Individual Notes

Note for: John WARNER, 9 SEP 1616 - 12 MAY 1692 Index

Burial:
     Date:   1692
     Place:   Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New England

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Note for: Ezekiel HOLLIMAN, BEF 1 JAN 1586/87 - 17 SEP 1659 Index

Baptism:
     Date:   1 JAN 1586/87
     Place:   Tring, Hartford, England

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Note for: Eleanor ENGLAND, BET 1643 AND 1644 - 2 FEB 1690/91 Index

Alias: Ellen /England/

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Note for: Stukely WESTCOTT, ABT 1592 - 12 JAN 1676/77 Index

Individual Note:
     (Taken from Rootsweb site of Kenneth Linwood Shaw, III (John Shaw's 10th Great Grandson)

    STUKELY WESTCOTT, 1592 - 1677, Planter and Colonizer, one of the 13 original proprietors of Providence Plantations and Colony of Rhode Island; of Salem, Mass., 1635, Providence, R.I., 1638, and Warwick, R.I., 1647.

       STUKELY WESTCOTT - FIRST GENERATION IN AMERICA
       Talk by Eleanor Wescott Trismen, read at the 15th Biennial Meeting in Vermont, 8th August 1964

       First, in retrospect: We, the members of this family Society, must remember with reverence that we shall be forever grateful to our late National Society Founder, Roscoe Leighton Whitman. He spent many long hours during his life in compiling the two Westcott Genealogies so that future cousins would be able to enjoy their contents. His efforts have made it so much easier for Westcott descendants to join Patriotic organizations.

       This year (1964) celebrates the 30th year since the National Society was founded by Mr. Whitman and a group of cousins at the Lexington Hotel in New York City in 1934.

       I shall begin by quoting from an address given by Mr. Whitman at the 4th biennial meeting at Alexandria Bay on August 9, 1941. "There are four out standing epochs or memorable periods in the history of the West-cott family, as they have been revealed by the ancient records."

       "First, the origin of the family in England exists undoubtedly with the Teutonic tribesmen - the Saxons, Angles and Jutes, all members of a Saxon confederation effected in the 4th century for mutual advancement and protection. They descended from a warlike people who first appear in the history of the Romans in the year 113 B.C."

       Hordes of these tribesmen, who were celebrated for naval prowess, passed over from what is now Jutland peninsula of Denmark to the island of Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries and completely subjugated the native Romans and over spread the south and southwest of the country. New detachments of the invaders followed with their chiefs. They founded eight kingdoms; among them was West Saxony or Wessex. About the year 827 they were united into one kingdom, called Anglia or England.

       Among these erstwhile tribesmen was probably a man whose bloodstain was to run through the veins of Westcott men and women for all time. This statement is predicated on the fact that the family name is derived from that of one of the eight kingdoms they founded - Wessex. This appears unquestionable. The name was originally spelled Wescote and Westcote - the first syllable Wes as in Wessex; the second syllable, cote, indicating a place of residence - cottage, house, or enclosure.

       As further verification of this nativity, history points out that the present shires of Devon and Somerset in southwest England comprise in part the old kingdom of Wessex or West Saxony. The first definite record of a person of the Wescote name is found in Devonshire in the 12th century; therefore these original bearers of the name had remained in the territory their ancestors had conquered six or seven centuries before Though secluded in the dim mystic past, records seem supportable of the beginning of the clan and the name appropriated to be known down through the generations. - - -

       "The second epoch embraces a period with definite and positive records to substantiate them. These records are found in the London Museum. It is a period of nearly a century which every Westcott descend-ant may recall with justifiable pride."

       From the years 1216 to 1307 - ninety-one years - John de Wescote and his son and namesake were Canons of the Church of England at the Cathedral of St. Peter's in Exeter, Devonshire. They were the son and grandson of Furbert de Wescote, who was born in Exeter in 1164. The father is the first of the Wescote name of whom definite information has been found. As there are no detailed records of the family prior to these great disciples of God and benefactors of humanity, members of the Westcott family today may be content to date the beginning of the family from them. Surely no more worthy founders of any family can be desired no greater inspiration to follow Christ's teachings. - - -

       "The third epoch finds Wescotes really battling to retain and perpetuate the family name. Thomas de Wescote about 1414 married Elizabeth Littleton, sole heir of an old, rich, aristocratic royal family of Frankly in Worcestershire. Thomas de Wescote is a Knight in his own right and so two distinguished, titled families are united. Before the marriage, Elizabeth Littleton exacted an agreement from Sir Thomas that their first son be baptized in her own family name. The first child of the union is a son and he is baptized Thomas de Littleton. The birth of other sons (Nicholas, Edmund, Guido) followed."

