Surnames From My Family Tree

Over the past ten years I have written over 350 "Surname Saturday" blog posts.  Each post takes an immigrant ancestor from my family tree, and I trace my lineage up to my grandparents.  I give a detailed (as detailed as possible!) family sketch of the first few generations that carry this surname until it daughters out.  Each sketch also gives the genealogy and some resources for tracing that name.  Be aware that these families all immigrated to New England or Nova Scotia between 1620 and 1915.

These 350 sketches have provided me with many cousin connections!  I've enjoyed meeting new cousins virtually online, and in person at genealogy and blogging events over the years.  I've shared more family information with many of these cousins and interested researchers, and in return they have shared resources, family reunions, photographs, and lots of other ephemera and family heirlooms.  It has been a wonderful way to share family history.

Since the beginning of this blog in 2009 I have had a link to a page at the top of the homepage called "Surnames".  It gets many hits, probably from people searching for genealogy information.  I recently expanded this list of surnames and edited the lists so it is clickable. When you click on the name, it brings you to the "Surname Saturday" post.  I hope this has been helpful.  Since I got many comments about this change, I decided to write up this post so more readers would be aware of the new links.

Just peek up above to the top of the page, to the pages listed under the photo of Londonderry's Morrison House museum.  You will find "Surnames from My Family Tree" right there!  This is a permanent page, and will always be available every time you log onto my blog.  Names highlighted in red are "clickable" and will take you right to the Surname Saturday sketch of that lineage. 

You can also use the search bar in the upper left corner to search for any name, geographic location or topic in my blog.  Or you can click on the long list of keywords in the right hand column (this does not appear in the mobile version of my blog on phones and some devices).

Good luck!  I hope you find a cousin connection!

The link to my Surnames page:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/p/surnames-to-9-generations.html

A link to a blog post from 2015 "How I write up my Surname Saturday Posts":
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/05/how-do-i-write-up-my-surname-saturday.html


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To Cite/Link to this post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surnames From My Family Tree", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 27, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/12/surnames-from-my-family-tree.html: accessed [access date]).

TAYLOR of Nutfield (now Derry, New Hampshire) ~ Surname Saturday

TAYLOR

This family sketch is published here for the Nutfield 300th Anniversary.  The Taylor family also settled early in Nutfield (now Derry, New Hampshire) from Northern Ireland.  It is similar to the "First 16 Families" sketches which you can read at this link:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/p/nutfields-first-16-settlers.html

Some of this information is shared from the “Descendants of Mathew and Janet Taylor” Facebook Group, with help from descendants Betty Taylor Aube and Pat Taylor. For more information, please contact the Taylor Family Association (see below).   There are files available with much more family information, including a complete family history and 13 generations of descendants, at the Facebook group link below.  

Matthew Taylor, born about 1690 in Ireland, died on 26 January 1770 in Londonderry, New Hampshire (now the town of Derry).  He was married about 1720 to Janet (whose maiden name was possibly Wilson or a Dickey?).  She was born about 1705 in Ireland and died about after 22 January 1770 in Londonderry, New Hampshire.  They came to New England on the ship The Wolf. 

In 1729 he was elected as hayward

In 1731 he was part of a committee to find a second minister for the Presbyterian church

In 1732 Matthew Taylor bought Governor Wentworth’s land

In 1736 he witnessed the will of John Morison, Sr.

In 1737 he was elected constable

In 1755 he was elected as tithingman

Matthew Taylor and Janet had ten children:

     1.       John, born 22 Sept 1721 at sea, died 1787; married Margaret Dickey

     2.        Eleanor, born 19 January 1724 in Londonderry and died 1 May 1781 in Truro, Nova Scotia; married about 1743 in Londonderry to Samuel Archibald, son of John Archibald and Margaret Unknown.  He was born 1719 in Ireland and died 15 July 1774 in Truro.  Their children: Matthew (married Janet Fisher), Janet (married John Hinckley), David (married Jean Miller), Agness Nancy (married John Matthew Taylor), Samuel (married 1^st Nancy Clayton, 2^nd Margaret Archibald), Margaret, John,  James, Robert, Elizabeth, Martha and Eleanor.

