_John ENDECOTT ______+
| (1541 - 1635) m 1559
_Thomas ENDECOTT ____|
| (1560 - 1621) m 1580|
| |_Johane _____ _______
| (1541 - 1635) m 1559
|
|--John ENDECOTT
| (1588 - 1664)
| _William WESTLAKE? __
| |
|_Alice WESTLAKE _____|
(1560 - 1624) m 1580|
|_Unknown _____ ______
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HISTORY OF ENDECOTT
John Endecott was born in 1588 [5], the year the English
defeated the Spanish Armada.
"John may have grown up in Stoke-in-Teignhead parish of
Devonshire, the home of his widowed mother. At least he used this
parish as identification when he began proceedings to contest his
grandfather's will, though he apparently did not follow through with
his suit. He spent much time in Dorsetshire and some histories
list this as his home from immigration. It was in this parish that
he came under Puritan influence." [8]
Little is known about John Endecott in his early years except
that he became a lawyer (in many places he is referred to with the
title Esquire) and he signed a marriage document on November 2,
1617, in London, as a witness. The document related to the
marriage of Sir Edward Coke's daughter Frances and Sir John
Villiers; the original is among the private papers of William C.
Endecott of Danvers, Massachusetts. Sir Edward Coke was the Chief
Justice of the King's Bench and Sir John Villiers was a brother of
a favorite of King James I [1, p. 1].
In 1623, Reverend John White, the minister at Dorchester, had
persuaded a group of men to form a company called the Dorchester
Adventurers to found a fishing colony on Cape Anne in America.
After various misfortunes, the company went bankrupt in 1627. A
small group of settlers led by Roger Conant remained. But John
White still believed the idea was sound. Conant suggested in a
letter to him:
"In following times" the base on Massachusetts Bay "might
prove a receptacle for such as upon the account of
religion would be willing to begin a foreign Plantation
in this part of the world" [6, pp. 9-10].
Roger Conant moved fifteen miles south to a better location on
Salem Harbor and John White kept the project alive:
"And conferring casually with some Gentlemen of London,
[the Dorchester enthusiasts] moved them to adde unto them
as many more. By which occasion the businesse came to
agitation afresh in London, and being at first approved
by some and disliked by others, by argument and
disputation it grew to be more vulgar [i.e., widely
known]. In so much, that some men shewing some affection
to the worke, and offering the helpe of their purses, if
fit men might be procured to goe over; Enquiry was made
whither any would be willing to engage their persons in
the Voyage: by this enquiry it fell out that among
others they lighted at last on Master Endecott, a man
well knowne to divers persons of good note: who
manifested much willnesse to accept of the offer as soone
as it was tendered: which gave great encouragement to
such as were upon the point of resolution to set on this
worke, of erecting a new Colony upon the old foundation
[7].
On March 19, 1627/28, a new company, "The New England Company
for a Plantation in Massachusetts" took over the assets of the
Dorchester Company and was granted land in Massachusetts by Robert
Rich, the Earl of Warwick. On the 20th of June, the Abigail,
piloted by Henry Gauden sailed from Weymouth for Massachusetts with
fifty or more planters and servants led by John Endecott. Most of
the known men aboard were from Dorset. A memorial of Endecott and
the sailing of the Abigail is at Weymouth, unveiled by Mrs. Joseph
Chamberlain in 1914, a descendant of Endecott [1, pp. 10-13].
On September 6, 1628 the Abigail dropped anchor in Salem
Harbor and joined Roger Conant and a small number of other
settlers. The town was called Numkeag, but was soon renamed Salem
for the Hebrew word for peace. The winter of 1628/1629 was very
hard and many died including Endecott's first wife, maiden name Anna
Gouer. A physician from Plymouth, Samuel Fuller, came to help and
became a close friend of John Endecott's [1, pp. 13-20].
On March 4, 1628/1629 the King of England granted a charter to
the New England Company in London and it became the "Massachusetts
Bay Company." Captain Endecott was now given the title of Governor
of the plantation in New England and he and advisors were given
legal authority to govern the new colony. Six ships were sent in
1628 with three hundred men, eighty women, and twenty six children.
About one hundred settlers moved to a nearby area that became the
city of Charleston. The winter of 1628/1629 was very hard and more
than eighty settlers died over the winter and many of the remainder
were weak and sick [1, p. 49].
Two of the three ministers that came in 1628 were Separatists
and so were most of the colonists. Separatists believed, like the
Pilgrims, that people should be allowed to choose their own
ministers and be independant of the Church of England. Endecott
quickly established a completely new procedure of having the
congregation vote for their ministers. This was the beginning of
the Congregational Church. Since these actions were politically
dangerous, the Massachusetts Bay Company in London decided it would
be wise to legally move its headquarters to Massachusetts.
Fortunately, the move of headquarters was allowed by the King and
the Attorney General [1, pp. 50-51].
On October 20, 1629 new officers were elected and John
Winthrop was made Governor of the Colony and the head of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony. Endecott was made an Assistant (like a
member of the Board of Directors). On June 12, 1630 Winthrop
arrived at Salem with a fleet of ships and assumed command of the
Massachusetts Bay Company in America. They found Salem in a very
bad condition and about one hundred prospective settlers stayed on
the ships and returned to England [1, pp. 52-55].
On August 18, 1630 John Endecott married Elizabeth Cogan in
Charleston, Massachusetts. Elizabeth Cogan was then called Mrs.
