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_Fulk IV ______________________________
_Fulk V ________________________________|_Bertrada de Montfort _________________
_Geoffrey V Plantagenet ___|
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| |_Ermengard of Maine ____________________|_______________________________________
_Henry II Curtmantle Plantagenet _|
| | _William I the Conqueror ______________
| | _Henry I Beauclerc _____________________|_Matilda of Flanders __________________
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| | |_Phillipa (Matilda) of Toulouse ________|_Emma de Mortain ______________________
|_Eleanor of Aquitane _____________|
| _Boso II de Chastellerault ____________
| _Aimery I de Rochefoucauld _____________|_Eleanor de Thouars ___________________
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Stonington History
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Bulkeley Genealogy
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Fairfield Families
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Cowles Genealogy
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Henry Dow, to be known as a progenitor of the largest American family, was at 25 a farmer in Ormsby. He had a little inheritance from his mother, more than enough to equip his holding of land. Ormsby is not far from Runham. Its parish register was copied in 1880 by Rev. R S Blofield, rector. In it occur three important items, which prove that Henry b 1606 of Runham is Henry of Ormsby and America:
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Hampton, New Hampshire History
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Maine and New Hampshire Genealogical Dictionary
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Willson Family Tree
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Willson Family Tree
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She was a teacher.
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Woodworth Family of America
Philip II, he lost Normandy and almost all his other possessions in
France. In England, after a revolt of the barons, he was forced to
seal the Magna Carta (1215).
Youth and rivalry for the crown
John was the youngest son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Henry's plan (1173) to assign to John, his favourite son (whom he had
nicknamed Lackland), extensive lands upon his marriage with the
daughter of Humbert III, count of Maurienne (Savoy), was defeated by
the rebellion the proposal provoked among John's elder brothers.
Various provisions were made for him in England (1174-76), including
the succession to the earldom of Gloucester. He was also granted the
lordship of Ireland (1177), which he visited from April to late 1185,
committing youthful political indiscretions from which he acquired a
reputation for reckless irresponsibility. Henry's continued favour to
him contributed to the rebellion of his eldest surviving son, Richard
I (later called Coeur de Lion), in June 1189. For obscure reasons John
deserted Henry for Richard.
On Richard's accession in July 1189, John was made count of Mortain (a
title that became his usual style), was confirmed as lord of Ireland,
was granted lands and revenues in England worth �6,000 a year, and was
married to Isabella, heiress to the earldom of Gloucester. He also had
to promise (March 1190) not to enter England during Richard's absence
on his crusade. But John's actions were now dominated by the problem
of the succession, in which his nephew, the three-year-old Arthur I,
duke of Brittany, the son of his deceased elder brother Geoffrey, was
his only serious rival. When Richard recognized Arthur as his heir
(October 1190), John immediately broke his oath and returned to
England, where he led the opposition to Richard's dictatorial
chancellor, William Longchamp. On receiving the news in January 1193
that Richard, on his way back from the crusade, had been imprisoned in
Germany, John allied himself with King Philip II Augustus of France
and attempted unsuccessfully to seize control of England. In April
1193 he was forced to accept a truce but made further arrangements
with Philip for the division of Richard's possessions and for
rebellion in England. On Richard's return, early in 1194, John was
banished and deprived of all his lands. He was reconciled to Richard
in May and recovered some of his estates, including Mortain and
Ireland, in 1195, but his full rehabilitation came only after the
Bretons had surrendered Arthur to Philip II in 1196. This led Richard
to recognize John as his heir.
Accession to the throne.
In 1199 the doctrine of representative succession, which would have
given the throne to Arthur, was not yet generally accepted, and
following Richard's death in April 1199 John was invested as duke of
Normandy and in May crowned king of England. Arthur, backed by Philip
II, was recognized as Richard's successor in Anjou and Maine, and it
was only a year later, in the Treaty of Le Goulet, that John was
recognized as successor in all Richard's French possessions, in return
for financial and territorial concessions to Philip.
War with France.
The renewal of war in France was triggered by John's second marriage.
His first wife, Isabella of Gloucester, was never crowned, and in 1199
the marriage was dissolved on grounds of consanguinity, both parties
being great-grandchildren of Henry I. John then intervened in the
stormy politics of his county of Poitou and, while trying to settle
the differences between the rival families of Lusignan and Angoul�eme,
himself married Isabella (August 1200), the heiress to Angoul�eme, who
had been betrothed to Hugh IX de Lusignan. This politically conceived
marriage provoked the Lusignans into rebellion the next year; they
appealed to Philip II, who summoned John to appear before his court.