     3.       Agnes, born 6 March 1725, in Londonderry, died 17 April 1747; married Deacon Samuel Fisher.

     4.       Capt. Matthew, born 30 October 1727 in Londonderry and died 22 January Truro, Nova Scotia; married about 1751 in Londonderry to Elizabeth Archibald, sister to Samuel Archibald (above) and daughter of John Archibald and Margaret Wilson.  She was born 20 January 1726 in Londonderry and died 4 November 1809 in East River Saint Mary’s, Nova Scotia. Their children:  James, born 1754 in Truro, Nova Scotia, and died 27 January 1834 in Maugerville, New Brunswick married to Rebecca Bartlett (daughter of Richard Bartlett and Mary Robinson) and had six children; John Matthew (married his cousin Agness also known as Nancy – see above); Janet (married David McKean); Robert (married Mehitable Wilson); David (married Eleanor Archibald); Archibald (married 1^st Jennet Blair, 2^nd Mary MacDonald); William (married 1^st Margaret McCurdy, 2^nd Hannah Ryder) was born 7 November 1771 in Truro, Nova Scotia and died about 1840 in Shezzetcook, Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia.

     5.       Jannet, born 10 June 1731 in Londonderry, died 23 December 1768 in Londonderry; married first to Joseph Finley; married second to John Anderson.  She is buried at the Old Hill Cemetery in Londonderry, New Hampshire. 

     6.       William, born 23 March 1732/3 in Londonderry and died 1795 in Augusta, Oneida County, New York; married Elizabeth “Betsey” Grimes in 1756.  Their child: Mary (married Capt. John Gregg).  William served as a private in Captain Joshua Abbott’s company of Colonel John Stark’s regiment from April 24 – August 1775 (three months and fifteen days).  He was also a private in Captain Joseph Dearborn’s company. 

     7.       David Taylor, born 10 August in Londonderry, died after 1790; married Margaret Kelsey

     8.       Adam Taylor, born 15 August 1737 in Londonderry, died 13 April 1806; married Mary Cunningham.  He is buried at the Forest Hill Cemetery in Derry, New Hampshire. 

     9.       Martha, born 15 August 1739; died 1770.

   10.   Samuel, born 1745 in Londonderry, died 1 June 1803; married first to Sarah Fisher; married second to Eunice Lancaster.  He is buried in the Forest Hill Cemetery in Derry, New Hampshire. 

A descendant of this family, Robert Taylor, built the 200 year old "Up and Down Sawmill" on Island Pond Road in Derry, New Hampshire.  This sawmill has been preserved and maintained by the New Hampshire Division of Parks and Recreation and is part of the New Hampshire State Park system at Ballard State Forest in Derry. Robert Taylor bought the property in 1799 and the current building dates from 1805. The land and sawmill were donated to the state in 1953 by Ernest R. Ballard. You can read more about this sawmill at these links:   https://www.nhstateparks.org/visit/historic-sites/taylor-mill-historic-site  and at  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Mill_State_Historic_Site

There is also a Taylor Public Library in East Derry, established in 1878 from a $1000 bequest from the estate of Emma and Harriet Taylor.  You can watch a sort video about the history of this library at this link:  https://vimeo.com/144671655

For more information:

The Taylor Family Association on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/98720166757/ 

Musquodoboit Pioneers: A Record of Seventy Families, Their Homesteads and Genealogies 1780-1980,  by Jennie Reid (Volume 1, Hantsport, NS, 1980).

A former blog post about the Taylor sawmill:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/10/taylor-saw-mill-in-derry.html    

Another blog post with photos and story of the 2011 Taylor Family Reunion in East Derry:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/07/taylor-family-reunion-2011.html

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "TAYLOR of Nutfield (now Derry, New Hampshire) ~ Surname Saturday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 23, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/11/taylor-of-nutfield-now-derry-new.html: accessed [access date]).

KNIGHT of York, Maine

I have previously written blog posts about two other KNIGHT ancestors (all unrelated): 

Philip Knight of Charlestown and Topsfield, Massachusetts:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/03/surname-saturday-knight-of-charlestown.html 

John Knight of Charlestown, Massachusetts:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/03/surname-saturday-knight-of-charlestown.html

Robert Knight, my 11^th great grandfather, was born about 1585 in England to unknown parents.  He was in York, Maine before 1643, and took an oath of allegiance on 22 November 1652.  He has depositions in the court records on 7 December 1658 (about 71 years old) and on 6 July 1671 (about 86 years old). 

