Surname Saturday ~ JORDAN of Ipswich and Newbury, Massachusetts

JORDAN / JORNDAINE / JORDEN / JORDON / JURDEN

Stephen Jordan (abt 1590 – 1669/70), my 9^th great grandfather, arrived in New England aboard the Mary & John with Rev. Thomas Parker of Wiltshire, England.  They sailed from Southampton in March 1634 and arrive in Boston on 24 May 1634.  He is on a list of men who took an oath of allegiance at Southampton.  He settled first in Ipswich and then in Newbury.  He was literate and signed his own deeds, and his inventory included “one great bible”. 

Stephen Jordan’s first grant of land in Ipswich was in 1639/40.  In 1650 he was one of four men who were too old to train with the militia.  He wrote his will on 5 April 1667 and it was proved on 29 March 1670.  His only two children were girls, so this surname daughtered out very early.  I descend from his daughter Jane, who married Lt. John Andrews.   I descend from three of Jane’s five children, from the three sons, William (two lineages under William), Thomas and Joseph seen below.

Some JORDAN sources:

The Great Migration:  Immigrants 1634 and 1635, Volume IV, pages 114 – 116.

The Ancestry of Dr. J. P. Guilford, by Joan S. Guilford, Volume I, pages 460 – 462.

My JORDAN genealogy:

Generation 1:  Stephen Jordan, born about 1590 in England, died 8 February 1669/70 in Newbury, Massachusetts; married about 1615 in England to Unknown (two daughters);  married about 1660 to Susanna, widow of Nathaniel Merrill.  She died 25 January 1673 in Newbury (no known children).

Generation 2:  Jane Jordan, born 1622 in England, died after 1705 in the Chebacco Parish of Ipswich, Massachusetts; married 1645 in Ipswich to John Andrews, son of John Andrews and Sarah Conant.  He was born about 1620 in England and died 20 April 1708 in the Chebacco Parish.  Five children.

Lineage A:

Generation 3: William Andrews, born 1649 in Ipswich, died 7 February 1716/7 in the Chebacco Parish; married on 20 October 1672 in the Chebacco Parish to Margaret Woodward, daughter of Ezekiel Woodward and Anne Beamsley.  Twelve children

Lineage A1:

Generation 4: John Andrews born 2 February 1676 in Ipswich, died 25 March 1753 in the Chebacco Parish; married on 11 January 1706 in Ipswich to Elizabeth Story, daughter of Seth Story and Elizabeth Cross.  She was born 4 October 1687.  Three children.

Generation 5:  Abigail Andrews m. Jeremiah Burnham

Generation 6:  Abigail Burnham m. Isaac Allen

Generation 7: Joseph Allen m. Judith Burnham

Generation 8: Joseph Allen m. Orpha Andrews

Generation 9:  Joseph Gilman Allen m. Sarah Burnham Mears

Generation 10: Joseph Elmer Allen m. Carrie Maude Batchelder

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

Lineage A2:

Generation 4: Rachel Andrews, born 1695, died 6 August 1777 in Windsor, Vermont;  married on 14 July 1714 in Ipswich to Zachariah Story, son of Seth Story and Elizabeth Cross (see above).  He was born 14 March 1684 in Ipswich and died 16 February 1774 in Windsor, Vermont.  Ten children.

Generation 5:  Deborah Story m. Westley Burnham

Generation 6:  Westley Burnham m. Molly Woodbury

Generation 7: Henry Burnham m. Sally Poland

Generation 8:  Sarah Ann Burnham m. Samuel Mears

Generation 9:  Sarah Burnham Mears m. Joseph Gilman Allen (see above)

Linage B:

Generation 3:  Thomas Andrews, born 1654 in Ipswich, died 22 March 1718/19 in the Chebacco Parish; married on 9 February 1681 to Mary Belcher, daughter of Jeremy Belcher and Mary Lockwood.  She was born 21 Jul 1660 and died 31 March 1731 in Ipswich.  Two children.

Generation 4:  Thomas Andrews m. Mary Smith

Generation 5:  Mary Andrews m. Stephan Burnham

Generation 6:  Joshua Burnham m. Jemima Wyman

Generation 7:  Jemima Burnham m. Romanus Emerson

Generation 8:  George Emerson m. Mary Esther Younger

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

Generation 10: Carrie Maud Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen (see above)

Lineage C:

Generation 3: Joseph Andrews, born 1657 in the Chebacco Parish, died between 13 February and 5 March 1724/5 in the Chebacco Parish; married on 1657 in the Chebaaco Parish; married on 16 February 1680/81 in the Chebacco Parish to Sarah Ring, daughter of Daniel Rindge and Mary Kinsman.  She was born 17 August 1659 in Ipswich and died after 1714.  Nine children.

