Sarah Bates

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• Alternate death: Aft 24 Jul 1715

Sarah married Benjamin Butterfield on 16 Feb 1697 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Benjamin (son of Nathan Butterfield and Deborah Underwood) was born in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 24 Jul 1715 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Capt. John Butterfield was born on 12 Jan 1698 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 8 Jan 1766 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

Notes:

He was a cooper. His will mentions his daughter Sarah Butterfield.

John married Mary Farwell on 22 Dec 1665 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Deacon Henry Farwell and Olive Welby) was born about 1643 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 7 Mar 1714 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Notes:

Arrived in 1633 and settled at Boston.

Edward married Lydia before 1641. Lydia was born about 1620; died on 12 Oct 1704 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"There is no direct evidence for the conclusion that the widow of Edward Bates was the Lydia Bates who married William Fletcher, but the circumstances make it a high probability: the last record of Edward Bates is in 1644, and the marriage of Lydia Bates takes place in 1645; and John Bates, presented to the Chelmsford church on 1 February 1656/7 as a child of William Fletcher, was said to be about fifteen at the time, which is exactly what the John Bates baptized in Boston as a son of Edward Bates would be." [Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, volume 1, p. 132]

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• Alternate death: 1 Aug 1670, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Notes:

J. R. Hutchinson, 1922, quoted in The Farwell Family: "'Serjeant of the Mace' of Boston, Lincolnshire, 24 Dec 1635. Resigned the office 29 Dec 1635. [...] The office of Serjeant at Mace was one that could only be held by freemen of the Borough, yet, so far as the Minute Books go, we find no record of his admission to his freedom. This is probably due to some inaccuracy or defect in the indexes which can only be remedied by a thorough search of the Minute Books themselves—a search I was unable to obtain facilities for on the occasion of my visit to Boston."

Also from The Farwell Family: "Henry Farwell came to New England, with his wife and two children about the year 1636. He settled first in Concord, where he lived until about 1655, when he became a resident of Chelmsford. He was Deacon of the church in Chelmsford. He died Aug. 1, 1670, in Chelmsford and the record states that he died 'suddenly.'"

Posted by me (Patrick Nielsen Hayden) to soc.medieval.genealogy, 29 Aug 2014, in response to Leo Van de Pas:

"Possibly because his wife Olive Welby is such a well-documented gateway ancestor, there seem to be a lot of spurious ancestries for Deacon Henry Farwell out there. In fact, as far as I can tell, we know only his father: William Farwell, of (but probably not born in) Boston, Lincolnshire, who died in 1637.

"The substantially fruitless results of a lot of searching for further Farwell ancestry are documented in The Farwell Family: A History of Henry Farwell and His Wife Olive (Welby) Farwell of Boston, England, and Concord and Chelmsford, Mass., based on the records of John Dennis Farwell and "completed and compiled" by Jane Harter Abbott and Lillian May Wilson (Orange, TX: F. H. Farwell and F. B. Farwell, 1929), which can be read online.

"It contains transcriptions of William Farwell's will and of the pertinent parish records of Boston, Lincolnshire. It appears that William married, as his second wife, a Joan Cole who died in 1642, but she wasn't the mother of Deacon Henry Farwell."

Deacon married Olive Welby on 16 Apr 1629 in St. Botolph's, Boston, Lincolnshire, England. Olive (daughter of Richard Welby and Frances Bulkeley) was born before 17 Jun 1604 in Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England; was christened on 17 Jun 1604 in Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England; died on 1 Mar 1692 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of Teresa's four proven "gateway ancestors", one of DK's three, and UKL's one.

Emigrated to from Lincolnshire to Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband Henry Farwell, about 1636. [Royal Ancestry]

Her descendants include Katherine Hepburn, Mitt Romney, Damon Knight, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle.

Henry Farwell (1605-1670 )= Olive Welby (1604-1692)
Mary Farwell (1643- 1714) = John Bates (1642-1722)
Mary Bates = Josiah Cleveland
Joseph Cleveland = Deborah Butterfield
Bridget Cleveland = Nathaniel Cogswell
William Cogswell = Mary Brewster
William Henry Cogswell = Lucretia Anne Payne
Annie Payne Cogswell = William Lyon Pynchon
William Henry Chichele Pynchon (b. 1867 = Carrie Susan Moyses
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon IV (1909-1995) = Katherine Frances Bennett (1909-1966)
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon V (1937- )

Olive Welby (1604-1692) = Henry Farwell (1605-1670)
Olive Farwell (b. 1645) = Benjamin Spalding (b. 1643)
Edward Spalding (1672-1739) = Mary Adams (d. 1754)
Ephraim Spalding (b. 1700) = Abigail Bullard (b. 1708)
Oliver Spalding (1739-1796) = Mary Witter (1740-1781)
Erastus Spalding (1775-1830) = Jennet Mack (d. 1836)
Martha Ann Spalding (1818-1882) = Leman Benton Garlinghouse (1814-1872)
Caroline Garlinghouse (1856-1894) = Alfred Augustus Houghton (1851-1892)
Katharine Martha Houghton (1878-1951) = Thomas Norval Hepburn (1879-1962)
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1909-2003)

Notes:

Freeman of Boston, Lincolnshire, 19 May 1620.

"Serjeant of the Mace" of Boston, Lincolnshire, 28 Jun 1631. Declined the office "by reason of his owne bodely infermetyes" 30 June 1631.

William married Joan on 17 Jul 1604 in St. Botolph's, Boston, Lincolnshire, England. Joan died before 17 Jul 1617. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The transcribed marriage record reads "Joan COLE" and calls her "widdow."

Richard married Frances Bulkeley on 4 Jun 1595 in Whaplode, Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England. Frances (daughter of Dr. Rev. Edward Bulkeley, D.D. and Olive Irby) was born about 1568; died before 7 Jun 1610 in Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England; was buried on 7 Jun 1610 in Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1 Jan 1568, Odell, Bedfordshire, England