Albert Hoogerzeil (1845 - 1920) rescues a drowning man - 1896 Newsclipping

 

Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, 14 January 1896, page 7. 

BEVERLY MAN'S BRAVE ACT

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Albert Hoogerzeil Risks His Own Life to 

Rescue a drowning Neighbor.

Beverly, January 14- A narrow escape from drowning of a Beverly man and a heroic rescue by another is reported this morning.

It seems that William Bennett, while spearing for eels through the ice in the harbor, broke through and was in great danger of drowning, as, on account of his heavy clothes, he was unable to swim. His cries for assistance were heard by Albert Hoogerzeil, who was fishing from a dory about a half a mile away from the drowning man.  Mr. Hoogerzeil rowed with all possible speed to the scene.  At the risk of his own life, he forced his boat through the broken ice and reached Bennett, just as he was sinking for the last time.

He dragged him into the boat and devoted some little time in resuscitating him.  Mr. Bennett was thoroughly chilled and was in great danger of succumbing, but Mr. Hoogerzeil took the clothing off his own back to aid in restoring warmth to the chilled man until he reached the shore and secured assistance.

It is understood that steps will be taken to bring the brave rescue to the attention of the Humane Society with a view that a medal may be secured for Mr. Hoogerzeil in recognition of his courageous act.

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One of my ancestral family names is Hoogerzeil.  I'm lucky because my 7th great grandfather, Ocker Bruins Hoogerseijl (1663 - 1749) of Krimpen aan de Lek, near Rotterdam in the Netherlands, made up his own surname when patronyms started going out of fashion in his home country.  He was a commander of a whaling ship, and his name "Hoogerzeil" translates to "High Sails".  Every person ever named Hoogerzeil or Hogerzeil has turned out to be one of his descendants.  

Ocker Bruins Hoogersijl's great great grandson, Peter Hoogerzil (1803 - 1889) was a stowawy from Rotterdam to Salem, Massachusetts in the 1820s.  He settled in Beverly, across the harbor from Salem, where he married Eunice Stone in 1828.  She was supposedly the daughter of the sea captain of the ship in which Peter was a stowawy.  I know that Eunice's father, Josiah Stone (1763 - 1848) was a commander of ships in Salem, so there may be some truth to this family myth!

Peter Hoogerzeil and Eunice Stone had six children: Lucy Ann, born 1832; Simeon, born 1839; Peter, born 1841; William, born 1843; Albert Stone, born 1845; and Edmund, born 1847.  Peter, Jr, is my great great grandfather.  Albert, his brother, and the hero of the story in the 1896 Boston Globe article, is my 3rd great uncle.  

Albert Hoogerzeil was a mariner in the United States Navy 1862 through 1864 during the Civil War.  He served aboard the USS Vermont, the USS Western World, and with the Potomac Flotilla.  Back home in Beverly he was a shoemaker and a fisherman.  At age 53 he married Mary Gaffney, born about 1859 in Ireland, on 15 December 1898 in Beverly.  It was his first and only marriage.  They had no children. 

For the truly curious:

A 2014 blog post about the Hoogerzeil Family plot in the Central Cemetery in Beverly:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/11/tombstone-tuesday-hoogerzeil-in-beverly.html  

A 2018 blog post for Surname Saturday on my Hoogerzeil lineage:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/03/surname-saturday-hoogerzeil-of-holland.html  

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Albert Hoogerzeil (1845 - 1920) rescues a drowning man - 1896 Newsclipping", Nutfield Genealogy, posted March 11, 2024, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2024/03/albert-hoogerzeil-1845-1920-rescues.html: accessed [access date]).  

Andrew Jackson Stone, died in the Civil War 1864, buried Dunbarton, New Hampshire

This tombstone was photographed at the Center Cemetery in Dunbarton, New Hampshire

ANDREW J. STONE

Son of James &

Mary E. Stone

Capt. Co. F. Reg't. N.H.V.

Born July 7, 1828.

Was wounded in battle of

wilderness, May 18, Died in 

Hospital at Fredericksburg, Va.

May 19, 1864.

AE. 35 yrs. 10 mos. & 12 ds.

Andrew Jackson Stone, son of James Stone and Mary East Beard, was born 7 July 1828 in Dunbarton, and died 19 May 1864 in Fredericksburg, Virginia.  James Stone (1785 - 1874) was born in Henniker, New Hampshire, and his father James Stone (1747 - 1790) was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts and served in the Revolutionary War and participated in the Battle of Bennington, Vermont.  

According to the book Sketch of Dunbarton, New Hampshire by Miss Ella Mills, 1902: "Dunbarton sent more than fifty men to the Civil War, several sent substitutes.  To three men were given captain's commissions, namely, William E. Bunten, Henry M. Caldwell, who died of fever in Falmouth, Va., in 1862, and Andrew J. Stone, who was killed at the Battle of the Wilderness in 1864."  And according to the book New Hampshire in the Civil War, by Bruce D. Heald, 2001:  "Capt. Andrew J. Stone, 9th New Hampshire Volunteer Regiment.  Capt. Andrew J. Stone, part of the IX Corps, was a native of Dunbarton.  One August 5, 1862, at the age of 33, he was mustered in as captain.  He was mortally wounded in a skirmish in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on May 20, 1864.  His regiment lost 184 men at Spottsylvania, most of them in the fight on May 12, 1864." 

