Clare Rood/Mary Dodge descendants and ancestors
Four grandparents of #21 Mary Garwood [3ggm 1790-1883] and their ancestors
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As mentioned in each of their sections, Mary (Garwood) Atkinson and husband Samuel were Quakers (Religious Society of Friends). Like the Puritans, the Quaker movement began in England around the time of the English Civil War (1642-1651) and each group was persecuted for their beliefs by the established Church of England. Both had large groups migrate to America, seeking religious freedom. Although there were many similarities in their beliefs, there were enough major differences that the two did not mix well in New England. The Puritans were primarily in Massachusetts and Connecticut and did not tolerate the
Quakers. In 1658, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Puritans) passed a law banishing Quakers from the colony. Escalating penalties included the pillory, whippings, branding and having the tongue pierced with a hot iron. Between 1659 and 1661, four Quakers were hung for their beliefs. The persecution only stopped in late 1661 when King Charles II of England issued a royal decree. Three colonies that attracted Quakers were West Jersey (1676), Pennsylvania (1682) and Rhode Island, the first two being founded by affluent Quaker William Penn. Mary’s ancestors settled primarily in West Jersey. The Quakers did not keep as complete records as the Puritans, but we still have much information:
Thomas Garwood II [5ggf 1707-1796] immigrant ancestors:
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William Garwood [7ggf 1629-1687]: born 1629 in Acton, Suffolk, England, he joined the Society of Friends in 1671 (age 42). Although there are no passenger lists, it is said that in Oct 1681 he arrived in Burlington County, Province of West Jersey aboard the ship Thomas and Ann with his second wife Jane and sons John (age 17) and 6ggf Thomas (12). 6ggf Thomas became an apprentice to close family friend Elias Farr, who had paid for the family’s passage to America.
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Richard Hancock [7ggf 1663-1689]: born 1633 in Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England. It is not known when Richard arrived, but he married Elizabeth Denn [7ggm 1663-1689] in 1680 in West Jersey. Elizabeth was baptized 19 Mar 1663 in St. Alphange Church, Canterbury, Kent, England and settled in West Jersey with her parents John Denn [8ggf 1636-1685] and Margaret Halsnode [8ggm 1636-1692]. No information found on the arrival of the Denn family.
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Margaret Hancock [6ggm 1684-1759] was the daughter of 7ggp Richard and Elizabeth (Denn) Hancock and on 5 May 1705 married 6ggf Thomas Garwood (son of William above) at the Salem, New Jersey Monthly Meeting of the Friends.
Mary Ballinger [5ggm 1705-1764], wife of Thomas Garwood II, immigrant ancestors:
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Henry Ballinger [6ggf ca. 1659-1733]: born about 1659 in Bennington, Gloucestershire, England. Henry arrived at the Northampton River, West Jersey in 1678 aboard the second voyage of the Kent out Bristol.
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Thomas Harding [7ggf ca. 1635-1707] on 3 Mar 1677 (age 42), became a “Subscriber to the great code of laws” when he, with 150 others including William Penn, signed (in England) the "Concessions and Agreements of the Proprietors, Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Province of West Jersey, in America", establishing the organization and civil liberties of that colony. In the fall of 1677, Thomas, his wife Eleanor (Bagwell) Harding [7ggm 1639-1692] and their daughter Mary Harding [6ggm 1663-1739] were aboard the first voyage of the Kent with 230 Quakers out of London. They sailed up the Delaware River and settled in Burlington County, West Jersey. On 4 Sep 1684, daughter Mary and 6ggf Henry Ballinger (above) were married at the Mount Holly Monthly Meeting in Burlington County.
Joseph Robert Adams [5ggf 1732-1803] immigrant ancestors:
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John Adams [9ggf ca. 1600-1633]: arrived in Plymouth Colony in Nov 1621 (about age 21, single), one of 37 passengers aboard the Fortune, the second English ship to Plymouth, one year after the Mayflower. John was a carpenter. Also aboard the Fortune was 21 year old single man 9ggf Thomas Prence, future Governor of Plymouth Colony, who was previously discussed in the #17 Abigail (Howes) Rood section of this project.
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Elenor or Ellen Newton [9ggm 1598-1681]: arrived in Plymouth 10 Jul 1623 aboard the Anne, the third English ship of the Merchant Adventurers. As a reminder, we had several other ancestors among the 75 or so passengers on this trip of the Anne- 10ggm Alice (Carpenter) Southworth/Bradford, 9ggf Moses Simmons and 10ggf Edward Bangs (all discussed in the #17 Abigail Rood section) plus 8ggf Experience Mitchell, 10ggm Elizabeth (Walker) Warren and 10ggf John Faunce (from the #18 William Warner section). 9ggm Elenor was a young widow of age 25 when she emigrated. Her ancestry and name of her husband are unknown. It was believed she may have been related to one or more of the Anne passengers as young women did not travel alone in those times. About 1625, she married Fortune passenger 9ggf John Adams (above) and after his death married Kenelm Winslow, brother of Mayflower passenger Edward Winslow.
