Robert Tibetot

Notes:

Summoned to Parliament by writs 24 Feb 1368 to 8 Jan 1370.

Died "apparently in Gascony," as multiple sources put it.

He and his wife Margaret Deincourt were the in-laws of the famous Sir John Fastolf, through their daughter Milicent.

Robert married Margaret Deincourt before 5 Jun 1348. Margaret (daughter of William Deincourt and Millicent la Zouche) died on 2 Apr 1380 in Oxendon, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1371, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

Notes:

Or Tybotot, or Tiptoft.

Elizabeth married Philip le Despenser before 23 Nov 1385. Philip (son of Philip le Despenser and Elizabeth) was born about 1365 in of Goxhill, Glanford Brigg, Lincolnshire, England; died on 20 Jun 1424. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Roger le Scrope before 23 Nov 1385. Roger (son of Richard le Scrope and Blanche de la Pole) was born before 1373; died on 3 Dec 1403; was buried in Easby Abbey, Richmond, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married John Niandser between 1405 and 1406. John died after Aug 1420. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Milicent married Stephen Scrope before 23 Nov 1385. Stephen (son of Richard le Scrope and Blanche de la Pole) died on 4 Sep 1408 in Castledermot, Kildare, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Milicent married John Fastolf on 13 Jan 1409 in Ireland. John (son of John Fastolf and Mary Park) was born about 1378 in of Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk, England; died on 6 Nov 1459; was buried in Abbey Church of St. Benet's-at-Holm, Horning, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margery married Roger Wentworth before 2 Mar 1423. Roger (son of John Wentworth and Agnes Dronsfield) was born in of Nettlestead, Bosmere, Suffolk, England; died on 24 Oct 1452. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was present at Agincourt, commanding a squadron of four barges and four balingers. He was also at the 1418-19 siege of Rouen.

Richard married Margaret Neville before 31 Dec 1413. Margaret (daughter of Ralph de Neville and Margaret Stafford) was born in 1396; died between 4 Mar 1463 and 3 Mar 1464; was buried in Church of the Austin Friars, Clare, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Family/Spouse: Robert Constable. Robert (son of Robert Constable and Agnes Gascoigne) was born in of Flamborough, Bridlington, Yorkshire, England; died on 23 May 1488. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Margaret married William Hopton about Apr 1451. William (son of John Hopton and Margaret Savile) died on 7 Feb 1485. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was beheaded by the Yorkists after the Battle of Hexham.

Family/Spouse: Mary Clifford. Mary (daughter of John Clifford and Elizabeth Percy) was buried in Friars Minor, Ipswich, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Summoned to Parliament by writs dated 3 Dec 1441 to 26 May 1455.

Henry married Elizabeth Scrope before 1436. Elizabeth (daughter of John le Scrope and Elizabeth Chaworth) died on 10 May 1504. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Wiltshire, 1492.

Family/Spouse: Margaret Wrottesley. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Tyrwhit. William (son of Robert Tyrwhit and Jane Waterton) was born about 1456 in of Kettleby, Lincolnshire, England; died on 9 Apr 1522; was buried in Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Eure. William (son of Ralph Eure and Eleanor Greystoke) was born in of Malton, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the Body to Henry VII. Sheriff of Staffordshire 1484-85, and of Yorkshire, 148081, 1488-89, 1493-94, 1509-10. Knight of the shire for York, 1495.

Fought at Bosworth. Commanded the left at Flodden Field. Died after accidentally drinking a glass of water with a live frog in it, thus disproving the widely-repeated saying that if you eat a live frog first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen to you all day.

Family/Spouse: Joyce Stafford. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margery married William Waldegrave before 1483. William was born about 1465 in of Smallbridge in Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, England; died on 30 Jun 1527; was buried in Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert Clere. Robert (son of Robert Clere and Elizabeth Uvedale) was born in of Ormesby, Norfolk, England; died on 10 Aug 1529; was buried in Ormesby St. Margaret, Ormesby, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 28 Apr 1479

Family/Spouse: Thomas Cotton. Thomas (son of William Cotton and Alice Abbott) was born in 1438; died on 30 Jul 1499. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Martin de la See. Martin (son of Brian de la See and Maud Monceaux) was born about 1420 in of Barmston, Yorkshire, England; died between 20 Nov 1494 and 15 Dec 1494; was buried in All Hallows, Barmston, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ann Saye. Ann (daughter of John Say and Elizabeth Cheyne) died after 25 Feb 1484. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Eleanor Washbourne. Eleanor (daughter of Norman Washbourne and Elizabeth Kniveton) died between 11 Dec 1505 and Jan 1506. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Family/Spouse: Henry Vyner. Henry (son of Thomas Vinar and Lucy) was born in of Castlecombe, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1519-20, 1523-4, 1540-1.

Entertained Henry VIII and his court in Kettleby on 8 and 9 Oct 1541. According to Notices and Remains of the Family of Tyrwhitt (citation details below), Tyrwhit "hanged the trees on the way from Kettleby to Brigg with carcases of sheep and beasts (oxen), to show that he could feed all comers."

He is said by some to have been a vice-admiral of England under Henry VIII, but as Robert Philip Tyrwhitt (citation details below) points out, he is more likely to have been one of many titular "vice-admirals" for a piece of his nearby Lincolnshire coast, a distinction shared by many armigerous men whose seats adjoined important pieces of coast.

According to Maddison's 1904 Lincolnshire Pedigrees, he and Maud Tailboys had a daughter Matilda who, according to William Addams Reitwiesner, was an ancestor of Camilla Parker-Bowles:

Robert Tyrwhit (~1482-1548) = Maud Tailboys
Matilda Tyrwhit = John Portington
John Portington (d. <1589) = Anne Langton
Joan Portington (d. 1608) = Ralph Rokeby (d. 1595)
Anne Rokeby (1593-~1624) = John Hotham (~1589-1644) (1)
Charles Hotham (1615-1672) = Elizabeth Thompson (d. 1685)
Charles Hotham (d. 1723) = Bridget Gee (1671-1707)
Beaumont Hotham (d. 1771) = Frances Thompson (d. 1771)
Beaumont Hotham (1737-1814) = Susannah Hankey (1737-1799)
Louisa Hotham (1778-1840) = Charles Edmonstone (1764-1821)
William Edmonstone (1810-1888) = Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1823-1902)
Alice Frederica Edmonstone (1869-1947) * = George Keppel (1865-1947)
Sonia Rosemary Keppel (1900-1986) = Roland Calvert Cubitt (1899-1962)
Rosalind Maud Cubitt (1921-1994) = Bruce Middleton Hope Shand (1917-1946)
Camilla Rosemary Shand (1947- ), = (1) Andrew Henry Parker Bowles (1939- ), = (2) HRH Prince Charles Philip Arthur George (1948- ), now Charles III, King of England

* She is known to have been a mistress of King Edward VII from 1898 forward.

Family/Spouse: Maud Tailboys. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Ralph Evers.

Ralph married Muriel Hastings on 18 Jan 1482. Muriel (daughter of Hugh Hastings and Anne Gascoigne) died before Jan 1516. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married John St. John before 1522. John (son of John St. John and Sibyl ferch Morgan ap Jenkin ap Philip) was born before 1495 in of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England; died on 19 Dec 1558. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Paston. Elizabeth (daughter of John Paston and Margery Brewse) died in 1539. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert Peyton. Robert (son of Thomas Peyton and Jane Calthorpe) was born in of Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England; died on 18 Mar 1518. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Joan de la See, Joan at See.

