At last, the cast of Volume 2 of Early Families of New England 1641-1700 is set. See below for a list of all fifty sketches.
The inventory includes five sets of siblings: John and Samuel Carter; Andrew and George Lane; Daniel, John, and Joseph Morse; Joshua and Thomas Scottow (and brother-in-law Robert Winsor); and John and Samuel Sherman.
Three women have sketches in this volume: Mary (Smith) (Glover) Hinckley, Jane (Conant) (Holgrave) Mason, and Amyas (Cole) (Thompson) Maverick, in addition to their husbands: Thomas Hinckley, Nathaniel Glover, Joshua Holgrave, and Samuel Maverick.
Watertown wins the prize for most sketches in a location (7), with Boston next (6). Geographic areas covered a range from Scarborough, Maine, down along the New Hampshire coast (Hampton, Exeter), the “North Shore” of Massachusetts (Haverhill, Ipswich, Newbury, Salisbury, Salem, Haverhill), the Boston “Metro” area (Boston, Cambridge, Charlestown, Dorchester, Noddles Island, Roxbury), the Boston “suburbs” (Woburn, Dedham, Needham, Braintree, Concord, Sudbury, Marlborough, Southborough, Medfield, Sherborn), the “South Shore” and Cape (Weymouth, Hingham, Duxbury, Scituate, Plymouth, Barnstable, Yarmouth, Sandwich), into Rhode Island (Portsmouth) to Connecticut (Wethersfield, Milford, New Haven, Stamford, Stratford, Fairfield). Outside of New England, we have Long Island, New York (Newtown), Woodbridge, New Jersey, and Barbados.
Clearly, I fulfilled my goal of writing sketches that are geographically diverse!
Eighteen principal Individuals had more than one marriage, with many of their spouses also having other marriages.
The most prominent families are probably the Hinckleys and Glovers – Governor Thomas Hinckley and his second wife, Mary (Smith) (Glover) Hinckley, and her first husband, Nathaniel Glover. If I remember correctly, the most children belong to Thomas Hinckley – seventeen by two wives.
If I remember correctly, the most children belong to Thomas Hinckley – seventeen by two wives.
Now, what about Volume 3? As I’ve mentioned before, I am retooling the Early New England Families with the aim of producing more sketches. The categories within each sketch will remain the same, but I will be using cross references to Great Migration Study Project and other Early New England Families sketches, Register articles, etc., rather than trying to make each new sketch “stand-alone.”
Content detail will be constrained. Unless pertinent, wills, deeds, etc. will not be transcribed at length. I will still try to get some of the “flavor” of life into the sketches, but not as many quotations.
Finally, I will be working in clusters of related families/neighbors to best take advantage of common resources. The first “cluster” underway is for the extended family of Lydia (Buckland) (Brown) (Lord) (Dunk) Post of Saybrook. (I wrote a blog about the complications of her family, “Are we having fun yet?”) Lydia will have her own sketch with information on all her husbands (her parents and grandparents are in Great Migration). Husband #2, William Lord, will have a sketch, as will husband #3, Thomas Dunk. Husband #1, John Brown, has been treated in print in several places, so I will probably cross-reference to them. Also, husband #4, Abraham Post, is well treated in an article in the Register.
Essayons (Let Us Try), as the Army Corp of Engineers proclaims!
Volume 2
Daniel Bacon of Dedham, Woburn, Bridgewater, Cambridge, and Needham, Massachusetts
Nathaniel Bacon of Barnstable
James Badcock of Portsmouth, Rhode Island
John Carter of Charlestown and Woburn
Samuel Carter of Charlestown
Thomas Carter of Charlestown
Hugh Clark of Watertown and Roxbury
Jonas Clark of Cambridge
Thomas Cornish of Salem, Massachusetts; Exeter, New Hampshire; and Newtown, Long Island
John Dunham of Plymouth
Thomas Dyer of Weymouth
John Fairbanks of Dedham
Daniel Fisher of Dedham
Nathaniel Glover of Dorchester
Roger Goodspeed of Barnstable
John Grout of Watertown and Sudbury
Mary (Smith) (Glover) Hinckley of Dorchester and Barnstable
Thomas Hinckley of Barnstable
Joshua Holgrave of Salem
John Hollister of Wethersfield, Connecticut
Henry Lamprey of Boston and Hampton, New Hampshire
Andrew Lane of Hingham
George Lane of Hingham
Richard Lowell of Newbury
William Marchent of Watertown and Ipswich
Jane (Conant) (Holgrave) Mason of Salem
Amyas (Cole) (Thomson) Maverick of Noddles Island
Samuel Maverick of Noddles Island; New York; and Barbados
Daniel Morse of Watertown, Dedham, Medfield, and Sherborn
John Morse of Dedham, Medfield, and Boston
Joseph Morse of Watertown, Dedham, Medfield, and Dorchester
Robert Moulton Jr. of Salem
Richard Newton of Sudbury, Marlborough, and Southborough
Thomas Nichols of Hingham
Peter Oliver of Boston
John Pike of Ipswich, Newbury, and Salisbury, Massachusetts, and Woodbridge, New Jersey
Robert Pike of Ipswich, Newbury, and Salisbury
Joshua Scottow of Boston and Scarborough, Maine
Thomas Scottow of Boston
John Sherman of Watertown, Massachusetts, and Wethersfield, Milford, and New Haven, Connecticut
Samuel Sherman of Watertown, Massachusetts, and Wethersfield, Stamford, Stratford, and Fairfield, Connecticut
Thomas Starr of Cambridge, Duxbury, Yarmouth, Scituate, and Charlestown
John Stone of Watertown, Cambridge, Newbury, and Sudbury
Thomas Stowe of Roxbury, Braintree, and Concord, Massachusetts, and Middletown, Connecticut
John Tompkins of Salem
Rev. John Ward of Haverhill
Robert Williams of Boston
Daniel Wing of Sandwich
Robert Winsor of Boston
I can’t wait! I see several ancestors here, and also some great uncles…
Janice, in the meantime, of course, they are all available online on americanancestors.org.
