John Talbot

Notes:

John Talbot Second Earl of Shrewsbury was a descendant of Humphrey De Bohun (himself a descendant of Magna Charta Surety Henry De Bohun) who m. Elizabeth Plantagenet of the House of Anjou-Plantagent (Kings of England).

John married Elizabeth Butler about May 1444 in England. Elizabeth (daughter of James Butler and Elizabeth Beauchamp) was born about 1420 in Carrig Mac Griffin, County Tipperary, Ireland; died about 1473. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Gilbert Talbot of Grafton a descendant of Humphrey De Bohun (himself a descendant of Magna Charta Surety Henry De Bohun) who m. Elizabeth Plantagenet of the House of Anjou-Plantagent (Kings of England)

Gilbert married Audrey CottonEngland. Audrey was born in Landwade, Cambridgeshire, England; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John Talbot of Albrighton and Grafton was a descendant of Humphrey De Bohun (himself a descendant of Magna Charta Surety Henry De Bohun) who m. Elizabeth Plantagenet of the House of Anjou-Plantagent (Kings of England).
Grafton is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. The parish includes the villages of Grafton and Bullinghope, and is immediately to the south of Hereford city.

John married Margaret TroutbeckEngland. Margaret (daughter of Adam Troutbeck and Margaret Butler) was born about 1492 in Mobberley, Cheshire, England; died on 10 May 1559. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Anne Talbot of Albrighton was a descendant of Humphrey De Bohun (himself a descendant of Magna Charta Surety Henry De Bohun) who m. Elizabeth Plantagenet of the House of Anjou-Plantagent (Kings of England).
Albrighton was mentioned in the Domesday book as Albricston or the home/farm of Albric, it received its charter in 1303, which was renewed in 1662 for rather unusual reasons. The charter declared that "because Albrighton (then) adjoined Staffordshire on the east, south and west sides, felons and other malefactors fled Staffordshire to escape prosecution because there was no resident justice of the peace in that part of Shropshire". The parish church, dedicated to Mary Magdalene was completed in around 1181, and some rebuilding work was done in 1853. It is built of red sandstone in the Norman style. The church contains an Alabaster monument to Sir Craig Wilson, as well as the Albrighton Mace donated to the village in 1663, by Lady Mary Talbot. The east window of the church dates from the 14th century. For most of the 14th century and into the 15th the manor of Albrighton, together with Ryton, was held by the Carles, Careles or Careless family. The Carles were connected by marriage to the Lestranges (Lords Strange of Blackmere) and the Talbots. Albrighton left the control of this family with the marriage of an heiress to a member of the Corbet family in the reign of Henry VI. The Earl of Shrewsbury is the premier Earl of England and until 1918, the biggest land owner in Albrighton. They were originally the Talbot family, many of whom are buried in Albrighton Church. Early in the 17th century, Albrighton was noted for making buttons and then in the 18th century clock making flourished. By 1880 it was bricks, but by and large, agriculture was the main industry before the building of the railways.

Anne married Thomas NeedhamEngland. Thomas (son of Robert Needham and Agnes Manwaring) was born about 1510 in Shropshire, England; died about 1570 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Robert Needham of Shavington through his mother, Anne Talbot, was a descendant of Humphrey De Bohun (himself a descendant of Magna Charta Surety Henry De Bohun) who m. Elizabeth Plantagenet of the House of Anjou-Plantagent (Kings of England). Needham also is a descendant of Magna Charta Surety Saher de Quincy and John de Lacy.
Shavington cum Gresty is a civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It lies to the south of Crewe. It includes the large village of Shavington, which lies 2

Robert married Frances AstonEngland. Frances (daughter of Edward Aston and Joan Bowles) was born about 1533 in Tixall, Staffordshire, England; died on 1 Jun 1610 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Dorothy Needham of Shavington was a descendant of Humphrey De Bohun (himself a descendant of Magna Charta Surety Henry De Bohun) who m. Elizabeth Plantagenet of the House of Anjou-Plantagent, Kings of England. She was also a descendant of Magna Charta Sureties Saher de Quincy and John de Lacy.

