Richmond, Ebenezer (b. 12 MAY 1676, d. BET 7 APR AND 12 MAY 1729)

Note: Ebenezer was active in the Middleboro, Massachusetts and Taunton communities as a businessman, constable, and other elected positions. He was also a large land owner, much of it inherited from his father John(2). There was also the constant worry about the Indians which continued for several years. In 1700 he married Anna Sproat of Scituate, granddaughter of Henry Samson of the Mayflower. Her father was Robert Sproat and her mother Elizabeth Samson of Duxbury. We know this information is correct because, in Robert Sproat's will, which is recorded in the Plymouth County Probate Records, Volume III, pages 222-224, daughter Anna is one of his heirs and "The inventory was taken by Ebenezer Richmond (husband of daughter Anna Richmond named in will)....."

Death: BET 7 APR AND 12 MAY 1729

Death: ABT 1739

Note: Coming from a long line of military men as well as men who were leaders of Taunton for three generations, it is not surprising that Sylvester was not only an outstanding citizen of his community but also chose to join to fight in the French and Indian War.

Death: 9 DEC 1804 New Braintree, MA

Death: 20 JUL 1789 New Braintree, MA

Death: 10 NOV 1807

Death: 27 DEC 1819 New Braintree, MA

Death: 1791

Death: 22 JUL 1808 New Braintree, MA

Death: 17 SEP 1778 Died in childbirth

Note: John Rogers (Thomas-1) was born around 1614, either in England or in Leiden, Netherlands. He was the son of Thomas Rogers and his wife Elizabeth ------. Further proof of this relationship lies in the fact that a grant of fifty acres of land was made to each of "Joseph Rogers and John Rogers his brother" on 6 April 1640. Id. Joseph, Thomas' son, was the only Joseph in the Colonies at this time.

John grew up in Leiden, where his parents had moved to escape religious persecution in England. They lived there with an expatriate group of Englishmen who later emigrated to America aboard the Mayflower: the Pilgrims. John's father Thomas and his elder brother Joseph sailed on the Mayflower in 1620, intending to send for the rest of the family once they were established. Unfortunately, his father was one of the many that died during that first winter.

After the death of his mother in Leiden, John sailed for the new Plymouth Colony with the last of the Leiden Pilgrim community. According to Savage, he took the oath of allegiance on 22 June 1632 in Egland required of all those who sought to emigrate, and sailed aboard the Lion which landed on September 16. He was well established there by 25 March 1633, when his name appears on the colony's tax list as having paid nine shillings.

On 20 October 1634, he bought a lot in the Duxbury area of the colony. On 6 April 1640, he received a fifty acre grant of land at the North River at Marshfield. On 3 June 1662, he was one of the "ancient freemen" who was given land on the northerly side of Taunton. In May 1664, he sold half his meadow northwest of "Joanes River." On 2 July 1667, he was granted 100 acres on the Coteticutt (now Titicut) River between Middleboro and Taunton. On 23 August 1670, he and his wife acknowledged a deed dated 30 October 1654 in which he had sold the fifty acres granted to him in 1640. He was given another 100 acres on the northeast side of Taunton on 4 July 1673. In his last recorded land transaction, on 5 January 1680 he sold an acre of land in Duxbury to Wrestling Brewster.

On 16 April 1639, he married ANNA? CHURCHMAN in Plymouth. While some authorities state that she was the daughter of Hugh Churchman -- apparently the only Churchman in the colony at the time -- others give her parentage as uncertain.

John was a weaver by profession. He first served on a jury on 7 December 1641. Admitted a freeman on 1 March 1641/2, he served in several civil positions thereafter. He was appointed the Surveyor of Highways on 5 June 1644, and served as a Deputy on 3 June 1657. He was made a Constable of Duxbury on 5 June 1666.

His will, dated 26 August 1691, was proved on 20 September 1692; so he must have died in Duxbury sometime between those two dates, most likely in the summer of 1692. It provided:

" On the 26 August in the year of our Lord 1691:

