1416. Lieutenant Samuel Loomis
Fought in King Phillip's War
"One Branch of the Booth Family showing the lines of Connection with One Hundred Massachusetts Bay Colonists", by Charles Edwin Booth, page 211. Lieut. Samuel Loomis was of Farmington, but moved to Windsor 1660, and to Westfield about 1674. Freeman, 1669. Before a member of any of the early Massachusetts settlements could exercise the right of suffrage, or hold any public office, he must be made a Freeman, either by the General Court of the Quarterly Courts. The Quarterly Courts date from 1643, when the province was divided into counties or shires. A man desiring to become a Freeman was required to produce evidence that he was a respectable member of some Congregational Church. The Act requiring this was passed by the General Court May 18, 1631 and was called forth by the first appearance of dissent in religious opinions. The wording of the Oath was slightly changed in 1634; copies of both forms may be found in the Mass. Records, Vol, 1, pages 353, 354. Having taken this solemn oath, the freeman was eligible to vote for the officers and magistrates of the Colony, and to have a voice and vote in the town meeting, and freemen only were thus privileged in the early days. For thirty years this restriction of the franchise to church members who had taken the freeman's oath, was rigorously enforced. Neither wealth, nor family name, nor distinguished public service could gain the right of voting if one was not a member in good standing of some church. The only instance in which this rule was relaxed was in 1641 and 1643, when the three Piscataqua towns were annexed; Exeter had been settled by Rev. John Wheelwright and his Antinomian friends who had been driven from Boston, and Portsmouth and Dover were founded by the Episcopal friends of Gorges and Mason. The inhabitants of these towns were very reluctant to submit to union with the Massachusetts Colony, and the Boston authorities were of necessity obliged to relax in their case the policy of insisting on religious conformity as a test of citizenship. But after Charles II succeeded to the throne the dissatisfaction of the large body of disfranchised settlers became strong enough to exert a powerful political influence, and, in 1662, the advisers of the king wrote to the colonists that it was desired "that all freeholders of competent estate, not vicious in conversation, and orthodox in religion (though of different persuasion in church government), may have their votes in the election of all officers, civil and military. In 1664 the Commissioners for New England were appointed, and one of their chief duties was to remove the restriction from the franchise, and secure greater freedom in matters of religion. On the arrival of the Commissioners, the members of the General Court, seeing that they could not longer evade the issue, passed a substitute law, which ostensibly allowed individuals to become Freemen who could obtain certificates of their being correct in doctrine and conduct from a clergyman acquainted with them. This concession, however, was so hedged by exacting conditions, that the change from the old to the new law did not practically give the relief that was sought. (Mass. Records, Vol 4, part 2, pp 117, 117, 164 to 168.) But the sturdy Puritan legislators had been obliged to admit the thin end of the wedge, and from then on the separation of church and state went on space. Ten or fifteen years later the population of Massachusetts had nearly reached 30,000, one sixth of whom were in Boston. Among them were may who had come to the colony for commercial reasons and who had little sympathy with the objects for which it was founded; others were Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and Baptists, who were allowed no opportunity for public worship. Widely as these people differed from a religious point of view, they were brought together in a common aim to secure wider political privileges, and here was where Toryism in New England had its birth. It grew out of the fact that only one grown man out of five was allowed to vote or hold office. This party was now large and influential enough to keep the matter constantly agitated and by the time the new charter went in force in 1692, the Freeman, as a political factor, had entirely disappeared (New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 3, pp. 41, 89, 187, 239, 345). Additional References (1) Mass. Records, Vol. 5, pp. 6, 170. (2) Bodges's Soldiers of King Philip's War, page 475. (3) Westfield Town Records, B., M. & D., Vol. 1, page 24, "Lieut. Samuel Loomis died October 1st, 1689." He was made Ensign, May 27, 1674, and Lieutenant later.
1418. Israel Dewey
1. Birth info from extract of Dewey genealogy (in my records), and from
"The Descendants of John Drake of Windsor" by Frank Gay (1933), and"The
Family of Henry Wolcott" by Chandler Wolcott (1912).
2. Marriage info from extract of Dewey Genealogy (in my records), andfrom
"The Descendants of John Drake of Windsor" by Frank Gay (1933), and"The
Family of Henry Wolcott" by Chandler Wolcott (1912).
3. Death info from extract of Dewey Genealogy (in my records), and from
"The Descendants of John Drake of Windsor" by Frank Gay (1933), and"The
Family of Henry Wolcott" by Chandler Wolcott (1912).Israel Dewey had land at Westfield, Massachusetts, but he returned toWindsor in 1673.
