Tombstone Tuesday ~ Rev. John Fiske, founder, buried in Chelmsford, Massachusetts

This tombstone was photographed at the Forefather's Burial Ground in Chelmsford, Massachusetts

THIS CENOTAPH IS ERECTED

BY THE FISKE FAMILY

OF CHELMSFORD

TO THE MEMORY OF THE 

REV. JOHN FISKE

FIRST PASTOR OF CHELMSFORD

HE WAS BORN AT SOUTH 

ELMHAM, SUFFOLK CO, ENLGNAD

ABOUT THE YEAR 1606

IN 1637

HE CAME TO NEW ENGLAND

IN 1644 HE GATHERED A

CHURCH AT WENHAM, MASS

AND CONTINUED AS ITS PASTOR

UNITL 1656 WHEN HE REMOVED WITH

THE GREATER PART OF HIS CHURCH TO

CHELMSFORD

WHERE HE MINISTERED BOTH AS

PASTOR AND PHYSICIAN

GREATLY RESPECTED AND BELOVED

UNTIL HIS DEATH

JANUARY 14, 1676

AT THE AGE OF 70 YEARS

FISKE

Reverend John Fiske, son of John Fiske and Anne Lawter, was baptized on 20 March 1608 at St. James church in South Elmham, Suffolk, England.  He received a diploma in medicine from King's College at Cambridge in 1625.  He came to New England aboard the Mary Ann in 1637 with his wife, two sisters, mother and his brother William Fiske.  His first three children were born in Salem, and then he removed to nearby Wenham where he was ordained and became the first minister in 1644.  His daughter, Ann, my 8th great grandmother, was the first child baptized in Wenham in 1646.  Later, he removed to Chelmsford to be the first minister and founder of this new community.  

No other FISKEs are buried at the Forefather's Burial Ground in Chelmsford.

PDF file of a guide to Forefather's Burial Ground by Catherine Goodwin, http://www.chelmsfordgov.com/CHCwebsite/CHC_files/ForefathersCatherineGoodwin.pdf

My recent "Surname Saturday" post on FISKE and Rev. John Fiske:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/07/surname-saturday-fiske-of-salem-wenham.html

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~  Rev. John Fiske, founder, buried in Chelmsford, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 13, 2016,  (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/09/tombstone-tuesday-rev-john-fiske.html:  accessed [access date]).

Surname Saturday ~ FISKE of Salem, Wenham and Chelmsford, Massachusetts

FISKE, FISK

John Fiske, my 9^th great grandfather, was born in South Elmham, Suffolk, England and attended King’s College in Cambridge where he studied medicine and received a diploma in 1625.  He married Ann Gipps and removed to Massachusetts in 1637 on board the Mary Ann, with his wife, two sisters, mother (who died at sea) and younger brother, William.  

John Fiske first taught grammar school in Cambridge, and then in Salem where one of his students was the young Sir George Downing (my 9^th great grand uncle, sister to my ancestress Lucy Downing (1625 – 1697) wife of William Norton).   George Downing became minister for Cromwell and Charles II,  and he owned the house at which is now the  famous #10 Downing Street, residence of the Prime Minister.

His first three children were born in Salem, and then he removed to Enon (now the town of Wenham) where he was ordained there as the first minister in 1644.  His daughter Ann, my 8^th great grandmother, was the first child to be baptized there in 1646.  He later removed to Chelmsford to be the first minister there in 1655.  His wife, Ann, died before him in 1672 and he remarried to Elizabeth, the widow of Edmund Henchman. 

Ann, his daughter, in 1677 married Capt. John Brown of Reading as his first (of three) wives. His third wife was Elizabeth (Bulkley) Emerson, who was also my 8^th great grandmother, wife of Reverend Joseph Emerson (1620 – 1680), a minister at Ipswich, York, and Wells, Maine.   Ann and John Brown had a daughter, Mary (1678 – 1740), who married Peter Emerson (1673 – 1751), the son of Elizabeth and Joseph Emerson.   Peter had been raised by John Brown as an orphan, and married his stepsister.

More FISKE resources:

“Genealogical Research in England: The Fiske Family”, by G. Andrews Moriarty, New England Historic Genealogical Society Register, Volume 86 (1932), pages 406 -35 and Volume 87 (1933), pages 141 – 46, pages 217 – 224,  and pages 367 – 374 and Volume 88 (1934) pages 142 – 146, pages 265 – 273, pages    (The English origins of the ancestors of Rev. John Fiske)

Genealogical Dictionary of New England, by James Savage,  Volume 2

The Notebook of Reverend John Fiske:  1644 – 1675, edited by Robert G. Pope, 1974

Fiske and Fisk Family, Being the record of the descendants of Symond Fiske, lord of the manor of Stadhaugh, Suffolk County, England, from the time of Henry IV to date, including all the American members of the family, compiled by Frederick C. Pierce, 1896,  also available online at archive.org

My FISKE genealogy:

Generation 1:  John Fiske, son of John Fiske and Anne Lawter, baptized 20 March 1608 at St. James, South Elmham, Suffolk, England, and died 14 January 1677 at Chelmsford, Massachusetts;  married first to Ann Gipps; married second on 1 August 1673 in Chelmsford to Elizabeth Unknown, widow of Edmund Henchman. Six children with Ann.

Generation 2: Anna Fiske, born 15 January 1646 in Wenham, died 30 May 1681 in Reading, Massachusetts; married on 30 May 1677 in Chelmsford to John Brown, so of Nicholas Brown and Elizabeth Unknown.  He was born about 1634 in Malford, Worcestershire, England and died 12 March 1717 in Reading. Two children.

Generation 3:  Mary Brown m. Peter Emerson

Generation 4:  Brown Emerson m. Sarah Townsend

Generation 5: John Emerson m. Katherine Eaton

Generation 6: Romanus Emerson m. Jemima Burnham

Generation 7: George Emerson m. Mary Esther Younger

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

Generation 9: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ FISKE of Salem, Wenham and Chelmsford, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 23, 2016, (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/07/surname-saturday-fiske-of-salem-wenham.html: accessed [access date]).

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Stephen Dodge and Sally Grant, Beverly, Massachusetts

This tombstone was photographed at the Dodge's Row Cemetery in North Beverly, Massachusetts

STEPHEN DODGE

1792 - 1878

SALLY

HIS WIFE

1795 - 1836

THEIR CHILDREN

CHARLES S.

