1Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.
1Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
2Ne-Do-Ba; Friends Sharing in History, http://www.avcnet.org/ne-do-ba/wbl_5.html. "WESTBROOK LETTER 1722 - Learned
What I have learned about the places.
Piscataqua - The name of a river which runs through both New Hampshire and Maine. The sight of rich marine resources in the 17th and 18th centuries, with a booming fishing industry, oysters, clams and lobsters in abundance, and lumber was the reason that saw mills and ship building were set up at the river. "A merchant in 1750 noted that salmon weren't returning to the Piscataqua as much as in the past because of sawdust from the saw mills choking the water ways." In addition, Piscataqua, according to the Ne-Do-Ba is also the modern day Portsmouth New Hampshire region.
St. George's - a location both in Maine and in New Brunswick.
Arrowsic(k) - an island located near Georgetown Maine.
Fort Penobscot - According to the Maine State Archives this fort was originally named Fort Pentagoet. It was built in 1635 by the French to protect their title to the Penobscot River. In 1674, the fort was captured by the English and in 1689 it was taken by Governor Andros. Finally in 1722 or 1723 it was burned by Thomas Westbrook(e). The State Archives got this information from "Maine Forts" p. 237 published in 1924. According to the Maine Public Television Station Quest Program #201, Fort Pentagoet was in the Castine area and was the capital of French Acadia. There it lay buried under the back lawn of a small church until 1980. Archaeologists revealed half of the fort leaving the rest possibly for future archaeologists to uncover. In this account, the fort was built by the French and burned by the Dutch. Since we will be viewing that part of the video concerning this fort, I will let the video tell you what else has been discovered from this source. [The Video is not part of this web site version.] The Ellsworth Area Chamber of Commerce in Castine states the fort was established by French traders one of whom was Jean St. Castin and according the Ms. Lecompte this fort was probably built at the expense of the Castine family for the protection of their personal property. Both Ms. Lecompte and the "Handbook of North American Indians" state the Jean-Vincent D'abbadie de Saint-Catin married the daughter of the Penobscot Sagamore Madockawando (Chief Madockowando). The "Handbook of North American Indians" states that the trader Castin settled there in 1670.
The Garrison at St. George's - I neglected (totally missed) to look for this place and except what Ms. Lecompte sent, which will be discussed, I have no other information.
What I learned about the people.
Coll. Walton - I was not able to find out anything about Coll. Walton nor any of the other individuals referred to in the letter. I did find a Capt. Walton listed as wounded in a 1690 letter from Benjamin Church to his superiors. The letter is published on the Ne-Do-Ba web site. There is however no way to tell if this is the same person.
King George - The King of England in 1722.
Sabastien Rasles (Rales) - Although this Jesuit Father is not mentioned in the letter he is a profound figure in the Wabanaki history. According to the "Columbia Encyclopedia, 5th Edition", this missionary could have been born in 1657. He arrived in Maine in 1689 and lived with the Abenaki and the Illinois tribes. He wrote a French/Abenaki dictionary that was lost in an English raid in 1721. It was not published until 1833. Father Rasles died in 1724 in another English raid. A fryar, two Frenchmen, 180 men, and 500 or 600 Indians at Arrowsic- It is likely impossible to identify exactly who these people are. The friar could be Father Rales as offered by Ms. Lecompte and the Frenchmen could be the sons of Baron Castine. I believe the Indians are [Wabanaki].
What I learned about the time period.
There was a fierce struggle over control and ownership of the land. The French wanted to hold on to lands they had claimed. The English wanted to take the lands the French had claimed as their own. The Native Americans wanted to retain their land and stop both the French and the English from claiming any of it.
What I learned about the events.