Source: http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=keef1&id=I3693
1419. Abigail Drake
1. Birth info from extract of Dewey genealogy (in my records), and from
"The Descendants of John Drake of Windsor, Ct" by Frank Gay (1933),and "The
Family of Henry Wolcott" by Chandler Wolcott (1912).
2. Marriage info from extract of Dewey genealogy (in my records), and"The
Family of Henry Wolcott" by Chandler Wolcott (1912).
3. Death info from extract of Dewey genealogy (in my records), and "The
Family of Henry Wolcott" by Chandler Wolcott (1912).
Any Errors or conflicts are inevitable, due to the
many sources compiled here. Most are contributed by
family members personal recolections plus findings at
the Salt Lake Family History Library Records. All
contacts are welcome. The Early Bryants data end in
Florida,but are alleged to emanate from Georgia .The
Sherrards start in Lawrence Miss.
1424. William Beal
Ancestral File Number:
31MG-S6
1425. Jane Trafton
Ancestral File Number:
31MG-TC
1426. Samuel Wood
Ancestral File Number:
31MG-VJ
1427. Mary Davis
Ancestral File Number:
31MG-WP
1428. John Crowell or Crowe
Ancestral File Number:
31MG-XV
1429. Mrs. Margaret Crowell
Ancestral File Number:
31MG-Z2
1430. Samuel Allen
Ancestral File Number:
303C-WK
1431. Abigail Williams
Ancestral File Number:
9CL0-S2
1436. Samuel Lyon
Source: LaRee Westover records
1437. Joanna Weld
Source: LaRee Westover records
1438. Joseph Boyden
Source: LaRee Westover records
1439. Rebecca
Source: same as husband
1440. Moses Haven
A twin to sister Mehitable
Source: Paul Westover records: Mass B. 6 B 4 & Mass B ll E 15From The Genealogy of the Descendants of Richard Haven, of Lynn, Massachusetts:
Moses Haven had settled at Lynn, and had five children, at the date of his father's will, in May, 1701. He was nominated the Executor, and the will indicates that he was expected to remain there. He did so until after his father's death in 1703, and was appointed Executor in June of that year. He must have removed to fram. before 10 June, 1705, as his seventh child was born there on that day. He married Mary Ballord of Lynn. Mrs. Sears, of Chatham, writes me that she was daughter of the great grandfather of William Ballord, senior, late of Frem., who married her sister, Anne Marshall. Farmer says there was a "William Ballord, of Lynn, in 1637; freeman and member of Art. Co., in 1638; removed to Andover, and had sons Joseph, William, and John, who settled there. There was a Nathaniel Ballord of Lynn, in 1650." He might have been the father, perhaps the brother, of Mary.
He was on a committee to lay out a highway, in 1709; selectman, in 1710; constable, in 1711; moderator and selectman, in 1712; on committee to seat the meeting-house in 1715; treasurer and moderator, in 1717; selectman, treasurer, constable and moderator, in 1718; treasurer and sealer of leather, in 1719; on com. to fill vacant seats in the meeting-house, in 1720; on committee to hire schoolmaster, in 1723; moderator, in 1725; on a com. to locate schools, in 1726; on com. to hire schoolmaster, in 1727; selectman and moderator, in 1728; moderator twice, in 1730, and was also on a com. to confer with Mr. Swift about his salary.
The church records show that he was chosen Deacon, 29 March, 1717; that he was a delegate to the ordination of Rev. Mr. Barrett, at Hopkintown, 2 Sept. 1724; March 21, 1725, "Deacon Haven spake that he should not hold forth the contribution box, because so few came to it." He married a second wife, Elizabeth bridges of Fram., 27 Nov. 1735, and died 14 Nov. 1747, aged 80.
Jonathan Leland, Esq. of Sutton, who has furnished many interesting facts, writes me that he ahs seen his will, dated 1 July, 1746, (which was cancelled) in which he names his sons, Joseph of Hop., Richard, Moses, Daniel; and his daughters, Susanna Town, Mary Ward, Mehitabel Haven, Sarah Hemenway, and his wife Sarah. His "brother Nathaniel Ballord" is also named in the will.
Source: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/8810/gen/ballard.html
1441. Mary Ballard
Ballard also shown spelled as Ballord
1442. Thomas Walker
All dates from Paul Westover records except marriage and sealing date
1443. Martha Howe
All dates from Paul Westover records
1444. Benjamin Bullard
All dates from Paul Westover records, B 12 E 10 p. 8 Mass. E17 p. 25
Mass. M 11 a, p.26
1446. Samuel Morse Lieutenant
Source-Paul Westover records Mass. M ll p.439 Mass. M ll a. p.159
Mass d. 6 p.22