Grace Ring

Grace married Samuel Bradford on 1 Nov 1749 in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Samuel (son of Gamaliel Bradford and Abigail Bartlett) was born on 2 Jan 1730 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 17 Feb 1777 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Welthea Bradford was born on 15 Nov 1757 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 8 Jun 1846.

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• Alternate birth: 12 Mar 1693, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Samuel married Ruth Sylvester on 28 Jan 1725 in Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Ruth (daughter of Israel Sylvester and Ruth Turner) was born on 26 Jun 1702 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died between 25 Dec 1770 and 17 Nov 1779. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was born before her parents' marriage. Her first husband, Francis Cooke (~1697-1724), was a descendant of Mayflower passengers Francis Cooke, Stephen Hopkins, and James Chilton.

Eleazar married Mary Shaw on 11 Jan 1688 in Lakenham, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Jonathan Shaw and Phebe Watson) was born about 1665; died on 28 Nov 1730 in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts; was buried in Old Burying Ground, First Church, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Israel married Ruth Turner on 3 Oct 1701 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Ruth (daughter of John Turner and Mary Brewster) was born before 17 May 1663; was christened on 17 May 1663 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 22 Feb 1694, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

Came to New England with his mother and sisters, probably on the second Mayflower in 1629.

Andrew married Deborah Hopkins on 23 Apr 1646 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Deborah (daughter of Stephen Hopkins and Elizabeth Fisher) was born about 1626 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died between 1666 and 1674. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between 1624 and 1625, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
• Alternate death: Bef 1674, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between 1629 and 1631, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

Jonathan Shaw (1631-1701) = Phebe Watson (1638-1682)
Jonathan Shaw (1663-1730) = Mehitable Pratt (1667-1712)
Mehitable Shaw (1694-1764) = Zachariah Weston (1690-1762)
James Weston (1723-1786) = Abigail Dunham (1720-1798)
Abner Weston (1764-1844) = Sally Thurston (1772-1836)
John Wheeler Weston (1799-1847) = Asenath Howe (b. 1798)
Harding Weston (b. 1835) = Mary Wadsworth Parker (1838-1897)
Isabel Weston (1860-1948) = Homer Loomis Pound (1858-1942)
Ezra Pound [Ezra Weston Loomis Pound] (1885-1972)

Jonathan married Phebe Watson on 22 Jan 1657 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Phebe (daughter of George Watson and Phoebe Hicks) was born about 1638; died about 1682. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1636, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Israel married Martha about 1673. Martha died after 19 Apr 1726. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mary Brewster on 10 Nov 1645 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony. Mary (daughter of Jonathan Brewster and Lucretia Oldham) was born on 16 Apr 1627 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died after 23 Mar 1698 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He may have been the William Ring of Pettistree, Suffolk who married at Ufford, Suffolk, 21 May 1601, Mary Durrant, of Suffolk, single woman, and who had a daughter Elizabeth baptized at Ufford 23 Feb 1603.

William married Mary before 1609. Mary was born before 1589; died on 15 Jul 1631 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 19 Jul 1631, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

Possibly born Mary Durrant. Arrived in Plymouth as the widow Mary Ring in 1629 or 1630.

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• Alternate birth: of Hursley, Hampshire, England
• Alternate death: Aft 6 Jun 1644, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

Emigrated 1620, on the Mayflower, with his second wife Elizabeth Fisher and his children Elizabeth, Constance, and Giles. He was a tanner, merchant, and tavern-keeper.

Notable as the only Mayflower passenger to have previously visited the New World, as it now appears that he was the same Stephen Hopkins that served as the minister's clerk on the 1609 voyage to Jamestown of the Sea Venture. This ship was caught in a storm and ran aground at Bermuda, marooning its passengers. Sir Thomas Gates, who had been travelling to Jamestown as its newly-appointed governor, organized the passengers to build new boats to complete the voyage. Hopkins vocally dissented against Gates's authority, and was charged with mutiny and sentenced to death, but ultimately pardoned after many other passengers pled for clemency toward him. The boat-building project was successful and the passengers of the Sea Venture ultimately made it to Jamestown, from whence Hopkins ultimately returned to England in 1614. A written narrative of the Sea Venture's story was in circulation in England by late 1610 and is known to have been read by Shakespeare, whose The Tempest, first performed in November 1611, concerns a group of passengers shipwrecked by a storm, and includes a comic-relief drunk named Stefano who attempts to take over as their leader.