Jane married Peter Hildyard between 1480 and 1485. Peter (son of Robert Hildyard and Elizabeth Hastings) was born about 1460 in of Winestead, Yorkshire, England; died on 20 Mar 1502. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Seymour. John was born in of Wolfhall, Wiltshire, England; died on 21 Dec 1536; was buried in Easton Priory, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Wyndham. Thomas (son of John Wyndham and Margaret Howard) was born in of Felbrigg, Norfolk, England; died between 22 Oct 1521 and 4 Mar 1523. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard Thimbleby. Richard (son of John Thimbleby and Margaret Boys) was born about 1507 in of Irnham, Lincolnshire, England; died on 25 Sep 1590 in Irnham, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Esquire of the Body; Chamberlain at Berwick-upon-Tweed; Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1540-41; Gentleman of the Privy Chamber; Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire 1557-58; Knight of the shire for Lincolnshire 1545; Knight of the shire for Huntingdonshire 1554 and 1559.

Family/Spouse: Bridget Wiltshire. Bridget (daughter of John Wiltshire and Margaret) died after Jan 1534. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Elizabeth Oxenbridge between Apr 1538 and 4 Aug 1539. Elizabeth (daughter of Goddard Oxenbridge and Anne Fiennes) died before 28 Apr 1578 in St. John's Lane, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Elizabeth Willoughby about 1503. Elizabeth (daughter of Christopher Willoughby and Margaret Jenney) was born about 1483. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Gentleman waiter extraordinary in household of Prince Edward by 1547, member of the royal household 1547; Knight of the shire for Bedfordshire in 1547. Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire 1551-52. Created 1st Baron St. John of Bletso 13 Jan 1559.

Notes:

Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire 1526, 1535-36. Knight of the shire for Cambridgeshire. Groom of the Privy Chamber to Henry VIII.

Robert married Frances Hasilden in Jan 1516. Frances (daughter of Francis Hasilden and Elizabeth Calthorpe) died on 18 Mar 1582 in Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England; was buried in St. Andrew's, Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Dorothy Tyndall. Dorothy (daughter of John Tyndall and Amphyllis Coningsby) died after 18 Oct 1559. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Ralph Legard about 1520. Ralph (son of Robert Legard and Joan Haldenby) was born about 1490 in of Anlaby, Yorkshire, England; died on 30 Jun 1540. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anthony Oughtred. Anthony died in 1534. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Gregory Cromwell. Gregory (son of Thomas Cromwell and Elizabeth Wykes) died in 1551. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married Henry VIII, King of England on 30 May 1536 in Whitehall Palace, London, England. Henry (son of Henry VII, King of England and lord of Ireland and Elizabeth of York, Queen Consort of England) was born on 28 Jun 1491 in Greenwich, Kent, England; died on 28 Jan 1547 in Hampton Court Palace, Richmond upon Thames, London, England; was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was knighted at the coronation of Edward VI, February 1547.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Sydenham. Elizabeth (daughter of John Sydenham and Joan) died on 1 Jan 1571; was buried in St. Decuman's, Watchet, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1596

Mary married Erasmus Paston after 22 Oct 1521. Erasmus (son of William Paston and Bridget Heydon) was born before 1508; died before 6 Nov 1540; was buried on 6 Nov 1540 in Paston, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Thomas Welby on 20 Jul 1560 in Irnham, Lincolnshire, England. Thomas (son of Thomas Welby and Katherine Bray) was born in of Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England; died in 1570 in Bath, Somerset, England; was buried on 15 Feb 1571 in St. Peter's, Bath, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry Darcy. Henry (son of Arthur Darcy and Mary Carew) was born in of Brimham, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was slain in the Battle of Ancrum Moor, part of the 1542-51 War of the Rough Wooing.

Ralph married Margery Bowes before 1529. Margery (daughter of Ralph Bowes and Elizabeth Clifford) died after 1566. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Cambridgeshire.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Rich. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard Rich, Speaker of the House of Commons and Elizabeth Jenkes) died on 17 Oct 1591; was buried in Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"He served with distinction in the Irish Wars until the end of 1576, when he returned to England. [...] He served in the English army expedition in the Netherlands under the command of the Earl of Leicester in 1586. From this time he was in constant favor with Queen Elizabeth I. He was made Lieutenant of the Tower, and a member of the Queen's Privy Council. After Queen Elizabeth's death he was made Governor of Jersey by King James I." [Royal Ancestry, citation details below]

John married Dorothy Beaupré on 8 Jun 1578 in Outwell, Norfolk, England. Dorothy (daughter of Edmund Beaupré and Katherine Bedingfield) died in Feb 1603. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Joan Ledgard.

Joan married Richard Skepper after 4 Feb 1551. Richard (son of Richard Skepper and Audrey Grynne) was born about 1495 in of East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England; died after 26 May 1556. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Francis. John was born in of Combe Florey, Somerset, England; died before 25 Nov 1619; was buried on 25 Nov 1619 in Combe Florey, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1565-66.

“He played little part in national affairs but took a prominent role in the government and political life of his native county and was known as a careful administrator and a ‘just and painstaking magistrate’ [...] A supporter of Edmund Freake, bishop of Norwich (1575–84), Paston was involved in the bitter conflict between the bishop and the puritans for control of the chancellorship of the diocese in 1578. He was described by Bishop Scrambler as an ‘observer of law’ which has been taken to mean that his religious views were either conformist Church of England or impartial (Smith, 214). In 1597 he moved to the new house which his uncle, Sir Clement Paston, had built at Oxnead. Known for his liberality, hospitality and benefactions, Paston is chiefly remembered for the founding and endowment of North Walsham grammar school (the Paston School), in 1606.” [Oxford DNB, citation details below.]

As he lived through her entire reign, presumably he was aware that queen Elizabeth was his third cousin, both of them being great-great grandchildren of London mayor Geoffrey Boleyn and his wife Anne Hoo.

William married Frances Clere on 5 May 1551 in St. Margaret's, Paston, Norfolk, England. Frances (daughter of Thomas Clere and Ann Gyggs) was born in 1531; died in 1610. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Family/Spouse: Lancelot Mansfield. Lancelot was born about 1533 in of Skirpenbeck, Yorkshire, England; died after 20 Sep 1563. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Created a baronet by James I on 22 May 1611.

John married Alice Osborne on 29 Jun 1580 in St. Dionis Backchurch, Langbourn, London, England. Alice (daughter of Edward Osborne, Lord Mayor of London and Anne Hewitt) was born before 4 Mar 1563; was christened on 4 Mar 1563 in St. Dionis Backchurch, Langbourn, London, England; died between 29 Jan 1626 and 6 Dec 1626. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey. Admitted 1594 a Fellow Commoner of Queen's College, Cambridge.

"On the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, he was dispatched by his father to Edinburgh to assure King James I of his father's loyalty and that the Tower was being held at the king's disposal. The king received him with much distinction, and, recognizing his father's services, selected him as the first person on whom he bestowed knighthood." [Royal Ancestry, citation details below]

John married Alice Peyton on 25 Nov 1602 in Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England. Alice (daughter of John Peyton and Alice Osborne) died after 1637. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Mary Robinson on 11 Apr 1592 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. Mary died after 1630. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Christopher Anketell on 9 Aug 1573 in Combe Florey, Somerset, England. Christopher (son of Christopher Anketell and Elizabeth Phillips) was born in of Stow Provest, Dorset, England; died before 1 Aug 1628. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Anthony Cope on 7 Apr 1600. Anthony (son of Edward Cope and Elizabeth Mohun) was born between 1548 and 1550; died on 6 Jul 1614. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Probably he was the Thomas Welby who was Mayor of Boston, co. Lincoln, in 1643." [The Bulkeley Genealogy]

Thomas married Elizabeth Parke after 15 Feb 1620. Elizabeth was born in of Fleet, Lincolnshire, England. [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)

Olive married Deacon Henry Farwell on 16 Apr 1629 in St. Botolph's, Boston, Lincolnshire, England. Deacon (son of William Farwell and Joan) was born about 1605 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England; died on 1 Aug 1670 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of London, England

Notes:

Burgess (M.P.) for Beverley, Yorkshire. Queen's Surveyor. B.A., Peterhouse College, Cambridge, 1572-3.

