Welthea Bradford

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Mar 1841, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess, New York

Notes:

If she died in Poughkeepsie as asserted in the Stephen Hopkins Mayflower Families through Five Generations book (citation details below), she must have removed there very late in life, as the records of her pension application state that she personally appeared before the Plymouth probate judge, calling herself "a resident of Duxbury" (and "aged Eighty years") in Aug 1838.

A typewritten letter from one Winfield Scott, Commissioner of the "Rev. & 1812 Wars Section" of the Federal pension office, to Mary C. Fraprie of Beacon Street, Brookline, Massachusetts, dated 16 Oct 1928, narrates Isaac Drew's service in the Revolution in some detail, and ends with the note that Isaac Drew's wife Welthea Bradford — who, the letter notes, he married "October 1, 1781", agreeing with the other genealogical sources cited here — was "allowed pension on her application executed August 16, 1838, while a resident of Duxbury, Massachusetts, aged eighty years. She died June 8, 1846." Which is entirely different from the information given in the Hopkins Mayflower Families book.

The Mayflower Families books use the much-complained-about "giant block of citations" model, in which it can be very difficult to determine which cited source or authority attaches to which stated fact. Failing a specific reason to believe that Welthea Bradford died in Poughkeepsie — or in 1841, as asserted by Ruth Gardiner Hall (citation details below) — we're inclined to believe Commissioner Scott's report that she died 8 June 1846, even if he was writing over eighty years later. For the simple reason that pension offices are strongly motivated to accurately know when their beneficiaries have died and no longer require further applications of public funds.

Welthea married Isaac Drew on 1 Oct 1781 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Isaac (son of Samuel Drew and Faith Petersen) was born in Jun 1748 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 3 Nov 1835 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts; was buried in Mayflower Cemetery, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William Drew was born about 1798 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 12 Jan 1853 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

Notes:

"[O]ne of the Committee of Correspondence in the early part of the Revolution. He raised and commanded a company in Col. Cotton's regiment. By over exertion in the battles of Trenton and Princeton, his health became so impaired that he was compelled to return home, where he d. 17 Feb., 1777, ae. 47." ["A Genealogy of the Bradford Family", citation details below.]

Samuel married Grace Ring on 1 Nov 1749 in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Grace (daughter of Samuel Ring and Ruth Sylvester) was born on 6 Apr 1730 in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 20 Apr 1793 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Colonel Gamaliel Bradford had service at Crown Point in 1756 and at Fort William Henry in 1759. As a captain he served in Nova Scotia in 1760." [Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 24, The Descendants of Elder William Brewster, Part 3, citation details below]

Gamaliel married Abigail Bartlett on 30 Aug 1728 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Abigail (daughter of Benjamin Bartlett and Ruth Pabodie) was born about 4 May 1703 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 30 Aug 1776 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts; was buried in Old Cemetery, South Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1702
• Alternate birth: 18 Mar 1704, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts

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• Alternate birth: 12 Mar 1693, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Samuel married Ruth Sylvester on 28 Jan 1725 in Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Ruth (daughter of Israel Sylvester and Ruth Turner) was born on 26 Jun 1702 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died between 25 Dec 1770 and 17 Nov 1779. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was born before her parents' marriage. Her first husband, Francis Cooke (~1697-1724), was a descendant of Mayflower passengers Francis Cooke, Stephen Hopkins, and James Chilton.

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1667, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony

Samuel married Hannah Rogers on 31 Jul 1689 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony. Hannah (daughter of John Rogers and Elizabeth Pabodie) was born on 16 Nov 1668 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died in Sep 1754 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin married Ruth Pabodie in Dec 1677 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Ruth (daughter of William Pabodie and Elizabeth Alden) was born on 27 Jun 1658 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died between 25 Apr 1724 and 27 Mar 1725. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleazar married Mary Shaw on 11 Jan 1688 in Lakenham, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Jonathan Shaw and Phebe Watson) was born about 1665; died on 28 Nov 1730 in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts; was buried in Old Burying Ground, First Church, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Israel married Ruth Turner on 3 Oct 1701 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Ruth (daughter of John Turner and Mary Brewster) was born before 17 May 1663; was christened on 17 May 1663 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From Wikipedia:

He held the rank of major in the militia and was the commander of the military forces of Plymouth Colony during the King Philip's War. He commanded the Plymouth Regiment at the Great Swamp Fight on 19 December 1675. During the battle his eye was wounded.

