mermaidcamp

daughter of Sarah Hamblin

daughter of Mercy Hazen

son of Martha Mead

son of Abner Morse

son of Daniel Rowland Morse

son of Jason A Morse

son of Ernest Abner Morse

Sarah Crosby (1667 – 1706)

I am the daughter of Richard Arden Morse

Jane Sotheron Born: 4 MAR 1581/82 in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, York County, England Death: 2 MAY 1662 in Rowley, Middlesex, Massachusetts Married: 19 OCT 1600 in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, York County, England

Their Children:Anthony b: 1602 in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor,York County, England Thomas b: 1604 in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor,York County, William b: 1606 in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor,York County, England Simon b: 1608 in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, York Co. England

18 APR 1638 sailed to America on John Of London with a group of Reverend Ezekiel Rogers’ followers. They may have lived with the widow of their son Simon in Cambridge, Massachusetts until she remarried in 1645 — at about that time, Thomas purchased a house in Cambridge. After a few years, he sold his holdings in Cambridge and the couple relocated, for the last time, to Rowley, Massachusetts.Thomas lived to over 85 years of age and died in Rowley in 1661, buried on May 6.Jane died the following year and was buried in Rowley on May 2, 1662

1609 tax records indicate that William Sotheron (father of Jane) was the wealthiest resident of the parish.Thomas’ father died in 1599 and Thomas inherited a hundred-acre farm in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor.Tax records and other documents suggest that the family led a fairly well-to-do life.

Rev Thomas Crosby, 9th Great Grandfather

May 23, 2013 — 2 Comments

Crosby Coat of Arms

My 9th great-grandfather made it across the Atlantic Ocean to arrive in the new world at the age of 8 months, in 1635. He was born in England and his grave can be found today, located in Boston. He graduated from Harvard College and became a minister. There are conflicting reports about his formal ordination, but no doubt that he was employed to teach religion. He also got to trade ammo and alcohol. He made his money selling liquor, powder, and shot. This paints a funny picture if you ask me, but I am prejudiced against much of the founding fathers’ behavior. Thomas was well respected in his time as a preaching ammo and alcohol dealer. I appreciate that he survived so I can be here today. It would have been very easy to die on the voyage from England as an infant, but he had a different destiny.

Thomas Crosby (1635 – 1702)

is my 9th great grandfather

daughter of Thomas Crosby

Sarah Sears (1697 – 1785)

daughter of Sarah Crosby

Sarah Hamblin (1721 – 1814)

daughter of Sarah Sears

daughter of Sarah Hamblin

daughter of Mercy Hazen

son of Martha Mead

son of Abner Morse

son of Daniel Rowland Morse

son of Jason A Morse

son of Ernest Abner Morse

Sarah Perkins (1657 – 1745)

You are the daughter of Richard Arden Morse

Reverend Thomas Crosby was baptized at Holme on February 26, 1635, named after his grandfather. He was brought to New England by his parents on 2 October 1635 (8 months old).

He graduated from Harvard College in 1653. Although never ordained, he was hired in 1655 to preach in the church at Eastham, MA and continued as minister succeeding Reverend John Mayo there until 1670 at a salary of 50 pounds per annum. Reverend Crosby was also engaged in trade and in 1664 was among those who kept for sale “liquor, powder and shot”.

