I have now been working on my family tree for three years. I have now over 12,000 names on the family tree. I have found out that from my DNA results that I am 100% European in ancestry with Scandinavian, Europe West, Great Britain which would include English, French, German, Irish, Scottish DNA mainly, with some Iberian, Eastern European, Italian DNA as well.
My family tree on ancestry.com has taken me from California where I was born back to Minnesota and Ohio where my parents and grandparents were born back through New England, England, Ireland and Sweden where my great grandparents were born and back in time over a thousand years ago with all of my common ancestors. Many of my common ancestors turned out to be of royal and noble lines from a long time ago in Europe, England, Scotland, Italy, Germany and France and Spain.
Lately, I have not found any new revelations regarding my family tree. I have been trying to fill in gaps caused by not following all of one branch all of the way. Usually because I followed the male line first, then I will follow the female line coming back. At times, the female line can be long also, and this will lead me to other long lines of ancestors.
I have also learned to use ancestry.com better, so I can do some things easier including adding pictures and comments
I also have been trying to correct some entries which can be even more complicated and confusing. As I have said, many other family trees and other sources including historians and professional genealogists do not always agree.
I have also learned to use ancestry.com better, so I can do some things easier including adding pictures and comments
I also have been trying to correct some entries which can be even more complicated and confusing. As I have said, many other family trees and other sources including historians and professional genealogists do not always agree.
My method has been to use ancestry.com as the basis of the family tree and information, but I use many other sources. I fill my tree with names, dates and places to the best I can. Many names, dates and places do not agree with other family trees. So I use Wikipedia and Google to try and locate more information regarding each name.
As I have pointed out throughout my blog, there are many reasons for discrepancies. Myself, I am having fun just finding out names and places and any historical context for each name, place and dates. I try to put a date, and a place as specific as possible, just to show the era and historical place and time each ancestor lived. I do try to verify some names and places for accuracy just for historical reference using Wikipedia which has a lot of references, but not a great reputation for accuracy, and Google, also, for references and again, not a great reputation for accuracy.
I have learned that the same sayings in history are the same in genealogy. One being, "who ever wins gets to write the history." or in this case, the family tree. There are many controversial family genealogies, especially, in many royal or noble lineages. There are too many examples. I have mentioned a few, but there are many more.
A lot of royal and noble families changed their lineage just to justify going to war or start court intrigues, or justify their position in society. And apparently, this practice began with Egyptian Pharaohs.
Learning the history of the families and countries and areas has been very fascinating.
IMMIGRATION
The other fascinating aspect of following the family tree has been learning how our families emigrated from one place to another especially to the United States which of course was a great migration of humans.
I have already discussed how three of my grandparent's families emigrated in the 19th century from England, Sweden and Ireland and possibly Germany.
The one exception was my maternal Grandmother's mother. Etta May Hubbell was from a pioneering family of Cleveland, Ohio and New England back to the Puritan migration from England.
(June 2016, I am reading a book, Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life, Oct 22, 2002 by Roger Daniels. It is a very interesting history of immigration in America.)
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=28224710
books.google.com/books?id=EoY_AAAAYAAJ
As a founding family of Milford, a memorial stone for Thomas Hine (1621-1698) and his wife, Elizabeth Lane Hine (1625-1673), was place on the Milford Memorial Bridge in dedication of their contribution to the formation of the settlement and in memory of their lives.
He married Elizabeth Lane in in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut. According to some sources, she was the daughter of Colonel John Lane, of Bentley Hall, Walsall, Staffordshire, England,
(1609 – 31 August 1667) who was the Member of Parliament for Lichfield, Staffordshire from 1661 to 1667. A Royalist colonel, he had given refuge to King Charles II at his Bentley estate following the Royalist defeat in 1651 at the Battle of Worcester, during the English Civil War. He was appointed MP shortly after the Restoration of the Monarchy. He died in 1667 and was succeeded by Richard Dyott.
The Lane family ancestors had lived on the Bentley Estate for centuries and they can be traced back to the Dukes of Normandy. See the following for more information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lane_(MP)
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/lane-john-1609-67#family-relations
But, there are many mysteries and discrepancies regarding Elizabeth 's ancestry. According to http://www.thepeerage.com/p21864.htm#i218632:
Elizabeth Lane was the daughter of Colonel John Lane and Athaliah Anson. She married Sir Humphrey Jarvis. She died on 11 January 1687. Her married name became Jarvis.
Newark Old Settlers Monument
(from "Cyclopedia of New Jersey Biography" 1923, American Historical Society)
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=89028352
http://www.sallysfamilyplace.com/Wheeler/cranejem.htm
http://www.anamericanfamilyhistory.com/Fry%20Family/FryThomasinMeigs.html#VincentMeigs shows that according to:
Elizabeth’s father was William Churchill (1557-1615) who lived in Dorset, England. He turned out to be a 10th generation great grandfather to Humphrey Bogart. He is also the brother to Roger Churchill and son of William Churchill (1531-1599) who were direct ancestors of Winston Churchill Spencer and Lady Diana Spencer. His mother was Mary Cruese (Cruse) (1535-1588) They all lived in Dorset, England or Devon, England which are Shires that are together in Southern England. (See Pedigree of William Churchill which has erroneous dates for the William Churchill. Other family trees I have reviewed had problems also with these William Churchills)
See thess sites regarding Emma Strong being the wife: http://www.stupakgen.net/Genealogy/Beahm/31264_meig.htm
http://genforum.genealogy.com/meigs/messages/70.html
Learning the history of the families and countries and areas has been very fascinating.
