Boston Evening Transcript (newspaper)/1908/June 22/Genealogical
Genealogical[edit]
Published every Monday and Wednesday
- Monday, June 22, 1908
Queries[edit]
(*23.) 1. How, Howe. Is it known what was the family name of Mary, who was wife of “Goodman” John How of Marlboro.
2. Martyn, Gove. Thomas Martyr married Mary Gove, probably about 1700. What were the dates and parentage of both?
3. Dunster, Page. Wanted, the parentage of Faith Dunster, who became the wife of John Page, May 12, 1664.
4. Page. What was the parentage of Martha —, who was wife of “Governor” Samuel Page of Groton?
5. Holden. What was the family name of Marah~, who was wife of Justinian (2) Holden of Groton and Watertown?
6. Perry. Who were father and mother of Seth Perry (of Cape Cod), who married Mercy (or Mary) Freeman, May 3, 1757?
7. Hallett, Dexter. Jonathan Hallett, baptized Nov. 20, 1647, married Abigail Dexter; who were her parents?
- M. W. B.
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(*24.) Sisson. In Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, in account of Sisson family, it makes mention of the will of James Sisson of Dartmouth of 1731, in which he gives legacies to his daughters, directing that the portion which would have belonged to his daughter Content should go to her child. Who was the husband of this Content Sisson?
- C. C. B.
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(*25.) Parentage wanted of Rev. Nathaniel Brewster, 1620–1690, who settled in Brookhaven, L. I., 1635; also any information as to his son Daniel and his wife; dates of birth.
- C. H. B. N.
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(*26.) Davis. Moses (4) Davis (Moses 3, John 2, James 1), born Nov. 2, 1684, in Haverhill, Mass., and was killed by Indians at Oyster River, now Dover, June 10, 1724. Being forty years old at time of death, presumably he was married and had a family. I want the name of his wife and names of children, with dates of births, marriages and death. Will someone who has access to Dover of Haverhill records, or has information from other sources, please answer through the Transcript.
- W. M. N.
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(*27.) Metcalf. Where can I find a copy of the genealogy of the Metcalf family, which contains the ancestors of Silas Metcalf, born in Wrentham, Mass., Oct. 6, 1798? I think the author's name was Harris.
- R. ~. M.
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(*28.) 1. Nute. Wanted, data concerning ancestors of Jacob Nute, who was born June 1, 1790, at Northwood, N. H. Served in War of 1812 from Deerfield, N. H., married Lydia Chase Jan 13, 1813, resided in Cabot, Vt., Deerfield, N. H., and Lowell, Mass., where he died June 16, 1849.
2. Nute. Wanted, data concerning ancestors of John Nute, who was born June 10, 1788, at Wiscasset, Me., married Rachel Jackson and died in October, 1826.
3. Nute, Stevens. Wanted, data concerning brothers and sisters of Benjamin Nute, who was born April 15, 1780, at Dover, N. H., married Joanna Stevens and died about 1822. Maiden name of mother also desired.
4. Nute. Wanted, information regarding ancestors and descendants of Benjamin II. Nute, shipwrecked on Lord North's Island with Horace Holden prisoners of natives from May 21, 1831, until Nov. 27, 1834. Rescued by English bark Brittania.
5. Nute. Wanted, information regarding parents of Samuel Nute, lieutenant in Second New Hampshire Regiment in Revolutionary War from Rochester, N. H.
6. Nute. Wanted, further information regarding Martha Nute, born Jan. 10, 1775; Daniel Nute, born June 20, 1779; Samuel Nute, born April 14, 1765; Abigail Nute, born Oct. 25, 1762, who were children of Lieutenant James Nute of Madbury, N. H., and wife Leah Pinkham.
7. Nute. Wanted, ancestors and descendants of Benjamin Nute, second lieutenant in Captain William Rowell's company from Rochester, N. H., in Revolutionary War.
8. Nute. Wanted, ancestors and descendants of Paul Nute, whose intentions of marriage to Margaret Munsay (Munsey?) were published at Pownalborough, Me., Dec. 2, 1772. Did marriage as above actually transpire?
