Warren and Bartlett Lines: Research Findings, with Mollie's Chapter Checked
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Warren and Bartlett Lines: Research Findings, with Mollie's Chapter Checked
Working file, 1 October 2026.
Scope: Richard Warren of the Mayflower and his wife Elizabeth (Walker) Warren; their daughter Mary (Warren) Bartlett and her husband Robert Bartlett; and the Harlow, Rider and Stephens generations that carry the Warren descent to Phebe (Stephens) Ellis and her daughter Nancy (Ellis) Holbrook. It also checks, claim by claim, the "Ellis-Warren Branch" and allied chapters of Mollie Frances (Holbrook) Pfeiffer's Holbrook family typescript (scans Holbrook_3.pdf and Holbrook_4.pdf).
Companion files: Freeman_Ellis_Master_Family_Tree.md (Part Four F holds these families as tree entries); Freeman_Ellis_Anecdotes.md (section 13 holds the Warren, Bartlett, Harlow and Rider incidents); Freeman_Ellis_Line_Research.md.
Evidence tiers. [Documented] a primary record, or a published transcript or abstract of one. [Compiled] a secondary history or genealogy. [Tradition] family or local lore with no source. [Inference] our own reasoning. Quotations keep the original spelling.
Short citations. PCR = Records of the Colony of New Plymouth (Shurtleff and Pulsifer), volume:page. MD = The Mayflower Descendant. TAG = The American Genealogist. NEHGR = New England Historical and Genealogical Register. CSM 22 = Plymouth Church Records 1620-1859, Colonial Society of Massachusetts Publications 22 (1920). GSMD = General Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mollie = Mollie Frances (Holbrook) Pfeiffer, Holbrook family typescript (undated), cited by scan file and scan page, with the typescript's own page number where legible.
1. The line of descent
Two lines run from Robert Bartlett and Mary Warren to Phebe Harlow, through two Bartlett sisters. Every link from Phebe Harlow up to Rebecca and Sarah Bartlett is in the Plymouth records.
| Gen. | Line through Rebecca Bartlett | Line through Sarah Bartlett | Evidence for the link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Richard Warren (Mayflower 1620; d. 1628) m. 14 Apr 1610, Great Amwell, Herts, Elizabeth Walker (bapt. Baldock, Herts, Sept 1583; d. Plymouth 2 Oct 1673) | same | Marriage: Great Amwell register [Documented]. Identification with the passengers: Davies, TAG 78 (2003) [Compiled, now accepted] |
| 2 | Mary Warren (b. c. 1610; d. 27 Mar 1683 "in her 73d yeare") m. c. 1629 Robert Bartlett (Anne 1623; d. Sept 1676) | same | Mary named in her grandfather Augustine Walker's will, 1613; in the 1627 cattle division with her parents (PCR 12:12); her mother's purchaser order of 1636/7 names "Robert Bartlett" among the "sonnes in law" (PCR 1:54) [Documented] |
| 3 | Rebecca Bartlett m. 20 Dec 1649 Sgt. William Harlow (c. 1624/5-1691) | Sarah Bartlett m. 23 Dec 1656 Samuel Rider Jr. (c. 1630-1715) | Marriages in PCR 8; Rebecca and Sarah as daughters of Robert and Mary: standard in the Warren genealogies [Compiled]. The 1690/1 whale case links the families (section 8) |
| 4 | Samuel Harlow (b. 27 Jan 1652/3) m. (2) Hannah | John Rider (b. c. 1664) m. Hannah (Barnes?) | Samuel's birth names his father (PCR 8:15) and falls within the Bartlett marriage [Documented, Inference]. John: deposed March 1690/1 "aged 26 yeares or there abouts," before his father's 1680 second marriage, and in 1718 sold land "which I Bought of my Father Saml Rider Deceased" (MD 11) [Documented] |
| 5 | William Harlow (b. 26 July 1692; d. 11 Apr 1751) | Mercy Rider (b. 14 Nov 1696; d. 21 Jan 1772) | Births in Plymouth VR to "Samuel Harlow & Hannah" and to "John Rider and Hannah" [Documented] |
| 5 | William and Mercy m. 24 Feb 1714/15, Plymouth | Plymouth VR [Documented] | |
| 6 | Phebe Harlow (b. 21 Oct 1728) m. c. 1747 Edward Stephens Jr. (1721-1788) | Plymouth VR birth to "William Harlow Jr. & Marsey" [Documented] | |
| 7 | Phebe Stephens (d. 24 Nov 1789) m. 23 May 1773 George Ellis (b. 1747) | Davis 2:252 [Compiled]; Stephens estate sale to George Ellis; the 1805 quitclaim "from our Mother Phebe Ellis Decd who was formerly Phebe Stephens" [Documented] | |
| 8 | Nancy Ellis (1781-1864) m. (2) 1818 Gideon Holbrook | See Freeman_Ellis_Line_Research.md, section 13.7 [Documented] |
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| 9 | Richard Blackmer Holbrook Sr. (1821-1894) | Gideon's and Nancy's wills [Documented] |
[Inference] Counting Richard Warren as generation 1, Richard B. Holbrook Sr. is generation 9, Richard B. Holbrook Jr. 10, Richard Clifford Holbrook 11, and Frances Fairchild Holbrook 12.
[Compiled] For a GSMD (Mayflower Society) application, the Society's "Silver Book," Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, vol. 18 (Richard Warren), carries the Warren descendants to the fifth generation, which would include William Harlow and Mercy Rider. An applicant then documents each later generation. The evidence gathered in these files covers every step from Phebe Harlow to Richard B. Holbrook Sr.; the steps below him are in the Holbrook and Collins-Reed files.
2. Richard Warren in England
What is proven
- [Documented] "The parish registers of Great Amwell in Hertfordshire show that a Richard Warren married an Elizabeth Walker on 14 April 1610" (Edward J. Davies, "The Marriage of Richard1 Warren of the Mayflower," TAG 78 (April 2003): 81-86, at 82). The register is printed in S. G. Doree, ed., The Parish Register and Tithing Book of Thomas Hassall of Amwell, Hertfordshire Record Society 5 (1989), p. 157.
- [Documented] The will of Augustine Walker of Great Amwell, yeoman, 19 April 1613 (Court of the Bishop of London's Commissary for Essex and Herts; Essex Record Office D/ABW 41/186), printed in full by Davies (TAG 78:85-86): "I give & bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth Warren wife of Richard Warren Sixteene pounds of lawefull money of England, and unto her three Children Marey, Ann and Sarey Warren Fower pounds ... to be payde unto the saide Richard Warren to the use of the saide child[ren]."
- [Compiled] Davies's case that this couple is the Mayflower couple:
- the three granddaughters, "Marey, Ann and Sarey," are the passenger's first three daughters, in the same order as in the 1627 cattle division and in Nathaniel Warren's will;
- Mary (Warren) Bartlett died 27 Mar 1683 "in her 73d yeare" (CSM 22:250), so she was born about 1610, right after the April 1610 marriage;
- Ann (Warren) Little deposed on 6 June 1672 "aged sixty yeares or therabouts" (MD 2:178), so she was born about 1612;
- "As far as is known, there is nothing inconsistent with the identification."
- [Compiled] The identification is now the accepted one. Caleb Johnson (MayflowerHistory.com), Robert Charles Anderson (The Pilgrim Migration, 2004), the GSMD's current Warren profile and Pilgrim Hall all follow it. The marriage itself had been known before 2002; Augustine Walker's will, which Davies found and posted online in December 2002, is what tied it to the passengers.
- [Documented] Mourt's Relation (London, 1622) calls Warren one of "three of London" in the exploring party of 6 Dec 1620 (section 5). This places him in London by 1620. It does not say he was born there.
What is not known
- His birth and parents. No baptism has been proven. Estimates: "Hertfordshire, about 1585" (Johnson; GSMD); "by about 1578" (Anderson, Pilgrim Migration). [Compiled]
- Candidate origins that have been proposed (none proven):
| Proposal | Who proposed it | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A Warren family "in the vicinity of Therfield," Herts | Caleb Johnson, The Mayflower and Her Passengers (2006), p. 244; repeated by Mayflower 400 UK (2020) | A suggestion, no record link [Inference] |
| Richard bapt. St Albans 12 Apr 1585 | Earlier suggestion by Johnson | Rejected. That man married Parnel Branch at St Albans in 1611/12, had children there 1614-22, and was buried there 17 Feb 1638 (Greg Volk, 2021, cited on WikiTree) |
| Richard bapt. Rickmansworth 12 Aug 1576, son of William | WikiTree contributors | Speculation only |
| Richard bapt. St Peter Cornhill, London, 24 Jan 1579/80, son of John Warren, armorer | L. W. Throop, California Mayflower Quarterly 46(4), 2022 | Rejected. The journal printed a disclaimer: this man was a freeman of the Cutlers, buried at St Peter Cornhill 16 Nov 1624 |
| Richard bapt. Newport, Essex, 22 Sept 1583, son of Richard and Joan (Hadsley) Warren; and a Richard Warren made free of the Drapers' Company c. 14 Feb 1609/10 | Throop, CMQ 47(2), 2023; 47(4), 2023; 48(3), 2024 | Conjecture. The draper idea is suggestive because Augustine Walker's overseer, Simon Adams, was a London draper, but nothing ties the draper to Elizabeth. These are newsletter articles, not peer-reviewed |
- [Compiled] Y-DNA of tested male-line descendants: haplogroup E-M35 (subclade E-FTC19215) (MayflowerHistory.com; FTDNA Warren project, per WikiTree). This tests the American line; it does not yet point to an English family.
What has been rejected
- "Elizabeth Jouatt (Juatt, Ivatt), widow of Marsh," and the Devon pedigree. A Warren pedigree added in a later hand to The Visitation of Devon 1620 (Harleian Society 6, 1872, pp. 299-300), headed "John Warren of Hedbury in the par. of Ashburton," has "Richard Warren of Greenwich in Kent" marrying "Eliz. d. Ivatt & relict of Marsh." J. C. Warren's Genealogy of Warren (1854) applied this to the passenger. It was rejected by John Ward Dean and J. Granville Leach (NEHGR 55 (1901): 71), by G. E. McCracken (TAG 52 (1976): 88-90), and by the TAG editors (78:81, 2003). A London licence of 20 Aug 1629 shows Elizabeth Ivatt, "spinster, 15," marrying Francis March, so the Greenwich Richard's wife was a child in 1620. [Documented sources; the identification is rejected]
- Descent from the Norman Earls de Warenne. No modern authority supports it (Davies, Anderson, Johnson, GSMD). [Tradition, unsupported]
- Banks's theory that Elizabeth was a second wife and not the daughters' mother. The 1613 will calls Mary, Ann and Sarah "her three Children." Davies reads Bradford's wording as separating children born before and after the emigration. [Rejected]
3. Elizabeth (Walker) Warren and the Walkers of Great Amwell and Baldock
- [Documented] Baptised at Baldock, Herts, September 1583: "Elizabeth daughter of Augustine Walker." The day cannot be read because of tight binding (Davies, TAG 78:84, from the Baldock register; transcription on WikiTree Walker-1209/1210 from the Findmypast image).
- [Inference] Born September 1583, she was 90 at her death in October 1673, which fits the colony record's "aged aboue 90 yeares."
- [Documented] Her father, Augustine Walker:
- Will 19 April 1613: "I Augustine Walker of much Amwell in the Com of Herts: yeoma[n]." Signed by mark. Davies notes there is "no date of probate on the will or in the act book."
- Buried at Great Amwell 18 Aug 1614 as "Austen Wallkar of Amwell Streete an owld man" (Doree, p. 94).
- The will names: "my daughter Elizabeth Warren wife of Richard Warren" and her three children; Ann, wife of Thomas Holland, with children Thomas, John, Frauncis and one "now conceyved" (Ann m. Thomas Holland at Great Amwell 8 June 1601); "my daughter Mary Johnson"; and Simon and Dorothy, children of "Symon Adams Citizen & drap[er] of London," including "a Gymmoll-Ringe of gold wch was her mothers." Simon Adams the elder was his overseer.
- Elizabeth's share: £16 and her children's £4, and half of the residue after the death of Augustine's wife Mary.
- [Documented, with Davies's inference] Augustine's wife at his death was Mary (Stringer), married at Great Amwell 27 June 1597, buried 26 Dec 1614; her will (23 Dec 1614, proved 10 Jan 1614/15, PCC 3 Rudd) mentions "legacies of my husband Augustine Wallkar lately deceased." Since Elizabeth was born in 1583 and Dorothy in 1573, Davies concludes Mary "was evidently not the mother of Elizabeth." Elizabeth's mother's name is unknown.
- [Compiled from registers] Elizabeth's sister Dorothy: bapt. Baldock Aug 1573, "Doratie daughter of Augustine Walker"; m. (1) Edward Grave, Great Amwell, 1 Sept 1595; m. (2) Simon Adams, St Martin Ludgate, 23 Sept 1599; bur. St Margaret Moses, London, 6 Mar 1605/6 (WikiTree Walker-53699; TAG 78:274-75, Oct 2003, not read).
- [Documented, context] Great Amwell lies on the River Lea and the Old North Road and had close ties to London. In 1603 the register notes "Susan Addams, a maiden borne in Amwell dwellinge at London died heere at Augustine Wallkar's" (Davies).
