Individuals from Chrisman Pedigree, page 42

Notes:

!Will: Dated 26 Sep 1665, proved Plymouth 17 Mar 1665/6. Printed in MD 6:157. "Thomas howe s of yarmouth". Names: "my three sonnes Josepth Thomas and Jeremy", "Mary my wife". Inventory on 18 Oct 1665.

He was one of the grantees of Yarmouth, constable 1644, representative 1652,3,8,9. [Savage 2:478]

Joseph Howes

m: Elizabeth Mayo (-16 MAR 1701)

Children:

Notes:

Mentioned in father's will.

His children are from Savage 2:478

His will is dated 17 Jan 1694/5, names all the children (Samuel, Joseph, John, Nathaniel, Thomas, Amos, Mary, Elizabeth, and Hannah), widow Elizabeth, brother Jeremiah Howse. His widow died in 1701. [MD 23:68] Administration 12 Feb 1695. [Cape Cod Gen Soc Bul XV(2) Jun 1989 p.45]

One source on the net gives his death date as 19 Jan 1695.

Elizabeth Howes

m: Joseph Merrick (1 JUN 1662-15 JUN 1737)

Children:

Notes:

Daughter "Elizabeth mirrick" named in Will of Joseph Howes [MD 23:68]

Richard Bangs

m: Margaret [---] (-1592)

Children:

Notes:

Source: Bangs Family Papers from the Library of Cape Cod History and Genealogy, yarmouthport , MA, CW Swift, Publishers and Printers; The "Register" Press 1917, courtesy of Sue Andrews.

Margaret

m: Richard Bangs (-1586)

Children:

Thomas Hobart

m: Hellena Winsofer (-bur. 9 MAY 1603)

Children:

Notes:

!Marriage-Burial: Parish Records, Snoring Magna Norfolk England.

Hellena Winsofer

m: Thomas Hobart (-1598)

Children:

Notes:

!Burial: Snoring Magna Parish Records.

Eldad Atwood

m: Anna Snow (7 JUL 1656-BEF 7 JUL 1714)

Children:

Notes:

!Birth-Death-Marriage-Children: Mayflower Families, Stephen Hopkins, pg. 38, 149.
!Children: MD 4:141
!Marriage: 4:141, MF 6:38
!Probate: in 1707 (Ye Old Atte Wode Annals, pg. 1) !Administration: 7 Jul 1714 (see Adm for wife). He & his wife died intestate.

The marriage record of Isaac Atwood to Mehitable Gray in Harwich, 23 Oct 1718, makes me wonder if this might not be another son.

John Atwood

m: Thankful Gray (-BEF 12 AUG 1721)

Children:

m: Thankful Williamson (18 MAY 1702-AFT 1765)

Children:

Notes:

!Birth-Death-Marriages-Children: Mayflower Families, Hopkins, pg. 38, 149. !Intention(Thankfu l Gray of Harwich): Eastham & Orleans VR [MD 28:109] on 18 April 1718.
!Marriage(Thankful Gray): Harwich VR, [MD 7:196], [MF 7:196] !Intention(Thankful Williamson of Eastham): E & O VR [MD 28:111] on 12 Aug 1721 !Birth-Children: MD 4:141 [E&O VR]
!Marriage: MD 7:196
!Birth-Intentions: Ye Olde Atwood Annals, part 3, pg 2. Note: Birth there given as "Aug. 16, 1685"

Note: The Genealogy of the Atwood Family by Charles H. Wight, 1900, p. 10, places his first son William as the son of his wife Thankful Williamson. That source also states the marriage date as 28 Sep 1719.

Thankful Gray

m: John Atwood (10 AUG 1686-ABT 1745)

Children:

Thankful Williamson

m: John Atwood (10 AUG 1686-ABT 1745)

Children:

Notes:

She was living in 1765 when her father, George Williamson of Middleboro, names her in his wil l. [E.F.Atwood 3:3]

Samuel Smith

m: Bathsheba Lothrop (25 JUN 1671-AFT 13 DEC 1742)

Children:

Notes:

!Birth-Death-Marriage: Mayflower Families, Hopkins pg. 90.
!Marriage: MD 6:13
!Birth: MD 8:18
!Death: MD 8:17 age 24
!Administration: 1 Apr 1693 (Note that Mayflower Families, 6:357, has a typo -- says administration of estate of "Joseph Smith", but should have read "Samuel Smith". His sons Samuel and Joseph (among others).

