The Long Island Quaker families of the Frost line

Research for the Notable connections and Small world pages: the ancestry of Frances Fairchild Holbrook through her mother Lucile McMillan, Lucile's mother Florence Frost, and the Frosts of Oyster Bay, with the families who married into them on Long Island: Wright, Prior (Pryer), Bowne, Feake, Fones and Winthrop, Cock, Underhill, Dickinson and Townsend.

Date: 8 October 2026. Builds on McMillan Frost Master Research (5 October 2026), which set out the line from Lucile back to William Frost of Oyster Bay and listed the compiled claims for the families above. This file tests those claims against printed records, takes the lines further up where the evidence allows, and collects the material for the connections pages.

Ratings. As in the master research: [D] documented (a record, or a published transcript or abstract of one); [C] compiled (a genealogy, county history or online tree); [I] inferred (our reasoning); [T] tradition. Links are rated proven / probable / possible / disproven.

Quaker dates are given as the record has them ("6th of 8th mo. 1675"). Before 1752 the Quaker first month was March, so the 8th month is October and the 12th is February; from 1752 the first month is January. Several compiled books (the Frost Genealogy in particular) turned Quaker months into calendar months wrongly; where that matters it is noted.

Abbreviations

Short	Work
FG	Josephine C. Frost, The Frost Genealogy (1912). archive.org/details/frostgenealogyde00fros
CG	George W. Cocks and John Cox Jr., History and Genealogy of the Cock, Cocks, Cox Family (1912/1914), with appendices on the Clarke, Bowne, Feake, Priar and Frost lineages, pp. 281-294. archive.org/details/historygenealogy00cock
UG	Josephine C. Frost, ed., Underhill Genealogy, vols. 1-4 (1932). vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3
OBTR	John Cox Jr., ed., Oyster Bay Town Records, vol. 1 (1916). archive.org/details/oysterbaytownrec01coxj
Paltsits	V. H. Paltsits, ed., Minutes of the Executive Council of the Province of New York: Administration of Francis Lovelace, vol. 1 (1910). archive.org/details/minutesofexecuti01newyuoft
Latting	John J. Latting, "The Wright Family, of Oyster Bay, L. I.," NYGBR 3 (1872): 35-45. archive.org/details/newyorkgenealog03newy
WP	Winthrop Papers (Massachusetts Historical Society). vol. 1 (1925), vol. 5 (1947)
WJ	Winthrop's Journal, ed. J. K. Hosmer (1908). vol. 1, vol. 2
Savage, HNE	John Winthrop, The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, ed. James Savage, vol. 1 (1825), with letters in the appendix. archive.org/details/historyofnewengl01wint
MBCR	Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, vol. 1 (1853). archive.org/details/recordsofgoverno01mass
PCR	Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 8 (1857). archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo08newp
DRCHNY	Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, vol. 14 (1883). archive.org/details/documentsrelativ14brod
Orr	Charles Orr, ed., History of the Pequot War (1897), reprinting Underhill's Newes from America (1638). archive.org/details/historypequotwa00orrgoog
Field	Osgood Field, The Fields of Sowerby ... with some notices of the families of Underhill, Bowne ... (1895), appendix pp. 112-116. archive.org/details/fieldsofsowerbyn00fiel
Yarnall	Charles Yarnall, "John Bowne of Flushing, 1627-1695," Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia 2 (1908): 44-66. archive.org/details/bulletinoffriendv1v3frie
Savage	James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, vol. 3 (1861). archive.org/details/genealogicaldic03savarich
Hinshaw	W. W. Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, vol. 3 (1940), New York meetings. On archive.org as a lending copy only (encyclopediaofam0000unse_s4m3); read here as search snippets.

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Where Frances stands. Counting from Frances: Lucile is her mother, Florence Frost her grandmother, George W. Frost her great-grandfather, Stephen G. Frost her 2nd great-grandfather, George Frost (1791) her 3rd, George Frost (1760) and Sarah Underhill her 4th, Isaac Frost and Mary Cock (and Thomas Underhill and Mercy Dickinson) her 5th, William Frost (1674) and Hannah Prior (and James Cock and Hannah Feke) her 6th, and William Frost (d. 1719) and Rebecca Wright her 7th great-grandparents. The families in this file sit one to four generations above those.

What the branch rests on. Almost everything above Isaac Frost comes from three compiled books written within twenty years by the same small circle of Long Island genealogists: the Frost Genealogy (1912) and the Underhill Genealogy (1932), both by Josephine C. Frost, and the Cock genealogy (1914) by George W. Cocks and John Cox Jr., who also edited the Oyster Bay Town Records. They shared notes, and they repeat one another. Their strength is that they quote the Quaker birth, marriage and death registers of Flushing and Westbury, the Oyster Bay town books, and wills, and many of those quotations can be checked in print. This pass checked them where it could. The results:

• Stronger than the archive now says. Rebecca Wright's father is named in a record: Governor Lovelace's council papers call her "Rebeckah his daught[er]" of "Nicholas Wright of Oyster bay" (Paltsits, p. 332) [D]. Captain John Underhill's will of 1671 calls John Bowne "my Brother John Bound" (OBTR 1:78) [D], which ties Underhill's wife Elizabeth to the Feake sisters. Winthrop's own journal calls Robert Feake the man "who had married the governor's daughter-in-law" (WJ 1:73) [D]. Adam Winthrop's diary records the marriage of his daughter Anne to Thomas Fones (WP 1:88) [D]. James Cock's will of 1699 names his son James (CG pp. 11-12, transcribing Oyster Bay Book C) [D], and the Friends' register of his children gives James's birth in 1674 [D].
• The Feakes and the Winthrops do not hang on one thread. Frances descends from Robert Feake and Elizabeth Fones twice by lines rated probable: through Mary Cock (Hannah Feke, John Feke) and through Hannah Prior (Elizabeth Bowne, Hannah Feake Bowne). She also descends twice from Matthew Prior of Killingworth, through John Prior and through Elizabeth (Prior) Feke. The Winthrop kin rest on these two lines, and on Elizabeth Fones's parentage, which the Winthrop papers document.

The doubtful link, said plainly. Sarah Underhill's descent from Capt. John Underhill is only possible. The archive page Sarah Underhill says she "descended through Benjamin and David (1672) from Capt. John Underhill, the soldier of the Pequot War, and Elizabeth Feake" and rates it probable. The Underhill Genealogy itself says otherwise. Its account of David Underhill (b. 1672) admits that "Our knowledge of names of David Underhill's children is alike, indirect and fragmentary"; only one son, Peter, is proved by a deed of gift, and Benjamin and Samuel are placed as David's sons because they held land near Peter's grant and were "not the descendants of John" (UG 2:77-78, quoting letters of George W. Cocks). David's two wives are a theory. So the step Benjamin Underhill → David Underhill is an inference by the compilers [I], and is possible, not probable. The steps below it (Sarah → Thomas → Benjamin) are better: Thomas Underhill's will names his daughter Sarah, and Benjamin's son John married the sister of Thomas's wife.

What depends on that link:

• Capt. John Underhill as an ancestor (and the Pequot War story) is possible. Any notable-ancestor entry for him has to carry confidence: possible.
• Elizabeth (Feake) Underhill as an ancestor is possible, but nothing depends on her: her parents are ancestors anyway through the Bowne and Feke lines.
• No famous relative depends on it. Myron C. Taylor would gain a half link through Captain Underhill, but his full link is through Matthew Prior.

Other weak points. Nothing is known above William Frost of Oyster Bay; the Binsted and "Elder Edmund" ideas in the Frost Genealogy are possible at most. The Norfolk gentry ancestry of the Wrights is "believed, although not positively proved" by its own author (Latting, p. 35), and the Frost Genealogy's "Ann (Beaupre)" as Nicholas Wright's wife is a mix-up. Abigail Tanner's parents are still unsupported.

Existing famous kin who gain a line. Amelia Earhart, already listed through Richard Warren, also descends from Robert Feake and Elizabeth Fones (through their daughter Elizabeth and the Underhills): she is Frances's ninth cousin by that line (3.12). Alan Shepard has a distant Winthrop line (eleventh cousin; 3.13). The other famous kin already listed showed none of these families in a ten-generation WikiTree check.

Two famous names that are not kin. Jonathan Edwards and Aaron Burr are often listed among Winthrop relatives through Mary Downing, mother of Solomon Stoddard; but she was Emmanuel Downing's daughter by his first wife, not by Lucy Winthrop. And the Capt. John Bowne who married Lydia Holmes (the Hatten line's Lincoln connection) belongs to a different Bowne family (William Bowne of Salem and Gravesend), with no known kinship to John Bowne of Flushing. See section 8.

Dates to correct. The Frost Genealogy misread several Quaker months. The Friends' records as transcribed in CG give Hannah Prior's birth as the 22nd of the 10th month 1681 (December, not October), Mary Cock's as the 5th of the 6th month 1722 (August, not June), and John Prior's death as the 2nd of the 4th month 1698 (June, not 1 February). See section 6.

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1. The pedigree, link by link

The archive's top people on this branch are in bold. "Gen." is the number of generations above Frances.

A. Frost and Wright

A1. William Frost (1674-1728) → William Frost (d. 1719) and Rebecca Wright. Probable [C, with a printed will].

• FG pp. 19-20 prints a will of "William Frost of Oyster Bay, dated Mch. 28, 1698": "I give and bequeath to my two sons William and Wright Frost all my land and meadows equally to be divided amongst them ... said William, my eldest son and Wright my youngest son." FG does not say where the will is recorded. Against it, the New York abstract of 1720 says William Frost, Esq., "died intestate. Letters of administration are granted to his wife Elinor, July 19, 1720" (Abstracts of Wills, NYHS Collections 1893, 2:224, cited in the master research). The 1698 will was evidently never proved [I].
• That Rebecca was the mother of the son William rests on timing (she was married to William Frost by 20 May 1673; William junior was born in 1674) and on the younger son's name, Wright Frost [I]. The will mentions "my wife" without naming her.
• Rating: the father, probable; the mother, probable. Unchanged from the archive.

A2. Rebecca Wright → Nicholas Wright. Proven [D]. Upgrade from the archive's compiled/probable.

• Governor Lovelace to Jonas Wood, 9 March 1669/70: "I haue rec[eive]d a Peticon from Rebecka ye wife of Eleazer Leveredg of yo[ur] Towne by ye hands of her father Nicholas Wright" (Paltsits, pp. 331-332).
• Order of 1 April 1670: "Whereas Nicholas Wright of Oyster bay hath on ye behalfe of Rebeckah his daught[er] wife of Eleazer Leveridg of Huntington made Complaint unto me of ye uncomfortable condition wherein his said Daughter hath for diuers yeares past liued w[i]th her said husband" (Paltsits, p. 332). The council minute of the same day: "The Peticon of Nicholas Wright concerning his Daughter & her Husband Eleazer Leveridge" (Paltsits, p. 43).
• The divorce of 22 Oct 1670 again names "Nicholas Wright of Oysterbay on ye behalfe of his Daught[er] Rebeckah" (Paltsits, pp. 335-336).
• Her uncle Anthony Wright's will of the 20th of the 3rd month 1673 leaves "To Rebecca ffrost, two shillings, six pence" (Latting, p. 37) [D, transcript].

A3. Rebecca Wright → Ann, wife of Nicholas Wright. Probable [D for the wife, I for the motherhood].

• Nicholas Wright's will, "Oysterbay, the 10th of April, 1674": "I make my Loving wife, Ann Wright, sole Executor" (Latting, p. 44) [D, transcript]. The will names only the sons Caleb, John and Edmund; FG p. 20 notes it "Mentions all his sons but not his daughters, probably because they were all married."
• Nothing shows an earlier wife, but nothing shows that Ann was the mother of a daughter married about 1662 either [I].
• FG's "Ann (Beaupre)" (p. 19) is a confusion with the Anne Beaupré who married a sixteenth-century Nicholas Wright of Norfolk in Latting's speculative pedigree. Disproven as stated; Ann's surname is unknown.

A4. Above Nicholas Wright. Nothing. Latting (p. 35) says of the brothers Peter, Anthony and Nicholas: "It is believed, although not positively proved, that they were of the very ancient family of Wright in Norfolk." FG (p. 20) turns this into fact. Treat as unsupported.

• Nicholas Wright's life [D/C]: "aged sixty-five years or thereabouts" on 10 April 1674 (will), so born about 1609. With his brothers at Lynn, then Sandwich, where "Nicholas Wright," "Peter Wright" and "Anthony Wright" are on the 1643 list of Sandwich men able to bear arms (PCR 8:192) [D]. Peter's son Adam was born at Sandwich on the 20th of March 1650 (PCR 8:11) [D]. To Oyster Bay with Rev. William Leverich in 1653. "He died in Oyster Bay, in the year 1682" (Latting, p. 43); the will was proved at Jamaica, with "Letters granted to Ann Wright, the widow, Jany. 15, 1682" (Latting, p. 44; Latting also gives a court date in December 1683, so one of his years is wrong).
• Children by Latting (p. 44): Caleb; John (m. Mary Townsend); Sarah (m. Josias Latting); Edmund (m. his cousin Sarah, daughter of Peter); Martha (m. Nathaniel Coles); Mercy (m. Robert Coles); Rebecca [C].

A5. Above William Frost (d. 1719). Nothing documented. FG p. 16 footnote: "William Frost may have been born in Binsted, Co. Hampshire, Eng., but the probabilities are he was born in America." The 1698 will's last clause, "to any of the Frosts' descended from George Frost born in Binsted, two miles from Farnam in Hampshire in old England" (FG p. 20), is the only hint, and its source is not given. Possible at most. First records: signer of the Setauket petition of 6 Aug 1659 (FG p. 17); meadow lots at Brookhaven 1664 and 1668 (FG pp. 17-18); Matinecock farm assigned by William Simson 14 Dec 1674 (OBTR 1:90-91).