Apparently Andrew Stone was a rock collector (no pun intended).  A Google search of his name led to a photo of his rock collection at the New Hampshire Historical Society.  https://www.nhhistory.org/object/814221/relic   

The Google search also led to an auction website with several Civil War items that belonged to Capt. Stone, along with his photograph.  The letter references the regimental history of the 9th New Hampshire written by William Marvel in 1988, which has a biography of Stone written by Herman Clement who wrote "that Capt. Stone's wound was turning black and when they arrived at the Fredricksburg hospital on May 20th, he died at 8:00 that evening. Clement dug Capt. Stone's grave alone in Fredricksburg, and laid him to rest in a blanket, and makes clear in his his writing 'This was not the dignified burial that Stone deserved.'"  You can see these items that belonged to Andrew Stone (sword, musket ball, letter, sash, photograph, etc.) at this link:  https://www.morphyauctions.com/jamesdjulia/item/lot-1473-presentation-sword-and-sash-of-killed-in-action-captain-andrew-stone-9th-new-hampshire-volunteers-47521/  

This is a detail of the carving on the tombstone of Andrew Jackson Stone's memorial. 

It looks like a bomb exploding. Has anyone seen this type of carving before?

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Cite/Link to this post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Andrew Jackson Stone, died in the Civil War 1864, buried Dunbarton, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 21, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/07/andrew-jackson-stone-died-in-civil-war.html: accessed [access date]). 

My 7th Great Grandfather, John Stone, died 1736 ~ Tombstone Tuesday

This tombstone was photographed at the Abbott Hale Cemetery in Beverly, Massachusetts.

Here Lyeth the

Body of Mr. John

Stone Who died

July ye 28 1736 in

(the rest is underground)

John Stone, the son of Nathaniel Stone and Remember Corning, was born 20 April 1661 in Salem, Massachusetts. He was married first to Hester Gaines, second to Sarah Gale, and third to Jane (Stacy) Standley.  John Stone was a weaver.  He died non compos mentis, but left a will and an appointed guardian John Cleaves.  I descend from his marriage with Sarah Gale, through his daughter Susanna Stone (1702 - 1751) who married Randall Preston.  

I also descend from John Stone's brother, Nathaniel Stone (1663 - 1741) who married Mary Balch in 1689 in Beverly. 

John Stone had ten children with his wife Sarah Gale:  Priscilla (b. 1690), Edmond (b. 1691), Edmond (b. 1692), Sarah (b. 1693), Miriam (b. 1695), Eunice (b. 1696), Ambrose (b. 1698), Susanna (b. 1702), Remember (b. 1704), and Charity (b. 1700).   He had three children with his first wife, Hester Gaines:  Esther (b. 1684), John (b. 1686), and Mary (b. 1689).   He had no children with his third wife. 

My lineage from John Stone:

Generation 1:  John Stone (about 1595 - 1677) and Elinor Cooke (immigrant ancestors)

Generation 2: Nathaniel Stone (about 1632 - 1718) and Remember Corning

Generation 3:  John Stone (see above) and Sarah Gale

Generation 4:  Susanna Stone (1702 - 1751) and Randall Preston

Generation 5:  William Presson and Abigail Sargent

Generation 6: Lucy Presson and James Andrews

Generation 7: Orpah Andrews and Joseph Allen

Generation 8: Joseph Gilman Allen and Sarah Burnham Mears

Generation 9: Joseph Elmer Allen and Carrie Maude Batchelder

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

Alternative Stone lineage:

Generation 3: Nathaniel Stone, Jr. (1663 - 1741) and Mary Balch

Generation 4: Josiah Stone (1691 - after 1757) and Dorothy Fuller

Generation 5: Josiah Stone (1722 - 1807) and Martha Ashby

Generation 6: Captain Josiah Stone (1763 - 1848) and Susanna Hix

Generation 7: Eunice Stone (1807 - 1866) and Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 8: Peter Hoogerzeil and Mary Etta Healey

Generation 9: Florence Etta Hoogerzeil and Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "My 7th Great Grandfather, John Stone, died 1736 ~ Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted on April 7, 2020, (  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/04/my-7th-great-grandfather-john-stone.html: accessed [access date]). 

Zechariah Stone, died 1730 ~ Tombstone Tuesday

This tombstone was photographed at the Abbott Hale Cemetery in Beverly, Massachusetts.

Here Lyeth ye body

of Zechariah Stone

Jun. died Novmr ye

8, 1730 Aged

22 years

Zachariah Stone was the son of Zachariah Stone and Jane Curtis, born in Beverly, Massachusetts on 21 September 1708.  He died unmarried on 8 November 1730 in Beverly.  His marriage to Anne Elliott was published on 18 October 1730, just three weeks before his death. There was no cause of death in the records as to why he died so young.  He was one of nine siblings, and the eldest child. 

Zachariah shares many cousin connections with me through the STONE, HERRICK, DODGE, and DIXEY families of Beverly.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Zechariah Stone, died 1730 ~ Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted March 10, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/03/zechariah-stone-died-1730-tombstone.html: accessed [access date]). 

Tombstone Tuesday ~ John Stone, died 1754 Beverly, Massachusetts

This tombstone was photographed at the Abbott Hale Cemetery in Beverly, Massachusetts

Here lies buried ye Body of

Mr. JOHN STONE

who Departed this Life

Dec'mber the 27th

1754

In the 27th Year

Of his Age.

