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  2. Josiah m. Catherine Fluck.
  3. Richard d. unmarried.
  4. Catherine M. John Evans.
  5. Martha m. John White, called "Big John."
  6. John m. Mary Chaney.
  7. Samuel m. Elizabeth Foster.
  8. ELIZABETH m. William Anderson. "Stonehouse Billy."
  9. Septimus Mrs. M. Wealthy Foster.
 10. Thomas m. Sarah Poster.
 11. Mary m. James Anderson.

ELIZABETH HORTON (Samuel, Richard, Caleb, Barnabas, Caleb, Barnabas, Joseph) m. William Anderson. They had one daughter Isabella, who married George Washington Shreeves. George Washington
     Shreeves and Isabella Anderson had a daughter, Amy Jane, who married Charles Fremont Couch.
     Their children were:

 1. Herbert B. Couch b. Feby. 6, 1885, m. Clara Phipps, Dec. 23. 1914.
 2. Minnie I. Couch b. Aug. 6, 1888.
 3: Mamie E. Couch b. Aug. 6, 1888.
 4. Gertrude M. Couch b. June 29, 1892.

ABNER HORTON (Samuel, Richard, Caleb, Barnabas, Caleb, Barnabas, Joseph) m. Susan Chany.
     Their children were:

 1. Elizabeth Horton m. William Anderson.
 2. Mary Ann Horton m. David Shreve.
 3. Jesse Horton m. Susan Anderson.
 4. EZEKIEL HORTON m. Nancy Anderson, a niece of his brother Jesse's wife.

EZEKIEL HORTON and Nancy Anderson had only two children.
     They were:

 1 Jonathan Horton m. Hannah Figard.
 2: James W. Horton.

   Jonathan Horton gave ground for Horton Cemetery near Fairmont, Nebr. His father and mother are buried there.

- Contributed by Mrs. A. F. Anderson,   
Crete, Nebr.

   The following line was worked out for a client by the Family Records Bureau for the purpose of proving her eligibility to membership in the Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America. This line traces back to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

JOHN PECKHAM was born in England and baptized Apr. 8. 1595. In 1634 he was chaplain to the Earl of Hertford
     and there is no doubt but that as chaplain to that nobleman he made the acquaintance of Sir Henry Vane, the
     younger. There can be little doubt that the extreme theological views of Sir Henry Vane became the convincing
     argument that turned John Peck-

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ham from his allegiance to the Church of England. These more or less extreme views may be described in the language of that day as those of a Baptist Lollard. John Peckham was in Rhode Island in 1638. He is supposed to have come to Boston in 1634 with Sir Henry Vane. In Boston, he met Mary Clarke, who had accompanied her brother, Dr. John Clarke, to Boston. While John Peckham's name does not appear in the list of those disarmed in Boston, nor among the followers of Wheelwright, nor one of the signers of the Portsmouth Covenant, yet he must have been one of the party known as the Ann Hutchinson Party, who founded a settlement on the north end of Rhode Island, the town of Portsmouth. On March 16, 1641, he was admitted a freeman. In 1641 he was one of the ten male members of the First Baptist Church of Newport in full communion. He had five children by his first wife, Mary Clarke. After her death he married, Eleanor (probably born Peckham) by whom he had seven children. John Peckham died in 1681 and Mary Clarke in 1648.

JOHN, PECKHAM (John) b. abt. 1644, at Newport, Rhode Island, m. 1667 Sarah Newport. He lived on
            the Peckham, estate at Little Compton, R. I. and was one of the original propreitors of East Greenwich,
            R. I., although there is no evidence that he resided there. He had eleven children.

ISAAC PECKHAM (John, John) b. Apr. 11, 1688, d. Feby. 10, 1765, m. 1st Nov. 8, 1711, Barabra
            Philips, dau. John and Rebecca Philips. She was born March 15, 1687, died 1726. He m. 2nd,
            Jane Sisson, dau. of Richard and Ann (Card) Sisson. She was born July 5, 1706, d. Sept. 25, 1778
            at Lanesboro, Mass. where she had gone from Kingston, R. I. to visit her daughter, Ann Peckham
            Barker, at whose house she died. Isaac Peckham was made a freeman at Newport, R. I., in 1714.
            From there he moved to Middletown, R. I., where he was a freeman in 1757. His will was dated
            May 14, 1763, proved Feby. 22. 1765. By his first wife, he had eight children. By his second
            wife, he had ten more children.

