Weathervane Wednesday ~ Happy 4th Anniversary to Weathervane Wednesday AND Another Weathervane by cousin Thomas Drowne

This is the 4th Anniversary of Weathervane Wednesday!  I wrote my very first weathervane post on August 24th, 2011, and today I am posting my 222nd weather vane.

This is an on-going series of blog posts on local weathervanes I post every week on Wednesdays.  Some of the weather vanes are whimsical, some are historical, but all are interesting.  Often my readers tip me off to some very unique and unusual weathervanes from their own areas!  If you know an interesting or historical weather vane, please let me know.

Today's weathervane is from Boston, Massachusetts.

Do you know the location of weather vane #222?  Scroll down to see the answer!

Today's weathervane was photographed at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.  You can find it at the entrance to the new American wing.  It is the third time I've posted a weathervane by my cousins in the Drowne family of Boston and Kittery, Maine.  You can see a post about Shem Drowne's  (1683 - 1774 ) famous grasshopper weathervane on the top of Faneuil Hall at this link HERE, and a link to his weathervane atop Boston's Old North Church HERE.

Shem Drown was born in Kittery, Maine in 1683. He was the son of Leonard Drown (1646 - 1729).  Leonard Drowne married first to Elizabeth Abbott about 1675.   So I guess that makes Leonard my  7th great grand uncle by marriage?  Shem would be my step cousin?

Thomas Drowne, Leonard's grandson, wrote a slip of paper about his father making the famous Faneuil Hall grasshopper in 1742, and put this paper inside dated 1755.  The grasshopper weathervane apparently fell off during a great earthquake and was replaced by Thomas.  You can read more about that at the link below.

And so son Thomas Drowne was also a tinsmith and made weathervanes, just like his famous father.  This one featured above is on display at the Museum of Fine Arts.  Not bad, 'eh?

My blog post about Shem Drowne's Faneuil Hall grasshopper weathervane
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/06/weathervane-wednesday-genealogical.html  

My blog post about Shem Drowne's weathervane atop of Boston's Old North Church
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/08/weathervane-wednesday-very-historic.html

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
http://www.mfa.org/  


UPDATE 3 May 2017 -

The 1805 Newbury First Parish Meeinghouse
photo restored by Wayne Chase

I have received new information about this weather vane from Wayne Chase.  This weathervane stood above three different meetinghouse buildings in Newbury, Massachusetts.  It was originally on the First Parish Meetinghous built in 1669.  It was then installed atop the 1805 meetinghouse.  "The weathervane survived a fire that destroyed this building on January 25th in 1868".  It was placed on the new church building built in 1867, but in 2008 it was sold "to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston for $575,000. A replica is now atop the spire."

This is a growing trend in New England.  Parishioners at churches that are historic, yet over 100, sometimes nearly 300 years old, face growing costs for repairing, restoring and renovating old wooden churches, steeples, roofs and additions.  Some churches have sold their historic communion silver, stained glass windows, or valuable books to fund these renovations.

Please read this newspaper article from the time of the weathervane sale:

Brian R. Ballou, "For Struggling Newbury Church, weather vane a gift from above", Boston Glove, posted 25 February 2009, accessed May 3, 2017 http://archive.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/02/25/for_struggling_newbury_church_weather_vane_a_gift_from_above/?page=full

It is interesting to note that the sign and the data base at the Museum of Fine Arts does not reflect the fact that this weathervane came from the church in Newbury, Massachusetts.  The photo of the 1805 meetinghouse (above) was restored by Wayne Chase, and you can see the rooster weather vane above both steeples in both images (above and below).

from Wayne Chase, unknown origin

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Weathervane Wednesday ~ Happy 4th Anniversary to Weathervane Wednesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 19, 2015, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/08/weathervane-wednesday-happy-4th.html: accessed [access date]).

