Sarah Chesebrough

Sarah married Lt. William Gallup on 4 Jan 1687 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. William (son of Capt. John Gallup and Hannah Lake) was born in Apr 1658 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; died on 15 May 1731 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; was buried in White Hall Graveyard, Mystic, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The marriage was officiated by Capt. George Denison, J.P.

1. Mary Gallup was born on 12 Feb 1695 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; was christened on 1 Apr 1695 in First Congregational Church, Stonington, New London, Connecticut; died on 13 May 1736 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; was buried in Wequetequock Burial Ground, Stonington, New London, Connecticut.

Notes:

Served in King Philip's War; one of the first nine members of the First Church at Stonington; signer of the Pawcatuck Articles, 1658; selectman of Stonington 1675.

Nathaniel married Hannah Denison in 1659 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. Hannah (daughter of Capt. George Denison and Bridget Thompson) was born on 20 May 1643 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was christened on 21 May 1643 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 18 Aug 1715 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Said in some sources to have died 30 Sep 1677 in Roxbury, but her will was dated 8 Oct 1715 in Stonington.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1594

Notes:

Emigrated 1630 in the Winthrop fleet. First in Boston, then Rehoboth 1643, New London 1649, Stonington 1650. He was a blacksmith, a gunsmith, and literate.

Along with TNH ancestors Walter Palmer, Thomas Stanton, and George Denison, he was one of the founders of Stonington, Connecticut. He was the first European to make his residence there.

"William Cheeseborough was one of those men of substance who came to New England to live life as they wished, and not to become part of the Puritan hegemony." [Robert Charles Anderson, The Winthrop Fleet, citation details below.]

From his Find a Grave page:

In 1634 he was elected constable of Boston. He later moved to Braintree, and in 1640 he was elected deputy to the Massachusetts General Court. Soon after, he moved to Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony where he took an active and prominent part in organizing the town of Rehoboth.

The General Court of that colony later ordered him to be arrested for an affray with an Indian, which led him to look further for a new permanent home. John Winthrop, Jr. urged Chesebrough to settle in his new settlement at Pequot, but he decided against it and and finally chose to settle at the head of Wequetequock Cove in the Pawcatuck area instead. It was another friend, Roger Williams, who encouraged and assisted him in moving to Pawcatuck during the summer of 1649 when he moved his family into their new house in Wequetequock, including his wife and four sons, Samuel, Nathaniel, John and Elisha.

Mr. Chesebrough, traded with the Indians and with people of Long Island, which was prohibited by the General Assembly of Connecticut. In January, 1652, the town of Pequot gave him a large tract of land, which was afterwards liberally enlarged until it embraced between two and three thousand acres. Mr. Chesebrough succeeded in drawing around him a number of "acceptable persons" and the settlement of the town was begun. In 1654, however, the planters wanted to separate from Pequot for religious and civil purposes. This measure was resisted by the planters at Pequot. In the meantime, Massachusetts laid claim to the settlement, and the dispute went up to the court of the Commissioners of the United Colonies. In 1658 the court awarded all the territory east of Mystic River to the Massachusetts Colony, under the name of Southertown, until 1662, when it was included in the new charter, and again became a part of the colony of Connecticut. In 1665, the name Southertown was changed to Mystic. In 1666, it was again changed to Stonington.

Mr. Chesebrough held numerous positions of trust not only in the Massachusetts Colony, in the town of Rehoboth, in Plymouth Colony as well. He was elected to several positions between 1653 and 1656.

He held the office of Townsman (Selectman) until Southertown was annexed to Connecticut, and was the first man elected deputy after the reunion. He succeeded in restoring amicable relations with the Court which had been seriously disturbed by the jurisdictional controversy. After his return, he was elected first selectman of the town, and re-elected every year up to the time of his death, on June 9, 1667.

