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SAVAGE, VOL 2 DICT. FIRST SETTLERS OF N.E.
A
GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY
OF
THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND,
SHOWING
THREE GENERATIONS
OF
THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE MAY, 1692,
ON THE
BASIS OF FARMER'S REGISTER.
BY
JAMES SAVAGE,
FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND EDITOR OF
WINTHROP'S HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND.
WITH TWO SUPPLEMENTS
IN FOUR VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
Baltimore
GENEALOGICAL PUBLISHING CO., INC.
Originally Published
Boston, 1860-1862 DAVENPORT,
JOHN, New Haven, first min. there, s. of John, says Wood's Athenae Oxon. not, as the fondness of Mather states, mayor of Coventry, in idle attempt to magnify a great man, was b. 1597, bred at Oxford, but not adm. as Mather has it, of Brazen Nose, 1611, enter. 1613, at Merton Coll. thence after two yrs. rem. to Magdalen Hall, where he proceed. B. D. 1625 was preach. at St. Stephens, Coleman str. London, perhaps not quite so early as the Magnalia imports; but being in 1633 complain. of for nonconform. went to Amsterdam, thence came to N. E. 1637, with Gov. Eaton, arr. at Boston 26 June, and next yr. with him sett. New Haven. Mr. Haven, the accomplish. editor of Archaeologia Americana, Vol. III. in prelimin. rem. cxxxvi. corrects that looselessn. of the Magnalia as to the mayor of Coventry; yet falls into slight error as to the coming of this famous divine. On p. lxxxv. he says: "When the times grew favorable for the Puritans he return. to Eng." from his refuge in Holland; but more exact expression should be, in my judgm. thus: "As the times grew not favorable for the Puritans, he ret. no more to Eng." exc. to emb. privily, perhaps without landing, for he dared not appear in London. After near 30 yrs. of great influence in the Col. of his own plant. rem. to Boston. freem. 1669, hav. with very injurious controversy been instal. as success. of Wilson, 9 Dec. 1668, at the first ch. causing foundation of third ch. in Boston, gather. 12 May 1669 at Charlestown, and violent heats in the commonwealth for many yrs. The great body of the clerg. favor. the new ch. as did a major part of the assist. of six oppon. three, includ. Gov. Bellingham, being of the old ch. He was at New Haven eager in defence of Goffe and Whalley, the regicides in 1661, and perhaps much aid. in their escape. Yet a most curious, if not characteristic, letter from him furnishes no small light to the hist. of his acting giv. by Dr. Stiles, as it tends to exculpate, or inculpate, him, according to the eyes with wh. it is read, in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. VIII. 327. With his name is frequent. assoc. that of a cous. possib. a br. Christopher, b. 1598, a Catholic priest of great learning not a Jesuit, under the name of Santa Clara, wh. d. 31 May 1680. Mather, III. 52, denies that he was a br." as a certain Woodden Historian, in his Athenae Oxon. has report." By this merciless punishm. of honest Anthony, the immortal author of the Magnalia fully proves how much better qualif. he was for executioner than judge. We kn. no ch. but John, call. only s. tho. he certain. had youngest B. Joseph, wh. d. prob. bef. his f. and perhaps had ds. bef. or after com. to N. E. and he d. 15 Mar. 1670. Eliz. perhaps his wid. d. at B. 15 Sept. 1676, aged 73, if the gr.stone be correct. In the present age a descend. of the venerab. father of New Haven, A. Benedict Davenport, Esqr. call. hims. of the twenty-fourth generat. has confident. carr. the line of his fam. back to Orme de Davenport, 1086, or the 20th of the Conquer. Such labors are seldom reverenced in our country. DOANE
