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Note for: Samuel Dyer, 10 OCT 1635 - 1678
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1661, Mar.22 He signed certain articles relative to Misquamicut (Westerly) lands.
1669, May 21 Conservator of the Peace, Kingstown.
1671, May 20 He took oath of allegiance to Rhode Island.
1676 His wife had a legacy of lands in Narragansettt from will of her father.
1680 Estate of Samuel Dyer taxed 15s 6d.
1687, Oct.18 His widow, now wife of Daniel Vernon, confirmed a deed of her son Samuel Dyer.
1717, Jan.1 Will - proved 1717. Widow Ann Vernon, of Newport. Ex. son Samuel Vernon. To son Samuel Dyer 5s. To sons Elisha, Henry and Barrett Dyer L30 each. To son Samuel Vernon L45. To daughter Catherine Vernon L65. To sons Henry and Barrett Dyer and Samuel Vernon, all rents due me from Edward Dyer of Kings Town, being due from 1710, Nov 20 at L6 per annum, and all hereafter found due which should have been for my yearly support and maintenance. [Gen. Dict. of RI]
In his paragraph about Samuel, Marston Watson confuses Samuel with his father, and talks about his wife's execution at the hands of the Puritans. This is clearly untrue about Anne Hutchinson but applies to Samuel Dyer's mother, Mary Barrett.
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Note for: Anne Hutchinson, 18 NOV 1643 - 10 JAN 1715/16
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She was the grandaughter of Anne (Marbury) Hutchinson who was banished from Boston for her religious activities.
Buried in Newport, RI, with second husband.
will proved 1717 in Vernon lot with husband Daniel, dau Anne Clark, s Edward Vernon
Will dated 1 Jan 1717. Proved 1717. Widow Ann Vernon, of Newport. Executor,
son Samuel Vernon. To son Samuel Dyer 5s. To sons Elisha, Henry, and Barett
Dyer L30 each. To son Samuel Vernon L45. To daughter Catherine Vernon L65. To
sons Henry and Barett Dyer and Samuel Vernon, all rents due me from Edward
Dyer of Kings Town, being due from 1710, Nov 20 at L6 per annum, and all
hereafter found due which should have been for my yearly support and
maintenance.
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Note for: Edward Hutchinson, BEF 28 MAY 1613 - 19 AUG 1675
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Individual Note: Baptism date is from the parish register.
EDWARD HUTCHINSON, son of William Hutchinson and Ann Marbury, was born in Eng. about 1613. He came to Boston with the Rev. John Cotton in 1633, was admitted to the church Aug. 10th and made freeman Sept. 3, 1634. He joined the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co. in 1638 and was chosen its Captain in 1657. He was elected as representative to the General Court in 1658 and served as Captain of cavalry in the war against King Philip, in which he was wounded in a treacherous assault made by the Indians near Brookfield while he was marching to a peaceful meeting, Aug. 2, 1675. He died on his way home at Marlboro Aug. 19, 1675 aged 62. He was one of the first settlers of Newport in 1638, but had returned to Boston and "deserves honor for his firmness in opposing cruelty to the Quakers."
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He was married about 1636 to Catherine Hamby, dau. of a lawyer of Ipswich, Eng. She was admitted to the church Feby. 10, 1639 and died about 1650. He married second Abigail, dau. of widow Alice Vermaies of Salem and widow of Robert Britton. She survived him and died Aug. 10, 1689.
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Note for: Katherine Hamby, BEF 19 OCT 1615 - 1651
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Individual Note: Katherine Hamby's lineage is found in Suffolk and Lincolnshire, England and can be traced back to English royalty. See "The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants" by Gary Boyd Roberts, page 394.
In his updated version, "The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants," the line is on page 433.
There were other children who did not leave descendants.
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Note for: William Dyer, BEF 19 SEP 1609 - BEF 24 OCT 1677
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Individual Note: Feb.20,1686/7, his son, William(2) mentions his deceased father in his will.
