SAMUEL PAINE (3), was born at Rehobeth, Massachusetts, on August 12, 1662. He married, first, on December 16, 1685, Anne Peck (1667-1703), the daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Hunt) Peck; and she bore him eight children. He married, second, Abigail Frizzell; and she bore him two children. Samuel died at Woodstock, Connecticut, on May 11, 1735.
Source: "The Shepard Families OF New England" Vol I FHL 929.273 Sh 47j
Printed from NEHG Register, Volume 120, October 1966, New England Historic Genealogical Society & Bmderbund Software, Inc., Banner Blue Division, March 3, 2001
NOTES AND CORRECTIONS
PARENTAGE 0F THOMAS SHEPARD of MALDEN, MASS. In The Registerm for January 1945 (vol. 99, page 81) I pointed out that although Thomas Sheperd of Maiden, Mass., was quite likely the son of the immigrant Ralph Shepard, there was no definite proof of such relationship.
Through the kindness of Mr. Thomas A. Burke of Cambridge, Mass., my attention has been called to a document which definitely proves the relationship.
In Middlesex County, Mass., Deeds, vol. 14, pages 562. 563 and 564, there is recorded an instrument of partition or division between William Power and Walter Power who are known to have been ions of Trial (Shepard) Power and grandsons of the immigrant Ralph Shepard. This record, dated 30 March 1708, recites (or. the said William Power and Walter Power have purchased a certain "of theire Two Couzens vizL Ralph Shepard and Jacob Shepard," by deed dated 5 Jan. 1708. The only Ralph Shepard and jacob Shepard who were living in this vicinity In 1708 where known to have been sons of Thomas Shepard of Malden. Therefore, when William Power and Walter Power referred to Ralph Shepard auid Jacob Shepard In 1708 as their cousins, it seems established that Thomas Sbepard of Maiden, the father of Ralph and Jacob, was an uncle of the Power brothers and hence a son of the immigrant Ralph Shepard. a relationship long suspected and indeed asserted by many, but never definitely proved until this document came to light.
Rochester, N. V. CHARLES SHEPARD.
He was a carpenter.
ISAAC BULL (The Immigrant ancestor)
Our immigrant ancestor in the colonies was Isaac Bull, son of Edward Bull of Donnington, Gloucestershire, England. (This is in contradiction to the often repeated story that our line descended from Henry Bull, first Governor of Rhode Island.)
An Indenture found in a Bible handed down to her descendants by Hannah Bull, youngest child of Isaac Bull and his chief heir, gives the most authoritative information.
It was published in the Cleveland Herald on 17 October 1874, by Andrew Phillips, on the occasion of a Phillips family reunion. (Hannah Bull had married Daniel Phillips, a Quaker) and the copy of the indenture was followed by an explanation provided by a grandson of Hannah's.....
It was after the discovery of this indenture (dated September 29, 1668), which apprenticed Isaac Bull 'sonne of Edward Bull of Donnington'.....that one of Isaac's descendants living in Brookline, Mass., began searching for Isaac Bull's people in England.
Wills were found in county Gloucester - Edward Bull's at Donnington, 1697, and that of his brother John, of Longborough, County Glousester, in 1675. From Edward's will we learn that his wife's name was Elizabeth (Castell or Gisborne?), and they had four children, of whom Isaac was the youngest....
As Isaac was indentured probably at age 14 - the usual age - he was considered to have been born in 1654. His indenture would end in 1675.
Isaac was married in England to Mary (surname unknown). Their four children, all born in England, were: John, born 1677, married Mary Closson; Elizabeth, born 1679, married John Vaughn; Mary, born 1680 (died 4th of January 1725), married Henry Mowry; Rose, born 1682, married Francis Inman.
The first knowledge we have of Isaac in the New World is in a land record in Worcester, Mass. In 1686, Isaac Bull, a carpenter, was granted land in Wordester and the same year he bought four additional lots. It seems safe to say that Isaac brought his family to the New World somethime between the date hi father's will was proved (1682), and the date he was granted land in worcester (1686).
When he left Worcester is not known, but in 1696 Isaac Bull, housewright, of Newport, Rhode Island, bought 110 acres of land in the northern part of the town at Providence. In 1700 he sold all but one acre. In 1704 he boudht 1/4 of an acre. In 1706, Isaac Bull, millwright, brought 10 acres probably in Scituate, R.I., (one parcel of 7 acres and one of 3 acres, adjoining his homesite in Providence.) These are all the land transactions that have been found.
