My Ancestors

Twelfth Generation

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2368. Samuel Edson was born in 1613 in Warwickshire, Eng. He was christened on 5 Sep 1613 in Fillongley, Warwickshire, ENG. He died on 19 Jul 1692 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA. He married Susannah Orcutt in 1638 in Warwickshire, Eng. [Parents]

2369. Susannah Orcutt was born in 1618. She died on 20 Feb 1699 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA.

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2370. Nicholas Byram.Nicholas married Susanna Shaw.

2371. Susanna Shaw.

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2432. William Heath died on 29 May 1652 in Roxbury, Suffolk Co., MA.

1. William Heath embarked in London, England, in ship "Lion," arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, September 16, 1623, and settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was accompanied by his wife Mary and five children, one of whom may have been Mary Spear, daughter of his second wife by former husband. William Heath took the oath of allegiance, was made freeman, March 4, 1632-33, and was representative at first assembly of deputies. May 14, 1634-37-39 to 1643 and in 1645 for Dover. He died in Roxbury. May 29, 1652. "an able, godly and faithful brother. " He made his will the day before he died. His widow died December 15, 1659. Their children were: 1. Isaac, confirmed m Roxbury Church, November 23, 1651. 2. Mary. 3. Peleg, see forward. 4. Hannah. 5. Mary, probably Mary Spear, as above referred to. (p. 299, Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity (Vol 4), 1907, Ellery Bicknell Crane.)

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2528. Robert Stiles was born in 1634 in England. He died on 30 Jul 1690 in Boxford, Essex Co., MA. He married Elizabeth Frye.

1. Robert Stiles was married (by Bradstreet) Oct. 4, 1660, to Elizabeth (dau. of John and Anna) Frye, of Andover, Mass., who was born in England in 1637 {seefoot-note, pp. 16, 17). According to Boxford records Robert Stiles had a second wife also named Elizabeth, who survived him. He died July 30, 1690 {Perley's History of Boxford, p. 28). This date is probably correct, but it does not tally with a record furnished us by Mr. Perley himself.
To his widow Elizabeth was granted, one month after his death, the administration of his estate (Hist. Boxford, p. 28). She was admitted to the church Feb. 21, 1703 {Boxford Records). She must have been the person referred to in the following from the town records: "Mch. 2, 1696-7, a new road laid out to Widow Stiles' new field '' {Hist. Boxford, p. 133). In 1702, Widow Stiles was admitted to full communion. —Boxford Records.
Children by First Marriage {all born at Rowley Village).
I. John, b. June (or Jan.) 30, 1661 ; m. Deliverance Towne, Family 2.
II. Elizabeth b. March 15, 1662 ; m. July 8, 1800, John (b. Aug. 7, 1657), son of Samuel and Sarah (Keies) Buswell of Boxford. John Buswell was a surveyor and fence-viewer at Boxford in 1689. In 1716 he was chosen grave-digger, the first one in Boxford. In 1703, he and his wife were dismissed from the church in Topstield to the one just formed in Boxford. He probably died not far from 1740. Children (born in Boxford, from Hist, of Boxford):
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ii. John b. 1703-4 ; d. Feb. 22, 1751, in his 48th year; m. Abigail Whipple, who d. in Boxford
Nov. 15, 1774, in her 5Sth year. Issue: (I) Ruth, b. 1746; m. David Butinan, a cooper, in 1778. She d. May, 1810. He d. 1816, ae. 68 years. Had: Joseph, Esther, Hitty John (2) John, b. Sept. 4, 1748, rem. to Rindge, N. H., when about 21 years of age. The farm on which he first settled at Rindge has remained in possession of his descendants, being now (1884) owned and occupied by his grandson, Thomas Buswell. He m. Rebecca (dau. of John Demary of Rindge, May 30, 1771. He was a prosperous farmer; d. at R., Feb. 26, 1828. His wife d. April 11, 1824. Children {Seefoot-note, p. 17):
iii. Sarah', b. April, 1707; m. Oct., 1731, James Curtis. Had: Sarah (Curtis), m. 1765, Ebenezer Ingalls of Andover; had Reuben (Ingalls), who m. Rebecca Wormstead of Marblehead; had: Reuben (Ingalls), who m. Elizabeth M. Emerson, of Bridgeton, Me.; had: Eliza J. (Ingalls),
who m. Josiah Burleigh; had: Charles (Burleigh), genealogist of the Burleigh and Guild families, etc.
III. Sarah, b. Jan. 31, 1 (torn off, prob. 1664); d. Feb. 7, 1664. She was an " umiac daughter."
IV. Abigail, b. Feb. 15, 1666; prob. mar. as 2d wife Zaccheus Curtis. See the following: "Dismissed from the church in Rowley, Jan. 15, 1710-11, Abigail Styles, now wife of Zaccheus
Curtis {Essex Inst. Hist. Colls., vol. xiv, p 150). Zacheus Curtis d. 1712.
V. Ebenezer, b. Feb. 20, 1669 ; m. Dorothy Dalton Family 2.
VI. Sarah b. Oct. 20, 1672 ; admitted to the ch. in Boxford, June 27, 1703.—Boxford Records.
VII. Robert Jr., b. Nov. 15, 1673; m. Ruth Bridges. Family 2.
VIII. Eunice. [The name of Eunice is not found in the list of Robert Stiles' children given by Dr. Stiles in the first edition of the Genealogy of the Massachusetts Family of Stiles; but Perley has her name on the list which he gives in his Hist, of Boxford'] She m. Robert Willis Dec. 15, 1- - -; Issue:
i. Sarah, b. Dec. 13, 1- - -; bapt. in Topsfield ch., April 30, 1694.
ii. Eobert^ b. Mch. 27, 16—; bapt. May 23, 1697. [Robert Willis of Boxford, perhaps this one was in service under Capt. Abiel Frye, from May 1, 1755, to Sept. 20, of the same year.]
—Hist, of Boxford.
IX. Timothy, b. Oct. 1, 1678; m. Hannah Foster. Family 2, child by second wife.
X. Samuel, b. May 21, 1682; m. Elizabeth Gary. Family 2.
(p. 13, The Stiles family in America : genealogies of the Massachusetts family, descendants of Robert Stiles of Rowley, Mass. 1659-1891, and the Dover, N. H., family, descendants of William Stiles of Dover, N. H. 1702-1891, by Guild, Mary A. Stiles Paul, 1830-; Stiles, Henry Reed 1892)

