William Wentworth

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• Baptised: 15 Mar 1616, Alford, Lincolnshire, England

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Arrived in New England sometime in the 1630s. One of TNH's four "gateway ancestors," albeit one about whom the scholarly consensus has been very much in flux. That the William Wentworth of New England was the man baptized in Alford seems extremely probable. That the man baptized in Alford had many gentry and aristocratic ancestors seems indisputable. That he had a provable "royal ancestry" was long at issue. In The American Genealogist in 2018, Booth, Reed, and Taylor (citation details below) indicated that his descent from William "the Lion", king of Scotland, currently shown in this database, is invalid. They said this would be demonstrated in an upcoming article. That article has yet to appear, but in the January/April 2020 issue of TAG (actually published March 2021), the same authors showed proof for a solid descent from Henry I:

Henry I = unknown mistress
Robert de Caen = Maud Fitz Robert
William Fitz Robert = Hawise of Leicester
Amicia of Gloucester = Richard de Clare
William de Braose = Maud de Clare
John de Braose = Margaret ferch Llywelyn
Richard de Brewse = Alice de Ros
Giles de Brewse = Joan de Beaumont
John de Brewse = Eve de Efford
John de Brewse = Joan de Shardelow
Margaret Brewse = Thomas Hawley
Agnes Hawley = Patrick Skipwith
Margaret Skipwith = Bernard Angevine
Michael Angevine = Joan Towthby
Jane Angevine = John Williamson
Katherine Williamson = Robert Marbury
William Marbury = Agnes Lenton
Katherine Marbury = Christopher Wentworth
William Wentworth = Susanna Carter
William Wentworth (1616-1697)

-- the critical element being their demonstration that Agnes Hawley, known to be a daughter of Thomas Hawley, was in fact his daughter by his first wife, Margaret Brewse.

"William Wentworth (1616-1697) was a follower of John Wheelwright, and an early settler of New Hampshire. Coming from Alford in Lincolnshire, he likely came to New England with Wheelwright in 1636, but no records are found of him in Boston. When Wheelwright was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his role in the Antinomian Controversy, he established the settlement of Exeter, New Hampshire, and Wentworth followed him there and then to Wells, Maine. After Wheelwright left Wells for Hampton, New Hampshire, Wentworth went to Dover, New Hampshire, and this is where he lived the remainder of his life. He was the proprietor of a sawmill, and held several town offices, but is most noted for being an elder in his Dover church for nearly 40 years. He had 11 children with two wives, and has numerous descendants, including many of great prominence." [Wikipedia]

He was a signer of the Exeter Combination.

His near descendants included his grandson John Wentworth, Lieutenant Governor of New Hampshire 1717-1730, and New Hampshire governors Benning Wentworth (governor 1741-1767) and Sir John Wentworth (governor 1767-1775); also John Wentworth, Speaker of the New Hampshire House 1771-1778.

A book-length biographical study of him is William Wentworth, Puritan Preacher by Susan Ostberg; Lincoln, Nebraska: iUniverse, 2006.

William married Elizabeth Knight about 1644. Elizabeth (daughter of Ezekiel Knight and Ann) was born about 1626; died after 1678. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ezekiel Wentworth was born about 1649 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire; died between 30 Oct 1711 and 6 May 1712.

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• Baptised: 8 Jun 1584, St. Peter at Gowts, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
• Alternate death: Aft 1628

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Churchwarden of Muckton, Lincolnshire in 1641, in which capacity he, his wife, and his son Edward (later a surgeon of Boston, Lincolnshire) signed the Protestation Returns in that year.

William married Susanna Carter on 28 Nov 1614 in Alford, Lincolnshire, England. Susanna died after 1641. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1621

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• Alternate birth: of Waltham and Barrow, Lincolnshire, England
• Buried: 22 Mar 1633, Barrow-on-Humber, Lincolnshire, England
• Alternate death: 22 Mar 1633
• Alternate death: Bef 15 May 1633, Alford, Lincolnshire, England

Christopher married Katherine Marbury on 19 Oct 1583 in St. Peter at Gowts, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. Katherine (daughter of William Marbury and Agnes Lenton) was born in in of Girsby in Burgh-upon-Bain, Lincolnshire, England; died before 16 Dec 1634; was buried on 16 Dec 1634. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 15 May 1633
• Alternate death: Bef 26 Dec 1634
• Buried: 26 Dec 1634, Barrow-on-Humber, Lincolnshire, England

William married Ellen Gilby between 1548 and 1552. Ellen (daughter of John Gilby and Agnes Brough) was born between 1515 and 1520 in of West Ravendale, Lincolnshire, England; died after 23 Jan 1560. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of Ravendale, Lincolnshire, England

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1524, of Girsby in Burgh-upon-Bain, Lincolnshire, England

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Father of the Rev. Francis Marbury; grandfather of Anne Marbury Hutchinson; ancestor of Presidents Garfield, FDR, & Bush.

Probably (but not incontrovertibly) the William Marbury who represented Newport iuxta Launceston, a notoriously "rotten" borough, in Parliament in 1572.

William Marbury (1524-1581) = Agnes Lenton (b. ~1528)
Rev. Francis Marbury (1555-1611) = Bridget Dryden (1563-1644)
Anne Marbury (1591-1643) = William Hutchinson (1586-1641)
Edward Hutchinson = Catherine Hamby
Anne Hutchinson = Daniel Vernon
Samuel Vernon = Elizabeth Fleet
Samuel Vernon = Amy Ward
Samuel Vernon = ?
William S. Vernon = America Fontaine
Mary Ann Vernon = Nathaniel Wolfe
Sophia Vernon Wolfe = John Henry Hammond
John Henry Hammond = Emily Vanderbilt Sloane
John Hammond (1910-1987)

-- One of the most important impresarios of 20th century music; discoverer or early champion of, for instance, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Charlie Christian, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Teddy Wilson, Big Joe Turner, Pete Seeger, Babatunde Olatunji, Aretha Franklin, George Benson, Freddie Green, Leonard Cohen, Arthur Russell, Jim Copp, Asha Puthli, and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

William married Agnes Lenton. Agnes (daughter of John Lenton) was born about 1525 in of Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, England; died after Nov 1581. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]