20127. Isabel Woodhall

• b. 1546 of Waldon, Devon, England
• d. BEF 1615 Rochester, Kent, England
• Family: (20126) Rev. William Wilson
• i. (10063) Mary Wilson
• ii. unknown Wilson (M)
  • b. 1577 Oxford/ Kent, England
• iii. Elizabeth Wilson
  • b. 1579 Cliffe, Kent, England
  • d. 1606
  • Family: John Somer 1601 Cliffe, Kent, England
    • b. ABT 1575 St. Margaret at Cliffe, Kent, England
    • Father: John Somer (~1549-) of Cliffe
• iv. Isabella Wilson
  • b. 1581 Windsor, Berkshire, England
  • Family: Thomas Gibbs 1608 Windsor, Berks, England
    • b. 1578 of Windsor, Berks, England
    • Father: John Gibbs s/o Wm & Jn Goson
    • Mother: Mary Elham of Dover (~1558-)
• v. Edmund Wilson
  • b. 1583 Windsor, Berks, England
  • d. Sep. 1635
• vi. unknown Wilson (F)
  • b. ABT 1586 of Windsor, Berks, England
• vii. William Wilson
  • b. 1587 Windsor, Berks, England
  • d. 1610 St. George Ch, Windsor, Berks, England
• viii. John Wilson
  • b. Dec 1588 Windsor, Berks, England
  • d. 7 Aug 1667 i. Kings Chapel, Boston, Suffolk, MA
  • ARV MA 1630 on "Arbella"
  • m. Elizabeth [Mansfield] 1590 of Exeter, Devon, England
    • b. ABT 1595/00 of Windsor, Berks, England
    • d. 1658 of Boston, Suffolk, MA
    • Father: Sir John Mansfield
    • Mother: Lady Mansfield

  "WILSON, ...(20127viii) JOHN, Boston 1630, b. at Windsor where his f. (20126) Rev. William, of wh. he was third s. had a prebendal stall, in 1588, from Eton sch. went to the univ. of Cambridge in 1602, as Mather tells, much of whose story of his early days has apocryphal sound, there of Christ's Coll. had his A. B. 1605-6, and A. M. 1609, as by me in the registry of the Univ. seen, tho. Mather would have it Emanuel; and Farmer writes at King's, where, indeed, may, as the Magnalia tells, have been the adm. Aft. serv. as chaplain in sev. houses, he was induct. at Sudbury in the S. border of Co. Suffolk; there contin. ten or twelve yrs. but disgust. with the worhsip of forms and vestments growing in the ch. he encourag. the coloniz. of the Mass. Bay, and came 1630, with the Gov. and Comp. bring. the chart. in the Arbella. His w. (20127viii[1]) Elizabeth whose name is not distinct. read in Mather, tho. in his usual roundabout way he says, Magn. III. cap. 3, p. 42, that W. designed to m. a d. "of the lady Mansfield, wid. of Sir John," remain. in Eng. prob. with care of the ch. Edmund first b. (so nam. for his gr. uncle Edmund Grindall, the puritan archbishop of Canterbury 1575-83); John; and others, if there wre more; but when he went back to Eng. and came again 1632, he brot. her and s. John, but the oldest s. perhaps never was on this side of the ocean.

  "The w. was sis. of the w. of Robert Keayne, and her br. John with his fam. got over to Boston, two yrs. later, in poverty; and torment Keayne very much, if his will be good evid. as may, partly, be read in Geneal. Reg. VI. 156. He made sec. voyage to Eng. 1634, and came again in the summer, of 1635, wh. led me to mistake, formerly, the time of his w.'s coming, as she did not join our ch. bef. 20 Mar. 1636; whereas we see. that this d. Mary was bapt. 8 Sept. 1633, unless the ch. rec. means a week later, the copy of town rec. certif. that she was b. 12 Sept. He [[vol. 4, p. 584]] had request. adm. as freem. 19 Oct. 1630, and was sw. 3 July 1632, and d. 7 Aug. 1667, and was bur. on the Sunday foll. Of the good desert of the first min. of Boston, abund. proof if found in the Magn. III. cap. 3, with some few lamentab. characteristics of the author, perhaps little to be regard. in derog. from the charact. of W. Yet of one trait in him, the zeal for the glory of God, as exhib. in "Ill Newes from New Eng." where the testimony of Obadiah Holmes, the bapt. confessor, is fully giv. we must regret that it surpassed the limits of self-respect, as well as common decency. H. tells aft. his sentence to imprisonm. and cruel scourg. "as I went from the Bar, I exprest myself in these words; I bless God I am count. worthy to suffer for the name of Jesus; whereupon John Wilson (their Pastor as they call him) strook me bef. the judgm.-seat. and cursed me, saying, the curse of God or Jesus go with thee."