In the name of God Amen. I John Rogers senr of Duxborough in the County of New Plimouth Being Sick and weak of Body but of Sound and perfect mind and memory Praise be therefore Given to Almighty God doe make and ordain this my present last will and Testament in maner and forme following that is to say first and Principally I comend my soul into the hands of Almighty God Hoping through the merits Death and Passion of my Saviour Jesus Christ to have full and free pardon and forgiveness of all my sins and to inherit Everlasting Life. And my Body I Commit to the earth to be decently Buried at the discretion of my Executor hereafter named. And as Touching the Disposall of all Such Temporall Estate as it hath Pleased God to bestow upon me I Give and Dispose thereof as followeth. first I will that my debts and funerall charges be paid.
Item I Give unto my Grandson John Rogers all my houses and Lands Lying and being in the Township of Duxborough in the County aforesaid to him and his heires forever.
I Give also unto my Grandson John Tisdall for the use of his mother Anne Terrey one half of my Land Divided and undivided lying and being in the Township of Middleborough Excepting my Right in the Majors Purchase And my Will is that this Land be disposed of according to his mothers mind.
Item I Give unto my Daughter Elizabeth Williams the other half of sd tract of Land in the Township of Middleborough as aforesaid to her and heires. All my Cattell I Will that they be Equally divided Between my Daughter Elizabeth Williams and my Grandson John Rogers and my Grandson John Tisdall.
Item I Give all my houshold Stuff and moneys whatsoever unto my Grandson John Rogers out of which he shall pay forty shillings to his sister Elizabeth Rogers and twenty shillings apeece to his other three sisters Hannah Bradford Ruth Rogers and Sarah Rogers.
Also I Give that twenty shillings a year which is due for fourscore acres of land which I sold to my two Grandsons Joseph Richmond and Edward Richmond which said twenty shillings a year I Give to my daughter Abigail Richmond.
I Doe hereby Constitute make and appoint my Loving Son John Rogers sole Executor and Administrator of this my last Will and Testament."

It is unclear when Anna died. She was alive as late as 23 August 1670, when she is mentioned in an acknowledgement of a deed.

Death: BET 26 AUG 1691 AND 20 SEP 1692 Duxbury, Plymouth, MA

Death: AFT 1670 Duxbury, Plymouth, MA

Note: The often published descent of Thomas Rogers from John Rogers the Martyr is complete fiction. Thomas Roger's true English origins were discovered in 1989 by Clifford Stott and published with supporting documentation in The Genealogist 10:138-149. Thomas Rogers was the son of William and Eleanor Rogers, and grandson of William and Joan Rogers. Thomas' marriage to Alice Cosford and his children's baptisms are all found in the parish registers of Watford, Northampton, England.

Our earliest known encounter with Pilgrim Thomas Rogers was on 25 June 1618 when he became a citizen of Leiden, Netherlands, vouched for by William Jepson, formerly of Worksop, Notts., and by Roger Wilson, formerly of Sandwich, Kent Co. Engalnd. Banks therefore speculates that Rogers might have been from one of those towns. On 1 April 1620 Thomas sold his Leiden house on the Barbarasteeg for 300 guilders, in preparation for the journey to New England.

Governor Bradford says in his history of the Plymouth settlement that on board the Mayflower were "Thomas Rogers and Joseph, his son. His other children came afterwards......Thomas Rogers died in the first sickness, but his son Joseph is still living (1650) and is married and hath six children. The rest of Thomas Rogers' [children] came over and are married and have many children." Therefore we know that Thomas and his son Joseph arrived at Cape Cod aboard the ship Mayflower and on 11 November 1620. Thomas was one of forty-one signers of the Mayflower Compact. Thomas did not live through the rigorous winter which carried off half the group, but young Joseph, like so many of the children, did survive.

Recent discoveries show that Thomas had a family living in Leiden, Netherlands, when the 1622 Poll Tax was taken. In the Over "t Hoff Quarter, in a house with other Pilgrim families in St. Peter's Churchyard west-side, were Jan Thomas, orphan from England without means; Elsgen Rogiers, widow of Thonis Rogiers, an Englishwoman; and Lysbeth and Grietgen her children, poor people. Translated this could read John, son of Thomas; Elizabeth Rogers, widow of Thomas; and Elizabeth and Margaret, her children. At that period the word orphan meant that either or both parents were dea

In the 1623 Plymouth Colony land division, Joseph Rogers was allotted two acres-one for himself and one on behalf of his late father. He may have been living in the household of Governor Bradford with who he was grouped on 22 May 1627, in the division of cattle. Joseph and twelve other inhabitants of Plymouth received "an heyfer of the last year which was of the Great white-back cow that was brought over in the Ann and two shee goats."

Governor Bradford's statement that the rest of Thomas Rogers' children came over and married and had children, seems clearly to indicate that more than one of his children came to New England after 1620. We know that his son John came to Plymouth about 1630. Although many other male Rogers immigrants have been claimed as sons of Thomas the Pilgrim, none of the claims has been proved and some have been disproved. Therefore it seems likely that at least one of the Rogers daughters who were living in Netherlands in 1622 came over. John and Joseph Rogers each named a daughter Elizabeth, perhaps thereby indicating that their sister Elizabeth lived in New England. Unfortunately extensive research has failed to uncover any further evidence.

