Capt. Jonathan SPARROW (1633 -1707) was Alex’s 9th Great Grandfather; one of 1,024 in this generation of the Shaw line.

Capt. Jonathan Sparrow was born 26 Oct 1633 in Kent, England.  Hia parents were Richard SPARROW and Pandora [__?__]. He maried Rebecca BANGS 26 Oct 1654 in Eastham MA.  Our ancestor, Rebbeca Sparrow was his first daughter.  After Rebecca died, Jonathan  married Hannah Prence Mayo (widow of Nathaniel Mayo) on 5 Jul 1667 at Eastham MA. He married a third time to  Sarah Lewis Cobb (widow of James Cobb) on 23 Nov 1698.  Jonathan  died on 21 Mar 1706/07 at Eastham MA at age 73.

Jonathan Sparrow Gravestone –  HERE LYES BURIEDYe BODY OF CAPTJONATHAN SPRROWAGED 73 YEARS DIED MARCH Ye 21st 1706/7

Jonathan Sparrow Headstone 2

Eastham Cove Burying Ground, Eastham, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts
Note: This gravestone along with that of Thomas Mulford is the oldest on the Outer Cape from Orleans to Provincetown. The side borders are deeply carved with fruits and gourds. It is carved in the style of William Mumford or Nathaniel Emmes.

Jonathan Sparrow Reverse Grave

Jonathan Sparrow Headstone Detail

Rebecca Bangs was born 1632 in Plymouth MA. She was the daughter of Edward BANGS and Rebecca HOBBART. Rebecca  died before 1678.

Hannah Prence  was  born 1628 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Mass.  Her parents were  our ancestors  Gov.Thomas PRENCE and  Patience  BREWSTER.   Hannah first married 13 Feb 1650 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass to Nathaniel Mayo (b. 1627 in England d. 1662 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.)  After Nathaniel died, she married 5 Jun 1667 in Mass. to Jonathan Sparrow. Hannah died 23 Nov 1698.

Children of Hannah Prence and Nathaniel Mayo:

i. Thomas Mayo b: 7 Dec 1650 Eastham

ii. Nathaniel Mayo b: 13 Nov 1652 Eastham; m. Elizabeth Wixam (1660 – ).

iii. Samuel Mayo b: 12 Oct 1655 Eastham;  d. 29 Oct 1738 in Eastham; m. 26 May 1681 to Ruth Hopkins (b: Jun 1653 in Eastham –  d. dates given online vary from 1693 to 1738, in Eastham or Harwich) Ruth’s parents were Gyles Hopkins and Katherine Wheldon  All four of her grandparents were our ancestors:  Gabriel WHELDON & Jane [__?__] and Stephen HOPKINS & Mary [__?__] Samuel and Ruth had seven children born between 1682 and 1696. Later, Samuel married 31 Aug 1728 in Eastham to Mary Sweat (b: 1701 in Eastham).

iv. Hannah Mayo b: 17 Oct 1657 Eastham

v. Theophilus Mayo b: 17 Dec 1659 Eastham

vi. Bathsheba Mayo b: 1661 Eastham

Sarah Lewis was born 2 Feb 1644 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Mass. Her parents were George Lewis and Sarah Jenkins. She first married 26 Dec 1663 in Barnstable  to James Cobb (b. 14 Jan 1634 in Plymouth, Mass – d. 1695 in Barnstable)  After James died, she married 23 Nov 1698 in Barnstable  to Jonathan Sparrow.  Sarah died 11 Feb 1735 in Barnstable.

Children of Jonathan and Rebecca

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Children of Jonathan and Hannah Prence:

Jonathan Sparrow, Esq.  was a very active citizen, being a school-master, constable, deacon of the church and justice of the peace; he was elected deputy nineteen times and selectman ten times. In King Phillip’s war he began as an ensign, then lieutenant, receiving his captaincy in 1689.

Cape Code Library of Local History and Genealogy, Vol I

Chatham, Barnstable, Mass

In 1665, to settle the difficulty at Monomoy, now Chatham between William Nickerson and the Colonial government respecting the illegal purchase of land of the Indian sachem there, Nickerson was allowed one hundred acres of the purchased land, and Major John FREEMAN, with Thomas Hinckley, William Sargeant, Anthony Thacher, Nathaniel Bacon, Edmund HAWES,  Thomas HOWES, Sr,  Thomas FOLLAND, Sr and Lt. Joseph Rogers was allowed a grantee of the remaining portion with the privilege with the above named to purchase adjacent land.

In 1672,  Major Freeman disposed of his right to William Nickerson; and in 1674 Major Freeman and  Capt. Jonathan SPARROW were appointed to lay out Nickerson’s land with instructions, but for some cause the work was not accomplished by the committee until 1692.

Native American tribes who lived in the Chatham before European colonization include the Nauset, specifically the Manomoy or Monomoy people. “Manamoyik” was a Nauset village located near present-day Chatham. Explorer Samuel de Champlain landed here in 1606, contacting (and skirmishing with) the Nauset. English settlers first settled in Chatham in 1665, and the town was incorporated in 1712, naming it after Chatham, Kent, England. Located at the “elbow” of Cape Cod, the community became a shipping, fishing, and whaling center. Chatham’s early prosperity would leave it with a considerable number of 18th century buildings, whose charm helped it develop into a popular summer resort.

10 Jun 1673 – John FREEMAN, Jonathan SPARROW, John Tracy, Mark Snow, Jeremiah Howes, Arthur HOWLAND and Isaac Barker receipted to “our mother-in-law Mrs. Mary Prence late wife and executrix to our father Thomas Prence Esquire deceased” for their shares of the estate of Thomas Prence.

1675 – Jonathan was Lietenant in the 2nd Barnstable Company, Plymouth Regiment in the war with King Phillip.  Our ancestor Captain John GORHAM was Jonathan’s Captain in the same company.  While they are both related to us, they are five generations removed from each other.  John led his troops in the Great Swamp Fight (or Massacre) of December 19, 1675, was wounded and died two months later..

10 Jun 1676 – Josiah Winslow, Esquire, “attorney for … Susanna Prence at Catheren Gate near the Tower in London …, singlewoman”; and John Freeman in the right of Mary his wife and as attorney for “Mary Prence, relict and executrix of the last will and testament of the honored Thomas Prence, late Governor … deceased,” and of Jonathan Sparrow and Hannah his wife, Marke Snow and Jane his wife, and Jeremiah HOWES and Sarah his wife, daughters of the said Thomas Prence; and John Tracye and Mary his wife, Arthur Howland and Elizabeth his wife, and Isacke Barker and Judith his wife, daughters also of the said Thomas Prence, sold to Constant Southworth, treasurer and agent of Plymouth Colony, “all that our dwelling house, messuage or tenement” in Plymouth “at a place commonly called Plain Dealing”; signed by Josiah Winslow, John Freeman, John Trasye, Arthur Howland and Isack Barker.

1679  – “Select Courts” “being establishe by law, Capt. Jonathan Sparow , Mr Mark Snow and Mr. John Doane were commissioned to hold them in this town.” Eastham, MA.

Children

1. Rebecca SPARROW (See Deacon Thomas FREEMAN‘s page)

2. John Sparrow

John’s wife Apphia Tracy was born 1663 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Mass. Her parents were John Tracy and Mercy Prence. Apphia died 15 Dec 1739 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.

John Sparrow Gravestone — Orleans Cemetery, East Orleans, Barnstable County, Mass

Inscription:
78y 7m 20d

3. Priscilla Sparrow

Priscilla’s husband Edward Gray was born 1656 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass. Her parents were John Gray and Hannah Lumpkin. After Priscilla died, he married 16 Jul 1684 in Yarmouth, Cape Cod, Mass to Melatiah Lewis (b. 13 Jan 1664 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Mass. – d. 1729 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass.) Edward died 7 Jun 1726 in Tiverton, Bristol, Mass

4. Jonathan Sparrow

Jonathan’s first wife Rebecca Merrick was born 28 Nov 1668 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass. Her parents were William Merrick (1643 – 1732) and Abigail Hopkins (1644 – ). Rebecca died before 5 May 1723 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.

Jonathan’s second wife Sarah Snow was born 16 Feb 1672/73 Eastham, Barnstable, Mass. Her parents were our ancestors Jabez SNOW and Elizabeth SMITH. She first married Henry Young (b. 17 Mar 1671/72 in Eastham – d. 26 Apr 1706 in Eastham) His parents were John Young (b. 1624) and Abigail Howland (1629 – 1692). His maternal grandparents were Quakers Henry Howland and Mary Newland and his great grandparents were our ancestors Henry HOWLAND Sr and Margaret AIRES.

There is an inconsistency between Rebecca Merrick’s reported death before 5 May 1723 and Sarah’s and Jonathan’s reported 1712 marriage.

Many genealogies say that Sarah and Jonathan had a son Jabez Sparrow born in 1712.  I can find no further information on Jabez nor Rebecca’s death (the “before” note indicates a probate record existed) or Sarah and Jonathan’s marriage.

Some genealogies say that Jonathan and Sarah had a daughter Sarah Sparrow (b. ~ 1705 in Eastham – d. ~ 1784 in Eastham) who married Enos Knowles (30 Apr 1712 in Eastham – d. ~1784 in Eastham) Enos’ parents were Samuel Knowles (1682 – 1750) and Bethiah Brown (1685 – ). Enos and Sarah had six children betwen 1736 and 1744.

Other genealogies say Enos’ wife Sarah’s parents were Jonathan’s brother Richard Sparrow and Mercy Cobb. However, Richard and Mercy’s daughter Sarah Sparrow (b. 1708 in Eastham – d. 1790 in Eastham) married Edmund Freeman (b. 1703 in Barnstable, Mass. – d. 22 Jul 1782 in Orleans, Barnstable, Mass.) and had at least two children Jonathan (b. 1730) and Edmund Jr. (b. 1731). Edmund, married first, April 22, 1725 to Lois Paine, and second Sep 25, 1729 to Sarah Sparrow.

Some thoughts:

•  It’s a little unusual that Rebecca had six children between ages 22 and 34 and then none after.
• The seventeen years between Henry’s death in 1706 and Rebecca’s death in 1723 is a long time to be a widow and then remarry.
• Divorce was unusual in 18th C Massachusetts  and court records plentiful.
• It seems likely that their were two cousins named Sarah Sparrow, one who married Enos Knowles and another who married Edmund Freeman.
• Sarah Sparrow and Sarah Snow share the same first name.
• Jabez was Sarah’s father’s name.

Therefore, my conclusion in that Sarah and Jonathan married shortly after Henry Young’s 26 Apr 1706 death and Rebecca Merrick died WELL before 5 May 1723.   If any knows more, please post a reply, thanks.,

Jonathan Sparrow Jr Gravestone —  Orleans Cemetery, East Orleans, Barnstable County, Mass Find A Grave Memorial# 47232439

Children of Jonathan and Rebecca:

i. Hannah Sparrow b. 1690 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.;

ii. Abigail Sparrow b. 1691 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.;

iii. Jonathan Sparrow b. 1695 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.;

iv. Joseph Sparrow b. 1699 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.;

v. John Sparrow b. 1700 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.;

vi. Rebecca Sparrow b. 15 Sep 1702 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.;

6. Lydia Sparrow

Lydia’s first husband William Freeman was born Oct 1662 Eastham, Mass.  His parents were John FREEMAN and Mercy PRENCE.  William died 31 MAY 1687 Eastham, Mass.

Lydia’s second husband Jonathan Higgins was born Aug 1664 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass. His parents were Jonathan Higgins and Elizabeth Rogers. Lydia died 2 Nov 1754 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass

7. Elizabeth Sparrow

Elizabeth’s husband Samuel Freeman Capt Samuel Freeman was born 26 Mar 1662 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.  His parents were Samuel Freeman and Mercy Southworth.  After Elizabeth died 31 Aug 1688 Eastham, Mass during the birth of their second child, he married 1693 to Eastham, Mass to Bathsheba Lathrop, daughter of Barnabas LATHROP and  Susanna CLARK.  Samuel died 30 Jan 1743 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.

8. Richard Sparrow

Richard’s wife Mercy Cobb was born 9 Apr 1685 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Mass. Her parents were James Cobb (1634 – 1694) and Sarah Lewis (1644 – 1735). After Richard died in 1728, she married 19 Apr 1729 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass to Israel Doane (b. 1672 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass/ – d. 5 Jun 1740 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.) Mercy died 1732 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Mass

Richard Sparrow Headstone — Orleans Cemetery, East Orleans, Barnstable County, Mass

HERE LYES Ye
BODY OF Mr
RICHARD SPARROW
AGED 53 YEARS
DEC’D APRIL 13
1728

The gravestone has sunk and part of the inscription is below ground.

9. Patience Sparrow

Patience’s first husband John Paine was born 14 Mar 1661. His parents were Thomas Paine and Mary Snow. John died 1 Oct 1712 in Orleans, Barnstable, Mass.

Patience’s second husband John Jenkins was born 13 Nov 1659 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Mass. His parents were John Jenkins and Mary Ewer. John died 8 Jul 1736 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Mass

10. Abigail Sparrow

Abigail’s husband Samuel Mayo was born about 1682 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass. His parents were Samuel Mayo and Ruth Hopkins. Samuel died 07 Oct 1761 in Harwich, Barnstable, Mass

Sources:

http://newenglandgenealogy.pcplayground.com/f_109.htm#22

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/i/c/Stanton-G-Richards/FAMO2-0001/d163.htm#P4672

http://www.caskey-family.com/genealogy/JonathanSparrow.htm

http://www.conovergenealogy.com/ancestor-p/p194.htm

http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=2241377

Richard SPARROW (1605 – 1660) was Alex’s 10th Great Grandfather.  One of 2,048 in this generation of the Shaw line.

Richard Sparrow Coat of Arms

Richard Sparrow was born in 1605 in Kent England.  He was married to Pandora BANGS in 1629. He immigrated in 1632 from England.  Richard died on 8 Jan 1660/61 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass. Burial in Cove Burying Ground

Our ancestor Capt. Jonathan SPARROW was  his only child.

Pandora Bangs  was born in 1605 in Panfield, Braintree, Essex, England. Her parents were Edward BANGS and Rebecca HOBART. Pandora died after Jan 1665 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony and is burried in Cove Burying Ground.

Richard Sparrow House 1640 — one of the oldest houses remaining in Plymouth – open as a museum

Richard was a Yeoman and a Surveyor,

01 Jan 1632/33 – Lived in Plymouth, Mass as a freeman

On or before 1653 – Moved to Eastham, Massachusetts

Richard Sparrow Headstone — Cove Burying Ground, Eastham, Barnstable County, Mass

Buried: Eastham Cove Burying Ground, Eastham, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts. Marker reads:

HERE RESTS THE DUST OF RICHARD SPARROW AND HIS WIFE PANDORA WHO CAME FROM KENT COUNTY ENGLAND ABOUT 1633 AND SETTLED IN PLYMOUTH  ABOUT 1650 THEY CAME TO EASTHAM AND SETTLED NEAR THIS PLACE WHERE HE DIED JANUARY 8,1660 HERE ALSO RESTS JONATHAN SPARROW ONLY CHILD OF RICHARD TOGETHER WITH HIS FIRST TWO WIVES REBECCA BANGS & HANNAH PRINCE HE SETTLED IN THE PART OF EASTHAM NOW EAST ORLEANS WHERE AFTER FILLING MANY OFFICES OF HONOR AND TRUST IN BOTH CHURCH AND STATE HE DIED MARCH 21, 1706 AGED 73 YEARS

IN MEMORY OF THESE EARLY SETTLERS OF OUR COUNTRY WE THEIR DESCENDENTS HAVE ERECTED THIS TABLET IN THIS CENTENNIAL YEAR
OF OUR AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE A D 1876

Richard Sparrow, his wife Pandora, and son Jonathan, left their home in England, and arrived in New  Plimoth by 1633.  As a freeman, Richard was granted a house tract of six acres in 1636, which required him to construct a house within four years.   The original two-story house contained one room on each level and utilized cross summer beam construction.  With its large rooms, leaded glass windows and paneled walls, it was a grand home on the banks of what is now known as Town Brook.

By Seventeenth Century standards, Richard’s family was small, which dictated the demanding work of colonial life be completed by only three family members.  In 1639, Mary Moorecock was apprenticed to Richard and Pandora for nine years in exchange for food, lodging, clothes and a ewe lamb.  The lamb was to be kept by Mary’s stepfather, who was to “keep one third of the increase for labor”.

Richard Sparrow was a surveyor by trade.  He was actively involved in the Colony and appointed to “View of the Meadows” in 1640.  During the same year and the following one, he served as Constable for the Colony.  Between 1640 and 1653 he was named Surveyor of Highways seven times, and sat on over twenty-eight juries.  By 1642 Sparrow’s land base grew, adding seven or more tracts to his original six acre house lot.

In 1644 Richard and Pandora adopted Elizabeth Hopkins, increasing the family size to five members.  The Sparrow family remained in this house until 1653 when it was sold to George Bonum.  The family soon after moved to Eastham.  While in Eastham, Richard remained active in the colonial government, serving as Eastham’s representative to Plymouth, as well as deputy to the General Court.  In 1657, Sparrow sold his remaining land holdings in Plymouth to Gyles Rickard.

Upon Richard Sparrow’s death on January 8, 1660, he was buried in Eastham and his estate was divided among his wife, son and three surviving grandchildren.

EDUCATION: He signed his name to an agreement regarding the Kennebec trade, 6 October 1659. His inventory included “a Bible [and] 2 small books” valued at 10s.

