ANCESTORS OF MARY (MASON) SPILMAN (1813-1903)

1521 -    The administration of the estate of A William BREWSTER of Bently cum Arksye, next Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, took place in 1521.  (This place is about nine miles north of Scrooby, England.)  THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST, v.41, pp.1-5.

1524 -    A William BREWSTER of Bently cum Arksey was taxed in 1524.  He apparently married Maude MAN.  Sherwood, Mary B., PILGRIM, A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BREWSTER (1982).

1539 -    John COPP was living 1539-1565 at Bewsall, Parish of Hatton, Co. Warwick, England.  He had children:  Thomas; Matthew; Alice; and Katherine m. 1587 Peter HEYNES. -  NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY RECORD (April 1933), v.64, pp.150-153.

1539 -    Thomas COPP (1539-1628), son of John COPP, was baptized 28 June 1539 at Bewsall, Parish of Hatton, co. Warwick, England.

1558 -    A sir John COPE, Knt., of Cannons Ashby, co. Northampton, died 22 Jan 1557/8.  He was Sheriff of Northamptonshire, 1545, and M.P., 1547.  He married Bridget RALEIGH, dau. of Sir Edward and Anne (CHAMBERLAYNE) RALEIGH.  Their g-granddaughter, Anne (MARBURY) HUTCHINSON died, 1642, at Boston, Massachusetts.  -  Weis, Frederick Lewis, THE MAGNA CHARTA SURETIES, 1215 (3rd edition 1979); p.24 (Line #34).

1559 -    The "Act of Uniformity", passed early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, ordered every member of the clergy to use the "Common Book of Prayer," as authorized by Parliament.  Any clergyman who "shall preach, declare or speak anything in the derogation or depaving to the said book or any thing therein contained or of any part thereof, --- shall [forfeit] for his first offense the profit of all his spiritual benefices or promotions coming or arising in one whole year next after his conviction [and] suffer imprisonment by the space of six months without bail."  Some devout people objected to this Act because they sought more religious freedom and wanted to reform or purify the Church of England further.  They were given the name of "Puritans."  Act of Uniformity, 1559; Cowie, Leonard W., THE PILGRIM FATHERS, (London, 1970 - American edition, 1972) pp.11-12.

1561 -    John DENISON (ca.1530-1582) married, 11 May 1561, at St. James Church, Thorley, England, to Agnes WILLIE, dau. of John and Joan (MARSEAD) WILLIE.  John and Agnes (WILLIE) DENISON had children:  John; Luce; William DENISON (1571-1653) m. 7 Nov 1603 Margaret (CHANDLER) MONCK; Edward; Mary DENISON m. George GRENE; Elizabeth DENISON m. Mr. CROUCH; and George DENISON (1582-1678) m. Constance (GLASCOCK) GOOCH.  Denison, Elverton Glenn, et.al. DENISON GENEALOGY (1963), p.xxi; NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, Vol.46, pp.352-354; Miller, Dr. Spencer, WILLIE, DENISON AND ABBOTT FAMILIES OF BISHOP'S STORTFORD, CO. HERTS, ENGLAND (1936); NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, v.67, pp.46-55.  Benton, Charles E., EZRA REED AND ESTHER EDGERTON, Their life and Ancestry (1912), pp.45-50.

1563 -    William BREWSTER (Sr.) married first about 1563 to Mary (SMYTHE) SYMKINSON, daughter of William SMYTHE of Stainforth and widow of John SYMKINSON.  In 1579, William BREUSTER and Mary his wife sued in chancery, William and Francis HOBSON, claiming life settlement of lands in Doncaster, late of John SYMKINSON, formerly husband of said Mary BREWSTER.  John SYMKINSON and Mary his wife are first named in YORKSHIRE FINES in the year 1556 regarding lands in Wakefield, while they are last named during his lifetime in a fine of the year 1562 regarding lands at Wakefield.  William and Mary (SMYTHE) BREWSTER had a son William BREWSTER (1563-1644).  THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST, v.41, pp.1-5; Sherwood, Mary B., PILGRIM, A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BREWSTER (1982), p.15.

1563c-    Thomas COPP (1539-1628) married first to Joanna --?--.  They had daughters Alice and Elizabeth.

1564 -    William BREWSTER, son of William and Mary (SMYTHE) BREWSTER of Scrooby, England, was born in January 1563/4.  He was regarded as leader of the Pilgrims at Scrooby (near Sherwood Forest), where his father became bailiff of the Manor of Scrooby in 1675, and was later appointed postmaster by Queen Elizabeth.  Shaw, Hubert Kinney, FAMILIES OF THE PILGRIMS - ELDER WILLIAM BREWSTER (1955).

1571 -    William BREWSTER (Sr.) was one of three men assessed in 1571 at Scrooby, England.

1571 -    William DENISON (1571-1653/4), son of John and Agnes (WILEY) DENISON, was baptized at Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, 3 February 1571.  He married Margaret CHANDLER, daughter of Tobias and Johane (MOMFORD) CHANDLER.  Brown, Mrs. F. W., SOME OF THE ANCESTORS of OLIVER HAZARD PERRY (1911), Part I, pp.22-23.

1572 -    Robert PECK (1546-1593), of Beccles, England, son of Robert and --?-- (NORTON?) PECK, married ca. 1572 to Helen BABBS, dau. of Nicholas BABBS of Guilford, England.  They had children: Richard PECK (ca.1574-1615); Nicholas PECK m. 1610 Rachel YONGE; Robert PECK (1580-1656); Joseph PECK (1587-1663) m. 1617 Rebbeca CLARK; Margaret; Martha; and Samuel PECK.  Cutter, William Richard, et.al., GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT (N.Y. 1911), v.  , pp.51-52.

1575 -    Edward DENISON, son of John and Agnes (WILLIE) DENISON, was baptized, 6 April 1575, at Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England.  He went to Ireland in 1631 where his son, John DENISON, was to become deputy Governor of Cork.

1575 -    William BREWSTER (Sr.), in 1575, succeeded Thomas WENTWORTH as bailiff of Scrooby, England, and as agent of the archbishop of York, moved into the Manor House that belonged to the Archbishop and went with the position.  Campbell, Douglas, THE PURITAN in HOLLAND, ENGLAND, and AMERICA (1893), v.II, p.241; Willison, George F., SAINTS and STRANGERS (1945), pp.11-25; James H. Allyn, SWAMP YANKEE FROM MYSTIC (1980), pp.2-4.

