CERTAIN
COMEOVERERS
BY
HENRY HOWLAND CRAPO
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume II
PART V— Continued
CHAPTER
PAGE
X.
Aquila Chase ....
521
XI.
George Carr ....
529
XII.
John Perkins ....
541
XIII.
Thomas Bradbury-
547
XIV.
Mary Perkins Bradbury, the Witch
551
XV.
John Bailey ....
557
XVI.
Thomas Newman
567
XVII.
John Spark ....
571
XVIII.
Richard Kimball
575
XIX.
William Phillips
583
XX.
Robert Long ....
597
XXI.
William Hutchinson
603
XXII.
Anne Marbury Hutchinson .
613
XXIII.
Sarah Morse Smith
633
PART VI
ANCESTORS OF ABNER TOPPAN
Circular Chart
facing 642
CHAPTER
I. Abraham Toppan
. 643
II. Henry Sewall
. 651
III. Stephen Dummer .
. 665
IV. Jacob and Hannah Toppan
. 671
V. Michael Wigglesworth
. 687
VI
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PART VI— Continued
CHAPTER
VI. The Day of Doom
VII. Tristram Coffin
VIII. Edmund Greenleaf
IX. Theodore Atkinson
X. Abner Toppan
PAGE
699
709
725
731
739
PART VII
ANCESTORS OF AARON DAVIS
Circular Chart
facing 744
CHAPTER
I. John Davis
. 745
II. William Haskell
. 755
III. Zaccheus Gould
. 761
IV. William Knapp
. 769
V. Nathaniel Eaton
. 775
VI. Aaron Davis, Third .
. 791
PART VIII
ANCESTORS OF ELIZABETH STANFORD
795
PART IX
TABLES OF DESCENT
CHAPTER
I. Descent of William Wallace Crapo from
his sixteen great great grandparents .
Circular Chart . . . facing
821
822
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CHAPTER
PAGE
II.
Descent of Jesse Crapo
.
831
Circular Chart
facing
832
III.
Descent of Pkebe Howland
.
839
Circular Chart
facing
840
IV.
Descent of Williams Slocum
861
Circular Chart
facing
862
V.
Descent of Anne Almy Chase
869
Circular Chart
facing
870
VI.
Descent of Abner Toppan
.
885
Circular Chart
facing
886
VII.
Descent of Aaron Davis
.
899
Circular Chart
facing
900
VIII.
Descent of Sarah Morse Smith
909
Circular Chart
facing
910
IX.
Descendants of Jesse Crapo
Howland
and
Phebe
929
X.
Descendants of Williams Slocum and
Anne Almy Chase
.
949
XI.
Descendants of Abner Toppan and Eliza-
beth Stanford .
959
XII.
Descendants of Aaron Davis
Morse Smith
and
Sarah
995
Addenda : Rebecca Bennett
•
1009
Index of Names . . . .
1017
Chaptek X
AQUILA CHASE
Came over prior to 1636
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married Lady Elizabeth Bouchier, the daughter
of the second Earl of Bath. It is due to the con-
fusion between this Sir Richard, the son of Sir
William, and the untitled Richard, possibly the
grandson of the murdered Thomas, that the wild
fairy tale of the "Townley Estate" became so
disturbing an interest to countless Chases of New
England. Lord Townley lived near Chesham and
his family intermarried with Sir William Chase's
family, and it is possible that at some time there
may have been some disputed case of inheritance
in connection with the interests of some Chase in
some Lord Townley 's estate. If so, it was long
a thing of the past when in 1850 or thereabouts
the New England Chases became excited about
it. There is no reason whatever to suppose that
Aquila Chase of Hampton was even remotely
concerned in the affairs of Sir William Chase's
descendants. There seems, however, to be no
limit to the credulity of many people in this
country who fancy they may be heirs to those
mythical estates supposed to be forever accumu-
lating in the English Court of Chancery.
Joshua Coffin, the historian of Newbury, states
that Aquila and Thomas came from Cornwall.
This tradition may well be true since after the
record of their father Aquila 's birth in Chesham
there is no further record of him there. There
is a record that Aquila was connected with a
Thomas Chase, of London, probably an uncle,
who was the owner of vessels. There is a letter
of marque issued to him in 1626 in connection
with the ship John and Francis. Your Aquila
AQUILA CHASE 525
and his brother Thomas came over prior to 1636.
They were among the original settlers of Hamp-
ton, and were both grantees of honse lots there
in 1639. In 1644 additional land was set off to
Aquila in Hampton. There he married Anne
Wheeler, the daughter of John Wheeler, who
came over from Salisbury, England, on the Mary
and John in 1634. In 1646 Aquila came to New-
bury. "Granted to Aquilla Chase, anno 1646,
four acres of land at the new towne for a house
lott, and six acres of upland for a planting lott
where it is to be had, and six acres of marsh
where it is to be had, also on condition that he
do go to sea and do service in the towne with a
boat for four years." The early inhabitants of
Newbury came from the inland counties of Eng-
land and were mostly tillers of the soil. Aquila
Chase, as you have heard, was of maritime origin.
And yet just how in consideration of his admit-
tance to Newbury and the grant of land to him
he could serve the town "with a boat" I do not
clearly understand. It was not as a deep sea
fisherman I fancy, since there was little need of
going to sea for fish in those early days. More
probably it was as the master and navigator of
a packet boat to Ipswich and to Boston that his
services were desired.
The only other public record of Aquila Chase
is of the same year in which he removed to New-
bury. He must have come early in the spring,
and planted some part of his six acre planting
lot with peas. "September, 1646. We present
Aquila Chase and wife and David Wheeler for
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gathering pease on the Sabbath day." So reads
the indictment. The Court was lenient, ordering
them to be admonished and remitting the cus-
tomary fines. It may be that the application of
this blue law against the desecration of the Sab-
bath did not strike Aquila Chase as altogether
reasonable. At all events he seems to have re-
frained from joining the church, since he is no-
where named among the communicants.
The house lot in the New Towne which was
originally granted to Aquila Chase was probably
at the corner of what is now Federal Street and
Water Street. In 1659 he sold this lot and after-
wards lived at the corner of what is now North
Atkinson and Low Streets in Newburyport.
Whether he continued to act as a navigator in be-
half of the town after his four years' employ-
ment I know not. He lived in Newbury until his
death in 1670. His widow, Anne, survived him
and two years after his death married Daniel
Mussiloway.
Moses Chase, the son of Aquila, was a weaver
by trade. He also acted as an "Ensign" in the
militia. In 1700 he was "granted to set in the
fore seat by the pulpit" in the meeting-house.
In 1713 he entered the Second Church. And in
1731 he signed the covenant of the Fourth Church.
He died September 6, 1743, in the eightieth year
of his age, and his tombstone, in which he is
designated as "Ensign," is still preserved in the
Ferry Lane cemetery. Moses Chase married Ann
Follansbee in Newbury November 10, 1684. She
was the daughter of Thomas Follansbee, a joiner.
AQUILA CHASE 527
He was born in 1637 and was living in Ports-
mouth, New Hampshire, before 1665 and as late
as 1670, as the records of Portsmouth disclose.
He came to Newbury prior to 1677 and took the
oath of allegiance in 1678, giving his age as forty-
one. In 1677 he sold to John Tucker a house
which had been framed, but not completed, on a
strip of land, ' ' a part of the four acre lot granted
to William Morse in 1645 on the easterly side
thereof." This house was later the home of Cap-
tain Peter Coffin. Thomas Follansbee married
in Portsmouth one Mary in 1660, who was the
mother of all his children. Whether it is the
original Thomas or his son Thomas who settled
prior to 1696 in West Newbury I am not sure. A
Thomas Follansbee was living near where is now
the old Sawyer house on the road from the plains
to Curzon's Mills at the mouth of the Artichoke
River. Later, a Thomas Follansbee was inter-
ested in the Downer Lane lots, subsequently made
a part of the Indian Hill Farm of Ben Perley
Poore. There were numerous Follansbee fami-
lies in later days in West Newbury. Your ances-
tress, Ann Follansbee, was born in Portsmouth
in 1668, and died in Newbury April 18, 1708.
Elizabeth, the daughter of Moses Chase and
Ann Follansbee, who married John Carr, was a
great grandmother of Sarah Morse Smith.
Chapter XI
GEORGE CARR
Came over prior to 1633
George Carr 1599 — 1682
(Elizabeth Oliver)
James Carr 1650 — 1740
(Mary Sears)
John Carr 1684 — 1753
(Elizabeth Chase)
Judith Carr 1730 — 1768
(James Ordway Morse)
Judith Morse 1758 — 1817
(Nathaniel Smith)
Sarah Morse Smith 1780 — 1869
(Aaron Davis)
Serena Davis 1808 —1896
(George Tappan)
Sarah Davis Tappan 1831 — 1893
(William W. Crapo)
Stanford T. Crapo 1865 —
(Emma Morley)
William Wallace Crapo 1895 —
GEORGE CARR
There is a tradition in the Carr family that
your forebear, George Carr, first came to this
country in the Mayflower in 1620 as ship's car-
penter. If so he certainly returned in the ship
to England. No possible historical doubt can
exist as to the identity of every individual who
settled at Plymouth in the eventful winter of 1620.
There is no evidence that George Carr was on
board the Mayflower on her initial voyage, and it
seems probable that the tradition, if justified at
all, originated from the fact that he came over
on the Mayflower on one of her subsequent trips.
She brought immigrants over in 1629 and again
in 1630, on both occasions landing them at Salem.
The first knowledge I have of George Carr is
that he was one of the original settlers of Ipswich.
In January, 1633, the Court at Salem ordered that
a plantation be begun at ' ' Agawam. ' ' Under date
of March, 1633, Governor Winthrop writes : ' ' The
governor's son, John Winthrop, went with twelve
men to begin a plantation at Agawam, after called
Ipswich. ' ' At the April Court it was decreed that
"no person whatsoever shall go to plant or inhabit
Agawam without leave from the Court, except
those that are already gone with Mr. John
Winthrop, Junior." The order gives the names
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of nine persons as those who had already gone.
George Carr's name is not in this list. He may
have been one of the three unaccounted for if the
Governor was correct in his statement that there
were twelve. At all events, early in 1633 George
Carr was settled at Ipswich, and was among the
original grantees of land. In 1635 he had a house
lot and six acres of planting ground where he was
living, and twenty-five acres by "Labour in vain
Creek," and six acres more on "Rabbit Hill,"
and in succeeding years he had other allotments
of land. In 1638 he was living on "Robert
Andrew's lot."
In 1639 he, with his wife Elizabeth, removed to
the newly organized settlement of Colchester,
afterwards known as Salisbury. Elizabeth is
thought to have been the daughter of Thomas
Oliver of Boston, although definite proof is lack-
ing. At the first meeting of the proprietors under
a grant from the General Court dated September,
1638, George Carr was granted a house lot. This
he seems not to have utilized, settling on an
island, then known as Ram Island, later
as Carr's Island, in the Merrimack River,
lying between Salisbury and Newbury. At
a meeting of the freemen of the town of Salisbury
in July, 1640, it was ordered that "George Carr
shall have the island where he now dwells, as well
marsh as upland it being the greatest island
within the town bounds in the River Merrimack. ' '
He at once started a ferry between Newbury and
Salisbury which he was licensed by the town to
do. He was not at first very well equipped and
GEORGE CARR 533
in 1641 he was presented by the Grand Inquest
"for not keeping the ferry, but suffering people
to stand waiting at the water side three hours to
the prejudice of their health; and taking 4d a
head for cattle swimming over the ferry, he not
affording them his help."
Carr's Island, lying midway between old New-
bury and Salisbury, aff orded a means of breaking
and shortening the ferriage across the river. The
ferry at this point was from the earliest days
until a century and a half ago a part of the prin-
cipal highway from the Massachusetts Colony to
New Hampshire and all settlements north of the
Merrimack. At a Court holden at Ipswich Sep-
tember 24, 1644, it was ordered that "George Carr
keppe ye ferrie att Salisbury at the Island where
he now dwelleth for ye space of three years, pro-
vided yt hee finds a sufficient horse bote and give
diligent attendance." The order specified the
tariff for a man at threepence, a horse at eight-
pence, and the charge for "great cattle," calves,
yearlings, goats and hogs. The order also pro-
vided "If any bee forced to swimme over a horse
for want of a great boate they shall pay nothing, ' '
which was clearly reasonable. If the ferriage
charges were not paid in cash, but in commodities,
the ferryman could charge "a penny a peece
more."
In May, 1647, before the three years' privilege
had expired, the General Court of the Colony at
Boston granted to Tristram Coffin, also your
ancestor, who had acquired part of Carr's
Island and there lived, the right to keep "a ferry
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on Newbury side, over Merrimac, when the inter-
est of George Carr shall be determined, and
George Carr shall have liberty to keep his boate
on Salisbury side. ' ' George Carr was very indig-
nant at the success of Tristram Coffin in lobbying
through this grant in the General Court, and
appealed to the town. The town at once remon-
strated at the usurpation of jurisdiction on the
part of the central government. The contro-
versy, so familiar in later days, hinged on the
question of whether the islands in the river were
a part of the territorial possessions of the town
or remained the property of the Colony. In 1648
the town appointed a committee to settle the diffi-
culty about the ferry with the General Court.
Tristram Coffin, however, had the greater ' ' pull. ' '
The General Court affirmed its order. It seems
to have been characteristic of Coffin to disregard
town authority and make application directly to
the Governor and assistants at Boston, as appears
by his procedure in the matter of his difficulties
as an innkeeper in Newbury as will be chronicled
hereafter.
The controversy grew rather warm, and the
inhabitants took different sides. On one occasion
the row was carried on in the meeting-house on
lecture day and the participants fined at the next
Ipswich Court. December, 1648, the town, in
accordance with the recommendations of its com-
mittee, overrode the order of the General Court
and ordered that ' ' Mr. Carr should have the ffery
for fourteene yeares." Carr evidently thought
it best to apply to the General Court for a con-
GEORGE CARR 535
firmation of this order enabling him to ferry pas-
sengers over the full route from Newbury to
Salisbury, as he had been accustomed to do. His
request was not granted. The Court was evi-
dently opposed in this instance to a monopoly of
transportation facilities. It ordered May 2, 1649,
as follows : "In answere to the petition of George
Carr, the Corte doth conceive it meete that the
petitioner shall have the free* use of Ram Island
so long as he doth or shall diligently attend and
serve the country in keeping of the ferry between
Salsberry and Newberry. And liberty is granted
him as occasion shall present to fetch any pas-
sengers from Newberry side and Mr. Coffin hath
liberty to fetch any passengers also from Sals-
berry side, as occasion shall be, that so the country
may surely be served."
The action of the General Court was by no
means satisfactory to George Carr. He pre-
sented a second petition during the same session
of the General Court, asking for the exclusive con-
trol of the ferry. No action seems to have been
taken at that time, but a year later, April 9, 1650,
the Court by an elaborate order finally settled this
troublesome controversy between your ancestors,
George Carr and Tristram Coffin. The order
provided that George Carr should build a floating
bridge from Newbury to Carr's Island and from
Carr's Island to Salisbury, specifying with great
minuteness the form of construction of the bridge ;
and until the bridge was built, Carr was to have
the exclusive right of ferriage. In this final bout
the victory was with Carr. He had, however,
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committed himself to a considerable undertaking.
The capital and labor necessary to construct such
a bridge were not to be easily obtained, and it is
not to be wondered that it was five years later, in
the early summer of 1655, that the bridge was
opened to travel. Meanwhile Tristram Coffin, in
defiance of the Court, was to some extent at least,
operating a rival ferry.
Judge Samuel Symonds, under date of May 5,
1655, after having passed over the bridge on
horseback and being entertained by Mr. Carr at
his house on the island, wrote as follows :
".Upon this day upon my return from the courts of
Dover and York I came with diverse other horsemen that
were with me over the float bridge of Merrimack River
which George Carr hath built and I find it fully suffi-
cient for passage both for man and horses, so that the
former order of the Court in reference to the bridge to
be built by the said George Carr, and the especially the
last order of the General Court considered, I do clearly
apprehend that the usual benefit of the ferry on either
side doth of right hence forth belong to him, and, there-
fore, the other ferryman," (Tristram Coffin) "is hereby
required to cease his ferriage usually unless he be em-
ployed by the said George Carr and for his use. I con-
ceive it is not amiss that you acquaint the Selectmen of
Newbury and Salisbury with this, that so they may be
assistant to the Court order if occasion shall require —
Samuel Symonds."
The building of this floating bridge was, indeed,
an engineering achievement in those early days.
The bridge was five feet wide with rails on each
side and was supported on pontoons. It was
regarded as a marvelous affair, and Mr. Carr's
success in the fulfillment of his engagement was
recognized and appreciated by the General Court,
GEORGE CARR 537
which confirmed Ram Island to him and his heirs
forever by an order dated on November 22, 1655.
In 1660 the bridge was exempted from taxes, and
in 1661 one hundred and fifty acres of land in
Salisbury were granted to George Carr as extra
remuneration. In 1668 a new ferry was estab-
lished between Newbury and Amesbury by way
of Deer Island and Eagle Island. George Carr
petitioned the General Court that he be put in
control of this ferry in accordance with the agree-
ment into which he had entered in 1650, by which,
as he claimed, he was given the exclusive monopoly
of ferriage across the Merrimack. The Court
entertained his petition, and later, in 1670, granted
him the timber and trees on the islands and the
use thereof. In 1676 the importance of the New-
bury and Salisbury ferry as a means of transport-
ing troops during King Philip's War was recog-
nized by the General Court, which ordered that
George Carr should be given a garrison of seven
men for the protection of the ferry ' ' provided the
said Carr doe maintayn his garrison and the said
men at his owne proper and peculiar charge, and
those seven men be constantly kept for the
security of the ferry."
George Carr, in addition to his duties as ferry-
man, was a builder and owner of ships. I found
the following record in Salem, which, since it con-
tains several names of persons from whom you
descend I transcribe in part : "In consideration
of the quarter vessle ye sd George Carr have
made over unto William Hilton, as is in writing
expressed, have delivered unto ye sd George Carr
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my Indian and all the interest I have in him, to
him or to his assigns forever, and I ye sd William
Hilton doe bind myself heirs and assigns to George
Carr and his assigns to make good ye sale of
James the Indian wch I have sold unto ye said
George Carr his servant forever or to whom said
George Carr shall assign. Witness this 29th
December 1649." The instrument is signed by
William Hilton, who was, I am led to conclude, one
of your ancestors, and also by "James ye Indian,
his X marke doth manifest his consent. ' ' Two of
the witnesses who confirmed their signatures by
oath in 1670 were also your ancestors, namely
Abraham Toppan and Edmund Greenleaf.
George Carr continued building small vessels at
Carr's Island, and was engaged in shipping oak
staves to the West Indies. The increasing use of
the bridge brought him a good revenue. His
active life continued until his death, April 4, 1682.
He had made a will which was not acceptable to
some of his heirs, and after an elaborate contest
it was disallowed and he was declared intestate.
Your ancestors, John and Eleanor Bailey, among
others, testified that they did not think George
Carr "was fit to make a will in his last sickness."
The litigation connected with his estate continued
for some years, and the Court records concerning
it are voluminous. In the final division of George
Carr's estate "the great ferry on both sides of
the island and the bridge and privileges thereunto
belonging" were given to his sons, James Carr,
your ancestor, and his brother Richard.
GEORGE CARR 539
For a few years James Carr and his brother
maintained the ferry without molestation. The
growth of Newbury in a direction away from the
old crossing, leaving it remote from the main line
of travel, caused Captain John March, who kept
a tavern opposite Rigg's Island, to request Sir
Edmund Andros to permit him to maintain a
ferry. Notwithstanding the vigorous protest of
James Carr, who relied on the grant to his father
in 1650, the Governor's Council granted Captain
March's request and informed James Carr that
his remedy was by suit at common law. For
thirty years the matter was litigated in the Courts.
The records of the various proceedings in the
trial Court and the General Court are voluminous.
First one side won and then the other. As late as
1721 in a proceeding brought by James and
Richard Carr the Court, presided over by Chief
Justice Samuel Sewall, of whom you will hear
much in subsequent notes, found for the defend-
ant and issued an execution for costs against the
plaintiff. The Carr's Island ferry continued in
operation at least as late as 1734, when Richard
Carr, a grandson of George Carr, was drowned
"at nine o'clock in the evening while attending
to his duties as ferryman." He was the second
member of the family who was drowned at the
ferry. The growth of Newburyport diverted
the travel from the old ferry, and finally it was
abandoned altogether.
James Carr, your ancestor, was born in 1650
and died in 1740. He married Mary Sears, who
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was born October 30, 1657. It is from John Carr,
the son of James Carr and Mary Sears, that you
descend. John Carr married Elizabeth Chase,
and their daughter, Judith Carr, married James
Ordway Morse. Their daughter, Judith Morse,
was the mother of Sarah Morse Smith.
Chapter XII
JOHN PERKINS
Came over 1631
Lyon
John Perkins 1590 — 1654
(Judith Gater)
Mary Perkins 1620 — 1700
(Thomas Bradbury)
Judith Bradbury 1638 — 1700
(Caleb Moody)
Caleb Moody 1666 — 1741
(Ruth Morse)
Judith Moody 1691 — 1775
(Anthony Morse)
Caleb Morse 1711 — 1749
(Sarah Ordway)
James Ordway Morse 1733 — 1762
(Judith Carr)
Judith Morse 1758 — 1817
(Nathaniel Smith)
Sarah Morse Smith 1780 — 1869
(Aaron Davis)
Serena Davis 1808 — 1896
(George Tappan)
Sarah Davis Tappan 1831 — 1893
(William W. Crapo)
Stanford T. Crapo 1865 —
(Emma Morley)
William Wallace Crapo 1895 —
JOHN PERKINS
John Perkins was born in 1590 in Newent,
Gloucestershire, England. He sailed from Bristol
December 1, 1630, in the ship Lyon, William Pierce
master, with his wife, Judith, and five children.
Boger Williams was a fellow passenger. After
a stormy passage of sixty-seven days they arrived
at Nantasket, February 5, 1631, and anchored
before Boston the next day. The arrival of this
ship was indeed welcome to the little settlement
of Boston.
As the winter came on provisions are very scarce and
the people necessitated to feed on clams and muscles and
ground nuts and acorns; and these got with much diffi-
culty in the winter season. Upon which people grew
much tired and discouraged; especially when they hear
that the governor himself has his last batch of bread in
the oven. And many are the fears of the people that Mr.
Pierce, who was sent to Ireland for provisions, is either
cast away or taken by the pirates. Upon this a day of
fasting and prayer to god for relief is appointed to be on
the sixth of February. But God, who delights to appear
in the greatest straits, works marvellously at this time;
for on February 5th, the very day before the appointed
fast, in came the ship Lyon, Mr. William Pierce, Master,
now arriving at Nantasket, laden with provisions. Upon
which joyful occasion the day is changed and ordered
to be kept (on the 22nd) as a day of thanksgiving.
. . . The governor goes aboard the Lyon riding at
Long Island . . . where she rides very well, not-
withstanding the great drifts of ice. And the provisions
are by the governor distributed to the people proportion-
able to their necessities.
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For two years John Perkins and his family
lived in Boston, his youngest child, Lydia, being
born, as appears by the records of the First
Church, on June 3, 1632. On November 7, 1632,
John Perkins was appointed by the General Court
one of a committee to "set down the bounds be-
twixt Rocksbury and Dorchester." On April 3,
1632, he was granted an exclusive right to "take
fowle with netts" on Noddle's Island in Boston
Harbor. He had taken the oath of fidelity, admit-
ting him to the civil rights of the Colony, on May
18, 1631. In 1633, probably at the invitation of
John Winthrop, he removed to the newly founded
settlement at Agawam, later called Ipswich, and
became one of the leading men of that interesting
community. As an illustration of the dangers
which surrounded the early settlers I will quote
the following account of what happened to John
Perkins, Junior, the son of John Perkins :
Sept., 1633. One Robin, a friendly Indian, came to
John Perkins, a young man then living in a little hut
upon his father's island on this side of Jeffrey's Neck,
and told him that on such a Thursday morning, early,
there would come four Indians to draw him to goe down
the Hill to the water side, to truck with them, which if
he did, he and all neare him would be cut off ; for there
were forty burchen canoues, would lie out of sight, in
the brow of the Hill, full of armed Indians for that pur-
pose. Of this he forthwith acquaints Mr. John Winthrop
who then lived there in a house near the water, who ad-
vised him if such Indians came, to carry it ruggedly
toward them, and threaten to shoot them if they would
not be gone, and when their backs were turned to strike
up the drum he had with him beside two muskets, and
then discharge them, that those six or eight young men,
who were in the marshes hard by a mowing, having
JOHN PERKINS 545
their guns each of them ready charged by them, might
take the alarme and the Indians would perceive their
plot was discovered and haste away to sea againe.
Which was accordingly so acted and took like effect, for
he told me that presently after he discovered forty such
canoues sheare off from under the Hill and make as fast
as they could to sea. And no doubt many godly hearts
were lifted up to heaven for deliverance. (Rev. Thomas
Cobbet in a paper entitled New England 's Deliverances. )
John Perkins, Senior, seems to have been highly
respected for his judicial qualities. I have al-
ready told of his appointment in Boston to fix
the boundaries betwixt Boxbury and Dorchester,
and in Ipswich, during all the years of his life,
he was constantly called on as a lot layer and
arbitrator. The first record which I have found
of him in Ipswich is where in 1634 he was ap-
pointed on a committee to settle a dispute about
a well between Henry Sewall and Will White.
This Will White was the Indian, I surmise, be-
tween whom and Henry Sewall, as you will later
learn, there was so extended a controversy. In
1634 he was of the first town committee. In 1636
also he was of the "Seven Men" or Selectmen,
of which John Winthrop, the younger, was one.
He is called "goodman Perkins" in this record
in distinction to "Mr. John Winthrop." One of
his associates is called simply "John Gage."
These distinctions in title very clearly marked
the three classes of the aristocracy, the middle
class, and the common people.
There are various grants of land allotted to
John Perkins from 1634 to 1650, showing that he
became a man of substance and engaged largely
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in farming. His house was at the entrance of
Jeffrey's Neck on East Street. In 1636 John
Perkins represented Ipswich as Deputy to the
General Court in Boston. He served as Con-
stable, and on the grand juries, and in many ways
in the service of the town, besides being selected
often as overseer of estates and in various fidu-
ciary capacities.
John Perkins died in 1654. His will is dated
January 28, 1654. He provides for his six chil-
dren by name, giving to the sons land, and to the
daughters money or cattle. For your ancestress
he provides as follows: "Also I do give to my
daughter Mary Bradbury one cow and one heyfer
or a young steere to remain to her and her chil-
dren in theyr increase or profitts as it shall
please the Lord to bless them and to be equally
divided to ye children." "I doe also give unto
my grandchilde Thomas Bradbury one ewe to be
sett apart for his use at ye next shearing time."
The rest and residue he leaves "to my deare wife
Judith Perkins," appointing her executrix. This
will was proved July 27, 1654, at Ipswich. The
estate inventoried at £250 5s.
Chapter XIII
THOMAS BRADBURY
Came over 1634
Thomas Bradbury 1610 1695
(Mary Perkins)
Judith Bradbury 1638 — 1700
(Caleb Moody)
Caleb Moody 1666 1741
(Ruth Morse)
Judith Moody 1691 1775
(Anthony Morse)
Caleb Morse 1711 1749
(Sarah Ordway)
James Ordway Morse 1733 1762
(Judith Carr)
Judith Morse 1758 1817
(Nathaniel Smith)
Sarah Morse Smith 1780 1869
(Aaron Davis)
Serena Davis 1808 — 1896
(George Tappan)
Sarah Davis Tappan 1831 1893
(William W. Crapo)
Stanford T. Crapo 1865
(Emma Morley)
William Wallace Crapo 1895
THOMAS BRADBURY
Thomas Bradbury was born in the Parish of
Wicken Bonant, Middlesex, and there baptized in
Saint Margaret's Church, February 28, 1610--11.
He was doubtless born in the "Brick House"
which had been built for his father Wymond by
his father William, who died in 1622. This house
is a picturesque Elizabethan mansion still used
as a residence. In the Bradbury Memorial
by John Merrill Bradbury of Ipswich, published
in 1890, there is an interesting and carefully pre-
pared account of the ancestors of Thomas Brad-
bury. One Robert Bradbury of Ollerset, who
was born about 1400 and married a daughter of
Robert Davenport, is the earliest authenticated
ancestor, but the name seems to have been local-
ized many years before in Ollerset, a small parish
in North Derby. The lineal descendants of this
Robert were men of wealth and distinction. His
grandson, Sir Thomas Bradbury, was Lord Mayor
of London in 1509, and Lord of several Manors
in Hertfordshire, which passed to his nephew,
William Bradbury, whose son Matthew was Lord
of the Manor of Wicken Hall, at Wicken Bonant,
Middlesex. It was his son, William, who built
the "Brick House" at Wicken Bonant in which
Thomas, your comeoverer, was born. Thomas
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was a second son, and it may be for that reason
that he sought the new lands across the ocean.
Thomas, when twenty-four years of age, in
1634, came to Agamenticus, now York, in the
province of Maine, as the agent of Sir Fernando
Gorges. Grants in 1636, among the earliest of
the York County Records, are given by " Thomas
Bradbury, Gent, now agent for Sir Fernando
Gorges, Knight " In 1636 he became
one of the original proprietors, and earliest set-
tlers of Salisbury, Massachusetts, and in 1636
married Mary, daughter of John and Judith
Perkins of Ipswich.
Thomas Bradbury is recorded as a freeman in
1640. In 1641 he was appointed First Clerk of
the Writs. He was chosen many times as Deputy
to the General Court 1651 to 1660. He acted as
schoolmaster, Town Clerk, Justice of the Peace,
County Recorder, Judge, Captain of the military
company, and in many other capacities. He died
March 16, 1695. His will is an interesting docu-
ment in which he provides for his widow and his
children. He makes no bequest to your grand-
mother Judith, his second child, but at the close
of the instrument he writes: "I do ordain and
appoint my dearly and well beloved wife Mary
Bradbury and my dearly and well beloved
daughter Judith Moody my executors."
Chapter XIV
MAEY PERKINS BRADBURY
The Witch
Came over 1631
Lyon
MARY PERKINS BRADBURY
Possibly you may not regard it as a matter of
personal pride that your nine times great grand-
mother, Mary Perkins Bradbury, was tried and
condemned as a witch in the days of the Salem
witchcraft delusion. However you may regard
the matter, the fact certainly lends a distinct
human interest to this grandmother of yours who
so unjustly suffered from the insanity of her time.
The Salem witchcraft craze is one of the most
preposterous histories of the human race. To
read the intimate thoughts of a thoroughly hu-
mane and highly educated lawyer and man of
affairs such as are contained in the diary of
Samuel Sewall and then to remember that he sat
as a Judge in the Court which condemned so
many harmless old men and women to death as
witches upon utterly flimsy and hysterical evi-
dence, suggests as the only physiological explana-
tion the temporary insanity of the community.
Mary Perkins was born in 1620, and came over
with her parents on the ship Lyon in 1631. She
was seventeen when she married Thomas Brad-
bury of Salisbury. She was over seventy years
old when she stood charged with witchcraft before
the Court at Salem. This is what her husband
said to the Court :
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Concerning my beloved wife Mary Bradbury this is
what I have to say: We have been married fifty-five
years and she hath been a loving and faithful wife unto
me unto this day. She hath been wonderful laborious,
diligent and industrious in her place and employment
about the bringing up of our family which have been
eleven children of our own and four grandchildren. She
was both prudent and provident, of a cheerful spirit,
liberal and charitable. She being now very aged and
weak, and grieved under afflictions, may not be able to
speak much for herself, not being so free of speech as
some others might be. I hope her life and conversation
among her neighbors has been such as gives a better or
more real testimony than can be expressed by words.
The charge on which your grandmother was
tried was for bewitching John Carr so that he
became crazed and prematurely died. William
Carr, a brother of the said John, in his deposition,
"testifieth and saith that, about thirteen years
ago, presently after some difference that hap-
pened between my honored father, Mr. George
Carr, and Mrs. Bradbury, the prisoner at the bar,
upon a Sabbath at noon, as we were riding home
by the house of Captain Thomas Bradbury I saw
Mrs. Bradbury go into her gate, turn the corner
of, and immediately there darted out of her gate
a blue boar, and darted at my father's horse's legs
which made him stumble; but I saw it no more.
And my father said 'Boys, what did you see! '
And we both said 'A blue boar.' "
In his testimony at the trial William Carr ad-
mitted that his brother fell in love with Jemima
True (she was perhaps Mary Bradbury's grand-
daughter, her daughter Jane having married
Henry True in 1668), and that the proposed match
MARY PERKINS BRADBURY 555
being opposed and broken off by the father of
young Carr, on account of his youth, he became
melancholy, and at times insane. He further
admitted that he was with his brother and cared
for him in his last illness, and that his brother
died peaceably and quietly, and never spoke any-
thing to the harm of Mrs. Bradbury or anybody
else. It was on such evidence that Mary Brad-
bury was actually found guilty by the Court and
condemned to death as a witch. She was
defended at her trial by Major Robert Pike. Her
minister, the Rev. James Allen, testified to her
unimpeachable good character and life. One
hundred and eighteen of her friends and neighbors
testified to the like effect in a memorial which is
touching in its simplicity. In pleading not
guilty to the charge, Mary Bradbury said:
I am wholly innocent of any such wickedness through
the goodness of God who has kept me hitherto. I am
the servant of Jesus Christ and have given myself up to
him as my only Lord and Saviour, and to the diligent
attendance upon Him in all His holy ordinances, in
utter contempt and defiance of the devil and all his
works as horrid and detestable, and have accordingly
endeavored to frame my life and conversation according
to the rules of His Holy Word, and in faith and practice,
resolve by the help and assistance of God to continue to
my life's end. For the truth of what I say, I humbly
refer myself to my brethren and neighbors that know
me, and unto the Searcher of all hearts for the truth
and uprightness of my heart therein (human frailities
and unavoidable excepted, of which I bitterly complain
every day).
Although convicted with four others who were
executed September, 1692, Mary Bradbury es-
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caped punishment, by what means does not ap-
pear. She lived long enough to experience the
revulsion of public feeling at the reign of terror
which had crazed the community. She died
December 20, 1700.
Chapter XV
JOHN BAILEY
Came over 1635
Angel Gabriel
John Bailey — 1651
( )
John Bailey 1613 — 1691
(Eleanor Emery)
Isaac Bailey 1654 — 1740
(Sarah Emery)
Judith Bailey 1690 — 1775
(James Ordway)
Sarah Ordway 1715 — 1815
(Caleb Morse)
James Ordway Morse 1733 — 1762
(Judith Carr)
Judith Morse 1758 — 1817
(Nathaniel Smith)
Sarah Morse Smith 1780 — 1869
(Aaron Davis)
Serena Davis 1808 — 1896
(George Tappan)
Sarah Davis Tappan 1831 — 1893
(William W. Crapo)
Stanford T. Crapo 1865 —
(Emma Morley)
William Wallace Crapo 1895 —
John Bailey — 1651
( )
John Bailey 1613 — 1691
(Eleanor Emery)
Isaac Bailey 1654 — 1740
(Sarah Emery)
Joshua Bailey 1685 — 1760
(Sarah Coffin)
Saeah Bailey 1721 — 1811
(Edward Toppan)
Abner Toppan 1764 — 1836
(Elizabeth Stanford)
George Tappan 1807 — 1857
(Serena Davis)
Sarah Davis Tappan 1831 — 1893
(William W. Crapo)
Stanford T. Crapo 1865 —
(Emma Morley)
William Wallace Crapo 1895 —
JOHN BAILEY
John Bailey was a weaver by trade and came
from Chippenham, Wilts, England. He, with his
oldest son, John, came over in 1635 in the ship
Angel Gabriel, sailing from Bristol, with the ex-
pectation of making a home in New England and
then sending for his wife and other children, or
going back to fetch them over. Unfortunately he
had a terrible experience in the great storm of
August 15, 1635, and was shipwrecked off Pema-
quid, now Bristol, in Maine. This storm was
probably the worst storm which has ever visited
the New England coast. It is said that ship
timbers and other wreckage were washed far up
the slopes of Old Town Hill in Newbury and could
be still seen there in the last century. In Narra-
gansett Bay, the tide rose fourteen feet higher
than ordinary and whole villages of Indians were
drowned in their wigwams. That John Bailey
never again dared to trust himself on the ocean
may be readily understood. He was, perhaps,
unwise in writing his family about his misadvent-
ure, if it was indeed the fear of the passage that
deterred them from joining him. At all events
they never came, although constantly urged to do
so.
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John Bailey, with his son, John, a youth of
twenty-two, found their way from the inhospitable
shore on which they had been cast to Newbury,
and joined the little settlement at Parker River.
For only two years did he abide here, and then
went in 1637 further into the wilderness, taking
with him one William Schooler as a helper, and
built a log cabin on the further side of the Merri-
mack near the mouth of the Powow River. The
ruins of an old cellar on what is known as Bailey 's
Hill can still be discerned. The land on which it
stands, a tract of about fifty acres, triangular in
shape, running to the Merrimack on the westerly
side, and to the Powow on the northerly side, is
clearly traced by recorded deeds back to the soli-
tary settler who was the pioneer of this section
of the Merrimack country.
A serious trouble came to this well meaning and
honest forebear of yours. On June 6, 1637, lie
and William Schooler were arrested for murder
and tried at a Court held at Ipswich. At the trial
it was demonstrated that John Bailey had naught
whatever to do with the murder, and he was dis-
charged. I will give the story of the murder in
the words of Governor Winthrop: "July 28,
1637. Two men were hanged at Boston . . .
William Schooler, was a vintner in London, and
had been a common adulterer (as himself did
confess) and had wounded a man in a duel, for
which he fled into the Low Country, and from
thence he fled from his captain and came to this
country, leaving his wife (a handsome, neat
woman) in England. He lived with another
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fellow at Merrimack, and there being a poor maid
at Newbury, one Mary Sholy, who had desired a
guide to go with her to her master who dwelt at
Pascataquack ' ' (Portsmouth) "he inquired her
out and agreed for fifteen shillings to conduct her
thither. But two days after he returned, and
being asked why he returned so soon, he answered
that he had carried her within two or three miles
of the place and that she would go no further.
Being examined for this by the magistrates at
Ipswich and no proof found against him, he was
let go . . . The body of the maid was found
by an Indian about half a year after in the midst
of a thick swamp ten miles short of the place he
said he left her in . . . Whereupon he was
committed, arraigned and condemned by due pro-
ceeding . ." Governor Winthrop reviews the
evidence, which is hardly sufficient to sustain the
verdict.
In 1639 l * the other fellow at Merrimack, ' ' your
ancestor John Bailey, was again in trouble. He
was brought before the Court and fined five
pounds, a very heavy fine, "for buying lands of
Indians without leave of court, with condition if
he yield up the lands the fine to be remitted. ' ' I
have been much impressed with the scrupulous
care with which at least superficially, the rights
of the Indians were guarded both in Massachu-
setts and Plymouth colonies. The history of the
purchase from the Indians of the territory about
the mouth of the Merrimack discloses a watchful
solicitude on the part of the community as a whole
to treat the aborigine justly if not liberally.
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In 1639 Colchester, afterwards called Salis-
bury, was settled and John Bailey was one of the
proprietors, having lots assigned to him in the
first division. Probably he and his son resided
in what is now the village of Salisbury soon after
1639. He still retained his holdings up the Mer-
rimack where it would appear he had an exclusive
right of fishing, since on January 10, 1642, at a
general meeting of the town of Salisbury, it was
" Ordered yat ye sole fishing in Powow Eiver
shall be taken out of the hands of John Bailey,
Senior, for yt he hath forfeited his right given, in
not performing ye conditions on which it was
granted him." The conditions which he had
broken were doubtless the giving to the town its
fair share of the fish. In some way Bailey must
have satisfied the town that he was not to blame,
since the next year it was ordered that "John
Bailey is granted sole fishing in ye Powow Eiver
tow years on condition that he shall not join any
but townsmen, so that ye fish shall not be carried
out of towne, and he is not to have more than his
share of the alewives, and is to use ye wyers to
ye full height, so that the towne may not suffer
by the fish escaping."
About 1650 John Bailey, who was then an old
man, went to live with his son John Bailey in
Newbury. Evidently the fact that he was living
apart from his wife was a scandal in the com-
munity. In September, 1651, the matter was
brought before the Court, and John Bailey was
tried and sentenced as follows: "That he is in-
joined to return unto his wife by next summer
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or send for his wife to come over to him." He
never went, and if he sent she never came. He
died two months later, on November 2, 1651.
That he wished his wife to come to him is mani-
fest by his will, by which he directs his son John
to pay his wife six pounds "if she comes over."
To his son Eobert he leaves fifteen pounds, and
to his daughters ten pounds apiece, "if they come
over to New England," and five pounds if they
do not. They evidently preferred the five pounds
to coming over. In this will he mentions John
Emery (Senior) as his " brother," which sug-
gests that his wife may have been a sister of
John Emery, in which case you are six times an
Emery. John Bailey is a rather pathetic old
fellow with whom the world seemed on the whole
to go somewhat awry.
John Bailey, the second of the name, was born
probably at Chippenham about 1613, and came
over with his father. In the first allotment of
lands in Salisbury he was granted a homestead.
He married Eleanor Emery, a daughter (prob-
ably) of John Emery. He was taxed in Salis-
bury in 1652, 1653 and 1654, and owned land there
in 1658. Just when he came over to Newbury
side to live is uncertain. He was living there
apparently in 1651 when his father died. He
settled "on the plain a quarter of a mile from
Deer Island." In 1652 he had a dwelling-house
and twenty acres of land, which in 1653 he sold
to Joanna Huntington. In 1669 he took the oath
of allegiance, and again in 1678. He was elected
Constable several times, and was a Selectman in
JOHN BAILEY 565
1673 and possibly during other years. He died
in March, 1691, and his widow Eleanor died in
1700.
Isaac Bailey, the son of John Bailey, second,
and Eleanor Emery, was born July 22, 1654, and
married Sarah Emery, the daughter of John
Emery, Junior, June 13, 1683. He died April 25,
1740. From him you are descended in two ways,
through his daughter Judith, who married James
Ordway, and is an ancestor of Sarah Morse
Smith, and through his son, Joshua, who married
Sarah Coffin, and is an ancestor of Abner Toppan.
You are not, I fancy, exceptional in being able to
trace your descent from Judith Bailey Ordway,
since when she died in 1775 she left eight children,
thirty-five grandchildren, and eighty-five great
grandchildren.
Chapter XVI
THOMAS NEWMAN
Came over 1634
Mary and John
Thomas Newman — 1676
(Sarah )
Thomas Newman +1634 — 1702+
(Hannah Morse)
Thomas Newman 1670 — 1715
(Rose Spark)
Thomas Newman 1693 — 1729
(Elizabeth Phillips)
Sarah Newman 1722 —
(Thomas Smith)
Nathaniel Smith 1752 — 1790
(Judith Morse)
Sarah Morse Smith 1780 — 1869
(Aaron Davis)
Serena Davis 1808 — 1896
(George Tappan)
Sarah Davis Tappan 1831 — 1893
(William W. Crapo)
Stanford T. Crapo 1865 —
(Emma Morley)
William Wallace Crapo 1895 —
THOMAS NEWMAN
Thomas Newman, with his brothers John and
Robert, came over on the Mary and John with
the Rev. Thomas Parker and his band of pilgrims.
It is probable that they all went the same year
to Ipswich. Robert seems to have joined the
Newbury settlement, but Thomas and John re-
mained in Ipswich. The first mention of Thomas
Newman in the Ipswich records is in 1638, when
four acres of land beyond Muddy River i * or where
it may conveniently be found" was granted
to him. In 1666 he, with John Perkins, another
ancestor, signed the Loyalist Petition. His will,
dated January 8, 1675, was probated March 28,
1676. He left a considerable estate, £538 19s.
He mentions his wife " Sarah." Beyond these
bare facts I have no knowledge of this first
Thomas.
Thomas Newman, second, was probably born
in New England, since he married Hannah Morse,
a daughter (probably) of Anthony Morse of New-
bury, another ancestor of yours, in 1665, and men
usually married when they were fairly young in
those days. In 1675-6 he was a "trooper" in
King Philip's War under Captain Paige, and
fought through the Mount Hope campaign. Later
he served under Lieutenant Floyd and Captain
John Spark — 1704 —
(Mary Sennet)
Rose Spark 1673 — 1743
(Thomas Newman)
Thomas Newman 1693 — 1729
(Elizabeth Phillips)
Sarah Newman 1722 —
(Thomas Smith)
Nathaniel Smith 1752 — 1790
(Judith Morse)
Sarah Morse Smith 1780 — 1869
(Aaron Davis)
Serena Davis 1808 — 1896
(George Tappan)
Sarah Davis Tappan 1831 — 1893
(William W. Crapo)
Stanford T. Crapo 1865 —
(Emma Morley)
William Wallace Crapo 1895 —
JOHN SPARK
Whether John Spark was a comeoverer or was
born in Boston, I do not know. I know nothing
of his origin. He married Mary Sennet Novem-
ber 26, 1661, Governor John Endicott performing
the ceremony. She was born in Boston Septem-
ber 19, 1641. Soon after the marriage John and
his wife went to Ipswich. He is first described
in Ipswich as a "biskett baker," an apprentice
to Obidiah Wood. In 1671 he bought a home from
William White, where he probably first estab-
lished a tavern, since he was licensed as an inn-
keeper in that year. From that time until his
death he was the tavern keeper of Ipswich and
became widely known. The old tavern or ordi-
nary as it was called, which was known as
"Spark's," was leased from Thomas Bishop and
stood near where the public library of Ipswich is
now located. As Ipswich was the shire town the
tavern was an important institution. The Court
was held there. The famous witch cases in 1692
were there tried. Judge Sewall always stopped
at this tavern on his circuit. In 1689 soldiers
were quartered there, as appears by the petition
of John Spark to the General Court for an allow-
ance of something more than the threepence a
meal which their commander offered.
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John Spark died prior to 1704. His widow,
Mary, your ancestress, continued to keep the
tavern for some years. She was the daughter
of Walter Sennet, a fisherman, who was granted
a lot in Milton in 1638. In 1639 additional land
was given him, "a great lott at the mount for
three heads." Later he moved to Boston and
lived on the east side of Washington Street, not
far from Essex Street, near what was later called
the "Liberty Tree." His wife Mary joined the
church in Boston May 23, 1647.
It is from Rose Spark, the daughter of John
Spark and Mary Sennet, who married Thomas
Newman, that you descend. She was undoubtedly
born in Ipswich, and as the tavern keeper's
daughter had a chance to see something more of
the gayer side of life than most of your grand-
mothers.
Chapter XVIII
RICHARD KIMBALL
Came over 1634
Elizabeth
Richard Kimball 1595 — 1675
(Ursula Scott)
Thomas Kimball 1633 — 1676
(Mary Smith)
Hannah Kimball 1661 — 1691
(Joshua Morse)
Anthony Morse 1688 — 1729
(Judith Moody)
Caleb Morse 1711 — 1749
(Sarah Ordway)
James Ordway Morse 1733 — 1762
(Judith Carr)
Judith Morse 1758 — 1817
(Nathaniel Smith)
Sarah Morse Smith 1780 — 1869
(Aaron Davis)
Serena Davis 1808 — 1896
(George Tappan)
Sarah Davis Tappan 1831 — 1893
(William W. Crapo)
Stanford T. Crapo 1865 —
(Emma Morley)
William Wallace Crapo 1895 —
RICHARD KIMBALL
Eichard Kimball, wheelwright, was born 1595,
or earlier, in Suffolk County, England, either at
Bury St. Edmunds or in one of the near by vil-
lages. He married Ursula Scott, daughter of
Henry Scott of Rattlesden, a little parish between
Bury St. Edmunds and Ipswich, and there for a
time he lived with his bride. There are numerous
records of Kimballs in the vicinity of Bury St.
Edmunds, and the names of Richard and Henry
and Thomas are of frequent occurrence.
Your Richard came over in the ship Elizabeth,
William Andrews, Master, in 1634. With him were
his wife Ursula and a numerous family of young
children. Martha Scott, the mother of Ursula ac-
companied them. There was also one Henry Kim-
ball, who was probably his brother, and Thomas
Scott, his brother in law. They all went to Water-
town, Massachusetts. There Richard Kimball
had a homestead with six acres of land in what
is now the city of Cambridge, near the corner of
Huron Avenue and Appleton Street. He is
recorded as a freeman of Watertown May 6, 1635.
There being need of a competent wheelwright in
the growing settlement of Ipswich he removed
thither in 1636, his brother in law, Thomas Scott,
having preceded him.
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In Ipswich Richard Kimball was given a house
lot February 23, 1636, at the west end of the town,
and also forty acres of land beyond the North
River. He was one of the " seven men" (Select-
men) in 1645, and in that year is noted as having
worked on the "Watch House." In 1647 he was
rewarded for killing foxes. In 1649 he was ex-
empted from the stringent rules which had been
adopted in Ipswich in relation to the destruction
of the timber, and authorized by the Selectmen
"to fell such white oaks as he hath occasion to
use about his trade for the town's use." And
again, in 1660, he was granted the right "to fell
20 white oak trees to make weels for the towns-
men their use." He acquired various pieces of
real estate, being a considerable owner in Plum
Island. He acted in various fiduciary capacities
as the Court records disclose. In 1658 he was one
of the signers of a petition to the Salem Court
to suppress an objectionable ordinary at Ipswich.
In 1661 he married Margaret Dow, widow of
Henry Dow of Hampton. In 1671 he owned what
is known as the "John Cross Lot" in Ipswich.
On the twenty-second of June, 1675, he died. His
will is an interesting document and his inventory
shows that he was a man of substance since he
left a property appraised £737 3s. 6d.
His seventh child, Thomas, was your ancestor.
He was born in Rattlesden, Suffolk County, Eng-
land, in 1633, and was one year old when he came
over with his parents on the ship Elizabeth to
New England. When a young man he removed
from Ipswich to Hampton, and in 1653 was the
RICHARD KIMBALL 579
owner or manager of a mill there. It would
seem that he continued to live in Hampton until
at least as late as 1660. He married Mary Smith,
daughter of Thomas and Joanna Smith of Ips-
wich. From Hampton he removed to what is
now the town of Bradford and lived on a farm
on the Boxford Road. He followed the trade of
his father as a wheelwright and mechanic, and
was also a thrifty farmer, owning some four hun-
dred acres of land and being possessed of a con-
siderable amount of personal property. He was
distinctly one of the "leading citizens," holding
office continuously as Constable and Selectman,
etc.
His tragic death and the captivity of his wife
and children are vivid illustrations of the dangers
to which the early pioneers of New England were
subjected at the hands of the savages. There
was an Indian named Simon, supposed to be a
"converted" Indian, who had proved himself a
very troublesome fellow, and given much alarm
to the inhabitants about the Merrimack River
country, who, joining with him two others, "con-
verted" Indians, Peter and Andrew, plotted to
kill certain white men on the night of May 2,
1676. "But for some reason being frustrated in
their original design and the night being far ad-
vanced, they wreaked their vengeance on the
Kimballs. " Thomas Kimball was killed at his
home by the Indian Simon. His wife, Mary
Smith, and their five children, of whom the oldest
was your many times great grandmother Hannah,
were "carried forty miles into the wilderness."
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There they remained forty-one days. Twice were
the fires lit to burn the white squaw and her
youngest babe, and through some influence of fear
or kindlier nature their doom delayed. It was
finally through the good offices of Wonalancet,
chief of the Pennacooks, that your grandmother
Mary Kimball and her five children were released
without ransom and brought back to Ipswich
June 13, 1676. On the records of the town of
Ipswich is the following entry: "May 3d, 1676.
A note is handed in on the Sabbath by the pious
parents of Goodwife Kimball that she and her
five children taken at Bradford by Indians who
killed her husband might be delivered. ' ' Perhaps
the prayers of the congregation assembled at the
meeting-house were of some efficacy. At all
events had not the red men been fearful of the
vengeance of the white men, and their guns, your
seven times great grandmother Hannah Kimball,
a young girl in the bud of womanhood, would not
have returned to her home and married your
grandfather, Joshua Morse, and consequently
you would not have been you. Would you have
been someone else, or would you have not been
at all? It is the problem which puzzled Dr.
Holmes as to what would have happened to him
if Dorothy Q. had answered No.
' ' Should I be I or would it be
One-tenth another, to nine-tenths me?"
Do you not think that you owe a thought of
gratitude to Wonalancet, who guided the council
of the braves as they sat about the camp-fire
1 ' forty miles in the wilderness, ' ' and advised that
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the white woman and her children be spared?
To be sure, he was not thinking of you. He was
a cautious politician, interested in himself no
doubt. Yet to him, after all, you owe your exist-
ence and identity.
Chapter XIX
WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Came over 1636
Falcon
William Phillips ? 1607 — 1683
(Bridget Hutchinson)
William Phillips 1660 — 1705
(Deborah Long)
Elizabeth Phillips 1698 —
(Thomas Newman)
Sarah Newman 1722 —
(Thomas Smith)
Nathaniel Smith 1752 — 1790
(Judith Morse)
Sarah Morse Smith 1780 — 1869
(Aaron Davis)
Serena Davis 1808 — 1896
(George Tappan)
Sarah Davis Tappan 1831 — 1893
(William W. Crapo)
Stanford T. Crapo 1865 —
(Emma Morley)
William Wallace Crapo 1895 —
WILLIAM PHILLIPS
William Phillips was in Charlestown in 1638.
He may have been the William Phillips, aged
twenty-eight years, who sailed in the Falcon,
December 19, 1635. If so, he was born in 1607.
His wife, Mary, was admitted as a member of
the church in Charlestown in 1639. She bore
him one son and two daughters. He soon re-
moved to Boston and was admitted a freeman,
May 13, 1640. His wife, Mary, died in 1646, and
in 1647 he married Susanna Stanley, the widow
of Christopher Stanley, a lady of some posses-
sions, by whom he had one son and two daughters.
Susanna died April 16, 1655, and within a year
he married Bridget, daughter of William and
Anne Hutchinson, and widow of John Sanford,
by whom he had three sons and one daughter.
It is from one of these sons, William, born Jan-
uary 28, 1660, that you descend.
William Phillips was an active and successful
man of business. He was a "vintner" and kept
an ordinary in Boston called the "Ship Taverne."
An interesting document is preserved in the
archives of Massachusetts, a contract between the
General Court, made by a committee thereof, and
William Phillips, Robert Long, another ancestor
of yours, and others, granting to Robert Turner
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the exclusive right to sell liquor in Boston and
Charlestown for a period of five years upon pay-
ment to the Treasurer of the Colony of £160.
