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Matches 1,101 to 1,138 of 1,138
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| 1101 | The greene county historical society says he was a relative of (cousin/nephew) of jonas bronck not a son as reported in beers greene county history. Jonas had no sons. He built the third tavern in beverwyck, was a brewer, purchased land from the Indians, Bronk patent, on 13 jan 1662. Patent issued 1 jun 1667. no evidence that Pieter lived on patent, his son did. Early settlers of Albany says he sold several houses and lots plus brewery to buy land in Coxsackie upon which he settled, in 1665 his farm was 175 morgans plus a calf pasture of 6 morgans. FHC says Pieter born Jonkoping, Sweden. The settlers of Rensselaerwyck by VanLaer says "was a native of New Amsterdam in 1643 and would seem to be a relatve of Jonas Bronck, who was probably a dane, he is charged from 1650 to 1652 with an annual rent of four beavers for a lot in the Bijeenwoninge or village, on which he received permission to build. Sept 7,1651 the court granted him permission to erect a tavern near his house, the director having withdrawn his request that according to instructions from the guardians of the young patroon but two taverns be allowed. | Bronck, Pieter Jonasson (I1173)
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| 1102 | The Leete family is an ancient one, traced back to before the Norman conquest of England. Leit is described in the Doomsday Book as a thane (a rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron) of the Anglo-Saxon, Edward the Confessor, King of England from 1042 until his death 5 Jan 1056/66. The manor of Foxcote in Buckinghamshire, worth £3 annually, is mentioned as being formerly held by Leit. The Eversden branch of the Leete family embraces the names of the known descendants of John Leete, of Eversden, Cambridgeshire whose name stands at the head of the family pedigree, recorded by the Heralds in their Visitation of Cambridgeshire in 1575, and again in 1619. From this John of Eversden also descend the Leetes of Suffolk, whose pedigree is recorded in the Visitation of Suffolk in 1612. | Leete, John of Eversden (I10856)
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| 1103 | The Smith emigrants entered the Province of Maryland in 1660 and settled in St. Mary's County with their sons, James, Robert, and Peter Smith (b1657). According to family tradition, the Smith family came from Lincolnshire, England. | Smith, Peter (I23951)
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| 1104 | The surname originally came from 'le Hore' then over the years lost the 'le'. Other spelling variations were Whoore, Whoare, Hoore, Woor. In the 1500's and 1600's the English branch of the family slowly changed to Hoare, whilst one branch of the American family kept the 'Hore' spelling, but descendants also changed to 'Hord' and 'Hoard'. Richard is mentioned in the 1522 Military Survey of Gloucestershire with his father Walter and brother Robert. The Military Survey of Gloucestershire 1522, was called for by the then King Henry VIII, he was aware that there may be an upcoming war and wanted to know the worth of each of his subjects and who would be fit and able to bear arms. | Hore, Richard (I46291)
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| 1105 | There is a baby picture dated Christmas 1900 saying his name is George Bismark Ott. The 1920 federal census shows his middle initial is still "B" (for Bismark), while by the 1930 census it has been changed to "V". George was in WW1. Private Battery C, C4 Trench Mortar Battalion. George was once mayor of Azusa. George V. Ott was President of the School Board. During WWII he was also on the draft board and rations board. He was the Station Manager, Standard Stations Inc., 148 W. Foothill, Azusa, Ca. The house they lived was built by the Judge (Olive's first marriage) and was used to be a marriage parlor (that is why it had two front doors). That property was once part of what was called Rancho Rustico. Part of a Spanish land grant. They had a special type of avocado tree growing in the yard that people would come from all over California to get a seed for their own gardens. There is a story about a cap and ball, gold inlaid gun and sword that was kept in a box and on special occasions was brought out and polished. This was not actually part of the Ott side but rather handed down from the MacCallum side, being the accoutrements of office from the Honorable Peter MacCallum of St. Peters, Prince Edwards Island (actually handed down to Larry Ott, following the line of succession but kept in a place of honor by George Ott until Larry was old enough). Peter MacCallum would have been Larry's 2nd Great Grandfather on his mothers’ side. | Ott, George Victory (I100)