OFFICES:
Deputy from Eastham to Plymouth General Court, 6 Apr 1653, 8 Jun 1655, 3 Jun 1656
Grand jury, 4 Jun 1639, 6 Jun 1643, 7 Jun 1653, 7 Jun 1659
Jury, 3 Mar 1639/40, 1 Sep 1640, 1 Feb 1640/1, 1 Jun 1641, 6 Jul 1641, 6 Sep 1641, 7 Dec 1641, 7 Jun 1642, 7 Nov 1643, 3 Mar 1644/5, 28 Oct 1645, 7 Jul 1646, 2 Mar 1646/7, 7 Jun 1648, 3 Oct 1648, 6 Mar 1648/9, 29 Oct 1649, 6 Mar 1649/50, 6 Jun 1650, 2 Oct 1650, 4 Mar 1650/1, 7 Jun 1651, 4 Jun 1652, 4 Jun 1657
Petit jury, 1 Jun 1647, 4 Oct 1648 of life and death for Allice Bishope
Coroner’s jury, 5 Jun 1638, 1 Aug1648 on the body of a child of Allis Bishop
committee to survey land, 5 May 1640
committee on Kennebec trade, 3 Oct 1659
Plymouth constable, 3 Mar 1639/40, 2 Jun 1640, 7 Mar 1642/3
Highway surveyor, 3 Mar 1639/40, 2 Jun 1640, 4 Jun 1645, 1 Jun 1647, 7 Jun 1648
Tax collector, 4  Jun 1650
Eastham surveyor of highways, 1 Jun 1658
In Plymouth section of 1643 Plymouth Colony list of men able to bear arms

ESTATE:
Assessed 9s. in the Plymouth tax lists of 25 Mar 1633 and 27 Mar 1634
7 Nov 1636 _ Granted six acres at Plymouth “to belong to their dwelling houses there, & not to be sold from their houses”
5 Mar 1637/8 – Granted forty acres “at the north end of Fresh Lake, and a parcel of marsh for meadow lying on the south side of Fresh Lake”
1 Jun 1640 – Granted five acres of meadow
2 Nov 1640 – Granted five acres at Lakenham
12 Jan 1639/40 – John Barnes of Plymouth sold to Richard Sparrow of the same four two-year-old steers and one three-year-old bull, for £83 Richard Sparrow immediately sold the bull and two of the steers to Josias Winslow of Plymouth, for £50.
16 Sep 1641 – Richard Sparrow was granted two acres of meadow ground at Wood Island “which was Mris Fullers”
7  Dec 1641 – Granted a parcel of upland 7 December 1641
17 Oct 1642 – Granted four acres of upland at the head of Mr. Hicks’s field.
1653 (day and month not given) – Richard Sparrow of Eastham sold to George Bonum of Plymouth “all that his house and garden plot on which the house standeth being scituate in Plymouth aforesaid in the South Street near the mill together with six acres of upland … in the new field”
4 Jun 1657 – “Richard Sparrow of Eastham, planter,” sold to Giles Rickard Sr. of Plymouth, weaver, “a parcel of upland meadow in the meadow commonly called Doten’s Meadow in the township of Plymouth aforesaid containing five acres”
6 Oct 1657 – Richard Sparrow and others were allowed to claim lands about thirteen English miles from Rehoboth
1 Jun 1658 – Granted a portion of land between Bridgewater and Weymouth

4 Oct 1658 – Richard Sparrow of Eastham, planter, sold to Abraham Sampson of Duxbury, carpenter, “a parcel of marsh meadow containing three acres and three quarters or thereabouts … lying on the east side of the great wood island in the township of Marshfield … whereof two acres of the said three acres and three quarters was at first granted to Joshua Pratt and by him sold to Josias Cooke, and by him sold to Richard Sparrow; and the other acre and three quarters granted to Mistress Bridgett Fuller and exchanged with Richard Sparrow for two acres in Dotie’s Meadow”; “the wife of the said Richard Sparrow hath given her consent”

In his will, dated 19 Nov 1660 and proved 5 Mar 1660/61, Richard Sparrow bequeathed to “Pandora my loving wife my dwelling house and housing with my garden plot adjacent in the Township of Eastham during her life and then to belong to Jonathan Sparrow my son” (along with some movables); “as for my uplands at Poche and my meadow ground … the one half I have already given to Jonathan my son and the other half … I give to John Sparrow my grandchild as his propere inheritance only my wife to have the use of my meadow or as much as she shall need during her life”; “whatsoever land shall befall to me from the country as my right it being purchased I give to John Sparrow my grandchild; “to the church of Eastham one ewe sheep to be disposed of according to the discretion of my overseers”; to “Pressila Sparrow my grandchild one ewe sheep to be improved in a small stock for her, and the rest of my ewe sheep I give to John and Rebecca Sparrow my grandchildren to be improved as a stock for them; to “Jonathan Sparrow my son my great cloth coat, and for the rest of my wearing apparel, my wife to dispose of them as she see cause”; wife Pandora and son Jonathan to be executors; friends and brethren Mr. Thomas Prence of Eastham, Mr. Thomas Willett of Rehoboth and Lieutenant Thomas Southworth of Plymouth to be overseers; residue of estate to be equally divided between wife and son The inventory of the estate of Richard Sparrow was taken 22 Jan 1660/61 and totalled £85, with no real estate included

MARRIAGE: By about 1629 Pandora _____ (assuming she was mother of Jonathan); she survived her husband. (According to some sources, in “1665 the widow [Pandora] and son [Jonathan] sold the Eastham home and removed to what is now East Orleans where Pandora probably died” [ Dawes-Gates 2:765, citing CCL 32:3]; this transaction is not recorded in the Plymouth Colony land records.)

EVENTS:

24 Jun 1639  – “Mary Moorecock hath of her own voluntary will, with consent of her father-in-law, Thomas Whitton, put herself apprentice with Richard Sparrow, of Plymouth, and Pandora, his wife,” for a term of nine years   in exchange for food, lodging, clothes and a ewe lamb.The lamb was to be kept by Mary’s stepfather, who was to “keep one third of the increase for labor”.

5 Nov 1638  – “Richard Sparrow, of Plymouth, yeo[man],” was surety for William Burne (i.e., Bourne) of Duxbury.

24 Jun 1639 – Mary Moorecock, with the consent of her father-in-law (step father) apprenticed herself to Richard Sparrow and his wife Pandora for nine years (PCR 1:128-9). It is likely Richard and Pandora needed help running their household.

7 Dec 1641  – Richard was one of eight men who brought various actions against James Luxford, primarily for trespass

1644 – Adoption of  Elizabeth Hopkins. Willed by her mother Ruth to be raised “as his own” until married or 19 years old. Transfer carried out by Myles Standish and Caleb Hopkins. On 5 October 1656, Captain Myles Standish brought suit against Richard Sparrow of Eastham, on behalf of Elizabeth Hopkins, charging that Sparrow had not performed the terms of an agreement concerning Elizabeth.

2 Oct 1650 Thomas Shrive was presented to the court for pilfering corn from Richard Sparrow’s barn, and Richard Sparrow was censured for concealing Shrive’s crime (PCR 2:162). Was Richard a compassionate man who understood Shrive’s need for food and forgave him for the theft?

7 Mar 1653/54 – Sparrow won an action against Nathaniel Mayo for defamation

5 Oct 1656  – Captain Myles Standish brought suit against Richard Sparrow of Eastham, in behalf of Elizabeth Hopkins, charging that Sparrow had not performed the terms of an agreement concerning Elizabeth

6 Oct 1657 – Richard Sparrow won his suit against Ralph Smith for taking away a piece of timber, though having been forbidden, and refusing to give it back

Source:

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/i/c/Stanton-G-Richards/FAMO2-0001/d163.htm#P4673

http://capecodhistory.us/genealogy/wellfleet/i2394.htm

http://www.caskey-family.com/genealogy/RichardSparrow.htm

In 1931 Mary Walton Ferris published a typically thorough study of Richard Sparrow and his son Jonathan [Dawes-Gates 2:763-68], and in 1960 Donald Lines Jacobus also prepared a briefer account [ Ackley-Bosworth 41-42]..

http://www.sparrowhouse.com/SparrowMain.htm

http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=2249598&st=1

http://massandmoregenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/09/richard-sparrow-born-england-ca-1605.html

Capt. Edward BANGS(1591 – 1678) was Alex’s 10th Great Grandfather; one of 2,048 in this generation.

Edward Bangs Coat of Arms

Edward Bangs was baptized on 28 Oct 1591 at Penfield, Essex, England.  His parents were John BANGS and Jane CHAIRE (CHAVIS).  Reports that Edward was born  at Chichester, Sussex, England are thought to be incorrect.  He emigrated on 31 Jul 1623 to Plymouth Colony sailing on the Anne.  He is listed as “Edward Bangs, from Panfield, Essex Co., Shipwright.”  He married Lydia Hicks around  1633 at Plymouth.  After Lydia died, he married Rebecca HOBART between 1634 and 1636 at Eastham MA. Edward died between 19 Oct 1677 (date of will) and 5 Mar 1678 (date of probate) at Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.

Edward Bangs – Headstone Erected by Edward Bangs’ descendants 1918

Lydia Hicks was born around 1633 at Plymouth. Her parents were Robert Hicks and Margaret Winslow. Robert Hicks had arrived in Plymouth in 1621 on the Fortune. The rest of the Hicks family – Robert’s wife Margaret, and their three children, Samuel, Phoebe and Lydia, arrived on the Anne (as did Edward Bangs).

Rebecca Hobart was baptized on 29 Dec 1611 at Wymondham, Norfolk, England. Her parents were  Edmund HOBART and Margaret DEWEY.  She  may also have been known as Rebecca Hubbard.  She immigrated in 1633 with her parents and siblings Edmund, Thomas, Alice, Joshua and Sarah. Rebecca died in 1679 in Plymouth, Mass. Child of Edward and Lydia Hicks:

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Children of Edward and Rebecca:

Spelling variations include Bank, Banke, Banck, Banckes and others.

Edward Bangs  was a shipwright and served on several town committees, holding a responsible position within the community. Edward Bangs signed his will and several deeds. He superintended the building of a forty or fifty ton barque which tradition say was the first vessel built at Plymouth.

He was also an Innkeeper  “Liberty is granted unto Edward Bangs to draw and sell wine and strong waters at Eastham, provided it be for the refreshment of the English, and not to be sold to the Indians,” Edward Bangs and his family moved to Cape Cod in the 1640s when the town of Nauset (later renamed Eastham) was being established. In Nauset, Edward was licensed to sell alcohol. 1623 – Granted land in the amount of four acres as a passenger of the Anne  in the division of land  at Plymouth,.

In the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle “Edward Banges” was the thirteenth person in the twelthe company.

3 Jan 1627/28 – On committee to lay out land Plymouth, MA

1633 – Listed as a freeman at Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

1 Jul 1633 – Held the position of committee to divide meadow

1 Oct 1634 : ”Apoynted for laying out of highwayes : For Duxbery side, Capt Miles Standish, Mr William Colier, Jonathan Brewster, William Palmer, Steuen Trace. For Plimouth, John Jeney, Francis COOKE, [George KEMPTON’s son], Manaseh Kempton, Edward BANGS, Nicholas Snow, John Winsloe, James Hurst. The high wayes to be layd out before the 15 of Nouember next.”

5 Jan 1634/35  and 1 Mar 1635/36 – On committee to assess taxes, Plymouth, MA 14 Mar 1635/36 – Plymouth representative to reunite Plymouth and Duxbury (but did not serve)

4 Oct-1636,  3 Jan-1636/37, 3-Sep-1639, 3-Dec-1639, 3-Mar-1639/40, 3-Aug-1641, 6-Sep-1641, 7-Dec-1641, 1-Mar-1641/42, 6-Jun-1643, 7-Nov-1643. – Petit Jury, Plymouth, MA

7 Mar-1636/37 Edward Bangs was listed as a freeman at Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

7 Mar-1636/37, 5-Jun-1638, 2-Jun-1640, 1-Mar-1641/42, 7-Jun-1652. – Held the office of  Grand Jury, Plymouth, MA

20 Mar 1636/37, 2 Oct 1637, 1 Jun-1640 – Committee to allocate hay ground, Plymouth, MA.

1639 – Listed as a freeman at Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts; listed as gone in Plymouth County.

2-Nov-1640 – Granted ten acres of meadow in the South Meadows.

1-Feb-1640/41,  24-Feb-1652 – Committee to lay out highway and land, Plymouth, MA

7-Sep-1641  – “Edward Banges” was granted a parcel of fourscore acres of upland about “Warrens Wells.”

17-Oct-1642 “Wheras fourscore of upland are formerly granted to Edward Banges at Waren’s Wells, he now desiring to have some land near his house, it is granted that he shall look out a parcel of land, which upon view shall be laid fourth for him, and to be deducted out of the 80 acres he should have at Warren’s Wells.”

1643 – In Plymouth section of list of men able to bear arms.

7-Sep-1643 – He from Joyce Wallen, widow for £8 “all that her house and messuage situate and being at Hobs Hole or Wellingsly with the garden place and uplands thereunto adjoining.

Before 1645 – He resided at at Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. The officers elected at Nauset’s first town meeting in June, 1646 were Edward Bangs, Treasurer; Nicholas Snow, Clerk; and Josias Cook, Constable. He was treasurer, Eastham, MA between 1646 and 1665.

1 Jun 1647, 4-Jun-1650, and  3-Jun-1651- Eastham highway surveyor.

1 June 1647 – “Supvisors of the Highwaies. “… Nawsett [Eastham], Nicholas SNOW & Edward  BANGES.

22 Jun 1651 – He sold land to Samuel Hicks of Plymouth for £3, 10s “a parcel of marsh meadow lying at the high pines on the Salthouse Beach” at Eastham

7 Jun 1652 –  Deputy to Plymouth Court for Eastham

6 Oct 1657 – Innkeeper at Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.

1658 – [As his contribution to the militia]  Edward Bangs provided two horses and two men, and Richard Higgins one horse and one man.

1659 – [Gov] Thomas PRENCEand Edward Bangs each promised to furnish a man and horse at his own expense for two years. ”

28 Nov 1664 – An account of liquor brought into Eastham included “Edward Bangs, six gallons of liquor”

30 Oct 1667 – Coroner’s jury, Plymouth County, MA .

29 May 1670 – Listed as a freeman at Eastham

19 Oct 1677 – Left a will at Eastham

23 Feb  1676 – Edward Bangs of Eastham for “my tender love and fatherly love unto my natural son Joshua Bangs” deeded him “all that my messuage, dwelling house and housing and lands, both upland and meadowing, lying and being in the township of Eastham,” viz: five acres of upland “granted to me by the town for a houselot,” with the dwelling house on it; four acres granted to Daniel Cole Sr. for a houselot; three acres granted to George Crispe for a houselot; four acres and half granted to John Jenkins for a houselot; two acres granted to Job Cole; fourteen acres granted to Ralph Smith; three acres “of meadow granted me by the town”; four acres of meadow at Great Blackfish River; one acre of meadow granted to John Jenkins; all of which parcels “ap­pear more at length in the town book of records” . In his will, dated 19 Oct 1677 and proved 5 Mar 1677/78, “Ed­ward Banges, aged 86 years,”

made son Jonathan sole executor and be­queathed to him “all my purchased land at Namskekett,” two acres and a half of meadow, “all my purchase land at Pocomett[?],” an acre and a half of meadow “at a place called the acars,” one acre at the harbor’s mouth, “a parcel of upland and meadow lying at Rock harbour which I had in exchange of John Done,” and “all those things which I have at his house”;

to son John “that twenty acres of upland at Pochett that he hath built upon,” five acres adjoining to the twenty acres, “that land which I have at Pochett Island,” two acres of meadow at Boat Meadow, and three-quarters of an acre at the head of Boat Meadow;

to son Joshua “the house that I lived in and all the housing belonging to it,” twenty-eight acres of land adjoining, three acres of meadow at Boat Meadow, one acre of meadow at Boat Meadow, four acres of meadow at the head of Blackfish Creek, and fourteen acres of upland at Pochett;

to son Jonathan’s eldest son Edward Bangs twenty-five acres of upland at Pochett Field, one acre of meadow at Rock Harbor, and “half an acre of meadow lying at Great Namscekett which I bought of Daniell Cole”;

to “my daughter Howes, my daughter Higgens, my daughter Done, my daughter Hall, my daughter Merricke, and my daughter Attwood, four pounds apiece at my decease, and I give to my grandchildren, viz: the children of my daughter Rebecka deceased four pounds at my decease”

Children

1. John Bangs

John was born in Plymouth MA say 1634, but if his deed to George Partridge, recorded in 1657, is correctly dated 21 June 1652, then he was probably born as early as 1631, which would also push back the date on which his father married Lydia Hicks.

John’s wife Hannah Smalley was born 14 Jun 1641 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Mass. Her parents were John Smalley and [__?__]. Hannah died 1708 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.

2. Rebecca BANGS (See Capt. Jonathan SPARROW‘s page)

3. Sarah Bangs

Sarah’s husband Capt Thomas Howes was born in 1636 in England.  His parents were Thomas HOWES and Mary BURR.  Thomas died 20 Nov 1676 in Yarmouth, Mass.

Thomas Howes purchased land  on 5 October 1658 at a certain farm lying in the liberties of Yarmouth, Yarmouth; confirmation of a sale by Capt. Miles Standish to Mr. Thomas Howes of Yarmouth. On 4 July 1673 the court at plymouth Colony; authorized Lt. Thomas Howes of Yarmouth as Guardian of “Marcye Hedge” [Mercy Hedges]. Mercy was the daughter of our ancestor William HEDGE.

4. Captain Jonathan Bangs

Jonathan’s first wife Mary Mayo was born Feb 1648/49 Barnstable, Barnstable, Mass.  Her parents were   Samuel Mayo (1620 – 1664) and  Tamsen (THomasine) Lumpkin Sunderlin (1625 – 1709)  Mary died 26 Jan 1711 Brewster, Barnstable, Mass at the age of 62.

Jonathan’s second wife Sarah [__?__] was born in 1641. Sarah died 11 Jun 1719. Died in her 78th year.

Jonathan’s third wife Ruth Cole was born 15 Apr 1651 in Mass. Her parents were Daniel Cole and Ruth Collier. She first married John Young(s), born 16 Nov 1649 Plymouth MA; died 1718; son of John Young(s) and Abigail [__?_], possibly Howland. 2m Capt. Jonathan Bangs on 23 Jul 1720 in Eastham, Barnstable Co., MA. Also possibly married to Job Winslow. Found a lot of conflicting information about her including several death dates (often listed as 1694, with the marriage date with Jonathan listed as 1720), as well as several birth locations (Eastham, Swansea), and several death locations (Harwich, Freetown, and Brewster). Ruth died 22 Ju 1728 in Mass.

Jonathan was deputy to the Colony Court at Plymouth 1676, 1682, 1683, 1687, 1688. In 1674. He was Representative to the General Court at Boston in 1692.

Jonathan Bangs Headstone Old Burying Ground Brewster, Barnstable, Mass

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Jonathan Bangs Gravesite

5. Lydia Bangs

Lydia’s husband Benjamin Higgins was born in June 1640 at Plymouth.  His parents were   Richard Higgins (1603 – 1674) and   Lydia Chandler

6. Hannah Bangs

Hannah’s husband John Doane was born in 1635 in Plymouth, Mass. His parents were John Doane (1590 – 1685) and Ann Perkins. John died 15 Mar 1708 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass. After Hannah died, he married second, on Jan 14,1684/85 to Rebecca Pettee (b. 1640 in Plymouth, Mass – d. 1708 in Mass.)

Children (by first marriage): John Doane, John Doane III (whose second wife was Hannah Hobart Snell Doane), Ann Doane Young, Rebecca Doane Paine, Hannah Doane Collins, Isaac Doane, Samuel Doane, and David Doane.

7. Lt. Joshua Bangs

Joshua’s wife Hannah Scudder was born 19 Jun 1649 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Mas. Her parents were John Scudder and Hannah [__?__]. After Joshua died, she married, second, about 1712 as the third of his four wives, Moses Hatch. She died 13 May 1739 at Falmouth, Mass.

Some sources say Joshua had one son, Joshua, who died young. No children are mentioned in his will of Feb 13,1707.

8. Bethiah Bangs

Bethiah Bangs Hall Headstone Inscription:Here lyes ye BodyOf Mrs Bethiah HallWife to Mr GershomHall Who DiedOctober 15, 1696Aged 55 years  Hall Cemetery Dennis, Barnstable, Mass.

Bethiah’s husband Gershom Hall was born 6 Mar 1648 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Mass. His parents were John Hall (1605 – 1696) and Elizabeth Learned.(1621-1683)  After Bethiah died, he married Martha Beard. Gershom died 31 Oct 1732 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass.