JOHN, New Haven, came in 1664, it is said, after long concealm. in Europe or elsewhere, flying from prosecut. as one of the regicides, but it is suppos. his first quiet resid. was at Hadley, with Goffe and Whalley, under shelter of Rev. John Russell, tho. the length of time is unkn. At New Haven he was call. by hims. and others, James Davids, m. 3 Nov. 1673, I think for sec. w. Joanna, wid. of Benjamin Ling, with wh. (wh. d. in few wks.) he obtain. comfortab. prop. and he m. again 23 Oct. 1677, Bathsheba How, had Mary, b. 9 June 1679; John, 6 Mar. 1681; and Eliz. 14 July 1682, wh. d. young. His wid. d. at Middletown 27 Dec. 1729, aged 83, so that she was 39 yrs. younger than her h. His concealm. was perfect, but his real name was kn. to one or more of the chief peop. and confess. by hims. shortly bef. his d. 18 Mar. 1689 in his 82d yr. His only d. Mary, m. 23 Dec. 1707, John Collins of Middletown. The family was and still is highly respect. in Kent; and in the gr. civ. war, the head of it, Sir Basil, stood and suffer. for the royal cause. ENDICOTT
JOHN, perhaps from Dorchester, Eng. by some thot. his place of b. a. 1589, came in the Abigail, from Weymouth, a small port on the channel, a. 9 ms. from D. with w. and a comp. of prob. 20 or 30 others, includ. women and ch. to Salem, Sept. 1628. He was one of the six orig. purch. of the Mass. Bay from the Plymouth Counc. 19 Mar. preced. and the only one wh. came over for more than two yrs. In the Royal Chart. of 4 Mar. foll. he is nam. an Assist. one of the eighteen, after Saltonstall, Johnson, Humphrey, and others, bef. Nowell, Vassall, Pynchon, and others, and by his assoc. at London, in Gen. Court on 30 Apr. after his coming, made the head, superint. or gov. of the first sett. at Salem, call. by them London's planta. includ. those wh. preced. or accomp. him, by delegat. of authority (tho. it was never consummat. by needful qualificat.) to him and twelve counsel. to be chos. partly by the comp. in London, partly by these deput. and two by the older planters here, for all necessary rule of the country, while the chief governm. contin. in the gov. dep. gov. and eighteen assist. req. by the Chart. chos. by the General Court in Eng. on the last Wednesday of Easter term. Under this power of attorney, or delegat. of authority, these persons were empower. and indeed requir. to choose a secr. and admin. to him and all other officers an oath at the time of his and their elect. "wh. said oaths are to be admin. in a publ. ct. and not elsewhere." Nothing of the sort was ever done, no such ct. ever held by him; nor was any secr. ever chos. at Salem, nor dept. nor couns. ever induct. there bef. 1630, any more than an archbp. an admiral, or field marshal. By the instr. to him from his constit. the gov. and comp. in London, he, with seven couns. was authoriz. to do certain things; but two of those seven, John and Samuel Brown, he had sent home, bef. these instr. reach. him. He was, therefore, disabled, by his own act, from fill. up the Council, choos. dep. gov. or secr. and other officers. Of course he was, in the lang. of the law, REMITTED to his authority under the patent from Plymouth Comp. to Sir Henry Roswell and the other five. This was, I think, all the power he ever used, and certain. it was all he need. Yet Cotton Mather in Magn. I. 18, styles him dep. gov. in Aug. 1629; and a respect. descend. has even gone to the length of mak. the title "First Gov. of the Col. of Mass. Bay." To me this seems, in both authors, wrong. On p. 57 of the Hist. of Boston, wh. affords copious proof of sedulous industry, the auth. says, "Matthew Cradock was the first Gov. of the Mass. Comp." yet, facing the same page, he inserts the picture of John Endicott with a title at the bottom, "first Gov. of Mass." and 16 pages onward he inserts the picture of John Winth. with the title, giv. by the author, "sec. Gov. of Mass." Prob. no reader will be deceiv. for every one will ask, wh. was the second, third, fourth, &e. gov. of the Mass. Comp. wh. bec. the Col. of Mass. Bay only by transfer of all the authority, &c. in 1629, when Cradock was "first" gov. On his resignat. within six mos. of his elect. that yr. Winth. was chos. the same day, and Cradock an Assist. But Cradock never came to our country, and so if W. be the sec. Gov. of Mass. because C. was the first; of course W. would be justly reckon. the first in Mass. The order of success. of the Chart. Governors is this: first, Cradock, nam. in that instrum. 