Alice Darcy

Family/Spouse: John Colville. John (son of William de Colville and Joan Faucomberge) died on 20 Aug 1405 in Durham, Durham, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Mauleverer. William (son of Robert Mauleverer and Elizabeth) was born in of Wothersome, Yorkshire, England; died between 1458 and 1463. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Wandesford. John (son of John Wandesford and Elizabeth Musters) was born in of Kirklington, Nottinghamshire, England; died about 1400. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

Merchant; sheriff of London; alderman of London.

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

Edmund married Eleanor Strangeways about 1454. Eleanor (daughter of James Strangeways, Speaker of the House of Commons and Elizabeth Darcy) died after Jan 1494. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Louthe. Thomas was born in of Sawtry, Huntingdonshire, England; died in 1533. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joan Vavasour. Joan (daughter of Henry Vavasour and Joan Gascoigne) died after Mar 1496. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edith Stukeley. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Fought at Flodden Field, where he was knighted. Sheriff of Yorkshire 1521.

Family/Spouse: Anne Conyers. Anne (daughter of William Conyers and Anne Bigod) died before 1522. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Joan Strangeways after 7 Nov 1522 in Wothersome, Yorkshire, England. Joan (daughter of James Strangeways and Alice Scrope) died on 15 Nov 1546; was buried on 26 Nov 1546 in Bardsey, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1577

Family/Spouse: Simon Throckmorton. Simon (son of John Throckmorton and Jane Baynard) was born about 1493 in of Barsham, Suffolk, England; died on 10 Jul 1527. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

They were granted, by Cardinal Wolsey, a dispensation to marry, as they were related in the fourth degree.

Robert married Alice Markenfield before 2 Feb 1525. Alice (daughter of Ninian Markenfield and Dorothy Gascoigne) died between 4 Mar 1553 and 7 Mar 1553. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lionel married Elizabeth Blennerhasset on 29 Jun 1561 in Barsham, Suffolk, England. Elizabeth (daughter of John Blennerhasset and Elizabeth Cornwallis) died between 30 Jun 1608 and 7 Nov 1608. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorothy married John Kaye on 21 Jan 1543 in Bardsey, Yorkshire, England. John (son of Arthur Kaye and Beatrice Wentworth) was born about 1528 in of Woodsome, Yorkshire, England; died before 28 Jul 1594 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England; was buried on 28 Jul 1594 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Grocer, citizen, and alderman of Norwich.

Bassingbourne married Mary Hill after 7 Dec 1591. Mary (daughter of William Hill and Joan Annabel) was born in of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England; died in 1615. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Robert Keaye. Justice of the Peace, and Treasurer for Lame Soldiers under Elizabeth I.

Family/Spouse: Anne Flower. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He emigrated with his family in 1631 on the Lyon; first at Boston, then very shortly thereafter Salem. He was one of the original companions of Roger Williams in the settlement of Rhode Island in 1636. He was in New York with Anne Hutchinson's family and others in 1642, settling the peninsula from Long Island now called, after him, Throg's Neck or Throgg's Neck. Following the Native uprising of 1643 in which the Hutchinsons, among others, were slain, he returned to Rhode Island, where he was town moderator of Providence in 1652 and town treasurer in 1677. He appears at Barbados in 1656. He was also a deputy to the Rhode Island assembly in 1664-68, 1670-73, and 1675. He died while visiting his sons at Middletown, New Jersey in 1684.

Direct ancestor of, among others, Gen. James Longstreet, Susan B. Anthony, and Maxwell Perkins. Gateway ancestor of EK.

He is the subject of some controversy. The first is whether he was the "Mr. Throgmorton" recorded as arriving on the Lyon at Nantasket in February 1631, along with, among others, Roger Williams. Shortly thereafter, on 18 May 1631, "Mr. George Throckmorton" was admitted as a freeman of the Bay Colony. G. Andrews Moriarty and others argued that "George" was a scribal error and that "Mr. Throgmorton" of the Lyon was the same man that later became prominent in Providence, Rhode Island and died in New Jersey while visiting his sons. In 1995, in The Great Migration Begins (page 1818, other citation details below), Robert Charles Anderson argued that George Throckmorton and John were separate individuals. Twenty years later, however, in his The Great Migration Directory (2015, page 335, other citation details below), Anderson stated that John Throckmorton of Salem and Providence did in fact arrive in 1631 on the Lyon, and he marks his 1995 remarks as "incorrect."

