Freeman-Ellis Master Family Tree

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Freeman-Ellis Master Family Tree

Master reference for the Freeman and Ellis lines, from Edmund Freeman of Pulborough to Nancy Ellis, the mother of Capt. Richard Blackmer Holbrook Sr. It sits beside the Collins-Reed and Holbrook master trees and follows the same layout, so it survives any font, page width or paste. It holds births, deaths, marriages and relationships only. The stories and quotations are in Freeman_Ellis_Anecdotes.md, and the evidence and reasoning are in Freeman_Ellis_Line_Research.md.

Last revised: 1 October 2026. Built from the research file and from the third research pass (five reports on the Nye, Tupper, Churchill, Stephens, Harlow, Bennett and Ellis families, and a FamilySearch full-text pass of Plymouth and Barnstable deeds and probate).

How each entry reads

  • Line 1: Name (birth year - death year). Direct ancestors are in bold.
  • Line 2: b. date, place; d. date, place
  • Line 3: m. date, place, spouse
  • Line 4: Note: identification only (occupation, residence, how the person is told apart from namesakes)
  • Link: how the parent-child step to this person is supported, with its evidence tier.
  • Siblings of direct ancestors get a single line.

Evidence tiers. [D] Documented: a primary record, or a published transcript, index, abstract or archive description of one. [C] Compiled: a secondary genealogy or online tree. [I] Inference: our own reasoning. [T] Tradition: family lore with no source. [?] marks an unproven link or claim.

Abbreviations: b. born; bapt. baptised; d. died; bur. buried; m. married; int. marriage intention; c. about; bef. before; aft. after; dau. daughter; VR printed vital records; PCR Plymouth Colony Records; B-M Brownson and McLean, NEHGR 119-120 (1965-66); PJ Pane-Joyce Genealogy. Dates are Old Style as recorded, with double years for 1 Jan to 24 Mar.

The line at a glance Edmund Freeman the elder (d. 1623) = Alice Coles > Edmund Freeman (1596-1682) = Bennett Hodsoll < John Hodsoll > Elizabeth Freeman = Lt. John Ellis > Lt. Matthias Ellis (1657-1748) = Mercy [Nye?] > Capt. Joel Ellis (1679/80-1763) = Elizabeth Churchill > Matthias Ellis (1719/20-c. 1790) = Lucy Bennett > George Ellis (b. 1747) = Phebe Stephens > Nancy Ellis (1781-1864) = Capt. Gideon Holbrook > Capt. Richard Blackmer Holbrook Sr. (1821-1894) > Capt. Richard Blackmer Holbrook Jr. > Richard Clifford Holbrook > Frances Fairchild Holbrook

Strength of each step

Step Tier What supports it
Edmund the elder > Edmund [D] Pulborough baptism, 25 July 1596; the father's will (1623) makes sons Edmond and William executors
John Hodsoll > Bennett [D] John Hodsoll's will (1617) names "daughter Bennett wife of Edmund Freeman"
Edmund > Elizabeth [D] Billingshurst baptism sworn in the 1633/4 Chancery depositions; Edmund's will (1682) names "my Daughter Elizabeth Ellis" as executrix
Elizabeth and John Ellis > Matthias [D] Sandwich VR: "Matthias Ellis the son of John Ellis," 2 June 1657; Edmund's deed of gift (1678/9) calls Matthias "my grandson"
Matthias > Joel [D] Sandwich VR birth of 17 Jan 1679/80 (first name worn, restored from a later copy [C]); Matthias's will (1744) leaves land to "my son Joel"; Joel's receipt to the executor (3 April, probably 1750) calls him "one of the Children of Mathias Ellis Late of Sandwich"
Joel > Matthias [D] Deed of gift, May 1759 (acknowledged 22 May 1759), "Joel Ellis of Middleborough" to "my Loving son Matthias Ellis"
Matthias and Lucy > George [D] Middleborough VR: "George Ellis the Son of Mathias Ellis and by Lucia his Wife Was Born May the 10th 1747"
George and Phebe > Nancy [D] Plympton warning-out, 28 Mar 1785, names Nancy among the seven children of George and Phebe; 1805 quitclaim of land "decended to us from our Mother Phebe Ellis Decd who was formerly Phebe Stephens," signed "Nancy Ellis Blackmer"; 1833 Plympton record, "whose maiden name was Ellis"
Nancy > Richard B. Holbrook Sr. [D] Gideon Holbrook's will (1841) names son Richard B. Holbrook and "my wife Nancy Holbrook"; Nancy's will (1860) names "my children ... Richard B. Holbrook"
Mercy's parentage (Nye) [C] [?] B-M and the 1907 Nye genealogy; no primary record names her maiden name

Early-ship descents carried by this line (each is set out in Part Four)

  • Mayflower 1620, Richard Warren, twice: through Mary Warren and Robert Bartlett to their daughters Rebecca (Harlow) and Sarah (Rider), and so to Phebe Harlow, mother of Phebe (Stephens) Ellis. Every link from Phebe Harlow up to Rebecca Bartlett is in the Plymouth records [D]; Rebecca and Sarah as daughters of Robert Bartlett and Mary Warren is standard [C].
  • Mayflower 1620, John Howland, Elizabeth Tilley, and John and Joan (Hurst) Tilley: through Isaac Howland, Priscilla (Howland) Bennett and Lt. Joseph Bennett to Lucy (Bennett) Ellis [C for Lucy's parentage, D for her birth].
  • Fortune 1621, Philip Delano: through Rebecca (Delano) Churchill to Elizabeth (Churchill) Ellis [C].
  • Anne 1623, Robert Bartlett and Mary Warren: as above.
  • William Pontus of the Leiden congregation, three times: through his daughters Hannah (Churchill) and Mary (Glass, Delano) to Elizabeth (Churchill) Ellis, and through Hannah's son Eleazer Churchill to Phebe (Stephens) Ellis.
  • Abigail 1635, Edmund Freeman; and, if Mercy was a Nye, Thomas Tupper and Benjamin Nye, whose presence on the Abigail rests on Dennis Geere's will [C].

Part One: Freeman of Pulborough and Sandwich

  • Edmund Freeman the elder (? - 1623)

    • b. unknown; bur. 6 June 1623, Pulborough, Sussex
    • m. Alice Coles (? - 1651/2), sister of George Coles of Amberley; she was bur. 14 Feb 1651/2, Reigate, Surrey; will proved 5 Mar 1651/2 (TNA PROB 11/221/67)
    • Note: "Woodbroker" of Pulborough in 1600-01, "yeoman" in 1609-23. Will proved 18 June 1623 (TNA PROB 11/141/674), executors his sons Edmond and William [D].
    • Edmund Freeman (1596 - 1682): next entry
    • William (c. 1598 - 1666): of Ratcliff, Stepney, in 1630, later of Cowfold, esq.; m. (1) by settlement of 20 July 1620, Christian Hodsoll, Bennett's sister (bapt. 23 Apr 1602; bur. Cowfold 24 July 1635); m. (2) licence 15 May 1638, Jane Gratwick, widow; bur. Cowfold 15 Sept 1666
    • Alice (1601 - ?): bapt. 15 Apr 1601; m. 27 Dec 1615, Pulborough, John Beauchamp, citizen and salter of London, later of Reigate (will 23 May 1655, TNA PROB 11/245/407), one of the London investors in Plymouth Colony; children John, Thomas, Alice, Mary, Edmund, Richard (Visitation of London 1633-35)
    • Eleanor (1603 - 1618): bapt. 25 Aug 1603; bur. 7 Apr 1618
    • John (1604/5 or 1605/6 or 1606/7 - ?): bapt. 24 Jan 1604/5 (FamilySearch) or 29 Jan 1605/6 or 1606/7 (Dawes-Gates); living 1623; identified by PJ with John Freeman of Sudbury, Mass. [?]
    • Elizabeth (1609 - ?): bapt. 27 Aug 1609; m. John Cuddington of Sidlow Mill, Reigate, gent. (dead by 1682) [I that he is Beauchamp's "bro. Coddington"]
    • Ellen (1592): in the FamilySearch tree only; before the surviving register begins [?]

  • Edmund Freeman (1596 - 1682)

    • bapt. 25 July 1596, Pulborough, Sussex; d. between 21 June 1682 (will) and 2 Nov 1682 (probate), Sandwich, Plymouth Colony; bur. on his homestead, Wilson Road, Sandwich (the "Saddle and Pillion" stones [T])
    • m. (1) 16 June 1617, Cowfold, Sussex (WikiTree reads 26 June), Bennett Hodsoll (bapt. 23 Aug 1596, All Saints Barking, London; bur. 12 Apr 1630, Pulborough); (2) probably 10 Aug 1632, Shipley, Sussex, "Elisabetha Raymer" [?]: Elizabeth, aged 35 in 1635, d. 14 Feb 1675/6, Sandwich
    • Note: Of Pulborough and Billingshurst; "of London, Merchant" by Feb 1634. Came on the Abigail 1635; at Lynn (Saugus); first named of the ten men allowed to settle Sandwich, 3 Apr 1637; Assistant of Plymouth Colony 1640-1646. Not the Edmund Freeman (Jr.) fined in 1659.
    • Link: [D] Pulborough baptism; his father's will.
    • By Bennett Hodsoll (the 1622-29 Billingshurst baptisms survive only in the 1633/4 Chancery depositions [C]):
    • Alice (1619 - 1651): bapt. 4 Apr 1619, Pulborough; d. 24 Apr 1651, Plymouth; m. 24 Nov 1639, Plymouth, William Paddy, merchant, deacon and colony treasurer (d. Boston 24 Aug 1658, aged 58; he m. (2) 3 Dec 1651 the widow of Capt. Bezaleel Payton). Children: Elizabeth (12 Nov 1641 - 5 Feb 1710/11), m. John Wensley; John (25 Nov 1643 - 8 Jan 1661/2); Samuel (1 Aug 1645), went to Barbados; Mercy (1646 - 1695); Thomas (6 Sept 1647 - 3 Feb 1690), m. Deborah Wayte; Joseph (10 Sept 1649 - 18 Feb 1649/50) [C, Freeman Genealogy]
    • Edmund Jr. (1620 - c. 1703): bapt. 26 Nov 1620, Billingshurst; d. by 5 Jan 1703/4 (administration to Ezra Perry); m. (1) 22 Apr 1646 Rebecca Prence (dau. of Gov. Thomas Prence and Patience Brewster), who d. soon after her only child's birth; (2) 18 July 1651 Margaret Perry. Children: Rebecca (m. Ezra Perry Jr.; d. 16 Apr 1738); Margaret (2 Oct 1652); Edmund (5 Oct 1655); Alice (29 Mar 1658); Rachel (4 Sept 1659), m. John Landers; Sarah (6 Feb 1662), m. Richard Landers; Deborah (9 Aug 1665), m. Thomas Landers [C, Freeman Genealogy]
    • Bennett (1621/2 - 1633/4), a son: bapt. 20 Jan 1621/2, Billingshurst; d. between 28 Nov 1633 and 13 Jan 1633/4
    • Elizabeth Freeman (1624 - aft. 1682): continues in Part Two
    • Maj. John (1626/7 - 1719): bapt. 28 Jan 1626/7, Billingshurst; d. 28 Oct 1719, Eastham; m. 13 Feb 1649/50 Mercy Prence (dau. of Gov. Thomas Prence; d. 28 Sept 1711 "in the 81st year"). Children: John (2 Feb 1650, d. young); John (Dec 1651 - 27 July 1721), m. (1) Sarah Merrick, (2) Mercy (Bradford) Watson; Thomas (Sept 1653 - 9 Feb 1715/16), m. Rebecca Sparrow; Patience, m. Samuel Paine; Hannah, m. John Mayo; Edmond (June 1657 - Dec 1717), m. Ruth Merrick [?], then Sarah Mayo; Mercy, m. Samuel Knowles; William (c. 1660 - 1686/7), m. Lydia Sparrow; Prince (d. young); Nathaniel (1669 - 1760); Bennett, m. John Paine [C, Dawes-Gates; NEHGR 20]
    • Nathaniel (1629): bapt. 2 Sept 1629, Billingshurst; bur. 12 Sept 1629, Pulborough
    • By the second wife, or a stepdaughter [?]:
    • Mary (c. 1636 - ?): m. c. 1653 Edward Perry of Sandwich, Quaker, first known clerk of the Sandwich Friends meeting (d. 16 Feb 1694/5). Children: Edward; Benjamin (father of Freeman Perry [C, Jacobus]); Peace, m. 20 Oct 1697 John Mulford; Rest, m. 20 Nov 1705 Jacob Motte of Portsmouth, R.I.; Deborah; Samuel (b. 2 Mar 166[5-8]). Edmund's will calls Perry "my son"; whether Mary was Edmund's daughter (Jacobus, Anderson, Paine) or Edward his stepson (Brainard, Dawes-Gates) is open. The weight of evidence favours a daughter born c. 1636 [I]
    • Not his: "Cycella" (b. c. 1631), added by Paine after Otis [C], is probably the "Sycillae 4" of a different Freeman family on the Abigail [I]

