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"When Paul was old enough to work he went from home to live with a Mr. Knox. When he was about 14 he went into the Army as chore boy and waiter but soon acted as cook for the officers. He served many a meal for General Washington. After serviving as cook some length of time he entered the regular service as a soldier. At the close of the war he was honorably discharged and returned to his native town. He married Comfort Norton 19 Jun 1786 and they were the parents of 12 children, two died in infancy. The grandparents of 35 grandchildren and 84 great-grandchildren. Paul was twice elected as a Representative to the State Legislature and served twenty-one years in all as Justice of Peace. In 1825 Paul with his youngest son Linas left his old eastern home and started for the New Connecticut as the Western Reserve was then called. He purchased 240 acres of wildland, a part of it a little north of Drakesburg where he cleared off a place enough for a house and garden and sent for his family the next year."

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 Ralph was given a license to leave England on January 10, 1651. He possibly died at sea on the voyage to America, because no subsequent record has ever been found for him, either in England or America. 

 Uncle Chris was the only sibling to leave East Chicago, which he did when his first wife was stricken with TB at a time when the only thing they knew what to do with it was to flee to LA for the dry climate, which they did.  However Helma became a Christian Scientist and when their baby got sick out there and she refused to see a doctor and the baby died it broke the marriage.

* from: "Griswold Family" vol II--pg. 32

John Griswold was a farmer; prominent & leading citizen. Deacon for many years. Served on important civil committees. Deputy 1690. Captain 1712. Served in the Narragansett War. The town granted him six acres for his services in the Indian Wars. Died 7 Burial in congregational cemetery, Clinton,CT. It is possible that Bathsheba is buried in vacant space next to his tombstone

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* He removed from Windsor, probably with his father, and went to Killingworth. Evidently a man of intelligence and character, John Griswold was a deacon of the church, had property and was influential in the community. He was deputy from Killingworth to the CT General Court, 1690, 1697-99, 1701-04, 1707-12, 1715, and 1716. From 1697 to 1702 he was representative from Killingworth. In 1712 he was captain of the train band in Killingworth, and was also a soldier in the Narragansett War. In 1714 he was a member of the Governor's Council. He married first Mary, died 10/27/1679, 4 children. He married second Bathsheba, died 3/19/1736, 12 children. Ancestral File has death in Windsor, CT.

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Settled in Killingworth.

Deacon of the church and member of the General Court for 28 sessions.

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...Lon Hubbard again. He describes to me a shooting between Buck McKinney and his brother, Ed. It occurred while his father John C Hubbard engaged in the business of keeping a saloon. He had closed for the night and was fixing up his days accounts, when Buck came to the door and wanted to enter. Hubbard refused and Buck who had in the meanwhile gone to a window threatened to break the shutter open. Ed who had armed himself with a pistol and was present, told him if he attempted to carrry out his threat he would shoot him. Buck procedded to break the shutter open when Ed fired the ball grazing Buck's cheek, and the broken glass striking him in the face and inuring it so severely that as Lon says, "Buck cannot to this day shhave without pain or drawing blood." Lon witnessed the fight between Buck and the man he ____ and has promised me a full account of it. He relates as our ____ istance of Bucks ____ that subsequently to the shooting above narrator. J C Hubbard got into a difficulty over a game of cards at McCabes tavern and McCabe who was a much stronger man took him by the throat and choked him against the wall. Buck who was present came to the rescue of Hubbard and attacked McCabe so vigorously that he was compelled to cry quicks.

1634 To Dorchester Purchased "Trowbridge Homestead" from Deputy Gov. Danforth in 1675., arrived in New England about 1636. 

2nd February 1550, Sir Francis Bryan died suddenly at Clonmel in Ireland. He had settled in Ireland after marrying Joan Butler, dowager countess of Ormond, and had travelled to Tipperary as Lord Justice “to check the incursions of the O’Carrolls”.

He did indeed have one eye – He lost an eye jousting in 1526 and historian Susan Brigden writes of how he joked about it “for he wrote of the one-eyed Robert Aske ‘I know him not, nor he me … yet we have but two eyes’ (LP Henry VIII, 11.1103)”.

His birthdate is not known but is thought to be around 1490.

He was the first surviving son of Sir Thomas Bryan and Lady Margaret Bryan (née Bourchier) who was lady-in-waiting to Queen Catherine of Aragon and governess to Princess Mary, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Edward.

Brigden believes that Bryan may have spent some of his youth in the household of Sir Thomas Parr of Kendal, Westmorland, in Northamptonshire because he later referred to him as his patron. Parr was the father of Queen Catherine Parr.

His sister, Elizabeth, married Sir Nicholas Carew.

He was Anne Boleyn’s cousin – His mother was Elizabeth Boleyn’s half-sister.

In April 1513 he was Captain of the Margaret Bonaventure.

In 1516 he became the King’s cupbearer.

He was known for his skills at jousting and hunting and became the King’s master of the toils in 1518, a position he held for the rest of Henry VIII’s reign.

He was also known for his rich clothing.

in 1518 he became a gentleman of the privy chamber – He lost this position in Wolsey’s purge but then regained it in 1528.

Bryan was knighted in 1522 for his courage during the capture of Morlaix in Brittany, serving under the Earl of Surrey.

His first wife, who he was married to by 1522, was Philippa, daughter and heir of Humphrey Spice and widow of John Fortescue of Ponsbourne in Hertfordshire. The marriage was childless.

Bryan had a reputation for gambling and was a court favourite.

By 1526 he held the position of chielf cupbearer and master of the henchmen.

During the King’s Great Matter, Bryan was Henry VIII’s “trusted emissary to those with most power to bring about the king’s remarriage: Clement VII and François”.

Brigden writes of Bryan, “Bryan became known for his unusual willingness to tell the king the truth, but also for his employment of dubious means to gain diplomatic ends”, and writes of how he slept with a courtesan at the papal court to gain intelligence.

Bryan was the one who informed the King of his excommunication in August 1533.

In the 1530s he served as sheriff, JP and MP.

In May 1536, when the Boleyns fell from power, he was summoned to London for questioning but was not arrested. He had previously distanced himself from the Boleyns and allied himself with the Seymours.

Bryan was sent to tell Jane Seymour the news of Anne Boleyn’s execution and benefited from Anne’s fall, becoming Chief Gentleman of the King’s Privy Chamber.

