David O'Killey
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 18 Apr 1745 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: David O'Killey (1715- )
Mother: Marcy Nickerson (1716-1765)
David O'Killey
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 28 Dec 1715 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts 1
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: John O'Kelley (1692-1776)
Mother: Elizabeth Crowell (1692-After 1743)
Spouses and Children
1. *Marcy Nickerson (22 Nov 1716 - 17 Dec 1765)
Marriage: 12 Mar 1740 - (Yarmouth, Massachusetts)
Status:
Children:
1. Elizabeth O'Killey (1743-1765)
2. David O'Killey (1745- )
3. Mary O'Killey (1751- )
4. Levi Kelley (1754-1840)
Elizabeth O'Killey
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 25 Mar 1743 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 23 Feb 1765 - (Yarmouth, Massachusetts)
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: David O'Killey (1715- )
Mother: Marcy Nickerson (1716-1765)
Jeremiah O'Killey
Sex: M
AKA: Jeremiah Okilley
Individual Information
Birth: 8 May 1730 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts 2
Baptism:
Death:
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Parents
Father: Joseph O'Killey (1693-Cir 1763)
Mother: Tabitha Baker (1700-1787)
Joseph O'Killey
Sex: M
AKA: Joseph Okilley
Individual Information
Birth: 4 Apr 1693 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: Cir 1763 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Probate
Parents
Father: Jeremiah O'Kelley (1670-1728)
Mother: Sarah Chase (1674-Abt 1727)
Spouses and Children
1. *Tabitha Baker (1700 - 1787)
Marriage: 1717 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Stephen O'Kelly (1718- )
2. Anna O'Killey (1720- )
3. Sarah O'Kelley (1722- )
4. Joseph O'Kelley (1728- )
5. Jeremiah O'Killey (1730- )
Mary O'Killey
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 23 Apr 1751 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: David O'Killey (1715- )
Mother: Marcy Nickerson (1716-1765)
Richard Oldenquist
Sex: M
AKA: Dicky Oldenquist
Individual Information
Birth: 27 May 1941
Baptism:
Death: 24 Oct 1976 - scalloper Patricia Marie, off Nauset Beach, Eastham
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Social Security Number, 029-30-6740, Massachusetts in Massachusetts
Notes
General:
See note on Capt. Billy King.
Provincetown's tragic losses
By Mary Ann Bragg
mbragg@capecodonline.com
November 24, 2012
...
The years from 1976 to 1985 were particularly tough ones for the Provincetown fleet.
The Patricia Marie was the biggest loss, on Oct. 24, 1976. The bodies of five men were found, and two were not, Cordeiro said. At the time, she and her husband had two kids, and Ernest Cordeiro had told his wife in the days before the sinking that the scallop fishing trips might be his last because the boat wasn't properly equipped for the loads it was carrying.
"He turned around and gave his daughter his skiff and his son his Jeep, and then sure enough," Joan Cordeiro said. "They knew the boat wasn't right, that it would roll."
The boat's captain, William King, 46, died, as did Walter Marshall, 55; Morris Joseph, 47, and his 19-year-old son, Alton; Robert Zawalick, 25; and Richard Oldenquist, 35, all of Provincetown. The 64-foot scallop boat disappeared three miles off Nauset Beach in Eastham as it returned from a rich bed of scallops in an area known as Pollock Rip. The boat was found in 135 feet of water in an upright position, and Ernest Cordeiro was found three months later when a dragger caught his body in a net.
