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

Surname Saturday ~ ALLERTON , a Mayflower Passenger

ALLERTON

My 11^th great grandfather, Isaac Allerton (1586 – 1659) arrived in New England on board the Mayflower in 1620 with his pregnant wife and three children.  His origins are unknown.  There was another passenger on board named John Allerton, but their kinship is unknown.  Isaac’s sister Sarah was married to fellow Mayflower passenger Digory Priest (they were married on the same day as Isaac and his wife, Mary Norris).   He was the fifth man to sign the Mayflower compact, listed after Carver, Bradford, Winslow and Brewster.  Only Brewster and Allerton used the prefix “Mr.”

Upon arriving in Cape Cod bay, many of the Mayflower passengers fell ill, and half died that first winter including John Allerton, and Isaac’s wife, Mary, and their new infant child born on board the ship.  Isaac was left a widower with three young children who survived the winter.  He remarried to Fear Brewster, daughter of Elder William Brewster, in 1623.

Isaac Allerton acted as a business agent in the colony’s dealing with the Plymouth Company in England.  He was named assistant governor to Bradford until 1624.  He returned to England in 1626 to obtain supplies for the colony and to renegotiate their agreements with the investors on paying off their debt. He returned again to England in 1628 for a grant for a trading post in Kennebeck, Maine.  He made  a third voyage in 1630, and he was dismissed as the agent for the colony for mishandling their funds.

In 1632 the trading post on the Kennebec River was destroyed by the French.  He set up another trading post at what is now Machias, and he began fishing out of Marblehead.  He is considered one of the founders of Marblehead, where he lived briefly.   He was persuaded to leave Marblehead for his religious views.  The post at Machias was destroyed by the French in 1634.  He removed from Massachusetts to New Haven, Connecticut, where he lived until his death in 1659.

Isaac Allerton is an ancestor to Presidents Zachary Taylor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Remember Allerton, my 10^th great grandmother, was only about five years old when she was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620. She lost an infant sibling and her mother before they settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts.  Her father and two other siblings survived.  She married Moses Maverick, and had six children. She died sometime between the baptism of her child in 1652 and 1656 when her husband remarried to Eunice, the widow of Thomas Roberts.   I descend from her third child, Abigail Maverick (1645 – 1686), my 9^th great grandmother.

Some ALLERTON resources:

(There are many, many resources available on Mayflower passengers, but these two books are the best in my opinion)

The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620 - 1633, by Robert Charles Anderson, 1995, Volume 1, pages 35 – 39 for a sketch on Isaac Allerton and his children.

Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Seventeen: Isaac Allerton [one of the Silver books series], 1998, pages 1 – 3 for Isaac Allerton, pages 4 – 6 for Moses Maverick and Remember Allerton, and pages 9 – 10 for Abigail Maverick and Samuel Ward.  Martha Ward and John Tuttle are outlined on pages 26 – 27, and Martha Tuttle and Mark Haskell are on pages 65 – 66.

My ALLERTON genealogy:

Generation 1:  Isaac Allerton, born about 1586 in England, died between 1 and 15 February 1659, New Haven, Connecticut; married on 4 November 1611 in Leyden, Holland to Mary Norris, daughter of Edward Norris and Elizabeth, his wife.  She was born 1587 in Newbury, Berkshire, England, and died 25 February 1621 on board the Mayflower, off the coast of Cape Cod, New England. They had four children.

Generation 2:  Remember Allerton, born about 1614 in Leyden, Holland, died before 22 October 1656; married before 6 May 1635 in Marblehead, Massachusetts to Moses Maverick, son of John Maverick and Mary Gye.  He was baptized 3 November 1611 in Huish, Devonshire, England.  Six children.

