The history of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, from the settlement of the town in 1639 to 1818. Vol. I, Part 40

Author: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell Godfrey, 1832-
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: New York, The author
Number of Pages: 478


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* Baycliff was a priory in the reign of Henry III, & was escheated to the Crown when the dissolution of religious houses was ordered by Henry VIII. at which time it was granted to Sir Edmund Seymour, Viscount Beuchamp, afterward Earl of Hertford & Duke of Summerset. It descended by entail to his son Edward Earl of Hertford, by a second marriage with Anne Stanhope, who, by her deed in 1601 sold it to Sir John Morley, Knight, & he the following year 1602 sold it to Sir Edmund Ludlow of Hill Deverill Knight, it being then occupied by Jane widow of Thomas Ludlow, by lease from Edward Earl of Hertford. The Ludlows of Hill Deverill held a lease of three lives in the Seymour estate. This estate covered 1420 acres of land. The Marquis of Bath now holds 103 acres, comprising the manor of Hill Deverill .- Hoar's Wiltshire.


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Codicil, dated 23rd of October, 1655-" In case my said nephew Thomas Ludlow marry one Rebecca Hurst, now living in my house, I give my said estate in Virginia to Jonathan Ludlow, my nephew, eldest son of my brother Roger Ludlow, who lives at Dublin in Ireland, & he to be sent for &c."


The Will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, on the Ist of August 1656, &, no executor being named as to the estate in England, Letters of administration, with the will annexed, were granted to Roger Ludlow, Esq., the father & curator assigned of Jonathan, Joseph, Roger, Anne, Mary, & Sarah Ludlow, minors, the nephews & nieces of the testator.


Nothing could be more intelligible & decisive than this. It was George Ludlow who went to Virginia when he quitted New England, while Roger, on leaving there in 1654, returned to the old country, & in 1655 was living in Dublin. It will be noticed that Roger's daughter Sarah, whom Savage says afterwards married Rev. Nathaniel Brewster, is mentioned in the enumeration of his children. It seems impossible, with all these facts to doubt the complete identification.


I have so far been unable to trace Roger Ludlow's history any later. I have not found his will here, & if he made one, & continued to reside at Dublin, it is no doubt in the Probate Registry there. I shall continue, as opportunity serves, to look for later intelligence about him & his family, as he was to some extent an historical personage, & if I discover any further facts they can perhaps be used on some future occasion.


Believe me, Madam,


Faithfully yours, Joseph Lemuel Chester, D.C.L., LL.D.


Mrs. E. H. Schenck, Southport, Conn.


Roger Ludlow married a sister of Governor John Endicott. It is probable that this marriage did not take place until after he came to America * as none of his children were of age when lie left New England. One of his children was born at Windsor, and proba- bly most of his other children were born at Fairfield. His daughter Sarah married Nathaniel Brewster. "She is represented as a person eminently distinguished for her genius and literary acquirements." Savage supposes her husband Nathaniel Brewster to have been a son of Francis Brewster of the New Haven Colony, and a nephew of the celebrated Elder Brewster, of the Plymouth Colony. He was a graduate in 1642 of the first class of Harvard College, and, on account of the liberality allowed at that time to all classes of christians, he with most of his class returned to England. He received the degree of B.D. from the Dublin University, and was settled as a minister over the parish of Alby in Norfolk County. It was during his residence in England that he married Sarah Ludlow. Upon the restoration of Charles II., Episcopacy being again restored, Brewster returned with his wife to New England, and from Oct. 1663 preached at the First Church in Boston. He was settled over the church of Brookhaven, Long Island, in 1665, where he continued his pastoral duties for the remainder of his life. He died in 1690. Both he and his wife " were buried in the Presbyterian burying-ground of Setauket, but the inscriptions on their tomb stones are too much effaced to be read." They left three sons, John, Timothy, and Daniel, whose numerous descendants are still found there.t


Capt. Caleb Brewster of Black Rock, who distinguished himself in the Revolution, was one of the descendants of the Rev. Nathaniel Brewster and his wife Sarah Ludlow. His grand-son, Caleb Brewster Hackley, who now resides at Black Rock, is the sole surviving representative in Fairfield of this distinguished family. Still further light is thrown upon the family pedigree of Roger Ludlow, by Sir Anthony B. Strausham, of London.