Generation 4:  John Andrews m. Elizabeth Wallis

Generation 5:  John Andrews m. Martha Cogswell

Generation 6:  James Andrews m. Lucy Presson

Generation 7:  Orpha Andrews m. Joseph Allen ( see above)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ JORDAN of Ipswich and Newbury, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 15, 2016,  ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/10/surname-saturday-jordan-of-ipswich-and.html: accessed [access date]).

Surname Saturday ~ BEAMSLEY of Boston

Although my Beamsley lineage daughters out in the second generation, there is a lot of information about William Beamsley, the immigrant ancestor, to be found in books and archives.  He arrived in Boston in 1632, and was admitted to the Boston church on 5 April 1635.  He was admitted as a freeman on 25 May 1636. The Boston records show him serving many civil roles such as constable, fenceviewer, water bailey, highway surveyor, and he was admitted to the Ancient and Honorable Artillery company in 1656/57.

About 1632 William Beamsley married Anne Unknown, probably in England, and his six children were all born in Boston.  Around 1645 he married a widow and had another child, and took in her children (three of his step children are named in Beamsley’s will).

Beamsley owned much land he had acquired over time in Boston. This was all described in his will.  His daughters are all named with their husbands in a deed dated 1668 which sold his house and land to Key Alsop of Boston.  [“Ann Woodward with Ezekiell Woodward her present husband, Grace Graves with Samuell Graves her present husband, Mercy Wilborne alias Peterson with Andrew Peterson her present husband, Hannah Beamsley alias Perkins with Abraham Perkins her present husband, Elizabeth Page with Edward Page her present husband, Mary Roberson alias Dennis with Thomas Dennis her present husband, [and] Edward Bushnell all formerly of Boston” Suffolk Deeds 5:519- 522]  note: Elizabeth and Mary are step daughters.

I descend from the daughter Ann (Beamsley) Woodward named above, and from two of Ann’s daughters- Margaret (Woodward)  Andrews and Prudence (Woodward) Marshall.

For more information on William Beamsley:

The Ancestry of Margaret Brooks Thelfall, by John Brooks Threlfall, Madison, Wisconsin: 1985, unpaginated, see ancestor number 390.

Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England & Their Origins, by John Brooks Threlfall, Madison, Wisconsin: 1990, pages 13 – 16.

Great Migration Begins,  by Robert Charles Anderson, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts: 2001, Volume 1, pages 139 – 142.

My Beamsley lineage:

Generation 1: William Beamsley, born about 1605 probably in Lincolnshire, England, died 29 September 1658 in Boston, Massachusetts;  married first about 1632 in England to Anne Unknown who died between 1643 and 1645; married second  about 1645 to Martha Hallor, widow of Edward Bushnell, who died before 16 November 1668. Six children with Anne, one child with Martha.

Generation 2:  Anne Beamsley, born 13 February 1632/33 in Boston, died about 1679 in Ipswich, Massachusetts; married in January 1650 in Boston to Ezekiel Woodward as his first of three wives.  They had nine children together, and I descend from two daughters.

Lineage A:

Generation 3:  Margaret Woodward m. William Andrews

Lineage A1:

Generation 4:  John Andrews m. Elizabeth Story

Generation 5:  Abigail Andrews m.  Jeremiah Burnham

Generation 6:   Abigail Burnham m. Isaac Allen

Generation 7:   Joseph Allen m. Judith Burnham

Generation 8:   Joseph Allen m.  Orpha Andrews

Generation 9:   Joseph Gilman Allen m.  Sarah Burnham Mears

Generation 10:  Joseph Elmer Allen m.  Carrie Maude Batchelder

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

Lineage A2:

Generation 4:  Rachel Andrews m. Zachariah Story

Generation 5:  Deborah Story m. Westley Burnham

Generation A2a:

Generation 6:  Westley Burnham m. Molly Woodbury

Generation 7: Henry Burnham m. Sally Poland

Generation 8: Sarah Ann Burnham m. Samuel Mears

Generation 9:  Sarah Burnham Mears m. Joseph Gilman Allen (see above)

Generation A2b:

Generation 6:  Sarah Burnham m. Abner Poland

Generation 7:   Sally Poland m. Henry Burnham (see above)

Lineage B:

Generation 3:  Prudence Woodward m. Benjamin Marshall

Generation 4: Benjamin Marshall m. Bethiah Goodhue

Generation 5:  Elizabeth Marshall m. David Burnham

Generation 6:  Amos Burnham m. Sarah Giddings

Generation 7:  Judith Burnham m. Joseph Allen (see above)

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Surname Saturday ~ MARSHALL of Salem and Ipswich, Massachusetts

Cape Ann, Massachusetts
Showing Salem, Beverly, Chebacco, Gloucester

MARSHALL

According to the book Planters of the Commonwealth, by Charles E. Banks, 1930, Edmund Marshall, his wife Millicent, and Edmund their son, were passengers on the ship Hopewell from Weymouth England to New England on 8 May 1635.