1821 - 1836

LYDIA A.

1831 - 1825

LYDIA A.

1835 - 1836

Stephen Dodge, son of Amos Dodge and Lydia Batchelder, born in Wenham, Massachusetts on 2 August 1792;  filed the intention to marry Sally Grant on 26 October 1816 in Wenham, daughter of Joseph Grant and Betsey Balch.  She was born on 27 April 1795 in Beverly, Massachusetts.  They had nine children, listed below.  Sally died on 29 February 1836 in Wenham, Massachusetts (the border of Wenham and Beverly is very near the Dodge's Row Cemetery).  

Nine children, named Dodge, all born in Wenham:

1. Emeline  b. 1817

2. Francis Stephen, b. 1819

3. Charles Smith b. 1821 (see above, died at age 14)

4. Joseph Grant, b. 1823

5. Sally Elizabeth, b. 1825

6. John Henry, b. 1828

7. Lydia A., b. 1831

8. George Frederik, b. 1833

9. Lydia A., b. 1835

Sally and three of her children all died in 1835 and 1836.  That was the year of a typhoid pneumonia epidemic in Massachusetts.  The vital records of Wenham don't list a cause of death, but perhaps they were all victims of this terrible disease.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Stephen Dodge and Sally Grant, Beverly, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted May 17, 2016, (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/05/tombstone-tuesday-stephen-dodge-and.html: accessed [access date].

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Deacon Stephen Dodge (1736 - 1816) and wife Rose Webber (1734 - 1826)

These tombstones were photographed at Dodge's Cemetery in North Beverly, Massachusetts

In Memory of 

Mrs. ROSE DODGE

Relict of

Dea. Stephen Dodge

who died

Aug. 13, 1826.

Aged 92

[last line illegible]

Deacon 

STEPHEN DODGE

died March 12, 1816

AEt 79

Rose Webber, daughter of Edward Webber and Sarah Newman, was born 17 November 1734 in Ipswich, and died 13 August 1826 in Wenham.  Her marriage to Stephen Dodge was published in the Wenham records in May 1757.

Deacon Stephen Dodge, son of Phineas Dodge and Sarah Whipple,  was born 21 May 1736 in Wenham and died 12 March 1816 in Wenham.  His will was proved on 9 April 1816 and he named his wife, Rose, as executrix, but she declined to serve.  His estate was valued at about $4,000.  He had two daughters, Hepzibah and Anna, both died young.

A previous blog post on Dodge's Row Cemetery in North Beverly-
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/11/clues-to-finding-dodges-row-burying.html

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Deacon Stephen Dodge (1736 - 1816) and wife Rose Webber (1734 - 1826)", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 15, 2015 ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/12/tombstone-tuesday-deacon-stephen-dodge.html: accessed [access date])/

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Nicholas and Prudence Dodge, Beverly, Massachusetts

These tombstones were photographed at the Dodge's Row Burying Ground 

in North Beverly, Massachusetts. 

NICHOLAS DODGE, 

died 

November 21, 1857, 

aged 

81 yrs and 4 mos

PRUDENCE E., 

widow of 

NICHOLAS DODGE, 

died July 25, 1869, 

aged 80 years

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord

Nicholas Dodge, son of Nicholas Dodge and Hannah Cole, was born 1 July 1777 in Wenham, Massachusetts.  He married first to Lydia Cleaves on 23 May 1801 in Wenham.  She died on 27 September 1805.  He married second to Prudence Edwards on 21 July 1808 in Wenham, and had eight children.  Nicholas Dodge died on 2 November 1857 in Wenham and was buried  next to his two wives at the Dodge’s Row Burying Ground in North Beverly.  [I didn't photograph Lydia's tombstone]. 

Prudence Edwards was born 1 May 1789 in Wenham, Massachusetts, the daughter of Abraham Edwards and Prudence Dodge.  She is my distant cousin through our common Allen, Herrick, Tuck, Browning and Williams ancestors.  

Prudence and Nicholas Dodge are buried in the Dodge’s Row Burying ground with other close and distant Dodge relatives.  I wrote a blog post on November 24, 2015 about the tombstone of Augustus Dodge, their son, and his wife, Martha Knowlton, at this link:  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/11/tombstone-tuesday-augustus-and-martha.html  

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Nicholas and Prudence Dodge, Beverly, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 8, 2015  (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/12/tombstone-tuesday-nicholas-and-prudence.html: accessed [access date]). 

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Capt. John Dodge, died 1811, Beverly, Massachusetts, Revolutionary War Patriot

This tombstone was photographed at the Dodge's Row Burying Ground,

 North Beverly, Massachusetts

Capt. John Dodge

Departed this life

March 15, 1811

AEt 70

The unhappy house looks desolate & mourns

And every door groans doleful as it turns

The Pillars languish & each lofty wall

Stately in grief laments the Master’s fall

In drops of briny dew the fabric bears

His faint resemblance & renews my tears

Solid and square it rises from below

A noble air without a greedy show

Reigns through the model & adorns the whole

Manly & plain, such was the beings soul.

John Dodge was born 3 December 1740 in Wenham, Massachusetts, the son of Captain Richard Dodge and Mary Thorne.  He married Anna Porter on 15 May 1760.  She was the daughter of Samuel Porter, born on 4 December 1736.   Anna is a distant cousin to me through her great grandmother, Lydia Herrick, my 9^th great grand aunt.  John and Anna had six children- John 1761, Anna 1762, Billy 1765, Isaac 1766, Marcy 1769, and Sarah1770.   Captain John Dodge served in the American Revolution [ see Massachusetts Soldier and Sailors, Volume 4, page 826, and also DAR ancestor #A135137] and he died on 15 March 1811 in Wenham.

Genealogy of the Dodge Family of Essex County MASS, 1629-1898, by Joseph Thompson Dodge, (Democrat Printing Co. Wisconsin - Vol 1 1894 & Vol 2 1898).

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Capt. John Dodge, died 1811, Beverly, Massachusetts, Revolutionary War Patriot", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 1, 2015 ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/12/p1300653-capt.html: accessed [access date]). 

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Augustus and Martha Dodge, Beverly, Massachusetts

AUGUSTUS DODGE

Died February 2, 1858

Aged 45 ys and 5 mos

The carving inside the chain reads 

"PARTED BELOW

UNITED ABOVE"

MARTHA L. 

widow of 

AUGUSTUS DODGE

Died Oct. 10, 1878, 

aged 63 yrs.