B. Prior and Bowne

B1. Hannah Prior (1681-1771) → John Prior and Elizabeth Bowne. Probable [D, Friends' records as transcribed; C].

• CG p. 290 (Priar lineage), from "Friends' Record in New York": John Priar's children include "II Hannah, b. 22/10 mo. (Dec.) 1681; m. William (2) Frost."
• FG p. 22: "He married about 1700 Hannah, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Bowne) Pryer of Matinecock. Hannah was born Oct. 22, 1681, and died Dec. 18, 1771." FG has read the 10th month as October.
• FG p. 342 (Feake appendix): "HANNAH, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Bowne) Prior, m. William Frost, b. 1674."

B2. John Prior (1650/1-1698) → Matthew Prior and Mary. Probable [C, from Friends' records].

• CG p. 290: "JOHN (2) PRIAR, b. 12/ mo. (Feb.) 165[0/1]; d. Killingworth, 2/4 mo. (June) 1698; m. Flushing ... 1678, Elizabeth Bowne." The OCR of the birth day is damaged. Hinshaw's abstract, seen only as a snippet, reads "... Mo. (feb) 1650/1 d 4 Mo. (June) 2, 1698; m Elizabeth BOWNE, dt John & Hannah, d 12 Mo (Feb) 14, 1721." A later book (The Olcotts and Their Kindred, 1956, snippet) gives "12/1 mo. (March), 1650/51."
• CG p. 285 calls him "John Priar of Matthew and Mary."
• Other records tie Matthew to his children's marriages. The 1668 certificate of "JOHN UNDERHILL and MARY PRYER" is witnessed by "Matthew Pryer" and "John ffeake" (FG pp. 341-342). In 1678 Matthew sold land "to his son-in-law John Underhill" (FG p. 8; CG p. 9). At the Cooper marriage of 1693 the bride is "Martha Pryer dau. of Mery Pryer of Matinecock" (CG p. 291).

B3. Matthew Prior. Above him, nothing.

• "MATTHEW, Salem 1638, when he had gr[ant] of l[an]d, rem[oved] to L. I. and was of Brookhaven in 1665" (Savage 3:489) [C].
• 24 Oct 1665, Brookhaven: "Mathew Priar doth sell his home lott, with howseing, Glase windows, dores and perticions ... for the minister's accommodation" (CG p. 290, quoting the Brookhaven records) [D, transcript].
• 8 March 1666, Oyster Bay: the constable made "a Leagall Seasure, of ye two Towne Shipps which doe belong unto Majr: Danyell Gotherson, for & in ye behalfe of Mathew Pryer for a debt which is dew unto him" (OBTR 1:27) [D].
• 7 May 1669: "I Mathew Pryer of Killingworth, neare Oyster Bay" sells half a share of meadow to Richard Townsend (OBTR 1:50) [D].
• Died between 1685/6 and the 28th of the 6th month 1692; his widow Mary died the 4th of the 5th month 1700 (CG p. 290) [C]. Her maiden name is unknown (CG); WikiTree's "Mary Clark" has no source.

B4. Elizabeth Bowne (1658-1721/2) → John Bowne and Hannah Feake. Probable to proven [C, from Bowne's family register and Friends' records].

• CG p. 285 lists the children "of John and Hannah (Feake) Bowne," among them "II Elizabeth, b. 8/8 mo. (Oct.) 1658; m. 1st, John Priar; m. 2d, Samuel Titus."
• FG p. 352: "By his first wife he had as his second child, ELIZABETH, b. Oct. 8, 1658."
• Death: "d. 14/12 mo. (Feb.) 1721" (CG pp. 285, 290; Hinshaw snippet "12 Mo (Feb) 14, 1721"). In Old Style that is February 1721/2. FG's "Oct. 14, 1721" is a misreading.

B5. John Bowne (1627-1695) → Thomas Bowne. Proven [D, Bowne's journal as quoted].

• "We learn from the journal of John Bowne, which is still preserved, that he was baptized at Matlock, in Derbyshire, March 9th, 1627, and his father, Thomas, on May 25th, 1595, at the same place. They left England together in 1649" (Field, p. 112). Yarnall (p. 45): "He was the son of Thomas Bowne, of whom little is known, except that in the year 1649, he, with his daughter, Dorothy, accompanied his son John on his voyage to Boston."
• The date is given in three forms: "March 9th, 1627" (Field; Yarnall); "9th of Third month (? Mar. or May) 1627 and bapt. in Matlock parish church 29th same month" (CG p. 282); "b. May 9, 1627 ... baptized ... May 29, 1627" (FG p. 352). In Quaker reckoning the 3rd month is May. Field notes that "The Matlock registers do not commence till 1637" (p. 115), so the dates come from Bowne's journal, not the register.
• Thomas Bowne died at Flushing "according to the Friends' register on the 18th of 7th month, 1677, which adds, 'aged upwards of 82'" (Field, pp. 113-114) [D, transcript]. FG p. 352 has Sept. 18, 1677; Coddington (1943) has 18 Aug. 1677.

B6. Thomas Bowne → Anthony Bowne of the Lime Tree, Matlock. Probable [C].

• Field (p. 115): the will of "Anthonie Bowne of the Lime Tree in the psh of Matlock, yeoman," dated 1 December 1619, names "to son Ralph Bowne," "my wife Ales Bowne," and "his youngest son, Thomas Bowne"; administration of "Alice Bowne, late of the Lyntree near Matlocke," was granted 12 Sept 1634 to "John Bowne of Matlocke, yeoman, son of the deceased." John Bowne of Flushing wrote in his journal on the 7th of the 1st month 1663: "At night I came to Matlock to the Lintree." Thomas Bowne's own will of 1675 names "his brother John." Field: "there is hardly a doubt but that the 'youngest son Thomas Bowne,' of Anthony's will, was the person of that name who sailed for America in 1649."
• Thomas Bowne's wife is unknown. WikiTree's suggestion that she was a Ludlam comes from a novel; disregard.

B7. Hannah Feake (Bowne) → Robert Feake and Elizabeth Fones. Probable [C, with circumstantial records].

• CG p. 282: "On the 7th of May, 1656, he m. Hannah Feake ... She was dau. of Lieut. Robert Feake and Elizabeth (Fones) Winthrop his wife." Field p. 112: "Hannah, daughter of Robert Feake of that place, and previously of Watertown, Mass." Yarnall p. 45: "In the year 1656, May 7th, John Bowne was married to Hannah Pheaks [or Feaks, or Feeks], of Flushing."
• Captain Underhill, who later married her sister Elizabeth, wrote to John Winthrop Jr. (her mother's first cousin) from Southold on 12 April 1656: "I ware lateli at Flushing. Hannah Feke is to be married to a verie gentiele young man of good abilitie of a loveli fetture and good behayiour" (Field, p. 114, citing MHS Collections, 4th ser., vol. 7) [D, printed letter].
• "With his brother Robert Feeke in 1660 and 1669 [John Feke] execute[d] conveyances to 'our brother John Bowne' of certain land at Flushing" (CG p. 287) [D, quoted].
• Underhill's will of 1671 names "my Brother John Bound" as an overseer (OBTR 1:78) [D]. Underhill's wife was Elizabeth Feake, so "brother" here is brother-in-law.
• Hannah named her youngest daughter Martha Johanna (b. 17th of 6th mo. 1673; CG p. 285), the name of her half-sister Martha Johanna Winthrop [I, supporting].
• Hannah died in London "on the 31st of 11th month, 1677, and the entry adds 'age about 40'" (register of Friends at Devonshire House, quoted by Field, p. 113) [D, transcript].

C. Cock and Feke

C1. Mary Cock (1722-aft. 1777) → James Cock and Hannah Feke. Probable to proven [D, Friends' records as transcribed; C].

• CG p. 17, issue of James Cock and Hannah Feke: "29 Mary, b. 5/6 mo. (Aug.) 1722; m. Isaac Frost."
• FG p. 31 (Isaac): "License to marry granted March 3, 1738, to Mary, daughter of James and Hannah (Feke) Cock. Mary was b. June 5, 1722, and d. 1777." The 6th month is August, not June.

C2. James Cock (1674-1728) → James Cock (d. 1699) and Sarah. Proven [D].

• The Friends' birth register, "Copied out of ye Oreganall by Isaac Horner": "The children of James and Sarah Cock, borne Killingworth ... 8 James Cock was borne ye 4th of ye 2d Mo., 1674" (CG p. 13).
• Will of "James Cock, senior of Matinecock," 23 July 1699, in Oyster Bay Book C, p. 19: "Item, I give to my son James Cock all my land lying on ye South side of Musketa Cove path ... Item, I give to my son James my meadows I had of John Tompson" (CG pp. 11-12). Overseers "my loving friends John ffeake and John Dewsbury."
• James junior married Hannah Feke at Matinecock on the 1st of the 10th month (December) 1698; the certificate survives and "the noted minister Thomas Chalkley ... signed this certificate as a witness" (CG p. 17). FG p. 30 says his parents "were married Oct. 1, 1698," misreading the month.

C3. James Cock (d. 1699). Above him, nothing. "Nothing is known regarding the ancestral relations of Sarah the wife of James Cock" (CG p. 12); the compilers later thought she was "probably" a Clarke, sister of Samuel Clarke of North Sea, Southampton (CG p. 13 and appendix): possible. Sarah "dyed 16d. 10 mo. 1715" (Friends' death register, CG p. 13). James signed the Setauket petition of 1659 (FG p. 17) and bought his Matinecock plantation from the Indians in 1669 (CG pp. 6-7).

C4. Hannah Feke (1675-1750) → John Feke and Elizabeth Prior. Probable [C, from Friends' records].

• CG p. 17: "Hannah Feke, b. there 6/8 mo (Oct) 1675; d. Buckram 28/2 mo (Apl) 1750, noted on the Westbury M. M. record of her death as an 'innocent (pure) woman,' dau. of John & Elizabeth (Priar) Feke of Killingworth." The same list of John Feke's children is at CG p. 288.
• Her sister Mary's marriage minute of 1699 names "Mary Feakes, Daughter of John & Elizabeth Feakes" (CG p. 18) [D, transcript].

C5. John Feke (c. 1638/9-1724) → Robert Feake and Elizabeth Fones. Probable [C, with circumstantial records].

• CG p. 287: "John (2) Feke (as he wrote it) b. Watertown, Mass., about 1638-39; d. Matinecock 3 mo. (May) 1724 ... m. according to Friends Record 15/7 mo. (Sept.) anno 1673, at Killingworth, Elizabeth Priar." FG p. 33: "John Feke was a son of Robert and Elizabeth (Fones) (Winthrop) Feke, b. 1638, m. Sept. 15, 1670."
• The conveyances "to 'our brother John Bowne'" (above) are the best evidence that John and Robert Feake were Hannah's brothers.
• FG p. 8 and CG p. 10 call him Captain Underhill's "young brother-in-law John Feke," who settled beside Underhill at Matinecock; in 1693 David Underhill conveyed to John Feke his share "in land formerly my father's" (UG 2:76, from the Oyster Bay records) [C].
• Robert Feake's own letter of 1647, quoted by Theophilus Eaton, asked that "he and the children might not be wronged," and Eaton speaks of four children (WP 5:238) [D], without names.

C6. Elizabeth Prior (1656-1701/2) → Matthew Prior and Mary. Probable [C].

• CG pp. 287, 290-291: "Elizabeth Priar, b. 6th mo. (Aug.) 1656; d. 25/11 mo. (Jan.) 1701/2; dau. of Matthew Priar and Mary his wife, of Brookhaven, Oyster Bay and Killingworth." CG also says the Friends' record of John Feke's death calls him "an Ancient friend of Matinecock."

D. Feake, Fones and Winthrop

D1. Robert Feake. His English parentage is possible only: Henry F. Waters thought there "can be but little question" that he belonged to the family of William Feake, goldsmith of London (will 1595) and his son James (CG pp. 285-286). The Great Migration study (Anderson) says Tobias Feake and Judith (Feake) Palmer were his niece and nephew (snippet only). Not taken further.

• Life [D/C]: Came with Winthrop's fleet in 1630 [C]. On 27 January 1631/2 Winthrop named "Mount Feake, from one Robert Feake, who had married the governor's daughter-in-law" (WJ 1:73) [D]. Lieutenant to Capt. Daniel Patrick at Watertown 1632; deputy to the General Court 1634-1636; on 3 Sept 1634 appointed with Captain Underhill and Patrick to fix the site of the fort on Castle Island [C, CG p. 286 from Latting's 1880 paper]. Bought Greenwich, Connecticut, with Patrick from the Indians in July 1640; "a parcel of land, some time called, 'Elizabeth Neck' in honor of the wife of Robert Feake, being declared in the Indian deed to be her 'peticaler perchase'" (CG p. 286) [C, quoting the deed]. Went to England in 1647; lost his reason; died at Samuel Thatcher's in Watertown, inventory 18 Feb 1661/2 (CG p. 287) [C]. FG p. 341 says "He died Feb. 1, 1660-1."

D2. Elizabeth Fones → Thomas Fones and Anne Winthrop. Proven [D, Winthrop Papers; C].

• Adam Winthrop's diary, February 1604/5: "The xxiijth T[homas] F[ones] came to Groton and was maried to my daughter Anne the xxvth. and they departed toward London the xxvijth day of February 1604" (WP 1:88).
• The diary, 1609: "One sundaie the 21th of January my daughter [Anne] Fones was d[eliuere]d of her seconde daughter" (WP 1:104). FG p. 350 identifies this child as Elizabeth, "b. Jan. 21, 1609-10" [C].
• Thomas Fones was "Son of Thomas Fones of Dedford in Bromsgrove, co. Worcester, apothecary in London at the sign of the Three Fawns in the Old Bailey. He died April 15, 1629" (WP 1:88 n. 27, citing Muskett) [C].
• Elizabeth married her cousin Henry Winthrop, the governor's son, on 25 April 1629 (FG p. 348) [C]. His father wrote on 2 July 1630: "My son Henry Winthrop was drowned at Salem" (Savage, HNE 1:29) [D].