- [Inference] Augustine's family therefore moved from Baldock (daughters baptised there in 1573 and 1583) to Great Amwell by 1597, and had London connections through the Adams marriage. Nothing earlier is known: WikiTree rejects a link to an Augustine baptised at Southam, Warwickshire, in 1564, since this Augustine had a child in 1573.
- [Compiled] mtDNA of matrilineal descendants of Elizabeth: H1j10a (FTDNA Mayflower project, five testers, per WikiTree).
4. The Warren children
No English baptism has been found for any of the daughters, at Great Amwell or elsewhere. "No baptisms of any children of this couple are recorded in the Great Amwell parish registers" (Davies, TAG 78:82).
| Child | Birth | Marriage | Death | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary | c. 1610, England | c. 1629, Robert Bartlett | 27 Mar 1683, "in her 73d yeare" | CSM 22:250 [Documented]; marriage date estimated [Inference] |
| Ann(a) | c. 1612, England | 19 Apr 1633, Thomas Little ("Thomas Little & Ann Warren married. 19 April," PCR 1:13) | after 1672 | MD 2:178; PCR [Documented] |
| Sarah | by 1613, England | 28 Mar 1634, John Cooke Jr. | named in the 1613 will [Documented] | |
| Elizabeth | c. 1615, England | by Mar 1635/6, Richard Church | PCR [Documented]; birth estimated | |
| Abigail | c. 1618/19, England | 8 or 9 Nov 1639, Anthony Snow | PCR [Documented]; birth estimated | |
| Nathaniel | c. 1624, Plymouth | 19 Nov 1645, Sarah Walker | 1667 | deposed 15 Oct 1661 aged about 37 [Documented] |
| Joseph | by 1627, Plymouth | c. 1653, Priscilla Faunce | c. 1689 | in the 1627 cattle division [Documented] |
- [Compiled] Banks (1929, p. 92) "estimated" Mary 1606, Elizabeth 1608, Anne 1612, Sarah 1614, Abigail 1616. Mollie's "Mary born 1606" comes from this guess. It conflicts with the 1610 marriage, Mary's age at death, and the order of names in the will.
- [Documented] Bradford, writing about 1651: "Mr. Richard Warren lived some -4- or -5- years, and had his wife come over to him, by whom he had -2- sons before [he] dyed; and one of them is maryed, and hath -2- children. So his increase is -4-. But he had -5- doughters more came over with his wife, who are all maried, and living, and have many children" (Bradford, History, Ford ed. 1912, 2:407).
- [Compiled] The GSMD counts 56 grandchildren. Mollie's "75 grandchildren" is in no contemporary record.
5. Richard and Elizabeth in Plymouth
Richard (1620-1628)
- [Documented] Signed the Mayflower Compact; twelfth in Nathaniel Morton's 1669 list.
- [Documented] Bradford's passenger list: "Mr. Richard Warren; but his wife and children were lefte behind, and came afterwards." The "Mr." marks him as a man of standing.
- [Documented] Mourt's Relation (1622), on the exploring party of Wednesday 6 Dec 1620, the expedition of the "First Encounter": "So ten of our men were appointed ... to wit, Captaine Standish, Maister Carver, William Bradford, Edward Winslowe, John Tilley, Edward Tilley, John Houland, and three of London, Richard Warren, Steeuen Hopkins, and Edward [Doten]" (Dexter ed. 1865, p. 44). Note that the party included John Howland and John Tilley, who are also ancestors through Lucy (Bennett) Ellis.
- [Documented] 1623 land division (PCR 12:4-6): "Richard Warren" in the Mayflower list; "Richard Waren 5" in the Anne list, "on the other side of the towne towards the eele-riuer." [Inference] The five acres were for his wife and five daughters, who came on the Anne.
- [Documented] Cattle division, 22 May 1627 (PCR 12:12, checked): "The ninth lot fell to Richard Warren & his companie Joyned wth him his wife Elizabeth Warren, Nathaniell Warren, Joseph Warren, Mary Warren, Anna Warren, Sara Warren, Elizabeth Warren, Abigail Warren ... To this lott fell one of the 4 black Heyfers that came in the Jacob caled the smooth horned Heyfer and two shee goats."
- [Documented] Death: Nathaniel Morton, New-Englands Memoriall (1669), under 1628: "This Year died Mr. Richard Warren, who hath been mentioned before in this Book, and was an usefull Instrument, and during his life bare a deep share in the Difficulties and Troubles of the first Settlement of the Plantation of New-Plimouth." This is the only record of his death. Bradford's "some 4 or 5 years" would put it earlier; the 1627 cattle list shows him alive in May 1627.
- [Tradition] The phrase "grave Richard Warren ... a man of integrity, justice and uprightness, of piety and serious religion," which Mollie quotes, was printed by Roebling (NEHGR 55, 1901) as from a "cotemporaneous authority." It is not in Morton's 1669 text.
Elizabeth as a widow (1628-1673) [all Documented]
- 1631: Mary Ring's will: "I give unto mrs Warren one woodden cupp with a foote as a token of my love" (MD 1:29-30).
- 1633, 1634: taxed as "Widow Warren," 12s and 9s (PCR 1:10, 27).
- 1 July 1633: "Mrs Warren & Robt Bartlet mow where they did last yeare" (PCR 1:15), the first record pairing her with Robert Bartlett.
- 1635: her servant Thomas Williams was accused "for speaking proiane & blasphemous speeches against ye majestie of God": "ther being some discention betweene him & his dame, shee, after other things, exhorted him to fear God & doe his duty; he answered, he neither feared God, nor the diuell." The court, judging it "spoken in passion & distemper," let him go with a reproof on his "humble acknowledgmente of his offence" (PCR 1:35; checked).
- 1635/6: Thomas Clarke sued her over his boat, borrowed and lost in the Eel River in a great storm; the jury acquitted her but allowed him 30s (PCR 1:36).
- 7 Mar 1636/7: "Elizabeth Warren, widdow, the relict of Mr Richard Warren, deceased, shalbe entred, and stand, and bee purchaser instead of her said husband, as well because that (hee dying before he had pformed the said bargaine) the said Elizabeth pformed the same after his decease, as also for the establishing of the lotts of land giuen formly by her vnto her sonnes in law, Richard Church, Robert Bartlett, and Thomas Little, in marriage wth their wiues, her daughters" (PCR 1:54; checked). The "bargain" was the 1626/7 agreement by which the Plymouth "Purchasers" bought out the London Adventurers' interest in the colony. She is listed as "Elizabeth Warren, widdow" among the Purchasers (PCR 2:177).
- 1644: Stephen Hopkins's will mentions his "great Bull wch is now in the hands of mris Warren" (MD 2:12).
- 1652/3: "Mis Warren one whole share" in the Dartmouth purchase (MD 4:185-88).
- 11 June 1653: Bradford, Prence, Standish and Willett arbitrated a land dispute between her, her son Nathaniel and Mrs Jane Collier (MD 2:64; 3:141-42).
- 1661: owned seven horses (Plymouth Town Records 1:132, per Mollie) [Compiled, not checked].
- Death, PCR 8:35 (checked): "Mistris Elizabeth Warren, an aged widdow, aged aboue 90 yeares, deceased on the second of October, 1673, whoe, haueing liued a godly life, came to her graue as a shoke of corn fully ripe. Shee was honorably buried on the 24th of October aforsaid."
- 4 Mar 1673/4: Mary Bartlett acknowledged "full satisfaction" from her mother's estate, and the rest was settled on Joseph Warren (PCR 5:139-40).
6. Robert Bartlett (c. 1603-1676)
- [Documented] Came on the Anne, 1623: "Robt Bartlet one acre" in the 1623 division (PCR 12:6).
- [Documented] 22 May 1627: in Francis Eaton's tenth lot of the cattle division, unmarried.
- [Documented] Married Mary Warren after May 1627, probably about 1629 [Inference from the ages of their children]. First record together: the 1633 mowing order above; first explicit statement: the 1636/7 purchaser order.
- [Documented] Freeman 1633. In a deed of gift of 14 July 1673 to his son Joseph he is "Robert Bartlett, of the Towne of Plymouth ... wine Cooper" (Plymouth Colony Deeds 3:301, per WikiTree).
- [Documented] 1660: "Robert Bartlett appeered, being summoned to answare for speakeing contemptuously of the ordinance of singing of psalmes, and was convict of the fact, and did inpart acknowlidg his euill therin, promising that hee would bee warned of soe doeing for the future, expressing these words, that hee hoped it should bee a warning to him" (PCR 3:188; checked).
- [Documented, via Mollie] 19 April 1649: his brother-in-law Richard Church sold him a house and land at Eel River for £25, payable partly "in a red ox called 'Mouse'" and partly in goods "at Mr. Paddy's" (Mollie, typescript p. 39, citing the colony deeds) [Compiled; not checked against PCR 12]. Mr. Paddy is William Paddy, Edmund Freeman's son-in-law.
- [Documented] Death: a nuncupative will of 19 Sept 1676; inventory exhibited 29 Oct 1676 "on the oath of Mary Bartlett widdow," £170 16s 6d (Plymouth Colony Wills 3:2:87).
- English origin: unknown.
- John G. Hunt, "Possible Origin of Robert Bartlett of Plymouth," TAG 35 (Oct 1959): 214, proposed the Robert baptised at Puddletown, Dorset, 27 April or 27 May 1603, son of Robert and Alice (Barker). Hunt called it "an excellent clue" but said "further evidence should be sought before accepting it as a certainty." Paul W. Prindle, "The Probable Ancestry of Robert Bartlett of Plymouth," TAG 55 (1979): 164-66, followed the same line. [Compiled; unproven]
- Banks (1929, p. 138) suggested St Botolph Aldgate, Shoreditch or Whitechapel only because Bartlett married Mary Warren. [Compiled guess]
- Mollie's link to the Bartelots of Stopham, Sussex, descended from "Adam Bartelot" who "came with the Conqueror," has no published evidence. [Tradition]
- Bartlett Y-DNA (FTDNA Bartlett project): R1b; descendants of two of Robert's sons match, which confirms the American line. [Compiled]
7. Mollie's chapter, claim by claim
The Warrens (Holbrook_3.pdf scan pp. 1, 3, 6, 9-12; typescript pp. 1-3, 33-36)
| Mollie says | Finding | Tier |
|---|---|---|
| Richard Warren "born probably in London"; "Richard Warren, Merchant of London" | Birthplace unknown. "Of London" is Mourt's (1622), meaning residence. "Merchant" is Banks's word, wrongly attributed to Mourt. Current estimates: Hertfordshire, c. 1578-1585 | Not supported as stated |
| Married "widow Elizabeth (Jewett)" | Rejected since 1901. She was Elizabeth Walker, married 14 Apr 1610 at Great Amwell, daughter of Augustine Walker | Corrected [Documented] |
| A Richard Warren, haberdasher, licensed to marry Elizabeth Evans at St Leonard Shoreditch, 1592/3; a Richard Warren in the Honourable Artillery Company, 1612 | Both records exist (Foster, London Marriage Licences; the HAC Vellum Book, 1612). Banks offered them only as possibilities. The 1592/3 groom cannot be ours now that the 1610 marriage is known; the 1612 HAC man is unidentified | Records real; identification not supported |
| Possible descent from the Earls de Warenne | No evidence | [Tradition] |
| Mary "born 1606 in England" | About 1610 (her age at death; the 1610 marriage) | Corrected |
| Children Mary, Ann (m. Thomas Little), Sarah (m. John Cooke), Elizabeth (m. Richard Church), Abigail (m. Anthony Snow), Nathaniel and Joseph born in Plymouth | Correct | [Documented] |
| Warren of the London "Pilgrim area" of Aldgate, Heneage House, St Botolph's (Banks) | Banks's own theory; no Warren record behind it. Of Banks's "London" leaders, Winslow is now placed at Droitwich, Hopkins at Upper Clatford, Hants, and Allerton probably at East Bergholt, Suffolk | Not supported |
| Richard died 1628 (handwritten in her table) | Correct (Morton, 1669) | [Documented] |
| Elizabeth died 2 Oct 1673 in her 91st year, "having lived to see 75 grandchildren" | Date correct; the record says "aged aboue 90 yeares"; 75 grandchildren has no source (GSMD counts 56). Mollie's other date, "12 Feb 1673," has no support | Date [Documented]; count unsupported |
| Widow Warren's servant Thomas Williams; the boat lost in the Eel River storm; Mary Ring's wooden cup; the 1640 enlargement of lots for Church, Bartlett, Little and Mrs Warren; the Clifford House at Plymouth on "the original Warren Farm" | The first three are confirmed (section 5). The 1640 grant and the Warren Farm tradition were not checked | [Documented] / not checked |
The Bartletts (Holbrook_3.pdf scan pp. 13-16; typescript pp. 37-39)
| Mollie says | Finding |
|---|---|
