Peter Elias’ Family History (Continued)
Peter Elias’ Family History (Continued)
Eleventh Generation
1603. Mary TURVELL, daughter of 3206. Thomas TURVELL. Born ca 1616. Mary died aft 1 Sep 1680; she was 64. Christened 4 Feb 1615/16.
1610. Samuel FULLER, son of 3220. Edward FULLER & 3221. Ann HOPKINS. Born ca 1608 in Kent, ENG. Samuel died in Barnstable, MA, on 18 Oct 1683; he was 75.
Came from Redenhall, Norfolk, England on the Mayflower in 1620 at age 12. His parents Edward and Ann were among four Fullers on the Mayflower. The Fullers left England because they were Separatists. Samuel's parents Edward and Ann died the first winter in Plymouth. Samuel was raised by his namesake uncle (Dr. Samuel Fuller), Edward's brother and a physician. Samuel was admitted as a freeman in 1634 i Plymouth Colony. He moved to Scituate where he built a house and joined the church on Nov 7, 1636. He became constable in Scituate in 1641. He moved later to Barnstable, where his father in law had moved to in 1638. The only Mayflower passenger to settle permanently in Barnstable and one of the last surviving Mayflower passengers. At age 19 he went to Barnstable where he married Jane Lothrop (1635 - ceremony performed by Captain Miles Standish).
On 8 Apr 1635 when Samuel was 27, he married Jane LOTHROP in Scituate, MA.
They had the following children:
805i.
Hannah (ca1636->1686)
ii.
Samuel (<1637-<1691)
iii.
Elizabeth (1640->1683)
iv.
Sarah (<1641->1654)
v.
Mary (ca1644-1720)
vi.
Thomas (1650-<1653)
vii.
Sarah (1654->1683)
viii.
John (ca1655-ca1726)
ix.
Child (1658-)
1611. Jane LOTHROP, daughter of 3222. John LOTHROPP Reverend & 3223. Hannah HOWSE (HOUSE). Born bef 29 Sep 1614 in Edgerton, Kent County, ENG. Christened on 29 Sep 1614. Jane died in Barnstable, MA, in 1680; she was 65.
March 18, 1669/70 John Bishop received Patent for land in Woodbridge: (1) A HOUSELOT OF 39 ACRES ON THE EASTSIDE OF PAPIACK CREEK ADJOINING ROBERT DENNIS; (2) 360 ACRES OF UPLAND ON RATHAWACK RIVER, ADJOINING JOHN TREWMAN’S HOUSELOT; (3) 40 acres ofRawack meadows; added to the patet was 28 acreas of medow bounded by Henry Jaques, Sr. (NJ Archives Vol XXI, p. 10)
According to Genealogicaal Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Vol I, p. 184 and Whitehead’s East Jersey, pp. 42, 52, 77, 134: John Bishop removed to Nantucket, RI and then in 1667 removed to New Jersey and founded Woodbridge. He was the first representative from Woodbridge to serve in the Assembly (1668). He was a counselr under Governor Carteret in 1672.
John married Rebecca KENT.
They had the following children:
i.
John Jr. (1648-)
ii.
Rebecca (1650-)
iii.
Joanna (1652-)
iv.
Hannah (1653-)
v.
Jonathan (1657-)
vi.
Noah (1658-)
806vii.
David (1660-<1683)
March 18, 1669/70 Thomas Awger (Alger) received a patent for land in the Woodbridge Patent: (1) a houselot of 12 acres on a neck in the fork of Bradlie’s Brook; (2) 120 acres of upland, W of the houselot; (3) 35 acres of Raratons madows adjoining Robert Rogers and John Pyke (Pike). (NJArchives Vol. XXI, p. 11)
May 15, 1678 William Binkgle and wife Elizabeth of Woodbridge Corporation deeded to Thomas Alger of Woodbrdge 68 aacres along Raraton Meadows. (NJ Archives, Vo XXI, p. 74.)
Thomas married Susannah *ALGER.
Probably John was his given name. Said to have drowned in Delaware River while unloading goods.
There are several family tradition stories about his origin and demise. They have in common that he was from England (possibly Oxford) and drowned in the Philadelphia area in the Delaware River leaving his family without funds.
(____) married Ann (____).
They had the following children:
808i.
Henry (ca1669-1763)
ii.
Edward (-1750)
iii.
Elizabeth (1681-1772)
Child:
809i.
Elizabeth (-1760)
On 31 October 1673 Francis Walker of Middleboro sold on half share of a cedar swamp tract in the Major’s Purchase, which he had bought from John Hascall, to Isaac Harris.
Francis Walker is included on the 12 November 1695 list of “Proprietors of the Township of Midlebery.”
Bet 2 July 1667 And 23 July 1668 Francis married Elizabeth SOULE in Plymouth, MA.
They had one child:
810i.
Isaac (ca1667-<1719)
1621. Elizabeth SOULE, daughter of 3242. George SOULE & 3243. Mary BUCKETT (BECKET). Born ca 1645 in Duxbury. Elizabeth died in Middleboro, MA, ca 1701; she was 56.
On 3 March 1662/3 Elizabeth Soule and Nathaniel Church were fined for fornication. She sued him for failure to marry her and won a partial judgement in October 1663. On 2 July 1667 she was again charged with fornication with no male partner named.
On 23 July 1668 George Soule Sr. of Duxbury gve Francis Walker, husband of his daughter Elizabeth, one half share of his lands in “Namassakett” (Middleboro).
1632. Reverend Edmund DUNHAM, son of 3264. Benejah DUNHAM & 3265. Elizabeth TILLSON. Born on 25 Jul 1661 in Plymouth, MA. Edmund died in Piscatawy, NJ, on 17 Mar 1734; he was 72.