The second controversy is whether the John Throckmorton of Salem and Rhode Island was in fact the John Throckmorton who was baptized in 1601, a son of Norwich alderman, citizen and grocer Bassingbourne Throckmorton, and thus a "gateway ancestor" with a descent from Edward I and beyond. This proposal first gained currency in the notoriously unreliable work of Col. Charles Wickliffe Throckmorton (citation details below), but it was subsequently endorsed by the far more credible genealogist G. Andrews Moriarty (citation details below), who published multiple articles piling up the circumstantial-yet-strong evidence for the case. Today this descent appears to be broadly accepted, appearing as undisputed fact in widely used secondary sources such as Ancestral Roots and Royal Ancestry. But not universally accepted: Robert Charles Anderson, in the same 2015 entry in which he notes that he now agrees that the Providence man was the "Mr. Throgmorton" of the Lyon, still lists the Providence man's origins as "unknown." There exists nothing to clinch the case, but the quality and quantity of the not-quite-probative evidence is striking:

* The father of the John Throckmorton baptized at Norwich in 1601, Bassingbourne Throckmorton, was a member of the minor gentry connected with trade as a merchant and shipowner. The New England John Throckmorton was consistently called "Mr." and "gentleman," terms reserved at that time for persons of higher-than-usual birth, and he was a merchant and shipowner. References to the New England man in the Winthrop Papers show that John owned several coastal vessels and that he was entrusted with the transportation of letters and legal papers along with normal trade goods, sailing as far south as Delaware and Virginia as well as along the New England coast.

* At age 19, in 1621, the John Throckmorton of Norwich apprenticed himself to Robert Debney, alderman of Norwich (who described himself in his 1634 will as "brother-in-law" to Bassingbourne Throckmorton), to train as a legal scrivener. Roger Williams said the New England man had been "a member of a corporation in England" and that he "had some knowledge of the law", and a letter from Williams to Throckmorton points out to him that he ought to know his duty to uphold law and order since he had once been an officer of a municipal corporation. This indicates that the New England man had exactly the level of practical legal knowledge one would expect from someone who had trained as a scrivener -- not that of a full-fledged attorney, but rather that of someone well-informed enough to deal with legal matters as a merchant and businessman.

* Bassingbourne Throckmorton made his will on 10 Sep 1638 and died eleven days later. Subsequently several of his sons sued his executors. In their answer to the suit, on 13 May 1640, the executors stated that neither they at that date, nor Bassingbourne when he made his will, knew whether his son John was alive or dead.

(The above may answer one of the long-held objections to the idea that John of New England was a son of Bassingbourne of Norwich, which is that the distinctive name Bassingbourne appears among none of the New England man's descendants. First, it is a matter of record that, aside from naming his second son for himself, John Throckmorton of New England gave his children exactly the kind of names that one would expect for the offspring of an ardent Puritan: Freegift, Patience, Deliverance, Job, Joseph. But more to the point, if the Norwich man did indeed emigrate to New England without telling anyone in his family, a model entirely consistent with what we learn from the lawsuit mentioned above, that would seem to suggest the sort of significant personal rupture in which traditional family names don't get passed on. It's clear that the New England man had a temper and the ability to break with others. As Moriarty notes — 1944, citation details below — , "[i]n later life he became a violent Quaker [and] quarreled with his old friend Roger Williams.")