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| 1106 | There were many newspaper articles surrounding the death of the World War I Ace Baron Von Richtenstien (Better known as "The Red Baron"). According to the articles, Margaret had a special relationship with the Ace and he kept her picture in his cockpit while flying. She met the Baron while traveling in Europe after completion of her legal education at UC Berkeley. Margaret graduated from UC Berkeley in 1908 and received her Masters the following year. While continuing to live in Berkeley, after passing the California Bar, she opened an office next to her father's office in San Francisco. Margaret specialized in cases regarding women and children. She traveled extensively, spoke nine languages’ fluently, translated books as a vocation and wrote several books about her travels and family history. Margaret was a teacher at Technical School in Oakland (Oakland Tech). | Hayne, Margaret Perkins (I9327)
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| 1107 | This is from Ancestry.com, was posted anonymously. The source is being sought. The Harrisons are said to have come into England with the Norse Viking Sea Kings, who finally under Canute (1016-1035) conquered and possessed the whole of the country. They were among the "free Danes" and were the last to withstand William the Conquerer, himself of Norse Viking origin. Thus they were in England a generation or more before the time of the Battle of Hastings, Oct 14, 1066, and the period of the Doomesday Book (1085-1086), from which many old English families date their origin. Northumberland, the Danish section of England, is said to be filled with Harrisons now, and the name there is variously spelled, sometimes without an H. The name being of Danish patronymic origin. Arysen, Aertzen, which is common to this day in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. (Richmond, Virginia Standard, No. 41, June 12, 1880). That Daniel and Robert were favorite early given names among the Harrisons of Northumberland is shown by a record of the baptism of Daniell, son of Robert Harrison in the parish of Berwick-on-Tweed, under date of December 26, 1610. Northumberland, is the northernmost shire of England. To the east it borders on the North Sea, and to the north on the River Tweed, which separates it from Scotland. Berwick, Northumberland is the farthest north of any city of England. From the old kingdom of the north, the Harrisons drifted south among the various other shires and some moved into Scotland. Directly South of Northumberland, and bordering also on the North Sea, lies the county of Durham. The county was one of the Counties Palatine; the other two being Lancashire and Cheshire. The city of Durham is the seat of the catherdral of St. Cuthbert, begun in 1095, the view of which from the river is said be surpassed by no other English cathedral. | Harrison, Vicar of York John (I11060)
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| 1108 | This is the break with most of the other lines of Piercealls. One of his Brothers - Henry Pierceall went North to Long Island, New York. My line went first to Pennsylvania. George - John, - Joseph. The Joseph moved to Maryland, Then Richard moved from Maryland to Kentucky in the exodus after the war. | Pearsall, George (I6794)
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| 1109 | Thomas Arnold migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Great Migration (Series 3), by Ian Watson, vol. 1, p. 199) Settled in Watertown 13 May 1640 Freeman 20 Dec 1648 bought 30 acres from George Parkhurst Oct 1651 fined 20s for offense against law concerning baptism 2 Apr 1654 fined L5 for neglecting public worship 20 days 30 March 1655 sold to his brother in law George Parkhurst, 30 acres which he had bought in 1648 "from our father George Parkhurst and his wife Susanna" 2 April 1655 fined L10 for neglecting public worship 40 days after being fined once for neglecting the law of baptism and twice for neglect of public worship, he was driven to Providence, living in that part now Smithfield; swore allegiance 1666. 17 Oct 1661 of Providence, he sold land in Watertown to John Whitney 20 Oct 1662 he and wife sold house barn and 16 acres in Watertown 19 Feb 1665 he had lot 83 granted in a land division 1666, 67, 70, 71, 72 Deputy 1672 Town Council He died in Sept 1674 | Arnold, Thomas (I9520)
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| 1110 | Thomas Crampe/Crompe emigrated to Virginia Colony before 1624. As of the census of 16 February 1623/24 he was living on the Eastern Shore. By the Muster of 24 January 1624/25 he was sharing a home with John West on James Island. Thomas Crampe (Crump) served as Burgess for James City at the Assembly of 1631/32, representing The Neck of Land in 1632 and 1632/3-1633. Since Thomas is not on record owning land prior to 1633, it is likely he and Elizabeth lived on the late Rev. Richard Buck's property in the eastern end of Jamestown Island, acreage in which Elizabeth had a legal interest. | Crump, Thomas (I25761)
