William Mullins @ Plymouth Colony

The first Thanksgiving

William Mullins is the 7th great-grandfather of Belle Champlin (William Mullins, Priscilla Mullins, David Alden, Elizabeth Alden, Patience Seabury, Elizabeth Latham, John Champlin, Erastus Champlin, Henry Charles Champlin, Birdie Belle Champlin).

William Mullins was born about 1572 probably in Dorking, Surrey, England. He married Alice, last name unknown. They both arrived at Plymouth on the Mayflower, with children Joseph, and Priscilla, who married John Alden. He died on 21 Feb 1621, and his wife Alice died soon thereafter. William and Alice Mullins were among the many who perished that first winter.

Will of William Mullins:

In the name of God Amen: I comit my soule to God that gave it and my bodie to the earth from whence it came. Alsoe I give my goodes as followeth That fforty poundes in the hand of goodman Woodes I give my wife tenn poundes, my sonne Joseph tenn poundes, my daughter Priscilla tenn poundes, and my eldest sonne tenn poundes Also I give to my eldest sonne all my debtes, bonds, bills (onelye yt forty poundes excepted in the handes of goodman Wood) given as aforsaid wth all the stock in his owne handes. To my eldest daughter I give ten shillings to be paied out of my sonnes stock Furthermore that goodes I have in Virginia as followeth To my wife Alice halfe my goodes & to Joseph and Priscilla the other halfe equallie to be devided betweene them. Alsoe I have xxj dozen of shoes, and thirteene paire of bootes wch I give into the Companies handes for forty poundes at seaven years and if thy like them at that rate. If it be thought to deare as my Overseers shall thinck good And if they like them at that rate at the divident I shall have nyne shares whereof I give as followeth twoe to my wife, twoe to my sonne William, twoe to my sonne Joseph, twoe to my daugher Priscilla, and one to the Companie. Allsoe if my sonne William will come to Virginia I give him my share of land furdermore I give to my twoe Overseers Mr John Carver and Mr Williamson, twentye shillinges apeece to see this my will performed desiringe them that he would have an eye over my wife and children to be as fathers and freindes to them; Allsoe to have a speciall eye to my man Robert wch hathe not so approved himselfe as I would he should have done.

This is a Coppye of Mr Mullens his Will of all particulars he hathe given. In witnes whereof I have sett my hande John Carver, Giles Heale, Christopher Joanes.

Vicesimo tertio : die mensis Julii Anno Domini Millesimo sexcentesimo vicesimo primo Emanavit Commissio Sare Blunden als Mullins filie naturali et legitime dicti defuncti ad administrand bona iura et credita eiusdem defuncti iuxta tenorem et effectum testamenti suprascripti eo quod nullum in eodem testamento nominavit executorem de bene ect Jurat. 68, Dale.

[Translation of the Latin]: In the month of July Anno Domini 1621. On the 23rd day issued a commission to Sarah Blunden, formerly Mullins, natural and legitimate daughter of William Mullins, late of Dorking in the County of Surrey, but deceased in parts beyond the seas, seized &c., for administering the goods, rights and credits of the said deceased, according to the tenor and effect of the will of the said deceased because in that will he named no executor. In due form &c. swears.ell

Monument at Cole's Hill Burial Ground, Plymouth, Massachusetts

 

 

Elizabeth Partridge @ Duxbury

Elizabeth Partridge is the 6th great-grandmother of Belle Champlin (Elizabeth Partridge, Patience Kemp, John Seabury, Patience Seabury, Elizabeth Latham, John Champlin, Erastus Champlin, Henry Champlin, Birdie Belle Champlin).

Elizabeth Partridge was born 1621 in Sutton, Kent, England, daughter of Reverend Ralph Partridge and Patience Bathurst. She died 2 Jun 1664 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. She married William Kemp. He died by 23 Sep 1641.
 



A colonial ship such as the ship James

William Kemp sailed as a servant on the ship James in 1635.On 3 Jun 1636, Elizabeth Partridge arrived in Plymouth Colony on the ship James, with her father.  Their daughter, Patience Kemp, married Doctor Samuel Seabury.
 