He later served as the deputy governor of Plymouth Colony under Governor Thomas Hinckley from 1682 to 1686 and from 1689 to 1692 when the colony was merged with the Massachusetts Bay Colony to form the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Bradford was suspended from office during the governorship of Sir Edmund Andros from 1686 to 1689.

William married Alice Richards after 23 Apr 1650 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony. Alice (daughter of Thomas Richards and Welthian) was born on 16 Jun 1627 in Pitminster, Somerset, England; was christened on 7 Apr 1629 in Pitminster, Somerset, England; died on 12 Dec 1671 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elizabeth Pabodie in Nov 1666 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of William Pabodie and Elizabeth Alden) was born on 24 Apr 1647 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died between 4 May 1677 and 21 Oct 1679. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Bef 6 Jun 1633, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Benjamin married Sarah Brewster between 4 Apr 1654 and 8 Aug 1655. Sarah (daughter of Love Brewster and Sarah Collier) was born about 1635 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died between 5 Mar 1668 and 21 Jan 1679. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Elizabeth Alden on 26 Dec 1644 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins) was born about 1624 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 31 May 1717 in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Alleged to have been the first white woman born in New England.

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• Alternate death: 22 Feb 1694, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

Came to New England with his mother and sisters, probably on the second Mayflower in 1629.

Andrew married Deborah Hopkins on 23 Apr 1646 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Deborah (daughter of Stephen Hopkins and Elizabeth Fisher) was born about 1626 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died between 1666 and 1674. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between 1624 and 1625, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
• Alternate death: Bef 1674, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

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• Alternate birth: Between 1629 and 1631, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

Jonathan Shaw (1631-1701) = Phebe Watson (1638-1682)
Jonathan Shaw (1663-1730) = Mehitable Pratt (1667-1712)
Mehitable Shaw (1694-1764) = Zachariah Weston (1690-1762)
James Weston (1723-1786) = Abigail Dunham (1720-1798)
Abner Weston (1764-1844) = Sally Thurston (1772-1836)
John Wheeler Weston (1799-1847) = Asenath Howe (b. 1798)
Harding Weston (b. 1835) = Mary Wadsworth Parker (1838-1897)
Isabel Weston (1860-1948) = Homer Loomis Pound (1858-1942)
Ezra Pound [Ezra Weston Loomis Pound] (1885-1972)

Jonathan married Phebe Watson on 22 Jan 1657 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Phebe (daughter of George Watson and Phoebe Hicks) was born about 1638; died about 1682. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1636, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Israel married Martha about 1673. Martha died after 19 Apr 1726. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mary Brewster on 10 Nov 1645 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony. Mary (daughter of Jonathan Brewster and Lucretia Oldham) was born on 16 Apr 1627 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died after 23 Mar 1698 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Governor of Plymouth Colony 1621-33, 1635, 1637, 1639-43, and 1645-56.

From Wikipedia:

William Bradford was an English Separatist originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire. He moved to Leiden in Holland in order to escape persecution from King James I of England, and then emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620. He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact and went on to serve as Governor of the Plymouth Colony intermittently for about 30 years between 1621 and 1657. His journal Of Plymouth Plantation covered the years from 1620 to 1657 in Plymouth. [...]

William Bradford's most well-known work by far is Of Plymouth Plantation. It is a detailed history in journal form about the founding of the Plymouth Colony and the lives of the colonists from 1621 to 1646. Bradford's journal is described as a retrospective account of his recollections and observations. The first work was written in 1630; the second was never finished, but "between 1646 and 1650, he brought the account of the colony's struggles and achievements through the year 1646." As Walter P. Wenska states, "Bradford writes most of his history out of his nostalgia, long after the decline of Pilgrim fervor and commitment had become apparent. Both the early annals which express his confidence in the Pilgrim mission and the later annals, some of which reveal his dismay and disappointment, were written at about the same time." In Of Plymouth Plantation, Bradford drew deep parallels between everyday life and the events of the Bible. As Philip Gould writes, "Bradford hoped to demonstrate the workings of divine providence for the edification of future generations."