Stephen Hopkins = Mary
Constance Hopkins = Nicholas Snow
Mark Snow = Jane Prence
Nicholas Snow = Lydia Shaw
Thankful Snow = Joseph Burgess
Lydia Burgess = Salmon Kingsley
Orin Kingsley = Hilda Coon
Orin Kingsley = Margaret Buchanan
Alanson Kingsley = Laura Ann Jackett
Barbara Marie Jane Kingsley = Willis Wilbus Thompson
Bernice Maude Thompson = Archie Dean Swift
Archie Dean Swift = Rose Baldi Douglas
Scott Kingsley Swift = Andrea G. Finlay
Taylor Swift (1989- )

Stephen married Elizabeth Fisher on 19 Feb 1618 in St. Mary Matfelon, Whitechapel, London, England. Elizabeth died before 6 Jun 1644 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"The conclusion that this marriage record pertains to the Mayflower passenger is plausible, but not fully proved." [The Mayflower Migration, citation details below]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1596
• Alternate death: Between 22 Mar 1664 and 15 Feb 1669, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

It is unclear whether he was married once or twice, and who was the mother of his children.

Arrived at Plymouth between 1623 and 1626. With William Gilson and others, he built "The Cutt," connecting Green Harbor and Duxbury Bay, the earliest canal still in existence in America.

Notes:

George Watson (1602-1689) = Phoebe Hicks (1615-1653)
Phebe Watson (1638-1682) = Jonathan Shaw (1631-1701)
Jonathan Shaw (1663-1730) = Mehitable Pratt (1667-1712)
Mehitable Shaw (1694-1764) = Zachariah Weston (1690-1762)
James Weston (1723-1786) = Abigail Dunham (1720-1798)
Abner Weston (1764-1844) = Sally Thurston (1772-1836)
John Wheeler Weston (1799-1847) = Asenath Howe (b. 1798)
Harding Weston (b. 1835) = Mary Wadsworth Parker (1838-1897)
Isabel Weston (1860-1948) = Homer Loomis Pound (1858-1942)
Ezra Pound [Ezra Weston Loomis Pound] (1885-1972)

George married Phoebe Hicks before 1636. Phoebe (daughter of Robert Hicks and Margaret) was born before 15 Mar 1615; was christened on 15 Mar 1615 in St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, Surrey, England; died on 22 May 1663 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Between 15 Jun 1663 and 27 Sep 1663

Notes:

Emigrated 1630; first at Weymouth, then in Marshfield 1648.

Richard married Naomi before 1633. Naomi died before 26 Nov 1668. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1595

Notes:

He was a tanner. Emigrated in 1632; first at Plymouth, then to Scituate in 1633.

Humphrey married Lydia Gaymer on 24 Oct 1618 in Sandon, Essex, England. Lydia (daughter of Richard Gaymer and Margaret Mason) was born before 18 May 1602; was christened on 18 May 1602 in Terling, Essex, England; died between 23 Jul 1669 and 28 Feb 1670 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From "Lydia Gaymer, the Wife of Humphrey Turner of Scituate" [citation details below]:

Lydia was an infant when her mother died. She was about eleven years old at the death of her father, who in his will gave her part of a tenement called the Angell (located in Ockendon Fee, one of the five manors of Terling).

Lydia Gaymer and Humphrey Turner were married in the parish of Sandon. No evidence has been found that they lived there, but a quote from The Essex Village Book [Chelmsford: Federation of Essex Women's Institutes, 1988, p. 139] may explain why they chose to be married in Sandon:

Runaway brides in the 17th century did not all have to dash to faraway Scotland in order to obtain a quick wedding as the rector of Sandon, the Reverend Gilbert Dillingham, was only too ready to oblige. As news of his willingness and cooperation spread through and beyond the county, weddings at Sandon, which had averaged four per year, increased enormously. Between 1615 and 1635 the Reverend Dillingham married no fewer than 511 couples, including a daughter of the rector of Chelmsford, using an assumed surname, as apparently did lots of others. The parson undoubtedly grew fat on the wedding fees.