Robert Knight was a mason.  He bought Robert Blaisdell’s house and land in York in 1642, and received grants of more land in 1648 and 1658. He does not appear often in the court records except for a case in 1655 when he sued Nicholas Frost for stealing his newly mown hay, and in 1668 when Arthur Clapham sued him for the expenses of treating Rowland Young’s son who Robert Knight was raising “as his owne childe” [Provincial and Court Records of Maine, 1931, Volume 2, pages 34 and 167].  According to The History of York, page 158, his children were Richard, Joan, and Margaret.

Robert Knight gave some of his land to his grandson, John Redman, Jr. on 18 February 1666.  He gave more land to his grandson Rowland Young on 12 August 1673, which was witnessed by his sister Mary Mowlton [Moulton].  He wrote his will in Boston on 23 June 1676 and his will was proved on 24 August 1676, which left his remaining land to his son Richard Knight in Boston. It is supposed that Robert Knight died in Boston sometime between these two dates.

From History of York by Banks:...

The last Will and Testament of Robert Knight of Yorke/ Concerning the small estate left by the providence of god unto me, I doe bequeath & dispose of as followeth/ Imprs:fie Acres of Marsh bounded west and by south, on the one side, West & by North on the other side, upland butting on the on Thomas Beeson & soe back unto the swampe untill it come to a parcel of land of Mr. Samll Mauericks, with an house and barn on the syd Land, of Robert Knights, also two cows & a bull all wch as above expressed, also whatsoever else shall be found to mee belonging, on or in the sayd house land or barne, I do whooley & for ever bequeath, unto my son Richd Knight liuveing in Boston, and to his Assignes for ever/ In witness of all which as above written, I have here unto set my hand & seale this 23d day of June 1676--The marke of Robert X Knight (Locus)(Sigilli) Owned & Delivered in the Presence of: Nicholas Willmott/his marke X John Tucker William Bartholomew

In the next generation I descend from his daughter Margaret (about 1622 – 1658) who married John Redman of Hampton Falls.  They had four children.  See the Surname Saturday sketch for the REDMAN lineage at this link:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/12/surname-saturday-redman-of-hampton-new.html  

More KNIGHT information:

Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire 1623 to 1660, by Charles Henry Pope, 1908

York Deeds, by the Maine Historical Society, 1884, Volume 1

The History of York, by Charles Edward Banks, 1931

My KNIGHT genealogy:

Generation 1: Robert Knight, born about 1585 in England, died before 24 August 1676 probably in Boston, Massachusetts; his wife’s name is unknown. They had four children:

1.       Richard Knight, born about 1620, died about 1690 in Boston

2.      Margaret Knight, born about 1622 (see below)

3.      Daniel Knight, servant to Thomas Gorges

4.      Joan Knight, born about 1625, married Rowland Young

Generation 2:  Margaret Knight, born about 1620 in England, died 30 May 1658 in Dover, New Hampshire; married before 1647 to John Redman, born about 1620 in England and died 16 February 1700 in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire.  Four children.

Generation 3:  Mary Redman m. Leonard Weeks

Generation 4:  Joshua Weeks m. Comfort Hubbard

Generation 5:  Mary Weeks m. Jonathan Chesley

Generation 6:  Comfort Chesley m. Stephen Perkins

Generation 7:  Mary Perkins m. Nathaniel Batchelder

Generation 8:  Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

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

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

Generation 11: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “KNIGHT of York, Maine”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 7, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/09/knight-of-york-maine.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday – Updated DEARBORN of Exeter and Hampton, New Hampshire

I previously blogged about my DEARBORN ancestors here:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/01/surname-saturday-dearborn-of-exeter-and.html  

This lineage has changed due to new findings. I didn’t lose my DEARBORN connections when I found the correct parents of Jonathan Batchelder (about 1800 – 1847), since my new research has found a new lineage back to Godfrey Dearborn.  (See my blog post “A New BATCHELDER lineage” at this link: https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/09/surname-saturday-new-batchelder-lineage.html 

Godfrey Dearborn, a weaver from Hannah, Lincolnshire, signed Reverend Wheelwright’s Combination at Exeter, New Hampshire in 1639.  Around 1648 he removed from Exeter to Hampton and settled in the West End. His house was built on 73 Exeter Road in North Hampton.   His wife, “Goody Dearbarn”, was a member of the Hampton meetinghouse in 1650 and given a pew.  He had six children, mentioning “three daughters” in his will, and his sons Thomas, Henry and John by name.

