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| 1001 | "While her husband was away, Mary (Scullard) Rolfe was involved in an adulterous relationship with Dr. Henry Greenland, for which he was ordered out of Newbury. He went to Kittery, Maine, which also forced him to leave, and eventually settled at Piscataway, N.J., with his family. Shortly after John returned, he, Mary, and their two daughters, Mary and Rebecca, relocated to Nantucket. They moved to Cambridge about 1672, where he purchased 'Cook's Mill,' which he operated. He purchased land in Woodbridge shortly before his death. His wife and all of his children, except their daughter Rebecca, moved to Woodbridge." [Paul C. Reed, citation details below.] | Scullard, Mary (I20145)
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| 1002 | "While not proved, [Robert and Agnes] are almost certainly parents of Richard and John who founded two branches of the family, both of which are represented in colonial New England." [The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and His Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, citation details below.] | Baldwin, Robert (I19281)
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| 1003 | "White was associated with Dorchester for over forty years and if his remaining sermons display a distinct Calvinistic streak he none the less remained a conforming minister of the Church of England, holding traditional views on the nature of divinely appointed authority. Even though he attempted to conduct his religious services within the letter of the law and continued to wear a surplice into the 1640s White became an important figure in the puritan transatlantic network which opposed the religious reforms of Archbishop Laud. His successful attempt to reform Dorchester, a sleepy backwater with something of an unsavoury reputation, eventually won him the title of the Patriarch of Dorchester." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] From Wikipedia (accessed 1 Sep 2021): White himself never sailed to America. About 1623 he interested himself in sending out a colony of Dorset men to settle in Massachusetts, allowing nonconformists to enjoy liberty of conscience. The attempt by the Dorchester Company to plant a colony at Cape Ann with Thomas Gardner as Overseer, at what would become Gloucester, Massachusetts, did not prove at first successful; in the previous decade, only about 500 English colonists had established a foothold, and this Company was wound up by 1625. White then recruited emigrants from the western counties of Dorset, Somerset and Devon, who set sail a few years later as a better-supported expedition and organised church aboard the ship Mary and John. White made many trips to London from Dorchester, working to obtain a patent in 1628 for lands between the parallel lines 3 miles (5 km) south of the Charles River to 3 miles (5 km) north of the Merrimack River. He obtained the sponsorship of London merchants for a new colony in the New World. Concerned about conflicting claims to land given to several companies active in the north-east of the New World, the New England Company sought and was granted a Royal Charter on 4 March 1629, becoming the Massachusetts Bay Company. The Massachusetts Company had Richard Saltonstall as a chief shareholder. White was a member of the company, and on 30 Nov. he was nominated one of the committee to value the joint stock. John Endecott was sent out as governor. Francis Higginson and Samuel Skelton were chosen and approved by White as ministers, and sailed for the Dorchester colony on 4 May 1629 aboard the George Bonaventura. The charter enabled John Winthrop to hire a fleet of what would eventually comprise eleven ships, later called the Winthrop Fleet, to bring a new wave of emigrants across the Atlantic. John Winthrop sailed in the Arbella, White holding a service on board before she sailed. The Mary and John was the first, carrying 140 people recruited by White. In June 1630 they landed and founded the settlement of Dorchester, Massachusetts. The eleven ships transported about 700 colonists to the New World. In 1632 and 1636 White was corresponding with John Winthrop (who urged White to visit the colony) about cod-lines and hooks to be sent, as well as flax of a suitable growth for Rhode Island. From 1630 to 1640 ships carried about 10,000 English colonists to the New World in what has been called the Great Migration. Later in the 1630s White was under suspicion for his financial dealings. About 1635 or 1636 White was examined before Sir John Lambe about some papers seized in his study, and relating to a considerable sum of money sent by White to Dr. John Stoughton. This turned out to be in part a legacy from one Philippa Pitt, bequeathed to White for good causes, and in part disbursements for the colonists in New England. White produced particulars of these in his note-books, and after six months' attendance before the court of high commission, he was discharged and the informant against him reprimanded. | White, Rev. John (I35694)
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| 1004 | "Who appears as a donor to Woburn Abbey" [Moriarty, citation details below]. "Recently deceased in 1165." [Honors and Knights' Fees, citation details below.] | de Lucelles, Hugh (I10521)
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| 1005 | "Who came in the Francis from Ipswich in 1634, aged 27, and whose name appears among the inhabitants of Salem in 1637." [Frederick S. Pease, "The Pease Family," citation details below.] He arrived on the same ship as his brother John Pease. | Pease, Robert (I17366)
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| 1006 | "Who was dead before 15th November 1369, when his father gave as a hostage Angus, the son of his deceased son John." [The Peerage of Scotland, citation details below] | of the Isles, John (I27446)
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| 1007 | "Whose presence at the reception of Burghers, in Valenciennes, is given in the Registry of Burghers of that city under the date of February 14, 1463." [The Eno Family, citation details below.] | Henno, Collard (I14927)
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| 1008 | "Wife of four husbands, and the ancestress of important comital families through three of her marriages, Adélaïde, alias Blanche, was also briefly queen of France, and the mother of another French queen. Yet, in the early nineteenth century, scholars were still confused about her identity. Her story has to be pieced together from various records which, for example, mention an Alaiz, mother of count Pons de Gévaudan, or a Blanca, wife of Louis V, king of France, or an Adelaidis, cui prenomen erat Candida, mother of queen Constance, and only in hindsight is it clear that these records refer to the same woman. The discovery of the work of the historian Richer in the 1830's added a key piece to the puzzle by mentioning three of Adélaïde's marriages, but historians were slow to take advantage of the new information. Nevertheless, by the late nineteeth century, historians had accepted that Adélaïde, alias Blanche, daughter of Foulques II of Anjou, had been successively married to Étienne de Brioude (at the time often incorrectly called count of Gévaudan), king Louis V of France, and Guillaume I (or II) of Provence, and that she was the mother by the last of queen Constance, wife of king Robert II of France, although the marriage to Raymond of "Gothia" was still widely doubted. More recently, in the face of clear proof that Adélaïde was the mother of Guillaume "Taillefer", count of Toulouse, it has been recognized that her marriage to the obscure Raymond was genuine." [The Henry Project] | of Anjou, Adelaide-Blanche (I5496)
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| 1009 | "William (Roswell), Branford, merch. rem. to Charlestown, there was inhab. 1658, and Frothingham, 145, says, m. 29 Nov. 1654 (tho. judge Smith of Guilford makes the date many yrs. later, and perhaps is should be, by ten yrs. nearly), Catharine, d. of Hon. Richard Russell of that place, but rem. soon aft. to Branford, where he, in Jan. 1668, partook in the new combinat. for ch. aft. withdrawal of Rev. Abraham Pierson to New Jersey, and very soon rem. to New Haven, and was active in business, sent in 1673 to the Dutch, after they had retaken New York, to inqu. a. their further purpose, named capt. of the horse in Philip's war, but declined to accept, was a judge of the Co. bef. during, and aft. the usurp. of Andros, but turned out in 1690; and in 1692, with Edward Palmes and Gershom Bulkley, oppos. the Charter gov. and d. 19 Jul 1694, aged 64, as the gr. st. tells, and his wid. d. 1698." [A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, citation details below.] | Rosewell, Capt. William (I18754)
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| 1010 | "William came to New England in 1640 with his son Samuel and his brother Philip. He was elected a member of the Royal Artillery of Boston in 1641 and was soon appointed lieutenant of the company. He was a deputy to the General Court from 1642 to 1650. William also held the positions of Clerk of the House of Deputies and Recorder of Deeds. He was appointed captain of milita about 1655." [Clifford L. Stott, citation details below] | Torrey, Capt. William (I27142)
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| 1011 | "William Coomes, of Owensboro, whose house was a station and resting-place for Fathers Nerinckx, Abell, Durbin, and other priests in their visitations to that part of the State." [A Century of Catholicity in Kentucky, citation details below] From Descendants of Richard Coomes (citation details below): September 3, 1796, Nelson County marriage bond: William Coomes -- Rachel Coomes, bond Richard Coomes From Daviess County records, the will of William Coomes -- written in May 1834 -- probated in June 1844. Wife: Rachel. Daughters: Teresy Wallace, Mary Margaret, and Elizabeth Coomes. Sons: Charles, Felix, Benedict, and William Peter Coomes. William was one of the first Catholic settlers in Daviess County, arriving at a time when the county was still a wilderness. Early Church records reveal that William often used his home as the first meeting place in the county for those first Catholic settlers. He sold land on 2 October 1837 for the building of a new church. An early lawsuit of Daviess County, dated Feb 3, 1816 indicates that William was in Daviess County prior to 1830 to survey land and purchase property. The lawsuit references lots purchased in Owensboro on May 6, 1817, yet the first recorded deed in the courthouse is dated Aug 12, 1835. William's will was written on May 8, 1841, but not probated until July 3, 1844. Noted on the original document at the courthouse that a fire destroyed the original document and that the family requested it be copied in its originality back into the will book. His son, Felix, was the administrator of his estate. | Coomes, William (I10779)
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| 1012 | "William Daubeney (probably Ralph's twin br.) succeeded to the estates in Brittany. This William was knighted in Jan. 1326/7. He was an attorney in England for the Duke of Brittany, 1336-40, and Steward of his Earldom of Richmond. The King granted him the reversion of the manors of Kempston, Beds, and Tottenham, Middlesex, for life, 2 Nov. 1333, and in fee, 19 Mar. 1336/7. He m. Philippe, and had licence to be jointly enfeoffed with her of 3 of these manors, 15 June 1344. He lost, for a time, his lands in Brittany. As seigneur de Landal, he made a grant to the Abbey of La Vieuville on Friday after St. Mark [27 Apr.] 1358, with the consent 'de Philippe nostre tres chere et bien aimee compagne et de Mahaud nostre fille.' He d. in Apr. 1370, Thursday the vigil of the Annunciation [24 Mar. was a Monday] 1370/1, or 6 Dec. 1371, according to different inquisitions, at Trenay [near St. Neot], Cornwall: leaving a da. and h., Maud, aged 26 and more or 30 and more in 1374, and then the wife of Olivier de Montauban, chr., Seigneur de Montauban in Brittany. She was heir to Landal and to lands in Aubigné, and was living 29 May 1388. Philippe lost her inheritance in Brittany, and was living in England 22 Sep. 1373." | Daubeney, William (I1489)
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| 1013 | "William Daumarle the younger's wife was named Agnes, not Ellen or Helen or Isabel as reported by various online genealogical databases." [Douglas Richardson, 1 Dec 2006, post to soc.genealogy.medieval.] | Agnes (I4729)
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| 1014 | "William de Briouze, s. and h. by 1st wife. He m. Eve, da. and in her issue coh. of William (Marshal), Earl of Strigul and Pembroke, by Isabel, suo jure Countess of Pembroke. He d. 1 May 1230, being hanged by Llewelyn abovenamed. His widow d. before 1246." [Complete Peerage I:22, as corrected in Volume XIV.] Hanged by Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, after intrigues with Llewelyn's wife. "He was discovered in Joan's chambers, accused of being her lover, and promptly and publicly hanged. While the story that William and Joan were lovers has been generally accepted, the Annals of Margam (in T. Gale, ed , Historiae Britannicae et Anglicanae Scriptores XX (Oxford, 1687), 2-18, [anno] MCCXXX) implies that the 'intimacy' was devised by Llywelyn to avenge himself on William for political injuries inflicted not only by William but by the entire Braose family; the execution was hailed by the Welsh as a vindication of a blood-feud against the Braoses dating from at least 1176. Indeed, shortly after the execution Llywelyn wrote to William's widow Eva and to William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, Eva's brother, stating, in effect, that so far as he was concerned, the intended marriage between Llywelyn's son Dafydd and Eva's daughter Isabella could go forward as planned, and that he could not have prevented the Welsh magnates from taking their vengeance. See J. Goronwy Edwards, Calendar of Ancient Correspondence concerning Wales (Board of Celtic Studies of the University of Wales, History and Law Series, 2)(Cardiff, 1935), pp 51-52, nos. XI.56a, 56b. The marriage in fact took place three months later." [William Addams Reitwiesner, "The Children of Joan, Princess of North Wales," The Genealogist 1:80, Spring 1980.] | de Briouze, William (I9948)
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| 1015 | "William de Graham […] comes into view as a personage of importance in the reign of David I. From the connection maintained by his assumed descendants for at least two centuries with Tynedale, it is possible that his family first settled there, and that he attached himself to the fortunes of David while the latter was yet Prince of Cumbria, perhaps through the Scoto-Saxon Earls of Dunbar. He witnessed a charter by King David to the Church of St. Cuthbert c. 1127, and the well-known foundation-charter of the Abbey of Holyroodhouse in 1128, also a charter by David to the Priory of Coldingham in 1139. He was one of those who, c. 1141, perambulated the lands of Clerkington, given by the King and Earl Henry his son to the Church of Haddington, and he also witnessed a charter by Robert, Bishop of St. Andrews, to Herbert, Bishop of Glasgow, the King and Prince being consenters, between 1147 and 1152." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below] | de Graham, William (I27313)
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| 1016 | "William de Merlay, a serjeant to Geoffrey, Bishop of Coutances; he gave the lordship of Morwick to the monks of Durham." [The Blackmans of Knight's Creek, citation details below] | de Merlay, William (I10482)
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| 1017 | "William de Mohun died in October 1193, perhaps abroad." [Royal Ancestry, also "The Trowbridge Ancestry", citation details below.] Some sources say Jerusalem. Contemporary records show that he made a pilgrimage there but do not clarify where he died. | de Mohun, William (I5752)
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| 1018 | "William de Moion, Lord of Dunster, was heir of William de Moion abovenamed, but his exact relationship is uncertain. In 1131 he was at the Council of Northampton. Before the death of Henry I he held more than 30 knight's fees. In 1138 he held Dunster Castle for the Empress Maud. From this stronghold he committed such ravages on the countryside that King Stephen marched against him in force; but finding Dunster Castle impregnable he left a blockading force under Henry de Tracy, who is said to have curbed William's depredations. In 1141 he joined the Empress and was almost certainly at Winchester when she was elected Queen of England on 8 April. Probably soon afterwards, and certainly before 24 June 1141, Maud created him Earl of Somerset. He was with her at Westminster, about 20-24 June, and fled with her to Winchester, where he fought for her during the siege (August-September). His subsequent career is obscure. He founded a priory at Bruton (Somerset), possibly in or soon after 1142; and he was a benefactor to the priories of Bridlington and (possibly) Taunton. He married Agnes, daughter of Walter de Gant. He d. probably in or before 1155. Stephen did not recognise his Earldom, and as Henry II did not grant a new charter to William or his son, the Earldom of Somerset (so far as it existed) lapsed at or before his death." [Complete Peerage XII/1:37-9.] | de Mohun, William (I8984)
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| 1019 | "William de Ros, 2nd Lord (Baron) de Ros of Helmsley, Sheriff Yorks 1326, one of the two Barons, representing the entire class of Barons or magnates of the realm, who at Kenilworth Jan 1326/7 informed Edward II of his deposition; member of Council of Regency Feb 1326/7." [Burke's Peerage] "He was sum. to Parl. 20 Nov 1317 till 21 Feb. 1339.40." [Complete Peerage] | de Ros, William IV (I10336)
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| 1020 | "William Herle began practising as one of the serjeants of the common bench in Michaelmas term 1299, and seems to have been one of several serjeants called to the common-bench bar at that time. Final concord authorizations and law reports show him in regular attendance in the court until 1320. His success at the bar is also shown by the fact that early in the reign of Edward II he was retained by the city of London as one of its counsel, and that in 1315 he became a king's serjeant. Early in Michaelmas term 1320 he replaced John Benstead as a junior justice of the common bench and around this time he was knighted. For three terms in 1321 he was absent from the court while sitting as a justice of the London eyre, hearing civil pleas and quo warranto cases with the chief justice, Hervey Staunton. Otherwise he served continuously as a junior justice of the common bench, until he replaced Staunton as chief justice of the same court early in Hilary term 1327. He left court after Trinity term 1329 to serve as chief justice of the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire eyres of 1330-31, but returned to the common bench, as its chief justice, in Easter term 1331; he relinquished this post at the end of Trinity term 1335, though he lived for another twelve years. [...] His heir was his son Robert, who died without issue in 1364, when the Herle lands passed to Ralph Hastings, the son of Robert's sister Margaret." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] "He was a benefactor to the monastery of Newminster, where his obit was annually solemnized." [Hodgson, citation details below.] | de Herle, William (I10261)
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| 1021 | "William I de London [...] joined the invasion of Glamorgan under Robert fitz Hamon between 1094 and 1104 and thereby acquired the lordship of Ogmore, about 30 kilometres west of Cardiff." [Timothy Gordon Barclay, citation details below.] | de London, William (I17826)
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| 1022 | "William le Boteler, s. and h. of Henry (who d. v.p.), and grandson and h. of William le Boteler, of Warrington, co. Lancaster, (who was Sheriff of co. Lanc. 1258-59, and Gov. of Lancaster Castle), suc. his grandfather about 1280, and 14 June (1294) 22 Edw. I, was summoned to attend the King in the French wars in Gascony, and was sum. to Parl. 23 June (1295) 23 Edw. I, 26 Aug. (1295) 24 Edw. I, and 6 Feb. (1298/9) 27 Edw. 1, by writs directed Willelmo le Butiller and Willelmo le Botiller de Werington, whereby he may be held to have become LORD LE BOTILLER. In (1305-06) 34 Edw. I he was in the expedition to Scotland. He d. about 1328. His widow Sibyl and his s. William were living in 1330. [The accounts of his issue are extremely contradictory, but none of his descendants (who were settled at Warrington, Bewsey, and elsewhere, co. Lancaster) appear to have been sum. to Parl.]" [Complete Peerage, citation details below] | le Boteler, William (I36009)
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| 1023 | "WILLIAM MEDLEY started making whiskey on his farm on Cartright's Creek near St. Rose's in Springfield, Kentucky. He made his living as a distiller. From a ledger which he kept from 3/1841 until 12/1850 he sold fine prime bourbon in quantity lots at 24 cents per gallon. Besides his distillery he also had a blacksmith shop and general food store. There were numerous entries for repairing stills so he was familiar with the coopersmith trade as well. WILLIAM died of 'typhus fever' on 3/6/1853 in Washington County, Kentucky at the young age of 37." [John Medley (1615-1660), citation details below] | Medley, Wiliam (I6276)
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| 1024 | "William Nickerson was a man of intelligence and of great energy and strength of will, which degenerated into obstinancy. He could not brook opposition nor readily accomodate himself to his neighbors. He was litigious, insisting upon the letter of what he thought his rights. He was no doubt a religious man, and at Monomoy acted as a religious teacher to the infant settlement, but he could not agree with his Yarmouth brethren and had at least one of his children baptized in Barnstable. His purchase of land at Monomoy was doubtless in part dictated by a desire of independence and his intention to found a settlement of which he should be the head. After his removal to Monomoy he resisted the authority both of Yarmouth and Eastham, which the colony court successively extended over the place. His purchase at Monomoy was contrary to a salutary law of the colony of which he could not have been unaware, although when confronted with its penalty, he claimed ignorance. He more than once expressed regret that he had violated the law but at no time did he alter his course. His persistence in the end, it is true, brought him substantial victory, but his unaccommodating spirit made many years of his life a series of conflicts with the colonial authorities and others, in which he was almost uniformly worsted. As has been seen, he disposed of all his property before his death and therefore his name does not appear on the probate records. This action on his part was perhaps due to distrust of the public authorities, produced by his years of conflict with them." [James W. Hawes, "William Nickerson", in Library of Cape Cod History & Genealogy (vol 1-105). Yarmouthport, Mass.: C. W. Swift, 1912-23.] | Nickerson, William (I20189)
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| 1025 | "William of Breteuil was Benedictine abbot of Breteuil, near Beauvais, France. He rebuilt the monastery after it had been nearly destroyed by the Normans. He was the eldest son of William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford. He was held captive and tortured by Ascelin Gouel de Perceval 'Lupus', Sire d'Yvry, until he finally granted his daughter Isabella de Breteuil's hand in marriage to him." [Wikipedia] Feast day: July 14. | of Breteuil, St. William (I3593)
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| 1026 | "William Reade seems to have increased the family property to a great extent, from the evidence of his will. He was local assessor of the Lay Subsidies of 1563, 1567, 1598 and 1600, in all of which he was a large tax-payer." The Ancestry of Bethia Harris, citation details below] | Reade, William (I5331)
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| 1027 | "William S. T. Derr lived at New York, NY (1898- to 1901); at Vancouver, WA (1901 to 1919). In New York, he was employed at Hammacher Schlemmer & Co. At Vancouver, WA, he had a bakery business; he was a partner in operating Great Western Tea Co.; elected County Clerk, Clark Co., WA, 1910; admitted to the bar in 1914; elected Justice of the Peace, 1914. He was instrumental in organizing St. Paul's Lutheran Congregation at Vancouver, Washington." [Roy H. Wampler, citation details below] William Samuel Derr and his wife Edith May Smith were double third cousins through their shared Derr ancestry, triple fourth cousins through their Koogle forbears, and fourth cousins via their Smith ancestors. | Derr, William Samuel Toms (I31232)
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| 1028 | "William Salvain, probably son of Silvan, occurs in the pipe rolls in Yorkshire in 1165 when he paid a sum of 8s. 4d. representing five eighths of a knight's fee and in 1168, when he was holding one knight's fee jointly with Guy de Ver. Between 1165 and 1185, William Salvain, was a witness to a deed of Hugh, bishop of Durham." ["The Yorkshire Family of Salvain," citation details below.] | Salvain, William (I5813)
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| 1029 | "William served in the military in the area of Berwick, Maine, ca. 1722-25, at the end of Queen Anne's War. His name appears as a 'Centll' on the muster roll of Col. John Wheelwright & Co. for August 22 to November 27, 1722 (Mass. Archives 91:58-61); on that of Capt. Samll Wheelwright & Co. for June 2 to November 16, 1725 (Mass. Archives 91:209-210)." [The Descendants of William Hartwell, citation details below] | Hartwell, William (I33601)
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| 1030 | "William Walcher (or just Walcher, sometimes Walchere or Walker; died 14 May 1080) was the bishop of Durham from 1071, a Lotharingian, the first non-Englishman to hold that see and an appointee of William the Conqueror following the Harrying of the North. He was murdered in 1080, which led William to send an army into Northumbria to harry the region again." [Wikipedia] | Walcher Bishop of Durham (I11793)
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| 1031 | "William was the most notable member of the de Braose dynasty. His steady rise and sudden fall at the hands of King John is often taken as an example of that king's arbitrary and capricious behaviour towards his barons." [Wikipedia] "William de Briouze, Lord of Briouze, Bramber, Brecon, Over Gwent, &c., s. and h. He m. Maud De St. Valery, "Lady of La Haie." In consequence of his well-known quarrel with King John, his lands were forfeited in 1208, and his wife and 1st s. starved to death in the dungeons of Corfe (or of Windsor) in 1210. He d. at Corbeil near Paris, 9, and was bur. 10 Aug. 1211, in the Abbey of St. Victor at Paris." [Complete Peerage I:22] "He slaughtered Seisyll ap Dyvnwal (abovenamed) and a host of unarmed Welshmen, in the castle of Abergavenny in 1175, in revenge for the death of his uncle Henry of Hereford [Brut y Tywysogian, R. de Diceto, etc.). Seisyll was owner of Castle Arnold, and is said in an inaccurate version of the Brut to have captured Abergavenny in 1172, the slaughter being dated 1177 (The Gwentian Chronicle, Cambrian Arch. Assoc, p. 137). But the better version of the Brut (Rolls Ser., p. 218; Y Brutieu, in Welsh Texts, ed. Rhys and Evans, 1890, p. 330) on the contrary, states that Seisyll was captured in 1172 by the garrison of Abergavenny. (ex inform. G. W. Watson.)" [Complete Peerage I:22, footnote (a).] | de Briouze, William (I7525)
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| 1032 | "William Webster of Syston, butcher, became a freeman of Leicester in 1502/3; this enabled him to sell his meat in Leicester without paying a heavy toll. It also laid upon him responsibilities, notably those of fair trading and of contributing a reasonable amount to the borough expenses." [Skillington et al., citation details below.] | Webster, William (I17763)
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| 1033 | "William, probably the son of William, occurs later in the twelfth century. Between 1185 and 1195, William Salvain and Gerard his brother witnessed a deed of William de Aton. Between 1190 and 1210, William Salvain gave to St. Peter's hospital, York, a toft at Thorpe le Street (Ruhthorp). About 1205, William Salvain and Peter his brother witnessed a deed of Robert son of William Constable of a gift in free dower to his wife Ela, daughter of Fulk de Oiri." ["The Yorkshire Family of Salvain," citation details below.] | Salvain, William (I5783)
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| 1034 | "William, second Lord Graham, sat in Parliament 9 October 1466, and, on 23 November following, had a protection from Edward IV, along with his relative Patrick, Bishop of St. Andrews, and others, for two years, to come to England, and thence to go to France, Flanders, etc., and return to Scotland. It is known that Bishop Graham went to Rome, and remained there for some years, but how far Lord Graham availed himself of the protection is doubtful. He sat in Parliament again on 14 October 1467 and 21 November 1469, and died about the year 1471." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below] | Graham, William (I26545)
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| 1035 | "Within the limits of the parish of Malpas, and comprehended in the original barony, is the township of Egerton. When the Saxon counties had been formed, this part of Chesire, as we learned from the Domesday Book, belonged to Edwin, Earl of Mercia, a grandson of Earl Leofric and Lady Godiva. After the battle of Hastings, the Saxon rights were transferred by the victorious Norman to his sister's son, Hugh d'Avranches, surnamed Lupus, the pious profligate whom he had created Palatine Earl of Chester. Malpas was selected by him as the site of one of the numerous fortresses with which, at regular intervals, he strenghthened his Welsh border, and was given by him, with other estates from the forfeited lands of Earl Edwin, to his natural son Robert Fitz-Hugh, whom he created Baron of Malpas, and who was one of the eight barons of his Parliament." [County Families of Lancashire and Cheshire, citation details below.] | Fitz Hugh, Robert (I3750)
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| 1036 | "Witnessed King Stephen's charter of liberties as royal steward in 1136." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] | de Beauchamp, Simon I (I2146)
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| 1037 | "Wulfnoth Cild (died c. 1014) was a South Saxon thegn who is regarded by historians as the probable father of Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and thus the grandfather of King Harold Godwinson." [Wikipedia] | Cild, Wulfnoth (I2316)
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| 1038 | "Younger brother of Grigor/Krikorikios, prince of Taron. [...] Grigor had pledged loyalty to the Byzantine emperor Leo VI but was apparently suspected of feeling greater loyalty to the 'chief prince of the Saracens.' [...] This suspicion led the emperor to require hostages from Grigor. Apoganem was sent by his brother Grigor as a hostage to Constantinople, where Apoganem was entertained by the emperor and honoured with the rank of protospatharios before being freed. Apoganem later returned to Constantinople and became a patrikios (patrician). The male-line ancestry of Grigor and Apoganem (and that of the father of Georgios, Demetrios, and Leon Tornikes) traces back to Smbat Bagratouni, killed in the Battle of Bagrevand in 775. Smbat was Armenia's sparapet (grand constable, i.e., hereditary supreme military commander); his wife was a daughter or (perhaps more likely) sister of Samuel Mamikonian, a descendant (through two lines) of Tiridates the Great, the king of Armenia who made Christianity the state religion early in the fourth century. (Samuel also descended from Gregory the Illuminator, who converted Tiridates the Great to Christianity.) Though some details are unclear, Tiridates the Great clearly descended from many of the royal dynasties of antiquity." ["Eirene?, First Wife of Emperor Isaakios II Angelos, Is a Probable Tornikina and Gateway to Antiquity," by Don C. Stone and Charles R. Owens, citation details below.] | Apoganem (I12407)
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| 1039 | "Zechariah was a large landholder, as appears by the Springfield and Enfield records. He was several times chosen representative to the General Court at Boston, and was town-clerk from 1723 to 1729." [Genealogical Records of Some of the Descendants of Robert Booth] | Booth, Zechariah (I17380)
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| 1040 | "Zibeon Hooker […] enlisted as a drummer in Capt. Benjamin Buller's company, Colonel Peirce's Massachusetts regiment, which answered the Lexington Alarm. In the battle of Bunker Hill, his drum was pierced by a bullet. In 1776, he was promoted to sergeant, Capt. Thomas Willington's company, Col. Asa Whitcomb's regiment, and later to lieutenant, Col. Rufus Putnam's regiment, 1777, serving also under other commands until the close of the war. He was a member of the Cincinnati." [Daughters of the American Revolution lineage book, volume 75] | Hooker, Zibeon Sr. (I30632)
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| 1041 | "[O]r Alwyn Mac Arkil, prominent at the court of David I (1124-53)." [Complete Peerage, citation details below] According to The Complete Peerage (7:587), he was possibly a son of Arkil, son of Ecgfrith, and Arkil's wife Sigrid, a granddaughter of Aldun, Bishop of Lindisfarne. When the Danish fleet came up the Humber to York in 1069, many English joined them, including Arkil; in 1070, after this act of rebellion, he fled. | Alwyn Mor (I28946)
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| 1042 | "[Adam, son of Ulf] was succeeded by a son Adam, who gave his moiety of Eccleston to his son Warine, and in 1242 Warine de Walton held the fifth part of a knight's fee in Walton of the fee of the Earl of Lincoln (Lacy), and he of the fee of the Earl of Ferrers (as lord between Ribble and Mersey), and he of the king in chief." ["Townships: Ulnes Walton" in VCH Lancaster (citation details below), volume 6] "Adam son of Adam de Walton gave to Warine his son half the vill of Eccleston as Adam the elder had held it of Benedict Gernet and Adam the son of the heirs of Benedict. Master Adam de Walton in 1294 claimed 6 acres in Eccleston against William de Dacre. The land had been approved from the waste by Benedict Gernet and Warine de Walton, lords in common, and fell to the latter's share on a division. Adam son and heir of Warine demised it to William de Shorneton (? Shurventon) for 6s. a year, and this tenant sold his crops and title to William de Dacre. In 1301 the moiety of the manors of Eccleston and Heskin was included in a Walton agreement. By 1320–1 it had come into the possession of Thurstan de Northlegh and Margery his wife [...]." ["Townships: Eccleston" in VCH Lancaster (citation details below), volume 6] | de Walton, Warin (I36096)
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| 1043 | "[Adam, son of Ulf] was succeeded by a son Adam, who gave his moiety of Eccleston to his son Warine[...]." ["Townships: Ulnes Walton" in VCH Lancaster (citation details below), volume 6] | de Walton, Adam (I36098)
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| 1044 | "[A] a noted soldier, [he] served on most of the principal campaigns of the 1370s and 1380s, and was a prominent retainer of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster: he died on Gaunt's expedition to Galicia in 1386–7." [Oxford DNB, citation details below.] | Hastings, Hugh (I16847)
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| 1045 | "[A] American educator, mathematician, author, lawyer and newspaper editor who served as president of Kenyon College, among other public distinctions." [Wikipedia] "He was educated in the schools of Steubenville, by private tutors, and at St. Mary's College, Baltimore, Md. He studied law with his father and his father's partner, Edwin M. Stanton, who was afterwards Secretary of War under Lincoln. Although admitted to the bar in 1846, Mr. Tappan turned his attention to journalism, publishing for two years a paper called the Ohio Press. He later practiced law in Steubenville, where he was mayor, 1844-5, and superintendent of schools, 1856-9. He was professor of mathematics in the University of Ohio, 1859-60 and 1865-8. He was president of Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, 1869-75, and commissioner of the Public Schools of Ohio, from 1887 until the time of his death. He was the author of a number of textbooks on mathematics. He received the following degrees: A. M. from St. Mary's, 1860; LL.D., from Williams, 1873, from Washington and Jefferson, 1874, and from several other colleges." [Tappan-Toppan Genealogy, citation details below.] | Tappan, Eli Todd (I20864)
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| 1046 | "[A] coheiress of the family of Vaux or de Vallibus, Lords of Dirleton, who brought to her husband a great accession to his estate." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] Her father may have been named William. She was probably a sister of the wife of John Haliburton. | de Vaux, (Unknown) (I27468)
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| 1047 | "[A] Kentish MP and sheriff during the 1390s, and for the 1412 subsidy he was assessed at £122 6s. 8d., putting him among the wealthiest in the county." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below.] Knight of the shire for Kent 1394-95. Sheriff of Kent 1395-96. Fought at Agincourt, as did his sons William and Nicholas. | Haute, Nicholas (I21939)
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| 1048 | "[A] knightly adventurer, he used his Bohemian kingdom to finance his constant schemes and intrigues, that sometimes were successful through a combination of energy, ability, and luck, his campaigns took him throughout Europe, to include three Crusades against the Lithuanians, slain as a French ally at the battle of Crécy." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | John King of Bohemia (I21910)
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| 1049 | "[A] lady of great energy with a high capacity for governing." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | della Scala, Beatrice (I21978)
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| 1050 | "[A] lady variously named Jean, Kathrina and Elizabeth, daughter of King Robert II." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below] | Stewart, Elizabeth (I27293)
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| 1051 | "[A] sister of Putuspaquin, a minor sachem at Sanchekantacket, and probably the widowed mother of 'Zachary' called the 'son-in-law' of Joseph Doggett." [The Great Migration Begins, citation details below.] | (Unnamed Native American woman) (I22678)
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| 1052 | "[A] strong supporter of King Stephen. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Lincoln in 1141, when his lands were seized, but returned in 1143. Henry Fitz Empress in 1153 promised Ranulf, Earl of Chester, Peverel's lands, on condition of his support, whereupon Peverel, it is said, poisoned the Earl of Chester a few months later. William became a monk and his lands were seized by Henry II in 1155." [VCH Rutland, volume 2, "Parishes: Empingham," pp. 242-250.] | Peverel, William (I4937)
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| 1053 | "[A] well-known Providence merchant who had participated in the Gaspee Affair in 1772." [Wikipedia] Also from Wikipedia: The Gaspee Affair was a very significant event in the lead-up to the American Revolution. HMS Gaspee was a British customs schooner that had been enforcing the Navigation Acts in and around Newport, Rhode Island in 1772. It ran aground in shallow water while chasing the packet ship Hannah on June 9 near what is now known as Gaspee Point in Warwick, Rhode Island. A group of men led by Abraham Whipple and John Brown attacked, boarded, and torched the ship. The event increased hostilities between the American colonists and British officials, following the Boston Massacre in 1770. The British had hoped to reduce tensions with the colonies by repealing some aspects of the Townshend Acts and working to end the American boycott of British goods. British officials in Rhode Island wanted to increase their control over the trade that had defined the small colony—legitimate trade as well as smuggling—in order to increase their revenue from the colony. But colonists increasingly began to protest the Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, and other British impositions that had clashed with the colony's history of rum manufacturing, maritime trade, and slave trading. This event marked the first act of violent uprising against the authority of the British crown in America, preceding the Boston tea party by more than a year and moving the colonies as a whole toward the war for independence. | Arnold, Welcome (I16251)
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| 1054 | "[A]ccording to Barbour, distinguished himself in the course of the expedition made by Sir James Douglas and Randolph, Earl of Moray, into Weardale, England, in 1327. He was at that time made a knight, and on the same day, being well horsed and equipped, he aided Sir James Douglas in a plot to draw the English archers into an ambush, but was borne so far with the crowd of fugitives that he was taken prisoner. He was, however, shortly afterwards exchanged for Englishmen taken by the Scots. He was alive in 1331, when he is referred to as a creditor of the late King Robert." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below] | Erskine, William (I27438)
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| 1055 | "[A]dmitted as a freeman of Portsmouth in 1673. He was a member of Peleg Sanford's troop of horse in 1667 and doubtless engaged in Indian fighting. [...] Thomas Briggs died in 1720, leaving an estate inventoried at slightly in excess of a thousand pounds. In 1694 he was listed as one of the fifty-six Proprietors of Dartmouth." [The Howland Heirs, citation details below.] | Briggs, Ens. Thomas (I6264)
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| 1056 | "[A]lmost certainly vita patris before 24 May 1402 when his son was 'of Darnley,' styled 'filius Alexandri Senescalli de Derneley militis' about 1383 and 'Dominus de Galliston' on 13 October 1390, not known to have been knighted or to have succeeded to Darnley." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] | Stewart, Alexander (I27398)
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| 1057 | "[A]mong the approximately 170 tenants-in-chief or barons listed in Domesday Book (1086) holding directly of the king, with lands in cos. Bedford, Northampton, Hertford, and Buckingham. He had been preceded in most of his lands by Levenot, an English thegn of Edward the Confessor. He retained in demesne the manors of Wahull and Langford, co. Bedford, and Pateshull, co. Northants. He established the seat of his barony at Wahull, where a wooden motte-and-bailey castle was constructed, later to be replaced by one of stone. The barony provided a yearly income of about £98 and was probably assessed for the service of thirty knights." [Charles M. Hansen, citation details below.] | the Fleming, Walter (I23946)
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| 1058 | "[A]mong the most prominent west-country gentry in the late fourteenth century, serving as MP for Devon and Somerset on ten and seven occasions respectively, and receiving a large number of local offices and commissions. He was a liveried retainer of the leading regional magnate, Edward Courtenay, earl of Devon, a close political and family bond that was destined to be violently sundered in the mid-fifteenth century." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry on his namesake grandson] According to the History of Parliament: MP for Somerset, 1366; Devon, 1371, 1376, 1378, 1379, Nov 1380, 1381, May 1382, Oct 1382; Somerset Oct 1383, Apr 1384; Devon Apr 1384; Somerset Nov 1384, 1386, Feb 1388, 1393, 1395; Devon Jan 1397, Sep 1397; Somerset 1399; Devon 1402. He was also elected for Devon in Oct 1377 but was on active service overseas, so his seat was taken by Thomas Pomeroy. Not counting this last, this comes to twelve times for Devon and nine times for Somerset. Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset 1 Nov 1381 - 24 Nov 1382; of Devon, 15 Nov 1389 - 7 Nov 1390. "The Bonvilles, of French origin, established themselves in Devon shortly after the Conquest and by the end of the 14th century their wealth and standing in the county had become second only to that of the Courtenays. The antagonism between the heads of the respective families in the mid 15th century, which expressed itself on the battlefields of the Wars of the Roses and ended in the extinction of the main Bonville line, was exacerbated if not caused by jealousy of the material prosperity of the Bonvilles, for which Sir William himself was largely responsible. At his death in 1408 he was holding some 40 manors, and extensive lands and rents, in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, providing his grandson and heir with an income sufficient to justify his elevation to the House of Lords. Such material assets led Sir William into wide fields of public service and military enterprise. In 1369 he served under the duke of Lancaster at Caux and later at Boulogne, and in October 1377 he was again absent overseas and unable to take his seat in Parliament. His military career, however, was only an interlude in a remarkably active political life: beginning in 1366, Bonville sat, either for Devon or Somerset, in 20 out of the 33 Parliaments convened in the next 36 years. His position in the West Country, if not already evident from this near monopoly, may be gauged by the frequency of his appointments to royal commissions, some of which were of major importance." [History of Parliament] | Bonville, William (I7365)
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| 1059 | "[A]n able and resolute woman, corresponded with King Richard II of England, presided in 1398 over a great tournament at Edinburgh." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | Drummond, Annabella (I20901)
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| 1060 | "[A]n American novelist and short story writer best known for her acute characterizations and depictions of academic life." [Wikipedia] | Tappan, Mary (I20866)
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| 1061 | "[A]n architect of the 'Auld Alliance' and in 1301-3 Guardian of Scotland." [Tim Powys-Lybbe] "Sir John de Soules (d. 1310), appears to have inherited the French estates and, holding lands at Westerker (DFS) and Ardross (FIF), the latter in right of his wife, was equally at home in both countries, and is the best known member of the family. He was Guardian of Scotland at a difficult period (1301x04) and paid numerous visits to France as ambassador. His seal bearing Barry of six differenced by a bendlet is regularly found in French seal collections in the period 1295x1301." [Bruce McAndrew, citation details below.] | de Soules, John (I3517)
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| 1062 | "[A]n early settler of Medina, Genesee County, N.Y., where he improved a farm and likewise engaged in business as a contractor. He served in the War of 1812 as a Sergeant and during that contest one of his sons was killed at Ft. Erie." [Portrait Biographical Album of Calhoun County, Michigan, citation details below.] | Ackley, Samuel (I22500)
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| 1063 | "[A]n extremely influential figure in the northwest, where he served on various royal commissions and also took an active part in punitive raids across the border against the Scots." [History of Parliament (citation details below) on his grandson John Beetham (d. 1415)] | Beetham, Ralph (I28320)
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| 1064 | "[A]n heiress who brought her husband the lands of Auchterarder and Cargill, co. Perth, and Kincardine, co. Stirling." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | Montfichet, Mary (I20926)
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| 1065 | "[A]n Ohio judge and Democratic politician who served in the Ohio State Senate and the United States Senate. He was an early settler of the Connecticut Western Reserve in northeastern Ohio and was one of the first settlers in Portage County and the founder of the city of Ravenna, Ohio." [Wikipedia] "TAPPAN, Benjamin, a Senator from Ohio; born in Northampton, Mass., May 25, 1773; attended the public schools; apprenticed as printer and engraver; traveled to the West Indies; studied painting with Gilbert Stuart; studied law; admitted to the bar in Hartford, Conn., and commenced practice in Ravenna, Ohio, in 1799; member, State senate 1803-1805; moved to Steubenville, Ohio, in 1809 and continued the practice of law; served in the War of 1812; held several local offices; county judge; judge of the fifth Ohio Circuit Court of Common Pleas 1816-1823; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1832; United States district judge of Ohio 1833; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1839, to March 3, 1845; chairman, Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses), Committee on the Library (Twenty-seventh Congress); censured by the Senate in 1844 for breach of confidence for passing copies of a proposed treaty with Texas to the press; died in Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, April 20, 1857; interment in Union Cemetery." [Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress] An Ohio state historical marker placed in the year 2000 at Ravenna reads: "BENJAMIN TAPPAN, JR. (1773-1857) - The founder of Ravenna Township in 1799, Benjamin Tappan, Jr. led a distinguished life of public service. An aggressive force in local politics, he served in the Ohio Senate from 1803 to 1805, as judge of the fifth court of common pleas from 1816 to 1823, and as a Federal district judge from 1826 to 1833. Tappan served as aid-de-camp to Major General Elijah Wadsworth following the surrender of Detroit in the War of 1812, provisioning and arming local militia units defending the northwest frontier against a possible British invasion." After his retirement from electoral politics, in 1838 Benjamin Tappan formed a law partnership with Edwin M. Stanton, who would later be Secretary of War throughout the Civil War, under both Lincoln and Johnson. It was Johnson's attempt to fire Stanton that led to his impeachment. Tappan's son Benjamin Stanton, M.D. (1812-1884) married, as his first wife, in May 1838, Oella Stanton, sister of Edwin M. Stanton. | Tappan, Benjamin Senator from Ohio (I20862)
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| 1066 | "[A]s queen took an active role in politics, siding at times with the Bohemian lords against her husband, his suspicions of her loyalty led to an irreparable breach during the last decade of her life." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia (I21911)
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| 1067 | "[A]ssumed the name of DE STAFFORD upon becoming seised of the barony." [Complete Peerage] CP (XII/1:170) notes that Eyton said that this Hervey "was certainly descended from Bagot, who held Bramshall under Robert de Stafford in 1086." | Bagot, Hervey (I7165)
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| 1068 | "[A]ssumed the name of Mowbray. Was, when a boy, at the battle of the Standard, 1137; went with Louis VII of France to the Holy Land 1147; rebelled against Henry III 1147, and had his castles of Thirsk and Kirkby Malzeard taken and destroyed; went again to the Holy Land; founded Byland Abbey." [The Wallop Family] "Roger de Mowbray; helped defeat invading Scots at Battle of the Standard 1138; supported King Stephen in period of the Anarchy, fighting on his behalf at the Battle of Lincoln Feb. 1140/1; joined Second Crusade 1147; rebelled against Henry II 1173 and allegedly escaped to Scotland following rebels' defeat, but submitted 1174; again went on Crusade 1186, captured by Saracens 1187 at the Battle of Hittin but ransomed; married Alice, daughter of Walter de Gant and widow of Ilbert de Lacy, and died 1188 in the Holy Land when on the point of returning to England." [Burke's Peerage] | de Mowbray, Roger (I8927)
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| 1069 | "[A]ttended the King to Gascony 1276-7, and to Scotland; Knight of the shire for Somerset 1296-7." [The Wallop Family, citation details below.] | de Brent, Robert (I8324)
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| 1070 | "[Bartholomew's] widow, Margaret, continued a prisoner in the Tower of London for several months. Through the mediation of her son-in-law, William de Roos, Knt., she obtained her freedom 3 Nov. 1322. She subsequently retired to the convent house of the Minorite Sisters without Aldgate, and had two shillings per day allowed for her maintenance. In 1327 she petitioned the king and council, stating that while she was in the king's prison, Robert de Welles, husband of her younger sister, Maud de Clare, with the aid and maintenance of Hugh de Despenser, had the lands of their Clare inheritance assessed, and took Maud's share, both in England and Ireland; Margaret requested that the division be made again, according to the assessments returned in Chancery, and that she might have her choice of her share, as she is the elder sister, which request was granted." [Royal Ancestry] | de Clare, Margaret (I4630)
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| 1071 | "[B]efore 24 March in 1331 Ulrich married Margareta, given by Europa?ische Stammtafeln as Margareta von Werdenberg, daughter of Rudolf II, Graf von Werdenberg-Sargans, and a lady of the Aspermont family. However there is some uncertainty as to the identity of her parents." [Leo van de Pas, citation details below] | Margareta (I29410)
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| 1072 | "[B]elieved a younger son of Sir Norman Washbourne." [Washburn Family Foundations, citation details below.] "The conclusion of the whole matter seems to be that there is no clear proof either as to the parentage of Thomas Washbourne of Stanford, or as to the exact date of the marriage of his daughter Elizabeth with John Pakington, whose father, John Pakington, was living in the fourteenth year of Henry VI. But of the fact that the marriage brought the Pakingtons into the county there seems no doubt." [The Washbourne Family of Little Washbourne and Wichenford in the County of Worcester, citation details below.] All things considered, the fifteen ancestors shown here for Thomas Washbourne and tagged as ancestors of TNH, TSW, and AP should be regarded as possible but unproven. The same persons, however, were definitely ancestors of Eleanor Washbourne who married Richard Scrope, both of them ancestors of Anne Paston (1553-1637). | Washbourne, Thomas (I5239)
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| 1073 | "[B]rought with her an enormous treasure in metalwork and precious fabrics as well as crucial political ties." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | of Burgundy, Marie (I20948)
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| 1074 | "[B]uried in Chicksand Priory, but was transferred thence to Shouldham Priory." [Complete Peerage] | de Say, Beatrice (I8953)
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| 1075 | "[Charles H. Ackley] was born in Shenango county, New York, August 25, 1836, the son of Anson Ackley and Olive (Holliday) Ackley, both natives of the Empire state. They were among Michigan's early pioneers, coming across country in 1838 and settling in Monroe county, where they resided for a short time before coming on to Calhoun county. Arrived within the boundaries of the county, Anson Ackley located in Convis township in 1839 and on this homestead farm he and his wife lived until their term of life was ended. They were good citizens in the highest sense of the term and stood for all that was best in the many-sided life of the community. Ackley Lake in Convis township was named after Anson Ackley, this body of water joining his farm on the north. Under his roof-tree were reared to maturity seven fine children, three being boys and four girls. Today, the father of the immediate subject, and his sister, Mrs. Sarah M. Fitzgerald of Battle Creek are the only survivors of the number." [History of Calhoun County, Michigan: A Narrative Account of its Historical Progress, its People, and its Principal Interests by Washington Gardner. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1913. Volume 2, p. 655.] According to a 16 Dec 1950 Battle Creek Enquirer obituary for Samuel A. Ackley, a grandson of Anson Ackley, Anson and family came to Michigan in 1838 from Lockport, New York. From Portrait Biographical Album of Calhoun County (citation details below): [Anson Ackley] was a farmer and was engaged as a jobber on the Erie Canal when it was in process of construction. He likewise kept a tavern and built and operated a sawmill. He was at one time in good circumstances but was finally swindled out of his money. In 1837 [he] came to Michigan and made his way from Detroit into the interior of the State with a wagon drawn by oxen. In 1838 he located in Convis Township where he had purchased three hundred and twenty acres of land on section 2. He put up a log house with the help of his eldest daughter, and the family lived in that abode some years. In 1856 he located on the homestead now occupied by [the son of his son George W. Ackley] and erected here suitable buildings. He was successful as a farmer and he branched out into the milling business, putting up a mill in Convis Township. He erected a mill on Beaver Dam Creek and managed it successfully for years. He furnished three hundred thousand feet of plank for the plank road of which he was a shareholder. At one time Anson Ackley owned some three hundred and fifty acres of improved land and was in comfortable circumstances at the time of his death in December, 1865, at the age of sixty-nine years. He was first a Democrat in politics but voted for Fremont the first candidate of the Republican party, and he was a staunch Republican until he died. He was one of the pillars of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he was a Class-Leader and active in the Sunday-school. He was highly thought of by all who knew him and had a large circle of friends and acquaintances. He was very social and extremely liberal and open-hearted. He gave generously to all schemes for advancing the welfare of his township materially and otherwise, and the poor and unfortunate found in him a kind and sympathetic friend who relieved their necessities whenever he could. | Ackley, Anson (I22498)
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| 1076 | "[C]ame to Middletown in 1791. He was a tanner by trade and worked for Samuel Frothingham during the summer and followed the sea in the winter. He was lost at sea in 1807. He formed one of the crew of the brig Marlboro, of Glastonbury, Wadsworth, master. On her passage from St. Croix to Middletown, she foundered at sea and all on board perished." [History of Middlesex County, Connecticut, citation details below.] Said by some to have been a son of William Hendley of the Boston Tea Party. | Hendley, Henry (I14454)
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| 1077 | "[C]called 'Mor' or 'Big,' from whom his descendants have derived the patronymic MacCalein Mor, is in a sense the true eponymus of the family.[…] He was one of those named by Robert Bruce, the Competitor, in 1291, as supporters of his claim to the Crown of Scotland.[…] He was slain about the year 1296 in a contest with his powerful neighbour the Lord of Lorne, at a place called the String of Lorne, where a cairn still marks the spot, and was buried at Kilchrenan on Lochawe, at the church of St. Peter the Deacon, where his tombstone may still be seen." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below] His wife is said by Burke's to have been Afraig a Charraig. | Campbell, Colin (I27456)
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| 1078 | "[C]elebrated in his own day as the first white man (and an Irishman) to climb Mount Washington. In Boston in 1636, Marblehead 1637, he was an Indian interpreter by 1638; early history unknown. By 1639 he was a squatter in Oyster River; in 1649 he was in possession of 500 acres lately bought of Christopher Helme by Valentine Hill. His strenuous life was short, and its merriness marred by insanity." [Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, citation details below.] | Field, Darby (I35170)
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| 1079 | "[C]onjectured to be a daughter of Rudolf I, King of Burgundy." [The Henry Project] | Willa (I5608)
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| 1080 | "[C]onsidered for canonization. The Orkneys and Shetlands passed to Scotland from Norway in lieu of her unpaid dowry." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | of Denmark, Margaret (I20895)
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| 1081 | "[C]reated Earl of Richmond 1452 and the next year declared legitimate by Parliament, received large grants of land from his half-brother King Henry VI." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | Tudor, Edmund (I16378)
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| 1082 | "[Deborah Rider], the daughter of the accomplished surveyor and clerk, Wm. Rider, and the niece of Rev. Joseph Morse, of Stoughton, was a lady of uncommon dignity and excellence. Her library consisted of such works as Willard's Divinity, Flavel's and Tillotson's works, &c. From the markings in these volumes, I infer that she kept a theological school in the nursery, doubtless from the conviction that doctrine is the only foundation of correct practice." [Abner Morse, citation details below] | Rider, Deborah (I30814)
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| 1083 | "[Died] vita patris at Nisbet Moor 22 June 1402 in battle against the Percys, fought gallantly at Otterburn in 1388, called 'miles magnanibus et athleta bellicosus.'" [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] | de Hepburn, Patrick (I27467)
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| 1084 | "[D]. in Harwich, Mass., in what is now Brewster". [Ancestors and Descendants of Andrew Lee and Clarinda Knapp Allen] Stephen Hopkins = Mary Merrick Nathaniel Hopkins = Mercy Mayo Nathaniel Hopkins = Abigail Merrick Abigail Hopkins (1756-1803) = Jacob Eaton (1756-1836) Charlotte Eaton (1776-1835) = Luther Topcliff (1772-1814) Abigail Topcliff (1810-1870) = Edward Valentine (d. 1851) Luther Topcliff Valentine (1843-1916) = Cynthia Elizabeth Tucker (1847-1921) Effie Lillian Valentine (1879-1952) = Samuel David Davis (1876-1931) Lorraine Grace Davis (1903-1984) = Albert Henry Iversen (1899-1971) Anna Lillian Iversen (b. 1926) = James Frederick Wagner (1921-1945) Priscilla Ann Wagner (later Beaulieu) (1945- ) = Elvis Aaron Presley (1935-1977) Lisa Marie Presley (1968- ) = Daniel Robert Keough (b. 1964) = Michael Joseph Jackson (1958-2009) = Nicolas Kim Coppola (aka Nicholas Cage) (1964- ) = Michael Dean Lockwood (1961- ) | Hopkins, Stephen (I1590)
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| 1085 | "[D]au. of G. Nevil, Lord of Abergavenny." [Historical Notices of Sir Matthew Cradock, citation details below] | Nevil, Elizabeth (I29996)
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| 1086 | "[D]aughter of George Hunt (who was for 50 years rector of Collingbourne Ducis) and granddaughter of John Hunt, sentenced to be burned at the stake during the reign of Mary I; her sister Martha married the Rev. William Whately." [Jane Fletcher Fiske, "A New England Immigrant Kinship Network," citation details below.] | Hunt, Elizabeth (I2295)
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| 1087 | "[D]aughter of John de Napton, co. Warwick, in whose right her husband had the advowson of the two chapels of Walcote and Pulteney, belonging to the mother church of Misterton, 1320." [Nichols, citation details below.] | de Napton, Maud (I21791)
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| 1088 | "[D]aughter of Richard Holbrook, but perhaps not by his known wife Agnes." [Donald Lines Jacobus, citation details below.] | Holbrook, Abigail (I19299)
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| 1089 | "[D]ied 18 Aug. 1762, having been a preacher among the Friends for over eight years." [Macomber Genealogy, citation details below] | Potter, Desire (I34487)