John Stone was born in Beverly on 8 September 1728, the son of Robert Stone and Elizabeth Elliott.  He married Hannah Rea on 18 February 1752 in Beverly, and died about two years later on 27 December 1754.  He was only 27 years old, and left his widow pregnant with a child.  John Stone, Jr. was born 1 April 1755 in Beverly.

Hannah remarried on 2 November 1758 to John Lovitt.

John Stone is my 3rd cousin 7 generations removed.  John's great grandfather, John Stone (1630 - 1691) is the brother of my 8th great grandfather, Nathaniel Stone (about 1632 - 1718) who married Remember Corning.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ John Stone, died 1754 Beverly, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 31, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/07/tombstone-tuesday-john-stone-died-1754.html: accessed [access date]).

Surname Saturday ~ HOOGERZEIL of Holland and Beverly, Massachusetts

Grote Kerk "Great Church" in Dordrecht
where Peter Hoogerzeil was baptized

Peter Hoogerzeil, my immigrant 3^rd great grandfather, was born in Dordrecht, in Holland, on 28 October 1803 under the name Pieter Hoogerseijl.  He was the son of a whaling sea captain, Simon Hogerseijl (1776 – 1829) and his wife, Lissa Van Epenhuizen.  Dordrecht is an island on the banks of several rivers that flow into the Rhine delta.  It is near Rotterdam, which was a big whaling seaport where the ships sailed for the rich whaling in Greenland.   

Family stories say that Peter Hoogerzeil, the youngest son, stowed away on a ship loaded with hemp, which was headed for the ropeworks in Salem, Massachusetts.  He married Eunice Stone, the daughter of the ship captain, Josiah Stone.  I don’t think a sea captain would have been happy if his daughter married a stowaway, but perhaps the captain knew Peter as a mariner before taking him to Massachusetts?  There are family letters which repeat the stowaway tale, dating back to the 1800s. Perhaps there is a grain of truth to the story?

There are records of Peter Hoogerzeil in ship’s registers out of Salem and Beverly in 1826, 1827, and 1828.  He married Eunice Stone on 30 December 1828 in Beverly.  I found Peter listed in other ships registries until 1835,  when he was listed as a carpenter.  In the 1850 census in Beverly his occupation is listed as a caulker, and in the 1860 census he is listed as a day laborer born in “Ireland?”  By the 1870 census Peter was working as an expressman, which was the family business until the 1930s. 

Peter and Eunice had six children, all named in his will.  He died on 12 May 1889 in Beverly. I descend from his son, Peter Hoogerzeil, Jr. (1841 – 1908).   Over the years Peter, Jr. worked as a fisherman, a quartermaster and then as a teamster.  He began the Hoogerzeil Express Company in 1867 and employed his father and brothers.  After his death he passed the Express business on to his brother-in-law, John Healey.  Peter was also an inventor and world traveler.  He had patents for many inventions, which he sold out of his home on 43 Bartlett Street in Beverly.  As a sailor he sailed the South China Sea several times, and one of his last voyages was to Holland to visit his relatives.

I descend from Peter’s daughter Florence Etta (1871 – 1941), my great grandmother, who married Arthur Treadwell Hitchings.  She had eight children, including my grandmother, Gertrude Matilda (1905 – 2001).   Florence was known by her middle name “Etta”, and she was not well. She had “consumption” or tuberculosis, and spent a lot of time in a sanitorium during my grandmother’s growing up years.  My mother remembers visiting her “Nana” at 43 Bartlett Street, which was later occupied by “Aunt Belle” (my great grandmother’s sister Isabelle Hoogerzeil Sorenson (1888 – 1960).  Aunt Belle continued to correspond with the cousins in Holland all her life, and my uncle visited with some Hogerzeil relatives in occupied Holland during World War II.

 My HOOGERZEIL genealogy:

(see the blog post link below for Peter’s ancestors in Holland)

Generation 1:  Peter Hoogerzeil, son of Simon Hogerseijl and Lissa Van Epenhuizen, born 28 October 1803 in Dordrecht, South Holland and died 12 May 1889 in Beverly, Massachusetts; married on 30 December 1828 in Beverly to Eunice Stone, daughter of Josiah Stone and Susanna Hix.  She was baptized in Beverly on 15 May 1807 and died in Beverly on 21 October 1886. Six children.

Generation 2:  Peter Hoogerzeil, born 24 June 1841 in Beverly and died 10 May 1908 in Beverly; married on 14 March 1870 in Salem to Mary Etta Healey, daughter of Joseph Edwin Healey and Matilda Weston.  She was born 19 May 1852 in Beverly and died 23 July 1932 in Beverly.  Six children.

Generation 3:  Florence Etta Hoogerzeil, born 20 August 1871 in Beverly and died 10 February 1941 in Hamilton, Massachusetts; married on 25 December 1890 in Beverly to Arthur Treadwell Hitchings, son of Abijah Franklin Hitchings and Hannah Eliza Lewis. He was born 10 May 1868 in Salem and died 7 March 1937 in Hamilton.  Eight children.

Generation 4:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

For the truly curious:

A blog post about Krimpen aan de Lek, with my Hoogerzeil/Hogerzeil lineage back to 1631

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/02/in-footsteps-of-ancestors-touring.html 

A blog post about Dordrecht, where Peter Hoogerzeil was born:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/02/in-footsteps-of-ancestors-visit-to.html  

A blog post about my Uncle visiting the Hogerzeil family in occupied Holland after World War II:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/09/value-of-posting-brick-walls-on.html  

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ HOOGERZEIL of Holland and Beverly, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted March 31, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/03/surname-saturday-hoogerzeil-of-holland.html: accessed [access date]).   