Notes:

He moved with his family to Leiden, Holland in 1608, where he became a merchant and a ribbon maker. Unlike his brothers Love and Wrestling, he stayed behind when the Mayflower sailed; he arrived at Cape Cod on the Fortune in November 1621. In 1630 he and his family moved to Duxbury, where he became a trader, working the coast as far south as Virginia. In 1635-36 he was in Windsor, Connecticut. In 1649 he settled in the New London area, where he spent the rest of his life.

From Kristen Wands, at the Windsor Historical Society site:

During his time in Windsor, Brewster began corresponding with John Winthrop, Jr., with whom he shared an interest in alchemy. Brewster had an alchemical laboratory in his home at Brewster's Neck. In 1656, he believed he was close to discovering the universal cure, a common goal among alchemists. He shared the progress of his experiments with Winthrop, saying, "I ffeare I shall not live to see it finished, in regard partly of the Indianes, who I feare will raise warres; and also I have a conceite that God sees me not worthy of a blessing by reason of my manifold miscariadges." Brewster worried not only that his life might be in jeopardy, but also that some accident would upset his experiments, which needed to sit undisturbed for years at a time. Typically Puritan, he worried that he was not Christian enough to receive the divine alchemical secrets he sought. Writing that he trusted Winthrop with his research more than his own children, Brewster promised he would "shortly write all the whole worke in few words, plainly ... & sealle it vp in a littel box, & subscribe it to your selfe... that if it please God I should suddainly be taken away, you may call for it." Ultimately, it appears Brewster's experiments were unsuccessful. His letters to Winthrop, however, provide a fascinating window into the minds of our New England forefathers.

While Jonathan Brewster's encounters with Native Americans do not seem to have affected his alchemy, later events suggest he was right to be nervous about his family's safety. In early March of 1659, while Brewster was away in Hartford, "12 [Narragansett] Indians came suddainly out of the bushes" surrounding Brewster's farm, and ran toward Mrs. Brewster, who was working in a field with one Mohegan and two English servants. Seemingly to shield her from the attack, the Mohegan ran toward "Mrs. Brewster, and held fast about hir, the other Indians pulled him by force from hir and presently killed him and cutt of his hand and fledd away." Apparently, the Narragansetts were upset that Brewster had been supplying his Mohegan allies with firearms, and the attack, which resulted in the death of the Mohegan servant, was in retaliation. Though no member of Brewster's family was physically harmed, the incident was a tremendous fright to all of the English settlers in the region.

When Brewster's death came, it was the result of an illness rather than an act of violence. He passed away in August of 1659, at 66 years of age. He was buried in Brewster's Neck Cemetery, which is all that remains of the family's home and trading post there.

Jonathan Brewster (1593-1659) = Lucretia Oldham (1600-1678)
Benjamin Brewster (1633=1710) = Ann Addis (1628-1709)
William Brewster (1669-1728) = Patience (d. 1740)
Patience Brewster (b. 1699) = Matthew Dewolfe (1697-1783)
Edward Dewolfe (1735-1790) = Elizabeth (d. 1787)
Edward Dewolfe (1768-1835) = Sarah Bill (1768-1854)
Charles De Wolf (1794-1870) = Betsy Putnam (1794-1881)
John Archelous De Wolf (1833-1901) = Louise Doty (1835-1879)
Ida Corinne De Wolf (1863-1944) = LaFayette Waterbury (1864-1931)
Ledora May Waterbury (1885-1959) = Harry Ross Hubbard (1886-1975)
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (1911-1986)

Jonathan married Lucretia Oldham on 10 Apr 1624 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Lucretia (daughter of William Oldham and Phillipa Sowter) was born before 14 Jan 1601; was christened on 14 Jan 1601 in All Saints, Derby, Derbyshire, England; died on 4 Mar 1679 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptised: 14 Jan 1600, All Saints, Derby, Derbyshire, England
• Baptised: 4 Jan 1601, All Saints, Derby, Derbyshire, England

John married Elizabeth Williams on 28 Jul 1579 in Upper Clatford, Hampshire, England. Elizabeth died after 1593. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 24 Mar 1647

Notes:

He was a fellmonger. He came to Plymouth in 1621 on the Fortune, and his family followed on the Anne.