- P. E. N.
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(*29.) 1. Tyler. Wanted, ancestry of John Jay Tyler, born 1850, Yates Centre, N. Y., son of State Senator Tyler and his wife, whose maiden name was Gates and who had previously married Mr. Noble. I have the five Tyler Family Reunion pamphlets, but have been unable to find the particular family to which Senator Tyler of New York belonged.
2. Willoughby. Patience Willoughby married John Goodwin of South Berwick, York County, Me., June 12, 1715, son of William Goodwin and his wife, Deliverance Taylor, the son of Daniel Goodwin, the emigrant, and his wife, Margaret Spencer, all of South Berwick, Me. Was this Patience Willoughby a descendant of Mr. Francis Willoughby, of Charlestown, Mass.? The latter referred to his man, Richard Waldron. Major Richard Waldron was killed by the Indians at Kittery, Me. Children of John and Patience (Willoughby) Goodwin were named: John, Willoughby, Joseph, Henry, Nathan, Martha, William and Noah. I have a copy of Stackpole's “Old Kittery and Her Families,” also Pope's “Pioneers of Massachusetts,” but no history of Charlestown, Mass., here.
3. Bangs, Hobart. Some time ago I noticed a query in the Transcript as to whether or not the second wife of Edward Bangs of Eastham, Mass., was Rebecca Hobart, daughter of Edmund Hobart of Hingham, Mass. Has this query ever been satisfactorily answered, and the fact proven? Edward Bangs's daughter, Sarah, born 1638, died December, 1682, married, 1656, at Eastham, Captain Thomas Howes, who died Nov. 20, 1676, and had: Jonathan Howes, who married Sarah —, and had: Sarah ~wes, married Peter Paddock, moved to Southeast, Putnam County, N. Y., and had: Bethiah Paddock, born 1737, married David Crosby, Jr., who served in the Revolutionary War.
- S. L. K.
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(*30.) Heard, Fall. John Fall married, Oct. 26, 1710, Judith Heard of Dover, N. H. Can anyone give me the names of the parents of Judith Heard?
- C. G. F. C.
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(*31.) Musson. I would like to know about the Musson family. The Mussons left France at the time of the Reign of Terror and took refuge in England. Have they any connection with the Duke of Orleans? There is a valley in France named Musson; has this anything to do with the family? This is all the information I can give. I hope someone can tell me something about the family.
- A. ~. M. P.
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(*32.) Tuttle, Smith. Martha Tuttle, daughter of Samuel (3) and Sarah (Newman) Tuttle (John 2, William 1) of New Haven, Conn., married, Feb. 5, 1717, John Smith. She died about 1734, and he married, second, Lydia Fields. He had by first wife: Hannah, born 1718; Martha; Job, born Nov. 10, 1722, married 1747, Lydia Rowe; John, Mehitable, Josiah, James, Lois, Ichabod, the last three dying young. He had by second wife: James and Anthony. Will someone give ancestry of John, husband of Martha, with dates or any clew leading to same? He is supposed to be a descendant of George (1) Smith of New Haven, Conn.
- L. P. D.
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(*33.) Was Sahier de Quincey one of the twenty-five celebrated Magna Charta barons? Can anyone give the list?
- Justitian
Answers[edit]
*9118. 4. Tracy, Mason. A. R. H., Nov. 11, 1907. The ancestry of Lucy Deming, the wife of James Gidding, and an account of her brother, Captain John Deming, will be found in the Transcript under Answer to *5900. 1. Deming, J. H. J. and H. B. D., Jan. 19, 1903.
- S. B. M.
*9247. 1. Barker, Sherman. J. F. S. S., May 15, 1907. The correspondent gives the ancestry of Deborah Sherman, born Aug. 14, 1762, who married William Barker, Jr. She was Deborah (8) (Abraham 7, Philip 6, John 5, Philip 4, Samuel 3, Henry 2, Henry 1). I have added the last three names from vol. xxiv. of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. This takes them into the Dedham line. Cannot someone give the parents of William Barker, Jr., or of Mary Howland, the mother of Deborah (Sherman) Barker?
