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THIRTEENTH GENERATION

4752. Thomas Tupper Sr.

4753. Ann unknown (Hodgson?)

"In the article "Origins of Benjamin Nye", by Ian Hilder, George R. Nye, and Jonathan A. Shaw, in NEHGR, vol. 159 (January 2005), p. 73, it states that according to a Tupper genealogy, Katherine Tupper was born 31 January 1623, daughter of Thomas Tupper born 27 (28) January 1578 in Bury, Sussex, England and his first wife Katherine Gator whom he married 29 April 1622 in Chelmsford, Essex, England "all of which is doubtful".

"In the footnotes, it notes that the only Thomas Tupper baptism found in Bury records is one on 7 April 1590 and he was the son of Anthony Tupper. It further notes that there is a marriage record for a Thomas Tupper and Agnes [interchangeable with Anne] Wedson on 18 May 1614 at Tillington, Sussex (abt 7 miles from Bury) and a baptism at Petworth (abt 1 mile from Tillington) for their daughter Katherine on 30 July 1620 and suggests that this may be the Thomas/ Anne/ Katherine (who m. Benjamin Nye) of Sandwich."

-- http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?gibbs::tupper::540.html c/o Doug Smith dsmith 1827@aol.com

4754. Thomas Mayhew Sr., Governor of Martha's Vineyard

"MAYHEW, ...(4754) THOMAS, Watertown, b. early in 1591, came in the Griffin, 1633, if we might so infer from the fact of his tak. hix o. as freem. 14 May 1634, when Gov. Haynes and Gov. Brenton, besides Cotton, Hooker, and Stone, passeng. in that ship were adm. But that infer. would be wrong, for in Col. Rec. 95, is a report sign. by him and two other gent. for sett. out the bounds betw. Watertown and the new town, 6 Mar. 1632, and in July 1633, he was appoint. admor. of Ralph Glover, while Cotton and fellow passeng. did not arr. bef Sept. next, so that he must have been here in 1631, and he serv. as a merch. at Southampton, Eng. as Bond relates, and here as rep. 1636-44 exc. 42, was active in trade, first at Medford, aft. at W. but was induced to rem. to the Vineyard a. 1647, where he was propr.'s Gov. and preacher to the Ind. above 33 yrs. d. 1681, six days only bef. being 90 yrs. old. It is indistinc. pronounc. by tradit. that first w. h. d. in Eng. had been (4754[1]) Martha Parkhurst, and sec. was prob. brot. with him, (4755) Grace, wid. of (4755[1]) Thomas Paine, of London, and by her he had (4755I) Hannah, b. 15 June 1635; (4755ii) Bethia, 6 Dec. 1636; and (4755iii) Mary, 14 Jan. 1640.

"It is not kn. that he had any s. but (4754[1]a) Thomas wh. he, as b. of the. former w. brot. from Eng. but some uncert. is felt as to the relat. of f. and I do not concur with Bond, 857, in mak. (4755) Jane the last w. of (4754) Thomas the elder, but think her wid. of the s. nor do I believe that it was the s. wh. was, in 1647, chos. by Thomas Paine, then 15 yrs. old, as, with his w. Grace, guardians for him."

-- James Savage, op. cit.

4755. Jane Gallion

REF: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~addams/presidential/bush.html

"(4754) Thomas came to America in 1632, first settling in Medford, then to Watertown in 1634; then to Martha's Vineyard MA by 1647. (Great Migration Begins Vol 3, Anderson NEHGS 1995) Thomas (1) m. twice. From his first wife, alleged to be (4754[1]) Abigail ( ? PARKHURST) he produced (4754[1]a) Thomas Jr (2)...

His 2nd m. was to (4755) Jane (GALLION, new data: ref. TAG Apr. 2001 by Mahler), widow PAYNE. That marriage produced only daughters, all Gen 2: (4755i) Hannah, m. (4755i[1]) Thomas DAGGETT*; (4755ii) Bethia, m. 1) (4755ii[1]) Thomas HARLOCK* 2) (4755ii[2]) Richard WAY; (4755iii) Mary, died young; (2377) Martha, m. (2376) Thomas TUPPER. "

-- Yankee Woman bigazonie@yahoo.com c/o http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?gallion::mayhew::893.html

