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     Ann was born.¹ She was the daughter of Anthony Besse and Jane NN----. She married Andrew Hallett Jr. before 1646 at Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.^2,3 Ann Besse was present at Dorcas Hallett's christening on 1 June 1646 at Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.⁴ Ann died in 1694 at Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts.⁵

     1641 12th day, 1st Mo. Barnabas Norton of Ipswich, baker, sold unto Moses Pengry, six acres of land within the common fence, Richard Bisgood on the south east. Moses was a saltmaker, town officer, and deacon.
Moses was born in 1610.^1,2 He married Lydia Clement before 1658.³ Moses died on 2 January 1695/96 at Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts.^4,5

     Lydia was born circa 1618 at England.^1,2 She was the daughter of Robert Clements and Lydia NN----. She married Moses Pengry before 1658.³ Lydia died on 16 January 1675/76 at Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts.^4,5

     Susannah was born at England.¹ She was the daughter of Samuel Hinckley and Sarah Soole. Susannah immigrated to (an unknown value) in March 1635/36.² She married John Smith on 13 June 1643 at Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts.^3,4

     Sarah was born in 1629 at England.^1,2,3 She was the daughter of Samuel Hinckley and Sarah Soole. She married Henry Cobb on 12 December 1649 at Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts.^1,3

     Mary was born at England.¹ She was the daughter of Samuel Hinckley and Sarah Soole.

     He was a farmer. Samuel was born on 24 July 1642 at Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Samuel Hinckley and Sarah Soole. He married Mary Goodspeed on 14 December 1664 at Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts.^2,3,4 He married Mary Fitzrandolphe on 15 January 1668/69 at Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts.^5,4 Samuel died on 2 January 1726/27 at Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, at age 84.⁶

     John was born on 24 May 1644 at Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Samuel Hinckley and Sarah Soole.

     Thomas Soole was the son of John Sool and Maria Whitfield. He married Mary Indenden on 16 October 1598 at Hawkhurst, county Kent, England.¹ Thomas Soole was present at Sarah Soole's christening on 8 June 1600 at Hawkhurst, county Kent, England.¹

     Mary was born.¹ She was the daughter of John Indenden and Christian Mercer. She married Thomas Soole on 16 October 1598 at Hawkhurst, county Kent, England.¹ Mary Indenden was present at Sarah Soole's christening on 8 June 1600 at Hawkhurst, county Kent, England.¹

     Roger was born at Wingrave, county Bucks, England.¹
     
      Roger Goodspeed of Barnstable in Plymouth Colony, the immigrant ancestor of the American Goodspeeds, was born probably at Wingrave, Co. Bucks, and died in testate. As stated his father in his will dated 15 Sept. 1658 bequeathed to him and to his brothers Bennett and Thomas 6£ 13s 4d each, if they or any of them return from beyond the seas within ten years after their fathers decease. He came to Barnstable in 1639, and in 1643 was on the list of those able to bear arms. His wife was admitted to the church 31 Dec. 1643, and he was admitted to the church 28 July 1644.
      Roger was indiscreet enough on one occasion to get himself into rather serious trouble, as shown by the following complaint and proceedings on the records of Plymouth Colony:
      "John Jenkins, of Barnstable, [who we are also related to] complained against Roger Goodspeed in an action of defamation to the damage of fifty pound, in his charging of the said complainant to be a lyer, and that he had stolen his kidd, biding all the people there to take notice thereof; this being on a lecter day, in September last, in the publicke meeting house there, before sundry people.
      The jury find for the plaintiff twenty pounds damage, and the coste of the suite, or an acknowledgement to the satisfaction of the Court, and the coste of the suite."
      Roger accepted the alternative as shown by the following entry taken from the same record:
      "THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF ROGER GOODSPEED"
      "These are to certify whom it may concern, That what words passed from mee, Roger Goodspeed, att the meeting house att Barnstable concerning John Jenkins, his stealing my kidd and lying, were rash, unadvised aand inconsiderate words; and upon due consideration I see I had noe cause soe to say, and ame sorry for soe saying, and desire him to passe it by.
      Roger Goodspeed X his mark"
      A marginal note in the records states, "This was ended by acknowledgement." It may not be out of place in this connection to say Roger exhibited more courage than discretion. It required considerable "nerve" to openly charge a neighbor with theft and falsehood on a lecture day before all the people. He must have been both corageous and physically strong or Jenkins would then and there have resented the impeachment.