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His monument in Wequetequock Burial Ground, Stonington, Connecticut, reads:

WILLIAM CHESEBROUGH
THE FIRST WHITE SETTLER OF
STONINGTON. BORN IN ENGLAND
1594, MIGRATED TO AMERICA
IN JOHN WINTHROP'S COMPANY
WHICH PLANTED BOSTON IN 1630.
AFTER SPENDING A FEW YEARS
IN REHOBOTH MASS, HE WITH
HIS WIFE AND FOUR SONS IN
1649
FIXED HIS PERMANENT HOME IN
THIS, THEN WILDERNESSS, AND
BUILT HIS DWELLING HOUSE
NOT FAR FROM THIS MONUMENT.
HE TOOK A LEADING PART IN THE
ORGANIZATION OF THE TOWN AND
THE CONDUCT OF ITS EARLY AFFAIRS.
HE DIED JUNE 9, 1667.
A BOLD PIONEER, A WISE ORGANIZER,
A FIRM CHRISTIAN.

William married Ann Stevenson on 15 Dec 1620 in St. Botolph's, Boston, Lincolnshire, England. Ann was born about 1598; died on 29 Aug 1673 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; was buried in Wequetequock Burial Ground, Stonington, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to the marriage license granted to William Cheesbrough of Boston and Anne Stephenson of same on 11 Dec 1620, his father consented and hers was dead.

Notes:

Emigrated in 1631 with his parents and brothers. Settled at Roxbury, Massachusetts. Married Bridget Thompson, 1641. She died two years later, whereupon he returned to England to take up arms for Parliament. Was injured and (possibly) captured and escaped, a sequence of events that somehow resulted in him returning to Massachusetts in 1645 with a second wife, Ann Borodell. Removed to New London, 1651; served on the New London war committees in 1653 and 1654, when the Dutch threatened war. Removed to Stonington, 1654. Two decades later, we find him as captain of the New London County forces in King Philip's War, where he fought in and survived the Great Swamp Fight in Rhode Island, 19 Dec 1675. In 1676 he is "Provo-Marshall" of New London, pursuing remnants of the Narragansett and Wampanaug. He captured Chief Canonchet and worked with Pequot chiefs to "control the remnant of their tribe."

"We would premise, that William Denison, came to Roxbury, Mass., in company with Rev. John Eliot, in 1631, bringing with him his wife and three sons, Daniel, Edward and George. The last named married in 1640, Bridget Thompson, supposed to have been a sister of Rev. William Thompson, of Braintree. His wife died in 1643. Mr. Denison visited his native country the same year, 'and engaged in the civil conflict with which the kingdom was convulsed.' On his return to this country, about two years afterwards, he brought with him his second wife, Ann, daughter of John Borrowdale, or Borrodel, of Cork, Ireland. Mr. D. emigrated to Connecticut as early as 1651, and in 1654 settled in what is now Stonington, to which the name of Southerton was given in 1658, when the territory was annexed to the County of Suffolk, Mass. He filled acceptably many offices of public trust, and was particularly distinguished as a leader in King Philip's war. He died at Hartford, Oct. 23d, 1694, during the session of the General Court, and was there buried. His age, according to the inscription on his grave stone, was 76." [Introduction to "Will of George Denison,--1693", New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 13, 1859, p. 73.]

"My Brother George buried his first Wife in the year 1643, went to England, was a soldier there about a year, was at the Battle of York or Marston Moor where he did good service, was afterward taken prisoner, but got free, and having married a second Wife, he returned to New England the year before our Mother died, and not long afterward removed himself to New London, near whereunto at Stonington he now liveth." ["Autobiography of Major-General Daniel Denison." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 46:127, April 1892.]

Along with TNH ancestors William Chesebrough, Walter Palmer, and Thomas Stanton, he was one of the founders of Stonington, Connecticut.

George married Bridget Thompson in Mar 1640 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Bridget (daughter of John Tompson and Alice Freeman) was born before 10 Sep 1622 in Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England; was christened on 10 Sep 1622 in Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England; died in Aug 1643 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was buried in Aug 1643 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptised: 11 Sep 1622, Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England

Notes:

"The wife of George Denison & a godly young woman dyed of a feaver & consumption." [The Great Migration Begins]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 25 Jan 1653, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Notes:

He was a maltster and a merchant. Emigrated 1631 on the Lyon, along with the Rev. John Eliot, later "apostle to the Indians," said to have been William Denison's children's tutor. With his son Edward, William Denison was among the supporters of Mrs. Hutchinson who were disarmed along with the Rev. John Wheelwright.

