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tember, 1658; Sarah, October, 1660; Joseph ; Mercy.
( II) Josiah, son of Robert Davis, was born in Septeniber. 1656. He was a soldier in Cap- tain John Gorham's company in King Philip's war in 1675, and was one of the proprietors of Gorhamtown. In the division of the common shares he was entitled to forty-three and a halt shares, a number above the average. He had money invested in trading at sea. His house stood a few feet east of the house later of Lot Easterbrooks, on the north side of the road. His will was dated April 21. 1709, and proved October 5 following. He married, June 25. 1679, Ann, daughter of Richard Taylor, tailor, of Yarmouth. Chil- dren : John, mentioned below : Hannah, born April, 1683, married Gershom Cobb: Josiah. August. 1687: Seth. October, 1692: Ruth. February, 1694; Sarah, February, 1696; Jon- athan, 1698; Stephen, December 12, 1700; Anna. April 5, 1702.
(III) Captain John Davis, son of Josiah Davis, was born September 2, 1681, and died in 1736. He bought part of the great lot of Thomas Lumbard, and the house which he built was at last accounts still standing. He was a captain, justice of the peace, and a man of note in his dav. He married, August 13, 1705, Mehitable Dimmock, who died in May, 1775, aged eighty-nine. daughter of Shu- bael Dinimock, of Yarmouth. She was dis- missed from the Yarmouth to the East Church in Barnstable. February 12, 1725-26. Chil- dren, born in Barnstable: Thomas, October 1, 1706; John, September 8, 1708; Solomon, April 5. 1711. died July 18, 1712; William, born April 10, 1713, died July 4, 1713: Solo- mon, mentioned below : Mehitable, born Au- gust 10, 1717: William, August 24, 1719: Jo- siah, February 17, 1722: Isaac (twin), August 3: 1724. died October 28. 1724; Jesse ( twin), died August 13. 1724; Isaac, March 1, 1727, died November 2, 1727.
(IV) Solomon, son of Captain John Davis, was born in Barnstable. June 24, 1715, and died June 6, 1791. He was a merchant, and resided at Boston. During the siege he re- moved his family to Barnstable. He was an intimate friend of Governor Hancock. The "History of Barnstable" says: "In 1791 he was dining with his Excellency in company with some of the rare wits of the day, John Rowe, Joseph Balch, and others. Mr. Davis made some witty remark which induced Mr. Balch to say to him, 'Well, Davis, you had bet- ter go home now and die. for you will never say as good a thing as that again.' On his way home 'he was taken suddenly ill and sat down on the steps of King's Chapel, from
whence he was removed to his house in the vicinity, where he shortly after died." He married ( first ) January 29. 1750. Elizabeth Wendell, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, born October 16, 1729, and died at Plymouth, February 20, 1777: ( second ) November IS, 1777. her sister Catherine, who died April 7. 1808, aged sixty-six. Children, all by first wife: John, born May 19. 1753: Solomon, born September 25. 1754, died at sea Septem- ber, 1789: Edward, December 18. 1765. died at sea, November 11, 1708; Thomas, July 20, 1757, died at Falmouth, England. October 10, 1775; Elizabeth, October 14. 1758, died Au- gust 14, 1833; Mehitable, July 14. 1700, died October 28. 1761: Henry, October 8. 1701, died March 15, 1762; Josiah, September 24, 1763. died June 29. 1777: Isaac. mentioned below ; William, April 26, 1768, died Septem- ber 14, 1804.
(V) Isaac, son of Solomon Davis, was born April 2. 1765, and died at Hartford. Connec- ticut, December 5, 1800. He married Eliza- beth Fellowes.
(VT) Rev. Gustavus Fellowes Davis, son of Isaac Davis, was born March 17, 1797, in Bos- ton, and died September 11, 1836. He was converted under the preaching of Rev. William Bentley, of Worcester, and united with the church in April, 1813. He began to preach at the age of seventeen in Hampton. Connec- ticut. A year later he removed to Preston and was ordained pastor there in June. 1816. serving as minister three years. He was or- dained pastor of the Baptist church at South Reading, Massachusetts, April 23, 1818. and while there, in addition to his pastoral duties, began a course of study in Latin and Greek, often walking to Boston, a distance of ten miles, to receive instruction from Rev. Mr. Winchell. From an entry in his diary it ap- pears that he finished reading the Greek testa- ment about three years later, under the teach- ing of Rev. Francis Wayland. Jr.
