Sybil

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1322
• Alternate death: Bef 1333

Family/Spouse: Henry del Ortiay. Henry (son of Richard del Ortiay and Maud de Moels) was born about 1252; died before 15 Sep 1321. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"[P]robable daughter of Henry de Lorty, Knt., Lord Lorty, by his wife, Sibyl." [Royal Ancestry]

Joan married Roger Martel before 30 Nov 1318. Roger (son of Peter fitz Reynold and Ela Martel) was born about 1295 in of Chewton, Somerset, England; died before 6 Dec 1322. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 18 Feb 1352

Henry married Elizabeth de Holand before 23 May 1340. Elizabeth (daughter of Robert de Holand and Maud la Zouche) was born in of Upholland, Wigan, Lancashire, England; died on 13 Jul 1387 in Chewton, Somerset, England; was buried in Chewton Mendip, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1372

John married Alice before 26 Apr 1369. Alice died on 27 Mar 1426; was buried in Newenham Abbey, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 16 Apr 1414

Elizabeth married John Bonville before 18 Oct 1377. John (son of William Bonville and Margaret d'Aumarle) was born about 1371 in of Chewton, Somerset, England; died on 21 Oct 1396. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Richard Stukeley before 2 Dec 1398. Richard died before 28 Nov 1441. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard Champernoun. Richard (son of Richard Champernoun and Katherine Daubeney) was born in of Modbury, Devon, England; died on 20 Jan 1420. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1392
• Alternate birth: 12 Aug 1392, Shute, Devon, England
• Alternate birth: 31 Aug 1392, Shute, Devon, England
• Alternate birth: 13 Aug 1393
• Alternate birth: 30 Aug 1393
• Alternate death: 19 Feb 1461

Notes:

From Wikipedia:

Bonville was knighted before 1417 during the campaigns in France of King Henry V. He was Knight of the shire for Somerset in 1421, and for Devon in 1422, 1425 and 1427. In 1423 he was appointed by the king as Sheriff of Devon. He was Seneschal of Aquitaine at various times from 1442 to 1453, and Governor of Exeter Castle from 1453–61. In 1443 Bonville was retained to serve King Henry VI for a one-year term and in 1449 was retained to serve the King at sea. He was summoned to Parliament from 10 March 1449 to 30 July 1460 by writs directed, for the most part, Willelmo Bonville domino Bonville et de Chuton ("To William Bonville, lord of Bonville and Chewton"), by which he is held to have become Baron Bonville. On 8 February 1461 he was nominated to the Order of the Garter.

In 1441 riots resulted from a dispute over the Duchy of Cornwall between Bonville and Thomas Courtenay, 13th Earl of Devon, and on 14 December 1455 the two sides fought the Battle of Clyst Heath near Exeter, which resulted in the defeat of Bonville, the sacking of Shute and injury to a number of persons.

Bonville was to all outward appearances loyal to King Henry VI during the Wars of the Roses until he joined the Yorkist side at the Battle of Northampton in July 1460. Both his son, William Bonville, and his grandson, William Bonville, 6th Baron Harington, were slain at the Battle of Wakefield on 31 December 1460.

Less than two months later in 1460 the Yorkists suffered another defeat at the Second Battle of St Albans, where Lord Bonville and another Yorkist, Sir Thomas Kyriel, were taken prisoner by the victorious Lancastrians. The two men had kept guard over King Henry VI during the battle to see that he came to no harm. The King had been held in captivity by Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and transported in the train of the latter's army, but had been abandoned on the battlefield. In return for their gallantry the King promised the two men immunity. However Queen Margaret, who was present at the battle, remembered that Lord Bonville had been one of the men who had held King Henry in custody after the Battle of Northampton in July 1460, and wanted revenge. Disregarding the King's promise of immunity, she gave orders for the beheading of Lord Bonville and Sir Thomas Kyriel the next day, 18 February 1461. It is alleged that she put the men on trial and appointed as presiding judge her seven-year-old son, Prince Edward. "Fair son", Margaret is said to have inquired, "what death shall these knights die?" The young prince replied that they were to have their heads cut off, an act which was swiftly carried out, despite the King's pleas for mercy.

Bonville was not attainted, as within three weeks of his death the Yorkist King Edward IV came to the throne. Bonville's widow, Elizabeth, was assigned a substantial dower in recognition of his services to the Yorkist cause.

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

While his extensive and complex inheritances led to some violent disputes with neighbours during these years, these were on nothing like the scale of disorder that was to characterize Bonville's notorious conflict with the Courtenays during the 1440s and 1450s.

This power struggle was triggered by the appointment of Bonville in 1437 as royal steward in Cornwall for life. This was seen by the young Thomas Courtenay, thirteenth earl of Devon, recently come of age and in possession of a severely reduced inheritance, as a serious challenge to his own regional authority. The bitterness of the strife that grew from this was symptomatic of a change in the local balance of power and wealth that had over a generation tilted against the Courtenay earls (the traditional leaders of west-country society) in favour of a small group of powerful gentry among whom Bonville was pre-eminent.

