Alyc STOOKES

1564 - 1614  (50 years)

• Name	Alyc STOOKES  [1]
  Birth	1564	Rolvenden, Kent, England   [2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	1614  [2]
  Person ID	I00209	Noble Ancestors
  Last Modified	8 Nov 2012

  
  

  Family	Simon BRANCH,   b. 1560, Rolvenden, Kent, , England d. 08 Oct 1614, Tenterden, Kent, , England (Age 54 years)
  Marriage	06 Jun 1585
  Children	1. Peter BRANCH, I,   b. 27 Feb 1596, High Holden, Kent, England d. 1638, England, Massachusetts, USA (Age 41 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]
  Family ID	F00071	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  [S00017] William Howard Peters, Banks-Powers Ancestry, (Name: John Leslie Powers; Location: Ames, Iowa; Date: 1921;), Page 163, http://books.google.com/books?id=TbBIAAAAMAAJ&pg=P. THE BRANCHES The Branches of New England appear to be descendants of John, son of Peter, who died in 1638. Peter was of Halden, Kent, where also were other Branches, some of them connected with the Branches of Abingdon, whence came the Virginia family; perhaps Peter also was of the same family. Peter's father was Simon of Tenterden, Kent. His marriage 11. Ralph," born 13 December, 1275, died before 1323; married (1) Anne, daughter of William Sandys; (2) Maud, daughter of Sir John Sutton; Maud married (2) Roger de Berners. 12. Jeffrey1* (of Maud), died between 1360 and 1373; married Margaret, daughter of Robert Rokell. 13. Ralph,1* died c. 1383; married Margaret, daughter of John de Patmer. 14. Jeffrey,14 died 1425. Marriages not certain. His youngest son Sir Ralphu was the most eminent of the family. 15. Thomas," died before 1478; married c. 1426, Alice, daughter of Lewis, Duke of Dukes, by Anna, daughter of John Cotton, Esq. 17. George,1* born 1428, died after 1480; married Maud, daughter and heiress of Edmund Bardolph. Heir of uncle Ralph.15 19. John," born c. 1460, will 1524, died 14 July, 1525; married (1) Cicely, daughter of John Molyneux (Gloucester), widow of Henry Fitzherbert; (2) Philippa, daughter of William and Jane (FitzWilliams) Bradbury, widow of John Barley. Buried priory of King's Hatfield, Essex, tomb in Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 21. Sir Thomas " by Philippa, born c. 1507, will 1561, died 24 October, 1562; married, 1524, Dorothy Gates. Buried in Sawbridgeworth. Youngest son, Edward,1* born c. 1548, married Mary, daughter and heiress of John Lambe; their daughter Mary, married Peter Gates. The first will given in G. R., p. 20, is that of John, dated 1 August, 1524. He names his wives, his son Thomas, daughters, Anne and Jane, and many cousins, including cousin Anne, wife of John, son of Sir Roger Wentworth. He enumerates his great possessions. Proved 13 February, 1525. The next will is that of his cousin Ralph, dated 31 May, 1525. The next is that of Philip-Philippa, widow of John, dated 15 October, 1530. She mentions her son Thomas, daughter Anne, and daughter Johanne Wentworth — Jane in John's will; also her grandsons, Peter, Henry, and Clare Wentworth; so, since John's will in 1524, Jane had married Sir Nicholas Wentworth. She makes a bequest to Lady Gate, perhaps the mother of her "daughter-in-law Dorothy Josselyn." She names many others, mostly relatives. Next is the will of her son, Sir Thomas, dated 1 October, 1561, probated 18 October, 1564. Enumerates property, names wife Dame Dorois recorded: "1585 Symon Branch and Alyc Stookes mayden married 6 June." The births of four children are recorded: 1585, Edward, son of Simon Branch, baptized 13 March (this was really 1586); 1587, Susanna, daughter to Simon Branch, baptized 12 May; 1592, Elizabeth, daughter to Simon Branch, 17 September; 15%, Peter, son of Simon Branch, baptized 27 February, (1597).1 Simon's will, 20 May, 1614, makes a bequest of five pounds to his son Peter, a similar bequest to "my daughter" Susanna, and to "my wife" Alice. In the register of the neighboring parish of Halden is this entry: "1614 Symon Branch buried 6 October." Susan lived but five years longer, making a bequest, 9 May, 1619, "to my deere and onely brother Peter Branch of Nettlested." Susan's will was proved 25 May, 1619. In the meantime the mother, Alice, had married again; as Susan introduces the condition, "he