Otwell Purcell

Notes:

Sheriff of Oxfordshire and Berkshire, 1317-18.

Family/Spouse: Beatrice. Beatrice died after 1338. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dionisia married William de Shareshull about 1316. William (son of Adam de Shareshull and Katherine) was born in of Patshull, Staffordshire, England; died in 1370 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; was buried in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Roger Cotesford. Roger was born in of Prescote, Oxfordshire, England; died between 1370 and 1386. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard Adderbury. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1417

Notes:

Or Cottesford.

Family/Spouse: Alice. Alice died after 1416. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Beaufo. John (son of John Beaufo and Margaret Wilcotes) was born in of Barford St. John, Oxfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Idoine married John Ralegh before 1397. John (son of Thomas Ralegh and Agnes Swinford) was born about 1382 in of Mollington, Oxfordshire, England; died after 1430. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alice Swinnerton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 15 Oct 1460

William married Elizabeth Greene about 1440. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire. Joint-constable of Warwick castle.

Killed at the battle of Bosworth Field.

Family/Spouse: Joanna Hugford. Joanna (daughter of John Hugford and Margaret Metley) died before 1486. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 20 Jan 1443, of Farnborough, Warwickshire, England
• Alternate death: Between 20 Jun 1509 and 6 Jun 1513

Notes:

Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire 1467-68, 1495-96, 1506-07.

Sixth in descent from John Raleigh of Farnborough who married Joan de Grey of the Rotherfield Grays, according to Memorials of the Danvers Family (citation details below).

Edward married Margaret Verney in 1467. Margaret (daughter of Ralph Verney, Mayor of London and Emma) died after 1508. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Joanna Beaufo.

Jane married Richard Throckmorton between 1500 and 1505. Richard (son of Robert Throckmorton and Katherine Marrow) was born in of Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, England'; died in 1547. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 25 Aug 1507 and 1508

Edward married Anne Chamberlain between 1496 and 1505. Anne (daughter of Richard Chamberlain and Sybil Fowler) died after 1529. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Neale. Thomas (son of Thomas Neale and Emlyn Cheshire) was born in of Yelden, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married George Butler between 1520 and 1530. George (son of William Butler and Jane) was born between 1497 and 1508 in Droitwich, Worcestershire, England; died in 1551. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Cope. John (son of William Cope and Jane Spencer) was born in of Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, England; died on 21 Jan 1558. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

As "Mrs. Odall" she was on the list of ladies who received material to be made into coats and gowns for the coronation of Catherine of Aragon.

Mary married Nicholas Wodhull in 1508. Nicholas (son of Fulk Wodhull and Anne Newenham) was born about 1482 in of Warkworth, Northamptonshire, England; died on 6 May 1531. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry St. John. Henry (son of Alexander St. John and Jane Dalison) was born in of Keysoe, Bedfordshire, England; died before 28 Jun 1598. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Wollaston, Northamptonshire, England

Family/Spouse: Grace Butler. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1614

Family/Spouse: Cressett St. John. Cressett (daughter of John St. John and Ann Neville) died before 1571. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mary Gedge after 1571. Mary (daughter of James Gedge) was born in 1541; died after 1615. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 30 Sep 1584

Elizabeth married John Dryden in 1551. John (son of David Dryden and Isabel Nicholson) was born in of Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, England; died on 30 Sep 1584; was buried in Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Jane.

Joan married Stephen Boyle after 1558. Stephen was born in of Kentish Town, Middlesex, England; died before 23 May 1582. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married Ferdinando Frackleton after Oct 1582. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 20 Dec 1558

Family/Spouse: Ellen Stafford. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1518, of Warkworth, Northamptonshire, England

Family/Spouse: Anne Smith. Anne (daughter of John Smith and Agnes Harewell) died before 16 Dec 1569. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Like his son, he was a committed Parliamentarian.

Oliver married Sarah Bulkeley before 1597. Sarah (daughter of Dr. Rev. Edward Bulkeley, D.D. and Olive Irby) was born before 1580; died before 1611. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Wollaston, Northamptonshire, England

Notes:

On 13 Apr 1618, William Rowe, gentleman, "enters recognizance to appear and answer for his part in an affray recently fought with drawn swords between him and a certain Raphell Neale of Wolleston, Co. Northampton, gentleman." (Middlesex Records II, 145)

Raphael married Jane on 9 Jul 1612. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Jane Elliott on 27 Dec 1599 in Roxwell, Essex, England. Jane (daughter of Edward Elliott and Jane Gedge) was born before 23 Jun 1576; was christened on 23 Jun 1576 in Roxwell, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1578

Notes:

From Wikipedia:

Nathaniel Butler [...] ]was an English privateer who later served as the colonial governor of Bermuda during the early 17th century. He had built many structures still seen in Bermuda today including many of the island's coastal fortresses and the State House, in St. George's, the oldest surviving English settlement in the New World (the State House, completed in 1620, was the first purpose-built building to house the Bermudian parliament). He also has the distinction of introducing the potato, the first seen in North America, to the early English colonists of Jamestown, Virginia.

First serving in the service of the Earl of Warwick during his early sailing career, he was later appointed as governor of Bermuda, then administered by the Somers Isles Company (an offshoot of the Virginia Company), a post which he served from 1619 to 1622. During this time, he salvaged guns from a shipwrecked vessel and used them to arm the island forts then under construction including Southampton Fort and those of Smith's and Paget Island in 1620 (the incident would later be recorded by John Smith in 1624). While Governor of Bermuda, he played an indirect role in the development of the Bermuda rig, when he employed a shipwrecked Dutch boat-builder. He would also be the first to introduce the potato to North America when, in 1621, he had a cargo of potatoes shipped to Governor Francis Wyatt of Jamestown. He was the third governor of Bermuda.

After a brief stay in Jamestown the following year, during which he published a report entitled "Unmasked Face of Our Colony in Virginia as it was in the winter of the Year 1622" later presented to the Privy Council upon his return to London, Butler was made an Admiral of the Providence Island colony, at the age of 61. He later found employ with the Providence Island Company during 1639 and 1640.

While on a privateering expedition in mid-1639 along the Spanish Main, he successfully captured a Spanish frigate at the harbour of Trujillo, and was later paid 16,000 pesos in ransom. However, the frigate alone was considered a poor prize by the standards of the time and, suffering from inexperienced officers unfamiliar with the region (including future privateer James Riskinner), the expedition followed a very erratic course throughout the Caribbean and failed to capture anything else of value by the time of their return to Providence in September 1639.

