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Ahnentafel of Winifred Woodruff Whitehouse Rogers
1. Winifred Woodruff WHITEHOUSE, daughter of Charles Austin Whitehouse and Josephine Henry Woodruff, was born on 7 May 1902 in New York and died in Maryland on 24 Dec 1989. She married Joel Townsley Rogers on 28 Feb 1924 in New York. Their children were
2. Charles Austin WHITEHOUSE, son of George Meredith Whitehouse and Helen Ostrander, was born on 19 Aug 1868 and died on 1 November 1935. He married Josephine Henry Woodruff on 18 June 1898. Their children:
3. Josephine Henry WOODRUFF, daughter of Edward Lowrey Woodruff and Mariana Bateman, was born on 26 September 1877. She married Charles Austin Whitehouse on 18 June 1898. She died on 22 December 1937 and was buried at Ewing Church Cemetery, north of Trenton, New Jersey.
4. George Meredith WHITEHOUSE, son of Edward Whitehouse and Julia Eliza Cammann, was born on 8 May 1844. He married Helen Ostrander on 20 November 1867 in Brooklyn, New York. He died on 5 June 1906 in Frankfort, Germany, and was buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
5. Helen OSTRANDER, daughter of Dr. Ferdinand William Ostrander and Sarah Ann Wright, was born on 8 March 1843 in New Brighton, New York. She married George Meredith Whitehouse on 20 November 1867 in Brooklyn, New York. Their children:
6. Edward Lowrey WOODRUFF, the son of Israel Carle Woodruff and Caroline Augusta Mayhew, was born on 8 October 1851. MS [cut off -- could it be "US"?] Light House Service 1872-1924. Note in Whitehouse family tree says:
Reg. Soc. Col. Wars. 1899-192. 9th in descent from Gov. Thomas Mayhew.
8th " " " Tristram Coffin.
8th " " " John Woodruff.
8th " " " John Jenney.
7th " " " Thomas Pope.
6th " " " Ephraim Hunt.
John Howland.
Christopher Hussey.
He married Mariana Bateman on 25 August 1875 in Saint Stephen's Church, Portland, Maine, and he died on 1 April 1943.
7. Mariana BATEMAN, daughter of John Frederick Bateman and Lucy Jane Barbour (Barber?), was born on 8 April 1849 and died on 10 July 1937. She married Edward Lowrey Woodruff on 25 August 1875 in Saint Stephen's Church, Portland, Maine. Children:
8. Edward WHITEHOUSE, son of James Whitehouse and Eliza Higgs Norman, was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 16 November 1805 and died on 19 March 1886. He married Julia Eliza Cammann on 24 July 1828 in New York.
9. Julia Eliza CAMMANN, daughter of Charles Louis Cammann and Maria-Margaretta Oswold, was born on 21 May 1806. She married Edward Whitehouse on 24 July 1828 in New York. Their children:
10. Dr. Ferdinand William OSTRANDER, son of Dr. Ezekiel Ostrander and Sarah Ostrander Creed, was born on 4 June 1804 and died on 29 January 1895. He married Sarah Ann Wright. Their children:
11. Sarah Ann WRIGHT, daughter of John Wright and Elizabeth ____?, married Dr. Ferdinand William Ostrander. She died on 24 February 1890.
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(photos from the William Green Farmhouse website) -- evidently in Trenton, New Jersey, not on Staten Island as my mother's records indicated. |
12. Israel Carle WOODRUFF, a colonel in the Corps of Engineers and brigadier general in the US army, was the son of Dr. Thomas Lowrey Woodruff and Anna Carle. He was born on 11 August 1815 [sic in Win's records, but the gravestone says 22 August], and married Caroline Augusta Mayhew on 7 September 1840 in Buffalo, New York. He died on 10 December 1878 in New Brighton, Staten Island.
According to the website for the William Green Farmhouse, Israel inherited the 200-acre farm in Ewing, New Jersey, that had been owned first by his great-grandfather.
Here is an article about General Woodruff from the six-volume Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, published by D. Appleton and Company in 1887-1889:
Somewhere on the internet I saw that a great-great-great-great-granddaughter of General Woodruff's named Kate Miller represents the seventh generation of his family to be graduated from West Point.)Israel Carle Woodruff WOODRUFF, Israel Carle, soldier, born in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1815; died in Tompkinsville, New York, 10 December, 1878. He was graduated at the United States military academy in 1836, became 1st lieutenant of topographical engineers in 1842, and was superintending topographical engineer of the survey of the Creek boundary in 1850-'1. He then engaged in reconnoissances of military roads to the South Pass of the Rocky mountains and to New Mexico, was subsequently engineer and inspector of light-houses on the great lakes, and in 1853 became captain of topographical engineers for fourteen years' continuous service. He was assistant to the chief topographical engineer at Washington, D. C., in 1857-'63, became major in that branch of the service in August, 1861, and from 1863 until his death was assistant to the chief engineer at Washington. In that capacity he was engaged in the defence of Washington against the advance of General Jubal A. Early in July, 1864. He became lieutenant-colonel of engineers in August of the same year, and was a member of the board of examination of engineer officers in 1864-'5. On 13 March, 1865, he was brevetted colonel, United States army, "for faithful and meritorious services in the corps of engineers," and brigadier-general in the same "for meritorious services during the civil war."
13. Caroline Augusta MAYHEW, daughter of Jonathan Mayhew and Elizabeth Cooke, was born on 19 July 1822. She married Israel Carle Woodruff on 7 September 1840 in Buffalo, New York. Children:
14. John Frederick BATEMAN, son of Joseph Frederick Bateman and Mary Wise, was born on 24 September 1822 and died on 24 September 1899. He married Lucy Jane Barbour on 7 September 1847. Children:
15. Lucy Jane BARBOUR, second daughter of John Barbour and Jane Moses Morse, was born on 8 December 1828. She married John Frederick Bateman on 7 September 1847. She died on 9 February 1860.
16. James WHITEHOUSE, son of Isaac Whitehouse and Sarah Meredith, was born on 22 January 1767 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, and died on 20 July 1854 in Rye, New York. He married Eliza Higgs Norman on 4 June 1801 in Taunton, England. Their children:
17. Eliza Higgs NORMAN, daughter of Rev. George Norman and Christina ____?, was born in 1775. She married James Whitehouse on 4 June 1801 in Taunton, England. She died on 27 February 1835.
18. Charles Louis CAMMANN was born on 26 September 1758 in [L]oxdedt, Kingdom of Hannover. He married Maria-Margaretta Oswold on 26 May 1791. According to my niece Debbie, "The Cammanns owned the land that the NY Stock Exchange sits on, and Charles Louis Cammann was one of the original 34 stockbrokers that formed the exchange." On the internet, indeed, I found for sale the original vellum conveyance (dated 3 Feb 1800) of the property at 22 Broad Street from Charles and Elizabeth Clarkson to Charles Louis Cammann for $17,500. (The framed vellum conveyance is for sale at $12,500.) Cammann died on 5 December 1805. (At Trinity Cemetery in Manhattan there is a tombstone that says only Cammann; whether it was his, the family's, or one of his children's, I don't know.)
19. Maria-Margaretta OSWOLD, daughter of Philip Jacob Oswold and Catherine Hone, was born on 13 January 1774 and married Charles Louis Cammann on 26 May 1791. He died when she was thirty, still pregnant with Julia Eliza, and she was left to raise eight children on her own:
20. Dr. Ezekiel OSTRANDER, son of Wilhelmus Ostrander and Sarah Relyea, was born on 28 October 1778 and died on 23 May 1860 (according to Phoebe Meredith Frey's online genealogy). He married Sarah Ostrander Creed.
21. Sarah Ostrander CREED married Dr. Ezekiel Ostrander.
22. John WRIGHT married Elizabeth ____?.
23. Elizabeth ____? married John Wright.
24. Dr. Thomas Lowrey WOODRUFF, son of Aaron Dickinson Woodruff and Grace Lowrey, was born on 11 April 1790 and died on 8 March 1851 in Trenton, New Jersey. He was a graduate of Princeton University and was president of the Trenton Bank from 1826 to 1832. He married Anna [Ann Eliza] Carle on 6 April 1814.
25. Anna Eliza CARLE, daughter of Israel Carle and Lydia Green, was born on 12 October 1795 and died on 10 February 1849 in Trenton. She married Dr. Thomas Lowrey Woodruff on 6 April 1814. Children:
26. Jonathan MAYHEW, the son of William Mayhew and Lucy Mayhew, was born on 11 June 1789. He married Elizabeth Cooke on 20 October 1816. Their children:
27. Elizabeth COOKE, daughter of Thomas Cooke and Elizabeth Mayhew, was born on 5 March 1792. She married Jonathan Mayhew on 20 October 1816. She died on 21 July 1887. (Note in Whitehouse family tree says "c/o Savage History of Cambridge, p. 429.")
28. Joseph Frederick BATEMAN, the son of John Frederick Bateman, was born in 1800. He married Mary Wise in 1819 or 1820. Their children:
29. Mary WISE was born in London, England, on 21 March 1799. She married Joseph Frederick Bateman in 1819 or 1820. She died in Portland, Maine, in September 1896.
30. John BARBOUR, the son of John Barbour (Barber?) Jr and Anna Huston Willson, was born on 12 October 1801. He married Jane Moses Morse on 1 June 1826. They had thirteen children:
It is unclear from the Whitehouse family tree whether the last name is "Barbour" or "Barber." A partial note in Whitehouse family tree to the left of John's name says "(1864-70)," but I don't know what that refers to. He died in 1876.
31. Jane Moses MORSE, daughter of Ephraim Morse and Rachel Noyes, was born on 13 February 1806. She married John Barbour on 1 June 1826. She died in 1881.
32. Isaac WHITEHOUSE was born in England and was 90 when he died. He married Sarah Meredith in Birmingham, England, in 1760.
According to the online "Pedigree for Phoebe Meredith Frey" (a first cousin I never met, though she and Winibee were very close), he was the son of Isaac Whitehouse and Jane Hill, was born on 17 May 1745, and died in 1830. (That birth year, however, seems improbable if his eldest child was born in 1761.)
The place of marriage comes to me by email from Bob Whitehouse, who wrote "I have at last found the marriage of my ancestor Isaac Whitehouse and
Sarah
Meredith at Birmingham 1760."
