My Revolutionary War Patriots - Robert Wilson of Danvers, Massachusetts

 

At the Wilson Family Burial Ground, Peabody, Massachusetts

ROBERT WILSON

Died

Jan. 4, 1797

Aged 51

[epitaph illegible]

This is Patriot #10 I have written about for this series on my Revolutionary War ancestors.  

Robert Wilson is my 5th great grandfather.  He was born in Salem Village (after 1775 it was known as the town of Danvers), Massachusetts around 1746, the son of Robert Wilson (1724 - 1782) and Elizabeth Southwick of Danvers.  

Robert Wilson's father was a potter, and so was his grandfather, Isaac Wilson, and so were his sons.  According to the book Early New England Potters and Their Wares, by Lura Woodside Watkins, pages 65 - 66 "The Wilsons also were a prominent family of artisans.  Their homestead included the land near 141 Andover Street and eastward where Route 128 now crosses it.  The first two potting Wilsons were sons of Robert, a farmer.  They were Robert, known as Robert Jr., who remained in Danvers, and Joseph, who went to Dedham and thence to Providence, Rhode Island.  When Robert, Jr. died in 1782, he left property worth 627 pounds, including six lots of land, his house, barn, potter's shop, and corn house, a riding chair, and a large personal estate.  He seems to have done well in his trade.  His son Robert, known as Robert 3d, and a younger son Job were potters.  By an order of the court, Robert 3d, as administrator of his father's estate, was obliged to sell a large part of the elder Robert's property to pay certain debts.  This was not done until April 9, 1793, when two-thirds of the land and buildings, and an interest in the business was aquired by Isaac Wilson 3d.  He, too, was a craftsman in clay.  The threee Wilsons ran the shop together for a time, but Robert 3d. and Job both passed away before 1800, while Robert's son Robert, who had worked but a short time as a potter, died three years later at the age of twenty-seven.  Upon Isaac's decease in 1809, this early pottery must have come to an end."

Robert Wilson married Sarah Felton on 23 March 1775 in Danvers. She was the daughter of Malachi Felton and Abigail Jacobs (the great granddaughter of the George Jacobs hanged as a witch during the 1692 witch hysteria). She was probably the first child born in the Nathaniel Felton, Jr. house, which is still standing in the town of Peabody, Massachusetts.  Robert and Sarah had nine children, of whom seven grew up to adulthood and married.  I descend from the eldest child, Robert Wilson (1776 - 1803), mentioned above, who married Mary Southwick, his second cousin. This Robert died at age 27, leaving his widow with two babies.  She never remarried. 

The Wilsons produced an unsual kind of black pottery, which had an almost black glaze. There was a large clay deposit near Andover Street (now Route 114).  Some of this black pottery is on display inside the Nathaniel Felton houses (one is mentioned above) which are still standing on Felton Hill, owned by the Peabody Historical Society.  The Wilsons and their relatives lived on what is now the Danvers/Peabody line, near Route 114 and the Northshore Mall. Nearby is Wilson Square.  Several Wilsons were buried under the parking lot near Macy's at the Mall, but their graves were relocated. Across from the Mall, behind the Kappy's liquor store, there is a Wilson Family Burial Ground. 

At the start of the Revolutionary War there were over 50 small potteries in Danvers, all in the same neighborhood near the clay deposit.  The Wilsons lived and worked at the pottery business, along with other local families such as the Osborns, Paiges, Porters, and Southwicks. The last pottery in Peabody (which broke off from Danvers in 1855) closed due to a fire in the 1950s.  At one time some of these families also produced bricks. 

Robert Wilson served in the Revolutionary War as a Private in Captain Samuel Epe's Company under Colonel Pickering's Regiment of Danvers.  He marched on the alarm of 19 April 1775 for two days of service and is listed in the DAR Patriot's Index. There were six Wilsons from the area of Danvers and Peabody who marched on the Lexington Alarm.  

Robert Wilson died on 4 June 1797 in Danvers, and his son, my 4th great grandfather, Robert Wilson, was the administrator of his father's estate in 1782.  His will (Essex County Probate #30142) mentions his widow Sarah and all the children except for Mercy and Samuel in 1796. He was buried in the Wilson Family Burial Ground, and when Sarah died on 20 November 1836 she was buried nearby in the Felton Family Burial Ground. I cannot find a record of her applying for a widow's pension, and she never remarried. 

I'm curious to find out if the black and redware pottery produced in Danvers and Peabody contained a lead glaze. Both Robert Wilsons mentioned above (the Revolutionary War veteran and his son) died very young.  Perhaps it was lead poisoning? Perhaps we will never know? 

For the truly curious:

Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolution

Essex County, Massachusetts Probate

Early New England Potters and Their Wares,  by Lura Woodside Watkins,  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950, pages 65-66. 

Sophia Richter, "Peabody: Pottery City, 1730 - 1940", Peabody Historical Society and Museum, posted 1 August 2025, ( https://peabodyhistorical.org/2025/08/peabody-pottery-city-1730-1940/: accessed 22 March 2026). 

#1 in this series,  Colonel Joshua Burnham of Milford, New Hampshire:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/02/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-colonel.html  

#2 in this series,  Andrew Munroe of Lexington, Massachusetts:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-major.html  

#3 Jonathan Flint of Reading, Massachusetts:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-jonathan.html   

#4 Daniel Glover of Marblehead, Massachusetts:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-daniel.html  

#5 Levi Younger of Gloucester, Massachusetts:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-levi.html  

#6 Nathaniel Treadwell of Ipswich, Massachusetts:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-nathaniel.html 

#7 Captain Westley Burnham of Essex, Massachusetts:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-captain.html  

#8 Abner Poland, Sr. of Essex, Massachusetts:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/05/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-abner_02014071889.html   

#9 Abner Poland, Jr. Of Essex, Massachusetts and Enfield, New Hampshire:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/05/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-abner_02014071889.html  

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "My Revolutionary War Patriots - Robert Wilson of Danvers, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 2, 2026, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/06/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-robert.html: accessed [access date]). 