1576 -    Thomas COPP (1539-1628) married second 28 Feb. 1576 to Isabel GUNNE.  They had children:  Anthony COPP (1576-1654) m. Denney --?--; Matthew; Joanna COPP m.1609 Thomas DALE; Thomas COPP (1582-1639) m. 1609 Ann FOUNGE; John COPP; William COPP (1589-1670) m. (1) Ann ROGERS and m. (2) Goodeth ITCHENOR; Walter COPP; and Ursula COPP.  -  NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY RECORD, v.64, pp.150-152.

1579 -    In 1579, William BREUSTER (Sr.) and Mary his wife, in 1579, sued in chancery, William and Francis HOBSON, claiming life settlement of lands in Doncaster, late of John SYMKINSON, formerly husband of said Mary BREWSTER.  John SYMKINSON and Mary his wife are first named in YORKSHIRE FINES in the year 1556 regarding lands in Wakefield, while they are last named during his lifetime in a fine of the year 1562 regarding lands at Wakefield.

1580 -    Sometime after 1579, William BREWSTER (Sr.) married second to Prudence STOCTON, who was his relict.  William and Prudence (STOCTON) BREWSTER probably had children James BREWSTER m. --?-- WELBECK; Prudence BREWSTER m. Robert PECK; and John BREWSTER.  THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST, v.41, pp.1-5; Banks, Charles Edward, THE ENGLISH ANCESTRY AND HOMES OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS (1929), pp.35-39; Sherwood, Mary B., PILGRIM, A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BREWSTER (1982), p.15.

1580 -    In 1580, William Brewster (1563-1644) matriculated at Peterhouse College, in Cambridge, where it is believed he acquired his earliest Separatist ideas.  The Separatists held the view that "the worship of the English Church is flat idolatry; that we admit into our Church persons unsanctified; that our preachers have no lawful calling; that our government is ungodly; that no bishop or preacher preacheth Christ sincerely and truly; that the people of every parish ought to choose their bishop, and that every elder, though he be no doctor nor pastor, is a bishop; --- that set prayer is blasphemous."  These were radical views, which struck at the very roots of the government established English church.  In Cambridge William BREWSTER joined the Separatist "underground" teachers and students who militantly refused to attend the compulsory services in the state-controlled churches.  TV GUIDE (December 28, 1974), p.20-22; Cowie, Leonard W., THE PILGRIM FATHERS, (London, 1970 - American edition, 1972), pp.11-22; George F. Willison's SAINTS and STRANGERS (1945), pp.11-101, passim; James H. Allyn, SWAMP YANKEE FROM MYSTIC (1980), pp.2-4.

1582 -    Richard LORD (ca.1555-1610) married, ca.1582, to Joan --?--.  They had children:  Elizabeth; Thomas LORD m. (1) Dorothy BULKELY and (2) Dorothy BIRD; Ellen; and Alice m. Richard MORRIS.  Richard LORD had a brother, William LORD, whose will is recorded n Northampton Probate Registry, pp.1560-66, folio 72.

1582 -    John DENISON died "of the plague," 4 December 1582, at Bishop's Stortford, co., Herts, England.  His widow, Agnes (WILLIE) DENISON, married second, 3 May 1584,  to John GACE, tanner, who died September 1602.  Wheeler, Richard Anson, HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, CONNECTICUT (1900), pp. 334-335.

1584 -    Agnes (WILLIE) DENISON, widow of John DENISON, married second, 3 May 1584, to John GACE.

1584 -    After competing his studies at Cambridge, William BREWSTER (Jr.) was employed by Puritan, Sir William DAVISON, Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth and her personal envoy to Holland.  William BREWSTER accompanied DAVISON, as his personal aide, to Holland, during the war with Spain.  When the Netherlands surrendered their "cautionary towns" to Elizabeth, the keys of these towns were entrusted by DAVISON to the custody of BREWSTER.  William BREWSTER visited the Netherlands in 1584 and again in 1585/86, returning to Scrooby in 1588 after the disgrace of DAVISON, which followed the execution of Mary STUART.  Campbell, Douglas, THE PURITAN in HOLLAND, ENGLAND, and AMERICA (1893), v.II, pp.240-241; Sherwood, Mary B., PILGRIM, A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BREWSTER (1982), pp.29-77.

1585 -    William BREWSTER (Jr.) married, ca.1585, to Mary --?-- (possibly Mary WENTWORTH).  William BREWSTER had children:  William, Edward, Jonathan BREWSTER (1593-1659) m. (1) --?-- and m. (2) Lucretia OLDHAM; Love BREWSTER (1595-1651) m.1634 Sarah, dau. William COLLIER; Wrestling BREWSTER; Patience BREWSTER m.1624 Gov. Thomas PRENCE; and Fear BREWSTER (1606-1634) m.1626 Isaac ALLERTON.

          John G. Hunt in the January 1965 issue of THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST, v.41, pp.1-5,63, presents strong circumstantial evidence that William BREWSTER's wife was Mary WENTWORTH, dau. of Thomas and Grace (GASCOIGNE) WENTWORTH.  The evidence has not been accepted as conclusive, however.  See also Walter Burgess's JOHN ROBINSON, the PASTOR of the PILGRIMS (1920), pp.80-81; Sherwood, Mary B., PILGRIM, A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BREWSTER (1982), pp.85-88; THE ELDER BREWSTER PRESS (Summer 1980), v.2, No.1, pp.6-7; William Burgess's JOHN ROBINSON, THE PASTOR OF THE PILGRIMS (1920), p.80; N.E.H.& G.R., v.113, pp.68-69 and v.124, pp.250-254; THE SECOND BOAT, v.7,p.95.

          (According to Marshall GARDNER of Yuma, Arizona, William BREWSTER married Mary LOVE.  No evidence given.)

1585 -    Thomas LORD (1585-1667), son of Richard and Joan LORD or Towcester, Northampton, England, was born 1585.

1587 -    Joseph PECK, son of Robert and Helen (BABBS) PECK, was born 30 April 1587 at Hingham, Suffolk, England and baptized in Beccles, England.  He died 22 Dec. 1663 Reheboth, Mass.  He married 21 May 1617 Rebecca CLARK.