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| 1111 | Thomas Leete died in 1495, and was the son of another Thomas Leete (1423-1454), who was the son of Richard Leete (1398-1423). The Leete family are well-documented, with four brothers of the family being mentioned in the Letters Patent of King John, Henry III, and Edward I, as they had been knight-crusaders who were rewarded for their service with knighthoods and manorial estates in S.Cambridgeshire, where the family had been resident for many generations. A member of the family (John Liet) is mentioned in The Domesday Book as being a 'thegn of Edward's' (The Confessor), which might explain why he was able to keep his rank and possessions after the Norman conquest, as Edward had been as revered in Normandy as he was in England, and because John Liet had no connection to the administration of Harold Godwinson. As several family members became church wardens, their records were kept up-to-date, with their family connections and coats of arms now held in the British Library and other collections. posted Nov 24, 2023 by Julian McSweeney (wikitree) | Leete, Thomas (I11142)
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| 1112 | Thomas took the oath of allegiance at New Haven on 4 April 1654, but settled at Brandford. He was an ensign in King Phillip's War, and he was elected deputy to the General Court on 10 May 1677. The earliest located record for the Harrison family in New England, is Richard Harrison, Thomas' brother, took the Oath of Allegiance 1 July 1644. Thomas's father Richard was in Branford 1 July 1646, so it is believed the family came together, settling at Branford in the New Haven Colony. | Harrison, Ensign Thomas (I9524)
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| 1113 | Thornes | MILNES (Mills),,, Sarah (I25409)
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| 1114 | Timothy graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, in 1811. In June of 1813, he married Ann Robinson Maddox in Alexandria, District of Columbia. In 1829, his nomination to serve as a Naval Chaplain (Presbyterian) was approved by Congress. He served as a U.S. Naval Chaplain until 1862, when he retired from active duty. During the Civil War, Timothy Harrison lived in the District of Columbia with his daughter and son-in-law, Augusta and McPherson Barnitz. The Rev. Timothy J. Harrison died on 10 March 1865. His wife, Ann Harrison, remained on their 359-acre dairy farm in Gainesville, Virginia. The farm and family home, were severely affected by the two battles at Manassas -- the farm being immediately adjacent to the battlefield. By the law of 21 December 1861, any officer of the Navy was eligible for retirement "whose name had been borne on the Naval Register forty-five years" or who had attained the age of sixty-two.* This provision made it possible for a number of the older officers to turn over the responsibilities of their office to younger men during the critical days of the war. In the 1862 Navy Register, the following seven chaplains were listed as having been retired under this law: Charles Stewart, T. J. Harrison, George Jones, Moses Chase, J. W. Newton, John Watson, and Henry Wood. Actually, at least half of the chaplains listed as retired continued on duty during the war. | Harrison, Reverend Timothy James (I316)
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| 1115 | Town Hill Cemetery | Cutler, Captain Ebenezer (I8639)
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| 1116 | Tracadie | Wiseman, Elizabeth (I8452)
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| 1117 | U.S. Congressman. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1806 and was the first lawyer to open a legal practice in Norwich, New York. He was surrogate for Chenango County, New York, in 1811. In 1815, he was elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress, serving until 1817. After leaving Congress, he was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1827 and one of the incorporates of the Bank of Chenango. Relocating to Michigan, in 1839, he practiced law until his death at age 73. | Birdsall, James (I46)
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| 1118 | Visalia Public Cemetery | Buckman, Enoch James (I62)
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| 1119 | Walter Hore is mentioned in the Cheltenham Manorial Survey of 1440 as owning 1 messuage and half virgate formerly belonging to Thomas Wager, previously John Wery. | Hore, Walter (I46294)
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| 1120 | Walter is believed to be a descendant of the Flemish house of Freskyn. His daughter and heiress, Egidia, married Thomas Kinnaird. | Moray, Walter of Skelbo and Culpin (I15208)
