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Daniel Greenleaf1,2 (M)
b. 10 Feb 1679, d. 26 Aug 1763
Pedigree
Father-Bio*15 Aug 1652Stephen Jr. Greenleaf2
Mother-Bio*20 Sep 1654Elizabeth Gerrish2
Name-Var Rev.1,3,2
Burial* Boston, Massachusetts4,2
Note* Rev. Daniel Greenleaf graduated at Harvard College in 1699, and for about six years practiced medicine in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he married Elizabeth, the daughter of Samuel and Mary Gooking. About the year 1706 he commenced preaching, and in 1708 was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, succeeding the Rev. John Cotton (Rev. John Cotton was brother of Rev. Roland, of Sandwich, and son of the Rev. John of Plymouth, who was son of Rev. John of Boston, who had been the minister in Boston, England, and came over in 1633) as minister, where he remained nearly twenty years. Some difficulties arising, he resigned his charge in 1727, and removed to Boston. His wife had taken her family of twelve children long before to Boston, an interesting account of which appears in a letter from his great-grandchild, Mrs. Elizabeth L. Sewall, wife of General Sewall, of Augusta, Maine, written 12 April 1847, to Hon. Simon Greenleaf, of Harvard College, Cambridge, which is as follows :- 'My mother has often told me his wife, with 12 children, went to Boston, where, having some knowledge of medicine, from her father's being a physician, she opened an apothecary and grocer's shop, and thus supported her family and educated her eldest son at college. Mr. Greenleaf remained for a time with a remnant of his charge that was strongly attached to him, but finally. I believe, the majority quarreled him away. I well recalled hearing my mother often say that at this juncture they brought an accusation against him 'that he talked of worldly matters on the Sabbath'; the worldly matters were that in the Course of one Sabbath he received a letter from his wife, saying their eldest son appeared at the point of death with small-pox, and that unless he came on immediately he would not probably find him living. The good pastor was too poor to own a horse, and after the second service requested the loan of one from one of his deacons, that he might set off soon after midnight for Boston. He found the boy living, and he lived to be upwards of ninety (90) years old. I well recollect, when a child, hearing this case narrated by my mother, and thinking her grandfather must have been a very good man. He afterwards removed to Boston, and joined his family, many of whom married very young. My grandmother married a gentleman just established in the mercantile line, and he afterwards became very prosperous and very benevolent. She was but fifteen when she became mistress of a family. The good man (whose portrait awaits your acceptance- the portrait referred to in the letter above quoted descended to Rev. Patrick Henry Greenleaf, D.D., son of the Hon. Simon Greenleaf, and was by him presented to Mary Elizabeth, wife of his son, James Edward Greenleaf and is now in her possession at the family home in Charlestown, Massachusetts) was in the habit of going around once a week to see all his married children who were settled in Boston, and not very remote from his own mansion. On one of these occasions when coming out of the last house he fell, and so injured his back that he never rose from his bed after being put into it, but was confined two years, only being moved by his sons and sons-in-law from one bed to another on a sheet. This duty was performed when they assembled in the evening, after the business of the day was over. I have often heard my mother say how many pleasant hours she passed in her grandfather's sick chamber; he was always so cheerful and so instructive, it was a privilege to be near him; and she would likewise mention he read the Scriptures, and his devotional exercises in the family. At this time his wife had become totally blind, therefore the care and expenses of the family devolved on the children.' In the proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, as reported in Vol. X., appears the following:- List of principal manuscripts belonging to the Society, 'Commendium Physical,' by Charles Morton, of which there are four copies (manuscript) transcribed respectively by John Webb in 1677, Daniel Greenleaf, 1697. By the Records of Massachusetts Bay, Vol. VIII. p. 124, it appears that on Friday, June 8, 1705, the Legislature passed an order allowing Rev. Daniel Greenleaf £6 for support to the present year, 'and as the greater part of the Isles of Shoals belonged to the Province of New Hampshire, they were expected to supply the balance of his salary as minister, £14, to be paid from the public treasury.' The allowance of £6 to be paid probably by the people of the Isle of Shoals, he being settled there as minister. In the same records, Vol. XIII, we find he petitions to get his salary paid from October, 1723 to October, 1726, at the rate of £80 silver money 15 pennyweight. or £120 in Province Bills. Before the Legislature, Monday, 21 Aug. 1727. The Shop was in what is now Washington Street, between Court and Cornhill, Boston, very near the old bookstore of Crocker & Brewster, which was near the corner of Court and Washington, where now stands the Ames Building. Here Mr. Greenleaf resided until his death, which took place suddenly on 26 Aug. 1763, at the age of eighty-three years. He was buried near the stone chapel on Tremont Street. His wife Mary died subsequent to 29 April 1707, and 28 Sept. 1708, he was remarried to Mrs. Hannah Biscoe, widow of Thomas Biscoe. He died 16 Sept. 1730.5,2
Name-Var Daniell Greenleaf1,3,2
Birth*10 Feb 1679Newbury, Massachusetts1,4,2
Graduation*1699Cambridge, Massachusetts4,6,2
Marriage*18 Nov 1701Elizabeth Gookin; Cambridge, Massachusetts, The vital records has Daniel from Portsmouth.3,7,2
Ordination*1708Yarmouth, Massachusetts5,2
Immigratn*1727Boston, Massachusetts4,2
Death*26 Aug 1763Boston, Massachusetts8,3,2
Last Edited31 Oct 2000 
 
CoParent Elizabeth Gookin
Son-Bio*07 Nov 1702Daniel Greenleaf+2

  1. [S225] Unknown author, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (CD-ROM: 1998 Search & ReSearch Publishing Corp.), Volume: Volume I, 195.
  2. [S280] Rootsweb, 5 January 2003.
  3. [S221] Unknown author, Family Panorama, Across the Centuries: Greenleaf-Collins-Gowdy-Wells-Duguid-Geedy-Stewart, The other half-posterity, 4.
  4. [S221] Unknown author, Family Panorama, Across the Centuries: Greenleaf-Collins-Gowdy-Wells-Duguid-Geedy-Stewart, The other half-posterity, 4b.
  5. [S220] James Edward Greenleaf, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, 82-88.
  6. [S226] D. Brenton Simons, New England Ancestors: Murder in Colonial Boston: The ill-fated Greenleaf children and their portraits, part one, Volume: Volume 1, 11.
  7. [S252] Unknown author, Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (CD-ROM: 1998 Search & ReSearch Publishing Corp.), Volume: Volume 2, 162.
  8. [S220] James Edward Greenleaf, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family.

Elizabeth Gookin1,2 (F)
b. 11 Nov 1681, d. Nov 1762
Pedigree
Father-Bio*21 Apr 1652Samuel Gookin2
Mother-Bio* Mary _____2
Note* Elizabeth Gooking, wife of Rev. Daniel Greenleaf, came from distinguished stock in New England, an extended notice of which will be interesting to her descendants and others. As has frequently occurred with modern surnames, the name Gooking appears to have undergone a number of transformation. In Harris' History of the County of Kent, London, 1729, the following various spellings appeal indexed as Gooking; viz., Cockayne, Cockoyn, Cokain, Cokin, Calkin, Gockin, Gokin, Gookin, and Gooking. Capt. John Smith, who evidently knew General Gooking's father, calls him Gockin and Gookin. General Gooking's great grandfather spelled it Gokin. Burke, Burke's Commoners, writes it Gookin to this day, while General Gooking's descendants write it Gooking, and General Gooking wrote it Gookin. It would seem that the name tallied originally with the coat of arms or device of the family, and coat armor is quite certain. By the family record in the College of Heralds in the British Museum, being as far back as Arnoldus, great-great-grandfather of General Gooking, it is well settled that the family came originally, as far as known; from the city of Canterbury. They were proprietors of Worthgate in that city. William Gooking lived there in King John's reign (1199-1206). He founded a hospital there, and was a prominent benefactor to other hospitals. A William Gooking was ballivi (chief magistrate) of Canterbury in 1250 and in 1267, and Edmundus Gooking was also in 1358. On removing from Canterbury they built the country seat of Fredville, or Froidville, in the tenth year of King Edward III. Camden, in Britannia, London, 1695, mentions Ashburn, in Derbyshire, as a town where the Gookings have long flourished. Arnoldus, the great-great-grandfather of General Gooking, was of Kent County, England, and the heraldic genealogies give neither the name of his wife nor of any of their children but Thomas, the eldest son and heir. Thomas Gooking was of Brakesbourne, Kent County, England, and married Elizabeth, only child and heiress of Durant. Salisbury's Charts, large quarto Volumes, say: 'Thomas Goolkyn (or Goolken), Co. Kent, d. 1599, m. Amy Durant, 1st w.' I have been unable to get information of any of their children but the eldest son and heir, John. John Gooking was of Ripple Court, Kent County, England. He married Katharine Denne, daughter of G. and Agnes (Tufton) Denne, his wife. G. Denne was of the eleventh generation from Sir Allured Denne, Kt., Seneschal of the Priory of Christ Church. Sir Allured was son of William Denne, of East Kent, who was living in the time of King John. William Denne was son of Ralph de Denne, 20th from William the Conqueror, Lord of Buckhurst, Sussex, Kent, and Normandy, in the time of Edward the Confessor (V. Berry's 'Kent Genealogies'). Agnes Tufton was daughter of Nicholas Tufton, and she died in 1588 at Brakesbourne, where John Gooking lived at that time. The children of John and Katharine Gooking were four; viz., Anna, John, Daniel, and Vincent, and of the first two I have been able to learn nothing but their names. The two younger sons (the younger of whom became Sir Vincent Gooking) married in England and emigrated to Carygoline, Ireland, from whence Daniel with his family returned to England, and in 1621 emigrated to Virginia, where he arrived 22 November (V. Capt. John Smith's General Historie) (Lord i. 'Lempriere,'' 145). He brought with him, at his own expense, fifty men, with many or all of whom he had made a contract to provide for them. (Capt. John Smith calls them 'his own men.') He settled at Newport News, Virginia, and I have been unable to learn of any of his family save his son, Daniel, who subsequently became General Gooking.3,2
Name-Marr Greenleaf4,5,2
Occupation* Boston, Massachusetts, an apothecary6,2
Birth*11 Nov 1681Cambridge, Massachusetts5,7,8,9,2
Marriage*18 Nov 1701Daniel Greenleaf; Cambridge, Massachusetts, The vital records has Daniel from Portsmouth.4,10,2
Death*Nov 17625,8,2
Last Edited31 Oct 2000 
 