       Finally it became the desire of the mother that all their four sons should bear her family name. To this Guido furiously dissented. It appears that a family quarrel followed which was finally settled by the father deeding the old Manor estate to Guido. Guido's father, Thomas, removed with his wife Elizabeth to her ancestral estate at Frankly.

       "The old Manor estate was at what was known in the year 1300 and is still known in Devonshire as "Westcott". It may still be found on a map of that shire. The estate passed from the family ownership about the year 1500. Guido de Wescote became a Baron, married Alice Granville, and in the year 1450 was granted the Coat of Arms which is the cherished and deserved symbol of the Society of Stukely Westcott Descendants. This explains the meaning of the motto on the arms: "the name renewed". - - -

       "The fourth epoch was the coming of the family founder, Stukely Westcott, to America in June, 1635."

       Concerning the life of Stukely in America, I will continue. Stukely was born about 1592, probably near Ilchester, England. He married Juliana Marchant at the Baptist Church in Yeovil, England on Oct. 5, 1619, of which there is record. Note: In Mr. Whitman's first book, he recorded Stukely's wife as Rosanna Hill. Laura La Mance, the recorder, was the source of that data, with no proof. If Stukely did marry Rosanna, it was probably at a later date. There seems to be no record of that marriage. There is baptismal record of most of Stukely's and Juliana's children at Yeovil. Among Rhode Island Governor Arnold's papers was the following notation: "June 24, 1635 - arrived in Mass. Bay. Sailed from Dartmouth of Devon May 1, 1635, all but one of the party (Wm. Carpenter) coming from Winchester in southern Somerset or within five miles of that place. My Father, William Arnold, and his family "sett sayle" from England and arrived (Thurs.) June 24 1635. On board was Stukely Westcott, 43, of Yeovil and his wife, with children: Robert, Damaris, Samuel 13, Amos 4, Mercy, and Jeremiah."

       As yet we have no definite proof of the names of the parents of Stukely. In 1935 a Mr. Russell Westcott gave the following record to Mr. Whitman: "The parents of Stukely, Richard (Sr.), and Rebecca were Guy (nickname for Guido) Westcott and wife Mary Stukely, daughter of Sir Lewis and Margaret (Arscote) Stukely."

       Our Society did some research in England a few years ago, but found that early Devon and Somerset records are scarce. Because of religious strife, heavy tax burdens and controversies in England, many vital statistics were carelessly kept or lost, so it is difficult to trace various family lines. Our Society is thankful that it knows as much as it does about Stukely I and his whereabouts.

       Stukely's children all lived to maturity except Samuel, who must have died shortly after his arrival in Massachusetts. The rest of the children married and have living descendants.

       1. Damaris married the first Governor (B. Arnold) of R.I. (Royal Charter).
       2. Mercy married Samuel Stafford.
       3. Robert married Katherine (surname unknown). Robert was killed in King Philip's War in R.I. in 1675-6.
       4. Amos married (1) Sarah Stafford, (2) Deborah Stafford (sisters).
       5. Jeremiah married Eleanor England.

       On March 16, 1676, at the age of 84, Stukely was driven from his home in Warwick, R.I. by the Indians at the time of King Philip's War in R.I. He took refuge on a neighboring island, where he died the following January 12, 1677, at his grandson's home in Portsmouth, R.I. - - -

       Concerning Roger Williams, Founder of Providence
       In order to appreciate fully the interesting life of our Stukely Westcott, it is quite necessary to tell something of Roger Williams.

       Roger Williams was born in 1606, the son of William Williams. He lived in Conwyl Cayo, a parish near Lampeter in Wales. Roger's wife was Mary Barnard. Roger and Mary "sett Sayle" for America on their honeymoon, and they landed in Boston Harbor on February 5, 1631.

       In 1950 a Mr. Gilbert Rees published an interesting story about the life of Roger Williams. The book is called I SEEK A CITY. On the book cover it says: "It was the unquenchable fire of the religious zealot which enabled Roger Williams to carry out his beliefs in the face of some of the most maddening opposition ever placed in the path of a man with true faith in an ideal."

       In the cold gray dawn of a bitter morning in 1636, Roger had no choice but to flee the onslaught of the City Fathers of Boston, who were determined that his non-conformist tongue should be silenced. With a handful of followers he set out for he new not where, sustained by the faith that somewhere, somehow he would be enabled to build the City of his dreams; a City where men could live together in peace and harmony, give vent to their right of freedom of speech, religious belief, and general way of life.