Augustus Dodge, born 17 August 1812 in Wenham, Massachusetts, son of Nicholas Dodge and Prudence Edwards.  He married Martha L. Knowlton on 17 November 1834 in Wenham.  Augustus died 2 February 1858 in Wenham and is buried next to Martha in the Dodge’s Row Burying Ground in North Beverly.  He is a distant cousin to me through his Woodbury and his Herrick ancestors. 

Martha Knowlton was born 20 August 1815, daughter of Ivers Knowlton and Sarah Patch.  She was born 20 August 1815 and died 10 October 1878 in Hamilton. She is a distant cousin to me through her Dane, Kimball, Friend, and Balch ancestors. She was also a descendant of the Mayflower passenger, Richard More (1614 - about 1696). 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Augustus and Martha Dodge, Beverly, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 24, 2015  (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/11/tombstone-tuesday-augustus-and-martha.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ ABBEY of Salem and Wenham, Massachusetts

ABBEY ABBYE and ABBE

John Abbe/Abbey’s origins are unknown, but he was granted land in Salem, Massachusetts on 2 January 1636/7.  He was granted several more land grants, including land on the Beverly side of the Bass River (which it seems so many of my Salem ancestors lived here in this very area, which is now the city of Beverly, in the same neighborhood where I grew up! )

Around 15 February 1642/3 John Abbe was granted land at Enon, where a church was organized and the new town was named Wenham.  He had nine children, and in 1683 he wrote an interesting document, which appears to be like a modern living will.  His eldest son, Thomas had removed to Enfield, Connecticut and he was instructing his son John, Jr., to take care of him and his wife during their old age: 

“Know all men by these presents that I John Abbey (Senr) of Wenham in the County of Essex being sensible of my own and my wives inability to Carry on my affaires So as to prouide for our Comfortable Livelyhood by reason of our age & weakness of Body Attending us by reason thereof Doe make Choice of & Request my son John Abbey as my ffeiofe in trust to take into his hands my house & all my Lands in Wenham together with what right I have in that Land which was sometime Richard Goldsmiths to ocquipie & improue for myn & his muttual Benifit So long as my wife & I or eyther of us shall live: & for his incouringment to maniage my affaires as abovesaid & he provide Comfortably for my owne & my wives maintenance I doe hereby give and Bequeath to him my afforesaid ffeiof all my houses & Lands fforeuer Except what I doe ereby Give out of it to the rest of my Childrin viz Samuell Sarah Marah Rebeca Obadia & Thomas & to each of them as followith viz to Samuell I have alridy Given him a Lott of Land I give him one Shilling more & to all the rest of my Children above mentioned viz Sarah Marah Rebeca Obadia & Thomas two Shillings a peice or to so many of them as shall survive at the decease of my selfe & wife if his heires Shall Continue to maniage & Carry on my affaires as my abovesaid ffeioffe ought to doe then they Shall have the houses and Lands abovesaid as therin ordard & in Confirmation of what is above written I have here unto set my hand & seale Siggned Sealed & Deliverd August the 3 1683 in presence of Thos ffiske Senr, martha ffiske. John Abbey Senr ded acknowledge this writing above written to be his act & deed August ye 3d 1683 before me Samuel Appleton Assistant” 

From The Ancestry of Dr. J. P. Guilford,  by Joan S. Guilford, 2003 Volume II, pages 4 – 5.

The Richard Goldsmith mentioned above was his neighbor, and John Abbey’s youngest son, Obadiah, was his apprentice.  After Richard was killed by lightning in the spring of 1674, John Abbey married his widow on 25 November 1674.  Although he was careful to have that document drawn up before his death, John Abbey apparently died intestate because on the outside of the above document is this inscription from 13 years after his death:

“ John Abbey's Disposale of his Estate 1683 Record In Ips in ye Regr office for ye probate of Will for sd County of Essex Decr 1702 p mee Danl Rogers Regr Administration on the Estate of John Abbey senjr of Wenham. JohnAppleton Esqr. Comissionate d by his Excellency Joseph Dudley Capt.Generll and Governr in Cheif in & over her Majess Province of ye Massachtt Bay in New England, with the advice and Consent of her Majestes Counsell of said province for the Probate of Wills and Granting Lettersof adminstro. Within the said County of Essex &c. To Thomas Abbey of Enfield in ye County of Hampshire son to John Abbey senjr of Wenham-Deceased Intestate-Greeting-Trusting in yr Care and ffidelity I doe by These presents Comitt unto you full power to administer all & singular the Goods, Chattells, Rights & Creditts of the said Deceased & well & ffaithfully dispose of ye same according to law which to him while he Lived & att ye time of his Death did appeartain & belong, to aske sue for demand Levy Receive & Recover and to pay all Debts in which the Deceasd stood bound so farr as his Goods Chattells Rights & Creditts Can extend according to the value thereof, and to make a true & prfect Inventory of all & singular the Goods Chattells Rights and Creditts of the Deceasd and to Exhibit the same into the Registry office of ye sd County att or before the Last Day of ffebruary next Ensueing, and to render a plain & true accott of ye said adminjo upon Oath att orbefore ye Twentieth Day of Decembr which Will bee in ye year of or Lord God One Thousand Seven hundd & Three-and I doe by These prsents Ordaine Constitute and appoint you administratoer of all & singular the Goods Chattells Rights & Creditts of ye Deceasd aforesd.-In Testimony Whereof I have herunto Sett my hand &caused the Seale of said office to be affixed-Dated in Ipswich the 12th Day of Decembr anno. 1702. Annoq.R: Reginae Annae Ang liae &c primo. “

Recorded Book 307, Page 456. Essex Probate Office.

