WIGGIN, Mary

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1668
• Death: Abt 1688

Mary married GILMAN, Jeremiah on 30 Jul 1685 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA. Jeremiah (son of GILMAN, Moses and HERSEY, Elizabeth) was born on 31 Aug 1660 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; was christened in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 26 Jan 1754 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. GILMAN, Hannah was born in 1700 in Newmarket, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 1 May 1774 in Newfields, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
2. GILMAN, Thomas was born in 1694 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died in 1723 in Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
3. GILMAN, Joseph was born on 24 Oct 1697 in Newmarket, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 22 Feb 1749 in Newmarket, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
4. GILMAN, Jeremiah JR was born in 1686 in Newmarket, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 6 May 1709.
5. GILMAN, Andrew was born in 1690 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 22 Feb 1749 in Newmarket, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
6. GILMAN, Israel was born on 14 Feb 1707 in Newmarket, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 25 Jan 1768 in Newmarket, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
7. GILMAN, Ezekiel was born on 15 Jan 1700 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died in 1746 in Louisburg, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada.
8. GILMAN, Jonathan was born in 1701 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died in 1765 in Massachusetts, USA.
9. GILMAN, David was born in 1706 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died in 1707 in Massachusetts, USA.
10. GILMAN, Martha was born in 1704 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died in 1780 in Massachusetts, USA.
11. GILMAN, Elizabeth was born on 3 Oct 1707 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 4 Feb 1804 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
12. GILMAN, Simon was born in 1700 in Newmarket, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died before 23 Mar 1749/50 in Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: Strafford, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA
• _MILT: New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: 1689, New Hampshire, USA
• Probate: 18 Apr 1709, New Hampshire, USA

Andrew married BRADSTREET, Hannah on 3 Jun 1659 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. Hannah (daughter of BRADSTREET, Simon and DUDLEY, Anne) was born in Oct 1642 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; died on 18 Apr 1707 in Stratham, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Books About: Shadow Echo Me
• Differentiator: The Great Migration; Immigrant; known as first governor of New Hampshire
• Great Migration: https://www.americanancestors.org/DB393/i/12107/1982/23896341
• Historical Importance: First "governor" of New Hampshire
• Web Address: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wiggin
• Web Address: https://www.dover.nh.gov/government/city-operations/library/research-learn/history/historical-sketch-views/
• Web Address: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wiggin-43
• Residence: Maine, USA
• Residence: York, Maine, USA
• Residence: Squamscott River, New Hampshire, USA
• Residence: Maine, USA
• Birth: 1592, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
• Arrival: 1630, Massachusetts, USA
• Departure: 1630; Age: 38
• Arrival: 1631, New Hampshire, USA
• Arrival: 1633, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
• Residence: 1669, Massachusetts, USA

Notes:

From the History of New Hampshire, Volume 1 by Stackpole (1901): Captain Thomas Wiggin came here in 1631 as an agent of the Bristol Company and the town he founded on Dover Neck was first called Bristol as shown on a 1634 map. About 2 years later the Bristol men sold their share of the patent (about 2/3, the other 1/3 owned by Shrewberry) to "lords and gentlemen" in 25 shares. Thomas Wi\ggin continued to be the agent of the company. He returned to England and then to Salem, MA in the ship James, arriving 10 Oct 1633 with about 30 other men.

It was the design of Capt. Thomas Wiggin to found a city or compact town on Dover Neck, about one mile north from Hilton's Point. Old deeds mention High street and Low street and Dirty Lane. The location was ideal, commanding a view for many miles around. Each settler had a home lot of three or four acres, while out lots, or farms, were assigned by common consent on the shores of Back River and other streams, easily reached by boat. Soon a meeting house was erected on Low street, to be succeeded by a larger one on High street in 1654, used after 1675 as a fortification.

Conspicuous among the first settlers of ancient Dover were Captain Thomas Wiggin, leader and governor of the colony on Dover Neck, who later settled in what is now Stratham, became one of the early judges and founded an extensive and well known family.

The settlers of the first four towns believed emphatically in home rule. Their Combinations were mutual consents to selfgovernment. They were in effect little democratic republics, electing their own rulers and making their own laws. They were guided by the known laws and customs of England, adapted to new conditions. In their legislation they tried to express what seemed to the majority to be right. Nothing was done arbitrarily and in the spirit of tyranny. Yet their power was limited and some bold spirits defied their authority. They feared to try capital cases and appealed to Massachusetts to punish some offenders. At least this was the case in Dover, although Captain Thomas Wiggin was politically a Puritan and leaned toward the jurisdiction of the Bay Colony. He may have taken this course as a step toward union therewith. It is certain that the authorities in Boston felt that they had a trustworthy friend in Captain Wiggin and that he would do all in his power to get their claims recognized.

JOHN WINTHROP wrote in his Journal, October ii, 1638, "Capt. Wiggin of Pascataquack wrote to the Governor, that one of his people had stabbed another and desired he might be tried in the Bay if the party died. The Governor answered that if Pascataquack lay within their limits (as it was supposed), they would try him." Thus early had the men of Massachusetts Bay begun to claim more than belonged to them.