D3. Anne Winthrop → Adam Winthrop and Anne Browne. Proven [D].

• Adam Winthrop (b. 10 Aug 1548; d. 1623) calls her "my daughter Anne" (WP 1:88); she was the sister of Governor John Winthrop (WP 1:68 n. 80: "Anne Winthrop (1586-1619), who married Thomas Fones of London, February 25, 1604-05"). Her mother Anne Browne, daughter of Henry Browne of Edwardstone, clothier, d. 19 April 1629 (FG p. 347) [C]. Anne's death year differs: 16 May 1618 (FG p. 347) or 1619 (WP editors).
• Above Adam Winthrop the family is well studied (Adam Winthrop of Lavenham and Groton, 1498-1562) but was not checked here.

E. Underhill, Dickinson and Townsend

E1. Sarah Underhill (1761-1834) → Thomas Underhill and Mercy Dickinson. Proven for the father [D, will abstracts]; probable for the mother [C].

• UG 2:138 (#145), children "as taken from the Friends' Records of Purchase, N. Y.": "498 Sarah, born 6, 4, 1761." In the post-1752 Quaker count that is 6 April 1761. FG's 6 May is not supported.
• "Thomas Underhill of Nine Partners, in Clinton Township, N. Y., made his will 15, 10 mo., 1800, which was proven Dec. 4, 1801, and recorded in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Liber B, p. 292. He mentions: Wife Mary, son Joel, daughter Deborah; Thomas Frost; son and daughter of daughter, Hannah Frost; daughters Sarah, Easter, Mary, Elizabeth" (UG 2:138-139) [D, abstract].
• Deborah Underhill's will of 8th of 11th month 1801 names "sisters, Sarah Frost, Esther Cornell, Mary Halsted and Elizabeth Titus" (UG 2:139) [D, abstract].
• Purchase MM marriage of 9th of 8th month 1781: "William Cornell, Jun., of Phillipsburgh, son of William, and Esther Underhill, of Chappaqua, daughter of Thomas" (NYGBR 3 (1872): 50) [D, abstract].
• Mother: "Mercy, born 20, 6, 1733, daughter of Zebulon and Joyce (Hance) Dickinson ... His wife at times is called 'Mary'" (UG 2:138) [C].

E2. Thomas Underhill (1735-1801) → Benjamin Underhill and Hannah Townsend. Probable [C, with circumstantial records].

• UG 2:138: "145 THOMAS UNDERHILL, son of (41) Benjamin and Hannah (Townsend) Underhill, was born June 6, 1735." No record of the birth is cited.
• Supporting [D, abstracts]: Purchase MM, 19th of 12th month 1771: "John Underhill, of New Castle, son of Benjamin, and Deborah Dickenson, of same place, d[aughter] of Zebulon" (NYGBR 3:48); Benjamin's son John thus married the sister of Thomas's wife. Purchase MM, 15th of 5th month 1771: "David Tuthill ... and Elizabeth Hill, of the same place, daughter of Benjamin Underhill" (NYGBR 3:49). Hannah, wife of Benjamin, took a certificate from Westbury to Purchase "3, 30, 1763 ... having removed there some years ago. Her children included but not named" (UG 2:95).

E3. Benjamin Underhill → David Underhill (b. 1672). Possible [I]. This is the doubtful link.

• UG 2:94: "41 BENJAMIN UNDERHILL, son of (9) David and Hannah (Forman) Underhill, married, 29, 3, 1728, Hannah, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Pearsall) Townsend. The Westbury Friends' Records state their first intentions of marriage, dated 27, 1, 1728, and second, 24, 2, 1728; accomplished, 29, 3, 1728."
• The evidence for David as his father, in the same book (UG 2:77-78, quoting George W. Cocks): "Our knowledge of names of David Underhill's children is alike, indirect and fragmentary. The Deed of Gift before mentioned certainly fixes Peter as one of them and the appearance on the Oyster Bay records of the names of Benjamin and Samuel Underhill as property holders in the vicinity of Peter's grant, and the certainty that Benjamin and Samuel were not the descendants of John places them as children of David."
• David's first wife is "supposed daughter of Gideon and Elizabeth (Townsend) Wright" (because his son was named Peter), and the second, Hannah, a supposed daughter of Moses and Hannah (Crooker) Forman, a theory "evolved" from "this slight clue" (UG 2:75-77). Both are guesses [I].
• What would settle it: the Westbury Friends' marriage certificate of 1728, if it names the groom's parents (Hinshaw vol. 3, or the original at Swarthmore). See section 7.

E4. David Underhill → Capt. John Underhill and Elizabeth Feake. Probable [D, Friends' records as transcribed].

• "9 David, born 2 mo., 1672 ... The above births are taken from the Flushing Quaker Records" (UG 2:4); "as per the Friends' records of Flushing, L. I., which state no day" (UG 2:74). The children of the second marriage are Deborah (29th of 9th mo. 1659), Nathaniel (1663), Hannah (1666), Elizabeth (1669) and David.
• Captain Underhill's will, Killingworth, "ye 7th Munth called, ye 12th day" 1671: "I Bequeath my whole Estate In possession of my wife Elizabeth Underhill During ye Time of her widowhood but if she Marry then my Brother John Bound Henry Townsend mathew pryer and my Son John Underhill I impower hereby that they See to ye Estate that ye Children be not wronged" (OBTR 1:78) [D]. "Brother John Bound" is John Bowne, husband of Hannah Feake, which makes Elizabeth Underhill a Feake [I, strong].
• Underhill married Elizabeth Feake after the death of his first wife Helena at Southold in 1658 (UG 1:31; Field p. 116, "Probably the Captain's marriage took place in 1658, or early in 1659, as their oldest child, Deborah, was born ... 29th 9th mo. 1659") [C]. CG p. 287 has "m. prob. Flushing, 1649," which is too early.
• Captain Underhill's own parents are given in the Great Migration study as John Underhill and Leonora Pawley (snippet only) [C]. CG's "Sir John and Mary (Mosely) Underhill" (p. 287) is unsupported.

E5. Mercy Dickinson → Zebulon Dickinson and Joyce Hance. Probable [C]. UG 2:139: "Her father and mother were married in Shrewsbury, N. J., March 5, 1733 (Stillwell's N. J. Miscellany, Vol. 1, p. 273)." The 1771 Purchase marriage of her sister Deborah names "Zebulon" as the father [D].

E6. Hannah Townsend → Thomas Townsend. Probable [D, will abstract]. "Thomas Townsend of Concord, Chester County, Pa., made his will 6 mo., 13, 1732, which was proven Oct. 20, 1732, in which he mentions wife Sarah and among other children his daughter, Hannah Underhill; also land on Long Island and in Westchester County" (UG 2:94, citing Chester County Wills, Liber A, p. 384). Which Thomas Townsend this was, and whether Sarah was a Pearsall, was not settled here. If he belongs to the Oyster Bay Townsends, Frances would be kin to the Culper spy Robert Townsend; this was not checked.

F. Tanner and Gifford

Nothing new. A search of archive.org for Abigail Tanner and the Showermans found nothing. Her parents Joshua Tanner and Dinah (Diana) Gifford remain unsupported, as the master research found.

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2. Notable-ancestor material

Suggested entries for notable-ancestors.yaml, with the group and the relationship to Frances. Quotations are verbatim from the sources named.

John Bowne (1627-1695) of Flushing — Frances's 8th great-grandfather

group: court. Line: Frances → ... → Hannah Prior → Elizabeth Bowne → John Bowne.

• He came from Matlock, Derbyshire, with his father Thomas and sister Dorothy in 1649. His journal begins: "Monday 23d Jany 1649 — I entered into Mr. Philips' Service, for which Service I am to have five Shillings for every week, one half in money and one half in wine" (Yarnall, p. 45). [D, transcript]
• He married Hannah Feake at Flushing on 7 May 1656. Captain Underhill had written a month earlier that "Hannah Feke is to be married to a verie gentiele young man of good abilitie of a loveli fetture and good behayiour" (Field, p. 114). [D]
• Hannah joined the Quakers who met in the woods; her husband went "out of curiosity," was won over, and offered them his house (CG p. 282; Yarnall pp. 45-46). [C]
• On 24 August 1662 the magistrates of Flushing told the Director-General that "the majority of the inhabitants of their village were adherents and followers of the abomnible sect, called Quakers, and that a large meeting was held at the house of John Bound, in Vliasingen [Flushing], every Sunday" (Council minute, translated in Yarnall, p. 46 n.). [D]
• The Council fined him on 14 September 1662 because he had "not only to lodge and entertain some of that heretick and abominable sect called Quakers, but, moreover, has condescended unto them at several times to hold their conventicles and meetings in his house, where he, not alone, but his whole family, have been present" (Yarnall, p. 47). He refused to pay, was kept on bread and water, and on the 31st of December 1662 was put on a ship for Holland (Yarnall, pp. 47-48). [D]
• To the West India Company, which offered him a paper to sign, he answered: "For which of you being taken from your wife and family, without just cause, would be bound from returning to them unless upon terms to act contrary to your conscience, and deny your faith and religion" (CG p. 283). [D, transcript]
• The Company's directors wrote to Stuyvesant on 16 April 1663: "Your last letter informed us that you had banished from the Province and sent hither by ship a certain Quaker, John Bowne by name: although we heartily desire, that these and other sectarians remained away from there, yet as they do not, we doubt very much, whether we can proceed against them rigorously without diminishing the population and stopping immigration ... You may therefore shut your eyes, at least not force people's consciences, but allow every one to have his own belief, as long as he behaves quietly and legally, gives no offence to his neighbors and does not oppose the government" (DRCHNY 14:526). [D] The older translation, quoted in nineteenth-century books, has "the consciences of men, at least, ought ever to remain free and unshackled" (CG p. 284).
• He was home on the 30th of the 1st month 1664. The Friends' minute at his death: "John Bowne dyed the 20 day of the 10 month in the yeare 1695 And was buryed ye 23 day of the same being about 68 yeares of age he did Freely Expose him self his house and Esteate to ye service of Truth And had a constant Meeting In his house neare About forty yeares hee allso suffered very much for ye truths seak" (CG p. 284). [D, transcript]
• His house at Flushing, built 1661, still stands; George Fox stayed there in 1672 (CG plate facing p. 283). [C]
• Sources: Yarnall (1908); DRCHNY 14:526; CG pp. 282-285; Field pp. 112-115; Wikipedia, John Bowne.

Hannah (Feake) Bowne (c. 1637-1677/8) — 8th great-grandmother

group: lead (Quaker minister).

• "Hannah, wife of John Bowne, became more and more zealous in religious devotion and having 'received a gift in the ministry,' she, in the earlier part of the year 1675, left her home to pay a religious visit to Friends in Great Britain" (CG p. 284). [C]
• Her husband wrote to her there: "Dear heart, to particularize all that desire to be remembered to thee would be exceedingly large, but this I may say for all Friends in general, relations and neighbors, and people, the like largeness of love for one particular person I have seldom found amongst them, as it is for thee" (CG p. 284). [D, transcript]
• She died in London "on the 31st of 11th month, 1677," the Friends' register adding "age about 40" (Field, p. 113). [D, transcript]

Elizabeth Fones (1609/10-c. 1673) — 8th great-grandmother (twice)

group: court. Lines: through Mary Cock (John Feke) and through Hannah Prior (Hannah Feake Bowne).

• Niece of Governor John Winthrop, she married his son Henry, her first cousin, in 1629. Henry sailed ahead and drowned at Salem the day after he landed: "My son Henry Winthrop was drowned at Salem" (Winthrop's journal, 2 July 1630; Savage, HNE 1:29). [D] The governor wrote to his wife on 16 July: "My son Henry! my son Henry! ah, poor child! Yet it grieves me much more for my dear daughter. The Lord strengthen and comfort her heart, to bear this cross patiently" (Savage, HNE 1:372). [D]
• She came over with the governor's family on the Lyon in November 1631 with her baby, Martha Johanna Winthrop (CG p. 286), and within weeks had married Robert Feake: on 27 January 1631/2 Winthrop named "Mount Feake, from one Robert Feake, who had married the governor's daughter-in-law" (WJ 1:73). [D]
• At Greenwich, which Feake and Daniel Patrick bought in 1640, "Elizabeth Neck" was "declared in the Indian deed to be her 'peticaler perchase'" (CG p. 286). [C]
• After Feake went to England in 1647 and lost his reason, she lived with William Hallett. Theophilus Eaton wrote from New Haven on 21 July 1648: "It is possible that William Hallet and she that was mr. Feakes his wife are maryed, though not onely the lawfulnes and validitie of such a mariage, but the reallity and truth is by some questioned, because themselves and Toby Feakes some times denye it." The pair had "in a secret underhand way, had taken the children, two Cowes, all the houshold goods ... and by water were gone away," and "the children went (if not naked) very vnsatisfyingly apparraled" (WP 5:237-239). [D]
• In May 1649 Governor John Haynes of Connecticut told John Winthrop Jr. that "one that was the wife sometimes of Mr. Feake and who it seemes did confesse her selfe an Adulteresse, (which is vppon record at the Dutch) and now pretends marriadge with another man, how trew, or legall is not well knowen" had been summoned by warrant (WP 5:345). The editors note that the trial never took place; the Halletts had left for Long Island (WP 5:345 n.). [D]
• John Winthrop Jr. endorsed one of her letters "Sister Feakes" (WP 5:348). She lived out her life at Hell Gate and Newtown, Long Island, and was dead by 1674 (CG p. 287). [C]
• She is the heroine of Anya Seton's novel The Winthrop Woman (1958) (Wikipedia, The Winthrop Woman; Elizabeth Fones).

