Clare Rood/Mary Dodge descendants and ancestors

     Immigrant parents and grandparents of 7ggf John Cranmer:

1. The English immigrant progenitor of the Cranmer family appears to be William Cranmer [8ggf ca.1620-1689], the father of 7ggf John. 8ggf William is first found New England in 1640 at Southold, Conn. Colony, on the eastern end of Long Island, now part of New York. Most genealogists agree that his wife was Elizabeth Carwithy [8ggm ca.1616-1670]. However, some have them marrying about 1640 and others before 1662. There may be a missing generation in this case, as they would have been much older than other contemporary parents when their first child was born about 1662. It was about that time that the family moved to Elizabethtown, New Jersey.

2. 8ggm Elizabeth (Carwithy) Cranmer most probably arrived in New England before 1630 with her parents David Carwithy [9ggf ca.1594-1665] and Grace (Alcock) Carwithy [9ggm ca.1590-1630].

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     Immigrant parents and grandparents of 7ggm Sarah (Osborne) Cranmer, wife of John (above):

1. 7ggm Sarah was born (1663) in Easthampton, Conn. Colony (Long Island, later part of New York Colony), but her father and all four of her grandparents immigrated from England. Her father, Stephen Osborne [8ggf 1634-1698], and several siblings arrived before 1640 with their parents Thomas Osborne [9&10ggf ca.1595-1677] and Mary (Goatley) Osborne [9&10ggm ca.1601-ca.1688] (see also “H” below). The family first settled in New Haven Colony and moved to Easthampton by 1651. 9ggf Thomas was a “tanner” by trade. It is not known if any family members had the nickname “Ozzy”.

2. The mother of 7ggm Sarah was Sarah (Stanbrough) Osborne [8ggm 1644-1705], who was born in Southampton, Conn. Colony (also on Long Island). Her parents were Josiah Stanbrough [9ggf ca.1600-1661] and his wife Francis (Gransden) Stanbrough [9ggm ca.1618-1661], who arrived in Lynn, Mass. by 1637 and shortly thereafter moved to Southampton.

 

     Immigrant ancestors of 7ggf Ephraim Tuttle:

1. Among the 117 passengers enrolled aboard the Planter from London in April 1635 was the widow Isabel (Wells) Tuttle [11ggm ca.1565-ca.1635]. She was travelling with three of her sons Richard, John and William and their families, arriving in Boston Harbor 7 Jun 1635. She either died shortly after arrival or possibly aboard ship as no record is found of her in New England. Oldest son Richard and family settled in Boston and middle son John in Ipswich with his family. Youngest son William Tuttle [10ggf 1607-1673] (age 26), his wife Elizabeth (Unknown) [10ggm ca.1609-1684] (23), and children John Tuttle I [9ggf 1631-1683] (3 ½), Anne (2 ¼) and Thomas (3 mo.) first settled in Charlestown, then moved on to Boston in 1637 and to New Haven in 1639, where he was one of the 63 original planters who signed the New Haven Fundamental Agreement on June 4, 1639. Other of our ancestors who also signed the Agreement were 10ggf James Seeley (see him at section I, #1 below), and 9ggf William Potter II and 9ggf William Ives (both in the 3ggf John Gile section later in this project). Besides being a husbandman (farmer), 10ggf William Tuttle was also a miller and was given permission in Charlestown to erect a windmill on the town hill. <Click here> for more information on 10ggf William.

2. On 8 Nov 1653, 9ggf John Tuttle I (above) married Katherine Lane [9ggm ca.1631-1669], probably in New Haven Colony. 9ggm Katherine arrived in New England as a young girl with her parents John Lane [10ggf ca.1605-1669] and Sarah (Unknown) Lane [10ggm ca.1605-ca.1660] sometime before 1640, when the family moved from Wethersfield, Conn. Colony to Milford, New Haven Colony.

3. I don’t have a lot of confidence in the information found online about Robert Burrows [10ggf ca.1620-1682]. It is popular (wishful thinking?) to have him arriving in Boston harbor 12 Jun 1630 aboard the Arabella as part of the Winthrop Fleet, but they kept no passenger lists and he would have been about 10 years old; no family members are attributed to travelling with him. He may have had two wives both named Mary which also causes confusion. I’m somewhat certain that he married the widow Mary (Unknown) Ireland [9&10ggm ca.1605-1672] about 1645. As previously mentioned in the 3ggf George P. Fish section, we descend from this Mary two way- here in Nonnie’s tree from her son with 10ggf Robert- John Burrows [9ggf 1642-1716] and in Clare’s tree from her daughter from her first marriage Martha (Ireland) Fish [8ggm ca.1633-1681].

