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Bell, Buxton, Crane, Mead, Pierson, Potter, Scofield andSmith
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Abraham Bell b: ca 1588 in Eng d: 7/1644 in Charlestown, MA
For more information on the Bell family, see Descendants of Francis Bell
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Clement
Buxton, Sr. b: ca 1615 in Huntingdonshire, England d: 8/02/1657 in
Stamford, Fairfield Co., CT; about 1647 immigrated to CT; in 1657 an inventory
of his estate was taken
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Jasper Crane b: ca 1599 d: 1681
| From
the History of the City of Newark, NJ, published in 1913 by the Lewis Historical
Publishing Co., NY:
Robert Treat and Jasper Crane went to New Amsterdam to see Governor Peter Stuyvesant regarding a place of settlement as early as 1661. This expedition was thwarted. In 1666,unhappy with the union of the New Haven and Connecticut Colonies, Jasper and his family joined Reverend Abraham Pierson to start "Milford.", a settlement at New-Ark, upon the Passiack River in the Province of New Jersey. He owned "Kingsland Farms" an estate in what is now Belleville, NJ. See http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/cranjasp.htm |
For
more on the Crane family see A
Tribute to Jasper Crane (abt 1605-1681) of New Haven & Newark
and
Some
Descendants of Jasper Crane (abt 1605-1680) of New Haven & Newark
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William
Mead b: ca. 1600 in Lydd,Kent,Eng d: 9/19/1657 in Stamford,Fairfield
Co.,CT. April 1635, William sailed with his brother, John, on Captain Stagg's
ship, Elizabeth, from Lydd, County Kent, England, to the Massachusetts
Bay Colony. They moved to Hempstead, Long Island, then to Wethersfield,
CT, and then to Wethersfield, CT. In 1641, William moved to Stamford, CT.
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Abraham
Pierson, Rev. b: 9/22/1611 Guiseley, Yorkchester, Eng d: 8/19/1678
Newark, New Jersey or Branford, CT.
| From
the History of the City of Newark, NJ, published in 1913 by the Lewis Historical
Publishing Co., NY:
PASTOR ABRAHAM PIERSON 1640 -- the spiritual leader of a company of Puritans that left Lynn, Massachusetts and founded Southampton, Long Island, to organize a church. Southold was also a Puritan organization. 1644 -- Southampton was annexed to Connecticut. This so displeased Pastor Pierson that he removed to the town of Branford in the New Haven Colony. In Branford, Pastor Pierson, with the few followers from Southampton, with the people of Branford and others from the town of Wethersfield, founded the church society, which later was transferred to Newark. This city's original church organization, the First Presbyterian, as it is known today, is therefore about 20 years older than the city itself. See The HISTORY of the CITY of NEWARK, NEW JERSEY If you are interested in more information about this founder, I also recommend Janet Derbyshire's excellent Notes for Abraham PIERSON |
+Abigail
Mitchell b: 4/26/1618 Lincolnshire, Eng. m: ca 1638 MA d: ca 1680 Newark,
NJ
daughter
of Matthew Mitchell and Susannah or Sarah Butterfield (b: 1595 Ovenden,
Yorkshire, Eng d: 1635 m: 4/16/1616 South Ouram, Halifax, York County,
England),
sister
to Susanna Mitchell, Abraham Pierson's second wife.
My
10th-great grandparents!
| "Yale University was founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School in the home of Abraham Pierson, its first rector, in Killingworth, Connecticut." © 2001 Yale University Office of Public Affairs |
+Abigail
Clarke
For
more on this family, see Janet Derbyshire's My
Pierson Line
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John
Potter b: ca 1584 m: ca 1607 in Eng d: 3/02/1658-59 in New Haven CT
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John
Potter was born ca 1580 in Manchester, Lancashire, England, and died
ca 1635 in Eng. + HANNAH ? m. in Eng. Widowed 2x, she sailed on the "Hector"
with son John Potter in 1637
| Notes for WILLIAM POTTER:
William Potter was one of the signers of the original agreement entered
into by the first settlers of New Haven.
From http://www.linkline.com/personal/xymox/roh/potter.htm "Early New Haven records indicate that William's life was a 'good news - bad news' scenario. On the one hand his seating assignments in the church indicate that he progressed in the standing. On the other hand he was frequently fined for offenses ranging from absence at military training, improper care of arms, to failure to submit a timely inventory for taxation. " ...the close of his life ... he appears to have been the victim of a mental disorder..." see http://www.thevine.net/~bryan/scofield.pdf From Gen
Circles:
William Potter b. 1610 was discovered to be perverted and was executed for beastiality at New Haven Colony and executed William Potter's Crime http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sarankin/thorpe/wmpotter_trial.html This William Potter did not have a daughter named Hannah. Hannah Potter was daughter of the William Potter who was b. ca 1608-10, and died 27 Nov. 1684 in Stamford, CT |
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