(Research):Shropshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It is bordered by Wales to the west and the English counties of Cheshire (Chestershire) to the north, Staffordshire to the east, Worcestershire to the southeast, and Herefordshire to the south.

Dorothy married Richard ChetwoodEngland. Richard (son of Richard Chetwood and Agnes Wodhull) was born about 1560 in Warkworth, Northamptonshire, England; died on 16 May 1635 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Grace Chetwood (Chetwode) was a descendant of the House of Anjou-Plantaganet. She also was a descendant of Magna Charta Sureties Saier de Quincy and John de Lacy. Others in her ancestry were the House of Normandy, Kings of Scotland, House of Capet, Kings of France, Carolingians, Emporers of the West, Emporers of the East, Princes of Wales, and Spanish Rulers. From Bulkeley "...Grace Chetwood was descended form an ancient family of Buckinghamshire [Chetwode]...we rely chiefly on the pedigree from the parchment roll which some years ago was in the possession of Sir George Chetwode...She...stemmed from manorial families and it so chances that through her great-grand-mother, Anne Talbot, she descended from many of the great historic families of England, such as the Talbots, the Percys, and the Nevills...Anne Talbot had fourteen legitimate lines of descent from the first Plantagenet King of England."

Grace married Peter Bulkeley about Apr 1635 in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Peter (son of Edward Bulkeley and Olive Irby) was born on 31 Jan 1582 in Bedfordshire, England; died on 9 Mar 1657/58 in Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Degree: 1655; A.B. from Harvard College
• Occupation: 1669-1677; Minister at Wethersfield, Connecticut

Notes:

Gershom Bulkeley 1636 ManuscriptsHis manuscripts are currently in the collection of the Menczer Museum of Medicine and Dentistry*.
After his return from King Philip's War, he asked a dismission from the church in Wethersfield, Colony of Connecticut, which was granted in 1677. He removed to the east side of the Connecticut River, and commenced practice as a physician, which he continued for over thirty years.
As a magistrate and statesman, he was opposed to the assumption of the government by the colonial authorities in 1689. In that year he published, at Philadelphia, a pamphlet on the affairs of Connecticut. The same year he wrote a work titled:
Will and Doom, or the miseries of Connecticut by and under usurped and abitrary power; being a narrative of the first erection and exercise, but especially of the late changes and administration of government in their Majesties Colony of New England in America.
Though never printed for wide distribution, it was sent to England by the Governor of New York some dozen years later as the most reliable account of New England to be found.
-------------*The Menczer Museum of Medicine & Dentistry is closed to the public as of October 1, 2008. We are packing the exhibits in preparation for the move to The University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington CT in 2009. The displays will be changing and not all items will be on exhibit as in the past. Some parts of the collection will be at the Tunxis Community College and the local hospitals. The Fones School of Dental Hygiene will also have some significant pieces from the dental collection.
Apparently Menczer has moved one more time since 2009, back to Hartford where Its new address is 230 Scarborough St, Hartford, CT 06105. However, conflicting information states: "[The] collections now at area hospitals and Tunxis Community College". - Wikipedia

Notes:

Was educated at Harvard College through 1658 but did not graduate.