4 Mar. 1629, and rechos. in May; sec. Winth. chos. and sw. 29 Oct. 1629, on Cradock's resignat. and in 1631, 2, and 3; third, Dudley, May 1634; fourth, Haynes, May 1635; fifth, Vane, 1636; next yr. Winth. again, and two foll. yrs.; and Dudley, again, in 1640; sixth, Bellingham, 1641; next yr. Winth. again, and rechos. the yr. foll.; seventh, Endicott, 1644; next yr. Dudley, again; and the foll. Winth. again, three yrs. till his d. Honor eno. there is for Endicott, the earliest patentee wh. came over under the indenture from the Plymouth Company, without challeng. for him any that does not belong to him. He was the first, and only, Gov. of London's Planta. and if he ever was qualif. by tak. the oaths under that delegat. from the Gov. and Comp. of Mass. (wh. is unlikely, or at least cannot be prov.) he never had a successor in that office, wh. was merg. in the superior title on arr. of Winth. a few mos. after. With scrupul. precision, Increase Mather calls Winth. "the First Gov. that New Eng. saw at the head of the Mass. Col." On 13 May 1629 (the Charter day of the Gen. Court for elections), Endicott was not chos. an Assist. or other officer of Mass. Bay, being absent; still, however, he contin. head of the Planta. as much as he had been a fortnight, and, indeed, on his arr. eight mos. bef. no other patentee being on this side of the ocean; but on 20 Oct. next, at the election in London (after transfer of the whole authority of the patent to those wh. would come to N. E.), when Winth. was chos. gov. and Humphrey dep. gov. immediat. on resignat. of Cradock and Goffe, he was again rais. to be one of the eighteen assist. being the first time he was ever chos. under the Chart. In this office, to the duty of wh. he took the o. to qualif. him (as he could not earlier), 7 Sept. 1630, he cont. 9 yrs. by success. elect. exc. in 1633, when for his indiscreet zeal against the cross in the ensign, he was left out; but in 1636 he was made head of the first exped. against the Pequots; in 1641, for the first time, dep. gov. acc. the Chart. and sev. times after, and in 1644 gov. for the first time, with full power acc. the Chart. and again, after d. of Winth. 1649, 51, 2, 3,and from 1655 to his own d. at Boston (where he had resid. above twenty yrs.) 15 Mar. 1665, serv. a longer period than any other of the govs. under the old Chart. and by Shirley alone exceed. since. Capt. Johnson in his "Wonderworking Providences of Zion's Saviour in N. E." honors him in cap. IX. of his first book with appropriate rhymes, as John Endicott, "twice Governor of the Eng." so, I suppose, must refer to the elections of 1644, during Winth. life, and immediat. after his d. in 1649, the date of his writing. Scottow, too, in his "Narrative of the Planting" of our Col. p. 12, or as it may be read in the reprint in 4 Mass. Hist. Coll. IV. must be understood to intend the prior title of Winth. when the "choice of a governor and deputy TO ABIDE THERE" is told in that valua. paragraph on pp. 289-90. I think Mr. Felt, in Ann. of Salem, I. 106, first, after a differ. general opin. for two hundred yrs. in 1845 suggest. the right of E. in "precedency to Mr. Winth.;" and he explains his view of "an error in rank" by the note, on same page, that Roger Conant "may be truly said to have preceded both Messrs. Endicott and Winth. IN SUCH OFFICE FOR A PART OF THIS COMMONWEALTH." In Geneal. Reg. XII. 133-7, he elaborate. discuss. the quest. "what office did J. E. sustain, after arr. 6 Sept. 1628, to his elect. by the [gov. and comp.] 30 Apr. 1629." But I am satisfied that his decision against the opin. of Gov. Hutch. will not be sustain. nor does it seem to me, that Endicott is entit. to