This is so awesome. Thank-you Alicia!
Thanks Jeff. As you will see below, I’m actually still one short, but have plenty in the pipeline.
Thank you for all you are doing. I appreciate it so much!
Paula, many thanks.
Let Us Try; I recognized it immediately. At the ROTC commissioning, I was commissioned as a 2nd Lt. in the Corps of Engineers by a General who was also in the Corps. As I saluted, etc., he said “Improvise, improvise, improvise.” And he was right.
Howland. “In Peace or War, Who Goes Before?”
The Army Engineers!
Thank you so much for your amazing work!
James, I appreciate the thanks.
Good Morning Alicia. I really get lots of info from some of your postings. Thank you for the great info you pass along to us. I have Hinckley, Bacon and one or two other links to your listing here. Many of the previous Ancestors are part of my Ancestry also. Sincere Best wishes for a great FALL of 2018 to you and your family, Paul Morris Hilton
Paul, and the same best wishes back to you and your family.
Such wonderful information! I thank you for the hard work! Wondering about Abel Cozier and his daughter Permelia (1789-1858) from New Fairfield CN. Any possible information?
Susan, thank you. Abel and Permelia, however, are outside my time period (NE marriages between 1640 and 1700), so can’t be any help there.
Are the sketches available yet on americanancestors.org? You are one amazing genealogist, Alicia! (I’m also thinking of the Mayflower research did you for my Parker/Phillips family in the 1980’s…but I can’t say, “You’ve come a long way, baby!” because you did outstanding research then, as well.)
Judy, all but Nathaniel Glover and his wife Mary are online. Those two are being reviewed by Ann Lainhart and should be posted soon. But, as you’ll see below, I’m still one sketch short!
Wonderful! and your expression at the end of this is the only way to get it done:) Can’t wait to see these…..
Thank you.
Congratulations, Alicia! You are amazing! Thank you for all your research and writings. You are my favorite genealogist. About five years ago, you responded to my comment, and encouraged me to continue my research to John Alden. My line was a new one and never before proven. Last November, I was presented with my Mayflower certificate for my lineage to John Alden.
Now my next dream is coming true. I am flying out to Boston on October 13 . I plan on visiting NEHGS for a few days of research, plus visit many historical places. This is the first time I have been to Massachusetts.Any hints on who I might contact at NEHGS, for guidance on research, would be so appreciated. Thank you.
Congratulations, Alden cousin. Contact Alice Kane “Library Patrons Services and Consultation Manager,” alice.kane@nehgs.org
Have a great trip. I’ll be in Richmond, Va. then.
Thank you Alicia and Judy for so much data . I too have Alden links amongst the 15 or so Passenger and Crew links on the Mayflower, The Anne, the Fortune and several other ships that came over the pond over the years. Good luck with the great research. There is much more coming down the PIKE and I cannot seem to keep up with all the great info. Best wishes to all of the gang at NEHGS and all the great members of this group of great friends. Sincerely Paul Morris Hilton
Thank you, Alicia. I am sending an email to Alice Kane right now.
Thrilled to recognize some names from mine and my husband’s trees… Is that Robert Williams of Roxbury? 1607-1693. My father-in-law had Williams for his middle name, a tradition in the family.
Barb, no, it’s Robert Williams of Boston 1615-1677. As my Dad always said, too many Williamses in the woods.
Yay! I will be interested in seeing the other Thomas Starr. FYI. I only count 49 names.
Rats, you are right Michael, only 49. I was using Excel’s numbers to count, but forgot that I have column headers, which it counts as 1. Will pull out whomever is fastest to do for No. 50. Ugh. A good reminder, once again, never put me in charge of numbers!
Thank you! I see that my Morse and Fisher ancestors are included. Can’t wait to see the results.
As usual we love your productivity. I too have two or three families in this upcoming volume, can’t wait! You are one amazing lady and we who constantly benefit from your talents applaud you once again!
Okay, emergency over. The 50th sketch is for Guido Bayley. He did not get coded on my Excel list, thus not included in the list above.
Guido thanks you, I am sure.
Amazing woman! May the exercise of your brain cells in this complex work keep you mentally agile for life, Alicia. God bless!
I’ve already cleared up some mysteries relating to John Sherman, as there was more than one early immigrant of that name- and thus so many the children of with similar first names. Can’t wait to see some early Hoyt ancestors on your list!!!
Will there ever be any info on Richard Pinkham of New Hampshire? I believe he was there about 1632 and relatives spread north.