Robert Feake (d. 1661/2) — 8th great-grandfather (twice)

group: first (or lead).

• Lieutenant of the Watertown company and deputy; co-founder of Greenwich, Connecticut, 1640 (above). Captain Patrick, his partner, "was ignominiously assassinated by a Dutch soldier at Robert Feake's house in January, 1644" (CG p. 286, from Latting). [C]
• In 1647, leaving for England, he wrote "that he reserved the whole propriety of his estate, till he saw how God would deale with him in England, and desired he and the children might not be wronged" (Eaton's paraphrase of his letter of 6 Oct 1647, WP 5:238). [D]
• "The succeeding years of the life of Mr. Feake were to him a blank. The darkness which first overshadowed his mental faculties at Greenwich never passed until death came to his relief. He found an asylum in the house of Samuel Thatcher of Watertown, Mass., when he died in February, 1662" (CG p. 287, from Latting's NYGBR paper of 1880). [C]

Capt. John Underhill (c. 1597-1672) — 8th great-grandfather (possible)

group: mil, confidence: possible (the Benjamin → David link).

• Hired to train the Massachusetts militia; in 1637 with John Mason he led the attack on the Pequot fort at Mystic. His own account: "Captain Mason entering into a wigwam, brought out a firebrand, after he had wounded many in the house. Then he set fire on the west side, where he entered; myself set fire on the south end with a train of powder. The fires of both meeting in the centre of the fort, blazed most terribly, and burnt all in the space of half an hour ... Many were burnt in the fort, both men, women, and children ... It may be demanded, Why should you be so furious? (as some have said). Should not Christians have more mercy and compassion? ... Sometimes the Scripture declareth women and children must perish with their parents. Sometimes the case alters; but we will not dispute it now. We had sufficient light from the word of God for our proceedings" (Newes from America, 1638, in Orr, pp. 80-81). [D]
• In November 1637, for signing the petition for Rev. John Wheelwright, "Cap[t] Vnderhill, being convented for haveing his hand to the seditious writeing, is disfranchized, & put from the captaines place" (MBCR 1:208), and his name heads "The Names of Boston Men to bee disarmed" (MBCR 1:211). [D]
• Excommunicated for adultery, he came back to Boston church on 3 September 1640: "He came in his worst clothes (being accustomed to take great pride in his bravery and neatness) without a band, in a foul linen cap pulled close to his eyes; and standing upon a form, he did, with many deep sighs and abundance of tears, lay open his wicked course, his adultery, his hypocrisy, his persecution of God's people here, and especially his pride" (WJ 2:12-13). [D]
• Governor at Dover, then a deputy for Stamford; in the Dutch service in 1644 he commanded the force that destroyed an Indian town near Greenwich; one of the Eight Men of New Amsterdam in 1645; sheriff of Flushing 1648; jailed by Stuyvesant in 1653 for hoisting Parliament's colours; for Rhode Island seized the Dutch fort House of Hope at Hartford in June 1653 (UG 1:30-31). [C]
• Last at Matinecock, where he named his land Killingworth; died there on the 21st of the 7th month 1672 (UG 1:32). [C] Wikipedia, John Underhill (captain).

Matthew Prior (d. c. 1686-1692) of Killingworth — 8th great-grandfather (twice)

group: court (or lead).

• An English Quaker, bailiff of Major Daniel Gotherson's estates in England, sent to Setauket to take up land that Captain John Scott had sold Gotherson; Scott's titles were "forged" and Prior was left "in great distress," so that Brookhaven sold some of Scott's sequestered goods "to procure the said Priar three cows for the relief of his present necessity" (CG pp. 288-289, quoting the Brookhaven records). [C, with transcript] In 1666 the Oyster Bay constable seized Gotherson's two town lots "for & in ye behalfe of Mathew Pryer for a debt which is dew unto him" (OBTR 1:27). [D]
• Friends met in his house. In March 1675 he wrote the testimony for Hannah Wright, a Quaker preacher of Oyster Bay drowned in Maryland when their boat overturned with him in it: "ye boat overset & wee were seaven persons in ye boat, three was taken away in ye Judgment ... She was wholly given up for the servis of truth ... & hath laid down her head in her heavenly father's bosom in peace" (Latting, pp. 39-40). [D, transcript of a damaged entry]

Nicholas Wright (c. 1609-1682) — 8th great-grandfather

group: lead.

• With his brothers Peter and Anthony at Lynn and then Sandwich, where all three are on the 1643 list of men able to bear arms (PCR 8:192). [D] In 1653 they went with Rev. William Leverich to found Oyster Bay; Peter Wright, Samuel Mayo and William Leverich bought the land from the Indian Assiapum "for Six Indean Coats, Six Kettles, Six ffathum of Wampam Six Hoes, Six Hatchetts, Three paire of Stockings, Thirty Aule-blades or Moxes, Twenty Knives, Three Shirts and as much Peague as will amount to four pounds Sterling" (OBTR 1:354). [D]
• In 1669/70 he petitioned the governor on behalf of his daughter Rebecca, whose marriage to Eleazer Leverich was annulled the next year (Paltsits, pp. 331-336). [D]
• His nieces, Peter's daughters, were among the boldest of the early Quakers. Hannah Wright, at fourteen, went to Boston in 1662 and "appeared in the court there, and warned the magistrates 'to spill no more innocent blood.' This saying so struck them at first, that they all sat silent, till Rawson, the secretary, said 'What! shall we be baffled by such an one as this! Come! let us drink a dram!'" (Latting, p. 39, quoting Sewel). Lydia Wright was whipped at the cart's tail in Boston in 1677 (Latting, pp. 40-41). [C, quoting Quaker histories]

Rebecca Wright (fl. 1662-1698) — 7th great-grandmother (archive page exists)

group: court. The archive has the story on her page; it fits the Notable ancestors page as written. Add that her father's petition is the documented proof of her parentage.

James Cock (d. 1699) of Matinecock — 7th great-grandfather (suggested for more-ancestors.yaml)

• Signer of the Setauket petition of 1659 with John Underhill and William Frost (FG p. 17). Bought his Matinecock plantation from the Indians in 1669 (CG pp. 6-7); the strip of meadow beside it "was given by ye Indians to Capt. John Underhill" (town meeting of 12 Jan 1669/70, CG p. 7). Friends' meetings were held in his house (CG p. 10). Will of 1699 (CG pp. 11-12).
• At his son James's wedding in 1698 the visiting minister Thomas Chalkley wrote: "We had a meeting at a place called Matinicock, where I met with some of the people called Ranters, who disturbed our meeting. I may say as the apostle Paul (only altering Ephesus to Matinicock, I fought with beasts there" (CG p. 17). (Already on Mary Cock.)

Adam Winthrop (1548-1623) and Thomas Fones (d. 1629) (suggested for more-ancestors.yaml)

• Adam Winthrop, lawyer of Groton Manor, Suffolk, father of Governor John Winthrop; his diary is printed in WP vol. 1 and records his daughter Anne's wedding and the birth of her daughter Elizabeth. 10th great-grandfather (through Mary Cock).
• Thomas Fones, apothecary of London "at the sign of the Three Fawns in the Old Bailey" (WP 1:88 n.). 9th great-grandfather.

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3. Famous kin

Best supported first. "Their line" runs from the shared ancestor's child down; "Frances's side" runs from the archive's top person on this branch. Relationships are counted on the closest line. None of the shared ancestors has an archive page yet; section 5 proposes pages for them. Until they exist, an entry can use shared_name with start (the first archive person on Frances's side) and before for the steps in between.

3.1 Robert Feke (c. 1705-c. 1750), portrait painter

• Why notable: colonial portrait painter of Newport; "Feke's impact on the development of Colonial painting was substantial, and his pictures set a new standard by which the work of the next generation of aspiring Colonial artists was judged" (Richard Saunders, quoted by Wikipedia, Robert Feke). His portrait of Benjamin Franklin (c. 1748) is at Harvard.
• Category: close (first cousin of Mary Cock). The page has no category for painters; writers would be the alternative.
• Shared ancestors: John Feke (c. 1638/9-1724) and Elizabeth Prior (1656-1701/2) of Killingworth (Matinecock).
• Their line:
  1. Robert Feke (1683-1773), Baptist preacher at Oyster Bay, m. Clemence Ludlam. Born "22d 4m 1683," son of John Feake and Elizabeth (Prior) Feake (Hazard index to New York Yearly Meeting records, and Hinshaw, as cited on WikiTree Feake-72); "V Robert, b. 22/4 mo. (June) 1683; m. Clemence Ludlam" among John Feke's children (CG p. 288) [C/D].
  2. Robert Feke (c. 1705-c. 1750), the painter. "One of their children was Robert Feeks, who married Clemence Ludlam, and he became a Baptist minister at Oyster Bay, Long Island. This Robert and his wife Clemence were the parents of Robert Feke, the painter" (Poland, Robert Feke, the Early Newport Portrait Painter (1907), p. 14, archive.org) [C]. The Cock genealogy describes a portrait of Phiany Cock "by her cousin Robert Feke, the distinguished Portrait Painter of the period" (CG p. 22).
• Frances's side: John Feke → Hannah Feke (1675-1750) → Mary Cock (1722) → George Frost (1760) → George Frost (1791) → Stephen G. Frost → George W. Frost → Florence Frost → Lucile McMillan → Frances.
• Relationship: Robert Feke was the first cousin, seven times removed, of Frances Fairchild Holbrook. (Also her second cousin, seven times removed, through Matthew Prior and Hannah Prior.)
• A line for the card: Dr. Alexander Hamilton met him at Newport on 16 July 1744: "He carried me to one Feake, a painter, the most extraordinary genius ever I knew, for he does pictures tolerably well by the force of genius, having never had any teaching ... This man had exactly the phiz of a painter, having a long pale face, sharp nose, large eyes, — with which he looked upon you steadfastly, — long curled black hair, a delicate white hand, and long fingers" (Hamilton's Itinerarium, quoted by Poland, p. 25) [D].

3.2 Walter Bowne (1770-1846), Mayor of New York

• Why notable: 60th Mayor of New York City, 1829-1833; state senator, 1816-1822 (Wikipedia, Walter Bowne, which says he "was a descendant of John Bowne").
• Category: public.
• Shared ancestors: John Bowne (1627-1695) and Hannah Feake (c. 1637-1677/8).
• Their line [C]: Samuel Bowne (1667-1745), son of John and Hannah ("VI Samuel, b. 21/7 mo. (Sept.) 1667," CG p. 285) → Samuel Bowne (1693-1769) → James Bowne (1728-1781), m. Caroline Rodman → Walter Bowne (1770-1846) (WikiTree Bowne-139; Wikipedia names his parents as James Bowne and Caroline Rodman; the Saint Nicholas Society genealogy (1905) prints the chain Samuel (1667-1745) → Samuel (1693-1769) → James Bowne, m. Caroline Rodman, but gives James as 1744-1783, archive.org; James's dates need checking).
• Frances's side: John Bowne and Hannah Feake → Elizabeth Bowne (1658) → John Prior's daughter Hannah Prior (1681) → Isaac Frost (1717) → George Frost (1760) → ... → Frances.
• Relationship: third cousin, six times removed.

3.3 Robert Bowne (1744-1818), founder of Bowne & Co.

• Why notable: founded Bowne & Co. in 1775, which "From its initial listing on the American Stock Exchange until its acquisition in 2010 ... was the oldest publicly traded company in the United States" (Wikipedia, Bowne & Co.). He has no Wikipedia article of his own; include only if the company's article is enough.
• Category: public.
• Shared ancestors: John Bowne and Hannah Feake.
• Their line [C]: Samuel Bowne (1667-1745) → John Bowne (1698-1757) → Robert Bowne (1744-1818) (WikiTree Bowne-316).
• Relationship: second cousin, seven times removed.

3.4 John Winthrop (1588-1649), Governor of Massachusetts Bay

• Why notable: leader of the Puritan migration of 1630 and governor of Massachusetts Bay for most of its first twenty years.
• Category: close; sex: male.
• Shared ancestors: Adam Winthrop (1548-1623) and Anne Browne (d. 1629) of Groton, Suffolk.
• Relation: brother of Anne (Winthrop) Fones; uncle, and then father-in-law, of Elizabeth Fones. Adam Winthrop's diary calls Anne "my daughter" (WP 1:88) [D]; the governor was Adam's son, so Anne was his sister [D/C, WP 1].
• Frances's side: Anne Winthrop → Elizabeth Fones → John Feke → Hannah Feke → Mary Cock → ... → Frances (and a second line through Hannah Feake Bowne and Hannah Prior).
• Relationship: Frances's 9th great-granduncle (brother of her 9th great-grandmother Anne Winthrop on the Cock line).
• Bio lines: "My son Henry! my son Henry! ah, poor child! Yet it grieves me much more for my dear daughter" (to his wife, 16 July 1630, of Elizabeth's widowhood; Savage, HNE 1:372).

3.5 John Winthrop the Younger (1606-1676), Governor of Connecticut

• Why notable: physician, alchemist and Fellow of the Royal Society; founder of Ipswich and New London; governor of Connecticut, who obtained its royal charter (Wikipedia, John Winthrop the Younger).
• Category: close (or science).
• Shared ancestors: Adam Winthrop and Anne Browne.
• Their line: Gov. John Winthrop (1588-1649) → John Winthrop the Younger.
• Relationship: first cousin, ten times removed. He was also twice Elizabeth Fones's brother-in-law: brother of her first husband Henry, and husband of her sister Martha Fones, who came over with him on the Lyon in 1631 ("his eldest son, and his wife," WJ 1:69) and died at Ipswich in 1634 [C]. He endorsed Elizabeth's letter of 1649 "Sister Feakes" (WP 5:348) [D].