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| 1090 | "[E]nglish politician, knight and courtier. Cavendish held public office and accumulated a considerable fortune, and became one of Thomas Cromwell's 'visitors of the monasteries' during the dissolution of the monasteries. He was MP for Thirsk in 1547. In 1547 he married Bess of Hardwick, and the couple began the construction of Chatsworth House in 1552, a project which would not be completed until after his death. His second son William Cavendish (1552-1626) became the first Earl of Devonshire, purchasing his title from the impecunious King James I." [Wikipedia] | Cavendish, William (I21425)
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| 1091 | "[E]arly in the thirteenth century Walter de la Poyle (or Puille or Poille), a retainer in the family of Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Cornwall, obtained the wardship of, and ultimately married, the daughter and heiress of Stephen de Hampton in Oxford, and thus became the owner of an estate in that county afterwards known as Hampton Poyle. In Surrey the Poyles also acquired property; their connection with Guildford is commemorated by Pewley Hill and the Poyle charities, and in Seale we have, on the north side of the Hog's Back, Poyle Park and Poyle House, and on the south side Hampton Lodge, just above the Cutmill Ponds." [Some West Surrey Villages by E. A. Judges. Guildford, England: Surrey Times Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd., 1901.] | de la Pole, Walter (I12387)
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| 1092 | "[E]nded a blood-feud with the Menteiths in 1360, giving up lands in the Lennox as compensation to the Menteiths." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | Drummond, John (I20925)
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| 1093 | "[E]nlisted in the Army of the Revolution at the age of sixteen. He spent the night of March 4, 1776, on Dorchester Hill, while it was being fortified, and was also with General Washington during that dreary winter at Valley Forge and continued in service during the war, attaining to the rank of major." ["Mrs. Julia Waters Johnstone," citation details below.] "[S]erved as a private, corporal, and sergeant in the Revolutionary War in the First Connecticut Regiment." [Abner Doubleday: His Life and Times, citation details below.] | Doubleday, Ammi (I15429)
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| 1094 | "[F]irst appears in New England records at the time of his first marriage in May 1654. About this time the first Quakers made their appearance at Sandwich and Robert soon joined the Society of Friends. [...] It seems probable that much of his land and personal property was taken from him because of his refusal to take the Oath of Fidelity and for absenting himself from the authorized church worship." [MacLean W. McLean, "Robert Harper of Sandwich, Mass.", citation details below] Listed as a Quaker in Boston, 1659, when he was sentenced to fifteen stripes. When Friend William Leddra of Barbados was executed in Boston on 14 Mar 1661, Robert Harper stood beneath the scaffold and caught Leddra's body after the hangman cut the rope. For this sign of respect toward his dead friend, Harper and his wife were banished from Boston. It was shortly after this that Charles II ordered the Bay Colony authorities to cease executing people for religious dissension. Living in August 1704, when he signed the marriage certificate of his granddaughter Deborah (Bowerman) Gifford. | Harper, Robert (I4994)
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| 1095 | "[F]irst of Exeter, New Hampshire, a land measurer there in 1644. He removed to Wells, Cape Porpus and finally to Saco, where in 1654 he was on a commission to build a prison for Saco, Cape Porpus, Wells, and York." | Booth, Robert (I17386)
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| 1096 | "[F]irst of the Valois kings, he declared in 1337 that Guyenne was foreited, initiating the Hundred Years War, at his defeat by Edward III at Crécy the slain included over 1500 of his lords and nobles, Calais was lost to the English the following year, the spread of the Black Death in 1348 and 1349 overshadowed the final years of his reign." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | Philip VI King of France (I21904)
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| 1097 | "[F]ollowing the Norman Conquest in 1066, gained land in Southill, co. Bedford, previously held by the English thegn Lewin." [Charles M. Hansen, citation details below.] | the Fleming, Simon (I23947)
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| 1098 | "[F]orced into a political marriage at the age of thirteen, she grew to intensely dislike her husband, and after bearing him six children, left him in 1440 when aged twenty-three, later collaborated with her son against her husband, a patron of the arts, she commissioned a magnificent Book of Hours." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | of Kleve, Katherina (I20944)
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| 1099 | "[F]orfeited the Angus Douglas, executed Border reivers, at times went incognito among his people, popular and licentious." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] James V of Scotland, direct ancestor of TWK, is by far the most recent crowned head to be the direct ancestor of any of this database's root individuals. Through him, TWK is documentably descended from approximately 2500 more minor gentry, two-bit aristocrats, and forgotten royalty than either TNH or JTS, the next two in sheer quantity of known ancestors. Through the wives of James V's grandfather James III and his great-grandfather James II, plus James V's umbilical great-grandmother Jacquetta of Luxembourg, a great number of these TWK ancestors lived in central and eastern Europe. Through James V's mother Margaret Tudor, sister of Henry VIII, TWK is descended from many of the dramatis personae of Shakespeare's history plays and many of the major players in the Wars of the Roses. Finally, through Margaret Tudor's paternal great-grandfather Owen ap Marududd ap Tudur, TWK is descended from dozens if not hundreds of Welsh persons with brain-challenging names like Cynwrig ab Iorwerth ap Gwgon ab Idnerth ab Edryd ab Inethan ab Iasedd ap Carwed ap Marchudd ap Cynan. | James V King of Scots (I20772)
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| 1100 | "[F]ounded a priory of nuns on St. Michael's hill, Bristol, whereof she d. Prioress." [Complete Peerage II:125] From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Eva fitz Harding (d. c. 1173), monastic patron, was the wife of Robert fitz Harding, a wealthy citizen of Bristol and lord of Berkeley, whom she had probably married by c. 1140. According to later tradition she was associated with Robert in the foundation of the abbey of St Augustine, Bristol. Early charters of Robert recording grants to this house do little to suggest that she played an important role. But the fifteenth-century Abbot Newland's roll states that both Robert and Eva were prayed for daily as founders of the abbey, and that the anniversary of Eva's death, as founder, was marked by the feeding of fifty poor men. As 'Domina Eva' she witnessed charters of her husband, which can be dated c. 1150–70. Eva and Robert had five sons and three daughters. One son, Henry, was archdeacon of Exeter from 1162 to 1188. Eva died on 12 March c. 1173. According to the fifteenth-century evidence of both Abbot Newland and Robert Ricart, town clerk of Bristol, Eva was buried by the side of her husband in the quire next to the abbot's stall. This is unlikely to have been the case, however: late twelfth-century monastic founders were generally buried in the chapter house or cloister. Ricart also states that Eva was the founder of a community of nuns, the Magdalenes, and that she became its prioress. This must refer to the nunnery of St Mary Magdalene situated on St Michael's Hill. If this was a separate foundation it is probable that she would have been buried there, and Robert and Eva may have been founders of a double community or at least linked establishments. Early charters refer to the community of St Mary Magdalene as a hospital and reveal the presence of both brothers and sisters. Perhaps the women were originally linked to St Augustine's for the provision of alms and developed as a more separate community later. Before his death on 5 February 1171 Robert entered the abbey as a canon. Eva may have taken the veil at St Mary Magdalene's at the same time. Eva's parentage is not established. Later tradition claimed that she was of royal blood -- the daughter of Estmond and a sister of William the Conqueror called Godiva. Claims of royal descent from the king of Denmark were made for Robert, and it is probable that these reflect a desire to accentuate the founders' importance to their communities rather than any historical accuracy. | Eva (I11463)
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| 1101 | "[F]ourth Earl of Dunbar or Lothian, though he himself uses neither title, calling himself Waldeve the Earl." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below.] One of the sureties for William the Lion, observing the treaty of Falaise, 1175. | of Dunbar, Waldeve (I2706)
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| 1102 | "[Gilbert de Umfreville, s. and h. ap. He was brought before the King's Council to answer for his contempt in striking one of the King's ministers at the Parl. held at Berwick in the octave of the Assumption, 22 Aug. 1296. He m. Margaret, 1st da. of Sir Thomas de Clare, Lord of Thormond in Connaught, by Julian, 2nd da. and eventually sole h. of Maurice Fitz Maurice, Lord Justice of Ireland. He d. v.p., s.p., before 23 May 1303. His widow m., before 30 June 1308, Sir Bartholomew Badlesmere [Lord Badlesmere], who d. 14 Apr 1322." [Complete Peerage I:148-49] | de Umfreville, Gilbert (I1829)
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| 1103 | "[G]ranted his meadow of 'Le Dene' in Charlton to Thame Abbey about 1190." [VCH Oxfordshire 6:80-82] | Poure, Hugh (I10729)
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| 1104 | "[G]rantee of the Bailywick of the Forest of Mara and Mondrem, from Randle Meschines, ante 1128." [Ormerod, citation details below] | de Kingslegh, Ralph (I8904)
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| 1105 | "[He] consolidated his father's estates in Lennox and Strathearn and took an active part in national politics following the death of Alexander III. Sheriff of Stirling by 1289, he served as one of the Scottish auditors in 1291, and was a steadfast supporter of John Balliol until he met his death at Dunbar in 1296." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below] | de Graham, Patrick (I27304)
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| 1106 | "[He] served in his youth as squire to his cousin Thomas Stewart, earl of Angus. He had inherited his mother's lands north of Tay, and also received grants from his aunt Margaret, countess of Angus, which effectively reconstituted the Abernethy inheritance. About 1358, moreover, he married Catherine Stirling (d. by 1378), daughter and coheir of John Stirling of Glenesk, whose estates in the sheriffdoms of Forfar and Inverness were entailed on him and their joint heirs. His lands of Byres he entailed to his younger brother William in January 1367. Active as a crusader and jouster, Sir Alexander was high in David II's favour, while after 1371 he was equally close to Robert II, whose niece Marjory Stewart he married, probably about the time of Robert's accession. He attended Robert's coronation, together with his nephew James Lindsay of Crawford (the son of Sir James and Egidia), and became a regular charter witness for the new king, as he had been for David II. It may also have been in 1371 that he was made justiciar north of Forth jointly with his nephew; they were certainly acting in this capacity by 1373, though from 1374 Alexander Lindsay held this office on his own. In 1375 he arranged for his son and heir, David, to marry the king's daughter Elizabeth. He retained royal favour and the justiciarship until 1381, when he set off on pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Granted a safe conduct on 4 December to travel through England, he died on Crete some time before March 1382." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below] | Lindsay, Alexander (I27285)
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| 1107 | "[He] was probably the John Corye, sailor, who was buried in St. James Parish, Bristol, 1 September 1621." [Wilcox, citation details below.] | Corie, John (I12385)
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| 1108 | "[H]ad 22 children, of which 17 died unmarried." [The Blackmans of Knight's Creek, citation details below] | Langston, John (I9837)
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| 1109 | "[H]ad extensive holdings, afterwards known as the honor of Peverel, consisting of 100 lordships in co. Nottingham and Northants, fourteen in co. Derby, and some twenty others; founded Lenton Priory and St. James's Abbey near Nottingham." [The Wallop Family, citation details below.] | Peverel, William "The Elder" (I2798)
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| 1110 | "[H]ad livery of his father's lands 10 May 1300, being then aged 40, in which year (as again 1311-15) he was in the expedition to Scotland; Constable of Rochester, for life, 1303/4; as 'Henry de Cobham junior' he was Constable of Dover Castle, and Warden of the Cinque Ports, 1315-16. He was summoned to Parliament from 8 January 1312/3, to 22 January 1335/6, by writs directed Henrico de Cobham, whereby he is held to have become Lord Cobham. He sided with Edward II against the rebellious Barons, and presided at Canterbury at the arraignment of Lord Badlesmere as a traitor in 1322. Governor of Tonbridge Castle, 1324." [Complete Peerage] | de Cobham, Henry (I11395)
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| 1111 | "[H]e bought the village of Tusmere & advowson of its church ca 1374, the manor of Caversfield ca 1386." [The Blackmans of Knight's Creek, citation details below] | Langston, John (I11093)
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| 1112 | "[H]e is styled Sir Norman of Leslie, knight, as a witness to a charter in the Register of Arbroath, of uncertain date, but not later than 1269. There is no other mention of Sir Norman until 1296, when he did homage to King Edward I at Aberdeen on 15 July in that year, and again on 28 August. He appears in the earlier part of the struggle for independence to have joined the English party, as Edward I appointed him Sheriff of Aberdeen, and he was summoned to the English Parliament as such in 1305. He is said, however, to have joined Bruce before December 1314. [...] His wife is not certainly known. One authority asserts that he married Elizabeth Leith, heiress of Edengarioch, while another alleges that he married the heiress of Rothes." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below] "He sat in the Parl. sum. by Bruce to Cambuskenneth, Dec. 1314." [Complete Peerage, citation details below] | de Leslie, Norman (I34936)
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| 1113 | "[H]e probably came about 1637 with his wife and three small children. Alonzo Lewis, in his History of Lynn (Lynn, 1890), 119, has Nicholas in Lynn in 1630, but the first official record is on 13 Mar 1638 when he was one of the 100 settlers who received allotments of land in the 'six-mile grant.'" [Marcia Wiswall Lindberg, citation details below.] | Brown, Nicholas (I2315)
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| 1114 | "[H]e was born near but not at at the monastery [of Valparaíso], which was moved to his birthplace afterwards. Ferdinand was called 'montesino' because he was born on the mountain, by the road between Salamanca and Zamora." [Peter Stewart, citation details below] Canonized in 1671 by Clement X. His feast day is 30 May. | St. Fernando III King Of Castile, León, Galicia, Toledo, Córdoba, Jaén, and Seville (I7868)
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| 1115 | "[H]e was escheator of Anglesey before 1392 and is described in 1404 as an esquire to the bishop of Bangor." [Dictionary of Welsh Biography] | ap Tudur, Maredudd (I21888)
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| 1116 | "[H]e was granted a degree of Bachelor of Arts [...] 1544-5, Master of Arts in 1548. He was a Fellow of Saint John's College about 1545, and was so designated in a deed of 1551." [John Brooks Threlfall, citation details below.] | Leete, Robert (I19154)
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| 1117 | "[H]eir apparent to the Scottish throne for almost half a century (1318-24 and 1329-71), he reigned himself for nineteen years, led the defense against the English during King David II's exile and imprisonment, his active life was behind him when he ascended the throne, and during his last years the kingdom was administered by his sons." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | Robert II King of Scots (I20902)
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| 1118 | "[H]eiress of Dalserf and Gaston, living as late as 1421, ancestress by her first husband of the Hamiltons of Cadzow (who got Dalserf), settled Galston on her second husband and their heirs about 1383, referred to as 'his mother' by John Stewart of Darnley, Constable of the Scots, in a petition granted at Rome, 25 February 1421/2, a charter of hers as 'Domina de Gallyston' in favor of her son Andrew Hamilton, dated at Dalserf, 11 December 1406, was witnessed by Sir William Hamilton and John Stewart of Cruickistoun [i.e. Darnley], each styled her son." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] | Keith, Janet (I27399)
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| 1119 | "[H]eiress of her brother to the duchy of Guelders." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | of Jülich, Johanna (I20953)
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| 1120 | "[H]eiress of her family, said to have been abducted by her future husband, their subsequent marriage caused 'gret stryffe' among their kinsmen." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] According to The Scots Peerage, she was "presumably sister (or perhaps cousin) of Alexander de Seton, the husband of Margaret de Ruthven." This Alexander de Seton was a son of Sir John Seton who died after 1327, himself a son of Sir Alexander Seton, the defender of Berwick in the siege of 1333, and his wife Christian Cheyne. | of Seton, Margaret (I27413)
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| 1121 | "[H]eld land in Guernsey, as well as land, probably in the Cotentin, where he built a mill. [...] He was dead in 1168, probably in 1142." [Complete Peerage] | Wake, Geoffrey (I10472)
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| 1122 | "[H]eld lands at Brune, Carleby, and Braseburg, co. Lincoln, and the Staffordshire fees of Colton and Tixall, 1086." [The Wallop Family] | Goisfridus (I1901)
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| 1123 | "[In 1166] he was amerced 100s. in Dickering Wapentake for having, with William de Arundel, appropriated a whale which had been cast ashore." [Complete Peerage] | de Meinell, Robert (I8882)
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| 1124 | "[I]n 1138 held Castle Cary against King Stephen, but was compelled to make peace with him." [Complete Peerage] | Lovel, Ralph (I3470)
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| 1125 | "[I]n 1382 named as 2d in entail of Malpas." [The Blackmans of Knight's Creek, citation details below.] | de Egerton, David (I3214)
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| 1126 | "[I]n captivity in England nineteen years, stern, severe but just, strengthened the Crown against the nobility and attempted to reform the Church and to establish the king's law throughout the country, skilled in music and poetry, murdered by rebels who sought to displace his line with that of the descendants of Robert II by his second wife." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | James I King of Scots (I20898)
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| 1127 | "[I]n the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle George Soule had wife Mary and son Zachariah; Mary has been identified by many writers as Mary Buckett of the 1623 land division on the basis that no other Mary was available in the limited Plymouth population of the earliest years." [The Mayflower Migration, citation details below] | Mary (I20090)
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| 1128 | "[I]n the King's service overseas in 1242, and, in 1244, going on service either to Scotland or Wales. He married, June 1234, Asceline, 2nd of the 3 sisters and coheirs of Robert, son of Robert Daubeny. She was living February 1239/40. He d. shortly before 28 July 1245." [Complete Peerage] | de St. Amand, Ralph (I8575)
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| 1129 | "[I]n the Pedigree of this Family, in the Earl of Oxford's library, in the Visitation of Robert Cook, she is affirmed to be the Daughter and Coheir of Thomas Cheddar; and in the same Book there is a Descent drawn from Sir John Newton, which by the Lines of Generation, denote her to have been his Daughter: so that there was evidently a Mistake committed by the Copyist of the Authority; but as the Mistake was more likely to have been made in the Line of Descent, than in the written Construction of it, we shall venture to conclude, that she was the Daughter of the said Thomas Cheddar, Esquire." [A Genealogical History of the House of Yvery, citation details below] "[W]idow [...] of a man with the surname Kyng [...] It is said she was probably either the daughter and coheir of Thomas Cheddar, Esq., or of John Newton." [Ancestral Lines from Maine to North Carolina, citation details below] | Joan (I29656)
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| 1130 | "[I]ssued a charter in which he called Ranulph, Earl of Chester, his maternal uncle. Earl Ranulph, son of Earl Hugh, was thus half-brother of Amicia, Roger's mother. He witnessed a number of Earl Ranulph's charters, and in 1233 his service for his knights' fees in Norfolk was transferred to Earl Ranulph's successor." [Charles M. Hansen, citation details below.] | Mainwaring, Roger (I1542)
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| 1131 | "[I]t is probable that he came from England to New London, Connecticut, about 1680. His name first appears on record there in 1681, and in 1683 he resided on the Great Neck at that place. He wrote his name Munsell, Monsell, Munsel and Muncil." [Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, citation details below.] | Munsell, Thomas (I17402)
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| 1132 | "[I]t is thought he was captured at the battle of Lincoln 20 May 1217 and died in the war between King John and the Barons." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz] | de Stuteville, Nicholas I (I3060)
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| 1133 | "[I]t was probably he, rather than his son, who served as a justice itinerant in Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and Yorkshire between October 1198 and February 1199." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below] | de Nevill, Jollan (I30295)
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| 1134 | "[Jean de Brienne's] mother's name was Agnès, but she may have been a second wife of his father after the death of the first - who was from the Montfaucon family, but not definitely named Agnès. The mother of Jean may have been a daughter of Guillaume III, count of Nevers, Auxerre and Tonnerre by Ida of Sponheim." [Peter Stewart, SGM, 10 June 2020] | Agnès (I16886)
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| 1135 | "[John Lane's] daughter Mary evidently inherited the martial spirit of her ancestors. During a season of Indian alarms, before her marriage, she was in her father's house in Bedford, with one soldier on guard, and looking from a window in the roof, she saw something suspicious behind a stump. The soldier declined to fire; she took his gun, discharged it, and a dead Indian rolled into sight." ["The Whitmores of Medford and Some of Their Descendants", Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8, at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2005.05.0008%3Achapter%3D16.] | Lane, Mary (I13699)
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| 1136 | "[K]illed in battle in 1115 by his cousin Sigtrygg Silkbeard, king of the Dublin Vikings, and was buried by them in Dublin along with the body of a dog, considered to be a huge insult." [Wikipedia] | mac Murchada, Donnchad King of Leinster and Dublin (I5036)
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| 1137 | "[K]inswoman of Count Eberhard, of Alsace." [Royal Ancestry] "Lothair's relationship with Waldrade had begun before his marriage to Theutberge, and Lothair's efforts to have his union with Waldrade recognized as valid and their children as legitimate ended only with his death." [The Henry Project] | Waldrade (I7997)
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| 1138 | "[K]nighted before 1326/7; M.P. for Kent, 1326/7, 1330, 1332, 1335, 1335/6, and 1336/7, Constable of Rochester, jointly with his father, for their lives, 1334.; Admiral of the Fleet from the Thames Westward 1335. He was summoned to a Council, 12 September and 12 November 1342, and to Parliament from 24 November 1350 to 15 March 1355, by writs directed Johanni de Cobham. In 1354 he received, doubtless for his military prowess, the dignity of Banneret, with an annuity of 100 marks to support the same." [Complete Peerage] | de Cobham, John (I5006)
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| 1139 | "[K]nighted by 1370 in order to enter the lists against Sir James Douglas over an inheritance dispute, keeper of Edinburgh Castle and sheriff of Edinburgh by 1371, had a charter to the barony of Dun in 1371, resigned to him by his father, a frequent witness to royal charters, captured at the battle of Homildon Hill 14 September 1402 and may have been held a prisoner in England until his death." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] | Erskine, Thomas (I27357)
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| 1140 | "[K]nighted by David II in 1342 during an incursion into England, in 1345 received a charter from David II for the annuel rent due the crown from Cambusnethan, styled in charters before 1371 'Dominus de Cruikston' and 'Dominus de Dernley,' granted the barony of Cambusnethan by Robert II sometime between 1371 and 1390." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] | Stewart, Alexander (I27400)
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| 1141 | "[L]ikely born near Edinburgh, Scotland, in the late 1580s." [Jan Wolfe, SGM, 18 Feb 2021] | Downie, Catharine (I20788)
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| 1142 | "[L]ord of Duston jure uxoris, later a monk & an abbot." [The Blackmans of Knight's Creek, citation details below] | de Duston, Walkelin (I7346)
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| 1143 | "[L]ost a finger pursuing the assassins of James I, granted the barony of Auchtermonzie for his attempted defense of the king." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] "Some time before his father's death he had a grant of the lands of Cockburn and Brigham, in Berwickshire, the latter for life only. It was probably he who, in May 1421, was sent a prisoner to the Tower. On 20 February 1437, when King James I was attacked by his murderers, Sir David rushed to the King's assistance, but was wounded and disabled." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below] | Dunbar, David (I27278)
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| 1144 | "[Maria Dobronega's] mother is thought by some to have been a German princess, daughter of Otto I; but this identification is not well established." ["Ryurik and the First Ryurikids", citation details below.] | (Unknown mistress of St. Vladimir of Kiev) (I4914)
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| 1145 | "[M]atriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge University, in 1561, received the degrees of B.A. in 1564/5 and the M.A. in 1568. He became vicar of Claybrooke, Leicestershire, in 1571." [Randy West, citation details below.] | Higginson, Rev. John (I15619)
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| 1146 | "[M]ost likely the son of Sir Thomas Urswick of Badsworth and his wife, Joan, the daughter of Roger Hertforth of Badsworth." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below] MP for Midhurst in Sussex 1449. Serjeant and attorney to the duchy of Lancaster 1452. Citizen of London Jan 1452. Common Serjeant of London 27 Jun 1453. Recorder of London from 3 Oct 1454 to shortly after his appointment as Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Burgess (M.P.) for London in 1461, 1463, 1467, and 1470. "Although he sat in the parliament of Henry VI's readeption in 1470, he showed notable Yorkist sympathies in the following year, first on 11 April, when he was one of the leading citizens who admitted Edward IV to London, and again in May, when he was prominent in London's resistance to Thomas Fauconberg. For these services he was knighted by the king, and on 22 May 1471 was appointed chief baron of the exchequer, receiving 110 marks and two robes yearly as well as the usual fee. He resigned as recorder of London, and the citizens, too, rewarded him, with the grant of a pipe of wine yearly." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below] | Urswick, Thomas (I29029)
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| 1147 | "[N]amed John at birth, Earl of Carrick and Steward of Scotland prior to his accession, called 'Robert John Fernyear,' legitimated by papal dispensation, declared heir to the Crown by Parliament 27 Mar 1371, dignified and courteous but lame and infirm, considered by the three estates unable to govern or to control transgressors, he delegated power in January 1399 to his son and brother." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | Robert III King of Scots (I20900)
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| 1148 | "[O]f age by 21 July 1380 when he leased the lands of Eglinton for ten years from Sir James Douglas of Dalkeith, being styled 'nobilem domicellum Johannem de mongomery dominum de Thornton,' captured at the battle of Homildon Hill in 1402, on the jury in May 1425 that condemned Murdoch, Duke of Albany, later a hostage in England for the return of the Earl of Douglas." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] | Montgomery, John (I27419)
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| 1149 | "[O]f an influential family of jurists and diplomats in Padua, financially astute, she acquired extensive rural estates and was probably the wealthiest woman in Padua by 1372, a major art patron, she commissioned cycles of religious frescoes for the walls and dome of Padua's Baptistery." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | Buzzacarini, Fina (I22127)
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| 1150 | "[O]f one of the most influential families in Padua, councilor for his son-in-law, Francesco da Carrara, Lord of Padua, knighted by him (1354), in 1360 his agent for transactions with Hungary." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] Said by Italian-language Wikipedia to have been a son of "Aleduse Buzzaccarini and his wife, a daughter of a certain Giacomo (or Jacopo) Patari, modest landowner of Padua, at the mills of Terranegra." | Buzzacarini, Pataro (I22128)
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| 1151 | "[O]f the Counts of Montemerlo." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | di Manzio Forzatè, Lieta (I22131)
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| 1152 | "[O]f unknown parentage." [Ancestral Roots] | Mabel (I2889)
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| 1153 | "[O]f Watertown, Sudbury, Woburn and Charlestown." [Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and His Wife Frances Helen Miller, citation details below] He was a carpenter and, later in life, a malster. Not to be confused with the John Knight from Romsey, Hampshire who settled in Newbury, Massachusetts. | Knight, John (I28087)
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| 1154 | "[O]n 8 June 1651, 'Martha Haward' was one of seven men and women of Plymouth and Duxbury who were 'presented for vain, light, and lascivious carriage at an unseasonable time of the night,' and, on 7 October 1651, she was one of four of that group who were 'released, with admonition to take heed of such evil carriages for the future.'" [The Great Migration, vol. III, p. 292] | Hayward, Martha (I6736)
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| 1155 | "[O]ne of the commissioners sent to England to treat for the release of King James I, who knighted him at his coronation the following year, a hostage for the payment of the king's ransom until 1427, keeper of Dunbar Castle in 1435, styled Steward of the earldom of March in 1444, surrendered Dunbar Castle to adherents of the Black Douglases the following year." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] | Hepburn, Adam (I27396)
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| 1156 | "[O]ne of the Committee of Correspondence in the early part of the Revolution. He raised and commanded a company in Col. Cotton's regiment. By over exertion in the battles of Trenton and Princeton, his health became so impaired that he was compelled to return home, where he d. 17 Feb., 1777, ae. 47." ["A Genealogy of the Bradford Family", citation details below.] | Bradford, Samuel (I20552)
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| 1157 | "[O]ne of the knights chosen to accompany Sir James Douglas to Palestine with the heart of Bruce, but was slain in Adalusia by the Saracens 25 August 1330." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below] | Sinclair, William (I28949)
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| 1158 | "[P]aymaster of the King's ships; served in Poitou and Gascony 1206; served in Ireland 1204 and 1215; appointed by King John as his agent in negotiations with regard to the dower of Queen Berengaria; received from King John grants for life of the houses of the Jew, Isaac of York, at Oxford, and Northampton." [The Wallop Family] "Sir Geoffrey Luttrell, of Gamston and Bridgeford, co. Notts, took part in the unsuccessful rebellion of John, Count of Mortain during the absence of his brother, Richard I, and, as a result, lost his lands. These were, however, restored to him on John's accession to the throne. His name occurs at this period as witness to many royal charters, he having been in close personal attendance on the King. He was for a time paymaster of the King's ships. In 1204, and also in 1215, he was in Ireland, vested with large administrative powers, and in 1206 in Poitou and Gascony, as one of the King's treasurers. As a reward for personal services, he received from King John grants for life of the houses of the Jew, Isaac of York, at Oxford and Northampton, and those of the Jew, Bonnechose, at Oxford. He received a further grant of land at Croxton, co. Leicester. [...Note (b):] The name is probably a diminutive of the French word Loutre, an otter. The farm of Arques in Normandy was in 1180 and 1198 held by one Osbert Lotrel." [Complete Peerage] | Luttrell, Geoffrey I (I4984)
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| 1159 | "[P]erh. a dau. [of] William le Prouz of Chagford." [Ancestral Roots] | le Prouz, Julian (I8118)
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| 1160 | "[P]erh. son of William Aguillon, who [in] 1200 covenanted to deliver his son William to King John as hostage....He withdrew from allegiance to King John, but returned, lands restored 17 Sep. 1217." [Ancestral Roots, 8th ed., citation details below.] | Aguillon, William (I9201)
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| 1161 | "[P]ious and a lover of arts and letters, but avaricious and poorly served by his counselors, defeated at Sauchieburn by his rebellious lords under the Earl of Angus and Lord Home and stabbed to death after a fall from his horse." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | James III King of Scots (I20894)
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| 1162 | "[P]oss. a scion of the great house of Dunbar." [Ancestral Roots] "Eldred must have been a close contemporary of Ivo de Taillebois (perhaps even a little older) and like him he is said to be an ancestor of the de Lancasters of Kendal. In two much later monastic accounts he is said to be the son of Ivo de Taillebois, which seems impossible. The families seem to have been equated or combined in monastic pedigrees explaining inheritances, because Ketel, Eldred's son, held several possessions which had been held by Ivo, and confirmed grants made by Ivo. But more recently it became more common to suggest that Eldred is Ivo's son-in-law, married to his daughter Beatrice or Beatrix, either after or before her more well-known husband Ribald of Middleham, who is mentioned above. This also presents difficulties. But there are other possibilities. For example could he be a step son, or an illegitimate son, or the husband of an illegitimate daughter, or might his son Ketel and/or a daughter, have married a member of the de Taillebois family? It is perhaps best to assume that the common jurisdictions of Ivo and Ketel did not pass on by inheritance. Ivo may even have been Ketel's overlord." [Andrew Lancaster, citation details below.] | Eldred (I10266)
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| 1163 | "[P]ossibly a member of the queen's household, received letters of denizenship in 1432 from Parliament, granted custody of a marriage and lands in Flintshire by Catherine in 1434, imprisoned after her death on account of their marriage, pardoned of all offenses in 1439, faithful to Henry VI and the Lancastrian cause, captured and beheaded after the battle of Mortimer's Cross." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | ap Maredudd ap Tudur, Owen (I16419)
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| 1164 | "[P]ossibly dau. of Roger de Kilton". [CP] | de Kilton, Maud (I9264)
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| 1165 | "[P]resent at the Council of Clarendon in Jan. 1163/4. In 1172, his father being still alive, he was in possession of the Norman lands. He joined with his father in the rebellion of 1173. He was present at King Richard's Coronation, 3 Sep. 1189, and accompanied him on the Crusade." [Complete Peerage] | de Mowbray, Nele (I2435)
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| 1166 | "[P]rob. died in French and Indian War. Was a private in Capt. Jas. Reed's Co., & Col. Timothy Ruggles' Reg." [The Farwell Family] | Stone, William (I547)
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| 1167 | "[P]robable daughter of Henry de Lorty, Knt., Lord Lorty, by his wife, Sibyl." [Royal Ancestry] | del Ortiay, Joan (I543)
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| 1168 | "[P]robably a Scotswoman." [Ancestral Roots] | Mary (I10805)
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| 1169 | "[P]robably daughter of William Palmer of Plymouth." [The Pilgrim Migration] | Palmer, (Unknown) (I9939)
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| 1170 | "[P]robably related to the Bolebecs." [Charles M. Hansen, citation details below.] | Rohaise (I23943)
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| 1171 | "[P]robably the Widow Joslin who was buried at Roxwell 31 Jan. 1600/1." [Elizabeth French, citation details below.] | Nevell, Alice (I27679)
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| 1172 | "[P]rudent and energetic, regent for her son King James III." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] Also called Marie van Egmond. | of Guelders, Mary (I20897)
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| 1173 | "[Richard Fortescue] left three sons: the eldest, another Sir Richard, with whom we are not concerned, and two others both of whom were called Sir John. In the case of the first of the two Sir Johns, there was the singular coincidence that while he had a brother of his own name, he married Alice Montgomery, who had a sister of her own name. Genealogists would learn with relief that they died without issue." [John Morris, citation details below] | Fortescue, John (I35716)
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| 1174 | "[R]eceived [1172-1190] from David, (afterwards Earl of Huntingdon), brother to the King of Scots, a grant of his lands in Lesele, &c. He witnessed charters [1190-1200]." [Complete Peerage, citation details below] | Malcolm (I34950)
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| 1175 | "[R]ector of Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry on his son-in-law the Rev. William Whately (1583-1639)] "[F]or 50 years rector at Collingbourne Ducis." [Jane Fletcher Fiske, citation details below.] | Hunt, Rev. George (I27205)
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| 1176 | "[R]etired to Cap Porp., was wounded by Ind. 10 Aug. 1703, escaped by getting amond the bushes and d. of his wound about three days after reaching Wells." [cGenealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, citation details below.] | Sanders, John (I18491)
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| 1177 | "[She] was probably a Dacre. Her husband's guardian had been a Dacre, and the Dacre arms were on the Harington tomb [...]" [Complete Peerage, citation details below] | Joan (I35894)
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| 1178 | "[Sir Thomas de Lathom's] 2nd wife, Joan Venables, was a notorious character who is said to have neglected and abused her husband while he lay dying, to have lived openly in the same house with her lover, Roger Fazakerley, and married him after consigning Sir Thomas to a speedy burial without ceremony or mourners." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz places her a a daughter of Hugh de Venables (d. 1310) and Agatha de Vernon, but Royal Ancestry (v. 5, p. 25) places her as a daughter of his son, as we show her here. | de Venables, Joan (I18920)
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| 1179 | "[S]aid to be son, but more probably grandson, of William Basset of Milton Ernest, co. Bedford in 1086." [The Blackmans of Knight's Creek, citation details below] | Basset, Robert (I1943)
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| 1180 | "[S]aid to have been a daughter of Gerard Salvayn." [Early Yorkshire Charters, citation details below.] | Katherine (I5075)
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| 1181 | "[S]aid to have been da. of (---) Chenduit." [Complete Peerage II:49] | Joan (I5147)
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| 1182 | "[S]ealed in 1371 the act settling the succession of the Scottish crown, had a safe conduct in 1381 to pass through England with twelve men and horses to visit the Holy Land, along with his son fought gallantly against the English at the battle of Otterburn in 1388." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] | de Hepburn, Patrick (I27469)
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| 1183 | "[S]erved in the Scotch wars, 1333 and 1335, and in France, 1342-3; d. 27 Feb 1344-5, having lands in co. Lincoln, co. Nottingham, Essex, and Northumberland." [The Wallop Family] Summoned to Parliament from 27 Jan 1332 (or 1333) to 20 Apr 1344. | de Welle, Adam (I3614)
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| 1184 | "[S]erved on the expedition to Ireland in 1210. In March 1215/6 he paid 20 mark fine to buy the King's favour; but in May 1217 his lands were granted to Fulk d'Oyri. He was again accepted as loyal in the autumn of 1217 and aided the Crown against William de Forz, Count of Aumale, in 1221. Between 1220 and 1232 he was active in judicial work for the King; and in January 1229/30 he was ordered to aid the sheriff of Lincolnshire in arresting ships to be sent to Portsmouth for the King's use. He was a collector of 1/40 in 1232 and of 1/30 in 1237; and was appointed, January 1240/1, to view the royal castles in Lincolnshire." [Complete Peerage V:437-438.] | de Welle, William (I8384)
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| 1185 | "[S]ettled in Enfield on the great South field 1697, living 1747." [History of Enfield, citation details below.] | Parsons, Philip (I17371)
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| 1186 | "[S]he was admitted to Roxbury church as member #29: 'Mary Chase, the wife of William Chase. She had a paralytic humor which fell into her backbone, so that she could not stir her body, but as she was lifted, and filled her with great torture, & caused her backbone to go out of joint, & bunch out from the beginning to the end of which infirmity she lay 4 years & a half, & a great part of the time a sad spectacle of misery. But it pleased God to raise her again, & she bore children after it.'" [The Great Migration Begins] | Mary (I5837)
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| 1187 | "[S]he was still alive on 16 July 1351, when she founded and endowed, with lands purchased by herself, a chaplainry for the soul of her late husband, Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below] | Stewart, Isabel (I27332)
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| 1188 | "[S]heriff of Angus before 1380, called 'Schir Waler of Ogylwy, shyrreff of Angus' 10 Aug 1338, when presiding an assize, slain repelling a raid by highlanders." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] Widely said to have been a descendant of Gillebride, first earl of Angus, but the intervening generations are unclear. The Scots Peerage says he was a son of another Walter Ogilvy, son of a Patrick Ogilvy, and agrees that the progenitor of the Ogilvys was Gilbert, son of Gillebride, but it does not trace a proven line all the way from Gilbert to this Walter. | Ogilvy, Walter (I27321)
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| 1189 | "[S]heriff of Angus, received many charters from Robert III between 1398 and 1404, survived, though badly wounded, the battle of Harlaw 1411, treated in England between 1413 and 1415 for the release of James I, an auditor of the royal revenues." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] | Ogilvy, Alexander (I27281)
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| 1190 | "[S]ister of Griffith Warren, of Ightfield, in Salop." [A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, citation details below.] Based on the above and on chronological grounds, we place her as a daughter of Griffin/Griffith Warren and Maud le Strange, and thus sister to Griffin/Griffith the younger. | Warren, Margaret (I4479)
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| 1191 | "[S]ister of Richard Carter of Brook Hall, co. Essex." [G. Andrews Moriarty, [citation details below] | Carter, Sarah (I19999)
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| 1192 | "[S]ister of the first Earl of Carlisle, and great-granddaughter of the third son of the fourth Duke of Norfolk." [Hale, House and Related Families, citation details below.] | Eure, Mary (I17803)
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| 1193 | "[S]killed in matters of state, shared her husband's interests in book collecting." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | of Flanders, Marguerite (I20984)
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| 1194 | "[S]oldier in Pequot war 1637; of Hartford 1639; removed to Springfield 1649; was fined 10s. in 1663 'for taking tobacco on his hay cock;' in 1665 'being very aged and weak,' was exempted from military service; he was probably killed by Indians in Nov 1675." [A History of Deerfield, citation details below.] His name is on the Founders Monument in downtown Hartford. | Munn, Benjamin (I18479)
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| 1195 | "[S]pendthrift, frivolous and selfish, at times regent for her mad husband, Burgundian in sympathy, her last years were passed in poverty, ill-health and solitude, hated by the French and despised by the English." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | of Bavaria, Isabeau (I16430)
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| 1196 | "[S]trong partisan of the cause of her son King Henry VII, worthy and high-minded, patroness of learning and of the early printed book, founder of St. John's and Christ's College, Cambridge." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | Beaufort, Margaret (I16375)
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| 1197 | "[S]trong-minded, intelligent, and bloody avenger of her first husband King James I, briefly regent." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | Beaufort, Joan (I20899)
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| 1198 | "[S]ummoned for service in Wales in 1257, 1258, 1260, and 1263, among the barons summoned to London in 1261 to oppose the barons hostile to the king, in 1264 with the king in the king's service." [Charles M. Hansen, citation details below.] | de Pinkney, Henry (I13438)
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| 1199 | "[Thomas Cooke] is known to have had two wives named Mary, but it is not known whether the first Mary was his first wife, married in England and thus the mother of his first three children. She was his wife in May 1660, when she signed her mark to a deed, but she had died by March 1672/3, when the second Mary wrote a good signature on another deed. It is likely that the first Mary died about 1670, when several members of the family of Thomas(2) Cook died within a few months time." [Thomas Cooke of Rhode Island, citation details below.] | Mary (I17965)
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| 1200 | "[Thomas Tyrell's] only known son at his death -- not, as often thought (and as appears in, for example, the History of Parliament), his brother -- was Walter Tyrell (fl. 1364)." ["Tyrell family," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] | Tyrrell, Walter (I18153)
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| 1201 | "[T]aken prisoner at Chartley Castle by Hamon le Strange, he was sent to Bridgenorth Castle, but escaped and joined Simon de Montfort at London, and was with him at Winchester, Oxford, Northampton, and at Kenilworth, 1266; d. circa 1305, lord of Drakelowe and five other manors besides other properties, and having the right of gallows (habuit furcam) in Drakelowe, Lullington, and Croxall." [The Wallop Family, citation details below.] | de Gresley, Geoffrey (I8680)
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| 1202 | "[T]emperamental, capricious, selfish, always an ally of her brother Henry VIII, even at the expense of the welfare of Scotland, and in her issue heiress of the throne of England." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | Tudor, Margaret (I20893)
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| 1203 | "[T]he first person to be recorded in the rolls of the Parliament of England as holding the office of Speaker of the House of Commons of England, although that office had existed before his tenure." [Wikipedia] Sheriff of Wiltshire, 1355-60. Knight of the shire for Wiltshire 12 times and for Somerset 5 times. Chief steward to John of Gaunt. | de Hungerford, Thomas Speaker of the House of Commons (I12977)
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| 1204 | "[T]he following pieces of evidence suggest that she was a daughter of Simon de Cray: (1) in the Pabenham-Clifford Book of Hours, on the same folio already referred to, are shown separately the arms of Clifford, Pabenham and another coat of arms, which is elsewhere attributed to Simon de Cray of Kent [G. J. Brault, Aspilogia III: Rolls of Arms Edward I 1272-1307, Vol. 2, p. 125] and (2) in her will, Margery de Criol mentions her nephew, Sir Gilbert Pecche and an apparently deceased sister, Joan, apparently referring to Gilbert, the son of Gilbert Pecche (d. 1291) by his second wife, Joan, daughter of Simon de Cray [Complete Peerage, vol. 10, pp. 335-337]. (Note that Margery, the wife of the younger Nicholas de Criol (d. 1303), was a half sister of the younger Gilbert Pecche, and was therefore an aunt of his son, also named Gilbert. The fact that there were two women named Margery, both widows of men named Nicholas de Criol, and both with nephews named Gilbert Pecche, has contributed to the confusion between them.)" [Chris Phillips, Some Corrections and Additions to The Complete Peerage] | Margery (I30998)
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| 1205 | "[T]he promise of the opening years of his reign was not borne out, when periods of madness after 1393 put the kingdom in the hands of others and it was virtually destroyed by rivalries among the royal dukes and English attacks." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | Charles VI King of France (I16423)
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| 1206 | "[T]he shadowy or mythical Warin, of Metz in Lorraine." [Complete Peerage] | of Metz, Warin (I4625)
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| 1207 | "[T]itular King of Thessalonica, an ally of Rudolph I, first of the Hapsburg emperors, served on Philip IV's council and campaigned with him in Flanders." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | of Burgundy, Robert II (I21908)
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| 1208 | "[T]o whom Henry II granted Duston by 1157." [The Blackmans of Knight's Creek, citation details below] | Austercarius, William (I11216)
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| 1209 | "[T]o whom the Earl of Chester granted by charter the grand sergeancy of the forests of Leek and Macclesfield, between 1209 and 1226." ["Pedigree of Davenport," citation details below.] | de Davenport, Vivian (I10469)
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| 1210 | "[Ulf de Walton, who was living around 1160] had a son Adam, occurring a little later, perhaps the same Adam de Walton who had to pay a mark to the scutage in 1203–4." ["Townships: Ulnes Walton" in VCH Lancaster (citation details below), volume 6] | de Walton, Adam (I36099)
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| 1211 | "[William Overton] married Rose_____, whose parents are unknown, but she was a granddaughter of John Pulter of St. Ives, Huntingdonshire. Many have referred to her as Rose Pulter, but this is only one possibility. Her maiden surname has not been ascertained despite extensive investigations into the Pulter family. Rose died before 1522, when the inquisition post mortem of her late husband, William Overton, referred to her as deceased." [Clifford L. Stott, citation details below.] | Rose (I1647)
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| 1212 | "[William Tyrell] was beheaded on Tower Hill on 23 February 1462, together with Sir Thomas Tuddenham and John Montgomery. John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, and his eldest son and heir, Aubrey, were beheaded on 26 February and 20 February, respectively, after the discovery of an alleged plot to murder Edward IV. No records of the trials of the alleged conspirators have survived to shed light on what part, if any, [James] Tyrrell's father played in the alleged conspiracy. He was not attainted, and his eldest son and heir's wardship and the custody of his lands were granted to Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, who sold them to William Tyrrell's widow in March 1463 for £50." [Wikipedia, article about William Tyrell and Margaret Darcy's son James Tyrell] | Tyrrell, William (I18133)
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| 1213 | "[W]as from 1411 to 1416 employed in negotiations with England, and may possibly have been created a Lord of Parliament [LORD GRAHAM] [S.] by the Regent Albany [1419 ?], with whom he was in great favour, such grant being con?rmed by the King (after his return to his kingdom) either to him or to his grandson and heir." [Complete Peerage, citation details below] | de Graham, William (I27522)
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| 1214 | "[W]as in the Falls fight and a soldier in King William's War; was one of the original grantees of Colchester, Ct., where he was living in 1718." [A History of Deerfield, Massachusetts, citation details below.] | Munn, James (I18474)
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| 1215 | "[W]as made governor of the castle of Plessy in Essex in 1118 by his cousin Hugh de Gournai, who was then in rebellion against King Henry I. He married Beatrice, daughter of William de Mandeville, who was divorced from him and married, second, William de Say (died 1144). He became a monk." [Donald Lines Jacobus, citation details below] | Talbot, Hugh (I29712)
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| 1216 | "[W]as of Portsmouth, R.I., and Dartmouth, Mass., where he was a freeman May 17, 1653." [History of the Town of Stonington, citation details below.] | Sisson, Richard (I9449)
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| 1217 | "[W]ent with Captain Moore to Abb's Valley, for fear of Indians removed in 1784 to Col. Cloyd's farm in Montgomery County and thence a year or so later to old Howard County, Ga." [The Descendants of Robert and John Poage, citation details below] Note that Georgia has never had a Howard County -- but the source quoted below does agree that Robert Poage decamped to someplace in Georgia, at any rate. The co-maintainer of the WeRelate page about Robert Poage, "co1776", notes that "Abb's Valley was named after Absalom Looney, a neighbor and kinsmen of Capt. James Moore who was married to Martha Poage, sister to Robert. It was located on the waters of the Blue Stone branch of the New River in Tazewell county, Virginia." From A History of the Valley of Virginia by Samuel Kercheval (Woodstock, Virginia: J. Gatewood, 1850): In the Autumn of 1775, Capt. James Moore removed with his family from Rockbridge county to Abb's Valley, having cleared some land the preceding spring, and raised a crop of corn. A short time afterwards, his brother-in-law, Robert Poage, settled near to him in the same valley. The place was exceedingly secluded, and these two families were ten or twelve miles from any other settlement of whites. As this had been a favorite hunting ground of the Indians, they often visited it. Indeed, there was scarcely a ear in which these families were not compelled to leave the valley and take shelter in a fort in the Bluestone settlement. In the spring of 1782, the Indians attacked the house of Robert Poage at night. They burst the door open, but finding that there were several men in the house (there happened to be three besides Mr. Poage), they did not attempt to enter the house, but after watching it for some time, went off; and the next morning killed a young man by the name of Richards, who had been living for some time at Capt. Moore's. He had gone out early in the morning to put some deer skins to soak in a pond about a quarter of a mile from the house; and whilst engaged at the pond, he was shot and immediately scalped. At this time the families forted again in the Bluestone settlement; and soon afterwards Mr. Poage removed to Georgia. Virginia historical marker XP-5, on Centre St. (Route 102) in Tazewell county: Five miles southwest is Abb's Valley, discovered by Absalom Looney. James Moore and Robert Poage were the first settlers, about 1770. In July, 1786, Shawnee Indians raided the valley, killing or carrying into captivity the Moore family. Mary (Polly) Moore, Martha Evans and James Moore (captured earlier) finally returned. They are known as "The Captives of Abb's Valley." Virginia Conservation Commission, 1939 | Poage, Robert (I26750)
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| 1218 | "[W]hich Reginald was an hostage to the king for the lord Scales in the barons' wars, 9 John." [The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicestershire, citation details below.] | de Skipwith, Reginald (I5235)
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| 1219 | "[W]ho appears in the Pipe Roll of 31 Henry I (1130-31) as a landowner in Northampton vill, where he owed 10 silver marks for a plea." [Moriarty, citation details below]. | Gobion, Hugh (I10550)
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| 1220 | "[W]ho by his charter covenanted with the Abbot of Ramsey for the use of the water rising at Pekesdene (Pegsdon in Skillington)" [Moriarty, citation details below]. | de Lucelles, Richard (I10531)
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| 1221 | "[W]ho in the Domesday held Streatley cum Sharpenhoe and Heigham Gobion of Hugh de Beauchamp, the founder of the Barony of Beauchamp of Bedford" [Moriarty, citation details below]. | de Locels, William (I10542)
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| 1222 | "[W]ho owed the service of 1 1/2 knights in the Cotentin in 1172." [Complete Peerage] | de Tregoz, William (I3735)
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| 1223 | "[W]ho, in 1274, was lord of Netherwood, Thornbury, and other manors." [Charles J. Robinson, citation details below] | Moigne, Ralph (I30070)
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| 1224 | "[W]ho, in September 1397, received a charter from Sir William Lindsay of the Byres, who styles him kinsman and 'dominus ejusdem,' to him as son and heir of the late Sir William Elphinstone, Knight, of the lands of Pittendreich, in the shire of Stirling." [The Elphinstone Family Book, citation details below.] | Elphinstone, William (I21879)
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| 1225 | "[W]hose mother was almost certainly a sister of Gunnor, 2nd wife of Richard I, Duke of Normandy." [Complete Peerage] According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, she is "shown to have been a niece of Duke Richard of Normandy by the later statement of Archbishop Anselm that the Warennes and the dukes then shared an ancestor four generations back on one side and six on the other." | Beatrice (I1280)
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| 1226 | "[W]hose sister was supposedly imprisoned for her religious beliefs during the reign of Queen Mary." [Ancestral Lines, citation details below.] | Gold, Sibilla (I4294)
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| 1227 | "[W]ith her children shared her husband's exile in England, received in June 1407 along with him a grant of £90 from the English king, wrote about this time a letter, in French, to Henry IV, signing as 'The Countess of March of Scotland,' probably survived her husband." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] A footnote on the same page (191) of The Ancestry of Charles II: "She is said to have been the dau. of Sir Alexander Seton of Seton (SP 2:273) and is called dau. of Sir Alan de Seton at CP 4:509. However, the earl's daughter Elizabeth asked for prayers for the souls of the Dunbar and Wardlaw family members (SP 2:275-76). As Andrew B. W. MacEwen has pointed out, Elizabeth was obviously remembering her father's family and then her mother's family." | Wardlaw, Cristina (I27320)
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| 1228 | "[W]itnessed a charter of Earl David abovenamed [1202-06]. He was constable of Inverury in or before 1199, as such witnessing a charter of Matthew, Bishop of Aberdeen, who died that year. Before 1207 he granted the church of Leslie to the monks of Lindores, mentioning his wife A.... About 1224 he had a con?rmation of the grant of Leslie, &c., with the lands of Caskieben in addition, from Earl David's son and successor." [Complete Peerage, citation details below] | Norman (I34949)
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| 1229 | "[W]itnessed among the knights (as 'Patricio de Polworthe') an undated charter confirmed by David II, 18 April 1365, resigned his lands of West Barns in Fife to Robert II, who on 8 December 1376 granted them to Sir Neil Cunningham." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] | Polwarth of that Ilk, Patrick (I27418)
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| 1230 | (Or a different daughter of the same father.) | fitz Roald, Theophania (I8122)
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| 1231 | (Unsourced internet note:) "In 1676, his wife was godmother at the baptism of Marie Madeleine Boesmé, their future daughter-in-law. In that record Jean Joubert is identified as 'musnier du moulin du Bourg Royal'--i.e., the miller of the Charlesbourg mill. In each seigneurie the mill was owned by the sieur. All of the 'habitants' or 'censitaires' were required to have their grain ground at the sieur's mill and pay with 1/14th of their grain." | Joubert, Jean (I31876)
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| 1232 | 003 | Family F3645
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| 1233 | 10th Earl of Devon. Summoned to Parliament by writ 23 Apr 1337. | de Courtenay, Hugh (I12990)