Tombstone Tuesday ~ John McMurphy, died 1755 in Londonderry, New Hampshire "Justice of the Quorum"

This tombstone was photographed at Forest Hill Cemetery, Derry, New Hampshire

In Memory of                            In Memory of

  JOHN McMURPHY            Mrs. MARY McMURPHY

Esq. Justice of the                                Relict of       

 Quorum who                           John McMurphy

departed this life                           Esqr.  who died

Sept. ye 21st  AD  1755             Nov. ye 19th AD 1770

AEtat  73                                   AEtat 87

He represented this Town                                               

as a member of the General                                            

Court between 20 & 30 years                                          

John McMurphy was one of three brothers (John, Archibald and Alexander) who came to Londonderry, New Hampshire with their parents (James McMurphy) from Northern Ireland.  John McMurphy, Esquire, was born in 1682, married Mary Cargill and had five children.  His father was from Scotland, migrated to Northern Ireland and participated in the siege of Londonderry, Northern Ireland in 1689.  

According to Parker's The History of Londonderry, the first house built in Nutfield was for Reverend McGregor, and the second house was for John McMurphy, Esquire. 

This entry is in the Londonderry town records [according to page 20 of Parker's The History of Londonderry]

"John McMurphy, Esq., Justice of the Quorum, departed this life September 21, 1755, at Portsmouth, and was carried to Londonderry on Tuesday and buried on Wednesday, the 24th at the old burying place in this town, with an extraordinary company, aged about seventy-three years." 

I was curious about his title "Justice of the Quorum", and so I consulted with Judy G. Russell, The Legal Genealogist , who stated "Under some statutory systems, the most respected, usually best educated justices of the peace were designated as justices of the quorum and while much could be done by a single JP, other things couldn't be acted on without the presence of the required number of justices of the quorum."

The off center winged cherubs heads on this double tombstone caught my eye as I was wandering Forest Hill Cemetery last summer.  Although McMurphy lived in Londonderry, and was buried in Londonderry, and is featured in The History of Londonderry, this cemetery is now in the part of town that was named Derry after the schism in the early 1800s. 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ John McMurphy, died 1755 in Londonderry, New Hampshire, "Justice of the Quorum" ",  Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 18, 2015, http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/08/tombstone-tuesday-john-mcmurphy-died.html:  accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ WOODBURY of Beverly, Massachusetts

Yours Truly, at the Woodbury Family Reunion 2014
in Beverly, Massachusetts (at the Balch House)

I grew up in Beverly, Massachusetts where the name WOODBURY is well known. We had Woodbury friends and neighbors. There was a Woodbury Street and a Woodbury Point Mansion (the summer White House for President William Howard Taft 1909 and 1910), several historic Woodbury homesteads including the Peter Woodbury House on Dodge Street, and the William Woodbury Home at 111 Essex Street, built by my 9^th great grand uncle, and where my grandfather’s sister, Janet Wilkinson Blades (1898 – 1981) lived from 1927 until the 1970s.  Aunt Janet’s house was built in 1675, and you can read all about it HERE.

When I was growing up in Beverly we never knew that the WOODBURYs were our ancestors.  I’m sure that Aunt Janet would have been thrilled to know that Dad married one of the Woodbury descendants.

My 12^th great grandfather, John Woodbury, arrived in New England in 1624 with the Dorchester Company, ahead of the Puritans and the settlement of Salem.  He was one of the settlers known as “The Old Planters”, along with TRASK, BALCH, CONANT, and PALFREY who were granted 200 acres at the head of the Bass River in what is now the city of Beverly, Massachusetts.  John Woodbury’s brother, William, was living in Salem by 1636.  John Woodbury made at least one trip back to England in 1627, and returned to Beverly in 1628.  He was married at least twice and the names of his wives are unknown.

My 11^th great grandfather was Deacon Humphrey Woodbury, who married Elizabeth Hunter in Salem in 1638, was born in England and came to Beverly with his father, John, on his return trip to Massachusetts in 1628. Elizabeth Hunter, age 18, came on the ship Blessing with her siblings in 1635, perhaps under the care of another passenger named Hollingsworth.   She might have been the sister of Christian Hunter, who married the Mayflower passenger, Richard More, in Salem.  Humphrey called More his brother, and one of More’s daughters called Humphrey an uncle. According to an NEHGS article in the Register, Volume 14, page 321, Susannah Hunter (her mother) was married to Richard Hollingworth, and all the siblings (including Christian and Elizabeth) were together on board the Blessing, along with Richard More during one of his return trips.