Violence reached an alarming level during the summers of 1439 and 1440, and the situation was worsened by a serious blunder on the part of the government--the appointment of the earl to the stewardship of the duchy of Cornwall, a post so similar to that held by Bonville as to be hardly distinguishable from it. Urgent attempts at even-handedness and arbitration failed, and the dispute was only temporarily resolved by the appointment of Bonville as seneschal of Gascony in December 1442, thereby removing him temporarily from the scene (he sailed from Plymouth in March 1443 but was back in Devon by April 1445). Even though the government, coming increasingly under the influence of the duke of Suffolk, was careful not to antagonize the earl of Devon, the latter was clearly seen to be the principal culprit. Bonville's connection with Suffolk grew stronger. He was a member of Suffolk's entourage at Margaret of Anjou's betrothal ceremonies at Rouen in May 1444, and married his daughter Elizabeth to one of Suffolk's henchmen, Sir William Tailboys. This development culminated in the parliament of 1449, when Bonville was raised to the peerage as Baron Bonville of Chewton.

Antagonisms hardened after the fall of Suffolk in 1450. The earl of Devon attached himself to the duke of York, and felt confident enough in the summer of 1451 to risk an encounter in the field with Bonville (and his ally, James Butler, earl of Wiltshire). Despite much plunder and violence, a major showdown was avoided when York's unexpected arrival in the west country persuaded the earl of Devon to lift the siege of Taunton Castle, which Bonville had made his headquarters. Although temporarily imprisoned (as were Devon and the other principal malcontents), Bonville was soon able to exploit the dramatically changed political situation that followed the humiliating submission of York and Devon to the king at Dartford on 3 March 1452.

Between 1452 and 1455 Bonville became the dominant force in west-country politics [...] and the king personally reinforced his position by staying at Bonville's house at Shute on his progress through the west country in the summer of 1452. Bonville was confirmed as steward of the duchy of Cornwall in 1452 (the post that had triggered the violence in 1439), and appointed constable of Exeter Castle in 1453, both posts to be held for life. [...]

These partisan appointments of Bonville to positions within the earl of Devon's traditional zone of influence forced the earl to take increasingly desperate measures [...] [T]he enmities that had grown over more than twenty years proved irresolvable. The death in 1458 of Bonville's old adversary afforded him little comfort. The new earl of Devon [...] quickly gained favour with Queen Margaret, and this presented enormous risks for Bonville and his family.

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

William married Margaret Grey after 12 Dec 1414. Margaret (daughter of Reynold Grey and Margaret de Ros) was born about 1399; died after May 1426. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Elizabeth Courtenay before 9 Oct 1427. Elizabeth (daughter of Hugh Courtenay and Anne Talbot) died on 28 Oct 1471; was buried in Porlock, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hugh married Katherine Affeton before 19 Dec 1437. Katherine (daughter of John Affeton and Joan Bratton) died on 26 Mar 1467. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 24 Nov 1419

Notes:

Burgess (M.P.) for Barnstaple, Devon.

Family/Spouse: Alice Bois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Little Modbury, Devon, England

Notes:

Also called John Bountle.

John married Alice Dennis before 1478. Alice (daughter of William Denys and Joan St. Aubyn) was born about 1451; died after 1500. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Tailboys. William (son of Walter Tailboys and (Unknown first wife of Walter Tailboys)) was born about 1415; died on 26 May 1464 in Sandhills, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England; was buried in Grey Friars Church, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Executed immediately following the Yorkist loss at the battle of Wakefield.

William married Elizabeth Harington about 1442. Elizabeth died before 1458. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Catherine Neville in 1458. Catherine (daughter of Richard Neville and Alice Montagu) was born about 1442; died between 22 Nov 1503 and 25 Mar 1504; was buried in Ashby de la Zouche, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nicholas married Thomasine Cockworthy before 24 Jun 1475. Thomasine (daughter of John Cockworthy and Thomasine Chichester) died on 29 Nov 1477. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was admitted a member of Lincoln's Inn in 1453.

William married Elizabeth Chuderlegh before 1458. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Fortescue. Thomas (son of John Fortescue and Isabella Gibbs) was born in 1490; died about 1554. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1451
• Alternate death: 30 Jan 1495

Notes:

MP for Lincolnshire 1472-75, 1478; Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1480-1.

The attainder of his father was reversed in 1472. He was admitted a member of Corpus Christi Guild at Boston, Lincolnshire in 1488.

Ancestor of George Washington:

Sir Robert Talboys = Elizabeth Heron
Sir George Talboys = Elizabeth Gascoigne
Anne Talboys = Sir Edward Dymoke
Frances Dymoke = Sir Thomas Windebank
Mildred Windebank = Robert Reade
Col. George Reade of VA = Elizabeth Martiau
Mildred Reade = Augustine Warner Jr.
Mildred Warner = Lawrence Washington
Augustine Washington = Mary Ball
George Washington = Mrs. Martha Dandridge Custis

Robert married Elizabeth Heron before 1467. Elizabeth (daughter of John Heron and Elizabeth Heron) died before 30 Jan 1495; was buried in Kyme Priory, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Grey. Thomas (son of John Grey and Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort of England) died on 20 Sep 1501. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Devon 1520-22.

