Tyler and Ginn Line Research: Hannah Read Tyler's ancestry

Hannah Read Tyler (b. 12 Dec 1809; d. 9 Apr 1886) married Capt. Nathan Low and was the mother of Harriet Phillips Low. This file covers her ancestry:

• Part One: her father's side (Tyler) and her paternal grandmother's side (Read, with Capron and Callender, Lessie, Peck, Ide, White, Humphrey, Macomber, Dean).
• Part Two: her mother Sally Ginn's side (Ginn or Genn, Riggs, Millett, Greenaway, Wheeler, Yeoman, Allen, Goodale, Stanwood, Messer).

Her husband's side is in Low_Line_Research.md. Mollie's typescript covers these lines on pp. 135-187; Mollie_Typescript_Review.md gives the claim-by-claim verdicts.

Evidence tiers

• [Documented]: a primary record, or a published transcript or abstract of one, with volume and page.
• [Compiled]: a secondary genealogy or online tree.
• [Inference]: our own reasoning from records, with the reason given.
• [Tradition]: family lore, including Mollie's typescript where no record supports it.

Status. Compiled 1 Oct 2026 from research reports written that day. They draw on online sources: archive.org full texts of printed vital records and genealogies, NEHGR, TAG as quoted online, WikiTree, Pane-Joyce and newspapers. Quotations are as read in those sources; OCR-derived quotations may carry small reading errors. Nothing here has yet been checked against original manuscripts or images, except where a section says so.

One conflict that runs through both parts. Mollie's Ginn chart makes Sally Ginn (b. 20 Feb 1784), wife of Rowland Tyler, a daughter of Capt. James Ginn and Ann Riggs. Brigham's Tyler Genealogy (1912) calls her the daughter of "William H. Ginn, a shipbuilder of Ellsworth". Part Two follows Mollie's chart. Until a record settles it, the Ginn-Riggs ancestry in Part Two is provisional. [Unresolved]

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Part One: Tyler and Read

Scope: Hannah's father's side (Tyler) and her paternal grandmother's side (Read and the lines feeding into it). I read typescript pp. 133-165 in the transcription of Mollie's typescript. Everything cited below was read online in archive.org full texts, plus a few web pages (all listed in section f). Working files are in /tmp/claude-0/-home-claude/cfa4d320-e3fe-57eb-bfc2-a4e096ec900a/scratchpad/tyler/.

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(a) Verdict table

#	Mollie's claim	Finding	Tier
1	Job's father was "Capt. Thomas Tyler" of Budleigh, Devon, a merchant captain. Job's mother was the widow Joan.	No evidence; chronologically impossible. The Budleigh sea captain was Thomas Tyler of Boston. He married Miriam Simpkins, had children 1685-1698, and was "tak. by a Barbary corsair" in 1703 (Savage 4:355). That puts him two generations after Job. "Widow Tiler"/"Joan Tyler" was at Providence in 1638 and 1640 (RI Col. Rec. 1:24, 31). Her link to Job is unknown; Savage says only "possibly" his mother. Mollie's "aged fifty-four" is a misreading: Brigham says she was "one of the 54" lot-holders. I could not find the book "Some Early Heraldic Memorials".	Documented (Joan; Thomas of Boston). The link is Tradition.
2	Job Tyler was at Newport in 1638.	RI Col. Rec. 1:92: "Inhabitants admitted at the Towne of Nieu-Port since the 20th of the 3d, 1638 ... Job Tyler". Savage doubts this is the Andover man.	Documented (name). Identity is Inference.
3	Job was born 1619.	In June 1659 he deposed he was "aged about 40 yeares".	Documented (approx.)
4	Mary was dismissed from Roxbury church to Mendon, 28 May 1645.	The year is 1665, not 1645 (Brigham p. 3). Savage reads the same date as her joining Roxbury church.	Compiled. Mollie's year is wrong.
5	Job and Mary charged Godfrey with witchcraft; "the case was dismissed."	Corrected. (1) In 1658/9 Job signed a petition against Godfrey. (2) In 1659 Godfrey won a slander suit against Simonds, but the jury found him "rendered suspicious". (3) On 6 March 1665/6 the Court of Assistants tried Godfrey "on the Complaint & accusation of Job Tyler & John Rimington". He was indicted. The trial verdict was "suspitiously Guilty of witchcraft, but not legally guilty". Not dismissed; acquitted.	Documented
6	Robert and Mary Lord witnessed one of the documents.	Correct. They witnessed Job's 18 April 1662 conveyance to Godfrey (Brigham p. 5).	Documented (transcript)
7	"Job Tyler is as cantankerous as ever" (a Mendon minute).	Not a real quotation. It is not in the Mendon records as printed by Metcalf (1880) or Brigham (1912). The real entries are the July 1669 refusal and a later note that he "has given satisfaction".	Paraphrase / Tradition
8	Job helped settle "Rev. John Emerson".	The minister was Rev. Joseph Emerson. Job signed the settlement agreement on 1 Dec 1669.	Documented
9	Samuel (3) born May 24, 1665 (chart).	Born 24 May 1655; baptized at Roxbury 4 June 1665. The chart year is a typo.	Compiled
10	Samuel was impressed at Rowley in 1675, was in the Narragansett fight, and was wounded and left for dead.	Impressment and his pay credit of 24 Mar 1675/6 are documented (Bodge). That "Samuel Taylor of Rowley" (listed slain) was really Samuel Tiler is Brigham's reading of Bodge. "Left for dead" and the claim his life was shortened are Inference.	Documented / Inference
11	Son Ebenezer claimed the Narragansett grant (Amherst, NH).	Correct. Bodge p. 422, Narragansett No. 3, Andover: Samuel Tyler, claimant "Ebenezer, son".	Documented (printed list)
12	Samuel died at Mendon 17 Dec 1695; wife Hannah.	Correct (Mendon VR p. 510). Hannah's maiden name is unknown.	Documented
13	Capt. Samuel born Feb 26, 1695; died May 17, 1759.	Correct. Mendon VR p. 197 gives Feb. 26, 1694-5. Attleboro VR: died May 17, 1759, "in his 64th y."	Documented
14	Capt. Samuel married Mary Capron 19 Dec 1719.	Bailey's court return gives Dec. 19, 1717. Their first children were born Jan 1718/19 and May 1720, which requires a 1717 marriage.	Documented + Inference
15	Ebenezer born Mar 25, 1740; died Jan 29, 1811.	The death is correct (Attleboro VR: "Col.", "in his 71st y."). The birth date conflicts: Brigham's entry says Mar 25, but Brigham's own child list and Holden say May 25. Unresolved.	Documented (death); birth in conflict
16	Ebenezer married Hannah White Read 4 May 1762.	Brigham: May 4. Bailey's court return: May 1, 1762.	Conflict
17	Ebenezer was among the first to march toward Lexington, a 2nd Lt.; tradition puts him at Lexington.	MSSRW 16:230: he was a Private in Capt. Jabez Ellis's Attleborough company, which marched on the 19 April 1775 alarm (9 days). Later a Sergeant (Dec 1776) and 1st Lt. (commissioned 22 Dec 1777). There is no record he was at Lexington.	Documented
18	"Brig.-Gen. on gravestone."	Brigham: militia captain 1786, major 1790, colonel 1799, "major-general six years". The Attleboro VR calls him "Col." I have not seen the gravestone.	Compiled; unverified
19	Rowland: born 2 Feb 1780, died 18 Oct 1872, married Sally Ginn in 1804.	Correct (Brigham). Married 28 Mar 1804. Died at Bangor, buried at Dixmont. Brigham calls Sally the daughter of "William H. Ginn, a shipbuilder of Ellsworth", which conflicts with Mollie's Ginn chart (James Genn and Ann Riggs). Both give her birth as 20 Feb 1784.	Compiled; conflict
20	Rowland was taken prisoner at Hampden in 1814.	History of Penobscot County (1882) says so. A "Rowland Taylor" is a private in Capt. Butman's company from Dixmont, in service at Hampden 31 Aug-3 Sept 1814. The Bangor jail and the broken gun are tradition only.	Compiled; roll Documented; identity Inference
21	Rowland was agent for Dr. Dix.	Brigham says so. He also built the Dixmont Corner Church (1834-35), per its National Register nomination.	Compiled
22	Hannah Read Tyler: born 12 Dec 1809, died 9 Apr 1886; married Feb 25, 1835 (typed) or Oct 4, 1832 (handwritten).	Birth and death agree with Brigham. Feb 25, 1835 is the wedding date of her brother Frederick to Diadamia P. Emery (Brigham #1963). Oct 4, 1832 matches Mollie's own Low chart.	Compiled + Inference
23	Banfield Capron: born England 1662, died 20 Aug 1752; the stowaway story.	Holden: died Aug 20, 1752, aged 92. Savage: 25 Aug. The stowaway story is 1817 family tradition.	Compiled / Tradition
24	Banfield married Elizabeth Callender.	The 1817 account says only "one of Callender's daughters", with no first name. Savage: his wife "Eliz." died 10 Mar 1735. Holden says Elizabeth Blackington (his "2nd" wife) died 10 May 1735. "Elizabeth Callender" rests only on weakly sourced modern trees.	Tradition / conflict
25	Mary Capron born 1684 at Rehoboth.	Wrong. 22 Oct 1684 is her sister Elizabeth's birth (Rehoboth VR). Mary was born about 1696: she died 26 Jan 1780 "in her 84th y." Banfield's 1747 will names "Mary Tiler" (WikiTree, citing Bristol Probate 13:258-261).	Documented / Compiled
26	Callenders descend from the Callendars of that Ilk.	No evidence. See (c).	n/a
27	John Read married Sarah, daughter of Wm. Lessie of Blyborough.	Correct. Aspinwall Notarial Records p. 11, Nov. 1644.	Documented
28	John Read came with Winthrop in 1630; was sheriff in 1654.	Unsupported. J. W. Reed himself says his first record is Weymouth, 1637. Reed says "constable", not sheriff.	Compiled; unsupported
29	John Read was son of William Read and Lucy Heneage; descended from Brianus de Rede; kin to the Bishop of Chichester.	No evidence; contradicted. See (c).	n/a
30	Daniel born 1655; married Hannah Peck 20 Aug 1677.	Correct. Rehoboth VR p. 723 (Daniel of John, "March, 1655"); marriage on p. 901.	Documented
31	Capt. Daniel born Jan 30, 1680.	Rehoboth VR p. 723 (I checked the page image): "Daniell, Jan. 20, 1680" (probably 1680/81). He died 13 Sept 1740 "in his 60th y."	Documented
32	Capt. Daniel married 2nd, Dec 8, 1715, Elizabeth Ide.	Correct. Rehoboth VR p. 312: "Daniell and Elizabeth Ide, Dec. 8, 1715. Int. Nov. 5, 1715." His 1st marriage, on the same page: "Daniell and Elizabeth Bozworth, Jan. 1, 1707".	Documented
33	Elizabeth Ide was born 6 Apr 1658, daughter of Nicholas.	Wrong person. The 1658 Elizabeth is Nicholas's daughter (VR p. 649). Daniel's wife was Elizabeth, born 16 Mar 1690 [1689/90], daughter of Timothy Ide and Elizabeth Cooper, so a granddaughter of Nicholas. She died 31 Dec 1759 "in her 70th y."	Documented + Inference
34	Nicholas Ide married Mary Bliss, daughter of Wm./Thos. Bliss; she died 6 Sept 1690.	Not supported. Thomas Bliss's daughter Mary was the wife of Nathaniel Harmon. Nicholas's wife was buried 3 Nov 1676 (Martha). Nicholas remarried in 1679/80. The 1690 "Mary, wife of Nicholas" was almost certainly Nicholas Jr.'s wife, Mary Ormsby.	Documented + Inference
35	Ralph Waldo Emerson descends from Thomas Bliss.	Not from this Thomas Bliss. Emerson descends from Thomas and Margaret Bliss of Hartford/Springfield.	Compiled
36	Benjamin Ide Wheeler descends from Nicholas Ide.	Plausible but not traced. His mother was Mary Eliza Ide, daughter of Ebenezer Ide of Pawtucket, of the Attleborough/Rehoboth Ides.	Unproven
37	Hannah Peck born 19 July 1646 at Hingham.	Wrong. Rehoboth VR p. 703: "Hannah, March 25, 1653", of Joseph and Hannah. Mollie's pencil note is correct.	Documented
38	Joseph Peck Jr. born Aug 23, 1623.	That is his baptism date (Ira Peck).	Compiled
39	Joseph Peck baptized Beccles 1587; came on the Diligence 1638; died 23 Dec 1663.	Ira Peck: baptized 30 Apr 1587; died 23 Dec 1663 "in the seventy-seventh year". He gives a contemporary Hingham note on the 1638 arrival.	Compiled
40	Robert Peck (Joseph's father) married "---- Norton".	Ira Peck says Robert married Hellen Babbs, daughter of Nicholas Babbs. "Norton" appears in the visitation only as a married name of a Margaret Peck.	Compiled; Mollie wrong
41	Joseph Peck was "21 generations from John Peck of Belton"; Harleian citations.	Unproven. The printed visitations Mollie cites start with Richard Peck of Wakefield and have no Belton and no Beccles branch. See (c).	Compiled; upper pedigree unproven
42	Mary White born 5 Dec 1720, daughter of Matthew White and Damaris Dean.	Correct. Norton VR p. 157: "Mary, ch. Mathew and Dameras, Dec. 5, 1720."	Documented
43	Matthew White born 25 Oct 1676; married 2nd Damaris Dean in 1715.	Birth correct (Taunton VR 1:448). His 1st wife was Susanna Hall (married 10 July 1711). The 1715 date is from Lothrop; I found no record of the marriage.	Documented / Compiled
44	Damaris was a daughter of Walter Dean.	Wrong by a generation. She was the daughter of Benjamin Dean (Walter's son) and Sarah Williams, born 4 Sept 1689 (Taunton VR).	Documented
45	Nicholas White Jr. married Ursula Macomber 9 Dec 1673; died at Norton Jan 18, 1727.	Correct. Taunton VR 2:328. Norton VR p. 402: "Nicholas 'the Eldest,' Jan. 18, 1727-8."	Documented
46	Nicholas White Sr. married Susanna, daughter of Jonas Humphrey; died 1697.	Correct. Jonas Humphrey's 1662 will names "d. Susanna, w. of Nicholas White" (Savage abstract). Nicholas Sr.'s inventory was taken 13 July 1697 (Lothrop).	Documented (abstract) / Compiled
47	William Macomber married a sister of Peregrine White.	False. The legend belongs to a later William Macomber (1746-1815), who married Ruth White in 1764. See (c).	Compiled
48	William Macomber came on the Ann (1623).	False. He first appears in 1638 as "of Dorchester".	Documented
49	Walter Dean's wife was Eleanor Strong, sister of Elder John Strong.	Savage: married "it is said, Eleanor". The Strong link rests on a 1777 family account. See (c).	Tradition
50	Edith Kermit Roosevelt descends from Job through Hopestill.	Supported by Brigham. See (c).	Compiled
51	Charles A. Dana descends from Job through Hopestill.	Not found in Brigham's index; unverified.	Unproven