Gershom Hall Headstone – Here lyes Buried ye Body of MrGershom HallWho died Octobr31 Anno Dom 1732Aged 85 Years Hall Cemetery Dennis, Barnstable, Mass  follow path behind Cape Playhouse.

9. Apphia Bangs

Apphia was born a twin to Mercy Bangs 15 October 1651.  Apphia and Mercy were married on the same day.

Apphia’s first husband John Knowles was born in Oct 1640 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Mass. His parents were Richard Knowles and Ruth Bowers. John died on 3 Jun 1675 in Taunton, Bristol, Mass.

The earliest appearance of John Knowles may have been while he was still a minor. In the court held 3 Mar 1662/63 Ephraim Doane, Thomas Ridman, John Knowles, and John Wilson were tried and were fined 25s. each for trading of liquors with the Indians at Cape Cod.

In the same court Ephraim Doane and John Knowles were bound over under heavy bonds, pending investigations into the circumstances of the death of Josiah, the Indian sachem at Eastham. This matter was dropped. soon after his marriage his name appears at the head of a cattle page, the entry reading “John Knowles 1 mare colt 4 Aug. 1671.” His earmark was transferred to his grandson, Williard Knowles, 28 Jun 1737.

John Knowles was one of nineteen men Eastham furnished for the King Philip war, and was one of the slain, as appears in the action of the colony government in providing for his widow. Freeman (vol. I, p. 280) says, “and provision was especially made for Apphia widow of John Knowles, of Eastham, lately slain in the service.” From a note at the foot of p. 366, vol. II, the conclusion is drawn that he was killed near Taunton, June 3d, 1675 (i. e. 3d day, 4th month, O. S.). “ In June 1675 Taunton suffered an attack by Indians, in which the houses of James Walker and John Tisdell were burned and the latter was killed. At the same time two soldiers from Eastham, who were on duty there, were killed. Capt. John FREEMAN whose daughter Mercy Samuel

Knowles afterwards married, was in command of the Barnstable County company, and in his report to Governor Winslow, under date of Taunton, 3 Jun 1675, said:

“This morning three of our men are slain close by one of our courts of guard, (two of them, Samuel Atkins and John Knowles, of Eastham); houses are burned in our sight; our men are picked off at every bush.”

Three Indians were tried, 6 Mar. 1676/77, for the murder of John Knowles, John Tisdell, Sr., and Samuel Atkins. The jury found grounds of suspicion against two and acquitted one, but all three were sold into slavery as ‘prisoners of war.’

The sum of £10 was presented by the Colony to ‘Apthya widow of John Knowles lately slain in the service.’ In 1676 Lieut. Jonathan SPARROW and Jonathan Bangs were delegated by the Court to asssist the yound widow in settleing her husband’s affairs. “

The inventory of his estate, taken 8 Mar 1676, included ‘one dwellinghouse and three or four acres of land, and a small parcel of broked sedge and meadow.’ His house must have stood on the southern slop of the high land north of the road recently built form the State Road to the Town Landing. At a town meeting held 15 Mar. 1724/25 it was “‘ Voted, to allow Samuel Knowles to fence in the land on the northwest side of his field or land which was formerly his brother John Knowles so far as the fence & ditch which did formerly enclose the said land did formerly stnad and no further.’ “

John Knowles’s brother afterwards had his land, and two town records refer to the road dividing Samuel Knowles’s ‘original land,’ on the east of the road, from the land that was of John Knowles, deceased, on the west of the road.” John and Apphia Knowles had three children: Edward, November 7, 1671; John, July 10, 1673; Deborah, March 2, 1675.

When the father died no one of his children was old enough to appreciate their deprivation. Edward, older son, married (first) Ann Ridley, and (second) the widow Sarah Mayo, and was the father of six children. He was known in town annals as Deacon Knowles, and died November 16, 1740. Apphia’s second husband Stephen Atwood was born 1653 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Mass. Stephen died Jul 1722 in Wellfleet, Barnstable, Mass. Apphia and John’s son Col. John Knowles was born 10 Jul 1673 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.  John died 3 Nov 1757 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass. He married  Mary Sears (1672 – 1745).

John’s father died before his recollection and apparently was brought up by his uncle, Joshua Bangs, for whom his first son, Joshua, seems to have been named. He must have been given a good schooling and evidently from youth up was exceptionally efficient and well regarded. The earliest occurence of his name after he grew up is in the registration of an earmark for his cattle, 24 Apr 1695. The records of the county not destroyed in 1827 contain frequent references to him in trusted capacities. A juryman in 1701, he was chosen as early as 1706 a member of a board of arbitration. In 1715, as Lieut. John Knowles, he was elected one of five townsmen to apportion the remaining common lands. He was for many years coroner and was commander of the Second Barnstable Regiment.

10. Mercy Bangs

Mercy was born a twin to Apphia Bangs 15 October 1651.

Mercy’s husband Stephen Merrick was born 2 May 1646 in Eastham, Mass. His parents were William Merrick and Rebecca Tracy. Stephen died 11 Mar 1731 in Taunton, Bristol, Mass.

Mercy and Stephen moved to Norwich, Connecticut about 1674.

Sources:

http://www.conovergenealogy.com/ancestor-p/p20.htm#i42046 Piigrim Hall Museum – Edward Bangs Piigrim Hall Museum – The Last Will and Testament of Edward Bangs Piigrim Hall Museum – Edward Bangs in the Historical Record in the 17th Century

Maj. John FREEMAN (1627 – 1719) was Alex’s 9th Great Grandfather; one of 1,024 in this generation of the Shaw line.

Maj. John Freeman was baptized on 28 Jan 1626/27 at Billingshurst, Sussex, England.  His parents were Edmund FREEMAN and Bennet HODSOLL.  John along with his father, stepmother Elizabeth and brothers and sisters set sail from Plymouth, England on 4 June 1635 aboard The Abigail, Captain Hackwell,.  John was  listed as eight years old on the Customs House rolls.  During the crossing an epidemic of smallpox broke out on shipboard. They arrived in Boston on 8 Oct 1635 and then settled in Saugus.  He married Mercy PRENCE,  on 13 Feb 1649/50 at Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts; or Feb 14 1649/50.     John died on 28 Oct 1719 at Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, at the age of 92.

Maj John Freeman Gravestone – Cove Burying Ground Eastham MA

Mercy Prence was born about 1631 in Plymouth.   Her parents were  Gov. Thomas PRENCE and  Patience BREWSTER. Mercy died 28 Sep 1711 in Eastham, Mass.

Mercy Prence Freeman – Headstone – Here lies buried the body of Marcy Freeman wife to Major John Freeman aged 80 years Dec Sep 28 1711 – Cove Buring Ground, Plot # 38

Children of John and Mercy:

Major John Freeman was one of the early settlers of Eastham.  Today, Eastham is mostly known as the “Gate” to the Cape Cod National Seashore, which was founded in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy to protect Cape Cod’s coast from erosion and overpopulation.

First as a Lieutenant, then as Captain, and later as Major, John took an active part in the Indian Wars including King Philip’s War.  For many years he was a Deacon of the Eastham Congregational Church.

Eastham, Barnstable, Mass

“The militia companies at Barnstable, Eastham, Sandwich, and Yarmouth, were organized into a regiment called “The Third Regiment” of which John Freeman, of Eastham, was commissioned Major Commandant. The company at Falmouth was added in 1689, and company of Rochester, 1690. A company at Harwich was added in 1694 and one at Chatham in 1712. The colonial regiment continued until June 2, 1685, when the colony was divided into 3 counties, and the militia of each county was made to constitute a regiment of itself, from that time. See Great Swamp Fight – Regiments.

1650 – He removed from Sandwich to that part of Nausett called Namskeeket, now within the limits of Orleans”

5 Jun 1651 –  Eastham freeman

1653 to  1666 – Deputy to Colony Court

1653 – Surveyor of highways at Eastham

Aug 1653 – A member of the military company of Sandwich

6 Mar 1654/55 – Made ensign bearer of the Eastham Company

Oct 1658 – As ensign bearer became, by order of the Council of War, a member of the Council or Staff of Maj. Josias Winslow.  Winslow served as governor of Plymouth Colony from 1673 to 1680.

6 Oct 1659 – Having apparently become a lieutenant before,  he was then made an officer of that grade in the Cavalry Company raised at large in the Colony. (Troop of Horse) under Captain William Bradford.

1662, 1664, 1673 –  John was called upon to assist in auditing the books of the Treasurer of the Colony. In 1663, he and two others were appointed for a year to hold certain wampum belonging to the colony and to pay from it fifteen shillings bounty to each Indian who would bring in a wolf’s head.

Cape Code Library of Local History and Genealogy, Vol I

Chatham, Barnstable, Mass

In 1665, to settle the difficulty at Monomoy, now Chatham between William Nickerson and the Colonial government respecting the illegal purchase of land of the Indian sachem there, Nickerson was allowed one hundred acres of the purchased land, and Major John FREEMAN, with Thomas Hinckley, William Sargeant, Anthony Thacher, Nathaniel Bacon, Edmund HAWES,  Thomas HOWES, Sr,  Thomas FOLLAND, Sr and Lt. Joseph Rogers was allowed a grantee of the remaining portion with the privilege with the above named to purchase adjacent land.

In 1672,  Major Freeman disposed of his right to William Nickerson; and in 1674 Major Freeman and  Capt. Jonathan SPARROW were appointed to lay out Nickerson’s land with instructions, but for some cause the work was not accomplished by the committee until 1692.

Native American tribes who lived in the Chatham before European colonization include the Nauset, specifically the Manomoy or Monomoy people. “Manamoyik” was a Nauset village located near present-day Chatham. Explorer Samuel de Champlain landed here in 1606, contacting (and skirmishing with) the Nauset. English settlers first settled in Chatham in 1665, and the town was incorporated in 1712, naming it after Chatham, Kent, England. Located at the “elbow” of Cape Cod, the community became a shipping, fishing, and whaling center. Chatham’s early prosperity would leave it with a considerable number of 18th century buildings, whose charm helped it develop into a popular summer resort.

1667 – Of nine Indians who had stolen a cask of liquor, three were sentenced to be whipped and the other six were ordered to pay £10 to John as agent for the colony, in ‘Indian corne, or porke, or feathers.’

1663 to 1672 – Served as a selectman

1666 to 1686 and 1689 to 1691. An assistant to the Governor. The break in his term of service from 1686 to 1689 was caused by the usurpation of Gov. Andros and the cessation of all colonial offices for that period. [Thomas CLARK’s son Nathaniel was Andros’ primary deputy, see CLARK’s page for details.]  His duties in the latter capacity were quite incessant and much more varied than those of a Judge of our present-day courts.

1667 -76 Served as a member Council of War

Apr 1667 – As a result of a menace to the colonies by the French and the ‘Duch,’ there was appointed a council in each town to assist the regular officers and Lt. John was so named for Eastham.

1670 – William Clarke and Edward Gray of Plymouth; Richard Bourne and William Swift of Sandwich; Thomas Hinkley and Thomas HUCKINS of Barnstable; Samuel Sturgis, of Yarmouth and John FREEMAN of Eastham, formed a company to engage and regulate the making and disposing of all the tar made in the colony, at the price of 8 shillings for every small barrel, and 12 shillings for every great barrel, during the full term of 2 years.”**

Jun 1670 –  He and Jonathan SPARROW were a Committee for Eastham to ‘looke after the Minnesters Rate.’

1670 – The Court had ordered that no tar which was made within the colony should be sold outside of it, and that its price for a two-year term should be eight shillings in money for a small barrel containing not less than sixteen gallons, beer measure, or twelve shillings for a ‘great barrell’ and that John should handle all that was made in Eastham. ‘

8 Jul 1671 – At a meeting of the Council of War held at Plymouth, relative to the menace to the colony of King Philip and his followers it was decided to impress a body of one hundred men and ‘forty of our trustiest Indians’ for a campaign against them during the following month and Lt. John was to be second in command under Maj. Josias Winslow. This action was followed on August 23rd by a decision to send letters to the neighboring colonies asking their advice and cooperation and the letter to Massachusetts Bay was sent by the hand of Lt. John.

15 Sep 1673 the Court, with him present as an Assistant, ‘haveing considered the information given concerning the Duch theire actings att New York and places adjacent’ ordered that the ‘troop of horse allowed by the Court shal be sixty, whoe shall have horse pistols, and each of them a carbine, with other acculterments fitt for service'; that volunteers should be encouraged to bring the membership to that number and that in case of attack at any given town, the portion of the personnel of this troop which was resident in a near-by town might, by direction of their local council, hasten to their relief and might even ‘presse horses for their better expedition if they shall see cause.

Jul 1674 – A certain Indian called Hoken was a ‘notoriouse theife’ and was finally put in prison, but broke out and stole a horse on which to escape. The Court, stating the belief , that he ‘will not be reclaimed, but lyeth sherking and lurking about, whereby many persons are greatly in feare and danger of him’ ordered that ‘Leiftenant Freeman or any other magistrate that can light off the said Hoken, that they cause him to be apprehended and sold or sent to Barbadoes, for to satisfy his debts and to free the collonie from so ill a member.’

1675 – Served as captain in the fight against Indians at Taunton.

]In June 1675 Taunton suffered an attack by Indians, in which the houses of James Walker and John Tisdell were burned and the latter was killed. At the same time two soldiers from Eastham, who were on duty there, were killed including Edward BANGS son-in-law John Knowles.  Capt. Freeman whose daughter Mercy  John Knowles brother Samuel  Knowles afterwards married, was in command of the Barnstable County company, and in his report to Governor Winslow, under date of Taunton, 3 Jun 1675, said:

“This morning three of our men are slain close by one of our courts of guard, (two of them, Samuel Atkins and John Knowles, of Eastham); houses are burned in our sight; our men are picked off at every bush.”

Three Indians were tried, 6 Mar. 1676/77, for the murder of John Knowles, John Tisdell, Sr., and Samuel Atkins. The jury found grounds of suspicion against two and acquitted one, but all three were sold into slavery as ‘prisoners of war.’ The sum of £10 was presented by the Colony to ‘Apthya widow of John Knowles lately slain in the service.’ In 1676 Lieut. Jonathan SPARROW and Jonathan Bangs were delegated by the Court to asssist the yound widow in settleing her husband’s affairs. “ The inventory of his estate, taken 8 Mar 1676, included ‘one dwellinghouse and three or four acres of land, and a small parcel of broked sedge and meadow.’

4 Oct 1675 –  As a Captain, was one of a committee to take an account of the charges ‘arising by this psent warr’, meaning King Philip’s War. He also served actively in that campaign and as a result his estate received a grant of land in Narragansett Township No. 7, at what is now Gorham, Maine. This section was not assigned to the heirs of the participants until 1733, or fifty-eight years after the battle occurred, but it finally assured lot No. 34 to the estate of John.  (Gorham Maine is named after our ancestor John Gorham)

1675-6 – While John Freeman and Jonathan SPARROW were members of the council of Eastham their duties included the assignment of men to both watch and ward, to keep garrison and to do scout duty; included also arrangement for the supply, conservation and apportionment of the town’s stock of ammunition and for laying a tax to cover the purchase of the same. ‘Watch’ implied service from sunset to sunrise and ‘ward’ from sunrise to sunset. If anyone who was called for such service failed to appear, he was to be fined five shillings for each failure and a distress warrant therefor levied on his estate; or if he had no property he was ‘to be sett necke and heeles (a punishment described as tying the neck and heels together so as to force the body into a round ball) not exceeding halfe an houre.’ Fines were also specified for those who were tardy in arrival as watchmen or who came without ‘fixed armes and suitable ammunition.’

Jun 1676 –  The Treasurer’s account showed that ‘Capt. Freeman’ owed the Colony £1 for a gun. ‘The suffering and loss occasioned to the colonies by King Philip’s War stirred the sympathies of many people across the water and contributions were made which were apportioned between the colonies, Plymouth receiving a share of over £120.

March 1677 – The Court ordered the ‘destribution of this collonies pte of the contribution made by divers Christians in Ireland for the releiffe of such as are impoverished, destressed, and in nessesitie,’ and named ‘Captain Freeman’ to handle Eastham’s share. Innumerable instances are found where John was called upon to make surveys, to divide land, set bounds, etc.

1677 – A major in the expedition against Indians at Saconet.

June, 1678 –  Taunton still owed the colony certain sums ‘for billetting Captaine Freeman and his men and theire horses’ ‘in the late warr with the Indians,’ ‘likewise to pay for beef which was disposed off when Capt. Freeman was att youer towne, either by Capt. Freeman or any of youer celect men for the releiffe of some of youer poor, whoe were in extreamyty.’

Nov 1679 – Thomas Clark asked £50 damage from him, claiming that John had pulled up a boundary stake by Clark’s land and the jury gave the plaintiff ten shillings and costs to the amount of £3.

Feb 1682-3 – For unseen reason, the Deputy Governor, John Freeman, Jonathan SPARROW, John Doane, and John Miller departed this Court before it was finished, all being members thereof,’ therefore, ‘this Court orders that if att June Court they render not a suffient excusse they shalbe fined according to law.’

2 Jun 1685 – The military companies of Barnstable, Sandwich, Yarmouth, and Eastham were made the 3rd Regiment and John Freeman was commissioned Major Commandant thereof, with other companies added later.

1685 –  Appointed Deputy at Eastham for eight years.

1691 – the town of Eastham mortgaged to him two islands, as security for the payment of L76 which he had advanced as the town’s proportion of the expense of obtaining the new charter from England.

4 Nov 1690 – In order to prevent all possible lawsuits and controversies between those who went whaling, the General Court appointed a ‘viewer’ in each coast town, whose word and record should report all whales killed, or wounded and left at sea, describing the wounds so given with time and place where they occurred. The further requirement was made that when any whale was brought or cast on shore that it should be ‘viewed’ and record made of its injury and the time and place of its landing before any mutilation took place, so that its rightful ownership might be established. If anyone ignored the last ruling, he lost all right to the fish and was fined £10 beside. The viewer received a fee of six shillings for each whale viewed and recorded and had permission to appoint a Deputy if he chose. One who found a drift whale a mile from shore ‘not appearing to be killed by any man’ might claim such by paying ‘an hogshead of oyle to ye county for every such whale.’ Major John held this office of viewer for Eastham in 1690. ‘

7 Dec 1692,- Appointed to the Bench of the Court of Common Pleas after the Union of the Colonies.

An interesting original deed contains, among others, the signatures of Thomas PRENCE, Jonathan SPARROW, and John Freeman. It covered an exchange between Hannah (Prence) Mayo and John Freeman of two pieces of land given them by Thomas Prence who was respectively father and father-in-law of the principals.

The inventory of the estate of Thomas PRENCE taken in Apr 1673 shows a debt of £17 owing to John Freeman and in a codicil dated on 28 Mar 1673, to his will of a year earlier, the former gave to the latter ‘Speeds Cronicle and Wilson’s Dictionary and the abridgement; and Simpsons History of the Church and Newmans Concordance.’ Through a long term of years John was a Deacon of the Eastham Church. He was a large landholder and possessed considerable means.