The will of Godfrey Dearborn of Hampton, 1680

I Godfreey Dearbarne of Hampton in the provenc of New Hampshier in New England Being aged and Inferme of Body * * *

I give and Bequeath Unto Dorothy Dearbarn my loveing wife for the term of her life my Dwellinng House & Barne & orchyard and the Use and Improvementt of all my land both Areable land pastuer & marsh land for her Comfortable subsistenc Duering the terme of Her life, and the use and Improvementt of all my moveables within Dores and withoutt Duering the terme of her life

Itt I doe Give and bequeath Unto my Grand Child Ann Shatredg that now liveth with mee one two year old Heffer which she is to Receive att the End of Her time yt she is to live with mee

Itt I Doe Give Unto my sone Thomas Deararne my Dark Browne horse which I Use to Rid on

Itt I Doe Give Unto my son Thomas and Henry Dearbarn all the Rest of my Cattle thatt shall Remaine att the Decease of the longest liver of mee or my wife Excepting Sheep and swine which are other wayes Disposed of

Itt my will and pleasure is thatt all the Sheepe and swine that shall Remaine att my wives Decease shall be Equally Divided betwixt all my Grand Children yt shall be then living: and the Division to be made by my Executors & over seers

Itt I Doe Give and Bequeath Unto my Son John Dearbarn my House barne and house lott and all my land both Areable land pastuers medows & marshes and all Towne Rights and priveledges thereunto belonging and all my tooles and Carts & other Implements of Husbandry: and I Doe appointt my son John Dearbarne to bee my Exectuer to this my will and the Estate the which he is to Enter Upon and possesse att my wives Decease and to bee and Remaine to him and his Heires for Ever

Itt I Doe ordaine and Appointt my two Eldest sons Thomas Dearbarne and henry Dearbarne to bee my over seers to this my last will and testamentt whom I appointt to see to the managmentt of my Estate thatt my wife may have a Comfortable living outt of itt Duering the terme of her life

And for whatt Houshold stuff I shall leave thatt my wife shall have the use and Improvement thereof Duering the terme of her life, and then to bee Equally Devided Between my three Daughters only leaving itt to my wives liberty to Dispose of whatt was her owne before I maried Her viz one fether Bed & boulster & Rug & Coverlett and her Greatt Bible & her Red flannell petticoate to ye wife of John morse

And this my last will and testamentt I Conferme with my Hand & Seale Affixed therto this fourteenth Day of December in the year of our lord one thousand Six hundred & Eighty

His

Godfrey Dearbarn X [seale]

Mark & Seale

Signed Sealed & Declared

to bee ye last will of Godfrey

Dearbarn in pr of

Samuell Dalton senr Mehetable Dalton

This was sworn to ye 26 of agust: 86 by mehetable Dalton alice [alias] Simins befor mee

Henry green Justis Peace

Godfrey Dearborn had several famous descendants including General Henry Dearborn (1751 – 1829) of the Revolutionary War who also served as Secretary of War under President Thomas Jefferson.    The city of Dearborn, Michigan was named for General Dearborn, as well as Fort Dearborn (1803) in Chicago. During World War II another Fort Dearborn was established in what is now Odiorne Point State Park in New Hampshire.   

General Dearborn had a son, Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn (1783 – 1851) who was an Adjutant General of Massachusetts and a Massachusetts statesman.  He wrote many books on botany and was the first president of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.

Some DEARBORN genealogy resources:

Provincial Papers, Documents and Records Relating to the Province of New Hampshire from 1686 to 1722, edited by Nathaniel Boulton,  Volume 1, page 133

The New England Historic Genealogical Register, “Lincolnshire Origin of Exeter Settlers”, Volume 68, pages 68 – 72

History of the Town of Hampton, New Hamphire: From Its Settlement in 1638, to the Autumn of 1892, by Joseph Dow, 1893, pages 659 – 672

The Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, by Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin Davis, reprint 1972, pages 189 – 190.

