May 1672 in Hampton, died 20 June 1741 in Kingston, New Hampshire;  married on 4 February 1692 in Hampton to Elizabeth Sherburne, daughter of Samuel Sherburne and Love Hutchings.

Generation 4: Margaret Sanborn m. Moses Sleeper

Generation 5:  Hepzibah Sleeper m. Samuel Lane

Generation 6: Sarah Lane m. Elisha 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)

Lineage B:

Generation 2:  Francis Page, born 1633, died 15 November 1706 in Hampton, New Hampshire; married on 2 December 1669 in Hampton to Meribah Smith, daughter of Robert Smith and Susanna Unknown. Seven children.

Generation 3: Francis Page, born 15 December 1676 in Hampton, died 19 August 1755 in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire; married on 27 January 1698 in Hampton Falls to Hannah Nudd, daughter of Thomas Nudd and Sarah Dearborn.  She was born 23 October 1678 in Hampton and died 12 April 1751 in Hampton.  Ten children.

Generation 4:  Sarah Page, born 18 October 1698 and died May 1781; married on 31 January 1723 to Josiah Batchlder, son of Nathaniel Batchelder and Elizabeth Foss.  He was born 1 July 1695 in Hampton and died 9 October 1759 in Hampton Falls.  Six children.

Generation 5:  David Batchelder m. Elizabeth Swett

Generation 6:  Elisha Batchelder m. Sarah Lane  (see above)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ PAGE of Hampton, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 12, 2015, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/12/surname-saturday-page-of-hampton-new.html:  accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ BATCHELDER of Hampton, New Hampshire

BATCHELDER / BACHILER / BACHELLOR / BATCHELLER

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

A LITTLE BAND OF PIONEERS

UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF

REV. STEPHEN BACHILER

OF SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND

SEEKING A LARGER LIBERTY

IN OCTOBER 1638

SETTLED IN THE WILDERNESS

NEAR THIS SPOT

TO PLANT A FREE CHURCH

IN A FREE TOWN

THEY WERE JOINED IN 1639 BY OTHERS

AND IN THAT YEAR

THE TOWN WAS INCORPORATED

TO DO HONOR TO 

THE FOUNDERS AND FATHERS OF HAMPTON

TO EXALT THE IDEALS

FOR WHICH THEY TROVE

AND AS AN INSPIRATION TO POSTERITY

THIS MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED

OCTOBER 14, 1935

UPDATE - 10 September 2018 - see the 3 part series that updates this lineage.  Part 1 is at this link:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/09/batchelder-family-do-over-part-1.html 

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Stephen Bachiler, my 11^th great grandfather,  graduated from St. John’s College in Oxford, England in 1585 and became the vicar of the Church of the Holy Cross and St. Peter in Wherwell, Hampshire, England.  He was a “non-conformist” and was dismissed from his church.  In 1608 he went to Leyden, Holland with the separatists.  He came to New England on 5 June 1632 on board the ship William and Francis.  He was over 70 years old at the time, and traveled with some of his grandchildren.   Of his own children, only two daughters, Theodate Hussey and Deborah Wing, later came to New England.

First he went to Lynn, where he was the first minister, from August 1632 until 1636.  Then he was in Yarmouth, on Cape Cod, in 1637 and Newbury in 1638.  From 1638 until 1641 he lived at Hampton, New Hampshire where he founded another church.  He separated from his wife, Mary, and asked the court for a divorce, and then, about age 93, he left for England.  The court records in York show her being branded with the letter A on 15 October 1651, for adultery.  The Reverend Bachiler died nearly 100 years old in London and was buried on 31 October 1656.

Another one of my 9^th great grandfathers, Rev. Samuel Skelton (1623 – 1695), the first minister at Salem, Massachusetts, said of Rev. Bachiler “Little has come down to us concerning him,  owing, it is said, to the fact that he differed about clerical associations and other subjects from most of the principal persons in Massachusetts."   He was a follower of the “Old Puritan” religion, and the new 17^th century form of Puritanism in the New World was different from the Jacobean form.  Perhaps this is why he wandered around New England and settled in New Hampshire, away from the Puritan authorities.

There are many other stories and interesting associations between the Rev. Stephen Bachiler and other early settlers and ministers in New England. There are too many stories to tell them all here in a short blog post. Please see some of the sources listed below if you would like more information on his life.

More BATCHELDER resources:

Great Migration Begins, by Robert Charles Anderson, Volume 1, pages 61 – 69.

Batchelder, Batcheller Genealogy, by Frederick Pierce, 1898. Also online at Archive.org

Descendants of Rev. Stephen Bachiler, Founder, Hampton, Rockingham Co., NH Facebook group:

https://www.facebook.com/DESCENDANTS-OF-REV-STEPHEN-BACHILER-FOUNDER-HAMPTON-ROCKINGHAM-CO-NH-364188593479/timeline/

The Lane Memorial Library in Hampton, New Hampshire has a webpage for Rev. Stephen Bachiler and it contains many useful links to biographies, journal articles and other research: http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/biog/bachilertoc.htm

There is a discussion group for descendants of Rev. Stephen Batchelder at Genealogy Wise:  http://www.genealogywise.com/group/batchelderfamily

Some Notable Descendants of Reverend Stephen Batchelder from Wikipedia

Leon Leonwood Bean (L. L. Bean)

Lady Randolph Churchill

Sir Winston Churchill

James Dean

Major General Henry Dearborn

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Thomas Stearns Eliot (T.S. Eliot)

Gerald Ford

Louis L'Amour

President Richard Nixon

Daniel Webster

John Greenleaf Whittier

Nathaniel Hawthorne (now you know how he got the idea for "The Scarlett Letter") 

My BATCHELDER genealogy:

Generation 1:  Rev. Stephen Batchelder, born 1560 in Wherwell, Hampshire, England, died about 31 October 1656 in London, England; married first to Ann Bate, about 1586 in Wherwell, (mother of 10 children and I descend from two of them); married second to Christian Weare on 2 March 1624 in Abbotts Ann, Hampshire, England; married third to Helena Unknown, widow of the Rev. Thomas Mason on 26 March 1627 in Abbotts Ann;  married fourth to Mary Unknown, widow of Robert Beedle,  in 1648 in Beedle Wherwell, Hampshire, England. 