- L. W. M.
*9310. 10. Adams, Blackmore. C. H. A., July 1, 1907. Referring to the question whether Thomas (3) Adams of Charlestown (Captain Samuel 2, Henry 1) married a daughter or the widow of Henry Blackmore, there seems to be a discrepancy of statement in Wyman. Under “Adams,” he says Thomas Adams married Mary Blackmore April 28, 1680, and, in his will, devised all to wife, who was daughter of J. Trumbull, and wife of, first, H. Blackmore; second, Adams; third, Dr. J. Smith; 4, Thomas Walker.” This would make her the widow of Blackmore. But under “Blackmore” Mr. Wyman says that Henry married Mary Trumbull, daughter of John Trumbull, Sr., who died May 26, 1671, aged twenty-four, and that her daughter, Mary Blackmore, born Feb. 23, 1666-67, married Thomas Adams, and, later, John Smith and Thomas Walker. Middlesex Court files have something relative to this. When Thomas Adams died he owed one Henry Mountford, or Mountfort, of Boston, and on his petition a writ was issued March 13, 1689-99, against the estate of Captain Samuel Adams, who had been administrator of his son Thomas, to recover. In the suit, “Mrs. Mary Smith” deposed as to what she knew about the debt, mentioning her “father-in-law, Captain Samuel Adams of Chelmsford,” and giving her own age as “twenty-three.” This age fits the daughter of Henry Blackmore. (Note that the papers of this suit, dated 1690, are erroneously filed in the court records, being in a box marked “From Oct., 1687, to March, 1689.”)
In the files for 1691, and properly placed, is a set of papers marked “Thomas Adams's Widow.” The suit relates to certain money, and, among other depositions, is that of Aphra Bennett, aged forty-five or thereabouts. She deposed that, about seventeen years before she asked “Mr. John Trumbull, Sr.,” to lend her one hundred pounds. He answered her: “It is not my money, but is my grandchild Mary Blackmore, her money, so I must have eight per cent,” etc. According to the witness the sum was loaned and duly paid. Mention of John Trumbull, Jr. Also, deposition of Ruth Baker, aged about fifty, refers to the money and says that Mr. John Trumbull, Sr., said the money was Mary Blackmore's, and that he wanted to wait and “see how her husband proved.”
Next, deed 7-446, agreement between John Trumbull, Sr., and Thomas Adams, both of Charlestown, upon the marriage of the latter and Mary Blackmore. Trumbull agrees to make her portion three hundred pounds, clear of all demands for bringing her up from the time of her father's death till the marriage of said Mary and Thomas Adams. Henry Blackmore's house and land are included in this gift. The deed is not dated, but, subjoined, is the receipt of Thomas Adams, July 23, 1680, of “what is due me Thomas Adams and Mary Adams my wife.”
- W. H. M. A.
- 9387. 1. Darling, Roberts. W. W.
N. Y., May 25, 1908, Seth and Chloe (Marsh) Darling did not have a daughter Mary, and their children were all born in Woodstock and Harland, Vt. I find no Phineas Ramsdell in my Mendon records. Might she not have been a daughter of Job and Margery (Cook) Darling, born Mendon, Mass., Dec. 23, 1769?
- D. H. D. H.
