Newland, William F. (b. 10 JUN 1825, d. 30 MAR 1900)

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Title: Census
Media: Census

Page: 1850-OH, Morrow, Franklin

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Title: Census
Media: Census

Page: 1860-IA, Des Moines, Pleasant Grove

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Title: Census
Media: Census

Page: 1870-WI, Waupaca, Caledonia

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Title: Census
Media: Census

Page: 1880-WI, Outagamie, Maine

Death: 30 MAR 1900 Maine, Outagamie, WI

Burial: S. Maine Cemetery, Outagamie, WI

Note: Father could have been Jonathan Ormsby & Rhoda Powell or Major Gideon Ormsby.

Death: BET 1814 AND 1834 Prob. Pawlet, VT

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Title: IGI
Media: Other

Page: AFN:378Q-KC

Death: 31 AUG 1894 Oronoco, MN

Burial: Beaver Dam, W

Death: ABT 1950

Death: 24 NOV 1832 Pawlet, Rutland, VT

Source: (Name)
Title: Robinson Genealogy: Descendents of the Rev. John Robinson
Media: Book

Death: 11 JUN 1792 Windham, CT

Source: (Name)
Title: Robinson Genealogy: Descendents of the Rev. John Robinson
Media: Book

Data:
Text: Says her name was "Sarah"
FHC record AFN:378Q-VW says her name was "Mary"

Death: 15 DEC 1791 Windham, CT

Source: (Name)
Title: Robinson Genealogy: Descendents of the Rev. John Robinson
Media: Book

Death: 22 MAR 1785 Windham, CT

Source: (Name)
Title: Robinson Genealogy: Descendents of the Rev. John Robinson
Media: Book

Death: 9 JAN 1795 Windham, CT

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Title: IGI
Media: Other

Page: AFN:C45X-BQ

Death: 1760 Windham, CT

Death: 18 MAY 1710

Source: (Name)
Title: Robinson Genealogy: Descendents of the Rev. John Robinson
Media: Book

Source: (Name)
Title: The Great Migration Begins
Author: Robert Charles Anderson
Media: Book

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Death: BET 6 FEB 1738/39 AND 15 APR 1740 Windham, CT

Source: (Name)
Title: The Great Migration Begins
Author: Robert Charles Anderson
Media: Book

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Death: ABT 1690 Tisbury or Barnstable, MA

Source: (Name)
Title: The Great Migration Begins
Author: Robert Charles Anderson
Media: Book

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Data:
Text: She could NOT have been daughter of John Manter Jr. [TAG 18:47]

Death: 30 APR 1727

Note: This early settler in the town was one of the Cape Cod men. He was first known there at Eastham, when in 1657 he was admitted as a freeman, under the name of John Mantah. [*The name being an unusual one was frequently misspelled in the Cape Cod records and appears as Martin occasionally.] From this, supposing him to have been at least 21 years of age, the date of his birth can be placed at 1636 or thereabouts. In 1668 he was on a coroner's jury in the case of the accidental death of Isaac Robinson, Jr., of Barnstable, older brother of our Isaac. [*Plymouth Col. Rec., V, 7. ]

John Manter married Martha, daughter of Bernard Lambert, July 1, 1657, who was born in Barnstable Sept. 19, 1640, and died in Tisbury Oct. 3, 1724. Eight children of record were born to them. At some date unknown, probably before 1668, he removed to Falmouth, then called Succonessit, where he acquired considerable property. He remained there until 1677, when he became attracted to the Vineyard and effected an exchange of his house and lands there on Dec. 24, 1677, with Nathaniel Skiffe, one of the early proprietors of this town. He gave Skiffe

"my house with threescore acres of land adjoining thereunto; all other housing appertaining thereunto lying and being in the township of Sacconessit in the Collonie of New Plymouth with a whole share of meadow lying in the great marsh with a share of meadow in the little marsh which I bought of Jonathan Hatch with all my meadow lying at the Bass pond with half a town right in all undivided lands and meadows with all and singular privileges and apputrenances whatsoever thereunto belonging." [*Dukes Deeds, I, 272.]