In 1888, Charles F. Richardson referred to Bradford as a "forerunner of literature" and "a story-teller of considerable power." Moses Coit Tyler called him "the father of American history." Many American authors have cited his work in their writings; for example, Cotton Mather referred to it in Magnalia Christi Americana and Thomas Prince referred to it in A Chronological History of New-England in the Form of Annals. Even today it is considered a valuable piece of American literature, included in anthologies and studied in literature and history classes. It has been called an American classic and the pre-eminent work of art in seventeenth-century New England.

The Of Plymouth Plantation manuscript disappeared by 1780, "presumably stolen by a British soldier during the British occupation of Boston"; it reappeared in Fulham, London, England. Philip Gould states, "In 1855, scholars intrigued by references to Bradford in two books on the history of the Episcopal Church in America (both located in England) located the manuscript in the bishop of London's library at Lambeth Palace." A long debate ensued as to the rightful home for the manuscript. Multiple attempts by United States Senator George Frisbie Hoar and others to have it returned proved futile at first. According to Francis B. Dedmond, "after a stay of well over a century at Fulham and years of effort to [e]ffect its release, the manuscript was returned to Massachusetts" on May 26, 1897.

William married Alice Carpenter on 14 Aug 1623 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony. Alice (daughter of Alexander Carpenter and (Unknown wife of Alexander Carpenter)) was born about 1590; was christened on 3 Aug 1590 in Wrington, Somerset, England; died on 26 Mar 1670 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony; was buried in Burial Hill, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachussets. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Bef 3 Aug 1590, Wrington, Somerset, England
• Alternate death: 27 Mar 1670, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony
• Alternate death: 26 Mar 1671, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony

Notes:

She was the widow of Edward Southworth, and is thus referred to in many sources as "Alice Southworth." She arrived in New England on the Anne on 14 Aug 1623.

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• Baptised: 16 Apr 1596, Pitminster, Somerset, England

Notes:

Arrived in 1633; first at Dorchester.

Thomas married Welthian about 1619. Welthian died between 3 Jul 1679 and 4 Nov 1679. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Possibly the sister of Thomas Loring of Hull, who came to New England from Axminster in Devon.

She came under suspicion of witchcraft in 1654, but evidently was never prosecuted.

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• Alternate death: Bef 20 Sep 1692, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

"He probably arrived at Plymouth around 1630 when the last of the Separatists arrived from Leiden." [Stott, citation details below.]

John Rogers (1606-~1692) = Anna Churchman (d. ~1665)
Elizabeth Rogers (~1643->1702) = Nathaniel Williams (1641-1692)
John Williams (1675-1724) = Hannah Robinson (1678-1757)
Silas Williams (1707-1775) = Mary Wetherell (1715-1757)
Paul Williams (1738-1773) = Mary
Jairus Williams (1764-1841) = Hannah Morse (1770-1850)
Jason Williams (1805-1886) = Melinda Chamberlin (1805-1884)
Julia Ann Williams (1832-1895) = Calvin Sanford (1817-1888)
Lucy Fidelia Sanford (1860-1901) = Charles Wesley Nourse (1856-1914)
Ralph Carroll Nourse (1892-1958) = Alice Adelaide Gleed (1892-1981)
Cynthia Bassett Nourse (1930-1980) = Virgil Greeley Hetfield (1925-1996)
James Alan Hetfield (1963- ), lead singer and cofounder of Metallica

John married Anna Churchman on 16 Apr 1639 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Anna died after May 1665. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft May 1664

William married Elizabeth Alden on 26 Dec 1644 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins) was born about 1624 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 31 May 1717 in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Alleged to have been the first white woman born in New England.

Notes:

Emigrated in 1623, with his wife, on the Anne. He was a wine cooper.

Robert married Mary Warren about 1629. Mary (daughter of Richard Warren and Elizabeth Walker) was born about 1611; died on 27 Mar 1683 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1610

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1614

Notes:

Arrived with his parents in 1620 on the Mayflower.