Dummer's War according the Waterboro Public Library, "The History of Maine", lasted from 1722 until 1725 and marked the peak in Indian warfare in Maine. "Before this, aggressors upon the defenseless and weak hamlets, now the Indians themselves were hunted." Old Town and Eddington Bend were burned and Norridgewock was the site of great slaughter where Father Rale was killed. In Lovewell's fight at Fryeburg in May of 1725 a little band of English soldiers surrounded and outnumbered held out against a large band and practically broke it up. After this Indian warfare in Maine was periodic and after the defeat of the French at Quebec, it terminated altogether. When the French joined the colonists in the Revolution, the Maine Indians became friendly and have never upset the peace of their white neighbors. Dummer's War according to "Handbook of North American Indians" by William C. Sturtevant, Eastern Abenaki by Dean R. Snow, lasted from 1721 to 1725 and involved three English treaties, one in 1725, one in 1726 and one in 1727. The war is sometimes called Rale's war or inappropriately Lovewell's war. The term Lovewell's War is derived from a minor battle involving Capt. Lovewell, which has been preserved with more falsehood than truth. The English destroyed the village at Old Town and the Jesuit Sebastien Rale's was killed near the end of the war in 1724. It was an unusual colonial war because it was not paralleled by a simultaneous European conflict. "Although the Penobscot could not claim victory in the war, they had managed to establish their own navy with captured vessels in 1724, and the English recognized them as still powerful." From this time on, all surviving Wabanaki people in New England and the Maritimes were represented by the Penobscot, including the Maliseet-Passamaquoddy, Micmac, and eventually the Huron and Ottawa. Dummer's War according to "Abenaki History" by Lee Sultzman, reports that Massachusetts governor Samuel Shuttle declared war on the Abenaki in 1722 after several incidences of violence. The war is known as Dummer's War, Grey Lock's War, Lovewell's War or Father Rasles' War. The war lasted until 1727 and included the burning of Norridgewock in Maine, the death and mutilation of Father Rasles. "The fighting continued in the west, however, for another two years in what could be considered a separate, but related conflict - Grey Lock's War (1723-1727). A member of the Pocumtuc who had found refuge in New York after the King Philip's War, Grey Lock (Wawanotewat "he who fools others") had left Schaghticook and joined the Sokoki at Missisquoi." Grey Lock was absent from the treaty signing at Montreal in July of 1727 but ended the war shortly afterward. Sultzman states that the war ended in the defeat of the eastern Abenaki. Dummer's War according to Nancy Lecompte of Ne-Do-Ba lasted from 1722 to 1727 and is also called Lovewell's War, and Grey Lock's War. The English destroyed Norridgewock and the fort at Penobscot and resulted in the death of Father Rales. "I believe that many saw the futility of war and simply made the choice to stop fighting - they were NEVER DEFEATED in any of these wars (and only occasionally lost battles) but they always seemed to lose when it came time to sign treaties." According to the Insiders' Guide: "History, Maine's Mid-Coast" Dummer's War resulted in the destroying of Norridgewock and the death of Father Rales, but also the defeat of the Wabanaki. "With their settlement destroyed and their protector, the Jesuit Fr. Rasle, murdered, the tribes were more or less defeated."."3Ancestry.com.
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
2Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com.
1Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.
2Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com, AFN: 36L5-F9.
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
2Mudge, Alfred, Memorials: Being a Genealogical, Biographical and Historical Account of the Name of Mudge, Boston 1868, p. 34, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Order from the General Courte of Boston, dated May 24, 1682
The Towne Book of Squakeheag orNorthfield, Where in is Recorded the names of ye petitioners for the PlantationWith the Grants and Acts of the General Court about . . . . With the Deeds from the Indions and the orders of the Comitey with the consent of the Proprietors Which Have taken upp Land there With the Grants and rerescript of every mans Land.
The names of those that presented their Names to Major Pinchon to bee presented to the Honored Gen Couret who engaged to doe yr indeuer to atend the conditions of ye grant
Elder John Strong Isark Shelden
Joseph Parsons Sen'r Matthewe Clessen
Samuel Wright Sen'r Joshuah Pummery
Joseph Dirkinson John Alexander
George Alexander Cornelius Merry
Thomas Bascomb William Smead
Robert Liman Richard Weller
Thomas Roote Sen'r John Kilburne of Wethersfield
William Jeanes John Hilleor
William Hubbard Micah Mudg
Nathaniel Phelps Sen'r Ralph Hutchison
William Miller Sen'r."."
