#18 William Warner | Clare and Nonnie

Four grandparents of #18 William B. Warner [3ggf 1804-1865] and their ancestors

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Elijah Warner narrative

The Descendants of Andrew Warner states that William's mother Elizabeth is “a lineal descendant of two of the signers of the Mayflower Compact, Francis Cooke and Gov. William Bradford”. They are not exactly correct. She does descend from Bradford (see the Mitchell section below), but not quite from Cooke. Betsey’s 2 great grandfather was Experience Mitchell (see below). His first wife was Jane Cooke, daughter of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke. However, it is generally agreed that Betsey descends from Experience Mitchell’s second wife Mary (last name not known) who is not a Mayflower descendant. That being said, they either missed or did not know the fact that Betsey does descend from another Mayflower passenger- Richard Warren (see Mitchell section below). Therefore, I would say she is a lineal descendant of two and a half of the signers of the Mayflower Compact. It appears that Betsey has another distinction in Clare’s side of our family tree. As near as I can tell, she was the first of our grandparents born in the United States of America, meaning after 4 Jul 1776, having been born about a year later on 25 Jul 1777. All older ancestors would have been born Colonial Englishmen.

Capt. Elijah Warner [5ggf 1738-1819]: was the oldest of at least ten children born to Capt. Joseph Warner [6ggf 1710-1794] and his wife Mary (Hubbard) Warner [6ggm 1719-1779]. Elijah was a veteran of both the French & Indian and Revolutionary Wars. On 9 Aug 1757 (age 18), he joined his father Capt. Joseph as Joseph led a company in the relief of Fort William Henry, New York. They apparently arrived too late to prevent the debacle during the surrender of the fort as depicted in the 1826 James Fennimore Cooper novel (and later movie) The Last of the Mohicans. On 22 Sep 1774 (age 35), Elijah became an ensign in the reorganized minutemen company of the Hardwick militia. In 1776, he was commissioned a lieutenant of the company and in 1783, near war end, a captain. Elijah was a farmer, married 3 times, and in his 1810 will, he named 13 children then living.

Elijah’s father Capt. Joseph was one of the few slave-holders that I have found in our tree. Although allowed by law in Massachusetts until 1781, slavery was uncommon. Once again we have a complicated family tree. The Warner and Hubbard families inter-married several times, and as a result the branches of our tree crisscross. Daniel Warner [1640-1692] is the fraternal grandfather of Capt. Joseph and also great-grandfather of Capt. Joseph’s wife Mary. Similarly, John Hubbard [1630-1702] is the maternal grandfather of Capt. Joseph and also great-grandfather of Mary, meaning each man (Daniel Warner and John Hubbard) is both my 8 and 9 great grandfather. All of the immigrant ancestors of Elijah arrived from England, settling either in Massachusetts or Connecticut. They include:

Andrew Warner [9ggf ca. 1599-1684] first of this family line in America, arrived in 1633 (ship unknown) with his wife Mary (Humfrey) Warner [9ggm ca. 1603- 1657] and their first 4 children. They first settled in Cambridge (then known as Newtown) and was a founder of Hartford (1636), moved to Farmington (1648), back to Hartford again (1650) and finally Hadley (1659). He was a ‘maltster’- a maker of malt for use in brewing or distilling.
George Hubbard [9ggf ca. 1600-1683], his wife Mary (Bishop) Hubbard [9ggf ca. 1610-1675] and their infant son John Hubbard [8/9ggf 1630-1702] arrived about 1633, first settling in Watertown, Mass. Not long after, they moved to Connecticut- to Wethersfield in 1635, to Milford in 1644 and to Guilford in 1648, the latter two towns then part of New Haven Colony. Mary’s parents followed her to New England several years later (see next).
John Bishop [10ggf ca. 1590-1661], his wife Anne (Maiden name unknown) [10ggm unk.-1676] and their son John Bishop II [9ggf 1625-1683] left Cranbrook, England 20 May 1639 aboard the Saint John. John, Sr. was one of 25 men to sign the "Plantation Covenant" on 1 Jun 1639 while still at sea. They settled in Guilford, New Haven Colony (later Connecticut) on 10 Sep 1639. They were led by Rev. Henry Whitfield who had been rector of St. Margaret's at Ockley in Surrey since 1616. Here our tree once again takes an interesting twist. We descend from two children of John and Anne Bishop- their daughter Mary (in the above paragraph) is the 4-great grandmother of our 3ggf William B. Warner and their son John II (here) is the 4-great grandfather of 3ggm Annis Crittenden, wife of 3ggf William B. Warner, which makes that couple 5th cousins.
John Cowles [10ggf ca. 1599-1675] and wife Hannah (Unknown) Cowles [10ggm ca. 1613-1683] arrived between 1634 and 1639, first settling in Hartford, Conn and later moving to Hatfield, Mass. In 1660, Cowles’ son Samuel Cowles [9ggf 1639-1691] would marry Abigail (Stanley) Cowles [9ggm unk.-1737], daughter of Timothy and Elizabeth Stanley (next paragraph).
Timothy Stanley [10ggf 1604-1648] and wife Elizabeth (possibly Morrice) Stanley [10ggm ca. 1603-1679] along with Timothy’s brother Thomas Stanley, migrated to the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1634. Timothy and Thomas were among the so-called “Adventurers Party” of 25 men who set out in Oct 1635 to explore the area that would become Hartford. Thus, both are recognized as city founders by the Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford.
William Pitkin [9ggf ca. 1635-1694] arrived a single man in 1659 and settled in Hartford, Conn. “Endowed with a discerning mind and coupled with an excellent English education”, he was appointed Prosecutor for Connecticut Colony in 1662 and in 1664, the King of England made him the first Attorney-General in that colony. Around 1661, he married Hannah (Goodwin) Pitkin [9ggm 1638-1724], born in Connecticut to immigrants Ozias and Mary Goodwin (see next).
Ozias Goodwin [10ggf ca. 1596-1683] Although there is some dispute, one source says he and wife Mary (Woodward) Goodwin [10ggm ca. 1600-bef. 1683] came to Plymouth Colony in Sep 1633 with Rev. Thomas Hooker (founder of Connecticut) from Downs, England aboard the Griffin carrying 200 people, mostly religious dissidents. By 1639, he followed Hooker again, this time to Connecticut and is therefore also recognized as a Hartford city founder.