Duxbury on Plymouth Bay



Boston and the Cape

 

John Seabury @ Boston

Boston Harbor

 

John Seabury is the 6th great-grandfather of Belle Champlin (John Seabury, Samuel Seabury, John Seabury, Patience Seabury, Elizabeth Latham, John Champlin, Erastus Champlin, Henry Charles Champlin, Birdie Belle Champlin).

 

John Seabury was born before 1622 in England. He died before 1662. He married Grace Lane. They had 2 sons and some daughters.

-Duxbury History by Winsor, pg 305

Historical shoreline of Boston Harbor

 It appears he first landed in Boston, as son Samuel was born there in 1640. He purchased land in Boston in 1640 from Walter Merry. On Nov 25, 1639, the Boston selectmen gave leave for John Seaberry to buy "our brother Water Merrye's house, and half an acre under it in the Mylne field". In 1641, "John Seberry" sued Walter Merry for 15 pounds, saying that the original purchase price for the house, 170 pounds, was an overvaluation. 

-The Great Migration Begins, Anderson, 1995
 

He appears to have moved on to Duxbury later as evidenced by land ownership that son Samuel sued over. John Seabury went to Barbadoes after son John was born, and returned to have more children.

-Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England, Farmer-Drake, 1989

 

Doctor Samuel Seabury @ Duxbury

 

 

Seabury House

Samuel Seabury is the 5th great-grandfather of Belle Champlin (Samuel Seabury, John Seabury, Patience Seabury, Elizabeth Latham, John Champlin, Erastus Champlin, Henry Charles Champlin, Birdie Belle Champlin).


Samuel Seabury was christened 10 Dec 1640 in Boston, Massachusetts. He died 5 Aug 1681. He married Patience Kemp on 16 Nov 1660 in Weymouth, Massachusetts. She died 16 years later on 29 Oct 1676 in Duxbury, Massachusetts. They had 8 children. He remarried in 1677 to Martha Pabodie,(granddaughter of John Alden), they had 3 children.


Samuel Seabury was a physician. He apparently moved to Duxbury while young, lived and died there. Both Samuel and Patience died relatively young, leaving eight young children to be cared for by others. They were aged 2-15 when their mother died, ae 35. Samuel remarried six-months later, and they were aged 7-20 years old when Samuel died, ae 41.

"Samuel, (son of John), removed to Duxbury; a physician...Samuel Seabury, sonne of the late John Seabury of Boston (now living in Duxbury), this 10th of April, 1662, entered his claim to a certain house and parcel of land heretofore belonging to his father, now belonging to his brother John Seaberry of Barbadoes and himself, the said house and land being in possession of one Nathaniel Fryer, who detains it from them under a pretence of a purchase from Alexander Adam, and he from John Milom, the land being about half an acre more or lesse, and bounded with the land formerly Isaaac Grosse, northwest, Walter Merry on the southeast and southwest, and the bay northeast, which claim he resolves to prosecute..... "

-Suffolk deeds, Vol III

"Samuel Seabury owned land at Is. Ck, North river, the Gurnet and at the brick-kilns. The 'Seabury House' stood where Wait Wadsworth's now stands, and was a large old fashioned building, very high in front, but with the roof nearly reaching to the ground behind.

Both Samuel and his wife refer to 'negro servants' in their wills. His will gives to son Samuel his landed property in Duxbury; to son Joseph, "those great silver buttons, which I usually wear;.. to son John my birding piece and musket; I will that my negro servant Nimrod (valued at 27 pounds) be disposed off either by heir or sale in order to the bringing up of my children, especially the three youngest now borne." In her mother's will, daughter Elizabeth is given a negro girl Jane, and a cow, if she returns."

-History of the Town of Duxbury, Justin Winsor, 1849.

 

Constant Southworth @ Duxbury

Constant Southworth is the 6th great-grandfather of Belle Champlin (Constant Southworth, Mary Southworth, Elizabeth Alden, Patience Seabury, Elizabeth Latham, John Champlin, Erastus Champlin, Henry Charles Champlin, Birdie Belle Champlin).