CoParent Daniel Greenleaf
Son-Bio*07 Nov 1702Daniel Greenleaf+2

  1. [S220] James Edward Greenleaf, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, 82.
  2. [S280] Rootsweb, 5 January 2003.
  3. [S220] James Edward Greenleaf, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, 82-88.
  4. [S221] Unknown author, Family Panorama, Across the Centuries: Greenleaf-Collins-Gowdy-Wells-Duguid-Geedy-Stewart, The other half-posterity, 4.
  5. [S220] James Edward Greenleaf, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family.
  6. [S226] D. Brenton Simons, New England Ancestors: Murder in Colonial Boston: The ill-fated Greenleaf children and their portraits, part one, Volume: Volume 1, 11.
  7. [S221] Unknown author, Family Panorama, Across the Centuries: Greenleaf-Collins-Gowdy-Wells-Duguid-Geedy-Stewart, The other half-posterity, 4b.
  8. [S227] Dennis J. Cunniff, Greenleaf, Recipient: Ron Carlton, Address: USA, Author E-mail: <<e-mail address>>.
  9. [S228] Unknown author, Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts to about 1850 (CD-ROM: 1998 Search & ReSearch Publishing Corp.), Volume: Volume 1, 297.
  10. [S252] Unknown author, Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (CD-ROM: 1998 Search & ReSearch Publishing Corp.), Volume: Volume 2, 162.

Elizabeth Gerrish1,2 (F)
b. 20 Sep 1654, d. 05 Aug 1712
Pedigree
Father-Bio*19 Aug 1617William Gerrish2
Mother-Bio* Joanna Goodale2
Burial* Newbury, Massachusetts, HERE LYES INTERRED Ye BODY OF ELIZABETH GREENLEAF WIFE TO CAP. STEPHEN GREENLEAF DECED Ye 5 OF AUGUSt 1712 IN Ye 58 YEAR OF HER AGE3,2
Name-Marr Greenleaf4,5,6,7,8,2
Birth*20 Sep 1654Newbury, Massachusetts9,1,10,2
Marriage*23 Oct 1676Stephen Jr. Greenleaf; Newbury, Massachusetts4,5,6,7,8,2
Death*05 Aug 1712Newbury, Massachusetts5,11,2
Last Edited1 Sep 2001 
 
CoParent Stephen Jr. Greenleaf
Son-Bio*10 Feb 1679Daniel Greenleaf+2

  1. [S225] Unknown author, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (CD-ROM: 1998 Search & ReSearch Publishing Corp.), Volume: Volume I, 178.
  2. [S280] Rootsweb, 5 January 2003.
  3. [S233] Unknown author, Elizabeth Greenleaf, Record Type: Tombstone, Name Of Person: Elizabeth Greenleaf, Reader: Carlton, Ron.
  4. [S220] James Edward Greenleaf, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, 201.
  5. [S229] W. S Appleton, NEHG Register (CD-ROM: 1996): The Greenleaf Ancestry, Volume: Volume 38, 300.
  6. [S221] Unknown author, Family Panorama, Across the Centuries: Greenleaf-Collins-Gowdy-Wells-Duguid-Geedy-Stewart, The other half-posterity, 4b.
  7. [S222] Unknown author, Ancestors and Descendants of Almira Louisa Greenleaf, Greenleaf.
  8. [S232] Unknown author, Vital Records of Newbury Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (CD-ROM: 1998 Search & ReSearch Publishing Corp.), Volume: Volume II, 208.
  9. [S220] James Edward Greenleaf, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, 201 Gives date as 10 September 1654.
  10. [S227] Dennis J. Cunniff, Greenleaf, Recipient: Ron Carlton, Address: USA, Author E-mail: <<e-mail address>>.
  11. [S232] Unknown author, Vital Records of Newbury Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (CD-ROM: 1998 Search & ReSearch Publishing Corp.), Volume: Volume II, 603.

John Greenleaf1,2,3 (M)
Marriage* Margaret _____; England1,3
Last Edited23 May 1999 

  1. [S220] James Edward Greenleaf, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, 71.
  2. [S222] Unknown author, Ancestors and Descendants of Almira Louisa Greenleaf, Greenleaf.
  3. [S280] Rootsweb, 5 January 2003.

Margaret _____1,2 (F)
Marriage* John Greenleaf; England3,2
Name-Marr Greenleaf2
Last Edited23 May 1999 

  1. [S222] Unknown author, Ancestors and Descendants of Almira Louisa Greenleaf, Greenleaf.
  2. [S280] Rootsweb, 5 January 2003.
  3. [S220] James Edward Greenleaf, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, 71.

William Gerrish1,2 (M)
b. 19 Aug 1617, d. 09 Aug 1687
Pedigree
Mother-Bio*c 1598Anne Gerrish
Marriage* 3,2
Note Person Source4
Note 1. Gerrish Family Genealogy 2. Essex Institute Historical Collections, Vol. 5, page 27
Name-Var Capt.1,2
Name-Var William Gerrish
Name-Var William Gerrish1,2
Occupation* a merchant3,2
Note Joanna Lowell; Family Source4
Birth19 Aug 1617Bristol, Somersetshire, England
Birth*19 Aug 1617Bristol, Somersetshire, England3,1,2
Christning09 Dec 1617Bath, Somersetshire, England
Event-Misc12 Apr 1639London, England, Type: Embarked the ship Jonathan5,2
Immigratn*1640Newbury, Massachusetts1,2
Marriage*17 Apr 1645Joanna Goodale; Newbury, Massachusetts1,6,7,2
Marriage*17 Apr 1645Joanna Lowell; Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Will*16 Jul 1687Massachusetts3,2
Death09 Aug 1687Salem, Massachusetts
Death*09 Aug 1687Salem, Massachusetts3,2
Event-Misc*05 Dec 1687Massachusetts, Type: Will prove3,2
Last Edited25 May 2003 
 
CoParent Joanna Goodale
Dau-Bio*20 Sep 1654Elizabeth Gerrish+2
 
CoParent Joanna Lowell
Son-Bio*09 May 1656Moses Gerrish

  1. [S221] Unknown author, Family Panorama, Across the Centuries: Greenleaf-Collins-Gowdy-Wells-Duguid-Geedy-Stewart, The other half-posterity, 4b.
  2. [S280] Rootsweb, 5 January 2003.
  3. [S241] C. H. Pope, Pioneers of Massachusetts, 185.
  4. [S2000] Unknown compiler, 27 DEC 2001.
  5. [S249] Unknown author, John Buren Chandler 1837-1916 Ancestry, Url: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=john_clement&i d=I2309.
  6. [S232] Unknown author, Vital Records of Newbury Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (CD-ROM: 1998 Search & ReSearch Publishing Corp.), Volume: Volume II, 191.
  7. [S250] Albert H Hoyt, NEHG Register (CD-ROM: 1996): Daniel Pierce, of Newbury, Mass., 1638-1677, and his descendants, Volume: Volume 29, 273.

Joanna Goodale1,2 (F)
d. 14 Jun 1677
Pedigree
Father-Bio* John Goodale2
Mother-Bio* Elizabeth Partlett2
Name-Var (?) Olliver3,4,2
Name-Marr Gerrish1,3,4,2
Marriage*1639Newbury, Massachusetts3,4,2
Marriage*17 Apr 1645William Gerrish; Newbury, Massachusetts1,3,4,2
Death*14 Jun 1677Newbury, Massachusetts5,6,2
Last Edited18 Feb 2001 
 
CoParent William Gerrish
Dau-Bio*20 Sep 1654Elizabeth Gerrish+2

  1. [S221] Unknown author, Family Panorama, Across the Centuries: Greenleaf-Collins-Gowdy-Wells-Duguid-Geedy-Stewart, The other half-posterity, 4b.
  2. [S280] Rootsweb, 5 January 2003.
  3. [S232] Unknown author, Vital Records of Newbury Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (CD-ROM: 1998 Search & ReSearch Publishing Corp.), Volume: Volume II, 191.
  4. [S250] Albert H Hoyt, NEHG Register (CD-ROM: 1996): Daniel Pierce, of Newbury, Mass., 1638-1677, and his descendants, Volume: Volume 29, 273.
  5. [S241] C. H. Pope, Pioneers of Massachusetts, 185.
  6. [S232] Unknown author, Vital Records of Newbury Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (CD-ROM: 1998 Search & ReSearch Publishing Corp.), Volume: Volume II, 596.