Between 1645 and 1655 William Phillips' name
appears as a creditor of many estates and as an
appraiser, etc., and he is constantly named in
William Aspinwall's notarial records in connec-
tion with shipments to and from the Barbacloes
and as acting as attorney for merchants in Eng-
land and as witness to sundry business transac-
tions. One document, made in 1648, tends to
throw light on his ancestry. It is a bond given
by Thomas Boylston of Watertown to William
Phillips of Boston, vintner, to secure the payment
of three bills of exchange drawn by Thomas
Boylston, clothmaker, dwelling at the sign of the
gold ball in Fenchurch Street, London, payable
to William Phillips, shoemaker, of London. It
is not expressly stated that the William Phillips
of London was the father of William Phillips of
Boston, but the whole document raises the pre-
sumption that he was. Mr. Aspinwall notes that
in 1649 one William Tilley appointed an attorney
to "implead and arrest and prosecute and recover
of William Phillips of Boston and his wife for
defaming and slandering my well beloved wife
Alice Tilley in respect to her calling or other-
wise." In 1649 William Phillips subscribed for
one-eighth share of a ship to be built by Richard
Thurston. In an old diary of one John Bowne of
Matlock, Derbyshire, who came over in 1648, there
is this entry: "Jan. 7, 1649. I entered Mr.
Phillips service." There are several records of
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different servants of William Phillips during
these years. One servant was John Robinson,
' ' a mariner, ' ' and another, who died in 1659, was
Stephen Welt,
In 1649 the town of Boston sold to William
Phillips a lot which had been given to the town
by Christopher Stanley, the first husband of
William Phillips' second wife, for the use of "a
free schoole." The consideration was "thirteen
shillings four pence per annum foreever for the
use of the school." This would hardly go far
towards the support of a public school of Boston
today. The land was at the north end of the
town "near the water." There are various
records of land transfers both in Charlestown
and Boston to and from William Phillips. He
is named as serving on town committees on sev-
eral occasions. In 1644, when he was probably
a resident of Charlestown, he joined the famous
military organization which afterwards became
known as the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
Company. In this company he was an Ensign
in 1655, and Lieutenant in 1657. As "Lieutenant
Phillips ' ' he was known during the next few years
in Boston. His later title of Major was acquired
in Maine.
It is probable that before 1655 William Phillips
had accumulated considerable property, and his
marriage with his third wife in that year added
to his means. She doubtless had received some
property from her father, William Hutchinson,
and by the will of her husband, Governor John
Sanford, of Rhode Island, she was given addi-
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tional property. Indeed, in her own will, in which
she devises a large property to her children, both
Sanford and Phillips, she says that she brought
a considerable estate to her husband Phillips,
which accounts for her sharing so largely in his
fortune at his death. Richard Hutchinson, the
uncle of Bridget Phillips, who came over with her
father, William Hutchinson, returned to England
after the ostracism of the family occasioned by
her mother's heresies, and became a wealthy
merchant of London. He invested largely in the
lauds of which Sir Fernando Gorges had the title
between the Piscataqua and Kennebec Rivers.
Bridget Phillips' uncle, Rev. John Wheelwright,
and his family were also interested in the lauds
north of the Massachusetts charter jurisdiction,
whither they went on their banishment. It is
probable, owing to his association with his wife's
relatives, that William Phillips resolved to go to
Maine, whither he removed about 1660 and settled
in Saco, where for some fifteen years he lived and
engaged in business in rather a large way.
In 1630 the Council of Plymouth granted to
Richard Vines and John Oldham a tract of land
on the west side of the Saco River, four miles
along the coast and eight miles inland. This is
the territory now of the town of Biddeford, oppo-
site the city of Saco. A few settlers came be-
tween 163S and 1640. In 1645 Vines, who had
acquired the whole interest, sold his charter to
Robert Childs. who in turn sold to John Box &
Co. of London, who in 165S-9 sold to William
Phillips. In what is now Biddeford he settled
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in 1660, on the west side of the river below
Saco Falls, near where the bridge crossed the
river from the city of Saco. He built a large
saw-mill and shipped lumber to England. He
also owned other mills, one known as "Spen-
cer's." In 1662 he employed his son in law, John
Alden, the son of John Alden and Priscilla Mul-
lins of Plymouth, to whom you may thus be said
to be avuncularly related, to build another mill
and subsequently deeded him a half interest in
the same. In 1661 he purchased of the Sagamore
Fluellen a tract eight miles square where is now
the town of Sanford, named after his wife's son,
Governor Peleg Sanford of Ehode Island. He
made other extensive purchases from Indian
chiefs, one from "Mugg Heagon," another from
" Hombinowitt, " and another from "Captain Sun-
day." These tracts contained some sixty-four
thousand acres. The titles were subsequently con-
firmed by Sir Fernando Gorges, who had acquired
the territory of Maine in 1639, and in the settle-
ment which was finally made in 1677 between the
grandson of Sir Fernando Gorges and the Massa-
chusetts Colony, whereby the Colony acquired the
rights to this much disputed territory, the con-
veyance is made to the Colony of the whole terri-
tory "excepting all leases and conveyances made
by the original proprietor — especially all grants
to William Phillips."
In the grant of the Sagamore "Captain Sun-
day ' ' there were three ' ' hills of rock ' ' forty miles
back from the sea. These hills were thought by
William Phillips to contain silver mines and he
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sold shares in them to his friends in Boston,
among whom your ancestor Theodore Atkinson
was probably one. Unfortunately, the silver
turned out to be mica. It is probable that William
Phillips was an innocent promoter of this fake
mining enterprise, yet the story has a modern
flavor. It was not, however, as a mining pro-
moter, but as a lumber dealer that William Phil-
lips was principally engaged. He made large
contracts for the delivery of lumber in England,
his wife's uncle, Richard Hutchinson, being one
of his principal customers. In the region of Saco
in those early days trees seem to have been to
some extent a medium of exchange. When in
1667 William Phillips sold to his neighbor across
the river, Captain John Bonython, one-half of
Factory Island, the consideration was eight hun-
dred pine trees suitable for merchantable boards.
Merchantable boards in those days called for
trees of much greater diameter than the modern
market furnishes.
William Phillips was a leader in his community.
He was a magistrate, and in 1665 was made a
Lieutenant and later a Major by Royal Commis-
sion. He was forceful and outspoken. There is
a tradition that he once made a man smart for
saying that Phillips' horse was as "lean as an
Indian dog. ' ' The main settlement in the vicinity
was at Winter Harbor, near the mouth of the
Saco River. Here in the first meeting-house
"Mistress Phillips" had the front bench. Per-
haps she had not as yet become corrupted by
Quakerism, for which she afterwards suffered in
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Boston. The homestead where the Phillipses
lived was a substantial dwelling afterwards
known as the " garrison house." It was here
that a somewhat memorable engagement in the
Indian war of 1675 took place. Hubbard in his
History of the Indian Wars, tells the story with
much picturesque detail and portrays Major Phil-
lips as something of a hero, even quoting the re-
marks made in the garrison house during the
Indian attack, for which he must have relied on
his imagination. Fortunately we have Major
Phillips' own account of the affair in a letter
from Major Waldron to his commander, General
Denison, September 25, 1675, wherein he says :
I had advise of the enemies marching westward and
falling upon Scarboro and Saeo killing and burning.
On Saturday and Sabbath day last at Scarboro they
killed an old man and woman and burnt their house,
and at Mr. Foxwell's two young men were killed being
at the barn about the cattle. The enemy then advanced
towards Saco River and there fell to burning of homes.
The people, before having intelligence from an Indian
called Scossaway of the time which they would come,
most of them repairing to Major Pendleton's, but Mr.
Bonython and some other families to Major Phillips.
On Saturday morning the Indians rifled and burned
several homes and while said homes were burning a
party of them, judged about thirty-six Indians came
over the river in English canoes, and when came ashore
cut holes in them and turned them adrift, but all this
time finding no men they went to Major Phillips' saw-
mill and set it going then on fire and burnt it and after-
wards did the like to his corn mill, it being judged to be
their design to draw them out of the house and so to
surprise both them and it, but Major Phillips being fore-
warned of their coming made some small defence about
his house, having with him of his own family and neigh-
bors to the number of fifteen men besides women and
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children in all about fifty. The bushes being thick
within shot of his house, could not at first see an Indian,
but one of the men perceiving a stirring among the
leaves Major Phillips looked out of his chamber window
that way and from thence was immediately shot at
and slightly wounded in the shoulder (two more were
also wounded afterwards) after which the shot came
thick which was accordingly answered from within, but
no Indians as yet appeared but only creeping decked
with ferns and boughs, till some time after they got a
pair of old truck wheels and fitted them up with boards
and slabs for a barricade to safeguard the driver thereby
endeavoring to burn the house, having prepared com-
bustible matter as birch and rinds and pitch wood tur-
pentine and powder for this end; but they in the house
perceiving the intention, plyed their shot against it and
found afterwards their shot went through. Afterwards
they endeavored to get it out of the dirt by turning a
little on one side, thereby laying themselves open to
them in the house, which opportunity they improved
and made them quit their work and fly but they con-
tinued firing at the house all night and then marched
away. Since which Major Phillips is removed down
to Winter Harbor to Major Pendleton's where I found
him.
Hubbard says that within a few days the sav-
ages burned a mill near Berwick belonging to
"Mr. Hutchinson, a merchant of Boston." This
refers, probably, to Edward Hutchinson, a son of
William and Anne Hutchinson, and a brother of
Bridget Phillips. He came over with his Uncle
Edward the year before William Hutchinson
brought the rest of the family, and afterwards
acted as agent for his uncle Richard in England
and was doubtless very closely connected with
his brother in law, William Phillips. This Ed-
ward, the brother of Bridget, was known as " Cap-
tain, " and he was killed in King Philip's War.
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Within a year or two after the Indian attack,
William Phillips and his wife returned to Boston,
where he lived some seven or eight years before
his death in 1683. His will, dated September 28,
1683, was proved Nov. 13, 1683. He devised a
large portion of his estate to his wife, Bridget,
and remembered her children as well as his own.
He named his son Nathaniel, who was a son by
his second wife, and his sons Samuel and William,
who were Bridget's children. His son William
by his first wife had doubtless died.
Bridget Hutchinson was the fifth of the four-
teen children of William and Anne Hutchinson.
She was named after her grandmother, Bridget
Dryden of Canons Ashby. She was born in Al-
ford January 15, 1618, and came over with her
parents in 1634. She was about eighteen when
she married John Sanford, a widower, of Boston.
In 1638 she and her husband shared in the general
banishment of the family and went to Portsmouth.
Afterwards John Sanford and his wife Bridget
lived in Newport. John Sanford was at one time
the chief magistrate of Rhode Island. They had
several children, one of whom, Peleg, was after-
wards a somewhat famous Governor of Rhode
Island. After her husband's death in Newport
in 1653, Bridget returned to Boston, to which
still somewhat hostile town various members of
the Hutchinson family had returned, and she was
admitted an inhabitant July 31, 1654. Less than
two years afterward she married William Phillips
and with him went to Maine, returning to Boston
not long after 1675. She became converted to
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the Quaker faith. In 1677 Margaret Brewster
came to Boston from the Barbadoes and made
herself obnoxious to the authorities by her mili-
tant Friendliness. One Sabbath day she went
into the South Church "in sackcloth with ashes
on her head, barefooted, and her face blackened"
and warned the people of Boston in the name of
God and with the threat of the "Black Pox"
not to put into effect a wicked law of theirs about
swearing. She was naturally arrested, whipped
and imprisoned. At the same time Bridget Phil-
lips, and her stepdaughter, Elephal Stratton,
whom she had practically adopted as her own
daughter, were also whipped, and on the next
Sabbath, as they persisted in disturbing the
peace, they were again whipped through the
streets of Boston. Evidently Bridget was her
mother's daughter. She was at this time about
sixty years old and one of the wealthy dames of
Boston, but she was quite ready to be publicly
whipped in testimony of her dissent from the
fashionable religious faith. She lived to be
eighty years old and in her will, proved in August,
1698, made elaborate provision for the division
of her estate, a part of which she had received
from her husband, William Phillips. She dis-
posed of large territories in Maine to her Sanford
children and her Phillips children. She left each
of her grandchildren books and a gold ring, and to
many of her relatives and friends silver pitchers
and tankards, and other articles. She named as
her residuary legatees her children, William Phil-
lips, your ancestor, Samuel Phillips and Elephal
Stratton.
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William Phillips, the second, was doubtless with
his parents in Maine during his youth. It is
doubtful whether he was in Saco at the time of
the Indian attack on Major Phillips' house, since
I find that he served under Captain Moseley in
King Philip's War, being paid for his service in
December, 1675, and in April and June, 1676. In
1676 he was enrolled in the Ancient and Honor-
able Artillery Company. At the time of his
father's death, he was "a captive among the
Spaniards." I found somewhere the statement
that he was kept a captive for four years. It
would be interesting to know more of the experi-
ences of this ancestor. He died in Boston in
1705 when forty-five years old and lies buried
in the church-yard of King's Chapel.
Elizabeth, the daughter of William Phillips,
the second, and Deborah Long, his wife, was born
in Boston June 3, 1698, and was only seven years
old when her father died. As her mother soon
after married William Skinner of Boston, it is
quite natural that she and her young brother
John should have come under the care of their
uncle, Nathaniel Phillips, who was living in Ips-
wich. It was in 1714 that she married Thomas
Newman of Ipswich, and some years after his
death she married John Smith, Junior, of Ipswich.
Her daughter, Sarah Newman, married Thomas
Smith of Newbury, a grandfather of Sarah Morse
Smith.
Chaptee XX
EOBERT LONG
Came over 1635
Defense
Robert Long 1590 — 1664
(Sarah Taylor)
Zach ariah Long 1630 — 1688
(Sarah Tidd)
Deborah Long 1670 —
(William Phillips)
Elizabeth Phillips 1698 —
(Thomas Newman)
Sarah Newman 1722 —
(Thomas Smith)
Nathaniel Smith 1752 —1790
(Judith Morse)
Sarah Morse Smith 1780 — 1869
(Aaron Davis)
Serena Davis 1808 — 1896
(George Tappan)
Sarah Davis Tappan 1831 — 1893
(William W. Crapo)
Stanford T. Crapo 1865 —
(Emma Morley)
William Wallace Crapo 1895 —
ROBERT LONG
Robert Long, an ' ' innkeeper, ' ' embarked on the
Defense from London in 1635 with his wife and
ten children, the oldest of whom was twenty, and
also one servant. He was born in 1590. He lived
in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, and there in 1614
married Sarah Taylor, daughter of John and
Margaret (Willmote) Taylor, who was five years
younger than himself. The records are in the
Abbey Register. Most of the children were born
in St. Albans, but prior to 1630, Robert Long re-
moved to Dunstable, Bedfordshire, where on
October 20, 1630, Zachariah, your ancestor, was
baptized. Soon after Sarah died and Robert
married Elizabeth Roberts, who came over with
him in 1635.
Robert Long settled in Charlestown, where he
was admitted a freeman in 1635. Here he fol-
lowed his business as an innkeeper. He must
have brought some capital with him, for within a
year he purchased the " Great House." This
house was built by the original mercantile com-
pany of Oldham as a general house for the ad-
venturers and their wares. It was near the site
of the present City Hall in what was later "The
Square" at the foot of the hill. Here Governor
Endicott stayed in 1631, and it was in this build-
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ing that the settlement of Boston was decided on.
In 1632 the structure was purchased from the
company for ten pounds and used as the first
meeting-house until 1635-6, when, as the record
states, "Mr. Long was granted to have the Great
House wholly when we shall be provided of an-
other meeting-house, and to pay £30, and for the
present to have the south end and so much of the
chamber as the deacons can spare, and when the
congregation leaveth the house, the deacons are
to have the planks and the boards which lie over
the chamber with all the forms below and the
benchs. ' '
This tavern was known as "The Two Cranes,"
and was kept as a public house by Robert Long
and his sons for more than three-quarters of a
century. One of the earliest of the many English
travellers to this country who have printed their
impressions on their return home was Josslyn,
who describes the inn as kept by Robert Long in
1638, and notes as somewhat remarkable that he
met a rattlesnake in crossing the square to the
tavern. There is a description of the building in
1683 giving the number and size of the rooms.
Later a brew house was added. In 1712 it is re-
ferred to as "the old tavern." It was burned
by the British soldiers in 1775.
Robert Long was a highly respected citizen of
Charlestown. He was admitted to the church
February 17, 1636. He evidently prospered, as
he is recorded as the owner of some thirteen tracts
of land in the Charlestown Book of Possessions.
Most of the land was "on Mystic side" and some
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in "Lynnfield. " He acted in behalf of one of
the creditors of Governor Winthrop to whom the
Governor made an assignment to secure their
claims. In 1639 he was enrolled among the very
earliest of that roll of honor, the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery Company.
Robert Long died in 1664, leaving a will in
which he disposed of a considerable property.
One of his older sons, Robert, removed at an
early date, probably between 1637 and 1642, to
Newbury, where he married Alice Stevens in 1647,
and died in 1690, leaving several children. He
was known in Newbury as "Deacon" Long, and
for some time during my researches in connection
with this family I assumed that Deacon Robert
Long was your ancestor. Further inquiry, how-
ever, clearly demonstrated that he was the
brother and not the father of Zachariah.
Zachariah, who was born in Dunstable, was
some several years younger than his brother
Robert. He lived in Charlestown. He did not
succeed to his father's business as innholder, but
became a mariner. In 1663 he was the Captain
of the ship John and Sarah, of which he owned
one-eighth. He was possessed of considerable
property, and owned wharves and warehouses,
as appears by the inventory of his estate. On
September 24, 1656, he married Sarah Tidd, who
was the mother of Deborah Long, who married
William Phillips, the second. Sarah died in 1674
and Zachariah married Mary Burr in 1681, who
died soon after, when he married Sarah More,
who outlived him. In his will, proved in June,
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1688, he names his daughter Deborah as one of
his residuary legatees. He doubtless left his
widow fairly well off, as is indicated by a church
record in 1689, whereby it appears that " Judith
Wooder (aged 22), a Narragansett Indian, ser-
vant to the widdow of Mr. Zachary Long, de-
ceased," was baptized seventh month twenty-
second.
Sarah Tidd, the first wife of Zachariah Long,
your ancestress, was the daughter of Joshua Tidd,
a shopkeeper of Charlestown, who was given the
title of Lieutenant. He was in Charlestown as
early as 1637 and was admitted to the church in
1639. He lived on Mill Hill. His wife's name
was Sarah. He died in 1678 aged seventy-one.
His daughter Sarah was born in 1636, presumably
on this side of the water, and was baptized in
1639.
Chapter XXI
WILLIAM HUTCHINSON
Came over 1634
Griffin
William Hutchinson 1586 — 1642
(Anne Marbury)
Bridget Hutchinson 1618 — 1698
(William Phillips)
William Phillips 1660 — 1705
(Deborah Long)
Elizabeth Phillips 1698 —
(Thomas Newman)
Sarah Newman 1722 —
(Thomas Smith)
Nathaniel Smith 1752 —1790
(Judith Morse)
Sarah Morse Smith 1780 — 1869
(Aaron Davis)
Serena Davis 1808 — 1896
(George Tappan)
Sarah Davis Tappan 1831 — 1893
(William W. Crapo)
Stanford T. Crapo 1865 —
(Emma Morley)
William Wallace Crapo 1895 —
WILLIAM HUTCHINSON
Your ancestor William Hutchinson inevitably
takes his place in history as his wife's husband.
Yet in these notes, surely, he deserves individual
mention. His grandfather, John Hutchinson,
born about 1515, was apprenticed in 1529 to Ed-
ward Atkinson of Lincoln, a glover. He must
have been a faithful apprentice, since he prospered
when he became his own master. At the age of
thirty-two he was Sheriff of Lincolnshire, and in
1556 and again in 1564 he was the mayor of the
old Roman city over which the incomparable
Cathedral dominated in his time as it does now.
It was not at the Cathedral, however, that he
worshipped, but at the Church of Saint Mary le
Bigford, where he was buried in 1565. His
youngest son, a baby when he died, and for
whose bringing up his widow was charged by his
will, was Edward, born in 1564. Edward was
apprenticed in Lincoln when he was thirteen
years old. Soon after the expiration of his
apprenticeship he went to Alford a town some
thirty miles from Lincoln, in the "fens" near the
North Sea. Here he married his wife Susanna
and had eight children, among whom was your
ancestor, William, who was baptized at Alford,
August 14, 1586. William Hutchinson became a
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successful business man in Alford, and when he
was twenty-six years of age, in 1612, married
Anne Marbury, the daughter of Francis Marbury,
the Rector of the Parish of Alford. He and his
wife were doubtless faithful members of her
father's church. In 1620 he was one of the
wardens.
One of William Hutchinson's sisters married
the Rev. John Wheelwright, a man of much bril-
liancy, who dissented from the tenets of the estab-
lished church. Anne Hutchinson's sympathy
with Mr. Wheelwright's religious views, and the
influence of Mr. John Cotton of the neighboring
town of Boston, caused William Hutchinson to
become involved in their dissent. Governor
Winthrop, later in New England, said of him that
he was "a man of very mild temper and weak
parts, and wholly guided by his wife." It may
be that he was a man of mild temper, and that he
admired and loved the brilliant woman who was
his wife is beyond question, but that he was in
any way weak is not borne out by his life's his-
tory. As a man of business and a clear headed,
conscientious worker for the public weal he
showed no weakness. Doubtless his decision to
go to New England was in part induced by the
association of himself and his wife with Mr.
Wheelwright and Mr. Cotton. Yet when he arrived
in Boston, in September, 1634, he was welcomed as
a distinct addition to the community in view of
his means and character.
It was not altogether the urging of his wife,
perhaps, which caused him to come to New Eng-
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land. His brothers, who were all prosperous
men at Alford, joined with him in the enterprise
to make their fortunes in the new land. His
brother Edward and his son Edward came over
first in the Griffin in 1633. On the next trip of
the Griffin, William Hutchinson and his wife and
children and his brothers, Eichard and Samuel,
and their mother, Susanna, came. He was
admitted a freeman of Boston March 4, 1635, and
admitted to the church August 26. There was
some question about admitting Anne, his wife,
because on the voyage over the Rev. Zachariah
Symmes had cause to entertain some doubts of
her complete orthodoxy, yet she was formally
admitted on September 2, 1635.
William Hutchinson at once took a leading part
in the affairs of the Colony. He was a member
of the General Court in 1635 and 1636. He was
appointed by the Court as an auditor of the Treas-
urer's accounts, and was delegated to assist in
the settlement of the complicated matters con-
nected with the estate of John Oldham. It was,
however, only a very brief period in which
William Hutchinson was a persona grata in the
little commonwealth. His wife caused such an
upheaval in the community that as early as 1636-7
he was formally discharged "from assisting at
the particular Courts upon the Church's request."
William Hutchinson acquired considerable
property in the Colony. In 1635, Taylor's Island
was granted to him, and in 1636 he was allotted
six hundred acres at Mount Wollaston "betwixt
Dorchester bounds and the Mount Wollaston
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river." His brother in law, John Wheelwright,
also had a grant of two hundred and fifty acres
at the ''Mount." The cataclysmic result of his
wife's transcendental propaganda necessarily put
him under the ban and he was, perforce, com-
pelled to seek another domicile. With William
Coddington, his wife's staunch supporter, he
joined in the purchase of the Island of Aquidneck
and subscribed to the original compact made in
Boston.
When the company had removed to the island
they organized a form of government, and Mr.
Coddington was made chief magistrate under the
title of "Judge," William Hutchinson being
elected the Treasurer of the company. For some
reason the affairs of the settlement did not go
smoothly, and of course Mrs. Hutchinson's
enemies, who after all are our main informants
about her, attributed the trouble to her. At all
events, Mr. Coddington within a year removed
to the south end of the island and started an inde-
pendent settlement, afterwards called Newport.
William Hutchinson was then chosen chief magis-
trate of the Portsmouth settlement, and his name
heads the list of signers of that memorable agree-
ment on the records of the town of Portsmouth,
to which so many of your ancestors subscribed.
Shortly afterwards the two settlements of Ports-
mouth and Newport got together and Mr.
Coddington was elected "Governor" and William
Hutchinson one of the "Assistants." He served
in this capacity for about a year, when his wife
conceived a new idea that a "Christian" could
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not be a "magistrate," and so William, being a
dutiful husband, resigned.
William Hutchinson was allotted six house lots
for himself and his family in the original assign-
ment of lots at the north end of the island. Very
likely one of these lots was for his daughter
Bridget, your many times great grandmother,
who had married John Sanford in Boston.
Sanford was staunchly loyal to Anne Hutchinson,
as, indeed, were all her large family connection,
and was named in the disarmament order in 1637,
which was virtually an order of banishment.
William Hutchinson also had other grants of land
on the island, one of four hundred acres near
Newport.
When the committee from Boston came in
February, 1640, "to require the inhabitants of
Portsmouth and Newport to give account to the
Church of their unwarrantable practice in com-
municating with excommunicated persons," mean-
ing, of course, Anne Hutchinson, her husband
was among those called to account. The com-
mittee subsequently reported that he said "he
was more nearly tied to his wife than to his
Church and that he thought her to be a dear Saint
and Servant of God. ' ' In 1642 he died at Ports-
mouth. The death of her loyal lover and sup-
porter was, I fancy, the most grievous blow which
Anne Hutchinson sustained in her tragic life in
New England.
William Hutchinson, quite aside from his wife 's
notoriety, was an important founder of New Eng-
land. He was the head of a family which exer-
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oised much influence in the development and his-
tory of the country. His brother Richard, after
the banishment of the family from Boston,
returned to England and became a wealthy mer-
chant of London. His loss by the Great Fire in
1663 was £60,000. He acted as the Agent of the
Massachusetts Colony in England for many years.
William Hutchinson's brother Samuel remained
in Boston until his death in 1667. He was a
bachelor and something of a scholar. His will is
a most interesting document in which he remem-
bers all his relatives, the Hutchinsons, the Wheel-
wrights, the Phillipses, and many others, afford-
ing one of those valuable testamentary sources of
information so invaluable to the genealogists.
Although William Hutchinson's brother Edward
returned to England, his descendants lived in
New England and became prominent and influ-
ential people. The descendants of William
Hutchinson 's sister and her husband, John Wheel-
wright, were leaders in New England. William
Hutchinson's mother, Susanna, went with her
daughter, Mrs. Wheelwright, into exile at Exeter.
Afterwards they removed to Wells, Maine, where
Susanna died in 1642, the same year in which
her son William died in Portsmouth. William
Hutchinson's own descendants became identified
with Boston. His son William was a much hon-
ored citizen of Boston, and his grandson, Thomas
Hutchinson, the last Royal Governor of Massa-
chusetts, not only was a principal actor in the
latter days of the Colony, but was an admirable
historian of its earlier days. His treatment of the
WILLIAM HUTCHINSON qh
important episode in the history of Massachusetts
in which his grandmother, to whom he refers only
as "one Mrs. Hutchinson," is on the whole fair
and judicial. He, in his turn, was forced into
exile and went to Canada. That Boston twice
banished the Hutchinson family was clearly Bos-
ton's loss.
Chaptek XXII
ANNE MARBURY HUTCHINSON
Came over 1634
Griffin
Anne Marbury 1591 — 1643
(William Hutchinson)
Bridget Hutchinson 1618 — 1698
(William Phillips)
William Phillips 1660 — 1705
(Deborah Long)
Elizabeth Phillips 1698 —
(Thomas Newman)
Sarah Newman 1722 —
(Thomas Smith)
Nathaniel Smith 1752 — 1790
(Judith Morse)
Sarah Morse Smith 1780 — 1809
(Aaron Davis)
Serena Davis 1808 — 1896
(George Tappan)
Sarah Davis Tappan 1831 — 1893
(William W. Crapo)
Stanford T. Crapo 1865 —
(Emma Morley) II
William Wallace Crapo 1895 —
ANNE MARBURY HUTCHINSON
Anne Marbury Hutchinson is incomparably
your most famous comeoverer. In many books
and innumerable treatises the story has been told
of how she caused the great Antinomian contro-
versy which whirled the little town of Boston
about amid the conflicting doctrines of theology
and psychology with such a mighty impetus it has
never, even unto this day, ceased whirling. So
fully has her public career been presented that I
shall not undertake in this note to elucidate the
causes or the results of the political turmoil for
which she was responsible. Charles Francis
Adams in his Three Episodes of Massachusetts
History has told the story graphically and
exhaustively, although by no means sympathetic-
ally. The calcium light which he throws on Anne
Hutchinson as she occupies the centre of the
stage necessarily results in a theatrical falsity of
portraiture. In this note I prefer to picture her
as a gifted and brilliant woman who was both
kind and motherly, a portrayal which the facts
and records of her personal life fully justify.
Anne Marbury, the daughter of the Rev. Francis
Marbury and Bridget Dryden, his wife, was born
in Alford and there baptized in her father's
church on July 20, 1591. Of her gentle blood and
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the social position of her parents and kin you
have already learned in the note on her sister,
Catherine Scott. Anne was much older than
Catherine. It is altogether probable that as a
girl with her mother she sometimes visited her
cousins at Canons Ashby and came in touch with
a side of social life which helped to fit her to
become the guiding spirit of the Salon which she
instituted later in Boston in New England. Her
intellectual brilliancy and social charm were con-
ceded by her most bitter enemies. As a magnetic
hostess and social leader Anne Hutchinson un-
questionably deserved renown, yet the upheaval
which she caused in the state and church of Massa-
chusetts in 1636 and 1637 was somewhat fortui-
tous. As it happened, I fancy that none of her
noble progenitors, not even Sir William Cope, a
distinct power, not altogether for good, in the
reign of Henry VII, were comparable with Anne
Hutchinson in the impress which she made upon
her time and generation during her brief career
in New England. That she directly as well as
indirectly affected the lives of a considerable num-
ber of your ancestors is therefore not surprising.
When Anne Marbury was twenty-one years old
she married a prosperous young merchant of
Alford, William Hutchinson. It was on August
9, 1612, that they were joined in matrimony in the
village church, doubtless by the bride's father.
During the next twenty years her energies were
probably sufficiently absorbed in bringing into
the world and nurturing a family of fourteen
children. That she altogether ceased from social
ANNE MARBURY HUTCHINSON 617
activity during this period is hardly conceivable.
That she became intensely interested in the
religious ideas of her brother in law, John Wheel-
wright, cannot be doubted. That she was in some
degree an inspiration to him is probable. That
she sometimes journeyed to Boston, in Lincoln-
shire, not far from her home in Alford, and lis-
tened with enthusiasm to John Cotton 's exposition
of the word of God is altogether probable. That
it was this keen religious interest which caused
her to persuade her husband to leave his home
and business and seek a new abiding place, where
the doctrines in which she so ardently believed
were ascendant, is beyond question.
It was on the ship Griffin, which brought two
hundred immigrants to Boston in September,
1634, that Anne Hutchinson and her husband came
over with all their children, the oldest twenty-one
years of age and the youngest a baby little more
than a year and a half old, with other members of
the Hutchinson family. Mr. Wheelwright and
his wife came over two years later. Soon after
the Hutchinsons arrived in Boston they settled in
the house which William Hutchinson had either
caused to be built for him, or purchased from its
original builder, at the northwest corner of what
is now Washington Street and School Street.
This house stood on a half acre lot, and when
William Hutchinson was forced to sell it four
years later because of the excommunication and
banishment of his wife, the property was described
as "bounded easterly by the Road to Roxbury;
southerly by the lane leading to the Common;
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westerly by land of Thomas Scottos" (subse-
quently sold to the town and now the site of
the City Hall); and ''northerly by Major G.
Sedwiek. ' *
Here stood in my day the "Old Corner Book-
store," a spot dear to the hearts of Bostonians.
From that particular corner of the universe have
been distributed many startling and compelling
ideas. It has, indeed, furnished the local starting
place of most of Boston's intellectual propaganda.
It seems altogether appropriate that Anne Hutch-
inson should have here instituted the transcend-
ental movement which more distinctively than
any other influence has since dominated the intel-
lectual life of Boston. To this same corner, two
and a half centuries after Anne Hutchinson's day,
Mary Baker Eddy first brought for sale her incom-
prehensible book on Science and Health and
inaugurated a new epoch in Xew England tran-
scendentalism. That this Bostonian phase of
spiritualized metaphysics which found its orig-
inator in Anne Hutchinson, and its highest
prototype in Margaret Fuller, has as its latest
prophetess Mary Baker Eddy is no more ironical
than that the Old Corner Bookstore is now a cigar
shop.
The house which stood on the old corner in
Anne Hutchinson's day was doubtless not a pala-
tial dwelling, although probably among the better
class of houses in the little town of some three
thousand inhabitants which had been in existence
only a few years. Xearly opposite, on the "road
to Roxbury" lived John Winthrop, who was thus
ANNE MARBURY HUTCHINSON 619
in a position to watch the goings on of the
Hutchinson family. Without doubt he shared in
the general estimate of Mistress Hutchinson as a
kind and singularly charitable woman. She
especially endeared herself in the community by
her readiness to assist in cases of childbirth and
illness, in which, as an older daughter of a family
of twenty and herself the mother of a family of
fourteen, she may well have been expert. There
can be no doubt that during the first year or two
of her residence in Boston she was held in high
esteem in the church and community on account
of her kind and charitable thoughtfulness of
others in distress.
Governor Winthrop, across the way, must have
fully sympathized with the active and busy life of
the clan of Hutchinsons who came to live opposite
him. Nor would he have viewed with alarm the
occasional meetings of the women of Boston at
Mistress Hutchinson's house at which the sermons
of the ministers, and especially of Mr. John
Cotton, the assistant or curate, so to speak, of Mr.
Wilson, the minister of the First Church of Bos-
ton, were discussed and dilated on. These meet-
ings soon came to be held twice a week and in the
dearth of other social distractions became very
much the vogue, so that finally the men of the
community dropped in and joined in the discus-
sions. Anne Hutchinson was unquestionably a
clever hostess, and her enthusiasm for the meta-
physical aspect of religion, the important current
topic of the day, together with her brilliant con-
versational powers, inevitably made her the chief
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expositor. She was a woman of strong personal
likes and dislikes. Unfortunately she had con-
ceived a prejudice against her ordained minister,
Mr. Wilson, doubtless a worthy man, but narrow
minded and an ultra conventional theologian, and,
perhaps, without deliberate intent, she unduly
championed the somewhat broader views of his
assistant, Mr. Cotton, and the distinctly more
radical ideas of her brother in law, Mr. Wheel-
wright. In her enthusiasm and the self confidence
which comes with exceptional mental power uncon-
trolled by adequate knowledge, she soon began to
authoritatively put forth doctrines which were not
reconcilable with orthodoxy, and in the end she
became convinced that she was an inspired
prophetess. Mr. Wheelwright, indeed, stood by
her loyally to the bitter end, but Mr. Cotton was
finally forced by reasons of policy to repudiate
her interpretations of his doctrines in a way
which Mr. Adams says ''was simply pitiable, —
the ignominious page in an otherwise worthy
life." Cotton was the adored idol of Anne
Hutchinson and her avowed admirer and ally dur-
ing her period of ascendancy. He wrote of her
that she "was well beloved and all the faithful
embraced her conference and blessed God for her
fruitful discourses." When the tide turned
against her and "he made haste to walk in the
Covenant of Works, — the walk was a dirty one,"
says Mr. Adams.
There was a time during her brilliant assump-
tion of the role of prophetess when she seemed to
have practically the whole community of Boston
ANNE MARBURY HUTCHINSON 621
under the sway of her magnetic influence. Sir
Harry Vane, the "Boy Governor," was completely
captivated by this middle aged woman and enthu-
siastically espoused her cause to his own political
undoing, resulting in his ignominious return to
England. This brilliant boy of highly sensitive
and aristocratic impulses, with his generous whole
souled championship of liberty of conscience, by
his devotion to Anne Hutchinson bore a remark-
able testimony to the unusual charm and power
of the woman.
Although Anne Hutchinson succeeded in cap-
tivating most of the clergy as well as the laity of
Boston, the suburban ministers, who did not come
within reach of her personal charm, began to
revolt against the manifest heresies which she was
promulgating, and the magistrates began to per-
ceive that she was in fact undermining the founda-
tions on which their clerical government rested.
There can be no question that Mr. Wilson, the
minister of Boston, was thoroughly right in the
advice he gave the magistrates that Anne Hutch-
inson must be curbed or the whole state would
fall asunder. And so it is not surprising that
Governor Winthrop, who so thoroughly believed
in the divine guidance of the clergy as assistants
to the magistrates, wrote in his diary under date
of August 21, 1636: "One Mrs. Hutchinson, a
member of the Church of Boston, a woman of
ready wit and bold spirit, brought over with her
two dangerous errors; (1) that the person of the
Holy Ghost dwells in justified persons; (2) that
no sanctification can help to evidence to us our
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justification. From these two grew many
branches." It was not long before the branches
had grown to such an alarming extent that they
threatened to fall and crush the Boston hierarchy,
and Governor Winthrop was perforce obliged to
take a firm stand on the side of established cleri-
cal authority, and in the end to become Anne
Hutchinson's judge and executioner. And yet,
with that sweet naivete which characterizes
Winthrop, he confesses that "as to the precise
difference" between the views of Mrs. Hutchinson
and her opponents "no man could tell except some
few who knew the bottom of the matter where the
difference lay." It certainly is difficult for us
now to tell the difference. It seems to have been
metaphysical rather than theological. At all
events, the difference finally came to the issue
between a "Covenant of Grace" and a "Covenant
of Works." Some unsympathetic critic of Anne
Hutchinson has said that the whole controversy
was, after all, based on her personal attitude
towards the several ministers of the Colony;
those whom she liked she asserted were under a
Covenant of Grace ; those whom she disliked were
under a Covenant of Works. When Mr. Wilson
stood up to preach at lecture time, Mrs. Hutchin-
son left the church; when Mr. Cotton spoke, she
stayed and listened; when Mr. Wheelwright dis-
coursed, she hung upon his words and going home
gave forth his teachings, with emendations of her
own, to her admiring following.
"The town and country were distracted with
these subtleties," says Governor Hutchinson, her
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grandson. The whole community was disturbed.
The schism in the church became necessarily a
political upheaval, which threatened the disrup-
tion of the government. The crisis came when
Winthrop displaced Sir Harry Vane in the elec-
tion for Governor held in Cambridge, May 17,
1637. This election, of which you will hear fur-
ther in these notes, has probably never been
paralleled in the intensity of excitement of the
voters of Massachusetts. As a result the orthodox
clerical party came into full power and the short
lived ascendancy of the Antinomians ceased. Mr.
Wheelwright was the first object of the govern-
ment 's attack. He was tried and banished. Then
Anne Hutchinson "the breeder and nourisher of
all these distempers" was brought before the
Court on an indictment of "traducing the min-
isters and their ministry in this country." On
this indictment there can be no question that she
was guilty.
The trial took place in Cambridge in the rude
frame building which was used as the meeting-
house. It was at what is now the corner of
Mount Auburn and Dunster Streets. "The sea-
son" writes Mr. Adams, "was one of unusual
severity and the days the shortest of the year.
No pretence was made of warming the barrack-
like edifice. All told the Court consisted of some
forty members, nine of whom were magistrates,
but the building was thronged, almost every per-
son of note in the province being there. Indeed,
nothing in the history of Massachusetts, up to
this time, had ever excited so great an interest."
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Mr. Adams describes the scene with much vivid-
ness. When he comes to speak of the culprit he
calls her "a woman of thirty-six or seven years
of age." In this error I have found all the his-
torians of Anne Hutchinson share. She was, as a
matter of fact, forty-six years old and a grand-
mother when she faced that tribunal. Another
narrator of this dramatic scene says "She was
calm and respectful. The hard, determined faces
of her judges were in striking contrast to her
slight, delicate frame and sensitive face. Yet, as
she stood before the Court, Anne Hutchinson was
not afraid. She recalled the story of Daniel and
how 'the princes and presidents sought matter
against him concerning the law of God and cast
him into the lions ' den from which the Lord deliv-
ered him' as he assuredly would deliver her."
Although the Court itself of its own motion had
proceeded against her, and had determined in
advance to find her guilty, the affair was carried
on with a seemly observance of judicial form.
Governor Winthrop proclaimed the sentence,
which was thus entered on the Colony Records:
1 'Mrs. Hutchinson (the wife of Mr. William
Hutchinson) being convented for traducing the
ministers, and their ministry in this country, she
declared voluntarily her revelations for her
ground, and that she should be delivered, and the
Court ruined, with their posterity ; and thereupon
was banished, and, the meanwhile, was committed
to Mr. Joseph Welde until the Court shall dispose
of her."
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Anne Hutchinson might well have chosen the
lions' den had the alternative been offered her.
Mr. Welde was her most venomous enemy. He
called her, among other pretty epithets, a "para-
mour of Satan" and the "American Jezebel. "
Her enforced residence for many months in his
house at Roxbury was vastly more severe a sen-
tence than solitary confinement in a prison cell.
She was allowed to see neither her husband nor
children without special leave of the Court. She
was, however, frequently visited by "holy inquisi-
tors." As Winthrop sagely observed, "it could
not be expected that Satan would lose the oppor-
tunity of making choice of so fit an instrument so
long as any hope remained to attain his mis-
chievous end in darkening the saving truth of the
Lord Jesus and disturbing the peace of his
churches. ' ' Consequently, the clergy of the Colony
were valiant in the fight against the Devil in the
person of Mrs. Hutchinson and they continually
and vigorously labored with her. In these assaults
she showed a marvellous ability as a controver-
sialist, but it was inevitable that she should in her
unlearned enthusiasm lay herself open to a much
more heinous charge than "traducing the min-
isters," namely, the charge of absolute heresy to
the fundamental doctrines of the church of God.
On this charge she was brought before the church
in Boston one Thursday Lecture Day after ser-
mon in March, 1638. Mr. Adams remarks that
"the scene that ensued, though sufficiently inter-
esting, was, from the religious point of view far
from edifying." She was subjected to a verbal
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inquisition which must have called on her utmost
powers of mental and physical capacity. "It
was," writes Mr. Adams, "eight o'clock of the
March evening when the hungry and wearied con-
gregation at last broke up. Through ten con-
secutive hours those composing it had sat on hard
and crowded benches." It was found that Mrs.
Hutchinson's courage "was giving way under the
tremendous pressure to which she had been sub-
jected" and she was consequently given over to
the care of Mr. Cotton and Mr. Davenport, who
•labored with her to such an extent that she
agreed to publicly recant. But it was too late,
the church would accept no recantation. Anne
Hutchinson must be excommunicated. John
Wilson, the man whom she most despised, pro-
claimed the sentence. "Therefore in the name
of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the name of the
church I do not only pronounce you worthy to be
cast out, but I do cast you out; and in the name
of Christ I do deliver you up to Satan ....
And I do account you from this time forth to be a
Heathen and a Publican .... therefore I
command you in the name of Christ Jesus and of
this church as a leper to withdraw yourself out of
the congregation."
She went. What else could she do? Fore-
seeing the inevitable result she had planned to
follow Mr. Wheelwright to the regions beyond
the Piscataqua. On the twenty-eighth day of
March in the year 1638 she left her home in Bos-
ton, and going to the harbor, took a boat across
the bay to her husband's farm at Mount Wollas-
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ton. There she found that her husband and her
staunch supporter, Mr. William Coddington, after
a vain attempt to find an abiding place under the
jurisdiction of the Plymouth Colony authorities,
had arranged, through Roger Williams, to pur-
chase the Island of Aquidneck. Thither she and
her husband and her family and many of her
adherents went. The number of her loyal sup-
porters was large, and they were all in effect
exiled with her. Many of them went to Aquid-
neck, to the place called Portsmouth, where she
and her husband settled.
Of the life of Anne Hutchinson at Portsmouth
you have learned in the note on William Hutchin-
son. When the church in Boston sent its formal
delegation in 1640 to require her companions "to
explain their unwarrantable practice in com-
municating with excommunicated persons," she
repudiated the commission and refused to
acknowledge the Boston church as any church of
Christ. The subtlety of her answers to the
inquisitors, reported by them at length, make it
evident that there was no member of the commis-
sion in the least capable of coping with so experi-
enced a controversialist.
In 1642 William Hutchinson died, and his loving
wife was indeed bereft. At this time the govern-
ment of Massachusetts was actively seeking to
obtain jurisdiction over the unauthorized Colonies
of Rhode Island. To Anne Hutchinson this meant
further persecution. Once again within the
jurisdiction of Massachusetts, the magistrates
would have proceeded against her, for they were
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by no means satisfied with having banished her,
and she was an ever present cause of anxiety to
them, since the seeds of freedom of religious
thought which she had sown were generating in
countless ways and places to their discomfiture.
As Mr. Richman, in his admirable History of
Rhode Island, says: "They, one and all from
the sagacious Winthrop to the narrow minded
Welde, regarded her with a feeling of mingled
horror and amazement. She had been pro-
nounced anathema maranatha by the church,
and the wonder of all was that as such she was
not visited by God's lightnings, or in some other
way equally summary and unmistakable, made
the example of supernatural vengeance. Welde,
indeed, was disposed openly to take the Deity to
task for permitting Mistress Hutchinson to live
untortured even by remorse. ' ' In the event, even
Mr. Welde must have been fully satisfied with the
vengeance of the Lord on this brilliant and kindly
woman. Pending that final evidence of the Lord's
displeasure, Governor Winthrop found some
satisfaction in the rumor that with the ministra-
tions of a midwife, Mrs. Hawkins, "notorious for
familiarity with the Devill," Anne Hutchinson
was delivered at Aquidneck of a monstrous birth.
Mr. Welde, however, says it was thirty monstrous
births, a number, curiously enough, corresponding
with that of the erroneous opinions for which she
had been excommunicated.
It is not to be wondered that Anne Hutchinson
deemed it wise to remove beyond the possible
limits of the jurisdiction of Massachusetts.
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Welde, to be sure, in explaining her departure
from Portsmouth, says that ' ' she being weary of
the Island, or rather the Island being weary of
her, removed to the Dutch Plantations." That
Mr. Adams preferred this manifestly ill natured
explanation to the perfectly evident and justifi-
able reason for Anne Hutchinson's withdrawal
from the Rhode Island settlement, is the least
defensible example of his unchivalrous treatment
of this gifted and sincere woman. "It was the
woman's nature to crave excitement and notori-
ety. She could not be happy without it. As
soon, therefore, as she found herself a sensation
of yesterday she grew restless and felt a call to
go elsewhere." When Mr. Adams intends to be
"nasty" he succeeds admirably.
Anne Hutchinson was now fifty-one years of
age. She had only four years earlier been rudely
torn from her comfortable home in Boston, and
fleeing to Wollaston, from thence on foot had
made the journey into the wilderness of which
Coddington wrote to Winthrop "what myself and
wife and family did endure in that removal I wish
neither you nor yours ever be put unto." No
house awaited her at Aquidneck. She must have
lived in the open until a rough log cabin was built
to shelter her and her large family. The diffi-
culties and privations of a pioneer's life in a wild
and unprotected place, far removed from any
source of supplies, necessarily must have taxed
the strength of her resolute womanliness. Then
her husband, who had been her main support and
comforter, died and her grief must have been
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heavy. That she once again had the strength
and spirit to go forth into the wilderness and find
a spot where she might in peace spend her declin-
ing years, shows the undaunted courage of this
hardly tried woman.
And so, for the second time, fleeing from the
wrath of the magistrates of Boston, Anne Hutch-
inson, with her son in law, the Rev. Mr. Collins,
and his family, and her daughter Susanna,
together with some of her intimate adherents,
among whom you will remember was your ances-
tor, Thomas Cornell, left Portsmouth and went
to the Dutch Plantations of New York. The place
where she located was at Pelham 's Neck, opposite
Stamford, at a place which Mr. Welde noted as
peculiarly appropriate since it was "called by
Seamen, and on the map, Hell-Gate." Near by
were her friends, John Throckmorton and Thomas
Cornell. The names of all these settlers are still
preserved in the designations of various places in
the adjacent country.
The tiny settlement was hardly under way when,
within a year from its commencement, the Indians
attacked it. They appeared at Anne Hutchin-
son's house "after their customed manner, out-
wardly friendly, but a moment later, once they
had gained the inner threshold, the tomahawk was
bespattered with the blood of this unfortunate
woman." After that the massacre became gen-
eral. Her son in law and all his family and some
of the neighbors, some seventeen in all, were mur-
dered, and the buildings sacked and burned. Her
daughter, Susanna, then about eleven years old,
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was taken away a captive by the savages, but
afterward restored to her relatives in Massachu-
setts. In Welde's Rise, Reign and Ruin of the
Antinomians is this pious and charitable refer-
ence to Anne Hutchinson 's murder : ' ' The Indians
set upon them and slew them and slew her, and
all her family, her daughter and her daughter's
husband, and their children save one that
escaped — a dreadful blow. Some write that
the Indians did burn her to death by fire, her
house, and all the rest named that belonged to
her; but I am unable to affirm by what kind of
death they slew her, but slain it seems she is,
according to all report. I never heard that the
Indians in those parts did ever before commit the
like outrage upon any family or families. There-
fore God's hand is the more apparently seen
herein, to pick out this woful woman, to make her
and those belonging to her an unheard of heavy
example of their cruelty above others."
' ' When the news of this terrible ending reached
Boston," writes Charles Francis Adams, "the
people there were deeply moved. They called
to mind the defiant words in which the would-be
prophetess had told the Court that the Lord would
surely deliver her from her impending calamity,
and would ruin them and their posterity and their
whole estate ; and so bade them take heed how they
proceeded against her. And now the clergy of
Massachusetts Bay grimly pointed out to all their
congregations that the Lord God of Israel — the
God of Abraham and Isaac — had indeed and in
his own good way shown himself to his chosen
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people. He had smote the American Jezebel a
dreadful blow. Thus the Lord heard his servants !
groans to heaven and freed them from this great
and sore affliction."
Chapter XXIII
SAKAH MOESE SMITH
SARAH MORSE SMITH
I recall your great great grandmother Sarah
Morse Smith Davis Lancaster, distinctly. She
was a bright, jolly little woman and lived in the
old home on Middle Street in Newburyport. I
can recall the rooms in the house and the furni-
ture in the rooms, some of which, to be sure, has
since been to me a daily reminder of her during
all my life. There was, of course, a best room in
the front of which I have only vague recollections,
but the room behind, on the other side of the hall,
(the entrance was at the side of the house) I
recall clearly. It was the "dining-room" when
there was company, but on ordinary occasion it
was the " sitting-room. " My recollection of
"Grandma Lancaster" as we called her, is of one
who was always flitting about and cheerily chirp-
ing like a bird. I have no mental picture of her
sitting quietly in a chair as I have of most old
people whom I recall. I picture her as moving
briskly about and pausing now and then to make
love to me, and to whisper some tale of what a
naughty girl my mother used to be and how she
loved her. I remember, too, how curious it
seemed for her to speak of my Grandmother
Tappan as if she too were a girl. "Well, I'd like
to know what Serena means by sending you way
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down here alone. The child ought to know
better!"
One of her granddaughters, our Cousin Caroline
Carter, has given me for you her recollections of
this dear little old lady :
"Although never much with my Grandmother
Sarah Lancaster, I remember her vividly from
the time I was four years old. I spent that year
in Newburyport with my Grandmother Carter.
Grandmother Carter was a tall, stately woman,
and had Puritanical notions of what was ' best for
a child,' and of her I stood in great awe. When
I was taken to visit my sprightly little 'Grand-
mother Lancaster' I quite relaxed. She gave me
mince pie and tea and let me wear stockings to
bed o' cold nights. I was also much petted by
her husband, 'Grandfather Lancaster,' and I
thought his queue, which grandmother braided
and tied with a black ribbon every morning, a
thing of beauty. With pride and terror I once
saw this queue waving in the air from the top of
the Federal Street Church steeple, over the bones
of George Whitefield in the crypt, as the valiant
old gentleman repaired the weather-cock.
"I remember Grandma Lancaster as very viva-
cious, quick tempered, and outspoken. Never
sullen or stern. She was always busy and during
her later years knitted so incessantly making
great bed quilts that when she was daguerreo-
typed she had her knitting in her hands 'so that
people will know me, ' she said. She told me once
that her husband, our Grandfather Davis, our
'real grandfather,' was afraid 'it wasn't right
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for apothecaries to make such large profits. ' Evi-
dently his profits were none too large for his
family of eight children, for there was little left at
his death but the roomy old house on Middle
Street. Yet on her very small income the frugal
old lady, his widow, seemed to live comfortably
and still have 'four pence ha' penny' for her
grandchildren.
"When she discoursed on matrimony, as she
was fond of doing, she would say of her second
husband: 'Mr. Lancaster is a very good,
religious, honest man, and a good husband to me,
but you know, child, that my real husband was
your Grandfather Davis?' One of her favorite
reminiscences was of three pairs of lovers syn-
chronically: 'Charles Smith and your Aunt
Harriet on the roof platform reading Lalla
Rookh ; George Tappan and your Aunt Serena in
the front parlor ; and Anson Bailey and your Aunt
Martha in the sitting-room.' I remember being
thrilled at Grandmother's story of Aunt Harriet
appearing one moonlight night 'like a ghost at the
foot of my bed to ask me, for the last time, to con-
sent to her going out to the Sandwich Islands to
marry Charles. She looked at me so solemn with
her great eyes and said that if I didn't give my
consent she would go without it, so of course I
said she might go. But it was very improper —
her going alone to the far off place to marry him.
All the young men said that Harriet was the best
talker, and Sarie-Ann, your mother, the best
walker in Newburyport. Harriet talked like a
book, and your mother walked like a little queen.
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That is what your father used to call her, you
know. '
' * Grandmother always had a pet cat who had
her own cushioned chair by the fire and no grand-
child could approach that seat without risk of
being both scratched and reprimanded. When
one of these pets died her fond mistress buried
her in the garden with her head above ground and
covered with a large glass tumbler 'so that I
could see her pretty face.' Another was told in
a moment of impatience, to 'get out and never
bother me again ; ' and, do you know, she just went
out of the kitchen door and never came back!
"Grandma and all of her daughters fainted at
the slightest provocation, especially if they saw
anyone else faint. One day one of my aunts
heard someone fall and running to the room
whence the sound came found a sister unconscious
on the floor, whereupon she promptly flopped,
and was followed by a third in the like manner,
when Grandma came and with great presence of
mind rapped on the partition to call someone be-
fore she too fell unconscious on the floor. One day
Grandma's sister, Mrs. Alfred Osgood, put her
empty pewter teapot on the stove, and Grandma
seeing it tried to gradually move it to one side as
it melted, fainting as she did so, and saying 'Oh,
my head!' Aunt Osgood, snatching the teapot
boldly, said 'Oh, my teapot!'
"Grandma could be caustic on occasion. I re-
member one day when I and my brother, George
Tappan Carter, called on grandma a neighbor
came in evidently from inquisitive motives, seek-
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ing to find out who we were and all about us.
Grandma endured the interruption for a few
moments and then said : 'Isn't it a very cold day,
Mrs. B.?' 'Oh, yes, Mrs. Lancaster.' 'And
haven't you a good fire at home?' 'Oh, yes, Mrs.
Lancaster.' 'Well, I don't see how you could bear
to leave it and come over here;' and as soon as
she gracefully could, Mrs. B. retired."
When my mother, Sarah Tappan Crapo, heard
Of her grandmother's death she made prepara-
tions to go to Newburyport. I remember the day
of the funeral with great distinctness. I was
seven years old. On my way home from Mrs.
Knight's school on North Street I was taken
seriously ill. The most horribly lonely and miser-
able experience of my life was a half hour or so
which I spent on the curbing on Foster Street in
front of a church, unable to move, and abandoned
by all the world. When at last I managed to
crawl home I was a very sick boy with a mysteri-
ous failure of heart action which seriously
alarmed my mother. So she did not go to Grand-
mother Lancaster's funeral, and somehow I have
always felt very guilty about it. My unfortunate
illness, for which I felt responsible, ma^e me
keenly alive to all the news which came to my
bedside about Grandmother Lancaster's death
and all the details about her funeral and the dis-
tribution of her property. It may be due to this
rather tense experience of my youth that I feel
more intimately acquainted with this particular
great grandmother. I had rather more than the
average chance to know my great grandmothers.