Part Two: The Ellis line

  • Lt. John Ellis (bef. 1627 - 1677) and Elizabeth Freeman (1624 - aft. 1682)

    • John: b. "not later than 1627" (B-M) [C], parents unknown; d. bef. 23 Mar 1676/7 (B-M) [C]; administration granted 7 June 1677 to "Mistris Elizabeth Ellis and Mordica Ellis" on "the estate of John Ellis, Junir, of Sandwich, late deceased" (PCR 5:235) [D]
    • Elizabeth: bapt. 11 Apr 1624, Billingshurst, Sussex [D, from the 1633/4 depositions]; living 1687 on her Sippican land [C]; d. probably 24 June 1692, Rochester [C, unverified]
    • m. by Aug 1644, Sandwich (PCR 2:76-77, 85-86) [D]
    • Note: John was lieutenant of the Sandwich military company from 1653 and kept an ordinary there from 1659. The claim that he was a son of John Ellis and Blandina Masterson of Sandwich, Kent, is disproven (WikiTree, after Paulick) [C]. Elizabeth was a Sippican (Rochester) proprietor as a widow, 1679-80.
    • Link (Elizabeth): [D] her father's will (1682).
    • Children (B-M via PJ unless marked):
    • Elizabeth (c. 1645 - ?): m. Samuel Briggs of Sandwich and Sippican
    • Bennet (1647/8 or 1648/9 - ?): b. 27 Feb (1648 in PCR 8:6, so 1647/8; the VR editors and PJ give 1648/9); m. Obadiah Eddy
    • Lt. Mordecai (1650/1 - c. 1707): b. 24 Mar 1650/1, Sandwich [D]; d. probably 5 Feb 1706/7 (Sandwich VR editors), or 5 Feb 1709/10 (PJ); m. Sarah (d. 25 Oct 1716); son Mordecai d. 1 Nov 1717; dau. Sarah m. 8 June 1704 Joshua Blackwell
    • Deborah (c. 1652 - 1711): m. Joseph Doty; sons Theophilus (22 Feb 1674/5) and Ellis Doty (16 Apr 1677) [D, Sandwich VR]
    • Joel (1654/5 - young): b. 20 Mar 1654/5 [D]
    • Samuel (c. 1656 - ?)
    • Lt. Matthias Ellis (1657 - 1748): next entry
    • Manoah (c. 1659 - ?): m. by 1679 Mary [the "Mary Burgess" label belongs here, if anywhere; B-M found no evidence for it]
    • Freeman (c. 1661 - bef. 1728): d. Rochester bef. 20 June 1728 [C]; m. c. 1686 Mercy; children Thankful (29 May 1687), Dorothy (1 Jan 1691), Elizabeth (2 Oct 1693), Ebenezer (7 Feb 1695/6), Eleanor (1 Sept 1703) [D, Rochester VR]
    • Gideon (c. 1663 - ?)
    • William (c. 1665 - 1716): d. 20 June 1716, Middleborough [C]; m. Lydia

  • Lt. Matthias Ellis (1657 - 1748)

    • b. 2 June 1657, Sandwich [D]; d. 1748, Sandwich, before 4 Oct (probate): "Lieut Matthias Ellis Sen Died September the 8th" (Sandwich register [D]; the probate date of 4 Oct 1748 fits it); other dates given are 20 Aug (PJ) and 30 Aug (Freeman's Annals)
    • m. c. 1678/9, Mercy [Nye?] (b. 8 Apr 1652, Sandwich, if she is Mercy Nye; living 4 Oct 1748, when named his executor [D]; d. bef. 7 Nov 1749 [C])
    • Note: Raised in his grandfather Edmund Freeman's house and given it in 1678/9. Will dated 30 Nov 1744, proved at Barnstable 4 Oct 1748 (Barnstable Probate; FamilySearch 3:1:3Q9M-C9YB-793Z) [D]; it names wife Mercy, sons Joel, Matthias and Malachi, and daughters Mercy Morton, Experience Churchill and Mehitable Merrick.
    • Link: [D] Sandwich VR birth as son of John Ellis; Edmund's deed of gift, 1678/9.
    • Link (Mercy): her first name and her marriage to Matthias are [D] (nine births of children "of Matthias Ellis and Mercy Ellis his wife," and his will). Her identity as Mercy Nye is [C] [?] (B-M; Nye 1907). Against it: WikiTree treats her maiden name as unknown, and a WikiTree summary of a deed of 9 June 1704 has Benjamin Nye providing for "daughter Mercy" in his old age.
    • Children (Sandwich VR [D]; names in brackets restored from a worn page [C]):
    • [Joel] Ellis (1679/80 - 1763): next entry
    • Matthias (5 Nov 1681 - ?): m. 20 Mar 1710/11 Thankful Bassett; children Thankful (1711/12), Mercy (1713), Remember (1715), Experience (1717/18), Mary (1720), Elizabeth (1722), Mehetabel (1725)
    • [John] (17 Aug 1683 - 12 Dec 1717): d. single; administration 1718 [D, Barnstable Probate]
    • Mercy (17 Aug 1685 - ?): m. (1) 18 Apr 1705 Thomas Doty; "Mercy Morton" in 1744 [D]
    • Experience (26 July 1687 - ?): m. 2 Dec 1708 Stephen Churchill of Plymouth, gentleman
    • [Mala]chi (8 Oct 1689 - ?): m. 3 Jan 1714/15 Jane Blackwell; executor and heir to the homestead, 1748
    • Remember (1 Dec 1691 - ?): not named in the 1744 will
    • [Mehit]abel (31 Dec 1693 - ?): m. ___ Merrick
    • [Sam]uel (12 Nov 1699 - ?): not named in the 1744 will

  • Capt. Joel Ellis (1679/80 - 1763)

    • b. 17 Jan 1679/80, Sandwich [D]; d. 21 June 1763, Middleborough [C]
    • m. (1) 6 Apr 1710, Plymouth, Elizabeth Churchill (b. 7 Oct 1687, Plymouth; d. 3 Apr 1753, Middleborough, "in the 66th Year of Her Age," bur. Cemetery at the Green, Middleborough, Find a Grave 29369456); (2) 27 Mar 1758, Middleborough, Jemima Bennett, widow (Tupper per B-M via PJ), by Rev. Sylvanus Conant [D]
    • Note: Of Middleborough by 1722 ("Gentleman" by 1747; "Capt." in 1758). Not the Joel Ellis of Rochester, cordwainer (d. by 1732), nor Joel Ellis of Plympton (d. 13 June 1803 aged 64).
    • Link: [D] Sandwich birth; his father's will and his own receipt to the executor (Barnstable Probate, 1748-50).
    • Children (Plymouth VR and Middleborough VR in Mayflower Descendant 9:47-48 [D]; others B-M via PJ [C]):
    • Joel (21 Feb 1711/12 - ?): of Plympton in 1744, when his parents gave him land there
    • John (18 Sept 1714 - ?): m. Elizabeth Coomer (d. 3 Mar 1781), eight children b. 1742-1759
    • Samuel (22 Oct 1716 - ?)
    • Matthias Ellis (1719/20 - c. 1790): next entry
    • Rebecca (1 July 1721 - 19 June 1781): m. 1741 Gideon Southworth
    • Elizabeth (5 Feb 1723/4 - ?): m. 1752 Samuel Lanman
    • Ensign Charles (19 June 1726 - ?): m. Dec 1756 Bathsheba Fuller of Halifax; given half his father's homestead, 1759
    • Thomas (1 Jan 1728/9 - ?): living on his father's homestead in 1759 and given half of it

  • Matthias Ellis (1719/20 - c. 1790)

    • b. 7 Mar 1719/20 [place not in our notes; Joel was of Plymouth in 1714 and Middleborough by 1722]; d. by Mar 1790, Middleborough, "Gentleman," estate insolvent [D]
    • m. 7 Apr 1743 [C], Middleborough, Lucia (Lucy) Bennett (b. 2 Oct 1725, Middleborough [D, MD 6:228]; d. 3 Oct 1804, aged 79 [C, Weston's catalogue of First Church members])
    • Note: "Ensign" in 1770. Not the Matthias Ellis, labourer, of Middleborough (d. by 1782), nor Matthias Ellis Jr. of Sandwich (b. 1739).
    • Link: [D] deed of gift from his father, May 1759.
    • Link (Lucy): [D] her birth to "Joseph Bennet Junr & ... Thankfull his wife"; [C] her marriage date and her identity as the wife of Matthias (Bosworth database, citing Genealogies of Mayflower Families 1:665); supported by Weston's catalogue, "Lucia Ellis, wid. of Matthias, m. 1743, o. Bennet," whose mother is no. 273, Thankful Bennet [C], and by the Bennett heirs' land sales of 1758 and 1763 [D].
    • Children (Middleborough VR [D]):
    • Mary (7 Nov 1743 - ?)
    • Joseph (1 Apr 1745 - ?): administrator of his father's estate, 1790
    • George Ellis (1747 - aft. 1808): next entry
    • Cornelius (Wednesday 18 Oct 1749 - ?)
    • Ebenezer (Thursday 15 Jan 1752 - ?)
    • Betty (Sunday 12 May 1754 - ?)
    • Gamaliel (Tuesday 27 Sept 1757 - ?)
    • Daniel (Tuesday 17 Sept 1760 - ?)
    • Lucy (17 Jan 1763 - ?)

  • George Ellis (1747 - aft. 1808)

    • b. 10 May 1747, Middleborough [D]; living c. 1808, when he and his wife Experience joined her siblings as heirs of William Clark (deed recorded Jan 1809) [D]; death not found
    • m. (1) 23 May 1773, Plympton (published at Middleborough May 1773), Phebe Stephens of Plympton (b. probably c. 1750 [?], dau. of Edward Stephens Jr. and Phebe Harlow; living 28 Mar 1785; dead by 22 May 1805, and probably the "George Ellis's Wife" who d. 24 Nov 1789, Plymouth [I]); (2) int. 19 May 1792, m. 4 June 1792, Plymouth, Experience Clark, dau. of William Clark of Plymouth
    • Note: Yeoman of Plymouth. Bought the Plymouth farm of his father-in-law Edward Stephens from the estate (1789-94); his homestead had been Nathaniel Donham's. No record uses a middle name "David."
    • Link: [D] Middleborough birth.
    • Link (Phebe): [C] Davis, "Phebe, m. George Ellis," among Edward Stephens's children; [D] the Stephens estate sale of the farm "occupied by George Ellis"; [D] the 1805 quitclaim of land "decended to us from our Mother Phebe Ellis Decd who was formerly Phebe Stephens."
    • Children by Phebe (the 1785 warning-out lists seven, in this order [D]):
    • Sarah (c. 1774 - ?): m. Elisha Morton; of Hebron, Maine ("at the Eastward") in 1805 [D]
    • Phebe (c. 1775 - 1851): m. 1796 Azel Thomas of Middleborough; d. 3 Feb 1851, Maine [C, Weston]
    • Molly (Polly) (? - ?): unmarried in 1805 [D]
    • George Jr. (? - bef. 1828): mariner; m. 27 Dec 1801 Mercy Harlow (Kingston VR) [D]; grantee of the 1805 quitclaim; his widow m. Benjamin Dillard [C, Davis]
    • Matthias (? - ?): "Mattathias Ellis of Wareham" in 1805 [D]
    • Nancy Ellis (1781 - 1864): next entry
    • Stephens (Stevens) (? - ?): m. 22 Nov 1806 Betsey Churchell [D]
    • Ziba and Isaac (of Middleborough) Ellis, named with the heirs in the 1805 quitclaim; probably younger children of Phebe, b. 1785-89 [I] [?]