| Robert Bartlett (1603-1676) came on the Anne 1623 | Correct [Documented]. The 1603 birth is the Puddletown candidate's baptism, unproven |
| Met Mary Warren in Aldgate (Banks) | Speculation |
| Descended from the Bartelots of Stopham, Sussex | No evidence [Tradition] |
| "May have been a cooper" | Confirmed: "wine Cooper" in his 1673 deed [Documented] |
| Freeman 1633; on the 1633-34 tax lists; jury and highway service; earliest cattle-mark entry | Consistent with PCR; not each checked |
| 1660 court appearance for speaking contemptuously of psalm singing | Confirmed (PCR 3:188) [Documented] |
| Died between 19 and 29 Sept 1676 | Consistent (nuncupative will 19 Sept; inventory 29 Oct) |
| William L. Ashmead Bartlett, who married Baroness Burdett-Coutts in 1881, was the son of Ellis Bartlett, born at South Plymouth (Manomet), and "the compiler's father, Richard B. Holbrook ... born in Manomet 1821, ... said that the young man ... was a relative, whose father he had known in his youth" | The family connection is correct (section 8). Ellis Bartlett was born 15 June 1817, not 1814. The "Ellis" in that family comes from Mercy Ellis, a descendant of John Ellis and Elizabeth Freeman. R. B. Holbrook's remark is family tradition [Tradition] |
The Harlows (Holbrook_3.pdf scan pp. 17-23; typescript pp. 40-45)
| Mollie says | Finding |
|---|---|
| William Harlow b. 1624, d. 1691, m. Rebecca Bartlett 1649 | Correct: d. 25 Aug 1691 "in his 67th yeare" [Documented] |
| Nathaniel Morton called "my loving kinsman Seargent William Harlow" and remembered "my kinsman Nathaniel Harlow," whom he reared | Confirmed in substance (Morton's will, 22 Apr 1685, via Stratton) [Compiled]. In 1667 Morton and his wife took Harlow's son Nathaniel, "being now neare two yeares and an half old," to raise to 21 (PCR 5) [Documented]. The kinship came through Harlow's second wife, Mary Faunce, Morton's niece |
| The selectmen's 1692 complaint against Samuel Rider and William Harlow Jr. over a drift whale; Harlow appointed an attorney "that he might not prosecute his own son" | The whale case is real but dated 1690/1. On 10 Mar 1690/1 the town chose others to act "seing serjant harlow & Joseph Bartlet did somwhat decline the Thing" (Plymouth Town Records 1:200) [Documented]. Mollie's naming of the defendants was not found in a record |
| "Will. Harlow did in such a manner express himself, murmuring at the preaching" (Plymouth Church Records p. 254, 1683); he "finally became a Quaker" | The church record is real: 9 Mar 1683/4, the first day in the new meetinghouse, CSM 22:254. It does not say which William. No evidence that either William Harlow became a Quaker; the sergeant died a church member in 1691 (CSM 22:271) |
| Fined once, for three unringed hogs | Not checked |
| Built the Harlow house with the timbers of the Pilgrim fort after King Philip's War | Tradition from Thacher and Davis; a 1996 assessment dates the house 1700 or later [Compiled] |
| Capt. Edward Harlow (Popham colony 1607; the 1611 voyage that seized Epenow) may have been his father or kinsman | No evidence [Tradition] |
| Samuel Harlow and his wife Hannah "both died on the same day, March 22, 1734/5" | Not supported. The Plymouth VR leaves both their death dates blank; the date belongs to the next line (Mary Morton). Samuel was dead by 1728 |
| William Harlow (b. 1692) and Mercy Rider are buried on Burial Hill | Confirmed: "Here lies Buried Mr. William Harlow who Decd April ye 11th 1751 in ye 59th year of his age"; "Here lies buried Mrs Marcy Harlow Widow to Mr William Harlow who decd Janury 21st 1772, in ye 77th year of her Age" (Kingman nos. 242, 405) [Documented] |
The Riders (Holbrook_3.pdf scan pp. 24-26; typescript pp. 46-47)
| Mollie says | Finding |
|---|---|
| Samuel Rider (1), in Yarmouth 1643, married Sarah Bartlett in 1656 | One generation off. There were two Samuels. Sarah Bartlett married Samuel Rider Jr. (d. 18 July 1715 "about ye 85th year of his age"), son of Samuel Rider Sr. of Yarmouth (will 20 Nov 1679) and Anne (d. 14 Dec 1695). Samuel Sr.'s wife Anne outlived him, so he cannot be Sarah's husband (Bowman, MD 11 (1909): 49-52, 182-187) [Documented] |
| "Samuel Rider came from Northampton, England," per a certificate printed in NEHGR, July 1925, p. 310 | Confirmed, at NEHGR 79 (1925): 316. See section 8 [Documented] |
| John Rider b. 1663, m. Hannah; children including Mercy b. 1696 | Correct in substance; John was born c. 1664 [Documented] |
| A Rider house later owned by Naaman Holbrook and occupied by Gideon Holbrook at Manomet | Holbrook matter; left to the Holbrook files |
The Stephenses (Holbrook_4.pdf scan pp. 1-4; typescript pp. 48-50)
| Mollie says | Finding |
|---|---|
| Edward Stephens b. 1680, d. 30 July 1756; m. 1708 Mary Churchill, d. 25 Jan 1723 | Confirmed by Burial Hill: Edward "Decd July ye 30th 1756 in the 77th year of his age"; Mary "decesd Jany ye 25th 1723-4 in ye 35th year of her age" (Kingman nos. 275, 60) [Documented]. Mary's year is 1723/4 |
| Edward Stephens Jr. b. 1721, d. 9 Apr 1788; m. Phebe Harlow 1747; "resided at Carver" | Death confirmed: "died April 9th 1788 in ye 66th year of his age" (Kingman no. 567) [Documented]. Carver fits their son Edward, not Edward Jr. and Phebe |
| Phebe (Stephens) Ellis died 24 Nov 1789 (scan p. 6) or 24 Dec 1789 (Holbrook_4 scan p. 1) | 24 Nov 1789 is right ("George Ellis's Wife," CSM 22:417); the "24" under December belongs to another entry |
| George Ellis "b. Jan 21, 1749" (scan p. 6); Nancy "b. 1781" | George's date is not supported; the Middleborough record gives 10 May 1747 [Documented]. Nancy's 1781 agrees with her age at death |
| Children of George and Phebe: Sarah, Phebe, Polly, George, Mathias, Nancy, Stephen | Matches the 1785 warning-out and the 1805 quitclaim [Documented] |
| A Norman "Fitz Stephens" pedigree "compiled by George Stephens of Plymouth (authority unknown)"; a link to Col. Thomas Stevens of London, armorer to the Massachusetts Bay Company | No evidence connects Edward Stephens of Marshfield (living 1665) to either. Mollie herself marks the first "authority unknown" [Tradition] |
The Churchills, Dotys, Clarkes and Pontuses (Holbrook_4.pdf scan pp. 5-21; typescript pp. 52-66)
| Mollie says | Finding |
|---|---|
| Eleazer Churchill married "Feb 8, 1688, Mary Doty," daughter of Edward Doty (Mayflower) and Faith Clarke, and was the mother of Mary (Churchill) Stephens | Not so; there is no Doty or Clarke descent in this line. The Plymouth record reads "Henery CHURCHILL married Mary DOTY widow 8 Feb. 1687/88" (MD 13:204 from the original) [Documented]. That bride was the widow of Thomas Doty, Edward Doty's son; she was still living in 1722 as "widow of Henry Churchill of Plimton" (Doty-Doten Family in America, 1897). Edward Doty's own daughter Mary married Samuel Hatch after 1677 (Anderson, Pilgrim Migration) [Compiled]. The error began in The Churchill Family in America (1904), p. 7 |
| (implied) Eleazer's wife | Eleazer had one wife, Mary, mother of all eleven children: the Plymouth VR heads them "The children of Eleazer Churchell & Mary his wife." Her stone: "Here lyes ye body of Mrs MARY CHURCHELL wife to Mr Eleazar Churchell aged 60 years decesd Decr ye 11 1715" (Kingman no. 35) [Documented]. She was probably Mary Bryant, b. 29 May 1654, daughter of Stephen Bryant and Abigail Shaw (Torrey, with a question mark) [Compiled, probable]. The Bryants and Shaws carry no Mayflower line |
| Edward Doty's exploits (the duel with Edward Leister, the lawsuits) and Tristram Clarke's family | Accurate as Doty history, but not our ancestors |
| Joseph Churchill of London, merchant, as father of John Churchill; a Norman "de Courcil" descent | Mollie notes "This is not, however authentic." No evidence [Tradition] |
| John Churchill m. Hannah Pontus 1644, d. 1 Jan 1662/3; settled at Hobs Hole; his will (brass kettle, pewter, "7 alcomy spoons") | Consistent with PCR and the Churchill book [Documented / Compiled] |
| William Pontus, fustian worker from near Dover, married Wybra Hanson at Leiden 4 Dec 1610 with Brewster as witness | Consistent [Compiled] |
Chapters that belong to the Holbrook research
Mollie's Skiff and Mayhew tables (Holbrook_3.pdf scan p. 2), and her Bayes, Newcomb and Low chapters (Holbrook_3.pdf scan pp. 4-5, 7-8; Holbrook_4.pdf scan pp. 23-33), concern the Holbrook side and Harriet Low's family. Elisha Holbrook's first wife was Sarah Mayo of Eastham, not the "Mary Mayhew" of Mollie's tables, so the Mayhew, Skiff, Bayes and Newcomb lines are not ancestral. See:
Mayo_Line_Research.mdfor her real line;Low_Line_Research.mdandTyler_Ginn_Line_Research.mdfor Harriet Low's family;Mollie_Typescript_Review.mdfor all nine parts of the typescript, claim by claim.
8. Other findings from checking the chapter
Samuel Rider Sr. of Northampton [Documented]
- NEHGR 79 (July 1925): 316, headed "RYDER." The editors: "The following certificate, the original of which is preserved among uncalendared deeds in the public library at Northampton, England, shows that Samuel Ryder, Sr., and his son, Samuel Ryder, Jr., had lived together in the towns of Plymouth and Yarmouth, in the Plymouth Colony, for some thirty years prior to 3 Dec. 1662, and that Samuel Ryder, Sr., had previously lived at Northampton, England."
- The certificate: "These may Certify all whom it may Concerne That Samuell Ryder Junior the bearer heerof, is the Reputed sonne of Samuell Ryder senor; which said Samuell Ryder senior sometimes lived in the Towne of Northampton in the Countey of Northampton in the Parish of Alhallowes in old England, and the said Samuell Ryder Junior hath lived with his said father in the Township of Yarmouth in the Jurisdiction of Plymouth in new England in America and in the Towne of Plymouth in the aforesaid Jurisdiction the space of thirty yeares or thereaboutes in witnes to the truth of this Certifycate and Testimony wee have affixed the seale of our Goumment of Plymouth aforsaid third day of December Anno Dom' one Thousand six hundred sixty and two: 1662." Signed "Wm Collier Deputie, Tho: Southworth Assistant, By us in the Absence of the Gouernor."
- [Inference] The colony issued it so that Samuel Jr. could prove who he was in Northampton, presumably over an inheritance or property there. This is the most specific English origin found for any of the Warren-line families.
- [Compiled, unverified] Pane-Joyce, citing Roser, Mayflower Increasings (1995), says Samuel Jr. was baptised at All Saints (All Hallows), Northampton, 25 Nov 1632, son of Samuel Rider and Anne Gamlett. A RootsWeb compilation adds that Samuel Sr. was baptised at Newport Pagnell, Bucks, 19 June 1601, son of John Rider and Helen Smyth, and married Anne Gamlett at All Hallows, Northampton, 16 Oct 1628. No primary citation was found for these.
- [Documented] Samuel Sr.'s will, 20 Nov 1679, names wife Anne and children Benjamin, John, Samuel ("five shillings"), Zachery, Joseph, Jane, Elizabeth and Mary (MD 11:49-52). Plymouth Town Records 1:203: "An Rider the mother of Samuel Rider deceased the forteenth of december 1695."
- [Documented] Samuel Jr. married (2) Lydia Tilden at Taunton, 14 June 1680. His will (7 Apr 1714, proved 23 Sept 1715): "as To my sons John Samuel & Benjamin and my Daughter Mercy I have done Competently for them in my life time." His Burial Hill stone: "Mr SAMUEL RYDER who decd July ye 18th 1715 about ye 85th year of his age" (Kingman no. 33). His son Samuel, b. 1657, died young.
- [Compiled, superseded] Davis (2:216) merged the two Samuels, giving Samuel Sr.'s daughters Mary (b. 1647) and Elizabeth (m. John Cole 1667) to the husband of Sarah Bartlett.
William Lehman Ashmead Bartlett and the Ellis name [Documented births; Compiled links]
- Plymouth VR: "Ellis Bartlett born June 15, 1817," son of Ellis Bartlett and Anna; and among "The children of John Bartlett 3d & Mercy his wife ... Ellis Bartlett born May 21st 1770."
- The marriage: "Mr. John BARTLETT 3rd & Mis. Mercy ELLES both of Plymouth" (2 Dec 1762).
- Mercy Ellis was baptised 6 May 1733, daughter of Samuel Ellis and Mercy Gibbs; Samuel was a son of Lt. Mordecai Ellis, son of Lt. John Ellis and Elizabeth Freeman (Pane-Joyce, citing Brownson and McLean) [Compiled].