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33. Sarah MEREDITH, who lived to be 88, was the daughter of John Meredith and Phoebe ____? She married Isaac Whitehouse in 1760 in Birmingham, England. Their children:
34. Rev. George NORMAN, rector of Staple Grove near Taunton, Somersetshire, England, died on 10 July 1798. He married Christina ____? Their children:
35. Christina ____? was born in 1740 and died on 13 September 1796. She married the Rev. George Norman.
38. Philip Jacob OSWOLD, native of Swabia, Germany, was born in 1738 or 1739 and died on 22 March 1805 at 66 years of age. He married Catherine Hone. Their children:
39. Catherine HONE, daughter of Samuel Hone and ________?, was born in 1748. She married Philip Jacob Oswold. She died on 22 September 1822.
40. Wilhelmus OSTRANDER, son of Henry Ostrander and Elizabeth ____?, married Sarah Relyea.
41. Sarah RELYEA, daughter of Denis (Dene) Relyea, married Wilhelmus Ostrander
48. Aaron Dickinson WOODRUFF, the attorney general of New Jersey, was the son of Elias Woodruff and Mary Joline. He was born on 12 September 1762 and married Grace Lowrey on 14 September 1786. Children:
Aaron Dickinson Woodruff was born at Elizabeth, N. J., Sept. 12, 1762. He was a nephew of Sir Patrick De Cou. He graduated at Princeton, and was the valedictorian of his class, in 1779; was admitted to the bar in 1784, and acquired a very respectable standing among eminent competitors. In 1791 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly from Hunterdon county; and in 1793 he received the appointment of Attorney General of New Jersey. This office he held, except for a short period in 1811, to the end of his life. He died June 24, 1817, at the house of his brother-in-law, Robert C. Thomson, of Changewater, N. J. He and Grace Lowrey, his wife, had five children: (1) Thomas Lowrey Woodruff; (2) Elias De Cou Woodruff; (3) Susan Schenck Woodruff; (4) Esther Mary Woodruff; (5) Aaron Ogden Woodruff.
49. Grace LOWREY, daughter of Thomas Lowrey and Esther Fleming, was born on 28 February 1766. She married Aaron Dickinson Woodruff on 14 September 1786, and died on 23 June 1815 at Trenton, New Jersey.
50. Israel CARLE, the son of Jacob Carle and Elizabeth Welling, was born on 1 October 1757 and died on 7 July 1822. Major, Hunterden Light Horse, 1777. (According to an 1892 book on Thomas Lowrey and his descendants, he "was Captain of a Troop of Light Horse in the Revolution.") He married Lydia Green (his second wife) in 1794 (?).
A note by Winifred Whitehouse Rogers says: "Israel Carle first married Elizabeth Stevens? Whose portrait in the Corcoran was painted by Matthew Pratt (1734-1805)." [References on Carle page: "Thompson Hist Long Isd. Vol. 1, page 19."]
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The graves of their daughter, Anna, her husband, and their daughter Lydia are to the immediate right. |
51. Lydia GREEN, the daughter of William Green and Phoebe Moore, was born in 1772. She married Israel Carle in 1794, and they had one child, Anna, in 1795.
According to the website for the William Green Farmhouse, the date of Lydia's death is uncertain, but it was evidently sometime after 1836, "when she is mentioned as being alive by her mother, Phebe Green, in her widow's pension application."
52. William MAYHEW, son of Matthew Mayhew and Phoebe Manning, was born in October 1748 and died in December 1840. He married Lucy Mayhew on 31 December 1772.
53. Lucy MAYHEW, daughter of Dr. Zaccheus Mayhew and Rebecca Pope, was born on 25 April 1753. She married William Mayhew on 31 December 1772.
54. Thomas COOKE, son of Thomas Cooke Sr. and Abigail Coffin, was born on 20 June 1769 (1762?) and died in 1853 or 1852. He married Elizabeth Mayhew on 15 August 1790.
55. Elizabeth MAYHEW, daughter of Matthew Mayhew and Phoebe Manning, was born in February 1771 and married Thomas Cooke on 15 August 1790. (I've taken Elizabeth's genealogy from this internet source: The History of Martha's Vineyard by Dr. Charles Banks: Volume III Family Genealogies: pp. 298 - 328.)
56. John Frederick BATEMAN, the son of Joel Bateman, had nine children. He was buried in London, England.
60. John BARBOUR (BARBER?) Jr, the son of John Barbour (Barber?) and Mary Noyes, was born on 25 April 1774. He married Anna Huston Willson on 13 March 1794.
61. Anna Huston WILLSON, daughter of Nathaniel Willson and Anna Huston, was born on 21 February 1773. She married John Barbour (Barber?) Jr on 13 March 1794.
62. Ephraim MORSE, the son of Anthony Morse and Hannah Merrill, was born on 26 July 1764. He married Rachel Noyes on 27 November 1791, and they had seven children. He died on 9 October 1843 and was buried at Falmouth.
63. Rachel NOYES , the daughter of Timothy Noyes and Sarah Thombs, was born on 10 March 1771. She married Ephraim Morse on 27 November 1791 and died in 1847.
64. Isaac WHITEHOUSE, who was born in 1717, married Jane Hill on 25 May 1743 in St. Philips, Warwick.(This is according to the online family tree of my first cousin Phoebe Meredith Frey, which got its information from my niece Debbie Krauss.)
65. Jane HILL married Isaac Whitehouse on 25 May 1743 in St. Philips, Warwick. They were the parents of Isaac Whitehouse.
66. John MEREDITH, who was lineally descended from the second son of Owen Meredith, 1415, married Phoebe ____? in 1735. Their children:
67. Phoebe ____? married John Meredith in 1735.
78. Samuel HONE, formerly Hahn from Germany about 1730 to 1740 [sic in Win's family tree -- meaning he came to America around then?]. Children:
80. Henry OSTRANDER of Kingston, New York, was the son of Jan Ostrander. He married Elizabeth Van Bommel of Wambom [?], Kingston, New York.
81. Elizabeth Van BOMMEL of Wambom [?], Kingston, New York, married Henry Ostrander of Kingston, New York.
Elizabeth's last name came to me in a September 2001 email from Terence Kelley, who wrote:
"I have the ancestors of Henry in my copy of the Ostrander book, published 2 years ago. If you wish the information, I would be happy to send it to you.
"The reference to 'Jan Ostrander' and 'Edict Of Nantes' has been replaced by a more workable theory of the Ostranders in North America.
"Pieter Ostrander married Rebecca Traphagen in 1679 in Kingston NY. All Ostranders descend from this marriage in 1679."
82. Denis (Dene) RELYEA, who married Jeanne Elizabeth (Jannetje) Le Roy, was born around 1678 and died in 1725.
Denis Relyea's birth and death dates and the name of his wife (and her french lineage back a couple of generations) came to me via an email from Mark Relyea,
who came across this page on the internet — and who I suppose must be a sixth cousin or so.
Another email, however, came from William Post, also a distant cousin, who wrote: "I came across a tree in ancestry.com. It is owned by Theresa Gaskell (bobandterryg@hotmail.com). She has information that shows Dennis Relyea was born 1674 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, and died 1740 same place."
83. Jeanne Elizabeth (Jannetje) LE ROY, the daughter of Simeon Le Roy and Claudina Dechalets, was born on 28 March 1679 in St. Joseph, Charleborg, Quebec, Canada. She married Denis (Dene) Relyea. She died at 40 years of age in 1720.
96. Elias WOODRUFF, the fourth son of David Woodruff and Eunice Ward, was born in March 1738 in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. He married Mary Joline on 21 November 1761 at the Westfield Presbyterian Church. According to the Daughters of the American Revolution, he served in the Revolutionary War as commissary of military stores of State Troops. He died in 1801 in Trenton, New Jersey.
97. Mary JOLINE, the daughter of Andrew Joline, was born on 5 Dec 1741 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and died on 21 Aug 1815. She married Elias Woodruff on 21 Nov 1761. Children:
98. Thomas LOWREY was born in Ireland on 3 September 1737. (According to the Fleming Family History website, he "came to America in 1747 at the age of 10 with his widowed mother and her brothers.") He married Esther Fleming in 1756. He died on 10 November 1806 and was buried in Milford, Pennsylvania.
According to the Fleming Family History website,
Thomas became a landowner when he was only 13 years of age. He purchased 650 square feet of land from his future father-in-law Samuel. He eventually became a successful shopkeeper on that same spot in Flemington. He went on to become a member of the Provincial Congress, was commissioned a Lieutenant Colonel in the third regiment of the State Militia, promoted to Colonel, and served as a State Legislator in New Jersey.According to that website, "Thomas passed away in 1809 in Alexandria Township where they move to in 1785 after selling their land in Flemington."
It is said that Esther and Thomas were very loyal supporters of the American Revolution. Once it is said that Esther, upon hearing of an American disaster, rushed to her husband with the news and saying, "Thomas, get up and mount the old mare and ride as fast as you can and find if the dum ly is true!" In 1780, when the American army's scarcity of supplies caused great hardships, Esther was chosen to be a member of a committee of women whose goal was to seek contributions for the relief of the soldiers. They raised $15,408.00 in twelve days.
Esther and Thomas also donated the land for the Baptist Meetinghouse in Flemington which was the first church in the town.
99. Esther FLEMING, the daughter of Samuel Fleming and Elizabeth Mounier, was born on 15 April 1739 and died on 13 October 1814. She married Thomas Lowrey in 1756. Among their children (listed in Henry Race's 1892 Historico-Genealogical Sketch of Thomas Lowrey) were:
My info shows that Col. Thomas Lowrey ..an officer in the New Jersey Militia..an intimate friend of G. Washington..member of provincial congress..Commissary of Washington who kept his provisions in his own store. Cornwallis at Trenton raided this store with the double purpose of capturing Col. Lowrey as well as securing the provisions. Mrs. Lowrey, (Esther Fleming) ..in 1789 was one of the matrons in charge of ceremonies at Trenton of Gen. Washington's reception. Her dtr Mary was one of the 13 lovely young girls who strewed flowers before him as they sang: Welcome Mighty Chief. .. Does any of this coincide with any info you have? I have no documentation but do have a picture. This family story came from a great aunt who handed down tree to my father in law.This is confirmed by William S. Stryker in his 1882 monograph, Washington’s Reception by the People o f New Jersey in 1789:
The ladies who planned the celebration and who met Washington at the bridge were Mrs. Susannah Armstrong, wife of Rev. James F. Armstrong, Mrs. Mary Borden, Mrs. Susannah Calhoun, Mrs. Elizabeth Chambers, Mrs. Esther Cox, Mrs. Mary Dickinson, Mrs. Elizabeth Ewing, Mrs. Sarah Furman, Mrs. Susannah Gordon, Mrs. Mary Hanna, Mrs. Sarah How, Mrs. Keziah B. Howell, Mrs. Mary Hunt, Mrs. Esther Lowrey, Mrs. Sarah Milnor, Mrs. Ann Richmond, Mrs. Mary Smith, Mrs. Rachel Stevens, Mrs. Annis Stockton, Mrs. Catherine Stockton, Mrs. Jane Tate and Mrs. Grace Woodruff.You can see one engraving of this 1789 reception at historyproject.ucdavis.edu/khapp.php?SlideNum=1334 and another at scc.rutgers.edu/njwomenshistory/Period_2/washington.htm.