  • Nancy Ellis (1781 - 1864)

    • b. 21 Oct 1781, Plymouth (from her age at death) [I from D]; d. 29 Jan 1864, Plymouth, widow, aged 82y 3m 8d (Massachusetts death records, vol. 175 p. 336, as cited in Holbrook-Master-Family-Tree.md) [D]; bur. Manomet (Find a Grave 147127092) [C]
    • m. (1) int. 1801, Plymouth, Richard Blackmer, mariner (b. 1 Nov 1772, Plymouth, son of Branch Blackmer and Sarah Waite; d. intestate by 29 Feb 1808); (2) int. 29 Nov 1818, m. Dec 1818, Plymouth, Capt. Gideon Holbrook (c. 1766 - 23 Jan 1842), widower of Sarah Clark
    • Note: Of Manomet Ponds, Plymouth. Not the Nancy Ellis who m. Clift Bailey at Plymouth in 1807. No record uses a middle name "Stevens." Will dated 6 Sept 1860, signed by her mark, proved Jan 1865 [D].
    • Link: [D] the 1785 warning-out; the 1805 quitclaim; the 1833 Plympton record; her daughter Mary Holbrook's 1899 death record names her mother as Nancy Ellis (per the Holbrook tree).
    • Children by Richard Blackmer (Plymouth VR [D]):
    • Sarah (27 Dec 1801 - bef. 1860): m. 1819 Ezra Clark; children David, Lucy (m. Charles H. Peterson), Sarah (m. James Ellis), Lewis [C, Davis; D, Nancy's will names these four as grandchildren]
    • Nancy (3 Jan 1804 - ?): m. (1) Seth Holmes; (2) c. 1839/40 Josiah Morey of Plympton; "Nancy Morey" in her mother's will, 1860
    • George Ellis Blackmer (7 Apr 1806 - bef. c. 1840): m. c. 1830 Rebecca Bartlett, who m. (2) Timothy Allen; named in his grandfather Branch Blackmer's will, 1818 [D]
    • Children by Gideon Holbrook (full entries in Holbrook-Master-Family-Tree.md, Part Two):
    • Gideon (c. 1819/20 - bef. Dec 1853): seaman; m. 27 July 1846 Lucretia W. Bartlett, who m. (2) 1853 David Clark, Nancy's grandson
    • Capt. Richard Blackmer Holbrook Sr. (1821 - 1894): b. 7 Aug 1821, Manomet, Plymouth; d. 14 May 1894, Coupeville, Washington; m. 24 Dec 1860, Steilacoom, Washington Territory, Harriet Phillips Lowe of Deer Isle, Maine. Continues in the Holbrook and Collins-Reed master trees
    • Elisha (c. 1823/24 - 1887): of Manomet; co-executor of his mother's will
    • Mary "Polly" (9 Mar 1826 - 5 Jan 1899): unmarried; co-executor of her mother's will
    • Eliphalet (1828 - 1920): of Worcester in 1865, later of Manomet; m. 11 Oct 1854, Worcester, Harriet Rice

Part Three: Hodsoll (Bennett's family)

From Richard L. Bush, NEHGR 164 (2010):104-111, as summarised by Sibert Ancestry [C], and John Hodsoll's will as abstracted by Jacobus [D abstract].

  • John Hodsoll (c. 1555 - 1617)
    • b. c. 1555, son of John Hodsoll; bur. 20 Nov 1617, Cowfold, Sussex
    • m. (1) c. 1579 Anne Maundy, dau. of John Maundy and Alice (perhaps Temple); (2) c. 1614 Faith (Moorer) (Bacon) Bareham (bapt. 28 Sept 1576, St Mary Colechurch, London; dau. of Robert and Elizabeth (Barto) Moorer; widow of William Bacon and of Thomas Bareham)
    • Note: "Of the City of London, mariner" in 1592/3 (wharf at Ratcliff); "gent." by 1607; a subscriber to the Virginia Company, 1612 ("Hodsale, John ... pd. £37 10s," Brown, Genesis of the United States) [D]. Will 1 Aug 1617, proved 16 Nov 1617 (TNA PROB 11/130/640), naming "daughter Bennett wife of Edmund Freeman."
    • Link: [D] his will.
    • Children by Anne Maundy (baptisms at All Saints Barking or St Dunstan's, Stepney):
    • Anne (1580 - 1581)
    • Thomas (bapt. 10 Dec 1584 - ?)
    • Clement (bapt. 19 Dec 1585 - ?)
    • Anne (bapt. 27 Jan 1586/7 - ?): m. Thomas Sheffield
    • Elizabeth (bapt. 24 Jan 1587/8 - bur. 3 Nov 1624): m. (1) William Scates or Scales, (2) Andrew Printup
    • John (bapt. 24 Nov 1589 - 12 Nov 1628): of Shermanbury, gent.; m. Elizabeth Gratwick; bur. Cowfold
    • Katherine (bapt. 28 Jan 1591/2 - bur. 24 Mar 1634/5, St Olave Hart Street): m. 24 Oct 1617 Warner Norwood
    • William (bapt. 1593 - d. by 1615)
    • Jane (bapt. 1595 - d. by 1617)
    • Bennett Hodsoll (bapt. 23 Aug 1596 - bur. 12 Apr 1630): m. Edmund Freeman (Part One)
    • Margaret (1597 - ?)
    • Christian (bapt. 23 Apr 1602 - bur. 24 July 1635, Cowfold): m. William Freeman, Edmund's brother
    • By Faith: William (bapt. 12 Sept 1615, Cowfold - d. by 1617)

Part Four: Families who married in

Ancestral lines are given as nested entries; direct ancestors in bold.

A. Coles (Alice, wife of Edmund the elder)

  • George Coles of Amberley, yeoman, Alice's brother: b. c. 1559, Wootton, Somerset ("Born in Wootton, Somersetshire. Aged about 65 years," deposition of 30 Oct 1624, WSRO Ep/I/11/13) [D]; at Amberley from c. 1601. Trustee for the Freeman family in 1620.

B. Tupper and Nye (Mercy, wife of Lt. Matthias Ellis) [?]

The whole of this section depends on Mercy being Mercy Nye, which is probable, not proven (Part Two).

  • Thomas Tupper (c. 1578 or 1590 - 1676)
    • b. "in the yeare of our lord 1578" by the Sandwich death record [D], or the Thomas son of Anthony Tupper bapt. 7 Apr 1590 "in Bury," probably Bury, West Sussex (Hilder, Nye and Shaw, NEHGR 159) [C] [?]; d. 28 Mar 1676, Sandwich, "in the 98th yeer of his age"; bur. 30 Mar 1676 [D]
    • m. Anne (b. c. 1586; d. 4 June 1676, Sandwich, "in the: 90th: yeer of her age" [D]); possibly the Agnes Wedson who m. a Thomas Tupper at Tillington, Sussex, 18 May 1614 [C] [?]; "Hodgson" is unsupported
    • Note: Shoemaker; one of the "tenn men of Saugust," 1637; deputy for Sandwich; marriage officer 1650-1653/4.
    • Katherine Tupper (c. 1620 - aft. 1704): possibly the "Katherin" bapt. 30 July 1620 at Petworth, Sussex [C] [?]; m. Benjamin Nye (below)
    • Capt. Thomas Jr. (16 Jan [c. 1638] - 26 Apr 1706): m. 27 Dec 1661 Martha Mayhew, dau. of Gov. Thomas Mayhew [D]; town clerk; children include Eldad (b. last day of May 1675), later pastor of the Indian church
  • Benjamin Nye (c. 1620 - aft. 1704)
    • b. c. 1620, England, parents unknown (the Biddenden, Kent, pedigree of 1907 is "almost certainly spurious"; NEHGR 158 points to Sussex [C]); d. Sandwich after 9 June 1704 (variously "before 1713," 1704-07, or 30 Apr 1714 [C])
    • m. 19 Oct 1640, Sandwich, Katherine Tupper [D, PCR 1:153 and Sandwich VR]
    • Note: Came 1635, probably on the Abigail (a legatee of Dennis Geere's will) [C]; built mills at Sandwich; the Benjamin Nye Homestead, 85 Old County Road, East Sandwich, is dated 1678 by dendrochronology [C].
    • Mary (c. 1642 - ?): m. Jacob Burge (1 June 1660, Freeman's Annals, or 1 June 1670, Nye 1907); children Samuel (1671), Ebenezer (1673), Jacob (1676), Thomas (1680)
    • John (? - 1722): m. Esther Shedd; will proved 27 Nov 1722, witnessed by Matthias Ellis Jr.
    • Ebenezer (? - ?): m. Sarah Gibbs [C, unsourced]
    • Jonathan (20 Nov 1649 - ?) [D]: m. (1) Hannah, (2) Patience Burgess; received his father's lands by deed of 9 June 1704
    • Mercy Nye (8 Apr 1652 - ?): birth [D]; identity with Mercy, wife of Lt. Matthias Ellis [C] [?]
    • Caleb (? - 1704): m. Elizabeth Wood alias Atwood
    • Nathan (? - 27 Nov 1747): m. Mercy ___
    • Benjamin (? - 26 Mar 1676): killed at Pierce's Fight, Rehoboth [C, Nye 1907 only]

C. Pontus, Churchill and Delano (Elizabeth, wife of Capt. Joel Ellis)

  • William Pontus (? - 1652/3)
    • b. "near Dover" [C]; d. 9 Feb 1652/3, Plymouth [D, PCR 8]
    • m. 4 Dec 1610, Leiden, Wybra Hanson, William Brewster a witness ("William Pautes, fustian-worker, from near Dover") [C, Leiden notes quoted in The Churchill Family in America p. 2]
    • Note: Of the Leiden congregation; at Plymouth by 1633.
    • Hannah Pontus (c. 1624 - 1690): m. (1) 18 Dec 1644 John Churchill (below); (2) 25 June 1669 Giles Rickard; d. 22 Dec 1690, Hobbs Hole, Plymouth, "in her sixty-seventh year" [C]
    • Mary Pontus (? - ?): m. (1) 31 Oct 1645 James Glass, drowned 1652 [D] (dau. Wybra Glass, b. 9 Aug 1649 [D]; Hannah Glass); (2) 17 Jan 1653/4 Philip Delano (below) [C]
  • John Churchill (? - 1662/3)
    • b. unknown, origin unknown; d. 1 Jan 1662/3, Plymouth [D, PCR 8:23]
    • m. 18 Dec 1644 Hannah Pontus
    • Note: Of Hobbs Hole, Plymouth; on the 1643 list of men able to bear arms; freeman 1651.
    • Joseph (1647 - ?): m. Sarah Hicks
    • Hannah (12 Nov 1649 - ?): m. John Drew
    • Eleazer Churchill (20 Apr 1652 - 8 Mar 1716) [D birth, PCR 8:15]: ancestor through Phebe Stephens (section E)
    • Mary (1 Aug 1654 - ?): m. Thomas Doty
    • William (1656 - ?)
    • Sgt. John Churchill Jr. (c. 1656/7 - 1723): below
  • Philip Delano (1603 - ?)
    • bapt. 7 Dec 1603, Walloon church, Leiden, as Philippe de Lannoy [C]; d. not checked
    • m. (1) 19 Dec 1634 Hester Dewsbury (d. by 1653/4); (2) 17 Jan 1653/4 Mary (Pontus) Glass [C]
    • Note: Came on the Fortune, Nov 1621, aged about 18; of Duxbury.
    • Children by Hester: Mary (m. 1655 Jonathan Dunham), Philip, Thomas, Hester, John, Jonathan
    • Children by Mary: Jane; Rebecca Delano (c. 1656/7 - 6 Apr 1709, "aged 52"); Samuel [C]
  • Sgt. John Churchill Jr. (c. 1656/7 - 1723)
    • b. c. 1656/7, Plymouth; d. 13 June 1723, "in 66th year of his age" [C]
    • m. (1) 28 Dec 1686, Plymouth, Rebecca Delano [D, Plymouth VR Book 1 p. 128]; (2) 4 Mar 1715 Hannah Bartlett, widow (d. 29 Apr 1723, aged 61)
    • Note: Given 50 acres at Manomet Ponds by his father's will; constable 1686; freeman 1689. John and Rebecca were first cousins, both grandchildren of William Pontus.
    • Link: [C] The Churchill Family in America (1904); Pane-Joyce. His children's births are [D] (Plymouth VR Book 1 p. 9).
    • Elizabeth Churchill (7 Oct 1687 - 3 Apr 1753): m. Capt. Joel Ellis (Part Two)
    • Rebeckah (29 Aug 1689 - ?)
    • John (20 Dec 1691 - ?)
    • Sarah (10 Feb 1695 - ?)
    • Hannah (27 Apr 1697 - ?)