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| 1121 | Walter was born about 1450. He passed away after 1522. The Military Survey of Gloucestershire 1522, was called for by the then King Henry V111, he was aware that there may be an upcoming war and wanted to know the worth of each of his subjects and who would be fit and able to bear arms. In the survey there are only 16 men listed for Leckhampton, three of which were the Hore family, out of the 16 men listed only one was recorded as able to bear arms. Walter Hore was born about 1450 in Leckhampton, Gloucestershire, the only record found so far is the entry in the 1522 survey - he was assessed as being worth £3 pounds, with Robert Hore £4 and Richard Hore £5. By 1551 there were only 93 communicants in 20 households registered in Leckhampton, this gives us an idea of how small the village of Leckhampton was. (Communicant -a church member entitled to receive communion, children were deemed ready to take communion at the age of discretion, the age of 7 or 8, or even younger, the age of discretion also applied to when the church deemed it was okay for young girls to be betrothed in marriage). | Hore, Walter (I46292)
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| 1122 | We know from her death certificate and her own Bible entries that her maiden name was Saunders, she was born in Maury Co. TN and that she married Jesse Albert Byrd in Maury Co. TN. The land which became Maury Co. was originally in Davidson Co. (Nashville). Isabelle also identified herself as being from Nashville. In 1805 Williamson Co. was carved out of Davidson Co. and Maury Co. out of Williamson in 1807. Her father was R.M. Saunders, (we now know Robert M. Saunders, Jr.) born in SC, or possibly NC territory later becoming Tennessee, and mother, Sophia Josephine Phillips was listed on most census records as born in Tennessee. One source, undocumented, states middle initial stands for MEADE. Another source state middle name is Marguerite. Isabella, herself, never wrote more than "M" in her Bible. Wallace Smith, in his book "Prodigal Sons" asserts that "Isabella was originally a McCullough (in fact her stepfather was McCullough) and her parents had come from the mountains of Tennessee." | Saunders, Isabella Meade (I8441)
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| 1123 | West Kishacoquillas Presbyterian Cemetery | Campbell, Thomas Colin Robert (I422)
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| 1124 | West Kishacoquillas Presbyterian Cemetery | Campbell, Jane (I45493)
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| 1125 | When Esmerelda was 31, she married Benjamin Franklin Campbell, son of John Oliver Campbell and Matilda Hannah Shear, on 05 Sep 1889. Esmerelda lived in Sonoma, California her entire life. Esmerelda died in 1895 and was buried in mountain cemetery, Sonoma, California. | Smith, Esmerelda Eramantha (I61)
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| 1126 | When they married their families were against it. The MacDonalds said the MacIntoshes were sheep herders and the MacIntoshes said the MacDonalds were sheep stealers. Both held the other in contempt | MacDonald, James (I8446)
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| 1127 | William came to Carolina in the early part of the eighteenth century. He was from a wealthy and distinguished English family. | Allston, Governor William Sr. (I9148)
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| 1128 | William Mullins was born about 1572 to John and Joan (Bridger) Mullins of Dorking, Surrey, England. He married a woman named Alice, but her maiden name has not been identified. Longstanding claims that her maiden name is Atwood, or Poretiers, are without basis. Recent research in Dorking records has suggested that Alice is more likely to have come from the Browne, Gardinar, Dendy, Hammon or Wood families, perhaps even related to Mayflower passenger Peter Browne who also came from Dorking. See the Alice Mullins page for additional discussion on her possible identity. William brought his wife Alice and children Priscilla and Joseph on the Mayflower; he also brought over 250 shoes and 13 pairs of boots, his profession being a shoemaker. He died on 21 February 1620/1, during the first winter at Plymouth, as did his wife and son Joseph. His original will has survived, written down by Governor John Carver. In it he mentions his wife Alice, children Priscilla and Joseph, and his children back in Dorking, William Mullins and Sarah Blunden. He also mentions a Goodman Woods (likely a reference to the Wood family in Dorking), and a Master Williamson, who have not been identified, but is possibly an alias for William Brewster. It was witnessed by the Mayflower's master Christopher Jones, the Mayflower's surgeon Giles Heale, and governor John Carver. | Mullins, William (I28194)
