Alexander Mering

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

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Nottinghamshire, May 1421, 1425, and 1442.

Family/Spouse: Millicent Beckering. Millicent (daughter of John Beckering) died in 1419. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Nevill. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Basset. Thomas (son of John Basset and Joan Brailsford) was born in of Brailsford, Derbyshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef Aug 1408

Notes:

She was initially buried at Ratcliffe-upon-Soar in Nottinghamshire, but later reburied beside her husband in the Lady Chapel of the collegiate church of Newark in Leicester.

Family/Spouse: Ralph Shirley. Ralph (son of Hugh Shirley and Beatrice Brewes) was born on 23 Apr 1391 in of Lower Ettington, Warwickshire, England; died about 1443 in France; was buried in Collegiate Church of Newark, Leicester, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Brome. John (son of John Brome and Jane Rody) was born before Aug 1406 in of Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire, England; died about 5 Nov 1468 in London, England; was buried in Whitefriars, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Philip Purefoy. Philip (son of William Purefoy and Margery Moton) was born in 1442; died on 16 Sep 1468. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married John Denton before 1472. John (son of Thomas Denton and Alice Dauntsey) was born in of Wytham, Oxfordshire, England; died between 6 Sep 1493 and 17 Nov 1497. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1450, of Brome, Warwickshire, England
• Alternate death: 10 Oct 1517

Notes:

Also called Nicholas Brown. Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire, 1504-05.

See the entry for his father for his part in a revenge tragedy.

Nicholas married Dorothy Arundell about 20 Sep 1473. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nicholas married Katherine Lampeck after Jul 1496. Katherine died after Jan 1507. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Nicholas Purefoy before 1494. Nicholas (son of John Purefoy) was born after 1470 in of Daventry, Northamptonshire, England; died on 18 Feb 1547 in Shalstone, Buckinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edward Greville. Edward (son of John Greville and Jane Forster) was born in of Milcote-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England; died on 22 Jun 1528. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Constance married Edward Ferrers between 1 Oct 1497 and 17 Oct 1503. Edward (son of Henry Ferrers and Margaret Hexstall) was born in 1468 in Peckham, Kent, England; died on 29 Aug 1535 in Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire, England; was buried in Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Thomas Hawes in 1527. Thomas (son of Thomas Hawes and Joan Rainsford) was born in of Edlicote, Warwickshire, England; died before 12 Jun 1574; was buried on 12 Jun 1574 in St. Clement's, Solihull, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anne Fettiplace. Anne (daughter of Richard Fettiplace and Elizabeth Bessiles) was born on 16 Jul 1496 in Shelford Parva, Cambridgeshire, England; died on 3 Aug 1568. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Beauchamp's Court, Warwickshire, England

Fulk married Elizabeth Willoughby before 11 Apr 1526. Elizabeth (daughter of Edward Willoughby and Margaret Neville) was born about 1512; died before 15 Nov 1562; was buried on 15 Nov 1562 in Alcester, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Valentine Knightley. Valentine (son of Richard Knightley and Joan Skennard) died on 8 Mar 1566 in Fawsley, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Constance married Thomas Sheppard before 1545. Thomas (son of William Sheppard and Alice) was born about 1515 in of Maulden, Bedfordshire, England; died between 20 Jan 1562 and 4 Mar 1564. [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]

Family/Spouse: Giles Reade. Giles (son of William Reade and Katherine Rowdon) was born about 1541 in of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England; died in 1611; was buried in Bredon, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Shukburgh. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Amphyllis Chamberlain alias Spicer on 7 Oct 1577 in Maulden, Bedfordshire, England. Amphyllis (daughter of William Chamberlain alias Spicer and Jane Neville) died before 17 Jan 1611; was buried on 17 Jan 1611 in Maulden, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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]

Elizabeth married Richard Brent in 1594. Richard (son of Richard Brent and Mary Hugford) was born in of Larkstoke in Ilmington, Gloucestershire, England; died before 1 May 1652; was buried on 1 May 1652 in St. Mary's, Ilmington, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jane Littleton. Jane (daughter of Edward Littleton and Margaret Devereux) was born about 1587; died in Aug 1657; was buried on 3 Sep 1657 in Fawsley, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Constance married Edmund Bressey on 29 Dec 1595 in Maulden, Bedfordshire, England. Edmund (son of Edmund Bressey and Lucretia Anderson) was born before 16 Dec 1568; was christened on 16 Dec 1568 in St. Dionis Backchurch, Langbourn, London, England; died before 4 Nov 1617; was buried on 4 Nov 1617 in Wootton, Bedfordshire, England. [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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 31 Aug 1671 and 15 Feb 1672

Notes:

At Jamestown 23 May 1625; removed to Maryland in 1638. Member of the Provincial Council, 1638-44, and of the Maryland Assembly, 1639, 1641, 1642, and 1648. Acting Governor and Lieutenant-General of Maryland, 1643-44.