Love married Sarah Collier on 15 May 1634 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of William Collier and Jane Yates) was born before 30 Apr 1616; was christened on 30 Apr 1616 in St. Olave, Southwark, Surrey, England; died on 26 Apr 1691 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Admitted freeman of Duxbury 2 Jan 1638. Proprietor of Bridgewater 1645.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1598

Notes:

Emigrated on the Mayflower, 1620. Removed to Duxbury 1632. He was a cooper, and a signer of the Mayflower Compact. A protagonist of Longfellow's "The Courtship of Miles Standish", which may or may not be grounded in actual events.

He was hired at the port of Southampton, but despite the strenuous efforts of many researchers over many years, absolutely nothing has been proved about his English origins.

Deputy Governor of Plymouth, 7 Mar 1665 and 30 Oct 1667. Treasurer 3 Jun 1656, 3 Jun 1657, 1 Jun 1658. Council of War 27 Sep 1642, 10 Oct 1643, 2 Jun 1646, 6 Apr 1653, 12 May 1653, 1 Jun 1658, 2 Apr 1667. Committee to revise laws 4 Jun 1645, 3 Jun 1657. Committee on Kennebec trade 3 Mar 1645, 7 Jun 1648, 8 Jun 1649, 5 Mar 1656. He was literate. "Although there is no direct evidence for his literary and educational attainments, his extensive public service, including especially his appointments as colony treasurer and to committees on revising the laws, certainly indicates that he must have been well-educated." [Robert Charles Anderson, The Pilgrim Migration, citation details below.]

John Alden (1599-1687) = Priscilla Mullins (d. aft. 1651)
Ruth Alden (~1640-1674) = John Bass (1630-1716)
Hannah Bass (1667-1705) = Joseph Adams, Jr. (1654-1737)
John Adams (1691-1761) = Susanna Boylston (1709-1797)
John Adams (1735-1826) = Abigail Smith (1744-1818), 2nd President of the United States
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), 6th President of the United States

John Alden (1599-1687) = Priscilla Mullins (d. aft. 1651)
Rebecca Alden = Thomas Delano
Jonathan Delano (~1675-1765) = Hannah Doty (1675-1764)
Jonathan Delano (1701-~1745) = Elizabeth Winslow (1707-~1745)
Elizabeth Delano (b. 1725) = John Penney (1721-~1756)
Jonathan Penney (~1754-~1812) = Priscilla Grover (1757-~1820)
Priscilla Pinney (~1778-1811) = Luther Franklin (1780-1861)
Abigail Franklin (1811-1892) = Hiram D. Moor (1812-1888)
Victoria Josephine Moor (1846-1885) = John Calvin Coolidge (1845-1926)
(John) Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), 30th President of the United States

John married Priscilla Mullins about 1623 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Priscilla (daughter of William Mullins and Alice) was born about 1602; died after 1651. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1600 to 1605
• Alternate birth: Abt 1603
• Alternate death: Bef 1687, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

Emigrated on the Mayflower, 1620.

She may have been a daughter of an earlier wife of William Mullins, rather than of Alice.

Notes:

He may have been the William Ring of Pettistree, Suffolk who married at Ufford, Suffolk, 21 May 1601, Mary Durrant, of Suffolk, single woman, and who had a daughter Elizabeth baptized at Ufford 23 Feb 1603.

William married Mary before 1609. Mary was born before 1589; died on 15 Jul 1631 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 19 Jul 1631, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

Possibly born Mary Durrant. Arrived in Plymouth as the widow Mary Ring in 1629 or 1630.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Hursley, Hampshire, England
• Alternate death: Aft 6 Jun 1644, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

Emigrated 1620, on the Mayflower, with his second wife Elizabeth Fisher and his children Elizabeth, Constance, and Giles. He was a tanner, merchant, and tavern-keeper.

Notable as the only Mayflower passenger to have previously visited the New World, as it now appears that he was the same Stephen Hopkins that served as the minister's clerk on the 1609 voyage to Jamestown of the Sea Venture. This ship was caught in a storm and ran aground at Bermuda, marooning its passengers. Sir Thomas Gates, who had been travelling to Jamestown as its newly-appointed governor, organized the passengers to build new boats to complete the voyage. Hopkins vocally dissented against Gates's authority, and was charged with mutiny and sentenced to death, but ultimately pardoned after many other passengers pled for clemency toward him. The boat-building project was successful and the passengers of the Sea Venture ultimately made it to Jamestown, from whence Hopkins ultimately returned to England in 1614. A written narrative of the Sea Venture's story was in circulation in England by late 1610 and is known to have been read by Shakespeare, whose The Tempest, first performed in November 1611, concerns a group of passengers shipwrecked by a storm, and includes a comic-relief drunk named Stefano who attempts to take over as their leader.