In the general war that followed his failure to answer this summons,
John had a temporary success at Mirebeau in August 1202, when Arthur
of Brittany was captured, but Normandy was quickly lost (1204). By
1206, Anjou, Maine, and parts of Poitou had also gone over to King
Philip.
These failures, foreshadowed under Henry II and Richard, were brought
about by the superiority of French resources and the increasing strain
on those of England and Normandy. Nevertheless, they were a damaging
blow to John's prestige, and, equally important, they meant that John
resided now almost permanently in England. This factor, coinciding
with the death (1205) of the chancellor and archbishop of Canterbury,
Hubert Walter, gave his government a much more personal stamp, which
was accentuated by the promotion of members of his household to
important office. His determination to reverse the continental failure
bore fruit in ruthlessly efficient financial administration, marked by
taxation on revenues, investigations into the royal forests, taxation
of the Jews, a great inquiry into feudal tenures, and the increasingly
severe exploitation of his feudal prerogatives. These measures
provided the material basis for the charges of tyranny later brought
against him.
Quarrel with the church.
John's attention was diverted and his prestige disastrously affected
by relations with the papacy. In the disputed election to the see of
Canterbury following the death of Hubert Walter, Pope Innocent III
quashed the election of John's nominee in procuring the election of
Stephen Langton (December 1206). John, taking his ground on the
traditional rights of the English crown in episcopal elections,
refused to accept Langton. In March 1208, Innocent laid an interdict
on England and excommunicated John (November 1209). The quarrel
continued until 1213, by which time John had amassed more than
appropriated sees and abbeys. But such a dispute was a dangerous
hindrance to John's intention to recover his continental lands. In
November 1212 he agreed to accept Langton and the Pope's terms.
Apparently at his own behest, he surrendered his kingdom to the papal
nuncio at Ewell, near Dover, on May 15, 1213, receiving it back as a
vassal rendering a tribute of 1,000 marks (
excommunication by Langton in July 1213, and the interdict was finally
relaxed a year later. John thus succeeded in his aim to secure the
papacy as a firm ally in the fight with Philip and in the struggle
already pending with his own baronage. But his treatment of the church
during the interdict, although arousing little if any opposition among
the laity at the time, angered monastic chroniclers, who henceforth
loaded him with charges of tyranny, cruelty, and, with less reason, of
sacrilege and irreligion. (see also Index: Roman Catholicism)
Baronial rebellion and the Magna Carta.
In August 1212 recurrent baronial discontent had come to a head in an
unsuccessful plot to murder or desert John during a campaign planned
against the Welsh. Pope Innocent's terms had included the restoration
of two of those involved, Eustace de Vesci and Robert Fitzwalter, and,
although the barons soon lost papal support, they retained the
protection of Stephen Langton. John, skillfully isolating the
malcontents, was able to launch his long-planned campaign against the
French, landing at La Rochelle in February 1214. He achieved nothing
decisive and was forced to accept a truce lasting until 1220.
Returning to England in October 1214, he now had to face much more
widespread discontent, centred mainly on the northern, East Anglian,
and home counties. After lengthy negotiations in which both sides
appealed to the Pope, civil war broke out in May 1215. John was
compelled to negotiate once more when London went over to the rebels
in May, and on June 19 at Runnymede he accepted the baronial terms
embodied in the Magna Carta, which ensured feudal rights and restated
English law. This settlement was soon rendered unworkable by the more
intransigent barons and John's almost immediate appeal to Pope
Innocent against it. Innocent took the King's side, and in the ensuing
civil war John captured Rochester castle and laid waste the northern
counties and the Scottish border. But his cause was weakened by the
arrival of Prince Louis (later Louis VIII) of France, who invaded
England at the barons' request. John continued to wage war vigorously
but died, leaving the issues undecided. His death made possible a
compromise peace, including the restoration of the rebels, the
succession of his son Henry III, and the withdrawal of Louis.
Assessment
John's reputation, bad at his death, was further depressed by writers
of the next generation. Of all centuries prior to the present, only
the 16th, mindful of his quarrel with Rome, recognized some of his
quality. He was suspicious, vengeful, and treacherous; Arthur I of
Brittany was probably murdered in captivity, and Matilda de Braose,
the wife of a recalcitrant Marcher baron, was starved to death with
her son in a royal prison. But John was cultured and literate.
