Stephen Gifford
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 21 Jun 1773 - Sandwich, Massachusetts
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Death: 15 Nov 1827 - Falmouth, Massachusetts
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Parents
Father: Joseph Gifford (1751-1807)
Mother: Hannah Winslow (1749-Bef 1795)
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Children of Stephen Gifford and Sarah Tripp
Hannah Gifford+ b. 3 Aug 1799, d. 5 Jan 1830
Mary Gifford+ b. 1 Oct 1801, d. 5 Apr 1828
Child of Stephen Gifford and Deborah Bowerman
Martha Gifford+ b. 8 Feb 1811
(mewingnut)
Tamsen F Gifford
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1841 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
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Father: Prince Gifford (Est 1810- )
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Spouses and Children
1. *Bernard L Baker (1839 - )
Marriage: 1871
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Notes
Marriage Notes (Bernard L Baker)
" Bernard L. Baker, born in 1839, is a son of Hiram and grandson of Jonathan Baker. His mother was Keziah, daughter of Benjamin Parker. Mr. Baker followed the sea for some years, after which he drove an express wagon to the South Yarmouth depot for ten years. Since October, 1887, he has been postmaster at South Yarmouth. He was three years on the school committee, as a democrat. He was married in 1871, to Tamsen F., daughter of Prince Gifford. They have two children: Katie F. and Henry C. Mr. Baker is a member of Howard Lodge, A. F. & A. M." 1
William Gifford
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 16 Feb 1652 - Sandwich, Plymouth Colony 2
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Death: 2 Feb 1736 - Sandwich, Massachusetts
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Father: William Gifford (Cir 1615-1687)
Mother: Elizabeth Grant (Est 1617-Cir 1683)
Spouses and Children
1. *Hannah (Est 1670 - )
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Children:
1. William Gifford (1699-1789) 3
2. Mehitable Gifford (1689-1782)
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1656-1739?
William Gifford
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1615 - England
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Death: 1687 - Sandwich, Plymouth Colony
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Spouses and Children
1. *Elizabeth Grant (Est 1617 - Cir 1683)
Marriage: 11 Feb 1635 - London, England 4
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Children:
1. Mary Gifford ( -After 1687) 2
2. John Gifford (Cir 1642- )
3. Patience Gifford (Cir 1644-Abt 1675) 5
4. Hannaniah Gifford (Cir 1646- ) 5
5. William Gifford (1652-1736)
6. Robert Gifford (Cir 1656-1724) 2
7. Christopher Gifford (1658-1748) 2 6
2. Mary Mills (26 May 1660 - 10 Feb 1734) 6
Marriage: 16 Jul 1683 - Sandwich, Plymouth Colony 7
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Children:
1. James Gifford (1686- )
2. Jonathan Gifford (1684-1735)
Notes
Marriage Notes (Elizabeth Grant)
There is an extensive series on the William Gifford family, starting in the Oct 1974 NEHGR 128(4):241, continuiing over several issues and volumes.
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An alternative wife/mother to Elizabeth Grant is Patience Russell, b 12 Oct 1625 in Andover, England, d/o William Russell & Katherine
Children
John Gifford b: Abt 1642 in England
Patience Gifford b: Abt 1644 in England
Hannaniah Gifford b: Abt 1645-1646 in England
William Gifford b: Abt 1654 in Barnstable, Barnstable, MA
Robert Gifford b: 1656 in Barnstable, Barnstable, MA
Christopher Gifford b: 16 Jul 1658
William Gifford
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 16 Feb 1699 - Falmouth, Massachusetts
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Death: 5 Dec 1789 - Sandwich, Massachusetts
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Father: William Gifford (1652-1736)
Mother: Hannah (Est 1670- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Mary Swift (11 Oct 1706 - )
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William Gifford
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 19 Jan 1714 - Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: Bef 10 Dec 1759
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Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jeremiah Gifford (Cir 1681-1770) 9
Mother: Mary Wright (Abt 1683-After 1759) 9
Spouses and Children
1. *Elizabeth Tripp (6 May 1722 - After Apr 1797) 10
Marriage: 2 Apr 1741 - Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Status:
William Gifford
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 7 May 1673 - Suckonesset (Falmouth), Plymouth Colony
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Father: John Gifford (Cir 1642- )
Mother: Elishua Crowell (Est 1645- )
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Marriage 1 Elizabeth WHEATON
Married: 13 MAR 1701/2 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Children
Benjamin GIFFORD b: 20 AUG 1703 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Marriage 2 Experience BOWERMAN b: ABT 1687 in Sandwich, Barnstable, PC
Married: 09 NOV 1726 in Falmouth