Constant Southworth was born 1614 in Leyden, Holland, son of Edward Southworth and Alice Carpenter. He died 10 Mar 1678 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, ae 64. Constant married on 2 Nov 1637 in Plymouth, Massachusetts to Elizabeth Collier, daughter of William Collier. They had 8 children.

Following the death of his father, Constant came to the New World aboard the third vessel to Plymouth Colony in 1628 with his mother Alice, who was to marry William Bradford, the Governor of Massachusetts. He was educated by his stepfather. Constant was one of the early settlers of Duxbury when he removed there in 1633 at the age of 19. He was made a Freeman in 1637.

Constant Southworth served as:

Commissioner for the United Colonies, aft. 1633

Representative to the Legislature, aft. 1633

Governor of Kennebec Plantation, aft. 1633

Assistant Governor of Plymouth, aft. 1633

Volunteer in the Pequot War, 1637

Ensign, 1646

Treasurer, 1663-1679

Commissary General in King Philip's War, 1675

Constant Southworth is the supposed author of the supplement in 1669, to

New England's Memorial.

William Collier @ Duxbury



In 1625, William and Jane lost 5 of their children to the Plague.

William Collier is the 7th great-grandfather of Belle Champlin (William Collier, Elizabeth Collier, Mary Southworth, Elizabeth Alden, Patience Seabury, Elizabeth Latham, John Champlin, Erastus Champlin, Henry Charles Champlin, Birdie Belle Champlin).

William Collier was born abt. 1585 in England. He died abt. 1670 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, and is probably buried at Harden Hill in Duxbury. William married on 16 May 1611 at St. Olave, Southwark, Surrey, England to Jane Clark. They had 12 children.

On 15 Nov 1627, William Collier signed as one of the Adventurers. He was a merchant in London, being a grocer and owner of a brew house there. In 1633, William sailed to Pymouth, Massachusetts. He was made a Freeman 1 Jan 1634, and was assessed in May of that year 2 pounds, 5 shillings. In 1639, he removed to Duxbury. In 1649, he made over his right to a ten acre parcel of upland in Duxbury to his kinsman William Clark. In 1662, Mr. Collyare complained that the records of his grand at the North Hill were lost and could not be found, and the court ordered that the land be viewed and the report of it be recorded. In 1667, the court agreed to a grand of thirty or forty acres of land for Mr. William Collyare's grandchild, that grand child who is now servicable unto him". In 1668, the court granted him fifty acres in the tract of land at Namassakett.

Administration on the estate of William Collier was granted 5 Jul 1671.

William Collier served as follows:

Committee to lay out highways for "Duxbury side" 1634

Assistant for Plymouth Colony 1635-1665

Committee to view farm land 1635

Committee to set bounds for Scituate 1637

Committe to view North Hill and set bounds 1638

Committee to treat with Massachusetts Bay 1642

Council of War 1642

Council of War 1643

Plymouth Commissioner, sent to 1st meeting of Congress of United Colonies 1643

Chosen to revise laws with Governor 1644

Coroner 1646

Committee to draw up the excise 1646

Signed certificate of election of William Bradford and John Browne as Commissioners 1647

Committee for the letting of trade 1649

Committee to treat with Massachusetts Bay 1650

Auditor 1656

Committee to review the laws 1657

Council of War 1658

"He was an enterprising man, and engaged much in business, and during most of his life employed in the government of the colony, as Assistant and otherwise. In 1658, 'The court ordered a servant to him, because he can not easily come to public business, being aged and having much private business...That men of the highest respectability were selected to retail the 'strong water' was certainly the case; for we find that in 1660, Mr. Collier, who was eminently distinguished in the public affairs of the colony, was licensed to sell the beverage to his neighbors in Duxbury; and it can be justly considered that one, who is well known to have been one of the wealthiest among them, would not have selected this as a means of gain, but rather at the instance of the magistrates, who well knew him to be a sober and discreet man, and one who would not be likely to sufffer any transgression of their laws."

