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Ancestors of Virtuland Richard BAGLEY


      734. John Proctor, born 1595 in London, England; died 11 28 1672 in Salem, MA. He married 735. Martha Harper 01 01 1629/30 in Groton, Suffolk Co., England.

      735. Martha Harper, born Abt. 1607; died 06 13 1659 in Salem, MA.
     
Child of John Proctor and Martha Harper is:
  367 i.   Sarah Proctor, born 1645 in Salem, MA; died 02 08 1705/06 in Salem, MA; married John Dodge 04 10 1659 in Essex, MA.


      752. Richard Brown (Source: Amunsey-Hopkins Genealogy.), born in of Barton Regis, Cnty Gloucester, England.
     
Child of Richard Brown is:
  376 i.   John Brown I, died Aft. 1660; married Margaret Hayward.


      754. Frances Hayward, born in of Bristol, England.
     
Child of Frances Hayward is:
  377 i.   Margaret Hayward, married John Brown I.


      756. George Ingersol, born Abt. 1618 in England; died 1693. He was the son of 1512. Richard Ingersol and 1513. Anne Langley. He married 757. Elizabeth (Ingersol) Abt. 1642 in Salem, MA.

      757. Elizabeth (Ingersol)

More About George Ingersol:
Date born 2: 1618
     
Child of George Ingersol is:
     
Children of George Ingersol and Elizabeth (Ingersol) are:
  404 i.   Joseph Ingersol, born 10 04 1646 in Gloucester, MA.
  378 ii.   John Ingersol, Sr., born 1644 in Salem, MA; married (1) Deborah Gunnison..


      758. Hugh Gunnison
     
Child of Hugh Gunnison is:
  379 i.   Deborah Gunnison, married John Ingersol, Sr..