1587 -    In 1587, Queen Elizabeth, in an effort to conceal her own complicity in the death of Mary STUART Queen of Scots, ordered her Secretary of State, William DAVISON, to trial for supposedly concealing Mary STUART's death warrant among other papers he presented to Elizabeth for her signature.  (He was the scape-goat.)  He was found guilty, fined and thrown into prison.  Queen Elizabeth immediately pardoned him, and revoked the fine, and restored his position and title, but unable to face him, she exiled him from the court along with his entourage, including his aide, William BREWSTER.  TV GUIDE (December 28, 1974), p.20-22.  Campbell, Douglas, THE PURITAN in HOLLAND, ENGLAND, and AMERICA (1893), v.II, pp.75-76.

1587 -    A Mr. COPE, in 1587, presented the Presbyterian "Book of Discipline" to Parliament, and offered a bill for its enactment into law.  For this offense he, together with Peter WENTWORTH, another Puritan, who then stood up for freedom of speech, was committed to the Tower by order of Queen Elizabeth.  -  Campbell, Douglas, THE PURITAN in HOLLAND, ENGLAND, and AMERICA (1893), v.II, p.169.
          (Note:  Some say that Elder William BREWSTER, of the Mayflower, married, ca.1585, to Mary WENTWORTH, dau. of Thomas and Grace (GASCOIGNE) WENTWORTH.  The Peter WENTWORTH who was condemned to the Tower, perhaps was a brother or cousin of Mary BREWSTER.)

1588 -    The records of the St. Laurence Church, Towcester, show that Dorothy BIRD, dau. of Robert and Amy BIRD, was baptized 25 May 1588.  She married Thomas LORD.

1589 -    William COPP (1589-1670), son of Thomas and Isabel (GUNNE) COPP, was bapt. 9 Nov. 1589.

1590 -    William BREWSTER, upon receiving news of the illness of William BREWSTER, Sr., returned to Scrooby in early 1589.  Upon the death of the Senior William BREWSTER, Sir William DAVISON recommended his former aide, William BREWSTER (Jr.), for the bailiff and postmaster positions previously held by BREWSTER's deceased father.  During his father's illness, young BREWSTER served more than eighteen months as his father's deputy.  On 22 August 1590, a letter was sent from Mr. John STANHOPE to Sir William DAVISON, Queen Elizabeth's secretary.  Mr. STANHOPE sent his regrets that he could not comply with DAVISON's request.  On the death of old BRUSTER, one Samuel REVERCOTES wrote to STANHOPE for the place of postmaster at SCROOBY, and STANHOPE had complied.  He stated his reasons for not conferring the place on young BRUSTER, who had served in that place for his father, old BRUSTER.  Secretary DAVISON returned the letter with notes in his own hand in defense of young BREWSTER, and pointed out that since, young BREWSTER had held the positions for over a year-and-a-half during his fathers illness, that he should be allowed to continue.  Secretary DAVISON apparently was persuasive and/or able to use his influence.  BREWSTER got the positions, which he held until he departed for Holland in 1609.  CALENDAR OF STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC SERIES, 1581-90, P.686; THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST, v.41, pp.1-5; George F. Willison's SAINTS and STRANGERS (1945), pp.11-101, passim; Sherwood, Mary B., PILGRIM, A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BREWSTER (1982), 83-85.

1593 -    Parliament, in 1593, forbade the Separatists to hold their own services.  Anyone who refused to attend church for forty days, and who went instead to private meetings "contrary to the laws and statutes of this realm [and] being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be committed to prison, there to remain without bail or mainprise, until they shall confirm and yield themselves to come to some church."  The Act Against Puritans 1593; Cowie, Leonard W., THE PILGRIM FATHERS, (London, 1970 - American edition, 1972), p.15.

1593 -    In the Parliament which was summoned for 1593, the speaker, Edward COKE, presented the usual petition to the queen, asking for liberty of speech for freedom from arrest, and for access to her majesty.  For answer he was told that privilege of speech was granted, but it consisted in saying "yea" or "no;" and that members of Parliament could have access to her majesty at times convenient, and when she was at leisure from other important causes of the realm.  considering this a sharp rebuff, Peter WENTWORTH again shocked Parliament and the Queen by bringing in a bill for settling the succession to the crown, and again he was promptly committed to the Tower.  Campbell, Douglas, THE PURITAN in HOLLAND, ENGLAND, and AMERICA (1893), v.II, p.170.

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1593 -    Jonathan BREWSTER, son of William and Mary BREWSTER, was born 12 Aug. 1593 at Scrooby, England.  George F. Willison's SAINTS and STRANGERS (1945), p.39; THE MAYFLOWER QUARTERLY, v.51, pp.161-167; v.52, pp.6-16,57-63,72-83.

1597 -    A church court was in session in 1597 to consider simony charges against James BREWSTER, vicar of Sutton cum Launde, Nottinghamshire.  Before the Rev. Mr. John BENET, L.L.D., "appeared William BREWSTER, gen., brother of the aforesaid James BREWSTER, cleric, which William gave assent to the findings of the court, by which the salary of said cleric was to be withheld."  ACT BOOK of the YORK DIOCESE CHANCERY COURT, R.VII, AB.46, ff.104v, 122,131; THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST, v.41, pp.1-5.

1597 -    Edmund HUBBARD or HOBART (1574-1646) married first, ca.1597, to --?--.  He had two daughters by this first marriage, Rebecca and Sarah HOBART.
          (NOTE:  The HOBART family name is found in many different spelling variations.  In Hingham, England and sometime in New England the name was spelled HUBBARD, HUBBERT, etc.  The HOBART spelling became popular later in New England.  We sometimes find it spelled several different ways in transcripts of the same records.)