Thomas Cromwell referred to Bryan as “the vicar of Hell” in a letter to Gardiner and Wallop on the 14th May 1536. According to Catholic recusant Nicholas Sander, the King also referred to him by this nickname. Sander writes “This man was once asked by the king to tell him what sort of a sin it was to ruin the mother and then the child. Bryan replied that it was a sin like that of eating a hen first and its chicken afterwards. The king burst forth into loud laughter, and said to Bryan, “Well, you certainly are my vicar of hell.” The man had been long ago called the vicar of hell on account of his notorious impiety, henceforth he was called also the king’s vicar of hell.”

Bryan’s motto was Je tens grace (‘I look for salvation’) and he was a staunch Catholic. Brigden writes “He owned a copy of the Matthew Bible of 1537, and was intrigued by the humanist enterprise of scriptural translation and exegesis. Although he could not translate scripture himself, he was the patron of scholars of Greek who could, and his own household was a kind of academy.”

In 1537 he was sent to Paris to secretly arrange the kidnap or assassination of Cardinal Pole but it was suspected that he actually tipped Pole off.

He acted as ambassador to Francis I in 1538 in Nice while Thomas Wyatt acted as ambassador to Charles V but was recalled due to his reckless gambling, drunkenness and all round bad behaviour. He never acted as ambassador to the French king ever again.

Bryan sat on the jury which found his brother-in-law, Carew, guilty of treason in 1539.

He was appointed vice-admiral in January 1543 but this was revoked in the February after he went against the instructions of John Dudley, Viscount Lisle and lord admiral.

In October 1543 he acted as ambassador to Charles V.

In October 1546 he was given the freedom of the City of London.

He was made knight-banneret in 1547 for his role in the expedition against the Scots as commander of the horse.

After his wife’s death in 1542 “he followed Wyatt’s satirical advice to marry a wealthy widow” and in 1548 married Joan Butler, dowager countess of Ormond, and daughter of James fitz Maurice Fitzgerald, tenth earl of Desmond.

Brigden describes how “through his marriage Bryan wielded Ormond authority in south Leinster, controlling the estates of Thomas Butler, tenth earl of Ormond (1531–1614), in his minority and a private army of gallowglasses in co. Kilkenny” and “Through the office of lord marshal, to which he was appointed in January 1549, he commanded royal forces in Ireland”. Bryan had become a powerful and wealthy man.

He died in Ireland on the 2nd February 1550, his last words allegedly being “‘I pray you, let me be buried amongst the good fellows of Waterford (which were good drinkers)’”.

Like his good friend Thomas Wyatt, Bryan was a poet.

Thomas Wyatt wrote of Bryan:

“To thee, therefore, that trots still up and down

And never rests, but running day and night

From realm to realm, from city, street, and town,

Why dost thou wear thy body to the bones?”

There are no portraits of Sir Francis Bryan.

"Huguenots left France in droves to escape further persecution.  This was true of Thomas, as depicted in the following biographical sketch.

Thomas Routtes was born around 1555, and in 1573 married Annn Burell, born about 1556.  Ann died young, her death date unknown.  Fleeing Catholic persecution, Thomas and his sons left France, travelling to London, England in 1598 where they changed their name to Roote.  By 1599, Thomas anand sons had moved to Badby, England, where he married Frances Russell.  She died the following year. 

The following is from a supplement to the 1983 Register of Qualified Huguenot Ancestors, compiled by the Registrar General of the National Huguenot Society:

b. c1555; m.  d. 5 Apr 1609 in Northampton, England.  Their son JOHN, b. 1575; m 1600 Badby, England to Mary Russell. Listed in 1598 as an alien in London. 

Of note is the fact that Thomas and his sons were listed as aliens in London; meaning the sons (John: 1576, Edmund: 1579, and Ralph 1585) were all born in France, not England, as many genealogists maintain.  Thomas’s son John, my 8th great grandfather, lived out his life in Badby, England, where he presumably died in 1622."

 John sailed from England on August 24, 1635 aboard the Constance enroute to Virginia.

In June 1638, when Lord Baltimore of Maryland ordered an attack of the Viriginia Islands of Kent and Palmer, which were under the protection of Capt. Claiborne, Secretary of the Colony of Virginia, John escaped by ship and left Virginia. John's name first appears on New Haven, CT records in 1642

1658, July 6. At a Court holden at Hempstead. Whereas, Henry Linington, besides other evil practices unto the disturbance of Christian order and peace, and to the violation of the laws, to the great dishonor of God and to the evil example of the nations under which we live, hath solicited Deborah Sturgis; Be it therefore ordered that he shall forthwith be committed to the Marshal's custody (who is hereby authorized to apprehend him and in sure and safe manner to keep him in ward, until he shall give sufficient security in recognizance in the value of 500 guilders for his good behavior, in default thereof he is to be sent unto Manhattans, and within 3months he is to be banished out of the town's limits.)

HHis bondsmen were his father and brother-in-law, Lawrence and John Ellison. To defend them harmless he bound himself, his chattel and estate, both moveable and unmoveable to stand in caution and be security.

1659.-At a Court held May 1.- Whereas Lawrence Ellison hath entered into recognizance that Henry Linington should submit to the sentence of this Court pronounced against him, viz., to depart the town, and mean time to be of good behavior, and now supplicates to have his bond cancelled, this Court doth order that the recognizance shall stand in force until the sentence of the Court shall be performed.

At a Court holden by a general town meeting, September 3, 1659, at the house of Mr. Richard Gildersleeve, magistrate, upon the supplication of Henry Linington, it was granted that his banishment should be remitted, and he was then restored again, upon promise of reformation, unto the liberties belonging to an inhabitant.

1673 Feb 8 Friends Records state `Rebecca Cornell, widow, was killed strangely at Portsmouth in her own dwelling house, was twice viewed by the Coroner's Inquest and buried again by her husband's grave in their own land'.   May 25, heher son Thomas ws charged with murder, and after a trial that now reads like a farce, was convicted and executed.   Among the witnesses of this rial were John Briggs (brother of Rebecca), Mary, wife of John Cornell (her son), Thomas Stephen, Edward and John, sons of Thomas2, Rebecca Woolsey (her daughter), etc.