D. Howland, Tilley and Bennett (Lucy, wife of Matthias Ellis)

  • John Tilley and Joan Hurst (Mayflower, both d. 1620/1) > Elizabeth Tilley (Mayflower) [C, standard]
  • John Howland (Mayflower) m. Elizabeth Tilley > Lt. Isaac Howland m. Elizabeth Vaughan > Priscilla Howland [C]
  • Capt. Peter Bennett (1674 - 1749)
    • b. Sept 1674, son of Dea. John Bennett and Deborah Grover; d. 22 Oct 1749, Middleborough [C]
    • m. 30 Oct 1700, Bridgewater, Priscilla Howland (b. 22 Aug 1681; d. 3 Mar 1746) [C]
    • Note: Will 5 Oct 1749, estate about £6,098 [C, Sibert].
    • Elizabeth (28 Mar 1701 - ?); Lt. Joseph Bennett Jr. (c. 1704 - 1741/2); others not gathered
  • Lt. Joseph Bennett Jr. (c. 1704 - 1741/2)
    • b. c. 1704; d. 3 Jan 1741/2, Middleborough: "Leiut Joseph Bennet the Son of Capt Peter Bennet Deceased January the 3rd 1741/2" (MD 15:24) [D]; died intestate, estate sold for debts by 1746 [D]
    • m. Thankful (Sproat? [C] [?]), who m. (2) 1758 Seth Samson [C]
    • Link: [D] the death record names his father.
    • Lucia (Lucy) Bennett (2 Oct 1725 - 3 Oct 1804) [D birth, MD 6:228]: m. Matthias Ellis (Part Two)
    • William (9 June 1727 - 20 Aug 1727) [D]
    • Priscilla (19 May 1729 - 16 May 1745) [D]
    • Elizabeth (2 July 1731 - ?) [D]: probably the Elizabeth, wife of John Morton, who sold Bennett land with Matthias and Lucy in 1758 and 1763 [I]
    • John (7 Feb 1733/4 - ?) [D]: probably "John Bennett the second" of the same sales [I]
    • Joseph (? - 19 Nov 1737) [D]
    • Jemima [?] (? - ?): m. Lemuel Jackson; a seller with Matthias and Lucy in 1758 and 1763; her birth not found, so she may be a cousin rather than a sister [I]

E. Stephens (Phebe, wife of George Ellis: father's side)

  • Edward Stephens of Marshfield (living 1665) [C]: children Edward, William, Elizabeth, Patience (m. John Phillips)
  • Edward Stephens (? - ?)
    • m. (1) 23 Dec 1708, Plymouth, Mary Churchill (b. 1688, dau. of Eleazer Churchill and Mary [Bryant?]) [D marriage; C her parentage]; (2) 3 Apr 1729 Mercy (Holmes) Sylvester, widow of Joseph Sylvester [D]
    • Children by Mary (Plymouth VR pp. 82-83 [D]): Mary (21 June 1710); Hannah (11 Apr 1712); Sarah (25 May 1715); Lemuel (5 Dec 1716 - 20 June 1718); Elizabeth (30 Apr 1719); Edward (19 Sept 1721); Eleazer (10 Dec 1723), who owned the Harlow Old Fort House 1778-84 [C]
  • Edward Stephens Jr. (1721 - c. 1789)
    • b. 19 Sept 1721, Plymouth [D]; d. c. 1789 (administrators empowered Oct 1789) [D]
    • m. c. 1746/7, Plymouth, Phebe Harlow (b. 21 Oct 1728) [D]
    • Link: [D] birth record; [C] Davis 2:252 for his parents.
    • Children (Davis [C]; Edward's birth [D]): Edward (6 Feb 1747/8); William (1752); Sylvanus (m. Betsey, widow of James or Joseph Doten); John (m. Elizabeth Battles); Samuel (went to Maine); Lemuel; Benjamin; Zacheus; Sally (m. Isaac Bonney); Phebe (m. George Ellis); Mary (m. Asa Sherman); Elizabeth (m. Joseph Robbins)
  • Note: George Ellis and Phebe Stephens were third cousins, both great-great-grandchildren of John Churchill and Hannah Pontus [I from D and C].

F. Bartlett, Warren, Harlow and Rider (Phebe, wife of George Ellis: mother's side)

  • Richard Warren (Mayflower 1620) > Mary Warren (Anne 1623) m. Robert Bartlett (Anne 1623) [C, standard]
    • Rebecca Bartlett (? - c. 1657/8): m. 20 Dec 1649 Sgt. William Harlow [D, PCR 8]
    • Sarah Bartlett (? - ?): m. 23 Dec 1656 Samuel Rider [D, PCR 8]
  • Sgt. William Harlow (c. 1624/5 - 1691)
    • b. c. 1624/5; d. 25 Aug 1691, Plymouth, "in his 67th year" [D]
    • m. (1) 20 Dec 1649 Rebecca Bartlett; (2) 15 July 1658 Mary Faunce (d. 4 Oct 1664), sister of Elder Thomas Faunce; (3) 25 Jan 1665/6 Mary Shelley [D, PCR 8]
    • Note: At Lynn 1637, then Sandwich, then Plymouth [C]; builder of the Harlow Old Fort House, 119 Sandwich Street, Plymouth (legend 1677; a 1996 assessment says 1700 or later) [C].
    • Children by Rebecca: William (5 Oct 1650 - 26 Oct 1650); Samuel (27 Jan 1652/3); Rebecca (12 June 1655); William (2 June 1657) [D]
    • By Mary Faunce: Mary (1659), Repentance (1660), John (1662), Nathaniel (30 Sept 1664) [D]
    • By Mary Shelley: Hannah, Bathsheba, Joanna, Mehitabel, Judith [D]
  • Samuel Harlow (1652/3 - bef. 1728)
    • b. 27 Jan 1652/3, Plymouth [D, PCR 8:15]; d. by 1728
    • m. (1) Priscilla; (2) Hannah
    • Link: [D] birth record names his father; born within the Bartlett marriage, so Rebecca Bartlett was his mother [I from D].
    • By Priscilla: Rebekah (1678). By Hannah: John (1685), Hannah (1689), Samuel (1690), William (26 July 1692), Eliazer (1694), Priscilla (1695) [D]
  • Samuel Rider (? - ?) m. Sarah Bartlett: Samuel (18 Nov 1657); John Rider (b. 3 June 1663 [C]; d. 1735 [C]) [D for the 1657 birth; C for John]
  • John Rider m. (1) 1694 Hannah Barnes (dau. of Jonathan Barnes and Elizabeth Hedge [C]); (2) Mary. Children by Hannah: Sarah (1694); Mercy (14 Nov 1696); Samuel (1698); John (1700); Ebenezer (1702) [D, Plymouth VR p. 84]
  • William Harlow (1692 - bef. 1765)
    • b. 26 July 1692, Plymouth [D]; d. before 1765 [I]
    • m. 24 Feb 1714/15, Plymouth, Mercy Rider (b. 14 Nov 1696; d. 21 Jan 1772 [C, unverified]) [D]; they were second cousins [I]
    • Note: Owned the Harlow Old Fort House from 1728 [C, Davis].
    • Children: Sarah (1715), Benjamin (1716), William (1718), Hannah (1719/20), Mercy (1721/2), Keziah (1723), Samuel (1726), Phebe (21 Oct 1728), Rebecca (1732), Seth (1736) [D birth of Phebe; C the list]

G. Blackmer (Nancy's first husband)

  • Branch Blackmer and Sarah Waite: parents of Richard Blackmer (b. 1 Nov 1772). Branch's will (probate 1818) leaves a third of his Plymouth real estate to "George Ellis Blackmar, my Grandson & Son of my Son Richard Blackmer decd" [D].

H. Clark (George Ellis's second wife; Gideon Holbrook's first wife)

  • William Clark of Plymouth: father of Experience (Clark) Ellis (heirs' deed, recorded Jan 1809) [D].
  • James Clark Jr. and Hannah Swift: parents of Sarah (Clark) Holbrook (b. 13 Feb 1765), Gideon Holbrook's first wife. Neither Clark family is in the direct line.

I. Holbrook and Lowe

  • See Holbrook-Master-Family-Tree.md for the Holbrook line from Glastonbury to Capt. Gideon, and for Harriet Phillips Lowe (b. 12 June 1834 per that tree; 12 June 1839 per Farrar, Washington Historical Quarterly 1916), dau. of Nathan and Harriet (Tyler) Low of Deer Isle, Maine.