“Know All men by these presents, That We Thomas Abbey of Enfield in ye County of hampshire as principle and Waltar ffairfeild Senj & Thomas Edwards both of Wenham as sureties within His Majesties Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England are holden and stand firmly bound and obliged unto John Appleton Esqr Judge of the Probate of Wills and granting Administration with in the said County of Essex in the full sum of Two hundred Pounds Currant Money in New England . To be paid unto the said John Appleton Esquire his Successors in the said Office or Assignes. To the true payment whereof. We bind our selves, and each of us, our, and each of our heirs, Executors and Administrators, joyntly and severall y for the whole and in the whole firmly by these presents Sealed with our Seals. Dated the Eleventh day of Decembr Anno Domini. One thousand 702 Annoque Regni Reginae Annae primo. The condition of this present Obligation is such, That if the above-bounden Thomas Abbey administrator to all & singular the Goods, Chattells, Rights & Credits of his ffather John Abbe y Senjr Late of Wenham Deceased to make or cause to be made a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods, Chattells, Rights and Credits of the said Deceased, which have or shall come to the hands and possession or knowledge of him the said administrator or into the hands and possession of any other person or persons for him. And the same so made, do exhibitor cause to be exhibited into the Registry of the Court of Probate for the aforesaid County of Essex at or before the Last day of ffebruary next ensuing. And the same Goods, Chattells, Rights and Credits of the said Deceased, at the time of Death, which at any time after shall come into the hands and possession of any other person or persons for him do well and truly administer according to Law. And further do make, or cause to be made a just and true Accompt of his said Administration upon Oath, ator before the Twentieth day of Decembr which will be in the year of our Lord, One thousand 703. And all the rest & residue of the said Goods,Chattells , Rights & Credits which shall be found remaining upon the said Administrators Accompt (the same being first examined and allowed of by the Judge or Judges for the time being of Probate of Wills and granting Administrations within the County of Essex aforesaid) shall deliver and pay unto such person or persons respectively as the said Judge or Judges by his or their Decree or Sentence pursuant to Law shall limit and appoint. And if it shall hereafter appear, That any last Will and Testament was made by the said Deceased: And the Executor or Executors therein named do exhibit the same into the Court of Probate for the said County of Essex making request to have it allowed and approved accordingly. If the said administrator within bounden being thereunto required do render and deliver the said Letters of Administration(Approbation o f such Testament being first had and made) unto the said Court. Then the before written obligation to be void and of none effect,or else to abide and remain in full force and virtue. Thomas TA Abbey (mark & seal) Walter fayerfield (seal) Thomas O Edward (seal) Sealed and Delivered in presence of francis Crumpton Daniel Rogers. This Inventory of the Estate of John Abee Senor formerly of Wenham decesed about thirten yere since Intestate we whos names are her vnto subscribed on this twentey-fovrth of febuary in the yere of our lord 17 did at the Request of thomas Abee one of the sons of the decesed and Administrator of his fathers estat or by his order vallew and aprise the said decesed his house and land in Wenham on which to our certain knowleg he lived for many yers and dyed seased of the same as his owne Estat of Inheritance as we ever understod we being his nere neighbors for many yers the sayd decesed his homsted being about twenty and three acers of pland and medow to gether with the housing and fences ther on the apertenances ther onto belonging together with his Right in the Comon all which we vallewed at ninety and two pounds £92-s00-d00.  We also being Informed that the sayd decesed in his lifetime did to acomodate his son Obadiah acording to his desire with a trad for his futer benifett when the sayd Obadiah was eighten yers old give to Richard Goldsmith three yers sarvit of his said son Obadiah and vntill he was one and twentey yers ould to learne him to be a shoemaker and all the sayd time his sayd father did find his sayd son meat and drink and Clothes washing and Lodging which we doe Judg to be worth thirtey pounds. the acount was settled betwen thomas Abee and his fathers Estat by the Children of the sayd decesed in our presents as witness our hands this 24 of the 12th month 1703/2 Richard RH Hutton ( his mark) Joseph ffowler Aprisers. the estate debtor to his sonn thomas Abee for severall things for which our said father John Abee Senor was Indebted to his son thomas Abee before the death of our sayd father John a bee Senor the acount whereof was settled and alowed by vse vnderwritten which debt is thirtey and two pounds £32--s00-d00. as wittnes our hands this 24th febuerary 1702/3 Richard kimball for himself & Rebecc his wife (his mark) mary killam (her mark) Thomas Abbe (his mark) May 18th 1703 Then ye above sd Thomas Abbe made oath to this Inventory Before John Appleton”

Some Abbey resources:

From The Ancestry of Dr. J. P. Guilford,  by Joan S. Guilford, 2003 Volume II, (see pages 3 -21 for John Abbe)

Abbe-Abbey Genealogy: In Memory of John Abbe and his Descendants, by Cleveland Abbe and Josephine Genung Nichols, 1916 [This book is old and has several errors corrected in the Guilford book)

My ABBEY genealogy:

Generation 1:  John Abbey, born about 1613 in England, died 1689 in Wenham, Massachusetts; married about 1634 in England to Mary, mother of nine children; married second to another Mary, widow of Richard Goldsmith, in Wenham on 25 November 1674. 

Generation 2:  Rebecca Abbye, born 1643 in Wenham, died June 1704 in Wenham; married in Wenham on 13 May 1667 to Richard Kimball, son of Henry Kimball and Mary Riddlesdale.  He was born 13 October 1643 in Watertown and died 30 July 1715 in Wenham.  Three children.

Generation 3:  Rebecca Kimball married James Poland

Generation 4:  John Poland married Abigail Davis

Generation 5: Daniel Poland married Sarah Bishop

Generation 6:  Martha Poland married Alexander Mears

Generation 7:  Samuel Mears married Lydia W. Burnham

Generation 8:  Samuel Mears married Sarah Ann Burnham

Generation 9:  Sarah Burnham Mears married Joseph Gilman Allen

Generation 10: Joseph Elmer Allen married Carrie Maude Batchelder

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo,  "Surname Saturday ~ ABBEY of Salem and Wenham, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 4, 2015 (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/07/surname-saturday-abbey-of-salem-and.html:  accessed [access date]). 

Shirley Temple ~ more 20th Century Americana

This is another post in my series of stories about 20th Century Americana, which I use as story starters and for helping with oral histories.  Most of these subjects bring back great memories to the people who lived through the 20th century, maybe even YOU!

Shirley Temple (23 April 1928 - 10 February 2014) was more than just a child star.  She helped to lift the spirits of Americans during the Great Depression.  She starred in films starting at age 3 and retired at age 22.  She was the top box office draw from 1935 to 1938, at the height of the Depression.  After her retirement from acting she sat on boards several companies including Walt Disney, and was a diplomat for the United Nations and as an ambassador from the United States to Ghana and Czechoslovakia.

Shirley Temple's personal autograph book, signed by famous 1930s personalities
Franklin Roosevelt, Orson Wells, Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, etc. 

