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Peirce, Anthony (b. 1609, d. 9 MAY 1678)

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Howard, Mary E. (b. NOV 1894, d. AFT 1989)
Note: THE FOLLOWING ARE POSSIBLE SISTERS TO MALVERN HOWARD WELSH:

MARY SIEBERT
Born: 22 Jan 1905 Died: Mar 1989
Last Residence: 90740 (Los Alamitos, Orange, CA)
SSN: Issuing state: Pennsylvania Issued: Before 1951

MARY SIEBERT
Born: 30 Oct 1896 Died: 22 Oct 1989
Last Residence: (No Location Given)
SSN:
Issuing state: Pennsylvania
Issued: Before 1951

MARY SIEBERT
Born: 9 Dec 1890
Died: Oct 1980
Last Residence: 15601 (Greensburg, Westmoreland, PA)
Last Benefit: 43512 (Defiance, Defiance, OH)
SSN:
Issuing state: Pennsylvania
Issued: Before 1951

MARY SIEBERT
Born: 25 Nov 1894
Died: Jan 1978
Last Residence:10469 (Bronx Nyc, Bronx, NY)
SSN:
Issuing State: New York
Issued: Between 1977 and 1978

Mary's address in 1989 was given to me by Pauline Welsh Nicholson as
850 Addison St. Washington, PA 15301.

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Stark, Amanda Josephine (b. ABT 1880, d. AFT 1930)
Source: (Birth)
Title: 1920 Census
Data:
Text: Year: 1920;Census Place: Detroit Ward 6, Wayne, Michigan; Roll: T625_806; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 191; Image: 204.

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Bulkeley, Thomas (b. ABT 1515, d. ABT 1591)
Note: The LDS site takes the Bulkeley line in England back to about 1300 A.D.

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Grosvenor, Elizabeth (b. ABT 1515, d. ABT 1591)
Note: The LDS family search site has the Grosvenor line going back to Edward I, King of England and his lineage beyond.

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Conqueror, William the (b. 1066, d. 1087)
Occupation: Place: King of England

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Phippen, William (b. , d. 1647)
Source: (Burial Field)
50 Great Migration Colonists, Threlfall, J.B., Heritage Books. 1990
Source: (Individual)
Title: 50 Great Migration Colonists
Author: Threlfall, John Brooks
Publication: Heritage Books. Madison, WI. 1990
Media: Book
Occupation: Place: Baker

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, Judith (b. , d. 1637)
Source: (Burial)
Title: 50 Great Migration Colonists
Author: Threlfall, John Brooks
Publication: Heritage Books. Madison, WI. 1990
Media: Book
Page: 299
Note: 50 Great Migration Colonists, Threlfall, J.B., Heritage Books. 1990

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Riddlesdale, Edward (b. ABT 1592, d. FEB 1630/31)
Source: (Birth)
Title: 50 Great Migration Colonists
Author: Threlfall, John Brooks
Publication: Heritage Books. Madison, WI. 1990
Media: Book
Page: 311

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Riddlesdale, Rebecca (b. 5 DEC 1630, d. ?)
Note: She probably died young.

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Riddlesdale, Jasper (b. ABT 1490, d. AUG 1552)
Occupation: Place: Husbandman

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Loker, Henry (b. 7 FEB 1576/77, d. 25 FEB 1630/31)
Occupation: Place: Glover

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Riddlesdale, Robert (b. , d. 1 JUL 1585)
Note: Used both the surname of Riddlesdale and Loker.

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Spofford, John (b. 1611, d. BET 7 OCT AND 6 NOV 1678)
Note: JOHN SPOFFORD

Excerpted from "Fifty Great Migration Colonists" by J. B. Threlfall.

John Spofford settled in Rowley Mass where he had a 1 1/2 acre house lot on Bradford Street in 1643. His name appears on the first division of home lots when he received this lot. He was also granted land in the fresh meadows, salt meadows, and tillage lands, the Merimac lands, and shares in the ox pasture, cow pasture, and calf pasture. He lived for 30 years in Rowley and in 1669 moved to Spofford HIll in the west part of town where he was without doubt the first settler in that part now called Georgetown.