A lay preacher since 1689, he was ordained at Westerly, RI 1705; first pastor at Piscataway NJ Baptist Church which he helped found around 1700. ,
This was the original and for many years the only Baptist Church north of the Raritan River in NJ. The congregation covered and area of more than 20 miles, north to Morristown and west to the Delaware River.
Deacon Dunham, on the way to or from church on a Sunday, admonished his brother-in-law Hezekiah Bonham for doing farm work on a Sunday. Hezekiah demanded scriptural confirmation and after examining the Scripture (Exodus 20:8) he decided that labor was forbidden on the Sabbath. There was considerable argument within the congregation. Seventeen members sided with Deacon Dunham and signed a special Covenant in April 1707 at the house of Benjamin Martin, son of John Martin, forming the Seventh Day Baptist Church. He remained Pastor until his death and was succeeded as Pastor by his son Jonathan.
Commissioned Justice of the Peace January 23, 1709 by Queen Anne.
He was granted 26 Jan 1684/85 letters of administration of his father’s (Benejah DUNHAM) estate after his mother, named executor, refused.
On 15 Jul 1681 when Edmund was 19, he married Mary BONHAM in Piscataway, NJ.
They had the following children:
816i.
Benejah (1684-1742)
ii.
Elizabeth (1689-<1713)
iii.
Edmund Jr. (1691-)
iv.
Jonathan (1693-1777)
v.
Ephraim (1696-)
vi.
Mary (1698-)
vii.
Ruth (1698-)
viii.
Mary (1700-)
ix.
Hannah (1704-)
1633. Mary BONHAM, daughter of 804. Nicholas BONHAM & 805. Hannah FULLER. Born on 4 Oct 1661 in Barnstable, MA. Mary died in Piscataway, NJ, on 15 Jul 1742; she was 80.
Possibly died March 17, 1734.
Possibly from Scotland, as referred to as “John Martin Scotchman” in NJ Archives XXI.
According to O.B. Leonard in Jan 1898 NYGBR article entitle “Pioneer Planter of Piscataway, NJ” John Martin was one of the first four who took up land under the generous terms of the “Concesions and Agreements of the Lords Proprietors in the Province of New Jersey.” “...They came in 1666 from the most northeastly settlements in New England on the borderline between what is now the State of Maine and New Hampshire. Their Woodbridge friends, from Newbury, MA, a short time before had bought, for 80 pounds, from the “Elizabethtown Grant” of 1664-5 a large tract between the Rath Way (now Rahway) and Raritan Rivers. This Woodbridge deed was dated 11 December 1666. Just a week thereafter, 18 December 1666, one third of the purchase was conveyed to the four persons above named, who called the place ‘New Piscataqua,’ at first, in memory of the district they came from in New England. By an endorsement in the deed 11 May 1668, there had been ‘joined to them in the meantime, to be their associates, John Gilman, Benjamin Hull, Robert Denis and John Smith,’ all from neighboring localities in the most remote Eastern provinces.”
John married Dorothy SMITH.
They had the following children:
817i.
Dorothy (1686-)
ii.
Martha (-1694)
iii.
Benjamin Sr. (ca1656-)
iv.
John Jr.
1648. Hugh DUNN Sr. Born in 1640. Hugh died in Middlesex Co, Piscataway, NJ, on 16 Nov 1694; he was 54.
Landowner in NH as early as 1663.
July 18 1664 received as Freeman inDover, NH and received a ten acre grant for a house lot located below Lamprey River Lower Falls in Durham and a grant for 20 acres up the river at Sandy Bank, a short distance above the falls in New Market Township.
In 1666-72 Hugh Dunn disposed of his holdings in the Piscataqua region of New Hampshire and removed to New Jersey, as did many of his neighbors. On 18 Dec 1666 a deed for 40,000 cres issued in the names of Hugh Dunn, John Martin, Hopewell Hull and Charles Gillman, the original grantees who then settled a township on the Raritan River which they called “New Piscataqua.” This became Piscataway. On 18 Mar 1669/70 Hugh Dunn received a patent for a houselot, 4.5 acres of meadow, 60 acres of upland, 16 acres of meadow (NJ Archives,Vol XXI, P. 12).
In 1678 Hugh Dunn made his permanent home in Piscataway, where he had a patent for 138 acres. In 1686 he recorded cattle marks in the Old Towl Book.
Signer of Special Covenant founding Piscataway Seventh Day Baptist Church.
On 19 Dec 1670 when Hugh was 30, he married Elizabeth DRAKE in Middlesex Co, Piscataway, NJ.
They had the following children:
i.
Mary (1671-1699)
ii.
Francis (1673-)
iii.
Elizabeth (1675-)
824iv.
Hugh Jr. (1678-1736)
v.
Martha (1681-)
vi.
Samuel (1683-)
vii.
Jonathan (1688-)
viii.
Joseph (1689-)
ix.
Benjamin (1694-)
1649. Elizabeth DRAKE, daughter of 3298. Captain Francis DRAKE & 3299. Mary WALKER. Born in 1654 in NH. Elizabeth died in 1711; she was 57.
Signer of Special Covenant founding Piscataway Seventh Day Baptist Church.
1656. John CARMAN, son of 3312. John CARMAN & 3313. Florence FORDHAM. Born in 1633. John died in 1684; he was 51.
In 1660 when John was 27, he married Hannah *CARMAN in Roxbury, MA.
They had the following children:
i.
John
ii.
Caleb
iii.
Benjamin
828iv.
v.
Thomas
vi.
Joshua
vii.
Joseph
Child:
830i.