paying to his mother the wife of Edward Haslemar of Halden." The family seems to have had no fixed abode. Tenterden, the chief town in the region, has a famous church. Susan was described as servant to William Curtis of Hothfield, a parish more than ten miles northeast of Tenterden. Peter we next hear of at Halden, where in the bishop's transcripts is recorded his marriage: 1623, Peter Branch and Elizabeth Gillame, married 14 January (1624). The next record is from Frittenden, another near-by parish: 1624, stillborn child to Peter Branch; 1626, child of Peter Branch buried unbaptized 22 September. thy, sons Richard, Thomas, and John, daughters Mary and Jane, sister Dame Wentworth, and others. Next but one is the will of his wife, Dame Dorothy, 1579, probated 11 February, 1582. Names daughter Jane, son Edward (refers to others), Edward's daughter Mary (under 18), and brother Henry Gate, executor. The will of John, 19 July, 1602, mentions cousin Geoffrey Gates, Esq. This John was a scholar, son of Sir Thomas and Dorothy. Other wills show connection with Bachilers and Taintors. Margaret ( Taintor) Josselyn, 11 October, 1619, her husband's, Thomas, 5 March, 1604. References: The Wentworth Genealogy: English and American, by John Wentworth, Boston, 1878. 3 vols. Three Branches of the Wentworth Family, by W. L. Rutton, London, 1891. Harleian Society MSS., 14, p. 574. For Josselyns, see N. E. H. and G R., 71, 1917. *N. E. H. and G. R., 65, p. 286. The next records are from the bishop's transcripts of Halden: 1632, Elizabeth, wife of Peter Branch, and daughter unbaptized were buried 9 August. Peter married immediately, though he appears to have had no living children except a son John. There is no record of the birth of this son. 1634, Thomas, son of Peter and Mildred Branch, baptized 29 August; 1637, Peter, son of Peter and Mildred, baptized 29 August; 1637, Mildred, wife of Peter Branch, buried 20 September; 1637, Peter, son of Peter Branch, buried 3 October. The next word about Peter is of his own death.1 After the calamitous life revealed in the foregoing entries he took ship with his little son John, on the Castle, for the New World, bound, apparently, for Concord or Scituate. Trouble pursued him. His will was made on shipboard, dated 16 June, 1638. He describes himself as of Halden, Kent, carpenter. He commits his son John to Thomas Wiborne, late of Tenterden, to care for him for eleven years henceforth, thus indicating that the lad was ten years old. If his son die, his estate is to be disposed of, finally being distributed to the congregations of Concord and Scituate and the company of the ship Castle. The rest is silence. The next item is from the Marshfield records:2 John Branch and Mary (elsewhere said to be Mary Speed of the family of the English historian) married 6 December, 1652. It is assumed that this John is the little son who lost his father on board the ship Castle in 1638. John died in Marshfield, 7 May, 1711. John's descendants were numerous; some of them lived in Charlestown. His children were: John, Elizabeth, Peter, Thomas, Mercy, and Experience.8 The branch we are interested in lived in Preston, Connecticut. Preston seems in rather an exceptional degree to have been a meeting place for families earlier associated in different parts of Massachusetts, Cambridge, Charlestown, Plymouth, and other towns making their contribution to its settlement. From Marshfield came the Roses and ' N. E. H. and G. R., 2, p. 183. * Ibid., 6, p. 347. 1John was killed at Rehoboth fight under Captain Michael Pierce, 26 March, 1676. Elizabeth was born in 1656. John, born 1654; Elizabeth, born 1656, married 22 June, 1677, Abel Cook of Preston; Thomas, born 18 February, 1661(2), died 1683(4) at Boston; Mercy, born 28 November, 1664, married Ebenezer Spooner; Lydia, died 1699. Branches, from Plymouth and vicinity, Standishes and Brewsters, Benjamins and Partridges. Peter Branch was among the petitioners for the establishment of the new town.1 He had been married shortly before this date and all his children appear to have been born in Preston. In spite of the favorable action of the General Court relative to the petition made in 1686, chiefly on the ground that to attend the worship of God