3.6 Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet (1623-1684), of Downing Street

• Why notable: diplomat and Treasury reformer under Cromwell and Charles II, who grew up in Salem and was in Harvard's first graduating class (1642); Downing Street in London is named after him (Wikipedia, Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet).
• Category: public.
• Shared ancestors: Adam Winthrop and Anne Browne.
• Their line: Lucy Winthrop (1601-1679), m. Emmanuel Downing → George Downing (WikiTree Winthrop-64, listing George, b. Aug 1623, among Lucy's children; Wikipedia) [C].
• Relationship: first cousin, ten times removed.

3.7 Wait Still Winthrop (1642-1717), judge of the Salem witch trials

• Why notable: Chief Justice of Massachusetts; "In 1692, he was appointed by Governor Sir William Phips as one of the magistrates of the Court of Oyer and Terminer that heard the Salem witch trials" (Wikipedia, Wait Winthrop). The commission named "William Stoughton, John Richards, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Wait Winthrop, Bartholomew Gedney, Samuel Sewall" and others (Goodell, Further Notes on the History of Witchcraft in Massachusetts (1884), archive.org) [C].
• Category: public.
• Shared ancestors: Adam Winthrop and Anne Browne.
• Their line: Gov. John Winthrop → John Winthrop the Younger → Wait Still Winthrop (b. Boston 27 Feb 1642, "the second son born to Elizabeth (née Reade) Winthrop ... and John Winthrop the Younger," Wikipedia; WikiTree Winthrop-110).
• Relationship: second cousin, nine times removed. See Small world, "1692 from three sides."

3.8 John Winthrop (1714-1779), Harvard astronomer

• Why notable: "an American mathematician, physicist and astronomer. He was the 2nd Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Harvard College" (Wikipedia, John Winthrop (educator)); observed the transits of Venus of 1761 and 1769.
• Category: science.
• Shared ancestors: Adam Winthrop and Anne Browne.
• Their line [C, WikiTree]: Gov. John Winthrop → Adam Winthrop (1620-1652) → Adam Winthrop (1647-1700) → Adam Winthrop (1676-1743) → John Winthrop (1714-1779) (WikiTree Winthrop-180).
• Relationship: fourth cousin, seven times removed.

3.9 Robert C. Winthrop (1809-1894), Speaker of the House

• Why notable: "American lawyer, philanthropist, and Whig Party politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States House and Senate from 1840 to 1851. He served as the 18th speaker of the United States House of Representatives" (Wikipedia, Robert Charles Winthrop).
• Category: public.
• Shared ancestors: Adam Winthrop and Anne Browne.
• Their line [C, WikiTree]: Gov. John Winthrop → John Winthrop the Younger (1606-1676) → Wait Still Winthrop (1642-1717) → John Winthrop (1681-1747) → John Still Winthrop (1720-1776) → Thomas Lindall Winthrop (1760-1841) → Robert Charles Winthrop (1809-1894) (WikiTree Winthrop-72).
• Relationship: sixth cousin, five times removed.

3.10 John Kerry (b. 1943), Secretary of State

• Why notable: 68th U.S. Secretary of State (2013-2017), senator for Massachusetts 1985-2013, Democratic presidential nominee in 2004 (Wikipedia, John Kerry).
• Category: public.
• Shared ancestors: Adam Winthrop and Anne Browne.
• Their line [C, WikiTree only]: ... → Robert Charles Winthrop (1809-1894), as in 3.9 → Robert Charles Winthrop (1834-1905) → Margaret Tyndal Winthrop (1880-1970), m. James Grant Forbes → Rosemary Forbes (1913-2002), m. Richard Kerry → John Kerry (WikiTree Forbes-23, Winthrop-6, Winthrop-5). The opening of Kerry's Wikipedia article names his mother Rosemary Forbes and the Forbes family but not the Winthrop descent; check the article's family section before publishing.
• Relationship: tenth cousin, once removed. He is living; he is a public figure, so access: public is fine.

3.11 Myron C. Taylor (1874-1959), industrialist and diplomat

• Why notable: chairman of U.S. Steel, and President Roosevelt's personal envoy to Pope Pius XII; "an American industrialist, and later a diplomat involved in many of the most important geopolitical events during and after World War II" (Wikipedia, Myron Charles Taylor). He paid for the Underhill Genealogy: "The preservation of the foundations of the contents of these volumes is due to the great interest ... taken by Mr. Myron C. Taylor in the family of his mother, Mary Morgan (Underhill) Taylor" (UG 1, preface).
• Category: public.
• Shared ancestors: Matthew Prior and Mary of Killingworth.
• Their line [C, all UG]: Mary Prior (b. 1st mo. 1652; m. 1668 John Underhill, son of Capt. John by his first wife Helena; FG pp. 341-342; CG p. 290) → John Underhill (1670-1728) (UG 2:79, #10) → Amos Underhill (1698) (UG 2:95, #44) → David Underhill (1743) (UG 2:142, #154) → William Underhill (1774) (UG 2:274, #515) → Alfred Underhill (1803-1841) (UG 3:561, #1475) → Mary Morgan Underhill (1833) (UG 3:865, #3451), m. William Delling Taylor → Myron Charles Taylor, b. Lyons, N.Y., 18 Jan 1874 (UG 3:986, #5429).
• Frances's side: Matthew Prior → John Prior → Hannah Prior → Isaac Frost → ... → Frances (and a second line through Elizabeth Prior → Hannah Feke → Mary Cock).
• Relationship: seventh cousin, twice removed. A further half relationship through Capt. John Underhill (his son by Helena; Frances's line through Elizabeth Feake) exists only if the Benjamin → David link holds, and is no closer.

3.12 Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) — already listed; gains a line

• Already in famous-kin.yaml (category science) through Richard Warren and Thomas Holcombe. This branch adds a line through Robert Feake and Elizabeth Fones.
• Their line [C]: Elizabeth Feake (c. 1633-1674/5), m. Capt. John Underhill → Nathaniel Underhill (b. 22nd of 12th mo. 1663; UG 2:63, #6) → Abraham Underhill (1697-1750) (UG 2:90, #25) → Jacob Underhill (b. 25 May 1730) (UG 2:125, #117) → Hannah Underhill (b. 16 Jan 1750), m. 17 March 1768 Quinby Cornell (UG 2:223, #390) → "Mary, born March 27, 1771, married Ephraim Otis" (UG 2:223, #1099) → Isaac Otis (1798-1853) → Alfred Gideon Otis (1827-1912) → Amelia Otis (1869-1962) → Amelia Earhart. The steps from Isaac Otis down are those already in the archive's Earhart entry; that Isaac was Mary Cornell's son is from WikiTree Earhart-1's ancestry (Otis-152, Cornell-1741).
• Frances's side: Robert Feake and Elizabeth Fones → John Feke → Hannah Feke → Mary Cock → ... → Frances.
• Relationship: ninth cousin of Frances through Robert Feake and Elizabeth Fones. If the Benjamin → David Underhill link holds, Amelia is also Frances's eighth cousin, once removed through Capt. John Underhill and Elizabeth Feake (possible only).
• Note: the line for the new entry starts at Elizabeth Feake, a daughter of the shared couple; it does not run through any doubtful step on Amelia's side, only through the Underhill Genealogy (compiled).

3.13 Alan Shepard (1923-1998) — already listed; gains a line (distant)

• Already in famous-kin.yaml (category science) through Philip Delano and Richard Warren. A WikiTree check found a Winthrop line: Gov. John Winthrop → Mary Winthrop (1612-1643), m. Rev. Samuel Dudley → Ann Dudley (1641-1700) → Jane Hilton (1664-1735) → Joseph Hall (1682-1767) → Love Hall (b. 1716) → Thomas Bartlett (1745-1805) → Bradbury Bartlett (1783-1869) → Thomas Bradbury Bartlett (1826-1905) → Ann Elizabeth Bartlett (1861-1944) → Alan Bartlett Shepard (1891-1973) → Alan Shepard (WikiTree Shepard-1194, Winthrop-7) [C, WikiTree only].
• Shared ancestors: Adam Winthrop and Anne Browne. Relationship: eleventh cousin of Frances. Too distant to be worth adding unless the page wants every line; listed so it is not "found" again.

How the existing list was checked

The WikiTree ancestry (ten generations) of each existing famous relative with a WikiTree ID in famous-kin.yaml was searched for the Winthrop, Fones, Feake, Bowne, Prior and Underhill families. Only Amelia Earhart and Alan Shepard turned up. Ten generations does not reach Adam Winthrop for people born after about 1850, so a Winthrop line through a daughter could still be missed for those whose ten-generation tree ends below the 1600s.

Considered and left out

• Fitz-John Winthrop (1638-1707), Governor of Connecticut: second cousin, nine times removed, by the same line as Wait Winthrop. Add if wanted.
• Theodore Winthrop (1828-1861), writer, one of the first Union officers killed in the Civil War: a descendant of Governor Winthrop (Wikipedia), but his line was not traced here.
• Tobias Feake, the schout of Flushing who delivered the Flushing Remonstrance in 1657: a nephew of Robert Feake (Great Migration, snippet), so a first cousin of Hannah and John Feake; no Wikipedia article, and Robert Feake's own parentage is only possible. He belongs in Small world, not here.
• Jonathan Edwards and Aaron Burr: not kin (section 8).

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4. Small world

4.1 The three men who bought Oyster Bay (Mayo line)

In 1653 the Indian sachem Assiapum sold the land between Oyster River and the Papaquatunk "unto Peter Wright Samuel Mayo, William Leverich, their Heires" (OBTR 1:354) [D]. Samuel Mayo was a son of Rev. John Mayo (John Mayo), the Mayo-line ancestor: "SAMUEL, Barnstable 1640, s. of Rev. John, b. in Eng. a mariner, one of the purchas. of Oyster Bay, L. I. Apr. 1653, had his vessel seiz. for intercourse with the Dutch ... by Thomas Baxter, under a R. I. authority, but obtain. restit. with decree for £150 dams." (Savage 3:188) [C]. The Oyster Bay editor tells it this way: Leverich "arranged with Samuel Mayo, owner of the sloop 'Desire' of Barnstable ... to bring his and Peter Wright's goods and chattels to Oyster Bay. The vessel was seized while in the West Harbor by the notorious Thomas Baxter" (OBTR 1:628) [C]. Peter Wright was the uncle of Rebecca Wright; her father Nicholas came too; and Rev. William Leverich, Sandwich's minister, was the father of her first husband, Eleazer. "Samuel Mayo probably never came here" (OBTR 1:629).

• So a son of the Mayo ancestor carried the goods of the Frost line's Wrights to the founding of Oyster Bay. [The Mayo research file does not mention Samuel; his parentage rests on Savage.]
• Among the "Joynt purchasers" accepted by the three was a Richard Holbrook (OBTR 1:355). No connection to Thomas Holbrook of Weymouth is known; a namesake.

4.2 Sandwich, 1643 (Freeman-Ellis line)

The Plymouth list of 1643 of Sandwich men able to bear arms (PCR 8:192-193) [D] has Nicholas, Peter and Anthony Wright with John Ellis (John Ellis), Thomas Tupper (Thomas Tupper), John Freeman and Edmund Freeman Jr., and Henry Feake, a kinsman of Robert Feake and one of "those tenn men of Saugust" given leave in 1637 to settle Sandwich, with Edmund Freeman and Thomas Tupper (PCR 1:57, quoted in the Freeman-Ellis research). Their minister was William Leverich (the Freeman-Ellis research cites PCR 1:88-89 and Winthrop's Journal on Leverich's Sandwich church). Rebecca Wright grew up among the Freeman-Ellis ancestors before her father took the family to Oyster Bay; FamilySearch's birth for her at Sandwich in 1642 has no source, but Latting says "several of the children of Peter and Nicholas were born" there (Latting, p. 35), and Peter's son Adam's birth in 1650 is in the Sandwich register (PCR 8:11).

4.3 The Dotys, a third time (Holbrook/Ellis lines)

The archive's story "The Dotys, who are not in the line" can gain a paragraph: in his will of 20 May 1673, Anthony Wright of Oyster Bay, Rebecca Wright's uncle, ended his bequests to his nephews and nieces with "Alsoe, I give unto Isaack Dotye one cow" (Latting, p. 37) [D, transcript]. Isaac Doty was a son of Edward Doty of the Mayflower and brother of the Joseph Doty in the story [C]. The same will gives "To Rebecca ffrost, two shillings, six pence."

4.4 Three Cocks married three Frosts; and the cousins they were (When cousins married)

Three children of James Cock and Hannah Feke married Frosts (CG pp. 17, 26; FG pp. 30, 31):

• Mary Cock married Isaac Frost (license 1737/8) — Frances's 5th great-grandparents.
• Josiah Cock married Isaac's sister Rebecca Frost (FG p. 30).
• Martha Cock married Joseph Frost, son of Wright Frost and Mary Underhill, Isaac's first cousin (CG p. 26).

Isaac and Mary were cousins twice over. Through Matthew Prior they were second cousins (Matthew → John Prior → Hannah Prior → Isaac; Matthew → Elizabeth Prior → Hannah Feke → Mary). Through Robert Feake and Elizabeth Fones they were second cousins once removed (Robert → Hannah Feake → Elizabeth Bowne → Hannah Prior → Isaac; Robert → John Feke → Hannah Feke → Mary). So Frances descends twice from Matthew Prior and twice from Robert Feake and Elizabeth Fones. If the Underhill line holds, a third Feake descent comes in through Sarah Underhill, who married Isaac's son George in 1781; George and Sarah would then have been third cousins once removed.

The Feakes, Priors, Cocks, Underhills and Frosts were next-door neighbours: "Friends' Meetings were held and marriages performed at Killingworth in the houses of James Cock, Matthew Priar, John Underhill Jr, and John Feke" (CG p. 10). John Feke was an overseer of James Cock's will (1699), and John Bowne and Matthew Prior of Captain Underhill's (1671); and the compilers thought the Cocks, Fekes and Priors were all laid in the Underhill burying ground at Killingworth (CG p. 13).