Conventional in his religion rather than devout, he was remembered for
his benefactions to the church of Coventry, to Reading Abbey, and to
Worcester, where he was buried and where his effigy still survives. He
was extraordinarily active, with a great love of hunting and a
readiness to travel that gave him a knowledge of England matched by
few other monarchs. He took a personal interest in judicial and
financial administration, and his reign saw important advances at the
Exchequer, in the administration of justice, in the importance of the
privy seal and the royal household, in methods of taxation and
military organization, and in the grant of chartered privileges to
towns. If his character was unreliable, his political judgment was
acute. In 1215 many barons, including some of the most distinguished,
fought on his side.
Mary Baldwin
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19 Feb 1625 - 1 Feb 1707
Father: Sylvester Baldwin
Mother: Sarah Bryan
Family 1
: Robert Plumbe
Family 2
: William East
_Richard Baldwin _+
_Henry Baldwin __|_Ellen Apuke _____
_Sylvester Baldwin _|
| | _William King ____
| |_Alice King _____|__________________
_Sylvester Baldwin _|
| | _Thomas Welles ___
| | _Robert Welles __|__________________
| |_Jane Welles _______|
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| _Robert Bryan ___|__________________
| _Thomas Bryan ______|
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|_Sarah Bryan _______|
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| _Thomas Bowling _|__________________
|_Frances Bowling ___|
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Richard Bartlett
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ABT 1600 - ____
Father: Robert Bartlett
Mother: Alice Barker
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_John Bartlett _|__
_Robert Bartlett _|
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_Robert Bartlett _|
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| |_Alice Prout _____|
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Harriet Brewster
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ABT 1827 - 1 Apr 1900
Family 1
: Charles Woodworth
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Joseph Bulkeley
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ABT 1648 - ____
Father: Thomas Bulkeley
Mother: Sarah Jones
Family 1
: Martha Beers
_Thomas Bulkeley _____+
_Edward Bulkeley _|_Elizabeth Grosvenor _
_Peter Bulkeley _|
| | _John Irby ___________+
| |_Olive Irby ______|_Rose Overton ________
_Thomas Bulkeley _|
| | ______________________
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| |_Jane Allen _____|
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|--Joseph Bulkeley
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| _John Jones _____|
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|_Sarah Jones _____|
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Thomas Burnham
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Father: John Burnham
Mother: Mary Catlin
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_Thomas Burnham _|
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_John Burnham _|
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| |_Ann Wright _____|
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Mary Clarke
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Family 1
: Robert Cushman
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Abigail Cowles
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Father: Timothy Cowles
Mother: Abigail Woodworth
_Nathaniel Cowles _+
_Timothy Cowles _____|_Phoebe Woodruff __
_Asa Cowles _________|
| | _Isaac Johnson ____+
| |_Content Johnson ____|_Margaret Miller __
_Timothy Cowles ____|
| | ___________________
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|--Abigail Cowles
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| _Joseph Woodworth _+
| _Jedediah Woodworth _|___________________
| _Constant Woodworth _|
| | | _William Torrey ___
| | |_Margaret Torrey ____|_Margaret Buck ____
|_Abigail Woodworth _|
| ___________________
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|_Rebecca Hutchinson _|
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Joseph Crandall
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Father: Eber Crandall
Mother: Patience Lanphere
Family 1
: Edith Hiscox
__________________
__________________|__________________
_John Crandall __|
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_Eber Crandall _____|
| | _William Gaylord _
| | _William Gaylord _|__________________
| |_Hannah Gaylord _|
| | _John Porter _____
| |_Ann Porter ______|_Anna White ______
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|--Joseph Crandall
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|_Patience Lanphere _|
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Ralph de Neville
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1363 - 21 Oct 1425
Father: John de Neville
Mother: Maud de Percy
Family 1
: Joan de Beaufort
Family 2
: Margaret Stafford
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_Ralph de Neville ___|
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| |_Euphemia de Clavering _|__
_John de Neville _|
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| |_Alice de Audeley ___|
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| _Henry de Percy _____|
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Josiah Doty
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Father: John Doty
Mother: Elizabeth Cooke
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_Edward Doty _____|
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_John Doty _______|
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| | _Thurston Clarke __|__
| |_Faith Clarke ____|
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| _Jacob Cooke _____|
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|_Elizabeth Cooke _|
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|_Damaris Hopkins _|
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Henry Dow
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____ - 21 Apr 1659
Father: Henry Dow
Mother: Elizabeth March
Family 1
:
Family 2
: Margaret Cole
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_John Dow ___|__
_Thomas Dow _________|
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| |_Johan Coop _|__
_Henry Dow _______|
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| |_Margaret England ___|
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| _Christopher Marche _|
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|_Elizabeth March _|
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Edward Dow and Elizabeth Robbins were married ye xxvij of January, anno Dom 1628. Henry Dow and Jane Nud was married ye 11 of February 1630 oeAnno Domini 1631 Thomas doue filius Thomas Doue et Joane uxoris ejus vicesimo Septi mo die December baptirjatus fuit.