In return he received the eastern half of the Josiah Standish lot on which the house of the late Henry L. Whiting now stands. For some reason this did not suit his purpose and on May 4, 1678, he bought of Thomas 3 Mayhew the seven-acre lot on the east side of the Chilmark road, at the turn opposite the church, together with that part of a "neck of land" adjoining on the south, and east of "Merrys Field," and a half lot to the north, formerly belonging to James Skiffe, Jr. These properties remained in the family by inheritance for several generations. Two years later he sold the Standish lot to Mayhew. [*Dukes Deeds, I, 98, 267.]

John Manter began early a career of usefulness in the town. He was on a committee to lay out land, Sept. 29, 1677, [*Ibid., II, 306.] his first recorded appearance here, and in 1679 and 1689 was chosen surveyor of highways. In 1681 he was a juror and in 1692 was appointed as Ensign in the Foot Company of Tisbury. This military instinct seemed to be transmitted to his descendants, particularly through the line of Whitten, 3 whose sons Robert and Jeremiah served in the French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars. He was chosen selectman in 1699, 1703, 1704, 1705, and had acted in behalf of the town in minor capacities previous to those dates. [*Town Records, 31, 45, 48, 50.] By this time he was about three score and ten and sons had grown up about him to take his place, both destined to follow in the footsteps of their father as useful citizens.

He died probably early in 1708, as his will, dated Sept. 12, 1698, was admitted to probate May 25, 1708, and the last time his name appears in the town records is March 28, 1707, in a division of land. [*Tisbury Records, 52.] The following is an abstract of his will:

To Son John all my land at "Keephegon" and all my several shares of land in the necks eastward from the Old Mill Brook, and half a common write in said town.

To Son Benjamin my Dwelling house, with all my lands both meadow land and upland ajoining thereto with all out housing and fencing whatsoever thereto belonging and also half a common write in said town.

All my movable estate unto his three daughters to be divided equally among them.

[*Dukes Probate, I, 19, 20.]

It will be seen that Benjamin inherited the homestead, and then, after his father's death, added by purchases of his own, the entire section bounded by the Chilmark road, Mill path and Old Mill brook on the east, which constituted the Manter estate until the present century.

Mrs. Manter survived her husband sixteen years, and died at the ripe old age of eighty-four.

[See also The Manter Family for more information about John Manter's descendants.]

Source: (Name)
Title: History of Martha's Vineyard
Author: Charles Edward Banks, MD
Media: Book

Death: ABT 1708 Tisbury, MA

Source: (Name)
Title: History of Martha's Vineyard
Author: Charles Edward Banks, MD
Media: Book

Death: 3 OCT 1724 Tisbury, MA

Note: Isaac came on the ship "Lion" in 1631, at the age of 21, to Plymouth, Mass.

He was made Freeman in 1633 and lived in Duxbury in 1634. In 1635 he sold his land in Plymouth and moved to Scituate, Mass. He joined the church at Barnstable, Mass. on Nov. 7, 1636. Isaac was an assistant to the Governor in 1637, and one of the Deputies to the first colony court in 1639. He was a prominent lawyer constantly employed in public affairs. In 1659, he was asked to attend Quaker meetings to help the Quakers see the error of their ways. Instead, upon attendance, he felt that the laws that had been enacted against the Quakers were tyrannical and should be repealed. He wrote a letter to the magistrates stating this. As a consequence in 1660, the court ordered him stripped of his rights as a freeman, which lasted for 13 years.