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There were three out of the four living when I
was a child. And of these I knew Sarah Morse
Smith much the most intimately. It may be, per-
haps, that for that reason I have known her de-
scendants more intimately than the descendants
of my other great grandparents. This, however,
will not be your experience. You are too remote
by birth and circumstance to feel as I do that you
are more closely associated with the old town of
Newbury and its people than with any other
source of your origin.
PART VI
ANCESTORS
OF
ABNER TOPPAN
Chapter I
ABRAHAM TOPPAN
Came over 1637
Mary Anne
Abraham Toppan 1606 — 1672
(Susanna Taylor)
Jacob Toppan 1645 — 1717
(Hannah Sewall)
Abraham Toppan 1684 —
(Esther Wigglesworth)
Edward Toppan 1715 — 1795
(Sarah Bailey)
Abner Toppan 1764 — 1836
(Elizabeth Stanford)
George Tappan 1807 — 1857
(Serena Davis)
Sarah Davis Tappan 1831 — 1893
(William W. Crapo)
Stanford T. Crapo 1865 —
(Emma Morley)
William Wallace Crapo 1895 —
ABRAHAM TOPPAN
"Abraham Toppan, Cooper, aged 31, Susanna
his wife aged 30, with their children Peter and
Elizabeth, and one mayd servant Anne Goodin
aged 18 years, sailed from Yarmouth, May, 1637,
in the ship Mary Anne of Yarmouth, William
Goose, Master." This entry appears in an Eng-
lish register of names of "such persons who are
21. years and upwards and have license to passe
into forraigne parts from Mar. 1637 to Sep. 29th,
1637."
There exists some confusion in the surname of
this ancestor of yours. About the end of the
tenth century, the custom was established in Eng-
land of taking the name of localities to designate
certain families. John of the top, or upper, ham-
let or hanie, appears to be explanation of the
name Topham. A family of this name was resi-
dent in Yorkshire about the time of the French
conquest. The earliest trace of the branch of
this family from which you are descended, which
has come to my knowledge, is found in the will
of John Topham of Pately Bridge, in the west
riding of Yorkshire. It is dated 1403, and was
proved on the thirteenth of June following. It
seems fairly well established that it is from this
man that you are descended. Robert Topham,
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who appears to have been the son of the said
John Topham, is undoubtedly your ancestor. He
lived at Linton near Pately Bridge. He died in
1550 leaving a will which was proved in the Arch-
bishop's Court at York. He left four sons and
one daughter. Thomas Topham, the second son,
was unquestionably your ancestor. He is de-
scribed as of Arncliffe, in the neighborhood of
Linton, and he died in 1589 and was buried in
the parish church of Linton. In his will he men-
tions his wife Isabel and his sons Edward, An-
thony, Laurence, Henry and William, and a
daughter Isabella.
It is from Edward that you descend. He was
the oldest son, and his pedigree is recorded in
the College of Arms with armorial bearings. He
lived in Aglethorpe, and had seven children. His
wife was named Margaret, but of her I have no
knowledge. His fourth child was William, who is
your ancestor. William lived in Calbridge in
the parish of Caverham. It is his son Abraham,
baptized at Calbridge April 10, 1606, who came
to New England in 1637 on the ship Mary Anne.
The immigrant called himself "Toppan," and in
all the records relating to him and his immediate
descendants the name is so spelled. Your great
grandfather George "Tappan" deliberately
changed the spelling to conform with the spelling
of many branches of the same family who at some
previous time had assumed the "a" instead of
the "o." That there was some reason for this
change I am led to believe from the way in which
Judge Sewall spells the surname of Abraham,
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the comeoverer, and Jacob his son, who was Judge
Sewall's brother in law. Judge Sewall distinctly
belonged to the onomatopoetic school orthog-
raphy, and I find that in his almost numberless
references to his brother in law's family he never
once spells the name as the records clearly show
it should have been spelt, but gives it with many
variations as Tapan, Tapin, Tappin, Tapping,
Tappan, etc., which leads me to conclude that
whereas the name was formally spelt "Toppan,"
it was currently pronounced "Tappan."
In the plat of the lots at the original Newbury
settlement at Parker River, the third lot from
the river by the "east gutter" is designated as
Abraham Toppan 's. On October 18, 1637, Abra-
ham Toppan was licensed by John Endicott,
Esquire, "to live in this jurisdiction and received
into the town of Newbury as an inhabitant there-
of, and hath promised under his hand to be sub-
ject to any lawful order that shall be made by
the towne." On May 2, 1638, Abraham Toppan
was admitted as a freeman. In 1639, he acquired
twenty acres of land at the "Great River," prob-
ably meaning the Merrimack. During the follow-
ing years there are numerous records of his
acquirement of lands. In 1638 he was one of the
five men deputed to manage the town's affairs,
and thereafter he served the town as Selectman
many times. He served as such in 1647, 1650,
1664, 1667 and in several other years of which I
have not the record.
It is hardly likely that he heard of the death of
his cousin Henry Topham on July 2, 1644, who
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as a Lieutenant Colonel of the Royalist Army,
under the command of Prince Rupert, partici-
pated in the epoch making battle of Marston
Moor. Indeed, if he had heard of it, he would
doubtless have rejoiced in the victory of the Par-
liamentarians. He was a rigid Puritan, an ad-
mirer of Oliver Cromwell, and a stanch supporter
of the government of the church and by the church
and for the church.
There are many references in the public records
which indicate that Abraham Toppan was an
active and enterprising man of affairs. In 1659
he was one of the original proprietors of Penne-
cooke and Contocooke, now Concord, New Hamp-
shire, and in 1664 he went to New Jersey and
laid out and settled the town of Woodbridge,
where he lived for some time.
A transcript from the County Court files in
Salem, in 1671, is as follows: "I Ann Hills
sometime servant to Abraham Toppan testify
that Abraham Toppan did make sundry voyages
to the Barbadoes of which one or two were profit-
able, the produce being brought home in sugars,
cotton wool, and mollases, which were then com-
modities rendering great profit, wool then being
at twelve pence, sugar at six or eight pence per
pound profit, of which he brought great quanti-
ties." Jacob Toppan, the son of Abraham, and
your ancestor, also testified in the same cause
that "on the last voyage from Barbadoes above
mentioned he brought home eight barrels and one
hogshead of sugar and two or three thousand
pounds of cotton wool. ' ' Although • Jacob Top-
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pan does not say so, it is extremely likely that
in the cargo were some negro slaves. Governor
Bradstreet about this time was complaining to
the Privy Council about the importation of slaves
from the Barbadoes.
For many years and until his death Abraham
Toppan lived near the Old Town Green, then
called the "Trayening Green," directly opposite
Tristram Coffin's house, and not far from Henry
Sewall's house on Parker's Lane. It was "on a
knowle up upland by Goodman Toppan 's barne"
that the "new meeting-house," which caused so
much heart burning as you have and will abun-
dantly learn from these notes, was built. Abra-
ham Toppan died in 1672. His wife was Susanna
Taylor. Of her descent I have learned nothing.
Her mother's maiden name was Elizabeth, and
after the death of Susanna's father she married
a Mr. Goodale of Yarmouth, England, who died
in 1625. The widow came to Newbury and was
living there as late as 1647.
I find among my papers the copy of an interest-
ing letter, written October 23, 1849, by your great
grandfather, George Tappan, to the Rev. Mr.
Morrison, who was the minister of the First
Congregational Society in New Bedford. The
letter was written during the period when some
of the Congregational churches, under suggestion
of Ralph Waldo Emerson and others, were dis-
senting from the doctrine of the divinity of Jesus.
George Tappan sent to Mr. Morrison a copy of
his great great great grandfather Abraham Top-
pan 's will, to show that one hundred and seventy-
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seven years before Jesus was designated as a
"man. " I am afraid that the old Abraham
would hardly have supported the inference of his
descendant, or tolerated his radical religious
ideas. You may, possibly, be interested in the
quotation from the preamble of the will, probated
March 25, 1673, on which George Tappan based
his statement:
"In the name of God, I, Abraham Toppan of
Newbury in the County of Essex being at present
through mercy in good health and of sound mem-
ory and understanding, Blessed be God, do make
this my last will and testament in manner follow-
ing. First I commit my soul both in life and
death into the hands of the Almighty God my
most merciful creator through the merits and
mediation of Jesus Christ my alone Saviour and
ever blessed redeemer through the power and
presence of his holy and good Spirit, and my body
to the earth whence its original was taken to be
buried by my executor hereafter named, in hope
of a happy resurrection in the great day of the
Man Christ Jesus to whom be glory forever."
Chaptek II
HENRY SEWALL
Came over 1634
Henry Sewall 1576 — 1657
(Anne Hunt)
Henry Sewall, Jr. 1614 — 1700
(Jane Dummer)
Hannah Sewall 1649 — 1699
(Jacob Toppan)
Abraham Toppan 1684 —
(Esther Wiggles worth)
Edward Toppan 1715 — 1795
(Sarah Bailey)
Abner Toppan 1764 — 1836
(Elizabeth Stanford)
George Tappan 1807 — 1857
(Serena Davis)
Sarah Davis Tappan 1831 — 1893
(William W. Crapo)
Stanford T. Crapo 1865 —
(Emma Morley)
William Wallace Crapo 1895 —
HENRY SEWALL
New England's Pepys, Samuel Sewall, the
Chief Justice, in a letter to his son Samuel, says :
1 ' Mr. Henry Sewall, my great Grandfather, was a
Linen Draper in the City of Coventry in Great
Britain. He acquired a great Estate, was a
prudent Man, and was more than once chosen
Mayor of the City." This Henry Sewall was
born about 1544. He was Mayor of Coventry in
1589 and 1606. He died April 16, 1628, aged
eighty-four, and was buried in Saint Michael's
Church. He married Margaret, eldest daughter
of Avery Grazebrook of Middleton, in the County
of Warwick, in 1575. Judge Sewall continues as
follows: "Mr. Henry Sewall, my Grandfather,
was his eldest son, who out of dislike to the
English Hierarchy sent over his onely Son, my
Father, Mr. Henry Sewall, to New England in the
year 1634 with Net Cattel and Provisions suitable
for a new Plantation. Mr. Cotton would have
had my Father settle in Boston ; but in regard of
his Cattel he chose to go to Newbury, whither my
Grandfather soon followed him."
Henry Sewall, the grandfather of Judge
Sewall and Hannah Toppan, was born in Coventry
and baptized in Saint Michael's Church, April 8,
1576. He married Anne Hunt. In his venture
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in New England, he was associated with Sir
Richard Saltonstall and Richard Dunmier. Soon
after he sent his son over with the cattle he, him-
self, arrived, and in 1634 went to Ipswich. Under
date of November IS, 1634. Governor TTinthrop
writes, "'an open pinnace of Mr. Henry Sewall
of Ipswich going deeply laden for Boston was cast
away on the rocks at the head of Cape Ann in a
north east storm; but the men were saved." He
owned a house in Ipswich in 1635. and in 1637 he
bought a house from Samuel Symonds. Henry
Sewall and Richard Dimmer were evidently
regarded as the rich men of Ipswich and Xew-
bury. Henry Sewall's son Henry was from the
first doubtless settled at Newbury. Henry Sewall,
the senior, moved thither within a few years.
In the original allotment of lands at Newbury,
there was set off to Henry Sewall (Senior), "in
proportion to his contributions towards the new
settlement," six hundred and thirty acres of land,
by far the largest allotment except that of Mr.
Richard Dummer. Four acres was the allotment
made to most of the settlers. Subsequently Henry
Sewall acquired more land, and was a large owner
of cattle and sheep, as appears by the town
records relating to commons and pasturage.
Henry Sewall, the senior, was evidently a man of
strong convictions, and had a way of asserting
them in an inconvenient manner. On March 3,
1639, "for his contemptuous speech and carriage
to Mr. Saltonstall he was enjoyned to acknowledge
his fault publickly at Ipswich Court and bee of
good behavior and was enjoyned to appear at the
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next Quarter Court .... He bound him-
self in £66 13s. 4d for his appearance and good
behavior." When the inhabitants of Newbury
determined to remove the meeting-house to the
"New Town" in 1646 which was the occasion of
much contention and ill feeling, Henry Sewall
(Senior), being vigorously opposed to the
removal, became so much incensed that he left
Newbury and went to Eowley, where he lived
until he died in March, 1657. That he was not
altogether at peace in his new church relations
appears from the records of the Court before
which he was several times brought for unseemly
behavior. For instance, in December, 1650, he
was before the Court, and the following testimony
was given:
Mr. Showell was walking in the foremost seat in the
meeting house near the pulpit and Mr. Rogers being
present and ready to step into the place to begin prayer
said, "Mr. Showell, cease your walking." Mr. S.
answered, "You should have come sooner," with more
words to that purpose. But he did not cease his walk-
ing. Presently our pastor added these words : ' ' Remem-
ber where you are, this is the house of God." To which
Mr. S. answered with a lowd voyee, "I know how to
behave in the house of God as well as you." Then our
pastour said rather than that he disturb the congrega-
tion, "putt him out," to which Mr. S. replyed, "lett us
see who dare ! ' '
Henry Sewall, Junior, was born in Coventry in
1614. In 1634 he came over with his father's
"net cartel." He at once became a leader in the
settlement of Newbury. He was in the first boat
load which came from Ipswich in the spring of
1635 and landed on the shore of the Parker River.
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Always thereafter he took a prominent part in
the affairs of the settlement. In order that they
might vote in the exciting election for Governor
in May 1637, Henry Sewall, Junior, Nicholas
Noyes, and other Newbury men walked to Cam-
bridge, were made freemen, and cast their votes
for John Winthrop. This election was the cul-
mination of the trouble which Anne Hutchinson
had wrought in the Commonwealth. Charles
Francis Adams in his Three Episodes of Massa-
chusetts History says: "As the election day
drew near Winthrop and Vane were put forward
as opposing candidates and the adherents of
neither neglected any precaution likely to influ-
ence the result ; while the deep interest felt in that
result of itself insured not only a full vote, but a
large personal attendance The day
was clear and warm when at one o'clock the free-
men gathered in groups about a large oak tree
which stood on the north side of what is now
Cambridge Common, where Governor Vane, in
English fashion and beneath the open sky,
announced the purpose of the meeting, the annual
charter election. Most of the notabilities of the
Province, whether magistrates or clergy, were
among the large number present." Sir Harry
Vane as presiding officer was desirous of at once
entertaining a petition of many inhabitants of
Boston which was in effect an appeal from the
magistrates to the people in regard to pending
proceedings against Mr. Wheelwright and Mrs.
Hutchinson. Winthrop objected that the election
of officers was the special business of the day and
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should be first disposed of. Sir Harry Vane was
firm and an angry debate ensued. "The position
assumed by the youthful Governor was striking
and dramatic enough;" says Mr. Adams, "it was
suggestive of memories connected with that
greater and more turbulent forum in which Grac-
chus and Sulpicius appealed directly from the
Senate to the People of Rome. That under the
strain to which the eager and too zealous patri-
cian now subjected it, the meeting did not break
into riot, was due only to the self control and
respect for law and form, the inherited political
habit, of those who composed it."
Of his father's connection with this memorable
scene Judge Sewall writes, in a letter preserved
in his letter-book:
May 17 1637 — the election was held at Cambridge
upon the Plain in the open Air. Govr. Vane was there,
and had the Mortification to see the excellent John
Winthrop preferd before him and chosen Governour
(who had been Gouvernour 1630-1-2-3.) Indeed Mr.
Vane seemed to stand so hard for being chosen again,
as to endeavor to confound and frustrat the whole busi-
ness of the Election, rather than that he himself should
fail of being chosen. There was a great struggle, he
being the principal magistrate, for managing the Elec-
tion. My father has told me many a time that he and
others went on foot from Newby to Cambridge, fourty
miles, on purpose to be made free and help to strengthen
Govr. "Winthrop 's party. And I find his name in the
Kecord accordingly.
Although both of your ancestors, Henry Sewall
and Nicholas Noyes, manifested unusual public
spirit on this occasion, it seems that they did not
always fully attend to their duties as citizens.
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In 1638, Nicholas Noyes was fined 2s. 6d. "for
being absent from town meeting. ' ' April 8, 1646,
Mr. Henry Sewall and three others were fined
12d. apiece for the same offense, "to be gathered
within ten dayes. " This was the occasion when
the town had some doubts as to the activity of the
Constable and turned to another of your ancestors
for assistance. They provided "in case the con-
stable bring it not in by that time Anthony Morse
is appointed to distrayne on him, the constable,
for all the fynes. "
In 1636 the first mill in Newbury was built at
the falls of Parker River by Mr. Richard Dummer
and Mr. John Spencer. It would seem that soon
after Henry Sewall acquired Mr. Spencer's inter-
est, and it would also appear that later he acquired
Mr. Dummer 's. For some mysterious reason, the
land to which the mill privilege appertained had
been excepted from the general grant which the
settlers obtained from the Indians. In 1661, the
claim of "Old Will," the Indian, against Henry
Sewall, became a matter of concernment before
the Great and General Court at Boston. The
Court decreed and ordered "that if it shall
appeare unto the said Henry Sewall that the said
Indians, or any other, have any legall right unto
any part of the said land, the said Henry Sewall
shall heerby have liberty to purchase the same of
the said Indians." Apparently it did not so
appear to Henry Sewall, because in 1679 a grand-
son of "Old "Will" brought a suit to recover the
land against him. Eventually a settlement was
effected, Henry Sewall paying the various grand-
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children of ' ' Old Will ' ' the sum of twenty pounds
in all, if I remember correctly.
On March 25, 1646, Henry Sewall married Jane
Dummer, the daughter of Stephen Dummer. He
was thirty-two years of age and she was about
nineteen. The marriage ceremony was performed
by Sir Richard Saltonstall. In 1647, Henry Sewall
and his wife went back to England with the
Dummer s. After his return to England, he and
his wife dwelt awhile at Warwick, and afterwards
removed to Hampshire. It was at Tunworth, a
little place in the northern part of Hampshire that
their eldest child, Hannah Sewall (Toppan) your
ancestress, was born May 10, 1649. She was
baptized by a Mr. Haskins. The family then
moved to Bishopstoke, half way between South-
ampton and Winchester, the home of the Dum-
mers, where their next child, Samuel, the famous
diarist, was born March 28, 1652. Thereafter,
the family moved to Badesly, near by Romsey,
where three more children were born.
Henry Sewall made one voyage to New Eng-
land to see his father. In 1657 his father died
"and in 1659 he went thither again, his rents
at Newbury coming to very little when remitted
to England." This time he concluded to remain
and sent for his family. Judge Sewall writes:
"My father sent for my mother to come to him in
New England. I remember being at Bishopstoke
and Badesly April 23, 1661, the day of the corona-
tion of King Charles the Second, the Thunder and
Lightning of it. Quickly after my mother went
to Winchester with 5 small children, Hannah,
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Samuel, John, Stephen, and Jane, and John Nash
and Mary Hobs, her servants, there to be in readi-
ness for the Pool wagons. At this place her near
relations, especially my very worthy and pious
uncle, Mr. Stephen Dummer, took leave with
tears. Capt. Dummer of Swathling treated us
with Raisins and Almonds. My mother lodged
in Pumpyard, London, waiting for the going of
the ship, the Prudent Mary, Capt. Isaac Wood-
green, Comander. "
Hannah, your many times great grandmother,
was then twelve years old and her brother Samuel
nine. The journey must have seemed long to
these young travellers. Samuel says, "we were
about eight weeks at Sea, where we had nothing
to see but Water and Sky ; so that I began to fear
I should never get to Shoar again, only I thought
the Captain and Mariners would not have ven-
tured themselves if they had not hopes of getting
to Land again." They entered the Narrows of
Boston Harbor, July* 6, 1661. "My father
hastened to Boston and carried his Family to
Newbury by Water. Brother Tapan has told me
our arrival there was upon Lecture-Day which
was Wednesday. Mr. Ordway carried me ashore
in his canoe." This was James Ordway from
whom also are you descended.
Three more daughters were born to Henry
Sewall and his wife, in New England, making
eight children in all, and as Hannah was the oldest
she must have been her mother's helpmeet in the
difficulties of domestic life presented by the crude
conditions of the new settlement. Although Henry
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Sewall was deemed a man of wealth by his neigh-
bors, yet the life which his family led in the earlier
days of the settlement was doubtless one of hard-
ship, discomfort, privation and danger. Before
his family joined him in New England, he had
purchased a house near the Trayneing Green,
1 ' at the old town upon the little hill ' ' not far from
"Mr. Toppan's Meeting House," as the new
meeting-house was called. The lot had originally
been granted to Henry Travers in 1645, and by
him sold to John Browne in 1659. Henry Sewall
purchased this lot November 7, 1660. There was
a dwelling house on the land "and also shop and
new shop lately built and floored." It was
opposite the home of the Rev. James Noyes, with
whom the Rev. Thomas Parker lived, on a lane
called "Noyes Lane" which led off the Main Road,
now High Street. Next by was Tristram Coffin's
house, and across the Main Road the dwelling of
Abraham Toppan, and in the immediate vicinity
was the John Spencer farm, where now stands the
old "Pettingill House," as I was taught to call
it, the most interesting bit of architecture of the
seventeenth century in New England. An ' ' Aunt
Pettingill ' ' lived there when I was a boy but who
she was, and why she was "Aunt" I have only a
vague idea.
It was in Henry Sewall 's house in Noyes Lane
that your grandmother Hannah and her brother
Samuel lived after their arrival in New England.
It was here that Samuel pursued his studies under
the Rev. Thomas Parker, who lived in the Noyes
house opposite, and it was here doubtless that
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Jacob Toppan, the son of Abraham, courted
Hannah. Afterwards Henry Sewall built a new
house in the same vicinity, on what is now Parker
Street, which still exists, and there he and his
wife lived for many years.
Samuel Sewall, in his diary under date of May
14, 1700, writes, "Get to Newbury a little before
sunset, visit my sick father in bed, call in Major
Gen1 whom father salutes. Kiss'd my hand and
I his again. Mr. Tapan" (the Rev. Christopher
Toppan) "came in and pray'd with him and us.
.May 15th Walks into the west end of the house
with his staff and breakfasts there. I read the
17th Luke and went to prayer. My father would
have stood up, but I pursuaded him to sit still in
his chair. Took leave and went on to Ports-
mouth." "May 17th, 1700 — Benj. Moss Jun. is
sent to me to acquaint me that my dear father
died the evening before — May 18th — ride to
Newbury in the Bain; when breaks up Bror and
Sister come from Salem. Bury my father. Bear-
ers Col. Peirce, Mr. Nicholas Noyes, Mr. Sam.
Plummer, Mr. Tristram Coffin, Maj. Danl.
Davison, Major Thomas Noyes, — had 8 under-
bearers. Sabath May 19th Mr. Tapan in the
afternoon preach 'd a funeral sermon from Prov.
19 : 20. Said my father was a true Nathaniel. ' '
The inscription on Henry Sewall 's gravestone
in the Lower Green, evidently written by his son
Samuel, is as follows : " ' Mr. Henry Sewall, sent
by Henry Sewall his father in ye ship Elizabeth
& Dorcas Cap1 Watts, commander, arrived at
Boston 1634, winter 'd at Ipswich, helped begin
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this plantation 1635, furnishing English Servants,
neat cattel and provisions. Married Mrs Jane
Dummer March ye 25, 1646. Died May ye 16,
1700 Aetat 86. His fruitful vine being thus dis-
joined fell to ye ground January ye 13 foiling.
Aetat 74. Psal. 27:10." Henry Sewall's will,
dated August 17, 1678, and probated May 24, 1700,
at Salem, is an interesting document of great
length. He disposes of many pieces of real estate
in Coventry, Warwickshire, Bishopstoke, Hamp-
shire, Romsey, Hants, in England, and also of his
numerous farms and estates in Newbury and
Salisbury in New England.
Chapter III
STEPHEN DUMMER
Came over 1638
Bevis
Stephen Dummer 1609 — 1670
(Alice Archer)
Jane Dummer 1628 — 1701
(Henry Sewall)
Hannah Sewall 1649 — 1699
(Jacob Toppan)
Abraham Toppan 1684 —
(Esther Wigglesworth )
Edward Toppan 1715 — 1795
(Sarah Bailey)
Abner Toppan 1764 — 1836
(Elizabeth Stanford)
George Tappan 1807 — 1857
(Serena Davis)
Sarah Davis Tappan 1831 — 1893
(William W. Crapo)
Stanford T. Crapo 1865 —
(Emma Morley)
William Wallace Crapo 1895 —
STEPHEN DIMMER
There is a strange history connected with the
surname of this ancestor of yours. A certain
Eichard Pyldryn of Owslebury in Hampshire,
who was living in 1523 and died before 1540, mar-
ried a Maude Dummer, the daughter of John
Dummer of Overton. The family of Dummer was
of gentle lineage, tracing back to a Henry de
Dummera in the time of Henry I. Why it was
that the descendants of Richard Pyldryn and
Maude Dummer preferred to assume their
mother's surname rather than their father's is
not explained. John, the son of Richard Pyldryn
and Maude Dummer, who lived at Overton and
later at Darley, not far from Owslebury, is
recorded as "John Pyldryn alias Dummer." His
will, dated and proved in 1574, in the seventeenth
year of the reign of his Sovereign Lady Elizabeth,
discloses the fact that his wife's name was Alice
and that he had two sons, John and Thomas.
It is from Thomas that you descend. He kept
the two names of Pyldryn and Dummer in con-
junction. He lived in the vicinity of Bishop-
stoke, Hants. In 1608 he was the lessee of
Swathley Farm in North Stoneham near Bishop-
stoke. His wife's name was Joan. He died in
1625 and Judge Sewall says "he lyeth interred
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in Bishopstoke Church." Two sons of this
Thomas, namely Richard and Stephen, went to
New England. In New England both dropped
the Pyldryn from their names. In England, how-
ever, your ancestor Stephen, in 1625, at the Manor
Court of Bishopstoke was "admitted to the
Middle Street and Hole farms," as Stephen
Pyldryn alias Dummer, youngest son of Thomas
Pyldryn alias Dummer.
Stephen Dummer was born in Bishopstoke in
1609. In May, 1638, he came to New England in
. the ship Bevis, sailing from Southampton. With
him were his wife, Alice Archer, and his children,
Jane, aged ten, Dorothy six, Richard four, and
Thomas two. In New England there was born a
daughter, Mehitable, January 1, 1640. In 1645,
three hundred acres were granted to Stephen
Dummer at "Turkey Hill" in Newbury.
"But the climat being not agreeable to my
Grandfather and Grandmother Dummer (whose
maiden name was Archer,) " writes Judge Sewall,
1 ' they returned to England the winter following ' '
(1647,) "and my father" (Henry Sewall) "with
them." All of Stephen Dummer 's family returned
with him to England, and none, except your grand-
mother, Jane, ever returned. Stephen Dummer 's
brother Richard, who came over in 1634, remained
in Newbury. He and his descendants were men
of great distinction in the Province, concerning
whom there is much of interest in the history of
Massachusetts. But of Stephen and his family
I know no more. Judge Sewall, his grandson, in
1689 visited his relatives in England and makes
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notes of various facts about his Duinrner connec-
tions, but nowhere mentions his grandfather or
grandmother, who were presumably both dead at
that date.*
Of his mother, Jane Dummer, the wife of Henry
Sewall, Judge Sewall always writes with deep
affection. The Judge often visited her and his
father in Newbury and noted his visits in his
diary. For instance, under date of May 20, 1697,
he writes : ' ' Ride to Rowley, Newbury, lodge at
my Father's, who is indisposed by a Rheum in
his eyes; much rain at Newbury: Little or none
at Salem : May 22d I lead my dear mother to meet-
ing to hear Mr. Tapan preach. ' ' (The Rev. Chris-
topher Toppan, a grandson of Abraham Toppan,
the comeoverer.) Under date of July 13, 1700,
Judge Sewall writes, "My dear mother comes
hither" (to Boston) "by water from Newbury in
one of the Poors. Set sail on Thursday morn-
ing and lodged aboard two nights at Marble-
head Harbour. Capt. Norden and others would
have had her come ashoar; but the wind was
high and she chose to keep on board. Jona-
than Woodman Junr. waited on her at my
house about five p. merin. Saw her not till just
night when brought in Mr. Cooke, Mr. Sergeant,
Edw Hutchinson to drink as they came from the
Neck." Judge Sewall 's account of his mother's
death I quote in full :
Jan. 14th, 1701. Having been certified last night
about 10 o'clock of the death of my dear mother at
Newbury, Sam and I set out with John Sewall the
*Stephen Dummer was buried at Bishopstoke September 6, 1670.
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messenger, for that place. Hired horses at Charles-
town; set out about 10 o'clock in a great Fogg. Dined
at Lewis's with Mr. Gushing of Salisbury. Sam and I
kept on the Ipswich Rode, John went to accompany
Bror from Salem. About Mr. Hubbard's in Ipswich
farms, they overtook us. Sam and I lodged at Comp-
ton's in Ipswich. Bror and John stood for Newbury
by Moonshine. Jan. 15th. Sam and I set forward
. . . . we find the day appointed for the funeral;
'twas a very pleasant comfortable day. Bearers, Jno.
Kent of the Island. Lt Cutting Xoyes, Deacon William
Xoyes. Mr. Peter Tappan. Capt. Henry Somersby, Mr.
Joseph "Woodbridge. I followed the Bier single. Then
Bror Sewall and Sister Jane Bror Short and his wife,
Bror Moody and his wife, Bror Xorthend and his wife,
Bror Tapan and Sister Sewall. Sam. and cousin Hannah
Tapan, Mr. Payson of Rowley .... went about
4 p. m. Xathan1 Brickett taking in hand to fill the
Grave, I said:
"Forbear a little, and suffer me to say that amidst
our bereaving sorrows we have the Comfort of behold-
ing this Saint put into rightful possession of that Hap-
piness of Living Desir'd and dying Lamented. She
liv'd commendably four and fifty years with her dear
Husband, and my dear Father: And she could not
well brook the being divided from him at her death;
which is the cause of our taking leave of her in this
place. She was a true and Constant Lover of Gods
Word. Worship, and Saints : and she always with a
cheerful patient cheerfulness submitted to the Divine
Decree of providing Bread for herself and others in the
Sweat of her Brows. And now her infinitely Gracious
and Bountiful Master has promoted her to the Honor
of higher Employments, fully and absolutely discharged
from all maner of Toil and Sweat. My honored and
beloved Friends and neighbors ! My dear Mother never
thought much of doing the most frequent and homely
offices of Love for me: and lavished away many thou-
sands of Words upon me before I could return one word
in answer ; And therefore I ask and hope that none will
offend that I have now ventured to speak one word in
her behalf: when shee herself is become speechless."
Made a motion with my hand for filling the Grave.
Note I could hardly speak for Passion and Tears.
Chapter IV
JACOB AND HANNAH
TOPPAN
JACOB AND HANNAH TOPPAN
Jacob Toppan was the fourth child of Abraham
and Susanna Toppan. He was born at Newbury
in the year 1645. During his early manhood he
was actively engaged in his father's business, and
in later years he continued an energetic man of
affairs, highly respected by his fellow townsmen.
He served as Selectman during several years, and
in other positions of trust. In 1669 he took the
oath of allegiance. It is possible that in 1675 he
accompanied his brother John on a military expe-
dition in aid of Plymouth, at the opening of King
Philip's War. and was present at the battle with
the Indians at Narragansett. December 19, I
Soon after, at all events, he became much inter-
ested in military matters. In 1690. as Ensign in
the company commanded by Captain Daniel
Pierce, he joined in the following order: llA -
7th. 1690. These are in his Majesty's name — to
require all the soldiers belonging to this - wne to
bring their arms and ammunition to ye meeting
house every Sabbath Day. and at all other public
meetings, and also they are required to carry their
arms and ammunition with them into the meadows
and places where they work, and if any man doe
refuse or neglect his dewty as above expressed he
shall pay five shillings for every such neglect."
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During the Indian wars, the people of Newbury
were kept in a constant state of alarm yet with the
exception of one or two stealthy murders by the
redskins, the inhabitants were not attacked. New-
bury men went to the assistance of their brethren
at Haverhill once or twice and at one time in 1690
a considerable expedition was undertaken towards
the north in which Jacob Toppan doubtless par-
ticipated. His name appears in the town records
for many years as " Ensign Toppan" and in all
matters pertaining to the public safety he seems
to have interested himself.
Concerning Jacob Toppan 's marriage to Hannah
Sewall, and the preliminaries pertaining thereto,
there is a singularly full disclosure upon the pub-
lic records. The matter seems to have been one
of deep concern to both the groom's father and
the bride 's father. It is evident that the old folks
had an extended negotiation as to the " setting
up " of the young people. Abraham Toppan was
himself evidently rather "set up" because his son
was to marry a daughter of ' ' Mr. ' ' Henry Sewall,
' l a lady of considerable estate, ' ' and he doubtless
wished to make it appear that his boy had some
claims to be considered a person of "means."
On June 20, 1670, Abraham Toppan made his
will and provided "Yet forasmuch as my son
Jacob is shortly by God's permission to enter into
marriage with Hannah, the daughter of Mr.
Henry and Jane Sewall, and to live in the house
with myself and wife etc. as long as my wife and
self live, my full mind and desire is that my son
Peter be content to let fall his clayme unto the
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other half part of the housing, lands, and other
premises before expressed, covenant to the end
my son Jacob may inherit the same." And on
June 21, 1670, "in ye twenty second yeare of our
Sovereign Lord Charles ye II, by ye grace of God,
of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King,
Defender of the Faith, etc.," Abraham Toppan
executed a deed to his son Jacob of ' ' one half part
or moity of my house lot, consisting of 26 acres
of orchard, plow-ground and pasture land, wt ye
one half of all my other lands dividend, meadow and
marsh; in Newbury, wt ye cleared half of all ye
liberties, privileges and appertinances to ye same
belonging, wt one half of ye barn & out houses
which were in my possession ye 30 day of July
1661." Together also with other property de-
scribed in detail, "as expressed in my will signed
and sealed in the presence of Mary Lunt, Joseph
Hills and Henry Sewall bearing date ye 20 day of
June 1670 as in my said will is more at large
expressed." And to this deed Henry Sewall was
a witness. It was acknowledged June 22, 1670,
and recorded July 5, 1670, at Ipswich.
Abraham Toppan was evidently doing his best
to make his son Jacob the equal of his fiancee in
worldly goods. The difficulty, however, with yeo-
man Toppan 's good intentions was that nine years
earlier, in 1661, he had given a deed to his eldest
son, Peter, known afterwards as Doctor Peter, of
one half of his homestead place near the Trayne-
ing Green, which, indeed, by his subsequent pro-
vision for Jacob he did not attempt to annul, but
in the deed to Peter he had provided that after
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his death and the death of his wife, Susanna, the
other half should become the property of the said
Peter. It is this other half which in 1670 he
wished to give to Jacob and by his will asked that
his son Peter "be content to let fall his clayme."
Peter, however, did not see fit to "let fall his
clayme" and when subsequently in 1673 the will
was offered for probate Peter filed a caveat recit-
ing the prior deed, and it would appear that his
contention prevailed. Jacob and Hannah were
married August 24, 1670. Undoubtedly Jacob
took his bride to live in his father Abraham's
house by the Trayneing Green. Possibly Peter
at the same time was living in his half of the
house. After the old man's death the relations
between the brothers were evidently strained.
Peter continued to live in the old homestead, and
Jacob and Hannah moved out.
Mr. Henry Sewall was more successful in the
outcome of his arrangements for the bridal couple.
On the twenty-first day of June, 1670, Henry Sewall
entered into an indenture with Jacob Toppan "in
consideration of a mariage (by God's grace)
intended and shortly to be had and solemnized
between the said Jacob Toppan and Hannah, the
daughter of Henry and Jane Sewall" whereby
Henry Sewall granted to Jacob Toppan sixteen
acres of land on Woodman's Lane "as this day
staked out by Abraham Toppan and the said
Jacob." The indenture as recorded has only the
signature of Jacob Toppan. Perhaps Henry
Sewall had some doubts about the efficacy of
Abraham Toppan 's contribution to the marriage
settlement and refused to sign.
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In 1650 Mr. Henry Sewall had purchased from
Edward Woodman forty acres of upland on the
northerly side of what was then known as Wood-
man's Lane, but which for the last two centuries
and more has been called Toppan's Lane. It is
in the northerly part of what is now the city of
Newburyport. Mr. Woodman had a dwelling in
this locality which he and his descendants long
occupied. It seems probable that Henry Sewall
occupied a house on Woodman's Lane while his
family was in England, and before he purchased
his homestead on Noyes Lane in Oldtown.
It was on this sixteen acre piece on what became
known as Toppan's Lane, that Jacob Toppan
built the "Toppan House," which today is one of
the distinguished antiquities of Newburyport. In
his will, dated August 17, 1678, Henry Sewall
made good his failure to sign the indenture con-
veying the property to his prospective son in law,
by devising "to my sonne in law Jacob Toppan
and my daughter Hannah Toppan, sixteen acres
of land be it more or less whereon his house now
standeth." It would therefore seem clear that
the "Toppan House," built by Jacob Toppan and
now standing, was erected between 1673 and 1678.
The house as it exists today is sufficiently quaint
and venerable in appearance, yet, in the course of
the centuries, it has been somewhat altered and
renovated, and perhaps Jacob and Hannah
Toppan might not today feel completely at home
within its walls. And yet the old house stands
substantially as it was built. The glaciers had
left rocks scattered over the ground, from which
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the cellar was constructed ; clay from the pastures,
with an abundance of fuel from the woodland,
made the bricks; clam shells furnished the mor-
tar and whitewash; primeval oak trees for the
frame, and giant white pines for the interior
finish were on the spot ; the iron for the nails and
the hinges and locks and the crane in the fireplace
were probably imported from England ; most cer-
tainly the little panes of glass inserted in the nar-
row windows came from across the sea. The
frame, mortised and pinned together, is clumsy,
but of great strength. It is difficult to under-
stand how the boards were obtained. There were
two grist mills, operated by small water power, in
Newbury, but no mill capable of sawing timber
into boards. The boards must have come from
some town to the south, nearer Salem or Boston.
The great chimney in the centre of the building
was laid in clay, except above the roof where it
was "topped out" with clam shell mortar. In
the chimney were four large fireplaces, into which
six foot logs could easily be placed on the iron
fire dogs which came from the old country. In
one of the fireplaces was the brick oven in which
the baking was done. Between the outside board-
ing and the matched boards which formed the
interior finish there was a course of bricks plas-
tered with a mortar made of sand and clay held
together by chopped salt hay. The interior walls
were of wood. Plastering was difficult, and the
lime obtained from shells was a laborious achieve-
ment and very sparsely used. The house as orig-
inally built was a four-room house, two main
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rooms on each floor from eighteen to twenty feet
in size. Later the whole house was widened, and
the work of the later carpenters is apparent. The
only attempt at decoration was in connection with
the fireplace in the living room. It seems prob-
able that the woodwork about the fireplace was
imported from England, since it is rather superior
to anything which New England could have fur-
nished at that time.
In this house Jacob and Hannah Toppan spent
their days. To be permitted to enter into their
life in this primitive New England home is a
privilege which in some ways is unique. Hannah
Toppan 's brother, Samuel Sewall, has furnished
us the picture of that domestic life. Jacob and
Hannah Toppan, your ancestors, were of the best
type of early New England stock. They were
intelligent and cultivated people. They were,
doubtless, sincere in their religious convictions
and observances, yet it is clear that they were
normal, healthy, merry people, who lived their
lives with a broader view of human opportunities
than came within the purview of your Quaker
forebears.
There were eight children in the family, of
whom your ancestor, Abraham, was the seventh.
Abraham was born in 1684, and in the earlier
notes of the family history, as Judge Sewall pre-
sents it to us, he was a mere child and is not often
mentioned. The second child was Samuel, born
September 30, 1672. He must have been a sin-
gularly attractive youth. His grandfather,
Henry Sewall, was very fond of him, and men-
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tions him in his will with much affection. He was
stricken with small-pox in 1691, when he was nine-
teen years of age. In his diary Judge Sewall
writes, under date of August 19, 1691, "Sent Jane
to Newbury by Tim° Burbank to help tend her
brother Sam. Toppan, who is there taken ill of
the Small Pocks." On Friday, August 28, he
writes "Fast at Charlestown where I am. After
my coming home when it was almost dark Jane
Toppan comes in from Newbury and brings the
very sorrowful news of the death of cousin Sam
Toppan last Tuesday night about nine of the
clock ; buried Wednesday because of the heat. No
minister with him. Mr. Shove prays not with
him at all; went not to him till was just dying;
suppose might be afraid 's school." Mr. Shove,
whose family originated in Taunton, was a pro-
tege of the Judge, who had taken him into his
family as a lad and educated him. He was at this
time a minister and a school teacher in Newbury.
It is quite evident that the Judge thought him
delinquent in not attending the sick boy. Judge
Sewall considered that small pox was simply a
dispensation of God. Modern parents would per-
haps be more charitable towards the school teacher
who refrained from exposing himself and his
pupils to contagion.
The references in Judge Sewall 's diary to
"Brother Tapin" and "Sister Tapin" and their
home life in the house on Toppan 's Lane are
many. These contemporary notes portray a
domestic history which is interesting because it
is normal. They lived in a remote part of a
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sparsely settled township. Except for the occa-
sional visits of the Chief Justice, who was, indeed,
a great man in those days, a man of vast wealth,
as wealth was measured then, a Privy Councillor,
the intimate of all the nabobs of Boston, dis-
tinctly a considerable person, — these quiet coun-
try people, living in Toppan's Lane, had little
opportunity to come in touch with the history of
New England which was forming. Yet after all
it was such as they who formed it. They were
intelligent and alive. I will not weary you with
too many extracts from the voluminous reliques
of the Judge, but his comments on the death of
your grandmother, Hannah, surely you may read
without being bored :
" Seventh day, Novr 11th (1699) about the mid-
dle of the night following, my dear sister Hanah
Tappan dies of a Fever. Mr. Addington told me
of it first Novr 13 in the Council-Chamber, from
Mr. Gerrish of Wenham. At 7 at night I receive
a letter from Bror Sewall of it, and that the
Funeral is to be the 14. Our notice is so lame
and late, that I persuade Jane to stay at home,
it being almost impossible to get thither time
enough. Besides all this, the Court at Salem
keeps me there and Bror Sewall also." ''We
had liv'd eight of us together thirty years; and
were wont to speak of it (it may be too vainly).
But now God begins to part us apace. Two are
taken away in about a quarter of a year's time;
and methinks now my dear Bror and Sister are
laid in their Grave, I am, as it were, laid there by
Proxy. The Lord help me to carry it more suit-
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ably, more fruitfully, toward the Five remaining;
and put me in a preparedness for my own Disso-
lution. And help me to live upon Him alone. ' '
John Sewall, a brother of Judge Sewall and
Hannah Toppan, lived near the Toppan house on
Toppan 's Lane, on a part of the original Wood-
man purchase. He died August 8, 1699. Jacob
Toppan soon after married his widow, Hannah
Fessenden Sewall. And so to the household were
added a number of Sewall cousins, and thereafter
when Judge Sewall speaks of " Sister Tapin" he
refers to the second Hannah, his brother 's widow.
The interchange of visits between Judge
Sewall 's family in Boston and Jacob Toppan 's
family in Newbury was frequent. As an instance,
I will cite the following characteristic entries in
the Judge's diary: ''May 22, 1707. Went to
Cons. Pierce and there eat sturgeon with Mr. Pike,
Abr. Adams, and cousin Jno. Tapin's wife. Went
to Bror Tappin's visited Cousin Sweet, — they
have a lovely son. Went to Joshua Bailey"
(another ancestor of yours by the way) "dis-
coursed him about his brothers debt, staid a long
time there, then went to Byfield across the woods.
Bror Tapin left me."
"Feria quinta Octo 2 1707. John Sewall, Sam
Moodey, and Abrah Tapin" (your ancestor)
"brought home Hanah Sewall, Mary Sewall, and
Jane Tapin from Newbury. 'Tis a fortnight since
they went. Had a good passage thither by water.
Laus deo. " That must have been a rather jolly
excursion for this group of cousins. Jane Toppan
seems to have been a frequent inmate of her
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uncle's house in Boston. Her younger brother
Abraham, your many times great grandfather, is
also often mentioned as a guest by his uncle, the
Judge.
Jacob Toppan died December 30, 1717, and his
widow, Hannah Fessenden Sewall Toppan, on
April 4, 1723. Abraham Toppan, the second of
the name, was the seventh child of Jacob Toppan
and Hannah Sewall. He was born on June 29,
1684. He inherited the homestead on Toppan 's
Lane. In 1705, his name appears among those
who were equipped with snow shoes and moc-
casins, a list which the Governor had required in
order to know on whom he could call to march
against the Indians. In 1707, Abraham Toppan
was serving under Sergeant James Jackson in
Colonel Thomas Noyes' regiment. In a letter
written by Judge Sewall from Boston January
15, 1725, to his cousin, Henry Sewall, at New-
bury, he says: " 'Tis a great thing to be a
Foundation Stone in such a spiritual building
as is now to be erected at Newbury ....
My love to you and to Cousin Abraham Toppan
and his family. Pray for me that God would not
forsake me now that I am old and grey headed.
Your loving uncle Samuel Sewall." The letter
refers to the establishment of the ' ' Third ' ' Parish
in Newbury, of which Abraham Toppan was one
of the founders, and afterwards an ardent sup-
porter.
Abraham Toppan, on October 21, 1713, mar-
ried Esther Wigglesworth, the widow of his
cousin, John Sewall. In 1700, Samuel Toppan, a
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cousin of Abraham, had married Esther's older
sister, Abigail Wigglesworth. The Wigglesworths
lived in Maiden, and the usual explanation of pro-
pinquity hardly explains how these Sewalls and
Toppans became so tangled in marriage relations
with the Wigglesworths. I am inclined to think
that Judge Sewall, who was an inveterate match
maker, was at the bottom of it. He was an
admirer of the Rev. Michael Wigglesworth of
Maiden and often visited him, on his constant
journeys from Boston on the Court circuit. When
Mr. Wigglesworth preached in Boston he always
went to hear him. Under date of May 24, 1697,
the Judge writes : "I persuade Father to make
a settlement of land and marsh on Brother Sewall.
I take the acknowledgment and Brother Stephen
Sewall records it. Mr. Noyes and I dispute about
the Fifth Seal. Come to the Blew Bell" (tavern
famous for the heroic deeds of Hannah Dustan)
1 i refresh there ; visit Mr. Wigglesworth ; meet Mr.
Tapan" (doubtless the Reverend Christopher
Toppan) "from Reading and ride with him to
Charlestown. " It may be that the Judge, on his
visits to Mr. Wigglesworth noted the fair daugh-
ters of the household, and may have suggested to
his young nephews that there was quarry worth
their beating down Maiden way.
Edward Toppan was the oldest son of Abraham
Toppan and Esther Wigglesworth. He was born
September 7, 1715, and married Sarah Bailey
September 7, 1743. He was one of the minute
men who responded to the alarm of April 19, 1775,
serving in Captain Moses Norwell's company. In
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1778, he was in Major Thomas's Artillery Com-
pany in the l ' recent expedition to Rhode Island. ' '
Very probably he served as a soldier in the Revo-
lutionary Army in other ways of which I have
found no public record. He lived in the old home-
stead on Toppan's Lane. He died in 1795. It was
his eleventh child, Abner Toppan, born April 6,
1764, who is one of your father's great grand-
fathers.
Chaptee V
MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH
Came over 1638
Michael Wigglesworth 1631 — 1705
(Martha Mudge)
Esther Wigglesworth 1685 —
(Abraham Toppan)
Edward Toppan 1715 — 1795
(Sarah Bailey)
Abner Toppan 1764 — 1836
(Elizabeth Stanford)
George Tappan 1807 — 1857
(Serena Davis)
Sarah Davis Tappan 1831 — 1893
(William W. Crapo)
Stanford T. Crapo 1865 —
(Emma Morley)
William Wallace Crapo 1895 —
MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH
To my thinking Michael Wigglesworth is, on
the whole, the most interesting of your ancestors.
He was born in Yorkshire, England, October 18,
1631. He says the place of his birth was "an
ungodly place" which was consumed with fire,
in a great part of it, after God had brought his
parents out of it. His father was Edward
Wigglesworth, who with his wife "meeting with
opposition and persecution for religion because
they went from their own Parish Church to hear
ye word & Receiv ye Ls supper" "took up resolu-
tions to pluck up their stakes & remove to New
England. ' ' They landed at Charlestown in 1638.
After seven weeks' stay the family removed by
sea to New Haven, Connecticut, in the month of
October. "Here," Michael says in his short
autobiography, "Winter approaching, we dwelt
in a Cellar partly under ground covered with
earth the first winter. ' '
The next summer Michael was sent to school
to Ezekiel Cheever, the most celebrated pedagogue
of New England. Cheever later left New Haven
and came to Boston, where he founded the "Free
Schoole," now the Boys' Latin School, and where
he died in the ninety-fourth year of his age, and
was eulogized by Cotton Mather in his inimitable
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flamboyant style of oratory. Judge Sewall says
of Cheever that he was a ' ' rare instance of Piety,
Health, Strength, and Serviceableness. The well-
fare of the Province was much upon his Spirit.
He abominated Perriwigs." With Ezekiel
Cheever, Michael "began to make Latin and to
get forward apace," as he tells us, when his father
was stricken with paralysis. "He, wanting help,
was fain to take me off from school to follow other
employments for ye space of three or four years
until I had lost all that I had gained of the Latine
Tongue." When Michael was fourteen he was
again sent to school. "At that time I had little
or no disposition for it," he says, and yet he must
have been diligent in his studies, because in less
than three years he was entered at Harvard Col-
lege. Of his college life he writes "God in his
mercy & pitty kept me from scandalous sins before
I came thither & after I came there, but alas I
had a naughty vile heart and was acted by corrupt
nature & therefore could propound no Right and
noble ends to myself, but acted from self and for
self. I was indeed studious & strove to outdo my
compeers, but it was for honor and applause,
and preferm* & such Beggarly ends." He had
intended to study the "Practise of Physick," but
experiencing a "great change in heart and life"
resolved "to serve Christ in ye work of ye min-
istry if he would please to fit me for it & to accept
my service in that great work."
He graduated August 12, 1651, at the head of
his class of ten. His Commencement part, in his
own handwriting, is preserved. It is headed
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"Omnis Natura Inconstans est Porosa," a senti-
ment characteristic of most young graduates, but
hardly so of Michael Wigglesworth. He became
a Fellow of the College and his "flaming zeal" to
make his pupils not only good scholars, but good
Christians made him afraid, says Cotton Mather,
"lest his cares for their good, and his affection
for them, should so drink up his very spirit, as to
steal his heart from God." This "flaming zeal"
was pent up in a most frail body. Michael
Wigglesworth 's life history is a record of disease
and illness which made of him a "weary wight"
and life a "bitter cup" which he drank to the
dregs. Neurasthenic, morbid, his "cases of con-
science" as given in his diary indicate for the
most part cases of nerves. His weight of physi-
cal ills and the weakness of a distempered body
doubtless were in large degree responsible for the
spiritual viewpoint which found expression in the
grim poems which made him famous.
He preached his first sermon at Pequot (New
London) in 1652-3, while on a journey to see his
father in New Haven. On his return by water,
he was weatherbound at Marthas Vineyard "six
days by a strong north east wind," and there
preached "with one day's preparation." It was
in 1655, after leaving Cambridge, and when living
in Rowley, where ' ' after considerable deliberation
and seeking of advice" he had married his cousin,
Mary Rayner, that he received his call to the
church at Maiden. With some misgivings, he
accepted the call, and was "settled" in 1656 or
1657. As minister of this church he continued
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until his death in 1705. Or, as Cotton Mather, in
his characteristic style, says, "From Cambridge
the Star made his Remove, till he comes to dis-
pense his Sweet Influences upon thee Oh Maiden !
And he was thy Faithful One for about a Jubilee
of Years together."
The parsonage to which Michael brought his
little family was on the easterly side of the "Great
Road" leading to Penny Ferry, for nearly two
centuries afterwards the home of the ministers
of the First Parish of Maiden. The difficulties
of this pastorate would have taxed the strength
of a well man. His predecessor, Marmaduke
Matthews, "that much afflicted and persecuted
man of God," had had a stormy time of it, and
owing to his "inconvenient words" had been
deposed and driven from the Province. The
increasing infirmity of Michael naturally created
dissatisfaction, especially as his malady was
largely a nervous one, which was then popularly
known as ' ' hypo. ' ' That Michael keenly felt the
unsympathetic attitude of many of his parish-
ioners towards his infirmity is evidenced by the
verses he prefixed to the Day of Doom :
Yet some (I know) do judge
My inability
To come abroad and do Christ's work
To be Melancholy;
And that I'm not so weak
As I my self conceit,
Bnt who in other things have found
Me so conceited yet?
Soon his troubles increased to a "heart-cut-
ting ' ' extent. ' ' Difficulties from within and with-
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out thickened around him. The quakings of con-
science matched the weakness and pain of his
body; a sick wife added to his cares, and the
troubles of the church increased. ' ' On December
21, 1659, his wife died. His health became such
that for several years he could not preach. It
was at this time that "Affliction turn'd his Pen
to Poetry" and he wrote the dismal and cele-
brated Day of Doom, published in 1662. In 1663
he took a voyage to Bermuda, in the hopes of
receiving "ye benefit of that sweet and temperate
air." The result was unfavorable. For many
years he continued in this discouraging state of
health as the nominal minister of the church, the
active service being performed by an assistant.
Cotton Mather speaks of him as one "that had
been for near twenty years almost Buried Alive. ' '
Out of his experiences with his own infirmities,
and from his knowledge of "ye Study and Prac-
tise of Pysich," which engrossed him at one time
at college, he became an able physician. It may
be that he received some compensation for the
practice of medicine and that this, with the income
he may have derived from his poems, supplied
him during his long period of illness.
He had removed from the parsonage, and lived
in a little house which he built on land that "was
sometime part of the proper lot of Mr. John
Allen" not far from the meeting-house. After
the marriage of his daughter Mercy, being then
in his forty-eighth year, he resolved "to change
his manner of living" and for that purpose to
marry his youthful "servant niavd" of seventeen
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summers. This was a cause of much scandal,
and called forth a long epistle from Increase
Mather and many other admonitory and exhorta-
tory epistles and advices. But the stubborn
singer of the Day of Doom, although doubtless
much concerned, was not deterred by the elo-
quence of Mather, the displeasures of his relatives,
or the disfavor of the people of Maiden. He
married (1679) Martha Mudge, notwithstanding
her "obscure parentage, her youth, and her being
no church member."
She was your many times great grandmother,
of whom you have no occasion to be ashamed.
Nor was her parentage in the least obscure. She
was the daughter of Thomas Mudge, of Maiden,
and his wife Mary, whose position in the com-
munity was certainly as well established as that
of most of your ancestors, and whose descendants
in various lines have done them conspicuous
honor. Thomas Mudge was born in 1624, and
probably came over with his brother Jarvis from
Devonshire, sailing from Plymouth about 1638.