He was the son of Robert Goodspeed and Alice Harris. He married Alice Layton on 1 December 1641 at Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts.^2,3 Roger died in 1685.¹

     Alice was born.¹ She married Roger Goodspeed on 1 December 1641 at Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts.^2,3 Alice died on 10 January 1688/89 at Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts.⁴

     Nathaniel was born on 6 October 1642 at Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Roger Goodspeed and Alice Layton. Nathaniel died in 1670 at Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts.¹

      John passed the first few years of his life at Barnstable, but after about 1647 lived uninterruptedly at Misteake. Upon his marriage, his father no doubt gave him a small tract of land at Misteake for a home, probably the nucleus of the estate owned by him there afterward. After reaching the proper age, he was made a freeman and townsman. In 1675 he participated in the "Narragansett Wars" of King Philip and his allies. He was in the third expedition under Capt. Thomas Howe, and very probably was in one or more of the other three expeditions. This is rendered likely by the fact that in the division of the gratuity of land granted the soldiers of these wars, John received 112 lots, while his brother Ebenezer, who also participated, received but 85 lots. It would seem, therefore, that John served twice and Ebenezer but once. They seem to have participated in the bloody battle of Rehobeth 26 March 1676, where the white mortality was very great; but the power of Philip was largely crushed. His will was probated 22 June 1719. . He was a farmer. John was born on 15 June 1645 at Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Roger Goodspeed and Alice Layton. He married Experience Holley on 9 January 1668/69 at Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.^2,3 John died in 1719.¹

     Benjamin was born on 6 May 1649 at Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Roger Goodspeed and Alice Layton.

     Ruth was born on 10 April 1652 at Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts.¹ She was the daughter of Roger Goodspeed and Alice Layton.

     He was listed on a passenger list on 5 August 1620 at London, county Middlesex, England. John was born circa 1592 at Fen Stanton, county Huntingtonshire, England.^1,2 He was the son of Henry Howland and Margaret NN----. He married Elizabeth Tilley on 25 March 1624 at Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts.³ According to conflicting evidence, he married Elizabeth Tilley on 14 August 1623 at Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts.⁴ John Howland was Bench & Bar between 1632 and 1634 at Judge of the Court of Assistants, Plymouth, Massachusets. John died on 23 February 1672/73 at Rocky Nook, Kingston, Massachusetts.⁵ John Howland of Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, England, a passenger on the famous ship "Mayflower", was the indentured manservant of Mr. John Carver, a wealthy Londoner, who became the first governor of New Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. On 11 November 1620, as the ship lay at anchor in Cape Cod Bay, John Howland was the thirteenth man to sign the "Mayflower Compact", the agreement which laid the foundation for the new town that the able-bodied men on board the "Mayflower" planned to create when the group landed in what was to become Plymouth, Massachusetts.

John grew up in Fenstanton, a town nine miles northwest of Cambridge on the old Roman Road. No baptismal record has been found for John Howland but he was said to have been "above eighty years when he died.

John Howland of the "Mayflower" was called by Governor William Bradford" a lusty young man". He was one of the hired hands among the "Mayflower" company, being neither a "Saint", as the Pilgrims were called, nor a "Stranger", engaged for a specific duty, as was the soldier, Captain Myles Standish. During the voyage across the North Atlantic, the "Mayflower" buffeted by severe autumn storms during which she was forced to drop her sails and head into the wind, wallowing in the mountainous waves. John Howland ventured on deck and was washed overboard into the boiling sea. In Governor Bradford's words, "It pleased God that he caught hold of ye halliards which hunge over board, and rane out at length; yet he was held up...and then with a boat hooke and other means got into ye ship again." It was this tenacity of purpose, perseverance, and the ability to deal with unexpected emergencies that helped John Howland to become a successful leader in the Plymouth community.

The Carver family with whom John lived, survived the terrible sickness of the first winter, during which many Pilgrims died. But the following spring, on an unusually hot day in April, Governor Carver, according to Bradford, came out of his cornfield feeling ill. He passed into a coma and "never spake more." His wife, Kathrine, died soon after her husband. Since the Carver had no children, John Howland is thought to have inherited their estate. It has been said that he immediately "bought his freedom" but no record has survived.

     Elizabeth was born on 30 August 1607 at Henlow, county Bedford, England.^1,2,3,4,5 She was the daughter of John Tilley and Joan Hurst.
     