Later, he became a merchant at Harwich, Mass., and while on a business trip to Boston was found dead in bed there, 13 June 1702, aged sixty-seven years. His inventory totalled £1091-16-0 with debts of £717-16-0, leaving a net estate of £374-0-0. His heirs divided his property by agreement, 8 Aug. 1705.Marriage 2 Sarah FITCH b: in Mass.1662Children Thomas CROSBY, Jr. b: 7 APR 1663 Sarah CROSBY b: 24 MAR 1666/67 Joseph CROSBY b: 27 JAN 1668/69 John CROSBY b: 4 DEC 1670 in Eastham, Massachusetts William CROSBY b: 16 MAR 1672/73 Ebenezer CROSBY b: 28 MAR 1675 Anne CROSBY b: 14 APR 1678 Mercy CROSBY b: 14 APR 1678Increase CROSBY b: 14 APR 1678 Eleazer CROSBY b: 31 MAR 1680When Thomas was eleven years of age and his brother Joseph was seven, they removed with their Mother to Braintree, a Village on the south side of Boston, Mass. now Quincy, after her marriage to the Rev. William Tompson.After attending District School, with the assistance of Doctor Tompson, entered Harvard College, graduating in 1653, and was ordained a clergyman. He was minister at Eastham, Mass. from 1655 to 1670. He seems to have been engaged as a religious teacher to carry on the Sabbath Service at a salary of 50 pounds.While at Eastham, he was engaged in a trade. He resided near the burying ground, a place he bought of Jonathan Sparrow in 1665. He removed to Harwich, about 1670, here he was also engaged in a trade. His widow, Sarah, the mother of his 12 children, m. Apr. 28, 1703, John Miller, of Yarmouth. He died in 1702 and has many descendants living in the vicinity of Cape Cod, Mass. He had a half-sister Anna, born in 1648.

In about 1662 he married Sarah Fitch. Their children born in Eastham, MA were: 1. Thomas born April 7, 1663, died May 21, 1731. 2. Simon born July 5, 1665, died 1718 3. Sarah born March 24, 1666-7, married Silas Sears 4. Joseph born January 27,1668-9, died May 30, 1725. 5-6. JOHN (3) born December 4, 1670 and died May 25, 1717 and twin who died February 11, 1670/1 7. William born March 1672-3 8. Ebenezer born March 28, 1675 9-11. Anne, Mercy and Increase born April 14, 1678 (Anne married William (2) Luce, (Henry 1) on July 5,1704) 12. Eleazer born March 31, 1680Later he became a merchant at Harwich, MA and was one of the founders of the church in that town. On a business trip to Bostonhe was found dead in bed there on the 13th or 27th of June 1702, age 67 years. He is buried in the Old Granary Cemetery in Boston, MA. After his death, his widow Sarah married John (2) Miller of Yarmouth on April 8, 1703, son of Reverend John and Lydia Miller.

Dreams of Symptom Exchange

May 22, 2013 — 4 Comments

reflecting

Since returning home after ancestry quest I have tracked my dream life. I think am digesting centuries of action in my nightly dramatic interpretations. My homework assignment to record dreams and notice the archetypes I find in them has not been completed in a very rigorous fashion. During my weekend with Thomas Moore we talked about dreams and did a group discussion about one lady’s dream that she shared with us. My guilt about not doing homework as the rebel archetype dominates the teacher in my chart of origin, came into focus. I fell deeply to sleep that night and did start to notice and record dreams on a regular basis while I was still on the road. I visited homes and graves, museums and city streets where the specific ancestors lived and died. I started to have some strong emotions about history and groups of the dead.

Although Mayflower ancestry is highly valued by some, I am much more excited about those who rebeled against the Pilgrims. The sooner they dissed Plymouth, Salem, and the Pilgrim way of religious fascism the more I liked them. My special pride in my one Wampanoag ancestor makes me feel entitled to some explanations. They will not be forthcoming, and I need to understand that I am the sum total of many warring factions going back in time. While Mary Stuart was burning one ancestor at the stake, another ancestor was defending her in Scotland. This is how life works. We do not just have two crazy parents, we have all of karmic history in our collective inheritance.

I have had a dream now more than once that is symbolic and clear. I enter a big building, box, loft, kind of structure, where I am joined by all kinds of other beings from past and present..maybe future also. The place is intended to heal, but the multiple streams of energy mix and collide inside the space. The beings leave having exchanged symptoms with other people, leaving with new issues, side effects and thoughts. The desire to dump one’s own faults on others who are handy is at the root of this gift exchange gone so bad. Common practice is to blame the dead, or the absent for almost everything, trying to leave with only shining and laudable characteristics. This creates a mighty vortex that fills with neediness and greed once the door to the blame barn has been left ajar. A boomerang of dreadful feelings never fails to be returned to the sender. I am no dream interpretation expert, not even a very faithful recorder in the past. This series of dreams in the warehouse health space is about healing, boundaries, and inevitability. I haves used the flower essence Mexican Hat recently, which I find to be powerful and freaky. It is blooming in my garden in a few places. Under this hat’s influence the connections to others that we wish to ignore are highlighted. This flower essence refers to boundaries and healing, exactly like the dreams. Reflection is imperative to interpret both sides of symptoms, causes, and remedies.