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(b) The lines, generation by generation

TYLER

1. Job Tyler

• Born about 1619. In a deposition of 27 June 1659 he gives his age as "about 40 yeares".
• Wife Mary ___. Her maiden name is unknown.
• Possibly the "Job Tyler" admitted at Newport in 1638.
• At Andover by about 1640.
• Roxbury, 1646: "A lit infant also a twinn of Job Tilers dyed" (Roxbury church records, via Brigham).
• Mortgaged property to John Godfrey on 5 Mar 1650.
• Sold his Andover lands in 1662 (deeds of 10 June 1662 to Thomas and George Abbott; 28 Aug 1662 to Godfrey).
• Roxbury 1665. Mendon by 1669.
• Drew lots at Mendon in 1671 and 1673.
• Paid minister's rates at Mendon in 1688, 1689, 1691 and 1695.
• Deeded his Mendon house lot to son Moses on 27 Nov 1700 (Suffolk Deeds 20:127).
• No death record [Documented through transcripts in Brigham, EQC and Annals of Mendon].
• Children (Brigham): Moses (1641/2), Mary (about 1644), Hopestill (about 1645/6), a twin who died 1646, Hannah, John (died 1652), John (1653), and Samuel (24 May 1655).

2. Samuel Tyler

• Born 24 May 1655; baptized Roxbury 4 June 1665.
• Died Mendon 17 Dec 1695.
• Wife Hannah ___. She was granted administration of his estate on 9 Apr 1696; inventory £243.10.
• Children (Mendon VR p. 197):
  • Ebenezer, Apr 28, 1685
  • Han[n]ah, Feb 12, 1687 (Brigham says 1692)
  • Mary, Feb 21, 1688-9
  • Elizabeth, Mar 17, 1691
  • Samuel, Feb 26, 1694-5

3. Capt. Samuel Tyler

• Born Mendon 26 Feb 1694/5.
• Died Attleboro 17 May 1759 "in his 64th y."
• Married Mary Capron on 19 Dec 1717 (Bailey's court return).
• Mary died 26 Jan 1780 (the gravestone reading is 1789) "in her 84th y." [Documented]
• Will dated 16 May 1759 [Compiled].
• Children: per Brigham and Holden. Mary (died 28 June 1724) and Samuel (died 27 Apr 1724) are confirmed by the Attleboro VR deaths.

4. Ebenezer Tyler

• Born 25 Mar or 25 May 1740 (see the conflict in the table).
• Died 29 Jan 1811 [Documented]. Brigham: "He died suddenly, being found in the barn, on the mow, with his pitchfork in his hand."
• Married Hannah Read on 1 or 4 May 1762.
• Hannah: born 26 June 1744. Lothrop gives this date; Brigham gives July 7, which is 11 days later and probably a New Style conversion [Inference]. She died 18 Sept 1822 "in her 79th y." [Documented].
• Children: per Brigham. The Attleboro VR confirms that sons Leander (died 26 Sept 1775), Rowland and Habijah (both died 1 Oct 1775) died that autumn.
• In the same weeks Mary (White) Read died (23 Sept 1775), as did her sons David (12 Sept) and Ezra (21 Sept). That is seven deaths in the two households in under three weeks; no cause is recorded [Documented].

5. Rowland Tyler

• Born 2 Feb 1780; twin of Dr. Abijah Weld Tyler, who drowned in the Penobscot River on 22 Aug 1807.
• Went to Penobscot County in 1796.
• Teacher; builder.
• Captain, later major, of militia.
• Moved from Dixmont to Bangor about 1840 and kept the "Tyler Stand" tavern.
• Died 18 Oct 1872 [Compiled, Brigham].
• Differences between Mollie's child list and Brigham's:
  • Sally Ginn: Feb 5, 1808 (Mollie has Feb 4).
  • Frederick: Sept 15, 1812 (Mollie has Sept 5).
  • "Rowland Abijah" (Mollie has "Rowland Mark").
  • Lavinia Draper: Jan 28, 1829 (Mollie has Jan 25, 1826).
  • Lucinda married "Steward S. Mitchell" (Mollie's handwriting reads "Stannard").
  • Lyman married Lucetta Libby on 1 Jan 1844 (Mollie's handwritten note is correct).
  • "Capoline/Caeoline" in the typescript is Caroline Herrick.
• "General Henry Mitchell", whose letter Mollie quotes, is (Gen.) Henry Lyman Mitchell, born 1845, son of Lucinda [Compiled].

6. Hannah Read Tyler

• Born 12 Dec 1809; died 9 Apr 1886 [Compiled].
• Married Capt. Nathan Low on 4 Oct 1832.

CAPRON

• Banfield Capron was in Rehoboth/Attleborough by about 1680.
  • Rehoboth VR: "CAPRON Elizabeth Banfield, of Banfield, Oct. 22, 1684".
  • Married (3rd) Sarah Daggett, 16 Dec 1735 (Holden; WikiTree citing the Attleboro town record).
  • Died 20 Aug 1752.
  • Will dated 8 Apr 1747 [Compiled].
• The Callenders of Rehoboth. The only primary trace I found is "John Callender" in "A list of the Proprietors and Inhabitants of Rehoboth, Feb. 7, 1689" (Rehoboth VR p. 916) [Documented].
  • WikiTree's John Callender (Callender-63) claims a Boston birth in 1637 and death at Attleboro in 1706. The same family's daughter (Callender-14) is claimed baptized at Chulmleigh, Devon, in 1661. These claims are mutually inconsistent and sourced only to Ancestry trees.
  • Philip Capron (1817) adds that one Callender daughter "married in Boston, by the name of Winter, or Winthrop", and that the family later moved near Dartmouth College [Tradition].