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| 1234 | 10th Earl of Dunbar. CP styles him "Earl of March, or Dunbar." "[E]ngaged in Border warfare to regain his hereditary land from the English, sacking Roxburgh in 1378, at the battle of Otterburn in 1388, broke with the Scottish king in 1400 and entered English service, gained high favor with King Henry IV, fighting for him at Homildon Hill and Shewsbury, later reconciled with the Scottish regent and restored to his earldom before June 1409." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] "[I]n the reign of Robert II (1370-90) he is styled Lord of Annandale and Man. A Warden of the Marches, 1372; was at the Parl. at Scone, 1373, when the succession to the throne was settled; accompanied Douglas in his raid into England, after whose death at Otterburn, in 1388, the command of the Scots devolved on him. His da., Elizabeth, having been betrothed to the Duke of Rothesay, the h. ap. to the Crown, and that prince, disregarding such contract (having m. Marjorie Douglas in Feb. 1399/1400), the Earl renounced his allegiance, 25 July 1400, and joined the English, whose King (Henry IV) granted him the forfeited estates of the Lord Bardolf, he having assisted at the battles of Homildon Hill, 14 Sep. 1402, and of Shrewsbury, 23 July 1403. After the death of Robert III in 1406, he treated with the Regent Albany for restoration to Scotland. This, however, was not effected without his resigning, to the all powerful Earl of Douglas, the Lordship of Annandale, the Castle of Lochmaben, &c., by charter 2 Oct. 1409. In 1411 he was one of the Commissioners for a truce with England." [Complete Peerage, citation details below] | Dunbar, George (I27319)
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| 1235 | 10th Earl of Mar. | of Mar, Donald (I20910)
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| 1236 | 10th Earl of Oxford. Chamberlain of the Household, 1381-88. Privy councillor, 1381-88. "In 1360 Aubrey de Vere was made steward of the royal forest of Havering in Essex. In 1367 was retained to 'abide for life' with the Black Prince, with a substantial allowance. He was knighted, made constable of Wallingford Castle in 1375 and also given the honours of Wallingford and St. Valery, though he gave up Wallingford in 1378 for Hadleigh Castle. Edward III used him as an ambassador in seeking peace with France. In 1381, de Vere became a Chamberlain of the Royal Household and member of the privy council. In 1388 his nephew, Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland and 9th Earl of Oxford was deemed a traitor, causing Aubrey to lose his post of chamberlain. However, after Robert's death in 1392, the king gave Aubrey the title of Earl of Oxford allowing him to take a seat in parliament. Aubrey's son, Richard became the 11th Earl of Oxford on his death." [Wikipedia] | Vere, Aubrey (I22883)
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| 1237 | 11th Earl of Oxford. | de Vere, Richard (I22848)
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| 1238 | 12th Earl of Oxford. Privy councilor, 1431, 1454. His career is marked by a consistent reluctance to take sides in the developing conflict between York and Lancaster. Ultimatelt, in 1459, he declared for Lancaster, just in time for the Yorkist victory at Northampton in July 1460. In February 1462 he was arrested for high treason, tried, convicted, and beheaded on Tower Hill. | de Vere, John (I22849)
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| 1239 | 12th Earl of Warwick. From Wikipedia: Knighted around 1355, Beauchamp accompanied John of Gaunt in campaigns in France in 1373, and around that time was made a Knight of the Garter. In the parliaments of 1376 and 1377 he was one of those appointed to supervise reform of King Richard II's government. When these were not as effective as hoped, Beauchamp was made Governor over the King. In 1377, or 1378, he granted the manors of Croome Adam (now Earls Croome) in Worcestershire and Grafton Flyford in Warwickshire to Henry de Ardern for a red rose. Between 1377 and 1378 he was appointed Admiral of the North. Beauchamp brought a large contingent of soldiers and archers to King Richard's Scottish campaign of 1385. In 1387 he was one of the Lords Appellant, who endeavored to separate Richard from his favorites. After Richard regained power, Beauchamp retired to his estates, but was invited to London on a ruse in 1397 and charged with high treason, supposedly as a part of the Earl of Arundel's alleged conspiracy. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London (in what is now known as the "Beauchamp Tower"), pleaded guilty and threw himself on the mercy of the king. He forfeited his estates and titles, and was sentenced to life imprisonment on the Isle of Man. The next year, however, he was moved back to the Tower, until he was released in August 1399 after Henry Bolingbroke's initial victories over King Richard II. After Bolingbroke deposed Richard and became king as Henry IV, Beauchamp was restored to his titles and estates. He was one of those who urged the new King to murder Richard, and accompanied King Henry against the rebellion of 1400. | Beauchamp, Thomas (I26249)
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| 1240 | 12th Mayor of New York City. From Wikipedia: Francis Rombouts emigrated to New Amsterdam in 1653 aboard the ship Nieuw Amsterdam. He engaged in trade as a merchant, while yet a youth. In the year 1658, he enrolled himself among the burghers, or citizens, though he had been for several years previously a trader here. His trading operations as a merchant were tolerably extensive, though he did not rank among the wealthiest of the inhabitants. He was probably worth, as near as can be estimated, about ten thousand dollars, which was then, however, considered an independent fortune. Rombouts bought his first stone house at Nieuw-Amsterdam, in the Heerestraat, now Broadway in Manhattan. Rombouts held several offices of trust among his fellow-citizens. In 1673, 1674, 1676, 1678, 1686, he was an alderman. Afterward, in 1687, the city having been divided into wards, he was returned as alderman of the West Ward. he afterward held the office of Justice of the Peace, until his death. His political principles were of a liberal character, and his manners and address grave and dignified. Rombouts' dwelling was on Broadway, west side, near Rector street, extending to the North river shore. it embraced a large garden and an orchard. At the time of his mayoralty, the city contained about 3,500 inhabitants. Rombouts Avenue in the Bronx is named for him. On May 31, 1665 Rombouts married Aeltie Wessels in the Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam. She died sometime prior to August 5, 1675, when he then married Anna Elizabeth Masschop. Widowed a second time, he married, on September 8, 1683, Helena Teller Bogardus Van Bael. It was the third marriage for both of them. Helena Teller was born about 1645, the daughter of William and Margaret Doncheson Teller of Schenectady. Helena had seven children from her previous marriages, and from this marriage another three were born. She and Rombouts had two boys and a girl. The boys died young but the girl, Catharyna, born on 5 September 1687, survived. Catharyna later married Lieutenant Roger Brett. | Rombouts, Francis Mayor of New York (I21182)
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| 1241 | 13 Apr 1665 is the date on which the widow Elizabeth Foote gave her son-in-law, William Goddard, power of attorney so that he might travel to New England to retrieve the £100 owed her by her brother, Ephraim Child, who had died in Watertown, Massachusetts in 1662. No further record of Elizabeth (Child) (Miles) Foote has been found. | Child, Elizabeth (I20828)
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| 1242 | 13th Earl of Warwick. His godfather was Richard II. Knighted at the coronation of Henry IV, he succeeded to his earldom in 1401. From Wikipedia: Soon after reaching his majority and taking responsibility for the Earldom, he saw military action in Wales, defending against a Welsh rebellion led by Owain Glynd?r. On 22 July 1403, the day after the Battle of Shrewsbury, he was made a Knight of the Garter. In the summer of 1404, he rode into what is today Monmouthshire at the head of an English force. Warwick engaged Welsh forces at the Battle of Mynydd Cwmdu, near Tretower Castle a few miles northwest of Crickhowell, nearly capturing Owain Glyndwr himself, taking Owain's banner, and forcing the Welsh to flee. The Welsh were chased down the valley of the River Usk where they regrouped and turned the tables on the pursuing English force, attempting an ambush. They chased the English in turn to the town walls of Monmouth after a skirmish at Craig-y-Dorth, a conical hill near Mitchel Troy. Warwick acquired quite a reputation for chivalry, and when in 1408 he went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and was challenged many times to fight in the sporting combat which was then popular. On the return trip he went through Russia and Eastern Europe, not returning to England until 1410. In 1410, he was appointed a member of the royal council, and two years later he was fighting in command at Calais. Up to this time Warwick's career had been that of the typical knight-errant, but in 1413 he was Lord High Steward at the Prince's coronation as Henry V of England, and became a trusted counsellor to the king. The following year he helped put down the Lollard uprising, and then went to Normandy as Captain of Calais, and represented England at the coronation of Sigismund as King of Germany and the Council of Constance. Warwick spent much of the next decade fighting the French in the Hundred Years' War. He took a prominent part in the campaigns of 1417–18. Then he joined the king before Rouen, and in October 1418 had charge of the negotiations with the dauphin Louis and with the duke of Burgundy. Next year he was again the chief English spokesman in the conference at Meulan, and afterwards was Henry's representative in arranging the Treaty of Troyes. He held high command at sieges of French towns between 1420 and 1422. In 1419, he was created Count of Aumale, as part of the King's policy of giving out Norman titles to his nobles. He was appointed Master of the Horse. Henry V's will gave Warwick the responsibility for the education of the infant Henry VI of England. This duty required him to travel back and forth between England and Normandy many times, and during these travels he acted as superintendent of the trial of Joan of Arc. In 1437, when the king's minority ended, the Royal Council deemed his duty complete. Despite his age, he loyally accepted an appointment as lieutenant of France and Normandy. Arriving in Normandy on 8 November, he ruled with vigour and remained in France for the remaining two years of his life. | de Beauchamp, Richard (I26247)
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| 1243 | 16 Jul 1696 appears to have been the date of the banns; the date of the actual marriage is evidently lost. | Family F18589
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| 1244 | 16th Earl of Warwick. 6th Earl of Salisbury. "The Kingmaker." Killed at the Battle of Barnet. | Neville, Richard (I16441)
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| 1245 | 1850 census lists him in District 11, Marion, Illinois, occupation "School Teacher." | McHaney, William Wilshire (I7596)
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| 1246 | 1850 US census: Living in Dix, Chemung, New York. Born about 1812 in New York. 1860: Same birthplace; now living in Howell, Livingston, Michigan. 1870 and 1880: Born in New Jersey. A user-submitted tree on ancestry.com notes that "Family record places birth in Corin, New Jersey, yet Atlas of NJ in 1814 shows no such town or county." | Allen, Henry Freeman (I22461)
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| 1247 | 1930 census gives him as "motorman in coal mine". According to a descendant, "After four kids, including my grandfather, he went out one day for cigarettes and never returned. The family story is that he went and started another family. I'm pretty sure the second family was with his first cousin Sarah N. White." | Ward, William Harrison (I9974)
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| 1248 | 1930 census, "Eleanore," 76 years old, born in Pennsylvania, parents both born in Michigan. 1920 census, "Elnora," 66 years old, born in Michigan, father born in New York, mother born in Michigan. | Abbey, Elnora (I18188)
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| 1249 | 1st baron of Castle Cary. Constable of Gloucester & Bristol castles. Knight of the shire for Somerset, 1324. From Complete Peerage VIII:205: Richard Lovel, s. and h., was a minor at his father's death, and the wardship of his lands and person was granted to a Scottish knight, Sir John de Soules. When the latter took part against Edward I in 1295, it was transferred to William Martin. On 10 June 1297, the King having received his homage and given him livery of his lands the preceding day, Richard took oath at Canterbury to serve with horses and arms according to his power in the war against France. Holding lands or rents to the value of £40 p.a. or more, he was sum. for service against the Scots in 1300 (when he offered the service of four men instead of personal attendance) and later.) He was present at the tournament at Stepney in 1309. The manor of Old Roxburgh, part of the inheritance of Richard's wife, having been taken be Edward I in connection with the defence of Roxburgh, the manor of Winfrith Eagle in Dorset and other manors in England were granted them in Jan. 1310/1 as compensation. He was given custody of the Templars' lands in Somerset and Dorset in 1311. In May 1313 he was going beyond seas in the King's service. He lost eleven chargers in the Scottish war, and appears to have been captured at the battle of Bannockhurn, for John de Soules in 1314 had a safe conduct on going to Scotland to secure his release. In 1315 custody of Cranbourne Chase, &c., was granted to him during the minority of the Earl of Gloucester; and in the same year the custody of Corfe Castle and Purbeck was given to him and Muriel his wife. In 1317 he had licence to make a settlement on himself and his wife Muriel. In Feb. 1319/20 he was under orders to accompany the King to France. In Apr. 1320 he was appointed constable of Gloucester Castle, and in May 1321 constable of Bristol Castle. He was on the King's side in the dispute with Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and in Feb. 1321/2 was appointed joint commissioner to array the men of Somerset and Dorset against the rebels, and later to try two of the traitors at Bristol. He was going to Scotland with the King in the following July. In May 1324 he appears in the Sheriff's list of knights of Somerset whom he had summoned to attend the Great Council of prelates and peers at Westminster. In 1329 and later he was appointed on commissions of the peace, array, &c., in Somerset. On to Jan. 1341, as Richard Lovel, banneret, he was named one of the Justices to inquire into extortions in Devon and Cornwall. After Bannockburn the barony of Hawick and other Scottish possessions (including his late wife's moiety of property in Eskdale) had been lost to the Lovels, but when, at Nevill's Cross, 17 Oct. 1346, the Scots were defeated and King David captured, Richard claimed their restoration, and in 1347 a jury in Scotland found that he and his ancestors had possessed the barony of Hawick from time beyond memory. Old Roxburgh was accordingly restored to Richard and James Lovel. Sir Richard Lovel was sum. to Parl. from 20 Nov. 22 Edw. III to 25 Nov. (1350) 24 Edw. III, by writs directed Ricardo Lovel, whereby he is held to have become Lord Lovel. In Nov. 1350, as Richard Lovel, chivaler, he had licence to alienate to Stavordale Priory certain lands in Somerset. He m., before 1307, Muriel, da. and h. of Sir John de Soules, his first guardian, by Hawise sister of Sir James FitzAlan, Steward of Scotland. She d. in 1318, claiming lands in France. He d. 31 Jan. 1350/1. [...Footnote (o):] There are inquisitions for Midx., Dorset and Somerset. His daughter, Eleanor, was wife of Roger Rouhaut (of Aston Rowant) in 1326. | Lovel, Richard (I2139)
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| 1250 | 1st Baronet Downing. "A graduate of the first class of Harvard (1642), he returned to England in 1645 and became a member of Cromwell's staff; he switched allegiance to the monarchy in 1659-60 and became a baronet in 1663 and Secretary of the Treasury in 1666. His role in the growth of the British navy was substantial, though the opinion of his contemporaries of his character was not high. He was, as is often said, 'a serviceable man.'" [Myrtle Stevens Hyde, citation details below.] Note: While two streets in New York and one in London are named after him, Downing College in Cambridge is named after his grandson Sir George Downing (1685-1749), 3rd Baronet. From Wikipedia: Sir George Downing [...] was an Anglo-Irish preacher, soldier, statesman, diplomat, turncoat and spy, after whom Downing Street in London is named. As Treasury Secretary he is credited with instituting major reforms in public finance. His influence was substantial on the passage and substance of the mercantilist Navigation Acts. The Acts strengthened English commercial and naval power, contributing to the security of the English state and its ability to project its power abroad. More than any other man he was responsible for arranging the acquisition of New York from the Dutch, and is remembered there in the name of two other streets named after him in New York, one in Greenwich Village and one in Brooklyn. From Abandoning America: George Downing, son of Lucy and Emmanuel Downing, emigrated with his parents in 1638 and settled at Salem, Massachusetts. He entered Harvard in 1640 and graduated BA in 1642. John Winthrop listed him as one of the nine 'young men of good hope' in the first graduating class, with Benjamin Woodbridge, William Hubbard, Henry Saltonstall, John Bulkeley, John Wilson Jr, Nathaniel Brewster, Samuel Bellingham and Tobias Barnard. On 27 December 1643 he was appointed to read to junior pupils at a salary of £4 a year. Downing and his fellow students found their prospects in New England looked dim: seven out of the nine who graduated in 1642 eventually found their way back to England. Downing returned to England via Barbados in 1645, travelling as a ship's chaplain. His mother Lucy wrote that his determination to leave sprang from 'his little expectation, and fears of supply here'. In 1646 Downing became a chaplain to Colonel John Okey's regiment in the New Model Army. The presbyterian polemicist Thomas Edwards singled him out for attention in Gangraena, as a 'young Peters' (Hugh Peter). Downing went north to Newcastle upon Tyne in 1648 as chaplain to the regiment of Sir Arthur Hesilrige, whose commander was Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell appointed Downing as scoutmaster-general (intelligence-gatherer) of the English forces in Scotland, 1 November 1649, at a salary of £365 a year. Downing served as an MP in all the parliaments of the Protectorate: for Edinburgh in 1654, for Carlisle in 1656 and 1659. Cromwell commissioned Downing to travel to the continent to lodge complaints from England about the massacre of protestants in Piedmont in April 1655. In 1657 he became Cromwell's envoy to The Hague. In the aftermath of Anglo-Dutch hostilities earlier in the 1650s, Downing played a pivotal role in shaping a protestant consensus against the powers of Catholic Europe. He also learned a great deal about Dutch trading practices and economic strategy, which he later brought to bear in England. Downing turned Royalist at the Restoration. He made an approach to Charles II while the king was still in exile, declaring that his father had taken him to New England where he had 'sucked in principles that since his reason had made him see were erroneous'. He was knighted in 1660 and in 1662 delivered his former commander, the regicide John Okey, to the scaffold. Downing secured many high offices, and played a vital role in the fortunes of crown and country through his reform of the Treasury. Downing Street, the home of the British Prime Minister, takes its name from him. | Downing, George (I20745)
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| 1251 | 1st Duke of Clarence. Killed at the Battle of Baugé. | of Lancaster, Thomas (I20949)
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| 1252 | 1st Duke of Exeter. 1st Earl of Huntingdon. "[A] a half-brother of King Richard II (1377–1399), to whom he remained strongly loyal. He is primarily remembered for being suspected of assisting in the downfall of King Richard's uncle Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1355–1397) (youngest son of King Edward III) and then for conspiring against King Richard's first cousin and eventual deposer, Henry Bolingbroke, later King Henry IV (1399–1413)." [Wikipedia] He was beheaded following the failure of the Epiphany Rising conspiracy against the newly-crowned Henry IV. | Holand, John (I31557)
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| 1253 | 1st Duke of Northumberland. | Dudley, John (I23991)
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| 1254 | 1st Duke of Suffolk. | Brandon, Charles (I24035)
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| 1255 | 1st Duke of Suffolk. 3rd Marquess of Dorset. | Grey, Henry (I24042)
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| 1256 | 1st Earl of Angus. "He was taken captive at the battle of Homildon Hill on 14 September 1402, and as ransom was refused by King Henry IV, he remained a prisoner in England, and died of the plague." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below] | Douglas, George (I26550)
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| 1257 | 1st Earl of Argyll. Called "Colin Mule", Bold Earl Colin. From Wikipedia (accessed 2 May 2021): In 1453, when his father died, young Colin Campbell was placed in the custody of his uncle, Colin Campbell, 1st of Glenorchy, and succeeded his grandfather, Duncan Campbell, 1st Lord Campbell, to become 2nd Lord Campbell. In 1457, he was created Earl of Argyll by King James II of Scotland, who was grateful for the loyalty of his father during the troubles early in his reign. In 1460, Campbell had a commission as Bailie of Cowal. His uncle Colin arranged his marriage with Isabella Stewart, daughter and co-heiress of John Stewart, Lord Lorne (d. 1463). Through this marriage, he received Castle Gloom (he would change the name of the castle to "Castle Campbell" in February 1490), and the neighboring estate in the parish of Dollar in Clackmannanshire. Castle Campbell then became the primary seat of the Earls and Dukes of Argyll for the next two centuries. The exact date of the marriage is unknown, but in 1460, shortly after the boy-king, James III of Scotland, came to the throne, Campbell was called upon to intervene in a feud in his wife's family. Allan MacDougall (called Allan of Lorne of the Wood), desiring to hold the estates belonging to his elder brother, John Ker of Lorne, seized his brother and imprisoned him in a dungeon on the island of Kerrera, with the intention of starving him to death. Campbell appeared with a fleet of war galleys and completely defeated MacDougall, burning his fleet, killing most of his men, and restoring the elder brother to his rightful inheritance. Colin Campbell was often sent on diplomatic missions, the first in 1463, when King James III sent him to negotiate a truce with King Edward IV of England. One of the main terms was that neither king would support the enemies of the other. In 1464, Campbell was made master of the King's household. In 1465, he was appointed Lord Justiciary of Scotland, south of the Firth of Forth, a position he held in conjunction with Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Boyd, until Boyd fell out with the King and fled to England later in 1469, at which time, Campbell held the position alone. In 1466, he founded a chapel dedicated to St. Ninian at Dunure in Ayrshire. As a result of his marriage with Isabel Stewart, Campbell acquired the title Lord Lorne in 1469, which had previously been held by his wife's uncle, John Stewart. In exchange for this title, Campbell gave Stewart other lands, and Stewart received the title Lord Innermeath. Having received the title Lord Lorne, Campbell took the symbol of the galley from the Lorne heraldry as part of his Achievement. In the event that he might never have a male heir, he entailed the lordship of Lorne to his uncle Colin; if his uncle were to die, to his other uncle, Duncan Campbell; then to Colin Campbell of Arduquholm and to the heirs male of his body, which failing, then to his brothers, Archibald and Robert. In 1471, he received the heritable offices of Justiciary and Sheriff of Lorne. On 15 January 1472, King James III granted Dunoon Castle to Campbell and his heirs, with the power to appoint constables, porters, jailers, watermen, and other necessary offices. At the same time, he granted him the lands of Borland. On 20 February 1473, Campbell was made Justiciar, Chamberlain, Sheriff, and Bailie within the King's lordship of Cowal. Then on 8 May 1474, he received a charter to erect his town of Inverary into a burgh of barony. In 1474, Campbell was again sent as a commissioner to treat with King Edward IV, regarding breaches of the truce. In the resulting pact, which was to endure until July 1483, a marriage was arranged between Prince James Stewart of Scotland (King James III's son) and Princess Cecily of England (King Edward IV's daughter), a match which did not come to pass due to continued hostilities between the two nations. In 1475, when King James III was trying to subjugate John of Islay, Earl of Ross, Campbell was given a commission of lieutenancy to execute the forfeiture of the Earl of Ross' lands. In 1479, he was confirmed in the offices of Lieutenant and Commissary of Argyll, which had been held by his ancestors, Gillespic and Colin Campbell, since 1382. Further favors came to the Earl of Argyll in 1480, when the King granted him 160 marklands of the lordship of Knapdale, including the keeping of Castle Sween, for one silver penny in blench farm, i.e., nominal rent. This property had formerly belonged to the Earl of Ross. Early in 1483, King James III appointed Campbell as Lord High Chancellor of Scotland and awarded him the lands of Pinkerton in the barony of Dunbar, probably for Campbell's loyalty to the King during the rebellion of Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus, which had led to the murder of some of King's favorites, after the confrontation at Lauder in 1482. These lands had previously been held by the King's brother, Prince Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany, who was in league with the Earl of Angus. In 1484, Campbell was active in diplomatic campaigns. In July, he was sent as a commissioner to Paris to renew the "ancient league" between France and Scotland, a mission completed on 9 July. Then on 21 September, once King James III had gotten the upper hand against the rebels, he was part of the delegation who met with King Richard III of England at Nottingham to conclude peace, a treaty which was to run until September 1487. He was also appointed to periodically meet with the English at Berwick to determine whether or not the stipulations in the treaty were being followed. To strengthen the resolve of the parties and to keep the truce, a second marriage was arranged, between Prince James Stewart and Lady Ann de la Pole (1476–1495), daughter of John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, and a niece of King Richard III. This second marriage negotiation collapsed as a result of King Richard's defeat at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. Campbell threw in with the rebels, after Parliament had strengthened King James's hand against the rebellious nobles in October 1487. At about this time, the King forced Campbell out of the chancellorship, in favor of William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen. In 1488, Campbell was not present at the Battle of Sauchieburn on 11 June, or in the days following, because he was in England on an embassy to King Henry VII of England having been sent there on behalf of Prince James Stewart and the rebels to seek English help against King James III. After Prince James was crowned as James IV, he restored Campbell to the position of High Chancellor. Furthermore, the new king gave him the lands of Rosneath in Dunbartonshire on 9 January 1490, which remained in the Campbell family until 1939. Campbell continued in favor with King James IV, and on 21 December 1491, he was one of the conservators of the truce between England and Scotland, which was extended to 1496. One author has claimed that, one reason James III of Scotland has long had a sinister reputation is that "such accounts as we have of him are written by the partisans of his unruly nobles, such as the Earls of Argyll, Lennox, and Angus". Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, died in 1493, and was buried at Kilmun Parish Church on Cowal Peninsula. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Archibald Campbell. | Campbell, Colin (I34720)
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| 1258 | 1st Earl of Chesterfield. | Stanhope, Philip (I27641)
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| 1259 | 1st Earl of Crawford. "Noted for his knightly prowess, defeated John, Lord Welles, in a joust on London Bridge before King Richard II and his queen, severely wounded 1392 by highlanders at the battle of Glasclune, created an Earl 1398, Admiral of Scotland by 1403, an ambassador to England in 1404 and 1406." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: As the leading magnate in north-east Scotland and also, it would seem, a responsible and diligent nobleman, David Lindsay played a prominent part in regional and local politics. He worked in collaboration with the dukes of both Rothesay (of whose council he was a member) and Albany, guardians of the realm for most of the period between 1388 and 1420, to curtail the recalcitrant earl of Buchan's influence. In 1391 he participated in the highland campaign led by Albany which was directed against Buchan. On or about 18 January 1392 he took part in a skirmish at either Glen Brerachan or Glasclune; his adversaries are variously reported as Buchan's illegitimate sons and members of clan Donnchaidh. During this encounter Walter Ogilvy, sheriff of Angus, was killed and Lindsay was wounded. Further encounters with highland caterans and Buchan's family were to follow. Lindsay was involved in arranging the famous judicial combat between members of clan Quhele and clan Kay which was staged before King Robert III at Perth on 28 September 1396. His promotion to the rank of earl in 1398 should probably be regarded as part of the crown's programme of strengthening its position in the north at this time. By November 1400 he had aligned himself with the Erskine family in its claim to the earldom of Mar, advanced in anticipation of the death of Countess Isabella. In 1402, following the death of Isabella's second husband, Sir Malcolm Drummond, Crawford became a member of the countess's council, but his plans for an Erskine succession were thwarted two years later by Isabella's unexpected third marriage to Buchan's son Alexander. Crawford was, however, instrumental in brokering a deal between the new earl and Erskine's principal supporter, Albany, at Kildrummy on 1 December 1404, which left Alexander in possession of Mar for life. Well before he became an earl Lindsay had acquired an international reputation, one secured during a visit in 1390 to London, where on 4 or 6 May he defeated Lord Welles in a tournament, to be rewarded with gifts from Richard II. Chivalric interests and a family tradition of crusading probably explain why he and his brother, Alexander, enrolled in the order of the Passion, a crusading order established by Philippe de Mézières in 1395, though neither is known to have engaged the infidel. Instead Lindsay became increasingly involved in governmental matters. Although he was appointed deputy chamberlain north of the Forth in 1405, his chief responsibility concerned foreign affairs. In March 1394 he was named a conservator of the Anglo-Scottish truce and he participated in further Anglo-Scottish truce negotiations between 1397 and 1400. Probably in 1401 and certainly by 1403 he had been made admiral. In December 1401, in the hope of winning French military assistance for Scottish campaigns against England, Crawford arrived in Paris, apparently spreading the falsehood that the by now deposed Richard II was alive and well in Scotland, and on 3 January 1402 he entered the service of Louis, duc d'Orléans, the leader of the French war party. By 22 March Crawford was at Harfleur, in command of a predominantly French fleet, which in the subsequent four months captured at least twenty-five English merchant vessels in the channel. Some of the spoils were taken to Corunna in Spain, where Crawford donated an anchor and a boat to Jean de Béthencourt, seigneur de Grainville, in furtherance of the latter's attempt to conquer the Canary Islands. As the fleet reached Scotland only late in July, Crawford was absent during the time of the removal from power and subsequent death of Rothesay, his former patron, though his half-brother Sir William Lindsay of Rossie had been one of the duke's captors. Nor is he recorded as having fought at Homildon Hill on 14 September following. | Lindsay, David (I27284)
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| 1260 | 1st Earl of Derby. | Stanley, Thomas (I16374)
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| 1261 | 1st Earl of Douglas. "Sir William Douglas, of Douglas, 2nd but only surviving son of Sir Archibald Douglas, Regent of Scotland (Apr. to July 1333), by Beatrice, daughter of Sir Alexander Lindsay, of Crawford, having by the resignation of his uncle, Hugh Douglas, 26 May 1342 (confirmed by the King), obtained the vast estates of the Douglas family (formerly held by the well-known Sir James Douglas, "the Good", slain in Spain, 25 Aug. 1330, elder brother of Hugh and Archibald abovenamed), attained full age about 1348, distinguished himself (1346-56) against the English in Scotland; slew his kinsman, Wilham Douglas, "the Knight of Liddesdale," in Aug. 1353, and was wounded 19 Sep. 1356, at the Battle of Poitiers. He was present at the Parliament held in Edinburgh, 20 Sep. 1357, and was one of the eight nobles of whom three were to place themselves in the hands of the English on the release of David II. He was, shortly afterwards, cr., 26 Jan. 1357/8, EARL OF DOUGLAS [S.]. He attended the Coronation of Robert II at Scone, 26 Mar. 1371; was Warden of the Marches, obtaining several successes against the English, and bringing Teviotdale into perfect subjection. He married, probably shortly before 13 Nov. 1357 (when she is mentioned in a charter of David II), Margaret, only daughter of Donald, Earl of Mar [S.], by Isabel Stewart, which Margaret, by the death of her brother Earl Thomas, between 22 Oct. 1373 and 21 June I374, became suo jure Countess of Mar [S.]. The Earl, her husband (as early as 21 June 1374), assumed in her right that Earldom in addition to his own. He died in May 1384, after a short illness, at Douglas, and was buried at Melrose." [Complete Peerage, citation details below] | de Douglas, William (I29043)
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| 1262 | 1st Earl of Kent. | Grey, Edmund (I31553)
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| 1263 | 1st Earl of Kent. "[S]erved his brother Edward II in his war against the barons, turned against him in 1326, granted Arundel Castle (1327) by Edward III, opposed the ascendancy of the queen and Roger Mortimer, who lured him into a conspiracy, and then had him condemned and beheaded as a traitor." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | of Woodstock, Edmund (I16467)
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| 1264 | 1st Earl of Kildare. | fitz Thomas fitz Gerald, John (I17414)
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| 1265 | 1st Earl of Orford. Generally considered to have been the first Prime Minister of Great Britain in the modern sense. | Walpole, Robert (I18108)
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| 1266 | 1st Earl of Orkney. From Wikipedia: Robert Stewart, Knt., 1st Earl of Orkney and Lord of Zetland (Shetland) (1533 – 4 February 1593) was a recognized illegitimate son of James V, King of Scotland, and his mistress Eupheme Elphinstone. In 1539 Robert was made Commendator of Holyrood Abbey, and Commendator of Charlieu Abbey in France by 1557. On 9 February 1560 he testified against the Hamilton Duke of Châtellerault and Earl of Arran, and the Protestant Lords of the Congregation to James MacGill and John Bellenden of Auchnoule. They were collecting evidence for Henri Cleutin and Jacques de la Brosse, the French advisors of his step-mother Mary of Guise who planned to have the Hamiltons charged with treason against his half-sister, Mary, Queen of Scots and France. Robert himself had signed some of the letters that were to be cited as evidence. He was knighted as Sir Robert Stewart of Strathdon on 15 May 1565, as part of marriage celebrations of Mary, Queen of Scots and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. In 1581 he was named, by James VI, the 1st Earl in a second creation of the Earldom of Orkney. The new earldom replaced a short-lived Dukedom of Orkney, which had been awarded in 1567 by Mary, Queen of Scots, to her notorious third husband James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell. This dukedom was forfeit later that same year after Mary was forced to abdicate and Bothwell was charged with treason. Prior to this dukedom there had existed an Earldom of Orkney that was surrendered in 1470 by William Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Orkney. Mary wrote a will at Sheffield in 1577 ineffectually declaring his title to Orkney null and void, after Robert was imprisoned in 1575 for obtaining a letter from the King of Denmark declaring him sovereign of Orkney. His crimes included colluding with Shetland pirates. The Earl was imprisoned at Linlithgow Palace. He was released in 1579. He built the Palace of Birsay on Orkney. On his death in 1593 the earldom passed to his son Patrick Stewart, 2nd Earl of Orkney. From the Scots Peerage: Robert Stewart of Strathdown was a half-brother of Queen Mary, being a natural son of King James V. by Euphame, daughter of Alexander, first Lord Elphinstone; she married, in 1540, John Bruce of Cultmalundie. Robert was born 1533, and was mentioned in the remainder of the castle and lands of Tantallon, granted to his half-brother James Stewart 31 August 1536, as son of the King by this lady nominatim. He obtained a grant of the Abbey of Holyroodhouse in commendam in 1539. In 1553 he went abroad, and was absent from Scotland for some years. After his return he early joined the Lords of the Congregation against the Queen-mother, and declared himself, according to Knox, to be on the Protestant side. On the return of Queen Mary he was constantly at Court, and had some knowledge of the plot for Darnley's murder. His elder children, legitimate and natural, were provided for out of the temporalities of Holyroodhouse. On 19 December 1564 he obtained a lease of the Crown lands of Orkney and Zetland, but this was revoked when the Queen married Bothwell and created him Duke of Orkney. In 1569, Lord Robert, however, exchanged the temporalities of Holyroodhouse for those of the See of Orkney with Adam Bothwell, Bishop of that Diocese, and in spite of the latter's protest that the proceedings were done by constraint, and also of various revocations and regrants, kept a hold on the earldom and bishopric of Orkney till his death. He was accused in 1571 of treason, having had intrigues with the King of Denmark relative to his islands, was imprisoned by the Regent Morton, and remained in ward until the latter's resignation. In September 1572 he received from Bishop Bothwell three charters of the lands of the bishopric to himself and his wife Jean Kennedy in liferent, and to Henry, their eldest lawful son, whom failing, to Patrick Stewart, his brothergerman, whom failing, to Lord Robert himself, whom failing, to Robert, his natural son, whom failing, to James Stewart, also a natural son, with a remainder to other persons named. He had the satisfaction of assisting at Morton's fall, conveying him to prison. By his nephew King James VI. he was, on 28 October 1581 created Earl of Orkney and Lord of Zetland, with remainder to the heirs of his body, legitimately born, whom failing, to the King. He obtained another entail of the earldom of Orkney, 9 June 1585, and died 4 February 1592-93. He married in 1561 Jean Kennedy, eldest daughter of Gilbert, third Earl of Oassillis, and had issue: 1. Henry, Master of Orkney, mentioned in the entail of the earldom 9 June 1585. He predeceased his father before 1590, when his brother Patrick is styled Master of Orkney. 2. Patrick, his successor. 3. John, created Lord Kinclaven and Earl of Carrick. (See the latter title.) 4. Sir James Stewart of Eday and Tullos, Gentleman of the Bedchamber to King James vi. In spite of the misleading footnote in Wood's Douglas, he was a legitimate son, and is, 1584, described as brother-german of Henry and Patrick, third born. His brother's downfall involved him in difficulties, and he and his eldest son had a protection from their creditors in 1635. He and his wife Margaret Lyon, in 1625, obtained a grant of £900 Scots 'in commiseration of their poore and indigent estate. They had issue:—(1) Colonel Robert Stewart of Eday, ancestor of that family in Orkney. Heirs to the earldom except for the attainder. (2) Colonel John Stewart of Newark, who left issue. (3) Mary, married (contract 1639) to Alexander Bothwell of Glencorse. (4) Margaret. (5) Jean, married, first, to Major George Crichton of Abekie; secondly, to Frederick Lyon of Brigtoun. 5. Sir Robert Stewart of Middleton, described in 1584 as brother-german of Henry, Patrick, and James, and fourth born. He was at one time abroad, and secretary to the Vice-Chancellor of Poland, and then in Ireland. King James VI. wrote to one Stallenge to commend his suit for Elizabeth, daughter of Christopher Kenne, his ward, 14 April 1604. 6. Marie, married (contract 25 November 1585) to Patrick, sixth Lord Gray, as his second wife. 7. Jean, married, first, to Patrick, first Lord Lindores; and secondly, as third wife, to Robert, first Lord Melville of Raith. She survived him, and was alive in 1642. 8. Elizabeth, married to James Sinclair of Murkle, second son of John, Master of Caithness. 9. Barbara, stated to have been married to Hugh or Harry Halcro of Halcro in Orkney. Earl Robert had a large number of illegitimate children. 1. Robert Stewart, who was legitimated. He is usually named before his brother James, and they are first named in 1566 in a grant to their brother Henry and two sisters, being carefully distinguished as natural sons. 2. James Stewart, who was also legitimated. He received with his brother Robert in 1574 provision out of the teinds of Holyroodhouse. It is exceedingly difficult to disentangle the history of these legitimated sons from those of their lawful brothers of the same name. 3. James Stewart of Graemsay in Orkney (his mother said to be Janet Robertson of Strowan), who was implicated in his father's treasonable intrigues with Denmark. 4. William Stewart of Egilshay, summoned 1600 to find caution for appearance at trial 'for the schamefull and cruell murther of Bellenden, his first spouse.' He was later a colonel in the Swedish service in 1609. 5. George Stewart of Eynhallow, legitimated 29 November 1586. His mother, and the mother of Edward and David was Marjorie Sandilands, wife of Adam Gordon, brother of John Gordon of Avachie. He had in 1584 been included in the provision out of the teinds of Holyroodhouse, and in 1585 was in the entail of the earldom of Orkney and lordship of Zetland. He had a number of lands, afterwards erected into the tenandry of Brugh, and was dead before 30 March 1616. 6. Edward Stewart of Brugh, ancestor of that family. He held the half of the lands of Brugh, and succeeded to his brother George before 30 March 1616. 7. David Stewart of How. 8. Christian married to John Mouat of Hougaland in Shetland, and, as his widow, was living, and in feud with her brother-in-law, in 1634. 9. Grizel, married before 27 December 1591 to Hugh Sinclair of Brugh in Shetland. 10. Mary, said to have been married to Lawrence Sinclair of Goat, in Shetland. | Stewart, Robert (I20742)
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| 1267 | 1st Earl of Oxford. Hereditary Master Chamberlain. Count of Guisnes 1139-~1145. "In 1142 he sided with Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, against King Stephen for which he was arrested in 1143 and released only after he surrendered Canfield Castle. In 1142 the Empress Maud appointed him Earl of Oxford. He probably founded the priories of Ickleton and Castle Hedington and was a frequent benefactor of Colne Priory." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz] | de Vere, Aubrey (I13021)
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| 1268 | 1st Earl of Pembroke of the tenth creation. | Herbert, William (I29927)
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| 1269 | 1st Earl of Portland. Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lord Treasurer of England. From Wikipedia: Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland, K. G., was Chancellor of the Exchequer and later Lord Treasurer of England under James I and Charles I, being one of the most influential figures in the early years of Charles I's Personal Rule and the architect of many of the policies that enabled him to rule without raising taxes through Parliament. Weston was the eldest son and heir of Sir Jerome Weston, High Sheriff of Essex for 1599, and the former Mary Cave. He was born at Roxwell, Essex, and was a student of the Middle Temple. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for a number of constituencies including Maldon (1601–1603), Midhurst (in the parliament of 1604-1611), Essex (in the Addled Parliament of 1614), Arundel (1622), Bossiney (1624), Callington (1625) and Bodmin (1626). He was knighted in 1603. During the reign of King James I of England, Weston was sent on embassies to Bohemia, Brussels, and Spain. On the last assignment, he negotiated for the restitution of the Palatine. Upon his return to England in 1621, he was made Chancellor of the Exchequer, and retained the post after the accession of Charles I; he proved a capable financial manager but incurred popular hatred as a (justly) suspected Roman Catholic, while also later earning the enmity of the (Catholic) queen, Henrietta Maria for refusing grants to her favourites. He opposed wars with Spain in 1623 and France in 1626, but managed to find ways of raising the money to fund them when required, even when it was impossible to secure the co-operation of Parliament. Weston was elevated to the peerage on 13 April 1628, as Baron Weston, of Neyland. He was subsequently made Lord Treasurer of England and invested with the Order of the Garter. His policies proving highly unpopular, he escaped impeachment in 1629 only by the dissolution of Parliament. Nevertheless, he played an important role in the King's Personal Rule without Parliament, finding new sources of revenue while preventing any further increase in the King's expenditure, and being for a time the most influential of Charles's advisers. He persuaded the King to make peace with France in 1629 and Spain in 1630, removing the biggest drain on the treasury, and to sign the secret treaty with Spain in 1634. By the time he died in 1635, the Crown was solvent. On 17 February 1633, Weston was created Earl of Portland. Lord Portland was married twice. His first wife was Elizabeth Pincheon of Writtle in Essex. His second wife was Frances Walgrave of Boreley in Essex. He had three children by his first marriage, including Lady Mary Weston (2 January 1603-after August 1678), who married the 2nd Lord Aston of Forfar in 1629, and Lady Elizabeth Weston, who married John Netterville, 2nd Viscount Netterville. He had seven children by his second marriage, including his son Thomas, who later succeeded as 4th Earl, and Lady Anne Weston, the first of the four wives of Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh. His nephew (his sister's son), Jeremy Clarke, became a Governor of Rhode Island in the American colonies. | Weston, Richard (I19944)
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| 1270 | 1st Earl of Ross. Also called Ferquhard Macintagart, Fearchar of Ross, Fearchar McTaggart. "In the early summer of 1215 representatives of the families of Macwilliam and Macheth, claimants respectively, it would appear, to the Scottish throne and the earldom of Ross, invaded northern Scotland from the west and were suppressed by forces led by Farquhar Mactaggart. Suggestions that Farquhar's byname, meaning 'son of the priest', derived from his possession of the former west-coast monastery of Applecross, seem to have originated in nineteenth-century speculation; if he had an ecclesiastical connection it is more likely to have been with the shrine and sanctuary of St Duthac at Tain, on the southern shore of the Dornoch Firth. Probably a native of eastern Ross, he and others of that region would doubtless have regarded invasions from the west with hostility, looking for lordship to Scottish kings who were now increasingly active in the north of their realm, rather than to pretenders with Irish connections. On 15 June 1215 Farquhar presented the young Alexander II with the heads of his enemies, and was rewarded with a knighthood. In 1221 Alexander came to Inverness, and some time between then and 1226 he made Farquhar earl of Ross, the first in what proved a long-lasting dynasty. In July 1235 Farquhar justified his elevation during Alexander's campaign in Galloway, his arrival late in the day turning a desperate fight in the king's favour. He already had links with Galloway and the Western Isles. In the 1220s he founded a Premonstratensian abbey at Fearn with canons from Whithorn, while by 1223 his daughter Christina had married Óláf, afterwards king of Man, and he later assisted his son-in-law against enemies in Skye. He also made appearances at court, witnessing the treaty of York in 1237 and subscribing the copy of the Anglo-Scottish treaty of 1244 which was sent for papal confirmation." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below] | Mactaggart, Farquhar (I27302)
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| 1271 | 1st Earl of Rutland. | Manners, Thomas (I36244)
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| 1272 | 1st Earl of Salisbury. He was the leader of the party that seized Roger de Mortimer at Nottingham Castle on the night of 19 Oct 1330. He died of injuries sustained at a tournament at Windsor. | de Montagu, William (I18109)
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| 1273 | 1st Earl of Somerset. "[A] crusader, created Earl 1396/7 the day following his legitimation, a Lord appellant against the Duke of Gloucester, Admiral of the Fleet, Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports, Chamberlain and Constable of England, Captain of Calais, etc., in favor with King Henry IV, received the forfeited estates of Owen Glendower." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | Beaufort, John (I16396)
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| 1274 | 1st Earl of Suffolk. "Constantly in France, 1344-1347, having with him a banneret, 36 knights, 58 esquires and 63 archers, landing with the King as Marshal of the army in 1346, serving in the Prince's division at Crécy, 26 Aug 1346, and before Calais with the King in 1347. Fought at the battle of Poitiers, 19 Sept 1356. One of the most trusted warriors, counsellors and diplomats of Edward III." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.] Summoned to Parliament by writ, 27 Jan 1332 to 29 Nov 1336. | de Ufford, Robert (I19827)
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| 1275 | 1st Earl of Suffolk. Admiral of the Northern Fleet. Joint Governor to Richard II. Lord Chancellor of England. Keeper of the Great Seal. From Wikipedia: His father was a wool merchant from Hull who became a key figure during the reign of Edward III: after the collapse of the Bardi and Peruzzi families, he emerged as Edward's chief financier. Michael enjoyed even greater popularity at court than his father, becoming one of the most trusted and intimate friends of Edward's successor, Richard II. He was appointed Chancellor in 1383, and created Earl of Suffolk in 1385, the first of his family to hold any such title. However, in the late 1380s his fortunes radically altered, in step with those of the king. During the Wonderful Parliament of 1386 he was impeached on charges of embezzlement and negligence, a victim of increasing tensions between Parliament and Richard. He was the first official in English history to be removed from office by the process of impeachment. Even after this disgrace, he remained in royal favour, although soon fell foul of the Lords Appellant. He was one of a number of Richard's associates accused of treason by the Appellants in November 1387. After the Appellants' victory at Radcot Bridge (December 1387) and before the so-called Merciless Parliament met in February 1388, De La Pole shrewdly fled to Paris, thus escaping the fate of Sir Nicholas Brembre and Chief Justice Robert Tresilian. He remained in France for the remainder of his life. Sentenced in his absence, his title was stripped from him. Jean Froissart's references to de la Pole in the Chroniques (II.173) portray a devious and ineffectual counsellor, who dissuaded Richard from pursuing a certain victory against French and Scottish forces in Cumberland, and fomented undue suspicion of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster. | de la Pole, Michael (I19025)
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| 1276 | 1st Earl of Surrey. One of the Conqueror's fifteen proven companions. Died from wounds sustained at the siege of Pevensey. | de Warenne, William (I4964)
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| 1277 | 1st Earl of Wiltshire. 1st Earl of Ormond. 1st Viscount Rochford. | Boleyn, Thomas (I16821)
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| 1278 | 1st Earl of Worcester, 2nd Baron Abergavenny. Died in battle. | de Beauchamp, Richard (I29977)
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| 1279 | 1st High Steward of Scotland. Founder of Paisley Abbey. Described by A. M. Mackenzie as "a Norman by culture and a Breton by blood." A supporter of the Empress Matilda, he came to Scotland in 1136 and fought for it at the Battle of the Standard, following which David I made him Steward of Scotland and later confirmed the title as a hereditary office. | fitz Alan, Walter (I3207)
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| 1280 | 1st Lord Blair. 4th of Flaskhill and Ledcrieff. Captain of Tantallon Castle. He was a deputy sheriff to John, Earl of Athole, in 1566 when John was Sheriff of Perth. | Drummond, George (I34730)
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| 1281 | 1st Lord Erskine. "[K]nighted before 20 Dec. 1400; was taken prisoner at the battle of Homildon, 14 Sep. 1402; was one of the hostages for the ransom of King James in 1424, when his revenue was estimated at 1,000 marks, being set at liberty 19 June 1425. He was made a Lord of Parl., as LORD ERSKINE [S.], in or shortly before I438. Soon after the death (1435) of Alexander, husband of Isabel, suo jure Countess of Mar (to which Alexander and his heirs by her that Earldom had been resigned), Lord Erskine was served h. to the said Countess Isabel, and having had seizin 21 Nov. 1438, assumed the title of EARL OF MAR [S.]." [Complete Peerage, citation details below] | Erskine, Robert (I25773)
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| 1282 | 1st Lord of Lorne. "He was one of the Commissioners to England for the release of James I [S.], and, being in 1424 one of the hostages for payment of his ransom, remained there till 1429. He was cr. a Lord of Parl. as LORD LORN before 5 Sep. 1439, on which date he was witness (as Robertus, Dominus Lord) to a charter." [Complete Peerage, citation details below] | Stewart, Robert (I34744)
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| 1283 | 1st Lord Ufford. Summoned to Parliament by writ, 4 Mar 1309 to 19 Dec 1311. | de Ufford, Robert (I20135)
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| 1284 | 1st Lord, Campbell. Called Na-Adh. "He was advanced to the dignity of LORD CAMPBELL in 1445, and on 20 October 1448, in writs relating to an excambion of Menstrie and Glassary, he is styled Sir Duncan lord the Cambell of Lochaw, knight." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below] | Campbell, Duncan (I34726)
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| 1285 | 1st Lt., Co. G, 49th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (USA) [http://home.southwind.net/~crowther/Dibrell/Civ.html] From http://www.philcrowther.com/Hayden/Pictures.htm: John Anthony Hayden was born 13 Jun 1834 in Wayne County and was the oldest son of James Madison Haden and Wilmuth Watson Dibrell. In 1845, his father died, leaving his mother destitute with 5 young children to raise. On 28 Aug 1858, he married Gemima Morgan, daughter of Griffen Morgan and Mary Shepherd. John and Gemima had 6 children: 5 daughters and 1 son. During the Civil War, he served as a 1st Lieutenant in Company G, 49th Kentucky Infantry. There is no evidence that he served in combat. Instead, he contracted dysentery and was forced to resign his commission for health reasons. He and Gemima lived on a modest farm at Young's Creek in Whitley County and he continued to suffer the effects of his illness for the rest of his life. | Hayden, John Anthony (I11152)
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| 1286 | 1st marriage, 31 Oct 1660, Samuel Hinsdale; 2nd marriage, John Root. | Johnson, Mehitable (I15495)
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| 1287 | 1st of Cavers. | Douglas, Archibald (I35648)
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| 1288 | 1st of Megginch. | Hay, Peter (I34740)
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| 1289 | 1st of Merchistoun. He was a wealthy burgess and wool trader of Edinburgh, and provost of Edinburgh 1437-38. Neither his origins nor the name of his wife are known. | Napier, Alexander (I35609)
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| 1290 | 1st Sheriff of Ayr. | de Craufurd, Reginald (I35633)
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| 1291 | 1st Viscount Hereford. Knight of the Garter, 1523. | Devereux, Walter (I25234)
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| 1292 | 1st Viscount Lisle. Like his father, he died of wounds sustained in the Battle of Castillon, the last battle of the Hundred Years' War. Not to be confused with his father's son John Talbot (1413-1460), 2nd earl of Shrewsbury, who was by his father's first wife, Maud Nevill. | Talbot, John (I24028)
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| 1293 | 20 Aug 1740 is the death date on his tombstone, but Chelmsford town records say 21 Aug 1740. Joseph Farwell's will: Dated 13 Nov 1711. Probated 16 Jan 1722-1723. Copied from Diana Gale Mathiessen's site, where it is sourced to "the Winslow Farr Sr. Family Organization web site". In the Name of the Lord God Amen Joseph Farweilgen of The town Dunstable in the County of Middefs in the province of the Massachulets Bay in Newengland yeoman being of Sound and Perfect memory praise be given to god for the same yit knowing the uncertainty of this Life on Earth and being Desirous to Settle things in order Do Make and ordain this to be my Last Will and Testament. Hereby Revoking all former Wills by me made and signed to be null and of none Effect icc In Primas My Soule I give unto the hand of allmighty god that gave it in sure and certaine hopes of Eternaul Life through our alone Lord and Saiover Jesus Christ and my body to the Earth from whence it came to be Deceantly Interred at the Discretion of My Executors x hereafter Named and after my funerall expences and the Debts satisfied And Paid What Worldly goods it hath pleased god to Endow me with all I Do give and bequeath in manner as followeth Item I Do: give unto My beloved Wife Hannah Farewell all my moveable goods both within the boufe and abroad of all sorts Whatsoever to be at her disposall for ever excepting one paire of Andirons. Item I do give and bequeath to my Son Oliver ffarewel and to his Heirs executors Administrators for ever the one half of My housings and Lands which I have now in my possession when he shall Attaine to the age of twenty one years allso I do give to him one paire of Andirons: Aflso I do give and bequeath to him my son Oliver Farewell and to his Heirs the other part of all my Houfings and Lands which I have in pofselsion after my Deceafe and after the Deceafe of my Wife Hannah ffarewell if in the meanetime of our Lives he doth take the whole care of us Both And to provide all things comfortable and Necefsary for us both in sickness and in health and to bestow upon us or either of us A decent Burial: Hereby Authorizing and fully Impowering my Beloved wife Hannah If arewel and my son Henry ffarewell to be whole and sole executors Joyntly and Severally of this my Lash Will and Testament In Witness Whereof I have hereunto subscribed as Witness my hand and ieall the thirteenth Day of November Anno Domin one thousand seven hundred and eleven, and in the tenth year of her Majestie's Reighn of E ssigned sealed And published to be the Last will and testament of Joseph I farewell In presence of us Ames Chever Samuel Moody John Meriam. jr. Before signing and sealing it is to be understood that all my other Children both sons and Daughters have Received their full portions of me allready Jofeph farwell Seal | Farwell, Joseph (I535)
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| 1294 | 20 Aug 1861, mustered into 3rd (later renamed 7th) Regiment Kentucky Infantry, Company I. Recorded as "present" in the company muster rolls of 30 Apr and 31 Aug 1862. Died in Lousiana of smallpox. | Ward, Thompson Ivy (I10268)
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| 1295 | 20th Governor of New Jersey, 1863 to 1866 and 1872 to 1875. A "War Democrat." Later Attorney General of New Jersey, 1875, and justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, 1880-1888. | Parker, Joel Governor of New Jersey (I3945)
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| 1296 | 2nd Baron Berners. Lieutenant of Calais from 1520 on. Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1524. On commission from Henry VIII he made English translations of Froissart's Chronicles, the Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius, the History of Arthur of Lyttel Brytaine, and the romance Huon of Bordeaux. Summoned to Parliament between 14 Oct 1495 and 9 Aug 1529. "Berners was not present at the Field of Cloth of Gold in 1520, as has been generally stated, but remained with the council in London." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] | Bourchier, John (I17707)
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| 1297 | 2nd Duke of Norfolk. Styled Earl of Surrey, 1483-85 and 1489-1514. | Howard, Thomas (I16823)
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| 1298 | 2nd earl of Angus. "He commanded at the taking of Berwick in Nov. 1355, and was one of the eight Lords, of whom three were to place themselves in the hands of the English as security for the release of David II. He was Great Chamberlain [S.] 1357 and 1358. On 18 Aug. 1359 he had a safe conduct for four ships of Flanders, with which he was to join Edward III at Calais, but he broke his engagement, and in Mar. 1359/60 was charged to return to England to fulfil his obligation as a hostage. He married, by Papal disp. dat. 3 June 1353 (being within the fourth degree of consanguinity), Margaret, generally considered to have been daughter of Sir William St. Clair, of Roslin, by Isabel, daughter and coheir of Malise, Earl of Strathern, Caithness, and Orkney [S.], which Margaret was, however, more probably sister of the said Sir William. Being imprisoned in Dunbarton Castle, he d. there, of the plague, 1361. His widow married Sir John Sinclair, of Herdmanstoun." [Complete Peerage, citation details below] "He acted for some time as Chamberlain of Scotland, but for alleged complicity in the murder of Catharine Mortimer, mistress of King David II, he was imprisoned in Dumbarton, and there fell a victim to the plague in the year 1361." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below] | Stewart, Thomas (I28966)