The mention of the father as Thomas is an obvious pen slip. We follow the youngster to America, where he died at 10.
It is clear that the brothers Edward and Henry were together as husbandman in Ormsby, that each found a wife there, that the ties of Runham gradually were loosed as Ormsby ties grew strong. What happened to Edward we have not traced. Of Henry's path, the account is fairly ample. Of Joan Nudd we know but little: not her maiden name. She was 23 at her marriage and had a baby boy. Her husband was Roger Nudd, son of John, who died in Ormsby 1629. Probably Henry and Roger were fellow farmers. The Nudds were numerous in Norfolk, mostly in the seaward parish. Vital rec. of that parish are not extant prior to 1671. The Nudd affairs are fully discussed under the chapter of Thomas Nudd, immigrant of 1637.
Under what circumstances Henry and Joan became dissenters is not known. They were of the established church in 1630. There arose in Ormsby a great deal of dissatisfaction, religious and otherwise. This crystallized into a determination of seven families to try the New World. It was an arrangement planned long in advance and was consummated on the same boat. Hotten's Original Lists give all the families, who afterwards appear together in Hampton, N H. The Page, Moulton, Marston families intermarried with Dow with especial frequency. It has often beenasserted with more or less cynicism, that a desire to better one's material condition was the paramount reason for going to America, desire for religious freedom being very secondary. It may be that these people were at no time dissenters in England. They had to be, in Massachusetts Bay, for there were no others. That all of them were of strong religious feeling is sure. No others could stand the intensely religious atmosphere of New England, a situation in which one must travel a very narrow path of rectitude, almost all ordinary pleasures being outside the pale. If the percentage of immigrants whose motive was improvement of material conditions and not intense religiousness had been at all large, the stern puritan life could not have maintained its iron grip, but would have degenerated into the free and easy morals of Virginia during the same period. In Massachusetts Bay all were of the persuasion which became Congregationalism, in contrast to that of the Plymouth colony whose notion of Government became Presbyterianism.
In the Rolls Office, Chancery Lane, London, is a small parchment bound volume labeled on the cover:
T C 27. 979 A A. D. 1637 13 Car. I
This is filled with entries of persons "desirous to pass beyond seas" and consists of 16 pp, most of which are taken up by names of Puritans on the way to Holland. The contents has been copied into Hotten's Original Lists, Drake's Founders of New England, etc. The entry vital to us is:
"These people went to New England: with William: Andrewes: of Ipswich M'r of the: John: and Dorethy: of Ipswich and with William Andrewes his son M'r of the Rose: of Yarmouth Aprill the llth 1637. The examination of Henerey Dowe of Ormsby in Norff Husband man, ageed 29 yeares and Joane: his wife ageed 30 yeares with four children, and one Saruant Ann Maning aged 17 yeares, are desirous to passe into New England to inhabitt."
This is all clear. Henry Dow of Ormsby married the widow of his friend, a year older than himself, took her baby boy; had three children of his own and was able to start with a servant. This latter does not indicate affluence. Passage to America was very costly. Young men and women of good family gladly indentured themselves for a long term if the employer would pay the passage. It was in this way that Margaret Cole, who became Henry Dow's second wife, came to Dedham with the family of Mitchill Metcalfe. But, it does show that Henry was decidedly thrifty or charitable to bring the maid. Of Ann Manning, saruant ageed 17 nothing further appears; no doubt she found a husband as soon as her term of service was up. Tbe Andrewes, father and son, were in the regular business of carrying emigrants across, so they do not appear again in these pages.
