Anne Fettiplace

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• Alternate death: 16 Aug 1568

Family/Spouse: Edward Purefoy. Edward (son of Nicholas Purefoy and Alice Denton) was born on 13 Jun 1494 in Etfield, Buckinghamshire, England; died on 1 Jun 1558; was buried in Shalstone, Buckinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Thomas Dorne alias Thorne on 28 Oct 1540 in Shalstone, Buckinghamshire, England. Thomas (son of William Thorne and Alice Stotesbury) died before 9 Nov 1588 in Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England; was buried on 9 Nov 1588 in Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Susanna Thorne.

Susanna married Capt. Roger Dudley on 8 Jun 1575 in Lidlington, Bedfordshire, England. Roger died before 29 Oct 1588. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

JMF's one proven "gateway ancestor" (not counting Alexander Magruder, who is very probable), and one of JTS's eleven.

From Wikipedia:

Thomas Dudley was a colonial magistrate who served several terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Dudley was the chief founder of Newtowne, later Cambridge, Massachusetts, and built the town's first home. He provided land and funds to establish the Roxbury Latin School, and signed Harvard College's new charter during his 1650 term as governor. Dudley was a devout Puritan who was opposed to religious views not conforming with his. In this he was more rigid than other early Massachusetts leaders like John Winthrop, but less confrontational than John Endecott.

The son of a military man who died when he was young, Dudley saw military service himself during the French Wars of Religion, and then acquired some legal training before entering the service of his likely kinsman the Earl of Lincoln. Along with other Puritans in Lincoln's circle, Dudley helped organize the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, sailing with Winthrop in 1630. Although he served only four one-year terms as governor of the colony, he was regularly in other positions of authority.

Dudley's descendants include his daughter Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672), the prominent early American poet, and many famous Americans. One of the gates of Harvard Yard, which existed from 1915 to 1947, was named in his honor, and Harvard's Dudley House is named for the family.

Thomas married Dorothy Yorke on 25 Apr 1603 in Hardingstone, Northamptonshire, England. Dorothy (daughter of Edmund Yorke and Katherine Robins) was born before 14 Jun 1583; was christened on 14 Jun 1583 in Hardingstone, Northamptonshire, England; died on 27 Dec 1643 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Katherine Deighton on 4 Apr 1644 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Katherine (daughter of John Deighton and Jane Bassett) was born before 16 Jan 1615; was christened on 16 Jan 1615 in St. Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England; died on 20 Aug 1671. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Benjamin Keayne before 1639, and was divorced in 1647. Benjamin (son of Robert Keayne and Anne Mansfield) was born before 14 May 1618; was christened on 14 May 1618 in St. Michael Cornhill, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Mary Winthrop before 1632. Mary (daughter of John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Mary Forth) was born in 1612; died on 12 Apr 1643. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Better known as Anne Bradstreet, the first published writer in English-speaking North America.

Anne married Simon Bradstreet, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony before 1630. Simon (son of Rev. Simon Bradstreet and Margaret) was born before 18 Mar 1604; was christened on 18 Mar 1604 in Horbling, Lincolnshire, England; died on 27 Mar 1697 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Patience married Daniel Denison on 18 Oct 1632 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Daniel (son of William Denison and Margaret Chandler) was born before 18 Oct 1612; was christened on 18 Oct 1612 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England; died on 20 Sep 1682 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; was buried on 22 Sep 1682 in Highland Cemetery, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mercy married Rev. John Woodbridge before 1640. John (son of Rev. John Woodbridge and Sarah Parker) was born about 1613; died on 17 Mar 1695 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts; was buried on 19 Mar 1695 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorothy married Rev. Seaborn Cotton on 14 Jun 1654 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts. Seaborn (son of Rev. John Cotton and Sarah Hawkredd) was born on 12 Aug 1633 in At sea; died on 20 Apr 1686 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dudley married Anne Wood on 12 Nov 1673 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Sarah Perkins on 11 Jun 1677 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Rev. William Perkins and Elizabeth Wooton) was born on 2 Mar 1657 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts; died in Apr 1745. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Graduated Harvard 1664; began preaching at Killingworth, Connecticut in 1666 and was ordained minister there 7 Apr 1669.