Surname Saturday ~ HASKELL of Gloucester, Massachusetts

HASKELL / HASKEL / HASKLE / HASCOLL / HASCALL

This is a case of my 9^th great grandfather who married my 10^th great grandmother.  Sounds funny? Well, it is a very tangled family tree.

William Haskell, my 10^th great grandfather, was born about 1578 probably in Charlton Musgrove, Somersetshire, England, where he also died and was buried on 11 May 1630.  He left a widow, my 10^th great grandmother, Elinor Foule, and seven children.  Sometime later Elinor remarried to John Stone, who happens to be my 9^th great grandfather through his first marriage to Elinor Cooke [See this link for my STONE lineage through their son Nathaniel Stone:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/12/surname-saturday-stone-of-beverly.html  ]

In 1635 John Stone brought his own two Stone sons, his second wife Elinor, and some of Haskell children to Massachusetts.  They settled at what is now Beverly, Massachusetts and owned a farm near the Bass River, close to where the United States Shoe Machinery Corporation, now the Cummings Center, was located.  If this sounds familiar, three generations of my family worked at “The Shoe”, including my own father, and it was just a few blocks from my childhood house on 7 Dearborn Avenue. Can you believe my family lived in this neighborhood for nearly 400 years? 

Of these four Haskell children who appear later in the Massachusetts records, much is known about Roger, who appeared to be here first.  According to an article in the New England Historic Genealogy Society Register: “Mark was apprenticed to John Whiting, broadweaver of Shepton Mallet, in 1635 for nine years. He does not appear in Massachusetts before 1652 he likely completed his apprenticeship before joining his brothers in New England.  Roger, the oldest, appears in Charlton Musgrove records as late as 1635 but received a land grant at Beverly, Mass., in 1636, which considerably narrows the probable date of his arrival.  William does not appear in any known New England records before 1643, but it seems likely he and Roger arrived together.  Roger died at Beverly, in 1667 and his will he gives 'to my sister Jone a heifer...' so we can surmise she was then in New England and perhaps married, though no marriage record survives." NEHGS Register, Volume 138, pages 225 - 226.

William Haskell, Jr., my 9^th great grandfather, was born 8 November 1618 in Charlton Musgrave.  He settled in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1643 where he was a mariner.  He was a selectman for a few years and a representative to the General Court six times.  He became lieutenant of the militia in 1661, and later promoted to captain.  When the first church was settled at Gloucester he was one of the first two deacons chosen.  He married a Mary Tybott, whose father, Walter Tybott, followed Reverend Richard Blynman from Wales to Gloucester. They had nine children, and both William and Mary died in 1693 only four days apart.

Their son, Mark Haskell, my 8^th great grandfather, married Elizabeth Giddings of Ipswich and had three children before he died young in 1691, age 33 years and 5 months. Elizabeth remarried to John Dennison. Her son, Mark Haskell, Jr., my 7^th great grandfather, lived a long life to 87 years.  He married Martha Tuthill and had thirteen children!  Martha was the great granddaughter of Remember Allerton, a Mayflower passenger.  She passed away in 1763 and Mark took a second wife, Elizabeth Porter, in 1767, who had been widowed three times by Daniel Gilbert, Joseph Goodhue, and John Burnham (who was my 7^th great grandfather with his first wife Anne Choate).  There was a lot of intermarriage in this branch of my family tree, don’t you think?

Lucy Haskell (1715 – 1789) is my 6^th great grandmother.  She married Jabez Treadwell, a cooper from Ipswich, in 1736.  I own an original copy of Jabez’s will, written on old linen paper, and written in 1781.  Lucy and Jabez had eleven children, and I descend from their son Nathaniel Treadwell (1753 – 1822).  You can see this written last will and testament at this link:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/10/jabez-treadwells-will.html

There is a great quote in the book Saga of Cape Ann, by Elliott Copeland & Melvin T. Rogers, 1960, page 135 “In the 18th Century, Bearskin Neck was the site of fishermen's shanties, boat building shops, stores which sold boat gear, bait, and clams, an old tavern, and the 'lean-to' where Wm. Haskell, who wore earrings and did up his hair on curl papers, sold home made ginger pop & molasses candy...."  I’d like to think that this was William Haskell (1618 – 1693), my 9^th great grandfather, but I really don’t know which William Haskell this excerpt describes.

Some HASKELL sources:

Chronicles of the Haskell Family, by Ira J. Haskell, 1943, Ellis Printing Co., Lynn, MA

“John Stone: First Ferryman of Beverly, Mass and some of his descendants 1635 – 1900”, by James B. Stone in The Essex Genealogist, Volume 7, pages 67 - 70.

“English Origins of the Haskell Family”, by Winthrop Allison Haskell in the NEHGS Register, Volume 138, pages 225 - 226

Look at this wonderful HASKELL family tree I photographed at the New England Historic Genealogical Society (first floor near the elevator):  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/02/haskell-family-tree.html 

My HASKELL genealogy:

Generation 1: William Haskell, born about 1578 in Charlton Musgrove, Somersetshire, England, and buried 11 May 1630 in Charlton Musgrove; married to Elinor Foule. Seven children.  Elinor remarried to John Stone.

