Immigrant Ancestors

 

Mary Abbie Childs came from an old New England family, with most of her American immigrant ancestors arriving in the 1630s and 1640s, settling in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

This page lists all the known immigrant ancestors of Mary Abbie Childs. Her pedigree chart (Excel) shows their relationships to her.

Most of these immigrants are not included in the main database of this website. That database documents individuals' lives in more detail. It contains about seventy of her directs, where the pedigree chart lists nearly three hundred.

Dig into the sources to learn more about their lives: Most referenced books can be read online - simply search the book title, and find at archive.org, or hathitrust.org. The Great Migration series references require a membership at AmericanAncestors.org. The Great Migration Directory is not online; see excepts here (pdf). Links to many referenced journals can be found via the GMD abbreviations page here.

Additional research could start with Martin E. Hollick's New Englanders in the 1600s, Clarene A. Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Robert Charles Andersons's the Great Migration Directory and Sybil Noyes' Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire.

This list and the chart are complete, as of 8 May 2025.

Contents:
    Earliest and latest arrivals (3)
    Arrivals in 1630s   (89)
    Arrivals in 1640s   (23)
    Arrivals in 1650s   (10)
    Dead Ends page   (16)


Earliest and latest arrivals

  • John Wadleigh (-1671), his wife Mary _____, and their three children, including Robert Wadleigh.
    • Immigrated mid-summer 1630 at Saco River, Maine, on the Swift of Bristol.
    • Resided Wells, Maine.
    • Immig. ref.: Wilbur D. Spencer, Pioneers on Maine rivers, with Lists to 1651, Compiled from the Original Sources, p. 171 & 173.

  • Digory Sargent (-1703/4)
    • In Boston by 1675
    • Married 1st 1693 Constance James
    • Married 2nd 1696 Mary ______
    • Resided Boston & Worchester, Mass.
    • Killed in an Indian attack winter of 1703/4
    • Wife Mary and five children taken captive, seven to twelve years
    • Ref.: Henry Ernest Woods, Some Descendants of Digory Sargent (Boston, 1904), p. 5-6.
    • Ancestor of Martha Rice in this database.

  • Francis Ensor Prendergast (1841-1897)
    • Migrated 1866 to Boston.
    • Parents resided Dublin, Ireland
    • Married 1873 Mary Abbie Childs.

Arrivals in 1630s

  • George Abbott (1586-1647), and three sons
    • Migrated possibly prior to 1638.
    • Resided Rowley, Mass.
    • Ref.: Great Migration Newsletter, Vol. 18 (2009), page 29
    • Ref.: English parish records, per https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Abbott-89
    • Ancestor of Molly Kimball in this database.

  • William Allen (-1686)
    • Migrated by 1638
    • Resided Salisbury, Mass.
    • Married first Ann Goodale, daughter of Richard
    • Ref.: Donald Lines Jacobus, The Granberry family and allied families : including the ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry, (Hartford, Conn. 1945) p. 151.
    • Ancestor of Nabby Emerson in this database.

  • John Ayer (ca 1594?-1657), his wife and about eight children
    • Migrated by 1639
    • Married by 1620 in England
    • Uncertain if he was married twice
    • Survived by wife Hannah, died 1688
    • Ref.: Great Migration Directory
    • Ref.: Wikitree main & new research pages
    • Ancestor of Nabby Emerson in this database.

  • Rev. Stephen Bachiler (1561-1656).
    • Migrated 1632 on William and Francis.
    • Minister at Lynn, Newbury and Hampton. Surrounded by controversy.
    • Returned to England about 1652.
    • Ref.: Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III, p. 61-9.
    • Third great-grandfather of John Bachelder in this database.

  • John Bailey (ca 1585-1652) with son John.
    • Migrated 1635 on the ill-fated Angel Gabriel; or by 1637.
    • Wife and three children left in England.
    • Resided Salisbury, Mass.
    • Ref.: Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton, 1775-1847, The Wife of Capt. Abel Lunt of Newburyport, Massachusetts (Portland 1947), p. 177.
    • Ancestor of Abigail Bayley in this database.

  • John Bent (1596-1672), his wife Martha _____ (-1679) and four children.
    • Migrated 1638.
    • Resided Sudbury, Mass.
    • Ref.: Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org), Vol. Pelham - V2, p. 10-11.
    • Ref.: The Bent family in America. Being mainly a genealogy of the descendants of John Bent who settled in Sudbury, Mass., in 1638, with notes upon the family in England and elsewhere by Bent, Allen H. (Allen Herbert), 1867-1926 p. 14-15 (archive.org).
    • Ancestor of Nabby Emerson in this database.