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| 1299 | 2nd earl of Angus. He and his wife were 5X-great grandparents of James VI and I (1566-1625). "He was one of the negotiators for the release of James I [S.] in 1423. Was Ambassador to England, 1430, and Warden of the Middle Marches, 1433. He defeated the English at Piperden, 10 Sep. 1435."[Complete Peerage, citation details below] CP dates his marriage to about 1425, but The Ancestry of Charles II (citation details below) notes that the prenuptial dispensation for the marriage was dated 6 Jan 1414/15. | Douglas, William (I26549)
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| 1300 | 2nd Earl of Argyll. From Wikipedia (accessed 2 May 2021): He was made Master of the Royal Household of James IV of Scotland on 24 March 1495. After a crisis of law and order in the west of Scotland, Argyll was made governor of Tarbert Castle and Baillie of Knapdale, and this was followed by an appointment as Royal Lieutenant in the former Lordship of the Isles on 22 April 1500. Argyll eventually rose to the position of Lord High Chancellor of Scotland. His "clan" was rivalled only by Clan Gordon. The Earls of Argyll were hereditary Sheriffs of Lorne and Argyll. However, a draft record of the 1504 Parliament of Scotland records a move to request Argyll to hold his Sherriff Court at Perth, where the King and his council could more easily oversee proceedings, if the Earl was found at fault. The historian Norman Macdougall suggests this clause may have been provoked by Argyll's kinship with Torquil MacLeod and MacLean of Duart. These western chiefs supported the suppressed Lordship of the Isles. The Earl of Argyll was killed at the Battle of Flodden on 9 September 1513, with the king and many others. He is buried at Kilmun Parish Church. | Campbell, Archibald (I34722)
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| 1301 | 2nd Earl of Crawford. "[A]s a minor a hostage for the Earl of Douglas 1406-7, called 'dilectus consanguineus' 1407 in a safe-conduct from King Henry IV, knighted at the coronation of James I, 21 May 1424, a hostage in England for the king's ransom 1424-27, ambassador to England January 1430/1, a commissioner of truce 31 Mar 1438." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] "[He] was much less prominent in public life than his father. In part this was the result of two spells in captivity, in 1406–7 as a hostage for the fourth earl of Douglas and in 1424–7 as a hostage for James I. In 1407 Henry IV of England granted him a safe conduct for travel to Amiens, an early indication of a long-standing family devotion to St John the Baptist, whose head was venerated there. He received a safe conduct for travel to England in 1416 and again in 1421, when he was one of the commissioners appointed to negotiate the release of James I from English captivity. In December of the same year he arranged a male entail for the Crawford lands. In 1424 he met James at Durham with hostages for the king's release. Although Crawford is said to have been knighted at James's coronation on 21 May 1424, on 25 March he had taken oath as a hostage for the king, his own ransom set at 1000 merks. During this second period of captivity he was imprisoned in the Tower of London, York, and finally Pontefract. Two years after his release in 1427 he endowed a chaplaincy in the parish church of Dundee with an annual grant of 12 merks. He received another safe conduct in January 1430, to meet English envoys at Hawdenstank, and in January 1431 he was again nominated as an ambassador to England. In 1438 he was appointed a commissioner of the Anglo-Scottish truce. Little else is known of Crawford, but he was said to have been active in the capture of James I's assassins. He and his wife Marjory, whose identity is unrecorded, had five sons and two daughters." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below] | Lindsay, Alexander (I27282)
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| 1302 | 2nd Earl of Douglas. Earl of Mar. Killed at the Battle of Otterburn. | Douglas, James (I35650)
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| 1303 | 2nd Earl of Huntly. | Gordon, George (I29912)
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| 1304 | 2nd Earl of Kent. Constable of Northampton Castle. | Grey, George (I31554)
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| 1305 | 2nd Earl of Ormond. Chief Governor of Ireland 1359-61, 1377-79. Constable of Dublin Castle. | le Boteler, James (I13520)
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| 1306 | 2nd Earl of Oxford. | de Vere, Aubrey (I13019)
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| 1307 | 2nd earl of Pembroke. | Herbert, Henry (I29983)
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| 1308 | 2nd Earl of Pembroke. A Magna Carta surety. | Marshal, William (I28761)
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| 1309 | 2nd Earl of Ross. "He married Jean, daughter of William Comyn, earl of Buchan, and supported his brother-in-law Walter Comyn, earl of Menteith, during the minority of Alexander III. But when Alexander began to rule in person in the early 1260s, and resumed his father's efforts to extend royal power into the west of Scotland, William was active on the king's behalf. In 1262 he was one of the leaders of a force which ravaged Skye, and in the aftermath of the following year's unsuccessful expedition by the king of Norway appears to have been given custody of Skye and Lewis." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below] | of Ross, William (I27300)
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| 1310 | 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury. Chancellor of Ireland, 1446. Privy councillor, 1454. Lord High Treasurer, 1456-58. Master of the Falcons, 1457. Chief Butler of England, 1458. Chief Justice of Chester, 1459. Steward of the Town and Lordship of Ludlow, 1460. Along with his brother Christopher Talbot, he was killed at the battle of Northampton, fighting on the Lancastrian side. | Talbot, John (I13505)
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| 1311 | 2nd Lord Baltimore. Proprietor of Maryland. "He entered Trinity College, Oxford University in 1621, and was admitted to Gray's Inn 8 August 1633. In 1632 he was granted the proprietorship of the province of Maryland by King Charles I, and took possession of it early in 1634. As heir to the charter promised his father, he promoted, though in England, the settlement of Maryland. He skillfully lobbied in England with the merchant community and Puritan government to save his colony during the years of the English Civil War and Commonwealth government." [Royal Ancestry, citation details below] | Calvert, Cecilius (I36414)
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| 1312 | 2nd Lord Beauchamp of Somerset. | de Beauchamp, John (I34165)
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| 1313 | 2nd Lord Erskine. Knighted before 24 Jan 1441. Sat in the Scottish parliament 14 Oct 1467. Sheriff of Stirling 1483. Sided with James III in the insurrection of 1488. | Erskine, Thomas (I27351)
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| 1314 | 2nd Lord Grey of Wilton. Summoned to Parliament by writ 4 Mar 1309 to 18 Sep 1322. Fought at Bannockburn. Justiciar of North Wales and Keeper of the King's lands and castles in those parts. | de Grey, John (I6349)
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| 1315 | 2nd Lord Lorne. He sat in the Scottish parliament as Lord Lorne in 1449, 1452, and 1455. He died at Dunstaffnage Castle of wounds inflicted by Alan M'Coule. | Stewart, John (I34724)
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| 1316 | 2nd Lord Tregoz. | de Tregoz, Thomas (I32479)
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| 1317 | 2nd Marquess of Dorset. | Grey, Thomas (I24043)
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| 1318 | 2nd of Crichton. | Crichton, Adam (I35442)
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| 1319 | 2nd of Flaskhill and Ledcrieff. He and his brother James were both bailie-deputes to their uncle Sir Malcolm Drummond of Cargill in 1447. | Drummond, John (I34736)
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| 1320 | 2nd of Garlies. | Stewart, William (I35639)
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| 1321 | 2nd of Megginch. Baillie of Erroll. | Hay, Edmund (I34738)
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| 1322 | 2nd of Merchistoun. Provost of Edinburgh 1453-55, 1457, 1469-71. | Napier, Alexander (I35607)
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| 1323 | 2nd United States Secretary of the Treasury. Governor of Connecticut, 1817-1827. | Wolcott, Oliver United States Secretary of the Treasury (I18184)
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| 1324 | 3 Nov 1640 is the date on which the Rev. Thomas Hooker, noting her death, wrote that "she smoaked out her days in the darkness of melancholy." | (Unknown first wife of the Rev. Samuel Stone) (I31211)
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| 1325 | 3rd Earl of Cambridge. "[A]mbassador to Denmark 1406, created Earl 1414, Almoner of England, Constable of Brimpsfield Castle, having joined in a failed conspiracy to depose King Henry V, he sought the latter's mercy in most abject terms, which gained him only a beheading without the usual additional punishment for treason, all his honors being attainted." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)] | of Conisburgh, Richard (I16455)
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| 1326 | 3rd Earl of Crawford. "David Lindsay third earl of Crawford (d. 1446), had been knighted by 17 September 1425 and witnessed a royal charter as earl on 1 February 1440. During the minority of James II he was associated politically with the Douglas family and he was among those who ravaged the lands of James Kennedy, bishop of St Andrews, in 1445. As a result he was excommunicated; according to a later source, this did not bother him greatly. He died at Finavon Castle on 17 January 1446, having been mortally wounded while attempting to prevent a battle at Arbroath between Lindsay kinsmen and the Ogilvy family, to which his wife, Marjory, belonged. Friction between the two families had arisen after the earl's son Alexander was replaced as justiciar of Arbroath Abbey by Alexander Ogilvy of Inverquharity. […] He had died excommunicate and was not buried until his erstwhile foe Bishop Kennedy lifted the sentence." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below] | Lindsay, David (I27279)
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| 1327 | 3rd Earl of Ormond. Several times Chief Governor of Ireland. | le Boteler, James (I13518)
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| 1328 | 3rd Earl of Oxford; hereditary Master Chamberlain. Magna Carta surety. Justice itinerant in 1220; a justice in the king's court at Westminster, 1221. | de Vere, Robert (I13017)
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| 1329 | 3rd Earl of Ross. "[He] was among the nobles who swore in 1284 to uphold the claim of Margaret, the Maid of Norway, to the Scottish throne. In 1290 he subscribed the treaty of Birgham, for Margaret's marriage to Prince Edward of England. A supporter of John Balliol in the Great Cause, he was given custody by King John of a new sheriffdom embracing the outer isles, Skye, Wester Ross, and Kintail. When Anglo-Scottish hostilities began he was captured at the battle of Dunbar; imprisoned in the Tower of London he was not released until 1303, after his wife had petitioned Edward I for her husband's freedom. Shortly afterwards Edward made him warden of Scotland beyond Spey. William's Comyn connections caused him to oppose Robert Bruce in 1306, and when the latter's wife, daughter, and sister took sanctuary at Tain he handed them over to the English. But after his appeals for help to Edward II failed to bring him relief against Scottish attacks he made a truce and then, on 31 October 1308, submitted to King Robert. He was treated leniently and retained his lands (to which Dingwall was added in 1321). With his eldest son he attended Robert's first parliament in 1309, and he was one of the eight earls who set their seals to the declaration of Arbroath in 1320." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below] | Ross, William (I27298)
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| 1330 | 3rd Earl of Salisbury. King's knight. Pricy councillor, 1395. Deputy Earl Marshall of England, 1398. Summoned to Parliament 18 Jul 1397 to 30 Sep 1399 as Earl of Salisbury. Beheaded for conspiring against Henry IV. | Montagu, John (I18980)
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| 1331 | 3rd Earl of Strathearn. "As Gilbert, s. of Earl Ferteth, he witnessed a charter by King Malcolm to the monks of Scone at Stirling in 1164; and he was probably the Earl Gilbert named as Justiciary about 1190. He founded the Abbey of Inchaffray in 1200; was one of the Seven Earls who took measures for the Coronation of King Alexander II at Scone, 6 Dec. 1214.; and attended the funeral of his father, William the Lion, at Arbroath, 4 days later." [Complete Peerage, citation details below] | of Strathearn, Gilbert (I27314)
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| 1332 | 3rd Lord Baltimore. 2nd Lord Proprietor of Maryland. | Calvert, Charles Governor of Maryland (I36237)
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| 1333 | 3rd Lord Erskine. | Erskine, Alexander (I35593)
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| 1334 | 3rd Lord Grey of Wilton. He was summoned to Parliament from 10 Oct 1325 to 3 Mar 1341 by writs directed Henrico de Grey. Douglas Richardson (citation details below) says that he "allegedly" married Anne de la Rochelle (or de la Rokelle), allegedly daughter and heiress of Ralph de la Rochelle by Isabel, daughter of William de Clare. | de Grey, Henry (I17280)
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| 1335 | 3rd of Crichton. Although SP (citation details below) identifies the father of Margaret Crichton as "John Crichton of Ruthven". | Crichton, James (I34741)
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| 1336 | 3rd of Flaskhill and Ledcrieff. "He and his second son William were killed by William Chalmer of Drumlochy and an armed party, near the kirk of Blair, on Sunday, the 3d June 1554, as they were 'playan at the rowbowlis in the hie marcate gait,' near the said church. The maurauders were afterwards compelled to make submission, and to give manrents, etc., to David, Lord Drummond." [The Red Book of Menteith, citation details below] | Drummond, George (I34734)
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| 1337 | 3rd of Garlies. | Stewart, Alexander (I35637)
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| 1338 | 3rd of Megginch. | Hay, Peter (I34732)
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| 1339 | 3rd of Merchistoun. Provost of Edinburgh in 1471 and 1484. He served in the households of James II and James III, became a Lord of Council, and sat in the parliament of 1471. John Napier (~1432-1487) = Elizabeth Menteith (1438-1510) Archibald Napier (~1460-~1521) = Katherine Douglas (~1460->1480) Alexander Napier (d. 1513) Alexander Napier (~1509-1547) = Annabella Campbell (1512-1575) Archibald Napier (~1534-1608) = Janet Bothwell (~1530-1563) John Napier (~1550-1617), inventor of logarithmic calculation | Napier, John (I35603)
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| 1340 | 4th Baron Scrope of Masham. Lord Treasurer of England. | le Scrope, John (I16904)
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| 1341 | 4th Baronet Sykes of Sledmere. "Sir Tatton Sykes, Baronet [1783], of Sledmere aforesaid, br. and h., b. 22 Aug. 1772 at Wheldrake, co. York; ed. at Westm. School, 1784-88; matric. at Oxford (Brasenose Coll.), 10 May 1788; was, at first, articled as an Attorney, but began sheep-farming in 1803, holding his 58th sale of sheep in 1861, being also one of the largest breeders of blood stock in the country; was an owner of racehorses from 1803 till his death, 60 years later, and for more than 40 years a Master of Foxhounds. He suc. to the Baronetcy, 16 Feb. 1823, and was Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1828-29. He m. 19 Jan. 1822, at Ingleby manor, co. York, Mary Anne, 2d da. of Sir William Foulis, 7th Baronet [1619], by Anne, da. of Edmund Turnor. She, who was bap. at Ingleby, 31 Oct. 1792, d. 1 Feb. 1861 at Sledmere, aged 68. He d. there, 21 March 1863, aged 90. [Complete Baronetage, citation details below] He was present at the St. Leger horserace every year for 74 years running, 1789 to 1862, and in 1846 the winning horse was called, after him, Sir Tatton Sykes. | Sykes, Tatton (I31490)
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| 1342 | 4th Earl of Crawford. Called "the Tiger" for his character, and "Beardie" for his facial appearance. "Sheriff of Aberdeen, Guardian of the Marches, in league with the Douglas against James II, but submitted with great ceremony and was restored." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below] "He had been appointed sheriff of Aberdeenshire by 1450 and as an envoy to England and commissioner of the truce the following year. From 1453 he was also a guardian of the march. Despite his border interests he was also active in the north-east, and probably in the early 1450s entered into a bond with the eighth earl of Douglas and John Macdonald, lord of the Isles. Its terms do not survive, but it was most likely intended to resolve tensions in the region while securing the interests of the subscribers. This alliance of three of the most powerful magnates in the kingdom aroused the suspicion of James II, however, and was the immediate cause of his slaying of Douglas on 22 February 1452. Shortly afterwards, on 18 May, Crawford was defeated by the earl of Huntly at Brechin and fled to Finavon. Although Huntly is said to have 'displayit the kingis banere', the battle may have been as much an extension of a private feud (Huntly had been involved in the hostilities at Arbroath in which Crawford's father was fatally wounded) as a consequence of James's hostility to Crawford. Crawford was forfeited in the parliament which assembled at Edinburgh on 12 June, but he subsequently reconciled his differences with Huntly and his father's foe Bishop Kennedy and, helped by their intercession on his behalf, had been restored to the king's favour by 23 May 1453, when he was made a conservator of a truce with England." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below] | Lindsay, Alexander (I27275)
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| 1343 | 4th Earl of Ormond. Lieutenant of Ireland. Very strongly Gaelicized, he spoke Irish and was the first Anglo-Irish lord to appoint a brehon. A learned man, he was the patron of the Book of the White Earl, an Irish literary and religious miscellany. His political career was marked by a lengthy feud with the Talbot family. Twice, in 1422 and 1447, leading Talbots accused him of treason; he was exonerated on both occasions, although in the second instance both sides were rebuked for "disrupting the good governance of Ireland." Eventually the marriage of his daughter Elizabeth to a Talbot established better relations. | le Boteler, James (I13516)
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| 1344 | 4th Earl of Ross. "Hugh Ross fourth earl of Ross (d. 1333), was showered with royal favours even before he succeeded to the earldom. Chief among these was his first marriage, to King Robert's sister Maud, daughter of Robert Brus, earl of Carrick, which took place some time before 1323. They had two sons and a daughter. Grants of lands and offices (some of them made to him jointly with his wife) included the sheriffdoms and burghs of Cromarty and Nairn, the Isle of Skye, and estates in southern Ross and the Black Isle, as well as the thanage of Glendowachy in Fife; they helped make Earl Hugh one of the richest magnates in the kingdom. In 1328 he swore on King Robert's behalf that the terms of the Anglo-Scottish treaty for the marriage of Prince David to Princess Joan would be observed. Maud had died some time before 24 November 1329, when Hugh received a dispensation for his marriage to Margaret Graham, daughter of Sir David Graham of Old Montrose; they had a son and three daughters. Hugh was loyal to the cause of King Robert's son. He brought a force to the army which fought for David II at Halidon Hill on 19 July 1333 and was killed there, one of the few Scottish magnates to distinguish himself in the battle." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below] | Ross, Hugh (I27296)
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| 1345 | 4th Earl of Salisbury. Count of Perche. Died of wounds sustained at the Siege or Orléans. He was one of the most important English commanders of the Hundred Years' War. | Montagu, Thomas (I28532)
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| 1346 | 4th Earl of Strathearn. "[He] was a witness to his father's charters to Inchaffray, 1199-1220, being described as s. and h. in that of 1210. He witnessed the pact made between Alexander II of Scotland and Henry III of England, in the presence of the Papal Legate at York, Sep. 1237." [Complete Peerage, citation details below] | of Strathearn, Robert (I27306)
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| 1347 | 4th Lord Erskine. De jure Earl of Mar. Killed at the battle of Flodden Field. | Erskine, Robert (I35591)
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| 1348 | 4th Lord Grey of Wilton. He was summoned to Parliament from 24 Feb 1343 to 20 Nov 1360 by writs directed Reginaldo de Grey. | de Grey, Reynold (I17276)
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| 1349 | 5 Oct 1864 is the date on the second of two love letters from Charles Henry Yagle to Eliza Ellen Boggs quoted in the research notes of Patrick Foley; in both letters it is absolutely clear that they are a courting couple, not yet married. | Family F18588
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| 1350 | 57th on the member list of the Sleepy Hollow Reformed Church. | Bankert, Annetje (I10346)
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| 1351 | 5th Baronet Sykes of Sledmere. "Sir Tatton Sykes, Baronet [1783], of Sledmere aforesaid, 1st s. and h., b. 13 March 1826 at Westoe, co. York; matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 17 Oct. 1844, aged 18; suc. to the Baronetcy, 21 March 1863; Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1869-70. He m. 3 Aug. 1874, at Westm. Abbey, Jessica Anne Christina, 1st da. of the Rt. Hon. George Augustus Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck, sometime (1875-80) Judge Advocate General (grandson to the 3d Duke OF Portland), by Prudence Penelope, da. of Col. Charles Powell Leslie, of Glaslough, Co. Monaghan. She was b. 4 July 1852." [Complete Baronetage, citation details below] | Sykes, Tatton (I31491)
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| 1352 | 5th Earl of Leicester. Duke of Narbonne. Seigneur de Montfort, de Rochefort, d'Epernon, de Gometz, de Houdan, de Rambouillet, de Bures-sur-Yvette, de Gambais, de Saint-Leger-en-Yvelines, de Bonnelles, de La Celles, des Bordes, de Mere, de Monchauvet, de Sonchamp, de Conflans et autres lieux, Vicomte de Beziers et de Carcassonne, and Comte de Toulouse. | de Montfort, Simon V (I24525)
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| 1353 | 5th Earl of Ross. From Wikipedia (accessed 31 May 2021): William was the son of Hugh, Earl of Ross, and his wife Matilda Bruce, daughter of Robert de Bruce, 6th Lord of Annandale. He was first cousin to David II, king of Scotland, through his mother, who was a sister of Robert the Bruce. William was in Norway at the time of his father's death at the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333, but returned in 1336 and took possession of the earldom. Soon after his return, the earl undertook the rebuilding of the ruinous Fearn Abbey, which had been founded by Fearchar MacTaggart in the previous century. The life of William, Earl of Ross, is closely entwined with the political and military events of the reign of David II, who was ever vigilant to repel the English as they undertook to expand their influence in Scotland. In 1339, the English, in support of Edward Baliol's claim to the Scottish crown, had planted themselves in Perth, and the earl played a key role in David's siege of Perth. Aware that the defensive channel of water around the town made it difficult for the Scots to enter the city, Ross and his men diverted the waters and filled in the ditch with driftwood, giving them access to the city walls. At this point, the English decided to give up the cause and pulled out. In 1342, Ross granted a charter for ten davochs (about 4,160 acres or 104 Scots acres) of land in Kintail to Ronald MacRuari (Raghnall MacRuaidhrí), Lord of the Isles, a descendant of Somerled. In 1346, David summoned his earls and their men to gather at Perth in advance of an incursion into England. However, before the assembled army pulled out, William became embroiled in a dispute with his vassal Ronald MacRuari and killed him at the priory of Elcho. Fearing repercussions, the earl pulled back to the safety of his own territories, and many other northern lords followed suit. David continued south into England where he was taken captive in Durham for what turned out to be a period of eleven years. While David was imprisoned, Earl William undertook additional measures that ultimately would alienate the king, as evidenced by court records showing that he seized all the proceeds of the court in 1348. However, in 1349, David, while still in captivity, was still relying on William in his role as justiciar of Scotland north of the Forth, by asking him to attend to a matter involving William de Deyn, Bishop of Aberdeen, in his conflict with William of St. Michael, who had seized some property of the Church. This case was resolved in Aberdeenshire at one of the courts which were still being held at the ancient Stone Circles of northern Scotland. Nonetheless, William's behavior at the priory of Elchor, combined with his less than honorable behavior in 1348, had eroded the king's trust in him, and by 1355 he had been replaced as justiciar. In 1357, Earl William attended the session of Parliament where plans for the ransom of David II were discussed. Accordingly, on 3 October, the king of Scotland was finally released at Berwick on the condition that the ransom payment be secured by the taking of twenty hostages, with Earl William (or possibly his young son) named as one of the six noblemen to serve as hostages on a rotating basis. Upon David's return to Scotland, he imposed heavy taxation on his nobles in order to pay his ransom, a move which led to a rebellion of the Highland lords, including William and his half-brother, Hugh de Rarichies, in 1366. In 1368, Ross and the others were required to find security to keep the peace. Near the end of his life, William was forced to change the entail on his earldom. His only son, William, was a sickly lad, and the earl was well aware that if the boy died, leaving him without a male heir, the earldom would pass out of the Mactaggart family. To prevent this from coming to pass, he consulted with his sister Marjory, Countess of Caithness and Orkney, who consented to entailing the earldom to their half-brother, Hugh of Rarichies. This arrangement, which happened in 1350, would have had the effect of preserving the earldom in the Mactaggart family. Although young William was named in 1354 as one of the hostages for the king's ransom, records show that by August 1357 he was quite ill and must have died soon after. Indeed, in 1357, young William died, but fourteen years later, King David, never fond of William for his earlier bad decisions, ripped the earldom out of the Mactaggart line. Instead of agreeing that Hugh of Rarichies would succeed William, the king settled the earldom on William's daughter, Euphemia, and then forced her to marry Walter de Leslie, who had made a name for himself fighting with the king of France, with the Holy Roman Emperors in the Northern Crusades, and with Peter of Cyprus on his Alexandrian Crusade. David II wished to reward this internationally renowned Scotsman for his bravery by settling an earldom on him. To this end, at Perth on 23 October 1370, David took the step of re-confirming William in the earldom of Ross and lordship of Skye, but only with the unwelcome stipulation that he must give his daughter in marriage to Leslie. Though Ross planned to seek help through the chancellor, he was stopped by the forces of Walter Leslie, who waylaid and attacked his emissaries. In 1371, after King David died, William appealed to Robert II, whom he had fought with at the Siege of Perth when Robert was High Steward of Scotland, but to no avail. William, Earl of Ross, died on 9 February 1372 at Denly in Ross-shire, the last of the O'Baleon earls of Ross. He was succeeded by his daughter Euphemia and her husband Walter de Lesley. | de Ross, William (I34946)
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| 1354 | 5th Earl of Salisbury. A Yorkist, he was either slain at the Battle of Wakefield or beheaded by Lancastrian forces following it. | Neville, Richard (I16390)
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| 1355 | 5th Earl of Stafford. | Stafford, Edmund (I16615)
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| 1356 | 5th earl of Strathearn. "[F]irst appears upon record as one of those Scottish nobles who, about August 1244, promised to observe the treaty of 1237, already referred to, and he was present in the Parliament of Scotland in February 1244-45. He was one of those Earls who took part in the coronation of the young King Alexander III, and he supported the party of the English King in the change of government on 20 September 1255. He was high in favour with King Henry III, and was deputed by him to attend specially on the young Queen of Scotland. He had a safe-conduct from the English King to go abroad in May 1259, but had returned in the following year. His grants to the monastery of Inchaffray were considerable. In 1247 he confirmed the gifts of his predecessors. In December 1257 he bestowed on the monks the advowson of the church of Cortachy in Forfarshire, which he had acquired by marriage, and in March following he gave certain serfs to them in property. In 1266 he gave them rights of building from the quarry of Nethergask; in 1268 and 1270 he granted certain annual rents, and he died between that and 23 November 1271. One chronicler says that he died in France, praising him as a man distinguished by birth and generosity, and munificent above all his compatriots. His remains were brought home to Scotland and buried in Dunblane." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below] | of Strathearn, Malise (I28927)
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| 1357 | 5th Lord Dacre of Gilsland. | Dacre, William (I29041)
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| 1358 | 5th Lord Grey of Wilton. He was summoned to Parliament 1 Dec 1376 by a writ directed Henrico de Grey de Shirlond, and from 4 Aug 1377 to 20 Nov 1394 by writs directed Henrico de Grey de Wilton. | de Grey, Henry (I17272)
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| 1359 | 6th Baronet of Sledmere. M.P. for Central Hull in 1911. He was the Mark Sykes of the infamous 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement. | Sykes, Tatton Benvenuto Mark (I31493)
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| 1360 | 6th Earl of Fife. | Donnchad II (I16571)
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| 1361 | 6th Earl of Leicester. Sometimes called Simon V de Montfort. The leader of the baronial opposition to Henry III, culminating in the Second Barons' War. Effectively ruler of England from the Battle of Lewes (14 May 1264) to the Battle of Evesham (4 Aug 1265), in which he was killed. Widely regarded as a foundational figure in the development of parliamentary government, he was also a merciless anti-Semite who oversaw multiple pogroms in which hundreds of Jews were murdered and many more driven out of England. | de Montfort, Simon VI (I28759)
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| 1362 | 6th Earl of Shrewsbury. | Talbot, George (I36242)
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| 1363 | 6th earl of Strathearn. | of Strathearn, Malise (I29007)
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| 1364 | 6th laird of Luss. | of Luss, Godfrey (I27361)
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| 1365 | 6th Lord Dacre of Gilsland. Summoned to Parliament by writs dated 1 Dec 1412 to 26 May 1455. | Dacre, Thomas (I29035)
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| 1366 | 6th Lord Grey of Wilton. In 1415 he accompanied the king to France, in the retinue of the Earl of Dorset. | Grey, Richard (I34127)
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| 1367 | 6th Lord La Warre. Captain of St. Lo Castle in Normandy, 1418; Captain of La Mott Fort, 1419. | West, Reynold (I32496)
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| 1368 | 6xG-grandparents of genealogist Sharon J. Doliante (citation details below). | Reeder, John (I2214)
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| 1370 | 7th Baronet Foulis. | Foulis, William (I31510)
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| 1371 | 7th Baronet of Sledmere. | Tatton-Sykes, Mark Tatton Richard (I31495)
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| 1372 | 7th Earl of Mar. The identity of his wife is unknown; she was almost certainly not Christian Bruce, sister or aunt of Robert the Bruce, as variously claimed. | of Mar, Gratney (I35654)
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| 1373 | 7th Earl of Ormond. Also called Thomas Ormond. Lord Chamberlain to the Queen, 1486-1502. Privy councillor, 1504. | Butler, Thomas (I16812)
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| 1374 | 7th Earl of Oxford. Hereditary Master Chamberlain of England. Died at the siege of Rheims, 23 (or 24) Jan 1360. "He took an active part in the wars of Edward III serving in Scotland, Flanders, and Brittany. He served in the Crécy campaign where he had a following of 160 men, including 3 bannerets and 27 knights and at the siege of Calais in 1346, and was joint commander of the 1st division at the battle of Poitiers, 19 Sept 1356, where his skillful handling of the archers contributed to the victory." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.] | de Vere, John (I15172)
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| 1375 | 7th earl of Strathearn. | of Strathearn, Malise (I29005)
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| 1376 | 8216497 | Family F2972
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| 1377 | 8th baronet of Sledmere. | Sykes, Tatton Christopher Mark (I31497)
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| 1378 | 8th Earl of Mar. Killed at the Battle of Dupplin Moor. From Wikipedia (accessed 24 Aug 2021): Domhnall II, Earl of Mar [...] was briefly Regent of Scotland during the minority of David II, King of Scotland. [...] It appears likely that he fought on the side of Edward II of England at the Battle of Boroughbridge in March 1322, as it is recorded that afterwards the Earl of Mar took Bartholomew de Badlesmere, who was one of Edward's captured opponents, to Canterbury. In 1332 the regent of Scotland, Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray, died. On 2 August Domhnall was elected as the new regent at a meeting of the Scottish nobles at Perth. Following the invasion of Edward Balliol, with the support of Edward III of England, Mar led the Scots loyalists to confront them. He was defeated and killed at the Battle of Dupplin Moor, only nine days after his election as regent. | Donald Regent of Scotland (I35651)
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| 1379 | 8th earl of Strathearn; also earl of of Caithness and Orkney. | of Strathearn, Malise (I29001)
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| 1380 | 8th Lord Grey of Wilton. Summoned to Parliament by writ, 20 Nov 1496. | Grey, John (I34122)
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| 1381 | Here is a thorough sourcing for Benjamin Hinton. Deed Book 28 pages 199-201 Power of Attorney for heirs of Benjamin Hinton Daniel Hinton Darcus & James Wilson Vachel Hinton Fleming County, Kentucky 11 Sep 1847 Whereas Benjamin Hinton, son and heir at law of Vachel Hinton, departed this life many years since, leaving as his children and heirs at law to wit: Daniel Hinton, Vachel Hinton & Darcus Hinton, and whereas after the death of said Benjamin Hinton, his said father, Vachel Hinton departed this life leaving as his heirs or devisees among others the aforesaid heirs of Benjamin Hinton dec'd and whereas the said Vachel Hinton died seized and possessed of a tract of land in the county of Fleming in the State of Kentucky and left a considerable portion of personal property to be distributed to is heirs or devises and whereas Sally Trimble formerly Sally Hinton one of the heirs or devisees of said Vachel Hinton dec'd having married one Handy Handly, did together with her said husband, sell and dispose of all her interest and title in and to said real & personal estate of said Vachel Hinton to the above named Daniel Hinton & in pursuance of the direction of said Daniel Hinton she the said Sally and her said husband Handy Handly conveyed to Hezekiah Hinton the executor of said Vachel Hinton dec'd her interest & estate in and to said tract of land of which the said Vachel Hinton died seized as aforesaid, but the purchase money in said deed specified still remains unpaid and is now due from said executor to the said Daniel Hinton, therefore, know all men by these presents that we the said Daniel Hinton, Darcus Wilson (above named Darcus Hinton) and her husband James Wilson and Vachel Hinton as heirs at law and representatives of said Benjamin Hinton deceased having and reposing especial trust and confidence in our nephew Austin Hinton, do hereby authorize and empower him to sell and dispose of and convey all out title interest and estate in and to said tract or parcel of land of which the said Vachel Hinton died seized & possessed in said county of Fleming Kentucky or to any and all other land & real estate which the said Vachel Hinton held or was entitled by deed, bond, contract or purchase to such person or persons and for such price & consideration as he the said Austin Hinton in his sound discretion may think advisable hereby constituting him the said Austin Hinton our attorney in fact to act for us and use our names in the premises and also to demand collect by suit or otherwise and to receive from the proper person or authority any and all sums of money legacies or dividend of the personal estate of said Vachel Hinton deceased and we do hereby fully authorize and empower him our said attorney to collect demand and receive all sums of money or other articles of property due and coming to us from said estate of Vachel Hinton deceased and to act for us generally in the premises the same as we could were we personally present and the said Daniel Hinton especially authorizes the said Austin Hinton to collect demand and receive from the said Hezekiah Hinton or other person the purchase money due him by reason of the deed executed as aforesaid by said Handy Handly and wife, hereby ratifying and confirming all and singular the facts of our said attorney in the premises. In testimony whereof, we the said Daniel Hinton, Darcus Wilson, and her husband James Wilson, and Vachel Hinton do hereby unto set our hands and seals this eleventh day of September A. D. eighteen hundred and forty seven. Daniel hisXmark Hinton {seal} James hisXmark Wilson {seal} Darcus herXmark Wilson {seal} Vachel hisXmark Wilson {seal} Witness Wm S. Lamb as to Daniel Hinton, JamHere is a thorough sourcing for Benjamin Hinton. Deed Book 28 pages 199-201 Power of Attorney for heirs of Benjamin Hinton Daniel Hinton Darcus & James Wilson Vachel Hinton Fleming County, Kentucky 11 Sep 1847 Whereas Benjamin Hinton, son and heir at law of Vachel Hinton, departed this life many years since, leaving as his children and heirs at law to wit: Daniel Hinton, Vachel Hinton & Darcus Hinton, and whereas after the death of said Benjamin Hinton, his said father, Vachel Hinton departed this life leaving as his heirs or devisees among others the aforesaid heirs of Benjamin Hinton dec'd and whereas the said Vachel Hinton died seized and possessed of a tract of land in the county of Fleming in the State of Kentucky and left a considerable portion of personal property to be distributed to is heirs or devises and whereas Sally Trimble formerly Sally Hinton one of the heirs or devisees of said Vachel Hinton dec'd having married one Handy Handly, did together with her said husband, sell and dispose of all her interest and title in and to said real & personal estate of said Vachel Hinton to the above named Daniel Hinton & in pursuance of the direction of said Daniel Hinton she the said Sally and her said husband Handy Handly conveyed to Hezekiah Hinton the executor of said Vachel Hinton dec'd her interest & estate in and to said tract of land of which the said Vachel Hinton died seized as aforesaid, but the purchase money in said deed specified still remains unpaid and is now due from said executor to the said Daniel Hinton, therefore, know all men by these presents that we the said Daniel Hinton, Darcus Wilson (above named Darcus Hinton) and her husband James Wilson and Vachel Hinton as heirs at law and representatives of said Benjamin Hinton deceased having and reposing especial trust and confidence in our nephew Austin Hinton, do hereby authorize and empower him to sell and dispose of and convey all out title interest and estate in and to said tract or parcel of land of which the said Vachel Hinton died seized & possessed in said county of Fleming Kentucky or to any and all other land & real estate which the said Vachel Hinton held or was entitled by deed, bond, contract or purchase to such person or persons and for such price & consideration as he the said Austin Hinton in his sound discretion may think advisable hereby constituting him the said Austin Hinton our attorney in fact to act for us and use our names in the premises and also to demand collect by suit or otherwise and to receive from the proper person or authority any and all sums of money legacies or dividend of the personal estate of said Vachel Hinton deceased and we do hereby fully authorize and empower him our said attorney to collect demand and receive all sums of money or other articles of property due and coming to us from said estate of Vachel Hinton deceased and to act for us generally in the premises the same as we could were we personally present and the said Daniel Hinton especially authorizes the said Austin Hinton to collect demand and receive from the said Hezekiah Hinton or other person the purchase money due him by reason of the deed executed as aforesaid by said Handy Handly and wife, hereby ratifying and confirming all and singular the facts of our said attorney in the premises. In testimony whereof, we the said Daniel Hinton, Darcus Wilson, and her husband James Wilson, and Vachel Hinton do hereby unto set our hands and seals this eleventh day of September A. D. eighteen hundred and forty seven. Daniel hisXmark Hinton {seal} James hisXmark Wilson {seal} Darcus herXmark Wilson {seal} Vachel hisXmark Wilson {seal} Witness Wm S. Lamb as to Daniel Hinton, James Wilson and Darcus Wilson State of Indiana Pevey County SS I William S. Lamb clerk of the Circuit Court and recorder of said County and duly authorized by the laws of said State to take acknowledgments of deeds & other instruments of writing do certify that this day personally appeared before me at my office in the Town of Rome in said County the within named Daniel Hinton, James Wilson and his wife Darcus Wilson who signed and sealed in my presence the within and foregoing instrument of writing and severally acknowledged the same to be their voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes therein expressed and the said Darcus Wilson being examined separately privately apart and from and without the hearing of her said husband acknowledged that she executed the same freely and voluntarily as her act & deed without any threats coercion or compulsion from her said husband and that she is still satisfied therewith. {Seal} In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of the circuit court of said county at Rome, this 11 day of September 1847 Wm S. Lamb clerk Kentucky, Breckenridge Count Sct County Court Clerk office September 24th 1847. I Clenton McClarty deputy clerk of J. Allen clerk of the county court of the county aforesaid do certify that on this day the foregoing writing was duly acknowledged by Vachel Hinton to be his act and deed and the same is hereby certified to the proper office for record and deed and the same is hereby certified to the proper office for record. Given under my hand date above. Att Clenton McClarty DC for J. Allen C. B. C. Kentucky, Fleming County Sct I William T. Dudley clerk of the court for the county aforesaid certify that the foregoing Power of Attorney was this day received in my office, and the same with the official certificates hereon and this annexed is duly recorded in my office. Given under my hand this 13th day of August 1847. Wm T. Dudley clerk es Wilson and Darcus Wilson State of Indiana Pevey County SS I William S. Lamb clerk of the Circuit Court and recorder of said County and duly authorized by the laws of said State to take acknowledgments of deeds & other instruments of writing do certify that this day personally appeared before me at my office in the Town of Rome in said County the within named Daniel Hinton, James Wilson and his wife Darcus Wilson who signed and sealed in my presence the within and foregoing instrument of writing and severally acknowledged the same to be their voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes therein expressed and the said Darcus Wilson being examined separately privately apart and from and without the hearing of her said husband acknowledged that she executed the same freely and voluntarily as her act & deed without any threats coercion or compulsion from her said husband and that she is still satisfied therewith. {Seal} In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of the circuit court of said county at Rome, this 11 day of September 1847 Wm S. Lamb clerk Kentucky, Breckenridge Count Sct County Court Clerk office September 24th 1847. I Clenton McClarty deputy clerk of J. Allen clerk of the county court of the county aforesaid do certify that on this day the foregoing writing was duly acknowledged by Vachel Hinton to be his act and deed and the same is hereby certified to the proper office for record and deed and the same is hereby certified to the proper office for record. Given under my hand date above. Att Clenton McClarty DC for J. Allen C. B. C. Kentucky, Fleming County Sct I William T. Dudley clerk of the court for the county aforesaid certify that the foregoing Power of Attorney was this day received in my office, and the same with the official certificates hereon and this annexed is duly recorded in my office. Given under my hand this 13th day of August 1847. Wm T. Dudley clerk | Hinton, Benjamin (I7816)
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| 1382 | Culpepper Connections has him as "(?) Manning", spouse unknown, son of William Manning and father of Willoughby Manning. Nash County, North Carolina Vital Records Abstracts by Cynthia Herrin, an index-only database on ancestry.com, contains an 1806 Nash County, North Carolina death record for Willoughby Manning, father of (among others) Rahab Manning, and son of Matthias and Margaret Manning. Update, 25 Apr 2016: Culpepper Connections has incorporated the names of Matthias and Margaret Manning. | Manning, Matthias (I3860)
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| 1383 | Find a Grave page gives her birth surname as Flynn, but family historian Isaac Martin Gordon says it was Wilson. Possibly one of these surnames is actually that of an earlier husband. | Wilson, Sarah (I6135)
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| 1384 | Knight of the shire for Derbyshire, 1399. Died in the Battle of Shrewsbury. He is "Sir Walter Blunt" in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. For his place of burial, mentioned in Complete Peerage IX:331-33, see The College of the Annunciation of St. Mary in the Newarke, Leicester at British History Online. 1885 DNB on Sir Walter Blount, by Sidney Lee: BLOUNT, Sir WALTER (d. 1403), soldier and supporter of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, was almost certainly the son of Sir John Blount of Sodington [...] In 1367 he accompanied the Black Prince and John of Gaunt in their expedition to Spain to restore Don Pedro the Cruel to the throne of Leon and Castile. After the return of the expedition, which was successfully terminated by the battle of Navarette (1367), Blount married Donna Sancha de Ayála, the daughter of Don Diego Gomez, who held high office in Toledo, by his wife (of very high family), Donna Inez de Ayála. Donna Sancha appears to have first come to England in attendance on Constantia, the elder daughter of King Pedro, whom John of Gaunt married in 1372. In 1374 John Blount, Sir Walter's half-brother, who had succeeded his mother, Isolda Mountjoy, in the Mountjoy property, made over to Walter the Mountjoy estates in Derbyshire, and to them Walter added by purchase, in 1381, the great estates of the Bakepuiz family in Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and Hertfordshire. Permission was granted Blount in 1377 to proceed with Duke John of Gaunt to Castile in order to assert the duke's right by virtue of his marriage to the throne of Leon and Castile; but the expedition did not start till 1386, when Blount probably accompanied it. On 17 April 1393 he, with Henry Bowet [q. v.] and another, was appointed to negotiate a permanent peace with the king of Castile. In 1398 Duke John granted to Blount and his wife, with the king's approval, an annuity of 100 marks in consideration of their labours in his service. Blount was an executor of John of Gaunt, who died early in 1399, and received a small legacy. He represented Derbyshire in Henry IV's first parliament, which met on 6 Oct. 1399. At the battle of Shrewsbury (23 July 1403) he was the king's standard-bearer, and was killed by Archibald, fourth earl of Douglas, one of the bravest followers of Henry Percy (Hotspur). Blount was dressed in armour resembling that worn by Henry IV, and was mistaken by Douglas for the king (Walsingham, Hist. Anglicana, ed. Riley, ii. 258; Annales Henrici Quarti, 367, 369). Shakespeare gives Blount, whom he calls Sir Walter Blunt, a prominent place in the first part of his 'Henry IV,' and represents both Hotspur and Henry IV as eulogising his military prowess and manly character. He was buried in the church St. Mary 'of Newark,' Leicester. His widow Donna Sancha lived till 1418. In 1406 she founded the hospital of St. Leonards, situate between Alkmonton and Hungry-Bentley, Derbyshire. Sir Walter had two sons: 1. Sir John, who was at one time governor of Calais; was in 1482 besieged in a castle of Aquitaine by a great French army, which he defeated with a small force (Walsingham, Ypodigma Neustriæ, Rolls Ser., p. 437); was created knight of the Garter in 1413; and was present at the siege of Rouen in 1418: 2. Sir Thomas, who was treasurer of Calais during Henry VI's wars in France (Stevenson's Letters, &c., illustrating the wars in France temp. Henry VI, Rolls Ser., ii. passim), and founded a chantry at Newark in 1422 (at the expense of the Duke of Exeter) in memory of his father and mother. Sir John died without male issue. Sir Thomas was the father (by Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Gresley of Gresley, Derbyshire) of Sir Walter Blount, first Baron Mountjoy [q. v.] | Blount, Walter (I337)
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| 1385 | Knight of the shire for Derbyshire, 1420. Sheriff of Staffordshire 6 Nov 1444 - 4 Nov 1445; 4 Nov 1446 - 9 Nov 1447. "Treasurer of Normandy under Henry V." [Nathaniel L. Taylor, "Cassandra Elizabeth Taylor's royal descents."] "[A]t first destined for church, entered minor holy orders; renounced the church after his brother's death [Sir John Blount, K.G., d. 1418] and only then m. Margaret Gresley." [Nathaniel L. Taylor, post to soc.genealogy.medieval] "Sir Thomas [...] was Treasurer of Calais during Henry VI's wars in France (Stevenson's Letters, &c., illustrating the wars in France temp. Henry VI, Rolls Ser., ii. passim), and founded a chantry at Newark in 1422 (at the expense of the Duke of Exeter) in memory of his father and mother. Sir Thomas was the father (by Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Gresley of Gresley, Derbyshire) of Sir Walter Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy." [Wikipedia entry on his father, Walter Blount] Thomas Blount (1383-1456) = Margaret de Gresley Walter Blount (d. 1474) = Ellen Byron William Blount (d. 1471) = Margaret Etchingham (d. 1481) Elizabeth Blount = Andrews Windsor (1467-1543) Eleanor Windsor = Edward Nevill Catherine Nevill = Clement Throckmorton (d. 1573) Catherine Throgmorton = Thomas Harby (d. 1594) Emma Harby (1590-1622) = Robert Charlton (d. 1670) Emma Charlton = Henry Barnard (d. 1680) Elizabeth Barnard (d. 1719) = James Brydges (1642-1714) Mary Brydges (1666-1703) = Theophilus Leigh (1647-1725) Thomas Leigh (1696-1764) = Jane Walker (1705-1768) Cassandra Leigh (1739-1827) = George Austen (1731-1805) Jane Austen (1775-1817) | Blount, Thomas (I2608)
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| 1386 | Knight of the shire for Derbyshire 1301, Staffordshire May 1413, Derbyshire Nov 1414 and 1417, Staffordshire 1419, Derbyshire May 1421. Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire 4 Nov 1418 - 23 Nov 1419, 12 Dec 1426 - 7 Nov 1427, Staffordshire 1 May 1422 - 13 Nov 1423. Steward of the High Peak for the Duchy of Lancaster, 20 Feb 1421 - 3 Mar 1424. Fought at Agincourt. Thomas Gresley (~1365-~1445) = Margaret Walsh (d. >1421) John Gresley (d. 1449) = Elizabeth Clarell (d. 1449) John Gresley (~1418-1487) = Anne Stanley Thomasine Gresley = Thomas Darell (b. 1422) Henry Darell (~1465-1536) = Elizabeth Cheyne (b. ~1470) Thomas Darell (d. 1558) = Elizabeth Horne Edward Darell (d. 1573) = Mary Darell (d. >1573) Marmaduke Darell (1557-1632) = Anne Lennard (b. 1566) Sampson Darell (~1594-1635) = Elizabeth Hampden (d. 1638) Henry Darell (~1633-~1672) = Anne Thomson (d. 1662) Anne Darell (~1654-1726) = William Jervis (1659-1695) Elizabeth Jervis (1689-1752), wife of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) | Gresley, Thomas (I9821)
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| 1387 | Knight of the shire for Leicestershire, 1371, 1379, Nov 1380, 1381, May 1382, Feb 1383, Nov 1384, 1386, Feb 1388, Jan 1390, 1391, 1394, 1395, Jan 1397. Escheator of Warwickshire and Leicestershire 1374-5. Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster honour of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, and Warwickshire, by appointment of John of Gaunt, 15 Aug 1392 - aft 1393. Constable of Leicester Castle 1394. | Walsh, Thomas (I8664)
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| 1388 | Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage: Volume 4: Despenser clarifies that this Margaret Deincourt was a daughter of Sir William Deincourt d. 1364, not of his son as originally stated in CP. | Deincourt, Margaret (I8659)
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| 1389 | Gabriel Bernon Papers at the Rhode Island Historical Society: Gabriel Bernon (1644-1736), a Huguenot and prominent merchant of an ancient family in La Rochelle, France, fled that country in 1686, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes led to his religious persecution. He arrived in Boston (via Amsterdam and London) in June, 1688, with the intention of establishing a settlement at Oxford, Massachusetts; a plan that had evolved through his meetings with other refugees when in London. Bernon's financial support made the settlement a reality for other French Huguenot families who sailed to America with him, but he chose to settle in Boston. The Oxford settlement was abandoned in 1696 after an Indian attack in which four of its members were killed. Attempts were made to re-establish Oxford in 1699, but it was abandoned permanently due to Indian threat in 1704. After the first break-up of the settlement, Bernon relocated permanently to Rhode Island (in 1697). He stayed in Newport until about 1706, when he moved to Providence. He left Providence for Kingston in 1712 and lived there until 1718, then returned to Providence, where he stayed until his death in 1736. He had re-established himself in trade soon after his arrival in the American colonies, becoming interested in shipbuilding, and the manufacture of such items as nails, salt, and pine rosin. His business successes attracted the attention of prominent persons in the colonies and in England, who attempted to assist him in establishing contracts with the English government for naval supplies. He also made use of some of the Oxford property by setting up a wash-leather manufactory there, and supplying glovers and hatters in Boston and Newport with that product. Bernon's lasting mark on the history of Rhode Island, however, is in the area of religion. Charles W. Baird observes, "Bernon had been a member of the French Church, until his departure from Massachusetts...But in Rhode Island...he became a fervent and zealous member of the Church of England." He was active in establishing churches in each of the Rhode Island towns in which he lived at different times during his nearly forty years of residency: Trinity Church in Newport, St. Paul's Church in Kingston, and St. John's Church in Providence. These were Rhode Island's earliest Episcopal churches. Bernon also is the ancestor to many of Rhode Island's oldest families, including Allens, Crawfords, Dorrs, Coddingtons, and Whipples. He was twice married, first to Esther Le Roy, whom he married in France in 1673, and who died in Newport in 1710; then to Mary Harris, whom he married in 1712. Each marriage produced one son in addition to several daughters; however, neither son survived to have children, so all of Bernon's descendants are through his female children. Bernon died in 1736 at the age of 92, and is buried beneath St. John's Church in Providence. | Bernon, Gabriel (I19162)
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| 1390 | 31st President of the United States (1929-1933). | Hoover, Herbert Clark 31st President of the United States (I6831)
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| 1391 | This web page dated 30 March 2008 asserts that Isabel de Saddington died without issue, but none of the sources given by the author of that page appear to substantiate this claim. We're open to correction, but meanwhile we're going with Richardson's Royal Ancestry, VCH Leicestershire, Hodgson's Northumberland, Nichols' Leicestershire, etc., all of whom give Isabel as mother to Margaret who married Sir Roger Heron. | de Saddington, Isabel (I9987)
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| 1392 | From George Washington's Secret Spy War: The Making of America's First Spymaster by John A. Nagy (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2016): There was a change in the sand dunes that made up a portion of the New Jersey coastline early in 1778. It opened the Shrewsbury River to the sea and the inlet remained open until 1800. This changed Sandy Hook from a promontory into an island that was controlled by the British army. At times the British navy had a warship stationed at the Hook. Sandy Hook was even called "Refugee's Town," where Tories could receive protection from the British military stationed there. This would have made it possible for a small boat from Shrewsbury to go out of the inlet and head north to drop off merchandise either to the sloop Eagle at Princess Bay, to refugees, or to the military encampment at Sandy Hook. Governor Livingston stated that the illegal trade had depleted Bergen County by August of 1778 and had shifted its focus to Shrewsbury and that the state was unable to stop it. Lieutenant Enos Reeves of the Pennsylvania Line wrote that "there has been an amazing trade carried on from [New] Jersey shore to the city of New York, but we hope to put a stop to it." It was wishful thinking, as they could not raise enough men to guard the entire coastline. Washington left the enforcement of the illegal trade to the state. He had Brigadier General David Forman of the New Jersey Militia station observers in the Raritan Bay area to keep a watchful eye on British shipping. Colonel John Stillwell watched from his house atop Garrett's Hill. He used a spyglass provided by General Forman. His reports on the movement of ships in Raritan Bay and Sandy Hook were in the form of a diary and were given to David Forman, who then provided them to Washington. Martha Tallman Seabrook, who lived at Shoal Harbor, worked as an agent in sending reports of observations. [Footnote:] Shoal Harbor is now known as Port Monmouth. Martha was the wife of the American Major Thomas Seabrook. With Thomas off to war, she opened the house as an inn and today it is known as the Spy House. | Tallman, Martha (I22156)
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| 1393 | [From "Samuel Griffith, 16-- 1717", in The Genealogist's Post (Miami, Florida: R.T. Williams, 1964-1971), v. 3, no. 2 Feb 1966, p. 31:] The will of Elizabeth Griffith (widow of Samuel Griffith), dated 17 Dec 1718, provided for legacies to be paid at her decease by her son Samuel to Elizabeth Miles, Mary Bowers, Sarah Devall, Rebecca Mobley and Rachel Giles. (Witnesses: Thomas Smith, Joseph Smith and Joseph Smith Jr.) Administration accounts of 28 July 1720 (Calvert County, Maryland) show an account of "Gifts or Legacies" paid to his sisters by Samuel Griffith of Calvert County in obedience to his mother's will: To Elizth Miles as pr her husband Thos Miles - 500 lbs. tob. To Mary Bowers as pr her letter of attorney to Edward Mobberly to receive the same - 500 lbs. tob. To Sarah Devale & Mareen her husband as pr John Magruder's receipt - l00 lbs. tob. To Rebecca Mobberly as pr her Husband Edwd Mobberly order & John Magruder Receipt - 500 lbs. tob. To Rachel Giles & John her husband as ppr Robert Tyler's Receipt - l000 lbs..tob | Elizabeth (I27099)
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| 1394 | From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (citation details below): Menteith, Sir John [...] soldier and administrator, was the second son of Walter Menteith, fifth earl of Menteith (d. in or before 1296), and brother of Alexander, who succeeded to the title. Both John and Alexander were captured after the Scottish defeat at Dunbar in 1296, and John was sent to Nottingham Castle in May, along with, among others, Sir Edmund Comyn of Kilbride. As the price of liberation he agreed to serve Edward I on his campaign against the French in 1297 and his lands were consequently restored to him. Menteith, by now a knight, returned to Scotland in 1298, but later rejoined the patriotic side. There is no record of his activities between then and September 1303, when he and Sir Alexander Menzies approached the English lieutenant Sir Aymer de Valence (d. 1324) at Linlithgow to treat for peace, presumably on behalf of the Scottish guardian, Sir John Comyn of Badenoch. At this point Edward I and his army were advancing deep into the north-east of Scotland, and the Scots sensed that submission was the only truly viable option. Although the starving state of the Irish foot soldiers with Valence persuaded Menteith and Menzies that further resistance was worthwhile, the majority of the Scots, led by the guardian, and presumably including Menteith, submitted in February 1304. Menteith must have somehow impressed King Edward, since in March 1304 he was granted the keeping of the castle, town, and sheriffdom of Dumbarton. The area was not yet firmly under Edward's control even in 1305, however, and Menteith was permitted to postpone the hearing of his account 'until the land of Scotland is secure'. Some headway in that direction was undoubtedly made in August of the same year, when Sir William Wallace, still resolutely refusing to submit to the English king, was captured, perhaps by treachery, within Menteith's sheriffdom of Dumbarton (supposedly at Robroyston near Glasgow). The sheriff had no choice but to hand Wallace over to Edward and was duly rewarded with lands worth £100. His action brought Menteith lasting ignominy, however ill deserved: Walter Bower, writing in the 1420s, describes the reputations of the main players in this melodrama thus: Some ostentatiously make their name great for show, like the tyrant Edward; some scandalously make it cheap so that they are abhorred, like the said John Menteith; others virtuously make it worthy so that they are an inspiration to others, like William Wallace. Yet Menteith's career was far from over. With the murder of Sir John Comyn of Badenoch and the seizure of the throne by Robert Bruce early in 1306, Menteith remained loyal to Edward I. Although he was probably essentially a realist, willing as such to support a de facto government, it is also possible that he identified himself with the Comyn faction, which would explain his failure to support Bruce. There may even be some truth in Bower's story that Menteith made overtures to the new king of Scots at this time in an attempt to trap him in Dumbarton Castle; the plot was revealed to Robert by a servant, Roland Carpentar, who was certainly granted the lands of Eddlewood by the grateful king. From Wikipedia (accessed 31 May 2021): Menteith was nominated one of the representatives of the Scots barons in the parliament of both nations which assembled at London in September 1305 and was chosen upon the Scottish council, which was appointed to assist John of Brittany, the new Guardian of Scotland, in the English interest. John received on 1 June 1306 from Edward the Earldom of Lennox, while on 15 June he received the Warden of the castle, town, and sheriffdom of Dumbarton office for life. John returned to Scotland in October. Edward appealed to John in December 1307 to join him in resisting the revolting Robert de Brus, however John abandoned his earldom of Lennox, joining Brus's side. King Robert I of Scotland rewarded John with large grants in Knapdale and Kintyre. In March 1308, John was among the Scottish magnates who wrote to the King Philip IV of France on behalf of the nation and in 1309, he was sent with Sir Nigel Campbell to treat with Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, receiving a safe-conduct on 21 August, from King Edward II of England. John's English lands were forfeited for his treason. In 1316 he was commissioned with Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray to treat on behalf of Robert Brus for a truce with the English. John remained closely attached to the royal court, as is shown by the numerous charters he attested and was at the Arbroath parliament in April 1320, and signed the Declaration of Arbroath sent by the barons of Scotland to Pope John XXII. John was one of the negotiators of the thirteen years' truce between Bruce and the English, signed on 30 May 1323 and was present at a Scottish council at Berwick in June. | de Menteith, John (I35438)