1598 -    Robert PECK of Everton, England, in his will dated 1598, proved at York the same year, named wife Prudence and left his daughter Ann seven pounds, six shillings, eight pence.  THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST, v.41, pp.1-5; NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, v.111, pp.319-20;

1600 -    Edmund HOBART or HUBBARD (1574-1646) married second, 17 September 1600, at Hingham, England, to Margaret DEWEY (ca.1574-1633) of Wymondham, Norfolk, England.   They had children:  Nazareth (1601-1658) m. (1) 1626 Robert TURNER and (2) 1630 John BEALE; Edmund HOBART, Jr. (1603-1685) m. Elizabeth ELMER; Peter HOBART (1604-1679) m. (1) Elizabeth IBROOK and (2) 1646 Rebecca PECK; John; Thomas HOBART (1606-1689) m. (1) 1629 Ann PLOMER and (2) Jane --?--; Mary HOBART; Mehetabel; Elizabeth; and Joshua HOBART.  Cotton Mather in his MAGNALIA says of Edmund HOBART and his wife,--- "They were eminent for piety, and feared God above many.  There were but three or four in the whole town that minded serious religion, and these were sufficiently maligned by the irreligious for their Puritanism."  See LDS No.198, Bk.5, p.9; AMERICAN GENEALOGIST, v.27, pp.94-95.

1602 -    The will of John GACE was proved in 1602.  He mentions "George, Edward and William DENYSON, children of my wife," also "Elizabeth CROUCH, a daughter of my wife."  Wheeler, Richard Anson, HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, CONNECTICUT (1900), pp. 334-335; Ohler, Clara Paine, ANCESTORS and DESCENDANTS of CAPTAIN JOHN JAMES and ESTHER DENISON (1912), pp.152.

1603 -    When James I ascended the English throne in 1603, The Puritans presented him with the Millenary Petition, calling for numerous reforms in the English Church.  However, James I, who believed that he ruled by Devine Right (by the Will of God alone), was determined to maintain uniformity in religion.  He had a special dislike for the Puritans (and Separatists) who refused to recognize the authority of the State in matters of religion.

1603 -    Robert PECK, son of Robert and Helen (BABBS) PECK, attended Magdalen College, Cambridge, England, where he had his degree of A. B. and A. M.; the latter 1603.  He was a minister at Hingham, England for over 30 years (before coming to New England), "yet was harassed for non-conformity to some of the ceremonies by Bishop HARSNET, his diocesan, whose impudence in honor of the church was so great as to excite complaint from the people of Norwich, in 1623, to the House of Commons in Parliament.  Two successors were milder, but when WREN came to the Cathedral, no Puritan could long serve at the altar.  Robert PECK embarked October 1641, with wife and son Joseph for home, and went back to his old parsonage; there he died 1656.  Reverend Robert PECK had children:  Ann PECK married July 1639, at Windsor, Conn. to John MASON; Joseph PECK; Thomas PECK; Samuel PECK; and Robert PECK.  Whittemore, Henry, GENEALOGICAL GUIDE TO THE EARLY SETTLERS OF AMERICA, p.409.

1603 -    William DENISON (1571-1654), son of John and Agnes DENISON, married 7 November 1603, in Stortford, England, to Margaret (CHANDLER) MONCK (1577-1645/6), dau. of Tobias and Johane (MOMFORD) CHANDLER, and widow of Henry MONCK.  William and Margaret DENISON had children:  John; William DENISON, Jr.; George DENISON (1610-1614); Daniel DENISON (1612-1682) m. Patience DUDLEY, dau. of Governor ; Edward DENISON (1614-1668) m. Elizabeth WELDE; Sarah (born and died 1615); and George DENISON (1618-1694) m. (1) 1640 Bridget THOMPSON, m. (2) 1644/5 Ann BORADELL.  Brown, Mrs. F. W., SOME OF THE ANCESTORS of OLIVER HAZARD PERRY (1911), Part I, pp.22-23;  H. F. Waters' EXTRACTS FROM PARISH REGISTER, STRATFORD, ENGLAND; Ohler, Clara Paine, ANCESTORS and DESCENDANTS of CAPTAIN JOHN JAMES and ESTHER DENISON (1912), pp.146-160; Denison, Elverton Glenn, et.al. DENISON GENEALOGY (1963), p.xxii; NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, Vol.46, pp.352-354; Wildley, Anna Chesebrough, GENEALOGY of the DESCENDANTS of WILLIAM CHESEBROUGH (1903), pp.518-19; James H. Allyn, SWAMP YANKEE FROM MYSTIC (1980), pp.32-34.

1603 -    Clement TOPLIFF was born 17 Nov. 1603.

1604 -    Peter HOBART (1604-1679) and John HOBART (died young?), twin sons of Edmund and Margaret (DEWEY) HOBART, were bapt. 13 October 1604 at Hingham, Norfolk County, England.  AMERICAN GENEALOGIST, v.12, pp.132-134, v.27, pp.94-95.

1606 -    William DENNYSON was church warden of St. Michael's Parish church, Bishop"s Stratford, in 1606.  J. L. Glasscock, Jr.'s, RECORDS OF ST. MICHAEL's PARISH (1882), p.113.

1606 -    As early as 1606, a Separatist congregation was formed in Scrooby, which met in the manor house where William BREWSTER lived.  "After they were joined together into communion he was a special stay and help unto them.  They ordinarily met at his house on the Lord's Day, which was a Manor of the Bishop's [the Archbishop of York]; and with great love he entertained them when they came, making provision for them, to his great charge, and continued to do so, whilst they could stay in England."  William Bradford's LIFE OF WILLIAM BREWSTER; Cowie, Leonard W., THE PILGRIM FATHERS, (London, 1970 - American edition, 1972), p.24-25.

1607 -    William BREWSTER was dismissed from his postmaster position at Scrooby, in 1607, because of his Separatist activities.

1607 -    The Puritan persecution intensified under James I, and William BREWSTER, William BRADFORD and other Scrooby Separatists, at last decided to escape to Holland.  "In Autumn 1607, those who had not yet been arrested and thrown into prison resolved to smuggle themselves out of the country.  Packing their personal belongings and led by their pastor, Richard CLIFTON, the Separatists set out for the port of Boston, Lincolnshire, England (sixty miles from Scrooby).  At Boston, they were betrayed by the captain of the ship that was to have transported them; their goods were ransacked; and they were imprisoned for a month or more.  BREWSTER, BRADFORD, and CLIFTON were the last to be set free having served about a year in the prison at Boston, England.  Cowie, Leonard W., THE PILGRIM FATHERS, (London, 1970 - American edition, 1972), p.26; Sherwood, Mary B., PILGRIM, A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BREWSTER (1982); pp.79-110.