Wlien New Hampshire was swallowed up by Massachusetts the formation of a new county became expedient. Norfolk County was formed May 10, 1643. It consisted of the towns of Salisbury, Hampton, Haverhill, Exeter, Dover and Strawberry Bank, or Portsmouth. The early judges and associates were Francis Williams, Thomas Wiggin, George Smyth, Samuel Dudley, Robert Clements, Ambrose Lane, Brian Pendleton, Henry Sherburne, Major Richard Walderne, Major Robert Pike, Edward Hilton, Richard Cutt, Valentine Hill, and Reynold Fernald.


Died:
Age: 74

Thomas married WHITING, Catherine on 11 Jul 1633. Catherine (daughter of WHITING, William and PATERSON, Margaret) was born in 1601 in Middlesex, England; died on 16 Jun 1664 in Stratham, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: The Great Migration; Immigrant
• Name: Catharine Whiting
• Residence: Between 1623 and 1923, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA

Notes:

Married:
St Margaret's. Fish Street, London, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: The Great Migration; Winthrop; Immigrant
• Great Migration: https://www.americanancestors.org/DB393/rd/12107/209/235173372
• Historical Importance: 2X Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Occupation: Governor of Massachusetts
• Residence: Massachusetts, USA
• Education: 1621; degrees, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
• Occupation: Bef 1630, Horbling, Lincolnshire, England; Steward to the Earl of Lincoln and the Countess of Warwick
• Occupation: 18 Mar 1629/30; 1629/30 - 1678 Assistant, Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Religion: Aug 1630; Puritan - admitted to the Boston Church, member #7

Notes:

Test of person notes

Simon married DUDLEY, Anne in 1628 in Horbling, Lincolnshire, England. Anne (daughter of DUDLEY, Governor Thomas and YORKE, Dorothy) was born on 20 Mar 1612 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England; died on 16 Sep 1672 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in North Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Plaque dedicated to Anne Bradstreet at Harvard
• Arrival: Maryland, USA
• Differentiator: The Great Migration; Winthrop; Immigrant; First female American poet
• Historical Importance: Famous female poet; First female poet published in America
• Birth: 20 Mar 1612, Northamptonshire, England
• Arrival: 1630, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
• Arrival: 1630, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Vicar and Clerk in Warwickshire churches
• Ordained: 11 Jul 1583; Ordained Priest by the Bishop of Gloucester

William married GYBBES, Ann on 21 Aug 1590. Ann (daughter of GIBBS, Thomas /Gybbes and FAULKENER, Alis /Fakener) was born on 18 Apr 1572 in Honington, Warwickshire, England; died in 1603 in Bishop's Itchington, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

An heirress, born into a prominent Warwickshire family

Died:
shortly after the birth of her last child

William married PATERSON, Margaret on 30 Oct 1598 in Mersham, Kent, England. Margaret was born on 4 Oct 1575 in Thanet, Kent, England; died in 1632 in Canterbury, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Simon + BRADSTREET, Margaret. Margaret was born in 1584 in Harbling Parish, Lincolnshire, England; died in 1631 in Horbling, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: The Great Migration;Winthrop; Immigrant; Royal gateway ancestor; 3rd Governor of MA Bay Colony
• Great Migration: https://www.americanancestors.org/DB393/rd/12107/581/235178649
• Historical Importance: Massachusetts, USA; 3X Goveror of Massachusetts Bay Colony; signed charter founding Harvard; Gateway Ancestor
• Web Address: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dudley
• Web Address: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Thorne-41#Magna_Carta_Trails
• Residence: Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
• Occupation: Bef 1616; Page for William, Lord Compton (later Earl of Northampton
• Occupation: 1616; Steward for Thomas, Lord Clinton
• _MILT: Abt 1620; Raised company of soldiers to join forces sent by Queen Elizabeth to aid King Henry iV of France and to serve at the siege of Amiens
• Departure: 1630
• Residence: 1644, Roxbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
• Education: 30 May 1650; Signed Charter forming Harvard College

Notes:

From Collections, Topographical, Historical, and Biographical New Hampshire, Vol 1 (1822) Pgs 156-157
Edward Dudley was a lawyer and privy counsellor to Henry VII and Speaker of the House of Commons 1505. Henry the VIII sent Dudley to the scaffold (text doesn't explain why). John, Edward's son was in the reign of Edward VI and made Earl of Warwick and in 1551 Duke of Northumberland. He tried to raise lady Jane Grey his daughter-in-law to the throne as successor of Edward and was beheaded by order of Queen Mary on 23 Feb 1554. Sir Robert Dudley, sone of Duke of Northumberland, and in 1564 was made Baron of Denhigh and Earl of Leicester by Queen Elizabeth. He died in 1588. According to tradition Governor Thomas Dudley was the great grandson of the Duke of Northumberland.

Mr. Dudley was governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony 3 times and continued in the magistry until his death on 31 July 1653 when he was 77. Dr. Cotton Mather described him as "a gentleman whose natural and acquired abilities joined with his excellent moral qualities, entitled him to all great respects with which his country on all opportunities treated him."

Governor Thomas Dudley, Gateway Ancestor, is the direct descendant of 13 of the 25 Magna Carta Surety Barons.

Thomas married YORKE, Dorothy on 25 Apr 1603 in Hardingstone, Northamptonshire, England. Dorothy (daughter of YORKE, Edmund and FAIRFIELD, Katherine Mary) was born on 25 Apr 1582 in Cotton End, Northamptonshire, England; died on 27 Dec 1643 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: The Great Migration; Winthrop; Immigrant; Royal gateway ancestor

Notes:

Died:
Died of "wind colic"