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| 1129 | William Wallace (born c. 1270, probably near Paisley, Renfrew, Scotland-died August 23, 1305, London, England) was one of Scotland’s greatest national heroes and the chief inspiration for Scottish resistance to the English king Edward I. He served as guardian of the kingdom of Scotland during the first years of the long and ultimately successful struggle to free his country from English rule. Wallace was the second son of Sir Malcolm Wallace of Elderslie in Renfrewshire. The elder Wallace was a minor landowner and a vassal of James, 5th steward of Scotland. In 1296 King Edward I of England deposed and imprisoned the Scottish king John de Balliol and declared himself ruler of Scotland. Sporadic resistance had already occurred when, in May 1297, Wallace and a band of some 30 men burned Lanark and killed its English sheriff. Joined by Sir William Douglas (“the Hardy”), Wallace next marched on Scone, drove out the English justiciar, and attacked the English garrisons between the Rivers Forth and Tay. The Scottish steward, Robert the Bruce (later King Robert I), and others now gathered an army, but it was forced to surrender at Irvine by Sir Henry de Percy and Sir Robert de Clifford (July 1297). Wallace, however, remained in action “with a large company in the Forest of Selkirk,” according to a contemporary report made to Edward. Wallace laid siege to Dundee but abandoned it to oppose, with Andrew de Moray, an English army that was advancing toward Stirling under John de Warenne, earl of Surrey. | Wallace, William (I1646)
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| 1130 | With his parents and family, Amasa emigrated to Nova Scotia, Canada in the fall of 1761. His parents returned to New England some years later, but Amasa remained in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. He was married there 09 November 1773 to Rosina Cone, of whom we have no birthdate, but she was a daughter of Reuben and Nem Cone. Her name is variously given as Roxana and Rozina. Amasa is said to have died accidentally by going through the ice on his own mill-pond about 1805. | Bigelow, Amasa (I12473)
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| 1131 | yDNA HAPLOGROUP: (R-M269) R-FT62332 John Alden may be descended from an Alden family that was residing in the parish of Harwich, Essex, England: a family that was related, by marriage, to the Mayflower's master Christopher Jones. He was about twenty-one years old when he was hired from Southampton to be the cooper (barrel-maker) for the Mayflower's voyage to America. The Pilgrims' joint-stock company gave him the option to stay in America, or return to England. He chose to stay, and about 1622 or 1623 he married fellow Mayflower passenger Priscilla Mullins, an orphaned young woman originally from Dorking, Surrey, England, whose parents William and Alice, and brother Joseph, had all perished in the first winter at Plymouth. A fictional account of John and Priscilla Alden's courtship and its entanglement with Myles Standish, is the subject of the famous Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem, "The Courtship of Myles Standish". Likely a combination of his practical skills as a cooper and carpenter, and his young wife Priscilla's substantial inheritance of company shares, John Alden quickly rose up to become a prominent member of the Plymouth Colony. He was elected an assistant to the governor as early as 1631 and was regularly reelected. He was one of the men who purchased the joint-stock company from its English shareholders in 1626, and was involved in the company's trading on the Kennebec River. In 1634, he was involved in a fur trading dispute that escalated into a double-killing (trespasser John Hocking and Plymouth colonist Moses Talbot). He was held by the Massachusetts Bay Colony for questioning, which caused a major jurisdictional controversy as Plymouth Colony leadership felt the Bay Colony had no authority to detain him. John Alden, along with Myles Standish and several other Plymouth Colonists, founded the town of Duxbury to the north of Plymouth. Dendrochronological evidence suggests the men had started building their houses there as early as 1629. Alden served the town of Duxbury as deputy to the Plymouth Court throughout the 1640s, and served on several committees and sat on several Councils of War. He also served for a time as colony treasurer. About 1653, he built the Alden House, which is still standing and is maintained by the Alden Kindred of America. By the 1660s, John and Priscilla Alden had a growing family of ten children. Combined with his numerous public service duties (which were mostly unpaid positions) he was left in fairly low means. He petitioned and received from the Plymouth Court various land grants, which he distributed to his children throughout the 1670s. He died in 1687 at the age of 89, one of the last surviving Mayflower passengers. Two broadsides (predecessor of the newspaper) printed obituaries for John Alden, illustrated below. | Alden, John (I38200)