It appears that the old lady, having been sitting by the fire smoking a pipe, a coal had fallen from the fire on her pipe, and that she was burned to death.  sp; But on the strength of a vision which her brother John Briggs had, in which she appeared to him after her death, she said `See how I was burned with fire.'   It was inferred she was set fire to, and that her son who was last with her did it; and principally on this evidence Thomas Cornell was tried, convicted and hung for her murder.   

Thomas Stanton was a Puritan. He came to America in 1635 in the Bonadventure to Virginia. From there he walked to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Thomas Stanton served as an interpreter on a mission to Saybrook, Connecticut with the Pequot Indians. He served as Gov. Winthrop's interpreter with the Indians at other times. He worked with the Rev. Abraham Pierson on transnslation of the catechism into the Indian language.

He was one of the first white men to join William Cheesbrough in settling the Pawtucket Valley. He got permission from the General Court of Connecticut to raise a house there in February 1650. Thomas Stanton moved his family there to Pawtucket in Stonington in 1657.

 "William de Visdelieu, in 1300, married Rose, sister and heir of Elizabeth de Shotisbroke; by whoom he left an only son, Sir Simon Vis-de-lieu, who left two daughters, co-heiresses, between whom his large estate became divisible."—

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William Wooding (Wooden/Woodin) probably came to New England as a young man. In 1643, he was in New Haven Colony where he married Sarah Clark (called Sarah Ollard by Savage and in NHVR) on October 25, 1650.

He was fined 5 shillings for "drunken disorderly conduct on a Lord's day at night at the prison" on April 5, 1644. He was in the records again in February of 1646 when he informed the court thaat three times he had fetched Mrs. Turner's cattle from John Meggs hay. He was propounded a freeman of New Haven in October of 1669.

William & Sarah were parents of ten known children. At his death, he left the widow, Sarah, and five daughters.

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Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I. He helped build the case for the annulment of Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, which was one of the causes of the separation of the English Church from union with the Holy See. Along with Thomas Cromwell, he supported the principle of Royal Supremacy, in which the king was considered sovereign over the Church within his realm.

After the accession of the Roman Catholic Mary I, Cranmer was put on trial for treason and heresy. Imprisoned for over two years and under pressure from Church authorities, he made several& recantations and apparently reconciled himself with the Roman Catholic Church. However, on the day of his execution, he withdrew his recantations, to die a heretic to Roman Catholics and a martyr for the principles of the English Reformation.

A prominent English soldier and scholar, who supported the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War, and was imprisoned a number of times during the Protectorate and the English Restoration for his strong republican views

Governor of Hull, England under Oliver Cromwell; commanded a brigade at Dunbar and Inver Keithing, major General, Commanded a brigade of Ironsides under Cromwell

Albert Andriese Bradt was born 26 August 1607 in Fredrikstad, Smaalenenes (now in Østfold, Norway)  a town at the mouth of the Glommen, the largest river in Norway. Fredrikstad was a brand new city when Albert was born.  After Sarpsborg was burned to the ground during the Northern Seven Years’ War, the ruling king, King Frederik II, of Denmark, decided by to rebuild the city 15 kilometers south of the original location. The name Fredrikstad was first used in a letter from the King dated 6 February 1569. The temporary fortification built during the Hannibal War (1644–1645)  became permanent in the 1660s.

In the early records he is often called Albert de Noorman (the Norwegian). After 1670 he became known as Albert Andriesz Bradt. His parents were Andries Arentse BRADT and Aeffi Eva Pieterse KINETIS.  Whether he was related to the Bratts of Norwegian nobility, can not be ascertained. The Bratt family lived in Bergen, Norway, before the early part of the fifteenth century, when it moved to the northern part of Gudbrandsdalen. It had a coat of arms until about the middle of the sixteenth century. Since that time the Bratts belong to the Norwegian peasantry. They have a number of large farms in Gudbrandsdalen, Hedemarken, Toten, and Land.

He was listed as a 24 year old sailor when he married Annatje Barentse VAN ROTMERS on 11 Apr 1632 at the Oude Kerke, Amsterdam, Netherlands.  They emigrated on the Arms of Rensselaerswyck which had a particularly long voyage, beginning at Amsterdam 25 Sep 1636,  sailing from Texel on 8 Oct 1636, and not arriving in Rensselaerwyck (Albany NY) until 7 Apr 1637.  After Annatje  died, he married Pieterje Jans. Pieterje died in 1667 and he married third Geertruy Pieterse Coeymans.  Albert died 7 Jun 1686 near Albany, NY.

Anders Andersson married Christina Goolbrant.

This family were members of the crane hook Congregation Church. Anders Andersson, better known as Anders the Finn, was sent to New Sweden from the fortress of Älvsborg in 1642/443 as a punishment. After becoming a freeman, Anders the Finn encountered difficulties with Governor Printz. Anders and his fellow freemen included in their 1653 petition the prayer that Anders the Finn be allowed "to keep the woods that the Lord Governor has judged him in forfeit of so that his wife and children may not starve to death." Printz countered by claiming it was a "legal judgment," but in a second bill of particulars, presented to Governor Rising in 1654 (again signed by Anders), the freemen stated: "As concerns the rye of Anders the Finn, we have considered his great poverty, and we went to the provost marshall Gregorius Van Dyck and asked him to go to the Governor to ask him to be a little lenient with Anders the Finn, as he would become completely impoverished by this. The Governor, however, made this out as a mutiny, which in truth can never be proven." In 1656, Anders the Finn was accused of stealing grain from the field of Pål Jönsson Mullica's wife. Anders was residing in Upland in 1661/63 when he again was involved in litigation, first as the landlord of Jacob Jongh at the time the latter eloped with Lars Lock's first wife in 1661, and then again in 1663 when he complained that Evert Hendricksson the Finn "daily commits acts of insolence before his, the deponent's, door by beating, shooting and other disorderly acts, and if nothing is done about it, he will have to leave the village in order to live in peace." Dr. Timen Stiddem confirmed his testimony, and others testified that Anders' wife did daily meet Evert the Finn in secrecy at Pål Petersson's house. Soon thereafter, Anders the Finn removed his wife and family to Deer Point, which he owned in common with Sinnick Broer and Walraven Jansen DeVos on a creek west of Christina that would soon be known as Anders the Finn's Creek, now known as Little Mill Creek. He was at this location by 19 January 1667/8 and received his own patent on 1 September 1669. A month later another patent was issurd, to Anders Andersson and 19 of his associates, to erect a mill on Anders the Finn's Creek. In 1670 he sent a note (also signed by his son Justa Andersson) warning of the approach of 25 Indianans who threatened to attack the English at New Castle. The last discovered reference to Anders was a deed executed on 1 September 1673 by Anders Andersson and his wife Christina Goolbrant conveying their one third of the Deer Point plantation to their two sons, Justa Andersson and John Andersson. Anders also had daughters Anna (married to Nils Larsson Friend, and Brita(married to Olle Rawson).

