Review of “Planters of Early New England”

cf9931Of course we judge books by their covers. The cover is the first indication of what is inside. However, there are times when looking beyond the cover may reveal an unexpected treasure. Such is the case with Planters of Early New England: A Sketch of Roger Mowry Mann’s Seventeenth-Century Ancestors. The subtitle would keep almost anyone from even picking the book up, unless you know your related to this Roger Mowry Mann. That, however, may be a big mistake. Let me explain.

Mann (1944—2002), like many today, could trace his ancestry to early New England. After three hundred plus years, those early settlers of New England have millions of descendents. Mann’s history, put together by his sister and brother-in-law, reveals “much about life in seventeenth-century New England — land development, public service, religion, and other aspects of daily existence.” There is information within this book on many well-known early settlers and their families. “Planters” refers to those who founded colonies as well as referring to farmers. These early settlers were often both.

This book covers and documents the founding and early settling of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, many of whom were the ancestor of Roger Mann. These are the ancestors to many more people than just Roger Mann. To demonstrate just how diverse and large the decedents pool is from these early settlers, chapter IX lists 9 U.S. Presidents who also trace their ancestry back to this group. “The work is organized as an historical description of the period, but Chapter II and the ancestor index assure that it is also a genealogical record… Also included in this work is significant other previously unpublished material transcribed from records of deeds and wills from many different towns and counties in New England, including transcriptions of town records in Concord, Massachusetts and Guilford, Connecticut.”

The table of contents provides a good overview of what the reader can expect in these pages. There is also and index of 256 names found in this book [see below]. Perhaps one of your ancestors is there, if not this book tells a great historical story anyone could find interesting.

Note: Presidents listed in Chapter IX:

  • Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (VP under Gerald Ford)
  • Franklin Pierce (14th President)
  • Abraham Lincoln (16th President)
  • James Garfield (20th President)
  • William Howard Taft (27th President)
  • Chester A. Arthur (21th President)
  • Gerald R. Fort (39th President)
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt (32nd President)
  • George Herbert Walker Bush (41st President)
  • George Walker Bush (43rd President)

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Contents

Chapter I – Immigration to New England by 1652

  1. The First Wave of the Great Migration: 1630-1635
  2. Possible Participants in the First Wave of the Great Migration
  3. The Second Wave of the Great Migration: 1635-1639
  4. The Continued Expansion of the Massachusetts Bay Colony: 1640-1652
  5. Ancestors Migrating to Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
  6. Ancestors Migrating to Connecticut
  7. Ancestors Migrating to Plymouth Colony
  8. Ancestors Immigrating to Northern New England
  9. Summary

Chapter II – Family Evolution

  • Pedigrees and Index of the Early Ancestors of Roger Mowry Mann

Chapter III – The Acquisition and Use of Land

  1. Place of Initial Settlement during the Great Migration
  2. Land Acquisition
  3. Immigration and Migration Continue: 1636-1650
  4. Challenges after 1650 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
  5. Indian Deeds
  6. Mortgages
  7. Early Business Enterprise: Manufacturing, Mining and Milling
  8. Common Land in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
  9. Travel
  10. Analysis of Land Matters

Chapter IV – Public Service

  1. Establishment of the Colonial Government
  2. Service in Governing Bodies
  3. Jury Service in New England
  4. Town Offices
  5. Deputed Tasks by the Massachusetts General Court, Counties and Towns
  6. Summary
  • Supplement: Seventeenth-Century Deputies to the Massachusetts General Court
  • Supplement: Assistants of the Massachusetts Bay Colony: 1630-1645

Chapter V – Religious Environment

  1. The Puritan Environment
  2. Church Leadership
  3. Church Membership
  4. Support for Town Ministers
  5. Shortage of Ministers
  6. Education
  7. Minister and Parishioner Movement within New England
  8. Religious Dissent within Churches and with the General Court
  9. Quaker Persecution
  10. Witchcraft
  11. Summary

Chapter VI – Indian Wars and Military Service

  1. The Pequot War: 1637-1638
  2. King Philip’s War: 1675-1676
  3. King William’s War: 1689-1697
  4. Military Service
  5. Summary

Chapter VII – Secondary Aspects of Ancestors’ Lives and Deaths

  1. Non-Agricultural Activities
  2. Services Performed by Agreement with the Town of Residence
  3. Old Age and Transfer of Estates
  4. Personal Disputes
  5. Dangers
  6. Ties with England
  7. Destitute Settlers
  8. Black Sheep
  • Supplement: Probate Records

Chapter VIII – The Three Most Significant Seventeenth-Century Ancestors of Roger Mowry Mann

  1. John Johnson
  2. Hopestill Foster
  3. Obadiah Holmes
  4. Summary

Chapter IX – Relationships of Direct Ancestors to Presidents of the United States

Colony and Town Record Abbreviations

Bibliography

Appendix A. English Origins of Roger Mowry Mann’s Ancestors

Appendix B. Occupations of Early Ancestors

Ancestor Index

Place Index

 

Index of the Seventeenth-Century Ancestor of Roger Mowry Mann

There are a few non-relatives included in this list who appear in the book. Women are listed by maiden name with married name in parenthesis.