- Davis: Ellis Bartlett (b. 1817) "m. Sophia Ashmead of Philadelphia, and had Ellis Lehman, 1844, and William Lehman Ashmead, 1846, m. Baroness Burdett Coutts." Wikipedia gives William's birth as 20 Jan 1851 and the marriage as 12 Feb 1881.
- [Inference] William L. Ashmead Bartlett (later Burdett-Coutts, MP) and Nancy (Ellis) Holbrook were both descendants of Lt. John Ellis and Elizabeth Freeman, through Mordecai and through Matthias respectively. That is the kinship behind the remark Mollie attributes to her father.
Phebe (Stephens) Ellis's ancestry is Warren on both sides of the Bartlett family, and Churchill-Pontus on her father's side, with no Doty. [Inference from the above]
9. The Doty question: what the connection actually is
Short answer. No one in this line descends from Edward Doty of the Mayflower. The family's Mayflower descents are:
- Warren, twice, through the Bartlett sisters (section 1);
- Howland and Tilley, through Lucia (Bennett) Ellis, wife of Matthias Ellis (see
Freeman_Ellis_Master_Family_Tree.md).
The Doty name touches the family in five other ways. Each is a cousin, an in-law or a neighbour, not an ancestor.
9.1 Shipmates
Edward Doty was one of the "three of London", with Richard Warren and Stephen Hopkins, in the exploring party of 6 Dec 1620 (Mourt; section 5). [Documented]
9.2 The "Mary Doty" of 1687/8: a Churchill aunt
This is the marriage Mollie gave to Eleazer Churchill.
- Who she was. Mary Churchill, b. 1 Aug 1654, was a daughter of John Churchill and Hannah Pontus. That makes her a sister of Eleazer Churchill and of John Churchill Jr.
- 1671/2. She was fined "for comitting fornication, as shee saith, with Thomas Doten". She sued him because "Thomas Doten, haueing begotten her with child, is departed the gou'ment" (PCR 5, 1672). [Documented]
- Marriage and widowhood.
- Thomas Doty (Edward's son) married her by 1675 and made his will on 4 Dec 1678, leaving all to "his wife, Mary".
- As his widow she married Henry Churchill: "Henery CHURCHILL married Mary DOTY widow 8 Feb. 1687/88" (Plymouth VR; MD 13:204). [Documented]
- Was the 1678 widow the same Mary Churchill?
- Yes, on Merrick's reading (TAG 71:114-20, 1996). She found that Thomas had one wife, and that Henry Churchill was not a son of John Churchill.
- Barclay (TAG 36:1-7, 1960) had thought Thomas married two women named Mary. [Compiled, via Anderson]
- Her place in the family. She was an aunt, not a mother, of the two Churchill women in Nancy Ellis's ancestry:
- Mary (Churchill) Stephens, through Eleazer;
- Elizabeth (Churchill) Ellis, through John Jr.
9.3 Joseph Doty and Deborah Ellis
- Joseph. Joseph Doty, Edward's son, was born at Plymouth on 30 Apr 1651 (PCR 8:12).
- The marriage. About summer 1674 he married Deborah Ellis (c. 1652-1711). She was a daughter of Lt. John Ellis and Elizabeth Freeman, and a sister of Nancy's ancestor Lt. Matthias Ellis. [Compiled: Brownson and McLean, NEHGR 119-120; Anderson, Pilgrim Migration, citing TAG 36:9-11]
- Their sons, at Sandwich. [Documented: Sandwich VR. The record names only the father.]
- "Theophilus Dotey the son of Joseph Doty was borne the 22 of febuary" 1674/5.
- "Elles Dotey the son of Joseph Dotey was borne the 16 day of aprill" 1677.
- The name Ellis supports the Ellis marriage.
- An earlier guess, now superseded. The Doty-Doten Family in America (1897) made Joseph's wives Elizabeth Warren (a guess, from the 1674 case below) and then Deborah Hatch.
- Later years. Joseph married (2) the widow Sarah Edwards at Rochester on 5 Mar 1711/12. He was ensign of the Rochester company in 1690 (PCR 6).
9.4 The accusation of October 1674
The court record, PCR 5:156 (court of 27 Oct 1674), reads:
"Joseph Doten, planter, acknowlidgeth to owe vnto our sou[eraign] lord the Kinge the sume of 80:00:00; Mr William Clarke, yeoman, of Plymouth, the sume of 40:00:00; Edward Doten, seaman, the sume of 40:00:00. The condition, that wheras the aboue bounden Joseph Doten is accused by Elizabeth Warren to haue comitted fornication with her, wherby shee is with child, if, therfore, the said Joseph Doten shall and doe appeer att the Court of his ma[jes]tie to be holden att Plymouth aforsaid the first Tusday in March next, to make further answare respecting the said fact, and not depart the said Court without lycence; that then, &c."
The transcription is from the printed text's OCR, with obvious OCR letters corrected. [Documented]
- Who stood surety. Edward Doten, seaman, was Joseph's brother.
- The accuser. Almost certainly Elizabeth Warren, born 15 Sept 1654, daughter of Nathaniel Warren and Sarah Walker, and so a granddaughter of Richard Warren (PCR 8, "A Register of the Age of some of the Children of Nathaniel Warren"). [Documented birth]
- She was the only unmarried Elizabeth Warren of the right age in 1674. Joseph Warren's daughter Elizabeth was a child, and the widow Elizabeth Warren had died in October 1673. [Inference]
- Her father Nathaniel was a brother of Mary (Warren) Bartlett, so she was a first cousin of Rebecca (Bartlett) Harlow and Sarah (Bartlett) Rider. [Inference from documented links]
- What kind of offence. Fornication meant sex between unmarried people. Anderson dates Joseph's marriage to Deborah Ellis "about summer 1674". He reasons that it was "late enough to have conceived a child with her b. 22 February 1674/5 but not so soon as to have committed adultery to conceive a child with Elizabeth Warren still unborn 27 October 1674" (citing TAG 36:9-11). [Compiled]
- On that reading, both pregnancies began in the spring of 1674, before he married.
- By the October court he was married to Deborah, and both women were expecting his children, or so Elizabeth Warren alleged.
- The outcome is not recorded.
- PCR 5's index lists only this one entry for the case.
- The 1897 Doty book says the bondsmen were "shortly released". The printed record carries "Released" in the margin at this session.
- No later court entry and no birth record for Elizabeth Warren's child have been found.
The three Elizabeths, kept apart
| Elizabeth | Who she was | Part in the story |
|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth (Walker) Warren | Richard Warren's widow | Died 2 Oct 1673, a year before the case. Not involved. |
| Elizabeth (Freeman) Ellis | Widow of Lt. John Ellis; Deborah's mother | Joseph Doty's mother-in-law. In July 1680 "Elizabeth Ellis, widdow, and Joseph Dotey, of Sandwich" sued Lt. Ephraim Morton together over the Sepecan lands (see Freeman_Ellis_Line_Research.md). |
| Elizabeth Warren (b. 1654) | Nathaniel Warren's daughter, Richard's granddaughter | The accuser. |
9.5 James Warren and Sarah Doty
- The marriage. James Warren (b. 7 Nov 1665) was the youngest son of Nathaniel Warren and Sarah Walker, and a brother of the accuser. He married Sarah Doty (b. 9 June 1666) at Plymouth on 21 June 1687. She was the eldest daughter of Edward Doty Jr. and Sarah Faunce.
- The Doty land. James bought out the other Doty heirs and so acquired Edward Doty's Plymouth land (Doty-Doten Family, 1897). [Compiled from records]
- Later family. The patriot James Warren (1726-1808), husband of Mercy Otis Warren, came from this marriage. [Compiled; the intermediate generation was not checked here]
9.6 Other Doty marriages around the family
- Thomas Doty and Mercy Ellis. "The marriage between Thomas Doty of Plimouth and Mercy Ellis of Sandwich was Solemnized ... Apil: 18th 1705" (Sandwich VR). Mercy was a daughter of Lt. Matthias Ellis, and so a sister of Capt. Joel Ellis. [Documented]
- Sylvanus Stephens. Phebe (Stephens) Ellis's brother Sylvanus married Betsey, widow of a Doten. Davis gives the husband as James on one page and Joseph on another. [Compiled]
10. Records to get, and next steps
- TAG 78 (2003): 81-86 and 274-75 (Davies), for the full Walker will text and the Dorothy (Walker) Adams addendum. The first is at http://www.craigrich.net/TAG_Warren.pdf.
- Augustine Walker's will, Essex Record Office D/ABW 41/186, for an image (ERO's online catalogue and image service).
- Doree, The Parish Register and Tithing Book of Thomas Hassall of Amwell (Hertfordshire Record Society 5, 1989), pp. 94 and 157, for the 1610 marriage and Augustine's burial entry.
- Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, vol. 18 (Richard Warren), parts 1-3 (GSMD), for the Bartlett, Harlow and Rider generations as the Society accepts them. Needed for any Mayflower Society application.
- Hunt, TAG 35 (1959): 214, and Prindle, TAG 55 (1979): 164-66, on Robert Bartlett's possible Puddletown, Dorset, origin.
- All Hallows (All Saints) Northampton parish registers (Northamptonshire Archives; FamilySearch or Findmypast), for the Rider baptisms and the 1628 Rider-Gamlett marriage reported by Roser.
- Plymouth Colony Deeds for the 1649 Church-to-Bartlett sale ("a red ox called Mouse") and the 1673 deed to Joseph Bartlett.