Humphrey Woodbury and Elizabeth Hunter had twelve children, including children named Richard and Christian.  I descend from two of their children- Isaac and Humphrey (see the lineage below).

Some Woodbury sources:

Great Migration Begins, by Robert Charles Anderson, Volume III, pages 2054 – 2057 (sketch of John Woodbury).

Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John, Volume 18, pages 157 – 159; Volume 25, pages 78 – 79; Volume 26, page 83 (both John and William Woodbury)

Woodbury Genealogy, by Ruth A. Woodbury, a 1957 typescript genealogy, with a history of the Woodbury Genealogical Society, available at the NEHGS manuscript department, call number Mss 398

Genealogical Sketches of the Woodbury Family: Its Intermarriages and Connections, by Charles Levi Woodbury, 1904.  Available to read online at the Hathi Trust website  http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062476601;view=1up;seq=5

The Woodbury Family Reunion is hosted by the Beverly Historical Society every two years as part of the “Old Planters Reunion”.  The next reunion will be in September 2016 in Beverly, Massachusetts.  Please check the website for the historical society at www.beverlyhistory.org  

A previous blog post from 2011 about the William Woodbury House:

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/01/house-built-in-1676-by-william-woodbury.html

My WOODBURY genealogy:

Generation 1: John Woodbury, son of John Woodbury and Agnes Unknown, born about 1583 in Somerset, England, died January 1642 in Salem, Massachusetts; married first to Unknown about 1608 and had one child, married second to Agnes Unknown about 1629 in Salem and had four children.

Generation 2:  Humphrey Woodbury, son of John Woodbury and Unknown, born about 1609 in Buddleigh, Devonshire, England, died 11 October 1686 in Beverly, Massachusetts; married on 11 April 1638 in Salem to Elizabeth Hunter.  She was born about 1614 in England and died 1 May 1689 in Beverly. Twelve children, and I descend from two of those children: Isaac and Humphrey.

Lineage A:

Generation 3:  Isaac Woodbury,  born 24 February 1643/4 in Salem, died 11 March 1725 in Beverly; married on 9 October 1671 in Beverly to Mary Wilkes, daughter of Thomas Wilkes and Mary Unknown.  She was born in September 1651 in Salem and died 19 December 1702 in Beverly. Six children.

Generation 4:  Robert Woodbury, born 8 June 1672 in Beverly, died about 1651; married on 11 December 1683 in the Chebacco Parish of Ipswich (now Essex), Massachusetts to Mary West, daughter of Thomas West and Elizabeth Jackson.  She was born 4 May 1676 in Beverly and died 6 December 1758 in Beverly.  Nine children and I descend from two of those children: Robert and Isaac.

Lineage A1:

Generation 5: Robert Woodbury, born 24 September 1694 in Beverly, died 21 May 1750 in Beverly; married on 2 November 1750 in Beverly to Priscilla Ellingwood, daughter of Benjamin Ellenwood and Mary Unknown.  She was born 3 March 1696 in Beverly, and died in 1780 in Beverly.  Five children.

Generation 6: Robert Woodbury, born 28 October 1722 in Salem, and died in 1786; married on 29 January 1746 to Hannah Preston, daughter of Nehemiah Preston and Abigail Allen.  She was born 21 July 1722 in Beverly, and died January 1812 in Beverly. Eight children.

Generation 7:  Molly Woodbury, born 29 July 1749 in Beverly, died 27 April 1830 in Essex; married on 5 December 1771 to Westley Burnham, son of Westley Burnham and Deborah Story.  He was born 27 August 1747 in the Chebacco Parish (now Essex), and died 1 September 1835.  Ten children and I descend from two of those children.

