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The Spaldings of Jamestown
Websites to visit:
Jamestown Rediscovery: The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities' Jamestown Rediscovery archaeological project. Jamestown Rediscovery is investigating the remains of 1607 Jamestown on the APVA property on Jamestown Island, Virginia.
Virtual Jamestown: The Virtual Jamestown Archive is a digital research, teaching, and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the Virginia experiment." As a work in progress, Virtual Jamestown aimsto shape the national dialogue on the occasion of the four hundred year anniversary observance in 2007 of the founding of the Jamestown colony.
OUR SPALDING LINEAGE:
1. EDWARD SPALDING.1 JAMES CITTIE, VIRGINIA (I619).
BRAINTREE,MASSACHUSETTS BAY (1630)
According to the Spalding Memorial
"conclusive evidence proves that Edward Spalding came over from England with Sir
George Yeardley, [the newly appointed Governor of Jamestown] in 1619, or about
that time." Up until that time few women had crossed the Atlantic, but in 1619
several married couples with children made the passage for the first time. These
young couples embarked on the ship GEORGE, January 29, 1619 and landed in
Jamestown, Virginia in April 1619. (This was one year before the Pilgrims landed
in Plymouth, Mass. on the Mayflower.) (Click Here to see the original document
of the Virginia Company's Instructions to Governor George Yeardley.)
An account from the "Historical Genealogy of the Woodsons and their Connections Vol. 1 by Henry Morton Woodson, published in 1915" states that the colony at this time numbered nearly two thousand men of high character; many of them being younger sons of the nobility who had come to the new country to make their own fortunes and were not afraid nor ashamed to do the work necessary to accomplish that end. These young gentlemen, owing to the law of primogeniture, lived at home under very great disadvantage, and could accomplish something for themselves, only by going to some part of the world where that law was not operative in its strictest construction. On the 29th day of January, 1619, the ship George sailed from England and in the following April landed at Jamestown, Virginia. This vessel brought the new Governor, Sir George Yeardley and about one hundred passengers.
Muster of the inhabitants of Virginia settlements: Settlers living at "James
Cittye" in Virginia, February 16, 1623/4
Edward Spalding b. circa 1600, m.
(1) about 1632, Margaret Elliot, d. Aug-1640, m. (2) circa 1641, in Chelmsford,
MA Middlesex Co., Rachel, b. circa 1622, Chelmsford, MA Middlesex Co, d.
5-Apr-1670, Chelmsford MA Middlesex Co.
The children of Edward Spalding were as follows:
2. John [9].
(Margaret)
3. Edward [18]. (Margaret)
4. Grace, d. May 1641.
(Margaret)
5. Benjamin [26], b. April 7,1643. (Rachel)
6. Joseph [32], b.
Oct. 25, 1646. (Rachel)
7. Dinah, b. March 14, 1649. (Rachel)
8. Andrew
[45], b. Nov. 19, 1652. (Rachel)
26. BENJAMIN2 [5], (Edward1), b. April 7,
1643, in Braintree, Mass.; d. before 1708; m. Olive Farwell, Oct. 30, 1668. She
was the daughter of Henry and Olive Farwell, first of Concord, Mass., afterwards
of Chelmsford, Mass. Her father Henry Farwell was made a freeman in
1689.
Benjamin is not mentioned in the will of his father, as he had already
received his portion. He purchased a large tract of land in the northerly part
of Canterbury, Windham County, Conn., now called Brooklyn. His family homestead
was transmitted to his son Edward, and in process of time to Edward's son
Ebenezer.
The children of Benjamin and Olive were as follows:
27. Sarah, b. Jan. 4,
1669, m. John Miriam.
28. Edward [117], b. June 18, 1672.
29. Benjamin
[128], b. July 6, 1685.
30. Elizabeth; m. Ephraim Wheeler.
31. Mary; m.
Isaac Morgan.
117. EDWARD3 [28], (Benjamin2, Edward1), b. June 18, 1672; d.
Nov. 29, 1740, ć. 67; Canterbury (Conn.) records say 1739; m. Mary Adams. She
died Sept. 20, 1754, ć. 78. His first child was born in Chelmsford, Mass.; the
others in Canterbury, Conn., where he lived and died.
Miss E. D. Larned, of Thompson, Conn., in her "Sketches of Windham County,"
(History of Windham County, Connecticut by Ellen D. Larned, Volume 1, published
1874) says that Edward Spalding was the third settler within the present limits
of Brooklyn; and that he bought land north of Canterbury bounds, at the foot of
Tadwick hill, in 1707. The first committee of the Religious Society, organized
in 1731, was Joseph Adams, Henry Smith, and Edward Spalding.
118. Benjamin [373], b. July 20, 1696.
119. Elizabeth, b. Aug. 15, 1698;
m. William Darbe.