Angus, born about 1449 at Tantallon Castle in East Lothian, succeeded his father, George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus, in 1462 or 1463 at the age of just fourteen.

In 1481, Angus became Warden of the East March, but the next year he joined the league against James III and his favourite, Robert Cochrane, at Lauder. Here he is said to have earned his nickname by offering to "bell the cat"—specifically, to deal with Cochrane—beginning the a attack upon him by pulling his gold chain off his neck, and then ordering the hanging of Cochrane and others of the king's favourites from Lauder old bridge (the site of which is in the grounds of Thirlestane Castle). The earliest written sourcce for the story is in David Hume of Godscroft, the Douglas family biographer.[2] The phrase "to bell the cat" comes from the fable "The Mice in Council", erroneously ascribed to Aesop, and refers to a dangerous task undertaken for the benefit of all.

Subsequently he joined Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany, in league with Edward IV of England on 11 February 1483, signing the convention at Westminster which acknowledged the overlordship of the English king. However, in March Albany and Angus returned, outwardly at least, to their allegiance, and received pardons for their treason.

After a period of peace between them, Angus and the king again started to quarrell. Angus now decided to rebel against the king. Having the support of the Scottish nobility this time, he marched against James III and they fought the Battle of Sauchieburn during which the king was killed.

Angugus became one of the guardians of the young king James IV. but soon lost influence, to the Homes and Hepburns, and the wardenship of the marches went to Alexander Home. Though outwardly on good terms with James, Angus treacherously made a treaty with Henry VII around 1489 or 1491, by which he undertook to govern his relations with James according to instructions from England. He also agreed to hand over Hermitage Castle, commanding the pass through Liddesdale into Scotland, on the condition of receiving English estates in compensation.

In October 1491 he fortified his castle of Tantallon against James, but had to submit and to exchange his Liddesdale estate and Hermitage Castle for the lordship of Bothwell.

In 1493 Angus again returned to favour, receiving various grants of lands. He became Chancellor, which office he retained till 1498. In June 1497 he opened talks for the surrender of Perkin Warbeck at 'Jenyn Haugh'.[3] In 1501, in disgrace once more, he was confined to Dumbarton Castle. At the disaster at Flodden Field in 1513, though absent himself, Angus lost his two eldest sons. As the Scottish nation licked its wounds, Angus won appointment as one of the councilors of Margaret Tudor the queen regent; but the newly appointed councilor died at the end of October 1513.[4] His successor to the Earldom of Angus was his grandson, Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus.

Anne Derehaugh was connected to royalty in England. She was born in about 1584 to William Derehaugh and Mary Wright of Badingham, England, which is in Suffolk. Anne was one of ten children; her mother was said to be a direct descendant of King John, the English monarch who signed the Magna Carta. In about 1603, Anne married John Stratton of Badingham and they had nine children. John was "an admitted pensioner to Caius College, Cambridge in 1602." 

Anne's father died in about September 1610 and her mother died in early 1622. Mary Derehaugh left a will naming some of her children and some of her grandchildren, giving them bequests. Anne's husband died in about May 1627; as oldest soson, he had inherited most of the property of the Stratton family, which passed to Anne after his death. This included the house where she lived, Kirkton Manor, as well as another house called Thurkalton.

In abouut 1630, Anne and her oldest son John, sold Kirkton Manor; it had been in the Stratton family for over 250 years. John, migrated to the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1631, where he had been granted 2,000 acres. A few years later, Anne also migrated there with daughters Elizabeth and Dorothy, arriving on April 15, 1635 aboard the ship Increase. The Stratton family settled in Salem.

In 1641, Anne hired a lawyer in Boston to recover the inheritance of her childldren from her mother's will of 20 years earlier back in England. The implication is that the grandchildren needed to reach a certain age before receiving the bequests. Anne was recorded in 1642 as being a "plaintiff in suit against Wm. Pester at Ipswich." This was the last mention of Anne and her date of death is unknown.

Anne Lovelace was born about 1610 in Bethersden, Kent, England. She was the daughter of a knight, Sir William Lovelace (1583-1627) and Katherine Ann (Barne) Lovelace (1587-1633). Anne was also the sister of at least 2 brothers who became known, Governor Francis Lovelace of New York. Appointed Deputy Governor of Long Island and in 1668 became Governor of New York 1668-1673, until the city was captured by the Dutch 30 July 1673. Served as a Colonel for forces loyal to Charles I during the English Civil War. He died in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom. Another famous brother was Sir Richard Lovelace Richard Lovelace was an English Nobleman and poet. His "Lucasta" poems brought him fame., English poet, a country gentleman and a justice of the peace. He died in London, England. She was also the sister of Thomas Lovelace who died in Staten Island Plantation, New York, Colonial America. William Lovelace, VI died in Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdoom. Capt. Dudley Lovelace died in Woolwich, Kent, England, United Kingdom. Anne also had 2 sisters: Joanna (Johanna) Lovelace died in St Catherines, London, England and Elizabeth Lovelace who died in England.

Anne married Rev. Dr. John Gorsuch in Wicocomico, Northumberland, England in 1628. John was the son of Daniel Gorsuch and Alice (Hall) Gorsuch. John and Anne set up home in London. John Gorsuch received his Doctorate of Divinity Degree from Cambridge University and became the Rector of Walkern. John Gorsuch became Rector of Walkern (Walkhorne) Parish (in Hertford Parish), Hertfordshire, England July 28, 1632, his father having purchased this rectory for him. Four years after their marriagage the young couple settled at the new parsonage house in Walkern. John Gorsuch subsequently received his Mandate for Presentment, instituting him as Rector, signed and sealed on behalf on King Charles.