The thirteen young ladies who represented the several States were Miss Eleanor Armstrong, Miss Elizabeth Borden, Miss Elizabeth Cadwalader, Miss Catherine Calhoun, Miss Esther Cox, Miss Mary Cox, Miss Mary Dickinson, Miss Maria Furman, Miss Mary C. Keen, Miss Mary Lowrey, Miss Maria Meredith, Miss Sarah Moore and Miss Margaret Tate.
100. Jacob CARLE, the son of Jacob Carle and Miriam Williams, was born on 29 March 1727. (Note in Whitehouse family tree says "Captain N. J. Archives Vol. VII, p. 421 May 13, 1747.") He married Elizabeth Welling. He died on 23 November 1800 on his farm in Ewing, New Jersey, and was buried at Hopewell, New Jersey.
According to the website for the William Green Farmhouse,
The Carle Farm was bordered by the roads currently known as Lower Ferry, Upper Ferry, Carlton and Scotch. [It] surrounded the current church office. It was bordered by Upper Ferry Road and Lower Ferry Roads, Carlton Avenue and Scotch Road. According to Joseph Felcone, this was part of the first individual parcel of Ewing land to be deeded by the West New Jersey Society. It was conveyed to Henry Bell from Thomas Revell, agent for the society. This 200 acre tract consisted of all of the Carle farm and a portion of the farm later known as the Thomas Alonzo Howell farm.That website also says Carle was an elder in the Ewing Presbyterian Church in 1771. It quotes the History of the Presbyterian Church in Trenton, N.J. (J. Hall, 1859): "Thus May 6, 1771, Samuel Hill and Ebenezer Cowell were chosen 'Elders for the [Trenton congregation]'; Jabob Carle, John Howell, and Timothy Hendrickson, 'for [the Ewing congregation].'" (This Ebenezer Cowell, who had been born in Wrentham, Massachusetts, in 1716, was almost certainly an ancestor of my mother's beloved art teacher and friend Joseph Cowell and my own dear friend Mark Cowell.)
101. Elizabeth Welling, the daughter of John Welling, was born on 3 June 1730 and died on 22 May 1801. She married Jacob Carle. Their children were:
102. William GREEN III, son of William Green II and Lydia Armitage, was born in 1743 in Trenton, Hunterdon, New Jersey. He married Phoebe Moore in 1772 in Hopewell, New Jersey. He died in 1815.
The following extensive quote comes from the website for the William Green Farmhouse:
"I married Phebe Moore, daughter of Samuel & Rebecca Moore. Rebecca was a daughter of my uncle Richard Green, and, therefore, my first cousin. Our son Samuel M. Green was named after Samuel Moore. Phebe and I married in 1772. The Rev. John Guild performed the ceremony in the Moore's Hopewell home.
"I served in the American War, first as a private in Capt. Mott's Hunterdon Militia. I helped lead the Contintental Army to the Battle of Trenton. That battle turned the tide of the war, but it sure ruined Christmas that year, especially for the Hessians! My knowledge of the Trenton area played an important part in planning the attack on Trenton. I was a member of the First Regiment and also served under Captains George Green and Robert Hoops.
William's Grave Phebe's Grave
William was a deacon of Trenton First Presbyterian Church (Now Ewing Church); he, his wife, and all of their children are buried in the Ewing Presbyterian Church Graveyard.
"At various times in during the American War, the Light Horse of Washington's Army billetted on my plantation. My neighbors Joshua Furman and Robert Laning were also in the Hunterdon militia. I enlisted at the start of the war in 1776. Robert and I went out together on draughts and on campaigns. There were two divisions in the Hunterdon unit. We took turns going out on a rotating, monthly basis. Whenever Robert and I were away, his family moved in with mine. I enlisted as a private, was eventually promoted to Ensign, then Lieutenant. I was at Mercer's Mills, Amboy, Blazing Star, Smiths Farm, The Battle of Monmouth, Staten Island, Elizabethtown and other places.
"I was also among the number of Hunterdon men who were there at the crossing of the Delaware. The crossing took longer than expected, due to ice chunks in the river, and it was well after 3 AM on the 26th before all 2500 of the troops were across the river, to the New Jersey side. After crossing the Delaware on Christmas Night, 1776, the Colonial Army marched east toward Pennington. The foot soldiers were preceded by cavalry and three mounted guides from Ewing & Hopewell.
"When the foot soldiers reached Bear Tavern, General Sullivan's men turned south, down what is now Bear Tavern Road. Among his troops was Capt Mott's Hunterdon Militia- my home unit. Their route brought them to Trenton, past Rose Hill, the Reeder Farm, in Birmingham (West Trenton). The others, under the command of General Greene, accompanied by General Washington, continued east toward Pennington, heading south on the Pennington Road. This road had been laid out in 1700 and was resurveyed in 1741. It was the "Middle Road", that came to be known later as the Trenton-Pennington Road or Rogers Road.), passing within shouting distance of the Green Farm, which I was managing. (Some sources say that the forces divided at Birmingham, and that General Greene accompanied Sullivan, while Washington led the troops to the east, down Scotch Rd [now Parkway Avenue at that point], then Pennington Road.)
"Among our company was an artillery station, under the charge of Lt. James Munroe. Lt. Monroe started the Battle of Trenton, by storming the Hessian outpost in the Howell house, just north of Five Points. He received a rifle ball to the artery of his arm, and nearly bled to death. He lived to be President of the USA. Lt. Monroe and his captain were the only two Colonial men wounded in that battle."
"I also fought at The Battle of Monmouth. A bronze plaque at the west end of the old Green House commemorates my serving under General George Washington. A plaque also sits at the base of my tombstone, commemorating my service in the War of Independence. Nearby, similar plaques can be found on the graves of my cousin William R. Green (my uncle Richard's son), my kinsman Lt. Andrew Reeder (my cousin, who was also a great uncle of my grandson Henry P. Green's wife, Virginia Reeder), on the grave of my daughter Lydia's husband, Capt Israel Carle, and on many other Reeder graves in the cemetery. Israel's father Jacob was an elder of Ewing Church, and a friend of my father, William Green II, who was one of the corporators of Trenton First Church (now Ewing Church).
"My cousin Charles, son of John, was a Loyalist. He was captured at The Battle of Princetonand arrested as a traitor. He escaped and fled to Canada.
"My brother, Rev. Enoch Green, was a chaplain in the Colonial Army. He served under General Washington at Fort Washington, and died in December of 1776 from the camp fever."
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"It was expected that before midnight the force would be over the river, not a thousand feet wide at that place; but for nine weary hours they toiled and struggled resolutely with the floating ice cakes, and it was after three o'clock before the last man reached the shore of New Jersey... Tradition gives us the names of some of the prominent men of Hopewell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, who did good service on that eventful night. Among these were [eighteen or so names are then listed, including] William Green, of Captain Henry Phillips's company"- p 138 (Stryker)
103. Phoebe MOORE, the daughter of Samuel Moore, was born around 1752 and died on 16 February 1837. She married William Green in 1772 at her father's home in Hopewell, New Jersey. Children:
104. Matthew MAYHEW, son of Micajah Mayhew and Sarah Ripley, married Phoebe Manning. Their children included
105. Phoebe MANNING, daughter of William Manning and Hannah Gorham, was born in 1729? She married Matthew Mayhew. (Manning-Howland authorities listed in Whitehouse family tree: "Manning Family -- Misc -- Families No. 10. Hussey Hist. Hampton N.H. Gorham Barnstable familes p. 417. Genl. Notes Barnstable, 426. Austin's Allied Families.") [Same as 111.]
106. Dr. Zaccheus MAYHEW, the son of Colonel Zaccheus Mayhew and Susannah Wade, was born in 1722 and died on 11 July 1775. He married Rebecca Pope.
107. Rebecca POPE, daughter of Lemuel Pope and Elizabeth Hunt, was born on 17 November 1727 and died on 22 November 1767. She married Dr. Zaccheus Mayhew.
108. Thomas COOKE Sr., the son of Temple Phillips Cooke, was born on 7 October 1739 and died on 2 December 1820. He served in the Revolutionary Army in 1776, the Cambridge quota. He married Abigail Coffin on 19 May 1763.
109. Abigail COFFIN, daughter of Enoch Coffin and Jane Claghorn, was born on 27 July 1744 and died on 30 December 1837. She married Thomas Cooke Sr. on 19 May 1763. They had these children:
110. Matthew MAYHEW. [Same as 104.]
111. Phoebe MANNING. [Same as 105.]
112. Joel BATEMAN is buried in London, England.
120. John BARBOUR (Barber?), the son of James Barbour (Barber?) and Mary Nelson, was a lieutenant in the Coast Defense (Mass. Archives). He married Mary Noyes on 7 April 1767.
121. Mary NOYES, daughter of Joseph Noyes, married John Barbour (Barber?). on 7 April 1767. They had these children:
122. Nathaniel WILLSON, the son of Gowan Willson, was born on 17 May 1742. He married Anna Huston on 22 May 1762.
123. Anna HUSTON was born on 19 January 1740/1745. She married Nathaniel Willson on 22 May 1762.
124. Anthony MORSE, who is listed in the Whitehouse family tree as "Farmer, Weaver, Doctor, Deacon of 1st Church," was the son of Joseph Morse and Rebecca Adams. He was born on 22 September 1722 at Newbury, Massachusetts, and married Hannah Merrill on 26 February 1743 at Falmouth, Maine. (Whitehouse family tree says "Second marriage July 1, 1794, to Mrs. Susannah Wallace Jones [two sons].") He died in 1806 and was buried at Falmouth.
125. Hannah MERRILL, daughter of John Merrill and Ann Knight, was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, on 19 May 1726. She married Anthony Morse on 26 February 1743 at Falmouth, Maine.
126. Timothy NOYES, the son of Nehemiah Noyes and Ann (Anna) Stickney, was born around 1753 and died in March 1842. He married Sarah Thombs.
127. Sarah THOMBS married Timothy Noyes and was the mother of Rachel Noyes.
160. Jan OSTRANDER. Born in 1664? Died in 1724?
A note on the Ostranders in the Whitehouse family tree says: "Jan Ostrander who probably lived between 1664 and 1724 was a Huguenot from Holland and came to America with many others after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes 1685 and settled in Kingston, NY."