120. Ephraim [383], b. April 3, 1700.
121. Jonathan
[394], b. April 15, 1704.
122. Ezekiel [396], b. Sept. 8, 1706.
123. Ruth,
b. Sept. 28, 1710; m. John Bacon.
124. Abigail, b. March 10, 1713; m. Benajah
Douglas.
125. Ebenezer, [401], b. June 24, 1717.
126. Thomas [412], b.
Aug. 7, 1719.
127. John, b. Dec. 1, 1721. John Spalding served in the war of
the Revolution, and was a surgeon in Col. John Durkee’s Regt., 20th Continental,
1776.
383. EPHRAIM4 [120], (Edward3, Benjamin2, Edward1), b. April 3, 1700,
in Canterbury, Conn.; he d. in 1776; m. Abigail Bullard, of Plainfield, Conn.;
she d. July, 1789, being over ninety years of age. They lived in Plainfield,
Conn., and all their children were born there.
384. John [1152], b. Aug. 8,
1724; d. May 29, 1768. His family removed to Plainfield N. H.
385. Phineas
[1160], b. March 25, 1726.
386. Reuben [1165], b. Feb. 26, 1728.
387.
Josiah [1171], b. Dec. 7, 1729.
388. Ezekiel [1182], b. Sept. 30,
1731.
389. Palatiah, b. March 19, 1734; d. Oct. 3, 1750.
390. Abigail, b.
March 16, 1736; m. Capt. Samuel Hall, May 19, 1756.
391. Oliver [1190], b.
Sept. 30, 1739.
392. Mary, b. May 16, 1744; m. John Larrabee, Dec. 16,
1762.
393. Ephraim [1203], b. May 24, 1747.
1182. EZEKIEL5 [388], (Ephraim4, Edward3, Benjamin2, Edward1), b. Sept. 30,
1731, in Plainfield, Conn.; he m. Sarah Morgan, March 26, 1754. Ezekiel Spalding
served in the war of the Revolution as a private, stationed at Georgetown,
Mass., from July 25 to Dec. 31, 1775; also served as a private in Capt. William
Lithow's Co., and was stationed at Falmouth, Mass., from March 19 to Nov. 13,
1776; he was made Corporal Oct. 16, 1776. He was made Sergeant in Capt. Reed’s
Co., Col. Brooks’ Regt., service from Feb. 11 to Oct. 1, 1777. It appears that
he also served as a sergeant in the Continental army for three years.
1183. Newell [2883].
1184. Miner [2893], b. July 29, 1763.
1185.
Squire; enlisted in the army, and died of the fever; unmarried
1186. Parley
[2901], b. April 7, 1766.
1187. Phebe; m. Elisha Litchfield; settled in
Muskingum, Ohio.
1188. Mary; d. young.
1189. Sarah; d. young.
2893.
MINER6 [1184], (Ezekiel5, Ephraim4, Edward3, Benjamin2, Edwardl), b. July 29,
1763; d. March, 1840; m. Sarah Mott, of Stonington, Conn., 1787; res. Jewett
City, Conn.
Children all born in Preston, now Griswold, Conn.
2894. Miner
[6445], b. May 8, 1788.
2895. Betsey, b. May 13, 1790; d. Oct. 28, 1854;
unmarried.
2896. Ezra-Morgan [6446], b. July 29, 1792.
2897. Jerusha-Mott,
b. Feb. 4. 1794; m. Harris Keyes, Feb. 10, 1814; went to Pitcher, N.Y.; she d.
Feb. 24, 1861, at Pitcher.
2898. Ephraim [6448], b. July 29, 1797.
2899.
Hannah-Tracy, b. Aug. 15, 1802; m. Samuel White, March 22, 1830; res.
Burrillsville, R. I.; she d. Feb. 23, 1865, at East Douglas, Mass.
2900.
Elisha-Lathrop [6455], b. Dec. 10, 1805.
6448. EPHRAIM7 [2898], (Miner6,
Ezekiel5, Ephraim4, Edward3, Benjamin2, Edward1), b. July 29, 1797, in Preston,
now Griswold, Conn.; m. Sarah Lowtrip. Very little is known of Ephraim. He
emigrated to Indiana, and there married.
6449. Elisha-Lowtrip [10855], b.
Nov. 11, 1824.
6450. David; unmarried; res. Santa Barbara, Cal.
6451.
Daniel [10864].
6452. William [10865].
6453. Melinda; d. in
infancy.
6454. A daughter; d. in infancy.
10864. DANIEL8 [6451],
(Ephraim7, Miner6, Ezekiel5, Ephraim4, Edward3, Benjamin2, Edward1), b. in
Indiana; m. Didami Gumm, res. Westmoreland, Kan.