ANDREW PIERCE REPORTS - AUGUST 19, 2001

Mr. Tim Farr
P.O.Box 449
Ferron, UT 84523

Dear Tim & Dave,

In response to your request of 15 July, I have continued research on various of your ancestral lines.

I had begun photocopying pages from Robert C.Anderson?s latest editions of The Great Migration Begins, before realizing It was In fact given as one of the sources In most of your group sheets. That being said, the group sheets seem to combine both Anderson?s work and several fallacious "English origins" which have been given In 100-year genealogies and since disproved by Anderson and others. So, I have highlighted those portions of Anderson?s and other texts which refute some of the earlier assumptions made about some of these Immigrants, their origins and their wives? names.

The Ancestry of Samuel, Freda & John Warner(1 949; NEHGS Mss 510, Vol.2), shows that Sarah KI ng(born 3 January 1669), daughter of Thomas & Elizabeth (Clapp)King of Scituate, married in 1705, Nathaniel Goodspeed of Rochester MA. S he was not named in Thomas? will. In any event, she was not the same Sarah King who married in Newton MA(qulte distant from Scituate), 5 November 1684, Richard Park. I have yet to find any source that gives her parentage, despite checking those in Torrey?s New England Marriages; and there might, in fact, not be any sources as to her parentage.

In fact, I cannot find any source which confirms that Sarah King married Richard Park on 5 November 1684 in Newton MA; I don?t think It is in the Newton vital records, and In tact their eldest child was apparently born "about 1689." I will continue to look into this, and will inform you of any developments. I did search Middlesex County land and probate records, and found only one clue; that Hannah, the widow and administratix of one Ebenezer King, sold land In Cambridge in 1714 in accordance with a judgment of the Superiour Court of Judicature.

The Great Migration Begins has a good chapter on Robert & Elizabeth Andrews. Robert was born say 1593, not 1560; and the maiden name of his wife Elizabeth is unknown(hiS DAUGHTER married William Franklin). Their other daughter Abigail was definitely the wife of Daniel Hovey. Warner-Harrington Ancestry (see above)shows that Daniel?s parents were indeed Richard Hovey, born ca.1575, and his wife Agnes; this is by Daniel?s own statement, corroborated by the baptismal records of Waltham Abbey, Essex, England.

The Great Migration Begins also has a good chapter on Edward Dix; but his purported birthplace of Gravesend and his wife Jane as Jane Wilkinson, are seriously questioned and cannot be called conclusive. HIS and her origins are both unknown. Abigail, the wife of Thomas Park, WAS their daughter.

The Great Migration?s study of William & Ellzabeth(---)French notes a 1911 NEHGS Register article showin that William was NOT the same one bapt. 15 March 1603 In Halstead, Essex, England. His origins, and his wife Elizabeth?s maiden name and origins, remain unknown. Nathaniel Duncklee(not Dunkler) was the husband of Mary(French)Hyde?S much younger half- sister, who was also named Mary(there are other instances In colonial New England of a man?s children both being given the same first names).

I have thus far found nothing new on the parentage of Jonathan & Samuel Hyde, though I am suspicious that the information on which the group sheet is based has Robert born 1604 and wife Alice(Crompton)borfl 9 years earlier, in 1595. I doubt this Is correct. The best information on the Hydes Is still in a 1917 NEHGS Register article(enclosed).

The info on William Barsham in The Great Migration notes that he was NOT known to have been born 1588 In Colchester, Essex, England; his origins are unknown, and he was born probably say 1610. The parentage of his wife Annabella Smith, alias Bland, are discussed in an excellent article in The American Genealogisl(VoI.61), which is enclosed; but her exact birth date and place are not known, either. Their daughter Hannah DID marry John Spring.

Although The William Ward Genealogy(1925)makes John Ward, who married say 1650, hannah Jackson of Newton MA, a son of William Ward(b.ca.1603) of Sudbury & Marlborough MA(and this Is repeated in Warner-Harrlngton Ancestry), I do not see any proof of this, and will consult William Ward?s 1687 will and any estate papers, and Middlesex County deeds, to find more Information. I have a hard time with John Ward?s birth date being arbitrarily given as 1626, and the fact that Newton Is some distance from Sudbury. Even if it is found that William Ward did name a son John In the will, proof must be found whether or not he was the same man who lived in Newton. Nor am I sure of any direct proof that William was baptized 15 May 1603 In Yorkshire, England.

The Great Migration demonstrates that Anna(Moore)Kidder was, In fact, a daughter of Francis Moore, and this is borne out by the will of her brother Francis Moore, who left bequests to her three sons(see my last report). I have checked several sources as to the identity of Bethlah, wife of Andrew Mansfield, but can find no new info nor any verification as to whether she was a Gedney.

Stevens-Miller Ancestry and Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines provide the best treatment of William Greene and of his father-in-law, Thomas Carter.

I will be glad to follow up on any of these lines, or others, further. The above searches entailed ten hours? research and $15 in expenses, for a total of $315.00; minus your $100 advance retainer, this leaves $215.00 outstanding. It has been a pleasure to continue tracing your New England lines, and I shall look forward to corresponding again in the near future.

Sincerely,

R. Andrew Pierce