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

Family/Spouse: Margaret Courtenay. Margaret (daughter of Philip Courtenay and Elizabeth Wonwell) died in 1536. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Joan Brett after Feb 1538. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert Tyrwhit. Robert (son of William Tyrwhit and Anne Constable) was born about 1482 in of Kettleby, Lincolnshire, England; died on 4 Jul 1548 in Kettleby, Lincolnshire, England; was buried in Wrawby, Kettleby, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

De jure Lord Kyme, styled Earl of Angus. Sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1526. He was knighted at the Battle of Blackheath in 1497. He was judged a lunatic 2 Mar 1517, and his person and lands were taken into custody.

George married Elizabeth Gascoigne before Apr 1493. Elizabeth (daughter of William Gascoigne and Margaret Percy) died in 1559; was buried in Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

2nd Marquess of Dorset.

Thomas married Margaret Wotton in 1509. Margaret died after 6 Oct 1535. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Charles Farringdon. Charles (son of John Farringdon and Elizabeth Wilford) was born about 1500 in of Farringdon, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Modbury, Devon, England

Family/Spouse: Katherine Carew. Katherine (daughter of Edmund Carew and Katherine Huddesfield) was born about 1500; died on 18 Jul 1565 in London, England. [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]

Anne married Edward Dymoke between 1523 and 1 Apr 1529. Edward (son of Robert Dymoke and Anne Sparrow) was born about 1508 in of Scrivelsby, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England; died on 16 Sep 1567. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Lincolnshire, 1529.

Gilbert married Elizabeth Blount about 1519. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1st Duke of Suffolk. 3rd Marquess of Dorset.

Family/Spouse: Frances Brandon. Frances (daughter of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor) was born on 16 Jul 1517 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England; died on 11 Nov 1559 in London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Dowrish. Thomas (son of Thomas Dowrish and Elizabeth Taverner) was born about 1522 in of Dowrish House in Sandford, Devon, England; died in 1590. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"She […] had a position in the households of queens Anne of Cleves and Katherine Parr, while her sister-in-law Lady Berkeley was governess to Princess Elizabeth. A committed protestant, with her sister Katherine Raleigh she is reported to have protected the persecuted reformers in Devon. In the summer of 1546 Lady Denny (and by extension her husband) was one of the court protestants whom religious conservatives tried to incriminate through accusations wrung from Anne Askew, a distant relative of Joan's uncle Sir Gawain Carew; Anne would admit only that Lady Denny's servant had brought her money, and Sir Anthony survived as a leading figure among Seymour's associates at the close of the reign." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

Joan married Anthony Denny about 4 Feb 1538. Anthony (son of Edmund Denny and Mary Coke) was born on 16 Jan 1501 in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England; died on 10 Sep 1549 in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England; was buried in St. Mary's, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Walter Ralegh. Walter was born in 1505 in of East Budleigh, Devon, England; died in 1581. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Joan, which has led to confusion with her sister who was definitely named Joan.

Jane married Robert Gamage before 1531. Robert (son of Thomas Gamage and Margaret St. John) was born in of Coety, Glamorgan, Wales; died between 27 Oct 1570 and 4 Jan 1571. [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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1607

Notes:

"Even though Frances Dymoke survived her husband Thomas Windebanck, and died testate around 1612, they must have been divorced or separated 'in some manner' as we have instances of Mary, widow of Edward Hunte, called, or calling herself, the 'wife' of Thomas Windebank, clerk of the Signet, at least between the years 1591-1600. The will of Thomas Windebank, around 1607/8, does not name a wife, and only mentions the known children by Frances." [John C. Brandon, citation details below]

Frances married Thomas Windebank on 19 Aug 1566 in Scrivelsby, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England. Thomas (son of Richard Windebank and Margaret ferch Griffith) was born about 1550 in of St. Martin in the Fields, London, England; died on 24 Oct 1607; was buried in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Known to history as Lady Jane Grey, the "Nine Days Queen."

Jane married Guildford Dudley on 21 May 1553 in Durham House, London, England. Guildford (son of John Dudley and Jane Guildford) died on 12 Feb 1554 in Tower Hill, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katherine married Henry Herbert on 21 May 1553. Henry (son of William Herbert and Ann Parr) was born after 1537; died on 19 Jan 1601 in Wilton, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Grace married Robert Gye after 1558. Robert (son of John Gye and Mary Prowse) was born about 1531 in of Dodderidge, Devon, England; died between 1604 and 29 Sep 1608. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Thomas Astley before 1563. Thomas (son of Thomas Astley and Ann Cruse) was born in of Writtle, Essex, England; died in 1595; was buried in Writtle, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The courtier, author, and explorer. The Walter Ralegh that you're thinking of.