At the bottom of the Ostrander page in the Whitehouse family tree is written: "Note by G. M. W. [George Meredith Whitehouse]. This record is very imperfect and incorrect, I have written a full record of Ostrander in form of a chart." The chart, however, is nowhere to be found.
In a September 2001 email, Terence Kelley wrote:
"I have the ancestors of Henry in my copy of the Ostrander book, published 2 years ago. If you wish the information, I would be happy to send it to you.If this is true, my parents were sixth cousins once removed (that is, Winifred Whitehouse Rogers would have been the sixth cousin of Bertha Townsley, my father's mother) related through their common Ostrander ancestors.
"The reference to 'Jan Ostrander' and 'Edict Of Nantes' has been replaced by a more workable theory of the Ostranders in North America.
"Pieter Ostrander married Rebecca Traphagen in 1679 in Kingston NY. All Ostranders descend from this marriage in 1679."
161. ________? married Jan Ostrander.
166. Simeon LE ROY, son of Richard Le Roy and Gillette Jacquette, was born on 1 October 1637 in Creaces, Coutances, Normandy, France. He married Claudina Dechalets (probably his second wife, according to Mark Relyea, who sent me this information.) He died in Charlesbourg, Quebec, Canada, on 26 August 1685.
167. Claudina DECHALETS, daughter of Francois Dechalets and Jacquette Chevallereau, was born in 1651 in Fonteny Le Comte, Poitou, France. She married Simeon Le Roy. She died in Charlesbourg, Quebec, Canada, in 1691, at 40 years of age.
192. David WOODRUFF, sixth son of John (Woodroffe) and Sarah Cooper, was born in 1692-1694. According to an internet source, he was born on 27 Feb 1688 in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. He married Eunice Ward sometime before 1720. He died in Elizabethtown on 2 July 1749. His will was proved on 12 July 1749.
193. Eunice WARD, the daughter of Nathaniel Ward and Sarah Harrison, was born in 1696 at Newark, New Jersey, and died on 29 July 1776 in Elizabethtown. She married David Woodruff. Children:
194. Andrew JOLINE was the father of Mary Joline.
198. Samuel FLEMING was born on 2 April 1707. According to the Fleming Family History website,
[...] his Irish family can be traced back tot he still existing Castle of Slane. He was evidently the first member of this family to come to America in ca. 1740.
" Fleming's Castle "
Flemington, New Jersey
He married Esther Mounier in Ireland prior to coming to America in ca. 1735. [...] Samuel and Esther purchased 105 acres of land in what is now Flemington, New Jersey.
Samuel applied for and was granted a license in 1746 to run a tavern in his home. Welcome hospitality, refreshing drinks, and hearty meals soon made his tavern a center of colonial activity. By 1756, he found it necessary to build a newer, larger tavern, and thus constructed the first "real" house in New Beverly, New Jersey (now Flemington, NJ). Complete with clapboards, it was soon known as Flemings Castle. This home still stands today and can be toured by appointment with the Daughters of the American Revolution. (see photo on right).
Samuel however had to have his "Castle" auctioned off to pay his debts in 1765. It was purchased by Dr. George Creed, the first physician to practice in the Flemington NJ area. The house changed hands five times until it was donated to the DAR by the last owner, Mrs. Charles D. Foster in 1928.
The date of Samuel (1) and Esther's death and where they are interred is currently unknown. He and his wife had 10 children of which only two are currently known.
- 2. Esther Fleming, b. Apr 15, 1739, d. ??
- 3. Elizabeth Fleming
199. Esther MOUNIER was born on 6 January 1714 and married Samuel Fleming around 1735. According to the Fleming Family History website, "Her parent's names and siblings are currently unknown, however her parents were French Huguenots who left France and moved to Ireland to escape papal persecutions."
200. Jacob CARLE, the son of John Carle, was born on 4 February 1692. He evidently married Miriam Williams on 10 March 1726 and died in 1730.
201. Miriam WILLIAMS, the daughter of Samuel Williams, was born in New York on 17 December 1705. She married Jacob Carle on 10 March 1726. They had two children, John and Jacob. (After her husband's early death, Miriam married David Smith on 25 March 1735; their son Claudius Smith became infamous as a Loyalist terrorist in the Revolutionary War, and was hanged in 1779 in Goshen, New York.
202. John WELLING, the father of Elizabeth Welling, was (according to the website for the William Green Farmhouse) "of Welsh origins, and came in 1727 directly from Jamaica, L.I., and purchased after a year's lease, in 1728, 223 acres in Hopewell, of Terit Lester.... He died about 1790."
204. William GREEN II, the son of William Green, married Lydia Armitage.
205. Lydia ARMITAGE, the youngest child of Enoch Armitage and Martha
Beaver (and stepdaughter of Hannah Armitage), was born in 1713, Lydgate, Parish of Kirkburton, County of York, and
died in 1781. She was married William Green II and was the mother of five children:
The following information comes from the website for the William Green Farmhouse):
Lydia was born 1713, Lydgate, Parish of Kirkburton, County of York and died 1781. She was the youngest child of Enoch Armitage and Martha Beaver (d. England) and step daughter of Hannah Armitage. They were a very close Christian family and well respected in the district. She emigrated to New York and thereafter to New Jersey from Liverpool, England in 1719, on the ship "Benjamin" with her father, stepmother, brother Reuben [...], sister Mary [...] and cousin Caleb Armitage [...].
Lydia, her father Enoch, and the rest of the family attended Pennington Presbyterian Church, founded in 1709. During an early period of the congregation's history, Enoch sometimes preached in the absence of a reputable minister. Some say that during the British occupation the soldiers exercised their horses by jumping them over the cemetery walls. Lydia's blind brother Rueben was beaten by British troops, pillaged and left for dead in the wooded area of the family farm.
Lydia also had a brother, John Armitage, who remained in England and [...] never saw his family again. [You can see his heartrending story at home.att.net/~williamgreenhouse/gen/lydia.html.]
206. Samuel MOORE married Rebecca Green and lived in Hopewell, New Jersey.
207. Rebecca GREEN, the daughter of Richard Green, married Samuel Moore. They were the parents of Phebe Moore.
208. Micajah MAYHEW, the son of Matthew Mayhew and Anne Rankin married Sarah Ripley. He died on 20 December 1760. [Same as 220.]
209. Sarah RIPLEY married Micajah Mayhew. [Same as 221.]
210. William MANNING, son of Dennis Manning and Catherine Inglis, was born in 1679-80[?] and lived in Nantucket [?]. He married Hannah Gorham on 24 October 1726. He died on 20 July 1730. [Same as 222.]
211. Hannah GORHAM, daughter of Shubael Gorham and Puella Hussey, was born on 26 July 1703 and died on 16 August 1751. She married William Manning on 24 October 1726. [Same as 223.]
212. Colonel Zaccheus MAYHEW, the son of Thomas Mayhew and Sarah Skiff[e], was born in 1685 and died on 3 January 1760. He married Susannah Wade.
213. Susannah WADE married Colonel Zaccheus Mayhew and was the mother of Dr. Zaccheus Mayhew. She died on 23 May 1758.
214. Lemuel POPE, the son of Seth Pope and Deborah ____?, was born on 21 February 1696 and married Elizabeth Hunt on 4 February 1719. He died on 23 May 1771 and was buried in Dartmouth.
According to the Hess and Williams Family Genealogy (members.cox.net/dhess5/pafg15.htm), Lemuel was from Dartmouth, but not buried there. "Both he and Elizabeth are buried in Achushnet cemetery one row directly behind (west) of her mother Joanna."
215. Elizabeth HUNT, daughter of Colonel Ephraim Hunt and Joanna Alcock, was born in 1697 and married Lemuel Pope on 4 February 1719. She died on 2 July 1782.
216. Temple Phillips COOKE, the father of Thomas Cooke Sr., was born in 1713 and died in 1795.
220. Micajah MAYHEW married Sarah Ripley. [Same as 208.]
221. Sarah RIPLEY married Micajah Mayhew. [Same as 209.]
222. William MANNING. [Same as as 210.]
223. Hannah GORHAM. [Same as 211.]
240. James BARBOUR (Barber?), an Indian fighter, was born around 1700 to John Barbour (Barber?). He married Mary Nelson in 1732-1733.
241. Mary NELSON, who was supposedly a niece of Admiral Lord Nelson, married James Barbour (Barber?). They had five children, including John Barbour (Barber?).
(So maybe, maybe, I am thus a relative of my erstwhile friend Christy Le Ann Nelson, who believed herself to be a descendant of Lord Nelson. Who am I not related to?)
242. Josiah NOYES, the son of Joseph Noyes and Jane Dole, was the father of Mary Noyes.
244. Gowan WILLSON was born in 1670 and came to America in 1716.
248. Joseph MORSE, who was a deacon, was the son of Anthony Morse and Sarah Pike, and was born on 3 April 1694. He married Rebecca Adams.
249. Rebecca Knight ADAMS, the daughter of Robert Adams and Rebecca Knight, was born on 18 June 1689. She married Deacon Joseph Morse. She died on 26 August 1737.
250. John MERRILL, the son of Nathan Merrill and Hannah Kent, was born on 20 Nov 1701 at Newbury, Massachusetts, and died at Falmouth, Maine, in 1775. He married Ann Knight in Newbury on 15 May 1725.
251. Ann KNIGHT was born on 12 Jan 1703 at Newbury, Massachusetts, and died at Falmouth, Maine, around 1755. She married John Merrill on 15 May 1725. They had eleven children — the first four born at Newbury, and the others in Falmouth, Maine:
252. Nehemiah NOYES, son of John Noyes and Mary Noyes, was born around 1704-1709 in Newbury / Rowley, Massachusetts. He married Ann Stickney on 16 May 1732 in Newbury, and died on 9 July 1764 in Newbury (Phoebe Frey's genealogy give 1 September 1764 as Noyes's date of death).
253. Ann STICKNEY, the daughter of Andrew Stickney and Elizabeth Chute, was born in Rowley, Massachusetts, before 17 February 1711/1712. She married Nehemiah Noyes on 16 May 1732. Their children:
332. Richard LE ROY was born about 1610 in Creaces, Coutances, Normandy, France, and died in Normandy after 1668. He married Gillette Jacquette.
333. Gillette JACQUETTE was born about 1610 in Creaces, Coutances, Normandy, France, and died in Normandy after 1668. She married Richard Le Roy.