      760. Robert ELWELL, died 05 18 1683 in Gloucester, Essex, MA. He married 761. Joane (ELWELL).

      761. Joane (ELWELL), born in England; died 03 31 1675 in Gloucester, MA.

Notes for Robert ELWELL:
      I descend from Robert through two of his sons, Samuel and Isaac. I descend through Isaac through two of his great grandchildren (brothers whose grandchildren married cousins). While this makes for less work researching, it does get confusing when trying to figure it all out.
      FTM CD #350-The Complete Book of Emigrants shows a Robert Elwell on the Recovery of London which sailed from Weymouth to New England on March 31, 1633. This fits with the following references which place him in Dorchester, MA in 1634.
      All of the following information and family information given comes from FTM CD 194, MA and ME genealogies, Vol. 1, Elwell, of Gloucester (from Nicholas Davis, 1956) and a bit on the children's spouses from the same CD, Vol. 1, Elwell, of Gloucester (from Charity Haley, 1916).
      Robert is first found in New England in 1634 in the town records of Dorchester, in the Mass. Bay Colony, where Sept. 1 of that year, a Robert Elway was given a grant of land. He received four small grants of land in 1637, including two grants of marsh at Ludlow neck and Mannings Moore. "Before June, 1640, Elwell had sold some of his holdings to John Holland. With Holland, who was a merchant, trading by sea from Maine to Virginia, Elwell wa 'att the Eastward' in 1635 when Mr. Thomas Wannerton threatened to sink his boat, as Holland and Elwell testified at Newtowne (Cambridge) on August 4, 1635."
      No one is sure if Joane came from Dorset with Robert or if he met her here. There is a letter, though, from a Tristram Dolliber from Stoke Abbot, Co. Dorset, to John Balch and William Woodbury of Salem, saying that a legacy had been left to her from a brother in Stoke Abbot. Haley gives Robert's first son's (Samuel) birth as in Dorchester in 1636, but then says Robert was in Mass. in 1634. Davis does not give a location for Samuel's birth, but says it is possible that their daughter Mary, having married in 1654, may have been old enough to have been born in England.
      Robert had moved to Marblehead by the summer of 1639 (at the time it was still part of Salem). "He had a child baptized in Salem church in 1639 and was on the list of Salem church members in 1643. In 1642, however, he had bought from Mr. Milward two acres in Gloucester. The year of his removal to Gloucester is determined by a court record of 1674, which states that Robert Elwell "left town (Marblehead)...twenty-eight years since" (1646), selling his land to Thomas Bowen, to whom he gave a bill of sale on June 12, 1674. In view of this lengthy interval Bowen was probably justified in abusing Elwell 'with reproachful words' in 1648/9." (NOTE: all quotes will be from Davis unless specified.)
      From "Records and Files, etc., V: 348" Davis has: "Elwell was a fisherman and his stages for drying fish are twice mentioned. He was elected selectman of Gloucester in 1649, was appointed by the General Court a 'commissioner to end small causes,' or local justice, in 1651 and was the town's constable in 1657. He subscribed to Mr. Millet's salary in 1658, was one of the committee to erect a new meeting-house in 1664 and protested against allowing a tavern near the church in 1674. He was discharged from training in 1659 but was to pay a bushel of corn to the company each year. He served on a trial jury in 1653 and on a grand jury in 1677."
      The way Davis records Robert's will is very confusing, some quoted, some not. In one spot he says Robert leaves the house he now lives in to his eldest son Samuel and Samuel "was to maintain his father and mother for their lives with food and rayment." But this is his father's will, so he'd be dead. Then later he says that the will left to Samuel, Jr. (his grandson) the house where "his father" - meaning Samuel, Sr.??- now lives. Then supposedly the will says that if "Samuel and his mother disagree" and she wants to live by herself, Samuel needs to leave the house, but support her. He seems to mix up Samuel, Jr. and Sr. here and there. Whether this is how the will reads or it is a product of Davis's interpretation, I do not know.
      Haley gives only one unnamed child as being baptized in Salem on Aug. 28, 1639, Davis says there were two with the following footnote: "These two unnamed children may have been Mary and Samuel, their baptism delayed, for the phrase 'died aged six months' does not appear in the printed Salem Vital Records. It does appear in the "History of Salem," by Sidney Perley, but I suspect that he took it from the article in the "New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 53: 25," which lists only one child baptized August 28, 1639, as "second child" and adds 'd.ae. 6 mos.'"
     
Children of Robert ELWELL and Joane (ELWELL) are:
  424 i.   Isaac ELWELL, born 02 27 1641/42 in (bptz) Salem, MA; died 10 14 1715 in Gloucester, MA; married (1) Mehitable MILLETT Abt. 1666; married (2) Mary Prince Rowe 12 16 1702.
  380 ii.   Samuel ELWELL, born Abt. 1636 in Dorchester, MA; died 11 24 1696 in Gloucester, Essex, MA; married Esther DUTCH 06 07 1658.
  iii.   A Child Elwell, born 08 28 1639 in (bptzd) Salem, MA; died Abt. 02 1639/40 in Salem, MA.
  iv.   John Elwell, born 01 23 1639/40 in (bptzd) Salem, MA; died 1710 in Captured by the Indians; married Jane Durin 10 01 1667.
  v.   Josiah Elwell, born Abt. 1644 in Salem, MA; married Mary Collins 06 15 1666 in Boston, MA.
  vi.   Joseph Elwell, born Abt. 1649; married Mary Dutch 06 22 1669.
  vii.   Sarah Elwell, born 04 20 1651 in Gloucester, Essex, MA; died 04 23 1651 in Gloucester, Essex, MA.
  viii.   Sarah Elwell, born 03 12 1651/52 in Gloucester, Essex, MA; died 08 26 1655 in Gloucester, Essex, MA.
  ix.   A Child Elwell, born 08 28 1639.
  x.   Mary Elwell, married Samuel Dolliver 08 15 1654 in Gloucester, MA.
  xi.   Thomas Elwell, born 11 21 1654 in Gloucester, Essex, MA.
  xii.   Jacob Elwell, born 06 10 1657 in Gloucester, Essex, MA; died 05 21 1658 in Gloucester, Essex, MA.
  xiii.   Richard Elwell, born 04 11 1658 in (bptzd) Salem, MA; died in Died young.


