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1. Richard Kent, Senior, the father of Rebecca Scullard, was a maltster, and died 15 June, 1654. His will was proved in Ipswich court 26 Sept., 1654 (vide Essex County Probates, vol. I, pp. 186-8). It mentions his wife Emma, son John (b. 1645), dan. Sarah (in Eng- land), and daughter Rebecca Bishop. It calls Stephen Kent his brother. This Stephen Kent came to New England with his wife Margery in the Confidence, in April, 1638 (Register, vol. 14, p. 335). In England he was a linen-draper at Salisbury, and Mr. George W. Chamberlain notes his marriage license of 10 Ang., 1637,-" Steven Kent of Sarum, lynnendraper, 32: and Margery Norris of Wal- lopp, co. South ". Allegation calls her "of Collingborne Kingston [Wilts] sp. 24" (Genealogist, n. s. vol. 30, p. 126). They were mar- ried at St. Edmund's, Salisbury, 10 Ang., 1637 ( Wilts Mar. Reg., vol. 13, p. 69). This first wife soon died, leaving a dau. Mary. Stephen Kent married twice more, removed to Haverhill and then to Wood- bridge, New Jersey, where he died in 1679. Admon. on his estate was granted in that year to his "only son, Stephen Kent" (New Jersey Archives, vol. xxxi, p. 43).
2. Richard Kent, Junior. His first wife, Jane -, died at New- bury, 26 June, 1674, and he married (2) Mrs. Joanna Davison, at Newbury, 6 Jan., 1675. He was the grantee of " Kent's Island ". and died at Newbury 25 Nov., 1689. He was the uncle of Nathaniel and James Brading, sons of William Brading of Godshall, Isle of Wight. Nathaniel Brading died at Madagascar : vide his will dated 16 Nov., 1645 (Register, vol. 44, pp. 385-6.) James Brading lived first at Newbury, where he married, 11 Oct., 1657, Hannah, dau. of Joseph Rock of Boston; but he afterwards removed to Boston, where he is described as an ironmonger (Suffolk Deeds, vol, VIII, pp. 29-30, 120, 159-63, 286-7). The question as to which Richard
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i. MARY, born 9 Jan., 1641. Married at Newbury, 2 Dec., 1656, John Rolfe.43 They removed to Nantucket, but returned to Cambridge. John Rolfe was taken sndden- ly ill at the house of his brother Benjamin in Newbury, and died there in Sept., 1681. His widow was living in Cambridge in 1683. The sons removed to Woodbridge in New Jersey.
ii. REBECCA, born and died 1643.
iii. SARAH, born 18 June, 1645. Married Samnel Dennis46 of Woodbridge, New Jersey, where they had, -(i) Samuel, b. 1672; (ii) Robert, b. 1676; (iii) Sarah, b. 1678; (iv) Jonathan, b. 1683, d. 1688.
Kent was nncle of the Bradings is settled by James Brading's depo- sition in Essex Co. Court Files, vol. II, p. 30.
Kents were plentiful in Hampshire and Wiltshire. Vide will of Richard Pyle of Over Wallop in Hants, dated 26 Jan., 1623-4, proved in P. C. C. 12 May, 1629 (37 Ridley), mentioning "John Kent, my sister Osgood's son, Stephen and Thomas Kent, his brothers". William and Richard Kent were overseers of Pyle's will. I think Over Wallop was probably the habitat of Richard Kent, senior. It lies near the Wiltshire border, just across from Boscombe in Wilts, where lived a family of Kent, originating in Over Wallop. For Kent of Boscombe, vide Wiltshire Notes and Queries, vol. VII, pp. 228-35. The registers of Over Wallop should be searched, they begin in 1550; also the wills at Winchester, which would doubtless reveal much. Cf. also notes on John Osgood, post, showing another Over Wallop connection. A Hampshire Lay Subsidy, 175/485, 7 James I (1609-10), shows at Nether Wallop Richard Kent, and at Over Wal- lop John Kent, John Kent " of Thongam ", John Kent " farmer ", Peter and Henry Osgood, John and Richard Pyle, and Philip Whiteare.