Thomas Howlett, 10th Great Grandfather

May 21, 2013

Howlett Coat of Arms

Thomas Howlett arrived in America on the ship Hopewell in 1630 to live in Boston. He was a carpenter, and had skills as a surveyor. He was active in church and military matters.

Thomas Howlett (1605 – 1678)
is my 10th great grandfather
Thomas Howlett (1638 – 1667)
son of Thomas Howlett
Mary HOWLETT (1664 – 1727)
daughter of Thomas Howlett
John Hazen (1687 – 1772)
son of Mary HOWLETT
Caleb Hazen (1720 – 1777)
son of John Hazen
Mercy Hazen (1747 – 1819)
daughter of Caleb Hazen
Martha Mead (1784 – 1860)
daughter of Mercy Hazen
Abner Morse (1808 – 1838)
son of Martha Mead
Daniel Rowland Morse (1838 – 1910)
son of Abner Morse
Jason A Morse (1862 – 1932)
son of Daniel Rowland Morse
Ernest Abner Morse (1890 – 1965)
son of Jason A Morse
Richard Arden Morse (1920 – 2004)
son of Ernest Abner Morse
Pamela Morse
I am the daughter of Richard Arden Morse

Name	Thomas HOWLETT Sergeant, Ensign
Birth	1605, Assington, Suffolk, England
Death	24 Sep 1677, Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts
Occupation	Carpenter
Father	William HOWLETT (1579-)

Misc. NotesFrom co. Suffolk, England. Removed Ipswich 1633. Deposed 1658, aged 52. Church member 1630.²⁹One of the first settlers in Agawam (Ipswich) 1632/33. Deputy from Ipswich 1635 and Topsfield 1665 and often employed in running lines and locating towns and farms.Ipswich, Massachusetts Deputy in 1635. Ensign of Ipswich Company under Captain Daniel Dennison, 3rd Regiment, Colonel John Endicott 1636.¹⁰²Thomas Howlett was twenty-five years old when he came to New England in 1630 aboard the ship “Hopewell” as part of Governor Winthrop’s Fleet. He was a carpenter by trade, with origins in South Elmham Parish of Suffolk County, East Anglia in England. He first settled in Boston, as did a majority of Winthrop colonists, and became a member of the First Church on August 27, 1630. In the spring of 1633 he married Alice French, daughter of Thomas and Susan (Riddlesdale) French, who apparently had emigrated to New England prior to her parents. She was a member of the First Church and was eventually dismissed on September 10, 1643 to the church in Ipswich as “Our sister Alice French ye wife of Thomas Howlet of Ipswich.”Although Howlett later settled in Topsfield where he spent the latter years of his life, he was one of the nine originals of John Winthrop Jr’s 1633 party settling the Indian village Agawam, which the next year became the town of Ipswich. He was sworn a freeman at Ipswich on March 4, 1633.In 1634 Ipswich granted Howlett, in partnership with John Manning and others, on the neck of land on which the town stood, two acres of meadow and two and a half acres of marsh between the town riger and the lands of William Sergient (probably Sargent) and John Newman. Added to this in 1635 was a house lot in the town, thirty acres of upland and ten of meadow at the head of Chebacco Creek and ten acres north of the town toward the Reedy marsh. In 1637 he purchased forty acres from John Perkins, Sr. His later acquired Topsfield holdings are described in his will.Thomas Howlett’s highest political office came to him as a young man, when, in 1635, he represented Ipswich in the General Court. he served on the Essex County Jury of Trials in 1654, 1657, and 1665 and on the Grand Jury in 1650, 1659, 1666, and 1667 and served as Selectman of Topsfield in 1661.In 1640 he was sergeant of the Ipswich military defense company and later became its ensign. In 1643 he, as Sergeant, and ten other militiamen were voted compensation by the town for their three days acting in defense of the Agawam Indians against their tribal enemies. In 1672 he became a Deacon of the Topsfield Church and his contribution of five pounds to the salary of Rev. Jeremiah Hubbard was the largest of those made.There were eight children of Howlett’s marriage with Alice — Sarah (1633/34-1700), John (1633/34-1674/75), alice (1636-1696), Thomas, Jr. (1637/34-1667), Mary (1641/42-1718), Nathaniel (1646-1658), William (1649/50-1718), and Samuel (1654/55-1719/20). On June 6, 1666, after the death of Alice he married Rebecca Smith, widow of Thomas Smith if Ipswich and Newbury, with his step-son, Thomas Smith, in 1671, choosing him as his guardian.Thomas Howlett died in Topsfield, Essex County on September 24, 1677.Military Was in Pequot War^{32, No. 74, pg. 120, 1920}Spouses