NEHGR, Vol 151, pages 408-416 "Walter Blackborne, London Milliner" by Johan Winsser; says (in part): About Midsummer's Day (June 24) 1624 Blackborne contracted fouteen year old William Dyer as an apprentice. Dyer, the son of an affluent Lincolnshire yeoman, was the future husband of Mary (Barrett) Dyer, the Quaker martyr. How the Dyer family came to select Blackborne is not certain, but it may have been through the Hutchinsons of Alford, Lincolnshire, or through the Carres of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, both families with known long standing associations with the Dyers and with close relatives in London. It may also be that the Dyers of Lincolnshire knew of Blackborne through one or more of the many Dyer families living in London, to whom they may have been related. In any case, William Dyer must have labored on a trial basis for the first year, because it was not until 20 August 1625 that his nine year indenture was enrolled with the Fishmongers, and it was made retroactive to the previous summer. In assuming responsibility for an apprentice, Blackborne obligated himself to serve as a surrogate father, teaching young Dyer his trade, providing him with bed, food, clothing, and behavioral supervision, and maintaining him in the religious life of the parish. In return, Dyer agreed to serve his master faithfully for the set term of years, to forgo marriage during his apprenticeship, to keep his master's secrets, and to adhere to strict behavorial standards both in his master's house and abroad in the town.
On 10 February 1632, William Dyer signed a lease to rent "The Globe" in the New Exchange, formerly occupied by Blackborne, for a term of two and a quarter years.
About a year later 1632/33 William Dyer also assumed the lease for Blackborne's tenement on Mr. Greene's Lane.
By the autumn of 1635 William Dyer had set sail for Boston and soon was prospering in his new home. He was one of fourteen owners of a wharf in Boston.
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[The Weaver Genealogy, Page 56,57
"William Coddington, who had been a crown magistrate at Salem, was chosen Governor of the Rhode Island colony. Thus, two flourishing settlements were planted, each having its own government. Absolute liberty of conscience prevailed, and the persecuted flocked thither from the other colonies. These people were so-called non-conformists and were Quakers, and they formed a plantation which, with Providence and Newport, obtained from England in March 1644, a charter under the title of 'The Incorporation of Providence Plantations in the Narragansett Bay in New England.'" Coddington and his party drew up and signed the following agreement: THE COMPACT "We, whose names are underwritten, do swear solemnly, in the presence of Jehovah, to incorporate ourselves into a body politic, and as He shall help us, will submit our persons, lives and estates, unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Hosts and to His Holy Word of Truth, to be guided and judged thereby. Exod. XXIV. 3; 2 Kings XI, 17."
William Coddington
John Clark
William Dyer
William Freeborn
John Walker
Samuel Wilbur
Richard Garder
William Baulston
Edward Hutchinson
William Hutchinson
Henry Bull
John Coggeshall
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The 20th Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Vol. 3, p.366
Captain William and Mary Dyre, who came from England to Boston, Mass., and joined the First church there in December, 1635. Captain Dyre was disfranchised for "seditious writing" Nov. 15, 1637, removed to Rhode Island, and was one of the signers of the compact of government for that province, March 7, 1638. He was secretary the same year, general recorder, 1648; attorney-general, 1650-53; member of the general court, 1661-62, 1664-66; general solicitor, 1665-66, and 1668, and secretary to the council, 1669. He was commissioned commander-in-chief upon the sea in 1653, and headed an expedition fitted out in Rhode Island against the Dutch. His wife, Mary Dyre, was the only woman to suffer capital punishment in all the oppression of the Friends the world over. She accompanied her husband on his mission to England with Roger Williams and Dr. John Clarke to obtain the revocation of Governor Coddington's power in Rhode Island and while there became a convert to Quakerism and a preacher in the society. On arriving in Boston in 1657 she was imprisoned and on the petition of her husband was permitted to go with him to Rhode Island, but never to return to Massachusetts. She returned, however, and with William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson was tried and convicted for "their rebellion, sedition and presumptuous obtruding upon us notwithstanding their being sentenced to banishment on payne of death, as underminers of the government." Robinson and Stevenson were executed, but through the petition of her son, Mayor William Dyre, she was reprieved on the same conditions as before, but in May, 1660, again appeared on the public streets of Boston, and was brought before the court, May 31, and condemned to death. She was executed June 1, 1660.
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From The Great Migration: 1634 - 1635
William emigrated in 1635, living first in Boston, moving to Portsmouth in 1638 and Newport in 1639. He traveled back to England in 1651, returning in 1653.
His occupation was milliner.
He was baptized in Kirkby Laythorpe, Lincolnshire, England on September 19, 1609. His father was William Dyer.