          "On 1 December 1607, William Brewster of Scrooby was cited before the High Court of Commission on information that he was a Brownist and disobedient in matters of religion.  He was fined 20 pounds."  (And apparently he went to prison in addition to the fine.)  THE MAYFLOWER QUARTERLY v.57, No.2, pp.106-109.

          A diary entry of 1608 reads, "Seeing themselves thus molested, and that there was no hope of their continuance there, by a joynte consente they resolved to go into the Low Countries, where they heard was freedome of Religion for all men."  Their exile to a new and foreign land was not easy.  "The ports and havens were shut against them. So as they were fain to seek secret means of conveyance; and to bribe and fee the mariners, and give extra-ordinary rates for their passages.  And yet were they often-times betrayed, many of them; and both they and their goods intercepted and surprised, and thereby put to great trouble and charge."  Cotton Mather's LIFE OF GOVERNOR WILLIAM BRADFORD; Bradford, William, HISTORY OF THE PLYMOUTH SETTLEMENT.

1608 -    In 1608, another attempt was made by the Separatists to escape to Holland.  They were pursued, and in their haste to avoid capture or worse, many of the men were separated from their wives, and families.  The women left behind in England were arrested, but their captors, not knowing how to dispose of these women whose only crime was wanting to join their husbands, released them.   The families gradually re-united in Holland and settled first in Amsterdam and in 1609 at Leiden, Holland.  Cowie, Leonard W., THE PILGRIM FATHERS, (London, 1970 - American edition, 1972), p.29-34; Bradford, William, HISTORY OF THE PLYMOUTH SETTLEMENT.

1608 -    Thomas MINER, second son of Clement MINER of Chow Magne, Co. Somerset, England, was born 23 April 1608

1608 -    Elizabeth IBROOK, dau. of Richard and Margaret IBROKE, was baptized 31 Aug. 1608 at Southwold, co. Suffolk, England.  She was first wife of Rev. Peter HOBART.  THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST, v.12, pp.132-134

1609 -    In February 1609 permission was granted by the Burgomasters of Leyden, Holland for 150 persons, or thereabouts, to re-settle in Leyden, "provided such persons behave themselves and obey the laws and ordinances.  Elder William BREWSTER removed to Leiden, Holland, where he was chosen a ruling elder in the new church.  He, at first, made a living as "ribbon maker" in a silk factory, but, as an educated man, he soon was able to earn money by teaching.  "His outward condition was mended, and he lived well and plentifully.  For he fell into a way, by reason he had the Latin tongue, to teach many students who had a desire to learn the English tongue, to teach them English; and by his method they quickly attained it with great facility; for he drew Rules to learn it by, after the Latin manner.  And many Gentlemen, both Danes and Germans, resorted to him, as they had time from other studies; some of them being Great Men's sons."  Morton Dexter's ENGLAND and HOLLAND of the PILGRIMS; Bradford's LIFE OF WILLIAM BREWSTER; George F. Willison's SAINTS and STRANGERS (1945), pp.11-101, passim; THE ELDER BREWSTER PRESS (Summer 1980), v.2, No.1, pp.4-6.

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1609 -    Elder William BREWSTER, aged about forty-two years, came before the aldermen at Leiden, Holland, 12 June 1609 (eight days before the burial of an un-named child of William BREWSTER), as guardian of Ann PECK, native of Launde (near Scrooby, England), when they granted to Thomas SIMKINSON, merchant of Hull (he probably was son of John and Mary (SMYTHE) SYMKINSON and half-brother of Elder William BREWSTER), the power to received seven pounds sterling that Ann PECK had left in the hands of William WATKIN, pastor of Clarborough (six miles south-east of Scrooby) when she left England.
          Ann PECK and her brother Robert PECK were wards of William BREWSTER.  That they were William BREWSTER's neice and nephew is apparent, for it seems that their parents were Robert and Prudence (BREWSTER) PECK of Everton (about two miles east of Scrooby); which Robert PECK, in his will dated 1598, proved at York the same year, named wife Prudence and left his daughter Ann seven pounds, six shillings, eight pence.
          (Comment - It might be reasonable to assume that the "child of William BREWSTER" who was buried, 20 June 1609, was Prudence (BREWSTER) PECK, dau. of William BREWSTER, Sr. and wife of Robert PECK, since her brother, Elder William BREWSTER appeared in court eight days earlier as guardian of Prudence's minor daughter, Ann PECK.) -  THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST, v.41, pp.1-5; NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, v.111, pp.319-20; Sherwood, Mary B., PILGRIM, A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BREWSTER (1982), p.121-122.

1609 -    The register of St. Pancras church, Leyden, records the burial on Saturday, 20 June 1609, of a child of William BREWSTER.  The age and sex of the child are not specified (Could she have been Prudence PECK, dau. of William BREWSTER, Sr.?  See Below.)  Sherwood, Mary B., PILGRIM, A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BREWSTER (1982), p.121.

          On 25 June 1609, Elder William BREWSTER, aged about forty-two (other records would make him closer to 45), Mary BREWSTER, about forty, and their son Jonathan, sixteen, appeared in Dutch Court to testify as witnesses in behalf of a merchant of Amsterdam who had a dispute with a supplier of cloth.   Their residence was in the "stinckteech" in Leiden on the "Pieterskerkhof," in the little colony of houses on the estate of John ROBINSON.  Shaw, Hubert Kinney, FAMILIES OF THE PILGRIMS - ELDER WILLIAM BREWSTER (1955); THE MAYFLOWER QUARTERLY, v.51, No.4, pp.161-162; Sherwood, Mary B., PILGRIM, A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BREWSTER (1982), p.122.

1610 -    Thomas LORD (1585-1667), son of Richard and Joan LORD, married first 23 February 1610/11, at Towcester, Northampton, England, to Dorothy BIRD (b.1588), dau. of Robert and Amy BIRD.  Some say that Dorothy (BIRD) LORD died ca.1616, and Thomas LORD married second to Dorothy BULKELEY (ca.1589-1614), daughter of Rev. Edward and Olive (IRLBY) BULKELEY.  Thomas and Dorothy (BIRD) LORD had children:  Richard LORD (1611-1662) m.1635 Sarah GRAVES; Thanks LORD (1612-1693) m. Ralph SHEPARD; and Anne LORD (1614-1688) m.1637 Thomas STANTON.  LDS Salt Lake Temple No.18837, Bk.3N, p.668; Bertha Jane Thomas Libby, GENEALOGY OF JANE ELIZABETH WHEELER THOMAS (1974), pp.177-225.
          (Note:  There seems to be some confusion about whether Thomas LORD married twice.  If he did, it is evident that both his wives were named "Dorothy".  See Virkus, COMPENDIUM OF AMERICAN GENEALOGY, v.VII, p.865.)