Jarvis settled in Boston, and Thomas probably
lived with him. At what date Thomas moved to
Maiden is not determinable, but he was there in
1657, and the records of the town contain fre-
quent mention of him. His wife Mary was born
about 1628, and consequently must have been
married in this country. They had six sons and
two daughters, of whom Martha was the youngest,
being born in 1662. One of the brothers, James,
was killed in the massacre of Bloody Brook,
September 18, 1675, with Sergeant Thomas Smith,
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another of your ancestors, and another brother,
John, fought in King Philip's War in the Narra-
gansett country.
Michael Wigglesworth's judgment of Martha
Mudge was well warranted. She made him a
faithful and efficient wife. She cured him of his
distemper, and restored him to health and to the
active performance of his ministry, as he testified
later in eulogizing her to his third wife. She
bore him five daughters and one son. Notwith-
standing the antagonistic attitude of her hus-
band's friends, she bore herself with such pro-
priety that she conquered the place in the public
regard to which she was entitled. She proved
in all ways a blessing and a help to her husband,
and when September 4, 1690, being only twenty-
eight years of age, she died, he was indeed bereft.
The Eev. Michael was then nearly sixty, but "the
happy experiences of his second marriage and
the care of six young children, of whom the eldest
was not yet ten years old .... led him to
cast about for another helpmeet." The lady who
was honored this time was Sybil Sparhawk, the
widow of Dr. Jonathan Avery of Boston. The
remarkable correspondence of Mr. TVigglesworth
in which he proposed marriage has been pre-
served. In one of his letters he encloses certain
"considerations which possibly may help to clear
up your way before you return an answer unto
ye motion which I have made you. ' ' The consid-
erations are itemized and set forth with much
force. "1st I have a great perswasion that ye
motion is of God for diverse reasons" — stating
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the reasons at length. He then sets forth ten
''main" reasons with subdivisions, which are suf-
ficiently quaint. It is, however, when he takes
up certain "objections" such as his age and the
like that he shows himself the true lover. For
instance, "Ob. And for ye other objection from
ye number of my children & difficulty of guiding
such a family. 1st The number may be lessened
if there be need of it. 2nd — etc." Surely this
is as gruesome a thought as any in the Day of
Doom. It is fortunate for you that the lady did
not deem it necessary or else Esther, your grand-
mother, might have been one of the sacrifices.
The able presentation of so many convincing con-
siderations won the lady, and they were married
June 23, 1691, at Braintree, and had one son, Pro-
fessor Edward Wigglesworth, D. D., of Harvard
College, who died in 1765, a man of much note,
whose descendants for many generations were
connected with the Harvard Faculty.
For the remaining years of his life the Rev.
Michael Wigglesworth was enabled satisfactorily
to perform the duties of the minister of a very
troublesome parish, and to alleviate much sick-
ness and suffering through his ministrations as
a physician. His great fame as New England's
poet, and the high regard in which he was held
by the Boston Hierarchy, may have consoled him
for his long years of suffering. This "poor
feeble shadow of a man," as Cotton Mather called
him, had, indeed, despite his handicap, accom-
plished much. The Presidency of Harvard Col-
lege was offered to him. The praise and love of
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his cantankerous parishioners was, in the end,
vouchsafed to him. And although the Day of
Doom has not, as Cotton Mather prophesied,
proved a composure which will find our children
till the Day itself arrive, it has established its
author as a gifted as well as faithful portrayer
of the awful tenets of orthodoxy.
He died June 10, 1705, in the seventy-fourth
year of his age. Among his manuscripts was
found this verse :
Welcome, Sweet Rest, by me so long Desired,
Who have with Sins and Griefs, so long been tired,
And Welcome, Death, my Father's Messenger,
Of my Felicity the Hastener.
Welcome, Good Angels, who for me Distrest,
Are come to Guard me to Eternal Rest.
Welcome, 0 Christ, who hast my Soul Redeemed;
Whose Favour I have more than Life Esteemed.
Cotton Mather preached his funeral sermon,
and wrote a punning epitaph which is appended
to latter editions of the Day of Doom, but the
couplet on the "mossy stone at the dead teacher's
head" in the Maiden graveyard, says Deloraine
Pendre Corey, the historian of Maiden, from
whom I have largely borrowed this account of
your ancestor, is better known and more often
quoted :
Here Lies Inter 'd
In Silent Grave Below
Maulden's Physician
For Soul and Body Two.
Chapter VI
THE DAY OF DOOM
THE DAY OF DOOM
Michael Wigglesworth is described by Profes-
sor Moses Coit Tyler as "a suffering little man
with an intensity of spirit that triumphed over
all physical ills and a tenderness of sympathy
that made him 'a man of the beatitudes' and a
comforter to all who, like himself, knew the touch
of grief" and yet whose creed forced him "to
chant the chant of Christian fatalism, the moan
of vanity and sorrow, the physical bliss of the
saved, the physical tortures of the damned."
The Day of Doom, or a Description of the Great
and Last Judgment. With a short discourse about
Eternity, was first published in 1662. This
"grim utterance of the past" passed through
many editions. With the exception of the New
England Primer, no book of its time approached
its popularity. In proportion to the population
of the land, its sale far exceeded that of Uncle
Tom's Cabin or the best sellers of today. It was
hawked about the country printed on sheets like
common ballads. The Day of Doom has been
called "that blazing and sulphurous poem, the
true embodiment of all that was terrible in the
theology of the seventeenth century." It was
taught to the children with their catechisms. It
is appalling to think of a sensitive and imagina-
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live child devouring its horrors, and shuddering
at its frightful imagery. And yet, after all, it
was the spiritual food on which our fathers were
nourished, and which in time gave us our Chan-
nings and our Emersons.
Cotton Mather, in explaining Wigglesworth's
"turning to poetry," says "that he might yet
more faithfully set himself to do Good, when he
could not Preach, he Wrote several Composures,
wherein he proposed the Edification of such Read-
ers as are for Truths dressed up in a Plain
Meeter. " The metre, indeed, is often plain
enough, with cheap and clattering rhymes, yet the
poem in its way achieves an artistic triumph.
His introduction to the reader is not lacking in
humor. He says :
Reader, I am a fool,
And have adventured
To play the fool this once for Christ,
The more his Fame to spread.
If this, my foolishness,
Help thee to be more wise,
I have attained what I seek
And what I only prize.
The poem opens with a description of the
1 ' Security of the world before Christ 's coming to
Judgment — Luke 12:19," then comes the "Sud-
denness, Majesty and Terror of Christ's appear-
ance—Mat. 25:6, 2 Pet. 3:10." "Ye dead arise
and unto judgment come ! " is the call.
No heart so bold, but now grows cold,
And almost dead with fear,
No eye so dry but now can cry
And pour out many a tear.
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Earth's Potentates and pow'ful States,
Captains and Men of Might,
Are quite abasht; their courage dasht,
At this most awful sight.
Christ's flock of lambs, " whose faith was
weak, yet true, all sound believers (Gospel Re-
ceivers) " fare excellently well under the decisions
of the Judge, who expounds the marvellous doc-
trine of Election which to the modern mind is im-
possible of comprehension — even as a theorem.
The goats fared quite otherwise. They are. how-
ever, given an opportunity to plead their causes,
which they do with much ingenuity and, for the
most part, in a manner which would seem to estab-
lish at least a legitimate claim for mercy. The
Judge is not impressed with their arguments and
condemns them one and all to fiery and eternal
torment. Perhaps the most famous passages in
the poem are those in which the subject of the
unbaptized and unelected infants is treated:
Then to the Bar all they drew near
Who died in Infancy,
And never had or good or bad
Affected pers'nally;
But from the Womb unto the Tomb
Were straightaway carried,
(or at least ere they transgressed)
Who thus began to plead:
Their plea is overwhelming in its cogency.
They admit that if their own transgressions or
disobedience had put them among the goats they
would have no case, but "Adam's guilt our souls
hath split, his fault is charged upon us and
utterly undone us. ' '
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Not We, but He ate of the Tree
Whose fruit was interdicted;
Yet on us all of his sad Fall
The punishment's inflicted.
How could we sin that had not been
Or how is his sin our
Without consent, which to prevent
We never had the pow'r?
Jehovah, the judge, however, explains that
Adam's fall was theirs as well as his own, since
he was designed as their representative, and they
are obliged to accept his agency.
He stood and fell, did ill or well,
Not for himself alone,
But for you all, who now his Fall
And trespass would disown.
In conclusion, Jehovah pronounces the final
judgment as follows:
You Sinners are, and such a share
As sinners may expect;
Such you shall have, for I do Save
None by mine own Elect.
Yet to compare your sin with their
Who liv'd a longer time,
I do confess yours is much less
Though every sin's a crime.
A crime it is, therefore in Bliss
You may not hope to dwell;
But unto you I shall allow
The Easiest Room in Hell.
The poet adds that :
The Glorious King thus answering,
They cease and plead no longer;
Their Consciences must needs confess
His Reasons are the Stronger.
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The judgment as rendered in individual cases
under the doctrine of preordained election causes
some rather heart rending situations, which the
poet treats as follows :
One natural Brother beholds another
In his astonished Fit,
Yet sorrows not thereat a jot,
Nor pities him a Whit.
The godly wife conceives no Grief,
Nor can she shed a tear
For the sad State of her dear Mate
When she his doom doth hear.
He that was erst a Husband pierc'd
With sense of Wife's distress,
Whose tender heart did bear a part
of all her grievances,
Shall mourn no more as heretofore,
because of her ill plight,
Although he see her now to be
A dam'd forsaken wight.
The various classes of goats having been dealt
with and severally condemned to dwell eternally
in Hell, the author vividly and at length de-
scribes the conditions which will surround that
abode, and thus closes the description :
Thus shall they lie and wail and cry
tormented and tormenting;
Their gall'd Hearts with poison 'd Darts
but now, too late, repenting.
There let them dwell in th ' Flames of Hell,
there leave we them to burn,
And back again unto the men
Whom Christ acquits, return.
Unfortunately, the Rev. Michael had spent the
resources of his imagination in delineating the
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horrors of Hell, and in attempting to picture the
tame felicities of Heaven he fails to make them
attractive. The reader of his poem can have no
doubt that Hell is an undesirable abode, yet little
enthusiasm for the alternative is induced.
Appended to the Day of Doom is A Short Dis-
course on Eternity which rubs in the conception
of the everlasting nature of the torments of Hell.
It concludes as follows:
"When they remind what's still behind
And ponder this word NEVER,
That they must there be made to bear
God's Vengeance for E V E R :
The thought more bitter is
than all they feel beside ;
Yet what they feel, nor heart of steel
Nor flesh of brass can bide.
To lie in woe and undergo
the Direful Pains of Hell,
And know withal, that there they shall
for aye and ever dwell;
And that they are from rest as far
When fifty thousand year,
Twice told, are spent in punishment,
As when they first came there;
This, Oh! this makes Hell's fiery flakes
much more intolerable;
This makes frail wights and damned sprites
to bear their plagues unable.
This makes men bite, for fell despite,
their very tongues in twain;
This makes them roar for great horror,
And trebleth all their pain.
There were seven editions of the Day of Doom
before 1751. Since then two or three editions
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have been issued, the last of which I have knowl-
edge being in 1867. Besides the Day of Doom,
Michael Wigglesworth published in 1669 Meat out
of the Eater ; or Meditations concerning the Neces-
sity and Usefulness of Afflictions unto Gods Chil-
dren, which also ran through many editions. It
is to this popular ''composure" that the bom-
bastic punster, Cotton Mather, refers in his
Epitaph on the "Excellent Wigglesworth."
His Pen did once Meat from the Eater fetch;
And now he's gone beyond the Eater's reach.
His Body once so Thin, was next to None;
From hence he's to Unbodied Spirits flown.
Once his rare skill did all Diseases heal;
And he does nothing now Uneasy feel.
He to his Paradise is joyful come,
And waits with joy to see his Day of Doom.
Mr. Wigglesworth 's best literary effort was
unpublished, and remained unknown until 1850.
The manuscript is now in the possession of the
Massachusetts Historical Society. It is entitled
God's Controversy with New England, written in
the time of the Great Drought Anno 1662 by a
Lover of New England's Prosperity. In this
poem the poet had full scope to describe the ills
which God was visiting upon an unregenerate
people.
This, Oh, New England hast thou got
By riot and excess:
This hast thou brought upon thyself
By pride and wantonness.
Thus must thy worldyness be whipt,
They that too much do crave,
Provoke the Lord to take away
Such blessings as they have.
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So far removed in sympathy are we to-day from
the viewpoint of our Puritan forefathers that we
may easily err in treating their doctrines with
derision. Sincerity may not be derided. Michael
Wigglesworth had a clear vision, and he had
the courage of his convictions. He had, more-
over, the literary ability to present his ideas in
a form popularly acceptable to his contemporaries.
Chaptee VII
TRISTRAM COFFIN
Came over 1642
Tristram Coffin 1605 — 1681
(Dionis Stevens)
Tristram Coffin 1632 — 1704
(Judith Greenleaf)
Stephen Coffin 1665 — 1725
(Sarah Atkinson)
Sarah Coffin 1686 — 1768
(Joshua Bailey)
Sarah Bailey 1721 — 1811
(Edward Toppan)
Abner Toppan 1764 — 1836
(Elizabeth Stanford)
George Tappan 1807 — 1857
(Serena Davis)
Sarah Davis Tappan 1831 — 1893
(William W. Crapo)
Stanford T. Crapo 1865 —
(Emma Morley)
William Wallace Crapo 1895 —
TRISTRAM COFFIN
Tristram Coffin belonged to an ancient family
of gentry in Devonshire. Mary Elizabeth Sinnott,
of Philadelphia, in a carefully edited and elabo-
rately printed account of the annals of her family,
says: "During the thirteenth century one
Richard Coffyn was granted free warren in the
manor of Alurington by King Henry III, and early
in the next century the manor was settled upon
another Richard Coffyn, from whose day, until
the present time the lordship of the manor has
remained in the Coffin family. It is one of the
rare instances of an English estate being re-
tained for a period of nearly eight hundred years
in one family and continuing the original name.
The grounds belonging to the manor comprise
most of the parish of Alurington, about three
thousand seven hundred acres, near the borough
of Bidef ord in North Devon, which Charles Kings-
ley so graphically describes in his Westward Ho.
The manor house is called Portledge and its
present owner is Major Pine Coffin of the Eng-
lish Army. His youngest brother, Tristram Pine
Coffin, Esq., bears his Christian name in honor
of his remote kinsman Tristram Coffin of New
England. ' '
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Nicholas Coffin, the grandfather of Tristram,
lived at Butlers, Brixton Parish, Devonshire. He
was born about 1550, and died October 8, 1613.
His will, dated September 12, 1613, in the eleventh
year of King James's reign, gives to his eldest
son, Peter Coffin, "my greatest brasse pan and
my mind is that my wife shall have the use thereof
during her life." He devises sundry estates to
his son Peter, and mentions his grandson Tris-
tram, giving him "one yearling bullock."
Peter Coffin, the son of Nicholas, was born in
the reign of Queen Elizabeth, about 1580, and
died in Brixton Parish in 1628. He married circa
1609 Joan Kember, daughter of Robert and Anna
Kember of Brixton Parish. In his will, which
was proved March 13, 1629, he left to his son
Tristram Coffin "my best brassen panne and best
brassen crocke." Evidently this ancestral brass
pan was deemed very precious. One wonders
whether Tristram brought it over to New Eng-
land, and where it is now. By his will, Peter
Coffin gave to his widow Joan a life estate in all
his lands, tenements, and hereditaments in Brix-
ton Parish, she yielding and paying therefor fifty
shillings per year to his son Tristram "at ye
four most usual feasts of ye year" and "also
sufficient meat, drink and clothes and convenient
lodgings unto ye sayd Tristram according to his
degree and calling during her widowhood."
After the death of the widow, the remainder was
devised to Tristram. There were many other
provisions in the will, including money bequests
to his son John, and to his four daughters, "and
unto ye child my wife goeth with. ' '
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Tristram was twenty-three years old when his
father died in the reign of James the First. He
was thirty-seven when he came to New England
at the beginning of Cromwell 's ascendancy. Dur-
ing these fourteen years, he doubtless lived the
life of an English farmer of the gentry class.
By education and environment he was a royalist
and high churchman, being, indeed, Warden of
Brixton Parish in 1639. In Mrs. Hinchman's ad-
mirable book on the Early Settlers of Nantucket
there is a copy of the diagram of the Parish
Church, made by the Vicar, Eichard Lane, in
1638, clearly showing the distribution of the pews.
Tristram Coffin had the pew at the right of the
chancel under the pulpit. Directly opposite in
the front row was the pew of his mother in law,
Dionis Stevens. On the left aisle was the pew
of John Kember, doubtless a cousin, since Tris-
tram Coffin's mother was a Kember. Families
of Coffin, Stevens and Worth occupied numerous
pews in the old church. This old diagram is an
extremely interesting document. Unlike most of
your Essex forebears, who were driven by the
persecutors of the established church to seek a
new home in the troublous year of 1634, Tristram
Coffin, eight years later, would seem to have been
impelled to leave England because of the growing
ascendancy of Puritanism. The long contest be-
tween the King and Parliament had demoralized
the country. In Devon, the Parliamentary forces
were early in control. Plymouth was seized by
the Roundheads at the first of the struggle, and
although repeatedly besieged by the King's
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forces, remained in the possession of Cromwell.
It was in one of these encounters, at Plymouth
Castle, that John Coffin, Tristram's only brother,
was killed. "It was," writes Allen Coffin of Nan-
tucket, "his utter want of faith in the institutions
of England that sent him across the ocean with
a wife and five small children, a widowed mother,
and two unmarried, dependent sisters, to found
a new home among the barren hills of New Eng-
land." In the year 1642 he sailed away from
Devon never to return. The ships which came
•over during that year were the Hector, Griffin,
Job Clement, and Margaret Clement, on one of
which, probably, was this family of courageous
seekers after new fortunes. It is supposed that
he came in the ship with Eobert Clement, and
with him went first to Salisbury.
Tristram had married about 1629 Dionis,
daughter of Robert Stevens of Forde, within the
parish of Brixton, and Dionis his wife. Dionis
Coffin was baptized at Brixton, March 4, 1610.
Among the five children who were born to Tris-
tram and Dionis Coffin in England, and who
crossed the ocean with their parents, was Tris-
tram Coffin, Junior, your ancestor, born 1632, the
second child.
The family stayed but a brief time in Salisbury,
and then removed with Robert Clement to Haver-
hill. Tradition says that Tristram Coffin was the
first person who ploughed land in the town of
Haverhill, constructing his own plough. The fol-
lowing year he settled at "The Rocks." On a
deed written November 15, 1642, his signature
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appears. It was a deed from Passaguo and
Saggahew, with the consent of Passaconaway, to
the inhabitants of Pentuckett of a tract six miles
by fourteen miles in extent. Tristram Coffin and
his family lived in Haverhill for a few years, and
then removed to Newbury. During his residence
of some ten years in Newbury, he was prominent
in the town's affairs and history, demonstrating
the activity and strength which so conspicuously
characterized him in his later life.
In 1644, Tristram Coffin was licensed by the
town of Newbury "to keep an ordinary and sell
wine." He seems to have had some doubt as to
the jurisdiction of the town, because in 1647 he
petitioned the General Court at Boston for the
same privilege. It was granted May 26, 1647,
and on the same day the General Court voted that
henceforth "such as are to keep houses of com-
mon intertainment and to retail wine, beere, etc. ' '
shall apply to the Courts of the shire in which
they live "in order that the time of the deputies
may be devoted to matters of more importance."
September, 1653, Tristram Coffin's wife, Dionis,
was presented by the grand jury to the Court for
selling beer at three pence a quart. The law pro-
vided that "all such as put beere to sale shall be
able to prove that they put into every hogshead
of beere that they sell for three pence the quart,
into the brewing thereof six bushells of good
barley mault, and into every hogshead of beere
sold at two pence a quart f ower bushells of mault ;
and into every hogshead of beere sold at a penny
a quart two bushells of like good mault, and so
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proportion in greater or smaller quantities." It
is rather satisfactory to be able to record that
your grandmother Dionis was adjudged not
guilty of breaking the law relating to the sale of
intoxicating liquors. Having proved by the tes-
timony of Samuel Moores that she put six bushels
of malt into the hogshead she was discharged.
In 1644, Tristram Coffin was licensed "to keep
the ferry on Newbury side and George Carr on
Salisbury side of Carr's island," a license which
was subsequently confirmed December 26, 1647.
The history of this ferry and of the trouble
between Tristram Coffin and George Carr, you
have already learned in connection with George
Carr, another comeoverer of yours. About 1654,
Tristram Coffin moved to Salisbury and was there
a magistrate, signing his name "Commissioner of
Salisbury. ' ' In the year 1654, Thomas Macy, who
was a Deputy to the General Court from Salis-
bury, met Thomas Mayhew, a Deputy from Water-
town. Mayhew had purchased the island of Nan-
tucket in 1641. Mayhew offered the island to
Macy as an excellent place for stock raising.
Macy interested Tristram Coffin and others of his
fellow townsmen of Salisbury in the scheme of
starting a new settlement on the island.
Early in 1659, Tristram Coffin proceeded upon a
voyage of inquiry and observation, first to
Marthas Vineyard, where Thomas Mayhew was
living and with whom he discussed the terms of
the purchase, and then, taking with him Peter
Folger as an interpreter of the Indian language,
he sailed over to Nantucket. He was well satis-
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fied with conditions at the island, and with the
peaceable attitude of the Indians, and on his
return to Salisbury so reported to his associates.
A company was formally organized for the pur-
chase of the island, the records of which are still
preserved. There were ten original shares, of
which Tristram Coffin, Senior, and his son, Peter
Coffin, each held one, and his sons, Tristram
Coffin, Junior, and James Coffin, each held one
half. The deed was dated July 2, 1659, the con-
sideration being thirty pounds and two beaver
hats. In 1659, Tristram Coffin, Sen., Peter, Tris-
tram, Jun., and James, purchased the island of
Tuckanuckett from Mr. Mayhew.
James Coffin was one of the earliest of the set-
tlers to arrive on the island. Tristram, Senior,
soon after followed him. Tristram's mother,
Joan Kember, your ancestress, had probably lived
with him in Haverhill and Newbury and Salis-
bury, but she seems not to have accompanied him
to Nantucket. She died in Boston, May, 1661, at
the age of seventy-seven years.
Although a house lot near his father's at
Capaum Pond was laid out to Tristram Coffin,
Junior, your ancestor, it does not appear that he
ever moved to Nantucket, living all his life in
Newbury. Peter Coffin, the oldest son, did live
at Nantucket at one time, but later moved to New
Hampshire, where he was a member of the Assem-
bly, a Privy Councillor, and for many years a
Justice of the Supreme Court. With Tristram
Coffin, Senior, and his wife, however, several of
their children became inhabitants of Nantucket;
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James, who married Mary Severance; John, who
married Deborah Austin; Stephen, who married
Mary Bunker, and Mary, who married Nathaniel
Starbuck.
Nantucket was claimed as a dependency of the
Province of New York, soon after its settlement.
There was, however, no established government,
except such as the settlers informally agreed upon
for their mutual convenience. It was not long
before trouble and dissension arose between the
inhabitants, due for the most part to rum drinking
on the part of the Indians, and Tristram Coffin
and Thomas Macy were impelled to appeal to
Governor Lovelace in New York to establish an
authorized government. In compliance with this
appeal, the Governor commissioned Tristram
Coffin as the first Chief Magistrate of Nantucket,
June 29, 1671. Tristram Coffin had a positive
and forceful personality. He found himself a
leader in his little island community and his con-
ception of leadership was kingship. He was, in
fact, in a small way, the King of the Island, and
he dealt out justice in a truly regal way. At no
time, probably, were all his subjects entirely sub-
servient, yet it was not until John Gardner came
from Salem, a "half share man," that open rebel-
lion against Tristram Coffin and his adherents
began in good earnest. The bitter controversy
which stirred the island for the next few years
had as its basis the essentially American motive of
refusal on the part of democracy to submit to
the government of an aristocracy. Coffin as the
aristocratic leader had the prestige of official
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authority ; Gardner had the popular favor ; in the
end, as always, the People won. The insurgents
were able to avail themselves of that useful tacti-
cal procedure of denying the jurisdiction of the
Court. The legal title of the Island of Nantucket,
to which in the conception of all good Nantucket-
ers, even to this day, the continent of America is
accidentally contiguous, afforded much oppor-
tunity for controversy. Coffin and Macy and
their associates purchased the island of Thomas
May hew, who, in 1641, had purchased it from the
Earl of Sterling. The Earl of Sterling's grant
included Long Island "and the islands adjacent."
It is not to be wondered at that Sir Fernando
Gorges with his inclusive grant of the territory
now known as Maine, claimed Nantucket as his.
Mayhew, in fact, conceded both claims by paying
taxes to both proprietors. In 1664 King Charles,
who naturally was not very well informed geo-
graphically about his New England possessions,
granted to his brother, the Duke of York, the
lately acquired territory of the "New Nether-
lands" and expressly included "the small island
called or known by the name of Nantukes or Nan-
tucket." This confusion of ownership and juris-
diction naturally afforded the rebels an excellent
opportunity to complicate the situation. Their
purpose, in which they finally succeeded, was to
have the island included within the Massachusetts
Bay Colony jurisdiction.
Tristram Coffin's original commission as Chief
Magistrate from Governor Lovelace expired by
limitation, and Thomas Macy acted as Chief
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Magistrate under very unsettled conditions. In
1677 Governor Andros of New York again com-
missioned Tristram Coffin as the responsible
representative of the King on Nantucket. There
can be no question that the community over which
Tristram Coffin was then called to rule was a re-
bellious one whose jealousies and intense partisan-
ship kept the inhabitants in constant turmoil. Cof-
fin, quite properly in view of his employment, and
quite naturally in view of his temperament,
attempted to rule with an iron hand and to sup-
press the insurrection. The People, under the
leadership of John Gardner, would not be sup-
pressed. When at length the imprisonment of
Peter Folger, together with other high handed
proceedings, were referred to Governor Andros,
to the great grief and chagrin of Tristram Coffin
he was not sustained. He was an old man with
the traditions of ' ' upper class ' ' and it must have
been a cruel blow to him to find himself supplanted
by plebeian John Gardner. The last public
record of Tristram Coffin is one in 1680, when he
was compelled by order of the Governor of New
York to pay £343 as a fine for having, as Chief
Magistrate, wrongfully disposed of a cargo of
hides from the wreck of a French vessel.
You have few more interesting or picturesque
ancestors than Tristram Coffin. In the annals of
Nantucket he is supreme. I fancy that in Brix-
ton, Devonshire, he made himself felt. Certainly
in Newbury and in Salisbury he was a distinct
power. In whatever locality fortune might have
placed him he would have been a leader. He was
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seventy-six years old when he died, October 2,
1681. His wife, Dionis, survived him for some
years. They were the progenitors of an aston-
ishingly prolific family. In 1728, according to a
computation made by Stephen Greenleaf, the old-
est grandchild of Tristram and Dionis Coffin, they
had 1582 lineal descendants, of whom 1128 were
then living. If the same rate of increase in the
family had been maintained to the present time,
which doubtless it has not, Tristram Coffin's
descendants would be something like three million
persons.
Tristram Coffin, Junior, was the second son of
Tristram and Dionis Coffin, born at Brixton in
1632. He was ten years old when he came over
with his father to New England. He learned the
trade of a tailor in his youth. When he was
twenty-one years of age he married Judith
Somerby, the widow of Henry Somerby, a daugh-
ter of Edmund Greenleaf, March 2, 1653, by whom
he had ten children. They resided in what is
now known as the old Coffin house, near Training
Green, opposite Abraham Toppan's and near
Henry Sewall's. Henry Somerby had built a
small house at this place to which Tristram Coffin
succeeded in his marriage with Somerby 's widow.
His increasing family made it necessary to add to
the house what is now the main structure. It is
even older than the Toppan house in Toppan's
Lane, and much more picturesque. Around the
fireplace in the living room and in the chamber
above are some remarkable Dutch tiles, and in
the kitchen still stands the old dresser, with its
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stock of pewter plates and platters, as it has stood
for more than two centuries.
Tristram Coffin, Junior, was a Deacon of the
first church and prominent in its affairs, being
deeply interested in the controversy to which I
referred in connection with another of your
ancestors, Nicholas Noyes. In 1667, being then
thirty-five years old, he acted as Selectman, and
in various years thereafter. He was constantly
appointed by the town meetings on committees for
laying out and dividing lands, settling quarrels,
acting as overseer of the poor, and performing
other services requiring tact and a judicial
capacity. He represented Newbury at the Gen-
eral Court in Boston in 1695, 1700, 1701 and 1702.
In 1678, he took the oath of allegiance, and soon
after became interested in military affairs. In
1682, he was a Sergeant, and in 1686 a Lieutenant.
In the frequent mentions of him in the town
records, he is sometimes designated as "Deacon
Coffin" and sometimes as " Lieutenant Coffin."
He died in 1704 and was buried in the grave-
yard of the First Parish, where on his gravestone
still can be read the following inscription:
To the Memory of
Tristram Coffin Esqr.
who having served the first church of Newbury
in the office of Deacon 20 years died
Feb. 4, 1703/4 aged 72 years.
On earth he pur-chas-ed a good degree
Great boldness in the faith and liberty
And now possesses im-mor-tality.
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His widow, Judith Greenleaf (Somerby) out-
lived him only a year or two. Under date of
December 21, 1705, Judge Sewall writes "Cousin
Noyes brings the news of Mrs. Coffin's death the
15th instant to be buried the 19th. Went away
suddenly and easily. A very good woman of
Newbury." She is buried beside her husband,
her tombstone reading :
To the Memory of
Mrs. Judith late virtuous wife of
Deacon Tristram Coffin Esq1-.,
who having lived to see 177 of her children and
children's children to the 3d generation,
Died Dec. 15, 1705, aged 80.
Grave, sober, faithful, fruitful vine was she
A rare example of true piety
Widow 'd awhile she wayted wisht-for rest
With her dear husband in her Saviour's Breast.
Chapter VIII
EDMUND GREENLEAF
Came over prior to 1635
Edmund Greenleaf 1600 — 1671
(Sarah Dole)
Judith Greenleaf 1626 — 1705
(Tristram Coffin)
Stephen Coffin 1665 — 1725
(Sarah Atkinson)
Sarah Coffin 1686 — 1768
(Joshua Bailey)
Sarah Bailey 1721 — 1811
(Edward Toppan)
Abner Toppan 1764 — 1836
(Elizabeth Stanford)
George Tappan 1807 — 1857
(Serena Davis)
Sarah Davis Tappan 1831 — 1893
(William W. Crapo)
Stanford T. Crapo 1865 —
(Emma Morley)
William Wallace Crapo 1895 —
EDMUND GREENLEAF
Edmund Greenleaf was born in the Parish of
Brixham, County of Devon, on Tor Bay, about
1600. It is supposed that he was of Huguenot
origin. It is possible that he knew Tristram
Coffin in the old country. It is probable that he
came over in 1634. He is said to have come over
from Ipswich, County Suffolk. He was granted a
house lot in Newbury in 1635, and in the first allot-
ment of lands he was given one hundred and
twenty- two acres. He is styled a "dyer." He
was admitted as a freeman of Newbury, March
13, 1638/9.
Edmund Greenleaf was pre-eminently a soldier.
I am under the impression that I had some good
reason to believe that he was one of the eight
Newbury men who took part in the Pequot war
in 1637, joining an expedition against Sassacus
and pursuing the savages to Fairfield, where they
fought the conclusive battle of the war. I think
it probable that John Emery was also one of New-
bury's quota. It is recorded that on the march of
these troops through Connecticut in hot pursuit of
the Indians, it being a Sabbath Day, they halted
and at length discussed Anne Hutchinson *s conun-
drum as to whether they were acting under a
Covenant of Grace or of Works. Edmund Green-
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leaf was one of a committee of four, (of which two
others of your ancestors were members, William
Moody and Abraham Toppan) appointed in 1638
by the town to oversee the "bringing of armes
to church and see that all inhabitants bring their
armes compleat one Sabbath day in the month
and the Lecture day following" and to report if
the arms were defective, and if found unfit, to
collect and distrain twelve pence for every default.
In 1639, Edmund Greenleaf was ordered to be
Ensign for Newbury. On May 22 of the same
year, he was licensed "to keepe a house of inter-
tainment. ' ' His house was near Old Town Bridge.
When Greenleaf left Newbury in 1650, his son in
law, Henry Somerby, continued to keep the ordi-
nary. On October 7, 1641, he was appointed "to
end small businesses," i. e., to act as a magistrate
in civil cases. In 1642, under a requirement of
the General Court, he was appointed by the Select-
men of Newbury as Superintendent of "breeding
of salt peeter in some out house for poultry or
the like," i. e., of the making of gunpowder, the
product to be delivered to the agents of the colony.
In 1642, Edmund Greenleaf was "the ancient and
experienced lieutenant under Captain Gerrish. "
Governor Winthrop had ordered that Passacon-
away "the great sachem of all the tribes that
dwelt in the valley of the Merrimack" be dis-
armed. Lieutenant Greenleaf, with forty men,
made an attempt to execute the order. "They
could not go to his wigwam but they came to his
son's and took him, which they had warrant for,
and a squaw and her child, which they had no
EDMUND GREENLEAF 729
warrant for." On September 28, 1642, the Gen-
eral Court at Boston ordered Lieutenant Green-
leaf to "send home the Indian woman and child
from Newbury, and to send them to Passaconaway
for satisfaction. ' '
In 1647, Edmund Greenleaf was allotted a house
lot in the "New Town" on Greenleaf 's Lane, now
State Street, in Newburyport, and in 1648 licensed
to keep an "ordinary" in Newbury. It was at
this time that occurred the great division in the
church about removing it to the new town.
Edmund Greenleaf was bitterly opposed to the
removal, and after trying every possible means,
by petition to the General Court, and otherwise,
being defeated, left the town of Newbury in dis-
gust and removed to Boston.
He had married Sarah Dole in England, and it
was in England that their child, Judith, was born
at Ipswich, and baptized September 29, 1626. She
was your many times great grandmother, who
married Tristram Coffin. Sarah Dole died Janu-
ary 18, 1663, and Edmund Greenleaf then married
Sarah Jordain Wilson Hill. She appears to have
been a much married lady with several sets of
children and grandchildren. Edmund Greenleaf
died in Boston in 1671. His will, dated December,
1668, and proved in 1671, contains the following:
"When I married my wife I kept her grandchild as
best I remember 3 years to scooling dyet and apparel
and William Hill her son had a bond of six pound a
year whereof I received no more than a barrell of
porke of 3 lb. 0-0 of that 6-0-0 a year he was to pay
me and I sent to her son Ignatius Hill to the Barbados
in Mackerell Sider, Bread and Peace, as much as come
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to twenty pound — I never received one penny off it;
his aunt gave to the three brothers 50£ a piece I know
not whether they received it or no, but I have not re-
ceived any part of it. Beside when I married my wife
she brought me a silver boule, a silver porringer, a
silver spoon. She lent or gave them to her son James
Hill without my consent.
Evidently the financial result of Edmund's
second marriage was not pleasing to the old
gentleman. In this same will he remembers his
daughter "Judah" Coffin with twenty shillings,
and names Tristram Coffin as one of the execu-
tors. Judith Greenleaf Somerby Coffin's son,
Stephen Coffin, who married Sarah Atkinson, was
a great grandfather of Abner Toppan. It may
interest you to know that the poet John Green-
leaf Whittier was descended in two lines from
both Tristram Coffin and Edmund Greenleaf.
Chaptee IX
THEODORE ATKINSON
Came over 1634
Theodore Atkinson 1611 — 1701
(Abigail )
John Atkinson 1636 —
(Sarah Merrick)
Sarah Atkinson 1665 — 1724
(Stephen Coffin)
Sarah Coffin 1686 — 1768
(Joshua Bailey)
Sarah Bailey 1721 — 1811
(Edward Toppan)
Abner Toppan 1764 — 1836
(Elizabeth Stanford)
George Tappan 1807 — 1857
(Serena Davis)
Sarah Davis Tappan 1831 — 1893
(William W. Crapo)
Stanford T. Crapo 1865 —
(Emma Morley)
William Wallace Crapo 1895 —
THEODORE ATKINSON
Theodore Atkinson came over with his wife
Abigail in 1634. He was in the employment of
John Newgate, felt maker. He came from Bury
in the Connty of Lancaster. Soon after his
arrival, on November 11, 1634, he joined the first
church of Boston, and was made a freeman in
1642. In 1644 he became a member of the military
organization since known as the Ancient and Hon-
orable Artillery Company. He lived in Boston
and became a prosperous man of affairs. In
1649 he was a Constable; in 1655 "Clerk of the
market." His name appears constantly in the
records as an appraiser of estates, a witness to
wills, and in such like capacities. Pretty nearly
everybody who died in Boston in the last half
of the seventeenth century, it would seem, was
indebted at death to Theodore Atkinson, his name
appearing as a creditor of countless estates. In
1645 he purchased a house on Court Street, the
second lot from Washington Street, and in 1652
he moved to a house on what is now Bromfield
Street, which some years later he sold to Edward
Rawson, the Secretary of the Colony. His pas-
ture was east of what is now Pearl Street. His
name appears in connection with various real
estate transactions. In 1662, with Job Lane,
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"Theodore Atkinson, of Boston, forger, agreed
to build a drawbridge." This Theodore may
have been his son. In 1663, Theodore Atkinson
was allowed his costs in a probate account for
repairing a house for a widow, Rachel Wood-
ward. In 1669, he was one of the original found-
ers of the Old South Church, with which he con-
tinued as a member until his death. At what
date his wife Abigail died is not of record, but
in 1667 he married Mary Lyde, the widow of
Edward Lyde, a daughter of the Eev. John
Wheelwright, Anne Hutchinson's brother in law.
Referring to the death of this Mary Atkinson, who
outlived her husband Theodore some ten years,
Judge Sewall writes : ' ' This sixth day Jany 4th
(1711) Major Walley's foot is opened under-
neath and found to be very hollow and spongy.
Mr. Pemberton told me of it at the funeral of
Mrs. M. Atkinson, born in New England, aged
73 years, buried in a Tomb in the new burying
place from her son Mr. Lyde's house. Bearers
Col. Elisha Hutchinson, Sewall, Addington, Stod-
dard, Dummer, Col. Checkley. ' ' The Judge never
missed a funeral if he could help it.
In 1678, Theodore Atkinson and his wife Mary
testified in a proceeding relating to an adventurer
by the name of Hailes, who succeeded in imposing
upon the daughter of Mr. Edward Rawson. Theo-
dore Atkinson deposed that one who called him-
self Thomas Rumsey, among other names, came
to work for him "for to attend my business, keep
my books of acount, and gether in my debts."
Rumsey told a very good story of gentle birth
THEODORE ATKINSON 735
and hard luck, and pretended to have come to
New England for religion's sake. He was use-
less as an assistant and peculiarly deficient in
religion, and the various and highly inconsistent
yarns he told about his noble ancestry at length
made Theodore Atkinson very wrought with him.
Hailes succeeded better with the young daughter
of Edward Kawson to her subsequent undoing
and regret.
Theodore Atkinson died in 1701 aged eighty-
nine. His descendants are man}T. Several have
been distinguished, notably his grandson Theo-
dore, a famous soldier and Chief Justice of New
Hampshire. The family has been prominent in
Boston for many generations.
John Atkinson, from whom you descend, was
one of the older sons of Theodore and Abigail
Atkinson. He was born in Boston in 1636. He
did not have the opportunity of a college educa-
tion which his father's growing prosperity fur-
nished the younger sons. He learned his father 's
trade of a "hatter." It was doubtless when he
was a young lad about town that he met Sarah
Merrick (or Mirick as it is sometimes written) of
Charlestown, and courted her. Four brothers, it
would seem, of the name of Merrick, came over
on the ship James from Bristol, landing at
Charlestown in the spring of 1636. One of the
brothers, James, remained for some years in
Charlestown. I have been unable to ascertain the
parentage of Sarah, but think it is altogether
probable that she was the daughter of James. If
she had been a sister, as the Merrick genealogists
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declare, she would have been altogether too old
for John Atkinson's bride. At all events, when
James Merrick removed to Newbury in 1657,
Sarah was a member of his family. John Atkin-
son evidently could not bear to be parted from
his lady love and soon followed her to Newbury,
and married her. In 1662 there was granted to
him as a townsman half an acre of land "by the
spring near Anthony Morse, Jr.'s house." The
Atkinson house on this lot was standing not many
years ago.
There is some doubt as to the origin of the four
Merricks who came over on the James, but it
seems probable that they were the children of
John Merrick, born about 1579 at St. David, Pem-
brokeshire, where his father was rector. The
father was the Rev. William Merrick, a native
of Llaleschid in Wales, born about 1546, the son
of the Rev. John Merrick, born about 1513, who
was the fifth son of Merrick of Llewellyn, a Cap-
tain of the Guard at the coronation of Henry VIII
in 1509. If this is, indeed, so, it gives you your
only strain of Welsh blood.
I have found little recorded about John Atkin-
son, except that in 1668 and again in 1678 he took
the "oath of allegiance." I so often mention the
taking of the oath of allegiance by these early
ancestors of yours that you may like to know
what it meant. The settlement in New England
had been made by dissenters from the established
church in England. They came over, for the most
part, during the later part of the reign of Charles
I, when Archbishop Laud was especially active
THEODORE ATKINSON 737
against them. Later, in England, the Puritan
party obtained the upper hand and Oliver Crom-
well ruled the kingdom. He died in 1658, and
Charles II was proclaimed king, May 8, 1660.
The restoration of the Stuarts was a great blow
to the colonists in America, and they were re-
luctant to recognize and accept the new govern-
ment at home. This situation was evident to the
King's ministers, and a pointed intimation was
conveyed to the General Court of Massachusetts
that public acknowledgment of the King's author-
ity be no longer delayed. Consequently, the Gen-
eral Court, under direction of the Governor, issued
a proclamation August 7, 1661, requiring all the
freemen to appear before certain magistrates
and make oath that they acknowledged King
Charles as their rightful sovereign. In Plymouth
Colony, and especially among the Quakers of what
was subsequently Bristol County, there was much
opposition to this requirement. In Newbury, a
great turmoil was excited, and few of the inhabi-
tants obeyed the order. Several attempts were
made by the authorities to enforce the taking of
the oath. In 1668, under pressure, several New-
bury men, among whom was John Atkinson, suc-
cumbed to the pressure. About ten years later,
a more vigorous attempt was made to round up
the inhabitants, and John Atkinson, to be on the
safe side, took the oath a second time.
I find in the records of the trial of one Susannah
Martin, a widow, as a witch, at the Court in Salem,
July 27, 1692, that John Atkinson and his wife
Sarah testified. John testified that he ' ' exchanged
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a cow with a son of Susannah Martin whereat
she muttered and was unwilling he should have
it. Going to receive his cow, though he ham-
stringed her, and haltered her, she of a tame
creature grew so mad that they scare get her
away. She broke all the ropes that were fastened
to her; and though she was tied fast to a tree,
yet she made her escape, and gave them such
further trouble, as they could ascribe to no cause
but witchcraft." Sarah Atkinson, wife of John,
testified that "Sussanah Martin came from Ames-
bury to their house in Newbury in an extraordi-
nary season when it was not fit for any one to
travel. She came all that long way on foot. She
bragged and showed how dry she was ; nor could
it be perceived that so much as the soles of her
feet were wet. She, Sarah Atkinson, was amazed
at it and professed that she should herself have
been wet up to her knees if she had come so far;
but Sussanah Martin replied 'She scorned to
be drabbled. ' ' ' Fortunately for Susannah Martin
the witchcraft craze was waning, and the above
testimony, which would doubtless have been
accepted by the Court a few years earlier as
conclusive of the devilish crime of witchcraft,
was not deemed sufficient to send the old woman
to death, and she was subsequently acquitted.
Sarah Atkinson, the daughter of John and
Sarah Atkinson, who married Stephen Coffin, a
son of Tristram Coffin, was a great grandmother
of Abner Toppan.
Chapter X
ABNER TOPPAN
ABNER TOPPAN
Abner Toppan, the eleventh child of Edward
Toppan and Sarah Bailey, was born in the Top-
pan house April 6, 1764. He was a cabinet maker.
With his brother Edward, who was ten years his
senior, he engaged in the business of making
furniture. They had a shop on High Street, not
far from Toppan 's Lane, where they carried on
an extensive business. The carved mahogany
four post bedstead, with bureau and washstand
and other pieces, which your Aunt Carolina Car-
men Crapo gave to your mother on her marriage,
and which had been for many years in the pos-
session of the Wills family in Newburyport, from
whom your Aunt Carolina inherited it, was made
by Abner Toppan.
It was on a journey to the south perhaps in
search of mahogany that Abner Toppan met and
fell in love with Elizabeth Stanford, an "eastern
shore Maryland" maiden, and wooed her against
the protests of her family, and finally eloped with
her and brought her to his New England home.
His dwelling house was on the east side of High
Street near the head of Toppan 's Lane. It is a
substantial, comfortable old house. Here your
grandmother, Sarah Tappan Crapo, spent many
happy vacations with her Grandmother Toppan,
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To give you a feeling of the reality of these people
of a bygone age, I quote from the Reminiscences
of a Nonagenarian, by Sarah Anna Emery, writ-
ten in 1879. She writes in reference to a serious
illness which she had in September, 1817, as fol-
lows : ' ' The tedium of a slow convalescence was
enlivened by a bevy of youthful neighbors. Mr.
Abner Toppan 'a oldest daughter Sophia had mar-
ried Mr. Oliver Crocker and gone to New Bed-
ford. Betsey and Arianna were unmarried. Abner
and Stanford were lads in their teens. Harriet
and George were mere children. ' ' It was George,
born January 6, 1807, who was your father's
grandfather. He came to New Bedford later,
and it so happened that all his sisters lived in or
near New Bedford.
Abner Toppan died in 1836 at too early a date
for your grandmother, Sarah Tappan Crapo, to
remember him, and I have no means of learning
anything of his personal life and characteristics.
His portrait, which hangs in your grandfather's
dining room, shows a kindly face with cheeks like
red apples. Near by is the portrait of his wife,
Elizabeth Stanford. She has a sweet strong face.
I have looked on these two faces three times a
day for many, many years, and I am quite sure
that she was his better half.
PART VII
ANCESTORS
OF
AARON DAVIS
Chapter I
JOHN DAVIS
Came over prior to 1635
John Davis
(Alice
1687+
Jacob Davis
(Elizabeth Bennett)
1685
Jacob Davis
(Mary Haskell)
1662 — 1716
Aaron Davis
(Phebe Day)
About 1700 — 1743
Aaron Davis
(Mary Knapp^
1737 — 1812
Aaron Davis
(Sarah Morse Smith)
1777 _ 1829
Serena Davis
(George Tappan)
1808 — 1896
Sarah Davis Tappan
(William W. Crapo)
1831 — 1893
Stanford T. Crapo
(Emma Morley)
1865 —
William Wallace Crapo
1895 —
JOHN DAVIS
Through your great great grandfather Davis
you are descended from a considerable number
of the early settlers of Gloucester. Cape Ann
was visited in 1605 and 1606 by the Chevalier
Champlain, who made an elaborate map and
dnbbed the place "Le Beauport." He found a
large and prosperous Indian settlement estab-
lished. In 1623, a company of Dorchester, Eng-
land, men set up a fishing stage at Cape Ann.
This settlement was for the most part abandoned
in 1626. In 1630, a band of Pilgrims, under the
leadership of a son of the Rev. John Robinson,
the Pilgrims' pastor at Leyden, engaged in fish-
ing on the Annisquam side of the cape, and some
of this band, with others who came from Ply-
mouth in New England, became settlers. In 1639,
the General Court of Massachusetts established
a "fishing plantation at Cape Ann," which in
1642 was formally made the town of Gloucester.
Most of the early settlers lived on the cape along
the Squam river, although the later development
of the settlement was at the head of the harbor,
where is now the city of Gloucester. Among the
early settlers was John Davis, many of whose
numerous descendants have been identified with
Cape Ann.
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John Davis was in Ipswich in 1638, when he
took the freeman's oath, and probably earlier.
He is described as a * ' shoemaker. ' ' Whence he
came, where and when he was born, and who was
his wife, I have been unable to ascertain. In
1641 he is listed as having ' ' right to commonage. ' '
In a deed made later his wife is named as Alice.
On April 15, 1642, the town agreed with him to
"keepe the Cows Herd on the north side of the
Eiver. " The agreement, to which his signature
is appended, is an interesting document setting
forth his duties. He was to take such sufficient
helpers as he might select, subject to the approval
"from tyme to tyme of the Seven Men." He
was to act as herdsman for twenty-five weeks and
to receive twenty shillings a week, from which, I
gather, he was to pay his helpers. One of the
provisions of the agreement was that at least
one of the herdsmen should attend church every
Sabbath.
In 1648 he conveyed certain land in Ipswich
describing himself as of "Jabaque within the
bounds and limits of Ipswich." In 1648 he was
one of the subscribers, to the amount of two shill-
ings yearly, for the support of Major Dennison.
A large number of subscribers agreed to con-
tribute a total of £24 17s. yearly to Major Denni-
son "so long as he shall be their leader, in way
of gratuity to encourage him in his military help-
fulness to them." And, it being evident, as the
signers of the subscription paper state, that the
collection of the various amounts would be dif-
ficult and burdensome, they requested the Select-
JOHN DAVIS 74.9
men to add the amounts to their tax levies. Mr.
Richard Saltonstall led the list with a contribution
of £4. One of your ancestors, Richard Kimball,
was not far behind him with £3. John Davis
and Thomas Newman, however, were among the
large majority who subscribed two shillings
apiece.
In 1656, John Davis removed to Gloucester and
bought of Richard Windon his house, barn, and
cleared land. He lived in Gloucester for several
years, and his two sons, Captain James Davis who
was conspicuous in the military annals of the
town and Jacob Davis, your ancestor, continued
to reside in Gloucester, and are the ancestors of
the Davis families of that place. John Davis, the
father, evidently returned to Ipswich. In 1671, he
was a Selectman of Gloucester. In a deed of land
in Gloucester in 1682, he described himself as of
that town, but it would seem clear that he was
then living in Ipswich. He was a Selectman of
Ipswich in 1685. The last record I have found of
him, in Ipswich, is in 1687.
Jacob Davis, the son of John, may have come
over with his father, although not having the date
of his birth or his age when he died in 1685, I am
not certain whether he was born in England or
in New England. He went to Gloucester with his
father. On January 20, 1661, he married Eliza-
beth Bennett, who was probably a sister of An-
thony Bennett, although she may have been his
daughter. Anthony Bennett, who was a carpen-
ter by trade, is thought to have come from
Beverly. The statement that "He came to an
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untimely end" rather excites one's curiosity. He
lived at Goose Cove, and had a saw-mill near the
outlet of Cape Pond Brook where for many years
thereafter was a grist mill. In 1662, Jacob Davis
had a grant of land at the head of Long Cove. In
1682, he with others had the grant of the stream
at the head of Little River "to set up a saw mill
on. ' ' Here he lived near by his brother, Captain
James Davis, one of whose descendants was Chief
Justice Theophilus Parsons. Jacob was a mari-
ner as well as a miller, and owned one half of a
sloop and four canoes worth £12 10s. He died
September 2, 1685, and left a very considerable
estate for those times, to wit, £298 17s. The fact
that his inventory showed him possessed of a
"gun, court-les, and belt" indicated that he had
seen service in the militia, and, indeed, he was
drafted in 1675 to go to Narragansett in King
Philip's war. The draft says: "They doe want
warm clothing and must have new coates."
Jacob, the oldest son of Jacob and Elizabeth
Davis, was born in Gloucester, February 26, 1662.
He succeeded his father as a miller, and later
built a fulling mill. In 1708, land was granted
him in West Gloucester, near the head of Little
River, where he built a house, still standing, which
is one of the landmarks of Gloucester. As a
specimen of the type of ancient New England ar-
chitecture, it has great interest. On September
14, 1687, he married Mary Haskell, and had a
large family of children. He died in Gloucester,
February 1, 1716.
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Aaron, the third son of Jacob and Mary Has-
kell, was born between 1698 and 1700. In 1725,
he married Phebe Day, and soon after removed
to Attleboro in Massachusetts. What caused this
change of residence, we may not know. He was a
mechanic and it is, perhaps, likely that he found
a job in the town of Attleboro where relatives of
his mother were living. In Attleboro his children
were born, the fourth, Aaron Davis, born May
19, 1737, being your ancestor. Aaron, the father,
died in Attleboro in 1743. His widow, Phebe,
soon after married Benjamin Hobben. In 1752,
Aaron Davis, the son, then aged fourteen, with
others of the children, were placed under the
guardianship of David Day of Gloucester, their
uncle. Most of the children returned to Essex
County. Timothy went to West Gloucester, Zebu-
Ion to Gloucester and later to New Gloucester,
Maine, and Eliphalet to Gloucester. Whether
Aaron first went to Gloucester and subsequently
removed to Newburyport is not clear, but several
years before his marriage to Mary Knapp in 1761,
he is recorded in Newburyport as a laborer. He
died in Newburyport on January 5, 1812, aged 74,
his funeral being held at his son Aaron's house
on Middle Street. His gravestone, in excellent
preservation, is near the front of the New Hill
Burying Ground and is decorated by the bronze
marker of the Sons of the Revolution. His son
Aaron, was your great great grandfather who
married Sarah Morse Smith.
The only interesting event in the life of Aaron
Davis, the father of your great great grandfather
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Aaron, of which I have knowledge, is that he par-
ticipated in the Battle of Bunker Hill. Captain
Benjamin Perkins of Newbury received his com-
mission from Joseph Warren, May 19, 1775, al-
though his company had been enlisted some ten
days before. In this company, as a private, was
Aaron Davis. They reached Charlestown Neck
early on the morning of June 17. The passage
was covered by the guns of the Glasgow, British
man-of-war, and two floating batteries, which kept
up a heavy cross fire on the American troops who
attempted to cross. Captain Perkins determined
to go over, and throwing away his wig, he or-
dered his men to follow him in single file, and
succeeded in making the passage without loss.
The company were stationed "by the rail fence"
near the breastworks and were in the thick of the
fight all day. Seven of the company were killed
and some twenty-three wounded. In the report
to Congress by the Committee of Massachusetts
is the following : ' ' The artillery advanced towards
the open space between the breastwork and the
rail fence; this ground was defended by some
brave Essex troops covered only by scattering
trees. With resolution and deadly aim they
poured the most destructive volleys on the enemy.
The enemy's cannon, however, turned the breast-
work, enfiladed the line, and sent the balls through
the open gate way or sallyport directly into the
redoubt under cover of which the troops at the
breastworks were compelled to retire." Another
ancestor of yours, Nathaniel Smith, in Captain
Ezra Lund's company, did valiant service in cov-
JOHN DAVIS 753
ering this retreat and preventing the British
troops from slaughtering the brave men who had
held the hill all day.
Several of the members of Captain Perkins'
company afterwards testified in an inquiry as to
the conduct of General Putnam during the battle,
and the record of the testimony gives a vivid
picture of the position and actions of the com-
pany during the engagement. One Philip John-
son of Newburyport, for instance, says that while
they were at the rail fence, just before the action
began, General Putnam came up on horseback and
said "Men, you know you are all good marksmen,
you can take a squirrel from the tallest tree.
Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes."
And after the first retreat of the British, General
Putnam again rode up and said "Men, you have
done well, but next time you will do better. Aim
at the officers." Johnson adds "the balls were
flying thick as peas." Many of Captain Perkins'
company reenlisted after the battle and served
with "Washington's army at Long Island and
"White Plains during the ensuing season, but
whether Aaron Davis was among them I have
not ascertained.
Chapter II
WILLIAM HASKELL
Came over 1637
William Haskell 1617 — 1693
(Mary Tibbot)
William Haskell 1644 — 1708
(Mary Brown)
Maey Haskell 1668 —
(Jacob Davis)
Aaron Davis About 1700 — 1743
(Phebe Day)
Aaron Davis 1737 — 1812
(Mary Knapp)
Aaron Davis 1777 — 1829
(Sarah Morse Smith)
Serena Davis 1808 — 1896
(George Tappan)
Sarah Davis Tappan 1831 — 1893
(William W. Crapo)
Stanford T. Crapo 1865 —
(Emma Morley)
William Wallace Crapo 1895 —
WILLIAM HASKELL
Your ancestor, William Haskell, who was one of
the more prominent of the early settlers of
Gloucester, was born in England in 1617. He
came over, probably, in 1637, and settled in that
part of Salem now called Beverly. Here he lived
some years. In 1643 and in 1645 his name
appears as a grantee of lands at Planter's Neck
in Gloucester, but it does not appear clearly that
he actually settled in Gloucester until a few years
prior to 1656, when he was permanently living on
Cape Ann, on the west side of the Annisquam
Eiver. He is described as a ' 'mariner," and was
doubtless engaged in fishing, as were most of the
early settlers of Gloucester. He took a leading
part in the affairs of the town, serving as Select-
man for many years, and representing the town
at the General Court at Boston at many sessions.
In 1661, he was appointed by the General Court
as "Lieutenant of the trayned band of Glouces-
ter." Afterwards he became the Captain of the
band, and he is usually referred to in the early
records of Gloucester as "Captain Haskell." He
was one of the earliest recorded Deacons of the
First Church of Gloucester. In 1681, he joined
in a petition to the King asking his Majesty "to
interpose to prevent the disturbance of titles to
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real estate in Gloucester by Robert Mason, who
made claims thereto." In 1688, as one of the
Selectmen of the town, he resented the imposition
of taxes by Governor Andros. With his col-
leagues in office and a few of his fellow townsmen
he refused to submit to what he regarded as un-
just taxation. One of the items in the assessment
to which he objected was "the shott for said jus-
tices by their order at the tavern. The totall for
the first bout was three pounds fifteen shillings
money." It seems that the "Justices" when they
bound over the recalcitrant officers of Gloucester,
made merry at the tavern and charged the cost
to the town. The remonstrance of the outraged
citizens of Gloucester was not regarded, and Wil-
liam Haskell, with some others, was indicted and
severely fined for refusal to assess the amount
demanded by the government.
There was no great wealth among these early
Gloucester fishermen, but William Haskell seems
to have been the richest man in town, at least he
paid the largest tax, and when he died he left an
estate of £548. In a marginal note on the town
records, under date of 1693, there is the follow-
ing: "Capt. Haskell hath been sick almost this
half year and still remains. ' ' He did not remain
long, dying in the latter part of the same year.
On November 6, 1643, Captain Haskell had mar-
ried Mary Tibbot. She was the daughter of
Walter Tibbot, who was one of the leading men
of Gloucester in the earliest days, being appointed
by the General Court one of the Commissioners
"to manage the settlement of Gloucester" in 1642
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when it was incorporated as a town. He served
as Selectman continuously until his death in 1651.
William Haskell, the son of Captain William
Haskell and Mary Tibbot, was born August 26,
1644, and died June 5, 1708. He owned a grist
mill and a saw mill in that part of Gloucester
which was later made the town of Rockport. He
evidently prospered as a miller, since his estate
at his death was valued at nearly £700. He mar-
ried July 3, 1667, Mary Brown. She was called
Mary "Walker" in her marriage record, having
been adopted in a sense by her stepfather, Henry
Walker. Her own father was William Brown, an
early settler of Gloucester, who died in 1662. Her
mother was Mary, the widow of Abraham Robin-
son, a most interesting personality of whom there
is much known. He is supposed to have been
a son of the Rev. John Robinson of Leyden.
Who Mary was I do not know, but she managed
to marry several distinctly interesting old settlers
of Gloucester. Her last husband, Henry Walker,
was very much identified with the early history
of his town. He had no children, and at his death
he made his wife's children the principal legatees
under his will. His wife 's daughter, Mary Brown,
who married William Haskell, the second, had a
daughter Mary who married Jacob Davis, and
was a great grandmother of Aaron Davis.
Chaptee III
ZACCHEUS GOULD
Came over prior to 1638
Zaccheus Gould 1589 — 1668
(Phebe Deacon)
Priscilla Gould 1625 — 1663
(John Wilde)
Phebe Wilde 1657 — 1727
(Timothy Day)
Timothy Day 1679 — 1757
(Jane )
Phebe Day 1706 —
(Aaron Davis)
Aaron Davis 1737 — 1812
(Mary Knapp)
Aaron Davis 1777 — 1829
(Sarah Morse Smith)
Serena Davis 1808 — 1896
(George Tappan)
Sarah Davis Tappan 1831 — 1893
(William W. Crapo)
Stanford T. Crapo 1865 —
(Emma Morley)
William Wallace Crapo 1895 —
ZACCHEUS GOULD
In the admirably prepared history of the family
of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield, by Benjamin A.
Gould, there is an interesting account of his
descent, apparently well authenticated in detail,
from Thomas Goold of Bovington, Hertfordshire,
in the parish of Hemel Hempstead, who was born
about 1455. The wills and other records relating
to these successive generations of prosperous
Hertfordshire yeomen are most interesting. I
will quote only from the will of your very great
grandfather (of a greatness, in fact, of the thir-
teenth power). The will is dated August 29, 1520,
and was proved September 28, 1520 :
First. I bequeth my sowle to almyghty god and to
our blissed lady saint Mary and to all the holy company
of Hevyn, my body to buryyd in the church yard of
Saint Lawrence at Bovyngton.
Item. I bequeth to the high aulter Is.
Item, to the moder church at Lincoln V d.
Item, to the rood light XI d.
Item, to our lady's light XI d
Item, to Saint Lawrence light XI d
Item, to Saint Lenards light VII d
Item, to Saint Nicholas light VII d
Item, to the mayntayning of the torches V s VII d
Item, to the gilding of Saint Lawrence tabernacle
V mks.
I will have a prest syngyng for my sowle 11 yers.
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To his son Richard, your ancestor, he gives a
"gray horse, a long cart, a muk cart, a gt whet,
a cow. VI shepe, 11 acre of wood in Langley wood,
VC tymber at the howse wherein I dwelt some-
time myself, VC spoks, a plough, and the gerys
that longith thereto." He makes similar bequests
to six other children, two brothers, and five ser-
vants. He contributes twenty shillings "to the
mendyng of the highway betwixt Bovington and
Chepfeld. " He makes detailed provision for his
widow, and makes his oldest son, Thomas, the
residuary legatee, and heir to all his land.
At the time of the large immigration to Massa-
chusetts Bay in 1634 and for a few years there-
after, several members of the Bovington family
of Goulds came over. The date when Zaccheus
Gould, your comeoverer, crossed is not known.
It was prior to 163S. He was first in Weymouth,
but soon went to Lynn, where he lived some four
or five years. In 1640, he owned a mill on the
Saugus Eiver. It is evident that he came over
with some capital, since his operations are on a
somewhat larger scale than those of most of your
comeoverers. For instance, he hired a farm in
Salem for which he agreed to pay an annual
rental of £160 for the first and £200 after the
second year, payable in wheat and rye at five
shillings and barley at four shillings the bushel.
"Whether he entered into possession of this par-
ticular farm is not clear. In this year he peti-
tioned the General Court to exempt husbandmen
from ordinary trainings in seed-time, hay-time,
and harvest. He complained that his servants.
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and those of others, were oftentimes drawn from
their work to train in seed-time and harvest, and
that he, himself, "for one day's training was
much damnified in his hay." The Court granted
the petition and fixed the training days at more
convenient times.
Prior to 1644, Zaccheus Gould removed to Ips-
wich and took up extensive land holdings, one
purchase from William Paine of Watertown
being of three hundred acres, and one from Gover-
nor Endicott of five hundred and fifty acres.
These holdings were in the northerly part of the
territory originally within Ipswich bounds, north
of the Ipswich River and on both sides of Fishing
Brook. In 1644, Zaccheus Gould petitioned the
General Court to have this territory set off as
a separate town. The General Court at first was
somewhat reluctant, but after much urging, in
1650 established a separate town, by the name
of Topsfield, although Mr. Gould had suggested
Hempstead as a good name, in memory of his
ancient home in England.
From this time until his death in 1668, Zaccheus
Gould is prominently connected with the early
history of Topsfield, being manifestly its leading
citizen. The records of the Courts and land
offices, and the proceedings of the town make con-
stant mention of him. He was evidently highly
respected, but rather too independent in his views
to suit the prevailing Puritan standards. He
took the "oath of fidelity," but he never became
a "freeman" of the Colony, to become which it
was necessary to be a member of the church.
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His relations with the church at Topsfield were
somewhat strained to say the least, as appears
by his trial at Ipswich Court in March, 1659, for
disturbing the peace in public worship. "He sat
down on the end of the table about which the
minister and scribe sit, with his hat full on his
head and his back toward all the rest. Although
spoken to by the minister and others he altered
not his posture. He spoke audibly when the
minister was preaching. ' ' He was ' ' admonished ' '
by the Court. In November of the same year,
Zaccheus Gould was indicted and fined three
pounds for entertaining Quakers. In May, 1661,
this fine was remitted, "in consequence of his
great loss lately sustained by fire." On the other
hand, Zaccheus Gould was most liberal in his
donations of land and buildings and money to the
church at Topsfield. He was the largest land
owner of his neighborhood, and when he died, be-
tween March 30, 1668, and November 13, 1668,
he had not less than three thousand acres. His
son, Captain John Gould, who succeeded to his
father's landed estates, became a man of much
note and distinction in Essex County.
Priscilla, the daughter of Zaccheus and Phebe
(Deacon) Gould, was born in 1625, in Great Mis-
senden in England. She married John Wilde,
who was born in England in 1618 and with his
brother William had settled in Ipswich prior to
1637. John Wilde served in the Pequot War in
1637, and in 1639 he was allowed three shillings
for this service. In 1643, it was "agreed that
each soldier for his service to the Indians shall
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be allowed twelve shillings a day," John Wilde
being mentioned as one of these soldiers. About
1645, he moved to Topsfield, where he married
Priscilla. He was somewhat prominent in the
town's affairs, serving in many minor municipal
employments. Priscilla died in April, 1663, and
in November of the same year John Wilde mar-
ried Sarah Averill. When the witchcraft delu-
sion swept Essex County, John Wilde's family
were among the greatest sufferers. His wife, two
daughters and a son in law were imprisoned and
tried. His wife was convicted and executed. The
story of this trial is given in detail in the Collec-
tions of the Essex Institute. John Wilde married
a third time, Mary Jacobs of Salem, in 1693, and
died in Topsfield May 14, 1705, aged over eighty-
five years. He was a large landed proprietor.
It is not surprising that among your numerous
Essex County forebears there were several who
suffered during the witchcraft days, but surely
the experience of your ancestor John Wilde was
the most cruel.
Phebe, the daughter of John Wilde and Pris-
cilla Gould, named after her grandmother Gould,
was born in Topsfield in 1657, and in 1679 married
Timothy Day of Gloucester. In 1692, she was
accused of witchcraft, and imprisoned in Ipswich
gaol, where she remained for some months, until
released on bonds for her reappearance, together
with Mary Eose and Rachel Vinton. These three
Gloucester witches were accused of bewitching a
sister of Lieutenant Stephens. It was fortunate
that they happened to be taken to Ipswich and
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kept in prison there during the excitement at
Salem. The Court was so busy trying the numer-
ous cases before it, which the coterie of young
Salem girls were responsible for, that it had no
time to take up numerous other cases pending
in the County, and before the other cases could
be reached a most fortunate return to sanity
stopped the absurd craze.
Timothy Day, whom Phebe Wilde married, was
born in Gloucester in 1653, and died in 1723. He
lived on the west side of the Annisquam River.
He was a soldier in King Philip's War. His
father was Anthony Day, a comeoverer, born in
1616, and died in Gloucester in 1707. Anthony
Day at first settled at Ipswich, but came to
Gloucester prior to 1645. He lived at the "Neck
of Houselots" between Annisquam River and
Mill River. In 1650, he married Susanna Machett,
"servant to William Vinson," whose good name
and fame he had vindicated before the Quarterly
Court at Salem in 1649 against the aspersions oC
her master.
Timothy Day, second, the son of Timothy Day
and Phebe Wilde, was born in 1679 and died in
1757. He married one Jane, whose surname I
have not discovered. Their daughter, Phebe Day,
born in 1706, married Aaron Davis, the grand-
father of your great great grandfather, Aaron
Davis.
Chapter IV
WILLIAM KNAPP
Came over 1630
William Knapp 1578 — 1658
( )
John Knapp 1624 — 1696
(Sarah Young)
Isaac Knapp 1672 — 1744
(Ann Eaton)
Samuel Knapp 1717 — 1745
(Mary Robinson)
Mary Knapp 1739 — 1815
(Aaron Davis)
Aaron Davis 1777 — 1829
(Sarah Morse Smith)
Serena Davis 1808 — 1896
(George Tappan)
Sarah Davis Tappan 1831 — 1893
(William W. Crapo)
Stanford T. Crapo 1865 —
(Emma Morley)
William Wallace Crapo 1895 —
WILLIAM KNAPP
William Knapp, styled "a carpenter," came
over with Sir Richard Saltonstall in 1630 and
settled at Watertown. He lived on the Cambridge
Road. His first wife, who was your ancestress,
died in England. Her name I know not. Later,
he married Priscilla Akers, the widow of Thomas
Akers of Watertown. He died in 1658 aged eighty
years. When he came over he brought several
children, among whom was your ancestor John
Knapp, who was born probably about 1624. On
May 25, 1660, John married Sarah Young. She
was probably a sister of Henry Young of Water-
town, but whether she was born on this side of
the water, and who were her parents, I have not
discovered. There was a widow Young of Cam-
bridge who had a grant of land in 1638. John
Knapp was evidently not a prosperous man. In
1683 he was made sexton of the first church of
Watertown at a salary of £4 10s per annum.
There are many references to him during the
next ten years in the church records. He died in
1696 leaving an estate of £65.
Isaac Knapp, the son of John and Sarah
(Young) Knapp, born about 1672, became a ship-
wright. During his life he lived in Watertown,
Charlestown, Salem and Marblehead and Boston.
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In 1690, when he was eighteen years old, he and
his brother James went on the expedition to
Quebec, and in 1735 he received a grant of land
in Canada in recompense for his military service.
He probably removed to Salem about 1703, and
for some years thereafter he was actively engaged
in ship building. He died in 1744 and is buried
in the old Granary Burying Ground in Boston.
Samuel Knapp, the son of Isaac and Ann
(Eaton) Knapp, was born June 6, 1717, in Salem.
What caused him to move to Newburyport I know
not. On April 1, 1739, when he was twenty-two
years of age, as appears by the church records of
Newburyport, he ' * acknowledged himself guilty
of breach of the seventh commandment before mar-
riage, gave satisfaction by a profession of repent-
ance, was restored to charity and obtained baptism
of his first child." This child was Mary Knapp,
the mother of your great great grandfather,
Aaron Davis. She was born on the same day he
made his confession, although out of courtesy, I
suppose, she has been given a birthday one year
later in the family records. The church records,
however, leave no doubt about the facts. Her
mother, whom Samuel Knapp married January
17, 1739, three months before her advent in the
world, was one Mary Robinson, a granddaughter
of Robert Robinson of Newbury. A very ex-
tended search has failed to discover the origin
of Mary or of Robert Robinson. The name
appears in the early history of Newbury and of
Gloucester, but I have been quite unable to trace
the lineage of this Mary Robinson, who makes a
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rather deplorable gap, as you may notice, in the
circular chart of the ancestors of Aaron Davis.
Samuel Knapp joined in the expedition against
Louisburg, and was killed May 26, 1745, at the
head of the volunteers who stormed the island
battery. He was twenty-eight years old at the
time of his cutting off.
Chapter V
NATHANIEL EATON
Came over 1637
Hector
Nathaniel Eaton
( Graves)
1609 — 1640+
Benoni Eaton
(Rebecca )
About 1639 — 1690
Ann Eaton
(Isaac Knapp)
1736+
Samuel Knapp
(Mary Robinson)
1717 — 1745
Mary Knapp
(Aaron Davis)
1739 — 1815
Aaron Davis
(Sarah Morse Smith)
1777 _ 1829
Serena Davis
(George Tappan)
1808 — 1896
Sarah Davis Tappan
(William W. Crapo)
1831 — 1893
Stanford T. Crapo
(Emma Morley)
1865 —
William Wallace Crapo
1895 —
NATHANIEL EATON
Cotton Mather thus describes the founding of
Harvard College : "A General Court held at Bos-
ton Sep. 8th 1636 advanced a small sum (it was
then a day of small things), namely, four hundred
pounds, by way of essay towards the building of
something to begin a Colledge; and New-Town
being the Kiriath Sepher" (the city of books)
"appointed for the seat of it, the name of the
town was . . . changed to Cambridge. But
that which laid the most significant stone in the
foundation was the last will of Mr. John Har-
vard . . . While these things were a doing,
a society of scholars, to lodge in the new nests,
were forming under the conduct of one Mr.
Nathaniel Eaton, or, if thou wilt, reader, Orbilius
Eaton, a blade who marvellously deceived the
expectations of good men concerning him; for he
was one fitter to be master of a Bridewell than
a Colledge ; and though his avarice was notorious
enough to get the name of a Philagyrius fixed
upon him, yet his cruelty was more scandalous
than his avarice. He was a rare scholar him-
self, and he made many more such, but their edu-
cation truly was 'in the School of Tyrannus.'
Among many other instances of his cruelty he
gave one in causing two men to hold a young
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gentleman, while he so unmercifully beat him
with a cudgel, that upon complaint of it to the
court in September 1639 he was fined an hundred
marks, besides a convenient sum to be paid unto
the young gentleman; . . . and for his in-
human severities towards the scholars he was
removed from his trust."
This blade, Orbilius Eaton, if thou wilt, I regret
to say was your ancestor. It doubtless would
have pleased you better to trace your descent from
his brother (Mather quite ignores the relation-
ship), "the most excellent Theophilus, our Eaton,
in whom the shine of every virtue was particularly
set off with a more than ordinary degree of
humility." Mather is quite as exuberant in his
praise as he is in his condemnation, and he further
eulogizes Theophilus as follows : "He was affable,
courteous and generally pleasant but grave per-
petually; and so cautious and circumspect in his
discources and so modest in his expressions, that
it became a proverb for incontestable truth;
* Governor Eaton said it!' He was the glory
and the pillar of the New Haven Colony!"
What makes the matter still more deplorable
is that I fully realize you will not consider it so
high an honor as I do to be descended from the
first principal of Harvard College, blade though
he was. And if it had only happened to be his
brother Theophilus, you could have claimed re-
lationship, by marriage at least, with the founder
of Yale College, since Theophilus, just before he
came over, married Ann, the daughter of Thomas
Morton, Bishop of Chester, and widow of David
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Yale. Her two sons, David and Thomas Yale,
came over with their stepfather, your avuncular
ancestor, and it was Elihu, the son of Thomas,
who founded Yale College. Of course, I'm sorry
it was Nathaniel, "the blade," and not Theophi-
lus "the pillar," who is responsible for you, but
as for me, I don't mind being distinguished as
such a very primeval "son of Harvard."
"Unhappy Nathaniel Eaton," your ancestor,
was born at Stony Stratford in the County of
Bucks, in 1609. He was the son of Richard Eaton,
who afterwards was rector of Great Budworth in
Cheshire, where Nathaniel and his brothers grew
up, having as one of their boyhood companions
John Davenport, who became the life long friend
of Theophilus and the famous divine who joined
with him in the settlement of Connecticut at New
Haven. Another brother was Samuel, who, like
Nathaniel, became a minister. It is not clear
whether Nathaniel was an Oxford or a Cambridge
man. Samuel matriculated at Magdalene College,
Cambridge, 1624-1628, and it is not unlikely that
his brother Nathaniel went to the same college,
although Cotton Mather, who as to matters of
fact is seldom to be depended upon, makes them
both Oxford men. Of Nathaniel's earlier life I
know little. He is said to have studied under
Doctor William Ames at Franeber, in the Nether-
lands, and that he studied for the ministry is
probable, and that he was more interested in
scholastic than in religious matters is also prob-
able. One can hardly believe that he would have
taken the deeply conscientious position which
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brought his brother Samuel to prison as a non-
conformist in 1635. Samuel was one of the
''lights" in the puritanical galaxy of martyrs.
Theophilus, who was evidently the flower of
the family, also doubtless had a college education
and was designed for the church. His ambition
took another turn, and going to London he became
a merchant of renown. He was associated with
the Fellowship of Eastland Merchants, of which
he was at one time Governor. He was sent as
Governor to oversee the interests of the mercan-
tile establishment on the Baltic. Afterwards he
was employed by King Charles as his agent at
the Court of Denmark, and became the warm
friend of the King of Denmark. He was one of
the original partners in the Massachusetts Bay
Colony enterprise, and acted as Assistant in its
earliest days. It seems probable that he may have
come over with Winthrop in 1628 or 1630 and re-
turned soon after. Some years after, in coopera-
tion with his dear friend John Davenport, he
organized the company who settled at New
Haven. "Eaton in all respects was the natural
and proper leader of the enterprise considered
as a commercial or as a political experiment."
His personal contribution to the enterprise in
money was £3,000. He came over in 1637 on the
Hector with his company, landing in Boston and
conferring with Governor Winthrop, who was his
loyal friend and admirer, and soon after went
to Connecticut and established the settlement
at New Haven. Of him James Savage, the
historian par excellence of New England, says:
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"No character in the annals of New England
is of purer fame than that of Theophilus Eaton,
governor of the colony of New Haven from its
settlement to his death, by twenty annual elec-
tions, the only instance of such an honour ever
conferred. ' '
It seems altogether probable that Theophilus
Eaton's two brothers, Samuel and Nathaniel,
came over with him in the Hector in 1637.
Samuel, who is the recipient of Cotton Mather's
extravagant praise, went to New Haven for a
time, but within three years returned to England.
Nathaniel, your ancestor, was admitted as a free-
man in Boston, June 9, 1638. Winthrop terms
him a "schoolmaster," but it seems to be clearly
evident that he was entitled to the highest title
of honor, that of "minister."
Your ancestor Nathaniel Eaton's career in New
England was certainly not commendable, and he
has not left a pleasant memory. A few months
after his arrival, in November, 1637, the town of
Newtown (later Cambridge) granted to "The
Professor" (Nathaniel Eaton) two and two-
thirds acres of land in the ' ' Oxe Pasture. ' ' This
land is now the site of Holworthy, Stoughton and
Hollis Halls within the College yard. In May,
1638, the town granted a further allotment of
land of five hundred acres "to the towne's use
forever for a public school or college; and to the
use of Mr. Nathaniel Eaton as long as he shall
be employed in that work; so that at his death
or ceasing from that work he or his shall be
allowed according to the charges he hath been
at in building and fencing."
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Nathaniel Eaton built a house for himself
within what is now "the yard," and there, in the
' ' School of Tyrannus ' ' for a year or more, being
a "rare scholar himself," "he made many more
such." It seems he did not make much of a
scholar of one Nathaniel Rowe, a letter from
whom to Governor Winthrop I found, curiously
enough, in a history of the settlement of New
Haven. As the letter, beside throwing a side-
light on the delinquencies of your ancestor, por-
trays the familiar predicament of a young chap
who is "strapped" and seeks to borrow money
' ' to get home, ' ' I will venture to quote it in part :
Nathaniel Rowe to John Winthrop: Most loving
and kinde sir, my humblest service remembered to you,
I now with much consideration (and thinking of all
things and bussinesses) doe now write to you. First
of all my father sent me to this countrie verie hastelie
(& overmuch inconsiderately), — indeed it is a sore
grief to me that I should charge my prudent and most
deare father with the evil of rash doing of things ; but
yet being compelled in this time of straightness I must
say it. My father sent with me provisions enough for
to serve me a yeare or two, as meale, flour, buttar,
beefe. I having lost my meale and flour was com-
pelled to sell the rest of my provisions and, indeed,
being counselled so to do, I immediately did it. Then
Mr. Eaton and Mr. Davenport, having no direct order
what to do wished me and sent me unto Mr. Eaton,
the marchant's brother, to be instructed in the rudi-
ments of the Lattine tongue, (in which with practice
I shall be pretty skillful). I lived with him about a
month, and verily in that time he spake not one word
to me, scilicet, about my learning, and after he went
away I lived an idle life because I had no instructor.
The young man at some length explains that he
had better instruction afterwards, but that he has
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no money and wants to get home to his father.
He confesses that he is very doubtful about the
reception he may receive at home, but still he
wants to try it, and please won't the Governor
help him to pay his fare back to England.
Nathaniel Eaton's day of reckoning was near.
I can do no better in telling the tale than to quote
my greatly admired guide, Governor John Win-
throp. Under date of July, 1639, Winthrop
writes :
At the General Court at Boston one Mr. Nathaniel
Eaton, brother of the merchant at Tuilipiach, was con-
vented and censured. The occasion was this: He
was a schoolmaster and had many scholars, the sons
of gentlemen and others of best note in the country,
and had entertained one Nathaniel Briscoe, a gentle-
man born, to be his usher, and. to do some other things
for him which might not be unfit for a scholar. He
had not been with him above three days but he fell
out with him for a very small occasion, and with
reproachful terms, discharged him and turned him out
of his doors ; but it being then about eight of the clock
after the Sabbath, he told him he should stay till next
morning, and, some words growing between them, he
struck him and pulled him into his house. Briscoe de-
fended himself and closed with him, and being parted,
he came in and went up to his chamber to lodge there.
Mr. Eaton sent for the constable, who advised him first
to admonish him, and if he could not, by the power of
a master, reform him, then he should complain to the
magistrate. But he caused his man to fetch him a
cudgel, which was a walnut tree plant, big enough to
have killed a horse, and a yard in length, and taking
his two men with him, he went up to Briscoe, and
caused his men to hold him till he had given him two
hundred stripes about the head and shoulders. In this
distress Briscoe gate out his knife and struck at the
man that held him but hurt him not. He also fell to
prayer, supposing he should have been murdered, and
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then Mr. Eaton beat him for taking the name of God
in vain. After this Mr. Eaton . . . came to the
governour (that is to say the narrator) complaining
of Briscoe for his insolent speeches and for crying out
murder and drawing his knife, and desired that he be
enjoined to a publick acknowlegment. The magis-
trates answered that they must first hear him speak.
Mr. Eaton was displeased at this and went away dis-
contented. Being after called into the court to make
answer to the information which had been given by
some who knew the truth of the case, and also to
answer for his neglect and cruelty and other ill usage
towards his scholars, these things were laid to his
charge in open court. His answers were full of pride
and disdain . . . Being asked why he used such
cruelty to Briscoe his usher, and to other of his scholars
(for it was testified by another of his ushers and divers
of his scholars that he would give them between twenty
and thirty stripes at time, and would not leave till
they had confessed what he required) his answer was
that he had this rule, that he would not give over cor-
recting till he had subdued the party to his will.
Being also questioned about the ill and scant diet of
his boarders (for, though their friends gave large
allowance, yet their diet was ordinarily nothing but
porridge and pudding, and that very homely) he put
it off on his wife.
It seems necessary to break in on the Gover-
nor's narrative to say a word about this ances-
tress of yours on whom her husband laid the
blame for the poor food furnished the first
scholars of Harvard College. Two hundred and
fifty years later I, myself, can remember some
grumbling about the "grub," but we never went
so far as to bring the matter to the attention of
the Great and General Court. It seems the lady
was a daughter of "one Mr. Thomas Graves, a
member of Dorchester, and a very understanding
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man, who needs leave the church and go to
Virginia against all counsel. He and his wife and
divers of his children died and his whole family
was ruined about a year after. Only one daugh-
ter escaped who, being left a maid with good
estate, married to that apostate Nathaniel Eaton,
who having spent all she had fled away and left
her miserable." This excerpt anticipates the
climax.
Your many times great grandmother Eaton was
summoned before the Court and made a confession
which was written down, evidently not by her, in
great detail, and is now in the archives of the
State House in Boston where, says Savage, "it is
not probable that any document more minute or
entertaining can be preserved. ' ' It reads in part
as follows :
For their breakfast, that it was not so well ordered,
the flower not so fine as it might, nor so well boiled or
stirred, at all times that it was so, it was my sin of
neglect and want of that care that ought to have been
in one that the Lord had intrusted with such a work
. . . And that they sent down for more, when they
had not enough, and the maid should answer if they
had not they should not, I must confess that I have
denied them cheese when they have sent for it and
it have been in the house, for which I shall humbly
beg pardon of them and own the shame and confess
my sin . . . And for bad fish that they had it
brought to the table I am sorry there was that cause
of offence given them. I acknowledge my sin in it.
And for their mackerel brought to them with guts in
them, ... its utterly unknown to me, but I am
much ashamed it should be in the family — and not
prevented by me . . . For the Moor his lying in
Sam Hough's sheet and pillow-bier, it hath truth in
it; he did so one time and it gave Sam Hough just
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cause of offence, and that it was not prevented by my
care and watchfulness, I desire to take the shame and
sorrow of it . . . And for their pudding being
given the last of the week without butter or suet, and
that I said it was milk of Manchester in Old England,
it 's true that I did say so, and am sorry. And for their
wanting beer betwixt brewings a week or half a week
together I am sorry that it was so at any time, and
should tremble to have it so, were it in my hands to
do again.
I doubt very much if the Goodwife Eaton was
in the least responsible for this humble confes-
sion, although she may have been brow-beaten
into acknowledging it. Her husband, at all events,
was not so easily humbled, yet he too succumbed
to the severity of his judges. Winthrop thus con-
tinues his narrative:
So the court dismissed him at present and com-
manded him to attend again the next day, when,
being called, he was commanded to the lower end of
the table (where all offenders do usually stand) and
being openly convict of all the former offences by the
oaths of four or five witnesses, he yet continued to
justify himself; so it being near night he was com-
mitted to the marshall till the next day. When the
court was set in the morning . . . after the elders
were departed, the court consulted about him and sent
for him, and there in open court, before a great assem-
bly, he made a very solid, wise, eloquent and serious
(seeming) confession, condemning himself in all the
particulars. Whereupon, being put aside, the court
consulted privately about his sentence . . . and
they agreed to censure him and put him from that em-
ployment . . . and debar him from teaching chil-
dren within our jurisdiction . . .
The church at Cambridge then took the matter
up and found more evidence against the unfortu-
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nate school teacher, "but ere the Church could
come to deal with him he fled to Pascataquack and
being pursued and apprehended by the Governor
there, he again acknowledged his great sin in
flying and promised as he was a Christian man
he would return with the messengers. But be-
cause his things he carried with him were aboard
a bark there, bound for Virginia, he desiredd
leave to go fetch them, which they assented unto,
and went with him, three of them, aboard with
him. So he took his truss and came away with
them in a boat, but being come to shore, and two
of them going out of the boat, he caused the boats
men to put off the boat, and because the third
man would not go out, he turned him into the
water, where he had been drowned, if he had not
saved himself by swimming. So he returned to
the bark and presently they set sail and went out
of the harbour."
Winthrop then describes how he was found to
be badly in debt, and to have drawn drafts which
he was not authorized to do, and how his creditors
seized all his goods "allowing somewhat for the
maintenance of his wife and children." "And
being thus gone the church proceeded and cast
him out." About a year after these occurrences
Governor Winthrop writes: "10 mo. 1640. Mr.
Nathaniel Eaton of whom mention is made before
being come to Virginia took upon him to be a
minister, but was given up to God to extreme
pride and sensuality, being usually drunken as is
the custom there. He sent for his wife and chil-
dren. Her friends persuaded her to stay a while,
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but she went notwithstanding and the vessel was
never heard of after."
To complete the narrative of Nathaniel Eaton's
life I must again call on Cotton Mather's more
picturesque form of narrative. "After thus being
first excommunicated by the church of Cambridge
he did himself excommunicate all our churches,
going first into Virginia, then to England, where
he lived privately until the restoration of King
Charles II. Then conforming to the ceremonies
of the Church of England he was fixed at Bidde-
ford where he became (as apostata est osor sui
ordinis) a bitter persecutor of the Christians that
kept faith to the true worship from which he was
himself an apostate, until he who had cast so many
into prison for conscience was himself cast into
prison for debt where he did at length pay one
debt, namely that unto nature, by death. ' ' Cotton
Mather probably had slight acquaintance with
the works of Mr. William Shakespeare or he
might have quoted from the Tempest: "He that
dies pays all debts."
When Mrs. Eaton and her family departed on
the ill fated journey in search of her husband in
Virginia, she left one son, Benoni, in Cambridge.
He was brought up in the family of Deacon Ches-
holme, and the Church which had cast his father
out contributed from time to time for the boy's
bringing up. I have not been able to learn much
of his history. He was born about 1639. I find
his name "Benony Eaton" signed to a petition in
support of a petition of citizens in Cambridge
upholding the government, dated August 17, 1664.
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Benoni Eaton was a malster and apparently suc-
ceeded in living down the memory of Ms unfor-
tunate father, becoming a man of some substance
and reputation in the community. His dwelling
house was at what is now the southwest corner of
Dunster and Winthrop Streets in Cambridge. In
1683 he was granted fifteen acres by the town and
had rights in the Cow Commons. In 1689 he
shared in several divisions of "The Rocks," a ter-
ritory north of Cambridge. He married about
1667 one Rebecca, whose surname I have not dis-
covered. He died December 20, 1690. Ann,
daughter of Benoni and Rebecca Eaton, who mar-
ried Isaac Knapp, was a great grandmother of
Aaron Davis.
Chapter VI
AARON DAVIS
Third
AARON DAVIS, THIRD
Aaron Davis, your great great grandfather, was
born in 1777 and died in 1829. His twin brother,
William, died in Havana, August, 1799, when
twenty-two years old. There were eleven chil-
dren in the family and two sets of twins. Of the
personal history and character of Aaron Davis,
the third of the name in your descent, I have no
information. He was an apothecary of the old
school and was dubbed "Doctor." A somewhat
lengthy obituary published in a Newburyport
newspaper, although very laudatory, is deficient
in facts that can help to make his life 's history at
all vital. To quote from the obituary :
By the death of Doctor Davis the community has lost
one of its most valuable members. Though moving in
a private sphere he was known, beloved and honored by
all his fellow citizens and they will long cherish the
remembrance of his virtues. Such was the amiable
disposition which characterized this estimable man, that
his was the peculiar good fortune to make friends of all
with whom he had intercourse and to pass through all
the vicissitudes of this life without, for a moment, it is
believed, having a single enemy. Tender and sympa-
thizing towards those in distress around him; kind and
affable to the numerous individuals with whom the busi-
ness of his profession brought him into intercourse, he
won the esteem of all ; and the feeling of deep concern
which pervaded the community on the annunciation of
the melancholy tidings that he no longer lived on earth
gave evidence that his loss was severely lamented, and
that he will not easily nor suddenly be forgotten.
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It is pleasant, certainly, to believe that your
great great grandfather, Aaron Davis, was of so
gentle and estimable a character and that his life
was so sweetly exemplary. I venture, however,
to surmise that his wife, Sarah Morse Smith, put
some spice into it.
PAET VIII
ANCESTOES
OF
ELIZABETH STANFOED
ANCESTORS OF ELIZABETH STANFORD
Were it not that these voluminous genealogical
notes have, doubtless, already exceeded the limits
of your patience, I should lament my inability to
authoritatively present to you the ancestors of
Elizabeth Stanford. After reading about so
many early Yankees it might, perhaps, interest
you to learn something of your forebears below
Mason and Dixon's line. To follow the history
of the Palatinate of Maryland on the shores of
Chesapeake Bay under the charter given by
Charles the First to Cecilius Calvert, Lord Balti-
more, in 1632, in connection with the personal his-
tories of your one hundred and twenty-seven
ancestors, or thereabout, who made a part of it,
would be at least as interesting as to have followed
through similar humble channels the history of
the two Colonies which the same lovable and
tragic king created along the shores of Massa-
chusetts Bay. Whether to your disappointment
or relief, I am unable to do this. "Maryland, my
Maryland," is not mine so far as the acquire-
ment of knowledge about your ancestors is con-
cerned. Doubtless in Baltimore there is an His-
torical and Genealogical Library comparable, to
some extent at least, with that in the old house on
Somerset Street in Boston, but, if so, it is too far
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away for me to drop in now and again and study
its records. So of your Maryland origin I can
tell you little.
Elizabeth Stanford, your great great grand-
mother, was the daughter of Richard Stanford of
Vienna, Dorchester County, Maryland. Vienna
is a little town on the Nauticoke River in the east-
erly part of the county. Strangely enough, near
by, on the Bay Side, is now a village named Crapo.
This is a curious coincidence the explanation of
which I have not investigated. Crapo is an
unusually uncommon name, and although it is not
unlikely that there may be a post office in
Michigan called Crapo, to find one in Maryland
is surprising.
Dorchester County is on the eastern shore of
the Bay. If you ever go to Maryland and come
to know its people, you will soon perceive the
importance of your origin from the eastern shore.
To come from the "Eastern Sho' " gives one a
certain social standing at once. Why the unfor-
tunate people who dwell on the "Western Sho' "
are so inferior I know not, but there is an unmis-
takable prestige in coming from the "Eastern
Sho'." It is a subtle distinction which no mere
Yankee can comprehend. Out of my ignorance
I hazard the explanation that the distinction may
be due to the fact that the immigrants of the
Romanist faith who followed Lord Baltimore to
Maryland settled, for the most part, on the west-
ern shore of the Bay, and the Cavaliers of the
Established Church of England settled on the
eastern shore. These Cavaliers were of rather
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more "gentle" blood than flowed in the veins of
the great bulk of the immigrants who came across
the Atlantic Ocean and settled on its western
shore. And so, even to-day, to trace one's origin
to the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay, joins
one with the jolly, dashing, high-spirited gentry
of old England.
In Dorchester County, in the early days of its
settlement, the name of Stanford was well estab-
lished. The destruction by fire of both church
and County records renders the attempt of defi-
nitely tracing the descent and relationship of
various Stanford families and the families with
whom they were connected by marriage, one of
insurmountable difficulty, at least for a New Eng-
lander who, like myself, cannot absorb the facts
through local investigation and tradition. You
may possibly descend from a certain Richard
Stanford, who in 1635, then being twenty-five
years of age, as appears by the records of the
port of London, was among "the underwritten
names to be transported to Virginia. Imbarqued
in the Primrose Capt. Douglas Mst. Certificate
under ye Minister's hand at Gravesend, being
examined by him touching their conformities to
the Church Discipline of England. The men have
taken the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacie.
Fetched off by Mr. Secretary Windebank's war-
rant July 27th, 1635." I have no evidence that
this Richard Stanford settled in Dorchester
County, Maryland. I am inclined to think that
he did not do so.
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Or you may descend from one John Stanford,
aged twenty-four, who in much the same way, on
May 2, 1635, embarked on the Alexander, Captain
Burche, master, "to be transported to the Bar-
badoes." He, also, took the oaths of allegiance
and supremacy and was certified to by a minister
as to his orthodoxy. It was a customary route
for immigrants to America, especially to Virginia
and Maryland, to go by way of the Barbadoes.
There was at least one Stanford family who
remained in the Barbadoes as late as 1680, of
whom there are several mentions in the parish
records of Christ Church parish on the Islands.
I have an unwarrantable conviction that these
Stanf ords were of kin to you. Whether this John
Stanford came to Dorchester County, Maryland,
I know not. John being so common a Christian
name, the subsequent prevalence of the name of
John Stanford in Dorchester County affords little
corroborative evidence. There was a John Stan-
ford in the County in 1678, who was recompensed
as one of those who served in the campaign
against the Nauticoke Indians. He was paid
three hundred pounds of tobacco for his service.
He could hardly have been the same John who left
London in 1635. He may have been his son.
Or you may descend from a certain Thomas
Stanford who came over in 1684/5. The earliest
recorded instrument containing the name of
Stanford which is preserved in Cambridge, the
County seat of Dorchester County, is an indenture
dated August 27, 1684, executed in Liverpool,
England, between Thomas Stanford of Liverpool
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and one JenefT Pooton, whereby the said Pooton
covenanted to serve the said Stanford from the
date of the instrument ''until the date of his
arrival in Virginia or Maryland in America and
afterwards" for a term to be adjusted in Court.
The consideration was that the said Stanford
should pay the said Pooton 's passage money. On
this instrument Thomas Stanford endorsed, before
recording it, "We arrived ye 9th Day of January
1685/4."
It appears altogether probable, although not
demonstrable by satisfactory proof, that you do
in fact descend from a John Stanford, born prob-
ably between 1680 and 1690, who may have been
a son or grandson of the John who came over in
1635, or a son of the Thomas who came over in
16S4. This John Stanford from whom you prob-
ably descend was possessed, as the records
abundantly disclose, of several large tracts of
land in Dorchester County, among which was a
property described as "London" and another
as "Benjamin's Mess." The records also dis-
close the existence of various other contemporary
Stanfords, Thomas, Joseph, Charles, Samuel and
William, some of whom may have been brothers,
and others, perhaps, cousins of John. They all
were possessed of large plantations and the
records of their real estate transactions indicate
that as a family they were distinctly of the local
gentry.
The reason for my belief that you descend from
John Stanford is as follows: In his will, made
in 1725, he names his wife, Elizabeth, his two sons.
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John and William, and two daughters, Elizabeth
and Margaret. He describes his lands as "Lon-
don," "Benjamin's Mess," "Stanford's Addi-
tion," "Western," and by other designations.
To his son William he devises a part of these
various tracts. It would seem that William was
a minor at the time of his father's death. In
1738, his guardian, William Stanford, possibly an
uncle, petitioned the Court for instructions as to
how he should manage the several estates of his
ward, especially in regard to repairing the dwell-
ing houses and barns thereon, and in this descrip-
tion he describes the properties by the same
designations used in John Stanford's will. In
1744 and 1745 this William Stanford, then, of
course, of age, made several conveyances of parts
of these same lands, some of which were on the
Bay. In these conveyances his wife Elizabeth
joins. I was rather interested in the way the con-
veyancers described the dates. For instance,
"The sixteenth day of July in the Third Year of
the Dominion of Charles, Absolute Lord and Pro-
prietor of the Province of Maryland, and Baron
of Baltimore and Avalon. " The references in
these deeds make it evident that the grantor was
the son of John Stanford.
William Stanford died prior to 1759, since in
that year Elizabeth Stanford, a widow, whom I
feel sure was his widow, made her will in which
she gave to her well-beloved son, Richard Stan-
ford four negroes, Jenny, Sam, Lyl, and Jack; a
yoke of oxen called Bum and Brandy; together
with a long list of articles useful on the plantation,
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among others "a piece of cloth at the weaver's,
and a small parcel of feathers." Richard, who
was an only son, had doubtless succeeded to the
real estate on his father's death. This will of
Elizabeth Stanford, whom I believe to be your
ancestress, is most interesting. To her daughter,
Rebecca Waters, she gives two negroes, Cauke and
Tom. To her daughter, Sarah Staplefoot, she
gives her riding horse and saddle. She also
makes specific bequests to her daughters. Chebed
Pritchett and Rhody Waters. The rest and resi-
due of her estate, which I assume was personal
property, she bequeathed to her son Richard and
his four sisters. From subsequent records con-
necting these children of Elizabeth Stanford I am
fully satisfied that the Richard named in the will
was the father of your great great grandmother,
Elizabeth Stanford. I also think it practically
certain that the Elizabeth Stanford who made the
will was the wife of William Stanford who was
the son of John Stanford. At all events "Lon-
don" and "Benjamin's Mess" were in the posses-
sion of John, William, and Richard successively,
which certainly tends to corroborate my theory.
Richard Stanford, who was unquestionably
your great great great grandfather, was born
January 18, 1743, and was consequently sixteen
years old when his mother died, and he under-
took the management of his estates. Whether
the town of Vienna, where he lived for most of his
life included, or was adjacent to, the lands which
came to him from his grandfather John, I have
no means of knowing. The date of the creation
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of the town of Vienna by the Colonial Assembly
of Maryland is not known, but it is probable that
it was about 1700. The town was of some import-
ance in its earlier days. In 1762 it was made a
port of entry. In 1776 it was sufficiently import-
ant to be attacked by a British gun-boat which
ascended the river and shelled the town. Again
in 1781 two British ships attacked the town and
burned ships ' ' on the stocks. ' ' Richard Stanford
was unquestionably a leading citizen of this com-
munity. I have not discovered that he held any
public office, but his numerous recorded convey-
ances of land in Dorchester County, and the
recorded bills of sale to him of negroes, cattle, and
other commodities, clearly indicate that he was a
man possessed of considerable property.
Richard Stanford married one Elizabeth whose
maiden name I have been unable to ascertain. It
is humiliating to be unable to furnish you with
the surname of so comparatively a modern grand-
mother. In a letter written in 1882 to your grand-
mother, Sarah Tappan Crapo, from her cousin,
Elizabeth Stanford Toppan, the daughter of Ab-
ner Toppan of Lowell, who was the eldest son of
Elizabeth Stanford of Maryland, Cousin Lizzie
wrote : ' ' Mother does not remember ever hearing
the maiden name of Grandmother. . . . There
was a family in East Newmarket, Maryland or Vir-
ginia, I don't know which, that my mother wrote
to sometimes for Grandma by the name of Med-
ford. " Newmarket is in Dorchester County, not
far from Vienna. I find in the records at Cam-
bridge a receipt given on February 28, 1791, by
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Richard Stanford, Celia Stanford and Elizabeth
Stanford, the children of Richard and Elizabeth
Stanford, for a legacy under the will of William
Medford. Abner Toppan witnessed this instru-
ment. Medf ord is a name which is still prominent
in Dorchester County. I think it probable that
your ancestress Elizabeth, the wife of Richard
Stanford, was a Medford, but I have no evidence
that such is the fact.
Richard and Elizabeth Stanford had several
children ; Robert and William, both of whom were
lost at sea, leaving no descendants; Celia, who
signed the above receipt; Arianna, who died
unmarried; Elizabeth, who married Abner Top-
pan; and Richard, of whom more anon. After
the death of his wife, Elizabeth, Richard married
Esther, a widow Russum, with four children, and
by her had several children, Clement Stanford,
Algernon Sydney Stanford, and Henrietta Stan-
ford, who married William MacDonald. The
widow of Richard Stanford married for the third
time a Mr. Holland of Delaware. Prom the in-
vestigations of your grandmother, Sarah Tappan
Crapo, and from manuscript notes of the Rever-
end Henry MacDonald, a grandson of Richard
Stanford, and of Doctor Stanford E. Chaille, a
great grandson, I am able to give you some
knowledge of the home life of your great great
great grandfather Richard. The plantation was
at the upper end of the present town of Vienna.
"The house was a two and a half story frame
house with many rooms," writes Mr. MacDonald,
who for some years lived there in Dr. Clement
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Stanford's time. ''The furniture was costly and
the table was furnished with solid silver and fine
china ware. The house fronted on the banks of
the beautiful Nauticoke River. Sailing craft
were almost constantly in sight. The river fur-
nished abundance of fish and oysters." In a
letter written to your grandmother by Mr. Hooper
C. Hicks of Baltimore in 1882 I find the following :
"The house, when Doctor Stanford lived in it,
was a magnificent mansion surrounded by a para-
dise of flowers. The garden was truly a beautiful
place. I remember distinctly, being a boy, having
just moved in town from the country, taking a
stroll with Clement through this delightful place.
I thought I was in the Garden of Eden. The
flowers now are dead, even the tall lilacs and
fragrant roses have given way for long rows of
corn and hills of potatoes."
Mr. MacDonald writes, "On the farm of my
uncle Dr. Clement Stanford in a field joining the
town of Vienna, surrounded by beautiful native
forest trees, was an old brick church. When I
was a boy it was deserted and fallen into decay,
but was regarded by my uncle as sacred. Beneath
the beautiful trees the rude forefathers of the
hamlet sleep. In that old house my forefathers
worshipped and many of their loved ones sweetly
sleep beneath those old trees." This little church
made of bricks brought from England was one of
the "Chapels of Ease" which were established in
the large Episcopal parishes on the Eastern
Shore. The parish was that of Great Choptauke,
some fifty miles square, now represented by
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Christ Church, Cambridge. Instead of sub-
dividing the territory into separate parishes as
the population grew, it was the custom in Mary-
land to retain the original parish and establish
Chapels of Ease. I find in the archives of Mary-
land the record of a petition of the people of
Vienna which recites : ' ' That your petitioners
in regard to the great distance to the Parish
Church aforesaid, did on or about the year 1709,
by the assistance of their Vestry, and their own
contributions, obtain a Chapel of Ease situated
in Vienna Town, by the Nauticoke River, on the
other side of the Parish aforesaid." Mr. Mac-
Donald as a boy pictured this old church as the
scene of Gray's Elegy. He writes: " Another
circumstance indelibly impressed my mind with
these associations. My uncle, Dr. Stanford, had
a son William, between Clement and Arianna.
He was a beautiful boy, gentle and lovely, and of
precocious intellect, a universal favorite, whom
we all intensely loved. When about seven years
old he sickened and withered away. His death
caused us all great distress. He was laid to rest
in the old Church yard beside other loved ones
gone before. Our teacher, Mr. Baker, applied
to him most appropriately and beautifully the
epitaph in Gray 's Elegy :
"Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A youth to fortune, and to fame unknown ;
Fair science frown 'd not on his humble birth,
And Melancholy mark'd him for her own."
That his name was William corroborates my
theory of his descent. If I am correct in that lie
was doubtless named after his great grandfather.
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It was a large family who lived on the Planta-
tion in Richard Stanford's day. There were
seven children of his own and four Russum chil-
dren of his wife's, and many slaves. It is evident
from the notes of his grandson that the family
was a loyally united one in which kinship and
kindness were synonymous. It was when Eliza-
beth, your great great grandmother, was about
fifteen, and her brother Richard some two or three
years older, that their father Richard died in
1785. It was and still is the custom for the plant-
ers along the many inlets of Chesapeake Bay to
load vessels owned by them with the produce of
their plantations and once or twice a year journey
to Baltimore to market. It was the great event
of the year, this voyage to the metropolis. In
the autumn of 1785 Richard Stanford made this
journey. He was far from well when he started.
With him were his young sons Clement and
Algernon Sydney. During the voyage a severe
storm arose and Richard Stanford died while
striving to save his vessel. It was carried to sea
and stranded near Norfolk, Virginia, where
Richard Stanford was buried. It is a strange
coincidence that two of your ancestors, so widely
separated as Richard Stanford and Nathaniel
Smith of Newburyport, should have met similar
deaths and should lie buried so near together.
The skipper of the vessel was a rascal. He
appropriated the cargo and left the two young
lads destitute. There in Norfolk they were found
by their elder brother Richard, who brought them
back to the Plantation.
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It was a few years after the tragedy of Richard
Stanford's death that Abner Toppan, the New-
buryport Yankee, appeared on the scene. What
brought him to Maryland and to Vienna I know
not. He and his brother were cabinet makers and
doubtless had to go in search of good mahogany.
The Eastern Shore of Maryland, however, was
certainly not a good place to look for mahogany.
Possibly he voyaged to Maryland with a cargo of
furniture to sell. From the record of the receipt
in the matter of William Medford's will, it is
evident that he was in Dorchester County as early
as 1791. The tradition is very distinct that the
Stanfords as a family had no use for the Yankee
Toppan, and that he ran away with his sweet-
heart. The young couple must have lived in
Maryland for a year or more at least, since their
oldest child Sophia, who subsequently married
Oliver Crocker of New Bedford, was born in
Easton, Maryland, not far from Vienna.
Abner Toppan and his wife, Elizabeth Stanford,
were in Newburyport when their second child was
born in 1795. There they lived during the
remainder of their lives in a comfortable old
colonial house on the east side of High Street,
near the head of Toppan 's Lane. The house is
very familiar to me, and it was there that your
grandmother, Sarah Tappan Crapo, spent much
time in her childhood with her grandmother
Elizabeth, of whom she was extremely fond. The
life in a New England town was at first not an
easy one for the Southern bride. She had not
been brought up to do housework and the cooking
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at her home in Maryland had been done by negro
mammies. I have heard one of her granddaugh-
ters, Arianna Graves Duryee, tell of her grand-
mother's confession that when she was confronted
with the necessity of cooking "baked beans," a
dish of which, naturally, she had never even heard,
she went into the kitchen and locked the doors and
threw herself on the floor and wept bitter tears.
She was, however, a woman of much determina-
tion, and baked beans being manifestly a part of
her duty as a New England housewife, she mas-
tered the beans as she did every other duty which
came to her, and she served her husband and her
children and her grandchildren in New England
with an adaptive capacity which was only equaled
by her devoted love. Your grandmother Crapo,
my mother, told me much of her grandmother
Toppan, who had deeply impressed her as a
woman singularly gentle yet firm, lovable yet
reserved, gracious yet proud. I fancy her as
rather a Grande Dame who was infinitely sweet
and gentle with those she loved.
One episode in the life of this transplanted
grandmother of yours I am able to give you from
the notes of her nephew, Henry MacDonald :
In 1824, when I was a boy, one day considerable
company was at our house. A letter was handed to
my mother from the Post-Office which she hastily
opened and read standing in the parlor surrounded by
the company. She became suddenly excited, screamed,
dropped the letter and ran out of the room in agita-
tion and tears. The company became very solicitous
but it soon appeared that her agitation was not dis-
tress but joy. The letter was from her brother Doctor
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Stanford and announced that he had an addition to his
family of another daughter whom he had named
Arianna, and also that his sister Elizabeth whom he
had not seen since her marriage many years before
had just arrived on a visit from Massachusetts, and he
added "The lost is found, and the prodigal has come
home, let us kill the fatted calf and eat and be merry."
He requested the whole family to come immediately to
his house. The next day my mother, father and family
all went. It was a joyous assemblage. I distinctly
remember the whole scene. My aunt Elizabeth re-
turned home with us. She remained several months
visiting various relatives. Cousin Esther Ann returned
with her to Massachusetts and remained several months.
After my father's death my mother made a visit to
her sister at Newburyport.
Although it is not the scheme of these notes to
burden you with information about your innu-
merable great great uncles and aunts, perhaps,
in view of the paucity of my information about
your earlier direct Maryland descent, you will
not take it amiss if I tell you something of your
Southern cousins with some of whom I have been
more closely intimate than with many of those of
the North.
Richard Stanford, the son of Richard, a full
brother of Elizabeth Toppan, was a few years
older than his sister. He was born about 1768.