Notes:

MP for Banbury, 1624.

Created a baronet 16 Nov 1619. Sheriff of Northamptonshire 1599, 1618.

BA, Magdalen College, Oxford, 11 Jun 1577. Middle Temple, 1577.

Family/Spouse: Frances Wilkes. Frances (daughter of William Wilkes) was born in of Hodnell, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary Emyley. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bridget married Rev. Francis Marbury in 1587. Francis (son of William Marbury and Agnes Lenton) was born before 27 Aug 1555; was christened on 27 Aug 1555 in St. Pancras, London, England; died before 14 Feb 1610. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Edmund Spenser in 1594. Edmund was born about 1552 in London, England; died on 13 Jan 1599 in Westminster, Middlesex, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Roger Secklestone in 1603. Roger died before 1606. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Robert Tynte on 3 Mar 1612. Robert was born before 31 Mar 1571 in of Ballycrenane, Cork, Ireland; was christened on 31 Mar 1571; died after 10 May 1643. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 19 Jan 1542

Notes:

Our entry for her husband Richard Chetwode quotes from Richardson's Royal Ancestry: "About 1556 Charles Tyrell, Gent., brought suit to have Richard and Agnes' marriage annulled, after which Cardinal Pole declared their marriage invalid. In 1559 the Court of Audience rescinded the annulment."

Charles Hansen's "The Barons of Wodhull" (citation details below) gives considerably more detail about this drama. Richard Chetwood had been Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Edward VI, and like most of the young king's allies, fell out of favor when the Catholic queen Mary took the crown. Charles Tyrell appears to have been hoping to use this circumstance in order to marry the wealthy Agnes Woodhull himself. But the most interesting wrinkle to the story is that when Mary died and was succeeded by her Protestant sister Elizabeth, Richard Chetwode had, pending with the Pope in Rome, an appeal against his marriage's annulment. Richard and Agnes's connections in high places had evidently survived the five years of Mary's reign, because the new queen Elizabeth's first law, the April 1559 Act of Supremacy, which re-established the Church of England and prohibited legal appeals to the Pope, included a specific exception for "Richard Chetwood, Esq. and Agnes his wife, by the name of Agnes Woodhall", stating that if the Pope should rule to affirm their marriage, that would be considered valid in English law, notwithstanding all other provisions of the Act. As Hansen puts it, "Thus, as history would have it, the first baron of Wodhull was listed in Domesday Book, which validated the results of the Norman Conquest, while the heiress of the last baron was named in the act of Parliament which affirmed the success of the Protestant Reformation in England."

Notwithstanding the Act of Supremacy's carve-out for Richard and Agnes, in fact the Pope never did rule, and the validity of their marriage was re-affirmed in 1559 and 1560 by the Court of Audience in Canterbury, an entirely English church court.

Agnes married Richard Chetwode before Jan 1556. Richard (son of Roger Chetwode and Ellen Masterson) died between 6 Jan 1560 and 12 Jan 1560; was buried in St. Dunstan in the West, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

MP in the Long Parliament and Rump Parliament, Solicitor General, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Chief Justice of the King's Bench.

His relationship to the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War is extraordinarily complex and beyond the scope of this database.

He was probably born, like his sister Elizabeth, in Keysoe, Bedfordshire. Contrary to his Wikipedia article and his entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, he was not a great-grandson of Oliver St. John, first Baron St. John of Bletso; they were instead first cousins twice removed, being both descended from John St. John (d. 1525) and his wife Sibyl ferch Morgan ap Jenkin ap Philip.

Family/Spouse: Joan Altham. Joan died before 1638. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Oliver married Elizabeth Cromwell on 21 Jan 1638. Elizabeth died before 1645. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Oliver married Elizabeth Oxenbridge on 1 Oct 1645. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorothy married Richard Westland on 13 Jun 1625 in Keysoe, Bedfordshire, England. Richard was born in of Boston, Lincolnshire, England; died between 9 Sep 1645 and 17 Sep 1646. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of JTS's eleven proven "gateway ancestors." Sister to the Oliver St. John who was chief justice of England under Oliver Cromwell.

"She…was known for her beauty, dignity and commanding presence. For a woman of those days she had received a good education which made her the fit companion of the scholars and statesmen who were her relations. Even in her old age she did not lose her youthful fondness for the great poets of England, Chaucer, Spenser and Shakespeare, with whose works her husband's library at Lynn was stored. It is clear from the circles in which she moved that she was well informed about current affairs and the rights of government and royal prerogative." [John Roger Scott Whiting, citation details below]

She was a half first cousin 4 times removed to Henry VII, through descent from Henry VII's grandmother Margaret Beauchamp (d. 1482). By the same common ancestor, she was a half fifth cousin once removed to her contemporary Charles I, making her possibly the seventeenth-century emigrant to New England most closely related to a sitting English monarch.

Elizabeth married Rev. Samuel Whiting on 6 Aug 1629 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. Samuel (son of John Whiting, Mayor of Boston, Lincolnshire and Isabel) was born on 20 Nov 1597 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England; died on 11 Dec 1679 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts; was buried in Old Cemetery, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Judith married John Percival on 25 Sep 1633 in Odell, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Wikipedia (accessed 5 Sep 2021):

He immigrated to Maryland in about 1635. On June 19, 1641, Neale received 1000 acres (4 km²) of land for having transported himself and five servants into the Province of Maryland. He assigned these acres to Thomas Hebden.

In a warrant dated July 25, 1641 in London from Lord Baltimore, Neale was granted another 2000 acres (8 km²) on October 31, 1642 for a manor which would be called Wollaston. The manor would prove to be the principal seat of the Neale family for several generations and was situated in what would later be called Charles County, Maryland.

Neale was a member of the Maryland Council 1643 and again in 1644. By 1647 he had returned to England leaving his father-in-law, Benjamin Gill, as his attorney and representative in Maryland. During his absence from Maryland he resided in Spain and Portugal, where he engaged in commerce, and was also employed in various affairs by the King and the Duke of York.