334. Francois DECHALETS was born in Fonteny Le Comte, Poitou, France, and died in Poitou. He married Jacquette Chevallereau.
335. Jacquette CHEVALLEREAU was born in Fonteny Le Comte, Poitou, France, and died in Poitou. She married Francois Dechalets.
384. John (WOODROFFE), son of John (Woodrof) and Mary Ogden, was born in 1665 or 1662 and died in 1727 or 1749 (the dates are written side by side in the Whitehouse family tree). An internet source says he was born in 1665 in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and died in the same town in 1722. He married Sarah Cooper in 1683. Children:
385. Sarah COOPER was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on 17 March 1666 and married John (Woodroffe) in 1683. She died in ["June 7" crossed out] 1729. An internet source says she died on 3 June 1727 at Elizabethtown, New Jersey.
400. John CARLE, son of Thomas Carle and Sarah Halstead, was born on 3 March 1662. He was a freeholder in Hemstead [sic in Whitehouse family tree], Long Island, in 1685, holding 208 acres.
Presumably John Carle's acreage was the area now known as Carle Place, which is about five miles from where my brother, Joel Carle Whitehouse Rogers, was living from 1981 till 2004, and only about a mile from where I myself have been laboring for Dover Publications in recent years. The Long Island Railroad has a stop in Carle Place, on a slight rise above the surrounding flatlands, and when I used the railroad to get home to Huntington Station I found myself trying to imagine what it was like more than three hundred years ago — imagining this long-dead ancestor lying back on the hillside on a pleasant summer day and watching the clouds drift overhead. It was probably beautiful here then. (Now it's businesses, highways, and traffic lights.) For more about the evolution of Carle Place, see Thomas Carle below.
The following information comes from
A Carl Family History, The Story of an Old Long Island Family, by
Skip Carl (as quoted on www.familyorigins.com:
"John was among those Carles listed in the Hempstead census of 1698. At that rather early date there were twelve Carles in the town. John is listed with Sarah, his wife, whose maiden name, dates, and place of marriage are lost to us. Jacob, Sarah, and John Carle, Jr., their children, are the others listed for the family grouping in the census. The survey does not mention Hannah, another daughter, for she was born at a later date.
In March 1678/9, John received a 'home lot' adjoining that of James Beate, his brother-in-law. Home lots were usually assigned when men reached twenty-one years of age, which would mean that John was born in 1658, probably the first child of Thomas and Sarah. (The Carll Family, Soper.)
We learn from the Town Records a description of John Carle's 'ear mark.' Ear marks were a kind of brand for the purpose of distinguishing the ownership of animals. Each man had his own ear mark, 'John Carl sener his eyer marck is: a: latch one the foresid of the left eyear and a half penny under the same.'
Most probably John had at least one slave. The records of St. George's Parish in Hempstead reveal that Harry, a 'negro slave of John Carle,' was baptized as an adult. If this slave was not indeed owned by John, Sr., he was by John, Jr. It is interesting that the reference to the slave and other similar references were deleted from the records of the church as published in Haight's "Adventures for God".
John Carle was elected to many positions of responsibility in the community throughout his lifetime. At a town meeting on April 2, 1694, he was chosen Assessor. In 1700 he was chosen Constable. Seventeen hundred one was the year he and two others were selected to 'Repair ye meeting house.' (Perhaps John was a carpenter by trade.) ...
John, like his father Thomas, was a large landholder. According to a tax list of May 24, 1682, John owned L1.10.0, which was considerably more than most residents owed. ... On 20th October in 1707 'one hundred acres in the South Woods, east of Strickling's Neck path, are given to John Carle, adjoining his own land, in lieu of a house and home lot in the Town-spot [i.e., Hempstead Town proper] and another south of the town, all which are to be and remain for the use of the town for a school and schoolmaster forever.' It wasn't until 1710 that John Serring and Thomas Guildersleeve were appointed on behalf of the town to lay out the hundred-acre lot to John Carle in exchange for his house and land in town. Our John's house must have become the first public school in Hempstead! (Town Records.)
... The large Hempstead landowner departed this world for heavenly estates in 1735 at an age of about seventy-seven years. He outlived both of his sons as disclosed in his will:'In the name of God, Amen. June 21, 1733, I John Carle of Hempstead, in Suffolk County, being in good health. I leave to my two grand-sons, the sons of my son Jacob, deceased, viz. John and Jacob, a parcel of woodland in the woods on the south side of the town of Hempstead, between the Town Spott, and Henry Seaman; and land formerly of Silvanius Seaman, east by the road which leads from Hempstead to Strickland's Neck, west by the road which leads from Hempstead to Lemunton's old mill [probably the mill of Henry Linnington], where the same used to stand, and north by undivided lands; and being 93 acres, and which was laid out on the propriety right of William Rogers. I also leave to my said grand-sons all my wearing apparell, and 1/3 of all monies due to me and to be paid to them when of age, the other 2/3 of said monies, I leave to my daughters, Sarah, wife of Daniel Pine of Hempstead, and Hannah, wife of John Leminton of the same place. I leave all my rights in the undivided lands to my grand-children, Jacob, son of John Carle, late of Hempstead, deceased; and John and Jacob Carle aforesaid. I appoint George Balding, son of Joseph Balding, late of Hempstead, deceased, Joseph Petit, Jr., and my two daughters executors.
Witnesses, Samuel Clowes, Willempy Langton, Gerardus Clowes. Proved, March 11, 1734/5' (New York Historical Society Collections.)"
402. Samuel WILLIAMS was the father of Miriam Williams.
408. William GREEN was the father of William Green II and Richard Green. [Same as 818.]
410. Enoch ARMITAGE, son of John Armitage, was born in England on 27 November 1677. He married and had four children with Martha Beaver. He died in New Jersey on 28 January 739..
The following information comes from the website for the William Green Farmhouse):
Enoch's wife died in England in 1713. He engaged a woman named Hannah to raise his children. Enoch and his family, and Hannah, who became his second wife, sailed from Liverpool for New York in March 14, 1719, aboard the "Benjamin." He left behind his son John, who was bound apprentice to the linen trade and could not leave England. He was accompanied by: (1) his nephew, Caleb Armitage, son of Caleb Armitage, his brother, (2) his eldest daughter, Mary, age 18, (3) his son Reuben, age 14; (4) and his daughter Lydia, who was about 6.Go here for a map of Enoch's farm and a photo of his home. You can also see a photo of the Pennington Presbyterian Church, which was founded in 1709 and where Enoch sometimes preached. He was buried in the churchyard there, and in 1909 the congregation erected a tombstone that says
The seas were rough, and after two days they arrived in Cork, Ireland. Here supplies were loaded on board for the trip to New York. On arriving in New York, the family departed for "the Jarseys." Enoch purchased 258 acres, near a stream called "Stoney Brook", in Hopewell, Hunterdon N.J. There the family lived and farmed until the girls married. Reuben helped his father. Enoch Armitage died 28 January 1739, exactly 20 years after leaving England. Reuben inherited the property. Enoch's wife received 1/3rd share of the estate and the other 2/3rds were shared between Mary and Lydia. Brother John in England received 20 pounds.[...]
A transcript from the family Bible reads:Enoch Armitage son of John Armitage born November 27, 1677. Sailed from Liverpool March 14,1719 and died January 28, 1739. Children of Enoch Armitage, Mary born 1701, John 1703, Reuben 1705 Lydia 1713. Martha, their mother, died in 1713. Mary died in 1775 Lydia in 1781 and Reuben 1783. The grandchildren (of old Enoch) are all living but one, Lydia's oldest son.
ENOCH ARMITAGE
A DEVOUT GODLY MAN
FIRST RULING ELDER
OF THIS CHURCH
1677-1739
411. Martha BEAVER of England married Enoch Armitage. Their children were
Martha died in England in 1713.
414. Richard GREEN was the son of William Green and the father of Rebecca Green.
416. Matthew MAYHEW, the son of Matthew Mayhew and Mary Skiff[e], was born on 20 November 1674 and died on 20 April 1720. He married Anne Rankin. (Paine Mayhew, 1677-1761, Matthew's brother?, married Mary Rankin — Anne's sister? — on 12 Aug 1699 in Chilmark, Massachusetts.) [Same as 440.]
417. Anne RANKIN married Matthew Mayhew [Same as 441.]
420. Dennis MANNING was born in England and lived in Nantucket. He married Catherine Inglis in 1678. [Same as 444.]
421. Catherine INGLIS married Dennis Manning in 1678 [Same as 445.]
422. Shubael GORHAM, a resident of Barnstable, was the son of John Gorham and Desire Howland. He was born on 21 October 1667 and married Puella Hussey on 1 May 1695. He died on 7 August 1750. [Same as 446.]
423. Puella HUSSEY, daughter of Stephen Hussey and Martha Bunker, was born on 10 October 1679. She married Shubael Gorham on 1 May 1695. (The Whitehouse family tree gives her name as "Pruella," but this is evidently a mistake.) [Same as 447.]
424. Thomas MAYHEW, the son of the Rev. Thomas Mayhew and Jane Paine, married Sarah Skiff[e]. He died on 21 July 1715.
425. Sarah SKIFF[E] married Thomas Mayhew.
428. Seth POPE, the son of Thomas Pope and Sarah Jenney, was born on 14 January 1648 at Dartmouth, Massachusetts. He married Deborah Perry in 1674 at Sandwich, Massachusetts. He was a delegate to the Massachusetts General Assembly in 1669, a lieutenant in 1686, and a captain in 1690. He died in Dartmouth on 17 March 1727, and was buried four days later in the Achushnet Cemetery.
429. Deborah PERRY, daughter of Edward Perry and Elizabethe Burgess, was born on 28 November 1654 (Whitehouse family tree says born in 1655) in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. She married Seth Pope at Sandwich, Massachusetts, in 1674, and died on 19 February 1711 at Dartmouth.
430. Colonel Ephraim HUNT, son of Ephraim Hunt and Ann Richards, was born in 1650 in Weymouth, Massachusetts, and married Joanna Alcock in 1696[?]. Note in Whitehouse family tree says: "Col. Ephraim Hunt (2d) Weymouth, Mass 1650-1713. Expedition to St. Lawrence River, Sir William Phips 1690, also in Expedition against Indians in Groton [?] 1706-1707. Assistant 1703-1713."