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| 1132 | yDNA HAPLOGROUP: E-M35 (E-FTC19215) Richard Warren's English origins and ancestry have been the subject of much speculation, and countless different ancestries have been published for him, without a shred of evidence to support them. Luckily in December 2002, Edward Davies discovered the missing piece of the puzzle. Researchers had long known of the marriage of Richard Warren to Elizabeth Walker on 14 April 1610 at Great Amwell, Hertford. Since we know the Mayflower passenger had a wife named Elizabeth, and a first child born about 1610, this was a promising record. But no children were found for this couple in the parish registers, and no further evidence beyond the names and timing, until the will of Augustine Walker was discovered. In the will of Augustine Walker, dated April 1613, he mentions "my daughter Elizabeth Warren wife of Richard Warren", and "her three children Mary, Ann and Sarah." We know that the Mayflower passenger's first three children were named Mary, Ann, and Sarah (in that birth order). Very little is known about Richard Warren's life in America. He came alone on the Mayflower in 1620, leaving behind his wife and five daughters. They came to him on the ship Anne in 1623, and Richard and Elizabeth subsequently had sons Nathaniel and Joseph at Plymouth. He received his acres in the Division of Land in 1623, and his family shared in the 1627 Division of Cattle. But he died a year later in 1628. The only record of his death is found in Nathaniel Morton's 1669 book New England's Memorial, in which he writes: "This year [1628] died Mr. Richard Warren, who was an useful instrument and during his life bare a deep share in the difficulties and troubles of the first settlement of the Plantation of New Plymouth." All of Richard Warren's children survived to adulthood, married, and had large families: making Richard Warren one of the most common Mayflower passengers to be descended from. Richard Warren's descendants include such notables as Civil War general and President Ulysses S. Grant; President Franklin D. Roosevelt; and Alan B. Shepard, Jr. the first American in space and the fifth person to walk on the moon. | Warren, Richard (I26485)
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| 1133 | yDNA HAPLOGROUP: I-M253 (I-A20032) George Soule's origins have not been discovered. The most promising record found to date is the baptism of a George Soule on 9 February 1595 at Tingrith, Bedford, son of William. However, recent DNA testing has now shown this Bedfordshire Soule family was not the direct ancestor of George Soule. Other Soule families using the name George can also be found in many other places counties across England in the 16th and 17th centuries. DNA testing has eliminated the predominant Soule families of Gloucester, Worcester, East and West Sussex, and Bedford. Louise Throop has published a reasonable hypothesis that George Soule may have been descendant of the Sol family of Leiden, who were involved in the printing press. George Soule came on the Mayflower as a servant to the Edward Winslow family, indicating he was under 25 years old at the time; however, he did sign the "Mayflower Compact," suggesting he was over 18, and probably over 21. This puts his birth year at around 1595-1602. This matches well with his apparent marriage date of around 1625 at Plymouth: by the May 1627 Division of Cattle, he was married to Mary [Beckett], and they had had one son, Zachariah. George Soule and family moved to Duxbury very early on, and he was a deputy to the Plymouth Court for a number of years beginning in 1642. He had volunteered for the Pequot War of 1637, but Plymouth's troops were not needed. He was on various committees, juries, and survey teams, during his life in Duxbury. In 1646, for example, he was appointed to the committee to deal with Duxbury's problem of the disorderly smoking of tobacco. George Soule made out his will on 11 August 1677, and added a codicil to it on 20 September 1677. The codicil is quite interesting as it gives a little insight into a family squabble between son John and daughter Patience: If my son John Soule above-named or his heirs or assigns or any of them shall at any time disturb my daughter Patience or her heirs or assigns or any of them in peaceable possession or enjoyment of the lands I have given her at Nemasket alias Middleboro and recover the same from her or her heirs or assigns or any of them; that then my gift to my son John Soule shall be void; and that then my will is my daughter Patience shall have all my lands at Duxbury and she shall be my sole executrix of this my last will and testament and enter into my housing lands and meadows at Duxbury. | Soule, George (I24658)