William Francis Oldenquist
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 2 Dec 1916 - Charlestown, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 21 Jun 1954 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Barbara Sally Merrill (28 Oct 1911 - 7 Apr 1968)
Marriage: 20 Nov 1937 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 3
Status:
Notes
General:
of Provincetown, 1937
Anna Oldham
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 19 Mar 1696 - Scituate, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: Bef 28 Oct 1766 - Pownalborough, Maine
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Thomas Oldham (1660-1734)
Mother: Mercy Sprout (1662-Between 1725/1728) 5
Spouses and Children
1. *Joseph Young (19 Dec 1682 - 1770)
Marriage: 13 Oct 1718 - Scituate, Massachusetts 6
Status:
Children:
1. Isaac Young (1719-Bef 1760)
2. Joseph Young (1722- )
3. Thomas Young (1725- )
4. Anne Young (1727-1811) 7
5. Isaac Young (1730- )
6. Sarah Young (Cir 1733-1822) 7
7. Joshua Young (Cir 1738-1832) 7
Notes
Marriage Notes (Joseph Young)
"Joseph joined the Truro church on 13 March 1726 and had son Thomas baptized there several months later. Joseph and Anna moved to Scarborough, Maine, perhaps by 1729, but certailnly by 1730 as shown by the baptism of son Isaac in 1730 and Anna's admission to the Scarboraough church from Truro in 3 October 1736. Joseph was of Wiscasset on 1 April 1739 when he was sued by Phineas Jones of Falmouth for a debt. On 22 March 1749/50 Joseph Young Sr. and Joseph Young Jr. signed the petition to establish the town of Pownalborough for the fifty families that had settled there. Joseph Sr.'s will was proved 13 Jun 1770 and named Sons Joseph, Isaac, Joshua, and Thomas (deceased) and daughters Sarah, wife of Richard Holbrook, and Anne, wife of John Pearce." 7
Bethiah Oldham
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1700
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Joseph Weston (Est 1700 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Sarah Weston (1723-1773)
Hannah Oldham
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 26 Oct 1733
Baptism:
Death: 4 Nov 1804 - Duxbury, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Eliphalet Bradford (30 Jan 1728 - 7 Jun 1795) 8
Marriage: 9 Feb 1758 - Duxbury, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Zadock Bradford (1765-1833) 8
John Oldham
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1600 - Lancastershire, England
Baptism:
Death: Jul 1636 - Block Island
Burial:
Cause of Death: killed by Indians
Parents
Father: William Oldham (Est 1570- ) 9
Mother: Phillipa Sowter (Est 1580- )
Notes
General:
"Oldham, John (c. 1600- July 1636), trader, was born in Lancashire, England, of unknown parents. He first appeared in the historical record when he emigrated to Plymouth colony in 1623, arriving in July on the ship Anne. Like other non-Separatists (or "particulars") who desired to settle in the colony, he was required to sign an agreement accepting the authority of the government, even though he had paid his own passage. He did become a Separatist shortly after arriving, but Governor William Bradford himself expressed some doubt about Oldham's motives, saying of his conversion, "Now whether this was in hypocrisy, or out of some sudden pang of conviction, which I rather think, God only knows." Oldham was married and had children, but no details are known.
Oldham was well known for his temper and stubborn insistence on following his own path. In 1624 he joined forces with the newly arrived Reverend John Lyford to lead a faction of dissident settlers who began to work secretly against the Plymouth government. The two wrote several letters to some of the colony's enemies in England, hoping to gain leverage against the government, but a suspicious Bradford searched the ship before it left, discovered the letters, and read of the pair's intention to form their own church and "have the sacraments," apparently according to Lyford's "Episcopal calling." At first the governor did nothing with the information, but Oldham, perhaps emboldened by his anticipated support from England, became more contrary than ever, refusing to take his scheduled night watch and even drawing a knife against the captain (presumably Miles Standish) and calling him a "beggarly rascal." Bradford sent more men to quiet him, but Oldham only "ramped more like a furious beast than a man, and called them all traitors and rebels and other such foul language." Only a brief stint in jail calmed him down.
Shortly after this incident Oldham and Lyford did in fact establish their own church. Bradford and the Plymouth authorities decided the two had gone too far; the government tried and convicted them and in early 1625 banished them from the colony. Oldham flew into another rage during the trial when he discovered that Bradford had opened his letters. The governor allowed Oldham's family to remain in the colony until he could find a suitable home for them, but Oldham returned in March 1625 and again verbally excoriated the colony's leaders. The authorities jailed him and then personally escorted him out of town, forming "a guard of musketeers which he was to pass through, and every one was ordered to give him a thump on the breech with the butt end of his musket."
Oldham settled first at Nantasket (Hull) in Massachusetts and then on Cape Ann, where he established a successful Indian trade. During this time he seems to have undergone a change of attitude. On a trading voyage to Virginia his ship was in danger of sinking. According to Bradford, Oldham "did make a free and large confession of the wrongs and hurt he had done to the people and church here . . . [and] prayed to God to forgive him." He returned to Cape Ann and was employed as a trader by the Dorchester Company, founded in 1623 in an attempt to establish a permanent fishing village on the cape, until it went bankrupt in 1626. He also regained the Plymouth Colony's trust, returning in 1628 to escort the banished Thomas Morton back to England. While there, he sought commercial concessions from the fledgling Massachusetts Bay Company, but they rejected his proposal. In 1629 he purchased some land at the mouth of the Charles River from John Gorges, the son of Ferdinand Gorges, but the Bay Company refused to accept Gorges's claim to the land. In early 1630 Oldham and Richard Vines did receive a grant from the Council for New England for land on the Saco River in Maine, but Oldham showed no interest in developing the grant and settled instead in Watertown, Massachusetts. There he prospered; he became a freeman in 1631 and was elected a representative to the General Court in 1632 and 1634.
Still intent on pursuing riches, in September 1633 Oldham led a four-man scouting trip to the Connecticut River, returning with beaver, black lead, and hemp specimens. In the fall of 1634 he led a group of eight to Pyquag (later Wethersfield) on the Connecticut River, where he built shelters and explored the area in search of furs. That same year the Massachusetts General Court granted him 500 acres on the Charles River and made him one of the overseers of powder and shot for the colony. He had business relations with the Winthrop family. Though the Pequots rebuffed his attempts to open trade with them, the Narragansetts welcomed his overtures. In November 1634 they awarded him 500 bushels of corn and offered him possession of an island in Narragansett Bay if he would live among them. Finally, he was one of the messengers who delivered instructions from the Massachusetts government to John Winthrop, Jr., at the Fort Saybrook conference in July 1636 demanding, under threats of English revenge, that the Pequots and Western Niantics give further satisfaction for the 1634 death of John Stone.
Within a few days of the Saybrook conference, however, Oldham was dead. Captain John Gallop, sailing near Block Island, saw Oldham's ship, crowded with Indians. He investigated and found the trader's body. Gallop killed many of the Indians on board in revenge, but it seems clear that Oldham's killer was not among them. The circumstances of his death remain veiled; historians agree only that he had been on a trading mission to the island. John Winthrop claimed that Narragansett sachems conspired with the Block Island Indians to kill Oldham for attempting to trade with the Pequots the previous year. Yet at the time, the Narragansetts were at peace with the Pequots and allied with the Bay Colony. Historian Francis Jennings has
argued that Oldham was the victim of something like a state execution by Narragansett sachems for an unknown offense. It seems unlikely that historians will ever discover the truth.
The two leading Narragansett sachems, Canonicus and Miantonomo, were anxious to preserve their alliance with the Bay Colony, and they led some two hundred warriors to Block Island to take revenge for Oldham's death on the colony's behalf. They assured the English that they killed most of the assassins (though a few escaped to the Pequots), and they returned the two
boys from Oldham's ship and his remaining goods. But Massachusetts authorities were not satisfied and subsequently launched reprisals against both the Block Island Indians and the innocent Pequots. These were the opening blows in the Pequot War.
Historians generally remember Oldham for his inadvertent role in the onset of this war. But his life also reminds us that not everyone who came to early New England was a cooperative, religiously motivated settler. Even after his change of heart in Virginia, Oldham sought wealth and prestige at least as much as religious peace.