In 1660 he was agent of Lord Baltimore at Amsterdam to protest against the settlement of Dutch upon the Delaware. On January 9, 1659/60 Lord Baltimore issued a special order, reciting that whereas Neale, formerly an inhabitant of Maryland, has been absent from the province for some years, and now desires to return with his family there to reside and inhabit, he has full leave to do so as also to possess such lands as he has a right to, and to enter and trade freely in any port in Maryland. [...]

Many of Neale's descendants became Jesuit priests, including Bennett Neale, Archbishop Leonard Neale, Francis Neale, Charles Neale, and William Matthews. One of his descendants, William Gaston Lewis, became a Confederate general in the Civil War.

Undated letter to the Washington Post from Gervaise A. Neale Jr.:

In 1635-36, Neale had a warrant of 1,000 acres in Maryland. He raised crops of that period and dealt in commerce with the Indians. Several years later, Lord Baltimore (Cecil Calvert) instructed his brother Leonard to assign 2,000 acres to Neale, thus granting him manorial privileges under English law. His holdings included all the land on the peninsula from Cuckhold Creek to Cobb Island on the Potomac river.

He performed many commissions for the governor in addition to his service as member of the assembly as one of the governor's Privy Council and as commissioner the treasury.

Just before his return to England in 1643 to assist his king in the war against the Cromwellian forces, an incident occurred that brought indictments against Neale for aiding in the escape of Richard Ingle, said to have been a pirate. Ingle was captured during a dispute over the ownership of Kent Island by a Virginian named Claibourne and for attempting to do trade at various Maryland ports without a license. With war raging in England and Maryland's desire to remain neutral, it was considered prudent not to create a political incident, and Ingle was allowed "to escape" to his ship and flee. Charges against Neale were quickly dropped.

Neale was in England from about 1644 to 1660 to fight for King Charles I and to serve Charles II and the Duke of York (later James II) on emergent matters in Spain and Portugal. Neale's wife, Anne Gill, was a lady in waiting to the Queen Henrietta Marie.

Neale also represented Lord Baltimore in Amsterdam to protest the encroachment of the Dutch on the Delaware River. The commissioners of the Dutch West India House threatened war with Maryland if English colonists tried to remove the Dutch from their territory. When Neale returned to Maryland, Lord Baltimore instructed him to mount an expedition to expel the Dutch, but before hostilities began, New Amsterdam fell to English warships. The Dutch then considered their position on the Delaware River untenable and halted the takeover of additional land.

About three years after Neale's return to the province with his family, he petitioned the Privy Council for the naturalization of his five children. His request was approved, and the descendants of Capt. James Neale became one of the first families of Maryland and Virginia.

Family/Spouse: Anne Gill. Anne (daughter of Benjamin Gill and Anne Maria Mainwaring) died between 28 Jun 1697 and 3 Jun 1698 in Charles County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft Feb 1646, Kent Island, Maryland

Thomas married Joan on 16 Jan 1626 in St. Magnus the Martyr, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary Pickering. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard Phillips. Richard died in 1648. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Priscilla Quarles on 8 Oct 1605 in Romford, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Rev. Thomas Swift. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The famous Antinomian whose spiritual authenticity and personal charisma terrified the early Bay Colony so thoroughly that, as widely chronicled, they disarmed all her followers and sent many of them into exile. One of TWK's twelve proven "gateway ancestors."

Mrs. married William Hutchinson on 9 Aug 1612 in St. Mary Woolnoth, London, England. William (son of Edward Hutchinson and Susanna) was born before 14 Aug 1586; was christened on 14 Aug 1586 in Alford, Lincolnshire, England; died after Jun 1641 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of JTS's eleven proven "gateway ancestors."

She was a brave woman. "At Boston, 16 Sept. 1658 the hangman cut off the right ear of Katherine Scott's future son-in-law Christopher Holder (who came from England two years before) for the crime of being a Quaker. Remonstrating against this barbarity, she was thrown into prison and later publicly flogged 'ten cruel stripes with a three-fold corded knotted whip.'" [Collected Papers: Armorial, Genealogical, Historical, citation details below.]

She appears to have returned very briefly to England in 1659-60.

Katherine married Richard Scott on 7 Jun 1632 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England. Richard (son of Edward Scott and Sarah Carter) was born before 9 Sep 1605 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England; was christened on 9 Sep 1605 in Glemsford, Suffolk, England; died between 1679 and 1680 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married Maj. Nicholas Pyne in 1634. Nicholas was born in of Mogeely, Cork, Ireland; died in 1670. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Northamptonshire, 1597-98. Knighted in 1603. Member of the Inner Temple. His first wife was Jane Drury, daughter and co-heiress of William Drury (also Drewerie), sometime Deputy Lieutenant of Ireland, by Margery Wentworth, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Lord Wentworth, Lord Chamberlain of the Household to Edward VI. She was living in 1629.

"Through his mother, Richard Chetwode inherited her manors and estates of Bekebrok, Dunstewe, Somerton and Banbury, co. Oxford; Chetwode and Lampert, co. Bucks; Durnford, co. Wilts; Warkworth, Middleton, Overthorp, Astrup, Croughton, Sutton and Pateshull, co. Northants; and Wodhull, Langford and Hockliffe, co. Bedford. The manors of Wodhull, Langford and Pateshull had been held in demesne by Walter the Fleming in 1086 and had descended with the barony of Wodhull in the same family for 500 years. Richard Chetwode was later knighted and during the reign of King James I, being in possession of the manor and castle of Odell (Wodhull), petitioned for a writ of summons to Parliament as Baron de Wahull, but neither he nor his descendants were successful in this claim." ["The Barons of Wodhull," citation details below]

"In 1613 [Richard Chetwode] presented a petition to King James I, claiming the ancient barony in fee of Wahull [Wodhull], as being heir lineal and sole of his several ancestors who had been summoned to attend, and had attended, the king as barons. The claim was allowed to drag, and was put forward again by his fourth descendant, Knightley Chetwood, in 1739 ; by his sixth descendant, Jonathan Chetwood, in 1831 ; and by his eighth descendant, Constantia Elizabeth (Chetwood) Aiken (died 1892) in 1890. Decision was finally rendered against her son, John Chetwood Chetwood-Aiken, on technical grounds, the descent being recognized as valid." [Donald Lines Jacobus, citation details below]

Family/Spouse: Dorothy Needham. Dorothy (daughter of Robert Needham and Frances Aston) was born in 1570; died after 1631. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1722, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut

Elizabeth married Rev. Jeremiah Hobart on 6 Apr 1659. Jeremiah (son of Rev. Peter Hobart and Elizabeth Ibrook) was born on 6 Apr 1631 in Southwold, Suffolk, England; was christened on 18 Apr 1631 in Southwold, Suffolk, England; died on 6 Nov 1715 in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; was buried in Old Cemetery, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He graduated from Harvard in 1661 and returned to Lynn to assist his father the Rev. Samuel Whiting in his ministry there. After Samuel died, Joseph was ordained as his successor on 6 Oct 1680. In 1682 the town of Southampton on Long Island, which at the time was composed mostly of families from Lynn, invited Joseph Whiting to come there and be their minister, which he did sometime in 1682 or 1683, continuing there until his death.