William married Margaret Chandler on 7 Nov 1603 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. Margaret (daughter of Tobias Chandler and Joan Momford) was born on 13 Oct 1577 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England; was christened on 13 Oct 1577 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England; died on 3 Feb 1646 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England
• Alternate birth: of Preston Parva, Northamptonshire, England
• Alternate birth: Between 1580 and 1590, of Little Preston, Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England
• Alternate death: 6 Nov 1626, London, England

Notes:

The 1669 visitation of Oxford states that his father was a Richard Tompson.

Early records call him "yeoman"; later, he is referred to as "of Clifford's Inn" (one of the Inns of Chancery associated with the Inner Temple, itself one of the Inns of Court) and "gentleman."

Several earlier researchers give his death date as 6 Nov 1626, the date of his will, which is the death date given in his IPM. However, he added a codicil to his will on 7 Nov. His IPM was taken almost two years after his death, which may have contributed to the error.

John married Alice Freeman in 1613. Alice (daughter of Henry Freeman and Margaret Edwards) was born about 1595; died after 24 Dec 1658 in New London, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 24 Dec 1658, Stonington, New London, Connecticut

Notes:

One of TNH's four proven "gateway ancestors". Also one of TSW's eight, one of JTS's eleven; one of TWK's twelve; and the sole "gateway ancestor" yet discovered for FW.

"Alice and at least two of her daughters emigrated to New England. She was living in Roxbury, Massachusetts, by 2 April 1640, when a complaint was drawn up against 'Alice Tompson widdow.'" [Randy A. West, citation details below.]

Descendants of Alice Freeman of particular interest to anyone liable to be looking at the ancestry of people named Nielsen Hayden include Edgar Rice Burroughs, L. Frank Baum, and Thomas Pynchon. Other notable descendants include Katherine Hepburn, Julia Child, Fannie Farmer, Louisa May Alcott, Grace Slick, Louis Auchincloss, Dorothea Dix, George B. McClellan, Cyrus McCormick, J. P. Morgan, Charles Dana Gibson, Clarence Almon Torrey, Kingman Brewster Jr., Nelson, David, and Winthrop Rockefeller, Archibald MacLeish, Clarence Day, Warren G. Harding, Humphrey Bogart, Harriet Monroe, Admiral George Dewey, Thomas E. Dewey, George Gallup, Spencer W. Kimball, Martha Graham, Laura Ingalls Wilder, George F. Kennan, Robert Lansing, Brewster Kahle, James Taylor, Boris Johnson, Tammy Duckworth, Seth Low, Oliver Platt, Alec Baldwin, and would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley, Jr.

To the best of our knowledge, Alice Freeman is the only seventeenth-century immigrant to New England proven to be both descended from an English monarch and an ancestor of the current British royal family. (Corrections welcome.) Thus:

Aethelred II "Unraed", King of England (~968-1016) = Aelfgifu (~970-~1002)
Aelfgifu = Uchtred, Earl of Northumbria (~970-1016)
Ealdgyth of Northumbria = Maldred (~1009-1045)
Gospatric of Dunbar, Earl of Northumbria (~1044-~1074)
Gospatric of Dunbar, Earl of Lothian (d. 1138)
Juliana of Dunbar = Ralph de Merlay (d. 1160)
Roger de Merlay (d. 1188) = Alice de Stuteville (d. 1219)
Agnes de Merlay = Richard Gobion (d. 1230)
Hugh Gobion (d. 1275) = Matilda (d. ~1271)
Joan Gobion (d. >1312) = John de Morteyn (d. 1296)
John de Morteyn (d. 1346) = Joan de Rothwell
Lucy de Morteyn (d. ~1361) = John Giffard (1301-1369)
Thomas Giffard (~1345-1394) = Elizabeth de Missenden (d. 1367)
Roger Giffard (~1367-1409) = Isabel Stretley
Thomas Giffard (1408-1469) = Eleanor Vaux
John Giffard (~1431-~1506) = Agnes Wynslow
Thomas Giffard (d. 1511) = Jane Langston (d. 1535)
Amy Giffard (d.~1488) = Richard Samwell (d. 1519)
Susanna Samwell (~1511-~1586) = Peter Edwards (~1490-~1550)
Edward Edwards (~1537-~1592) = Ursula Coles (d. 1606)
Margaret Edwards (1565-~1637) = Henry Freeman (~1564-1606)
Alice Freeman (~1595-1658) = John Tompson (d. 1626)
Dorothy Thompson (1624->1709) = Thomas Parke (1615-1709)
Dorothy Parke (d. >1707) = Joseph Morgan (1646-1704)
Margaret Morgan (b. 1686) = Ebenezer Hibbard (1682-1732)
Keziah Hibbard (b. 1722) = Caleb Bishop (1717-1785)
Lucy Bishop (1747-1783) = Benejah Strong (1740-1809)
Dr. Joseph Strong (1770-1812) = Rebecca Young (1779-1862)
Eleanor Strong (1805-1863) = John Wood (1785-1848)
Ellen Wood (1831-1877) = Franklin H. Work (1819-1911)
Frances Ellen Work (1857-1947) = James Boothby Burke Roche (1851-1920)
Edmund Maurice Burke Roche (1885-1955) = Ruth Sylvia Gill (1908-1993)
Frances Ruth Burke Roche (1936-2004) = Edward John Spencer (1924-1992)
Diana Frances Spencer (1961-1997) = Charles, Prince of Wales (1948- )
William Arthur Philip Louis, Duke of Cambridge (1982- )

