WikiTree profiles for the Low, Thompson, Freeman, Wise, Foster, Kneeland and allied families

Read through the WikiTree API. Profiles used: Low-1937 (Caleb Low; abstract of his 1773 will from the Essex probate image), Low-1949, Low-1950, Low-1178, Thompson-562, Freeman-1326 (Alice Freeman), Wise-52, Lamb-322 (Thomas Lamb, said to have died intestate), Kneeland-293 (Rachel Kneeland; a Connecticut church abstract, “Rachel Parmelee death 10 Jun 1780 in New Haven”), Kneeland-163, Hawkins-2789, Mills-1007 (John Mills’s marriage to Catheryn Scotson, citing Ullmann, NEHGR 175:197-206), Foster-1884 and Foster-2330. These profiles cite TAG, NEHGR, Early New England Families and FamilySearch images. Martha Proctor’s maiden name “Harper” appears here unsourced.

Also used: Cogswell-72 (John Cogswell, with transcriptions of the Westbury, Wiltshire, register: his baptism 2 Apr 1592, son of Edward; “Johes Cogswell et Elizabeth Thomson,” 10 Sept 1615; “Willim filius Johannis Cogswell baptiz est Martij,” 1619/20), at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cogswell-72; and Hawkes-12 (Susanna Hawkes, wife of William Cogswell, citing Battle, NEHGR 178:307-318, Anderson, Great Migration 3:253-257, and Torrey’s “Susannah [HAWKES] (1633-)”; also the descent of President John Adams from her daughter Susanna White), at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hawkes-12. Lamb-322 cites Great Migration Begins 2:1153 for Thomas Lamb’s arrival in 1630 and gives an unsourced origin at “Stow Langtoft, Co. Suffolk.” Wise-52 lists Joseph Wise’s twelve children (Roxbury VR 1:389), including two sons named Benjamin who died as infants in 1660 and 1664, and Anderson’s finding (TAG 56:80-82) that administration of Joseph’s estate was granted 15 Sept 1684 to his widow Mary and son John.

For the Hawkins, Mills and Kneeland families, also: Hawkins-2774 (Richard Hawkins), Hawkins-2775 (James Hawkins: a baptism at Bluntisham-cum-Earith, 1 Jan 1609/10, citing TAG 89:307-308, and his King’s Chapel gravestone, “Here lyeth the Body of James Hawkins Aged 67 Years Died March ye 14t 1670,” from Dunkle and Lainhart), Angell-540 (Jane Angell, citing TAG 89:307-308 and NEHGR 114:207-211, not read), Mills-4900 (Mary Mills, born about 1616/7 in England, citing Anderson, Great Migration 3:261-66, and her gravestone, “Here Lyes Buried Ye Body Of Mary Hawkins Aged 75 Years Died Ye 12 Of March 1692”), Mills-1007 (John Mills, citing Anderson, Great Migration Begins 2:1259-62: died 5 July 1678 at Braintree, Braintree VR p. 656; innkeeper, clerk of the writs, constable’s oath 1641; land at Hogg Island and Mount Wollaston), and Kneeland-163 (John Kneeland’s burial in the Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury, plot B79, Find a Grave 53853652).