Costumes from many Shirley Temple movies
including my personal favorites "Heidi" and "A Little Princess"

I took my mother to see the Shirley Temple exhibit at the Wenham Museum on Mother's Day.  We had a lot of fun, and my mother was not the only one reminiscing.  I remember watching many of Shirley's movies as a child in the 1960s and 1970s.  There were lots of multi-generation families at the exhibit having fun examining all the objects, including many small children who were discovering Shirley's movies, costumes and toys for the first time.

It was a lot of fun seeing this exhibit with Mom.  She was born during the depression, and she remembered all of Shirley Temple's movies.  I listened to Mom tell stories about her memories of seeing the movies, and the different dolls on exhibit (she never had a Shirley Temple doll, but she had a Sonja Henie doll!), the outfits, the autographs of the other movie stars and radio stars and about the era in general.  This is the kind of exhibit that draws a lot of oral history from the older generations!

Shirley Temple and Bill Robinson

This miniature automobile (with a real engine) was a gift to Shirley from
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.  He had co-starred in several of her movies.
Just look at the face of that envious little boy in the upper left corner! 

Shirley's mother saved and preserved all of the clothing, tap shoes, letters, dolls and things from Shirley's childhood.  According to the brochure distributed at this exhibit "...the private archives of the Shirley Temple childhood is an astounding and virtually unprecedented find in the world today in that a star, not just any star, but the biggest star of the 1930s, preserved so much from her most significant years in the public eye."

Shirley's personal autograph book signed by Disney staff members

Do you recognize this little dress?  Five year old Shirley Temple
wore this dress in "Stand up and Cheer".  Many Shirley dolls wore this dress.

Shirley's childhood hankies!  She always had a purse that carried
a hanky, a slingshot, and her police badge. 

A number of pieces from this private family archive are traveling the country on exhibit.  Over 500 costumes, dolls, toys, and memorabilia will be auctioned by the Shirley Temple Family on July 14th at the Little Theatre in Kansas City.

Shirley Temple's tap shoes, the plaque reads "To Shirley from Uncle Bill"
another gift from Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.
They were the first inter-racial couple to dance together on the silver screen. 

June 4 - 10, Santa Monica History Museum, Santa Monica, California
June 12 - 14, Stanford Theatre,  Palo Alto, California
June 20 - 27, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas
July 3 - 8, Frazier History Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
The Auction will be July 14th at the Little Theatre, Kansas City, Missouri


"Love, Shirley Temple"  Events and Auction
website https://www.theriaults.com/love-shirley-temple-events-auction-schedule 

Wenham Museum, 132 Main Street, Wenham, Massachusetts
http://www.wenhammuseum.org/   


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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Shirley Temple ~ more 20th Century Americana", Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 1, 2015, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/06/shirley-temple-more-20th-century.html: accessed [access date]). 
Copyright (c) 2015, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Surname Saturday ~ POLAND of Essex County, Massachusetts

The schooner Fame, replica of the privateer from the War of 1812, in Salem, Massachusetts

POLAND

Generation 1:  Thomas Poland arrived from England to Massachusetts about 1642 with his wife, Hannah and three sons.  He settled in Wenham, Massachusetts.  His son, John Poland, my 9^th great grandfather, lived in The Hamlet, which is now Hamilton, Massachusetts.  He married Bethiah Friend and had seven children, and after her death he married Margery, the widow of Anthony Dike.  John Poland was named in a lawsuit by Ezekiel Woodward (my 9^th great grandfather in another lineage) for slandering his wife.

Generation 2:  His son, James Poland (my 8^th great grandfather) had seven children with his wife Rebecca Kimball and one child by his wife Elizabeth.  He removed to Kennebunkport, Maine.  His son, John Poland (1693 – 1777) (my 7^th great grandfather),  lived in Hamilton and was a weaver.  I descend from two of his sons, Daniel (1724 – 1768) and Abner (1736 – 1824). 

Generation 3:  Daniel Poland, my 6^th great grandfather, was drowned young while fishing off Misery Island in 1768.  I descend from his daughter Martha (my 5^th great grandmother) who married Alexander Mears.   

Generation 3:  His brother, Abner, also my 6^th great grandfather,  was a private in the Revolutionary War.  He was captured from the ship the Hawk and spend time at Forton Prison in England.  

Generation 4:  His son, Abner, Jr. (1761 – 1835) also served as a private in the Revolutionary War for a total of seven and half years, serving at the battles of Hubbardston, Stillwater, Monmouth and Yorktown.  He received the Badge of Merit, the highest decoration from George Washington.  You can read all about his award HERE. He received bounty land in Enfield, New Hampshire and a pension, and his widow, Sarah, also received a pension.

Generation 5:  Abner Poland, Jr.’s daughter, Sally Poland (1780 – 1861) is my 4^th great grandmother.  She married Henry Burnham of Essex, Massachusetts in 1805.  With Sally, my Poland line daughters out.  Her brother, Abner Poland III, was the commander of two Salem schooners Dart and Fame during the War of 1812.  A replica of the Fame, built by Harold Burnham of Essex, still sails out of Salem today.

Some POLAND resources:

The Polands from Essex County, Massachusetts, by Lloyd Orville Poland, 1904

Vital records and town histories of Wenham, Hamilton and Essex, Massachusetts

The Essex Genealogist, Volume 16 (1996), pages 129 – 142 (A sketch of the FRIEND family, with some mention of the POLAND family and John Poland (1631 – 1713) ).

My previous blog post about Abner Poland's Badge of Merit from George Washington at this link:  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/04/national-archives-good-news-bad-news.html

My previous blog post about the schooner Fame and the three men named Abner Poland at this link:  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/12/schooner-fame-and-three-abner-polands.html

My POLAND genealogy:

Generation 1:  Thomas Poland, born in England, died 22 February 1666 in Wenham, Massachusetts; married to Hannah Unknown. Three known children.

Generation 2: John Poland, born about 1631 in England; died 3 August 1713 in Hamilton, Essex County, Massachusetts;  married first about 1657 to Bethiah Friend, mother of seven children; married second to Margery Unknown.

Generation 3: James Poland, born about 1665 in Wenham, died 1722; married first on 12 April 1694 in Wenham to Rebecca Kimball, daughter of Richard Kimball and Rebecca Abbye, mother of seven children; married second to Elizabeth Unknown, mother of Thomas Poland.