Joseph Southwick – Abolitionist

The Southwick family members were Quaker in early Salem, even when that meant persecution from the Puritan authorities. Their children and descendants married prominent Quakers from all over New England.  In the compiled genealogy book about the Southwick family, Joseph Southwick (1791 – 1866) is described as a tanner, with three daughters. Period. With a little digging I was able to learn that Joseph Southwick was much more than a tradesman.   I was also able to find out the many ways I am related to this family (I have a few relationships described below at the end of this blog post).

Joseph Southwick founded the American Anti-Slavery Movement in 1833 and was a signer of the Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society.  He was president of the society 1835 -1836, and vice president for many years.  He was one of the original subscribers to William Lloyd Garrison’s journal The Liberator.  He is considered one of the original abolitionists in America.  His work inspired his wife and daughters to be involved in abolitionism, at a time when women were usually not allowed to campaign for progressive causes. 

Joseph Southwick married Thankful Hussey, daughter of Quaker abolitionist Samuel Hussey.  She was a member of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society and of the New England Non-Resistance Society.  William Lloyd Garrison delivered the eulogy at her funeral, and Lydia Maria Child wrote her obituary.  She lived longer than her husband and was able to become even more famous as an abolitionist in New England.

The compiled Southwick genealogy book (see below) has Thankful’s obituary on pages 261 – 264

OBITUARY

Thankful Southwick, widow of Joseph Southwick, died on the 29^th of April, at her residence in Grantville [a part of the town of Wellesley], Mass., in the 75^th year of her age.

                All survivors of the old abolition band will remember her as one of the very earliest, the noblest, and the most faithful of that small army of moral combatants who fought so bravely and perseveringly for the deliverance of the downtrodden.  Mrs. Southwick was born and educated in the Society of Friends, and to their calmness of demeanor she added indomitable persistence in the path of duty.

                One of the most exciting affairs that ever occurred in Boston was known as the Baltimore Slave Case.  Two girls had escaped in a Boston vessel, and when about to be carried back, were brought out by a writ of habeas corpus.  All Boston was in a ferment for and against the fugitives.  The commercial world were determined that this Southern property should be restored to the white claimants, and the abolitionists were determined that it should remain in the possession of the original owner owners until a “bill of sale from the Almighty” could be produced.  The well-known Father Snowdon was then alive, and by his vigilance and ingenious arrangements, efficiently aided by Mrs. Southwick, the slaves were, at a given signal, spirited away from the crowded court-room, and conveyed out of the city.  The agent of the slaveholders happened to be standing near Mrs. Southwick, and while he was gazing in astonishment at the empty space where the fugitives had been an instant before,  she turned her large gray eyes upon him, and said very calmly, “Thy prey hath escaped thee.”

                Wherever working or thinking was to be done for the advancement of our righteous cause, there was Thankful Southwick, ever ready with wise counsel and energetic action.  She and her excellent husband were among the very first to sustain Garrison in his unequal contest with the strong Goliath of slavery.  At that time they were in affluent circumstances, and their money was poured freely for the unpopular cause, which had as yet found no adherents among the rich.  Their commodious and every-way comfortable house was a caravansary for fugitive slaves and for anti-slavery pilgrims from all parts of the country. At the anniversary meetings, when most of the city abolitionists were anxious to have for their guests Friend Whittier, or Angelina Grimke, or Theodore Weld, or Hon. Mr. Birney, or George Thompson, or some other lions of the cause, Joseph and Thankful Southwick were quietly looking about for such anti-slavery brothers and sisters as were too little known to be likely to receive invitations.  And through all their long and honorable lives this worthy couple retained the same characteristics. Always kindly and unpretending, clear sighted to perceive the right, and faithful in following it, wheresoever it might lead. They were upright in all their dealings with the world, tender and true in the relations of private life, and the memory they have left is a benediction. – Lydia Maria Child, in Anti-Slavery Standard [repeated in other newspapers across New England and the United States]

The Southwicks lived originally in North Vassalboro, Maine, but removed to South Danvers (now Peabody, Massachusetts) in 1834.  They were very active with the Anti-Slavery movement and eventually removed again, in 1835 to High Street in Boston for the next two years.

Abigail Southwick (1819 – 1904), their eldest daughter, attended the convention of antislavery women in 1838 and was a delegate to the London convention in 1840.  She married John Hubbard Stephenson.

Their middle daughter, Sarah Hussey Southwick (1821 – 1896) was the treasurer of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society in 1842, when her mother was president. She was only thirteen years old in 1834 when she moved to South Danvers and attended the first Anti-Slavery event in Boston with her father and sisters.  You can read a very interesting chapter about Sarah's life in the book Old Anti-Slavery Days: Proceedings of the Commemorative Meeting held by the Danvers Historical Society at the Town Hall, Danvers, April 26, 1893 , pages 134 – 140 (available to read online at Google Books).

The Southwick Genealogy:

Generation 1: Lawrence Southwick and Cassandra Burnell. Immigrant ancestors to Salem, Massachusetts, arrested for being Quaker and exiled to Shelter Island in 1659 where they died of exposure.  My 9^th great grandparents.

Generation 2: Daniel Southwick, son of immigrants Lawrence Southwick and Cassandra Burnell,  born 1637 in Salem, died about 1718; married about 1663 to Esther Boyce.  He was the brother to my 8^th great grandfather, John Southwick (1625 – 1672).

Generation 3: Lawrence Southwick, (my first cousin 7 generations removed)  son of Daniel Southwick and Esther Boyce, born 1664 and died 1718 in Northampton, New Jersey; married on 24 June 1704 in Salem to Tamosen Buffum.  She was also my first cousin 8 generations removed, since I descend from her grandparents, Robert Buffum (1590 – 1669) and Tamosen Ward (1606 – 1688). 

Generation 4:  Joseph Southwick, son of Lawrence Southwick and Tamosen Buffum, born in 1716 in Salem, Massachusetts; died 1791 in Peabody, Massachusetts; married Bethia Callum, who died 1803 in Peabody, Massachusetts.

Generation 5: Edward Southwick, son of Joseph Southwick and Bethia Callum, born on 1 March 1757, died 23 January 1836; married Abigail Rowell.   She was the daughter of Jacob Rowell and Anna Buxton, born on 14 June 1764 in Amesbury, Massachusetts, and died 10 February 1856.