The following comes from The Great Migration: 1634 - 1635, volume II, C-F, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001
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Note for: Mary Barrett, ABT 1610 - 1 JUN 1660
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Individual Note: Excommunicated and banished in their turn, the Dyers followed Anne Hutchinson to Rhode Island where William became one of the founders of Portsmouth. On 7 March 1638 he was one of the eighteen who signed the companct and he was elected Clerk. The Dyers ultimately settled in Newport where by 19 March 1640 William had acquired 87 acres of land. He served as Secretary for the towns of Portsmouth and Newport from 1640-47; General Recorder 1647; Attorney General 1650-1653.
In 1652 William and Mary Dyer accompanied Roger Williams and John Clarke on a political mission to England. Mary remained for five years, becoming a follower of George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends, whose doctrine of the Inner Light was not unlike Mrs. Hutchinson's "Antinomianism."
Mary's return to New England in 1657 was ill-timed. John Endicott had succeeded John Winthrop as Governor in 1649 and he was far more intolerant of religious dissention. He feared that if he permitted the Quakers to express their views in Massachusetts Bay Colony, the whole structure of the Church-State partnership might collapse.
Mary Fisher and Ann Austin were the first Quakers to arrive in Boston. No sooner did they disembark than they were led to the Boston jail for three weeks before being sent back to England. On August 9, 1656, the port authorities were alerted to search the Speedwell as it entered Boston Harbor before anyone landed. The passenger list had "Q's" beside the names of four men and four women, and Endicott ordered these eight brought directly to Boston court. Christopher Holder and John Copeland led the group and they dumbfounded Endicott and the local ministers with their familiarity with the Bible. More irritating to Endicott was Christopher Holder's knowledge of the law. When they were marched off to jail, Holder and Copeland made immediate demands for their release, stating that there was no law that justified their imprisonment.
Governor Endicott knew this was true. There was nothing in the Massachusetts Bay Colony Charter which permitted the imprisonment of anyone merely on grounds of their religious beliefs, and so he devised a tactic to get rid of the Quakers. The Massachusetts General Court met in mid-October of 1656 and 1657 and succeeded in passing several laws against "the cursed sect of heretics ... commonly called Quakers" which permitted banishing, whipping, and using corporal punishment (cutting off ears, boring holes in tongues). On October 14, 1656 the Court ordered:
That what master or commander of any ship, barke, pinnace, catch, or any other vessel that shall henceforth bring into any harbor, creeks, or cove without jurisdiction any known Quaker or Quakers, or any other blasphemous heretics shall pay ... the fine of 100 pounds ... [and] they must be brought back from where they came or go to prison.
After trying to cover all the loopholes in any possible entry to Boston, the Court addressed what it would do with anyone who persisted successfully. It was decided that such a person should go to the House of Correction and be severly whipped, kept constantly at work, and not allowed to speak to anyone. They set up certain fines: 54 pounds for having any Quaker books or writing "concerning their devilish opinions," 40 pounds for defending any Quaker of their books, 44 pounds for a second offence, and the "House of Corection for a third offence ... until there be a convenient passage for them to be sent out of this land." These laws were read on the street corners of Boston with the beat of drums for emphasis.
Christopher Holder and John Copeland sat in their cells where they could hear the rattling of the drums and realized they were going to have to leave on the next available ship departing for England.
Mary Dyer and Anne Burden, unaware of the new laws, arrived on the third ship and were at once arrested. Despite their protests, they were kept in jail incommunicado in darkened cells with boarded up windows.. Mary's books and Quaker papers were confiscated and burned. Mary finally was able to slip a letter out through a crack to someone outside the jail, but it took a long time to reach William Dyer in Newport.
Two and a half months later, Governor Endicott was startled when William Dyer barged into his home, demanding that his wife should be freed immediately. While Endicott knew that William had been disenfranchised by Boston, he was still highly respected by the Boston authorities for his prominent position in Rhode Island. They would have to free Mary Dyer because of William's prestige, but only on a condition. William was put under a heavy bond and made to "give his honor" that if his wife was allowed to return home, he was "not to lodge her in any town of the colony nor to permit any to have speech with her on the journey." Under no condition should Mary ever return to Massachusetts.
How galling for Mary to be silenced like a misbehaving child as she returned to her home Back in Rhode Island, Mary became a prominent Quaker minister, traveling over the new country. Preaching "inner light," Mary rejected oaths of any kind, taught that sex was no determinant for gifts of prophecy, and contended that women and men stood on equal ground in church worship and organization. In 1658 she was expelled from New Haven for preaching.
