DEATH: or 29 Sep 1656 (Boston)Samuel Wilbur admitted church Boston 1633, one of the corporation that purchased Rhode Island 1638, removed Taunton MA, finally to Boston 1645, will probated 1656 [p cclxiii Ancestral Heads of New England Families].
MARRIAGE: Elizabeth? or was his wife Anne Broadbent? [GENDEX] 19JZ-S5G
PARENTS: Robert Holmes (b 18 Aug 1578) & Katherine Johnson (she b Stockport)
John Irish (perhaps this John's father) came from parish Clisdon Somersetshire
to Plymouth 1629, was at Duxbury by 1637, then to Bridgewater, later Little
Compton. [Ancestral Heads of New England Families, p. cxxx]
apparently died between 1808 and 1711 or not much thereafter. This Nichols was
at the fall fo Bristol with his half-brother Edmund in 1645. He came to
America in his own ships, named Landwit and Landoff. He had been engaged in
Shipping interests, and their adherence to the cause of King Charles Stuart, as
was the case of most of the gentry of England and Wales, suggests a reason for
the emigration of these brothers to America (Newport RI) to escape the
discomforts incident to the change in government. (Praseology from N. R.
Nichols). AF omits RI as BP. AF also has 1708/11 as death. It was Capt. Richard
Nicolls (1624-1672) who commanded the Brit. squadron that 1664 capturd Niew
Amsterdam from the Dutch and renamed it in honor of James Stuart Duke of York.
My est of bd 1645 apparently off by 20 yrs accdg to AF.
my est of BD abt 1650 is way off what AF cites.
CHILDREN:
1. Ruth MATHEWSON- SSXB-ZQ Abt 1664
2. James MATTHEWSON- NVFZ-3B 11 Aug 1666
3. John MATHEWSON- SSXC-0V Abt 1668
4. Isabel MATHEWSON- SSXC-12 Abt 1670
5. Zachariah MATHEWSON-SSXD-QS 1 Nov 1672
6. Thomas MATHEWSON- J5GJ-V1 1 Apr 1673
7. Lydia MATHEWSON- SSXC-27 Abt 1675
8. Mary MATHEWSON- J5GJ-7Q Bef 1683
9. Daniel MATHEWSON- SSXF-05 28 Jan 1683
Batch #: 8413004, Sheet #: 56, Source Call #: 1395780
or d. 1 Dec 1730; was constable of Meriden in 1691, and one of incorporators of
Bellingham 1719. Chdrn: Josiah, Nicholas, Johannah, Mary, Ann, Seth, Danl,
David, Abigail, Peter. Born: 1685-1709. Seth b 28 Apr 1699
497. Joanna Rockwood Joanna Rockett
AFN : GQ63-GF. Rockwood or Rockett.
or Rockett
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