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| 1395 | "Eisensteiners," posted to ancestry.com 5 Dec 2010 by user "billywestmoreland": In the early 1880s twenty-one immigrant families from the Böhmerwald settled homestead land in northern Price County of northern Wisconsin. In the early 1900s, state approval was given to establish a new town to accommodate the request made by these German-Böhmische immigrants. They were granted the opportunity to select a name of their choice for their new town and in keeping with their desire to retain their collective name of "Eisensteiners," they named their town Eisenstein. Ignaz Hilgart (1826-1903) & (1) Joanna Wiendl; (2) Philomena Draxler Benedict Hilgart (1836-1911) and Franziska Stör Johann Hilgart (1840-1909) and Walburga Draxler Josef Hilgart (1844-1918) (wife Anna & sons died in travel) Joseph Hilgart (1859-1915) and Theresia Hoffman Michael Hilgart (1859-1931) and Monika Beil Josef Wudi (1833-1906) and Franziska Wepel Johann Wudi (1857-1918) and Maria Hilgart (1858-1906) Georg Schmidt (1833-1913) &(1) Theresia Macht; (2) Katharina Hilgart Jakob Schmidt (1836-1914) and Theresia Stör (or Sterr) Johann Boyer (1857-1944) and Theresia Denk Wenzel Boyer (1860-1941) and Anna Hilgart Anton Kundinger (1825-1906) and Theresia Wiendl Florian Stauber (1852-1893) and Anna Denk (1854-1926) Joseph Bradle (1853-1923) and Mary Kundinger Michael Wallner (1852-1944) and Anna Kundinger Michael Bertl (1857-1931) and Rosa Hilgart Michael Gschwendner (1855-1930) and Monika Hilgart Ludwig Dums (1839-1936) & (1) Anna Maria Buchinger; (2) Barbara Buchinger Pius Miesbauer (1860-1942) and Mary Schmidt Ignatius Esterl (1835-1903) and Elisabetha Rendl | Esterl, Ignatz (I34983)
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| 1396 | "John Sargent, Former Doubleday President, Dies at 87." The New York Times, 8 Feb 2012: John T. Sargent, who as president and later chairman of Doubleday & Company oversaw its expansion from a modest-size family-controlled book publisher to an industry giant with interests extending into broadcasting and baseball, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87. The death was confirmed by his son, John T. Sargent Jr., the chief executive of Macmillan, the publishing company. Mr. Sargent, who was already working for Doubleday when he married Neltje Doubleday, granddaughter of the company's founder, Frank Nelson Doubleday, in 1953, was named president and chief executive in 1961. At the time, the company was largely a trade book publisher; it also ran a book club, a New York bookstore and a modest printing concern. Over the next 17 years, in partnership with Nelson Doubleday Jr., grandson of the founder, Mr. Sargent worked to expand all of those enterprises, largely succeeding in spite of a divorce in 1965 and an insurrection by a minority of the company's shareholders, led by his former wife, who wanted it to go public. By 1979, the year after he left the presidency and was made chairman, Doubleday was publishing 700 books annually. The company had bought a textbook subsidiary and the Dell Publishing Company, which included Dell paperbacks. It was operating more than a dozen book clubs, including the mammoth Literary Guild; more than two dozen Doubleday bookshops across the country; and four book printing and binding companies. In addition, Mr. Sargent led the company's expansion into radio and television broadcasting and film production. As chairman, he was involved in the company's purchase of the New York Mets in 1980. The Doubleday company eschewed publicity and the prying of journalists. "The Sphinx Called Doubleday" was the headline on a 1979 article about the company in The New York Times, which described its publishing ethos this way: "There is no class of book that is considered a 'Doubleday book,' nor is there any book that would automatically be judged unsuitable for the Doubleday imprint. Generally speaking, the house frowns on books loaded with sex, it would be unlikely to publish an anti-Kennedy book since Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is an editor there, and it doesn't exhaust itself trying to lasso serious literature." The company may have been known for its secretive ways, but Mr. Sargent was visible among the New York elite, both during business hours and after. A strapping man, dapper and sociable, he was a voracious reader, an erudite speaker and, at one time, a poetry editor who worked with Theodore Roethke, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, who became a friend and, according to family lore, spent more than one night sleeping in the Sargent bathtub after an evening of imbibing. He dined with his famous authors — who included Daphne du Maurier, Peter Benchley, Alex Haley, Leon Uris and Stephen King — and other notable friends; attended A-list parties with socialites like Brooke Astor; frequented the opera; hobnobbed with movie stars. He was a friend and frequent escort of Mrs. Onassis, and hired her as an editor at Doubleday. "The guy liked dressing up in a tux and going out," his son said. "The publishing world was his world, and the social aspect was part of it. It all folded together." John Turner Sargent was born on June 26, 1924, and spent his early years in Cedarhurst, on Long Island. (No one in the family knows where, exactly, he was born, his son said, and his birth certificate has not yet been found.) His grandfather was the well-known botanist Charles Sprague Sargent; his father, Charles Jr., worked in finance. He went to St. Mark's School in Massachusetts and spent a year at Harvard before joining the Navy. Prevented from fighting overseas because of a punctured eardrum, he spent the war years "loading bombers in Florida," his son said. After his discharge he worked briefly for Time magazine and then began at Doubleday, writing book jacket copy, in the late 1940s. Over the next several years he read manuscripts, sold syndication and subsidiary rights, worked as an advertising manager and editor and was business manager of several publishing divisions. As president of the company, he succeeded Douglas Black, who had succeeded Nelson Doubleday Sr. Mr. Sargent met Ms. Doubleday, a painter who now lives in Wyoming, when he was 28 and she was 18. After their divorce she waged a long battle, enlisting some other shareholders, to get the company to sell shares to the public, but her mother, her brother and her former husband all lined up against her and the effort failed. The company was finally sold to the German conglomerate Bertelsmann in 1986. A longtime colleague of Mr. Sargent, Samuel S. Vaughan, who served the company as editor in chief and publisher, died on Jan. 30. In addition to John Jr., Mr. Sargent's survivors include a daughter, Ellen; six grandchildren; his wife, the former Betty Nichols Kelly, whom he married in 1985; and two stepchildren, Elizabeth Lee Kelly and James Hamilton Kelly. ----- John Turner Sargent Sr. and Neltje Doubleday are 8th cousins, both being 7XG-grandchildren of the Rev. John Ward (1606-1693) and his wife Alice (1612-1680). | Sargent, John Turner Sr. (I4888)
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| 1397 | "Mrs. Margaret C. Littell," Aliquippa (Pennsylvania) Gazette, Sep 1932: Mrs. Margaret Covert Littell, aged 82, died at the home of her son, A. M. Covert, Raccoon township, Friday morning, September 9, 6 a.m., after a brief illness. Surviving are four sons and three daughters. The sons are A.M., of Raccoon township; Andrew, of Butler; Leonard, of Mars, and Isaac, of Pittsburgh. The daughters are: Mrs. Lillian Douds, of the state of Washington; Mrs. Lida Elliott, of Pittsburgh, and Miss Margaret Littell, of Hanover township. Funeral service for the deceased was at the home of her son on Sunday afternoon. | Boggs, Margaret Sharon (I31396)
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| 1398 | "Publishing Company Director Dies at 83." Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer, 22 May 1984, p. 15: Martine O'Bryan Fuqua, a member of the boards of directors of the Owensboro Publishing Co. and Owensboro Broadcasting Co., died Monday at Mercy Hospital. Mrs. Fuqua, who lived at 1908 Griffith Ave., was 83. She started her newspaper career in 1921 when she joined the accounting department of the Owensboro Messenger. She was an accountant for the paper until she married George M. Fuqua, the paper's business manager, in 1928. Fuqua, who negotiated the merger of the Messenger and Inquirer in 1929, later became vice president of Owensboro Publishing Co. and business manager of the Messenger-Inquirer. He died in 1960. Mrs. Fuqua did accounting and income tax work for the Messenger-Inquirer for more than 30 years. She had served on the publishing company's board since 1954 and became an officer of the company in 1960. She had served since 1959 as a director and officer of the Owensboro Broadcasting Co., which operates WOMI and WBKR. In recent years she was director emeritus on both boards. Mrs. Fuqua was a member of Immaculate Catholic Church. She was actively involved in the Business and Professional Women's Club. She also was the treasurer for the Woman's Club of Owensboro for four years and the club's second vice president for two years. Mrs. Fuqua was born Oct. 29, 1900, in Newman and came to Owensboro in 1901. She graduated from Owensboro High School in 1919 and Owensboro Business College in 1920. | O'Bryan, Margaret Martine (I76)
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| 1399 | Post to SGM on 7 Sep 2001, by Paul C. Reed: I should also like to propose a revision of the evidence which was set forth by Clarence Almon Torrey in his article on the Whitbread family (TAG 32). He had found no evidence of Thomas Whitbread, father of the John Whitbread who married Ellenor other than the reference in the 1639 conveyance. I just posted the reference to Thomas which appears in the Court of Augmentation Records in the 1540s. I would conclude (though Torrey was unable to) that this Thomas was son of Thomas Whitbread who he has as heading the main line of the Upper Gravenhurst Whitbread family. The will of Lawrence, son of Thomas, proved 1552, mentioned his brother John, father Thomas, and minor sons Henry and John, etc. Torrey had concluded that when John Whitbread made his will in 1563, the 'cousin Jhon Whitbreade' to whom he bequeathed the tithe called 'Elsto Tithe' was the younger son of his brother Lawrence. BUT John did not mention Lawrence's elder son Henry, and both of Lawrence's sons would have still been minors [and John son of Lawrence is otherwise unknown, not known to have married or left a probate or burial record]. I think it more likely that John Whitbread (son of Thomas), was giving Elstow Tithe to John [probably his godson], only known son of Thomas Whitbread of Elstow, and thus Thomas of Elstow would be son of the first Thomas of Upper Gravenhurst. The first Thomas Whitbread, of Upper Gravenhurst, was alive in 1552, when mentioned in the will of his son Lawrence, but no probate record was found. Sir William Gasgoyne, knight, had made a feoffment of the manor of Schepoe with appurtenances in Great and Little Gravenhurst and Clopton to Thomas Whytebrede on 12 April 1538. John Whitbread, son of Thomas Whitbread of Elstow cannot have been entirely indigent. Remember that his widow Ellenor (Harvey?) had left a silver measure and a number of silver spoons to children and grandchildren, but far beyond this, her eldest son William and his eldest son Henry Whitbread, GENTLEMEN, received 2,200 pounds for the capitol house or manor house in the tenure of William and Henry, with four cottages in Upper Gravenhurst, paid by William Aleyn, Citizen and Grocer of London. William and Henry covenanted against either of them, or by John Whitbred, deceased, father of the said William, or by Thomas Whitbread, deceased, grandfather, dated 8 Oct. 1639. However, we should point out that Torrey has an incompete entry for the children of William Whitbread whom he places as father of George and Ralph Whitbread. That William he shows as son of John, son of Thomas. An entirely new analysis of these Whitbreads and how Torrey sorted them out may be needed. | Whitbread, John (I960)
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| 1400 | Post to SGM by Saba Risaluddin, 4 Jan 2016: Can anyone confirm or refute my guess that Petronilla's father William de Flamville of Aston Flamville, Leics, was married firstly to Petronilla, daughter of Oliver Sarazin or Sarracenus? I find the following references (in no particular order) to William de Flamville & his wife Petronilla Sarazin, but so far nothing, other than the name Petronilla, to indicate that Petronilla de Flamville, wife of Robert de Leicester, was their daughter. Peter R Coss, Lordship, Knighthood and Locality: A Study in English Society, c. 1180 to 1280, 1991, 234: "In the early 1220s William de Flamville functioned as steward to William de Hastings (d. 1224/5). That this is our man is indicated by the fact that he witnessed a Coundon charter for William together with three other knights, one of whom was Oliver Sarazin (or Seutacen), his father-in-law through his first wife." VCH Warwickshire vol VI, Knightlow Hundred, Willoughby: A certain "Ralph had kept 10 virgates in demesne, and had subinfeudated William Hastang of 2 virgates. He also had enfeoffed Oliver Sarazin of an unspecified amount by service of a sore sparrowhawk, and Oliver had enfeoffed William de Flamvil on his marriage with his daughter Petronilla." John S. Moore, "Who was 'Mahumet'? Arabs in Angevin England," Prosopon Newsletter, 2000, notes that Oliver Saracenus acquired part of Ralph fitz Wigan's serjeantry at Willoughby, Warwicks, which he gave as dowry with his daughter Petronilla to William de Flamvill (citing F. M. Stenton, Documents Illustrative of the Economic and Social History of the Danelaw (Oxford, 1920), p. 341; P.R. 25 Hen. III, p. 49; Book of Fees, III, 1279). Living in Sarajevo,which has no reference library where I could consult the reference works that many members of this group have access to, I am limited in my research to trawling the internet - and am indebted to those of you whose postings have often helped me to resolve a dilemma. But so far there appears to be nothing on Oliver Sarazin/Saracenus and his daughter Petronilla. Happy New Year to all Saba [Note by PNH: The paper by John S. Moore referenced above can be viewed here. In a subseqent post to SGM, John Watson points to another article with more detail about the Sarazin/Sarson surname of Leicestershire: W. G. Hoskins, "Leicestershire Yeoman Families and their Pedigrees," Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological Society, vol. 23 (1947), pp. 52-53.] | de Flamville, William (I4437)
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| 1401 | Linda Reno, MDSTMARY-L, 15 Jan 2003: "In my opinion, Grace Greenwell was the second wife of George Thompson. Here are my notes: "5/20/1751: Admin. accts. of George Thompson, SMC. Sureties: James Thompson, Sr., Matthew Daft. Payments to (among others): Joseph Raley (orphan of Michael Raley, legacy from said Michael); James Clark (orphan of Thomas Clarke, balance of his father's estate). Distribution to: widow, 1/3. Residue to (children): Thomas Thompson; John Thompson; George Thompson; Robert Thompson; James Thompson; Sebastian Thompson; Elizabeth Thompson, wife of James Hayden; Mary Thompson; William Thompson (aged 20). Exec: Grace Thompson. "NOTE: Originally I believed that the second wife of George Thompson was Grace Hayden but have since changed my mind. The most compelling evidence is the administration accounts of George Thompson dated 5/20/1751 in which the orphan of Michael Raley and of Thomas Clarke are mentioned. Both of these children belonged to Grace Greenwell by her previous marriages to these men." | Greenwell, Grace (I10956)
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| 1402 | Common ancestor with the political Trudeau family: Charles Cloutier = Louise Morin Paul Tessier = Marie-Madeleine Cloutier Paul Baudreau = Marie Tessier Pierre-Joseph Trudeau = Marie-Josephe Baudreau Louis Trudeau = Marie-Anne Larcheveque Louis Trudeau = Marguerite Gagne Louis Trudeau = Louise Dupuis Joseph Trudeau = Malvina Cardinal Charles-Emilie Trudeau = Grace Elliott Pierre Elliott Trudeau = Margaret Joan Sinclair Justin Trudeau | Cloutier, Charles (I31978)
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| 1403 | Abstract of the will of Robert Cole, from Linda Reno's stmarysfamilies.com: Robert Cole, SMC 11/26/1771-12/2/1771. Wife: Sarah, alias Elizabeth. Children: Eleanor, Elizabeth, Mary. If any of these 3 die before marriage or not arrive at age, estate may go to survivors of these 4: Eleanor, Elizabeth, Mary, Henrietta Hayden. Son-in-law: Robert Mattingly. Granddaughter: Elizabeth Mattingly. Heirs of daughters: Jane Mattingly and Margaret Melton, both deceased. Execs: Sons-in-law, Robert Mattingly, Richard Melton, Basil Hayden. Wit: James Roach, Clement Hayden, William Hayden. From Mary Louise Donnelly, John Medley (1615-1660): "An inventory of Robert Cole's estate was made on 8/14/1772 with a value of nearly 445 pounds of sterling. He owned seven slaves and the usual items found on a plantation of that period, and some special items such as a desk, a seal skin trunk and a pair of spectacles and case. When the final account of Robert Cole's estate was made on 11/22/1773 his heirs received nearly 513 pounds of sterling (Acc't 69:205)." | Cole, Robert (I8265)
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| 1404 | Wikipedia: "Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall (c. 1284 – 19 June 1312) was an English nobleman of Gascon origin, and the favourite of King Edward II of England. "At a young age he made a good impression on King Edward I "Longshanks", and was assigned to the household of the King's son, Edward of Caernarfon. The prince's partiality for Gaveston was so extravagant that Edward I sent the favourite into exile, but he was recalled a few months later, after the King's death led to the prince's accession as Edward II. Edward bestowed the Earldom of Cornwall on Gaveston, and arranged for him to marry his niece Margaret de Clare, sister of the powerful Earl of Gloucester. "Gaveston's exclusive access to the King provoked several members of the nobility, and in 1307 the King was again forced to send him into exile. During this absence he served as the King's Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Edward managed to negotiate a deal with the opposition, however, and Gaveston returned the next year. Upon his return his behaviour became even more offensive, and by the Ordinances of 1311 it was decided that Gaveston should be exiled for a third time, to suffer outlawry if he returned. When he did return in 1312, he was hunted down and executed by a group of magnates led by Thomas of Lancaster and Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick." | de Gaveston, Piers (I3537)
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| 1405 | Abstract of the will of Elizabeth Miles, formerly White, formerly Griffith: Liber 28, folio 322 18 Jan. 1751 MILES, ELIZABETH, Prince George's Co. To daus. Sarah, wife of William Cole, & Elizabeth, wife of Mordeca Price, equ. div., all my wearing appl. To s Sarah Cole, negro man Wappin. To son Samuel, negro man Mingo & a gold ring. To Guy White, s. o. s Saml., negro boy Catto. To dau. Elizabeth Price, negro girl Candis, L 25 sterl, & a bed. To son Benjamin White, negro man Charles. To son John Miles, all my effects in the hands of John Hanbury, mercht., London, negro men Nerro & Paul, negro woman Hague negro girl Flora, & negro boy Dick. The residue of my p. e., equ. div., to dau. Sarah Cole & sons & extrs., Samuel White, Benjamin White, & John Miles. Witn: Turnor Wootton, John Evans, Sr., Joseph Evans, Elizabeth Miles 16 June 1752, sworn to by all 3 witn. | Griffith, Elizabeth (I27089)
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| 1406 | Complete Peerage II: 231: "William le Botiler of Wem, Salop, son & heir of Ralph le Botiler of Oversley, co. Warwick, by Maud, daughter & heir of William Pantulf of Wem. He succeeded his father shortly before 3 July 1281 He was summoned cum equis et armis, 24 May 1282 and 14 March 1282/3, and to attend the King at Shrewsbury, 28 July 1283, by writs directed Willelmo le Botiler (or le Botiller) de Wemme. "He married, after 2 October 1261, Angharad, daughter of Griffith ap Madoc ap Griffith Maelor, Lord of Bromfield, Dinas Bran and Yale (now co. Denbigh), i.e. of Lower Powis, by Emma, daughter of Henry AUDLEY, of Heleigh, co. Stafford. He died shortly before 11 December 1283. His widow, to whom dower was ordered to be assigned, 8 February 1283/4, was living 22 July 1308." Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages: "William Boteler, who, in the lifetime of his father, had m. Ankaret, niece of James de Aldithley, died, however, in a very few years after inheriting his paternal property (anno 1283), leaving three sons,John, Gawine, and William, and was s. by his eldest, John Boteler." | le Boteler, Sir William MP (I27612)
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| 1407 | Abstract of the will of Freegift Stout: 1763, June 9. Stout, Freegift, of Amwell Twsp., Hunterdon Co., yeoman; will of. Wife, Mary, household goods, etc., and son, Isaac, to pay to her £lO yearly. In the lifetime of my son, Jodiah, I gave him a deed for his portion, which land is in Windsor Twsp., Middlesex Co., and I give to my granddaughter, Rebecca Stout, the eldest surviving daughter of said Jodiah, the sum of £40 shillings. Son, Freegift Stout, farm in Amwell Twsp., which I bought of James Oliphant; also 76 acres out of my homestead where I live, and also 8 acres of meadow. Son, James, land in Amwell, which he now has, and which I bought of Valentine End. Son, Joshua, tract of land in Hopewell Twsp., which I purchased of Joslah Furman. Son, Obadiah, the tract which I lately bought of Jonathan Stout, being in Rocks- bury Twsp., Morris Co., at a place called Schooleys Mountain. Son, Isaac, the plantation where I live, except the 84 acres laid off to my son Freegift, and 30 acres which I sold to Hannis Case. Names daughter, Mary Chamberlain, wife of Richard Chamberlain. Moveable estate to Sarah Oliphant, wife of Ephraim Oliphant, of Kingwood Twsp.; Rebecca Taylor, wife of Edward Taylor, and Rachel Rounsavell, wife of Richard Rounsavell, Jr., both of Amwell Twsp. (Mary Chamberlain having 20 acres of land). Executors — sons, Freegift and James. Witnesses — Joseph Higgins, John Stout, John Manners. 1766, May 18. Codicil. By my last will I gave to my son, Obadiah, a tract of land which I bought of Jonathan Stout, in Rocksburg Twsp., Morris Co., but, instead of the land I give him £150. Granddaughter, Ann Stout, daughter of my son, Jodiah Stout, 40 shillings, when she is 18. The said land in Rocksbury to be sold, and the money given to my four daughters — Mary, wife of Richard Chamberlain; Sarah, wife of Ephraim Oliphant; Rebecca, wife of Edward Taylor, and Rachel, wife of Richard Rounsavell, Jr. Witnesses — Joseph Higgins, John Stout, John Manners. 1768, July 10. Codicil. My daughter, Sarah, wife of Ephraim Oliphant, is deceased, so her legacy is to be divided between her surviving children, when they come of age. Witnesses — Peter Vandyck, Peter Vandyck, Jr., Benjamin Stout. Proved Aug. 2, 1769. 1769, Aug. 2. Inventory, £208.19.8, made by Peter Vandicke and Joseph Moore. 1772, Jan. 23. Account by Executors. Lib. 14, p. 64; Lib. 14, p. 68; Lib. 14, p. 420. | Stout, Freegift (I30860)
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| 1408 | Abstracted by PNH from Judith Brister, "The Maker/Macors and Hopkins", citation details below: James Maker first appears in Plymouth colony records 29 Oct 1668 when he and Edward Crowell, probably still minors, were accused by Samuel Worden of Yarmouth of breaking into Worden's home in his absence and "attempting the chastity of his wife and sister, by many laciuous carriages, and affrighting of his children." Maker and Crowell were sentenced to be "severally whipt" or, alternately, to pay fines of ten pounds and to cover Worden's legal costs. They chose the latter. Not long after, on 2 Mar 1669 James Maker, Richard Berry, and the brothers Benjamin and Jedediah Lumbert, were charged for smoking tobacco at the Yarmouth meeting house on the Sabbath, for which they were fined five shillings. By 1673 James Maker was a landowner in Yarmouth; subsequent records show him as holding small patches of property up and down the lower Cape. He fought in the "Great Swamp Fight" in King Philip's War, 19 Dec 1675. By the end of his life he was respectable enough to have served as constable of Harwich for a year, from March 1720 to March 1721. In 1970, Clinton Elwood Nickerson and Vernon Roscoe Nickerson published From Pilgrims and Indians to Kings and Indentured Servants: An Ancestry of the Brothers Clinton Elwood Nickerson and Vernon Roscoe Nickerson, and their Cousins, the Brothers James Elwin Nickerson and Leighton Ainsworth Nickerson, which made a case, more strenuous than convincing, that James Maker was himself a Native American and that this accounted for the distinctly Native American-ish facial features of various Nickerson descendants of James Maker and his wife Rachel, in particular Capt. Hezekiah Eldridge Nickerson (1816-1871) and his wife Mehitable Crosby (presumably herself a Nickerson descendant?) (1816-1892). In 2000, Nickerson Family Association member, historian, and genealogist Burton N. Derick published a counter-argument, "James Maker, Non-Indian," (Cape Cod Genealogical Society Bulletin, Volume XXVI, Number 2, Issue No. 88, Summer 2000), pointing out that James Maker's life was replete with events that would have turned out differently had he been a Native American. As a minor, he certainly would not have been let off with a mere fine for "attempting the chastity" of the wife and daughter of Edward Crowell. And it is impossible to believe that Harwich would have appointed him a constable in 1720 if there had been the slightest sense that he was of native ancestry. As Derick explains, these are things that simply didn't happen. But the fact remains that James Maker and his wife Rachel were entangled all their lives with the Nickerson family and the Hopkins family, chancers all. The Nickerson family in particular were constantly in trouble with the law for doing expansive against-the-rules real-estate deals with natives. They and their closely-allied families, absolutely including the Makers and various Hopkins kin, were deeply comfortable with native people, and quite prepared to fight their fellow white people who wanted to put a halt to that sort of thing. The same Burton N. Derick who demolished the claim that James Maker was himself a Native American also maintained that James's wife Rachel most probably was a native -- citing, among other evidences, the fact that James and Rachel lived "on or bordering" the Indian reserve in Monomoit/Chatham, and then on the Potonumecot reserve in East Brewster. In a different but eye-opening bit of collateral evidence, John Maker, born about 1692, son of James and Rachel Maker, married, on 5 Nov 1714, a Mary Hopkins of Harwich, Massachusetts. The General Society of Mayflower Descendants' "Silver Book" on Stephen Hopkins carefully notes that no direct proof has been found that the Mary Hopkins who married John Maker was the same Mary Hopkins who was a daughter of Stephen Hopkins and Mary Merrick, granddaughter of Giles Hopkins and Catherine Whelden, great-granddaughter of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. But with equal prudence, they note that no other Mary Hopkins, single or widowed, has been found in that region in 1714; and secondly, that Bursel Maker, a son of Mary Hopkins and John Maker, witnessed the 20 Jan 1747 will of Judah Hopkins, a proven descendant of the Mayflower passenger. Mary (Hopkins) Maker and her husband John Maker had a daughter named Elizabeth (b. 22 Jun 1722). The Hopkins "Silver Book" states that she was "undoubtably not the Elizabeth Maker who m. Harwich 16 Apr 1759 Downing Cahoon." The "Silver Book" gives no proof for this assertion, although it's notable that Downing Cahoon, b. 1738, was sixteen years younger than Elizabeth Maker. What is noteworthy, though, about the Elizabeth Maker who married Downing Cahoon -- whether or not she was a daughter of Mary Hopkins and John Maker -- is that historian Josiah Paine, in his personal genealogical notes archived at the Boston headquarters of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, states that Downing Cahoon, presumably with wife Elizabeth and children, lived in East Harwich...in a wigwam. From 1491 by Charles C. Mann: In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, the aging John Adams recalled the Massachusetts of his youth as a multiracial society. "Aaron Pomham the Priest and Moses Pomham the King of the Punkapaug and Neponsit Tribes were frequent Visitors at my Father's House," he wrote nostalgically. "There was a numerous Family in this Town [Quincy, Mass., where Adams grew up], whose Wigwam was within a Mile of this House." They frequently visited Adams, "and I in my boyish Rambles used to call at their Wigwam, where I never failed to be treated with Whortle Berries, Blackberries, Strawberries or Apples, Plumbs, Peaches, etc." Colonist Susanna Johnson described eighteenth-century New Hampshire as "such a mix—of savages and settlers, without established laws to govern them, that the state of society cannot easily be described." In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin was equally familiar with Native American life. As a diplomat, he negotiated with the confederacy of Five Nations in 1744; in those days, knowledge of Indian ways was an essential part of the statesman's toolkit. Among his closest friends was Conrad Weiser, an adopted Mohawk, and the Indians' unofficial host at the talks. And one of the mainstays of Franklin's printing business was the publication of Indian treaties, viewed then as critical state documents. [...] In the most direct way, Indian liberty made indigenous villages into competitors for colonists' allegiance. Colonial societies could not become too oppressive, because their members—surrounded by examples of free life—always had the option to vote with their feet. It is likely that the first British villages in North America, thousands of miles from the House of Lords, would have lost some of the brutally graded social hierarchy that characterized European life. But it is also clear that they were infused by the democratic, informal brashness of Native American culture. That spirit alarmed and discomfited many Europeans, toff and peasant alike. But many others found it a deeply attractive vision of human possibility. | Maker, James (I20422)
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| 1409 | Amelia Morrow, from Connections: Morrow, Porter, Sanders, etc.: "Henry succeeded his father in the business in London. He was bequeathed Thomas's 'principal place in Old Fish Street and the two shops against the door of St. Nicholas...my great shops which Thomas Derham holdeth to farm, with a cellar and a shop of the yearly value of £ 4 13s 4d.' [...] "Henry Stoughton was part owner of two ships captured by pirates in December 1491. He was also probably the fishmonger who, for reasons unknown, appears on a list of persons in prison in Cambridge who were exempted from the King's general pardon on 30 Apr 1509 (on the ascension of Henry VIII), only a few months before Henry's will was proven." From "The Exhurst Ancestry of the Stoughton Siblings of New England", citation details below: "[Turner and Turner, The English Ancestry of Thomas Stoughton] note that Edward Stoughton's grandfather Henry Stoughton 'appears in a list of persons beginning with Edmund de la Pole and including...a murderer...who were exempted from the King's general pardon on the accession of Henry VIII, April 30 1509,' but they say Henry Stoughton's offence is unknown. Henry's trial and death is documented in The Great Chronicle of London which shows that Henry Stoughton was imprisoned for his part in promoting the unpopular tax and debt-collecting activities carried out by Henry VII's ministers Empson and Dudley." Footnote accompanying the above: "A. H. Thomas and I. D. Thornley, ed., The Great Chronicle of London (London: G. W. Jones, 1938), 339. Following an entry describing a proclamation issued by Henry VIII 'upon the xviijth daye of maii' the chronicler states 'And abowth this tyme were convyct and demid to the pyllory iiij Sytyzyns as perjurid & comonly fforsworn personys, That is to say John derby bowyer othirwyse namyd John wrygth, John Sympson ffuller Rychard Smyth Carpenter & henry Stokton ffyshmonger Of the whych ffowyr personys iij were sett upon the said pyllory, and the iiijth which was henry Stokton ffor he was sore syke & In poynt of deth was sparid, But he dyed shortly afftyr In prison, These were the chevetaynys of alle the Questmongers of the Cyte, and In such ffavour wyth Empson & dudley that by theym was moche myschieff doon, The which afftyr this opyn shame to theym excecutid dyed alle shortly afftyr.' The next entry in the chronicle describes the marriage of Henry VIII 'Abowth the myddyll of the monyth of Junii.' The date of the trial is more precisely given in 'The Repertories of the Court of Aldermen, 1495–1835, from the Corporation of London Record Office,' microfilm (Brighton: Harvester Microfilm, 1986) repertory 2, fol. 68v, 8 June 1509 [FHL 1,482,846] (transcription, with modern spelling, supplied by historian Mark Horowitz of Chicago), which states 'At this court it is decreed and adjudged that Herry Stockton fishmonger and Robert Jakes sherman which as well by their own confession as otherwise been duly convict of detestable perjury shall be disfranchised [sic] from the liberty of this City forever.'" | Stoughton, Henry (I12315)
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| 1410 | An unsigned sketch of the life of Elizabeth Adelaide Hoopes Allen, found on familysearch.org: Adelaide, as she was lovingly called, was one of the first babies born in a covered wagon during the time her LDS parents were being expelled from Nauvoo. On the 9th of September, 1847, she came to Warner Hoopes and Priscilla when they were traveling through the state of Iowa, at Council Point, Pottawattamie County, sometime before they arrived in Council Bluffs. Her early life was filled with trials and tribulations, as experienced by many other faithful Saints at that time. Her father was a shoemaker by trade and her mother possessed great faith and energy. When Adelaide was around three, her parents moved to St. Joseph, Missouri to find work as they did not have the means to travel any farther at that time. Brigham Young had told the Saints who could not finance themselves to go all the way to the Great Salt Lake Valley to wait until they could. Her father secured a job of burning charcoal and things looked good for a time. Her mother was in poor health and they hoped this climate would make her better. The following is based on an event recorded in Adelaide's journal that occurred while the family was living in St. Joseph: One night we were entertaining an Elder McGraw who had stopped at our place as he was returning from his mission in England. He told my father that he felt impressed to tell him to remove his family immediately to Florence, Nebraska and there to prepare to immigrate to Utah. He repeated that same advice later that night and again the next morning. After he started away he returned and advised him to go right away and leave his family to dispose of the property. But my father was loathe to leave his prosperous situation and heeded not the counsel. About a week later a non-Mormon family's home was burned and the Mormons were accused of committing the deed. Four of the brethren were arrested but they were proven innocent and released. However, the decision of the court did not please the hellish mob which then planned to kill the men. The brethren were warned by a friend but my father didn't believe he was in any danger. The sheriff of Buchanan County came to father and offered protection and he refused as "he had no enemies". After a few days he had an uneasy feeling that he should not remain at home that night. He counseled his wife and told her if a friend came to the house to call him as he would stay out in the woods, but if it was an enemy, she should blow the dinner horn, made from a cow's horn, signifying that the more she blew the horn the deeper into the woods he should go. Sometime during the night my mother was awakened by voices outside. She listened and recognized voices of some of the mob and they were making plans to take father away. After they had stationed the guards at the windows and doors with instructions to "shoot him down" should he try to escape, mother grabbed the horn and blew three loud blasts. The leader of the mob, thinking it was a signal for him to come to her rescue, grabbed the horn and blew it repeatedly. Finally mother told him the louder and longer he blew, the further and faster father would run. The mob grew more angry but she told them that had they come like gentlemen, she would have called him and he would have returned. Furiously they took to the woods where they hunted the rest of the night but could not locate him. The next day they returned and tried to get mother to give up this terrible religion, saying that if she would she and her children would be cared for. My mother's answer was an inspiration to me; she said, "My husband and religion mean more to me than money or anything that money can buy." They cursed her and used vile language as they took their departure. We children scattered hot coals in the yard hoping that if they returned they would get burned. In spite of protests, her father and a Brother Lincoln were put in jail and had to remain there for nine months before they were proven innocent. Adelaide remembered the night the mob took her father to jail. They broke the door to get into the house and though her mother pleaded with them not to take him, they were rude to her. It made it very hard on the family as Adelaide's mother was not too well and she had to provide for them. She disposed of most of their belongings and then resorted to making willow baskets which the children sold. Adelaide remembered visiting her father in jail. He was - pale and thin, with black eyes, and with hair and whiskers all over his face. It was frightening to look at him. After he was released from jail, they decided to cross the plains and go where the Saints were, though they had no money. The parents sold their only cow and her father took the money and left immediately for Florence, Nebraska where his brother Hyrum Hoopes was preparing to leave with a group of Saints for the Salt Lake Valley. This was in the year of 1857 when the last body of Saints left Winter Quarters. Adelaide's father borrowed enough money from his brother and sent for his family who arrived in time to leave with the company. Adelaide was then a girl of 10 and her job was to look her baby brother, Daniel. She remembered that she walked much of the way and carried her brother on her back when he got too tired to walk. The company had cattle which they were driving through. One of the cows had a sucking calf and one of the men told Adelaide that if she would catch the calf and tie it up at night, she could have the milk from the cow in the morning. That sounded very good so unbeknown to her parents, she slipped up to the cow when the calf was getting his milk and got the rope around the calfs neck. The calf became frightened and began to run. Adelaide hung on to the rope for quite a while but when he pulled her through the bushes and a muddy place, she had to let go. She said she could have held it if her sister Melissa had helped. She never did get the milk. Her sister Melissa, age 12, rode a horse all the way and drove the cattle to help pay back the money their father had borrowed. The group arrived in Salt Lake in 1857 . They moved to Bountiful for a short time, then moved to Richmond, Cache County, Utah. Adelaide was the one chosen to help her father with the sheep. She helped with the shearing as well as the herding. With the wool, she learned to spin, weave and sew, besides learning to cook and keep a tidy house. Adelaide had a girl friend by the name of Belinda Bear. One day she was over visiting with Adelaide when Belinda's boy friend, Charles Allen, called for her. Just for a joke, Adelaide hid Belinda's bonnet and when Belinda found out that she had hid it, she began to chase Adelaide around the house. Around they went, in and out. Apparently Charles thought they would never stop so he caught Adelaide, then about seventeen years old, and held her until she told where the bonnet was. That was the last time that Charles took Belinda out, as he began to court Adelaide. Although he was seventeen years her senior, she seemed to share his feelings and consented to be his wife. They were married in Richmond on 15 June 1864, and later went to Salt Lake and were sealed in the Endowment House. Their first five children, all boys, were born while they lived in Richmond. Five other children, four girls and a boy, were born in Cove, Utah where the family homesteaded 160 acres in a canyon. While the family was still in Cove, Adelaide and her sister-in-law Mary decided to kill the pig. Mary was to hit it in the head to knock it down, then Adelaide was to cut its throat to make it bleed. When the water was hot enough so the pig could later be scalded, Mary climbed into the pen with the axe and hit it but not hard enough to make it fall. The pig began running and squealing around the pen so Mary called for Adelaide. They both took after it. Around and around the pen they went. When Adelaide finally caught one of the hind legs, they both pulled hard and stopped it. Mary hung on to its leg while Adelaide cut its throat. They found it a hard job to kill a pig and often laughed about their experience. Adelaide's husband was Branch President in Cove, but the cold winters were too much for him and he contracted rheumatism and was badly crippled. They thought they had better try a warmer climate for his health, so relocated to Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. Adelaide and the girls rode in a white top buggy on the trip. She knitted socks for the family on the way, which they did not need so badly in a warm climate. They moved into an adobe house with a dirt floor but it was not long a dirt floor, as Adelaide with her energy and pride soon had a nice wood one. Within the next seven years, four more children were born. Their home was always a gathering place for the young folks. They were always made to feel welcome even though they had to be bedded on the floor. Adelaide drove a little span of mules, Jack and Molly, sitting in the white top buggy whenever she traveled without the men folk. Those little mules were deathly afraid of Indians. Whenever they saw one they would break into a dead run. There were Indians all over the valley when they first came to Mesa. One might pop up at any time so Adelaide had to be on the watch. The mules could smell them first. They would first stick up their ears, then their nose up in the air with their eyes on the lookout. That surely meant a "runaway" and Adelaide was always prepared. She grasped her lines just so, braced her feet to give her strength and pushed on the brake. Many times she had small children with her. She never had an accident. Their house was built right on the trail where the Indians used to hunt rabbits. They objected to this and would often stop, get off their horses and peek into the windows, as well as ask for something to eat. Her children remembered how scared they were when the Indians came galloping up on their horses with their dark, bare bodies and nothing on but a "breech clout" around their loins and their long, black hair flopping up and down. One day an Indian came walking to the door and demanded something to eat. Adelaide, remembering the counsel of President Young to feed instead of fight them, turned to go get him something when she looked around just in time to see him entering the door with his eye on the gun that was hanging on the wall. Adelaide, "quick as a wink", gave him a big shove and he landed on his back out the door on a board with nails in it. The Indian was shocked. He did not move very soon. He looked around, got up slowly and started off on a trot. He left a piece of his "breech clout" on the nails. He never came back. Adelaide loved music. She and the children sang together many of the ballads of the day, such as "Polly Van", "Joe Bowers", "Captain Jinks" and "Vacant Chair". The family often held what they called "Primary" where they met together in the evening and sang songs and told stories. It was always opened with prayer. Adelaide died giving birth to her fourteenth child, on 13 November 1889, at age 42. It was a great sorrow to the father and family. After her death, everybody in town tried to help. The funeral was held out at the front of the home. Brother Henry Rogers was one of the speakers and he remarked that, "The old, poor and needy will miss Sister Allen most of all". She was always there to help them in their time of need. She was laid to rest in the Mesa Cemetery. Her last request to the family was to keep them together. The request was granted for a council meeting with the father and older children, it was decided that the oldest daughter, Adelaide, would care for the home and the children. She was fifteen years old at the time and Seymour, age nineteen, took over the job of providing as best he could. The father lived a short distance away after taking a second wife. | Hoopes, Elizabeth Adelaide (I10763)
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| 1411 | Barbara Allen Crandall, in her own words, written 1995: I was born in the two-room house on the 20 acre farm at the southwest corner of Stapley and Broadway in Mesa, the fourth child of Barbara and John Seymour. I was three when we moved to the Lamb Ranch. My first five years of school were in Mesa, then in 1915 we moved to the ranch south of Gilbert and I started school there. Dad had a large dairy, 40 to 60 cows, so when I was in the eighth grade, I was milking ten cows every night and morning and riding my little mare to school with neither saddle nor bridle. My eighth and ninth grade years I went to Chandler. I started at Tempe Normal in 1921 and in 1923 graduated and began teaching in Ocotillo. I married Paul Crandall in 1924. Paul rented an 80-acre farm from George Lewis for two years, but the farm depression was severe and he went broke both years. Paul held down various jobs during the depression--drove an ice truck, Mesa city street sprinkler, fuel and feed sales, bought a service station, delivered Union Oil, supervised county highways and then went back to farming, his true love, with his brother Lee. I held church positions from 12 years of age when I was secretary of the Primary. I taught various classes then was called to the Primary Stake Board before I was married, where I served for 20 years, ending as Stake President. I had one daughter and five sons during those years. In 1943 I went back to teaching to help out for a year or so during World War II. I retired 27 years later. During this time I was MIA president six years, Junior Gleaner teacher six years, and Genealogy director for five years. I then directed travel tours for nine years. Paul served in the bishopric of Mesa First Ward for 13 years. In 1952 our fourth son, Charles, died of Hodgkins' Disease, and in 1971 Don was killed in an auto accident in California. We had served as ordained Temple workers for five years then we were called to the Tulsa, Oklahoma Mission in December 1979. Paul developed high blood pressure, so we were released after one year. He developed prostate cancer five years later and died August 26, 1987. We have 19 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren. I am 92 years old, and have been a Relief Society visiting teacher since I retired from school teaching. My four living children come to my home for lunch every Tuesday, a great delight to all of us. Obituary, The Arizona Republic, 16 Feb 2003: Barbara Allen Crandall, 99 year old Mesa native, died on Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at her Mesa home. Born October 5, 1903, she was preceded in death by her husband, Paul L. Crandall, two sons, Don Ashael and Charles Lee. Barbara rode a horse bareback to Mesa and Gilbert elementary schools and graduated from high school and got her teaching certificate in 1923 from Tempe Normal School, now ASU in Tempe. While there she was on the varsity softball and volleyball teams. Her first teaching job was in Ocotillo, and on June 6, 1924, she married Paul L. Crandall. They made their home and reared six children in Mesa. In 1937 she was contacted by Joe Jarvis, newly named Mesa recreation director, who asked her to organize a recreation program to keep the kids busy during the summer. This was the beginning of the Mesa Parks and Recreation program. She recruited a small group of volunteers workers and they taught games, dancing and songs, played sports and went swimming on Wednesdays. Each season wound up with staging of a production involving all of the children in costume. In all, Barbara directed the program for seven years. Barbara worked for a while in Maricopa County politics, was an attache in the State Legislature, a precinct committeeman and was vice chairman of the Maricopa County Democratic organization for a year. With World War II manpower shortages, Barbara went back to school, teaching fifth grade in Lehi. Besides classroom subjects, she went onto the playground and taught the boys football, baseball and basketball. The girls were instructed in volleyball, dodgeball, Jump rope and softball. Her teaching philosophy was that every child participated and had a costume in any activity. She wound up her 27 year teaching career at Lowell school in Mesa. Barbara held many ward and stake leadership and teaching positions in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was active in the Primary for 20 years and later in the Mutual Improvement Association (MIA), the youth organization of the Church. She was presented a Golden Gleaner recognition award for service. In 1979-80 she filled a mission with her husband for the Church in the Tulsa Oklahoma Mission. They were also ordinance workers for several years in the Arizona Temple in Mesa. She was a charter member of Phi Chapter, Delta Kappa Gamma, teachers' sorority. In 1978 she was named Mesa Merit Mother and was runner-up for Arizona Mother of the Year. She was a charter member and first secretary of the Mesa Historical Society. After her retirement from teaching, Barbara organized the Arizona Ramblers Travel Club and conducted bus tours, primarily for senior citizens, throughout the United States and Canada. She is survived by her daughter, Barbara Nielsen, three sons, Paul L. Jr., Wilford M. (Wil). and Dr. John A., all of Mesa, one sister, Mary Hardison, Vallejo, Ca, one brother, Russell H. Allen of Mesa. She has 19 grandchildren and 35 great-grandchildren. Viewing will be held at Meldrum Mortuary, 52 N. Macdonald, on Monday, 6-8:00 P.M., (also one hour prior to services at the Church). Funeral services will be held Tuesday February 18, at 10:00 A.M. at Centennial Ward, 422 E. University. Interment will be at Mesa Cemetery 1212 N Center. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Mesa Historical Society. | Allen, Barbara (I2818)
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| 1412 | Correspondence from Libby Freeman Spieth, quoted by "Dolores1630" on ancestry.com: I'm quite certain that when he (Joel) wasn't farming, he was a traveling salesman. My dad used to talk about him going with his wagon carrying pots, pans, bolts of fabric, nails, etc. and always something special for the ladies like a potato peeler and candy for the kids. He had a regular route when he didn't have crops to tend. In remote areas his visits were really looked forward to. After the 1870 Census, Mary [Mary Tye, his second wife] and Joel just drop out of sight. Uncle Sam was the one who was left to raise them (the children). I think that is when my gr-grandfather John went to Elk Valley TN. He managed a lumber business for my other gr-grandfather Jasper Newton White (Newt) and that is also how he met my gr-grandmother Teresa Allen. They returned to Whitley. [...] Joel Freeman contested his father's will. He won one hundred acres in Meadow Creek, NC in 1847. In March of 1848 he sold the acreage to Issac Owens for 130.00. Alfred Franklin White contends that Joel and Mary TYE (2nd wife) were killed in a carriage accident traveling between KY and NC. They both suddenly disappeared. The children of JOEL FREEMAN and MARY TYE are not recognized by the rest of the FREEMAN clan. Note [from "Dolores1630" on ancestry.com]: There is no record or verification of this accident or deaths of Joel and Mary. It's considered to be family legend until verified. Mary and Joel went to NC one day and for whatever reason, never returned. Oldest son, Samuel, from Joel's first marriage, raised the younger children, including my grandfather, John. Deed of Conveyance, 1847: Whitley CO., KY (Deed Book #3) 24 August 1848: "This deed of conveyance made this 24th day of August 1858. Witnesseth that at the August term of the interlocutory decree of said curcuit cout appointed a commissioner for and on behalf of the AARON FREEMAN, POLLY STEVENS and NANCY PERKINS and the unknown heirs of JAMES FREEMAN deceased to convey to JOEL FREEMAN by Decreased of quit claim a certain tract or parcel of land in complainents bill mentioned in a suit in chancery pending in said court in which said JOEL FREEMAN is complainant and said heirs of the said JAMES FREEMAN deceased are defendants. Now I, ADDISON WILLIAMS commissioner as aforesaid forand on befalf of the said AARON FREEMAN, POLLY STEVENS,NANCY PERKINS and the unknown heirs of the said JAMES FREEMAN deceased for and in consideration of the (premises) and for and in consideration fo the interlocutory decree aforesaid give grant bargain sell (endow) convey and confirm unto the said JOEL FREEMAN and his heirs or assigns a certain tract or parcel of land situate lyning and being in Whitley County on a branch of Meadow Creek containing one hundred acres and is the same land on which said JAMES FREEMAN resided at the time of his death and left by the said JAMES in the possession of the said JOEL FREEMAN as set forth and descibed in the complainant bill herein. The said JOEL FREEMAN to have and to hold to him and his heirs or assigns forever. And the said ADDISON WILLIAMS commissioner as aforesaid for and behalf of the said ARRON FREEMAN, POLLY STEVENS, and NANCY PERKINS and the unknown heirs of the aforesaid JAMES FREEMAN deceased hereby covenant and agree that he will forever warrant and defend a good and sufficient right and title to said land against the claim or claims of themselves and thie heirs and against the claim or claims of all and every other person, persons claim for claimants whatever claiming by through or under them or either of them but (agrees) no to her person or persons but it is distinctly understood that the said WILLIAMS makes this conveyance as a commissioner of the court only and is not to be responsible in any way for the title. In testimony whereof the said parties of thefirst part by ADDISON WILLIAMS commissioner as aforesaid hereunto subscribe above written. Dated 26 August 1847. Signed: AARON FREEMAN, NANCY PERKINS, POLLY STEVENS, The unknown heirs of JAMES FREEMAN, deceased by A. WILLIAMS, commissioner Whitley Conuty Court. 24 March 1848 JOEL FREEMAN sold one hundred acres on Meadow Creek to ISAAC OWENS for 130.00. Application for post-Civil War Presidential pardon? The ancestry.com database Confederate Applications for Presidential Pardons, 1865-1867 contains paperwork related to the application by a Joel T. Freeman of Bear Wallow, North Carolina for a pardon and the restoration of his full citizenship by President Andrew Johnson. In it he explains that before the rebellion he was a postmaster and that this was the only role in which he can be held to have supported the Confederacy. We cannot determine from the papers whether this pardon was granted, or whether this is that same individual as our Joel Terrill Freeman. | Freeman, Joel Terrill (I4314)
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| 1413 | Cotton Mather, in his Magnalia Christi Americana: "Mrs. Elizabeth Heard, a Widow of a Good Estate, a Mother of many Children, and a Daughter of Mr. Hull, a Reverend Minister formerly Living at Piscataqua, now lived at Quochecho. Happening to be at Portsmouth, on the Day before Quochecho was cut off, She Returned thither in the Night, with one Daughter and Three Sons, all masters of Families. When they came near Quochecho, they were astonished, with a prodigious Noise of Indians, Howling, Shooting, Shouting, and Roaring, according to their manner in making an Assault. Their Distress for their Families carried them still further up the River, till they Secretly and Silently passed by some Numbers of the Raging Salvages. They Landed about an Hundred Rods from Major Waldern's Garrison; and running up the Hill, they saw many Lights in the Windows of the Garrison, which they concluded the English within had set up, for the Direction of those who might seek Refuge there. Coming to the Gate, they desired entrance; which not being readily granted, they called Earnestly, and bounced, and knocked, and cried out of their unkindness within, that they would not open to them in this Extremity. No Answer being yet made, they began to doubt, whether all was well; and one of the young men then climbing up the wall, saw a horrible Tawny in the Entry, with a Gun in his Hand. A grievous Consternation Seiz'd now upon them; and Mrs. Heard sitting down without the Gate, through Despair and Faintness, unable to Stir any further, charged her Children to Shift for themselves, for She must unavoidably There End her Days. They finding it impossible to carry her with them, with heavy hearts forsook her; but then coming better to herself, she fled and hid among the Barberry-bushes in the Garden: and then hastning from thence, because the Day-Light advanced, She sheltered herself (though seen by Two of the Indians) in a Thicket of other Bushes, about Thirty Rods from the House. Here she had not been long, before an Indian came towards her, with a Pistol in his Hand: the Fellow came up to her, stared her in the Face, but said nothing to her, nor she to him. He went a little way back, and came again, and Stared at her as before, but said nothing; whereupon she asked what he would have? He still said nothing, but went away to the House Co-hooping, and Returned unto her no more. Being thus unaccountably preserved, She made several Essays to pass the River; but found herself unable to do it; and finding all places on that side the River filled with Blood, and Fire, and hideous Outcries, thereupon she Returned to her old bush, and there poured out her ardent Prayers to God for help in this Distress. She continued in the Bush, until the Garrison was Burnt, and the Enemy was gone; and then she Stole along by the River side, until she came to a Boom, where she passed over. Many sad Effects of Cruelty she Saw left by the Indians in her way; until arriving at Captain Gerish's Garrison, she there found a Refuge from the Storm; and here she soon had the Satisfaction to understand, that her own Garrison, though one of the first that was assaulted, had been bravely Defended and maintained against the Adversary. This Gentlewoman's Garrison was the most Extream Frontier of the Province, and more Obnoxious than any other, and more uncapable of Relief; nevertheless, by her presence and courage, it held out all the War, even for Ten Years together; and the Persons in it have Enjoy'd very Eminent preservations. The Garrison had been deserted, if She had accepted Offers that were made her by her Friends, of Living in more safety at Portsmouth; which would have been a Damage to the Town and Land: but by her Encouragement this Post was thus kept: and She is yet Living in much Esteem among her Neighbours." From "Elizabeth Heard: Native American Friend" by Maggie MacLean, at History of American Women: "Elizabeth Hull, daughter of Reverend Joseph Hull, was born in 1626 in England, and married Captain John Heard at York, Maine in 1642. Soon after their marriage, they settled at Dover, New Hampshire. The leader of the colonists at Cochecho (near Dover) was Richard Waldron (Walderne), an Englishman who had emigrated in 1635. In 1642, Waldron owned a large tract of land at the Lower Falls of the Cochecho River where he built a sawmill. That spot became the foundation of the settlement known as Cochecho. "In 1652, Captain John Heard had grants of land 'under the Great Hill of Cocheco,' and he and Elizabeth built their house on the brow of the Great Hill. "By 1666, a total of 41 families lived and worked there. Indians became a familiar sight around town when Richard Waldron opened a large trading post, but there were occasional problems with the Indians, because Waldron was not above breaking the laws that forbade selling liquor or firearms to Indians. "For over half a century following Dover's founding in 1623, the English settlers had co-existed peacefully with the local Pennacook tribe. The Indians helped the colonists to develop the fishing, hunting, and farming skills necessary to survive in New England. "The Indian chieftain, Passaconaway, was responsible for forming the Penacook confederacy, a unification of local tribes against the hostile Mohawks. Passaconaway's 50 year reign marks one of the most peaceful periods in the New Hampshire province. His son Wonalancet took over leadership of the tribe in 1665 and continued his father's peaceful ways. "In 1676, many Indians fled Massachusetts due to bloody fighting between a confederation of Indian tribes and English settlers. By September, over 400 Indians were at the Cochecho settlement. Half of them were strangers, the other half were Wonalancet's people. Two companies of Massachusetts soldiers arrived to recapture the escaping Indians. They were ready to fight the Indians, but Major Waldron intervened. "Waldron agreed that the Massachusetts Indians should be returned to Boston for punishment, but he did not want local, loyal Indians to be harmed in the process. The Indians were invited to assemble close to town for a day of war games. The unsuspecting Indians were surrounded by four militia companies who separated out the local Indians. Over 200 of the Massachusetts Indians were taken back to Boston. Some of them were hanged or sold into slavery. "Elizabeth Heard saved the life of a young Indian boy that day by concealing him until his would-be slayers had left her house, and then helped him to escape. "For the next eleven years, tensions mounted between the settlers and the Penacook Indians. The peaceful Chief Wonalancet was replaced by the warlike Kancamagus, who bitterly resented the injustices meted out by English settlers to his people. More and more land was seized from the Indians for paltry payments like a 'peck of corn annually for each family.' "In 1684, the Governor ordered that the meeting house at Dover be fortified against Indian attacks. Every neighborhood developed at least one fortified blockhouse where people could flee to safety if Indians attacked. "Five homes at the Cochecho settlement were garrisoned at public expense, including Elizabeth Heard's, which became known as Heard's Garrison. These five sites were chosen because of their locations on the highest knolls of the town. The garrisons were built with foot-thick squared logs impenetrable to bullets and a second story that projected over the lower story by two to three feet. "This overhang feature was designed to combat Indians who customarily attacked with fire or smoke. A loose board in the overhang could be removed in order to pour boiling water on marauders or on fires below. Each wall also had narrow slits for firearms. The garrisons were also surrounded by an eight foot palisade of large logs set upright in the ground. "The settlers at Cochecho became frightened by the large number of hostile Indians now living with the local tribe. The settlers took refuge at the blockhouse each night, and during the day, guns were kept close to hand in the fields. "Advance word that the Pennacooks were massing for an attack on Cochecho was known as far away as Chelmsford, Massachusetts. The vendetta against Waldron was described in a warning letter from Chelmsford. Waldron, aware of the tensions, reportedly laughed it off, telling his townsfolk that he could assemble 100 men simply by lifting his finger. "On the evening of June 27, 1689, several Indian women asked for shelter at each of the garrison houses, a common practice in peacetime. They were shown how to open the doors and gates in case they wanted to leave in the night. No watch was kept as all the Cochecho families retired for the night. "During the early hours, the Indian women quietly opened the gates to several hundred Pennacook. Waldron, then 74, is said to have wielded his sword in defense. He was tied to a chair and cut across the chest repeatedly as each warrior symbolically 'crossed out' his trading account with the distrusted merchant. Waldron was forced to fall on his sword, the garrison was burned, and his family killed or captured. "Elder William Wentworth* was guarding the Heard property while Elizabeth was away. He was awakened by a barking dog and managed to close the gates against attack. Elizabeth Heard--by then a widow--her three sons, her daughter, and their families were all returning from their voyage to Portsmouth with the dawn tide. The smell of smoke and the chilling sound of Indian cries alerted them to their peril. Mrs. Heard was so overcome with fright that she could not go on. She pleaded with her family to flee for their lives, and they left her hidden in some nearby bushes. "As daylight broke, an Indian spotted Elizabeth in the thicket. He raised his gun and aimed it at her. He stared hard at her face, then silently ran away, never revealing her to his tribesmen. In a curious twist of fate, Elizabeth Heard had saved the life of this Indian in 1676. He had never forgotten her kindness and took this opportunity to repay the favor. "Mrs. Heard remained hidden in the thicket until all the Indians had left Cochecho. She wearily returned to her home expecting to find burnt ruins. Thanks to her courageous neighbor, William Wentworth, she found her home and family intact. "Several years passed before Cochecho fully recovered. Houses and mills were rebuilt, but the loss of so many persons (about 25% of the population) was a severe blow to the settlement's prosperity. By 1700 however, the town had begun to resume its former importance. Although Cochecho was occasionally harassed by Indians, it was never again the target of so destructive a raid. "Elizabeth Hull Heard died at Dover, New Hampshire, on November 30, 1706." * William Wentworth (1616-1687), also an ancestor of TNH. More about these events: Cocheco Massacre, at SeacoastNH.com. The History of New Hampshire, volume 1, by Jeremy Belknap and John Farmer. Dover, New Hampshire: S. C. Stevens and Ela & Wadleigh, 1831. Page 128. | Hull, Elizabeth (I8626)