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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 17 Jun 1624

Notes:

Her funeral monument in St. Barnabas Church, Faccombe, reads:

HERE LYES THE BODY OF ANNE READE, Y^E DEARE WIFE OF HENRY READE ESQ^R: ONE OF Y^E DAUGHTERS OF S^R THO: WINDEBANKE K^T: CLARKE OF THE SIGNET TO THE LATE QUEENE ELIZAB: & TO K: IAMES THAT NOW IS, SHE WAS BEGOTTEN ON Y^E BODY OF FRANCIS DYMMOCKE HIS WIFE, ONE OF Y^E DAUGHTERS OF S^R EDW: DYMMOCKE OF SKEERLSBY IN Y^E COVNTY OF LINCOLNE K^T: CHAMPION TO Y^E SAID QUEENE ELIZA: & HER SVCCESSO^RS BY THE TENVRE OF HIS LANDES

SHE DEBTED THIS WORLD TO REST WITH HER SAVIOR CHRIST Y^E 7^TH DAY OF IVNE 1624 IN Y^E 53 YEARE OF HER AGE & LEFT BEHIND HER ISSVES OF HER BODY LIVING, 2 SONNES FRANCIS & ROBT. & 3 DAV: MARGARET MILDRED & ANN

Note that John Bennett Bodie's transcription of this inscription gives her death date as 7 Jun 1624, whereas John Meredith Reade's transcription says 17 June of the same year. From images posted online, it would appear thatg Bodie is correct.

Anne married Henry Reade on 3 Sep 1592 in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England. Henry (son of Andrew Reade and Alice Cooke) was born in 1566; died on 12 Apr 1647; was buried in Faccombe, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Secretary of State under Charles I.

"Francis Windebank matriculated on 18 May 1599 from St John's College, Oxford, where William Laud, who by 1608 had become his 'dear friend', may have been his tutor. He graduated BA on 26 January 1602 and entered the Middle Temple on 4 February 1603. In February 1605 he was granted a clerkship of the signet in reversion after Levinus Monck and Francis Gall before leaving on an extended tour through France, Germany, and Italy. On his return to England in February 1608 he took up work in the signet office, now able to write letters in both French and Italian, adding by 1616 a reading knowledge of Spanish. In July 1608 he married Edith Jackson, of obscure origins and, as he later hinted, limited means." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

Multiple accounts of his escape to France in 1640 (see below) mention that he was accompanied by his secretary and nephew Robert Reade. This was the Robert Reade who was a brother of Col. George Reade of Virginia, both of them sons of Francis Windebank's sister Mildred by her husband Robert Reade. (See John Meredith Read, "The English Ancestry of Washington," The Atheneum number 3465, 24 Mar 1894.)

From Wikipedia (accessed 8 Nov 2021):

After a few years of continental travel (1605–1608), he settled at Haines Hill at Hurst in Berkshire and was employed for many years in minor public offices, eventually becoming clerk of the council.

In June 1632, he was appointed by King Charles I as Secretary of State in succession to Lord Dorchester, his senior colleague being Sir John Coke, and he was knighted. His appointment was mainly due to his Spanish and Roman Catholic sympathies. The first Earl of Portland, Francis, Lord Cottington, and Windebank formed an inner group in the council, and with their aid the king carried on various secret negotiations, especially with Spain.

In December 1634 Windebank was appointed to discuss with the papal agent Gregorio Panzani the possibility of a union between the Anglican and Roman Churches, and expressed the opinion that the Puritan opposition might be crippled by sending their leaders to the war in the Netherlands.

Windebank's efforts as treasury commissioner in 1635 to shield some of those guilty of corruption led to a breach with Archbishop Laud. In the same year Windebank was one of the promoters of the Courteen association, and the next year he was for a time disgraced for issuing an order for the conveyance of Spanish money to pay the Spanish troops in the Netherlands.

In July 1638 he urged the king to make war with the Scots, and in 1640, when trouble was breaking out in England, he sent an appeal from Queen Henrietta Maria to the pope for money and men. He was elected in March 1640 to the Short Parliament, as member for Oxford University, and he entered the Long Parliament in October as member for Corfe Castle. In December the House learnt that he had signed letters of grace to recusant priests and Jesuits, and summoned him to answer the charge, but the king allowed him to escape to France. From Calais, he wrote to Christopher Hatton, defending his integrity, and affirming his belief that the Church of England was the purest and nearest the primitive Church. He remained in Paris until his death, shortly after he had been received into the Roman communion.

Windebank married and had a large family. William Laud referred in 1630 to his "many sons". He had five at least, and four survived him:

Thomas (born c. 1612), was M.P. for Wootton Bassett and supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. He was made a baronet in 1645. He was Clerk of the Signet from 1641 until 1645 and again (after the Interregnum) from 1660 to 1674.

Francis (died 1645) supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War. He was court-martialled and shot for failing to defend Bletchingdon House, near Oxford.

Christopher (born 1615) was an Englishman who lived in Madrid and worked as guide and interpreter for English ambassadors.

John (1618–1704), a physician who was admitted an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1680 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Of Windebank's daughters:

Margaret married Thomas Turner (1591–1672), and was mother of Thomas Turner (1645–1714), president of Corpus Christi, Oxford, and of Francis Turner, bishop of Ely, one of the seven Bishops who, refusing to accept James II's Declaration of Indulgence, were imprisoned in the Tower of London.

Frances married Sir Edward Hales on 12 July 1669.

One other died unmarried at Paris about 1650.

Two others became nuns of the Calvary at the Église Sainte-Marie-des-Anges, Paris.

Francis married Edith Jackson in Jul 1608. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 6 Aug 1630 and 31 Dec 1630
• Alternate death: Aft 6 Aug 1630
• Alternate death: Aft 15 Aug 1630

Mildred married Robert Reade on 31 Jul 1600 in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England. Robert (son of Andrew Reade and Alice Cooke) was born about 1568 in of Faccombe, Hampshire, England; died before 20 Mar 1627; was buried on 20 Mar 1627 in Linkenholt, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of TWK's twelve proven "gateway ancestors", and one of TSW's eight.