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Submit Wells narrative

Submit Wells [5ggm 1742-1786]: wife of Capt. Elijah Warner (above); they married 14 Jan 1762 in Hardwick, Mass. and had 11 or 12 children before her death. All of Submit’s immigrant ancestors were English:

Hugh Welles [9ggf ca. 1590- ca. 1645], his wife Frances (Unknown) Welles [9ggm unk.-1678] and 4 children including son John Wells [8ggf ca. 1628-1692] probably arrived in Boston around 1635, possibly aboard the Globe with his brother Richard Welles and family.
John Curtis [10ggf 1577-1639], his wife Elizabeth (Hutchins) Curtis [10ggm ca. 1588-1658] and children, including son William Curtis [9ggf 1618-1702] arrived around 1635. John’s gravestone indicates he resided in Roxbury (now part of Boston) in 1637 and moved his family to Wethersfield, Conn. 1638-39. John died shortly after the move to Wethersfield and his widow and sons John and William moved to Stratford, Conn.
John Marsh [9ggf 1618-1688] is another in our tree recognized as a Hartford city founder. John moved to the American colonies about 1635, and, though his original location is unknown, he moved to Hartford by 1639/40. Shortly thereafter, he married Anne Webster (see below), daughter of another Hartford founder. About 1659, as part of yet another of many New England religious disagreements, they and several others moved to Hadley, Mass. and not long after, they moved again to Northampton, Mass. His second wife was Hepzibah Ford, widow of Richard Lyman, another Hartford Founder.
Gov. John Webster [10ggf 1590-1661], his wife Agnes (Smith) Webster [10ggm 1585-1667], and their children, including daughter Ann (Webster) Marsh [9ggm 1621-1662] emigrated from England to Massachusetts about 1635, first living in Watertown. He moved to Hartford, probably with the Rev. Hooker’s party, in April 1636, thus making him yet another of our ancestors considered a founder of that city. He held a number of colony-wide offices, including one year as Governor of Connecticut Colony. Webster was among the group of church members who were upset when their minister liberalized baptismal requirements and moved to Hadley, Mass. where they could practice religion as they saw fit.
William Allis [9ggf ca. 1613-1678] one family source from 1919 claims he arrived 1 Jul 1630 at Boston as one of 39 men aboard the Mayflower (third voyage) with the Winthrop fleet of 11 vessels containing 700 immigrants. No current outside sources confirm this. Before 1641, he married Mary (unknown) Allis [9ggm ca. 1615-1677] in Braintree, Mass. Her maiden name and date of immigration have not been found. They had 8 children, all born in Braintree, before William and Mary moved, in 1658, to Wethersfield, Conn., in the fertile Connecticut River valley. However, religious differences regarding church governance and ordinances arose and a group of about 60 men, including our grandparents Allis, Webster and Marsh (see above), agreed to move their families further north up the Connecticut River, back into Massachusetts and settled the towns of Hadley and Hatfield on opposite sides of the river. In May 1676, during King Phillip’s War, Allis was a Captain in the fight with Indians at Great Falls and had 3 sons with him in the engagement, one of whom William Allis, Jr. was killed. The following year, on 19 Sep 1677, 50 Indians from Canada, led by chief Ashpelon and encouraged by the French, attacked Hatfield while most men were harvesting corn in a distant field.; they set fire to many buildings, killed 12, captured 17 which they took to Canada. Among those killed were 9ggm Mary Allis and John Graves. The following year, on 25 Jun 1678, widower 9ggf William Allis remarried Mary (Bronson) Graves, widow of John just mentioned. About 2 ½ months later, William himself died (age 65).
Thomas Meakins [10ggf ca. 1589- ca. 1645], his wife Katherine (Bell) Meakins [10ggm ca. 1584-1651] and their son Thomas Meekins II [9ggf ca. 1614-1687] were all servants to Edmund Quincy. They probably arrived with Quincy in Plymouth Colony on the Griffin in Sept 1633; in any case, they were admitted to the Boston church 2 Feb 1634. The first sawmill in Hatfield, Mass. was built by son 9ggf Thomas Meekins II.
Richard Belden [10ggf 1591-1655] arrived between 1636 and 1640 as a widower with two sons; by 7 Apr 1641 he is found in the land records of Wethersfield, Conn. This family provides another unusual twist in the branches of our family tree. Richard’s son Samuel Belden [9ggf 1632-1713] immigrated as a youth with his father and married four times, the first three wives all named Mary. His first wife, Mary (Hastings) Belden [9ggm ca. 1630-1677] was one of the 12 killed in the Indian raid on Hatfield 19 Sep 1677 (see mention of others killed in the William Allis narrative above). Nine months after her death, Samuel (age 45) remarried, to the widow Mary (Beardley) Wells. Following the 1691 death of his second wife named Mary, Samuel (age ca. 59) again remarried to another widow Mary, this one being Mary (Meekins) Allis [8ggm 1645-1705], she being the daughter of 9ggf Thomas Meekins II (above). Note she is my 8th great grandmother and he is my 9th great grandfather. Another way of saying it: Mary (Belden) Allis' grandfather Samuel Belden married her mother-in-law Mary (Meekins) Allis. Take a minute to think about that.

