Individuals from Chrisman Pedigree, page 20

Notes:

Came to America in The Anne in 1623 with her mother.

!Death date: From "Mayflower Increasings (for Three Generations)", 1989, by Susan E. Roser.

!Death: Plymouth Church Records Vol. 1, Part 5, Page 3, in Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Vol. 22, page 250: "1683: ... Members dyed: Mary Bartlett, widow, March 27: in her 73d yeare"

!Birth: Shown no the division of cattle to be the eldest dau., thus born before 1612. [MD 3:105, MD 2:178]. She was almost certainly not born before 1606.

Richard Warren

m: Elizabeth Walker (-12 OCT 1673)

Children:

Notes:

!On the Mayflower., over 45, married at the time.
!Occupation: Farmer.
!Source: "The May-Flower & Her Log" (a book).

Information from Seymour Paul (originally from Don Abbott, Southern California Genealogical Society): Richard Warren of London, England; merchant, "a useful instrument". Member of exploration parties along Cape Cod; Probably Assistant Governor 1624-8. The 12th signer of the Mayflower Compact. Married Elizabeth Jouett Marsh in 1605 in London, England. Born 1580 to Christopher Warren and Alice Webb. Elizabeth Jouett Marsh was born 1583 and died 1673.

An article, "Richard Warren and his Descendants" appearing in MD 3:45-51 covers all known records of him and his wife Elizabeth. Also a booklet published by the Mayflower Society covers him and his descendants to 4 generations.

Little is known about Richard Warren, owing most probably to his death so shortly after settling in Plymouth. His wife Elizabeth was quite prominent in the colony afterwards. The only provably known source for his place of origin (according to [MD 3:45-6]) is from Mourt's Relations, where a short quote on p.15 says he was "a Londoner".

His parentage is UNPROVEN.

William Brewster

m: Mary [---] (ABT 1569-17 APR 1627)

Children:

Notes:

!On the Mayflower, age abt. 54., married with children at the time. !Occupation: Printer, Pub .
!Source: The Mayflower and her Log.

Long biography in "William Brewster, His True Position in our Colonial History" by Hon. Lyman Denison Brewster, in The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. IV, pg. 100-109, 1902.

According to the above, he was almost certainly the draftor of the Mayflower compact. He was a scholar educated at Cambridge, the oldest aboard the Mayflower, and the spiritual leader of the Pilgrims. He was a prominent organizer of the Pilgrim movement.

The following short biography is taken from Random House Encyclopedia, 1977: Pilgrim Religious Leader, Signatory of the Mayflower Compact. He withdrew from the Anglican Church (1606) forming the Separatists, who, due to persecution, fled from England to Holland (1608), where they became known as Pilgrims. He returned to England to help organize the Pilgrim migration on the Mayflower 1620. He was a leader of the church at Plymouth and influential in management of the colony.

Other sources:
"Mayflower Genealogies: Vital Statistics of the Mayflower Passengers" by George Ernest Bowman, in The Mayflower Descendant, Vol.2, pg. 114-120; 1900.

"The Brewster Genealogy (1566-1907)" by Emma C. Brewster Jones, Vol. 1 & 2.
The Grafton Press, Genealogical Publishers: New York; 1908.

"The Mother of Elder William Brewster of the Mayflower" by John G. Hunt, in NEHGR 125:250.

"William Brewster: The Father of New England, His Life and Times 1567-1644" by Rev. H. Kirk-Smith, Richard Kay Pub., 1992, 272 pages. (Excellent book)

!Parents:
The parents of William Brewster are given in an article in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol 124, pg 150, where the authors argue that the parents of William Brewster were probably William Brewster and Mary Smythe. This is likely to be correct, although it is hard to prove it beyond the shadow of a doubt.

!Birth: Mayf.Des.18:18.
!Death: Mayf.Des.1:7.
!Birth-Death: "The True Date of the Birth & Death of Elder Brewster" NEHGR 18:18, MD 2:115, 3:15.
!Inventory: MD 3:15

!Education: He matriculated at Cambridge University on the 3rd December 1580, as a Pensioner of Peterhouse Collect (Arber, E., 1897, p.189).