READ

• John Read (about 1598-1685).
  • Weymouth 1637, Dorchester 1638, Braintree 1640-44, Rehoboth by 1644/5.
  • Gravestone "J. R., æt. 87. D. S. 1685" (J. W. Reed p. 186).
  • Will 6 Jan 1679 names sons Moses, Daniel and Israel (WikiTree, citing Bowen, Early Rehoboth 3:163) [Compiled].
  • Wife Sarah, daughter of William Lessie of Blyborough, Suffolk [Documented].
  • I did not verify Sarah's death on 23 Apr 1702.
• Daniel Read: born Rehoboth March 1655. Married Hannah Peck, 20 Aug 1677.
  • Children (VR p. 723): Hannah June 30, 1678; Daniell Jan. 20, 1680; John Feb. 25, 1682 (buried 1 Mar 1682/3); Sary 1684; Noah 1687; Abigail 1690.
• Capt. Daniel Read.
  • Married 1st Elizabeth Bosworth, 1 Jan 1706/7. Their children (VR p. 724): Beriah 1707, Ichabod 1708, Hannah 1709/10, Abigail 1711, Esther 1712, Daniell Sept 9, 1713.
  • Married 2nd Elizabeth Ide, 8 Dec 1715.
  • Died 13 Sept 1740; his widow Elizabeth died 31 Dec 1759 (Attleboro VR).
• Capt. Daniel Read (1716-1801).
  • Married Mary White, 2 April 1741 (Bailey) or 2 May 1741 (Lothrop).
  • Children (Lothrop, from Attleboro records): Matthew July 23, 1742; Hannah June 26, 1744; Mary 1746/7; David 1748/9; Peter 1751; Joel 1753; Eunice 1755.
  • Mary died 23 Sept 1775. Daniel died 23 Feb 1801 "in his 85th y.". A later wife, Mary, died 25 Sept 1810 [Documented].

PECK

• Joseph Peck.
  • Baptized Beccles 30 Apr 1587, son of Robert Peck and Hellen Babbs.
  • Married Rebecca Clark at Hingham, England, 21 May 1617. She was buried 24 Oct 1637.
  • His second wife is unnamed; Pane-Joyce says she was a sister of Thomas Cooper.
  • Came in 1638; at Rehoboth by 1645; died 23 Dec 1663 [Compiled].
• Joseph Peck Jr.
  • Baptized 23 Aug 1623.
  • Wife Hannah ___ (Rehoboth VR).
  • Will dated 5 July 1697, codicil 11 Mar 1701 [Compiled transcript].
  • Children (VR p. 703): Rebecka 1650; Hannah Mar 25, 1653; Elizabeth 1657 (married Capt. Samuel Mason); Jathniel 1660; Mary 1662; Ichabod 1666; Patience 1669; Samuel 1672.

IDE

• Nicholas Ide (died 1690; buried 18 Oct 1690, VR p. 840).
  • First wife: Martha. Rehoboth VR p. 839 has "IDE Martha, buried Nov. 3, 1676". The colony return (p. 900) has "[I]YDE The wife of Nicholas [I]yde buried the third of November, 1676" (OCR garbles the "I" and the year).
  • Second wife: Jane (Damon), widow of John Plimpton, married 16 Mar 1679/80 at Medfield (WikiTree citing Medfield VR p. 165). She married George Kenrick on 1 Apr 1691 (Rehoboth VR).
  • Children (VR p. 649): first child born Nov 11, 1647 (name lost in OCR); Mary 1649; John 1652; Nicholas Nov 1654; Martha 1656; Elizabeth Apr 6, 1658; Timothy Oct 1660; Dorothy 1662; Patience 1664; Experience 1665.
• Timothy Ide married Elizabeth Cooper on 20 Oct 1687 (VR p. 110).
  • Children (VR p. 649): Timothy 1688; Elizabeth Mar 16, 1690; Mary 1692; Sarah 1694; Rachal and Experience 1696; Josiah 1698; Daniell 1701.
• Elizabeth Ide married Capt. Daniel Read, as above.
• Nicholas Ide Jr. married Mary Ormsby on 27 Dec 1677 (VR p. 901). Their son John was born 27 Aug 1690. "Mary, wife of Nicholas, buried Sept. 9, 1690" (p. 840) fits her, not Nicholas Sr.'s wife [Inference].

WHITE / HUMPHREY / MACOMBER / DEAN

• Jonas Humphrey of Dorchester. Savage gives 1634 (Mollie gives 1637).
  • Tanner. From Wendover, Bucks, "where he was, it is said, the constable".
  • Married 2nd Jane, widow of George Weeks.
  • Died 19 Mar 1662 [Compiled; will abstract Documented].
  • I did not verify "glover".
• Nicholas White.
  • Freeman 10 May 1643; married Susanna Humphrey.
  • Uncaty (Milton) land suit after 1647.
  • At Taunton by 1655; Block Island purchaser 1661.
  • Died 1697 [Compiled, Lothrop].
• Nicholas White Jr.
  • Married Ursula Macomber of Marshfield, 9 Dec 1673.
  • Children (Taunton VR): Nicklos Feb 3, 1675; Mathew Oct 25, 1676; Ephraim 1678; Dorcas Dec 24, 1680; John Jan 10, 1685.
  • Died at Norton 18 Jan 1727/8 [Documented].
• Matthew White.
  • Married 1st Susanna Hall, 10 July 1711 (Taunton VR 2:218).
  • Married 2nd Damaris Dean in 1715 (Lothrop).
  • Children (Norton VR p. 157): Seth June 26, 1716; Mary Dec 5, 1720; Benjamin 1722; Dameras 1724/5.
  • Died before 1731.
• The widow Damaris married Benjamin Tree on 29 April 1731 (Norton VR p. 336; Lothrop). Benjamin Tree's first wife Hannah had died at Attleboro on 26 June 1728.
  • Attleboro VR: "TREE, Damiris, Nov. 18, 1786. [1780. P.R.79.], in her 92d y." Only the 1780 reading fits her 1689 birth.
  • This probably explains why Mary White "lived for some reason, in Attleboro" [Inference].
• William Macomber.
  • Cooper, "of Dorchester" when licensed to live in Plymouth Colony in 1638.
  • Duxbury 1644; later Marshfield.
  • Gave his age as 45 on 1 Mar 1655.
  • Widow "Ursilla" gave an administration bond on 6 June 1670 (Stackpole, abstracting Plymouth probate) [Compiled].
  • Stackpole says the daughters' attachment to this family is "an almost necessary inference".
• Walter Dean.
  • From Chard, Somerset; at Taunton by 1637-38.
  • Living in 1693 (Savage).
  • Son Benjamin married Sarah Williams, 6 Jan 1681. Their daughter Damaris was born 4 Sept 1689 (Taunton VR).
  • Benjamin's will is dated 2 Feb 1723, proved 14 Apr 1725 (Savage).

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(c) Gentry, royal and famous-kin claims

1. Capt. Thomas Tyler of Budleigh as Job's father. No evidence. The Budleigh man flourished 1685-1703 (Savage 4:355). Brigham (1912) found no origin for Job and called the Shropshire tradition baseless. Brigham's aside that Job was a "descendant of Wat Tyler" is a rhetorical flourish, not a claim with evidence.

2. Callendars of that Ilk. No evidence.

   • The Callender wife rests only on the 1817 tradition, which places the family in England near Banfield's supposed home by Chester.
   • Mollie's own source says the Callendar estate passed to Livingston by charter in 1347, through the heiress Christian.
   • Callender is also an English surname, from the trade of calendering cloth [Inference].
   • Verdict: unsupported.

3. Read pedigree (Brianus de Rede, Bishop of Chichester, William Read and Lucy Heneage; Dalraids, Alfred, Rockingham Castle). No evidence, and contradicted by records.

   • The source is J. W. Reed, History of the Reed Family (1861), pp. 28-29.
   • Reed's chain gives bishops legitimate heirs.
   • Even Reed only "supposed" John was son of William and Lucy Henage (p. 186).
   • The Reade Society (Edward F. Reed, 1907, pp. 26-27) dates Lucy Heneage's birth to 24 Feb 1586. That makes her twelve when a John born in 1598 would have been born.
   • The same source says her son John "did not emigrate to America, but remained in England and died there unmarried".
   • John of Rehoboth's documented in-law was of Blyborough, Suffolk.
   • The Redesdale peerage title comes from the place name; there is no evidence that the Mitfords are Reads [Inference].

4. Peck: "21 generations from John Peck of Belton". Unproven above the Beccles generations.

   • Harleian Society vol. 2 (Leicestershire 1619) pp. 146-148 and vol. 16 (Yorkshire 1563-4) p. 236 begin with Richard Peck of Wakefield, who married Margaret, "doughter & heyre of ... Heselden". They have no Belton and no Beccles branch.
   • Vol. 18 (Cheshire 1580) has no Peck pedigree; Ira B. Peck appears only as a subscriber. I did not check vol. 3.
   • Ira Peck says his pedigree is in the British Museum, "excepting the two last families, those of Robert and Joseph, which are added to it".
   • He also says the motto "has been added", i.e. not recorded with the early arms.
   • Verdict: Robert Peck of Beccles's place in the Wakefield family is not shown by the printed visitations Mollie cites.

5. Macomber: married Peregrine White's sister; Earls of Fife. False.

   • Peregrine White's only recorded sibling was Resolved. Bradford (Ford ed., vol. 2) names "the minor children, Resolved and Peregrine".
   • Richards, History of Marshfield 1:48, says "cousin, Ruth White". Mollie says "sister".
   • Stackpole explains the source of the error: William Macomber (1746-1815) "married, 15 Oct. 1764, Ruth, dau. of Cornelius and Sarah (Ford) White, fifth in descent from Peregrine White". This is the same William as Mollie's 1772 ensign.
   • The Fife link: no evidence; Mollie herself doubted it.

6. Dean: Robert de Den, butler to Edward the Confessor; Forest of Dean named for the family. No evidence.

7. Strong: Eleanor, daughter of Richard Strong of Taunton (Caernarvon family).

   • The earliest statement is Gov. Caleb Strong's 1777 account, printed by Dwight p. xxvi: "A sister of his came with him from England, who afterwards m. a person by the name of Dean." It gives no first name.
   • "Eleanor" and "Richard Strong" are Dwight's (1871) elaboration [Tradition].

8. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Not descended from Thomas Bliss of Rehoboth.

   • Bliss Genealogy (1881): Rev. Daniel Bliss of Concord was son of Thomas Bliss and Hannah Cadwell of Springfield. That Thomas was son of Samuel Bliss and Mary Leonard. Samuel was son of Thomas and Margaret Bliss of Hartford.
   • Rev. Daniel's daughter Phebe married Rev. William Emerson, grandfather of the poet.
   • The 1881 book claims the two Thomases were cousins from Belstone, Devon; that is unproven.

9. Benjamin Ide Wheeler. His mother was "Mary Eliza Ide ... daughter of Ebenezer Ide of the Ide family which had its origin in South Attleborough, then Rehoboth" (Wikipedia). Descent from Nicholas is likely, since he is the only colonial Ide progenitor there, but I have not traced it [Unproven].