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William Mitchell narrative

William Mitchell [5ggf 1750-1837]: was the 7th of 12 children born to Edward Mitchell, Jr. [6ggf 1716-1801] and his wife Elizabeth Cushing [6ggm 1714-1799]. Edward’s father, also named Edward [7ggf ca. 1645-1717], and his first wife Mary Hayward were married 40 years but had no children before she died. However, they did raise the 3 orphaned children of his brother Jacob. In 1708, the widower Edward Sr. (age 63) remarried, to Alice Bradford [7ggm 1677-1746] who was age 31. They had 3 children together, and Edward, Sr. was 71 years old when the youngest, 6ggf Edward, Jr., was born. When Edward Sr. died in 1717, Alice was left with 3 young children, including one year old Edward, Jr. She remarried the following year to Joshua Hersey, a farmer, constable, selectman and church deacon. The immigrant ancestors (all English, although some arrived from Leiden, Netherlands) of William Mitchell include:

Experience Mitchell [8ggf ca. 1603-1689] arrived in Plymouth Colony in July 1623, a single man aboard the ship Anne with a group of Pilgrims from Leiden, Holland. In 1626 he was one of 58 "Purchasers", the new investment group for Plymouth Colony, replacing the previous group, the Merchant Adventurers. The Purchasers were privileged above all others in future colony land grants. The following year, he married Jane Cooke, daughter of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke. They moved to Duxbury by 1639. About 1641, following Jane’s death, Experience remarried, to Mary (unknown) Mitchell [8ggm unk-aft.1662]. In Jun 1654, Experience Mitchell, Myles Standish, John Alden and Philip Delanoy were chosen to settle a boundary dispute in Duxbury. Experience is listed as one of the 54 original “Proprietors” of Bridgewater, Mass. Others on that list include our grandfathers 10ggf William Bradford (below), 11ggf William Collier, 9ggf Myles Standish, 10ggf Constant Southworth, 8ggf John Cary, 9ggf Moses Simmons, 9ggf John Alden and 9ggf Henry Howland. Experience and John Cary were the only ones of this group to actually move to Bridgewater. The others were just investors, exercising their rights as “Purchasers” mentioned above.

