Nicholas Ide
Of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, where children of his were recorded from 1647 to 1665, Timothy Ide among them. Thomas Bliss of Rehoboth called him "my sonninlaw" in his will. His wife Martha was buried in 1676; he probably married next, at Medfield in 1679/80, Jane (Damon) Plimpton, and he was buried at Rehoboth on 18 Oct 1690.
Life
- 1679Married Jane (Damon) Plimpton
- by 1690Diedby 18 Oct 1690documentedproven
- 1690Buried18 Oct 1690, Rehoboth, Massachusettsdocumentedproven
Family
- Parents
- Spouse 1
- Martha Ide
"The wife of Nicholas [I]yde buried the third of November, 1676" (colony return); "IDE Martha, buried Nov. 3, 1676".
documentedproven - Spouse 2
- Jane (Damon) Plimpton
Widow of John Plimpton. She married George Kenrick on 1 Apr 1691 (Rehoboth VR).
Pedigree
Notes
Came from England; of Rehoboth by 1643. Savage (2:517): “IDE, NICHOLAS, Rehoboth 1643, m. I presume, a d. of Thomas Bliss, for in the will of B. he is call. s.-in-law.” The will (1649) leaves a heifer to “Nathaneell the sonn of my sonninlaw Nicolas Ide” (MD 8:85-86). Savage adds: “His w. was bur. 3 Nov. 1676, and s. John, prob. youngest ch. was bur. the middle of next mo.” His daughters Mary and Martha married Samuel Fuller (17 Apr 1673) and Samuel Walker (11 Nov 1681).
Mollie Pfeiffer says he married Mary Bliss, daughter of Thomas, who died 6 Sept 1690. Not supported: Thomas Bliss’s daughter Mary was the wife of Nathaniel Harmon, Nicholas’s wife was buried in 1676, and he remarried in 1679/80. The “Mary, wife of Nicholas, buried Sept. 9, 1690” is almost certainly his son Nicholas Jr.’s wife, Mary Ormsby (inference). Her claim that Ralph Waldo Emerson is a cousin through Bliss is wrong: Emerson descends from Thomas and Margaret Bliss of Hartford and Springfield. Benjamin Ide Wheeler’s descent from Nicholas is plausible but not traced: his mother was Mary Eliza Ide, daughter of Ebenezer Ide of the Attleborough and Rehoboth Ides, and Nicholas is the only colonial Ide progenitor there.
Children (Rehoboth VR p. 649): a child born Nov 11, 1647 (the name is lost in the OCR); Mary 1649; John 1652; Nicholas, Nov 1654; Martha 1656; Elizabeth, Apr 6, 1658; Timothy, Oct 1660; Dorothy 1662; Patience 1664; Experience 1665. A son Nathaniel is named in Thomas Bliss’s will, probably the first child, born 11 Nov 1647 (inference).
Open questions
- The first child, born 11 Nov 1647: the archive.org text of the Rehoboth VR appears to read “IDE Nathaniel, of Nicholas,” for this entry, which would confirm the Nathaniel of Thomas Bliss’s will. Check the page image.
- The 1648 Plymouth Colony petition said (WikiTree, unsourced) to show him claiming a child’s share of Thomas Bliss’s estate. If it exists, it would prove his wife was a Bliss daughter.
Mollie's typescript
Mollie says he came from England in 1643, was an original settler and landowner of Rehoboth, served on a committee to settle disputes with King Philip, and was an ancestor of Benjamin Ide Wheeler; she gives his wife as Mary Bliss (probably Martha, the records suggest).
Nicholas Ide came from England in 1643, among the latest of our ancestors to come to this country. He was one of the original settlers and fist land owners of Rehoboth, and active in affairs.
p. 156 →
Checked against the records
- DisprovenNicholas Ide married Thomas Bliss's daughter, so Emerson is kin
Half right. Nicholas's wife Martha (buried 1676) was very probably a daughter of Thomas Bliss of Rehoboth, whose will calls Nicholas "my sonninlaw"; Mary Bliss married Nathaniel Harmon. But Ralph Waldo Emerson descends from a different Thomas Bliss, of Hartford and Springfield.
Read it in the book, p. 156 → - PossibleBenjamin Ide Wheeler descended from Nicholas Ide
Plausible but not traced. Wheeler's mother was Mary Eliza Ide, daughter of Ebenezer Ide of the Attleborough and Rehoboth Ides, and Nicholas was the only colonial Ide settler there.
Read it in the book, p. 156 →