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| 1414 | Dates for William Richard Workman: Kentucky Birth Records, 1852-1910, on ancestry.com, gives his birth date as 7 October 1875. Kentucky Birth Records, 1847-1911, on ancestry.com, gives his birth date as 18 Sep 1876. But the handwritten record of 1876 Fulton County births is peculiar. The births are in neither name nor date order, which suggests that this ledger was made well after 1876 by copying a stack of individual records. And while most of the records show the name and birth state of both parents, Wm. Workman's shows only that his father was J. P. Workman. So we're not sure how much stock we can put in this record. Notes taken by Jeannette Hayden in conversation with his daughter Neville Workman give his birth date as 4 October 1875. The 1880 Fulton County, KY census lists him as "W. R." and gives his age as 5, which is consistent with that. The 1900 Fulton County, KY census gives his birthdate as "Sept. 1876" and his age as 23. The 1910 census gives his birth date as "about 1877"; the 1920 census says "abt 1878". And the Hammonds family tree page gives his birthdate as 4 October 1877. The Hammonds page is our only source for his death date. We've put Detroit down as his place of death because Patrick's mother recollects, based on conversations with his father's family members, that in later years he came up north and had a small store -- "a little candy store, which could have been a sort of convenience store, in Detroit." Evidently his wife Kate and his daughter Mildred wouldn't see him, but his daughter Neville would visit him and called him "Papa." There is a Richard Workman listed in the 1940 US Federal census as living at 1012 Clay St. in Detroit, born in Kentucky, estimated birth date "abt 1877", listed as "married" but evidently living alone. His occupation is given as "salesman" for a "supply shop"; he is shown as self-employed; he worked all 52 weeks of 1939, and he worked an eye-popping 90 hours in the week of March 24-30, 1940. (This is an actual question in the 1940 census.) All for an income of $300 a year. This certainly could be our William Richard Workman. (1012 Clay Street is about a half-mile southeast of the GM Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly. The street today is at least half composed of vacant lots; there is no building standing at number 1012, but it's clear that it was never an affluent area.) ----- This, which is primarily about his father, gives his dates as 4 Oct 1877 - 1 Jul 1945. It also calls him "Willie R. Workman." We're going to go with 4 October 1875 for these reasons: (1) It's what his daughter Neville remembered (2) The Kentucky record (7 October) may actually be a christening (3) It's also the date given by the rootsweb page cited just above, albeit in 1877, not 1875 ----- There is a Find a Grave page for William Richard "Willie" Workman, who would appear to be our William Workman. There is no genealogical information shown -- neither parents, nor spouse, nor children -- and the only date shown is a birthdate of 1876. But it does claim that he's buried in Fairview Cemetery, Fulton, Kentucky, and it shows a headstone which reads: WORKMAN GRACE HORACE WILLIE JEFF SIS Our William Workman had siblings named Grace and Horace; his father was named Jefferson; and his mother Narcissa was generally addressed as "Sis." So wherever and whenever he died, he would appear to be buried here. | Workman, William Richard (I1775)
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| 1415 | Douglas Richardson, 3 May 2015, post to soc.genealogy.medieval: It has been claimed that Cecily Fleming, wife of Robert Waterton the elder [died 1425] was the daughter and heiress of Robert Fleming, Esquire, of Woodhall. However, a list of the quarterings of their Dymoke descendants includes the arms of Welles and Waterton but not Fleming [Reference: Lodge, Scrivelsby, the Home of the Champions (1894): 151]. It may be that the Fleming arms were omitted from the quarterings, or that Cecily Fleming was not an heiress. Further study is needed of the quarterings emplyed by the various families that are descend from Cecily (Fleming) Waterton, namely Dymoke, Hoo, Willoughby, and Launde families. If the Fleming arms are excluded the other family quarterings, then the likelihood is good that Cecily Fleming was not an heiress. Cecily (Fleming) Waterton is believed to be the sister of Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln [died 1431]. See, for example, Harvey, English in Rome, 1362-1420 (2004): 177-178, available at the following weblink: https://books.google.com/books?id=GS6Oh6Gp66wC&pg=PA177 Dodsworth's Yorkshire notes: The Wapentake of Agbrigg (1884): 27 gives evidence that Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln [died 1431], was born in Crofton, Yorkshire, a village on the east side of Wakefield, Yorkshire. See the following weblink: https://books.google.com/books?id=IrkHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA27 Dodsworth specifically states the the church of Crofton, Yorkshire was removed to a different spot in the parish and was "builded by & at the onely charges of Richard Fleming Bp. of Lincolne who was (born) in the same towne at the howse where Mr. Lister now dwelleth." END OF QUOTE. If so, Crofton would presumably be the home parish of Cecily (Fleming) Waterton. And if Dodsworth's notes are correct, then Richard Fleming was born in a house, not at a manor. Dodsworth records that over the south porch of the church in stone "are cutt 2 barrs & 3 fusills in chiefe, on the first barr, a mullett [Fleming]." Elsewhere I find that Robert Waterton, Esq. [died 1425] presented Richard Fleming [the future Bishop] to the church of Gosberton, Lincolnshire in 1404. See Kaye, Brief History of the Church & Parish of Gosberton (1897): 35, which may be viewed at the following weblink: https://books.google.com/books?id=zfIVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA35 Kaye likewise indicates that Robert Waterton, Esq. [died 1425] presented Thomas Toneton/Towton to the church of Gosberton, Lincolnshire in 1402 and 1410. Harvey, English in Rome, 1362-1420 (2004): 177-178 cited above indicates that Thomas Towton was master of the hospital of St. Nicholas, Pontefract and rector of Wath-upon-Dearne, Yorkshire. Harvey cites as her source: Storey, Clergy and Common Law, p. 395, fn 314 for Pontefract; Arch. Seld. B 23, f. 128v which calls Thomas Towton "consanguineus" [kinsman] of Robert Waterton. Summing up the above findings, it seems rather likely that Cecily (Fleming) Waterton was not an heiress and that her home parish was Crofton, Yorkshire. Evidence has been cited which indicates that Thomas Toneton/Towton was a kinsman of Cecily's husband, Robert Waterton, Esq. Finally I see that Volume 1 of the Register of Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln was recently published in 2009 by the Canterbury and York Society. If someone has access to this and later volumes, perhaps they can check them for references to the Bishop's family. Douglas Richardson, 4 May 2015, post to soc.genealogy.medieval: There is some interesting biographical material on Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln [died 1431], the alleged brother of Cecily (Fleming) Waterton, in the book, Watanabe, Nicholas of Cusa - A Companion to his Life and his Times (2011): 125-129. On page 129, the author discusses Richard Fleming's nephew, Robert Fleming, Dean of Lincoln: "Robert Fleming, Richard's nephew and a resident in University College, Oxford, from 1430 to 1443, matriculated at Cologne in 1444 and then went to Padua. Once in Italy, he, like Grey, was attracted to humanism and, after obtaining a degree at Padua, moved to Ferrara to study under Guarino de Verona (1374-1460)." The editor of Testamenta Eboracensia 2 (Surtees Soc. 30) (1855): 230 states in a footnote that Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln, was brother to the above mentioned Robert Fleming, Dean of Lincoln [died 1483]. However, Twemlow, Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland: Papal Letters 7 (1906): 497 proves that Bishop Richard Fleming was uncle to Robert Fleming, Dean of Lincoln. This record reads as follows: "Date: 13 Kal. Feb. 1427 [i.e., 20 Jan. 1427]. To Robert Flemmyng, clerk, of the diocese of York. Dispensation, at his own petition and that of Richard, bishop of Lincoln, whose nephew he is, after he, who is in his tenth year, has reached his twelfth year, to receive and hold any canonry and subdiaconal prebend." END OF QUOTE. There is a helpful biography of Robert Fleming, Dean of Lincoln, in Lumb, Registers of the Parish Church of Methley (Thoresby Soc. 12) (1903): 134, which may be viewed at the following weblink: https://books.google.com/books?id=iW0_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA134 Assuming that Cecily Fleming, wife of Robert Waterton, Esquire, was the sister of Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln [died 1431], as well as the aunt of Robert Fleming, Dean of Lincoln [died 1483], it is inconceivable that Cecily Fleming was an heiress any time during her lifetime or any time near afterwards, as she had at least one male member of her family living until at least 1483. A record concerning the estate of Robert Waterton, Esquire [died 1425] is found in Heriots, &c., on the Wakefield Manor Rolls published in Northern Genealogist 6 (1903): 59. The record reads as follows: "1427. Stanley. Robert Waterton, esquire, is dead, and Robert his son and heir pays 18d. heriot." The above record may be viewed at the following weblink: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044090345943;view=1up;seq=69 Given the above record and other evidence which proves that Robert Waterton, Esquire [died 1425] held property at Stanley, Yorkshire, the following Common Pleas record may be of interest: In 1422 Simon Flemyng sued William Hobson, of Stanley, Yorkshire, husbandman, and four others in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a trespass [vi et armis] in Stanley, Yorkshire. [Reference: Court of Common Pleas, CP40/647, image 246f available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no647/aCP40no647fronts/IMG_0246.htm]. Douglas Richardson, 7 May 2015, post to soc.genealogy.medieval: I noted earlier this past week that a list of the quarterings of the Dymoke family included the arms of Welles and Waterton, but not Fleming. See Lodge, Scrivelsby, the Home of the Champions (1894): 151. I've since located a list of the quarterings of the Copley family, which family is likewise descended from Cecily (Fleming) Waterton. As with the Dymoke quarterings, the Copley quarterings include the arms of Welles and Waterton, but not Fleming. See Surrey Archaeological Collections, 3 (1865): 362, available at the following weblink: https://books.google.com/books?id=vTUGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA362 It may be that the Fleming arms were carelessly omitted from both sets of the quarterings, or it may be that Cecily (Fleming) Waterton was not an heiress at all. Since this is the second set of quarterings which has omitted the Fleming arms, it's looking more and more likely that Cecily (Fleming) Waterton was not an heiress. Douglas Richardson, 8 May 2015, post to soc.genealogy.medieval: This past week I posted heraldic quarterings for the Dymoke and Copley families, which families are lineal descendants and co-heirs of Robert Waterton, Esq. [died 1425] and his wife, Cecily Fleming. Under normal circumstances, if Cecily Fleming was truly an heiress, or an heiress in her issue, the quarterings should have included the Fleming arms. They did not. Below are quartering yet for another branch of Waterton-Fleming family, namely the Berkeley family, of Wymondham, Leicestershire. As with the Dymoke and Copley families, the quarterings include Welles and Waterton, but not Fleming. "Berkeley, Wymondham, co. Leicester; Baronetcy 1611, extinct ...., quartering Hamlyn, Delalaunde, Welles, Engaine, and Waterton, Harl. MS. 6183, fo. 5." [Reference: Papworth, Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms ... Ordinary of British Armorials (1874): 427]. Archaeologia Cantiana 26 (1904): 326-327 gives a similar set of heraldic quarterings found at the tomb of Gabriel Livesey [died 1622] and his wife, Anne Sondes. Gabriel Livesey was the son of Robert Livesey, by his 2nd wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Maurice Berkeley, Esq., of Wymondham, Leicestershire. Once again the quarterings contain Welles and Waterton, but not Fleming. Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 18 or 19 (1924): 116 includes a description plate of brass containing quarterings for the Metham family, including Welles and Waterton again, but not Fleming. Reports and Papers of the Architectural and Archaeological Societies of the Counties of Lincoln and Northampton 8 (1865-66): 11 provides a description of the various heraldic panels found at Spilsby, Lincolnshire at the tomb of Richard Bertie, Esq. [died 1582] and his wife, Katherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk [died 1580]. Katherine Willoughby was a lineal descendant and one of the co-heirs of Robert Waterton, Esq., and his wife, Cecily Fleming. The various panels include various quarterings of the Willoughby family, including Welles and Waterton, but not Fleming. So far I've located six sets of quarterings for different branches of descendants of Robert Waterton, Esq., and Cecily Fleming. All six quarterings include Welles and Waterton, but not Fleming. I conclude on the basis of the heraldic evidence that Cecily (Fleming) Waterton was not an heiress as claimed by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald. | Fleming, Cecily (I19266)
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| 1416 | Edwardsville (Illinois) Intelligencer, 23 Sep 2009: Ruth M. Newton, age 96, of Edwardsville, died on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009. She was born on March 29, 1913, in St. Louis, Mo., the daughter of the late Charles and Elizabeth Lauber Kinamore. She married Virgil S. Newton on Aug. 18, 1936. He preceded her in death in 1967. She is survived by her children: Charles (Wayne Anne) Newton of Brighton, Gary (Helen) Newton of Edwardsville, Timothy (Brigette) Newton of Colorado Springs, Colo., Michael (Patricia) Newton of Aurora, Colo., Thomas (Diane) Newton, Lebanon, Mo., Jeffrey (Libby) Newton of Bethalto, Betsy (Joe) Meyer of Edwardsville and Duke Newton of Edwardsville; a brother: Joseph Kinamore of Baton Rouge, La.; 26 grandchildren; 40 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren. Mrs. Newton graduated from Rosati-Kain High School and was the oldest alumni. Her memberships included the Daughters of Isabella. She was an avid bridge player. A Memorial Mass will be at 10 a.m., on Saturday, Oct. 3, at St. Boniface Church, 325 E. Vandalia, in Edwardsville. Memorials may be made to the Hand Bell Choir at St. Boniface Church. Saksa Mateer Funeral Home in Edwardsville is in charge of arrangements. | Kinamore, Ruth Minerva (I26517)
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| 1417 | Email sent 29 Nov 2014: Hello, [email address redacted]! Mary Frances Butler is one of my great-great grandmothers. You created the FindAGrave.com page about her, so I'm hoping you won't mind a question. Do you have any documentation or source that proves that she was a daughter of Christopher C. Butler (1810-1858) and Mary Ann McHaney (b. 1817)? I ask because I have a copy of Judge Edward F. Butler's book The Butler Family, and while it lists six children for Christopher C. Butler and Mary McHaney (who he calls "Mary C. McHaney"), including both of the brothers you show on the FindAGrave page, he doesn't list Mary Frances. Judge Butler also shows Christopher C. Butler marrying his second wife, Eliza Jane Sexton, on 8 March 1851, which is doesn't reconcile with Mary Frances Butler being born of Mary Ann (or Mary C.) McHaney on 8 August 1851, five months later. My own relationship to Mary Frances Butler is: Mary Frances Butler = Monroe Marshall Jacobs Kate Jacobs = William Richard Workman Mildred Workman = James Delbert Hayden James Elbert Hayden = Jeannette Mary White Patrick Nielsen Hayden Many years ago my mother took notes while talking with Neville Workman, sister of my father's mother Mildred Workman, and Neville clearly remembered that Mary Frances Butler was her mother's mother, and said that Mary Frances's father was Christopher C. Butler--who she remembered as "Christopher Columbus Butler." And I certainly know that Judge Edward F. Butler's book has its share of mistakes. But I'm wondering if you have any further evidence that Mary Frances Butler was the daughter of this particular Butler/McHaney couple. Naturally, if there's any question I can answer for you about anybody in this particular cluster of relatives, I'll be happy to do so. -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden | Butler, Mary Frances "Fannie" (I6088)
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| 1418 | From "Anthony de Hooges, Secretary of Rensselaerswyck, and His Descendants" (citation details below): The place and date of birth of Anthony de Hooges is not as yet known. He was younger than Arent van Curler, and van Curler was 18 when he came over in 1637. Van Curler was said to have been baptised Feb. 6, 1620; so de Hooges was probably born between 1620 and 1623, as it is unlikely that he was younger than 18 when he came over in 1641. [...] Mr. A. J. F. van Laer, Archivist of the University of the State of New York, writes under the date of June 3 and 7, 1935:-- "Mr. G. Beernink, in his Biography of Arend van Slichtenhorst and his father, Brant van Slichtenhorst, p. 159, says in a footnote that a Johannes de Hooges was not only a shareholder, but also bookkeeper, of the West India Company, at Amsterdam. He does not give his authority for the statement and does not state that Anthony de Hooges was related to him. That, however, is quite likely and I assume therefore that Anthony came from Amsterdam." "The fact that Anthony de Hooges' only son was named Johannes certainly strengthens the supposition that the Johannes de Hooges mentioned by Mr. Beernink was his father." On July 17, 1641, Kiliaen van Rensselaer issued the following "Instructions for Anthonie de Hooges, engaged as under bookkeeper and assistant to Arent van Corler, according to which he must faithfully conduct himself, this 17th of July 1641, in Amsterdam. "Going on board at the Texel, with God's help he shall first of all see whether the people, who are to sail now for the colony, are on board ship, namely, etc." On July 30, 1641 Anthony de Hooges was on board den Coninck David, and commenced a journal of the voyage to America which he later sent to van Rensselaer. This journal is published in its entirety in the Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts, pages 580 to 603. The boat had a long and stormy passage of four months. On July 30, the company on board den Coninck David set sail from Texel with about 35 or 36 other boats. On August 19th they reached Plymouth, where they stayed until the 30th. Setting sail again, this time with five other vessels, they passed the Madeira Islands on September 16th and 17th, and on the 19th and 20th passed the Canary Islands, leaving the other ships, except for one galley, there. By October 4th they were running short of water. "We began to look at each other. At last after some questions had been asked we decided unanimously that for the preservation of both man and beast it was necessary to go to the island of Christoffel [St. Christopher or St. Kitts in the West Indies] and continue our voyage after we had obtained a supply of water." They reached the Leeward Islands on October 16th, and anchored at St. Christopher on the 18th. Here they took on water, and remained until the 23d. On November 3d "At half past two in the night the wife of Govert Loockemans [Ariaentje Jans] gave birth to a daughter." This child was baptized as Marritje at New Amsterdam on Dec. 1, 1641. On November 29th den Coninck David sailed past Sandy Hook, where they ran aground on a reef which delayed them two hours, and finally anchored in the afternoon in the East River off Smits Vly. For a time, Anthony de Hooges stayed at the home of Oloff Stevensen van Cortlandt in New Amsterdam. He did not reach Rensselaerswyck until April 10, 1642. He was van Curler's assistant, at a salary of £150. a year until October, 1644, when van Curler returned to Holland. He was then entrusted with the business management of the colony until van Slichtenhorst's arrival on March 22, 1648. From then until his death in 1655 de Hooges was secretary of the colony and gecommitteerde (commissioner), for which he received salaries of £360. and £100. a year. He also received a salary of £56. as voorleeser (reader in the church) for a little over two months in 1653. He was also a deacon in the church in 1654. [...] In October, 1647, de Hooges married Eva Albertse Bratt, daughter of Albert Andriesz Bratt and Annetje Barents. By her he had five children, Maria, Anna, Catrina, Johannes and Eleanora. All of these children grew up and married, and had children of their own. Anthony de Hooges is thought to have died on or about Oct. 11, 1655, as his wages were paid up until that date. [...] According to Egbert Benson (Memoir read before the Historical Society of the State of New York, Dec. 31, 1816, p. 63) Anthony's Nose, the mountain on the east bank of the Hudson at the division line between Westchester and Putnam counties, was named after Anthony de Hooges. This statement has been widely quoted, but it is hard to determine at this time if it is founded on fact. | de Hooges, Anthony (I31326)
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| 1419 | 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. | Gaymer, Lydia (I23763)
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| 1420 | From "Miss Bernice Squier Dies" (citation details below): Even before [the sisters Bernice and Blanche Squier's] graduation from Battle Creek High School in 1918, the twins had begun manufacturing stuffed dolls, with the idea of earning money for their college education. They attended the University of California one year, then returned to Battle Creek to make toy manufacture a career business. They incorporated under the appropriate "Twinzy" name in 1925 and, in the years that followed, made and sold throughout the nation a line of "safe and washable" toys that included some 30 different items. In addition to several million stuffed dolls, the firm turned out various animal toys filled with foam rubber stuffing, after the development of that material. Among their best selling items were stuffed Army mule mascot miniatures, which were popular at West Point Military Academy. In 1937, by a unique arrangement, the sisters were elected twin presidents of the Circulus Club, an organization of business and professional women. They also were members of the International Twins Association and attended conventions of that organization, which boasted at that time a membership of more than 600 sets of twins. | Squier, Bernice (I35681)
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| 1421 | From "Miss Bernice Squier Dies" (citation details below): Even before [the sisters Bernice and Blanche Squier's] graduation from Battle Creek High School in 1918, the twins had begun manufacturing stuffed dolls, with the idea of earning money for their college education. They attended the University of California one year, then returned to Battle Creek to make toy manufacture a career business. They incorporated under the appropriate "Twinzy" name in 1925 and, in the years that followed, made and sold throughout the nation a line of "safe and washable" toys that included some 30 different items. In addition to several million stuffed dolls, the firm turned out various animal toys filled with foam rubber stuffing, after the development of that material. Among their best selling items were stuffed Army mule mascot miniatures, which were popular at West Point Military Academy. In 1937, by a unique arrangement, the sisters were elected twin presidents of the Circulus Club, an organization of business and professional women. They also were members of the International Twins Association and attended conventions of that organization, which boasted at that time a membership of more than 600 sets of twins. | Squier, Blanche (I35685)
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| 1422 | From "People and Events of Yesteryear: Charles Albert Squier", citation details below: Charles Squier began his career with the Battle Creek Machinery Co., predecessor of American-Marsh Pumps, Inc., learning the machinist trade. It was while with this firm that he recognized the need in industry and business of an extra heavy shipping tag. Charles and his father went to work on this idea. After designing a tag they were still faced with the problem of production. The two men built one machine after another, each better than the one before and finally evolved an automatic machine that would print, trim, reinforce and string a wire in the punched hole of the tag, all in one continuous operation. This machine was in operation by their American Mfg. Co. as early as 1888 and with addedre finements was used until the business here was sold in 1945. Members of the firm in its early days were Daniel and Charles Squier and Mr. Bromberg. [...] For many years the tag factory was operated at the rear of the Fremont street residence. Charles A. Squier, 73, died at his home on Nov. 26, 1934 and for the next 11 years the business was continued by his son, John B. Squier. It was then sold to a Chicago firm. The factory building is now used by Bernice Squier for her Twinzy Toy Co. | Squier, Charles Albert (I22481)
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| 1423 | From "Sharp Practice" by Rosie Bevan (citation details below): Nicholas Sharpe [...] spent his life in service as an auditor to Henry VI and Edward IV during a turbulent time in English history. He first appears on record in 1438 creating a valour for Henry V's feoffees in Wiltshire and was well established in his career as auditor for the king in Wiltshire, Somerset and Dorset for several years. In 1446 he became auditor of Eton and King's College, Cambridge, and with his brother Thomas, was granted three tenements in York. Between 1455 and 1467 Nicholas received a gift from the king of the farm of two thirds of a crane and wharf in the Vintry ward for ten years, became a seneschal of the Liberty of Bury St Edmunds, succeeded William Cotton to the important post of Receiver General of the Duchy of Lancaster, during which time he was also appointed to the lucrative position of Collector of Customs in London, and was a Justice of the Peace in Essex. Most influentially, in October 1460, under the protectorate of Richard, Duke of York, Nicholas was appointed one of the king's feoffees of the Duchy of Lancaster. Nicholas had died by 1473, when his widow Agnes and brothers Thomas, Christopher and Robert acted as his executors. Agnes is said to be daughter of John Tyrell in Hervey's pedigree, but this is false [...] His heir was his daughter Joan, second wife of Thomas Cotton of Landwade and Exning, the son of his predecessor as Receiver General, William Cotton. The couple's tomb lies on the south side of the chancel in Landwade church. It once held brass inlays which have now disappeared, but the outline in the stone shows a man with two wives. The first wife, Margaret, has two daughters and the second, Joan, has several children surrounding her. | Sharpe, Nicholas (I35393)
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| 1424 | From "Sharp Practice" by Rosie Bevan (citation details below): Robert Fabyan [...] was born around 1450 and must have been aged around five years old when his father died. Perhaps owing to his academic ability he was briefly educated at Oxford in "grammaticals and something in logicalls", but by 1468 was latterly apprenticed to Sir Thomas Cooke, Draper of London and former Mayor, when Cooke was arrested for treason and Robert was aged about 18. Owing to the fallout over Cooke's imprisonment and disgrace, Robert was forced to apprentice himself again to William Holme of the Draper's Company. Before 1483 he married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of John Pake, a London draper, by Elizabeth Stokker, who brought him lands in Theydon Garnon, Theydon Mount, Lambourne, East Ham, West Ham, and Leyton. With her he had a large family of sixteen children. Robert had a distinguished civic career. His evident capability in financial administration came into play in 1486, when he was appointed auditor of the accounts of the City of London -- perhaps an early skill learnt under tuition from his stepfather, Nicholas. In 1492 he was one of the guarantors for the loyalty of Thomas, Marquis of Dorset for 100 marks. In 1493 he was Sheriff of London, elected master of the Drapers in 1495 and subsequently chosen with Mr Recorder to seek redress of the new levies imposed on English cloths in the archduke Philip's territory in 1496. In 1497 when the Cornish rebels marched against London, he was appointed to keep the gates of Ludgate and Newgate secure. In 1501 he was again elected as Master of the Drapers and in 1502 served on the commission of inquiry into the silting up of the river Flete and the ensuing blockage impeding the passage of boats and the buildup of waste. Perhaps owing to the level of royal interference and, like his brother, wary of high office after what happened to Sir Thomas Cooke, he afterwards resigned as Alderman on the grounds that he did not have enough assets to support mayoral election and retired to his mansion called Halstead's in Theydon Garnon in Essex. Here he reverted to his true passion of meticulously compiling the histories for which he is now known -- The Chronicles of London and The New Chronicles of England and France, printed posthumously in 1516. These were the culmination of years of study of books and manuscripts, and later were used as source material for John Stowe the antiquary who later owned some of his manuscripts, John Fox the martyrologist, and even William Shakespeare the playwright. | Fabyan, Robert (I35400)
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| 1425 | From "The Duncanson Wives of Four New Netherland Settlers", citation details below: Coming to prominence in the midst of the Scottish Reformation, he was described as "a convert from the old faith" who "was one of the few ecclesiastics who cordially accepted the reformed doctrines." On 21 October 1560, he was given a house by the Burgh of Stirling for his services as minister to the town. In 1563 he was appointed by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland to establish churches in Menteith. Beginning in 1567, he also was in the service of the infant King James VI of Scotland and was presented to the Vicarage of the Chapel Royal on 17 March 1567. In 1571 he resigned as minister of Stirling and accompanied the King to Edinburgh. He was promoted to Sub-Dean of the Chapel Royal by January of 1574, for which he was to receive a yearly stipend of £200. He was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in August of 1574 and in 1576 and 1578 he was one of the ministers appointed to write the Second Book of Discipline. Perhaps because of his position as "King's minister," John Duncanson received several favors in the way of lands and gifts. On 10 March 1581, he was given the wardship of the lands of Overgibbon in Perthshire until the heir became of age. In 1584, the King confirmed a charter whereby John Seytoun and his wife Margaret Ross sold Duncanson and his wife "Jonete Watsoune" land and estates in Coull in Fifeshire. In 1589 King James conferred upon him the rectory and vicarage of Kirkcowan in Wigtownshire. | Duncanson, Rev. John (I35579)
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| 1426 | From "The McDowell Family", citation details below: John was born in Cecil county, Maryland, in 1750; was educated as a physician at the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania. He married Martha Johnston, at New London Cross Roads, Chester County. About the year 1804 he removed to Steubenville, Ohio and died there January 1, 1825. He was an officer and surgeon in the Continental and United States army. In the Revolutionary War he served with distinction and honor; was engaged in the 'Crossing of the Delaware,' the battle of Princeton, Trenton and others. Congress presented him with a sword. He was a close personal friend of Gen. George Washington, and one of the original members of the Society of the Cincinnati. His military record is as follows: First lieutenant and surgeon's mate, Sixth Pennsylvania Battalion, Jan 9, 1776; first lieutenant, no date, and captain Seventh Pennsylvania March 20, 1777; transferred to First Pennsylvania, Jan. 1, 1783, and served to Nov. 3 1783; surgeon United States infantry regiment, Aug. 1, 1784; resigned July 24, 1788. He served his State as a member of the Executive Council for three years and was also a member of the Legislature. | McDowell, Dr. John (I20687)
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| 1427 | From "The Two John Watertons - Part 2", by John Watson, a post to soc.medieval.genealogy dated 2 Nov 2014: John Waterton, esquire was the son of Richard, son of William, son of Ingram de Waterton and was the brother of the king's esquire Robert Waterton. He was probably born between 1360 and 1370. The first notice we have of him and his brother Robert is that they were with Henry Bolingbroke, earl of Derby, on his expedition, firstly to Calais, then to Prussia and Lithuania in 1390-91, together with their cousin Sir Hugh Waterton, who was Bolingbroke's chamberlain. John Waterton received pay as an esquire during the expedition until 30 April 1391. John and his brother Robert, master of Henry's horses, sailed with Henry to Danzig in July-August 1392, at the start of his journey to Jerusalem, but returned from Danzig to England in September 1392. John Waterton appears to have taken up residence firstly in Yorkshire and later in Lincolnshire, but exactly where is difficult to say. [...] He was sheriff of Lincoln between 29 November 1410 and 10 December 1411, when his brother Robert replaced him as sheriff. [...] After Henry V came to the throne in 1413, John Waterton appears to have been given two positions by the new king; as master of his horse, taking over from his brother Robert who had served as master of the horse to Henry Bolingbroke; and secondly as steward of the royal soke of Kirton in Lindsey in Lincolnshire. [...] John Waterton was in Henry V's retinue as Master of the King's Horse in the expedition to France in August 1415. On 25 October 1415, he was at the battle of Agincourt with six men at arms. John Waterton survived the battle and returned to England. On 4 February 1417, he was on a commission of walliis et fossatis in Lincolnshire and on 16 March 1417, he was a surety for Nicholas Tourney as sheriff of Lincoln. This is the last notice that I can find for John Waterton. On 5 November 1417, Sir Gerard Usflete was appointed to the office of steward of the royal soke of Kirton in Lindsey in place of John Waterton, deceased. | Waterton, John (I11165)
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| 1428 | From "The Well-Beloved Mother-in-law of Robert Marbury" by F. N. Craig, citation details below: In the funeral of Henry VII in 1509, [Robert Marbury] was a yeoman to the King's Grandame (that is, Henry VII's grandmother, Lady Margaret Beaufort, wife successively of Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond; Sir Henry Stafford; and Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby). In 1510, as yeoman usher of the Queen's Chamber, he had a grant to be feodary [i.e., one who holds land of an overlord on condition of homage] of the duchy of Exeter within county Devon, during [the king's] pleasure. In 1513, as Robert Marbury Jr. he was a feofee, along with Robert Marbury Sr. [his uncle], John Lenton [father of his son's future wife] and John Marbury, clerk. In 1514, his cousin William Blount, Lord Mountjoy, was the Queen's Chamberlain. In the same year, Robert Marbury, yeoman usher of the Queen's Chamber, was feodary noted above, for life. In 1517, he was appointed to be serjeant at arms, with 12d. a day in consideration of his services to Queen Catherine. In 1526, his yearly wage as serjeant at arms in the Royal Household was £18 5s, i.e., still 12d. a day. In the Lincolnshire Rebellion of October 1536, Robert Marbury appears as follows: In the examination of Sir Edward Madeson before the King's Council, Madeson, with his brother John Madeson and both his sons, then went up into Castrefeld to see the number of rebellious and there met Sir Wm. Askew and Marbery the serjeant and one Bonctcene of the Exchequer. The rebels took them all except Boneteync and Marbury. (Let. & Pap. Hen. VIII, 11:225-26, no. 568.) In a letter from Sir Robert Kyrkham to Richard Cromwell: "Yesterday night late" he was at Stanforde with Sir William Parre and others when Marbery and Madyson, the King's servants came in, having escaped from the rebels who they say are 20,000... (Let. & Pap. Hen. VIII, 11:248, no. 619). | Marbury, Robert (I4827)
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| 1429 | From "The Wylley and Cramphorne Families" (citation details below): The property in Sawbridgeworth, alternately named "Chandlers" and "Chaloners," appears earlier in a 1547 charter in the British Library in which a William Cramphorne made a grant of "Chaloners" to his son George. This same William Cramphorne left a Consistory Court of London will, dated 14 April 1550, proved 23 May 1550, in which he named wife Cycelie and sons Williams, George, Nicholas, and John. Additional insights into this family are found in a series of depositions regarding rights and title to land in the manor of Sawbridgeworth taken 8 January [31 Elizabeth] 1588/9. The defendant George Cramphorne was identified as the eldest son of George Cramphorne, deceased, who was, in turn, the eldest son of William Cramphorne, deceased. John Cramphorne of Harlowe in the county of Essex, husbandman, "of the age of 71 years or thereabouts," was named as the son of the same William Cramphorne. This William was described as a very old man of above 80 years of age [near 100 scored through] when the said lands were taken from him and also very deaf and "a | Cramphorne, William (I4644)
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| 1430 | From Ancestry of Elizabeth Louise White by Steven C. Perkins: About 1747 he settled in what is now Franklin County, North Carolina, but was then called Granville County; in 1764 a portion was formed into Bute and in 1779 Warren and Franklin were formed from Bute. The manuscript contains references to various documents in Granville which establish the White presence there, and he bought land on 31 July 1747. Granville County Deed Book A at page 28. Hofmann, The Granville District of North Carolina, 929.3756 H713g, shows many Whites active in the same time period. Richard, Sr. seems to have centered himself around Fishing Creek, which runs nearly the width of the current Warren County. His will is dated 23 June 1754 and was recorded in Granville in June of 1757, so he died in the interim. An Abstract of North Carolina Wills, 929.3 N87na, p.330. Thanks to Nancy Jonckheere, I have a copy of the will. She says he died in Granville County in 1757. The name of his wife is not stated, so she was probably dead. Nancy states that family tradition claims that she was Drucilla Sherrod. His son, Richard, Jr. inherited all property, except for two shillings each bequeathed to two sons, William and Nicholas. | White, Richard (I8985)
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| 1431 | From Ancestry of Elizabeth Louise White by Steven C. Perkins: RICHARD WHITE, JR. A resident of North Carolina, his will was recorded in Warren/Bute Will Book 2 at 73, dated 17 July 1775. (Olds, An Abstract of North Carolina Wills, supra, p.316.) He acquired land on Cedar Creek by deed in Warren Deed Book 5, at 167, in January of 1775. In a deed from John Wait (sic), John recites that his father, Richard White, acquired the land by grant from the Earl of Granville County in November of 1760 (this is Richard White, Jr. as Richard White, Sr. was dead by 1757). See The Granville District of North Carolina, supra, v.2, p. 159. None of this narrows down his birthdate much. The most that can be said is that he obviously was born well before 1754, when his father named him in his will. A Richard White was listed as a taxpayer in Bute County in 1771. (North Carolina Taxpayers, 929.3756 R233, v.1, p.216.) The will names his wife as Elizabeth and his children as John, Mark, Harrison, Richard, Nicholas, Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth, Drusilla and Nancy. It also recites that he died owning land on Buffaloe Creek, on Burnt Coat, on Franko Creek and between Franko and Cedar Creeks. Some other useful information is found in Bradley, Will Book C of Franklin County, North Carolina 1804-1812, supra, p. 1. There it is recited that White's Negroes were willed to his wife, Elizabeth, and that she was dividing most of them among her daughters. It was stated that one of four lots was drawn by Thomas Hardin, husband of Salley, and that Elizabeth, Drucilla (sic) and Nancy White drew the other three. The date of the drawing is stated to have been 24 February 1801; however, the recording of the event was at the March 1804 term of court. Apparently, only Sarah (Salley) was married. Perhaps the order of the draw indicates seniority. It would appear that Elizabeth was still alive in 1804. However, she may have been alive much closer to 1826. Material from Nancy Jonckheere indicates that the division, pursuant to an award by the commissioners, was at the September term in 1826; that Sarah Harding, Steven Sparks and Elizabeth, his wife, Drucilla White and Crofford Kearney and Nancy, his wife, took at that time. This seems to be a second effort to divide the slaves, this time not by lot or agreement, but by court order. Also note the power of attorney John gave in 1826 to settle his mother's estate. These actions would indicate a possible residence in Franklin County, North Carolina. This site says: 73 (A) Will of RICHARD WHITE, planter. Dated 17 July 1775. Recorded Nov. Court 1775. Land on Buffaloe Creek to son JOHN WHITE. Land bought of WILLIAM WHITE to son MARK WHITE. Land on Burnt Coat to son HARRISON WHITE. Land between Franko & Cedar Creek to son RICHARD. Land where I now live, on Franko Creek, to son NICHOLAS. To my wife ELIZABETH WHITE and then to my five daughters MARY, SARAH, ELIZABETH, DRUSILLA, NANCY. Exors: Wife ELIZABETH WHITE, THOMAS SHERROD, and son MARK WHITE. Wit: WILLOUGHBY SELF, ISAAC HUDSON, JOHN HUDSON, WILLIAM HUDSON. | White, Richard (I8975)
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| 1432 | From Descendants of David Akin of Newport, RI, by Robert Larry Akin: "There is very little known about Mary, the 'mother' of this line of the Akin family in America. In fact, the only proof of her existence is a deed that is recorded in the Rhode Island State Archives dated 1671. A copy of this deed can be seen in the Town Hall in Portsmouth, Newport, RI. This deed is for 200 acres of land 'lying in Narragansett Country or Kings Province' purchased for ten pounds sterling. The grantors were William Brenton, Benedict Arnold, John Hull, John Porter, Samuel Wilbur, Asmuill Wilson, and Thomas Mumford. The description of the land states that it is bordered by land owned by Samuell Albro and Robert Hasard (Hazard). "After purchasing the land in September 1671, Mary assigned it to two of her sons, John and David, the following January, 1672. "Family lore says that Mary and her three children, John, James, and David, came to America on a ship that sailed from Aberdeen, Scotland to Newport County, Rhode Island before 1676, but there is not a shred of evidence to support this story. In fact, Mary could have been born in America and borne her children in this country. A genealogist I hired in Scotland, Diane Baptie, wrote: 'The reference in Donald Whyte's book A dictionary of emigrants to the USA reads: "Mrs. Mary Akin, From Aberdeen to Newport, Rhode Island before 1676; issue: John born 1663; David born 1664; James born 1668." His source is given as "Letters to the editor regarding Scottish emigrants - Scottish Genealogical Library, 4th January 1963". In other words, this entry does not rely on an original source but has been apparently sent by a correspondent to Donald Whyte almost certainly from America. Aberdeen could mean either the burgh or county of Aberdeen.' As a result, I believe that the idea that Mary traveled to America with her three sons is questionable since the source was a letter from America. "The Akin genealogist Daphne Brownell found a deed showing that a man named David Akin lived in Newport, Newport, RI as early as 1662. A transcription of this deed can be found in Rhode Island Land Evidences, Vol. 1, 1648-1696 on pp. 84-85. Daphne and I believe that this man MAY have been the husband of Mary and, therefore, the 'father' of this Akin line in America; however, this is only speculation based on the idea of sparcity of population in Newport between 1662 and 1671 and the odds that two of them would be unrelated and named Akin. "It is not know when either Mary Akin or David Akin were born nor when they died; however, since Mary signed the land deed mentioned above as Mary Akin, widow, we know that her husband died before 1671. No other dates are known. "We do know the names of her children. They were John Akin, the eldest (b. 1663); James (b. 1667); and David, the youngest (b. 1669). These dates of birth are all derived from their ages at death so are not precise." | Mary (I6257)
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| 1433 | From Combs-Coombs &c: Francis COOMES, b ca 1726, Maryland, d 3 Aug 1822, Nelson Co KY; buried St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery; m in MD Charity WOOD; b ?, d aft 1796, probably in Nelson Co KY. They resided in first Virginia [location not known], were there ca 1767 when son, Richard, was born (1850 Nelson KY Census) and then, between 1768 and 1771, removed to Surry Co NC where Francis COONS [sic] appears on the tax lists of the newly-formed (from Rowan) county with 1 tithable. [...] On 06 Aug 1796 (Surry Co NC DBF:332) Francis COOMER [sic] sold Round Hill to John FARMER, £100, and shortly thereafter removed to Nelson Co KY where he first appears on tax lists in 1797. Note: There is a Find a Grave page for a Francis Coomes buried in St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery in Fairfield, Kentucky. It gives no parents, spouse, or children, but the text says "Was a Private in the Virginia Militia during Revolutionary War", something not mentioned in the lengthy compilation of Francis Coomes information on the Combs-Coombs &c. site. The photograph shows a headstone that has been made illegible by damage, to which a modern plaque has been added reading "FRANCIS COOMES / PVT VA MILITIA / REVOLUTIONARY WAR / 1726 1822." Further from Combs-Coombs &c: The ancestry of neither Francis Combs nor his wife has been determined; however, it is possible that he was from Charles Co, MD. According to the following family traditions/histories: (1) Extracted from "The Centenary of Catholicity in Kentucky", by Hon. Ben. J. Webb, published by Cook & McDowell Owensboro, Kentucky in 1980, Chapter XXXVIII, "The mission of Daviess County," an interview by Webb of Francis' grandson, Richard R. COOMES: "Richard R. COOMES, whose name appears in the above list of early settlers in the county [list of pre-1831 settlers of Daviess Co. KY], is a grandson of the veteran patriarch of the Cox's Creek settlement, Francis COOMES, who died a centenarian in 1822. The history of the family, as sketched for the writer by its oldest living representative in Daviess...is sufficiently interesting to be here introduced: "Francis COOMES, from whom one branch of the family so designated and residing in KY has its descent, was born in Maryland about the year 1722. When a young married man, he stayed away from MD and went first to VA, and afterwards to N.C. Here there were children born to him and these grew up with little, if any, knowledge of their ancestral faith. When his oldest son, Richard, father of the venerated friend whose account the writer is here quoting, reached his majority, he became dissatisfied with his surroundings in NC, and, after wandering from place to place for a number of years, finally came to KY in the year 1790. It is more then likely he fell in with some of his father's former acquaintances of MD, then on their way to the settlement on Cox's Creek [Nelson Co, KY]. "Richard COOMES was accompanied to the State and to the settlement referred to by two single sisters, Anna and Rachel COOMES, the first of whom afterwards became the wife of Walter COOMES, .... and the mother of the late Rev. Charles I. COOMES .... and the last the wife of William COOMES, who removed from Nelson to Daviess County in the year 1815. "In 1794, or thereabouts, Richard COOMES returned to N. C. and brought back with him to Kentucky his aged father and mother, and two single sisters. One of these latter afterwards intermarried with Wilfred WATHEN, and became the mother of ... Rev. John C. WATHEN. The other was married to John SPEAKS. Having still a widowed sister residing in VA, Mrs. Margaret WATHEN, he went after her a year or two later, and brought to KY herself and her two infant children. ... she was afterwards united in marriage with Zachariah AUD, of the Cox's Creek Settlement, and she became mother of ... Rev. Athanasius A. AUD,.... The death of Richard COOMES took place in 1868, at the age of eighty-eight years." (2) From Combs Researcher Joe Lewis: Father Eugene COOMES, S.J. also stated that Francis and Charity had nine children, some born in MD, VA and some in NC. In addition to those named above, Fr. Eugene also listed "...Henry who died 1856 in Breckenridge Co. KY, Leonard, who married Mary Anastasia COOMES (daughter of William COOMES) 1800 in Nelson Co. KY, and Lydia who married a CRUTCHFIELD in NC and moved to St. Lawrence in Daviess Co., KY. | Coomes, Francis (I3863)
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| 1434 | From Combs-Coombs &c.: Thomas (Richard1), born bef 1699; died testate, Charles County, Maryland, 1752/3; married before 1724, Elizabeth WHARTON, died 1772, Charles County. Children: * Mary Ann (Thomas2, Richard1), married bef 1753, James HAMILTON * Bennet (Thomas2, Richard1), died bef 1767, married Drusilla CULVER * Thomas Wharton (Thomas2, Richard1), living 1783 on Green's Inheritance, died 1804, Charles County, Maryland * Anastasia (Thomas2, Richard1), born 1743 died 11 Aug 1799, Iberville Parish, LA, married Joseph Ignatius HAMILTON * Ann (Thomas2, Richard1), widowed by 1775, married Roby STEWART * William (Thomas2, Richard1), born 1734-40, died 1824, Nelson County, Kentucky * Joseph (Thomas2, Richard1), died aft 1777 * Francis Ignatius (Thomas2, Richard1), born 1734-52, died 1817, Hardy County, Virginia, married Cassandra CULVER * Walter (Thomas2, Richard1), born 1734-52, died 1775 in Charles County, Single We thank Carol Collins and Joe Lewis for the above! Note also that much more information is available on all children and grandchildren than the above on our Charles County site. From www.coomes.org. But please also read the note appended to this excerpt. Thomas Coomes Occupation: Planter Property: Coomes Purchase, Charles County, MD Religion: Catholic THOMAS COOMES was born Abt. 1695 in Charles County, Maryland, and died January 1753. He married ELIZABETH WHARTON 1719, daughter of JESSE WHARTON and MARY WHARTON. She was born 1699, and died 1772. Thomas Coomes was a planter. Coomes Purchase, his plantation, was on the west side of Portobacco main branch in line of a tract of land called Green's Inheritance, and near the plantation of Alexander Hamilton. This was the home plantation of the Coomes family, and the place where all of Thomas and Elizabeth's children were born. They also had land called Christian Milford in Nanjem Hundred in Charles County, Maryland, relatively close by. In 1719, Coomes' Purchase 100 acres were surveyed for Thomas Coomes. His will was proved January 29, 1753: mentions son, Thomas Wharton Coomes to whom he wills Coomes Purchase; son, Walter, part of Greens Inheritance; son, Bennet, all of my whole and sole right to a part of Greens Inheritance. Four younger sons, Joseph, William, Francis Ignatius, and Walter when they became 18, wife Elizabeth. (All properties were to be held by Elizabeth until her death) Elizabeth Wharton Coomes, wife of Thomas, died in 1772. In addition to the children named above, her will mentions her daughter, Mary Ann Hamilton (wife of James), Ann Smith, Anastasia Hamilton (wife of Joseph). Elizabeth left Christian Milford to sons Thomas Wharton Coomes and Walter Coomes. Notes for ELIZABETH WHARTON: Dr. Jesse Thomas Wharton, father of Elizabeth Wharton Coomes, was commissioned as Deputy Governor of Maryland in 1676 and served in this position until his death. Children of THOMAS COOMES and ELIZABETH WHARTON are: WILLIAM COOMES, b. Coomes Purchase, Charles County, Maryland; d. November 06, 1824, Cox's Creek, Nelson County, Kentucky. MARY ANN COOMES, b. 1726, Coomes Purchase, Charles County, Maryland; d. 1785. BENEDICT "BENNET" COOMES, b. Abt. 1720, Coomes Purchase, Charles County, Maryland; d. Bef. 1767. THOMAS WHARTON COOMES, b. Abt. 1716, Coomes Purchase, Charles County, Maryland; d. Abt. 1804. ANASTASIA COOMES, b. 1732, Coomes Purchase, Charles County, Maryland; d. 1799. ANN COOMES, b. Abt. 1730, Coomes Purchase, Charles County, Maryland; m. ROBY STEWART, 1760. More About ROBY STEWART and ANN COOMES: Marriage: 1760 JOSEPH COOMES, b. Coomes Purchase, Charles County, Maryland; d. 1799. FRANCES IGNATIUS COOMES, b. 1726, Coomes Purchase, Charles County, Maryland; d. April 03, 1822, Fairfield, Nelson County, Kentucky. WALTER COOMES, b. Abt. 1718, Coomes Purchase, Charles County, Maryland; d. 1775. Notes on the above, by PNH: (1) The reference to "the plantation of Alexander Hamilton" has nothing to do with the future first Secretary of the Treasury; there really was a planter in the area with the same name, no relation. (2) Regarding the parentage of Elizabeth Wharton, the Jesse Wharton who served as deputy governor of Maryland did indeed serve in that position "until his death" -- for a whole five weeks, in June and July of 1676. He was appointed deputy governor on June 16, 1676, with de facto gubernatorial authority because the nominal governor, the son of the colony's recently-deceased proprietor, was an infant. Wharton died in office shortly thereafter, on July 27, 1676, twenty-three years before Elizabeth Wharton's stated birth date. Jesse Wharton left behind one son, Henry Wharton, by his wife Elizabeth Sewall, so it's conceivable that Henry could have been the father of Thomas Coomes's wife. | Coomes, Thomas (I9686)
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| 1435 | From Find a Grave: HISTORY OF MARGARET JOHNSON GUYMON Margaret Johnson was born 28 February 1821 in Springfield, Elgin (then the London District,) Ontario, Canada, the youngest daughter of Edward Johnson and Sarah Brown, Irish immigrants. Upon hearing the doctrines of the LDS church preached to them, Edward and his family were baptized in 1836, moving to Missouri to be with the body of the Saints when Margaret was 12 years old. In Missouri, Margaret's mother and sister Elizabeth died and her father married Percy Baldwin Curtis, a widow. The family moved to Lima, Illinois and then to Nauvoo after 1841, living in the 4th Ward. Margaret Johnson and her brother, Robert Lewis Johnson made a home together prior to Robert's marriage to Polly Ann Guymon 30 April 1846 in Nauvoo. Ten months after Noah Thomas Guymon's wife, Mary Dickersen Dudley, died following childbirth, he and Margaret Johnson were married on 25 November 1845 in Nauvoo. Their home was a on a farm outside of Nauvoo. In 1846 Noah's sister Polly Ann Guymon married Margaret's brother, Robert Lewis Johnson. The Guymon family moved with the body of the Saints to Pottawattamie County, Iowa where Margaret's first two children were born in the town of Kanesville. These children were Margaret Elizabeth Guymon born 19 September 1846 and Martin Lewis Guymon born 24 January 1849. 12th of June 1850 Noah Thomas Guymon's family left Council Bluffs, Iowa for Utah in the Aaron Johnson Wagon Train. The Guymon family now consisted of Noah's three daughters by his first marriage, Margaret and her two children and his third wife, Elizabeth Ann Jones and her son, William Albert Guymon. They were fortunate to travel with Noah's parents and Margaret's brother, Robert. They arrived in Salt Lake City, 12 September 1850, staying with Noah's brother, James who had a home in the Little Cottonwood area of the valley. Their visit was brief however, as Brigham Young had designated eight wagons from their company to continue their journey into Utah Valley and settle there. Noah erected one of the first homes in what is now American Fork, Utah. The home was made of logs; the roof of poles on which cane was laid. In October 1851 he moved the family to a farm near Springville, Utah. His children were able to attend a school inside the fort. It was here that he was called on a mission to England for three years from 13 September 1852 to 10 September 1855. During Noah's absence there was trouble with the Indians. Margaret moved her family into the town of Springville for protection. Margaret had to support herself and her extended family while Noah was gone. This she did by teaching school and sewing for other people. She raised food in her garden and carded, spun, dyed and wove her own wool cloth into clothes for the children. She purchased a lot and had home built and paid for through her earnings when her husband came home three years later. It was in Springville that the remainder of Margaret's children were born. Seeking greener pastures, Noah, Margaret, Elizabeth and a 4th wife Louisa Rowley moved to Fairview, Sanpete County, Utah and again in 1867 to Fountain Green, Sanpete County, Utah. Here the family seemed to be content until 1879 when exploration of Castle Valley yielded good reports and it was decided to move there. Margaret now 60 years old, did not join the exodus there but moved back to Springville. For the next twenty years she lived in her children's homes, especially that of her daughter Julia Maycock. On 17 December 1900 Margaret Johnson Guymon died in Driggs, Teton County, Idaho while visiting her daughter Margaret Elizabeth Crandall. Her body was shipped home to Springville where she is buried in the Springville Cemetery. An inscription on her tombstone reads: "Our mother we hope to meet you when the cares of life are through." Margaret remained faithful throughout her life to the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. | Johnson, Margaret (I213)
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| 1436 | From Leo van de Pas's site: Theodoros distinguished himself during the siege of Constantinople by the crusaders of the Fourth Crusade in 1203-04. After the sack of the city he established himself in the town of Nicaea that became the rallying point for the Byzantines. Theodoros formed a new Byzantine state in Asia Minor and in 1206 assumed the title of emperor. His state was besieged by his enemies, but he fought successful defensive campaigns against the Latin emperor of Constantinople Henri of Flanders. He defeated his rival Alexius I, emperor of Trebizond, and successfully attacked Kay Khusrau I, the sultan of Rüm (Iconium or Konya). Theodore's most important victory was gained in 1210 when he captured Alexius and the city of Antioch. He had five children by his first wife Anna Komnene Angelina, who died in 1212. Two daughters would have progeny. He next married Philippa of Armenia, but this marriage was annulled after one year on religious grounds. Their son Konstantinos had no rights to the throne, instead becoming duke of Thrakesion. In 1219 he married Marie de Courtenay . By the time of his death in August 1222 Theodoros had ruled over a territory covering the old Roman provinces of Asia and Bithynia. By his courage and military skill he enabled the Byzantine nation not only to survive, but ultimately to defeat the Latin invaders. | Laskaris, Theodoros I Komnenos Emperor in Nicea (I14216)