[In 1690, Sir William Phips led a fleet of English warships up the St. Lawrence and demanded that Count Frontenac surrender Quebec; Frontenac, known as "the iron governor," replied with gunfire. The Groton expedition was part of King Philip's War. According to homepages.rootsweb.com/~vgdeagan/tarbell.htm,Colonel Hunt died in 1713 — on 26 June, in Weymouth, according to the Hess and Williams Family Genealogy.Thomas Tarbell was a Sergeant from Groton during the Indian Wars of 1706-1707. He was tried at a Court Martial along with his Lieutenant for a false report of a large number of Indians that resulted in the disorderly return home of the troops. [...] In a letter written to an official reporting the Court Martial, Ephraim Hunt wrote, "Tarbal who was the person who pretended the discovery altho impudent and so blamable, yet would begg your Excellency's favour for him as a very honest man willing to do service and infinitely concerned for this ill accident".According to the Hess and Williams Family Genealogy (members.cox.net/dhess5/pafg15.htm),Ephraim Hunt [...] was a soldier in the luckless expedition against Canada in 1690 (referred to as King William's War), Captain of the Weymouth company and not until 1736 was land granted in payment of the services of these soldiers. The land was laid out as Huntstown, which was first settled in 1745, incorporated 1765, and now called Ashfield. He was Colonel of the expedition against the Indians at Groton in 1706 and 1707. He was Governor Joseph Dudley's assistant and councillor from 1703 to 1713. He was a shipbuilder by trade anbd built many ships at the mouth of Smelt brook, between 1690 and 1700.]
431. Joanna ALCOCK, daughter of Doctor John Alcock and Sarah Palgrave, was born in 1660 and died in 1746. She married Colonel Ephraim Hunt in 1696[?].
According to the Hess and Williams Family Genealogy (members.cox.net/dhess5/pafg15.htm) mentioned above,
Johanna Alcock was born on 6 May 1660 in Boston, Massachusetts. She died on 20 Mar 1746 in Achushnet, Massachusetts. [...] Her grave at Achushnet is marked as follows: "Here lieth interred the body of Joan, wife of ye Hon. Ephraim Hunt Esq. late of Weymouth, youngest daughter of Dr. John Alcock late of Roxbury who died March ye 20, 1746, in ye eighty seventh year of her age."
[She and Ephraim] had the following children:
- M i John Hunt was born on 11 Dec 1678. He died in Young.
- M ii Samuel Hunt Reverend
- F iii Joanna Hunt
- M iv John Hunt died on 4 Sep 1761.
Resided in Braintree- M v Peter Hunt
- M vi William Hunt was born on 14 Mar 1692. He died on 19 Apr 1766.
Resided in Braintree- M vii Ebenezer Hunt Captain
- M viii Thomas Hunt Ensign
- F ix Elizabeth Hunt
- F x Sarah Hunt
- F xi Mercy Hunt
- M xii Ephraim Hunt was born on 12 Dec 1707. He died 29 FEB 1786.
[...]He resided in Braintree
440. Matthew MAYHEW. [Same as 416.]
441. Anne RANKIN. [Same as 417.]
444. Dennis MANNING. [Same as as 420.]
445. Catherine INGLIS. [Same as 421.]
446. Shubael GORHAM. [Same as 422.]
447. Puella HUSSEY. [Same as 423.]
496. Anthony MORSE, ensign, was born on 31 December 1662/1663, the son of Lieutenant Anthony Morse Jr and Elizabeth Knight. He married Sarah Pike on 4 February 1685. He died on 18 May 1710.
497. Sarah PIKE was born on 12 October 1666. She married Ensign Anthony Morse on 4 February 1685, and their son Joseph Morse was born on 3 April 1694. She died in 1717.
498. Robert ADAMS was born on 12 May 1674 and died on 3 February 1769. He married Rebecca Knight.
499. Rebecca KNIGHT was born on 27 April 1674. She married Robert Adams. Their daughter Rebecca Knight Adams was born on 18 June 1689. (This Adams-Knight information comes from Phoebe Meredith Frey's online family tree.)
500. Nathan MERRILL was born on 3 April 1676 and died on 22 November 1745. He married Hannah Kent.
501. Hannah KENT was born on 10 September 1679 and died on 3 February 1735. She married Nathan Merrill. Their son John Merrill was born on 20 Nov 1701 at Newbury, Massachusetts.
504. John NOYES, son of Cutting Noyes and Elizabeth Knight, was born on 15 November 1674 in Newbury, Massachusetts. He married Mary Noyes, his first cousin, in Newbury on 6 April 1700.
505. Mary NOYES, the daughter of John Noyes and Mary Poor, was born on 10 December 1675 in Newbury, Massachusetts. She married John Noyes on 6 April 1700. Their children:
506. Andrew STICKNEY was born on 10 December 1667 and died in 1717. He married Elizabeth Chute. (Information from Phoebe Meredith Frey's online family tree.)
507. Elizabeth CHUTE was born on 22 June 1676. She married Andrew Stickney and was the mother of Ann (Anna) Stickney. (Information from Phoebe Meredith Frey's online family tree.)
768. John (WOODROF), son of John (Woodrove) and Anne Gosmer, was baptized in 1637. He married Mary Ogden in 1659. He was buried in Sturry, County Kent, England. [The internet site mentioned below, which gives his father's name as John Woodruffe, says that he married Sarah Ogden in Southampton, New York, (and evidently later married Mrs. Mary Parkhurst in Elizabethtown, New Jersey) and that he died in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, on 27 April 1691.]
769. Mary OGDEN married John (Woodrof) in 1659.
[An internet site dealing mostly with Woodruffs and Garwoods calls her Sarah Ogden and says she was born around 1643 to John Ogden and Jane Bond. It lists her children as
800. Thomas CARLE was born around 1638 in Piscataway, New Jersey, and married Sarah Halstead in 1658 in North Hempstead, New York. He died on Long Island on 1 May 1676. (That information comes [via Familysearch.org] from James W. Valentine of Spokane, Washington. Others give his birthdate as around 1634. According to N. Linnea Capps of Mount Airy, Maryland, and R. G. Clarke of Cypress, Texas, he was married in Hempstead on
27 Feb 1656; they also say he died in Hempstead in March 1675. According to uncharter.tripod.com/carl.htm, "Captain Thomas B. Carle was born in 1630 in Ireland and died
on 25 March 1675 in Hempstead, Nassau Co., NY. He came to America from
England in 1654 and settled in Long Island, NY. Thomas married Sarah B.
Halstead in 1656 at Hempstead, NY. [...]
Thomas and Sarah were both members of St. George's Church in Hempstead, NY.
Here is part of an article about Carle Place that appeared in Newsday:
Carle Place, like the rest of modern-day central Nassau County, existed initially as a fragment of the Hempstead Plains. The prairie was viewed as largely worthless by the English settlers of 1644. One of those settlers was Capt. Thomas Carle, who purchased land in the area in 1656. He and his neighbors turned cattle and sheep loose on the plains to graze and thought little else of it. Not until 100 years later did farmers realize the land could be cultivated. One of Carle's descendants, Silas Carle, had become a successful pharmaceuticals merchant in New York City. Some time after 1800, he returned to Long Island to build a showy house on 220 acres for his family. Indeed, it became a local landmark, referred to by residents as "the Carle place," a name that eventually came to be applied to the community that developed around it, replacing the name Frog Hollow.For decades, the Carle place was one of the few homes in an area dominated by small farms, most of which were run by Polish, German and Irish immigrants. Although the Long Island Rail Road ran right through Carle Place since the 1830s, it wasn't until 1923 that the hamlet warranted a station. Indeed, it had gained a post office only in 1916, making the name Carle Place official.
801. Sarah HALSTEAD, the daughter of Jonathon (Jonas) Halstead and Sarah (Susan) Butterfield, was born in Hempstead, New York, in 1638. She married Thomas Carle in Hempstead on 27 February 1656, and she died in Hempstead in 1683. According to uncharter.tripod.com/carl.htm, Thomas and Sarah had the following children:
818. William GREEN was the father of William Green II and Richard Green. [Same as 408.]
832. Matthew MAYHEW, the son of the Rev. Thomas Mayhew and Jane Paine, was born in 1648 and died in 1710. He married Mary Skiff[e] on 1 March 1674 in Chilmark, Massachusetts. (His brother Thomas married Sarah Skiff[e].) Children include:
833. Mary SKIFF[E] , daughter of James Skiffe and Mary Reeves, was born on 24 March 1649/1650 in Sandwich, Massachusetts, and died in 1690. She married Matthew Mayhew. [Same as 881.]
820. John ARMITAGE of England was the father of Enoch Armitage.
844. John GORHAM, the son of Ralph Gorham, was born in England in 1621 and was a resident of Barnstable when he died on 5 February 1696 (or 1676?). He married Desire Howland in 1643. [Same as 892.]
845. Desire HOWLAND, daughter of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley, was born in 1623. She married John Gorham in 1643 and died on 13 October 1683. [Same as 893.]
846. Stephen HUSSEY, a resident of Nantucket, was born in October 1630. He was the son of Christopher Hussey and Theodate Batchelor. He married Martha Bunker on 16 October 1676. He died on 2 April 1712. [Same as 894.]
847. Martha BUNKER, daughter of George Bunker and Jane Godfrey, was born on 1 November 1656 and died on 21 September 1744. She married Stephen Hussey on 16 October 1676. [Same as 895.]
848. Rev. Thomas MAYHEW, the son of Governor Thomas Mayhew and Martha Parkhurst, was born in 1620/21. He married his stepsister Jane Paine, the daughter of his stepmother, Jane Gallion (Paine), and her first hu sband, Thomas Paine. Their children included:
849. Jane PAINE, the daughter of Thomas Paine and Jane Gallion, was born in 1625 and married the Rev. Thomas Mayhew. [Same as 1665 and 1761.]
856. Thomas POPE, son of John Pope and Miss Halsnoth, Harnett, or Haisnoth, was born in 1608 and christened at Ilfracombe, Devonshire, England, on 27 September 1610. He married Sarah Jenney on 19 May 1646 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Whitehouse family tree says "Member of Volunteer Co. under William Holmes and Thos. Palmer Pequot War. Also in [illegible] 1643." He died on 16 October 1683 (mormon genealogy says "4 Aug 1683" in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts) and was buried in Plymouth.
857. Sarah JENNEY, daughter of John Jenney and Sarah Cary, was probably born in Leiden, Holland, around 1620. (Some have said she was born in Plymouth around 1624, but the English-America website lists her along with her sister Abigail and brother Samuel as passengers on the Little James, which brought her family to Plymouth in July 1623.) She married Thomas Pope on 19 May 1646 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. She died on 12 March 1710 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and was buried in Dartmouth.
858. Edward PERRY of Sandwich, Massachusetts, was born in 1627 to Edmund Perry and Sarah ____?,He married Elizabethe Burgess on 12 February 1652 in Sandwich. He died on 16 October 1689 at Monument, Sandwich, and was buried in Sandwich.
