FOURTEENTH GENERATION
"AUSTIN, ...(9652) FRANCIS, Dedham, whence he rem. to Hampton 1640, there had, by w. (9653) Isabella, both (9652iv) Jemima, and (9652v) Sophia, bapt. 24 Jan 1641; but I kn. no more.
-- James Savage c/o http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/bk3/lear-leister.htm
"LEAVITT, ...(9653[2]) THOMAS, Exeter 1639, may have been br. of the first John, bef. 1644 rem. to Hampton, and d. 28 Nov. 1696; leav. says Farmer, s. Hezron, Aratus, b. 1646; John; Thomas; James, 1602, d. young; Isabel; Jemima; and Heriah; but the order is unkn. His w. (9653) Isabel d. 19 Feb. 1700.
His name is used ag a grantee, with John Wheelwright and two others in that enormous forgery of the deed of the whole S. and E. part of the Province [[vol. 3, p. 71]] of N. H. with the Isle of Shoals from Indian sachems 17 May 1629, certain. more than seven yrs. bef. the principal W. came to this country, and hear nine yrs. bef. that honest purch. by W. of all the lds. for 30 ms. betw. the gr. riv. Merrimack and Piscataqua. Nor can any evid. be discov. prob. bef. the gen. conflagrat. of this globe, that L. was here a single yr. earlier than W."
-- James Savage, op. cit.
REF: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/af/family_group_record.asp?familyid=1868103
"It has been authenticated that ISABEL BLAND lived in Colchester, county Essex through the following deposition taken at Hampton 27 Apr 1671: "Nathaniel Drake, 78 and Abraham Drake, 71, deposed that they had known Isabel Bland from childhood and that John Bland, her father, formerly lived in Colchester, England, and that his name and ancestry were Bland not Smith..."1
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"John Bland, alias John Smith was living at Edgartown, on Martha's Vineyard, in 1646 and was undoubtedly the John Smith (in) association with the Mayhews in the first movement from Watertown to the Island, where he was always a 'Bland'"
-- jimweber@nwintl.com c/o http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I09515
"SMITH, ...(19307i_d) JOHN, Watertown, may have been that youth, aged 13, wh. came from London in the "Planter", 1635, prob. s. of Alice, 40, in the same sh..."
Savage mistakenly identifies him with (19307i) John (see below).
"SMITH, ...(19307i_d) JOHN, Sudbury, a. 1647 had w. (19307i_d[1]) Sarah.
-- James Savage c/o http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/bk4/smith-smith2.htm
"SMITH, ...prob. (19307i_d) JOHN, Watertown, may have been that youth, aged 13, wh. came from London in the "Planter", 1635, prob. s. of (19307i[1])Alice, 40, in the same sh. In his [actually (19307i) John's] will of 12 Apr. 1665, pro. 27 Sept. 1669, names ch. (19307i_d) John, (19307i_c) Richard, (19307i_e) Alice, and (19307i_f) Ann, w. of (19307i_f[1]) John Moore, wh. is made Ex'cor. and may have been his fellow-passeng."
-- James Savage c/o http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/bk4/smith-smith2.htm
1 New England Genealogical and Biographical Record"; V:181; 1851 c/o http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2911100&id=I570606130
"SMITH, ...(19307ii) FRANCIS, the freem. of 17 Apr. 1637, was a propr. Bond thinks, in Watertown, that yr. but not in 1642, and in my opin. prob. that Reading man, wh. d. 20 Mar. 1601, then call. sen. wh. was first, perhaps, of Lynn. His will, made six days bef. ment. without nam. w. s. John, and Benjamin, and gr. d. Mary S."
-- James Savage, op. cit.