10. Edith Kermit (Carow) Roosevelt. Supported by a compiled source. The chain in Brigham:

    • Job → Hopestill → Daniel (born about 1676-81; married Anna Geer 1700)
    • → Daniel (1701-1802)
    • → Capt. Daniel (1750-1832; married Mehitable Putnam, daughter of Gen. Israel Putnam)
    • → Gen. Daniel (1799-1882)
    • → Gertrude Elizabeth (married Charles Carow 1859)
    • → Edith Kermit Carow (born 1861; married Theodore Roosevelt 1886)

    Her children, Theodore Jr., Kermit, Ethel, Archibald and Quentin, are descendants; Alice is not. This is a collateral line (Hopestill), not Mollie's direct line.

11. Charles A. Dana. Not in Brigham's index. His mother was a Denison, and Brigham records Hopestill-line Tylers marrying Denisons, but no chain is shown. Unverified.

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(d) Anecdotes, quoted

Godfrey and the witchcraft charges

• 1658/9 petition, EQC 2:157-158. One of the listed grievances against Godfrey: "Jobe tyller of Andever for a bird coming in to suck his wife."
• 1659 slander suit (Godfrey v. Simonds), EQC 2:157: "Verdict for the plaintiff, but the jury 'notwithstanding doe conceiue that by the testimonyes he is rendered suspicious.'"
• Tyler family deposition, sworn 27 June 1659 (Brigham p. 6): "The Deposicion of Job Tylar aged about 40 yeares, Mary his wife, Moses Tylar his son aged between 17 and 18 yeares and Mary Tylar about 15 yeares old. These deponents witnesse, that they saw a thing like a bird to come in at the door of their house, with John Godfrey, in the night, about the bigness of a blackbird, or rather bigger, to wit, as big as a pigeon and did fly about, John Godfrey laboring to catch it and the bird vanished as they conceived through the chinck of a joynted bord."
• Court of Assistants, 6 March 1665/6 (Records 3:151-152):
  • "John Godfrey being bound ouer to this Court ... on the Complaint & accusation of Job Tyler & John Rimington on suspition of witchcraft".
  • Verdict: "wee finde him not to haue the feare of God in his heart ... being suspitiously Guilty of witchcraft, but not legally guilty".
  • Costs: "the two prosecutors Job Tyler & Jn° Rimington shall be allowed for eleuen dayes a peece two shillings per each day a peece & that the said John Godfrey discharge the Costs of the trjall".

Hope Tyler's apprenticeship (1662)

• Godfrey on the stolen indenture, EQC 2:404-405. Godfrey testifies that Moses said: "Godfre I haue got my Brothers indentuers and nowe lat Chandler dou what he can wee will take away hope frome him and that night I see the indentuer by moes burned in the sight of his father and then he said now father you may take away hop when you will from Chandler and lat him proue a righting if he can and thay gratly Tryemped."
• Search warrant, 23 June 1662 (EQC 2:403): "Hope Tiler a youth of about 13 yeares of age, who is run away from his M[r] Thomas Chandler of Andouer who as I am informed is entertained by Richard Coy".
• Ballard deposition (EQC 2:404, editor's abstract): "about six weeks since, the house of Job Tyler being burned, he gave said Tyler's wife leave to come with her family for a time and live at his house. Her husband at that time was not at home."

The Chandler slander (1665/6)

• Job's public retraction (Brigham p. 7): "I, Job Tiler, have shamefully reproached Thomas Chandler of Andover by saying he is a base, lying cozening, cheating knave ... and that he was a cheating, lying whoreing knave fit for all manner of bawdery, wishing that the devill had him."
• Arbitrators' award (EQC 3:443, abstract): the costs were set "considering Job's poverty and necessities".

Other Job Tyler episodes

• Hay complaint (Annals of Mendon p. 43, from Mass. Archives): "Sept. 11, 1665. Owannamaug, Indian Chiefe, neere Marlborough complained of Job Tyler, of Roxbury, for cutting and carrying off hay from his meadows. Fined two shillings and six pence & cost ten shillings."
• Mendon selectmen, 16 July 1669 (Annals pp. 43-44): "his answer was he could not nor would come, but if the Selectmen had more to say to him than he to them they might come to him."
• Later Mendon entry (Annals p. 60): "Whereas their has been complaint against Job Tiler, hertofore recorded, he has given satisfaction for that ofence."

Samuel Tyler in King Philip's War

• Bodge (1906) pp. 156-157: "In the list of killed appear two Samuel Taylors. In the credits is found Samuel Tiler. In a list of men impressed at Rowley, Nov. 29,1675, I find Samuel Tiller."

Banfield Capron (Tradition, Philip Capron 1817, in Holden pp. 7-8)

• "He, with three other youths, each about 14 years old, and all schoolmates ... privately concealed themselves in the hold of the vessel ... The captain said he must return with them, for it was against the law ... But both of the mates, and all the ship's crew, thought it best to proceed on".
• "The said Banfield was of a middling stature, well-built, of a light complexion, blue eyes, and reddish hair."

Ebenezer Tyler

• Holden p. 191 [Compiled]: "He went into his barn one morning, to feed his cattle, and was found dead upon the hay mow, with a pitch fork in his hand."
• Brigham: his sword, "captured from a British surgeon", was held by Gen. Mitchell of Bangor [Tradition].

Rowland Tyler

• An old pupil, quoted by Brigham p. 221 [Compiled]: "If there ever was a true, noble gentleman, Rowland Tyler was one."
• Mollie's Stetson anecdote fits the record: Charles Stetson (1801-1883) grew up in Hampden, was a Congressman 1849-51, and lived in Bangor (Wikipedia).

Read

• Aspinwall Notarial Records p. 11 (Nov. 1644): "A tre of Atturney generall from John Reade of Braintree & Sarah his wife the daughter of Will Lessie of Blyborough in Suffolke to Receive all deb[ts] duties gifts Legacie due to either of them".

Peck

• Hingham record of the 1638 arrival (Daniel Cushing, via Ira Peck): "Mr. Joseph Peck and his wife with three sons and daughter and two men servants, and three maid servants, came from Old Hingham, and settled at New Hingham."
• Joseph Peck Jr.'s will, 1697: "I give unto my daughter Hannah wife of Daniel Reed & to her heirs forever all my medow in the north purchase & twenty pounds".

Thomas Bliss's will (MD 8:85-86)

• "It I give to my Daughter Mary and her husband Nathaneell harmon my three two yeare ould steers".
• "It I give unto Nathaneell the sonn of my sonninlaw Nicolas Ide my browne heifer".

William Macomber (Plymouth Colony Records)

• PCR 1:82 (1638): "Wilm Maycumber, of Dorchester, coop, is lycensed to dwell w[ith]in this gou[er]ment, at Plymouth or elsewhere, vpon the testymony of his good behauio' hee hath brought w[ith] him."
• PCR 2:74 (3 July 1644): bound to appear "to answere to all such matters ... conc[er]ning word[s] spoken against the natiues, tending to the breach of the league betwixt us". Mollie and Stackpole say "fined"; the record is a bond to appear.

Hannah Read Tyler's silver spoon

• Mollie's recollection of the lost will of Hannah (Read) Tyler: "To my granddaughter, Hannah Read Tyler, I leave a silver spoon." [Tradition]

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(e) Open questions and records to get

1. Printed Attleborough VR births and marriages (1934). Needed to settle: Ebenezer's birth (Mar or May 1740); the Tyler-Capron marriage date (1717 town record?); Ebenezer and Hannah's marriage date (May 1 or 4); Daniel and Mary Read's marriage (Apr or May 2, 1741); the children of Daniel Read and Elizabeth Ide.
2. Massachusetts death record, Beverly, 9 Apr 1886, for Hannah (Tyler) Low. Deer Isle record of the 4 Oct 1832 marriage.
3. Bristol County probate:
   • Ebenezer Tyler, 1811
   • Hannah (Read) Tyler, 1822 (the spoon bequest)
   • Banfield Capron, vol. 13:258-261
   • Benjamin Dean, 1725 (does it name daughter Damaris White?)
   • Nicholas White, 1728
4. Ebenezer Tyler's gravestone (Attleboro "G.R.13") for the "Brig.-Gen." wording.
5. Plymouth Colony court and probate:
   • The 1648 petition said (WikiTree, unsourced) to show Nicholas Ide claiming a child's share of Thomas Bliss's estate. If real, it would prove his wife was a Bliss daughter.
   • William Macomber's administration (1670) and Matthew Macomber's will (1675).
6. Who Elizabeth (Callender?/Blackington?) Capron was. Needs the 1735 Attleboro death record and 17th-century Swansea/Barrington records.
7. Roxbury church record of 28 May 1665: is it Mary Tyler's admission or her dismissal?
8. Charles A. Dana's maternal ancestry (Denison line) and Benjamin Ide Wheeler's Ide ancestry.
9. The British Library manuscript behind Ira Peck's pedigree, and Harleian Society vol. 3 p. 27, which I did not check.
10. Sarah (Lessie) Read's death date (1702) and John Read's will (Bowen, Early Rehoboth 3:163).

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(f) Sources

Tyler, Mendon, Essex courts

• Brigham, Tyler Genealogy (1912), vol. 1: https://archive.org/details/cu31924092510894 ; vol. 2: https://archive.org/details/cu31924092510902
• Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, vol. 2: https://archive.org/details/recordsfilesofqu02esse ; vol. 3: https://archive.org/details/recordsfilesofqu03esse
• Records of the Court of Assistants, vol. 3: https://archive.org/details/recordsofcourtof03mass
• Metcalf, Annals of Mendon: https://archive.org/details/annalsoftownofme00metc
• Mendon VR: https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofme00mendo
• RI Colonial Records, vol. 1: https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo01rhod
• Savage, Genealogical Dictionary: https://archive.org/details/genealogicaldic01savarich (and 02, 03, 04savarich)
• Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War (1906): https://archive.org/details/soldiersinkingph1906bodg
• MSSRW vol. 16: https://archive.org/details/massachusettssol16mass
• SAR patriot record: https://sarpatriots.sar.org/patriot/display/308512

Maine (Rowland Tyler)

• History of Penobscot County (1882): https://archive.org/details/historyofpenobsc00will
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixmont_Corner_Church
• https://buildingsofnewengland.com/tag/rowland-tyler/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stetson

Capron, Callender, Attleboro, Rehoboth

• Holden, Capron Genealogy (1859): https://archive.org/details/genealogyofdesce00hold
• WikiTree (weakly sourced): Capron-1, Callender-14, Callender-63: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Capron-1
• Rehoboth VR (Arnold): https://archive.org/details/cu31924028816714
• Attleborough VR deaths (1934), transcribed:
  • https://newhorizonsgenealogicalservices.com/massachusetts-genealogy/bristol-county/attleborough_massachusetts_death_records_1850_s-z.htm
  • …_j-r.htm
• Bailey, Early Massachusetts Marriages, Third Book (Attleborough), transcribed: https://newhorizonsgenealogicalservices.com/massachusetts-genealogy/bristol-county/attleborough_ma_marriage_records_1800.htm