4. The wheelwright Edward Colver [10ggf ca.1610-1685] arrived in Mass. Bay Colony in 1635, a single man. In 1636 he helped in the founding of Dedham, Mass., his name being 68th on the list of 124 who signed the covenant. On 19 Sep 1638, 10ggf Edward married Ann Ellis [10ggm ca.1619-1678] in Dedham, the second marriage entered in the records of the First Church of Dedham. In 1645 the family moved to Roxbury, Mass. and about 1653 they moved again to Pequot (now New London, Conn.). It was there on 5 May 1662 that Edward was allowed to brew beer and make bread and on 9 Jan 1664/5 to sell liquors. On 19 Dec 1675, Edward (age 65) participated in the “Great Swamp Fight” near Tiverton, Rhode Island with sons Edward, Jr., Ephraim, Joseph, and Samuel. He was one of very few to have also participated in the Pequot war of 1637 as an Indian Scout. In 1678, Edward and Ann deeded their 400 acre farm to two sons and moved to a house in the village of Mystic, on the Groton side of the Mystic River.

   • Edward and Ann's daughter, Hannah Colver [9ggm 1652-1733] was baptized in Roxbury MA on 11 Apr 1652 by Rev. John Eliot, a well-known character in southeastern Connecticut because he was able to speak Algonquin, and came to the Stonington area to preach to the Natives. He translated the Bible into Algonquin to help him with this work. In 1670, Hannah married 9ggf John Burrows (above) from Wethersfield, Conn.

 

     Immigrant ancestors of 7ggm Sarah (Colver) Mann/Tuttle, wife of Ephraim (above):

1. 7ggm Sarah was a second cousin of her husband 7ggf Ephraim (above). They were both great grandchildren of 10ggp Edward and Ann Colver (section C 4. above). Sarah was the granddaughter of Edward and Ann’s oldest son John Colver I [9ggf 1640-1725] while Ephraim was the grandson of their daughter 9ggm Hannah (Colver) Burrows.

   • 7ggm Sarah’s father, John Colver II [8ggf 1670-1760], was a leader in the 'Rogerene' faith and settled in Schooley’s Mountain, New Jersey before 1732. Rogerenes found themselves at odds with Puritan laws and were arrested, fined and jailed on several occasions for disturbing the peace and various acts of religious non-faith.

2. There is no definitive record as to when James Clark of Boston [10ggf ca.1615-1674] arrived in New England. We do know that it was before 1644 when he married Elinor Wright [10ggm ca.1621-aft.1701] in Mass. Bay Colony. They had 12 children and he died of “bleeding of the lungs”.

3. 10ggm Elinor (Wright) Clark (above) arrived in 1630 (aged 9-10) with her widowed father Richard Wright [10&11ggf ca.1595-1667], a steward (a gentleman farmer) who managed large estates for others. He first settled in Lynn, Mass. in Col. Humphrey's employ. Richard moved often, as he is found in Braintree (1639), Rehoboth (1643), Boston (1649) and Ipswich (1652) in Massachusetts, then Twelve Mile Island (1662) and Podunk (1666) in Connecticut. For reasons not found, Richard made a return trip to England about 1646 and then back to New England by 1649. Another daughter of Richard (and sister of 10ggm Elinor) is 9ggm Anna Wright who appears later in this project as an ancestor of 3ggf John Gile in section "J, 2".

   • NOTE: It was difficult to sort out the maternal line relationships of 7ggm Sarah (Colver) Tuttle. She was the 5th generation of mothers with the given name of Sarah. Her mother was 8ggm Sarah (Long) Colver, her grandmother 9ggm Sarah (Wilcox) Long, her great grandmother 10ggm Sarah (Wadsworth) Wilcox and her 2 great grandmother 11ggm Sarah (Talcott) Wadsworth. Plus, there seems to be more confusing twists than usual in the intersecting relationships of her ancestors, so pay close attention or take notes:

4. It is not found when Joseph Long [10ggf ca.1610-bef.1651] arrived from England, but it would have been prior to his marriage about 1638 in Dorchester, Mass. to Mary Lane [10ggm ca.1615-1671] (see 5. next). 10ggp Joseph and Mary (Lane) Long had several children, including Thomas Long [9ggf ca.1644-1711]. 10ggf Joseph returned to England to settle his father's estate and was last heard of prior to 22 May 1651, on which date the court in Massachusetts Bay Colony, believing him dead, gave his wife Mary permission to remarry. She remarried first to Joseph Farnsworth (about 1652), then following his death, to another of our ancestors- John  Wilcox II (see 6. below) in 1660. Six years later, in 1666, 9ggf Thomas Long (age 22) married his step-sister Sarah Wilcox [9ggm 1648-1717] (age 18), daughter of 10ggf John Wilcox II (see 6. below) and his first wife. Unfortunately, 15 years later, at a Special Court of Assistants, for good and sufficient reasons (not spelled out), 9ggf Thomas was given a divorce from his wife, 9ggm Sarah.

5. 10ggm Mary Lane (just mentioned in 4. above) arrived in Mass. Bay Colony in the summer of 1635 aboard the Hopewell with some siblings and her parents, William Lane [11ggf ca.1581-1654] and Agnes (Unknown) Lane [unk-bef.1651]. The Hopewell sailed from Weymouth, England on 6 May 1635 and the family settled in Dorchester, Mass.