In 1941, Mary Lovering Holman presented the ancestory of Isaac Robinson and his descendants. [TAG 17:207-15, 18:45-55]

The first of this family to come to Tisbury was Isaac, the second son of Rev. John Robinson, famous as the pastor of the Pilgrims at Leyden, Netherlands, and of Bridget White his wife. [*Rev. John Robinson was a native of Lincolnshire, born about 1575. He matriculated at Emanuel College, Cambridge, in 1592, becoming a Fellow of Corpus Christi six years later. He resigned in 1604 and became identified with the Puritans or Dissenters, and fled to Amsterdam about 1608 and thence removed in 1609 to Leyden. His record as spiritual leader of the English exiles, who later became the "Mayflower" Pilgrims, is well known. He died March 1, 1625. His wife, whom he had married in Northampton, England, Feb. 15, 1603, survived, and perhaps came to New England in the fleet with Winthrop (Letter, Shirley to Bradford, March 8, 1629-30).] "He came not to New England" writes Sewall, "till the year in which Mr [John] Wilson was returning to England after the settlement of Boston.'' [*Sewall, Diary. He came in the ship "Lyon."] This was in 1631, and Isaac immediately settled at Plymouth, later removing to Duxbury (1634), Scituate (1636), Barnstable (1639) and Falmouth (1660). In Scituate he married for his first wife Margaret, daughter of Theophilus and Eglin (Mortimer) Hanford, June 27, 1636, sister of Rev. Thomas Hanford of Norwalk, Conn., and niece of Mr. Timothy Hatherly. By her he had five children and after her death (June 14, 1649), he married second, Mary Faunce, 1650, and four more children, all sons, were the fruit of this union.

By reason of his parentage he was a prominent man in Plymouth Colony, but later in 1669, for displaying liberality toward the doctrines of the Quakers, was disfranchised by Governor Thomas Prince. It appears that he had attended their meetings for the purpose of showing them the error of their ways, but instead of accomplishing this, became self -convicted and embraced some of their beliefs. He was restored to citizenship in 1673 by Governor Winslow. [*The old record of disfranchisement is interlined with the words:"there being some mistake in this the said Isaac at his request is re-established." (Hiss. of Falmouth, 13.)]

It appears that Isaac Robinson with others, in 1660, decided to leave Barnstable presumably for the Vineyard, and took letters of dismissal to the church at Great Harbor, but finally decided to settle at Falmouth. [*Records, Church, West Barnstable, comp. History of Falmouth. He built his house in 1661 on the neck between Fresh and Salt Ponds, Falmouth Heights.] How long he remained an actual resident of that town is not known, but in May, 1671, he was admitted a proprietor of the new settlement at Takemmy, and probably soon after this became identified with Tisbury. At this time he was about 60 years of age, having been born in 1610, and he was perhaps, with the exception of Joseph Merry, the oldest resident of the new settlement. In 1673 he became associated with the "Dutch Rebellion," but suffered no punishment therefor, unless the records are silent regarding him. His four sons by the second marriage, Israel, Jacob, Peter and Thomas, became residents of the Vineyard, though none of them left descendants here to perpetuate the name. Those who resided here in the next century were his descendants through his first marriage. His son Israel, baptized Oct. 5, 1651, assumed the name of Isaac in memory of an older half brother of that name who was drowned in 1668, and was ever after known by the adopted name. [*He signed as Israel in 1670 and 1671. Tisbury Records, 3, 4.] This change made two Isaac Robinsons in the town and creates difficulties in identification of the one whose name appears on the records, but it is probable that he is the "good man" Robinson chosen townsman in 1678, 1680, 1683, rather than the younger of the name. He had his home lot on the east side of Old Mill river, bounded on the south by the Mill path. This he sold in November, 1701, to his son Isaac, together with all his dividend lots in various parts of the town. [*Dukes Deeds, II, 35. This establishes the identity of Isaac Senior as the resident here, as his son Isaac was childless.] He was then over ninety years of age, but continued to reside here, presumably with one of his sons. Sewall saw him here when on a visit in 1702 and thus refers to the incident:

"He saith he is 92 years old is the son of Mr. Robinson pastor of the ch. of Leyden, part of wch came to Plimo. * * * * I told him I was very desirous to see him for his fathers sake and his own. Gave him an Arabian piece of gold to buy a book for some of his grand children." [*Sewall, Diary.]