4John Rolfe, who married Mary Scullard, was one of the sons of Henry Rolfe of Newbury, who died there 1 March, 1643. Vide will of Henry Rolfe in Essex County Probate Records, vol. I, pp. 21-2. Henry Rolfe was the brother of John Rolfe, who died in Newbury 8 Feb., 1664. Vide will of John Rolfe in Essex County Probate Rec- ords, vol. I, pp. 438-9: he leaves £10 to " John Rofe my brothrs sonn and vnto his two danghtrs Marie and Rebecca Rofe five pounds. For Henry and John Rolfe, vide Register, vol. 66, pp. 250-1, where their English ancestry is set forth. It may be noted that at Wood- bridge, N. J., there was a Benjamin Cromwell (with wife Sarah) who was called a brother of John Rolfe, Junior, in the probate proceedings of Rolfe, 1697 (New Jersey Wills, p, 394). For this Rolfe family, vide Hoyt's Salisbury and Amesbury Families, vol. I, p. 301; and Paige's Cambridge, p. 645.
4Samuel Dennis, who married Sarah Scullard, was a man of note in Woodbridge, and filled many important offices. He is said to have had brothers John and Jonathan. ( Vide History of Wood- bridge, pp. 161-3 and passim). In Register, vol. 49, p. 442, he is called a son of Thomas Dennis, but this is not verified. Samuel Dennis's son Robert suggests a kinship with Robert Dennis of Yarmonth, one of the associates in Daniel Pierce's purchase of Woodbridge in 1667.
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Scullard never lived in Hampton, but remained in New- bury, dying there in April, 1647. His will was proved in the Ipswich court, 28 Sept., 1647.+ His widow married (2) at Newbury, 3 Oct., 1647, John Bishop. They re- moved first to Nantucket, but in 1677 Bishop sold his Nantucket lands and removed to Woodbridge in New Jersey, where he died.
6. JOHN OSGOOD. Here we certainly have a Hamp- shire man, coming from Wherwell, Stephen Bachiler's vicarage, and connected with Over Wallop. The late Osgood Field identifies him as the son of Robert Osgood of Wherwell, and the grandson of Peter Osgood of Wal- lop.1 Compare also the will of William Spencer of Cher- iton, Hants, dated 14 Aug., 1576.49 Spencer was a son- in-law of Peter Osgood of Over Wallop, and his will mentions his wife's brothers, the Osgoods, and names Stephen Bachiler as an advisory trustee. John Osgood never lived at Hampton, but removed to Andover, where he died in 1651.50 For his English ancestry and New England descendants, vide Osgood Genealogy.
Here the list of grantees divides sharply. The re- maining petitioners were evidently East Englanders.
7. JOHN CROSS. Came to New England in April, 1634, with his wife Ann, on the Elizabeth of Ipswich,51 he being aged 50 and she 38. Many of his fellow pas- sengers are traceable to Suffolk, and that is where I should place Cross ;52 yet on the Hampton petition he is among Norfolk men. Settled first in Ipswich. In 1638
47 Probate Records of Essex County, vol. 1, pp. 82-4.
48 Register, vol. 20, pp. 22-8.
49 Register, vol. 45, pp. 235-6.
50Will of John Osgood, Essex County Probate Records, vol. I, pp. 141-2.
51 Register, vol. 14, p. 329.
5?He was evidently not the John Cross, widower, who on 1 Sept., 1631, obtained a license to marry Ann Osborne of East Bergholt, the marriage to take place at St. Peter's, Ipswich (Crisp's Suffolk Marriage Licenses, p. 65). That John Cross had a son William, baptized at St. Nicholas', Ipswich, 14 Aug., 1633, and a daughter Margaret, baptized there 22 Feb., 1635-6, nearly two years after our John Cross sailed for New England (Printed Registers of St. Nicho- las', Ipswich, passim.)