He was described as a resident of London in 1582, but the 1587 pedigree attached to the grant of his father's crest called him "of Huton on Derwent", Yorkshire.

From Robert Charles Anderson, John C. Brandon, and Paul C. Reed, "The Ancestry of the Royally-Descended Mansfields of the Massachusetts Bay" (citation details below):

Cotton Mather, in his biography of the Rev. John Wilson, identifies the father of the immigrants as "Sir John Mansfield, master of the Minories, and the Queen's surveyor." This identification has always been troublesome, as it includes some inaccuracies. The immigrants' father was an "esquire," a step below the dignity of knighthood, but above gentleman. Evidence has been found, however, to confirm that John Mansfield was intimately involved with royal mining interests, and was Queen's surveyor -- at least in Yorkshire.

When Mather used the word "Minories," he must have intended the word "mineries," or mining operations. The 3rd Earl of Huntingdon held mines and lands in Dorsetshire, having purchased various mining interests from James, Lord Mountjoy. John Mansfield was the Earl's "servant, and at one stage his lessee of the Canford mines, near Poole, Dorset. Lord Mountjoy was heavily indebted to creditors, and various interrogatories were taken in May 1582 concerning his sale to Huntingdon. "John Mansfield, and W[illia]m Bird, all of London," were among men examined on behalf of the Earl on May 17, 21, 24, and 31, and June 1, 1582. "John Mansfield of London" was also examined on 14 or 15 June.

John Mansfeild, Clement Draper, and Richard Laycolte received lands, rents and liberties in Brownsea Island, Dorset, with the advowson, by permission of license dated 1 April 1581. John Mansfelde, Richard Laicolte, Clement Draper, and Edward Mead complained to the Privy Council on 4 January 1581 that Edward Lane [of Blackfriars, London, 1582], John Lane, and others had "wrongfullie dispossessed them of two their workehouses for allum and coppres, called Allam Chyne and Okemans in the countie of Dorset." The various examinations "touching matters in conroversie betwene John and Edward Lanes and John Mansfelde" were delivered to the servant of the Earl of Huntingdon on 27 May 1582. On 12 September 1592, Clement Draper wrote to the Queen, pleading that he had "been detained in prison 12 years against all right, by practice of the Earl of Huntingdon, John Mansfield, his deputy, and Richard Laycolt, who have taken away his goods, which, with other losses, amount to 10,000l; his good name, dearer to him than his life, is rooted out by their false reports." He further claimed that "Mansfield, for 4l., got a protection under the Great Seal to defraud him and others of their goods....The Earl, the better to defend his own quarrel against Lord Mountjoy, has got into his hands...the writer's [Draper's] deeds and writings concerning his estate in the mines, and detains them. The Earl, in May 1583, covenanted that the mines should be maintained and set to work." John Mansfeld/Mansfyeld, with Clement Draper, had brought suit against others in the Court of Star Chamber, but later John sued Clement Draper in Chancery.

John Mansfield's career in politics reached its pinacle in 1593, when he represented Beverley, Yorkshire, in Parliament. He is not known to have had personal connections at Beverley, so the seat was likely procured through the influence of his lord the Earl of Huntingdon or cousin Lord Eure. As one of the burgesses for Yorkshire boroughs, he was appointed to a committee on cloth 23 March and to another concerning weirs 28 March 1593. In 1597, by which time he was serving as a Justice of the Peace for the North Riding of Yorkshire, John Mansfield offered himself for election to Parliament at Scarborough, but though he was recommended to the bailiffs and burgesses by the Archbishop of York, and had the support of his prospective fellow burgess, Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby, his nomination was not accepted by the borough authorities.

Queen Elizabeth I on 8 February 1597/8 granted John Mansfield "the office of collector of the rents and revenues of the dissolved monastery of St. Mary's, York," and more importantly, "the surveyorship of the Queen's lands in the North Riding of Yorkshire." The Crown had extensive honours and holdings in Yorkshire. John Mansfield set about to prove his proficiency by making an unusually thorough and careful survey of the manor of Settington, Yorkshire, compiled between 17 and 21 March 1599/1600. Mansfield obviously took great pains in producing this detailed document, probably an attempt to demonstrate abilities superior to those of a rival who had received many benefits for little effort. John alluded to this in his plea to the Lord Treasurer in his introductory remarks to one copy of the survey:

It is my hard fortune whilest other men receyue great rewardes for small deserts I must hold my selfe happy not to be disgraced after good seruyce done. Good my Lord excuse me for thus writyng. I haue chosen to depend on your lordship onelye. When your lordship shall please to gyue me over I wilbegone as forsaken by all. I will equall my selfe to all in this[,] never any did nor shall performe more honest dutyes to your Lordship then I will.

The manor of Settrington had been granted to Matthew, Earl of Lenox, and his wife Margaret, in 1544, but was later returned to the Crown. John Mansfield, "Crown Surveyor," was ordered to make a survey of the manors of the late Margaret, Countess of Lennox. These documents are dated February 1600/1 to July 1601, when Mansfield died. He made the surveys as part of a northern tour, likely drawing up the results after his return to London.

Family/Spouse: Mary Hobson. Mary (daughter of William Hobson and Mary) died between 1587 and 3 Feb 1592. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elizabeth before 3 Feb 1592. Elizabeth died before 10 Feb 1634; was buried on 10 Feb 1634 in St. Michael Cornhill, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married John Peyton on 25 Nov 1602 in Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England. John (son of John Peyton and Dorothy Beaupré) was born about 1579 in of Doddington, Cambridgeshire, England; died between 24 Feb 1635 and 22 Apr 1635. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married George Brent after 1635. George (son of Richard Brent and Elizabeth Reade) was born in 1602 in of Defford, Worcestershire, England; died in 1671. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 1640 and 1650

Notes:

Emigrated to New England in 1639. One of AP's two proven gateway ancestors.

He was admitted a pensioner at Sidney College, Cambridge, 8 Jul 1612. He matriculated 1614, B.A., 1617-18. He was Rector of Thorpe by Wainfleete (Thorpe-in-the-Marsh) in 1630, a parish next to Wainfleet All Saints where his elder sister Mary had married the rector in 1622. He left Thorpe-in-the-Marsh sometime before Dec 1638, when John Watts is recorded as the vicar there, and is next seen in Boston, Lincolnshire, where he married his second wife Sarah Fisher. The exact date of his emigration to New England is unknown but it appears to have taken place in 1639. He did not subsequently live long there, but he is recorded there as having arranged for certain monies to be provided to his four older children.

His descendants include Calvin Coolidge, Roy Rogers (the actor and singer, not the guitarist), Tuesday Weld, and John Kerry.

Rev. William Skepper = Jane (first wife)
Jane Skepper = Abraham Browne
Jane Browne = Henry Lunt
Jane Lunt = Nathaniel Drake
Abraham Drake = Martha Eaton
Martha Drake = John Smith
John Smith = Mary "Polly" Mudgett
Mary Hussey Smith = Jacob Lee Merrill
George David Merrill = Mary Bird
Gertrude May Merrill = Frederick George Sanders
Doris May Sanders = Gordon Arnold Markle
Thomas Wayne Markle = Doria L. Ragland
Rachel Megan Markle (1981- ) = Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

William married Sarah Fisher on 17 Jan 1639 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married John Dodington on 6 Apr 1600 in Combe Florey, Somerset, England. John (son of George Dodington and Catherine Walsh) was born before 28 Dec 1573; was christened on 28 Dec 1573 in Dodington, Somerset, England; died before 16 Feb 1618; was buried on 16 Feb 1618 in Dodington, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Joseph Wildbore about 1651. Joseph died on 27 Aug 1691 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sarah Fiske. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Sarah Wheeler on 4 Nov 1658 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Sarah was born on 22 Jun 1640; died on 23 May 1662. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From The Farwell Family:

"He is buried in South Nashua, N. H. At the time of his death the town of Nashua, N. H., was a part of the old township of Dunstable, Mass. When the boundary dispute between Mass. and New Hampshire was settled this change in name was brought about. [...] Joseph Farwell is styled in the Old Dunstable records 'Ensign Farwell.' He was, immediately after his settlement in the town, employed in various offices in the town business. He was selectman in 1701, 2, 5, 7, 10, and also at earlier dates, highway surveyor in 1706, and on important committees in 1702, 7, 12, 16 and 17. In 1710 Ensign Farwell, Thomas Lund and Joseph Blanchard, selectmen, petitioned the Assembly for aid in supporting the ministry, and in 1711 it is recorded that they received £10 from the Assembly towards payment of salary of Mr. Paris. He was 'Ensign' of the Chelmsford Military Co., 1687-1695."