Edmund Marshall became a member of the First Church of Salem, Massachusetts on 8 January 1636/7 and his daughter, Naomi, was baptized the same year.  His wife, “Millisent” was a member of the church on 31 December 1637.  By 1651 the Marshall family was in Manchester (between Beverly and Gloucester), but probably went to church in Gloucester where Reverend Richard Blinman was minister.

Many New England settlers arrived in groups with their ministers from home.  These “non-conforming” preachers brought their flocks to New England, and you can trace their parishioners moving around with them.  The “Blynman Party” came from Wales, arrived in Plymouth, and then Gloucester, and moved to New London, Connecticut.  On 13 February 1651/2 Edmund sold his land in Salem, and was listed in New London in March.  It is unknown whether or not Edmund Marshall was from Blinman’s original home of Wales or not.

Edmund Marshall was back in Beverly soon after because he is in the records as accusing several women of witchcraft in 1652.  These charges were found to be false and he was fined.  

By 1663 he was living in Chebacco, a parish of Ipswich, Massachusetts.  Again, Edmund Marshall was in court, and this time John Marshall sued Robert Cross for trespass, and Cross countersued Thomas Varney (also my 9^th great grandfather), John Marshall (the son), Edmund Marshall, and William Warrener.  (Robert Cross was married to my 8^th great aunt Hannah Jordan)  In 1668 there was another lawsuit involving their son-in-law Thomas Wells.  Lots of family members deposed in these suits, including my 8^th great grandfather, Benjamin (1646 – 1716) – the son of Edmund Marshall.  These lawsuits gave some great genealogical clues.

Lawsuits were also helpful telling me more about the next generation, especially Benjamin Marshall.  His depositions gave his age, and where he lived over the years.  Along with his brother, Edmund Jr., he was a shipwright.   He signed the petition supporting John and Elizabeth Proctor during their arrest for witchcraft in 1692.  Since many who supported the accused witches found themselves also accused, it was a very gallant move.  John Proctor is also my ancestor – my 9^th great grandfather.

Some sources for MARSHALL research:

New England Historic Genealogical Society Register, Volume 53 (1899) pages  185 -197 and 282- 294

History of Ipswich, Essex and Hamilton by Joseph B. Felt, 1834

Some Descendants of Nathaniel Woodward by Harold Edward Woodward, Boston: NEHGS, 1984

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My MARSHALL genealogy:

Generation 1: Edmund Marshall, born about 1598 and died 1673 in Salem, Massachusetts; married to Millicent Unknown. Seven children.

Generation 2: Benjamin Marshall, born between 12 and 18 April 1646 in Salem, Massachusetts, and died 25 November 1716 in Ipswich, Massachusetts; married on 2 November 1677 in Ipswich to Prudence Woodward, the daughter of Ezekiel Woodward and Anne Beamsley.  She was born on 4 April 1660 in Boston, Massachusetts and died 9 June 1732 in Ipswich.  Nine children.

Generation 3: Benjamin Marshall, born 15 November 1684 in Ipswich, and died 2 October 1747 in the Chebacco Parish of Ipswich; married after 24 November 1711 in Ipswich to Bethiah Goodhue, daughter of William Goodhue and Hannah Dane.  She was born about 1685 and died 28 March 1752 in Ipswich.  Five children.

Generation 4: Elizabeth Marshall, born 1715 and died 15 November 1801 in Ipswich; married on 25 September 1734 to David Burnham, son of David Burnham and Elizabeth Perkins.  He was born 17 June 1714 in Ipswich and died 27 December 1802 in Ipswich.  Twelve children.

Generation 5:  Amos Burnham, born 13 July 1735 in Ipswich, and died 28 November 1788 when he drowned in Chebacco Pond; married on 27 January 1757 in Ipswich to Sarah Giddings, the daughter of Thomas Giddings and Martha Smith.  Sarah was born in 1737 and died 26 January 1782. Eleven children.

Generation 6: Judith Burnham, born 14 January 1782 in Essex (Chebacco Parish) and died 26 October 1848 in Essex; married on 5 April 1799 in Ipswich to Joseph Allen, son of Isaac Allen and Abigail Burnham.  Joseph Allen was born 22 September 1776 in the Chebacco Parish and died 24 March 1861 in Essex.  Eleven children.

Generation 7: Joseph Allen, born 31 July 1801 in Chebacco Parish and died 2 August 1894 in Beverly, Massachusetts; married on 28 October 1824 in Essex to Orpha Andrews, daughter of James Andrews and Lucy Presson.   She was born 3 February 1804 in the Chebacco Parish and died 20 April 1869 in Peabody, Massachusetts. Six children.