Lineage A:

Generation 2: Nathaniel Batchelder, born about 1590, died 1630 in the Netherlands; married to Hester Mercer, born about 1602 in Ypres, Belgium, died before 1631 in the Netherlands, mother of five children.  She was the daughter of Jan LeMercier and Jeanne LeClerc of Normandy, France.

Generation 3: Nathaniel Batchelder, born about 1630 in England, died 1710 in Hampton, New Hampshire; married on 10 December 1596 to Deborah Smith, daughter of John Smith and Deborah Parkhurst.  She was born before 1645 at Edgartown, Massachusetts on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, and died 8 March 1676 in Hampton, New Hampshire.  Nine children, and I descend from two of them.  He married second to Margery.  He did not come to New England, but some of his children did settle there.

Lineage A1:

Generation 4: Nathaniel Batchelder, born 24 December 1659 in Hampton, died about 1745 in Hampton Falls; married in 1685 in Hampton to Elizabeth Foss, daughter of John Foss and Mary Berry.  She was born in 1666 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and died in 1746. Nine children.

Generation 5:  Josiah Batchelder, born 1 July 1695 in Hampton, died 9 October 1759 in Hampton Falls; married on 31 January 1723 to Sarah Page, daughter of Francis Page and Hannah Nudd.  She was born 18 October 1698 and died in May 1781.  Six children.

Generation 6: David Batchelder, born 13 January 1736 in Hampton Falls, died 11 March 1811 in Hampton Falls; married on 24 July 1760 in Hampton Falls to Elizabeth Swett, daughter of Benjamin Swett and Elizabeth Norton.  She was born 1742 in Hampton Falls, and died 12 August 1769.  Five children.  David married second to Mary Emery on 1 January 1771 in Newbury, Massachusetts and had eight more children.

Generation 7:  Elisha Batchelder, son of David Batchelder and Elizabeth Swett, born 10 June 1763 in Hampton Falls, died 11 October 1813 in Pittsfield, New Hampshire; married Sarah Lane, daughter of Samuel Lane and Hepzibah Sleeper.  She was born 24 March 1769 in Hampton Falls, died 27 Feb 1819 in Pittsfield.  Four children.  Three children. 


NOTE 10 September 2018 -  The generations below do not descend from Elisha Batchelder.  Jonathan Batchelder, my 4th great grandfather, is the son of Nathaniel Batchelder (1732 - 1778) and his wife Mary Longfellow (1735 - 1814). 

Generation 8:  Jonathan Batchelder, born about 1800 in Hampton, died before 4 November 1847 at the Concord State Asylum, Concord, New Hampshire; married on 11 February 1822 in Belmont, New Hampshire to Nancy Thompson.  She was born about 1804 in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, and died after 1847 in Warner, New Hampshire.  Two children.

Generation 9:  George E. Batchelder, born 13 August 1822 in Chichester, New Hampshire, died 3 April 1848 in Chichester; married on 7 September 1845 in South Boston, Massachusetts to Abigail M. Locke, daughter of Richard Locke and Margaret Welch.  She was born 10 September 1825 in South Boston, and died 15 January 1888 in Chichester.  Two children.

Generation 10:  George E. Batchelder, born 8 October 1848 in Chichester, died 28 July 1914 in Cambridge; married on 28 October 1869 in Chichester to Mary Katharine Emerson, daughter of George Emerson and Mary Esther Younger.  She was born 25 December 1847 in South Boston, and died 23 April 1932 in Roxbury, Massachusetts.  Nine children.

Generation 11:  Carrie Maude Batchelder, born 22 September 1872 in Chichester, died 21 January 1963 at the Sea View Convalescent and Nursing Home, Rowley, Massachusetts; married on 1 November 1892 in Essex, Massachusetts to Joseph Elmer Allen, son of Joseph Gilman Allen and Sarah Burnham Mears.  He was born on 24 September 1870 in Essex and died 12 March 1932 at the Masonic Home in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.  Five children.

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

Lineage A2:

Generation 4: Abigail Batchelder, born 28 December 1667 in Hampton, died 14 November, 1736 in North Hampton; married on 4 November 1689 in Hampton to John Dearborn, son of Henry Dearborn and Elizabeth Marrian.  He was born 10 October 1666 in Hampton, died 22 November 1750 in Hampton. Eight children.

Generation 5:  Elizabeth Dearborn m. John Garland

Generation 6:  Elizabeth Garland m. Richard Locke

Generation 7: Simon Locke m. Abigail Mace

Generation 8: Richard Locke m. Margaret Welch

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

Lineage B:

Generation 2: Ann Batchelder, born 1601 in Wherwell; married John Sanborn about 1619 in Southampton, Hampshire, England. Three children.  She married second on 20 January 1632/3 in Strood, Kent, England to Henry Atkinson.

Generation 3:  John Sanborn m. Margaret Page

Generation 4: Jonathan Sanborn m. Elizabeth Sherburne

Generation 5: Margaret Sanborn m. Moses Sleeper

Generation 6: Hepzibah Sleeper  m. Samuel Lane

Generation 7: Sarah Lane m. Elisha Batchelder (see above)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ BATCHELDER of Hampton, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 17, 2015, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/10/surname-saturday-batchelder-of-hampton.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]).