4.5 John Bowne's two wives from this tree

John Bowne's first wife was Hannah Feake (Frances's 8th great-grandmother). His third wife, married in 1693, was Mary Cock, daughter of James Cock senior and sister of James Cock junior (Frances's 6th great-grandfather) (CG p. 14) [C, from Friends' records]. The same Mary Cock was the great-aunt of Frances's ancestor Mary Cock (1722).

4.6 Disarmed in Boston, November 1637 (Low line; possible)

The list of "The Names of Boston Men to bee disarmed" of 20 November 1637, the followers of Anne Hutchinson and John Wheelwright, begins "Capt John Vnderhill" and includes "John Compton" (MBCR 1:211-212) [D]. Abigail Compton is "the only daughter of John and Susanna Compton, of Roxbury and Boston." If he is the same John Compton [I, probable] and if Captain Underhill is Frances's ancestor [possible], ancestors from her father's side and her mother's side stood on the same list. The archive's Jane Hawkins, midwife of the Hutchinson circle, was banished in the same crisis.

4.7 1692, from three sides

The archive's story "1692, from two sides" covers John Proctor (Low side) and Mary Post (Tyler side). Wait Still Winthrop (3.7), second cousin nine times removed of Frances and first cousin once removed of her ancestor Elizabeth Fones, sat on the Court of Oyer and Terminer that condemned John Proctor on 5 August 1692 (Wikipedia; Goodell 1884) [C]. [Whether Wait Winthrop sat on the January 1693 court that tried Mary Post was not checked.]

4.8 The Winthrop family and the archive's other lines

• Ipswich, 1634-1637 (Low line). John Winthrop the Younger, Elizabeth Fones's cousin and brother-in-law, founded Ipswich, where her sister Martha, his wife, died in 1634 [C]. In 1637 Ipswich men, archive ancestors among them, petitioned the governor not to take him away from the town (John Cogswell, citing WP 3:432-433).
• On the Abigail, 1635 (Freeman-Ellis line). Edmund Freeman crossed "with John Winthrop Jr. as a fellow passenger" (Edmund Freeman).
• The Winthrop fleet, 1630. Robert Feake came "in the fleet with Governor Winthrop in 1630" (CG p. 285) [C]; so, by the archive's pages, did John Mills (John Mills) and, it is said, Thomas Lamb (Thomas Lamb) [C]. Henry Winthrop, Elizabeth Fones's first husband, landed from the Talbot at Salem on 2 July 1630 and drowned the same day.

4.9 The Flushing Remonstrance

The Flushing Remonstrance of 27 December 1657 was signed first by "Tobias Feake," the town's schout, and also by "Edward ffarington" (DRCHNY 14:403) [D]. Tobias was a nephew of Robert Feake [C] and so a first cousin of Hannah Feake; Edward Farrington had married John Bowne's sister Dorothy (Yarnall, p. 45) [C]. Tobias delivered it to Stuyvesant and "his Honor immediately ordered the Fiscal to arrest the said Schout"; Farrington was arrested on 1 January 1658 (DRCHNY 14:404) [D]. Bowne himself did not sign; his own arrest came five years later. Two Townsends also signed (Henry and John); Benjamin Underhill's wife and Thomas Underhill's mother was a Townsend, but whether of this family was not settled.

4.11 Amelia Earhart's great-aunt married a Frost

The Frost Genealogy's Thomas Frost (No. 273), "son of (60) Mordecai and Mary (Underhill) Frost, b. Sept. 18, 1793 ... lived and died Hector, N. Y.," married Sarah, daughter of "Ephraim and Mary (Underhill) [recte Cornell] Otis of De Ruyter, N. Y." (FG p. 111; UG 2:223: Mary Cornell "married Ephraim Otis. Their daughter Sarah married Thomas Frost (712)") [C]. Mordecai Frost (b. 1758) was a son of Isaac Frost and Mary Cock and a brother of George Frost (1760), so Thomas was a first cousin of Frances's 3rd great-grandfather George Frost (1791). Sarah Otis was a sister of Isaac Otis, Amelia Earhart's great-grandfather. [FG calls Sarah's mother "Mary (Underhill)"; she was Mary Cornell, daughter of Hannah Underhill.]

4.10 The Hatten line's Capt. John Bowne: Unrelated

The Hatten research (Patricia Hatten through Sarah Edith Allee: Allee, Sawdy, Soule, Sargent, section 3.1) found that Lydia Holmes, daughter of Rev. Obadiah Holmes, married "Capt. John Bowne," through whom Abraham Lincoln descends. That John Bowne (d. 1683/4, of Middletown, N.J.) was the eldest son of William Bowne, "who is said to have come from Yorkshire," settled at Salem about 1631, then Gravesend, then Middletown; John Bowne of Flushing descended from Thomas Bowne of Matlock (Coddington, "A Bowne Problem," TAG 19 (Jan. 1943), reprint p. 1, archive.org) [C]. No kinship between the two families is known: Unrelated. So Lincoln does not become a relative through this branch.

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5. Proposed new pages

For ancestors above the archive's top people, where the evidence reaches probable or better. Dates are as the records have them; a fact is left out where the sources do not give it. "Gen." counts generations above Frances. Each marriage is listed on the page of the spouse whose line it is; where both are ancestors, on the husband's page here, which is a choice, not a rule.

New source files these pages would need (suggested IDs): John J. Latting, "The Wright Family, of Oyster Bay, L. I.," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 3 (1872): 35-45 (NYGBR 3:35-45); Charles W. Baird, "Marriage Records of the Society of Friends in the Town of Harrison, N. Y.," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 3 (1872): 45-50 (NYGBR 3:45-50); Osgood Field, The Fields of Sowerby, near Halifax, England, and of Flushing, New York, with some notices of the families of Underhill, Bowne, Burling, Hazard and Osgood (1895); Charles Yarnall, "John Bowne of Flushing, 1627-1695," Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia 2 (1908): 44-66; Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, vol. 14 (1883) (Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, vol. 14); Charles Orr, ed., History of the Pequot War: the contemporary accounts of Mason, Underhill, Vincent and Gardener (1897); John Winthrop, The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, ed. James Savage, vol. 1 (1825) (Savage ed.); John Insley Coddington, "A Bowne Problem," The American Genealogist 19 (January 1943), reprint; William Carey Poland, Robert Feke, the Early Newport Portrait Painter, and the Beginnings of Colonial Painting (1907); William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, vol. 3 (1940): New York City and Long Island meetings. Existing ones used: Josephine C. Frost, The Frost Genealogy: Descendants of William Frost of Oyster Bay, New York (1912), History and Genealogy of the Cock, Cocks, Cox Family (1914), Josephine C. Frost, ed., Underhill Genealogy, vols. 1-2 (1932), Minutes of the Executive Council of the Province of New York: Administration of Francis Lovelace, vol. 1 (1910), Oyster Bay Town Records, vol. 1 (1916), Winthrop Papers, vols 1-5 (Massachusetts Historical Society), Winthrop's Journal, History of New England, 1630-1649 (ed. Hosmer, 1908), Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, ed. Shurtleff and Pulsifer, vols 1-12 (1855-61), Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England.

Wright (above Rebecca Wright)

Nicholas Wright — Nicholas Wright, male. Gen. 10 (8th great-grandfather).

• born: c. 1609 — "aged sixty-five years or thereabouts" in his will of 10 April 1674. [D, transcript in Latting p. 44] probable. Place unknown.
• died: 1682, Oyster Bay, Long Island. "He died in Oyster Bay, in the year 1682" (Latting p. 43) [C] probable. Note: letters on his will were granted "to Ann Wright, the widow, Jany. 15, 1682" (i.e. 1682/3), though Latting also gives a court of sessions in December 1683.
• spouse: Ann (Ann Wright): "I make my Loving wife, Ann Wright, sole Executor" (will, 1674) [D, transcript] proven. No marriage date or place.
• residence notes: Lynn; Sandwich, on the 1643 list of men able to bear arms (PCR 8:192) [D]; Oyster Bay from 1653 [C].
• sources: Latting (NYGBR 3), PCR 8, Paltsits pp. 43, 331-336.
• And on Rebecca Wright: father: { id: nicholas-wright-1609, basis: documented, confidence: proven, sources: [book-paltsits-1910-lovelace-minutes] }, quoting "Nicholas Wright of Oyster bay hath on ye behalfe of Rebeckah his daught[er]" (Paltsits p. 332).

Ann Wright — Ann Wright, female; surname unknown. Gen. 10.

• Named as wife and executrix in the will of 10 April 1674, and as "the widow" in the letters of 15 Jan 1682/3 [D, transcript, Latting p. 44].
• As Rebecca's mother: basis: inferred, confidence: probable (no earlier wife is known, but none is ruled out). FG's "Ann (Beaupre)" is not to be used (section 8).

Prior (above Hannah Prior)

John Prior — John Prior (aka John Priar, John Pryer, John Prier), male. Gen. 9.

• born: 1650/1 — "12/ mo. (Feb.) 165[0/1]" (CG p. 290, OCR damaged); Hinshaw's abstract "... Mo. (feb) 1650/1"; the Olcott book "12/1 mo. (March), 1650/51" [C] probable. Place unknown.
• died: 2nd of 4th mo. 1698 (June), Killingworth (Matinecock), Oyster Bay [C: CG p. 290; Hinshaw "4 Mo. (June) 2, 1698"] probable.
• father: Matthew Prior [C: CG pp. 285, 290, "John Priar of Matthew and Mary"] probable. mother: Mary Prior, same.
• spouse: Elizabeth Bowne; married 1678 at Flushing [C] probable. The day differs: "Nov. 2, 1678" (FG p. 352; also Long Island Forum 12 (1949), snippet) or "9/2 mo. (Apl.) 1678" (CG p. 285). Leave the day in a note.
• children (generated): Hannah (Hannah Prior); also John (b. 16th of 7th mo. 1679), Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah, Matthew, Samuel, Joseph (CG p. 290) [C].
• And on Hannah Prior: father John Prior, mother Elizabeth Bowne, basis: compiled, confidence: probable, sources CG p. 290 and FG p. 22.

Matthew Prior — Matthew Prior (aka Matthew Priar, Mathew Pryer), male. Gen. 10, twice.

• died: between 1685/6 and the 28th of the 6th month 1692 [C, CG p. 290] — write as bet. 1685/6 and 1692, confidence: probable. Place not stated.
• spouse: Mary Prior [C, CG p. 290; "Mery Pryer of Matinecock," 1693, CG p. 291] probable. No marriage date.
• notes: of Salem 1638 (Savage 3:489) [C]; of Brookhaven, sold his home lot 24 Oct 1665 (CG p. 290, from Brookhaven records) [D, transcript]; of Killingworth near Oyster Bay by 1666-1669 (OBTR 1:27, 50) [D].

Mary Prior — Mary Prior, female; maiden name unknown. Gen. 10, twice.

• died: 4th of 5th mo. 1700 [C, CG p. 290] probable.

Bowne (above Hannah Prior)

Elizabeth Bowne — Elizabeth Bowne (aka Elizabeth Prior, Elizabeth Titus), female. Gen. 9.

• born: 8th of 8th mo. 1658, Flushing [C: CG p. 285; FG p. 352, "Oct. 8, 1658"] probable.
• died: 14th of 12th mo. 1721 (Feb. 1721/2), Killingworth (Matinecock) [C: CG p. 290; Hinshaw "12 Mo (Feb) 14, 1721"] probable.
• father: John Bowne; mother: Hannah Feake [C: CG p. 285, list of "Children of John and Hannah (Feake) Bowne"; FG p. 352] probable.
• spouses: John Prior (on his page); Samuel Titus, son of Edmund and Martha (Washburn) Titus, her second husband (CG p. 290; FG p. 353) [C], name only.

John Bowne — John Bowne, male. Gen. 10.

• born: 9th of 3rd mo. 1627, Matlock, Derbyshire [C, from his journal: Field p. 112 ("March 9th, 1627"); CG p. 282 ("9th of Third month (? Mar. or May) 1627 and bapt. ... 29th same month"); FG p. 352 ("May 9, 1627")] probable. Note the reading.
• died: 20th of 10th mo. 1695, Flushing; buried 23rd [D, Friends' minute transcribed CG p. 284] proven.
• father: Thomas Bowne [D, his journal as quoted by Field p. 112; Yarnall p. 45] proven.
• spouses: Hannah Feake, married 7 May 1656 (7th of 3rd mo.), Flushing [C: Yarnall p. 45; CG p. 282; Field p. 112] probable (FG p. 352 has "July 7"); Hannah Bickerstaff, of Tupton, Derbyshire, m. 1679, d. 1690 [C, CG p. 284; FG p. 352], name only; Mary Cock, daughter of James and Sarah Cock, m. 26th of 4th mo. 1693 at his house in Flushing [C, CG p. 14], name only.
• Notable-ancestor entry: section 2.

Hannah Feake — Hannah Feake (aka Hannah Bowne, Hannah Feke), female. Gen. 10.

• born: c. 1637 [C: CG pp. 282, 287; consistent with "age about 40" at death] probable. Place not proved (CG: "b. (supposed) at Watertown").
• died: 31st of 11th mo. 1677 (31 Jan 1677/8), London [D, Devonshire House Friends' register, "age about 40," as quoted by Field p. 113; CG p. 284 adds "at the house of their friends John and Mary Elson, at the Peel Meeting Place, in St. John Street"] proven.
• father: Robert Feake; mother: Elizabeth Fones [C: CG pp. 282, 287; FG p. 341; Field p. 112; circumstantial: her brothers' deeds to "our brother John Bowne" and Underhill's "my Brother John Bound"] probable.

Thomas Bowne — Thomas Bowne, male. Gen. 11.