* The will of Edward Covell, gentleman of Bradwell, Essex, made 1 Aug 1679 and proved 9 Feb 1680, bequeathed £6 to "my kinsman, John Throckmorton of Midle-Towne in New England", clearly referring to the 1631 emigrant's son John Throckmorton of Middletown, New Jersey. By itself this phrase establishes that the New England John Throckmorton was connected to East Anglian families. But Edward Covell's 1679 will also mentions his deceased kinswoman "Grace, late wife of Henry Payne" -- as does the 1633 will of another East Anglian man with the same surname, Thomas Colvyll of Thelveton, Norfolk, which calls her "Grace my neice now wife of Henry Payne". Grace Colvill, wife of Henry Payne, was a niece of Frances Colvill who was the wife of Thomas Shardelowe, second cousin of Bassingbourne Throckmorton through their shared descent from John Throckmorton (~1460-~1508) of South Elmham, Suffolk and his wife Jane Baynard. Thomas Colvyll's will also mentions Thomas Shardelow, calling him "gent, whose first wife was my wife's sister". And it mentions two members of the Cornwallis family of Brome, Suffolk: "Sir Thomas Cornwallis my late master" and "Lady Jane Bacon, late wife of Sir William Corwallis knt. deceased". Elizabeth Cornwallis of this same family was the maternal grandmother of Bassingbourne Throckmorton. (Moriarty, 1947, citation details below.)

* In 2002, Paul C. Reed and Leslie Mahler (citation details below) established the identity and origins of Rebecca Farrand, who married the New England John Throckmorton in 1635 and was the mother of all his children. In doing so they also identified both of her parents, all four of her grandparents, and six further ancestors as well. They also established that Edward Covell, the abovementioned testator of 1679, was the husband of Anne Farrand, sister to Rebecca, and thus quite a close "kinsman" indeed to New England John Throckmorton. Edward Covell is also mentioned in the 4 Jan 1661 will of another of Rebecca's sisters, Elizabeth Farrand, in which she calls him "my Brother Edward Covill".

In summary, it would seem that if the John Throckmorton of Salem and Rhode Island wasn't a son of Bassingbourne Throckmorton of Norwich, he must have been the offspring of a Throckmorton very closely related to him. That, or we're looking at a genuinely impressive number of coincidences.

From Wikipedia (accessed 13 Nov 2020):

John Throckmorton (1601–1684) was an early settler of Providence Plantation in what became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and he was one of the 12 original proprietors of that settlement. He emigrated from Norfolk, England to settle in Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but religious tensions brought about his removal to Providence.

In 1643, Throckmorton made a land purchase in New Netherland and settled there with several dozen others. However, an Indian attack during Kieft's War caused him and others to return to Providence. He became active in civil affairs, serving as moderator, deputy, and treasurer. He died in 1684 in Middletown, New Jersey, where he went to visit his children, and was buried there. Throggs Neck in Bronx, New York City is named for him.

John Throckmorton was almost certainly baptised in Norwich, county Norfolk, England on 9 May 1601, the son of grocer and alderman Bassingburn Throckmorton. On 20 March 1621, he was apprenticed to a scrivener, but his whereabouts by 1638 had become unknown to his father, and the executors of his father's estate in 1640 could not find him. Several writers suggest that he was the "George Throckmorton" who arrived in New England aboard the Lyon and was made a freeman in May 1631. In 1995, Robert Charles Anderson argued that this was highly unlikely because a person of his stature would not be absent from the colonial records from 1631 to 1638, suggesting that George Throckmorton either died soon after his arrival or else returned to England, and John Throckmorton did not arrive in the colonies until closer to 1638. Twenty years later, however, Anderson had evidently changed his view, stating that John Throckmorton of Salem and Providence was in fact the 1631 passenger on the Lyon and listing his own 1995 remarks as "incorrect."

Throckmorton may have been in Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony as early as 1635, but the first definitive record of his presence in New England is in 1638 when he was one of the 12 original proprietors of Providence Plantation, being named in the deed signed by Roger Williams in October of that year. Nevertheless, it is certain that he was in Salem at some point because the Reverend Hugh Peters of Salem alluded to him and his wife in July 1639 as having "the great censure passed upon them in this our church." Rev. Peters also complained that they and certain others "wholly refused to hear the church, denying it and all the churches in the Bay to be true churches."