Ultimately, Mary returned to Massachusetts once too often, and on June 1, 1660 she was hanged in Boston.
Despite all the frantic attempts of the Boston magistrates to rid themselves of the challenging Quakers, they failed. Mary's death came gradually to be considered a martyrdom even in Massachusetts, where it hastened the easing of anti-Quaker statutes. In 1959 by authority of the Massachusetts General Court, which had condemned her nearly 300 years before, a bronze statue was erected in her memory on the grounds of the State House in Boston. A statue of her friend, Anne Hutchinson, stands in front at the other wing. The words of my 10th great grandmother, Mary Barrett Dyer, written from her cell of the Boston jail are engraved beneath:
My Life not Availeth Me
In Comparison to the
Liberty of the Truth
Individual Notes
Note for: William Hutchinson, 14 AUG 1586 - 1642
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Name Note: Source: Marston Watson, Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Vol. Two, Reverend Francis Marbury and Five Generations of His Descendants Through Anne (Marbury) Hutchinson and Katherine (Marbury) Scott. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 2004).
Individual Note:
William Hutchinson and his family first arrived in Boston on September 18, 1634 aboard the ship, Griffin. Passenger list included the following names:
WILLIAM HUTCHINSON of Alford, county Lincoln (settled in) Boston
Mrs. Anne Hutchinson
Edward Hutchinson
Faith Hutchinson
Bridget Hutchinson
William Hutchinson
Samuel Hutchinson
Anne Hutchinson
Mary Hutchinson
Susanna Hutchinson
William died in Aquidneck, RI in 1642; he was 55. Occupation: Sheep Farmer, Textile Merchant. Religion: Puritan
Individual Notes
Note for: Anne Marbury, BEF 20 JUL 1591 - 20 SEP 1643
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Anne Marbury was an ancestor of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
TEXT COMPILED BY SAM BEHLING
Anne MARBURY... was the daughter of Reverend Francis MARBURY and Bridget DRYDEN, and was born in 1591 in Alford, Lincolnshire, England. She married William HUTCHINSON, a merchant, 9 Aug 1612 in London. She and her husband came to America in 1634 with Reverend John Lothrop's group on the ship "Griffin" and settled in Boston.
No stranger to religion, Anne grew up during the persecution of the Catholics and Separatists under Elizabeth and James I. Her father, Rev. Francis Marbury, had been imprisoned twice for preaching against the incompetence of English ministers, though he later became the rector of St. Martin's Vintry, London, rector of St. Pancras, Soper Lane, and finally rector of St. Margaret's, New Fish Street. He was holding two of these offices simultaneously when he died in 1611.
Anne began her involvment with religion quite innocently, using her intelligence to interpret the only book available to her - the Bible. She had followed her beloved minister, Reverend John Cotton, whose removal to New England a year earlier had been "a great trouble to me...I could not be at rest but I must come hither."
The religious climate in the Massachusetts Bay Colony was oppressive. As the colony took hold, ministers emphasized everyone's pious duty to pray, fast and discipline oneself. Noting that the male members of Boston's church met regularly after sermons to discuss the Bible, she started to hold similar meetings for women in her own home. At first the women discussed the previous Sunday's sermons, but before long Anne began telling them of her own beliefs which differed from those of the Boston ministers. She attracted hundreds of women - aided by her reputation as a skilled midwife - and men, too, soon joined her discussion group.
Brilliant, articulate and learned in the Bible and theology, she denied that conformity with the religious laws were a sign of godliness and inisted that true godliness came from inner experience of the Holy Spirit. Anne further exacerbated the local elders by claiming that only two Boston ministers were "elect" or saved, John Cotton and her brother-in-law, John Wheelwright.
Anne's weekly meetings took on a new importance. As many as eighty people filled her house, including "some of the magistrates, some gentlemen, some scholars and men of learning." Among them was Sir Henry Vane, who became governor of the colony in 1636. When Anne, with the aid of Governor Vane and John Cotton, attemped to have her brother-in-law, John Wheelwright installed as minister of the Boston chuch, most of the congregation supported her. But the pastor of the church, Reverend John Wilson, gave a speech on the "inevitable dangers of separation" caused by the religious dissensions, and joined with John Winthrop in opposing her.