An old book with some mistakes:

The Dearborns of Hampton, New Hampshire: Descendants of Godffrey Dearborn of Exeter and Hampton, by Joseph Dow, 1893  [available to view online at Archive.org, Ancestry.com  and the Hathi Trust website]

There is also a manuscript at the NEHGS library for a Dearborn family genealogy by Edmund Batchelder Dearborn on microfilm and in the manuscript department.  See CS71 .D285 for the microfilm and Mss C 2993 for the manuscript.  

NEHGS also has a compiled genealogy of the Dearborn family by Henry Alexander Scammell Deaborn (see above) Mss C 4653  as well as his personal papers and letters Mss 859

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My DEARBORN Genealogy:

Generation 1:  Godfrey Dearborn,  son of William Dearborn of Willoughby, Lincolnshire and his wife, Agnes Hay, was baptized  on 24 September 1603 in Willoughby and died 4 February 1686 in Hampton, New Hampshire; married first before 1632 to Unknown;  married second 25 November 1662 in Hampton to Dorothy Unknown, widow of Philemon Dalton.  Six children, and I descend from two.

Lineage A:

Generation 2:  Henry Dearborn, baptized on 22 March 1634, died 18 January 1725 in Hampton;  married on 10 January 1666 in Hampton to Elizabeth Marrian, daughter of John Marrian and Sarah Unknown.  She died 6 July 1716 in Hampton.  Seven children, and I descend from two.

Generation 3: John Dearborn, born 10 October 1666 in Hampton, died 22 November 1750 in Hampton;  married on 4 November 1689 in Hampton to Abigail Batchelder, daughter of Nathaniel Batchelder and Deborah Smith.  She was born 28 December 1667 in Hampton and died 14 November 1736 in North Hampton.  Eight children.

Generation 4:  Elizabeth Dearborn, born 31 August 1692 in Hampton, died 10 March 1770 in Rye, New Hampshire; married on 12 January 1716 in Hampton to  John Garland, son of Peter Garland and Sarah Taylor.  He was born 13 April 1692 in Hampton and died about 1741.  Two children.

Generation 5: Elizabeth Garland m. Richard Locke

Generation 6:  Simon Locke m. Abigail Mace

Generation 7: Richard Locke m. Margaret Welch

Generation 8: Abigail M. Locke m. George E. Batchelder 

Generation 9: George E. Batchelder m. Mary Katharine Emerson

Generation 10: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen 

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

Lineage B:

Generation 2: John Dearborn, born about 1641 in Hampton, and died 14 November 1731 in Hampton; married Mary Ward, daughter of Thomas Ward and Margaret Shaw. They had three children. 

Generation 3: Mary Dearborn, born 6 May 1678 in Hampton, married Stephen Batchelder on 25 August 1698 in Hampton. He was the son of Nathaniel Batchelder and Deborah Smith, born 8 March 1675/6 in Hampton and died 19 September 1748 in Hampton. They had seven children.

Generation 4:  Stephen Batchelder m. Jane Lamprey

Generation 5:  Nathaniel Batchelder m. Mary Longfellow

Generation 6:  Nathaniel Batchelder m. Mary Perkins

Generation 7: Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thomson

Generation 8: George E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke (see above) 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday – Updated DEARBORN of Exeter and Hampton, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 17, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/08/surname-saturday-updated-dearborn-of.html

LAMPREY of Hampton, New Hampshire

The Lamprey River Forest in Epping, New Hampshire

LAMBREL / LAMPRAILL / LAMPRILL / LAMPRELL / LAMPRY / LAMPREE / LAMPY

There are many family stories about my 9^th great grandfather, Henry Lamprey (about 1616 – 1700), and some of these have been disproved by Alicia Crane Williams in her Early New England Families Study Project for NEHGS.  These stories claim that Henry Lamprey and his wife came from London in 1653. They claim that Henry, a lower class cooper, married an heiress.