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
1Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com. " (Summary) Born about 1631. Was made a freeman 1657; was enlisted trooper under Capt John Mason 1657-8; active in town affairs; He died 27 Jun 1677, ae 46; estate 911 pounds. He was probably a merchant as in Dec 1662, one Samuel Edsall of New Amsterdam gave him a due bill for 14 pounds, payable in "trading cloth" at 9s. per yard, and "Osenbridge at 20d. per yard, to be paid by the last of the following April, if Benfield (prob. the master of some trading vellel) come to the Manattans (Manhattan)". S.W.A.supposes this John Belden to have been the one who was licensed to be a tavern keeper, in Wethersfield, in 1673, as the only two other Johns of the same name were aged respectively only 15 and 25. He also thinks this was not the John who removed to Norwalk, CT."
2Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.
3Henry R Stiles, A.M., M.D, History and Genealogy of Ancient Wethersfield
, The Grafton Press, New York, 19044 Beldon family website , http://kinnexions.com/smlawson/belden.htm#Standish
""... states baptised Feb 8, 1634, Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England. Wethersfield records indicate he died in 1677 at age 46, suggesting that his birth was 4 years earlier, but on Feb 16, 1661, John of Wethersfield deposed that he was age 27. Freeman May 21, 1657, soldier in colonial wars, constable 1660, juror 1662, and tavern keeper 1673..."."5Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf.
1Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com, AFN: 36L5-MB.
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
1Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.
2Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com. The First Wife of Governor Wyllys of Connecticut, and Her Family. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. [New England Historic Genealogical Society, April 1899], 220.
1Olsen, Wayne, PAF file: Boslow_Anc_Stevens.paf, rec'd via EMail 0n 14 APR 2002.
2WikiTree.com. "Amy Pynchon formerly Wyllys
Born about 1625 [location unknown]
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of George Wyllys and Bridget (Young) Wyllys
Sister of George Wyllys, Hester (Wyllys) Harding and Samuel Wyllys [half]
Wife of John Pynchon — married 26 Oct 1645 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Joseph Pynchon, John Pynchon and Mary Pynchon
Died 9 Jan 1698 in Springfield, Massachusetts
Sources
Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), volume I, page 86-87; volume IV, page 387-388.
Richardson, Douglas: Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd edn. (2010), 3 vols, Volume 3, page 547, WYLLYS.
Marlyn Lewis.
Saemann-Nickel website: Wyllys Family, 6 Amy.
Same site, John Pynchon.
Combs-Associated Families.
Descent from Henry III.
Ancestral File Number: 3233-7L."
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
2Mudge, Alfred, Memorials: Being a Genealogical, Biographical and Historical Account of the Name of Mudge, Boston 1868, p. 34, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Order from the General Courte of Boston, dated May 24, 1682
The Towne Book of Squakeheag orNorthfield, Where in is Recorded the names of ye petitioners for the PlantationWith the Grants and Acts of the General Court about . . . . With the Deeds from the Indions and the orders of the Comitey with the consent of the Proprietors Which Have taken upp Land there With the Grants and rerescript of every mans Land.
The names of those that presented their Names to Major Pinchon to bee presented to the Honored Gen Couret who engaged to doe yr indeuer to atend the conditions of ye grant
Elder John Strong Isark Shelden
Joseph Parsons Sen'r Matthewe Clessen
Samuel Wright Sen'r Joshuah Pummery
Joseph Dirkinson John Alexander
George Alexander Cornelius Merry
Thomas Bascomb William Smead
Robert Liman Richard Weller
Thomas Roote Sen'r John Kilburne of Wethersfield
William Jeanes John Hilleor
William Hubbard Micah Mudg
Nathaniel Phelps Sen'r Ralph Hutchison
William Miller Sen'r."."
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.
1Olsen, Wayne, Sheldon Family Line, The, Received via EMail 12 APR 2002.