Generation 3:  Abigail Maverick m. Samuel Ward

Generation 4:  Martha Ward m. John Tuthill

Generation 5:  Martha Tuthill m. Mark Haskell

Generation 6:   Lucy Haskell m. Jabez Treadwell

Generation 7:   Nathaniel Treadwell m. Mary Hovey

Generation 8:   Jabez Treadwell m. Betsey Jillings Homan

Generation 9:   Eliza Ann Treadwell m. Abijah Hitchings

Generation 10:  Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 11:  Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ ALLERTON , a Mayflower Passenger”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 29, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/07/surname-saturday-allerton-mayflower.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ MAVERICK of Dorchester, Massachusetts

A Map of Boston Harbor
Please note the locations of Noddle's Island,
Thompson's Island and Dorchester 

MAVERICK / MADERICKE / MATHERICKE / MAUERRICKE

John Maverick, my 11^th great grandfather, graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from Exeter College at Oxford University on 8 July 1599, and with a Master’s degree on 7 July 1603.  At the time of his second degree he was already an ordained minister at the town of Exeter. He was also called to be the rector at Beaworthy, in Devon, until he resigned just before coming to New England with the Winthrop fleet.  He arrived on the ship Mary and John on 30 May 1630.  John Maverick became a freeman in Dorchester on 18 May 1631, and he was the minister there until he died in 1636.

John Maverick married Mary Gye at Islington in 1600.  She had a long royal ancestry stretching back to the Plantagenets sketched out in the New England Historic Genealogical Register Volume 115, pages 248 – 253.  They had a son, Samuel, who married the widow Amias (Cole) Thompson, who was the wife of David Thompson (1592 – 1628), my 9^th great grandfather, who lived on Thompson’s Island in Boston Harbor.  Another son, Moses, was my 10^th great grandfather.

Moses Maverick’s first wife was my 10^th great grandmother.  Her name was Remember Allerton, and she was a five year old passenger on the Mayflower, along with her parents and siblings. Moses owned land in Dorchester, which he sold and removed to Salem in 1634.  He lived in Marblehead, contiguous to Salem, in 1635.  He rented Noddle’s Island in Boston Harbor, now known as East Boston near the airport. There is still a Maverick subway station in East Boston, and a Maverick Square. It’s interesting that two of my ancestors owned islands in Boston Harbor.

Samuel and Moses Maverick were notorious slave owners, both Indians and Africans.  The first colonial slave ship was built in Marblehead in 1636, and Moses Maverick was probably an investor.  Moses was part of the effort to split the peninsula of Marblehead off from Salem, and he was one of the first Marblehead selectmen.   There are many stories and books about Samuel and Moses Maverick so I won’t repeat them here.  They are some of my most notorious “black sheep” ancestors. You can read more about Samuel and Moses Maverick and their slaves at Bill West’s blog post here:  http://westinnewengland.blogspot.com/2012/01/thomas-slave.html

Moses and Remember had seven children. Their daughter, Abigail Maverick (1645 – 1686) is my 9^th great grandmother.  She was the first wife of Samuel Ward of Salem, and they had seven children.  Major Samuel Ward died on the Expedition to Quebec, Canada led by Sir William Phips.  This was a fleet of 30 ships from Boston, and about two thousand men, which suffered a great loss.  Four ships sank and many men died.  Some of the surviving men brought back smallpox, which spread throughout Boston and Dorchester, killing another 57 people.

Some MAVERICK resources:

The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620 - 1633, by Robert Charles Anderson, 1995, Volume II, pages 1241 – 1243 for a sketch of John Maverick and his children.

Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Seventeen: Isaac Allerton [one of the Silver books series], 1998, pages 4 – 6 for Moses Maverick and Remember Allerton, and pages 9 – 10 for Abigail Maverick and Samuel Ward.  Martha Ward and John Tuttle are outlined on pages 26 – 27, and Martha Tuttle and Mark Haskell are on pages 65 – 66. 

Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies of the United States, by Gary Boyd Roberts, 2008, page 377.

Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, by Douglas Richardson and Kimball G. Everingham, 1990, page 370.

There is an entire blog about Samuel Maverick at this link [unknown author]:  http://samuelmaverick.blogspot.com/

My MAVERICK genealogy:

Generation 1:  John Maverick, son of Peter Maverick and Dorothy Tucke, baptized 28 October 1578 in Awliscombe, Devonshire, England, died 3 February 1636 at Dorchester, Massachusetts;  married on 28 October 1600 to Mary Gye, daughter of Robert Gye and Drace Dowrish.  She died after 9 October 1666 in Massachusetts. Nine children.

Generation 2:  Moses Maverick, baptized 3 November 1611 in Huish, Devonshire, England and died 28 January 1686 in Marblehead, Massachusetts; married before 6 May 1635 in Marblehead to Remember Allerton, daughter of Isaac Allerton and Mary Norris (Mayflower passengers).  She was born about 1614 in Leyden, Holland and died before 22 October 1656.  Six children.