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| 1437 | From Divorce, Murder and Madness: The Puritan Tuttles of the New Haven Colony: Mercy Tuttle, the youngest daughter of the clan, had married Samuel Brown in 1667 at age 17. The couple had several children, including a son, Samuel. They lived in Wallingford. It would come out later that Mercy Tuttle was erratic in her behavior throughout life. (Her older brother, David, had also been judged insane years earlier.) When Mercy's husband died in 1691, there was no longer anyone to act as a check on her. On the night of June 23, she attacked her son Samuel with an ax and killed him. Mercy admitted she had killed her son, but said it was not done out of malice. Instead, she said, the murder was committed "at the instigation of the devil." In October 1691, the court convicted Mercy of murder, but withheld sentence until 1693. Then it ruled: "Having weighed the evidences given in, to prove that she hath generally been in a crazed or distracted condition as well long before she committed the act, as at that time, and having observed since that she is in such a condition, do not see cause to pass sentence of death against her, but for preventing her doing the like or other mischief for the future, do order, that she shall be kept in custody of the magistrates of New Haven." And that's where she died, in the custody of the magistrates of the New Haven Colony her father had hoped to build. | Tuttle, Mercy (I23372)
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| 1438 | From The Harmon and Perry Genealogy: Samuel HOTCHKISS was born in 1623 in Dodington, parish of Whitchurch, Shropshire, England. He died on 28 December 1663 at the age of 40 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. He was buried on 28 December 1663 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. Samuel was christened in Dodington, Whitchurch, England. […W]as a resident of New Haven, CT in 1641, being among the first to locate there, and remaining there until his death. Emigrated to the American colony of New Haven about 1638. May have been sent with the New Haven Colony founders at the behest of an older brother, Thomas, a Puritan minister and possible associate of John Davenport, one of the founders of New Haven. Sailed for New World in May, 1637 on the Hector. Samuel and Elizabeth Cleverly were allowed to marry September, 1642 without their parent's permission even though underage because they had spoiled one another for everyone else due to their "filthy dalliance". They had been whipped in August 1642 after being caught in said "filthy dalliance", so marriage was probably a necessity. | Hotchkiss, Samuel (I4595)
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| 1439 | From Wikipedia: "Andrew I the White or the Catholic (Hungarian: I. Fehér or Katolikus András or Endre; c. 1015 – Zirc, before 6 December 1060) was King of Hungary from 1046 to 1060. He descended from a younger branch of the Árpád dynasty. After spending fifteen years in exile, he ascended the throne during an extensive revolt of the pagan Hungarians. He strengthened the position of Christianity in the Kingdom of Hungary and successfully defended its independence against the Holy Roman Empire. "His efforts to ensure the succession of his son, Solomon, resulted in the open revolt of his brother, Béla. Béla dethroned Andrew by force in 1060. Andrew suffered severe injuries during the fighting and died before his brother was crowned king." | András I King of Hungary (I3785)
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| 1440 | From Wikipedia: Bertha of Milan or Bertha of Luni (c. 997-c. 1040), was a member of the Obertenghi dynasty. Bertha was married to Ulric Manfred II of Turin. She is sometimes identified with the Bertha who was married to Arduin of Ivrea. Although it is known that Bertha was a member of the Otbertenghi dynasty, there is some debate about who her parents were. Her father is often said to be Oberto II, but others argue that Bertha's father was in fact Otbert III of Milan. By 1014 at the latest, Bertha had married Ulric Manfred (that year, Emperor Henry II confirmed their joint donation to the abbey of Fruttuaria). Her dowry included lands in the counties of Tortona, Parma and Piacenza. In May 1028 with her husband, Ulric Manfred, Bertha founded the convent of Santa Maria at Caramagna. The following year, in July 1029, along with her husband and his brother, Bishop Alric of Asti, Bertha founded the Benedictine abbey in of S. Giusto in Susa, which housed the relics of Saint Justus of Novalesa. The church of the Abbey of San Giusto is now Susa Cathedral. After Ulric Manfred's death (in December 1033 or 1034), Bertha briefly acted as regent for their daughter, Adelaide of Susa. In 1037 Bertha captured envoys who wished to cross the Alps from Piedmont to Champagne, thus foiling a conspiracy against Emperor Conrad II. Conrad II rewarded Bertha for her part in suppressing the rebellion against him by issuing an imperial diploma which confirmed her donations to the abbey of S. Giusto in Susa. | of Este, Berta (I3446)
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| 1441 | From Wikipedia: Franklin Hiram King was an American agricultural scientist who was born on a farm near Whitewater, Wisconsin, attended country schools, and received his professional training first at Whitewater State Normal School, graduating in 1872, and then at Cornell University. King is now best remembered for his first-hand account of traditional agricultural practices in Asia, now regarded as an organic farming classic text. | King, Franklin Hiram (I21032)
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| 1442 | From Wikipedia: During King William's War, Hannah [Duston], her husband Thomas, and their eight children were residents of Haverhill, Massachusetts. In March 1697, the town was attacked by a group of Abenaki from Quebec. In the attack, 27 colonists were killed, and 13 were taken captive to be either adopted or held as hostages for the French. When their farm was attacked, Thomas fled with eight children, but Hannah and her nurse, Mary Neff (nee Corliss), were captured and forced to march into the wilderness, Hannah carrying her newborn daughter, Martha. According to the account Hannah gave to Cotton Mather, along the way her captors killed the six-day-old Martha by smashing her head against a tree. Hannah and Mary were assigned to a family group of 12 persons and taken north. The group included Samuel Lennardson, a 14-year-old captured in Worcester, Massachusetts, the year before. Six weeks later, at an island in the Merrimack River at the mouth of the Contoocook River, near what is now Penacook, New Hampshire, Hannah led Mary and Samuel in a revolt. Hannah used a tomahawk to attack the sleeping captors, killing one of the two grown men (Lennardson killed the second), two adult women, and six children. One severely wounded Abenaki woman and a young boy managed to escape the attack. The former captives immediately left in a canoe, but not before taking scalps from the dead as proof of the incident and to collect a bounty. They traveled downriver, only during the night, and after several days reached Haverhill. The Massachusetts General Court later gave them a reward for killing their captors; Hannah Duston received 25 pounds, and Neff and Lennardson split another 25 pounds (various accounts say 50 or 25 pounds, and some accounts mention only Duston's receiving an award). The event became well known, due in part to Cotton Mather's account in Magnalia Christi Americana: The Ecclesiastical History of New England (1702). Duston became more famous in the 19th century as her story was retold by Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Henry David Thoreau. | Corliss, Mary (I17417)
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| 1443 | From Wikipedia: Heber Chase Kimball (June 14, 1801 – June 22, 1868) was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement. He served as one of the original twelve apostles in the early Church of the Latter Day Saints, and as first counselor to Brigham Young in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1847 until his death. | Kimball, Heber Chase (I2846)
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| 1444 | From Wikipedia: He held the prebend of Calne in the diocese of Salisbury before becoming treasurer of Salisbury by 13 January 1239. By January 1246 he was Dean of Lincoln. His father Richard had been a royal judge. Henry's brother Robert of Lexinton was also a judge, and his brother John was a knight and clerk of the royal household, at various times seneschal, envoy, and keeper of the seals. Another brother was Stephen of Lexington, a Cistercian monk and abbot of Clairvaux abbey. Henry was elected to the see of Lincoln on either 21 or 30 December 1253 and consecrated on 17 May 1254, at London or possibly at Lambeth. | de Lexington, Henry Bishop of London (I9009)
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| 1445 | From Wikipedia: John Crandall, one of the founding settlers of Westerly, Rhode Island, was born in 1618 (baptized February 15, 1617/8) in Westerleigh, Gloucestershire, England to James Crandall, a yeoman of Kendleshire in that parish, and his first wife Eleanor. The origin of the name is undoubtedly a place-name, Crundelend, in Abberley, Worcestershire, where people bearing the name were concentrated in the 16th century. [...] While the exact date of Crandall's arrival is not known, it is believed to be 1637 when he arrived in Providence, Rhode Island, then a new settlement and a refuge for dissident Puritans from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. From Providence he came to Newport, Rhode Island, as early as 1651. (The first actual documentation for Elder John Crandall in American is in 1643 when he appears as a grand jury member in Newport.) He became a prominent member of the First Baptist Church in Newport there, subsequently the first elder of the denomination at Westerly, Rhode Island. With John Clarke and Obadiah Holmes he went to Lynn, Massachusetts, to hold services for the Baptists, was arrested there July 21, 1651, and sent to prison in Boston. Ten days later he was convicted of breaking the law by holding services and fined five pounds, in default of which he was to be publicly whipped. Upon his promise to appear at the next term of court he was released. In 1655, he was a freeman of Rhode Island; in 1658-59, 1662–63, he was a commissioner. With eight others he signed a letter to the court of commissioners of Rhode Island, dated August 27, 1661, in relation to a tract of land at Westerly, where they and others desired to settle. He was a deputy to the general assembly in 1667, and in the fall of that year was living at Westerly. He and Joseph Torrey were appointed commissioners to treat with Connecticut as to jurisdiction over disputed territory, May 14, 1669, and he was supplied with thirty-five shillings by the colony of Rhode Island to pay his expenses to Connecticut. On November 18, 1669, he received a letter from the governor and assistants of Connecticut, complaining that he and others had appropriated a large tract of land belonging to Stonington, Connecticut. He and Tobias Saunders answered the complaint for the Westerly people. He was conservator of the peace at Westerly in 1670, and deputy to the general assembly again in 1670-71. He was arrested by the Connecticut authorities, May 2, 1671, and was advised by the Rhode Island government to decline to give bond. The Rhode Island colony promised to pay his expenses and defend him. The name of his first wife (by whom he had at least seven children) is not known, but it was not Mary Opp as was previously thought and is widely mentioned. He married, as his second wife, Hannah Gaylord (born 1647), daughter of William Gaylord and Ann (Porter), of Windsor, Connecticut. She died in 1678. He died at Newport, where he had moved because of King Philip's War, in 1676. | Crandall, John (I5728)
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| 1446 | From Wikipedia: Note that there is no record of the name of Elder John [Crandall's first] wife in any Rhode Island records nor has a record of the marriage ever been found. Based on the approximate dates of birth of their children (with the eldest, John, born ca. 1649 based on the date he appears as a freeman in Westerly) it would appear likely that Elder John married his first wife in the latter part of the 1640s. It also would seem to indicate that he probably married her in America. Since she is referred to as a "Sabbath keeper" in communications from Samuel Hubbard, it is likely that she was of the Seventh Day Baptist faith, and perhaps she was a daughter of one of the SDB families in Rhode Island at the time. | (Unknown first wife of John Crandall) (I3912)
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| 1447 | From Wikipedia: John Doukas, who was given the court dignity of Caesar by his brother Constantine X, was one of the most influential members of the court aristocracy from the death of his brother into that of Alexios I Komnenos. His wealth derived of estates in Thrace and Bithynia, and he was a close friend of the historian Michael Psellos. Although he is usually documented by the sources as a member of the court, he had begun his career as a general. After serving as a counsellor and supporter of his brother, John came to the fore after his brother's death in 1067 as the natural protector of the rights of his nephew Michael VII Doukas. His position as Caesar and his family's influence in the Senate meant that he was behind the opposition of the court officials to the Empress Mother Eudokia Makrembolitissa and her marriage to Romanos IV Diogenes. Over the course of the next three years he became the emperor's bitterest enemy, but his intriguing meant that the Caesar spent much of Romanos' reign in retirement on his estates in Bithynia. It was here that he learned that his son Andronikos Doukas had joined and then deserted the emperor in the disastrous campaign ending with the Battle of Manzikert in 1071. Romanos' captivity gave John the opportunity to return to court at the request of Eudokia Makrembolitissa. Joining forces with Michael Psellos, the Caesar made the Empress share power with her son, and then forced her to become a nun and retire from court affairs in October 1071. He soon became the de facto head of the Government in the name of Michael VII, ordering the empire not to acknowledge Romanus as emperor, declaring that Romanos had been elevated to the throne to act for Michael, who was now able to administer the empire. The Caesar sent his sons Andronikos and Constantine to capture Romanos IV, who had been released from captivity and thus ensured the sole rule of his nephew Michael VII. John Doukas initially agreed to allow Romanos to resign the purple and retire to a monastery. But his hatred of Romanos was so great that he reneged on the agreement and ordered that Romanos be blinded, sending him a mocking message congratulating him on the loss of his eyes as he lay dying from the infected wound. With the elimination of Romanos, John and Michael Psellos were supreme at court. The Caesar was undone, however, by one of his own creatures, the eunuch Nikephoritzes. By 1073 the eunuch had gained the confidence of Michael VII, whom he turned against his uncle. The Caesar was forced to retire to his great estates, where he amused himself by hunting in the forests near the shores of the Bosphorus. In the meantime, the progress of the Seljuk Turks roused the Byzantine government into action, gathering together an army of mercenaries under the command of Isaac Komnenos. The Norman mercenaries, led by Roussel de Bailleul, rebelled against the Byzantines, crushed an imperial army, and attempted to establish an independent kingdom in Anatolia. The situation in Asia Minor was now so dire, that in 1074 Michael was forced to order his uncle to take command of an imperial army and defeat the Norman mercenaries. Fixing his headquarters at Dorylaeum, the two armies met near the bridge over the Zompi River, one of the great lines of communication between Constantinople and the central provinces in Asia Minor. Betrayed by his Frankish mercenaries and by the shameful retreat of the Asiatic reserves under the command of the future Emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, John was defeated and captured together with his son Andronikos. The victorious mercenaries then proceeded to advance to the shores of the Bosphorus, as a relieving force under John's younger son Constantine disintegrated when its commander suddenly died. Roussel, unsure if his mercenary force could overthrow the emperor at Constantinople, decided to act as the chief general for his own emperor. He proclaimed John Doukas emperor, easily persuading his prisoner to assume the title and dethrone his ungrateful nephew, and they continued on their way to Constantinople. Michael VII and Nikephoritzes were deeply concerned about their own safety. They formed an alliance with Suleyman, concluding a formal treaty between the Byzantines and the Turks, whereby Michael gave to Suleyman the government of the provinces of which the Seljuk Turks were in possession of. The Turks agreed to provide an army to fight on Michael's behalf, and this army moved quickly to Mount Sophon where John Doukas and Roussel were encamped. The mercenaries were ambushed and although Roussel managed to escape, John was captured, ending the rebellion. After some time as a Seljuk captive, John was ransomed by his nephew. Michael allowed him to retain his sight on condition that he renounce all imperial ambitions and he take the additional precaution of becoming a monk. The tonsured Caesar retained some influence on political events. With the collapse of imperial authority late in Michael VII's reign, he advised his nephew to abdicate and become a monk when Nikephoros III Botaneiates threatened Constantinople in 1078, and in 1081 he fled Constantinople to join Alexios Komnenos and to persuade him to revolt against Botaneiates and claim the throne. It was also John Doukas, who arranged for the marriage of his granddaughter Irene Doukaina to Alexios Komnenos over the objections of the latter's mother Anna Dalassene. In this change of circumstance, he abandoned the monastic habit and Alexios allowed him to resume his old position as Caesar. Remaining part of the court, he continued to advise the emperor until his death in c. 1088. | Doukas, John Caesar of the Byzantine Empire (I9617)
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| 1448 | From Wikipedia: [A] baron and royal official in 13th century England. He has been described as having been Lord Chancellor, but other scholars believe he merely held the royal seals while the office was vacant or the chancellor was abroad. He served two terms, once from 1247 to 1248, and again from 1249 to 1250. [...] John Lexington was sent by Henry III to a proposed papal conference in 1241 and was present at a naval battle near the Isola del Giglio in which Pisan and Sicilian ships defeated the Genoese and a number of prelates were captured; he helped save the life of his brother Stephen, who was present. On his return he was part of the expedition against Dafydd ap Llywelyn of Wales and conveyed the hostage Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, Dafydd's half-brother, to London. In 1242 he was appointed to a truce commission to correct infringements of the truce with France. He served as the king's seneschal in 1247 and possibly at other times. After 1248 there is evidence that he served as a judge. In 1250, he inherited the barony and lands of his brother Robert. By 1255 he was serving as chief justice of the forests north of the Trent, and warden of Bamburgh, Pickering, and Scarborough castles. In response to the death of Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln, he imprisoned a Jew named Copin or Jopin and obtained a confession in return for a promise to save his life (a promise the king repudiated). Matthew Paris called him a man of weight and learning and a brave and accomplished knight. His arms were a cross azure on a shield argent. He married a woman named Margaret Morlay, but had no children. His estate went to his brother Henry, the bishop of Lincoln, and on his death in 1258 to the descendants of their two sisters, Alice and Cecilia, wives of Roland de Sutton and William Markham, since none of his brothers left heirs. | de Lexington, John (I9036)
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| 1449 | From Wikipedia: Joseph Smith, Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism. When he was twenty-four, Smith published the Book of Mormon; by the time of his death fourteen years later, he had attracted tens of thousands of followers and founded a religion and religious culture that continues to the present. Smith was born in Sharon, Vermont, but by 1817, he had moved with his family to western New York, a site of intense religious revivalism during the Second Great Awakening. According to Smith, he experienced a series of visions, including one in which he saw "two personages" (presumably God the Father and Jesus Christ) and others in which an angel directed him to a buried book of golden plates inscribed with a Judeo-Christian history of an ancient American civilization. In 1830, Smith published what he said was an English translation of these plates, the Book of Mormon. The same year he organized the Church of Christ, calling it a restoration of the early Christian church. Members of the church were later called "Latter Day Saints", or "Mormons". In 1831, Smith and his followers moved west, planning to build a communalistic American Zion. They first gathered in Kirtland, Ohio and established an outpost in Independence, Missouri which was intended to be Zion's "center place". During the 1830s, Smith sent out missionaries, published revelations, and supervised construction of an expensive temple. Nevertheless, the collapse of a church-sponsored bank and violent skirmishes with non-Mormon Missourians caused Smith and his followers to establish a new settlement at Nauvoo, Illinois, where he became both a spiritual and political leader. In 1844, Smith and the Nauvoo city council angered non-Mormons by destroying a newspaper that had criticized Smith's power and practice of polygamy. After Smith was imprisoned in Carthage, Illinois, he was killed when a mob stormed the jailhouse. Smith published many revelations and other texts that his followers regard as scripture. His teachings include unique views about the nature of God, cosmology, family structures, political organization, and religious collectivism. His followers regard him as a prophet comparable to Moses and Elijah, and he is considered the founder of several religious denominations, including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Community of Christ. | Smith, Joseph Jr. (I2857)
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| 1450 | From Wikipedia: Maria was a daughter of Troian of Bulgaria by an unnamed Byzantine noblewoman descended from the families of Kontostephanos and Phokas, and a granddaughter of Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria. Maria married Andronikos Doukas well before 1066. Her husband was a son of the Caesar John Doukas, a major power player in Byzantine politics of the era, and Eirene Pelagonitissa. He was also a nephew of Constantine X and first cousin of Michael VII. Maria was endowed with an inheritance of vast land holdings around Lake Ohrid, and her considerable income was used to support her husband's lavish lifestyle and political ambitions. As the last descendants of the ruling family of Bulgaria, Maria and her daughters Irene and Anna, who married the first notable member of the Palaiologos family, carried not only immense wealth but also legitimisation of Byzantine authority over the Bulgarian population: her (and her daughters') prominent marriages are evidence for the eventual integration of the descendants of the Cometopuli dynasty into the court nobility in Constantinople. As mother of the Empress Irene Doukaina, Maria was a woman of some influence in the early years of the reign of Alexios I Komnenos, although she, as a widow, shunned the Imperial court and chose to live in her Lake Ohrid estate. Her granddaughter Anna Komnene praises her beauty and wisdom in the Alexiad. | of Bulgaria, Maria (I9469)
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| 1451 | From Wikipedia: Martha McBride Knight Smith Kimball (March 17, 1805 – November 20, 1901) was a founding member of the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which was organized on her birthday in 1842. She was married to early Latter Day Saint leader Vinson Knight, by whom she had seven children. In 1842 she was sealed as a plural wife to Joseph Smith, Jr. In January 1846, she was married polygamously to Heber C. Kimball, by whom she had one child, a son, who was born at Winter Quarters and died there as an infant. She later emigrated to Utah Territory, where she resided in various locations across the territory until her death at age 96. She was a witness to, and in some instances a key participant in, some of the pivotal events in early Latter Day Saint history. Martha McBride Knight at the Remembering the Wives of Joseph Smith site. From the Ogden Standard Examiner, November 21, 1901: Death Of Pioneer Woman -- Was The Wife Of The Prophet Joseph Smith -- She Was Well Known and Esteemed in Weber County -- Identified With The Early History Of The Church. Kimball, of Hooper, died yesterday, received word that Mrs. Martha Smith Kimball, of Hooper, died yesterday morning at 5 o'clock, of old age. She was one of the most notable women in Utah, having taken a very active part in the early history of the Mormon Church. She was born in Chester, Washington County, New York, March 17, 1805 and was married to Vinson Knight, July 26, 1826. Mr. Knight was for a time presiding bishop of the church and was one of two men chosen by the church to purchase the townsite of Nauvoo and in Hancock County. They were baptized into the church in 1834, Mrs. Knight became a member of the Relief Society of the Church which was organized in Nauvoo. Mr. Knight died July 31, 1842, at Nauvoo and in August 1942, she was sealed to the Prophet Joseph Smith in the Nauvoo Temple. She came to Utah in 1850, settling in Ogden, where she made her home for a number of years. She went to Hooper in 1869, where she has lived most of the time since, although visiting often with relatives in other parts of Utah. After the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith, she was married to Heber C. Kimball and by him had one child who died in infancy. She was the mother of six other children by her first husband, Mr. Knight, and three of them survive her, all of them being between 70 and 80 years of age. They are Mrs. Almira Hanscom, who resides near Akron, Ohio; Mrs. Adeline Belnap, Living at Hooper, this county, and James Knight, who resides at Circleville, Piute County. She had a great many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Pictures of the old lady grouped with four of her direct descendants are to be found in the homes of most of her Ogden relatives. The physical strength and endurance of Mrs. Knight was well-nigh marvelous. For nearly twenty years she had not used spectacles. Her needlework was a model of fineness amongst all her acquaintances for the past fifty years. She was a great reader, particularly of the daily papers, reading every word of telegraphic news, and during the Spanish-American War she was regarded as one of the best posted persons in Weber County on the military operations of the contending forces. Two or three years ago at a birthday reunion of the family held in her honor, Mrs. Knight was called on for a speech and prefaced one of considerable length with a recital of the tremendous changes which had taken place in her lifetime, mentioning the steam engine, the modern printing press and the telegraph. To illustrate this latter she described with what slowness news traveled when she was a young woman of 40, and wound up her recital of how on that very day the entire country was able to watch every detail of a little affair at Carson City when Corbett was knocked out by Fitzsimmons. The Belnap family of Ogden are relatives. The funeral services will take place in the Hooper meeting house at 12 o'clock and the remains will be interred by the side of her mother, Mrs. Abigail McBride. The mother was sealed to Joseph Smith Sr., at Nauvoo. | McBride, Martha (I2843)
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| 1452 | From Wikipedia: He made his start as a clerk to a successor of his father as keeper of the manor of Laxton, one Brian de Lisle. [...] In 1214 he was appointed as a prebendary of the collegiate church of Southwell, and later succeeded to the barony of his father, who was alive in 1216. By 1221, he was acting as a justice in seven counties, and comes to notice in February 1221 as the author of a letter to Hubert de Burgh informing him of the route taken by the rebel Earl of Aumale and of the measures that he had adopted to secure the safety of the border. He continued to be employed in a like capacity in later years, being in 1225 the head of six judicial commissions. He was warden of the honour and castle of Peak and governor of Bolsover Castle in Derbyshire, and also had charge of Orford Castle. He is described as a justice 'de banco' in 1226, and as one of the chief members of the king's court, or bench, in 1229, when he sat with other judges at Westminster to hear the case between the convent and the townsmen of Dunstable. There is reason to suppose that in 1234 he was the senior of the justices of the king's bench. In 1239 he is said to have been elected to the see of Lichfield, but, the right of election being then in dispute between the canons of Lichfield and the monks of Coventry, to have declined it. When in 1240 Henry III sent justices itinerant through the whole kingdom in the hope of raising money by fines and the like, he appointed Robert chief of the justices for the northern division of England. When he and his brother-justices sat at Lincoln they were denounced by the dean of Christianity (or 'rural dean') for trying capital cases on Sunday. In return they abused the dean, and caused his goods and the lands of his nieces, his wards, to be seized on behalf of the crown. Bishop Robert Grosseteste wrote him a sharp rebuke for his presumption in dealing thus with a clerk. He again acted as a justice itinerant the following year. After having gained a high reputation and large possessions, he was seized with paralysis, and retired from office a few years before his death, spending the remainder of his life in prayer and almsgiving. He died on 29 May 1250, and was succeeded by his elder brother John. He founded three chantries in the chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr in Southwell Minster. | de Lexington, Robert (I9041)
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| 1453 | From Wikipedia: An English Cistercian monk, abbot, and founder of a college in Paris. Stephen came from a prominent family of royal officials and clerics. His father Richard was a royal judge; his brothers John Lexington and Robert of Lexinton were judges and royal officials, while his brother Henry of Lexington became Bishop of Lincoln. Stephen was a disciple of Saint Edmund of Abingdon (1175-1240); supposedly he was one of seven students brought by an abbot to hear Edmund preach, all of whom "renounced the world". He became a Cistercian monk at Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight, but not long after was elected abbot of Stanley Abbey in Wiltshire, where he hosted visits from St. Edmund. In 1228 he was appointed visitor in Ireland, where he deposed several abbots, replacing them with English monks, and sending a number of monks to abbeys in France. In 1229, he was elected abbot of Savigny Abbey, a prominent Cistercian house, where he made many improvements. In 1231, he visited Savigny's daughter houses in England and issued new regulations for them. In 1238 he reformed Redon Abbey by order of Pope Gregory IX. On his way to a papal council in 1241 he was saved from capture in a naval battle by the efforts of his brother John, who was on his way to the same council as a representative of King Henry III. On December 6, 1243, he was elected abbot of Clairvaux Abbey, the abbey founded by Bernard in 1115 that was the ultimate parent of most of the Cistercian establishments. Stephen obtained permission from the pope in 1244 to found a Cistercian college in Paris and by 1247 had founded the Cistercian College of St. Bernard, with Alphonse, Count of Poitiers, King Louis IX's brother, as patron. John of Mirecourt, Konrad of Megenberg, and Pope Benedict XII were scholars there in the 14th century. In 1250, he had the body of Aletha, mother of St. Bernard, moved to Clairvaux. He was removed from his position as abbot in 1255 in an internal political struggle within the order; Stephen had the support of Pope Alexander IV, but the order was supported by King Louis IX and Stephen retired to the Abbey of Orcamp near Noyon where he died on March 21, perhaps in 1258. Stephen's letters during his visitation in Ireland were published in a Cistercian publication in 1946; an English translation was published by Cistercian Publications in 1982. | de Lexington, Stephen (I9029)
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| 1454 | From Wikipedia: He first appears in 998, when he accompanied his father, then holding the post of doux of Antioch, in battle against the Fatimids. In the resulting Battle of Apamea Damian was killed and Theophylact, along with his brother Constantine, were taken prisoner. They were then sold on to the Fatimid general Jaysh al-Samsama for 6,000 gold dinars, spending the next ten years in captivity in the Fatimid capital of Cairo. Following his release he continued his military career, but his life is obscure until 1021/22, by which time, according to Yahya of Antioch, he held the rank of protospatharios and droungarios (most likely the post of droungarios tes viglas). In August 1022, Emperor Basil II (reigned 976–1025) appointed him strategos (military governor) of the Anatolic Theme and gave him money to raise troops, with the task of suppressing the rebellion of Nikephoros Xiphias and Nikephoros Phokas Barytrachelos. In the end, the two rebels fell out and Xiphias had Phokas assassinated; as the rebellion collapsed, Dalassenos took Xiphias prisoner and brought him for trial to Constantinople. From his surviving seals of office, it is known that he further held the rank of the posts of katepano of Iberia (likely before 1021), and katepano of Vaspurakan (after 1027). His last post, likely in 1032–34, was that of doux of Antioch, with the ranks of anthypatos patrikios and vestes, also attested by a seal. Emperor Michael IV the Paphlagonian (r. 1034–41), however, suspected the Dalassenoi of consipring to usurp the throne; Theophylact's career therefore probably ended in 1034, and the entire family was banished in August 1039. Another seal records that he held the supreme court rank of magistros as well, but it is unclear whether this was already before 1034 or whether he was awarded it after Michael IV's death. | Dalassenos, Theophylac (I1397)
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| 1455 | From Wikipedia: [A] leading citizen in the Republic of Pisa in the early twelfth century, one of thirty or so named as console del mare. Sometime between 1113 to 1115, Ugo and Pietro Moriconi, Archbishop of Pisa, led a successful expedition against the Balearic Islands. They stopped in Porto Torres on their return and it was there that they established relations with Constantine I of Logudoro. Around 1128, Gonario II, Constantine's son, the child ruler of Logudoro, was brought to Porto Torres by his regent, Ittocorre Gambella, after an attempt to harm the child had been made by the Athen family. Porto Torres was then controlled by the Pisans, who whisked the child off to Pisa and the protection of Ebriaco. When Gonario turned seventeen, he married Ebriaco's daughter and returned to Sardinia, with Pisan permission and four armed galleys. Ugo was part of this expedition to repossess the Logudoro in 1130. Together they landed at Torres and marched on Ardara, the location of the judicial palace, and took it. Controlling the giudicato again, they began construction of a castle at Goceano to guard the frontier. | Ebriaco, Ugo da Parlascio (I5499)
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| 1456 | From Wikipedia: Vinson Knight (March 14, 1804 - July 31, 1842) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement. He served as a counselor in the Bishopric in Kirtland, Ohio from 1835 to 1838, then as Bishop in Adam-ondi-Ahman in Daviess County, Missouri from 1838 to 1839, and finally as Bishop of the Lower Ward in Nauvoo, Illinois, having been called by revelation in the Doctrine and Covenants through the Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr. to that office in January 1841. Knight served as Bishop in Nauvoo until his sudden death at age 38. | Knight, Vinson (I2845)
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| 1457 | From Wikipedia: Bonville was knighted before 1417 during the campaigns in France of King Henry V. He was Knight of the shire for Somerset in 1421, and for Devon in 1422, 1425 and 1427. In 1423 he was appointed by the king as Sheriff of Devon. He was Seneschal of Aquitaine at various times from 1442 to 1453, and Governor of Exeter Castle from 1453–61. In 1443 Bonville was retained to serve King Henry VI for a one-year term and in 1449 was retained to serve the King at sea. He was summoned to Parliament from 10 March 1449 to 30 July 1460 by writs directed, for the most part, Willelmo Bonville domino Bonville et de Chuton ("To William Bonville, lord of Bonville and Chewton"), by which he is held to have become Baron Bonville. On 8 February 1461 he was nominated to the Order of the Garter. In 1441 riots resulted from a dispute over the Duchy of Cornwall between Bonville and Thomas Courtenay, 13th Earl of Devon, and on 14 December 1455 the two sides fought the Battle of Clyst Heath near Exeter, which resulted in the defeat of Bonville, the sacking of Shute and injury to a number of persons. Bonville was to all outward appearances loyal to King Henry VI during the Wars of the Roses until he joined the Yorkist side at the Battle of Northampton in July 1460. Both his son, William Bonville, and his grandson, William Bonville, 6th Baron Harington, were slain at the Battle of Wakefield on 31 December 1460. Less than two months later in 1460 the Yorkists suffered another defeat at the Second Battle of St Albans, where Lord Bonville and another Yorkist, Sir Thomas Kyriel, were taken prisoner by the victorious Lancastrians. The two men had kept guard over King Henry VI during the battle to see that he came to no harm. The King had been held in captivity by Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and transported in the train of the latter's army, but had been abandoned on the battlefield. In return for their gallantry the King promised the two men immunity. However Queen Margaret, who was present at the battle, remembered that Lord Bonville had been one of the men who had held King Henry in custody after the Battle of Northampton in July 1460, and wanted revenge. Disregarding the King's promise of immunity, she gave orders for the beheading of Lord Bonville and Sir Thomas Kyriel the next day, 18 February 1461. It is alleged that she put the men on trial and appointed as presiding judge her seven-year-old son, Prince Edward. "Fair son", Margaret is said to have inquired, "what death shall these knights die?" The young prince replied that they were to have their heads cut off, an act which was swiftly carried out, despite the King's pleas for mercy. Bonville was not attainted, as within three weeks of his death the Yorkist King Edward IV came to the throne. Bonville's widow, Elizabeth, was assigned a substantial dower in recognition of his services to the Yorkist cause. From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: While his extensive and complex inheritances led to some violent disputes with neighbours during these years, these were on nothing like the scale of disorder that was to characterize Bonville's notorious conflict with the Courtenays during the 1440s and 1450s. This power struggle was triggered by the appointment of Bonville in 1437 as royal steward in Cornwall for life. This was seen by the young Thomas Courtenay, thirteenth earl of Devon, recently come of age and in possession of a severely reduced inheritance, as a serious challenge to his own regional authority. The bitterness of the strife that grew from this was symptomatic of a change in the local balance of power and wealth that had over a generation tilted against the Courtenay earls (the traditional leaders of west-country society) in favour of a small group of powerful gentry among whom Bonville was pre-eminent. Violence reached an alarming level during the summers of 1439 and 1440, and the situation was worsened by a serious blunder on the part of the government--the appointment of the earl to the stewardship of the duchy of Cornwall, a post so similar to that held by Bonville as to be hardly distinguishable from it. Urgent attempts at even-handedness and arbitration failed, and the dispute was only temporarily resolved by the appointment of Bonville as seneschal of Gascony in December 1442, thereby removing him temporarily from the scene (he sailed from Plymouth in March 1443 but was back in Devon by April 1445). Even though the government, coming increasingly under the influence of the duke of Suffolk, was careful not to antagonize the earl of Devon, the latter was clearly seen to be the principal culprit. Bonville's connection with Suffolk grew stronger. He was a member of Suffolk's entourage at Margaret of Anjou's betrothal ceremonies at Rouen in May 1444, and married his daughter Elizabeth to one of Suffolk's henchmen, Sir William Tailboys. This development culminated in the parliament of 1449, when Bonville was raised to the peerage as Baron Bonville of Chewton. Antagonisms hardened after the fall of Suffolk in 1450. The earl of Devon attached himself to the duke of York, and felt confident enough in the summer of 1451 to risk an encounter in the field with Bonville (and his ally, James Butler, earl of Wiltshire). Despite much plunder and violence, a major showdown was avoided when York's unexpected arrival in the west country persuaded the earl of Devon to lift the siege of Taunton Castle, which Bonville had made his headquarters. Although temporarily imprisoned (as were Devon and the other principal malcontents), Bonville was soon able to exploit the dramatically changed political situation that followed the humiliating submission of York and Devon to the king at Dartford on 3 March 1452. Between 1452 and 1455 Bonville became the dominant force in west-country politics [...] and the king personally reinforced his position by staying at Bonville's house at Shute on his progress through the west country in the summer of 1452. Bonville was confirmed as steward of the duchy of Cornwall in 1452 (the post that had triggered the violence in 1439), and appointed constable of Exeter Castle in 1453, both posts to be held for life. [...] These partisan appointments of Bonville to positions within the earl of Devon's traditional zone of influence forced the earl to take increasingly desperate measures [...] [T]he enmities that had grown over more than twenty years proved irresolvable. The death in 1458 of Bonville's old adversary afforded him little comfort. The new earl of Devon [...] quickly gained favour with Queen Margaret, and this presented enormous risks for Bonville and his family. | Bonville, William (I8732)
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| 1458 | From Roger fitz Reinfrid: His Family and Connections by John Watson: Roger fitz Reinfrid is said to have been a protégé of Richard de Lucy and may have entered his service in the 1160s. He was probably in royal service before Michaelmas 1169. He was employed from 1170 to 1174 with Richard de Lucy in the administration of Windsor. In July 1175, Henry II confirmed to Roger fitz Reinfrid a soke in London given to him by Earl Simon (de St. Liz, III) of Huntingdon. A case in the Curia Regis in 1204 shows that Roger exchanged land in Toft and Menthorpe, Lincolnshire with Earl Simon and Alice de Gant his wife in exchange for three parts of a knight's fee in Sutton and Beckingham, Lincolnshire and that Roger also held land in Holme, Lincolnshire granted to him by Robert de Gant. Roger was sheriff of Sussex from Michaelmas 1176 to March 1187 and sheriff of Berkshire in 1188. In January 1176, he was appointed as a justice itinerant in Kent, Surrey, Hampshire, Sussex, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. By 1181, he was one of the regular justices sitting at Westminster. In March 1182, he was one of the witnesses to the will of Henry II, together with his brother Walter de Coutances, archdeacon of Oxford. He continued to be a justice in eyre throughout the reign of Henry II and into the reign of Richard I. Roger died before Michaelmas 1196 when Reinfrid son of Roger occurs as his father's heir. | fitz Reinfrid, Roger (I7422)
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| 1459 | From Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell (citation details below): On 28 March 1259 he was recorded as going on a pilgrimage to Pontigny, and on 28 Oct 1259 he crossed with the king to France. On 16 Sep 1261 he was at Windsor to swear he would never oppose the king, but in May 1262 he did so in Parliament. In July 1263 he joined the king in Worcester, where he was knighted on 1 Aug before going with the king to Wales. He was at the siege of Rochester with the Earl of Gloucester, Henry de Hastings and others in April 1264, and commanded the Londoners at the battle of Lewes on 14 May 1264. On 4 Aug 1265 he was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Evesham, and on 25 Oct. his lands were granted to Edmund, the king's son, but on 28 April 1266 he was coming to the king's court to make peace. On 1 July 1267 he was pardoned, and on 12 May 1270 he was going to the Holy Land with the king and Prince Edward. He was summoned to serve in Wales in 1276, 1277, 1282 and 1283, and on 28 June 1283 was summoned to Shrewsbury to treat with Dafydd ap Gruffudd. He served on various commissions from 1290 to 1294, and was summoned to Parliament at Westminster on 24 June 1295. | de Segrave, Nicholas (I44)
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| 1460 | From A Genea-Biographical History of the Rittenhouse Family (citation details below): In the year 1688, Wilhelm Rittinghausen came to Germantown with his two sons Nicholas and Gerhard (or as abbreviated Claus and Garret), and a daughter Elizabeth, who afterwards married Heivert (Howard) Papen. His forefathers had long carried on the business of manufacturing paper at Arnheim, and in 1690 he entered into an agreement with Samuel Carpenter for 20 acres of land in Roxborough Township, County of Philadelphia, for the purpose of erecting a paper mill thereon. The paper mill was built at once on a branch of the Wissahickon Creek, and was the first paper mill in America. There was made the paper used by William Bradford, the earliest printer in the Middle Colonies. [...] It appears from a letter in the Mennonite Archives at Amsterdam that Willem Rittenhouse endeavored to have the Confession of Faith of the Mennonites translated into English and printed by Bradford. Said Confession of Faith was printed in English in Amsterdam in 1712; and a reprint by Andrew Bradford in 1727, with an appendix, is the first book printed in Pennsylvania for the Germans, a copy of which is yet in the Rittenhouse family in Germantown and held in high esteem. The erection of the paper mill is likely to keep his memory green for many generations to come, and its value was fully appreciated by his contemporaries. In a "Description of Pennsylvania," in verse, by Richard Frame, in 1692, we are told, "A paper mill near Germantown does stand;" and says the quaint Gabriel Thomas, six years later, all sorts of very good paper are made in the German town." [...] When the original settlers of Germantown cast lots in the cave of Francis Daniel Pastorius, in Philadelphia, for the town lots which were numbered, Willem Rittinghausen drew lot No. 19, on the east side of Germantown Avenue, on which is now the Mennonite Meeting-house and graveyard, in Germantown, where he was chosen their first minister. But he was not yet ordained as Bishop, and as the congregation at Germantown had no Bishop, and, according to the discipline of the Church, no one to ordain him, consequently a letter was sent from Germantown to the congregation at Altona, Hamburg, for advice, requesting one of the Bishops to come over to install a Bishop at Germantown. The Bishops and ministers of the Altona congregation took the matter under earnest consideration, and as no one seemed willing at that time to undertake so tedious and dangerous a voyage across the sea to install a Bishop at Germantown, they wrote a letter to the Germantown congregation authorizing one of the brethren to perform that duty. This letter was signed by four ministers of the Hamburg, Altona congregation, viz.: Bishop Gerritt Roosen, at the age of ninety years; Pieter van Helle, Jacob van Kampen, and Jean de Lanoi. In consequence of the above instructions, Willem Rittenhouse was installed as Bishop of the first Mennonite church in America, at Germantown, about 1701. Willem Rittenhouse, as stated above, was the first preacher in the Germantown Mennonite congregation, afterwards elected and ordained as Bishop, the first in America in said Church. | Rittenhouse, Willem (I34931)
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| 1461 | From A History of the Church of St. Giles Northampton, citation details below: Richard Gobion added largely to his estates by marrying the daughter of Roger de Merley, the powerful Baron of Morpeth, who brought in frank marriage the manors of Knaptoft in Leicestershire, Shilvington in Northumberland, and Yedingham in Yorkshire. He was only a simple knight, but writers of later days persist in speaking of him as "Earl Gobion," and even as "Earl of Northampton," to neither of which titles had he the slightest claim. Thus the Heralds who visited Leicestershire in 1562-64, and who ought to have known better, left the following record of him:--"It ys to be remembered that the forenamed Rychard Gubbyon, Erl of Northampton was also Lord of Knapthorp, where he remeaned as apereth before proved by Sundry evydences. And for manyfest proff that this same was he that was Erl of Northampton he had in the said towme of Northampton, one manner called by the name of Gobyon, and the most parte of the towne, and also his tenents few or none reserved but paid rent to the said manner, And he gave goodly comons and sundry lybertyes on Gobyon's [Manner]. And this manner was throwne by descent from the name of Gubbyon to Pannell, and from Pannell to Kynesman, and so to Turpyn." The gift of the commons and liberties above mentioned, is thus explained by Henry Lee, a seventeenth century Town Clerk: "Earl Gobion, who lived in ye farme house in Abington street in this Town killed a man [in an election riot]. And he gott his pardon, and to quiett the Town granted to the poor liberty to follow syth and sickle in ye fields of Northampton, called Gobion's farme to this day." | Gobion, Richard (I10448)
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| 1462 | From A History of the Parishes of St. Ives, Lelant, Towednack and Zennor [citation details below]: Few Cornish families can vie with this one in point of antiquity. Though apparently never entitled to bear arms, the Rosewalls for countless generations occupied an ancient homestead called 'Rosewall' on the eastern slope of Rosewall Hill, in the parish of Towednack. The Subsidy Roll of 1327 shows the name of John de Ryswal and Noal de Ryswal of Towednack, who paid 2s. each towards the royal aid. In the roll of circa 1520 we find the name of Stephanus Roswal, having lands in Towednack of the annual value of 10s. Again in 1523 he is rated--this time at 10 marks; and the same in 1524. In the Penwith Subsidy of 1536, 'Stephyn Rosewarn' [lege 'Rosewall'] is rated at 10 marks. In 1523 and 1524 Pascacius (Pasco) Roswall had goods value £2 at Saint Ives. In 1546 'John Rossewall' was rated at £6 for his lands in 'Tewynecke.' In 1585 Johannes Roswall was rated at £6, but in 1593 at £3, for goods at Towednack, and again at £3 in 1597. In 1629 Georgius Roswarne ['Rosewall'] paid £4 to the subsidy for his goods at Towednack. In 1641 'Willmus Russell' (i.e., 'Rosewall') was rated for goods, and Warne Roswall for lands, in Towednack parish. In 1664 'Margrett Russell widow' was rated for lands in the same parish. In 1573 Richard Rossewall was a capital burgess; in 1578 he paid 4d. to a town rate. Circa 1590 Thomas Roswall paid 2d. to a town rate. In 1620 Thomas Roswall, who resided in Westren Street, paid 3d. to a royal rate levied in Saint Ives. In the same list with the last name occur those of Nicholas Roswall, living on 'The Lande,' and George Roswall. In 1636 James Rosewall was an overseer of the poor, and in 1638 he was a sidesman. | Rosewall, James (I12448)
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| 1463 | From A Supplement to Notes on Joseph Kellogg (citation details below): He was admitted to Winchester College in 1572, he succeeded to a scholarship in New College Oxford 10 March 1574/5 and at the end of two years was admitted a fellow of New. He resigned his fellowship in 1590 in consequence of his presentation to Stockton in Wiltshire. He was ordained by John Pierce, Bishop of Sarum and soon after became domestic chaplain to Thomas Cooper, Bishop of Winchester, who presented him to the Rectory of Stockton. He published in 1600 a work with the title "The Trial of Truth" which was dedicated to Henry Lord Bishop of Sarum. He published in 1602 the second part of "The Trial of Truth", dedicated to Dr. Rives, Warden of New College Oxford. The above works can now be found in the library of the British Museum. He also published in 1617 a sermon with the title "The Reasonableness of wise and holy truth; and the absurditie of foolish and wicked Errour" and dedicated to the Right Rev. Father in God, Arthur Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, Warden of New College Oxford. I now have a copy of this sermon belonging to me. He died on 10 May 1625 of an atrophy, and was buried, by his own request, among the poor in the churchyard of Stockton "as neere the parsonage house as it may conveniently be". The funeral service was read by Thomas Crockford, vicar of Fisherton de la mere, and a sermon was preached by John Antraw, minister of Langford Little. Die veneris 13 May 1625. By his will he gives to the Church Wardens of Long Sutton, where he was born, to them and their successors forever, "one annuitie or yearly rent of twenty six shillings eight pence," "for the poor of Long Sutton, which is due unto me out of a certayne house lyinge in Alton." He also gives to "the Church Wardens of Stockton and their successors forever" certain sums of money, the income of which shall be paid forever to the parish Clerk of Stockton to encourage him to teach the children of the said parish the points of Catechisme established by Authoritie in this kingdom. "Item I gyve unto my brother in law John Whyte, Rector of Dorchester, my two gownds, and to my brother in law Stephen Whyte of Stanton in the County of Oxford gentleman, my best cloake, which two (John and Stephen Whyte) I do by these presents make and constitute the Overseers of this my last will and testament." His will was dated 25 April 1625. The oldest monument in the Chancel of the Church in Stockton is over the Chancel-door on the north wall. It is a mural tablet of black marble enclosed in an alabaster border, with this inscription: If men should be silent this stone shall speake the due prayses of God's Gra -ces in John Terry lately a faythful payn -ful vigilant and fruitful minister of God's truth in this Church of Stockton. He was borne of substantial and religious parentage at Long Sutton in Hampshire bredde a well deserving membre of Newe Colledg in Oxford, freely presented to this charge by the Rt Rd Bp of Winton Cos -per Ano Dom. MDXC and now in his ripe age of LXX. A. D. MDCXXV, May XXX, slee -peth happily in the publique ccemeterie of this Church, till the last Trumpet shall awake him to a joyfull ressurection in Christ. "He lived, he learned, he wrot, he taught. Well, much, truly, duly, he broughte Hoame the lost sheep wch Christs bloud bought, Against Hell's power he stoutly fought." Terrae terra datur, coelum sed spirit' ornat Mundus habet famam, lusa Gehenna fremit. | Terry, Rev. John (I18301)
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| 1464 | From Abandoning America (citation details below): Sir Richard Saltonstall, a London lawyer, was first elected an assistant of the Massachusetts Bay Company in England on 23 March 1628/9. [...] In 1629, he sent servants and cattle ahead of him to New England. Saltonstall sailed to New England in 1630, as a widower, with five of his six children. He settled at Watertown. He attended all the meetings of the Massachusetts Bay Company in New England between 22 August 1630 and 22 March 1630/1. He left New England on the Lyon, 1 April 1631, and arrived in London on 29 April. He was elected an assistant in Massachusetts in 1633, in his absence, but never returned. Saltonstall continued to take an interest in New England. He defended Massachusetts against the charges of Philip Ratcliffe, Thomas Morton and Sir Christopher Gardiner. He diverted his attention to fresh colonising ventures by Lord Saye and Sele and Lord Brooke, outside the boundaries of Massachusetts, but made heavy losses. In 1639 he handed over his New England interests to his son Robert, who had returned there c. 1638. Saltonstall spent time in the Netherlands, 1643–4, where Henry Saltonstall joined him. From 1649 he controlled the sales of crown property, and this profitable post helped him to boost his fortunes. In 1650 he and his son Richard became members of the High Court of Justice, commissioned by the Rump Parliament to try the crimes of the Commonwealth's enemies. From 1658 he lived near Wrexham, and associated with the congregationalist Vavasor Powell. He criticised Massachusetts for its intolerance: he wrote to John Wilson and John Cotton c. 1652, advocating freedom for Quakers. From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Saltonstall opposed the crown in the civil wars, and his fortunes recovered with the parliamentarian victory. In March 1650 he was appointed a commissioner of the high court of justice, set up to punish opponents of the regime. From 1649 he held lucrative posts controlling the sales of crown property, and by 1658 he could afford to buy Brymbo Hall, near Wrexham, Denbighshire. After the Restoration, however, he was forced to flee arrest as a 'seditious person', and died at Crayford, Kent, in 1661, probably in September. | Saltonstall, Richard (I14187)
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| 1465 | From An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk by Francis Blomefield (citation details below): Clere, &c. as before, impaling Owydale or Dovedale, arg. a cross moline gul. quartering gul. a chevron erm. between three delises or; and Rusteyn, a horse passant sab. trapped, bridled and saddled or. This Robert is said by all evidences to be buried in the cathedral in Norwich, with Elizabeth Owydale his wife, as at vol. iv. p. 35; but though she was, it is plain to me now, that he was buried according to his will, in the nave of Ormesby St. Margaret's church, with these inscriptions; the former now remains, though the latter is lost: In Carne mea videbo Deum, Salbatorem meum. Hic iaret Robeertus Clere, qui obiit iio. Mensis Augusti Anno Dom. Mccccflbioruius anime propicietur Deus. He gave all his estate for life to his wife, and at her death William his son was to have the manors of Ormesby, Freethorp, and the manor and advowson of Winterton, &c. and Thomas his son to have Stratton Streeless manor, and Robert his son, Keswick manor in tail, after the death of his sons without issue, to Edmund his brother, remainder to Margaret, daughter of the said Robert. | Clere, Robert (I18958)
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| 1466 | From An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk by Francis Blomefield (citation details below): Clere, Ormesby, Snecke, Ormesby, Westlesse, and Wichingham, impaling Branche, arg a lion rampant gul. over all a bendlet sab. This John, by reason of his estate in Burgh in Flegg, became a ward to the Countess of Norfolk, of whom it was held by knight's service. In 1390 he and Dionise his mother, purchased lands in Scrouteby. He and his wife are buried in Norwich cathedral, as at vol. iv. p. 35. She remarried to Sir John Rothenhale, Knt. and by will gave to Robert Clere her son, all her goods at Ormesby, and to Edmund Clere her son, all her goods at Castor, and her manor of Horninghall there, and Henstede, Rothenhale, and Cleydon manors in Suffolk. | Clere, John (I30094)
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| 1467 | From An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk by Francis Blomefield (citation details below): This William, in 1351, was a knight, and serjeant at law, and in 1366 settled on Dionise his wife, his manors of Morehall, StrattonStreless, Vaux's in Burgh St. Mary, and Stalham-hall. In 1378 he lent King Richard II. 40 marks towards his supporting the French wars; and in 1381, 50 marks more for that purpose; he died in 1384, and was buried in St. Margaret's chancel at Ormesby, John his son being a minor; he seems to have been concerned in rebuilding the chancel, for he lies under the old arched tomb on the north side, and his arms are on the roof. Clere, &c. impaling Wichingham, er. on a chief sab. three croslets pattè or. | Clere, William (I16938)
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| 1468 | From Ancestors and Descendants of Sarah Eleanor Ladue (citation details below): John Tompkins is said to have come to Boston in 1630, but no proof of this has been found. It seems far more likely that John Tompkins belonged to the group of men who formed the Concord Plantation and who came in to Concord by way of Newtowne in 1635. This was a Company of Colonists under the direction of Reverend Peter Bulkeley and Elder John Jones. "The Concord plantation was a place where the pioneers found hard fare, and built their huts by leaning the rough logs against the hillside, which served the double purpose of a support and a chimney back. "The settlers soon erected a grist mill, near what is now the Common, and the little stream which furnished the power, still runs on, but with a lesser current. It is known as Mill Brook." (Hudson, Hist. of Concord, 20-22) Next a meeting house and parsonage were built. The site of the latter is on the present Lowell Street, and is modestly marked by a memorial tablet whic reads: "Here in the house of the Reverend Peter Bulkeley, first minister and one of the founders of this town, a bargain was made with the Squaw Sachem, the Sagamore Tahattawan and other Indians, who then sold their rights in the six miles square called Concord, to the English planters, and gave them peaceful possession of the land, A.D. 1636." In 1644 there was dissatisfaction and dissension among these planters. They were disappointed in conditions of the soil, and a decision was arrived at by which about one-seventh of the colony emigrated to Fairfield, Connecticut, under the direction of the Reverend John Jones. John Tompkins was one of these emigrants, and he was made freeman at Hartford on 13 May 1669. It is thought by some historians that he died in Fairfield about 1688, and that he never went to Eastchester, as his sons did. The name of John Tompkins' wife remains unknown, also the date of her death. They had three children. Where the first one, Nathaniel, was born is not known, but the births of Ruth and John are registered in Concord, Mass. From History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (citation details below): Of Concord, Mass.; came with Jones contingent to Fairfield where he died; his widow m. William Heyden and rem. to Eastchester, New York. He died so early that his will is not found; but on 7 Mar. 1660/1, John Wheeler and George Squire, as overseers to [the younger] John "Tomkins," sued William Hayden for £30 for neglect in executing the will of John Tompkins. They won the suit, and Hayden was ordered to surrender the lands to [the son] John. Since William Hayden [of Windsor] sat on the jury which tried the case, it is obvious that a different man of the same name was the defendant. On 27 Dec. 1687, William Hayden of Eastchester put it upon record that he had sold out of his possession land at Eastchester to his sons-in-law Nathaniel and John Tompkins. [Westchester Deeds] ***** To clarify the above: After the death of the elder John Tompkins, his wife, whose name is lost to history, remarried a William Hayden, who therefore became stepfather to the second John Tompkins. This is what was meant when William Hayden of Eastchester referred to the second John Tompkins as his "son-in-law", because at this time, this term could refer to a step-parent relationship as well as a relationship by marriage. Many sources -- including Ancestors and Descendants of Sarah Eleanor Ladue -- call Mary, the wife of the second John Tompkins, "Mary Hayden" based on this misunderstanding of what the terms "son-in-law" and "father-in-law" could mean in the time and place in question. | Tompkins, John (I784)