      762. Osmund DUTCH, born Abt. 1584 in Bridport, Dorset Co., England; died 12 1684 in Gloucester, Essex, MA. He married 763. Grace PRATTE 03 20 1628/29.

      763. Grace PRATTE, born Abt. 1616 in Bridport, Dorset Co., England; died 10 10 1694 in Gloucester, Essex, MA.

Notes for Osmund DUTCH:
      The following information, as well as all locations and dates for this family, comes from FTM CD #194 Massachusetts and Maine Genealogies, Vol. 1, Dutch, of Gloucester and Ipswich (from Phoebe Tilton, 1947) and also from a work by the same name by Nicholas Davis, 1956. The information in the two pieces is much the same except the Tilton piece has more to it. In fact the Davis work, in some places, seems to be copied directly from Tilton for several paragraphs at a time. However, Tilton gives Osmund's first wife and distinguishes which children were born to which wife, while Davis doesn't even mention the first wife or children who were born and died in England. He attributes all children to Grace. Therefore, my assumption is that both plagurized, since no quotation marks were used, some other source. Both cite Essex Co., MA probate, deed and court records and Tilton cites Bridport, England registers (Public Record Office, Exchequer, Treasury of, Receipt, vol. 29, fo. 25.). Apparently the registers start in 1600 so no ancestry could be found for Osmund (Davis uses "Osman") and Tilton says the name, Dutch/Douch, was quite common so even though there are Dutches in the area they cannot be directly connected. She gives a possiblity that Robert Dutch (Douch), buried in Bridport May 30, 1606, may be Osmund's father because his first son was named Robert.
      Tilton first gives Osmund and Margaret's marriage as 1619 and then on the next page says it was 1620. On March 1620/21 they brought a suit against Margaret's brother and uncle over property left by her father, Thomas Haywell, left in his will when she was only a year old. Apparently the land was rented and she should have received rental money, but did not. There are more details on this and on Margaret's family which I have not recorded here.
      From Tilton: "In New England Osmund Dutch is first found in Newport, Rhode Island, where he was admitted an inhabitant in March 1638/9. His stay there was short, however, as by July, 1639, he had gone to Cape Ann, formed a partnership in the fishing trade with Thomas Millward of Noodle's Island and made the great decision to send for his family and remain in America permanently. He went to Boston and employed Thomas Lechford, the first lawyer of the colony, to write his wife in Bridport and send her the documents necessary for the disposal of their English property before she should set sail to join him. Dutch could not write, but Lechford undoubtedly set down his spoken words with little change.
      'Good wife, my love remembered to you in the Lord, These are to lett you understand that God be praysed I am well in health heere in this Country at the time of the writing this letter, and so I hope are you in health together with our children. Seing it hath pleased God to bleese me heere in this land since I came last, I thanke God, I have cleared 401. and shall be able to make good provision for to intertaine you & my children, as I hope in the Lord. Therefore I desire you would by all meanes come over to me wth the children by the f[all] or as soone as you can the next spring: To that end and purpose I have hereinclosed sent you an Assignement of the house and therin a deed of gift also of the goods, sealed before our honoured Governor, wherewithall I have intrusted yor kinsman Mr. Thomas Bishop, the haberdasher, whome I Doe intreate to sell the house at as good advantage as he can and such of the goods as are not fitt for transportation, and wth the money to make provision for yor comming, for clothes for yorselfe & the children, & for some refreshments by the way, and for yor passage: Of the goods that you have therewth you sell not any brasse, pewter, bedding nor linnen: but furnish yorselfe wth these as well as you can. And if you want any thing more to come forth, or to make yor better provision, then I shall take order wth my partner Mr. Millard of Noddill's Island, who is my partner in the fishing trade wch we now are setting upon, that he shall deale with Mr. Maurice Tompson, merchant, Dwelling at [blank in London, to send you what money you & Mr. Bishop made of the house & household implements not fitt to bring in the ship. And you are to send Mr. Tompson this inclosed letter and note under Mr. Miller's hand, and he will send you down the money by the carrier. You must take care that by the way you may have some refreshments besides the ships provision for yorselfe and my children; that is, some suger and fine ruske or bisket, and a little barrell of ale to make warme meate, and oatmeale & currants & a little spice, and some fine flower & eggs, & a few chickens wth a henne or two, and alitle butter & honey. If you cannot come by Weymouth, then come by Bristoll wth one Mr. Hazzard to whome I have allready spoken.' *\
