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[ Acie, Angell, Antill, Beekman, Bliss, Bliss, Breese, Clark, Darling, Davis, Day, Gilson, Graham, Graham, Haiton, Hendrick, Ibrook, Ibrook, Ingraham, Jeggles, Jillson, Lansing, Livingston, Morris, Odding, Pruyn, Remington, Richmond, Ring, Robinson, Roe, Shearman, Thayer, They, Tower, Wheatleigh, Whipple, Wignall, Wilcox, Wilmarth, Wilmarth, Woodcock ]

Acie, William
William Acie
(b: Abt 1610, Kirk Ella, Yorkshire, Eng or Eppleworth, near Hull, Eng)
(d: 30 September 1690, Rowley, Essex, Ma)

+(25 March 1620, Kirk Ella, Yorkshire, England)
Margaret Haiton
(b: 1599-1615)
(d: 12 February 1674/75, Rowley, Essex, Ma)

Note: William Acie was active in Rowley town government for many years.

Angell, Thomas
Thomas Angell
(b: 22 September 1618, London, England)
(d: 24 December 1694, Providence, RI)

+(10 April 1643, St.Alban's, Hertfordshire, England)
Alice Ashton
(b: 1 February 1617/18, St.Alban's, Hertfordshire, England)
(d: 21 January 1693/94, Providence, RI)

Note: Last Will and Inventory of Thomas Angell, Providence, RI 1694

Antill, Edward Antill Family
Edward Antill
(b: 1659, Richmond, Surry County, England)
(d: New York)

+
Sarah

Note: Among the law clients of Edward Antill was the well-known pirate Giles Shelley, who raised Edward's son following Edward's death. Edward's son married the granddaughter of Richard Morris.

Beekman, Wilhelmus Hendrickse
Beekman Family
Wilhelmus Hendrickse Beekman
(b: 28 Apr 1623, Statselt, prov Overysel, Holland)
(d: 1717, New York)

+
Catalina de Boogh
(of New York)

Note: Wilhelmus Beekman came to New York in May 1647, with Governor Peter Stuyvesant, and became a large land holder in the city of New York. In 1658 he was appointed Governor of the Sweedish [sic] colony at Christina in Delaware. He subsequently resigned that office and returned to New York and was appointed Sherriff of Kingston; and was mayor of New York in 1680.

Bliss, Elizabeth Bliss Family
Ensign Thomas Wilmarth
(b: 1628, England)
(d: 13 May 1694, Rehoboth, Bristol, Ma)

+(30 October 1644, Rehoboth, Bristol, Ma)
Elizabeth Bliss
(b: 2 September 1614, Daventry, Northants, England)
(d: 1676, Rehoboth, Bristol, Ma)

Note: New England Marriages Prior to 1700:
Thomas¹ (-1694) & 1/wf Elizabeth [Bliss] (1615-Feb 1676), sister of Jonathan; b 1647; Braintree/Rehoboth

Bliss, Thomas Bliss Family
Thomas Bliss
(b: Abt 1588, Preston Para, Northamptonshire, England)
(d: June 1649, Rehoboth, Bristol, Ma)

+(22 November 1614, Daventry, Northants, England)
Dorothy Wheatleigh
(b: August 1591, Maiden Newton, Dorsetshire, England)
(d: Aft April 1626, Rehoboth, Bristol, Ma)

Note: Thomas and Dorothy came to America with three of their seven children. Thomas was not poor, although most of his funds had gone to transport his family. He supported himself as a blacksmith. Thomas was one of the founders of the religious town of Rehoboth, Ma

Breese, Sidney Breese Family
Sidney Breese
(b: 1713, Shrewsbury, England)
(d: 9 June 1767, NYC (Old Trinity Churchyard))

+(14 February 1732/33)
Elizabeth Pinkerman

Note: Of Welsh parentage, Sidney Breese had been an officer in the British navy, and a Jacobite, but resigned his commission after the Pretender's defeat, and came to America. An extremely social man in his lifetime and noted for giving good dinners, at which he always sang songs and told stories with much spirit, -- he lies buried in Trinity Church yard, New York, beneath an epitaph made by himself, and which reads as follows:

Ha! Sidney, Sidney,
Lyest thou here?
I here lye
Till time is flown
To its extremity.

Clark, Margaret
Richard Ibrook
(b: 1580, Southwold, co Suffolk, England)
(d: 14 November 1651, Hingham, Plymouth, MA)

+(Southwold, co Suffolk, England)
Margaret Clark
(b: 1589, Wymondham, Norfolk, England)
(d: 4 April 1664, Hingham, Plymouth, MA)

Note: Richard Ibrook immigrated in 1635. He was one of the first settlers of Hingham.