  • William Chandler (-1641), his wife Annis ____ (-1683), and four children
    • Migrated by 1637.
    • Resided Roxbury, Mass.
    • Ref.: The Chandler family. The descendants of William and Annis Chandler who settled in Roxbury, Mass., 1637, by George Chandler (Worcester: 1883)
    • Ancestor of Molly Kimball in this database.

  • John Cogswell (1592-1669)
    • John Cogswell (1592-1669)
    • Resided Ipswich
    • Ref.: Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F, p. 137
    • Ancestor of Nabby Emerson in this database.

  • John Cram, his wife Esther White, and two children.
    • Migrated 1635.
    • Resided Boston, Mass., and Exeter and Hampton, New Hampshire.
    • Associated with Rev. Wheelright, an ally of Anne Hutchinson, was exiled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in November 1637, and shortly founded Exeter.
    • Ref.: Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F, p. 227-230.

  • Robert Day (ca 1605-1683)
    • Migrated 1635 on the Hopewell.
    • Resided Ipswich.
    • Married by 1638 Hannah _________ (d. bet. 1664 & 1684).
    • Ref.: Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F, p. 329
    • Ancestor of Nabby Emerson in this database.

  • John Emery (1599-1683) and four children
    • Migrated 1635 on the James, with his brother Anthony Emery.
    • Resided Ipswich & Newbury, Mass.
    • No record of his first wife, Alice Grantham (-by 1647), in New England. She may or may not have immigrated.
    • Ref.: Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F, p. 446-452.
    • Ancestor of Abigail Bayley and Abraham Merrill in this database.

  • Robert Fletcher (ca 1592-1677), with five children
    • Migrated by 1637.
    • Resided Concord, Mass.
    • Ref.: Robert Fletcher of Concord, Massachusetts Bay, 1627; a study of his life and family from the New England records, compiled for Henry Fletcher, by Winifred Lovering Holman, typescript (1930)
    • Ancestor of Molly Kimball in this database.

  • Katherine Franklin (ca 1603-bet. 1667-1677)
    • Migrated in 1637 with husband William Clarke, and children by both their earlier marriages.
    • Married 1st James Prince (before 1605-by 16350), in London 1623.
    • Married 2nd William Clarke (ca 1586-1647), probably at Salem, Mass., about 1636.
    • Married 3rd John Gedney (ca 1604-1688), probably at Salem, Mass., 1652-54.
    • Two of her children from Prince were employed at Clarke's tavern.
    • Her daughter Rebecca Prince is named in Gedney's will.
    • Her identify and that of her children and Clarke's continue to attract genealogical publications.
    • Ref.: "A Problem in Salem Genealogy: The Prince Family", by G. Andrews Moriarty, The American Genealogist, Vol. 14 (1937), p. 83-86.
    • Ref.: "John Putnam (1580-1662)", Commentary #3, Early New England Families, 1641-1700. (Original Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org)
    • Ref. : "Katherine [Franklin] [Prince] [Clarke] Gedney of Rotherhithe, Surrey, and Salem, Massachusetts, and the English Origins of Robert Prince of Salem, Roger A. Prince", by Robert A. Prince, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 170 (2016), p. 195-209; including Appendix with differing interpretations by author Robert A. Prince and Great Migration author Robert Charles Anderson.
    • Ref.: "The English Origin of John Gedney of Salem, Massachusetts, and His Three Wives", by Roger A. Prince, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 174 (2020), p. 26-35.
    • Ancestor of Eleanor Annis in this database.

  • Captain William French (ca 1604-1681), his wife Elizabeth _____ (ca 1604-1668), and four children
    • Migrated 1635 on the ship Defence.
    • Resided Billerica, Mass.
    • Married second Mary (Lothrop) Sterns, widow of John, daughter of Thomas.
    • Ref.: Great Migration 1634, Vol. II, C-F, p. 588-593.
    • Father of Hannah French in this database.

  • John Gage (ca 1605-1672/3).
    • Migrated 1630.
    • Resided Boston and Ipswich.
    • Married about 1636 Amy _________. (possibly French, see wikitree.)
    • Ref.: Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III, p. 719-2.
    • Ancestor of Molly Kimball in this database.

  • Ambrose Gibbons (ca 1592-1656).
    • Migration 1630.
    • Resided Piscataqua and Dover, N.H.
    • Ref.: Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III, p. 745-749.
    • Ancestor of Nabby Emerson in this database.

  • Rebecca (______) Gibbons (-1655).
    • Migration 1631, to join her husband Ambrose Gibbons.
    • Ref.: Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III, p. 745-749.
    • Ancestor of Nabby Emerson in this database.