      "With the letter went an assignment from Osmund Douch of Bridport, co. Dorset, mariner, to Thomas Bishop of Bridport, haberdasher, of one tenement and garden, lying in the east street in Bridport, ...One would like to have been in East street when Goodwife Dutch received this letter and hurried forth to her cousin, the haberdasher, to have it read amid general excitement. *Lechford's Note Book, Publications of the American Antiquarian Society, VII: 109-118."
      They settled in Gloucester in a place known as Dutch's slough. There are no deeds for the sale but he did mortgage all the property for 50 pounds in 1663. In 1678 he gave his son-in-law, Samuel Elwell, two acres of marsh at Stark Naught Harbor. There was a dispute in 1641 over a raft that Osmund refused to pay for because it wouldn't "swim". He served as selectman in 1650, on a trial jury in 1655 and helped pay the salary of the parson in 1658. In 1662 he was fined for resisting payment of a fine for his neglect of military training.
      His age was very uncertain. According to various papers he was about 60 in 1663, about 50 in 1660, and upward of 100 at his death in 1684. Tilton puts his birth year as 1592 to match the age of his first wife, Margaret. Grace and his son Robert were administrators of his estate and "on March 31, 1685, when they attested the inventory which had been taken by William Vincent and Thomas Prince on December 11, 1684. The estate was valued at only (pounds)83:10 : 0, the principal items being the homestead at 71 (pounds) and five acres at Eastern point, worth 2(pounds)." Grace was extremely poor and petitioned the court to sell land. Tilton, and I, have quoted her petition below (from the Massachusetts Archives, 16: 382:383):
      "The Humble Petition of the Poore distressed widdow Grace Duch of the towne of Gloucester to the honoured Generall Courte now setting at Boston this 21st July 1685
      "Yoer poore humble and distressed petitioner sheweth that wheras it pleased God to take away my deare husband out of this live in December last past with whome I lived above fifty yeeres with whome I Lived very poore in the Later parte of his Life and underwent a great deale of Sorrow and trouble hee being very ancient: by his owne relation above a hundred years of age & was very helpless for several yeeres before hee dyed and but Little wherewith all to mayntayne him and my Selfe but what I laboured for onely sume cattle which wee ware Little the better for and Land which have Layed wast with out fences severall yeeres soe that it have not been any wise beneficiall to us while hee Lived nor to mee since his death and which the honoured county Court holden at Ipswich last March when the inventory of his Estate was regestered was informed of at the county court holden at Salem last June and [written over] made my addresses that there might bee some of the Land Sold for my maintenance in my old age haveinge nothing to helpe my Selfe neither for ffood nor rayment of which I have not [conveniences?] and now am by Gods providance taken sicke and am in very great want which doth make mee humbly crave of this honoured courte to take into yoer serious consideratione and grant mee the favour that there may bee a acre or two Salte marsh sold for my prsent relieufe which is the only thinge that will yield moneywithout which yoer poore petitioner cannot bee supplyed in the tyme of my great distress I should not by the honourd county Courtes above mentioned that they could not grant the sale of any of the Land or else yoer poore petitioner had not made soe bold wth yoer Honours therefore pray pardon on the boldness and grant the humble & needy request and desires of yoer Humble and needy petitioner whoe prayeth for yoer Honours wealfare Grace Duch."
      Her children had all already given her permission to sell the land and the court agreed. She sold two acres on Sept 16, 1685. In 1694, she sold one and a half acres to a grandson and the same to Samuel Elwell. Tilson says that on the deed to Samuel there is an endorsement "stating that she was in great want of clothing, meat, drink and attendance." A deposition by Joseph Gardner said that her daughter Esther and Samuel had "not treated the old woman with proper consideration." Apparently, Grace had lived with them in the 10 years she was widowed. Whether they were themselves destitute I do not know, but my assumption about Gardner's words are that they could have done better by her. Several other of her children lived nearby and one has to wonder why none of them helped. Were they unwilling or unable? Tilton gives more information about further land sales and disputes by Osmund and Grace's children which I have chosen not to include here. While Tilton gives only Oct. 1694 as a death for Grace, Davis says (without reference) that it was the 10th.
      Children's info from both Tilton and Davis. Most matches, but each has a bit the other doesn't.