- Justin Winsor, History of the Town of Duxbury, Massachusetts, with Genealogical Registers

Alice Carpenter @ Plymouth

The Bradford Chair, Plymouth Colony

Alice Carpenter Southworth Bradford is the 7th great-grandmother of Belle Champlin (Alice Carpenter, Constant Southworth, Mary Southworth, Elizabeth Alden, Patience Seabury, Elizabeth Latham, John Champlin, Erastus Champlin, Henry Charles Champlin, Birdie Belle Champlin).

Alice Carpenter and her sisters (Agnes, Juliana, Mary and Priscilla) were part of the Leyden Separatist community. Alice married Edward Southworth; they had two sons, Constant and Thomas.

After Edward Southworth died, Alice Carpenter Southworth sailed to Plymouth on the Anne in 1623. Shortly after her arrival, she married Plymouth Governor William Bradford.

William Bradford died in 1657. Alice and William Bradford had three children : William, Mercy and Joseph.

The marriage of William Bradford and Alice Carpenter Southworth was noted in a letter written by Emmanuel Altham to his brother Sir Edward Altham in September, 1623 :

"Upon the occasion of the Governor's marriage, since I came, Massasoit was sent for to the wedding, where came with him his wife, the queen, although he hath five wives. With him came four other kings and about six score men with their bows and arrows - where, when they came to our town, we saluted them with the shooting off of many muskets and training our men. And so all the bows and arrows was brought into the Governor's house, and he brought the Governor three or four bucks and a turkey. And so we had very good pastime in seeing them dance, which is in such manner, with such a noise that you would wonder..."And now to say somewhat of the great cheer we had at the Governor's marriage. We had about twelve pasty venisons, besides others, pieces of roasted venison and other such good cheer in such quantity that I could wish you some of our share. For here we have the best grapes that ever you say - and the biggest, and divers sorts of plums and nuts which our business will not suffer us to look for."

-Sidney V. James, Jr., editor, Three Visitors to Early Plymouth

"On the 26th day of March, 1670, Mistris Allice Bradford, Seni'r, changed this life for the better, haueing attained to fourscore years of age, or therabouts. Shee was a godly matron, and much loved while shee lived, and lamented, tho aged, when shee died, and was honorabley enterred on the 29th day of the month aforsaid, att New Plymouth."

"The Last Will and Testament of mistris Allice Bradford senir of Plymouth Deceased ; exhibited to the Court held att Plymouth in new England the 7th Day of June Anno Dom 1670

-Records of Plymouth Colony

The Last Will and Testament of Alice (Carpenter) Southworth Bradford:
 

I Allis Bradford senir of the Towne of Plymouth in the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth widdow : being weake in body but of Disposing mind and prfect memory blessed be God; not knowing how soone the Lord may please to take mee out of this world unto himselfe : Doe make and ordaine this to be my last Will and Testament; in manor and forme as followeth; Impr I bequeath my soule to god that gave it and my body to the Dust in hope of a Joyfull resurrection unto glory; Desiring that my body may be Intered as neare unto my Deceased husband; mr Willam Bradford: as Conveniently may be; and as for my worldly estate I Dispose of it as followeth;

Imprs I give and bequeath unto my Deare sister Mary Carpenter; the bed I now lye on with the furniture: the run to belonging and a paire of sheets and a good Cow and a yearling heiffer and a younge mare. I give and bequeath unto my son mr Constant Southworth my Land att Paomett: viz all my Purchase land there: with all my rights privilidges and appurtenances therunto belonging; To him and his heires and assignes for ever; I give and bequeath unto my said son Constant Southworth and unto my son mr Joseph Bradford: the one halfe of my sheep; to be equally Devided betwixt them; and the other halfe to my son Captaine Willam Bradford. I give unto my said son Joseph Bradford my paire of working oxen and a white heiffer; I give unto my honored frend mr Thomas Prence one of the bookes that were my Deare husbands Library; which of them hee shall Choose; I give unto my Deare Grand child Elizabeth Howland; the Daughter of my Deare son Captaine Thomas Southworth Deceased; the sume of seaven pounds; for the use and benifitt of her son James howland. I give unto my servant maide Mary Smith a Cow Calfe to be Delivered her the next springe if I Decease this winter; and if I Doe not Decease this winter; my will is that shee have one Delivered to her out of my estate in som short time after my Decease; all the rest of my estate not Disposed of allreddy by this my last Will and Testament; as above said; I give and bequeath unto my sonnes mr Constant Southworth Captaine Willam Bradford and mr Joseph Bradford to be equally Devided amongst them in equall and alike proportions; In Witnes that this is my Last Will and Testament I the said Allice Bradford have heerunto sett my hand and seale; this twenty ninth day of December anno Dom one Thousand six hundred sixty nine.