Darling (They), Sarah
Captain John Whipple
(b: 1617, Milford,Surrey, England)
(d: 16 May 1685, Providence, Providence, RIs)

+(1639, Dorchester, Suffolk, Ma)
Sarah (They) Darling
(b: 1624, England)
(d: 1666, Providence, Providence, RI)

Note: John Whipple originally worked as a carpenter in the service of Israel Stoughton. He later settled in Providence RI and became active in town politics, which may have made it easier for him to get his license to keep an ordinary.

Davis, James Davis Family
James Davis
(b: abt. 1580, Marlborough, Wilts., Eng)
(d: 29 January 1677/78, Haverhill, Essex, Mass)

+(11 Jun 1618, Thornbury, Gloucester, Eng)
Cicely (Sissilla) Thayer
(b: 1 MAY 1600, Thornbury, Gloucester, Mass)
(d: 28 May 1673, Haverhill, Essex, MA)

Note: James Davis and Cicely brought several of their children with them from England. The Haverfield death record says that James Davis was about 96 years when he died. Obviously, his good genes were passed on to his son, James, Jr., who had six wives.

Day, Anthony Day Family
Anthony Day
(b: 1616, England)
(d: 23 April 1707, Gloucester, MA)

+(1649, Gloucester, MA)
Susan Ring
(b: 1623, England)
(d: 10 December 1717, Gloucester, MA)

Note: Anthony Day appears in the book, Original Lists of Persons of Quality, p.104. Anthony's son, Nathaniel, married Ruth Rowe, whose grandmother had been jailed in Salem as a witch.

Gilson, James Gillson (Jillson) Family
James Gilson
(b: England)
(d: 1712, South Attleboro, MA)

+(25 March 1620, Kirk Ella, Yorkshire, England)
Mary
(d: Bef 13 November 1712)

Note: James Gilson, of Scotch descent, was an early settler at Rehoboth, MA, which was settled in 1644.

Graham, Isabella Graham Family
Lewis Morris
(b: 15 October 1671, Morrisania, Ostego, NY)
(d: 25 May 1746, Trenton, Mercer, NJ)

+(November 3, 1691, NY)
Isabella Graham
(b: 3 June 1673, Scotland)
(d: 30 March 1752, NY)

Note: Lewis Morris, chief justice of New York and governor of New Jersey, was the first lord of the manor of Morrisania in New York. Lewis and Isabella's son, Lewis, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Graham, James Graham Family
James Graham
(b: Abt 1656, Scotland)
(d: January 1700/01, Morrisania, Ostego, NY)

Note: James Graham was the attorney-general of the province of New York.

Haiton, Margaret
William Acie
(b: Abt 1610, Kirk Ella, Yorkshire, England or Eppleworth, near Hull, England)
(d: 30 September 1690, Rowley, Essex, Ma)

+(25 March 1620, Kirk Ella, Yorkshire, England)
Margaret Haiton
(b: 1599-1615)
(d: 12 February 1674/75, Rowley, Essex, Ma)

Note: William Acie was active in Rowley town government for many years.

Hendrickse (Hendrick), Lysabeth
Gerrit Gerritsz Lansinckse (Lansing)
(b: Abt 1617, Netherlands)
(d: Netherlands)

+(Netherlands)
Lysabeth Hendrickse (Hendrick)
(b: Netherlands)
(d: NY)

Note: Lysabeth married Wolter Alberts shortly after January 31, 1654. They sailed for America in September 1655 with the children of Gerrit and Lysabeth.

Ibrook, Margaret
John Tower
(b: May 1609, Hingham, County of Norfolk, England)
(d: 13 February 1701/02, Hingham, MA)

+(13 February 1638/39, Charlestown, MA)
Margaret Ibrook
(b: 1624, Hingham, Norfolk, England)
(d: 15 May 1700, New Hingham, Plymouth, MA)

Ibrook, Richard
Richard Ibrook
(b: 1580, Southwold, co Suffolk, England)
(d: 14 November 1651, Hingham, Plymouth, MA)

+( 1606, Southwold, co Suffolk, England)
Margaret Clark
(b: 1589, Wymondham, Norfolk, England)
(d: 4 April 1664, Hingham, Plymouth, MA)

Note: The Ibrook surname dies out with Richard Ibrook.
Richard Ibrook immigrated in 1635.

Ingraham, Richard
Richard Ingraham
(b: 1576, Barrowby, Lincolnshire, England)
(d: 30 September 1690, Rowley, Essex, Ma)

+(4 April 1628, Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass)
Elizabeth Wignall
(b: 1604, Frating, Essex, England)
(d: 16 September 1683, North Hampton, MA)

Jeggles, Brigget
John O. Roe
(b: 13 October 1607, Lamerton, Tavistock District, Devonshire, England)
(d: 9 March 1661/62, Gloucester, MA)

+(13 July 1640, Salem, MA)
Brigget Jeggles
(b: 10 June 1619, Southwold, Suffolk, England)
( d: 2 May 1680, Gloucester, MA)

Note: Following John Roe's death, Briggit married William Collman.