Generation 4: John Poland, born about 1693 in Hamilton or Wenham, died 21 April 1777; married on 11 April 1718 at the Hamlet Parish Church, Hamilton to Abigail Davis, daughter of James Davis and Abigail Mettcalfe.  Nine children.

Lineage A:

Generation 5: Daniel Poland, born about 1724, died 19 August 1768 in Salem, Massachusetts; married on 18 October 1747 to Sarah Bishop, daughter of James Bishop and Sarah Holmes.

Generation 6:  Martha Poland, born 4 August 1754 in Ipswich; died 17 February 1843 in Essex, Massachusetts; married on 22 April 1773 in Wenham to Alexander Mears.  He was born about 1750 in London, England and died 3 April 1824 in Essex. Twelve children.

Generation 7:  Samuel Mears m. Lydia W. Burnham

Generation 8:  Samuel Mears m.  Sarah Ann Burnham

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 5: Abner Poland, born about 1736 in Essex, died 9 February 1824 in Essex; married first on 3 April 1761 to Dorothy Burnham, daughter of John Burnham and Rachel Smith, mother of seven children; married second on 5 December 1792 in Essex  to Deborah Burnham, daughter of Westley Burnham and Deborah Story, and widow of Nathaniel Emerson.

Generation 6: Abner Poland, born 17 May 1761 in Essex; died 14 January 1835 in Enfield, New Hampshire; married on 20 March 1783 in Essex to Sarah Burnham, daughter of Westley Burnham and Deborah Story (sister of Abner’s stepmother, see above)

Generation 7: Sally Poland, born 27 November 1780 in Essex,  died 9 February 1861 in Essex; married on 2 May 1805 in Essex to Henry Burnham, son of Westley Burnham, Jr. and Molly Woodbury (her first cousin, see Burnhams above).

Generation 8:  Sarah Ann Burnham m. Samuel Mears (see above)

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ POLAND of Essex County, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 4, 2015, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/04/surname-saturday-poland-of-essex-county.html: accessed [access date]). 

Grace Allen Obituary

11 February 2015
Gloucester Times, Gloucester, Massachusetts
http://www.gloucestertimes.com/obituaries/grace-allen/article_2c40d0f5-0b2d-5d96-ae3a-cbda5ae3e9da.html

WENHAM, Massachusetts:

Grace Allen, born in Detroit, Mich., was the daughter of Peter and Mamie Brancaleone. She was raised in Gloucester and graduated from Gloucester High School.

Grace had been employed for many years as a sales clerk at Rich’s Department Store in Salem, until her retirement.

She had a love for the city of Gloucester and visited the city frequently. She was an active member at Our Lady of Good Voyage Church in Gloucester and worked in the church rectory for many years.
She enjoyed bowling, knitting, sewing, cooking, and her weekly visits to the movies.

Grace was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister and friend who will be missed by all who knew her.

In addition to her husband, Donald Allen, with whom she had shared 30 years of marriage, she is survived by her daughter, Colleen Sullivan and her husband, Henry, of Beverly Mass. She has three sons, Louis McGrath and his wife, Wendy, of Gloucester, Dennis McGrath of Waltham, and Daniel McGrath and his wife, Kathy, also of Gloucester; four grandchildren, Louis R. McGrath and his wife, Misty, Heidi Schuster and her husband, Michael, and Danielle and David McGrath; three great-grandchildren, Elizabeth and Robert Schuster and Micah McGrath. She is also survived by her brother, Leo, and his wife, Ilene, of Florida. She was predeceased by her parents; her brother, Thomas; and her sister, Jenny DeMarco.

Her funeral services will be held at the Campbell Funeral Home, 525 Cabot St., Beverly, Friday, February 13th, at 9 a.m. Relatives and friends are invited to attend. Visiting hours on Thursday are from 4 to 7 p.m. Contributions may be made in her memory to the charity of one’s choice. Information, directions, condolences at www.campbellfuneral.com.

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Grace was my aunt.  Her husband is my mother's brother.  She passed away last week.

Surname Saturday ~ WOODWARD of Boston and Ipswich, Massachusetts

The Woodward compiled genealogy book (see below)

WOODWARD

Ezekiel Woodward is NOT a son of Nathaniel Woodward of Boston, which is often seen in online genealogies and some old genealogy books.  He  died in Wenham, Massachusetts in 1699.  According to the book Some Descendants of Nathaniel Woodward, 1984, page 4 “It is not on record that Ezekiel Woodward was a son of Nathaniel Woodward but he used the names of his stepmother and of his half-sister and of two sisters-in-law for four of his daughters, and his brother Nathaniel had a son and a grandson named Ezekiel.  He was also a carpenter, as was Nathaniel1, and bought land in Boston in 1651.”

Before I go on, remember that the daughters of Ezekiel were Anne, Sarah, Margaret, Elizabeth, Prudence, Martha, Mary and Rachel.  These were all common Puritan names.  It also supposes that Nathaniel2 was his brother.  It may point to a kinship, but there is still no proof that Ezekiel is Nathaniel1 Woodward’s son.  An 1894 article in the NEHGS Register, “Descendants of Nathaniel Woodward,” Volume 51, page 172 does not name Ezekiel as a son, and neither does the Great Migration Begins.

In the Gates Dawes genealogy (see below), page 671 there is an interesting story about Ezekiel Woodward:

“Ezekiel was married thirdly to SARAH (KNOWLTON?) PIPER, widow of Nathaniel of Wenham,… and thereby hangs a tale, for she had been receiving attentions from one John Poland and may even have been engaged to marry him.  After her marriage to Ezekiel, certain men taunted Poland with having “lost his widow”, asked how “Woodward got along with his new wife”, etc. In order to “save his face” Poland began to peddle lies and on 20 June 1679, Ezekiel brought suit against Poland for defamation, for slandering him and his wife.  The case came to trial in Sep 169, and witnesses testified that Poland had said the widow had a poor bargain with Ezekiel and she repented of it: that Ezekiel did not deserve her, and her friends wondered that she left Poland. Then Poland became intrigued with is subject and claimed that the widow’s brother Knowlton “sayd to me yt shee came to him slaubering & crying & sayd yt she was undone by marrying Woodward: & that shee was very much Troubled that she had wronged me; yt is Poland & That she was not able to see me but watterd her plants at the meeting at the very sight of me & did grately bemone herself that shee should offer so much wrong to Polend & that I derst not goe to the meeting at Wenham for every Time she see mee she is nott able to bare it but is ready for to swound away”

“A verdict was rendered in favor of Ezekiel and Poland was ordered to make acknowledgement of his fault so at this same court he “made open confession in court that he had done wrong to widow Piper, now the wife of Ezekiel Woodward, in speaking the words to which the witnesses testified, and was sorry for it, desiring the court to forgive him” – which seems an easy way out for him!”