In the spring of 1829 Mr. Davis went to Hartford to assist Rev. William Bentley in conducting a religious revival. He remained in Hartford and was installed pastor July 20. 1829. During the seven years of his pastorate the church prospered in every way. He at- tended carefully to all details of organization and administration, and took the greatest in- terest in the music, doing much to aid and improve the choir. His principal strength. however, was in the puipi :. He prepared him- self carefully, and then preached either without manuscript or from brief notes. His know !- edge of the Bible was wonderful. and his fine memory enabled him to illustrate his sermons with numerous scriptural quotations which
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were always apt and sometimes amusing. He was naturally an optimist, and his cheerful manner and courteous bearing made him a universal favorite. Deprived of a thorough school education himself. he took unusual in- terest in all educational matters. Through his efforts an academy was established at South Reading, where he then lived. He was the chief agent for collecting funds for the Connecticut Literary Institute at Suffield. He was interested in Newton Seminary : was trus- tee of Brown University: examiner at Wes- levan University, and by appointment of Hon. Lewis Cass. Secretary of War in 1836, a mem- ber of the board of examiners of the United States Academy at West Point. In 1831 he was elected a trustee of Washington (now Trinity) College. He received the degree of M. A. from Waterbury ( Maine ) College ( now Colby University ) and Yale College, and the degree of D. D. from Wesleyan University in 1835. In August. 1836, while on a visit to friends in Boston, he was taken suddenly ill. and died there. He married January 5. 1817. Abigail Leonard.
(VII) Hon. Gustavus Fellowes Davis, son of Rev. Gustavus Fellowes Davis, was born in North Stonington. Connecticut, January 4. 1818. Ile went with his father to South Reading. where he lived until he was eleven years old, at which time his father removed to Hartford. He was educated in the public schools of Hartford and at Hartford Academy. At the age of fifteen he entered the employ of the Phoenix Bank, remaining six years. He was then sent to Litchfield. Connecticut. to take charge of a branch of that institution there. In 1851 he returned to Hartford to become cashier of the City Bank, just organ- ized, and in 1857 was chosen president, and remained in that position until his death. April 28, 1896. He was identified with a number of the leading financial corporations of the city : was president of the State Savings Bank, and vice-president and director of the Travelers Insurance Company from its organization until the election before his death. He was presi- dent of the Hartford Dispensary and treasurer of the South School District for nearly forty years. He was a Republican, formerly a Whig, and in 1810 voted for William Henry Harrison for president. In 18So he was elected representative in the legislature and declined a re-election. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Hartford, of which his father was pastor. He had the universal con- fidence and esteem of a large business nic- quaintance, and had a reputation for fair dealing and strict integrity. He married. May 14. 1839. Luey Terry Strong. born August 24.
1817. daughter of William Strong, of Hart- ford. descendant in the sixth generation of John Strong, a pioneer of Windsor, Connec- tici.t ( see Strong). Her line of descent from William Bradford is as follows: Governor William and Lady Alice ( Carpenter) ( South- worth ) Bradford; William Jr. and Alice ( Richards ) Bradford : William and Alice ( Bradford ) Adams: Nathaniel and Alice ( Adams) Collins ; Ephraim and Ann ( Collins ) Terry: Samuel and Mary ( Kellogg ) Terry ; Samuel and Huldah ( Burnham) Terry: Wil- liam and Naomi ( Terry) Strong. Children : I. Charlotte Maria, born at Litehfield, Con- neetient. March 4. 1840; married. June 15. 1862, Rev. Wilder Smith, born July 11, 1835. graduated from Vale College. 1857, and was a tutor there IS59-61 : settled as pastor at Berlin, Connecticut. 1862-66, at Milwaukee. Wisconsin, and later at Rockford, Illinois : his last years were spent in retirement in Hart- ford. Connecticut. 2. Gustavus Pierrepont, mentioned below. 3. Emily Strong, born June 22. 1847; married George E. Taintor. 4. Frederick Wendell, mentioned below.
