Benjamin Willis
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 6 Jan 1765 - Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 8 Mar 1809
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Benjamin Willis (1720-1807)
Mother: Sarah Spooner (1727-1782)
Spouses and Children
1. *Sarah Carver (3 Apr 1777 - )
Marriage: 1801 - Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Status:
Carrie Willis
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1852 - Sullivan, Ohio 1
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Charles E Hobill (1851 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. George K Hobill (1874- )
2. Lottie M Hobill (1876- )
3. Florence Etta Hobill (1878- ) 2
4. Charles I Hobill (1879- ) 3
Notes
Marriage Notes (Charles E Hobill)
1880 census, Wellfleet
Elizabeth Willis
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1590 - England
Baptism:
Death:
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Spouses and Children
1. *Rev John Knowles (Est 1590 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Richard Knowles (1614-1675)
Notes
Marriage Notes (Rev John Knowles)
Rev. John and Elizabeth came from England in 1639. 4
Elizabeth Willis
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 14 Aug 1740
Baptism:
Death: 1 May 1834
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *John Stearns Dr. (11 Jan 1735 - 11 Sep 1788) 5
Marriage: 26 Sep 1765
Status:
Children:
1. John (1) Stearns III (1766-1769) 5
2. Elizabeth Stearns (1768-1846) 5
3. John (2) Stearns Dr. (1770-1848) 5
4. Annis (Nancy) Stearns (1773- ) 5
5. Elvira Stearns (1774-1846) 5
6. Elisha Stearns, Judge (1776-1850) 5
7. Stephen Stearns (1780-1781) 5
Frances H Willis
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1900 - Vermont
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Albert S Smith (1894 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Etta D Smith (1920- )
2. Edwin D Smith (1921- )
3. Albert E Smith (1922- )
4. Nina F Smith (1924- )
5. Christine M Smith (1925- )
6. Hazel L Smith (Cir 1926- )
7. Mildred Arline Smith (1928- )
Notes
Marriage Notes (Albert S Smith)
1930 US census, Wellfleet
Commercial St
building 126, household 137
Albert S Smith, 36, house painter
Mary Willis
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 13 Oct 1762 - Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Benjamin Willis (1720-1807)
Mother: Sarah Spooner (1727-1782)
Nathaniel Willis
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 6 Jun 1780 - Boston, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 26 May 1870 - Boston, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Hannah Parker (28 Jan 1783 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Nathaniel Parker Willis (1807-1867)
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 20 Jan 1807 - Portland, Maine
Baptism:
Death: 20 Jan 1867
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Death, 20 Jan 1864 in Idlewild, New York
Parents
Father: Nathaniel Willis (1780-1870)
Mother: Hannah Parker (1783- )
Notes
General:
Nathaniel P. Willis The Willis family trace back their descent to George Willis, who was born in England in 1602, and who was admitted " Freeman of Massachusetts" in 1638. Nathaniel Willis, the grandfather of N. P. Willis, took part in the famous "Tea Party" of 1773. Nathaniel Willis, the father of the poet, was a political publisher and editor. His mother, the daughter of Solomon Parker, of Massachusetts, was a woman of remarkable talents, piety and benevolence. Nathaniel Parker Willis, was born in Portland, January 20, 1807. While in Yale College he published several religious poems under the signature of "Roy" and won a prize of fifty dollars for the best poem, offered by "The Album," a gift-book published by Lockwood. After his graduation in 1827, he became the editor of The Legendary. The following year he established the American Monthly Magazine which he conducted until 1831, when, upon deciding to make a long wished-for visit to Europe, he merged it in the New York Mirror. An account of the next four years of travelling and adventures is given to the public in his " Pencillings by the way," which he contributed to the Mirror. While in Paris, Mr. Rives, the