Samuel Gookin1,2 (M)
b. 21 Apr 1652, d. 16 Sep 1730
Pedigree
Father-Bio*late 1612Daniel Gookin Jr.2
Mother-Bio*1618Mary Dolling2
Note* Samuel Gooking, third son of General Daniel, and father of Elizabeth, wife of Rev. Daniel Greenleaf, was born as stated, 22 April 1652. He inherited his father's military spirit, and was a captain as early as 1692. He was active in raising troops for the expedition to Canada in 1711. He was Sheriff in 1689 and Marshal General 5 March 1691. He held this office for a time in Suffolk, and was appointed to the same office in Middlesex, which he held until 27 July 1729, except for the period from December 1715, to July 1717. His first wife was Mary ___. They had five children: Mary, born 26 Aug. 1679, thrice married: (1) married Dr. Samuel Gedney; (2) married Rev. Theophilus Cotton, 16 July 1711; (3) married ___ Newmarch. Children, Elizabeth, born 11 Nov. 1681, married Rev. Daniel Greenleaf, 18 Nov. 1701. Samuel, born 14 Aug. 1683. Nathaniel, born 16 Feb. 1685, died young. Daniel.3,2
Name-Var Capt.4,5,2
Name-Var Samuel Gooking4,5,2
Birth*21 Apr 1652Cambridge, Massachusetts5,1,2
Marriage*s 1678Mary _____4,2
Marriage*28 Sep 1708Cambridge, Massachusetts4,6,2
Death*16 Sep 17304,2
Last Edited5 Aug 2001 
 
CoParent Mary _____
Dau-Bio*11 Nov 1681Elizabeth Gookin+2

  1. [S228] Unknown author, Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts to about 1850 (CD-ROM: 1998 Search & ReSearch Publishing Corp.), Volume: Volume 1, 298.
  2. [S280] Rootsweb, 5 January 2003.
  3. [S220] James Edward Greenleaf, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, 84-88.
  4. [S220] James Edward Greenleaf, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, 88.
  5. [S221] Unknown author, Family Panorama, Across the Centuries: Greenleaf-Collins-Gowdy-Wells-Duguid-Geedy-Stewart, The other half-posterity, 4b.
  6. [S252] Unknown author, Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (CD-ROM: 1998 Search & ReSearch Publishing Corp.), Volume: Volume 2, 167.

Mary _____1,2 (F)
d. b 29 Apr 1707
Name-Marr Gookin3,2
Marriage*s 1678Samuel Gookin3,2
Death*b 29 Apr 17073,2
Last Edited5 Aug 2001 
 
CoParent Samuel Gookin
Dau-Bio*11 Nov 1681Elizabeth Gookin+2

  1. [S220] James Edward Greenleaf, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, 84-88.
  2. [S280] Rootsweb, 5 January 2003.
  3. [S220] James Edward Greenleaf, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, 88.

John Gookin1,2,3 (M)
b. b 1545, d. c 1623
Pedigree
Father-Bio*b 1518Thomas Gookin de Bekes4
Mother-Bio* Amy de Durant5
Birth*b 1545Kent, England, He was of Ripple Court, co. Kent, England.6,7,1,2
Marriage*28 Oct 1566Katherine Denne; Bekesbourne, Kent, England6,7,1,2
Death*c 1623Kent, England7,2
Last Edited2 Feb 2003 
 
CoParent Katherine Denne
Son-Bio*1582Daniel Gookin Sr.+2

  1. [S251] Richard N. Gookins, A History and Genealogy of the Gookin Family of England, Ireland, and America, 10.
  2. [S280] Rootsweb, 5 January 2003.
  3. [S468] Ron Carlton, 01 Feb 2003, ID: I296
    Reference Number: 296
    Name: John Gookin 1
    Sex: M
    Change Date: 04 AUG 2001
    Birth: BEF 1545 in Kent, England
    Note: He was of Ripple Court, co. Kent, England. 2 3 1
    Death: ABT 1623 in Kent, England 3

    Father: Thomas Gokin de Bekes b: BEF 1518 in England
    Mother: Amy de Durant

    Marriage 1 Katherine Denne
    Married: 28 OCT 1566 in Bekesbourne, Kent, England 2 3 1
    Children
    Johannes Gokin
    Thomas Gookin de Ripple Court
    Daniel Gookin Sr. b: 1582 in Kent, England
    Vincent Gookin

    Sources:
    Title: A History and Genealogy of the Gookin Family of England,
    Ireland, and America
    Abbrev: History and Genealogy of the Gookin Family
    Author: Gookins, Richard N.
    Publication: Private, Salem, Oregon, 1983
    Page: 10
    Title: Family Panorama, Across the Centuries:
    Greenleaf-Collins-Gowdy-Wells-Duguid-Geedy-Stewart, The other
    half-posterity
    Abbrev: Family Panorama
    Publication: Private, Private, circa 1960
    Page: 4b
    Title: Ancestors and Descendants of Almira Louisa Greenleaf
    Abbrev: Ancestors and Descendants of Almira Louisa Greenleaf
    Publication: Private, South Euclid, Ohio, 1929
    Page: English Lines
    .
  4. [S468] Ron Carlton, 01 Feb 2003, ID: I298
    Reference Number: 298
    Name: Thomas Gokin de Bekes 1 2
    Sex: M
    Change Date: 04 AUG 2001
    Birth: BEF 1518 in England 3
    Death: 1599 in Kent, England 1
    Residence: Bekesbourne, Kent, England 4
    Burial: 14 JUN 1599 England 5

    Father: Arnoldus Gokin of Ickham, co. Kent b: BETWEEN 1457 AND 1509 in England

    Marriage 1 Amy de Durant
    Married: ABT 1538 in Kent, England 5 4
    Children
    John Gookin b: BEF 1545 in Kent, England
    Elizabeth Gokin

    Sources:
    Title: Family Panorama, Across the Centuries:
    Greenleaf-Collins-Gowdy-Wells-Duguid-Geedy-Stewart, The other
    half-posterity
    Abbrev: Family Panorama
    Publication: Private, Private, circa 1960
    Page: 4b
    Title: NEHG Register (CD-ROM: 1996): The Gookin Family, Volume: Volume
    1
    Abbrev: Gookin Family
    Author: Thornton, J. Wingate
    Publication: October 1847
    Page: 345
    Title: Ancestors and Descendants of Almira Louisa Greenleaf
    Abbrev: Ancestors and Descendants of Almira Louisa Greenleaf
    Publication: Private, South Euclid, Ohio, 1929
    Title: A History and Genealogy of the Gookin Family of England,
    Ireland, and America
    Abbrev: History and Genealogy of the Gookin Family
    Author: Gookins, Richard N.
    Publication: Private, Salem, Oregon, 1983
    Page: 10
    Title: Ancestors and Descendants of Almira Louisa Greenleaf
    Abbrev: Ancestors and Descendants of Almira Louisa Greenleaf
    Publication: Private, South Euclid, Ohio, 1929
    Page: English Lines
    .
  5. [S468] Ron Carlton, 01 Feb 2003, ID: I380
    Reference Number: 380
    Name: Amy de Durant 1 2
    Name: Gooking 2
    Name: Gokin de Durant 3 2
    Sex: F
    Change Date: 04 AUG 2001

    Father: John Durrant of Littlebourne

    Marriage 1 Thomas Gokin de Bekes b: BEF 1518 in England
    Married: ABT 1538 in Kent, England 3 2
    Children
    John Gookin b: BEF 1545 in Kent, England
    Elizabeth Gokin

    Sources:
    Title: NEHG Register (CD-ROM: 1996): The Gookin Family, Volume: Volume
    1
    Abbrev: Gookin Family
    Author: Thornton, J. Wingate
    Publication: October 1847
    Page: 345 Have Elizabeth as her first name
    Title: A History and Genealogy of the Gookin Family of England,
    Ireland, and America
    Abbrev: History and Genealogy of the Gookin Family
    Author: Gookins, Richard N.
    Publication: Private, Salem, Oregon, 1983
    Page: 10
    Title: Ancestors and Descendants of Almira Louisa Greenleaf
    Abbrev: Ancestors and Descendants of Almira Louisa Greenleaf
    Publication: Private, South Euclid, Ohio, 1929
    Page: English Lines
    .
  6. [S221] Unknown author, Family Panorama, Across the Centuries: Greenleaf-Collins-Gowdy-Wells-Duguid-Geedy-Stewart, The other half-posterity, 4b.
  7. [S222] Unknown author, Ancestors and Descendants of Almira Louisa Greenleaf, English Lines.