"I don't know too much. I don't really know (4755) Jane's marriage dates to Thomas Paine and then (4754) Gov. Thomas Mayhew of Mass. I think Gov. Mayhew returned to London ca. 1635 from Martha's Vineyard as a widower. While in London he married Jane (nee Galyon) Paine who was a widow. They returned to Martha's Vineyard where they raised a family. I do not see Jane listed in any London records that I know of. However, she could very possibly be closely related to my ancestors ( and every other Galyon/Gallion/Galyen/Galyean) in America today. We all descend from a Joseph Gallion who came to Maryland in 1664 from London, England. Joseph was born ca. 1633 in London to William and Joan Palmer Gallion. Wm. was apparently born in London ca. 1592. We don't know who William's father was at this time. However, the name Gallion goes back in London to at least 1332 (James and Richard) and they seem to be shopkeepers and the like. So I wouldn't be surprised that a good search would turn up some good early London Gallion data. The name itself appears sporadically in English records going back to 1160. Gallion is considered to be of French origin with the original spelling being Gallienne. Indeed, there are today about 1000 Galliennes in France with most of them in either Normandy, the Ile de France, or the Lyon area."

-- George T. Galyon redvdab1@aol.com c/o http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?thomas,mayhew::gallion::131.html

4756. William Gifford/ Giffard

4757. unknown (F)

REF: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/m/i/l/Bruce-C-Miller/GENE5-0024.html#CHILD33883139 http://www.my-ged.com/db/page/johnson/5384


 
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GIFFORD MYSTERIES

Little is known of the origins of William Gifford. We know that he was a tailor. Since he had a son named (iv) Hananiah, a certain Ananias Gifford, a member of the Merchant Taylors Company who married Hester Grigg in 1606, looked at one point like a possible father (This Ananias was the son of Henry Gifford of Sevenoaks, Kent). However, it seems that Ananias didn't have any children.

If William were Ananias' son (or Philip's, below), he would have been apprenticed in the Merchant Taylors' Company. However, the only William Gifford so apprenticed was the son of "Anthi Gifford of Dublin, Gentleman", who married Elizabeth Grant in 1636 at St. Martin in the Fields. This is not likely the William who came to America, though, as William of Sandwich's family did not include any Anthonys (nor Philips).

A baptismal record was found for one William, c. 1615, son of Philip Gifford of a London Parish. None of the names of Philip's sons, though, such as Humphrey, were carried on in the Sandwich line (and note that there is no reason at this time to believe that our William was indeed from London). This Philip does appear, however, to have been the father of John Gifford, Ironworker of Lynn, MA, who is not shown by early New England records to have been related to William of Sandwich. Most postings I have seen on the web claim this line, since it purportedly goes back to ancient nobility.

One person deserves looking at: Hananiah Gifford (d. 1649), of St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, who married Mary Bentley there in 1612. I haven't learned where he came from, but he wasn't William's father... There were a lot of Giffords in nearby Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire, but a pretty thorough search of wills and parish records in that area doesn't turn anything up. The IGI does show, in Bedfordshire, a Hananiah Gifford who married in 1653. There is also a Christopher and a Robert Gifford there.

"Until we know the origins of William Gifford and the other Gifford immigrants, it is impossible to say whether the origin was with the kin of Walter Giffard, a companion of William the Conqueror, or with Giffard the Usher, holder of lands in Cambridgeshire in 1086, whose name may have an Anglo-Saxon, rather than a Norman, origin."

William's first wife is also a mystery: "Patience Russell" apparently originated with a 1930s LDS submission, but this researcher "knows of no evidence of such a person."
REF: Paul Gifford, pgifford@flint.umich.edu

"The Sandwich Friends Monthly Meeting, held at William Allen's 4:3mo.: 1683 records on page 33, the intention of marriage of William Gifford to (4756[2]) Mary Mills, "both of Sandwich"... The marriage took place at the Meeting of 16 day 5mo.: 1683, the couple "having expressed their intentions at two meetings"... Continuing on: "The next record is unexpected: 'William Gifford, for taking his wife without orderly marriage, forasmuch as there were many circumstances in the action that did alleviate the fault, is only fined fifty shillings, the Court abateing the fine in extent of it respecting the premises -5 March 1683/4"- Gov. Hinckley."
-- "The New England Historical and Genealogical Register"(October 1974, Vol 128, No 4). pp. 247-8 % Leta Arnold leta-arnold@usa.net

(Quakers were commonly fined for "fornication", since they didn't get married in the state church).

"(4756) William Gifford was early a proprietor of lands at Sandwich, and early joined the Quakers; being fined a number of times for not taking the oath of fidelity, and for "seditious utterances" against the King. On 4 June 1650, he was on Grand Inquest. On 22 May 1651, he and three others were granted authority to call town meeting, at three days notice; and it was voted, "that what neighbors stay away above an hour, after the time appointed, shall lose their votes in what is done before they come." ...[In 1658,] he was fined £10. [In 1658-59,] there was a distraint upon his estate of £57, 19s. to satisfy fines imposed for his heterodoxy, as viewed by the authorities, viz., refusing to take oath, attending Quaker meetings, etc. The property taken to pay his fines consisted of 4 steers, 2 heifers, 1 bull, 3 cows, 5 young cattle and 1/2 of a horse and 1/2 swine.
-- http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/s/m/i/Roger-W-Smith/GENE3-0100.html

Paul Gifford does a rather thorough critique of incorrect and doubtful claims concerning William, at https://home.comcast.net/~pgifford11/.