“A band of Parliamentarians led by Richard Ingle and William Claiborne attacked St. Mary’s City on February 14, 1644/5, and carried Giles Brent, Father Andrew White, and others in chains to England. Upon his arrival in London, Giles brought suit against his captors and returned to Maryland before June 19, 1647.” [Roberta Estes, citation details below.]

Giles married Mary Kittamaquund before 9 Jan 1645. Mary (daughter of Kittamaquund, Tapac of the Piscataway) was born about 1631 in Maryland; was christened after 15 Feb 1641; died between 18 Apr 1654 and 4 Sep 1655. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Anne Peyton after 1635. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was previously married to a man named Gastrell.

Jane married Peregrine Gastrell on 21 Mar 1632 in Fawsley, Northamptonshire, England. Peregrine was born in of East Garston, Berkshire, England; died before Oct 1644. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married Rev. John Tompson on 1 Oct 1644 in Fawsley, Northamptonshire, England. John (son of John Tompson and Sarah Mills) was born on 1 Oct 1611; died before 27 Jun 1667; was buried on 27 Jun 1667 in Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 11 May 1646, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
• Alternate death: Bef 1648, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut

Notes:

He was a linen draper in London, a member of the Fishmonger's Company. Emigrated to New England 1634, first at Ipswich and then at Newport, 1640, and New Haven, 1647.

One of DDB's six proven "gateway ancestors."

Thomas married Phebe Bisby on 4 Aug 1631 in St. Lawrence Jewry, London, England. Phebe (daughter of William Bisby and Raberge) was born before 25 Aug 1611; was christened on 25 Aug 1611 in St. Lawrence Jewry, London, England; died after 6 Dec 1683. [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]

Notes:

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]

Notes:

For DNA evidence that Mary Brent married Charles Beaven and that their descendants carry DNA indicating descent from Mary Kittamaquund, see Daughters of Princess Mary Kittamaquund by Shawn Henry Potter and Lois Carol Potter.

Mary married Charles Beaven about 1674. Charles died between 20 Jun 1698 and 21 Jun 1699 in Prince George's County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Mary Sewall on 27 Mar 1687. Mary (daughter of Henry Sewall and Jane Lowe) was born between 1658 and 1659; died on 12 Mar 1694. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Phebe married Joseph Dickinson before 26 Apr 1661. Joseph (son of Nathaniel Dickinson and Ann) was born before 10 Oct 1630; was christened on 10 Oct 1630 in Billingborough, Lincolnshire, England; died on 4 Sep 1675. [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]

Notes:

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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1645

Notes:

"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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut

Notes:

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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1679, Calvert County, Maryland
• Alternate death: Aft 1749

Sarah married Thomas Blandford on 20 Jun 1698. Thomas was born about 1678. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Roswell Neale. Roswell (son of Anthony Neale and Elizabeth Roswell) died between 24 Mar 1751 and 1 May 1751. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hannah White. Hannah (daughter of Daniel White and Sarah Crow) was born in Sep 1679 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [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]

Notes:

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]

Notes:

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: Elizabeth Hagen. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

Removed from Hatfield to School Meadows in Hadley, then about 1748 to Amherst.

Jonathan married Mary Smith on 2 Apr 1724. Mary (daughter of Nathaniel Smith and Mary Dickinson) was born on 11 Dec 1700; died on 10 Apr 1763 in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

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]

Family/Spouse: Benjamin Hagan. Benjamin was born in 1721 in Charles County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 28 Mar 1815

Noah married Mary Dickinson on 28 Apr 1757. Mary (daughter of Deacon Ebenezer Dickinson and Sarah Kellogg) was born about 1737 in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died on 1 Jun 1791. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Grout, Jr.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His wife's name is not known but is said to have been Mary.

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

There is no doubt that he is the Samuel Hazen of Woodbury who sold a dwelling house standing a little west of the Eight-mile Brook, 16 Nov. 1781, but there is no evidence as to how long he had been in Woodbury. He bought six acres at Kettletown, Southbury Parish, in 1787, and sold it 31 May 1790. The census of 1790 gives in the family of Samuel Hazen of Southbury, separated from Woodbury in 1787, four boys under sixteen and three females, one doubtless his wife.