Sources
Primary records and published transcripts
- Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vols 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 11-12: https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0102newp ; https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0304newp ; https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0506newp ; https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0708newp ; https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo1112newp
- Plymouth Church Records 1620-1859 (CSM 22): https://archive.org/details/plymouthchurchre22firs
- Records of the Town of Plymouth, vol. 1: https://archive.org/details/cu31924092203680
- Mourt's Relation (1622), Dexter ed. 1865: https://archive.org/details/mourtsrelationo00dextgoog
- Nathaniel Morton, New-Englands Memoriall (1669): https://archive.org/details/newenglandsmemor00mort_0
- The Mayflower Descendant, vols 11-12 (Bowman on the Riders and on Sgt. William Harlow): https://archive.org/details/mayflowerdescendv1112mass ; vols 15-16: https://archive.org/details/mayflowerdescendv1516mass
- NEHGR 79 (1925): 316, the Ryder certificate: https://archive.org/details/newenglandhistor7919unse
- Kingman, Epitaphs from Burial Hill (1892): https://archive.org/details/epitaphsfromburi00king_0 ; Drew, Burial Hill: https://archive.org/details/burialhillplymou00drew
- Visitation of Devon 1620 (Harleian Soc. 6): https://archive.org/details/visitationofcoun06colbrich
- Foster, London Marriage Licences (1887): https://archive.org/details/londonmarriageli00fost
- Raikes, Ancient Vellum Book of the Honourable Artillery Company (1890): https://archive.org/details/ancientvellumbo00walegoog
Compiled
- Edward J. Davies, "The Marriage of Richard1 Warren of the Mayflower," TAG 78 (2003): 81-86: http://www.craigrich.net/TAG_Warren.pdf
- Roebling, NEHGR 55 (1901): 70-78: https://archive.org/details/newenglandhistorv55wate
- Hunt, TAG 35 (1959): 214: https://archive.org/details/sim_american-genealogist_1959-10_35_4
- Charles Edward Banks, English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers (1929): https://archive.org/details/englishancestryh00bank
- R. C. Anderson, The Pilgrim Migration (2004), Warren and Doty sketches: https://mayflower.americanancestors.org/node/284 ; https://mayflower.americanancestors.org/node/246
- Caleb Johnson, MayflowerHistory.com, Richard Warren: https://mayflowerhistory.com/warren/
- GSMD, Richard Warren profile: https://themayflowersociety.org/?p=4757 ; Silver Books guide: https://themayflowersociety.org/?p=4092
- Pilgrim Hall Museum: https://pilgrimhall.org/richard_elizabeth_warren.htm ; https://www.pilgrimhall.org/robert-mary-warren-bartlett/
- Mayflower 400 UK, "Richard Warren" (Feb 2020): https://mayflower400uk.org/education/who-were-the-pilgrims/2020/february/richard-warren
- The Churchill Family in America (1904): https://archive.org/details/churchillfamilyi01chur
- The Doty-Doten Family in America (1897): https://archive.org/details/dotydotenfamilyi00doty
- W. T. Davis, Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth (1899): https://archive.org/details/ancientlandmarks1899davi
- WikiTree: Warren-66, Walker-1209, Walker-1210, Walker-53699, Bartlett-297, Churchill-297, Bryant-59 (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/ + ID)
- Pane-Joyce Genealogy: https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr03/rr03_157.html (Rider) ; https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr06/rr06_330.html (Mercy Ellis Bartlett)
- L. W. Throop, California Mayflower Quarterly 46-48 (2022-24) (camayflower.org)
- Mollie Frances (Holbrook) Pfeiffer, Holbrook family typescript, scans
Holbrook_3.pdfandHolbrook_4.pdf(family copy)
# Warren and Bartlett Lines: Research Findings, with Mollie's Chapter CheckedWorking file, 1 October 2026.**Scope:** Richard Warren of the *Mayflower* and his wife Elizabeth (Walker) Warren; their daughter Mary (Warren) Bartlett and her husband Robert Bartlett; and the Harlow, Rider and Stephens generations that carry the Warren descent to Phebe (Stephens) Ellis and her daughter Nancy (Ellis) Holbrook. It also checks, claim by claim, the "Ellis-Warren Branch" and allied chapters of Mollie Frances (Holbrook) Pfeiffer's Holbrook family typescript (scans `Holbrook_3.pdf` and `Holbrook_4.pdf`).**Companion files:** `Freeman_Ellis_Master_Family_Tree.md` (Part Four F holds these families as tree entries); `Freeman_Ellis_Anecdotes.md` (section 13 holds the Warren, Bartlett, Harlow and Rider incidents); `Freeman_Ellis_Line_Research.md`.**Evidence tiers.** [Documented] a primary record, or a published transcript or abstract of one. [Compiled] a secondary history or genealogy. [Tradition] family or local lore with no source. [Inference] our own reasoning. Quotations keep the original spelling.**Short citations.** PCR = *Records of the Colony of New Plymouth* (Shurtleff and Pulsifer), volume:page. MD = *The Mayflower Descendant*. TAG = *The American Genealogist*. NEHGR = *New England Historical and Genealogical Register*. CSM 22 = *Plymouth Church Records 1620-1859*, Colonial Society of Massachusetts Publications 22 (1920). GSMD = General Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mollie = Mollie Frances (Holbrook) Pfeiffer, Holbrook family typescript (undated), cited by scan file and scan page, with the typescript's own page number where legible.---## 1. The line of descentTwo lines run from Robert Bartlett and Mary Warren to Phebe Harlow, through two Bartlett sisters. Every link from Phebe Harlow up to Rebecca and Sarah Bartlett is in the Plymouth records.| Gen. | Line through Rebecca Bartlett | Line through Sarah Bartlett | Evidence for the link ||---|---|---|---|| 1 | **Richard Warren** (*Mayflower* 1620; d. 1628) m. 14 Apr 1610, Great Amwell, Herts, **Elizabeth Walker** (bapt. Baldock, Herts, Sept 1583; d. Plymouth 2 Oct 1673) | same | Marriage: Great Amwell register [Documented]. Identification with the passengers: Davies, TAG 78 (2003) [Compiled, now accepted] || 2 | **Mary Warren** (b. c. 1610; d. 27 Mar 1683 "in her 73d yeare") m. c. 1629 **Robert Bartlett** (*Anne* 1623; d. Sept 1676) | same | Mary named in her grandfather Augustine Walker's will, 1613; in the 1627 cattle division with her parents (PCR 12:12); her mother's purchaser order of 1636/7 names "Robert Bartlett" among the "sonnes in law" (PCR 1:54) [Documented] || 3 | **Rebecca Bartlett** m. 20 Dec 1649 **Sgt. William Harlow** (c. 1624/5-1691) | **Sarah Bartlett** m. 23 Dec 1656 **Samuel Rider Jr.** (c. 1630-1715) | Marriages in PCR 8; Rebecca and Sarah as daughters of Robert and Mary: standard in the Warren genealogies [Compiled]. The 1690/1 whale case links the families (section 8) || 4 | **Samuel Harlow** (b. 27 Jan 1652/3) m. (2) **Hannah** | **John Rider** (b. c. 1664) m. **Hannah (Barnes?)** | Samuel's birth names his father (PCR 8:15) and falls within the Bartlett marriage [Documented, Inference]. John: deposed March 1690/1 "aged 26 yeares or there abouts," before his father's 1680 second marriage, and in 1718 sold land "which I Bought of my Father Saml Rider Deceased" (MD 11) [Documented] || 5 | **William Harlow** (b. 26 July 1692; d. 11 Apr 1751) | **Mercy Rider** (b. 14 Nov 1696; d. 21 Jan 1772) | Births in Plymouth VR to "Samuel Harlow & Hannah" and to "John Rider and Hannah" [Documented] || 5 | William and Mercy m. 24 Feb 1714/15, Plymouth | | Plymouth VR [Documented] || 6 | **Phebe Harlow** (b. 21 Oct 1728) m. c. 1747 **Edward Stephens Jr.** (1721-1788) | | Plymouth VR birth to "William Harlow Jr. & Marsey" [Documented] || 7 | **Phebe Stephens** (d. 24 Nov 1789) m. 23 May 1773 **George Ellis** (b. 1747) | | Davis 2:252 [Compiled]; Stephens estate sale to George Ellis; the 1805 quitclaim "from our Mother Phebe Ellis Decd who was formerly Phebe Stephens" [Documented] || 8 | **Nancy Ellis** (1781-1864) m. (2) 1818 **Gideon Holbrook** | | See `Freeman_Ellis_Line_Research.md`, section 13.7 [Documented] || 9 | **Richard Blackmer Holbrook Sr.** (1821-1894) | | Gideon's and Nancy's wills [Documented] |**[Inference]** Counting Richard Warren as generation 1, Richard B. Holbrook Sr. is generation 9, Richard B. Holbrook Jr. 10, Richard Clifford Holbrook 11, and Frances Fairchild Holbrook 12.**[Compiled]** For a GSMD (Mayflower Society) application, the Society's "Silver Book," *Mayflower Families Through Five Generations*, vol. 18 (Richard Warren), carries the Warren descendants to the fifth generation, which would include William Harlow and Mercy Rider. An applicant then documents each later generation. The evidence gathered in these files covers every step from Phebe Harlow to Richard B. Holbrook Sr.; the steps below him are in the Holbrook and Collins-Reed files.---## 2. Richard Warren in England### What is proven- **[Documented]** "The parish registers of Great Amwell in Hertfordshire show that a Richard Warren married an Elizabeth Walker on 14 April 1610" (Edward J. Davies, "The Marriage of Richard1 Warren of the Mayflower," TAG 78 (April 2003): 81-86, at 82). The register is printed in S. G. Doree, ed., *The Parish Register and Tithing Book of Thomas Hassall of Amwell*, Hertfordshire Record Society 5 (1989), p. 157.- **[Documented]** The will of Augustine Walker of Great Amwell, yeoman, 19 April 1613 (Court of the Bishop of London's Commissary for Essex and Herts; Essex Record Office D/ABW 41/186), printed in full by Davies (TAG 78:85-86): "I give & bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth Warren wife of Richard Warren Sixteene pounds of lawefull money of England, and unto her three Children Marey, Ann and Sarey Warren Fower pounds ... to be payde unto the saide Richard Warren to the use of the saide child[ren]."- **[Compiled]** Davies's case that this couple is the *Mayflower* couple:- the three granddaughters, "Marey, Ann and Sarey," are the passenger's first three daughters, in the same order as in the 1627 cattle division and in Nathaniel Warren's will;- Mary (Warren) Bartlett died 27 Mar 1683 "in her 73d yeare" (CSM 22:250), so she was born about 1610, right after the April 1610 marriage;- Ann (Warren) Little deposed on 6 June 1672 "aged sixty yeares or therabouts" (MD 2:178), so she was born about 1612;- "As far as is known, there is nothing inconsistent with the identification."- **[Compiled]** The identification is now the accepted one. Caleb Johnson (MayflowerHistory.com), Robert Charles Anderson (*The Pilgrim Migration*, 2004), the GSMD's current Warren profile and Pilgrim Hall all follow it. The marriage itself had been known before 2002; Augustine Walker's will, which Davies found and posted online in December 2002, is what tied it to the passengers.- **[Documented]** Mourt's *Relation* (London, 1622) calls Warren one of "three of London" in the exploring party of 6 Dec 1620 (section 5). This places him in London by 1620. It does not say he was born there.### What is not known- **His birth and parents.** No baptism has been proven. Estimates: "Hertfordshire, about 1585" (Johnson; GSMD); "by about 1578" (Anderson, *Pilgrim Migration*). [Compiled]- **Candidate origins that have been proposed** (none proven):| Proposal | Who proposed it | Status ||---|---|---|| A Warren family "in the vicinity of Therfield," Herts | Caleb Johnson, *The Mayflower and Her Passengers* (2006), p. 244; repeated by Mayflower 400 UK (2020) | A suggestion, no record link [Inference] || Richard bapt. St Albans 12 Apr 1585 | Earlier suggestion by Johnson | **Rejected.** That man married Parnel Branch at St Albans in 1611/12, had children there 1614-22, and was buried there 17 Feb 1638 (Greg Volk, 2021, cited on WikiTree) || Richard bapt. Rickmansworth 12 Aug 1576, son of William | WikiTree contributors | Speculation only || Richard bapt. St Peter Cornhill, London, 24 Jan 1579/80, son of John Warren, armorer | L. W. Throop, *California Mayflower Quarterly* 46(4), 2022 | **Rejected.** The journal printed a disclaimer: this man was a freeman of the Cutlers, buried at St Peter Cornhill 16 Nov 1624 || Richard bapt. Newport, Essex, 22 Sept 1583, son of Richard and Joan (Hadsley) Warren; and a Richard Warren made free of the Drapers' Company c. 14 Feb 1609/10 | Throop, *CMQ* 47(2), 2023; 47(4), 2023; 48(3), 2024 | Conjecture. The draper idea is suggestive because Augustine Walker's overseer, Simon Adams, was a London draper, but nothing ties the draper to Elizabeth. These are newsletter articles, not peer-reviewed |- **[Compiled]** Y-DNA of tested male-line descendants: haplogroup E-M35 (subclade E-FTC19215) (MayflowerHistory.com; FTDNA Warren project, per WikiTree). This tests the American line; it does not yet point to an English family.### What has been rejected- **"Elizabeth Jouatt (Juatt, Ivatt), widow of Marsh," and the Devon pedigree.** A Warren pedigree added in a later hand to *The Visitation of Devon 1620* (Harleian Society 6, 1872, pp. 299-300), headed "John Warren of Hedbury in the par. of Ashburton," has "Richard Warren of Greenwich in Kent" marrying "Eliz. d. Ivatt & relict of Marsh." J. C. Warren's *Genealogy of Warren* (1854) applied this to the passenger. It was rejected by John Ward Dean and J. Granville Leach (NEHGR 55 (1901): 71), by G. E. McCracken (TAG 52 (1976): 88-90), and by the TAG editors (78:81, 2003). A London licence of 20 Aug 1629 shows Elizabeth Ivatt, "spinster, 15," marrying Francis March, so the Greenwich Richard's wife was a child in 1620. [Documented sources; the identification is rejected]- **Descent from the Norman Earls de Warenne.