Mary married Rev. John Maverick on 28 Oct 1600 in Ilsington, Devon, England. John (son of Peter Mavericke and Dorothy Tucke) was born before 28 Dec 1578; was christened on 28 Dec 1578 in Awliscombe, Devon, England; died on 3 Feb 1636 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edward Darcy. Edward (son of Arthur Darcy and Mary Carew) was born about 1543 in of Dartford, Kent, England; died on 28 Oct 1612 in Dartford, Kent, England; was buried in St. Botolph's, Aldgate, London, England. [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: 1606, Linkenholt, Hampshire, England

Notes:

"A noted Royalist. [...] He was admitted scholar of New College, December 10th, 1624; Fellow, January 15th, 1626; LL.D., 1638; Advocate of Arches Court; Principal of Magdalen Hall, 1643; resigned his Fellowship, September 21st, 1645, and Edward Farmer, of the parish of St. Helen's, Abingdon, was admitted in his place. He had a king's letter in his favour, dated March 31st, 1624; and in 1642 trailed a pike for King Charles in the university, and served his Majesty in the army, but on the decline of the king's cause changed his religion and became a secular priest; esteemed a good scholar and civilian." [John Meredith Read, citation details below]

According to John Bennett Bodie (citation details below), the Linkenholt parish register says he was baptized 18 Oct 1604, earlier than the 1606 birth year given by other sources.

Notes:

He was secretary to his uncle, Sir Francis Windebank, Secretary of State under Charles I, and accompanied him on his escape to Paris in 1640. We do not know the dates of his birth or death, but he is mentioned in the nuncupative will of his brother Dr. Thomas Reade dated 7 Mar 1668.

In a letter from Paris to his cousin Thomas Windebank, 19 Mar 1641, he mentions a trunk that had been left behind in his chamber at Whitehall, and regrets its loss, "for there were many good things in it which I had gathered together, and such as had no relation to the State."

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 25 Oct 1608
• Alternate death: 1671, Virginia

Notes:

"George Reade, born 25 Oct. 1608, son of Robert and Mildred (Windebank) Reade, who had come to Virginia in Sir John Harvey's party upon his return as governor of Virginia, 1637. On 27 Aug. 1640 George Reade was appointed by the King 'to the place of Secretary [of the Colony] in the absence of Richard Kemp who has lately arrived in England.' Reade was clerk of the Council, 1648, burgess for James City, 1649, and for York, 1656, and was appointed to the Council in 1658, holding that office until his death." [Adventurers of Purse and Person, citation details below]

He is a "gateway ancestor" for PNH's sister-in-law, a descendant of Edward III and over five thousand other medieval people. A daughter of Edward III's son John of Gaunt, Joan Beaufort, was married twice; through her second marriage, to Ralph de Neville, George Reade is an 8X-great grandson of Edward III. Through her second marriage, to Robert Ferrers, Reade is a 9X-great grandson of the same king, and also a 9X-great grandson through another of Edward's sons, Lionel of Antwerp.

He and his wife Elizabeth Martiau were great-great grandparents of George Washington:

George Reade = Elizabeth Martiau
Mildred Reade = Col. Augustine Warner
Mildred Warner = Lawrence Washington
Augustine Washington = Mary Ball
George Washington

It has been suggested that George Washington was named George after this particular great-great-grandfather. It does appear that George Reade represents the most recent, and possibly the only, previous instance of a George in Washington's ancestry.

George Reade and Elizabeth Martiau were also ancestors of Queen Elizabeth II:

George Reade = Elizabeth Martiau
Mildred Reade = Col. Augustine Warner
Mary Warner = Col. John Smith
Mildred Smith = Robert Porteous
Robert Porteous = Judith Cockayne
Mildred Porteous = Robert Hodgson
Rev. Robert Hodgson = Mary Tucker
Henrietta Mildred Hodgson = Oswald Smith
Frances Dora Smith = Claude Bowes-Lyon
Claude George Bowes-Lyon = Cecilia Nina Cavendish-Bentinck
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon = King George VI
Queen Elizabeth II

And of Meriwether Lewis:

George Reade = Elizabeth Martiau
Mildred Reade = Col. Augustine Warner
Elizabeth Warner = Col. John Lewis
Col. Robert Lewis = Jane Meriwether
William Lewis = Lucy Meriwether
Meriwether Lewis

And of General George S. Patton:

Thomas Reade = Lucy Gwynne
Mildred Reade = Philip Rootes
Elizabeth Rootes = Rev. John Thompson
Philip Rootes Thompson = Anna Davenport
Eleanor Thompson = William Thorton
Susanna Thompson Thorton = Andrew Glassell
Susan Thornton Glassell = George Smith Patton
George Smith Patton = Ruth Wilson
General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