Abigail Gilbert
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: of Amherst, New Hampshire
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Death: 6 Dec 1830 - Littleton, Grafton, NH
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Spouses and Children
1. *Samuel Stearns Jr. (21 Feb 1713 - 20 Nov 1793) 11
Marriage: 1778 - Amherst, Hillsborough, NH
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Children:
1. Sally Stearns (1779- ) 11
2. Isaac Stearns (1780-1856) 11
3. Shubael Stearns (1783-1844) 11
Bessie I S Gilbert
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 10 Sep 1908 - Scotland 12
Baptism:
Death: 3 Apr 2000 - North Falmouth, Massachusetts
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Cause of Death:
Events
• Soc Sec Num, 028-20-5965 in Massachusetts
Spouses and Children
1. *Alexander L M Rattray (1904 - )
Marriage: 1929
Status:
Children:
1. Mary Ann M Rattray (1931- ) 13
Notes
Marriage Notes (Alexander L M Rattray)
1930 US census, Wellfleet
State Road
building 30, household 35
Alexander L Rattray, 26, rents home, married age 25, b Scotaland, lang English, imm 1927, grocery store manager
Bessie I Rattray, 21, married age 21, b Scotland, lang. English, imm 1929
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1539 - Greenway, Devon
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Death: 9 Sep 1583 - lost at sea, on passage from Newfoundland to England
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Father: Otho Gilbert (1513-1547)
Mother: Catherine Champernon (1521- )
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Knighted 1 JAN 1569/70 At Drogheda
The half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Humphrey Gilbert was involved as an organizer and financier in the colonization of North America. He influenced Sir Walter in his attempt to found a colony at Roanoke Virginia.
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selected details from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Gilbert
Early life
Gilbert was the second son of Otho and Katherine Champernowne Gilbert of Compton and Greenway Estate, Devonshire.[1] His brothers Sir John Gilbert and Adrian Gilbert, and half brothers Carew Raleigh and Sir Walter Raleigh were also prominent during the reigns of Elizabeth I or James I. Katherine was a niece of Kat Ashley, Elizabeth's governess, who introduced the young men at court. His uncle, Sir Arthur Champernowne, involved Gilbert in efforts to establish Irish plantations between 1566-1572. (Ronald, p. 248-2490)
Sir Henry Sidney became his mentor, and he was educated at Eton and Oxford University, where he learned to speak French and Spanish and studied the arts of war and navigation. He went on to reside at the Inns of Chancery in London c.1560–1561.
Quid non? ("Why not?") and Mutare vel timere sperno ("I scorn to change or to fear"), indicates how he chose to live his life. He was present at the siege of Newhaven in Havre-de-grâce (le Havre), Normandy, where he was wounded in June 1563. By July 1566 he was serving in Ireland under the command of Sidney (then Lord Deputy) against Shane O'Neill, but was sent to England later in the year with dispatches for the Queen. (See Plantations of Ireland and Tudor conquest of Ireland). At that point he took the opportunity of presenting the Queen with his A discourse of a discoverie for a new Passage to Cataia (published in revised form in 1576), treating of the exploration of a Northwest Passage by America to Asia. Within the year he had set down an account of his strange and turbulent visions, in which he received the homage of Solomon and Job, with their promise to grant him access to secret mystical knowledge.
Gilbert returned to Ireland and, after the assassination of O'Neill in 1569, he was appointed to the profitless office of governor of Ulster and served as a member of the Irish parliament. At about this time he petitioned the Queen's principal secretary, Lord Burghley, for a recall to England - "for the recovery of my eyes" - but his ambitions still rested in Ireland, and particularly in the southern province of Munster.
During the three weeks of a campaignagainst the rebellious Geraldines and FitzGeralds in 1569, all enemies were treated without quarter and put to the sword - including women and children - which explains, perhaps, the swiftness with which so many castles had been abandoned before Gilbert's aggression. He is also said to have sent Captain Apsley into Kerry to inspire terror.
Gilbert's attitude to the Irish may be captured in one quote from him, dated 13 November 1569: "These people are headstrong and if they feel the curb loosed but one link they will with bit in the teeth in one month run further out of the career of good order than they will be brought back in three months." In order to cow local supporters of the rebels, he chose to put on gruesome spectacles: after a day's killing he would order the decapitation of the scattered corpses so that the heads could be brought to his camp in the evening, where they were arranged in two parallel rows, making a pathway to the flaps of his tent, along which the supplicants would tread in the presence of their late fathers, brothers and sons.