2529. Elizabeth Frye was born in 1637 in England. She died in 1678 in Boxford, Essex Co., MA. [Parents]

1. Daughter of John Frye.

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2764. Antonio Simone Pandolfi (Ragnotti) was born on 28 Oct 1666 in San Costanzo, Pesaro e Urbino, IT. He died on 14 Apr 1744 in San Costanzo, Pesaro e Urbino, IT. He married Antonia Forconi on 2 May 1688 in San Costanzo, Pesaro e Urbino, IT.

2765. Antonia Forconi was born on 27 May 1670 in San Costanzo, Pesaro e Urbino, IT. She died on 25 Dec 1732 in San Costanzo, Pesaro e Urbino, IT. [Parents]

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2766. Domenico Ciaschini was born on 20 Oct 1647 in San Costanzo, Pesaro e Urbino, IT. He died on 5 Feb 1721 in San Costanzo, Pesaro e Urbino, IT. He married Maria Zonghi on 27 Apr 1676 in San Costanzo, Pesaro e Urbino, IT. [Parents]

2767. Maria Zonghi was born in 1655. [Parents]

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3616. William Dyer is printed as #908.

3617. Mary Hatch Taylor is printed as #909.

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3618. Christopher Strout.

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3620. Giles Hopkins was born on 30 Jan 1608 in Hursley, Hampshire, Eng. He was christened on 30 Jan 1608 in Hursley, Hampshire, Eng. He died on 16 Apr 1689 in Eastham, Barnstable Co., MA. He married Catherine Whelden on 9 Oct 1639 in Plymouth, MA. [Parents]

Giles Hopkins: Mayflower passenger
"The names of those which came over first, in the year 1620, and were by the blessing of God the first beginners, and in a sort the foundation of all the Plantations and Colonies in New England; and their families..."Mr. Stephen Hopkins and Elizabeth his wife, and two children called Giles and Constanta, a daughter, both by a former wife. And two more by this wife called Damaris and Oceanus; the last was born at sea. and two servants called Edward Doty and Edward Lester."William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647, ed.Samuel Eliot Morison (New York:Knopf, 1991), p. 441-3.