Inventory of the goods of Alice Carpenter Southworth Bradford in pounds, shillings, pence:

8 Cowes 20 00 00

2 yearlings 01 10 00

2 yeare old steer 01 10 00

steer of 4 yeare old 02 10 00

2 yeare old heiffer 01 10 00

1 old horse and three mares 10 00 00

17 sheep and 2 lambes 07 00 00

In the New Parlour Chamber

1 bed a bolster and 2 pillowes 03 10 00

1 green rugg and 1 Coverlid & 2 blanketts 03 00 00

bedsteed & Curtaines and vallence 02 00 00

2 Chaires 00 15 00

3 wrought stooles 00 11 00

one Table and Carpett 01 05 00

a Carved Chest

In the outward Parlour Chamber

a bedsteed and Curtaine and vallence and settle 01 10 00

In the old parlour Chamber

a smale bed 2 blanketts 1 Coverlid & pillow 03 10 00

1 old green Cloth Goune 00 10 00

8 yards of hommade Cloth 01 04 00

2 Chestes 00 10 00

2 Iron beames 1 hogshead 1 barrell & lumber01 05 00

In the studdy in bookes

mr Perkins two of them 01 00 00

3 of Doctor WIlletts on genises exodus & Daniel 01 00 00

Guicksarraden 00 10 00

the history of the Church 00 08 00

Peter Martirs Comon places 00 15 00

Cartwright on remise Testament 00 10 00

the history of the Netherlands 00 15 00

Peter Martir on the Romans 00 05 00

Moors workes on the New Testament 01 00 00

Cottons Concordance 00 08 00

Speeds history of the world 01 00 00

Weams Christian Sinnagogue & the protracture of the Image of God 00 08 00

the Meathod of Phisicke 00 02 00

Calvins harmony and his Coment on the actes00 08 00

Downhams 2cond: prte of Christian warfare 00 03 00

mr Cottons answare to mr Williams 00 02 00

Taylers libertie of Prophesye 00 01 06

Gouges Domesticall Dutyes 00 02 06

the Institutions or reasons Discused & observations Divine and morall the synode of Dort and the Appologye 00 06 00