In addition, Alice Freeman's descent to General McClellan:

John Tompson (d. 1626) = Alice Freeman (1595-1658)
Dorothy Thompson (1624->1709) = Thomas Parke (1615-1709)
Martha Parke (b. 1646) = Isaac Wheeler
Martha Wheeler (d. 1745) = John Williams (d. 1702)
Eunice Williams (1702-1772) = Joseph Gallup (1695-1760)
Lucy Gallup = James Eldredge
Eunice Eldredge = James McClellan
Dr. George McClellan (1796-1847) = Elizabeth Sophia Brinton (1800-1889)
George Brinton McClellan (1826-1885)

And to Warren G. Harding:

Alice Freeman (~1595->1658) = John Tompson (d. 1626)
Dorothy Tompson (1624-1709) = Thomas Parke (1619-1709)
Dorothy Parke (d. >1707) = Joseph Morgan (1646-1704)
Rev. Joseph Morgan (1671->1738) = Sarah Emmons (~1678->1706)
Dorothy Morgan (1697->1747) = Henry Van Kirk (1700-~1776)
Henry Van Kirk (1740-1798)
William Van Kirk (1763-1826) = Deborah Watters
Charity Malvina Van Kirk (~1803-1878) = Isaac Haines Dickerson (~1802-1867)
Phoebe Elizabeth Dickerson (1843-1910) = George Tyron Harding (1844-1928)
Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923)

And to, of all people, Boris Johnson:

John Tompson (d. 1626) = Alice Freeman (1595-1658)
Dorothy Thompson (1624->1709) = Thomas Parke (1615-1709)
Dorothy Parke (1652-1707) = Joseph Morgan (1646-1704)
Dorothy Morgan (1676-1759) = Ebenezer Witter (1668-1712)
Mary Witter (b. 1696) = Jeremiah Tracy (b. 1682)
Jeremiah Tracy (b. 1719) = Margaret Huntington
Solomon Tracy (1756-1835) = Mary Wells (~1864-1848)
Hila Tracy (1799-~1841) = Jonathan Nobles (~1792-~1870)
Maria Nobles (~1823-~1880) = Judson Holcomb (~1819-~1880)
Clara Holcomb (1848-1927) = Henry Clinton Porter (1851-1922)
Helen Tracy Porter (1876-1963) = Elias Avery Lowe (1879-1969)
Frances Beatrice Lowe = Sir James Edmund Sanford Fawcett (1913-1991)
Charlotte Offlow Fawcett (1942-2021) = Stanley Patrick Johnson (1940- )
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (1964- ), UK Prime Minister 2019-

(Freakishly, because everything about Boris Johnson is freakish, Boris Johnson is also a descendant of Alice Freeman's second husband Robert Parke, via his first wife Martha Chaplin.)

Notes:

"John Denison moved to Bishop's Stortford before 1566, for in that year he was 'collector for the poor' in Bishop's Stortford and in 1582 paid a tax in Stortford." [Spencer Miller, "Willie, Denison and Abbott Families", citation details below.]