Stephen Hopkins = Mary
Constance Hopkins = Nicholas Snow
Mark Snow = Jane Prence
Nicholas Snow = Lydia Shaw
Thankful Snow = Joseph Burgess
Lydia Burgess = Salmon Kingsley
Orin Kingsley = Hilda Coon
Orin Kingsley = Margaret Buchanan
Alanson Kingsley = Laura Ann Jackett
Barbara Marie Jane Kingsley = Willis Wilbus Thompson
Bernice Maude Thompson = Archie Dean Swift
Archie Dean Swift = Rose Baldi Douglas
Scott Kingsley Swift = Andrea G. Finlay
Taylor Swift (1989- )

Stephen married Elizabeth Fisher on 19 Feb 1618 in St. Mary Matfelon, Whitechapel, London, England. Elizabeth died before 6 Jun 1644 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"The conclusion that this marriage record pertains to the Mayflower passenger is plausible, but not fully proved." [The Mayflower Migration, citation details below]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1596
• Alternate death: Between 22 Mar 1664 and 15 Feb 1669, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

It is unclear whether he was married once or twice, and who was the mother of his children.

Arrived at Plymouth between 1623 and 1626. With William Gilson and others, he built "The Cutt," connecting Green Harbor and Duxbury Bay, the earliest canal still in existence in America.

Notes:

George Watson (1602-1689) = Phoebe Hicks (1615-1653)
Phebe Watson (1638-1682) = Jonathan Shaw (1631-1701)
Jonathan Shaw (1663-1730) = Mehitable Pratt (1667-1712)
Mehitable Shaw (1694-1764) = Zachariah Weston (1690-1762)
James Weston (1723-1786) = Abigail Dunham (1720-1798)
Abner Weston (1764-1844) = Sally Thurston (1772-1836)
John Wheeler Weston (1799-1847) = Asenath Howe (b. 1798)
Harding Weston (b. 1835) = Mary Wadsworth Parker (1838-1897)
Isabel Weston (1860-1948) = Homer Loomis Pound (1858-1942)
Ezra Pound [Ezra Weston Loomis Pound] (1885-1972)

George married Phoebe Hicks before 1636. Phoebe (daughter of Robert Hicks and Margaret) was born before 15 Mar 1615; was christened on 15 Mar 1615 in St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, Surrey, England; died on 22 May 1663 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Between 15 Jun 1663 and 27 Sep 1663

Notes:

Emigrated 1630; first at Weymouth, then in Marshfield 1648.

Richard married Naomi before 1633. Naomi died before 26 Nov 1668. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1595

Notes:

He was a tanner. Emigrated in 1632; first at Plymouth, then to Scituate in 1633.

Humphrey married Lydia Gaymer on 24 Oct 1618 in Sandon, Essex, England. Lydia (daughter of Richard Gaymer and Margaret Mason) was born before 18 May 1602; was christened on 18 May 1602 in Terling, Essex, England; died between 23 Jul 1669 and 28 Feb 1670 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From "Lydia Gaymer, the Wife of Humphrey Turner of Scituate" [citation details below]:

Lydia was an infant when her mother died. She was about eleven years old at the death of her father, who in his will gave her part of a tenement called the Angell (located in Ockendon Fee, one of the five manors of Terling).

Lydia Gaymer and Humphrey Turner were married in the parish of Sandon. No evidence has been found that they lived there, but a quote from The Essex Village Book [Chelmsford: Federation of Essex Women's Institutes, 1988, p. 139] may explain why they chose to be married in Sandon:

Runaway brides in the 17th century did not all have to dash to faraway Scotland in order to obtain a quick wedding as the rector of Sandon, the Reverend Gilbert Dillingham, was only too ready to oblige. As news of his willingness and cooperation spread through and beyond the county, weddings at Sandon, which had averaged four per year, increased enormously. Between 1615 and 1635 the Reverend Dillingham married no fewer than 511 couples, including a daughter of the rector of Chelmsford, using an assumed surname, as apparently did lots of others. The parson undoubtedly grew fat on the wedding fees.