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he was apparently living in Newbury,53 but in 1639 he came to Hampton. He was an important man in early Hampton, Deputy to the General Court, Moderator of town meetings, and Commissioner to end small causes. He is said to have supported Bachiler in the Hampton troubles,5+ but soon returned to Ipswich, selling his great farm at Hampton to Roger Shaw in 1647.55 Cross died in Ipswich in 1650, and his will was proved in the Ipswich court 25 March, 1651.56 His widow removed to Water- town, dying there in 1669. Their only child, Hannah Cross, married Thomas Hammond, son of William, of Watertown, who came from Lavenham in Suffolk. Han- nah (Cross) Hammond died in Watertown 24 March, 1656-7. Her only child, Thomas Hammond, settled on the Cross farm in Ipswich, which John Cross had intended should endow a free school there, if his daughter died without issue.
8. SAMUEL GREENFIELD. A weaver from Norwich ; examined for passage to New England 12 May, 1637, with his wife Barbara and two children, Barbara and Mary.57 Settled first in Salem and then in Ipswich. At the latter place he married (2) circa 1638, Susan, widow of Humphrey Wyth or Wise, and they sold to Thomas Emerson, 4 March, 1638-9, the 100-acre farm granted to Wyth.58 Removed to Hampton in 1639, but left there before 1641 for Exeter. At Exeter, in 1641, his daugh- ter Mary was ravished by Jonathan Thing, who was or- dered to be whipped and to pay a fine of £20 to Green- field.59 The inhabitants of Exeter petitioned the General Court in 1644 to allow Greenfield to sell wine, but the court ordered that this be denied " vntill the Corte have a more full and satisfactory account of him.60 Apparently he reinstated himself in their opinion, for 6 May, 1646,
33 Vide baptism of his daughter Hannah, post.
34Brown's Hampton Falls, p. 157.
55 Land Records of Norfolk County ( Essex Antiquarian, vol. 1, p. 22.)
$6 Essex County Probate Records, vol. 1, pp. 125-8.
57 Register, vol. 14, p. 328.
35 Ancient Records of Town of Ipswich : vide also Probate Records of Essex Co., vol. I, p. 11.
59 Mass. Gen'l Ct. Rec., vol. I, p. 317.
"Mass. Gen'l Ct. Rec., vol. III, p. 8.
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with Anthony Stanian and James Wall, he was appointed to end small causes under 20s.61 Falling again from grace, the Salem court, in April, 1649, found him guilty of " singing a lascivious song and using unseemly gestures therewith ". He was sentenced to be whipped or fined £6.62 He chose to pay the fine. Again, in December, 1649, the Salem court (on deposition of William Howard and Mary Perkins that he had altered in his own name a bill of sale to his stepdaughter, Emma Wyth), continued the case to the Boston court on charge of forgery, the court being informed that he was in the prison at Bos- ton.62 After this we hear no more of him.
9. JOHN MOULTON [John Molton]. From Great Ormesby (Ormesby St. Margaret) in Norfolk. " April the 11th 1637. The examinaction of John Moulton of Ormsby in Norf. husbandman, aged 38 yeares, and Anne his wife, aged 38 yeares, with 5 children, Henry, Merey, Anne, Jane and Bridgett, and 2 Saruants, Adam Good- dens, aged 20 yeres, and Allis Eden, aged 18 yers ".63 John Mouton and Ann Greene were married at Ormesby St. Margaret 24 Sept., 1623.6+ Moulton is an old Norfolk name, and a search in the wills at Norwich would proba- bly show his ancestry. Vide Moulton entries in an ab- stract of the rentals of Ormesby manor, with Scratby, in 1610.65 John Moulton was a useful citizen in Hampton, the first Deputy to the General Court, and died at Hamp- ton in 1650.66 He was the ancestor of Gen. Jonathan Moulton. For his descendants, vide Dow's Hampton, pp. 862-78 ; Moulton Genealogy (1899) ; and, where verified, Moulton Annals (1906).
10. THOMAS MOULTON [Tho : Molton]. He was born
61 Mass. Gen'l Ct. Rec., vol. III, p. 64.
62 Essex County Court Records, vol. I, pp. 166, 182.
63 Register, vol. 14, p. 325.
4 Norfolk Marriage Registers, vol. vii, p. 42. The entries given are from the transcripts, which are evidently in existence from an early date, though Mr. Phillimore thought not before 1693. Supp. to How to Write the History of a Family, p. 324).
Register, vol. 69, p. 342.
66 Will of John Moulton, New Hampshire Wills (State Papers, vol. xxxi, pp. 18-19).
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circa 1605,67 and was perhaps a brother of John Moulton, coming also from Ormesby, though no record is found. He came first to Newbury, lived in Hampton for some years, but removed in 1654 to Wells, where he was the ancestor of many Maine Moultons. Some of his descend- ants are given in Moulton Annals (vide supra).
11. WILLIAM ESTOW [Willi: Estow]. Another Ormesby man, who married at Ormesby St. Margaret 15 July, 1623, " Mary Mouton, widow ".64 The Estows also appear on the rentals of Ormesby manor in 1610 (vide supra). William Estow came to Newbury in 1637, and died at Hampton 23 Nov., 1655.68 He was a useful citi- zen in Hampton, served many times on juries, was twice Deputy to the General Court, and three times a Commis- sioner to end small causes. His will mentions two daugh- ters only : (i) Sarah, who m. Morris Hobbs, and (ii) Mary, who m. Thomas Marston. A bequest to the children of William Moulton leads us to infer that Moulton was a child of Estow's wife by her former marriage. She had predeceased Estow, possibly in England.
12. WILLIAM PALMER [Willi: Palmer].69 A fourth Ormesby man,-perhaps that " William Paulmer of the Parish of Ormsbie " who married Mary Stamforth at Ranworth (Norfolk), 30 Jan., 1607-8.70 A " William Palmer, gent.", is given on the rent roll of Ormesby manor in 1610.71 There is no doubt that our man had interests in Ormesby (vide deed to the Shermans, post). No record is found of his sailing to New England, but he was at Watertown in 1636-7,"and at Newbury in 1637. A deed is found in Ipswich Court files, dated 10 March, 1645, from Palmer to his daughter Martha and her hus- band, Captain John Sherman, wherein, in consideration of
67Deposition of Thomas Moulton, Massachusetts Archives, 38b.
68 Will of William Estow, New Hampshire Wills (State Papers, vol. xxxi, pp. 30-2).
69 For notes on Palmer, credit is due to Mr. William Lincoln Palmer of Boston, who published his Palmer pedigree in 1916, having printed in 1914 some notes on William Palmer's descendants in Reg- ister, vol. 68, p. 259.
70 Norfolk Marriage Registers, vol. III, p. 88.
71 Register, vol. 69, pp. 342-5.
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his daughter's release "of a parcel of land in Great Ormsbye in old England ", worth £105, Palmer conveys to John and Martha Sherman all his houses and lands in Newbury and Hampton.72 Palmer married (2) Ann -, who survived him, married (2) Francis Plumer, and died at Newbury 18 Oct., 1665. William Palmer had four other children besides Martha, and died at Hampton between 10 March, 1645, and 6 Oct., 1647.
13. WILLIAM SARGENT [Willi : Sergant]. At Ipswich 1633, Newbury 1635, Salisbury 1639, Amesbury 1655-75. He and Thomas Bradbury married sisters, daughters of John Perkins of Ipswich. Sargent's first wife, Elizabeth Perkins, is said to have been born in 1618. Concerning Sargent's own age there is some dispute. One account says he was born in 1598, and another says the year of his birth was 1602. There seems no reliable testimony as to what part of England he came from, though the author of the Sargent Record (1899) believes he came from the West of England.73 In his will, dated 14 March, 1671-2, and proved at Salem in 1675, he calls himself a " seaman "." The exact date of his death is not given on the town records, but he was living on 1 July, 1673,75 and dead before 14 April, 1675,76 when his will was proved. William Sargent never lived at Hampton, removing to Salisbury, and finally settling in that part which became Amesbury. For his descendants, vide Hoyt's Salisbury and Amesbury Families, Vol. I, pp. 310-4; and Sargent Record (1899).
14. RICHARD SWAYNE, Though this name is found in Hampshire, Wiltshire and Dorset, it is not uncommon in Norfolk, and that I believe to be the county from which he came. No exact record shows when he came
72 Records of Essex Co. Qtly Ct., vol. II. p. 349. For ancestry of Capt. John Sherman of Watertown, ride Register, vol. 66, pp. 322-6. 13Sargents were not uncommon in Norfolk and Suffolk; he may have come from there.
74He is also so described in the records of old Norfolk Co. in two deeds, one as grantee 25 March, 1647, and one as grantor 25 March, 1648 (Essex Antiquarian, vol. I, p. 50).
73 Essex Antiquarian, xiii, 106.
16 Essex Antiquarian, xiii, 107.
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to New England." He is said to have settled first in Rowley, but here he is confused with a genuine Rowley man, Richard Swan. His daughter Elizabeth was bap- tized by Bachiler at Newbury, 9 Oct., 1638. Richard Swayne lived in Hampton for some years, and his first wife, who bore the unusual name of Basselle, died there 15 July, 1657. He married (2) at Hampton, 15 Sept., 1658, Jane (Godfrey), the widow of George Bunker; who was drowned at Topsfield 26 May, 1658.78 Swayne became a Quaker, and was fined and disfranchised there- for in 1659. With his wife and step-children, he removed to Nantucket in 1660, taking with him two of his own children, John and Richard. They were the ancestors of a long line of Nantucket Swains. Richard Swayne, who was born circa 1595, died at Nantucket 14 April, 1682.79 His wife Jane had predeceased him there 31 Oct., 1662.79 For his descendants, vide Dow's Hampton, pp. 985-7; and Hinchman's Nantucket Settlers, vol. II, pp. 152-4, 304.
15. WILLIAM SANDERS [Willi : Sanders]. No trace of this man is to be found on Newbury or Hampton rec- ords, and I think the name a mere scrivener's error. He has been presumed to be the same William Sanders as the carpenter who, in 1636, contracted to serve Bellingham and Gibbons for three years, but I find no affirmative evidence that this man had any connection with Hampton. A John Saunders from Ipswich was admitted an inhabitant at Hampton in December, 1639.80 He was fined in 1643 for "mutines and offensive speeches ", and was enjoined to confess his fault at Hampton.81 This same year (part of his fine being abated on his petition) he removed to
17 Cf. Shipping list of the Truelove, 19 Sept., 1635 ( Register, vol. 14, p. 323), in which appears a Richard Swayne, aged 34. This does not agree with our Richard Swayne's age as given in his depo- sition in 1662, "aged 67" (Essex Antiquarian, vol, 3, p. 171). Swayne's two elder sons came to New England in the Rebecca, 9 April, 1635, William aged 16, and Francis aged 14. (Register, yol, 14, p. 307).
"George Bunker, who was not akin to him of Charlestown, is called a Hugnenot by Savage. His descendants cherish the tradition that the family name was originally Bon Coeur.
19 Register, vol. 7, pp. 181, 261.
""Dow's Hampton, p. 17.
8! Records of Massachusetts Bay Colony, vol. 2, p. 32.
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Wells, and died at Cape Porpoise in 1670.82 Another John Sanders came on the Confidence in 1638 from Land- ford in Wilts,83 and settled in Newbury, soon removing to Salisbury. He married Hester, daughter of the first John Rolfe, returned to Newbury and sometime after . 1654 went back to England. In 1674 his letter of attorney to Richard Dole authorized the latter to recover "lands in Salisbury received from their father Rolfe ".& At this time he was living in Weeke [Wick], in the parish of Downton. No record exists to show that this man had any connection with Hampton. Another early Hampton settler of similar name was Robert Saunderson, the gold- smith, whose child was baptized in Hampton by Bachiler in 1639. Coming from Watertown, Saunderson lived in Hampton some years, but returned to Watertown, and thence removed to Boston, where he was a partner of John Hull, the mint-master.85
16. ROBERT TUCK. Came from Gorleston in Suffolk to New England circa 1636. Gorleston, in the hundred of Lothingland, is now a suburb of Yarmouth. The English ancestry of Tuck should be traced,86 for he was the forefather of Hon. Amos Tuck and his son Edward Tuck, the Paris banker, who presented its new building to the New Hampshire Historical Society. Robert Tuck settled first in Watertown, but after 1638 lived in Hamp- ton, where he died in 1664.87 He kept the tavern, was town clerk, and many times selectman. He left one son, Robert, in England, who appears on the Suffolk Hearth Tax in 1674 at Bungay Boyscott.88 In the same tax list we find a John Tucke in Gorleston.88 For the descend-
82Will of John Sanders, Maine Wills, pp. 18-19.
83 Register, vol. 14, p. 334; the " wife Sarah " on the shipping list is thought by Hoyt to be a sister Sarah. Vide also " Founders of Mass. Bay " (1897) passim.
84Norfolk County Land Records, Essex Antiquarian, vol. 13, p. 106. 85 Register, vol. 52, p. 23.
86It may be noted here that Norwich wills have not as yet been calendared. They would undoubtedly furnish the English ancestry of many an early settler.
87 Will of Robert Tuck; New Hampshire Wills (State papers, vol. xxxi, pp. 79-81).
59 Suffolk Green Books, vol. 13, pp. 49, 123.
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ants of Robert Tuck, vide Dow's Hampton, pp. 1016-23 ; and Tuck Genealogy (1897).
From these notes it will be seen that of the fifteen original grantees who thus threw in their lot with Stephen Bachiler, two-thirds were from Eastern England. Of the remaining one-third, apparently neighbors of Bachiler in England, but two settled in Hampton. This dispropor- tion between Bachiler's own adherents (from Southern England) became greater before the settlement was actu- ally begun, in 1639. Timothy Dalton, from Woolver- stone in Suffolk, with a number of other East Englanders, joined the original band. Bachiler, in his letter of 26 Feb., 1644, scores roundly Dalton's "abuse of the power of the church in his hand, by the maior parte cleaveing to him, being his countrymen & acquaintance in old Eng- land". Although the settlement (in Bachiler's honor and at his request) was named Hampton, after Southampton in England, most of the settlers were allied by ties of blood or old friendship to the "reverend, grave and gra- cious Mr. Dalton ". And, as nearly all the Dalton party were freemen, and not all of Bachiler's adherents, the voting power rested firmly with the majority. The ex- communication of 1643 was, therefore, not surprising, although we descendants of Bachiler believe the charges were unfounded.
It is indeed a matter of speculation why these East Englanders allied themselves with Bachiler's adventure in 1638. His influence must have been great to induce them to leave the Norfolk and Suffolk settlements in Watertown and Ipswich. But the narrow limits of the Bay colony began to press too hardly upon the settlers who arrived in New England from 1635 to 1637, and a new settlement appealed to them. The unflagging energy of Bachiler commands our admiration, for to a man of seventy-seven the hardships of such a new settlement would not ordi- narily appeal. He and his son-in-law Hussey were com- fortably established at Newbury ;89 and must have been loth to leave that spot. But Bachiler, a confirmed egoist,
89They sold their houses and lands in Newbury "for six-score pounds" on 5 June, 1649 (Newbury Propr's Records, vol. I, fo. 48; Currier, p. 45).
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was still seeking to found a colony of his own. As he says in his letter of 26 Feb., 1643 :- 90
"So, said 1 to my wife, considering what a calling I had some 14 yeres agon * * * thinking to have rested at Newtowne * * * the Lord shou'd me thence by another calling to Sagust, from Sagost to Newbury, then from Newbury to Hampton ".
Truly, an uneasy, restless spirit, never to find that haven he dreamed of.
It is worth noting that five of the sixteen grantees never settled in Hampton : Cromwell and Scullard re- mained in Newbury ; Osgood removed to Andover; Sar- gent to Amesbury, while of Sanders we find no record.
Dow argues that the settlement of Hampton was co- eval with the grant.91 The records which I have seen lead me to believe that while some preparatory work may have been done in the fall of 1638, no actual settlement was made before the spring or summer of 1639. The first page of baptisms in the Hampton town records was evi- dently written by Bachiler himself. A copy from the Town Record, vol. I, fo. 72, follows :-
John the sonne of Christopher Hussey & Theodate his wife was baptized at Lin on the last day of ye last mo : Aº 1635.
Mary the danghter of the said Christopher & Theodate was baptized at Newbury on ye 2d of ye 2d month 1638.
Hanna the daughter of John Crosse & Anne his wife was baptized at Newbury the 9th of ye 8th mo: 1638.
Elizabeth the daughter of Richard Swaine & Basell his wife was baptized at Newbury ye same 9th day.
Joho the sonne of John Moulton & Anne his wife was baptized at Newbury the - day of ye first mo: 1638. [1638-9].
Peter the sonne of Eduard Johnson & Mary his wife was baptized at Winniconnet ye - -.
Mary the daughter of Robert Saundrson & Lydia his wife was bap- tized at Hampton the 29th of ye 8th mo: Ano 1639.
Susanna the daughter of Thomas Jones & Abigail his wife was baptized at Hampton the same 29th day.
Thomas the sonne of Thomas Monlton & Martha his wife was bap- tized at Hampton the 24th of the 9th mo : 1639.
From this it will be seen that children were baptized by Bachiler in Newbury as late as March, 1639. The first
90 Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Fourth Series, vol. VII, p. 102.
91Dow's Hampton, pp. 10-11.
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baptism at Winnicunnet was probably in the summer of 1639. The first baptism under the new name of Hampton was in October, 1639.
Winthrop records that the autumn of 1638 was marked with continuous rain and snow : and in December, 1638, a tempest of wind and snow exceeding all they had ex- perienced. Many were frozen to death, and the high tides cast away several coasting vessels. The early months of 1639 were marked with like extremes of cold and a severe earthquake was felt. While this inclement weather did not, we may imagine, damp Bachiler's spirit, it was not ideal for a new plantation. Arguing from these premises, we may conclude that the actual settle- ment was not made before May or June, 1639.
In closing this article, which it is hoped other genealo- gists will supplement, attention is directed to the need for printing more of the local court and probate records and the records showing conveyances of land. Too much praise cannot be given to the Essex Institute in making available for general search the court records of Essex County and of Old Norfolk County, and the probate rec- ords of Essex County just beginning. It is by these means that our early settlers can best be traced, and the clues therein contained are invaluable.
In England the research of the late Henry F. Waters, Lothrop Withington and J. Henry Lea are familiar to all students of genealogy. Their invaluable genealogical manuscripts have been acquired by the Essex Institute, and are now available for research at its rooms in Salem. Those of us whose researches at Somerset House twenty- five years ago were aided by Mr. Waters, recall with sin- cere affection that genial antiquarian. No genealogist has done so much,-parhaps none will ever do so much,-in identifying the English aucestry of Americans as Henry Fitzgilbert Waters.
At present the War of Nations is attracting every man and every dollar. But when that is over, may it not be hoped that Americans will attack this task with their usual vigor and system ? It would seem possible to raise here a fund large enough to calendar and abstract the probate registers of every English see from which our early settlers may have come. Or is this a mere genealogist's day-dream ?
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