Generation 6: Joseph Southwick, son of Edward Southwick and Abigail Rowell, born on 11 September 1791, died on 10 May 1866; married to Thankful Hussey, the daughter of Samuel Fothergill Hussey and Thankful Purington.   Joseph Southwick is my 4^th cousin, 5 generations removed.   Three children:

1. Abigail , born 17 September, 1819

2. Sarah Hussey, born 3 March 1821

3. Anna R., born 6 April 1823

For the truly curious:

The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison:  Let the oppressed go free, 1861 – 1867, by William Lloyd Garrison, 1979,  (available to read online at Google Books)

https://archive.org/details/lettertomydearga00john_60  The1867 Letter from Oliver Johnson to William Lloyd Garrison, wishing Garrison a “happy and prosperous journey” to Europe, and expresses his shock at the sudden death of Thankful Southwick.

The Genealogy of the Descendants of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick of Salem, by James Moore Caller and Maria A. Ober,  (available to read online at Google Books)

My relationship to Thankful Hussey, wife of Joseph Southwick:

Generation 1.  Rev. Stephen Batchelder  (1561 – 1656)  (my 11^th great grandfather)

Generation  2.  Theodate Batchelder m. Christopher Hussey (I descend from two of her siblings – Nathananiel Batchelder (1590 – 1630) and Ann Batchelder Sanborn (b. 1601)       

Generation 3.  Stephen Hussey m. Martha Bunker

Generation 4.  Batchelder Hussey m. Abigail Hall

Generation 5.  Sylvanus Hussey m. Elisabeth Varney (daughter of Joseph Varney and Abigail Robinson, and granddaughter of William Varney (1599 – 1654) and Bridge Deverell, my 10^th great grandparents)

Generation 6.  Samuel Fothergill Hussey m. Thankful Purington

Generation 7.  Thankful Hussey m. Joseph Southwick  (She is my 4^th cousin, 5 generations removed three different ways! )

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The URL for this post is

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/02/joseph-southwick-abolitionist.html

Copyright © 2015, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

"But for the Bread", an Historical Poem by Jeff Southwick

Shelter Island

Jeff Southwick wrote this poem about our mutual ancestors, the Southwicks.  Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick were persecuted Quakers in Salem, Massachusetts.  In 1659 they were banished, and fled to Shelter Island off Long Island, New York where they died of exposure.  Their minor children, Daniel and Provided, were sold into slavery by the Massachusetts General Court.  

I met Jeff via Google+ when he wrote to me in reply to my post about Shelter Island.  He shared his Southwick ancestry and this poem.  His lineage is 1. Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick, Daniel, Daniel, Jonathan, George, Jonathan, Stephen Wilbur, Jesse, Jesse, Donald and then himself. 

Jeff Southwick wrote " I was wondering what my ancestors where like as people, and so how much different might be the temperament of a person from generation to generation.  With my parents, grandparents and my children I share a basic respect for others and outlook on life, and so I assume that provided that my ancestors married others of similar temperament, then maybe my outlook on life is not that much different from that of L&C, though how would I know.  As I pondered that thought this past week I wrote the following."  He also wrote " My branch came from Daniel, and headed west from NY to Iowa in the mid 1800s. I am in the 11th." 

But for the Bread
by Jeff Southwick
May 2014

But for the bread I might not be here had Daniel’s emptiness not been sated
But for the bread Endicott said a heretic possessing papers would not be fed
But for the bread slipped between jail bars I might be someone else instead
But for the bread Provided at risk we may have gone to darkness convicted
But for the bread the captain contemplated the morality of humanity traded
But for the bread never by Josiah was an unforgiving stone tossed in hatred 
But for the bread in a corner establish family tradition of love demonstrated
But for the bread within privation to hold vision of justice Cassandra waited
But for the bread when Lawrence sought shelter he willed to a nation ahead

For more information on the Southwick family:

A post about a poem by Whittier about the Southwick children being sold into slavery:
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/11/ballad-of-cassandra-southwick.html

A post about Shelter Island (the one that inspired Jeff Southwick to contact me)
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-visit-to-shelter-island.html

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The URL for this post is
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/05/jeff-southwick-wrote-this-poem-about.html

Copyright 2014, Jeff Southwick and Heather Wilkinson Rojo

The Quaker Monument on Shelter Island

This is the transcription of the now illegible words on the steps of the Quaker Monument, given to me by the Friends on Shelter Island.  The transcription was made some years ago of the monument erected in 1884.  The tablets on the top of the monument are inscribed with a memorial to the Sylvester Family, who sheltered the Quakers and were great allies with many Friends both in England and in the New .  I'll transcribe those in another blog post.

Each step on all four sides of this monument is inscribed
with the following words....

West Top Step – THE PURITAN AND HIS PRIDE

West middle step- OVERCOME BY THE FAITH OF THE QUAKER

West bottom step – GAVE CONCORD AND LEXINGTON AND BUNKER HILL TO HISTORY

South top step – DANIEL GOULD BOUND TO THE GUN CARRIAGE AND LASHED

South middle step – EDWARD WHORTON THE MUCH SCOURGED

South bottom step – CHRISTOPHER HOLDER THE MUTILATED

East top step- LAWRENCE AND CASSANDRA SOUTHWICK

East middle step- DESPOILED IMPRISIONED STARVED WHIPPED BANISHED

East bottom step- WHO FLED HERE TO DIE

North top step – OF THE SUFFERINGS OF CONSCIENCE SAKE OF FRIENDS OF NATHANIEL SYLVESTER MOST OF WHOM SOUGHT SHELTER HERE INCLUDING

North middle step- GEORGE FOX FOUNDER OF THE SOCIETY OF QUAKERS AND OF HIS FOLLOWERS

North bottom step- MARY DYER MARMADUKE STEVENSON AND WILLIAM ROBINSON WILLIAM LEDDRA WHO WERE EXECUTED ON BOSTON COMMON

Named on the Monument, in the order they were listed:

Daniel Gould  - nephew of my 9x great grandmother, Priscilla (Gould) Putnam.  In Boston in 1659 he was sentenced to be whipped 30 times, and told to depart or be imprisoned.