Lansing, Hendrick Gerrit Lansing Family
Hendrick Gerrit Lansing
(b: 1640-1649, Hasselt, Province of Overijssel, Holland)
(d: 11 July 1709, Rensselaerwyck NY

+(Netherlands)
Lysbet Caspers
(d: NY)

Note: Hendrick immigrated from the Netherlands with his mother, Lysabet Hendricks, and his stepfather, Wolter Alberts. Lansing descendents became active in the law (John Jay apprenticed with a Lansing in Albany), in NY politics and in banking. Their place in history, however, probably comes from John Lansing (b: 1754), a mayor of Albany and member of the US Constitutional Convention, who disappeared without a trace in New York City after leaving his hotel to mail a letter.

Livingston, Robert Livingston Family
Robert Livingston
(b: 13 December 1654, Ancrum, Roxburghshire, Scotland)
(d: 20 April 1725, Manor of Livingston, NY

+(9 July 1679, New York)
Alida Schuyler
(c: 28 Feb 1656, Rensselaerswyck,Albany,NY)
(d: 27 Mar 1729, Livingston Manor, NY)

Note: Robert's son, Robert, administered the oath of office to George Washington. Robert's son, Philip, signed the Declaration of Independence.

Morris, Richard Morris Family
Richard Morris
(b: 1616, Tintern, Monmouthshire, Wales)
(d: 1672, West Chester New York)

+(1670, Bridgetown, Barbados)
Sarah Pole
(d: 1672, NY)

Note: Richard Morris was an officer of some distinction in the time of Cromwell. At the restoration, however, he left England, and came to New York; soon after which he obtained a grant of several thousand acres of land, in the county of West-Chester, not far from the city. This was erected into a manor, and invested with the privileges, which usually pertain to manorial estates. Richard Morris died in the year 1673, leaving an infant child, Lewis, whose son would one day suggest to the new US government that they situate the capital of the country on his property, Morritania.

Odding, Sarah
Phillip Shearman
(b: 5 February 1609/10, Dedham, Essex, England)
(d: March 1686/87, Portsmouth, Newport, RI)

+(1633-1634, Roxbury, Suffolk, Ma)
Sara Odding
(b: 5 February 1608/09, Madron, Cornwall, England)
(d: March 1686/87, Kingston, Washington, RI)

Note: The Shearman name derived from their original occupation of "shearing" cloth. Philip Shearman was very well to do when he arrived in New England and his will shows him to have been a wealthy man for the times. Considering how difficult the journey was, it is amazing that Philip went back to England once. I wonder what it was that he forgot to pack.

Pruyn, Francis
Francis Pruyn
(b: Abt 1645, Holland)
(d: 6 May 1712, Albany, Albany County, NY

+(1665, NY)
Alida
(d: 20 September 1704, Albany, Albany County, NY)

Remington, John Remington Family
John Remington
(b: 1633, Rowley, England)
(d: 30 September 1690, Rowley, Essex, Ma)

+(1649, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts)
Abigail Acie
(b: 1630, near Jamestown, Newport)

Richmond, John
John Richmond
(b: 1594)
(d: 20 March 1663/64, Taunton Ma)

Note: Father of Captain Edward Richmond

Ring, Susan Ring Family
Anthony Day
(b: 1616, England)
(d: 23 April 1707, Gloucester, MA)

+(1649, Gloucester, MA)
Susan Ring
(b: 1623, England)
(d: 10 December 1717, Gloucester, MA)

Robinson, George Robinson Family
George Robinson
(b: Scotland)
(d: November 9, 1699, Rehoboth, MA)

+(18 4m, 1651, Rehoboth MA)
Joanna Ingraham
(b: 1629, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts)
(d: July 26, 1699, Rehoboth, MA)

Roe, John O. Roe Family
John O. Roe
(b: 13 October 1607, Lamerton, Tavistock District, Devonshire, England)
(d: 9 March 1661/62, Gloucester, MA)

+(13 July 1640, Salem, MA)
Brigget Jeggles
(b: 10 June 1619, Southwold, Suffolk, England)
(d: 2 May 1680, Gloucester, MA)

Note: John Roe did not have an easy life, nor did those who lived with him. His original property in Duxbury ended up under a pond created for a new grist mill. That sent him to Salem where he married Brigget, whom he next took to a remote wilderness log cabin. His claim to fame was being forced to confess publicly for publicly insulting the local preacher.