Rev. John and Alice (Lovelace) Gorsuch were the parents of the following known children: Katharine (Gorsuch) Whitby, David Gorsuch, William Gorsuch, John Gorsuch, Jr., Robert Gorsuch, Anne (Gorsuch) Todd, Richard Gorsuch, Joanna Gorsuch, Frances (Gorsuch) Sisson, Elizabeth (Gorsuch) Howard, Charles Gorsuch, Lovelace Gorsuch and Mary (Gorsuch) Keene.

In the book "Ancestral study of four families, Roberts, Griffith, Cartwright, Simpson: covering lineal and collatateral relations of my child", it states that Anne is the daughter of Sir William and Ann (Barne) Lovelace of Woolwidge, England and the granddaughter of Sir William Lovelace of Bethersden, Kent, England. States that she married Rev. John Gorsucch D.D., and their daughter, Ann Gorsuch married Captain Thomas Todd. Page 854 in this book.

In the book "To Maryland from Overseas" on page 85, it states that Anne was the wife of John Gorsuch, Rector of Walkorne , Hertfordshire as a widow with her children emigrated to the America colony of Virginia.

Notes on ancestry.com: She received under her father's will, dated 1622, "all my adventures in the East India Company with all the profits to be paid to her at the age of 21 or marriage". By her mother's will, dated 1v-32, there is left to "Anne Gorsuch my daughter my third suit of diaper which I made in the Low countries". She went to Virginia, probably about 1650 and soon after the death of her husband, with her younger children and died there (Va. Mag. xxiv; 90). Letters of administration were issued in England, 2 June, 1652, to "Daniel Gorsuch son of Anne Gorsuch, late of Weston, co. Hertford but deceased in parts beyond the seas, widow" (Prerogative Court of Canterbury Administrations 1668). She had issue by her husband Rev. John Gorsuch, eleven children whose fortunes and descendants have been traced by the writer in the preceding volumes of this magazine; viz.: (i) Daniel; (ii) John; (iii) William; (iv) Katherine married William Whitby; (v) Robert; (vi) Richard; (vii) Anna married 1st Capt. Thomas Todd, 2nd Capt. David Jones, 3d Capt. John Oldton; (viii) Elizabeth married Howell Powell; (ix) Charles; (x) Lovelace; (xi) Frances) Of these, Katharine, Robert, Richard, Anna, Elizabeth, Charles and Lovelace settled in Virginia or in Maryland, married, and with the probable exception of Robert, left numerous descendants (Va. Mag. xxiv-xxvii).

Anne and her family are also mentioned in the book "Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants. Volume I" on page 189-190.

Anne died 1652 in LancasterCounty, Virginia, at age 41 early in the year

arl Hans Hauser was born in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland about 1655, seven years after the close of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648). Though little remembered by modern historians, it was probably the bloodiest war in history. Catholic and Protestant armies raging back and forth across central Europe, were reeking unbelievable slaughter and destruction. Whole cities were destroyed and the surviving populations fled. One army alone, the Swedish Army, boasted of destroying ovever 1,200 cities and towns. People scattered in all directions to escape the carnage. Some historians claim that this war, with a little help from the bubonic plague, resulted in the deaths of about one third of the population of Europe. While iit is believed that Hauser's ancestors lived along the upper Rhine River Valley of (Württemberg) Germany, near the Swiss border, and had fled south to avoid the ravages of the 30-year war, his family had lived in Switzerland for at least two generations. They were followers of Huldrych Zwingley, the Swiss Protestant Reformer. Karl Hans, or Hans/John went "down river" (North on the Rhine River) and established himself in the small principality of "Onansbruck," a part of the Palatinate. He married Huldricha Row in about 1684-85, probably at Onansbruck (he would have been about 30 years old). In those days, Germany was made up of over fifty Principalities, Dukedoms, Earldoms and the like; each governed by the appropriate ruler. Though there is uncertainty about the precise location of "Onansbruck," it was likely a small principality of some 150 square miles, lying northwest of today's Wiesbaden.

The Good Life:

At any rate, Hans quickly became a prominent citizen in his community a successful merchant, deacon in his church and a supporter of the local government. It was customary in those days, that the local princes selected a few prominent citizens each year for honors. Karl Hans Hauser was so honored in 1686 at the castle in Heidelberg by Prince Henry VII, Prince Palatine. Hans was granted the title of "Von," equivalent to the British title "Sir."

Death and Destruction:

In 1688, Louis XIV, tthe Catholic King of France, in need of money to support his extravagant life-style, obtained a large loan from Pope Innocent XI on the condition that Louis would help stamp out the "Protestant hearsay that infests the Palatinate." The next year, Louis ordered his army into that German principality lying west of the Rhine River and launched severe measures of repression against the Protestants there. The Protestant leaders were driven out or imprisoned. At first, the French imposed reppressive taxation, then outright confiscation of property, houses and livestock of the Protestant inhabitants. Resisting government officials were killed and their property confiscated or destroyed. Protestant Church buildings were burned and thhe Protestants were forbidden to assemble. Louis was forced to withdraw his army in 1698 by a combination of political pressure from neighboring countries and a lack of money to keep the campaign of terror going. But, as they withdrew, the French Army turned their cannon against the cities and towns they had evacuated and reduced them to rubble. They drove off or killed the livestock and burned the houses, barns and fields. In short, they invoked a "scorched earth" policy that completely devastated the 8,000 square miles of the Palatinate. The dazed and heartsick population was left in complete poverty without shelter or food nor the implements or funds to create housing and rebuild agriculture to feed themselves. It was an utter wasteland.