1610 -    Richard LORD was buried at Towcester, England, 16 October 1610; his wife was buried there 22 September 1610.The will of Richard LORD of Towcester in Co. of Northton, dated 30 May 1610, probated 7 February 1611, named his wife, Joan; daughters Elizabeth, Ellen and Alice; and son Thomas LORD.  Witnesses were Thomas PEDDER, Paul BOUGHTON, and Richard ABBOT.  At the time of the will, the daughters, Ellen LORD and Alice LORD, were unmarried.  Apparently at this time, Ellen was engaged to one Robert MARRIOT of Calcot.  ARCHIVES OF NORTH HANTS 2nd Series, 2nd Vol.V, folio.38; Lord, Kenneth, GENEALOGY of the DESCENDANTS of THOMAS LORD (1946), pp.1-2.

1610 -    Jonathan BREWSTER may have married first in Leiden, Holland to --?--, who died in Holland.  A child of Jonathan BREWSTER may have been buried in Leiden, 27 November 1610.  MAYFLOWER DESCENDANT, v.6, p.57; (but this is disputed) see THE MAYFLOWER QUARTERLY, v.52, pp.57-63,74.

1610 -    William BREWSTER witnessed the betrothal of William PONTUS, weaver, and Wybra HANSON at Leyden, 1610.

1611 -    In 1611, the Pilgrim congregation purchased an estate at Leiden, where they lived and worshiped.  THE MAYFLOWER QUARTERLY, v.53, No.2, p.108; Sherwood, Mary B., PILGRIM, A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BREWSTER (1982), p.123-126.

1611 -    Alice LORD, dau. of Richard and Joan LORD, married 20 May 1611, Richard MORRIS.

1612 -    William BREWSTER witnessed the betrothal of Randall THICKINS and Jane WHITE, in 1612, at Leyden.

1613 -    The inventory of the estate of Christopher AVERY was exhibited at Newton Abbott, Devonshire, England on 6 August 1613.

1614 -    Anne LORD (1614-1688), daughter of Thomas and Dorothy (BIRD) LORD, was bapt. 18 September 1614 at Towcester, Northampton Co., England.  She married 1637 to Thomas STANTON.

1614 -    According to some references Dorothy (BIRD) LORD, first wife of Thomas LORD, may have died ca.1614 or 1615, perhaps during the birth of her daughter, Anne.

1614 -    William COPP (1589-1670) married first 24 Nov. 1614 to Anne ROGERS.  They had children:  Mary; Rebecca; John; Joanna COPP (1625-1654) m. Samuel NORDEN; Martha COPP (1630-1729) m. (1) William HARVEY and m. (2) Henry TEWKSBURY; and Ann COPP (ca.1632-1661) m.1646 Herman ATWOOD.

1615 -    John TOMPSON (ca.1585-1626), son of Thomas TOMPSON, married second, ca.1615, to Alice FREEMAN, dau. of Henry and Margaret (EDWARDS) FREEMAN of Cranford, co. Northampton, England.  John and Alice (FREEMAN) THOMPSON had children: Mary THOMPSON, m. Rev. Richard BLINMAN; Bridget THOMPSON (1622-1643) m. Capt. George DENISON; Dorothy THOMPSON m. Thomas PARK; Nathaniel THOMPSON; and Martha THOMPSON.   See Weis, Frederick Lewis, THE MAGNA CHARTA SURETIES, 1215 (3rd edition 1979); p.109-10 (Line #164); Wheeler, Richard Anson, HISTORY OF STONINGTON, CONNECTICUT (1900), p.620, passim; Bertha Jane Thomas Libby, GENEALOGY OF JANE ELIZABETH WHEELER THOMAS (1974), pp.177-225.

1616 -    According to some references, Thomas LORD (ca.1585-1667) may have married second in 1616 to Dorothy BULKELEY (ca.1589-1676), daughter of Rev. Edward and Olive (IRLBY) BULKELEY.    They had children:  Dr. Thomas LORD (1616-1662) m.1652 Hannah THURSTON; William LORD (1618-1678) m. (1) Hattie "Dorothy" NICKERSON and (2) 1664 Lydia (BUCKLAND) BROWNE; Robert LORD (1620-1678) m.1650 Rebecca, dau. of Christopher STANLEY; John LORD m. (1) Rebecca BUSHNELL and (2) 1648 Adrean BASEY and (3) Elizabeth VINCENT; Aymie LORD (1626-1691) m.1647 Capt. John GILBERT; and Dorothy LORD (1629-1657) m.1651 John INGERSOLL.

1616 -    Thomas STANTON, 3rd (ca.1595), of Langley, co. Warwick, England, married 30 July 1616 to Katherine WASHINGTON, dau. of Walter and Alice (MORDEN) WASHINGTON of Radway, England.  They had children:  Alecia STANTON, b. 3 Sept. 1618, m. John WAGSTAFFE of Tachbrooke; Thomas STANTON (ca.1616-1677) m. 1637 Anne LORD; and Walter STANTON. -  Wildley, Anna Chesebrough, GENEALOGY of the DESCENDANTS of WILLIAM CHESEBROUGH (1903), pp.535-36;  Stanton, William A., THOMAS STANTON, OF CONNECTICUT, and HIS DESCENDANTS (1891), p.60; Bertha Jane Thomas Libby, GENEALOGY OF JANE ELIZABETH WHEELER THOMAS (1974), pp.177-225.
          (Note:  Clarence Almon Torrey in THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST, v.14, p.86-87, disputes the claim that the Thomas STANTON, who came on the Bonaventure and married Anne LORD, was a son of Thomas and Katherine (WASHINGTON) STANTON.  Others claim that he was.)