In [Shurtleff 12:115-117], a long agreement between Love Brewster and Jonathan Brewster is recorded (Plymouth Deeds). It reads, in part: "Whereas William Brewster late of Plym gent deceased left onely two sonnes surviveing viz. Jonathan the eldest and Love the yeonger And whereas the said William died intestate for ought can to this day appeare The said Jonathan and Love his sonnes when they returned from the buriall of their father ..." agreed how to divide up the estate "wth an entire half part of the estate of the said Willm was given to the said Love and Sarah his wyfe upon a Covenant of Contract of marryage to be due at the death of the said Willm Brester now deceased. All wch was offerred to be prooved legally if neede require by solemne pmise though not in writing." Dated 20 Aug 1645.

========================================================================== The following is from the Dictionary of American Biography Vol. 2, pg. 29-30:

BREWSTER, WILLIAM (1567-Apr. 10, 1644), Pilgrim father, was an Elder of the Pilgrim Church, first in importance during the Scrooby period, second in importance during the Leyden and Plymouth periods. A deposition of his at Leyden finally settles the dispute about the date of his birth and fixes it in the winter of 1566/67, probably in January. He came to Scrooby in 1571 with his father and mother; his father in 1575 became baliff of the Manor of Scrooby, one of the exempt estates of the Archbishop of York, and in 1588 was appointed postmaster by Queen Elizabeth when Scrooby was made a post-house on the road between London and York. These positions made the father a man of great importance in the district and provided him with a considerable income. The boy was somehow prepared for the university and entered Peterhouse, Cambridge, in December 1580, where he himself later declared that he acquired his first Separatist ideas. He did not take a degree and perhaps remained at Cambridge only a few months. In the autumn of 1583 he became a member of the household of William Davidson, then important in administrative and diplomatic life at the court of Elizabeth, and, becoming one of his trusted retainers, accompanied him on missions to the Netherlands in 1584 and in 1585-86. Despite the disgrace of Davison in 1587 as a result of his part in the execution of Mary Stuart and his consequent retirement from public life, Brewster remained in his service until news of his father's serious illness caused his return to Scrooby in 1589. He served as his father's deputy until the latter's death in 1590 and then was himself appointed to the positions of baliff and postmaster, retaining both until the exodus to Holland in 1608. He married in 1591 Mary (---), by whom he had before 1620 six children. Gradually he became the protector and then the principal member of a little congregation of Puritans, gathered from Scrooby and the near-by villages. But they did not "separate" from the Established Church until the autumn of 1606 and it was not until a year later that John Robinson joined them. After some investigation of their proceedings by the High Commission of York, which certainly did not amount to persecution, they decided to leave so ungodly a land and finally succeeded in emigrating to Holland in 1608. Finding Amsterdam also uncongenial, they settled at Leyden in 1609. Here, if not earlier, Brewster became elder and teacher of the new church. To earn a living for his family, he became a printer of Puritan books, wirtten by the leaders in England, and shipped back to them for sale and distribution at home. In 1617 the initiation of the plan for emigration to America took him and others to England where he interviewed officers of the Virginia Company and various royal officials to secure permission to colonize and a grand of land. Beyond much doubt he was the principal envoy. Returning to Leyden, he printed in 1618 or 1619 a book which gave great offense to James I. Of this the English government complained to the Dutch authorities in 1619 with such effect that Brewster felt it wiser to discontinue the press altogether and to return with his family to England where he seems to have lived unmolested until the Mayflower sailed in 1620. He played therefore no part in the final steps at Leyden for the emigration to America and was not present when the decision was reached, in April 1620, that the majority should remain at Leyden with Robinson their minister, while the minority should attempt the venture with Brewster himself as their leader. It also seems probable that he played no important part in organizing the company which sailed for America direct from England, being fearful of royal interference with his own emigration. He embarked on the Mayflower at London with his wife, two sons, and two boys "bound out" to him. At Plymouth, Brewster was the only church officer until 1629, but held services of prayer and praise only; he expounded the Scripture at length, but was forbidden by the rules to preach, baptize, or celebrate the communion. Though he was therefore never a minister in the Pilgrim sense of the word and though they "called" Smith, Roger Williams, Chauncey, and Reynor as their ministers later, he remained throughout his life the real leader of the church at Plymouth and the man chiefly responsible for its doctrines, observances, and worship. Administrative position was foreclosed to him by his position in the church but he was active in counsel and played a part second only to Bradford in all decisions, great and small. He became one of the Undertakers in 1627 who assumed the Pilgrim indebtedness. His library (Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 2nd ser., III, 261-74; V, 37-85) proves him to have been read in history, philosophy, and religious poetry and shows that he continued to buy books throughout his life. We have no idea of his personal appearance but we do know from the inventory of his property (Mayflower Descendant III:15-27) that he wore a violet colored cloth coat, black silk stockings, a ruff, and other clothing, of impeccable modesty, but less severe than the popular tradition attributes to the Pilgrims. Social life at Plymouth was undoubtedly quiet in the extreme but in it Brewster played a very important part, being, says Bradford, "of a very cherful Spirite, very sociable and pleasante amongst his friends." He died Apr. 10, 1644, at Plymouth, possessed of a house, lands, cattle, and personalty worth 107 pounds.