I like this story because John Poland is my 9^th great grandfather, through his first wife, Bethiah Friend.  John Poland married a woman named Margery sometime in 1680.  Sarah Piper married Ezekiel as his third wife sometime after 3 December 1678 when his second wife, Elizabeth, widow of John Solart, died.  Ezekiel Woodward is also my 9^th great grandfather.  I descend from two of his daughters by his first wife, Anne Beamsley: Margaret and Prudence. 

Some WOODWARD resources:

Some Descendants of Nathaniel  Woodward who came from England to Boston about 1630, by Harold Edward Woodward, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1984. (Ignore pages 3 – 4 which name Ezekiel as Nathaniel’s son, this book is mostly unsourced.)

There is another compiled genealogy about the Woodward family, the Ezekiel (1) Woodward sketch on pages 666 – 676 in the American Ancestry of Mary Beman (Gates) Dawes by Mary Walton Ferris, Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons (privately printed), volume 1, 1931.

Great Migration Begins, by Robert Charles Anderson, Volume III, pages 2061 - 2064. 

There is no article about Ezekiel Woodward listed in Martin Hollick’s New Englanders in the 1600s which lists new research articles and books as possible source information.

If you are lucky enough to see the British BBC version of Who do You Think You Are?  with celebrity Richard Madely, it shows how his ancestor Ezekiel Woodward was a sergeant during King Philip’s War and was in the Great Swamp Fight of 1675.  I haven’t seen this episode yet.  Does anyone know if it is online somewhere?

My WOODWARD genealogy:

Generation 1:  Ezekiel Woodward,  died 29 January 1699 in Wenham, Massachusetts; married first to Anne Beamsley in January 1650 in Boston; married second to Elizabeth Unknown on 20 December 1672 in Wenham, the widow of John Solart; married third to Sarah Edwards, widow of Nathaniel Piper.

Lineage A:

Generation 2: Margaret Woodward, born 24 February 1655 in Boston, died 22 May 1716 in Scarborough, Maine; married on 20 October 1672 in Ipswich, Massachusetts to William Andrews, son of John Andrews and Jane Jordan.  He was born in 1649 and died on 7 February 1716/7 in the Chebacco Parish of Ipswich.

Generation 3: John Andrews m. Elizabeth Story

Generation 4: Abigail Andrews m. Jeremiah Burnham

Generation 5: Abigail Burnham m. Isaac Allen

Generation 6: Joseph Allen m. Judith Burnham

Generation 7: Joseph Allen m. Orpha Andrews

Generation 8: Joseph Gilman Allen m. Sarah Burnham Mears

Generation 9: Joseph Elmer Allen m. Carrie Maude Batchelder

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

Lineage B:

Generation 2:  Prudence Woodward, born 4 April 1660 in Boston, died 9 June 1732; married on 2 November 1677 in Ipswich to Benjamin Marshall, son of Edmund Marshall and Millicent Unknown.  He was born 27 September 1646 in Salem, Massachusetts; died 25 November 1716 in Ipswich.

Generation 3: Benjamin Marshall m. Bethiah Goodhue

Generation 4: Elizabeth Marshall m. David Burnham

Generation 5: Amos Burnham m.  Sarah Giddings

Generation 6: Judith Burnham m. Joseph Allen (see above)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ WOODWARD of Boston and Ipswich, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 21, 2014, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/06/surname-saturday-woodward-of-boston-and.html: accessed [access date]). 

A Royal Doll ~ "Lost" and then Found

At the Wenham Museum there is a large doll collection that held a secret, but not really a secret.  For years and years readers of Queen Lili’uokalani’s autobiography Hawaii’s Story have read about how during her trip to Boston in 1898 to visit her husband’s family, she dressed a doll for a children’s charity.  The Boston newspapers carried this story, too.   I've often wondered what happened to the doll, and so did the curator of Washington Place, the Queen’s family home in Honolulu.  Last year I learned that an author had found the doll in plain sight, at the Wenham Doll Museum.

This was extremely interesting to me, since I had been to the Wenham Museum many time, both as a child and then again with my own daughter. My mother (she grew up next door in Hamilton, Massachusetts) had been many times, too, and two of her brothers live within walking distance of the museum in Wenham.  We were all wondering if the doll the Queen had dressed in Hawaiian costume had survived, and yet we all had overlooked seeing it in the museum. How did this happen?

The Wenham Museum

Wenham, Massachusetts

I went to the museum over this past winter to see the doll for myself.  I had corresponded with the author, Mindi Reid, many times since our trip to Hawaii last September.  She had sworn me to secrecy until her story was published in Mana Magazine.  Well, the article with her story was just released in the May/June 2013 issue.  You can read it online through the Mana Magazine app for iPad or other tablet readers, or purchase the issue through the website below (unless you are lucky enough to be in Hawaii to pick up the issue at your local news stand).

You can see why the doll would not be recognizable today as a Hawaiian.  Her once colorful dress and hair have faded, and the silk flower lei has wilted.  Queen Lili’uokalani had been given a German porcelain doll to dress, so she looks very Caucasian. There is no wonder we never stopped to read the label on this little doll, even though she stands on a shelf next to dolls dressed by the crowned heads of Europe and Japan.

The Hawaiian doll is to the far right, other dolls on this shelf were donated by
The Tsar Nicolas II, Queen Victoria, The Emperor of Japan, and Queen Elizabeth of Romania

Come in and see the dolls
of Boston town,
Dollies from all the
world around,
Who go about from
Place to Place,
All with a cheerful
face,
To help little
children dear,
That they may be happy
and glad all the year.
And when you've seen
them o'er and o'er
You'll want to see
them one time more.