* The Memoirs of Governor Endicott, by William Cogswell, D.D .- New England History and Genealogical Register, Vol. I., 203.


t Savage's Genealogical Dictionary.


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" Arms of Ludlowe of Hulle als Hill Deverell, Co Wilts .- Argent a cheveron, between 3 bears heads, erased, sable.


Harl. MS. 1881 Fo. 116 [Abbreviated :]


William Ludlowe of Hill Deverel Co. Wilts.


= Margaret dau. & heir of William Rymer & of ... his wife dau. & heir of Willm Warnell.


John =


John =


B. 1500


William =


B. 1530


George =


B. 1560


I Son Edmund = 2d son Thomas = Jane Pile *


B. 1590


I Son Henry =


Edmund (the regicide, born 1620 d. 1692 at Vevay Switzerland.) S. P. Hoar's Wiltshire.


" Thomas Ludlow was brother of Sir Edmund Ludlow, great uncle of the regicide ; he resided at Diton ('juxta Warminster') and married Jane, daughter of Thomas Pyle, the sister of Sir Gabriel Pyle of Babton, Fish- erton de la Mere Wilts."


Hoar's Wiltshire.


The Pedigree of Roger Ludlow's mother Jane Pyle.


Harl. MS. 1165, fo. 70. Wilts Visitation 1623. Arms of Pile-Argent on a cross gules, a martlet Argent, between 4 passion nails, gules impaling, or on a bend azure, three pheons or.


Thomas Pile of Babton in Co Wilts Son & heir


Elizab. : dau. Rad. Laugrish (1) of Boodon Son . Laugrish of Laugrish in Co. Somerset (should be Laudgridge)


Christian wife . .


Ea-th de Com.


1 Anna wife Tho's. Browne of Martin Sho . .. . Wilts


Gabriel Pile of Bubton in = Co. Wilts Soldier


Anna dau. of Thomas Porter of Newarke in Com. citizen Glouc Soldier


Jane wife of Tho's. Ludlow near War- minster, (2) in Wilts


Francis Pile Son & heir aged 34 years time of Visitation 1623


=


Elizab. dau. 2 Francis Popham (3) of Little cott Co Wilts


Tho's. Pile


1 3 Willm (4)


4 Gabriel (5) 28.


2. Son aged 33.


22.


1


Francis Pile oldest son a. 6 years 1623


1 Seamour 2 son


Elizab. a. 2}% years


2 Amia a 6 months


a. 5 years 1623


(Signed) THOMAS PILE


Harl. 1393. fo. 24. 246 slight mention.


Harl. IIII fo. 96. "Sir Gabriel Pyle of Bubton in Wiltshire had issue. Francis Pyle Esqu. m .- dau. of Sir Thomas Porter."


Langridge. 2 Father & mother of Roger Ludlow. 3 Sir Francis Popham. 4 Third son William ought to be 32. 6 Winterslow church Hundred Aldersbury "under this marble slab lieth buried Gabriel Pile Esqr. fourth sonne of Sir Gabriel Pile Kt ; who departed this life xxiii Daye of August 1639."-" Sir Gabriel Pile probably born 1559. his sister Jane 1560."-Research of Sir Anthony B. Strausham. London, Eng.


"Gabriel Ludlow, son of Thomas Ludlow and Jane Pyle, in 1638 alienated Baycliff to his brother Thomas, preparing for a voyage to New England, -- more fortunate than some others who were prevented, he actually performed the voyage-no clear proof he ever returned."-Hoar's Wiltshire.


* Father & mother of Roger Ludlow.


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Here is the solution why Mrs. Jane Ludlow appointed Phillis, the wife of the above Gabriel, as her executrix. Her son, Gabriel, no doubt died soon after he reached Amer- ica .* No mention as yet, has been found of any other Gabriel Ludlow, living in America but Gabriel Ludlow who settled in New York in 1697.