*9532. 9. Morgan, Dymond. N. H. S., Dec. 30, 1907. Miss Caulkins's History of New London, page 311, gives the following data: “John Morgan married, Nov. 16, 1665, Rachel Dymond, by whom he had seven children.” The “Morgan Genealogy” says she was daughter of John Dymond, name of mother not given. Page 283, Miss Caulkins's “History of New London”: John Dymond married, June 17, 1674, Rebecca (Bemas) Winter, widow of Tobias Winter. Had: John, born 1675; Sarah, born 1676; and Jonathan, born 1678. Page 350: “Benjamin Shapley born March 20, 1675, married Ruth, daughter of Thomas Dymond.” Page 278: “Elizabeth Bradley married, Sept. 22, 1670, Thomas Dymond” he died 1687. Page 279 states him “a mariner from Fairfield and probably brother to John Dymond. Children: Elizabeth, born 1672; Thomas, 1675; Moses, 1677; Ruth, 1680. The names and family passed away from New London after 1710. From the foregoing it is seen that John Dymond, Thomas Dymond, Ruth (Dymond) Shapley and Rachel (Dymond) Morgan might be of the same family, all children of John Dymond. Will C. F. Y. kindly give the names of the children of John Deming and Honor Treat, and let us know if the descendants of the Dymonds of New London appear in the “Deming Genealogy”?
- S. B. M.
*9628. 9. La Grove, Black, Winter. A. H. D., June 10, 1908. The name the correspondent inquires about is commonly spelled Sallows, but there are many variants. I consider Solar to be a different name. If I am in error, perhaps “Beverly” will kindly correct me.
- Mona
*9853. 2. Oliver, Carr. E. A. T., June 8, 1908. The correspondent has correctly quoted Mr. Hoyt in his “Salisbury,” so I need not repeat in detail. Briefly, Hoyt says that James Oliver called George Carr his brother-in-law. As to the manner in which he writes of James Oliver, need we doubt that he believed there was but one James? I assume that he pointed out what he thought was the right connection, but as a measure of precaution, refraining from asserting it. Referring to the will of Thomas Oliver, father of James, he adds, according to my notes, that what is apparently the name of one daughter in that will is illegible.
Thomas Oliver's will was written by a scribe whose clear, scholarly penmanship is as easily read as modern writing, except that, at the critical point, he attempted either a correction of the name or the improvement of two letters therein. The result was ink blots and chaos. The official recorder of that day could not read the name of the daughter, and copied the will with her name blank. It has remained blank ever since. The clause in question is this, “I do give my daughter woollfall and my daughter—40 pounds to be equally divided between them.” The unknown daughter was not Elizabeth Carr. Mr. Pope, in his “Pioneers,” reads it “Havens.” Perhaps he is right. Absolute certainty rests with the last three letters—the name is “—ens.” Of the other three letters, the first is obscure and the second and third are ink-smears. The first may be “b” or “h” or neither. The second is a round blot. To get an idea of the third, set a finger-ring on edge and place a marble above it. This will give an open circle under a closed one, the latter being solid ink. I find it hard to believe that this letter is “v” as is necessary if we call the name Havens. All through the will the scribe, following the fashion of the day, made “v” like “u” and with great precision. How, then, do we get the very plain circle which is like “o”? (To be absolutely precise it may be said to be a trifle oval, but nearly round.) The scribe, again following the fashion of his day, made for “s” a circle, and carried upward from it a straight line ending in a curl. The ink-smear over the circle shuts off speculation, and I do not favor any suggestion, nor do I privately hold any theory. I can only say that this daughter was not Elizabeth Carr. This, however, does not prove that Thomas Oliver had no such daughter; he may have had several not mentioned in his will.
Mr. Hoyt says, additionally, that Captain James Oliver died in 1682, without wife or children. This is not to be taken that he never married. Mr. Bodge, in his “Soldiers of King Philip's War,” says at page 171, that James married, between 1641 and 1655, Mary, widow of John Frend and daughter of Thomas Dexter, who died before him, etc. This is certainly correct in part. Administration was granted at Boston on Thomas Dexter's estate Feb. 9, 1676, to “Captain James Oliver, his son-in-law, and Thomas Dexter, his grandson.” Papers relating to the estate are miserably few and brief. Dexter lived in several different towns, and I have never seen a good account of him. Superficial search in Suffolk County tells nothing of value.