in Norwich, fourteen miles distant, was a hardship, the church does not seem to have been organized until 1693. The wife of Peter Branch was admitted to membership 25 April, 1699. Peter was born 28 May, 1659, and died 27 December, 1713, his wife Hannah, 16 January, 1632. He left a fair estate, two hundred pounds. In its settlement, 13 March, 1714(15), his children are listed: Mary, age 28; Hannah, 27; Elizabeth, 23; John, 21; Peter, 19; Thomas, 16 (who married Zipporah Kinnie 9 November, 1726); Samuel, 14; Sarah, 10; Joseph, 7. The son Peter, born 30 March, 1696, was married 31 March, 1719, to Content Howse.2 His will, dated 16 July, 1759, proved 4 September, names his wife Content, five daughters, Desire, 1 Connecticut Colonial Records, 3, October, 1686. According to Caul- kins's History of Norwich, Peter Branch, son of John of Scituate, was in Norwich as early as 1680, when his cattlemark was registered. Notes from Mrs. E. E. Rogers: Peter Branch purchased a large tract of land of Owaneco, Sachem of the Mohegans, 30 December, 1683, but in the next year he is still spoken of as "of Taunton." Deeds, Norwich, vol. i, p. 83: "1684, Aug. 4, Peter Branch of Taunton, Colony New Plimouth in New England, sold to Jonathan ffowler alias Smith of Norwich my whole interest in 50 acres on the west side of Middle hill." He lived near the hill which bore his name. He was one of the incorporators of the town of Preston and a member of the committee which invited the first minister. 'Children of Peter and Content Branch (from Preston vital records, baptisms from Second Church records): Zephaniah, born 20 March, 1719(20), baptized 9 April, 1721; Peter, born 20 February, 1722(3), baptized 31 March, 1722(3); Desire, born 20 August, 1725, baptized 22 August, married 24 June, 1745, Ebenezer Morgan; Temperance, born 7 September, 1728, baptized 13 October, married 4 February, 1748(9), Wm. Phillips; Mary, born 28 March, 1731, baptized 4 April; Jenevereth, born 23 November, 1733, baptized November, 1733, married 13 December, 1749, Jonathan Phillips; Content, born 29 March, 1738; Seth, born 12 April, 1739, baptized 15 April; Peter, born 3 August, 1743, baptized 7 August. The will of Wm. Phillips, 4 October, 1792, mentions wife Temperance. He was son of Michael Phillips in Plainfield, 1741, from Rhode Island. Temperance, Mary, Jenevereth, and Content, granddaughter Sarah Branch, and two sons, Zephaniah and Peter. Zephaniah, who had been married 11 November, 1742, to Sarah Aver ill, had already received his double portion and all the real estate is left to Peter, though he was not yet of age.1 Peter and his mother are the executors. Nothing has been learned about the family of the wife Content. Peter died 20 August, 1759. Jenevereth was born 23 November, 1733, and was married to Jonathan Phillips 13 December, 1749. She was still living in 1790; for on 15 April she asked the court to make a division of her husband's estate. Benjamin Coit, Esq., Captain James Averill, and Captain Stephen Clark were appointed to make the distribution. THE LINCOLNS The wife of Peter Branch is said to have been Hannah Lincoln, the marriage to have taken place in Taunton about 1682; she died in Preston 16 January, 1732. It seems to be accepted that she was of the family of Thomas Lincoln, the miller of Hing- ham.a Indeed, J. F. Cabell in his book on the Branches is very definite, giving her birth in Taunton 15 March, 1665, daughter of Thomas Lincoln. The Taunton records down to 1800 were destroyed by fire; hence there is no possibility of verifying the assertions. It must be recorded, however, that Savage, who lists the children mentioned in the will of Thomas the miller, names no Hannah. Thomas was married at least twice, his Taunton wife being (Savage) Elizabeth, widow of Francis Street; in the will he lists his children by a former marriage. Hannah, then, if the ascription of parentage is correct, was child of the old age of Thomas Lincoln and his wife, Elizabeth Street. About all we know of this Thomas is found in Savage. He was in Hingham with several children in 1638; removed about 1652 to Taunton and married Elizabeth Street. In his will, dated 28 1 "In four years after my son Peter shall arive at the age of twenty- one years." Will of Peter Branch. *From Taunton Deeds, 3, p. 77: 4 January, 1694, Peter Branch of Preston, Conn., sold land in Taunton "that belonged to my wife Hannah Lincoln, daughter of Thomas Lincoln, of Taunton, Mass."