From the Old Country to the New:

In 1703, Karl Hans Von Hauser and his family escaped the ravaged Palatinate and sailed the 160 miles from Rotterdam at the mouth of the Rhine River, to London, England. The English Government, under the "Queen Ann Act," paid for his transportation. He remained in London for about three years and sailed to the New World with one or two of his children. In 1707, Hans Hauser appears on a tax list at Germantown, Pennnsylvania, some 15 miles up the Schuylkill River from Philadelphia. In 1708 he returned to London to retrieve the rest of his family. On the 15th of June 1709, Hans Hauser, his wife Huldricha and three children sailed from the port of London for America. Hans (a.k.a. John) Hauser appears on the 1711 tax list of the Conestoga community in the southern part of what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Conestoga was, if you will, an early day "factory" town, having not only the customaary commercial retail trade but a large fraction of the people engaged in manufacture of cloth, clothing, furniture, leather goods and vehicles. The famed "Conestoga" wagons used by many Americans in their westward migration were originally built in Conestoga using a design that was brought from Europe and featured the characteristic overhanging canopy on the front and rear. Hans Hauser (Karl Hans Von) established himself in Conestoga at the age of about 55 and for the next eleven years he engaged in his trade as a weaver of fine linens and socks. He was also associated with Hans Webber, and Hans' son, Johnannes "Hance" Webber (John's son-in-law), both prominent Mennonites, in the development of a near-by 150,000 acre tract of land known as the "Bondelli Tract." 

Karl Hans Von Hauser died in Conestoga about 1722. He was survived by his wife, Huldricha Row (1660-1734) and at least seven probable children. 

As told by granddaughter, Jenny Lee McKay McClane:

Dr. Robert David McKay was known as "Doc" - even by his grandchildren.

Doc worked at night performing writing in caligraphy while he went to med school.

Doc rode horseback and/or buggy while he made house-calls throughout the countryside. He would work late into the night and would occassionally fall asleep. The horse always found his way home.

Doc made journals of medical records and notes late in life.

Doc worked for a railroad company and traveled across the country with the company as the doctor.

Biography:Henry Adams* (1583-1646) was born in Barton St. David, Somersetshire, England. He is the youngest of 4 children of John Adams* (1555-1604) also of Barton St. David, and Agnes Stone* (___?-1615/16).

Henry and all his known ancestors were Yeomen famers from Barton St. David, Somersetshire, England. Henry was also a maltster. Henry came to America with his wife and all but one (Jonathan) of his children in 1638. His son, Jonathan came in 1651.

Henry Adams was known popularly as The Founder of New England, probably because of the extraordinary number (89) of his grandchildren. Apparently, Henry Adams was influenced by Aquila Purchase, Master of Trinity School at Dorchester, who in 1613/3/14 married Anna Squire, sister to Henry's wife, Edith Squire*, both daughters of Henry Squire*. Henry Squire had three daughters who married and went to New England, all seemingly associated with a group known as the Dorchester Adventurers, leled by the Rev. John White, whose first group of Dorset Pilgrims arrived in New England on the ship Mary & John in 1630. This group was largely absorbed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in later years, and by the time Henry Adams came in 1638, many of the orginal Dorset Pilgrims, particularly those who would not take religious oaths as a prerequisite for citizenship, had moved well into the interior settling around river valleys in MA and CT along the Indian or Dutch territorial frorontiers. Windsor CT was one of their principal settlements.

Henry Adams with his large family seems to have preferred settling near the coast and thus stayed in Braintree MA, which is now known as Quincy MA. Henry Adams' biographerrs do not associate him with the more radical and religious Puritans, nor with the liberal and outlawed Pilgrims, but rather see him and other followers of Rev. John White as adventurers, seeking a new world where the boundarys of a class society could be overcome.

Birth: 1686, Ireland

Death: 1754

Lancaster County

Pennsylvania, USA

The Barony of Symons Town was originally granted to Symon Locard (Lockart) in about 1140. This included lands in Ayreshire where there is a Church that is one of the oldest Churches in SScotland and still in use. It is belived that Symon Locard is buried under the Altar of this church. Also included in the Barony was the Town of Symington in Lankashire Scotland and possible as well in Kyle.

The Village of Symon Touun in Lanarkshire was thought to be the center of the Barony. this was lost by the Locard Family descendents in 1290 because the Baron Locard sided with the English King and signed the Ragman Roll. In the War between England and Robert the Brucee, Robert the Bruce won the war and took the barony and gave it to Richard Dixson who assisted the Black Douglas a close ally of Robert the Bruce in his battles. Richard Dixson was a descendent of a the Keith Clan and of the Douglas Clan and when he was awarded the Barony of Symons Toun, he was required to take the name of the Town. Therefore in 1306 the name of Symontoun was first originated. This name has numerous spellings which consist of Symington, Simonton, Symontoun and Simington and Simanton. It is also possible that various land holders before 1290 and after that took the name of the village as that was often a custom as well. An example would be "James" of Symonstoun" which developed as James Symonstoun etc.

Birth: About 1614-1615.

Moses Maverick, before 6 May 1635.

Death: Between 1652-1656, probably in Salem, Massachusetts.Children: Rebecca, Mary, Abigail, Elizabeth (died young), Samuel, Elizabeth, and Remember.

 Remember Allerton was born around 1614 or 1615 in Leiden, Holland, to parents Isaac and Mary (Norris) Allerton.  She, her parents, and her siblings Bartholomew and Mary came to Plymouth on the Mayflower in 16620.  Sometime before May 1635, she married Moses Maverick, who had come to Massachusetts about 1630, perhaps on the ship Mary and John.  They took up residence in Marblehead, and later moved to Salem about 1640. She died sometime after the birth of her last child, Remember, and husband Moses remarried a few years later to widowed Eunice (Cole) Roberts, and had an additional four children (Mary, Moses, Aaron, and Sarah).

Birth: Nov. 26, 1598

Monken Hadley

Greater London, England

Death: May, 1658

Greater London, England

Stephen Goodyear born to Zachary and Susanna (Baxter) Goodyear of London was baptized at Saint Gregory, London, England about 1598. The time of his arrival in America is unknown, but it is known that he owned the vessel, ST. JOHN, that sailed from Bristol to New Haven, licensed to transport 250 persons and he was listed as a passenger.

He was a merchant, large land-owner, and trader who lived in New Haven. His estate in 1643 was worth at 100 pounds, and he owned land totaling approx. 939 acres in the meadow and the neck. His tax rate for that year was 9-19-02. The location of his actual farm was north of New Haven in the neighborhood of Pine Rock.

On July 1, 1644, he was administered the Oath of Fidelity by Theophilus Eaton who was chosen Governor of New Haven Colony annuaually for many years along with Stephen Goodyear who was chosen Deputy Governor. "They had no salary but served the people for the honor of it and the general good." He also served as commissioner for United Colonies from 1643-46.

