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	CONTENTS FOR JULY (1927) The Call Family -------------------- Descendants from John Howland - The Coffin Family ----------------- Ancestry of Abner White --------- Cemetery Inscriptions ------------- Frank Bradbury Hollenbeck ------ The Bierer-Berry Family --------- The Halstead Family --------------- Queries ------------------------------ Page 45 Page 48 Page 49 Page 53 Page 61 Page 62 Page 64 Page 65 Page 68

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     CAPTAIN JOHN CALL (Ensign John², Thomas¹) was baptized July, 1662; died May 4, 1732; married July 20, 1681, Martha Lowden, who was born at Charlestown, Mass., in 1659; died September 4, 1729. She was a daughter of Richard Lowden, who was born in England in 1612; died, in 1700; and Mary Cole, daughter of Ryse Cole and wife, Arrold or Arnold, who were in Charlestown in 1629. Richard Lowden and Anna Cole were married in 1640. The children of Captain John Call and Martha Lowden were:

     SAMUEL CALL (Captain John³, Ensign John², Thomas¹) born at Charlestown, Mass., June 6, 1698; died 1747; married 1721, Abagail Sprague who was born at Charlestown, April 21, 1702; died after 1748. He lived in Leicester and Oxford, Mass. He was in the expedition to Louisberg. Captain John Call and Abigail Sprague had the following children:

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     JAMES CALL (Samuel⁴, John³, Ensign John², Thomas¹) was born at Charlestown, Mass., September 2, 1728; died probably at Salisbury, Vermont, in 1805; married in 1752 at Woodstock, Conn., Sarah Bartlett; married second, March 8, 1757, at Leicester, Mass., Hannah Masters (Mastes) daughter of John Mastes, who was baptized 1708-9 at Manchester and married 1729-30, Hannah Buckman, granddaughter of Aram Mastus who married Abigail Killum. James Call married third in 1780 at Woodstock, Vermont, Anna Powers. He served in the Revolutionary war and was in the expedition to Canada with his oldest two sons. He was in the battles of Bennington and Saratoga. All his five sons served in the Revolutionary war. By his first wife, Sarah Bartlett, he had one daughter:

     By his second wife, Hannah Mastes, he had the following children:

     By his third wife, Anna Powers, he had the following children:

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     JOHN MASTERS CALL (James⁵, Samuel⁴, John³, Ensign John², Thomas¹) born August 17, 1760, at Woodstock, Conn.: died in 1814 at Woodstock, Vermont, where he resided after 1780. He married Betsey Harwood, daughter of James Harwood. She was born July 20, 1788; died 1832. Their children were:

     JOHN MASTERS CALL (John Masters⁶, James⁵, Samuel⁴, John³, Ensign John², Thomas¹) born November 4, 1791, at Woodstock, Vermont; died April 14, 1875, at Potsdam, New York; married about 1815 at Woodstock, Harriet Lawrence White, who was born March 12, 1792, probably at Hartland. Vermont; died August 18, 1839, at Potsdam, New York. He married second, Pauline (White) Redford, sister of his first wife. Children of John Masters Call and Harriett Lawrence White were:

     John Masters Call and Paulina (White) Redford had one son:

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(Contributed by Miss Mary Frances Call, Syracuse, New York.)

     John Howland married Elizabeth Tilley.

      Their daughter, Hope Howland, married John Chipman.

     Their son, John Chipman, born at Barnstable March 3, 1670; died January 4, 1756; married, 1691, Mary Skiff, who was born at Sandwich November 13, 1671; died March 12, 1711.

(Barnstable Families, p 164.) (Chipman Genealogy, p 13-16.)

     Their daughter, Lydia Chipman, born June 9, 1708; married at Sandwich September 30, 1725, Zepheniah Swift, born at Sandwich March 6, 1702-3; died at Derby, Conn., May 9, 1781.

(N. E. Historical Records, V 12, p 311.) (Chipman Genealogy, p 13-16.)

     Their son., Perez Swift, born at Sandwich, February 14, 1725- 6; married November 13, 1764, Mary Fox of Groton.

(Lebanon, Conn. Vital Records, V 1, p 291.) (Lebanon Church Records, 1st Copy, p 25.)

     Their daughter, Rebeckah Swift, baptized at Lebanon, Conn., May 18, 1760; married at Mansfield, Conn., December 1, 1780, Jonathan Nichols, jr.; born at Mansfield, Conn., February 23, 1758; died February 13, 1829.

(Pension papers.) (Mansfield Church Records.)

     Their daughter, Nancy Nichols, born at Woodstock, Conn., May 7, 1782; died October 23, 1851; married Sylvester Stanley, born January 13, 1774; died October 5, 1823.

(Woodstock Vital Records, p 171.) (Family Manuscript Records.)

     Their daughter, Sarah Gilbert Stanley Elwell, born at

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     Their daughter, Emma Esther Bellows, born near Orion, Ill., May 8, 1844; died at Kellogg, Iowa., March 9, 1876; married in Henry county, Ill., October 19, 1863, Benjamin Franklin Bleakney, born in Indiana county, Penn., April 16, 1842; died at University Place, Nebr., March 5, 1921.

(Affidavits of Bible Records in hands of Mayflower Society.)

     Their daughter, Winona Bleakney, born at Orion, Ill., August 18, 1864; married at Kellogg, Iowa, March 11, 1888, Christ Peterson, born in Denmark March 27, 1863.

(This line has been accepted by the Mayflower Society. Furnished by Mrs.Winona Peterson, University Place, Nebr.)