  1. Aldrich, George
  2. Aldrich, Jacob
  3. Aldrich, Joseph
  4. Aldrich, Moses
  5. Aldrich, Ruth (Arnold)
  6. Aldrich, Samuel
  7. Aldrich, Sarah (Bartlett)
  8. Allen, John
  9. Allen, Sarah
  10. Allen, Samuel
  11. Allen, Sarah (Stratton)
  12. Allen, Walter
  13. Allen, Rebecca [Wyman]
  14. Angell, Alice (Whipple)
  15. Angell, John
  16. Angell, John
  17. Angell, Mary (Arnold)
  18. Angell, Thomas
  19. Arnold, Daniel
  20. Arnold, Elizabeth (Comstock)
  21. Arnold, John
  22. Arnold, Richard
  23. Arnold, Richard
  24. Arnold, Richard Daniel
  25. Arnold, Thomas
  26. Arnold, Thomas
  27. Ashton, Alice (Angell)
  28. Axtell, Mary_____ (Maynard)
  29. Ballou, Bathsheba (Arnold)
  30. Ballou, Maturin
  31. Ballou, James
  32. Bartlett, Jacob / Bartlett, Sarah
  33. Bartlett, John
  34. Bate, James
  35. Bate, Mary (Foster)
  36. Besbeech, Mary (Browne)
  37. Besbeech, Thomas
  38. Bigg, Patience (Foster)
  39. Blackmar, James
  40. Blackmar, John
  41. Browne, Chad
  42. Browne, John
  43. Browne, Sarah (Pray)
  44. Browne, Patience (Stone)
  45. Browne, Thomas
  46. Browne, William
  47. Bulkeley, Martha (Mellowes)
  48. Roger Burlingame
  49. Burlingame, Elizabeth (Arnold)
  50. Clemence, Richard
  51. Clemence, Sarah (Angell)
  52. Clemence, Thomas
  53. Clemence, Elizabeth
  54. Comstock, Hazadiah
  55. Comstock Samuel
  56. Comstock, Ann [Tucker] his wife
  57. Comstock, Samuel
  58. Comstock, William
  59. Copeland, Lawrence
  60. Copeland, Lydia (White)
  61. Dakin, Dorothy (Hubbard)
  62. Darkin, Joseph
  63. Dakin, Thmos
  64. Dakin, Susannah_____ (Stratton)
  65. [Daniel], Elizabeth (Comstock)
  66. David, Dolor
  67. Davis, Samuel
  68. Davis, Simon
  69. John, Field
  70. Field, Ruth [Fairbanks]
  71. Field, Ruth (Angell)
  72. Fletcher, Elizabeth (Stratton)
  73. Fletcher, Francis
  74. Fletcher, Robert
  75. Fletcher, [—-]
  76. Foster, Hopestill
  77. Foster, Patience (Browne)
  78. French, Judith (Rogers)
  79. Frost, Elizabeth (Rice) (Whale)
  80. Frost, Thomasine (Rice)
  81. Frye, Mary (Stratton)
  82. Gibson, John
  83. Gibson, Rebecca [Thompson] his wife
  84. Gibson, Martha (Newell)
  85. Gleason, Joseph
  86. Gleason, Joyce (Newell)
  87. Gleason, Thmos
  88. Glover, Alice
  89. Goldston, Sarch (Merriam)
  90. Goodenow, Mary (Ross)
  91. Goodenow, Thomas
  92. Goodenow, Jane [Ruddock]
  93. Goodrich, Hannah (Maynard)
  94. Goodrich, John
  95. Goodrich, Elizabeth
  96. Gourd, Elizabeth (Haynes)
  97. Harwood, Margaret (Hawkins)
  98. Hawkins, Mary (Blackmar)
  99. Hawkins, William
  100. Haynes, David
  101. Haynes, John
  102. Haynes, Walter
  103. Hayward, Juldah (Thayer)
  104. Hayward, William
  105. Heald, Dorothy (Davis)
  106. Heald, Israel
  107. Heald, John
  108. Holmes, Mary (Browne)
  109. Holmes, Obadiah
  110. Hopkins, Elizabeth (Inman)
  • Hubbard, Daniel
  1. Hubbard, George
  2. Hubbard, Mary
  3. Hubbard, John
  4. Hubbard, Jonathan
  5. Hyde, Katherine (Holmes)
  6. Iggleden, Elizabeth [Bennett] Meadows
  7. Inman, Edward
  8. Inman, Joanna (Mowry)
  9. Johnson, Davy
  10. Johnson, Mary
  11. Johnson, Mary (Ludden)
  12. Johnson, John
  13. Johnson, Mary (Mowry)
  14. Kenny, Henry
  15. Kenny, Ann
  16. Kenny, Henry
  17. Kenny, Jemima (Blackmar)
  18. King, Elizabeth (Rice)
  19. King, Thomas
  20. King, Ann
  21. Knight, Margery (Hayward)
  22. Knight, Mary (Osborne)
  23. Lewis, George
  24. Lewis, [Ann]
  25. Lewis, Philip