MP and Adventurer
In 1570 Gilbert returned to England, where he married Anne Aucher, who was to bear him six sons and one daughter. However, it has been conjectured - following Smith's observation that the only way to soothe Gilbert's temper was to send a boy to him - that he was an "intermittent homosexual", or perhaps a pederast.
Gilbert was elected to parliament as a member for Plymouth, and controversially argued for the crown prerogative in the matter of royal licences for purveyance. In business affairs, he involved himself in an alchemical project with Smith, whereby iron was to be transmuted into copper and antimony, and lead into mercury.
By 1572 Gilbert had turned his attention to the Netherlands, where he fought an unsuccessful campaign in support of the Dutch Sea beggars at the head of a force of 1500 men, many of whom had deserted from Smith's aborted plantation in the Ards of Ulster. In the period 1572–1578 Gilbert settled down and devoted himself to writing. In 1573 he presented Elizabeth I with a proposal for an academy in London, which was eventually put into effect by Sir Thomas Gresham upon the establishment of Gresham College. Gilbert also helped to set up the Society of the New Art with Lord Burghley and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, both of whom maintained an alchemical laboratory in Limehouse.
Thereafter, Gilbert's life was spent in a series of failed ship expeditions, the financing of which exhausted his own fortune and a great part of his family's. He backed Martin Frobisher's trip to Greenland, which yielded a cargo of a mysterious yellow rock, subsequently found to be worthless. In pursuit of one of his own projects, he sailed from Plymouth for America in November 1578 with 7 vessels in his fleet, which was scattered by storms and forced back to port some 6 months later; the only vessel to have penetrated the Atlantic to any great distance was the Falcon under Raleigh's command.
Return to Ireland
In the summer of 1579, Gilbert and Raleigh were commissioned by the lord deputy of Ireland, William Drury, to attack his old foe, the rebel James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald, by sea and land and to intercept a fleet expected to arrive from Spain with aid for the Munster rebels. At this time Gilbert had three vessels under his command: the Anne Ager (or perhaps, Anne Archer or Aucher - named after his wife) of 250 tons, the Relief, and the Squirrell of 10 tons. The latter vessel, a small frigate, was notable for having completed the voyage to America and back inside three months under the command of a captured Portuguese pilot.
In pursuit of his Irish commission, Gilbert set sail in June 1579 after a spell of bad weather, and promptly got lost in fog and heavy rains off Land's End, an incident that caused the Queen thereafter to doubt his seafaring abilities.
In 1583, Sir Humphrey claimed the island of Newfoundland for the British Crown. His ship, the Squirrel, was lost at sea on the return voyage to England.
Sir John Gilbert
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1533 - Greenway, Devon
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Father: Otho Gilbert (1513-1547)
Mother: Catherine Champernon (1521- )
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Knighted 1571 Knighted by Queen Elizabeth
John Gilbert
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1580
Baptism:
Death: Cir 1607
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Father: Sir Humphrey Gilbert (Cir 1539-1583)
Mother:
Otho Gilbert
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth:
Baptism: 5 Aug 1513
Death: 18 Feb 1547 - Compton, Devon
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Spouses and Children
1. *Catherine Champernon (1521 - )
Marriage: 1 Sep 1531
Status:
Children:
1. Sir John Gilbert (1533- )
2. Sir Humphrey Gilbert (Cir 1539-1583)
Notes
Marriage Notes (Catherine Champernon)
Children
Adrian Gilbert
Katherine Gilbert
Otho Gilbert
Sir John Gilbert b: 1533 in Greenway, Devon
Sir Humphrey Gilbert b: ABT 1539 in Greenway, Devon
Ralegh Gilbert
Sex: M
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Birth: Cir 1582
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Father: Sir Humphrey Gilbert (Cir 1539-1583)
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second in command of Popham Colony.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The site of the 1607 Popham Colony in present-day Maine is shown by "Po" on the map. The Jamestown Settlement is shown by "J"
The Popham Colony (also known as the Sagadahoc Colony) was a short-lived English colonial settlement in North America that was founded in 1607 and located in the present-day town of Phippsburg, Maine near the mouth of the Kennebec River by the proprietary Virginia Company of Plymouth. It was founded a few months later in the same year as its more successful rival, the Jamestown Settlement
The Plymouth Company was granted a royal charter and the rights to the coast between 38° to 45° N; the rival London Company was granted the coast between 34° and 41° N. The colonists were to plant first within their respective non-overlapping areas; the overlapping area between 38° and 41° would then go to the first company that proved "strong enough" to colonize it.