Joseph married Sarah Danforth about 1673. Sarah (daughter of Thomas Danforth and Mary Withington) was born on 11 Nov 1646 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died after 20 Jan 1681. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anthony married Elizabeth Roswell about 1680. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Elizabeth Calvert about 20 Dec 1681. Elizabeth (daughter of Col. William Calvert and Elizabeth Stone) died after 17 May 1684. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Elizabeth Lord in 1687. Elizabeth (daughter of Capt. John Lord) died between 17 Jan 1734 and 22 Apr 1734 in Charles County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Half first cousin five times removed to Henry VII, through descent from Henry VII's grandmother Margaret Beauchamp (d. 1482).

Family/Spouse: Jane Baldridge. Jane (daughter of James Baldridge and Dorothy) died after 26 Oct 1681. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Erasmus married Katherine Darcy about 1 Sep 1660. Katherine (daughter of Edward Darcy and Elizabeth Stanhope) was born about 1641; died on 15 Nov 1713. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Abigail Errick. Abigail was born in of Frisby on the Wreake, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 28 May 1613

Notes:

He came to New England in 1633, a year before his parents, along with the Rev. John Cotton and his uncle Edward Hutchinson. Shortly thereafter he returned to England, where he married Katherine Hamby. Upon returning to New England he supported his mother in the Antinomian controversy, for which he was disarmed; he then followed his family to Rhode Island, where he was one of the signers of the Portsmouth Compact, 7 Mar 1638. In 1642 he and John Leverett were sent on an embassy to the Narraganset.

"His name appears in the roll of freemen at Newport in 1641, but he seems to have retained his connection with Boston, for all his children were baptized there from 1637 to 1658. He probably returned there after his father's death. […] Edward Hutchinson became a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1638, was Lieutenant in 1654, and Captain in 1657. He served in King Philip's War with the Massachusetts forces as chief officer of cavalry, [and] was mortally wounded in an Indian ambuscade near Wickabaug Pond, West Brookfield, Mass." [John Denison Champlin, citation details below]

"To his honor, he entered into the dissent against the sanguinary law of 1658, for punishing the Quakers with death on their return to the colony after banishment." [History of the Military Company of the Massachusetts, Now Called the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, citation details below]

Edward married Katherine Hamby on 13 Oct 1636 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. Katherine (daughter of Robert Hamby and Elizabeth Arnold) was born before 19 Oct 1615; was christened on 10 Dec 1615 in St. Matthew's, Ipswich, Suffolk, England; died after 10 Jun 1649. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Faith married Capt. Thomas Savage in 1637 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Thomas was born about 1607; died on 15 Feb 1682 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bridget married John Sanford, President of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations before 1637. John was born about 1608; died between 22 Jun 1653 and 15 Nov 1653 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1646

Hannah married Walter Clarke, Governor of Rhode Island in Feb 1667. Walter (son of Jeremy Clarke, Governor of Rhode Island and Frances Latham) was born in 1640; died on 23 May 1714. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. An ancestor of Sarah Ferguson.

Notes:

One of TSW's eight proven "gateway ancestors". She was the Rev. Peter Bulkeley's second wife, and emigrated to New England with him.

Grace married Rev. Peter Bulkeley in Apr 1635. Peter (son of Dr. Rev. Edward Bulkeley, D.D. and Olive Irby) was born on 31 Jan 1583 in Odell, Bedfordshire, England; died on 9 Mar 1659 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 11 Mar 1732

Notes:

Her second husband was Hezekiah Brainerd of Haddam, son of Daniel, born 24 May 1681. He was a representative to the Connecticut general assembly in 1713 and 1715-22, clerk of the House of Representatives in May 1721, and speaker of the House for the three sessions following. He was also a member of the Governor's Council. He died 24 May 1727, on his 46th birthday, during a session of the general assembly.

Dorothy married Daniel Mason on 9 Apr 1704. Daniel (son of Daniel Mason and Margaret Denison) was born before 9 Apr 1676 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was christened on 9 Apr 1676 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died in 1705. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called by Richardson (citation details below) "Oswald" Neale.

Family/Spouse: Mary Brent. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ann married Edward Cole in 1715. Edward (son of Edward Cole and Honora) was born in of St. Mary's County, Maryland; died in 1762 in St. Mary's County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Shorter. John (son of John Shorter, Lord Mayor of London) was born in of Bybrook, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 19 Oct 1745, Dublin, Ireland

Notes:

He joined the Artillery Company in 1660.

Elisha Hutchinson = Elizabeth Clarke
Edward Hutchinson = Lydia Foster
Elizabeth Hutchinson = Nathaniel Robbins
Edward Hutchinson Robbins = Elizabeth Murray
Anne Jean Robbins = Joseph Lyman III
Catherine Robbins Lyman = Warren Delano, Jr.
Sara Delano = James Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Elisha married Hannah Hawkins on 19 Nov 1665 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Capt. Thomas Hawkins and Mary Welles) was born on 8 Oct 1644 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was christened on 10 Nov 1644 in First Church, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 9 Oct 1676 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Thomas Rodman on 26 Nov 1691. Thomas (son of John Rodman and Elizabeth) was born on 26 Dec 1640 in Barbados; died on 11 Jan 1728 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Wikipedia (accessed 22 May 2020):

Gershom Bulkeley was an early graduate of Harvard University, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1655 and possibly his master's degree in 1658. After receiving his master's degree he might have married Sarah Chauncy, daughter of then Harvard President, Charles Chauncy. In 1661 became the minister of the Congregational church in New London, CT, where he served for roughly 5 years. He then became minister of the Congregational church in the town of Wethersfield, Connecticut where he served until 1677. He left the ministry and practiced as a physician in Glastonbury, CT.