From Diana Gale Matthiesen's site, Joseph Farwell's will. [Dated 13 Nov 1711, probated 16 Jan 1722-1723. Sourced to "the Winslow Farr Sr. Family Organization web site". It would seem to prove that Hannah Learned was alive on 13 Nov 1711, rather than dying in 1695 as I previously recorded.]

In the Name of the Lord God Amen Joseph Farwell of The town Dunstable in the County of Middefs in the province of the Massachulets Bay in Newengland yeoman being of Sound and Perfect memory praise be given to god for the same yit knowing the uncertainty of this Life on Earth and being Desirous to Settle things in order Do Make and ordain this to be my Last Will and Testament. Hereby Revoking all former Wills by me made and signed to be null and of none Effect icc In Primas My Soule I give unto the hand of allmighty god that gave it in sure and certaine hopes of Eternaul Life through our alone Lord and Saiover Jesus Christ and my body to the Earth from whence it came to be Deceantly Interred at the Discretion of My Executors x hereafter Named and after my funerall expences and the Debts satisfied And Paid What Worldly goods it hath pleased god to Endow me with all I Do give and bequeath in manner as followeth Item I Do: give unto My beloved Wife Hannah Farewell all my moveable goods both within the boufe and abroad of all sorts Whatsoever to be at her disposall for ever excepting one paire of Andirons. Item I do give and bequeath to my Son Oliver ffarewel and to his Heirs executors Administrators for ever the one half of My housings and Lands which I have now in my possession when he shall Attaine to the age of twenty one years allso I do give to him one paire of Andirons: Aflso I do give and bequeath to him my son Oliver Farewell and to his Heirs the other part of all my Houfings and Lands which I have in pofselsion after my Deceafe and after the Deceafe of my Wife Hannah ffarewell if in the meanetime of our Lives he doth take the whole care of us Both And to provide all things comfortable and Necefsary for us both in sickness and in health and to bestow upon us or either of us A decent Burial: Hereby Authorizing and fully Impowering my Beloved wife Hannah If arewel and my son Henry ffarewell to be whole and sole executors Joyntly and Severally of this my Lash Will and Testament In Witness Whereof I have hereunto subscribed as Witness my hand and ieall the thirteenth Day of November Anno Domin one thousand seven hundred and eleven, and in the tenth year of her Majestie's Reighn of E

ssigned sealed And published

to be the Last will and testament of Joseph I farewell

In presence of us

Ames Chever
Samuel Moody
John Meriam. jr.

Before signing and sealing it is to be understood that all my other Children both sons and Daughters have Received their full portions of me allready

Jofeph farwell Seal

Ensign married Hannah Learned on 25 Dec 1666 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Deacon Isaac Learned and Mary Stearns) was born on 24 Aug 1649 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died after 1722. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married John Bates on 22 Dec 1665 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. John (son of Edward Bates and Lydia) was born on 9 Jan 1642 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was christened on 23 Jan 1642 in First Church, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 11 Apr 1722 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Olive married Benjamin Spalding on 30 Oct 1668 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Benjamin was born on 7 Apr 1643 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died before 1708 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Gateway ancestor, one of LD's five (so far).

From Robert Charles Anderson, John C. Brandon, and Paul C. Reed, "The Ancestry of the Royally-Descended Mansfields of the Massachusetts Bay" (citation details below):

Of Elizabeth (Mansfield) Wilson, not much is known. She was very unwilling to come to New England; as Mather writes, she had to be "perswaded over into the difficulties of an American desart," arriving two years after her husband. In May 1631, Margaret (Tyndal) Winthrop told how Mr. Wilson "can not yet perswad his wife to goe, for all he hath taken this paynes to come and fetch hir. I maruiell [marvel] what mettell she is made on. shure she will yeald at last, or elce we shal want him excedingly in new england." Later the same month, Mrs. Winthrop again mentioned Elizabeth's distaste for the trip; she was "more auerce [averse] then euer she was." Mrs. Wilson finally arrived in Massachusetts in 1632. Her dislike of the voyage to New England, and her unhappiness at hearing of the death of her eldest son, whom she did not long survive, are almost all that we know of her character and life.

Elizabeth married Rev. John Wilson before 1617. Rev. (son of Rev. William Wilson and Elizabeth Woodhall) was born about 1591; died on 7 Aug 1667 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Robert Keayne on 18 Jun 1617. Robert (son of John Keayne) was born about 1594; died on 23 Mar 1656 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married George Brent after 1635. George (son of Richard Brent and Elizabeth Reade) was born in 1602 in of Defford, Worcestershire, England; died in 1671. [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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 18 Dec 1710, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts

Notes:

Probably born in Lynn, Massachusetts.

Sarah married Walter Fairfield on 28 Dec 1654 in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Walter (son of John Fairfield and Elizabeth) was born in 1631 in England; died on 20 Jul 1723 in Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sister to Sir Francis Dodington.

Mary married Thomas Freke on 13 Oct 1628 in Dodington, Somerset, England. Thomas (son of Sir Thomas Freke and Elizabeth Taylor) was born on 21 Mar 1598 in Shroton, Dorset, England; died on 30 Apr 1642; was buried on 2 May 1642 in Hinton St. Mary, Dorset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Samuel Woods on 30 Dec 1685 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Samuel (son of Samuel Woods and Alice Rushton) was born on 3 Jan 1661 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 19 Mar 1712. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

20 Aug 1740 is the death date on his tombstone, but Chelmsford town records say 21 Aug 1740.

Joseph Farwell's will:

Dated 13 Nov 1711. Probated 16 Jan 1722-1723. Copied from Diana Gale Mathiessen's site, where it is sourced to "the Winslow Farr Sr. Family Organization web site".

In the Name of the Lord God Amen Joseph Farweilgen of The town Dunstable in the County of Middefs in the province of the Massachulets Bay in Newengland yeoman being of Sound and Perfect memory praise be given to god for the same yit knowing the uncertainty of this Life on Earth and being Desirous to Settle things in order Do Make and ordain this to be my Last Will and Testament. Hereby Revoking all former Wills by me made and signed to be null and of none Effect icc In Primas My Soule I give unto the hand of allmighty god that gave it in sure and certaine hopes of Eternaul Life through our alone Lord and Saiover Jesus Christ and my body to the Earth from whence it came to be Deceantly Interred at the Discretion of My Executors x hereafter Named and after my funerall expences and the Debts satisfied And Paid What Worldly goods it hath pleased god to Endow me with all I Do give and bequeath in manner as followeth Item I Do: give unto My beloved Wife Hannah Farewell all my moveable goods both within the boufe and abroad of all sorts Whatsoever to be at her disposall for ever excepting one paire of Andirons. Item I do give and bequeath to my Son Oliver ffarewel and to his Heirs executors Administrators for ever the one half of My housings and Lands which I have now in my possession when he shall Attaine to the age of twenty one years allso I do give to him one paire of Andirons: Aflso I do give and bequeath to him my son Oliver Farewell and to his Heirs the other part of all my Houfings and Lands which I have in pofselsion after my Deceafe and after the Deceafe of my Wife Hannah ffarewell if in the meanetime of our Lives he doth take the whole care of us Both And to provide all things comfortable and Necefsary for us both in sickness and in health and to bestow upon us or either of us A decent Burial: Hereby Authorizing and fully Impowering my Beloved wife Hannah If arewel and my son Henry ffarewell to be whole and sole executors Joyntly and Severally of this my Lash Will and Testament In Witness Whereof I have hereunto subscribed as Witness my hand and ieall the thirteenth Day of November Anno Domin one thousand seven hundred and eleven, and in the tenth year of her Majestie's Reighn of E

ssigned sealed And published
to be the Last will and testament of Joseph I farewell
In presence of us
Ames Chever
Samuel Moody
John Meriam. jr.