Gov. William Bradford [10ggf 1590-1657] per Wikipedia: “was an English Puritan separatist. He moved to Leiden in Holland in order to escape persecution from King James I of England, and then emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620. He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact and went on to serve as Governor of the Plymouth Colony intermittently for about 30 years between 1621 and 1657. His journal Of Plymouth Plantation covered the years from 1620 to 1646 in Plymouth.” In early December 1620, while Bradford and others were ashore searching for a place for settlement of the Pilgrims, his first wife Dorothy fell overboard off the deck of the Mayflower and drowned. On 14 Aug 1623, in the 4th marriage in Plymouth Colony, Bradford remarried, to Alice (Carpenter) Southworth [10ggm ca. 1590-1670], widow of

Edward Southworth. Alice was previously discussed in this project in the story of 17 Abigail Alden (Howes) Rood as we descend from one of her Southworth sons. The home of Bradford’s grandson, John Bradford [8ggf 1652-1736] is still standing in Kingston, Mass., is operated as an historic house museum by the Jones River Village Historical Society and open to the public.

Thomas Richards [10ggf 1596-1651],his wife Welthian (unknown) Richards [10ggm unk-1679] and children arrived in New England in 1633, first settled in Dorchester, Mass. and by 1639 moved to Weymouth, Mass. He was a merchant, and as such, made several return trips to England= about 1640, again 1646, again about 1649 and perhaps others. Per The Great Migration Begins, “In 1653-4 [widow] Welthian Richards was threatened with the charge of witchcraft, having in the heat of passion threatened terrible things would happen to those she was angered at, they later falling victim to various unpleasant fates… Her case does not seem to have been brought forward.” One of the children who arrived in 1633 with Thomas and Welthian was their daughter Alice Richards [9ggm 1627-1671]. In 1650, Alice married Major William Bradford [9ggf 1624-1704], son of Gov. William Bradford and his second wife Alice (above). Major William was a political and military leader in Plymouth Colony. On 19 Dec 1675, he was Commander of the Plymouth forces at the Great Swamp Fight (or Massacre, depending on your perspective) near South Kingstown, Rhode Island against the Narragansett Indians in King Philip's War; he was severely wounded. He went on to hold several Colony offices and had 10 children with first wife Alice, 1 child with 2nd wife Sarah and 4 children with 3rd wife Mary.

Richard Warren [10ggf ca. 1578-1628] arrived in Plymouth in 1620, one of the passengers on the pilgrim ship Mayflower and the 12th signer of the Mayflower Compact. One genealogist states that “Warren came from London and was called a "merchant" of that city. He was one of those very few English merchants who signed on to make the Mayflower voyage as a member of the Leiden contingent.” Once conditions in the New World were satisfactory, his wife Elizabeth (Walker) Warren [10ggm 1583-1673] and 5 daughters followed 3 years later aboard the Anne. We descend from their youngest son, 9ggf Joseph Warren, born 1628 in Plymouth. A good biography along with some of the more famous descendants of Richard Warren are listed on his

Wikipedia page. The widowed 10ggm Elizabeth Warren was named in a law passed by the Plymouth Court specifically to give her the Purchaser status that her husband had had been granted, but he died before it was finalized. See Experience Mitchell above for information on the “Purchasers”.