       In referring to an account of Roger Williams by R. Elton, Roger Williams maintained that "the people were the origin of all free powers in government," but that they were "not invested by Jesus Christ with power to rule in his Church, that they could give no such power to the magistrate, and that to "introduce the civil sword" into the Kingdom of Christ was to confound heaven and earth, and "lay all upon heaps confusion." In other words, he advocated separation of Church and State, which, thank the good Lord, holds true today in our country.

       In referring to the DAR Magazine, an excerpt from an educational article by Mrs. Ralph W. Wilkine, State Regent of Rhode Island: "Roger Williams, called "Netop" by the Indians, founded Providence in 1636." The history and tradition of this great City still exert their influence, and its charm and spirit can be felt not only in its people but in its monuments and in its beloved streets and buildings.

       Providence started on a small Rock, which is now called "Roger Williams Rock" and is located in a small Park adjacent to a street bearing his name. When Williams came to R.I., he settled in what is now East Providence, but finding that the land was under Mass. jurisdiction, be took a canoe and paddled down the Seekonk River. An Indian is said to have been standing on a rock and called out a welcome to him: "What cheer Netop." Williams landed there. Later he settled near the site of a spring, which is now enclosed in a small Park on South Main Street. A Proprietor's Grant in 1721 reserved liberty for the inhabitants to fetch water at this spring forever.

       Roger Williams often presided at the first town House during the years 1644-1647, and a tablet marks the site.

       "For a hundred years after the founding of the town, the citizens established themselves and their families firmly at the headwaters of the Providence River and dedicated themselves to the task of building a free and prosperous community." - - -

       Concerning Stukely's life in Rhode Island
       Stukely Westcott, the Founder of one branch of the family in America, became a staunch follower of Roger Williams and his beliefs. Stuke-ly obtained a license from the General Court at Salem, Mass. on March 12, 1638, to remove with his family out of the jurisdiction of the Mass. Bay Colony. On August 8, 1638, Roger Williams "freely admitted twelve loving friends and neighbors" into equal ownership with himself in Rhode Island. Stukely's name headed that list.

       Through his friendship to the Indians, Roger Williams acquired great tracts of land. He distributed parcels of land to his faithful followers. Stukely was one of the colony's largest land owners, owning up to 20,000 acres in Rhode Island. Stukely was also a co-founder of the first Bap-tist Church in America, called "The First Baptist Church of Providence." He was several times chosen "assistant" (corresponding to our Lieutenant Governor) and frequently was elected deputy to the Colonial Assembly. Stukely was truly a leader among the sturdy pioneers of Providence.

       Based on old deeds of November 11, 1664, it is believed that Stukely Westcott's log cabin lot in Providence was located upon the present block bounded by Waterman St. and College St. on the south, and nearly in the center of that block extending from North Main St. eastwardly to Hope St. That location is not far from the old First Baptist Church.

       As we know, Stukely and his family later moved to old Warwick in 1647, some miles south of Providence, where he owned land. At Warwick our Society placed and dedicated a marker in 1935 to his honor. The marker is located on a large boulder at the edge of his lot.

       On May 12, 1682, Stukely sold his house, orchard, and lot in Providence to Samuel and Anna Bennett, whose granddaughter Priscilla was later to become the wife of Stukely's grandson Stukely.

       Concerning Stukely's character, I will sum up with the following: Stukely Westcott must have been a man of courage and a man dedicated to his convictions of right and wrong. Because of religious strife and heavy tax burdens, he left his homeland to try a new life in the wilderness of America. Just remember it took him and his family two months to cross the Atlantic Ocean. And because he believed in separation of Church and State, he had the courage to leave Salem, Mass. to find a new life in the wilds of Rhode Island, following his beloved friend, Roger Williams. Stukely was a religious man and helped to found the First Baptist Church in America, at Providence. He was a leader among his fellow men, having held various posts in the early history of the Colony. He was a home-loving person, raising five children to maturity. And he must have been a fearless man, living a long life of 84 years enduring the hardships of cold winters, disease, and Indian raids. - - -

       I will conclude my address with the following poem, written by Miss Alice Wilson of Seal Beach, California:

       "Roll back the curtains of the years And let your eyes behold The distant times, the ancient ways, The sturdy men of old. Across the stormy deep they came, The forest wilds they trod, To find a home for Liberty, A Temple for their God." - - -

Individual Notes

Note for: Augustine FISH, 11 JUN 1578 - 29 APR 1646 Index

Baptism:
     Date:   11 JUN 1578

Individual Note:
     From Lester Fish book:
2 AUGUSTINE2 (AUSTIN) FISH (John1) church warder, eldest
son of (1) John and Margaret (Cardock?) Fyshe, was bapt. June
11, 1578. (From 1577 to 1580 Sir Francis Drake was circum-
navigating the globe and plundering Spanish ships on his voyage.)
Austin continued to live in Great Bowden as indeed did all the
male line of his descendants for many generations. In 1620 he
was a church warder. He m. Christian _______. (There is no record
at Great Bowden of their marriage but their children were
baptized there.) He d. Apr. 29, 1646. In his will he mentions
his son William, to whom he gave 5 pounds if he should return to his
home land. William was in Windsor, Conn. in 1642.