According to tradition this scion of a distinguished family died about 1704 in Barnstable at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Fear Baker. "A venerable man," writes Prince in his Annals, "whom I have often seen."

His sons Isaac and Jacob remained in Tisbury, dying within eighteen days of each other, in 1718, while the other two brothers, Peter and Thomas, removed to Connecticut early in the 18th century.

Source: (Name)
Title: Robinson Genealogy: Descendents of the Rev. John Robinson
Media: Book

Source: (Name)
Title: The Great Migration Begins
Author: Robert Charles Anderson
Media: Book

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Death: 1704 Barnstable, MA

Source: (Name)
Title: Robinson Genealogy: Descendents of the Rev. John Robinson
Media: Book

Death: AFT 8 NOV 1669 Barnstable, MA

Source: (Name)
Title: Robinson Genealogy: Descendents of the Rev. John Robinson
Media: Book

Death: 13 JUN 1649 MA

Note: Rev. John Robinson is known as "The Pastor of the Pilgrims".

He attended Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, England in 1592. Six years later, March 27, 1598, he received the degree of "Fellow" with all of the privileges of that office. He became the pastor of St. Andrew's in the city of Norwich, Norfolk, England, "a man worthily reverenced of all the city for the grace of god in him." He was not in full sympathetic touch over the vestments and ceremonies insisted upon by the Established Church of England which culminated in his abandonment of the orders, for which he and many of his congregation were fined, and resulted, in 1604, in his resignation of his degree of "Fellow". Soon after, Rev. Robinson left Norwich with his family and locating in Scrooby, in Nottinghamshire near Sturton, England and becoming the chosen pastor of the Puritans who gathered at the residence of William Brewster. Rev. Robinson and his band of devote followers became identified as Nonconformists.

On Dec. 1, 1607, an Action was brought against some member of the church at Scrooby, to appear at the Collegiate Church of Southwell in answer to the charge of being "Separatists." For non-appearance they were fined 20 pounds apiece. Further oppression became so persistent that the Rev. John Robinson and his church decided to go over into Netherlands where they had been informed there was freedom of religion for all men. To emigrate without a license was prohibited by an ancient statute of Richard III. They found it as unlawful to leave their native land as to remain in it unless they conformed to the orders of the established Church of England. In this dilemma they decided to charter a vessel and make Boston, on the coast of Lincolnshire County, the point of their departure. Thereupon they closed an agreement with a captain for transport, but as they were embarking, they were arrested, taken to Boston and confined in the Guildhall prison. They were placed on trial and sentenced to a month imprisonment.

Undaunted by their failure to escape, they formulated other plans in the following Spring and at last reached Amsterdam where they remained for a year. He moved with the church in the winter of 1607-8 to Amsterdam, Netherlands where he preached to a band of followers for a year. His flock settled in Leyden, Netherlands and became known as "the Pilgrims."

Early in 1617, there was a great call for colonists to settle in Virginia. Rev. Robinson, along with William Brewster, the church Elder, and other prominent members formulated a plan with Thomas Weston, to form a joint stock company raising funds to charter a ship to sail to the Colonies.

The band of "Pilgrims" left Netherlands in July 1620 for England arriving at Southampton and were joined by the "Speedwell" and left from Plymouth, England. They landed at Plymouth, 11 Dec 1620. Rev. Robinson remained in Leyden, intending to rejoin them, but died before arrangements were made for transport to America.

Source: (Name)
Title: Robinson Genealogy: Descendents of the Rev. John Robinson
Media: Book

Occupation: Place: Was the pastor of St. Andrew's church in Norwich, England. He was

Death: 19 FEB 1624/25 Leyden, Netherlands

Burial: 1625 Pieterskerk, Leyden, Netherlands