  "For the imprecation upon the heretic lenity may be extend. as we hope, by the final Judge, when he cometh in the clouds of heaven: but at the tribunal of gentlement the assault on a defenceless prisoner, even tho. convict. by his own confess. of the crime of preach. what he thot. truth, meets no indulgence. Graditude has always been express, for the found. of Boston ch. no doubt in some degr. arising from the munific. contrib. of £1,000. by his br. (20127vii) William in Eng. and the most judicious invest. of part of that sum. as in Col. Rec. I. 128 alluded to, and may by any minute antiquary be seen in 2 Mass. Hist. Coll. VIII. 228, all assist. in keep. active the generous emotion. The eldest s. travel. in Holland and Italy, where he gain. the honor of M. D. but as I doubt whether he ever came across the sea. I do not inquire for much detail as to his m. or wh. was his w. nor can I tell more than that he liv. at London as a physician, d. a. 1658, leav. s John, and d. Bridget, wh. m. Nicholas Prideaux, merch. of Barbadoes. His d. Mary m. 5 Nov. 1651, Rev. Samuel Danforth of Roxbury, and next a Buck of Boston (whose bapt. name eludes my search, for many hours, at var. times), and d. 13 Sept. 1713. Mather's life is, perhaps, the best of any in his catal, of min. yet the caution to be used in read, all other parts of the Magn. must not be neglect. here. In 19 of that 3d chap. in proof of the "certain prophetic afflatus, wh. oft. directs the speeches of" men like Wilson, he refers to the success fo john Hull, as foretold by W. bec. of his attention to his mother "weak in body and poor in est."

  "Mather had no intent. of casting ridicule uppon prophecy, for he was giv. to showing his ability in the same way, but his fancy, was usual, outran his judgement; and his memory, great as it was, forever calls on invention to come to the aid of truth. Hull's mo. Elizabeth wh. d. above 16 yrs. bef. M. was b. is not to be specially mark. as "poor in est." and if the writer meant Judith the sec. w. of his f. and mo. of the young man's w. (as is [[vol. 4, p. 585]] most prob.) the panegyric is even less neccessa.; but indeed this sec. w. d. nine yrs. bef. the b. of the historian. More or less accomodat. of fact to theory is observ. in other authors than him whose Magnalia is the monum. to delineate his character no less than his desire, tho. prob. to few it is ascribe. in equal extent."

  -- James Savage, "A Genealogical Dictionary Of the First Setlers of New England Before 1692", c/o http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/

• ix. Margaret Wilson
  • b. 1590 London, London, England
  • d. 1627
  • Family (1): David Rawson BEF 1613 London, London, England
    • b. 1587 Colnbrook, Bucks, Engtland
    • w.p. 25 Feb. 1617/18 London, London, England
  • Family (2): William Taylor BEF 1621 of London, London, England
    • b. ABT 1589 of Windsor, Berks, England
• x. Thomas Wilson
  • b. 1591 Windsor, Berks, England
  • d. 1615
  • m. Ann unknown ABT 1616 of Windsor, Berks, England
    • b. ABT 1595 of Windsor, Berks, England
• xi. unknown Wilson (M)
  • b. 1597 Windsor, Berks, England
• xii. unknown Wilson (F)
  • b. 1597 Windsor, Berks, England