1616 -    Christopher AVERY (1590-1679), son of Christopher AVERY of Newton Abbot, married (license dated 26 August 1616) at Ippleden, Devonshire, England to Margery STEPHENS, dau. of Edward and Margaret STEPHENS of Kingswear.  (Edward STEPHENS was a mariner who died in 1626.)  Christopher and Margery AVERY had an only son James AVERY (ca.1620-1700) who married first, 1643, Joanna GREENSLADE and married second, 1698, Abigail (INGRAHAM) HOLMES.  LDS No. SG7532, 87138, 37; Avery, Elroy Mckendree, et.al., THE GROTON AVERY CLAN (1912); Wurts' MAGNA CHARTA, v.5, pp.1368.

1616 -    William BREWSTER, with the aid of John REYNOLDS, a master printer from London and his 22-year-old assistant Edward WINSLOW, printed several anonymous Puritan pamphlets and books, that were smuggled into England for sale there.  The publishing house (an extension on the rear of William BREWSTER's house which faced the Stincksteeg, or Stink Alley) was financed by his young friend, Thomas BREWER.   King James's government regarded these publications as treasonable; and the English ambassador to Holland insisted that the Dutch authorities imprison Thomas BREWER.  William BREWSTER had to go into hiding to avoid arrest, and the printing equipment was seized and impounded.   THE MAYFLOWER QUARTERLY, v.49, no.4, pp.168-9; ibid, v.52, No.3, p.118; A list of books printed by William BREWSTER at Leiden is shown in THE MAYFLOWER DESCENDANT v.23, pp.97-105; Sherwood, Mary B., PILGRIM, A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BREWSTER (1982), pp.128-136; James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), pp.80-81.

1617 -    Joseph PECK (1587-1663) married first, 21 May 1617, at Hingham, Co. Norfolk, England, to Rebecca CLARK.  They had children:  Anna (1618-1636); Rebecca PECK (1620-1692) m. 3 July 1646 Rev. Peter HOBART; Joseph; John PECK (1626-1713) m. Elizabeth HUNTING; Nicholas PECK (1630-1710) m. Rebekah, dau. John BOSWORTH; and Simon PECK m. (1) Hannah FARNSWORTH and (2) 1 Feb 1661 Prudence CLAP. -  THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST, v.12, pp.132-134.

1617 -    Jonathan BREWSTER became a "burgher" (full citizen) at Leiden, Holland, 30 June 1617.  His guarantors were Isaack De SYDE and Jan Sebastiaensz van HOUT.  The register of new burghers lists Jonathan as "Jonathan Willemsz BRUSTER uut het Noortquartier in Engelant Lintwercker."  "Lintwercker" means ribbon maker.  THE MAYFLOWER QUARTERLY, v.51, pp.162.

 

1617 -    Jonathan Willemsz BREWSTER, Marye BREWSTER, and Mary ALLERTON witnessed the betrothal of John REYNOLDS and Prudence GRINDON on 28 July 1617, at Leiden, Holland.  John REYNOLDS was a printer in the employee of William BREWSTER.  THE MAYFLOWER QUARTERLY, v.51, pp.164.

1617 -    William BREWSTER, Jonathan BREWSTER, and John CARVER were witnesses to the reading and signing of the will of Thomas BREWER and his wife, Anna, Nee OFFLEY, drawn up on 7 December 1617.  Thomas BREWER entered a business agreement with Jonathan BREWSTER regarding the manufacture and exportation of ribbons, and BREWER had helped finance William BREWSTER in the printing business.  THE MAYFLOWER QUARTERLY, v.52, No.1, pp.6-16.

1618 -    George DENISON, son of William and Margaret (CHANDLER) was born ca.1618, and baptized 10 December 1620, at Stortford, England.  H. F. Waters' EXTRACTS FROM PARISH REGISTER, STRATFORD, ENGLAND.

1818 -    Jonathan BREWSTER, on 25 April 1618, had negotiated and witnessed a business arrangement between Edward TILLEY, serge worker, and TILLEY's apprentice, Robert HAGGES.  HAGGES contract with TILLEY was to be modified to allow him to go to England to receive an inheritance.  THE MAYFLOWER QUARTERLY, v.52, No.1, pp.6-16.

1618 -    On 21 May 1618 Richard TYRILL, a merchant from Southampton, England, made a deposition at the request of Jonathan BREWSTER.  TYRILL, aged around 40, stated that around six months previously, he had heard Thomas BORDGES, who was also a merchant living in England, say that BORDGES had sold all the goods he had from Jonathan BREWSTER for the price he had given BREWSTER in cash.  THE MAYFLOWER QUARTERLY, v.52, No.1, pp.6-16.

1618 -    On 27 August 1618, Jonathan BREWSTER, Isaac ALLERTON, Janneken HAZEL and Mary ALLERTON witnessed the betrothal of Edward WINSLOW and Elizabeth BARKER.  THE MAYFLOWER QUARTERLY, v.51, pp.165.

1619 -    The first wife of Jonathan BREWSTER was buried, 10 May 1619, at Leiden, Holland.

1619 -    In 1619, the twelve years truce between Spain and Holland was about to expire, and Holland was again menaced by talk of war.  The Pilgrims were living as exiles in poor circumstances, in a strange land that might turn into a bloody battleground.  They could not return to England, but wanted to find a place that they could raise their families as English away from foreign influence.  They looked to America.  Elder William BREWSTER was chosen their leader, and while he was in England petitioning the Virginia Company of London, for a land patent and passage to the New World, an order for his arrest went out at the instance of the English ambassador in Holland; however he escaped.  For an account of the trials the Pilgrims endured on this voyage and upon their landing at Plymouth, Massachusetts see: Cowie, Leonard W., THE PILGRIM FATHERS, (London, 1970 - American edition, 1972); THE MAYFLOWER QUARTERLY, v.45, No.3, pp.125-132; THE MAYFLOWER QUARTERLY, v.48, No.2, pp.57-65; Atwood, William Franklin, THE PILGRIM STORY (Twelfth edition 1980); Sherwood, Mary B., PILGRIM, A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BREWSTER (1982); pp.137-213.

1619 -    Mary THOMPSON, daughter of John and Alice (FREEMAN) THOMPSON, was born 14 November 1619 at Preston, England.  She married Reverend Richard BLINNMAN, pastor of the New London, Connecticut Church.

1620 -    Rebecca PECK, dau. of Joseph and Rebecca (CLARK) PECK, was bapt. 25 May 1620 at Hingham, Norfolk, England.  She married 3 July 1646 to Rev. Peter HOBART and she died 9 Sept. 1692 at Hingham, Massachusetts.  See THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST, v.12, pp.132-134.