Generation 8: Joseph Gilman Allen, born 22 May 1830 in Essex and died 9 April 1908 in Essex; married on 23 May 1863 in Essex to Sarah Burnham Mears, daughter of Samuel Mears and Sarah Ann Burnham.  She was born 30 November 1844 in Essex and died 4 March 1913 in Essex.  Ten children.

Generation 9: Joseph Elmer Allen, born 24 September 1870 in Essex and died 12 March 1932 in the Masonic Home in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts; married on 1 November 1892 in Essex to Carrie Maude Batchelder, daughter of George E. Batchelder and Mary Katharine Emerson.  She was born 22 September in Chichester, New Hampshire, and died 21 January 1963 at the Sea View Convalescent and Nursing Home, Rowley, Massachusetts.  Five children.

Generation 10: Stanley Elmer Allen, born 14 January 1904 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and died 6 March 1982 in Beverly, Massachusetts; married on 14 February 1925 in Hamilton, Massachusetts to Gertrude Matilda Hitchings, daughter of Arthur Treadwell Hitchings and Florence Etta Hoogerzeil.  She was born 1 August 1905 in Beverly and died 3 November 2001 in Peabody. Seven children.

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Surname Saturday ~ STORY of Chebacco Parish, Ipswich, Massachusetts (now Essex, Massachusetts)

The Essex (Chebacco) River

STORY

William Story was the son of Robert Story in England.  His indenture record reads “Norwich England: An index of Indentures of Norwich Apprentices Enrolled with the Norwich Assembly: Henry VII – George II, page 157: Story, William, son of Robert, dec.; apprenticed to John Coats of Norwich, carpenter, 1634 for 7 years."   Somehow he broke this contract and arrived in Boston on 8 June 1637 from Yarmouth.  In the passenger list there was a Samuel Dix listed with two servants, and one was William Story, b. 1614, from Norwich.  Dix was a joiner (woodworker).  In the New England Historic Genealogical Register, Volume 14 (1860), page 325 there is a transcription of an old record from England “Aprill the 8^th 1637.  The examinaction of Samuell Dix of Norwich in Norff. Joynar aged 43 yeares and Ioane his wife aged 38 yeares with 2 children, Presella and Abegell, and 2 Sauantes William Storey and Daniell Linsey, the one aged 23 and the other 18 years;  ar desirous to goe to Bostone in New England there to Inhabitt.”

William Story settled in the part of Ipswich known as the Chebacco Parish, and married Sarah Foster, the daughter of Judge Reginald Foster.  He built a sawmill on the Chebacco River in 1671.  One 31 March 1693 he deeded to his son, Seth “all my housing, lands, fences, orchards, &c belonging to my lands in Chebacco, in Ipswich, adjoining to Chebacco Falls River, having the latter on the E. and S.E. and land of Thos. Low on E. & N.E., and land of Renold [Reginald, his father-in-law] on S. &S.W., and Ipswich common on W. &N.W.”   It also states in the book  History of Essex, by Crowell, page 27, “William’s son, Seth, was married and lived with him, and on condition of his maintaining him the rest of his days, he conveyed to him by deed of gift the farm, which he ‘occupied’ ”.  Administration of his estate was granted to the son, Seth, my 8^th great grandfather, on 20 January 1702/3, meaning he was about 89 years old when he died.

During King Philip’s War Seth Story served under Major Samuel Appleton as a sergeant.  He was also a deacon of the second church in Chebacco (now the town of Essex, Massachusetts).  He died at the age of 86.  This was a long lived family of Storys!  Seth had five children, and I descend from two of them: Zachariah and Elizabeth.

Notable descendants:  US President Millard Fillmore

For more information:

Descendants of William Story and Sarah Foster of Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, by Betty Andrews Storey,2004 (also available to read online at https://archive.org )

Descendants of William Story Who Came to Ipswich in 1637: the first eight generations, by Robert Lee Pratt,  Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, 2000

Story Family Papers, 1893 – 1905, by Emma Story White (1846 – 1909) a manuscript collection at the New England Historic Genealogical Society library in Boston, call number SG STO 3 107 includes a page handwritten genealogy of the descendants of William Story, with material on the Burnham and Foster families. She cites the sources in the margins.

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My STORY genealogy:

Generation 1:  William Story, son of Robert Story, born about 1614 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, died before 20 January 1702/3 in Ipswich, Massachusetts; married about 1638 to Sarah Foster, daughter of Reginald Foster and Judith Wignall, born 15 October 1620 in Exeter, Devonshire, England, died 1681 in Ipswich. Eight children.

Generation 2: Seth Story, born 1646 in the Chebacco Parish of Ipswich, died 9 October 1732 in Chebacco Parish; married about 1682 to Elizabeth Cross, born about 1649, died 13 February 1736.  Five children, I descend from two of them.