Lineage A1a:

Generation 8: Asa Burnham, born 9 September 1778, died 23 May 1850; married 24 December 1801 in Ipswich to Polly Bray, daughter of Humphrey Bray and Molly Herrick.  She was baptized on 17 October 1779 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Eight children, and I descend from two of those children, Lydia and Henry.

Generation 9:  Lydia W. Burnham married Samuel Mears

Generation 10:  Samuel Mears married Sarah Ann Burnham

Generation 11: Sarah Burnham Mears married Joseph Gilman Allen

Generation 12:  Joseph Elmer Allen married Carrie Maude Batchelder

Generation 13: Stanley Elmer Allen married Gertrude Matilda Allen (my grandparents)

Lineage A1b:

Generation 8: Henry Burnham married Sally Poland

Generation 9: Sarah Ann Burnham married Samuel Mears (see above)

Lineage A2:

Generation 5:  Isaac Woodbury, son of Robert Woodbury and Mary West, born 18 June 1701 in Beverly, died 31 October 1775 in Beverly, married 11 October 1722 in Beverly to Abigail Herrick, daughter of Samuel Herrick and Sarah Leach.  She was born 13 November 1699 in Beverly and died 2 October 1765 in Beverly. Five children.

Generation 6:  Lydia Woodbury,  baptized on 27 June 1725 in Beverly, died 14 September 1779 in Gloucester, married 22 June 1749 in Gloucester to Humphrey Bray, son of John Bray and Susanna Woodbury.  He was born 27 March 1728 in Gloucester.  Seven children.

Generation 7: Humphrey Bray married Molly Herrick

Generation 8:  Polly Bray married Asa Burnham (see above)

Lineage B:

Generation 3:  Humphrey Woodbury, born 8 March 1647 in Salem, died 9 May 1724 in Gloucester; married on 10 October 1671 in Gloucester to Anna Window, daughter of Richard Window and Elinor Unknown.  She was baptized on 19 February 1654 in Gloucester and died 28 February 1728 in Gloucester.  Eleven children.

Generation 4:  Susanna Woodbury, born 18 September 1695 in Gloucester; married on 19 December 1716 in Gloucester to John Bray, son of Thomas Bray and Mary Emerson.  He was born on 7 September 1689 in Gloucester. Three children.

Generation 5: Humphrey Bray married Lydia Woodbury, daughter of Isaac Woodbury and Abigail Herrick.  Lydia was baptized on 27 June 1725 in Beverly, and died 14 September 1779 in Gloucester. Seven children.  (see above)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ WOODBURY of Beverly, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 15, 2015, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/08/surname-saturday-woodbury-of-beverly.html:  accessed [access date]). 

Hudson, New Hampshire Genealogy Club

Today Vincent and I had a great time showing the members of the Hudson, New Hampshire Genealogy Club all about genealogy blogging.  Besides describing the benefits of putting your family tree online in a blog, we also went live online and actually started a blog.  I hope all the members could see how easy it was to start blogging within minutes of setting up the blog account. 

The Hudson Genealogy Club meets on the second Friday of every month at 1:30 pm at the Rodgers Memorial Library.  I used to attend the meetings regularly when I was a resident of Londonderry, and I lived right off Route 102.  It was fun to come back and see some familiar faces!

The members seemed to very interested in blogging, and I hope to see several new New England GeneaBloggers and their blogs online soon. Check the tab at the top of my blog page to see all the current genealogy bloggers, and check back later this year to see if there are any new blogs added from Hudson, New Hampshire! 

Thank you, librarian Laurie Jasper, for inviting to speak today. 

Rodgers Memorial Library, Hudson, NH  http://rodgerslibrary.org/

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Hudson, New Hampshire Genealogy Club", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 14, 2015, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/08/hudson-new-hampshire-genealogy-club.htm : accessed [access date]). 

Finding the McCains: A Scots Irish Odyssey

This week Amazon has Finding the McCains: A Scots Irish Odyssey by Barry R. McCain on sale.   This book uses DNA studies and primary sources to draw insights about the McCain family of Nutfield (now Londonderry, Derry and Windham, New Hampshire). 