1620 -    On Friday, 31 July, 1620, William BREWSTER and the Pilgrims left Leyden for Delfshaven on the Maas River.  They boarded the "Speedwell" and sailed the next day, and after a quick passage to Southampton, England they met the "Mayflower."  The two vessels set sail on 5 August, 1620; but after covering about 150 miles, the "Speedwell" was reported to be leaking, and both vessels put in at Dartmouth.  There it was decided that the "Mayflower" was to make the voyage alone, and it's final departure was from Plymouth on Wednesday, 6 September, 1620.  There were 102 passengers aboard.  THE MAYFLOWER QUARTERLY, v.53, No.2, p.109.

1620 -    Elder William BREWSTER came over to America on the first voyage of the "Mayflower".  He embarked at London with his wife, his sons, Love and Wrestling, and two boys "bound out" to him, "Richard MORE and his brother."   The rest of the BREWSTER children remained behind and came over afterwards.  William BREWSTER was the fourth signer of the Mayflower Compact, 11 November 1620 O.S.  For a good account of William BREWSTER's roll in our colonial history, see:  George Ernest Bowman's THE MAYFLOWER READER (1978), pp.267-275; THE MAYFLOWER DESCENDANT, v.IV, No.2, pp.100-109.

1620 -    William CHESEBROUGH (1594-1667) was married by license, 15 December 1620, by "the blessed John COTTON," in St. Botolph's Church, Boston, Lincolnshire, England, to Anne STEVENSON, dau. of Peter STEVENSON.  William and Anne (STEVENSON) CHESEBROUGH had children:  Maria; Martha; David; Jonathan; Samuel CHESEBROUGH (1627-1673) m. 1655 Abigail INGRAHAM; Adronicus; Junia; Nathaniel CHESEBROUGH (1630-1678) m. 1659 Hannah DENISON; John; Jabez; Elisha CHESEBROUGH (1637-1670) m. 1665 Rebecca PALMER.  All but three children died young.  Wildley, Anna Chesebrough, GENEALOGY of the DESCENDANTS of WILLIAM CHESEBROUGH (1903); James H. Allyn, SWAMP YANKEE FROM MYSTIC (1980), pp.30-32.

1621 -    Jonathan BREWSTER, son of William BREWSTER, arrived on the ship "Fortune" on 9 November 1621; lived at Plymouth and Duxbury, Mass., and at Poquetannock (near New London, Conn.).  Mather, Frederic G. THE REFUGEES of 1776  from LONG ISLAND to CONNECTICUT (1972 reprint of the 1913 edition), p.276; THE MAYFLOWER QUARTERLY, v.51, pp.161-167; v.52, pp.6-16,57-63,72-83.

1622 -    In 1622 Sir Fernando GORGES and a Capt. John MASON, London merchant, were the joint grantees of all the land lying between the Merrimac and Sagadahoc (Kennebec) rivers.  In the following year, they attempted to establish a colony and fishery at the mouth of the Pascataqua river.  The grant was divided in 1629.   GORGES took all that part lying east of the Pascataqua River and named it Maine; and MASON took all that between the Pascataqua and Merrimac rivers, and called it New Hampshire.  This John MASON formed a company or association which was called "The Company of Laconia."  A scheme was atempted for organizing a colony to extend from the St. Croix to Maryland.  See: James Kendall Hosmer, ed., WINTHROP'S JOURNAL "HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND" (1908), v.I, p.29,99-101,152-153,181n.
          This John MASON died in 1635.  He left a will dated 26 Nov. 1635 (proved 22 Dec. 1635).  His widow, Ann MASON was named administratrix.  She made Francis NORTON her attorney at Little Harbor.  (Note:  We do not know if this John MASON was related to our John MASON of Connecticut; but we do know that one of the daughters of our John MASON married, 8 May 1861, to a Thomas NORTON.)   See Samuel Raymond's RAYMOND FAMILIES OF NEW ENGLAND (1886), pp.1-2;

1623 -    Lucretia OLDHAM and her brother John OLDHAM came over from Derby, England, in the "Anne," arriving about 10 July 1623.

1624 -    Jonathan BREWSTER married (2nd?), 10 April 1624, at Plymouth, Mass., Lucretia OLDHAM, baptized in the Parish of All Saints, at Derby, England, 14 Jan. 1600, daughter of William and Phillipa (SOWTER) OLDHAM.  Jonathan and Lucretia (OLDHAM) BREWSTER had children:  William BREWSTER m.1651 Mary PEIME of London, England; Mary BREWSTER m.1645 John TURNER; Jonathan BREWSTER; Ruth BREWSTER (1631-1677) m. (1) John PICKET and (2) Charles HILL; Benjamin BREWSTER (1633-1710) m.1659/60 Ann (ADDIS) DARTE; Elizabeth BREWSTER (1637-1708) m. (1) Peter BRADLEY and (2) Christopher CROSTOPHERS; Grace BREWSTER (1639-1684) m.1559 Daniel WETHERELL; Hannah BREWSTER m. (1) Samuel STARR and (2) John THOMPSON.  Caulkins' HISTORY OF NEW LONDON, pp.276,277,passim; Mather, Frederic G. THE REFUGEES of 1776  from LONG ISLAND to CONNECTICUT (1972 reprint of the 1913 edition), p.276; Wurts' MAGNA CHARTA, v.5, pp.1368-1370; THE MAYFLOWER QUARTERLY, v.52, No.2, pp.72-83.

1624 -    Dorothy THOMPSON, daughter of John and Alice (FREEMAN) THOMPSON, was born 5 July 1624, at Preston, England.  She married Thomas PARK of Wethersfield, Connecticut.

1624 -    Thomas PRENCE arrived on the "Fortune" in 1621.  He married, 6 Aug. 1624, to Patience BREWSTER, daughter of William BREWSTER.  He later became governor of the colony of Massachusetts.  THE SECOND BOAT, v.3, p.4-7.

1624 -    Thomas COPPE, "the elder of Bewsall in the countie of Warrwick, yeoman" made his will 7 Sept. 1624.  He named wife Isabell; sons Walter, Anthonie, Mathewe, John, Thomas and William; daughter Ursula.  -  NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY RECORD, v.64, pp.150-153.