1	Alice FRENCH
Birth	9 Oct 1609
Death	26 Jun 1666, Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts
Christen	9 Apr 1610, Assington (St. Edmund’s), Suffolk, England
Father	Thomas FRENCH (<1584-<1639)
Mother	Susan RIDDLESDALE (<1584-1658)

Misc. NotesProbably emigrated to America with her brother Thomas. Alice was dismissed from the Boston Church to Ipswich 16 Jun 1644.

Marriage

1 Jan 1633/34, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts

Children	Sarah (1633-1700)
	Alice (ca1636-<1696)
	Thomas (1637-1667)
	Mary (1641-1718)
	John (1643-1675)
	Samuel (1645-1719)
	Nathaniel (ca1646-1658)
	William (1649-1718)

2	Rebecca SMITH
Death	before 1 Jan 1634/35
Father	Thomas SMITH
Mother	Alice

I am an Okie

May 21, 2013 — 1 Comment

I was born in Tulsa in 1951, and although I moved to Pennsylvania when I was 4, I visited Oklahoma many times in my childhood. When the musical Oklahoma came out in 1955 I was thrilled and learned the words and music to sing ad infinitum. I was the soundtrack of some of my best years. I identified with my Oklahoma birthplace which was reinforced by frequent visits, and visiting Tulsans at our home in Pittsburgh. My parents hung out and had musical hootenannies with other petroleum engineer friends from Tulsa who had come to PA like my dad, to specialize in fracking for Gulf Oil. They brought much of their Okie lifestyle with them including Woody Guthrie, hickory chips and barbecue.

I went to Tulsa and drove all over the state a few years ago on my first ancestry discovery trip. I did feel very at home, although perhaps not in political alignment with the population. I particularly loved the grapes at the farmers market that reminded me of the grapes my grandpa grew when I was very young. While driving with my uncle to Bartlesville I asked as a joke what we do in case of a twister. He said we jump out of the car and hide in a drainage culvert. I started noticing how infrequently these culverts were there on the side of the road, and started having thoughts of vulnerability. I imagined hustling my fairly nimble but old uncle out of the car and into the ditch to save our lives and I just did not like that idea at all. I made it back and forth across Kansas and Oklahoma without incident, but did find graves and documents from my ancestors who lived through the dust bowl. I respect and admire those Boomer Sooners and pioneer petro peeps who formed the history of the Cherokee Strip and my family tree. I am sad that my fellow Okies are suffering so much natural disaster and destruction in their lives. Although I still feel the pride of being from Oklahoma, I know I could not handle living with the terror of tornadoes in my territory. I have adjusted to wildfires and floods here in Arizona as my natural disasters of choice. I wish the state of my birth a full and speedy recovery.

Rev.-Capt William Perkins, 9th Great Grandfather

May 19, 2013 — 4 Comments

Perkins coat of arms

William Perkins was born in England, educated at Cambridge, and moved to New England in 1632. He served in the military and taught school after arrival. He was a very well educated man.