Read

• J. W. Reed (1861): https://archive.org/details/historyofreedfam1861reed
• Reade Society Proceedings (1907): https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofrea00read
• Aspinwall Notarial Records: https://archive.org/details/volumerelatingto00aspi
• WikiTree Read-42: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Read-42

Peck

• Ira B. Peck (1868): https://archive.org/details/genealogicalhist00peck
• Harleian Society vol. 16: https://archive.org/details/visitationofyork1618flow
• Harleian Society vol. 2: https://archive.org/details/visitationofcoun02camd
• Harleian Society vol. 18: https://archive.org/details/visitationofches00glov
• Pane-Joyce: https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr01/rr01_452.html

Ide and Bliss

• Bliss Genealogy (1881): https://archive.org/details/genealogyofbliss00blis
• S. C. Ide (1916): https://archive.org/details/historyofidefami00ides
• Mayflower Descendant 8 (Thomas Bliss will): https://archive.org/details/mayflowerdescendv8mass
• WikiTree Ide-14: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ide-14
• https://schenectadyhistory.org/families/hmgfm/ide.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Ide_Wheeler

White, Macomber, Dean, Strong

• Lothrop, The Nicholas White Family (1902): https://archive.org/details/nicholaswhitefam00loth
• Taunton VR: https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofta01unse and https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofta02unse
• Norton VR: https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofno00nort
• Stackpole, Macomber Genealogy: https://archive.org/details/macombergenealog00stac
• Richards, History of Marshfield: https://archive.org/details/historyofmarshfi01rich
• Plymouth Colony Records, vols. 1-2: https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0102newp
• Bradford, History (Ford ed., vol. 2): https://archive.org/details/historyofplymout02brad
• Dwight, Strong Genealogy: https://archive.org/details/cu31924092508682

Famous kin

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Anderson_Dana

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Part Two: Ginn and Riggs

Summary

Ginn line.

• Capt. James Ginn's father was Thomas Genn, not "William". Thomas was a shipbuilder on the Choptank River in Maryland, died about 1767-69, and his wife was named Cecilia (Sicely).
• This rests on compiled sources only, though it is a good circumstantial case. No primary record links the Gloucester and Maine James to the Maryland family.
• The surveyor James Genn certainly led the 1748 survey that Washington joined. That Genn "taught" Washington is a possibility that the Washington Papers editors raise, but nothing documents it.
• No source makes the surveyor a direct ancestor. At most he was a collateral relative (uncle or great-uncle), and even that is unproven.
• Slaves: I found no record of enslaved people or of any manumission. The date Mollie gives, May 12, 1803, is the date the Bucksport church was gathered. The ordination of its minister was held in the large house Ginn was then building.

Corrections the town records force:

• Joshua Riggs was born Feb. 26, not Feb. 16.
• Mary (Millett) Riggs died Jan. 23, 1694/5, not 1682.
• The "Thomas Millet" fined over Andros's tax in 1688 was Thomas Riggs's brother-in-law, not his father-in-law.
• Ann Wheeler's mother was Agnes/Ann Yeoman, not Salisbury. The Salusbury of Lleweni descent therefore has no basis.

Sally herself:

• The Tyler Genealogy (1912) gives her marriage as March 28, 1804 and her death as March 12, 1834.
• It names her father as "William H. Ginn, a shipbuilder of Ellsworth". This conflicts with Mollie, who makes Capt. James her father.

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(a) Verdict table

Mollie's claim	Finding	Tier
Capt. James Ginn b. 1 Oct 1745, Virginia	Compiled sources give 1 Oct 1745 (Genn study, ch. 6) or 4 Oct 1745 (Genn study ch. 5; Upton). The death notice "aged 71" in April 1818 implies birth c. 1746-47. Virginia birthplace: compiled only.	Compiled. Age at death: Documented
d. 17 Apr 1818, Maine	"April, in Bucksport, Capt. James Ginn, aged 71" (newspaper deaths, Bangor Historical Magazine [BHM] 6:157). The day "17" is compiled only.	Documented (month and place). Compiled (day)
m. 3 June 1768, Gloucester, Ann Riggs	"GENN, James [Geen. int.], and Anne Riggs, June 3, 1768.*" (VR Gloucester 2:226; also 2:452). Officiant Rev. John Rogers: compiled only.	Documented
Children born at Gloucester	James Apr. 3, 1769; Anne Apr. 30, 1771; Abraham Jan. 7, 1773 (Mollie has Jan. 1); Samuel bp. Mar. 12, 1775 (VR 1:277, 283).	Documented
Children born at Orrington	No birth records found. Compiled child lists differ (see section b).	Compiled
Father William Genn (b. 1718) and Cecilia	Wrong first name. NEHGR (1880) and the Genn family study name the father Thomas Genn. The Genn study gives b. 14 Mar 1718 and wife Sicely (Cecilia). Mollie's own notes on p. 166 also say "son of Thomas".	Compiled
Son of Thomas Genn of Northumberland Co.; possibly son of James Genn (in Virginia before 1690)	The Genn study puts James Genn (0) and Thomas (1) in Northumberland. James and Mary Genn appear as servants, not kin, in Thomas Mathew's will.	Compiled
James Genn the surveyor "taught George Washington surveying"	Leading the 1748 party is documented. "Taught" is a possibility only. The surveyor's identity within the Genn family is unresolved.	Documented / Inference
"James and Thomas Genn, Gents" bought Maryland land 14 Feb 1752	No such deed found. The Genn study gives deeds of 2 Feb 1749 (Queen Anne's Co.), 18 Sept 1751 and 2 Sept 1752.	Compiled
Brothers lived on the Falmouth Road near Catletts, 1739-50; Capt. James born there	Harrison (1924) places only the surveyor's home there. Placing Thomas there, and James's birth there, is Mollie's extension.	Tradition / Speculation
Revolutionary soldier	Commissioned 2d Lieutenant 20 July 1776 in Col. Josiah Brewer's (Penobscot) regiment (Mass. Soldiers and Sailors [MSSRW] 6:472). Later commanded the first militia company "up the Penobscot".	Documented / Compiled
Plantation clerk; treasurer 1789	Confirmed in BHM 1:32 and 4:237.	Compiled from town records
"partioner for Orland 1785, grantee in 1786"	Porter has "petitioner for land 1783, grantee 1786" (Orrington lands, not Orland). Ginn signed the petition of 4 Nov 1783.	Compiled / Documented
Took Robert Treat's mill at Orland, 1791; built a brig and two schooners	BHM 1:54: one brig and two schooners at the upper falls. Court of Sessions, Sept 1791: dam case.	Compiled / Documented
Moved to Bucksport 1800; wharf and store; built the Ginn Mansion 1803; first importer of foreign goods	Rufus Buck's history (written to 1857) says exactly this.	Compiled
Two slaves, freed May 12, 1803, housed behind the mansion	No record found. May 12, 1803 is the Bucksport church-formation date in Buck's history.	Tradition (unverified)
Lost ships in the Revolution	No evidence found.	Unproven
Ann Riggs b. 17 Jan 1747/8	VR 1:578: "Ann, d. Joshua and Experience, Jan. 17, 1747." The year is printed without a double date, so 1747 or 1747/8 is ambiguous.	Documented
Ann d. Bucksport 19 Sept 1822	Genn study only. No record found.	Compiled
Joshua Riggs b. Feb 16, 1706/7	VR 1:581: Feb. 26, 1706-7	Documented (correction)
Joshua m. Experience Stanwood 23 Oct 1735	VR 2:454 and 2:516	Documented
Joshua's children	Several dates differ from VR (see section b). Mollie also omits William, b. Mar. 31, 1752.	Documented
Thomas Riggs Jr. b. 7 Dec 1666; m. 22 Nov 1687 Ann Wheeler	VR 1:584. Marriage VR 2:455: "Thomas, and Anne Wheeler of Salisbury, at Amesbury, Nov. 22, 1687."	Documented
Thomas Jr. d. Aug 1756 (handwritten note)	VR 3:258: "Thomas, Aug. [day blank], 1756, a. 89 y. 8 m."	Documented
Thomas Jr. lived on the west side of the Annisquam River	Babson says that of his brother John. Thomas "settled near his father".	Compiled (correction)
Thomas Riggs Sr. 1632-1722; town clerk 1665-1716; schoolmaster	VR 3:258: d. Feb. 26, 1721-2, "town clerk about 50 y.", aged about 90. Babson: clerk 1665-1716; chosen schoolmaster 1698.	Documented / Compiled
Representative 1760; selectman 29 times	Babson gives representative in 1700 and selectman "upwards of twenty years".	Compiled (correction)
Thomas Sr. m. 7 June 1658 Mary Millett	VR 2:452: "RIGES, Thomas, and Mary Millit, d. Thomas, June 7, 1658."	Documented
Mary Millett b. Aug 26, 1639	Dorchester records: "26th. (6th.) 1639". The 6th month is August.	Documented
Mary Millett d. Gloucester 1682	Wrong. VR 3:257: "Mary, w. Thomas, sr., Jan. 23, 1694-5." The 1682 date belongs to her mother.	Documented (correction)
Riggs and "Thomas Millett, his father-in-law" resisted Andros	Babson confirms the 1688 fine. But Rev. Thomas Millett died 1675/76, so the 1688 man was his son Thomas (Mary's brother).	Compiled + Inference
Thomas Millett b. 1605, came on the Elizabeth 1635	Ship list: "THO: MILLET 30", wife Marie 29, son Tho. 2.	Documented
Millett was "a certified minister of St. Saviour's"	Misreading. The passengers "brought Certi. from the Minister of St Saviors Southwark".	Documented (correction)
Thomas Millett d. Brookfield 1676	Babson: at Brookfield 3 June 1675, "died within a year from that time". The West Brookfield site: before 26 Sept 1675.	Compiled (conflict)
Son Thomas b. 1628 in England	Aged 2 in April 1635, so born c. 1633. Babson says 1633.	Documented (correction)
Henry Myllet of Chertsey m. Joice Chapman	Only in unsourced online trees. One online tree instead gives Thomas bp. 24 Oct 1604 at Newbury, Berkshire.	Unproven
Mary Greenaway, dau. of John and Mary of Dorchester	1650 deed of gift by John Greeneaway names "Thomas & mary Millett my sonne in Lawe & daughter" (NEHGR 32:56).	Documented (published transcript)
Greenaways came on the Mary and John 1630; "of Stains"	NEHGR 32:55 says only "it is supposed". "Stains" not found. Online trees say Mildenhall, Wiltshire (unverified).	Compiled / Unproven
Ann Wheeler b. May 27, 1667	VR Salisbury, p. 252: "Ann, d. twin, Hen[ry] and Abigail, 27: 3 m: 1667" (twin of James).	Documented
Henry Wheeler, son of John; m. Abigail Allen	Hoyt (1897). Henry and Abigail appear as parents in the VR.	Compiled / Documented
Henry's widow called "Widow Ann Wheeler of Boston", 1696	Hoyt names the widow of Boston in 1696 as Abigail.	Compiled (correction)
John Wheeler b. Salisbury, England, 1618; d. Newbury 1670	Davis (1996), as reported online by genealogist Randy Seaver: John bp. by 4 Nov 1591, Salisbury, Wilts; d. 29 Aug 1670. The 1618 birth is impossible: his son David was b. c. 1625.	Compiled (correction)
John's wife "Ann Salisbury, sister of William", d. Aug 5, 1662	Davis: Agnes Yeoman, m. 11 Dec 1611, d. Aug 15, 1662. Hoyt has "Anne [surname blank]", d. Aug. 15, 1662.	Compiled (correction)
John sailed on the Mary and John, 1634	Not verified. Hoyt says only "of Hampton soon after the settlement of the town".	Unproven
William Allen d. Salisbury June 18, 1686; m. Ann Goodale	Death in VR Salisbury. Ann Goodale's parentage is from Hoyt. Ann d. "abt. ye last of May," 1678 (VR).	Documented / Compiled
Abigail Allen b. Jan 4, 1639/40	VR Salisbury, p. 13: "4: 11m: 1639". The 11th month is January.	Documented
Descent from the Salusburys of Lleweni	No evidence. NEHGR 33:101 is a query about Salisbury emigrants and does not mention Wheeler.	Speculation
Experience Stanwood b. Apr 17, 1716	VR 1:672 confirms. Bolton (1899) gives conflicting dates (see section b).	Documented
James Stanwood b. Mar 17, 1689/90; m. Dec 25, 1712 Mary Davis	VR 1:673; VR 2:517	Documented
John Stanwood b. Dec 31, 1652	The record says "Last of Last mo, 1652". The "last month" was February, so late Feb. 1652/3.	Documented + Inference (correction)
John d. Jan 25, 1705/6; m. Dec 9, 1680 Lydia Butler	VR 3:295 ("John, Serg."); VR 2:514	Documented
Lydia (Messer) Butler	Bolton's inference from Lydia Stanwood's depositions of 1737 and 1742, which name "her father Thos Messer" of Sheepscot.	Compiled (from documents)
Philip Stanwood d. Aug 7, 1672; wife Jane	VR 3:294	Documented
Jane d. Aug 18, 1706	Bolton	Compiled
"Thomas Riggs was the executor of his will" (Philip)	Bolton: Jane was administratrix, and no will is mentioned. For John, administration went to his eldest son; Riggs, Davis and Ring sign the inventory.	Compiled (correction)