Edward Wharton- arrived with some of the Salem Quakers (including my ancestors the Southwicks, Popes, Trasks and Buffums).  He was whipped for stating that Robinson and Stevenson were unjustly hung.  Before William Leddra was hung in Boston, he attended him in prison and then assisted in giving his body a decent burial.  He was banished from Boston in 1661, went to Rhode Island and then later to Maine as far north as Casco Bay to preach.  He was arrested in New Hampshire in 1663 and sentenced to be scourged in Dover, Hampton and Newbury. In 1664 he was whipped through Boston, Lynn and Salem “By order of Governor Endicott led to the marketplace, bound to the wheels of a great gun, and barbarously whipped with thirty stripes to such a degree, that it was testified that peas might lie in the holes made in his flesh by the knots of the whip.” [Persecutions of Early Quakers in America, Chapter XIV, www.hallvworthington.com/persecutions/part-6.html ] 

Christopher Holder- (about 1631 – after 1676)  Holder arrived in Boston aboard the “Speedwell” on 27 July 1656, but port officials suspected Quakers were on board and searched the vessel.  Governor John Endicott ordered them brought directly to court to be deported back to England.  Holder returned to New England later and went to Sandwich, Massachusetts where he was able to preach his faith for several months.  He went to Salem, to the Congregational Church where Governor Endicott preached and he was captured.  A church member named Samuel Shattuck tried to save him from being arrested, but both were given 30 lashes.  His Salem hosts, Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick were also jailed with him. When Holder returned to Sandwich he was given 33 lashes.  When he tried to go to Boston he was again arrested and his ear was cut off as punishment.  He finally removed to safety in Rhode Island and died there after 1676.

Humphrey Norton- He was imprisoned at New Haven, Connecticut for heresy.  An iron key was place in his mouth during the trial so he could not testify.  His punishment was to be whipped 36 times, branded with the letter H for heresy, fined and banished.  He went to Rhode Island, and then in 1658 tried to go to Plymouth with John Rous where they were arrested upon arrival.  They would not take an oath of allegiance, and so were whipped and banished back to Rhode Island.

John Rous-  Was the son of a wealthy planter in Barbados who joined the Quakers and went to Rhode Island in 1657.  He went to Plymouth in 1658 with Norton, but was treated more leniently because of his father’s influence (he received only 15 lashes to Norton’s 30).  He tried to board a ship in Boston to return to Barbados, but was arrested by Governor Endicott and had his right ear cut off as punishment.  He was released and returned to Barbados and then to England.  He spent his life supporting the Quakers and writing pamphlets.  He used his wealth to influence politics in England in support of the Quakers.

Giles Sylvester- was born at Shelter Island and inherited 4/5ths of his father’s estate.  Perhaps he is labeled “The Champion” on the monument for this statement signed 28 of the 11m, 1659 by Giles Sylvester “Whereas, I am accused to say that all the ministers in New England were worse than witches, I own I said soe, for which I am heartily sorrowful, and owne to bee very inconsiderately spoken and to my folly and wickedness in it, and hope the Lord shall guide my wayes and words to be more circumspent and like to himself.”

Ralph Goldsmith- Captain Goldsmith was paid $300 by the Quakers in England to set sail in 10 days for Boston “good or no goods” with Friends on board, and also a message from King Charles II to stop hanging the Quakers in the Massachusetts colony.  Samuel Shattuck was on board with the “King’s Missive” and the ship arrived in October 1661. 

Samuel Shattuck-  Samuel Shattuck was a Salem resident who went to England to tell the Quakers of the persecutions going on in Boston.  He was given the “King’s Missive” to deliver to Governor John Endicott, to end the hanging of Quakers.  The story goes that he was arrested upon landing in Boston, and sent to Governor Endicott, where a constable knocked off his hat and told him to bare his head before the Governor.  When Shattuck revealed he was the King’s messenger, Endicott had to bare his head to Shattuck!  This incident has been made into a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier (“The King’s Missive”) and a play by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (“John Endicott”).   Samuel Shattuck is buried in the Charter Street Burying Ground in Salem.   Samuel Shattuck is my 1^st cousin 10x removed, his mother was Damaris Sibley (1606 – 1674) sister to Richard Sibley (about 1630 – 1676), my 9x great grandfather.

Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick- My ancestors, who were fined for not attending the Puritan meetings, and arrested when Holder came to Salem.  Their children were sold into slavery for non-payment of the fines.  The elderly couple was banished from Massachusetts, and so they went into exile and removed to the Quaker colony on Shelter Island, off Southold on Long Island.  They arrived in the fall of 1658 and died a few months later in early 1659 of exposure and deprivation.

Nathaniel Sylvester- a royalist, whose wife was the daughter of the accountant for Charles I and Charles II.  He was the first European to settle on Shelter Island in June 1651. Sylvester was a great friend of George Fox, the founder of the Quakers in England.  Fox visited Shelter Island at least once.  Sylvester created a refuge for persecuted Quakers from New England on Shelter Island.

George Fox- (1624-1691) founder of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers.  He traveled all over England as a preacher, and went to North America, including Shelter Island.  He was often persecuted by the authorities for heresy and other charges.  His journal was published after his death.

Mary Dyer – (abt 1611 – 1660) One of the four executed Quakers known as the Boston Martyrs. She repeatedly defied the law banning Quakers in Massachusetts, and kept returning to Boston to preach.  She visited Shelter Island at least twice. She was hanged on Boston Common on 1 June 1660.  Mary Dyer is buried on Boston Common in an unmarked grave.  There is a statue of her in front of the Massachusetts State House, facing Boston Common.

Marmaduke Stevenson- see below

William Robinson-  Stevenson and Robinson arrived in Boston just as a new law imposed the death sentence on Quakers.  They were imprisoned upon arrival.  The court released them and banished them upon pain of death for returning to Massachusetts.  They went to Rhode Island, and were hanged on 27 October 1659 when they returned to Boston.

William Leddra-   A Quaker who arrived in Boston from Barbados and was hanged on 14 March 1661, just before the “Kings’s Missive” arrived that fall stopping the hangings.