      Elizabeth was a woman of superior natural ability and earnest Christian faith and was a help meet for the sturdy pilgrim, John Howland. She passed the closing days of her life with her daughter Lydia Brown in Swanzey where she died according to the Swanzey town records at age 80. This proves she was but 13 when she arrived in Plymouth aboard the Mayflower.
     
     
      ELIZABETH (TILLEY) HOWLAND'S WILL

      Transcribed from the original records,
      BY GEORGE ERNEST BOWMAN.
Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland, widow of John Howland and daughter of John Tilley, died at Swansea on Wednesday, 21/31 December, 1687, at the house of her daughter Lydia, the wife of James Brown. Her will is recorded in the Bristol County, Mass., Probate Records, Volume 1, pages 13 and 14. No inventory is on record and the original will has disappeared from the files.
In ye Name of God Amen I Elizabeth Howland of Swanzey in ye County of Bristoll in ye Collony of Plymouth in New Engld being Seventy nine yeares of Age but of good & perfect memory thanks be to Allmighty God & calling to Remembrance ye uncertain Estate of this transitory Life & that all flesh must Yeild unto Death when it shall please God to call Doe make constitute & ordaine & Declare This my last Will & Testament, in manner & forme following Revoking and Anulling by these prsents all & every Testamt & Testamts Will & Wills heretofore by me made & declared either by Word or Writing And this to be taken only for my last Will & Testament & none other. "And first being penitent & sorry from ye bottom of my heart for all my sinns past most humbly desiring forgivenesse for ye same I give & Comitt my soule unto Allmighty God my Saviour & Redeemer in whome & by ye
     Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland's Will.     55
meritts of Jesus Christ I trust & believe assuredly to be saved & to have full remission & forgivenesse of all my sins & that my Soule wt my Body at the generall Day of Resurrection shall rise againe wt Joy & through ye meritts of Christs Death & passion possesse & inheritt ye Kingdome of heaven prepared for his Elect & Chosen & my Body to be buryed in such place where it shall please my Executrs hereafter named to appoint And now for ye settling my temporall Estate & such goodes Chattells & Debts as it hath pleased God far above my Deserts to bestow upon me I Do Dispose order & give ye same in manner & forme following (That is to say) First that after my funerall Expences & Debts paid wc I owe either of right or in Conscience to any manner of person or persons whatsoever in Convenient tyme after my Decease by my Execrs hereafter named I Give & bequeath unto my Eldest Son John Howland ye sum of five pounds to be paid out of my Estate & my booke called Mr Tindale's Workes & also one pair of sheetes & one prof pillowbeeres & one pr of Bedblanketts, Item I give unto my son Joseph Howland my Stillyards & also one pr of sheetes & one pt of pillobeeres Item I give unto my son Jabez Howland my ffetherbed & boulster yt is in his Custody & also one Rugg & two Blanketts yt belongeth to ye said Bed & also my great Iron pott & potthookes Item I give unto my son Isaack Howland my Booke called Willson on ye Romanes & one pr of sheetes & one paire of pillowbeeres & also my great Brasse Kettle already in his possession Item I give unto my Son in Law Mr James Browne my great Bible Item I give & bequeath unto my Daughter Lidia Browne my best ffeatherbed & Boulster two pillowes & three Blanketts & a green Rugg & my small Cupboard one pr of AndyIrons & my lesser brasse Kettle & my small Bible & my booke of mr Robbinsons Workes called Observations Divine & Morrall & allso my finest pr of Sheetes & my holland pillowbeeres, Item I give unto my Daughter Elisabeth Dickenson one pr of Sheetes & one pr of pillowbeeres & one Chest Item give unto my Daughter Hannah Bosworth one pr of sheets & one pr of pillowbeeres, Item I give unto my Grand Daughter Elizabeth Bursley one paire of sheets and one paire of Pillowbeeres Item I give & bequeath unto my Grandson Nathanael Howland (the son of
56     Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland's Will     
Joseph Howland) and to the heires of his owne Body lawfully begotten for ever all that my Lott of Land with ye Meadow thereunto adjoyning & belonging lying in the Township of Duxbury neare Jones River bridge, Item I give unto my Grandson James Browne One Iron barr and on Iron Trammell now in his possession, Item I give unto my Grandson Jabez Browne one Chest Item I give unto my Grand Daughter Dorothy Browne My best Chest & my Warming pan Item I give unto my Grand Daughter Desire Cushman four Sheep, Item I give & bequeath my wearing clothes linnen and Woollen and all the rest of my Estate in mony Debts linnen or of what kind or nature or sort soever it may be unto my three Daughters Elisabeth Dickenson, Lidia Browne and Hannah Bosworth to be equally Devided amongst them, Item I make constitute and ordaine my loving Son in Law James Browne and my loving son Jabez Howland [p. 14] Executors of this my last Will and Testament, Item it is my Will & Charge to all my Children that they walke in ye Feare of ye Lord, and in Love and peace towards each other and endeavour the true performance of this my last Will & Testament In Witnesse whereof I the said Elisabeth Howland have hereunto sett my hand & seale this seventeenth Day of December Anno Dm one thousand six hundred Eighty & six.
The mark of Elisabeth E H Howland (sigittu)
Signed Sealed & Delivd
in ye prsence of Us Wittnesses
Hugh Cole
Samuel Vyall
John Browne
Know all men that on ye tenth Day of Janry Anno Dm 1687/8 Before me Nathanl Byfield Esqr Judge of his Majties Inferiour Court of Plea's for ye County of Bristoll, present Jno Walley Esqr one of ye Members of his Majties Councill in New England & Capt Benjam Church Justice of Peace The abovewritten Will of Elizabeth Howland was proved approved & allowed And ye Administracon of all & singuler ye goodes Rights and Creditts of ye said Deced was Committed unto James Browne & Jabez Howland Execrs in ye same Will named well & truly to Administer ye same according to the Will of ye Deced In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Sett ye Seale of ye Office for Probate of Wills & granting Lettrs of Admincon ye yeare & Day by me abovewritten
(Sigittu officij)     Nathanael Byfield
Thus Entred & ingrossed this 26: of Janry Anno Dm 1687/8 pr Steph Burton