  • Richard Goodale (1594-1666), his wife Dorothy ______ (-1665), and three children
    • Migrated 1638.
    • Resided Newbury and Salisbury, Mass.
    • Ref.: Torrey, New England Marriages to 1700, Vol 1, p. 630.
    • Ref.: Great Migration Directory
    • Ancestor of Nabby Emerson in this database.

  • Robert Hazelton (1609-1674), wife Ann ______(-aft. 1674), and one son.
    • Migrated by 1639, probably 1638 with Ezekiel Rogers on the John of London.
    • Resided Rowley and Bradford.
    • Ref.: Hatcher, in Great Migration Newsletter, Vol. 18, p. 27.
    • Ancestor of Molly Kimball in this database.

  • Joseph Hills (1602-1688), his first wife, and eight children.
    • Migrated 1638 on the Susan & Ellen.
    • Resided Malden, Mass.
    • Origins unknown; see Great Migration reference.
    • Ref.: The Hills Family in America, by William Sanford Hills, p. 255 (archive.org)
    • Ref.: The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. , p. 1249 (Mellows)
    • Ancestor of Abigail Bayley in this database.

  • Christopher Hussey (1598/9-16856).
    • Migrated 1633.
    • Resided Lynn, Newbury Mass. and Hampton, N.H.
    • Member of Bachiler's church as it moved about.
    • Married Theodate Batchelder, daughter of Stephen.
    • Ref.: Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III, p. 1048-1052.
    • Great-grandfather of Bathsheba Robie in this database.

  • John Hutchins (ca 1604-1685)
    • Probably migrated 1638 on the Bevis, and followed later, say 1638 or 39, by his wife Francis _____ and two children.
    • Resided Newbury, Haverhill
    • Ref.: "A look at John Hutchins of Newbury and Haverhill", by David Kendall Martin, The Essex Genealogist 27:71-78.
    • Ref.: Descendants of John Hutchins of Newbury and Haverhill, Massachusetts, by Edwin Colby Byam, published (Washinton D.C. 1975)
    • Ancestor of Nabby Emerson in this database.

  • Thomas Jewell (ca 1608-1654)
    • Migrated 1635 on the Planter
    • Resided Baintree, Mass.
    • Married by 1639 Grissell Fletcher
    • Ref.: Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume IV, I-L, p. 59.
    • Ancestor of Molly Kimball in this database.

  • Richard Kimball (ca 1595-1675), his wife Ursula Scott and six children.
    • Migration 1634 on the Elizabeth.
    • Resided Watertown and Ipswich, Mass.
    • Ref.: Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume IV, I-L, p. 154-160.
    • History of the Kimball family in America, from 1634 to 1897..., by Morrison, Leonard Allison, 1843-1902. Sharples, Stephen Paschall, 1842-1923 (1897 Boston)
    • Third great-grandparents of Mary Kimball in this database.

  • William Knopp (1580/1-1659) and his wife Judith Tue (1589-by 1651) and six children.
    • Migrated 1630.
    • Resided Watertown, Mass.
    • Ref.: Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III, p. 1143-6.
    • Great-great-grandparents of Abigail Parker in this database.

  • Daniel Ladd (ca 1615-1693).
    • Migrated 1634 on the Mary & John.
    • Resided Salisbury & Haverhill.
    • Married about 1640 Ann ______. (her origins unknown)
    • Ref.: Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume IV, I-L, p. 217.
    • Ancestor of Molly Kimball in this database.

  • William Larned (ca 1581-1645/6), his wife Goodith Gilman (-1632) and two children.
    • Migrated 1630
    • Resided Charlestown and Woburn.
    • Ref.: Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III, p. 1164-6.
    • Great-grandparents of Hannah French in this database.

  • Robert Long (ca 1590-1663/4), his second wife, ten children, and a servant.
    • Migrated 1635 on the ship Defense.
    • Resided Charlestown, Mass.
    • Ref.: Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume IV, I-L, p. 316.
    • Ancestor of Abigail Parker in this database.

  • Rev. John Lothrop (1584-1653), with six children.
    • Migrated 1634 on the ship Giffin.
    • Resided Scituate and Barnstable.
    • Ref.: Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume IV, I-L, p.345-351.
    • Great-grandfather of Hannah French in this database.

  • John Marston and fiancée Alice Eden? (ca 1619-after 1681).
    • Migrated 1637 on the John and Dorothy of Ipswich or on the Rose of Yarmouth.
    • Resided Salem, Massachusetts.
    • Ref: The Great Migration Directory, p. 372.
    • Ref.: Nathan Washington Marston, The Marston Genealogy : In Two Parts, publ. 1888.