Mary

m: William Brewster (ABT JAN 1567-20 APR 1644)

Children:

Notes:

!On the Mayflower, married, age abt. 51.
!Death: MD 32:2

Her maidenname and parentage are unknown and unproven. In fact, it is really not known whether Mary of the Mayflower was his first and only wife and mother of his children, or if she was a second wife.
As to her identity, a number of theories exist:
(1) That she was Mary, dau. of Thomas and Grace (Gasciogne) Wentworth.
This is the most popular of all the theories, and well liked by descendants
due to the very distinguished nobility. It is also one of the most
credible, but is certainly not proven. This theory is advanced by
Walter Burgess in "John Robinson the Pastor of the Pilgrims" (1920),
p.80; John G. Hunt, "New Light on the Brewsters of Scrooby and New
England" TAG 41:1 (however, Hunt later abandoned the Wentworth claim,
see below). See also Stratton's Plymouth Colony Its History & People
1620-1691, p. 250-1. "The will of Thomas Wentworth of Scrooby Manor, dated
27 March 1574 mentions a daughter Mary, evidently the eldest, but without
indication of whether she was married or single." (Burgess p.81).
(2) That she was Mary Wyrall of Loversall (near Doncaster), dau. of Thomas
and Frences (Mallory) Wyrall. This theory was convincingly developed and
advanced in a 1984 booklet "Of Mary Brewster" published by John G. Hunt,
Bowling Green, Va. Hunt also elaborates Mary Wyrall's gentile ancestry,
also containing royalty. This is also cited in Terry/Harding, "A Notebook
on the Descendants of Elder William Brewster of Plymouth Colony.". Also
given in "Calkins World" a newsletter of the Calkins Family Association. (3) "Mary STUBBE?", given in Melinde Lutz Sanborn's "Supplement to Torry".
I know of no primary evidence for this claim.
(4) Mary, dau. of Edward Wentworth. I saw this somewhere, but lost the
source.
(5) Mary Love. From a County History (I didn't record the source). Didn't
look very credible, but the reasoning behind this conjecture is clear.

A review by E. A. Stratton in the Spring 1985 issue of the Detroit Society for Genealogical Research Magazine argues that her parentage is still unproven.
See also Dr. Bangs in MQ 51:165-6, footnote 1.

If Mary of the Mayflower was his second wife, the following marriage records are possible (Banks' English Ancestry p.35-9).
1. William Brewster and Mary Welles, June 21, 1599 at St. Mary Woolchurch,
London.
2. William Bruster and Mary Scrobs Jan 24, 1604 in Stoke Bruern, Northants.
3. William Brewster and Mary Morden December 22, 1608 at St. Peter Eastgate,
Lincoln.