George married Elizabeth Martiau about 1641 in Yorktown, York, Virginia. Elizabeth (daughter of Capt. Nicholas Martiau and (Unknown first wife of Nicholas Martieu)) was born in 1625; died between 10 Feb 1686 and 24 Jan 1687 in Virginia; was buried in Grace Episcopal Churchyard, Yorktown, York, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elias married Anna Harris before 1635. Anna (daughter of Thomas Harris alias Williams and Elizabeth) was born before 28 Feb 1614; was christened on 28 Feb 1614 in Newnham, Hertfordshire, England; died on 7 Sep 1697 in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Through his efforts, Marblehead became a separate entity from Salem in 1649. In reward for these efforts, he was elected as one of the first selectmen in 1649, a position he would hold for fourteen years between 1649 and his death. He held various other local positions and was the town's leading figure." [Wikipedia, accessed 19 Sep 2020]

Moses married Remember Allerton before 6 May 1635 in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts. Remember (daughter of Isaac Allerton and Mary Norris) was born about 1615 in Leiden, Netherlands; died between 12 Sep 1652 and 22 Oct 1656. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1631

Family/Spouse: Grace Reddish. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1669, London, England

Notes:

Her second husband was the Rev. Sydrach Simpson, Master of Pembroke Hall at the University of Cambridge.

Isabella married John Launce about 1619. John (son of Robert Launce and Susan Tubb) was born about 1597 in of Penair in St. Clement, Cornwall, England; died before 25 Jun 1635; was buried on 25 Jun 1635 in St. Clement, Cornwall, 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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 4 Jan 1694

Mildred married Augustine Warner before 1671. Augustine (son of Col. Augustine Warner and Mary Towneley) was born on 3 Jun 1642 in York County, Virginia; died on 19 Jun 1681. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Capt. Thomas Chisman. Thomas (son of Edmund Chisman and Mary) was born about 1652; died between 25 Jan 1710 and 18 Jul 1715. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married Matthew Clarke on 4 Jun 1655. Matthew was born in 1627; died in 1684. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married Benjamin Balch on 5 Feb 1689. Benjamin (son of John Balch and Margery) was born about 1629; died after 31 Jan 1715. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 30 Sep 1649, Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts
• Alternate death: Between Jan 1686 and 29 Nov 1698
• Alternate death: Between Jan 1686 and 3 Nov 1698
• Alternate death: 29 Nov 1698, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Elizabeth married Thomas Skinner about 1676. Thomas was born about 1644; died on 28 Dec 1690 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Newhall, Derbyshire, England

Edward married Elizabeth Stanhope after 1634. Elizabeth (daughter of Philip Stanhope) died about 1683. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of AP's two proven gateway ancestors.

Cotton Mather, in Magnalia Christi Americana, called Mary Launce, second wife of the Rev. John Sherman, a "young gentlewoman [...] a Person of good Education, and Reputation, and honorably descended," whose mother was "daughter to the Lord Darcy, who was Earl of Rivers." She certainly was not, and in his pioneering 1860-64 Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, James Savage took delight at exercising his well-known animus against Mather, who "tells of this wife calling her mother daughter of Darcy, Earl Rivers, one of the Popish Counsellors of Charles I who had no daughter that married a Launce." Savage continues: "If [Mary Launce Sherman] did give [her husband] these myths of her noble descent [...] either she was insane, which he had not sanity enough to discover, or she was irreverently playing on his bottomless credulity." It was left to the great Donald Lines Jacobus, founder of the twentieth-century "Jacobus School" of skeptical, fact-based genealogy, to point out, in a 1944 article, "The Family of Rev. John Sherman" (citation details below), that Mary Launce's mother really was a Darcy, albeit one of the Darcy family of Kent. Isabella Darcy of London, daughter of Sir Edward Darcy, a confidant and ally of Elizabeth I, first married John Launce of Cornwall and, secondly, the Rev. Sydrach Simpson, master of Pembroke Hall at Cambridge University. Her 1668 will names, with others, her sons James Launce and Darcy Launce, and her daughter Mary Sherman. In a subsequent article, "The Darcy Ancestry of Mrs. John Sherman" (citation details below), Jacobus put forth further proofs of Mary Launce's parentage, calling it a "perfect chain of evidence" and remarking that "Few English lines of early colonists are so thoroughly proved."

Descendants of the Rev. John Sherman and Mary Launce include Norman Rockwell, Declaration of Independence signer Robert Treat Paine, and the 68th governor of Massachusetts, William Weld.

Regarding the date of her death, the Early New England Families Study Project (citation details below) states only that she "[d]ied probably at Watertown between 15 October 1705 and 24 December 1712. She was living on 20 October 1704, when she acknowledged a deed." But Watertown records (citation details below) clearly state "m^s Mary Sherman (widow of mr. John Sherman Late: R^d: pastor of the church in watertown) deceas^t march : 9 : 1709/10".

Mary married Rev. John Sherman about 1647. John (son of Edmund Sherman and Grace Makin) was born on 26 Dec 1613 in Dedham, Essex, England; was christened on 4 Jan 1614 in Dedham, Essex, England; died on 8 Aug 1685 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in East Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 26 Mar 1701
• Buried: 26 Mar 1701, Whitehaven, Cumberland, England

Mildred married Lawrence Washington about 1690. Lawrence (son of Col. John Washington and Anne Pope) was born in Sep 1659 in Westmoreland County, Virginia; died between 11 Mar 1698 and 30 Apr 1698. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Mary married John Stacy on 26 Aug 1689. John (son of Thomas Stacy and Susanna Worcester) was born on 16 Mar 1667 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 22 Feb 1732 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts; was buried in First Parish Burial Ground, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 1728 and 1736
• Alternate death: Bef 27 Dec 1736

Abigail married Nathaniel Coney on 6 Sep 1711 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Nathaniel (son of John Coney and Elizabeth Nash) was born before 24 Mar 1677; was christened on 24 Mar 1677 in Second Church, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 19 Nov 1742 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katherine married Erasmus Phillips about 1 Sep 1660. Erasmus (son of Richard Phillips and Elizabeth Dryden) was born in of Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died on 18 Jan 1697. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1645

Notes:

Minister at Sudbury, Massachusetts, Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and Salem, Massachusetts.

James married Mary Walker on 13 May 1680 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Thomas Walker and Mary Stone) was born on 9 Aug 1661 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died after 11 Mar 1709. [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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1694, Wakefield, Westmoreland, Virginia

Notes:

He was a partner in the Accakeek Fire Furnace.

Augustine married Jane Butler on 20 Apr 1715. Jane was born on 24 Dec 1699; died on 24 Nov 1729. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Augustine married Mary Ball on 6 Mar 1731. Mary (daughter of Col. Joseph Ball and Mary) was born about 1707 in Lancaster County, Virginia; died on 25 Aug 1789 in Fredericksburg, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 18 Aug 1735

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Chapman. Elizabeth (daughter of John Chapman and Elizabeth) was born on 28 Dec 1709; died between 2 Aug 1780 and 17 Jun 1782. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Ebenezer Goodspeed on 7 Nov 1711 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Ebenezer (son of Ebenezer Goodspeed and Lydia Crowell) was born on 10 Sep 1685 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married Michael Lowell on 18 Feb 1734 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Michael (son of Ebenezer Lowell and Elizabeth Shailer) was born on 22 Dec 1709 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 12 May 1761 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was buried in Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna married Aaron Guild about 1756. Aaron (son of Nathaniel Guild and Mehitable) was born on 5 Apr 1728 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 3 Feb 1818 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Shorter. John (son of John Shorter, Lord Mayor of London) was born in of Bybrook, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He and his wife Abigail Stone "settled in Springfield, Mass., where he was a schoolmaster and physician; but about 1722 they removed to the region which in 1731 became the town of Brimfield, where he was a physician, town clerk for thirty successive years, representative three years, and captain of militia." They were married for nearly seventy years.

John married Abigail Stone on 9 Nov 1703 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Abigail (daughter of Daniel Stone and Mary Moore) was born on 13 Feb 1681 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 9 Mar 1772 in Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. [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]

George married Martha Dandridge on 6 Jan 1759 in New Kent County, Virginia. Martha was born on 2 Jun 1731; died on 22 May 1802 in Mount Vernon, Fairfax, Virginia; was buried in Mount Vernon, Fairfax, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 20 Jun 1803

John married Mary Buckner in 1763. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married John Blish on 15 Nov 1739. John (son of Reuben Blish and Elizabeth Bodfish) was born on 9 Sep 1717 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married William Darracott on 25 Dec 1783. William (son of William Darracott and Sarah) was born on 24 Apr 1754 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 16 Oct 1806 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jacob married Chloe May on 1 Jan 1781. Chloe (daughter of Nathaniel May and Sarah Blackman) was born on 6 Sep 1764 in Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 27 Mar 1848 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts; was buried in Old Parish Cemetery, Norwood, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Catherine married Robert Walpole on 30 Jul 1700 in Knightsbridge Chapel, London, England. Robert (son of Robert Walpole and Mary Burwell) was born on 26 Aug 1676 in Houghton, Norfolk, England; died on 18 Mar 1745 in London, England; was buried on 25 Mar 1745 in Houghton, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 31 Mar 1703, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts

Bezaleel married Abigail Graves on 4 Feb 1732 in Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. Abigail (daughter of Ebenezer Graves and Mary Colton) was born on 18 Feb 1707 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. [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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 17 Feb 1836, Dearborn County, Indiana

John married Ann Palmer in 1789. Ann was born on 5 Jan 1770 in Martinsburg, Berkeley, Virginia (now West Virginia); died on 7 Aug 1857 in Dearborn County, Indiana; was buried in Wilmington Cemetery, Wilmington, Dearborn, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Vassalboro, Kennebec, Maine

Notes:

Winslow Memorial (citation details below) calls him, evidently incorrectly, "Stephen Blish." Both mentions of him in the Barnstable town records call him Stacy Blish.

Stacy married Mary Baxter on 25 Nov 1773. Mary (daughter of Joseph Baxter and Hannah North) was born on 28 May 1752; died in 1836. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Shared with his son-in-law Joseph Nason, U.S. patent 1,261, 26 Jul 1839, for an "Argand Gas-Burner."

The handwritten registry that records his death in Boston on 13 Jul 1865 calls his occupation "gentleman" and names his parents William and Mary.