mr Ainsworth workes the Counterpoison & the tryall 00 02 00

mr Ainsworth on Genises exodus & livitticus 00 04 00

Calvin on Genises 00 02 06

Dike on the Deceightfulnes of mans hard 00 01 06

Gifford refuted 00 00 06

Dod on the comaundements and others of his00 03 00

53 smale bookes 01 06 06

Calvin on the epistles in Duch: and Divers other Duch bookes00 15 06

2 bibles 01 00 00

the actes of the Church 00 05 00

3 of mr Bridgg: his workes 01 00 00

the Lives of the fathers 00 03 00

a skin of buffe 00 15 00

In the old Parlour

1 feather bed 1 bolster 2 ruggs and a blankett03 00 00

a bedsted & settle Curtaine and vallence 01 10 00

a Court Cubbert 01 00 00

a Table and forme and 2 stooles 01 05 00

1 great lether Chaire 00 08 00

2 great wooden Chaires 00 06 00

1 great winscott Chist and a Cubbert 01 00 00

2 boxes and a Deske and a wrought stoole and an old Case of bottles00 12 00

2 guns and a paire of bandaleers 01 00 00

The plate

the great beer bowle 03 00 00

another beer bowle 02 00 00

a wine Cupp 01 00 00

a salt 02 15 00

a trencher salt & a Drame Cupp 00 15 00

silver spoones 02 09 00

a silver dish 01 15 00

2 blanketts 00 10 00

1 Diaper Table Cloth and a Dozen of Diaper Napkins 02 00 00

another Diaper Table Cloth and 7 Diaper Napkins 01 10 00

2 holland Table clothes 00 15 00

1 old Cubbert Cloth 00 03 00

4 pillow beers 00 08 00

5 towells 00 05 00

3 holland sheets 01 10 00

2 paire of Cotten and linnine sheets 01 15 00

19 Cotton and linnine Napkins 00 15 00

a paire of pillowbears 00 04 00

a nother paire of pillowbears 00 02 06

5 shets 01 10 00

in shiftes and other wearing linnine 03 00 00

a Dingcastor hatt 01 05 00

her wearing Clothes and a little peece of bayes12 00 00

a wicker baskett; galley potts & glasses & such smale thinges of Little vallue 00 05 00

In the great Parlour

2 great Carved Chaires 01 04 00

a Table and forme and Carpett 01 05 00

10 Cushens 01 00 00

a Causlett and hedpeece 01 10 00

4 great lether Chaires 01 04 00

in glasses and earthen ware 00 04 00

a Case and five knives 00 05 00

a rest & some other odde thinges 00 02 00

In the Kitchen

24 pewter platters and a brim bason 07 00 00

2 fflaggons: 2 quart potts & 3 pint potts 01 00 00

6 smale pewter Dishes and a smale bason 00 10 00

7 porrengers 00 06 00

6 pewter plates 00 09 00

2 pewter Candlestickes & a saltseller 00 06 00

3 Chamber potts and three smale sawcers and pewter funnell; 00 09 00

2 pyr plates 00 06 00

a tinning pan and 2 Coverings and a lanthorne00 02 00

1 great Jugg and 5 smallers ones 4 earthen pans and 2 earthen potts00 00 12

2 ffrench kettles 01 10 00

an old warming pan 00 03 00

1 little ffrench kettle 00 03 00

2 brasse kettles 00 15 00

a Duch pan 00 04 00

3 brasse skilletts 00 04 00

1 old brasse skimer and Ladle 00 01 00

3 brasse Candle stickes and a brasse pestle and Mortor00 09 00

a paire of Andjrons 00 10 00

a Chafeing Dish and a stew pan 00 10 00

1 Iron skillett and an Iron kettle 00 10 00

2 Iron potts 00 16 00

2 paire of pothangers and 2 paire of pott hookes 00 08 00

2 paire of tonggs and 2 fier shovells 00 05 00

2 spitts and a gridjron and an Iron Driping pan 00 10 00

a paire of Iron rakes 00 10 00

4 Dozen of trenchers 00 02 06

a box Iron 2 gallon glasse bottles and three pottle bottles 00 05 00

a spining wheele a bucking tubb 2 pailes 2 kinmnells two bowls 4 smale wooden Dishes 1 tray 2 Burchen trayes 00 16 00

Scales & waightes with an Iron beame 00 07 00

2 beer barrells 00 04 00

a prsell of sheepes woole 00 03 00

2 smale swine 00 10 00

in Mony 00 16 00

a silver bodkin 00 04 00

in provision 01 10 00

one halfe hogshed and a small prsell of salt 00 03 00

one paire of oxen in Mr Joseph Bradfords hand

sume totall 162 17 00

Captaine William Bradford and mr Joseph Bradford haveing the Cattle after named in theire Costody when the estate was prised; Did give in the number and kind of them upon theire oathes as followeth:

4 Cowes

2 Calves

one oxe 4 yeare old

one heiffer and hee was of two yeare old

14 sheep besides lambes;

sworne to these were in Captaine Bradford Costody June 1670

2 oxen

4 Cowes

2 yearlinges

one two yeare old steer

1 horse

2 mares

2 young Calves:

were in Mr Joseph Bradfords Custody and hee was sworne to this June 1670.

“Mistris Alice”

Heer lyes the shadow of a blessed mother

In Israel, well knowne to one and other

Of good decent, of holy predecessors;

Her father equall was to the confessors

And holy matires, suffered for Christ’s sake,

Altho hee suffered not at fiery stake, 
 

And shee with him and other in her youth 
 

Left there owne native country for the truth, 
 

And in successe of time she marryed was
 

To one whose grace and vertue did surpasse, 
 

I mean good Edward Southworth, who not long 
 

Continued in this world the Saints amonge. 
 