Katherine Denne1,2 (F)
b. Abt 1550/1557, d. Oct 1612
Pedigree
Reference GGC6-8R
Father-Bio*c 1531William Denne3
Mother-Bio*c 1526Agnes Tufton3
Father-Bioc 1531William Denne3
Mother-Bioc 1526Agnes Tufton3
BirthAbt 1550/1557of Dennehill, Kingstone, Kent, Eng3
Birth*Abt 1550/1557of Dennehill, Kingstone, Kent, Eng4
Birth*Abt 1550/1557of Dennehill, Kingstone, Kent, Eng
Name-Marr Gookin1,5,2
GEDCOM Unknown GEDCOM tag: IDNO 8895
Burial* Canterbury4
Reference 1CZP-KMJ3
Name-Var Katherine Denne3
Reference GGC6-8R3
Name-Var Katharine Denne3
Burial Canterbury3
Birthc 1557Addisham, Kent, England3
Marriage*28 Oct 1566Bekesbourne, Kent, England
Marriage28 Oct 1566Bekesbourne, Kent, England
Marriage28 Oct 1566Bekesbourne, Kent, England3
Marriage*28 Oct 1566Bekesbourne, Kent, England4
Marriage*28 Oct 1566John Gookin; Bekesbourne, Kent, England1,5,6,2
DeathOct 1612of Addisham, Kent, England3
Death*Oct 1612England5,2
Death*Oct 1612England
Death*Oct 1612England7,8
Last Edited22 May 2003 
 
CoParent  
Son-Bio*c 1567John Gokin3
Dau-Bio*28 Aug 1567Anne Gookin3
Dau-Bio*1568Amy Gooking3
Dau-Bio*09 Dec 1569Marie Gokin3
Son-Bio13 Jan 1571Thomas Gookin+3
Son-Bio*13 Jan 1571Thomas Gookin+3
Dau-Bio*07 Dec 1571Elizabeth Gooking3
Son-Bio*17 Aug 1575John Gooking3
Dau-Bio*30 Nov 1578Elizabeth Gooking3
Son-Bio*c 1584(Sir) Vincent Gookin3
Son-Bio*1585Vincent Gooking3
Dau-Bio*c 1587Margaret Gookin3
Dau-Bio*Oct 1587Katherine Gooking3
 
CoParent John Gookin
Son-Bio1582Daniel Gookin Sr.+3
Son-Bio*1582Daniel Gookin Sr.+2

  1. [S221] Unknown author, Family Panorama, Across the Centuries: Greenleaf-Collins-Gowdy-Wells-Duguid-Geedy-Stewart, The other half-posterity, 4b.
  2. [S280] Rootsweb, 5 January 2003.
  3. [S506] Sandra Carr, 07 Dec 2002.
  4. [S542] Unknown compiler.
  5. [S222] Unknown author, Ancestors and Descendants of Almira Louisa Greenleaf, English Lines.
  6. [S251] Richard N. Gookins, A History and Genealogy of the Gookin Family of England, Ireland, and America, 10.
  7. [S543] Unknown author, Ancestors and Descendants of Almira Louisa Greenleaf, English Lines.
  8. [S534] Unknown compiler.

Daniel Gookin Jr.1,2 (M)
b. late 1612, d. 19 Mar 1687
Pedigree
Father-Bio*1582Daniel Gookin Sr.2
Mother-Bio* Mary Byrd2
Birth*late 1612co. Kent (?), Ireland or England1,3,4,5,2
Name-Var Major General6,7,2
Note LETTER FROM DANIEL GOOKIN TO GOV. DUDLEY. (The original of this letter, written in 1688, is in possession of J. W. Thornton, Esq., of Boston.] Honorable Sr, The Indians Belonging to Hassanamesit who are Beares hereof doe complaine to mee (but I haue now power to Releeue them) That one Edward Pratt a pretended purchaser from John wompas deceased, Hath lately Actually Built a house within their township of 4 miles square, & very neare vnto their orchards & planting feilds at w'ch they are agreued & when they aske him the Reason of his actions hee saith yt hee hath freinds latly com our. & in power yt wil beare him out in it, Besides as I am informed this felow sells the indians Strong liquors. He is as I aprhend rather to bee reputed a disorderly wandering Rouge, then a sober p'son, hee is a single man & hath neither wife nor child. These are Humbly to intreat you to direct ye indians what shal be don in the case & please to send a warrant for said Pratt and here his prtensions for his doings & proceed wth him as you shal see meet in yor wisdome. If it were in my power or limits I should not giue yor Honor this trouble. Also these Indians desire they may bee furnished with some powder & shott to defend them from the maquaes, well they are in dayley feare of and are at present Remoued to Mendon but. intend .as soon as they get som powder & shot & a blle. corne they intend to returne to their fort at Hassanamesit. If you please to order ym to receue 6lb of powder & shott equiualent It may suffice. So wth my humble seruice prsented I Remaine Yor serf, DANIEL GOOKIN, These for the Honorable Joseph Dudley Esqr, prsedent of the Honble Counsel in N. England.8,2
Name-Var Daniel Gooking6,7,2
Note* When the Indian troubles arose in Virginia, and the planters with their people were warned to fly for protection, Daniel Gookin remained at his plantation, or 'Lordship,' as it was called, and successfully withstood them. In Virginia he was styled Daniel Gookin, Gent. 29 Dec. 1637, a grant of 2,500 acres in the upper Country of Norfolk was made to Daniel Gookin, Esq., and in 1642 he was made Commander of the Military Commission of Upper Norfolk at about the time when a grant of 1400 acres was made (4 Nov. 1642) to his son, Daniel, the captain of a 'trained band.' This grant was on the Rappahannock River, 'about thirty-five miles upon the north side.' The name Daniel Gooking is prominently identified with the early history of Virginia and New England, and it appears indubitable that there were two of them-father and son. Many references to a Daniel Gooking, by people of veracity and authority, who seem to have knowledge of the matters spoken of, are incompatible with the idea of a single person. History often repeated and irreproachable is in perfect harmony with the idea of two Daniels, of whom the elder was the prominent and wealthy immigrant and civilian who had been in the Kentish Militia, and the other the captain, magistrate, and general who died in Cambridge. Certainly General Gooking could not have been in the Kentish Militia, as has so often erroneously been stated of him, for he was but nine years of age when he came to this country with his father; nor could he have been the Virginia immigrant of that time who brought fifty men at his own expense. The Gooking's, father and son, would appear to have considered England their home for quite a long period after emigration, as General Gooking, in 1639, styled himself Daniel Gookin, Gent., of St. Sepulchre Parish, London. The earliest mention of the age of General Gookin, which I have been able to find, is that given at his marriage license in November 1639 as twenty-seven years, which would fix his birth in 1612, and this agrees with the record of his tombstone, which tells us that he was seventy-five years old in 1687. He died 19 March 1687. Though a mere child when he accompanied his father to this Country in 1621, he went to England for his wife, and 11 Nov. 1639 he was granted a marriage license by the Bishop of London, to marry Mary Dolling, aged twenty-one, orphan spinster, of St. Dunstan in the west. He evidently returned immediately to this country for in 1642 the grant of land to him was made, as already stated. As a result of the preaching of the missionaries who had been sent from New England to Virginia in 1642 and 1643, he became converted, and was induced to come to New England, perhaps the more easily because of the troubles in Virginia which arose in consequence of the civil wars in England. Cotton Mather's Magnolia, a prolific source of historic and genealogical errors, speaks of him as one of the constellations of converts made by the labors of Rev. William Tompson, who went from New England to Virginia in 1643 :- ''Gookins was one of these by Tompson's pains, Christ and New England a dear Gookins gains.' He purchased a ship from the Governor of Virginia, and with his family (wife and daughter Mary) and some others, he arrived at Boston 10 May 1644. He was admitted to membership in the Boston church 16 May 1644, and on 19 May was honored with the freedom of the colony. Such favors were rarely granted to persons of so short a residence, and this was probably intended as an acknowledgment of his kindness to the New England missionaries in Virginia. He was admitted a freeman in 1644, and in the same year was made captain in the Middlesex regiment. 'At the General Court of Election held at Boston, the 3d of May, 1676, Capt. Daniel Gookin was by the whole Court chosen and appointed to be Sergeant-Major of the Regiment of Middlesex.' From his arrival he was prominently identified with the history of the colony, and enjoyed many of its honors. He appears to have settled at first in Roxbury, where two of his children, Elizabeth and Hannah, were born. He became a member of the Artillery Company in 1645. He removed to Cambridge in 1648, and on 3 September of that year was dismissed from the Boston church to the church in Cambridge. In 1649 he was Chosen Representative from Cambridge, and again in 1651, in which latter year he was Speaker of the House. In 1652 he was a Magistrate and assistant to the Governor of Massachusetts Colony, and is said to have retained these positions until 1686,-a term of thirty-five years. He was of the High Republican party in politics, and stood firm to the old charter,-unwilling to yield the rights and liberties of the people when they were required to do this by the arbitrary measures of Charles II. Sewalls' Diary (Page 70, footnote editorial comments.) thus speaks of him:- 'Daniel Gookin was a man of noble soul, of many virtues, especially those which are hardest to acquire and to practice, and his life was devoted to ends of public service.' He was as conspicuous for his piety as for his morals. He was friendly to Cromwell, whom he went to visit in 1656. Cromwell employed him to persuade the inhabitants of Massachusetts to remove and settle the Island of Jamaica, which had lately been taken from the Spaniards; but in this he met with no success. He was in sympathy with the party of the Regicides, and because of his secreting, sheltering, and protecting two of the judges, who had condemned Charles I., viz., Gen. Edward Whalley and Col. William Goffe, complaint was made against the Colony by the Royal Commissioners (Drake, History of Boston.). In 1662 he was appointed one of the licensers of the printing press in Cambridge, and in 1663 he was appointed a Public Censor of printing. Prior to 1675 he had been the Superintendent of all the Indians who had submitted to the Provincial Government, and knew more about them then than all the other magistrates. He was Eliot's most trusted friend and helper in his work. What he wrote about the efforts in behalf of the Indians is of the highest value. 11 May 1681, he was elected Major General of all the military forces of the Colony. He was the last Major General under the old charter. This post of honor was continued under the charter of William and Mary. The previous Major Generals had been Dudley, Endicott, Gibbons, Sedgwick, Atherton, Dennison and Leverett. He appears very respectably as an author. His work entitled Historical Collections of the Indians of New England, by Daniel Gookin, Gentleman, is published in the first volume of the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He died poor,-an old man whose days had been filled with usefulness. He died about five or six o'clock A. M., 19 March 1687. Of his wife, Mary Dolling, I have been able to learn but little. I find in my notes a statement, the authority for which is not given, that she died after 4 Oct. 1681. Nor have I been able to learn the date of his marriage to his second wife, Mrs. Hannah (Tyng) Savage, widow of Habijah Savage, whose will was made in 1675, as he was going with his command to King Philip's war. She, Hannah Tyng, was born 7 March 1640, first child of Edward Tyng and his wife. She was married to Habijah Savage, 8 May 1661, and she died 28 Oct. 1689. The children of General Gooking and his first wife Mary were: Mary, born in Virginia, married June 8, 1670, Edmund Batter. Elizabeth, born in Roxbury, 14 March 1645 baptized 30 March 1645, married 23 May 1666, Rev. John Elliot, Jr., died 30 Nov. 1700. Hannah, born in Roxbury baptized 9 May 1647, died 31 July 1647. Daniel, born in Cambridge, 8 April 1649, died 3 Sept. 1649. Daniel, born in Cambridge, 12 July 1650; Harvard, 1669; married Mary ___; remarried 28 Sept. 1708, Mrs. Hannah Biscoe, died 8 Jan. 1718. Samuel, born in Cambridge, 22 April 1652, died 16 Sept. 1730. Solomon, born in Cambridge, 20 June 1654, died 16 July 1754. Nathaniel, born in Cambridge, 22 Oct. 1656; Harvard, 1675; married Hannah Savage, stepmother's daughter; died 7 Aug. 1692. By his second wife, Hannah (Tyng) Savage, he is said to have had a daughter Hannah; but I am compelled to doubt this, as Mrs. Savage had a daughter Hannah when he married her, and as this Hannah afterwards became the wife of Rev. Nathaniel Gooking.1,2
Baptism06 Dec 1612Bristol, England4,2
Immigratn*1621Newport News, Virginia, USA9,2
Marr Lic11 Nov 1639Mary Dolling; London, England, Daniel Gookin, Gent., of the Parish of St. Sepulchre, London, a widower, aged about 27, and Mary Dolling, of the Parish of St. Dunstan in the West, London, a spinster, aged about 21, whose parents were dead. Marriage records at St. Sepulchre were destroyed in a fire in 1665. No information on Daniel's first marriage has been found.1,4,2
Marriage*s 1640Mary Dolling; London, England10,11,2
Event-Misc*1644Boston, Massachusetts, Type: Freeman12,2
Immigratn10 May 1644Boston, Massachusetts12,2
Event-Misc*1648Mary Dolling; Cambridge, Massachusetts, Type: Imm16,2
Marriage*bt 1681 -
1685		Massachusetts1,3,2
Death*19 Mar 1687Cambridge, Massachusetts, Died at 5 or 6 in the morning.1,13,7,5,2
Burial*22 Mar 1686/87Cambridge, Massachusetts, Here lyeth intered ye body of Major Genel Daniel Gookings, aged 75 years, who departed this life ye 19th of March 1686-713,5,2
Last Edited20 Jul 2002 
 