John married Abigail Leete on 26 Oct 1671 in Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut. Abigail (daughter of William Leete, Governor of the New Haven Colony; Governor of Connecticut and Anna Payne) was born about 1650; died on 9 Apr 1710 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1645

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"Rev. Benjamin Woodbridge [...] was invited to preach at Windsor, Ct., by a minority of the church, about the end of the year 1667; ordained over a church formed by the withdrawal of dissatisfied members from the old church, March 18, 1669-70. He remained there, in the midst of many dissensions, until May, 1681. Married, June 3, 1672, Mary, dau. of Rev. John Ward, of Haverhill. She died Oct. 11, 1685. He preached at Bristol, R. I., 1681-6; and at Kittery, Me., in 1688. In 1691 he resided at Portsmouth, N. H., and in 1694 at Newcastle. He was called, in 1698, to Medford, where he was the minister for about ten years. Married second, at Hingham, Aug. 81, 1686, Deborah, widow of Henry Tarlton, and dau. of Daniel Cushing, who survived him. She was born Nov. 18, 1651. He d. at Medford, Jan. 15, 1709-10." ["Genealogy of the Woodbridge Family," citation details below]

Benjamin married Mary Ward on 13 Jun 1672. Mary (daughter of Rev. John Ward and Alice) was born on 24 Jun 1649; died on 11 Oct 1685 in Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut

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Graduatyed Harvard 1675; became minister of the first church in Hartford, 1682; ordained pastor there 18 Nov 1685. His predecessor as pastor was his wife Mehitable Wyllys's previous husband, the Rev. Isaac Foster.

Family/Spouse: Mehitable Wyllys. Mehitable (daughter of Samuel Wyllys and Ruth Haynes) was born about 1658; died on 21 Dec 1698 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Anne Lake on 17 Aug 1686. Anne (daughter of Capt. Thomas Lake and Mary Goodyear) was born on 12 Oct 1663 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 29 Mar 1737 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Job Tyler. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mercy married John Hazen about 1710. John (son of Thomas Hazen and Mary Howlet) was born on 23 Mar 1688 in Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 24 Feb 1772. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Graduated Harvard 1694; became first minister at West Springfield, Massachusetts in June 1698.

John married Jemima Eliot on 14 Nov 1699. Jemima (daughter of Rev. Joseph Eliot and Sarah Brenton) was born on 14 Nov 1679. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Graduated Harvard 1701. Ordained first minister at East Hartford, 30 Mar 1705.

Samuel married Mabel Russell on 9 Dec 1707. Mabel (daughter of Rev. Daniel Russell and Mehitable Wyllys) was born in 1678; died on 10 May 1730 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Spofford, IV. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From The Hazen Family in America (citation details below):

Nothing has been learned of his marriage or death.

The name of Samuel Hazen is the first of the family to have been found in New Jersey records. In an old volume at Newton appears this record: "At a court of General Sessions of the Peace held at Hardwick, County of Sussex, on the Third Tuesday in February in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and fifty five and in the Twenty eighth year of his Majesty's Reign--The King vs. Charles McConnell--Indictment for misdemeanor. The attorney general opened the cause and the following Evidences pro Rege--Mary Robins, Jane Robins, Joshua Robins, Saml. Hazen, Thomas Wolverton."

Soon after this date, the names of Thomas and Daniel Hazen appear in the same book of court records, and in 1778 the name of Nathaniel Hazen [son of John]. This corroborates the general tradition among their descendants that three or four brothers came from Connecticut to New Jersey at about the same time. The only known child of Samuel is his son Samuel.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 10 Sep 1783, South Hadley, Hampshire, Massachuetts

Notes:

He was the minister for which the citizens of South Hadley, Massachusetts built the house called the "Second Parsonage." The story of how this came to be the case is worth recapitulating. According to In Old South Hadley by Sophie E. Eastman (Chicago: Blakely Printing Company, 1912), the first minister sent to officiate at South Hadley, a town that began to have an existence separate from Hadley in the early 1700s, was a Rev. Grindall Rawson, whose stern orthodoxy was very much at variance from the relative liberalism of the average local, because even in the early 18th century, western Massachusetts was notable for its tolerant ways. Among other things, Rawson refused to baptize infants whose parents' marriage was in any way irregular. Over many years the Rev. Rawson's parishioners expressed their dissatisfaction, passing resolutions against him, confiscating the keys to the church, withholding his pay and his firewood.