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For more information:

Blog post Part 1, A Visit to Shelter Island:
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-visit-to-shelter-island.html 

Persecutions of Early Quakers in America, Chapters VI and XIV,   https://www.hallvworthington.com/Persecutions/Part-6.html

Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts, by Carla Gardiner Pestana, Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Historical Papers on Shelter Island and It’s Presbyterian Church, by Jacob Edward Mallman, 1899 (see page 24 for the quote by Giles Sylvester)

History of the Society of Friends in America, by James Bowden, London, 1850.

History of Salem by Sidney Perley, in three volumes,  1924.   Available on line at this link: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/Perley/

Shelter Island Historical Society – www.shelterisland.org

The Mary Barrett Dyer Blog by Christy K. Robinson at www.marybarrettdyer.blogspot.com

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "The Quaker Monument on Shelter Island", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 10, 2012, (  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-quaker-monument-on-shelter-island.html: accessed [access date]).

A Visit to Shelter Island

In the fall of 1658 my 9 x great grandparents, Quakers Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick, were banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony by the Puritan government.  They sought refuge at the little Quaker settlement of Shelter Island, off of Long Island.  They both died there of deprivation and exposure in May 1659.  You can read the story of their persecution and punishment in this blog post: http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/03/surname-saturday-southwick-of-salem.html

In my mind’s eye, I saw Shelter Island as a barren, deserted island.  The sad story of the Southwicks loomed in my imagination, and I wished to explore it and see their final resting spot.  Even though Long Island is close to New England, I had never been there. 

The Quaker Monument in the middle of
the Quaker Cemetery, at the Sylvester Manor
on Shelter Island, off Long Island, New York

Suddenly we had a chance to visit Long Island, and the first place on my list of “things to see” was Shelter Island.  We visited on the first day of our trip.  It was a long drive from New Hampshire, and three ferries later, and we were on a beautiful, green, quiet little resort island. It was nothing like I had imagined. 

We found the Quaker Cemetery after driving right past it a few times.  It is on a dirt road barely visible from the main road, but there is a white sign hanging there that says “Society of Friends”.  The land is private owned by the Sylvester Estate, and the Quakers hold an outdoor Sunday meeting there in the summer months next to the small burying ground.  You must drive down the road carefully to see both.

The Quaker burial ground has less than a dozen gravestones, and a large monument erected by the Sylvester family.  The Sylvesters themselves were removed from the burial ground to another cemetery years ago.  Most of the Quaker graves are unmarked. The large monument is dedicated to the Sylvester family on top, and the steps tell the story of the Quaker settlement.  However it is entirely illegible due to weather and wear.

The Quaker Meeting area is simple, with board benches placed in a circle in a wooded area next to the burial ground.  I imagine this is how the first Quakers held their meetings on Shelter Island.  It was beautiful on the day we visited, with the sunlight coming in through the leaves and branches.  On the way out of the site I wrote down the phone number on the sign by the road.  We called right away.  A very nice woman answered the phone, and told me that she had a sheet of paper with a transcription of the monument’s inscription.  We met her at her home in Shelter Island Heights and had a nice conversation about the Quaker history of the island. She told me that many Southwick descendants have come to the Quaker Meetings on Shelter Island in the summers! If we had been staying longer, it would have been nice to attend the meeting.

This simple Quaker Meeting place is next to the cemetery

This sign and phone number led us to the cemetery

You can see our red convertible in the trees, and this road is
easy to miss if you are unfamiliar with the area.  Look for the white
Quaker Meeting sign or this blue marker to Nathaniel Sylvester

I’ll post the inscription tomorrow, with a biography of each of the names listed on the monument.  Stay tuned, because you will be surprised by some of the names listed!

The link to the 10 August 2012 Shelter Island Part 2:
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-quaker-monument-on-shelter-island.html

For more information:

Shelter Island Quakers:  http://www.shelterislandchamber.org/community/quakers/quakers.html

Shelter Island Historical Society: http://shelterislandhistory.org/

Sylvester Estate:  http://sylvestermanor.wordpress.com/

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "A Visit to Shelter Island", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 9, 2012,  (  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-visit-to-shelter-island.html: accessed [access date]). 

Untangling a Blog Post Mistake

The best thing about having a genealogy blog is the collaboration of ideas with readers, other bloggers and genealogists.  Usually the collaboration is in the form of a “cousin connection”, and the beginning of sharing branches of the same family tree.  This is great because my tangled New England genealogy usually loops back on itself through cousin marriages and kinship relationships.  Sometimes another genealogist will offer additional sources such as books or articles I haven’t yet read, and these are all great appreciated to expand my understanding of my ancestors.  And then there are also the readers who find mistakes in my research.

Unlike some online genealogists, I love when someone finds a mistake in my research.  Why would I want to keep an erroneous line?  There are genealogists who challenge change, and resist cutting off branches of their tree even when it is obviously incorrect.  I find it intriguing when offered a new look at a lineage, and often find it is a great time to re-look at a line I may have researched many years ago.

If you are new at genealogy you will face this someday.  A line you researched in 2010 may someday come up against new research or new documents, and thirty years from now this new evidence may point to a different spouse, or a change in who you thought may be someone’s parents.  This happened to me when I posted “Flint of Massachusetts” on 2 June, 2012.  A loyal reader, Barbara Poole, who is also the author of the genealogy blog “Life at the Roots” found her ancestress, Hannah Flint, listed in my blog post, but I had given her a different husband.  She left a comment and an email. 

I was on vacation when the comment arrived, but as soon as I arrived home I jumped back into researching this marriage of Hannah Flint and John Southwick, which occurred on 12 May 1658 in Salem, Massachusetts.   This is my original conclusion posted last week: “Hannah Flint [daughter of William Flint and Alice Williams] married on 12 May 1658 to John Southwick, son of Lawrence Southwick and Cassandra Burrell.  She was his second wife of three wives.  He was born 6 March 1625 in Kingwinford, Staffordshire, England and he died on 25 October 1672 in Salem.  One child- John Southwick.”