Isaac married twice. Isaac's first wife, Mary, died in 1713. He was married again on 02 March 1714 in Rhode Island to Mary Walling (daughter fof James Walling) who was born in 1693. He lived only two years after that, dying in 1716 and leaving an infant daughter, Hannah.
Isaac made a will only twelve days before his death, which was acted upon by the Town Council of Providence, Rhode Island, on April 17, 1716, in which he named Hannah as his heir......His widow later married Joseph Cooke in 1719, and died about 1724.
THE INDENTURE - Sept. 29, 1668
"This indenture witnesseth that ISAAC BULL, sonne of Edward Bull of Donnington,County of Gloucestershire, by and with the consent of said father has put hisselfe Apprentice to and with William Williams of STOW-ON-THE-WOLD, aforesaid carpenter, and after the manner of an apprentice, with him to tarry and dwell from the day of date unto the full end and for the full term of seven years from thence next and immediately following and ensueing fully to be complete, ended during all which term the sayd ISAAC BULL apprentice to and with the sayd WILLIAM WILLIAMS as his master well and faithfuly shall serve, his secrets shall keepe, his commandments lawful and honest everywhere shall doe; fornication in the house of said master, nor without, he shall not commit; hurt or damage to his said master he shall not doe, nor consent to be done to the value of____pds. by the years or above, but according to his power shall lett and hinder or thereof his master inform.
Taverns or Alehouses of Custom, he shall not haunt or freequent unless it be about his master's business here to be done. All dyce, cards or any other unlawful games he shall not play.
The goods of his said master Inordinately he shall not waste, nor them to anybodie lend without his master's lycense or consent. Matrimonie with any woman during or within the sayd terme he shall not contract nor espouse nor from his service neither by day or by night shall absent himself as well in words as In deeds, - and sayd William Williams unto the sayd ISAAC BULL his sayd apprentice in the craft trade, mystery or occupation of a carpenter the which he usith after the best manner that he can or may shall show, teach, instruct and inform or cause to be showed, taught, instructed and Informed as much as thereunto belongeth or in any way appertanyeth, and in due manner chastise him, finding unto his sayd servant meate, drink, washing and lodging to an apprentice of such a trade, craft, mystery or occupation.
In witness thereof the sayd master and servant of these presents, Indentures interchangeable, their hands and seals have set, the twentyninth day of September in the twentieth day of the raine of our Sovraine Lord, King Charles the Second, Anno Domine 1668
MEMORANDUM: It Is concluded and agreed that the sayd William Williams he is to give his sayd servant one X (axe) and a Squire and a handsaw, foure Nogars, a paire of chysells, a gauge and a hamer and sayd ISAAC BULL is to have at the five years end three pounds a year.
Sealed and delivered In the presence of JOHN BULL. Frances Gardiner.
"The above indenture was written on parchment In Old English and translated verbatim and literatum except two words, the meaning of which I am not certain and I have left them as in the original which reached the eighth generation back from my brother's grandchildren at our reunion."
B. F. Phillips, (Grandson of Hannah Bull)
Andrew Phillips published the above In the Cleveland Herald, October 17, 1874., on occasion of a Phillips reunion.
1700, Aug. 2. He sold Stephen Sly 110 acres, for £35.
1713, Jun. 16 Taxed 6s.
1716, Jan. 5. Will --- proved 1716, Apr. 17. Exx' [executor] wife Mary. To her, all estate, both real and personal, for life. To son John, 20s. To daughters Elizabeth Vaughan, Mary Mowry and Rose Inman, 20s. each. To daughter Hannah Bull, after decease of wife, all the rest of estate, but if she have no heirs, then equally to four grandchildren, viz: Isaac Bull, Isaac Vaughan, Uriah Mowry and Aaron Inman. On back side of will, the declaration of Isaac Bull was made that he was in no ways indebted to his children for any service done for him by them, and that he had made them an offer to look after him during his natural life, and then they should have his estate after him, but they had refused.
Inventory, cash £10, 15s, 8d, books £2, pewter, carpenter's tools, cordwainer's seat, spinning wheel, gun, hay, corn, oats, grindstone, 2 heifers, 2 yearlings, a swine, 9 sheep, mare, cost, &c.
1725, Jan. 18. Mary Cook, widow and executrix of Isaac Bull, having of late deceased in testate and left committed to her by form husband Isaac Bull, to her care for his child, therefore it was ordered that James Walling, father of said deceased Mary Cook, take into his possession all estate he can find left by Isaac Bull, for his child, Hannah.