If he indeed resembled the portrait of him which
I possess he was an exceptionally beautiful per-
son. The portrait of his sister, which has faced
me three times a day at meals these many years,
discloses no such evidence of beauty to me,
although a day or two before I am writing these
words an artist who saw the picture said, "How
beautiful she was ! I wish I might paint a portrait
S12 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
of such a woman." Richard went to college and
afterwards became a teacher in a small college in
North Carolina, and subsequently he studied and
practiced law. He was most kind to his younger
brothers, Clement and Algernon Sydney, giving
them a classical education which otherwise they
would hardly have achieved. He also furnished
a home for his unmarried sister Arianna. He
married, in North Carolina, the daughter of a dis-
tinguished General of the Revolutionary War,
whom he succeeded as a member of the fifth Con-
gress, being elected in 1797, when he was twenty-
nine years old. I find among my mother's papers
a carefully prepared statement by Benjamin
Perley Poore, an old Newburyport friend, and a
famous newspaper correspondent in Washington
in his day, in which Mr. Poore has noted every
speech which Richard Stanford made during his
long service in Congress. The subjects cover a
wide range, although questions of foreign rela-
tions seem to have more frequently engaged his
attention than others. He was an intimate friend
and staunch admirer of John Randolph of
Roanoke. Although he was only forty-eight years
old when he died, April 8, 1816, he was the oldest
member in service of the House of Representa-
tives. "Mr. Gaston announced the decease of
the Honorable Richard Stanford of North Caro-
lina, a member of this house; whereupon it was
Resolved, unanimously that a committee be ap-
pointed to take order for superintending the
funeral. Messrs. Gaston, Yancey, Culpepper,
Forney, Pickens, Clarke and Edwards were
ELIZABETH STANFORD 813
appointed the said committee. . . . Resolved :
that the members of this House will testify their
respect for the memory of Richard Stanford by
wearing crepe on the left arm for one month."
He was buried in the Congressional Cemetery in
Washington.
Richard Stanford by his first wife, whose name
was Mabane, had a daughter who married a Mr.
Stith, and whose descendants are now living in
Mississippi, and another daughter, Arianna, who
married a Mr. Graves, and whose oldest son was
the notorious Richard Stanford Graves, who as
Treasurer of the State of Mississippi defaulted
and absconded. By his second wife, a Miss Moore,
he had a number of children, whose descendants
live in North Carolina and are known to some of
the Stanford cousins whom I know.
Clement Stanford, the brother of Elizabeth
Stanford Toppan, with his brother, Algernon
Sydney Stanford, lived on the old plantation in
Maryland. Clement was a physician and in his
family Henry MacDonald lived for some years
and has left in his manuscript notes a most enter-
taining and pleasant impression of this Southern
home. For his uncle, Clement Stanford, he had
an unbounded admiration. He describes him as
tall and slender, always immaculately dressed,
and with the finished manners of a high bred gen-
tleman of the old school, scrupulously punctilious
in matters of " honor" and of conduct, and
respected and loved in the community. "His
presence diffused perpetual cheerfulness and
sunshine. His almost uniform habit was after
814 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
supper to collect all his family around him and
play on the violin or read some interesting book
either history, or a novel, or poetry. ... I
was never in a household where the laugh rang so
merrily. This was particularly the case with
Cousin Henrietta. Aunt Anna had a parrot who
was quite a character. Among other accomplish-
ments it learned to imitate Cousin Henrietta's
laugh so that it was hard to tell which was laugh-
ing."
Algernon Sydney Stanford has always in my
imagination resembled Harry Warrington in
Thackeray's Virginians. In the Cambridge
records I find his deposition taken in 1801, when
he was about twenty years old, wherein he sub-
scribes to a statement "that they were present at
the house of Mr. Denwood Hicks in Newmarket
on the seventh day of March, 1801, when a re-
incounter took place between William Harding of
Dorchester County and State of Maryland, and
Henry C. Kennedy, in which reincounter the said
Henry Kennedy bit off the lower part of said
William Harding's right ear. And further the
above deponent saith not." It is a pity that the
deponent was so briefly matter of fact in his
account, but the affair suggests some of the scenes
of Harry Warrington's early life which Thack-
eray has given us in less meagre style. Algernon
as a young man was active in public affairs. In
1805 he was Collector of the port of Vienna. On
a journey to Cambridge, having in his possession
a large amount of public money, he was waylaid
and murdered. Clement Stanford, his brother,
ELIZABETH STANFORD 815
and William Russum, his half-brother, although
under no legal obligation, made good the money
stolen to the government, at an expense which
seriously crippled their financial resources.
Algernon Sydney had two daughters, Henrietta
Elizabeth, who died when a young lady, and Sarah
Ann, who must have been a singularly charming
woman. She married her cousin, William P.
Russum, and went with practically all of the
Stanford family, including the MacDonalds, to
Port Gibson, Claibourne County, Mississippi.
Clement Stanford died in 1831. Soon after his
death his widow, whose maiden name was Anna
D'Shiell, and all his children went to Mississippi.
His oldest child, Esther Ann, she who went to
Newburyport with her aunt, Elizabeth Toppan,
never married and died at her sister Mary 's home
in Natchez, in 1834. Clement Stanford's daugh-
ter, Mary Eunice Stanford, married William H.
Chaille of Natchez. Clement Stanford 's daughter
Henrietta, she of the ringing laugh, married
George Watson of Claibourne County, Mississippi,
leaving descendants. One of her sons, Clement
Stanford Watson, (born 1831, died 1867), was a
schoolmate of your grandfather, William W.
Crapo, at Phillips Andover. He fought all
through the War of the Rebellion as Captain of a
Louisiana regiment.
Doctor Clement Stanford's son Clement was a
brilliant man whose dissipated habits and reck-
less business ventures brought disaster upon all
his kin. In a letter to your grandmother from
Charles Lake, the Clerk of the Circuit Court of
Slti CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Dorchester County. Maryland, written in 1882,
be writes of this Clement Stanford: "He was a
handsome little man, very dainty and particular
about his dress, and very popular with his
acquaintance. He was at one time employed as a
clerk in Cambridge by a merchant, M. Le Compte. ' '
Of his history Doctor Stanford Chaille has left
some interesting, although bitter, notes. He went
with the family to Mississippi and induced his
sister. Mary Eunice Chaille, after her husband's
death, to take up a large plantation in Louisiana,
and by his mismanagement of the same wasted
her property. He joined Lopez in his expedi-
tion for the emancipation of Cuba. In the war
which ensued he behaved with conspicuous gal-
lantry, was wounded, captured, tried by courtmar-
tial and shot at the fort of Atares near Havana.
Clement Stanford married Mary Patterson,
widow of Osbourn Claibourne. He left no de-
scendants. I have a very clear recollection of
"Aunt Mary Stanford," the widow of Clement
Stanford. She was a typical Southern woman,
proud of her relation to all the ''first families"
of the South. She was a woman of brilliant mind
broadened by a long residence in Europe. Yet she
had an almost venomous hatred of the Yankees.
She was living in Washington when your grand-
father Crapo was in Congress, and I remember
calling on her with your grandfather and grand-
mother and meeting her grandnephew Ralph
Walsh, a boy several years younger than myself,
who was then much interested in martial history.
He told vour grandfather that the srreatest Gen-
ELIZABETH STANFORD gjj
eral in the history of the world was Robert E.
Lee. Your grandfather tentatively suggested
Caesar and Hannibal and Napoleon and Welling-
ton and some others as possible competitors, but
Aunt Mary abetted the boy in his loyalty to the
hero of the South. To your grandfather's ques-
tion as to whether young Walsh considered the
President of the United States, at that time
Ulysses S. Grant, a great General, Walsh admitted
that he was a "lucky" General, but vehemently
added that he was a ' ' bad man, ' ' which naturally
pleased Aunt Mary immensely.
Doctor Clement Stanford's daughter, Arianna
Stanford, whose advent in this world in 1824, you
may remember, was coincident with the arrival
of her aunt Elizabeth Toppan at the old home in
Vienna, married William Patterson of Claibourne
County, Mississippi, a brother of her brother
Clement's wife. They left descendants, one of
whom, Jeannie Patterson, who married Doctor
Ralph Walsh of Washington, was the mother of
Ralph, the admirer of General Lee. Another,
Mary Patterson, accompanied your grandmother
on a memorable expedition to Vienna, the interest-
ing record of which, written by this cousin Mary,
I deeply regret I have mislaid. It contained much
information about the Stanford family which
would have been of invaluable assistance to me
in preparing this note. It is doubtless in the
house where I am writing, but an exhaustive
search has failed to disclose its whereabouts.
To conclude this note without reference to Stan-
ford Emerson Chaille of New Orleans, the son
818 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
of William H. Chaille and Mary Eunice Stanford,
and the great grandson of Richard Stanford of
Vienna, would be like presenting the play of
Hamlet with Hamlet left out. He was a very im-
portant person in your genealogical history. If
he had not happened to be sent North when a boy
to a Massachusetts guardian and by him sent to
Phillips Andover Academy, he would not have
been a chum of your grandfather William W.
Crapo, and it would not have happened when he
came with your grandfather to New Bedford one
winter vacation that he looked up a distant cousin
who was living there, Sarah Tappan, a grand-
daughter of Elizabeth Stanford, and found her a
very jolly sort of cousin and introduced your
grandfather to her. And if that had not hap-
pened where would you have been? Of "Cousin
Stan" I shall hope to tell you more when, some
day, I come to write the stories of your grand-
father and grandmother Crapo. That will be a
story of long ago to you I suppose, but to me it
seems a very modern story and certainly not
appropriately included in the history of your
Comeoverers.
PART IX
TABLES OF DESCENT
NOTE
The following tables present the genealogical data on
which the foregoing notes have been based. The sources
from which the facts given were derived are many and
various. Family bibles, memoranda made by my mother,
correspondence with many persons, published genealogies
of certain families, genealogical works of reference, pub-
lie records, and all the various sources of information
within the reach of an amateur who. like myself, is
necessarily confined to a limited amount of leisure from
other activities and unable to go far afield in the search.
ft ■ evident that there are many omissions which a more
extensive and painstaking research would have supplied.
Ther- -7 doubtless, many, some probably serious,
errors which a more expert investigator would have
avoided. Therefore, in presenting the foregoing notes
and the following tables. I do so with the cautious caveat
which the old time bookkeeper invariably placed at the
foot of his accounts— "a d- 0 Q." errors and omis-
sions excepts
For many valuable suggestions leading to untraveled
paths of research within the possible limits of my per-
sonal exploration. I am indebted to Mr. William A. Wing,
the Secretary of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society.
To Mr. Luther Atwood of Salem. Mr. Lawrence Brainerd
of Boston, Miss Jane Griffiths Keys of Baltimore, and
some others. I am indebted for investigations in coverts
difficult for me to beat in person. I am especially in-
debted to Mr. William M. Emery, of New Bedford, for
his unflagging zeal in assisting me both in the genealogi-
cal research, wherein he achieved several important dis-
coveries, and in the careful preparation of my notes for
publication, as well as in the superintendence of the
actual work of publication.
Chapter I
DESCENT
OF
WILLIAM WALLACE CEAPO
OF DETROIT. MICHIGAN
FROM
HIS SIXTEEN
GREAT GREAT GRANDPARENTS
WILLIAM W. CRAPO, SECOND 393
JESSE CRAPO, born Freetown May 22, 1781; died
Dartmouth Jan. 11, 1831 ; married July 10, 1803,
PHEBE HOWLAND, born Dartmouth, Mar. 29, 1785:
died Dartmouth Dec. 22, 1870 ; had son
Henry Howland Crapo, born Freetown May 24, 1804;
Governor State of Michigan, 1864-1868 ; died Flint
Mich., July 22, 1869; married Dartmouth June 9.
1825, Mary Ann Slocum; had son
William Wallace Crapo, born Dartmouth May 16, 1830 ;
Member of Congress from Massachusetts, 1875-1883 ;
married New Bedford Jan. 22, 1857, Sarah Davis
Tappan; had son
Stanford Tappan Crapo, born New Bedford June 13.
1865; married Painesville, Ohio, Oct. 10, 1894,
Emma Morley; had son
William Wallace Crapo, born Saginaw, Mich., Aug. 2,
1895.
824 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
WILLIAMS SLOCUM. born Dartmouth July 23, 1761;
died Dartmouth Feb. 23. 1S34: married Dartmouth
Feb. 3. 1803,
ANNE ALMY CHASE, born Dartmouth Sept. 6, 1775:
died Dartmouth Mar. 22. 1S64: had daughter
Mary Ann Sloeum. born Dartmouth May 21. 1S05 : died
Flint. Mieh.. Feb. 21. 1S75 : married Henry How-
land Crapo. ($€t pagt Si
WILLIAM W. CRAPO, SECOND
ABNER TOPPAX, born Xewburyport Apr. 6, 1764:
died Xewburyport Dec. 31, 1836; married Jan. 30,
1792,
ELIZABETH STANFORD, born Vienna. Dorchester
Co., Md., Mar. 1, 1770; died Xewburyport Apr. 12.
1844; had son
George Tappan, born Xewburyport Jan. 6, 1807 ; died
New Bedford Aug. 15, 1857 ; married Xewburyport
Xov. 10, 1829, Serena Davis; had daughter
Sarah Davis Tappan, born Xewburyport Oct. 6, 1831 ;
died Xew Bedford Dec. 13, 1893 ; married William
Wallace Crapo. (See page S23)
826 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
AARON DAVIS, born Newburyport Apr. 18, 1777 ; died
Newburyport Aug. 25, 1829 ; married Dec. 20, 1801,
SARAH MORSE SMITH, born Newburyport Mar. 11,
1780 ; died Newburyport Oct. 24, 1869 ; had daughter
Serena Davis, born Newburyport Jan. 17, 1808 ; died
Hyde Park, Mass., Feb. 5, 1896; married George
Tappan. (See page 825)
WILLIAM W. CRAPO, SECOND 827
THOMAS MORLEY, of Sennett, N. Y., born Mar. 20,
1763 ; died Mar. 2, 1813 ; married Mar. 17, 1793,
NELLY REMINGTON, born Aug. 16, 1775 ; died Sept.
13, 1863 ; had son
Albert Morley, of Brutus and Brockport, N. Y., and
Painesville, Ohio, born Oct. 21, 1797 ; died July 12,
1883 ; married Jan. 29, 1818, Esther Healey ; had son
John Rufus Morley, born Mar. 10, 1829 ; lived Paines-
ville, Ohio, Fort Scott, Kan., and Saginaw, Mich.;
died Saginaw Feb. 14, 1912 ; married Sept. 14, 1853,
Catherine Bidwell McVay; had daughter
Emma Morley, born Jan. 6, 1872 ; married Oct. 10, 1894,
Stanford Tappan Crapo. (See page 823)
828 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
JESSE HE ALE Y, of Charlestown, N. H., born Nov. 3,
1769 ; died June 1, 1853 ; married Apr. 26, 1792,
DOLLY GLE ASON, a widow, born Mar. 18, 1755 ; died
Sept. 25, 1837; had daughter
Esther Healey, born Feb. 14, 1798 ; died Apr. 22, 1889 ;
married Albert Morley. (See page 827)
WILLIAM W. CRAPO, SECOND 829
JACOB McVA Y, born 1779 ; died May 20, 1830 ; married
MARY TAYLOR, born Apr. 15, 1791; died Sept. 23,
1855; had son
James Taylor McVay, of Pittsburg, Penn., born Apr. 9,
1809; died Oct. 2, 1842; married Mar. 17, 1829,
Catherine Williams Bidwell; had daughter
Catherine Bidwell McVay, born Apr. 20, 1830; married
John Rufus Morley, (See page 827)
830 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
CHESTER BIDWELL, of Hartford, Conn., and War-
ren, Ohio, born Apr. 18, 1790 ; died Mar. 12, 1865 ;
married May 5, 1811,
CATHERINE ENSIGN, of Hartford, Conn., born Oct.
23, 1790 ; died June 17, 1865 ; had daughter
Catherine Williams Bidwell, born Feb. 5, 1812; died
July 27, 1842 ; married James Taylor McVay. (See
page 829)
Chapter II
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Chapter IX
DESCENDANTS
OF
JESSE CRAPO
AND
PHEBE HOWLAND
NOTE
The following tables of the descendants of
Jesse Crapo and Phebe Howland,
Williams Slocum and Anne Almy Chase,
Abner Toppan and Elizabeth Stanford,
Aaron Davis and Sarah Morse Smith,
do not purport even to approach completeness. Many
branches are totally lacking and in the branches given
there are many omissions and, doubtless, many errors.
The tables are here given simply to preserve such data
as I have in my possession.
CRAPO DESCENDANTS 931
Children of
Jesse Crapo and Phebe Howland
HENRY HOWLAND CRAPO, born Freetown, May 24,
1804; married June 9, 1825, Mary Ann Slocum;
died Flint, Mich., July 22, 1869. Issue. (See page
932.)
DAVID CRAPO, born Dartmouth Sept. 16, 1808 ; mar-
ried Oct. 9, 1831, Marcia Sowle of Westport Har-
bor; removed to Ohio, later to Michigan; died
Odessa, Mich., Jan. 1879. Issue. (See page 946.)
JOSEPH CRAPO, born Dartmouth Apr. 12, 1812; mar-
ried Nov. 29, 1832, Sarah Sisson (daughter of Allen
and Elizabeth Sisson) ; lived in Dartmouth and
there died Oct. 7, 1892. Issue. (See page 947.)
PHEBE ANN CRAPO, born Dartmouth Mar. 6, 1817 ;
married Feb. 3, 1842, Sylvester Snow of New Bed-
ford (born Aug. 10, 1815, died Oct. 10, 1884) ; died
June 13, 1894. Issue. (See page 948.)
932 CERTAIN COMBOVERERS
Children of
Henry Howland Crapo and Mary Ann Slocum
(From page 931)
MARY ANN CRAPO, born Dartmouth Nov. 6, 1827;
married April 23, 1857, Rev. John Orrell (died
Aug. 4, 1876) ; died Flint, Mich., Dee. 15, 1903.
Issue. (See page 934.)
WILLIAM WALLACE CRAPO, born Dartmouth May
16, 1830 ; married New Bedford Jan. 22, 1857, Sarah
Davis Tappan (died Dec. 13, 1893) ; living in New
Bedford. Issue. (See page 935.)
REBECCA FOLGER CRAPO, born New Bedford Mar.
26, 1833 ; married Nov. 29, 1855, William C. Durant;
living in Flint, Mich. Issue. (See page 936.)
SARAH BUSH CRAPO, born New Bedford Jan. 14,
1835; married Oct. 4, 1860, Alphonso Ross; living
in Boston. Issue. (See page 937.)
LUCY ANNA CRAPO, born New Bedford Nov. 8, 1836 ;
married Dec. 15, 1858, Humphrey Henry Howland
Crapo Smith; living in Detroit, Mich. Issue.
(See page 938.)
RHODA MACOMBER CRAPO, born New Bedford
July 29, 1838 ; married May 18, 1865, Dr. James C.
Willson ; died May 8, 1907. Issue. (See page 939.)
HENRIETTA PELL CRAPO, born New Bedford July
19, 1840; married June 19, 1865, Ferris F. Hyatt;
died Hyattville, N. Y., April 29, 1866. No issue.
CRAPO DESCENDANTS 933
LYDIA SHERMAN CRAPO, born New Bedford June
19, 1843; died Flint, Mich., Sept. 14, 1861. Un-
married.
EMMA ELIZA CHASE CRAPO, born New Bedford
June 1, 1845; married Nov. 29, 1866, Harlan Page
Cristy; died Detroit, Mich., Apr. 11, 1897. Issue.
(See page 940.)
WILHELMINA HELENA CRAPO, born New Bedford
Apr. 6, 1849; married Mar. 15, 1876, Charles
Warren Clifford, son of Governor John Henry
Clifford of Massachusetts; died New Bedford Aug.
23, 1909. No issue.
934 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children op
Mary Ann Crapo and John Orrell
(From page 932)
MARY FLORENCE ORRELL, born Sandwich, Mass.,
May 12, 1858 ; married Aug. 29, 1877, Frank Eberly
Willett of Flint, Mich.; living in Flint. Issue.
(See page 941.)
ESTHER MORRIS ORRELL, born Sandwich, Mass.,
Sept. 14, 1860; married Oct. 12, 1892, David
Mackenzie of Muskegon, Mich. ; living in Detroit,
Mich. No issue.
JOHN WALLACE ORRELL, born Sandwich, Mass.,
Dec. 14, 1861 ; died Aug. 5, 1862.
LUCY CRAPO ORRELL, born Flint, Mich., Sept. 16,
1863 ; married June 3, 1890, Arthur Jerome Eddy
of Flint; living in Pasadena, Cal. Issue. (See
page 941.)
LIZZIE FRENCH ORRELL, born Flint, Mich., Aug.
18, 1865 ; died Aug. 7, 1867.
WILLIAM CRAPO ORRELL, born Flint, Mich., Dec.
30, 1868; married Oct. 29, 1895, Florence Whaley
of Flint; living in Detroit, Mich. Issue. (See
page 941.)
CRAPO DESCENDANTS 935
Children op
William Wallace Crapo and Sarah Davis Tappan
(From page 932)
HENRY HOWLAND CRAPO, born New Bedford Jan.
31, 1862 ; married Nov. 20, 1894, Carolina Maria del
Carmen Caldwell (born Valparaiso, Chili, Nov. 28,
1863; died Aiken, S. C, Mar. 5, 1901) ; living in
New Bedford. No issue.
GEORGE TAPPAN CRAPO, born New Bedford Mar.
16, 1864; died Sept. 12, 1865.
STANFORD TAPPAN CRAPO, born New Bedford
June 13, 1865 ; married Oct. 10, 1894, Emma Morley
of Painesville, Ohio ; living in Detroit. Issue. (See
page 942.)
ANNA ALMY CRAPO, born New Bedford Nov. 10,
1866 ; died Apr. 27, 1867.
936 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children of
Rebecca Folger Crapo and William C. Durant
(From page 932)
REBECCA CRAPO DURANT, born Boston Nov. 24,
1857 ; married Dec. 14, 1876, John Leverett Willett
of Flint, Mich.; died May 9, 1903. Issue. (See
page 943.)
WILLIAM CRAPO DURANT, born Boston Dec. 8,
1861; married June 17, 1885, Clara Pitt of Flint,
Mich. ; living in Flint. Issue. ( See page 943.)
CRAPO DESCENDANTS 937
Children of
Sarah Bush Crapo and Alphonso Ross
(From page 932)
MARY CRAPO ROSS, born Boston Aug. 28, 1861;
died Nov. 13, 1882. Unmarried.
SARAH CRAPO ROSS, born Boston Dee. 16, 1867;
married Apr. 28, 1892, Charles Woodbury Whittier
of Boston; living in Milton, Mass. Issue. (See
page 944.)
938 CERTAIN COMEOVBRERS
Children of
Lucy Anna Crapo and H. H. H. C. Smith
(From page 932)
HENRIETTA CRAPO SMITH, born Detroit, Mich.,
July 4, 1862; living in Detroit. Unmarried.
CRAPO CORNELL SMITH, born Detroit May 22,
1868; living in Detroit. Unmarried.
CRAPO DESCENDANTS 939
Child of
Rhoda Macomber Crapo and James C. Willson
(From page 932)
GEORGE WILLSON, born Flint, Mich., Mar. 28, 1871 ;
married Sept. 4, 1894, Frances A. Spencer of Flint ;
living in Flint. Issue. (See page 944.)
940 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children of
Emma Eliza Chase Crapo and Harlan P. Cristy
From page 933)
BERTHA CRISTY. born Flint. Mich.. Dec. 3. 1869;
married (1 Sept. 21. 1594. Martin S. Smith of De-
troit .died July 9. 1901 : 2 Apr. 25. 1904. Baron
Alexde Freederieksz of Russia : living in Paris.
France. Issue. >-:•: page 94.5.)
JAMES CRAPO CRISTY. horn Flint. Mich.. Feb. Bf
1574: married Feb. 12. 1903. Laura Hart: living
in Detroit. Mich. Issue. (See page 9= '
BONNIE CRAPO CRISTY. born Flint. Mich.. Aug. 22.
1576: married Oct. 21. 1898. Thomas Henry West.
Jr.. of St. Louis. Mo. ; living in Clayton. Mo. Issue.
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CRAPO DESCENDANTS 941
Children of
Mary Florence Orrell and Frank E. Willett
(From page 934)
MARY KUYKENDALL WILLETT, born Flint, Mich.,
Apr. 15, 1886; married Oct. 1, 1908, Jabez Guy
Blackington of Flint; living in Flint. Daughter,
Esther Willett, born Oct. 31, 1911.
GRETCHEN WILLETT, born Flint, Mich., Dec. 12,
1888 ; died Nov. 22, 1905.
Child of
Lucy Crapo Orrell and Arthur J. Eddy
(From page 934)
JEROME ORRELL EDDY, born May 12, 1891 ; living
in Pasadena, Cal.
Child of
William Crapo Orrell and Florence Whaley
(From page 934)
ROBERT WHALEY ORRELL, born Flint, Mich., Aug.
24, 1898 ; living in Detroit, Mich.
942 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children op
Stanford Tappan Crapo and Emma Morlby
(From page 935)
WILLIAM WALLACE CRAPO, born Saginaw, Mich.,
Aug. 2, 1895 ; living in Detroit, Mich.
CATHERINE CRAPO, born Saginaw, Mich., July 23,
1897 ; living in Detroit, Mich.
CRAPO DESCENDANTS 943
Children of
Rebecca Crapo Durant and John L. Willett
(From page 936)
EMMA CRISTY WILLETT, born Flint, Mich., Apr. 10,
1878 ; married May 29, 1901, Samuel Sidney Stewart
of Flint; living in Flint. Son, Samuel Sidney
Stewart, born Aug. 12, 1902.
WALLACE ROSS WILLETT, born Flint, Mich., Sept.
12, 1880; married Sept. 30, 1909, Elizabeth May
Kennedey; living in Detroit, Mich.
ANNA WILLSON WILLETT, born Flint, Mich., Dec. 2,
1883; married Nov. 16, 1905, Hal. Wesley Alger;
living in Winnipeg, Canada. Daughter, Elizabeth
Jane Alger, born Chicago, Nov. 20, 1909.
Children of
William Crapo Durant and Clara Pitt
(From page 936)
MARGERY PITT DURANT, born Flint, Mich., May 24,
1887; married Apr. 18, 1906, Dr. Edwin R.
Campbell; living in Flint. Children, William
Durant Campbell, born Mar. 18, 1907 ; Margery
Edwina Campbell, born Nov. 12, 1909.
RUSSELL CLIFFORD DURANT, born Flint, Mich.,
Nov. 26, 1890 ; living in Flint.
944 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children op
Sarah Crapo Ross and Charles W. Whittier
(From page 937)
ROSS WHITTIER, born Aug. 12, 1893.
RUTH WHITTIER, born Sept. 21, 1895.
CATHERINE WHITTIER, born Apr. 8, 1897.
CHARLES W. WHITTIER, born July 12, 1898.
NATHANIEL WHITTIER, born Jan. 26, 1904.
All living in Milton, Mass.
Children of
George Willson and Frances A. Spencer
(From page 939)
FRANCES SPENCER WILLSON, born Dec. 13, 1895.
JAMES CURTIS WILLSON, born Nov. 2, 1900.
RODERICK WILLSON, born May 8, 1907.
All living in Flint, Mich.
CRAPO DESCENDANTS 945
Child of
Bertha Cristy and Baron Alexde Freedericksz
(From page 940)
ALEXANDER HARLAN FREEDERICKSZ, born
Paris June 15, 1906 ; died Dec. 4, 1906.
Children of
James Crapo Cristy and Laura Hart
(From page 940)
MARY HART' CRISTY, born Aug. 29, 1906.
HARLAN PAGE CRISTY, born Dec. 4, 1907.
DAVID CRISTY, born Sept. 22, 1911.
All living in Detroit.
Children of
Minnie Crapo Cristy and Thomas H. West, Jr.
(From page 940)
THOMAS HENRY WEST, born Mar. 6, 1900.
WILHELMINA CRAPO WEST, born Mar. 15, 1902.
JOHN CRISTY WEST, born Jan. 12, 1908.
MARY ANN WEST, born Aug. 26, 1909.
All living in St. Louis.
946 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children of
David Crapo and Marcia Sowle
[Compiled by George L. Randall]
(From page 931)
SOPHIA CRAPO, born May 25, 1834; married (1) Oct.
28, 1855, James Swigart; (2) Sept. 28, 1865, Rev.
Myron Tupper; died Mar. 26, 1909. Issue.
ANN M. CRAPO, born May 23, 1835 ; married Dec. 30,
1855, Andrew M. Ralston ; died June 7, 1863. Issue.
HANNAH CRAPO, born Nov. 14, 1836 ; married Jan. 8,
1854, Daniel Unger; died Jan. 15, 1893. Issue.
JANE CRAPO, born Dec. 28, 1839; married Aug. 10,
1862, Wallace Lovewell ; died July 13, 1901. Issue.
MARY CRAPO, born May 4, 1842; married Aug. 1863,
William C. Miilison; died Aug. 18, 1868. Issue.
JESSE CRAPO, born Apr. 19, 1844; died Fair Oaks,
Va., June 10, 1863. Unmarried.
EGARA CRAPO, born Aug. 14, 1846 ; married Feb. 27,
1861, John Shafer. Issue.
THOMAS CRAPO, born Oct. 8, 1848 ; married Sept. 28,
1867, Mrs. Anna C. Klise of Sandusky, Ohio (died
July 20, 1886). Issue.
ALMA CRAPO, born June 30, 1850; married Feb. 27,
1867, Hugh J. Potts. Issue.
MARTHA CRAPO, born Mar. 28, 1852; married Jan.
20, 1870, Henry Van Houten. Issue.
CRAPO DESCENDANTS 947
Children of
Joseph Crapo and Sarah Sisson
[Compiled by George L. Randall]
(From page 931)
ELIZABETH CRAPO, born Sept. 29, 1833; married
Dartmouth Aug. 16, 1853, Peleg C. Wilcox; died
New Bedford Oct. 4, 1906. Issue.
SARAH CRAPO, born Mar. 1, 1835; married Oct. 17,
1853, Isaac W. Grinnell of New Bedford ; died New
Bedford Aug. 5, 1908.
WILLIAM H. CRAPO, born Jan. 21, 1837; married (1)
1S65, Phebe A. Carlysle of Portland, Ore. ; (2) Sept.,
1867, Celia A. Warren of Flint, Mich.; (3) Dec. 8,
1883, Helen Webster Ellis of New Bedford; (4) Jan.
15, 1894, Sarah Reynolds of Boston. Issue.
JESSE CRAPO, born Sept. 15, 1841; married 1865,
Anne Lamb of San Francisco, Cal. ; died San Jose,
Cal., July 2, 1895. Issue.
PHEBE CRAPO, born Sept. 10, 1843; married Dart-
mouth Feb. 16, 1865, Joseph Lobo; living in New
Bedford. Issue.
ALBERT ALLEN CRAPO, born Oct. 25, 1846 ; married
July 30, 1874, Emma F. McCrary of Dartmouth.
948
CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children of
Phebe Ann Crapo and Sylvester Snow
(From page 931)
DAVID SYLVESTER SNOW, born New Bedford July
30, 1843 ; married Jan. 1, 1892, Ellen M. Rilley of
New Bedford ; died Mar. 21, 1908. Daughter, Mary
A. H. Snow, born Dec. 6, 1892.
EMMA ADELAIDE SNOW, born New Bedford, June
28, 1846 ; living in New Bedford. Unmarried.
CHARLES HENRY SNOW, born New Bedford, Aug.
29, 1849 ; living in New Bedford. Unmarried.
Chapter X
DESCENDANTS
OF
WILLIAMS SLOCUM
AND
ANNE ALMY CHASE
SLOCUM DESCENDANTS 951
Children of
Williams Slocum and Anne Almy Chase
MARY ANN SLOCUM, born Dartmouth May 21, 1805 ;
married June 9, 1825, Henry Howland Crapo of
Dartmouth ; died Flint, Mich., Feb. 21, 1875. Issue.
(See page 932.)
GEORGE FOLGER SLOCUM, born Dartmouth Oct. 1,
1806 ; married June 18, 1825, Jane Nicholson Ward
of Newport (daughter of Nicholson Ward and
Elizabeth, daughter of John Sanf ord ; born July 28,
1798; died Mar. 6, 1863) ; died Dartmouth Dec. 10,
1887. Issue. (See page 952.)
BENJAMIN CHASE SLOCUM, born Dartmouth Aug.
18, 1809 ; died Dartmouth Dec. 28, 1880. Unmarried.
JANE BROWN SLOCUM, born Dartmouth July 20,
1811 ; died Dartmouth Feb. 9, 1902. Unmarried.
952 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children of
George Folger Slocum and Jane Nicholson Ward
(From page 951)
ANN ELIZABETH SLOCUM, born Dartmouth Dec.
13, 1829 ; married Apr. 3, 1849, Christopher Slocum
(son of Abner Slocum and Deborah, daughter of
Ephraim and Susan Wilcox Gifford of Westport;
born Chilmark, Marthas Vineyard, Nov. 4, 1823;
died Dartmouth Aug. 10, 1902) ; died Dartmouth
Mar. 14, 1905. Issue. (See page 953.)
AERIA SLOCUM, born Dartmouth Dec. 14, 1833;
married (1) Feb. 4, 1856, Giles S. Almy (son of
Pardon and Abby Almy; born Oct. 30, 1827; died
Feb. 5, 1857) ; (2) Apr. 13, 1866, Daniel Baker
of Dartmouth (son of Daniel and Sarah Baker;
born Dec. 16, 1802; died June 3, 1875) ; died Dart-
mouth Mar. 11, 1904. Issue. (See page 954.)
HENRY HOWLAND SLOCUM, born Dartmouth Feb.
22, 1835; married Sept. 11, 1860, Sarah Francis
Manchester of Dartmouth (daughter of Allen Tripp
Manchester and Sarah Bosworth Barstow of West-
port; born Feb. 11, 1837; died March 21, 1910);
living in Scituate, R. I. Issue. (See page 955.)
SILAS PERRY SLOCUM, born Dartmouth Feb. 15,
1837; married Oct. 25, 1869, Helen Eggleston of
Seneca Falls, N. Y. (daughter of James Eggleston;
born June 14, 1850) ; living in Flint, Mich. Issue.
(See page 955.)
WILLIAMS SLOCUM, born Dartmouth June 4, 1839;
died Sept. 17, 1854.
SLOCUM DESCENDANTS 953
Children of
Ann Elizabeth Slocum and Christopher Slocum
(From page 952)
ABNER GEORGE SLOCUM, born Dartmouth Dec. 13,
1849 ; married Sept., 1873, Maria Louise Jencks
(daughter of Charles Jencks and Ann, daughter of
Weston Gifford) ; died July 27, 1886. No issue.
SYLVIA ANN SLOCUM, born Dartmouth Aug. 20,
1852 ; died July 13, 1855.
JABEZ HOWLAND SLOCUM, born Dartmouth Sept.
21, I860; married Sept. 21, 1903, Sarah Jane Read
(daughter of Samuel D. Read of Newport, R. I., the
son of Samuel M. Read and Elizabeth Dickinson,
and of Jane Grey Allen, the daughter of Thomas
J. Allen of Buckfield, Maine, and Nancy Cole of
Plymouth, Mass.; born Nov. 26, 1872); living in
Dartmouth. Issue. (See page 956.)
954 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children of
Aeria Slocum and Giles S. Almy and Daniel Baker
(From page 952)
GILES PARDON ALMY, born Dec. 14, 1856 ; living in
Dartmouth.
DANIEL WEBSTER BAKER, born Dartmouth Aug.
7, 1867 ; married Nov. 15, 1892, Grace Covill Gifford
(daughter of James Gifford and Adaline H. Beetle
of New Bedford, born May 18, 1869 ; died Apr. 6,
1901) ; living in New Bedford. Issue. (See
page 957.)
EDWARD YOUNG BAKER, born Dartmouth Mar. 28,
1869; married Oct. 27, 1895, Marcia Clifton Davis
(daughter of Jethro C. Davis and Emma C. Holmes ;
born Dec. 24, 1873) ; living in New Bedford. Issue.
(See page 957.)
SLOCUM DESCENDANTS 955
Children of
Henry Howland Slocum and Sarah F. Manchester
(From page 952)
JENNIE FRANCIS SLOCUM, born Warwick, R. I.,
Mar. 11, 1868; married Oct. 22, 1888, Albert F.
Leach (son of George W. Leach and Abby Ann
Chappee Fisher; born Jan. 26, 1863); living in
Rhode Island. Issue. (See page 958.)
SARAH ISABELLE SLOCUM, born Warwick, R. I.,
Nov. 22, 1872.
Children op
Silas Perry Slocum and Helen Eggleston
(From page 952)
JESSIE HARRIET SLOCUM, bom Flint, Mich., Aug.
15, 1873.
ROY WILLIAM SLOCUM, born Flint, Mich., Jan. 6,
1884 ; died Aug. 20, 1884.
JAMES RAY SLOCUM, born Flint, Mich., July 15,
1887.
956 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children of
Jabez Howland Slocum and Sarah Jane Read
(From page 953)
MABELLE GREY SLOCUM, born Dartmouth June
15, 1904.
HENRY HOWLAND SLOCUM, born Dartmouth July
27, 1905.
RUTH ANN SLOCUM, born Dartmouth Aug. 15, 1908.
SLOCUM DESCENDANTS 957
Children of
Daniel Webster Baker and Grace C. Gifford
(From page 954)
ERLAND WEBSTER BAKER, born New Bedford
Aug. 22, 1893 ; died Feb., 1894.
STANLEY GIFFORD BAKER, born New Bedford
July 6, 1895.
ELIZABETH HOWLAND BAKER, born New Bed-
ford, Jan. 1, 1901.
Children of
Edward Young Baker and Marcia C. Davis
(From page 954)
GILMAN E. BAKER, born New Bedford Nov. 15, 1898 ;
died Dec. 25, 1898.
EDITH MAY BAKER, born New Bedford Sept. 28,
1900.
958 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children of
Jennie Francis Slocum and Albert F. Leach
(From page 955)
MARY BARSTOW LEACH, born July 25, 1889.
ELSIE ANNIE LEACH, born Dec. 9, 1894.
ETHEL FRANCIS LEACH, born Feb. 25, 1896.
SARAH MANCHESTER LEACH, born Apr. 2, 1900.
Chapter XI
DESCENDANTS
OP
ABNER TOPPAN
AND
ELIZABETH STANFORD
TOPPAN DESCENDANTS 961
Children of
Abner Toppan and Elizabeth Stanford
SOPHIA TOPPAN, born Easton, Md., Feb. 6, 1792;
married Mar. 29, 1810, Oliver Crocker of New Bed-
ford (born Aug. 3, 1788; died May 23, 1878) ; died
New Bedford July 17, 1840. Issue. (See page
962.)
WILLIAM TOPPAN, born Newburyport July 15, 1795 ;
died young.
ABNER TOPPAN, born Newburyport June 21, 1797;
married June 2, 1828, Ann C. Nestor; died Lowell,
Mass., May 1, 1883. Issue. (See page 964.)
RICHARD STANFORD TOPPAN, born Newburyport
Sept. 19, 1799 ; died at sea 1817.
ELIZABETH TOPPAN, born Newburyport Mar. 4,
1802; married Aug. 31, 1820, James Ruggles of
Rochester, Mass.; died Feb. 18, 1874. Issue. (See
page 965.)
ARIANNA TOPPAN, born Newburyport Mar. 27, 1804 ;
married July 16, 1823, Samuel W. Thompson of
Newburyport (later of Marion, Mass.) ; died Marion
Dec. 21, 1881. Issue. (See page 967.)
GEORGE TAPPAN, born Newburyport Jan. 6, 1807;
married Nov. 10, 1829, Serena Davis of Newbury-
port; died New Bedford Aug. 15, 1857. Issue.
(See page 969.)
HARRIET MARIA TOPPAN, born Newburyport Jan.
11, 1810; married Nov. 16, 1832, John Paul T.
Haskell of Rochester, Mass. (born Aug. 19, 1805;
died Aug. 19, 1873) ; died Lowell Oct. 19, 1886.
Issue. (See page 970.)
962 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children of
Sophia Toppan and Oliver Crocker
(From page 961)
ELIZABETH CROCKER, born Apr. 10, 1812; died
July 14, 1869. Unmarried.
GEORGE OLIVER CROCKER, born Jan. 17, 1814;
died May 24, 1887. Unmarried.
WILLIAM STANFORD CROCKER, born Aug. 31,
1815 ; died Mar. 11, 1839. Unmarried.
CAROLINE CROCKER, born Nov. 26, 1816; died June
24, 1829.
SOPHIA TOPPAN CROCKER, born Oct. 11, 1818;
married June 14, 1854, Dr. Calvin Stevens; died
Mar. 27, 1866. Issue. (See page 971.)
ANN MARIA CROCKER, born Mar. 18, 1821 ; married
May 18, 1859, Rev. Amos E. Lawrence; died Aug.
20, 1865. Issue. (See page 972.)
ABNER TOPPAN CROCKER, born Nov. 24, 1823;
died Sept. 13, 1825.
ABNER TOPPAN CROCKER, born Dec. 25, 1826 ; died
July 20, 1861. Unmarried.
TOPPAN DESCENDANTS 963
JOHN FRANKLIN EMERSON CROCKER, born Apr.
27, 1829 ; died Oct. 22, 1830.
CAROLINE CROCKER, born Apr. 30, 1831 ; died Dec.
5, 1833.
MARY HALE CROCKER, born Jan. 29, 1834; married
Dec. 3, 1856, Dr. Charles Dickinson Stickney ; living
in New York. Issue. (See page 972.)
964 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children of
Abner Toppan and Ann C. Nestor
(From page 961)
RICHARD STANFORD TOPPAN, born Mar. 10, 1829 ;
married Hannah Kittredge. No issue.
ELIZABETH STANFORD TOPPAN, born July 4,
1830; married June 18, 1862, Oramel A. Brigham
of Lowell, Mass. ; died Cataumet, Mass., Aug. 29,
1900, murdered by Jane "Toppan." No issue.
OLIVER CROCKER TOPPAN, born Aug. 12, 1832;
died 1835.
TOPPAN DESCENDANTS 965
Children of
Elizabeth Toppan and James Ruggles
(From page 961)
MARY ELIZABETH CLAPP RUGGLES, born Nov.
15, 1821 ; died Oct. 21, 1824.
LUCY RUGGLES, born May 4, 1823; died May 6, 1823.
WILLIAM RUGGLES, born Apr. 25, 1825; died Nov.
6, 1850.
HENRY RUGGLES, born Feb. 18, 1827 ; died July 18,
1828.
HARRIET M. T. RUGGLES, born Aug. 22, 1828; mar-
ried (1) Jan. 19, 1847, Eben P. Haskell; (2) Nov.
7, 1866, Noah T. Mendell; died Acushnet June 11,
1904. Issue. (See page 973.)
ELIZABETH CROCKER RUGGLES, born Oct. 17,
1830; married Oct. 17, 1853, Daniel T. Robbins of
Plymouth. Issue. (See page 974.)
CATHERINE BONNE Y RUGGLES, born Sept. 21,
1832; married Apr. 4, 1859, John G. Dexter of
Rochester; died Jan. 8, 1898. Issue. (See page
975.)
MARY PHILLIPS RUGGLES, born Sept. 9, 1834; mar-
ried Aug. 10, 1857, Charles Parks Rugg of New Bed-
ford; living in New Bedford. Issue. (See page
976.)
966 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
SUSAN TABER RUGGLES, born Dec. 15, 1836; mar-
ried Nov. 8, 1860, Judge Calvin E. Pratt of Brook-
lyn (died Aug. 3, 1896) ; living in Rochester, Mass.
Issue. (See page 977.)
LUCY TOPPAN RUGGLES, born Feb. 13, 1839 ; mar-
ried Mar. 4, 1863, A. S. Stothof of Brooklyn; died
July 26, 1902. No issue.
ELIZA THOMPSON RUGGLES, born July 15, 1841;
married (1) Sept. 28, 1863, Hassan Wheeler of
Brooklyn; (2) James E. Powers; died Sept. 13,
1906. Issue. (See page 978.)
ARIANNA GRAVES RUGGLES, born Feb. 25, 1844;
married June 20, 1866, J. Augustus Duryee ; died
Jan. 26, 1911. Issue. (See page 979.)
TOPPAN DESCENDANTS 967
Children op
Arianna Toppan and Samuel W. Thompson
(From page 961)
MARY N. THOMPSON, born Jan. 2, 1824; married
Apr. 10, 1849, Garrett P. Bergen of Brooklyn; died
Mar. 30, 1860. Issue. (See page 980.)
HENRIETTA THOMPSON, born May 26, 1825 ; mar-
ried Oct. 14, 1861, Garrett P. Bergen; died Oct. 7,
1907. Issue. (See page 980.)
ELIZABETH E. THOMPSON, born May 26, 1827;
married Nov. 15, 1848, Gookin Baker ; died Sept. 30,
1901. Issue. (See page 981.)
ARIANNA THOMPSON, born Feb. 12, 1829; married
Jan. 7, 1852, David C. Smith of Rockland, Maine
(died Sept. 7, 1911) ; living. No issue.
SOPHIA C. THOMPSON, born July 1, 1831 ; married
Oct. 22, 1856, Zacheus Bergen of Brooklyn (died
Oct. 11, 1898) ; living. Issue. (See page 981.)
THOMAS W. THOMPSON, born Dec. 6, 1834; married
Nov. 11, 1862, Fannie Bease of Brooklyn ; died Sept.
30, 1908. No issue.
SAMUEL W. THOMPSON, born Newburyport Dec. 7,
1836; married Brooklyn Oct. 16, 1862, Mary Ford
Tooker (daughter of J. Alfred Tooker and Susan
Hinchman Tooker) ; died Birmingham, Mich., May
7, 1909. Issue. (See page 982.)
968 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
ABNER TOPPAN THOMPSON, born Aug. 5, 1838;
died Sept. 9, 1838.
ANN MARIA C. THOMPSON, born Oct. 31, 1840;
died Nov. 30, 1841.
ANN MARIA THOMPSON, born Aug. 16, 1842; mar-
ried Feb. 6, 1867, Boerum C. Peterson; living.
Issue. (See page 983.)
GEORGIANA THOMPSON, born Sept. 4, 1845; died
Sept. 4, 1846.
TOPPAN DESCENDANTS 969
Children of
George Tappan and Serena Davis
(From page 961)
GEORGE A. TAPPAN, born Nov. 1, 1830; died Nov.
17, 1830.
SARAH ANN DAVIS TAPPAN, born Newburyport
Oct. 6, 1831; married Jan. 22, 1857, William W.
Crapo of New Bedford ; died New Bedford Dec. 13,
1893. Issue. (See page 935.)
GEORGE A. TAPPAN, born Aug. 29, 1832; died May
13, 1835.
SERENA DAVIS TAPPAN, born June 18, 1834; died
May 11, 1838.
CHARLES A. TAPPAN, born Nov. 13, 1838; died
Sept. 26, 1839.
WILLIAM CROCKER TAPPAN, born Apr. 17, 1842;
married Sept. 16, 1868, Adelina T. Baker (born
Aug. 19, 1846) ; died Hyde Park Sept. 20, 1909.
Issue. (See page 983.)
970 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children of
Harriet Maria Toppan and John Paul T. Haskell
(From page 961)
LUCY MARIA HASKELL, born Nov. 25, 1833; mar-
ried Sept. 1852, Asaph Whittlesey; died Apr. 30,
1901. Issue.
NATHANIEL HASKELL, born May 11, 1838 ; married
Mrs. E. Waterman ; died 1862.
GEORGE TAPPAN HASKELL, born Jan. 12, 1840;
died 1855.
WILLIAM HENRY HASKELL, born Nov. 9, 1842;
married Minnie Malve ; living.
JOHN WILLIAM CLAGHORN HASKELL, born July
4, 1844 ; married Sept. 5, 1873, Ella Rhoda Mann of
Aurora, 111. ; living in Chicago. Issue. (See page
984.)
JOSEPH ELNATHAN HASKELL, born Feb. 27, 1846 ;
married Aug. 2, 1873, Myra Balcomb ; living.
JULIA HARRIET HASKELL, born Feb. 7, 1850 ; mar-
ried Feb. 6, 1873, Moses Little of Lowell, Mass. ; liv-
ing in Lowell. Issue. (See page 984.)
TOPPAN DESCENDANTS 971
Children of
Sophia Toppan Crocker and Calvin Stevens
(From page 962)
OLIVER CROCKER STEVENS, born Boston June 3,
1855; married St. Albans, Vt., June 10, 1885, Julia
Burnett Smith (daughter of Ex-Governor John
Gregory Smith of Vermont and Ann Eliza Brain-
erd) ; died Pasadena, Cal., Mar. 25, 1911. No issue.
WILLIAM STANFORD STEVENS, born Boston June
13, 1859; married St. Albans, Vt., Dec. 11, 1895,
Emily Huntington Lewis (daughter of Silas Hunt-
ington Lewis and Harriet Safford) ; living in St.
Albans. Issue. (See page 985.)
972 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children op
Ann Maria Crocker and Amos E. Lawrence
(From page 962)
GEORGE OLIVER CROCKER LAWRENCE, born
Lancaster, Mass., May 10, I860; living. Daughter,
Gladys Lawrence.
ELIZABETH CROCKER LAWRENCE, born Lancas-
ter, Mass., Nov. 11, 1861 ; married Professor Samuel
Fessenden Clarke of Williams College (born Geneva,
111., June 4, 1851) ; living. Daughter, Elizabeth
Lawrence Clarke, born Williamstown Sept. 3, 1893.
AMOS EDWARD LAWRENCE, born Lancaster, Mass.,
Mar. 14, 1863 ; living. Unmarried.
Child of
Mary Hale Crocker and Charles D. Stickney
(From page 963)
CHARLES DICKINSON STICKNEY, born New Bed-
ford Sept. 28, 1858 ; married 1890, Helen Hamersley
of New York (died Feb. 23, 1911) ; living in New
York. No issue.
TOPPAN DESCENDANTS 973
Children of
Harriet M. T. Ruggles and Eben P. Haskell
(From page 965)
JAMES RUGGLES HASKELL, born Apr. 11, 1851;
married Apr. 15, 1875, Amelia Jane Dougherty;
died July 26, 1909. No issue.
WILLIAM H. HASKELL, born Apr. 12, 1853; died
Sept. 6, 1896. Unmarried.
EDWARD S. HASKELL, born Fairhaven, Apr. 24,
1857; married (1) Dec. 1883, Clara Lin wood Roe
(born Aug. 18, 1861, died June 5, 1897) ; (2) Oct.
26, 1899, Edith Tobey Eldred (born Fairhaven Dec.
3, 1877) ; living in Fairhaven. Issue. (See page
986.)
974 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children op
Elizabeth Crocker Ruggles and Daniel T. Robbins
(From page 965)
CHARLES S. ROBBINS, born Jan. 9, 1859 ; died Oct.
2, 1859.
CATHERINE RUGGLES ROBBINS, born July 3,
1854; married Sept 1, 1874, James Warren of Ply-
mouth ; died June 17, 1887. Issue. (See page 987.)
toppan descendants 975
Children of
Catherine Bonney Ruggles and John G. Dexter
(From page 965)
JOHN WHEELER DEXTER, born Oct. 21, 1866 ; mar-
ried Jan. 3, 1894, Mary S. Schrilling; living in
Atalissa, Iowa. Issue. (See page 988.)
FRANK GIBBS DEXTER, born July 14, 1868; died
June 9, 1896.
ELEANOR RICHARDSON DEXTER, born Oct. 18,
1869 ; married June 6, 1888, William Logan Rodman
Gifford ; living in St. Louis, Mo. Issue. (See page
■)
HARRIET MARIA DEXTER, born Jan. 22, 1871; died
Oct. 8, 1871.
LUCY RUGGLES DEXTER, born Feb. 9, 1872; mar-
ried July 25, 1894, James P. Porter. Son, Llewel-
lyn P. Porter, born Oct. 18, 1901.
CHARLES RUGG DEXTER, born May 30, 1877 ; mar-
ried Mar. 30, 1898, Josephine M. Snell. No issue.
MARY STANFORD DEXTER, born July 16, 1879;
married Sept. 9, 1905, Samuel Usher ; living in Som-
erville, Mass. One daughter born May 18, 1907.
976
CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children of
Mary Phillips Ruggles and Charles P. Rugg
(From page 965)
CHARLES PARKS RUGG, born June 13, 1860; died
May 4, 1861.
GEORGE RUGG, born Rochester, Mass., July 2, 1862;
married Brockton, Mass., July 20, 1887, Grace Agnes
Rogers (born Mar. 5, 1865) ; living. Issue. (See
page 989.)
ELIZABETH STANFORD RUGG, born New Bedford
Sept. 26, 1867; married New Bedford, June 19,
1900, Albert Wood Holmes (born Mattapoisett Aug.
17, 1852; died New Bedford Feb. 26, 1912) ; living
in New Bedford. Issue. (See page 989.)
toppan descendants 977
Children of
Susan Taber Ruggles and Calvin E. Pratt
(From page 966)
ALBERT H. PRATT, born Brooklyn Sept. 3, 1861 ; liv-
ing. Unmarried.
EDWARD LEE PRATT, born Brooklyn May 14, 1863 ;
died July 27, 1865.
CALVIN E. PRATT, born Brooklyn July 17, 1865 ; died
Apr. 19, 1866.
SUSAN RUGGLES PRATT, born Brooklyn Dec. 14,
1866 ; married Jan. 19, 1892, William Norris Church,
Jr., of New Bedford (died Chestertown, N. Y., Mar.
9, 1899) ; living in Rochester, Mass. No issue.
POLLY CLAPP PRATT, born Brooklyn Feb. 12, 1868 ;
married June 6, 1894, Livingston Emery (born May
7, 1864) ; living in Norwood, N. J. Issue. (See
page 990.)
ANNA STANFORD PRATT, born Brooklyn Mar. 10,
1870; married Mar. 3, 1897, Charles Lincoln
Holmes; living in Fall River. Issue. (See page
990.)
JANE STRATTON PRATT, born Brooklyn Mar. 10,
1870; married Apr. 30, 1895, Stanley Alden Al-
drich ; living in Fall River. Issue. (See page 990.)
978 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children of
Eliza Thompson Ruggles and Hassan Wheeler
(From, page 966)
CHARLES WHEELER, born July 17, 1864 ; died
No issue.
JOHN N. WHEELER, born July 20, 1865 ; married Ida
Pranet ; living. Daughters, Helen and Ruth Wheeler.
TOPPAN DESCENDANTS 979
Children op
Abianna Graves Ruggles and J. Augustus Duryee
(From page 966)
PHILIP DURYEE, born Mar. 14, 1867 ; married Grace
Oliver ; died May 23, 1906.
AUGUSTUS DURYEE, born Apr. 28, 1868; married
Oct. 20, 1902, Effie Weyant ; living in Brooklyn. No
issue.
RUGGLES DURYEE, died in infancy.
WILLIAM and EDWARD DURYEE, twins, died in
infancy.
PETER STANFORD DURYEE, born Dec. 2, 1874;
married Nov. 8, 1900, Pauline J. Clephane; living
in Englewood, N. J. Issue. (See page 991.)
certain comeoverers
Children of
Mary N. Thompson and Garrett P. Bergen
(From page 967)
LAURA BERGEN, born Somerville, N. J., Dec. 30,
1849; married Howard W. Clark of Rockland,
Maine; died Dec. 30, 1892.