He was a tailor. He died of the plague.

John married Agnes Wylley on 11 May 1561 in St. James Church, Thorley, Hertfordshire, England. Agnes (daughter of John Wylley and Joan Marshall) was born about 1544; died after 1613. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1545, Thorley, Hertfordshire, England

Notes:

He was a tanner and church warden at Stortford.

Tobias married Joan Momford on 21 Sep 1574 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. Joan died before 29 Jun 1618; was buried on 29 Jun 1618 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1564

Henry married Margaret Edwards on 10 Feb 1589 in St. Sepulchre, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. Margaret (daughter of Edward Edwards and Ursula Coles) was born before 25 Sep 1565 in Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire, England; was christened on 25 Sep 1565 in Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire, England; died after 23 Aug 1637. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"By her father's will of 25 Dec. 1591, Margaret Freeman received 'one hoop-ring of gold worth by estimation thirty pounds.' This family was armorial." [Mary Lovering Holman, citation details below]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 4 Feb 1576, Thorley, Hertfordshire, England

John married Joan Marshall on 7 Oct 1540 in Thorley, Hertfordshire, England. Joan was born in of Thorley, Hertfordshire, England; died after May 1574. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 19 Sep 1591

Notes:

"Spencer Miller reports that John Wylley married Joan Marsead; however, the original register clearly shows that her maiden name was Marshall." [William Wyman Fiske, "John Wall of Bishop's Stortford," citation details below.]

"Joan died after 19 Feb 1591, when she witnessed the baptism in Thorley of her granddaughter Elizabeth, daughter of George Wylley." [William Wyman Fiske, "The Wylley and Cramphorne Families of Hertfordshire," citation details below.]

Notes:

Churchwarden at Bishop's Stortford in 1562, 1563, and 1574.

Thomas married Joan Page about 1550. Joan (daughter of John Page and Katherine) was born about 1530; died before 11 Mar 1607 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England; was buried on 11 Mar 1607 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to Bartlett (citation details below), her husband's cousin Thomas (b. 1583), son of his farther's brother John Chandler (b. abt. 1525), was also buried on 11 Mar 1607, which to us suggests a local outbreak of pestilence -- not at all uncommon in southern England in the first decade of the seventeenth century.

Notes:

Will of Thomas Freeman of Erchester, co. North^t. Gent. Dated 24th March 1585. Proved 11th May 1586. (P. C. C. 24 Windsor)
To be buried in Irchester church. Legacies bequeathed by my late father Henrye Freman to be paid with all speed. Repairs to Irchester church 2/-; to those of the Irchester side of Wyllingborowe brydge 2/-; and of Dytchforde brydge 2/*- To the poor of Archester and Knoston 4/-, of Wyllinbroughe 4/-, Higham Ferrers 2/-, Rusheden 2/-, Wollaston 20 d., Farnedishe 12 d.
To my son Henry Freman all my free land in Overdeane and Netherdene, co. Bedf.; all my copyholds in Irchester (held of the Manor of Higham Ferrers), also my lease of the parsonage of Irchester and all my right in the Rectory of Irchester; my lease of a windmill in Farrendishe, co. Bedf., and of duffehowse close, dove house and one yarde lande in the same, one other close now a hoppyarde and one cottage in Archester devised to my father by William Vaux Lord Harrowden. To my son John Freman 100 marks. To my son Blase Freman 100 marks and my dark grey geldinge. To my daughter Elizabeth wife of Robert Margettes 100 marks. My freeholds in town of Northampton to my son Henry.
Exor: my son Henry Freeman. Overseers, Rychard Trowell chyrurgeon and my son in law Robert Margettes, to each 6/8.
Witnesses: Richard Trowell chyrurgeon, Roberte Margettes, Wyllm Buttery. Proved 11th May 1586 by Henry Freman.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 25 Dec 1591
• Alternate death: 1592

Edward married Ursula Coles in 1562. Ursula (daughter of Richard Coles and Jane Bond) died before 2 Feb 1606 in Awalton, Huntingdonshire, England; was buried on 2 Feb 1606 in Awalton, Huntingdonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]