John Faunce [10ggf ca. 1608-1653] arrived in Plymouth Colony on 10 Jul 1623 (after a 3 month voyage from London) as a single, young man, one of 74 passengers aboard the Anne. Note that also among those passengers on the Anne were our ancestors 10ggm Elizabeth Warren (above), 8ggf Experience Mitchell (another single, young man), 10ggm Alice (Carpenter) Southworth/ Bradford and 10ggf Edward Bangs. John was also one of 58 "Purchasers", the new investment group for Plymouth Colony previously discussed.
In 1623 the ships Anne and Little James were the third and fourth ships financed by the London-based Merchant Adventurers to come out together in support of Plymouth Colony, following the Mayflower in 1620 and Fortune in 1621. I mention above that at least five of our ancestors were aboard the Anne. We also had at least one family on the Little James, which arrived a week or ten days after the Anne, and each member of that family has an interesting story:
- George Morton [11ggf 1585-1624] a merchant who arrived with his wife and five children, ages 10 through infant. He is historically famous to Plymouth Colony by being revealed as having arranged (before immigrating) the publication of Mourt’s Relations, a manuscript of life and times from the earliest colony days, published in England in 1622 and authored by Edward Winslow and William Bradford. Morton died in June 1624, about a year after arriving in Plymouth.
- Julianna (Carpenter) Morton [11ggm 1584-1664] wife of George above, was the eldest of five daughters of Alexander Carpenter of Wrington, Somersetshire, all of whom came to New England, or married men who came to New England, or both. One sister was the widowed 10ggm Alice (Carpenter) Southworth who was aboard the sister ship Anne on her way to marry Gov. William Bradford (see above). Another sister, Agnes, was the second wife of Mayflower passenger Samuel Fuller, a surgeon but she died before he immigrated. Sister Priscilla arrived in 1629 or 30 and married William Wright, who had arrived aboard the Fortune in 1621. Sister Mary probably arrived in Plymouth with sister Priscilla, but never married. Julianna was left widowed with five young children when George died in 1624, and she remarried in 1627 to Manasseh Kempton.
- Patience (Morton) Faunce [10ggm ca. 1615-1691] was 8 years old when she arrived with her parents George and Julianna (above) and siblings in 1623. Her future husband 10ggf John Faunce (age 15) arrived a week or 10 days earlier aboard the sister vessel Anne (see above).
Matthew Cushing [10ggf 1589-1660] arrived in Boston on 10 Aug 1638 aboard the ship Diligent of Ipswich, England which sailed from Gravesend 26 Apr 1638, with 133 passengers including Matthew, his wife Nazareth (Pitcher) Cushing [10ggf 1586-1682] and 5 children including oldest son Daniel Cushing [9ggf 1619-1700], age 19. They immediately proceeded to Hingham, Mass.
Also aboard the 1638 Diligent of Ipswich just mentioned were Edward Gilman [10ggf 1587-1655], his wife Mary (Clark) Gilman [10ggm 1590-1681] and five of their six children including daughter Lydia (Gilman) Cushing [9ggm 1623-1689], age 15, who 7 years later would marry 9ggf Daniel Cushing (above), who was aboard the same ship with his parents.
Other 1638 passengers of the Diligent of Ipswich included the Thaxter family- Thomas Thaxter [10ggf 1595-1654], his wife Elizabeth (Coffin) Thaxter [10ggm 1599-1660] and children including oldest son John Thaxter [9ggf 1626-1687], age 12. They also settled in Hingham. Thomas was a linen weaver and a deacon of the church.
The Jacobs family arrived in New England in 1633 (ship unknown)- Nicholas Jacobs [10ggf ca. 1604-1657], his wife Mary (Gilman) Jacobs [10ggm 1615-1681] and two children including newborn daughter Elizabeth Jacob [9ggm 1632-1725]. They first resided at Watertown and moved to Hingham in 1636 where Nicholas was an innkeeper. About 1648, daughter Elizabeth married 9ggf John Thaxter (above). Following John’s 1687 death, Elizabeth was left with 12 children and in 1691 she remarried to 9ggf Daniel Cushing (see above), a widower with 6 children of his own. Elizabeth and Daniel were well acquainted prior to their marriage as two of Elizabeth's daughters were married to Daniel's sons- Daniel Cushing Jr. to Elizabeth Thaxter and Theophilus Cushing to Mary Thaxter. Think about that. Just imagine your mother marrying your husband’s father or your father marrying your wife’s mother.