  26. Lewis, Priscilla (Kenny)
  27. Lippitt, John
  28. Lippitt, Martha
  29. Lippitt, Mary (Barlingstone) (Burlingame)
  30. Ludden, James
  31. Ludden, Mary (Puffer)
  32. Martin, Racheal (Bigg)
  33. Maynard, John
  34. Maynard, Moses
  35. Maynard, Zachariah
  36. Meadows, Mary (Davis)
  37. Meadow, Philip
  38. Mellowes, Abraham
  39. Mellowes, Elizabeth (Barrett) (Wright)
  40. Mellowes, Oliver
  41. Merriam, Joseph
  42. Merriam, Mary (Hubbard)
  43. Moore Benjamin
  44. Moore, Hezekiah
  45. Moore, John
  46. Moore, Mary (Ward) (Stone)
  47. Mowry, John
  48. Mowry, Mary
  49. Mowry, John
  50. Mowry, Mary (Arnold)
  51. Mowry, Nathaniel
  52. Mowry, Roger
  53. Newell, Abraham
  54. Newell, Frances
  55. Newell, Jacob
  56. Newell, Jacob
  57. Noyes, Dorothy (Haynes)
  58. Noyes, Peter
  59. Osborne, John
  60. Osborne, Patience (Aldrich)
  61. Page, Susannah (Gleason)
  62. Parkhurst, George
  63. Parkhurst, Phebe (Dan) (Arnold)
  64. Parrat, Elizabeth (Worcester)
  65. Parrat, Francis
  66. Parrat, Elizabeth [Northend]
  67. Pike, Hannah (Ballou)
  68. Pike, Robert
  69. Pike, Catherine
  70. Pray, Catherine (Comstock)
  71. Pray, John
  72. Pray, Mary (Woodward)
  73. Pray, Quinton
  74. Pray, Joan
  75. Pray, Richard
  76. Pray, Mary
  77. Puffer, George
  78. Puffer, James
  79. Puffer, Jane (Aldrich)
  80. Rice, Edmund
  81. Rice, Elizabeth [Whale] (Moore)
  82. Rice, Hannah (Hubbard)
  83. Rice, Samuel
  84. Rogers, John
  85. Rogers, Lydia (White)
  86. Ross, James
  87. Ross, Jane (Allen)
  88. Royle, Dorothy (Heald)
  89. Russell, Martha (Gleason)
  90. Russell, William
  91. Russell, Martha
  92. Seald, Katherine
  93. Sedley, Elizabeth (Puffer)
  94. Sharparowe, Elizabeth (Browne)
  95. Smith, John
  96. Smith, Alice
  97. Smith, John
  98. Smith, Sarah (Clemence)
  99. Stone, Daniel
  100. Stone, Daniel
  101. Stone, Gregory
  102. Stone, John
  103. Stone, Ann [Treadway]
  104. Stone, Tabitha (Haynes)
  105. Stratton, Samuel
  106. Stratton, Alice (Beeby)
  107. Stratton, Samuel
  108. Stratton, Samuel
  109. Stratton, Samuel
  110. Thayer, Ferdinando
  111. Thayer, Hulday (Aldrich)
  112. Thayer, Thomas
  113. Townsend, Lydia (Copeland)
  114. Upson, [Stephen]
  115. Upson, Elizabeth
  116. Upson, Hannah (Wright)
  117. Whales, Philemon
  118. Wheeler, Elizabeth (Fletcher)
  119. Wheeler, George
  120. Wheeler, Katherine
  121. Wheeler, Margery (Thayer)
  122. Whipple, Eleazer
  123. Whipple, John
  124. Whipple, Sarah
  125. Whipple, Sarah (Smith)
  126. Whipple, Margaret / Margery (Mowry)
  127. White, Hannah (Aldrich)
  128. White, Joseph
  129. White, Joseph
  130. White, Thomas
  131. White, Hannah [Workman]
  132. Whitman, Susanne (Ballou)
  133. Whitman, Valentine
  134. Whitman, Mary
  135. Williard, Margery (Davis)
  136. Woodward, Joseph
  137. Woodward, Mary (Arnold)
  138. Worcester, Dorothy (Dakin)
  139. Worcester, Samuel
  140. Worcester, William
  141. Worcester, Sarah
  142. Wright, Dorothy
  143. Wright, Dorothy (Moore)
  144. Wright, Edward (Sudbury)
  145. Wright, Edward (Concord)
  146. Wright, Martha (Heald)

One Reply to “Review of “Planters of Early New England””

  1. Hi,
    Today is the first day I viewed this site. One person listed above, Elizabeth Burlingame Arnold, is my 7th GGM. I am looking for more information on her family line.

    Thank-you,
    Joan

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