EMMA STANFORD BERGEN, born Brooklyn, Aug.
30, 1855 ; married Henry Faber of Brooklyn.
Children of
Henrietta Thompson and Garrett P. Bergen
(From page 967)
SAMUEL WHITE BERGEN, born Brooklyn, Aug. 26,
1862; married Mar. 8, 1893, Lena Boynton. Issue.
(See page 991.)
CHARLES COLE BERGEN, born Brooklyn Sept. 24,
1864; died Sept. 23, 1900. Unmarried.
HENRIETTA STANFORD BERGEN, born Brooklyn
July 2, 1866.
TOPPAN DESCENDANTS 981
Children of
Elizabeth E. Thompson and Gookin Baker
(From page 967)
VIRGINIA BAKER, died in infancy.
HAROLD G. BAKER, born May 10, 1855; married
Somerville, Mass., Aug. 2, 1878, Carrie L. Smith
(died Apr. 1, 1885) ; living in Detroit. Issue. (See
page 991.)
WILLIAM STANFORD BAKER, born Aug. 4, 1859;
living in Detroit. Unmarried.
ELIZABETH BAKER, died young.
Children of
Sophia C. Thompson and Zacheus Bergen
(From page 967)
GEORGE CLIFFORD BERGEN, born Brooklyn, Aug.
8, 1859; married Sept. 3, 1890, Edith Trumball;
living in South Orange, N. J. Issue. (See page
992.)
FREDERIC ROBERTSON BERGEN, born Brooklyn
Feb. 16, 1864; died Sept. 12, 1906.
MARY THOMPSON BERGEN, born Brooklyn Aug. 19,
1869; married Apr. 15, 1891, Albert Lincoln Salt;
living in Summit, N. J. Son, Lloyd Bergen Salt,
born Mar. 18, 1893.
982 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children op
Samuel W. Thompson and Mary F. Tooker
(From page 967)
SUSAN DeCAMP THOMPSON, born Brooklyn Oct. 24,
1863 ; died Detroit Jan. 27, 1867.
J. ALFRED THOMPSON, born Brooklyn June 5, 1865 ;
married St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 1890, Frances A.
Borgess; living. Issue. (See page 992.)
FRANK BERGEN THOMPSON, born Detroit June 12,
1867; married Detroit Oct. 17, 1895, Hattie Burk;
living. No issue.
ROBERT AUGUSTUS THOMPSON, born Detroit Nov.
3, 1871 ; married Brooklyn Apr. 1895, Lucy Wanzor ;
living. Issue. (See page 992.)
LOUIS SONER THOMPSON, born Detroit Mar. 15,
1875; married Phoenix, Ariz., Oct. 18, 1905, Louise
Vaughn; living. Issue. (See page 993.)
FORD DeCAMP THOMPSON, born Detroit Mar. 1,
1878; married Brooklyn Oct. 1, 1902, Minnie
Gerken ; living. No issue.
MARY FORD THOMPSON, born Detroit Mar. 1, 1878 ;
living. Unmarried.
SAMUEL CALLAWAY THOMPSON, born Detroit
Jan. 13, 1880; married Brooklyn June 22, 1904,
Mary A. Wells ; living. Son, Arthur Porter Thomp-
son, born July 31, 1905.
toppan descendants 983
Child of
Ann Maria Thompson and Boerum C. Peterson
(From page 968)
SUSAN THOMPSON PETERSON, born Oct. 7, 1869 ;
married Dec. 4, 1894, Rev. Frank Leonard Luce of
Marion, Mass., later of Dorchester, Mass. (born June
15, 1866). Issue. (See page 993.)
Children op
William Crocker Tappan and Adelina T. Baker
(From page 969)
GEORGE TAPPAN, born July 26, 1870 ; died Nov. 5,
1870.
SARAH CRAPO TAPPAN, born June 27, 1873 ; mar-
ried (1) Oct. 9, 1895, Guy B. Carter (died Sept. 11,
1896) ; (2) Mar. 30, 1907, Richard Coe of Durham,
N. H. ; living in Hyde Park. Daughter, Serena
Tappan Coe, born Jan. 9, 1911.
HAROLD HARDING TAPPAN, born Feb. 19, 1883;
died July 14, 1883.
STANFORD DAVIS TAPPAN, born Aug. 12, 1885;
living.
984 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children of
John W. C. Haskell and Ella R. Mann
(From page 970)
HARRIET ELIZABETH HASKELL, born Nov. 6,
1874; married John Christbiel Curtiss of Chicago.
Issue. (See page 994.)
LOUISE HASKELL, born Mar. 25, 1879 ; died July 24,
1879.
GEORGE AUSTIN HASKELL, born Jan. 17, 1886;
married June 14, 1904, Harriet Keith. Daughter,
Jean Haskell, born May 22, 1906.
JOHN PAUL HASKELL, born Jan. 17, 1886 ; married
July 19, 1909, Mary Bertha Paterson. Daughter,
Mary Page Haskell, born Aug. 26, 1910.
Children of
Julia Harriet Haskell and Moses Little
(From page 970)
EDMUND COOK LITTLE, born Apr. 17, 1874; mar-
ried Oct. 18, 1905, Maude Greenslit of Hampton,
Conn ; living.
HARRY WEBB LITTLE, born Nov. 3, 1877 ; died Apr,
9, 1879.
TOPPAN DESCENDANTS 985
Children of
William Stanford Stevens and Emily H. Lewis
(From page 971)
WILLIAM STANFORD STEVENS, bom Oct. 21, 1896 ;
died Oct. 31, 1896.
STANFORD HUNTINGTON STEVENS, born Oct. 5,
1897.
PHILIP GREELEY STEVENS, born Aug. 16, 1902.
986 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children op
Edward S. Haskell and Clara L. Roe
(From page 973)
ELIZA WHEELER HASKELL, born June 16, 1884;
died June 19, 1884.
AMELIA RUGGLES HASKELL, born May 20, 1885;
married Oct. 2, 1909, Walter S. Johnston; living in
Roslindale, Mass. Son, Walter S. Johnston, born
Feb. 3, 1911.
STANFORD LINWOOD HASKELL, born Oct. 23,
1887 ; now in Philippine Islands.
EDNA WINIFRED HASKELL, born Aug. 2, 1890.
ALICE LOUISE HASKELL, born Oct. 16, 1892 ; died
Aug. 27, 1894.
Child of
Edward S. Haskell and Edith T. Eldred
(From page 973)
HELEN STOTHOF HASKELL, born Dec. 12, 1901.
TOPPAN DESCENDANTS 987
Children of
Catherine Ruggles Robbins and James Warren
(From page 974)
KATHLEEN WARREN, born Nov. 25, 1875; married
May 12, 1896, Harry Brewer Harding. Issue.
(See page 994.)
ANNA WARREN, born Jan. 3, 1878.
ALICE BRADFORD WARREN, born Aug. 15, 1879.
IDA WARREN, born July 6, 1881; married Apr. 6,
1904, John Robertson Maltbie.
ELIZABETH RUGGLES WARREN, born Apr. 29,
1887 ; married Apr. 16, 1910, Offley Tatum Brown.
988 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children op
John Wheeler Dexter and Mary S. Schrilling
(From page 975)
JOHN P. DEXTER, born Oct. 1, 1895.
LOUIS P. DEXTER, born Dec. 2, 1897.
FRANK G. DEXTER, born Mar. 25, 1899.
HAROLD A. DEXTER, born Feb. 22, 1902.
Children of
Eleanor Richardson Dexter and William L. R. Gifpord
(From page 975)
CATHERINE GIFFORD, born 1889 ; died 1903.
HUMPHREY A. GIFFORD, born Nov. 15, 1890.
TOPPAN DESCENDANTS 989
Children of
George Rugg and Grace A. Rogers
(From page 976)
GERTRUDE ROGERS RUGG, born Brattleboro. Vt,
Sept. 18, 1888.
CHARLES PARKS RUGG, born Ipswich, Mass., July
13, 1891.
Children of
Elizabeth Stanford Rugg and Albert W. Holmes
(From page 976)
ALBERT WOOD HOLMES, born Nov. 17, 1901.
GORDON HOLMES, born Oct. 29, 1905.
990 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children of
Polly Clapp Pratt and Livingston Emery
(From page 977)
CALVIN EMERY, born Apr. 15, 1895.
CHARLES EDWARD EMERY, born Apr. 8, 1897.
KATHERINE EMERY, born Nov. 19, 1902 ; died Feb.
4, 1903.
ALBERT LIVINGSTON EMERY, born Sept. 14, 1904 ;
died Feb. 9, 1905.
PAULINE EMERY, born Apr. 25, 1906.
Children of
Anna Stanford Pratt and Charles L. Holmes
(From page 977)
CHARLES CALVIN HOLMES, born Dec. 4, 1897.
STANFORD HOLMES, born Oct. 2, 1900.
LINCOLN PRATT HOLMES, born Dec. 21, 1906.
Children of
Jane Stratton Pratt and Stanley A. Aldrich
(From page 977)
STANLEY ALDEN ALDRICH, born Nov. 30, 1897.
MALCOLM PRATT ALDRICH, born Oct. 1, 1900.
HULBERT STRATTON ALDRICH, born Apr. 3, 1907.
DUNCAN EARLE ALDRICH, born July 9, 1910.
TOPPAN DESCENDANTS 991
Children of
Peter Stanford Duryee and Pauline J. Clephane
(From page 979)
PAULINE CLEPHANE DURYEE, born June 30, 1903.
MARGARET RUGGLES DURYEE, born Oct. 28, 1904.
Children of
Samuel White Bergen and Lena Boynton
(From page 980)
HAROLD BOYNTON BERGEN, born Brooklyn Dec.
28, 1893.
GARRETT LAWRENCE BERGEN, born Brooklyn
Apr. 28, 1904.
Child of
Harold G. Baker and Carrie L. Smith
(From page 981)
MILDRED BAKER, born Sept. 21, 1879 ; married Apr.
12, 1904, J. W. White of New York. Son, John J.
White, born Feb. 27, 1906.
992 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children op
George Clifford Bergen and Edith Trumball
(From page 981)
ARNOLD TRUMBALL BERGEN, born 1891.
ELLIOT CLIFFORD BERGEN, born 1893.
Children of
J. Alfred Thompson and Frances A. Borgess
(From page 982)
CHARLOTTE M. THOMPSON, born Oct. 27, 1891.
J. ALFRED THOMPSON, born July 31, 1893.
RALPH F. THOMPSON, born Sept. 2, 1895.
MARRIE F. THOMPSON, born Aug. 16, 1897.
EMILY LUCILLE THOMPSON, born Oct. 20, 1898.
LOUIS F. THOMPSON, born Jan. 27, 1904.
Children of
Robert Augustus Thompson and Lucy Wanzor
(From page 982)
ROBERT WESTFIELD THOMPSON, born May 5,
1896.
WARREN HINCHMAN THOMPSON, born Oct. 7,
1906.
TOPPAN DESCENDANTS 993
Children of
Louis Soner Thompson and Louise Vaughn
(From page 982)
STEWART VAUGHN THOMPSON, born Sept. 25,
1906.
MARY TOOKER THOMPSON, born June 16, 1908.
CAROLYN PIERSON THOMPSON, born Mar. 22,
1910.
Children of
Susan Thompson Peterson and Frank L. Luce
(From page 983)
STANFORD LEONARD LUCE, born Sept. 28, 1896.
VIRGINIA LUCE, born Oct. 2, 1901.
DOROTHEA DELANO LUCE, born Feb. 6, 1905.
FRANK LEONARD LUCE, born June 4, 1907.
994 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children of
Harriet Elizabeth Haskell and John C. Curtiss
(From page 984)
PAULINE VIRGINIA CURTISS, born July 9, 1901.
HARRIET EUGENIA CURTISS, born July 9, 1904.
Children of
Kathleen Warren and Harry B. Harding
(From page 987)
JOHN CAPEN HARDING, born May 13, 1898; died
Dec, 30, 1898.
PRISCILLA HARDING, born May 22, 1900.
Chapter XII
DESCENDANTS
OF
AARON DAVIS
AND
SARAH MORSE SMITH
DAVIS DESCENDANTS 997
Children op
Aaron Davis and Sarah Morse Smith
HARRIET MARIA DAVIS, born Newburyport Oct. 5,
1802; married Honolulu, Oahu, Pacific Ocean, Feb.
26, 1833, Charles Rand Smith; died St. Louis, Mo.,
July 4, 1849. Issue. (See page 999.)
SARAH ANN DAVIS, born Newburyport Jan. 25, 1805 ;
died Jan. 28, 1805, "of a consumption."
SARAH ANN DAVIS, born Newburyport Mar. 11,
1806; died June 8, 1807, "of the canker."
SERENA DAVIS, born Newburyport Jan. 17, 1808;
married Nov. 10, 1829, George Tappan of Newbury-
port; died Hyde Park, Mass., Feb. 5, 1896. Issue.
(See page 969.)
SARAH ANN DAVIS, born Newburyport July 10,
1810 ; married May 23, 1836, Thomas Charles Carter,
Newburyport; died Newburyport Mar. 23, 1869.
Issue. (See page 1000.)
MARTHA WILLS DAVIS, born Newburyport Aug. 9,
1812 ; married May 23, 1836, Anson Whelpley Bay-
ley, Newburyport; died Aug. 7, 1845. One son,
Frederick Bayley.
AARON CHARLES DAVIS, born Newburyport Mar. 3,
1815 ; died Aug. 8, 1816, "of a watery head, together
with other complaints."
AARON CHARLES DAVIS, born Newburyport Dec. 7,
1816; died Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 27, 1852. Un-
married.
998 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
JOHN WILLS DAVIS, born Newburyport Apr. 23,
1819; died Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 24, 1897. Un-
married.
ELEANOR TRACY DAVIS, born Newburyport May
5, 1821 ; married 1841, Thomas Russell Colcord,
Newburyport; died Santa Barbara, Cal., Feb. 9,
1907. Issue living in Missouri and California.
MARY KNAP DAVIS, born Newburyport May 10,
1824; died Feb. 17, 1826, "of convulsion fits."
DAVIS DESCENDANTS 999
Children op
Harriet Maria Davis and Charles R. Smith
(From page 997)
WILLIAM CHARLES SMITH, born Honolulu 1833;
married Newburyport 1857, Elizabeth A. Knapp of
Newburyport ; died at sea. Issue. (See page 1002.)
CHARLOTTE HINCKLEY SMITH, born at sea, on the
Pacific Ocean, Nov. 24, 1839 ; married New Bedford
June 13, 1861, Charles Henry Peirce (died Mar. 3,
1904) ; living in Brookline, Mass. Issue. (See page
1001.)
SARAH MORSE SMITH, born in Mobile, Ala., 1841 ;
died St. Louis, Mo., 1844.
CHARLES AUGUSTUS SMITH, born St. Louis, Mo.,
Oct. 1, 1846; married Amesbury, Mass., July 12,
1871, Emily Binney; died Newburyport Feb. 2,
1882. Issue. (See page 1002.)
1000 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children op
Sarah Ann Davis and Thomas C. Carter
(From page 997)
THOMAS CARTER, born Newburyport June 30, 1838 ;
married Berne, Albany Co., N. Y., Sept. 15, 1859,
Sarah Hochstrasser ; died Colioes, N. Y., July 10,
1875. Issue. (See page 1003.)
ISAAC SMITH CARTER, born Cohoes, JN. Y., Sept. 6,
1839; married New Bedford Nov. 22, 1861, Eliza-
beth Howland; died Flint, Mich., Feb. 24, 1868.
Issue. (See page 1004.)
ELIZABETH HOWE CARTER, born Cohoes, N. Y.,
June 4, 1841 ; died Aug. 8, 1841.
CAROLINE CARTER, born New Bedford Aug. 7, 1842;
living in Haverhill, Mass. Unmarried.
SARAH MEHITABLE CARTER, born Waterford, N.
Y., Nov. 25, 1844; died Flint, Mich., Feb. 2, 1865.
Unmarried.
GEORGE TAPPAN CARTER, born Cohoes, N. Y., July
13, 1849; married Newburyport Apr. 17, 1884,
Charlotte Osgood (daughter of Nathaniel S. Os-
good) ; died Cohoes June 27, 1902. Issue. (See
page 1003.)
DAVIS DESCENDANTS 1001
Children of
Charlotte Hinckley Smith and Charles H. Peirce
(From page 999)
WILLIAM TAPPAN PEIRCE, born New Bedford Mar.
16, 1862; living in Colorado. Unmarried.
ARTHUR PEIRCE, born New Bedford May 31, 1863 ;
died Aug. 5, 1863.
HARRIET DAVIS PEIRCE, born New Bedford Mar.
17, 1866 ; married New Bedford Sept. 25, 1888, Ben-
jamin Harris Anthony; living in New Bedford.
Issue. (See page 1005.)
MARGARET SERENA PEIRCE, born New Bedford
Aug. 14, 1867 ; living in Brookline, Mass. Un-
married.
CHARLOTTE PEIRCE, born New Bedford Nov. 24,
1872; living in Brookline, Mass. Unmarried.
1002 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children of
William Charles Smith and Elizabeth A. Knapp
(From page 999)
WILLIAM ALFRED SMITH, born Newburyport 1855 ;
died Oct. 23, 1881. Unmarried.
CHARLES OTIS SMITH, born Newburyport 1855
(twin) ; died Sept. 11, 1858.
Children op
Charles Augustus Smith and Emily Binney
(From page 999)
GERTRUDE BINNEY SMITH, born St. Louis Dec. 6,
1872 ; living in Amesbury, Mass. Unmarried.
WILLIAM BINNEY SMITH, born St. Louis Apr. 8,
1874; living.
EMILY HOPE SMITH, born St. Louis Feb. 22, 1876;
died Amesbury July 9, 1896.
DAVIS DESCENDANTS 1003
Children of
Thomas Carter and Sarah Hochstrasser
(From page 1000)
MARY LOUISE CARTER, born Cohoes, N. Y., Dec. 8,
1860 ; died Cohoes Mar. 10, 1875.
VINCENT CARTER, born Cohoes, N. Y., Nov. 26, 1862 ;
living in Troy, N. Y. Unmarried.
Child of
George Tappan Carter and Charlotte Osgood
(From page 1000)
CAROLINE LEE CARTER, born Cohoes, N. Y., May
8, 1885 ; living in Haverhill, Mass. Unmarried.
1004 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children op
Isaac Smith Carter and Elizabeth Howland
(From page 1000)
MARY ESTHER CARTER, horn New Bedford Jan. 2,
1862 ; married Amesbury Sept. 13, 1882, Stephen C.
Lowe of New Bedford; living in "West Newton,
Mass. Issue. (See page 1006.)
EDWARD HOWLAND CARTER, born Flint, Mich.,
Sept. 22, 1863 ; married Louise Whiting ; living in
New Bedford. No issue.
FANNY CANNON CARTER, born Flint, Mich., Sept.
7, 1864; married New Bedford Apr. 6, 1885, James
William Hindle; living in New Bedford. Issue.
(See page 1006.)
NELLIE CARTER, born Flint, Mich., Aug. 14, 1866;
died young.
DAVIS DESCENDANTS 1005
Children op
Harriet Davis Peirce and Benjamin H. Anthony
(From page 1001)
EDMUND ANTHONY, SECOND, born New Bedford
Sept. 28, 1889.
MARGARET ANTHONY, born New Bedford Feb. 18,
1891.
BENJAMIN ANTHONY, SECOND, born New Bedford
Feb. 24, 1892 ; died Feb. 25, 1892.
CATHERINE CHANDLER ANTHONY, born New
Bedford Sept. 20, 1896.
1006 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Children of
Mary Esthee Carter and Stephen C. Lowe
(From page 1004)
PHILIP CARTER LOWE, born New Bedford Apr. 11,
1884; living in West Newton, Mass. Unmarried.
ESTHER SCHOFIELD LOWE, born New Bedford
Apr. 8, 1886 ; married West Newton June 20, 1911,
Barton Leonard; living in Boston.
STEPHEN CLIFFORD LOWE, born New Bedford
Oct. 16, 1888 ; married Oct. 4, 1911, Marion Hutch-
inson Seavey; living in Mattapoisett, Mass.
ELEANOR DAVIS LOWE, born New Bedford Dec. 14,
1898.
Children of
Fanny Cannon Carter and James W. Hindle
(From page 1004)
EDWARD ISAAC HINDLE, born New Bedford May
8, 1888. Unmarried.
MARGARET CARTER HINDLE, born New Bedford
June 6, 1904.
ADDENDA
Part IV
ANCESTORS OF WILLIAMS SLOCUM
Chapter I
REBECCA BENNETT
It seems that Rebecca Bennett Slocum Wing
was a Williams, after all, — maternally. After
the text of these notes was in final form for the
printer I received the well authenticated informa-
tion, through Mr. Lawrence Brainerd of Boston,
that Anna Bennett, the mother of Rebecca, was a
Williams. Anna, the wife of Jonathan Bennett
of Newport, was born in Boston, November 4,
1674, being a twin daughter of John Williams and
Anna Alcock. This discovery adds a number of
interesting persons to your list of comeoverers.
Nathaniel Williams, your comeovering ancestor,
was admitted to the church of Boston May 26,
1639, and made a freeman in the same month.
He was a ''glover" and prominent as a business
man, as appears by the great frequency of his
name as a witness to wills, an appraiser of estates,
etc. He lived on Court Street, and later by the
harbor near the foot of State Street. He was
elected a member of the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery Company in 1644 and became a Lieu-
tenant of the Massachusetts militia. He was
Clerk of the Market in 1651, Constable 1656-7, and
a Selectman of Boston from 1659 until his death
in 1661. His wife Mary, who came with him from
England, and was admitted to the church in 1640,
1010 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
after his death married Peter Brackett. His
will, dated February 22, 1661, was witnessed by
Theodore Atkinson, another comeoverer of yours.
His inventory disclosed an estate of £994. His
descendants have been prominent for many gen-
erations in Boston. His son, John Williams, your
ancestor, was born in Boston, August 15, 1644,
and there in 1670 married Anna, the daughter of
Doctor John Alcock, and the granddaughter of
George Alcock of Roxbury.
George Alcock came over with Governor
Winthrop in 1630. With him came his wife, who
died shortly afterwards. She was a sister of the
Reverend Thomas Hooker, "grave, godly, and
judicious Hooker," who became one of the lead-
ing lights of the settlement of Hartford in Con-
necticut. There is a conjectural account of the
ancestry of this many times great grandmother
Hooker in the New England Historical and
Genealogical Register, Vol. 47, p. 189. George
Alcock and his wife had a son John, born in 1626
or 1627, in England, who did not come over with
his parents. George Alcock on his arrival in the
colony was made a Deacon of the Dorchester
church, but soon after, in 1632, founded the first
church of Roxbury, of which he remained a Dea-
con during the few remaining years of his life.
He lived in Roxbury, near the "Bull Pasture,"
next to Governor Dudley, on what is now Bartlett
Street, and had land of several hundred acres in
extent allotted to him. He acted as a physician
and is sometimes designated as "Doctor Alcock,"
a title which his son afterwards bore with much
REBECCA BENNETT 10H
distinction. He was a member of the first Gen-
eral Court of the Colony in 1634.
In Reverend John Eliot's Record he says of
Deacon George Alcock: "He made two voyages
to England, upon just calling thereunto; wherein
he had much experience of God 's preservation and
blessings. He brought over his son John Alcock.
He also brought over a wife by whom he had his
second son Samuel . . . He lived in a good
and godly sort and dyed in the end of the tenth
month Anno 1640 and left a good savor behind
him; the Poore of the church much bewailing his
losse." In his will, dated December 22, 1640,
George Alcock makes careful provision for the
education of his son John, who was then about
thirteen years old.
John Alcock came over with his father prob-
ably in 1636 on one of the journeys which Mr. Eliot
chronicles. His father's care for his education
was well rewarded. He entered Harvard College
and graduated with a Master's degree in 1646.
During the next few years he taught school in
Hartford, doubtless under the advice of his uncle,
the Reverend Thomas Hooker. He studied medi-
cine and probably received a degree from some
European University, since he is given the title
on the records of "M. D.," a title which he could
not have received from any institution in this
country at that time. Most of the physicians of
his day were designated simply "Doctor." He
settled in Roxbury, being admitted to the church
there in May, 1650, and in 1652 was admitted a
freeman of the Colony. He took a leading posi-
1012 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
tion not only as a physician, but as a public spirited
citizen. Later lie removed to Boston, doubtless for
the convenience of his medical practice. He had
large estates of land in Dorchester, Eoxbury,
Scituate, Stow and other places. In 1655 the Gen-
eral Court granted him about one thousand acres
of land in the town of Marlborough, known as
"The Farm," about which there is much of inter-
est in the public records. John Alcock died in
Boston March 27, 1667, aged forty years, and was
buried in Eoxbury. He provides in his will for his
eight children, all minors, and especially provides
for his daughter Anna, who was your ancestress.
He leaves "£3 to the Church of X1 in Roxbury to
buy them a good wine bowl. ' ' The descendants of
John and Samuel Alcock were numerous. In
some branches the name has been corrupted to
Alcott. A. Bronson Alcott of Concord was one
of these descendants. John Alcock in 1648 mar-
ried Sarah Palgrave (six years his senior), the
daughter of Doctor Richard Palgrave of Charles-
town.
Richard Palgrave of Stepney, Middlesex County,
England, came over with Governor Winthrop in
1630, and settled in Charlestown, applying as a
freeman October 19, 1630, and being admitted in
1631. He and his wife united with the first
church of Boston and maintained their member-
ship in this church, and their children, although
born in Charlestown, were baptized in Boston.
He was a physician, in fact, the first "Doctor"
of the Colony, and it is not strange that Doctor
John Alcock should have married into the pro-
REBECCA BENNETT 1013
fession. He died in Charlestown in 1656. His
widow Anne survived him some twelve years.
She returned to England, but subsequently came
back to New England and died in Koxbury March
17, 1668, aged 75. In her will she says that her
son, John Alcock, took into his possession the two
hundred acre grant of land to her husband,
Richard, and she devises the same to the children
of John Alcock. She gives to your ancestress,
Anna Alcock, eldest daughter of John Alcock, her
dwelling house in Boston and all her movables.
Sarah Palgrave, who married Doctor John
Alcock, died in 1665, two years before her hus-
band 's death, and three years before her mother 's
death. The Reverend Samuel Danforth says
"Mrs. Sarah Alcock dyed, a vertous woman, of
unstained life, very skilful in physick and
chiurgery, exceeding active, yea, unwearied, in
ministering to ye necessities of others. Her works
praise her in ye gates. ' '
Block Island, called by the Indians Manisses,
an island about eight miles south of what is now
the state of Rhode Island, was first visited in 1524
by Verrazzano, who reported to Francis I of
France that "it was full of hills, covered with
trees, well peopled, for we saw fires all along the
coast." In 1614 a Dutch navigator, Adrian Bloc,
visited the island and gave it its name. In 1636,
John Oldham, the man whom the Plymouth
Colony repudiated, and who gave so much trouble
to the Massachusetts Colony, went to Bloc Island
1014 CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
to trade with the Indians and was by them mur-
dered. To avenge this murder, Governor Win-
throp sent an expedition to the island under the
command of Col. John Endicott. There is much
of interest in the history of this expedition. As
a result the Colony of Massachusetts claimed the
island by right of conquest, although it was mani-
festly within the Dutch possessions. In 1658 the
General Court of Massachusetts granted the
island to John Endicott, Richard Bellingham,
Daniel Dennison and William Hawthorne. In
1660 these four proprietors sold the island to
Doctor John Alcock of Roxbury for £400. Doctor
Alcock associated with himself some sixteen part-
ners, who settled the island which was, not long
after, joined with the Rhode Island Colony, and
organized as the town of New Shoreham.
John Williams of Boston, the son of the come-
overer, Nathaniel Williams, and the son in law of
Doctor John Alcock, went to Block Island with his
bride soon after 1670, and there settled. In 1679
and 1680 and subsequently he was a Deputy from
New Shoreham to the General Assembly of Rhode
Island. He acted on several important commit-
tees in relation to affairs connected with the
mother country. In 1686 he was made Attorney
General of Rhode Island and wrote a remonstrance
to the King against an objectionable writ of quo
warranto. He probably removed his residence
from Block Island to Newport about 1685. It was
in Newport in 1687 that he died. He was only
forty-three years of age at the time of his death.
His history indicates that had he lived longer he
REBECCA BENNETT 1015
might have had an important influence in the
development of the Rhode Island Colonies. His
will, recorded in Boston, provides for his numer-
ous children, of whom Anna, who married
Jonathan Bennett, was your ancestress.
Anna Alcock, your ancestress, the widow of
John Williams, married in Newport in 1689,
Eobert Guthrie of Block Island. She died in
Newport in 1723. Her will, dated September 11,
1714, is the source from which all this information
about your Williams, Palgrave, Alcock ancestry
was derived. She writes "I, Anna Guthrie, late
of Block Island, relict of Robert Guthrie of Block
Island, and administratrix on the will of my for-
mer husband John Williams, of Boston, Massa-
chusetts . . . give to Ann Bennett, my daughter,
widow of Jonathan Bennett of Newport" a certain
lot of land in Newport, and other property. It
was undoubtedly the financial means of his wife
as a daughter of John Williams which set
Jonathan Bennett up in business and enabled him
to leave a silver tankard to his daughter Rebecca,
who married Peleg Slocum. So, perhaps, it is
not strange that she was remembered as a
"Williams" to my great discomfiture for many
months, but finally to my great satisfaction in
solving the riddle of her descent.
INDEX OF NAMES
INDEX OF NAMES
[Compiled by William M. and Margaret C. Emery.]
This index contains names used only in a genealogical
sense. The names on the circular charts, in the alphabetical
List of Comeoverers at page 11, and in the tables preceding
the respective chapters are not indexed. Women are indexed
under their maiden names, except when such are not known,
the form in that case being the wife's Christian name and the
husband's surname; e. g, "Nicholson, Mrs. Jane," wife of
Joseph Nicholson.
Akers, Mrs. Priscilla, 771.
Akers, Thomas, 771.
Alcock, Anna, 867, 1009,
1010, 1012, 1013, 1014,
1015.
Alcock, George, 1010, 1011.
Alcock, Mrs. George, 1010.
Alcock, John, 867, 1010,
1011, 1012, 1013, 1014.
Alcock, Samuel, 1011, 1012.
Alcott, A. Bronson, 1012.
Alden, John, 589.
Aldrich, Duncan Earle, 990.
Aldrich, Hulbert Stratton,
990.
Aldrich, Malcolm Pratt, 990.
Aldrich, Stanley Alden, 977,
990.
Aldrich, Stanley Alden, Jr.,
990.
Alger, Elizabeth Jane, 943.
Alger, Hal. Wesley, 943.
Allen, George, 179 — 185,
325, 852.
Allen, James, 181.
Allen, Jane Grey, 953.
Allen, Joseph, 148, 184, 185,
852, 855.
Allen, Ralph, 171, 181, 182,
183, 184, 852.
Allen, Rose, 148, 185, 842,
850, 852, 855.
Allen, Mrs. Sarah, 148, 185,
852, 855.
Allen, Thomas J., 953.
Allen, William, 183, 184.
Allerton, Isaac, 36.
Almy, Mrs. Abby, 952.
Almy, Ann, 271.
Almy, Mrs. Audrey, 271, 878.
Almy, Christopher, 235, 240,
241, 258, 271, 273, 274.
275, 276, 277, 878.
Almy, Christopher, Second,
278.
Almy, Giles Pardon, 954.
Almy, Giles S., 952, 954.
Almy, Hope, 277.
Almy, Job (1696-1771),
241, 277, 278, 303, 322,
873
Almy, Job (1730-1816),
278, 279, 353, 354, 871,
873, 875.
Almy, John, 273.
Almy, Joseph, 278.
Almy, Mary, 277, 279, 871.
Almy, Pardon, 952.
Almy, Richard, 279.
Almy, Samuel, 278, 279.
Almy, Tillinghast, 279.
Almy, William (1601-1676),
269 — 279, 79, 878.
Almy, William (1665-1747),
260, 277, 278, 279, 873,
878, 879.
Almy, "Cousin William,"
330.
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1020
CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Anthony, Benjamin, Second,
1005.
Anthony, Benjamin Harris,
1001, 1005.
Anthony, Catharine Chandler,
1005.
Anthony, Edmund, Second,
1005.
Anthony, Margaret, 1005.
Archer, Alice, 668, 669, 893.
Arnold, Caleb, 321.
Arnold, Gov. Benedict, 321,
365.
Atkinson, Mrs. Abigail, 733,
734, 735, 898.
Atkinson, John, 735, 736,
737, 738, 891, 898.
Atkinson, Sarah, 730, 738,
891.
Atkinson, Theodore, 731 —
738, 590, 898, 1010.
Atkinson, Theodore, Jr., 734.
Atkinson, Theodore, Chief
Justice, 735.
Austin, Deborah, 718.
Aver ill, Sarah, 767.
Avery, Dr. Jonathan, 69 5.
Bailey,
921.
Bailey,
565,
Bailey,
513,
564,
Bailey,
887,
Bailey,
919,
Bailey,
Bailey,
Baker,
Baker,
Baker,
Baker,
957.
Baker,
957.
Baker,
Baker,
957.
Isaac, 518, 565, 889,
John (d. 1651), 557,
444, 889, 921.
John (1613-1691),
516, 538, 560, 563,
889, 921.
Joshua, 565, 682,
889, 891.
Judith, 519, 565, 913,
921.
Robert, 564.
Sarah, 684, 741, 887.
Adelina T., 969, 983.
Daniel, 952.
Daniel, Jr., 952, 954.
Daniel Webster, 954,
Edward Young, 954,
Edith May, 957.
Elizabeth Howland,
Baker, Elizabeth, 981.
Baker, Erland Webster, 957.
Baker, Gilman E., 957.
Baker, Gookin, 967, 981.
Baker, Harold G., 981, 991.
Baker, Mildred, 991.
Baker, Mrs. Sarah, 9 52.
Baker, Stanley Gifford, 957.
Baker, Virginia, 981.
Baker, William Stanford,
981.
Balcomb, Myra, 970.
Baliol, John, 363.
Barstow, Sarah Bosworth,
952.
Bartlett, Richard, 112.
Bath, Earl of, 524.
Bayley, Anson Whelpley,
637, 997.
Bayley, Frederick, 997.
Bease, Fannie, 967.
Bedford, Duke of, 159, 163.
Beetle, Adeline H., 954.
Bennett, Anna, 342.
Bennett, Anthony, 749, 750,
902.
Bennett, Elizabeth, 749, 750,
902.
Bennett, John, 342.
Bennett, Jonathan, 342, 867,
1009, 1015.
Bennett, Jonathan, Jr., 342.
Bennett, Mrs. Rebecca, 342,
867.
Bennett, Rebecca, 342, 343,
863, 864, 867, 1009 — 1015
(ancestors).
Bennett, Robert, 342, 867.
Bergen, Arnold Trumball,
992.
Bergen, Charles Cole, 980.
Bergen, Elliot Clifford, 992.
Bergen, Emma Stanford,
980.
Bergen, Frederick Robert-
son, 981.
Bergen, Garrett Lawrence,
991.
Bergen, Garrett P., 967,
980.
Bergen, George Clifford, 981,
992.
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INDEX OF NAMES
1021
Bergen, Harold Boynton,
991.
Bergen, Henrietta Stanford,
980.
Bergen, Laura, 9 80.
Bergen, Mary Thompson,
981.
Bergen, Samuel White, 980,
991.
Bergen, Zacheus, 967, 981.
Bidwell, Catherine Williams,
829, 830.
Bidwell, Chester, 830.
Binney, Emily, 999, 1002.
Blackington, Jabez Guy, 941.
Blackwell, John, 204.
Blackwell, Mrs. Sarah, 204.
Blount, Anne, 371.
Blount, Robert, 371.
Blount, Walter, Lord Mount-
joy, 371.
Blount, Sir Walter, 371, 372.
Booth, Abraham, 151.
Borden family, English an-
cestry of, 251.
Borden, Amey, 250, 258, 872.
Borden, Hope, 2 77.
Borden, Mrs. Joan, 876.
Borden, John (b. 1606), 255.
Borden, John (1640-1716),
256, 257, 258, 275, 418,
872, 876, 877.
Borden, Mary, 258, 277, 879.
Borden, Matthew, 254, 876.
Borden, Matthew, Second,
255.
Borden, Richard, 251 — 260,
272, 273, 876, 879.
Borgess, Frances A., 982,
992.
Bouchier, Lady Elizabeth,
524.
Boynton, Lena, 980, 991.
Brackett, Peter, 1010.
Bradbury, Jane, 554.
Bradbury, Judith, 484, 485,
494, 497, 550, 920, 928.
Bradbury, Mary Perkins, The
Witch, 551 — 556.
Bradbury, Matthew, 549.
Bradbury, Robert, 549.
Bradbury, Thomas, 547 —
550, 494, 546, 553, 554,
928.
Bradbury, Sir Thomas, 549.
Bradbury, William, 549.
Bradbury, William, Jr., 549.
Bradbury, Wymond, 549,
928.
Brainerd, Ann Eliza, 971.
Briggs, Mrs. Content. See
Content Howland.
Briggs, Deborah, 151, 152,
212, 842, 843, 851.
Briggs, Joan, 295, 874.
Briggs, John, 205 — 212, 236.
240, 241, 249, 851, 878.
Briggs, John, Jr., 210, 211.
Briggs, Rebecca, 210, 235,
240, 275, 878.
Briggs, Thomas, 151, 210,
211, 212, 851.
Brigham, Oramel A., 964.
Brown, Elizabeth, 343, 357,
407, 863.
Brown, Mrs. Mary (d. 1655),
506, 919.
Brown, Mrs. Mary (d. 1690),
759.
Brown, Mary (1635-1716),
505, 919.
Brown, Mary (1649-1715),
759, 902, 905.
Brown, Nicholas, 406.
Brown, Nicholson, 407.
Brown, Offley Tatum, 987.
Brown, Peter, 184.
Brown, Priscilla, 184.
Brown, Thomas, 444, 506,
919.
Brown, Tobias, 406.
Brown, William (d. 1662),
759, 906.
Brown, William ( 1696-1739),
406, 407, 416, 863, 866,
868.
Bunker, Mary, 718.
Burk, Hattie, 9 82.
Burr, Mary, 601.
Buswell, Amos, 458.
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1022
CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Caldwell, Carolina Maria del
Carmen, 454, 741, 935.
Caldwell, Henry M., 454.
Carlysle, Phebe A., 947.
Campbell, Dr. Edwin R., 943.
Campbell, Margery Edwina,
943.
Campbell, William Durant,
943.
Carr, George, 529 — 540, 554,
555, 716, 915.
Carr, James, 538, 539, 540,
915.
Carr, John, 554, 555.
Carr, John, Second, 527, 540,
915.
Carr, Judith, 456, 475, 540,
911, 913, 915.
Carr, Richard, 538, 539.
Carr, Richard, Second, 539.
Carr, William, 554, 555.
Carter, Caroline, 636, 1000.
Carter, Caroline Lee, 457,
1003.
Carter, Edward Howland,
1004.
Carter, Elizabeth Howe,
1000.
Carter, Fanny Cannon, 1004.
Carter, George Tappan, 457,
638, 1000, 1003.
Carter, Guy B., 983.
Carter, Isaac Smith, 1000,
1004.
Carter. Mary Esther, 100 4,
1006.
Carter, Mary Louise, 1003.
Carter, Nellie, 1004.
Carter, Sarah, 363, 865.
Carter, Sarah Mehitable,
1000.
Carter, Thomas, 1000, 1003.
Carter, Thomas Charles, 997,
1000.
Carter, Vincent, 1003.
Chaille, Dr. Stanford Emer-
son, 805, 816, 817, 818.
Chaille, William H., 815, 818.
Chase, Abner, 330.
Chase, Anne Almy, 327 —
330, 5, 151, 174, 207, 231,
241, 250, 258, 260, 268,
278, 279, 287, 293, 295,
303, 322, 326, 353, 418,
824, 863, 869, 871, 930,
949, 951.
Chase, Anne Almy, ancestors
of, circular charts facing
pages 232, 870.
Chase, Aquila (b. 1580),
523, 524, 926.
Chase, Aquila (1618-1670),
521 — 527, 264, 926.
Chase, Benjamin, 247.
Chase, Benjamin, Second,
266.
Chase, Benjamin, Third, 250,
258, 268, 872.
Chase, Benjamin (b. 1747),
279, 871.
Chase, Content, 330.
Chase, Deborah, 330.
Chase, Elizabeth, 527, 540,
915.
Chase, James, 458.
Chase, John, 189, 195, 841,
844, 848.
Chase, Mrs. Mary, 265, 266,
267, 845.
Chase, Moses, 526, 527, 915,
926.
Chase, Nathan, 293, 294,
295, 871, 872, 874.
Chase, Nathaniel, 249, 250,
844.
Chase, Rhoda, 152, 227, 841.
Chase, Sir Richard (b. 1537),
523, 524.
Chase, Richard (b. 1542),
523, 524.
Chase, Mrs. Sarah, 926.
Chase, Thomas, 523, 524.
Chase, Thomas, Second, 524.
Chase, Thomas, Third, 264,
523, 524, 525.
Chase, Sir William, 523, 524.
Chase, William (d. 1659),
261 — 268, 845.
Chase, William (1622-1685),
265, 266, 267, 268, 845.
Chase, William (1645-1737),
249, 250, 268, 844, 845,
872.
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INDEX OF NAMES
1023
Church, Capt. Benjamin, 119,
120, 162.
Church, William Norris, Jr.,
977.
Claibourne, Osbourn, 816.
Clark, Andrew, 73.
Clark, Ebenezer, 75.
Clark, Howard W., 980.
Clark, James, 73.
Clark, Jane, 75.
Clark, John (b. abt. 1640),
73, 74, 835, 836.
Clark, John (d. 1760 — ),
74, 75, 83, 835.
Clark, John, Third, 75.
Clark, Mrs. Sarah, 74, 835,
836.
Clark, Sarah, 42, 74, 75, 83,
833, 834, 835.
Clark, Thomas, 69 — 75, 836.
Clark, William, 73.
Clark, William, Second, 75.
Clarke, Elizabeth Lawrence,
972.
Clarke, Prof. Samuel Fessen-
den, 972.
Clephane, Pauline J., 979,
991.
Clifford, Charles Warren,
933.
Clifford, Gov. John Henry,
933.
Clifton, Hope. 391, 392.
Clotaire I, 373, 374.
Coe, Richard, 9 83.
Coe, Serena Tappan, 983.
Coffin, James, 717, 718.
Coffin, John, 712, 714.
Coffin, John, Second, 718.
Coffin, Mary, 718.
Coffin, Nicholas, 712.
Coffin, Peter, 712, 713, 896.
Coffin, Peter, Second, 717.
Coffin, Major Pine, 711.
Coffin, Richard, 711.
Coffin, Sarah, 565, 887, 889,
891.
Coffin, Stephen, 718.
Coffin, Stephen (1665-1725),
730, 738, 891.
Coffin, Tristram (1605-
1681), 709 — 723, 299,
444, 461, 474, 533, 534,
535, 536, 649, 661, 662,
727, 896.
Coffin, Tristram (1632-
1704), 714, 717, 721, 722,
723, 729, 730, 738, 891,
896, 897.
Coffin, Tristram Pine, 711.
Coker, Mrs. Catherine, 451,
912.
Coker, Joseph, 451.
Coker, Robert, 444, 451, 912.
Coker, Sarah, 451, 452, 912.
Colcord, Thomas Russell,
998.
Cole, Nancy, 953.
Collins, Rev. William, 630,
631.
Cook, Deborah, 260, 277,
873, 878, 879.
Cook, John (1631-1691),
147, 258, 259, 277, 292,
338, 879.
Cook, John, Second, 259,
Cook, Mrs. Mary, 258, 8 79.
Cook, Thomas, 258, 259, 879.
Cook, Thomas, Jr., 259.
Cooke, Francis, 107, 108,
109, 110, 111, 112, 114,
115, 116, 858.
Cooke, John, 105 — 121, 94,
127, 131, 132, 160, 161,
162, 173, 203, 313, 858.
Cooke, Mary, 313.
Cooke, Sarah, 121, 131, 132,
133, 195, 858.
Coombs, Anthony, 3 8.
Coombs, Caleb, 88.
Coombs, Francis, 32, 33, 35,
36, 37, 38, 200, 202.
Coombs, John, 36, 200, 201.
Coombs, Mrs. John, 201. See
Sarah Priest.
Cope, Elizabeth, 371.
Cope, Sir John, 371, 373.
Cope, Sir William, 373, 616.
Cornell, Elizabeth, 235, 239,
240, 241, 275, 878.
Cornell, Thomas, 233 — 241,
207, 275, 630, 878.
Cornell, Thomas, Jr., 210,
241.
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1024
CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Crapo, origin and meaning of
the name, 19 — 27.
Crapo, Abiel, 91, 101.
Crapo, Albert Allen, 947.
Crapo, Alma, 946.
Crapo, Mrs. Ann, 40, 41.
Crapo, Ann M., 946.
Crapo, Anna Almy, 935.
Crapo, Mrs. Carolina C. See
Carolina Maria del Car-
men Caldwell.
Crapo, Catherine, 942.
Crapo, Charles, 101.
Crapo, Consider, 88, 89, 90.
Crapo, David, 228.
Crapo, David, Second, 931,
946.
Crapo, Egara, 946.
Crapo, Elizabeth (b. abt.
1715), 41.
Crapo, Elizabeth (1833-
1906), 947.
Crapo, Emma Eliza Chase,
933, 940.
Crapo, Mrs. Emma M. See
Emma Morley.
Crapo, Francis, 33.
Crapo, Francis (b. 1705),
40, 41.
Crapo, George Tappan, 935.
Crapo, Hannah, 946.
Crapo, Henrietta Pell, 932.
Crapo, Gov. Henry Howland,
32, 89, 100, 101, 152, 189,
227, 229, 359, 428, 823,
824.
Crapo, Henry Howland, Sec-
ond, 639, 931, 932, 935,
951.
Crapo, Hezekiah, 41, 42.
Crapo, Jane, 946.
Crapo, Jesse (1781-1831),
97 — 101, 5, 17, 42, 57,
68, 74, 83, 90, 93, 95,
152, 227, 230, 330, 823,
831, 833, 841, 929, 930,
931, 946.
Crapo, Jesse, ancestors of,
circular charts facing
pages 18, 832.
Crapo, Jesse (1841-1895),
947.
Crapo, John (1711-1779),
41, 42, 74, 83, 87, 89,
833, 834, 835.
Crapo, John, Jr., 42.
Crapo, Joseph, 931, 947.
Crapo, Joshua, 88, 89.
Crapo, Lucy Anna, 359, 932,
938.
Crapo, Lydia Sherman, 933.
Crapo, Martha, 946.
Crapo, Mary (b. 1713), 41.
Crapo, Mary (1842-1868),
946.
Crapo, Mary Ann, 932, 934.
Crapo, Mrs. Mary A. See
Mary Ann Slocum.
Crapo, Nicholas, 33.
Crapo, Nicholas (b. 1721),
40, 41.
Crapo, Peter (1670-1756),
29 — 42, 26, 57, 74, 87, 88,
101, 144, 200, 202, 834.
Crapo, Peter, The Second,
(1743-1822), 85 — 95, 42,
99, 100, 101, 833.
Crapo, Peter, (b. 1709), 41,
42, 87.
Crapo, Phebe, 947.
Crapo, Phebe Ann, 931, 948.
Crapo, Rebecca, 41.
Crapo, Rebecca Folger, 425,
932, 936.
Crapo, Reuben, 101.
Crapo, Rhoda Macomber,
932, 939.
Crapo, Sarah, 947.
Crapo, Sarah Bush, 9 32, 937.
Crapo, Mrs. Sarah T. See
Sarah Davis Tappan.
Crapo, Seth, 40, 41.
Crapo, Sophia, 946.
Crapo, Stanford Tappan,
181, 685, 742, 823, 827,
935, 942.
Crapo, Susanna (b. 1707),
41.
Crapo, Susanna (b. 1792),
91, 92, 93.
Crapo, Thomas, 946.
Crapo, Wilhelmina Helena,
933.
Crapo, William, 88.
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INDEX OP NAMES
1025
Crapo, William H., 947.
Crapo, William Wallace, 4,
101, 143, 152, 190, 229,
329, 330, 353, 357, 358,
359, 426, 428, 638, 742,
815, 816, 817, 818, 823,
825, 932, 935, 969.
Crapo, William Wallace,
Second, 1, 821, 823, 942.
Crapo, William Wallace,
Second, descent from his
sixteen great great grand-
parents, circular chart
facing page 822.
Crapo, Maryland village of,
798.
Crapo, Michigan village of,
798.
Cristy, Bertha, 940, 945.
Cristy, David, 945.
Cristy, Harlan Page, 933,
940.
Cristy, Harlan Page, Second,
945.
Cristy, James Crapo, 940,
945.
Cristy, Mary Hunt, 945.
Cristy, Minnie Crapo, 940,
945.
Crocker, Abner Toppan, 962.
Crocker, Ann Maria, 962,
972.
Crocker, Caroline (1816-
1829), 962.
Crocker, Caroline (1831-
1833), 963.
Crocker, Elizabeth, 962.
Crocker, George Oliver, 962.
Crocker, John Franklin Em-
erson, 963.
Crocker, Mary Hale, 963,
972.
Crocker, Oliver, 742, 809,
961, 962.
Crocker, Sophia Toppan, 962,
971.
Crocker, William Stanford,
962.
Curtiss, Harriet Eugenia,
994.
Curtiss, John Christbiel,
984, 994.
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Curtiss, Pauline Virginia,
994.
Cuthbertson, Cuthbert, 36.
Cutting, John, 445, 916.
Cutting, Mary, 445, 446, 916.
D'Amery, Gilbert, 513.
Davenport, Robert, 549.
Davis, Aaron (d. 1743), 751,
768, 901, 902, 904.
Davis, Aaron (1737-1812),
751, 752, 753, 901.
Davis, Aaron (1777-1829),
791 — 794, 5, 636, 637,
743, 747, 751, 759, 768,
772, 773, 789, 826, 899,
901, 911, 930, 995, 997.
Davis, Aaron, ancestors of,
circular charts facing
pages 744, 900.
Davis, Aaron Charles (b.
1815), 997.
Davis, Aaron Charles (b.
1816), 997.
Davis, Mrs. Alice, 748, 902.
Davis, Eleanor Tracy, 998.
Davis, Eliphalet, 751.
Davis, Harriet Maria, 637,
997, 999.
Davis, Jacob (d. 1685), 749,
750, 902.
Davis, Jacob (1662-1716),
750, 759, 902.
Davis, Capt. James, 749, 750.
Davis, Jethro C, 954.
Davis, John, 745 — 753, 902.
Davis, John Wills, 99 8.
Davis, Marcia Clifton, 954,
957.
Davis, Martha Wills, 637,
997.
Davis, Mary Knap, 998.
Davis, Sarah Ann (b. 1805),
997.
Davis, Sarah Ann (b. 1806),
997.
Davis, Sarah Ann (1810-
1869), 997, 1000.
Davis, Serena, 635, 637, 825,
826, 961, 969, 997.
Davis, Timothy, 751.
1026
CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Davis, William, 793.
Davis, Zebulon, 751.
Davis, Zechariah, 483.
Day, Anthony, 768, 904.
Day, David, 751.
Day, Mrs. Jane, 768, 904.
Day, Phebe, 751, 768, 901,
902, 904.
Day, Timothy (1653-1723),
767, 768, 904, 908.
Day, Timothy (1679-1757),
768, 904.
Deacon, Mrs. Martha, 908.
Deacon, Phebe, 766, 767,
908.
Deacon, Thomas, 908.
De Ayola, Donna Sancha,
371, 372.
De Grey, Lady Jane, 373.
Demoranville, Mrs. Susanna,
41.
Despenser, Robert de, 373.
De Toledo, Diego Gomez,
372.
De Vassall, Lord, 61.
Dexter, Charles Rugg, 975.
Dexter, Eleanor Richardson,
975, 988.
Dexter, Frank Gibbs, 975.
Dexter, Frank G., 988.
Dexter, Harold A., 988.
Dexter, Harriet Maria, 975.
Dexter, John G., 965, 975.
Dexter John P., 988.
Dexter, John Wheeler, 975,
988.
Dexter, Louis P., 988.
Dexter, Lucy Ruggles, 975.
Dexter, Mary Stanford, 975.
Dickinson, Elizabeth, 953.
Dillingham, Dorcas, 416,
422, 868.
Dillingham, Mrs. Drusilla,
421, 868.
Dillingham, Edward, 419 —
422, 79, 868.
Dillingham, Rev. Henry, 421.
Dillingham, Henry (b. 1627),
421, 422, 868.
Dole, Sarah, 729, 897.
Dougherty, Amelia Jane, 973.
Dow, Henry, 578.
Dow, Margaret, 578.
Dryden, Bridget, 371, 373,
375, 593, 615, 865, 924.
Dryden, Sir Erasmus, 373.
Dryden, John, 371.
Dryden, John, the poet, 373.
D'Shiell, Anna, 814, 815.
Dummer, Capt., 660.
Dummer, Mrs. Alice, 667.
Dummer, Dorothy, 66 8.
Dummer, Jane, 659, 663,
668, 669, 670, 674, 676,
888, 892, 893.
Dummer, Mrs. Joan, 667.
Dummer, John, 667.
Dummer, John, Second, 667.
Dummer, John, Third, 667.
Dummer, Maude, 667.
Dummer, Mehitable, 668.
Dummer, Richard, 440, 654,
658, 668.
Dummer, Stephen, 665 — 670
440, 506, 659, 660, 893.
Dummer, Thomas, 667, 668,
893.
Dummer, Thomas, Second,
668.
Dummera, Henry de, 667.
Durant, Margery Pitt, 943.
Durant, Rebecca Crapo, 936,
943.
Durant, Russell Clifford,
943.
Durant, William C, 932,
936.
Durant, William Crapo, 936,
943.
Duryee, Arianna Graves, 810.
Duryee, Augustus, 979.
Duryee, Edward, 979.
Duryee, J. Augustus, 966,
979.
Duryee, Margaret Ruggles,
991.
Duryee, Pauline Clephane,
991.
Duryee, Peter Stanford, 979,
991.
Duryee, Philip, 979.
Duryee, Ruggles, 979.
Duryee, William, 979.
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INDEX OF NAMES
1027
Earle, Barnabas, 407.
Earle, Hannah, 407, 416,
863, 866, 868.
Earle, Mary, 418, 872, 876,
877.
Earle, Ralph (1606-1678),
409 — 418, 249, 283, 338,
868, 877.
Earle, Ralph (d. 1716), 413,
414, 415, 416, 868.
Earle, Ralph (1660-1718),
416, 422, 868.
Earle, Ralph, Fourth, 413,
417.
Earle, William (b. 1715),
413, 416, 417, 418, 877.
Earle, William, Second, 416.
Easton, Mrs. Content (Slo-
cum), 393.
Eaton, Ann, 772, 789, 903.
Eaton, Benoni, 788, 789,
903, 907.
Eaton, Nathaniel, 775 — 789,
907.
Eaton, Mrs. Nathaniel
(Graves), 784, 785, 786,
787, 788, 907.