His will was dated 1 Jun 1716, and a codicil was added on 16 Jun 1718. The document was probated on 10 Nov 1719 and the controversy which had arisen between the heirs was settled by an agreement signed by them on 27 Jan 1719/20. The will gave to Edmond a number of tracts of land and a share of the personal estate. It gave £10 in money to each of the testator’s two grandchildren, Lydia (Freeman) Godfrey and William Freeman, children of his deceased son William, and gave their freedom to his negroes ‘Tobye’ and Bess, with the added gifts of four acres of land, a horse and a cow. The inventory shows a bountiful estate including such items as one hundred sixty-one pounds weight ‘In silver money and Plate.’ The agreement of the heirs includes the name of Israel Doane who had married and who signed in behalf of his wife Ruth Freeman, daughter of Edmond.’

His grave-stone, at Eastham, bears the inscription: ‘Here lies the body of Major John Freeman. Died October ye 28th 1717 in ye 98th year of his age.’ His wife, Mercy, died Sept. 28, 1711, age eighty. There were few men in the colony of his day that bore a better reputation than Major Freeman. He was upright and impartial in all his acts while a public servant, and correct in his religious walks through life.

Children

1. John Freeman

John’s first wife Sarah Merrick was born 1 Aug 1654 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass. Her parents were William Merrick (1602 – 1688) and  Rebecca Tracy (1625 – 1686). Sarah died 21 Apr 1696 in Harwich, Barnstable, Mass of consumption after a long sickness.

John’s second wife Mercy Hedge was born about 1658 in Yarmouth, Mass.  Her father was our ancestor Capt. William HEDGE.   On 4 July 1673 the court at Plymouth Colony; authorized Lt. Thomas Howes of Yarmouth, son of our ancestor Thomas HOWES as Guardian of “Marcye Hedge” [Mercy Hedges].  Mercy first married Elkanah Watson of Plymouth. Elkanah died in a shipwreck off the shore of Boston on Feb 8, 1690. According to Savage, he was drowned in company with the second Edward Doty and his son John, by shipwreck. on the Gurnet’s Nose, in a passage from his Boston home, 8 Feb. 1690.  Mercy died 27 Sep 1721 in Harwich, Barnstable, Mass..

Mercy Hedge Watson Freeman Headstone Old Burying Ground Brewster, Barnstable, Mass

John was settled in the north part of Harwich before 1680. He settled upon his father’s land near the meadow eastward of Stoney Brook. He received from his father in 1695 a deed of the land, and buildings standing thereon, together with a large tract adjoining. He was one of the founders of the church in that part of the town October 16, 1700. He was a man of standing and means. He held the office of selectman in 1716 and 1717. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits, and died Jul 27 1721 aged 69 years.

John Freeman Jr Headstone Old Burying Ground Brewster, Barnstable, Mass.

Children of John and Sarah:

i. John Freeman b: 3 Sep 1674 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony; d. xxx

ii. Sarah Freeman b: Sep 1676 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.; d. 23 Aug 1739 in Harwich, Barnstable, Mass.; m. 1695 to Edward Snow (b. 26 Mar 1672 Eastham, Barnstable, Mass – Will proven 20 Sep 1758 Harwich, Mass.) Edward parents were our ancestors Jabez SNOW and Elizabeth SMITH.

iii. John Freeman b: Jul 1678 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony; d. 1767 in Rochester, Plymouth, Mass.; m. Mercy Hodge Watson ( b ~ 1680 in Plymouth , Plymouth , Mass. – d. 27 Sep 1721 in Harwich)

John’s daughter Mercy (bapt. 24 Apr 1706 in Harwich) was reprimanded by the Harwich Church

Mercy, Daughter of Mr. John FREEMAN …. made her publick confession …. with expressions of sorrow … asking forgiveness &c. 15 May 1726. Wherupon the chh voted to forgive her, and accept her again into their favor, on condition of future gospell-becoming conversation.

iv. Rebecca Freeman b: 28 Jan 1680 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

v. Nathaniel Freeman b: 17 Mar 1683 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

vi. Benjamin Freeman b: Jul 1685 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

vii. Mercy Freeman b: 3 Aug 1687 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony; d. 7 Jul 1720) – Harwich, Barnstable, Mass.; m.  Chillingworth Foster

viii. Patience Freeman b: 1689 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

ix. Susanna Freeman b: 1691 in Eastham, Massachusetts

x. Mary Freeman b: Abt 1693 in Harwich, Massachusetts

2. Dec. Thomas FREEMAN (See his page)

3. Hannah Freeman

Hannah’s husband John Mayo was born 15 Dec 1652 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass or a little later in Oyster Bay, Nassua, New York..  His parents were   Capt Samuel Mayo (1620 – 1664) and   Tamsen Lumpkin  (1625 – 1709)  John was the first representative to the General Court from Harwich.  John died 1 Feb 1725 in Harwich. Barnstable, Mass.

John Mayo Gravemarker Old Burying Ground Brewster, Barnstable, Mass

John’s grandfather John Mayo (died 1676) was the first minister of Old North Church in Boston also known as Second Church or Paul Revere’s Church. Increase and Cotton Mather took over this church upon his retirement.  This is the Old North Church that was in North Square (across the street from what became Paul Revere’s house) until the church was dismantled and used by the British for firewood during the occupation of Boston during the Revolutionary War.

John Mayo of Northamptonshire, a commoner’s son, was one of 504 students who matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford University in 1615. He came to New England in 1638. In order to travel, the harassed clergy had to disguise themselves and use assumed names. His wife was named Tamsen but we don’t know where or when they were married. John Mayo was in Barnstable by 1639, where he was ordained a minister on April 15, 1640. Governor William Bradford, Thomas Prence, and Captain Myles Standish were in attendance when Mr. John Mayo of Barnstable was admitted as a Freeman by the court of Plymouth on March 3rd in the 13th year of his Majesty’s Reign, 1640. In 1646 he moved to the newly settled town of Nausett (Eastham), where he served as the minister until 1654. While in Boston, he served as an overseer of Harvard College and the Boston Latin School.

In April 1653, John’s father Samuel Mayo together with Peter Wright and William Leveridge bought of Assiapum alias Moheness, an Indian sachem, the land now the village of Oyster Bay on Lond Island. The grantees by endorsement on the deeds gave to seven other persons equal rights with themselves in the land purchased. William Leveridge had been the first pastor of the church in Sandwich, MA and employed Samuel Mayo, who owned the vessel named Desire, to transport his goods to Oyster Bay. This vessel was captured by one Thomas Baxter in Hempstead Harbor under pretense of authority from Rhode Island for intercourse with the Dutch,, but Mayo recovered a judgement 0f £150 against Baxter because of the capture. Mayo was at Oyster Bay for some time. He did not settle, but John was born there.

Hannah Freeman Mayo Headstone

4. Lt. Edmund Freeman

Edmund’s first wife Sarah Merrick was born in15 May 1652 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.  Her parents were William Merrick and Rebecca Tracy.  Sarah died in 1679 or 1680

Edmund’s second wife Sarah Mayo was born 19 Dec 1660 in Boston, Suffolk, Mass.  Her parents were Samuel Mayo and Tamesin Lumpkin.  See her brother John above for the story of her father and grandfather.  Sarah died 5 Mar 1745 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass

” [ Edmund] was a man of distinction, and many years selectman of E[astham].” He is referred to as Lieutenant on his tombstone inscription.

Edmund Freeman Headstone Cove Burying Ground Eastham, BarnstableHERE LYES YE BODYOF LIEUT EDMONDFREEMAN DECD FEBRY11TH 1718 IN YE6_RD YEAR OF HIS AGE.

5. Mercy Freeman

Mercy’s husband Samuel Knowles was born 17 Sep 1651 in Plymouth, Mass. His parents were Richard Knowles and Ruth Bowers.  Samuel died 19 Jun 1737 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.

Samuel’s brother John married Apphia Bangs, daughter of our ancestor Edward BANGS.  John was killed in King Philip’s War and Samuel inherited his property.  Ironically, John was under the command of Samuel’s future father-in-law Capt. John Freeman.

John Knowles was one of nineteen men Eastham furnished for the King Philip war, and was one of the slain, as appears in the action of the colony government in providing for his widow. Freeman (vol. I, p. 280) says, “and provision was especially made for Apphiaj widow of John Knowles, of Eastham, lately slain in the service.” From a note at the foot of p. 366, vol. II, the conclusion is drawn that he was killed near Taunton, June 3d, 1675 (i. e. 3d day, 4th month, O. S.).

“ In June 1675 Taunton suffered an attack by Indians, in which the houses of James Walker and John Tisdell were burned and the latter was killed. At the same time two soldiers from Eastham, who were on duty there, were killed. Capt. John FREEMAN whose daughter Mercy Samuel Knowles afterwards married, was in command of the Barnstable County company, and in his report to Governor Winslow, under date of Taunton, 3 Jun 1675, said:

“This morning three of our men are slain close by one of our courts of guard, (two of them, Samuel Atkins and John Knowles, of Eastham); houses are burned in our sight; our men are picked off at every bush.”

Three Indians were tried, 6 Mar. 1676/77, for the murder of John Knowles, John Tisdell, Sr., and Samuel Atkins. The jury found grounds of suspicion against two and acquitted one, but all three were sold into slavery as ‘prisoners of war.’ The sum of £10 was presented by the Colony to ‘Apthya widow of John Knowles lately slain in the service.’ In 1676 Lieut. Jonathan SPARROW and Jonathan Bangs were delegated by the Court to asssist the yound widow in settleing her husband’s affairs. “ The inventory of his estate, taken 8 Mar 1676, included ‘one dwelling house and three or four acres of land, and a small parcel of broked sedge and meadow.’

His house must have stood on the southern slop of the high land north of the road recently built form the State Road to the Town Landing. At a town meeting held 15 Mar. 1724/25 it was “‘ Voted, to allow Samuel Knowles to fence in the land on the northwest side of his field or land which was formerly his brother John Knowles so far as the fence & ditch which did formerly enclose the said land did formerly stand and no further.’ “ Samuel afterwards had his land, and two town records refer to the road dividing Samuel Knowles’s ‘original land,’ on the east of the road, from the land that was of John Knowles, deceased, on the west of the road.”

Samuel Knowles Headstone Orleans Cemetery East Orleans, Barnstable MassHERE LYES THE BODYOF MR SAMUEL KNOWLESFORMERLY REPRESENTATIVEFOR THE TOWN OF EASTHAMWHO DIED JUNE Y 191737 IN THE 85YEAR OF HIS AGE

6. Patience Freeman

Patience’s husband

Samuel Paine was born in 1652 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass. His parents were Thomas Paine (1611 – 1706) and  Mary Snow (1630 – 1704).  Samuel died 12 Oct 1712 in Eastham Mass.

 7. William Freeman

William’s wife Lydia Sparrow was born 19 Nov 1660 Eastham, MA.  Her parents were our ancestors Capt. Jonathan SPARROW and  Rebecca BANGS. After William died she married Jonathan Higgins after  31 May 1687 Eastham, Mass.  Lydia died 16 Mar 1707/08
Eastham, MA.

William died after only a couple years of marriage before May 31, 1687 when Lydia took out letters of administration of his estate.

KC Higgins questioned Lydia’s identification as Sparrow, by Stanley Smith, as unproven.
Presumably Hannah and Samuel were children by a prior marriage of Jonathan.

“Deacon” Jonathan Higgins left no will and there is nothing on the Probate Records at Barnstable at present to show who his children were, neither are they recorded on the town records. Hence the list of his children has to be conjectural. (from KC Higgins, 1919)

9. Nathaniel Freeman

Nathaniel’s wife Mary Howland was born 23 Dec 1665 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Mass. Her parents were  Zoeth Howland and Abigail[__?__] Howland of Newport,RI. . Mary died 29 Jan 1743 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.

22 Dec 1657 – Mary’s father Zoeth, her grandfather Henry Howland and her great uncle [our ancestor] Arthur HOWLAND, were called before the Plymouth court to answer for entertaining a Quaker, and suffering and inviting sundry to hear said Quaker.  They were fined for using thier homes for Quaker meetings.’   The families of Arthur Howland and his brother  Henry, were two Plymouth families most identified as practicing Quakers. The families ceased attending Plymouth religious services and allowed their homes for the conduct of Quaker meetings.

No marriage record has been found for Nathaniel Freeman. The given name of the mother of his children was Mary, as was the name of his wife of his old age, allowing for the possibility for her to be one and the same individual. [MD 8:91; NEHGR 20:61], [Barnstable Co. PR 8:91], [MFIP Wm Brewseter p.96] “A circumstantial case for the identity of Nathaniel’s wife as Mary Howland, has been proposed for the naming of the grandchildren of Nathaniel and Mary Freeman. Their daughter, Abigail Freeman married Samuel Smith and had a son named Zoeth Smith. Zoeth was an unusual name and was found in relatively few families. A search of the family of Zoeth Howland revealed a daughter Mary, born 1665/66. The age at death of widow Mary Freeman makes it possible for her to be one and the same as Mary Howland.”

Nathaniel served Eastham as a Justice of the Peace in 1707, and town clerk and selectman.  He inherited all his father’s land and housing marsh & meadow in the town of Eastham at a place called Menaskeakett, obtaining it in the estate settlement of 27 Jan 1720.

Nathaniel Freeman Headstone Orleans Cemetery East Orleans,  Barnstable MassHere lies the Body ofNATHANIEL FREEMAN ESQ’Rwho Died in the month ofJanuary 4th 1760in the 91st Yearof his Age

10. Bennett Freeman

Bennett’s husband Deacon John Paine was born 14 Mar 1661 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass. His parents were Thomas Paine (1611 – 1706) and  Mary Snow (1630 – 1704).  

After Bennett died, he married  3 Mar 1718/19 in Eastham to Alice Mayo. John and Alice had four children born between 1721 and 1728.  John died 26 Oct 1731 in Eastham, Mass.

Alice Mayo was born 1685. Her parents were Nathaniel Mayo,(b. 1652) and [__?__] Alice died 12 Oct 1748 Al

Bennett Freeman Paine Headstone Cove Burying Ground Eastham, Barnstable, Mass

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John Paine Headstone Orleans Cemetery East Orleans, Barnstable MassInscription:70y 7m 12d

Children of Bennett and John:

i. John Paine b. 18 Sep 1690 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.;

ii. Mary Paine b. 28 Jan 1693 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.; d. 5 Mar 1770
Eastham; m. 9 Oct 1712 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass. to Samuel Freeman (b. 1 Sep 1688 in Eastham – d. 30 May 1751 in Eastham)

iii. William Paine b. 6 Jun 1695 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.;

iv. Sarah Paine b. 14 Apr 1699 in Eastham, Plymouth, Mass.;

v. Elizabeth Paine b. 2 Jun 1702 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass; d. 6 Jul 1772 in Eastham; Burial: Cove Burying Ground, Eastham. m. 27 Oct 1720 in Eastham to Deacon Jabez Snow (b. 22 Jul 1696 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.; d. 6 Sep 1760 Eastham)  Jabez’ parents were Jabez Snow and Elizabeth Treat.  His grandparents were our ancestors Jabez SNOW and Elizabeth SMITH.  Elizabeth and Jabez had six children between 1722 and 1740.

v. Theophilus Paine b. 7 Feb 1704 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.;

vi. Josiah Paine b. 8 Mar 1706 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.;

vii. Nathaniel Paine b. 18 Nov 1707 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.;

viii. Rebecca Paine b. 30 Oct 1709 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.;

ix. Mercy Paine b. 3 Apr 1712 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.;

x. Benjamin Paine b. 18 May 1714 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.

Sources:

http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/b_f.htm

http://capecodhistory.us/genealogy/us/i30.htm#i1926

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/w/e/Jeffrey-E-Swenson/GENE5-0001.html

http://massandmoregenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/08/major-john-freeman-ca-1627-1719-and.html

William TWINING (1599 – 1659) was Alex’s 11th Great Grandfather; one of 4,096  in this generation of the Shaw line

Twining Family Coat of Arms

William Twining was born 20 May 1599 in England.   (Either in Berkhamstead  in Suffolk or  Painswick in Gloucester.)  His parents were  William  TWENYNGE  and  Mabel NEWCOMBE.  However, reliable information  is wanting; family tradition almost uniformly asserts that he came from Wales.  Another story is that he came from Yorkshire, England, and one, an aged spinster living in the vicinity of Eastham, speaks of a “taint of French blood.  

The name of his first wife is not known.  She probably was still living in 1641 when Isabel was married.

William was in Yarmouth on Cape Cod by 1641, soldier in 1645, removed to Eastham by 1651 when he was the constable. He married his second wife Anne Doane in 1652 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony.  William died 15 Apr 1659 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony.

Anne Doane was born 17 Aug 1600 in Manchester, Lancashire, England.  Her parents were John Doane and Lydia [__?__]  of Devonshire. She was probably a sister of Deacon John Doane (Wikipedia), who was born 1590, came from Wales to Plymouth  Colony in 1630, one of the founders of Eastham and assistant of Governor Thomas PRENCE in 1633.   (See discussion below) Anne died 27 Feb 1680 in Yarmouth.

Children of William and Unknown:

English Ancestry

“The surname Twining is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and signifies ‘two meadows’. It is a place name and the family was seated in Gloucestershire, England, where, on the river Avon, a few miles from Tewksbury, there is a village of that name. It is claimed that members ofthe family emigrated to America from the section at the junction of the Severn and Avon rivers. John Twining appears as the Abbot of Winchicombe about the middle of the fifteenth century, and in the Scottish locality the name is said to be found on tombstones of at least as early a date.

“The Twinings of Twining belonged to the race which was English before William the Conqueror arrived, and the home from which they sprang is in the county of Gloucester. Prior to the Saxon Invasion under Cuthwrin, in577, there is no mention of the name, the origin of the patronymic originating at that time. Twining Manor dates from the time of King Edward 1., and from that day on we find the name spelled in some fourteenor fifteen different ways contained in the records, especially in Tewkesbury, Pershore and Evesham. Among the prominent members of the family was Richard, 1472, Monk of Tewkesbury Abbey, John, Lord Abbott of Wimcombe, 1474,  and Thomas, Monk of Kewkesbury, 1539.

William’s father William Twenynge, son of Thomas and Elsabeth, was baptized 10 Feb 1561/62 in Painswick, Gloucestershire. The parish of Painswick, in the union of Stroud, Eastern Division of Gloucestershire is six and a half miles south southeast from Gloucester. In the Domesday Book it was called Wiche, and was the property of Roger de Lacy. A later owner, Pain Fitz-John gave it its present name. The town is in a hollow in Spoonbed Hill. It marks the intersection of the road from Stroud to Gloucester with the road from Cheltenham to Bath. There was a weekly market on Tuesdays. In addition there was a sheep market on the first Tuesday after All Saints Day, and cattle and sheep fairs on Whit-Tuesday and September 19.

It is a little hard to say what the church would have looked like in the sixteenth century, as Lewis describes it having “incongruous styles built over time”. By the nineteenth century it was spacious, with a very high spire, and a peel of twelve bells. On the summit of Spoonbed Hill there is a double-trenched archaeological site of about three acres that was probably built by the ancient Britons, then used by the Romans. Earl Godwin fortified it in 1052 against Edward the Confessor. During the Civil War the royalist forces of Charles I had a camp there.