Part Five: Forks and discrepancies

Question Claims Present reading
Mercy, wife of Lt. Matthias: maiden name Nye (B-M 1965; Nye 1907; PJ); unknown (WikiTree); "Mary Burgess" (Freeman 1875; Davis 1899) Probably Nye [C] [?]. "Mary Burgess" is a confusion with Manoah's wife. The 9 June 1704 Nye deed ("daughter Mercy") needs reading
Lt. Matthias's death 8 Sept 1748 (Sandwich register); 20 Aug (PJ); 30 Aug (Annals) 8 Sept fits the probate of 4 Oct 1748
Joel's birth name Worn in the register; "Joel" from a later copy and B-M Joel; confirmed in effect by his father's will and his receipt as one of the children
Joel's father Matthias (B-M; Sandwich VR) vs Samuel Ellis of Plympton (Davis) Matthias [D]
Joel-to-Matthias deed Previously read as 23 May 1750 May 1759: acknowledged at Middleborough 22 May 1759 (image checked); the companion gift to sons Charles and Thomas is dated 21 May 1759
Jemima, Joel's second wife Widow of Samuel Bennett, born Tupper (B-M via PJ) Marriage 27 Mar 1758 [D]; her maiden name [C]
Lucy's father Samuel Bennett (earlier hypothesis) vs Lt. Joseph Bennett Jr. Joseph [D birth record]
Phebe (Stephens) Ellis's death 1786 (FamilySearch tree); 24 Nov 1789 ("George Ellis's Wife," Plymouth church records) Living 28 Mar 1785; probably 24 Nov 1789 [I]; certainly dead by 22 May 1805
Molly Ellis Thought missing from the 1805 quitclaim Named among the 1805 grantors as "Polly Ellis" (image checked)
Nancy's second marriage 1818 (Davis; Holbrook tree); "7 Oct 1819" (earlier reading of the research file) Int. 29 Nov 1818 [D, Plymouth VR intentions]; m. Dec 1818
Nancy's birth "c. 1778-84" (order in 1785 warning-out) 21 Oct 1781, from her age at death
Nancy's death "after 1858" (research file) 29 Jan 1864 [D]; her will was proved in Jan 1865
Richard B. Holbrook Sr.'s dates 1821-1894 (FamilySearch tree, census ages, Farrar 1916 for the birth date); 1830-1898 (Collins-Reed tree) 1821-1894; Farrar gives 1893 for the death
Harriet Lowe's birth 12 June 1834 (Holbrook tree); 12 June 1839 (Farrar) Open
Edward Perry Son-in-law (husband of Edmund's daughter Mary) vs stepson Open; leaning to son-in-law [I]
Bennett Hodsoll's mother Anne Maundy (Bush) vs Faith Bacon (Dawes-Gates) vs Faith Gratwick (online) Anne Maundy; Faith was her stepmother
Edmund's first marriage 16 vs 26 June 1617 Check the Cowfold register
Mary Nye's marriage to Jacob Burge 1 June 1660 vs 1 June 1670 Open; the 1660 court record shows a courtship in 1660
Benjamin Nye's origin Biddenden, Kent (1907) vs Sussex (NEHGR 158, 2004) Sussex, parents unknown
Thomas Tupper's birth 1578 (his death record) vs bapt. 1590 at Bury Open
  1. # Freeman-Ellis Master Family Tree
  3. Master reference for the Freeman and Ellis lines, from Edmund Freeman of Pulborough to Nancy Ellis, the mother of Capt. Richard Blackmer Holbrook Sr. It sits beside the Collins-Reed and Holbrook master trees and follows the same layout, so it survives any font, page width or paste. It holds births, deaths, marriages and relationships only. The stories and quotations are in `Freeman_Ellis_Anecdotes.md`, and the evidence and reasoning are in `Freeman_Ellis_Line_Research.md`.
  5. **Last revised:** 1 October 2026. Built from the research file and from the third research pass (five reports on the Nye, Tupper, Churchill, Stephens, Harlow, Bennett and Ellis families, and a FamilySearch full-text pass of Plymouth and Barnstable deeds and probate).
  7. **How each entry reads**
  8. - Line 1: **Name** (birth year - death year). Direct ancestors are in bold.
  9. - Line 2: b. date, place; d. date, place
  10. - Line 3: m. date, place, spouse
  11. - Line 4: Note: identification only (occupation, residence, how the person is told apart from namesakes)
  12. - **Link:** how the parent-child step to this person is supported, with its evidence tier.
  13. - Siblings of direct ancestors get a single line.
  15. **Evidence tiers.** [D] Documented: a primary record, or a published transcript, index, abstract or archive description of one. [C] Compiled: a secondary genealogy or online tree. [I] Inference: our own reasoning. [T] Tradition: family lore with no source. **[?]** marks an unproven link or claim.
  17. **Abbreviations:** b. born; bapt. baptised; d. died; bur. buried; m. married; int. marriage intention; c. about; bef. before; aft. after; dau. daughter; VR printed vital records; PCR Plymouth Colony Records; B-M Brownson and McLean, NEHGR 119-120 (1965-66); PJ Pane-Joyce Genealogy. Dates are Old Style as recorded, with double years for 1 Jan to 24 Mar.
  19. **The line at a glance**
  20. Edmund Freeman the elder (d. 1623) = Alice Coles > Edmund Freeman (1596-1682) = Bennett Hodsoll < John Hodsoll > Elizabeth Freeman = Lt. John Ellis > Lt. Matthias Ellis (1657-1748) = Mercy [Nye?] > Capt. Joel Ellis (1679/80-1763) = Elizabeth Churchill > Matthias Ellis (1719/20-c. 1790) = Lucy Bennett > George Ellis (b. 1747) = Phebe Stephens > Nancy Ellis (1781-1864) = Capt. Gideon Holbrook > Capt. Richard Blackmer Holbrook Sr. (1821-1894) > Capt. Richard Blackmer Holbrook Jr. > Richard Clifford Holbrook > Frances Fairchild Holbrook
  22. **Strength of each step**
  24. | Step | Tier | What supports it |
  25. |---|---|---|
  26. | Edmund the elder > Edmund | [D] | Pulborough baptism, 25 July 1596; the father's will (1623) makes sons Edmond and William executors |
  27. | John Hodsoll > Bennett | [D] | John Hodsoll's will (1617) names "daughter Bennett wife of Edmund Freeman" |
  28. | Edmund > Elizabeth | [D] | Billingshurst baptism sworn in the 1633/4 Chancery depositions; Edmund's will (1682) names "my Daughter Elizabeth Ellis" as executrix |
  29. | Elizabeth and John Ellis > Matthias | [D] | Sandwich VR: "Matthias Ellis the son of John Ellis," 2 June 1657; Edmund's deed of gift (1678/9) calls Matthias "my grandson" |
  30. | Matthias > Joel | [D] | Sandwich VR birth of 17 Jan 1679/80 (first name worn, restored from a later copy [C]); Matthias's will (1744) leaves land to "my son Joel"; Joel's receipt to the executor (3 April, probably 1750) calls him "one of the Children of Mathias Ellis Late of Sandwich" |
  31. | Joel > Matthias | [D] | Deed of gift, May 1759 (acknowledged 22 May 1759), "Joel Ellis of Middleborough" to "my Loving son Matthias Ellis" |
  32. | Matthias and Lucy > George | [D] | Middleborough VR: "George Ellis the Son of Mathias Ellis and by Lucia his Wife Was Born May the 10th 1747" |
  33. | George and Phebe > Nancy | [D] | Plympton warning-out, 28 Mar 1785, names Nancy among the seven children of George and Phebe; 1805 quitclaim of land "decended to us from our Mother Phebe Ellis Decd who was formerly Phebe Stephens," signed "Nancy Ellis Blackmer"; 1833 Plympton record, "whose maiden name was Ellis" |
  34. | Nancy > Richard B. Holbrook Sr. | [D] | Gideon Holbrook's will (1841) names son Richard B. Holbrook and "my wife Nancy Holbrook"; Nancy's will (1860) names "my children ... Richard B. Holbrook" |
  35. | Mercy's parentage (Nye) | [C] [?] | B-M and the 1907 Nye genealogy; no primary record names her maiden name |
  37. **Early-ship descents carried by this line** (each is set out in Part Four)
  38. - *Mayflower* 1620, **Richard Warren**, twice: through Mary Warren and Robert Bartlett to their daughters Rebecca (Harlow) and Sarah (Rider), and so to Phebe Harlow, mother of Phebe (Stephens) Ellis. Every link from Phebe Harlow up to Rebecca Bartlett is in the Plymouth records [D]; Rebecca and Sarah as daughters of Robert Bartlett and Mary Warren is standard [C].
  39. - *Mayflower* 1620, **John Howland, Elizabeth Tilley, and John and Joan (Hurst) Tilley**: through Isaac Howland, Priscilla (Howland) Bennett and Lt. Joseph Bennett to Lucy (Bennett) Ellis [C for Lucy's parentage, D for her birth].
  40. - *Fortune* 1621, **Philip Delano**: through Rebecca (Delano) Churchill to Elizabeth (Churchill) Ellis [C].
  41. - *Anne* 1623, **Robert Bartlett and Mary Warren**: as above.
  42. - **William Pontus** of the Leiden congregation, three times: through his daughters Hannah (Churchill) and Mary (Glass, Delano) to Elizabeth (Churchill) Ellis, and through Hannah's son Eleazer Churchill to Phebe (Stephens) Ellis.
  43. - *Abigail* 1635, **Edmund Freeman**; and, if Mercy was a Nye, **Thomas Tupper** and **Benjamin Nye**, whose presence on the *Abigail* rests on Dennis Geere's will [C].
  45. ---
  47. ## Part One: Freeman of Pulborough and Sandwich
  49. - **Edmund Freeman the elder** (? - 1623)
  50. - b. unknown; bur. 6 June 1623, Pulborough, Sussex
  51. - m. **Alice Coles** (? - 1651/2), sister of George Coles of Amberley; she was bur. 14 Feb 1651/2, Reigate, Surrey; will proved 5 Mar 1651/2 (TNA PROB 11/221/67)
  52. - Note: "Woodbroker" of Pulborough in 1600-01, "yeoman" in 1609-23. Will proved 18 June 1623 (TNA PROB 11/141/674), executors his sons Edmond and William [D].
  53. - **Edmund Freeman** (1596 - 1682): next entry
  54. - William (c. 1598 - 1666): of Ratcliff, Stepney, in 1630, later of Cowfold, esq.; m. (1) by settlement of 20 July 1620, Christian Hodsoll, Bennett's sister (bapt. 23 Apr 1602; bur. Cowfold 24 July 1635); m. (2) licence 15 May 1638, Jane Gratwick, widow; bur. Cowfold 15 Sept 1666
  55. - Alice (1601 - ?): bapt. 15 Apr 1601; m. 27 Dec 1615, Pulborough, John Beauchamp, citizen and salter of London, later of Reigate (will 23 May 1655, TNA PROB 11/245/407), one of the London investors in Plymouth Colony; children John, Thomas, Alice, Mary, Edmund, Richard (*Visitation of London* 1633-35)
  56. - Eleanor (1603 - 1618): bapt. 25 Aug 1603; bur. 7 Apr 1618
  57. - John (1604/5 or 1605/6 or 1606/7 - ?): bapt. 24 Jan 1604/5 (FamilySearch) or 29 Jan 1605/6 or 1606/7 (Dawes-Gates); living 1623; identified by PJ with John Freeman of Sudbury, Mass. [?]
  58. - Elizabeth (1609 - ?): bapt. 27 Aug 1609; m. John Cuddington of Sidlow Mill, Reigate, gent. (dead by 1682) [I that he is Beauchamp's "bro. Coddington"]
  59. - Ellen (1592): in the FamilySearch tree only; before the surviving register begins [?]
  61. - **Edmund Freeman** (1596 - 1682)
  62. - bapt. 25 July 1596, Pulborough, Sussex; d. between 21 June 1682 (will) and 2 Nov 1682 (probate), Sandwich, Plymouth Colony; bur. on his homestead, Wilson Road, Sandwich (the "Saddle and Pillion" stones [T])
  63. - m. (1) 16 June 1617, Cowfold, Sussex (WikiTree reads 26 June), **Bennett Hodsoll** (bapt. 23 Aug 1596, All Saints Barking, London; bur. 12 Apr 1630, Pulborough); (2) probably 10 Aug 1632, Shipley, Sussex, "Elisabetha Raymer" [?]: Elizabeth, aged 35 in 1635, d. 14 Feb 1675/6, Sandwich
  64. - Note: Of Pulborough and Billingshurst; "of London, Merchant" by Feb 1634. Came on the *Abigail* 1635; at Lynn (Saugus); first named of the ten men allowed to settle Sandwich, 3 Apr 1637; Assistant of Plymouth Colony 1640-1646. Not the Edmund Freeman (Jr.) fined in 1659.