The following sons of (4756) William have been confirmed through yDNA testing: John, Annaniah, William, Robert and Jonathan (partial). No descendants of Christopher or James have been tested to date.
REF: http://members.cox.net/swarling/gifford/GiffordDNA.htm
 

 

4758. Yelverton Crowell

"CROW, ...(4758) YELVERTON, or ELVERTON, Plymouth, had, in 1643, been of Yarmouth, there had (4759iv) Thomas and (4759v) Elizabeth tw. b. 9 May 1649; rep. 1663. Baylies, II. 55."

-- James Savage, op. cit.

4759. Elizabeth (Hammond?)

REF: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=gedfam&f0=g277&f1=4236


The Mayhew Mission to the Pokanaukets

(4754) Thomas Mayhew Sr. acquired the title to Martha's Vineyard in 1641. The following year he sent his only son, (4754[1]a) Thomas Mayhew Jr., to assume control of the island, where, he later joined him.

(4754) Mayhew Sr. ruled his island with an iron hand for forty years. In 1671, he was named "Governour and Chiefe Magistrate" for life, and the inhabitants became manorial tenants subject to their feudal political jurisdiction. This full-fledged feudal manor appears to have been the only such institution actually established in New England. In 1691, the political rule of the family ended when Martha's Vineyard was annexed by Massachusetts.

"Kenneth Scott Latourette has concluded that the Missionary Mayhews of Martha's Vineyard represent what is likely the longest and most persistent missionary endeavor in the annals of all Christendom. (4754) Thomas Sr. was not concerned for Indian souls when he settled on his island; he sought only to improve his social and economic position. The son rather than the father receives credit for launching the Indian mission. After moving to the Vineyard to begin the white settlement there, (4754[1]a) Thomas Mayhew Jr. became pastor of the small English church as well as the acting governor in his father's absence. The three thousand Pokanaukets, a branch of the mainland Narragansetts, far outnumbered the whites, so an effective settlement required friendly relations with the Indians. But (4754[1]a) Thomas Jr. appears to have been motivated largely by spiritual concern, while his father and other members of the family enjoyed the practical results of the Indian mission. The younger man gradually abandoned most of his secular tasks and spent the remainder of his life among the natives. Progress was slow at first, but by the end of 1652 there were 283 converts, a school for Indian children, and two Indian meetings each Sabbath.

The Praying Indians of Martha's Vineyard who said grace before meals became a topic of conversation on both sides of the Atlantic. Mayhew carried on his missionary work with little heed to his personal fortunes. As the elder Mayhew put it, his son had followed this work "when 'twas bare with him for food and rayment, and when indeede there was nothing in sight any waies but Gods promises." The situation was improved somewhat by the formation in 1649 of a London missionary society, usually called the New England Company, which in a few years began to provide substantial aid for the Mayhews and other missionaries. In the fall of 1657, (4754[1]a) Thomas Mayhew Jr. sailed for England on a trip combining an appeal for missionary funds with personal business. After leaving Boston Harbor, the ship was never seen again.

The death of his only son at thirty-six was a heavy blow to the father and greatly increased the burdens he carried in old age. He made repeated efforts to find a replacement to continue his son's ministry to the Indians, but no minister who knew the language or was willing to learn could be induced to settle permanently on the island. So (4754) Thomas Sr., who started as a merchant, then turned landed proprietor, became at age sixty a missionary in his son's place. For the next twenty-five years he traveled on foot as far as twenty miles to preach once a week at the Indian assembly or to visit the native camps."

From the beginning the elder Mayhew had worked to preserve the original political institutions of the Indians. Religion and government are distinct matters, he told the Indian chiefs. When one of your subjects becomes a Christian, he is still under your jurisdiction. Indian land was guarded against further encroachment by white settlers. So successful were these policies that during the bloody battles of King Philip's War, in 1675-1676, the Vineyard Indians never stirred, although they outnumbered the English on the island twenty to one. By practicing as well as preaching the gospel and by understanding the value of the native institutions, the Mayhews gave Martha's Vineyard a felicitious pattern of Indian-White relations seldom duplicated in the conquest of the North American continent.

 

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