  • Nathaniel Merrill (-1654/5) and wife Susanna ________, and two or three children.
    • Migrated 1638.
    • Resided Newbury, Mass.
    • His will names four sons and his brother John, also of Newbury.
    • Ref.: Essex County, MA: Early Probate Records, 1635-1681. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, Vol. 1, p.204.
    • Ref.: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Directory, p.226.
    • Ref.: "The Puzzle of Susanna (_____) Merrill Jordon", by Nancy L. Dodge, Connecticut Nutmegger, Vol. 42 (2009), p. 173.
    • Father of Abraham Merrill in this database.

  • William Moore (ca 1599-1671).
    • Migrated by 1639.
    • Resided Exeter, N.H.
    • Ref.: Noyes, Libby & Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, p. 490.
    • Great grandfather of Bathsheba Robie in this database.

  • Abraham Morrill (ca 1614-1662).
    • Possibly migrated 1632 on the Lion. In Cambridge 1635.
    • Resided Cambridge and Salisbury, Mass.
    • Married Sarah Clement, daughter of Robert.
    • Ref.: Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P, p. 151-6.

  • John Moulton (1599-1650), his wife Anne Green (ca 1599-1650) and six children
    • Migrated 1637 on the Rose or on the John and Dorothy
    • Resided Hampton, N.H.
    • Ref.: "Some doubts about the English Background of the Moulton family", by Joy Wade Moulton, NEHGR, Vol. 144 (1990) p. 245-263, 261 (John).
    • Ancestor of Nabby Emerson in this database.

  • Robert Page (ca 1604-1679), his wife Lucy _____ (ca 1607-1665), with three children and two servants.
    • Migrated 1637 on John & Dorothy or Rose.
    • Resided Salem, Mass. & Hampton, N.H.
    • Ref.: The Great Migration Directory
    • Ref.: NEHGR, 66:180-83.
    • Great grandfather of Bathsheba Robie in this database.

  • Deborah Parkhurst (bp. 1619 - btw. 1670 & 1686) and Elizabeth Parkhurst (bp. 1628-aft. 1659), sisters
    • Migrated in 1637 with their aunt Ruth Leete and her husband Rev. Timothy Dalton.
    • Resided briefly Dedham, Mass., then removed to Hampton N.H., where they married respectively 1638 John Smith and 1645 Emanuel Hilliard.
    • Their father George Parkhurst and his first wife migrated by 1642.
    • Ref.: Early New England Families Study Project, Vol. 1.
    • Deborah is the ancestor of John Bachelder in this database.
    • Elizabeth is the ancestor of Nabby Emerson in this database.

  • William Partridge (-1654) and his wife Ann Spicer, with one child.
    • Migrated in 1638.
    • Resided Lynn and Salisbury, Mass.
    • Ref.: "Hannah Partridge, Wife of Edward Gove of Hampton, New Hampshire", by Marian S. Henry. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 164 (Jan 2010) p. 15-22.
    • Ancestor of Nabby Emerson in this database.

  • Thomas Philbrick (1584-1667), his wife Elizabeth Knapp (1593-1663/4), and six or seven children.
    • Migrated by 1636.
    • Resided Watertown, Mass. and Hampton, N.H.
    • Ref.: "The English Connections of Thomas Felbrigge or Philbrick of Hampton, N.H." by G. Andrews Moriarty. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol 38 (July 1884), p. 279-286.
    • Ref.: "Thomas Philbrick and Family, 1583-1883", by Rev. Jacob Chapman, of Exeter, N.H., New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol 38 (July 1884), p. 279-286.
    • Ancestor of Nabby Emerson in this database.

  • John Poore (ca 1615-1684)
    • Migrated 1635.
    • Resided Newbury, Mass.
    • Married about 1641 Sarah ________ (origins unknown).
    • Ref.: A memoir and genealogy of John Poore. Ten generations: 1615-1880. by Alfred Poor (1881 Salem, Mass.) p. 5-8.
    • Ancestor of Abigail Bayley in this database.

  • John Putnam (1579-1662), his wife Pricilla Gould (ca 1592-btn 1648-1653), and five children
    • Migrated by 1639.
    • Resided Salem Village.
    • Married ca 1612, England.
    • Ref.: The Putnam lineage; historical-genealogical notes concerning the Puttenham family in England, together with lines of royal descent, and showing the ancestors of John Putnam of Salem, and his descendants through five generations, together with some account of other families of the name and of the Putnams of the Mohawk valley by Eben Putnam (1907 Salem).
    • Ref.: "John Putnam (1580-1662)", Commentary #3, Early New England Families, 1641-1700. (Original Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org)
    • Ancestor of Eleanor Annis in this database.