^6. She was listed on a passenger list on 5 August 1620 at sailing on the "Mayflower". She married John Howland on 25 March 1624 at Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts.⁷ According to conflicting evidence, she married John Howland on 14 August 1623 at Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts.⁸ Elizabeth died on 21 December 1687 at Swansea, Massachusetts, at age 80.^9,10

     Desire was born circa 1625 at Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts.¹ She was the daughter of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley. Desire died on 13 October 1683 at Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts.²

     Jabez was born circa 1644 at Rocky Nook, Kingston, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley.

     Joseph was born circa 1640 at Rocky Nook, Kingston, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley. He married Elizabeth Southworth on 7 December 1664.^2,3,4

     Hope was born on 30 August 1629 at Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts.³ She was the daughter of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley. She married John Chipman circa 1645 at Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts.⁴ Hope died on 8 January 1683 at Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, at age 53.¹

     Elizabeth was born circa 1631 at Maine.¹ She was the daughter of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley.

     Lydia was born circa 1633 at Maine.¹ She was the daughter of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley.

     Hannah was born circa 1637 at Maine.¹ She was the daughter of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley.

     Isaac was born on 15 November 1649 at Rocky Nook, Kingston, Massachusetts.¹ She was the daughter of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley.

      Tilley
     
     
      The Surname Tilley is found in England as early as the Norman Conquest appears in Domesday Book. The name was common also in France and Holland at an early date and is doubtless of Norman-French origin. The name is spelled in ancient record Tillie, Tilly, Teley, Tiley, Tilee and Tely. We have at the present time the surname Tylee, probably of the Same English stock.
     
     
      Edward and John Tilley were among the passengers of the "Mayflower". Edward and his wife Ann both died in the spring of 1620-21. John brought his wife and daughter Elizabeth, and he and his wife also died early in 1621. The only descendants of these Pilgrim Tilleys are through John's daughter who married John Howland. No person of the name Tilley can claim descent through these ancestors in the male line.
     





























He was a silk worker. John was born before 19 December 1571 (chr. at Henlow, county Bedford, England. He was christened on 19 December 1571 at Henlow, county Bedford, England.^1,2 He was the son of Robert Tilley and Elizabeth NN----. He married Joan Hurst on 20 September 1596 at Henlow, county Bedford, England.^3,4,5 John Tilley was present at Rose Tilley's christening on 23 October 1597 at Henlow, county Bedford, England.² He was listed on a passenger list on 5 August 1620 at sailing on the "Mayflower". John died circa 1621 at Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts.^6,2

      Thomas Rogers Mayflower Familes through Five Generations Vol 2, pg 153
     
     
      "Little is known about Pilgrim Thomas Rogers and nothing at all is known about his ancestry. His alleged descent from John Rogers the Martyr was disproved in the 19th century by Joseph Chester and Henry F. Walters. Banks notes that taxpayers named Thomas Rogers, Christopher Martin and John Hooke appear in the London parish of St. Bartholomew the Great early in 1620, but there is no proof that these were the Mayflower passengers.
     