PHILIP PECKHAM (Isaac, John, John) b. July 11, 1725, d. Apr. 18, 1819, buried in the Rural Cemetery
            at Lancaster, Erie County, N. Y. He married 1st July 28, 1753 Jane Nye of Dartmouth, now New
            Bedford, Mass. She was born Dec. 26,

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1730 and was the dau. of Thomas and Deborah (Peckham) Nye . After her death he married 2nd her twin sister, Patience Nye. Philip Peckham was Lieutenant of the Train Band in 1776 for which service his grave is annually decorated by the Daughters of the American Revolution. It is not known where his two wives are buried. After the Revolution he moved from Middletown to Munson, Mass., from thence to Randolph, Vt. 1790, and thence to Lancaster, Erie County N. Y. where he died.

PARDON PECKHAM (Phillip, Isaac, John, John) b. Aug. 12, 1673, in Middletown, R. I., d. Oct. 15, 1851,
      m. Olive Blodgett b. 1761, d. Feby. 19, 1846. About the time of the breaking out of the Revolution
      he removed from Rhode Island to Munson, Mass. from which place he enlisted at the age of seventeen
      as a private in Capt. John Carpenter's Company of Guards at Springfield, Mass., serving from June
      12, 1780 to Feby. 13, 1781. After the Revolution he went to live at Randolph, Vt. He next moved to
      Bloomfield Vt., and finally to Lancaster, Erie County, N. Y., where he died and was buried. His
      wife was also buried there. Pardon Peckham and Olive Blodgett had eight children.

THOMAS NYE PECKHAM (Pardon, Phillip, Isaac, John, John) b. Mch, 20, 1802 at Randolph, Vt., d. May
       10, 1883 at Lancaster, N. Y., m. 1st Dec. 28, 1837 at Lancaster, N. Y. Emeline Bagley, dau. of
       Edward Bagley of North Providence, R. I. She was born at Randolph, Vt. and died Sept. 5, 1851.
       He married 2nd Sophronia (Atwood) Townsend who also predeceased him. He had three children by
            his first wife.

ELIZA JANE PECKHAM (Thomas Nye, Pardon, Philip, Isaac, John, John) b. Aug. 27, 1843 at Lancaster,
      N. Y., d. Aug. 31, 1906 at Tecumseh, Nebr., m. March, 1869 William Hassett.

CONNECTICUT RECORDS.

    Mr. Frank F. Starr, Notary Public, of Middletown, Ct., in 1906. certifies that the following data is to be found in the town records.
                Reference N. E. Vol. 57, pp. 31-39, 159

1665, July 17    WILLIAM, son of Daniel Haris and Mary, his wife.
               (Page 21 of Births, Marriages and Deaths in vol. 1 of Land Records).

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   Mr. Starr also certifies that in the Washington Street Cemetery or West Yard of said Middletown are two gravestones of Portland free stone which are inscribed thus:

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   "In memory of Mr. Jonathan Gilbert who died Jan. 3rd, 1812. Ae. 97."

   "In memory of Mrs. Prudence, wife of Mr. Jonathan Gilbert, who died Aug't. 30th 1798. Aged 77 years."

   He further certifies that "upon examination of the records of the First Congregational Church of said town I find therein a record of the marriage of (4) Hezekiah Geer and Sarah Gilbert on Feby. 9, 1790. Also, that upon the records of the Church of the Holy Trinity, formerly Christ Church of said Middletown is entered under date of October 6, 1793 the baptism of (5) Ezekiel Gilbert Geer, son of Hezekiah, and that the sponsors were the father, Icabod Wetmore and Mrs. George Bartlett."

- Contributed by Mrs. J. J. Stubbs,   
Omaha, Nebr.

GILBERT FAMILY

   Copy of Records from the family Bible of Jonathan and Dorothy Stow Gilbert.