Before signing and sealing it is to be understood that all my other Children both sons and Daughters have Received their full portions of me allready

Jofeph farwell Seal

Joseph married Hannah Colburn on 23 Jan 1696 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Thomas Colburn and Hannah Rolfe) was born in 1673; died after 10 Mar 1741 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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]

Rev. married Sarah Hooker before 1649. Sarah (daughter of Rev. Thomas Hooker and Susannah Garbrand) was born before 21 Feb 1630; was christened on 21 Feb 1630 in Broomfield, Essex, England; died on 20 Aug 1725 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Rev. Samuel Danforth on 5 Nov 1651. Rev. (son of Nicholas Danforth and Elizabeth Barber) was born in Sep 1626 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England; was christened on 17 Oct 1626 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England; died on 19 Nov 1674 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to Robert Charles Anderson, John C. Brandon, and Paul C. Reed (citation details below), he and Sarah Dudley ultimately divorced "because of Sarah's increasing religious fanaticism".

From The Great Migration Begins (citation details below):

Some considerable pain entered Gov. Dudley's last years as his daughter Sarah and her husband Benjamin Keayne necessitated one of the colony's earliest divorces. Stephen Winthrop says "My she Cosin Keane is growne a great preacher" in a letter from London 27 March 1646. In a letter dated London 18 March 1646/7, Benjamin Keayne writes to Thomas Dudley:

Honored Sir, That you and myself are made sorry by your daughter's enormous and continued crimes, is the greatest cause of grief that ever befell me, and the more because her obstinate continuance in them is now to me by her own letter made as certain...I never gave her the least just cause or occasion to provoke her to them...she has not left me any room or way of reconciliation. And therefore as you desire, I do plainly declare my resolution never again to live with her as a husband. What maintenance yourself expects I know not. This I know (to my cost and danger) she has unwived herself and how she or you can expect a wife's maintenance is to me a wonder...

Ezekiel Rogers passed some of the gossip on to John Winthrop in a letter dated Rowley 8 November 1647:

...I thought myself bound to acquaint you that there is not a little discourse raised, and by some, offence taken, at the late divorce granted by the Court. How weighty a business that is, as I need not tell you, so I would humbly desire that some course may be taken so as to clear the court's proceeding, as that rumors might be stopped, and letters of mistake into England prevented...

The news from England in the words of Brampton Gurdon Sr. put another light on things, as he wrote from Assington 6 June 1649 to John Winthrop:

...Here goes some speech of a N.E. couple that lately came from thence the husband first, and then the wife followed after with what goods she could get together but we heat all her goods miscarried and she escaped only with her life. The man was Cane's son a cloak seller in Birching Lane, whose mother was Mr. Willson's sister. The woman is returned to N.E. and resolves there to take another husband. I hope your laws will not tolerate such wicked actions.

Benjamin married Sarah Dudley before 1639, and was divorced in 1647. [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]

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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 24 Dec 1655, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Sarah married Thomas Abbe on 16 Dec 1683 in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts. Thomas (son of John Abbe and Mary) was born between 1650 and 1656; died on 17 May 1728 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Hinton St. Mary, Dorset, England

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

Samuel married Patience Bigelow on 29 Nov 1720 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Patience (daughter of James Bigelow and Elizabeth Child) was born on 30 Sep 1695; died on 23 Jan 1771 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rachel married Jonathan Whitcomb on 12 Dec 1722 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts. Jonathan was born on 22 Apr 1702 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts; died on 7 Oct 1743 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts; was buried in Old South Burying Ground, Bolton, Worcester, Masaschusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Simon Stone Genealogy says merely that she outlived her husband, who died 27 Feb 1783, while John Dennis Farwell's The Farwell Family (1929) gives no death date for her at all. But the headstone in the Groton Old Burying Ground for "Mary Stone relict of Dea. James Stone", seen on Find A Grave, clearly says "March" and "1804". I can't make out the day of the month from the photograph.

Mary married Deacon James Stone on 28 Dec 1726 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Deacon (son of John Stone and Sarah Nutting) was born on 23 Jan 1701 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 27 Feb 1783 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in 1783 in Old Burying Ground, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edmund Hovey. Edmund (son of James Hovey and Deborah Barlow) was born on 10 Jul 1699; died on 21 Jan 1788 in Norwich, Windsor, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Anna Hildreth after 10 Dec 1721 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Anna (daughter of Ephraim Hildreth and Anna Moore) was born on 3 Sep 1705 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died in Feb 1784. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was ordained pastor of the Taunton church in 1688. He also practiced medicine and law.

Rev. married Hannah Allen on 4 Oct 1688. Hannah (daughter of Rev. James Allen and Elizabeth Houchin) was born on 22 Jul 1668; died on 3 Dec 1761; was buried in Riverview Cemetery, Groveland, Essex, Massachusetts. [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: Anne. Anne died before 7 Jan 1786 in Charles County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hannah Boardman. Hannah (daughter of Daniel Boardman and Hannah Wright) was born on 18 Dec 1693 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Member of Parliament for Cricklade 26 May to 10 Jun 1685, and 5 Apr 1689; for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis 22 May 1691, 1695, and 1698; and for Lyme Regis 1705 and 1708.

Notes:

Contra Burke's Commoners and Stirnet.com, she does not seem to have been a daughter of Ralph Freke and Cicely Colepeper; see below.

From "The Monumental Inscriptions at Road, Co. Somerset" (citation details below):

North Chapel.

In a vault beneath are deposited the remains of | Henry Bythesea, of Trowbridge, in the County of Wilts, | Esquire, and one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the same | County; who died March 14, 1814, aged 65. He was the youngest son of John Bythesea, of Week House and | Chipmanslade, Wilts, Esquire, who was many years in the | Commission of the Peace for that County; and Jane his wife, | daughter of the Revd Thomas Leir, M:A: Rector of Ditcheat, | and Charlton Musgrove, Somerset by his wife Mary, daughter of | Thomas Freke, of Hannington House, Wilts, Esquire.

Family/Spouse: Rev. Thomas Leir. Thomas (son of Rev. Thomas Leir and Mary Seaman) was born in 1640. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married Oliver Wheeler on 25 Nov 1747 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Oliver (son of Jonathan Wheeler and Hannah Russell) was born in 1722 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts; died on 31 Jul 1804 in Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Forest Cemetery, North Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Becke married John Whitcomb in 1744. John was born on 2 Feb 1712 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts; died on 17 Nov 1785 in Bolton, Worcester, Masaschusetts; was buried in Old South Burying Ground, Bolton, Worcester, Masaschusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Tanner and farmer. His French and Indian War service of 1755 was "in the expedition of that year against Crown Point". He was town treasurer of Harvard in 1784, 1785, and 1786. [Simon Stone Genealogy]

Note that Harvard, Massachusetts, founded in 1658 and incorporated in 1732, is a town of roughly 6,000 people about twenty-five miles west-northwest of Boston. Harvard University is in Cambridge, directly adjoining Boston.