On 27 July 1640, Throckmorton was one of 39 settlers who signed an agreement for a form of government in Providence. Three years later, he obtained a grant of land for himself and 35 others from Governor Willem Kieft in New Netherland. The land was named after him and is called Throggs Neck, now a part of The Bronx in New York City. Other nearby English settlers included Thomas Cornell and Anne Hutchinson, who may have purchased her land from Throckmorton. The settlement was short-lived, however, and its fate was summed up by Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Winthrop in September 1643, who said that the Indians set upon the English who dwelt under the Dutch and killed "such of Mr. Throckmorton's and Mr. Cornhill's families as were at home." He further added that these settlers "had cast off ordinances and churches, and now at last their own people, and for larger accommodation had subjected themselves to the Dutch, and dwelt scatteringly near a mile assunder."

Some of those who escaped the Indian attack returned to Providence. Throckmorton was in Providence on 27 February 1647 when he was granted a house and land once belonging to Edward Cope. Soon he became active in civil affairs; he was a Providence Moderator in 1652 and from 1664 to 1675, and he served for eight years as Deputy to the General Assembly. He was also on the Providence Town Council in 1667, and ten years later he was the town treasurer. In July 1672, Throckmorton wrote one of three letters to Roger Williams critical of Williams' unfavorable opinions of the Quakers.

Throckmorton died in March or April 1684 in Middletown, New Jersey where he had gone to visit his children, and he was also buried there. He had owned land in Middletown but never resided there permanently.

John married Rebecca Farrand before 1635. Rebecca (daughter of Richard Farrand and Rebecca Harrison) was born about 1610. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptised: 8 Aug 1579, All Hallows', Almondbury, Yorkshire, England´

Grace married Richard Saltonstall on 28 Nov 1609 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England. Richard (son of Samuel Saltonstall and Anne Ramsden) was born before 4 Apr 1586; was christened on 4 Apr 1586 in Rookes Hall, Highcliffe in Hipperholme, Halifax, Yorkshire, England; died before 25 Oct 1661 in Crayford, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Alice Stout on 12 Dec 1670. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Administration of her husband's estate was granted to her on 19 May 1705.

Deliverance married James Ashton on 25 May 1669 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island. James died before 19 May 1705 in Monmouth County, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sarah Leonard. Sarah (daughter of Henry Leonard and Mary) was born on 26 Jul 1663 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 5 Feb 1743 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey; was buried in Christ Churchyard, Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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

He went to New England with his father in 1630, the first of at least eight Atlantic crossings in his lifetime. He was a man of many interests and offices, both in New England and during England's commonwealth period. Notably, back in New England after the Restoration, Richard Saltonstall donated £50 to support the fugitive regicides William Goffe and Edward Whalley, and he was one of the few people who knew where in New England they were hiding. He was also on several occasions embroiled in political conflict with the Winthrop/Dudley government of colonial Boston.

Richard married Muriel Gurdon on 4 Jul 1633 in All Hallows, Honey Lane, London, England. Muriel (daughter of Brampton Gurdon and Muriel Sedley) was born about 1613; died on 21 Apr 1688 in Hulme, Lancashire, England; was buried on 25 Apr 1688 in St. James' Church, Didsbury, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rebecca married David Stout in 1688. David (son of Richard Stout and Penelope) was born in 1667; died after 1725 in Amwell, Hunterdon, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel married Elizabeth Ward on 28 Dec 1663 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Rev. John Ward and Alice) was born on 1 Apr 1647 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 29 Apr 1741 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Clover Hill, Hunterdon, New Jersey

Notes:

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.

Family/Spouse: Mary Higgins. Mary (daughter of Jadiah Higgins and Mary Newbold) was born on 24 Jan 1700. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Rev. Rowland Cotton in Sep 1692 in z. Rowland (son of Rev. John Cotton and Joanna Rossiter) was born on 27 Dec 1667 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony; died on 18 Mar 1722 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ephraim Oliphant. Ephraim (son of Duncan Oliphant and Mary) was born in 1717 in Staten Island, Richmond, New York; died in 1794 in Loudoun County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joanna married Rev. John Brown in 1719 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. John (son of Ichabod Brown and Martha Woodbury) was born on 1 Nov 1696 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 2 Dec 1742 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rachel married Thomas West between 1762 and 1763. Thomas was born in 1735 in New Jersey; died in Jan 1796 in Grainger County, Tennessee; was buried in Cherokee Community Cemetery, Jonesborough, Washington, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John Wingate Thornton calls her merely "a dau." of "Rev. J. Brown, of Haverhill" and his wife Joanna Cotton, but he is specific that she was the wife of "Rev. Edw. Brooks of North Yarmouth, Me."