Jonathan Gilbert and Dorothy his wife were married June 22nd 1679.
Mary Gilbert was born March 18th 1680.
March 30, 1681, our second child being a son was born, about sun rising and died about two hours after.
February 8th 1682 being Wednesday, Mehitable Gilbert, was born about nine of the clock in the evening.
1682, December 29th, My Father Gilbert departed this life being about half an hour after sun down being
    aged about 66 or 67 or thereabouts.
June 30th 1683 John Gilbert was born about one of the clock afternoon being Saturday.
January 22nd 1683, My Grandfather Gilbert died about 3 of the clock in the morning being aged about 83.
September 8th 1684, Jonathan Gilbert was born about half an hour before sunrise on Sabbath Morne and
    died September 27th 1684 at 7 o'clock in the afternoon being Saturday.
1686 April 11, our sixth child being a sun was born on the Sabbath about sun an hour and 1/2 high in the
    morning.
1687 April 8th, Jonathan Gilbert being a sun born about sun half an hour high being Tuesday.

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September 28th our Mother died. (This must be for Hope Fletcher Stow, mother of Dorothy Stow Gilbert)
1689 September 1st, our faithful Mr. Giles Hamlin died.
December 29th, 1689, on Friday Nathaniel Gilbert was born sun setting.
1693 May 16th being Monday Ezekiel was born sun setting.
1695 June 8th, being Friday Sarah Gilbert was born about 1the clock.
1696 Mehitable Gilbert was born".

- Contributed by Mrs. J. J. Stubbs.   
Omaha, Nebr.

JOHN WOODRUFF

   JOHN WOODRUFF, senior, the emigrant, of Southampton in the East Riding of Yorkshire, on Long
        Island, made his will May 4, 1670. It was witnessed by Christopher Foster and John Laughton,
        and attested at Southhold June I, 1670. This will mentions his wife, Ann Woodruff, two sons,
        John and two daughters. Ann Wooley and Elizabeth Dayton.

- Contributed by Mrs. J. J. Stubbs,   
Omaha, Nebr.

ROYCE, ROYS, RICE FAMILY.

ROBERT ROYCE married Mary Sims June 1634, in England and emigrated to America. Children of Robert
     Royce and Mary Sims were:

1. SAMUEL married Hannah Churchill, June 9. 1667.

SAMUEL ROYCE (Robert) married Hannah Churchill, Jany. 9, 1667. They had a son, Samuel.

SAMUEL ROYCE (Samuel, Robert) b. 1672, m. Hannah Benadict spelled Benedick) Dec. 12, 1695. They
     had a son Abel.
     - Reference for above statements: Wallingford County Court Records.

ABEL ROYS b. 1700, m. Oct. 28, 1723, Joanna Beach. The children of Abel Roys and Johanna Beach were:

1 Rhoda b. 1725.
2: Heater b. 1727.
3 Joanna b. 1730.
4. Benedict b. 1736.
5. Mehitable b. 1737.
6. Hesekiah b. 1739.
7. Hulda b. 1742.

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8. Olive's birth not mention in the Wallingford records, m. John Mathews of Farmington, Ct.,
    Nov. 80, 1769. They had a son John Mathews, Jr. Farmington, Ct. Courtt (sic) Records.

   In the old Episcopal Cemetery at Bristol, Ct., is the headstone, an old slatestone slab, of Abel Roys, and in the Farmington marriage records is recorded the marriage of Olive Roys to John Mathews. No record is found of the birth of Olive, but in the will of Abel Roys, admitted Dec. 5, 1769, he mentions his wife, Joanna, and his daughter, Olive. Abel was the son of Samuel and Benidect Royce; she was the daughter of Thomas Benedict of Norwalk, and the granddaughter of Thomas Benedict of Southold, L. I. immigrant Thomas Sr. removed to Norwalk about 1865 and was there Deacon, Selectman and Representative.

- contributed by Mrs. Victor F. Clark,   
Diller. Nebr.

JOHN MATHEWS married Olive Roys, daughter of Abel Roys and Joanna Beach, Nov. 30, 1769, at
     Farmington, Ct. They had a son, John Mathews, Jr.

JOHN MATHEWS, Jr. (John) b. 1781, at Bristol, Q., m. Cynthia Bradley, in 1714. They had a son, Charles.

CHARLES MATHEWS (John, John) b. 1825, m. 1855, Mary Simmons. They had a daughter Alice b. 1857,
     who married Rev. Victor F. Clark.
                 Reference: Kenoshi county, Wis., Court Records

- Contributed by Mrs. Victor F Clark,   
Diller, Nebr.

GREEN GENEALOGY

Americans of Royal Descent - Pages 734-6

The Greenes of Rhode island. George Sears Greene

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