When the Salem Witch Trials spread from Massachusetts to Connecticut in the autumn of 1692, he expressed considerable scepticism about the evidence, saying that he had heard nothing of any weight to convince him that anyone was guilty of witchcraft. In particular he argued that Marcy Disborough, one of the only two women accused in Connecticut who actually stood trial for witchcraft, was the victim of the malice of her neighbours. Mercy was founded guilty and sentenced to death, but received a reprieve. She was set free and died some time after 1709.

Gershom married Sarah Chauncy on 6 Oct 1659 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Sarah was born on 13 Jun 1631 in Ware, Hertfordshire, England; died on 3 Jun 1699 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Jeremiah Mason (1705-1771) = Mary Clark (1705-1799)
Jeremiah Mason m. Elizabeth Fitch
Jeremiah Mason m. Mary Means
Robert Means Mason m. Sarah Ellen Francis
Elizabeth Mason m. Robert Charles Winthrop
Margaret Tyndal Winthrop m. James Grant Forbes
Rosemary Isabel Forbes m. Richard John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry (1943- )

Jeremiah married Mary Clark on 24 May 1727. Mary (daughter of Thomas Clark) was born in 1705; died in 1799. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anne. Anne died before 7 Jan 1786 in Charles County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Catherine married Robert Walpole on 30 Jul 1700 in Knightsbridge Chapel, London, England. Robert (son of Robert Walpole and Mary Burwell) was born on 26 Aug 1676 in Houghton, Norfolk, England; died on 18 Mar 1745 in London, England; was buried on 25 Mar 1745 in Houghton, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1740

Hannah married John Ruck on 29 Apr 1697 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. John was born about 1676; died between 13 Aug 1750 and 26 Dec 1750 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Elected Justice of the Peace of Newport, Rhode Island, May 1739.

Samuel married Mary Willett on 16 May 1723 in Flushing, Long Island, New York. Mary (daughter of Col. Thomas Willett) was born about 1710; died on 21 May 1756. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hannah Raymond. Hannah (daughter of Joshua Raymond and Elizabeth Smith) was born on 8 Aug 1668 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut; died on 28 Jan 1742 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died at sea in a storm.

Peter married Rachel Talcott on 21 Mar 1700 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut. Rachel (daughter of Samuel Talcott and Hannah Holyoke) was born on 2 Apr 1676 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 8 Jan 1726 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna married Dr. William Whiting in 1759. William (son of Col. William Whiting and Anna Raymond) was born on 17 Apr 1731 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut; died on 8 Dec 1792 in Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Christened Horatio Walpole, he was an antiquarian, an art historian, the author of the first Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto, and of letters of great social and historical interest, which have been published in 48 volumes by Yale University Press.

MP for Callington, Cornwall, 1741-1754; for Castle Rising, Norfolk, 1754-1757; and for King's Lynn, Norfolk, 1757-1768. Earl of Orford from 1791 to his death.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1767

Hannah married Theophilus Lillie on 8 Jul 1725 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Theophilus (son of Samuel Lillie and Mehitable Frary) was born before 24 Aug 1690; was christened on 24 Aug 1690 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died in Mar 1760. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 20 Dec 1724

Notes:

"Thomas Rodman...was lost at sea, off Newport, November 16, 1766. He was returning home from England, where he had gone to collect a large amount of money due him, and being rendered helpless by an attack of gout, was the only person unable to save himself." [The Hazard Family, citation details below.]

Thomas married Mary Borden on 5 Apr 1750. Mary (daughter of Abraham Borden and Elizabeth Wanton) was born on 10 Jan 1729; died on 19 Feb 1798 in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Rev. Richard Goodrich on 18 May 1709 in New London, New London, Connecticut. Richard (son of Capt. Ephraim Goodrich and Sarah Treat) was born on 27 Feb 1685; died on 7 Apr 1759 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lawyer, member of the New York state legislature; later a district attorney. He was one of the first settlers of Chenango Point, New York, later called Binghamton.

Mason married Mary Ogden Edwards on 26 Apr 1800. Mary (daughter of Timothy Edwards and Rhoda Ogden) was born on 11 Oct 1780 in Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts; died on 23 Jan 1873; was buried in Spring Forest Cemetery, Binghamton, Broome, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Abigail Breck on 16 Aug 1754 in Trinity Church, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Abigail (daughter of John Breck and Margaret Thomas) was born on 19 Jun 1732 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 28 Oct 1819 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was buried in Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Elizabeth Rotch on 1 Jun 1780 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of William Rotch and Elizabeth Barney) was born on 9 Dec 1757 in Nantucket, Massachusetts; died on 2 Aug 1856 in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 6 Mar 1711, Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut

Anna married Stephen Miller on 2 Jul 1730 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. Stephen (son of Thomas Miller and Mary Rowell) was born on 5 Mar 1699 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; died on 15 Aug 1785 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 25 Apr 1801, Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts

Mary married Col. John Tilden Doubleday on 19 Sep 1819. John (son of Ammi Doubleday and Lois Tilden) was born on 17 Aug 1795 in New Lebanon, Columbia, New York; died on 25 Jun 1857 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York; was buried on 27 Jun 1857 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna married Samuel Howard after 3 Apr 1777 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Samuel (son of Ebenezer Howard and Martha Goffe) was born about 1752 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died in Jan 1797 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Both Anna and her husband Andrew were disowned from the New Bedford Monthly Meeting for 'absenting' themselves from meetings. Andrew was disowned 27th 10 mo. 1825. Anna was subsequently disowned 24th 5 mo. 1827." [Rhonda R. McClure, citation details below]

Anna married Andrew Robeson on 2 Jun 1810 in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts. Andrew (son of Peter Robeson and Martha Livezey) was born on 18 Aug 1787 in Roxborough, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died on 8 Dec 1862 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna married Ebenezer Arnold on 26 Sep 1753 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. Ebenezer (son of John Arnold and Edith Markham) was born on 26 Sep 1727 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; died before 14 Sep 1807; was buried on 14 Sep 1807 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 3 Feb 1742, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut

Joshua married Anna Starr on 14 Jun 1764 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. Anna (daughter of Capt. Daniel Starr and Esther Southmayd) was born on 14 Nov 1743 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; died on 3 Mar 1777 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; was buried on 6 Mar 1777 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 5 Mar 1900, New York, New York

William married Ellen Maria Dickinson on 1 Oct 1850. Ellen (daughter of Horace Dickinson and Mercy Amelia Bigelow) was born on 31 Dec 1830 in Montréal, Québec; died on 14 Dec 1907 in New York, New York; was buried on 16 Dec 1907 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Harriet married Samuel Phillips Prescott Fay after 31 Jul 1803 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Samuel (son of Jonathan Fay and Lucy Prescott) was born on 10 Jan 1778 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 18 May 1856 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He graduated from the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, but did not practice. He was active in the management of his father's Fall River factory.