any more office than the Plymouth comp. gave by their deed indent. He was sole propr. in Mass. and act. with the absolute power of the other patentees in I Eng. and Mr. Felt rather lessens than enlarges his right by reference to the votes of our gov. and comp. in London. As their grant of office 30 Apr. 1629 never took effect, it must be regard. as if never passed. Dr. Young, in n. on p. 196 of Chron. of Mass. falls into similar error (of find. justificat. of E. in displac. the Browns in this instr.), when E. had acted in thus shipping off the Browns before this instr. came to his hand. Endicott was of stern energy, but great prudence in secular affairs, disappr. the conduct of his friends in Eng. for putting to death their king, with such strange mockery of solemnity, and issued warrant for apprehens. of Whalley and Goffe, the regicides, here. Much of the sad occurrences of cruel scourg. of the Bapt. 1651 and hang. of the Quak. 1659, that fell within his admin. must be charg. to Wilson or Norton, the spirit. advisers of the day; and tho. Leverett, or Bradstreet would have, perhaps, successf. resist. such inflict. of counsel, we kn. the cruel bigotry of Dudley or Bellingham would have gone against tolerat. as far and as fiercely as Endicott. 5, His first w. Ann Gower, who was cous. or niece of Matthew Cradock, first Chart. gov. d. soon after coming and she had, it is believ. no ch.; and he m. 18 Aug. 1630. Eliz. Gibson (from Cambridge in Eng. says the fam. geneal.) had John, b. a. 1632; and Zerubbabel, a. 1635. He and his descend. to the fourth generat. wrote the sec. syl. with e, but the i has prevail. since. GILBERT
MATTHEW, New Haven 1638, in 1639 one of the seven pillars for found. the ch. next one of two deac. and, last, ruling elder; an Assist. of the Col. 1658, dep. gov. 1661, and d. prob. 1680; had John, bapt. Apr. 1644; Sarah, Apr. 1646; Rebecca, 15 Apr. 1649; wh. may all have d. or got portions of his est. bef. but in his will of 14 Jan. in that yr. names two s. and two ds. Matthew, bapt. June 1655; Samuel, 4 Oct. 1657; Mary Auger, and Hannah Parker. Of these, Mary, b. 11, bapt. 22 June 1651, m. 20 Nov. 1673, I suppose, Robert Auger; and Hannah was bapt. Apr. 1653. Over the remains of this latest dep. gov. of the (Col. and the only Assist. wh. had not the distinct. of being an Assist. of the United Col. of Conn. tho. nominat. having failed of elect. after the chart. of Charles II., the gr.stone bears only the initials M. G., and above them the numerals 80. Perverse ingenuity, in Presid. Stiles, support. an extravag. hypothesis (that the corpses of the two regicides, Whalley and Goffe, wh. d. at Hadley, and there were bur. by their devot. supporter, Rev. John Russell, very close to his cellar wall, had been disinter. and were brot. to New Haven, to lie near that of Dixwell), has been compell. to suppose that by M. G. the stonecutter meant W. G. GOFFE
WILLIAM, Hadley, a maj.-gen. in Eng. a mem. of the pretend. High Court of Justice, selected by the minority of the Long, Parliam. to sentence Charles I. to a. arr. at Boston 27 July 1660, staid short time at Cambridge, and in Feb. foll. went to New Haven, reach. that town 7 Mar. in comp. with lieut.-gen. Edward Whalley, whose d. Frances he had m. They liv. in concealm. some yrs. but in Oct. 1664 took up perman. resid. at Hadley with Rev. John Russell, where he outliv. W. some yrs. and d. a. 1679. Dr. Stiles, in his Hist. mistook the gr.stone at New Haven of dep.-gov. Matthew Gilbert, mark. M. G., 80, for his; but he was, we kn. bur. without any mark at the gr. with his f.-in-law, at Hadley, more than a hundred miles off, and our fathers prob. could not have violated the sanctity and secrecy of their resting-place under an idle pretence of doing honor to their memories. In our own days the remains have been discov. close to the founda. of Russell's house. He was s. of Rev. Stephen of Stanmer, in Co. Sussex. His three ch. Eliz. Ann, and Frances, if this last be not, as sometimes said, Frederic, remain. in Eng. with his excellent w. of wh. three letters are in print. one in appx. to Hutch. I. 532; second ;n 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. 