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| 1134 | yDNA HAPLOGROUP: I-M253 (I-FT1754) William Brewster was born about 1566, the son of William Brewster. He was educated in both Greek and Latin and spent some time at Cambridge University, although he never completed a full degree. He went into the service of William Davison, then Secretary of State, while his father back home maintained a position as the postmaster of Scrooby, Nottinghamshire. Under Davison, Brewster first traveled to the Netherlands. After Davison was removed as Secretary of State by Queen Elizabeth, Brewster worked himself into his father's postmaster duties and maintained Scrooby Manor. Brewster was instrumental in establishing a Separatist church with Richard Clyfton, and they often held their meetings in the Manor house. Brewster and the others were eventually found and forced out, and fleeing prosecution and persecution they headed to Amsterdam in 1608, and moved to Leiden, Holland in 1609. Brewster became the church's Elder, responsible for seeing that the congregation's members carried themselves properly, both helping and admonishing them when necessary. In Leiden, Brewster working with Thomas Brewer, Edward Winslow, and others, began working a printing press and publishing religious books and pamphlets that were then illegally conveyed into England. Brewster also employed himself teaching University of Leiden students English. By 1618, the English authorities were onto him and his printing press, and had the Dutch authorities in pursuit of him. Thomas Brewer was arrested and held in the University of Leiden's prison, but Brewster managed to evade the authorities and went into hiding for a couple years. When the Leiden church congregation decided to send the first wave of settlers to establish a colony that everyone could eventually move to, their pastor John Robinson decided to remain behind in Leiden with the majority of the congregation, intending to come later. The smaller group that went on the Mayflower desired the next highest ranking church official, Elder Brewster, to go with them; so he agreed. He brought his wife Mary and two youngest children, Love and Wrestling, on the Mayflower with him. Brewster continued his work as Church Elder throughout his life at Plymouth Colony. His wife Mary died in 1627, and he never remarried. He lived to be nearly 80 years old, dying in 1644. His estate inventory lists the titles of several hundred books that he owned. Shortly after he died, William Bradford wrote a short but concise biography of Brewster in his history Of Plymouth Plantation, though he erroneously filed it under 1643 instead of 1644. | Brewster, Elder William (I140)
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| 1135 | yDNA HAPLOGROUP: R-M269 (R-A9703) John Howland was born about 1599, probably in Fenstanton, Huntington. He came on the Mayflower in 1620 as a manservant of Governor John Carver. During the Mayflower's voyage, Howland fell overboard during a storm, and was almost lost at sea--but luckily for his millions of descendants living today (including Presidents George Bush and George W. Bush, and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt) he managed to grab hold of the topsail halyards, giving the crew enough time to rescue him with a boat-hook. It has been traditionally reported that John Howland was born about 1592, based on his reported age at death in the Plymouth Church Records. However, ages at death were often overstated, and that is clearly the case here. John Howland came as a servant for John Carver, which means he was under 25 years old at the time (i.e. he was born after 1595). William Bradford, in the falling-overboard incident, refers to Howland as a "lusty young man," a term that would not likely have applied to a 28-year old given that Bradford himself was only 30. Bradford did call 21-year old John Alden a "young man" though. Howland's wife Elizabeth was born in 1607: a 32-year old marrying a 17-year old is a relatively unlikely circumstance. Howland's last child was born in 1649: a 57-year old Howland would be an unlikely father. All these taken together demonstrate that Howland's age was likely overstated by at least 5 years. Since he signed the "Mayflower Compact", we can assume he was probably at least 18 to 21 years old in 1620. John Howland had several brothers who also came to New England, namely Henry Howland (an ancestor to both Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford) and Arthur Howland (an ancestor to Winston Churchill). | Howland, John Sr. of Fenstanton (I22792)