  65. - **Link:** [D] Pulborough baptism; his father's will.
  66. - By Bennett Hodsoll (the 1622-29 Billingshurst baptisms survive only in the 1633/4 Chancery depositions [C]):
  67. - Alice (1619 - 1651): bapt. 4 Apr 1619, Pulborough; d. 24 Apr 1651, Plymouth; m. 24 Nov 1639, Plymouth, William Paddy, merchant, deacon and colony treasurer (d. Boston 24 Aug 1658, aged 58; he m. (2) 3 Dec 1651 the widow of Capt. Bezaleel Payton). Children: Elizabeth (12 Nov 1641 - 5 Feb 1710/11), m. John Wensley; John (25 Nov 1643 - 8 Jan 1661/2); Samuel (1 Aug 1645), went to Barbados; Mercy (1646 - 1695); Thomas (6 Sept 1647 - 3 Feb 1690), m. Deborah Wayte; Joseph (10 Sept 1649 - 18 Feb 1649/50) [C, Freeman Genealogy]
  68. - Edmund Jr. (1620 - c. 1703): bapt. 26 Nov 1620, Billingshurst; d. by 5 Jan 1703/4 (administration to Ezra Perry); m. (1) 22 Apr 1646 Rebecca Prence (dau. of Gov. Thomas Prence and Patience Brewster), who d. soon after her only child's birth; (2) 18 July 1651 Margaret Perry. Children: Rebecca (m. Ezra Perry Jr.; d. 16 Apr 1738); Margaret (2 Oct 1652); Edmund (5 Oct 1655); Alice (29 Mar 1658); Rachel (4 Sept 1659), m. John Landers; Sarah (6 Feb 1662), m. Richard Landers; Deborah (9 Aug 1665), m. Thomas Landers [C, Freeman Genealogy]
  69. - Bennett (1621/2 - 1633/4), a son: bapt. 20 Jan 1621/2, Billingshurst; d. between 28 Nov 1633 and 13 Jan 1633/4
  70. - **Elizabeth Freeman** (1624 - aft. 1682): continues in Part Two
  71. - Maj. John (1626/7 - 1719): bapt. 28 Jan 1626/7, Billingshurst; d. 28 Oct 1719, Eastham; m. 13 Feb 1649/50 Mercy Prence (dau. of Gov. Thomas Prence; d. 28 Sept 1711 "in the 81st year"). Children: John (2 Feb 1650, d. young); John (Dec 1651 - 27 July 1721), m. (1) Sarah Merrick, (2) Mercy (Bradford) Watson; Thomas (Sept 1653 - 9 Feb 1715/16), m. Rebecca Sparrow; Patience, m. Samuel Paine; Hannah, m. John Mayo; Edmond (June 1657 - Dec 1717), m. Ruth Merrick [?], then Sarah Mayo; Mercy, m. Samuel Knowles; William (c. 1660 - 1686/7), m. Lydia Sparrow; Prince (d. young); Nathaniel (1669 - 1760); Bennett, m. John Paine [C, Dawes-Gates; NEHGR 20]
  72. - Nathaniel (1629): bapt. 2 Sept 1629, Billingshurst; bur. 12 Sept 1629, Pulborough
  73. - By the second wife, or a stepdaughter [?]:
  74. - Mary (c. 1636 - ?): m. c. 1653 Edward Perry of Sandwich, Quaker, first known clerk of the Sandwich Friends meeting (d. 16 Feb 1694/5). Children: Edward; Benjamin (father of Freeman Perry [C, Jacobus]); Peace, m. 20 Oct 1697 John Mulford; Rest, m. 20 Nov 1705 Jacob Motte of Portsmouth, R.I.; Deborah; Samuel (b. 2 Mar 166[5-8]). Edmund's will calls Perry "my son"; whether Mary was Edmund's daughter (Jacobus, Anderson, Paine) or Edward his stepson (Brainard, Dawes-Gates) is open. The weight of evidence favours a daughter born c. 1636 [I]
  75. - Not his: "Cycella" (b. c. 1631), added by Paine after Otis [C], is probably the "Sycillae 4" of a different Freeman family on the *Abigail* [I]
  77. ---
  79. ## Part Two: The Ellis line
  81. - **Lt. John Ellis** (bef. 1627 - 1677) and **Elizabeth Freeman** (1624 - aft. 1682)
  82. - John: b. "not later than 1627" (B-M) [C], parents unknown; d. bef. 23 Mar 1676/7 (B-M) [C]; administration granted 7 June 1677 to "Mistris Elizabeth Ellis and Mordica Ellis" on "the estate of John Ellis, Junir, of Sandwich, late deceased" (PCR 5:235) [D]
  83. - Elizabeth: bapt. 11 Apr 1624, Billingshurst, Sussex [D, from the 1633/4 depositions]; living 1687 on her Sippican land [C]; d. probably 24 June 1692, Rochester [C, unverified]
  84. - m. by Aug 1644, Sandwich (PCR 2:76-77, 85-86) [D]
  85. - Note: John was lieutenant of the Sandwich military company from 1653 and kept an ordinary there from 1659. The claim that he was a son of John Ellis and Blandina Masterson of Sandwich, Kent, is disproven (WikiTree, after Paulick) [C]. Elizabeth was a Sippican (Rochester) proprietor as a widow, 1679-80.
  86. - **Link (Elizabeth):** [D] her father's will (1682).
  87. - Children (B-M via PJ unless marked):
  88. - Elizabeth (c. 1645 - ?): m. Samuel Briggs of Sandwich and Sippican
  89. - Bennet (1647/8 or 1648/9 - ?): b. 27 Feb (1648 in PCR 8:6, so 1647/8; the VR editors and PJ give 1648/9); m. Obadiah Eddy
  90. - Lt. Mordecai (1650/1 - c. 1707): b. 24 Mar 1650/1, Sandwich [D]; d. probably 5 Feb 1706/7 (Sandwich VR editors), or 5 Feb 1709/10 (PJ); m. Sarah (d. 25 Oct 1716); son Mordecai d. 1 Nov 1717; dau. Sarah m. 8 June 1704 Joshua Blackwell
  91. - Deborah (c. 1652 - 1711): m. Joseph Doty; sons Theophilus (22 Feb 1674/5) and Ellis Doty (16 Apr 1677) [D, Sandwich VR]
  92. - Joel (1654/5 - young): b. 20 Mar 1654/5 [D]
  93. - Samuel (c. 1656 - ?)
  94. - **Lt. Matthias Ellis** (1657 - 1748): next entry
  95. - Manoah (c. 1659 - ?): m. by 1679 Mary [the "Mary Burgess" label belongs here, if anywhere; B-M found no evidence for it]
  96. - Freeman (c. 1661 - bef. 1728): d. Rochester bef. 20 June 1728 [C]; m. c. 1686 Mercy; children Thankful (29 May 1687), Dorothy (1 Jan 1691), Elizabeth (2 Oct 1693), Ebenezer (7 Feb 1695/6), Eleanor (1 Sept 1703) [D, Rochester VR]
  97. - Gideon (c. 1663 - ?)
  98. - William (c. 1665 - 1716): d. 20 June 1716, Middleborough [C]; m. Lydia
  100. - **Lt. Matthias Ellis** (1657 - 1748)
  101. - b. 2 June 1657, Sandwich [D]; d. 1748, Sandwich, before 4 Oct (probate): "Lieut Matthias Ellis Sen Died September the 8th" (Sandwich register [D]; the probate date of 4 Oct 1748 fits it); other dates given are 20 Aug (PJ) and 30 Aug (Freeman's *Annals*)
  102. - m. c. 1678/9, Mercy [Nye?] (b. 8 Apr 1652, Sandwich, if she is Mercy Nye; living 4 Oct 1748, when named his executor [D]; d. bef. 7 Nov 1749 [C])
  103. - Note: Raised in his grandfather Edmund Freeman's house and given it in 1678/9. Will dated 30 Nov 1744, proved at Barnstable 4 Oct 1748 (Barnstable Probate; FamilySearch 3:1:3Q9M-C9YB-793Z) [D]; it names wife Mercy, sons Joel, Matthias and Malachi, and daughters Mercy Morton, Experience Churchill and Mehitable Merrick.
  104. - **Link:** [D] Sandwich VR birth as son of John Ellis; Edmund's deed of gift, 1678/9.
  105. - **Link (Mercy):** her first name and her marriage to Matthias are [D] (nine births of children "of Matthias Ellis and Mercy Ellis his wife," and his will). Her identity as Mercy Nye is [C] [?] (B-M; Nye 1907). Against it: WikiTree treats her maiden name as unknown, and a WikiTree summary of a deed of 9 June 1704 has Benjamin Nye providing for "daughter Mercy" in his old age.
  106. - Children (Sandwich VR [D]; names in brackets restored from a worn page [C]):
  107. - **[Joel] Ellis** (1679/80 - 1763): next entry
  108. - Matthias (5 Nov 1681 - ?): m. 20 Mar 1710/11 Thankful Bassett; children Thankful (1711/12), Mercy (1713), Remember (1715), Experience (1717/18), Mary (1720), Elizabeth (1722), Mehetabel (1725)
  109. - [John] (17 Aug 1683 - 12 Dec 1717): d. single; administration 1718 [D, Barnstable Probate]
  110. - Mercy (17 Aug 1685 - ?): m. (1) 18 Apr 1705 Thomas Doty; "Mercy Morton" in 1744 [D]
  111. - Experience (26 July 1687 - ?): m. 2 Dec 1708 Stephen Churchill of Plymouth, gentleman
  112. - [Mala]chi (8 Oct 1689 - ?): m. 3 Jan 1714/15 Jane Blackwell; executor and heir to the homestead, 1748
  113. - Remember (1 Dec 1691 - ?): not named in the 1744 will
  114. - [Mehit]abel (31 Dec 1693 - ?): m. ___ Merrick
  115. - [Sam]uel (12 Nov 1699 - ?): not named in the 1744 will
  117. - **Capt. Joel Ellis** (1679/80 - 1763)
  118. - b. 17 Jan 1679/80, Sandwich [D]; d. 21 June 1763, Middleborough [C]
  119. - m. (1) 6 Apr 1710, Plymouth, **Elizabeth Churchill** (b. 7 Oct 1687, Plymouth; d. 3 Apr 1753, Middleborough, "in the 66th Year of Her Age," bur. Cemetery at the Green, Middleborough, Find a Grave 29369456); (2) 27 Mar 1758, Middleborough, Jemima Bennett, widow (Tupper per B-M via PJ), by Rev. Sylvanus Conant [D]
  120. - Note: Of Middleborough by 1722 ("Gentleman" by 1747; "Capt." in 1758). Not the Joel Ellis of Rochester, cordwainer (d. by 1732), nor Joel Ellis of Plympton (d. 13 June 1803 aged 64).
  121. - **Link:** [D] Sandwich birth; his father's will and his own receipt to the executor (Barnstable Probate, 1748-50).
  122. - Children (Plymouth VR and Middleborough VR in *Mayflower Descendant* 9:47-48 [D]; others B-M via PJ [C]):
  123. - Joel (21 Feb 1711/12 - ?): of Plympton in 1744, when his parents gave him land there
  124. - John (18 Sept 1714 - ?): m. Elizabeth Coomer (d. 3 Mar 1781), eight children b. 1742-1759
  125. - Samuel (22 Oct 1716 - ?)
  126. - **Matthias Ellis** (1719/20 - c. 1790): next entry
  127. - Rebecca (1 July 1721 - 19 June 1781): m. 1741 Gideon Southworth
  128. - Elizabeth (5 Feb 1723/4 - ?): m. 1752 Samuel Lanman
  129. - Ensign Charles (19 June 1726 - ?): m. Dec 1756 Bathsheba Fuller of Halifax; given half his father's homestead, 1759
  130. - Thomas (1 Jan 1728/9 - ?): living on his father's homestead in 1759 and given half of it
  132. - **Matthias Ellis** (1719/20 - c. 1790)
  133. - b. 7 Mar 1719/20 [place not in our notes; Joel was of Plymouth in 1714 and Middleborough by 1722]; d. by Mar 1790, Middleborough, "Gentleman," estate insolvent [D]
  134. - m. 7 Apr 1743 [C], Middleborough, **Lucia (Lucy) Bennett** (b. 2 Oct 1725, Middleborough [D, MD 6:228]; d. 3 Oct 1804, aged 79 [C, Weston's catalogue of First Church members])
  135. - Note: "Ensign" in 1770. Not the Matthias Ellis, labourer, of Middleborough (d. by 1782), nor Matthias Ellis Jr. of Sandwich (b. 1739).
  136. - **Link:** [D] deed of gift from his father, May 1759.
  137. - **Link (Lucy):** [D] her birth to "Joseph Bennet Junr & ... Thankfull his wife"; [C] her marriage date and her identity as the wife of Matthias (Bosworth database, citing *Genealogies of Mayflower Families* 1:665); supported by Weston's catalogue, "Lucia Ellis, wid. of Matthias, m. 1743, o. Bennet," whose mother is no. 273, Thankful Bennet [C], and by the Bennett heirs' land sales of 1758 and 1763 [D].
  138. - Children (Middleborough VR [D]):
  139. - Mary (7 Nov 1743 - ?)
  140. - Joseph (1 Apr 1745 - ?): administrator of his father's estate, 1790
  141. - **George Ellis** (1747 - aft. 1808): next entry
  142. - Cornelius (Wednesday 18 Oct 1749 - ?)
  143. - Ebenezer (Thursday 15 Jan 1752 - ?)
  144. - Betty (Sunday 12 May 1754 - ?)
  145. - Gamaliel (Tuesday 27 Sept 1757 - ?)
  146. - Daniel (Tuesday 17 Sept 1760 - ?)
  147. - Lucy (17 Jan 1763 - ?)
  149. - **George Ellis** (1747 - aft. 1808)
  150. - b. 10 May 1747, Middleborough [D]; living c. 1808, when he and his wife Experience joined her siblings as heirs of William Clark (deed recorded Jan 1809) [D]; death not found