In 1644 he built a trading post on "Goodyear's Island" at the cove below Falls Mountain for the purpose of trading with the Indians. He was assigned in a town meeting to judge whether Indian money also known as wampum (strings of beads & shells -- white beads were worth twice as much as black beads) was good or not and if a value should be assigned to it.

Mr. Goodyear was a member of "The Company of Merchants of New Haven" or "The Ship Company" which was established direct trade with the mother country (England). Their plan was to build a ship filled with goods for trading and sail it to London. In January, 1646, the ship was ready to embark on the voyage and 70 New Haven citizens were aboard, including Mrs. Goodyear (his wife), Mr. Lamberton and Mr. Gregson. The New Haven harbor was frozen and the ice had to be cut with saws for three miles in front of the ship. Month after month, with no word from the ship, dispair set in with the inhabitants of New Haven. In November, 1647, the estates of those lost in what was also called "The Phantom Ship" were settled, and they were recorded as deceased. This of course included Stephen Goodyear's wife, Mary. He married second, Margaret (Lewen) Lamberton, widow of George Lamberton, who was also lost in the Phantom Ship.

His ownership of 150 acres near Sterling, now Greenport, was acknowledged in 1649. The first iron works in Connecticut was established in the town of East Haven in 1655 by Stephen Goodyear and continued for about 25 years.

On June 2, 1653, he sold the 150 acres to John Ketcham. He was a grantee of the Earl of Stirling of Shelter Island in the Long Island Sound and sold the island to Sylvester Constant, a merchant in London, at Barbados in 1657 for sixteen hundred pounds of good merchantable muscovado sugar.

Stephen Goodyear died in England in 1658, leaving an "entangled estate". His inventory filed on Oct. 15th, 1658 vvalued at 800 pounds, 9 shillings, 10 pence plus part of the iron works which was unapprized and minus some debts in Barbados.

He was the Deputy Governor of New Haven, one of the first settlers, and was a man of means and prominence. He had been a merchant in London. He was engaged in commerce in New Haven, and was associated with John Wakeman in building or buying a ship and using it for commercial purposes. The ship was lost at sea in 1646 with his wife Mary as passenger. He had 350 acres in New Haven. He sold Shelter Island in 1651. His farm was north of New Haven - he offered his house and lot for the establishment of Harvard college. He never bacame governor as he had already returned to England when Governor Eaton died.

Brinton's Mill, also known as The Mill at Brinton's Bridge, is a historic grist mill located in Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The mill was built about 1720, expanded in 1769, and renovated in 1824. The granary was built about 1824, when the mill was expanded. Also on the property is a stone dwelling constructed in the 1920s and built on the foundation of an early 18th century dwelling. 

During the Battle of Brandywine in September 1777, General John Sullivan and his troops were bivouacked at the adjacent Brinton's Ford. In the early 1970s, the mill property was owned by artist Andrew Wyeth. In 1958, Andrew and Betsy Wyeth purchased and restored "The Mill," a group of 18th-century buildings that appeared often in his work, including Night Sleeper (1979).

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

Captain Henry Fleet was one of the early explorers of Virginia and 

Maryland. The ships Warwick and Tiger sailed in 1621 with supplies, 

young women and wives for planters in Virginia. They fell among Tuurk 

ships; the Tiger, was rescued and landed in Jamestown, Virginia. The 

ship was sent to the upper Potomac River to trade for corn. On another 

voyage the Tiger with Captain Henry Fleet annd twenty-one men was attacked 

and Captain Fleet was taken captured by the Yawaccomoo-o Indians on the 

Potomac River in 1623 and remained a captive until 1627, during which 

time he acquired a familiar knowledge of their language; was ransomed, 

and in 1627 went back to England. Becoming a partner and agent for 

several merchants in London, he was engaged for years in the Indian 

trade. He was an interpreter, trader and legislator in Maryland, and 

finally settled at Fleet's Bay, Lancaster County, Virginia. As early as 

1629 he owned land in Virginia as recorded in the land office records. 

In 1631 the ship Warwick with Captain Henry Fleet and John Dunton sailed 

for America and visited New England, the James River and the Chesapeake 

Bay. In 1632 he traded in New Hampspshire and the Isles of Shoals. While 

there, he was arrested by John Utey because his papers were not in 

order. Governor Harvey and John Utey become interested in Indians with 

furs to sell. Captain Fleet knew them, so in order to get help from him 

they let him go free. He helped establish the Colony in Maryland and 

acted as interpreter and guide, and settled in Maryland. He was a 

Marylander Legislature Member in 1638. In 1642 the Virginian assembly 

gave him the right to explore for fourteen years. In 1644 Lord Baltimore 

gave him the power to Captain General to visit the Susquehanna Indians 

and make a peace treaty with them. In 1646 he was appointed to organise 

an expedition against the Indians and build a fort in the valley of the 

Rappahannock River. In 1652-1653 the Virginian assembly renewed the 

`Privilege of Discovery' by authorizing Captain Henry Fleet and William 

Claybourne to discover and trade where no other Englishman had ever been 

before. He was Burgess for Lancaster County in 1652 and a justice of 

Lancaster County 1653; and on the division of the county (when 

Rappahannock County, Virginia was formed) he was appointed by the 

Assembly, 13th December A.D. 1656, a Justice of Lancaster (of the quorum, 

and 2nd in the commission), and lieutenant-colonel of militia, and one of 

the Majesty Justices. His opinions in regard to Indian affairs seem to 

have had much weight in the colony. He wrote `A Brief Journal of a 

Voyage made in the Bark Virginia, to Virginia and the other parts of the 

Continent of America,' the mananuscript of which is in the Lambeth Palace 

Library, London. He was an active man, a useful citizen, a shrewd 

leader, an excellent interpreter, and contributed his full share towards 

laying the foundations of the Colony of Maryland, and building up the 

Colony of Virginia.