1. Rev.-Capt. William Perkins, son of William Perkins Merchant Taylor and Catharine Unknown, was
born on 25 Aug 1607, was christened in All Hallows, Bread Street, London, Eng., and died on 21 May 1682 in
Topsfield, MA at age 74.
General Notes: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: immigrants to New England
1620-1633, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995, Three volumes.
From George Walter Chamberlain, History of Weymouth, Boston, 1923.
“Capt. William Perkins, the first schoolmaster of which there is any record, was voted ?10 for six months
schoohng, 10 Mar. 1651 (Weymouth Town Records.) He entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, as a
pensioner at Michaelmas Term, 1625; afterwards immigrated to Christ’s College from which he
graduated, A.B., at lent term, 1627-28.
“He was son of William Perkins, a merchant tailor, of London, and was born 25 Aug. 1607, and came
in the ship William and Francis, leaving London, 7 Mar. 1631-32. This ship arrived at Boston, 5 June,
1632. (Drake’s, The Foumders of New England, 11.) He was made a freeman of the Massachusetts Bay
Colony, 3 Sept. 1634. He married at Roxbury, 30 Aug. 1636, Elizabeth Wootton, and removed to
Weymouth in 1643, where he resided till 1652, when he removed to Gloucester, and in 1655 to
Topsfield. He became the first munister of the latter place. He was deputy from Weymout in 1644 and
Captain there in 1645. He died at Topsfield, 21 May, 1682, aged 75 years.
“The General Court entered the following record on 7 Oct. 1641: ‘Mr. Willi Perkins, for his fathers
50, is granted 400 acres of land.’ (Massachusetts Bay Colony Records, 1:338.) He was to ‘have power to
end small causes at Waymoth,’ 29 May, 1644, and again, 14 May, 1645. (Ibid. 2: 73, 97.) He was a
deputy at the General Court, 29 May, 1644, and was called ‘Lieut. Wm. Perkms’ (Ibid. 66) and ‘Capt.,’ 4
Nov. 1746 (Ibid. 184.).”
——————–
William Perkins, 1607-82, A Study, The Essex Genealogist, vol 3, pp 65-76, May 1983, iss.2

William Perkins (1607 – 1682)

is my 9th great grandfather

daughter of William Perkins

Mercy Bradstreet (1689 – 1725)

daughter of Sarah Perkins

Caleb Hazen (1720 – 1777)

son of Mercy Bradstreet

daughter of Caleb Hazen

daughter of Mercy Hazen

son of Martha Mead

son of Abner Morse

son of Daniel Rowland Morse

son of Jason A Morse

son of Ernest Abner Morse

Annabella Boyd (1449 – 1476)

I am the daughter of Richard Arden Morse

We know from the Cambridge Alumni association that he was a preacher and a teacher:

Adm. at EMMANUEL, 1624. S. of William, merchant tailor, of London. B. there, Aug. 25, 1607. Schools, London and Colchester (Mr Danes). Matric. Michs. 1625. Migrated to Christ’s, Nov. 15, 1626. B.A. 1627-8. Went to New England, 1632. Resided at Roxbury, Mass., adm. a freeman of the Massachusetts Colony, 1634. Moved to Weymouth, Mass., 1643. Sent as deputy to the General Court, 1644; lieutenant, 1644, and captain, 1645, of the local military company; served as schoolmaster and preached occasionally. Removed to Gloucester, Mass., and taught school there, 1651-5. Retired to Topsfield, Mass., 1655. Died there, May 21, 1682. (Peile, I. 378; J. G. Bartlett.)

Faith in Institutions

May 18, 2013 — 6 Comments

: church in Plymouth

: graves in Plymouth

: Pilgrim

: Wampanoag woman

: cannons above church Plymouth

The 40th anniversary of the Watergate investigation is a national watershed moment. Credibility has been destroyed in all American political and religious institutions during those 40 years. The population forced to pay for the corrupt system has lost the belief that government works in their best interests. Religious institutions have been exposed and now have lower status and less respect. When I voted to end the war in Viet Nam the situation was known as “The Generation Gap”, as if this was the first, last ,and only generation so violently opposed to the politics and lifestyle of the previous. I suspect that each generation has a gap of various depth and breadth to be digested by the course of history. After my parents were dead I became interested in my ancestry. This study has shown me the drastic, religious and political beliefs of their ancestors. My father’s side is full of teachers, and my mother’s is full of preachers.