Death: 1621 Plymouth, Plymouth, MA

Source: (Name)
Title: Gen. Dict. of First Settlers of New England
Author: James Savage
Media: Book

Source: (Birth)
Title: Internet-Descendants of Benjamin Taft
Media: Other

Note: http://members.cowtown.net/dtaft/taft3.html

Page: Rhonda McPherson - rhondamcpherson@@yahoo.com

Death: 15 DEC 1874 Big Spring, Adams, WI

Burial: Big Spring Cemetery, New Haven, Adams, WI

Note: From the Adams Co. Compendium:

Mrs. Amelia Hyatt, nee Seward, of New Haven township, Adams county, Wisconsin, is a worthy representative of an old and honored family of this state, and is one of its pioneer teachers. She was born in Almond, Allegany county, New York, November 12, 1838, a daughter of Enos and Mary (Hopkins) Seward. Her maternal grandfather was a soldier of the Revolutionary war and was killed by Indians. He possessed long, curly, red hair, and his death was ascertained by finding his scalp in possession of the Indians. Her father, then an old man, conducted twenty women and children on foot through the forests from Pennsylvania to Connecticut, as their husbands and fathers were all in the war and the Indians had become very troublesome. A brother of Mrs. Hyatt's paternal grandmother was one of the first settlers of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and the town was named in his honor. He was a trapper and fur dealer. Her father, Enos Seward, was a near relative of William H. Seward, President Lincoln's secretary of state. The record of the Seward family can be traced back to 1760. They were pioneer settlers of Allegany county, New York, where they made their first improvements, and assisted in organizing the school distracts and establishing churches, etc.

Mrs. Hyatt was educated in the common schools of New York and Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, having come to this state in 1852. At the age of fifteen years she commenced teaching the first distract school in what is now known as the Vroman district of Jackson township, Adams county, conducting the same in a building twelve feet square, intended for a smoke house. She received a dollar and a quarter per week and "boarded round" among the scholars. She continued teaching for four years, and among her scholars were Mrs. Frazier Oxford, Janie Johnson and Bill Johnson. Her sister, Amanda, taught the first school in the Ward district of New Haven township, Adams county.

On the 31st of August, 1858, Miss Amelia Seward gave her hand in marriage to W.F. Hyatt, of New Haven township, who was born September 29, 1832, in Ascott, Ontario, Canada, and came to Wisconsin in 1856. His father, Abraham C. Hyatt, was born in Connecticut, but at an early day, went to Canada, traveling on horseback. W. F. Hyatt worked in the pineries and at other occupations until 1864, when he purchased eighty acres of rich and arable land in New Haven township, Adams county, to which he afterward added a forty-acre tract, and upon which he made many useful and valuable improvements. In October 1864, he enlisted in Company D, Seventh Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and remained in the service until the close of the war, participating in many hard-fought engagements and in the Weldon railroad raid. He was finally taken ill and sent to a hospital in Washington, D.C., from which he was discharged when hostilities ceased. On his return home he resumed farming, and was accounted one of the most successful agriculturists of his community. He was a man of high moral worth, was reared in the Universalist faith, and was greatly attached to his family. He even took a commendable interest in public affairs. He died May 3, 1890, and his death was widely and deeply mourned. Mrs. Hyatt now successfully carried on the home farm and has displayed good business and executive ability in the management of her affairs since her husband's death.

In the family were the following children: Nora is the wife of Charles Hartson, a farmer and business man in New Rockford, North Dakota. Orilla, wife of H. Tyler, died August 24, 1890, and was buried in Plainville, Wisconsin. Irvin L. died in infancy. Eda is the wife of Dell Foot, a farmer of Jackson township, Adams county. Katie is the wife of Willis Turner, of Oxford, Wisconsin. A. Maxie, born February 16, 1874, was educated in the common and high schools of Augusta, and now has charge of his mother's farm. He is an industrious and temperate young man, and highly respected by all who know him. He was married, May 31, 1899, to Lulu Ross. Edna is the wife of M. Holian, a farmer of Dell Prairie township, Adams County

Source: (Name)
Title: Census
Media: Census

Page: 1910-WI, Adams, New Haven
Data:
Text: Living with her daughter, Katie.

Death: 6 AUG 1915 Big Spring, New Haven, Adams, WI

Burial: Big Spring Cemetery, New Haven, Adams, WI

Source: (Death)
Title: VR-Wis
Media: Book

Page: Adams Co. Death records 01 0057 001 0217

Death: 3 MAY 1890 Big Spring, Adams, WI

Burial: Big Spring Cemetery, New Haven, Adams, WI

Note: Amanda taught the first school in the Ward district of New Haven township, Adams county, Wis.

Source: (Name)
Title: Columbia, Sauk & Adams Counties Biographical Record
Publication: 1901 Geo. A. Ogle
Media: Book

Death: AFT 1900 Jackson, Adams, WI

Death: 27 JUN 1944 Hamilton, Ravalli, MT

Death: 24 AUG 1890 Plainville, Adams, WI

Burial: Plainville, WI

Death: 17 MAR 1867 Died young, Big Spring, Adams Co., WI

Burial: Big Spring Cemetery, New Haven, Adams, WI