There is a tradition that he was a soldier under Washington in the Revolution, that he spelled his name with two z's, and that he was too lazy to write the two z's and only used one commonly.

He moved from Connecticut to Sussex County, New Jersey, it is said, when his son Ithamar was twelve years old or about 1794.

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

Family/Spouse: Lemuel Dickinson. Lemuel (son of Col. John Dickinson and Mary Coleman) was born in 1753 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died in 1835 in Denmark, Lewis, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin married Nancy Ann Cissell on 17 Aug 1804 in Nelson County, Kentucky. Nancy was born in 1788 in St. Mary's County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Maj. Gen. Ebenezer Mattoon on 7 Jul 1779. Ebenezer (son of Ebenezer Mattoon and Dorothy Smith) was born on 19 Aug 1755 in North Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts; was christened on 24 Aug 1755; died on 11 Sep 1843 in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts; was buried in West Cemetery, Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jacob Winn, III. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"They lived near Branchville, Sussex Co., N. J. Samuel Hazen, Jr., and his wife Elizabeth sold land there 5 Oct. 1812. Soon after, they moved to Owl Creek, Knox Co., Ohio, but finally settled at Gilead, Marion Co. He removed to Kosciusco Co., Ind., where his son Ziba was living. He was a gunsmith by trade and a great hunter." [The Hazen Family in America, citation details below]

Samuel married Elizabeth DeWitt on 3 Apr 1802 in Frankford, Sussex, New Jersey. Elizabeth (daughter of Isaac DeWitt and Jerusha Price) was born on 18 Mar 1775 in Frankford, Sussex, New Jersey; died on 26 Aug 1850 in Mt. Gilead, Morrow, Ohio; was buried in Rivercliff Cemetery, Mt. Gilead, Morrow, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Owner of the first steamboat to run the St. Lawrence rapids.

Horace married Mercy Amelia Bigelow on 12 May 1823. Mercy (daughter of Abijah Bigelow and Mercy Amelia Spring) was born on 4 Oct 1794 in Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died in 1880. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Amazingly enough, she was a descendant of Edward III (by two of his sons, John of Gaunt and Thomas of Woodstock), and also of Kittamaquund, Tapac of the Piscataway.

Barbara married Charles C. Clayton on 21 Apr 1830 in Bardstown, Nelson, Kentucky. Charles (son of Joseph Clayton and Eleanor Cole) was born on 2 Feb 1802 in Nelson County, Kentucky; died on 16 Nov 1874 in Daviess County, Kentucky; was buried in 1874 in St. Alphonsus Church, St. Joseph, Daviess, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Daniel Dwight on 24 Dec 1809. Daniel (son of Capt. Justus Dwight and Sarah Lamb) was born on 7 Sep 1775; died on 5 Nov 1851 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Sherwood. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He moved from Mt. Gilead, Morrow County, Ohio to Etna Green, Kosciusko County, Indiana in 1852.

Ziba married Mary Catherine Harshner in 1833. Mary (daughter of John Harshner and Catharine Rule) was born on 10 Mar 1816 in Pennsylvania; died on 26 Jul 1868 in Etna Green, Kosciusko, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ellen married William Edwards Doubleday on 1 Oct 1850. William (son of Col. John Tilden Doubleday and Mary Elizabeth Whiting) was born on 1 May 1823; died on 4 Mar 1900 in New York, New York; was buried on 6 Mar 1900 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts

Martha married Elizur Wolcott on 15 Jul 1846. Elizur (son of Elihu Wolcott and Rachel McClintock McClure) was born on 7 Aug 1817; died in Mar 1901 in Berkeley, Alameda, California; was buried in Diamond Grove Cemetery, Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Minthorn. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 5 Feb 1937, Wayne Township, Kosciusko, Indiana

Notes:

Called "Miranda Hasemen" on her daughter Millie's death certificate. Jacobus (citation details below) spells her first name Miranda.

Maranda married Isaac Calvin Gaskill on 16 Jun 1875 in Millwood, Kosciusko, Indiana. Isaac (son of John Pinic Gaskill and Anna Shively) was born on 20 Apr 1855 in Etna Green, Kosciusko, Indiana; died on 20 Apr 1908 in Etna Green, Kosciusko, Indiana; was buried in Stony Point Cemetery, Clunette, Kosciusko, Indiana. [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:

Called in many sources May Matoon Wolcott. According to a letter from John Dyer-Bennet to his sister Miriam, 3 Dec 1975, her given name was actually Mary. She attended Wellesley as a member of the class of 1885, but did not graduate.

Her ashes were interred with those of her father.