Notes:

He moved with his family to Leiden, Holland in 1608, where he became a merchant and a ribbon maker. Unlike his brothers Love and Wrestling, he stayed behind when the Mayflower sailed; he arrived at Cape Cod on the Fortune in November 1621. In 1630 he and his family moved to Duxbury, where he became a trader, working the coast as far south as Virginia. In 1635-36 he was in Windsor, Connecticut. In 1649 he settled in the New London area, where he spent the rest of his life.

From Kristen Wands, at the Windsor Historical Society site:

During his time in Windsor, Brewster began corresponding with John Winthrop, Jr., with whom he shared an interest in alchemy. Brewster had an alchemical laboratory in his home at Brewster's Neck. In 1656, he believed he was close to discovering the universal cure, a common goal among alchemists. He shared the progress of his experiments with Winthrop, saying, "I ffeare I shall not live to see it finished, in regard partly of the Indianes, who I feare will raise warres; and also I have a conceite that God sees me not worthy of a blessing by reason of my manifold miscariadges." Brewster worried not only that his life might be in jeopardy, but also that some accident would upset his experiments, which needed to sit undisturbed for years at a time. Typically Puritan, he worried that he was not Christian enough to receive the divine alchemical secrets he sought. Writing that he trusted Winthrop with his research more than his own children, Brewster promised he would "shortly write all the whole worke in few words, plainly ... & sealle it vp in a littel box, & subscribe it to your selfe... that if it please God I should suddainly be taken away, you may call for it." Ultimately, it appears Brewster's experiments were unsuccessful. His letters to Winthrop, however, provide a fascinating window into the minds of our New England forefathers.

While Jonathan Brewster's encounters with Native Americans do not seem to have affected his alchemy, later events suggest he was right to be nervous about his family's safety. In early March of 1659, while Brewster was away in Hartford, "12 [Narragansett] Indians came suddainly out of the bushes" surrounding Brewster's farm, and ran toward Mrs. Brewster, who was working in a field with one Mohegan and two English servants. Seemingly to shield her from the attack, the Mohegan ran toward "Mrs. Brewster, and held fast about hir, the other Indians pulled him by force from hir and presently killed him and cutt of his hand and fledd away." Apparently, the Narragansetts were upset that Brewster had been supplying his Mohegan allies with firearms, and the attack, which resulted in the death of the Mohegan servant, was in retaliation. Though no member of Brewster's family was physically harmed, the incident was a tremendous fright to all of the English settlers in the region.

When Brewster's death came, it was the result of an illness rather than an act of violence. He passed away in August of 1659, at 66 years of age. He was buried in Brewster's Neck Cemetery, which is all that remains of the family's home and trading post there.

Jonathan Brewster (1593-1659) = Lucretia Oldham (1600-1678)
Benjamin Brewster (1633=1710) = Ann Addis (1628-1709)
William Brewster (1669-1728) = Patience (d. 1740)
Patience Brewster (b. 1699) = Matthew Dewolfe (1697-1783)
Edward Dewolfe (1735-1790) = Elizabeth (d. 1787)
Edward Dewolfe (1768-1835) = Sarah Bill (1768-1854)
Charles De Wolf (1794-1870) = Betsy Putnam (1794-1881)
John Archelous De Wolf (1833-1901) = Louise Doty (1835-1879)
Ida Corinne De Wolf (1863-1944) = LaFayette Waterbury (1864-1931)
Ledora May Waterbury (1885-1959) = Harry Ross Hubbard (1886-1975)
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (1911-1986)

Jonathan married Lucretia Oldham on 10 Apr 1624 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Lucretia (daughter of William Oldham and Phillipa Sowter) was born before 14 Jan 1601; was christened on 14 Jan 1601 in All Saints, Derby, Derbyshire, England; died on 4 Mar 1679 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptised: 14 Jan 1600, All Saints, Derby, Derbyshire, England
• Baptised: 4 Jan 1601, All Saints, Derby, Derbyshire, England