IMMIGRATION
The other fascinating aspect of following the family tree has been learning how our families emigrated from one place to another especially to the United States which of course was a great migration of humans.
I have already discussed how three of my grandparent's families emigrated in the 19th century from England, Sweden and Ireland and possibly Germany.
The one exception was my maternal Grandmother's mother. Etta May Hubbell was from a pioneering family of Cleveland, Ohio and New England back to the Puritan migration from England.
This was called "the Great Migration" that refers to the migration in this period of English settlers,(1620-60) primarily Puritans to Massachusetts. They came in family groups, rather than as isolated individuals, and were motivated chiefly by a quest for freedom to practice their Puritan religion.
The earliest seem to be the Gardner family led by Thomas Gardner, "The Immigrant" (1565-1635) who was a sea captain, whose daughter Rachel Gardner (1608-1632) is my 10th GGM who married Thomas Noble III (1606-1632), my 10th GGF, and whose son named Thomas Gardner (1591-1674) is considered one of the great founding colonists of Massachusetts, and was the first Governor of Massachusetts. He came to Massachusetts in 1624 and he, "was an Overseer of the "old planters" party of the Dorchester Company who landed in 1624 on the ship Charity or the ship Zouch Phoenix at Cape Ann, to form a colony at what is now known as Gloucester. Gardner is considered by some as the first Governor of Massachusetts, due to his being in authority in the first settlement that became the Massachusetts Bay Colony (which later subsumed the Plymouth Colony).
The home of Thomas Noble, Westfield circa 1725.
Mr. Noble, though a man of activity and industry, seems to have early fallen into a habit of living "beyond his means," and as a natural result, soon found himself in debt. To secure the sums due to Henry Smith and John Pynchon, he was obliged, in 1667, to make over to Pynchon his house in Springfield, and all his lands, except a grant towards Windsor. In the hope of improving his condition, and providing for the wants of a large and growing family, he was therefore ready to join those who were beginning a settlement at Westfield. The precise time of his removal to that place is not known. The lands there granted to him, July, 1666, on condition that he settled upon them before the last of May, 1667, having been forfeited by non-settlement, the grant was renewed, Jan. 9, 1668, and the time of the settlement extended to Nov. 10, 1668. At all events, he was there as early as Jan. 21, 1669, for at a meeting at Warronoco, (Westfield), at that date.
In his historical sketch of Westfield, Rev. Dr. Emerson Davis states, that Mr. Noble's residence in Westfield was about two and a half miles east of the present center of the town, on the farm where his son, Deacon Thomas Noble, afterwards resided, and which remained in the family until after the death, in 1791, of his great-grandson, Lieut. Stephen Noble, when it passed into the possession of Ambrose Day. There, he doubtless lived in peace and quite, until the commencement of "King Philip's" war, in 1675.
Agriculture, necessarily the main pursuit of every one in the early history of a country, was his principal employment, although while at Springfield, during the winter, he worked a portion of the time as a tailor.
At Westfield, he was so much prospered in his labors, as not only to bring up a large family of children well, but also to leave them at his death a respectable estate.
Another e-book called: History and Genealogy of the Family of Thomas Noble, of Westfield, Massachusetts
My 8th GGF, Sgt. Richard Hubbell emigrated by ship from Redditch, Worcestershire, England to Massachusetts in the 1640's settling in Connecticut. He died on October 23, 1699
Richard Hubbell's (Hubball) gravestone at Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut
Their granddaughter, Hannah Sherwood (1685), my 7th GGM married John T. Bradley (1664-1703) in Fairfield, Connecticut and their daughter Abigail married Captain Ephraim Hubbell, (1694-1780), who was the 3rd GGF to my great grandmother Etta May Hubbell. I have discussed the Hubbell's in a prior blog.
Again, for myself, as I fill in my ancestry.com family tree, as long as I am in the ballpark, I am happy.
As of March, 2014, as I have pointed out in another blog, I re-discovered a controversy regarding Vincent Meigg which is mentioned in the following document. It appears that a certain Vincent Meigg, Megg, etc.was actually married to a Emma Strong, not Elizabeth Ann Churchill- the controversy being that there may be two Vincent Meiggs from the same area of Devon, England, who had different fathers and wives, and only one Vincent Meigg moved to America and be my ancestor along with many others-but apparently both sides of the debate have their arguments-so I am not changing my tree just because some one on the internet tells me too, Imagine?
They all came from England. All came as Puritans fleeing religious persecution, except maybe a few that had other reasons. They seemed to have come mostly from Southern and Southwestern England by ship between 1623, not quite the same year as with the Pilgrims, and 1660s.