     
      Our earliest known encounter with Pilgrim Thomas Rogers was on 25 June 1618 when he became a citizen of Leiden, Holland, vouched for by William Jepson, formerly of Worksop, Notts., and by Roger Wilson, formerly of Sandwich, Kent Co. Engalnd. Banks therefore speculates that Rogers might have been from one of those towns. On 1 April 1620 Thomas sold his Leiden house on the Barbarasteeg for 300 guilders, in preparation for the journey to New England.
     
     
      Governor Bradford says in his history of the Plymouth settlement that on board the Mayflower were "Thomas Rogers and Joseph his son; his other children came afterwards......Thomas Rogers died in the first sickness but his son Joseph is still living (1650) and is married and hath six children. The rest of Thomas Rogers' [children] came over and are married and have many children." Therefore we know that Thomas and his son Joseph arrived at Cape Cod aboard the ship Mayflower and on 11 November 1620 according to their calendar, or 21 November on ours, Thomas was one of forty-one signers of the Mayflower Compact. Thomas did not live through the rigorous winter which carried off half the group but young Joseph, like so many of the children, did survive.
     
     
      Recent discoveries show that Thomas had a family living in Leiden, Holland, when the 1622 Poll Tax was taken. In the Over "t Hoff Quarter, in a house with other Pilgrim families in St. Peter's Churchyard west-side, were Jan Thomas, orphan from England without means; Elsgen Rogiers, widow of Thonis Rogiers, an Englishwoman; and Lysbeth and Grietgen her children, poor people. Translated this could read John, son of Thomas; Elizabeth Rogers, widow of Thomas; and Elizabeth and Margaret, her children. At that period the word orphan meant that either or both parents were dead.
     
     
      In the 1623 Plymouth Colony land division, Joseph Rogers was allotted two acres-one for himself and one on behalf of his late father. He may have been living in the household of Governor Bradford with who he was grouped on 22 May 1627, in the division of cattle. Joseph and twelve other inhabitants of Plymouth received "an heyfer of the last year which was of the Great white-back cow that was brought over in the Ann and two shee goats."
     
     
      Governor Bradford's statement that the rest of Thomas Rogers' children came over and married and had children, seems clearly to indicate that more than one of his children came to New England after 1620. We know that his son John came to Plymouth about 1630. Although many other male Rogers immigrants have been claimed as sons of Thomas the Pilgrim, none of the claims has been proved and some have been disproved. Therefore it seems likely that at least one of the Rogers daughters who were living in Holland in 1622 came over. John and Joseph Rogers each named a daughter Elizabeth, perhaps thereby indicating that their sister Elizabeth lived in New England. Unfortunately extensive research has failed to uncover any further evidence.
     
     
      John Rogers came to Plymouth about 1630, when the last of the Leiden contingent arrived and was in Plymouth Colony on 25 March 1633 when he was taxed 9 shillings. The proof of his identity lies in a grant made 6 April 1640 to "Joseph Rogers and John Rogers his brother...fifty acres apeece of upland....at the North River." Both then had growing families to carry forward the Rogers heritage, although only Joseph's descendants would carry forward the Rogers name beyond the fourth generation."
      Thomas was born circa 1572 at Watford, Northamptonshire.^3,1 He was the son of William Rogers and Eleanor NN----. He married Alice [Elsgen] Cosford before 24 October 1597 at Watford, Northamptonshire.^4,1 Thomas Rogers, the father of Joseph Rogers, presented him for baptism on 23 January 1602 at Watford, Northamptonshire.¹ Thomas Rogers, the father of John Rogers, presented him for baptism on 6 April 1606.¹ Thomas Rogers, the father of Elizabeth or (Lysbeth) Rogers, presented her for baptism on 26 December 1609 at Watford, Northamptonshire.¹ Thomas was employed at as a Merchant at Leyden, Holland, after 1610. He was listed on a passenger list on 5 August 1620 at sailing on the "Mayflower". Thomas died in 1621 at Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts.⁵

     Elizabeth was born at England.¹ Elizabeth died after 1622/23 at Leyden, Holland.¹

     Mary died. Mary was born.¹ She married Andrew Hallett before 1608 at England.^2,3