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| 1136 | yDNA HAPLOGROUP: R-M269 (R-FGC71615) Read "The Story of Stephen Hopkins of Jamestown and the Mayflower' What do Jamestowne, the Mayflower and Shakespeare have in common? The answer is Stephen Hopkins: a Jamestowne settler, Mayflower passenger and survivor of the wreck of the Sea Venture, reputed to be the basis for Shakespeare’s comedy, The Tempest. ------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen Hopkins was from Hampshire, England. He married his first wife, Mary, and resided in the parish of Hursley, Hampshire. They had their children Elizabeth, Constance, and Giles, all baptized there. It has long been claimed that the Hopkins family was from Wortley, Gloucester, but this was disproven in 1998 with the discovery of his true origins in Hursley. Stephen Hopkins went with the ship Sea Venture on a voyage to Jamestown, Virginia in 1609 as a minister's clerk, but the ship wrecked in the "Isle of Devils" (Bermuda). Stranded on an island for ten months, the passengers and crew survived on turtles, birds, and wild pigs. Six months into the castaway, Stephen Hopkins and several others organized a mutiny against the current governor. The mutiny was discovered and Stephen was sentenced to death. However, he pleaded with sorrow and tears. "So penitent he was, and made so much moan, alleging the ruin of his wife and children in this his trespass, as it wrought in the hearts of all the better sorts of the company". He managed to get his sentence commuted. Eventually the castaways built a small ship and sailed themselves to Jamestown. How long Stephen remained in Jamestown is not known. However, while he was gone, his wife Mary died. She was buried in Hursley on 9 May 1613, and left behind a probate estate which mentions her children Elizabeth, Constance and Giles. Stephen was back in England by 1617, when he married Elizabeth Fisher, but apparently had every intention of bringing his family back to Virginia. Their first child, Damaris, was born about 1618. In 1620, Stephen Hopkins brought his wife, and children Constance, Giles, and Damaris on the Mayflower (child Elizabeth apparently had died). Stephen was a fairly active member of the Pilgrim group shortly after arrival, perhaps a result of his being one of the few individuals who had been to Virginia previously. He was a part of all the early exploring missions, and was used as an "expert" on Native Americans for the first few contacts. While out exploring, Stephen recognized and identified an Indian deer trap. And when Samoset walked into Plymouth and welcomed the English, he was housed in Stephen Hopkins' house for the night. Stephen was also sent on several of the ambassadorial missions to meet with the various Indian groups in the region. Stephen was an assistant to the governor through 1636, and volunteered for the Pequot War of 1637 but was never called to serve. By the late 1630s, however, Stephen began to occasionally run afoul of the Plymouth authorities, as he apparently opened up a shop and served alcohol. In 1636 he got into a fight with John Tisdale and seriously wounded him. In 1637, he was fined for allowing drinking and shuffleboard playing on Sunday. Early the next year he was fined for allowing people to drink excessively in his house: guest William Reynolds was fined, but the others were acquitted. In 1638 he was twice fined for selling beer at twice the actual value, and in 1639 he was fined for selling a looking glass for twice what it would cost if bought in the Bay Colony. Also in 1638, Stephen Hopkins' maidservant got pregnant from Arthur Peach, who was subsequently executed for murdering an Indian. The Plymouth Court ruled he was financially responsible for her and her child for the next two years (the amount remaining on her term of service). Stephen, in contempt of court, threw Dorothy out of his household and refused to provide for her, so the court committed him to custody. John Holmes stepped in and purchased Dorothy's remaining two years of service from him: agreeing to support her and child. Stephen died in 1644, and made out a will, asking to be buried near his wife, and naming his surviving children. | Hopkins, Stephen (I116)
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| 1137 | Yolande de Chiftillon or Yolande de Nevers , who died in 1254, is Countess of Nevers , Tonnerre and Auxerre from 1250 to 1254 of her own right, and Dame de Bourbon by her marriage. She married Archambaud IX, Lord of Bourbon and Dampierre, of whom she has two daughters: Mathilde (c. 1234-1262), married in 1248 to Eudes of Burgundy , son of Hugh IV of Burgundy , Agnes (1237-1287), married in 1248 to John of B urg u n d y ( b rother of Eudes), then in 1277 to Robert II, count of Artois. | Chatillon, Yolande (I7520)
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| 1138 | _SUBQ: Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 _BIBL: Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898. _TMPLT: _SUBQ: Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 _BIBL: Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898. _TMPLT: _SUBQ: Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 _BIBL: Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898. _TMPLT: | Source (S181)
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