      An interesting historical note from Tilton: Robert's wife was "in court in 1666 for wearing a silk scarf, but, as she was discharged, it is apparent that her husbnd proved that he was worth more than 100(pounds), which the law required before condoning any extravagance in dress."

  Notes for Grace PRATTE:
      Osmund married Grace three months after Margaret's death. Tilton reports that there was only one Pratt family in the Bridport register from 1600 to 1630 and from that she surmises that Bennett Pratt and Ann Primrose (married May 12, 1601) are probably her parents even though her birth is not recorded. The first child of Bennett listed was John who was baptized Jan 15, 1609. Tilton surmises that Grace was older and just not recorded, which is possible. However, she could also be a niece or cousin to these Pratt's.
      Grace was a midwife and often testified in court. She was listed (Tilton does not say where, but possibly in a deed or court hearing) as being 42 in 1658 and "about fifty" in both 1660 and 1664. Edmond Marshall accused her, "Goody Dutch," of witchcraft in 1653, but he was forced to "make acknowledgment of his sin of defamation in the meeting-houses of Gloucester, Ipswich and Salem. Forty years later Grace would have been in deadly danger." In the Elwell section of his work, Davis reports that her daughter, Esther Elwell, was jailed for witchcraft in 1692. See notes on Esther.
     
Children of Osmund DUTCH and Grace PRATTE are:
  381 i.   Esther DUTCH, born Abt. 1639; died 09 06 1721 in Gloucester, Essex, MA; married Samuel ELWELL 06 07 1658.
  ii.   Grace Dutch, born 12 06 1629 in (bptzd) Bridport, Dorset, England; died in Died young in Bridport.
  iii.   William Dutch, died 02 1631/32 in Bridport, Dorset Co., England.
  More About William Dutch:
Burial: 02 09 1631/32, Bridport, Dorset Co., England

  iv.   Susanna Dutch
  More About Susanna Dutch:
Burial: 06 11 1633, Bridport, Dorset Co., England

  v.   William Dutch, born 09 21 1635 in (bptzd) Bridport, Dorset, England.
  More About William Dutch:
Burial: 07 16 1636, Bridport, Dorset Co., England

  vi.   Alice Dutch, died Bef. 05 04 1704 in Salem, MA; married John Newman, John Dane, Jeremiah Meacham.
  vii.   Grace Dutch, died Aft. 1694; married William Hodgkins; born in of Ipswich, Essex, MA; died 1693.
  viii.   Samuel Dutch, born Abt. 1645; died Abt. 1695; married Susanna.
  ix.   Hezekiah Dutch, born 03 29 1647 in Gloucester, Essex, MA; died Bef. 1730.
  x.   Mary Dutch, married Joseph Elwell 06 22 1669; born Abt. 1649.


      768. John ALLEN
     
Child of John ALLEN is:
  384 i.   Robert ALLEN, married Hannah WHITE.



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