William married 3 Mar 1593/94 to Mabel NEWCOMBE. They had at least three children:

i. Mary,
ii. Thomas,
iii. WILLIAM, d. 1659; m. Anne Doane; emigrated to New England. See below.

William Twining’s American Career

Nine of our ancestral families were first comers in Dennis: 1 . Francis Baker, 2. Daniel, Baker, 3. William Chase, 4. Thomas Folland, 5. Thomas Howes, 6. John Joyce, 7. David O’Kelley, 8. William Twining, 9. Gabriel Weldon. Map courtesy of Lynn Keller and Cape Cod Genealogical Society

1 Jun 1641 – His  name, ‘Mr. William Twining, Sr.,’is found in the court records of Plymouth Colony is a case of trespassing regarding certain lines. He was then a resident of Yarmouth, situated some thirty miles southeast of Plymouth, and incorporated as a town in 1639. His daughter Isabel was married there on the same date, and his first wife was then living.

1643 – Freeholder and included in the list of those able to bear arms at Yarmouth, and for the next two years the records rank him among the militia, consisting of fifty soldiers, to each of whom was given, on going forth, one pound of bullets and one pound of tobacco.

1645 – William  was one of eight soldiers sent out on a fourteen-day mission against the Narragansett Indians.  Of the eight soldiers, the leader of the expedition was Jonathan Hatch , and other members included Nathaniel Mott .  The famous Myles Standish  of the Mayflower was the overall military leader of Plymouth at the time.

By 1651 he had moved to Nauset, now Eastham, Barnstable county, Massachusetts.

3 Jun 1652 – admitted a freeman in Eastham.

5 Jun 1651 chosen constable of Eastham.

13 May 1654 – Granted two acres of meadow, ‘lying at head of Great Namshaket.’ He was a considerable land owner, though not of the class called ‘Town-purchasers.

1655 – His name is included in the list of twenty-nine legal voters of freemen in  Eastham. The same records show that several parcels of land were granted to him at Rock Harbor, Poche Neck (now called East Orleans), and other localities on the cape. He appears to have resided in Poche, on the east side of Town Cove, ‘on the lot containing two and one-half acres, lying next the Cove.’

1658 – William’s brother-in-law Francis BAKER had a grant of 10 acres of land in Eastham, lying near to William Twining (Eastham Town Record 1:97). In 1659 Francis and Isabel were still living on this land but soon sold it to William Twining Jr. and returned to their Yarmouth farm. Here he spent the remainder of his life.

15 April 1659.  Died in Eastham. That he was a man of more than ordinary character is shown by the titles of Mister he fixed to his name in the early records, a distinction given to but few men, even though they were men of substance.

Excerpted from Genealogy of the Twining Family descendants of William Twining Sr.by Thos. J. Twining, Sidney, Indiana 1890

To the fifth generation the families were confined to the narrow limits of Cape Cod and Bucks Co., PA. The Yarmouth records imply the William Twining was there at least as early as 1641, the date of his daughter Isabel’s marriage. It is questionable whether he first landed at Yarmouth.  It is more probable that he first touched shore at Plymouth and was among those early settlers who became dissatisfied with their location and sought new homes at various places along the Cape Cod Coast.

That he was a man of more than ordinary character is shown by the title which prefixes his name in the early records, an appellation of honor which was rarely applied in those days, as shown by the History of Massachusetts Bay, which tells us that ” the first settlers of thses Colonies were very careful that no title or appellation be given where not due. Not more than a half dozen of the principle gentlemen of the Massachusetts Colony took the title Esquire, and, in a list of one hundred freemen, not more than four or five were distinguished by a Mr., although they were generally men of substance. Goodman and goodwife were the common appellations.”

Additional to this, another historian says, referring to the changes at Plymouth and the standing of those who first came to Eastham: “The church at Plymouth regretted their departure, for they who went out from her were among the most respectable of all the inhabitants of Plymouth.” To the Orleans records is due the statement that William Twining married Annie Doane, 1652, and that she died Feb. 27, 1680. His death occured at Eastham April 15, 1659, and he was probably not more than 65 years old. No data is at hand regarding his first marriage and it is conjecture whether his wife died before he came to our shores or soon after.

A footnote in the Twining Genealogy stated that ” Annie was probably the sister of Deacon John Doane, b. 1590 d. 1686; came from Wales to Plymouth in 1621, one of the first founders of Eastham, and assistant to Governor Prence in 1633.

” Cape Cod Library of Local History and Genealogy” pg. 473 ”

William Twining, the ancestor of the Cape Cod family of the name, was in Yarmouth in 1643, and included a list of those able to bear arms, he went forth as a soldier in 1645 against the Naragansett Indians. The precise date of his removal to Eastham with his family, the Eastham records do not show, but he was there located before 1651, as that year he was constable of the place. His place of residence, it is understood, was on “Poche Neck,” now called East Orleans, but the particular spot is not known to the writer. He was a considerable land owner, though not of the class called “Town-purchasers.” His days in Eastham were few. He passed away April 15, 1659. His wife Anne, survived him, and died Feb. 27, 1680.

His children are not all known. Some of them, doubtless, crossed the ocean with him. Isabel married Francis Baker of Yarmouth, the ancestor of the Baker family, in 1641; Elizabeth married John Rogers of Eastham in 1669; and William married Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen Deane, whose widow married Josiah Cooke of Eastham.”

This account places Elizabeth Twining Rogers as the daughter of the first William, however the Twining Genealogy and the History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania call her Eliza and have her as the daughter of William Twining Jr. and Elizabeth Deane. These same references give William Jr’s marriage date as 1652 and place her birth as after 1654. Other references (the Gen. Dictionary of New England Settlers Vol. 4, pg. 353) hint that the Ann that died in 1680 was a second wife and the mother of Eliza and Ann.  Since the History of Bucks County, and his will which follows, place the girls as daughters of William Jr. and gives his mother as Ann Doane we will use that lineage until otherwise proven different. Unless otherwise cited source information is taken from The Twining Genealogy and Histories of Cape Cod, Eastham and Bucks County, Pennsylvania

“Willam Twining senir: Died the 15th of Aprill 1659″ [Plymouth Colony Records in MD 17:201]

There are difficulties with the above  details about Anne Doane. The John Doane assumed to be her father, who came to Plymouth Colony, was born ca. 1590 and called himself about 88 years in his will, dated 16 May 1678. He died 21 Feb 1685/86 (when others called him “about a hundred”—a common exaggeration in those days). The inventory of his estate was taken 21 May 1686, sworn to eight days later by Abigail Doane. A 1648 deed listed John’s wife as Ann, while one in 1659 listed Lydia. Abigail was probably his daughter, who later married Samuel Lothrop. There are only five known children, none of whom was named Anne.

However, there was another “John Done”, aged 16 who came on the True Love in 1635.   There are two other Doanes in early Massachusetts records that may or may not be connected to this family. Henry Doane was in Watertown in 1643, and Deacon John Doane came from England to Plymouth in 1630. He removed to Eastham in 1644, and died 15 April 1659. It has been suggested that Deacon John Doane’s sister Anne Doane was the second wife of William Twining.  During the pastorate of Mr. Treat in Eastham in the 1670s, three Doanes were deacons: John, Daniel, and Joseph.  Is it possible that any of these men could have been a brother of our Anne? In any event, our Anne Twining (whose maiden name, and natal family, appear to be hiding behind a brick wall) died 27 February 1679/80.

Children

1. Isabel TWINING (See Francis BAKER‘s page)

3. William Twining

William’s wife Elizabeth Dean was born about 1630 in Plymouth.  Her parents were Stephen Dean and Elizabeth Ring.  Her father was a passenger on the Fortune in 1623.  Her mother  arrived with her mother Mary Durrant Ring most probably on the second Mayflower, which sailed from Gravesend in March, and landed at Salem MA. on 15 May 1629. Elizabeth died in Feb 1708/09 in Middletown, Buck, Pennsylvania.

Elizabeth’s maternal grandparents were William RING and Mary DURRANT. Their daughter Miriam married our ancestor John WING II as his second wife.

William RING had been aboard the Speedwell, sister ship to the Mayflower, intending to voyage across the Atlantic in 1620. William was, however, among the passengers who could not fit aboard the Mayflower when the Speedwell was deemed unseaworthy. He returned to Leiden and died there sometime between 1620 and 1629.

At Dartmouth, on August 17th, after leaks forced the ship into port, one of the separatist leaders,  agent Robert CUSHMAN wrote that “Poor William Ring and myself do strive who shall be meat first for the fishes, but we look for a glorious resurection.” When the “Mayflower” set out alone on September 6th, neither William nor Mary were aboard.y

Elizabeth was an infant when her grandmother, Mary Ring, died, bequeathing her a piece of red cloth, and enough green say, shipped from England, to make her a coat.

William and Elizabeth Twining lived in Eastham, Barnstable County, and were members of the established Congregational church. In 1677 William was a deacon in the church. But at some point after that they became convinced of the faith and practice of the Religious Society of Friends, known in derision as Quakers. Sometime before 1697 they removed to the more congenial colony of Pennsylvania, settling in Newtown, Buck County. There they were active members of Middletown Monthly Meeting. Elizabeth was appointed to two small committee charged with the delicate task of laboring with women whose behavior gave Friends cause for concern.

The court records mention William Jr. first, June 3, 1652, when he was admitted and sworn; 1652 he was one of the Grand Jury and again in 1668 and 1671. He was a deacon at the Eastham Church, as early as 1677. He was a proprietor of land at “Easton Harbor” and had interest in Drift Whales at the end of the Cape. In 1695, he and his son William were enumerated among the legal voters of Eastham.

Near the latter date, his religious views seem to have underwent a radical change. He has evidently become convinced of Friends’ priciples and now contemplates removal to the newly settled Province of Pennsylvania, where the tenets of Quakerism were maintained in their purity, and freed from the intolerance of New England theology. The records testify that there were Quakers in Eastham, but it can not be found that they held Monthly Meetings in the town. They doubtless belonged to the Sandwich Society, which was organized very early. Although this Society makes no mention of William’s name upon its minutes, it is most probable he became, as also his wife and son Stephen and his family, identified with said Society prior to removal.

1695 is the year he says goodbye to the land of the Pilgrims. It marks an important epoch in the family history. Hitherto the name appears to have borne honor to the Congregationalist Church alone. Up to this date, a period of near six decades, the family was confined on the historical Cape Cod; but now the house becomes about equally divided, religiously and geographically, and henceforth it is Quaker and Congregation blood flowing in parallel lines from generation to generation.

“Deacon Twining,” now having donned the Quaker garb, speaks the Quaker tongue, becomes the unretaliative friend of the Indian, whom he seeks to elevate. He is in fact a believer and exponent of all that is comprehended in the teachings of Penn, Fox and Barclay. Upon those of his descendants from this new home in the wilderness of Pennsylvania, on the banks of the Delaware River, were stamped those newly aquired principles which time nor space have failed to efface. “

Cape Cod Library of Local History and Genealogy” pgs. 473 -474

William Twining William Twining, the son, who married Elizabeth Deane, came with his father’s family to Eastham, and settled near his father, their land adjoining. He was a considerable land owner. He had a three-acre lot, called a house lot, granted him in 1659, adjoining his father’s land; a ten-acre lot granted at Poche; meadow at Great Namskaket, Billingsgate and Boat Meadow in 1659. He had twenty acres of land at Poche granted in 1664, which was formerly possessed by Josiah Cooke and Francis BAKER; and also meadow granted him in the same year, which was located at Namskaket. In 1668, he was again put in legal possesion of some swamp land near his garden, which adjoined Richard Bishop’s land.

He was a quite and peacable man, and occupied but a few official positions in the town. He was a deacon of the church in Eastham in early 1677. Historical Papers Eastham and Orleans pg. 877 ” Cape Cod Library of Local History and Genealogy” The deacons who officated during Mr. Treat’s pastorate were John Doane, Samuel Freeman, Josiah Cooke, Daniel Doane, William Twining, John Paine and Joseph Doane.

The apostacy of Mr. Twining while holding the office of deacon, and his removal with a portion of his respectable family to the banks of the Delaware, in Pennsylvania, to join the Society of Friends and become an exponent of the peculiar views of George Fox, must have given rise to much comment in the puritanical town.

What lead to his apostacy, and to his removal to the far-off Quaker settlement in his old age, when there were others of his belief in Mr. Treat’s parish, is, at this distance of time, past conjecture. But he did not long have the pleasures of his new home, as death closed his earthly career November 3, 1703.

His wife , Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen Deane, survived him and died Dec. 28, 1708. His will is dated at New town “ye 26 of fourth month in year 1697.” Mr. Twining had two sons, Stephen and William.

Stephen with his family of children removed at the time his father went, and became a leading man in the settlement, where he died in 1715.

William and a sister Elizabeth, the wife of John Rogers, remained in Eastham, and their father remembered them in his will, leaving them his estate in Barnstable county. Deacon Twining, it appears, as well as his son Stephen, opposed the liquor traffic in the settlement, and asked that it might be restricted amoung the Indians.

Elizabeth was buried in Middletown on 28 Twelfth Month (February?) 1708/09.

Children of William and Elizabeth:

i. Elizabeth Twining,  b. 1649 in Plymouth Colony; d,  10 Mar 1725 in Eastham, Massachusetts; m. John Rogers, of Eastham, son of Joseph and Hannah. Joseph and his father Thomas had arrived on the Mayflower in 1620.  Some records say that Elizabeth was the daughter of William Twining Sr. instead of William Jr.

ii. Susanna Twining, b. 25 Jan 1652/53 or 28 Feb 1653/54.

iii. William Twining, b. 28 Feb 1653/54; d. 23 Jan. 1733/34; said to have m. Ruth Cole. However, Ruth (Cole) Young is listed as the third wife of Jonathan Bangs.

iv. Anne Twining, b. 1654; m. Oct. 3, 1672 Thomas Bills. It appears that Thomas Bill[s] was the second husband of Elizabeth Sargent, daughter of William. Presumably after her death Thomas went on to marry the Twining sisters, Anne and Joanna, one after the other.

v. Joanna Twining, b. 30 May 1657; d. 4 Jun 1723 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co., New Jersey; m. her sister’s widower, Thomas Bills.

vi. Stephen Twining, b. 6 Feb 1658/59 in Eastham, Mass.; d. 18 Apr 1720 in Newtown, Bucks Co., Penna.; m. Abigail Young

vii. Mehitabel Twining, b. 8 Mar. 1660/61; d. 8 Jul 1743 in Newtown, Bucks, Pennsylvania; m. Daniel Doane; settled in Bucks, Pennsylvania.

Some records say that Elizabeth was the daughter of William Twining Sr. instead of William Jr.

Elizabeth’s husband John Rogers was born 3 Apr 1642. His parents were Joseph Rogers and Hannah [__?__]. Joseph, age 17 and his father Thomas arrived on the Mayflower in 1620. John died between 1713 and 10 Aug 1714

Thomas Rogers, a Mayflower Pilgrim and one of forty-one signatories of the Mayflower Compact, was among those who did not survive that first harsh Plymouth, Massachusetts winter of 1620-1621.

Thomas Rogers was accompanied by his son, Joseph, but not his wife or other children, who had stayed behind in Leiden. There is record of his wife and other children in the 1622 poll tax of Leiden. Thomas died during the first winter in Plymouth, when Joseph was 18. Joseph married Hannah, who bore him four sons and four daughters. Thomas’ daughters Elizabeth and Margaret apparently came to New England later, but no further information is available. Thomas’ son John came to Plymouth about 1630. On April 16, 1639, John married Anna Churchman, who bore him one son and three daughters.

Governor William Bradford (Mayflower passenger) wrote of Thomas Rogers in 1650: “Thomas Rogers, and Joseph, his sone (came). His other children came afterwards… Thomas Rogers died in the first sickness, but his son Joseph was still living, and was married with 6 children. The rest of Thomas Rogers children came over, and were married, and had many children.

Joseph Rogers was born in 1602/03 in Watford, Northampton, England. He and his family came to Leiden, Holland, where they are first recorded in 1618. By 1620, the family had sold its house, and Joseph came with father Thomas on the Mayflower to Plymouth. His mother Alice, brother John, and sisters Elizabeth and Margaret remained behind in Leiden.

After his father’s early death, Joseph appears to have resided in the Bradford household for around ten years. He married about 1632, and his first child Sarah was born on 6 August 1633. He moved from Plymouth to Duxbury around 1638, and lived there for a number of years, before moving to Eastham around 1646, and resided in Sandwich for a few years around 1650 before returning to Eastham. He died in Eastham in Jan 1677/78; in his will he names his wife Hannah, the only record found that names his wife.

The Twining Genealogy and the History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania call her Eliza and have her as the daughter of William Twining Jr. and Elizabeth Deane. These same references give William Jr’s marriage date as 1652 and place her birth as after 1654. Other references (the Gen. Dictionary of New England Settlers Vol. 4, pg. 353) hint that the Ann that died in 1680 was a second wife and the mother of Eliza and Ann. Since the History of Bucks County, and his will which follows, place the girls as daughters of William Jr. and gives his mother as Ann Doane I’ll use that lineage until otherwise proven different.

Sources:

William Twining – Bio

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~paxson/twining/Twining.index.html

http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/b_t.htm

http://capecodhistory.us/genealogy/us/Names33.htm#TWINING

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/a/s/h/William-Ashbey/GENE4-0022.html

http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hhadaway&id=I1227

http://www.doanefamilyassociation.org/VOLUME%20III%20REPORT-1.pdf

http://www.doanefamilyassociation.org/dfadeaconjohn.html

Ralph SMYTH (1610 – 1685) was Alex’s 10th Great Grandfather; one of 1,024 in this generation of the Shaw line.

Smyth Coat of Arms

Ralph Smyth was born 6 Apr 1610 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. His parents were John SMYTH and Grace [__?__]. By the time he moved to Eastham in 1653 he was known as Ralph Smith and all his children took the name Smith.  Ralph graduated from Magdalen College, Cambridge, England in 1625 at the age of 15.

Ralph was a member of the Puritan church in Hingham England. He was one of the members of an advance guard sent to America to prepare a place for the entire congregation to follow, and 35 families eventually left the small town for America.  Ralph was part of a group of 14  who “came from old Hingham”  that sailed out of Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, the first week in May 1633 on the Elizabeth Bonaventure,  John Graves Master.  They arrived in Massachusetts Bay on June 15, 1633 “with ninety five passengers.”  The ship sailed into the small harbor called Bare Cove, so called because only the bare flats could be seen at low tide. They stopped in Charlestown for a time, and then received permission to scout out a place for their new town Hingham.

Daniel Cushing, in his list of early emigrants from Hingham, Norfolk, England, to Hingham, Massachusetts Bay, listed among those who arrived in 1633 “Ralph Smith came from Old Hingham and lived in this town,” and reported him to have a household of one person at arrival.

The fact that Ralph Smith was unmarried on arrival in 1633, does not appear again until early 1637 when he is given trial admission to Charlestown, and does not marry until about 1639 indicates that he probably came over as a servant.  By his placement in Daniel Cushing’s list it may be that he was in the household of his future father-in-law Edmund HOBART. 