What started as a religious point of difference grew into a schism that threatened the political stability of the colony. To her opponents, questioning the church meant questioning the State. Anne's ideas were branded as the heresy of "Antinomianism" (a belief that Christians are not bound by moral law), and her followers became known as "Antinomians". Intended to be derogatory, the term was erroneously applied to Anne's followers, who did not believe that the inner Holy Spirit released them from obligation to moral law.
The colonial government moved to discipline her and her numerous followers in Boston. In May 1637, Vane lost the governorship to John Winthrop. To prevent new Antinomians from settling, he imposed a restriction on immigrants, among them Anne's brother and several of her friends. In August, eighty-two "heresies" committed by the Antinomians were read at a synod, and a ban was placed on all private meetings.
But Wheelwright continued to preach and Anne now held her meetings twice a week. In November, Winthop and his supporters filed charges against Anne and Wheelwright, who were then put on trial for heresy before a meeting of the General Court. Intending to prove that Anne's behavior was immoral, Winthrop described her meetings as "a thing not tolerable nor comely in the sight of God, nor fitting for your sex," and accused her of breaking the Fifth Commandment by not honoring her father and mother (in this case, the magistrates of the colony). At this trial, she parried all questions so well that Edmund S. Morgan, a biographer of Gov. John Winthrop, was led to comment that Anne Hutchinson was the governor's "intellectual superior in everything except political judgment; in everything except the sense of what was possible in this world." Answering deftly, Anne came close to clearing herself of all charges. But suddenly, she mentioned that she had had several revelations. The Lord revealed himself to her, she said, "upon a Throne of Justice, and all the world appearing before him, and though I must come to New England, yet I must not fear nor be dismaied," she said. "Therefore, take heed. For I know that for this that you goe about to doe unto me," she threatened, "God will ruin you and your posterity, and this whole State." Winthop immediately replied, "I am persuaded that the revelation she brings forth is delusion." The court voted to banish her from the colony, "as being a woman not fit for our society".
Wheelwright was exiled and shortly left for New Hamphire while Anne was put under house arrest for the winter to await a church trial in the spring. On March 15, 1638, Anne was brought to trial before the elders of the church of Boston. When her sons and sons-in-law tried to speak on her behalf, John Cotton cautioned them against "hindering" the work of God in healing her soul. To the women of the congretation he said to be careful in listening to her, "for you see she is but a woman and many unsound and dayngerous Principles are held by her."
Once her friend, Cotton now turned full force against her, attacking her meetings as a "promiscuous and filthie coming together of men and women without Distinction of Relation of Marriage," and accused her of believing in free love. "Your opinions frett like a Gangrene and spread like a Leprosie, and will eate out the very Bowells of Religion."
Then Reverend Wilson, whom she had once tried to evict from the Boston church, delivered her excommunication. "I doe cast you out and in the name of Christ I doe deliver you up to Satan, that you may learne no more to blaspheme, to seduce, and to lye."
"The Lord judgeth not as man judgeth," she retored. "Better to be cast out of the church than to deny Christ."
Banished from Boston, Anne Hutchinson with her husband, children and 60 followers settled in the land of Narragansetts, from whose chief, Miantonomah, they purchased the island of Aquidneck (Peaceable Island), now part of Rhode Island. In March, 1638 they founded the town of Pocasset, the Indian name for that locality; the name "Portsmouth" was given to the settlement in 1639. Here they established that colony's first civil government.
After William's death in 1642, Anne took her children, except for five of the eldest, to the Dutch colony in New York. But a few months later, fifteen Dutchmen were killed in a battle between Mohegans and the Narragansetts. In August, 1643 the Mohegans raided the Hutchinson house and slaughtered Anne and five of her youngest children. Only one young daughter who was present, Susanna who was taken captive, survived. (Note: Many older sources insist that ALL of Anne's children except her daughter, Susanna were killed with her. This is simply not true. Sons Edward, Richard and Samuel were not present, nor were her eldest daughters, Faith and Bridget, most of whom left numerous descendants.)