What is known is that his wife was named Mary, was born Abt 1569, d. at Plymouth on 27 Apr 1627, and was probably from Scrooby.

!Death: From The Brewster Book.

Credits to Cathy (Malfaedor@aol.com) for much of the above information.

The pedigree of Mary Wentworth back to Charlemagne comes from "Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol 2", compiled by Aileen Lewers Langston and J. Orton Buck, Jr. It is probably probably an accurate pedigree for Mary Wentworth (most royal parts can be verified with an encyclopedia), but the link that Mrs. Mary Brewster is Mary Wentworth is not proven.

Joseph Bartlett

m: Hannah Pope (1639-12 MAR 1711)

Children:

Notes:

!Death: From Gravestone, as printed in Mayf.Des 12:14.

He died intestate.
His inventory, printed in Mayf.Des.12:14-21 and dated 29 Feb 1711/2, mentions: son Robert Bartlett Administrator, and the following are heirs: Robert Bartlet, son Joseph Bartlet deseded, son Elnanthan bartlet, son Benjemen bartlet, Joseph selvester/Silvester and Hannah his wife, John barns and mary his wife, Elisha holmes and Sarah his wife. (all identified as his children).

Sarah Carey

m: John Jenney

Children:

John Churchill

m: Rebecca Delano (1651-6 APR 1709)

Children:

m: Hannah Pabodie (15 OCT 1662-29 APR 1723)

Notes:

!Lived in Plymouth.
By his father's will, he inherited land at "Mannonnett Ponds".
He was admitted freeman in 1689.
Was chosen constable in ?
(Info from Patrick.McCurdy@Corp.Sun.Com over the internet. Typo in message, year chosen constable appeared as 6986. His source of information was the book "The Churchill Family Genealogy")

!Marriage: Mayf.Des.Vol.13, p. 204 (Plymouth Vital Records).

!Death: Plymouth Church Records, in Pub.Col.Soc.Mass Vol.22, pg. 191: "John Churchell dyed June 13, 1723" Also ibid 22:223: "John churchill June 13, 1723, aged abt 67 years"

Patience Morton

m: John Faunce (1602/1610-29 NOV 1654)

Children:

m: Thomas Whitney (-ABT MAR 1674)

Notes:

She came over on the Ann with her parents in 1623 (age 8). After her father's death, she wa s under the care of Governor Bradford.

As late as 9 Jun 1660 she was still a widow (NEHGR 116:189).
!Marriage(2): NEHGR 116:189. (Proven by a deed dated 15 Jun 1671 from Thomas Whitnet to Nathaniel Holmes which his wife Patience acknowledged, and an agreement dated 2 May 1673 between Thomas Whitney and "said son" Joseph Faunce).

Philip De La Noye

m: Ester Dewsbury (-1657)

Children:

m: Mary Pontus

Children:

Notes:

Philip Delano came in the Fortune in 1621, probably a Walloon, who joined the Pilgrims in Ley den. He was probably the son of Jean and Marie de Launey.
In 1623, he was cast a lot of 2 acres shared with Moyses Simonson "beyond the first brook to the wood westward." [Shurtleff 12:5]

!Immigration: On the "Fortune" passenger list, 1621.
He settled in Duxbury.

The following is from Arber, Edward, "The Story of The Pilgrim Fathers"; 1897, which I think may have originated from the Gov. Bradford Chronology: "There is also one PHILIP DE LA NOYE [afterwards corrupted to Delano], born of French Parents, came to us from Leyden, to New Plymouth: who, coming to age of discerning, demanded also communion with us; and, proving himself to be come of such parents as were in full communion with the French Churches, was hereupon admitted by the Church of Plymouth. And after, upon his removal of habitation to Duxbury, where Master Ralph Partridge is Pastor of the Church; and upon Letters of Recommendation from the Church at Plymouth: he was also admitted into fellowship with the Church at Duxbury, being six miles distant from Plymouth. And so, I dare say, if his ocasions lead him, may [be admitted] from Church to Church throughout New England."