ELIZABETH BONAVENTURE, John Graves, Master, left Yarmouth, Norfolk, the first week in May and arrived at Boston on June 15, 1633 `with ninety five passengers. The following emigrants from Hingham, Norfolk, who arrived this year probably came in this ship:

Edmund HOBART  of Hingham, Norfolk to Charlestown  with Mrs. Margaret Hobart,  Nazareth, Edmond,  Thomas, Joshua, Rebecca, Elizabeth, and Sarah

Henry Gibbs of Hingham, Norfolk to Charlestown

Ralph SMITH of Hingham, Norfolk to Charlestown

Nicholas Jacob of Hingham, Norfolk to Watertown  with Mrs. Mary, Jacob, John, Jacob,  Mary and Jacob

Thomas Chubbock  of Hardingham, Norfolk to Charlestown  with Mrs. Alice Chubbock, Sarah and Rebecca

Mrs. Elishua Crowe  to  Charlestown

Simon Huntington   of Norwich, Norfolk to  Roxbury  with Mrs. Margaret Huntington, Christopher, Anne, Simon,  and Thomas.

The Elizabeth Bonaventure was a very famous name for a ship, because it was the name of a warship that Sir Frances Drake used as his flagship on at least a couple of his expeditions including the 1587 attack on Cadiz which destroyed much of the armada that was massing to attack England. That attack was delayed and occurred the next year.  A year later it was part of the fleet to face the Spanish Armada.  It was also involved in the rescue of the lost Colony of Roanoke that was under attack. The fate of the vessel is not known.

This may not be the same vessel that brought Ralph over, but there is no other record of this vessel under the command of Captain John Graves. There where ninety-five passengers on board for that voyage. It was a fast trip for a ship of that time, and reflected the advancements in ship building that was common in English warships, and being copied by other countries. By 1633 it would have been over seventy years old, but on the other hand there aren’t records about the retirement or loss of the warship by that name, and famous ships can often live longer because of the pride in that vessel’s history.

Ralph married Elizabeth HOBART about 1639 in Hingham, Mass. After Elizabeth died, he married Grace Lewis.  Ralph and Grace were both widowed and this was the second marriage for both. In Ralph’s will, he speaks of her as “my loving wife, Grace”. Ralph died 27 Oct 1685 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass. and is buried at Cove Cemetery, Orleans, Barnstable, Mass.

Ralph Smith Memorial Findagrave #15872186

Elizabeth Hobart was born 9 Oct 1612 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. Her parents were Edmund HOBART and Margaret DEWEY. Elizabeth died 1654 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.

Grace Lewis first married Thomas Hatch. She survived Ralph.

Children of Ralph and Elizabeth:

Hingham Mass.

The town of Hingham was dubbed “Bare Cove” by the first colonizing English in 1633, but two years later was incorporated as a town under the name “Hingham”  The town was named for Hingham, a village in the English county of Norfolk, East Anglia, whence most of the first colonists came. Hingham was born of religious dissent. Many of the original founders were forced to flee their native village in Norfolk with both their vicars, Rev. Peter Hobart, son of Edmund HOBART and Rev. Robert PECK, when they fell foul of the strict doctrines of Anglican England.  While most of the early Hingham settlers came from Hingham and other nearby villages in East Anglia, a few Hingham settlers like Thomas Miner came from the West Country of England.  As of the census of 2000, there were 19,882 people in Hingham.

1636 –  The Thomas MINER Family arrived
4 Mar 1638 – Clement MINER baptized

Ralph’s New England Timeline

Sep 1633 – Ralph is listed as having started in building huts in Hingham and clearing the land for planting in the following spring.

3 Jan 1636/37 – The town of Charlestown ordered that “Ralph Smith was admitted a month upon trial”,  no further mention of him is seen in Charlestown records. It’s about 18 miles from Charlestown to Hingham.

4 Dec 1638 – [__?__] Ibrooke and Ralph Smythe were in some kind of trouble and were attached by the General Court, but when Ralph Smith appeared 5 March 1638/39, he was discharged. Ibrooke was charged for tempting two or more maids to uncleanness, but whether the two men’s offenses were related or not is uncertain.  Elizabeth Ibrooke was Ralph’s sister-in-law.

1637 – Hingham Mass. records Ralph as having drawn a house lot on Bachelor Street, now Main Street.

22 Sep 1652 – Spoken of in probate records of Suffolk Co., Mass, as “Ralph Smythe”

1653 – Removed to Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

22 May 1655 – Became Freeman in Eastham,

25 Oct 1657 – Took an “oath of fidelity” and was chosen a contable of Eastham

1660 – Appointed to superintending the cutting of drift whales. A year later,  he had a “problem” with the town for not reporting whales that had washed ashore.

6 Jun 1660 – Named Eastham constable

7 May 1661  – “Ralph Smith, for lying in and about the neglect of his duty, about a warrant directed to him, and concerning the seeing or not seeing a whale, and other misorderly carriages tending to disturbance in the town of Eastham, was fined twenty shillings”

3 Mar 1662 – Fined 10 shillings for striking William Walker during a dispute over a whale. His son Samuel was also fined for saying he could find it in his heart to stick a pen into William Walker.  “Ralph Smith, of Eastham, for breaking the peace in striking of William Walker, is fined 3s. 4d.”

May 1665 – “Ralph Smith, of Eastham, was fined, for telling of a lie, 10s.”

5 Mar 1667  –  “In reference vnto the complaint made against Ralph SMITH, of Eastham, concerning oppression and hard dealing with a carpenter named Crispen Wadlen, whoe was one of Captaine Allins companie, which said Wadlen kept about three weekes att the said Smithes house, the Court haue ordered, that a certaine psell of tooles which the said Smith had of the said carpenters shalbe deliuered vnto Nicholas SNOW, to be sent to the said Wadlen; and that the said Snowes receipt of them shalbe the said Smithes discharge; and that a certaine psell of cotton woole, which the said Smith had of the said Crispin Wadlen, shalbe by him, the said Smith, kept, if hee please, for full satisfaction for the time & charge hee was att when att his house as aforesaid.”

27 Oct 1685 – Probate
Very prosperous during his lifetime and said to have been one of the wealthiest citizens in Eastham in his era. The following “Court Order” indicates the Ralph died before it’s date. The Court Order reads, “October 27, 1685, adninistration is granted by this court to Grace Smith, relict of Ralph Smith and Samuel Smith, son of said Ralph Smith, all of the town of Eastham

Ralph Smith Bio – Source: Jesse Smith Ancestry Book by  J Bertrand Smith 1909 page 23

Children

1. Ralph Smith

A record made by Rev. Peter Hobart states “1640 Feb. 15, Ralph Smith buried”.

2. Samuel Smith

Samuel’s wife Mary Hopkins was born in 1640 in Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony.  She was Samuel’s first cousin.  Her parents were Gyles Hopkins and Catherine Wheldon.   All four of her grandparents were our ancestors:  Stephen HOPKINS & Mary [__?__]. and Gabriel WELDON & Jane [__?__].   Mary died 20 Mar 1696/97 possibly a will date or 2 Jul 1700 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.

Samuel Smith died at Eastham, Mass., March 27, 1696/97. It is said his wife died a few days before her husband, but in the Barnstable Probate Records it say’s that Mary Smith relict of Samuel Smith, signed papers in 1698, in the final settlement of that estate.

Early in life, Samuel Smith engaged in the whale and mackerel fishery business, and was very successful at it. Later he was a trader and inn keeper in Eastham. He owned at one time more than a 1000 acres of land, 400 acres being in the South side of the town of Eastham and was known for many years afterwards as the “Smith Purchase.” He also bought two farms in Chatham, Mass, one at Tom’s Neck, comprising a considerable part of the present village of Chatham. His estate at his death was valued at more than 1200 pounds. The inventory shows he was in possession of over fifty head of cattle, 60 sheep and a number of horses. He held various local offices in Eastham, was styled “mister” in the records and Judge Samuel Sewell mentions him in his diary. He has been descrided as a “resolute and determined man.”

It seems Samuel Smith experienced considerable trouble from the law: He sued a Stephen Merrick for unlawfully taking a horse (25 Oct. 1668). The next year he appeared in Plymouth Colony Court to answer suits brought against him, Ralph Smith and Daniel Smith by Josias Cooke. He served as constable of Eastham in 1670 and the next year was sued by Joseph Harding for abuse of his duties in that position. On 7 July 1682 Thomas Clarke Sr of Plymouth sued Samuel Smith of Eastham for unjustly detaining profits of a Cape Cod fishing venture. On the first Tuesday in Oct. 1686 Samuel Smith and John Mayo of Eastham were charged with netting mackerel at Cape Cod in violation of a court order.”

Samuel’s estate was settled April 22, 1697

Children of Samuel and Mary

i. [Infant Boy] Smith b. Mar 1667 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.; d. Mar 1667

ii. Samuel Smith b. 26 May 1668 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.’ d. 22 Sep 1692; m.  26 May 1690 to Bathsheba Lathrop.  Bathsheba’s parents were our ancestors Barnabas LATHROP and   After Samuel died, Bathsheba married  1693 in Eastham to Capt Samuel Freeman.

iii. Mary Smith b. 3 Jan 1669 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.; m. ~ 1693 to Daniel Hamilton (1690 – 1738)

iv. Joseph Smith b. 10 Apr 1671 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.; d. 22 Sep 1692 Eastham

v. John Smith b. 26 May 1673 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.; bef. 25 Feb 1717 Chatham, Mass.; m. 14 May 1694 to Bethiah Snow.  Bethiah’s parents were Stephen Snow and Susannah Deane.  Her grandparents were Nicholas SNOW and Constance HOPKINS.

vi. Grace Smith b. 5 Sep 1676 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.; d. 1 Dec 1691 Eastham

vii. Deborah Smith (twin) b. 10 Dec 1678 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.

viii. Rebecca Smith (twin) b. 10 Dec 1678 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.; d. 22 Dec 1748 in Eastham; m.  16 Aug 1705 in Eastham to Theophilas Mayo (b: 31 Oct 1680 in Eastham)

3. John Smith

John’s wife Hannah Williams was born 1658 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony. Her parents were Thomas Williams (1615 – 1696) and Elizabeth Tate (1620 – ). Hannah died 10 Feb 1717 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.

Children of John and Hannah:    [John Smith probably had nine children, but only Elizabeth and Sarah are recorded at Eastham]

i. Elizabeth Smith, b. 24 Feb 1668 Eastham, Plymouth Colony; m. Joshua Higgins son of Benjamin Higgins.

ii. John Smith, b. 18 Oct 1669 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony;   d. Bef. 21 Jan 1742 Eastham; m. ~1695 Eastham to Sarah Collins, (b. 2 Jan 1673 – d. bef. 1740)

iii. Sarah Smith,b. 27 Mar 1672 Eastham, Plymouth Colony; d. bef.15 Dec 1715; m1. 15 Dec 1690 to Joseph Snow (b. 24 Nov 1671 – d. 23 Jan 1706). Joseph’s parents were Joseph Snow and xx. m2. 2 Aug 1708 to Daniel Hamilton.

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4. Daniel Smith

Daniel’s wife Mary Young was born 28 Apr 1658 in Eastham, Plymouth, Colony.  Her parents were John Young (1624 – 1691) and Abigail Howland.( – 1692)  Her grandfather, Henry Howland was persecuted for his Quaker beliefs.  Two of her great uncles were our ancestors John HOWLAND and Arthur HOWLAND. Mary died 20 Mar 1720 Eastham, Barnstable, Mass

Children of Daniel and Mary

i. Daniel Smith b. 8 Jan 1678 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

ii. Content Smith b. 8 Jun 1680 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony; m. 11 Dec 1701 in Eastham to Thomas Howes (b: ~1680 in Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony) His parents were Joseph Howes and Elizabeth Mayo. His grandparents were our ancestors Thomas HOWES and Mary BURR.

On 8 Apr 1703 Thomas bought by deed from William Griffith, Sr., all his real estate at Monomoit. It included a homestead lot of 26 acres in the Christopher Smith neighbourhood, 1/2 of 20 acres on the Great Neck, and about 40 acres of meadow land. On 22 Oct 1705 he bought by deed from Philip Griffith a lot of 4 acres adjoining the homestead, the other half of the 20 acre lot on the Great Neck, and another lot of meadow. On 6 Apr 1713 he bought by deed from James Eldredge, the farm he had inherited from his father Nicholas Eldredge, and which adjoined part of the Howes farm. He was selectman 2 years and treasurer 2 years. He was ensign of the military company in 1715, later becoming lieutenant and then captain.

iii. Abigail Smith b. 30 Apr 1683 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony; m. 9 Aug 1711 in Eastham to Jeremiah Smith (b: 18 Aug 1685 in Eastham) Jeremiah’s parents were Jeremiah Smith (b: 1654) and Hannah Atwood (b: 14 Oct 1649)

iv. James Smith b. Apr 1685 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony; m. 19 Feb 1712/13 to Hannah Rogers (5 Aug 1689 in Eastham – d. Aft 22 Oct 1754 in Eastham). Hannah’s parents were John Rogers and Elizabeth Twining.

v. Nathaniel Smith b. Oct 1687 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony;  m. 18 Aug 1716 to Abigail Groce [Gross].  Abigail’s parents were Simon Groce [Gross] and Mary Bond.

vi. Thomas Smith b. 29 Jan 1688 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

vii. David Smith b. 30 Mar 1691 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

viii. Mary Smith b. 8 Jan 1692/93 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony; d. 16 Feb 1705/06

ix. Isaac Smith b. 3 Jun 1695 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

5. Elizabeth SMITH (See Jabez SNOW‘s page)

6. Thomas Smith

Thomas’ wife Mary Mayo was born 1665 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony. Her parents were John Mayo (1623 – 1706) and Hannah Laycraft (1628 – 1681). Mary died 22 Mar 1727 in Eastham, Mass.

Some sources state that Mary’s maiden name was Vickery or Hinson. The marriage date and place 23 Jun 1681 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony is unreferenced.

1691 – Thomas Smith and Joseph Snow were appointed a committee to take charge of the Eastham Commons.

1693 to 1695 – Thomas Smith was Representative to the General Court at Boston.

The Town Records, Eastham, Mass., Book 13, Page 199,. have the following:”Whereas, Thomas Smith, has made complaint that the bounds of his lands lying on the southeasterly side of’ the Town Cove upon `Pocha’ that was formerly his father’s, Ralph Smith, are gone to decay, and some of them lost, we, whose names are hereunto subscribed, being appointed by the town, to settle the bounds of lands that may be in controversy, having viewed sd lands, do settle the bounds thereof as follows, viz; Beginning at the N. E.. corner at a rock near the bank marked T. S. from there ranging about 40 poles southerly up into the woods to another rock marked T. S. from there ranging about 48 poles westerly to a stone set in the ground marked T. S. from there ranging to the bank by the cove side to a pine tree, marked, and so along by the bank easterly to the first bound mark.”Dated March 22, 1694.(Signed) Jonathan Sparrow, Samuel Freeman, Thomas Paine, Jr.

Children of Thomas and Mary

i. Ralph Smith b: 23 Oct 1682 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony; m. 23 Oct 1712 to Mary Mayo, daughter of Samuel. He was Selectman at East­ham, 1736

ii. Rebecca Smith b: 31 Mar 1685 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony; m. 16 Aug 1705 Eastham to Theophilus Mayo

iii. Thomas Smith b: 29 Jan 1688 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony;d. 20 Sep 1745; m. 3 Nov 1709 to Joanna Mayo. He settled in Truro, Barnstable, Mass

iv. David Smith b: Mar 1691 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.; d. 1729 Eastham

v. Jonathan Smith b: 5 Jul 1693 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.; d. 1767

vi. Isaac Smith b: 3 Jun 1695 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.; d. 26 Apr 1704 Eastham

vii. Jesse Smith b: 31 Jan 1704 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.; d.  14 Jun 1782 in Spencers Corner, Dutchess, New York; m. Sep 1724 Eastham to Sarah Higgins (1706 – 1782)

7. Deborah Smith

Deborah’s husband John Hurd was born 17 May 1642 in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony; John died 12 Feb 1717 in Harwich, Barnstable, Mass. John’s parents were John Hurd (1612 – 1690) and [__?__]

Alternatively, John married Deborah Kendrick (b. 16 Jun 1646 Boston, Mass. – d. 21 Feb 1639
Eastham, Barnstable, Mass)

Children of Deborah and John:

i. John Hurd b. 17 Jan 1688/9 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass; d. 23 Sep 1690 in Boston, Mass.

ii. Grace Hurd b. 11 Jan 1692 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass.; d. 1787

iii. Jacob Hurd b. 12 Jan 1695 Eastham, Barnstable, Mass;. d. 1776 Colchester, Tolland, CT; m. 11 Aug 1715 in Eastham to Rebecca Higgins (b. 30 Nov 1686 in Eastham – d. 25 Dec 1776 in Colchester, Tolland, CT.

Sources:

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/17767813/person/1655745121

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/i/n/John-C-Minniti/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0781.html

http://www.lacolony.org/rs2.html

http://www.lacolony.org/JesseSmithbk.pdf

http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=9569331

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=oldmankew&id=I2759

http://www.smyth1633.org/ts.html

Nicholas SNOW (1600 – 1676) was Alex’s 10th Great Grandfather; one of 1,024 in this generation of the Shaw line.

Snow Coat of Arms

Nicholas Snow was born 18 Jan 1600 in Hoxton, Middlesex, England. Hoxton is now  a district in the East End of London in the London Borough of Hackney, immediately north of the financial district of the City of London. The geographical distincion between Hoxton and Shoreditch is often confused.   His parents were Nicholas SNOW Sr. and Elizabeth ROWELLES. He arrived in Plymouth on the “Anne” in 1623. He married about  1 Jun 1627 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony to Constance HOPKINS. He was among the first settlers of Eastham, in 1644.  He was a freeman, in Eastham, in 1655, and served in many town offices.  Nicholas died 15 Nov 1676 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony and is buried in the Cove Burying Ground, Eastham.

Our ancestors or their close relatives had almost half the lots in early Plymouth – (George Soule was the grandfather of John TOMSON’s son-in-law, not close enough to get a #)

Constance Hopkins (wiki)was baptized 11 May 1606 Hursley, Hampshire, England. Alternatively, she was born 25 Jan 1599 Wooten, Underedge, Gloucestershire.  Her parents were Stephen HOPKINS and Mary [__?__].  She was a Mayflower passenger, along with her father and stepmother. Constance died  25 Nov, 1677 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony and is buried in the Cove Burying Ground, Eastham.

Constance Hopkins Snow Reenactor

According to Governor William Bradford, who wrote between March 6 and April 3, 1651:

“Constanta is also married, and hath 12 children all of them living, and one of them married”.

Constance Hopkins Memorial – placed in 1966 by descendants– Cove Burying Ground
Eastham , Mass. Findagrave # 8634

Children of Nicholas and Constance:

Nicholas’ father Nicholas SNOW Sr.was born 1578 St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex, He married 9 May 1599 St Dunstan, Stenpney to Elizabeth Rowelles.