—Mrs. E. E. Rogers. Mrs. Rogers says the mother of Hannah was Mary (or Martha) Austin (?). See Appendix, p. 296. August, 1683, he calls himself "80 years or thereabouts." His children by a former wife were: Thomas, John, Samuel, Sarah, and Mary; a son-in-law was Joseph Willis; mention is made of a son of Sarah, Thomas by name. The son Thomas lived in Taunton and had children: Mary, born 12 May, 1652; Sarah, born 1654; Thomas, born 1656, married 1689; Samuel, born 1658; Jonah, born 1660; Hannah, born 1663, married 1689, Daniel Owen; Constant, born 1665, married William Briggs; Elizabeth, born 1669, married (second wife) 1693, William Briggs; Mercy born 1670. There were in Hingham in 1638 four Thomas Lincolns and some others of the name. To distinguish, they are known as Thomas the miller, Thomas the farmer, Thomas the cooper, and Thomas the weaver. Thomas the cooper died 28 September, 1691, will dated 13 July, 1688. Thomas the farmer died 16 August, 1692, will dated 24 May, 1681. He had a brother Stephen whose will (1658) mentions his brother Thomas and his niece Sarah, his only son Stephen, and his mother Joan. Thomas the weaver had no children; his undated will mentions his brother Samuel who was the ancestor of Abraham Lincoln. These Lincolns came from Norfolk, from Hingham or vicinity, and were doubtless all connected though in some cases not very closely. Several generations of the president's line in England have been accurately established.1 The birth of a Thomas Lincoln is recorded at Swanton Morley, near Hingham, Norfolk, 28 December, 1600; if this be our Thomas he was then at the date of his will exactly eighty-two years eight months of age, or "80 years or thereabouts." There are no further entries concerning this Thomas and it is a fair inference that he came to America. He was the son of a Thomas, mother not named. Preceding the baptism of Thomas are the baptisms of two other sons of Thomas; John, 26 February, 1597(8), and Edmund, 10 June, 1599. Later come these entries: 1602, William, son of Thomas Lincoln, baptized 28 September; 1603, Robert, son of Thomas Lincoln, baptized 19 February; 1606, Richard, son of Thomas Lincoln, baptized 2 February; probably this is the Richard buried 22 May, 1607; 1610, Ann, daughter of Thomas Lincoln, baptized 1 June; 1612, Alice, daughter of Thomas Lincoln, baptized 5 July; 1615, Henry, son of Thomas Lincoln, baptized 26 December, probably buried 15 August, 1616. 1 See The Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln, by J. H. Lea and J. R. Hutchinson, Boston, 1909. From this volume, beautiful in print and illustration, can also be gleaned with a fair degree of certainty the ancestry of Thomas the miller. Just before this last entry comes the death of Thomas Lincoln, 17 December, 1614, probably the father of the foregoing children, dying before the birth of his youngest son. No other Thomases occur in this portion of the register. The register does not reveal what became of any of these children. But besides Thomas the miller, who fits the son born 1600, there were in America a William Lincoln of Roxbury, killed in the Indian war, 1675, and a Robert, who died in Boston, 1663. Of this family, clearly John was the eldest child; his father's marriage occurred then about 1596; no record appears of it; it probably occurred in a neighboring parish. If Thomas followed a common custom in naming his eldest son for his own father, the child's grandfather, then there can be little doubt that we have the record of the birth of the elder Thomas: 1576, Thomas, son of John Lincoln, 27 June. This Thomas then was in his twenty-first year at marriage. The register gives also the other children of John: 1578, William, son of John Lincoln, baptized 15 December, probably buried 17 September, 1589; 1580, Robert, son of John Lincoln, baptized 17 November; 1581, Franciscus, filia (so) son of John Lincoln, baptized 4 February; 1583, Anna, daughter of John Lincoln, baptized 5 October; 1585, Richard, son of John Lincoln, baptized 21 February; 