** No modern authority supports it (Davies, Anderson, Johnson, GSMD). [Tradition, unsupported]- **Banks's theory that Elizabeth was a second wife and not the daughters' mother.** The 1613 will calls Mary, Ann and Sarah "her three Children." Davies reads Bradford's wording as separating children born before and after the emigration. [Rejected]---## 3. Elizabeth (Walker) Warren and the Walkers of Great Amwell and Baldock- **[Documented]** Baptised at Baldock, Herts, September 1583: "Elizabeth daughter of Augustine Walker." The day cannot be read because of tight binding (Davies, TAG 78:84, from the Baldock register; transcription on WikiTree Walker-1209/1210 from the Findmypast image).- **[Inference]** Born September 1583, she was 90 at her death in October 1673, which fits the colony record's "aged aboue 90 yeares."- **[Documented]** Her father, Augustine Walker:- Will 19 April 1613: "I Augustine Walker of much Amwell in the Com of Herts: yeoma[n]." Signed by mark. Davies notes there is "no date of probate on the will or in the act book."- Buried at Great Amwell 18 Aug 1614 as "Austen Wallkar of Amwell Streete an owld man" (Doree, p. 94).- The will names: "my daughter Elizabeth Warren wife of Richard Warren" and her three children; Ann, wife of Thomas Holland, with children Thomas, John, Frauncis and one "now conceyved" (Ann m. Thomas Holland at Great Amwell 8 June 1601); "my daughter Mary Johnson"; and Simon and Dorothy, children of "Symon Adams Citizen & drap[er] of London," including "a Gymmoll-Ringe of gold wch was her mothers." Simon Adams the elder was his overseer.- Elizabeth's share: £16 and her children's £4, and half of the residue after the death of Augustine's wife Mary.- **[Documented, with Davies's inference]** Augustine's wife at his death was Mary (Stringer), married at Great Amwell 27 June 1597, buried 26 Dec 1614; her will (23 Dec 1614, proved 10 Jan 1614/15, PCC 3 Rudd) mentions "legacies of my husband Augustine Wallkar lately deceased." Since Elizabeth was born in 1583 and Dorothy in 1573, Davies concludes Mary "was evidently not the mother of Elizabeth." **Elizabeth's mother's name is unknown.**- **[Compiled from registers]** Elizabeth's sister Dorothy: bapt. Baldock Aug 1573, "Doratie daughter of Augustine Walker"; m. (1) Edward Grave, Great Amwell, 1 Sept 1595; m. (2) Simon Adams, St Martin Ludgate, 23 Sept 1599; bur. St Margaret Moses, London, 6 Mar 1605/6 (WikiTree Walker-53699; TAG 78:274-75, Oct 2003, not read).- **[Documented, context]** Great Amwell lies on the River Lea and the Old North Road and had close ties to London. In 1603 the register notes "Susan Addams, a maiden borne in Amwell dwellinge at London died heere at Augustine Wallkar's" (Davies).- **[Inference]** Augustine's family therefore moved from Baldock (daughters baptised there in 1573 and 1583) to Great Amwell by 1597, and had London connections through the Adams marriage. Nothing earlier is known: WikiTree rejects a link to an Augustine baptised at Southam, Warwickshire, in 1564, since this Augustine had a child in 1573.- **[Compiled]** mtDNA of matrilineal descendants of Elizabeth: H1j10a (FTDNA Mayflower project, five testers, per WikiTree).---## 4. The Warren childrenNo English baptism has been found for any of the daughters, at Great Amwell or elsewhere. "No baptisms of any children of this couple are recorded in the Great Amwell parish registers" (Davies, TAG 78:82).| Child | Birth | Marriage | Death | Source ||---|---|---|---|---|| **Mary** | c. 1610, England | c. 1629, Robert Bartlett | 27 Mar 1683, "in her 73d yeare" | CSM 22:250 [Documented]; marriage date estimated [Inference] || Ann(a) | c. 1612, England | 19 Apr 1633, Thomas Little ("Thomas Little & Ann Warren married. 19 April," PCR 1:13) | after 1672 | MD 2:178; PCR [Documented] || Sarah | by 1613, England | 28 Mar 1634, John Cooke Jr. | | named in the 1613 will [Documented] || Elizabeth | c. 1615, England | by Mar 1635/6, Richard Church | | PCR [Documented]; birth estimated || Abigail | c. 1618/19, England | 8 or 9 Nov 1639, Anthony Snow | | PCR [Documented]; birth estimated || Nathaniel | c. 1624, Plymouth | 19 Nov 1645, Sarah Walker | 1667 | deposed 15 Oct 1661 aged about 37 [Documented] || Joseph | by 1627, Plymouth | c. 1653, Priscilla Faunce | c. 1689 | in the 1627 cattle division [Documented] |- **[Compiled]** Banks (1929, p. 92) "estimated" Mary 1606, Elizabeth 1608, Anne 1612, Sarah 1614, Abigail 1616. Mollie's "Mary born 1606" comes from this guess. It conflicts with the 1610 marriage, Mary's age at death, and the order of names in the will.- **[Documented]** Bradford, writing about 1651: "Mr. Richard Warren lived some -4- or -5- years, and had his wife come over to him, by whom he had -2- sons before [he] dyed; and one of them is maryed, and hath -2- children. So his increase is -4-. But he had -5- doughters more came over with his wife, who are all maried, and living, and have many children" (Bradford, *History*, Ford ed. 1912, 2:407).- **[Compiled]** The GSMD counts 56 grandchildren. Mollie's "75 grandchildren" is in no contemporary record.---## 5. Richard and Elizabeth in Plymouth**Richard (1620-1628)**- **[Documented]** Signed the Mayflower Compact; twelfth in Nathaniel Morton's 1669 list.- **[Documented]** Bradford's passenger list: "Mr. Richard Warren; but his wife and children were lefte behind, and came afterwards." The "Mr." marks him as a man of standing.- **[Documented]** Mourt's *Relation* (1622), on the exploring party of Wednesday 6 Dec 1620, the expedition of the "First Encounter": "So ten of our men were appointed ... to wit, Captaine Standish, Maister Carver, William Bradford, Edward Winslowe, John Tilley, Edward Tilley, John Houland, and three of London, Richard Warren, Steeuen Hopkins, and Edward [Doten]" (Dexter ed. 1865, p. 44). Note that the party included John Howland and John Tilley, who are also ancestors through Lucy (Bennett) Ellis.- **[Documented]** 1623 land division (PCR 12:4-6): "Richard Warren" in the *Mayflower* list; "Richard Waren 5" in the *Anne* list, "on the other side of the towne towards the eele-riuer." **[Inference]** The five acres were for his wife and five daughters, who came on the *Anne*.- **[Documented]** Cattle division, 22 May 1627 (PCR 12:12, checked): "The ninth lot fell to Richard Warren & his companie Joyned wth him his wife Elizabeth Warren, Nathaniell Warren, Joseph Warren, Mary Warren, Anna Warren, Sara Warren, Elizabeth Warren, Abigail Warren ... To this lott fell one of the 4 black Heyfers that came in the Jacob caled the smooth horned Heyfer and two shee goats."- **[Documented]** Death: Nathaniel Morton, *New-Englands Memoriall* (1669), under 1628: "This Year died Mr. Richard Warren, who hath been mentioned before in this Book, and was an usefull Instrument, and during his life bare a deep share in the Difficulties and Troubles of the first Settlement of the Plantation of New-Plimouth." This is the only record of his death. Bradford's "some 4 or 5 years" would put it earlier; the 1627 cattle list shows him alive in May 1627.- **[Tradition]** The phrase "grave Richard Warren ... a man of integrity, justice and uprightness, of piety and serious religion," which Mollie quotes, was printed by Roebling (NEHGR 55, 1901) as from a "cotemporaneous authority." It is not in Morton's 1669 text.**Elizabeth as a widow (1628-1673)** [all Documented]- 1631: Mary Ring's will: "I give unto mrs Warren one woodden cupp with a foote as a token of my love" (MD 1:29-30).- 1633, 1634: taxed as "Widow Warren," 12s and 9s (PCR 1:10, 27).- 1 July 1633: "Mrs Warren & Robt Bartlet mow where they did last yeare" (PCR 1:15), the first record pairing her with Robert Bartlett.- 1635: her servant Thomas Williams was accused "for speaking proiane & blasphemous speeches against ye majestie of God": "ther being some discention betweene him & his dame, shee, after other things, exhorted him to fear God & doe his duty; he answered, he neither feared God, nor the diuell." The court, judging it "spoken in passion & distemper," let him go with a reproof on his "humble acknowledgmente of his offence" (PCR 1:35; checked).- 1635/6: Thomas Clarke sued her over his boat, borrowed and lost in the Eel River in a great storm; the jury acquitted her but allowed him 30s (PCR 1:36).- 7 Mar 1636/7: "Elizabeth Warren, widdow, the relict of Mr Richard Warren, deceased, shalbe entred, and stand, and bee purchaser instead of her said husband, as well because that (hee dying before he had pformed the said bargaine) the said Elizabeth pformed the same after his decease, as also for the establishing of the lotts of land giuen formly by her vnto her sonnes in law, Richard Church, Robert Bartlett, and Thomas Little, in marriage wth their wiues, her daughters" (PCR 1:54; checked). The "bargain" was the 1626/7 agreement by which the Plymouth "Purchasers" bought out the London Adventurers' interest in the colony. She is listed as "Elizabeth Warren, widdow" among the Purchasers (PCR 2:177).- 1644: Stephen Hopkins's will mentions his "great Bull wch is now in the hands of mris Warren" (MD 2:12).- 1652/3: "Mis Warren one whole share" in the Dartmouth purchase (MD 4:185-88).- 11 June 1653: Bradford, Prence, Standish and Willett arbitrated a land dispute between her, her son Nathaniel and Mrs Jane Collier (MD 2:64; 3:141-42).- 1661: owned seven horses (Plymouth Town Records 1:132, per Mollie) [Compiled, not checked].- Death, PCR 8:35 (checked): "Mistris Elizabeth Warren, an aged widdow, aged aboue 90 yeares, deceased on the second of October, 1673, whoe, haueing liued a godly life, came to her graue as a shoke of corn fully ripe. Shee was honorably buried on the 24th of October aforsaid."- 4 Mar 1673/4: Mary Bartlett acknowledged "full satisfaction" from her mother's estate, and the rest was settled on Joseph Warren (PCR 5:139-40).---## 6. Robert Bartlett (c. 1603-1676)- **[Documented]** Came on the *Anne*, 1623: "Robt Bartlet one acre" in the 1623 division (PCR 12:6).- **[Documented]** 22 May 1627: in Francis Eaton's tenth lot of the cattle division, unmarried.- **[Documented]** Married Mary Warren after May 1627, probably about 1629 [Inference from the ages of their children]. First record together: the 1633 mowing order above; first explicit statement: the 1636/7 purchaser order.- **[Documented]** Freeman 1633. In a deed of gift of 14 July 1673 to his son Joseph he is "Robert Bartlett, of the Towne of Plymouth ... wine Cooper" (Plymouth Colony Deeds 3:301, per WikiTree).- **[Documented]** 1660: "Robert Bartlett appeered, being summoned to answare for speakeing contemptuously of the ordinance of singing of psalmes, and was convict of the fact, and did inpart acknowlidg his euill therin, promising that hee would bee warned of soe doeing for the future, expressing these words, that hee hoped it should bee a warning to him" (PCR 3:188; checked).- **[Documented, via Mollie]** 19 April 1649: his brother-in-law Richard Church sold him a house and land at Eel River for £25, payable partly "in a red ox called 'Mouse'" and partly in goods "at Mr. Paddy's" (Mollie, typescript p. 39, citing the colony deeds) [Compiled; not checked against PCR 12]. Mr. Paddy is William Paddy, Edmund Freeman's son-in-law.- **[Documented]** Death: a nuncupative will of 19 Sept 1676; inventory exhibited 29 Oct 1676 "on the oath of Mary Bartlett widdow," £170 16s 6d (Plymouth Colony Wills 3:2:87).- **English origin: unknown.