He was disowned by the Quakers in 1840, over a decade after his parents were.

Andrew married Mary Arnold Allen on 2 Mar 1843 in Islesboro, Maine. Mary (daughter of Zachariah Allen and Eliza Harriet Arnold) was born on 9 Sep 1819 in of Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; died on 25 Jul 1903 in Islesboro, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ebenezer married Persis Hubbard on 7 Apr 1791 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Esther married Henry Hendley on 27 Dec 1795. Henry was born on 18 Jan 1770 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died in 1807 in At sea. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Founder of the Doubleday publishing firm. Called "Effendi" by his friend Rudyard Kipling, a pun on his initials.

Frank married Neltje Blanchan De Graff on 9 Jun 1886 in Plainfield, Somerset, New Jersey. Neltje (daughter of Liverius De Graff and Alice Fair) was born on 23 Oct 1865 in Chicago, Illinois; died on 21 Feb 1918 in Canton, China. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"The Rev. Charles Fay, D.D., of Vermont, was born in Cambridge, Mass., July 21, 1808. He was graduated from Harvard College with honor 1829; in 1832 he became assistant teacher in the school established by Bishop Hopkins at Burlington, Vt., and was ordained Deacon in 1833. He organized St. Paul's Church, Vergennes, Vt., in 1838; he took charge of St John's, Highgate; in 1841, established a school for young ladies near Macon, Ga.; thence he removed in 1844 to Louisiana, and engaged in missionary work at Bayou Goula, then at New Orleans. In 1848, he was called to St Luke's, at St Albans, Vt. From 1857 to 1870, he was in charge of St. Paul's Church at Marquette, when he returned to Vermont, making his home at Grand Isle. He died in New York on the 6th of November, 1888, at the age of eighty." ["The Report on the Committee on Memorials of Deceased Members", citation details below.]

Family/Spouse: Charlotte Emily Hopkins. Charlotte (daughter of Bishop John Henry Hopkins and Melusina Müller) was born on 4 May 1817 in Ligonier, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania; died on 23 Sep 1856 in St. Albans, Franklin, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Charles Sprague Sargent on 26 Nov 1873. Charles (son of Ignatius Sargent and Henrietta Gray) was born on 24 Apr 1841 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 22 Mar 1927 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A merchant of New Haven. He and his wife Ann Eliza Sears were second cousins once removed, he a great-grandson of Stephen Miller (1699-1785) and Anna Goodrich (1711-1777), and she a great-great granddaughter of the same couple.

Ebenezer married Ann Eliza Sears on 13 Apr 1846 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. Ann (daughter of Elisha Sears and Esther Southmayd Hendley) was born on 7 Oct 1825. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Born on an August 4, year unknown.

Esther married Elisha Sears on 28 Nov 1822. Elisha (son of Stephen Sears and Phoebe Knowles) was born on 26 Jan 1801; died on 29 Apr 1877. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ellen George McCarter. Ellen (daughter of Thomas Nesbitt McCarter and Madeleine G. Barker) was born on 9 May 1898; died on 2 Apr 1978 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 6 Jul 1846, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana

Katherine married William Eben Stone on 22 Jun 1871 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. William (son of Dr. Ebenezer Stone and Elizabeth Holbrook Hawes) was born on 27 Nov 1845 in Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 23 Feb 1921 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The New York Times, 16 Feb 1959, page 29:

Charles S. Sargent of 960 Park Avenue, a partner in Hornblower & Weeks, stockbrokers at 40 Wall Street, died Friday in Doctors Hospital, after a short illness. His age was 78.

Mr. Sargent, who graduated from Harvard in 1902, had been associated with Kidder, Peabody & Co.

He was a director of the American Express Company, the American Machine and Metals Company, United Merchants and Manufacturers, Inc., the Associated Dry Goods Corporation, the Metropolitan Fire Reassurance Company, and the National Aviation Corporation.

Born in Brookline, Mass., he was the son of Charles Sprague Sargent, Professor of Arboriculture at Harvard and Director of Arnold Arboretum, and Mary Robeson Sargent.

Mr. Sargent was a Mason. His clubs included the Harvard of New York, the Knickerbocker, Links and Ejwanok Country of Manchester, Vt.

Survivors include his widow, Dagmar; three sons, Charles S., Jr., Winthrop, and John T.; a daughter, Mrs. H. M. Havemeyer, and a sister, Mrs. N. B. Potter.

Charles married Dagmar Wetmore on 9 May 1912 in Grace Church, New York, New York. Dagmar (daughter of William Boerum Wetmore and Annette Wetmore) was born on 24 Jan 1888; died in Nov 1984 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A merchant of New Haven.

Family/Spouse: Evelyn Greenwood Thompson. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ann married Ebenezer Arnold on 13 Apr 1846 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. Ebenezer (son of Ebenezer Arnold and Persis Hubbard) was born on 5 Jul 1792 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In recent decades, she changed her name, by court order, to simply "Neltje." In 2016 her autobiography North of Crazy was published by St. Martin's Press. A profile of her can be found here, and her Wikipedia page is here.

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Neltje Doubleday and John Turner Sargent Sr. are 8th cousins, both being 7XG-grandchildren of the Rev. John Ward (1606-1693) and his wife Alice (1612-1680).

Neltje married John Turner Sargent, Sr. on 16 May 1953 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, and was divorced in Sep 1965. John (son of Charles Sprague Sargent and Dagmar Wetmore) was born on 26 Jun 1924; died on 5 Feb 2012 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Austin Tappan Wright on 14 Nov 1912 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Austin (son of John Henry Wright and Mary Tappan) was born on 20 Aug 1883 in Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire; died on 19 Sep 1931 in Las Vegas, San Miguel, New Mexico; was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"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.