• born: bapt. 25 May 1595, Matlock, Derbyshire [C: Field p. 112, from John Bowne's journal; CG p. 282] probable.
• died: 18th of 7th mo. 1677, Flushing, "aged upwards of 82" [D, Friends' register quoted by Field pp. 113-114] probable (FG p. 352: Sept. 18, 1677; Coddington: 18 Aug. 1677).
• father: Anthony Bowne of the Lime Tree, Matlock, yeoman (will 1 Dec 1619, naming "his youngest son, Thomas Bowne"), name only [C, Field p. 115] probable.
• notes: came to Boston in 1649 with his son John and daughter Dorothy, who married Edward Farrington; lived and died at Flushing (Yarnall p. 45). Wife unknown.

Cock and Feke (above Mary Cock)

James Cock — James Cock, male. Gen. 8.

• born: 4th of 2nd mo. 1674, Killingworth upon Matinecock [D, Friends' birth register "Copied out of ye Oreganall by Isaac Horner," CG p. 13] proven.
• died: 3rd mo. (May) 1728, Buckram (Locust Valley), Oyster Bay [C, CG p. 17, "d. Buckram ... 2[?]/3 mo (May) 1728," the day unclear; he died "as per Will, before 10/4 mo (June) 1728"] probable.
• father: James Cock [D: register; will of 1699, "my son James Cock"] proven. mother: Sarah Cock [D, register] proven.
• spouse: Hannah Feke, married 1st of 10th mo. 1698, Matinecock [D, the certificate, reproduced in CG pp. 16-17, witnessed by Thomas Chalkley] probable. (FG p. 30 misreads it as "Oct. 1, 1698".)
• And on Mary Cock: father James Cock, mother Hannah Feke, basis: compiled, confidence: probable (CG p. 17, "29 Mary, b. 5/6 mo. (Aug.) 1722; m. Isaac Frost").

Hannah Feke — Hannah Feke (aka Hannah Cock, Hannah Feake), female. Gen. 8.

• born: 6th of 8th mo. 1675, Killingworth (Matinecock) [C, CG pp. 17, 288] probable.
• died: 28th of 2nd mo. 1750, Buckram [C, CG p. 17, from the Westbury Monthly Meeting record, which calls her an "innocent (pure) woman"] probable.
• father: John Feke; mother: Elizabeth Prior [C, CG pp. 17, 288] probable.

James Cock — James Cock (aka Jeames Coke), male. Gen. 9.

• died: 1699, Matinecock; will dated 23 July 1699, approved the 11th of the 10th month (December) 1699 [D, will in Oyster Bay Book C, p. 19, transcribed CG pp. 11-12] proven. Write as bet. 23 Jul and 11 Dec 1699.
• spouse: Sarah Cock [D: "The children of James and Sarah Cock" (register, CG p. 13); will speaks of "my wife"] proven. No marriage date.
• notes: signer at Setauket, 6 Aug 1659 (FG p. 17) [C]; bought his Matinecock plantation of the Indians in 1669 (CG pp. 6-7) [C].

Sarah Cock — Sarah Cock, female; maiden name unknown. Gen. 9.

• died: 16th of 10th mo. 1715, Matinecock ("Sarrah Cock of Matinicock dyed 16d. 10 mo. 1715," Friends' death register, CG p. 13) [D, transcript] proven.
• note: the compilers later thought her "probably" a Clarke, sister of Samuel Clarke of North Sea, Southampton (CG p. 13): possible.

John Feke — John Feke (aka John Feake, John Feekes), male. Gen. 9.

• born: c. 1638-39 [C: CG p. 287 "about 1638-39"; FG p. 33 "b. 1638"] possible as to the year; place "Watertown, Mass." per CG, not proved.
• died: 3rd mo. 1724, Matinecock ("an Ancient friend of Matinecock," Friends' record) [C, CG pp. 287, 291] probable.
• father: Robert Feake; mother: Elizabeth Fones [C: CG p. 287; FG pp. 8, 33; deeds of 1660 and 1669 to "our brother John Bowne," CG p. 287] probable.
• spouse: Elizabeth Prior, married 15th of 7th mo. 1673, Killingworth, "according to Friends Record" [C, CG p. 287] probable. (FG p. 33: "m. Sept. 15, 1670"; their first child was born the 9th of the 4th month 1674, which favours 1673.)

Elizabeth Prior — Elizabeth Prior (aka Elizabeth Feke), female. Gen. 9.

• born: 6th mo. 1656 [C, CG p. 287 "b. 6th mo. (Aug.) 1656"] probable.
• died: 25th of 11th mo. 1701/2, Killingworth [C, CG pp. 287, 291] probable.
• father: Matthew Prior; mother: Mary Prior [C, CG pp. 287, 290-291] probable.

Feake, Fones and Winthrop

Robert Feake — Robert Feake (aka Lieut. Robert Feake, Robert Feke), male. Gen. 10 (and 11).

• died: February 1661/2, Watertown, Massachusetts, at the house of Samuel Thatcher; inventory 18 February [C, CG p. 287, from Latting's 1880 paper] probable. (FG p. 341: "He died Feb. 1, 1660-1.")
• spouse: Elizabeth Fones; married by 27 Jan 1631/2, when Winthrop called Feake the man "who had married the governor's daughter-in-law" (WJ 1:73) [D] proven. No date or place of the wedding.
• notes: freeman 18 May 1631; lieutenant to Capt. Daniel Patrick 1632; deputy for Watertown 1634-1636; co-purchaser of Greenwich, Conn., 1640 (CG p. 286) [C]. Parents not proved (Waters's London goldsmith family, possible): leave out.

Elizabeth Fones — Elizabeth Fones (aka Elizabeth Winthrop, Elizabeth Feake, Elizabeth Hallett), female. Gen. 10 (and 11).

• born: 21 Jan 1609/10 [D, Adam Winthrop's diary: "One sundaie the 21th of January my daughter [Anne] Fones was d[eliuere]d of her seconde daughter" (WP 1:104); identity with Elizabeth, C, FG p. 350] probable. Place not stated.
• died: before 25 Apr 1674 [C, CG p. 287: William Hallett had "recently" remarried by that date] possible. Place not proved.
• father: Thomas Fones; mother: Anne Winthrop [C: FG p. 350; WP 1:88 for the parents' marriage; the Winthrops' letters call her daughter, niece and sister] probable.
• spouses: Henry Winthrop, son of Gov. John Winthrop, m. 25 Apr 1629 [C, FG p. 348], d. at Salem 2 July 1630 [D, Savage HNE 1:29], name only; Robert Feake (on his page); William Hallett, by 1648 ("It is possible that William Hallet and she that was mr. Feakes his wife are maryed," Eaton, 21 July 1648, WP 5:238) [D], name only.

Thomas Fones — Thomas Fones (aka Thomas Fownes), male. Gen. 11 (and 12).

• died: 15 April 1629 [C, WP 1:88 n. 27, citing Muskett] probable. (FG gives April 16 on p. 350 and April 25 on p. 348.)
• spouse: Anne Winthrop, married 25 Feb 1604/5 at Groton, Suffolk: "T[homas] F[ones] came to Groton and was maried to my daughter Anne the xxvth" (Adam Winthrop's diary, WP 1:88) [D] proven. Second wife Priscilla (Burgess) Sherman, m. 28 Aug 1621 (FG p. 350) [C], name only.
• notes: "apothecary in London at the sign of the Three Fawns in the Old Bailey"; his father was Thomas Fones of Dedford in Bromsgrove, co. Worcester (WP 1:88 n. 27) [C].

Anne Winthrop — Anne Winthrop (aka Anne Fones), female. Gen. 11 (and 12).

• born: 16 Jan 1585/6 [C, FG p. 347, "b. Jan. 16, 1585"] probable.
• died: leave out; FG p. 347 has 16 May 1618, the Winthrop Papers editors "(1586-1619)" (WP 1:68 n. 80). Put both in a note.
• father: Adam Winthrop [D, "my daughter Anne," WP 1:88] proven. mother: Anne Browne [C, FG p. 347] probable.

Adam Winthrop — Adam Winthrop, male. Gen. 12 (and 13).

• born: 10 Aug 1548 [C, FG p. 347] probable.
• died: 1623, Groton, Suffolk; buried 28 March 1623 [C, FG p. 347] probable.
• spouse: Anne Browne, his second wife, m. 20 Feb 1579/80 [C, FG p. 347] probable.
• notes: lawyer and county magistrate of Groton Manor; father of Gov. John Winthrop; his diary is printed in WP vol. 1.

Anne Browne — Anne Browne (aka Anne Winthrop), female. Gen. 12 (and 13).

• died: 19 April 1629 [C, FG p. 347] probable.
• father: Henry Browne of Edwardstone, clothier, name only [C, FG p. 347].

Underhill, Dickinson and Townsend (above Sarah Underhill)

Thomas Underhill — Thomas Underhill, male. Gen. 7.

• born: June 6, 1735 [C, UG 2:138] probable. Place not given.
• died: 1801, Clinton, Dutchess County, New York; will dated 15th of 10th mo. 1800, proved 4 Dec 1801 (Poughkeepsie, Liber B, p. 292) [D, abstract in UG 2:138] probable.
• father: Benjamin Underhill; mother: Hannah Townsend [C, UG 2:138; supported by the 1771 Purchase marriage of John Underhill "son of Benjamin" to Mercy's sister] probable.
• spouse: Mercy Dickinson [C, UG 2:138; his will names "Wife Mary"] probable. No marriage date or place found.
• And on Sarah Underhill: father Thomas Underhill, basis: documented, confidence: proven, sources UG 2:138-139 (his will and her sister Deborah's, naming "Sarah Frost"); mother Mercy Dickinson, basis: compiled, confidence: probable.

Mercy Dickinson — Mercy Dickinson (aka Mary Underhill), female. Gen. 7.

• born: 20th of 6th mo. 1733 [C, UG 2:138] probable.
• father: Zebulon Dickinson; mother: Joyce Hance, names only [C, UG 2:138-139; her sister Deborah's 1771 marriage names "Zebulon," NYGBR 3:48] probable. Zebulon and Joyce married at Shrewsbury, N.J., 5 March 1733 (UG 2:139, citing Stillwell) [C].
• living 1800 (husband's will) [D].

Benjamin Underhill — Benjamin Underhill, male. Gen. 8.

• spouse: Hannah Townsend, married 29th of 3rd mo. 1728 (Westbury Monthly Meeting: intentions 27th of 1st mo. and 24th of 2nd mo. 1728) [D, abstract in UG 2:94] proven.
• notes: disowned by Westbury Meeting in 1740 for drink (UG 2:95) [D, abstract].
• father: David Underhill, by name only, basis: inferred, confidence: possible, with the compilers' own words (UG 2:77-78). Do not link to a David page until the Westbury record is read.

Hannah Townsend — Hannah Townsend (aka Hannah Underhill), female. Gen. 8.

• father: Thomas Townsend of Concord, Chester County, Pa., whose will of the 13th of the 6th month 1732 names "his daughter, Hannah Underhill" (UG 2:94, citing Chester County Wills, Liber A, p. 384), name only [D, abstract] probable.
• mother: Sarah, named in the same will; "Pearsall" per UG 2:94 [C] possible as to the surname.
• notes: removal certificate from Westbury to Purchase, 30th of 3rd mo. 1763, "Her children included but not named" (UG 2:95) [D, abstract].

Held at possible (not proposed)

If the site is to carry the Underhill story, these can be added with confidence: possible on the link from Benjamin:

• David Underhill, b. 2nd mo. 1672 (Flushing Friends' records, "which state no day," UG 2:74) [D, transcript]; son of Capt. John Underhill and Elizabeth Feake (probable for his own parents). Suggested ID David Underhill.
• Capt. John Underhill, d. Killingworth 21st of 7th mo. 1672 (UG 1:32) [C]; will 12th of 7th mo. 1671 (OBTR 1:78) [D]. Suggested ID John Underhill (CG p. 287 gives "b. 7/8 mo. (Oct.) 1597" [C]).
• Elizabeth Feake (aka Elizabeth Underhill), b. about 1633 [C], d. 1674/5 (CG p. 287) [C]; daughter of Robert Feake and Elizabeth Fones (probable: the 1671 will's "my Brother John Bound"). Suggested ID Elizabeth Feake.