6. Arriving between 1635-39 were John Wilcox I [11ggf ca.1595-1651], his wife Mary (Unknown) Wilcox [11ggm ca.1588-ca.1668] and children including son John Wilcox II [10ggf ca.1625-1676]. The family settled in Hartford, Conn. and 11ggf John I is another of the large group of our ancestors considered a founder of that city. In 1646, 10ggf John II married Sarah Wadsworth [10ggm ca.1626-1648] (see next). 10ggm Sarah (Wadsworth) Wilcox died the day after giving birth to their youngest daughter 9ggm Sarah (Wilcox) Long (see 4. above). Following her death, husband 10ggf John Wilcox II remarried to 10ggm Mary (Lane) Long (4. above), widow of 10ggf Joseph Long (follow all of that?).

7. William Wadsworth [11ggf ca.1601-1675] arrived in Boston harbor 16 Sep 1632 aboard the Lion (123 passengers) with wife Sarah (Talcott) Wadsworth [11ggm ca.1600-1643] and 3 children including 10ggm Sarah (above). The family settled in Newtowne (now Cambridge), Mass. and were among the group of our ancestors who moved to Hartford, Conn. with Rev. Hooker in Jun 1636. He is one more of our ancestors listed as a founder of Hartford.  In a further link to Hartford, 11ggm Sarah (Talcott) Wadsworth was sister of another Hartford founder John Talcott III. This means she was also an aunt of John's son Samuel Talcott (1635-1691), second husband of 8ggm Mary (White) Rowlandson, she who was kidnapped by Indians (1676) and ransomed. The story of 8ggm Mary Rowlandson was previously told in the 5ggm Elizabeth (Patterson) Alden section of the page on 3ggm Abigail A. Howes.

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     Immigrant ancestors of 7ggf Elisha Cole I:

1. Some claim that Daniel Cole [9ggf 1614-1694] arrived in Plymouth Colony in 1633, but he is not mentioned in the records of Plymouth until 6 Apr 1640 when he owned 50 acres of upland. About 1643, 9ggf Daniel married Ruth Collier [9ggm 1627-1694] in Mass. Bay Colony. See next

2. We first met William Collier [10&11ggf ca.1585-1671] in the 5ggm Bathsheba (Sears) Howes section of the 3ggm Abigail (Howes) Rood page in Clare’s tree. William was both an “Adventurer” and a “Purchaser” in Plymouth (see ‘Snow’ below). There, Clare descends from William’s daughter 10ggm Elizabeth (Collier) Southworth. Here, Nonnie descends from his youngest daughter 9ggm Ruth (Collier) Cole, wife of 9ggf Daniel (above). As I previously discussed William and the daughters, this would be a good time to give the background of the wife and mother Jane (Yates) Collier [10ggm 1587-aft.1666]. Her history was only recently (2021) documented and details firmed up. Jane Yates, daughter of Henry Yates, dyer, was baptized at St. Olave's Parish, Southwark, Surrey, England on 5 Feb 1586/7. At age 16 years, 7 month, Jane married first to  Thomas Clarke on 27 Sep 1603 at St. Benet's Gracechurch Parish, across the River Thames from St. Olave's. Jane and Thomas married outside their home parish, presumably to escape the plague which was so prevalent in St. Olave's. Jane witnessed much death in her life; at age 6, in the first bubonic plague of 1592-1593, she witnessed her father Henry's death, as well as the deaths of all except two of her siblings. In the second plague, 1602-3, Jane's sister Margaret died. Two months later Jane married Thomas. When Thomas died Sep 1610, Jane was 23 years old, a widow with three children under age 5. Eight months later Jane married William Collier. Jane and William had 13 known children, but all died young and were buried in England except for 5 daughters including 10ggm Elizabeth and 9ggm Ruth, who immigrated with their parents to Plymouth Colony in 1633.

3. Nicholas Snow [10ggf ca.1599-1676] arrived in Plymouth Colony 10 Jul 1623 aboard the Anne, a 140 ton supply ship out of London;  a total of 90 passengers were on the Anne and sister ship the Little James. He was a carpenter and a cooper (barrel maker) and in Jun 1627 married Mayflower passenger Constance Hopkins [10ggm 1606-1677] (see next). Nicholas was part of the 1626 Purchaser investment group, the new investment group (58 men) for Plymouth Colony, replacing the previous group, the Merchant Adventurers. The Purchasers were privileged above all others in future colony land grants. I have been able to identify 13 of our Plymouth ancestors who were ‘Purchasers’: Standish, Prence, Alden, Warren, Simmons, Bradford, Collier, Howland, Snow, Hopkins, Faunce, Deane and Mitchell. About 1644, 10ggf Nicholas and family moved to Eastham, Plymouth Colony and he is listed as one of the founders of the city (originally called Nauset).

4. Stephen Hopkins [11ggf 1581-1644] and his daughter Constance Hopkins [10ggm 1606-1677] are the 7th and 8th of our ancestors to arrive in Plymouth aboard the Mayflower, the 6 others appearing on Clare’s side of the