  • Robert Reynolds (ca 1598-1659), his wife Mary _____, with five children
    • Migrated 1634
    • Resided Boston
    • Ref.: Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VI, R-S, p. 45-49.
    • Ancestor of Martha Rice in this database.

  • Deacon Edmund Rice (ca 1595-1663) and his wife Thomasine Frost (1600-1654).
    • Immigrated by 1639.
    • Resided Sudbury, Mass.
    • Ancestors of Martha Rice in this database.

  • William Sanborn (1623-1692)
    • Migrated probably 1632 with his grandfather Rev. Stephen Bachiler on the "William and Francis".
    • Earliest record 1639 (at age 15) at Hampton.
    • Resided Hampton, N.H.
    • Married by 1649 Mary Moulton.
    • Ref.: Great Migration Directory
    • Ref.: "The First Sambornes of Hampton, N.H." by V.C. Sanborn, NEHGR 51 (1897):57-64.
    • Ref.: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sanborn-13
    • Ancestor of Nabby Emerson in this database.

  • Henry Sherborn (1611-1680).
    • Migrated 1632 on the James.
    • Resided Piscataqua and Portsmouth, N.H.
    • Married Rebecca Gibbons, daughter of Ambrose.
    • Ref.: Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III, p. 1666-1669
    • Ancestor of Nabby Emerson in this database.

  • Hannah Smith (-ca 1656)
    • Origin and migration unknown. (see below Great Migration article on Ambrose Gibbons .)
    • Married first by about 1636, Edward Mellows, who migrated 1633 with his father Ambrose's family.
    • Married second 1651, immigrant Joseph Hills of Malden.
    • Ref.: The Hills Family in America, by William Sanford Hills, p. 255 (archive.org)
    • Ref.: Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III, p. 1249.
    • Ancestor of Abigail Bayley in this database.

  • John Smith (-1670)
    • Birth and migration details unknown.
    • Married about 1640 Deborah Parkhurst.
    • Resided Martha's Vineyard about 1653.
    • Ref.: "John Smith of Watertown, Massachusetts, The Second John Smith", by Robert Charles Anderson, The American Genealogist, Vol. 61 (1985), p. 23, 28.
    • Ancestor of John Bachelder in this database.

  • William Smith (1611?-1653).
    • Migrated 1638
    • Resided Charlestown
    • Married 1640 Anna ______.
    • Ref.: The Great Migration Directory, p. 313 (1838, Charleston)
    • Ref.: Thomas Bellows Wyman, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Massachusetts: 1629-1818, 2 volumes (Boston 1879; rpt. in 1 volume Somersworth, New Hampshire, 1982)
    • Ancestor of Molly Kimball in this database.

  • William Stickney (1592-1665), his wife Elizabeth Dawson (1608-1678+), and three children.
    • Migrated 1638.
    • Resided Rowley, Mass.
    • Ref.: Nichols, Elaine C. "Notes on English Origins - Elizabeth, Wife of William Stickney of Rowley, Mass" Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Vol. 139, p. 319.
    • Ancestor of Molly Kimball in this database.

  • William Titcomb (1620-1676).
    • Migrated 1634 on Hercules.
    • Resided Newbury, Mass.
    • Married about 1638 Joanna Bartlett, daughter of Richard.
    • Ref.: Descendants of William Titcomb of Newbury, Massachusetts : 1635 by Gilbert Merrill Titcomb, (1969 Ann Arbor), p. 5-9.
    • Ancestor of Abigail Bayley in this database.

  • John Tuttle (ca 1596-1656), wife Joan Antrobus(-1660/1), and six children
    • Migrated 1635 on the Planter
    • Resided Ipswich. Business in Barbados.
    • Removed permanently to Ireland 1650, and his wife in 1654.
    • Ref.: Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y, p. 125
    • Ancestor of Nabby Emerson in this database.

  • John Warren (1585-1667), his wife Margaret _____ (-1662)and four children.
    • Immigrated 1630 on the Arabella.
    • Resided Watertown, Mass.
    • Ref.: Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III, p. 1932-4.
    • Ancestors of Mary Warren and Abigail Parker in this database.

  • John Webster (ca 1606-by 1646) and his wife Mary Shatswell (-1694).
    • Grant of land at Ipswich, Mass. 1634/5.
    • Ref: Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y, p. 261-4.
    • Ancestors of Abigail Bayley and Abigail Webster wife of Abraham Merrill in this database.

  • David Wheeler (bef. 1626 - aft. 1699)
    • Migrated 1638 on the Confidence, age 12, servant to John Ludwell
    • Resided Hampton, Newbury & Rowley, Mass.
    • Son of John and Agnes Wheeler who migrated a year later.
    • Married in 1650 Sarah Wise/Wythe, daughter of immigrant Humphrey Wythe.
    • Ref.: wikitree.com - David Wheeler
    • Ref.: Blodgette, George B., Early settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts, p. 403.
    • Ancestor of Abigail Bayley in this database.