According to Joseph Dow’s History of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire, there was “a pretty story (of the truth of which there is little doubt) has been handed down from generation to generation that this little wife received for her marriage dowry a scale, containing her weight (one hundred twelve pounds) in gold. The chest which held the treasure is still preserved, being now [1893] owned by the children of the late Morris Lamprey, Esq. of St. Paull, Minn.”  No proof has been found for this pretty story.

The truth is that we barely know Lamprey’s wife, whose name appears as Julianne or Gillian in various records. We know that Lamprey lived in a house in Boston because of a deposition from 1697 where he stated he lived in a house during Bezaliel Payton’s lifetime (Payton died before 21 November 1651 when an inventory was taken on his estate). Lamprey was a co-signer on a mortgage in Boston on 20 December 1651.

Henry Lamprey was poor and in debt from the time he lived in Boston until his death in New Hampshire. There were court records for debts in Boston in 1652, and 1654, and 1660. There were court records for more debt in Hampton in 1662, 1668 and 1677.  In 1659 “Mr. Lampree & wife warned out of town” [Portsmouth]. By 1660 he removed to Hampton, New Hampshire, and he received a grant of 60 acres of land there in 1670.  He took the oath of allegiance at Hampton with Danll Lamprey and Benjamin Lamprey. 

Henry and Gillian Lamprey had eight children The first four born in England, the next two in Boston, and the rest in Hampton, New Hampshire:

     1.      Henry, born about 1641, died 1721 in Stratham, NH m. Elizabeth Mitchell

     2.      Unknown, born about 1644, died after 1668

     3.      Elizabeth, born about 1646, m. Daniel Dow

     4.      Daniel, born about 1649, died 1732 in Hampton

     5.      Mary, born 8 March 1653/4 in Boston, died before March 1657

     6.      Mary, born 19 March 1657/8 in Boston, died 7 June 1663 in Hampton

     7.      Benjamin, born 29 November, died about 1660

     8.      Benjamin, (see below)

I descend from the youngest child, Benjamin (1661 – 1751/2) who married first Jane Batchelder, mother of his twelve children. He married a second woman, Mary Unknown. He lived all his life in Hampton.

Children all born in Hampton: 

     1.       Benjamin, born 9 October 1688 in Hampton, m. Sarah Dow

     2.      Deborah, born 1690 in Hampton, m. Samuel Palmer

     3.      Daniel, born 23 February 1691/2, died 2 April 1718, unmarried

     4.      Sarah, born July 1695, m. Robert Moulton

     5.      Nathaniel, born before 26 June 1698, m. Ruth Palmer

     6.      Jane Lamprey (see below)

     7.      Henry Lamprey, born 25 February 1700/1, m. Esther Palmer

     8.      Elizabeth, born 18 February 1703, m. Jonathan Moulton

     9.      Abigail, born 3 May 1705, m. Josiah Batchelder  

    10.  John, born 17 August 1707, m. Mary Johnson

    11.  Hannah, born 13 November 1709, m. John Moulton

    12.  Morris, born 20 December 1711, m. Elizabeth Batchelder

I descend next from Jane Lamprey, baptized on 30 April 1699 and who married her first cousin Stephen Batchelder (1701 – 1748/9), son of Stephen Batchelder and Mary Dearborn.  They lived in North Hampton at North Hill. They had nine Batchelder children born in Hampton.

I have lived in New Hampshire for 37 years and have driven past the Lamprey River many times. I always thought it was named for the fish that inhabit these waters near the Great Bay.  However, I recently discovered it was named for a John Lamprey that lived nearby.  The Lamprey River runs through Epping, Lee, and Durham.  I'm not sure which John Lamprey this river was named after, but I'm sure he was a distant cousin! 

For more information on the LAMPREY family:

Early New England Families Study Project, 1641 - 1700 (Original Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013. (By Alicia Crane Williams, Lead Genealogist.)   https://www.americanancestors.org 

Sybil Noyes, Charles T. Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Portland, Me: 1928 - 29, 1972) , page 409

George Freeman Sanborn, Jr. and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, Vital Records of Hampton, New Hampshire to the End of the Year 1900, 2 Vols. (Boston: NEHGS, 1992)

Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 2, edited by William Richard Cutter, page 663

References to Henry Lamprey and Edmund Johnson and their descendants, prepared by Henry Cadle (Bethany, Missouri, 1893?)