Lineage A:

Generation 3: Zachariah Story, born 14 March 1684 in Chebacco Parish, died 16 February 1774 in Windsor, Vermont; married Rachel Andrews, daughter of William Andrews and Margaret Woodward, born about 1695, died 6 August 1777 in Windsor. Ten children.

Generation 4: Deborah Story, born 1723, died 24 November 1821 in Essex, Massachusetts; married 10 November 1743 to Westley Burnham, son of David Burnham and Elizabeth Perkins, born October 1719, died 28 June 1797. Nine children, and I descend from two of them.

Lineage A1: 

Generation 5: Westley Burnham m. Molly Woodbury

Lineage A1a:

Generation 6: Asa Burnham m. Polly Bray

Generation 7: Lydia W. Burnham m. Samuel Mears

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 A1b:

Generation 6: Henry Burnham m. Sally Poland

Generation 7: Sarah Ann Burnham m. Samuel Mears (first cousins, see above)

Lineage B:

Generation 3: Sarah Burnham m. Abner Poland

Generation 4:  Sally Poland m. Henry Burnham

Generation 5: Sarah Ann Burnham m. Samuel Mears (second cousins, see above)

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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]). 

Surname Saturday ~ ANDREWS of Essex, Massachusetts (Ipswich’s Chebacco Parish)

Ipswich, Massachusetts town seal

(see the story below for an explanation)

ANDREWS

Here is another ancestor from whom I descend from three sons.  It is a tangled lineage (scroll to the bottom for genealogy information.

Lieutenant John Andrews was born about 1620 in England.  His parentage is unknown.  Also, there are many Andrews families in Ipswich in the 1600s, and it is unknown if Lt. John was related to Captain Robert Andrews.   He was granted 8 acres of land for his service during the Pequot War in 1637.  He lived “in the part of Ipswich which in 1679 was organized as Chebacco Parish and in 1819 incorporated as the town of Essex, Mass.” [NEHGS Register, Volume 70 (1916) page 103]

Lt. John Andrews was a house carpenter and farmer by trade, and also served in several town offices.  He also participated in the unusual Ipswich tax rebellion of 1687.  “…the inhabitants of Ipswich in 1687 resisted the order of Sir Edmund Andros [no relation] and his council for levying a tax on the King’s subjects… John Andrews was at that time chairman of the selectmen of Ipswich, and John Appleton was town clerk.  They, with John Wise, the minister, and others, called a meeting, at which the command of the Governor to choose a commissioner to assist in assessing the tax was discussed; and at the town meeting the next day (23 Aug.) the town considered that by the laws of England it was enacted “that no Taxes should be Levied upon the Subjects without consent of an Assembly chosen by the Freeholders.”  For this act of the town Mr. Wise, John Andrews, John Appleton, William Goodhue, Robert Kinsman, and Thomas French were arrested, brought before the court at Boston, and tried.. [and found guilty]  This act of resistance has been called “the foundation of American Democracy” and was the beginning of those events which eighty-eight years later culminated in the Revolutionary War.  It is commemorated in the seal of the town of Ipswich, which bears the motto “The Birthplace of American Independence 1687” [NEGHS Register, Volume 70 (1916), page 103]

Of all the men mentioned above, I descend from Lt. John Andrews, William Goodhue and Robert Kinsman.  I also descend from John Proctor of Ipswich, who was hung as a witch in 1692.  Lt. John Andrews and his four sons, along with many Ipswich men, signed a petition in support of John Proctor and his wife during their trials in Salem.  The petition was unsuccessful, and John Proctor was hung, although his wife escaped execution because she was pregnant.

Of John Andrews’ four sons, I descend from William, Thomas and Joseph.

Generation 1:  John Andrews, born about 1620 in England, died 20 April 1708 in the Chebacco Parish; married about 1645 to Jane Jordan, daughter of Stephen Jordan and Susannah Unknown.  She was born about 1622 in England and died after 1705 in the Chebacco Parish.  Five children.

Lineage A:

Generation 2: William Andrews, born 1649 in the Chebacco Parish, died 7 February 1716/7 in the Chebacco Parish; married on 20 October 1672 in Ipswich to Margaret Woodward, daughter of Ezekiel Woodward and Anne Beamsley.  She was born 24 February 1655 in Boston and died 22 May 1716 in Scarborough, Maine.  Twelve children.

Generation 3: John Andrews, born 2 February 1676 in Ipswich, died 25 March 1753 in the Chebacco Parish; married on 11 January 1706 in Ipswich to Elizabeth Story, daughter of Seth Story and Elizabeth Cross.

Generation 4: Abigail Andrews married 2 December 1736 in Ipswich to Jeremiah Burnham, son of John Burnham and Ann Choate.