  • John Wheeler (1591-1670), wife Agnes/Annes Yeoman (abt. 1592 - 1662), and possibly two children
    • Migrated by 1639.
    • Resided Salisbury and Newbury, Mass.
    • Father of David Wheeler who immigrated probably a year earlier.
    • Ref.: Great Migration Newsletter, Vol. 24 (2015) No. 1, p. 97.
    • Ref.: Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Annis Spear, 1775-1858, of Litchfield, Maine (Portland, Maine, 1945), p. 133-5.
    • Ancestor of Abigail Bayley in this database.

  • George Wheeler (1605-1687), his wife Catharine Pin (-1684/5) and three children
    • Migrated by 1639.
    • Resided Concord, Mass.
    • Ref.: The Great Migration Directory
    • Ref.: Fifty great migration colonists to New England & their origins, by John B. Threlfall (1990 Madison), p. 495.
    • Ancestor of Martha Rice in this database.

  • John Whitney (1592-1673), with wife Ellin _____ (ca 1605-), and five children
    • Migrated 1635 on Elizabeth & Ann
    • Resided Watertown, Mass.
    • Ref.: Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y, p. 366.
    • Ancestor of Martha Rice in this database.

  • Thomas Whittier (ca 1620-1696).
    • Migrated 1638 on the Confidence.
    • Resided Salisbury & Haverhill, Mass.
    • Married Ruth Green.
    • Ref.: The Great Migration Directory, p. 372.
    • Ref.: David Hoyt, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts, 1:358.

  • Ruth (Green) Whittier (-1710)
    • Migration unknown.
    • Married by 1647 Thomas Whittier.
    • Ref.: David Hoyt, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts, 1:358.
    • Ref.: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Green-300

  • Humphrey Wythe (ca 1591-1638/9), his wife Susan Pakeman (1597-) and eight children
    • Migration 1635.
    • Resided Ipswich.
    • Ref.: Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y, p. 548.
    • Ancestor of Abigail Bayley in this database.
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Arrivals in 1640s

  • Thomas Barnard (ca 1611-1677)
    • Migrated by 1640
    • Resided Salisbury and Amesbury, Mass.
    • Merchant sea captain, traded in African slaves.
    • Ref.: Great Migration Directory
    • Ref.: "Thomas Barnard of Amesbury and Salisbury", by Janet Ireland Delorey and Marjorie Marsh Quigg, The Essex Genealogist, 8 (1988):29-38.
    • Ref.: "Navigator at Work: The Seventeenth Century 'Triangular Trade' in Court", by Janet Ireland Delorey and Marjorie Marsh Quigg, in NEHGS NEXUS, New England Across the United States, Vol. 6, p. 146.
    • Ancestor of Molly Kimball in this database.

  • Richard Bartlett (ca 1575-1647), his wife Joan _____, and four children
    • Migrated by 1640.
    • Resided Newbury, Mass.
    • Ref.: Great Migration Directory
    • Ref.: "Newbury and the Bartlett Family", by John Jones Brown, NEHGR 40:192-204.
    • Ancestor of Abigail Bayley in this database.

  • Thomas Brewer (-1689/90)
    • Migration: Possibly at Ipswich 1647.
    • Resided Ipswich, Roxbury.
    • Ref.: Walter Lee Sheppard, The Ancestry and Descendants of Thomas Stickney Evans & Sarah Ann Fifield Both of Fryeburg Maine (Ann Arbor 1940)
    • Father of Mary Brewer, who married 1680 William Lane, and father of Sarah Brewer, who married 1657 Thomas Webster, (see their daughter).

  • Aquila Chase (ca 1618-1670)
    • Migrated by 1640.
    • Resided Hampton N.H. and Newbury, Mass.
    • Mariner
    • Ref.: Dean Crawford Smith, The Ancestry of Samuel Blanchard Ordway (Boston, NEHGS, 1990), p. 165-205.
    • Ref.: Seven generations of the descendants of Aquila and Thomas Chase / compiled by John Carroll Chase and George Walter Chamberlain (Derry, N.H. 1928), p. 29-35.
    • Ancestor of Eleanor Annis in this database.

  • Thomas Chase (about 1617-1652).
    • At Hampton, N.H. 1640 with his brother Aquila.
    • Resided Hampton, N.H.
    • Married Elizabeth Philbrick, daughter of Thomas.
    • Ref.: The Great Migration Directory, p. 62.
    • Ref.: Seven Generations of the Descendants of Aquila and Thomas Chase by John Carroll Chase and George Walter Chamberlain, publ. 1928, Derry, N.H.
    • Ancestor of Nabby Emerson in this database.