Lamprey River Advisory Committee  https://www.lampreyriver.org/   

My LAMPREY genealogy:

Generation 1:  Henry Lamprey, born about 1616 in England, died 7 August 1700 in Hampton, New Hampshire; married about 1641 in England to Julianne (sp?) Unknown.  She died May 1670 in Hampton. Eight children.

Generation 2: Benjamin Lamprey, born 28 September 1661 in Hampton, died 23 January 1751/2 in Hampton; married on first 10 November 1687 in Hampton to Jane Batchelder, daughter of Nathaniel Batchelder and Deborah Smith. She was born 8 January 1669 in Hampton, and died 17 September 1735 in Hampton, and was the mother of twelve children. He married second to Mary Unknown.

Generation 3:  Jane Lamprey, baptized on 30 April 1699 in Hampton; married on 1 August 1721 in Hampton to Stephen Batchelder, her first cousin, son of Stephen Batchelder and Mary Dearborn. He was born 19 July 1701 in North Hampton, and died 6 March 1748/9 in North Hampton. Nine children.

Generation 4: Nathaniel Batchelder m. Mary Longfellow

Generation 5: Nathaniel Batchelder m. Mary Perkins

Generation 6: Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

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

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

Generation 9:  Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

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

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo,” LAMPREY of Hampton, New Hampshire”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 10, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/08/lamprey-of-hampton-new-hampshire.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday – CLARKE of Newbury, Massachusetts

Newburyport Custom House
today it is the Maritime Museum

Don’t believe what you see on the internet about Nathaniel Clarke’s parents and ancestors, his origins are completely unknown.  There are several possible candidates for his father, including three different Thomas Clarkes in Ipswich, Massachusetts.

The first record of Nathaniel Clark (born? – 1690) is his marriage to Elizabeth Somersby in Newbury, Massachusetts on 23 November 1663.  The marriage was recorded by Joshua Coffin in a letter stating “Nathaniel Clarke and Elizabeth Somerby were married in the house occupied … by Tristram Coffin, step father of the bride in 1663” [ Nathaniel Clarke and his Descendants, 1902, page 12]

His first land deed was recorded in 1664.  He lived near the Merrimack River, in what is now Newburyport, just about where the corner of Water and Lime Streets are now.  He owned a wharf and a warehouse northeast of the custom house.  He was listed in records as a cordwainer or tanner. [Family History of New Hampshire, by Stearns, Volume 4, pages 1697 -1697) He served many elected positions in Newbury such as constable, tythingman, and selectman in 1682, 1687, and 1688.  He had eleven children with his wife Elizabeth Somerby. He was mentioned as “The Honorable Nathaniel Clarke” in Newbury records.  Nathaniel Clarke’s will included mentions of property valued at 714 pounds, including two dwelling houses and seven lots of land. 

Again, don’t believe the internet that Nathaniel Clark, Sr. died at sea.  The famous Judge Sewall mentioned in his diary on 29 August 1690 “Nathan’ Clarke of Newbury buried this week, died Aug’ 25.” And also mentions seeing Nathaniel at the funeral of Capt. Gerrish at Salem, on 11 August 1687.  His son, Nathaniel Clarke, Jr. is recorded in the Newbury deaths as “d. on board the sh. Six Friends, soon after sail, in the expedit. Against Quebec, 25 Aug. 1690, from an injury, aged 46”.   It is coincidence that the son, Nathaniel, Jr. died at sea on the day of his father’s burial, but not to be confused with his father. 

On board the ship Six Friends was also Nathaniel, Jr.’s future step father, the Rev. John Hale of Beverly, who wrote his will, which was signed and witnessed.  Mr. Hale gave the will to Nathaniel, Jr.’s father-in-law Peter Toppan, who never gave it to the probate court. However, there is a deposition on file at the Salem Court House by Rev. John Hale and his cousin Henry Somerby.  [NEHGS Register, Volume 46, pages 188 – 189].   