The site of Anne's house and the scene of her murder is in what is now Pelham Bay Park, within the limits of New York City, less than a dozen miles from the City Hall. Not far from it, beside the road, is a large glacial boulder, popularly called Split Rock from its division into two parts, probably by the action of frost aided by the growth of a large tree, the stump of which separates the parts. The line of vision of one looking through the split towards Hutchinson River at the foot of the hill will very nearly cross the site of the house. In 1911 a bronze tablet to the memory of Mrs. Hutchinson was placed on Split Rock by the Society of Colonial Dames of the State of New York, who recognized that the resting place of this most noted woman of her time was well worthy of such a memorial. The tablet bears the following inscription:
ANNE HUTCHINSON
Banished From the Massachusetts Bay Colony
In 1638
Because of Her Devotion to Religious Liberty
This Courageous Woman
Sought Freedom From Persecution
In New Netherland
Near This Rock in 1643 She and Her Household
Were Massacred by Indians
This Table is placed here by the
Colonial Dames of the State of New York
Anno Domini MCMXI
Virtutes Majorum Fillae Conservant
Some twentieth century observers credit Anne Hutchinson with being the first American woman to lead the public fight for religious diversity and female quality. In his 1971 biography, Eleanor and Franklin, Joseph P. Lash reported that Eleanor Roosevelt began her list of America's greatest women with Anne Hutchinson. Anne did indeed use her considerable influence as a woman to test the Massachusetts Bay Colony's religious tolerance which, ironically, had been the reason for the settlement.
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Note for: Francis Marbury, BEF 27 OCT 1555 - ABT 1610
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Individual Note: Occupation: English Clergyman
Bridget Dryden, who would marry Francis Marbury, was the daughter of a large estate owner in central England. Many in her family were Puritans, and at least one relative had been imprisoned in the Tower of London for suggesting religious reforms. About 1571, a young Anglican minister, Francis Marbury, began to teach and preach at the church in Northampton near the Dryden estate. Although Marbury had been educated at Cambridge University, he soon found that many of the Anglican ministers were not well educated but appointed to their positions by the ruling bishops for political reasons. The young minister so openly opposed this lack of an educated clergy that in 1578 he was arrested and sent to jail. After he was released, Marbury, now a widower, chose to move from Northampton. He married Bridget Dryden and settled in Alford. There Marbury supported his growing family by preaching and teaching at St. Wilfred's Church.
Anne Hutchinson was born in July 1591. At the time, her father was again in trouble over his quarrels with the Anglican leaders. They accused him of being a Puritan and, even though he won his trial, he was forbidden to preach again for several years. This was a benefit for Anne, for now her father could spend his time tending the fields near their home and teaching his young daughter. Anne learned to read through the Bible and an account of her father's first trial, which he had published.
Finally, the need to earn a living convinced Marbury to give up trying to reform the church. He applied for a position at a church in London and the Marbury family moved to this city of 325,000 people. There, after several successful appointments in the church, Marbury died in 1611, leaving 200 British pounds to each of his twelve living children and stating that the girls must stay with their mother until they married.
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Note for: Bridget Dryden, ABT 1563 - BEF 2 APR 1645
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Individual Note: The Marbury home was a busy one. Bridget Marbury gave birth over the years to twelve more children and Anne was expected to help her mother care for them. In addition to managing her household, Anne's mother spent much of her time helping others. She was a skilled midwife, and assisted the women of the community whenever they were giving birth. As she grew older, Anne accompanied her mother on these goodwill visits, and in time she herself became a midwife.
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Note for: Bridget Raleigh, 1506 - 30 SEP 1584
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Individual Note: Bridget is said to have been a cousin of Sir Walter Raleigh (Ralegh).
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Note for: Matthew Beckwith, ABT 1645 - 4 JUN 1727
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Individual Note: 1. MATHEW2 BECKWITH, (Mathew1) was born ca. 1645 and
m. 1st Elizabeth ___ and 2nd, 1689, Elizabeth Griswold,
divorced wife of John Rogers, the Quaker, and widow of
Peter Platt who d. 24 March 1685. Mathew was a resident
of Lyme CT. His children were baptized at Guilford and
New London CT. His will was written 1715, proved 1727
and he d. at Lyme 14 June 1727. He seems to have m.
3rd Sarah ___.
Children:
i. Mathew, b. 13 April 1667.
ii. John, b. 4 Feb. 1669.
3. iii. James, b. 1 June 1671; m. Sarah Marvin.
iv. Jonah, b. 27 Dec. 1673.
v. Prudence, b. 22 Aug. 1676; m. Roger Bart.
vi. Elizabeth, b. 4 Feb. 1678; m. James Burchard.
vii. Ruth, b. 14 March 1680.
viii. Sarah, b. 15 Dec. 1684; m. Joseph Leonard.