Generation 3: Abigail Maverick, baptized 12 January 1645 in Salem, Massachusetts, died before January 1686; married about 1662 in Ipswich to Samuel Ward, son of Samuel Ward and Mary Hilliard.  He was baptized 18 November 1638 in Hingham, Massachusetts and died between 30 July 1689 and 12 March 1691 during the Expedition to Quebec, Canada.

Generation 4:  Martha Ward m. John Tuthill

Generation 5:  Martha Tuthill m. Mark Haskell

Generation 6: Lucy Haskell m. Jabez Treadwell

Generation 7: Nathaniel Treadwell m. Mary Hovey

Generation 8: Jabez Treadwell m. Betsey Jillings Homan

Generation 9: Eliza Ann Treadwell m. Abijah Hitchings

Generation 10: Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 11: Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “ Surname Saturday ~ MAVERICK of Dorchester, Massachusetts“, Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 22, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/07/surname-saturday-maverick-of-dorchester.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ WARD of Hingham and Charlestown, Massachusetts

WARD

Samuel Ward, my 10^th great grandfather, was an early settler at Hingham, Massachusetts.  He might have been the brother of the Henry Ward who was buried there on 15 May 1642.  His first wife was Mary Hilliard, who died at Hingham 28 November 1638 ten days after giving birth to my 9^th great grandfather, Samuel, Jr.  Mary had given four children to Samuel, Sr.  His second wife was Frances Pitcher, the widow of a Mr. Reycroft.  Frances died in 1690 and is buried at Copp’s Hill Burial Ground in Boston.

Samuel first owned land in Hingham that is now part of the town of Hull, Massachusetts. He removed to Charlestown where he owned a lot of land and was known as “Mr.”  He died on 31 August 1682 in Charlestown, and his will mentions his wife, Frances, his son Samuel (and Samuel’s children), son-in-law Isaac Lobdell, and also his daughter Mary and her husband Ambrose Gale (brother of my 8^th great grandfather Edmund Gale (1640- 1716) of Beverly, Massachusetts).  He left an island between Hingham and Hull to Harvard College  [Middlesex County Probate, File #23742].  Samuel was buried at the Phipps Street Burial Ground in Charlestown.

His son, Samuel Ward, Jr., my 9^th great grandfather, died in the battle against Quebec in 1690 serving under Sir William Phips.  He married very well, first to my 9^th great grandmother, Abigail Maverick, the daughter of Moses Maverick and Mayflower passenger Remember Allerton.  His second wife was Sarah Bradstreet, widow of Richard Hubbard, and daughter of Governor Simon Bradstreet and the poet Anne Dudley (she was the daughter of Governor Thomas Dudley).   Their daughter, Martha Ward, my 8^th great grandmother, married John Tuthill of Ipswich in 1689. 

Some WARD resources:

Ethel Farrington Smith, “Seventeenth Century Hull, Massachusetts, and her People”, New England Historic Genealogical Society Register, Volume 143, October 1989, pages 346 – 349.

Early Families of Hull, Massachusetts, by Ethel Farrington Smith, 2007, pages 197 – 199.

The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Massachusetts, by Thomas Bellows Wyman, Volume 2, pages 993 – 994.

My WARD genealogy:

Generation 1: Samuel Ward, born about 1605 in England, died 30 August 1682 in Charlestown, Massachusetts; married first to Mary Hilliard. She died on 28 November 1638 in Hingham, Massachusetts.  He married second to Frances Pitcher, widow of Mr. Reycroft.

Generation 2: Samuel Ward, son of Samuel Ward and Mary Hilliard, baptized 18 November 1638 in Hingham, died between 30 July 1689 and 12 March 1691 during the Expedition to Quebec, Canada under Sir William Phips;  he married first to Abigail Maverick, daughter of Moses Maverick and Remember Allerton (they had seven children).  She was baptized 12 January 1645 in Salem and died before January 1686.  He married second to Sarah Bradstreet, widow of Richard Hubbard, and daughter of Simon Bradstreet and Anne Dudley.

Generation 3:  Martha Ward, born 16 September 1672 in Salem, died 17 August 1723 in Ipswich; married first on 3 December 1689 in Ipswich to John Tuthill, son of Simon Tuthill and Sarah Cogswell.  He was born 22 April 1666 in Ipswich, and died 27 February 1715 in Ipswich.  They had eleven children.  She married second to George Hart on 10 November 1722 in Ipswich.