Source: "The Shepard Families OF New England" Vol I FHL 929.273 Sh 47j
Source: "The Shepard Families OF New England" Vol I FHL 929.273 Sh 47j
Source: "The Shepard Families OF New England" Vol I FHL 929.273 Sh 47j
Printed from NEHG Register, Volume 124, April 1970, New England Historic Genealogical Society & Broderbund Software, Inc., Banner Blue Division, March 3, 2001
ABRAHAM SHEPARD (d. 17 15/6), of Maiden, apparently a teenager summonsed to Court for some prank in 1662/3. had "Gone to Cape faire" when answered for by his father Ralph, of Charlestown, Weymouth, Malden, and Concord, Tailor.37
37. G. W. Chamberlain, History of Weymouth ... 4 v. [Weymouth, 1928), IV,
630. The parents were Ralph Shepard and Thanks-Lord (_____), not "Thankful (Lord)", as alleged in print; the correction appears in Middlesex Deeds, Grantee,, Liber III, p. 105. The boy had "Gone to Cape faire" when called to answer on 23 March 1662/3, Middlesex County Court, Files No. 2196. This document, kindly reported by Thomas A Burke of Cambridge, when he heard that such references were being sought, led to the sine qua non, Files for Long vs Douglas.
Source: "The Shepard Families OF New England" Vol I FHL 929.273 Sh 47j
53. JOHN PRESBURY, (Stephen,3 John2-1), b. 1700; res. E., yeoman, with whose death 20 Sept. 1728 the name of Presbury became extinct in the male line on the Vineyard. [He is buried at Crossway Cemetery.] He m. ABIGAIL COTTLE (21) abt. 1719, who was b. 6 June 1702 and surviving him m. (2) BENJAMIN LUCE (34) 20 Mch. 1730-1, and (3) SAMUEL LAMBERT (14). They had but one child, viz:
60. MARIA, b. 1720; m. ELIAKIM NORTON (420).
Daughter of: 9. EDWARD COTTLE, (Edward1), b. 28 Sept. 1666, res. E. husbandman. He m. (1) ESTHER DAGGETT (22) bet. 1690 and 1698. She was a half-breed Indian, dau. of Joseph Daggett by his Indian wife Alice Sisseton, dau. of the Sachem of Sanehacantacket. She d. prob. bef. 10 June 1708; m. (2) ABIGAIL ALLEN, dau. of Joseph and Sarah (Holley) Allen of Dartmouth, who was b. 1 Apr. 1663 and d. 25 Dec. 1733. His will 2 Nov. 1748 was pro. 22 Nov. 1751. It is prob. that he died in the latter year.
20. ESTHER, b. bef. 1700; d. 1727; m. (1) _____ HARDING aft. 1718; (2) MANASSEH KEMPTON abt.
1725. Descendants of her first marriage can claim descent from this Indian princess.
21. ABIGAIL, b. 6 June 1702; m. (1) JOHN PRESBURY (53); (2) BENJAMIN LUCE (34) 20 Mch.
1730-31; (3) SAMUEL LAMBERT (14).
14. THOMAS3 WEST (Thomas2, Francis1), thought to have been b. ca. 1687 and d. in Rhode Island as the result of exposure and disease contracted in the West Indies (BMV 3:501). From the diary of William Homes [Holmes] comes the following passage, "I have heard that Thomas West died lately at Rhode Island. He had some time ago undertaken to pilot a vessel to Boston and was forced off the coast by a storm and driven to Matinico [this has been assumed to be Martinique, although it is not clear from what port the vessel had sailed] and either the fatigue of the voyage or some distemper contracted on that island he was brought so low befre he arrived at Rhode Island and not long after he came on shore he died. His friends concluded that he had been lost in the storm (BEG 50:262).
On 29 Jan. 1712/13 he m. MARY PRESBURY (recorded in TVR 190 as Mary and in Edgartown (EVR 191) as Hannah). She was b. 28 Aug. 1694, the dau. of Stephen and Deborah (Skiffe) Presbury. (BMV 3:501). Mary d. between 1728 and 1730. As the administrator of his will Thomas designated his father-in-law, Stephen Presbury, 7 May 2728, and the will was brought to final probate 3 Oct. 1732 (BMV 3:501).