  151. - m. (1) 23 May 1773, Plympton (published at Middleborough May 1773), **Phebe Stephens** of Plympton (b. probably c. 1750 [?], dau. of Edward Stephens Jr. and Phebe Harlow; living 28 Mar 1785; dead by 22 May 1805, and probably the "George Ellis's Wife" who d. 24 Nov 1789, Plymouth [I]); (2) int. 19 May 1792, m. 4 June 1792, Plymouth, Experience Clark, dau. of William Clark of Plymouth
  152. - Note: Yeoman of Plymouth. Bought the Plymouth farm of his father-in-law Edward Stephens from the estate (1789-94); his homestead had been Nathaniel Donham's. No record uses a middle name "David."
  153. - **Link:** [D] Middleborough birth.
  154. - **Link (Phebe):** [C] Davis, "Phebe, m. George Ellis," among Edward Stephens's children; [D] the Stephens estate sale of the farm "occupied by George Ellis"; [D] the 1805 quitclaim of land "decended to us from our Mother Phebe Ellis Decd who was formerly Phebe Stephens."
  155. - Children by Phebe (the 1785 warning-out lists seven, in this order [D]):
  156. - Sarah (c. 1774 - ?): m. Elisha Morton; of Hebron, Maine ("at the Eastward") in 1805 [D]
  157. - Phebe (c. 1775 - 1851): m. 1796 Azel Thomas of Middleborough; d. 3 Feb 1851, Maine [C, Weston]
  158. - Molly (Polly) (? - ?): unmarried in 1805 [D]
  159. - George Jr. (? - bef. 1828): mariner; m. 27 Dec 1801 Mercy Harlow (Kingston VR) [D]; grantee of the 1805 quitclaim; his widow m. Benjamin Dillard [C, Davis]
  160. - Matthias (? - ?): "Mattathias Ellis of Wareham" in 1805 [D]
  161. - **Nancy Ellis** (1781 - 1864): next entry
  162. - Stephens (Stevens) (? - ?): m. 22 Nov 1806 Betsey Churchell [D]
  163. - Ziba and Isaac (of Middleborough) Ellis, named with the heirs in the 1805 quitclaim; probably younger children of Phebe, b. 1785-89 [I] [?]
  165. - **Nancy Ellis** (1781 - 1864)
  166. - b. 21 Oct 1781, Plymouth (from her age at death) [I from D]; d. 29 Jan 1864, Plymouth, widow, aged 82y 3m 8d (Massachusetts death records, vol. 175 p. 336, as cited in `Holbrook-Master-Family-Tree.md`) [D]; bur. Manomet (Find a Grave 147127092) [C]
  167. - m. (1) int. 1801, Plymouth, Richard Blackmer, mariner (b. 1 Nov 1772, Plymouth, son of Branch Blackmer and Sarah Waite; d. intestate by 29 Feb 1808); (2) int. 29 Nov 1818, m. Dec 1818, Plymouth, Capt. Gideon Holbrook (c. 1766 - 23 Jan 1842), widower of Sarah Clark
  168. - Note: Of Manomet Ponds, Plymouth. Not the Nancy Ellis who m. Clift Bailey at Plymouth in 1807. No record uses a middle name "Stevens." Will dated 6 Sept 1860, signed by her mark, proved Jan 1865 [D].
  169. - **Link:** [D] the 1785 warning-out; the 1805 quitclaim; the 1833 Plympton record; her daughter Mary Holbrook's 1899 death record names her mother as Nancy Ellis (per the Holbrook tree).
  170. - Children by Richard Blackmer (Plymouth VR [D]):
  171. - Sarah (27 Dec 1801 - bef. 1860): m. 1819 Ezra Clark; children David, Lucy (m. Charles H. Peterson), Sarah (m. James Ellis), Lewis [C, Davis; D, Nancy's will names these four as grandchildren]
  172. - Nancy (3 Jan 1804 - ?): m. (1) Seth Holmes; (2) c. 1839/40 Josiah Morey of Plympton; "Nancy Morey" in her mother's will, 1860
  173. - George Ellis Blackmer (7 Apr 1806 - bef. c. 1840): m. c. 1830 Rebecca Bartlett, who m. (2) Timothy Allen; named in his grandfather Branch Blackmer's will, 1818 [D]
  174. - Children by Gideon Holbrook (full entries in `Holbrook-Master-Family-Tree.md`, Part Two):
  175. - Gideon (c. 1819/20 - bef. Dec 1853): seaman; m. 27 July 1846 Lucretia W. Bartlett, who m. (2) 1853 David Clark, Nancy's grandson
  176. - **Capt. Richard Blackmer Holbrook Sr.** (1821 - 1894): b. 7 Aug 1821, Manomet, Plymouth; d. 14 May 1894, Coupeville, Washington; m. 24 Dec 1860, Steilacoom, Washington Territory, Harriet Phillips Lowe of Deer Isle, Maine. Continues in the Holbrook and Collins-Reed master trees
  177. - Elisha (c. 1823/24 - 1887): of Manomet; co-executor of his mother's will
  178. - Mary "Polly" (9 Mar 1826 - 5 Jan 1899): unmarried; co-executor of her mother's will
  179. - Eliphalet (1828 - 1920): of Worcester in 1865, later of Manomet; m. 11 Oct 1854, Worcester, Harriet Rice
  181. ---
  183. ## Part Three: Hodsoll (Bennett's family)
  185. From Richard L. Bush, NEHGR 164 (2010):104-111, as summarised by Sibert Ancestry [C], and John Hodsoll's will as abstracted by Jacobus [D abstract].
  187. - **John Hodsoll** (c. 1555 - 1617)
  188. - b. c. 1555, son of John Hodsoll; bur. 20 Nov 1617, Cowfold, Sussex
  189. - m. (1) c. 1579 **Anne Maundy**, dau. of John Maundy and Alice (perhaps Temple); (2) c. 1614 Faith (Moorer) (Bacon) Bareham (bapt. 28 Sept 1576, St Mary Colechurch, London; dau. of Robert and Elizabeth (Barto) Moorer; widow of William Bacon and of Thomas Bareham)
  190. - Note: "Of the City of London, mariner" in 1592/3 (wharf at Ratcliff); "gent." by 1607; a subscriber to the Virginia Company, 1612 ("Hodsale, John ... pd. £37 10s," Brown, *Genesis of the United States*) [D]. Will 1 Aug 1617, proved 16 Nov 1617 (TNA PROB 11/130/640), naming "daughter Bennett wife of Edmund Freeman."
  191. - **Link:** [D] his will.
  192. - Children by Anne Maundy (baptisms at All Saints Barking or St Dunstan's, Stepney):
  193. - Anne (1580 - 1581)
  194. - Thomas (bapt. 10 Dec 1584 - ?)
  195. - Clement (bapt. 19 Dec 1585 - ?)
  196. - Anne (bapt. 27 Jan 1586/7 - ?): m. Thomas Sheffield
  197. - Elizabeth (bapt. 24 Jan 1587/8 - bur. 3 Nov 1624): m. (1) William Scates or Scales, (2) Andrew Printup
  198. - John (bapt. 24 Nov 1589 - 12 Nov 1628): of Shermanbury, gent.; m. Elizabeth Gratwick; bur. Cowfold
  199. - Katherine (bapt. 28 Jan 1591/2 - bur. 24 Mar 1634/5, St Olave Hart Street): m. 24 Oct 1617 Warner Norwood
  200. - William (bapt. 1593 - d. by 1615)
  201. - Jane (bapt. 1595 - d. by 1617)
  202. - **Bennett Hodsoll** (bapt. 23 Aug 1596 - bur. 12 Apr 1630): m. Edmund Freeman (Part One)
  203. - Margaret (1597 - ?)
  204. - Christian (bapt. 23 Apr 1602 - bur. 24 July 1635, Cowfold): m. William Freeman, Edmund's brother
  205. - By Faith: William (bapt. 12 Sept 1615, Cowfold - d. by 1617)
  207. ---
  209. ## Part Four: Families who married in
  211. Ancestral lines are given as nested entries; direct ancestors in bold.
  213. ### A. Coles (Alice, wife of Edmund the elder)
  214. - George Coles of Amberley, yeoman, Alice's brother: b. c. 1559, Wootton, Somerset ("Born in Wootton, Somersetshire. Aged about 65 years," deposition of 30 Oct 1624, WSRO Ep/I/11/13) [D]; at Amberley from c. 1601. Trustee for the Freeman family in 1620.
  216. ### B. Tupper and Nye (Mercy, wife of Lt. Matthias Ellis) [?]
  217. The whole of this section depends on Mercy being Mercy Nye, which is probable, not proven (Part Two).
  218. - **Thomas Tupper** (c. 1578 or 1590 - 1676)
  219. - b. "in the yeare of our lord 1578" by the Sandwich death record [D], or the Thomas son of Anthony Tupper bapt. 7 Apr 1590 "in Bury," probably Bury, West Sussex (Hilder, Nye and Shaw, NEHGR 159) [C] [?]; d. 28 Mar 1676, Sandwich, "in the 98th yeer of his age"; bur. 30 Mar 1676 [D]
  220. - m. **Anne** (b. c. 1586; d. 4 June 1676, Sandwich, "in the: 90th: yeer of her age" [D]); possibly the Agnes Wedson who m. a Thomas Tupper at Tillington, Sussex, 18 May 1614 [C] [?]; "Hodgson" is unsupported
  221. - Note: Shoemaker; one of the "tenn men of Saugust," 1637; deputy for Sandwich; marriage officer 1650-1653/4.
  222. - **Katherine Tupper** (c. 1620 - aft. 1704): possibly the "Katherin" bapt. 30 July 1620 at Petworth, Sussex [C] [?]; m. Benjamin Nye (below)
  223. - Capt. Thomas Jr. (16 Jan [c. 1638] - 26 Apr 1706): m. 27 Dec 1661 Martha Mayhew, dau. of Gov. Thomas Mayhew [D]; town clerk; children include Eldad (b. last day of May 1675), later pastor of the Indian church
  224. - **Benjamin Nye** (c. 1620 - aft. 1704)
  225. - b. c. 1620, England, parents unknown (the Biddenden, Kent, pedigree of 1907 is "almost certainly spurious"; NEHGR 158 points to Sussex [C]); d. Sandwich after 9 June 1704 (variously "before 1713," 1704-07, or 30 Apr 1714 [C])
  226. - m. 19 Oct 1640, Sandwich, **Katherine Tupper** [D, PCR 1:153 and Sandwich VR]
  227. - Note: Came 1635, probably on the *Abigail* (a legatee of Dennis Geere's will) [C]; built mills at Sandwich; the Benjamin Nye Homestead, 85 Old County Road, East Sandwich, is dated 1678 by dendrochronology [C].
  228. - Mary (c. 1642 - ?): m. Jacob Burge (1 June 1660, Freeman's *Annals*, or 1 June 1670, Nye 1907); children Samuel (1671), Ebenezer (1673), Jacob (1676), Thomas (1680)
  229. - John (? - 1722): m. Esther Shedd; will proved 27 Nov 1722, witnessed by Matthias Ellis Jr.
  230. - Ebenezer (? - ?): m. Sarah Gibbs [C, unsourced]
  231. - Jonathan (20 Nov 1649 - ?) [D]: m. (1) Hannah, (2) Patience Burgess; received his father's lands by deed of 9 June 1704
  232. - **Mercy Nye** (8 Apr 1652 - ?): birth [D]; identity with Mercy, wife of Lt. Matthias Ellis [C] [?]
  233. - Caleb (? - 1704): m. Elizabeth Wood alias Atwood
  234. - Nathan (? - 27 Nov 1747): m. Mercy ___
  235. - Benjamin (? - 26 Mar 1676): killed at Pierce's Fight, Rehoboth [C, Nye 1907 only]
  237. ### C. Pontus, Churchill and Delano (Elizabeth, wife of Capt. Joel Ellis)
  238. - **William Pontus** (? - 1652/3)
  239. - b. "near Dover" [C]; d. 9 Feb 1652/3, Plymouth [D, PCR 8]
  240. - m. 4 Dec 1610, Leiden, **Wybra Hanson**, William Brewster a witness ("William Pautes, fustian-worker, from near Dover") [C, Leiden notes quoted in *The Churchill Family in America* p. 2]
  241. - Note: Of the Leiden congregation; at Plymouth by 1633.
  242. - **Hannah Pontus** (c. 1624 - 1690): m. (1) 18 Dec 1644 **John Churchill** (below); (2) 25 June 1669 Giles Rickard; d. 22 Dec 1690, Hobbs Hole, Plymouth, "in her sixty-seventh year" [C]
  243. - **Mary Pontus** (? - ?): m. (1) 31 Oct 1645 James Glass, drowned 1652 [D] (dau. Wybra Glass, b. 9 Aug 1649 [D]; Hannah Glass); (2) 17 Jan 1653/4 **Philip Delano** (below) [C]
  244. - **John Churchill** (? - 1662/3)
  245. - b. unknown, origin unknown; d. 1 Jan 1662/3, Plymouth [D, PCR 8:23]
  246. - m. 18 Dec 1644 **Hannah Pontus**
  247. - Note: Of Hobbs Hole, Plymouth; on the 1643 list of men able to bear arms; freeman 1651.
  248. - Joseph (1647 - ?): m. Sarah Hicks
  249. - Hannah (12 Nov 1649 - ?): m. John Drew
  250. - **Eleazer Churchill** (20 Apr 1652 - 8 Mar 1716) [D birth, PCR 8:15]: ancestor through Phebe Stephens (section E)
  251. - Mary (1 Aug 1654 - ?): m. Thomas Doty
  252. - William (1656 - ?)
  253. - **Sgt. John Churchill Jr.** (c. 1656/7 - 1723): below
  254. - **Philip Delano** (1603 - ?)
  255. - bapt. 7 Dec 1603, Walloon church, Leiden, as Philippe de Lannoy [C]; d. not checked
  256. - m. (1) 19 Dec 1634 Hester Dewsbury (d. by 1653/4); (2) 17 Jan 1653/4 **Mary (Pontus) Glass** [C]
  257. - Note: Came on the *Fortune*, Nov 1621, aged about 18; of Duxbury.
  258. - Children by Hester: Mary (m. 1655 Jonathan Dunham), Philip, Thomas, Hester, John, Jonathan