He took this farm on a lease. For the first five years he was to pay as rent 300 feet of white oak plank, after that ú10 each year - one half in English corn or Indian corn, and the other half in "fat cattle or lean." This lease was assigned over to
his sons, John and Samuel, on 16 Mar 1676, and the rent was reduced to ú8 and to be wholly remitted "during the time of the Indian Wars." The lease was extended for 60 years; then the land reverted back to the town.

John Spofford signed his will by mark on 7 Oct 1678 and it was proved 6 November following.

John Spofford married Elizabeth Scott of Ipswich, 18 Nov 1623, she was 23 at the time. He was about 35 when he married. This is about 10 years beyond the usual age. It suggests that he might have been married earlier, but there is no evidence of such a marriage.

From "A Family Record John Spofford"

The Spofford Family History written by John Spofford in 1869 as it appears on the Genealogy.com CD-ROM

The name of John Spofford appears on the record of the first division of lands into homestead lots, in 1643. He had a house lot of one and a half acres on Bradford street so-called, near the centre of the present town of Rowley. Lots were also assigned him in the "fresh meadows, the salt meadows, the village lands, the Merrimack lands, and shares in the ox pasture, the cow pasture and the calf pasture." His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Scott of Ipswich, but we find no record of their marriage. The birth of a daughter, Elizabeth, is recorded, Dec. 15, 1646.

He lived for about thirty years in what is still Rowley, and in the spring of 1669 removed to "Spofford's Hill" in the west part of the town, and was without doubt the first settler in Georgetown, and the progenitor of all of the name in the United States and Canada; and also of most of the Harrimans and Brocklebanks, and many of the Nelsons, Chaplins and Tenneys of Georgetown; also many of the Kimballs, Haseltines, Hopkinsons, Parkers, Burbanks and Woods of Bradford and Groveland; and many of the Peabodys, Kimballs and Adamses of Boxford.

The town of Rowley in 1668 laid out a farm "at the Gravelle Plain near the Bald Hills," to which, tradition says, the name of "Bald Pate" was given, the trees having been removed to clear the land for pasturage; a use to which most of it has been devoted to the present day.

This farm John Spofford took on a lease for twenty-one years. For the first five years he was to pay as rent "three hundred feet of white oak plank, and after that time, ten pounds each year--one-half in English corn at price current, or Indian corn if he pleases--the other half in fat cattel or leane, at price current." This lease was assigned to his sons John and Samuel, March 16, 1676, and the rent reduced to eight pounds, and to be wholly remitted "duringe the time of the Indian wars," and it was extended by agreement three score years from the date thereof. John, Jun., was twenty years of age at the date of this lease, and he and his son John lived, reared families, and died on this farm before its expiration. Samuel--then twenty-four years of age--survived the lease nearly seven years.

Why this removal several miles into an almost unbroken wilderness was made, and this farm taken upon a lease, by John, Sen., when land was so plenty, and after having half a dozen lots assigned him in the division, does not appear; perhaps the "benefit of penning the cattel" was a valuable privilege. His descendants were owners of nearly one thousand acres of adjoining lands, at the time the lease expired; when the farm reverted to the town. The northerly part of it was soon after set off to the Second Parish, and was sold or leased for nine hundred and ninety-nine years. The remaining part was let on seven year leases, until 1851, when it was sold to Mr. Sewell Spofford, and is at present (1869) owned by his son.

The family name has varied much in its spelling, both in England and America. The English authorities are copied as printed. In the body of the before-mentioned lease, the name is twice spelled Spofforth--it is signed Spofford--but the renewed lease in 1676 is signed John and Samuel Spofforth. On the gravestone of this John 2d in the old burying ground at Bradford, bearing the date 1697, it is spelt Spafford, and on the gravestone of Samuel in the cemetery in Georgetown, it is Spaffard. The name was usually spelt with an a at the time of the Revolution, and the descendants of those who left this vicinity at about that time retain this orthography, but Spofford is now nearly uniform in Massachusetts, and it is claimed, conforms with the most ancient authorities in England.


THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JOHN SPOFFORD, SENIOR.

I commit my soul into the hands of God who gave it, and my body to the earth, to be decently buried, and as to that estate which the Lord hath given, I dispose of it as follows, after my debts are paid.

Imprimis:--As to my dear and loving wife, I give to her the lease of the house and lands of Mrs. Prudence Cotton.

Also I give to her all the household stuff, to be at her disposal, except the arms and ammunition. Also I give to her two cows, and one calf, also four sheep. I give to her and my son Francis, to be equally divided between them, one young horse, also to have the use of four acres of land at the farm during her life. Furthermore, I will that my son Francis his portion be at my wife's disposal till he comes to the age of twenty-one if she lives so long, for that end that he may be useful to her in carrying on her husbandry work.

Item: That which I give to my son Francis, is the two young oxen, and the mare, and the cart, and all the furniture belonging to husbandry. Also one yearling calf, these to be at my wife's disposal till he be of age above said, and these things, or the worth of them, to be faithfully paid to him. Also I give him the small gun, and four acres of land at great meadows, and what may so fall by virtue of any town grant.

Item: I give to my son John, two steers coming three years old, and the long fowling-piece, and one half of the lease of the farm together with twenty pounds stock I formerly gave him.

Item: I give to my son Thomas, my village lands, and the grey horse, and two sheep, and one spring hog, and one two year old heifer and the great musket.

Item: I give to my son Samuel the other half of the lease of the farm and two young steers, one that comes three years old and one that comes four years old, and one spring hog, and about ten pounds stock which I have already given him.

Item: I give to my daughter Elizabeth one two year old heifer and two sheep.

Item: I give to Hannah one cow, one three year old heifer, and two shee

Item: I give to my daughter Mary one cow and one calf and two sheep.

Item: I give to my daughter Sarah, one cow and one calf and two sheep.

Item: I also appoint my loving wife and my son Thomas to be joint executors of this my last will, and my children to be paid at marriage or at coming one and twenty years old, and if any die before, their portion to be devided among the rest.

In witness whereof I have set my hand and seal 8th 8th month,
(Oct. 8th) 1678.
JOHN SPOFFORD.
Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of us,
JOHN JOHNSON,
PHILIP NELSON.
In court held at Ipswich 6th 9th month, 1678, this will proved to be the last will and testament of John Spofford, by the oaths of Philip Nelson and John Johnson.

We may learn something of the character of the man of whom we write, from an anecdote creditable to him, and characteristic of the time in which he lived--which has been handed down by tradition from Samuel Spofford, who was born in 1653 and lived to be ninety-one years old, through a descendant born in the middle of the last century, and who related the story to the writer.

During his residence at Rowley a severe drought was followed by a great scarcity of food, and our good forefather repaired to Salem to purchase corn for his family and neighbors. The merchant to whom he applied, foreseeing a greater scarcity and higher prices, refused to open his store to supply his want. Having pleaded the necessities of himself and others in vain, he cursed him to his face! but on being immediately taken before a magistrate, charged with profane swearing, he replied that he had not cursed profanely, but as a religious duty, and quoted Prov. 11:26 as his authority. The words are, "He that withholdeth corn from the hungry, the people shall curse him." He was immediately acquitted, and by the summary power of courts in those days, the merchant was ordered to deliver to him as much corn as he wished to pay for.

The disposal of the lease at the new settlement to his older sons, and the provision that he makes for his wife and youngest son--then but thirteen years old--together with the request that he may be "useful to her in her husbandry work," indicate that he was expecting soon to leave them, and to this pious care he was probably admonished by failing health rather than by the infirmities of age.