Children, b. at Tisbury, except as noted, and recorded in TVR 92-93.
30. WILLIAM,. b. 4 Apr. 1714.
31. NATHAN, b. 17 Aug. 1715; d. before 1732.
32. THOMAS, b. 20 Feb. 1716-17; res. Sandwich, Mass. (1741), cordwainer; m. HANNAH _____, by whom he had 7 children. He rem. to Dartmouth, Mass. (1747) and d. 12 Nov. 1770. She d. 28 Sept. 1798.
Descendants resided in New Bedford and New Braintree, Mass.
33. LYDIA, b. 6 June 1718; m. DAVID MELVILLE 21 June 1739.
34. JOHN, b. 21 Oct. 1719; d. y.
35. MARY, b. 2 June 1721; m. TIMOTHY INGRAHAM 25 May 1746.
36. PAUL, b. (1723); res. Sandwich, Mass. 1744.
37. SETH, b. (1726); living 1732.
Sandwich Vital Records p. 17
FHL film #1321409, item 13, page 41 "Proceedings of the Littleton Historical Society"
Wealthy owner of a salt boilery. m. possibly 20 Oct. 1594. His son Edward was Govenor of Massachusetts and a Mayflower passenger. His son Gilbert was also a Mayflower passenger.
THE EARLY WINSLOWS IN AMERICA
by Nedra Watkins Reese
December 1981
Edward and Magdalen Winslow of Droitwich, England, became the parents of eight children, five sons and three daughters: Edward born 19 October 1722 John, April of 1595; Elynor, April of 1598; Kenelin 29 April 1599; Gilbert, October of 1600; Elizabeth, March of 1601; Magdalen 26 December 1604 and Josiah, February of 1605. (1.)
The Winslow surname is taken from the town of Winslow in Buckinghamshire, England. The original family seat was in Worchestershire. (2.)
All five of the Winslow brothers came early to America. Edward, an ancestor of Winslow Farr, and Gilbert came on the Mayflower in 1620: John came on the Fortune in 1621. Both Kenelin and Josiah came before 1655.
A brief unconfirmed family history of Lorin Farr describes Edward as a well to do Englishman, who traveled abroad after finishing his education. In Holland, he met and fell in love with a young Pilgrim girl. They were married, and he aided the little band of Pilgrims who were leaving for the New World. He gave money to help purchase the Mayflower, and he and his bride sailed on it to America. She died on the ship after arriving at Plymouth, as did many others. He later married a widow who had also been a passenger on the Mayflower.
John was married at New Plymouth to Mary Chilton, daughter of James Chilton, another passenger on the Mayflower, at some time prior to 1627. According to family tradition, Mary was the first female to set foot on the American shores. This may refer either to the landing at Cape Cod where the women went ashore to wash their clothes, or to the landing at Plymouth. John resided in the north part of Plymouth called Plain Dealing until about 1656. He was a merchant and held various municipal offices at Plymouth . (2. )
The Following is:
Printed from NEHG Register, Volume 121, January 1967, New England Historic Genealogical Society & Broderbund Software, Inc., Banner Blue Division, March 24,2001
Appendix II The HEGIRA OF EDWARD7 Winslow
The will of Thomas Harton, dated 14 Sept. 1620 and proved 19 Dec. following (see note h above) indudes under the heading "Desperate Debts," the following:
"Edward Windslowe some time under sheriff of co. Worcester, owes money for which I can get no payment as he has fled to Ireland. Sir Henry Foilett has my bonds for same. John Wilson also fled to Ireland. Win. Woodward alias Blauckett fled to Pembrokeshire. Mr. John Richardson of Castle Morton, dwelling in London."
Possibly the indebtedness of Winslow derived from his having helped Simon Clarke and Charles Stamford, for Chancery Proceedings of 24 Oct. 1611 show this answer to a bill of complaint of Richard Moore, gent.:
"Answer (only) of Edward Winslow: Subject Winslow was surety on a bond.
Simon Clarke and Charles Stamford were principals" (Banks MSS, Rare Book
Room, Library of Congress, red bound series, fo. 749).
It so happens that Sir John Bucke of Kempsey, who brought Keres. well from Kenelm0 Winslow, was in the commission of the peace for Worcestershire. Bucke s wife, Eleanor, was sister to the aforesaid Henry Folliott, kt., the latter having by 1615 gone to Ireland, where in 1619 he was created Lord Folliott of Ballyshannon, Sligo, in the peerage of Ireland. See "The Ligon Family in England" (1947), p.101, and Calendar of State Papers, Ireland, 1615-1625, p. 10, 11. Also see reference cited in note j, above, as well as Worcestershire Quarter Sessions Rolls, Worcs. Hist. Soc.