Barbara stated that Hannah Flint, daughter of William Flint and Alice Williams, was married to Joshua Ward in Salem.   Sure enough, in the Salem vital records it states “Joshua Ward and Hanna Flint, 18:  11m: 1668” and this was backed up in several Ward genealogy books, as well as in Sydney Perley’s History of Salem.   And in Volume 2, page 53 of History of Salem I read that the wife of John Southwick was Ann, widow of Thomas Flint.  Ann or Hannah, or were they the same person?

It was impossible for the Ann/Hannah who was John Southwick’s wife to have had a second marriage to Joshua Ward, because the dates did not work out.  It was impossible for her to have been the daughter of William Flint and Alice Williams.   So was she the widow of Thomas Flint?  This was interesting to me because if so, she was already my 7x great grandmother twice since I was descended from two different sons of Thomas and Ann Flint of Salem!  (See the first lineage posted at this link http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/surname-saturday-flint-of-massachusetts.html)

I had researched this line thirty years ago, and that was well before the internet and genealogical computer data bases. I had originally used some compiled genealogies and the Salem vital records to draw up my conclusions on this line.   I took a quick look at what was available on line, and found two images of documents that proved Ann/Hannah was the widow of Thomas Flint.  First, her will states “I, Ann Southwick, lately the wife of Thomas fflint…” and second, this image of a document up for auction online in which John Southwick states his intention to marry Ann, the widow of Thomas Flint.   These two images were very compelling evidence that Barbara Poole was correct!  Now I’m descended of Ann/Hannah, wife of both Thomas Flint and John Southwick, three times!

This image is from the website www.willishenry.com, accessed on 4 June 2012.
This document is up for auction, signed by John Southwick with his mark.
The document is about him settling a will, settling some debts and payments,
with his declaration of intention to marry "Ann Flint of Salem late wife of Thomas Flint".
There is a price of $1,150 next to this image.  Time to buy a lottery ticket? 

In the past I have cheerfully investigated challenges to my research and cut off a branch only to re-discover new branches and new lineages.  One time this led to a new Mayflower ancestor!  If I had balked and grumbled and refused to look into the question by Barbara, I would have never discovered my unusual connection to Ann/Hannah with the unknown maiden name, but from whom I descend so many times!   It also goes to show that what I had thought of as an exhaustive search thirty years ago is now a much more extensive search today with so many resources available at my fingertips online.  I did not need to take a research trip to Salem, Massachusetts to research new sources for Ann/Hannah, wife of Thomas Flint and John Southwick, I just needed to look on the internet!

My Saturday series of surname posts is turning out to be a great way for me to re-examine my research.  Some of the posts are names I have recently looked up, and others were done dozens of years ago.  As I approach each new surname each week I am looking for new sources of information, and also gaining new ideas from readers.  It is a win-win situation for everyone, as you can see from the case of Ann/Hannah.

New conclusion:

Ann, of unknown parents and maiden name.  Married first to Thomas Flint, son of Thomas Flint in Wales, about 1644 in Salem, Massachusetts.  She had six children with Thomas, who died on 15 April 1663 in Salem.   Sometime between 1663 and 1667 she married John Southwick (date 12 May 1658 from the Southwick genealogy unproved), son of Lawrence Southwick and Cassandra Burnell, as his second wife.  She had a son named John Southwick, born about 1667.  Ann died in the summer of 1668.  John remarried to Sarah Burnett, daughter of John Burnett, on 3 February 1668/69 in Salem as his third wife.

Sources:

Salem, Massachusetts Vital Records

Genealogy of the Descendants of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick of Salem, Mass, by James Moore Caller and Maria A. Ober, Salem, Mass. J. H. Choate & Co., 1881

History of Salem, Massachusetts, by Sidney Perley, Volume 2, page 53

One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families by John Osborne Austin, Salem, 1893, page 214

Ann Southwick’s will, Essex, County Probate Docket #25894, proved in Ipswich 13 August 1668.  From Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts: 1635 – 1681, Volume 2, pages 135-136, Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1916.

Barbara Poole’s blog post on her Flint lineage from Hannah Flint and Joshua Ward http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2010/07/surname-saturday-flint-of-massachusetts.html

See also:
http://www.willishenry.com/auctions/05/autograph%2005%20hist%20session%20one/autographs%20historical%20cat%2005%20.htm    The page at the website from Willis Henry Auction house in Marshfield, Massachusetts, where the image of the John Southwick document is found.  Look at item H35.  

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Untangling a Blog Post Mistake", Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 8, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/untangling-blog-post-mistake.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ Flint of Massachusetts

FLINT  (see comments and link below for an update to this blog post)

This is a tale of two brothers, and I descend from both!

Thomas Flint, probably of Wales, settled in Salem Village, which is now the town of Danvers, Massachusetts.  He was a freeman in March 1637/8 and he bought land in 1654, and another lot in 1662.   According to a Flint genealogy book he came to the New World with his mother, who lived with his brother, William.   I descend from two of Thomas’s sons.

Brother William Flint settled in Salem, Massachusetts around 1640.  Tradition says he left a wife in England, and married again in 1644 to Alice Williams.  Over the years he left records as members of juries, as overseer of fences and as overseer of highways.  He owned land and at the time of his death in 1673  his estate was worth 911 pounds and 15 shillings.  He left his land to his sons and a son-in-law, but nothing to his daughters stating he “had given them enough”.  There was a suit over the will which was not resolved until 1694!   I descend from one of these daughters, Hannah (Flint) Southwick.

There are several resources for Flint family information:

The Family Histories of Charles Edwin Flint, Jr. and Bessie Hazel Lee, by Rosalie V. M. Flint & Kathleen A. B. Hedrick, Quincy, WA, 1981.  

Genealogical Register of the Descendants of Thomas Flint, of Salem, complied by John Flint and John H. Stone, Boston: NEHGS, 1994. 

History of Salem, by Sidney Perley, 1924 - 1928 (three volumes)

My Flint lineages:

A.

Generation 1: Thomas Flint, born about 1603 in Wales, died 15 April 1663 in Salem Village, Massachusetts; married about 1644 in Salem to Ann Unknown.  Six children.  Ann remarried to John Southwick. 