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(b) The lines, generation by generation

GINN / GENN

Maryland and Virginia background (compiled throughout; no primary records seen):

• NEHGR 26 (April 1872), p. 196, in the "Ralph Smyth of Hingham" genealogy: Samuel Ghen and Sabra Gross, of Truro. "Samuel was a brother of Thomas and James Genn, or Ginn, whose descendants now live at or near Bucksport, Me. The three brothers came from Virginia, where the family is quite numerous." [Compiled]
• NEHGR 34 (April 1880), pp. 199-200, signed Thomas Smyth, Philadelphia: "Thomas Genn (ante, xxvi. 196), the father of Samuel, Thomas, James and Josiah Genn, was located in Caroline Co., Md., on East bank of Choptank River, on a plantation called 'Cape Ann.' It was midway between Denton and Greensborough. He died about 1769. James, a brother of the elder Thomas, was located on the west side of Choptank River, about one mile above Greensborough... He died about 1787." [Compiled]

David Genn et al., The Genn Family of Canada (rootsweb; chapters 4-6 and Appendix I). This draws on a history written in 1883 by Rev. Nathan Genn. It is readable only through a lossy fetch tool, so its dates sometimes conflict between chapters.

• James Genn (0) and wife Mary appear in Thomas Mathew's will of 6 May 1703 (proved in Northumberland Co., 20 Aug 1712) as "my old and faithful servant, James Genn and Mary his wife".
• A suit of 20 May 1691 is James Genn v. John Cratter. Mollie reads it "Genn vs. Craly". Both readings are flagged.
• James (0)'s will was probated 20 Apr 1709 to James (1) and Thomas (1).
• Thomas Genn (2): b. 14 March 1718, which the study identifies from the St. Stephen's Parish register. Shipbuilder; m. c. 1743 "Sicely Stewart". Bought Skinner's Chance, Dorchester Co., 2 Sept 1752. d. 1767 or 1768; "Sicely Genn was named as the administratrix of his estate, which included one new vessel frame under construction."
• Thomas (2)'s children: James (3) b. 4 Oct 1745; Josiah 7 Dec 1749; Samuel 1753; Anne 1755; Sarah 1759; Thomas 1762; Mary (d. young).
• Rev. Nathan "suggested... that these were not the children of Sicely (Cecely) but were by an earlier wife (possibly a Sarah). This remains unresolved."
• 1771 deeds: "James Genn (3), eldest son of Thomas Genn (2)" sold Skinner's Chance (26 Jan 1771). On 7 Mar 1771 he sold several tracts "...Piney Neck 182 acres, Cape Ann, a re-survey". No liber or folio is given.
• Shipping: on 6 June 1771 James (3) was master of the schooner Betsey (registered Boston). In Jan 1773 he was master of the Liberty (registered Salem). No source is cited for either. [Compiled]
• The study's own stated basis for identifying the Maryland James (3) with the Maine captain is circumstantial: age fit and repeating names. It "do[es] not provide direct documentary proof". [Compiled]

Other compiled and traditional sources on the origin:

• Rufus Buck's history: "Capt. James Ginn came to Orrington, from Maryland, in 1775" (BHM 1:105). [Compiled, written by 1857]
• Upton (1963), p. 103, family tradition from Mrs. William S. Ginn: "Thomas Ginn emigrated from Plymouth, England ca 1701. Tradition is that he was sent by the English Government to survey Virginia and that he taught George Washington to survey... some of his family lived in Orange town, Maryland." The list there gives James b. Oct. 4, 1745, Josiah 1749, Samuel 1753 (Dorchester Co., Md.), Ann, Sarah and Thomas. [Tradition]
• Varney's Gazetteer of Maine (1881): Orrington "was named for Orangetown, Md., but, by a misspelling in the act of incorporation, the name became Orrington." Mollie's version is that Ginn himself misspelled it. [Tradition]

Verdict on parentage.

• Father: Thomas Genn of the Choptank, Maryland, formerly of Virginia. [Compiled; reasonable circumstantial case]
• Mother: Cecilia/Sicely is probable but unresolved (possibly an earlier wife). Her maiden name "Stewart" is unsourced.
• Mollie's chart name "William Genn (b. Mar. 1718)" matches Thomas's birth date and is a slip for Thomas.

Capt. James Ginn / Genn (c. 1745/6 to April 1818)

• Gloucester:
  • m. 3 June 1768 Anne Riggs (VR 2:226, intention spelled "Geen"). [Documented]
  • Children James (1769), Anne (1771) and Abraham (1773) recorded as "s./d. James and Anne"; Samuel bp. 12 Mar 1775, C.R. 1. [Documented]
• New Worcester / Orrington:
  • Heads James Ginn the Orrington section of the list "Penobscot River, Heads of Families, 1776", with Province Tax "assessed June 1, 1776" (BHM 4:126; OCR of the tax column unclear). [Compiled from record]
  • Commissioned 2d Lt. 20 July 1776. [Documented]
  • Signed the settlers' petition, "Penobscot River, November 4th, A.D. 1783" (BHM 1:14-15).
  • Signed, as one of a committee, the letter of "New Worcester, on Penobscot River, 26th May, 1784" (BHM 2:67).
  • Named among the grantees "John Brewer, Simeon Fowler, George Gardner, Thomas Campbell, Josiah Brewer and James Ginn, Gentlemen" (BHM 2:68).
  • Kept the plantation publishments "By James Genn, plantation clerk" (BHM 1:32).
  • Porter: "In 1785 he had in his family, three men, two women and ten children; Treasurer 1789" (BHM 4:237). [Compiled]
  • The 1790 census lists "Ginn, James" in Orrington Town, Hancock Co. The household figures could not be read from the OCR.
• Orland (Township 2):
  • "James Ginn moved from Brewer, and took the mill of Robert Treat and carried it on until 1797, and in the mean time he built one brig and two schooners at the upper falls, and then moved to Bucksport" (BHM 1:54).
  • Hancock Court of Sessions, Sept 1791: "Commonwealth vs. James Ginn of Township 2 for building a dam across Easton River and neglecting a fishway" (ref. 1-22). [Documented, index abstract]
  • Conflict on dates: the Orland account says he left the mill in 1797; Buck says he moved to Bucksport "In May, 1800".
• Bucksport:
  • Buck: "In May, 1800, he moved to this town, built a wharf and store... In 1803 he built a large house... He built a number of vessels, and was the first importer of foreign goods into this town. He married Anne Riggs, of Gloucester, Mass., by whom he had six sons and six daughters. The only surviving child is William R. Ginn, who is extensively known as the best ship-builder on the river" (BHM 1:105).
  • 1801: built the schooner Favorite (1:103).
  • Building committee for the school/meeting house, district meeting of Jan. 25, 1802 (1:105). [Compiled]
• Death: BHM 6:157. [Documented]

Children. These are compiled lists, and they conflict:

• Mollie: James, Ann, Abraham, Samuel, Joshua (Nov 1776), Daniel (Aug 1778), Susan (June 29, 1780), Mary (Apr 16, 1782), Sally (Feb 20, 1784), William (Jan 1, 1786), "Peleg" (Jan 24, 1788), Margaret (July 4, 1790).
• Porter, BHM 4:237-238 (1888-89): Abraham "of Orland"; Anna m. Josiah Brewer; James unmarried; Daniel m. Odom; Joshua m. Page; Samuel m. Odom; William Riggs (d. Bucksport Apr. 28, 1868, aged 82 y 3 m); Polly m. Parker; "Pelia?" m. Parker; Susan m. Keyes; Margaret. Porter omits Sally.
• Upton: the same twelve as Mollie, but with "Polly Ginn, 1788-1842" in place of Peleg.
• Inference: Buck's "six sons and six daughters" works only if the 1788 child was a daughter (Pelia/Polly) and Sally is counted. So "Peleg" is probably a misreading.
• Collateral records: "Sukey Ginn, of Orland" m. Samuel Keys, Jan. 20, 1801 (BHM 5:178). Abraham Ginn "of Plantation No. 2" m. Hannah Downs, Oct. 15, 1794 (BHM 5:235).