It is suggested that Harton knew that Edward Winslow bad either a kinship or acquaintance with the Buckes, and consequently approached Sir John Bucke for help in collecting the money that Winslow owed; if so, Bucke probably advised Harton to turn his evidence of the debt over to Sir Henry Folliott, Bucke s brother-in-law, who was then in Ireland.
In that era, the high-sheriff of a county normally would select a kinsman or acquaintance to become under-sheriff. In 1620 the high-sheriff of Worcestershire was Sir Edmond Wylde of Kempsey9 whose paternal granddame was Eleanor Wall of Droitwich, sister to the mother of the Sir John Bucke who bought Kereswell from Kenelm Winslow. Bucke s father, Francis, in his will, showed his affection for his wife s cousins Thomas Wylde of Kempsey (father of Sir Edmond), and Thomas brother, George Wylde of Droitwich (see will of Francis Bucke of Kempsey, Worcs., gent., dated 1580, proved 1581 at Worcester; will of Sir Edmond Wylde, proved in 1620 [P.C.C. Soame, 1094]; will of his father, Thomas Wylde of K.empsey, Worcs., proved 1599 (P.C.G. 69 Kidd]; "Visitation of Worcestershire, 1569," Harleian Society Publication, vol. 27, p. 26, 27, 151 in the latter page Kemsey in Bedfordshire is wrongly stated for Kempsey, Worcs., which the wills correctly indicate as home of the Wyldes. Also see "Visitation of Worcestershire, 1634," Harleian Society Publication, vol. 90, p. 79. Plainly Wylde seems to have been led by Sir John Bucke, his close kinsman, to choose Edward7 Winslow as under-sheriff. The inference again is that Winslow was either cousin or close friend to Bucke.
The inhumane treatment meted out to debtors in English prisons of those days was frightful enough to persuade those who could not pay to flee the country. But by 1621 we are told that Edward7 Winslow was in England, living at Clifton, a tiny hamlet in Severnstoke. See note a above.
NOTES AND REFERENCES
a. The correct pedigree is briefly: Galfrid¹ Winslow of Earls Crome, Co. Worcester, 1425; Richard², of the same, 1430 §(must be a typo); William³, of the same, 1471:
Richard4, of the same, will dated 1546; Thomas5, of Kempsey; Kenelm6, of Kempsey and Worcester, named before in this paper: MSS in the possession of D. Kenelm Winslow, author of Mayflower Heritage, London, 1957.
§ Note added by Tim Farr
GILBERT WINSLOW
ORIGIN: Droitwich, Worcestershire
MIGRATION: 1620 on Mayflower
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
RETURN TRIPS: Returned to England by 1627
ESTATE: In the 1623 Plymouth division of lands "Gilbard Winslow" received one acre as a passenger on the Mayflower [PCR 12:4]. His name does not appear in the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle.
The inventory of the estate of his brother KENELM WINSLOW included "one half of the portion of land granted by the Court to him [Kenelm Winslow] and his brother Josias Winslow upon the account of their brother Gilbert Winslow as he was a first comer" [MD 24:42, citing PCPR 3:1:56].
On 1 June 1663 Plymouth Court acknowledged "Gilbert Winslow, deceased, who was one of the first comers, to have a right of land, and do allow his heirs to look out and propose to the Court some parcel of land that the Court may think meet to accommodate them in" [PCR 4:40].
BIRTH: Baptized Droitwich, Worcestershire, 29 October 1600, son of Edward and Magdalen (Oliver) Winslow [NEHGR 4:297, 21:120].
DEATH: In England by 1650 [Bradford 447].
MARRIAGE: None recorded.
CHILDREN: None recorded.
ASSOCIATIONS: Brother of EDWARD WINSLOW, KENELM WINSLOW, JOHN WINSLOW and JOSIAH WINSLOW.
COMMENTS: In his list of those on the Mayflower Bradford included Gilbert Winslow, and reported of him in 1651 that "after diver years here, [he] returned into England and died there" [Bradford 443, 447].
Writing in 1994 about Mayflower passengers who returned to England, Doris Jones-Baker was unable to find anything about Gilbert Winslow in English records [Genealogists' Magazine 24:490-91].