The earliest seem to be the Gardner family led by Thomas Gardner, "The Immigrant" (1565-1635) who was a sea captain, whose daughter Rachel Gardner (1608-1632) is my 10th GGM who married Thomas Noble III (1606-1632), my 10th GGF, and whose son named Thomas Gardner (1591-1674) is considered one of the great founding colonists of Massachusetts, and was the first Governor of Massachusetts. He came to Massachusetts in 1624 and he, "was an Overseer of the "old planters" party of the Dorchester Company who landed in 1624 on the ship Charity or the ship Zouch Phoenix at Cape Ann, to form a colony at what is now known as Gloucester. Gardner is considered by some as the first Governor of Massachusetts, due to his being in authority in the first settlement that became the Massachusetts Bay Colony (which later subsumed the Plymouth Colony).
"The Gardner family history dates back to early colonial America when Thomas Gardner sailed from England to Cape Ann in 1623, only three years after the arrival of the Mayflower. He was dispatched from Weymouth, England, by the Dorchester Company and was appointed as the overseer of the Plantation at Cape Ann. Unfortunately, this area proved to be unsuited for farming due to the predominantly rocky and unfertile soil. Those that remained did so “to the hazard of their lives,” and most died in the first three years. In 1626, the survivors of the colony under the direction of Roger Conant relocated to the mouth of the Naumkeag River and founded present day Salem. Yet the title of Massachusetts’ first governor belongs to Thomas Gardner because he was the first man of authority over what developed into the Massachusetts Bay Colony." from "The Gardners of Massachusetts: An American Legacy." By Anthony Taylor Dunn.
Thomas Gardner was born in 1592 in the West Country of England and died 29 October 1674, in Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was buried in the old burial ground called Gardner Hill near present day Boston Street and Grove, in Salem, Massachusetts.
Parents: Thomas Gardner (1565 - 1635) and Elizabeth White (1564 - 1648). Thomas Gardner Sr. may have been a descendant of Owen Tudor whose grand-daughter married a Gardner (ca 1450s, England). His mother was the sister of John White who was instrumental in the Dorchester Company. They also came to Massachusetts.
http://www.geni.com/people/Thomas-Gardner-Gov-of-Cape-Ann-Colony/6000000009403530665
Thomas Gardner was married to Elizabeth White, a sister of the Rector of Trinity College at Oxford, Rev. John White, who was a major force behind the establishment of both New England and the Massachusetts Bay Colonies. He entrusted the establishment in the Colonies of the Dorchester Company and plantation to Thomas Gardner and Elizabeth. Although the enterprise failed, they stayed in America to become a very important family of colonists. Thomas died in Salem Massachusetts in 1635.
Thomas Gardner was married to Elizabeth White, a sister of the Rector of Trinity College at Oxford, Rev. John White, who was a major force behind the establishment of both New England and the Massachusetts Bay Colonies. He entrusted the establishment in the Colonies of the Dorchester Company and plantation to Thomas Gardner and Elizabeth. Although the enterprise failed, they stayed in America to become a very important family of colonists. Thomas died in Salem Massachusetts in 1635.
I have already discussed the Gardiners, Nobles and Whites. The Gardiners, Gardners were from Dorset County. The Nobles were from Elmsted, Kent. The Whites were from Stanton St. John, Oxfordshire, England.
Thomas Noble IV, (1632-1704), the son of Thomas III, married Hannah Warriner, (1643-1721), whose father was William Warriner, also known as Warringer, was the original ancestor who came to Springfield, MA. in 1638. Tradition says that he eloped from Lincolnshire, England with Lady Clifford, daughter of Lord Howe, or Howard, an English Admiral, and made his home in Yorkshire, England. His wife died in England in 1619 and is buried in the Canterbury Churchyard.William appeared among the pioneers of Springfield in 1638. He was a widower at least 57 years old when he married Joanna Scant in 1639, some say that she was Joanna Searl, but the record is clear that she was Scant. Jonna died in 1660 and in 1661 he married Elizabeth, widow of Luke Hitchcock, of Wethersfield, Conn. She was the mother of Hannah, John and Luck Hitchock, she survived him and then became the 3rd wife of Joseph Baldwin of Hadley. William owned a large part of Springfield.His house stood where the old Courthouse now stands, on the north side ofthe First Congregational Church, in front of Court Square. He lived inSpringfield for 38 years. There is no record of his grave.
http://www.geni.com/people/William-Warriner-Immigrant/6000000005083284158
Cemetery Memorial at Old Burial Ground Fairfield, Connecticut to Thomas Sherwood and his two wives -Alice Seabrooke and Mary Fitch. "In Memory of Thomas Sherwood 1586-1655 Puritan- Pioneer- Ancestor A Founder of New England,, A First Settler of Fairfield: Deputy to the General Court, Committeeman, Soldier of the Pequot War, "
My 9th GGF and GGM Thomas Sherwood (1586-1655) and Alice Seabrooke (1587-1639) sailed from Ipswich, Suffolk, England in April 1634, arriving two months later in June 1634 in Boston, Massachusetts on the "Francis" with ship's captain Master John Cutting.