Sources:

[1] @S3@

[2] @S3@

[3] @S3@

[4] @S67@

Samuel Smith

m: Abigail Freeman (22 FEB 1693-14 MAY 1737)

Children:

m: Sarah Winslow (3 DEC 1704-8 FEB 1770)

Children:

Notes:

!Birth-Death-Marriages-Burial-Children: Mayflower Families, pg. 357.
!Birth: MD 6:13
!Marriage(1)-Children(all): MD 6:206
!Marriage(2): MD 19:100
!Death: MD 12:96

He was of Wellfleet.

He was a justice of the peace at Eastham for many years.

!Will: Wellfleet, dated 18 April, proved 11 oct 1768, of "Samuel Smith Esq. of Wellfleet". Names: Wife Sarah, heirs of late son Zoeth (viz. Zoheth, Richard, Elizabeth, Samuel, and Ruth Smith), heirs of dau. Bathsheba Atwood (viz. Abigail, Martha, John, William, Bathsheba, Thankful, Anna, and Zoheth), heirs of dau. Martha Rich, deceased (viz. Martha Rich and Abigail Young), dau. Abigail Eldridge (wife of Jesse), dau. Susanna Atwood and son Joseph Smith.

Sources:

[1] @S3@

[2] @S59@

[3] @S3@

Abigail Freeman

m: Samuel Smith (13 FEB 1691-18 JUL 1768)

Children:

Notes:

!Parentage: Mayflower Index (#13762).
!Birth-Death-Parentage-Marriage: MF 6:357.

Sources:

[1] @S3@

[2] @S59@

[3] @S3@

Bathsheba Smith

m: William Atwood (14 APR 1719-AFT 1765)

Children:

Notes:

!Birth-Marriage-Parentage: Mayflower Families, Hopkins, pg. 357.

Sources:

[1] @S3@

William Atwood

m: Bathsheba Smith (9 MAY 1723-)

Children:

m: Mercy Lathley

Notes:

Living in Wellfleet in 1763.
!Birth: MD 15:232

He was named in the will of his grandfather, William Gray in 1723. In that year, John Atwood of Eastham was appointed guardian of his son William, then about four years old, and received from William Gray, executor for William Gray Sr. dec'd, forty-two pounds.

!Marriage: E.F.Atwood 3:3.
!Intention: (Bathsheba Smith, 12 Mar 1742 Eastham) MD 29:13

Bethoc

m: Cronan [---]

Children:

Notes:

Her and her descend from Kenneth I McAlpin is from posting on 28 July 1994 on soc.roots by To dd A Farmerie (taf2@po.cwru.edu).

Malcolm

Children:

Notes:

King of Scotland 1005-1034

Kenneth

Children:

Notes:

King of Scotland 971-995

Malcolm

Children:

Notes:

King of Scotland 942-954.

Donald

Children:

Notes:

King of Scotland 889-900.

Constantine

Children:

Notes:

Kind of Scotland from 863-877.

Kenneth McAlpin

Children:

Notes:

King of Scotland (844-859). He was succeeded by his brother, Donald I (859-863)

William Merrick

m: Elisabeth Harding (3 JAN 1696-)

Children:

Notes:

!Marriage-Children: MD 15:56 (Eastham & Orleans VR p.7): "William Meyrick and Elisabeth Hardi ng were married in Eastham by mr Samuell Treat on the twentieth day of october annodom: 1715"

!Birth: Mayf.Des. 7:12, Savage 3:198.

Elisabeth Harding

m: William Merrick (26 JAN 1693-)

Children:

Notes:

Possible birth records:
(1) Elisa. b. 1696, dau. of Josiah Harding (b. 1669) and wife Hannah [Freeman
2:367]

Note: The conclusion that the Elisabeth Harding, dau. of Josiah b. 1669 is the same Elisabeth Harding who married William Myrick is based on an exhaustive enumeration of the grandchildren of Joseph Harding. Since the marriage of Elisabeth Harding to Wm Myrick was in 1715, we can figure his wife would have been born prior to 1700. The daughter of Josiah Harding is the only person meeting this criteria. It would still be nice to obtain further confirmation from probate, etc, which I have not yet done.