(VIII) Dr. Gustavus Pierrepont, son of Gustavus Fellowes Davis, was born in Litch- field, Connecticut, January 16, 1845. He at- tended the public schools and was graduated from: Vale College in 1866. He studied medi- eine in Paris during the following year and continued this study in the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons. New York City, from which he was graduated in 1869 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Upon gradua- tion he was appointed a physician in the Charity Hospital, New York. Since 1870 he has been practising his profession in Hartford. Connecticut. He has been on the staff of the Hartford Hospital since 1878. and was medi- cal examiner of the Travelers' Insurance Com- pany from 1874 to 1907. He is a member of the city. county and state medical societies. In politics he is Independent, and in religion. Episcopalian. Dr. Davis married, October 5. IS;o. Elise, born October 16, 1842, daughter of Edward A. and Elizabeth M. Mitchell. Children: Elizabeth Mitchell, born August 16, 18;1, married Otto Schreiber. 1804: Ar- thur W .. May S. 1874. died July. 1904: Louise Pierrepont. April 6, 1880: Helen Fitch, No- vember 22. 1882, married. 1909. W. S. Glazier.
(VII) Frederick Wendell, son of Gustavus Fellowes Davis, was born in Hartford, Cou- neetieut. September o. 1855. He attended the public schools of his native city and was grad- nated from the Hartford public high school in the class of 1873. He then entered Vale College, from which he was graduated in the class of 1877 with the degree of Bachelor of
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Arts. He started in business in Kentucky in partnership with M. W. Smith in the sad- diery business, and continued until 1881, al- though the place of business during the last three years of the firm was in New Orleans. He returned to Hartford and engaged in the manufacturing business until 1896. Since then he has held a position of responsibility with the firm of J. J. & F. Goodwin. He is a director in the City Bank and a trustee in the State Savings Bank. In politics he is a Republican, has been a member of the city council, and for the past eleven years a mem- ber of the high school committee. He is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon college fraternity. the Mayflower Society, and various other clubs and societies, including the Wolf's Head Society. All of the family are members of the First Congregational Church.
Mr. Davis married (first ) September 3, 1879. Lucy Trumbull Smith, of Hartford, born November 9. 1838, died at New Orleans, Feb- ruary 1, 1881. He married ( second ). October 1, 1884, Mary, born October 8. 1860, daughter of Henry G. and Delia W. ( Ellsworth ) Tain- tor. Children: 1. Carl Willis, born in New Orleans, October 27. 1880: received his pre- paratory education in the Hartford public and high schools and was graduated from Yale University in 1902 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, receiving the degree of Master of Arts in 1908. Since his graduation he has been engaged in the printing business in Hart- risburg, Pennsylvania. 2. Dorothy Wendell. born in Hartford. Connecticut. March 12, 1886, was graduated from the Hartford pub- lic high school. 1903, and from Smith College with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. 1907. 3. Roger Wolcott, born in Hartford. January 8, 1890; was graduated from the Hartford public high school in 1908, and from the Shef- field Scientific School, Yale University, in 1911. 4. Frederick Ellsworth, born in Hart- ford. March 11. 1892. was graduated from the Hartford public high school in 1909: is a member of the class of 1913 of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Mary- land. 5. Elise Pierrepont, born in Hartford, November 21. 1897, died April 16, 1906.
(The Wendell Line ).