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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).

John married Neltje Doubleday on 16 May 1953 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, and was divorced in Sep 1965. Neltje (daughter of Nelson Doubleday and Ellen George McCarter) was born in 1934. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His daughter Elizabeth's obituary in the Marin Independent Journal (20 Sep 1992, reproduced at www.sfgenealogy.com/boards/mcobits/archive4/5426.html) calls him "a prominent San Francisco attorney", but also refers to him, apparently in error, as "Eugene Arnold." Elizabeth's son Tom Whitmore confirms that his name was George Stanleigh Arnold, and adds that he was a Yale man known to friends as "Big Stan."

From his Yale obituary:

Admitted to practice in Connecticut 1906 and California 1910, in office of Talcott H Russell ['69], New Haven, 1906; law examiner United States Forest Service, Washington, D C , 1906-09, lawyer in San Francisco 1909-42 (member Denman & Arnold 1911-18); special assistant to United States Attorney General in oil-land litigation 1913; San Francisco representative for President Wilson's Commission on Mediation and Conciliation 1917; member War Labor Policies Board, Washington, 1918-19, special assistant to Attorney General of United States in charge NRA litigation 1934-35; chairman emergency boards created by President Roosevelt in 1936 and 1937 under provisions of Railway Labor Act to investigate and report on railway labor disputes; chairman of a three-man board created by the President in 1941 to investigate wage dispute between ore dock workers of Duluth-Supenor district and rail carriers, president Pacific States (now Coos Bay) Lumber Company 1926-27 and Katharine Branson School, Ross, Calif, 1939-42; vice-president California Fish and Game Commission; director San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Save-the-Redwoods League; Boy Scout Commissioner Mann County, president Yale Alumni Association of Northern California 1921-23 and representative on Alumni Board 1923-42, California State chairman Yale Law School Association 1921; member University Club of San Francisco (president 1925-29) and St John's Church (Episcopal), Ross.

George married Elizabeth Sherman Thatcher Kent on 26 Feb 1915 in Washington, D.C.. Elizabeth (daughter of Rep. William Kent and Elizabeth Thacher) was born on 8 Jan 1894 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois; died on 12 Jan 1952 in Marin, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A merchant of New Haven.

Family/Spouse: Evelyn Greenwood Thompson. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

CEO of Macmillan Publishers.

His philanthropic activities include longtime service on the board of directors of Graham Windham, more recently called simply Graham, a nonprofit foster care agency providing services to needy children and families in the New York metropolitan area. Founded in 1806, Graham, the oldest non-sectarian childcare agency in the United States, was originally the Orphan Asylum Society of the City of New York, co-founded by Eliza Hamilton after her husband Alexander Hamilton, himself an orphan, was killed in the famous duel with Aaron Burr — a grandson of John Sargent's 6X-grandfather the Rev. Jonathan Edwards. Thus Aaron Burr's first cousin six times removed has served for years on the board of Eliza Hamilton's orphanage.

He is also the author, under the anagrammatic pen name "S. T. Garne," of two children's books, One White Sail: A Caribbean Counting Book (1992) and By a Blazing Blue Sea (1999).

John married Constance Lane Murray on 21 Sep 1985. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

As a San Francisco newspaper columnist, she coined the word "mondegreen."

"Sylvia Wright, a Writer and Harpers Ex-Editor," in The New York Times, 13 May 1981:

Sylvia Wright, a freelance writer who frequently and humorously commented in national magazines on trends in modern living, died of cancer Saturday at her home in Cambridge, Mass. She was 64 years old.

Miss Wright was also a former editor of Harpers Bazaar. A collection of her magazine articles, ''Get Away From Me With Those Christmas Gifts,'' was published by McGraw-Hill in 1957. She was also the author of a novel, ''A Shark Infested Rice Pudding.''

After her graduation from Bryn Mawr College, Miss Wright edited and prepared for publication ''Islandia,'' a Utopian novel about an imaginary country written by her father, the late Austin Tappen [sic] Wright, who was a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania. The novel, which has been a steady seller, was published in 1942, reissued in 1958. It is currently published by Arno Press Inc. and the New American Library.

At her death, Miss Wright was writing a biography of her great-aunt, Melusina Fay Peirce, an early feminist and first wife of the American physicist, mathematician and philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce.

Miss Wright is survived by her husband, Paul J. Mitarachi; a son, John; a sister, Phyllis King of Manhattan; and two brothers, Benjamin and William Wright.

Notes:

Phyllis Wright and Lowell King were seventh cousins once removed, her being a 6XG-granddaughter of the Rev. James Fitch (1622-1702) and Priscilla Mason (1641-1714), and he being a 7XG-grandson of the same couple.

Phyllis married Lowell King on 27 Sep 1941 in New York, New York. Lowell (son of Clarence Baker King and Alice Darracott Seabrook) was born on 2 May 1920 in New Canaan, Farfield, Connecticut; died on 27 Aug 1969 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

CEO of Macmillan Publishers.

His philanthropic activities include longtime service on the board of directors of Graham Windham, more recently called simply Graham, a nonprofit foster care agency providing services to needy children and families in the New York metropolitan area. Founded in 1806, Graham, the oldest non-sectarian childcare agency in the United States, was originally the Orphan Asylum Society of the City of New York, co-founded by Eliza Hamilton after her husband Alexander Hamilton, himself an orphan, was killed in the famous duel with Aaron Burr — a grandson of John Sargent's 6X-grandfather the Rev. Jonathan Edwards. Thus Aaron Burr's first cousin six times removed has served for years on the board of Eliza Hamilton's orphanage.

He is also the author, under the anagrammatic pen name "S. T. Garne," of two children's books, One White Sail: A Caribbean Counting Book (1992) and By a Blazing Blue Sea (1999).

John married Constance Lane Murray on 21 Sep 1985. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

http://www.sfgenealogy.com/boards/mcobits/archive4/5426.html:

Elizabeth 'Bibbs' [sic] Arnold of Los Altos, a mathematician, environmentalist and wildlife advocate who helped crack the Japanese code during World War II, died Friday, Sept. 18, 1992, at her Los Altos Hills home of lung cancer. She was 76.