Nicholas’ mother Elizabeth ROWELLES,was born in 1580 in Stepney and died in 1644 Hoxton, Middlesex, England.

Constance’s father Stephen HOPKINS was born about 1580 in Hursley, Hampshire, England and was baptized 30 Apr 1581 in Upper Clatford, Hampshire. He first married Constance’s mother Mary [__?__] (b. ~1585 )

Constance Hopkins is the central character in Patricia Clapp’s young adult novel Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth.  It must be a popular book as I found three different cover portraits.

Constance was the second daughter of Stephen Hopkins (Wiki), by his first wife, Mary. Some believe she was named in honor of Constance (Marline) Hopkins. Constance, at the age of fourteen, along with her father and his second wife Elizabeth (Fisher), accompanied by brother Giles, half-sister Damaris as well as two servants by the name of Edward Doty and Edward Lester were passengers on the Mayflower on its journey to the New World in 1620. Along the way her half-brother Oceanus was born, the only child born on the Mayflower journey.

Constance Hopkins Beaver Hat Source; Pilgrim Hall Musuem

Made in England, 1615-1640
Ownership attributed to Constance Hopkins

Steeple-crowned hats, usually with a decorative band, were popular in Western Europe for both men and women in the early 17th century. Beaver fur, imported from the colonies, was processed into felt to make hats.

The 1623 division of land marked the end of the Pilgrims’ earliest system of land held in common by all. Governor Bradford explains it this way :

“And so assigned to every family a parcel of land, according to the proportion of their number, for that end, only for the present use (but made no division for inheritance) and ranged all boys and youth under some family. This had very good success, for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been by any means the Governor or any other could use, and saved him a great deal of trouble, and gave far better content. The women now went willingly into the field, and took their little ones with them to set corn; which before would allege weakness and inability; whom to have compelled would have been thought great tyranny and oppression.”

Records, Deeds, &c., Vol. I 1627-1651 is the oldest record book of the Plymouth settlement. It begins with the 1623 division of land, recorded in the handwriting of Governor William Bradford. The lands of Nicholas Snow are described as “The fales of their ground which came ouer in the shipe called the Anne according as their were case. 1623… these following lye on the other side of the towne towards the eele-riuer … These butt against Hobs Hole. Nicolas Snow.” [Also in this area were the lands of Anthony Dix, Mr. Pierce’s 2 servants, and Ralph Walen.]

The 1627 Division of Cattle

“At a publicque court held the 22th of May it was concluded by the whole Companie, that the cattell wch were the Companies, to wit, the Cowes and the Goates should be equally devided to all the psonts of the same company … & so the lotts fell as followeth, thirteene psonts being pportioned to one lot…”The seauenth lott fell to Stephen Hopkins & his company Joyned to him (2) his wife Elizabeth Hopkins (3) Gyles Hopkins (4) Caleb Hopkins (5) Debora Hopkins (6) Nickolas Snow (7) Constance Snow (8) William Pallmer (9) ffrances Pallmer (10) Willm Pallmer Jnor (11) John Billington Senor (12) Hellen Billington (13) ffrancis Billington. To this lott fell A black weining Calfe to wch was aded the Calfe of this yeare to come of the black Cow, wch pueing a bull they were to keepe it vngelt 5 yeares for common vse & after to make there best of it. Nothing belonging of thes too, for ye copanye of ye first stock : but only half ye Increase. To this lott ther fell two shee goats : which goats they posses on the like terms which others doe their cattell.”

NICHOLAS SNOW : A 1626 PURCHASER
“Isaac Allerton negotiated in England an agreement dated 26 October 1626 between the Adventurers and himself as ‘one of the planters resident at Plymouth afforesaid, assigned, and sent over as agent for the rest of the planters ther,’ whereby the adventurers for L1,800 sold to the planters, later known as the Purchasers, all the ‘said stocks, shares, lands, merchandise, and chatles’ which had belonged to the Adventurers. The list we have of the Purchaser is from the PCR 2:177, and was obviously compiled sometime after the 1626 agreement, for Richard Warren died in 1628, and his wife replaced him on the list, and John Billington was hanged in 1630, and his share is represented on the list by his surname only. Though the following year the fifty-eight Purchasers in turn assigned both the shares in the company and the debt to the eight Plymouth and four London Undertakers, the list of Purchasers continued to be an important one for, in general, these people were privileged above all others in future land grants in the colony. The list, consisting of fifty-three Plymouth names plus the names of five London men, is as follows : ‘The Names of the Purchasers. Mr Wm Bradford Mr. Thom Prence Mr Wm Brewster… Jonathan Brewster Edward Banges Nicholas SNOW Steven Hopkins Abraham Pearse…

1 Oct 1634 : ”Apoynted for laying out of highwayes :

For Duxbery side, Capt Miles Standish, Mr William Colier, Jonathan Brewster, William Palmer, Steuen Trace.

For Plimouth, John Jeney, Francis COOKE, [George KEMPTON’s son ], Manaseh Kempton, Edward BANGS, Nicholas SNOW, John Winsloe, James Hurst.
The high wayes to be layd out before the 15 of Nouember next.”

Jan 1634/35 – The Plymouth court noted that “The servant of Nicolas SNOW was willing to serve out his time with  [our ancestor]. John COOPER, according to the tenor of his indenture”. This servant was not the same as [our ancestor] Twiford WEST who, after brief service with Nicholas Snow, agreed on 12 Feb 1635/36 to return to Edward Winslow, with whom he had originally made his indenture.

22 Feb 1635 : Records of Plymouth Colony, Vol. 1, p. 37.

“Twiford WEST, hauing bound him selfe by an indenture to serue Mr Edward Winslow, of New Plimoth, or his assignes, for the terme of sixe years, vpon shuch conditions as apears more at large in ye said indenture, the said Ed: Winslow haueing assigned him to serue Nicolass SNOW, of ye same towne of Plimoth, the said Twiford West (after some triall) disliking to be with ye said Nicolas Snow, came to ye afforesaid Ed: Winslow, & desird he might dwell with him selfe, and he would serue him one year more then is expresed in ye said indenture; vpon which his request, ye said Ed: Winslow compounded with ye said Nicolass Snow for ye said Twiford West, so as the said Twiford West is now (by his own free desire) bound to serue ye said Ed: Winslow seauen years, his time beginning from ye date mentioned in ye afforesaid indenture. This agreemente was acknowledged by all ye parties before ye Gouer, Feb: 12, 1635, and was desired to be recorded.”
Records of Plymouth Colony, Vol. 1, p. 37.

5 May 1640 – “John Winslow, Nicholas SNOWE, Nehemiah  SMYTH, Georg Soule, Josuah Pratt, are appoynted to view all the meddowes at Greens Harbour, wch are not graunted forth, & to measure them, and to make report thereof the next Court.”

1 Dec 1640 :”Presentments. “… Thomas Coachman, Nicholas SNOW , & Josias Cooke, for not mending the heigh wayes at the Second Brooke, Smylt Riuer, New Bridge, and other places. “Discharged, vpon condicon that they shall repaire the heigh wayes this yeare

Nicholas arrived in Eastham in April of 1644, as one of the original purchasers/founders of Eastham. in 1644. He lived on the North side of Great Pond.

Nicholas was a founder of Eastham, Barnstable, Mass

Towns of Barnstable County

Originally settled by the Nauset tribe, Eastham was the site where in 1621 a hunting expedition comprised from the crew of the Mayflower, which had stopped in Provincetown harbor on Cape Cod Bay after a rough crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, which led to the first encounter of the Pilgrims and the local Nauset Indians at First Encounter Beach. The area would not be settled by Europeans, however, until 1644. The original lands included all of the northern peninsula of Cape Cod now the towns of Truro, Wellfleet, Eastham, Orleans and a small portion of Chatham. Eastham town was officially incorporated in 1651.

1 June 1647 – “Supvisors of the Highwaies. “… Nawsett [Eastham], Nicholas SNOW & Edward  BANGES.

9 June 1665 : “An Account of the Liquors brought into the Towne of Eastham, as followeth. “… Aprill, 65. Thomas Paine, 1 gallon of liquor, and 2 gallons of Gorge Crispe. “Nicholas Snow, 1 gallon and an halfe of liquor. “Josepth Harding, one gallon and an halfe of liquor.”

5 March 1667  –  “In reference vnto the complaint made against Ralph SMITH, of Eastham, concerning oppression and hard dealing with a carpenter named Crispen Wadlen, whoe was one of Captaine Allins companie, which said Wadlen kept about three weekes att the said Smithes house, the Court haue ordered, that a certaine psell of tooles which the said Smith had of the said carpenters shalbe deliuered vnto Nicholas SNOW, to be sent to the said Wadlen; and that the said Snowes receipt of them shalbe the said Smithes discharge; and that a certaine psell of cotton woole, which the said Smith had of the said Crispin Wadlen, shalbe by him, the said Smith, kept, if hee please, for full satisfaction for the time & charge hee was att when att his house as aforesaid.”

Nicholas was a Deputy of Plymouth for 3 years; a Selectman for 7 years; Town Clerk for 16 years; and laid out the highway from Eastham to Yarmouth in 1660.  He had no grave stone but left a will.

He was one of Governor Thomas Prence’s intimate associates, and it was partly through Snow’s efforts that Rev. John Mayo was prevailed upon to settle as minister of Eastham in 1655. Nicholas Snow was a large land owner in Harwich, Eastham, and Truro. Rev. John Mayo witnessed his will.

Will of Nicholas Snow

“A writing ordered to be Recorded Declaring the manor of Nicholas Snow his Disposing of his Estate as followeth; viz: Nicholas Snow of Eastham Late Deceased; “I Nicholas Snow of Eastham being weake and Infeirme of body but of prfect Memory and understanding, not knowing the Day of my Departure but yett Dayly expecting my last Change; I thinke meet to leave this behind mee as my last Will and Testament; Impr: I Comend my soule into the Armes of Gods Mercye through Christ Jesus in whom I hope to sleep and my body to a Decent buriall; and as Concerning my temporall estate that God of his Goodnes hath Given mee; It is my last Will and Testament that after this manor it should be Disposed off;

“Impr: To my son Marke Snow I Give and bequeath all that twenty acrees of upland lying att Namskekitt wher his house now stands, and two acrees of Meddow; and all that broken marsh there of mine att Namscekett;

Item two third of my Great lott att Satuckett lying next the Indians Ground; and that syde of my lott Next the Indians land I Give to him and his heires lawfully begotten of his body for ever; and what hee Can purchase more of upland and meddow of the Indians there at Satuckett I Give to him all this abovesaid lands or meddow or Marsh purchased or unpurchased I Give to him and to his heires lawfully begotten of his body forever;

Item To my son Joseph Snow I Give that other third prte of my Great lott att Satuckett; and two acrees and an halfe of meddow lying att Namscekett neare the head and an Necke of upland lying between it lying on the westsyde of Willam Twinings, all this abovesaid land and meddow I Give to my son Joseph Snow and to his heires Lawfully begotten of his body forever;

“Item To my son Steven Snow I Give twenty acrees on the southsyde of my Great lott att Ochett, and then acrees of My little lott att Satuckett lying between Daniell Cole and Edward Banges by the side of a Little pond, an acree and an halfe of Meddow att the boat meddow, lying between Thomas Williams, and Samuell freeman and that prte of my Meddow att the Great Meddow, That lyeth between Josiah Cooke and the Eelcreeke; all this abovesaid land and medow I Give to my son Steven and the heires lawfully begotten of his body; for ever

“Item To my son John Snow I Give all that my land att Paomett Purchased or unpurchased whether upland or meddow; and all my Right and title or privilidge there; all the abovesaid upland or Meddow right and Privilidge att Paomett I Give to my son John Snow; and to the heires lawfully begotten of his body, forever.

“Item To my son Jabez: Snow I Give all this my Land lying between my house and my son Thomas Paines, and seaven acrees att the basse pond lying between Daniell Cole and Willam Browne; and an halfe acree of Marsh att the end of it and six acrees of upland att the herring pond; and an acree and halfe of meddow att silver springe lying on the Northsyde of Willam Walkers, and the Clift of upland adjacent to the above said Meddow and all the sedge about it, to Ephraime Done; and that prte of my house hee lives in as longe as my wife or I Doe live

“Item I Give him two acrees of Meddow att the Great Meddow lying between the Eel Creeke and Joseph hardings;

“Item To my son Jabez I Give that my four acrees of Meddow att Billinsgate Due to mee yett unlayed out; All this abovesaid upland and meddow I Give to my son Jabez Snow and the heires of his body lawfully begotten for ever.

“Item This my meddow about my house I Give to my son Jabez;

“Item I Give to my Loveing wife Constant Snow all my stocke of Cattle sheep horses swine whatsoever, to be att her Disposall for the Comfort and support of her life, with all the moveable Goods I am posessed of and after her Decease, stocke and Movables to be equally Devided amongst all my Children;

“Item To my wife I Give the use and Disposall of the prte of my house shee now Dwells in DUring her life time, and after her Decease to be my son Jabez Snowes –

Item I give to my loveing wife that ten acrees of upland att Pochett, and 20 on Billingsgate Iland, for her Desposall for the Comfort of her life, but if shee need it not, and leave it undesposed; I Give it then to my son Steven Snow; That twenty acrees of upland att Billingsgate if my wife leave it undesposed, then to be my son Jabez Snowes “I Doe Give to the Church of Eastham for the furniture of the Table of the Lord, with pewter or other Nessesaries I say I Doe Give ten shillings, out of my estate after my wifes Decease;

“That this is my last Will and Testament I have sett to my hand and seale; this fourteenth Day of November one thousand six hundred seaventy and six Nicholas Snow Witnes, Signed & Sealled in the presence of us Samuell Treate Thomas Paine senir “It is my Desire that Deacon Samuell ffreeman and John Mayo would oversee the true and ffaithfull prformance of this my Last Will, and Testament and be healpfull in any Case of Need Concerning the same; “Att the Court of his Matie held att Plymouth the fift of March 1676/77 Mr Samuell Treate made oath to this Writing that hee Did see Nicholas Snow Signe and seall it, and Did Declare it to be his Mind for the Disposall of his estate:”Thomas Paine made oath att the Court fore Names, that hee Did see Nicholas Snow signe and seale This Paper or writing above Coppied; and heer entered abovesaid.”

Click here for the inventory of Nicholas estate which includes an interesting list of cooper’s tools

Nicholas was a pioneer of Eastham, Mass and lived on the north shore of Great Pond.

Children

1. Capt. Mark Snow

Mark’s first wife Anna Cooke was born in 1636 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony. Anna died 25 Jul 1656 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass. Her parents were Josiah Cooke (b: ~ 1610 in Leyden, Zuid-Holland) and Elizabeth Ring (bapt. 23 Feb 1603 in Ufford, Suffolk, England) Her maternal grandparents were our ancestors William RING and Mary DURRANT.

Mark’s second wife Jane Prence was born 1 Nov 1637 in Duxbury, Plymouth Colony. Her parents were Thomas PRENCE and Mary COLLIER. Jane died 1711 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.

1643  – was on the lists of those able to bear arms at Plymouth Colony. L

14 Apr 1644 – Together with his parents, brothers and sisters he settled at Nauset, Eastham, Cape Cod

1657 –  became a freeman. He gave oath of allegiance on 3 Jun 1657;

1659 – The officers of Eastham’s militia company in 1659 were Capt. Mark Snow, Lt. Jonathan Higgins and Ensign Jonathan Bangs.

Chosen Surveyor of Highways. He was Town Clerk, Eastham, MA between 1663 and 1678. He was a selectman, Eastham, MA between 1667 and 1685. On 5-Jun-1667 attended the Grand Enquest, Gov. Thomas PRENCE officiated.

24 Oct 1667  – on the Grand Jury with his brother Joseph Snow.

1673 – served as a Selectman

1675 – He was a member of the Counsel of War in 1675.

1675 – 1681 -He was a deputy, Eastham, MA

1675/76 He served in King Philip’s War i

1679 –  “Select Courts” “being establishe by law, Capt. Jonathan SPAROW,, Mr Mark Snow and Mr. John Doane were commissioned to hold them in this town.” Eastham, MA.

1689 – Mark Snow was a witness to the will codicil of Giles Hopkins.

23 Nov 1694 – Will of Mark Snow

In the name of God Amen. I Mark Snow of Eastham being weak of body but sound in mind and disposing memory, fo make this my last will and testament in manner and form following. That is to say, first and principally I resign my soul unto God that gave it in hopeful assurance of a blessed resurrection at ye last day in and through ye merits of my blessed redeemer; and secondly , I commit my body to ye earth from whence it was taken to be decetly buried at ye discretion of my executor hereafter named. As for my temporal estate that ye Lord hath lent unto me I dispose of that as followeth:

Imprimis–I give unto my son, Nickolas, a pardel of land where his house stands, computed at twenty and six acres, according to bounds set down in ye pruchasers book of records, with two acres of meadow lying at ye head of Namskakett, according to record as above said.

Imp. I give unto my son, Nickolas ye one half of my lot of land lying at Satuckett, between Jonathan Bangs and ye Indian Land. I Give unto my son Nickolas, ye one half of a parcel of meadow lying in ye township of Yarmouth in a place called Blue Meadow in ye south side of Bass River.

It. I give to my son Thomas Snow ye extra half of my lot where his house stands onthat side and next the Indian range, and ye one half of my meadow in Yarmouth yt above specified meadow.

It. I give unto my son Prince Snow after my wife’s decease of widowhood, my now dwelling house, and all ye land adjoining and fifteen acres of land above ye common road according to bounds specified in ye record abovesaid. I give to my son Prince Snow three acres of meadow that lies below my now dwelling house according to bounds set down in ye before specified book of records.

It. I give to my son Thomas Snow as acre of land at ye northmost end my lot in ye old fields commonly so-called and another small division of land estimated at three-quaters of an acre of land lying in ye specified old field at Satuckett between Ensign Bangs and Thomas Freeman.

It. I give to my son Prince Snow ye remainder of my lot of land containing three acres of land in ye specified Indian fields after my wife’s decease.

I give to my son Nickolas and Thomas my lot of land containing three acres of land according to record lying between John Freemans pasture andye common road. I give unto my son Prince after my wife’s decease an acre and a half of meadow lying between John Cole and Stephen Hopkins in Namskaket meadow according to bounds specified in ye before specified records. All my land that lie undivided after my wife’s decease i give and bequeath to my three sons Nickolas, Thomas and Prince to be equally divided between them.

It. I give and beequeath to my loving wife, Jane Snow all my whole personal estate after my debts and funeral charges are paid. I do appoint my loving wife, Jane Snow my whole and sole executor after my decease. It. I give to my son Prince Snow, my musket cat-box and cutlass and one pistol. I give to my son Thomas Snow my back sword and one pistol. It. I give to my grand-child Jonathan Snow my carbine. To ye truth and verify hereof I have set my hanc and seal this twenty and third day of November, 1694.