Sally Ginn

• Brigham, The Tyler Genealogy (1912), vol. 1, pp. 220-221, no. 701: Rowland Tyler "married (1), March 28, 1804, Sally Ginn, born February 20, 1784; died March 12, 1834; daughter of William H. Ginn, a shipbuilder of Ellsworth, Maine." [Compiled]
• Conflict with Mollie on her father.
• [Inference] "William H. Ginn, a shipbuilder" looks like a garbling of William R. Ginn, the Bucksport shipbuilder. He was b. 1786, so he cannot be the father of a child born in 1784.
• [Inference] Sally's sister Anna m. Josiah Brewer in 1793, and Josiah's sister Lavinia m. Ebenezer Tyler (Rowland's brother) in 1799 (BHM 1). This ties the two families together.

RIGGS

1. Thomas Riggs Sr. (c. 1632 to 26 Feb 1721/2).
   • First appears as a grantee at Goose Cove in 1658. Babson: "said to have been educated in England for the profession of a scrivener"; town clerk 1665-1716; representative in 1700.
   • m. (1) June 7, 1658 Mary Millett, d. Jan. 23, 1694/5. m. (2) Oct. 30, 1695 Elizabeth Frese, d. June 16, 1722, aged about 80 (VR 3:257).
   • Children (VR): Mary 1658/9, Thomas 1660 (d. 1660), Sarah 1661, Anna 1664, Thomas 1666, John 1669/70, Elizabeth 1672, Abigail 1678, Andrew 1681.
2. Thomas Riggs Jr. (7 Dec 1666 to Aug 1756).
   • m. Nov. 22, 1687, at Amesbury, Ann Wheeler of Salisbury, "who died Sept. 28, 1723, aged fifty-six" (Babson; VR 3:256).
   • Then m. Elizabeth (d. May 19, 1727 in the VR, 1729 in Babson). An intention with Ruth Dodge is dated 1727.
   • [Inference] His brother John m. Ruth Wheeler, Jan. 1, 1689/90. Ruth was probably Ann's sister (b. July 15, 1671 to Henry, per Hoyt).
3. Joshua Riggs, b. Feb. 26, 1706/7; m. Oct. 23, 1735 Experience Stanwood.
   • Children per VR 1:578-584, with Mollie's version in brackets where it differs:
     • Susanna Dec. 6, 1737
     • Experience Sept. 19, 1739
     • Joshua Aug. 20, 1741 [Mollie: Aug 16, 1740]
     • Abraham Dec. 10, 1743
     • Mary Oct. 20, 1745 [Mollie: Apr. 20]
     • Ann Jan. 17, 1747
     • James May 28, 1750 [Mollie: May 23]
     • William Mar. 31, 1752 [omitted by Mollie]
     • Mark Sept. 21, 1754
     • Martha Dec. 20, 1756 (d. Dec. 25, 1756)
     • Lucy May 9, 1758
   • Joshua's death was not found in the VR.
4. Ann Riggs m. James Genn.

MILLETT / GREENAWAY

• Thomas Millett.
  • Aged 30 in April 1635 (Hotten, p. 57). Dorchester church member 1636; freeman May 17, 1637 (NEHGR 32:56 note).
  • Dorchester births (Record Commissioners vol. 21, p. 3): John 8 (5th mo.) 1635; Jonathan 27 (5) 1638, d. 15 (6) 1638; Mary 26 (6) 1639; Mehetabel 14 (1) 1641.
  • Babson pp. 116-117: bought William Perkins's property at Gloucester in 1655 and succeeded him in a lay religious office. "His name does not appear among the ministers of his time; but it is certain that he labored here in spiritual things."
  • Mollie's "He removed to Dorchester, purchased the property of William Perkins" should read Gloucester.
• Mary (Greenaway) Millett. Born 1606 (NEHGR 32:56 note); deceased by Sept. 27, 1682 (Babson).
• John and Mary Greenaway.
  • John was a millwright. His wife Mary d. Jan. 23, 1658/9 (NEHGR 32:55).
  • Daughters per NEHGR: Ann (Pierce), Ursula (Batten), Mary (Millett), Katharine (Daniel), Elizabeth Allen ("probably the wife of John Allen") and Susanna Wales.
  • Ursula came in 1635 with the Milletts, aged 32 (Hotten).
  • The Millett-Greenaway marriage is given as 1 May 1629 in one online tree and 7 Feb 1632 in another, both at St. Saviour's. Both are unsourced.

WHEELER / ALLEN / (YEOMAN)

• John Wheeler.
  • Hoyt I:353-354: "John Wheeler, 'barber,' from Salisbury, Eng., was of Hampton soon after the settlement of the town; rec'd land in Salisbury, Mass., in 1641; rem. to Newbury bef. 1650... He m. Anne [surname blank], who d. Aug. 15, 1662 [Nb]. He d. 1670; will March 28, 1668; [proved] Oct. 11, 1670."
  • Sons Adam, Edward and William remained in England in 1668. That is three, not Mollie's four.
  • Davis (Ancestry of Annis Spear, vol. III, pp. 604-606, as reported by Seaver): wife Agnes Yeoman, m. 11 Dec 1611 at Salisbury. [Compiled]
• Henry Wheeler m. c. 1659 Abigail Allen. He was admitted to the Salisbury church Aug. 26, 1694 and died before 1696. Abigail was "a wid., of Boston, 1696" (Hoyt I:354-355).
• William Allen of Salisbury, "house-carpenter".
  • m. (1) Ann Goodale (Richard). m. (2) about 1684 Alice, widow of Roper and Dickison.
  • Will Apr. 16, 1674, codicil Nov. 7, 1676, proved July 22, 1686 (Hoyt I:31).
  • Mollie's notes once call him "John Allen". Her chart has William.

STANWOOD

• Philip.
  • Bought Robert Tucker's house in Annisquam in 1654. Selectman 1657, 1658, 1660, 1670 and 1671. "In 1666 4th mo Philip Stanwood is allowed as the eldest Seargent of the foot Company at Gloucester."
  • d. Aug. 7, 1672. Widow Jane m. John Pearce, Sept. 12, 1673 (Bolton pp. 19-22).
  • Bolton's estimate of his birth as 1628-30 is inference.
• John m. Lydia Butler "in Boston, by 'Capten John Hull.' The records of Gloucester, entered at Salem, give her name as 'Lidea Cuttler'" (Bolton p. 32).
• James. "In 1728 he was admitted as a citizen of Falmouth, Maine, but apparently did not settle there" (Bolton p. 44).
• Experience. VR 1:672: "Experience, d. James and Mary, Apr. 17, 1716." Susanna was b. Dec. 21, 1719.
  • Conflict: Bolton p. 45 (OCR) reads "92. Experience, bapt. April 22, 1715. 93. Susanna, bapt. December 27, 1719. 94. Experience, b. December 2[1?], 1719; m. October 23, 1735, Joshua Riggs."
  • Bolton's no. 94 gives Experience Susanna's birth date. As written, it would make her 15 at marriage. The VR supports Mollie.

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(c) Gentry, royal and famous-kin claims

1. James Genn and George Washington.
   • Documented: Washington's 1748 diary: "Saturday March 12th. This Morning Mr. James Genn the surveyor came to us."
   • The Washington Papers editors say the party "was led by experienced surveyor James Genn". Their note: "James Genn was a prominent surveyor of Prince William County. His home was on the Falmouth Road near present-day Catlett."
   • The editors on teaching: "It is probable that he received some instruction in surveying, possibly from James Genn, before the journey over the mountains."
   • Harrison (Landmarks of Old Prince William, 1924) calls Genn "that earlier official surveyor of Prince William who was George Washington's instructor in his profession" (p. 467 area) and notes his June 1745 Dettingen survey (p. 306). [Compiled]
   • Verdict: the association is real. "Taught" is possible but undocumented.
   • Kinship is unproven. The Genn study places a "James Genn (1)" in Prince William County in 1751, deceased by 1753, per the Virginia rent rolls. That is a different man from the James (2), b. 1716, who moved to Maryland. Mollie merges the surveyor with the Maryland brother. Either way the surveyor is not a direct ancestor.
2. Thomas Mathew (author of the well-known account of Bacon's Rebellion). Mollie's "who must have been a kin" is contradicted by the will, which calls the Genns his servants.
3. Salusbury of Lleweni / Mrs. Piozzi / Crusader knights. No evidence. The wife was Yeoman per Davis, and NEHGR 33:101 is only a general query. Verdict: false link.
4. Millett of Marazion; Staples Inn attorney; Chapman of Chertsey. No evidence found. Mollie's two pages also contradict each other on who was the Staples Inn attorney.
5. Wheeler arms (Martin Hussingtree, Worcs.; Sir Edmund Wheeler). No connection. Hoyt calls John a "barber".
6. Riggs "family of position". Only the "scrivener" tradition in Babson.
7. Stanwood of Stanswood, Hampshire. Bolton offers only etymology. The origin is unknown.
8. Greenaway "of Stains". Unsupported.