Generation 2: William Haskell, baptized 8 November 1618 in Charlton Musgrove, died 20 August 1693 in Gloucester, Massachusetts; married on 6 November 1643 in Salem, Massachusetts to Mary Tybott, daughter of Walter Tybott, born 6 November 1628 in Chepstow, Wales and died 24 August 1693 in Gloucester.  Nine children.

Generation 3:  Mark Haskell, born 8 April 1658 in Gloucester, died 8 September 1691 in Gloucester; married on 16 December 1685 in Gloucester to Elizabeth Giddings, daughter of John Giddings and Sarah Alcock.  She was born about 1666 in Ipswich, and died 15 September 1725 in Gloucester. Three children.  Elizabeth remarried to John Dennison.

Generation 4:  Mark Haskell, born 16 September 1687 in Gloucester, died 25 August 1775 in Ipswich; married about 14 January 1710 in Gloucester to Martha Tuthill, daughter rof John Tuthill and Martha Ward.  She was born 21 November 1690 in Ipswich, and died 15 May 1763 in Ipswich.  Thirteen children.

Generation 5: Lucy Haskell, born 21 May 1715 in Gloucester, died 21 September 1769 in Ipswich; married on 20 November 1736 in Ipswich to Jabez Treadwell, son of Nathaniel Treadwell and Hannah Unknown.  He was born 9 August 1713 in Ipswich, and died 22 December 1780 in Ipswich.  Eleven children.

Generation 6:  Nathaniel Treadwell m. Mary Hovey

Generation 7:  Jabez Treadwell m. Betsey Jillings Homan

Generation 8:  Eliza Ann Treadwell m. Abijah Hitchings

Generation 9:  Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 10:  Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ HASKELL of Gloucester, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 24, 2017, (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/06/surname-saturday-haskell-of-gloucester.html: accessed [access date]). 

"Old Planters Reunion", Beverly, Massachusetts

This forefathers plaque can be found at the Cabot House, Beverly Historical Society, in Beverly, Massachusetts

THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO CAME OVER IN THE FIRST EMIGRATION

AND WERE BY THE BLESSING OF GOD THE PLANTERS OF BEVERLY, FROM THE FIRST GRANT 1638

TO THE INCORPORATION OF THE TOWN 1668 OR THEREABOUTS, OCCUPIERS OF FREEHOLDS

AND CONTINUING TO ABIDE THEREON, THEIR CHILDREN INHERITING THE LAND, AND THE NAME

OF THEIR WIVES AND THE NUMBER OF THEIR CHILDREN.