Believe it or not, we have a similar situation in the next four families- Loring, Baker, Buckland and Wheatley. Thomas Loring [10ggf ca. 1600-1661], his wife Jane (Newton) Loring [10ggm unk-1672] and children including son John Loring [9ggf 1629-1714] arrived in New England in Dec 1634, first resided in Hingham and in 1646 moved to Hull, Mass. While in Hingham, Thomas was also an innkeeper “allowed to sell wine and strong water”. The first wife of son John was Mary Baker [9ggm 1639-1679] (see below for her family). In Sep 1679, two months after Mary’s death, one year after giving birth to their 11th child (exhaustion?), John remarried to Rachel (Wheatley) Buckland [9ggm 1644-1713] (see below for her family). Now it gets confusing, so pay attention. One of the 11 children of 9ggf John Loring and his first wife 9ggm Mary Baker was Thomas Loring [8ggf 1662-1738] who was 17 when his father remarried. One of the six children of 9ggm Rachel Buckland and her first husband was Leah Buckland [8ggm 1668-1759] who was 11 when her mother remarried. In Jan 1687, seven year after their parents married, these last two- Thomas Loring (now age 24) and Leah Buckland (now 18)- married each other. In case you missed it- they were step-brother and step-sister when they married.
Nathaniel Baker [10ggf ca. 1614-1682] arrived in New England in 1635 (ship unknown) and settled in Hingham, Mass. where he was a yeoman farmer. The 1682 inventory of his estate included an Indian servant, valued at £6. Nathaniel’s future wife Sarah (Lane) Baker [10ggm ca. 1617-1695] sailed 20 Mar 1635 (age 18) from Weymouth, England aboard the Marygould with her brother George (age 22) who was a servant of Angel Hollard. The parents of Sarah and George, William Lane [11ggf ca. 1581-1654] and his wife Agnes (no further information) sailed from Weymouth 8 May 1635 (a month and a half after their children) aboard the Hopewell and settled in Dorchester, Mass. It was the daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah Baker, 9ggm Mary Baker, who was mentioned above as the first wife of John Loring and mother of his 11 children.
William Buckland [10ggf 1606-1683] If his marriage with 10ggm Mary Bosworth (see below) did take place in England, which is likely, then he probably arrived in 1634 aboard the Elizabeth & Dorcas with her and her family. William was a carpenter who first resided in Hingham and moved to Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony by 1656.
Edward Bosworth [11ggf ca. 1586-1634] with his wife Mary (unknown) [11ggm unk-1687] and 3 of their 4 children including daughter Mary (Bosworth) Buckland [10ggm ca. 1611-1687] and probably Mary’s husband 10ggf William Buckland (see above) came to New England aboard the ship Elizabeth & Dorcas which arrived in Boston in July 1634. Well, Edward didn’t arrive alive, as he died just as the ship was approaching the harbor. <click here> for the story of their troublesome voyage.
- There is an interesting (but gruesome) story attached to Benjamin Buckland [9ggf 1640-1676], son of 10ggf William Buckland and 10ggm Mary (Bosworth) Buckland (above). One of the most disastrous military battles for the colonists during King Phillip’s War was called Pierce’s Fight (in Rhode Island), in which most of the approximately 60 Plymouth colonial soldiers of Capt. Michael Pierce’s command were killed, including Pierce himself. A group of nine of the soldiers, including 9ggf Benjamin Buckland, escaped the original Indian ambush, but were later captured, tortured, and killed. Because of the gruesome nature of the torture, their burial site became known as Nine Men’s Misery. That site has been called “the oldest veterans' memorial in the United States”. The burial site was disturbed in 1790 by medical students led by one Dr. Bowen who were looking for the body of our Benjamin Buckland, who was said to be unusually large and having a double row of teeth. They were stopped by outraged locals.
John Wheatley [10ggf 1595-1646] arrived in New England by 1642 (ship unknown) and married Leah Saunders [10ggm 1623-1706] in Braintree, Mass. about 1643 (see below for her family). Their first-born child was Rachel Wheatley [9ggm 1644-1713]. Rachel’s first husband was the unfortunate 9ggf Benjamin Buckland just mentioned above and her second husband was 9ggf John Loring. It was Rachel’s daughter 8ggm Leah Buckland who, seven years later, married John Loring’s son 8ggf Thomas Loring, restating the case first mentioned above where step-siblings married.
Martin Saunders [11ggf ca. 1595-1658]- his occupation in England was a “carrier”, one who drove a wagon or teams of packhorses, the cheapest form of transport other than walking. Sometime before 1619, he married Rachel (unknown) Brackett [11ggm unk-1651], a widow with 3 children. Martin (age 40), Rachel (40) and their children, including daughter Leah Saunders [10ggm 1623-1706] (age 11, future wife of the above John Wheatley) arrived in Boston harbor 7 Jun 1635 aboard the Planter from London. They lived in Boston for a few years before moving to Braintree, Mass. In New England, Martin was an “innkeeper”, in May 1939 “... allowed to keep a house of entertainment at Mount Woollaston" [current Quincy] and in May 1640 "...allowed to draw wine at Braintree".