Lineage A1:

Generation 2: Thomas Flint, born about 1645 in Salem Village, died 24 May 1721; married first on 22 May 1666 to Hannah Moulton, daughter of Robert Moulton and Abigail Good (two children); married second on 15 September 1674 to Mary Dounton (my 7x great grandmother), daughter of William Dounton and Rebecca Unknown (nine children); married third on 12 June 1677 to Elizabeth Johnson, daughter of John Johnson and Elizabeth Maverick.   

Generation 3: Jonathan Flint, born 8 November 1689 in Salem Village; married on 18 February 1723 to Mary Collston, daughter of Elizabeth Collston, born on 22 September 1704 in Reading, Massachusetts. Two children.

Generation 4: Jonathan Flint, born 11 August 1730 in Reading, died 1800 in Reading; married  first on 1 August 1751 In Salem to Lydia Proctor, daughter of John Proctor and Lydia Waters, great granddaughter of John Proctor, hung as a witch in 1692, She was born 31 March 1730 in Salem.  Eight children.   Jonathan Flint married second to Sarah Smith, no children.

Generation 5: John Flint, born on 3 Aril 1761 in North Reading, died 26 August 1836 in North Reading; married first on 22 July 1783 to Mehitable McIntire. Two children.  John Flint married second to Phebe Flint, daughter of George Flint and Hannah Phelps, his distant cousin, and my 4x great grandmother.  Eight children.

Generation 6: Olive Flint, born 27 July 1805 in Reading, died 26 November 1875 in Peabody, Massachusetts; married on 3 September 1826 in Reading to Luther Simonds Munroe, son of Andrew Munroe and Ruth Simonds.

Generation 7: Phebe Cross Munroe married Robert Wilson Wilkinson

Generation 8: Albert Munroe Wilkinson married Isabella Lyons Bill

Generation 9: Donald Munroe Wilkinson married Bertha Louise Roberts

Lineage A2:

Generation 2: George Flint, born 6 January 1652 in Salem, died 23 June 1720 in the North Precinct (now North Reading, Massachusetts); married first to Elizabeth Putnam, daughter of Nathaniel Putnam and Elizabeth Hutchinson.  She was born 11 August 1662 in Salem, died 6 March 1697, and had 10 children.  She was my 7x great grandmother.  George Flint married second on 2 March 1699 to Susannah Gardner, daughter of Thomas Gardner and Elizabeth Horne.  No children.

Generation 3: George Flint, born 1 April 1686 in Reading; married on 9 July 1713 to Jerusha Pope, daughter of Joseph Pope and Bethshua Folger (first cousin to Benjamin Franklin, statesman).  She was born on 1 Apri 1695 in Salem and died 29 June 1781.  Seven children.

Generation 4: George Flint, born 16 November 1728 in North Reading, died 31 August 1808; married on 13 November 1753 in Andover, Massachusetts to Hannah Phelps, born 27 April 1728 in Andover, died 5 May 1805 in North Reading.  Seven children.

Generation 5: Phebe Flint (see generation 5 above)

(see an update to this blog post at this link:  
 http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/untangling-blog-post-mistake.html )

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ Flint of Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 2, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/surname-saturday-flint-of-massachusetts.html: accessed [access date]).

Surname Saturday ~ Trask of Salem, Massachusetts

TRASK

from the website
http://www.peabody.k12.ma.us/higgins/cullen/Library/localplanters/trask/wmtrask.htm 

We often hear “there were four brothers who came to America”, one of the popular genealogy myths that is often disproven.  The myth is that there were four Trask brothers: Henry, John, William and Osmond.  All the these Trasks left records and descendants in Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts, but there is no proof they were all brothers or even kin.

Osmond Trask married Elizabeth Gully on 22 May 1663 in Beverly, Massachusetts and had six children who all married and left descendants.  John, Henry and William Trask lived in Salem.   Captain William Trask arrived first on “Zouch Phenix” in 1624, as the military leader of a Dorchester Company fishing station on Cape Ann.  It is very likely he made several trips back and forth across the Atlantic in the early 1620s.  He settled in Salem and had six children.  Pope and Savage attributed some of Henry Trask’s children to William Trask, so be careful when looking up his family record.  There is a Trask Burial Ground in Peabody, Massachusetts (formerly Salem).

In the records it states that William Trask operated a windmill for grinding grain. According to the Great Migration “Ownership of the mill and the surrounding plain was a subject of great controversy in the August 1686 term of the Essex court [ EQC 46:21].”   In the Great Migration Begins, Robert Charles Anderson does not think that Henry Trask is a relation to William, and I tend to believe his conclusion over other books.  Anderson also states that “The mill was a lasting bone of contention with some of his neighbors, and at court 30 November 1652 Capt. Traske was presented for having no suitable weights in his mill [ EQC 1:274]. “ and other matters in court to do with the windmill.  This windmill and the land it sat on would be in present day Peabody, Massachusetts.

Will of William Trask, SR.

The will of William Trask, sr., of Salem, was proved in the court held at Salem June 28, 1666. The following copy is transcribed from the original instrument on file in the office of the clerk of courts at Salem, volume XI, leaf 134.

Theƒe pƒents testifie That I william Traske senior of Salem hauiug at this time my sense & memory Though weake in bodie do make this my last will & Testament this 15th of may 1666

Imprimis I giue unto Sarah my wife the north end of my dwelling house during the tearm of her life I doe allso apoint that shee ƒhall haue some of the fruit of the orchard for her owne use & a little ƒspot for a garden if ƒshee desires it during the time of her life

Item I giue unto Sarah my wife ƒsixteene pounds p annum to bee paided unto her yearelie for her maintenance during the time of her life, & allƒsoe I giue her a cow, which cow is to bee sommerd & winterd for her, by the executors during the time of her life

Item I giue unto my ƒson william all the meadow that lyeth vpon the ƒside of the riuer betweene the upper & the lower mills & allƒo the upper mill pond to william

Item I giue unto my two daughters Sarah & Sussan ƒsixteene pounds a peice

Item I giue unto my daughter mary twentie ƒix pounds & this to bee paid out of my estate by my executors in the ƒspace of three yeare after my decease