CoParent Mary Dolling
Son-Bio*21 Apr 1652Samuel Gookin+2

  1. [S220] James Edward Greenleaf, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, 84-88.
  2. [S280] Rootsweb, 5 January 2003.
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  5. [S254] William T. Harris, Epitaphs from the old burying ground in Cambridge with notes, 14.
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Mary Dolling1,2 (F)
b. 1618, d. a 04 Oct 1681
Note* Orphan spinster of St. Dunstan in England.3,2
Name-Marr Gookin4,2
Birth*1618England3,2
Marr Lic11 Nov 1639Daniel Gookin Jr.; London, England, Daniel Gookin, Gent., of the Parish of St. Sepulchre, London, a widower, aged about 27, and Mary Dolling, of the Parish of St. Dunstan in the West, London, a spinster, aged about 21, whose parents were dead. Marriage records at St. Sepulchre were destroyed in a fire in 1665. No information on Daniel's first marriage has been found.1,5,2
Marriage*s 1640Daniel Gookin Jr.; London, England4,6,2
Immigratn*10 May 1644Boston, Massachusetts3,2
Event-Misc*1648Daniel Gookin Jr.; Cambridge, Massachusetts, Type: Imm17,2
Death*a 04 Oct 1681Massachusetts8,2
Last Edited5 Aug 2001 
 
CoParent Daniel Gookin Jr.
Son-Bio*21 Apr 1652Samuel Gookin+2

  1. [S220] James Edward Greenleaf, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, 84-88.
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  6. [S252] Unknown author, Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (CD-ROM: 1998 Search & ReSearch Publishing Corp.), Volume: Volume 2, 167.
  7. [S220] James Edward Greenleaf, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, 87.
  8. [S220] James Edward Greenleaf, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, 88.

Daniel Gookin Sr.1,2 (M)
b. 1582, d. Feb 1632/33 or Mar 1632/33
Pedigree
Father-Bio*b 1545John Gookin2
Mother-Bio*Abt 1550/1557Katherine Denne2
Mother-BioAbt 1550/1557Katherine Denne3
Name-Var Daniel Gooking3
Reference 1P90-GS3
Note* Went to Carygoline, Ireland, returned to England, then went to Newport News, Virginia (1621) with 50 men at his own expense.4,2
Birth31 Mar 1580of Ripple, Kent, England3
Burial25 Oct 15813
Birth*1582Kent, England4,1,2
Marriage*31 Jan 1608/9Mary Byrd; Kent, England1,2
Residence*c 1620co. Longford, Ireland4,5,2
Residencec 1621Carrigaline, co. Cork, Ireland5,2
Immigratn*22 Nov 1621Newport News, Virginia, USA, Arrived on the ship 'Flying Hart'4,2
Emigration*Jul 1622England, Aboard the ship 'Sea Flower'4,2
Event-Misc*Apr 1623Newport News, Virginia, USA, Type: Imm1 Aboard the ship 'Providence'6,2
Death1633Virginia, USA3
Death*Feb 1632/33 or Mar 1632/335,7,2
Last Edited5 Aug 2001 
 
CoParent Mary Byrd
Son-Bio*late 1612Daniel Gookin Jr.+2

  1. [S251] Richard N. Gookins, A History and Genealogy of the Gookin Family of England, Ireland, and America, 12.
  2. [S280] Rootsweb, 5 January 2003.
  3. [S506] Sandra Carr, 07 Dec 2002.
  4. [S256] Edward D. Neill, NEHG Register (CD-ROM: 1996): A study of The Virginia Census of 1624, Volume: Volume 31, 267.
  5. [S258] John P. Pendergast, NEHG Register (CD-ROM: 1996): John Wingate Thornton, Volume: Volume 33, 284.
  6. [S256] Edward D. Neill, NEHG Register (CD-ROM: 1996): A study of The Virginia Census of 1624, Volume: Volume 31, 268.
  7. [S251] Richard N. Gookins, A History and Genealogy of the Gookin Family of England, Ireland, and America, 14.

Israel Nichols1,2 (M)
b. 01 Sep 1650, d. 24 Jan 1733/34
Pedigree
Father-Bio*1592Thomas Nichols2
Mother-Bio*1616Rebecca Josselyn2
Occupation* a weaver1,2
Baptism*01 Sep 1650Hingham, Massachusetts1,3,2
Marriage26 Sep 1679Hingham, Massachusetts1,4,2
Marriage*10 Jan 1688/89Mary Sumner; Milton, Massachusetts, They had ten children.1,5,2
Marriage*24 Jun 1725Hingham, Massachusetts1,2
Death*24 Jan 1733/34Hingham, Massachusetts1,2
Last Edited18 Mar 2001 
 
CoParent Mary Sumner
Dau-Bio*04 Jul 1702Silence Nichols+2

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  2. [S280] Rootsweb, 5 January 2003.
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  4. [S260] C. Edward Egan, NEHG Register (CD-ROM: 1996): The Hobart Journal, Volume: Volume 121, 204.
  5. [S221] Unknown author, Family Panorama, Across the Centuries: Greenleaf-Collins-Gowdy-Wells-Duguid-Geedy-Stewart, The other half-posterity, 4.

Mary Sumner1,2 (F)
b. 05 Aug 1665, d. 1724
Pedigree
Father-Bio*1632Roger Sumner2
Mother-Bio*16 Mar 1633/34Mary Josselyn2
Name-Marr Nichols3,1,2
Birth*05 Aug 1665Lancaster, Massachusetts3,4,1,2
Marriage*10 Jan 1688/89Israel Nichols; Milton, Massachusetts, They had ten children.3,1,2
Death*1724Hingham, Massachusetts5,3,2
Last Edited9 Feb 2000 
 
CoParent Israel Nichols
Dau-Bio*04 Jul 1702Silence Nichols+2

  1. [S221] Unknown author, Family Panorama, Across the Centuries: Greenleaf-Collins-Gowdy-Wells-Duguid-Geedy-Stewart, The other half-posterity, 4.
  2. [S280] Rootsweb, 5 January 2003.
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  4. [S261] E. S. Wessler, The Jocelyn-Joslin-Joslyn-Josselyn Family.
  5. [S220] James Edward Greenleaf, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family.

