Family Tree Chart

I've been trying since I started this to figure out a way to share a family tree chart. I started to put it into a computer program but realized that I still had no way to share it online. So I am going to cross my fingers and hope that Geni.com stays available (and free) so we can use it's tree.

I have been entering our information into this site since the beginning. I have just gone through and verified that it is correct through my eighth great-grandparents, with one exception: Anne Telbe Ingalls.

As I noted in the post about her and Edmund Ingalls, some people - no, many people - have accepted some wrong information and claimed that Anne, also known as Annis, was the daughter of John Tripp and Isabel Moses. Unfortunately, this information is what is currently available on Geni.com and I cannot figure out a way to post a different opinion.

All I can do for now is to say that I believe Annis' father was named John Tealbye, and that his last name is probably the name of the village from which he came. I have found no further information about her ancestors. I will update the Edmund Ingalls post with any further information that I can find, and I hope to figure out how to show the true relationship on the tree in the near future.

My Mother's Family Tree Chart

My Father's Family Tree Chart

Sorry, Geni.com doesn't want to let anyone see my chart so that both sides come up combined. I don't understand it, but this is much better than nothing.

Remember, this has been verified only as far as the people I have posted on this blog. I will continue to update/verify it as I work on each generation.

Reuben Benson (1786 - 1864)

My fourth great-grandfather.

Born:  21 May 1786  in Greenville County, South Carolina
Died:  16 June 1864  in Gwinnett, Georgia

Father:  Enoch Benson
Mother:  Jamima Berry

Siblings:
   Elizabeth Benson, 1780
   Mary 'Polly' Benson, 1781
   Frances 'Franky' Benson. 1784
   Clarissa 'Clary" Benson, 1791
   John 'Jackie' Berry Benson, 1795
   Jim Benson, 1797
   Willis Benson, 1799
   + three (who died young?)

Married:  Elizabeth Kemp in 1808 in South Carolina (It is also possible that he was married to a Mary Stepp, but I can't find any information on that.)

Children:
   Clarissa Benson, 1809
   Willis Benson, 1811
   Gillia Benson, 1812
   William Berry Benson, 1815
   Jaminy Benson, 1817
   Arminda Benson, 1820
   James Lafayette Benson, 1822
   Nancy Benson, 1824
   Elizabeth Melinda Benson, 1829

The information about Reuben is confused with his father's in the resource I found, but I think it was Reuben who had a 202.5 acre farm in Campbell/Douglass County at Dark Corners. The current Corn Crib Trailer Park (Yee-haw!) is now where his farm was located. Reuben's grave is at the Florence Farm Cemetery in lots 465 and 466.

Elizabeth Kemp (1793 - 1833)

Born:  16 June 1793 in Cobb, South Carolina
Died:  1868   Buried in Douglasville, Georgia

Father:  Richard Kemp  Born: 1775 in Greenville, SC  Died:  1812
Mother:  Elizabeth ?   Born:  1780   Died:  1844

This is all I could find about Elizabeth and her parents.
 

James Wilson Wilkins 1820-1894

B.   11 April 1820     Peterborough, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
D.   13 December 1894  Springerville, Apache county, Arizona
Buried in Nutrioso Cemetery, Nutrioso, Arizona

Father:  Abraham Wilkins
Mother:  Mary Emmons

Mar:  Adeline Sophia Atkins     4 July 1847    Iowa?
Mar:  Lucinda Magnum      28 December 1868    Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah

Children:
   James Orman Wilkins   1851-1916
   Ada Agusta Wilkins   1853-1910
   Judson Heber Wilkins   1859-1915
   Francis Sephia Wilkins   1859-1939
   Fredrick Wallace Wilkins   1863-1939
   Parley Wilkins   1873-1921
   Mary Ann Wilkins   1877-1924
   Rhoda Francis Wilkins   1879-1939
   Zina Wilkins   1881-1974
   Ernest Wilkins   1885-1974

Adeline Atkins (1825 - 1861)

Born: 14 February 1825 in Buffalo, New York
Died:  December 1861 in Menan, Idaho

Father:  Thomas Jerome Atkins (Born: 1799 in New York)
Mother:  Betsey Peas (Born: 1803)


James was born 11 April 1820 in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He moved to Massachusetts and worked in an iron factory. He and his brother George Washington Wilkins were baptized into the Mormon church on 3 January 1844. He married his first wife,  Adeline Atkins, on 14 July 1847. They had five children, the oldest born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and the rest in Utah.

Mormon history shows that Adeline traveled to Utah with James and two other family members with the Robert Wimmer Company in 1852.  I think she was the mother to James' first five children. The records say she died in Menan, Idaho, in December of 1861, but that conflicts with Fredrick's birth date. Menan, which was the first Morman settlement in the Snake River Valley, wasn't actually founded until 1879, but I guess she could have died there anyway.

James was Brigham Young's coach driver for four years and was also the captain of the militia in Utah. At one time, he was called to go to Kanab to teach the Indians how to farm. While in southern Utah, his family lived the United Order. [an early communal utopian society within the LDS church]

While he was working on building the Washington Canal in southern Utah, he met Lucinda Magnum. They were married 28 December 1868 in the Salt Lake Endowment House. They had six children while living in Utah. [Adeline Atkins Wilkins had died in 1861.]

They moved to Alpine, Arizona in 1881. There was an Indian scare, so he moved his family to Nutrioso to horde up with other Mormons. He was hired to teach school. He later moved to Walnut Grove, Arizona, and also taught school there for a time. Two additional children were born in Arizona.

After returning to Nutrioso to live, he was chopping timber and cut through his shoe. His toe was cut and blood poisoning set in. In order to save his life, his foot had to be cut off above the ankle. He first went on crutches, then he was able to get a cork leg and foot and was able to get around much better. But he was unable to do much work after the accident, and his family was very poor.

His son Earnest was young when his father died and so had very few memories of him. He does recall playing in a neighbor's barn with his friends when he was about six. They would jump from a beam down into the hay. Ernest landed on a pitchfork and it went clear through his foot and had to be pulled out. He couldn't walk for a long time. His father James would carry him outside into the warm sunshine and sing to him.

James went to St. George, Utah, to do Temple [Mormon] work and visit his children there. He got sick while coming home and was very ill by the time he reached Springerville. He died there that night, 13 December 1894, and was buried in Nutrioso, Arizona.

[This was recorded from the memories of two of his children.]

Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel:  James traveled to Utah with the James Wimmer company in 1852, traveling with Adeline and two of their children.

William Bunbury (1670 - 1725)

My eighth great-grandfather.

Born:  1670 in Stafford Co., Virginia Colony, Colonial America
Died:  17 September 1725 in Stafford Co., Virginia

Father:  Thomas Bunbury
Mother:  Mary Banks

Siblings:
   Robert Bunbury, 1660
   Thomas Bunbury, c.1666
   John Bunbury, c.1668

Married: Frances Mason

Children:
   William Bunbury, 1696
   Catherine Bunbury, 1702
   Thomas Bunbury, 1703
   Dulcebella Bunbury, 1705
   Eleanor/Helinor Bunbury, 1717 or 1718 I have trouble with this one - too much time had passed.


Frances Mason (1688 - 1737)

Born: c. 1688
Died: 4 April 1737 in Stafford Co., Virginia Colony

Father: George Mason II
Mother: Mary Sarah Fowke

Siblings:
   George Mason III, 1690
   Elizabeth Mason, 1693
   Nicholson Mason, 1694
   French Mason, 1695
   Ann Mason, 1695
   Mary Mason 1700
   Sempha Rosa Mason, 1703

Half-siblings:
   Catherine Mason, 1707
   Francis Mason, 1711
   Mary Mason, 1712
   Gerard Mason, 1713
   Thomas Mason, 1714
   Sarah Mason, 1715
 
 I've had a lot of problems with this one and have less confidence in the info than in most of them. Part of the problem is that they were rich and well-known, so a lot of people seem to have written about them - and all with conflicting information.

The family is mentioned on a website called Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck. I think that was the site that had a bunch of wills. I will look into it more thoroughly with the next generation and will change anything here that I might find to be wrong. 

Frances' father George II had four different wives. Geni.com lists someone else as her mother, but that women is not listed as one of the four! I went with what seemed to be the most reliable information - a biography of her brother George III - which said that Mary Sarah Fowke was George II's first wife, so it seems likely that Frances must have the same mother. One large problem with this is to decide which family to follow back in time. Unless I find something that changes my mind, I'm going to go with Mary Sarah Fowkes' ancestors.

Frances' brother George III was a Lieutenant Colonel and was the father of George IV, who was one of the founding fathers of the United States of America, although he was one of three men who refused to sign the Constitution.

Also, these dates make Frances only about thirteen years old when she married the 31 year old William. There is another site that lists her birth date as 1674, which works better with William's age but does not really work with the birth dates of her siblings.

This project can be very frustrating sometimes!

William Berry (1650 - 1721)

My eighth great-grandfather (and U.S. President Jimmy Carter's seventh great-grandfather.)

Born:  22 May 1650 in Sittingbourne Parish, Old Rappahannock Co., Virginia Colony
Died:  2 June 1720/1 in Hanover, King George County, Virginia Colony

Father:  Henry Berry, of Occupacia Creek
Mother:  Ann Pley (or Sanders)

Siblings:
   George Berry, 1649
   Henry Berry, Jr., 1652
   John Berry, 1664
   Richard Berry, 1666
   Martha Berry, ?

Married:  Margaret Doughty on 6 May 1686 at Sittingbourne Parish

Children: (There are date variations for all the kids)
   Joseph B. Berry, 1691
   Enoch Bradley Berry, 1692
   Margaret Berry, 1695
   Elizabeth Berry, 1697


Margaret Doughty (1667 - 1720)

Born: c. 1667 South Farnham Parish, Old Rappahannock Co., Virginia Colony
Died:  before 5 February 1720/1 in Hanover, King George Co., Virginia Colony

Father:  Enoch Doughty
Mother:  Margaret (Frances???)

Siblings: ?

The Reverend William Berry owned a lot of property in Essex and King George counties. Much (most?) of it was actually his wife's property which she inherited from her parents. They settled on the north side of the Rappahannock River in Richmond County (which is now King George County). There was a land patent of 4,763 acres.

Cyprian Prou (or Proulx) (1663 - 1712)

My eighth great-grandfather.

Born:  c.1663 in Poitou, France
Died:  5 November 1712 in Richmond, Virginia Colony, Colonial America (buried in family plot)

Father: ?
Mother: ?

Married:  Margaret Vensanden (or Vensauden) 15 July 1682 at St. Katherines by the Tower, London, England

Children:
   Frances Prou, 1689
   Sarah Prou, 1688
   Susana Prou, 1682
   Margaret Prou, 1692
   Mary Prou, 1700
   Elizabeth Prou, 1700  (They were supposed to have five daughters; maybe Mary and Elizabeth are the   same person.)


Margaret Vansauden

Born: 1666 in London, Middlesex, England
Died:  7 November 1757 in Richmond, Virginia (buried in family plot)

Father:  James Phillips *
Mother: Mary Simpson **

* My notes say that James' father was John Phillips, the first clerk of Lancaster, Virginia, but I cannot find the source of that information again.

** At some time, I also found a source that said Mary's parents were John and Sarah Simpson, but I can't find this source again, either.


Cyprian Prou and Margaret Vansauden were Huguenots who were said to have fled France before they were married. However, that doesn't work if she was born in London. Maybe it was just him. Two years after their marriage, they came to America. They signed indentured servant papers in Middlesex County, England, in August of 1684, in exchange for payment of passage to America.  They were both to serve Richard Bray for a period of four years. The indenture papers say they did not have to work in the fields. Also, the period of indenture was only four years instead of the standard seven.

The Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia lists Cyprian Prou as a Huguenot ancestor. There is quite a bit of interesting information here.

Thomas Benson (1653 - 1734)

My eighth great-grandfather.

Born: 13 May 1653 in Fredericksburg, Maryland Colony, Colonial America
Died:  1 July 1734 in Christ Church Parish, Middlesex, Virginia Colony

Father:  Elijah Benson ***
Mother:  Elizabeth "Betty" Roberts

Siblings:
   William Benson, 1651
   Hannah Benson, 1657

Married:  Dorothy Sutton on 11 February 1685/6 in Middlesex Co., Virginia

Children:
   Robert Benson, 1685/6
   William Benson, ?


Dorothy Sutton (1658 - ?)

Born:  November c. 1658 in King George Co., Virginia
Died: ?

Thomas and Dorothy were married and son Robert was baptized all in one day.  Parish records of November 1684 show that the parish was paying Jone Deverdale for the keep of a bastard child of Dorothy Sutton, servant to Captain Wormely.

Thomas and Dorothy were both indentured servants.

*** A John Benson patented land in Gloucester Conuty, Virginia, in 1660. His will shows him as the father of Thomas. Everything else I can find points to Elijah as the father. I have no idea if the two men were related.

Edmund Ingalls (1586 - 1648)

My eighth great-grandfather (also seventh great-grandfather to Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of Little House on the Prairie!)

Born: 26 June 1586 In Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, England
Died:  16 September 1648 at Lynn, Essex Co., Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America

Father:  Robert A. Ingalls, of Skirbeck
Mother:  Elizabeth ?

Siblings:
   Rose Ingalls, 1580  
   Agnes Ingalls, 1582
   Margaret Ingalls, 1583
   Edith Ingalls, 1592
   Francis Ingalls, 1595
   Robert Ingalls, 1600

Married: Annis Telbe on 7 June 1618 at Church of St. Nicholas, Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, England

Children:
   Elizabeth Ingalls, 1619 (or 1622)
   Robert Ingalls, 1620 (or 1621)
   Faith Ingalls, 1622 (or 1623)
   John Ingalls, 1624 (or 1625)
   Sarah Ingalls, 1626
   Henry Ingalls, 1627
   Samuel Ingalls, 1632 (or 1634)
   Mary Ingalls, 1642 (or 1635)
   Joseph Ingalls, 1638 (only lived one year)


Annis Telbe  (1599 - 1678)

Born: 17 August 1599 (christened) at All Saints Church, Theddlethorpe, Lincolnshire, England
Died:  possibly 1678

Father:  John Tealbye (c.1560)

This is all I can find about Annis, but even this is not certain. Somewhere, someone got the idea that Annis was married to a John Tripp, apparently before she married Edmund. A lot of people seem to have accepted that without doing further research. There was a John Tripp around at the time; he may even have traveled to America on the same ship, but he was married to Isabell Moses, not Annis. This is the reason for the doubt of the birth dates of the kids - too many sources.

By the way, we descended from youngest daughter Mary and Laura Ingalls Wilder was from older brother Henry.

The Ingalls family was one of the earliest in the country, coming only eight years after the pilgrims at Plymouth, and have as a whole, maintained an honorable place in the history of the country.  It is believed that they settle in what became Saugus as early as June 1, 1629. If that is true, they must have immigrated as part of the 40 immigrants aboard the Abigail in 1628, because there were no further ships before June 1629. Unfortunately, there is no passenger list.

The first few ships with immigrants:
1620 Mayflower - Plymouth, Massachusetts
1621 Fortune - Plymouth, Massacusetts
1623 Zouche Phenix - Cape Ann, Massachusetts
1628 Abigail - Naum Kieg, Massachusetts
1629 Lyon - Salem, Massachusetts
1623 Anne - Plymouth, Massachusetts

Edmund Ingalls came with his wife and children and his brother Francis Ingalls, plus four other people.  They founded the settlement of Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1629. His name is often found in the town records. He was a prominent citizen. Eventually, Lynn grew and other towns branched off: Reading, Lynnfield, Saugus, Swampscott, and Nahant.

Edmund's brother Francis started the first tannery in the area (maybe in all the colonies?) and Colonial Lynn became a major part of the tannery and shoe-making industries that began in 1635.  The boots worn by the Continental Army soldiers during the Revolutionary War were made in Lynn.

Because Edmund was so prominent, there is lots of information about him. See:

Wikipedia here.

Also, it's kind of fun to read his will to understand just what they considered well-off in those days, but I can't seem to make the links come up properly. You might try to Google: "Estate of Edward Ingalls of Lynn"



 

William Eaton (1604 - 1672)

My eighth great-grandfather.

Born:  17 March 1604 in Staple, Kent, England
Died:  26 September 1672 Reading, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America

Father:  Peter Eaton
Mother:  Elizabeth Patterson

Siblings:
   Jonas Eaton, 1625
   Nicholas Eaton, ?
   Jane Eaton, ?
   Katherine Eaton, ?
   Joyce Eaton, ?

Married:  Martha Jenkins on 26 January 1627/8 at St. Johns of Thanet, Staple, Kent, England

Children:
   Mary Eaton, 1628 (Died in 1634)
   William Eaton, Jr., 1628
   Martha Eaton, 1630
   John Eaton, 1635
   Daniel Eaton, 1639
   Mary Eaton, 1643

From "History, Genealogical and Biographical, of the Eaton Families" by Nellie Zada Rice Molyneux, 1911:
"William Eaton, of Staple, county Kent, England, husbandman, with Martha his wife, three children and one servante, embarked for new England, before June 9, 1637, in the "Hercules & Sandwich."  They settled first in Watertown where he was prop. in 1642, later removing to Reading, where he settled on the east side of the "Great Pond."  He became a freeman in 1653, and died in 1658, aged 54 years.  His widow, Martha, died in 1680.  They had two children born in this country, making five children." *** This death date is different than other sources.

Martha Jenkins (1604 - 1680)

Born:  23 January 1604 in Staple, Kent, England
Died:  14 November 1680 in Reading, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Bay Colony

Father:  Edward Jenkins
Mother:  Martha or Mary Phillips

Siblings:
   Thomas Jenkins, 1594
   Margaret Jenkins, 1596
   Mary Jenkins, 1598
   Edward Jenkins, 1600
   Daniel Jenkins, 1601
   Priscilla Jenkins, 1604

Edward Beauchamp (1615 - 1684)

My eighth great-grandfather.

Born: c.1615 in St. Saviors Parish, Southwark, Surrey, England
Died:  1684 in Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America

Father:  Edward Beauchamp
Mother:  Emma ?

Siblings: He apparently had two brothers and two sisters, but I can't find any names listed anywhere.

Married:  Mary Elizabeth Metcalf

Children:
   Mary Beauchamp, 1643
   Elizabeth Beauchamp, 1648
   Samuel Beauchamp, ?
   William Beauchamp, ?

One source claimed that Edward was a Huguenot in Salem.  However, a quick search through his ancestors took me back to William the Conqueror's men who invaded England long before the Protestant Reformation, so that is highly unlikely.


Mary Elizabeth Metcalf (1620 - 1686)

Born:  1620 In England?
Died:  16 January 1686 in Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts Bay Colony

Father:  Michael Metcalf
Mother:  Sarah Elwyn

Siblings:
   Michael Metcalf, 1617
   Mary Metcalf, 1618
   John Metcalf, 1622
   Sarah Metcalf, 1624
   Elizabeth Metcalf, 1626
   Martha Metcalf, 1628
   Thomas Metcalf, 1629
   Ann Metcalf, 1631
   James Metcalf, 1633
   Rebekah Elizabeth Metcalf, 1635
   Joane Metcalf, ?
 

I found an article that explains the difference between Pilgrims and Puritans that is kind of interesting. It also explains why and how they left England to come to the New World.

Robert Goodale, II, of Dennington and Salem (1601 - 1682)

My eighth great-grandfather.

Born:  before 16 August 1601 in Dennington, Suffolk, England
Died:  27 June 1682 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America

Father:  John Goodale
Mother:  Bridget Portler

Siblings:
   Elizabeth Goodale, ?
   Frances Goodale, 1590
   Ellen Goodale, 1591
   John Goodale, 1592
   Richard Goodale, 1594
   Thomas Goodale, 1596
   Rebecca Goodale, 1598
   Robert Goodale, 1601
   Susannah Goodale, 1606
***These are just the kids John had with Bridget. John actually had four wives and a total of 27 kids!

Married:  Catherine Killam/Kilham

Children:
   Mary Goodale, 1630
   Abraham Goodale, 1632
   Isaac Goodale, 1633
   Elizabeth Goodale, 1635
   Nehemiah Goodale, 1639
   Zechariah Goodale, 1639
   Sarah Goodale, 1640
   Jacob Goodale, ?
   Hannah Goodale, 1645


Catherine Killham (1606 - 1645)

Born:  1606 in Dennington, Suffolk, England
Died:  1645 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Father:  Henry Killham
Mother:  Alice Goodale

Siblings:
   Daniel Killham, 1585
   Austin Killham, 1587
   Mary Killham, ?

***One source says they left Ipswich, England, in April 1634. Another says they sailed to American on the ship 'Elizabeth' in 1635.

*** This got very confusing in the research. It turned out that Robert's grandfather, Thomas, and Catherine's grandfather, John, were brothers who both married women named Elizabeth. Then Thomas' grandson married John's granddaughter. It took a while to get it straight, but perseverance paid off!

The Southwick Family

This post is a bit different because I can't see any reasonable way to break this bit of family history down into generations.  My eighth great grandparents in this family are Daniel Southwick and Esther Boyce. But Daniel's story is part of the larger story of his parents, so I am including them here, too.

Daniel Southwick (1637 - 1718)  My eighth great-grandfather.

Born:  14 May 1637 in Salem, Essex county, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America
Died:  9 February 1718 in Salem

Father:  Lawrence Southwick
Mother:  Cassandra Burnell

Siblings:
   John Southwick, 1623
   unnamed infant, 1628
   Anna Southwick, 1630
   Josiah Southwick, 1632
   Deborah Southwick, 1634
   Mary Sarah Southwick, 1636
   Provided Southwick, 1641

Married:  Esther Boyce in 1663

Children:
   Lawrence Southwick, 1664
   Esther Southwick, 1665
   Hannah Southwick, 1667
   Elizabeth "Betty" Southwick, 1668
   Daniel Southwick, Jr., 1671
   Eleanor Southwick, 1674
   Mercy Southwick, 1676


Esther Boyce  My eighth great-grandmother.

Born:  1640
Died: ??

Father:  Joseph Boyce
Mother:  Ellinor ?

This is all I found about Esther and her family.


Lawrence Southwick  (1594 - 1660)  My ninth great-grandfather.

Born:  c.1594 in Telnal, Staffordshire, England
Died:  13 May 1660 at Shelter Island, Suffolk County, New York Colony, Colonial America

Father:  Edward Southwick (Edward's parents were John Southwick and  ? Follet)
Mother:  Anne Shelley

Siblings:
   Edward Southwick, 1596
   Anne Southwick, 1598
   Richard Southwick, 1601
   Dorothy Southwick, 1603
   Elizabeth Southwick, 1605
   Henry Southwick, 1608
   John Southwick, 1612
   Matthew Southwick, 1619

Married:  Cassandra Burnell on 25 January 1623/4 in Kingswinford, Staffordshire, England

Children: (see Daniel's siblings above)

The story is that Lawrence came to America in 1627 to see what it was like and then returned to England for Cassandra. They may have traveled back to America on the Mayflower in 1630. Those dates don't match other historical records.
 

Cassandra Burnell (1598 - 1660)  My ninth great-grandmother.

Born:  1598 in Lancashire, England
Died:  10 May 1660 on Shelter Island, Suffolk County, New York Colony

Father:  Humphrey William Burnell
Mother:  Margaret Burnell  (Margaret's parents were Edward Burnell and Sarah Lambrite)


The easiest way to learn the quick story of this family is at Wikipedia.

There is more in-depth information at this site. Some of it gets kind of boring, but there is some interesting stuff there, too, especially the part about the courts trying to sell Daniel and Provided into slavery.

And go here to read the poem "Cassandra Southwick" written by John Greenleaf Whittier. He used Cassandra's name but the poem is about Provided Southwick, who did have a very poetic name.

This link, while not perfect, is a more interesting version of the family history.

John Wilkins (1642 - 1672)

My eighth great-grandfather.

Born:  22 March 1642 in Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America
Died:  1672 at Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts

Father:  Bray Wilkins
Mother:  Hannah or Anna Way

Siblings:
   Samuel Wilkins, 1636
   Lydia Wilkins, 1644
   Thomas Wilkins, 1647
   Margery Wilkins, 1648
   Henry Wilkins, 1651
   Benjamin Wilkins, 1652
   James Wilkins, 1655

Married:  Mary Gengill on 7 January 1661 in Dorchester, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts

Children:
   Elizabeth Wilkins, 1665
   John Wilkins, 1667
   Mary Wilkins, 1670
   Abigail Wilkins, 1671

Essex County Probate Records, 26 April 1672  Inventory of John Wilkins Estate
                                                                          £.      s    
Three cowse                                                     10     10
1 Steare                                                              2
2 yearlings                                                           2     10
2 calves                                                               1
11 swine                                                              4       5
1 horse                                                                5
1 mare                                                                 2
Indian corn upon ye ground                                  1     10
The halef of a house                                             8     10
In ironware                                                          3
Woodden weare                                                           6
Puter                                                                           10
Brase                                                                          10
2 pisstoles, holsters, sord & belt                           2
Bedding                                                               4
Wearing clothes                                                   3  
           Total                                                       50


Mary Gengill (1646 - 1741)

Born:  1646 Dorchester, Suffolk Co. Massachusetts Bay Colony
Died:  1741 Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts

Father:  John Gengill
Mother:  Elenor Donie



 

Grunt Gustav Helmer Lillie (1639 - 1684)

My eighth great-grandfather.

Born:  9 August 1639 at Stralsund, Sweden
Died:  29 September 1684 at Schlesien, Prussia (now Poland, but may have been part of Sweden then)

Father:  Axel Gustafsson Lillie
Mother:  Christina von Morner

Siblings:
   Catharina Lillie, 1633
   Erik Axelsson Lillie, 1634
   Axel Axelsson Lillie, 1637
   Leonard Axelsson Lillie, 1642

Married: Anna Wachtmeister on 25 October 1663 in Bjorko, Sweden

Children:
   Gustaf Gustafsson, 1672 (his mother was Juliana von Hessen-Eschwege)
   Anna Catharina Lillie, 1677

I found some information in Swedish at the following:
   Adelsvapen
   Swedish Wikipedia


Anna Wachtmeister af Bjorko, Baroness  (1645 - ?)

Born:  c.1645 in Stockholm,Sweden
Died:  ?

Father:  Hans Wachtmeister
Mother:  Agnes Margareta von Helmstedt

Siblings:
   Eva Juliana Wachtmeister, 1639
   Hans Wachtmeister, 1641 (Admiral and General)
   Adam Claes Hansson Wachtmeister, 1642
   Axel Wachtmeister, 1643
   Bleckert Wachtmeister, 1644
   Fritz Wachtmeister,, 1646
   Gustaf Hansson Wachtmeister, 1647
   Agnes Margareta Hansdotter Wachtmeister, 1651
   Carl Hansson Wachtmeister, 1653
   (and maybe one more?)
 
 Anna is the person that started all of my interest in genealogy. In 1984, we had just gotten a satellite dish, and one of the TV shows that we watched was called "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous."  One day, they profiled the Swedish Ambassador to the United States. His name was Count Wilhelm Hans Fredrik Wachtmeister.  I recognized the last name, and not really expecting any response, I wrote him a letter suggesting that we might be distantly related.  The following was his response. What a generous person to take the time to research and answer my letter! I wish he was still alive so I could send him photos of all the notebooks full of genealogy stuff I have now, all because of his letter.

Gustaf Palm Palmfelt (1646 - 1694)

My eighth great-grandfather.

Born:  1646 in Nykoping, Sweden
Died:  1694 in Stockholm, Sweden

Father:  Johan Nilsson
Mother:  Anna Andersdotter (Linusbroslakt)

Siblings: ?

Married:  Maria Holm on 4 February 1674

Children:
   Johan Palmfelt, Baron, 1675
   Gustaf Palmfelt, 1680
   Catharina Palmfelt, 1681

Married:  Brita Catharina Palmqvist

Children:
   Magnus Palmfelt, 1690
   Christoffer Palmfeldt, ?
   Hedvig Eleanora Palmfedt, 1693

There is a genealogy in Swedish, but I can't make a link work. If you are interested, it is at: https://www.adelsvapen.com/genealogi/Palmfelt_nr_114#TAB_2

Both Gustaf and Maria are mentioned in a Swedish book.


Maria Holm   (1656 - 1687)

Born: 1656
Died:  1687

Father:  Admiral Nils Eriksson Holm
Mother:  ?

Sibling:  Erik Holm Gyllenholm

Maria's genealogy is at: Https://adelsvapen.com/genealogi/Gyllenholm_nr_1240
There is not much at either of the Swedish genealogy sites.


Nils Eriksson Holm  (died 1674)  My ninth great-grandfather.

That is all I can find about Maria's family.
 

Richard Ashbury ( 1686 - ?)

My seventh great-grandfather.

Born:  1686 in Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire, England
Died:  ?

Father:  Joseph Ashbury
Mother:  Maria Hill

Siblings:  ?

Married:  Elizabeth Morgan on 13 May 1704 in Tanworth

Children:
   Mary Ashbury, 1706
   Elizabeth Ashbury, 1712
   Joseph Ashbury, 1717


Elizabeth Morgan  (1685)

Born:  c.1685 in Tanworth

This is all I have about Elizabeth.


Joseph Ashbury  (1660)  My eighth great-grandfather.

Born:  c. 1660 in Tanworth
Died:  ?

Father:  Richard Ashbury
Mother:  Joyce ?

Siblings:
   Elianor Ashbury, 1655
   Richard Ashbury, 1659
   Thomas Ashbury, 1660
   Alice/Alicia Ashbury, 1664

Married: Maria Hill on 3 July 1685 in Tanworth

Children: ?


Maria Hill (1665)

Born: c. 1665 in Tanworth

This is all the information I have about Maria.


Richard Ashbury  (1635)  My ninth great-grandfather.

Born:  c. 1635 in Tanworth
Died:  ?

Married: Joyce ? (She was born c.1636 in Tanworth)

This is all the information I have about Richard.

John Field of Jerring's Hall (1679 - 1755)

My seventh great-grandfather. (I have very little information on any of his ancestors, so I'm going to get them all done at once here.)

Born: 23 September 1679 probably at Jerring's Hall.
Died:  8 October 1755

Father:  John Field
Mother:  Anne ?

Married:  Anne Woollaston on 6 July 1702, probably in Tanworth.

Children:
   John Field, 1704
   Anne Field, 1711
   Mary Field, 1713
   Hester Field, 1715
   Alice Field, 1718


Anne Wollaston  (1681 - ?)

Born:  3 January 1681 in Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire
Died:  ?

Father:  John Woollaston
Mother: ?

I have no more information on Anne's family.


John Field  (1656 - 1690)  My eighth great-grandfather.

Born:  c.1630 probably at Jerring's Hall
Died:  26 May 1690

Father:  Poole Field
Mother:  Anne ?

Married: to Dorothy ?

Siblings:  See Poole's children below.


Poole Field  (1630 - 1674)  My ninth great-grandfather.

Born:  c.1630 probably at Jerring's Hall
Died:  14 April 1674 at Tanworth-in-Arden

Father:  John Field (My tenth great-grandfather)
Mother:  Frances ?

Siblings: Francis Field

Children:
   John Field
   Ann Field
   Edward Field
   Thomas Field
   Mary Field
   Poole Field



That's all I have for the Fields.

*** I will do this more often now or I'll never get through all of these people. If I have something interesting, I will put that person in a separate post, otherwise, I'll combine generations. 

Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire, England, in 1700

The final two sets of my seventh great-grandparents were still in England in 1700. As far as I can tell, they never left the home village.

I've already shared a bit about Jerring's Hall, and, unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a lot of information online about Tanworth back then. It has apparently always been a relatively small village with a small population.

Did I share this article before?

If you are interested, though, here are a couple of sites that will give you some information. I don't think it has changed much at all in the past 300 years.

www.tanworth-pc.org.uk/wordpress/history

From the dropdown History menu, see:

"Earlswood in the Parish of Tanworth" and "Old Photos of Tanworth"

An article about the area in the Middle Ages that I found might be of interest to you.

Enoch Bradley Berry, Sr. (1692 - 1763)

My seventh great-grandfather.

Born:  1692 in St. Paul's Parish, King George County, Virginia Colony Colonial America
Died:  1 December 1763 in St. Paul's Parish (I should point out that I doubt either St. Paul's Parish or King George County existed back then, but the location is correct.)

Father:  William Berry
Mother:  Margaret Doughty

Siblings:
   Joseph B. Berry, 1691
   Margaret Berry, c.1695
   Elizabeth Berry, 1697
   George Berry, ?
   Thomas Wheeler Berry, 1715
   James Berry, ?
   John Berry, ?
   Henry Berry, ?

Married:  Dulcebella "Dully" Drucilla Bunbery (aka Bunberry) 12 December 1726 in St. Paul's Parish

Children:  
   Winifred Berry, 1727
   William Berry, 1728
   Thomas Berry, c.1729
   Elizabeth Thomason Berry, c.1729
   James Berry, 1731
   Dulcebella Berry, 1732
   George Berry, c.1732
   Joel Berry, 1733
   Enoch Berry, Jr., 1735
   Patience Berry, ?
   Augustine Berry, 1737


Dulcebella "Dully" Drucilla Bunbury (1705 - 1763)

Born:  15 September 1705 in St. Paul's Parish, King George County, Virginia Colony
Died:  1763 King George County

Father:  William Bunbury
Mother:  Frances Mason

Siblings:
   William Bunbury, 1696
   Catherine Bunbury, 1702
   Thomas Bunbury, 1703
   Eleanor Bunbury, 1718
   (There was also a Heliner listed, also 1718, but I believe she is the same person as Eleanor)
 

Robert I. Benson (1686 - 1757)

My seventh great-grandfather.

Born:  11 February 1686 in King George, Middlesex County, Virginia Colony, Colonial America
Died:  1757 in Hanover Parish, King George, Virginia Colony

Father:  Thomas Benson
Mother:  Dorothy Sutton

Siblings: ?

Married: Frances Prou in 1713 in Richmond, Virginia Colony

Children:
   Charles Benson, 1718
   Prue Benson, 1720
   Mary Benson, 1725
   Enoch Benson, c.1729
   William Benson, c.1729
   Catherine Benson, c.1729/30
   Ann Benson, 1730 (twin)
   Sarah Benson, 1730 (twin)
   John Benson, 1731
   James Benson, 1733
   Zachary Benson, 1734/5
   Enoch Benson, 1736 (Records show two sons named Enoch)


Frances Prou  (1689 - 1756)

Born: 1689 (or possibly '87 or '88) in St. Mary's Parish, Richmond County, Virginia Colony
Died:  3 March 1756 in King George, Virginia Colony

Father:  Cyprian Prou (Proulx)
Mother:  Margaret Vensanden

Siblings:
   Susanna Prou, 1682
   Edward Prou, before 1685
   Sarah Prou, 1688
   Margaret Prou, 1692
   Mary Prou, 1700
   Elizabeth Prou, c.1700


It looks like Robert was some sort of minor official or government employee based on the following records from the local courts:

October 1720 - Claim of Robert Benson for taking up runaway servant names Elizabeth Cook, belonging to John Smith.

December 1720 - Robert Benson to appraise estate of James Cashion.

April 1724 - Robert Benson produced certificate that he took up runaway servant man belonging to Alexander Spotswood and received no satisfaction for same.

August 1728 - Robert Benson to serve as surveyor of main road from Markham's Run to upper side of Dogue Bridge. Also served on grand juries during this time.

February 1732 - Robert Benson named as executor of a will but he refused to serve.

January 1751 - Robert Benson named among men who voted in poll for Burgess election, King George County.

March 1756 - Last Will and Testament of Robert Benson. He names only Zachary and Catherine. Zachary inherited "feather bed and furnishings, one cow and calf, one sow and pigs, saddle and bridle."  Catherine inherited "all my personal estate not already disposed of."

April 1757 - Inventory of Estate, valued at 17 pounds, 17 shillings, and three pence. Household and farm goods include a parcel of books, a servant boy, four beds, and a looking glass and comb.

Note: Charles Benson was proven to be Robert's eldest son and inherited his parents' land by right of primogeniture.

1765 - Charles sold his shares of 171 1/2 acres except the burying ground for 100 pounds.

Virginia Colony

It seems like it was much easier to find information about early Massachusetts than it is about Virginia. One source, possibly the best, is actually from North Carolina, but we have to remember that the lines were not drawn in the same places three hundred years ago.

I think we all know a bit about Jamestown. (I've even been there. It is well worth your time if you have the opportunity.) But after that, it all gets pretty fuzzy in my memory, so here's a bit of help:

Virginia Colony History

The part that I found interesting is that the people, especially before they started bringing in slaves, were pretty much divided between land owners and indentured servants. The land owners were the only ones who got to participate in any form of government. They often paid the passage of people who couldn't afford it in return for a promise to work for an agreed-upon length of time to pay off the debt. Once the indentured servants had worked off their contracts, though, they were free to earn money and buy land and then participate in the government. We have ancestors from both groups.

Daniel Eaton (1639 - 1716)

My seventh great-grandfather.

Born: 20 January 1639 at Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America
Died: 20 July 1716 probably at Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Father:  William Eaton
Mother:  Martha Jenkins

Siblings:
   Mary Eaton, 1628
   William Eaton, Jr., 1628
   Martha Eaton, 1630
   Abigail Eaton, 1631
   John Eaton, 1635
   Samuel Eaton, 1639
   Mary Eaton, 1643

Married: to Mary Ingalls on 21 December 1664 at Reading, Massachusetts

Children:
   John Eaton, 1665
   David Eaton, 1667
   Daniel Eaton, 1667
   William Eaton, 1668
   Ann Eaton, 1671
   Mary Eaton, 1672
   Martha Eaton, 1673
   Priscilla Eaton, 1676
   Daniel Eaton, 1678
   Mehitable Eaton, 1679/80

Daniel may have married a second time to Abigail Herbert, but I have no other information on this.

(One source, which I've thought was a good one in the past, claims that Daniel's wife was actually a Mary Collins, born in 1664 and died 24 February 1682. She says she can find no other information about this Mary. Since the other sources all list Mary Ingalls, I'm going with that, but it gets confusing, as I'll explain below.)


Mary Ingalls  (1642 - 1706)

Born: 1642 in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Died:  1706 in Reading

Father:  Edmund Ingalls
Mother:  Ann Telbe

Siblings:
   Elizabeth Ingalls, 1619
   Robert Ingalls, 1620
   Faith Ingalls, 1622
   John Ingalls, 1624
   Sarah Ingalls, 1626
   Henry Ingalls, 1627
   Samuel Ingalls, 1632
   Joseph Ingalls, 1638
 

Why I make the choices I do when the facts seem muddled:
In an attempt to be as accurate as possible, I am doing extensive internet searches for each of the people I list on this genealogy. Often, I find that one site gives me one set of dates and places and another site gives completely different information. What to do? I try to find out as much as I can, sometimes even searching the relatives of our relatives. (I suppose that they are actually our relatives, too.) For example, the source with the most complete information says that Daniel married Mary Ingalls, while the other site says Mary Collins. But there is no other information to confirm Mary Collins. With Mary Ingalls, however, I can find her parents and her siblings, all with names, birth dates and places, etc. So it just makes more sense that Mary Ingalls is our grandmother. But, because I respect the information I usually get from the other site, I shared what it had, just in case.

It can get worse. One source gives Mary Ingalls an earlier birth date and says she was married to Daniel's brother John. But this Mary Ingalls was born six years earlier and in another city and county. What to do? I went with the information most likely to be correct.

But there are other inconsistencies, too. For example, one site says that Daniel was born in Staple, Kent, England, and another says Watertown. Then I found information that says Daniel's father came to Massachusetts in 1937. Since Daniel wasn't born until 1639, it makes sense that he must have been born in Massachusetts. One of the reasons that I list siblings is so anyone so inclined can use that information to do further research to verify or disprove the information. Also, when I get back a few centuries, it is very interesting to see that, for instance, every child in a family did something that caused his or her name to go down in history. I give us a better picture of the lives of our ancestors.

Peter Emmons, Sr. (1649 - 1694)

My seventh great-grandfather.

Born:  c.1649 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America
Died: After 1694 in Ipswich

Father: ?
Mother: ?

Siblings: ?

Married: Martha Cooley, probably before 1670

Children:
   Peter Emmons, 1672
   Martha Emmons, 1673
   Cooley Emmons, 1675
   Meriah Emmons, ?
   Prudence Emmons, 1687
   Elizabeth Emmons, 1688

According to Ipswich records, four daughters of Peter and Martha married four men named Smith. Were they brothers or were they lots of Smiths in town?

Elizabeth married a Thomas Smith in 1704.
Martha married a (different?) Thomas Smith in 1705.
Prudence married a Stephen Smith in 1712.
Meriah married a John Smith in 1716.

Peter was a soldier in King Phillip's War in 1675. His name appears on the roll of Major Appleton's company in the Narragansett campaign in 1675 and in Captain Gardiner's company in 1675-6.

He gave a deposition in the Essex court in 1694: "I was employed by Stephen Cross about the later end of July 1694." So we know he was still alive at that point.

In 1896, 200 years later, Peter Emmons' lot in Narragansett township (now Buxton, Maine) was claimed by Stephen Smith, the grandson of Peter Emmons and son of Prudence and Stephen Smith. Prudence died in 1727 at the age of 34. (*** I'm sharing what I found here but the dates don't work. I doubt very much that Prudence and Stephen's son was alive in 1896. Also, Prudence would have been 40 years old in 1727.)


Martha Cooley

I have no dates on Martha. One source even questions whether that was her name. Another source, however, says it was and her parents were John and Elizabeth Cooley.

This is everything I found on this couple, except that John Cooley was probably an immigrant from England.

Zachariah Kilham Goodale (1639 - 1715)

My seventh great-grandfather.

Born:  31 March 1639 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America
Died:  30 June 1715 in Salem Village, Essex County, MA

Father:  Robert Goodale of Dennington and Salem
Mother:  Catherine Killham

Siblings:
   Mary Goodale, 1630 (England)
   Abraham Goodale, 1632 (England)
   Isaac Goodlae, 1633 (England)
   Elizabeth Goodale, 1635 (Possibly born on the ship "Elizabeth" on their way to America in 1635)
   Nehemiah Goodale, 1636
   Sarah Goodale, 1640
   Jacob Goodale, 1643
   Hannah Goodale, 1645

Married: 31 October 1666 to Elizabeth Beauchamp in Salem

Children:
   Zechariah Goodale, 1667
   Samuel Goodale, 1669
   Joseph Goodale, 1672
   Thomas Goodale, 1676
   Abraham Goodale, 1678
   Mary Goodale, 1679
   John Goodale, 1681
   Elizabeth Goodale, 1683
   Sarah Goodale, (baptised in 1689)
   Benjamin Goodale, 1687
   David Goodale, 1689


Elizabeth Beauchamp (aka Beacham) (1648 - 1715)

Born:  23 July 1648 in Lynn, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Died:  30 June 1715 (They both died on same day???) in Salem

Father:  Edward Beauchamp
Mother:  Mary Elizabeth Metcalf

Siblings:
   Mary Beauchamp, 1643
   Samuel Beauchamp, ?
   William Beauchamp, ?

I found a note about Elizabeth from court records. In 1672, her brother-in-law, John Smith kept making advances toward Elizabeth. She told some town gossips what must have been an embellished version of events. As the gossip spread through town, John Smith sued Elizabeth. Both of them were hauled before a magistrate for "uncivil carriages." Smith lost the suit and was sentenced to be whipped and had to stay in the gaol until the sentence was carried out or pay a 40 shilling fine. The whipping was canceled when Elizabeth admitted that she was "heartily sorry for her foolish words."

*** Zachariah and Elizabeth are also ancestors of US President William Howard Taft!

John Wilkins (1667 - 1723)

My 7th great-grandfather.

Born:  12 March 1667 in Salem (probably SalemVillage), Essex County (now), Massachusetts Bay Colony
Died:  1723 in Salem

Father:  John Wilkins
Mother:  Mary Gengell

Siblings:
   Elizabeth Wilkins, c.1669
   Mary Wilkins, c.1670
   Abigail Wilkins, c.1671

Married: August 1697 to Elizabeth "Betty" Southwick in Salem Village

Children:
   John Wilkins, 1688
   Esther Wilkins, 1690
   Daniel Wilkins, 1692
   Betty Wilkins, 1695
   Jonathan Wilkins, 1697
   Lydia Wilkins, 1699
   Mercy Wilkins, 1701
   David Wilkins, 1703
   Soloman Wilkins, 1706
   Stephen Wilkins, 1712
   Joseph Wilkins, 1719


Elizabeth "Betty" Southwick  (1668 - 1718)

Born:  24 June 1668 in Salem Village
Died:  1718 in Salem

Father:  Daniel Southwick
Mother:  Esther Boyce

Siblings:
   Lawrence Southwick, Sr., c.1664
   Esther Southwick, 1665
   Hannah Southwick, 1667
   Daniel Southwick, Jr., 1671
   Eleanor Southwick, 1674
   Mercy Southwick, 1676

The Massachusetts Bay Colony

The majority of our ancestors for whom I've found records were living in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in Colonial America in 1700. I suggest that you check out this site to get an idea of what was going on in the late 1600s, which we are getting to now. (Scroll down past the timeline to get to the history.)

I haven't found anyone who came over on the Mayflower, but some of our relatives came soon after. I'll let you know what I can find out in each of the posts coming up.

Johan Palmfelt, Baron

My 7th great-grandfather.

Born: c. 1675 in Uppsala? (He went to school in Uppsala.)
Died: 31 December 1739

Father:  Gustaf Palm Palmfelt
Mother:  Maria Holm

Siblings:
   Catharina Palmfelt, 1681
   Gustaf Palmfelt, 1687? (This is the year his mother died.)

Step-mother:  Brita Catharina Palmqvist

Half-siblings:
   Magnus Palmfelt, 1690
   Christoffer Palmfelt, ?
   Hedvig Eleanora Palmfelt, 1693

Married: Anna Catharina Lillie, Countess, on 2 April 1707 at the King's house in Stockholm ***

Children:
   Eleanora Sofia Palmfelt, 1709
   Baby daughter died in 1716  
   Gustaf Helmer Palmfelt, 1717
   Mariana Gustavgarden Palmfelt, 1721
   Johan Lennart Palmfelt, ?

Baron Johan Palmfelt served as Governor of Alvsborg and Blekinge Provinces. He was appointed Judge at the Court of Appeals in 1709. He became the Chief Judge in Landskrona in 1718 and a Prefect of Skane the same year. In 1719, he became a Judge in Ticharads.

*** After hosting their wedding, later in 1707, Swedish King Charles (Karel) XII, who was just 24 years old, invaded Russia, in a war that he would eventually lose. I don't know, but I wonder if Johan went with him and that is the reason there is such a long time between the birth dates of the children.

*** A note of interest (at least to me): Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus, who, with Peter Artedi, divided the natural world into animals, plants, and minerals and gave them Latin names,was born in the year 1707.


Anna Catharina Lillie, Countess (1677 - 1739)

Born:  1677
Died:  31 December 1739 (??? They both died on the same date?)  

Father:  Gustaf Helmer Lillie, Count
Mother:  Anna Wachtmeister, Baroness

Half-sibling:  Gustaf Gustafsson

Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen.

Sweden in 1700

Before I go on to my seventh great-grandparents, I am going to pause and share a bit of information about what was happening in the world where our ancestors were living at the start of the 1700s.

As I did my initial research - the names and dates - I was puzzled by the fact that so many of our "Swedish" ancestors actually came from Norway, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Bohemia, Germany, etc. But when I looked into the history of Sweden, I began to understand.

I started to do a bunch of research so I could write it up for everyone, but then I realized that Wikipedia had done it all for me. Unfortunately, I can't make a link work, but if you Google "History of Sweden" the Wikipedia article should come up.

I suggest that, at the minimum, you read the introduction and then scroll down to  Early Modern and read at least through "The Great Northern War: 1700." However, it is all very interesting. You will probably want to refer back to it as I get to earlier generations.

YouTube also has some documentaries under "History of Sweden." I appreciated the one about The Thirty Years War, which was 1618 through 1648, because it explains a lot that will come up in these posts in the near future.

It looks like this coming generation lived in three areas of Sweden, all in the south. Orebro is 200 km west of Stockholm. Jonkoping is 200 km south of Orebro. And Alvsborg County (Province) is just west of Jonkoping.

Joseph Ashbury (1717 - ?)

My sixth great grandfather.

Born: 1717 in Tanworth in Arden, Warwickshire, England
Died: ???

Father: Richard Ashbury
Mother: Elizabeth Morgan

Siblings:
   Mary Ashbury, c. 1706
   Elizabeth Ashbury, 1712

Married Ann ???

Children:
   Richard Ashbury, 1737
   Mary Ashbury, 1739
   Eleanor Ashbury, 1741
   Elizabeth Ashbury, 1744
   Richard Ashbury, 1747

Ann ???

Born: c. 1718 in Tanworth in Arden, Warwickshire, England

Poole Field (1703 - 1757)

My sixth great-grandfather.

Born:  1 Aug 1703 probably at Jerring's Hall, Solihull, Warwickshire, England
Died:  3 April 1757 in England

Father:  John Field of Jerring's Hall
Mother:  Anne Woollaston

Siblings:
   John Field, 1704
   Anne Field, 1711
   Mary Field, 1713
   Hester Field, 1715
   Alice Field, 1718

Married: Elizabeth Clark (No more information)

Children:
   Anne Field, 1723
   Mary Field, 1726
   Poole Field, 1730
   Richard Field, 1732
   William Field, 1733
   Edward Field, 1735
   George Field, 1741
   Samuel Field, 1744
   Thomas Field, 1746

I found some confusing histories of Jerring's Hall that didn't make much sense, an then I ran across these two links which include some history and photos:

Jerring's Hall Farm History and more from a recent attempt to sell the farm Property for sale for a mere 1,700,000 British pounds ($2.5 million US dollars.) Property values around there have dropped; maybe we can all pool our money and get it back in the family.

Prou Benson (1720 - 1792)

My sixth great-grandfather.

Born:  1720 or 1725 in Stafford, Virginia, Colonial America
Died:  9 February 1792 in Greenville Co., South Carolina

Father:  Robert Benson
Mother:  Frances Prou

Siblings:
   Charles Benson, 1723
   Catherine Benson, c.1727
   Enoch Benson, c.1729
   John Benson, c.1731
   James Benson, c.1733 (Apparently, James lived to be 105 years old.)
   Zachary Benson, c.1735

Married: Elizabeth Berry Thomason (or Thompson)

Children:
   Thomasina Benson, c.1750
   Benjamin Benson, c.1752
   Sarah Benson, c.1754
   Enoch Benson, c.1756
   Francis Benson, c.1758
   William Benson, c.1759
   Robert Benson, 1762
   Zachariah Benson, 1764
   Joshua Benson, 1766
   George Benson, c.1767
   Mary Benson, c.1768
   Clarissa Benson, c.1772
   Elizabeth Benson, c.1777

According to the Daughters of the American Revolution, Prue furnished supplies during the war.
 

Elizabeth Berry Thomason (1729 - 1813)

Born:  c. 1729 in Grayson, Virginia, Colonial America
Died:  17 June 1813 in Greenville, Greenville Co., South Carolina

Father:  Enoch Bradley Berry, Sr.
Mother:  Dulcebella "Dully" Drucilla Bunbury

Siblings:
   Winifred Berry, 1727
   William Berry, 1728
   Thomas Berry, 1729
   Elizabeth Berry, 1729
   James Berry, 1731
   Dulcibella Berry, 1732

I have some questions about this family.  Ancestry.com has completely different parents for Prou. According to them, Prou's parents were Thomas Benson, born in 1690, and Sarah?, and their children were Charles, Prou, John, and Enoch. I can't be sure, but I think my information is better and others on Geni.com agree with me. If I ever find out otherwise, I'll update this.
 

Peter Emmons, Jr. (c.1669 - 1759)

My sixth great-grandfather.

Born:  c. 1669 in Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America or
          c. 1672 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Died:  1759 in Gloucester, Essex County

Father:  Peter Emmons, Sr. (Born: c.1649  Died: c.1694)
Mother:  Martha Cooley

I don't have any more information about Peter's parents or siblings.

Married:  #1 Martha Kilham  (Born:  1670  Died: before 1698 - possibly at Daniel's birth?)

Children:
   Richard Emmons, 1693
   Cooly Emmons, 1693
   Daniel Emmons, 1697

Married:  #2  Martha Eaton after 19 November 1698

Children:
   Mercy Emmons, 1700
   Mary Emmons, 1700
   Joseph Emmons, 1708   *** This is the child that counts for us, so I'll be following Martha Eaton.


Martha Eaton  (1673 - 1727/8)

Born:  16 October 1673 in Gloucester, Essex county, Massachusetts, Colonial America
Died:  4 February 1727 or 1728 in Ipswich, Essex County, MA

Father:  Daniel Eaton
Mother:  Mary Ingalls

Siblings:
   William Eaton, 1665
   John Eaton, 1667
   Ann Eaton, 1670
   Mary Eaton, 1672
   Priscilla Eaton, 1676
   Daniel Eaton, 1678
   Mehitabel Eaton, 1679
   Thomas Eaton, 1683
   

David Goodale (1689 - 1717)

Born:  1 March 1689 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
Died:  17 February 1717 in Salem Village, Essex County, MA

Father:  Zachariah Goodale
Mother:  Elizabeth Beauchamp

Siblings:
   Zachariah Goodale, Jr., 1667
   Samuel Goodale, 1669
   Joseph Goodale, 1672
   Mary Goodale, 1674
   Thomas Goodale, 1676
   John Goodale, 1679
   Abraham Goodale, c. 1681
   Elizabeth Goodale, 1683
   Sarah Goodale, 1685
   Benjamin Goodale, 1687

Married:  7 January 1712 or 1713 to Abigail Elliott

Children:
   Abigail Goodale, 1714
   David Goodale, 1716


Abigail Elliott  (1705 - 1798???)

Born:  27 May 1705 in Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
Died:  20 June 1798 in Marlborough, Middlesex County, MA

Father:  Francis Elliott
Mother:  Abigail Nichols

I have no more information about the Elliott family.

   *** There is a conflict here. My records said she was born in 1682, which would have made her 30 when she got married. But then I found another site that said she was born in 1705, which would make her 9 years old when her first child, our ancestor, was born. Unlikely! But then this second source claimed she lived to 1798, which would make her 93 if born in 1705. Again, possible, but unlikely.  And the conflict deepens... David died in 1717, soon after their son David was born. Abigail remarried - to Joseph Hutchinson of Salem Village - and went on to have eight more children. Definitely not likely if she was born in 1682. My guess is that both the birth and the death dates are wrong.
 

Daniel Wilkins (1692 - 1739)

My sixth great-grandfather.

Born: 12 May 1692 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
       (probably Salem Village)
Died: 23 February 1739

Father: John Wilkins
Mother: Elizabeth "Betty" Southwick

Siblings:
   John Wilkins, 1688
   Esther Wilkins, 1690
   Betty Wilkins, 1695
   Jonathan Wilkins, 1697
   Lydia Wilkins, 1699
   Mercy Wilkins, 1701
   David Wilkins, 1703
   Soloman Wilkins, 1706
   Stephen Wilkins, 1712
   Joseph Wilkins, 1719

Married: 13 October 1714 to Mary Bailey

Children:
   Jonathan Wilkins, 1715
   Mary Wilkins, 1718
   Elizabeth Wilkins, 1721
   Mary or Mercy Wilkins, 1732


Mary Bailey (1695 - ?)

Born: c. 1695 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America

I can't find anything else about Daniel or Mary.

Edward Field (1735 - 1809)

My fifth great-grandfather.

Born:  6 March 1735 in Tanworth on Arden, Warwickshire, England
Died:  2 January 1809 in Warwickshire

Father:  Poole Field
Mother:  Elizabeth Clark

Siblings:
   Anne Field, 1723
   Mary Field, 1726
   Poole field, 1730
   Richard Field, 1732
   William Field, 1733
   George Field, 1741
   Samuel Field, 1744
   Thomas Field, 1746

Married:  Eleanor Ashbury on 9 January 1759

Children:
   Ann Field, 1760
   Mary Field, 1761
   Elizabeth Field, 1762
   Pool Field, 1765
   Edward Field, 1767
   Sarah Field, 1769
   Eleanor Field, 1771


Eleanor Ashbury (aka Ashberry)  (1741 - 1822)

Born:  28 October 1741 in Tanworth on Arden, Warwickshire, England
Died:  22 October 1822 in Tanworth on Arden
   Buried in Tanworth

Father:  Joseph Ashbury
Mother:  Ann ???  (Born in 1718 in Tanworth)

Siblings:
   Richard Ashbury, 1737
   Mary Ashbury, 1739
   Elizabeth Ashbury, 1744
   Richard Ashbury, 1747


No interesting tidbits this time, just the facts. I wish I knew more.
 

Enoch Benson (1756 - 1840)

My fifth great-grandfather.

Born: December 1756 in Culpepper County (or possibly Prince William County), Virginia

Died:  4 September 1840 in Gwinnett County, Georgia

Father: Prou Benson
Mother:  Elizabeth Berry Thomson (Born: c, 1729)

Siblings:
   Thomasina Benson, c. 1750
   Benjamin Benson, c. 1752
   Sarah Benaon, c. 1754
   Francis Benson, c. 1756
   William Benson, c. 1760
   Robert Benson, 1762
   Zacariah Benson, 1764
   Joshua Benson, 1766
   George Benson, c. 1768
   Mary Benson, c. 1770
   Clary Benson, c. 1772
   Elizabeth Benson, c. 1774
   Henry Benson, c, 1776

Married: Jemima (maybe Berry?)

Children:
   Elizabeth Benson, c. 1780
   Mary Polly Benson, 1781
   Frances "Franky" Benson, 1784
   Rueben Benson, 1786
   Clarissa "Clary" Benson, 1791
   John "Jackie" Benson, 1795
   Jim Benson, 1797
   Willis Benson, 1799
      There were also three daughters born and died before 1797 and another in 1801.

 

As I was doing my research, I found this Facebook post above and was surprised to see Enoch called a Revolutionary War hero. I sent them a request for more information. I'll have to wait and see if I get a response. Sugar Hill is in Gwinnet County, Georgia.

In the meantime, I was able to gather bits and pieces of information. Although the first US census was taken in 1790, Enoch's name is included in the "Virginia volume, Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States taken in the year 1790: Records of State Enumerations, 1782-1785: Virginia." It shows him living in Stafford, Virginia, during that time. 

In 1785, he moved to Greenville District in South Carolina. He preached there at the Noonday Baptist Church in 1786. He was included on the 1890 US Census in South Carolina. On 11 May 1812, he shows up as the administrator of his mother's will.

Enoch moved his family to Gwinnet County, Georgia in 1818. They were members of the Head of Enoree Baptist Church in Greenville. (The church wasn't officially incorporated until 1840.) It was located near the Traveler's Rest.

Enoch and Jemima, along with George and James Tippens, purchased land in Cherokee County on 15 October 1829, but in 1832 they were still in Gwinnet. The 1830 Owners of Slaves list includes JB Benson (his brother Joshua) with 3 slaves, Enoch with 9 slaves, and brother Benjamin with one slave. Enoch was not on the 1840 list. They had moved to Cherokee County, Georgia, by 1840.

In 1832, Enoch applied for a Revolutionary War pension. The application is here. It is much easier to direct you to it than to write it out. Enoch explains his enlistments, but I don't see anything that makes him sound like a hero - unless it was just because he served. But so did almost everyone else who was in the right age bracket.

Joseph Emmons (1708 - 1739)

My fifth great-grandfather.

Born:  23 July 1708 in Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
Died:  7 April 1739 in Ipswich, Essex County, MA

Father:  Peter Emmons, Jr.
Mother:  Martha Eaton

Siblings:
   Richard Emmons, c.1693
   Cooly Emmons,  c. 1693
   Daniel Emmons, c. 1697
   Mercy Emmons, c. 1700
   Mary Emmons, c. 1700

Married:  Sarah Holmes on 29 October 1730

Children:
   Sarah Emmons, 1734
   Joseph Emmons, 1736


Sarah Holmes   (1708 - 1796)

Born:  4 September 1708 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
Died:  11 September 1796 Ipswich, Essex, MA (one source listed 1776, but I think this is right)

Father:  Robert Holmes - Born: 1676  Died: 28 March 1739
Mother:  Sarah Wastcutt - Born: 1680  Died: ?
  They posted their intent to marry in Ipswich on 4 January 1701.

This is all the information I could find about Sarah and her parents.

Ebenezer Berry (1707 - 1761)

My fifth great-grandfather.

Born: (probably) 1 October 1703 (but possibly 23 September 1707) in Wenham, Essex, MA
Died:  1761 in Middleton, Essex County, Massachusetts

Father:  John Berry
Mother:  Rachel (or possibly Rebecca) ?

Siblings:
   Joseph Berry, (date unknown, but he's the oldest)
   Sarah Berry, 1695
   Hannah Berry, 1696
   Samuel Berry, 1699
   Ben Berry, 1709
 
Married: Phebe Curtis 3 September 1730 in Middleton, Essex County, Massachusetts

Children:  Phebe Berry, 1732  (The mother must have died in childbirth or shortly after.)

Married: Susanna Perkins 19 September 1734 in Middleton

Children:
   William Berry, 1735
   Elizabeth Berry, 1741
   Susannah Berry, 1742
   William Berry, 1745
   Ebenezer Berry, 1746
   William Berry, 1749
   Samuel Berry, 1751

When I see a name used multiple times like this, I assume that the first child with the name died young. The parents either liked the name a lot or wanted to honor the dead child, so they used it again. This is the only time I've seen one used three times (so far.) There is also the possibility that there was only one William, but that his birth date is not clear.

The son Ebenezer told someone, who later shared the information, that his father was a "gentleman" with much estate. He had been the proprietor of the Danvers Hotel. He said his father had been born "in North Andover, in the last house on the line near Middleton, on the old road."


Susanna Perkins 

I can't find anything about Susanna except their marriage was recorded in Middleton and her mother was named Elizabeth Perkins. She is not on the Middleton list of births, so she must have come from somewhere else.


Most of the records I have found list Phebe Berry as the mother of our ancestor Susannah. That is the information that I got from my mother, but I discovered that it is wrong. Too bad, because I had a lot of Phebe's ancestors listed in our family tree. Now I have had to eliminate many people going all the way back to the early 1400s.

This is a good time to explain how I'm doing this so you will understand what has gone wrong when errors are discovered.  I started with information that my mother gathered, mostly from records on file with the Mormon church. But those records are only as good as the knowledge of the person who filed them with the church.

Once I started to really get into all this, I discovered Geni.com. Through that website, I was able to match some of the oldest ancestors that we had recorded and, from there, I have been relying on what I find on the website. I went through and recorded tons of information. I have over 1000 pages of family trees (pedigree charts) going back over a 1000 years - and there is much more! However, this website is also only as accurate as the information that people like me enter into it. I have found mistakes and tried to avoid repeating them.

The next step for me comes when I write the blog posts. I start with the family trees I have compiled. Those control the organization of my posts. But I am doing a whole other search for information on each person as they come up. I might be able to find more, but I would have to pay to join one of the online sources, and there is no way to know if their information is any better than what I can find for free. Since many people are interested in genealogy right now and are posting the information on websites that are trying to put together a huge family tree that shows how the whole world is related, I am able to use their postings as a place to start. It is like we are all working together on this one massive project. 

But, of course, I have no way to be certain that their information is correct. Most people doing this are very careful, but, unfortunately, not all of them. Anyone who did a Google search on Phebe Curtis could have found the information that I found. There were two different sources. But it also took patience on my part to read through the stuff and find what I needed. As interesting as it was to discover and record all these names and dates on the pedigree charts, finding out about the bits and pieces of their lives is so much more interesting. Thank you, Google!

Jonathan Wilkins (1715 - 1761)

My fifth great-grandfather.

Born:  25 August 1715 in either Middleton or Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts
Died:  20 April 1761 (or possibly 1763) in Salem Village, Essex County, Massachusetts

Father:  Daniel Wilkins
Mother:  Mary Bailey

Siblings:
   Mary Wilkins, 1718
   Elizabeth Wilkins, 1721
   Mercy or Mary Wilkins, 1732

Married: Abigail Goodale on 5 October 1737

Children:
   Elizabeth Wilkins, 1739
   Jonathan Wilkins, 1744


Abigail Goodale  (1714 - 1797)

Born:  3 July 1714
Died:  1797

Father:  David Goodale (aka Goodell)
Mother:  Abigail Eliott

That's all I've found here.

Nils Johan Bredahl (1748 - 1782)

My fifth great-grandfather.

Born:  8 June 1748
Died:  15 October 1782 in Obrero, Sweden

Father:  Mattias Bredahl  (See below)
Mother:  Mariana Gustavgarden Palmfeldt  (See below)

Siblings: ***
   Eva Helmer Tina/Albertina Bredahl
   Lovisa Eleanora Bredahl
   Karl Axel Bredahl
   Anna Ulrika Bredahl

Married Beata Margareta Dahm

Children:
   Britta Christina Bredahl, 1777
   Johan Niklas Bredahl, 1778
   Orebro Nikolai Bredahl, 1779
   Eva Petronella Bredahl, 1789

Nils worked as the town notary/city registrar of the city of  Obrero, Sweden.


Beata Margareta Dahm

Born: 1754

Father: Anders Daniel Dahm (born 5 September 1719 in Obrero)
Mother: Britta Stina Sloberg (born 2 December 1730 in Obrero)

This is all the information I could find about Beata and her parents)


Mattias Bredahl (1715 - 1771)

Born:  18 May 1715 in St. Petri Parish, Malmo, Sweden.
Died:  in either 1771 or 1791 (See below)

Father:  R. Bredahl - Rector at Horby in the Diocese of Lund
Mother:  Hofwerberg Malmo
   This is all the information I have about the Bredahl ancestors.

Married: Baroness Mariana Gustavgarden Palmfeldt (aka Palmenfelt)

Mattias worked as Assessor and Auditor (military lawyer) of the Jonkoping Regiment

Mariana Gustavgarden Palmfeldt  (1721 - 1781)

Born: 1721
Died: 7 September 1781

Father: Johan Palmfeldt, Baron
Mother: Anna Catharina Lillie, Countess
   Mariana's parents were married  2 April 1707 at the Stockholm Palace.
   He was the Governor of Alfsborg Province

Siblings:
   Gustaf Helmar Palmfelt, 1717
   Eleanora Sofia Palmfelt, 1709
   Johan Lennart Palmfelt, ?

*** The above is what I had to share until I found a Swedish Genealogy Forum in which four or five people were discussing Nils and his parents.  I could make out only a tiny bit of what was written, but, fortunately, I have a daughter who is studying Swedish. She was able to figure out some more of what was written. It seems these people were debating whether Nils could be the son of Mattias and Mariana. Some said that Mattias had died early, which makes the 1771 date more realistic, and that in 1775 Mariana had appealed for help and said her four fatherless children were her only property. The four people that I have listed as Nils' siblings were mentioned on the forum as her children.

One argument was that because Nils was not listed as one of the four children, he must not be their son. My thinking is, though, that Nils would have been about 27 years old in 1775 and on his own, but why would she not list him as one of her children?

Another person mentioned that Mariana probably relocated to Stockholm in 1766 with her children Eva Helmer Tina and Karl Axel. Where was Mattias? Where were the other kids?  And what about Nils? He would have been 18 years old by then. The others might have been out of the house by then, too; Mariana was 45 years old, and Mattias was 51.

Here is another question that I have...Mariana was a countess. Her father was the Governor of Alfsborg Province, and her mother was a countess and lady in waiting. Why would Mariana be pleading for help? I suppose it is possible that she was disowned for some reason. She is the last one of the line with a title. I guess it is a family mystery!  I'll keep my eyes open for more information and add an update if I find anything new.

Edward Field (1767 - 1804)

My fourth great-grandfather.

Born:  12 June 1767 at Solihull, Warwickshire, England
Died:  1804

Father:  Edward Field
Mother:  Eleanor Ashbury

Siblings:
   Ann Field, 1760
   Mary Field, 1761
   Elizabeth Field, 1762
   Poole Field, 1765
   Sarah Field, 1769
   Eleanor Field, 1771

Married: Susan or Susanna Turner, 19 November 1810 at St. Martin, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England

Children:
   Edward Field, c. 1804
   William Field, c. 1806
   Ann Field, 1810


Susanna Turner (1778 - 1815)  (Also known as Susan)

Born: c. 1778 Wooten Wawen, Warwickshire, England
Died:  19 September 1815

Father:  Benjamin Turner  (See below.)
Mother:  Diana Brunt  (See below.)

Siblings:
   Dinah Turner, 1769
   John Turner, 1771
   Elizabeth Turner, 1775
   Benjamin Turner, 1780
   Mary Turner, 1784
   William Turner, 1788


Benjamin Turner  (1742 - 1815)

Born:  1742, at Ullenhall, Wooton Wawen. Warwickshire, England
Died:  19 September 1815

Married Diana Brunt on 8 April 1766


Diana Brunt  (1749 - ?)

Born:  9 April 1749 at Ullenhall, Wooten Wawen, Warwickshire, England

Father:  John Brunt
Mother:  Elizabeth ?

Siblings:
   Mary Brunt, 1745
   Samuel Brunt, 1744
   John Brunt, 1752
   Edward Brunt, 1755
   William Brunt, 1760
   Elizabeth Brunt, 1762

This is all the information I could find about Benjamin and Diana.
 

Joseph Morehead Emmons (1736 - 1774)

Fourth great-grandfather.

Born:  28 November 1736 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
Died: 9 January 1774 in Ipswich

Father:  Joseph Emmons
Mother: Sarah Holmes

Sibling:  Sarah Emmons

Married: Sarah Farrin

Child:  Mary Wilkins seems to have been an only child.

Sarah Farrin (1737 - 1817)

Fourth great-grandmother.

Born:  5 October 1737 in Amesbury, Ipswich, Massachusetts, Colonial America
Died:  27 October 1817 in Ipswich

Father: Jonathan Farrin
Mother:  Sarah Wells


Unfortunately, I have nothing else about Joseph and Sarah. However, their families had been in the Ipswich area for several generations, so I searched for information about Ipswich, which seems to go by Old Ipswich these days. We have quite a few ancestors from this area.

Virtual tour of Ipswich has lots of photos of the area. These towns that were around since before the American Revolution are very proud of their history, and I have found some interesting information by reading articles like this.

Also, if you do a Google search of The History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton you will find a link to a book written in 1835 by Joseph B. Felt. This book can be read online or downloaded for free. (Sorry, the link I have doesn't seem to work directly; this was the best route I could find.)

Jonathan Wilkins (1744 - ?)

My fourth great-grandfather.

Born:  28 November 1744 in Middleton, Essex County, Massachusetts
Died:  ??

Father:  Jonathan Wilkins
Mother:  Abigail Goodale

Siblings:
   Mary Wilkins, 1718
   Elizabeth Wilkins, 1721
   Mercy Wilkins, 1732

Married:  Susannah Berry on 9 October 1764 in Middleton, Massachusetts

Children:
   Hannah Wilkins, 1767
   Jonathan Wilkins, 1769
   Moses Wilkins, 1770 (one source says 1766)
   Susannah Wilkins, 1772
   Betty Wilkins, 1774 (some sources don't show her - maybe she died young)
   Abraham Wilkins, 1778

Jonathan's profession is listed as a cooper (barrel maker).

He volunteered for Revolutionary War service in April of 1775 and served as a private for eight months in Captain Archelaus Towne's company, part of Colonel Ebenezer Bridges' Massachusetts Regiment. In April of 1782, he entered the service again, this time as a mariner on board the U.S. frigate Hague with Captain John Manley. Jonathan was wounded when Admiral Rodney's British fleet attacked the Hague. He was discharged in May of 1783. In 1820, he was awarded a monthly pension of $8 because of a disability from the wound. He received a first payment for 46 months in arrears of $376.49.

County tax records and two deeds involving land transactions still exist.

Jonathan's petition for Revolutionary War service was made before a judge in Hillsburough County, New Hampshire, where he had moved by that time. His home is listed as Mount Vernon, Hillsburough, N.H. in the Revolutionary War petition records. It states that he was 72 years old in 1820 and was living alone at the time of the application. It also gives his birth date as 16 September 1748, which is different than the date in other sources.

Susannah Berry

Born:  14 February 1742 in Middleton, Essex County, Massachusetts
Died:  23 December 1778 in Middleton

Father: Ebenezer Berry
Mother: Phebe Curtis

Siblings:
   Samuel Berry, 1731
   Elizabeth Berry, 1738
   Ebenezer Berry, 1746
   William Berry, 1749

I can't find much of anything about Susannah, except I would guess that since she died five weeks after her son Abraham was born, it is pretty likely that she died from complications from child birth. I find no evidence of Jonathan remarrying, so eleven year old Hannah may have become Abraham's substitute mother figure.