**- John G. Hunt, "Possible Origin of Robert Bartlett of Plymouth," TAG 35 (Oct 1959): 214, proposed the Robert baptised at Puddletown, Dorset, 27 April or 27 May 1603, son of Robert and Alice (Barker). Hunt called it "an excellent clue" but said "further evidence should be sought before accepting it as a certainty." Paul W. Prindle, "The Probable Ancestry of Robert Bartlett of Plymouth," TAG 55 (1979): 164-66, followed the same line. [Compiled; unproven]- Banks (1929, p. 138) suggested St Botolph Aldgate, Shoreditch or Whitechapel only because Bartlett married Mary Warren. [Compiled guess]- Mollie's link to the Bartelots of Stopham, Sussex, descended from "Adam Bartelot" who "came with the Conqueror," has no published evidence. [Tradition]- Bartlett Y-DNA (FTDNA Bartlett project): R1b; descendants of two of Robert's sons match, which confirms the American line. [Compiled]---## 7. Mollie's chapter, claim by claim### The Warrens (Holbrook_3.pdf scan pp. 1, 3, 6, 9-12; typescript pp. 1-3, 33-36)| Mollie says | Finding | Tier ||---|---|---|| Richard Warren "born probably in London"; "Richard Warren, Merchant of London" | Birthplace unknown. "Of London" is Mourt's (1622), meaning residence. "Merchant" is Banks's word, wrongly attributed to Mourt. Current estimates: Hertfordshire, c. 1578-1585 | Not supported as stated || Married "widow Elizabeth (Jewett)" | Rejected since 1901. She was Elizabeth Walker, married 14 Apr 1610 at Great Amwell, daughter of Augustine Walker | Corrected [Documented] || A Richard Warren, haberdasher, licensed to marry Elizabeth Evans at St Leonard Shoreditch, 1592/3; a Richard Warren in the Honourable Artillery Company, 1612 | Both records exist (Foster, *London Marriage Licences*; the HAC *Vellum Book*, 1612). Banks offered them only as possibilities. The 1592/3 groom cannot be ours now that the 1610 marriage is known; the 1612 HAC man is unidentified | Records real; identification not supported || Possible descent from the Earls de Warenne | No evidence | [Tradition] || Mary "born 1606 in England" | About 1610 (her age at death; the 1610 marriage) | Corrected || Children Mary, Ann (m. Thomas Little), Sarah (m. John Cooke), Elizabeth (m. Richard Church), Abigail (m. Anthony Snow), Nathaniel and Joseph born in Plymouth | Correct | [Documented] || Warren of the London "Pilgrim area" of Aldgate, Heneage House, St Botolph's (Banks) | Banks's own theory; no Warren record behind it. Of Banks's "London" leaders, Winslow is now placed at Droitwich, Hopkins at Upper Clatford, Hants, and Allerton probably at East Bergholt, Suffolk | Not supported || Richard died 1628 (handwritten in her table) | Correct (Morton, 1669) | [Documented] || Elizabeth died 2 Oct 1673 in her 91st year, "having lived to see 75 grandchildren" | Date correct; the record says "aged aboue 90 yeares"; 75 grandchildren has no source (GSMD counts 56). Mollie's other date, "12 Feb 1673," has no support | Date [Documented]; count unsupported || Widow Warren's servant Thomas Williams; the boat lost in the Eel River storm; Mary Ring's wooden cup; the 1640 enlargement of lots for Church, Bartlett, Little and Mrs Warren; the Clifford House at Plymouth on "the original Warren Farm" | The first three are confirmed (section 5). The 1640 grant and the Warren Farm tradition were not checked | [Documented] / not checked |### The Bartletts (Holbrook_3.pdf scan pp. 13-16; typescript pp. 37-39)| Mollie says | Finding ||---|---|| Robert Bartlett (1603-1676) came on the *Anne* 1623 | Correct [Documented]. The 1603 birth is the Puddletown candidate's baptism, unproven || Met Mary Warren in Aldgate (Banks) | Speculation || Descended from the Bartelots of Stopham, Sussex | No evidence [Tradition] || "May have been a cooper" | Confirmed: "wine Cooper" in his 1673 deed [Documented] || Freeman 1633; on the 1633-34 tax lists; jury and highway service; earliest cattle-mark entry | Consistent with PCR; not each checked || 1660 court appearance for speaking contemptuously of psalm singing | Confirmed (PCR 3:188) [Documented] || Died between 19 and 29 Sept 1676 | Consistent (nuncupative will 19 Sept; inventory 29 Oct) || William L. Ashmead Bartlett, who married Baroness Burdett-Coutts in 1881, was the son of Ellis Bartlett, born at South Plymouth (Manomet), and "the compiler's father, Richard B. Holbrook ... born in Manomet 1821, ... said that the young man ... was a relative, whose father he had known in his youth" | The family connection is correct (section 8). Ellis Bartlett was born 15 June 1817, not 1814. The "Ellis" in that family comes from Mercy Ellis, a descendant of John Ellis and Elizabeth Freeman. R. B. Holbrook's remark is family tradition [Tradition] |### The Harlows (Holbrook_3.pdf scan pp. 17-23; typescript pp. 40-45)| Mollie says | Finding ||---|---|| William Harlow b. 1624, d. 1691, m. Rebecca Bartlett 1649 | Correct: d. 25 Aug 1691 "in his 67th yeare" [Documented] || Nathaniel Morton called "my loving kinsman Seargent William Harlow" and remembered "my kinsman Nathaniel Harlow," whom he reared | Confirmed in substance (Morton's will, 22 Apr 1685, via Stratton) [Compiled]. In 1667 Morton and his wife took Harlow's son Nathaniel, "being now neare two yeares and an half old," to raise to 21 (PCR 5) [Documented]. The kinship came through Harlow's second wife, Mary Faunce, Morton's niece || The selectmen's 1692 complaint against Samuel Rider and William Harlow Jr. over a drift whale; Harlow appointed an attorney "that he might not prosecute his own son" | The whale case is real but dated 1690/1. On 10 Mar 1690/1 the town chose others to act "seing serjant harlow & Joseph Bartlet did somwhat decline the Thing" (Plymouth Town Records 1:200) [Documented]. Mollie's naming of the defendants was not found in a record || "Will. Harlow did in such a manner express himself, murmuring at the preaching" (Plymouth Church Records p. 254, 1683); he "finally became a Quaker" | The church record is real: 9 Mar 1683/4, the first day in the new meetinghouse, CSM 22:254. It does not say which William. **No evidence that either William Harlow became a Quaker**; the sergeant died a church member in 1691 (CSM 22:271) || Fined once, for three unringed hogs | Not checked || Built the Harlow house with the timbers of the Pilgrim fort after King Philip's War | Tradition from Thacher and Davis; a 1996 assessment dates the house 1700 or later [Compiled] || Capt. Edward Harlow (Popham colony 1607; the 1611 voyage that seized Epenow) may have been his father or kinsman | No evidence [Tradition] || Samuel Harlow and his wife Hannah "both died on the same day, March 22, 1734/5" | Not supported. The Plymouth VR leaves both their death dates blank; the date belongs to the next line (Mary Morton). Samuel was dead by 1728 || William Harlow (b. 1692) and Mercy Rider are buried on Burial Hill | Confirmed: "Here lies Buried Mr. William Harlow who Decd April ye 11th 1751 in ye 59th year of his age"; "Here lies buried Mrs Marcy Harlow Widow to Mr William Harlow who decd Janury 21st 1772, in ye 77th year of her Age" (Kingman nos. 242, 405) [Documented] |### The Riders (Holbrook_3.pdf scan pp. 24-26; typescript pp. 46-47)| Mollie says | Finding ||---|---|| Samuel Rider (1), in Yarmouth 1643, married Sarah Bartlett in 1656 | **One generation off.** There were two Samuels. Sarah Bartlett married **Samuel Rider Jr.** (d. 18 July 1715 "about ye 85th year of his age"), son of Samuel Rider Sr. of Yarmouth (will 20 Nov 1679) and Anne (d. 14 Dec 1695). Samuel Sr.'s wife Anne outlived him, so he cannot be Sarah's husband (Bowman, MD 11 (1909): 49-52, 182-187) [Documented] || "Samuel Rider came from Northampton, England," per a certificate printed in NEHGR, July 1925, p. 310 | Confirmed, at NEHGR 79 (1925): **316**. See section 8 [Documented] || John Rider b. 1663, m. Hannah; children including Mercy b. 1696 | Correct in substance; John was born c. 1664 [Documented] || A Rider house later owned by Naaman Holbrook and occupied by Gideon Holbrook at Manomet | Holbrook matter; left to the Holbrook files |### The Stephenses (Holbrook_4.pdf scan pp. 1-4; typescript pp. 48-50)| Mollie says | Finding ||---|---|| Edward Stephens b. 1680, d. 30 July 1756; m. 1708 Mary Churchill, d. 25 Jan 1723 | Confirmed by Burial Hill: Edward "Decd July ye 30th 1756 in the 77th year of his age"; Mary "decesd Jany ye 25th 1723-4 in ye 35th year of her age" (Kingman nos. 275, 60) [Documented]. Mary's year is 1723/4 || Edward Stephens Jr. b. 1721, d. 9 Apr 1788; m. Phebe Harlow 1747; "resided at Carver" | Death confirmed: "died April 9th 1788 in ye 66th year of his age" (Kingman no. 567) [Documented]. Carver fits their son Edward, not Edward Jr. and Phebe || Phebe (Stephens) Ellis died 24 Nov 1789 (scan p. 6) or 24 Dec 1789 (Holbrook_4 scan p. 1) | **24 Nov 1789** is right ("George Ellis's Wife," CSM 22:417); the "24" under December belongs to another entry || George Ellis "b. Jan 21, 1749" (scan p. 6); Nancy "b. 1781" | George's date is not supported; the Middleborough record gives 10 May 1747 [Documented]. Nancy's 1781 agrees with her age at death || Children of George and Phebe: Sarah, Phebe, Polly, George, Mathias, Nancy, Stephen | Matches the 1785 warning-out and the 1805 quitclaim [Documented] || A Norman "Fitz Stephens" pedigree "compiled by George Stephens of Plymouth (authority unknown)"; a link to Col. Thomas Stevens of London, armorer to the Massachusetts Bay Company | No evidence connects Edward Stephens of Marshfield (living 1665) to either. Mollie herself marks the first "authority unknown" [Tradition] |### The Churchills, Dotys, Clarkes and Pontuses (Holbrook_4.pdf scan pp. 5-21; typescript pp. 52-66)| Mollie says | Finding ||---|---|| **Eleazer Churchill married "Feb 8, 1688, Mary Doty," daughter of Edward Doty (*Mayflower*) and Faith Clarke, and was the mother of Mary (Churchill) Stephens** | **Not so; there is no Doty or Clarke descent in this line.** The Plymouth record reads "Henery CHURCHILL married Mary DOTY widow 8 Feb. 1687/88" (MD 13:204 from the original) [Documented]. That bride was the widow of Thomas Doty, Edward Doty's son; she was still living in 1722 as "widow of Henry Churchill of Plimton" (*Doty-Doten Family in America*, 1897). Edward Doty's own daughter Mary married Samuel Hatch after 1677 (Anderson, *Pilgrim Migration*) [Compiled]. The error began in *The Churchill Family in America* (1904), p. 7 || (implied) Eleazer's wife | Eleazer had one wife, Mary, mother of all eleven children: the Plymouth VR heads them "The children of Eleazer Churchell & Mary his wife." Her stone: "Here lyes ye body of Mrs MARY CHURCHELL wife to Mr Eleazar Churchell aged 60 years decesd Decr ye 11 1715" (Kingman no. 35) [Documented]. She was probably Mary Bryant, b. 29 May 1654, daughter of Stephen Bryant and Abigail Shaw (Torrey, with a question mark) [Compiled, probable]. The Bryants and Shaws carry no *Mayflower* line || Edward Doty's exploits (the duel with Edward Leister, the lawsuits) and Tristram Clarke's family | Accurate as Doty history, but not our ancestors || Joseph Churchill of London, merchant, as father of John Churchill; a Norman "de Courcil" descent | Mollie notes "This is not, however authentic." No evidence [Tradition] || John Churchill m. Hannah Pontus 1644, d. 1 Jan 1662/3; settled at Hobs Hole; his will (brass kettle, pewter, "7 alcomy spoons") | Consistent with PCR and the Churchill book [Documented / Compiled] || William Pontus, fustian worker from near Dover, married Wybra Hanson at Leiden 4 Dec 1610 with Brewster as witness | Consistent [Compiled] |### Chapters that belong to the Holbrook researchMollie's Skiff and Mayhew tables (Holbrook_3.pdf scan p. 2), and her Bayes, Newcomb and Low chapters (Holbrook_3.pdf scan pp. 4-5, 7-8; Holbrook_4.pdf scan pp. 23-33), concern the Holbrook side and Harriet Low's family. Elisha Holbrook's first wife was Sarah Mayo of Eastham, not the "Mary Mayhew" of Mollie's tables, so the Mayhew, Skiff, Bayes and Newcomb lines are not ancestral. See:- `Mayo_Line_Research.md` for her real line;- `Low_Line_Research.md` and `Tyler_Ginn_Line_Research.md` for Harriet Low's family;- `Mollie_Typescript_Review.md` for all nine parts of the typescript, claim by claim.---## 8. Other findings from checking the chapter**Samuel Rider Sr. of Northampton** [Documented]- NEHGR 79 (July 1925): 316, headed "RYDER." The editors: "The following certificate, the original of which is preserved among uncalendared deeds in the public library at Northampton, England, shows that Samuel Ryder, Sr., and his son, Samuel Ryder, Jr., had lived together in the towns of Plymouth and Yarmouth, in the Plymouth Colony, for some thirty years prior to 3 Dec. 1662, and that Samuel Ryder, Sr., had previously lived at Northampton, England."- The certificate: "These may Certify all whom it may Concerne That Samuell Ryder Junior the bearer heerof, is the Reputed sonne of Samuell Ryder senor; which said Samuell Ryder senior sometimes lived in the Towne of Northampton in the Countey of Northampton in the Parish of Alhallowes in old England, and the said Samuell Ryder Junior hath lived with his said father in the Township of Yarmouth in the Jurisdiction of Plymouth in new England in America and in the Towne of Plymouth in the aforesaid Jurisdiction the space of thirty yeares or thereaboutes in witnes to the truth of this Certifycate and Testimony wee have affixed the seale of our Goumment of Plymouth aforsaid third day of December Anno Dom' one Thousand six hundred sixty and two: 1662." Signed "Wm Collier Deputie, Tho: Southworth Assistant, By us in the Absence of the Gouernor."- **[Inference]** The colony issued it so that Samuel Jr. could prove who he was in Northampton, presumably over an inheritance or property there. This is the most specific English origin found for any of the Warren-line families.- **[Compiled, unverified]** Pane-Joyce, citing Roser, *Mayflower Increasings* (1995), says Samuel Jr. was baptised at All Saints (All Hallows), Northampton, 25 Nov 1632, son of Samuel Rider and Anne Gamlett. A RootsWeb compilation adds that Samuel Sr. was baptised at Newport Pagnell, Bucks, 19 June 1601, son of John Rider and Helen Smyth, and married Anne Gamlett at All Hallows, Northampton, 16 Oct 1628. No primary citation was found for these.- **[Documented]** Samuel Sr.'s will, 20 Nov 1679, names wife Anne and children Benjamin, John, Samuel ("five shillings"), Zachery, Joseph, Jane, Elizabeth and Mary (MD 11:49-52). Plymouth Town Records 1:203: "An Rider the mother of Samuel Rider deceased the forteenth of december 1695."- **[Documented]** Samuel Jr. married (2) Lydia Tilden at Taunton, 14 June 1680. His will (7 Apr 1714, proved 23 Sept 1715): "as To my sons John Samuel & Benjamin and my Daughter Mercy I have done Competently for them in my life time." His Burial Hill stone: "Mr SAMUEL RYDER who decd July ye 18th 1715 about ye 85th year of his age" (Kingman no. 33). His son Samuel, b. 1657, died young.- **[Compiled, superseded]** Davis (2:216) merged the two Samuels, giving Samuel Sr.'s daughters Mary (b. 1647) and Elizabeth (m. John Cole 1667) to the husband of Sarah Bartlett.