The rest of the story, from In Old South Hadley:

On February 25, 1740, at a meeting held in South Hadley, it was voted that "It is the desire of this precinct that the Rev. Mr. Rawson be dismissed from and lay down the work of the ministry among us." Mr. Rawson took no notice of this request. On January 12, of the succeeding year, they voted that they would give him neither wood nor salary. Mr. Rawson insisted that until the town should settle its past indebtedness to him he was still legally their pastor and should continue to preach.

A committee had been appointed to keep the keys of the meeting house, it was not to be opened or shut except "According to their prudence." A minister not far away had been locked out by his parishioners, for the manners of the day were rude. Upon this the parson shouldered his axe and broke down the door, then mounting the pulpit in triumph he preached a vigorous sermon. Perhaps the committee people suspected that the present incumbent might be tempted to do the same thing, as indeed he was quite likely to.

Finally, on October 30, 1741, their last shred of patience gave way. A committee of fifteen were ordered, in more explicit language, in case he again attempted to preach, "To put him forth from the meeting house." To this threat, which had been so often repeated, he paid no attention.

The committee met, thirteen of them agreeing that now they would obey instructions, only two dissenting. Some of the elders proposed to delegate their sons to perform the task that had been assigned them.

One Sabbath morning later on, Mr. Rawson appeared in church. When he had ascended the pulpit stairs, one of the deacons rose and solemnly warned him against attempting to officiate. Mr. Rawson's reply was simply to begin reading one of the Imprecatory Psalms, or, as another version of the story has it, commencing a long prayer. A number of men now advanced, and, taking him from the pulpit, either carried or dragged him from the church. Tradition tells us that he continued the prayer or psalm until a handkerchief was placed across his mouth.

This was Mr. Rawson’s last attempt to enter the pulpit. It was expected that he would cause the arrest of the young men who had forcibly removed him from the meeting house, and ten pounds were raised to be used in their defense. He refrained from taking the matter into court, but, none the less, refused to resign his pastorate.

The precinct had previously voted that they would pay him up to November 20, 1740, "but not after that." As he would not accept this overture, they extended the time until May of 1741, when the council had advised a separation. Finding him still obdurate, some peace-loving members of the community gave him their personal bonds for the payment of one hundred pounds if he would resign his pastoral office, which he did, and in 1742 the precinct repaid them.

Many of Mr. Rawson's friends had become so much embittered against the church that they removed to other towns. The discarded minister did not find it easy to secure another settlement. When pastors were engaged for life there were but few empty pulpits; he must wait until a new church was formed and a new building erected in some thinly populated district.

Three years passed and still he remained here. Then the people of Hadlyme, Conn., hired him to preach there for three months. At the expiration of the time they engaged him for three months more on probation. In May, 1745, they invited him to become their minister, taking the Cambridge Platform as the basis of belief.

There had been dissension among the people of Hadley in regard to the new church, but now they all united upon Mr. Rawson, and under his guidance they enjoyed a long season of "satisfaction and rest." At his death, in 1777, the faithful congregation erected a tombstone at their own expense.

After the resignation of their minister, the South Precinct were not long in finding a successor. About two hundred years before this, Rev. John Woodbridge, a clergyman of Wiltshire, England, had named a son after himself and educated him for the ministry. This practice had been continued from generation to generation, until now South Hadley's second minister was the ninth Rev. John Woodbridge in unbroken succession. [...] Unlike his predecessor, he was dignified in bearing, prudent in council, and full of gentleness and sympathy to all who were in sorrow.

Family/Spouse: Rev. Ephraim Little. Ephraim (son of David Little and Elizabeth Southworth) was born in 1707; died in 1787. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]