1. 60, and third in Hutch. Coll. 432. Very large and impartial story of these regicides is in Hutch. I. 213-19; and the cool judgment of modern times may ratify what "matchless" Mitchell wrote contempor that, since he "had opportun. to look a little into that action, for wh. these men suffer. I could never see that it was justifiable." Perhaps he felt, that putting to d. in cold blood the sovereign, with wh. they had treat. on equal terms, as their captive, for sev. yrs. was a murder, unless excus. by necessity; and that coward. pretence, when need. is easi. found. GOOKIN
DANIEL, Cambridge, b. in Kent, Eng. passed many, prob. fourteen yrs. in Virg. from 1630, whither he went with his f. perhaps of the same name, who had gr. in that Col. 1620, came to Boston in a sh. 20 May 1644 with other passeng. flying from the Ind. massacre, on the Sunday foll. was adm. of our Boston ch. and freem. 29, in both rec. call. capt. and, on 7 Sept. next, May, his w. was adm. of Boston ch. yet we may be sure he liv. at Roxbury, for there was b. his d. Eliz. 14, bapt. 30 Mar. 1645; and Hannah, bapt. 23 May 1646, d. in few wks. and the town rec. omit. b. soon after he rem. to C. of wh. he was rep. 1649, and speaker 1651, assist. 1652 to the Andros usurp. 1686, except in 1676, when at the May election he had the honor of being turned out for his noble care of the friend. Ind. in the then raging war; maj.-gen. 1681, d. 19 Mar. 1687, aged 75. In 1655 he went home for a short vis. of priv. business, but was taken off by Oliver, who sent him back to induce our fathers to colonize Jamaica, wh. was just then added to his domin. Of course his miss. was fruitless, and he went in 1657 once more to Eng. and came hither again in 1660, by the sh. that brot. the regicides Whalley and Goffe, arr. at Boston 27 July. Those self-exiled men he befriended, perhaps without approv. their course; for he was loyal eno. to dedicate his Hist. Coll. to the King. beside the ch. above ment. of wh. Eliz. m. 23 May 1666, Rev. John Eliot, jr. as his, sec. w. and next m. Edmund Quincy, and d. 30 Nov. 1700, he had, b. at Cambridge, Daniel, who d. 3 Sept. 1649, few mos. old; Daniel, again, 12 July 1650, H. C. 1669; Samuel, 21 Apr. 1652; Solomon, 20 June, wh. d. 16 July 1654; Nathaniel, 22 Oct. 1656, H. C. 1675, and Mary, older than any, wh. may even have come from Virg. wh. m. 8 June 1670, Edmund Batter of Salem, as his sec. w. He had hims. sec. w. Hannah, wid. of Habijah Savage, d. of Edward Tyng, of wh. in his will, 13 Aug. 1685, he speaks with gr. tenderness, wh. d. 28 and was bur. 31 Oct. 1688, aged 48; and by her as sec. d. Hannah. HOOKER
WILLIAM, Taunton, b. in Co. Hants, s. of a gent. as the register at Oxford Univ. express. it, on his matric. 19 May 1620, of Trinity Coll. where he was adm. the same yr. 28 June to his A. B. and 26 May 1623, tho. Wood's Fasti says 7 July, to his A. M. We kn. not when he first had employm. in Eng. for Mather has not given him a whole line; but he says he was min. at Exmouth, Devonsh. bef. he came hither, the exact date of wh. is also not mark. by any writer, tho. we are sure he was here 1639, as in the town rec. his ld. is then made a boundary, rem. a. 1644 to New Haven, there had Eliz. bapt. 14 Dec. 1645; and Mary, 5 Sept. 1647; was in high esteem until he went home in 1656; held in great favor with Oliver, the Protector (wh. made him a domestic chaplain), of the character of wh. a valua. letter to Gov. Winthrop by Hooke gives amusing insight, 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. I. 181. He was also reward. by being made one of the preach. at the Savoy in London, and had easy associat. with the great Protector, for his w. was sis. of Whalley, the regicide, wh. had m. a relat. of Oliver. He d. 21 Mar. 1667, says Trumbull; but Calamy makes it ten yrs. later. JONES