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Note for: William FISH, ABT 9 MAR 1580/81 - 13 SEP 1658 Index

Baptism:
Date: 9 MAR 1580/81

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Note for: John Fish, ABT 15 JUN 1740 - AFT 1830 Index

Individual Note:
Vital Records of Sandwich -Kardell and Lovell Pub 1996 NEHGS pg 123 makes note that some pages are missing from the original Sandwich Vitals- Explains why its hard to find info for this John or his children. states next to his name [see orig. pg 3 book 3 for family] need to chase that down

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Note for: Nancy H. Fisher, 8 AUG 1838 - 4 SEP 1868 Index

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Her marriage record says Dorchester is her place of birth, her death record says Sandwich.

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Note for: Jonathan Fish, 8 MAY 1720 - Index

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From History of Scituate Mass:
Was the first of this name in town: he came from Sandwich.
His residence was near the training field, one mile south of the harbor.

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Note for: John Tobey, ABT 1654 - 26 DEC 1738 Index

Individual Note:
From "Certain Comeoverers" by H. H. Crapo: "....born (probably) about
1660, since in 1681 he was enrolled as a townsman capable of voting.
There are few records of his life. ... In his will dated in 1733 he left the
personal property which he gave to his wife for her life to be equally
divided between his two daughters Mary Clark and Reliance Ewer."
From "Tobey Genealogy": "... was enrolled as one of 'the townsmen to
vote for officers' 27 June 1681. Chosen to see to the due observance of
the law relating to horses 22 Mar 1683-4." The full text of his will is
given in this account: "In the Name of God Amen I John Tobey Sen'r of
Sandwich in the County of Barnstable in the Province of ye
Massachusetts Bay in New England do make and Ordain this my last wil
and Testament and in the first place I Give my Soul to God Humbly
Intreating Pardon and Acceptance Through the merits of Jesus Christ and
as to my worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to favour me that
Remains undisposed of my Just debts and funeral charges being first
Satisfied and Paid I Dispose of in manner folowing.
"Imprimis I Give to my Beloved wife Jane if she survive me the use of
all my Personal Estate or movables that shall not be Disposed of
hereafter in this my will During her widowhood or Natural life. Item, I
Give to my son Thomas all my Cloaths or wearing Apparell. Item, I Give
to my son John five shillings. Item, I Give to my son Eleazer five
shillings. Item I Give to my Son in Law Richard Garret five shillings.
Item, My will is that as to the Residue of my estate that shall Remain
after my wives Decease that it be Equally Divided between my two
daughters Mary Clark and Reliance Ewer or their heirs that they share &
Share allike in all the said moveable or Personal Estate. Finally I Hereby
nominate and appoint my son John and my Son in law Thomas Ewer the
Esec'rs of this my last will and Testament in witness whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and seal this ninth Day of Juy 1733 in the seventh
year of his Majesties Reign. Signed Sealed and Published as the Last
will and Testament of the said John Tobey in Presence of us JOHN X (his
mark) Tobey [Seal]. Witnesses: Benjamin Fessenden, Ebenezer Perry,
Rebecca Fessenden. Proved Feb 1738.