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| 1469 | From Ancestors and Descendants of Sarah Eleanor Ladue (citation details below): On March 5, 1672, John Tompkins and Samuel Hoyt, Sr., were admitted as "Inhabitants of Eastchester." In the land list for the year 1677, we find John Tompkins as holding 24 acres, and on January 31, 1698 he took an "Oath of Allegiance to the King." The members of the Tompkins family were all Episcopalians, or Church of England, as it was called in colonial days. In later years they were very active in St Paul's church in Eastchester. In 1678, the little colony decided that "we will meet together on Sabbath days, for time to come to celebrate the worship and service of God, in the best manner that we can attain unto." They decided to pay toward the said Sabbath day's services a free-will offering, and here we find John Tompkins contributing eight shillings, and his brother, Nathaniel, ten. The same year they decided to pay 40 pounds to Mr. Morgan Jones, minister of Newtown, Long Island, "provided he will come and live among us, and perform the office of minister." Mr. Jones appears to have been among them until about 1692, when he was succeeded by Mr. Samuel Golding. He was to receive his pay in wheat and corn and John Tompkins subscribed "3 bushel of good winter wheat." In 1693 they resolved to build a meeting-house and John Tompkins and others were chosen to oversee the building of it. In July, 1696, they decided to "lighten the meeting house by a lantern to every seat of the same." One of these seats belonged to John Tompkins. This meetinghouse was a frame building, twemty-eight feet square and about eighteen feet to the eaves. The sides as well as the roof were shingled. [...] John Tompkins held many town offices in Eastchester. ***** "Mr. Morgan Jones, minister of Newtown, Long Island" was an odd character with a highly varied life. Some sense of him can be derived from "Morgan Jones, Llanmadock, in America" by Henry Blackwell, viewable hereMagnalia. But he is most remembered for having testified at New York in 1686 that some seventeen years earlier, in Virginia, he and several others were captured by hostile natives and that he survived because he was liberated by "Indians of the Doeg tribe" who, like Jones, spoke fluent Welsh. This was received by the few who took note of it as further proof that, as asserted by various early Welsh poets, one Madog, son of Owain Gwynedd, prince of North Wales, sailed westward in 1162 and established a colony in a land beyond the great sea. Jones's testimony was given wide circulation some decades later, in 1740, when it was published in the Gentleman's Magazine under the heading "The Crown of England's Title to America prior to that of Spain." Accompanying Jones's account, Theophilus Evans, vicar of St. David's in Brecon, wrote, "Sir, That the vast continent of America was first discovered by Britons, about 300 years before the Spaniards had any footing here; and that the descendants of that first colony of Britons, who then seated themselves there, are still a distinct People, and retain their original language, is a Matter of Fact, which may be indesputably proved, by the concurrent Account of several Writers and Travellers. I shall first quote a letter of Mr. Morgan Jones, Chaplain to the Plantation of S. Carolina..." | Tompkins, John (I772)
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| 1470 | From Ancestry of Robert Harry McIntire and of Helen Annette McIntire (citation details below): Joseph lived west of Anguilla Brook, Stonington, where he kept an ordiinary, "which was considered by travelers better than any other tavern for miles along the road." He is said to have engaged in the West Indies trade, "by which he was very wealthy." His will dated July 8 1715, was admitted to probate in New London, Conn. His widow withheld the will for a time, and what is described as "an interesting controversy" took place before it was probated. She objected because whe was given only her dower, one-third of the estate. The other two-thirds went to her grandsons, Saxton Palmer and Saxton Bailey. | Saxton, Joseph (I17630)
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| 1471 | From Antiquities of Shropshire by the Rev. R. W. Eyton [Vol. VII, p. 73]: Maud le Vavasour was daughter of Robert, granddaughter of William, and sister of John le Vavasour. I think her mother was a daughter of Adam fitz Peter, Lord of Birkyn; for it appears that "Robert le Vavasour gave his share (it was a fourth) of the Vill of Bolton with Matilda le Count, his daughter, in frank marriage to Theobald Walter, and that the said Matilda afterwards gave it to Roger de Burkyn, her Uncle." (Sallay Register, Dugd. MSS. D. 2.) It is not difficult to say why Maud le Vavasour is called Matilda le Count in the above extract. The names Vavasour and Count are treated as equivalent. It is less easy to determine why the Fitz Warin Chronicle calls the same person Maude de Caus. I, however, suggest an explanation.-- The real Maud de Caus, for there was such a person living at the time of Maud le Vavasour's marriage, was probably her Grandmother. She was daughter and sole heir of that Robert de Chaus who figures in 1165 as a great Derbyshire Feudatory (Liber Niger, I. 225), and who was hereditary Warden of the Forests of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. Maud de Caus was wife, first of Adam fitz Peter, Lord of Birkyn, and secondly of Ralph fitz Stephen. By her first husband she had issue John de Birkyn, who, on her death in 1224, succeeded to her great inheritance. I think that Roger de Birkyn above-mentioned, and * * * de Birkyn wife of Robert le Vavasour, were also children of Maude de Caus by her first husband. Maud le Vavasour, thus supposed to be her Granddaughter, had two children by her first husband, Theobald Walter. These were Theobald Walter (II.) and Matilda. Matilda was entrusted by King John to the guardianship of Gilbert fitz Reinfrid; but in 1220 King Henry III. apprises William de Lancaster (Gilbert fitz Reinfrid's son), that Theobald fitz Theobald was now to have charge of his Sister (Pat. 4 Hen. III, m. 5). This Writ, coupled with another of July 1221 (Claus. I. 463), shows that in 1220-1 Theobald Walter (II.) attained his majority. | le Vavasour, Maud (I9585)
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| 1472 | From Ayr and Its People, citation details below: In 1533 Alexander [Lockhart] obtained the lease of the waulkmill of Alloway, which remained in the family's hands until the 1650s, and his son John in 1556 purchased from the Abbot of Paisley the lands of Boghall across the river in the territory of Dalmilling. John married Janet Bannatyne, provost Richard's eldest daughter, sometime before 1548 and they had a family of a girl and five boys. In 1588 John Lockhart, in a complaint against the magistrates of Ayr, is described as "being now become aged and subject to diverse diseases and infirmities of body, and thereby unable to travail in the trade of merchandise or otherwise in winning of his living by means of industry, has withdrawn himself, his spouse and family, for his better ease, furth of the burgh of Ayr where he made his residence and dwelling, to his own place of Boghall, where he now makes residence, of intention to rest there quietly during the course of his life." He complained to the Privy Council that although he no longer resided in the burgh, the council was still taxing him as though he was. His complaint was upheld. | Lockhart, John (I25764)
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| 1473 | From Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Vol. 19, 7-14 Henry IV, 1405-1413 (citation details below): Anne daughter of Thomas Lord Bardolf and wife of William Clifford, Knight. 665 Writ for proof of age. 20 May 1409. Lincoln. Proof of age. Coningsby. 7 June. The jurors say that she is age 19 years and more, having been born in Tattershall castle and baptised in the parish church there on 24 June 1389, and this they know for the following reasons. Roger Kelke, aged 60 years, was present in the church and saw the baptism, the first in the new font there. | Kelke, Roger (I5219)
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| 1474 | From Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edward III, Volume 5, 1340-43, citation details below: May 28. Windsor. Exemption for life of Ralph de Wellewyk from being put on assizes, juries or recognitions, from appointment as mayor, sheriff, coroner, escheator or other bailiff or minister of the king, and from knighthood, against his will; and pardon to him for not having taken the said order pursuant to the king's proclamation. | Wellwicke, Ralph (I5365)
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| 1475 | From Chase-Wigglesworth Genealogy (citation details below): The Richmond Family states John Richmond came from Ashton Keynes, co. Wiltshire, England. The name of his wife is unknown. They probably married in England. John was a purchaser of six original shares of Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1637 , but lived in Newport and other places much of his life. The court records for the Province of Maine include numerous citations of a John Richmond involved in civil cases for slander, trespass, etc., at the Saco Court in 1636 and 1637 (Register, 39: 362-4) . He took the oath of fidelity at Taunton before 1640 and was in Rhode Island in 1655. He was a Commissioner for Newport at the Court of Commisioners held at Portsmouth in 1656. At the Court of 17 March 1656, moderated by Roger Williams , it was ordered that "Whereas, there are divers presentments standing uppon a booke of records (belonging to ye Islan ), against John Richmond" and a number of others, the "presentments shall not be, any of them, prosecuted, except by expresse orders from His Highness ye Lord Protector" ( R. I. Colonial Records, 1:333 ). In 1656-7 John Richmond of Newport "sen'r" paid a fine levied against Edward Richmond of Newport for £3.13s which had been uncollected "by reason that noe estate was found to serve it on" (Newport, R.I. Records). | Richmond, John (I22695)
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| 1476 | From Chase-Wigglesworth Genealogy (citation details below): Before coming to Little Compton, Edward owned property in the part of Newport which became Middletown. A gunsmith, he was an incorporator of Little Compton and bought two great lots there. He lived and is buried on the place known as the Father Richmond place, slightly north of the entrance to Meeting House Lane on the other side of the West Main Road. His gravestone in the small Richmond cemetery is the second oldest in town and a photo appears in Little Compton Families. In 1661 Edward had a share in Misquamicut (Westerly) lands appointed to him, and in 1663 he received a legacy of forty acres and wearing apparel from his father's will. On 31 October 1677 he and forty-seven others were granted 5,000 acres to be called East Greenwich. He bought the twenty-seventh lot in Little Compton from Daniel Wilcox for £50 on 2 February 1692. Edward served the Colony of Rhode Island as General Solicitor 1667, 1669, 1670, and 1672; Attorney General 1677-1680; Deputy 1678-1679, 1686; and Selectman 1683-1685, 1689-1690. In 1677 he was one of three men appointed to go to Newport regarding advancing money for the Colony's use in sending agents to England. He took the oath of fidelity at Little Compton on 6 June 1683. On 6 August 1767 the Assembly voted "that Lieutenant Edward Richmond, with his company, shall be allowed and have the one-half of the produce of the seven Indians they brought in" (according to the act allowing certain Indian men and women be sold for service of nine years). Edward was clerk of a court martial held on 23 August 1676 for the trial of four Indians who were executed. He was fined 65 on 4 June 1686 for furnishing an Indian with rum or strong liquor. In May 1690 he was appointed Captain. | Richmond, Edward Attorney General of Rhode Island (I22655)
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| 1477 | From Chase-Wigglesworth Genealogy (citation details below): Silvester Richmond served as sheriff of Bristol County, Justice of the Peace in 1711 and 1729, and was one of the original members of the First Congregational Church in Little Compton. He was commissioned a Lieutenant on 25 July 1710 and a Colonel in April 1742. In 1752 he removed from Little Compton to Dartmouth. He owned a large number of slaves but liberated them and settled them in some woodlands in Dartmouth (Dartmouth Woods). Richmond Family states there is a ridge of land in that town which was settled almost wholly by negroes who were descendants of Col. Richmond's emancipated slaves. | Richmond, Col. Sylvester (I22653)
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| 1478 | From Complete Peerage: Sir Edmund Deincourt, of Blankney and Branston, co. Lincoln, Holmesfield and Elmton, co. Derby, Granby, Notts, Duddington, Northants, &c., s. and h. of Sir John Deincourt, of Blankney, &c. (who d. before 14 Oct. 1257), by Agnes, da. of Sir Geoffrey de Neville, of Raby, co. Durham. The King took his homage, though he was still a minor, on or before 8 Jan. 1268/9. He was in the Army of Wales in 1277, 1282, and 1294, and in the Army of Scotland in 1299. He was sum. for Military Service from 16 Apr. (1291) 19 Edw. I to 1 May (1325) 18 Edw. II, to attend the King wherever he might be, 8 June (1294) 22 Edw. I, to attend the Coronation, 18 Jan. (1307/8) 1 Edw. II, to Councils from 8 Jan. (1308/9) 2 Edw. II to 20 Feb. (1324/5) 18 Edw. II, and to Parl. from 6 Feb. (1298/9) 27 Edw. I to 3 Dec. (1326) 20 Edw. II, by writs directed Edmundo Deyncurt or Deyncourt, whereby he is held to have become Lord Deincourt. He did homage for his lands in Burnby, co. York, to three successive Archbishops of York, 1299, 18 July 1300, and 3 May 1310. As Edmundus de Eyncourt dominus de Thurgerton, he took part in the Barons' Letter to the Pope, 12 Feb. 1300/1. He was one of those ordered, 3 Sep. 1312, to prohibit the Earl of Lancaster and others from repairing to the King with horses and arms. By a fine, levied in the octaves of St. Michael II Edw. II, he conveyed the manor and soke of Blankney, with the advowson of the chapel there, the manors of Branston, Mere, and Granby, a messuage in the bail of Lincoln, the advowsons of the Priory of Thurgarton and the Hospital of St. Leonard at Stoke, and the manors of Holmesfield and Elmton, save a messuage, &c., in Elmton, to himself for life: rem. to William s. of John Deincourt, rem. to John br. of the same William, in successive tail general: rem. to his own right heirs. By another fine, of the same date, he conveyed the said messuage, &c., in Elmton, to himself for life: rem. to Hamon de Mascy and Joan his wife [late the wife of Edmund s. of John Deincourt], for her life: rem. to Isabel da. of Edmund s. of John Deincourt, in tail male: rem. to his own right heirs. He m. Isabel, da. of Sir Reynold de Mohun, of Dunster, Somerset, by his 2nd wife, Isabel, da. of William (de Ferrers), Earl of Derby. He d. 6 Jan. 1326/7. ***** Note that despite CP's assertion that he married "Isabel, da. of Sir Reynold de Mohun, of Dunster, Somerset, by his 2nd wife, Isabel, da. of William (de Ferrers), Earl of Derby," there is no clear evidence that this Isabel was the mother of his children. Moreover, Royal Ancestry doesn't even list an Isabel among the children of Reynold de Mohun and Elizabeth de Ferrers. | Deincourt, Edmund (I9706)
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| 1479 | From Complete Peerage (IV:316): [Baldwin de Reviers] married Margaret, daughter and heir of Warin Fitz Gerold, the King's Chamberlain, by Alice (to whom she was coheir), sister and heir of William de Curcy, and daughter of another William de Curcy, both of Stogursey, Somerset, Irby, co. Lincoln, &c. He died 1 September 1216, aged 16 or less. His widow was immediately afterwards forced by King John (who died 18 October) to marry the notorious Faukes de Breaute?, a Norman, at whose downfall in 1224, she was captured, or rather rescued, on the surrender of Bedford Castle, 14 August. Directly after this she demanded that her marriage should be annulled, as she had been taken prisoner in time of war and married to Faukes without her consent. He was sentenced to exile for ever, and was given letters of conduct, 26 October 1224, to quit the realm as soon as possible: the Earl of Warenne being ordered to take him to the sea-coast, and, having put him on board ship, to commit him to the winds and the sails. He proceeded to Rome to obtain the Pope's assistance to recover his lands and his wife with her dower, and died on his return thence, after 11 July 1226, at St. Cyriac in Languedoc. Margaret died shortly before 29 September 1252, and was buried in the Church of the Grey Friars, London. | Margaret (I16555)
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| 1480 | From Complete Peerage I:148, footnote (a): Her Christian name is sometimes given as Agnes, but of the marriage itself there is no doubt. Wyntoun, in his account of the Earls of Buchan, (Cronykil ed. Macpherson, vol. ii, p. 35) states that of the "systris fywe of Earl John"-- "The thryd [had] Schyr Gylbert Wmfrayvyle, Erle of Angws in that qwliile, (Of Angws and of Ryddysdale Erle he wes, and Lord all hale) On that Lady eftyrwart Of Wmfraywylle he gat Robert: On that Lady he gat alswa Othir Brethyr to Robert ma." | Comyn, Elizabeth (I4612)
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| 1481 | From Complete Peerage IX: 331: "John le Blount, 2nd s. of Walter and Joan abovenamed, was in 1324 a practised soldier belonging to Worcestershire. In 1337, being then a knight, he was found heir to his elder brother, William Blount [Lord Blount]. He was joint commissioner in Worcestershire in 1344, to inquire as to holders of land. He served in Gascony under Henry, Earl of Lancaster, and afterwards, 1347, under the King at the siege of Calais, till Edward's return to England. In Oct. 1350 he was undertaking a pilgrimage to Santiago. He m. Isoude.(*) He d. in 1358." CP footnote attached to the asterisk in the above: "(*) According to tradition, Isoude de Mountjoy. The mystery of her parentage has not been solved. The release by John le Blount in 1374 to his brother Walter of all his rights in lands in Gayton, Yeldersley, Brushfield, Wc. (Croke, op. cit., vol. ii, p. 171), which were Mountjoy manors in the 13th and 14th centuries (Jeayes, Derbyshire Charters, no. 1608 et seq), suggests that a portion of the Mountjoy estates had descended by inheritance to John, then eldest surviving son of John le Blount and Isoude. It was a portion only, because (i) Gayton and Yeldersley, &c, descended, through the marriage of Isoude (da. and h. of Serle de Mountjoy, s. and h. of Ralph de Mountjoy) to Robert de Ireland (Plac. de Quo Warranto, p. 155); the family of Ireland were still holding temp. Henry VII (Feudal Aids, vol. i, p. 250 et seq. ; Jeayes, op. cit., no. 2731); (ii) the receipt given by Madam Wake in 1359 for evidences belonging to Richard Blount, the young heir of John and Isoude, refers to vint oyt feetes en un boist del heritage la mere le dit Richard et ses parceners des tenements en le Pek, (Ac. (Harl. MS. 6709, fo. 119 d)." Nathaniel Lane Taylor, post to SGM, 17 Feb 2008: "As CP shows, Sir John Blount (d. 1358) can only be shown to have had one wife, Isolda de Mountjoy. Older sources assign him a second wife, Eleanor Beauchamp (of Hache) who is made to be the mother of his younger sons (including the one whose descendants took the peerage title 'Mountjoy'). On the alleged Blount-Beauchamp marriage, an article by Cecil R. Humphery-Smith, "The Blount Quarters," The Coat of Arms 4 (1957), 224-27, is corrected by G. D. Squibb, "The Heirs of Beauchamp of Hatch," ibid., pp. 275-77, showing that the particular claimed marriage cannot have happened. "More importantly, Isolda is documented as still wife of Sir John Blount in 1352, well after the apparent birth year of Walter, ancestor of the lords Mountjoy. Croke (in his Blount work back in 1823) quoted the 1352 charter but didn't realize the chronological implication, repeating the two-wife fallacy." | le Blount, John (I8130)
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| 1482 | From Complete Peerage IX:267-8: Ralph de Mortimer, son and heir [of Roger by Hawise], succeeded his father before 1086, when he appears in Domesday Book as tenant in chief in twelve counties. His possessions lay largely in Herefordshire and Shropshire, Wigmore in the former county being the caput of the honour. Both Wigmore and Cleobury, in Shropshire, had belonged to William FitzOsbern, Earl of Hereford, and the grant must therefore have been later than the forfeiture of William's son Roger in 1074. He attested a notification by William I between 1078 and 1087. On 30 March 1088 he witnessed a grant made by his man Ralph FitzAnsere to the abbey of Jumieges. In that year he, Bernard de Neufmarche, and Roger de Lacy, at the head of a large body of English, Norman and Welsh fighting men, attacked Worcester with the avowed intention of burning the town and pillaging the church. The Bishop's men marched out and defeated them on the other side of the Severn. In 1089 he was one of the barons of Eastern Normandy who sided with William Rufus against Robert Curthose, but between 1091 and 1095 he is found (at Lisieux) witnessing with Duke Robert a charter for Jumieges. He made a grant to the monks of Worcester with the assent of his sons (unnamed) and his men. In 1104. he adhered to Henry I against Duke Robert. This is the last mention found of him, and the date of death is unknown. He married, 1stly, Melisande, who was dead before 30 March 1088, and, 2ndly, Mabel. (g) (g) Stephen, Count of Aumale, by a charter circa 1100, with the consent of Hawise his wife and of Ralph de Mortimer her father, granted the church of Airaines (Somme) of the inheritance of Ralph and Hawise to the priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs, Paris, mentioning Melisande, Ralph's deceased wife. The charter of 30 Mar 1088 referred to above is subscribed 'Signum Radulfi Filii Rogeri Morte maris Signum Mabilie uxoris eius'. Hawise was clearly the daughter of Melisande; and as she must have been born before 1088, Melisande would be Ralph's first wife. William, brother of Hugh, witnesses his charter for Saint-Victor, but he occurs low in the list of witnesses and was probably illegitimate. There is no evidence as to which wife was mother of Hugh. | de Mortimer, Ralph (I934)
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| 1483 | From Complete Peerage V: 495-7: Sir Fulk Fitzwarin, of Whittington, Salop, Alveston, co. Gloucester, Wantage, Berks, and Stanton Fitzwarren, Wilts, only son and heir of Sir Fulk Fitzwarin, of the same (who died 14 May 1264, being drowned in the Ouse, when endeavouring to escape, at the battle of Lewes)*, by Constance, daughter of Sir Ralph de Tony, of Castle Maud (now Painscastle), co. Radnor, South Tawton, Devon, and Flamstead, Herts. He was born at Whittington, 14 September 1251. On 29 April 1273 his fealty was taken, his homage being respited, and he had livery of his father's lands. He was with the King in the Army of Wales in 1282, and was about to go beyond seas in December 1284. In 1294, before going to Gascony on the King's service, he demised the manor of Wantag, Berks, to Master Henry Huse, for nine years. He was summoned for Military Service from 12 December 1276 to 30 June 1314, to attend the King at Shrewsbury, 28 June 1283, to a Military Council, 14 June 1287, to attend the King wherever he might be, 8 June 1294, to attend the King at Salisbury, 26 January 1296/7, to attend the Coronation, 18 January 1307/8, and to Parliament from 24 June 1295 to 16 October 1315, by writs directed Fulconi filio Warini, with the addition of seniori on and after 29 July 1314, whereby he is held to have become Lord Fitzwarin. As Fulco filius Warini dominus de Whitington he took part in the Barons' Letter to the Pope, 12 February 1300/1. He did homage and fealty, for his lands in Wales, to Edward, Prince of Wales, at Kenilworth, 27 May 1301. On 10 August 1301 the King ordered Fulk fitz Warin and Richard fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel, to abstain from attacking each other. On 14 April 1302 Fulk had licence to grant the manor of Alveston, co. Gloucester, to Fulk, his son, in fee. In 1310 he conveyed the manor of Whittington to John de Beauchamp of Somerset, who granted it to him for life, with remainder to Fulk the younger [his son and heir], and Alianore wife of the latter, and the heirs of their bodies, remainder to the right heirs of Fulk the elder. On 1 June 1311 he had licence to grant two parts of a moiety of the manor of Stanton, Wilts, to the same Fulk his son, in fee. On 16 October 1313 he was pardoned, as an adherent of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, for any part he had taken against Piers de Gavastone. He married, before 25 February 1276/7, Margaret, daughter of Gruffyd ab Wennonwen, called also de la Pole (Welshpool, co. Montgomery), Prince or Lord of Upper Powys, by Hawise, daughter of Sir John Lestraunge, of Knockin, Salop. He died 24 November 1315. His widow, who heId one-third of the manor of Alveston in dower, died 11 May 1336. * He was son and heir of Fulk fitz Warin of Whittington (living Oct 1250), who m. 1stly Maud, widow of Theobald Walter, and daughter of Robert le Vavasur, and 2ndly, Clarice Dauberville. This Fulk had been outlawed, but was pardoned, 15 Nov 1203, his castle of Whittington being restored to him, 17 Oct 1204. He was son and heir of Fulk fitz Warin (living in Nov 1194), by Hawise, daughter and coheir of Josce de Dinan. The last named Fulk was son and heir of Fulk fitz Warin of Whittington and Alveston, who d. in 1170 or 1171, son of the shadowy or mythical Warin, of Metz in Lorraine. | Fitzwarine, Fulk V (I4251)
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| 1484 | From Complete Peerage V:639: Sir John Giffard, of Brimpsfield, Badgeworth, Stonehouse, Stoke Gifford, and Rockhampton, co. Gloucester, Elston, Orcheston St. George, Sherrington, Ashton, and Broughton Gifford, Wilts, son and heir of Sir Elis Giffard, of Brimpsfield, &c. (who died shortly before 2 May 1248) (c1), by his 2nd wife, Alice, sister of Sir John Mautravers, of Lytchet Matravers, Dorset (a). He was aged 16, or 16 and more, at his father's death (b1). With several other barons, he seized the Bishop of Hereford, 11 June 1263, and took him to Eardisley Castle. On 18 August following, he was among those who made a treaty with Edward, the King's son. He had just been appointed, 7 August, by the advice of the Magnates of the Council, Keeper of the castle of St. Briavel and the forest of Dean, during pleasure, and he was pardoned, 18 September following, for all trespasses committed by reason of non-observance of the Provisions of Oxford. He was appointed joint Keeper of the counties of Gloucester, Worcester, and Hereford, 24 December 1263. In 1264 he belonged to the baronial party, and in April, being in command at Kenilworth, he surprised and destroyed Warwick Castle, taking the Earl and Countess prisoners. On 14 May following he was at the battle of Lewes, where he was taken prisoner early in the day, but he had already captured William la Zuche. He was one of those prohibited, 16 February 1264/5, from taking part in the tournament at Dunstaple, and ordered to attend a Council on the morrow of Ash Wednesday [19 February] following. He changed sides together with the Earl of Gloucester and others, and was in the King's army at the battle of Evesham, 4 August 1265. In consideration of his services at this battle, he was pardoned, 9 Oct. 1265, for having adhered to Simon de Montfort at the battle of Lewes, and for all other trespasses committed up to the said 9 October. He was one of the commissioners empowered, 24 April 1274, to make a truce at the ford of Montgomery, in a month from Easter [29 April], between Llewelyn ab Gruffyd, Prince of Wales, and Humphrey de Bohun of Brecknock. On 6 November 1281 he had licence to hunt wolves, with his own hounds, throughout all the King's forests in England. He was appointed Keeper of the castle of Llandovery, co. Carmarthen, 9 April 1282, and of that of Builth, co. Brecknock, 14 October following, both during pleasure. On 18 November 1283 the King granted him, in fee, the commote of Iscennen, co. Carmarthen, to hold by the service of a knight's fee: and, on 8 February 1289/90, the castle of Dynevor in that county, for life, as a refuge for himself and his men: he was ordered to deliver this castle to Walter de Pederton, 29 July 1297. He was present at the assemblies held at Berwick in October and November 1297, to discuss the various claims to the Crown of Scotland. He was Captain of Podensac in Gascony, which town he surrendered to the French, in 1294/5. He was summoned for Military Service from 18 July 1257 to 7 May 1299, to attend the King at Shrewsbury, 28 June 1283, to attend the King at Salisbury, 26 January 1296/7, to a Military Council, 20 August 1297,and to Parliament from 24 June 1295. to 10 April 1299, by writs directed Johanni Giffard, or Gyffard, occasionally with the additionde Brimmesfeld', whereby he is held to have become Lord Giffard. He was affianced, at the age of 4 years, to Aubrey de Caumville (who was about the same age), but he did not marry her (b2). He married, 1stly, Maud [c2], widow of Sir William Lungespee, of Amesbury, Aldbourne, and Trowbridge, Wilts, Canford, Dorset, Bicester, Oxon; Brattleby, co., Lincoln, &c. (who died between 23 December 1256 and 3 January 1256/7], and daughter and heir of Sir Walter de Clifford, of Clifford co. Hereford, Cortham, Salop, &c., by Margaret, daughter of Llewelyn ab Iorwerth, Prince of North Wales. She, who was living 1 December 1281, died s.p.m., not long afterwards. He married, 2ndly, in 1286, Margaret, widow of Sir John de Neville, of Hallingbury, Wethersfield, Great Totham, Great Wakering and Langharn, Essex, Alphington, Devon, &c. who died shortly before 20 May 1282. He died at Boyton, Wilts, 29 May, and was buried 11 June 1299 in Malmesbury Abbey. His widow's dower was ordered to be assigned, 1 August 1299, and on 5 August she was assigned the manors of Stonehouse, Stoke Gifford, Elston, and Broughton Gifford. She died shortly before 13 December 1338. (c1) In 1221 this Elis stated that "Osbertus Giffard, antecessor suusqui venit ad conquestum Angl' tenuit manerium de Bimesfeld' . . . et post eum Elias flius suus . . . et post eum Elias filius illius Elieet pater suus." At least one generation is here omitted. The Elis living in 1221 was son and heir of Elis III, by Maud, daughter of Morice fitz Robert fitz Hardinge, of Berkeley: which Elis III owed 100 marks 'pro fine terre sue' in 1166 and died before Michaelmas 1190, when William le Mareschal owed 140 marks for the custody of the lands of Elis Giffard. Elis III was son and heir of Elis II (who became a monk in Gloucester Abbey), by Berta (living 1167), sister of Walter de Clifford, of Clifford and Glasbury, and daughter of Richard fitzPonce. In 1130 Elis II rendered account of 100 marks of silver for the relief of his father's lands, being son and heir of Elis I, by Ala, his wife. Before 1096 Elis I had succeeded his father Osbern Giffard, the Domesday tenant of Brimpsfield, Stoke, Rockhampton, Elston, Orcheston, etc. (a) John Mautravers gave the manor of Ashton and the advowson of the church of St. Peter at Codford, Wilts, to Elis Giffard in free marriage with Alice his sister, to hold to them and their heirs of their bodies, by the service of a knight's fee. (b1) "Elias Giffard". He held the manor of Winterburne (now Elston), of the King in chief, as the head of his barony; the manor of Sherrington pertaining to that barony; and that of Ashton, held ofJ ohn Mautravers in free marriage. Heir [name cut away] his son aged 16 [rest cut away]. The proof of age of this heir, John Giffard, is undated and defective, but it states that he was born on the day of St. Wulstan (19 Jan). (b2) So the proof of age mentioned above. She was probably the Aubrey de Canville, a nun of Polesworth, who was elected Abbess in Dec 1276 or in the following month. The marriage was contracted at Arrow, co. Warwick, and she must have been a daughter of Thomas de Camville, of Arrow, and a descendant of Aubrey Marmion, Lady of Arrow, wife of William de Caumville. | Giffard, John (I6181)
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| 1485 | From Complete Peerage V:640: Sir John Giffard, of Brimpsfield, Badgeworth, Stonehouse, Stoke Gifford, and Rockhampton, co. Gloucester, Elston, Orcheston St. George, Sherrington, Ashton, and Broughton Gifford, Wilts, son and heir of Sir Elis Giffard, of Brimpsfield, &c. (who died shortly before 2 May 1248), by his 2nd wife, Alice, sister of Sir John Mautravers, of Lytchet Matravers, Dorset (a). (a) John Mautravers gave the manor of Ashton and the advowson of the church of St. Peter at Codford, Wilts, to Elis Giffard in free marriage with Alice his sister, to hold to them and their heirs of their bodies, by the service of a knight's fee. | Mautravers, Alice (I4493)
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| 1486 | From Complete Peerage XII/2: 88-89: The name Tybotot does not appear in the records before June 1204, when Walter, father of Robert Tybotot, a tenant in co. Leicester, is mentioned. Walter was one of the King's enemies at this time, for in July following the sheriff of co. Leicester was ordered to grant possession of Walter's lands to his overlord, the Earl of Derby. The date of Walter's death is not known. In 1209 Robert Tybotot was one of the knights of the King's household in the army of Scotland, and in September 1216 the release from captivity of Robert Tybotot, knight of the Earl of Derby, was ordered. There is no proof of the parentage of this Robert Tybotot, but the fact that he was a tenant of the Earl of Derby suggests that he may be the son of Walter, who was a tenant of the same Earl. HENRY TYBOTOT was probably of the same family. In May 1217 John de Boterel and Henry Tybotot were granted the lands of Adam Painel in Yorks and Lincs, and in 1223 the sheriff of co. Leicester was ordered to seize the lands of Henry Tybotot, who had attended a tournament against the King's will. Henry Tybotot had connections with Essex as early as Apr. 1228, and in Sep. 1229 he was granted custody of the lands and heir of William de Haye in that county. He was given timber from Essex to build a mill and a house in 1232 and 1233; and in Apr. 1233 he was granted the manor of Shopland, Essex, to keep him in the King's service. Henry, who may have served in Ireland during the reign of King John, was granted protection, Oct. 1229, for the expedition which was to go to Brittany and in Apr. follg. he crossed to France with the King. In May 1234 he was among those asked to supply a knight for service in Brittany. He m. Alda and d. some time before 26 Dec. 1241. Alda survived him but the date of her death is not known. | de Tibetot, Henry (I2494)
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| 1487 | From Complete Peerage, III:417 and XIV:205: Piers Corbet, son and heir of Thomas C., of Caus, Salop (died 1274), by Isabel, widow of Alan de Dunstanville, sister and in her issue coheir of Roger De Vautort, and daughter of another Roger De Vautort, of Harberton, Devon. He had livery of his father's lands 2 November 1274. He was in the Welsh wars 1282-93. On 28 June 1283, he was summoned to attend the King at Shrewsbury, and 8 June 1294, to attend the King wherever he might be, and consequently ordered to be omitted from the summonses for Gascony on the 14th. He was summoned to Parliament 24 June 1295 to 29 December 1299, by writs directed Petro Corbet, whereby he is held to have become Lord Corbet. He married, 1stly, in or before 1252-3, Joan, daughter of Ralph De Mortimer, of Wigmore, co. Hereford, by Gwladus Du, daughter of Llewelyn ap Iorwerth, PRince of North Wales. He married, 2ndly, Alice de Orreby. He died 1300, before 10 August. His widow was living May 1315. | Corbet, Peter (I16211)
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| 1488 | From Complete Peerage: ROBERT DE UFFORD (b) had interests in Ufford, Suffolk, by (1255-6) 40 Hen. III, when he levied a fine of the advowson there to Gilbert Pecche. He was in Wales with Edward, the King's son, Oct. 1257, was going with him beyond seas, July 1261, and was with him at Boulogne-sur-Mer, Jan. 1263/4. Having gone to Ireland on the Prince's affairs, Sep. 1268, he was made Justiciary there, 1268-69, and again 17 June 1276-Nov. 1281, when he was replaced, being "so affected by infirmity that he cannot attend to the office." He was granted the custody of the town and castle of Orford, Suffolk, 15 May 1275 - May 1276, and again for life, 28 Dec. 1280; was Justice of Chester, before Oct. 1276; had a protection for 3 years, staying in England, 7 Dec. 1282; and he and his heirs received a grant of a weekly market and yearly fair at Bawdsey, Suffolk, 28 Aug. 1283. On 7 May 1290 he was allowed to appoint attorneys, being too old to ride, and again on 30 Dec. 1296, by reason of his debility; but he was a Commissioner to keep the sea-coast near Dunwich, 30 Aug. 1295. He married, 1stly, before 12 May 1273, Mary, widow of William DE SAY (died shortly before 12 Feb. 1271/2). She was living, 10 Aug. 1280. He married, 2ndly, before 1286-87, Joan. He died shortly before 9 Sep. 1298. His widow was living, 18 Nov. 1307. [Complete Peerage XII/2:148-9] (b) In his collections for Suffolk genealogies, Sir Simonds d'Ewes says that Robert de Ufford was, "uti colligo", 2nd son of John de Peyton, son of Nigel, who lived in the reign of Henry I; but there is no evidence among the charters which he there transcribes from the documents then (Dec. 1631) penes Sir Edward Peyton, Knight and Barinet, at Isleham, Cambs, and no evidence has been traced elsewhere; nor is the chronology easily reconcilable with the known facts. Robert de Ufford is known to have had a brother John, who was h. in July 1276. A John de Ufford had letters of protection for 3 years, 7 Nov. 1280, proceeding by the King's license, to Ireland, and letters of safe conduct, 14 Mar. 1282/3 and 30 Aug. 1284, to go to the Court of Rome. Royal assent was given to his election as Bishop of Enachdune, a disputed Irish see, 16 Mar 1282/3, but he d. "prosecuting his right" thereto before 1300. Another man (? other men) of this name (fl. 1302-25) is described with John, brother of Robert, in Knights of Edward I. | de Ufford, Robert (I13251)
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| 1489 | From Culpepper Connections (citation details below): Robert Culpepper's ancestry was long the subject of speculation. However, DNA testing reveals that 80+% of the mainline Culpeppers descend from sons of Robert, and that the balance, with only a minor genetic difference, descend from the sons of Henry Culpepper, Jr. The most logical conclusion from traditional genealogical research and DNA testing is that Robert and Henry Jr. are sons of Henry Culpepper (Sr.) of Lower Norfolk Co., VA. and his wife Elizabeth. Robert was probably born around 1664 but it is not known if he was born in England or in Virginia. He probably married his wife around 1690. She may have been named Sarah, but her maiden name is not known. She was probably a daughter of one of the neighboring families along the West Branch of the Elizabeth River in Norfolk Co., VA. She and Robert had sons named Joseph and Benjamin, and Robert, Jr. Robert, Jr. was obviously named after his father. But the names Joseph and Benjamin were not used by Robert, Sr.'s brother, Henry, and so might be clues to the identity of Robert's wife. These were family names in the local Richardson, Powell, Hodges, and Hollowell families, among others, all of whom lived nearby. According to The Hollowells by Lucy E. Hollowell, the Hollowells were Quakers, and none of the Hollowell daughters from this time period is known to have married a Culpepper. Robert finally emerges in Norfolk County records in 1692 when he bought 50 acres from Thomas and Elizabeth Green, for 2,000 pounds of tobacco. (Records on the Culpepper family in Norfolk County in the early 1700's are scarce, and all of the ones that we have found, including this one, are recorded above.) | Culpepper, Robert (I8528)
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| 1490 | From Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (citation details below): John (Heard), master carpenter, never mariner nor captain. [...] In 1647 fined for calling Godfrey old knave and criticizing Capt. Champernowne; in 1650 he had lately been liv. on Champernowne's Isl. in [Kitterey, Maine], and was buying lands in York. Appar. he had built a ho. on Champernowne Isl. and on not getting his pay had burnt it; judgm. of Ct. Oct. 1650 that he replace as good and as large a ho. [...] He had left York in June 1648 [...] but was back again in 1651 (Gr. j. 1651-2). In Dover, where he was perman. settled by 1654, he was much relied on by Major Waldron. | Heard, John (I2860)
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| 1491 | From Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire [citation details below]: Gordon, Alexander, Exeter. A Scotch pris. of war at Tuthill Fields, London, he was redeemed there by Danl. Stone of Cambridge, and came to N. E. with John Cloyes under verbal agreem., working his passage with Capt. John Allen. Cloyes's sale of him to Saml. Stratton 15 Oct. 1652, aft. a yr.'s work without compensa., resulted in his appeal to the ct. in Feb. 1653-4 [Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc. 61.25]. His hist. unkn. for 10 yrs., he was mar. to Mary Lissen (2) bef. 10 Oct. 1664, when he had an Exeter gr. adj. land given him by his fa. Lissen. Deposed twice in 1678, ± 40. ... Adm. 15 Aug. 1697 to s. John wid. Mary renounc. Ch: Elizabeth, b. 23 Feb. 1664, m. 26 May 1686 Thos. Emerson of Haverh.; both k. by Ind. with 2 [actually 3] of their 5 ch. 15 Mar. 1696-7. Nicholas, b. 23 Mar. 1665-6. Mary, b. 22 May 1668, m. Nicholas Smith. John, b. 26 Oct. 1670. James, b. 22 July 1673. Lists 67, 376b (1698). M. 7 Aug. 1700 Abiel Redman (John), who was gr. adm. 7 Dec. 1714, and m. 2d Moses Kimmin (2). 5 sons. Alexander, b. 1 Dec. 1675, m. (ct. 14 Sept. 1699) Sarah Sewall (Edward). ... Wid. Sarah, exec. of his will (not found), deeded to Wm. Graves 25 Mar. 1729-30 half a lot owned in common with Graves; liv. a wid. 1732. 7 or m. ch. Thomas, b. 1678, m 1st in Haverh. 22 Nov. 1699 Elizabeth Harriman (Matthew), 7 ch., 6 rec. Haverh.; m. 2d aft. 10 Apr. 1709 Rebecca Heard (2), 5 ch. liv. 1756. ... Will 1757-1761, names 10 ch. Daniel, b. 1682, blacksmith, m. in Haverh. 15 Sept. 1708 Margaret Harriman. Liv. Kingston and app. sold out there 1717. ... Of 5 ch. rec. 1709-1716, 2 m. in Haverh. Wid. or dau. Margaret m. 17 Feb. 1736 Saml. Bradstreet, both of Suncook. | Gordon, Alexander (I6215)
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| 1492 | From Genealogy of the Brownings in America (citation details below): The earliest record we have of James Browning is that he was born in the year 1672, in Scotland. Some of his descendants say that their branch of the family came originally from Barre, Eng. That may be so before they went to Scotland. He lived in Ardiston parish, Scotland, until his father's family removed to the north of Ireland to the parish of Addstraw; when he took letters from his pastor, the Rev. Mr. Holliday, of Ardiston, Scotland, to the Rev. Mr. Haviland, of the Protestant Church, Addstraw, Ireland. Addstraw is about 10 miles from Londonderry, the place where the Protestants were closely besieged by the Catholics under King James II, and during the siege were reduced to the direst extremities. The siege was raised by an English vessel under Captain Michael Browning in 1688, who is said to have lost his life in the undertaking. He was probably an ancestor of Mr. James Browning. Mr. James Browning came to America about the year 1714, and settled at Rutland, Mass. In 1721 he married Elizabeth Davis, and on May 24, 1728, they were received into the communion of the Church in Rutland, they both having brought letters of fellowship from their former pastor in Ireland. At the first legal town-meeting ever held in Rutland, he was elected one of the Titheing men, in 1722. His was one of the original 60 families who settled in Rutland, each family receiving a house lot of 30 acres. He owned Lot No. 53, and he and his sons afterward owned 800 acres in that district. A large pond, located in the present towns of Spencer and Oakum, formerly a part of Rutland, took its name from him and is still known as "Browning's Pond." At least three of his sons took an active part in the great Revolutionary struggle. [...] Mr. Browning was one of those who founded Barre, Mass., which is near Rutland, and was named after Barre, England. Later some families from Barre, Mass., moved into Vermont and founded the town of Barre there, near Montpelier, where at a later date, Ross C. Browning was born. | Browning, James (I33687)
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| 1493 | From Gregory Stone Genealogy (citation details below): In early life [he] exhibited natural capacity and desire for learning, and after preparatory study under Rev. Joseph Wheaton of Holliston and Rev. Charles Train of Framingham, he was admitted to Brown University where he graduated A.B. in 1820 and A.M. in 1822. He then took up medical studies under Dr. John B. Kittredge of Framingham, completing them at the Harvard Medical School where he received the degree of M.D. in 1824. Soon afterwards he settled in Walpole, Mass., where he practiced his profession over forty years, until within a short time of his decease, 13 Aug. 1869, in his seventy-second year. Dr. Stone was a skilful, successful, and popular family physician, and obtained an extensive practice in Walpole and the surrounding towns; and his high character, abilities, geniality, and sympathetic disposition secured for him the confidence, esteem, and affection of a large circle of patients. While assiduously and faithfully devoted to the duties of his profession, he was also much interested in education, labored for the improvement of the schools, and was one of the earliest open advocates of temperance during the first agitation on this subject in Massachusetts about 1830. He was a man of calm judgment, firm convictions, and scholarly tastes. In politics he was long a conservative adherent of the Whig party, and in religion was a consistent member of the Unitarian church and a constant attendant at its public worship. For some years he was a councillor of the Massachusetts Medical Society and president of the Norfolk District Medical Society. | Stone, Dr. Ebenezer (I22968)
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| 1494 | From Hale, House and Related Families (citation details below): He was Commissioner (Justice) for Wethersfield, 1669 to 1684 inclusive. He served as Deputy for Wethersfield to the Connecticut General Assembly at the sessions of Oct. 1669, May and Oct. 1670, May 1671, May and Oct. 1672, May and Oct. 1673, May and Oct. 1674, May 1675, May and Oct. 1676, May and Oct. 1677, May and Oct. 1678, May and Oct. 1679, May and Oct. 1680, May and Oct. 1681, Oct. 1682, May, Oct. and Nov. 1683, May and Oct. 1684. He was Secretary pro tem., Oct. 1684. He was an Assistant of the Colony, 1685 to 1691, until his death. He was a member of the War Council, Oct. 1675 and May 1676, during King Philip's War. In Oct. 1669 he was granted 200 acres. In May 1677, he was chosen Lieutenant of the Wethersfield Train Band; Lieutenant of the Hartford County troop, Oct. 1679; and Captain of the Troop, Oct. 1681 and June 1689. | Talcott, Samuel (I18151)
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| 1495 | From Hale, House and Related Families by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman (citation details below):: He went to school in Cambridge to the famous Master Corlet. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1662, and was chosen Tutor of the College, 25 Nov. 1666. He is the first Librarian of the College on record. His health becoming impaired by too close application to his studies, he went to Barbados as Chaplain to Governor Serle. There he preached to the Dissenters. In 1669 he was planning a voyage to England and was to embark on the following day, when a request from the church in Northampton, Mass., caused him to change his plans and to go thither. On 4 Mar. 1669/70, the town voted him £100 annually if he settled with them, but he did not formally accept tor nearly two years, and was ordained 11 Sept. 1672. Soon after coming to Northampton, he married the young widow of Rev. Eleazer Mather, his predecessor in the pastorate. He was skilled in the learned languages and had a great reputation as a scholar. As a minister he was remarkably successful in gaining converts and in retaining the respect of his congregation. He was above the average in height, with good features and a venerable presence. He had a strong constitution, was seldom ill, and was a constant preacher for sixty years. A considerable number of his writings were published. The Doctrine of Instituted Churches in 1700 maintains that the Lord's table should be ac cessible to all persons who are not immoral. This brought him into conflict with the conservative Mathers, and as late as 1709 the subject was discussed in pamphleted sermons on either side of the controversy. The subject was ably treated by Stoddard, and his influence on the churches of Connecticut and of the river towns of central Massachusetts is seen in their adoption of the "Half-Way Covenant," which permitted the baptism of children of baptized but "unconverted" parents who were not full church members. In his old age, his grandson Jonathan Edwards became his colleague, and eventually his successor in the pastorate of the Northampton church. Oddly enough, it was the turning of Edwards from his grandfather's liberal doctrine towards a stricter Calvinsim which caused the Northampton church to dismiss him. | Stoddard, Rev. Solomon (I15385)
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| 1496 | From Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts (citation details below): John Scott [...] was from the Scotch Covenanters of Ulster. He came among the first Scotch-Irish emigrants in 1718, or soon before. He must have brought with him more than most of tbe settlers, for he soon became one of the heaviest taxpayers of the town of Leicester, Massachusetts, where he bought land and made his home. His wife Martha and five or more children came with him. He bought his first land of the original proprietors of the town of Leicester. The original homestead which he settled upon remained in the hands of his descendants until 1850. It has been known to the present generation as the Grosvenor farm. The farm is situated in Auburn, formerly Ward, formerly Leicester. John Scott was on the ministerial tax list dated December 7, 1727, as owning thirteen hundred and three acres of land, the largest amount of any person on the list. He paid the largest tax in 1735 and subsequent years. In his will he bequeaths a coat of armor, an indication that some ancestor had been a knight some generations before. His will is dated 1753, and it was allowed May 15 following. | Scott, John (I33685)
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| 1497 | From History of the City of New York, citation details below, in its account of the Battle of Long Island: The red foe surging over the bluff could be seen through the foliage already in possession of the highway. Washington in a frenzy of excitement rode up and down trying to rally the troops into line to check the advance of the British, in which he was gallantly aided by Parsons and other officers. But the attempt was fruitless. And having not a moment to lose he ordered the troops to continue their retreat, and spurred away to provide for the safety of Harlem Heights, as it was possible for the enemy to land in that vicinity at the same time as elsewhere. Meanwhile Scott, [Col. Samuel] Selden, and others on the East River below Kip's Bay saw the wisdom of immediate escape, since the British would naturally stretch across the island above them without delay. Scott reached Putnam's moving column on the Bloomingdale road with his command in safety; but Selden and party collided with a body of Hessians on their way to the city by the Boston road, near the corner of Twenty-third Street and Third Avenue, and after some sharp firing in which four Hessians were killed and eight wounded, he was made prisoner. Colonel Samuel Selden was one of the substantial and accomplished men of his generation. Possessing a large estate on the banks of the Connecticut, a homestead of his own erection (in 1760) which, bearing the traces of good taste and the refined knowledge of how to live comfortably, is still standing, the father of thirteen children, and past fifty, with impaired health, he ignored all personal interests in devotion to the common cause, and accepted a colonelcy of Connecticut levies after -- like Silliman, Douglass, and others -- first advancing the funds to equip his regiment. He was the son of Samuel and Deborah Dudley Selden, and the grandson and great-grandson of the two Governors Dudley of Massachusetts, who it is well known were of the best blood of England. He was born January 11, 1723. After his capture he was conveyed to the City Hall in Wair Street and confined in the "Debtors' prison" on the upper floor. But, prostrated by the heat and exertions of the day, he was attacked with fever, from which he died on Friday, October 11. Some British officers, learning of his illness, caused him to be conveyed to more comfortable quarters in the "Old Provost," and he was attended by Dr. Thatcher, a British surgeon, receiving every possible kindness. He was buried in the Brick Church yard, where the building of the New York Times now stands, with more honors than were usually accorded to prisoners-of-war, whatever their rank; all the American officers who were prisoners at the time were indulged with liberty to attend his funeral. His wife was Elizabeth Ely, daughter of Richard Ely of Lyme. His son, Richard Ely Selden, born 1759, was the father of the wife of Henry Matson Waite, Chief Justice of Connecticut. Thus the present Chief Justice of the United States, Morrison R. Waite, is the great-grandson of Colonel Selden. ----- Note on the above: Samuel Selden's mother, Deborah Dudley, was not in fact a descendant of either of the Dudley governors of colonial Massachusetts. | Selden, Col. Samuel (I22321)
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| 1498 | From History of the Manor and Parish of Saleby, citation details below: "The Colepepers were a Kentish family, and according to John Weaver 'a familie of exemplarie note both here and sometime in the County of Rutland.' Though the only exemplary facts he notices about them are that one member of the family was 'hanged, drawne and quartered at Winchelsey,' and another 'beheaded at Tyborne.' "Their origin is obscure, for the name does not occur in the older records. It was only in the reign of Edward II that they began to obtain a more prominent position, though earlier mention of them is found in the Patent Rolls. "In 1303 Thomas Colepeper of Brenchesle [Brenchley, co. Kent], was pardoned for homicides etc., and his sons Thomas and Walter for breaking the park of the prior of Christchurch, Canterbury, at Westwell; and the park of the prior of Michelham at Michelham; and hunting and carrying away deer, and for felonies etc. In 1305 Thomas Colepepere of Smerehill was found guilty of felonies by a commission appointed to inquire touching vagabonds in Kent and Sussex. "Edward I, owing to the great need of men for his constant wars, was pleased to sweep into the recruiting net a large number of able-bodied evil-doers, giving them a chance to redeem their lives on the field of battle. Whether this system tended to encourage crime or not we cannot say, but many of these turbulent and unruly subjects made excellent soldiers. "It was in consideration of their service in Scotland that Thomas Colepeper and his two sons received pardon; and if this Thomas was an ancestor of the Colepepers of Bay Hall, as seems highly probable, then the Scottish expedition may also have proved a turning point in the family history." | Colepeper, Thomas (I12371)
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| 1499 | From James Nourse and His Descendants (citation details below): In 1847 Mr. Nourse joined the Ky. volunteer troops that went to the Mexican war, this company entered the city of Mexico with Gen. Winfield Scott. The following extracts are from letters written while there. "December 25th, 1847. Dear James:--I am now in the great celestial city, of which there has been much said by the newspapers, political, religious and literary, histories and tongues. The trip from Jalapa has been a forced march, being on an average of eight leagues per day. We have passed many beautiful and interesting places. Our first day's march from Jalapa brought us to LaHoya, where Santa Anna, like Leonidas of old, with 300 men, (Mexicans not Spartans) determined to defend the pass; a traveller passing this way would suppose it impossible to carry it manned by a small determined band. What nature has neglected, art supplied, sharp rocks, cliffs, walls, ditches and sinkholes cover the pass for half a mile or more leaving a space about large enough for one wagon to pass; at this almost impassable gap Capt. Walker, with sixty men drove Santa Anna and his 300 heroes to the winds...[Here is a description of the castle of Perote.] "One day whilst in the valley of Perote, after having marched 25 weary miles, we pitched our tents and commenced cooking, etc. We heard the report of guns in the distance. The Indiana Regt. was encamped about 5 miles off and it was supposed that they were attacked by Mexicans; the long roll was beat, every man, unconscious of fatigue or sickness, rushed to his tent, shouldered his gun and fell into line ready to march into battle; it was but the work of a moment to form a regimental parade; whilst in line some guns which had been loaded in hunting expeditions, were in the hurry of the times, accidently discharged. One charge severely wounded a young man named Moore, from Eddyville, in the company on the left; another charge proved more fatal, killing a young man by the name of C. W. Peterson, of Louisville. After these accidents we were marched off at a run for about a mile, when we were halted to await further orders, which when they came were, that we should go back to our quarters and go to bed. This was the first alarm we ever had; the alacrity with which the men turned out showed pretty conclusively that they took into consideration what we came for. It is to be hoped that we have no more such alarms. "On the 5th day's tramp we reached Pueblo...Pueblo has 80,000 inhabitants, covering more space than the city of Louisville, the streets being flanked by continuous blocks of buildings...There is much of interest here, statuary, fine buildings, fountains where the water is led through statues of men, beasts and birds and thrown high in the air...It is worth the trip I have taken, to go through the church in Pueblo, to describe it would be impossible. Paintings, sculpture and all that is magnificent that the imagination of religious devotion can devise, is there. After a rest of 3 days, we had to move on to the city, where we arrived in 4 days, having marched an estimated distance of 110 miles. On the third day of our march from Pueblo we came to the top of the mountain which overlooks the valley of Mexico; there is no place in nature more beautiful than this; imagine the scene, an unobstructed view of 50 miles in extent, a wide extended fertile valley, six or seven large cities, with glistening domes and spires, three large lakes, a winding stream, snow-capped peaks and ranges of mountains spread out in one vast picture...Your brother, CHAS. E. NOURSE" Also this to his little brothers-- "February 29, 1848. "My Young Brothers--It has been five long months since I have been at home...I have seen a great deal in my travels...Have been down the great Mississippi, sailed over the Gulf of Mexico out of sight of land for ten whole days [in which time they endured a severe storm and saw a whale]...We staid in Vera Cruz 4 or 5 days, then commenced marching, going over large bridges, high mountains, and through some large cities, the first of which was Jalapa, which is larger than Louisville; it is situated on the side of a high mountain on whose top there is snow all times of the year...You can see here oranges ripe, green and flowers all growing on the same tree at the same time...I have now been in the City of Mexico since the 19th day of last December...You ought to be here and see the fine things that are here, the fine churches, the crowded streets, the museum and the schools; you would be pleased. In the churches are the finest pictures in the world, statues, gold and silver in abundance adorning the sides, the ceilings and the altars. In the museum, are all kinds of birds, animals and fishes...Was at one of the schools the other day, and there I saw about 20 little fellows sitting as still as mice, some studying, some writing, some ciphering, and some doing nothing at all; they were mostly little pug-nosed, fat-cheeked, black-eyed and shaved-headed little chaps and very funny...suddenly a little fellow about the size of Logan, jumps, calls a little boy to his desk and gives him a good whipping, what for I could not see, and this little fellow was the teacher...You would be amused to see the Mexicans carrying wood and such large loads; they have a rope which they tie up the wood with; and have a strap which goes across the forehead, they sling a pile of wood which would take five negroes to lift and pace off with it. I saw a Mexican who had killed two beeves, he had a mule, upon the mule he put three quarters of a beef and took upon his own back the other five quarters, drove the mule ahead and paced off to the market place. Out in the country they let nothing go that will sustain life, they make sausages out of mules, horses, dogs and cats, the rats have been eat out of house and home long ago. They milk all kinds of animals that give milk, such as mares. How would you like to eat dog sausage and mare's milk for breakfast? You may think that I have eaten dog sausages, but I have not, I have drunk some milk tho...I forgot to tell you that oranges sell for a picayune for ten large fine oranges, apples two for four pence and chickens half a dollar apiece...Remember your brother in Mexico and write to CHAS. E. NOURSE." On his return to Bardstown, Mr. Nourse edited the county paper for several years, then was a civil engineer. | Nourse, Charles Ewing (I34667)
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| 1500 | From Leggett of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England and West Farms (Bronx), New York (citation details below): Gabriel Leggett, the great-grandfather of the first American Gabriel, was born in the middle years of the reign of Henry VIII. The first reference to him appears in the records of Clare College of Cambridge University which leased him a house in 1565. In this record he appears as a "laborer" which meant he owned little or no land. The house he leased was part of the buildings of the medieval Hospital of St. John the Baptist, a former leprosarium granted to the college in 1561. Clare College converted the twelfth-century chapel (a substantial structure measuring forty-one by twenty-five feet) into a dwelling of two stories with four fireplaces. This building still stands, west of the town center. Here the Gabriel Leggett family lived with both the Thomas and John families occupying it simultaneously. [...] In the parish of St. Mary's there are no extant parish registers of baptisms, marriages, or burials before 1599. Gabriel died November 2, 1609, and mentions his grandson Gabriel, father of the first American Gabriel, in his will. At the time of his death, Gabriel owned his own house and fifteen acres of farm land. The several acres and rood (14 acres) owned by the Leggetts abutting the land of a Mr. March were probably located in the vicinity of Grunty Fen, out towards Haddenham. The Marches owned a former manor called Gray's in the Haddenham area, several miles west of the city. It was fairly common to own parcels of land at a distance from one's dwelling. The fact that Gabriel owned a house and land at the time of his death indicates upward mobility for one who had been a laborer thirty-seven years earlier. Even such a small holding entitled him to call himself a "yeoman." Most yeomen of the fenlands had similarly small holdings. Their wealth came from cattle that they grazed on common lands in the fens. | Leggett, Gabriel (I6483)
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