From Barry himself:

“This is the family of James McKeen, first magistrate of Nutfield/Londonderry.  His in-law Rev McGregor, etc., his brother John McKeen's family also settled in Nutfield.  We discovered the connections during the DNA testing, which revealed, not only were the New England McKeens the same family as the Mississippi McCains, but the kinship was a close one.  We all descend from the same McCain family that lived in Ulster late 1600s.  The immigrant ancestors of the MS McCains, Alexander and Hugh McKean are the sons of James and John McKeen.  We have now traced the family back to the late AD 1290s using DNA testing and primary sources.

Finding the McCains is an account of one Mississippi McCain’s 40 year odyssey to find his family in Ireland. Senator John McCain and his cousin, novelist Elizabeth Spencer, both include a short history of the Mississippi McCain family in their respective memoirs 'Faith of our Fathers' and 'Landscapes of the Heart.' This history is a romantic tale of Highland Scots who supported Mary Queen of Scots and who fled to Ireland after her downfall in 1568. The search for the McCains became a mystery story with clues, false turns, many adventures, and then ultimate success through Y chromosome DNA testing. In 2008 the McCains were reunited with their family that remained in Ireland, after 289 years of separation.

The McCain history includes people and events familiar to readers of Irish and Scottish history; Redshanks, Iníon Dubh, Mary Queen of Scots, the Earls of Argyll, the Ulster Migration, and the Scots-Irish, are all part of this family’s story. Faint memories of this past were told for generations in Mississippi and as the research progressed the facts behind these memories were uncovered. Another theme in the book is the Scots-Irish. Contemporary histories about the Scots-Irish present stereotyped and romanticized accounts of this dynamic group.  Finding the McCains reveals a more complex history and shows the cultural conflation common in Scots-Irish popular history.  Finding the McCains is also a genetic genealogy how-to guide for people of Irish and Scottish ancestry.”

Barry R McCain was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and spent his early life in Ouachita parish, Louisiana. He is the administrator of the Ulster Heritage Project. The Project sponsors the Ulster Heritage DNA Project and promotes research into family and general history of the nine counties of Ulster. Mr McCain's main research focus is the Gaelic families and clans of Argyll, the southern Hebrides, and the Scottish Lowlands. Mr. McCain has a degree in history from Ole Miss and he works as a writer and lives in Oxford, Mississippi.   He is the author of the blog McCain’s Corner  http://barryrmccain.blogspot.com/  and the author of The Laggan Redshanks:  The Highland Scots in West Ulster 1568 – 1630, 2014

Peer Review from Dr. William Roulston:

“In writing this book, Barry McCain has done a great service not only to those interested in the McCain ancestry, but to everyone fascinated by the millennia-old connections between Scotland and Ireland. In this volume he demonstrates the complexity of those connections, highlighting, for example, the often-overlooked Gaelic heritage of many of the families from Scotland that made Ulster their home. His use of DNA analysis to investigate otherwise hidden aspects of his ancestry serves as an exemplar of the way in which this technology can be applied to family history and the search for our forebears.

Throughout this book Barry's enthusiasm for his ancestry in both Scotland and Ireland, and his love for the people of both countries, shines through. This is a book to encourage all of us as we seek to discover something more of our past.”

I haven’t read this book yet, but I have recommended it to the Londonderry Leach library and the Derry Public Library to add to their genealogy collections.   

Link to the Amazon page for Finding the McCains

http://www.amazon.com/Finding-McCains-Scots-Irish-Odyssey/dp/0985587644/ref=as_sl_pc_ac_c_1_1_i_rec?tag=barryrmccainbooks-20&linkCode=w24&creative=496521&camp=212361&ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fbarryrmccain.blogspot.com%2F

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Finding the McCains:  A Scots Irish Odyssey", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 13, 2015, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/08/finding-mccains-scots-irish-odyssey.html : accessed [access date]).  