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6. Conflicts with the archive's existing pages

Page	Archive has	The records say	Source
Hannah Prior	born 22 Oct 1681	22nd of the 10th month 1681, that is 22 Dec 1681 (FamilySearch's date); FG misread the Quaker month	CG p. 290 ("22/10 mo. (Dec.) 1681")
Hannah Prior	father's note: John Prier "d. 1 Feb 1698"	died the 2nd of the 4th month (June) 1698	CG p. 290; Hinshaw snippet "4 Mo. (June) 2, 1698"
Mary Cock	note: "5 June per the Frost Genealogy"	the 5th of the 6th month 1722, that is 5 Aug 1722	CG p. 17 ("5/6 mo. (Aug.) 1722")
Sarah Underhill	born 6 May 1761 (FG), "6 April in the Underhill Genealogy"	"6, 4, 1761" from the Purchase Friends' records; after 1752 the 4th month is April, so 6 April 1761 is the record's date	UG 2:138
Sarah Underhill	father's note: descended "through Benjamin and David (1672) from Capt. John Underhill," rated probable	the Benjamin → David step is the compilers' inference: possible	UG 2:77-78
Rebecca Wright	father Nicholas Wright: compiled, probable	named in the council records: documented, proven	Paltsits pp. 43, 331-336
Rebecca Wright	"living in 1698"	FG's inference from "my wife," unnamed, in a will of 1698 that may never have been proved; in 1720 the widow was "Elinor"	FG pp. 19-20; NYHS Abstracts 2:224
Isaac Frost	died aft. 1798	FG p. 31 says both "d. 1798" (in the entry) and "He d. in Clinton after 1798"	FG p. 31

Conflicts within the master research and its sources (no archive page affected yet):

• John Bowne's first marriage: FG p. 352 "July 7, 1656"; FG p. 22, Yarnall p. 45 and CG p. 282 "May 7, 1656." May (the 3rd month) is right.
• John Prior and Elizabeth Bowne's marriage: "Nov. 2, 1678" (FG p. 352; Long Island Forum) or "9/2 mo. (Apl.) 1678" (CG p. 285). Unresolved; possibly the 2nd of the 9th month (2 Nov) misprinted in CG.
• Elizabeth (Bowne) Prior's death: FG p. 352 "Oct. 14, 1721"; CG and Hinshaw the 14th of the 12th month (February) 1721[/2].
• James Cock and Hannah Feke's marriage: FG p. 30 "Oct. 1, 1698"; the certificate 1st of the 10th month (December) 1698.
• John Feke and Elizabeth Prior's marriage: FG p. 33 "Sept. 15, 1670"; CG p. 287, from the Friends' record, the 15th of the 7th month 1673.
• John Underhill junior's mother: FG p. 341 makes him "son of Capt. John and Elizabeth (Feke) Underhill." He was baptized in Boston in 1642 (UG 2:50) and was the son of the first wife, Helena (CG p. 290). This matters only for the Wright Frost branch and Myron C. Taylor.
• Robert Feake's death: FG p. 341 "Feb. 1, 1660-1"; Latting (CG p. 287) February 1661/2, inventory 18 Feb.
• Thomas Fones's death: 15 April 1629 (WP 1:88 n.); FG p. 350 "April 16, 1629"; FG p. 348 "April 25, 1629."
• Anne (Winthrop) Fones's death: 16 May 1618 (FG p. 347) or 1619 (WP 1:68 n. 80).
• Captain Underhill's second marriage: CG p. 287 "m. prob. Flushing, 1649"; but his first wife Helena died at Southold in 1658 (UG 1:31) and the first child of the second marriage was born the 29th of the 9th month 1659 (Field p. 116). 1658 or early 1659.
• Rebecca Wright's mother: FG p. 19 "Nicholas and Ann (Beaupre) Wright" (see section 8).

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7. Lookups

Each needs a login, a library, or a lending copy.

1. Westbury Monthly Meeting marriage of Benjamin Underhill and Hannah Townsend, 29th of 3rd mo. 1728 (Hinshaw vol. 3; the original at Swarthmore, also on Ancestry's "U.S., Quaker Meeting Records"). Quaker certificates usually name the parents. This would settle the doubtful link (David → Benjamin) and with it whether Capt. John Underhill is an ancestor.
2. Hinshaw, vol. 3 (archive.org lending copy encyclopediaofam0000unse_s4m3, or Ancestry): the exact entries for John Prior (birth day; marriage date, 2 Nov or April 1678), Elizabeth Bowne, John Feke (marriage year, 1670 or 1673), Hannah Feke, James Cock, Mary Cock and the Frosts. It would replace the compilers' transcriptions with one consistent abstract.
3. Purchase and Nine Partners monthly meeting records (Swarthmore; Ancestry): Thomas Underhill's marriage to Mercy Dickinson (date, place, parents named), Sarah's birth (the 6th of the 4th month 1761), and the 1781 Creek certificate of George Frost and Sarah Underhill.
4. Oyster Bay Town Records, vols. 2-3 (archive.org, not read in this pass): David Underhill's 1700 deed of gift to his son Peter; any deed by Benjamin or Samuel Underhill naming a father; James Cock's will (Book C, p. 19) and James Cock junior's will (1728).
5. Dutchess County wills, Liber B, p. 292 (FamilySearch images): Thomas Underhill (1800) and Deborah Underhill (1801), to read the bequests to "Sarah Frost" in full.
6. Chester County, Pa., Wills, Liber A, p. 384 (FamilySearch images): Thomas Townsend of Concord, 1732, to confirm "Hannah Underhill" and find which Townsend he was (and so whether the Culper spy Robert Townsend is a cousin).
7. Anderson, The Great Migration Begins (1995), Robert Feake (archive.org lending copy greatmigrationbe0001robe), and NYGBR 86:209 (the Feake will cited there): the modern account of Robert Feake's children, with the evidence for each, and of his parents.
8. Winthrop Papers, vol. 2 (1931; the MHS online edition): Elizabeth Fones's marriage to Henry Winthrop in 1629 and the letters after his death.
9. New York surrogate's records: Nicholas Wright's will (Lib. 2, pp. 133-135) and Anthony Wright's (Lib. 2, p. 202), to fix the probate dates; William Frost's alleged will of 1698, which FG prints without a reference, and the 1720 administration to "Elinor."
10. Matlock (Derbyshire) and Lichfield records: the 1619 will of Anthony Bowne of the Lime Tree and the 1634 administration of Alice; Thomas Bowne's will of 1675. The baptisms of 1595 and 1627 may exist only in John Bowne's journal, since the Matlock register begins in 1637 (Field p. 115).
11. Brookhaven Town Records (printed 1880 and later): William Frost's lots 1664-1672, and Matthew Prior's 1665 sale.
12. Edith King Wilson, Bowne Family of Flushing (1948) (archive.org lending copy bownefamilyofflu00wils): the Bowne family register and the Prior children.

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8. Checked and ruled out

• Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) and Aaron Burr (1756-1836): not kin through the Winthrops. They descend from Mary Downing, mother of Rev. Solomon Stoddard. WikiTree gives her as born about 1615 (Downing-587, mother of Stoddard-161), and lists Lucy Winthrop's children as George (1623), Lucy, Joshua, Robert, Ann, Martha and John, with no Mary (Winthrop-64). Lucy married Emmanuel Downing about 1622, so Mary was a daughter of his first marriage. No Winthrop blood.
• Capt. John Bowne of Middletown, N.J. (the Hatten line's Lincoln connection): Unrelated. Son of William Bowne of Salem, Gravesend and Middletown, "said to have come from Yorkshire"; a different family from Thomas Bowne of Matlock (Coddington 1943). No kinship is known.
• The Wrights' Norfolk gentry pedigree (Beaupré Hall, the Wrights of Kilverstone): Latting's own words are "believed, although not positively proved" (p. 35). Unsupported. FG's "Ann (Beaupre)" as Nicholas Wright's wife comes from the sixteenth-century Anne Beaupré of that pedigree: disproven as stated.
• The Bownes' descent from Humphrey de Bohun: Field (p. 116) raised it from a resemblance of arms and said "the author cannot say." Unsupported.
• The Fones pedigree "of Saxby," back to about 1400 (FG pp. 349-350), and WikiTree's parents for Thomas Fones (Thomas Fones and Elinor Dyson): not checked; the Winthrop Papers give his father only as "Thomas Fones of Dedford in Bromsgrove." Treat as unsupported.
• Capt. John Underhill's parents as "Sir John and Mary (Mosely) Underhill of ?Wolverhampton" (CG p. 287): unsupported. The Great Migration study (snippet) has John Underhill and Leonora Pawley.
• A Winthrop-Frost connection in England: FG p. 348 quotes Adam Winthrop's diary, "The 16 of ffeb. Sarah Winthrop was married to John Froste," and of 1603, "Sarah my cosen Frostes wife died." Nothing connects this John Frost with William Frost of Oyster Bay, and Sarah was Adam's cousin, not his daughter. Unrelated as far as is known.
• William Frost's origin at Binsted, Hampshire, or as a son or nephew of Elder Edmund Frost of Cambridge (FG p. 16 n.): possible at most; the only basis is a will clause of unknown source.
• "Johon Diar (Prior?)" on the Setauket petition of 1659 (FG p. 17): FG's query. A John Dyer was one of the Killingworth purchasers ("Assigned by me John Dyer of Killingworth," OBTR 1) and the name should be read as written. Not Matthew Prior's family.
• WikiTree's "Mary Clark," wife of Matthew Prior: no source; CG says her maiden name is unknown.
• WikiTree's suggestion that Thomas Bowne's wife was a Ludlam: from a novel. Unsupported.
• Namesakes in the same records: a Richard Holbrook among the joint purchasers of Oyster Bay in 1653 (OBTR 1:355); a Thomas Harlow on the Setauket petition of 1659 (FG p. 17); a George Wright among the signers of the Flushing Remonstrance (DRCHNY 14:403); Henry Feake of Sandwich, a kinsman but not an ancestor of Robert Feake. No connection to the archive's Holbrooks, Harlows or Wrights is known; none was investigated further.
• Robert Frost the poet (1874-1963): his family is the New England one usually traced to Nicholas Frost of Kittery, Maine; no link with William Frost of Oyster Bay was found. Not checked line by line.
• Abigail Tanner's parents (Joshua Tanner and Dinah Gifford): still unsupported.
• FamilySearch's birth for Rebecca Wright at Sandwich in 1642 and death in 1717: no source (as the archive already says). Sandwich is likely for a birth in the 1640s (Latting p. 35), but no record was found.

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Sources read in this pass

Printed records and contemporary writings [D]

• Oyster Bay Town Records, vol. 1 (1916), pp. 27, 50, 78, 90-91, 354-355, and editor's appendix pp. 628-629. archive.org
• Paltsits, ed., Minutes of the Executive Council ... Lovelace, vol. 1 (1910), pp. 43, 331-336. archive.org
• Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, vol. 14 (1883), pp. 402-404 (Flushing Remonstrance), 526 (Directors to Stuyvesant, 16 April 1663). archive.org
• Winthrop Papers, vol. 1 (1925), pp. 68 n., 88, 104 (Adam Winthrop's diary); vol. 5 (1947), pp. 237-239, 345, 348. vol. 1, vol. 5
• Winthrop's Journal, ed. Hosmer (1908), 1:69, 73; 2:12-13. vol. 1, vol. 2
• Winthrop, History of New England, ed. Savage, vol. 1 (1825), p. 29 and appendix p. 372. archive.org
• Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, vol. 1 (1853), pp. 208, 211-212. archive.org
• Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 8 (1857), pp. 11, 192-193. archive.org
• John Underhill, Newes from America (1638), in Orr, History of the Pequot War (1897), pp. 78-81. archive.org
• C. W. Baird, "Marriage Records of the Society of Friends in the Town of Harrison, N.Y." (Purchase Meeting, 1742-1785), NYGBR 3 (1872): 45-50. archive.org
• Wills and Friends' records as transcribed in CG, FG, UG, Latting and Field (cited at each point).

Compiled works [C]

• Josephine C. Frost, The Frost Genealogy (1912), pp. 7-9, 13, 16-23, 29-33, 341-342, 346-355. archive.org
• Cocks and Cox, History and Genealogy of the Cock, Cocks, Cox Family (1914), pp. 6-18, 22-26, 282-291. archive.org
• Josephine C. Frost, ed., Underhill Genealogy (1932), vol. 1 pp. 29-32, 45; vol. 2 pp. 4, 24-25, 50, 74-79, 94-95, 138-139, 142, 274; vol. 3 pp. 561, 865, 986. vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3
• John J. Latting, "The Wright Family, of Oyster Bay, L. I.," NYGBR 3 (1872): 35-45. archive.org
• Osgood Field, The Fields of Sowerby (1895), appendix pp. 112-116. archive.org
• Charles Yarnall, "John Bowne of Flushing, 1627-1695," Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia 2 (1908): 44-66. archive.org
• John Insley Coddington, "A Bowne Problem," TAG 19 (Jan. 1943), reprint. archive.org
• James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, vol. 3 (1861), pp. 188 (Mayo), 489 (Prior). archive.org
• William Carey Poland, Robert Feke, the Early Newport Portrait Painter (1907), pp. 14, 25. archive.org
• Abner C. Goodell, Further Notes on the History of Witchcraft in Massachusetts (1884). archive.org
• WikiTree profiles (read through the API): Fones-9, Fones-7, Winthrop-10, Winthrop-11, Winthrop-64, Feake-3, Feake-4, Feake-6, Feake-12, Feake-72, Feake-73, Pryer-1, Bowne-21, Bowne-139, Bowne-316, Stoddard-161, Forbes-23, Winthrop-5, Winthrop-6, Winthrop-72, Winthrop-110, Winthrop-180, Winthrop-7, Taylor-135364, Earhart-1, Shepard-1194; and the ten-generation ancestry of the famous kin already in famous-kin.yaml that have WikiTree IDs.
• Wikipedia: Robert Feke; Walter Bowne; Bowne & Co.; John Winthrop the Younger; Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet; Wait Winthrop; John Winthrop (educator); Robert Charles Winthrop; John Kerry; Myron Charles Taylor; Elizabeth Fones; The Winthrop Woman; John Underhill (captain); John Bowne; Flushing Remonstrance; Theodore Winthrop.
• Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, vol. 3 (1940): search snippets only.
• Great Migration Begins (Anderson): search snippets only.

Research log

8 October 2026. Read the master research, the archive's ten top people on the branch, and the connections files. Downloaded and searched the full texts of FG, CG, UG vols. 1-4, OBTR vol. 1, Paltsits, NYGBR 3, Winthrop Papers vols. 1, 3, 4 and 5, Winthrop's Journal (Hosmer, and Savage's 1825 edition), MBCR 1, PCR 8, DRCHNY 14, Orr, Field, Yarnall, Coddington, Savage vol. 3, Poland, and the Townsend Memorial (1865). Traced famous descendants through the WikiTree API (getProfile, getAncestors), and checked the existing famous kin's WikiTree ancestries for this branch's families (Amelia Earhart and Alan Shepard found). Wikipedia was rate-limited for much of the session; some summaries were read in full, others only in part.

Searched without result: a Newes from America text on archive.org (used Orr's reprint instead); the Great Migration's Robert Feake sketch (lending copy only); Hinshaw vol. 3 (lending copy only); a primary record naming Benjamin Underhill's father; Thomas Townsend of Concord's parentage; Abigail Tanner and the Showermans; the Purchase marriage of Thomas Underhill and Mercy Dickinson (not in the 1742-1785 abstract in NYGBR 3).