Thomas Nichols1,2 (M)
b. 1592, d. 08 Nov 1696
Pedigree
Father-Bio* Walter Nichols2
Note* Shipped from London on the 'Increase' to Hingham, Massachusetts. He came from England in 1637. He was a shipwright, and planter.3,2
Occupation* a shipwright and planter1,2
Birth*1592England4,3,2
Event-Misc*1637England, Type: Imm11,2
Marriage*c 1638Rebecca Josselyn; Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts5,1,3,2
Event-Misc*11 Mar 1653Rebecca Josselyn; Hingham, Massachusetts, Type: Deed purchased his dwelling house, barn, and three acres of land which had belonged to Thomas Josselyn6,2
Marriage*23 Sep 1681Hingham, Massachusetts5,7,2
Death*08 Nov 1696Hingham, Massachusetts1,8,2
Last Edited18 Mar 2001 
 
CoParent Rebecca Josselyn
Son-Bio*01 Sep 1650Israel Nichols+2

  1. [S261] E. S. Wessler, The Jocelyn-Joslin-Joslyn-Josselyn Family, 79.
  2. [S280] Rootsweb, 5 January 2003.
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  5. [S259] E. French, NEHG Register (CD-ROM: 1996): Josselyn, Volume: Volume 71, 254.
  6. [S261] E. S. Wessler, The Jocelyn-Joslin-Joslyn-Josselyn Family, 78.
  7. [S260] C. Edward Egan, NEHG Register (CD-ROM: 1996): The Hobart Journal, Volume: Volume 121, 208.
  8. [S260] C. Edward Egan, NEHG Register (CD-ROM: 1996): The Hobart Journal, Volume: Volume 121, 285.

Rebecca Josselyn1,2 (F)
b. 1616, d. 22 Sep 1675
Pedigree
Father-Bio*1591/92Thomas Josselyn2
Mother-Bio*1592Rebecca Marlowe2
Name-Marr Nichols3,4,2
Birth*1616Barham, Suffolk, England5,2
Event-Misc*1635Massachusetts, Type: Imm16,2
Marriage*c 1638Thomas Nichols; Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts6,1,3,2
Event-Misc*11 Mar 1653Thomas Nichols; Hingham, Massachusetts, Type: Deed purchased his dwelling house, barn, and three acres of land which had belonged to Thomas Josselyn7,2
Death*22 Sep 1675Hingham, Massachusetts6,8,1,9,2
Last Edited10 Nov 2001 
 
CoParent Thomas Nichols
Son-Bio*01 Sep 1650Israel Nichols+2

  1. [S261] E. S. Wessler, The Jocelyn-Joslin-Joslyn-Josselyn Family, 79.
  2. [S280] Rootsweb, 5 January 2003.
  3. [S221] Unknown author, Family Panorama, Across the Centuries: Greenleaf-Collins-Gowdy-Wells-Duguid-Geedy-Stewart, The other half-posterity, 4b.
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  5. [S261] E. S. Wessler, The Jocelyn-Joslin-Joslyn-Josselyn Family, 77, 79.
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  7. [S261] E. S. Wessler, The Jocelyn-Joslin-Joslyn-Josselyn Family, 78.
  8. [S241] C. H. Pope, Pioneers of Massachusetts.
  9. [S260] C. Edward Egan, NEHG Register (CD-ROM: 1996): The Hobart Journal, Volume: Volume 121, 197.

Thomas Josselyn1,2 (M)
b. 1591/92, d. 03 Jan 1660/61
Pedigree
Father-Bio*c 1556Ralph Josselyn2
Mother-Bio*c 1562Mary Bright2
Note* Kingsbury gives the following: Thomas Joslin, son of Robert and Martha (Cleveland) Joslin, born London, England, 1590, married 1614 Rebecca Marlow and with his wife and five children and a maid-servant, Eliza Ward, embarked at London on the 'Increase' 17 Apr. 1635 and arrived at Boston the latter part of May, and took up his abode in Hingham, Massachusetts, where he was one of the early proprietors. Bought land from his son-in-law Thomas Nichols in 1638, removed in 1654 to Lancaster, Massachusetts, where he died 3 Nov. 1661. Thomas' will was dated 9 May 1660 and probated 29 January 1661. Ancestral file ~G42S-DB has birth as 1591/2, Roxwell, Essex, England, marriage as 1628 NEHGR, vol 71, pp 236-257. (#28) Source: History of the Town of Surry, Cheshire County, New Hampshire by Frank Burnside Kingsbury, published by the town of Surry, New Hampshire 1925, page 723.3,2
Note Thomas probably received his portion of his father's estate when he left home to make his way in London, as his father in his will of 1626, bequeathed to him only five pounds, whereas the other sons received much larger portions. Thomas married Rebecca Marlowe born in London in 1592. After living in or near London for a number of years, they moved to Barham, co. Suffolk, where their youngest child was born. Thomas embarked for New England in the ship Increase, of London, commanded by Captain Robert Lea. The passenger list contain the names of 'Thomas Jostlin, husbandman, age 43, Rebecca, his wife, age 43: Elizabeth Ward, a maid-servant, age 38; and five of seven children -- Rebecca, 18, Dorothy, 11, Nathaniel, 3, Elizabeth, 6, and Mary, a year old. On his arrival in New England, the ship docked at Boston. Thomas went first to Watertown, Massachusetts. The settlers there heard the glowing reports of the Musketsquid Valley, the long lush meadows, the tall swamp grass, the rolling hills with timber. The fish were plentiful in the stream. The natural clearings could be planted without the drudgery of stump pulling and woodcutting. As shipload after shipload of immigrants arrived from England to settle in the seacoast communities, the inhabitants of Watertown were feeling the need of more meadow. Consequently, in 1637, the greater part of the Watertown inhabitants petition the general court that they 'might leave to remove and settle a plantation upon the river which runs to Concord. Thomas became an original proprietor in the new settlement which in 1639 was given the name, Sudberry. Other settlers who went with him were Nathaniel Treadway and John Howe. That same year Daniel Hudson came over from England. On the east side of this new community lay Watertown; on the North was Concord. The south and west wilderness, and in the ancient records it was called wilderness land. Samuel Maverick probably the town clerk and 1660, wrote -- 'They plant and breed cattle, and get something by trading with the Indians.' In 1640, the first Sudbury church was organized. Congregationalist in government, and Calvinist in doctrine. It was called a meeting house. So bitter were the New England colonists against the Anglican Church, that the word church was forbidden and excluded from common usage for a full century. Like all Puritan houses of that day, we may assume that Thomas's first house in this new land was built on what we would term the medieval pattern; with huge chimneys, casement windows, sturdy doors, and many gables. He was a man of substance, and men of substance, especially Englishmen, did not live in log cabins in that particular period. It appears that his sons, Abraham and Joseph, joined their parents between 1637 and 1645. Joseph probably remained in the family home in Sudbury, and Abraham went to Hingham, a town southeast of Boston, at the Southern end of Boston Bay. We find Thomas and his family in Hingham and 1645, where he was a proprietor and selectman. He had bought land of his son in law Thomas Nichols. Thomas is listed in the colonial records as' husbandman and pioneer:' as a man of 'business ability and generous disposition.' We find this notation in the records -- John Merrick had a grant of land in Hingham, and 1649, between widow Cutter and Thomas Joslin's upland. And this notation -- on March 11, 1653, Thomas Nichols purchased of Thomas Joslin, his dwelling house, barn, and three acres of his land which had belonged to Stephen Lincoln before Thomas Joslin bought it. Thomas and his son, Nathaniel, sold their other property that year to George Lane and Moses Collier who were in Hingham as early as 1635, and removed to the new town of Lancaster, Massachusetts on the western outpost of civilization, known in the ancient records by the Indians named 'Naeshaway.' Thomas purchased 50 acres of upland and 20 acres of swampland in those remote wilds. The meadows of that day he were open and produced an abundance of grass, thereby giving the settlers a supply of food for their cattle without the labor of clearing the dense forest. No fencing was needed as they put bells on their cows. This purchase of land was on the west side of what decades later became known as Main Street in Lancaster. He signed the covenant for new local government, Sept. 12, 1654, and is listed as one of the original proprietors of the town.4,2
Birth*1591/92Roxwell (Bollinghatch), Essex, England1,5,2
Marriage*1615Rebecca Marlowe; England1,5,2
Residence*b 1634London, England5,2
Event-Misc*17 Apr 1635Rebecca Marlowe; Boston, Massachusetts, Type: Imm1 on the Increase of London.1,2
Event-Miscb 1637Rebecca Marlowe; Watertown, Massachusetts, Type: Imm15,2
Event-Misc1639Rebecca Marlowe; Sudbury, Massachusetts, Type: Imm25,2
Residenceb 1645Hingham, Massachusetts6,2
Event-Misc1645Rebecca Marlowe; Hingham, Massachusetts, Type: Deed from his son-in-law Thomas Nichols6,2
Will*09 May 1660Massachusetts1,2
Death*03 Jan 1660/61Lancaster, Massachusetts1,2
Event-Misc*02 Apr 1661Massachusetts, Type: Will prove1,2
Last Edited10 Nov 2001 
 
CoParent Rebecca Marlowe
Dau-Bio*1616Rebecca Josselyn+2
Dau-Bio*16 Mar 1633/34Mary Josselyn+2

  1. [S259] E. French, NEHG Register (CD-ROM: 1996): Josselyn, Volume: Volume 71, 253.
  2. [S280] Rootsweb, 5 January 2003.
  3. [S262] Frank Burnside Kingsbury, History of the Town of Surry, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, 723.
  4. [S261] E. S. Wessler, The Jocelyn-Joslin-Joslyn-Josselyn Family, 77-79.
  5. [S261] E. S. Wessler, The Jocelyn-Joslin-Joslyn-Josselyn Family, 77.
  6. [S261] E. S. Wessler, The Jocelyn-Joslin-Joslyn-Josselyn Family, 78.