James married Deborah Nutting on 13 Sep 1748 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Deborah (daughter of Jonathan Nutting and Mary Green) was born in 1724; died on 2 Nov 1774 in Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"[P]rob. died in French and Indian War. Was a private in Capt. Jas. Reed's Co., & Col. Timothy Ruggles' Reg." [The Farwell Family]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire

Notes:

He died of an accidental shooting in a blacksmith shop.

John married Phebe Russell on 3 Jan 1753 in Litchfield, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. Phebe (daughter of Capt. Peter Russell and Deborah Crosby) was born in 1736 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts; was christened on 16 May 1636 in South Church, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts; died about Nov 1836 in Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Sarah Leonard on 11 Jun 1730. Sarah (daughter of James Leonard and Hannah Walley) died on 22 May 1742. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Sarah married John Burroughs on 9 Jan 1740 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Bythesea. John (son of John Bythesea and Hester Halliday) was born in of Wickhouse, Wiltshire, England; died in 1769. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1749

Notes:

He was a soldier in the Revolution on the Massachusetts line, discharged 10 Oct 1780 after serving two months and 26 days.

Oliver married Hepzibah Munroe on 3 Mar 1773 in Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Hepzibah (daughter of Nathan Munroe and Mercy Benjamin) was born on 3 Aug 1751 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 4 Nov 1829 in Hillsborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; was buried in Hillsborough Centre Cemetery, Hillsborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rebecca married Calvin Greenleaf on 17 Nov 1762 in Bolton, Worcester, Masaschusetts. Calvin (son of Daniel Greenleaf and Silence Nichols) was born on 31 Mar 1740; died in Aug 1812. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Jesiah.

Josiah married Sarah Darby on 13 Sep 1797 in Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of John Daby and Sarah Hopgood) was born on 7 Feb 1772 in Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire

Notes:

He is said in D. Hamilton Hurd's history of Hillsborough County to have "seen service in both wars," presumably the Revolution and the War of 1812.

John married Naomi Stevens about 1773. Naomi (daughter of Thomas Stevens and Prudence Merrill) was born on 24 Oct 1751 in Plaistow, Rockingham, New Hampshire; died on 9 Jan 1816 in Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A DAR lineage says that he "was a private in Capt. Seth Gilbert's company, Col. John Daggett's, regiment, which marched in the Lexington Alarm of 1775."

Elijah married Susanna Copeland on 1 Oct 1761. Susanna (daughter of Deacon Benjamin Copeland and Sarah Allen) was born on 1 Apr 1740 in Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 12 Mar 1816. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"John Burroughs, Jr., went to New Hampshire with his father in 1765 and removed his family there in 1767; was living in Alstead in 1826. He volunteered under Captain Webber of Walpole in 1777 to go to Bennington, Vermont, and was engaged in battle there; from there he proceeded against Burgoyne at Still Water and returned safely in the fall. He later held a commission as Captain." [Abbe-Abbey Genealogy, citation details below]

Family/Spouse: Mehitable Carlton. Mehitable was born in of Tolland, Tolland, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Simon Halliday. Simon (son of John Halliday and Mary Welman) was born in 1738 in of Ilford Park, Wiltshire, England; died on 18 May 1791. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Esther married Timothy Dane on 2 Apr 1806 in Hillsborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. Timothy died in Aug 1856 in Hillsborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1842

John married Abigail Townsend on 3 Apr 1788. Abigail (daughter of Joshua Townsend and Susannah Livermore) was born on 19 Jun 1768 in Bolton, Worcester, Masaschusetts; died on 18 Mar 1839 in Woodstock, Windsor, Vermont; was buried in Cushing Cemetery, Woodstock, Windsor, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 21 Apr 1804, Londonderry, Rockingham, New Hampshire
• Alternate birth: 21 Apr 1805, Londonderry, Rockingham, New Hampshire
• Alternate birth: 21 Apr 1806, Londonderry, Rockingham, New Hampshire
• Alternate death: 1850, Pottawattamie, Iowa

Notes:

Also called Sarah "Sally" Stone.

The database "Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848" states that her parents were Josiah Stone and Sarah Darby/Durby/Daby.

Lucius Augustus Bingham and Sarah Stone were great-great grandparents of TNH's third cousin twice removed, Harold Bingham Lee (1899-1973), eleventh president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, after whom the main library at BYU is named.

Sarah married Lucius Augustus Bingham in 1826 in Fowler, St. Lawrence, Jefferson, New York. Lucius (son of Jeremiah Bingham and Mary Ives) was born on 1 Sep 1804 in Cornwall, Addison, Vermont; died on 11 Mar 1857 in Little Sioux, Harrison, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Olive married Robert Dunlap on 22 Sep 1803 in Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. Robert (son of Major John Dunlap and Martha Gilmore) was born on 21 Nov 1779 in Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; died on 16 Nov 1865 in Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; was buried in Bedford Center Cemetery, Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Asa married Hannah Walker on 27 Nov 1806. Hannah (daughter of Eleazar Walker and Catherine "Caty" Carpenter) was born on 12 Jun 1785 in Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 3 Jun 1823. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rhoda married Smith EmeryAlstead, Cheshire, New Hampshire. Smith (son of Joshua Emery and Rachel Currier) was born on 16 Aug 1771 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married Maj.-Gen. Sir John Dyer, K.C.B. on 14 Mar 1795 in Charlton, Kent, England. Sir (son of Thomas Dyer and Mary Smith) was born on 5 Feb 1772; was christened on 4 Mar 1772 in St. Margaret, Westminster, Middlesex, England; died on 2 Jul 1816 in Woolwich, London, England; was buried on 10 Jul 1816 in Plumstead, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1883, Amador County, California

Notes:

In Hillsborough, New Hampshire in the 1850 census. He was a blacksmith.

John married Elizabeth Covel on 5 Jul 1836 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Elizabeth was born about 1807 in Massachusetts; died before 1880. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rebecca married Joshua Sawyer Holman on 11 Feb 1818 in Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts. Joshua (son of Jonathan Holman and Zilpha Sawyer) was born on 12 Apr 1794 in Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts; died on 1 Nov 1846 in Winter Quarters, Nebraska; was buried in Mormon Pioneer Cemetery, Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 27 Sep 1827, Fowler, St. Lawrence, Jefferson, New York
• Alternate death: 29 May 1883, St. David, Cochise, Arizona

Notes:

A memoir of his daughter Mary Elizabeth Bingham, by her daughter Barbara Ann Phelps, calls him "Calvin Perry Bingham."

From The Bingham Family in the United States, citation details below:

Calvin and his family were with the earliest Mormon groups to move across America. The oldest child of Lucius Augustus, Calvin was born in NY, lived in Upper Canada as a child, and by 1840 when he was thirteen, lived with the Mormon group in Henderson, Knox Co IL. About 1848, probably in IA after the Mormons moved to Pottawattamie Co, Calvin married Elizabeth Lucretia Thorn. He, his wife and her entire family, mother and siblings lived in one household in 1850.

Between 1853 and 1867, Calvin and his family lived in several different UT settlements. They then lived for about ten years in Montpelier, Bear Lake Co ID before returning to Box Elder Co UT by 1880. After Calvin died in AZ in 1883, wife Elizabeth moved to Vernal, Uintah Co UT where she lived with grown children William and Alice in 1900.

Posted to ancestry.com by user NORDSEEKER, with the remark: "This account was written by their great grandson, Wes Martin. I don't know where he got all the information, but I found it typed on the back of a family group sheet in his genealogy book."

"Calvin Bingham was the son of Lucius and Sarah Stone Bingham. He was born Sept. 7, 1827 in Fowler, St. Lawrence County, New York. He was the oldest of eight children: four brothers--Benjamin, Augustus, Perry, and Prosper-- and three sisters: Emeline, Lucy, and MaryJane.

"His mother died about 1849. His father remarried but never came west to Utah. Calvin was baptized into the Mormon church at the age of seventeen in Bannock County, Illinois in 1844.