Will of Giles Hopkins

DATED: 19 January 1682/3 at Eastham.
PROVED: 22 April 1690 at Eastham.
To all Christian people to whome these presents shall com know ye that I Giles Hopkins of Eastham being sick and weak of Body and yet of perfit memory do declare this as my Last will and Testament on this ninteenth day of January in ye year of our Lord 1682
I bequeath my Body to ye grave in decent burial when this Temporal Life of mine shall have an end and my soul to god that gave it in hopes of a blessed Resurection at ye Last day
2ly my will is that my son Stephen Hopkins shall possess and Injoy all my Upland and meadow Lying and being at Satuckit that is to say all my upland and meadow on ye southerly side of ye bounds of ye Towne of eastham that is to say all my Right and title Intrest and claime to all those Lands from ye head of Namescakit to ye southermost part of ye long pond where mannomoyet cart way goes over to Satuckit and from thence to ye head of manomoyet river and so as our Line shall run over to ye south sea all ye Lands between thos bounds and ye westermost bounds of ye purchesers at satuckit river all these Lands I give Unto my son Stephen Hopkins and to his heirs forever: and half my stock of cattill for and in consideration of ye above sd Land and half stock of cattel my will is that after my decease my son Stephen Hopkins shall take ye care and oversight and maintaine my son William Hopkins during his natural Life in a comfortable decent manner.
3ly my will is that all my Lands at Palmet both purchesed and unpurchesed both meadows and upland and all my Lands at Pochet and my third part of Samsons neck and what other Lands shall fall unto me as a purcheser from ye fore mentioned Bounds of my son Stephen Hopkinses Lands and potanomacot all these fore specified Lands I give unto my sons Caleb and Joshua Hopkins to be equaly devided between them: further my will is that if either of my sons Joshua or Caleb Hopkins dye having no Issew that then these Lands which I have given them to be equally devided between them fall to him that surviveth.
4ly. I give unto my wife Catorne Hopkins and to my son William Hopkins the improvment of too acres of meadow Lying at ye head of Rock Harbor during my wifes Life and ye one half of that too acres I give Unto my son william during his Life and after ye decease of and after ye decease of my wife and son william I do give this above sd too acres of meadow to my son Joshua Hopkins and his heirs forever: as also after my decease I give Unto my son Joshua Hopkins a parcel of meadow Lying at ye mouth of Rock Harbor according to ye bounds thereof specified in ye Towne Records of Lands: it I give unto my son Caleb Hopkins a parcel of meadow Lying at Little Nameskeket according to ye bounds thereof specified in ye Towne Book of Records of Lands.
It. I give unto my wife my now dwelling House and halfe my Land and halfe my orchard that is by my house: by Land I mean half my Land that is about my house both fenced and Unfenced during my wifes natural Life, and then ye above sd housing and Lands to fall unto my son Joshua Hopkins; the other half of my Land and orchard I give to my son Joshua Hopkins after my death that is to say ye other half of my Lands Liying about my house.
It. I give unto my son Caleb Hopkins one pair of plow Irons.
It. I give Unto my son Joshua Hopkins one payer of plow Irons.
It. I give Unto my son Joshua Hopkins my carte and wheels.
It. I give unto my wife ye other half of my stock and moveables I say to my wife and my son William or what parse of ye moveables my wife shall see cause to bestow on my son William Hopkins.
It. I do appoint my son Stephen Hopkins to be my true and Lawful executor of this my Last will and testament to pay what is payable and Receive what is due.
And to ye truth and verity hereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seal ye day and year above written.
Signed and sealed
in presence of us, ye mark of
Jonathan Sparrow.
Giles Hopkins (seal)
Samuel Knowles.
Jonathan Sparrow and Samuel Knowles witnesses to this will made oath in Court ye: 16 th: of April 1690 that they saw ye above sd Giles Hopkins signe seal and declare this to be his Last will and Testament.
Attest Joseph Lothrop. Clerk.
I ye above sd Giles Hopkins do declare where as by ye providence of God my Life has been prolonged unto me and by Reason of age and disabillity of Body Lam Incapatiated to provide for my owne support and my wifes, my will further is that my son Stephen Hopkins from this time and forward shall possess and Injoy all my stock and moveable estate provided he take effectual care for mine and my wifes Comfortable Support during our natural Lives witness my hand and seal this fifth day of march 1688/9.
Witness Mark Snow
Giles Hopkins (seal)
Jonath Sparrow
The within mentioned Mark Snow and Jonathan Sparrow made oath in Court April ye: 16 : 1690 that they saw Giles Hopkins within mentioned signe seal and declare ye latter part of this will within mentioned to be his Last will and Testament. Attest. Joseph Lothrop, Clerk.
Duly Compared with the original and entered April ye: 22 : 1690. Attest. Joseph Lothrop, Recorder.
(http://mayflowerhistory.com/will-of-giles-hopkins)

3621. Catherine Whelden was born in 1617 in England. She died on 15 Mar 1688 in Eastham, Barnstable Co., MA.

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3622. Thomas Williams.Thomas married Elizabeth Tart.

3623. Elizabeth Tart.

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3632. William Dyer was born on 19 Sep 1609. He died in 1672. He married Mary Barrett on 27 Oct 1633 in Westminster, London, ENG. [Parents]

3633. Mary Barrett was born in 1611. She died in 1660.

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3634. Edward Hutchinson.Edward married Catharine Hamby.

3635. Catharine Hamby.

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