(I) Evert Jansen Wendel, the immigrant ancestor, was born in 1615, son of Johannes. as shown by the patronymic. He lived in his native town of Embden. East Friesland. now Hanover, upon the confines of the United Provinces of Holland. Thence he came under the Dutch West India Company to New Neth- erlands in 1640, and for five years lived ou Beaver Lane, between the present Broadway
and Broad street, New York. Removing to Albany to engage in the fur trade he lo- cated at what is now the corner of James and State streets. He died in 1700. He was dea- con of the Dutch church in 1656; magistrate of Fort Orange in 1660-61. Fle married ( first ) July 31, 1644. Susanna, daughter Philip and Susanna ( De Scheene ) Du Trieux. Her father was marshal of New Netherlands. He married ( second ) in 1663, Marje Abra- hamse Beverwyck, widow of Thomas lansen Mingael. He married ( third ( Ariantje Children by first wife: Thomas: Abraham : Elsje, 1647; Johannes, mentioned below ; Diewen. 1053; Hieronymus, 1655: Philip. 1657: Evert, 1660. Children of second wife: Isaac: Susanna ; Diewertje.
( II) Johannes, son of Evert Janse Wendel. was born in New Amsterdam in 1049. and bap- tized in the Dutch Church. February 2. that year ; became a general trader at Albany and amassed much property : lived on the present State street: was magistrate in 1084, captain in colonial service 1685 ; alderman of . Albany, 1686: delegate to treat with the Five Nation Indians in 169 -- , and to superintend the de- fence of Albany. His will was proved in 1ogI. He married ( first ) Maritie Jillisse Mexer, daughter of Gillis Fieterse and his wife Elsie Hendrikse Meyer : ( second ) Elizabeth. daugh- ter of Major Abraham and Katrina eloch- emse ) Staets. She married ( second ) April 25, 1605, Captain Johannes Schuyler. Chil- dren of first wife: Alsie; Maritie. Chiliren of second wife: Abraham, mentioned below; Susanna: Catalyntje ; Elizabeth ; Johannes, baptized March 2. 1684; Ephraim. baptized June 3. 1685; Isaac, baptized January 28, 1687: Sarah, baptized November 11. 1688; Jacob. baptized August 5, 1691.
( III ) Abraham, son of Johannes Wendel, was baptized at Albany, December 27. 1678, and when of age removed to New York. be- coming a merchant and importer and a wealthy landowner. Late in life he removed to Bos- ton. where he died September 28. 1734. He married, May 15. 1702, Katarina. eldest daughter of Teunis and Helena ( Van Brugh ) De Key, granddaughter of Jacob De Key. Helena was a daughter of Johannes and Ka- tarina ( Roeloffe ) Van Brugh, and grand- daugliter of ------ and Anneke ( Janse ) Roel- offe. Children. with baptismal date: John mentioned below . Elizabeth, August 20. 1704. married. April 15. 1725. Edmund Quincy 1503 Quincy ) : Abraham, March 3. 1,06: Helena De Key. September 21, 1707: Catharina. March 27. 1709: Jacobus, August 31. 1712: Lucretia. July 18, 1714: Theunis De Key, June 24, 1716: Theunis De Ker, October 30.
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1717: Hendrikus, baptized August 3, 1719; Sarah, January 20, 1721 ; Mary.
(IV) John, born 1703, son of Abraham and Katarina ( De Key) Wendell, married, No- vember 10, 1724, Elizabeth Quincy ( see Quincy IV) ; he died December 15, 1762.
(V) Elizabeth, daughter of John and Eliza- beth ( Quincy ) Wendell, married Solomon Davis, and her sister Catherine became his second wife (see Davis IV ).
( The Pierpont Line).
(III) John Pierpont, son of John and Thankful ( Stowe) Pierpont, was born 1652, died in 1600. .
( IV) James, son of John Pierpont. married Sarah Dorr. Their daughter Sarah Pierpont married Captain Gustavus Fellowes.
(The Gookin Line).
The names Gookin, Gokin, Gockin, Cock- rain, Cockayn, Colkin, Cokin and Cockin are supposed to be of identical origin, and accord- ing to one authority "mere contrivances to get rid of the uneuphonious and objection- able title worn by the first soldier of the fam- ily, whose vigilance and chivalric bravery in the rude days of old England set him down for a Cockin by name, with three cocks in his shield, thus winning the name and the in- signia together." The coat-of-arms, given by Burke, is as follows: Argent, 3 cocks, gules, armed, crested and jelloped sable.