Cemetery Memorial at Old Burial Ground Fairfield, Connecticut to Thomas Sherwood and his two wives -Alice Seabrooke and Mary Fitch. "In Memory of Thomas Sherwood 1586-1655 Puritan- Pioneer- Ancestor A Founder of New England,, A First Settler of Fairfield: Deputy to the General Court, Committeeman, Soldier of the Pequot War, "
The third English immigrant family was that of my 10th GGF, Thomas Noble III (1606-1636) and his son, my 9th GGF, with same name who was born in 1632 at possibly Aldington, Kent, England. Thomas IV married Hannah Warringer, my 9th GGM, on 1 November 1660. Thomas Noble IV died on 20 January 1704 at Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts.
The home of Thomas Noble, Westfield circa 1725.
According to http://www.holcombegenealogy.com/data/p1008.htm#i50360: Thomas was the emigrant ancestor of the largest family in the United States, bearing the name of Noble. He was born as early as 1632, probably in some part of England. His exact origin and early history are involved in obscurity, the place of his birth, the names of his parents, and the year in which he came to his country, being alike unknown. He was, without doubt, here in 1653, and was the man mentioned by Drake, (History of Boston, p. 331) as admitted, on the 5th of January of that year, an inhabitant of Boston. The same year, he removed to Springfield, Mass., and opened an account at the store of John Pynchon. though not one of the founders, he may be considered as one of the early settlers of that ancient town, the first settlement having been made in 1636, only seventeen years before. A few years after removing to Springfield, he visited England, as appears from an account-book of Mr. Pynchon.
In 1664, in connection with several of his townsmen, he had liberty granted him to erect a saw-mill, on the west side of the Connecticut.Mr. Noble, though a man of activity and industry, seems to have early fallen into a habit of living "beyond his means," and as a natural result, soon found himself in debt. To secure the sums due to Henry Smith and John Pynchon, he was obliged, in 1667, to make over to Pynchon his house in Springfield, and all his lands, except a grant towards Windsor. In the hope of improving his condition, and providing for the wants of a large and growing family, he was therefore ready to join those who were beginning a settlement at Westfield. The precise time of his removal to that place is not known. The lands there granted to him, July, 1666, on condition that he settled upon them before the last of May, 1667, having been forfeited by non-settlement, the grant was renewed, Jan. 9, 1668, and the time of the settlement extended to Nov. 10, 1668. At all events, he was there as early as Jan. 21, 1669, for at a meeting at Warronoco, (Westfield), at that date.
In his historical sketch of Westfield, Rev. Dr. Emerson Davis states, that Mr. Noble's residence in Westfield was about two and a half miles east of the present center of the town, on the farm where his son, Deacon Thomas Noble, afterwards resided, and which remained in the family until after the death, in 1791, of his great-grandson, Lieut. Stephen Noble, when it passed into the possession of Ambrose Day. There, he doubtless lived in peace and quite, until the commencement of "King Philip's" war, in 1675.
Agriculture, necessarily the main pursuit of every one in the early history of a country, was his principal employment, although while at Springfield, during the winter, he worked a portion of the time as a tailor.
At Westfield, he was so much prospered in his labors, as not only to bring up a large family of children well, but also to leave them at his death a respectable estate.
Another e-book called: History and Genealogy of the Family of Thomas Noble, of Westfield, Massachusetts
Thomas Noble III married Rachel Gardner who came from another immigrant family, the Gardner's, whom I have discussed in another blog.By L.M. Boltwood published in 1845 states the same as above. Apparently, both Thomas Nobles ended up in Boston, Massachusetts in 1652 or 1653. No one seems to be sure.
Another immigrant ancestor was my 7th GGF, Zachariah Ferris (1648-1711), from Reading, Berkshire, England who settled in Charlestown Massachusetts before 1673, and ended up in New Milford, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA. He was a soldier in the King Philip's war of 1676, and was killed in the Expedition to Port Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1710 or 1711 during Queen's Anne's War. Zachariah was in Charlestown, Massachusetts by 1673, when he married Sarah Blood, [daughter of Richard and Isabel Blood] on the 17th of November. His granddaughter, Sarah Ferris married Captain Stephen Noble. Their daughter Lucy Noble (1734-1813) married Jedediah Hubbell, (1731-1813) my 5th GGparents.
Some of his story can be found here:
http://funwithfamilyhistory.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/0762-chapter7-book-of-leonard-gurley.pdf
It appears that a lot of sources mix him and his son, also, Zachariah Ferris (1674-1750)
Richard Hubbell's (Hubball) gravestone at Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut
Their granddaughter, Hannah Sherwood (1685), my 7th GGM married John T. Bradley (1664-1703) in Fairfield, Connecticut and their daughter Abigail married Captain Ephraim Hubbell, (1694-1780), who was the 3rd GGF to my great grandmother Etta May Hubbell. I have discussed the Hubbell's in a prior blog.
Again, for myself, as I fill in my ancestry.com family tree, as long as I am in the ballpark, I am happy.
