Stephen Tallman

Stephen married Mary Potter on 11 Nov 1724 in South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island. Mary (daughter of John Potter and Sarah Wilson) was born on 2 Mar 1707; died about 1764 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Martha Tallman died on 14 Jul 1828 in Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey; was buried in Fair View Cemetery, Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey.

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Both he and his second wife Hannah Swain were practicing physicians.

James married Hannah Swain on 14 Sep 1701 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island. Hannah (daughter of John Swain and Mary Weare) was born in 1679; died in 1765. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was admitted a burgher of Hamburg on 14 Aug 1646, but in 1647 he emigrated from Hamburg to Barbados, where he married his first wife Ann Hill. In 1648 he migrated from Barbados to Rhode Island with his wife, her brother Robert Hill, and their mother. He was in Newport as early as May 1650, but in Portsmouth shortly after that.

Landowner, merchant, slaveholder, he was one of the early purchasers of land on Martha's Vineyard and very active in its settlement. He appears in Connecticut records on 20 May 1652, called "Dutchman"; he also spent time in Flushing and in New Amsterdam, where he was on occasion an interpreter between the English and the Dutch. He also owned land in Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

"In 1663, he bought Indian lands in Holmes' Hole, Martha's Vineyard. Today it is known as Tisbury. This land he bought without the consent of all the Indians involved. He bought the land in partnership with Thomas Lawton; they were both sued for trespass and lost the case." [Ruth Alice Anderson, "Peter Tallman: A Footnote in History."]

"When G. Andrews Moriarty wrote that Henry Tallman of Schleswig-Holstein was the probable father of Peter Tallman of Hamburg, Barbados, and Rhode Island, he presented no direct evidence, listing only dates of christenings for Peter's two supposed sisters in the parish of St. Nicholas, but none for Peter himself." [Ancestral Lines, Third Edition, citation details below.]

Peter Tallman (1623-1708) = Joan Briggs (d. 1686)
Dr. Jonathan Tallman (1666-1762) = Sarah Davol (1668-1748)
Darius Tallman (1689-1733) = Sarah Wilbore (1702-1729)
Brittain Tallman (1729-1815) = Deborah Head (b. 1725)
William Tallman (1755-1835) = Rhoda Akin (1751-1844)
Lydia Tallman (1787-1873) = Abel Ford (1783-1842)
Silas Ford (1807-1854) = Amanda Hedden (1812-1853)
Emily Helena Ford (1834-1901) = William Lyman Aiken (1821-1893)
William Ford Aiken (1864-1901) = Anna Potter (1864-1901)
Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) = Jessie McDonald (1889-1970)
Joan Aiken (1924-2001)
Jane Aiken Hodge (1917-2009)

Peter married Joan Briggs before 24 Jul 1665. Joan (daughter of Samuel Briggs) was born in of Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts; died before 1686. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1685

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 27 Jan 1718, Nantucket, Massachusetts

John married Mary Weare on 15 Nov 1660 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire. Mary (daughter of Nathaniel Weare and Sarah) died in 1714 in Nantucket, Massachusetts; was buried in Founders Burial Ground, Nantucket, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Peter Taelmann. Lived in Hamburg from 1584 on. Ancestral Lines (citation details below) says that "[w]hile there is no direct evidence that he became a citizen of Hamburg, it is said he was a sponsor for someone else's application. Some of the Taleman dealings in land were in the Jewish settlement in Hamburg in the Derwent along the Alster River; thus Peter may have been involved with the Sephardic sugar merchants."

Peter married Maria von Peene on 26 May 1622 in Hamburg, Germany. Maria (daughter of Johann Peene) was born about 1601 in Haarlem, Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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First appears in New England on 6 Sep 1638, when the Massachusetts General Court granted the petition of the Rev. Stephen Bachiler and others, including Richard Swaine, to establish a plantation at Winnacunnet, later renamed Hampton, New Hampshire.

He held several tracts of land at Hampton and served in several of the usual civil positions. He had occasional difficulties with his neighbors. Most colorfully, on 5 Oct 1652 Henry Green brought a defamation suit against Richard Swaine for reporting that Green had "attempted the chastity of Bassill Swaine and used beastly and unseemly carriages and temptations toward" Grace Boulter, Richard Swaine's daughter. The suit was withdrawn.

On 2 Jul 1659, Richard Swaine, along with Tristram Coffin, Sr., Thomas Macy, Thomas Barnard, Peter Coffin, Christopher Hussey, Stephen Greenleaf, John Swaine, and William Pile, purchased from Thomas Mayhew his rights to the island of Nantucket.

On 12 Nov 1659 Richard Swaine was fined £3 and disenfranchised for entertaining Quakers.

With his second wife Jane and his sons John and Richard, he appears to have moved to Nantucket by 16 Oct 1661.

Richard married Basill Saunders on 8 Sep 1617 in Battersea, Surrey, England. Basill died on 15 Jul 1657 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel married Sarah. Sarah died after 23 Aug 1682. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Jacques Taelman. Lived most of his life in Hamburg. He was listed as a burger (poorter

Jacques married Tanneken "Anna" de Lichte on 15 Jun 1578 in Antwerp, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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A churchwarden of Binfield in 1616, his clear signature suggests he was an educated man.

Michiel married (Unknown wife of Michiel Taleman). (Unknown was born about 1531. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peter married Peternelle de Neve. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The de Neve family was probably from Burgundy, in Antwerp by the 1470s.

William married Joan Dee on 20 Apr 1567 in Binfield, Berkshire, England. Joan died before 4 Jun 1601; was buried on 4 Jun 1601 in Binfield, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]