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Elizabeth Ward narrative

Elizabeth (Ward) Mitchell [5ggm 1756-1839]: was the wife of 5ggf William Mitchell, whose numerous ancestors were just discussed in the lengthy preceding section. She was the only child of William Ward [6ggf 1733-1799] and his wife Elizabeth (Moore) Ward [6ggm 1734-1756]. The mother 6ggm Elizabeth died giving birth to the daughter 5ggm Elizabeth. All the immigrant ancestors of 5ggm Elizabeth arrived in New England from Old England and include:

William Ward [10ggf ca. 1603-1687] was the first of the Ward clan in America. He arrived probably in the spring of 1638 (ship unknown) with his second wife Elizabeth (unknown) Ward [10ggm ca. 1613-1700] and five of his children including Richard Ward [9ggf ca. 1635-1666] (age 3). William is considered one of the founders of both Sudbury, Mass (in 1638 or 1639) and neighboring Marlborogh, Mass. (petitioned court in 1656; moved there 1660). For an interesting history of Sudbury (16 miles west of Boston and on the frontier) during the time that William was there <click here>. For an excellent recap of his life and family <click here>. Before son 9ggf Richard drowned in the Sudbury River in 1666, he had two children, including Obadiah Ward [8ggf 1663-1717].
Many from England with the last name of “Moore” immigrated to New England , and among the earliest of these settlers was John Moore [9 and 10ggf ca. 1605-1674]. He and his second wife Elizabeth (Rice/Whale) Moore [9ggm 1612-1690] arrived (ship unknown) in Sudbury, Mass. between Jan and Sep 1642. We descend separately from two of their children. Daughter Mary Moore [9ggm 1642-1703], born in England, first married 9ggf Richard Ward (above). Following Richard’s death by drowning, Mary remarried Daniel Stone (1644-1719), who was one of the sons of Elder John Stone. You will hear more about Elder John later- even though we don’t descend from his son Daniel, we do descend from two of Elder John's other children. The other child of 9 & 10ggf John Moore that we descend from is his son Jacob Moore [8ggf 1645-1716]. In 1667, Jacob married Elizabeth Loker [8ggm ca. 1647-1715]. More on her immigrant family below.
Elizabeth (Frost) Whale [10ggm 1588-1647] is the mother of 9ggm Elizabeth Moore (above) by her first husband 10ggf John Rice. Following John’s 1621 death in England, 10ggm Elizabeth remarried Philemon Whale, a weaver. It is uncertain when or on which ship they arrived, but they are found in Sudbury, Mass. by 1643.
Isaac Mixer II [10ggf 1602-1655] (age 31), his wife Sarah (Thurston) Mixer [10ggm ca. 1603-1681] (age 30) and their son Isaac Mixer III [ca. 1630-1716] (age 4) arrived in New England in mid-1634, aboard the Elizabeth of Ipswich, England and settled in Watertown, Mass. Included in the 1655 inventory of Isaac II estate was “the 4th part of a vessel at sea called the Diligent,” valued at £25. This may have been the same ship mentioned in the William Mitchell section above that brought three of our ancestral families in 1638- 10ggf Matthew Cushing, 10ggf Edward Gilman and 10ggf Thomas Thaxter and their families.
There is some indication Edward Garfield [10ggf 1583-1672], a widower, may have been part of the Winthrop Fleet of 1630. More likely, his arrival would probably be closer to 1634 or 1635 since he was admitted a freeman 6 May 1635 at his first residence of Watertown. His occupation is listed as “husbandman”- a free tenant farmer. Edward is my 10ggf on both sides of my Rood/Dodge family tree. Here we descend from Rebecca (Garfield) Mixer [9ggm 1641-1683], Edward’s daughter by his second wife- down through the Ward/Warner/Rood line, so that Grampa Clare is his 8-great grandson. Later you will see where we descend from Samuel Garfield [9ggf 1613-1684], Edward’s son by his first wife- down through the Gile/Lamper/Cranmer side, so that Nonnie is his 8-great granddaughter. In this case, that makes Clare and Nonnie 9th cousins.
We have a similar situation with Deacon Gregory Stone [10&11ggf 1592-1672]. He arrived in Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1635 (unknown ship) with 2nd wife Lydia (Fiske) Cooper/Stone [11ggm 1595-1674] and children John* (age 17), Daniel (15), David (13) from his first marriage, Elizabeth (6), Samuel (4) and Sarah Stone* (2) from his second marriage plus 2 step-children John and Lydia Cooper (Lydia’s children from her first marriage). He was first located with his brother Simon in Watertown, Mass., but by Feb 1637 is found in Newtowne (later Cambridge), Mass. He was a “yeoman” farmer. We descend from two of Deacon Gregory’s children- one from each of his marriages:
- His oldest son (with first wife Margaret Garrad [10ggm 1597-1626]) Elder John* Stone [9&10ggf 1618-1683] and wife Anne (Rogers) Stone [9&10ggm 1615-1683] had 10 children. Three of them appear in our tree. Eldest son and second child Daniel Stone was mentioned 4 paragraphs above as the second husband of 9ggm Mary (Moore) Ward/Stone. The two that we descend from are 1) their youngest son Nathaniel Stone [8ggf 1660-1732] and 2) their daughter Tabitha (Stone) Rice [9ggm 1655-1719]. One of Nathaniel’s grandsons was 6ggf William Ward who married 6ggm Elizabeth Moore (she who died giving birth). Elizabeth was great granddaughter of Tabitha and this line continues down to Grampa Clare. Boy, this stuff gets confusing.
- His youngest daughter (with second wife 11ggm Lydia) was Sarah* (Stone) Merriam [10ggm 1633-1704]. We will hear more about her in another section of this project (the 3ggf Sanford Shumway section) as this line of the Stone family descends to Nonnie, again making her and Grampa Clare distant cousins.