As of March, 2014, as I have pointed out in another blog, I re-discovered a controversy regarding Vincent Meigg which is mentioned in the following document. It appears that a certain Vincent Meigg, Megg, etc.was actually married to a Emma Strong, not Elizabeth Ann Churchill- the controversy being that there may be two Vincent Meiggs from the same area of Devon, England, who had different fathers and wives, and only one Vincent Meigg moved to America and be my ancestor along with many others-but apparently both sides of the debate have their arguments-so I am not changing my tree just because some one on the internet tells me too, Imagine?
| My 9th GGF, Sgt. Francis, Nichols, (1575-1650), He was one of the founders of Stratford in 1639, where the Connecticut General Court placed him in charge of military affairs. He was Sergeant of the Stratford Trainband. Francis Nichols was baptized on 25 May 1575 at Sedgeberrow, Worcestershire, England. His parents were John Nichols and Joan Goodwith. He married Frances Wimarke, Wymark, Wymarke on 24 Jan 1599/1600 at Sedgeberrow England. He settled at Stratford, Connecticut, by 10 Oct 1639, when he was appointed sergeant of the Stratford trainband, and that same year was listed with his three sons (John, Isaac, and Caleb) among the 17 first settlers of Stratford. Francis died before 8 Jan 1650/51. Frances married second 1 Dec 1645 in Southold, Long Island to Anna Wines (b. 1632/1633 in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Frances Wimarke (Wilmark, Wymark, Wimark) was baptized 2 Nov 1577 at Sedgeberrow, Worcestershire, England Her parents were Robert Wimarke, Wymark, Wymarke of Sedgeberrow. Frances apparently died before the family’s removed to New England, perhaps in 1634. | |
 http://minerdescent.com/2012/01/03/francis-nichols/ is a very long history of both Francis and Issaac Nichols, my 8th GGF who married Margery Washburn, Washbourne. Their daughter, Temperance Nichols married Samuel Hubbell, who we have already met, and she was the 5th GGM of Edwin.Powell Hubble (pioneering astronomer). Margery, Margaret Washburne, Washburn, Washbourne, (1620-1675) my 8th GGM, ancestry goes all the way back to the legendary Ogier, the Dane, who was the son of Geoffroy, who wrested Denmark from the Pagans, and reigned as the first Christian king of that country, in the times of Emperor Charlemagne of France. Margaret Washburne, Washburn, Washbourne, died circa 1675 at Stratford, Fairfield, CT. 
Ogier, the Dane,
Her father was William Washburn, Washbourne, my 9th GGF, who was the second son of John and Martha Trimell Stevens, Stephens, Washburn. He was born in 1601 and baptized on November 9, 1601, in the Parish Church of Saint Peter in Bengeworth, Evesham, Worcestershire, England.The exact date that William immigrated to America is not known. It is believed that he initially came to America and then returned to England before later returning. William was in Bengeworth, England, at least until December 18, 1637, when his daughter Martha was baptized at Saint Peters. Between that date and 1647, no records of William Washburn have been found. However, he probably moved to London, England, for a while before immigrating to America as he owned property in London at the time of his death. It is possible that William and his wife, Joan, Jane Nichols Washburn, my 9th GGM,daughter of Francis and Frances Wilmarke Nichols, migrated from England to Connecticut Colony with the family of Jane's father, Francis Nichols, in about 1639.. In 1647, William's name appeared in a list of proprietors of Hempstead, Long Island. In 1653, William bought land with others at Oyster Bay, Long Island from the indian Asiapac. He also was a deputy in Hempstead with John Seaman in 1653. William moved to Stratford, Connecticut, about 1655 with his two oldest sons, John and Hope. About two years later, he moved with his son John and family back to Hempstead, Long Island. William was an elder of the original Board of Elders of the old First Church of Hempstead. His name is listed with five others who were Elders of the church. William died in either 1658 or 1659, but more probably in late May 1659 because his Will was brought to John James, Town Clerk of Hempstead, Long Island, on June 5, 1659, for probate by his widow, Joan Washburn. The unusually legible will is still preserved in the office of the Town Clerk of North Hempstead, Long Island, along with other documents concerning his estate. Another controversy appears concerning William's wife. Some family trees have her as Jane, Joan Whitehead and others have her as Jane, Joan Nichols, a member of the aforementioned Nichols family. Here is one source that shows the confusion. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ricrhode&id=I4972Extract from "The Washburn Family in America" by Brenton Washburn: William was the younger brother of John Washburn who married Margery Moore. William came to America about 1645-50 and was living in Stratford, Connecticut in 1655, moved to Hempstead, New York in 1660, and was a founder of Oyster bay. In the Teddy Roosevelt museum at Sagamore Hill there is a deed to the site of Oyster Bay made out to William and son John Washburn and signed by Sagamore Mohantas, the Matinecock Indian Chief. Several books show William's wife as Joan Whitehead. Joan Whitehead was the wife of a John Washburn in England who died in 1593. Joan Nichols was the daughter of Isaac Nichols of Stratford, Connecticut, and William's son John mentioned his "Uncle Isaac Nichols." http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ricrhode&id=I4973There is some question as to the surname of Jane, William's wife. The most possible name is Nichols, for both son, John, and grandson, John, make reference in a will and legal records to their Uncle Isaac Nichols of Stratford, Connecticut. As there seems to be some litigation over Wm. Washburn's will, it is possible that son John was the son of a previous wife to Jane. The other name commonly proposed for Jane is Whitehead, but I have seen no proof of that [source: Our Washburn Heritage, by Elain Washburn Olney]. But if the above is true, it means that Joan, Jane Nichols daughter married her brother since Isaac Nichols married Margery Washburn. I do not know if that would happen in Puritan New England or England. So I'll go with Jane, Joan Whitehead for now. His father was John Washbourne, my 10th GGF who was born on August 1, 1566, at Bengeworth, Evesham, Worcestershire, England. He married Martha Timbrell Stevens on July 6, 1596, in Bengeworth, Evesham, Worcestershire, England. Martha died in 1626 in Bengeworth.He was one of the twelve Capital Burgesses mentioned in the Charter of Incorporation granted by King James I to Evesham and Bengeworth in the third year of his reign (1605) constituting them a Borough and granting the town two representatives in the English Parliament. On May 25, 1608 and October 2, 1610, John Washbourne signed the Corporation Minutes. He resigned the Council on August 30, 1614, probably because of his health, and his resignation is recorded in the Corporation Minutes on that date.John died and was buried on August 4, 1624 in Bengeworth at 57 years of age. He was the father of the first Washburn family members in America. This case is an example of why I really do not like trying to correct the family tree. I did this section of my family tree three years ago. Now I am finding all of these controversies. Another family tree has additional Isaac Nichols and children and wives with different names. So, instead of clarifying things, the waters get muddier due to all of reasons I have mentioned in all of my blogs. So, I think I will conclude with a summary of my initial question. Where did my ancestors, whoever they may really be, immigrate from to America during the "Great Migration."?