Captain Thomas (I) Osborne

Lieutenant Thomas Osborne arrived in Jamestown aboard the Bona Nova late in 1619; no family members are known to have accompanied him at this time. Whether his wife had previously died in England is not known, but her name has never appeared in any of the extant colonial Virginia records. He was selected by the London Company in England to serve as the leader of the military contingent in the settlement of College Land, a large area of land near Henricus City. The latter was the second permanent settlement in Virginia, the first, of course, being Jamestown. He appears in the two early lists of inhabitants, dated February 1623/24, and January 1224/25, as a resident of "Colledge Land." After the March 1622 attack by the Indians, where roughly one-third of those settlers between Jamestown and Henricus City were killed, Lieut. Thomas Osborne lead a retaliatory attack; from this point onward, he appears in the records as Captain Thomas Osborne. From 1625-1633 he served in the House of Burgesses and, having been granted a large tract of land known as Coxendale, settled there around 1625. The first town in Coxendale, Gatesville, was later named Osbornes and became an important inspection, storage, and shipping center for tobacco well into the late 19th century. He lived his entire life in Coxendale (that part which is now Chesterfield County), and the succeeding four generations of his namesake also made Coxendale their home.

From Colonial Virginia Register, House of Burgesses, pp. 54-58

1629

Assembled October 6th

The Plantation at the College: Lieutenant Thomas Osborne, Matthew Edlowe.

1629-30

Assembled March 14th

Plantations of the College and Neck of Land: Captain Thomas Osborne, Thomas Farmer.

1631-32

Assembled February 21st

Arrowhattocks, Neck of Land, and Curles: Captain Thomas Osborne.

1632

Assembled September 4th

Arrowhattocks, Neck of Land, and Curles: Captain Thomas Osborne.

1632-3

Assembled February 1st Arrowhattocks, Henrico Neck of Land, and Curles: Captain Thomas Osborne. From Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Book 1, Part II, p. 80.

CAPT. THOMAS OSBORNE, 1000 acs. Henrico Co., 6 Feb 1637, p. 519. N. upon Procters Cr., E. upon the maine river, W. into the woods & S. upon Henrico Island called by the name of Fearing. Granted by order of Ct., 8 Oct. 1634 & due for trans. of 20 pers....

Captain William Davis: Boston: freeman 1645. He was a Captain of a troop of horse, in Ninigret's war. *A troop of horse was raised about this time; Capt. William Davis is named as its commander: "it was a frequent thing for the officers to turn troopers, when their own regiment is not in exercise, for the encouragement of others."* He was a merchant of celebrity; by some he is represented as an apothecary, probably because he first imported drugs and medicine on a considerable sscale [the Boston Church Records style him apothecary]. He represented Springfield in 1652; this arose from the circumstance of his having married, 1644, Margaret, the daughter of William Pynchon, the Assistant, the founder and leading inhabitant of that town. He was probably the Representative of Haverhill, 1668. He was Commissioner to King Philip at Taunton, in 1671, in company with William Hudson and Thomas Brattle, and was joined with General Leverett, afterwards Governer, as a Commissioner, united with the Connecticut Commissoners, to the Dutch Governor, Stuyvesant, of New York, 1653. he accompanied the brave Captain Thomas Lake, in his expedition to Kennebec, 1676- probably their joint interest in that quarter was "an eexciting cause"- and with him escaped at a back door, when the Indians had gained the fort, to the water's side, where Lake fell. Davis was wounded, but made his escape. This was rather a disastrous affair. Hutchinson, in a note, says, "Davis was afterwards of the Council for Massachusetts Province"- but I cannot find any corroborating evidence. That he deserved to be there, is true.

Captain Davis was elected Ensign of the Artillery Co. 1652, Lieutenant in 1659 and 1663, aand twice as Captain, in 1664 and 1672. His will is dated May 17th, 1676. There is a tombstone in the Chapel burial-ground, Boston, which says, Capt. William Davis, died 1675, [the discrepancy of the year may be accounted for by the architect who repaired the same, or his posterity not being accurate antiquarians]. The tombstone was repaired by his great grandson, Edward Davis, with Connecticut free stone, which is very perishable, and is now almost illegible. His son, Major Benjamin D Davis, was of the Artillery Co. 1673. He stands at the head of the founders and members of the Old South Church.

-Joseph Davis, Boston, born 1645

 -Major Benjamin Davis, Boston, apothecary, of what corps we are noot informed; and Ensign of the Artillery Co. 1679; Lieutenant 1681. He died, according to Farmer, Nov. 26th, 1704. There appears administration on Benjamin Davis, apothecary, Boston, June 1st 1704. I am not able to reconcile these dates. A member of the Old South Church.

-William Davis, Boston; youngest son of Captain William, Ar. Co. 1643, and brother of Major Benjamin, Ar. Co. 1673. Member of the Old South Church.

.......taken from 'History of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company: from its formation in 1637 and charter in 1638, to the present time; comprising the biographies of the distinguished civil, literary, religious, and military men of the colony, province, and commonwealth.' by Zachariah G. Whitman, Boston, Mass, 1842

Clifton was a son of Sir John Clifton of Barrington Court, Somerset and was educated at St Alban Hall, Oxford (1586), Gray's Inn (1588). In 1591, he became a Knight of the Shire of Huntingdonshire, settled in Leighton Bromswold and married Katherine, a daughter of Sir Henry Darcy (a previous Knight of the Shire) that year and was knighted by 1597. From 1597-98 and also in 1601, Clifton was MP for Huntingdonshire and was raised to the Peerage by writ of summons in 1608 as Baron C Clifton, of Leighton Bromswold, County Huntingdon.

On 30 December 1617, Lord Clifton was imprisoned in the Tower of London for threatening Sir Francis Bacon when the latter ordered a survey of Clifton's land. He was then prosecuted by the Star Chamber on 17 March 1618 and moved to Fleet Prison, where he stabbed himself to death in the following October. His only son had died in 1602 after the result of wounds received from a bear, which had broken free during a bear-baiting show at Nottingham and so Clifton's title passed to his daughter, Katherine.

Controversial Murder Trial of Thomas Cornell Jr.

Thomas' son Thomas Cornell (Jr.) was accused, tried, convicted and hanged for the alleged murder of his mother, Rebecca Briggs Cornell, in Portsmouth in 1673. He was convicted using circumstantial evidence as well as spectral evidence, where witnesses recounted dreams involving ghosts pointing to his alleged guilt. American jurisprudence was later modernized to exclude the use of apparitions and dreams as evidence in trials. This case and its history has been chronicled in the book Killed Strangely: The Death of Rebecca Cornell by Elaine Forman Crane