Generation 5: Abigail Burnham m. Isaac Allen

Generation 6: Joseph Allen m. Judith Burnham

Generation 7: Joseph Allen m. Orpha Andrews (see below)

Generation 8: Joseph Gilman Allen m. Sarah Burnham Mears

Generation 9: Joseph Elmer Allen m. Carrie Maud Batchelder

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

Lineage B:

Generation 2: Thomas Andrews, born about 1654 in the Chebacco Parish, died 22 March 1718/9 in the Chebacco Parish; married on 9 February 1681 to Mary Belcher, daughter of Jeremiah Belcher and Mary Lockwood.  She was born 21 July 1660 and died on 31 March 1731 in Ipswich.

Generation 3: Thomas Andrews, born 1682 in Ipswich, died 13 February 1746 in Ipswich; married on 8 April 1711 in Ipswich to Mary Smith, daughter of John Smith and Elizabeth Unknown.  She was born 27 September 1685 in Ipswich, and died 31 March 1731 in Ipswich.  Thomas Andrews married second to Rebecca Cole.

Generation 4: Mary Andrews, born about 1712 in Ipswich; married on 16 August 1735 in Ipswich to Stephen Burnham, son of Thomas Burnham and Susannah Boardman.  He was born about 1715 and died 1790 in Milford, New Hampshire. Thirteen children.

Generation 5: Colonel Joshua Burnham m. Jemima Wyman

Generation 6: Jemima Burnham m. Romanus Emerson

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)

Lineage C:

Generation 2: Joseph Andrews, born 1657 in the Chebacco Parish, died between 13 February and 5 March 1724/5 in the Chebacco Parish; married on 16 February 1680/1 in the Chebacco Parish to Sarah Ring, daughter of Daniel Ring/Rindge and Mary Kinsman.  She was born 17 August 1659 in Ipswich and died after 1714.

Generation 3: John Andrews, born 1 June 1691 in the Chebacco Parish, died October 1762 in the Chebacco Parish; married on 6 December 1716 in Gloucester to Elizabeth Wallis, daughter of James Wallis and Martha Stanford.  She was born about 25 February 1694 in Beverly, died before 7 November 1757 in Ipswich.  John married second to Margaret Crafts on 7 November 1757.

Generation 4: John Andrews, born 1717, died 3 May 1779 in Ipswich; married on 1 March 1747/8 in Ipswich to Martha Cogswell, daughter of John Cogswell and Sarah Brown.  She was born 1 January 1719 in the Chebacco Parish, and died 23 December 1809 in Ipswich.  John had been previously married to Mary Burnham on 5 January 1741/2.

Generation 5: James Andrews, born 13 November 1763 in the Chebacco Parish, died 19 October 1857; married on 15 July 1788 in Ipswich to Lucy Presson, daughter of William Presson and Abigail Sargent.  She was born in May 1763 in Gloucester and died 5 September 1852 in Essex, Massachusetts. Ten chlldren.

Generation 6:  Orpha Andrews, born 3 February 1804 in the Chebacco Parish, died 20 April 1869 in Peabody, Massachusetts; married on 28 October 1824 in Essex to Joseph Allen, son of Joseph Allen and Judith Burnham.  He was born 31 July 1801 in the Chebacco Parish, and died 2 August 1894 in Beverly, Massachusetts.

Generation 7: Joseph Gilman Allen m. Sarah Burnham Mears (see above)

For more information on Lt. John Andrews:

The Descendants of Lieut. John Andrews of Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts by Betty Andrews Storey, 2009 on CD ROM

New England Historic Genealogical Society Register, Volume 70 (1916), page 102-103

also

The Will of Lieut. John Andrews

" In the name of God, Amen, in the thirteenth Day of March one Thousand Seven Hundred adn five, I John Androse, Senior of Sebacco in Ipswich of ye Countie of Essex within ye province of Massachusetts being in New england yeoman being at this time of perfect mind and memory thanks be given unto god; But calling unto mind ye mortallity of my body and knowing yt it is appointe for men once to Dye. Do make and ordine This my Last will and Testament-that is to say principally and first of all. I give and Recommend My Soul is not yet in the handes of god yet give it and my body I Recommend to ye Earth, to be Buried in decent Christian Burial at ye Descression of my Executors; nothing Doubting but At ye Genneral Resserection I shall receive ye same againe by ye mighty power of god, and As touching Such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased god to bless me in this Life. I give Demise and Dispose of ye same in the following manner and forme.

Imprimis. I give and bequeath unto my Eldest Son Jn Androse ye sum of five shillings to be levied out of my Estate adn paid by my executor unto him after my Desease allso Confirming to him what I have alred given him by Deed of Gifte. -

Item. I give adn bequeath to my second son William Androuse one fourthe part of my whole esstate both land or march which I have not allred given away by Deed of gift and allso al my moveable Estate according to a true Inventory threof taken. What shall Remaine to be clear Estate after my funeral Expenses and just Debts are paid, I freely give my Son William androse one fourth part there of only I do herebyu oblige him to pay one fourth part of ye charges of maintaning my Wife So long as Shje shall live after my Decease and when it shall please god to take her Away by Death I do hereby oblige him to pay one fourth part of ye charges of a decent funerall unto her.