Bibliography
Though there is no study of Oldham's life, there are several excellent brief sources of information available. On his early years in Plymouth, see William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647, ed. Samuel Eliot Morison (1952). On his later activities, begin with Francis Jennings, The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonists, and the Cant of Conquest (1975), and then consult the differing interpretations in Alden T. Vaughan, New England Frontier: Puritans and Indians, 1620-1675 (1965), and Vaughan, "Pequots and Puritans: The Causes of the War of 1637," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 21 (1964): 256-69. Also see James Kendall Hosmer, ed., Winthrop's Journal: "History of New England," 1630-1649, vol. 1 (1908). The quotations are from Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, pp. 149, 151, 165, and 165-66."
Ronald P. Dufour
Citation:
Ronald P. Dufour. "Oldham, John";
http://www.anb.org/articles/01/01-00686.html;
American National Biography Online Feb. 2000.
Copyright © 2000 American Council of Learned Societies.
John` Oldham
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1653
Baptism:
Death: 14 Oct 1719 - Cambridge, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Elizabeth Hall (18 Jul 1658 - )
Marriage: Cir 1675
Status:
Lucretia Oldham
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth:
Baptism: 14 Jan 1601 - All Saints, Derby, Derbyshire 11
Death: 1678 - Plymouth Colony
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: William Oldham (Est 1570- ) 9
Mother: Phillipa Sowter (Est 1580- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Jonathan Brewster (12 Aug 1593 - 1659)
Marriage: 10 Apr 1624 - Plymouth, Plymouth Colony 10
Status:
Children:
1. Mary Brewster (1627-1698)
2. Jonathan Brewster (1629- )
Notes
Marriage Notes (Jonathan Brewster)
"On 19 June 1638 Dr. Comfort Starr bought of Jonathan Brewster (a son of Elder William Brewster). for 150£ Sterling, his large homestead at South Duxbury in Plymouth Colony, extending about a mile along what is now know as Kingston Bay from the homestead of Capt. Myles Standish, from the "Nook" toward the present town of Kingston, together with a large house which Brewster had built there. Lucretia Oldham, whom Jonathan Brewster married in 1624, was probaly a daughter of John Oldham of Watertown [sister, actually]. Both John Oldham and Jonathan Brewster were sea-rovers and traders, and both were pioneers in the settlement of the Connecticut Valley. Presumably while Jonathan Brewster and his wife were visiting the Oldhams at Watertown, they met Dr. Comfort Starr and induced him to buy his estate at South Duxbury."
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Mercy Oldham
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 28 Jul 1689
Baptism:
Death: in (Truro, Massachusetts)
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Thomas Oldham (1660-1734)
Mother: Mercy Sprout (1662-Between 1725/1728) 5
Spouses and Children
1. *Andrew Newcomb (1680 - 9 Dec 1748)
Marriage: 4 Nov 1708 - Scituate, Massachusetts 13
Status:
Children:
1. Mercy Newcomb (1710- )
2. Joshua Newcomb (1712-Abt 1749)
3. Andrew Newcomb (1715- )
4. Jesse Newcomb (1718-1801)
5. Abigail Newcomb (1720- )
6. Robert Newcomb (1722-1802)
7. Lemuel Newcomb (1724-Bef 1787) 13
8. Mary Newcomb (1727- )
9. Sarah Newcomb (1729-1745)
Notes
Marriage Notes (Andrew Newcomb)
Children
Ruth Newcomb also 13
Thomas Oldham
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 23 Aug 1624 - Derby, England
Baptism:
Death: 7 Mar 1712 - Scituate, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Mary Wetherell (19 Mar 1635 - 12 Dec 1710) 14
Marriage: 20 Nov 1656 - Scituate, Plymouth Colony 14
Status:
Children:
1. Thomas Oldham (1660-1734)
Notes
Marriage Notes (Mary Wetherell)