Item I giue unto my grandchildren 10s a peice

Item I doe apoint my two sons william & John to be executors of this my last will & testament giuing them all the rest of my estate to bee equalli deuided betweene them

Signum

William m Traske senior

Item as concerning my household ƒtuff I apoint that none of it ƒhall bee made away or disposed of so long as my wife liues but she to haue the free use of it as formerly & after her decease I giue vnto my daughter mary the great brasse pan & to my ƒon william my bed & bedding that I now lye upon & the reƒt to be devided as above ƒsaid in the presenceSignum

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William W Traske senior

Joseph O Boice

John Hill

My Trask Lineage:

Generation 1: William Trask, son of Nicholas Trask, born 14 December 1585 in East Coker, Somersetshire, England, died before 18 May 1666 in Salem, Massachusetts; married to Sarah Unknown, and she died after 1666.  Six Children:

1. Sarah Trask, born January 1634 m. Elias Parkman

2. Mary Trask, born January 1637 m. John Loomis

3. Susanna Trask, born 10 June 1638 m. Samuel Eborne

4. William Trask (see below)

5. John Trask, born 18 September 1642, m1 Abigail Parkman, m2 Mary Clarke

6. Elizabeth Trask, born 21 September 1645

Generation 2: William Trask, born before 19 September 1640 in Salem, died before 26 March 1691 in Salem; married first on 18 January 1666 to Ann Putnam, daughter of Thomas Putnam and Ann Holyoke, born 25 August 1645  and died 14 September 1676 in Salem; married second to Anna Unknown (my ancestress). 

Five children with Ann Putnam:

1. Ann Trask, born 1668 m. Isaac Brooks

2. Elizabeth Trask, born 16 March 1670 m. Benjamin Hanson

3. Sarah Trask, born 1672 m. John Williams

4. William Trask, born 7 September 1674 m. Ann White

5. Susanna Trask, born 3 November 1676 m. Jonathan Fuller

Four children with Anna:

1.  John Trask, born 1678 m. Hannah Osborn

2. Mary Trask (see below)

3. George Trask, born January 1691

4. Elizabeth Mary Trask

Generation 3: Mary Trask, born March 1683 in Salem, died before 1767 in Danvers; married on 8 January 1710 in Salem to John Southwick, son of John Southwick and Hannah Follett, born on 13 December 1688 in Salem, died before 7 October 1771. Seven children.

Generation 4.  George Southwick and Sarah Platts

Generation 5. Mary Southwick and Robert Wilson

Generation 6. Mercy F. Wilson and Aaron Wilkinson

Generation 7. Robert Wilson Wilkinson and Phebe Cross Munroe

Generation 8. Albert Munroe Wilkinson and Isabella Lyons Bill

Generation 9. Donald Munroe Wilkinson and Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

For more information:

EQC  (Essex Quarterly Court Records), many entries

The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620 -33, by Robert Charles Anderson, Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995, Volume 3, pages 1834-1837.

The Essex Genealogist, Volume 21, pages 24 -27.

History of Salem, by Sidney Perley, Volume 1, pages 94 -96 for a sketch of the early generations of the Trask family.

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Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Surname Saturday ~ Black of Salem, Massachusetts

BLACK

John Black and his wife, Susanna, arrived in Salem, Massachusetts on board the ship “Talbot” in 1629.  We don’t know his origins or birth date, but it is set at about 1591 because in 1645 the court exempted him from militia training “John Black being poor & aged 54” [ Essex Quarterly Court 1:84]  In 1636 he was granted 30 acres at Jeffrey’s Creek, near Salem.  On 13 May 1640, John Black and sixteen other Salem men wrote a petition “to erect a village there” at Jeffrey’s Creek.  [Essex Quarterly Court 7: 201-2]

John Black died in 1675, but on 20 April 1670 he sold “to my son John Black of the same” his house lot in Beverly for 8 pounds “except two acres of land out the said lot, which I do give and set over unto my son-in-law Isaack Davis, they to pay rent to John Sr.”  [Essex County Deeds 3: 140].  John had seven known children, but only four lived to adulthood.

Jeffry’s Creek settlement was part of Salem set off to become the smaller town of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts in 1645. According to the “Manchester Cricket” newspaper, which has been printed since 1888, the original village was called Creekites, and the name stuck for many years.  After the name became Manchester, the inhabitants were called “crickets”.  This name was still being used in 1888 when the local paper was established. [see http://www.themanchestercricket.com/history.php]

The Black genealogy:

Generation 1: John Black, born about 1591 in England, died 1 March 1675 in Beverly, Massachusetts, married Susanna Unknown. Seven children:

1. Unknown Black, born about 1629, died on board the “Talbot” 24 June 1629

2. Elizabeth Black, born about 1632; married first Humphrey Gilbert about 1655, married second William Raynor 24 September 1658, married third Henry Kimball about 1675, and married third Daniel Kilham about 1678.

3. Persis Black, see below

4. Lydia Black, baptized 25 December 1636, died young

5. Lydia Black,  baptized 3 June 1638; married Isaac Davis

6. Daughter Black, baptized 27 November 1640, died young

7. John Black, born about 1642, married first Freeborn Wolfe, widow of Robert Sallowes, married second Deborah Unknown.

Generation 2.  Persis Black born about 1633, died before 1704 in Salem; married on 29 November 1655 in Salem to Robert Follet, son of John Follett.  He was born 1625 in England and died 1708 in Salem: Ten children.

Generation 3. Hannah Follett married John Southwick

Generation 4. John Southwick married Mary Trask

Generation 5. Elizabeth Southwick married Robert Wilson

Generation 6. Robert Wilson married Sarah Felton

Generation 7. Robert Wilson married Mary Southwick

Generation 8. Mercy F. Wilson married Aaron Wilkinson

Generation 9. Robert Wilson Wilkinson married Phebe Cross Munroe

Generation 10. Albert Munroe Wilkinson married Isabella Lyons Bill

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

Sources:

Great Migration Begins,  by Robert Charles Anderson, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995,  Volume 1, pages 175 – 177.

The Essex Genealogist, Volume 14, pages 110 – 111.

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Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo