Book Of The Week: Pilgrim Notes and Queries

Pilgrim Notes and Queries, 

Volume 2

George Ernest Bowman

1914 - Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)

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Book Of The Week: Mayflower Pilgrim Descendants in Cape May County, New Jersey

Mayflower Pilgrim Descendants in 

Cape May County, New Jersey: 

Memorial of the Three Hundredth Anniversary 

of the Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, 

1620-1920; a Record of the Pilgrim Descendants 

who Early in Its History Settled in Cape May County, 

and Some of Their Children Throughout the 

Several States of the Union at the Present Time

Paul Sturtevant Howe

A. R. Hand, 1921 - Cape May County (N.J.) - 462 pages

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Mayflower Month! My Connection to Stephen Hopkins

Stephen Hopkins was from Hampshire, England. He married his first wife, Mary, and resided in the parish of Hursley, Hampshire.  They had their children Elizabeth, Constance, and Giles, all baptized there. It has long been claimed that the Hopkins family was from Wortley, Gloucester, but this was disproven in 1998 with the discovery of his true origins in Hursley. 

Stephen Hopkins went with the ship Sea Venture on a voyage to Jamestown, Virginia in 1609 as a minister's clerk, but the ship wrecked in the "Isle of Devils" (Bermuda). Stranded on an island for ten months, the passengers and crew survived on turtles, birds, and wild pigs. Six months into the castaway, Stephen Hopkins and several others organized a mutiny against the current governor. The mutiny was discovered and Stephen was sentenced to death. However, he pleaded with sorrow and tears. "So penitent he was, and made so much moan, alleging the ruin of his wife and children in this his trespass, as it wrought in the hearts of all the better sorts of the company". He managed to get his sentence commuted.

Eventually the castaways built a small ship and sailed themselves to Jamestown. How long Stephen remained in Jamestown is not known. However, while he was gone, his wife Mary died. She was buried in Hursley on 9 May 1613, and left behind a probate estate which mentions her children Elizabeth, Constance and Giles.

Stephen was back in England by 1617, when he married Elizabeth Fisher, but apparently had every intention of bringing his family back to Virginia. Their first child, Damaris, was born about 1618. In 1620, Stephen Hopkins brought his wife, and children Constance, Giles, and Damaris on the Mayflower (child Elizabeth apparently had died). Stephen was a fairly active member of the Pilgrim group shortly after arrival, perhaps a result of his being one of the few individuals who had been to Virginia previously. He was a part of all the early exploring missions, and was used as an "expert" on Native Americans for the first few contacts. While out exploring, Stephen recognized and identified an Indian deer trap. And when Samoset walked into Plymouth and welcomed the English, he was housed in Stephen Hopkins' house for the night. Stephen was also sent on several of the ambassadorial missions to meet with the various Indian groups in the region.

Stephen was an assistant to the governor through 1636, and volunteered for the Pequot War of 1637 but was never called to serve. By the late 1630s, however, Stephen began to occasionally run afoul of the Plymouth authorities, as he apparently opened up a shop and served alcohol. In 1636 he got into a fight with John Tisdale and seriously wounded him. In 1637, he was fined for allowing drinking and shuffleboard playing on Sunday. Early the next year he was fined for allowing people to drink excessively in his house: guest William Reynolds was fined, but the others were acquitted. In 1638 he was twice fined for selling beer at twice the actual value, and in 1639 he was fined for selling a looking glass for twice what it would cost if bought in the Bay Colony. Also in 1638, Stephen Hopkins' maidservant got pregnant from Arthur Peach, who was subsequently executed for murdering an Indian. The Plymouth Court ruled he was financially responsible for her and her child for the next two years (the amount remaining on her term of service). Stephen, in contempt of court, threw Dorothy out of his household and refused to provide for her, so the court committed him to custody. John Holmes stepped in and purchased Dorothy's remaining two years of service from him: agreeing to support her and child.

Stephen died in 1644, and made out a will, asking to be buried near his wife, and naming his surviving children. ~from MayflowerHistory.com

My Lineage:

• Stephen Hopkins and Mary
• Constance Hopkins (1606/1677) married Nicholas Snow (1599/1676)
• Ruth Snow (1644/1715/16) married John Cole (1644/1725)
• Ruth Cole (1667/1728) married William Twining Jr (1654/1734)
• William Twining III (1704/1769) married Apphia Lewis (1704/1793)
• Elijah Twining (1741/1802) married Lois Rogers (1744/1815)
• Lewis Twining Sr (1777/1821) married Jennett/Janet Smith (1780/1827)
• Edward Wolcott Twining (1814/1897) married Priscilla B Ashby (1817/1911)
• Jesse Louis Twining (1850/1933) married Flora Dell Rowley (1857/1932)
• Carrie Elizabeth Twining (1881/1969) married Irving Augustus Potwin (1878/1938)
• Elizabeth Twining Potwin (1904/1985) married Robert W Thomas (1904/1955) 
• Elizabeth A Thomas (1936 - ) married Robert L Faulkner (1934 - )
• ME

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Book Of The Week: Pilgrim Alden

Pilgrim Alden: the story of the life of the first John Alden in America with the interwoven story of the life and doings of the Pilgrim colony and some account of later Aldens

Augustus Ephraim Alden

Earle, 1902 - Pilgrim fathers - 232 pages

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Mayflower Month! My Connection to Edward Fuller

Edward Fuller has been generally identified as the son of Robert and Sara (Dunkhorn) Fuller, baptized on 4 September 1575 at Redenhall, Norfolk. Thomas Morton, writing in 1637, says that Samuel Fuller (brother of Edward Fuller) was the son of a butcher. The name Matthew also occurs in this Redenhall Fuller family. 

The name of Edward Fuller's wife has not been discovered. In James Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (1860-1862), Edward Fuller's wife was given as "Ann". However, there are no American or English records which give her name. I suspect James Savage may have made a simple typographical error: Mayflower passenger Edward Tilley had a wife Ann; or perhaps he was thinking of their sister Ann Fuller. Nonetheless, numerous sources published after 1860 have utilized Savage's Genealogical Dictionary, and so the identification of Ann can be found in numerous other books and online resources.

Very little is known about Edward Fuller. What is known is that he, his wife, and his son Samuel came on the Mayflower in 1620 to Plymouth. A single Leiden judicial document mentions Edward Fuller, and proves that he, like brother Samuel Fuller, were living in Leiden. Both Edward and his wife died the first winter, but son Samuel (who would have been about 12), survived. An older brother, Matthew, had stayed behind, and came to America later. ~from MayflowerHistory.com

My Lineage

• Edward Fuller
• Matthew Fuller (1605/1678) married Frances LNUK
• Elizabeth Fuller (1627/1714) married Moses Rowley Sr (1627/1705)
• Moses Rowley Jr (1654/1735) married Mary LNUK (some say Fletcher, not proved)
• Moses Rowley III (1679/1735) married Martha Porter
• Daniel Rowley (1719/UNK) married Bethiah Langrill (1725/1750)
• Joseph Langrill Rowley (1750/1837) married Hannah Loveland
• Joseph Rowley (1788/1853) married Annie Beach (1790/1863)
• Rossiter Clark Rowley (1818/1912) married Rhoda Ann Vredenburgh (1818/1890)
• Flora Dell Rowley (1857/1932) married Jesse Louis Twining (1850/1933)
• Carrie Elizabeth Twining (1881/1969) married Irving A Potwin (1878/1938)
• Elizabeth Twining Potwin (1904/1985) married Robert W Thomas (1804/1955)
• Elizabeth A Thomas (1936 - ) married Robert L Faulkner (1934 - )
• ME

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Book Of The Week: Sketch of the Public and Private Life of Samuel Miles Hopkins, of Salem, Connecticut

Sketch of the Public and Private Life of Samuel Miles Hopkins, of Salem, Connecticut

Samuel Miles Hopkins, Sarah Hopkins Bradford

Society, 1898 - 56 pages

Samuel Miles Hopkins (1772-1837) was the son of Samuel Hopkins and Mary Miles (1811-1858) of Goshen, Connecticut. He was a descendant of the emigrant John Hopkins and his wife Jane (Strong?) of Hartford, Connecticut. John was the possible second son of Stephen Hopkins who was the fourteenth on the list of forty-one passengers who signed the Mayflower Compact in December 1620. John came to Massachusetts with the Reverend Thomas Hooker in 1633. The historical sketch traces the Puritan lineage of the author. Samuel Miles Hopkins married Sarah Elisabeth Rogers (1778-1866) of New York City in 1800. They were the parents of seven children: Mary Elizabeth (b.1802), William Rogers (b.1805), Julia Anne (b.1807), Hester Rogers (b.1808), Samuel Miles (b.1813), Woolsey Rogers (b.1815) and Sarah Elizabeth (b.1818.

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Mayflower Month! My Connection to Isaac and Mary (Norris) Allerton

Isaac Allerton may have come from the vicinity of Ipswich, co. Suffolk, England.  He first appears in Leiden, Holland records on 4 November 1611, when he married Mary Norris.  Isaac had a sister named Sarah who also resided in Leiden, and who married future Mayflower passenger Degory Priest.  He was probably also related, perhaps a brother, to Mayflower passenger John Allerton.

Isaac Allerton is one of the most complex figures in early Plymouth Colony.  He was elected assistant to Governor Bradford in 1621, and continued in that capacity well into the 1630s.  He was the individual sent to handle most of the buyout negotiations with the London investors that ccommenced in 1627, and continued through the early 1630s.  Allerton soon began to take advantage of his position by engaging in some personal trading deals, and engaging the Pilgrims' joint-stock company in business ventures they had not authorized.  After driving the colony deeper into debt with ill-advised business opportunities, he was eventually removed and replaced by Edward Winslow.  After the death of his wife Fear in 1634, he retreated to the New Haven Colony and married there to Joanna Swinnerton.  