Elizabeth Gibson; she was a widow who had come with the fleet of
ships that arrived with Winthrop [2]. She was the daughter of
Philibert Cogan of Chard in Somersetshire [3]. Genealogists do not
know for certain but generally agree that her last home in England
was in Cambridgeshire [4]. Her sister, Mary, was Mrs. Roger Ludlow
who was one of the Directors (called Assistants) of the
Massachusetts Bay Company [1, p.56].
Most of the new colonists and the leaders moved to a nearby
area that became Boston and Cambridge. Endecott was known as
Captain Endecott and he remained in a comfortable house Salem.
"Endicott took the oath of office as an assistant September 7,
1630, and was again elected governor March 26, 1649, serving as
governor seventeen years in all. He was a magistrate and one of
the most influential and able statesmen of the colony, in public
office thirty-seven years. He was also a captain of the militia.
He was a zealous Puritan and a pronounced Republican in sentiment.
He was well educated and always a friend of learning as well as
of religion. Like most of his associates in the colony, he was
intolerant. He was a member of the Salem church until November,
1664, though he lived nine years in Boston, having removed there
in 1655. In 1658 he bought a quarter interest in Block Island.
His place of burial is unknown. It is said, however, that his
gravestone or tomb was destroyed by British soldiers in the
Revolution. He married (first) Anna Gower, who came over in 1628
and died in 1629. She was a cousin or niece of Governor Matthew
Craddock, and some of the needlework she did is still preserved.
Governor Endicott married (second) August 17, 1630, Elizabeth
Gibson [maiden name, Cogan], of Cambridge, England. The will of
Governor Endecott was dated May 2, 1659. It mentions his orchard
farm at Salem given him by the court of assistants, July 3, 1632,
and which still belongs to a descendent in the ninth generation;
a farm in Salem which he bought of Henry Chickering, October 4,
1648, which was given to John Endicott at the time of his marriage
in 1653, and which afterward became the home of Rebecca Nourse, of
witchcraft fame; a portion of this house is now being restored by
descendants of Governor Endecott as a memorial to him and his son;
also two farms on the Ipswich river, bought of Captains Trask and
Hawthorne."[9]
[1] "John Endecott, A Biography," Harvard University Press, 1936,
by Lawrence Shaw Mayo.
[2] Winthrop's Journal, as published in the Massachusetts
Historical Society Proceedings, LXII, 354.
[3] New England Historical and Genealogical Register, XLIII, 309-
310; also letter from Henry F. Waters to William Croninshield
Endicott, October 9, 1912, in the "Endicott Papers" (box 12, folder
1) at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
[4] Charles Edward Banks, The Planters of the Commonwealth, p. 70;
Charles Edward Banks, The Winthrop Fleet of 1630, p. 72; Charles M.
Endicott, Memoir of John Endicott.
[5] Based on his age on the date he died.
[6] William Hubbard, A General History of New England (1848), p.
107.
[7] The Planters Plea (attributed to John White), pp. 75-76, as
reprinted in Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, LXII,
419.
[8] "The Devonshire Ancestry of John Endecott," by Sir Roper Lethbridge.
Quote is from a summary written by Carole Patton, P.O. Box 305, Buffalo
Creek, CO 80425.
[9] "Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the
State of Massachusetts," prepared under the editorial supervision of
William Richard Cutter, A.M. and assisted by William Frederick Adams.
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_Samuel Muchmore MCCONNELL __+
| (1827 - 1921) m 1864
_William "Willie" Stoddard MCCONNELL _|
| (1865 - 1912) m 1886 |
| |_Catherine "Katie" STODDARD _+
| (1839 - 1936) m 1864
|
|--Harriet E. MCCONNELL
| (1905 - ....)
| _____________________________
| |
|_Harriet "Hattie" A. WOODFORD ________|
(1865 - ....) m 1886 |
|_____________________________
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_Robert Carothers MCCONNELL _+
| (1824 - 1891) m 1843
_John Andrew MCCONNELL ___________|
| (1846 - 1912) m 1872 |
| |_Margaret HENDERSON _________+
| (1824 - 1914) m 1843
|
|--Margaret MCCONNELL
| (1873 - ....)
| _John BALLARD _______________
| | (1807 - 1870) m 1828
|_Asenath "Asenia" Thurza BALLARD _|
(1852 - 1905) m 1872 |
|_Asenath "Lena" PARKS _______
(1811 - 1863) m 1828
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1880 Census, Sigourney Twp, Keokuk Co., IA
_William PORTER __________
| (1763 - 1850) m 1790
_James PORTER _______|
| (1792 - 1858) m 1814|
| |_Mary Culbertson WILKENS _+
| (1761 - 1827) m 1790
|
|--Nancy PORTER
| (1815 - 1907)
| _Robert WRAY _____________
| | (1766 - 1841)
|_Sarah WRAY _________|
(1797 - 1856) m 1814|
|_Jane (Jean) DOUGLAS _____
(1791 - ....)
[38198] Moved to Mercer County, IL.
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Ronald Gene Porter, 4550 East Castle Dr., McGuire AFB, NJ 08641.
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_Joseph WILLIAMSON ___________________+
| (1756 - 1823) m 1784
_Eleazer WILLIAMSON _|
| (1796 - 1863) m 1825|
| |_Mary MCCONNELL ______________________+
| (1764 - 1831) m 1784
|
|--James Templeton WILLIAMSON
| (1833 - 1838)
| _Jonathan "John" Murray Upham MCNUTT _
| |
|_Chrissana MCNUTT ___|
(1805 - 1833) m 1825|
|_Unknown _____________________________
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