Eaton, Mrs. Rebecca, 789,
903, 907.
Eaton, Richard, 779, 907.
Eaton, Samuel, 779, 780,
781.
Eaton, Theophilus, 778, 779,
780, 781, 782, 783.
Eddy, Arthur Jerome, 934,
941.
Eddy, Jerome Orrell, 941.
Eggleston, Helen, 952, 955.
Eggleston, James, 9 52.
Eldred, Edith Tobey, 973,
986.
Ellis, Helen Webster, 947.
Emery, Albert Livingston,
990.
Emery, Agnes, 513.
Emery, Ann, 501, 504, 513,
919.
Emery, Anthony, 513.
Emery, Calvin, 990.
Emery, Charles Edward, 990.
Emery, Eleanor, 513, 538,
564, 565, 889, 921.
Emery, John (b. 15 — ), 513.
Emery, John (1598-1683),
507 — 519, 444, 501, 564,
727, 889, 894, 895, 919,
921.
Emery, John (1628-1693),
444, 513, 515, 518, 565,
889, 894, 895, 921.
Emery, John (1656-1730),
519.
Emery, Katherine, 990.
Emery, Livingston, 977, 990.
Emery, Mrs. Mary, 513, 518,
889, 894, 919, 921.
Emery, Pauline, 990.
Emery, Sarah, 518, 565, 889,
921.
Empson, Sir Richard, 373.
Ensign, Catherine, 830.
Ewer, Mrs. Reliance, 83.
Faber, Henry, 980.
Fish, Ambrose, 82.
Fish, Mrs. Hannah, 82.
Fisher, Abby Ann Chappee,
955.
Fisher, Edward, 211, 212,
851.
Fisher, Hannah, 211.
Fisher, Mrs. Judith, 212,
851.
Fisher, Mary, 211, 212, 851.
Fitzgerald, Elephel, 347,
348, 349, 350, 352, 353,
354, 355, 357, 359, 429,
875.
Fitzgerald, The, Earl of Kil-
dare, 347, 348.
Fitzgerald, Lord Thomas,
347.
Folger, George, 425.
Folger, Peleg Slocum, 427.
Follansbee, Ann, 526, 527,
915, 926.
Follansbee, Mrs. Mary, 527,
915.
Follansbee, Thomas, 526,
527, 915.
Fowle, Joan, 254, 256, 876,
879.
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1028
CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Freedericksz, Baron Alexde,
940, 945.
Freedericksz, Alexander Har-
lan, 945.
Fuller, Edward 48.
Fuller, Mrs. Frances, 48.
Fuller, Robert, 48.
Fuller, Samuel, 47, 48, 107.
Fuller, Susanna, 46, 47, 48,
49, 54, 55, 67, 125, 838.
Gater, Judith, 497, 543, 546,
550, 928.
Gerken, Minnie, 982.
Gibbs, Thomas, 204.
Gifford, Ann, 953.
Gifford, Catherine, 98 8.
Gifford, Deborah, 952.
Gifford, Ephraim, 952.
Gifford, Grace Covill, 954,
957.
Gifford, Humphrey A., 988.
Gifford, James, 954.
Gifford, Weston, 953.
Gifford, William Logan Rod-
man, 975, 988.
Gilbert, John, 189, 190.
Gilbert, Mrs. John (Ham-
mond), 189.
Gleason, Dolly, 828.
Godfrey, John, 505, 919.
Godfrey, Mary, 505, 506,
919.
Godfrey, Peter, 501, 505,
919.
Goodale, Mrs. Elizabeth,
649.
Gould, Capt. John, 766.
Gould, Priscilla, 766, 767,
908.
Gould, Richard, 764, 908.
Gould, Thomas, 763.
Gould, Thomas, Jr., 764.
Gould, Zaccheus, 761 — 768,
908.
Graves, Mr., 813.
Graves, Richard Stanford,
813.
Graves, Thomas, 784, 785,
907.
Grazebrook, Avery, 653.
Grazebrook, Margaret, 653,
892.
Green, Mrs. Hetty Robin-
son, 150.
Greenleaf, Edmund, 725 —
730, 442, 538, 721, 897.
Greenleaf, Judith, 721, 723,
729, 730, 891, 896, 897.
Greenslit, Maude, 984.
Grinnell, Isaac W., 947.
Guthrie, Robert, 1015.
Hallett, Alice, 73.
Hallett, Richard 73.
Hamersley, Helen, 972.
Hammond, Benjamin, 187 —
195, 849.
Hammond, Elizabeth, 193.
Hammond, Jabez, 189.
Hammond, John, 194.
Hammond, Lovina, 195, 841,
844, 848.
Hammond, Martha, 193.
Hammond, Rachel, 193.
Hammond, Samuel, 38, 133,
194, 195, 848, 849, 858.
Hammond, Thomas, 195,
204, 848.
Hammond, William, 190,
191, 192, 193, 849.
Harding, Harry Brewer, 987,
994.
Harding, John Capen, 994.
Harding, Priscilla, 994.
Hart, Laura, 940, 945.
Harvey, William, 337.
Haskell, Alice Louise, 986.
Haskell, Amelia Ruggles,
986.
Haskell, Eben P., 965, 973.
Haskell, Edna Winifred, 986.
Haskell, Edward S., 973,
986.
Haskell, Eliza Wheeler,
986.
Haskell, George Austin, 984.
Haskell, George Tappan,
970.
Haskell, Harriet Elizabeth,
984 994.
Haskell, Helen Stothof, 986.
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1029
Haskell, James Ruggles, 973.
Haskell, Mrs. Jane, 75.
Haskell, Jean, 984.
Haskell, John Paul T., 961,
970.
Haskell, John Paul, 984.
Haskell, John William Clag-
horn, 970, 984.
Haskell, Joseph Elnathan,
970.
Haskell, Julia Harriet, 970,
984.
Haskell, Louise, 984.
Haskell, Lucy Maria, 970.
Haskell, Mary, 750, 751,
759, 902.
Haskell, Mary Page, 9 84.
Haskell, Nathaniel, 9 70.
Haskell, Stanford Linwood,
986.
Haskell, William (1617-
1693), 755 — 759, 905.
Haskell, William (1644-
1708), 759, 902, 905, 906.
Haskell, William H., 973.
Haskell, William Henry, 970.
Hathaway. Arthur, 129 —
133, 94, 117, 121, 195,
858.
Hathaway, Content, 91, 94.
Hathaway, Mary, 133, 195,
848, 849, 858.
Haley, Agnes, 371.
Hawley, Sir Thomas, 371.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 451,
466.
Hawthorne, Sarah, 451.
Hawthorne, William, 451.
Healey, Esther, 827, 828.
Healey, Jesse, 828.
Hill, James. 730.
Hill, Ignatius, 729.
Hill, Mrs. Sarah Jordan Wil-
son. 729, 730.
Hill, William, 729.
Hilton, Mary, 915.
Hilton, William, 537, 538.
Hindle, Edward Isaac, 1006.
Hindle, James William,
1004.
Hindle, Margaret Carter,
1006.
Hobben, Benjamin, 751.
Hochstrasser, Sarah, 1000,
1003.
Holder, Christopher, 381 —
393, 81, 182, 341, 365,
367, 377, 378, 379, 403,
405, 421, 864, 865.
Holder, Elizabeth, 393.
Holder, Mary, 340, 341, 367,
379, 393, 864.
Holder, William, 384.
Holland, Lady, 61.
Holland, Lord, 61.
Holland, Mr., 805.
Holmes, Albert Wood, 976,
989.
Holmes, Albert Wood, Jr.,
989.
Holmes, Charles Calvin, 990.
Holmes, Charles Lincoln,
977, 990.
Holmes, Emma C, 954.
Holmes, Gordon, 989.
Holmes, Lincoln Pratt, 990.
Holmes, Stanford, 990.
Hooker, Thomas, 1010, 1011.
Howland, Abigail (b. 1672),
150, 151.
Howland, Abigail (d. 1686),
150, 846, 856, 857.
Howland, Mrs. Abigail
(d. 1708), 146, 148, 150,
843, 850, 855, 857.
Howland, Arthur, 135 — 154,
170, 847.
Howland, Benjamin, 150,
174, 857.
Howland, Content, 150, 152,
842.
Howland, Daniel, 146.
Howland, David, 152, 841,
842, 846.
Howland, Deborah, 154, 170,
171, 172, 173, 177, 847.
Howland, Elizabeth, 1000,
1004.
Howland, George, 141.
Howland, Henry (d. 1671),
135 — 154, 160, 184, 843,
850.
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Howland, Henry (1672-
1729), 150, 151, 152,
212, 842, 843, 851.
Howland, Henry (1757-
1817), 90, 99, 152, 227,
841.
Howland, Humphrey, 141.
Howland, Isaac, 150.
Howland, John, 141, 142.
Howland, Mrs. Margaret,
154.
Howland, Nathaniel. 148,
149, 150, 152, 185, 842,
850, 852, 855.
Howland, Peleg Slocum, 427.
Howland, Phebe, 225 — 230,
5, 99, 100, 103, 121, 133,
150, 152, 154. 163, 174,
181, 185, 189, 195, 204,
207, 212, 223, 249, 250,
268, 326, 330, 823, 833,
839, 841, 929, 930, 931.
Howland, Phebe, ancestors
of, circular charts facing
pages 104, 840.
Howland, Philip, 426.
Howland, Rebecca, 150. 846,
847, 855.
Howland, Samuel, 145.
Howland, Mrs. Susanna, 91,
92, 93.
Howland, Thomas, 150, 152,
842.
Howland, Zoeth, 146, 147,
148, 150, 151, 843, 850,
855, 857.
Hull, Bathsheba, 355.
Hunt, Anne, 653, 892.
Hunt, William, 570.
Hutchinson, Mrs. Anne, 613
— 632. 193. 207, 216, 236,
237, 238, 239, 247, 248,
255, 266, 267, 363, 364,
365, 371, 374, 375, 376,
383, 585, 588, 592, 593,
605, 606, 607, 608, 609,
656, 727, 734, 924.
Hutchinson, Bridget, 585,
587, 588, 590, 592, 593,
594, 607, 609, 924.
Hutchinson, Edward (b.
1564), 605.
Hutchinson, Edward, Sec-
ond, 592, 607, 610.
Hutchinson, Edward, Third,
592, 607.
Hutchinson, John (b. 1515),
605.
Hutchinson, Mary, 610, 617.
Hutchinson, Richard, 588,
590, 592, 607, 610.
Hutchinson, Samuel, 607,
610.
Hutchinson, Mrs. Susanna,
605, 607, 610.
Hutchinson, Susanna, 630,
631.
Hutchinson, Gov. Thomas,
610, 611, 622.
Hutchinson, William, 603 —
611, 238, 375, 585, 587,
588, 592, 593, 616, 617,
624, 626, 627, 629, 924.
Hutchinson, William, Jr.,
610.
Hyatt, Ferris F., 932.
Ingersoll, Bathsheba, 462,
465, 466, 917.
Ingersoll, Richard, 463 —
466, 462, 917.
Ingersoll, Samuel, 466.
Jacobs, Mary, 767.
Jencks, Charles, 953.
Jencks, Maria Louise, 953.
Johnston, Walter S., 986.
Johnston, Walter S., Jr.,
986.
Keith, Harriet, 984.
Kember, Anna, 712.
Kember, Joan, 712, 714, 717,
896.
Kember, John, 713.
Kember, Robert, 712.
Kennedy, Elizabeth May,
943.
Kimball, Hannah, 474, 579,
580, 918.
Kimball, Henry, 577.
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1031
58
Kimball, Richard, 575
749, 927.
Kimball, Thomas, 578, 5
580, 918, 927.
King, Anna, 62, 63, 66, 8
King, George, 62.
Kirby, Mrs. Jane, 882.
Kirby, Richard, 323 — 3
148, 882.
Kirby, Richard, Jr., 1
151, 325.
Kirby, Ruhamah, 173, 1
177, 326, 847, 882.
Kittredge, Hannah, 964.
Klise, Mrs. Anna C, 946.
Knapp, Elizabeth A., 9
1002.
Knapp, Isaac, 771, 7
789, 903.
Knapp, James, 772.
Knapp, John, 771, 903.
Knapp, Mary, 751, 772, 9
Knapp, Samuel, 772, 7
901, 903.
Knapp, William, 769 — 7
903.
Knight, Mrs. Elizabeth, 4
462, 917.
Knight, John (d. 167
459 — 462, 444, 516, 9
Knight, John (1622-167
446, 462, 917.
Knight, Mary, 446, 4
912, 916, 917.
Knight, Richard, 461.
Knott, George, 79, 837.
Knott, Martha, 79, 81,
837.
Knott, Mrs. Martha, 81, 8
1,
79,
38.
26,
48,
74,
99,
72,
01.
73,
73.
61.
0),
17.
S).
62.
82,
37.
Lamb, Anne. 947.
Lancaster, "Grandma." See
Sarah Morse Smith.
Lancaster, Thomas, 636,
637.
Langley, Ann, 462, 465, 917.
Latham, Carey, 310.
Lawrence, Rev. Amos E.,
962, 972.
Lawrence, Amos Edward,
Jr., 972.
Lawrence, Elizabeth Crocker,
972.
Lawrence, George Oliver
Crocker, 972.
Lawrence, Gladys, 972.
Lawton, Rebecca, 407.
Lawton, Thomas, 311.
Leach, Albert P., 955, 958.
Leach, Elsie Annie, 958.
Leach, Ethel Francis, 958.
Leach, George W., 955.
Leach, Mary Barstow, 958.
Leach, Sarah Manchester,
958.
Lenton, Agnes, 371.
Lenton, John, 371.
Leonard, Barton, 1006.
Lewis, Emily Huntington,
971, 985.
Lewis, Silas Huntington, 971.
Little, Edmund Cook, 984.
Little, Harry Webb, 984.
Little, Moses, 9 70, 984.
Lobo, Joseph, 947.
Long, Deborah, 595, 601,
602, 914, 924, 925.
Long, John, 595.
Long, Robert, 597 — 602,
585, 925.
Long, Robert, Jr., 601.
Long, Zachariah, 599, 601,
602, 925.
Lord, Mrs. Abigail, 55.
Lothrop, Barnabas, 73.
Lott, Mary, 215, 216, 221.
856, 859.
Lott, Mrs. Sarah, 215, 856.
Lovewell, Wallace, 946.
Lowe, Eleanor Davis, 1006.
Lowe, Esther Schofield, 1006.
Lowe, Philip Carter, 1006.
Lowe, Stephen C, 1004,
1006.
Lowe, Stephen Clifford, Jr.,
1006.
Lowell, Abner, 457.
Lowell, Abner, Jr., 457.
Lowell, Alfred Osgood, 457.
Lowell, Ezra G., 456.
Lowell, James Morse, 457.
Lowell, John Davis, 457.
Luce, Dorothea Delano, 993.
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CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Luce, Rev. Frank Leonard,
983, 993.
Luce, Frank Leonard, Jr..
993.
Luce, Stanford Leonard,
993.
Luce, Virginia, 993.
Luke, Mrs. Elizabeth, 41.
Lyde, Edward, 734.
Mabane, Miss, 813.
MacDonald, Rev. Henry,
805, 806, 807, 810, 813.
MacDonald, William, 805,
811.
Machett, Susanna, 768, 904.
Mackenzie, David, 934.
Maltbie, John Robertson,
' 987.
Malve, Minnie, 970.
Manchester, Allen Tripp,
952.
Manchester, Sarah Francis,
952, 955.
Mann, Ella Rhoda, 970,
984.
Marbury, Anne. See Mrs.
Anne Hutchinson.
Marbury, Catherine, 369 —
379, 363, 364, 365, 367,
389, 390, 391, 616, 865.
Marbury, Sir Edward, 371.
Marbury, Francis, 371, 375,
378, 606, 615, 616, 865,
924.
Marbury, William, 371.
Marbury, William, Second,
371.
Masters, Elizabeth, 310.
Masters, Mrs. Jane, 314, 880.
Masters, John, 308, 313,
314, 880.
Masters. Lydia, 302, 308,
313, 314, 880.
Masters. Nathaniel. 310.
Mathews, Mrs. Rebecca, 41.
Mayhew (Mahieu), Hester.
108, 109, 110.
Mayhew, Jeanne, 108.
McCrary, Emma F., 947.
McVay, Jacob, 829.
McVay, James Taylor, 829,
830.
McVay, Catherine Bidwell,
827, 829.
Medford family, 804.
Medford, William, 805, 809.
Mendell, Noah T., 965.
Merrill, Thomas, 453.
Merrick, Captain, of Llewel-
lyn, 736.
Merrick, James, 735, 736,
891.
Merrick,
736.
Merrick,
736.
Merrick,
John (b.
John (b.
1513),
1579),
736,
Sarah, 735,
737, 738, 891, 898.
Merrick, William, 736.
Miller, Mary, 916.
Millison, William C, 946.
Moody, Caleb (1637-1698),
444, 484, 493, 494, 495,
496, 497, 920, 928.
Moody, Caleb (1666-1741),
474, 496, 497, 505, 920.
Moody, Joshua, 497.
Moody, Judith (1669-1679)
497.
Moody, Judith (b. 1683).
497.
Moody, Judith, (1691-1775),
474, 497, 913, 918, 920.
Moody, Rev. Samuel, 497.
Moody, Mrs. Sarah, 493, 920.
Moody, William, 491 — 497,
444, 728, 920.
Moody, William, Second,
497.
Moore, Miss, 813.
More, Sarah, 601.
Morley, Albert, 827, 828.
Morlev, Emma, 741, 823,
827, 935, 942.
Morley, John Rufus, 827,
829.
Morley, Thomas, 827.
Morse, Anthony (1606-
1686), 467—475, 444,
449, 479, 480, 482, 483,
496, 569, 658, 918, 920,
922.
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1033
Morse, Anthony (1688-
1729), 474, 497, 913,
918, 920.
Morse, Benjamin, 473, 496,
920.
Morse, Caleb, 475, 913.
Morse, Mrs. Elizabeth (The
Newbury Witch), 477 —
489.
Morse, Hannah, 473, 569,
922.
Morse, James Ordway, 456,
475, 540, 911, 913, 915.
Morse, Joshua, 473, 474,
580, 918.
Morse, Judith, 454, 456, 457,
497, 540, 911.
Morse, Mrs. Mary, 471, 918,
922.
Morse, Ruth, 496, 497, 920.
Morse, Stephen, 475.
Morse, William, 471, 479
480, 481, 482, 483, 484,
485, 486, 487, 488.
Morton, Ann, 778.
Morton, Deborah, 37.
Morton, Thomas, 778.
Mott, Adam (1596-1661).
213 — 223, 859.
Mott, Adam (1623-1673 + ) ,
215, 221, 856, 859.
Mott, Adam (Bevis), 216.
Mott, Elizabeth, 221, 223,
856.
Mott, John, 216, 217, 218,
219 859
Mott, John (b. 1621), 216.
Nestor, Ann C, 961, 964.
Newland, Mary, 146, 843,
850.
Newland, William, 146.
Newman, John, 569.
Newman, Robert, 569.
Newman, Mrs. Sarah, 569,
922.
Newman, Sarah (b. 1722)
452, 454, 570, 595, 911,
912, 914.
Newman, Sarah, Second, 454.
Newman, Thomas ( + 1634-
1702 + ), 569, 570, 922.
Newman, Thomas (d. 1676),
567 — 570, 749, 922.
Newman, Thomas (1670-
1715), 570, 574, 914,
922, 923.
Newman, Thomas (1693-
1729), 452, 570, 595, 914.
Nichols, Mordecai, 73.
Nicholson, Christopher, 397,
398.
Nicholson, Edmund, 397,
399.
Nicholson, Mrs. Elizabeth,
397, 398.
Nicholson, Mrs. Jane, 399,
401, 402, 403, 404, 405,
406, 866.
Nicholson, Jane, 405, 406,
866.
Nicholson, Joseph, 395 —
407, 866.
Northup, Elizabeth, 151.
Noyes, Ephraim, 438.
M°oJ a ^ Sor.r*ah' 215, 216' Noyes, James, 438, 439, 441
220, 221, 856. 443 451 661
A/In Ho-n To m rw *-. U A '__'_ .._ .
Mudge, James, 694
Mudge, Jarvis, 694
Mudge, John, 695.
Mudge, Martha, 693, 694,
695, 890.
Mudge, Mrs. Mary, 694, 890.
Mudge, Thomas, 694, 890
Mussey, Harriet, 458.
Mussey, John, 453, 454, 458.
Mussey, John, Jr., 454, 458.
Mussey, Margaret, 458.
Mussiloway, Daniel, 526.
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Noyes, Martha, 446, 452,
912.
Noyes, Nathan, 438.
Noyes, Nicholas, 435 — 446,
516, 656, 657, 658, 662,
722, 916.
Noyes, Robert, 537.
Noyes, Timothy, 446, 452,
462, 912, 916, 917.
Noyes, Thomas, 474.
Noyes, William, 437, 438,
916.
1034
CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Odding, Mrs. Margaret. See
Mrs. Margaret Porter.
Odding, Sarah, 249, 844,
853, 872.
Oliver, Elizabeth, 532, 915.
Oliver, Grace, 979.
Oliver, Thomas, 532.
Ordway, James (1620-
1704 + ), 499 — 506, 444,
516, 519, 660, 919.
Ordway, James (b. 1687 — ),
506, 519, 565, 913, 919,
921
Ordway, John, 504, 505, 506,
919.
Ordway, Sarah, 475, 913.
Orrell, Esther Morris, 934.
Orrell, Rev. John, 932, 934.
Orrell, John Wallace, 934.
Orrell, Lizzie French, 9 34.
Orrell, Lucy Crapo, 934, 941.
Orrell, Mary Florence, 934,
941.
Orrell, Robert Whaley, 941.
Orrell, William Crapo, 934,
941.
Osgood, Alfred, 457.
Osgood, Alfred, Jr., 457.
Osgood, Mrs. Alfred, 638.
Osgood, Charlotte, 457.
Osgood, Charlotte, Second,
457, 1000, 1003.
Osgood, Florence, 457.
Osgood, John, 457.
Osgood, Mary Ann, 457, 458.
Osgood, Nathaniel Smith.
457, 1000.
Osgood, William Henry, 457.
Paine, Alice, 284.
Paine, Anthony, 284, 883.
Paine, Mary, 284, 883.
Paine, Rose, 284.
Palgrave, Mrs. Anne, 1013.
Palgrave, Richard, 1012,
1013.
Palgrave, Sarah, 867, 1012,
1013.
Parker, Anne, 437, 438, 916.
Parker, Rev. Thomas, 438,
439, 441, 443, 444, 451,
493, 569, 661.
Parker, Robert, 437.
Parsons, Sarah, 45 8.
Parsons, Chief Justice Theo-
philus, 750.
Partridge, Elizabeth, 201.
Paterson, Mary Bertha, 984.
Patterson, Jeannie, 817.
Patterson, Mary, 816, 817.
Patterson, Mary, Second,
817.
Patterson, William, 817.
Peabody, George, 453.
Peabody, John, 453, 456.
Peabody, Mrs. John, 453.
Peabody, Sarah, 453.
Peabody, Sophronia, 453.
Peirce, Arthur, 1001.
Peirce, Charles Henry, 999,
1001.
Peirce, Charlotte, 1001.
Peirce, Harriet Davis, 1001,
1005.
Margaret Serena,
William Tappan,
Peirce,
1001.
Peirce,
1001.
Penn, Elizabeth, 190, 191.
192, 193, 194, 849.
Penn, George, 190.
Penn, William, 190, 191,
Penn, Sir William, 190, 191.
192.
Penn, William, Third, 191,
192, 384.
Perkins, Mary. See Mary
Perkins Bradbury.
Perkins, John, 541 — 546,
550, 569, 928.
Perkins, John, Jr., 544.
Perkins, Lydia, 544.
Perkins, Mary, 551 — 556,
484, 494, 546, 550, 928.
Perry, Hannah, 421, 422,
868.
Peterson, Boerum C, 968,
983.
Peterson, Susan Thompson,
983, 993.
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Pettingill, John, 454.
Pharaman, King of West
Franks in Gaul, 374.
Phillips, Elizabeth, 570,
595, 914.
Phillips, Mrs. Mary, 585.
Phillips, Nathaniel, 593,
595.
Phillips, Samuel, 593, 594.
Phillips, William, First,
586.
Phillips, Major William
(1607-1683), 583 — 595,
924.
Phillips, William (1660-
1705), 585, 593, 594,
595, 601, 914, 924, 925.
Pierce, Daniel, 493.
Pierce, Sara, 493.
Pike, Jacob, 45 8.
Pitt, Clara, 936, 943.
Porter, James P., 975.
Porter, John, 249.
Porter, Llewellyn P., 975.
Porter, Mrs. Margaret, 249,
853.
Potts, Hugh J., 946.
Powell, Caleb, 481, 482,
487, 488.
Powers, James E., 966.
Pranet, Ida, 978.
Pratt, Albert H., 977.
Pratt, Anna Stanford, 977,
990.
Pratt, Mrs. Bathsheba, 202,
854.
Pratt, Benajah, 202.
Pratt, Judge Calvin E., 966,
977.
Pratt, Calvin E., Jr., 977.
Pratt, Edward Lee, 977.
Pratt, Hannah, 202, 203,
249, 854.
Pratt, Jane Stratton, 977,
990.
Pratt, Joshua, 202, 854.
Pratt, Mary Barker, 37.
Pratt, Phineas, 36.
Pratt, Polly Clapp, 977, 990.
Pratt, Samuel, 37.
Pratt, Susan Ruggles, 977.
Preble, Mrs. Harriet, 458.
Priest, Degory, 36.
Priest, Sarah, 36, 201.
Priest, Samuel, 36.
Pritchett, Mrs. Chebed, 803.
Pyldryn. See Dummer.
Raleigh, Bridget, 373.
Raleigh, Edward, 373.
Raleigh, Sir Edward, Lord of
Farnborough, 373.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 373.
Ralston, Andrew M., 946.
Rands, 454.
Rand, John, 458.
Rand, John, Jr., 458.
Rayner, Mary, 691, 693.
Read, Samuel D., 953.
Read, Samuel M., 953.
Reed, Mrs. Margaret. See
Mrs. Arthur Howland.
Reed, Sarah Jane, 953, 956.
Remington, Nelly, 827.
Reynolds, Sarah, 947.
Ricketson, Jonathan, 150,
223, 846, 856, 857.
Ricketson, .Rebecca, 214, 846.
Ricketson, William, 221,
222, 223, 856.
Rilley, Ellen M., 948.
Ring, Andrew, 72.
Ring, Mrs. Mary, 72, 836.
Ring, Susanna, 72, 73, 836.
Robbins, Catherine Ruggles,
974, 987.
Robbins, Charles S., 974.
Robbins, Daniel T., 965, 974.
Roberts, Elizabeth, 599.
Robinson, Abraham, 759,
906.
Robinson, Rev. John, 759.
Robinson, Mrs. Mary, 759,
906.
Robinson, Mary, 772, 901.
903.
Robinson, Robert, 772, 901.
Roe, Clara Linwood, 973,
986.
Rogers, Grace Agnes, 976,
989.
Ross, Alphonso, 932, 937.
Ross, Mary Crapo, 93 7.
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Ross, Sarah Crapo, 937, 944.
Rugg, Charles Parks, 965,
976.
Rugg, Charles Parks, Jr.,
976.
Rugg, Charles Parks, Third,
989.
Rugg, Elizabeth Stanford,
976, 989.
Rugg, George, 976, 989.
Rugg, Gertrude Rogers, 989.
Ruggles, Arianna Graves,
966, 979.
Ruggles, Catherine Bonney.
965, 975.
Ruggles, Eliza Thompson,
966, 978.
Ruggles, Elizabeth Crocker,
965, 974.
Ruggles, Harriet M. T., 965,
973.
Ruggles, Henry, 965.
Ruggles, James, 961, 965.
Ruggles, Lucy, 96 5.
Ruggles, Lucy Toppan, 966.
Ruggles, Mary Elizabeth
Clapp, 965.
Ruggles, Mary Phillips, 965,
976.
Ruggles, Susan Taber, 966,
977.
Ruggles, William, 965.
Russell, Anne, 61.
Russell, Mrs. Dorothy, 159,
163, 847.
Russell, James, 150, 174,
175, 846, 847, 855.
Russell, Jonathan, 163, 174,
847.
Russell, John, 155 — 163,
117, 132, 172, 173, 184,
210, 416, 847.
Russell, Joseph, 157.
Russell, Lavinia, 152, 223,
841, 842, 846.
Russell, Paul, 214, 846.
Russell, Ralph, 157, 158,
159, 325.
Russum children, 805, 808.
Russum, Mrs. Esther, 805.
Russum, William, 815.
Russum, William P., 815.
Safford, Harriet, 971.
Salt, Albert Lincoln, 981.
Salt, Lloyd Bergen, 981.
Sampson, Judith, 150, 857.
Sands, James, 417, 418.
Sanford, Elizabeth, 951.
Sanford, Gov. John, 585,
587, 593, 609.
Sanford, John, 951.
Sanford, Gov. Peleg, 589.
593.
Savage, Joan, 413, 868, 877.
Sawyer, Mrs. Ruth, 496, 920.
Sawyer, Ruth, 496, 920.
Sawyer, William, 496, 497,
920.
Schrilling, Mary S., 975, 988.
Scott, Edward, 363, 865.
Scott, Henry, 577, 927.
Scott, John, 365.
Scott, Mrs. Martha, 577, 927.
Scott, Mary, 367, 378, 391,
392, 393, 864, 865.
Scott, Patience, 390.
Scott, Richard 361 — 367,
193, 375, 376, 377, 379,
389, 390, 391, 393, 865.
Scott, Richard, Jr., 365.
Scott, Thomas, 577.
Scott, Ursula, 577, 927.
Scottoe, Thomas. 73, 618.
Sears, Mary, 539, 540, 915.
Sears, Thomas, 915.
Seavey, Marion Hutchinson,
1006.
Sennet, Mrs. Mary, 574, 923.
Sennet, Mary, 570, 573, 574,
923.
Sennet, Walter, 574, 923.
Severance, Mary, 718.
Sewall, Hannah, 671 — 685,
659, 660, 661, 662, 888.
Sewall, Mrs. Hannah Fessen-
den, 682, 683.
Sewall, Henry (1544-1628),
653, 892.
Sewall, Henry (1576-1657),
651 — 663, 68, 440, 442,
444, 649, 721, 892.
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INDEX OF NAMES
1037
Sewall, Henry (1614-1700).
472, 497, 545, 653, 654,
655, 656, 657, 658, 659,
660, 661, 662, 663, 668,
669, 670, 674, 675, 676,
677, 679, 680, 684, 888,
892, 893.
Sewall, Jane, 660.
Sewall, John, 660, 669, 682,
684.
Sewall, John, Second, 683.
Sewall, Mehitable, 497.
Sewall, Judge Samuel, 388,
413, 486, 497, 519, 539.
553, 573, 646, 647, 653,
657, 659, 660, 661, 662,
667, 668, 669, 670, 679.
680, 681, 682, 683, 684,
690, 723, 734.
Sewall, Samuel, Jr., 653,
669.
Sewall, Stephen, 660, 684.
Shafer, John, 946.
Shatswell, John, 519, 895.
Shatswell, Mary, 518, 519.
895.
Shaw, Anthony, 289 — 295,
312, 874.
Shaw, Elizabeth, 293, 294,
295, 871, 872, 874.
Shaw, Israel, 292, 293, 874.
Shaw, Mrs. Israel (Tall-
man), 293, 295, 874.
Sherman, Abigail, 249, 250,
844.
Sherman, Hannah, 249, 250,
844, 845, 872.
Sherman, Henry, 247.
Sherman, Henry, Jr., 247.
Sherman, John, 203, 249,
844, 853, 854,
Sherman, Philip, 243 — 250,
209, 267, 273, 274, 283,
844, 853, 872.
Sherman, Mrs. Philippa, 247,
853.
Sherman, Philippa, 247.
Sherman, Samuel, 2 47, 853.
Sisson, Allen, 931.
Sisson, Anne, 178, 285, 286,
287, 883.
Sisson, Mrs. Elizabeth, 931.
Sisson, Mrs. Mary, 285, 883.
Sisson, Richard, 285, 286,
883.
Sisson, Richard, Jr., 286.
Sisson, Sarah, 931, 947.
Skinner, William, 595.
Slocums, of Barney's Joy,
181.
Slocum, Abner, 952.
Slocum, Abner George, 953.
Slocum, Aeria, 431, 952, 954.
Slocum, Ann, 278, 279, 353,
354, 871, 873, 875.
Slocum, Ann Elizabeth, 9 52,
953.
Slocum, Anthony, 335, 336,
337.
Slocum, Benjamin, 354, 355.
Slocum, Benjamin, Second,
354, 355.
Slocum, Benjamin Chase,
431, 951.
Slocum, Caleb, 425, 427.
Slocum, Catherine, 343.
Slocum, Christopher, 952,
953.
Slocum, Deborah, 426, 428.
Slocum, Ebenezer, 354, 355.
Slocum, Eliezer (1644-1727),
345 — 359, 339, 429, 875.
Slocum, Eliezer (1693-1738),
178, 354, 357, 875.
Slocum, George Folger, 359,
431, 951, 952.
Slocum, Giles, 333 — 343,
158, 222, 259, 292, 347,
349, 350, 352, 425, 864,
875.
Slocum, Giles, Jr., 222.
Slocum, Giles, Third, 343.
Slocum, Giles, Fourth, 393.
Slocum, Hannah, 425, 427.
Slocum, Henry Howland.
952, 955.
Slocum, Henry Howland,
Second, 956.
Slocum, Jabez Howland, 953,
956.
Slocum, James Ray, 955.
Slocum, Jane Brown, 429,
430, 431, 951.
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CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Slocum, Jennie Francis, 955,
958.
Slocum, Jessie Harriet, 955.
Slocum, Mrs. Joan, 338, 339,
864, 875.
Slocum, John, 337.
Slocum, John, Second, 354,
355.
Slocum, Jonathan, 343.
Slocum, Joseph, 337.
Slocum, Mabelle Grey, 9 56.
Slocum, Mrs. Maribah, 354.
Slocum, Mary Ann, 329, 353,
359, 425, 430, 823, 824,
931, 932, 951.
Slocum, Mehitable, 426, 427.
Slocum, Peleg (1654-1733),
339, 340, 341, 347, 350,
352, 356, 367, 379, 393,
425, 864.
Slocum, Peleg (1692-1728),
341, 342, 343, 356, 393,
425, 863, 864, 867.
Slocum, Peleg (1727-1810),
343, 355, 356, 357, 407,
425, 427, 863.
Slocum, Rebecca, 42 5.
Slocum, Roy William, 955.
Slocum, Ruth Ann, 956.
Slocum, Sarah Isabelle, 955.
Slocum, Silas Perry, 952,
955.
Slocum, Sylvia Ann, 953.
Slocum, Williams (1761-
1834), 423 — 431, 5, 330,
331, 343, 355, 357, 359,
367, 393, 407, 416, 422,
824, 861, 863, 871, 930,
949, 951, 1007.
Slocum, Williams, ancestors
of, circular charts facing
pages 332, 862.
Slocum, Williams (1839-
1854), 952.
Smith, Carrie L., 981, 991.
Smith, Charles Augustus,
999 1002.
Smith,' Charles Otis, 1002.
Smith, Charles Rand, 637,
997, 999.
Smith, Charlotte Hinckley,
999, 1001.
Smith, Crapo Cornell, 938.
Smith, David C, 967.
Smith, Deborah, 178, 875.
Smith, Deliverance, 174, 175,
176, 177, 178, 287, 326,
875, 882, 883.
Smith, Emily Hope, 1002.
Smith, Gertrude Binney,
1002.
Smith, Harriet, 457, 458.
Smith, Hasadiah, 163, 173,
847.
Smith, Henrietta Crapo, 938.
Smith, Humphrey Henry
Howland Crapo, 932, 938.
Smith, James, 444, 450, 451.
452, 471, 912.
Smith, Mrs. Joanna, 579,
918
Smith, John, Sr., 168.
Smith, John, Jr., 165 — 178,
154, 163, 287, 326, 347,
882.
Smith, Rev. John, 168, 169.
Smith, John, of Ipswich,
595.
Smith, John Pettingill, 457,
458.
Smith, Gov. John Gregory.
971.
Smith, Judah, 174.
Smith, Judith, 456, 457.
Smith, Julia Burnett, 971.
Smith, Leonard, 452, 453,
455, 456, 458.
Smith, Martha, 452, 454.
Smith, Martha Wills, 457,
458.
Smith, Martin S., 940.
Smith, Mary (d. 1686 + ),
579, 580, 918, 927.
Smith, Mary, Second, 452,
453.
Smith, Mary, Third, 457,
638.
Smith, Mehitable, 457, 458.
Smith, Nathaniel, 452, 453,
454, 455, 456, 457, 752,
808, 911.
Smith, Mrs. Rebecca, 449,
450, 912.
Smith, Sarah, 452, 454.
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INDEX OF NAMES
1039
Smith, Sarah Morse (1780-
1869), 633 — 640, 5, 207,
264, 433, 446, 453, 456,
457, 458, 462, 475, 497,
506, 527, 540, 565, 570,
595, 751, 794, 826, 901.
909, 930, 995, 997.
Smith, Sarah Morse, ances-
tors of, circular charts
facing pages 434, 910.
Smith, Sarah Morse (1841-
1844), 999.
Smith, Sophia, 453.
Smith, Thomas (d. 1666),
447 — 458, 471, 912.
Smith, Thomas (1639-1648),
449, 471.
Smith, Thomas (1654-1675),
449 450 694.
Smith,' Thomas (1673-1760),
446, 452, 912.
Smith, Thomas (1723-1758),
452, 454, 570, 595, 911,
912, 914.
Smith, Thomas, of Ipswich.
579 918.
Smith,' William Alfred, 1002.
Smith, William Binney, 1002.
Smith, William Charles, 999,
1002.
Snell, Josephine M., 975.
Snow, Charles Henry, 948.
Snow, David Sylvester, 948.
Snow, Emma Adelaide, 948.
Snow, Mary A. H., 948.
Snow, Sylvester, 931, 948.
Somerby, Henry, 721, 728.
Sowle, Marcia, 931, 946.
Sparhawk, Sybil, 695, 696.
Spark, John, 571—574, 570,
923.
Spark, Rose, 570, 574, 914,
• 922, 923.
Spencer, Frances A., 939,
944.
Spencer, Jane, 373.
Spenser, Edmund, 373.
Spooner, Alice, 204.
Spooner, Mrs. Ann, 200.
Spooner, John, 200.
Spooner, Mary, 204.
Spooner, Sarah (1653-
1720 + ), 203, 249, 844,
853, 854.
Spooner, Sarah (1700-
1724 + ), 195, 204, 848.
Spooner, Thomas, 200.
Spooner, William (d. 1684),
197—204, 36, 117, 195,
249, 854.
Spooner, William (abt. 1657-
1735 + ), 203, 204, 848.
Spooner, Mrs. Mary, 41.
Sprague, Dorcas, 413, 414,
415, 868.
Sprague, Francis, 413, 414,
415, 868.
Sprague, Mrs. Lydia, 414,
868.
Stafford, Mrs. Elizabeth, 322
881.
Stafford, Freelove, 322, 873,
880, 881.
Stafford, Samuel, 322, 881.
Stafford, Thomas, 315 — 322
881.
Stanford, Algernon Sydney,
805, 808, 812, 813, 814,
815.
Stanford, Arianna, 805, 812.
Stanford, Arianna, Second,
813.
Stanford, Arianna, Third,
807, 811, 817.
Stanford, Celia, 805.
Stanford, Charles, 801.
Stanford, Chebed, 803.
Stanford, Dr. Clement, 805,
806, 807, 808, 810, 811,
812, 813, 814, 815, 817.
Stanford, Clement, Jr., 806,
807, 815, 816.
Stanford, Elizabeth, 802.
Stanford, Mrs. Elizabeth,
wife of John, 801.
Stanford, Mrs. Elizabeth,
wife of William, 802, 803.
Stanford, Mrs. Elizabeth,
wife of Richard, 804, 805!
Stanford, Elizabeth (1770-
1844), 795 — 818 (and an-
cestors), 5, 741, 742, 825,
887, 930, 959, 961.
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CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Stanford, Esther Ann, 811,
815.
Stanford, Henrietta, 805,
811.
Stanford, Henrietta, Second,
814, 815.
Stanford, Henrietta Eliza-
beth, 815.
Stanford, John, 800, 801.
Stanford, John, Second, 800.
Stanford John, Third, 801,
802 803
Stanford, John, Fourth, 802.
Stanford, Joseph, 801.
Stanford, Margaret, 802.
Stanford, Mary Eunice, 815,
816, 818.
Stanford, Rebecca, 803.
Stanford, Richard (b. 1610).
799.
Stanford, Richard (1743-
1785), 798, 802, 803, 804,
805, 808, 809, 818.
Stanford, Richard (176 8-
1816), 805, 808, 811, 812,
813
Stanford, Rhody, 803.
Stanford, Robert, 805.
Stanford, Samuel, 801.
Stanford, Sarah, 803.
Stanford, Sarah Ann, 815.
Stanford, Thomas, 800, 801.
Stanford, William, 801.
Stanford, William, Second,
802.
Stanford, William, Third,
802, 803, 807.
Stanford, William, Fourth,
805.
Stanford, William, Fifth,
807.
Stanley, Christopher, 585,
587.
Stanley, Mrs. Susanna (Phil-
lips), 585, 586, 587.
Staplefoot, Mrs. Sarah, 803.
Starbuck, Nathaniel, 718.
Stevens, Alice, 601.
Stevens, Dr. Calvin, 962,
971.
Stevens, Mrs. Dionis, 713,
714, 896.
Stevens, Dionis, 714, 715,
716, 721, 896.
Stevens, Oliver Crocker, 9 71.
Stevens, Philip Greeley, 985.
Stevens, Robert, 714, 896.
Stevens, Stanford Hunting-
ton, 9 85.
Stevens, William Stanford,
971, 985.
Stevens, William Stanford,
Jr., 985.
Stewart, Samuel Sidney, 943.
Stewart, Samuel Sidney, Jr.,
943.
Stickney, Dr. Charles Dick-
inson, 963, 972.
Stickney, Charles Dickinson.
Jr. 972.
Stith' Mr.,' 813.
Stonard, Alice, 292, 293,
874.
Stonard, John, 292, 874.
Stonard, Margaret, 292, 874.
Stothof, A. S., 966.
Strange, Lot, 285, 294.
Stratton, Elephal, 594.
Sweat, Mrs. Margaret, 458.
Swigart, James, 946.
Taber, Mrs. Jane, 313.
Tabor, John, 309.
Tabor, Lydia, 302, 312, 880.
Tabor, Philip, 305 — 314,
293, 302, 880.
Tabor, Philip, Jr., 313.
Tabor, Rev. Philip, 313.
Tallman, Mrs. Ann, 295.
Tallman, Peter, 289 — 295,
311, 874.
Tallman, Mrs. Esther, 29 5.
Tappan, Charles A., 969.
Tappan, George (1807-
1857), 637, 646, 649, 650.
742, 825, 826, 961, 969,
997.
Tappan, George (b. 1870),
983.
Tappan, George A., (b.
1830), 969.
Tappan, George A., (b.
1832), 969.
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1041
Tappan, Harold Harding,
983.
Tappan, Sarah Crapo, 983.
Tappan, Sarah Davis, 4, 3 4,
430, 431, 458, 635, 637,
638, 639, 741, 742, 804,
805, 809, 810, 812, 815,
816, 817, 818, 823, 825,
932, 935, 969.
Tappan, Mrs. Serena D. See
Serena Davis.
Tappan, Serena Davis (1834-
1838), 969.
Tappan, Stanford Davis, 9 83.
Tappan, William Crocker,
969, 983.
Taylor, Mrs. Elizabeth, 649.
Taylor, John, 599, 925.
Taylor, Mary, 829.
Taylor, Sarah, 599, 925.
Taylor, Susanna, 649, 673,
674, 676, 888.
Thompson, Abner Toppan,
968.
Thompson, Ann Maria, 96 8,
983.
Thompson, Ann Maria C,
968.
Thompson, Arianna, 967.
Thompson, Arthur Porter,
982.
Thompson, Carolyn Pierson,
993.
Thompson, Charlotte M.,
992.
Thompson, Elizabeth E., 967,
981.
Thompson, Emily Lucille,
992.
Thompson, Ford De Camp,
982.
Thompson, Frank Bergen,
982.
Thompson, Georgiana, 968.
Thompson, Henrietta, 967,
980.
Thompson, J. Alfred, 982,
992.
Thompson, J. Alfred, Jr.,
992.
Thompson, Louis F., 992.
Thompson, Louis Soner, 982,
993.
Thompson, Marrie F., 992.
Thompson, Mary Ford, 982.
Thompson, Mary N., 967,
980.
Thompson, Mary Tooker,
993.
Thompson, Ralph F., 992.
Thompson, Robert Augustus,
982, 992.
Thompson, Robert Westfield,
992.
Thompson, Samuel Callaway,
982.
Thompson, Samuel W., 961,
967.
Thompson, Samuel W., Jr.,
967, 982.
Thompson, Sophia C, 967,
981.
Thompson, Stewart Vaughn,
993.
Thompson, Susan De Camp,
982.
Thompson, Thomas W., 967.
Thompson, Warren Hinch-
man, 992.
Thurston, Edward, 220, 221.
Tibbot (Tibbets), Mary, 758,
759, 905.
Tibbot (Tibbets), Walter,
758, 905.
Tidd, Joshua, 602, 925.
Tidd, Mrs. Sarah, 602, 925.
Tidd, Sarah, 601, 602, 925.
Tillinghast, Joseph, 302, 303,
873, 880, 881.
Tillinghast, Lydia, 278, 303,
322, 873.
Tillinghast, Martha, 355.
Tillinghast, Pardon, 297 —
303, 272, 312, 318, 880.
Tillinghast, Mrs. Pardon
(Butterworth), 302.
Tobey, Francis, 82, 83.
Tobey, Mrs. Jane, 82, 835,
83 7
Tobey, John, 82, 835, 837.
Tobey, Mary, 74, 75, 835.
Tobey, Reliance, 83.
Tobey, Thomas, 77 — 83, 837.
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CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
Tooker, J. Alfred, 967.
Tooker, Mary Ford, 967, 982.
Tooker, Mrs. Susan Hinch-
man, 967.
Topham (Toppan) , Anthony,
646.
Topham, Edward, 646.
Topham, Henry, 646.
Topham, Lieut. Col. Henry,
647, 648.
Topham, Mrs. Isabel, 646.
Topham, Isabella, 646.
Topham, John, 645, 646.
Topham, Lawrence, 646.
Topham, Mrs. Margaret, 646.
Topham, Robert, 645, 646.
Topham, Thomas, 646.
Topham, William, 646.
Topham, William, Second,
646.
Toppan. See also Tappan
and Topham.
Toppan, Abner (1764-1792),
739—742, 5, 565, 641,
685, 730, 738, 805, 809,
825, 884, 887, 930, 959,
961.
Toppan, Abner, ancestors of,
circular charts facing
pages 642, 886.
Toppan, Abner (1797-1883),
742, 804, 961, 964.
Toppan, Abraham (1606-
1672), 643 — 650, 442,
444, 502, 516, 538, 661,
662, 669, 673, 674, 675,
676, 721, 728, 888.
Toppan, Abraham (b. 1684),
450, 679, 682, 683, 684,
887, 888, 890.
Toppan, Arianna, 742, 961,
967.
Toppan, Rev. Christopher,
662, 669, 684.
Toppan, Edward, 684, 685,
741, 887.
Toppan, Edward, Jr., 741.
Toppan, Elizabeth, 645.
Toppan, Elizabeth, Second.
742, 961, 965.
Toppan, Elizabeth Stanford,
804, 964.
Toppan, Mrs. Hannah. See
Hannah Sewall.
Toppan, Harriet, 742.
Toppan, Harriet Maria, 961,
970.
Toppan, Jacob, 671 — 685,
450, 497, 502, 519, 647,
648, 649, 660, 662, 888.
Toppan, Jane, 680, 682, 683.
"Toppan," Jane, 964.
Toppan, John, 673.
Toppan, John, Second, 450,
497.
Toppan, Oliver Crocker, 964.
Toppan, Peter, 502, 645,
670, 674, 675, 676.
Toppan, Richard Stanford
(1799-1817), 961.
Toppan, Richard Stanford
(b. 1829), 964.
Toppan, Samuel, 679, 680.
Toppan, Samuel, Second,
684.
Toppan, Sophia, 742, 809,
961, 962.
Toppan, Stanford, 742.
Toppan, Susanna, 645.
Toppan, William, 809, 961.
Townley, Lord, 264, 524.
Tripp, John, 281 — 287, 256,
413, 883.
Tripp, Mary, 178, 287, 875,
882, 883.
Tripp, Peleg, 178, 284, 285,
286, 287, 883.
True, Jemima, 554.
True, Henry, 554.
Trumball, Edith, 981, 992.
Tupper, Rev. Myron, 946.
Turner, John, 466.
Unger, Daniel, 946.
Usher, Samuel, 975.
Van Houten, Henry, 9 46.
Vassall, Ann, 63.
Vassall, Francis, 63.
Vassall, John, 61.
Vassall, John, Jr., 61, 62.
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1043
Vassall, John, Third, 63, 67,
68.
Vassall, Col. John, 68.
Vassall, Judith, 59 — 68, 54,
55, 838.
Vassall, Margaret, 63.
Vassall, Mary, 63.
Vassall, Samuel, 61, 62, 67.
Vassall, William, 54, 55, 61,
62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 838.
Vaughn, Louise, 982, 993.
Verney, Margaret, 373.
Verney, Sir Ralph, 373.
Vincent, John, 36.
Vincent, John, Second, 194.
Vincent, Mary, 194, 849.
Walker, Henry, 759, 906.
Walker, John, 417, 877.
Walker, Mrs. Katherine, 417,
418, 877.
Walker, Mary, 417, 418, 877.
Walker, Mary, 759, 906. See
Mary Brown.
Walker, Sarah, 418.
Walsh, Dr. Ralph, 817.
Walsh, Ralph, Jr., 816, 817.
Wanzor, Lucy, 982, 992.
Ward, Jane Nicholson, 951,
952.
Ward, Nicholson, 951.
Warren, Alice, 204.
Warren, Alice Bradford, 987.
Warren, Anna, 9 87.
Warren, Celia A., 947.
Warren, Mrs. Elizabeth, 72,
109, 112, 126, 127.
Warren, Elizabeth Ruggles,
987.
Warren, Ida, 987.
Warren, James, 974, 987.
Warren, Kathleen, 987, 994.
Wardwell, Lydia, 503, 504.
Warren, Nathaniel, 113, 115,
204.
Warren, Richard, 123 — 127,
112, 204, 858.
Warren, Sarah, 112, 121,
126, 131, 858.
Warren, Sarah, Second, 204.
Waterman, Mrs. E., 970.
Waters, Mrs. Rebecca, 803.
Waters, Mrs. Rhody, 803.
Watson, Clement Stanford,
815.
Watson, George, 815.
Webster, John, 515, 518,
895.
Webster, Mary, 518, 889.
894, 895, 921.
Wells, Mary A., 982.
West, Charles, 93.
West, John Cristy, 945.
West, Mary Ann, 945.
West, Matthew, 93.
West, Dr. Samuel, 93, 94.
West, Sarah, 93, 94, 95, 99.
833.
West, Stephen, 93, 94.
West, Thomas Henry, Jr.,
940, 945.
West, Thomas Henry, Third,
945.
West, Wilhelmina Crapo,
945.
Westcot, St. Ledger, 317.
Westcote, Damaris, 321.
Westcote, Mercy, 322, 881.
Westcote, Robert, 321.
Westcote, Stukeley, 315 —
322, 881.
Weyant, Erne, 9 79.
Whaley, Florence, 934, 941.
Wheeler, Anne, 525, 526,
926.
Wheeler, Mrs. Anne, 926.
Wheeler, Charles, 978.
Wheeler, David, 525.
Wheeler, Hassan, 966, 978.
Wheeler, Helen, 978.
Wheeler, John, 525, 926.
Wheeler, John N., 978.
Wheeler, Ruth, 978.
Wheelwright, Rev. John,
375, 588, 606, 608, 610,
617, 620, 622, 623, 626,
656, 734.
Wheelwright, Mary, 734.
White, Francis, 46.
White, J. W., 991.
White, John J., 991.
White, Josiah, 55.
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1044
CERTAIN COMEOVERERS
White, Penelope, 38, 40, 57,
834.
White, Peregrine, 46, 49, 54,
55.
White, Mrs. Rebecca, 57,
834, 838.
White, Resolved, 43 — 57, 68,
107, 838.
White, Samuel, 39, 55, 56,
57, 195, 834, 838.
White, William (d. 1621).
46, 47, 48, 49, 63, 838.
White, William (d. 1695),
55.
Whitgift, Elizabeth, 928.
Whiting, Louise, 1004.
Whittier, Catherine, 944.
Whittier, Charles Woodbury,
937, 944.
Whittier, Charles W., Jr.,
944.
Whittier, John Greenleaf,
730.
Whittier, Nathaniel, 944.
Whittier, Ross, 944.
Whittier, Ruth, 944.
Whittlesey, Asaph, 970.
Wigglesworth, Abigail, 684.
Wigglesworth, Edward, 689,
690, 691, 890.
Wigglesworth, Prof. Ed-
ward, 696.
Wigglesworth, Esther (b.
1685), 683, 684, 887, 888,
890.
Wigglesworth, Mrs. Esther,
689, 890.
Wigglesworth, Michael, 687
— 697, 699 — 708, 684,
890.
Wilcox, Peleg C, 947.
Wilcox, Susan, 952.
Wilde, John, 766, 767, 908.
Wilde, Phebe, 767, 768, 904,
908.
Wilde, William, 766.
Willett, Anna Willson, 9 43.
Willett, Emma Cristy, 943.
Willett, Esther, 941.
Willett, Frank Eberly, 934,
941.
Willett, Gretchen, 941.
Willett, John Leverett, 936,
943.
Willett, Mary Kuykendall,
941.
Willett, Wallace Ross, 9 43.
Williams, Anna, 342, 867,
1009, 1015.
Williams, John, 867, 1009,
1010, 1014, 1015.
Williams, Mrs. Mary, 867,
1009, 1010.
Williams, Nathaniel, 867,
1009, 1010, 1014.
Williams, Rebecca, 342, 343.
Willmote, Margaret, 599,
925.
Wills, Caroline, 454.
Wills, John, 454.
Wills, John, Jr., 454.
Willson, Frances Spencer,
944.
Willson, George, 939, 944.
Willson, Dr. James C, 932,
939.
Willson, James Curtis, 944.
Willson, Roderick, 944.
Wing, Bennett, 343.
Wing, Edward, 343.
Wing, Matthew, 223.
Winslow, Gov. Edward, Jr.,
49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 65,
66, 67, 79, 80, 109, 125,
144, 192.
Winslow, Elizabeth, 54.
Winslow, Gov. Josiah, 54,
55, 56, 159, 275.
Wood, David, 38.
Wren, Sir Christopher, 384.
Yale, David, 778, 779.
Yale, David, Jr., 779.
Yale, Elihu, 779.
Yale, Thomas, 779.
Young, Henry, 771.
Young, Sarah, 771, 903.
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