From Henry Dow are descended nearly three-fifths of all the Dows of America. The party landed in Boston after a long voyage, no details of which have appeared. One child either died on voyage or on land before Watertown statistics were begun. How and why Henry parted from his companions we do not know. All but he turned up 1640 in Hampton and asked him to join them there. Henry proceeded almost at once to Watertown. just being settled about ten miles west of Boston. Presumably the selection of the place was influenced by the opportunity to become a grantee on equal terms, with allotment of land free. No settler in those days had to buy land unless it was thought desirable to pay the Indians for a title. He remained seven years in Watertown, a very inconspicuous citizen. He was admitted a freeman May 2, 1638, but held no office in his town. In fact, the only mentions of him in Watertown are in the land records and vital statistics. He could have had free land in Hampton in 1640, but decided not to accept it. There is reason to think that he stayed in Watertown until the land boomed. In a few years the settled place commanded a price at which the original settlers took profits and moved on to begin anew and clear forest land. We know that Henry Dow left Watertown a moderate capitalist.
In Lands,Grants & Possessions, first Inventory, we find: Henry Dow 1. An Homestall of Eight acres more or less bounded on the East with Hill street and west with William Rix the North with Thomas Hastings & the South with Robert Veazey. 2. A farm of Ninety seven acres of Vpland in the 5 divifion In the third Inventory is entered:
Henry Dow. 1. An Homestall of Eight Acres by eftimation bounded on the Eaft w'th the highway the West with Thomas Smith and Eliz Barron the North w'th Thomas Boyson & the South w'th William Godfree in his possession.
Clearly, between the two inventories an almost complete change of adjacent land ownership had taken place, the original settlers selling out to new comers. Henry's farm has not been placed, no effort having been made. The home was on the west side of School St. An entry of April 9, 1638: A Divifion of Land at y'e Townplott, Henry Dow Six acres In 1642: Ordered that all the Townes Men that had no farm laid out formerly fhall take them by ten in a Divifion, and to east Lotts f or the severau Divifions allowing 13 acres of Vpland to every head of Persons and cattle.
Lott: No of lot
Henry Dow Ninety seven acres 102
The little book of Watertown vital records is extant:
The Records of the
Births, Deathes and
Marriages in Watertown
Keppt according to
the order of Court
Made in the yeare
1638.
p 6. 1638 Jofeth Dow of Henry and Jone Dow borne the 20'd-11 mo p 9 of the book is blank, the clerk having neglected his duty, but what belongs there is in the records of the Clerk of the Court of Middlesex Co:
1640 Joan the wife of Henry Dow buried 20 (4) 1641 Daniell the son of Henry & Margaret Dow borne 22 (7) Thomas the son of Henry & Jone Dow buried 10 (5) 1643 Mary the daughter of Henry & Margaret Dow borne 14 (7)
In the transcript of Don Gleason Hill of the First Church (of Dedham): Margarette Cole our sister by p'dence being maried to a brother sells to Manuel F of Watertown named Dow was dismissed to y't Church 1643. The wedding was not at Watertown.
Thus is recorded the birth of Joseph Dow, first Dow ever born in America, whose posterity is the most numerous; also the death of his older brother; the death of his mother at 33, twice a wife, five times a mother; the birth of two new children, following his father's speedy remarriage. We must not accuse Henry of indelicacy. In primitive New England life for a man without a wife's help was hard indeed; for a woman without help from a husband harder yet; for children without both parents almost unsupportable. Margaret Cole had known Henry Dow in Ormsby, had come to America in 1639 with the Metcalfe family and had settled in Dedham. She was indentured, just as Ann Manning had been, and was younger than Henry Dow. In First Church Dedham: Margaret Coole, a maid servant, giving good satisfaction to ye church was received in ye 3rd month of this yeare, 1639. Others from Ormsby were admitted about the same time. Margaret survived her husband by 16 years; m 2nd (Martgrit Dow) Aug 23, 1661, Richard Kimball of Ipswich. He was of Watertown 1641 to 1644 and came then to know the Dows.