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(d) Anecdotes (documented or from records printed in compiled works)

• Ordination in Ginn's unfinished house, 1803. "A council was called and a church formed, May 12th, 1803... The services were performed in a large house then building by Capt. James Ginn, when a temporary pulpit and seats were fitted up for the occasion, which is spoken of as one of very deep interest to the people, and so great was the number in attendance from the adjoining towns that it was with difficulty they could find places to lodge in the village." (Buck, BHM 1:107-108)
• The Orland dam case, 1791. "Commonwealth vs. James Ginn of Township 2 for building a dam across Easton River and neglecting a fishway." (Hancock Court of Sessions, Sept. 1791)
• Militia command. Joseph Mansell's 1831 affidavit: "I had a lieutenant's commission, under James Ginn, of Orrington." (BHM 4:10-11)
• First militia company up the Penobscot. "the first one established up the Penobscot: of which Capt. James Ginn, (of the present Orrington) was the Commandant." (Annals of Bangor, Maine Historical Magazine 9:12)
• Thomas Riggs Sr. and the Andros tax, 1688. Gloucester citizens "namely, William Haskell, sen., James Stevens, Thomas Riggs, sen., Thomas Millet, Jeffrey Parsons, Timothy Somes, and William Sargent, sen." ... "were fined at the Superior Court in Salem for the non-compliance of the town with a warrant for the assessment of one of those odious taxes in the year 1688."
  • Their complaint lists paying "the Shott for said justices by their order at the Taverne".
  • "At court, all but Somes were fined forty shillings each; to which three pounds one shilling each were added for fees." (Babson pp. 210-211)
• 1693 poll-tax exemptions (from the state records, as printed by Babson p. 215): "Thomas Riggs, Sen. is decrepit in his lims."
• Schoolmaster, 1698. "Thomas Riggs, sen., was chosen to that office, 'to have one shilling and six pence a day during the town's pleasure, and the said Riggs's likeing to carry it on.'" (Babson p. 218)
• Greenaway deed of gift, 1650. Ursula "hath alwayes ben an obedient, loving, dutifull and faithfull daughter and servant vnto her aged father & mother." (NEHGR 32:55)
• John Stanwood's inventory. "one Dwelling House very old and bad & five acres of land & four acres of Salt marsh..." and "one old Sloop" (Bolton pp. 34-35).
• Lydia Stanwood's 1742 deposition. She "lived at the house of her father Thos Messer on ye West Side of s[ai]d Sheepscut River... till she was seventeen years old and married, which time was before the first Indian Wars." (Bolton pp. 33-34)
• Joshua Riggs as guardian, 1752. On Oct. 17, 1752, "Joshua Riggs, guardian of Jonathan Stanwood, non-compos mentis, petitioned the court to be allowed to sell Jonathan's property to pay his debts." (Bolton p. 40)

The enslaved people (report of what was searched):

• No source I could read mentions slaves, servants of colour or a manumission for Ginn. Sources checked:
  • Buck's Bucksport history (BHM 1:103-108)
  • Porter's Orrington sketch (BHM 4:237-238)
  • the Orland settlement article (BHM 1:54)
  • all seven Ginn entries in the Hancock Court of Sessions index
  • the Genn study chapters 5-6
  • Upton
  • BHM vols. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 9
• The only data point on non-family adults is Porter's 1785 note: "three men, two women and ten children". Who they were is not stated.
• The date "May 12, 1803" matches the church gathering in Buck's history.
• Context, not re-verified in this session: the 1790 census returned no enslaved persons for Massachusetts, which then included Maine.
• The Genn Appendix I mentions "negros" held as security in the Maryland Genn family's affairs (no names).

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(e) Open questions and records still to get

1. Enslaved people and the house. Hancock County Registry of Deeds (Ellsworth) for 1800-1803: the Ginn house lot, and any manumission or deed to formerly enslaved persons. Bucksport town records. 1800 and 1810 censuses for Bucksport ("all other free persons" column). Hancock probate for James Ginn (1818).
2. Maryland proof. Thomas Genn's administration, c. 1767-69 (Dorchester/Caroline Co.; Maryland Prerogative Court or Testamentary Proceedings; Sicely as administratrix), naming the heirs. The Caroline/Dorchester deeds of 26 Jan and 7 Mar 1771 (do they give James's residence as Gloucester?). Maryland Naval Office shipping lists, 1771-73. Rev. Nathan Genn's 1883 manuscript.
3. Virginia. St. Stephen's Parish register (Northumberland). Northern Neck rent rolls, Prince William 1751-53. Surveyor commissions, to settle which James Genn was the surveyor.
4. Orrington. Town records for the births of the Ginn children, 1776-90, especially Sally on 20 Feb 1784. The 1804 marriage record of Rowland Tyler and Sally Ginn. The William H./William R. conflict in Brigham.
5. The officiant of the 1768 marriage (Rev. John Rogers): check the Fourth Parish church records.
6. Day of James's death (17 April) and Ann's death (19 Sept 1822): newspapers (the Castine Eagle) and gravestones. Find a Grave could not be read (rate-limited and blocked by robots.txt).
7. Wheeler/Yeoman. Read Davis, Annis Spear III:604-606 directly. Settle whether John Wheeler came on the Mary and John in 1634.
8. Millett. The Great Migration sketches for Thomas Millett and John Greenaway: English origin (Chertsey vs Newbury), the marriage date, and the date of Millett's will and probate.
9. Andros fines. The original 1688 Superior Court record (Massachusetts Archives) behind Babson.
10. Experience Stanwood. A second scan of Bolton p. 45, to confirm the OCR conflict.

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(f) Sources

Maine sources

• Bangor Historical Magazine:
  • vol. I: https://archive.org/details/bangorhistoricalv1bang (also https://archive.org/details/bangorhistorical01bang)
  • vol. II: https://archive.org/details/bangorhistoricalv2bang
  • vol. IV: https://archive.org/details/bangorhistorical00bang
  • vol. V: https://archive.org/details/bangorhistorica188990bang
  • vol. VI: https://archive.org/details/bangorhistoricalv6bang
• Maine Historical Magazine IX: https://archive.org/details/mainehistoricalm18941895bang
• Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors vol. 6, p. 472: https://archive.org/details/masssoldiers06bostrich
• 1790 census, Maine: https://archive.org/details/headsoffamiliesa01unit
• Varney, Gazetteer of Maine: https://archive.org/details/gazetteerofstate00varn
• Hancock County Court of Sessions index: https://www.mainegenealogy.net/hancock_sessions_record.asp?id=22 (also ids 253, 419, 420)
• Caleb B. Hall marriages: https://archives.mainegenealogy.net/2008/06/marriages-by-caleb-b-hall-of-buckstown.html

NEHGR and Ginn genealogies

• NEHGR vol. 26: https://archive.org/details/newenglandhistor26wate
• NEHGR vol. 32: https://archive.org/details/newenglandhistor32wate
• NEHGR vol. 33: https://archive.org/details/newenglandhistor33wate
• NEHGR vol. 34: https://archive.org/details/newenglandhistor34wate
• Upton, The Ginns and Their Kin (1963): https://archive.org/details/ginnstheirkinbym00upto
• The Genn Family of Canada: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~genepool/genn/ (files 04-Virginia.pdf, 05-Maryland.pdf, 06-New-England.pdf, App01.pdf)
• Rabun's Genn research notes: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~genepool/gennnote.htm
• Ancestry summary for James Genn 1716-1781: https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/james-genn-24-prf2l
• WikiTree Ginn-138 (largely unsourced): https://wikitree.com/wiki/Ginn-138

Washington and Virginia

• Washington Papers: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-01-02-0001-0001 and https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-01-02-0001-0002-0002
• Harrison, Landmarks of Old Prince William: https://archive.org/details/landmarksofoldpr0000harr

Gloucester and Dorchester

• Vital Records of Gloucester: https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofgl01glouc, https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofgl02glouc, https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofgl03glouc
• Babson, History of the Town of Gloucester (1860): https://archive.org/details/historytownglou00changoog
• Hotten, Original Lists: https://archive.org/details/originallistsofp00hottuoft
• Dorchester records: https://archive.org/details/reportofrecordco21bost

Salisbury and Wheeler

• Vital Records of Salisbury: https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofsa00salis
• Hoyt, Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, vol. 1: https://archive.org/details/oldfamiliesofsal01hoyt
• Seaver on Davis: https://www.geneamusings.com/2016/09/surname-saturday-wheeler-england-to.html

Stanwood and Tyler

• Bolton, A History of the Stanwood Family in America (1899): https://archive.org/details/historyofstanwoo00bolt
• Brigham, The Tyler Genealogy: https://archive.org/details/cu31924092510894

Millett and Greenaway (online, compiled)

• West Brookfield, Thomas Millett: https://westbrookfield.org/?page_id=85
• Greenaway: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~mainegenie/GREENWAY.htm
• Chrisman tree: https://chrisman.org/people/39836.html
• New England Ball Project, Henry Millett: https://newenglandballproject.com/g2/p2745.htm

Other

• Wikipedia, Orrington: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orrington,_Maine
• Wikipedia, Edwin Ginn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Ginn

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Addendum, 2 October 2026: earlier generations and corrections found while adding life details

These were found while gathering life details for the interactive tree. Each is now in the tree, and its evidence grade is shown on the link.

New generations and candidates

• Robert Rigg of Hawkshead, Lancashire, husbandman, father of Thomas Riggs Sr. of Gloucester. [Compiled]
  • Source: Smith and Anderson, TAG 82 (2007): 120-29.
  • The Drapers' Company binding book has "Thomas Rigg filius Rob[er]ti Rigg de Hauckshead in Com' Lancastrie Agricol'," apprenticed 3 Feb 1646/7 for nine years to Richard Barlowe, scrivener, of Tower Street, London.
  • The Hawkshead register has "bap: 1633 March xxv Thomas Rigg fil : Robti."
  • The authors call the identification with Thomas Riggs of Gloucester "very probabl[e]."
  • A Robert Rigge of Hawkshead Field, buried 5 Sept 1670, was "possibly" the father.
• Dominick Wheeler and Mercy Jelly of Salisbury, Wiltshire, parents of John Wheeler. [Compiled] Davis, The Ancestry of Annis Spear (1996) III:604-606, as reported by Randy Seaver. Davis's own evidence was not seen.
• Thomas Bliss of Rehoboth, very probably the father of Martha, wife of Nicholas Ide. [Inference]
  • His will calls Nicholas Ide "my sonninlaw" and leaves a heifer to "Nathaneell the sonn of my sonninlaw Nicolas Ide" (MD 8:85-86). Savage agrees.
  • He is not the Thomas Bliss of Hartford who was an ancestor of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
• Thomas Cooper Jr. of Rehoboth, a candidate only for the father of Elizabeth Cooper, wife of Timothy Ide. [Unproven]
  • The Rehoboth VR lists "Elizabeth, Aug. 8, 1662" among his children. She is the only Elizabeth Cooper of the right age there.
  • No record names her as Timothy Ide's bride.

Corrections made in the tree

• Banfield Capron. Holden (p. 25) reads "died August 20, 1752, aged 92 years," which implies birth about 1660. The tree had "aged 90." Savage gives the death as 25 Aug.
• Mary Tyler (wife of Job). The entry of 28 May 1665 in the Roxbury church records is read by Brigham as her dismissal to Mendon and by Savage as her admission. The church record itself is unchecked.
• Sally Ginn's father remains unresolved.
  • For Capt. James Ginn [Compiled and Inference]:
    • WikiTree (Ginn-138) lists "ix. Sally Genn; b. 20 Feb 1784 at Orrington," with no record cited.
    • Buck's "six sons and six daughters" (BHM 1:105) works only if she is counted.
  • Against Brigham:
    • No "William H. Ginn of Ellsworth" was found in any record.
    • Brigham's name looks like a garbled form of William R. Ginn, b. 1786, Capt. James's son and "the best ship-builder on the river." He was too young to be Sally's father.
  • What would settle it: the Bucksport intention of 25 Feb 1804, or a Ginn probate naming her.