  • John Child (1636-1676)
    • Probably brought to Boston about 1648 with brother Richard as orphans by their uncle Ephraim Child.
    • Resided Watertown, Mass.
    • Married second Mary Warren daughter of Daniel.
    • Ref.: "The Non-Existent William Child of Watertown", a note by Robert Charles Anderson, in The American Genealogist Vol. 62 No. 1 (Jan 1987) p. 29.
    • Ref.: New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Clarence Almon Torrey, Vol. 1, p. 310.

  • Robert Clements (1695-1658) and seven children.
    • Migrated 1642. Ship unknown.
    • Resided Haverhill, Mass.
    • Ref.: Percival Wood Clement, Ancestors and Descendants of Robert Clements of Leicestershire and Warwickshire, England, First Settler of Haverhill, Massachusetts.
    • Father of Lydia Clements, wife of Moses Pengry, ancestors of Nabby Emerson in this database.
    • Father of Sarah Clements in this database.

  • Giles Cromwell, and his wife Alice Weeke (-1648), and two children
    • Resided Newbury, Mass. - by 1646
    • Ref.: Torrey, New England Marriages to 1700, Vol 1, p. 630.

  • Thomas King (-1676), his wife Anne _____, and six children
    • Migrated by 1642 to Massachusetts
    • Resided Sudbury, Mass.
    • Ref.: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/King-113
    • Ancestor of Martha Rice in this database.

  • Robert Long (ca 1621-1690).
    • Migrated by his 1647 marriage to Alice Short.
    • Resided Newbury, Mass.
    • Ref.: Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, (database), online , Newbury - V1, p. 286-287.
    • Ref.: Long, Hallock P. "Settlers Surnamed Long to New England before 1700", New England Historical and Genealogical Register Vol. 104 (Jan 1950) p. 36. [viewed on americanancestors.org]

  • James Ordway (1621- btw. 1708 & 1714)
    • Migrated 1641/2
    • Resided Newbury.
    • Married Ann Emery, daughter of John.
    • Ref.: The ancestry of Samuel Blanchard Ordway, 1844-1916... by Smith, Dean Crawford; Sanborn, Melinde Lutz (archive.org)
    • Ancestor of Abigail Bayley in this database.

  • Abraham Parker (-1685)
    • Migrated by his 1644 marriage to Rose Whitlock.
    • Brother of immigrant Capt. James Parker.
    • Ref.: "The English Origin and Ancestry of The Parker Brothers of Massachusetts..." by Douglas Richardson. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 153 (Jan 1999) p. 81-96.
    • First great-grandfather of Abigail Parker in this database.

  • Capt. James Parker.
    • Migrated by his 1643 marriage.
    • Brother of immigrant Abraham Parker.
    • Resided Woburn, Chelsford and Groton, Mass.
    • Ref.: "The English Origin and Ancestry of The Parker Brothers of Massachusetts..." by Douglas Richardson. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 153 (Jan 1999) p. 81-96.
    • Great-grandfather of Abigail Parker in this database.

  • Joseph Peasley (-1660) and three children
    • Migrated by 1640
    • Resided Haverhill and Amesbury.
    • Married second, probably in New England, Mary ______.
    • Ref.: Torrey, New England Marriages to 1700, Vol. 2, p. 1156
    • Ref.: Mary Lovering Holman, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury (Concord, 1938), p. 531.
    • Ancestor of Molly Kimball in this database.

  • Moses Pengry (ca 1610-1696)
    • Migrated 1640
    • Resided Ipswich
    • Married Abigail Clement, dau. of Robert Clement of Haverhill
    • Ref.: Great Migration Directory
    • Ref.: A genealogical record of the descendants of Moses Pengry, of Ipswich, Mass., so far as ascertained, by Pingry, William M. (1881, Ludlow, Vt.)
    • Ancestor of Nabby Emerson in this database.

  • Thomas Roberts (ca 1600-1674)
    • Migrated by 1641
    • Fishmonger, London & Dover, N.H.
    • Ref.: Great Migration Directory
    • Ref.: The Wentworth genealogy : English and American by John Wentworth (Boston 1878)
    • Ancestor of Nabby Emerson in this database.

  • Henry Roby (1619-)
    • Migrated by 1645
    • Resided Exeter & Hampton N.H.
    • Married Ruth Moore, daughter of William.
    • Ref.: Noyes, Libby & Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, p. 590.
    • Grandfather of Bathsheba Robie in this database.