In 1644 the time was ripe to move. Henry sold out all his lands and started overland for Hampton. In that town is an entry: June 16, 1640, grant of a house lot to Henry Dow, if he come. Evidently he had thought then of moving. But, he had become an astute land speculator. In 1644 he got enough for his Watertown property to buy treble the property offered as a gift. In 1644 he bought his house lot from John Sanders, freeman, of Ipswich in 1634, who came early to Hampton, but sold out, went to Newbury, returning finally to Hampton. In 1649 Henry bought the homestead of William Wakefield, freeman of 1638, who moved to Newbury in 1646. It was from this latter plot that Henry set off 10 acres for Thomas Nudd as his home. He bought a house already built from John Sanborn (where the store of J J Leavitt stood in 1890). The original Sanders purchase was on the road from Hampton village to Hampton Beach, about 1'2 miles from the ocean. In the part of the town now known as Boar's Head was the Oxe Common, land where the share holders pastured. The Cow Common was divided in 1645 into 147 shares and allotted to proprietors of house lots, Hen: Dow receiving 3 shares by virtue of proportionate lot owning. The homestead remained long in the family, sold by Olive Dow, unm, of the 6th generation. The fates were much kinder in Hampton than in Watertown. Henry was there a man of influence, his merits known. Of course, currency was scarce to all alike and it was wholly in the usual conduct of business that Henry in 1650 binds himself to pay a debt in good merchantable wheat. He was selectman in l651, Deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts 1655-6. He traded briskly in real estate at all times. In 1650 he sells to Manuel Hiliard a 10 acre house lot and 3 acres of salt marsh for money. He signs his name this year as Doue. Feb 16, 1659, he made provision for his oldest son: a house and barn bought from Thomas Sleeper, 100 rods of adjoining land, a share of the oxe common, the share of the cowcommon bought from Thomas Sleeper, also 6 acres of planting ground in the east field. He was appointed with two others to examine the land grants and highways, but died before this was completed, Apr 21, 1659. He was one of the dozen men of Hampton always styled "gentleman" and as "Mr."
All men and women of early Hampton attended strictly to their religious observances. In the meeting house every detail was arranged: All the men to sett at the west end and all the women to sett at the east end and the devotion to be at the greet poest that is betwin the two windos.
Margaret Cole Dow sat by ould mistris husse her dafter husse goody swaine goody pebody goody brown mistris stanyen Mary Perkinges. Bro Page and Bro: Dow were the committee to negotiate for the services of Rev Seaborn Cotton after the resignation of Rev. Wheelwright.
Henry's will was witnessed by Robert Page and Samuel Dalton.
Jeremiah Dow
[3536]
[3537]
[3538]
[3539]
ABT 6 Sep 1650 - ____
Father: Henry Dow
Mother: Margaret Cole
_John Dow ___
_Thomas Dow _________|_Johan Coop _
_Henry Dow _______|
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| |_Margaret England ___|_____________
_Henry Dow _____|
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| | _Christopher Marche _|_____________
| |_Elizabeth March _|
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| |_Frances Farrer _____|_____________
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|_Margaret Cole _|
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Susanna Fownes
[17153]
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Family 1
: John Kellond
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Elizabeth Godfrey
[16253]
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Family 1
: John Cary
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William Rees Gribben
[13497]
25 Nov 1874 - ____
Father: Leonard Gribben
Mother: Ada Barr
____________________
__________________|____________________
_William Gribben _|
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_Leonard Gribben _|
| | _Samuel Scott ______
| | _John Scott ______|_Elizabeth Willson _
| |_Esther Scott ____|
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| |_Esther Phillips _|____________________
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|--William Rees Gribben
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|_Ada Barr ________|
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Mary Jane Henderson
[355]
[356]
20 Oct 1822 - 11 Oct 1870
Father: Alexander Henderson
Mother: Hannah Hawthorne
Family 1
: Samuel Sloan
_Alexander Henderson _
_Alexander Henderson _|______________________
_Andrew Henderson __|
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_Alexander Henderson _|
| | _John McConnell ______+
| | _Alexander McConnell _|______________________
| |_Martha McConnell __|
| | _James Wilson ________
| |_Martha Wilson _______|______________________
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|--Mary Jane Henderson
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| _William Hawthorne _|
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|_Hannah Hawthorne ____|
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|_Hannah Bigham _____|
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Robert T. Hoyt
[18375]
[18376]
30 Jun 1896 - AFT 1943
Family 1
: Rachael Maizenna Willson
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John Maynard
[19436]
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Family 1
: Mary Gates
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George McClure
[19347]
ABT 1873 - ____
Father: Alexander McClure
Mother: Dolly (Deborah) J. Wilson
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_Alexander McClure _________|