Deacon Richard Goodman (1609-1673) my 10th GGF and of whom I have discussed before. Came from Blaston, Harborough, Leicestershire, England to Massachusetts Bay in 1633. First settled in Cambridge; moved to Hartford in 1636, and then Hadley by 1661. Became a Separatist or Puritan associated with Rev. Thomas Hooker; emigrated to New England in 1632 with group known as Mr. Hooker's Company. Was made a deacon the church in Hartford, Conn. about 1642 and afterward often referred to as Deacon Richard Goodman in town records; also as a deacon was responsible for seeing that a church was erected in Hadley as soon as possible. He was one of the original 59 citizens that signed the agreement Apr 18, 1659 at Goodman Ward's home in Hartford to settle at Hadley. "Deacon Richard Goodman being slain by the Indians was buried April 3d 1676" at Hadley.
He married Mary Terry, daughter of Stephen Terry, in Windsor 8 December 1659. She died at Deerfield between 25 February 1692 and 29 March 1693.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=pjmpjm&id=I15601
Their daughter, Mary Goodman (1665-1717) married John Noble of the Noble family.
Mary Terry came from a family that has an ancestry going back through Wales and Italy.
 Another important pioneer was my 9th GGF and grandfather to Abigail Morgan (1683-1758), who married Captain Stephen Noble. Miles Morgan (1616 – 28 May 1699) was an English colonist of America, a pioneer settler of what was to become Springfield, Massachusetts. Springfield's hero of King Phillip's War in 1675, a statue of Miles Morgan still stands in the city's Court Square. Of Welsh ancestry, he was born in Bristol, England, a younger son, and he joined one of the many vessels that conveyed emigrants to America from Bristol. He arrived at Boston in April 1636. His ancestry can be followed back through Ivor Ap Bledti (1104-) and finally, to Tenth Century Wales, Collwyn, Gollwyn, Gwyn, Gwen ap Rhytherch, Ap Ednywain, Lord of Anglesea, Lord of Dyfed, Arglwydd Dyfed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Morgan
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dmasilm/gilbert.htm  Another mystery has just been discovered while researching Thomas Gilbert: He may have been married to a woman condemned to death as a witch in Connecticut in the 1650's. Or maybe his son, Thomas, Jr was married to her, Lydia Gilbert (1586 - 1654) , anyway, interesting.(see my blog on Saints, witches etc in my family tree). Also, she may have escaped or done some other things. http://www.damnedct.com/lydia-gilbert/ http://apps.olin.wustl.edu/faculty/mcleanparks/bearswamp/lydiagilbert.htm http://www.geni.com/people/Lydia-Gilbert-Ballett/6000000000902819929 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6167291 The above book can be found at amazon.com. The small controversy here is whether his son, Thomas, was the son of Goodie or his second wife Joanna. Different family trees have one or the other. Apparently Thomas Jr. was born in 1650, a year before Goodie was executed, and Sr. married Joanna, Thomas Beardsley's widow by 25 November 1661. So it is safe to say that Thomas Jr. is Goodie's son. Just a note regarding the name Goody. It is short for Goodwife which was the Puritan's way of saying Mrs., Madame, etc. the "good wife". (isn't there a television show of the same name?) Also, it is shown as Goldie, Goodie, etc. I found out in April 2014 that another interesting family is in my ancestry which is the Pierpont family, whose most famous member is J.P. Morgan (1837-1913), the financier and founder of J.P. Morgan Bank and companies, General Electric, U.S. Steel, etc.; 25th wealthiest American ever . His mother was Juliet Pierpont (1816-1884) whose family's ancestry goes all the way back to medieval France, at Pierrepont, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France in the eleventh century. My 13th GGF was Edmund Pierpont, Pierrepont, who died in 1370 and lived on the family estate of Holme Pierrepont Hall, Nottinghamshire, England. And he is the 13th GGF of Juliet Pierpont. Edmund's granddaughter, Lady Elizabeth, (b. 1374) married into the Strelly family of Strelly, Nottinghamshire, and their great, great granddaughter married int to the White family and eventually into the Gardner family, who was discussed above as an immigrant family.  Holme Pierrepont Hall, Nottinghamshire, England The history of the original Pierpont family from Normandy is found here: http://www.depierrepont.net/histoire It basically states that there were three branches of the family with one staying in France, another emigrating to England,and living at Holme Pierrepont Hall, and eventually moving to the United States and J.P. Morgan (John Pierpont). A third emigrated to Argentina. Here is a little bit more history: http://www.mocavo.com/Memorial-to-My-Honored-Kindred-Rev-Charles-Chauncey-Darling/637440/48 Text from Document
REV. JAMES PIERPONT.