It is a singular circumstance, that the name of Roger Ludlow should not be men- tioned in the Herald Visitations of Wilts County.t His identity is only established by his mother's will, and in that is abundant proof that he was her second son. His father must have been born between 1562 and 1565, and married to Jane Pyle when young, for Roger as early as November 1612 had been admitted to the Inner Temple in London. Admitting that he was about twenty years of age at that time, he must have been nearly forty when he came to New England in 1630 ; and over sixty when he returned to England.


It is plainly to be seen by this valuable paper that Jane Pyle, the mother of Roger Ludlow, was the sister of Sir Gabriel Pyle, Kt .; and own aunt of Elizabeth Pyle, wife of Sir Francis Popham, which made Roger Ludlow an own cousin of Sir Francis Popham (the son of Chief Justice John Popham, and nephew of Sir George Popham), who contin- ued the efforts of his father to form a permanent settlement on the coast of Maine begun at Sagadahoc in 1607.


It has been shown from the above pedigree of Roger Ludlow, that his father, Thomas Ludlow, was an uncle of Sir Henry Ludlow (who was a member of the Long Parliament in 1640 from Wiltshire), and great-uncle of Lieut. Gen. Edmund Ludlow the regicide. The latter in his memories mentions his cousin Roger Ludlow. Lieutenant-general Edmund Ludlow, was one of the judges of the court which condemned Charles I. to death. He acquired high renown as a soldier and orator in the civil struggle of that period. By the sudden death of Ireton in 1607 the command of the English army in Ireland, devolved upon him. " While he was one of the strongest advocates in England for the liberties of the people against the encroachments of the crown, he opposed the aspirations of Crom- well to the protectorate, and failing in this, he fled from England and took up his residence in Vevay Switzerland." He is sometimes called the Republican General. Soon after the ascension of Charles II. to the throne, he ventured to return to England, but the king immediately stripped him of his estates, and he was obliged to flee from the kingdom for his life. He returned to Vevay, where he resided until his death in 1693. His remains were buried under the Cathedral of St. Martin's at Vevay and near his tomb are those of Broughton, Gawler and Love. While at Vevay he wrote a valuable history of the stormy period in which he lived, entitled " Memoirs of Lieutenant General Edmund Ludlow."


* In the Memoirs of Gen. Edmund Ludlow, he mentions his cousin, Capt. Gabriel Ludlow, as having fallen in the obstinate contest of Newbery, 24 Sept 1644. An old Common Place book, compiled by one John Ludlow of Warminster about 1720, makes the above Capt. Gabriel Ludlow a resident of Baycliff.


In 1633 Gabriel Ludlow, son of Thomas and Jane, styled Receiver General of the Duchy of Lancaster, by his deed of settlement, declares himself to be then seized of Baycliff in demesne as of fee. He had four children, Gabriel, Thomas, Francis and Anne baptized at Warminster, where, with his brother Thomas he held the prebend. He had other children baptized at Maiden Bradley, being then called of Baycliff Esqr. In 1638 he alienated Bay- cliff to his brother Thomas and prepared for a voyage to New England &c .- Hoare's Wiltshire.


+ Since writing the above the author has had access to the English County publications now in the Congres- sional Library of the Capitol at Washington, D. C. In Vol. I. of Hoar's Wiltshire, he regrets that the church records of Hill Deverill should have been destroyed which would have thrown much light upon the interesting history of the Ludlow family.


# See " Relation of a Voyage to Sagadahoc," by Rev. B. F. De Casta.


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His family were dispersed under Cromwell.


Among the Domestic Reports to be found in the British Museum is the following statement :


"Aº 1664, No. 27, Jan. To, Rotterdam "H Parker to John Thompson (alias Ed Riggs, to Sec. Bennet) There are more fanatics in Rotterdam than anywhere else. Understand that Wheeler and Ludlow are in the Holland plantations in New England & are reported well."