!Marriage( Dewsbury): MD 13:83

The DELANO KINDRED Inc Society published a regular newsletter, Bonnes Nouvelles, and is quite active. It deals with the ancestry and descent of Philip De La Noye, the progenitor of most Delanos in America. Address: P.O. Box 2635, Duxbury Mass, 02331. Back orders of newsletters are available for $2 per issue. Annual Membership costs (1995) are: $8 adult descendant, $6 members under 18, and $20 descendant family membership.

I obtained much of his ancestry from Paulette Delano Diaz, who now has a web site http://ourworld.compuserve.com:80/homepages/delano/

John Churchill

m: Hannah Pontus (1623-22 DEC 1690)

Children:

Notes:

The original Churchill Immigrant. Came to Plymouth in 1643.

Note: May have also married a Giles Rickard (-1669) on 18 Dec 1644 in Plymouth.

!Death: Between 24 Dec 1661 (will) and 3 Mar 1662 (Ratified) !Will: Reprinted in Mayf.Des 18:40. Text is as follows:

[On folio 82] The Will Nuncupative of John Churchill senir: late Deceased exhibited before the Court helt att Plymouth the 3 of March 1662 Attested upon oath as followeth
Abigaill Clarke aged twenty years or theraboutes being Deposed saith; That on Tusday the 24th of December last past before the Date heerof; her kinsman viz John Churchill senir: being ill att ease but of pfect memory Did expresse him selfe in manor as followeth that his mind and will was that his son Josepth Churchill and his son Eliezer Churchill shall have and enjoy all his lands both uplands and meddowes within the Township of Plymouth accepting onely fifty acrees of land graunted to him by the Towne lying att Mannomett ponds; which hee gave then unto John Churchill his son; morover that his will was that his son William shall have his purchase land att Punckateesett viz: his share of the townes land there; further that hee Did expresse him selfe that his son Josepth shall have his New house att his wifes Death and for the use of all the lands aforsaid that they shalbee for teh use and Improvement of his wife as long as shee lives; and that hee alsoe said that incase Josepth should marry or bee for him selfe that then hee should have the use of the old Dwelling house and some land to make use of; and as for his estate remaining hee said, that hee knew not whether there would bee any thing left when his Children were brought up or noe; but if his wife Could spare it then that Josepth should have a yeake of oxen and Eliezer a yeake of oxen and Hannah a Cow if not two and incase any thinge should bee left att his wifes Decease that then such of his Children as have had nothinge in prticulare as above given them should have what is left in equall proportions to equallice what is given to them forenamed as farr as it will goe.
The oath of Abigaill Clarke taken in the Court held att Plymouth the third Day of march 1662
Attested p me Nathaniel Morton; Clarke;

Att the Court of his Matie held att Plymouth in New England the 2cond Day of March anno Dom 1668 Joseph Churchill Came before the said Court and alowed approved Rattifyed and Confeirmed the will of his father John Churchill Deceased above expressed in all and every prticulars therof; the said Will and Testament to stand remaine and Continew unalterable and Inviolable for ever.

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From Leon Clark Hills' book:
He appeared first in Plymouth 1643, and purchased a farm of Richard Higgins in 1645. He was propouded a freeman 1650, and admitted 1651. A nuncupative will was made and exhibited before court held at Plymouth, Mar. 3, 1662. Book of Wills, 2nd Part, Vol. 2, page 83.

Hannah Pontus

m: John Churchill (-1 JAN 1663)

Children:

m: Giles Rickard (1597-2 FEB 1685)

Notes:

!Marriage(2): Plymouth Register, in Shurtleff 8:32: "Gyles Rickard, Senir, was married to Han nah Churchill, Senir, the 25th of June, anno Dom 1669."

"Hannah Rickard, Widdow" is listed as a church member 10 Mar 1703 [Plymouth Church Records, in Pub.Col.Soc.Mass 22:193]

!Death: Ply.Ch.Recs 1:5:20 in Pub.Col.Soc.Mass 22:269: "Hannah Rickard widow (who was formerly Churchel) December, 22 [1690] in her 67th yeare."

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