"Elizabeth Lucretia Thorn was the daughter of Ashael and Sarah Lester Thorn, born in Monrovia, Cayuga county, New York on March 25, 1832. She was the second child in a family of ten: three boys--William L., Richard, and Isaac, and seven girls--Maryann, Sarah, Nancy, Lydia, Abigale, Barbara Ann, and Elizabeth Lucretia. Her mother died about 1852 and her father re-married Elizabeth Lusk, a widow. They came west with his family.

"Calvin and Elizabeth were married December 18, 1848 in Pottawatamie, Iowa. Sarah and Calvin were born to them here. In 1853 they and several other members of the Thorn family moved west to Utah settleing in the West Weber area (now known as Uintah). Their third child, Mary Elizabeth, was born here. While living in Uintah, Calvin was called to serve in Col. Johnson's army. They were among the saints that made the move south--leaving their homes to be burned if necessary. On returning they settled in Farmington, Utah, where Lucy Melissa, their fourth child, was born. Later they moved to Three Mile Creek which is now known as Perry, Utah. In about 1857, the Ashael Thorn family moved here too and they built their homes near each other. Barbara Ann, their fifth child was born here. Three years later in 1860 they moved to Hyrum, Utah.

"Being among the first settlers in Hyrum, they took an active part in civic and church activities. Calvin became the first Bishop of Hyrum and was loved and remembered by people for a great many years. Two more children were born to them here, Anna Marie and Ashael.

"In 1865 they were called to settle the Bear Lake, Idaho area. They settled in Montpelier where due to very harsh winters, they lost their crops. Very discouraged, they returned to Hyrum, Utah. Their son, William Augustus, was born here in Montpelier.

"About 1868 they returned to Montpelier. Elizabeth taught the first school in town--teaching out of their small log home. Another daughter, Lydia Emeline, was born to them here. Later, they built a large home on the banks of the creek that ran through town. Their last two children were born here--Orissa Vilate and Alice. Orissa Vilate died at nine months old. Also at this residence, their daughter, Lucy Melissa Bigham Williams, died after giving birth to a baby girl. She was only eighteen years old. This two week old baby girl was raised by her grandparents, Calvin and Elizabeth.

"In 1878, the Binghams, their married son and daughters, and a large group of other people left Montpelier intending to go to Arizona and settle an area there. But upon reaching Salem, Utah, they decided to stop there for a year or so. The Perry Bingham family and the Robert H. Williams family were among those that settled in Salem for that short time. In 1880, with several other families including the Alonzo Bingham family, Calvin and Elizabeth headed for Arizona again. They stopped in St. Johns, Arizona where their daughter, Anna Marie and husband William were living. They stayed there until 1891 when they moved to St. David, Arizona. Arriving on Christmas Day, they joined others of the original group who had settled that area and started up a freighting business. This business engaged in the freight business between Benson, Tombstone and Bisbee. Although Calvin was a blacksmith by trade, he found freighting more profitable. So he bought a team of large horses to go with the team he already had, and followed this occupation for a little more than a year.

"Calvin Bingham left his home with a wagon loaded with freight for Bisbee, about 56 miles from St. David. On the following day, May 27,1883, while going down a steep grade, his freight wagon upset pinning him under the wagon and causing his death.

"His body was brought home by three men from his ward. Funeral services were held in the ward at St. David May 29, 1883. Speakers were Patriarch P.C. Merrill, President David P. Kimball, J.H. Martineau, Bishop Henry Horn, and S.B. Merrill, who all spoke highly of the integrity, faithfullness and honesty of Calvin. After the death of her husband, Elizabeth Lucretia Bingham, with her family consisting of the younger children Ashael, William, Emeline, Lucy Jane, a grand-daughter, and Alice moved to Mesa, Arizona where her three oldest children, Clarinda, Mary Elizabeth Phelps, and Calvin Perry Bingham lived. She had only been there a short time when another sorrow came into her life. Ashael, then 23 years old, had an appendicitis attack and died just four months after his father's death.

"The family spent three years in Mesa and then returned to their former home in Montpelier, Idaho. Then in 1888 they moved to Vernal, Utah where Lucretia spent the remainder of her life. She was a faithful LDS woman and worked in the Relief Society organization. While in Montpelier she had been called to work among the sick and dying. She helped make burial clothes and to dress and lay out the dead. She underwent many hardships of the early pioneers. She learned to be thrifty and to economize so she could feed and clothe her family. It is said that when she bought a piece of calico, she would tear a quilt block from it for the quilt she was making. She made very nice quilts that were the envy of her friends and neighbors. Thread was expensive, so she would ravel out cloth to sew her blocks together with. She taught her 11 children to be thrifty and industrious too. She passed away at her home in Vernal Nov. 28, 1903 as a result of a heart attack."

Calvin married Elizabeth Lucretia Thorne on 18 Dec 1848 in Big Pigeon, Pottawattamie, Iowa. Elizabeth (daughter of Ashal Enoch Thorne and Sarah Lester) was born on 25 Mar 1832 in Moravia, Cayuga, New York; died on 28 Nov 1903 in Vernal, Uintah, Utah; was buried in Vernal Memorial Park, Vernal, Uintah, Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1822, New Hampshire
• Alternate death: 11 Apr 1876, Clinton County, Iowa

Notes:

Her headstone spells her first name "Noemi," and gives her date of death as 10 Apr 1876, not 11 Apr as would be implied by the newspaper story below.

"Mrs. N. J. Gage, the widow of Moses Gage, the former Station Agent of the Northwestern Railway at Clinton, committed suicide by shooting herself through the head with a revolver, at 10 o'clock Tuesday night. Temporary insanity is the supposed cause. She leaves two daughters, one married. She was a very estimable lady, and there is considerable excitement." [Davenport (Iowa) Quad-City Times, citation details below]

Family/Spouse: Moses Gage. Moses (son of Moses Gage and Sibyl Barron) was born on 1 Mar 1819 in Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; was christened on 13 Jun 1819 in Merrimack, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; died on 28 Mar 1871 in Iowa; was buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery, DeWitt, Clinton, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Asa married Catherine Ariana Rupert on 25 Feb 1839 in Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois. Catherine (daughter of Henry S. Rupert and Naomi Henkel) was born on 3 Dec 1819 in Point Pleasant, Macon, Virginia; died on 4 Feb 1901 in Washington, Tazewell, Illinois; was buried in Glendale Cemetery, Washington, Tazewell, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Laury. Laury was born about 1790; died about Jan 1829 in Reading, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 2 Oct 1878

Notes:

He was a captain in the Royal Artillery, and a justice of the peace for Surrey.

"Sir Thomas Dyer resided chiefly at Brompton Hall, Middlesex, which he inherited from the Hallidays in the reign of George IV. It was a fine old Elizabethan house, panelled throughout with oak, containing secret rooms and passages, one leading to the Thames, surrounded by five acres of garden, and approached by a drive through immense iron gates up an avenue of elms. The South Kensington and Brompton Station on the Underground Railway now occupies the site, which Sir Thomas Swinnerton Dyer was obliged by the Railway Act of Parliament to sell greatly below its value. 'Dyerhaven,' Uckfield, Sussex, Sir Thomas built when Brompton Hall was demolished. Westcroft Park, Chobham, and 14 Redcliffe Square were his other residences." [E. H. Martin, citation details below.]

Sir married Mary Anne Clement on 7 Feb 1832 in Woolwich, London, England. Mary (daughter of Col. John Albeck Clement and Margaret Anne Le Maistre) died on 9 Feb 1880; was buried in Brompton Cemetery, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married James Rogers Johnson on 22 Jan 1861 in Amador County, California. James was born about 1827 in Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1836, Ohio

Family/Spouse: Walter Stevens. Walter (son of William Stevens and Marinda Thomas) was born on 17 Jan 1830 in Mount Pleasant, Brant, Ontario; died on 24 Jul 1914 in Nephi, Juab, Utah; was buried in Kirtland Cemetery, San Juan County, New Mexico. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Hyrum Smith Phelps on 25 Sep 1866 in Montpelier, Bear Lake, Idaho. Hyrum (son of Morris Charles Phelps and Sarah Thompson) was born on 26 Feb 1846 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois; died on 23 Apr 1926 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in Mesa City Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 17 Nov 1933, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona

Notes:

Died of diabetes.