859. Elizabethe BURGESS of Sandwich, Massachusetts, was born and christened in 1631. She was the daughter of Thomas Burges Burgess and Dorathy Waynes. She married Edward Perry on 12 February 1652 in Sandwich. She died in Sandwich on 26 September 1717 and was buried in the Sandwich Cemetery.
860. Ephraim HUNT was born in 1610 and died in 1647. He married Ann Richards.
861. Ann RICHARDS married Ephraim Hunt.
862. Doctor John ALCOCK married Sarah Palgrave.
863. Sarah PALGRAVE married Doctor John Alcock.
872. COFFIN. ---
880. Matthew MAYHEW. [Same as 832.]
881. Mary SKIFF[E]. [Same as 833.]
892. John GORHAM. [Same as 844.]
893. Desire HOWLAND. [Same as 845.]
894. Stephen HUSSEY. [Same as 846.]
895. Martha BUNKER . [Same as 847.]
992. Lieutenant Anthony MORSE Jr was born in England. He married Elizabeth Knight on 8 May 1659/1660. He died on 22 February 1677 and was buried at Newbury, Massachusetts.
993. Elizabeth KNIGHT, the daughter of Richard Knight and Agnes Coffey, married Lieutenant Anthony Morse Jr on 8 May 1659/1660. She was the mother of Ensign Anthony Morse. She died on 29 July 1667.
1536. John WOODRUFF (Woodrove?), son of John Woodruff and Elizabeth Cartwright, was baptized in 1604. He married Anne Gosmer in 1636 in Fordwich, Kent, England. He came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638 and moved to Southampton, Long Island, in 1639 or 1640. (According to The History of Long Island, he seems to have been one of the earliest settlers of the Southampton area, having come there in 1640 along with his father-in-law. For more details, see the paragraph about John Gosmer.) Woodruff died in 1690 and was buried in Southampton.
[According to Marvin D. Potts of Silverdale, Washington, via the LDS Familysearch.org website, John Woodruff was born in Fordwich, Kent, in 1604 and died in Southampton on 9 May 1670; his father's name was John Woodroffe.]
1537. Anne GOSMER, daughter of John Gosmer, was born around 1609 in Fordwich, Kent, England. She married John Woodruff in 1636 in Fordwich.
1602. Jonathon (Jonas) HALSTEAD (or HALSTED) was born about 1610 in North Ouram, Halifax, Yorkshire, England, and died about 1682 in Hempstead, Long Island, New York. He married Sarah (Susan) Butterfield.
1603. Sarah (Susan) BUTTERFIELD was born about 1615 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, and died in Hempstead, Long Island, New York. She married Jonathon (Jonas) Halstead. Their daughter was Sarah Halstead.
1664. Rev. Thomas MAYHEW. [Same as 848 and 1760.]
1665. Jane PAINE. [Same as 849 and 1761.]
1666. James SKIFFE married Mary Reeves. [Same as 1762.]
1667. Mary REEVES married James Skiffe. [Same as 1763.]
1688. Ralph GORHAM was born in 1595 and lived in Duxbury, England. [Same as 1784.]
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Bristol County, Mass., Probate Records, Volume 1, pages 13 and 14. In ye Name of God Amen I Elizabeth Howland of Swanzey in ye County of Bristoll in ye Collony of Plymouth in New Engld being Seventy nine yeares of Age but of good & perfect memory thanks be to Allmighty God & calling to Remembrance ye uncertain Estate of this transitory Life & that all flesh must Yeild unto Death when it shall please God to call Doe make constitute & ordaine & Declare This my last Will & Testament, in manner & forme following Revoking and Anulling by these prsents all & every Testamt & Testamts Will & Wills heretofore by me made & declared either by Word or Writing And this to be taken only for my last Will & Testament & none other. "And first being penitent & sorry from ye bottom of my heart for all my sinns past most humbly desiring forgivenesse for ye same I give & Comitt my soule unto Allmighty God my Saviour & Redeemer in whome & by ye meritts of Jesus Christ I trust & believe assuredly to be saved & to have full remission & forgivenesse of all my sins & that my Soule wt my Body at the generall Day of Resurrection shall rise againe wt Joy & through ye meritts of Christs Death & passion possesse & inheritt ye Kingdome of heaven prepared for his Elect & Chosen & my Body to be buryed in such place where it shall please my Executrs hereafter named to appoint And now for ye settling my temporall Estate & such goodes Chattells & Debts as it hath pleased God far above my Deserts to bestow upon me I Do Dispose order & give ye same in manner & forme following (That is to say) First that after my funerall Expences & Debts paid wc I owe either of right or in Conscience to any manner of person or persons whatsoever in Convenient tyme after my Decease by my Execrs hereafter named I Give & bequeath unto my Eldest Son John Howland ye sum of five pounds to be paid out of my Estate & my booke called Mr Tindale's Workes & also one pair of sheetes & one prof pillowbeeres & one pr of Bedblanketts, Item I give unto my son Joseph Howland my Stillyards & also one pr of sheetes & one pt of pillobeeres Item I give unto my son Jabez Howland my ffetherbed & boulster yt is in his Custody & also one Rugg & two Blanketts yt belongeth to ye said Bed & also my great Iron pott & potthookes Item I give unto my son Isaack Howland my Booke called Willson on ye Romanes & one pr of sheetes & one paire of pillowbeeres & also my great Brasse Kettle already in his possession Item I give unto my Son in Law Mr James Browne my great Bible Item I give & bequeath unto my Daughter Lidia Browne my best ffeatherbed & Boulster two pillowes & three Blanketts & a green Rugg & my small Cupboard one pr of AndyIrons & my lesser brasse Kettle & my small Bible & my booke of mr Robbinsons Workes called Observations Divine & Morrall & allso my finest pr of Sheetes & my holland pillowbeeres, Item I give unto my Daughter Elisabeth Dickenson one pr of Sheetes & one pr of pillowbeeres & one Chest Item give unto my Daughter Hannah Bosworth one pr of sheets & one pr of pillowbeeres, Item I give unto my Grand Daughter Elizabeth Bursley one paire of sheets and one paire of Pillowbeeres Item I give & bequeath unto my Grandson Nathanael Howland (the son of Joseph Howland) and to the heires of his owne Body lawfully begotten for ever all that my Lott of Land with ye Meadow thereunto adjoyning & belonging lying in the Township of Duxbury neare Jones River bridge, Item I give unto my Grandson James Browne One Iron barr and on Iron Trammell now in his possession, Item I give unto my Grandson Jabez Browne one Chest Item I give unto my Grand Daughter Dorothy Browne My best Chest & my Warming pan Item I give unto my Grand Daughter Desire Cushman four Sheep, Item I give & bequeath my wearing clothes linnen and Woollen and all the rest of my Estate in mony Debts linnen or of what kind or nature or sort soever it may be unto my three Daughters Elisabeth Dickenson, Lidia Browne and Hannah Bosworth to be equally Devided amongst them, Item I make constitute and ordaine my loving Son in Law James Browne and my loving son Jabez Howland Executors of this my last Will and Testament, Item it is my Will & Charge to all my Children that they walke in ye Feare of ye Lord, and in Love and peace towards each other and endeavour the true performance of this my last Will & Testament In Witnesse whereof I the said Elisabeth Howland have hereunto sett my hand & seale this seventeenth Day of December Anno Dm one thousand six hundred Eighty & six. The mark of Elisabeth E H Howland (sigittu) Signed Sealed & Delivd in ye prsence of Us Wittnesses Hugh Cole Samuel Vyall John Browne Know all men that on ye tenth Day of Janry Anno Dm 1687/8 Before me Nathanl Byfield Esqr Judge of his Majties Inferiour Court of Plea's for ye County of Bristoll, present Jno Walley Esqr one of ye Members of his Majties Councill in New England & Capt Benjam Church Justice of Peace The abovewritten Will of Elizabeth Howland was proved approved & allowed And ye Administracon of all & singuler ye goodes Rights and Creditts of ye said Deced was Committed unto James Browne & Jabez Howland Execrs in ye same Will named well & truly to Administer ye same according to the Will of ye Deced In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Sett ye Seale of ye Office for Probate of Wills & granting Lettrs of Admincon ye yeare & Day by me abovewritten (Sigittu officij) Nathanael Byfield Thus Entred & ingrossed this 26: of Janry Anno Dm 1687/8 pr Steph Burton |
1690. John HOWLAND, a resident of Plymouth, was born in 1592/94. He came to America in the Mayflower in 1620 as one of two men servants to John Carver's family. From William Bradford's 1650 book Of Plimouth Plantation:
Once, as they lay thus at hull in a terrible storm, a strong young man, called John Howland, coming on deck was thrown into the sea; but it pleased God that he caught hold of the top-sail halliards which hung overboard and ran out at length; but he kept his hold, though he was several fathoms under water, till he was hauled up by the rope and then with a boat-hook helped into the ship and saved; and though he was somewhat ill from it he lived many years and became a profitable member both of the church and commonwealth.His employers, John and Catherine Carver, "died here during the first general sickness." Howland became head of the household, which included the orphaned Elizabeth Tilley (who was about thirteen), the fifteen-year-old servant Desire Minter, and a boy named William Latham. Howland married Elizabeth Tilley in 1623/24. (Among their descendants are Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and George W. Bush, actor Humphrey Bogart, Mormon church founder Joseph Smith, and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson.) He died on 22 February 1672/73. [Same as 1786.]
1691. Elizabeth TILLEY, who was born in 1609 (or 1607?) to John Tillie and his wife, also came over on the Mayflower. Her parents died in the Plymouth colony's first winter, and she was taken in by the Carvers. She married John Howland in 1623/24. They had ten children (the first of whom they named after Desire Minter):
1692. Captain Christopher HUSSEY was born in 1595 (an internet source says 18 February 1598/99 in Dorking, Surrey, England; another source gives 1593 as the birth year) and baptized on 18 April 1599. He was the son of John Hussey and Mary (or Marie) Wood. He married Theodate Batchelor (Bachiler) in Holland in 1629. They had five children. After her death, he married a widow, Ann (_____) Mingay on 9 December 1658. He died in March 1686 (according to internet, 6 Mar 1685/86 at Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire). [Same as 1788.]
1693. Theodate BATCHELOR (or BACHILER), daughter of Rev. Stephen Bachelor (Bachiler or Bachelder) and Ann Bate, was born in Wherwell, Hampshire, England, in 1596. (Other sources say circa 1588 and 1610.) She married Christopher Hussey in Holland in 1629. They had five children, including Stephen Hussey, who was born in October 1630. She died on 20 Oct 1649 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire. (Whitehouse family tree gives 1646 as the year of death.) [Same as 1789.]