Generation 4:  Martha Tuthill m. Mark Haskell

Generation 5:  Lucy Haskell m. Jabez Treadwell

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 ~ WARD of Hingham and Charlestown, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 15, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/07/surname-saturday-ward-of-hingham-and.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ PAGE of Hampton, New Hampshire

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

PAGE

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

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

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

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

For more PAGE information:

History of Hampton, New Hampshire by Joseph Dow

The New England Ancestry of Dana Converse Backus, page 118

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

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

My PAGE genealogy:

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

Lineage A:

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

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

Generation 4: Margaret Sanborn m. Moses Sleeper

Generation 5:  Hepzibah Sleeper m. Samuel Lane

Generation 6: Sarah Lane m. Elisha Batchelder

Generation 7: Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

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

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

Generation 10: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

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

Lineage B:

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

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

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

Generation 5:  David Batchelder m. Elizabeth Swett

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

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

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Martha (Tuthill) Haskell, d. 1763, Ipswich, Massachusetts

This tombstone was photographed at the Old Burying Ground in Ipswich, Massachusetts

Here lyes ye Body of

Mrs MARTHA HASKELL

Wife to Deacon

MARK HASKELL Who

died May 15, 1763 in

ye 73 yr of Her Age

Martha Tuthill, my 7th great grandmother, daughter of John Tuthill and Martha Ward, was born 21 November 1690 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and died there on 15 May 1763.  She was the great grand daughter of Remember Allerton (about 1614 - 1656) who was a five year old passenger on the Mayflower in 1620.

The marriage intention of Martha Tuthill and Mark Haskell was recorded on 14 January 1709/10 in Gloucester, Massachusetts.  Mark Haskell was the son of Mark Haskell (1658 - 1691) and Elizabeth Giddings.  He was born on 16 September 1687 in Gloucester, and died 25 August 1775 in Ipswich.  Mark and Martha had thirteen children born between 1710 and 1732.  I descend from their daughter, Lucy (1715 - 1789) who married Jabez Treadwell (my 6th great grandparents).

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Planning a Genealogy Photo Trip to Ipswich, Massachusetts

Last week we took a trip to Ipswich, Massachusetts.  I had four goals four this trip:

1. )      Visit the Historical Society to learn about their genealogy resources

2. )      Visit the Whipple House, built by an ancestor

3. )      Visit the 1640 Hart House restaurant, built by someone in my family tree

4. )      Photograph lots of ancestral gravestones at the Old North Burial Ground

This is what I learned…  It pays to use the internet before going on a little trip like this… Or to pick up the phone and ask questions.  Did I meet my four goals? 

1.)    Ipswich Historical Society has a museum you can learn more about at http://www.ipswichmuseum.org/ to find the hours and days it is open.  It operates tours of both the Whipple House and the Heard House.  Also, it is right next door to the Ipswich Visitor Center (bonus points for visitors). You can get a lot done here in one place, but they also have a staff genealogist who just happened to meet me at the door.  I didn’t have an appointment, this was just serendipity.  She prefers appointments for genealogy questions (this is stated on the website!), so you need to call ahead.  Or queries are answered for $20 per hour, one hour minimum.   Her best advice to me was to explore the historical records at the Ipswich Public Library.  I'll have to make a special research trip to Ipswich at some other date.

This is only a partial view of the map of Ipswich, Mass

with houses and early land grants marked by surnames.

It was a large map hanging just inside the entrance to the Ipswich Museum

Also, at the entrance to the museum was this great map of the original proprietors of Ipswich, Massachusetts.  You just might find your ancestor on this map.  The society does not have copies of this map on a poster or brochure.  Just inside the front foyer was the gift shop, where I bought this great book about Ipswich, too.

American Town: The History of Ipswich, Massachusetts

by Alan Pearsall,  Ipswich, Mass: Ebsco Publishing, 2009

2.)    So, we had a great tour of both houses, but the Whipple House was first.  It was a private tour since it was a Friday morning and we were the only patrons.  This was wonderful and I was able to ask lots of questions.  Photos were allowed without flash.  Perfect!