"Mary Elizabeth Bingham Phelps," by her daughter Barbara Ann Phelps Allen:

Mother was born on Christmas day, 1853, the daughter of Calvin Perry and Lucretia Thorne Bingham. Her early life was as useful and busy as were her later years. She worked out some, and also helped her grandfather Ashael Thorne make butter and cheese plus other work to be done on a farm.

When she was a young lady, she earned money to buy herself a nice yellow calico dress with black dots in it and thought it most beautiful. She, like Father, loved to dance and said often after they had danced until after midnight, a crowd would get into a sleigh and ride until daylight.

She had quite a number of boy friends, one in particular she liked real well, It was while she was keeping company with him that she married Father (Hyrum Smith Phelps) as a plural wife. She said she didn't know why she did it, but supposed it was meant to be that way.

At the time she married they lived in Montpelier, Idaho, but the winters were too severe so they moved to Mesa, Arizona after three daughters had been born, Laurett, Lucy and Barbara. Laurett died of diphtheria before they left Idaho.

The journey to Arizona was a long hard one, especially for mother, as she was in her last months of pregnancy. The company laid over three days at Lee's Ferry because of her condition, and on the third day, Dec. 2, 1878 her oldest son, Gove Edward, was born. They arrived in Mesa Jan. 17, 1879. Mesa was practically a desert when they arrived and they lived in tents the first three months until Father and his sons could make adobes to build a house.

The first one was a long three-room house. Mother lived in one end and Aunt Clarinda the other. The center room was used for awhile to store corn and grain, and later Grandma Bingham lived there awhile. While she lived there, he son Ashael died.

In 1881 Father built a home on the corner of First Avenue and Hibbert Street for Aunt Clarinda. This house was a T-shape with a porch on two sides, had a shingle roof and dirt floors. It still stands today [1953] but has been improved. Mother had the long house then to herself. It was here that Hattie, Orson and Yuma were born. The Federal officers had been after Father and Mother for plural marriage, and Father was arrested. He was sent to Yuma, Arizona Penitentiary for three months. Mother was taken to the home of Ed Jones in Lehi. She stayed there until just before Yuma was born, then went to her mother.

Father bought or traded and got eighty acres one mile east of town and built another home for Aunt Clarinda who had a family of boys and moved mother to the home on First Avenue and Hibbert because she had mostly girls. Here Grace, who lived only a few weeks, Amy, Esther, Clara and Gertrude were born.

After Aunt Clarinda moved to the ranch, Mother was allotted a few cows for her support. It was Gove's job to drive the cows to and from the pasture, and he often rode a cow called Puso. I remember we had a lot of grief because the cows would often get out of the corral and get into Brother Hibbert's place at night, and he would come and awake mother and say ugly things to her. We milked some of the cows that were brought from Montpelier. When Esther was a few months old, Father went on a mission to the Southern States.

Mother lived in this home until 1895 when Father sold it and built her a nice brick house on the eighty acres. Wilford, Mother's fourteenth child, was born here. He was the pride and joy of the family. Father used to call him the little prophet. He is four months younger than my oldest son, Ashael. Mother practically raised him with Wilford. They were like brothers.

While living in this home Mother's greatest sorrow came when Lucy died. At the time she was confined to her bed with a sore leg, and couldn't go see Lucy during her sickness. Lucy had developed blood poison after the birth of her fourth child and namesake, Lucy. Brother Calvin was surely good to mother during Lucy's sickness; he would come three times a day to keep her informed of Lucy's condition. Sometimes he would call at midnight. Lucy died Jan. 6, 1905. Mother took little Lucy and raised her as her own.

Because of Father's age and the boys married and gone, he found he couldn't do the work on the ranch, so he sold to a Mr. Fraser and moved onto twenty acres on Home Lane. He built mother the nicest home she had had and built two houses in town on Sirrine, one for Aunt Clarinda and one to rent. As age kept creeping, he found he had to stop work altogether, so he sold the twenty acres and moved Mother in the house he built to rent. Here they spent their last days. Father died April 23, 1926, after having been gored in the belly by a bull. Mother died 17 November, 1933 from the effects of diabetes.

Mother was a wonderful mother to her family, a typical Bingham, the most unselfish and generous person to be found. She always went without for her family. I've seen her many times skim the cream off the milk and give it to father and she would use the skim milk. She didn't go out very often, having 14 children, two babies most of the time. One May Day she sent us on ahead to a picnic. Amy was the baby. Lucy and I took her and the other children on; Mother came later. When we took Amy to her, the baby didn't recognize Mother and began to scream. It was the first time she had seen Mother in her dress-up clothes. Amy cried with hunger, so Mother had to go home and change her dress so Amy would nurse.

Mother had inflammatory rheumatism while Amy was a baby. At that time there was an epidemic of some kind of fever, and Aunt Clarinda's oldest son, Hyrum, had it. Father had to be with him until he died. Lucy and I, with Grandma Sarah Phelps had to take care of Mother and the baby. She suffered something awful. Her legs were swollen twice their size, and she couldn't bear to be moved. After Hyrum died and Father came to help take care of Mother, he and Grandma decided to get her up on an open bottom chair and steam her. They got her on the chair, but it was cruel what she suffered during the ordeal, and the sad part was that no good came from it. She finally got well.

Mother was quite spiritual. A number of times things happened and it was made known to her before hand. One time she was troubled and went into the bedroom to pray. As she came out, she said just above the door she heard the sweetest music she had ever heard, and as the music died away, a peaceful feeling came over her and she was comforted.

Very few people suffered as much as Mother. One time she and sister Annie went into the field to glean wheat, and they came in contact with poison weeds and their legs broke out with sores. Mother's was the worst. Both her legs were solid sores from her knees to the soles of her feet. It took weeks for them to heal. Every summer for several years at the same time, her legs would break out with the same kind of sores, but each year they would he more mild. This was a few weeks before Grace was born; after that her legs caused her a lot of misery. There were quite a few other things that caused a lot of suffering that I'll not take time to mention, besides giving birth to 14 children without the aid of a doctor or having something done to ease the pain.

Mother was a good Latter-day Saint. She always donated liberally, paid her tithing and fast offerings. When she began paying, she saved all her statements from the dairy so she would know how much she owed, and at the end of the year, she owed a few cents more than ten dollars. I don't know how she managed to live. She had a few hens, but they didn't lay any eggs until the price went down to ten cents a dozen. Lucy was the main stay of the family. Hattie and I worked some. When either of us earned any money, it was turned over to Mother. Not a cent did we use for ourselves without her telling us to. She would shine our heavy shoes with stove soot. We were quite large before we could afford dress shoes. We weren't the only poor people, however; most everyone was alike

We had a happy home, Mother made it so. Our home was a house of prayer. We had family prayer night and morning, and I think that had everything to do with the spirit of our home. I know I speak for all of the family when I say I am thankful for wonderful parents and what they did for us.

Mary married Hyrum Smith Phelps on 8 Sep 1873 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Hyrum (son of Morris Charles Phelps and Sarah Thompson) was born on 26 Feb 1846 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois; died on 23 Apr 1926 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in Mesa City Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 28 Jun 1862, Hyrum, Cache, Utah

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• Alternate death: Bef 1895

Frances married Norton Jason Damon on 14 Dec 1875 in Clinton County, Iowa. Norton (son of Edmund H. Damon and Sarah Hicks) was born in May 1846 in New York; died in 1912; was buried in City View Cemetery, Salem, Marion, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]