Signed and sealed in the
presence of us

Mark Snow
Samuel Knowles
Thomas Crosby Jr.
Jonathan SPARROW,

Children of Mark and Anna:

i. Anne Snow b: 7 Jul 1656 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

Children of Mark and Jane:

ii. Mary Snow b: 30 Nov 1661 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

iii. Nicholas Snow b: 6 Dec 1663 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

iv. Elizabeth Snow b: 9 May 1666 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

v. Thomas Snow b: 6 Aug 1668 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

vi. Sarah Snow b: 10 May 1671 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

vii. Prence Snow b: 22 May 1674 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

viii. Elizabeth Snow b: 20 Jun 1676 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

ix. Hannah Snow b: 16 Sep 1679 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

2. Mary Snow

Mary’s husband Thomas Paine was born 18 Jan 1613 in Wrentham, Suffolk, England. His parents were Thomas Paine Sr. and Elizabeth Blomfield.  The identity of his mother isn’t certain, she could have been Elizabeth Tuthill or Margaret Pultney.   Thomas died 16 Aug 1706 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.

One tradition is that Thomas Paine Sr, the ancestor of the “Cape family of Paines,” immigrated to this country,  in 1624, bringing with him an only son named Thomas, a boy of ten years who had lost the sight of one of his eyes by an arrow before he left England. The tradition says they came over in some of those vessels that early visited the Eastern coast for fishing purposes.

The real story is Thomas Payne Sr. purchased the vessel  Mary Anne and immigrated  from  Yarmouth, arriving in Boston August 21, 1637. Thomas Paine was received into the town of Salem, Massachusetts; at the age of 51.   68 Puritans made the trip including several other of our relatives.  See my post Passages for details.  Thomas Payne Sr was the grandson of our ancestor William PAYNE Sr and cousin of William PAYNE.

Thomas Paine Jr.  moved from Salem to Dedham Mass. in 1640.  He settled in that part of Eastham now included in the town of Orleans, on the place at the head of the Cove, called by the Indians ” Kesscayogansett,”. At the time of his settlement here the township was in its infancy, having been settled but a few years, and the whole number of families did not exceed nineteen. He soon became a leading man in the settlement, and was shortly called into public service.

By trade, Thomas was a cooper as he affirmed, but he appears to have had a knowledge of the other trades, for he could as easily build a mill for grinding as he could fashion a barrel.  His father owned a mill in Wrentham, Suffolk, England. He constructed several in various parts of the County in his time. For his ” great charges about building two grist-mills for the use of the town,” Eastham, in 1683, granted him a parcel of land on the northerly side of ” Cescayogansett River.” The same year he built one at Barnstable.

He was propounded at Plymouth, and admitted a freeman, June 1, 1658. In 1662, with Giles Hopkins, he was chosen surveyor of highways, and in 1664 a Juror ; and June 8, a deputy to the Old Colony Court, an office for which he was chosen in 1671, ’72, ’73, ’76, ’78, ’80, ’81 and 1690. In 1667, with several others of his townsmen, he was chosen to investigate the cause of the death of Robert Chappell, James Nichols and James Pidell, of the company of Capt. John Allen, who were put ashore at Cape Cod.

1662  – he was appointed, with Nicholas Snow, Jonathan Sparrow and Giles Hopkins, to view and lay out the meadow between Namskaket and Silver Springs, then within the limits of Eastham; and the same year, with Giles Hopkins, was selected a surveyor of highways.

1667 – he was allowed liberty to look out some land for his accommodation, and in June, 1669, he was allowed a tract at Namassakett [now Middleboro] by the Court, with Experience Michell, Henry Sampson and Thomas Little. The tract was conveyed to these gentlemen by Tuscapin or Black Sachem, and his son William, July 20, 1669, in consideration of ten pound sterling. This tract adjoined the land of John Alden, and bordered on Assowamsett Ponds.

1667 – with eleven others, he was called to investigate the causes of deaths of three men of Captain John Allen’s company, who were put ashore at Cape Cod.

1670 – he, with Capt. Jonathan SPARROW, was appointed to visit the ordinaries in town, and see that there was no excessive drinking; and the same year was one of the Grand Inquest.

Jun 5 1671 – he was chosen to the office of Water Bailiff for the Colony, and sworn. This office was created for the purpose of regulating fishing at Cape Cod, and places adjacent, which at that time was carried on quite successfully by the people of this and other Colonies, without any regard to the interest of the Old Colony, and to recover such sums as the Court should order from those who fished here ; and also to seize all fish that were taken unlawfully. In this office he served many years to the acceptance of the Court.

1671 – he was chosen one of the Selectmen of Eastham, and re-elected for a great number of years.

May 2 1670 – purchased of Thomas Prince of Plymouth, for £20, his share of land at Pamett, lying about ” Lovell’s Creek” or ” Eastern Harbour,”

Jun 1 1673 – for fifteen pounds, purchased all the right that Jabez Howland had to upland and meadow in the same vicinity.

1674 – he was chosen Constable of Eastham, and in 1676 was chosen a committee by the town to superintend the building of the Meeting-house.

From 1674 to 1694, he was Treasurer of the town, and for several years during the time was Clerk.

1676 – he was one of the committee to collect a debt of Sandwich and to superintend the building of the meetinghouse in Eastham. This meetinghouse was the second one built there and stood near the ancient burying ground. The first one was thatched roof and stood nearby, and had been erected many years. It was now considered unsuitable for the congregation of their minister, Rev. Samuel Treat, who was now regularly settled. Mr. Paine was clerk and treasurer of Eastham as well. Mr. Paine was many years a “rate maker” or assessor.

Jul 13 1677 – with Mr. Huckins of Barnstable, Mr. Gray of Plymouth, and the Treasurer of the Colony, Mr. Southworth, he hired the fishing privileges and profits at the Cape for seven years, paying the sum of thirty pounds a year.

1685 –  with Rev. Samuel Treat, Capt. Jonathan SPARROW, John Mayo, Sen., and Jabez SNOW, he was chosen by the town “to hear and determine the difference between those called the purchasers of the town,” respecting land within the limits of Eastham.

1696 – he represented Eastham in the General Court at Boston ;

Mar 14 1696 – he purchased of Thomas Stableford, a joiner, who had taken up his residence in Philadelphia, his house and land at Boston, at the South End, paying one hundred and thirty-five pounds, and took up his residence. But selling out for the same sum to Eleazer Darby, a mariner, Oct. 13, 1697, he removed to Eastham, where he had for so many years of his life resided, and retired from public service in which he had been employed for nearly a half century, and died August 16, 1706, at the supposed age of 94 years.

He made his will May 12, 1705, and it was presented at Barnstable for Probate, by his sons, Samuel and Thomas, the Executors, October 2, 1706.

His death is thus noticed by his son John’ in his Journal which is still extant:

” On this 16 day of August, 1706, my aged father Thomas Paine departed this life. I am now left fatherless and motherless, as to my natural parents, but my God is a Father of the fatherless upon whose Providence I cast myself. 0 ! God my Father do not cast me off. Though my father and mother have forsaken me my hope is in Thee.”

Children of Mary and Thomas

i. Samuel Paine b: ~ 1652 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

ii. Mary Paine b: 1655 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

iii. Thomas Paine b: 1656-1657 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

iv. Elisha Paine b: Mar 1658 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

v. John Paine b: 14 Mar 1661 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

vi. Nicholas Paine b: 1663 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

vii. James Paine b: 16 Jul 1665 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

viii. Joseph Paine b: ~ 1667 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

ix. Dorcas Paine b: ~ 1670 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

3. Sarah Snow

Sarah’s husband William Walker was born about 1630. William died 1703 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass and is buried in the Cove Burying Ground, Eastham

Sarah and her son William were appointed as executors of William Sr.’s will on 25 Oct 1703.

Children of Sarah and William:

i. John Walker b: 24 Nov 1655 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

ii. William Walker b: 12 Oct 1657 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

iii. William Walker b: 2 Aug 1659 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

iv. Sarah Walker b: 30 Jul 1662 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

v. Elizabeth Walker b: 28 Sep 1664 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

vi. Jabez Walker b: 8 Jul 1668 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

4. Lt. Joseph Snow

Joseph’s wife Mary Higgins was born 27 Sep 1652 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony. Her parents were Richard Higgins (1613 – 1677) and Mrs. Mary Yates (1630 -1702 ) Mary died in 1717 in Eastham, Mass or after Jan 1721/22.

Mary’s father Richard Higgins settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts, as early as 1633, when his name appears among the taxpayers of that town. He was a tailor by trade and also a planter. In 1634 he was admitted a freeman and was then a member of the church. In 1644 he left Plymouth and with six others [including Nicholas SNOW] founded the town of Eastham on Cape Cod.

“It was assumed by many that Samuel Oliver married Mary Higgins, sister to Zerah, becasue he was granted a guardianship over Zerah’s son and is described as his uncle. However, he is uncle by virtue of the marriage of his sister Elizabeth to Zerah. Given the inscription below, Mary Higgins could not be the wife of Samuel as she would be 76 (b. 9/27/1652 ) ”

History of Eastham, p48: In 1691, Thomas Smith and Joseph Snow were appointed a committee to take charge of the Commons.

Children of Joseph and Mary:

i. Joseph Snow b: 24 Nov 1671 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

ii. Benjamin Snow b: 9 Jun 1673 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

iii. Mary Snow b: 17 Oct 1674 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

iv. Sarah Snow b: 30 Apr 1677 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

v. Ruth Snow b: 14 Oct 1679 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

vi. Steven Snow b: 24 Feb 1681 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

vii. Lydia Snow b: 20 Jul 1684 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

viii. Rebeckah Snow b: 4 Dec 1686 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

ix. James Snow b: 31 Mar 1689 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

x. Jane Snow b: 27 Mar 1692 in Eastham,  Barnstable, Mass.

xi. Josiah Snow b: 27 Nov 1694 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.

5. Stephen Snow

Stephen’s first wife Susannah Deane was born about 1635 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony. Her half sister Anna married Stephen’s brother Mark.  Susannah’s parents were Stephen Deane (1606 – 1634 ) and Elizabeth Ring (1603 – 1687).  Her maternal grandparents were our ancestors William RING and Mary DURRANT.  Susan first married  Joseph Rogers. Susannah died 16 Jun 1676 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.

Stephen’s second wife Mary Cottle was born 1 Sep 1653 in Salisbury, Massachusetts Bay.   She first married Jan 1668 in Amesbury, Massachusetts Bay to  Samuel Bickford and had five children between 1666 and 1680.  Mary died 1706 in Eastham.

Susannah’s first husband Joseph Rogers (1635 – 1660) died from a fall in wrestling with his friend, [our ancestor John HAWES] “Christmas Day 1660″. According to Court records, “John Hawes was found not guilty of “takeing away the life of Joseph Rogers of Eastham by giveing him a most deadly fall, on the 25 of December 1660 . . . whereof he . . . about 48 hours after died”.  Joseph’s brother Thomas  married Stephen’s sister Elizabeth.

Children of Stephen and Susannah:

i. Hannah Snow b: 2 Jan 1666 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

ii. Bathshua Snow b: 25 Jul 1664 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

iii. Micajah Snow b: 22 Dec 1669 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

iv. Ebenezer Snow b: Abt 1676 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

v. Bethia Snow b: 1 Jul 1672 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony; d. 7 Mar 1747 in Chatham, Mass.; m. 14 May 1694 in Eastham to John Smith (b: 26 May 1673 in Eastham – bef. 25 Feb 1717 in Chatham, Mass) John’s parents were Samuel Smith and Mary Hopkins.  His grandparents were our ancestors Ralph SMYTH and Elizabeth HOBART 

John was a large landowner in the Great Beach area before he died in middle life at the age of 43.

Bethia’s aunt Merriam Deane (1633-1703)   is the oldest first time bride in our family tree.  She was 59 when she married our ancestor John WING as his second wife.   She is interred at Dillingham Cemetery.  Miriam’s will dated 24 May 1701 proved 8 Jan 1702/03 gives all her property to Dean Smith, “son of my Kinswoman, Bethiah Smith of Monomoy.” Bethiah was Miriam’s niece, daughter of her sister Susannah Dean and Stephen Snow. John Smith of Chatham was appointed guardian of his son Deane Smith, aged about 18, on 10/19/1716, “some estate having fallen” to Dean by the “bequest and death of some of his relations.”

6. John Snow

John’s wife Mary Smalley was born 11 Dec 1647 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony. Her parents were John Smalley ( ~1613 – 1692) and Ann Walden ( ~1620 – 1694) Mary had a twin Isaac Smalley who died after 1702 in New Jersey. After John died in 1692, Mary married Ephraim Doane ( ~1637 – 1700).  Mary died in 1703 in Eastham.

The Smalley family was part of the first group to settle Nauset [Eastham], in 1644.

“On March 3, 1662-63, Ephraim Doane and three others were fined twenty-five shillings each for trading liquor with the Indians, and he and Thomas Ridman were fined fifty shillings each for permitting the Indians to have liquor in their boats, it appearing that one of the Indians was drunk thereby.” On October 29, 1669, Ephraim was before the court for “horribly slandering and belying his neighbors: at Eastham and was fined “the sume of twenty shillings for telling two lyes about the same.” June 6, 1678, he was again before the court to answer to the complaint of “Jawannum, late wife of James Pequin of Billingsgate, as suspected by her and Nicholas, to have been an occasion of the violent death of said Pequin, her husband.”

Children of John and Mary

i. Hannah Snow b: 26 Aug 1670 in Eastham, Massachusetts

ii. Mary Snow b: 10 Mar 1672 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

iii. Abigaell Snow b: 14 Oct 1673 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

iv. Rebeckah Snow b: 23 Jul 1676 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

v. John Snow b: 3 May 1678 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

vi. Isaac Snow b: 10 Aug 1683 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

vii. Lydia Snow b: 29 Sep 1685 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

viii. Elisha Snow b: 10 Jan 1687 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

ix. Phebe Snow b: 27 Jun 1689 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

7. Elizabeth Snow

Elizabeth’s husband Thomas Rogers was born 29 Mar 1638 in Shawmee (Sandwich), Plymouth Colony. Thomas’ brother Joseph was the first husband of Elizabeth’s sister-in-law Susannah Dean (later wife of Stephen Snow).  Their parents were Joseph Rogers (1603 – 1678) and Hannah [__?__] (1609/1615 – 1678) Thomas died 16 Jun 1678 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

The third person from the Mayflower to settle at Nosset was Joseph Rogers, a young lad, son of Thomas Rogers who died the first winter at Plymouth leaving said Joseph and five sons in England who later came to this country. At Nauset, Joseph Rogers was commissioned a Lieutenant in 1647. The companies at Barnstable, Eastham, Sandwich, and Yarmouth, were organized into a regiment, called “The Third Regiment” of which our ancestor John FREEMAN, of Eastham, was commissioned Major Commandant.

Thomas’ brother Joseph died from a fall in wrestling with his friend, [our ancestor John HAWES] “Christmas Day 1660″. According to Court records, “John Hawes was found not guilty of “takeing away the life of Joseph Rogers of Eastham by giveing him a most deadly fall, on the 25 of December 1660 . . . whereof he . . . about 48 hours after died”.

Children of Elizabeth and Thomas:

i. Elizabeth Rogers b: 8 Oct 1666 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

ii. Joseph Rogers b: 1 Feb 1668 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

iii. Hannah Rogers b: 20 Mar 1669 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

iv. Thomas Rogers b: 6 Mar 1671 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

v. Thomas Rogers b: 6 May 1672 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

vi. Eliazer Rogers b: 3 Nov 1673 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

vii. Nathaniel Rogers b: 18 Jan 1675 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

8. Jabez SNOW (See his page)

9. Ruth Snow

Ruth’s husband John Cole was born 15 Jul 1644 in Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony. His parents were Daniel Cole ( ~1614 – ) and Ruth Collier ( ~1627 – ) John died 6 Jan 1715 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass. Alternatively, he died 6 Jan 1725. The Eastham transcription is apparently wrong about the year of John’s death. NEHGR 48:72 mentions that his will was made 20 Oct 1717, mentioning John, Joseph, Ruth, Hepsibah, Hannah, Mary and Sarah.

John’s father Daniel came to Plymouth as a young man. Tailor by trade, and as early as 1640 had a large lot of land granted him in Duxbury. In Marshfield by June 1642, and his name in on the list of those able to bear arms in Yarmouth in 1643. Admitted a freeman June 4, 1645. A resident of Eastham in 1649. In 1654 he was sent as deputy or representative to the Colonial court at Plymouth, and represented Eastham in 1666, 67, 68, 69, 70, and 72.

Children of Ruth and John:

i. Ruth Cole b: 11 Mar 1668 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

ii. John Cole b: 6 Mar 1670 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

iii. Hephzebah Cole b: mid June 1672 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

iv. Hannah Cole b: 27 Mar 1675 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

v. Joseph Cole b: 11 Jun 1677 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

vi. May Cole b: 22 Oct 1679 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

vii. Sarah Cole b: 10 Jun 1682 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

10. Constance Snow

Constance’s identity or existence is debatable. Her name doesn’t appear in Eastham Vital Records. The Mayflower Society does not accept lines of descent through the first wife of Daniel Doane.
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Ma-Barnst 6:57, Sep 2011
In MF6 Hopkins, under Constance Hopkins (wife of Nicholas Snow) it is noted that:
“Josiah Paine, town clerk and historian of Harwich, wrote that Nicholas and Constance had a dau. named for her mother who was the first wife of Daniel Doane (1636 – 1712)  of Eastham.” This assertion is unreferenced.

“The authority for naming Constant Snow as the first wife of Daniel Doane appears to be a notebook on Eastham families kept by Josiah Paine, for half a century Town Clerk of Harwich. The notebook is now in the possession of the Eastham Public Library. Mr. Paine did not cite the sources of his information unless it came from individuals, so it may be assumed that he found some evidence for his statement; however no one has discovered where he found it.”

11. Hannah Snow

Hannah’s husband Giles Rickard was born about 1654 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony. Giles’ brother Samuel married Hannah’s sister Rebecca. Their parents were Giles Rickard (1624 – 1710) and Hannah Dunham ( ~ 1634 – 1708)

Child of Hannah and Giles:

i. Hannah Rickard b:~ 1680; m. 24 Nov 1701 to Ebenezer Eaton (b. ~1667 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony)

12. Rebecca Snow

Rebecca’s husband Samuel Rickard was born 14 Jan 1663 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony. Samuel’s brother Giles married Rebecca’s sister Hannah. Their parents were Giles Rickard (1624 – 1710) and Hannah Dunham ( ~ 1634 – 1708)

Children of Rebecca and Samuel:

i. Rebecca Rickard b. 1691

ii. Hannah Rickard b. 1693

iii. Samuel Rickard

iv. Bethiah Rickard b. 1698

v. Henry Rickard b. 1700

vi. Mary Rickard b. 1702

vii. Elkanah Rickard b. 1704, m. Keturah Bishop

viii. Mehitabel Rickard b. 1707

ix. Eleazur Rickard b. 1709.

Sources:

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=oldmankew&id=I1636

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9400770

http://www.pilgrimhallmuseum.org/nicholas_constance_snow.htm

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/6040752/person/2006647520/story/db35cf7f-ea28-4167-82c6-525e9bd863a7?src=search

http://www.capecodgravestones.com/easthampixweb/snow77cove.html