Above is the back of the Whipple House, and below is the front door 

Whipple House web page:

http://ipswichmuseum.drupalgardens.com/exhibitions-collections/whipple-house

Captain John Whipple (1595 – 1669) built the Whipple House.  He is my 10^th great grandfather.  His daughter Sarah Whipple (1641 – 1681) is my 9^th great grandmother, married to Joseph Goodhue.  As you can see, I don’t have a long line of Whipple ancestors in Ipswich!

If you are interested in photographing First Period Homes (before 1725) or your ancestor's home in Ipswich, you can pick up the following brochure at the Visitor Center or at the Historical Society. It was produced by the Ipswich Historical Commision:

3.)    After the Historical Society we found the 1640 Hart House restaurant.  http://1640harthouse.com/   It wasn't dinner time, so we didn't go inside.  This is something else to add to the agenda for trip number 2 to Ipswich.   I took some photos of the outside, and we’ll save the fancy dinner for the next time we are in town.  It was built by Thomas Hart, who was an indentured servant in Boston until 1637.  He came to Ipswich and built this home, which was passed down in the family for generations, and added onto over the years.   Some of the original Keeper’s Room was removed from the interior and installed as an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.   So does that make it a good excuse for Trip number 3?

Thomas Hart (1611 – 1674) had a son named Thomas Hart (about 1640 – 1717), and a grandson named George Hart (1669 – 1753) who married Martha Ward (1672 – 1723), my first cousin 9 generations removed.

4. )    The best information for Ipswich History and cemetery guides is at the website of the Ipswich Historical Commission (not the Historical Society) at https://historicipswich.wordpress.com/   

On this cemetery web page, there are links to each of the old cemeteries in Ipswich.  You can print them out (or download them).  I did both, so I could use my iPad mini or my paper copy in the cemetery.  Actually the paper copies worked out best because I could circle the spots on the map where my ancestors were buried, and I could write notes as to who was buried where.  There is also an eBook version.

For the Old North Burying Ground there is a database of graves I saved as a text document.  I used this to see who was buried here, and (thank goodness!) there is a list of epitaphs for those stones that are now almost illegible.   I printed out all the maps.  The cemetery is divided into eight sections, and all the graves are numbered according to the database of graves in the text document.

This was a very easy system.  I had TWELVE pages of graves to find and photograph.  I had highlighted all the direct ancestors, and we found all of the directs, and many, many of the other graves.  I will have to go back to find them all.  We spent about an hour and took over 150 photographs of WHIPPLE, TREADWELL, WARD, HASKELL, and other surnames.  Jackpot!

Above is my paper version of the Old North Burying Ground sections C and D map

and below is the downloaded version from the website onto my iPad Mini

Below I made a text document of the locations and epitaphs, 

cut and pasted from the version on the website.  

Direct ancestors were highlighted. 

I checked them off as we photographed each gravestone. 

I would recommend this system to anyone exploring the Old North Burying Ground.  Bring your hiking boots, since it is very large and built on a very steep hill. Hopefully your ancestors aren't buried at the top of the hill or you’ll have to climb a scary set of granite steps.  Don’t ask me how they carried coffins up there 250 years ago.  I don’t know the answer to that!

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Planning a Genealogy Photo Trip to Ipswich, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 6, 2013, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/09/planning-genealogy-photo-trip-to.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ Tuttle/Tootill/Tuthill

My ancestor Symon Tootill/Tuttle/Tuthill never lived in the New World.  His wife, Isabell Wells, came with her sons, William, John and Richard, on the Planter in 1635.  There is no further record of her in New England, so she probably did not live long after the voyage.  In genealogy we often laugh about the “myth of the three brothers who arrived in America”, but this is the third time I’ve written about three brothers arriving in the New World.  I descend from The brother John, and also from their sister, Dorothy, who married John Bill in England and also came to New England.

Symon Tootill was born about 1560 in Ringstead, Northamptonshire, England.  He was mentioned in his father’s and also in his father-in-law’s wills.  Simon’s will mentions his sons Richard, Thomas, John, Simon and William.  He was buried at Ringstead on 15 June 1630.  Simon’s will was dated 19 December 1627 and proved at Northampton:

In the Name of God Amen The nyneteeneth Day of December in the yeare of our Lord god one thousand six hundred twentie seaven I Symon Tuttell of Ringsted in the Countie of Northton yeoman strong in minde and of good and pfect memory thanks and praise be to allmighty god and weighing and considering the frailety of mans life and the uncertainty of this world doe make and ordayne this my psent Testamt contayning therein my last will in mann[er] and forme as followeth that ys to say ffirst I [c]om[m]end and com[m]itt my soule into the hands of Allmighty god Creator assuredly believing through the onely meritte of Jesus Christe my saviour to be made ptaker of Everlasting life And my body I comitt to the earth from whence it came to be buried [torn] Christon burialls at the discrecion of my Executrix hereafter named, hopeing assuredly to receive the same again at the gene[ral] resurreccion not a mortall but an immortall and glorious body.