Joseph Hills [10ggf 1602-1688], his first wife Rose (Clarke) Hills [10ggm ca. 1603-1650] and several children including oldest daughter Mary (Hills) Waite [9ggm 1625-1674] arrived in Boston harbor 17 Jul 1638 aboard the ship Susan and Ellen after a three month voyage from London. Joseph was a "woolen draper"-a retailer, and wholesaler, of cloth that was mainly for clothing. One of Nonnie’s ancestors 10ggf Joseph Loomis, another woolen draper, was aboard the same ship (more on him in one of the last sections (Gile) of this project). Obviously, these two men knew each other. However, it does not appear that the two family branches intermarried in our tree.
John Waite [9ggf 1618-1693] accompanied, or followed, to New England, his father-in-law, 10ggf Joseph Hills, aboard the Susan and Ellen. He married Hill’s daughter 9ggm Mary (above) in 1642. Waite was one of the early settlers of Mystic Seaside (later Malden) where he purchased a house and land in 1644.
It’s not known what date or on which ship Henry Loker II [9ggf ca. 1607-1688] arrived in New England, but by 1639 he is listed as a ‘proprietor’ in Sudbury, Mass. His father 10ggf Henry, Sr. died in England in 1631, but his mother Elizabeth (unknown) Loker [10ggm unk-1648] died in Sudbury, Mass. (no info on her arrival). On 24 Mar 1647, 9ggf Henry II married Hannah (Maiden?) Brewer [9ggm 1630-1679] in Sudbury. Hannah was the widow of John Brewer (no info on her arrival either); Henry and Hannah had 1 child, Elizabeth. It was 8ggm Elizabeth who married 8ggf Jacob Moore as mentioned in that section above.
The storyline of Edmund Rice [11ggf ca. 1594-1663], his wife Thomasine (Frost) Rice [11ggm 1600-1554] and at least 7 children including son Edward Rice [10ggf 1622-1712] is almost identical to that of 10ggf William Ward, the first of the families mentioned in this section: their arrival date is probably 1638, but the ship is uncertain, and like Ward, Rice is considered one of the founders of both Sudbury, Mass. (in 1638) and neighboring Marlborogh, Mass. (1657). Therefore, it is certain that Edmund Rice and William Ward would have known each other, but their families don’t cross paths in our tree until over 100 years later, in 1756, when 6ggf William Ward (2 great grandson of 10ggf William Ward) married 6ggm Elizabeth Moore (3 great granddaughter of Edmund Rice). The “Edmund Rice (1638) Association” has a nice recap of him <click here> along with information on his descendants.
John Bent [11ggf 1596-1672], his wife Martha (uncertain) Bent [11ggm unk-1679] and five small children including Agnes (or Ann) Bent [10ggm ca. 1631-1713] arrived in Boston harbor in Jun 1638 aboard the Confidence of London, carrying 110 souls; the Bent family settled in Sudbury, Mass. About 1647, daughter 10ggm Agnes married 10ggf Edward Rice (above). In 1674, one of the sons of the just mentioned Edward and Agnes Rice, John Rice [9ggf 1651-1719], married Tabitha Stone [9ggm 1655-1719] as mentioned in the Stone family recap above.
The sailing ship Hopewell departed Weymouth, Dorsetshire, England on 6 May 1635 and arrived about 3 months later in Massachusetts Bay. Among the 18 families aboard were Edward Clapp [10ggf ca. 1605-1665] (age 30), his wife Prudence Clapp [10ggm ca. 1606-1646] (age 29 and his first cousin) and their infant daughter Elizabeth (age 1). This family settled in Dorchester, Mass. Also aboard the Hopewell were 11ggp William and Agnes Lane, mentioned in the William Mitchell section above. The Clapp family also settled in Dorchester, Mass. The eldest son of Edward and Prudence was Ezra Clapp [9ggf 1640-1717] whose first wife Abigail (Pond) Clapp [9ggm 1646-1682] died 11 days after giving birth to their daughter Elizabeth (Clapp) Rice [8ggm 1682-1705].
William Pond [10ggf ca. 1618-1690] arrived in Dorchester, Mass. in 1635 as a young, single man (ship unknown). No information has been found on the ancestry or arrival of his wife Mary (Dyer) Pond [10ggm ca. 1623-1711], but they married in Dorchester about 1640. Their daughter was 9ggm Abigail (Pond) Clapp mentioned immediately above.

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Although we do not descend from him, it is worth mentioning at this point the name of Richard Mather (1596-1669), a Puritan minister and father to Increase Mather and grandfather to Cotton Mather, both celebrated Boston theologians. Richard was a famous preacher and a leader of New England Congregationalism. He was “teacher” at the church in Dorchester, Mass. from when it was first constituted in Aug 1636 until his death in Apr 1669. Our ancestors who were members of his church include the families of 11ggf William Lane, 10ggf Edward Clapp and 10ggf William Pond. There may be others that will appear in future branches of our tree.

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