**William Lehman Ashmead Bartlett and the Ellis name** [Documented births; Compiled links]- Plymouth VR: "Ellis Bartlett born June 15, 1817," son of Ellis Bartlett and Anna; and among "The children of John Bartlett 3d & Mercy his wife ... Ellis Bartlett born May 21st 1770."- The marriage: "Mr. John BARTLETT 3rd & Mis. Mercy ELLES both of Plymouth" (2 Dec 1762).- Mercy Ellis was baptised 6 May 1733, daughter of Samuel Ellis and Mercy Gibbs; Samuel was a son of Lt. Mordecai Ellis, son of Lt. John Ellis and Elizabeth Freeman (Pane-Joyce, citing Brownson and McLean) [Compiled].- Davis: Ellis Bartlett (b. 1817) "m. Sophia Ashmead of Philadelphia, and had Ellis Lehman, 1844, and William Lehman Ashmead, 1846, m. Baroness Burdett Coutts." Wikipedia gives William's birth as 20 Jan 1851 and the marriage as 12 Feb 1881.- **[Inference]** William L. Ashmead Bartlett (later Burdett-Coutts, MP) and Nancy (Ellis) Holbrook were both descendants of Lt. John Ellis and Elizabeth Freeman, through Mordecai and through Matthias respectively. That is the kinship behind the remark Mollie attributes to her father.**Phebe (Stephens) Ellis's ancestry is Warren on both sides of the Bartlett family, and Churchill-Pontus on her father's side, with no Doty.** [Inference from the above]---## 9. The Doty question: what the connection actually is**Short answer.** No one in this line descends from Edward Doty of the *Mayflower*. The family's *Mayflower* descents are:- **Warren**, twice, through the Bartlett sisters (section 1);- **Howland and Tilley**, through Lucia (Bennett) Ellis, wife of Matthias Ellis (see `Freeman_Ellis_Master_Family_Tree.md`).The Doty name touches the family in five other ways. Each is a cousin, an in-law or a neighbour, not an ancestor.### 9.1 ShipmatesEdward Doty was one of the "three of London", with Richard Warren and Stephen Hopkins, in the exploring party of 6 Dec 1620 (Mourt; section 5). [Documented]### 9.2 The "Mary Doty" of 1687/8: a Churchill auntThis is the marriage Mollie gave to Eleazer Churchill.- **Who she was.** Mary Churchill, b. 1 Aug 1654, was a daughter of John Churchill and Hannah Pontus. That makes her a sister of Eleazer Churchill and of John Churchill Jr.- **1671/2.** She was fined "for comitting fornication, as shee saith, with Thomas Doten". She sued him because "Thomas Doten, haueing begotten her with child, is departed the gou'ment" (PCR 5, 1672). [Documented]- **Marriage and widowhood.**- Thomas Doty (Edward's son) married her by 1675 and made his will on 4 Dec 1678, leaving all to "his wife, Mary".- As his widow she married Henry Churchill: "Henery CHURCHILL married Mary DOTY widow 8 Feb. 1687/88" (Plymouth VR; MD 13:204). [Documented]- **Was the 1678 widow the same Mary Churchill?**- Yes, on Merrick's reading (TAG 71:114-20, 1996). She found that Thomas had one wife, and that Henry Churchill was not a son of John Churchill.- Barclay (TAG 36:1-7, 1960) had thought Thomas married two women named Mary. [Compiled, via Anderson]- **Her place in the family.** She was an aunt, not a mother, of the two Churchill women in Nancy Ellis's ancestry:- Mary (Churchill) Stephens, through Eleazer;- Elizabeth (Churchill) Ellis, through John Jr.### 9.3 Joseph Doty and Deborah Ellis- **Joseph.** Joseph Doty, Edward's son, was born at Plymouth on 30 Apr 1651 (PCR 8:12).- **The marriage.** About summer 1674 he married Deborah Ellis (c. 1652-1711). She was a daughter of Lt. John Ellis and Elizabeth Freeman, and a sister of Nancy's ancestor Lt. Matthias Ellis. [Compiled: Brownson and McLean, NEHGR 119-120; Anderson, *Pilgrim Migration*, citing TAG 36:9-11]- **Their sons, at Sandwich.** [Documented: Sandwich VR. The record names only the father.]- "Theophilus Dotey the son of Joseph Doty was borne the 22 of febuary" 1674/5.- "Elles Dotey the son of Joseph Dotey was borne the 16 day of aprill" 1677.- The name Ellis supports the Ellis marriage.- **An earlier guess, now superseded.** *The Doty-Doten Family in America* (1897) made Joseph's wives Elizabeth Warren (a guess, from the 1674 case below) and then Deborah Hatch.- **Later years.** Joseph married (2) the widow Sarah Edwards at Rochester on 5 Mar 1711/12. He was ensign of the Rochester company in 1690 (PCR 6).### 9.4 The accusation of October 1674The court record, PCR 5:156 (court of 27 Oct 1674), reads:> "Joseph Doten, planter, acknowlidgeth to owe vnto our sou[eraign] lord the Kinge the sume of 80:00:00; Mr William Clarke, yeoman, of Plymouth, the sume of 40:00:00; Edward Doten, seaman, the sume of 40:00:00. The condition, that wheras the aboue bounden Joseph Doten is accused by Elizabeth Warren to haue comitted fornication with her, wherby shee is with child, if, therfore, the said Joseph Doten shall and doe appeer att the Court of his ma[jes]tie to be holden att Plymouth aforsaid the first Tusday in March next, to make further answare respecting the said fact, and not depart the said Court without lycence; that then, &c."The transcription is from the printed text's OCR, with obvious OCR letters corrected. [Documented]- **Who stood surety.** Edward Doten, seaman, was Joseph's brother.- **The accuser.** Almost certainly **Elizabeth Warren, born 15 Sept 1654**, daughter of Nathaniel Warren and Sarah Walker, and so a granddaughter of Richard Warren (PCR 8, "A Register of the Age of some of the Children of Nathaniel Warren"). [Documented birth]- She was the only unmarried Elizabeth Warren of the right age in 1674. Joseph Warren's daughter Elizabeth was a child, and the widow Elizabeth Warren had died in October 1673. [Inference]- Her father Nathaniel was a brother of Mary (Warren) Bartlett, so she was a first cousin of Rebecca (Bartlett) Harlow and Sarah (Bartlett) Rider. [Inference from documented links]- **What kind of offence.** Fornication meant sex between unmarried people. Anderson dates Joseph's marriage to Deborah Ellis "about summer 1674". He reasons that it was "late enough to have conceived a child with her b. 22 February 1674/5 but not so soon as to have committed adultery to conceive a child with Elizabeth Warren still unborn 27 October 1674" (citing TAG 36:9-11). [Compiled]- On that reading, both pregnancies began in the spring of 1674, before he married.- By the October court he was married to Deborah, and both women were expecting his children, or so Elizabeth Warren alleged.- **The outcome is not recorded.**- PCR 5's index lists only this one entry for the case.- The 1897 Doty book says the bondsmen were "shortly released". The printed record carries "Released" in the margin at this session.- No later court entry and no birth record for Elizabeth Warren's child have been found.**The three Elizabeths, kept apart**| Elizabeth | Who she was | Part in the story ||---|---|---|| Elizabeth (Walker) Warren | Richard Warren's widow | Died 2 Oct 1673, a year before the case. Not involved. || Elizabeth (Freeman) Ellis | Widow of Lt. John Ellis; Deborah's mother | Joseph Doty's mother-in-law. In July 1680 "Elizabeth Ellis, widdow, and Joseph Dotey, of Sandwich" sued Lt. Ephraim Morton together over the Sepecan lands (see `Freeman_Ellis_Line_Research.md`). || Elizabeth Warren (b. 1654) | Nathaniel Warren's daughter, Richard's granddaughter | The accuser. |### 9.5 James Warren and Sarah Doty- **The marriage.** James Warren (b. 7 Nov 1665) was the youngest son of Nathaniel Warren and Sarah Walker, and a brother of the accuser. He married Sarah Doty (b. 9 June 1666) at Plymouth on 21 June 1687. She was the eldest daughter of Edward Doty Jr. and Sarah Faunce.- **The Doty land.** James bought out the other Doty heirs and so acquired Edward Doty's Plymouth land (*Doty-Doten Family*, 1897). [Compiled from records]- **Later family.** The patriot James Warren (1726-1808), husband of Mercy Otis Warren, came from this marriage. [Compiled; the intermediate generation was not checked here]### 9.6 Other Doty marriages around the family- **Thomas Doty and Mercy Ellis.** "The marriage between Thomas Doty of Plimouth and Mercy Ellis of Sandwich was Solemnized ... Apil: 18th 1705" (Sandwich VR). Mercy was a daughter of Lt. Matthias Ellis, and so a sister of Capt. Joel Ellis. [Documented]- **Sylvanus Stephens.** Phebe (Stephens) Ellis's brother Sylvanus married Betsey, widow of a Doten. Davis gives the husband as James on one page and Joseph on another. [Compiled]---## 10. Records to get, and next steps1. **TAG 78 (2003): 81-86 and 274-75** (Davies), for the full Walker will text and the Dorothy (Walker) Adams addendum. The first is at http://www.craigrich.net/TAG_Warren.pdf.2. **Augustine Walker's will**, Essex Record Office D/ABW 41/186, for an image (ERO's online catalogue and image service).3. **Doree, *The Parish Register and Tithing Book of Thomas Hassall of Amwell*** (Hertfordshire Record Society 5, 1989), pp. 94 and 157, for the 1610 marriage and Augustine's burial entry.4. **Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, vol. 18 (Richard Warren)**, parts 1-3 (GSMD), for the Bartlett, Harlow and Rider generations as the Society accepts them. Needed for any Mayflower Society application.5. **Hunt, TAG 35 (1959): 214, and Prindle, TAG 55 (1979): 164-66**, on Robert Bartlett's possible Puddletown, Dorset, origin.6. **All Hallows (All Saints) Northampton parish registers** (Northamptonshire Archives; FamilySearch or Findmypast), for the Rider baptisms and the 1628 Rider-Gamlett marriage reported by Roser.7. **Plymouth Colony Deeds** for the 1649 Church-to-Bartlett sale ("a red ox called Mouse") and the 1673 deed to Joseph Bartlett.---## Sources**Primary records and published transcripts**- *Records of the Colony of New Plymouth*, vols 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 11-12: https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0102newp ; https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0304newp ; https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0506newp ; https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0708newp ; https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo1112newp- *Plymouth Church Records 1620-1859* (CSM 22): https://archive.org/details/plymouthchurchre22firs- *Records of the Town of Plymouth*, vol. 1: https://archive.org/details/cu31924092203680- Mourt's *Relation* (1622), Dexter ed. 1865: https://archive.org/details/mourtsrelationo00dextgoog- Nathaniel Morton, *New-Englands Memoriall* (1669): https://archive.org/details/newenglandsmemor00mort_0- *The Mayflower Descendant*, vols 11-12 (Bowman on the Riders and on Sgt. William Harlow): https://archive.org/details/mayflowerdescendv1112mass ; vols 15-16: https://archive.org/details/mayflowerdescendv1516mass- NEHGR 79 (1925): 316, the Ryder certificate: https://archive.org/details/newenglandhistor7919unse- Kingman, *Epitaphs from Burial Hill* (1892): https://archive.org/details/epitaphsfromburi00king_0 ; Drew, *Burial Hill*: https://archive.org/details/burialhillplymou00drew- *Visitation of Devon 1620* (Harleian Soc. 6): https://archive.org/details/visitationofcoun06colbrich- Foster, *London Marriage Licences* (1887): https://archive.org/details/londonmarriageli00fost- Raikes, *Ancient Vellum Book of the Honourable Artillery Company* (1890): https://archive.org/details/ancientvellumbo00walegoog**Compiled**- Edward J. Davies, "The Marriage of Richard1 Warren of the Mayflower," TAG 78 (2003): 81-86: http://www.craigrich.net/TAG_Warren.pdf- Roebling, NEHGR 55 (1901): 70-78: https://archive.org/details/newenglandhistorv55wate- Hunt, TAG 35 (1959): 214: https://archive.org/details/sim_american-genealogist_1959-10_35_4- Charles Edward Banks, *English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers* (1929): https://archive.org/details/englishancestryh00bank- R. C. Anderson, *The Pilgrim Migration* (2004), Warren and Doty sketches: https://mayflower.americanancestors.org/node/284 ; https://mayflower.americanancestors.org/node/246- Caleb Johnson, MayflowerHistory.com, Richard Warren: https://mayflowerhistory.com/warren/- GSMD, Richard Warren profile: https://themayflowersociety.org/?p=4757 ; Silver Books guide: https://themayflowersociety.org/?p=4092- Pilgrim Hall Museum: https://pilgrimhall.org/richard_elizabeth_warren.htm ; https://www.pilgrimhall.org/robert-mary-warren-bartlett/- Mayflower 400 UK, "Richard Warren" (Feb 2020): https://mayflower400uk.org/education/who-were-the-pilgrims/2020/february/richard-warren- *The Churchill Family in America* (1904): https://archive.org/details/churchillfamilyi01chur- *The Doty-Doten Family in America* (1897): https://archive.org/details/dotydotenfamilyi00doty- W. T. Davis, *Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth* (1899): https://archive.org/details/ancientlandmarks1899davi- WikiTree: Warren-66, Walker-1209, Walker-1210, Walker-53699, Bartlett-297, Churchill-297, Bryant-59 (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/ + ID)- Pane-Joyce Genealogy: https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr03/rr03_157.html (Rider) ; https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr06/rr06_330.html (Mercy Ellis Bartlett)- L. W. Throop, *California Mayflower Quarterly* 46-48 (2022-24) (camayflower.org)- Mollie Frances (Holbrook) Pfeiffer, Holbrook family typescript, scans `Holbrook_3.pdf` and `Holbrook_4.pdf` (family copy)