41 t>ridge with which Charlemagne supplied the place of a ferry. His son, Sir Godfrey Pierrepont, succeeded, and was father of Godfrey and Robert. Godfrey, son of Sir Godfrey, was father of Sir Ingol- t>rand, lord of Castle Pierrepont, Picardy, A. D. 1090, and ancestor of the French Pierreponts. The younger son, Sir Robert de Pierre- pont, knight, came over from France to England as a commander in the army of the Conqueror, 1066, from whom he received great estates in the counties of Suffolk and Sussex, among which was the lordship of Hurst Pierrepont. His son was William de Pierrepont, lord of the Manor of Hurst Pierrepont, county Sussex. His son, Simon de Pierrepont, of Hurst, was at the siege of Acre; was . succeeded by his son, William de Pierrepont. He had two sons, Simon and a younger brother; the former was his successor. Robert de Pierrepont, sixth lord of the Manor of Hurst Pierre- pont, was the father of Sir Henry de Pierrepont, “a person of great note,” fought in the battle of Lewes, 1264, died 1292. He married Annora, only daughter of Sir Michael de Manvers, lord of the Manor of Holme, of which he became possessed under the name of Holme Pierrepont, county Nottingham. This place is still in the family, the present proprietor being Herbert Pierrepont, of Holme Pierre- pont. Sir Henry was succeeded by his son Simon, who was created Baron Pierrepont. His younger son, Sir Robert de Pierrepont, third proprietor of Holme Pierrepont married Sarah, daughter of Sir John de Heriz, knight, and was succeeded by his son, Henry de Pierrepont, who married Mary, daughter of (by Maude, only daughter of Edmund, Baron Deincourt) Sir William Fitzwilliam, knight, grandson of Thomas Fitzwilliam, the son of Sir William Fitzwilliam and Ella Plantagenet. They had Henry and a younger son, Sir Edmund Pierrepont, maternally descended from the Kings of France and England, Counts of Normandy, Flanders and Anjou, | |
Memorial Stone on Milford Memorial Bridge
Milford honors its founders and Native Americans with an 1889 bridge on the site of the city’s first mill. The
Memorial Bridge, across the Wepawaug River along today’s New Haven Avenue, was built as part of
Milford’s 250th anniversary celebration. The bridge features a tower and 29 stones inscribed with the
names of local settlers, as well as an eclectic collection of local artifacts. The bridge’s north and south
copings are marked with large pink granite stones inscribed with the name of an original settler, as well as
the name of his wife and date of his death.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=28224710
March 10, 1646/47, Edward was listed as being seated in the meeting house at New Haven, Connecticut. His wife, Mary, was seated in the women's "long" seats.
In November 1652 Edward was involved in litigation with Thomas Beach at the court in New Haven for beating him. He was fined 20 shillings. Thomas Beach returned to court in December for help in collecting the fine.
Edward died September 1659 in Milford at age 42. http://www.genyourway.com/gt-am.htmlbooks.google.com/books?id=EoY_AAAAYAAJ
Thomas married to Phebe/Phoebe Crane of Weathersfield, CT, in CT in 1646, after immigrating from England about 1645. In Milford, Connecticut, Thomas Canfield was administrator to the church on March 1, 1656. He had a home lot in 1667. He was a freeman by 1669. He was made sergeant of the "Train Band" in May, 1669. Thomas represented the town of Milford in the General Court in October 1674, and in 1676. He was taxed in 1686 for 1154 pounds; the inventory of his property at his decease, Aug. 22, 1689, was 1482 pounds, 15 shillings, and 7 d.
Thomas and Phebe Canfield arrived in Milford 1646. Inventory of Thomas' estate was made on August 22, 1689.
From "The Ancestry and Descendants of Frederick Tracy Camp & his wife Marion Fee," compiled by John F. Camp, Jr. and N. Grier Parke, II, with the editorial help of Donald Lines Jacobus, p. 32:
"Thomas was confirmed Sergeant of the Milford Trainband, May 1669, and served as Deputy, Oct. 1673, Oct. 1674, Oct. 1676, Oct. 1681, Oct. 1683, Nov. 1683, May and July 1684.