!Birth: Mayf. Des. Vol. 6, pg. 12 [Eastham & Orleans VR]: "Elisabeth Harding ye daughter of Josiah and Hannah Harding was Born the third day of January anno 1696/5"

Richard Higgins

m: Lydia Chandler

Children:

m: Mary [---] (-AFT 2 DEC 1702)

Children:

Notes:

Children's births (except Richard) listed in Eastham & Orleans VR [MD 5:23]

"Ric'd Higgins" was Deputy of Eastham 1647-1654 (7 yrs) [Freeman 2:413] "Richard Higgins" was Selectman of Eastham 1665-1668 (3 yrs) [Freeman 2:413]

[Pope p.229]: "Higgins, Richard, Eastham propr. 1650 or earlier. He m. Oct 1651 Mary Yates. ch: Mary b.1652, Eliakim b. Oct 20, 1654, Jedaiah b. March 1656, Ezra b. June 1658, Thomas b. Jan 1661, Lydia b. July 1664"

!Marriage (Chandler): MD 13:83
!Marraige (Yates): Mayf.Des. 8:13

National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. XXXI, pg 243, states that he later moved to Piscataway, New Jersey (I have no further verification of this). Ibid also says that he immigrated in 1632, while ibid XIII:551,XX:152 says immigration in 1633. Ibid XX:152 states that he came from Herefordshire, England.

Sources:
1. "Richard Higgins: A Resident and Pioneer Settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and his Descendants", by Mrs. Katharine Chapin Higgins, Worcester Mass., 1918.

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The following is from the Bulletin of the Cape Cod Genealogy Society, Vol. XVIII No. 1, March 1992:

"Richard Higgins, Early Eastham, Massachusetts settler

The origin of Richard Higgins is not known with certainty. In the records of the 'Honorable Company of Merchant Tailors' of London, England, in Apprentice Book, Vol. 9, folio 276, is an entry in Latin of which the English translation is:

`Richard Higgins, son of Robert Higgins of Leominster in the county of Hereford, mercer, places himself as an apprentice with Philip Raddock of St. Clement's Lane, London, for the terms of seven years from the date here given, for the term of the aforesaid on the day and year April 21, 1632.'

Neither the records of London nor of Hereford County make any further mention of Richard. Robert Higgins, mercer of Hereford County is mentioned in the will of Christopher Higgins who was the verger to the Dean and Chapter of Hereford. This will, dated 18 July 1610, was probated 21 January 1611.

There is no record of his having been in Leyden. He came to Plymouth around 1632 and appears on the tax rolls there 1 March 1633 and 27 March 1634 becoming a freeman there in 1634. As a tailor he apprenticed Samuel Godberson 1 April 1634 for a term of seven years. In early 1634 he purchased a house and lot of 20 acres and married Lydia Chandler 11 Dec 1634. She was the daughter of Edmund Chandler who lived in Duxbury and Scituate. Higgins was a juryman in 1634, 1643, and 1644. There is no record of his having participated in any military activity although he is listed as able to bear arms.

As one of group of 7 families in 1644 he moved to Nauset, now Eastham, to clear land and settle there. Governor Thomas Prence, Deacon John Doane, Edward Bangs, John Smalley, Nicholas Snow, and Josiah Cook were the other members in the group. There settlement was in the part of Eastham which included present Wellfleet and Orleans as well.

Higgins was surveyor of Highways in 1657 and a member of a team to settle boundaries between Yarmouth and Barnstable. In 1660 he was a member of a committee to regulate trade on the Kennebec River. He was a deputy to the Plymouth General Court in 1655, '57, '58, '60, and 1665, and in 1657 was overseer of the poor as well.

It had been the custom for whales cast up on the shore to be appropriated by whoever reached the scene first. In 1660 it was decided that such whales should be disposed in some manner for the benefit of the whole town. Higgins was a member of a committee to see that this was done. He was a selectman in 1664 and 1668.

In 1669 he sold his property in Eastham and moved to Piscataway, New Jersey.
At this time a group of Cape people under the leadership of Edward FitzRandolph moved there. Possibly Higgins was a member of this company. In 1672 he took oath of allegience to the Dutch government in this area.

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