The exact date of his death is not known, but it doubtless immediately preceded the presentation of his will at the probate office, November 6th--old style, or 17th new style--1678. His decease was four years before there was any organized church or any burying ground in Bradford, and more than fifty years previous to the formation of the church in Georgetown, which leads us to the conclusion that he must have been buried at Rowley, though diligent search has failed to discover any stone marking the place of his rest.

His "loving wife," Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Scott, of Ipswich, merchant.

The gravestones of the earliest date are in the old cemetery in Bradford, where may be read inscriptions in memory of John 2d, his son David, Sarah the wife of Samuel, and Mrs. Abigail Ames, their daughter. In a church formerly standing in that enclosure, they held their religious connection from 1684 till 1732 when the church in Georgetown was formed.









Source: (Birth)
Title: 50 Great Migration Colonists
Author: Threlfall, John Brooks
Publication: Heritage Books. Madison, WI. 1990
Media: Book
Page: 399
Occupation: Place: Farmer

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Scott, Elizabeth (b. 1623, d. 10 FEB 1691/92)
Source: (Birth)
Title: 50 Great Migration Colonists
Author: Threlfall, John Brooks
Publication: Heritage Books. Madison, WI. 1990
Media: Book
Page: 399

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Shattuck, John (b. 11 FEB 1646/47, d. 14 SEP 1675)
Note: Surname: SHATTUCK
Source: Epitaphs of the Old Burial Ground, Groton, MA. by Dr. Samuel A. Green pub. l878 by Little, Brown & Company, Boston, MA
p.253

SHATTUCK
John Shattuck is the ancestor of all the families in Groton and its neighborhood, who bear this name. He
was the son of William and Susanna Shattuck of Watertown, where he himself was born on Feb. ll, l647.
He m. June 20, l664 Ruth, dau of John Whitney Jr and his wife, Ruth Whitney. She was b. Apr l5, l645 at
Watertown.

About the time of his marriage lands in Groton MA were granted him, but it does not appear he
ever was an inhabitant of the town. In King Philip's War, he was a sergeant of a military company raised
in Watertown to protect the remote settlements in the Connecticut valley. On one of the marches the
company was attacked by Indians and more than half of the command were slain. Sergeant Shattuck was
deputed to bear the news of the affair to the Governor of the Colony, and on his way, while crossing the
ferry between Charlestown and Boston, Sep. l4, l675 the boat was sunk and he was drowned.
His widow Ruth afterward m. Enosh Lawrence. In the year l678, the date of the resettlement of Groton, Lawrence and
his wife, Ruth (Whitney) Shattuck Lawrence removed to Groton, bringing with them the four young Shattuck
children of her lst husband, all born at Watertown.


They prob. occupied the land previously granted to John Shattuck which was situated in the north part of
the town. The children were:
1. John Shattuck Jr. b. June 4, l666 who m.
Mary Blood, dau of James and Elizabeth
(Longley) Blood.

2. Ruth Shattuck b. June 24, l668 m. Jonath-
an Farnsworth, son of Matthias Farnsworth
and Mary (Farr) Farnsworth.

3. William Shattuck b. Sept ll, l670 and m.
(l) Hannah Underwood and (2) Deliverance
Pease.

4. Samuel Shattuck m. Elizabeth Blood, a
sister of his brother John's wife (above).

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Shattuck, Samuel (b. ABT 1600, d. 6 JUN 1698)
Note: Emigrated to Salem, Mass on the "Mary & John"
from Somersetshire, England.

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Hubbard, Jonathan (b. 18 AUG 1683, d. ?)
Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic
Data:
Text: Concord Births, Marriages & Deaths. p.26

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Jones, Rebecca (b. 8 MAR 1662/63, d. 17 JUL 1712)
Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic
Page: Concord Registers, Book I, p. 10
Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic
Page: Concord Registers, Book II, p. 80

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Rice, Samuel (b. NOV 1634, d. 25 FEB 1684/85)
Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic
Page: Marlborough Deaths, p. 387

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