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John Adams II [8ggf ca. 1630-1704], son of 9ggf John Adams and 9ggm Elenor Newton (above), was the first of this branch of the family to convert to Quakerism. After his first wife died about 1662, John went to sea for two years. Following his return, he moved from Plymouth Colony to Long Island and remarried. Around that time, he was “converted to Quakerism by the preaching of John Burnyeat and John Stubbs, preachers in New England.” In 1691 he sold his land on Long Island and moved to Burlington County, West Jersey. He had 3 children with his first wife and 12 with his second. Click here for a good write up on his life.
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Ralph Allen [9ggf unk-ca. 1659]: there were two men of this name living in Sandwich, Plymouth Colony at the same time and both were involved in the Society of Friends (Quakers). To differential the two men the younger was sometimes referred to as “Junior” and the older as “Senior” even though they were unrelated. Some documents also indicated their profession- our Ralph was a stonemason and the other a planter and wheelwright. It’s unknown when he arrived, but it was probably the mid-1640s. Like many of the early Quakers in Plymouth and Massachusetts, Ralph was harassed for his beliefs by the Puritans. In 1657 he was imprisoned for 5 months for having meetings in his home and in 1658 he was fined for not taking the oath of fidelity and had his Freeman status removed, making him unable to vote. His fines totaled 68 pounds.
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William Swift [10ggf 1589-1643]: was from Bocking, Suffolk, England, arrived in 1630 (unknown ship) with his second wife Joanne (Unknown) [10ggm unk-1662] and daughter Esther Swift [9ggm 1629-1676] and settled in Watertown, Mass. Bay Colony. Around 1647 9ggm Esther married 9ggf Ralph Allen (above).
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Henry Howland II [9&10ggf ca. 1603-1671]: his brother John Howland arrived in Plymouth in 1620 aboard the Mayflower as a manservant of John Carver. During the voyage a turbulent storm swept John overboard, but he managed to grab a rope and was hauled back aboard. 9/10ggf Henry, his wife Mary (Unknown) [9&10ggm unk-1674] and their daughter Abigail Howland [9ggm ca. 1628-1692] arrived in Plymouth Colony in 1632 (ship unknown). Henry was granted Freeman (voting) status in 1633 and by 1636 is found in Duxbury, Plymouth. On 6 Oct 1659, Henry was disenfranchised- lost his voting rights at Plymouth court for being an "abettor and entertainer of Quakers"; this was part of an ongoing action since 22 Dec 1657. He continued to be harassed in court for his Quaker beliefs until the 1661 king’s decree. We descend in two different line from Henry through two of his daughters. Immigrant daughter 9ggm Abigail will appear later in this project, under the Cranmer tree that descends to Nonnie. Abigail’s younger sister Elizabeth Howland [8ggm ca. 1647-1686] was born in Duxbury and in 1669 married Jedediah Allen [8ggf 1647-1712], son of Ralph Allen (above) and they are among the great grandparents of 5ggf Joseph Robert Adams.
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John Sharp [7ggf 1661-1729]: arrived in Burlington County, West Jersey as a young man in Sep 1682 as part of the 23 ship “Penn’s Fleet”, possibly aboard the Samuel with his brothers William and Hugh (no passenger lists were kept to support this claim). On 17 Jun 1688, John married Elizabeth Paine [7ggm 1665-1705] in Burlington County. She was the Boston born daughter of the following immigrants:
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John Paine [8ggf 1640-1703] and his wife Sarah Elizabeth Field [8ggm ca. 1645-1701]. John’s name is found among the 150 signers of the 1677 “Concessions and Agreements of West Jersey”. Note that another signer was just mentioned above- 7ggf Thomas Harding. It is uncertain when John and Sarah immigrated, but they both died in Willingboro Township, Burlington County.
Elizabeth Lynch [5ggm ca. 1737-1806], wife of Joseph Robert Adams, immigrant ancestors:
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Dennis Lynch [7ggf ca. 1675-1712]: There is scant and conflicting information on the Lynch branch of our tree. Some family trees have him born in New Jersey, but that is contradicted by a marriage record dated 6 Oct 1701 that has him marrying 7ggm Elizabeth (Unknown) in St Dunstan and All Saints Church in Steney, Middlesex, England. We are fairly certain that their son 6ggf Samuel Lynch was born in 1705 in New Jersey.
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There is much more information on the Pedrick branch of Elizabeth’s tree (her mother’s side). The first of this family in the new world was Roger Pedrick [8ggf ca. 1645-1692]. Roger was born in or near London and on 27 Mar 1669, married Rebekah Holeman [8ggm unk-unk] at Radcliffe Friends Meeting (Quaker) in England. He dwelt in the Parish of St Paul, Shadwell, County of Middlesex. He arrived in Chester (now in Pennsylvania) about 1675. His wife and oldest son, John Pedrick [7ggf 1671-1729] (age 6), followed 2 years later in 1677; note this precedes the establishment of Pennsylvania by William Penn in 1682.