And now as concerning those lands and goodes wch god of his goodness hath lent me I give and bequeath unto Isabell my wife All that moytie or prcell of land meadows and com[m]ons wth theire and each of theire appurtenances wch ys due to me out of the land formerly [?] conveyed to my Edlest sonne Richard and the house messuages or ten[emen]ts wherein I now dwell together with all the houses yards lands meadows pastures com[m]ons comodities and appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging or in any wise appurteyning and also All those landes meadows and comons wth thappurtances wch I lately had an purchased of Thomas Holding Edward Asin [?] al[ia]s James, and of Will[ia]m Sillyman and of each of them To ahve and to hold the same for and during the terme of her naturall life and after the naturall death of decease of y saide wyfe I give and bequeath all and singular the said mentioned lands and premisses wth their and each of their appurtenances unto Will[ia]m Tuttell my youngest sonne to have and to holde the same unto the saide Will[ia]m Tuttell and to the heirs of his Body Lawfully to be begotten, and for want of such yssue to the second sonne of my sonne Richard and to his heirs for ever

Itm I give and bequeath unto John Tuttle my second sonne all that dwelling house wherein Mr Wrothfall now dwelleth wth all the houses thereunto belonging and the yarde and orchard thereunto adjoyning, and sometyme in the tenure or occupason of John White to have and to hold the same unto the saide John Tuttell and to his heirs and assignes for ever Itm I give and bequeath unto Isabel my said wyfe the one halfe [torn] that meadow wch I lately purchased of Joane Bateman wydow to have And to hold the same for and during her naturall life, And I give and bequeath the other Mytie or half of the same meadowe to my sonne Will[ia]m to enter [there] upon ymmediately after my decease, and I likewise give and bequeath unto my said sonne Will[ia]m the other Moytie of the same meadow to enter thereuppon after the naturall decease of my said wyfe to have and to hold the same unto him the said Will[ia]m and to the heires of his bodye lawfully to be begotten, so as he my said sonne [re]linquishes the twentie poundes given to him by his grandfather John Welles in and by his last will and testamet and the fyve pounds wch fell to him by the death of his brother Thomas Tuttell and for want of such issue of the body of the said Will[ia]m I give and bequeath the same meadowe unto the eldest sonne of my said sonne Richard and to his heirs for ever and I doe gie to my sonne Richard [illegible] halfe [illegible] the lord mordant [?] on both sides of it.

Itm I give to my sone John and his heirs for ever one dole of meadow [of?] forty foote in same which I purchased of Eusache Morton Thomas Ekins [?]. Itm I give to my sunn John his Daugher Abigaill fiue pounds at the age of fifteene years: Itm I give and bequeath unto the poore of Ringsted aforesaid xxs. to be distributed amongst the poorest sorte at the discreson of the minister and churchwardens. Itm I give to my godchildren xxs. apeece. Itm I give to my sonne Will[ia]m my best bedsted wth the bedding and furniture thereunto belonging, or therewith usd, the table in the hall wth the frame, halfe a duzzen of framd stooles, the yron barres on the chimneys wth the hookes and hangings the bed whereon he lyeth my best brasse pan my best brasse pott, my mault mill as now yt standeth, my bolting [twine and yeelding?] fatt, the barr of yron and the package [?], and I will that all my sheepe be equally devided betweene my said wife and my said sonne Will[ia]m wth the increase thereof so long as he keepeth himselfe unmarried. Itm I give and bequeath unto my said sonne Richard and to his heirs for ever one acre of leyes wch I purchased of Mr Carier, and half a dusson sheep. Itm I forgive [missing] my said sonne John thirtie pounds. Itm I give more unto my said sonne Will[ia]m my great cubbord in the [missing] the greater chest, two of the biggest chaires, and the chest that standeth by the bedsted. Itm I give untomy grand [childre]n xxs. a peece Divided allwaies And I will that all the said Movable goods herein given to my sonne Will[ia]m carefully to apply and husband his mothers business to the best of his power in [missing] of the person herein bequeathed pformed and my funeral expenses discharged. I give & bequeath unto Isabel my said wife [missing] and to be executrix of this my psent testamt and for the better execuson thereof I order [missing] them supervisores thereof and [missing]s. apeece [missing] and seal the day and year above written.