JOHN BALCH                   MARGARY             3

HENRY BALEE                 DOROTHY             4

JACOB BARNEY              ELIZABETH           3

JOHN BATCHELDER       ELIZABETH           7

EDWARD BISHOP            MARY                     3

JOSHUA BISSON              MARTHA               5

JOHN BLACK                   SUSANNA              1

RICHARD BRACKENBERY          ELLEN      4

JEREMIAH BOOTMAN   HESTER                  6

THOMAS CHUBB             AVIS                        4

ROGER CONANT             SARAH                    7

SAMUEL CORNING         ELIZABETH           4

MIGHILL CRESSY            MARY                     1

CHRISTOPHER CROE      DELIVERANCE     2

WILLIAM DIXEY              ANNA                     8

RICHARD DODGE            EDITH                    7

WILLIAM DODGE            ELIZABETH          4

JOHN EDWARDS              MARY                     2

RALPH ELLINWOOD      ELLEN                    7

ANDREW ELLIOT            GRACE                   6

EDMUND GALE               SARAH                   4

JOHN GALLY                    FLORENCE            4

EDMUND GROVER         MARGARY             6

ROGER HASCALL           ELIZABETH           9

ROGER HASKINS            RUTH                      2

NICOLAS HAYWARD      ELIZABETH           6

HENRY HERRICK            EDE                          8

ROBERT HIBBERT          JOAN                       9

JOHN HILL                       ABIGAIL                 6

WILLIAM HOARE           DORCAS                  6

FRANCIS HOOPER          JULIAN                    2

ISAAC HULL                    SARAH                    3

NICOLAS LAGROVE      HANNAH                5

RICHARD LAMBERT      ESTHER                  2

HUGH LASKIN                 ALISE                      2

LAWRENCE LEACH        ELIZABETH           7

THOMAS LOTHROP        BETHIA                  8

JOHN LOVITT                  MARY                     5

ROBERT MORGAN         MARGARET           6

RICHARD OBER             ABIGAL                   9

JAMES PATCH                 HANNAH                5

JOHN PATCH                   ELIZABETH            6

NICOLAS PATCH            ELIZABETH            2

THOMAS PICKTON       ANN                          0

DANIEL RAY                  BETHIA                    2

JOHN RAYMENT           RACHEL                   6

WILLIAM RAYMENT   HANNAH                 5

JOSIAS ROOTES            SUSANA                  4

JOHN SALLOWES         HANNAH                 6

THOMAS SCRUGGS     MARGARY              3

RICHARD STACKHOUSE  SUSANA            1

JOHN STONE                  SARAH                   4

JEFFREY THISTLE        MARY                     2

JOHN THORNDIKE       ELIZABETH           6

OSMAND TRASK          MARY                   10

THOMAS TUCK             JOAN                      3

JOHN WEST                    MARY                    3

THOMAS WHITREDGE  FLORENCE         3

JOHN WOODBERY        AGNES                  5

WILLIAM WOODBERY ELIZABETH        7

PETER WOODIN             ELIZABETH        4

PETER WOOLFE             MARTHA             2

IN FILIAL PIETY THIS MEMORIAL TO THE

FATHERS AND MOTHERS WHO ENTERED

INTO AND POSSESSED THE LAND NOW

BEVERLY IS ERECTED WITH GRATITUDE

TO GOD FOR OUR ANCIENT AMERICAN

BIRTHRIGHT BY THEIR DESCENDANTS

APRIL 19, 1913

Every two years the Beverly Historical Society hosts the "Old Planters Reunion" for descendants of the first settlers in what is now Beverly, Massachusetts.   This weekend was a three day event that included historic house tours, cemetery visits, lectures, a visit to the city hall archivists, a dinner at the Hale Farm, the annual Balch and Woodbury family reunions, and other events. We had a wonderful time in Beverly meeting lots of cousins and having fun.  I'm descended of a lot of these "Old Planters" including BALCH, BLACK, DODGE, DIXEY, ELLINWOOD, GALE, HASKELL, HERRICK, LEACH, STONE, THORNDIKE, WEST, TUCK and WOODBURY.

Are you descended of one of the families listed above?  Or other early Beverly families? The best way to be informed about the next reunion is to join the Beverly Historical Society, and they will mail you information and registration forms for 2018.  (see the link to click on the reunion brochure PDF below)  I hope to see you at the next  "Old Planter" reunion!

Dan Driscoll, Beverly City Archives Volunteer
describes the vast range of documents in the city vaults

Your truly poring over town clerk records from the 1600s

The John Balch House on Cabot Street with newly renovated facade.
This house dates from the early 1600s

Reunion participants touring the Balch House

Salem State University Archaeology Professor Emerson "Tad" Baker
describes artifacts found during excavations at the Balch house. 

Dinner in the backyard of the Hale Farm.  It was built in 1694 by Rev. John Hale
who played a large part in the 1692 Salem Witch Hysteria. 

We toured the Old North Beverly burial ground and also the
well hidden Dodges Burial Ground, and found lots of ancestors!

We finished the weekend with a tour of the Beverly "Gold Coast"
on the schooner "Fame".

Lots of cousins helped to lift the sails for our tour of Beverly Harbor. 

Beverly Historical Society -  http://www.beverlyhistory.org/  

Old Planters Reunion 2016  PDF   http://www.beverlyhistory.org/misc_files/OldPlantersReunion_Early2016.pdf


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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, " "Old Planters Reunion", Beverly, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 26, 2016,  (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/09/old-planters-reunion-beverly.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ IRONS of Boston, Massachusetts

IRONS / INES / IANS / IYANS / JYANS / IANSE

Matthew Irons’ origins are unknown.  It is difficult to trace him in the records because of the many inventive spellings of his surname.  However, when I pronounce IRONS with my Yankee New England accent, it becomes easy to figure out why his name was spelled so many ways.  Just drop the “R”.  

Matthew arrived as a servant to William Colbron, and  was made a freeman in Boston in 1636 as “IVES”.   He was an innkeeper in Boston, and granted eight acres at Muddy River (what is now the Fenway and Brookline).  He left a will on 30 January 1661/2 that named some of his children, and an inventory was taken on 16 April 1661.  He had eleven children in the Boston vital records and church records (baptisms) with his wife, Anne, who was probably the sister to Watertown settlers Edmund and Abraham Browne.  [Great Migration Begins, volume II, page 1059].

I descend from the eldest daughter, Elizabeth who married Richard Randall.  They settled on Cape Porpoise in what is now Saco, Maine.  One of her daughters, Sarah also married a Saco settler, Joseph Cole. Sarah Cole and her three daughters were captured by Indians on 20 August 1703 and taken to Montreal.  The children remained in Canada and were baptized by the Catholic Church. Sarah returned to Beverly, Massachusetts with her sister, Priscilla and they lived together as widows. 

  

I descend from Priscilla Randall, sister to the captive Sarah Randall Cole, who married William Preston. They had nine children, and I descend from two sons, Nehemiah and Randall Preston.  Both lived in Beverly, Massachusetts, the town where I was born on this date (Yes, today is my birthday!) 

For more information:

Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to the New World 1620 - 1633, by Robert Charles Anderson, Volume II, pages 1057 - 1059.

My Surname Saturday blog post on RANDALL  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/03/surname-saturday-randall-of-saco-maine.html

My Surname Saturday blog post on PRESTON

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/11/surname-saturday-presburypresbyterpresb.html

My Surname Saturday blog post on ALLEN

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/09/surname-saturday-allen-of-manchester.html

My Irons genealogy:

Generation 1:   Matthew Irons, born about 1613 probably in England, died before 16 April 1661 (the date of the inventory of his estate); married by about 1638 to Anne (probably Anne Browne, sister to Edmund and Abraham Browne, brothers who settled in Watertown, Massachusetts).  Eleven children.

Generation 2: Elizabeth Irons, born 15 April 1641 in Boston, baptized 18 April 1641 in Boston, died 1701 in Saco, Maine;  married to Richard Randall.  He was born about 1633 in England and died after 1713 in Saco.  Three children.

Generation 3: Priscilla Randall m. William Preston

Lineage A:

Generation 4: Nehemiah Preston m. Abigail Allen

Generation 5: Hannah Preston m. Robert Woodbury

Generation 6: Molly Woodbury m. Westley Burnham

Generation 7: Henry Burnham m. Sally Poland

Generation 8:  Sarah Ann Burnham m. Samuel Mears

Generation 9: Sarah Burnham Mears m. Joseph Gilman Allen

Generation 10: Joseph Elmer Allen m. Carrie Maude Batchelder

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

Lineage B:

Generation 4: Randall Preston m. Susanna Stone

Generation 5: William Preston m. Abigail Sargent

Generation 6: Lucy Presson m. James Andrews

Generation 7: Orpha Andrews m. Joseph Allen

Generation 8: Joseph Gilman Allen m. Sarah Burnham Mears (see above)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ IRONS  of Boston, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 24, 2015 ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/10/surname-saturday-irons-of-boston.html : accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ GALE of Cambridge and Beverly, Massachusetts

Veterans Memorial Bridge, on the Bass River between
Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts is located approximately where
there was a ferry in colonial times.

GALE

I recently blogged about my ancestors, John Stone and William Dixey, who were both ferrymen on the Bass River between Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts.    They kept the business all in the family by passing the job on to Edmund Gale in 1694.

Edmund Gale’s father was also Edmund/Edmond Gale, who came from England and settled in “Newtown” or Cambridge, Massachusetts.  The immigrant Edmund Gale (about 1593 – 1642) had seven children.  His son Ambrose settled in Marblehead, and son Bartholomew settled in Salem, all near Beverly, Massachusetts where Edmund (about 1640 – 1716) settled.

Edmund Gale, Jr. married Sarah Dixey, daughter of Captain William Dixey.  He was a fisherman and seaman before operating the ferry. He had eleven children, including Sarah (1666 – about 1726) my 7^th great grandmother.  Sarah’s husband was John Stone, so all her children were descendants of three ferrymen from Beverly, Massachusetts.

Some GALE resources:

Edmond Gale is not listed in Martin Hollick’s guide New Englanders in the 1600s, nor there a sketch in the Great Migration series.   There is an old book The Gale Family Records in England and the United States by George Gale, 1867, available on line at Google Book Search, but this book has many errors and inaccuracies.  Beware!  The best books are The Salem and Beverly records, and The Ancestry of Sarah Stone by Walter Goodwin Davis, 1930 (another old book).

A search of the journals and periodicals at the NEHGS database did not turn up a sketch of the GALE family, but many references to early records in Boston, Cambridge, Salem, Beverly and Marblehead.  These documents are the best way to piece together a Gale family tree.

My GALE genealogy:

Generation 1: Edmond Gale, born about 1593 in Ixworth, Suffolk, England, died 29 July 1642 in Boston, Massachusetts; married Unknown. Seven children born in England.

Generation 2: Edmund Gale, born about 1640 in Oakley, Bedfordshire, England, died 16 November 1716 in Beverly, Massachusetts; married on 22 February 1665/6 in Beverly to Sarah Dixey, daughter of William Dixey and Anna Unknown.  She was baptized on 2 July 1643 in Salem, Massachusets and died in 1757 in Beverly.  Thirteen children.

Generation 3:  Sarah Gale, born 4 February 1666 in Beverly, died before 1726;  married to John Stone, son of Nathaniel Stone and Remember Corning.  He was born 20 February 1661 in Salem, and died 28 July 1736 in Beverly.  Ten children.

Generation 4:  Susanna Stone married Randall Preston

Generation 5:  William Presson married Abigail Sargent

Generation 6:  Lucy Presson married James Andrews

Generation 7:  Orpha Andrews married Joseph Allen

Generation 8:  Joseph Gilman Allen married Sarah Burnham Mears

Generation 9:  Joseph Elmer Allen married Carrie Maude Batchelder

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

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Surname Saturday ~ DIXEY of Lynn, Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts

DIXEY

William Dixey was an early settler in Essex County.  He arrived in the New World as a servant of Isaac Johnson, an associate of Governor Endicott.  In 1657 Dixey deposed that Johnson wrote to Endicott “for a place to sett downe in”.  Johnson sent his men and cattle ahead to Saugus (Lynn).  In 1680 Dixey gave this deposition about the first settlement:

“William Dixey of Beverly in New England aged about 73 years testifieth that I came to new England & arrived in June 1629 at Cape Ann where we found the signs of buildings & plantation work and saw no English people.  So we sailed to the place now called Salem where we found Mr. John Endicot Governor & sundry inhabitants besides some of whom said they had been servants to Dorchester company & had built at Cape Ann sundry years before we came over.  When we came to dwell here the Indians bid us welcome & showed themselves very glad that we came to dwell among them….”

William Dixey first settled at Salem where his six children were born and baptized, and then he removed to Beverly where he kept the ferry.  His will was dated 1684/5 and proved in 1690.  He named his son and his five married daughters.  In 1688 he wrote a codicil making his son his sole executor of his estate.

My Dixey lineage daughtered out in the next generation, because his middle daughter, Sarah, my 8^th great grandmother, married Edmund Gale.   His son, John Dixey, married Elizabeth Allen, but I don’t know if she is from my Manchester, Massachusetts (Jeffrie’s Creek) Allens or from the Swansea, Massachusetts Allens, where John Dixey removed.   Another daughter, Abigail Dixey, married John Stone, brother of another ancestor, Nathaniel Stone (1632 – 1718), who is the father of the John Stone who married Sarah Gale, Sarah Dixey’s daughter.  See the lineage below for clarification.