Mary married Edward Bull Clapp on 22 Dec 1886 in Morgan, Illinois. Edward (son of Rev. Charles Wells Clapp and Jane Pray Bassett) was born on 14 Apr 1856 in Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 6 Feb 1919 in Berkeley, Alameda, California; was buried in Godfrey Cemetery, Godfrey, Madison, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Theodore married Mary Wasley on 4 Jan 1842 in Yonge Street, Ontario. Mary (daughter of Henry Wasley and Ann Toole) was born in Nov 1818 in Yonge Street, Ontario; died on 11 Jun 1903 in Newberg, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Jacobus (citation details below) calls her Mellie Magdalena Gaskill.

Mellie married George Daniel Harley on 22 Feb 1906 in Bourbon, Marshall, Indiana. George (son of Abraham Theodore Harley and Sophia Elva Swihart) was born on 6 Apr 1883 in Argos, Marshall, Indiana; died on 1 Apr 1952 in Milford, Kosciusko, Indiana; was buried in Stony Point Cemetery, Clunette, Kosciusko, Indiana. [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: 10 Oct 1890, Illinois

Miriam married Maj. Richard Stewart Dyer-Bennet on 17 Feb 1912 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England, and was divorced in 1955. Richard (son of Frederick Stewart Hotham Dyer and Adelaide Annie Taylor) was born on 6 Oct 1886 in The Lyons, Enville, Staffordshire, England; was christened in Enville, Staffordshire, England; died in 1983. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Huldah married Jesse Clark Hoover on 12 May 1870 in Iowa. Jesse was born on 2 Sep 1849 in Stillwater, Ohio; died on 13 Dec 1880 in West Branch, Johnson, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of South Whitley, Whitley County, Indiana
• Alternate birth: Abt 1911, Indiana

Milo married Esther Delila Snider on 27 Mar 1932. Esther (daughter of Rev. George Austin Snider and Minnie Margaret Weaver) was born on 30 Mar 1912 in Lima, Allen, Ohio; died on 28 Jun 1970 in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana; was buried on 1 Jul 1970 in Oaklawn Cemetery, North Manchester, Wabash, Indiana. [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]

Notes:

From Britannica.com (accessed 11 Sep 2020):

Richard Dyer-Bennet, (born October 6, 1913, Leicester, Leicestershire, England—died December 14, 1991, Monterey, Massachusetts, U.S.), British-born American tenor and guitarist who helped to revive the popularity of folk music through his concert performances, recordings, compositions, and teaching.

Though born in England, Dyer-Bennet grew up in Canada and California and attended the University of California at Berkeley (1932–35), where he studied English and music. (He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1935.) After visiting Swedish folklorist Sven Scholander in 1935, Dyer-Bennet adopted Scholander’s trinity of song interpretation—poetry, melody, and lute accompaniment. In 1944, though, he switched to the Spanish guitar and gave the first of what would become annual solo concerts at New York City’s Town Hall; the impresario Sol Hurok signed him for national and foreign tours for many years. He gained a cult following with his approximately 800 songs (including about 100 of his own composition) that ranged through British and French ballads, European medieval songs, Swedish shepherd tunes, and American cowboy songs. Curiously, though identified as a folk singer, he preferred the label minstrel or troubadour.

Dyer-Bennet stopped giving concerts after a stroke in 1972 limited use of his left hand. From 1970 to 1983 he taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

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One of DDB's six proven "gateway ancestors." DDB is unique in this database in that one of his gateway ancestors is a parent.

John married Mary Abby Randall on 14 Jun 1951 in San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Mary (daughter of George Burdett Randall and Hester Worth) was born on 24 Nov 1923 in Los Angeles, California; died on 31 Aug 2012 in Northfield, Rice, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

31st President of the United States (1929-1933).

Family/Spouse: William Darrell Ford. William (son of John William Ford and Bessie Iris "Bea" Austin) was born on 23 Dec 1931 in Whiting, Lake, Indiana; died on 17 Mar 2003 in Avon Park, Highlands, Florida; was buried in Sunnyside Cemetery, Beaver Dam, Ohio, Kentucky. [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]

Notes:

Heir apparent to the Swinnerton-Dyer baronetcy, most recently held by Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, who died 26 Dec 2018.

Family/Spouse: Lydia Drew Nickerson. Lydia (daughter of Ronald Whitman Nickerson and Lorna Mae Nickerson) was born on 24 May 1962 in New Castle, Lawrence, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married Pamela Collins Dean on 30 Dec 1982 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Pamela was born on 18 Jan 1953 in Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 24 Sep 2006, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota