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.