Weathervane Wednesday ~ On a Church Steeple

This is an on-going series of blog posts on local weathervanes I post every week on Wednesdays.  Some of the weather vanes are whimsical, some are historical, but all are interesting.  Often my readers tip me off to some very unique and unusual weathervanes from their own areas!  If you know an interesting or historical weather vane, please let me know.

Today's weathervane is from New Hampshire.

Do you know the location of weather vane #221?  Scroll down to see the answer!

This photograph was sent to me
by Andy Mack of Londonderry, NH

A few years ago Andy Mack of Londonderry sent me the middle photograph above.  He couldn't remember the church he had photographed, and I didn't know where to find this weathervane in Manchester.  After I moved to Manchester I was able to match up this photograph with the weathervane and steeple of the Brookside Congregational Church on Elm Street in Manchester.

The Brookside Congregational Church moved into this building in March 1970.  The congregational was formerly in the Franklin Street Church which stood on the corner of Franklin and Market Streets.  That congregation was organized in 1844 when the First Congregational Church became overcrowded.  The Franklin Street Church was demolished after the congregation moved to Brookside.

The Brookside Congregational Church website  http://www.brooksidecc.org/

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Weathervane Wednesday ~ On a Church Steeple", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 12, 2015, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/08/weathervane-wednesday-on-church-steeple.html: accessed [access date]).

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Three James Voses, Bedford, New Hampshire

This tombstone was photographed at the Old Bedford Cemetery, in Bedford, New Hampshire

ERECTED

to the Memory of

Lieut. James Vose

who died

Oct. 5, 1808 in the

75 year of his age.

James who died Jan. 3.

1770 aged 10 months

James who died Sept. 27, 1775

in the 3 year of his age. 

children of James Vose

and Abigail his wife.

Lieutenant James Vose was born on 2 March 1735 in Milton, Massachusetts, and died on 5 October 1808 in Bedford, New Hampshire.  He married Abigail Richardson, who was born in Litchfield, New Hampshire.  They had eight children, including these two young sons both named James.

James Vose was the son of Lieutenant Robert Vose, born 25 October 1693 in Milton, Massachusetts, and died 20 April 1760 in Milton.  He married Abigail Sumner on 14 September 1721 in Milton, daughter of William Sumner and Hester Puffer.  His wife, Abigail Richardson is a great granddaughter of Ezekiel Richardson (1604 - 1647) and Susannah Bradford, early settlers at Woburn, Massachusetts. 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Three James Voses, Bedford, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 11, 2015, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/08/tombstone-tuesday-three-james-voses.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ GOULD of Topsfield, Massachusetts

1872 Topsfield, Massachusetts from www.old-maps.com

I have two lineages from Alexander Gould of Maine (click HERE to see these) and two lineages from Richard Gould (1530 – 1558), whose children came to Essex County, Massachusetts (and two of those children were my ancestors).  This post is for my Massachusetts GOULD lineages.

Richard Gould lived in England and had two wives, Elizabeth Young and Mary Colder.  With Elizabeth he had six children and at least three three came to New England; John  (1573 – about 1633) who settled in Amesbury, Priscilla (b. 1585, who married John Putnam in Bovington, Buckinghamshire and settled in Salem; and Zaccheus (1589 – about 1668) who settled in Topsfield.  I descend from Priscilla and Zaccheus.  There is a Jeremy Gould who settled in Rhode Island, who is probably another sibling.

Priscilla Gould’s husband John Putnam received a 100 acre grant in Salem in 1641 and by the time he died in 1662 he owned more than 800 acres, and was very wealthy.   Three of their sons all spent their entire lives in Salem, and had descendants, and a daughter, Elizabeth, married Richard Hutchinson (her brother, Nathaniel, married Elizabeth Hutchinson).    Some Putnam descendants were involved in the 1692 witch hysteria, especially the family of Priscilla’s brother Thomas Putnam.  His daughter-in-law, Ann (Carr) Putnam and granddaughter, Ann Putnam, Jr. (1679 – 1716) accused over 60 people of being witches.  (See my lineage from Priscilla Gould below)