There is an additional line written in different penmanship (Abigail was born in 1628)

"to my sunn John, his daughter Abigail, five pounds at the age of fifteene years."

The will was signed by Simon T.... (the paper of this will is described as fragile and broken)

Simon’s son John Tuttle came to America on board the Planter with his wife and her three children by a first marriage (two of the Lawrence daughters are my 9x great grandmothers), and his brothers William and Richard and their families.  He settled in the town of Ipswich, Massachusetts. In 1651 he returned to England and then to Carrickfergus in Northern Ireland.   On 6 April 1657 his wife, Joan, wrote that he had died there on 30 December 1656.  She probably died there, too. I descend from their son, Simon Tuthill, my 9x great grandmother, who settled in Ipswich and Lynn, Massachusetts.

My lineage from the Tuttles:

Lineage A:

Generation 1:  Symon Tootill, born about 1560 in Ringstead, Northampton, England, died before 15 June 1630; married about 1592 to Isabel Wells, daughter of John Wells.  She was born about 1565 and died about 1635 probably in New Haven, Connecticut. Six children.

Generation 2: Dorothy Tuttle, born about 1592 in England and died about December 1638 in Boston, Massachusetts; married about 1612 in England to John Bill, son of John Bill and Ann Mountford. Five children.

Generation 3: Philip Bill, born April 1629 in Ringstead, died 8 July 1689 in New London, Connecticut; married 8 July 1689 in Groton, Connecticut to Hannah Waite, daughter of Samuel Waite and Mary Ward.  She was born about 1625 probably in Finchingfield, Essex, England, and died about 1709 in Groton, Connecticut.  Eight children.

Generation 4: Samuel Bill m. Mercy Houghton

Generation 5: Ebenezer Bill m. Patience Ingraham

Generation 6: Asahel Bill m. Mary Rand

Generation 7: Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill m. Isabella Lyons

Generation 8: Professor Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 9: Isabella Lyons Bill m.  Albert Munroe Wilkinson

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

Lineage B:

Generation 2: Dorothy’s brother, John Tuttle married Joan Antrobus in 1627 in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England.  She was the widow of Thomas Lawrence, who died on 20 March 1625.  Joan and Thomas Lawrence are my 10x great grandparents on my maternal side. John was born about 1656 and died on 30 December 1656 in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland.  They had five children together.

Generation 3: Simon Tuthill, born 1637 in Ipswich, Massachusetts; died 11 January 1691 in Lynn, Massachusetts; married about 1663 to Sarah Cogswell, daughter of John Cogswell and Elizabeth Thompson. Twelve children.

Generation 4: John Tuthill, born 22 April 1666 in Ipswich, died 27 Feb 1715 in Ipswich; married on 3 December 1689 in Ipswich to Martha Ward, daughter of Samuel Ward and Abigail Maverick.  She was born 16 September 1672 in Salem, Massachusetts, and died 17 August 1723 in Ipswich. Seven children.

Generation 5: Martha Tuthill m. Mark Haskell

Generation 6: Lucy Haskell m. Jabez Treadwell

Generation 7: Nathaniel Treadwell m. Mary Hovey

Generation 8: Jabez Treadwell m. Betsey Jillings Homan

Generation 9: Eliza Ann Treadwell m. Abijah Hitchings

Generation 10: Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 11: Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

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

On 28 March 2013 the Fieldstone Common internet radio show featured an interview with Ava Chamberlain, the author of The Notorious Elizabeth Tuttle: Marriage Murder and Madness in the Family of Jonathan Edwards.  Elizabeth Tuttle was the daughter of William Tuttle, Symon and Isabel's son, and niece to Dorothy Tuttle, my 8th great grandmother.  You can find a link to the podcast (archived version) of this interview at the Fieldstone Common blog:

http://www.fieldstonecommon.com/show-notes-the-notorious-elizabeth-tuttle-with-ava-chamberlain/

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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo