Part 6.4 A Family History 1000 Years in the Making - With links to King William the Conqueror
The Ancestors of Henry Irvin DeGraw
From Very Early Times
A Family History 1000 Years in the Making
Overview
Researching one's family history is challenging and a huge learning experience. The whole project has to be taken with an open mind.
Forget what may be discovered about the ancestors, good or bad, but take on board the incredible things they did, in order for us to live our lives as we do today.
Hardship and heartaches they had a plenty. Battles fought and not all won. Death and sickness was accepted, before any cures were found.
Progress over the centuries has been enormous, and we are part of another type of progress.
But in reality, just how many of us would swap places with our ancestors for one moment?
In the DeGraw ancestors are Kings and Queens, Dukes and Duchesses, Princes and Princesses, from all over Europe and England. Knights and the Nobility, Priests and Merchants, Inventors and Explorers, Lord Mayors and Alderman, we have them all.
Illegitimate children feature heavily in our ancestry. They fought in Wars and Battles, all to secure lands, and powerful positions. They married so many times. So many times that our grandparents became our grand uncles and aunts, their children married their step-siblings, or half siblings.
And that went on for hundreds of years. Between the covers of the book of the lives of the DeGraw Ancestors, are the most remarkable stories.
When one's ancestors can be traced as far back as when King William The Conqueror set forth across the English Channel and decided he would invade the island to the north, and be crowned King of England, he brought with him all his tried and trusty men.
So many of them feature in the lives of the American DeGraw family.
Consider though, what impact it would have on your perception of your heritage, if you found that not only were you related to those different Knight and Counts, known as William's trusty men, but of the King himself?
Modern times have introduced the marvel of being able to trace an ancestor by a comparison of DNA. So many people are choosing this new method to work out their family lineage, but it is not worth the cost of the test, unless you have a fully documented family tree, and have an understanding of the different people who are your family.
Through this new medium, an amazing co-incidence occurred, between Randy DeGraw and myself. We matched in our DNA. That match, and the work involved in finding our common ancestor was very extensive. The link is through a lady by the name of Mary Bond.
But not only is she Mary Bond, she is a direct descendent of King William, making all the siblings in the lineage of Henry DeGraw, also direct descendants of the most famous King in History.
It has been a rewarding experience to find and follow the lineages of the DeGraw Family.
This story is an Introduction to those Ancestors who some who lived a Thousand Years ago, and others who changed our lives from being French Citizens, to becoming English.
What they forgot to change though was their DNA.
The winds of time rustle the branches of the Family Trees of our ancestors. The members of those families can best be described as the fruits of the trees. Just as those fruits are often cross-pollinated by the bees, the lives of our ancestors also often crossed, resulting in mixed relationships.
The original of this story was done in the days prior to DNA testing being made available for those of us interested in our early ancestors. I was one of those many people who was rather sceptical about being able to find ancestors through DNA. The $99 kit was not nearly as complex as the ones used in scientific work.
But something changed. For someone who thought that this was nothing more than a clever and successful marketing campaign, and would never have done the test, except that my husband bought it for me for Christmas, it was a revelation. I had spent a long time searching the old fashioned way, finding my way around different sources, and compiling my records into my Ancestry database.
It became a very extensive family tree, but one which made it so much easier to follow the lives of ancestors, especially when photos were added. They became real people.
So what changed my mindset? My DNA results proved I was 61% Western Europe. How on earth could that be possible? But then it all jelled. I had proven the family relationships back to before the conquest of England, and had a paper trail which could be followed. All these ancestors, from Western Europe intermarried between themselves until around the 1600's. Suddenly it made sense.
But the convincing proof of the whole thing, came from finding that my American brother in law and I shared DNA 6.3 generations ago. We needed to find the answer to this revelation. Who was responsible?
King Bernard of Italy and Queen Cunegonde di Toulouse (34th Great grandparents) had several children, and through those children some of our grandparents were also our great aunts and uncles! Perhaps within a Royal Family there are limited opportunities for marriage to those of equal standing.
The Ancestors who make our family have come from so many different parts of Europe
From King and Queens, to Knights and Saints. Their mix is so varied.
In compiling this research, I have made sure that the relationships between these ancestors has been checked. However sometime the relevant information is difficult to determine, as people were often known under a variety of different names. This is particularly so when the styling of a name a thousand years ago was relative to the place where they lived.
Members of the different Royal families were known as the Count of Vermandois or the Duke of Normandy. Often as in the case of Guilliame 1 who was named Longsword or Rolla from Norway, known as The Pirate King! It was common for both men and women to have multiple husbands. Why were the women known as Concubines? Scorned in society, yet it was an accepted practice for the men to sire children with anyone who took their fancy!
So this is not a "Who do you think you are?" story, but has become now a "This is definitely who you are descended from" story. Who would ever have thought it possible?
Direct lineage to King
William the Conqueror
From this point the DeGraw
lineage then has its beginnings with the Invaders with King William.
Henrietta Southworth was the
daughter of
14GU Sir Thomas Sutton and Ann
Touchet.
Ann Touchet was the daughter of
15GU Sor James Touchet and Margaret de Ros
Sir James Touchet 5th Baron
Audley was the son of
16GU Sir John 4th Baron Audley and Elizabeth Stafford
Elizabeth Stafford was the
daughter of
17GU Humphrey Stafford and Elizabeth
Grenville.
16 GU Sir John Tuchet was the son
of
17GU
Sir John Tuchet and Joan de Audley
This lineage mirrors my own for
14 generations from King William, and all the others prior to his and
Matilda. Quite amazing
www.edurnford.blogspot.com Is
my Durnford family website, where each of these people has been traced.
2 Jun 1840
Delaware County, Ohio
These excerpts are
copies of Edward and Esther Knapp's family bible which Esther used as part of
her claim for the widow's share of Edward's Revolutionary War Pension. She
testified the records were maintained in a Hymnal Book, but it had become so
tattered and worn so she transcribed the info to the New Testament Bible. This
information was copied from Edward Knapp's pension records in the
"Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files,
1800-1900". The image number is located in the lower right corner each
page. It should be noted Esther's maiden name was SKELL and at the time of this
application she was using the name of her second husband David SKEEL. JerrySmith251 originally shared
this on 16 Nov 2012
The Baker Linage
3GU
Clarissa Baker was the daughter of Timothy Baker 1749 - 1816 and
Prudence Brooks 1750 - 1816. She was
born in Ira, Vermont. Her birth record
indicates her mother was Abigail.
4GU Prudence
was the daughter of James Brooks 1723 - 1801 and Elizabeth Bathrick 1724 -
1793.
James
Brooks was the son of
5GU
Joseph Brooks 1670 - 1746 and Rebecca Blodgett 1689 - 1768
Joseph
Brooks was the son of
6GU
Joshua Brooks 1636 - 1698 and Hannah Mason 1636 - 1696
Joshua
Brooks was the son of Ezekeil Richardson and Susanna Bradford 1605 - 1681 No
research to confirm Susanna Bradford, but some information on the Bradford
relationship in America follows.
5GU Rebecca Blodgett was the
daughter of
6GU
Thomas Blodgett 1661 - 1740 and Rebecca Todd 1665 - 1750
Rebecca
Todd was the daughter of
7GU
John Todd 1618 0 1689 and Susannah Hunt
1632 - 1710.
The
records for the Todd family were another that took a long time to
establish. They were called
Tidd/Todd/Todde. However, the story of
the Todd Family written in 1906, provided the lineage.The family originated in
Scotland, and lived in Yorkshire. Famous
for the Gordie accent!
Thomas
Blodgett was the son of
7GU
Samuel Blodgett 1633 - 1720 and Ruth Eggleston 1631 - 1703.
Samuel arrived in 1635 at Boston
Samuel
Blodgett was the son of
8GU Thomas Blodgett 1604 - 1642 and
Susannah Thompson 1598 - 1660 They
arrived in 1635 in Massachusetts
Susannah
Thompson was the daughter of
9GU James Thompson 1572 - 1643 and
Elizabeth Skypping 1575 - 1643.
Researchers indicate from Norwich in Norfolk.
Thomas
Blodgett was the son of
9GU
Robert Blodgett 1578 - 1625 and Mary Whitlock 1587 - 1610.
The family lived at Stowmarket Suffolk.
Robert
was the son of
10GU
Robert Blodgett 1543 - 1602 and
Margaret 1544 - 1571
Ruth
Eggleston was baptised in November 1631 in Biddenden Kent and the daughter of
8GU
Stephen Eggleston 1608 died on board the Ship "Castle" bound for
America 1634 and Elizabeth Bennett 1602 - 1681.
9GU
Elizabeth Bennett was the daughter of Johannis Bennett of Lambley
Nottinghamshire. She arrived in America
in 1648.
Stephen
was the son of
9GU
Stephen EGUleston 1582 - 1624
Biddenden Kent and Sarah Haffenden 1588 - 1689
Stephen
was the son of
10GU Stephen Eggleston 1552 - 1605
Biddenden Kent and Johanne Swyfte 1560 - 1588.
Her father was Richard Swyfte,
Various reports are available on the Swyfte family. They married in 1575, in Smarden Kent, and
the marriage details follow. This
Stephen was a clothier.
Stephen
Eggleston was the son of
11GU
William Iggleden 1510 - 1557 and
Lettice Stacy 1522 - 1625. His father is
possibly Robert.
The
name also has a variety of spelling, as indicated on the will of Stephen died
1605.
Sir Edward Swift of Rotherham
became a Member of Parliament.
Commr. sewers, Yorks. (W. Riding) 1605-d.
The Swift family’s fortune was founded by a Rotherham mercer, who died in 1561; his son secured a grant of arms in the following year. Swift’s father, ‘a great swordsman and an elegant speaker’ known as ‘Cavalier Swift’ at the Elizabethan Court, inherited a substantial estate in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, and served as sheriff of Yorkshire in 1599.
He and his eldest son were both knighted by James on his progress south in 1603, ‘with many others ... of much less worth’. Swift had no connection with Thirsk, where his father-in-law, lord president Sheffield, doubtless interceded to secure his return. The only evidence of his participation in any of the sessions was a nomination to the committee for (Sir) John Hotham’s* jointure bill (25 Jan. 1606).
By 1614 Swift had deserted his wife and was living in hiding at Great Yarmouth, allegedly as the result of harsh financial treatment by his father, who had remarried: his identity was only discovered upon his suicide in 1614. Administration was granted to one of his creditors in the following year. His half-brother, Barnham Swift, married a daughter of a Scottish courtier and was granted an Irish peerage in 1628; the male line of the family ended with his death in 1635.
The Todd Family
REV. JOHN EDWARDS TODD, NO. 571
THE TODD FAMILY IN AMERICA OR THE DESCENDANTS OF CHRISTOPHER TODD
1037-1919 BEING AN EFFORT TO GIVE AN ACCOUNT, AS FULLY AS POSSIBLE OF HIS DESCENDANTS.
COMPILED BY JOHN EDWARDS TODD, D. D.
EDITED BY GEORGE IRU TODD
NORTHAMPTON, MASS. PRESS OF GAZETTE PRINTING CO.
Some years ago when I began to feel that I would like to learn who my ancestor's were farther back than my grrandfather, I made some inquiries among my relatives as to what they knew concerning them. The best I could do was to learn my great-grandfathers name, beyond which was oblivion. Consequently, it was about two years before I was able to learn my line of descent and trace to my immigrant ancestor. At that time, little did I dream that eventually I should voluntarily assume the
responsibility of editing a genealogy of the Todd Family, but as I worked into the matter, deeper and yet deeper, I could not learn of but just one person who had ever attempted to collect a record of the descendants of Christopher Todd as a whole, and he had recently died in the harness, leaving his data unpublished. I then negotiated with his heirs and soon thereafter, all the material that he had been years in collecting, came into my possession.
Since then I have attempted to complete more of the branches to the present time.
The result is now soon to be placed befoi'e the Todd Family for their inspection and perusual. My principle reason for this action is to preserve from absolute destruction the data which has been years in preparing and with such infinite labor and zeal.
However, the task has not been wholly without its compensations, as I have become somewhat acquainted with many people, who, otherwise I never should have known, and have become personally acquainted with a number of them. I have had many willing assistants who have given me valuable help and information concerning their particular branches of the family, and with such I shall always retain very pleasant memories. On the other hand, there are those who have not been enough interested in their ancestry to furnish me with information which was in their possession.
Unfortunately, these are the very ones whose records will appear the most incomplete, which has given me much keen disappointment and it necessarily follows that those who have sent me the required information and have answered my inquiries, will appear much nearer complete and to date. It has been my ambition to complete every branch which has living descendants, but alas, I have failed.
The foundation to this work was begun many years ago by the late Rev. John E. Todd formerly of New Haven, Conn., who did a vast amount of work in collecting the records, especially of the earlier generations contained herein. It is impossible to specify all to whom I am indebted for assistance rendered me in my part of completing this work. To all these, I wish to express my thanks, and that I appreciate all they have done for me.
I do not claim this work to be perfect ; no doubt there are many errors, which, perhaps came about largely through transmission.
When such imperfections are discovered I would be pleased to have the corrections or additions sent to me, as sooner or later a supplement may be required.
This work is planned so that each generation is finished before the next one begins. Each person is numbered in rotation beginning with Christopher as 1. His oldest child is numbered 2, the next 3 and the last one is 7 which completes the first generation. Each person who has descendants, an * is placed before their number thus, *2, which denotes that the number will appear in the succeeding generation in its proper place, the number then appearing in the middle of the page, otherwise, all that is known of that particular person will be found when their number first appears.
George Iru Todd.
Northampton, Mass.
January 1, 1920.
INTRODUCTION
Tod is the Scotch word for fox. In Scotland and the north of England a todhunter is a fox hunter. The name Todd is an altered form of the Scotch word tod. The shorter form of the name is therefore the original and correct one. The doubling of the final letter is a corruption. But at the present time everywhere unless in Scotland and perhaps even there too, the corrupt form is the more common one.
The first to assume the word as a surname was perhaps a keen sportsman. He followed the hounds, or may have been a fox hunter. Tod is a name occurring in the writings of Wycliffe, also Todman. We have other forms of the name, Todt or Todte and Todde, also the compounds Todcastle, Todenham and Todlebru.
A good story is told of a market gardener of Middlesex, who was brought before a magistrate for not having printed on his cart his name, his place of residence and the words "taxed cart." In defence, the gardener said that he had complied with the law in every particular, as the Court could judge from inspection of his cart, upon which was the following legend :
"A Most Odd Act on a Taxed Cart."
This looked startling, not to say contumacious, until it was explained that it could be rendered :
"Amos Todd, Acton, a Taxed Cart."
Among those who have helped to make the name illustrious, to mention but a few, one of the best known Irish scholars of his day — he was bom in 1805 — was James Henthorn Todd, consulted both by statesmen and theologians. Another was Henry John Todd who was editor of Milton ; he also edited Johnson's dictionary, and added several thousand words.
Robert Bentley Todd, the early part of the nineteenth century, was a physician of high repute, and his statue may be seen at King's College Hospital. David Todd had a world-wide reputation as an astronomer. Isaac Todhunter was a mathematician, whose treatises had an enormous circulation.
Shall we also mention Mary Evans Todd, the "Mary" of Coleridge's verse? She was not a Todd by birth, to be sure, but the wife of one and the mother of another — the mother of Elliott D' Arcy Todd, of Yorkshire, which for centuries has been the stronghold, so to speak, of the Todds. Can there be any connection between the name of the family and the town in the West Riding of Yorkshire — Todmorden ? The town also dates back to Edward III, and even prior to his reign.
In "Women of the Revolution" we read of Sarah, Adam Todd's wife. Their home was in Cliff Street, New York. When the British took possession of the city she left it, but quickly returned when she heard that a servant which she had left in charge of her house was passing herself off as the mistress and was taking boarders.
She remained through the war, and with her daughters, was a ministering angel to prisoners and the wounded in hospitals. One of the latter had taken up its quarters in the Quaker Meeting House which was next door north of her house, in Queen street, and was used as a prison hospital during the war, and she often went in to cook for and nurse the sick. Her house was called "rebel headquarters" by the British, and an officer said of her and her daughters : "They are the d — Rebels in New York."
The men too played their part and played it well. Timothy Todd, of Vermont, a surgeon, was at the battle of Bennington and a member of the Governor's council, and several other of the Todd descendants of Christopher served during the war. Thomas Todd, of Virginia, was also a member of the Continental army ; his son Charles was one of the four aides who rendered Gen. Harrison most important services during his campaign and was afterward minister to Russia.
The Kentucky branch of Todd family also has its war record. There were Lieut. Levi and his brother, Col. John, good and brave soldiers. Levi was the father of Robert, the father of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln.
All the Todds have originally come from Scotland; but they have come by different roads, and some of them have been a long time on the way. For centuries, driven by persecution or lured by the hope of advantage, they have been with their fellow-countrymen, descending into England, or crossing the straits into the North of Ireland.
For three or four hundred years the parish registers in all the counties of England have contained many records of Todds. An ancient Yorkshire register records the marriage of Richard Tod and Mary Wod. This is poetic and beautiful. In such a family it must have been natural for the boys, when first learning to walk, to toddle, and for the girls, when old and fat, to waddle.
With the practical union of Scotland and England under James I, the mutual political prejudices of the two countries began to abate. With the reformation in England and later the spread of independency and Presbyterianism their religious prejudices also disappeared.
And the Scotch in England were mingled everywhere with the English. Consequently the two peoples became thoroughly amalgamated. The Todds in England have long since become thoroughly English and have lost the last trace of their Scottish heredity. With the Scotch in Ireland, or the Scotch-Irish as they are commonly but improperly called, the case is very different. There the Scotch have been segregated from the Irish, in a few Northern Counties; they have been strong advocates of William of Orange, and the protestant succession, while the Irish have been loyal to the Stuarts, so long as there
were any to be loyal to, and since that to home-rule, or anything rather than the established government, and the Irish have been bigoted Roman Catholics, while the Scotch have been not less bigoted Presbyterians. From all this has developed a fierce antagonism, which has kept the races apart, and has manifested itself wherever even in foreign countries, Orangemen and Irishmen have
"foregathered." These Todds, therefore, have no Irish blood, but are as purely Scotch as the people of Scotland itself.
Of the nine distinct and so far as known wholly unconnected families of Todds in this country, three have come from Scotland direct, namely, the New York Todds, the SufReld, Connecticut Tods and (probably) the Philadelphia Tods ; three have come from the North of Ireland, Viz., the Maryland Todds, the New Hampshire Todds, and the Pennsylvania Todds ; and three have come from England, Viz., the Massachusetts Todds, the New Haven, Connecticut Todds and the Virginia Todds. Of these last three, the first two came from the republican or Puritan party, and the third from the royalist or Church of England party. Of all the Todds in this countiy the Virginians were at first highest in social rank.
The arms of the Todds, or of such as were authorized to bear them were, with trifling variations, three fox heads in red, in a shield, with a fox sitting, or running away with a goose, for a crest, and the motto, "Opertet Vivere" — "One must live" (even if he has to steal for it.)
It must be admitted that the Todds have been better than their motto; but it is not pretended that the Todds in this country have any right, or wish, to make use of these "childish things," which the manhood of the world has put away.
With a single exception the Todds have all come from the Highlands of Scotland.
The original name of the Irish Todds was O'Shauagh, which is Irish for fox. In consequence of an early English Parliament, which compelled the Irish to assume English names, the family changed its name, the Leinster branch taking the name Fox and the northern, Todd, or Wolfson, corrupted into Wilson. It appears from this that a portion of the Irish Todds are of Irish origin. All other Todds are Scotch.
They have come to this country by three different channels. First there are the Scotch Todds, who have come directly from Scotland. In the latter part of the first half of the eighteenth century, probably between 1730 and 1740, Adam Todd landed in New York City, coming direct from Scotland,
and still wearing the kilt and the tartan. He was twice married. He had one daughter, Margaret, by the first wife, and three children, Adam, James, and Sarah, by the second. Few of the descendants bearing the family name, attained to distinction. But the female descendants became the wives and mothers of eminent men. Sarah, the youngest daughter of Adam, married John Jacob Astor, a native of Waldorf Duchy of Baden, who eventually acquired an immense fortune by trading in furs in the Northwest, and by the rise in value of property in New York. In 1848 he founded the Astor Library in New York at an expense of $400,000.
He also established still more useful institutions in his native city. John Jacob and Sarah (Todd) Astor had several children, of whom William B., known to be one of the richest men of his time, and who doubled the Astor Library, and Col. John Jacob junior, are the best known. Magdalen, the eldest daughter married first Gov. Bentzen, a native of Denmark, and Gov. of the island of Santa Cruz, and after his death Rev. John Bristed, of Dorchester, England.
Their son, Charles Astor Bristed graduated at Trinity College Cambridge, England, and wrote a book about the union of life which has been much read, and became a literary man, writing under the nome de plume of "Carl Benson." It is sufficient to show that the Todd family came to be intimately connected with most of the prominent families of New York, that their records contain the names of Astor, Brevort, Springier, Sedgwick, Dodge, Vanderbilt, Aspinwall, Piatt, Kane, Roosevelt, and others.
Next there are the Irish Todds, a part of whom came originally from Scotland. In the early part of the last century Robert Todd came from County Antrim, and settled on wild lands in the interior of Pennsylvania, whence his descendants spread into New Jersey, Carolina, Georgia and Kentucky.
It was into a branch of this Irish stock that President Abraham Lincoln married, Mrs. Lincoln being the great-granddaughter of Robert Todd, who was a native of Pennsylvania and a general in the Revolutionary Army.
Robert and Andrew Todd came over first from Ireland. Robert the Grandfather or Great-grandfather of Mary Todd, afterward Mrs. Lincoln, settled in Pennsylvania and Andrew at Todds Point below Cambridge, Md. Michael Todd and Levin Todd came over a few years later and settled near Andrew. Hugh Todd may have been their father. Their grandfather's name was John Todd.
James Todd and his wife were born in Scotland, but emigrated to the North of Ireland where all their children were born. These children were Alexander, Samuel, Elizabeth, and Andrew. Alexander and Samuel were both of them graduates of the university of Edinburgh.
Samuel was never married. The others were all married in Ireland. James the husband and father died in Ireland. In 1720 his widow and all her children and children-in-law arrived in Londonderry, N. H., and settled there. The youngest son, Andrew distinguished himself in the French wars of 1744 and 1755, in which he served as Colonel of the provincial forces, and was one of the marked men of the time. The descendants of this family seem to have confined themselves for the most part to the
region in which they first settled.
Lastly there are the English Todds, who have come to this country by way of England, where they have been known at least, so far back as the eleventh century. Upon their entrance into England some of the Todds seem to have retained their Scotch name, while others exchanged it for its English equivalent.
Hence the Todds and the Foxes belong to the same stock, and have always borne the same arms. The Todds seem to have settled first in Yorkshire where the name is common to this day.
There was a John Todde, who was high sheriff of York in 1390; and also Sir William Tod, who was high sheriff in 1477, and Lord mayor ten years later. Till within comparatively recent times there was two inscriptions in preservation on the walls of York, which the antiquary Leland thus describes —
"Under a piece of indifferent sculpture of a senator in his robes and a woman kneeling by him, 'A. Dom. M. CCCC. L.XXXVII. Sir William Tod mair jou-ates some tyme was schyriffe did this cost himself.' Near this on a table under the city's arks, is — "A Domini M. CCCC.
L. XXXVII. Sir William Tod, Knight L Mayre this wal was mayde in his dayes Lx yerds."
Among the more eminent of the Yorkshire Todds was Rev. Robert Todd, a dissenting minister of Leeds. Among other notices of him it is chronicled that during the Great Plague "he preached repeatedly and impressively on Hezekiah's boil."
There was also a Sir William Todd, who was High Sheriff of York under Charles I, in 1625.
There are in this country three distinct families of Yorkshire Todds. One of these sprung from Thomas
Todd, who settled in Virginia, whence his descendants have spread into Kentucky.
In 1664 Thomas Todd came from England and settled in Ware Parish, Gloucester Co., Va., bringing with him his wife and one or two children born in England. He was a ship master and died at sea in 1676. His wife was Ann Gorsuch, dau, of Rev. John Gorsuch, Rector of Walkham, Hertfordshire and his wife Anne, dau. of Sir William Lovelace.
Their children were Thomas, Christopher, James, William, Philip, Joanna, Anne, Frances and
Isabella. One of the descendants of Capt. Thomas Todd, the eldest child, was the distinguished jurist, Thomas Todd of Kentucky, who after filling the highest judicial offices in that State was appointed by President Jefferson one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and held that office from 1807 till his death in 1824. His abilities and character won him the personal friendship of Chief Justice Marshall, and of the foremost men in the country. His eldest son, Charles
Scott Todd was graduated at William and Mary College, practiced law in Frankfort, Ky. In the war of 1812 he was appointed Secretary of State of Kentucky by Gov. Madison ; he was sent on a confidential mission to Colombia by the United States Government in 1820, and was appointed
minister to Russia by President Tyler in 1841. Judge Todd's second wife was Lucy Payne sister of Mrs. President Madison; but when he married her she was the widow of George Steptoe Washington, youngest son (by the fourth of his five wives,) of Samuel Washington, brother of George Washington first President of the United States. Isabella the youngest child of Capt. Thomas Todd the immigrant, married John Madison the son of a wealthy planter of the same name, who was the original immigrant of that family.
They had two sons, Ambrose and John, the latter was the father of the Right Rev. James Madison, President of William and Mary College, and first Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Virginia, and of his brother George Madison, Gov. of Kentucky. Ambrose married Frances Taylor sister of Zackary Taylor, who was the grandfather of Gen. Zackery Taylor, the thirteenth President of the United States. The wife of President Madison was Dorothea (commonly called Dolly) Payne, though when he married her she was the widow of John Todd, a promising and wealthy young lawyer in Philadelphia. She and her sister Lucy (Judge Todd's second wife) were daughters of John Payne and Mary Coles, a first cousin of Patrick Henry, and grand-daughter of John Payne who came to Va. early in the eighteenth century, and Anna Fleming, grand-daughter of Sir Thomas Fleming, one of the early settlers of Jamestown, Va.
Their family belonged to the society of Friends, and their mother and Grandmother had been as celebrated as they were for beauty and charming manners. The Jefferson and Madison families were very intimate, and as President Jefferson was a widower, and his daughters were married and had duties elsewhere, he was accustomed to ask Mrs. Madison to preside at the social functions in the White House. For President Jefferson's two terms, and for her husbands two terms, therefore, in
other words for sixteen years she was virtually mistress of the presidential mansion. During her long tenure of this elevated position she became widely known and universally admired and beloved. In some respects she was the most remarkable woman which this country has produced.
The second family sprung from John Todd, who came to Charleston, Massachusetts, in 1637, and two
years later settled in Rowley, Mass. His antecedents are not yet discovered except that he came from Yorkshire. (The Family of deGraw)
The Rowley Todds are found in Massachusetts, Vermont and the West and have furnished a general in the Revolutionary army and many men of ability and distinction.
The third family sprung from Christopher Todd, who was one of the original settlers of the New Haven colony, in Connecticut, in 1639. He came from Pontefract, West Riding, Yorkshire.
The register of the old parish church in Pontefract is still in existence and contains the records of the marriage of William Todd and Isabel Rogerson, the grandparents, and William Todd and Katharine Ward, the parents of Christopher.
William Todd the youngest "was killed in sort of a duel," when his son Christopher was but an infant, and Christopher was but about twenty years old when with his wife, Grace Middlebrook, he joined the New Haven colony. Here he became a farmer, miller and baker. He seems to have been at first one of the less prominent of the colonists. He signed the "General Agreement" modestly with his mark and quietly took his allotment in the "Yorkshire quarter" and when the "meeting-house" was "dignified" he had his place assigned him, not in one of the honorable "middle seates," but in the "third side seate" though "sister Tod" — for they worshipped in those days "the men apart and their wives apart" — was a little more fortunate. It was not long, however, before Christopher Todd began to make another kind of mark. He bought a grist-mill, which the town had built where Whitney's gun factory now stands; and it was long known as "Todd's mill." The records of the "General Court" show that he
was continually adding to his real estate. He even rose to the dignity of a "viewer of fences."
In 1650 he bought an acre and a half on Elm Street in the more aristocratic "London quarter" on a part of which St. Thomas's Church now stands, and occupied a house on the eastern part of it.
This ground, known in after-times as "the Blue Meeting house Lot" remained in the family fox-
nearly a hundred years.
Christopher Todd died at a good old age, leaving a will which is a model for sense and wisdom. He had three sons and three daughters of whom the whole earth around and in distant states has been overspread.
Of the daughters, Mercy, the eldest, married John Bassett, and became the mother of a large family ; Grace, the second, seems to have been mentally deficient, and though married, was soon, deserted by her husband and was specially provided for in her father's will, as "incompetent to take care of herself or any estate."
Mary, the youngest daughter, was married to Isaac Turner, son of Captain Nathaniel Turner, "the right arm of the New Haven colony," who afterward perished in the "Phantom Ship." Her husband's sister Mary was the wife of Thomas Yale, the mother of Elihu Yale, the founder of Yale College.
Of the sons, each became the head of a large branch of the family. The descendants of Samuel, the second son, have been the most numerous. One of these was Rev. Samuel Todd, the impulsive but able first pastor of the North Parish in Waterbury, Connecticut.
Another was Rev. Abraham Todd, who was for forty years pastor of the West Church at Horseneck, Greenwich, Connecticut, which stood on the hill afterward made famous by Putman's desperate ride. Many amusing stories are told of this simple minded but respected preacher —
"Although a general favourite throughout the whole of his ministry he may have had some, though few
enemies. It is related that during his ministry many of his hearers were outspoken men, even expressing themselves publicly during worship, as to the merits or demerits of the doctrines advanced. Among this class of persons was one Palmer, who was present during the service on an occasion when an Indian missionary preached to Mr. Todd's congregation. He preached fluently, and we presume well, and so great an impression did his logic make upon Palmer, that at the close of the sermon he exclaimed with great vehemence "Lets swap Todd and buy the Injin; he does a good deal the best." Mr. Todd himself was present on the occasion. The length of his pastorate, however, is a sufficient guarantee of his ability, as well as his excellence of character.
Another preacher of this line of descent, whose worth is established by similar evidence, was Rev. Ambrose S. Todd, D. D., rector for nearly forty years of St. James Church, in Stamford, Conn. His father before him had been a clergyman of the Episcopal Church, and he inherited more than the abilities and succeeded to more than the reputation and influence of his father. In all branches of the family in every generation the Todds have been inclined to the ministry and have risen to eminence in the clerical profession more than in any other, unless the medical.
To the line of Samuel Todd, however, belong George Todd, late Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio, with his son, ex-governor of the same State; also Edward Todd, of New York city, who has won fame, not by his pen but by his pens.
The descendants of Michael, the youngest son of Christopher Todd, have also been very numerous. Like the descendants of the other sons, they have been mostly farmers.
One of them, S. Edwards Todd, is well known in our own day as a writer on agriculture. Another descendant of this line, in a former generation was Doctor Eli Todd, of Farmington, Conn., who was one of the founders of the Retreat for the Insane at Hartford, Ct. and acquired celebrity in connection with it. Ex-governor James E. English is also a descendant of a female branch of this line.
The descendants of John, the eldest son of Christopher Todd, continued for a time to till the paternal acres at New Haven ; but at length one of his grandsons named Jonathan feeling the hereditary ministerial impulse, was graduated at Yale College in 1732 and ordained in the fall of the following year when scarcely twenty years old "having that part of the Church of Christ committed unto me which is in the East Guilford" now Madison, Conn. His pastorate continued for more than half a
century.
He was naturally accompanied in his migration from New Haven by his younger and only surviving brother, Timothy, who settled near him and became a merchant and magistrate, the father of a large family and the grandfather of Rev. John E. Todd who compiled the major part of this genealogy. He too was a graduate of Yale.
Extracts from the register of the Parish Church, Pontefract, West Riding, Yorkshire, England.
1592, Sept., the 24 dai Wyll Todd and Isabell Rogerson were married.
1593, June the 29 dai Wyll ye sone of Wyll Todd was baptized.
1594, October the 18 dai John ye sone of Wyll Todd was baptized.
1593, Julie the 22 dai John Warde and Isabell Bruster were married.
1596, November ye 29 dai, Katherine ye daughter of John Ward was baptized.
1614, May the 22 dai Willm Todde and Katherine Ward were married.
1614, October the 15 day Mary the daughter of Wm. Todde was baptized.
1617, January the 12th day Xrofor the sone of Willm Todde was baptized.
1617, May the 8th day Willm Todd was buried.
EXTRACTS FROM AN OLD FAMILY RECORD
Mr. William Todd was born in Pontefract, in York, in Great Britain and had two children, Christopher and Mary, and was killed in a sort of duel.
Mr. Michael Middlebrook lived at Hold Mills, who had five children, Matthew, Michael, Mary, Hester and Grace. Mr. Edward Wigglesworth married Hester, and the above named Christopher Todd married Grace.
From these documents it appears that William Todd and Isabel Rogerson married Sept. 24, 1592, had two sons, William, who was baptized June 29th 1593, and John, who was baptized Oct. 18, 1594.
William Todd 2nd, married Katherine Ward May 22, 1614, and had two children, Mary, baptized Oct. 14th 1614, and Christopher, baptized Jan. 12, 1617, and was killed in York, England, in a duel less than four months after the birth of his son Christopher, having been buried May 8th 1617.
John Todd who was baptized Oct. 18, 1594, was born at Pontefract, York County, England, and married in 1620, Alice Clayton of Bradford, York County, England, where their son John was born and who married in 1643, Susanna Hunt who was born at Bradford, County of York, in 1621. He emigrated to America, settling first in Charlestown, Mass. and shortly afterwards went to Rowley, Mass. where he became a prominent citizen. He was elected as a representative from that town to the
General Court. They had the following children, viz. :
John, b. 1655 ; left descendants.
Catharine, b. 1658.
Thomas, b. 1665.
Timothy, b. 1668.
Samuel, b. 1670.
James, b. 1672.
It is thought probable that William Todd who married Isabel Rogerson was a son of Reginald Todd, freeman of York, 1605, and a collateral descendant of Sir William Todd, Lord Mayor of York, 1487.
Christopher married Grace Middlebrook, daughter of Michael Middlebrook of Hold Mills, Yorkshire — her sister Hester being married to Mr. Edward Wigglesworth.
As the recoi'd was taken down from the lips of an old woman, a long time ago, it is possible that "Hold Mills" was "Old Mills." The title "Mr." indicates superior position, as also does the story of a duel.
Christopher Todd and Edward Wigglesworth and their wives came to this country together and settled in New Haven Colony. They were not among the first settlers, 1638, but were among the first additions. Their names appear several times in the records of the Colony.
Edward Wigglesworth was a cripple and a shoemaker.
The somewhat famous poet was one of his descendants and the family have been somewhat distinguished.
Christopher Todd became a planter, miller and baker. He owned several tracts of ground. His mill
was where the gun factory now stands at Whitneyville. In 1650 he bought the house built by Jasper Crane, where St. Thomas' Church now stands on Elm Street, and the place remained in the family for a hundred years. He seems to have been a bright, level headed business man, but without much education. His will, signed with his mark, is still to be seen among the New Haven County
records.
Christopher Todd', was born at Pontefract, West Riding, Yoi'kshire, England, baptized Jan. 12, 1617, died April 23, 1686, at New Haven, Conn., married Grace, daughter of Michael Middlebrook, of "Hold Mills" Yorkshire, England.
He was barely twenty years of age, when he and his young bride sailed with Mr. Davenports company on the Hector, probably sometime in April 1637. Two months was perhaps, the average time consumed in sailing from London to Boston in vessels of that day. The Hector arrived in Boston on the 26th of June 1637. The immigrants received a warmer welcome than ordinary. The eminence of "the famous Mr. Davenport" and the opulence of the merchants who accompanied him, gave to this
company, in the estimation of the colonists, an unusual value. Most of the company remained in Boston or the vicinity during the following winter, many of them having found employment suitable to their several vocations. Though somewhat scattered, some finding lodgings and employment in one place and some in another, they were still an organized company.
On the 30th of March, the leader of the company and most of the followers embarked at Boston, having formally decided to fix their plantation at "Quinnipiac" on long Island Sound. After a tedious voyage of "about a fortnight they arrived at their desired port."
It was perhaps, a peculiarity of New Haven, that cellars were used for temporary habitations. They were, as the name suggests, partially underground and perhaps, in most cases on a hill side. On the Sabbath, they worshipped under an oak tree, near the landing place:
and Mr. Davenport, in a sermon on Matthew IV, I, "insisted on the temptation of the wilderness, made such observations, and gave such directions and exhortations, as were pei'tinent to the present condition of his hearers."
The English, soon after their arrival at Quinnipiac, observed a day of extraordinary humiliation, when they formed a social compact, mutually pi'omising "that as in matters that contain the gathering and ordering of a church, so likewise, in all public offices, which concern civil order, as choice of magistrates, and officers making and repealing of laws, dividing allotments of inheritance, and all things of a like nature," they would all of them be ordered by those rules which the scripture holds forth. For more than a year, they had no other civil or ecclesiastical organization for the transaction of business and, if we may judge of that year by the years that followed, there were penalties inflicted on evil-doers; but if any individuals were authorized to act as magistrates, the record of their appointment has not been discovered.
The plantation covenant, like the compact signed in the cabin of the Mayflower, was a provisional arrangement of men, who finding themselves beyond the actual jurisdiction of any earthly government, attempted to govern themselves according to the law of God. The elective franchise was limited to church members.
At first, Christopher Todd seems to have been one of the less prominent of the colonists. He signed the "General Agreement" modestly, with his mark and quietly took his allotment in the "Yorkshire Quarter," and when the meeting house was "dignified," he had his place assigned him, not in one of the honourable "Middle seats," but in "the third seate on the side," though "Sister Tod" — for they worshipped in those days, "the men apart and their wives apart" — was a little more fortunate, had
one of the more honourable "Middle seates." It was not long however, before Christopher Todd began to make another kind of mark.
He bought a grist mill, which was the first mill erected by the town of New Haven, "at the falls over the trap dyke at the east end of Mill Rock, two miles from the centre of the town." This was at first, hired and then bought of the town, before the year 1686. This mill stood on or near where Whitney's Gun factory now stands and was long known as Todd's mill, and after 1798 passed into the possession of Eli Whitney, who erected there, the first establishment in America for manufacturing fire arms.
The records of the "General Court," show that he was "continually adding to his real estate." He even
rose to the dignity of a "Viewer of fences."
In 1650, he bought of Jasper Crane, an acre and a half in the "London Quarter" with the buildings thereon. There he passed the remaining years of his life. This lot, which was on Elm street, between Church and Orange streets remained in the possession of he and his descendants for nearly a hundred years. It was later known as the "Blue Meeting house Lot," on account of the interior of the building, which the "New Lights" erected upon it, being decorated in that colour. St. Thomas's Church now
stands on a part of it.
Mr. Todd was a farmer, miller and baker and acquired considerable property, some of his land being remote from his residence.
He lived to be a little over sixty-nine years of age, having died in April 1686, leaving a will which is a model for sense and wisdom, and may be seen in the Probate records at New Haven, Ct.
He had three sons and three daughters, the descendants of whom the whole country around and in distant states, has been overspread. Of the sons, John, the eldest and his descendants for a long time continued to till the paternal acres at New Haven. Samuel, the second son succeeded his father in the grist-mill.
His descendants have been the most numerous. Michael, the third son also had a large family and many descendants many of whom have been farmers. Mercy, the eldest daughter married John Bassett and became the mother of a large family. Grace, the second daughter seems to have been mentally deficient, and though she married Richard Mattock, was soon deserted by him, and was
especially provided for in her father's will as being "incompetent to take care of her self or any estate."
Mary, the youngest daughter was married to Isaac, son of Capt. Nathaniel Turner.
Children :
*2. John, bapt. Dec. 2, 1642.
*3. Samuel, bapt. April 20, 1645
*4. Mercy, bapt. Sept. 16, 1647.
5. Grace, bapt. Dec. 15, 1650, married Mar. 2, 1668-69, Richard Mattock. When about thirteen years of age she was called before the court and sentenced to be "whipt for some improprieties of conduct."
She seems to have been mentally unsound. Soon after her marriage she was deserted by her husband. Her father, in his will, provided for her as one being "incompetent to take care of herself or any estate."
*6. Michael, b. June 15, 1653.
*7. Mary, b. Feb. 18, 1655.
Lord Mayor's of
York
Election of Lord Mayor Took place
in London on the Feast of St Simon and St Jude, Oct. 28th and went, the day
following, to Westminster to be sworn before the Judges. If he should decline
the honour he is mulcted of a fine of £100. The election day was afterwards
changed to Michaelmas Day in 1752.
In York the election day was on
Jan. 15th and on Feb. 3rd the Lord Mayor (elect) entered upon his duties. York
Directory, pg 67.
The dignity of the office has
been jealously guarded in times past. In 1486 the Sheriff of London was fined
50 for kneeling in too close proximity to the Lord Mayor in St Paul's
Cathedral. In the 14th century it was the custom for the Mace to be carried
before the Mayor of Hull wherever he went about the town, for neglect of which
he had to pay a fine of 40/-. (Gent History of Hull).
No one carrying on the business
of Innkeeper was allowed to hold the office of Mayor of Hull neither was a
Butcher eligible. In York the former was ineligible but in London a joiner
enjoyed the distinguished honour in 1238. From 1400 to 1500 nearly all the
Mayors in the City were merchants with the exception of a dyer, a grocer and a
goldsmith. The last named was one of a wealthy class of tradesmen. In the 16th
century the choice is more varied comprising goldsmiths, a glass painter, a
carver, tanners, drapers and an innkeeper. In the 17th century it would appear
that all class distinction had been abolished as lawyers and butchers, an
architect and a toyman, a hosier and glover enjoyed the privilege of being Lord
Mayor and from 1760 to 1770 the apothecaries monopolised the civic honour.
It was customary for the Lord
Mayor of London to attend divine worship officially on Xmas Day, the Epiphany
and Purification, proceeded by the Dragon Whifflers (pipes), swordsmen,
musicians, councillors, mace bearer and the City Waits. (Customs in Cathedrals
by Mackenzie & Waters, pg 88. [Walcott Mackenzie, E.C.]). A similar custom
was observed at York.
Costume of Lord Mayor This varied
at different periods as the fashion changed. In the more ancient time he would
wear a suit of armour and over it his cloak of velvet. In a note to
Shakespeare's Plays by Knight, Vol 2, the costume is described as a cloak of
crimson velvet with a girdle about his middle, a baldrick (a belt) of gold
about his neck trailing down behind him and on his head a green velvet hat,
furred.
In a description of the Lord
Mayor's procession he is described as wearing a gown of scarlet and on his left
shoulder a hood of black velvet and a rich collar of gold or SS about his neck.
Horner, Year Book. Nov.
Thomas Gent, the York historian,
says that on the 15th Jan., the election of the Lord Mayor, he wears a scarlet
gown lined with fur.
On his election it was customary
to provide wine for to drink his health. Twelve gallons of red and white wine
for the Lord Mayor and Aldermen and six gallons for the commoners.
1487 Lord Mayor William Todde
Merchant.
Free 1462. Chamberlain 1471. George Kirke
Sheriff
1476/7. Alderman 1481. Robert Johnson
Lord
Mayor 1487. MP 1488.
Son
of William and Agnes Todd. (York Wills, Vol 4)
Sixty
yards in length of the City Walls were restored at the cost of Sir William
Todd. This is recorded in two places by an inscription on the Walls; one place
near Fishergate Bar. [Sir Thomas Widdrington's] Analecta, pg 161.
Under
a piece of indifferent sculpture of a Senator in his robes and a woman kneeling
by him:
A
Dom. MCCCCLXXXVII Sir William Todd, Mair jou-ates some Tyme was Schyriffe did
this Cost himselfe.
Near
this, on a table under the City's Arms is: A Domini MCCCCLXXXVII Sir William
Tod, Knight L.... Mayre this Wal was mayde in his Dayes lx Yerdys. Drake
[History and Antiquities of the City of York (1785)] Vol 2, pg 250.
"In
memory of which he hath a little image set up for him in the said wall, sitting
in his formalities with another man kneeling by him and over his head are these
words: LX yeards in length and underneath his image. Ano Domini MCCCCLXXXVII.
William Todd, Lord Mair, Robert Johnson and George Kirke, Schyriffes, did this
Coste hymselfe. Torr All Saints Pavement.
Refusing
to take certain oaths when he was elected Alderman in 1481, he resigned the
office, but in 1486 he was again elected and made Lord Mayor, in which year he
repaired part of the City Walls. He was made a member of the Merchants Company,
as also his wife, in 1465 and served as a Constable in 1471, 1472, 1473 and
Master in 1477/8. York Wills, Vol 4.
He
was married three times, 1st to Agnes, 2nd to Margaret, widow of Thomas
Eckilsell of Scarborough, she died in 1483, and 3rd to Elizabeth Eland of Hull
who survived him. His death took place in 1502 and he was buried in All Saints
Church, Pavement, in Our Lady's Quire. Torr [Antiquities of York] pg 64. Gent
says St Crux. This inscription on the stone slab: William Todd, quondam vic.
hujus civitatis, et Agnes uxor sua qui quidem Willielmus obiit ---die--14-- et
dict Agnes obiit ult. die Augusti 1472, quorum animabus. Amen. Drake History
& Antiquities of York (1785), Vol 3, pg 162.
[See
Newspaper cuttings, York Herald, 27/7/1923, extracts from Corporation records
1486/88 on pages 649a, 651, 662, large copy].
Lambert
Symnell's Rebellion. 1487.
The first notice I was given by
Master Thomas Kendall appearing before William Todd, Maier, Sir Thomas Rither,
Sheriff of the Shire, Thomas Aspar, Deputy Recorder, Richard York, John Leng,
John Newton, William Chymney, Aldermen; Thomas Catoure, William Taite, Michael
White, Richard Hardras, William Barker and Nicholas Vicars, Common Councillors.
Thomas Wrangwish, John Ferriby,
Nicholas Lancaster, Robert
Hancock,
John Harper, John Gilyot
Vide Memoirs of the County &
City of York, pg 23.
John Hastings was Sergeant at
Mace. An appeal had been made to the King to have the City Walls made
defensible and the City supplied with better armaments, only four Serpentynes
in the Castle.
City Records, Yorkshire Herald
27/2/1923.
Mansion House are some cups known
as the Ward Pottery, inscribed with the name Ward, which were specially used on
this occasion.
Previous to the Mansion House
being built Civic receptions to Royal personages and other notabilities were
held at the private residence of the Lord Mayor, several of which still remain
showing that even Kings were entertained
in what may be now considered humble dwellings.
Marriages Between the years 1652
and 1657 marriages were legally made before the Lord Mayor and some of the
Aldermen in the Church of St Michael le Belfrey. These marriages were legalised
by the passing of an Act of Parliament and that no marriage otherwise should be
legal, the banns being published three times, either in the Church or in the
public market place. Marsden, History of the Late Puritans.
It has been the custom, for many
years, to present (on the Mayor's election day) to the new Lady Mayoress, a
symbol of office which is called "The Staff of Honour". The old Staff
having become decayed, a new one, made of ebony of the finest Indian wood and
tipped with silver, was presented to the Corporation by Alderman Towne in 1726.
This staff is said to have been taken in battle when borne before an Indian
Emperor by his mareschal. Davies Walks through the City of York, pg 49.
Lambert Simnel (c. 1477 – c. 1525) was a
pretender to the throne of England. His claim to be the Earl
of Warwick in
1487 threatened the newly established reign of King Henry VII (reigned 1485–1509). Simnel
became the figurehead of a Yorkist rebellion organised by John
de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln.
The rebellion was crushed in 1487. Simnel was pardoned and was thereafter
employed by the Royal household as a scullion, and, later, as a falconer.
York is one of the nicest towns
in England. The Town Hall and the
centre. It is a walled City, with a
Castle perched high above, as was the rules that King William introduced to
protect the Invadors from Invasion, once again.
Francis Miles Kendall4, born 1612 in Norfolk, England; died 31 May 1708 in Woburn, Massachusetts.He was the son of 1536. John Kendall and 1537. Margaret Elizabeth Sacherell.He married 769. Mary Tidd 24 Dec 1644 in Woburn, Massachusetts.
769.Mary Tidd4, born 23 Nov 1620 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England; died 1705 in Woburn, Massachusetts.She was the daughter of 1538. Sgt. John Tidd and 1539. Margaret Greenleaf.
Notes for Francis Miles Kendall:
The KENDALL family, which is very old in England, derives its name from the town of Kendall on the Kent River in Westmoreland County; among the best known of its early representatives was John KENDALL, Sheriff of Nottingham, who was killed at the Battle of Bosworth 1485, while fighting in the army of Richard III. Branches of the family are found in many parts of England and America.
JOHN KENDALL, ancestor of the New England family, was living in Cambridgeshire, England, in 1646, and d. there in 1660.
I. FRANCIS, b. circa 1620, of whom later. (this terminology means that he is profiled later in this manuscript.)
II. Thomas, emigrated to Reading, Massachusetts, where he was one of the most influential of the early settlers; a Deacon of the church and for many years a Selectman; his only son d. an infant, but, through his eight daughters, he has a large posterity.
FRANCIS KENDALL, b. in England, circa 1620; came to America and was living at Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1640; he emigrated under the name of MILES in order, it is said, to conceal his intentions from his family. At Charlestown he signed the town orders for the new town of Woburn and was one of its first and most prominent inhabitants, serving for eighteen years on the Board of Selectmen and on various town Committees. He owned and operated a mill on one of the streams at Woburn and is described by Sewell, as “a gentleman of great respectability and influence in the place of his residence.” In a strict Puritan community, he had the courage to differ slightly in faith from the majority for which he was duly fined. He m. 24th December, 1644; Mary, dau. of Sergt. John TIDD, the first man in Woburn to bear a military title. Francis KENDALL d. in 1708, at the age of 88. His wife d. in 1705 (from Savage)
Francis emigrated to New England before 1640. He used the alias, “Miles Kendall”. It has been said that he came with his brother, Thomas, and used the alias so his parents would not know he intended to emigrate. [In 1615 there was a Miles Kendall who was Governor of Bermuda. He and Francis were related and this may be why the name Miles suGUested itself to Francis].
In 1640, Francis was living at Charlestown MA. He signed the town orders for the new town of Woburn and was one of its first inhabitants. He owned and operated a mill at Woburn and was described as "a gentleman of great respectability and influence". However, in this strict Puritan environment, he was prosecuted along with 12 other Woburn citizens for differing from the Faith. He was charged with withdrawing from the worship of the Woburn Church and attending the services of the Anabaptists.
Francis was a selectman of Woburn for 18 years at different time. He was fined sixpence for "being nere an hour to [too] late” at a selectmen's meeting in 1674. In 1676 was chosen on committee to see that neighbours kept good order in their houses. In 1676, he was paid 10 shillings for shooting a wolf.
He died in September 1708 at Woburn at about age 88. In his will he left ½ of his corn mill to his son, John and 1/4 shares each to his other two son, John and Samuel. An interesting account in a book by Ruth Lincoln Kaye, says that a characteristic of the Francis Kendall family is that a child is occasionally born with extra fingers or toes and that this trait has survived to the present generations.
"There is a well authenticated tradition in the Kendall family that Francis Kendall was stolen from a Ralph Miles in England and brought to this country." When he married Mary Tidd, he was listed as Francis Kendall alias Miles. More About Francis Miles Kendall:
Immigration: 1640
The Karner Family
Elizabeth Carner was the daughter of
4GU Francis Carner 1805 - 1841 and Sythene Knapp 1807 - 1841
Francis Carner was the son of
5GU Felix Carner 171 - 1821 and Elizabeth Goldberg 1772 - 1855
Felix Carner was the son of
6GU Nicholas Carner and Mary Amway Welch 1740 - 1778
Nicholas Carner was the son of
7GU Andrew Karner 1702 - 1761 and Anna Elizabeth Stuber 1703 - 1762
Anna Elizabeth Stuber was the daughter of
7GU Johann Stuber 1672 and Anna Catharina Mann 1678.
The family arrived in America in 1710. They were also Mennonite German migrants.
Johann Jacob was the son of
8GU Daniel Stuber who was born in 1624 at Aetingen, Muhledorf, Solothurn, Switzerland and his wife Barbel Ysch 1625 - 1672.
They were married c1647. Johann Jacob was born 1672 in Solothurn in Switzerland
Johann Stuber and Anna Catharina Mann were married on 9th November 1694 at the Evangelisch Church, in Herren-Sulzbach in Rheinland, Prussia.
Herren-Sulzbach is a clump village set against a mountain slope, and it has old buildings. The church with its Romanesque building elements stands in the hollow at the village’s upper end. The graveyard lies on the right side of the road that links the village with the Grumbach valley and Bundesstraße 270. There is altogether very little in the way of new building.
The village suffered particularly badly during the Thirty Years' War under occupation by foreign troops, and the Plague struck the village, too. Great harm was done by the Spanish troops who passed through the Glan valley in May 1632. In the autumn of that same year, the Plague claimed 38 lives within one month. In schoolteacher Schwarz’s family alone, six people died: his wife and five of their children. Only slowly did the village recover from these losses after the war, only to be stricken with further setbacks in French King Louis XIV’s wars of conquest. Until the time of the French Revolution, Herren-Sulzbach remained under the lordship of the Counts of Grumbach
In 1556, the Reformation was introduced. Although the Order remained in existence, even in the Protestant church, they could no longer hold their ground in Sulzbach. In the Waldgravial-Rhinegravial House of Grumbach, the Protestant parish of Herren-Sulzbach was founded that same year.
8GU Anna Catharina Mann was the
daughter of Jeremias Mann c 1640 and his wife Appolonia Laumann 1645.
Appolonia had married firstly Petter Kayser 1639 - 1676 and had a son
Valtin Kayser, 1670 - 1693. He died in
1693.
9GU Appolina
was the daughter of Hanss Lauman and his wife Barbara.
Jeremias and Appolonia Mann had
at least three daughters
Anna Catharina, Anne Barbara Mann
and Maria Catherine Mann.
In these records is the baptism
and wedding of Johanne Stuber and Anna Catharina Mann. Consider the age of these records, and the
events over time, which makes them rather special.
The German Palatines
The German Palatines were early 18th century emigrants from the Middle Rhine region of the Holy Roman Empire, including a minority from the Palatinate which gave its name to the entire group.
Towards the end of the 17th century and into the 18th, the wealthy region was repeatedly invaded by French troops, which resulted in continuous military requisitions, widespread devastation and famine. The "Poor Palatines" were some 13,000 Germans who migrated to England between May and November 1709. Their arrival in England, and the inability of the British Government to integrate them, caused a highly politicized debate over the merits of immigration. The English tried to settle them in England, Ireland and the Colonies.
The Palatine settlements did not prove to be viable in the long term, except for those settled in County Limerick and County Wexford in Ireland and in the colony of New York in British North America. In Ireland, less than 200 families remained after the original settlement in 1709. Nevertheless, they maintained their distinctive culture until well into the nineteenth century and Palatine surnames are now diffused across the country The largest concentration of descendants of Irish Palatine residents lives around Rathkeale, Co Limerick.
The English transported nearly 3,000 German Palatines in ten ships to New York in 1710. Many of them were first assigned to work camps along the Hudson River to work off their passage. Close to 850 families settled in the Hudson River Valley, primarily in what are now Germantown and Saugerties, New York. In 1723 100 heads of families from the work camps were the first Europeans to acquire land west of Little Falls, New York, in present-day Herkimer County on both the north and south sides along the Mohawk River. Later additional Palatine Germans settled along the Mohawk River for several miles, founding towns such as Palatine Bridge, and in the Schoharie Valley.
The first boats packed with refugees began arriving in early May 1709. The first 900 people were given housing, food and supplies by a number of wealthy Englishmen. The immigrants were called "Poor Palatines": "poor" in reference to their pitiful and impoverished state upon arrival in England, and "Palatines" since many of them came from lands controlled by the Elector Palatine. The majority came from regions outside the Palatinate and, against the wishes of their respective rulers, they fled by the thousands down the Rhine River to the Dutch city of Rotterdam, whence the majority embarked for London. Throughout the summer, ships unloaded thousands of refugees, and almost immediately their numbers overwhelmed the initial attempts to provide for them.
By summer, most of the Poor Palatines were settled in Army tents in the fields of Blackheath and Camberwell. A Committee dedicated to coordinating their settlement and dispersal sought ideas for their employment. This proved difficult, as the Poor Palatines were unlike previous migrant groups — skilled, middle-class, religious exiles such as the Huguenots or the Dutch in the 16th century — but rather unskilled rural laborers, neither sufficiently educated nor healthy enough for most types of employment.
For the Whigs, who controlled Parliament, these immigrants provided an opportunity to increase Britain’s workforce. Only two months before the German influx, Parliament had enacted the Foreign Protestants Naturalization Act 1708, whereby foreign Protestants could pay a small fee to become naturalized. The rationale was the belief that an increased population created more wealth, and that Britain’s prosperity could increase with the accommodation of certain foreigners. Britain had already benefited from French Huguenot refugees, as well as the Dutch (or “Flemish”) exiles, who helped revolutionize the English textile industry.
Similarly, in an effort to increase the sympathy and support for these expatriates, many Whig tracts and pamphlets described the Palatines as “refugees of conscience” and victims of Catholic oppression and intolerance. Louis XIV of France had become infamous for the persecution of Protestants within his realm. The invasion and destruction of the Rhineland region by his forces was considered by many in Britain as a sign that the Palatines were likewise objects of his religious tyranny. With royal support, the Whigs formulated a charity brief to raise money for the “Poor Distressed Palatines”, who had grown too numerous to be supported by the Crown alone.
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