Rebecca Marlowe1,2 (F)
b. 1592, d. b 1669
Name-Marr Josselyn3,2
Name-Var (?) Kelsey3,2
Birth*1592London, England1,2
Marriage*1615Thomas Josselyn; England3,1,2
Residence*b 1634London, England1,2
Event-Misc*17 Apr 1635Thomas Josselyn; Boston, Massachusetts, Type: Imm1 on the Increase of London.3,2
Event-Miscb 1637Thomas Josselyn; Watertown, Massachusetts, Type: Imm11,2
Event-Misc1639Thomas Josselyn; Sudbury, Massachusetts, Type: Imm21,2
Residenceb 1645Hingham, Massachusetts4,2
Event-Misc1645Thomas Josselyn; Hingham, Massachusetts, Type: Deed from his son-in-law Thomas Nichols4,2
Marriage*16 May 1664Lancaster, Massachusetts, She was his third wife.3,5,2
Death*b 1669Lancaster, Massachusetts3,6,5,2
Last Edited10 Nov 2001 
 
CoParent Thomas Josselyn
Dau-Bio*1616Rebecca Josselyn+2
Dau-Bio*16 Mar 1633/34Mary Josselyn+2

  1. [S261] E. S. Wessler, The Jocelyn-Joslin-Joslyn-Josselyn Family, 77.
  2. [S280] Rootsweb, 5 January 2003.
  3. [S259] E. French, NEHG Register (CD-ROM: 1996): Josselyn, Volume: Volume 71, 253.
  4. [S261] E. S. Wessler, The Jocelyn-Joslin-Joslyn-Josselyn Family, 78.
  5. [S261] E. S. Wessler, The Jocelyn-Joslin-Joslyn-Josselyn Family, 79.
  6. [S263] Henry Whittmore, History of the Sage and Slocum Families of England and America.

Mary Josselyn1,2 (F)
b. 16 Mar 1633/34, d. 21 Aug 1711
Pedigree
Father-Bio*1591/92Thomas Josselyn2
Mother-Bio*1592Rebecca Marlowe2
Name-Marr Sumner3,4,2
Baptism*16 Mar 1633/34Barham, Suffolk, England5,2
Event-Misc*17 Apr 1635Boston, Massachusetts, Type: Imm16,2
Marriage*1656Roger Sumner; Lancaster, Massachusetts3,4,2
Death*21 Aug 1711Milton, Massachusetts6,7,2
Last Edited29 Jul 2000 
 
CoParent Roger Sumner
Dau-Bio*05 Aug 1665Mary Sumner+2

  1. [S261] E. S. Wessler, The Jocelyn-Joslin-Joslyn-Josselyn Family, 80.
  2. [S280] Rootsweb, 5 January 2003.
  3. [S221] Unknown author, Family Panorama, Across the Centuries: Greenleaf-Collins-Gowdy-Wells-Duguid-Geedy-Stewart, The other half-posterity, 4b.
  4. [S264] Unknown author, The Birth, Marriage and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1643-1850 (CD-ROM: 1999 Search & ReSearch Publishing Corp.), 20.
  5. [S259] E. French, NEHG Register (CD-ROM: 1996): Josselyn, Volume: Volume 71, 253.
  6. [S259] E. French, NEHG Register (CD-ROM: 1996): Josselyn, Volume: Volume 71, 256.
  7. [S265] Unknown author, Milton Records, Births, Marriages and Deaths 1662-1843 (CD-ROM: 1999 Search & ReSearch Publishing Corp.), Volume: Volume 1, 244.

Roger Sumner1,2 (M)
b. 1632, d. 26 Mar 1698
Pedigree
Father-Bio*c 27 Jan 1604/5William Sumner2
Mother-Bio*20 Jun 1606Mary Swift2
Father-Bioc 27 Jan 1604/5William Sumner
Mother-Bio20 Jun 1606Mary Swift
Name-Var Deacon (?)1,2
Name-Var Roger Sumner
Birth*1632Bicester, Eng
Baptism*08 Aug 1632Bicester, Oxfordshire, England3,2
Event-Misc*1643Dorchester, Massachusetts, Type: Freeman4,2
Marriage*1656Mary Josselyn; Lancaster, Massachusetts4,5,2
Occupation*1676Lancaster, Massachusetts, a Deacon6,2
Death*26 Mar 1698Milton, Massachusetts
Death*26 May 1698Milton, Massachusetts1,7,2
Last Edited25 Mar 2003 
 
CoParent Mary Josselyn
Dau-Bio*05 Aug 1665Mary Sumner+2

  1. [S259] E. French, NEHG Register (CD-ROM: 1996): Josselyn, Volume: Volume 71, 256.
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  4. [S221] Unknown author, Family Panorama, Across the Centuries: Greenleaf-Collins-Gowdy-Wells-Duguid-Geedy-Stewart, The other half-posterity, 4b.
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  6. [S264] Unknown author, The Birth, Marriage and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1643-1850 (CD-ROM: 1999 Search & ReSearch Publishing Corp.), 373.
  7. [S265] Unknown author, Milton Records, Births, Marriages and Deaths 1662-1843 (CD-ROM: 1999 Search & ReSearch Publishing Corp.), Volume: Volume 1, 244.

Dorothy 'Dolly' Wilder1,2 (F)
Marriage* 3,2
Name-Var (?) Richardson3,2
Name-Marr Greenleaf3,4,1,2
Event-Misc*22 Oct 1762Daniel Greenleaf; Massachusetts, Type: Marr Int3,2
Marriage*18 Nov 1762Daniel Greenleaf; Massachusetts3,4,1,2
Last Edited3 Nov 2002 

  1. [S227] Dennis J. Cunniff, Greenleaf, Recipient: Ron Carlton, Address: USA, Author E-mail: <<e-mail address>>.
  2. [S280] Rootsweb, 5 January 2003.
  3. [S220] James Edward Greenleaf, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, 206.
  4. [S221] Unknown author, Family Panorama, Across the Centuries: Greenleaf-Collins-Gowdy-Wells-Duguid-Geedy-Stewart, The other half-posterity, 4.

Stephen Greenleaf1,2 (M)
b. 15 Oct 1735, d. 08 Jun 1802
Pedigree
Father-Bio*07 Nov 1702Daniel Greenleaf2
Mother-Bio*04 Jul 1702Silence Nichols2
Note A recognized patriot, was town clerk from 1776-1783. A recognized patriot, was town clerk from 1776-1783.3
GEDCOM 681553D38C38D511BE7AAD2ECFF4201B5E8C3
Note* He was the fifth child of Dr. Daniel Greenleaf, of Bolton. He married Eunice Fairbanks, of Boston, where he resided until the autumn of 1771, when he removed to Brattleboro, Vermont, having purchased a tract of land of about eight hundred acres, then known as 'The Governor's Farm,' comprehending what is now the whole of the East Village of Brattleboro. Here he built mills, and opened, as is supposed the first store in Vermont. His dwelling house occupied the present site of the 'Phoenix House.' The sawmill stood upon land afterwards occupied by the paper mill, and the gristmill was erected upon the spot afterwards used for the machine shop of Hines, Newman, Hunt & Co. That part of the village where the railroad depot is situated was used by Mr. Greenleaf as a goat pasture, Flat Street for a garden, and the rest of the land in the village not covered with forest as a cow pasture. For some time after Mr. Greenleaf moved into the place his was the only family residing within the limits of the village, and there were not more than twenty families in the town. He built the first dwelling house, the first sawmill, and the first gristmill erected in the village. An old bill of lading found among the papers of his son Stephen, shows how intimately religious feeling mingled with the business transactions of life. Mr. Greenleaf, when living in Boston, was a shipping merchant, and received the following bill of lading, dated 26 Aug. 1767: 'shipped by the grace of God, in good order, by Stephen Greenleaf, Jr., In the good ship Betsey, whereof is now master, under God, for this voyage, Thomas Robson, now at anchor in the harbor of Boston, and by God's grace bound for London, two bags containing Spanish mills and dollars, etc., etc. And so God send the good ship to her desired port in safety, Amen.'4,2
Name-Var Stephen GREENLEAF3
Birth*15 Oct 1735Boston, Massachusetts5,6,2
Birth15 Oct 1735Bolton, Worcester, Massachusetts7,3
Baptism19 Oct 1735Boston, Massachusetts1,2
Marriage11 Jan 1758Eunice Fairbanks; Bolton, Worcester, Massachusetts3
Marriage*11 Jan 1758Eunice Fairbanks; Massachusetts1,2
Immigratn*1771Brattleboro, Vermont1,2
Census*1790Brattleboro, Vermont, Stephen Greenleaf1348,2
Death*08 Jun 1802Brattleboro, Vermont1,2
Death08 Jun 1802Brattleboro, Vermont3
Last Edited15 Apr 2001 
 
CoParent Eunice Fairbanks
Son-Bio*09 Dec 1770James Greenleaf+2

  1. [S220] James Edward Greenleaf, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, 208.
  2. [S280] Rootsweb, 5 January 2003.
  3. [S281] Joseph Neil Fairbanks, 19 JAN 2003.
  4. [S220] James Edward Greenleaf, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, 93.
  5. [S220] James Edward Greenleaf, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family.
  6. [S221] Unknown author, Family Panorama, Across the Centuries: Greenleaf-Collins-Gowdy-Wells-Duguid-Geedy-Stewart, The other half-posterity, 4.
  7. [S413] Unknown author, L. S. Fairbanks, page 70.
  8. [S266] Unknown author, 1790 Federal Census, Vermont, Record Type: US Census, Windham County, Vermont (CD-ROM:2000), Household: Stephen Greenleaf household, Record Info: National Archives micropublication, Film: M-637 Roll 12, 108.

