Phebe Larabee

Phebe married John Benjamin on 7 Aug 1705 in Preston, New London, Connecticut. John (son of Joseph Benjamin and Sarah) was born about 1682 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 2 Aug 1716 in Preston, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John Benjamin was born on 31 Oct 1714 in Preston, New London, Connecticut; was christened on 6 Jan 1715 in First Church, Preston, New London, Connecticut; died on 7 May 1791 in Preston, New London, Connecticut.

Greenfield married Alice Parke on 16 Mar 1673. Alice (daughter of Thomas Parke and Dorothy Tompson) was born in near Stonington, New London, Connecticut; died on 24 Nov 1729 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Greenfield married Phebe Browne. Phebe (daughter of William Browne and Jane Burgis) was born before 1 Oct 1620; was christened on 1 Oct 1620 in Rusper, Sussex, England; died on 24 Dec 1664 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1619

Notes:

McArthur-Barnes Ancestral Lines and Clifford L. Stott's article "The Chaplin Family of Co. Suffolk" (citation details below) both state that he was baptized at Hitcham, Suffolk on 13 Feb 1615, but Randy A. West ("Alice Freeman", etc., citation details below) points out that the same child is recorded in that parish register as being buried 25 Feb 1616.

Thomas Parke = Dorothy Thompson
Robert Parke = Mary Rose
Margaret Parke = Benjamin Rockwell
Margaret Rockwell = Josiah Blodgett, Jr.
Hannah Blodgett = David Burroughs
Tyler Burroughs = Anna Pratt
Abner Tyler Burroughs = Mary Rice
George Tyler Burroughs = Mary Evaline Zieger
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)

(Thus, ERB is a seventh cousin twice removed to TSW.)

Thomas married Dorothy Tompson before 28 Oct 1644 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Dorothy (daughter of John Tompson and Alice Freeman) was born before 5 Jul 1624; was christened on 5 Jul 1624 in Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England; died after 9 Aug 1709. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 5 Sep 1707
• Alternate death: Aft 1709

Notes:

Came to New England in 1646-47.

William married Jane Burgis on 20 Jun 1611 in Rusper, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 14 Mar 1665, Mystic, New London, Connecticut

Notes:

From McArthur-Barnes Ancestral Lines (citation details below):

He sailed with some members of his family with the Winthrop Fleet, 29 Mar. 1630, from Cowes, Isle of Wight, supposedly on the flagship, Arbella. He was a man of means, and is thought to be the Robert Parke who wrote to John Winthrop 17 Feb. 1629/30 from Easterkale, co. Lincoln, proposing to go to New England [Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 5th Series, 1:194]. Savage [Gen. Dict. 3:347] states that he returned to England the same year, carrying an order by Governor Winthrop to his son John in England to pay money, "which is in my possession and may be the earliest bill of exchange drafted on our side of the water."

His son William, who came over later in 1630, settled in Roxbury, Mass., where he became one of the most prominent citizens, and his daughter Ann seems to have been with William at Roxbury, where she married in 1640 and died the following year. We do not know just when Robert returned to New England, but on 9 Apr. 1640 Mr. Parke was made freeman at Wethersfield, Conn., as Robert Parke served on a jury 2 July 1640 and represented that town as Deputy to the Connecticut General Court, Aug. 1642 [Col. Rec. of Conn., 1:46, 55, 73]. His son Thomas was with him at Wethersfield, and they remained together at New London and Stonington.

We do not know when Robert Parke lost his first wife, the mother of his children. On 30 May 1644, the House of Deputies of Massachusetts Bay passed the following act: "The peticon of Robert Parke is graunted by ye whole Courte, and hath libtye to pceed in marriage wth Alice Tompson wthout farthr publishe" [Shurtleff's Records of Massachusetts Bay, 3:3]. She was a widow of gentry family who had come to Roxbury, Mass., with daughters. The marriage accordingly took place. [...]

About 1650 Robert Parke and his son Thomas removed to Pequot, now New London, Conn. On 20 May 1652 Mr. Parkes was a Deputy for New London [Col. Rec. of Conn., 1:231]. In New London land records we find that Alice Parke witnessed a deed, 2 June 1652; Richard Blinman, pastor, conveyed to "my brother in law Thomas Parkes," 21 Mar. 1653/4; and Thomas Parke of "Misticke neere Pequot" conveyed 9 Oct. 1656 to his father, Robert Parke, Gentleman [2:9; 3:64,41]. About 1655 the family had moved to Mystic or Southerton, later included in Stonington, Conn. The family continued to own land in New London as numerous deeds attest.

By his first wife, he is an ancestor of PNH's sister-in-law Laura (Wightman) Hayden:

Robert Parke (1580-1665) = Martha Chaplin (1585-1643)
Samuel Parke (1621-~1710)
Robert Parke (1676-1752) = Tamsen Packer (1674-1764)
Jemima Parke (1716-1793) = Samuel Torrance (1719-1788)
Nancy Torrance (1746-1806) = Noah Woodard (1744-1834)
Abiram Woodard (1766-1866) = Dinah Green (1783-1850)
Martha Woodard (1806-1878) = William Wightman (1796-1877)
Monroe Alphonso Wightman (1848-1910) = Sarah S. Chisman (1848-1918)
Frank Logan Wightman (1887-1959) = Iva Faye Covington (1894-1985)
John Stephen Wightman (1918-1990) = Alise Emma Evans (1918-1995)
Robert Alan Wightman (1941-2007) = Joyce Ann Marie Dixon (1941-1997)
Laura Marie Wightman (1962- ) = Benjamin Titus Hayden (1962- )

And of stunt UK prime minister Boris Johnson:

Robert Parke (1580-1665) = Martha Chaplin (1585-1643)
Thomas Parke (1616-1709) = Dorothy Tompson (1624-1709)
Joseph Morgan (1646-1704) = Dorothy Parke (1652-1707)
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-

Robert married Martha Chaplin on 9 Feb 1602 in Semer, Suffolk, England. Martha (daughter of William Chaplin and Agnes Holborough) was born before 4 Feb 1585; was christened on 4 Feb 1585 in Semer, Suffolk, England; died before 1643. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptised: 4 Feb 1584
• Alternate death: Aft 1621

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.)