Robert married Margaret before 1603. Margaret died between 8 Jul 1665 and 6 Mar 1666 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 5 Mar 1666

Notes:

"Richard Gaymer was an apparently prosperous miller and landowner in a village which was chiefly engaged in raising grain for export to London and nearby cities and villages. He was literate." [Vernon Dow Turner, citation details below.]

Richard married Margaret Mason on 23 Jul 1590 in Terling, Essex, England. Margaret died before 2 Jul 1602; was buried on 2 Jul 1602 in Terling, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1566, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England
• Alternate birth: Between Jun 1566 and Jun 1567, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England

Notes:

Emigrated 1620 to Plymouth, Massachusetts, on the Mayflower. Senior elder and (until the arrival of pastor Ralph Smith in 1629) religious leader of the Plymouth colony. The only Mayflower passenger with a university education and with political and diplomatic experience. Extensive Wikipedia article here.

William Brewster (~1566-1644) = Mary (d. 1627)
Fear Brewster (~1606-1634) = Isaac Allerton (~1586-1659)
Isaac Allerton, Jr. (~1629-1702) = Elizabeth Willoughby (~1635->1672)
Sarah Allerton (~1670-1731) = Hancock Lee (~1653-1729)
Elizabeth Lee (~1708-~1750) = Zachary Taylor (1707-1768)
Richard Taylor (1744-1829) = Sarah Dabney Strother (~1760-1822)
Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), 12th President of the United States

William Brewster (1566-1644) = Mary (d. 1627)
Jonathan Brewster (1593-1659) = Lucretia Oldham (1600-1678)
Benjamin Brewster (1633=1710) = Ann Addis (1628-1709)
William Brewster (1669-1728) = Patience (d. 1740)
Patience Brewster (b. 1699) = Matthew Dewolfe (1697-1783)
Edward Dewolfe (1735-1790) = Elizabeth (d. 1787)
Edward Dewolfe (1768-1835) = Sarah Bill (1768-1854)
Charles De Wolf (1794-1870) = Betsy Putnam (1794-1881)
John Archelous De Wolf (1833-1901) = Louise Doty (1835-1879)
Ida Corinne De Wolf (1863-1944) = LaFayette Waterbury (1864-1931)
Ledora May Waterbury (1885-1959) = Harry Ross Hubbard (1886-1975)
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (1911-1986)

Other descendants of William Brewster include Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Commodore Matthew C. Perry, Oliver Hazard Perry, John Batterson Stetson, George B. McClellan, Clarence Day, Archibald MacLeish, Admiral William Halsey, Mamie (Doud) Eisenhower, Thomas Pynchon, Allen Dulles, John Foster Dulles, Nelson Rockefeller, Katherine Hepburn, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Julia Child, Glenn Close, Norman Rockwell, Ted Danson, Pete Seeger, Orrin Hatch, Brewster Kahle, Annie Proulx, Bill Richardson, Richard Gere, Howard Dean, Chevy Chase, and James Taylor.

William married Mary before 1593 in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England. Mary died on 17 Apr 1627 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Emigrated 1620 to Plymouth, Massachusetts, on the Mayflower.

William married Phillipa Sowter on 17 Nov 1588 in All Saints, Derby, Derbyshire, England. Phillipa (daughter of John Sowter and Anne) was born before 10 Jul 1568; was christened on 10 Jul 1568 in All Saints, Derby, Derbyshire, England; died before 22 Mar 1617; was buried on 22 Mar 1617 in All Saints, Derby, Derbyshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]