There are three ways in which James Oliver could be brother-in-law of George Carr. They may have married sisters, or Carr may have married Oliver's sister, or Oliver may have married Carr's sister. We see, however, that unless Captain James was more than once wedded he did not marry a Carr, and the possibility that he did has no great weight at present. Thomas Dexter may have had a daughter who married Carr, but if anybody has knowledge as to Dexter's family I have failed to see it in print. I have not hunted seriously, however. My search for his children in original sources has been limited to his estate and to Suffolk deeds. To sum up, my opinion is that George Carr married a daughter of Elder Thomas Oliver, but I would like to know more about Thomas Dexter's family than is given in Savage and like works. Who can supply Dexter items?
- W. H. M. A.
*9982. 3. Merrick. F. M. C. H., June 1, 1908. William Merrick reached Charlestown in the James in 1636. Married in Eastham, Mass., in 1642, Rebecca, whose surname is not known. She died in 1668. They had ten children.
Mary Merrick, daughter of above, born Nov. 4, 1650, married Stephen Hopkins, son of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower.
Ensign William Merrick, son of William and Rebecca, above, born Sept. 14, 1643, at Eastham, Mass., married first, May 23, 1667, Abigail Hopkins, daughter of Giles and Catherine (Wheldon) Hopkins. She was born October, 1644. (Giles was son of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower.) William Merrick married, second, Elizabeth —. He had nine children, all by his first wife. He lived in Eastham and, later, in Harwich, where the records carry the name as “Myrick.”
Joshua Merrick, son of William and Abigail (Hopkins) Merrick, born about 1680; married in 1716, Lydia Mayo, daughter of Thomas and Barbara (Knowles) Mayo (Patience Brewster, daughter of Elder Brewster of the Mayflower married Governor Prence; their daughter Hannah, married Nathaniel Mayo, son of Rev. John Mayo; Thomas, their son married Barbara Knowles, and their daughter, Lydia Mayo, married Joshua Merrick as above.) Joshua Merrick died in 1740.
Abigail Merrick, daughter of Joshua and Lydia (Mayo) Merrick, above, was born July 10, 1724. (No further information given.)
The information given above is from “Genealogy of the Merrick-Mirick-Myrick Family of Massachusetts.” While there is nothing in this record to identify the Abigail Merrick given above with the Abigail inquired for by F. M. C. H., she is at least a likely candidate, and I, therefore, submit her credentials in the hope that they may be of use to your correspondent. My authority gives no other Abigail Merrick who would meet the requirements.
- A. H. C.
*10,000. 13. Hoxie. 14. Hoxie, Catheart S. H. C. D., June 10, 1908. “The Owl,” official magazine of the “Wing family of America, Incorporated,” says that from researches made in London and this country, the name of Hoxie is a very old one, variously spelled Hocksley, Hawksie, Hawkseye, etc. Authentic record of the name in London, 1329. Name also in “Domesday Book,” compiled about 1080, A. D.
The querist does not give dates for the Gideon Hoxie and wife Grace (—?) inquired for. Gideon (2) Hoxie (Lodowick 1), born Feb. 23 or 25, 1673, married Grace Gifford, born Aug. 17, 1671, daughter of John (2) and Elishua or Elizabeth (Crowell, daughter of John Crowell, Gifford (William 1 Gifford of Sandwich). Gideon and Grace (Gifford) Hoxie's children are given as: Mary, born April 1, 1696; Content, born Sept. 13, 1697; Bashua, born Oct. 14, 1698; Elizabeth, born May 10, 1700; Joseph, born May 1, 1702; Simeon, born May 31, 1704; Ann, born May 5, 1706, married, 8mo., 9~ 1728, Stephen Wing; Gideon, born Sept. 5, 1707; Keziah, born July 13, 1710; Lodowick, born May 27, 1712; Grace, born June 28, 1714.
- C. E. T. C.
14. Hoxie. Gideon (2) Hoxie (Lodowick 3), born Feb. 25, 1672, married Grace Gifford. (Old manuscript, nothing given about her.)
15. Clark, Hoxie. Joseph (3) Hoxie (Joseph 2, Lodowick 1) married Mary Clark, 1723–4. Wanted, full date and place of marriage and place of record. Also place and date of her birth and places and dates of her two marriages.
- D. T.