Eleanor

Family/Spouse: William Rogers. William (son of William Rogers and Joan) was born about 1540 in of Watford, Northamptonshire, England; died before 4 Aug 1585; was buried on 4 Aug 1585 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1571, Watford, Northamptonshire, England
• Alternate birth: Abt 1572, Watford, Northamptonshire, England
• Alternate death: Between 1620 and 1621, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

Arrived in New England in 1620 on the Mayflower; died in the first sickness.

He was a camlet merchant; i.e., a trader in the kind of heavy cloth used in, for instance, cloaks. On 25 Jun 1618 he was admitted as a citizen of Leiden, not a distinction achieved by most of the English Separatists living there. Prior to his voyage on the Mayflower, on 1 Apr 1620 he sold his house on the Barbarasteeg to one Mordecai Cohen for 300 guilders.

Thomas married Alice Cosford on 24 Oct 1597 in Watford, Northamptonshire, England. Alice (daughter of George Cosford and Margaret) was born before 10 May 1573; was christened on 10 May 1573 in Watford, Northamptonshire, England; died after 1629 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Hannah before 1633. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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]

Joseph married Susanna Deane on 4 Apr 1660 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Susanna (daughter of Stephen Deane and Elizabeth Ring) was born about 1634 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died before Apr 1701 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1641

Abigail married John Richmond between 1662 and 1663. John (son of John Richmond) was born about 1627; died on 7 Oct 1715 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts; was buried in Summer Street Cemetery, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Samuel Bradford on 31 Jul 1689 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony. Samuel (son of William Bradford and Alice Richards) was born in 1668 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony; died on 11 Apr 1714 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1672
• Alternate death: 21 Oct 1724, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island

Elizabeth married Col. Sylvester Richmond about 1693. Sylvester (son of Edward Richmond, Attorney General of Rhode Island and Abigail Davis) was born in 1672 in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island; was christened on 3 Nov 1700 in First Congregational Church, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island; died on 20 Nov 1754 in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 26 Feb 1671, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts

Sarah married James Walker on 6 Oct 1699 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts. James (son of James Walker and Bethsheba Brooks) was born on 23 Jan 1675; died on 12 Sep 1749 in Taunton, Bristol, 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]

Notes:

He was an assistant to the governor from 1753 to 1755. He was a judge, and according to Little Compton Families (citation details below), he was instrumental in securing the Rhode Island border that ensured Little Compton was inside Rhode Island.

William married Anna Gray on 8 Jul 1724 in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island. Anna (daughter of Dr. Thomas Gray and Anna Little) was born on 29 Jan 1702 in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island; died on 9 Oct 1762 in Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1707

Elnathan married Bethiah Tisdale before 1732. Bethiah (daughter of Joseph Tisdale and Ruth Reed) was born about 1710; died on 11 May 1759 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts; was buried in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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:

"He settled with his family in Little Compton in 1743, and his first three children were baptized there. He had a slave who was a hatter, who would go to Providence and work there at his trade. The slave helped to support his owner in his old age." [Little Compton Families, citation details below.]

The entry for him in Little Compton Families, which calls him "Ephraim William Richmond", calls him a son rather than a grandson of Sylvester Williams and Elizabeth Rogers. But the entry for Judge William Richmond and his wife Anna Gray, including the passages quoted from William Richmond's will, makes it clear that Ephraim was their son, not Sylvester's.

Unreconciled is the fact that Little Compton Families says that Ephraim Richmond was born 5 May 1723 and that his father William Richmond and his mother Anna Gray married on 8 Jul 1724.

Ephraim married Elizabeth Cook on 19 Jan 1744. Elizabeth (daughter of John Cook and Alice Southworth) died in Apr 1797 in Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Phoebe married Alden Sears on 29 Dec 1769 in Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts. Alden (son of Judah Sears and Mary Paddock) was born on 24 Feb 1739 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts; was christened on 1 Apr 1739 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 25 Mar 1803 in Bristol, Ontario, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Feb 1746, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island

Notes:

In about 1796, widowed, she came with the Rev. John Smith and a group including all six of her sons to Bristol in Ontario County, New York.

Lillis married Rev. David Simmons on 2 Nov 1768 in Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts. David (son of Constant Simmons and Lydia Phillips) was born on 28 Jun 1748 in Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 7 Jun 1786 in Drowned in the Taunton River, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Richmond Simmons on 22 Dec 1799 in Bristol, Ontario, New York. Richmond (son of Rev. David Simmons and Lillis Richmond) was born on 1 May 1773 in Massachusetts; died on 26 Jan 1845 in Bristol, Ontario, New York; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Bristol Center, Ontario, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]