American Minister, attached him to his Legation, and with this privilege he made, leisurely, visits to the different courts and capitals of Europe and the East. After residing for two years in England, Mr. Willis, in 1835, married Mary Leighton Stace, daughter of the Commissary-General William Stace, and immediately returned to the United States, and spent the ensuing four years in the valley of the Susquehanna. While here in his rural home, "Glenmary," he wrote "Letters from Under a Bridge." A series of financial embarrassments caused him to go to New York, where he established, in connection with Dr. Porter, The Corsair, a weekly journal, he made a short trip to England, where he engaged Mr. Thackeray to write for the Cosair. While abroad he published a number of his writings. Finding on his return to New York that his partner had abandoned their project in discouragement, Mr. Willis, with General Morris, established the Evening Mirror. His health giving way under this new occupation, he was again compelled to go abroad. Soon after his return, the partners became co-editors of the Home Journal, which was better adapted to both, and proved to be an eminently successful enterprise. His second marriage took place in 1845. His wife was the only daughter of Hon. Joseph Grinnell, member of Congress from Massachusetts. Sketches of the last years of his life are given in his " Health Trip to the Tropics,"-a description of his journey among the West India Islanders-his " Letters from Idlewild," and in his contributions to the Home Journal, written on his journeys. The contributions of Mr. Willis to the different periodicals upon which he had been engaged, have been collected into nine volumes. For a space of about twenty years he had written weekly through these journals, and all his articles are characterized by a keen perception of the affairs of life and the world; and are written with invariable care and finish. The poetry of Mr. Willis is certainly original and extremely musical. The versification of his "Sacred Poems " is remarkably smooth. These poems have gained the author considerable reputation, and form a source of genuine pleasure to the appreciative reader, he had also written a novel, in rhyme, " Lady Jane." "As a traveller Mr. Willis had no superior in representing the humors and experiences of the world. He was sympathetic, witty, observant, and at the same time inventive. Looking at the world through a pair of eyes
of his own, he found material where others would see nothing; indeed some of his greatest triumphs in this line have been in his rural sketches from Glenmary and Idlewild, continued with novelty and spirit, long after most
clever writers would have cried out that straw and clay too, for their brick, had been exhausted." During the latter years of his life, Mr. Willis was a great sufferer, but in spite of the repeated warnings of his physician, he continued his regular contributions to his paper, and finally his oft-expressed wish; "to die in the harness," was fulfilled on the 20th of January, 1867, his sixtieth birthday.
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m Cornelia Grinnell, 1 Oct 1846
Ruhamah Willis
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1675
Baptism:
Death: After 10 Dec 1739
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Eliazer Rogers (3 Nov 1673 - 10 Dec 1739)
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Experience Rogers (1707-After 1750)
Notes
General:
Father: Richard WILLISMarriage Notes (Eliazer Rogers)
Mother: Patience BONUM
Children, all in Plymouth
Experience ROGERS b: 28 Apr 1707
Elizabeth ROGERS b: 15 Oct 1698
Thomas ROGERS b: 8 Oct 1701
Hannah ROGERS b: 26 Feb 1703
Eleazer ROGERS b: 2 Oct 1710
Willis ROGERS b: 22 Apr 1711
Abijah ROGERS b: 4 Aug 1714
Moriah ROGERS b: 21 Oct 1716
Ruth ROGERS b: 1718
Mayflower Families II: On 28 January 1698/9 Eleazer Rogers of Plymouth, with consent of Ruhamah Willis now wife of Eleazer, deeded land. On 24 April 1719 Eleazer Rogers of Plymouth innholder and wife Ruhamah, only dau. and heir of Richard Willis of Plymouth, sold land. Eleazer Rogers was a seafaring man in at least one deed. He and Ruhamah left no Plymouth County probate records.
Colonel Samuel Willis
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1685
Baptism:
Death: 3 Oct 1763 - (Bridgewater, Massachusetts)
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Mehitable Gifford (7 Jul 1689 - 18 Jan 1782)
Marriage: 24 Mar 1712 - Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Benjamin Willis (1718-1760)
Sarah Willis
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 24 Jun 1768 - Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 22 Jan 1847
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Benjamin Willis (1720-1807)
Mother: Sarah Spooner (1727-1782)
Thomas Willis
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1743
Baptism:
Death: 13 Dec 1836 - Eastham, Massachusetts 6
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Notes
General:
"In Eastham, 13th inst., Mr. Thomas WILLIS, a Revolutionary Patriot, 93." 6
Rachel Willison
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1656
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *William Bassett (1656 - )
Marriage: 9 Oct 1675 7
Status:
Children:
1. Mary Bassett (1676- )
Notes
Marriage Notes (William Bassett)
Children
Mary Bassett b: 20 OCT 1676
Nathan Bassett b: 25 SEP 1677
Rachel Bassett b: 25 OCT 1679
William Bassett b: 1680
Hannah Bassett b: 1674
Jonathan Bassett b: 31 DEC 1682
Thankful Bassett b: 1687
(sheareb)
Abraham Williston
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1785
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Polly Morris (21 Jul 1788 - ) 8
Marriage: 23 Jun 1808 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 9
Status:
Children:
1. Hannah Goodwin Williston (1809- ) 10
Hannah Goodwin Williston
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Sep 1809 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 10
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Abraham Williston (Est 1785- )
Mother: Polly Morris (1788- ) 8
William W Wilmarth
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1845
Baptism:
Death: 2 Jul 1928 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 11
Burial:
Cause of Death: arteriosclerosis 11
Spouses and Children
1. *Martha J (4 Oct 1852 - 8 Jul 1931)
Marriage:
Status:
Notes
Medical:
age 83Marriage Notes (Martha J)
1930 US census, Wellfleet
State Road
building 34, household 40
Martha J Wilmarth, rents home, $2500, widow, 77, married age 22, b Mass, parents Mass
Colonel Montague Wilmot
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1720
Baptism:
Death: 23 May 1766 - Nova Scotia
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Notes
General:
THE HONORABLE COLONEL MONTAGUE WlLMOT, who took the oath of office as lieutenant-governor [of Nova Scotia] September 26, 1762, was appointed governor, October 8, 1763. By a proclamation dated at St. James, October 7, 1763, the islands of St. John and Cape Breton, or Ile Royale, "with the lesser islands adjacent thereto," were annexed to the government of Nova Scotia. Governor Wilmot died, May 23, 1766. 12
Valentine E Wilmott
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 4 Mar 1864 - Witham Friary, Somerset, England
Baptism:
Death: May 1940 - (Massachusetts)
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Hattie F (Cir 1857 - After 1910)
Marriage: Jul 1914 - Lowell, Massachusetts 14
Status:
Notes
Marriage Notes (Hattie F)
not conclusive: my earlier notes have "Hattie F," born 1857, vs the Lowell Telegram source here with "Hattie E," born 1859.
Andrew Wilson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1850 - Scotland
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Bridgett O'Donnell (Est 1850 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. John Baptiste Wilson (1872-1945)
Chase Curtiss Wilson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 28 Sep 1898 - Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 28 Jan 1985 - LaGrange, Illinois
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Oral Estelle Paine (20 Sep 1898 - 11 Dec 1989) 15
Marriage: 13 Aug 1920
Status:
Notes
Marriage Notes (Oral Estelle Paine)
two children: Richard Chase Wilson and Elizabeth Paine Wilson 15
Sources
1. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1858-1910 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 23, 25.
2. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1858-1910 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 23.
3. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1858-1910 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 25.
4. Nancy Wallace Tidrick, A Brown Family History: The Story of a Maritime Family (2006. Poland, Ohio: Nancy Wallace Tidrick. self-published CD), 6.
5. David Brown, "Dave Brown's Eexxtteennddeedd Family Plus" (Rootsweb file dave-brown).
6. Yarmouth Register (Yarmouth, Massachusetts), 22 Dec 1836.
7. Charles Edward Banks, The History of Martha'a Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts. in three volumes (Edgartown Massachusetts: Dukes County Historical Society. 1966), 3:31.
8. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:55.
9. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:559. Marriages.
10. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:99. Abrahm and Polly Williston family.
11. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1928.
12. Arthur Wentworth Eaton, The Church of England in Nova Scotia and the Tory Clergy of the Revolution (1891. New York: Thomas Whittaker. online: http://anglicanhistory.org/canada/ns/eaton/), ch. 16.
13. Lowell Sunday Telegram (Lowell Massachusetts), for the week ending 11 July 1914. Wilmott, Valentine E, 52 and Kew, Hattie H, 55.
14. Lowell Sunday Telegram (Lowell Massachusetts), week ending 11 July 1914.
15. L. Tate, Winslow Austin Paine & Ella Hawes Kennedy notes (email. 2009).