(I) Arnold Gookin, the first of this branch of the family. is named in the Visitation of Kent in 1619, and must have been born as early as the reign of Henry VII. Nothing further is known of him, except that he was the father of Thomas Gookin, mentioned be- low.
( II) Thomas, son of Arnold Gookin, was of Bekesbourne. Kent, England. and was bur- ied June 15, 1599. His wife was Amy Du- rant, daughter and heiress of - Durant, undoubtedly of the family of Dorante, of Bekesbourne. The date of her burial is Feb- ruary 15. 1580-81. He married ( second ) Syb- bell -, who was buried August 29. 1598. Children : John, mentioned below : Joan, mar- ried October 28, 1566, the same day on which her brother was married. There may have been also a third child. Elizabeth, born before John.
( III) Jobn. son of Thomas Gookin, was born not later than 1546, and was his fa- ther's heir. He married Catherine, daughter of William and Agnes ( Tufton) Denne of Kingston, county Kent, of a very ancient fam- ily. The complete lineage of the Dernes dates back to the days of Edward the Confessor, as
follows : William, father of Catherine, was son of Thomas, son of Michael, son of John, son of Thomas, son of Richard, son of Sir William, son of John, son of Walter, son of Walter, son of Sir Alured de Denn, son of William de Denn, son of Robert de Dene, son of Ralpe de Dene, son of Ralph de Dene, son of Robert de Dene, son of Robert de Dene, "who held large estates in Sussex and Kent, as well as in the duchy of Normandy, and was Pincerna or butler to Edward the Con- fessor." About the year 1591 John Gookin purchased an estate called Little Betshanger, in the parish of Northborne, and about 1603 alienated it to Sir Henry Lodelow. About 1600 he had purchased the manor of Ripple- Court, county Kent, which remained in his family about a hundred years. Children : Anne, baptized at Bekesbourne, August 28, 1567 ; Elizabeth, baptized at Ripple. December 7. 1571, buried there, July 25, 1575 : Thomas, baptized at Ripple, January 13. 1571: John, baptized at Ripple, August 15, 1575: Dan- iel, baptized at Ripple, March 31, 1581, died same year : Daniel. mentioned below : Sir Vin- cent: Catherine, married November 4, 1604. Thomas Milton, of the parish of St. Ed- mund's Church, London ; Margaret. married. September 4. 1610: Thomas Marshe, of Mar- tin or Marton, parish of East Langdon, coun- ty Kent.
(III ) Daniel. son of John Gookin, was born October 28, 1582. In 1620 he was one of the twenty-three "undertakers" of the Planta- tion of county Longford, Ireland, and was assigned five hundred acres of land there by the English king. Within the year, he had sold his assignment to Francis Edgeworth, an ancestor of Maria Edgeworth. In 1620 lie became interested in the infant colony of Vir- ginia, and in the fall of 1621 arrived there, with fifty men of his own, and a large amount of provisions and cattle. He settled at New- port News, but in the spring or summer of 1622 returned to England and was present at a meeting of the Virginia Company there. Tuly 17, 1622. Apparently, he never went back to Virginia, but settled in Ireland, where, November 13, 1622, he was in possession of the castle and lands of Carygoline, county Cork. He married. January 31, 1608. Marian or Marye, daughter of Richard Bird, S. T. P. Children: Edwine. baptized at Ripple, June 23, 1611 : Daniel, mentioned below : perhaps a third. the eldest, named Jolin.
(IV) General Daniel Gookin, son of Dan- iel Gookin, was born in 1612, and. died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 19, 1686-87. In 1639 he was in Virginia and acted as agent for his father. December 29. 1637, he had
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granted to him a tract of land of over two thousand acres in the county of New Nor- folk, and November 4, 1642, another tract of fourteen hundred acres on the Rappahannock river. Between the dates of these two grants he returned to England and was of the par- ish of St. Sepulchre, 1639. In March. 1643, certain ministers from New England went on a missionary tour to Virginia, and as a result of their efforts, he was attracted to New Eng- land and removed thither in 1644. His con- version to New England religious doctrine and consequent removal is referred to by Cotton Mather in a doggerel in his "Magnalia." He was admitted to the First Church in Boston May 26, 1644. and was made freeman three days later. Ile was of Roxbury. 1645-46. where he founded the public school, and in 1648 moved to Cambridge and was there ap- pointed captain of the military company. In 1649-51 he was elected representative of Cam- bridge and the latter year chosen speaker of the house. In 1652 he was elected assistant, and re-elected continuously until 1686. Hle made several visits to England and on one of these was consulted by Cromwell as to the advisability of introducing an English popu- lation from New England into the Island of Jamaica, which had been taken by the Eng- lish from Spain in 1654. In 1669, on his re- turn from a. three years' visit to England. he brought back with him the regicides Whalley and Goffe, who remained under his protection in Cambridge, until they were sent to New Haven.
He was a firm friend of the Indians. and in 1656 was appointed by the general court superintendent of all the Indians who submitted to the government of Mas achu- sett. In this position he continued until his death. In this connection he wrote several works of value. Ile was at the same time a sturdy soldier in the Indian wars. In 1662 he and Rev. Mr. Mitchell were appointed the first licensers of the printing pre-s. In 1681 he was made major-general of the Colony of Massachusetts.
He was married three times. Of his first marriage there is only the fact. from the form of license of his second marriage, "granted by the Bishop of London, 1th November. 1639. for the marriage of Daniel Gookin, Gentle- man. of the parish of St. Sepulchre. London. a widower. aged about 27. and Mary Dolling. of the parish of St. Dunstan in the West. London, spinster, aged about 21. whose par- ents are dead." He married (third) Han- nah. daughter of Edward Tong and widow (in I) of Habliah Savage, after June 28. 1675, and before August 13. 1085. She sur-
vived him. All his children are believed to have been by his second wife. Ile died 1086-87, and was buried in Cambridge, where his epitaph may still be read. Children : lary. married. June 8, 1670, Edmund Batter, of Sa- lem, Massachusetts, as his second wife; Eliz- abeth, baptized at Roxbury, March 14, 1044, married ( first ) Rev. John Eliot Jr., as his second wife. ( second ) December 8. 1680. Ed- mund Quincy ( see Quincy ) ; Daniel. died a few months old, in 1649: Daniel, born July 12, 1050, H. C. 1669; Sammel, born April 21, 1652; Solomon, born 1654, died in infancy: Nathaniel, born October 22, 1656.
(The Quincy Line).
The Quincy family of America and Eng- land has had many distinguished men in both ancient and modern times. The surname is said to be derived from the name of a town in Normandy. In the Roll of Battle Abhey the name appears several times, spelled Quan- cey. Quinci and Quincy. It is not found in Domesday Book, and the earliest record of land titles of the family is in the Manor of Buckby, Northamptonshire, being given by Henry HI to the famous Baron Saher de Quin- ci, who signed the Magna Charta. His son Roger became the third Earl of Manchester. At one time the American family possessed a parolment pedigree of the lineage back -to the time of the Norman Conquest, but unfor- tunately it has been lost. The arms used by the family after coming to America: Gule- seven mascles conjoined or three three and one. Motto: Sine macula macla. These arms were found on the seal of an unexecuted will of Edmund Quincy, son of the American immigrant, affixed about 1698.
( I) Edmund Quincy, father of the Ameri- can immigrant, resided at Wigsthorpe, a ham- let in the parish of Lilford. county of North- ampton. He was buried at Lilford. March 9. 1627-28. His will was proved in the dis- trict court at Peterborough, March 14. 1627- 28, by his widow Anne. Her will is dated January 29, 1630-31. She was then living at Wig-thorpe. The will was proved at the pre- rogative court at Canterbury. April 6. 1631. by John Quincy, son and executor. He was a yeoman of the middle class, not educated, but thrifty and prosperous and of good social standing. He owned the leaseholds of sev- cral farms, and the bequests in his will were on the scale that only a man of some wealth could afford. His will mentions "a habitation or dwelling house to be erected by his son Edl- mund upon his freehold at Thorpe. (Wigs- therpe). That he stood high in the estima- tion of his neighbors is shown by his two
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