1588, Catherine, daughter of John Lincoln, baptized 1 September; 1590, Susan, daughter of John Lincoln, baptized 29 March; 1590, Elizabeth, wife of John Lincoln, buried 28 March. Thus the mother died giving birth to her eighth child. Next we find a will that probably reveals the parentage of this John Lincoln. The will of Robert Lincoln of Hingham is dated 14 January, 1555(6), proved 20 January, 1555(6). He names his wife Margaret (probably Alberye), sons Richard and John, and daughters Katherine and Agnes. The executors are his wife and Robert Alberye; witnesses, Sir Henry Goodram priest, John Baretloo, and John Alberye. Another will shows that the widow Margaret married Roger Wright. Wright's will, dated 9 February, 1570(1), names wife Margaret, several children, and then "Richard Lincolne my wife's son," whom he joins with his wife as executor; we learn also that Katherine has become Katherine Brooke. A witness is John Cady, a name known in New England. Another will carries us back still one more generation, that of another Robert, dated 18 April, 1540, 5 September, 1543. He too is of Hingham. He names his wife Johan, perhaps Cowper. as the executors are his wife and John Cowper jr., tanner. He names one son, Robert, daughters, Margaret, Rose the elder, Rose the younger, Christian, Ann, and Elizabeth, married to Hugh Bawdwen — Baldwin. He names also nephew Robert unmarried, a nephew Thomas and his two sons, Robert and William. Among the witnesses are Thomas Pynchon (a well known name in Springfield), "Robert Lincoln my son," and "Robert Lincoln my nephew," and Robert Wright. By another will these Lincolns of Hingham are connected with Swanton Morley, which lies about eight miles north of Hingham. This is the will of Richard, eldest son of the second Robert and executor of his step-father's will, 1571. His will is dated 3 January, 1615(6), proved 24 February, 1620(1). He is described as of Swanton Morley, but makes this proud provision for his burial in the "Church of Hingham, in the middle of the Alley there." He is clearly a person of importance though he calls himself yeoman. He makes a bequest to the poor of three parishes. This Richard is the ancestor of President Lincoln through his grandson, Samuel the immigrant. The item of especial interest to us however is his mention of the purchase of land of Thomas Lincoln "lying in Swanton Morley." This must surely have been his nephew, son of his brother John, and father of our Thomas the miller of Hingham, Massachusetts. Samuel and Thomas the miller were then second cousins. It must be admitted that there is much of conjecture in this pedigree, inasmuch as the family names are so frequently repeated and the Lincolns in the vicinity of Hingham are so very numerous. It is a celebrated lawsuit that determines with certainty the family relationship of the president's ancestor Richard. He had been four times married; there existed much jealousy between his eldest son, ancestor of the president, and his fourth wife and widow and her daughters. A full account of the suit is found in Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln. The family names are deserving of note as they exemplify so well the effect of Puritanism. In the English family they are prevailingly Norman; in the forty-five years of Hingham registers printed there are seven Richards and seven Roberts, in America not a one. In England not a Mordecai or an Abraham. A few other entries may be added as presumably of this family: John, buried 1557; William, buried 1558; and Henry, buried 1559; these were probably brothers of the elder Robert. The Cowper connection has interest; the poet Cowper belonged to Norfolk. The explanation of the many Lincolns in Hingham, Massachusetts, is found in the fact that Robert Peck, excommunicated minister of Hingham, England, led half his parish to Massachusetts in 1638. He died in England, will proved 10 April, 1658. His daughter Anne, wife of Captain John Mason of Seabrook, is named [S00007] Ancestry.com, OneWorldTree, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA;), Database online. Record for Simon Branch [S00007] Ancestry.com, OneWorldTree, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA;), Database online. Record for Peter Branch