Abigail married Rev. Edward Brooks in Sep 1764. Edward (son of Samuel Brooks and Mary Boutwell) was born on 31 Oct 1733 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was christened on 4 Nov 1733; died on 6 May 1781 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: David Beals. David (son of Isaac Beals and Hannah Jones) was born on 4 Jan 1771; died on 29 Nov 1870 in Jonesborough, Washington, Tennessee; was buried in Fairview United Methodist Cemetery, Jonesborough, Washington, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Samuel Gray on 25 Apr 1799. Samuel (son of Abraham Gray and Lydia Calley) was born on 2 Aug 1760; was christened on 10 Aug 1760 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 21 Jan 1816 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abram married Sarah Hammer on 25 Feb 1837 in Jefferson County, Tennessee. Sarah (daughter of Jesse Hammer and Rebecca Blackburn) was born on 20 Jun 1817; died on 7 Jul 1854 in Jefferson County, Tennessee; was buried in Lost Creek Friends Burial Ground, Jefferson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Bef 17 Oct 1811, Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Henrietta married Ignatius Sargent on 7 May 1835 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Ignatius (son of Ignatius Sargent and Sarah Sargent Ellery) was born on 20 Jan 1800 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 18 Aug 1884 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rebecca married Morris C. Moore on 27 Oct 1856 in Guilford County, North Carolina. Morris (son of Samuel Moore and Mary Bundy) was born on 18 Jul 1833 in Indiana; died in 1870 in Toledo, Chase, Kansas; was buried in Old Quaker Cemetery, Toledo, Chase, Kansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rebecca married Zeno W. Morgan after 1870. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rebecca married Washington Hadley on 28 Dec 1904 in San Bernardino County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rebecca married Barclay Thomas on 5 Jan 1916 in Whittier, Los Angeles, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

American botanist. He was appointed in 1872 as the first director of Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts, and held the post until his death. He published several works of botany, and he was a friend of John Muir. The standard botanical author abbreviation Sarg. is applied to plants he identified.

Charles married Mary Allen Robeson on 26 Nov 1873. Mary (daughter of Andrew Robeson and Mary Arnold Allen) was born on 14 Jun 1853 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island; died on 15 Aug 1919 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1859, Indiana
• Alternate death: 15 Oct 1952, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio

Notes:

The 1860 census shows her, age 1, born in Indiana, with her family in Americus, Breckenridge County, Kansas. Given her family links to abolitionist Quakers we're pretty sure which side of the "Bleeding Kansas" war this family was on.

She and her husband were second cousins once removed; he was a great-grandson, and she was a great-great granddaughter, of Isaac Hammer and Lydia Mendenhall.

Ada married Dr. Daniel Fulton Janeway on 28 Jul 1881 in Chase, Rice, Kansas. Daniel (son of Charles Garrett "Chas" Janeway and Susanna Hammer) was born on 6 Jan 1852 in Strawberry Plains, Fulton, Tennessee; died on 21 Apr 1929 in Stillwater, Payne, Oklahoma; was buried in Fairlawn Cemetery, Stillwater, Payne, Oklahoma. [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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1889, Kansas
• Alternate death: 30 Apr 1969, San Rafael, Marin, California

Notes:

She was a graduate of Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, and at the time of her marriage she had been teaching domestic arts at the Shawnee high school for two years.

Rose married Ralph Walker Booze on 30 Sep 1920 in Collinsville, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Ralph (son of Charles Jackson Booze and Mabel Cora Walker) was born on 15 Sep 1890 in Sullivan, Moultrie, Illinois; died on 8 Mar 1973 in San Rafael, Marin, California. [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]

Helen married John William Klages on 14 Feb 1948 in Christ Church, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. John (son of Reynold Edward Klages and Corrine Marguerite Krag) was born on 11 Jul 1922 in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio; died on 8 Apr 2008 in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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]