  259. - Children by Mary: Jane; **Rebecca Delano** (c. 1656/7 - 6 Apr 1709, "aged 52"); Samuel [C]
  260. - **Sgt. John Churchill Jr.** (c. 1656/7 - 1723)
  261. - b. c. 1656/7, Plymouth; d. 13 June 1723, "in 66th year of his age" [C]
  262. - m. (1) 28 Dec 1686, Plymouth, **Rebecca Delano** [D, Plymouth VR Book 1 p. 128]; (2) 4 Mar 1715 Hannah Bartlett, widow (d. 29 Apr 1723, aged 61)
  263. - Note: Given 50 acres at Manomet Ponds by his father's will; constable 1686; freeman 1689. John and Rebecca were first cousins, both grandchildren of William Pontus.
  264. - **Link:** [C] *The Churchill Family in America* (1904); Pane-Joyce. His children's births are [D] (Plymouth VR Book 1 p. 9).
  265. - **Elizabeth Churchill** (7 Oct 1687 - 3 Apr 1753): m. Capt. Joel Ellis (Part Two)
  266. - Rebeckah (29 Aug 1689 - ?)
  267. - John (20 Dec 1691 - ?)
  268. - Sarah (10 Feb 1695 - ?)
  269. - Hannah (27 Apr 1697 - ?)
  271. ### D. Howland, Tilley and Bennett (Lucy, wife of Matthias Ellis)
  272. - **John Tilley** and **Joan Hurst** (*Mayflower*, both d. 1620/1) > **Elizabeth Tilley** (*Mayflower*) [C, standard]
  273. - **John Howland** (*Mayflower*) m. **Elizabeth Tilley** > **Lt. Isaac Howland** m. **Elizabeth Vaughan** > **Priscilla Howland** [C]
  274. - **Capt. Peter Bennett** (1674 - 1749)
  275. - b. Sept 1674, son of Dea. John Bennett and Deborah Grover; d. 22 Oct 1749, Middleborough [C]
  276. - m. 30 Oct 1700, Bridgewater, **Priscilla Howland** (b. 22 Aug 1681; d. 3 Mar 1746) [C]
  277. - Note: Will 5 Oct 1749, estate about £6,098 [C, Sibert].
  278. - Elizabeth (28 Mar 1701 - ?); **Lt. Joseph Bennett Jr.** (c. 1704 - 1741/2); others not gathered
  279. - **Lt. Joseph Bennett Jr.** (c. 1704 - 1741/2)
  280. - b. c. 1704; d. 3 Jan 1741/2, Middleborough: "Leiut Joseph Bennet the Son of Capt Peter Bennet Deceased January the 3rd 1741/2" (MD 15:24) [D]; died intestate, estate sold for debts by 1746 [D]
  281. - m. **Thankful** (Sproat? [C] [?]), who m. (2) 1758 Seth Samson [C]
  282. - **Link:** [D] the death record names his father.
  283. - **Lucia (Lucy) Bennett** (2 Oct 1725 - 3 Oct 1804) [D birth, MD 6:228]: m. Matthias Ellis (Part Two)
  284. - William (9 June 1727 - 20 Aug 1727) [D]
  285. - Priscilla (19 May 1729 - 16 May 1745) [D]
  286. - Elizabeth (2 July 1731 - ?) [D]: probably the Elizabeth, wife of John Morton, who sold Bennett land with Matthias and Lucy in 1758 and 1763 [I]
  287. - John (7 Feb 1733/4 - ?) [D]: probably "John Bennett the second" of the same sales [I]
  288. - Joseph (? - 19 Nov 1737) [D]
  289. - Jemima [?] (? - ?): m. Lemuel Jackson; a seller with Matthias and Lucy in 1758 and 1763; her birth not found, so she may be a cousin rather than a sister [I]
  291. ### E. Stephens (Phebe, wife of George Ellis: father's side)
  292. - Edward Stephens of Marshfield (living 1665) [C]: children Edward, William, Elizabeth, Patience (m. John Phillips)
  293. - **Edward Stephens** (? - ?)
  294. - m. (1) 23 Dec 1708, Plymouth, **Mary Churchill** (b. 1688, dau. of **Eleazer Churchill** and Mary [Bryant?]) [D marriage; C her parentage]; (2) 3 Apr 1729 Mercy (Holmes) Sylvester, widow of Joseph Sylvester [D]
  295. - Children by Mary (Plymouth VR pp. 82-83 [D]): Mary (21 June 1710); Hannah (11 Apr 1712); Sarah (25 May 1715); Lemuel (5 Dec 1716 - 20 June 1718); Elizabeth (30 Apr 1719); **Edward** (19 Sept 1721); Eleazer (10 Dec 1723), who owned the Harlow Old Fort House 1778-84 [C]
  296. - **Edward Stephens Jr.** (1721 - c. 1789)
  297. - b. 19 Sept 1721, Plymouth [D]; d. c. 1789 (administrators empowered Oct 1789) [D]
  298. - m. c. 1746/7, Plymouth, **Phebe Harlow** (b. 21 Oct 1728) [D]
  299. - **Link:** [D] birth record; [C] Davis 2:252 for his parents.
  300. - Children (Davis [C]; Edward's birth [D]): Edward (6 Feb 1747/8); William (1752); Sylvanus (m. Betsey, widow of James or Joseph Doten); John (m. Elizabeth Battles); Samuel (went to Maine); Lemuel; Benjamin; Zacheus; Sally (m. Isaac Bonney); **Phebe** (m. George Ellis); Mary (m. Asa Sherman); Elizabeth (m. Joseph Robbins)
  301. - Note: George Ellis and Phebe Stephens were third cousins, both great-great-grandchildren of John Churchill and Hannah Pontus [I from D and C].
  303. ### F. Bartlett, Warren, Harlow and Rider (Phebe, wife of George Ellis: mother's side)
  304. - **Richard Warren** (*Mayflower* 1620) > **Mary Warren** (*Anne* 1623) m. **Robert Bartlett** (*Anne* 1623) [C, standard]
  305. - **Rebecca Bartlett** (? - c. 1657/8): m. 20 Dec 1649 **Sgt. William Harlow** [D, PCR 8]
  306. - **Sarah Bartlett** (? - ?): m. 23 Dec 1656 **Samuel Rider** [D, PCR 8]
  307. - **Sgt. William Harlow** (c. 1624/5 - 1691)
  308. - b. c. 1624/5; d. 25 Aug 1691, Plymouth, "in his 67th year" [D]
  309. - m. (1) 20 Dec 1649 **Rebecca Bartlett**; (2) 15 July 1658 Mary Faunce (d. 4 Oct 1664), sister of Elder Thomas Faunce; (3) 25 Jan 1665/6 Mary Shelley [D, PCR 8]
  310. - Note: At Lynn 1637, then Sandwich, then Plymouth [C]; builder of the Harlow Old Fort House, 119 Sandwich Street, Plymouth (legend 1677; a 1996 assessment says 1700 or later) [C].
  311. - Children by Rebecca: William (5 Oct 1650 - 26 Oct 1650); **Samuel** (27 Jan 1652/3); Rebecca (12 June 1655); William (2 June 1657) [D]
  312. - By Mary Faunce: Mary (1659), Repentance (1660), John (1662), Nathaniel (30 Sept 1664) [D]
  313. - By Mary Shelley: Hannah, Bathsheba, Joanna, Mehitabel, Judith [D]
  314. - **Samuel Harlow** (1652/3 - bef. 1728)
  315. - b. 27 Jan 1652/3, Plymouth [D, PCR 8:15]; d. by 1728
  316. - m. (1) Priscilla; (2) **Hannah**
  317. - **Link:** [D] birth record names his father; born within the Bartlett marriage, so Rebecca Bartlett was his mother [I from D].
  318. - By Priscilla: Rebekah (1678). By Hannah: John (1685), Hannah (1689), Samuel (1690), **William** (26 July 1692), Eliazer (1694), Priscilla (1695) [D]
  319. - **Samuel Rider** (? - ?) m. **Sarah Bartlett**: Samuel (18 Nov 1657); **John Rider** (b. 3 June 1663 [C]; d. 1735 [C]) [D for the 1657 birth; C for John]
  320. - **John Rider** m. (1) 1694 **Hannah Barnes** (dau. of Jonathan Barnes and Elizabeth Hedge [C]); (2) Mary. Children by Hannah: Sarah (1694); **Mercy** (14 Nov 1696); Samuel (1698); John (1700); Ebenezer (1702) [D, Plymouth VR p. 84]
  321. - **William Harlow** (1692 - bef. 1765)
  322. - b. 26 July 1692, Plymouth [D]; d. before 1765 [I]
  323. - m. 24 Feb 1714/15, Plymouth, **Mercy Rider** (b. 14 Nov 1696; d. 21 Jan 1772 [C, unverified]) [D]; they were second cousins [I]
  324. - Note: Owned the Harlow Old Fort House from 1728 [C, Davis].
  325. - Children: Sarah (1715), Benjamin (1716), William (1718), Hannah (1719/20), Mercy (1721/2), Keziah (1723), Samuel (1726), **Phebe** (21 Oct 1728), Rebecca (1732), Seth (1736) [D birth of Phebe; C the list]
  327. ### G. Blackmer (Nancy's first husband)
  328. - Branch Blackmer and Sarah Waite: parents of Richard Blackmer (b. 1 Nov 1772). Branch's will (probate 1818) leaves a third of his Plymouth real estate to "George Ellis Blackmar, my Grandson & Son of my Son Richard Blackmer decd" [D].
  330. ### H. Clark (George Ellis's second wife; Gideon Holbrook's first wife)
  331. - William Clark of Plymouth: father of Experience (Clark) Ellis (heirs' deed, recorded Jan 1809) [D].
  332. - James Clark Jr. and Hannah Swift: parents of Sarah (Clark) Holbrook (b. 13 Feb 1765), Gideon Holbrook's first wife. Neither Clark family is in the direct line.
  334. ### I. Holbrook and Lowe
  335. - See `Holbrook-Master-Family-Tree.md` for the Holbrook line from Glastonbury to Capt. Gideon, and for Harriet Phillips Lowe (b. 12 June 1834 per that tree; 12 June 1839 per Farrar, *Washington Historical Quarterly* 1916), dau. of Nathan and Harriet (Tyler) Low of Deer Isle, Maine.
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  339. ## Part Five: Forks and discrepancies
  341. | Question | Claims | Present reading |
  342. |---|---|---|
  343. | Mercy, wife of Lt. Matthias: maiden name | Nye (B-M 1965; Nye 1907; PJ); unknown (WikiTree); "Mary Burgess" (Freeman 1875; Davis 1899) | Probably Nye [C] [?]. "Mary Burgess" is a confusion with Manoah's wife. The 9 June 1704 Nye deed ("daughter Mercy") needs reading |
  344. | Lt. Matthias's death | 8 Sept 1748 (Sandwich register); 20 Aug (PJ); 30 Aug (*Annals*) | 8 Sept fits the probate of 4 Oct 1748 |
  345. | Joel's birth name | Worn in the register; "Joel" from a later copy and B-M | Joel; confirmed in effect by his father's will and his receipt as one of the children |
  346. | Joel's father | Matthias (B-M; Sandwich VR) vs Samuel Ellis of Plympton (Davis) | Matthias [D] |
  347. | Joel-to-Matthias deed | Previously read as 23 May 1750 | May 1759: acknowledged at Middleborough 22 May 1759 (image checked); the companion gift to sons Charles and Thomas is dated 21 May 1759 |
  348. | Jemima, Joel's second wife | Widow of Samuel Bennett, born Tupper (B-M via PJ) | Marriage 27 Mar 1758 [D]; her maiden name [C] |
  349. | Lucy's father | Samuel Bennett (earlier hypothesis) vs Lt. Joseph Bennett Jr. | Joseph [D birth record] |
  350. | Phebe (Stephens) Ellis's death | 1786 (FamilySearch tree); 24 Nov 1789 ("George Ellis's Wife," Plymouth church records) | Living 28 Mar 1785; probably 24 Nov 1789 [I]; certainly dead by 22 May 1805 |
  351. | Molly Ellis | Thought missing from the 1805 quitclaim | Named among the 1805 grantors as "Polly Ellis" (image checked) |
  352. | Nancy's second marriage | 1818 (Davis; Holbrook tree); "7 Oct 1819" (earlier reading of the research file) | Int. 29 Nov 1818 [D, Plymouth VR intentions]; m. Dec 1818 |
  353. | Nancy's birth | "c. 1778-84" (order in 1785 warning-out) | 21 Oct 1781, from her age at death |
  354. | Nancy's death | "after 1858" (research file) | 29 Jan 1864 [D]; her will was proved in Jan 1865 |
  355. | Richard B. Holbrook Sr.'s dates | 1821-1894 (FamilySearch tree, census ages, Farrar 1916 for the birth date); 1830-1898 (Collins-Reed tree) | 1821-1894; Farrar gives 1893 for the death |
  356. | Harriet Lowe's birth | 12 June 1834 (Holbrook tree); 12 June 1839 (Farrar) | Open |
  357. | Edward Perry | Son-in-law (husband of Edmund's daughter Mary) vs stepson | Open; leaning to son-in-law [I] |
  358. | Bennett Hodsoll's mother | Anne Maundy (Bush) vs Faith Bacon (Dawes-Gates) vs Faith Gratwick (online) | Anne Maundy; Faith was her stepmother |
  359. | Edmund's first marriage | 16 vs 26 June 1617 | Check the Cowfold register |
  360. | Mary Nye's marriage to Jacob Burge | 1 June 1660 vs 1 June 1670 | Open; the 1660 court record shows a courtship in 1660 |
  361. | Benjamin Nye's origin | Biddenden, Kent (1907) vs Sussex (NEHGR 158, 2004) | Sussex, parents unknown |
  362. | Thomas Tupper's birth | 1578 (his death record) vs bapt. 1590 at Bury | Open |
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