"George Darracott, one of our Directors, died on the 13th day of July last, in his 81st year. He was born Oct. 6, 1784, and was of Norman-English descent, his ancestors having resided for many generations in Devonshire, England. Commencing business on a moderate scale, he soon developed a taste for mechanical ingenuity and improvements. In 1826, he projected the Marine Railway for the merchant service of Boston, the construction and management of which during a period of nine years were intrusted to his care. He superintended the affairs of the Boston Gas-Light Company for sixteen years. He was a member of the Board of Health at a time when the visitation of the yellow fever at this port caused a serious alarm, and he assisted in adopting the most efficient measures to stay its ravages. He served at another time of excitement, in the introduction of the Voluntary Fire Department, as an assistant engineer. He was a Director of one of the public institutions of the city, a Representative to the General Court, and President of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association. Of the latter, he was one of its early and prominent members; he was long associated in the management of its affairs, displaying great intelligence and persevering industry. He exhibited the same devotion to the interests of the Bunker-Hill-Monument Association, of which he was Director for thirty-four years, and, in 1840-1843, was a member of the Building Committee; in 1835, with Mr. Thorndike and Mr. Hammond,he made a long and laborious calculation of the cost of the work remaining to be done, on two different plans, by calculating the contents of each stone in every course to be laid, and estimating the cost thereof, for which service the Committee received a special vote of thanks on the part of the Corporation." [Proceedings of the Bunker Hill Monument Association at the Annual Meeting on Monday, June 18, 1866, citation details below.]

George married Sarah "Sally" Clark on 18 Jan 1807. Sarah (daughter of James Clark and Mehitable Lambert) was born on 6 Aug 1787; died on 16 Jun 1859 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nancy married Leavitt Nason on 3 Apr 1808. Leavitt (son of Nathaniel Nason and Abiah Hartshorn) was born in 1782 in Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 9 Dec 1866 in Pepperell, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Christened Horatio Walpole, he was an antiquarian, an art historian, the author of the first Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto, and of letters of great social and historical interest, which have been published in 48 volumes by Yale University Press.

MP for Callington, Cornwall, 1741-1754; for Castle Rising, Norfolk, 1754-1757; and for King's Lynn, Norfolk, 1757-1768. Earl of Orford from 1791 to his death.

Abigail married Joseph Thompson on 19 Feb 1754 in Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. Joseph (son of James Thompson and Mary) was born on 25 Mar 1733 in Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts; died in 1795 in Virginia, Coshocton, Ohio; was buried in Virginia, Coshocton, Ohio. [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]

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• 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]

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• 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]

Notes:

According to The Buffington Family of Dearborn County, Indiana (citation details below), Edmund is one of nine children named in John B. Chisman's will (made 2 Dec 1834 and proved 14 Oct 1836), the others being Elias (whose will was made in 1877 and proved in 1883), John, George, William, James, Elizabeth, Mary Ann, and Charlotte.

He may be the Edmund Chisman recorded as a private in the 6th regiment of artillery (the record describes it as "READ, JR.'S") in the Virginia militia during the War of 1812. He would have been the right age, and it seems clear that the Chisman family's movement westward commenced later than 1812-14.

Edmund married Martha Brown on 29 Aug 1816 in Berkeley, James, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 18 Jun 1778, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Rebecca married Stephen Winslow on 15 Jul 1804 in Vassalboro, Kennebec, Maine. Stephen (son of William Winslow and Phebe Pope) was born on 18 Jun 1782 in Falmouth, Cumberland, Maine; died on 1 Jan 1865 in Larone, Somerset, Maine; was buried in Augusta, Kennebec, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Joseph Nason on 18 Jun 1844 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Joseph (son of Leavitt Nason and Nancy Guild) was born on 31 Dec 1815 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 11 Dec 1872 in Montclair, Essex, New Jersey; was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 31 Dec 1815, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Notes:

Manufacturer and inventor. Said to have coined the term "radiator," he received a number of U.S. patents for hot water and steam heating.

"NASON.--On Wednesday, 11th inst., at Montclair, N.J., in the 57th year of his age, JOSEPH NASON, of the firm of Joseph Nason & Co., New-York, and formerly of the firm of Walworth, Nason & Co., Boston. The remains will be taken to Boston for interment. Funeral services will be held at his late residence in Montclair, N.J., on Thursday, Dec. 12, at 3 1/2 P.M. Carriages will await the arrival of 2 P.M. train from foot of Barclay st. Return trains at 5 and 5:55 P.M. Boston papers please copy." [New York Times, 13 Dec 1872, p. 5]

"Mr. [James Jones] Walworth was first married in 1837 to Miss Elizabeth C. Nason, daughter of Leavitt Nason, and sister of Joseph Nason, his early partner." [Men of Progress: One Thousand Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Leaders in Business and Professional Life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, compiled by Richard Herndon, ed. Edwin M. Bacon. Boston: New England Magazine, 1896.]

Joseph married Sarah Clark Darracott on 18 Jun 1844 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of George Darracott and Sarah "Sally" Clark) was born on 13 Nov 1815 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 11 May 1892 in New York, New York; was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He appears to have been served in the Revolution for nine months beginning in July 1779, under Captain Reuben Lilly.

Family/Spouse: Sarah Clark. Sarah was born in 1767; died on 15 Jan 1852; was buried in Peru Center Cemetery, Peru, Berkshire, Massachusetts. [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."