A native of San Francisco, Dr. Arnold was reared in Marin County and was the oldest grandchild of Rep. William Kent, for whom the city of Kentfield was named.

The daughter of a prominent San Francisco attorney, Eugene Arnold, she attended the Katherine Branson School in Ross and graduated first in her class in 1932. The school later named a day in her honor after she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Vassar College in her junior year.

After graduating from Vassar in 1937, Dr. Arnold earned her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1941.

During World War II, Dr. Arnold was recruited by the Navy and worked on a team of cryptographers cracking Japanese codes, for which she received a Meritorious Civilian Service Award.

In the 1960s, Dr. Arnold worked on machine language translation at Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. Inc.

After her retirement in 1969, Dr. Arnold helped establish a recycling center in Los Altos and worked with Wildlife Rescue, helping injured animals.

Dr. Arnold is survived by her husband of 46 years, Dr. William Francis Whitmore of Los Altos; four sons, Charles Whitmore of Washington, D.C., Edward Whitmore of San Francisco, Thomas Whitmore of Oakland and Peter Whitmore of Victoria, B.C. Also surviving are her brothers, George Stanleigh Arnold of Kentfield, Peter Arnold of Grass Valley and Anthony Arnold of Novato.

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Note that the above obituary is in error in two respects. Her father was George Stanleigh Arnold, not Eugene Arnold; and her family nickname was "Bibba", not "Bibbs."

Her page at the Mathematics Genealogy Project is here, showing her to be a generation of advisors closer to Felix Klein than her husband was.

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Elizabeth Sherman Arnold and William Francis Whitmore were 7th cousins, both being 6XG-grandchildren of Col. John Lane (1661-1715) and Susanna Whipple (1661-1713).

Elizabeth married William Francis Whitmore on 1 Nov 1946. William (son of Charles Edward Whitmore and Elizabeth Manning Gardiner) was born on 6 Jan 1916 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 6 Jan 1996. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His daughter Elizabeth's obituary in the Marin Independent Journal (20 Sep 1992, reproduced at www.sfgenealogy.com/boards/mcobits/archive4/5426.html) calls him "a prominent San Francisco attorney", but also refers to him, apparently in error, as "Eugene Arnold." Elizabeth's son Tom Whitmore confirms that his name was George Stanleigh Arnold, and adds that he was a Yale man known to friends as "Big Stan."

From his Yale obituary:

Admitted to practice in Connecticut 1906 and California 1910, in office of Talcott H Russell ['69], New Haven, 1906; law examiner United States Forest Service, Washington, D C , 1906-09, lawyer in San Francisco 1909-42 (member Denman & Arnold 1911-18); special assistant to United States Attorney General in oil-land litigation 1913; San Francisco representative for President Wilson's Commission on Mediation and Conciliation 1917; member War Labor Policies Board, Washington, 1918-19, special assistant to Attorney General of United States in charge NRA litigation 1934-35; chairman emergency boards created by President Roosevelt in 1936 and 1937 under provisions of Railway Labor Act to investigate and report on railway labor disputes; chairman of a three-man board created by the President in 1941 to investigate wage dispute between ore dock workers of Duluth-Supenor district and rail carriers, president Pacific States (now Coos Bay) Lumber Company 1926-27 and Katharine Branson School, Ross, Calif, 1939-42; vice-president California Fish and Game Commission; director San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Save-the-Redwoods League; Boy Scout Commissioner Mann County, president Yale Alumni Association of Northern California 1921-23 and representative on Alumni Board 1923-42, California State chairman Yale Law School Association 1921; member University Club of San Francisco (president 1925-29) and St John's Church (Episcopal), Ross.

George married Elizabeth Sherman Thatcher Kent on 26 Feb 1915 in Washington, D.C.. Elizabeth (daughter of Rep. William Kent and Elizabeth Thacher) was born on 8 Jan 1894 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois; died on 12 Jan 1952 in Marin, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Tappan married Beth Ann Meacham on 13 Oct 1978 in New York City. Beth (daughter of Richard Allen Meacham and Marion Ann Gaunder) was born on 14 Nov 1951 in Newark, Licking, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

http://www.sfgenealogy.com/boards/mcobits/archive4/5426.html:

Elizabeth 'Bibbs' [sic] Arnold of Los Altos, a mathematician, environmentalist and wildlife advocate who helped crack the Japanese code during World War II, died Friday, Sept. 18, 1992, at her Los Altos Hills home of lung cancer. She was 76.

A native of San Francisco, Dr. Arnold was reared in Marin County and was the oldest grandchild of Rep. William Kent, for whom the city of Kentfield was named.

The daughter of a prominent San Francisco attorney, Eugene Arnold, she attended the Katherine Branson School in Ross and graduated first in her class in 1932. The school later named a day in her honor after she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Vassar College in her junior year.

After graduating from Vassar in 1937, Dr. Arnold earned her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1941.

During World War II, Dr. Arnold was recruited by the Navy and worked on a team of cryptographers cracking Japanese codes, for which she received a Meritorious Civilian Service Award.

In the 1960s, Dr. Arnold worked on machine language translation at Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. Inc.

After her retirement in 1969, Dr. Arnold helped establish a recycling center in Los Altos and worked with Wildlife Rescue, helping injured animals.

Dr. Arnold is survived by her husband of 46 years, Dr. William Francis Whitmore of Los Altos; four sons, Charles Whitmore of Washington, D.C., Edward Whitmore of San Francisco, Thomas Whitmore of Oakland and Peter Whitmore of Victoria, B.C. Also surviving are her brothers, George Stanleigh Arnold of Kentfield, Peter Arnold of Grass Valley and Anthony Arnold of Novato.

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Note that the above obituary is in error in two respects. Her father was George Stanleigh Arnold, not Eugene Arnold; and her family nickname was "Bibba", not "Bibbs."

Her page at the Mathematics Genealogy Project is here, showing her to be a generation of advisors closer to Felix Klein than her husband was.

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Elizabeth Sherman Arnold and William Francis Whitmore were 7th cousins, both being 6XG-grandchildren of Col. John Lane (1661-1715) and Susanna Whipple (1661-1713).

Elizabeth married William Francis Whitmore on 1 Nov 1946. William (son of Charles Edward Whitmore and Elizabeth Manning Gardiner) was born on 6 Jan 1916 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 6 Jan 1996. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]