I descend from Nathaniel Clarke, Sr.’s son Henry Clarke (1673 – 1749) who owned land in Newbury, but removed to Greenland, New Hampshire.  In deeds and other records he was mentioned as gentleman, lieutenant, and cooper.  He was married first on 7 November 1695 in Newbury to Elizabeth Greenleaf, his second cousin, and second in 1724 to Mary Peirce.  In 1724 his first wife, Elizabeth, eldest son and three daughters all died of throat distemper within the same week. 

 Over the years Henry Clarke was a grantor or grantee on about twenty-five deeds in Essex County before moving to New Hampshire around 1731.  Henry Clarke, Sr., and his sons Enoch and Henry, Jr., signed a petition in 1739 in an attempt to annex Greenland to the province of Massachusetts.

In the third generation I descend from his daughter Mercy Clarke (1714 – 1798) who married Jonathan Longfellow.  They had twelve children, half born in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, and the rest born in Nottingham, New Hampshire.

My CLARKE genealogy:

Generation 1:  Nathaniel Clark, died on 25 August 1690 in Newbury, Massachusetts; married on 23 November 1663 to Elizabeth Somerby, daughter of Henry Somerby and Judith Greenleaf.  She was born 1 November 1646 in Newbury and died 15 March 1716 in Exeter, New Hampshire.  She married second to Rev. John Hale as his third wife. They had eleven children all born and recorded in Newbury:

1.       Nathaniel b. 5 Dec. 1664, died 6 June 1665

2.       Nathaniel b. 13 Mar 1666, died October 1690 at sea, married Elizabeth Toppan

3.       Thomas b. 9 Feb 1668, died 25 Apr. 1722, married Sarah Noyes and Lydia Moodey

4.       John b. 24 Jan 1670 died 25 July 1705, married Elizabeth Woodbridge

5.       Henry (see below)

6.       Daniel b. 16 Dec. 1675, died before 1709

7.       Sarah b. 17 Jan. 1677, died 25 Aug. 1741, married Nicholas Gilman

8.       Josiah b. 7 May 1682, died 29 Apr. 1717, married Sarah Woodwell

9.       Elizabeth b. 15 May 1684, died 24 Jan. 1762, married 1st Rev. Robert Hale, 2nd Col. John Gilman

10.   Judith b. 3 Jan. 1686, died 1763, married Thomas Jenkins

11.   Mary b. 25 Mar. 1689, died before 21 Aug. 1690

Generation 2: Henry Clarke, born 5 July 1673 in Newbury, died 9 June 1749 in Greenland, New Hampshire; married first on 7 November 1695 in Newbury to Elizabeth Greenleaf, the daughter of Stephen Greenleaf and Elizabeth Gerrish.  They were second cousins, both descended from Edmund Greenleaf (1574 – 1671) and Sarah Moore (1588 – 1663) early settlers at Newbury, Massachusetts.  He married second to Mary Pierce.  He had twelve children with Elizabeth, all born in Newbury:

1.       Stephen b. 21 Feb. 1697, died 1724

2.       Henry b. 21 Nov. 1698

3.       Judith b. 15 Aug 1700

4.       Elizabeth b. about 1701, married Daniel Thing

5.       Sarah b. 7 Aug. 1702

6.       Eunice b. 15 Oct. 1704

7.       John b. 20 July 1706, died 25 July 1706

8.       Mary b. 5 Aug. 1707, married Samuel Page

9.       Enoch b. 1 Sept 1709, died 1759, married Hannah, and Mary

10.   Anna b. 20 Feb. 1711

11.   Mercy (see below)

12.   Henry, b. 23 Apr. 1717, married Kezia Brickett, Catherine Bean, and Abigail Francis

Generation 3:  Mercy Clarke, born 26 December 1714 in Nottingham (now Deerfield), New Hampshire, died 1798 in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia; married on 28 October 1731 in Nottingham (now Deerfield) to Jonathan Longfellow, so of Nathan Longfellow and Mary Greene.  He was born 23 May 1714 in Nottingham (now Deerfield), and died 1774 in Machias, Maine.  Twelve children.

Generation 4: Mary Longfellow m. Nathaniel Batchelder

Generation 5: Nathaniel Batchelder m. Mary Perkins

Generation 6: Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

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

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

Generation 9:  Carrie Maud Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

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

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday – CLARKE of Newbury, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 3, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/08/surname-saturday-clarke-of-newbury.html: accessed [access date]).