The Ludlow referred to at this time, was no doubt some near relative of Lieut. Ed- mund Ludlow, and probably the Henry Ludlow who was made a freeman by the General Court of Connecticut, May 12, 1664, to whom with several others, the commissioners of Huntington L. I., were appointed " to administer the oath of freedom.":


One Gabriel Ludlow t came to New York in 1694, and married, April 15, 1697, Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Joseph Hamner, D.D., deceased, chaplain to His Majesty's forces in the Province of New York in America. He was one of the first vestrymen of Trinity church New York in 1697 .- Their son William Ludlow married Mary Duncan Aug. 10. 1731 .- Their son Gabriel William Ludlow, married Aug. 28. 1764, Cornelia, daughter of Charles Crooke, who was the son of John Crooke, one of the first vestrymen of Trinity church New York in 1697. Their son Charles Ludlow, married Elizabeth, daughter of David Van Horn and Elizabeth French (daughter of Philip French, N. Y.) Their children were Cornelia Ann, born June 13. 1788, and Elizabeth. Cornelia Ann married Abraham Willink May 2. 1816, who died 31 of May 1852. He was the son of William Willink, an eminent banker and financier in Amsterdam, Holland, who was an early friend of the American Republic, and rendered great service to the country by making the first loan. He was also one of the original holders in the property of the Holland Land Company. Elizabeth Ann Willink died 18. of November 1865. Her sister Elizabeth Ludlow perpetuated the family name by erecting Ludlow and Willink Hall of St. Stephen's College Annandale, N. Y. to her memory. }


There is reason to believe that Gabriel Ludlow who came to New York in 1694, was the progenitor of the Ludlows of New York and New Jersey, and that this branch of the Ludlow family did not become extinct as has been thought upon the death of Elizabeth Ludlow and her sister Mrs. Cornelia Ann Wilkins. It does not appear whose son the above Gabriel was, but probably of a grandson of Gabriel the brother of Roger Ludlow, or of some collateral branch of his family. The name Gabriel occurs frequently in Hoar's copy of the Wiltshire parish records. The Virginia Ludlows, are probably descendants of Thomas son of Gabriel and his brother Roger Ludlow.


The Ludlows were an ancient and worthy family from Shropshire, from whence they removed to Wiltshire after the Castle of Ludlow was confiscated in the reign of Henry I. " They possessed such an estate as placed them in the first rank of gentlemen ; and their personal merits, usually concurring with their fortunes, gave them just pretenses as knights of the Shire, to stand as candidates to represent their county in Parliament, an honor they seldom failed to attain."


Wiltshire is celebrated for its British and Roman antiquities. But a short distance from the road leading to Long Bridge Deverill is the little sequestered village of Hill Dev- erill, where, in two fields immediately behind the parish church, are to be seen the usual


* Col. Rec. Conn., Vol. I., p. 428.


+ This Gabriel Ludlow was born Nov. 2. 1663 at Castle Bay in Somerset Co., and was a son of Gabriel Ludlow of Trome (Somerset). Letter of Thomas W. Ludlow of Yonkers, N. Y.


# Laying of the Corner-Stone of Ludlow and Willink Hall, 1866.


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irregu'arities in the ground, which mark the site of a British settlement ; and in digging are to be found the pottery, bricks and flues of the Romanized Britons. Near by, in the woods of Southby, are earth works almost square in form, containing in its area within the ditch, about three-quarters of an acre of ground, called Robin Hood's Bower. The church, which contains the Ludlow & Coker tomb, with the armorial bearing. of this family, is a small building situated on the east bank of the river Wiley, a short distance from the ancient mansion-house of the Ludlows & Cokers.


Gen. Edmund Ludlow inherited the estate of his father Henry Ludlow of Hill Deverill. He dying childless, what was left of his estate after its confiscation, passed into the pos- session of the Coker family, by the marriage of Elizabeth, daughter and sole heir of Sir Henry Ludlow of Sedley with Sir Henry Coker, 3d son of William Coker Esqr. of May- powder Co. Dorset. It next fell into the possession of Thomas Coker, who, Hoar says, lived long enough to see the end of their once ample possessions.


" The village of Monkton Deverill presents a mean appearance; but the traveler, on riding through it, will be somewhat surprised at seeing inserted in the wall of a dwelling-house, now occupied by a wheelwright, a very handsome escutcheon of arms, engraved within a rich border ; and as his curiosity will be naturally excited to know the why and the wherefore it became so degraded, I shall give him the best account of it I have been able to procure.


The shield incloses six quarterings. It is surmounted by a helmet, and has two animals as supporters. Beneath the escutcheon are two tablets with a tree in their centre, to which three animals (apparently dogs) are running for shelter. One of these tablets has these letters inscribed on it, Rvina Prementi ; the other, Svbevtibvs vmbra, the letter n being left out. The first and sixth arms on this shield are those of Ludlow ; viz. Argent, a chevron between three martins' heads erased Sable. The second represents the arms of Rymer ; Gules, a tree eradicated Or, summounted by a greyhound Argent, collared Sable. The third those of Bulstrode : Sable, a stag's head ca- boshed Argent; between the attires a cross Or, transpierced through the nostrils by an arrow of the last, barbed and flighted of the second, vulned Gules. The fourth are the bearings of More : Argent, two bars Azure between ten martlets four, three and three, Gules. The fifth those of Coker : Argent, on a bend Gules three leopards' faces Or, alluding to the marriage of Sir Edmund Ludlow with Bridget, daughter and heir of Henry Coker, of Mapowder, co Dorset. These are the arms of Ludlow, of Hill Deverill, co Wilts, as annexed to the record of the pedigree of that family at the Herald's Visitation of the County of Wilts, anno 1565.


The animals on each side of the shield appear to be supporters ; but being headless I am at a loss to know what animals they were intended to represent, but probably martins ; and I cannot learn that this family had a right to supporters.


These pretended supporters can have no reference to those borne by Earl Ludlow, the lineal descendant of the Ludlows of Hill Deverill, viz., two stags : and I am inclined to attribute to Edmund, son of Henry of Tadley, this curious shield of arms, and the motto of ruina prementi subeuntibus umbra, with the device of three dogs running to a tree for shelter, might allude to the hard usage which the aforesaid Edmund met with from his family, and of which he complains in his Will ; and under the three dogs may be figured his three brothers, the authors of his persecution." *


A strong effort has been made by the author to ascertain some history of the last days of Roger Ludlow after he settled at Hollyhead ; but thus far it has proved fruitless. There may be some truth in the tradition that he spent his last days in Virginia, while guardian of his children's rights in the estate of his brother George Ludlow. It has been ascer- tained that his wife died in England, but no record of his death has thus far been found there. This is to be regretted, as his life in New England is so valuably interwoven with its early history. He was certainly not only one of the most remarkable men who lived in New England, but one who rendered great service in establishing the government of Connecticut on a basis so firmly and truly republican in its principles, that he justly merited the honor of being called the Father of Connecticut Jurisprudence. Had he remained in New England, he would undoubtedly have distinguished himself in adding further luster to Connecticut and to the town of Fairfield.


* Hoare's Wiltshire, Vol. I., 177, 178.


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No. II


SUIT OF THOMAS STAPLES AGAINST ROGER LUDLOW NEW HAVEN COL. REC. VOL. 3. 77-89


On the 29. of May 1654 the famous slander suit of Thomas Staples against Roger Ludlow, was brought before the Court at New Haven. Governor Eaton Deputy Gover- nor Stephen Goodyear, Francis Newman, William Fowler & William Leete presided as judges at the trial. John Banks of Fairfield appeared as attorney for Thomas Staples, & Ensign Alexander Bryan of Milford for Roger Ludlow. John Banks opened the case, stating that Mr. Ludlow had defamed Mrs. Staples' character by reporting to Mr. & Mrs. Davenport of New Haven, " that Mrs. Staples had laid herself under a new suspicion of being a witch," that she was exceedingly untruthful ; that she had openly denied the witch goodwife Knapp bore the marks of a witch upon her person; & that goodwife Knapp told him at the time of her execution that Mrs. Staples was a witch.


Mr. Davenport was then asked to make oath to his testimony, which he at first declined to do, on the ground that he regarded an oath an ordinance of God for confirmation of truth, to end strife among men according to Heb. 6. 16, " but afterwards declared as fol- lows : That while sitting one evening with him & Mrs. Davenport alone, Mr. Ludlow talked with him about Knapp's wife, the witch; & told them that at her execution she came down from the ladder & desired to speak with him alone, at which time she informed him who the witch was, spoken of by goodwife Basset the Stratford witch ; & that upon his or his wife's asking who it was, Mr. Ludlow said she named goodwife Staples. Mr. Davenport replied that he believed it utterly untrue, & spoken out of malice." Mr. Ludlow answered he hoped better of her, but said she was a foolish woman. He then related to them, that Mrs. Staples with some other women in Fairfield, examined goodwife Knapp's body after her execution, to find some marks of a witch ; & Mrs. Staples declared that Knapp's wife " had no more marks of a witch upon her than she had." Mr. Daven- port said " he disliked what Mr. Ludlow had told him, not having heard anything from others in that particular, either for or against her ; but supposed Mr. Ludlow told it from such intelligence as satisfied him." He said that Ludlow spoke of the matter in a con- fidential way & requested them not to mention what he had said; but did not remember that either he or his wife promised secrecy, because " he was careful not to make unlawful promises ; but when he did, through the help of Christ, he was careful to keep it."


Mrs. Davenport testified that, while Ludlow was staying at her house, & speaking of the execution of Knapp's wife, " (he being free in his speech) " to the best of her remem- brance she heard him say, Knapp's wife came down from the ladder, & told him that goodwife Staples was a witch ; & that she overheard him tell Mr. Davenport about Mrs. Staples saying, if Knapp's wife had the marks of a witch, she also had them ; but did not remember giving a promise of secrecy. Mrs. Thomas Sherwood of Fairfield testified, that in a debate between Ludlow & Mrs. Staples, she heard Ludlow charge goodwife Staples " with a tract of lying several times." The wife of Nathan Gold testified, that in a quarrel in the church between Ludlow & Mrs. Staples, she heard the latter ask Ludlow " to show her where she had told one lie ; & Mr. Ludlow said she need not mention par- ticulars, for she had gone on in a tract of lying."


John Thompson of Fairfield testified to the same effect. Ludlow's counsel, Ensign Bryan, then offered several testimonials in writing upon oath, taken by Mr. Wells & Lud-


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low. John Banks objected to the reading of the testimonials, as some of them were in the hand writing of Ludlow, which he did not consider were as satisfactory as if they had been taken by some disinterested person. He also took exception to them, on the ground that they had not been attested by some public officer. The affidavit of Hester, wife of Andrew Ward, taken on the 13. of May, was then read, which was to the effect, that she visited goodwife Knapp in prison the following day after she had been condemned as a witch; at which time she of her own free will informed her, that goodwife Staples had told her about an Indian woman, who had brought her " two little things brighter than the light of day," which she pronounced " to be Indians gods, as the Indians called them," & if she would keep them, " she would be so big rich, all one god." Mrs. Staples told her she thought she returned them to the Indian woman, but could not distinctly remember whether she did or not.


The affidavit of Lucy, wife of Thomas Pell of Fairfield, of the same date, was next read. Mrs. Pell testified that about the day after goodwife Knapp was condemned, the wife of the Rev. John Jones urged her to go with her to the prison where the witch, who had sent for her, was confined ; that she with Mrs. Andrew Ward accompanied Mrs. Jones to the prison, & heard the witch say word for word what Mrs. Ward had testi- fied. She further declared that she was one of the women, who had been appointed by the court to search the said Knapp before she was condemned ; & that both she & Mrs. Jones " pressed her, the said Knap, to confess whether there were any others that were witches, because goodwife Basset, when she was condemned, said there was another witch at Fairfield that held her head full high, & then she said, goodwife Knap, stepped a little aside, & told her that goodwife Basset meant not her. She then asked her whom she meant, & she named goodwife Staples ; & then she uttered the same speech as for- merly about the Indian gods." Elizabeth & Mary Brewster's & Mrs. Robert Lockwood's affidavits were next read, all corroborating the account Ludlow had given at the Rev. Mr. Davenport's house.




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