"THOMAS, Scituate, was of Duxbury 1643, perhaps that youth who came from London 1635, in the Elizabeth and Ann, and may have been br. of John, his fellow-passeng. m. 20 Nov. 1656, Mary, d. of Rev. William Wetherell, had Mary, b. 20 Aug. 1658; Thomas, 30 Oct. 1660; Sarah; Hannah; Grace; Isaac; Ruth; Elizabeth; and Lydia; all bef. 1675; and d. 1711." - Savage
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Children
Thomas Oldham b: 30 OCT 1660 in Scituate,Ma
Mary Oldham b: 20 AUG 1658 in Scituate,Ma
Sarah Oldham
Hannah Oldham
Grace Oldham
Isaac Oldham
Ruth Oldham
Elizabeth Oldham
Lydia Oldham
Thomas Oldham
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 30 Oct 1660 - Scituate, Plymouth Colony
Baptism:
Death: Jan 1734
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Thomas Oldham (1624-1712) 14
Mother: Mary Wetherell (1635-1710) 14
Spouses and Children
1. *Mercy Sprout (15 Jul 1662 - Between 1725 and 1728) 5
Marriage: 1683
Status:
Children:
1. Mercy Oldham (1689- )
2. Anna Oldham (1696-Bef 1766) 4
Notes
Marriage Notes (Mercy Sprout)
"THOMAS, Scituate, s. of the preced. m. 1683, Mercy, d. of Robert Sproat, had Joshua and Mary, tw. b. 1684; Mercy; and Desire."- Savage vol. 3, p. 309
William Oldham
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1570 - (Derby, England)
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Phillipa Sowter (Est 1580 - )
Marriage: 17 Nov 1588 - All Saints, Derby, Derbyshire 9
Status:
Children:
1. Lucretia Oldham (1601-1678) 10
2. John Oldham (Cir 1600-1636)
A Marion Oliver
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 10 Oct 1893
Baptism:
Death: 18 Apr 1974
Burial: in Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *John Paine Grozier (17 Apr 1903 - 11 Oct 1962)
Marriage:
Status:
Abbie Florence Oliver
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 7 Nov 1857 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 15
Baptism:
Death: 18 Dec 1879 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Burial: in Oak Dale Cemetery, Wellfleet
Cause of Death: phthisis
Parents
Father: Captain Benjamin Oliver (1831-1901) 16
Mother: Olive Frances Paine (1832-1914) 17
Notes
Medical:
age 22-1-11
parents Benj & Olive
interrred Wellfleet 18
Sources
1. George Ernest Bowman, transcriber, "Yarmouth, Massachusetts Vital Records" (Mayflower Descendant, in several parts), 23:108.
2. George Ernest Bowman, transcriber, "Yarmouth, Massachusetts Vital Records" (Mayflower Descendant, in several parts), 23:109.
3. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1937.
4. Rootsweb.com, mmaccreery (Michael MacCreery). .... Andrew P. Langlois, Descendants of John Young of Plymouth and Eastham. part 2 (2006. Mayflower Descendant 55 (1): 29-52).
5. Rootsweb.com, mmaccreery (Michael MacCreery).
6. Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts. Vol. 2, Marriages and Deaths, 221.
7. Andrew P. Langlois, Descendants of John Young of Plymouth and Eastham. part 2 (2006. Mayflower Descendant 55 (1): 29-52).
8. FamilySearch (FamilySearch.org [asserted, usually unreferenced, often wrong]).
9. New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston), 111:242.
10. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins. Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (1995. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Great Migration Study Project.), 228.
11. New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston), 111:242 (year 1600 O.S.)
12. New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston), 93:358.
13. Rosemary West, "R.K. West's Master List" (Sept 2003. Rootsweb).
14. Rootsweb.com, Holly Forrest Tamer: tamer.
15. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1843 - 1858,. in vol. 2 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts), 48. unnamed.
16. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1859-1907 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 46. 1901 #9.
17. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:143. The children of Nathan Y. and Dorcas Paine.
18. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1859-1907 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 24.