Shearman, Phillip Sherman Family
Phillip Shearman
(b: 5 February 1609/10, Dedham, Essex, England)
(d: March 1686/87, Portsmouth, Newport, RI)

+(1633-1634, Roxbury, Suffolk, Ma)
Sara Odding
(b: 5 February 1608/09, Madron, Cornwall, England)
(d: March 1686/87, Kingston, Washington, RI)

Thayer, Cicely (Sissilla)
James Davis
(b: 1582-1589, Marlborough, Wilts., Eng)
(d: 29 January 1677/78, Haverhill, Essex, Mass)

+(11 Jun 1618, Thornbury, Gloucester, Eng)
Cicely (Sissilla) Thayer
(b: 1 MAY 1600, Thornbury, Gloucester, Mass)
(d: 28 May 1673, Haverhill, Essex, MA)

Tower, John
John Tower
(b: May 1609, Hingham, County of Norfolk, England)
(d: 13 February 1701/02, Hingham, MA)

+(13 February 1638/39, Charlestown, MA)
Margaret Ibrook
(b: 1624, Hingham, Norfolk, England)
(d: 15 May 1700, New Hingham, Plymouth, MA)

Wheatleigh, Dorothy Bliss Family
Thomas Bliss
(b: Abt 1588, Preston Para, Northamptonshire, England)
(d: June 1649, Rehoboth, Bristol, Ma)

+(22 November 1614, Daventry, Northants, England)
Dorothy Wheatleigh
(b: August 1591, Maiden Newton, Dorsetshire, England)
(d: Aft April 1626, Rehoboth, Bristol, Ma)

Note: Thomas and Dorothy came to America with three of their seven children. Thomas was not poor, although most of his funds had gone to transport his family. He supported himself as a blacksmith. Thomas was one of the founders of the religious town of Rehoboth, Ma

Whipple, Captain John Whipple Family
Captain John Whipple
(b: 1617, Milford,Surrey, England)
(d: 16 May 1685, Providence, Providence, RIs)

+(1639, Dorchester, Suffolk, Ma)
Sarah (They) Darling
(b: 1624, England)
(d: 1666, Providence, Providence, RI)

Wignall, Elizabeth
Richard Ingraham
(b: 1576, Barrowby, Lincolnshire, England)
(d: 30 September 1690, Rowley, Essex, Ma)

+(4 April 1628, Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass)
Elizabeth Wignall
(b: 1604, Frating, Essex, England)
(d: 16 September 1683, North Hampton, MA)

Wilcox, Edward
Edward Wilcox
(b: 12 February 1603/04, South Elkington, Lincolnshire, England)
(d: 1680, Portsmouth, (kingston), Newport, RI)

+(12 May 1631, Orby, Lincolnshire, England)
Susanna Thompson
(b: Abt 1607, Orby, Lincolnshire, England)

Wilmarth, Ensign Thomas
Ensign Thomas Wilmarth
(b: 1628, England)
(d: 13 May 1694, Rehoboth, Bristol, Ma)

+(30 October 1644, Rehoboth, Bristol, Ma)
Elizabeth Bliss
(b: 2 September 1614, Daventry, Northants, England)
(d: 1676, Rehoboth, Bristol, Ma)

Note: New England Marriages Prior to 1700:
Thomas¹ (-1694) & 1/wf Elizabeth [Bliss] (1615-Feb 1676), sister of Jonathan; b 1647; Braintree/Rehoboth

Wilmarth, Thomas
Thomas Wilmarth
(b: 1648, Coventry, England)
(d: 4 October 1690, Rehoboth, Bristol, Ma)

+(7 June 1674, Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass)
Mary Robinson
(b: 30 May 1652, Rehoboth, Bristol, Ma)
(d: 26 June 1718, Rehoboth, Bristol, Ma)

Woodcock, John Woodcock Family
John Woodcock
(b: 1615, England)
(d: 20 October 1701, Woodcock burying ground, Rehoboth, Bristol, Ma)

+(7 June 1674, Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass)
Sarah
(d: 29 November 1676, Rehoboth, Bristol, Ma)

Note: No record of John or Sarah's death appears in Rehoboth Vital Statistics, although there is a death noted for Noah, wife of John on March 20, 1676.

New England Marriages Prior to 1700:
John¹ (-1700,1701) & 1/wf Sarah [?CURTIS] (-1676); ca 1649; Rehoboth

Attleboro was first settled by John Woodcock. John Woodcock's home is now a landmark and sits across the street from the Woodcock Burying Ground, the place where he buried his son who was killed by Indians. They beheaded the boy and left his head on a stake to distress the family (which it did).

The Burying Ground is also across the street from my favorite Dunkin' Donut. I only mention this oddity because I was raised 1000 miles away from here. We came to this area because my husband took his PhD at MIT. Following that, I was supposed to return obediently to New York but found myself so caught by the Boston area that I went out from the city until I could afford it, then set down roots in a town that required Paul and I to commute weekly to IBM Research in NY for 15 years. And now I learn that great-n granddad stood across the street and looked at his son's head. It's almost enough to put you off donuts.