Zaccheus Gould married Phebe Deacon in England.  They had six children, one son and four daughters including a daughter named Priscilla Gould (1625 – 1663), my 8^th great grandmother.  Zaccheus settled in the part of Ipswich, Massachusetts that became the town of Topsfield.  He left all his estate to his son, John Gould.  Priscilla Gould married John Wild, who was a witness against her brother, John Gould (1635 – 1710) during the 1692 witch trials in Salem. (See my lineage from Zaccheus Gould below, and click HERE for my post about the WILD/WILDES family.)

The Zaccheus Gould homestead is still standing at 85 River Road in Topsfield, Massachusetts.  It is a private home, and was probably built by John Gould for his father. See this Wikipedia article for a photo and story:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaccheus_Gould_House    The Topsfield Historical Society has also restored the Captain Joseph Gould (the great grandson of Zaccheus Gould) barn, circa 1710, and you can see a photo and story at this link: http://www.topsfieldhistory.org/gould_barn.shtml 

Some GOULD resources:

Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis, by Walter Goodwin Davis, 1996 (also on CD-ROM), Volume II, pages 50 – 57 for sketch of Zaccheus Gould.

The Family of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield, by Benjamin Gould, 1895 (also online at archive.org)

My GOULD genealogy:

Generation 1:  Richard Gould,  born about 1553 in Stoke Mandeville, died 1604

Lineage A:

Generation 2:  Priscilla Gould, born about 1585 in Bovington, died in Salem, Massachusetts; married about 1611 in Bovington to John Putnam, son of Nicholas Putnam and Margaret Goodspeed.  He was born 17 January 1570/80 in Wingrove or Aston Abbotts, Buckinghamshire, England, and died 30 December 1662 in Salem, Massachusetts. Four children.

Generation 3: Nathaniel Putnam, born 3 September 1619 in Wingrove, Buckinghamshire, died 23 July 1700 in Danvers (Salem Village);  married on 3 September 1652 in Salem to Elizabeth Hutchinson, daughter of Richard Hutchinson and Alice Bosworth.  She was baptized on 30 August 1629 in Arnold, Nottinghamshire, England and died 24 June 1668 in Salem.  Seven children.

Generation 4: Elizabeth Putnam married George Flint

Generation 5:  George Flint married Jerusha Pope

Generation 6: George Flint married Hannah Phelps

Generation 7: Phebe Flint married John Flint

Generation 8:  Olive Flint married Luther Simonds Munroe

Generation 9: Phebe Cross Munroe married Robert Wilson Wilkinson

Generation 10: Albert Munroe Wilkinson married Isabella Lyons Bill

Generation 11: Donald Munroe Wilkinson married Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandmother)

Lineage B:

Generation 2:  Zaccheus Gould, born 1589 in Bovington, died after 20 March 1668 in Topsfield, Massachusetts; married about 1617 in England to Phebe Deacon, daughter of Thomas Deacon and Martha Field.  She was born in April 1597 in Hemel, Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and died 20 September 1663 in Topsfield.  Six children.

Generation 3.  Priscilla Gould, born about 1625 in England, died 16 April 1663 in Topsfield; married about 1645 to John Wildes.  He was born about 1619 and died 14 May 1705 in Topsfield.  Eight children.

Generation 4:  Sarah Wildes married Edward Bishop

Generation 5: James Bishop married Sarah Holmes

Generation 6:  Sarah Bishop married Daniel Poland

Generation 7: Martha Poland married Alexander Mears

Generation 8:  Samuel Mears married Lydia W. Burnham

Generation 9:  Samuel Mears married Sarah Ann Burnham

Generation 10: Sarah Burnham Mears married Joseph Gilman Allen

Generation 11:  Joseph Elmer Allen married Carrie Maude Batchelder

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

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo,  "Surname Saturday ~ Gould of Topsfield, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 8, 2015, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/08/surname-saturday-gould-of-topsfield.html:  accessed [access date]).