Tracing a spiritual and political timeline of my ancestors has shown me that rebellion was frequent and sometimes drastic. My ancestors rebelled against religious and political institutions by moving to America in the 1600’s. The entire protestant reformation was an act of rejecting an overly powerful Catholic church to become more pure. After crossing the Atlantic for religious freedom my ancestors founded and preserved institutions in the colonies. Other members of my family firmly rejected the Puritan way of life, setting out to live free in new territories rather than submit to the religious fascism of the Pilgrim fathers. The Wampanoag branch of my family tried hard to wipe out the British presence for good during King Philip’s War. I had family members in the military on both sides of the Civil War, when that happened. There may have been a few settled, stationary generations, but when I look at the ethical will of my ancestors they were generally busy rebelling and rejecting institutions as much as they were preserving them. A dynamic historical tension can be found in the cultural traditions of my ancestors. This explains why my parents were so crazy. It was imperative to reject the beliefs they embodied. It probably also explains why my own generation’s traditions and habits need a vigorous review. Generation gaps are forever. Barry Goldwater is fully dead, and only a faint glimmer of the military industrial complex as our worst internal nightmare has been superseded by the much freakier medical pharmaceutical complex. We have a new fall of civilization to manage now.

Robert Boyd, 16th Great Grandfather

May 17, 2013 — 2 Comments

Alnwick Castle

My 16th great grandfather was born into a fancy Scottish family. Politics, diplomacy and treason were part of life in Scotland under King James III:

Robert Boyd (d.c.1470) Lord Boyd, was a Scottish Statesman.

A son of Sir Thomas Boyd (d. 1439), Robert Boyd belonged to an old distinguished family, of which one earlier Sir Robert Boyd, had fought with Sir William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.

Created Lord Boyd in 1454, he was one of the Regents during the minority of King James III, in 1460. He conspired with his brother, Sir Alexander Boyd, and obtained possession of the King’s person in 1466 and was made by Act of Parliament sole Governor of the Realm.

He negotiated the marraige between James and Margaret of Norway in 1469 and secured with it the cession of the Orkney Islands by Norway. He was appointed Great Chamberlain for life, and Lord Justice General in 1467.

Conflict broke out between the King and Boyd family. Robert, and his son Thomas Boyd, 1st Earl of Arran (who was married to Princess Mary), were out of the country involved in diplomatic activities when their regime was overthrown. Robert, 1st Lord Boyd was pronounced guilty of treason and fled firstly to Alnwick, Northumberland. His brother and assistant, Sir Alexander Boyd, was captured and beheaded on November 22, 1469.

Robert 1st Lord Boyd fought in the English service in the French wars, and died in exile.

He married Mariotta, daughter of Sir John Maxwell of Calderwood, and had numerous issue. One of his daughters, Elizabeth, married Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus.

Robert Boyd (1425 – 1470)

is my 16th great grandfather

daughter of Robert Boyd

Robert Lord Gordon (1475 – 1525)

son of Annabella Boyd

Catherine Gordon (1497 – 1537)

daughter of Robert Lord Gordon

Lady Elizabeth Ashton (1524 – 1588)

daughter of Catherine Gordon

Capt Roger Dudley (1535 – 1585)

son of Lady Elizabeth Ashton

Gov Thomas Dudley (1576 – 1653)

son of Capt Roger Dudley

Anne Dudley (1612 – 1672)

daughter of Gov Thomas Dudley

John Bradstreet (1652 – 1718)

son of Anne Dudley

Mercy Bradstreet (1689 – 1725)

daughter of John Bradstreet

Caleb Hazen (1720 – 1777)

son of Mercy Bradstreet

daughter of Caleb Hazen

daughter of Mercy Hazen

son of Martha Mead

son of Abner Morse

son of Daniel Rowland Morse

son of Jason A Morse

son of Ernest Abner Morse