"SMITH, ...(19307iii) THOMAS, Watertown, perhaps s. of the first (19306) John of the same, b. in Eng. freem. 17 May 1637, m. (19307iii[1]) Mary, d. of the first William Knapp, had James, b. 18 Sept. 1637; John, 1639, bur. 26 Nov. of that yr.; Thomas, 26 Aug. 1640; John, again, 10 Dec. 1641; Joseph, 10 June 1643; Mary; Ephraim; Jonathan; and Sarah; d. 10 Mar. 1693, aged 92, but he had made his will, says Bond, 16 Mar. 1688. Of one of his s. Thomas, or John, the remarka. preserv. from drown. in pass. thro. the wheel pit of his f.'s mill is relat. in Winthrop II. 267."
-- James Savage, op. cit.
"One (19306) JOHN [SMITH], Watertown 1631, perhaps the freem. of 25 May 1636 (whose w. (19307) Isabel d. or was bur. 12 July 1639, aged 60, as Dr. Bond says), may have been f. of (19307i) John, (19307iii) Thomas, and (19307ii) Francis, sometimes nam. of W. perhaps of others, but all b. in Eng. and, as Bond thinks, rem. to Lancaster, and d. there, yet I think it more prob. that it was a younger man."
"BLAND, (19306) JOHN, Edgartown 1646, d. a. 1667, leav. w. (19306[2]) Joanna, by wh. he had ds. (19307v) Annabel, and (9653) Isabel. The latter m. (9653[2]) Thomas Lovett of Hampton."
-- James Savage, op. cit.
"Some records indicate he lived on Nantucket Island, but it is more probable he lived on Marthas Vineyard where he left land to his daughter Isabel. There is also a disposition (sic) from two members of the Drake family who attest they knew him in England and also as a resident of Marthas Vineyard. Also known as: John Smith, probably the family name in England, being changed to Bland by those who came to this country."
-- http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3146570&id=I1633 c/o Lloyd Cunningham bbdents@socal.rr.com
"(19306) JOHN BLAND's mother, Adrian [sic], also lived at Watertown as the second wife of Jeremiah Nocross, who would probably have been her third husband, her second being one SMITH, which accounts for JOHN BLAND sometimes recorded as 'alias Smith.'"
-- Thompson, Marjorie Barnes, "Some New Hampshire Families" (1977) c/o http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH12&CISOPTR=58223&CISOSHOW=46777 (but see notes under [28613], below)
Some have listed Daniel Smith and hs brother Abraham as sons of John & Isabella, but I haven't found any proof of this.
38612. unknown Bland (M) (NOT Anthony)
38613. unknown (F)(NOT Adrian Chadwick)
"I've begun looking into Jeremiah Norcross of Watertown, MA. He evidently had a step-son named John Bland alias Smith, and in his will he named Charles Chadwick of Watertown his "brother". Also, Stephen Paine of Watertown called him his "uncle." Jeremiah came to New England between 1 Nov 1636 and 1638. He lived in Watertown but died in England in 1657 while visiting there...
"Supposedly, Jeremiah's wife Audrey was married first to a Bland, then to a Smith and her son used the surname of his Smith step-father. Evidently he was married to an Isabel Drake who died in Watertown in 1639, then he married a Joanna and moved to Martha's Vineyard with other Watertown families in 1642. By his first wife 3 daughters, including one named Isabel who married first (9652) Francis Austin and then (9653[2]) Thomas Leavitt. In the course of his estate probate, various Drake relatives of testified that he was from Colchester, Essex, England and was a Bland by birth. The 1632 marriage record for his daughter Isabel and Francis Austin in St. Mary The Virgin At The Walls, Colchester, Essex calls her Isabel Smith. John Bland alias Smith seems to have come to New England between 1632 and 1635 because his daughter Annabell married William Barsham of Watertown before 1635. Barsham came on the Winthrop Fleet in 1630, but there is no indication that he brought a wife with him.