Elizabeth Richards Horton was a Boston socialite, and she asked Queen Lili’uokalani to contribute a doll to her exhibition to benefit The New England Home for Crippled Children (now Children’s Hospital in Boston).   She had a doll named “Miss Columbia” who traveled with other dolls for charitable exhibits. Her family owned the Claflin Richards house in Wenham. The house was purchased by the Wenham improvement society in 1921 as a museum.  Elizabeth’s collection grew when people heard of her charity, and even crowned heads from all over the globe contributed dolls. After many years of being in storage, she tried to sell her doll collection, but found it had suffered damage in poor storage conditions. Instead of selling the dolls, she offered it in 1922 for display at the Wenham museum. About 600 of the dolls had survived enough to go on permanent display as the International Doll Collection.

A poster for the International Doll Collection

"Miss Columbia" and some of her international doll companions

You can read all about how the Queen sewed this doll’s costume herself in her autobiography or in Mindi Reid’s article in Mana.  You can also read all about the International Doll Collection at the Wenham Museum website.  I’m still flabbergasted that the doll has survived all these years, and the little dress sewn by the Queen is still in good condition. The flowered fabric has faded, and so has her hair and the bright ribbon around her waist. Most of all, I’m still surprised that I saw the doll so many times, and did not recognize that she was the Queen’s doll.  The title of Mindi Reid’s article is “Lost in Plain Sight”. 

I also found a genealogical connection between my mother, who was a cousin to Queen Lili’uokalani’s husband, John Owen Dominis, and to Elizabeth Horton Richards, the Wenham woman who started the International Doll collection.  Mom's 3rd great grandmother, Catherine (Jones) Younger, was the sister of Mary (Jone) Dominis, who removed to Hawaii with her sea captain husband, and her son, John Owen Dominis married Lili'uokalani.

Genealogy:

Generation 1: Michael Dunnell, born about 1640, probably France, died about 1717 in Topsfield, Massachusetts, married to Mary Unknown.  Michael Dunnell/Dwinnell is my 9^th great grandfather.

Generation 2: Thomas Dunnell, born 20 November 1672 in Topsfield, died 8 October 1747 in Topsfield, married on 23 May 1701 in Lynn, Massachusetts to Dinah Brimsdell

Generation 3: Thomas Dwinnell, born 1711 in Topsfield, died 25 June 1775, married in 1738 to Hannah Towne, daughter of Joseph Towne and Abigail Curtis. Joseph Towne is the brother of Edmund Towne, my 9^th great grandfather.

Generation 4:  Jacob Dwinnell, born 20 November 1744; married on 11 February 1768 in Boxford, Massachusetts to Mehitable Towne, daughter of Elisha Towne and Sarah Rhodes.  

Generation5: Elijah Dwinnell b. 14 July 1773 in Boxford, Massachusetts; married Rebecca Russell, daughter of James Russell and Rebecca Unknown

Generation 6: Mary Ann Dwinnell married on 28 July 1827 to Jabez Richards, born 27 March 1805, died 18 March 1840. 

Generation 7:  Elizabeth Willett Richards, born 6 October 1837 in Wenham, Massachusetts, died 22 August 1928 in Wenham; married in 1858 to Thayer Horton.

                                           Michael Dunnell and Mary Unknown

                                           I                                                  I

Thomas Dunnell and Dinah Brimdell                         John Dwinnell and Mary Read

                                           I                                                  I

Thomas Dwinnell and Hannah Towne                       Keziah Dwinnell and Nicholas Cree

                                           I                                                  I

Jacob Dwinnell and Mehitable Towne                       Richard Cree and Ruth Johnson

                                           I                                                  I

Elijah Dwinnell and Rebecca Russell                         Stephen Cree and Hannah Smith

                                           I                                                  I

Mary Ann Dwinnell and Jabez Richards                    Sarah Cree and James Phillips

                                           I                                                  I

Elizabeth Willett Richards m. Thayer Horton            Hannah Phillips and Thomas Russell Lewis

                                                                                              I

                                                                         Hannah Eliza Lewis and Abijah Franklin Hitchings

                                                                                              I

                                                               Arthur Treadwell Hitchings and Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

                                                                                              I

                                                                 Gertrude Matilda Hitchings and Stanley Elmer Allen

                                                                                     (my grandparents)

Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen, by Liliuokalani, Mutual Publishing, 1991 (originally published in Boston by Lee & Shepard Publishing, 1897), page 216 – 7.

"Mrs. William Lee of Brookline gave an interesting talk last evening to a goodly gathering of women, and a slight sprinkling of men, at the doll show opened in Hotel Thorndike, for two days, yesterday, for the benefit of the New England Home for Crippled Children.

This doll show, which for variety and size exceeds any previous one in Boston, is notable for one thing, - in having among the exhibits three genuine royal dolls, that is to say, three dolls contributed by royalty.  Two of them, miniature representations of Eskimo babies, made by the Eskimos themselves, and dressed in full Arctic costume of sealskin, were sent here by Queen Victoria from her own private collection, which is said to be the largest in the world.

The third one was given by ex-Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii who dressed it and decorated it herself in the mother hubbard-like gown characteristic of Hawaiian women, and the head wreath and neck garland of flowers to which they are so partial on gala occasions.  The ex-queen named the doll Kaiulani, for her niece and heir.”  [Mrs. William Lee [ born Sara White (1849 - 1925)] is the 2nd wife of my 1st cousin 4 generations removed.  William Lee was first cousin to John O. Dominis, husband of Queen Liliuokalani.  John O. Dominis's mother, Mary Lambert Jones (1803 -1889) was the sister of my 3rd great grandmother Catherine Plummer (Jones) Younger (about 1799 - 1828).]  

For more information:

UPDATE!  This magazine is out of business) Mana Magazine http://www.mymanamagazine.com/

UPDATE!  This app is no longer available! Download the Mana Magazine app here

 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mana-magazine/id522444940?mt=8

The Wenham Museum website www.wenhammusuem.org  and the Miss Columbia Doll exhibit webpage is https://www.wenhammuseum.org/collections/dolls/miss-columbia/  

“Lost in Plain Sight”, by Mindi Reid, Mana Magazine, Honolulu, Hawaii: Pacific Basin Publishing, page 22.

“Tiny Ambassadors with a Mission” from the Antiques Almanac website (the top photo is of the doll donated by Queen Lili’uokalani):  http://www.theantiquesalmanac.com/dollcollection.htm

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "A Royal Doll ~ "Lost" and then Found", Nutfield Genealogy, posted May 17, 2018, (  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-royal-doll-lost-and-then-found.html: accessed [access date]).