Thomas and Phebe Canfield's son, Jeremiah Canfield (1662-1740) married Alice Hine (1667-1740) whose father, Thomas Hine (1621-1698) who was from Essex, England, was another Milford pioneer."The will of Thomas Canfield, Sr., dated 13 Feb. 1687/8, mentioned his wife Phebe; three married daughters, Sarah, Phebe, and Elizabeth; daughter Abigail; three unmarried daughters; two sons, Thomas and Jeremiah; and son John Smith. His inventory, taken 22 Aug. 1689, calls him Sergeant."
- Thomas Hine, "the first in America, had a home-lot in Milford 28 Jan 1646. The name is spelled Hind, Hine, and Hinde. He died in Milford and by will dated 1694, remembered, among several children, Stephen. He had ten children at least. In Lambert's HIstory of New Haven colony is a tradition that he relieved an Indian who was fastened on the marsh by the Mohawks to perish by the bites of musquitoes. For this act he was held in high regard by the neighboring Indians, who said that when Hine or his descendants died, the Great Spirit took them at once to his big wigwam. (from Baldwin Genealogy p. 117)
As a founding family of Milford, a memorial stone for Thomas Hine (1621-1698) and his wife, Elizabeth Lane Hine (1625-1673), was place on the Milford Memorial Bridge in dedication of their contribution to the formation of the settlement and in memory of their lives.
He married Elizabeth Lane in in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut. According to some sources, she was the daughter of Colonel John Lane, of Bentley Hall, Walsall, Staffordshire, England,
(1609 – 31 August 1667) who was the Member of Parliament for Lichfield, Staffordshire from 1661 to 1667. A Royalist colonel, he had given refuge to King Charles II at his Bentley estate following the Royalist defeat in 1651 at the Battle of Worcester, during the English Civil War. He was appointed MP shortly after the Restoration of the Monarchy. He died in 1667 and was succeeded by Richard Dyott.
The Lane family ancestors had lived on the Bentley Estate for centuries and they can be traced back to the Dukes of Normandy. See the following for more information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lane_(MP)
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/lane-john-1609-67#family-relations
But, there are many mysteries and discrepancies regarding Elizabeth 's ancestry. According to http://www.thepeerage.com/p21864.htm#i218632:
Elizabeth Lane was the daughter of Colonel John Lane and Athaliah Anson. She married Sir Humphrey Jarvis. She died on 11 January 1687. Her married name became Jarvis.
(from "Cyclopedia of New Jersey Biography" 1923, American Historical Society)
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=89028352
http://www.sallysfamilyplace.com/Wheeler/cranejem.htm
http://www.anamericanfamilyhistory.com/Fry%20Family/FryThomasinMeigs.html#VincentMeigs shows that according to:
Record of the Descendants of Vincent Meigs: Who Came from Dorsetchire By Henry Benjamin Meigs
Vincent Meigs was the sole representative of the first generation of the name in America. According to early histories he came here with sons Vincent (2), John (3) and Mark (4), (born 1609-12-14.) and the family of John, but it is not known when they sailed, nor from what port in England, nor on what ship. It is supposed, however, from other statements regarding the family that they sailed from Weymouth, England, about 1634-5.
Vincent was born in 1583 and tradition says he married a Miss Churchill. He was evidently a widower when he came to America. The family are first recorded in this country as at Weymouth, Mass., in 1639. From there they went with Rev. Samuel Newman's company in 1642, to Rehoboth, Mass., and about 1644, to New Haven, Conn. Vincent Meigs is recorded at New Haven, October 6, 1646, as neglecting to "trayn" on June 14, 1646, and was fined 2s. 6 p. "But if he bring proof that he trayned twice in one fortnight the fine is to be remitted." He is also recorded in the same year as" being " an old man with only two children known to us."
About 1654, the family of John with his father removed to East Guilford, ( Hammonassett) and there Vincent built his home. . .
Vincent Meigs died at Hammonassett, Dec. 1, 1658. His will, dated September 2, 1658, and said to have been written on his death bed, was probated December 2, following, and it is tradition in Madison that his was the first burial in Hammonassett Grave Yard.
John Meigs, 2nd son of Vincent, is said to have been born near Bradford, England, 1612, and married in 1632, Thomasine or Tamazin Fry, of Weymouth, England, sister of William Fry and Mary Fry, who married Walter Harris, (who came to America in 1632 on the William Francis). It is conjectured that letters from Walter Harris sent back to England may have influenced the emigration of John Meigs and family, but there is no proof of this.
Elizabeth’s father was William Churchill (1557-1615) who lived in Dorset, England. He turned out to be a 10th generation great grandfather to Humphrey Bogart. He is also the brother to Roger Churchill and son of William Churchill (1531-1599) who were direct ancestors of Winston Churchill Spencer and Lady Diana Spencer. His mother was Mary Cruese (Cruse) (1535-1588) They all lived in Dorset, England or Devon, England which are Shires that are together in Southern England. (See Pedigree of William Churchill which has erroneous dates for the William Churchill. Other family trees I have reviewed had problems also with these William Churchills)
See thess sites regarding Emma Strong being the wife: http://www.stupakgen.net/Genealogy/Beahm/31264_meig.htm
http://genforum.genealogy.com/meigs/messages/70.html