Colonists
The first Plymouth Company ship, Richard, sailed in August 1606 but the Spanish intercepted and captured it near Florida in November.
The next attempt was more successful. About 120 colonists left Plymouth on May 31, 1607 in two ships. They intended to trade precious metals, spices, furs, and show that the local forests could be used to build English ships. Colony leader George Popham sailed aboard the Gift of God with Raleigh Gilbert as second-in-command. The captain of the latter ship, Robert Davies, kept a diary that is one of the main contemporary sources of the information about the Popham Colony.
George Popham was the nephew of one of the financial backers of the colony, Sir John Popham, the Lord Chief Justice of England, while Gilbert was the half nephew of Sir Walter Raleigh. Other financiers included Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the military governor of Plymouth; much of the information about the events in the colony comes from his letters and memoirs. Settlers included nine council members and 6 other gentlemen, while the rest were soldiers, artisans, farmers and traders.
Trouble
The colony failed to establish cooperation with the Abenakis, who were suspicious because earlier expeditions had kidnapped natives to show at home.
Late summer arrival meant that there was no time to farm for food. Half of the colonists returned to Great Britain in December 1607 aboard the Gift of God. Others faced a cold winter during which the Kennebec River froze. Fire destroyed at least the storehouse and its provisions. Later excavation has hinted that there might have been other fires.
Colonists divided into two factions, one supporting George Popham and the other Raleigh Gilbert, son of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and half nephew of Sir Walter Raleigh. George Popham died in February 5, 1608, possibly the only colonist to die - a contrast to Jamestown which lost half its population that year. Ralegh Gilbert became "colony president" on February 5, 1608 at age 25.
The colonists completed one major project: the building of a 30-ton ship, a pinnace they named Virginia. It was the first ship built in America by Europeans, and was meant to show that the colony could be used for shipbuilding. They also finally managed to trade with the Abenaki for furs and gather a cargo of sarsaparilla.
When a supply ship came in 1608, it brought a message that Sir John Popham had died. Gilbert sent the Mary and John to England with cargo. When the ship returned later in the summer, it brought news that Gilbert's elder brother John had died. Gilbert was therefore an heir to a title and estate of Compton Castle in Devon. He decided to return to England. The 45 remaining colonists also left, sailing home in the Mary and John and Virginia. (The Virginia would make at least one more Atlantic crossing, going to Jamestown the next year with the Third Supply, piloted by Captain James Davis).
The Gift of God arrived at the mouth of the Kennebec River (then called the Sagadahoc River) on August 13, 1607. The Mary and John arrived three days later. The Popham Colony was settled on the headland of an area named Sabino. The colonists quickly began construction of large star-shaped Fort St. George. Fort St. George included ditches and ramparts and contained nine cannons that ranged in size from demi-culverin to falcon.
Esther Giles
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1718
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Death: 20 Dec 1788
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Spouses and Children
1. *John Gould (29 Jan 1710 - )
Marriage: 5 Jan 1749 - Topsfield, Massachusetts
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Children:
1. Deacon John Gould (1749-1820)
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Marriage 1 Richard BIXBYMarriage Notes (John Gould)
Marriage 2 James TAYLOR
Children
John GOULD b: 1 Oct 1749
Benjamin GOULD b: 15 May 1751
Infant GOULD b: 5 Apr 1753
Esther GOULD b: 7 Mar 1754
Elizabeth GOULD b: 6 May 1756
Hollis L Giles
Sex: M
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Birth: 1854 - Fall River, Massachusetts
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1. *Flora E Holbrook (3 Jul 1857 - ) 15
Marriage: 6 Dec 1877 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 14
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Moses Giles
Sex: M
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Birth: Est 1680
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1. *Mary Skiffe (Cir 1684 - 20 Apr 1763)
Marriage: 3 Nov 1708 - Nantucket, Massachusetts 16
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Gill
Sex: M
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Birth: 20 Nov 1896 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 17
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Father: Fred Gill (Est 1870-1922)
Mother: Martha E Eldredge (1864-1935) 18
Gill
Sex: M
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Birth: 4 Oct 1857 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 19
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• Alt Birth 20, 24 Oct 1857 in Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Parents
Father: Captain Aaron Gill (1817-1862) 21
Mother: Eliza Ann Dill (1823-1911) 22
Gill
Sex: M
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Birth: Est 1856
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1. *Adelia F Thompson (18 Jun 1856 - 1936) 23
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