With him she lived seven years a wife 
 

Till death did put a period to his life.

 

Elizabeth Latham @ Groton

Groton, Connecticut



Elizabeth Latham is the 2nd great-grandmother of Belle Champlin (Elizabeth Latham, John Champlin, Erastus Champlin, Henry Charles Champlin, Birdie Belle Champlin).

Elizabeth Latham was born 25 Nov 1726 in Groton, New London, Connecticut, daughter of Joseph Latham and Patience Seabury. She died in 1783. She married on 9 Dec 1742 to Edward Champlin, son of John Champlin and Elizabeth Raymond. He was born about 1720 in Lyme, Connecticut and died there on 23 Jan 1809. Elizabeth and Edward are buried at The Old Stone Church cemetery in East Lyme, Connecticut. They had 11 children.

 

Edward and Elizabeth removed from Groton to East Lyme, New London, Connecticut,

before the Revolutionary War. Edward was commissioned an Ensign in the 2nd Militia Company of Lyme in 1751 by the Colonial Assembly.

Headstone for Elizabeth (Latham) Champlin

 

 

Elizabeth (Latham) and Edward Champlin were buried at Old Stone Church Burial Ground, East Lyme, New London, Connecticut.



Elizabeth Alden @ Groton

Elizabeth Alden is the 4th great-grandmother of Belle Champlin (Elizabeth Alden, Patience Seabury, Elizabeth Latham, John Champlin, Erastus Champlin, Henry Champlin, Belle Champlin).

Elizabeth Alden was born 9 Apr 1675 in Duxbury, Massachusetts, daughter of David Alden and Mary Southworth. She died 4 Jan 1771, ae 94, in Groton, Connecticut. On 9 Dec 1697, she married to Deacon John Seabury of the Church of Christ in Groton.

 

First cemetery in Stonington, New London, Connecticut

Headstone for Elizabeth Alden

 

Rev. Nehemiah Smith @ MA, NY, CN

 

 

Monument in Founders Cemetery

Nehemiah Smith is the 6th great-grandfather of Belle Champlin (Nehemiah Smith, Elizabeth Smith, Joshua Raymond, Elizabeth Raymond, Edward Champlin, John Champlin, Erastus Champlin, Henry Charles Champlin, Birdie Belle Champlin).

Detail of monument

Reverend Nehemiah Smith was born 1605 in New Castle, Staffordshire, England. He died abt. 1686 in New London, Connecticut. He married Sarah Ann Bourn, daughter of Thomas Bourne and Elizabeth, last name unknown. She was born abt. 1615 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts. They had 9 children.

In 1637, Nehemiah Smith had come to Plymouth, Massachusetts from England and made application to be admitted as a Freeman. That same year he 'desired land' towards the Six-Mile Brook (Nawascutte)..

-Plymouth Town Records

In 1639, Nehemiah removed to Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachsetts, known as Greens Harbor, where he married, and was the first religious teacher there.

Later, Nehemiah and (Sarah) Ann spent a year or two on Long Island, New York.

In 1644, after disputes regarding his keeping of sheep, they removed to Stratford, Connecticut, where he kept sheep on the west side of the Oyster River.

By 1652, Nehemiah is involved in several land agreements regarding the keeping of sheep. He is referred to as sheperd Smith, and weaver Smith, indicating religious teaching was not his sole occupation.

In 1659, Nehemiah Smith purchased, with other settlers, land at Norwich from the Indian Chief Uncas and his sons of the Mohegan tribe. He was the largest landholder of the group.

-A genealogical history of the descendants of the Rev. Nehemiah Smith

of New Haven, Henry A. Smith

By 1686 when he died, he had transferred his house and land at Norwich to Deacon Joshua Raymond, the husband of his daughter Elizabeth Smith.

Nehemiah and his wife Sarah Ann are buried in the Post and Gager burying ground, known now as Founders Cemetery, where a monument is erected to the first settlers of Norwich.

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