John Goodale1,2 (M)
d. 1625
Marriage* Yarmouth, England3,2
Marriage* Elizabeth Partlett; Yarmouth, England1,2
Death*1625Greater Yarmouth, England3,2
Last Edited18 Feb 2001 
 
CoParent Elizabeth Partlett
Dau-Bio* Joanna Goodale+2

  1. [S221] Unknown author, Family Panorama, Across the Centuries: Greenleaf-Collins-Gowdy-Wells-Duguid-Geedy-Stewart, The other half-posterity, 4b.
  2. [S280] Rootsweb, 5 January 2003.
  3. [S269] John Allen, John Goodale wife one and two, Recipient: Carlton, Ron, Address: Springfield, Missouri, Author E-mail: <<e-mail address>>.

Elizabeth Partlett1,2,3 (F)
d. 08 Apr 1647
Marriage* Yarmouth, England4,3
Marriage* John Goodale; Yarmouth, England1,3
Name-Marr Goodale1,3
Name-Var (?) Taylor4,3
Emigration*1637Yarmouth, Norfolk, England1,3
Death*08 Apr 1647Newbury, Massachusetts5,6,3
Event-Misc*27 Mar 1648Massachusetts, Type: Will prove5,3
Last Edited18 Feb 2001 
 
CoParent John Goodale
Dau-Bio* Joanna Goodale+3

  1. [S221] Unknown author, Family Panorama, Across the Centuries: Greenleaf-Collins-Gowdy-Wells-Duguid-Geedy-Stewart, The other half-posterity, 4b.
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  3. [S280] Rootsweb, 5 January 2003.
  4. [S250] Albert H Hoyt, NEHG Register (CD-ROM: 1996): Daniel Pierce, of Newbury, Mass., 1638-1677, and his descendants, Volume: Volume 29, 273.
  5. [S241] C. H. Pope, Pioneers of Massachusetts, 191.
  6. [S232] Unknown author, Vital Records of Newbury Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (CD-ROM: 1998 Search & ReSearch Publishing Corp.), Volume: Volume II, 598.

William Sumner1 (M)
b. c 27 Jan 1604/5, d. 09 Dec 1688
Pedigree
Father-Bio*1570Roger Sumner1
Mother-Bio*bt 13 Feb 1559 -
1560		Joanne Franklin1
Father-Bio1570Roger Sumner
Mother-Biobt 13 Feb 1559 -
1560		Joanne Franklin
Note William Sumner, the ancestor, and his wife Mary, settled in DorchesterMass. He and his wife came to New England in 1630 with GovernorWinthrop's Fleet. He was made a freeman in 1637; admitted to the Churchin 1652; was for 12 years a Deputy to the General Court; a Selectman 23years, nearly half the time from 1637 to 1688; was a Rater for 5 yrs.,and a Commissioner 'to try and issue small causes' for nine years, from1663 to 1671 inclusive. In 1645 he 'was appointed one of a Committee forbuilding a New Meeting House', and in 1663 was chosen 'Clerk of yeTraining Band'. In September 1675, Mr. Sumner with Richard Baker ofDorchester and others, was on a jury for trial of ye Indians of Boston.Mr. Sumner''s will was proved March 1691-92. (Collected notes of EdwardKingsbury Tidd). Other Source: Banks: The Winthrop Fleet, 1630; p.93 Per Colonial Families of the United States of America, page 550:WilliamSumner emigrated to A merica and settled in Dorcester, Mass., 1636;admitted freeman of thecolony, 17th May, 1637. Per Savage, Vol.4 of the Dictionary of the First Settlers of NewEngland:William Sumner, Dorc ester, 1636, came probably with wife Mary,andchildren William, Roger, George, Joan and perhaps Abigail, who died19Feb. 1658, was made Freeman 17 May 1637. Had Samuel, b. 18 May 1638;andIncrease, 23 Feb. 1643; very often selectman, and rep. many years.Hiswife died 7 June 1676, it is reported. and he perhaps died March1692,aged approx 86. He is thought to have been only child of RogerofBicester in County Oxford, 12 miles from the City of Oxford andcouldonly be two yeasrs old when his father made nuncup will 3 Dec. 1608,pro.22 Mar foll. as set out in Geneal. Reg. IX. 300. Individual: Baptized on 'Jan. 27, 1604/5' (J. C. Hammond). This data is far from perfect. Changes/corrections when documented aremost welcome. [Brøderbund WFT Vol. 19, Ed. 1, Tree #1563, Date of Import: Apr 18, 1999] Most authorities say he married Mary West. However, 'Genealogies ofWoodstock Familes' (p. 345) and an article in 'The American Genealogist'(January 1943) by Mary Lovering Holman indiacte that her name was MarySwift, born c. 1606, sister of Thomas Swift of Dorchester, who in a willdated 1675, named William Sumner as his brother-in-law. (Thomas Swift'swife was Elizabeth Capen. Mary was daughter of Robert Swift ofRotherham, County York.) Whichever Mary it was, they were in New England by 1635 and settled atDorchester (settled 1630) on the Neponset River in the Massachusetts BayColony. Dorchester town records show (February 1, 1635) 'Will: Sumner isto have 3 acres of fresh marsh next Goodman Ford. ' Dorchester wasannexed to Boston in 1870. In the company were Colonel Stoughton andRoger Clap. William continued to own land in Bicester until 1650. Underthe Rev. Richard Mather the Covenant of Dorchester Church was signedAugust 23, 1636. William signed and his wife 'Marie' made her mark. The following records apparently refer to William. Dorchester ChurchRecords, Sept. 5, 1675: 'William Sumnerappeared before ye church theSacrament to give Satisfaction for offencie speches uttered against yeCommittee of ye Milicia. ' 'William Sumner went out of ye meeting whenit (the Covenant) was going to be read & Came not againe in yeafternoone.' [18 April 1677] (Perhaps he was upset because his sonRoger was living in Lancaster when Indians attacked. Apparently he wasforgiven, for he served as a member of special church committees onNovember 15, 1677. August 17, 1679, and March 27, 1681.) William was made Freeman of the Colony May 17, 1637, and at various timesheld many offices of respectable importance. he was a Selectman ofDorchester in 1637 and more than twenty other years. In 1645 he was on acommittee to build a new meetinghouse. From 1663 to 1680 he was one ofthe feoffees (trustees) of the school land. The first public provisionfor a free school through a direct tax on town inhabitants (in this orany other country) was 1639 when the school feoffees agreed on a tax of20 pounds per year to pay a schoolmaster. William also was responsiblefor obtaining a school teacher. From 1662 to 1673 William was one of theCommissioners to try and issue small causes. In 1663, he was also chosenclerk of 'ye Trained band' (militia); in december 1645 Sgt Sumner waschosen bailiff. He was a deputy from Dorchester to the General Court(the legislative body) in 1658, 1666-70, 1672, 1678-81, 1683-86; he doesnot however appear prominently in its records. William was a surveyor,marking boundaries to view tracts and 'lay out tracts and highways. Hewas a Rater (appraiser) in 1645, 1651, 1658-60, 1668-70 and a grandjuryman 1673 and 1677. In 1665, William and two others were appointed tomeet and negotiate with Josiah Sachem (also called 'Joseph' and'Wampatuck') regarding Indian land claims. Servants' names recorded inWilliam's will were Rebecca Adams and Anthony Hancocke. Records of theCourt of Assistants (2:62) provide the following [Sumner Lineage]: 'Attthe Court holden att Newe towne Aprill 5th 1637, it was ordered thatWillm Shipheard, sevt to Willm Sumner shalbe whipt for stealeingvictualls from his Mr. & beanes from the indians. ' A map of William'sproperty at Dorchester 1652 is found at N.E.H.G.S., 'Ancestry of John andSusanna (Parkhurst) Sumner', (unpublished) by John B. Threlfall. Williamreturned to Bicester 1650 to settle the family estate. In 1675, heturned over to the commissary five suits of armor, probably for use inKing Philip's War. These were unusual personal possessions for a personwith a 'farmer's' background. The same might also be said of thepossession of personal portraits of William and Mary done probably at thetime of their wedding in England. His will and the division of his estate are given in detail in'Appleton'. see also 'Colonial Families of the United States', pp.550-551, 'New England families' Genealogy and Memorial', Vol. 2, p. 886,'Pioneers of Massachusetts' by Pope, p. 441, 'Founders and Patriots ofAmerica', D.A.R., 1975.
Name-Var William Sumner
Birth*c 27 Jan 1604/5Bicester, Oxfordshire, England2,3
Birth*c 27 Jan 1604/5Bicester, Oxfordshire, England1
Christning27 Jan 1604/5St. Edinburg Church, Bicester, Oxfords., England4
Marriage*22 Oct 1625Bicester, Oxfordshire, England4,3
Marriage*22 Oct 1625Mary Swift; Bicester, Oxfordshire, England
Marriage*22 Oct 1625Mary Swift; Bicester, Oxfordshire, England1
Death*09 Dec 1688Dorchester, Massachusetts5,1
Death*09 Dec 1688Dorchester, Massachusetts4,2,3
Last Edited25 Mar 2003 
 
CoParent Mary Swift
Son-Bio*18 May 1628William Sumner
Son-Bio1632Roger Sumner+
Son-Bio*1632Roger Sumner