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John McConnell
[13778]
ABT 1840 - ____
Father: John McConnell
Mother: Elizabeth Barber
_Adam McConnell _+
_Robert McConnell _|_________________
_Adam McConnell _|
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| |_Nancy Boyd _______|_________________
_John McConnell ___|
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| |_Elly Moore _____|
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|_Elizabeth Barber _|
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Lucy Ann McConnell
[13677]
5 Jun 1823 - 26 Sep 1904
Father: Joseph McConnell
Mother: Jane Jackson
Family 1
: William Fernandes Quisenberry
_Alexander McConnell _
_Alexander McConnell _|______________________
_William McConnell _|
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_Joseph McConnell _|
| | ______________________
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| |_Roseanne Kennedy __|
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|_Jane Jackson _____|
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Mabel McConnell
[13901]
ABT 1743 - ____
Father: William McConnell
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_Alexander McConnell _|__
_James McConnell _|
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_William McConnell _|
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Rachel McConnell
[13587]
[13588]
4 Apr 1839 - 27 Dec 1914
Father: Thomas Buchanon McConnell
Mother: Margaret Swingle
Family 1
: Upton Flenner Lybarger
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_Thomas Buchanon McConnell _|
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|_Margaret Swingle __________|
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Hannah Ring
[18466]
____ - ____
Family 1
: Nathan Kimball
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Mary Sargent
[4757]
24 Nov 1678 - ____
Father: William Sargent
Mother: Abigail Clark
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_William Sargent _|__
_Andrew Sargent _|
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_William Sargent _|
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| | _George Wathen ___|__
| |_Mary Wathen ____|
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| |_Joyce White _____|__
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| _Edmund Clark ___|
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|_Abigail Clark ___|
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| _Walter Tybott ___|__
|_Agnes Tybott ___|
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Abigail Wadsworth
[5801]
25 Oct 1670 - 15 Jan 1744
Father: John Wadsworth
Mother: Abigail Andrews
Family 1
: Jacob Tomson
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_John Wadsworth __|
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Sarah Welles
[4628]
[4629]
ABT 1631 - 12 Dec 1698
Father: Thomas Welles
Mother: Alice Tomes
Family 1
: John Chester
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_Thomas Welles _|__
_Robert Welles _|
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_Thomas Welles _|
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| _John Tomes ____|
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|_Alice Tomes ___|
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|_Ellen Gunn ____|
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Elizabeth Woodworth
[17066]
3 Aug 1760 - ____
Father: Reuben Woodworth
Mother: Elizabeth McGee
_Walter Woodworth _
_Benjamin Woodworth _|___________________
_Ichabod Woodworth _|
| | _John Damon _______
| |_Hannah Damon _______|_Martha Howland ___
_Reuben Woodworth _|
| | ___________________
| | _John Bass __________|___________________
| |_Sarah Bass ________|
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| |_Elizabeth Neale ____|___________________
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|_Elizabeth McGee __|
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|____________________|
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Rebecca Woodworth
[16064]
25 Jul 1729 - ____
Father: Ebenezer Woodworth
Mother: Rebecca Smalley
Family 1
: Stephen Lumbard
____________________
_Walter Woodworth _|____________________
_Benjamin Woodworth _|
| | ____________________
| |___________________|____________________
_Ebenezer Woodworth _|
| | ____________________
| | _John Damon _______|____________________
| |_Hannah Damon _______|
| | _Arthur Howland ____+
| |_Martha Howland ___|____________________
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|--Rebecca Woodworth
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| ____________________
| ___________________|____________________
| _Benjamin Smalley ___|
| | | ____________________
| | |___________________|____________________
|_Rebecca Smalley ____|
| _Nicholas Snow _____
| _John Snow ________|_Constance Hopkins _
|_Rebecca Snow _______|
| _John Smalley ______
|_Mary Smalley _____|_Ann Walden ________
Welthy Woodworth
[18272]
13 Mar 1768 - ____
Father: Nathan Woodworth
Mother: Deborah Mack
_Walter Woodworth __
_Isaac Woodworth _|____________________
_Isaac Woodworth _|
| | _Richard Standlake _
| |_Lydia Standlake _|____________________
_Nathan Woodworth _|
| | ____________________
| | _Robert Douglas __|____________________
| |_Ruth Douglas ____|
| | ____________________
| |_Mary Hempstead __|____________________
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|--Welthy Woodworth
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| ____________________
| __________________|____________________
| _Ebenezer Mack ___|
| | | ____________________
| | |__________________|____________________
|_Deborah Mack _____|
| ____________________
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|_Hannah Huntley __|
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