Allerton became an active merchant trader, engaging in transactions and trade with many neighboring colonies including the Dutch at New Netherlands; New Sweden; Virginia; Massachusetts Bay; and Barbados. ~from MayflowerHistory.com

Mary (Norris) Allerton was about thirty when she came on the Mayflower with her husband Isaac and three children Bartholomew, Remember, and Mary.  Her marriage record in Leiden indicates she was from Newbury, which is presumably Newbury, Co. Berks, England.  Searches of this area for her baptism record and other Norris family records have not yet turned up anything conclusive.  They buried a child at St. Peters, Leiden, on 5 February 1620, and she gave birth to a stillborn son in Plymouth Harbor on 22 December 1620.  She herself died during the height of the first winter, on 25 February 1620/1, though her husband and three children all survived. ~from MayflowerHistory.com

My lineage:

• Isaac Allerton married Mary Norris 
• Remember Allerton (1614/1652) married Moses Maverick (1611/1686)
• Elizabeth Maverick (1649/1698) married Nathaniel Grafton (1642/1670)
• Priscilla Grafton (1671/1698) married Thomas Jackson 1673/1710)
• Mary Jackson (1698/1766) married John Potwine Sr (1698/1792)
• Thomas Potwine Sr (1731/1802) married Abigail Moseley (1732/1759)
• Thomas Potwine Jr (1756/1824) married Martha Stiles (1760/1822)
• Benjamin A Potwine (1788/1852) married Cornelia Curtis (1798/1885)
• Monroe A Potwin (1837/1917) married Ella A Burt (1850/1902)
• Irving A Potwin (1878/1938) married Carrie E Twining (1881/1969)
• Elizabeth T Potwin (1904/1985) married Robert W Thomas (1904/1955)
• Elizabeth A Thomas (1936 - ) married Robert L Faulkner (1934 - )
• ME

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Book Of The Week: Mayflower Descendents and Their Marriages for Two Generations...

Mayflower Descendents and Their Marriages for Two Generations After the Landing: Including a Short History of the Church of the Pilgrim Founders of New England

Bureau of Military and Civic Achievement, 1922 - United States - 40 pages

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Mayflower Month! My Connection To The Pilgrims

Well, it's November. 

Again. 

Here in the United States we celebrate Thanksgiving later this month. The characters of our Thanksgiving are the Pilgrims who sailed across the ocean on the Mayflower to land at Plymouth Rock, and thus colonize the New World. Every schoolchild knows the story. Parents and Grandparents sit through 'The First Thanksgiving" plays, watching their progeny in construction paper headdresses and Pilgrim hats. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving airs on TV. And personal curiosity to find a connection to one of the original 102 travelers peaks. Everybody wants to have a Mayflower Connection!! 

At least in November.

The blood of several Mayflower passengers courses through my veins. It is exciting, as a genealogist and family historian, to make the connection. To think of those people, my ancestors, and their lives; struggles and triumphs, wins and loses. The oppression that drove them to a virtually unknown wilderness across a vast ocean, guided by their beliefs. Facing delay and peril, yet forging ahead.

Strong people. 

Stubborn people. 

My people.

To date I have discovered my connection to three families:

• Isaac and Mary (Norris) Allerton through their daughter Remember.
• Edward Fuller through his son Matthew.
• Stephen Hopkins through his daughter Constance.

In the coming weeks I will briefly explore each of these families and share my connection. As so much has already been written on these folks I seen no need for in-depth coverage, but I would like to share my ties, and hopefully discover some 'cousins' who share some of the same ancestors.

Until next time here are some links for further reading:

MayflowerHistory.com
Wikipedia 
TheMayflowerSociety.org


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Book Of The Week: A History of the Allerton Family in the United States

A History of the Allerton Family in the United States: 1585 to 1885, and a Genealogy of the Descendants of Isaac Allerton, "Mayflower Pilgrim," Plymouth, Mass., 1620

Walter Scott Allerton, Horace True Currier

Higginson Book Company, 1900 - 149 pages

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30 x 30 Challenge: Week Three Recap - Adjusting The Sails

Well, this "challenge" is quite challenging! First week I overestimated what I could do in a half an hour, second week I oversimplified it. Here, going into week four I've adjusted the sails once again. Last week I created a Task List and have been filling in the necessary items I wish to discover. No researching! Just creating a comprehensive list to work off of.

Now, I know there are gobs and oodles of charts and lists out there. Ancestry has piles. Family Tree Maker does too. But I wanted to create something custom that worked for me.

I have been making notes in my notebooks for my 30 ancestors and I also have started to sort through all of the various paper ephemera my grandmother had collected over the years. I am filing it away in a collection of 12 binders. Eight of those binders have the parent surname pairs of my  great grandparents. I have one for my Mayflower ancestors, one for all military items, one for the rats-nest of Tidewater Virginia Families I have too many of, and one spare, for now.

A bonus of doing this sorting is the collection of note pads I've rediscovered! My old research, both positive and negative results. Now I can file that away in the appropriate ancestor binder and when it comes time to fill in my Task List I'll have everything at my fingertips.

I must confess, this is really hard. To refrain from doing the research until the sorting is complete.

But I already know I will be very happy when I do start the fun again. This time I won't be spinning my wheels or retracing my steps.

Extra bonus: seeing things with new eyes. I've already put a few things together I missed the first time around.

........................ Until next week