Individual Notes

Note for: Thomas Tobey, ABT 1625 - 19 JAN 1713/14 Index

Individual Note:
From "Certain Comeoverers" by H. H. Crapo: "Thomas Tobey first appears in a record under date of 7 June 1644 by which it appears that he subscribed seven shillings for repairing the meetinghouse at
Sandwich." ("Tobey Genealogy" says this is quoted by Freeman in his "History of Cape Cod." It also says "the town records of Sandwich are much mutilated at the beginning, and this entry does not now appear; but it was undoubtedly read by Mr. Freeman before the book had lost so many of its early pages.") "He was not one of the original purchasers of Sandwich, although it seems probable that he was one of the considerable number of people of Saugus (Lynn) who settled Sandwich in 1637-1638. On 18 Nov 1650 he married Martha Knott, a daughter of George Knott, who was one of the original ten purchasers...."
"Soon after the settlement of Plymouth the advantages of the region between Manomet and Nauset for hunting and fishing became apparent. Edward Winslow describes this region in his Relation 'A voyage made by ten of our men to the Kingdome of Nauset to Seek a Boy.' This voyage was in Aug 1621. The Boy was John Billington. As early as 1627 Captain Myles Standish went from Plymouth in a boat up the Scusset River and near what is now called Bournedale met M. De Razier, the Secretary of the Dutch settlement at Manhattan who had come thence through Buzzard's Bay and up the Monument River. They exchanged goods and supplies and thereafter for a few years a trading route was established
between the two Colonies. It would be interesting to know whether the idea of connecting the streams by a canal occurred to Captain Standish. It has taken nearly three hundred years to accomplish that undertaking, but now (1912) it seems probable that soon vessels of very much greater burden than Standish's shallop will be passing through a waterway by the same course he exploited in 1627.
The immigration from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony between 1634 and 1636 was so great that Governor Winthrop was quite unable to take care of the people and provide them with homes and the protection of government. In his distress he wrote to his good friend Governor Bradford, asking whether the government at Plymouth, which was well established, but to which no considerable number of immigrants had come, would not relieve him by permitting a number of men who were in
Saugus to take up their abode in the Plymouth Colony. Wherefore on 3 Apr 1637 it was determined by the Plymouth Court that 'ten men of Saugus should have liberty to view a place and sit down and have
sufficient lands for threescore families upon the conditions propounded to them by the Governor and Major Winslow.' The place selected was the present village of Sandwich on the Scusset River, and within a short time a considerable number of settlers were there established. In 1639 the settlement was created a town, the fourth in the Colony, by the name of Sandwich.
The Quaker troubles in Sandwich began in 1657 and for four or five years the little town was in a turmoil. Thomas Tobey is distinguished in that he was not corrupted by Quakerism. In 1658 the town paid him four shillings for 'having the strangers to Plymouth' which is to say that he, acting as constable, to which office he had that year been elected, escorted some traveling Quakers, under arrest, to the Court at Plymouth to be dealt with as heretics. His mother in law, Martha Knott, however, was of those who shared the persecutions, and perhaps his wife may have had some leanings towards the doctrines. Thomas Tobey, however, was faithful to the ordained church and his name appears on the oldest page of the church records now in existence as one of the twenty members when Mr. Cotton was ordained in 1694.
Thomas Tobey served in various public capacities. In 1652 he was appointed on a committee to take care of all the fish taken by the Indians and sell them for the benefit of the town and to oversee the
cutting up of the whales driven ashore on the flats. In 1657 he took oath of fidelity. He served on many occasions as a 'rater', as surveyor of highways, pound keeper, boundary commissioner, excise officer, member of the grand inquest, and other public employments. At the time of King Philip's War in 1676 he was of the council of war to 'hire men to goe out upon scout for the town,' furnishing them with ammunition.
In his will, which is dated in 1710, he describes himself as aged and weak of body. It is possible that he may have been born on this side of the ocean, but it is more probable that he crossed as a child with his
parents in the thirties. There was a Francis Tobey in Massachusetts Bay Colony, perhaps at Naunqueag or Saugus, in 1634. It may be that he was the father of Thomas, although I have no evidence that such is the fact.
His wife Martha died (probably) before 1689 and soon after he married Hannah, the widow of Ambrose Fish. He died (probably) in 1714, in which year his will was proved. He left eight sons and three daughters. His wil is a lengthy document in which he disposes of a considerable estate. To his 'loving son John Tobey' he devised 'that lott of upland which I formerly gave to him lying near ye now dwelling house of Joseph Foster of Sandwich.'"

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Note for: George Knott, ABT 1602 - ABT 3 MAY 1648 Index

Burial:
Date: 3 MAY 1648

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Note for: Martha Unknown, ABT 1606 - 1673 Index

Individual Note:
See notes for her husband. "Tobey Genealogy" says she lived in Sandwich some years, as records show; her life was not free from trials, for she was one of those persons who, having attended religious services
away from the regular place of worship (Quakers or Baptists), were brought before the court for 'non-attendance,' a fiction which persecutors in Europe had long practised and from whcih Puritans did not
at first cut loose. Samuel Knott, a brother of Mrs. Tobey, survived his brother-in-law, and was remembered in his will.
LDS proxy baptism and endowment are from the FGRA sheet.

Will proved 5 Mar 1673/1674

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Note for: Francis Tobey, ABT 1595 - Index

Individual Note:
Cannot find any sources for this- seems to be the predominant name for Thomas' father on rootsweb, Oneworld tree etc but sources are cited as other peoples GED or LDS.