  • William Shattuck (ca 1622-1672)
    • Migrated by 1643
    • Resided Watertown
    • Married about 1642 Susanna _____
    • Ref.: Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Vol. William Shattuck (m. 1643)
    • Ancestor of Martha Rice in this database.

  • Alice Short (-1690/1).
    • Migrated by her 1647 marriage to Deacon Robert Long of Newbury.
    • Possibly sister of Henry Short of Newbury, immigrated 1634.
    • Ref.: Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VI, R-S, p. 316 (Henry Short).
    • Ref.: Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850". Online database, AmericanAncestors.org. Newbury - V2, p. 296, 646.

  • William Tilton.
    • Migration by 1643.
    • Resided Lynn, Mass.
    • Ref.: Barbara B. Marden, Descendants of William Tilton of Lynn, Massachusetts, Through the line of his son Daniel Tilton. The Essex Genealogist, 7:129 & 9:18 (viewed at AmericanAncestors.org).
    • Ref.: Francis Theodore Tilton, History of the Tilton Family in America (viewed via FamilySearch.org catalog).
    • Fourth great-grandfather of Nabby Emerson in this database.
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Arrivals in 1650s and later

  • Curmac "Charles" Annis (ca 1638-1717)
    • Migration unknown - by 1666 marriage
    • Resided Newbury, Mass.
    • Ref.: Dean Crawford Smith, The Ancestry of Samuel Blanchard Ordway (Boston, NEHGS, 1990), p. 119.
    • Ref.: Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Annis Spear, 1775-1858, of Litchfield, Maine (Portland, Maine, 1945), p. 119.
    • Ancestor of Eleanor Annis in this database.

  • Ellis Barron and first wife Grace _____.
    • Constable at Watertown 1658.
    • Ref: The American Genealogist 20:135-36.
    • Ancestors of Mary Warren in this database.

  • Michael Emerson (1627-1709)
    • Migration unknown - by 1651.
    • Resided Haverhill, Mass.
    • Married 1657 Hannah Webster, daughter of John.
    • Ref.: The Haverhill Emersons; Part First by Charles Henry Pope. (Boston, 1913), p. 13.
    • Ancestor of Nabby Emerson in this database.

  • John Foss (ca 1634-ca 1710)
    • Migrated by 1661 or 1657
    • Resided Rye, N.H.
    • Married Mary Berry about 1658.
    • Ref.: Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, by Sybil Noyes, et. al. (Portland 1928-3), p. 240, #1)
    • Ancestor of John Bachelder in this database.

  • John Gilford (-1660)
    • Migrated by 1651
    • Resided Hingham
    • Origins unclear
    • Married Susanna Nolton.
    • Ref.: Torrey - New England Marriages to 1700, Vol. 1, p. 671.
    • Ancestor of Molly Kimball in this database.

  • Emanuel Hilliard (-1657)
    • Migration unknown.
    • Married 1655 at Hampton N.H. Elizabeth Parkhurst
    • "A boate going out of the Hampton River was cast away and the psons all drowned who were in number eight..."
    • Ref.: New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Clarence Almon Torrey.
    • Ancestor of Nabby Emerson in this database.

  • William Lane
    • Migration and vital dates unknown.
    • Resided Boston, first recorded 1651.
    • In 1656 first wife Mary died, and married second Mary Brewer daughter of Thomas.
    • Ref.: "Descendants of William Lane", by Edmund J. Lane in NEHGR 27 (1873) p. 176.

  • Samuel Scripture (ca 1650-after 1738)
    • Migrated to Nevis Island, St Kitts, British Virgin Is. about 1662, and to Massachusetts about 1667.
    • Resided Groton, Mass.
    • Married Elizabeth Knapp, granddaughter of William Knopp.
    • Ref.: "Descendants of Samuel Scripture", by Valerie Giorgi, Berkshire Geneologist, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Winter 1995), p. 3-15.
    • Grandfather of Abigail Parker in this database.

  • Thomas Webster (1631-1715).
    • Migrated by 1656.
    • Resided Hampton, N.H.
    • Married Sarah Brewer.
    • Ref.: Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire by Noyes, Libby & Fells, p. 731 ("6 Thomas")
    • Ancestor of Sarah Webster in this database.

  • Elizabeth Wells (-probably before 1729)
    • Migration and origins unknown.
    • Married 1st 1684 at Concord, Mass., John Wheeler
    • Married 2nd 1725 at Marlborough, Mass, Daniel Rice
    • Ref.: The Genealogical and encyclopedic history of the Wheeler family in America, by Albert Gallatin Wheeler (Boston 1914), p. 24.
    • Ref.: Genealogical History of the Rice Family, Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice by Andrew Henshaw Ward (Boston 1858), p. 19-20.
    • Ancestor of Martha Rice in this database.
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