Item I give adn bequeathe to my Son Thomas androse one fourth part of my whole Estate both lands or marsh and al other Estate which shall be cleare according to inventory after my funerqall expenses and just Debts are paid onely I do Here by oblige him to Pay one fourth part of ye charges in maintaining my wife so long as she shall live after my Decease and to pay one fourth part of ye charges of Her funerall when God shall please to take her away by Death.

Item. I given and bequeth unto Elizabeth my Daughter wife of James Giddinge one fourth part of my whole Estate both Real and personal as landes marsh or any other Estate according to inventory as shal appear to be clear after my funerall expenses and just Debts Are paid onely I oblige her to pay one fourth part of ye charges for maintaining my funerall expenses and just Debts Are paid onely I oblige her to pay one fourth part of ye charges fo maintaining my Wife So long as she shall live after my Decese and to pay one fourth part of ye charges of her funerall when god shall please to Deprive her of her Naturall lifed allso, I do hereby order and Desire yt my Wife shall Dwell with my Daughter Elizabeth giddinge after my Decease so long as she lives; (further more I do hereby order ordaine and appoint my Trusty friend William Gidding of Sebacco Cordwinder to be my soule executor of this my Last Will and Tesstamernt. ) and I Do hereby utterly Disallow Revok and Disanull all and Everry other former testaments Willes legacyes and bequestes adn executors by me in any wayes before named Willed and bequeathed Ratifying and confirming this and no other be my last Will and testaments in Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seale by Day and year above written."

John Andrews "Signed Sealed published pronounced and declared by ye same Jn Androsuse Seniour as his Last Will and testament in ye presentes of us subscribers.

Witnesses: Nathaniel Goodhue, Job Giddings, Solomon Giddings

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The URL for this post is

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/05/surname-saturday-andrews-of-essex.html

Copyright 2014, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Are you a descendant of Percy Emmons Woodward?

Over the weekend I received an interesting email from a wedding planner named Ann Bergin.  She has a hobby of collecting antique wedding invitations.  Ann is now downsizing, and looking for descendants for some of these wedding invitations.  She must have used Google or another search engine, because she ended up at my blog when looking for a descendant of Percy Emmons WOODWARD, who was married in 1904 to Grace Kinney.

I have him at my blog because he was the author of a WOODWARD genealogy in 1940.  My Woodwards daughtered out in the 1700s, so he is not a very close relative to me.  If you are a descendant, Ann would like to give you the wedding invitation.

Here is some information:

Percy Emmons Woodward was the author of Some Descendants of Nathaniel Woodward, Mathematician, Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press, 1940.   

He is a descendant of Nathaniel Woodward who was born in England about 1590 and died 11 May 1685 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Percy Emmons Woodward was married first to Grace Kinney in 1904.  This is the wedding invitation Ann Bergin would like to return to a family member.  They had no descendants and Graced died within a decade.  All the descendants would come from Percy’s second marriage to Marguerite Mosman.
 

Here is an obituary for Percy’s daughter-in-law, Joanne.  She was the wife of his son, Burton.

My dearly beloved mother, Joanne F. Woodward, wife of the late Dr. Burton M. Woodward, died peacefully at Spring Lake Village in Santa Rosa, CA on September 24, 2008. She was born on January 2, 1921 in Washington, OK and grew up in Jacksonville, FL. She married Burton M. Woodward of Newtonville, MA in 1940. Together they returned to Florida in 1947, living in Micanopy for 12 years before moving to Gainesville. They maintained homes in Highlands, NC and Gainesville, FL until they moved to Spring Lake Village, in Santa Rosa, California to be near their younger daughter. Mrs. Woodward was very active in community activities while in Florida, belonging to the Junior League of Gainesville, Gainesville Women's Club, Gainesville Garden Club, League of Women Voters, Gainesville Golf and Country Club, Gainesville Public Library and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. In Micanopy, she was instrumental in having a building erected for public use to encourage reading. She loved flowers and created beauty wherever she lived. A loving mother, she had two daughters, Gaye and Joanne (Sissy). Her elder daughter, the late Gaye Woodward Watson, had two children who are now grown with children of their own. Ashley Watson Rogale, her granddaughter, lives in Tampa, FL with her husband, Joe, and two daughters, Ansley and Andrea. Her grandson, Todd Woodward Watson, lives in Orlando, FL with his wife, Lisa, and their two children, Kate and Matthew. Her surviving daughter, Joanne Woodward Dufficy lives in San Rafael, CA with her husband, Dan, and son, Ryan. An Episcopal memorial service will be held in the chapel at Spring Lake Village on Saturday, October 4th, at 2:30 p.m. The family requests that in lieu of flowers donations be made to Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 100 NE 1st Street, Gainesville, FL 32601.