1694. George BUNKER, a resident of Ipswich and Topsfield, married Jane Godfrey circa 1645. He died in 1658. [Same as 1790.]
1695. Jane GODFREY married George Bunker circa 1645. She died on 31 October 1662 at Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. [Same as 1791.]
1696. Thomas MAYHEW, Governor and Commander of Martha's Vineyard, was born in 1593 and died in 1682. He married Martha Parkhurst in 1619 in England. After she died he married Jane Gallion (Paine), whose first husband also had died. [Same as 3328 and 3520.]
1697. Martha PARKHURST, who was born about 1595 in Tisbury, Wiltshire, England, married Thomas Mayhew in 1619 in England and died in England before 1633.[Same as 3329 and 3521.]
This information about Thomas Mayhew's first wife came to me from Elna S. Van Horn, who wrote: "this record came from my Aunt Char who was privy to family histories."
1698. Thomas PAINE married Jane Gallion. [Same as 3330 and 3522.]
1699. Jane GALLION married Thomas Paine. After he died she married Thomas Mayhew, whose first wife also had died. [Same as 3331 and 3523.]
1712. John POPE was born in 1580 in London, England. He married Miss ____? Haisnoth. He died in England.
1713. ____? HAISNOTH, HALSNOTH, or HARSNETT, daughter of Adam Halsnoth [or Harsnett] and Mercy Marcy [or Marcy Mercy]of Colchester, Essex, England, was born about 1580. She married John Pope.
1714. John JENNEY (JENNE), son of Henry Jenne (Jenney) and Mary Smythe,was born on 21 December 1596 (or, according to another mormon record, May 1585) in Norwich, Norfolk, England. He married Sarah Cary [Carey], on 1 November 1614 in Leyden, Holland. He and Sarah and their three children came to Plymouth, Massachusetts, aboard the ship Little James, arriving in July 1623. He was a governor's assistant 1637-1640 and a representative in 1641. He died in 1644. [The Whitehouse family tree seems to have originally said 1644, but someone changed it, erroneously, to 1664.]
1715. Sarah CARY [CAREY] of Mouncsoon [? mormon record says "Monk Soham, Suffolk"], England, was the daughter of John Carey and Elizabeth Godfrey. She was born in 1590 (and christened at "Monckson, Suffolk"). She married John Jenney (Jenne) on 1 November 1614 in Leyden, Holland. She died on 18 February 1655 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and was buried in Plymouth.
The following comes from "John and Sarah Jenney" at the Pilgrim Hall Museum website:
John Jenney was from Norwich, England. He had moved to Leyden by 1614, when he married Sarah Carey of Monk Sohan, Suffolk, England. John Jenney was a brewer and a miller. He and his wife, with their 2 living children, journeyed to Plymouth on the Little James in 1623. Another son was born on board ship.With regard to Sarah's date of birth, however, look at the English-America website, which lists her along with her sister Abigail and brother Samuel as passengers on the Little James.
John and Sarah had 7 children in all: Samuel, who was born in Leiden and journeyed with his parents to Plymouth; an unnamed child who died as an infant and is buried in Leiden; Abigail, who also journeyed with her parents to Plymouth; an unnamed son who was born in 1623 aboard the Little James but who died before 1627; Sarah, John and Susanna, all born in Plymouth.
Nathaniel Morton characterized Jenney as "a godly, though otherwise a plain man, yet singular for publicness of spirit, setting himself to seek and promote the common good of the plantation of new Plimouth." Jenney was involved in refinancing the Plantation in 1626 and served several terms as an Assistant to the Governor as well as in other positions of resonsibility within the Colony.
John Jenney is best known, however, for operating Plymouth Colony’s third (and most successful) corn mill. The earliest corn mill had been located near Billington Sea, a distance from town. Then, in 1632, the General Court authorized Stephen Deane to set up a water-powered corn mill on Town Brook; this mill was only in operation for about 2 years when Stephen Deane died. In 1636, Jenney was authorized to "erect a mill for grinding and beating of corn upon the brook of Plymouth."
John operated the mill until his death in 1644. After his death, Sarah operated the corn mill. The mill was then carried on by their son Samuel and then by outsiders, until its demise in 1847. Sarah died in late 1655 or early 1666. We have wills and inventories for both John and Sarah. John’s inventory includes several books and a "smale globe," indicating some education and a curiosity, perhaps, about the world. Sarah Jenney’s inventory included these same books, but the globe is not listed.
1716. Edmund PERRY, the son of John Perry and ____? ____?,was born on 27 January 1599 in Devon, England, and christened (according to the mormon ancestral site) in Sussex, England, on 13 April 1596. He married Sarah ____? in 1613 in Probley, Bridford, Devonshire. He died in Sandwich, Massachusetts.
1717. Sarah ____?, daughter of John Crowell and Elishua ____?,was born in Devon, England, in 1592. She married Edmund Perry in 1613 in Probley, Bridford, Devonshire. She died in Sandwich, Massachusetts, on 8 June 1659, and was buried in Sandwich.
1718. Thomas BURGES BURGESS, the son of Thomas Burges and Elizabeth Pye, was born on 16 August 1601 in Truro, Cornwall, England, and christened there on 31 October 1603. He married Dorathy Waynes in 1628 in Truro. He died in Sandwich, Massachusetts, on 13 February 1685 and was buried in the Old Town Cemetery in Sandwich.
1719. Dorathy WAYNES, daughter of John Goodman,was born in 1603 in Earls, Barton, Norhantes, England, and was christened in 1605 (according to one of the mormon ancestral records) in Sandwich, Massachusetts. She married Thomas Burges Burgess in 1628 in Truro, Cornwall. She died in Sandwich, Massachusetts, on 27 February 1687 and was buried the same day in the Old Town Cemetery in Sandwich.
The mother of Elizabeth Burgessmight instead have been named Dorothy Wayne Phippen, who is said to have been both born and christened in Sandwich in 1605. Her wedding to Thomas Burgess is said to have been in England on 13 February 1686, and the date of her death is given as 27 February 1686 in Sandwich. She is also said to have been the daughter of a George Phippen who was not actually born till 1633. He has such a nice long genealogy that it's tempting to follow his line back. But for the time being I'll restrain myself.
1744. Tristram COFFIN, the son of Peter Coffin and Joan Thimber, was born in 1603 in Brixton near Plymouth, Devon County, England. (The LDS ancestral site says he was born and christened on 11 March 1609 in Plymouth, Brixton Parish, Devonshire, England.) He married Dionis Stevens in Brixton in 1629/1630. Children:
1745. Dionis STEVENS, daughter of Robert Stevens and (--?--) Dionis,was born and christened on 4 March 1609 in Plymouth, Brixton, Devon, England. She married Tristram Coffin in Brixton in 1629/1630. She died on Nantucket, Massachusetts, on 16 September 1676 and was buried on Nantucket in 1682.
(Another internet source -- which gives 1605 as Tristram Coffin's year of birth -- says Dionis Stevens was born in 1613 and died in 1661.)
1760. Rev. Thomas MAYHEW. [Same as 848 and 1664.]
1761. Jane PAINE. [Same as 849 and 1665.]
1762. James SKIFFE married Mary Reeves. [Same as 1666.]
1763. Mary REEVES married James Skiffe. [Same as 1667.]
1784. Ralph GORHAM. [Same as 1688.]
1786. John HOWLAND. [Same as 1690.]
1787. Elizabeth TILLEY. [Same as 1691.]
1788. Christopher HUSSEY. [Same as 1692.]
1789. Theodate BATCHELOR. [Same as 1693.]
1790. George BUNKER. [Same as 1694.]
1791. Jane GODFREY. [Same as 1695.]
1986. Richard KNIGHT married Agnes Coffey.
1987. Agnes COFFEY married Richard Knight.
3072. John WOODRUFF (WOODROF?), son of Robert Woodruff (Woodrof) and Alice Russell, was born in 1574 and married Elizabeth Cartwright in 1601. [According to Marvin D. Potts of Silverdale, Washington, via the LDS Ancestry.com website, his name was John Woodroffe, and he was born in Fordwich, Kent, in 1574 and died in October 1611 at St. Mary's, Northgate, Kent County. He and Elizabeth Cartwright were married in 1601 in Canterbury, Kent.]
3073. Elizabeth CARTWRIGHT married John Woodruff (Woodrof) in 1601. [According to Marvin D. Potts of Silverdale, Washington, via the LDS Ancestry.com website, she was born in 1580.]
3074. John GOSMER, the father of Anne Gosmer, evidently was born in England and was one of the first settlers of Long Island -- along with his son-in-law John Woodruff. Here is an excerpt from The History of Long Island:
The names of the settlers who had arrived during the first twelve months [of 1640] were: Daniel Howe, Thomas Goldsmith, John Oldfields, Samuel Dayton, Thomas Burnet, John Howell, Thomas Sayre, Edward Howell, William Odell, Thomas Topping, John Woodruff, Allen Breed, Edmund Farrington, Isaac Hillman, John Cooper, George Woods, Henry Pierson, Richard Post, Obadiah Rogers, John Fordham, John Lum, Samuel Osman, John Rose, James Herrick, Christopher Foster, Joseph Raynor, Ellis Cook, John Jagger, Richard Smith, Thomas Hildreth, John Hampton, Joshual Barnes, Abraham Pierson, Edward Needham, Samuel James, JOHN GOSMER, John Bishop, John White, William Payne, John Jessup, Josiah Howe, Henry Walton, William Harker, John Jennings, Benjamin Haynes, George Wells, Job Sayre.The conveyance for eight miles square of land from the agent of Lord Stirling to the above named persons, is recorded as follows:
“MEMORANDUM; It is agreed upon, between James Farret, agent and Edward Howell, JOHN GOSMER, Edmund ffarrington, Daniel Howe, Thomas Halsey, Edward Needham, Allen Breed, Thomas Sayre, Henry Waslton, George Well, William Harker, and Job Sayre; that whereupon it is agreed upon in a covenant passed between us touching the extente of a plantation in Long Island, that the aforesaid Mr. Edward Howell and his co-partners shall enjoy eight miles square of land, or so much as the said eight miles shall containe, and that now lie in said bounds, being layd out and agreed uppon: It is to begin at a place westward form Shinnecock, entitled the name of the place where the Indians drawe over their cannoes out of the north bay, over to the south side of the island, and from there to run along that neck of land eastward the whole breadth between the bays afores