     TRISTRAM COFFYN of Butlers in the Parish of Brixton, England, made his will November 16, 1601. In this will he mentions Joan, Anne and John, children of his brother, Nicholas; Richard and John, sons of his brother, Lionel; Tristram, son of his brother, Philip. Nicholas, son of his brother Nicholas, was appointed executor.

     NICHOLAS COFFYN, son of Nicholas, was probably born about the middle of the sixteenth century in Brixton, Devonshire, England. In his will dated September 12, 1613, and proved November 3, 1613, he mentions his wife, Joan, and his children:

     PETER COFFIN, son of Nicholas Coffyn and Joan, must have been born during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, about the year 1580. He died at the close of the year 1627, or early in the year 1628. His will was dated December 21, 1627, and proved

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      In 1642 Joan, widow of Peter Coffin, with her son, Tristram, and her daughters, Mary and Eunice, came to Salisbury, Mass.; thence she went to Haverhill and Newbury. She died in Boston in May, 1661, aged 77 years.

     TRISTRAM COFFIN, son of Peter Coffin and Joan, was born in England in 1605. He married probably in 1630, in England, Dionis Stevens, daughter of Robert Stevens of Brixton, England. About twelve years later he came to Salisbury, Mass., with his mother, sisters, wife and five children. He remained but a short time in Salisbury, removing the same year, 1642, to the new settlement of Pentucket, soon afterwards called Haverhill. The settlement was commenced in 1640, Christopher Hussey being among the first settlers, but no deed from the Indians was obtained until 1642 when the name of Tristram Coffin appears as one of the witnesses thereto. Tristram Coffin is said to be the first man to plough land in Haverhill, constructing his own plough. He resided in Haverhill several years, when he removed to Newbury in 1648-9, and thence to Salisbury in 1654-5, where he organized the company for the purchase and settlement of Nantucket.

     In 1644 he was allowed to keep an ordinary, sell wine and keep a ferry on Newbury side, and George Carr on Salisbury side of Carr's Island.

     During the summer of 1659 Tristram Coffin, having in view a change of residence for himself and family, determined to visit the islands lying off the southeast coast of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Accordingly accompanied by Edward Starbuck and Isaac Coleman (the latter a mere youth of twelve years of age) he visited Martha's Vineyard. Learning there

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     Mr. Coffin finding the island suited to his plans and the Sachems willing to make satisfactory terms, reported to his friends and the following agreement was reached: that they should purchase from Thomas Mayhew the patent right which was originally held by Sir Ferdinando George and Mr. James Forrett Steward and sold by them to Thomas Mayhew, and also the piece of land at the west end of the island of Nantucket which Mr. Mayhew had purchased of the Indians. Those who made the purchase were Tristram Coffin, Thomas Macy, Richard Swain, Thomas Barnard, Peter Coffin, Christopher Hussey, Stephen Greenleaf, John Swain and William Pile. Thomas Mayhew retained a twentieth part interest in the land. On July 2, 1659, Thomas Mayhew signed the deed.

     Tristram Coffin seems to have been the leading spirit among the islanders at the commencement of the settlement and the interests which he and his sons and his sons-in-law represented (for he frequently signed his name in matters of proprietorship for himself and five others) gave him the control in a great degree of the enterprises of the island. During the first five years of residence upon the island he was the richest proprietor, except his son Peter, who was reputed to be possessed of great estate. It is not to be found, however, that he ever exercised his power unduly for his own advantage.

     On October 10, 1659, Mr. Mayhew deeded unto Tristram Coffin, sr., Peter Coffin, Tristram Coffin, jr., and James Coffin, the island of Tuckernuck for the sum of five pounds. He sought to have his former associates purchase the island jointly with him, but failing to interest them in his further enterprise he, with his three eldest sons, made a purchase of it in their own right. When the man to whom certain right were

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     In all the Indian troubles he held the Indians in subjection in such a manner as commanded their respect. He employed large numbers of them in his farming operations and built them improved wigwams upon his island. Strong drink was the bane of the Indians of Nantucket and so marked were its demoralizing influences that the first general court of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard composed of Tristram Coffin, first magistrate of Nantucket, and Thomas Mayhew, first magistrate of Martha's Vineyard, and two associates from each island, enacted a law prohibiting the sale of intoxicating drinks to Indians. It is probably the first prohibition law on record.

     The appointment of Tristram Coffin as chief magistrate of Nantucket was about the same time that Thomas Mayhew was appointed the chief magistrate of Martha's Vineyard. The commission bears the date of June 29, 1671. The two chiefs together with two assistants from each island were to constitute the general court with appellate jurisdiction over both islands. It appears that Governor Lovelace directed the inhabitants to recommend two suitable persons for chief magistrate from which he might make a selection. They named Tristram Coffin and Thomas Macy, and he chose the former.

     Tristram Coffin died October 2, 1681, in Nantucket. Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens had the following children:

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     ISAAC WHITE (Egbert White⁹) was born October 11, 1856, near Kewanee , Ill. Married January 1, 1880, at the home of Egbert White at Farragut, Ia., Nellie B. Hyatt, who died at the home in North Yakima, Wash., in September, 1920. Occupation: farmer and breeder of fine stock at Shenandoah, Ia., from 1880 until 1910, moving then to a fruit ranch at Buenna, Wash., with a family residence at North Yakima. Children, all born at or near Farragut, Ia.:

     JOHN HALSTEAD WHITE (Egbert White⁹), father of the compiler of this historical record, was born August 14, 1858, near Kewanee, Ill. Moved in 1870 with his parents to Fremont, County, Iowa. Married October 12, 1880, Annie Maria Robbins of

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