WILLIAM, New Haven, idly said to be s. of that col. John, the regicide, execut. 16 Oct. 1660, wh. had, late in life, many yrs. after b. of this William, m. sec. or fifth sis. of famous Oliver Cromwell, wid. of Roger Whetstone, by the Protector call. to be one of the Lords, or "other house," as he term. in contempt the work of his own hands; chiefly was it so surmis. prob. bec. he came from Eng. shortly bef. the suffer. of his suppos. f. True it is, that he arr. at Boston from London (where he was b. 1624, as is said, and had been a lawyer), 27 July 1660, in the same sh. with the celebr. regicides, Whalley and Goffe, and brot. s. William and Nathaniel, b. to him by first w. But he had motive suffic. to come, without the vain fear of being point. at for a s. of that tool of Oliver, bec. in virtue of a marriage contr. of 4 July 1659, he, by the style of W. J. of the parish of St. Martins in the Field, Co. Middlesex, had m. Hannah Eaton of the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, London, spinster, youngest d. of Gov. Theophilus Eaton, and was well inclin. to take care of her est. at New Haven, brot. a ch. Hannah, the offspring of that union, b. the same season of the embark. had here, Theophilus, b. 2 Oct. 1661, d. in 3 days; Sarah, 17 Aug. 1662; Eliz. 28 Aug. but bapt. 23 Oct. 1664, by the name of Mary; Samuel, 20 June, bapt. 29 July 1666, d. at 6 mos.; John, 4 Oct. 1667, H. C. 1690; Deodat, 15 Mar. 1670, d. next mo.; Isaac, 21 June 1671; Abigail, and Rebecca, tw. 10 Nov. 1673, d. both in 5 days; and Susanna 18 Aug. 1675. Of Caleb, by Increase Mather, call. a son, we may well doubt, as he tells of his d. at sea, Oct. 1676. He was of good talents, a very active public serv. Assist. and dept.-gov. of the col. of N. Haven, and after Assist. 1678 of the Unit. Col. of Conn. d. 17 Oct. 1706, in 82d yr. His inv. was only œ206, that of his wid. wh. d. 4 May foll. œ989. Of the ds. Hannah m. at ripe age, 2 Oct. 1689, Patrick Falconer of Guilford, afterwards a preacher in Newark, N. J. but, in 1707, she was w. of James Clark; Sarah m. 21 Oct. 1687, Andrew Morrison, merch. wh. d. 1702 or 3, insolv.; Eliz. m. John Morgan; and Susanna m. Nathaniel Wilson of Hartford, wh. so ill-treat. her that she went home to New Haven, and d. 1705. By the usual folly of tradit. he has been thot. to be descend. of Cromwell's sis. as well as s. of the regicide, yet he was b. many yrs. bef. that m. of the regicide, and he was very little younger than the proposed mo. if she were the wid. of Whetstone that m. Col. Jones the regicide, for she was bapt. 19 Jan. 1606, and Whetstone serv. all thro. the gr. civ. war, and d. aft. William, the suppos. s. of his successor was m. to his first, if not even to the sec. w. and no hesitat. can be felt in agree. with the conclus. of Noble in his memoirs of the Ho. of Cromwell, II. 276, "prob. Col. Jones had no issue by the wid. of Mr. Whetstone." However one part of the story is as good as the other, prob. tho. the relat. unimport. of the Col. has left us, I think, without knowl. of a former w. The little resp. shown to the story of his origin is justif. by the strange ignorance exhibit. in the details, with wh. I have been supplied,--as that the regicide, wh. was b. 1580, in the isle of Anglesea, and one of the mem. for a Welsh county, in the Long Parliam. of 1640, m. 1623, Henrietta, sec. sis. of O. Cromwell, wh. bec. the gr. Protector, when we kn. of the six sis. the sec. was Catharine, two yrs. older than Oliver, and none was nam. Henrietta; and as we see that he did indeed marry a younger sis. of the gr. man, we may be content without giv. him any other than the wid. Whetstone. Ano. blunder of this paper is, in call. Eaton, the f. of William's w. "famous first gov. of New Haven Col. and of Conn. after the union;" thus confus. the f. of the w. with her h. a stupid arrangem. even for a tradit. of stupidity. |
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