Child: (By second wife)
ix. Griswold (f), b. 1691; m. Eliakem Cooly.
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Note for: Matthew Beckwith, 22 SEP 1610 - 21 OCT 1680
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Individual Note: MATTHEW BECKWITH was born about 1612 in Essex and came to New England, perhaps as early as 1630, as a merchant trader with a group from Essex that first settled in Watertown and later in Windsor, Weathersfield and Hartford. Hartford Public Records show that on August 1, 1639, Matthew Beckwith was aboard a "pinnace," or small schooner, with other members of the vessel's crew. These schooners were used as trading ships, bringing supplies to the settlements along the Connecticut River in exchange for beaver skins of value in Boston, Providence and New Amsterdam.
In 1641, Matthew married MARY, who was born in 1625. The couple didn't acquire a home lot until four years later. Hartford records show that Mary and their first child, a daughter Mary born in 1643, resided with the household of B. Barnard in Hartford, indicating that Matthew traveled and lived on his vessel. In 1645, Matthew purchased land in Hartford from a proprietor, William Platt. In 1650 he bought more land in Hartford from another proprietor, Thomas Porter. In the spring of 1651, Matthew was given a home lot in that section of New London known today as East Lyme. Matthew traveled from port to port, keeping his home port in Lyme in a section of waterway that became known as Beckwith Cove.
Matthew and Mary had at least seven children, and many of them traveled with their father as youngsters. A son and two daughters found their spouses in distant port towns, indicating they were well-traveled and familiar with people far from home. One daughter married a sea captain.
Matthew died in the spring of 1682. Records report that "Matthew Beckwith, age abt. 70, missing his way in the very dark night, fell from a ledge of rocks about 20 or 30 feet high and beat his brains against a stone he fell upon." His widow Mary married Samuel Buckwall (Buckland). Mary died June 30, 1694. Among Matthew and Mary Beckwith's seven children was a son, Matthew Jr. (#40).
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~micah/anceshtm.htm#18
Marvin Blackwith of Southington
BECKWITHS OF YORKSHIRE.
The name of MALEBISSE is found in a roll of King William's knights whom he led at Hastings, as taken from Leland by Augustin Thierry in appendix to "History of the Norman Conquest of England." In a volume of pedigree charts for various families of the East Riding of Yorkshire it is found that Sir Hugh de Malebisse held lands in the time of the Conqueror. From Sir Hugh to Thomas Beckwith jr., of Featherstone the generations, as there shown, were:--
MALEBISSE.
1. HUGH, as above.
2. Hugo, 2d son; married 1st, Emma, daughter of Wllliam de Bray and
Adelaide de Tonbridge; 2d, Maud Knyveton.
3. Sir Simon, 4th son of Hugo and Emma; lord of Cowton in Craven;
married a daughter of John, lord of Methley.
4. Sir Hercules; married, 10 Henry III., (1226), Lady Beckwith Bruce(*), a
daughter of Sir William Bruce of Uglebarnby, and heiress of an
estate named BECKWITH. Sir Hercules retained the Malebisse
escutcheon and took the name of his wife's estate.
BECKWITH.
5. Sir Hercules (jr.); married a dau. of Sir John Ferrers of Tamworth.
6. Nicholas; married a daughter of Sir John Chaworth.
7. Hamon; living in 1339; married a daughter of Sir Philip Tylney.
8. William; married a daughter of Sir Girard Usfleet (or, Urfleet.)
9. Thomas of Clint &c.; married a daughter of John Sawly of Saxton.
10. Adam, of Clint; married, 2d, Elizabeth (de Malebisse), widow of John
Heringe, 4 Richard II.. (1381). His first wife was mother of his
children.
11. Sir William; married a daughter of Sir John Baskerville, who was a
descendant from Charlemagne.
12. Thomas of Clint; mar. heiress of Wm. Heslerton, of Fily, Thorp, &c.
He died 10 Henry VII., (1495).
13. John, 3d son; married a daughter of John Radcliff of Mulgrave.
14. Robert of Broxholm, 2d son; living 8 Edward IV., (1469).
15. John; living in 1469.
16. Robert; will dated Oct. 6th, 1536 and proved March 24th following.
17. Marmaduke, of Dacre and Clint; married 1st, Anne, daughter of Robert
Dyneley, of Bramhope; 2d, Ellen, widow of William Style, of
Haddockson. In 1597 he sold Clint and bought Featherstone and
Aikton. His children, all by 1st wife, were:--
1. Thomas. 2. William, died 1634. 3. Roger. 4. Symon (of
Pontefract). 5. Jane, m. to John Thorp, at Wragby. 6. Anne.