"Is there any truth to Audrey's having 3 husbands, or was John Bland alias Smith an illegitimate son? Why didn't her son John move to London with her? Does anyone know the name of her first 2 husbands? Also, Jeremiah Norcross is usually listed as being born ca 1590. So, either his wife Audrey was a lot older than him, he was actually born quite a bit before 1590, or something is fishy with this ancestry. If her son John Bland alias Smith had a daughter who married in 1632, she was probably born bef 1614 (give or take a few years). So that would mean that he was born by say 1590, the same age as his step-father!"
-- Vickie White c/o http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?bland::smith::58083.html
I calculated that Adrien/ Audrey Chadwick must have been b. ABT 1580 -- AFTER the John Smith/ Bland who married Isabella was born. Adrien's son John Smith must have been a different John, then.
ii. Robert Drake
"DRAKE, ...(38615i_a) NATHANIEL, Hampton 1653, eldest s. of (38615i) Robert, b. in Devonsh. a. 1612, had two ds. ment. in the gr.f.'s will as Rachel and Jane; rem. to Portsmouth, was of gr. jury in 1656, m. for sec. w. (38615i_a[2]) Jane, wid. of William Berry, was selectman 1691, but his d. is not kn. His d. Jane m. 15 Dec. 1673, William Wallace."
-- James Savage, op. cit.
"DRAKE, (38615i_b) ABRAHAM, Exeter, s. of (38615i) Robert, b. in Devonsh. Eng. perhaps a. 1620, rem. with his f. to Hampton, by w. (38615i_b[1]) Jane wh. d. 25 Jan. 1676, had Susanna; Abraham, b. 29 Dec. 1654; Sarah, 20 Aug. 1656, prob. d. young, bef. May 1663; Mary, 25 Mar. 1658; Elizabeth 11 July 1660; Hannah, 14 Oct. 1662; and Robert, 27 Sept. 1664; and at 84 yrs. was liv. 1712; had been a valua. man in town affairs, and in 1673 was made marshal of the old Co. of Norfolk. Susanna was sec. w. of Capt. Anthony Brackett of Falmouth; and next m. 30 Oct. 1700, John Taylor of Hampton; and Elizabeth m. Thomas Beadle of Salem."
-- James Savage, op. cit.
"DRAKE, ...(38615i) ROBERT, Exeter, without any exact date, came from Devonsh. where he was b. 1580, rem. to Hampton, in 1654 was selectman, d. 14 Jan. 1668. His will of 5 May 1663, pro. 11 Apr. 1668, names only s. (38615i_a) Nathaniel and (38615i_b) Abraham, bef. ment. wh. prob. he had brot. from Eng. men of full age, and d. (38615i_c) Susanna with her maiden name, the two ds. of Nathaniel by names, and Susanna, Mary, Elizabeth and Hannah, the ch. of Abraham."
-- James Savage, op. cit.
"William was a cripple. He was a farmer & a Puritan who rejected the Church of England. He was fined several times for not coming to church on the Sabbath Day.
-- Forrest Plumstead fplum@juno.com c/o http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=fplum&id=I38991
Source: FTM "Dotson Ancestors" : Notes from Helen McCurry, 1580 Alexander Rd., Leicester, NC 28748."
As far as I can see, the connection of (19307) Isabella with this family is speculative; but it is plausible enough to merit posting. If she is from Essex (I don't know the source of that assertion), she is probably connected with the NH Drakes. In DNA studies, I have come across two major groups: one is the family of a Capt. Francis Drake of Devonshire, which is of haplogroup R1a1 (genetically akin to my (10068) Walter Palmer family); and the other group, (of Hg R1b & variants), including the NH descendants of (38615ii) Robert Drake of Halstead, Essex. I do not know what connection, if any, the Essex Drakes have with Devonshire. Robert's is identified as #QG87F by Ysearch, as follows:
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#QG87F Robert Drake (1581-1668) of Halstead, Essex, England |
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10 |
25 |
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19 |
28 |
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The Drake DNA Surname Project results are at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~drakerobinson/DNAPages/DrakeDNA.htm.
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