Published in the Press Democrat from October 2 to October 3, 2008

Ann would like to reunite the 1904 wedding invitation with a family member.

Any descendants of Percy Emmons Woodward can email Ann Bergin at ACBergin@aol.com

That little Notch on the Massachusetts Border?

See that little Notch on the Massachusetts/Connecticut border?

You know the one I mean?  When you look at the top and bottom (northern and southern) borders on the map of Massachusetts they are two parallel, straight lines.  However, on the southern border there is a strange little square sticking out that locals call “The  Granby Notch” after the Connecticut town with a hole.  On the Connecticut side they call it the “Southwick Jog” after the Massachusetts town that eats into their territory.  How did it get there?  Why is it there?

It appears that my 9x Great Grandfather is to blame for this strange border notch between Massachusetts and Connecticut.  Nathaniel Woodward was born about 1590 in England, and he lived in Boston, Massachusetts.  It appears that he was a mathematician and a surveyor.   In 1638 he ran the boundary line between the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies, and Connecticut.  He surveyed land north of the Merrimack River and helped to establish the boundary between Charlestown and Lynn.

 

When I found a mention of Nathaniel Woodward in a 2001 New York Times article, I never suspected to find a controversy, but this news story explained the puzzle.   In 1642 Nathaniel Woodward and his companion Solomon Saffery were hired by the Massachusetts Bay Colony to find the southern border that ran straight to the Pacific Ocean from three miles south of the Charles River.   According to the New York Times:

“Normally, surveyors would simply begin tacking westward, marking the state line as they went. But Woodward and Saffery were afraid of being slaughtered by Indian tribes in the untamed New England interior (now known as metropolitan Springfield, Mass.), so the two instead chose to sail around Cape Cod, down into Long Island Sound and up the Connecticut River, until they reached what they believed was the proper latitude.

            In fact, they were about seven miles too far south. So they fudged the mistake, added a large dip in Massachusetts' southern boundary that took in 108,000 acres of what had been Connecticut, and kept moving west. Down in Hartford, officials quickly learned of the maneuver and demanded a new survey. Massachusetts ignored them. Thus began decades of Notch-related feuding…

Incredibly, 162 years passed before both states finally agreed on a compromise in 1804 that cemented the Notch's current smaller size and ended its role in the longest interstate boundary dispute in United States history.”

The Woodward Genealogy:

Generation 1: Nathaniel Woodward, born about 1590 in England, died 11 May 1685 probably in Boston, Massachusetts; married first to Unknown, second about 1638 to Margaret Jackson.  Five children with first wife, three more with Margaret.  Nathaniel Woodward is my 10 x Great Grandfather.

1. Nathaniel Woodward, born about 1613, married 1.) Mary Jackson, 2.) Katherine Unknown

2. John Woodward, born about 1615, married Sarah Crossman

3. Robert Woodward, born about 1618, married Rachel Smith

4.  Sarah Woodward, born about 1620

5.  Ezekiel Woodward, born about 8 May 1624, died January 1699 in Wenham, Massachusetts; married 1) Anne Beamsley and had eight children, 2) Elizabeth Unknown, widow of John Solart, and had two more children, 3) Sarah Edward, widow of Nathaniel Piper. Ezekiel is my 9x Great Grandfather.  I descend from two of his daughters with Anne Beamsley (Margaret, born 24 February 1655 who married William Andrews; and from Prudence, born 4 April 1660 who married Benjamin Marshall)

For the truly curious:

New York Times, “A Blunder in 1642 Creates Headaches for Homeowners who Straddle a Border” by Paul Zielbauer, 26 January 2001.

The “Southwick Jog” explained by the Connecticut State Library http://www.cslib.org/jog.htm

Some Descendants of Nathaniel Woodward, Mathematician, compiled by Percy Emmons Woodward, Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press, 1940

Some Descendants of Nathaniel Woodward who came from England to Boston about 1630, by Harold Edward Woodward, Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1984

My blog post on the WOODWARD family "Surname Saturday":
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/06/surname-saturday-woodward-of-boston-and.html 

"The Southwick Jog" episode of Chronicle WCVB TV:
https://www.wcvb.com/article/main-streets-and-back-roads-the-southwick-jog/9216653?fbclid=IwAR2cUSEKZzhSt7pJ7v1j7EtW4r5B7IBTmlTb4EDlQsZOsyhblWiZd6tFYvQ 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "That little Notch on the Massachusetts Border?", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 30, 2012, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/01/that-little-notch-on-massachusetts.html: accessed [access date]).