7. Alice, m. to Robert Banister. 8. Grace, m. to John Nesfield, of
Flasby in Craven. 9. Katherine, m. to Henry Pudsey, Barford.
18. Thomas; married Frances, heiress of William Frost of Aikton. She
was buried Nov. 5, 1602.
19. (a) Thomas; baptized in 1569. (b) William; baptized in 1571.
(c) Marmaduke; bap. in 1573. (d) "And others,"--that is, sons.
(e) Alice; married to Richard Nelson of Altoftes.
(f) (???); married to H. Kent.
It has been asserted, and somewhat widely believed, that Matthew Beckwith, of Connecticut, born about 1610, was the youngest son of Marmaduke (17) and Anne Dyneley, though the baptismal dates for their grand-children, Thomas jr., William, and Marmaduke, are quite enough to show this impossible. If Anne Dyneley was a grandmother in 1569 she was not again a mother forty-one years later. By any reasonable conjecture she was at least eighty-one years old at the time of Matthew's birth. It has not been pretended that the widow of Mr. Style had children by her second marriage; but should this be pretended, the probabilities are about as strongly against Marmaduke's so late fatherhood. In 1610, the younger Marmaduke was thirty-seven years old, and he or one of his unknown brothers may have been Matthew's father, though not a scrap of evidence has yet been shown that Matthew was born in Yorkshire. In fifteen generations, Sir Hercules to Marmaduke (19) inclusive, enough descendants must have been born to supply every county in the kingdom with a fair quota of Beckwiths. It is neither assumed nor denied here that Matthew was in some way a great-grandson of Marmaduke and Anne, himself in the twentieth generation. It is denied here that he was their son, and this as confidently as one rejects a plainly false sum or difference in a simple numerical reckoning.
MATTHEW BECKWITH was born about 1610 of undetermined English parentage, and not unlikely was nearly or remotely related to his namesakes of Yorkshire. The history of the first-half of his life is as obscure as that of 95 per cent of earliest New England colonists; but in its latter half a few points are clearly enough established by the meagre records at Hartford, New London, and Lyme. He bought the homestead of William Pratt, an original proprietor, at Hartford in 1645. About 1652 he was at New London and Lyme, his land lying in both towns. He was able to give land somewhat liberally to his sons, and it is recorded that in 1675 thirty acres more were "laid out" to him, all of which he gave to his son Joseph. October 21, 1680 he was killed "by a fall in a dark night down a ledge of rocks." This gave occasion for a sermon on the providence of God which took away Matthew Beckwith and spared his fellow wayfarer. The inquest showed that he was then seventy years old, and this is the only evidence as to the year of his birth. He left a widow, Elizabeth, who married Samuel Buckland,(*) and died before 1690.
MARVIN BECKWITH AND HIS WIFE ABIGAIL CLARK
THEIR COLONIAL ANCESTORS AND
THEIR DESCENDANTS
Binders Title: Marvin Beckwith of Southington
ELKHORN, WISCONSIN
1899
The emigrant ancestor was MATHEW1 BECKWITH, born in
Yorkshire, England 22 Sept. 1610, came to Lyme CT where
he spent most of his days. He removed to E. Lyme by
1653 and died in the spring of 1682 by falling from a
rocky cliff on a dark night. His widow, Mary (Lynde)
m. 2nd Samuel Buckland. [Early family history from The
Beckwiths by Paul Beckwith, 1891; TAG 21:259-265,
22:49-52].
Children:
i. Mary, b. ca. 1643; m. (1) Benjamin Grant, (2)
Samuel Daniels.
1. ii. Mathew, b. 1645; m. (1) Elizabeth ___, (2)
Elizabeth Griswold.
iii. Elizabeth, b. 1647; m. (1) Robert Girard, (2)
John Bates.
iv. Sarah, b. 1650; m. Joshua Grant.
2. v. Joseph, b. 1653; m. Susanna Tallman.
vi. Nathaniel, b. 1656; m.(1) ? (2) Martha ___.
vii. John, b. 1665; m. Prudence Manwaring.