Some Dixey sources, (other than town, court records and vital records):

The Great Migration Begins: 1620 – 1633, Volume I, pages 553- 337

The Ancestry of Sarah Stone, by Walter Goodwin Davis, 1930

My DIXEY genealogy:

Generation 1:  William Dixey, born about 1607 probably in England, died between 11 August 1688 and 24 June 1690 in Beverly, Massachusetts; married to Ann or Hannah Unknown. She died before 1 February 1684/5 when William made his will.  Six children.

Generation 2: Sarah Dixey, baptized 2 July 1643 in Salem, died 1757 in Beverly; married on 22 February 1666 in Beverly to Edmund Gale, son of Edmond Gale.  He was born about 1640 in Oakley, Bedfordshire, England and died 16 November 1716 in Beverly. Thirteen children.

Generation 3:  Sarah Gale married John Stone

Generation 4:  Susanna Stone married Randall Preston

Generation 5:  William Presson married Abigail Sargent

Generation 6: Lucy Presson married James Andrews

Generation 7:  Orpha Andrews married Joseph Allen

Generation 8:  Joseph Gilman Allen married Sarah Burnham Mears

Generation 9:  Joseph Elmer Allen married Carrie Maude Batchelder

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

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Surname Saturday ~ CORNING of Beverly, Massachusetts

"BeverlyMA SamuelCorningHouse" by Magicpiano - Own work.
Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

CORNING

Samuel Corning (1616 – 1693), my 9^th great grandfather,  is not found in newer books like Hollick’s New Englanders in the 1600s, nor is he in the Great Migration series.    He can be found in Frederick Adams Virkus’s The Compendium of American Genealogy, First Families of America, which was produced in 7 volumes between 1925 and 1942.  There are mentions of him in Beverly town records and in written histories of Beverly, Massachusetts.

According to Virkus’s book,  Samuel Corning arrived in Salem by 1638 and he settled with his family in Beverly where he was a freeman on 2 June 1641.  He held many town offices, such as selectman, collector of rate, and was a founder of the Beverly church in 1656.  There are many references to “Ensign Samuel Corning” in the records.  According to the Corning Family Association website, he lived in Wramplingham before immigrating to Massachusetts, and he served in the militia there.  However, I’ve found no proof of Samuel’s origins or parentage or any other information on his ancestry.

In 1685 Samuel Corning was granted the administration of John Kettell’s will.  Later, when Samuel’s first wife, Elizabeth, died in 1688, he remarried to John Kettell’s widow, also named Elizabeth.  This second wife, Elizabeth Allen, is the daughter of my 9^th great grandfather, William Allen (1602 – 1678) and his second wife, another Elizabeth.  I descend from William Allen’s son Samuel Allen, from his first wife, Alice Norman.

Samuel’s daughter, Remember Corning (1640 – 1715) married Nathaniel Stone sometime  before 1659 when their first child was born.  There is a house built by her brother, Samuel Corning, about 1700 still standing on Hull Street in Beverly, Massachusetts.   This house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 

For the truly curious:

Corning Family Association  http://www.prospectlearning.com/Corning/corning.html 

2008 Corning Family Reunion, Beverly, Massachusetts

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9cljzI4TnE

Wikipedia, Samuel Corning House   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Corning_House

My CORNING genealogy:

Generation 1:  Samuel Corning, born about 1616 in England, died 11 March 1693 in Beverly, Massachusetts; married first about 1638 to Elizabeth Unknown – three children; married second on 13 November 1688 in Beverly to Elizabeth Allen, widow of John Kettell.  She outlived him and remarried a third time to William Raymond.

Generation 2:  Remember Corning, born 3 May 1640 in Beverly, died in 1715; married before 1659 to Nathaniel Stone, son of John Stone and Elinor Cooke.  He was born about 1632, and died 8 March 1718 in Salem.  Eleven children, and I descend from two.

Lineage A

Generation 3:   John Stone, born 20 February 1661 in Salem, died 28 July 1736 in Beverly; married first to Hester Gaines – three children; married second to Sarah Gale – ten children; married third to Jane Stacy Stanley.   Sarah Gale is my 7^th great grandmother, the daughter of Edmund Gale and Sarah Dixey, born 5 February 1666 in Salem, died before 1726.

Generation 4:  Susanna Stone m. Randall Preston

Generation 5:  William Presson m.  Abigail Sargent

Generation 6:  Lucy Presson m. James Andrews

Generation 7:  Orpha Andrews m. Joseph Allen (a descendant of William Allen above)

Generation 8:  Joseph Gilman Allen m. Sarah Burnham Mears

Generation 9: Joseph Elmer Allen m. Carrie Maud Batchelder

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

Lineage B

Generation 3:  Nathaniel Stone, born 15 September 1663 in Salem, died 23 February 1741 in Beverly; married 26 March 1689 in Beverly to Mary Balch, daughter of Benjamin Balch and Sarah Gardner.  She was born about 1667 and died 12 March 1737 in Beverly.  Nine children.

Generation 4: Josiah Stone m. Dorithy Fuller

Generation 5: Josiah Stone m. Martha Ashby

Generation 6:  Josiah Stone m. Susanna Hix

Generation 7:  Eunice Stone m. Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 8: Peter Hoogerzeil m. Mary Etta Healey

Generation 9:  Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

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

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