Notes:

Dr Peter Bulkeley was a descendant of Alan La Zouche who was a descendant of Magna Charta Surety Saier de Qunicy (a Crusader who died in Palestine 3 Nov 1219)

Peter married Margaret (wife of Dr Peter Bulkeley) [?]Massachusetts. Margaret died before 1691. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the Bulkeley Genealogy, the spelling of her name (Bulkley) differs from her father's (Rev Peter Bulkeley)--the first 'e' is dropped. I think this is a typo. She would not have changed the spelling of her father's name.
Dorothy Bulkeley was a descendant of Alan La Zouche who was a descendant of Magna Charta Surety Saier de Qunicy (a Crusader who died in Palestine 3 Nov 1219)

Dorothy married David OsbornFairfield County, Connecticut. David (son of John Osborn and Sarah Bennett) was born about 1686 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut; died about 1727 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Accdg to the Bulkeley Genealogy, David & Sarah's firstborn "d. young"

Notes:

Bulkeley Genealogy footnote to this birth: 16 Apr 1708 by old family record but he was baptized 22 May 1709

Notes:

On 19 Dec 1793, Sarah Sherwood, widow, and Eleazer, Joseph, Jehiel, David, and Reuben Sherwood, all of Fairfield, and Grace Hull, widow, of Weston, and Gershom Osborn and Grizzel his wife of Fairfield, conveyed to Abel Sherwood of Weston land set to the widow of Joesph Sherwood deceased, the aforesaid Sarah Sherwood reserving life use of the same. - The Bulkeley Genealogy

Sarah married Joseph Sherwood on 17 Feb 1730/31 in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Joseph (son of Benjamin Sherwood and Sarah (wife of Benjamin Sherwood) [?]) was born on 21 Nov 1702 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut; died before 1793. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Bulkeley Genealogy birth note: "d. young"

Notes:

Bulkeley Genealogy p144: On 29 Mar 1739, Eleazer Osorn, Joseph Sherwood, and Sarah his wife, Nathan Thorp and Dorothy his wife, conveyed land originally from Richard Osborn and our father David Osborn deceased, also half of what was set to Hannah Osborn, now deceased, in the distribution of said David's estate.

Family/Spouse: Nathan Thorp. Nathan and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DAR Patriot: Connecticut, Ensign, 9th Co, 4th Regt, Jan 1780
Letter of Administration, Dutchess County, New York from Surrogate Office's Records Liber C p33. Summary: Lyman Sherwood appointed executor of Jehiel Sherwood's estate; officially recorded at Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York on 24 Oct 1807 The People of the State of New-York by the Grace of God, Free and Independent. To Lymen Sherwood of the town of South East in this County of Dutchess son of Jehial Sherwood deceased. Whereas Jehial Sherwood of the Town of South East in said County as is alledged, lately died intestate, having whilst living, and at the time of his Death, Goods, Chattels, or Credits within this state...do grant unto you the said Lymen Sherwood full power by these presents, to administer, and faithfully dispose of all and singular the said Goods...And we do by these presents, depute, constitute and appoint you the said Lymen Sherwood Administrator of all and singular the Goods, Chattels and Credits which were of the said Jehial Sherwood. IN TESTIMONY whereof, we have caused the seal of office of our said Surrogate to be hereunto affixed. Witness James Talimadge(?)...Esquire, Surrogate of the said county, at Poughkeepsie, the twenty fourth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seven and of our Independence the thirty second...James ______ Dutchess County...Recorded the preceding Letter of Administration to Lyman Sherwood this twenty fourth day of October 1807
"James Sears was present in the probate of Jehiel Sherwood's estate" - taken from a letter to Hubert Andrew Arnold from a professional genealogist identified as "Box 480, Salt Point" [Salt Point is a hamlet in Dutchess County, New York, United States. It lies northeast of Poughkeepsie following New York Route 115, the Salt Point Turnpike]. This statement is very important with respect to establishing circumstantial evidence that Mehitible Sherwood, James Sears' wife, was the daughter of Jehiel Sherwood.

South East, New York The first settler arrived around 1730. The area first exploited was called "The Oblong," and was outside of the land claimed by the Philipse Patent. Due to a border dispute between New York and Connecticut the area between the undisputed border of NY and the undisputed border of CT was an approximately 4-mile-wide area which ran the full north-south dimension of Dutchess County. This was called the Oblong. Land was sold in this area both by the governor of NY and the King of England for Connecticut, with conflicting deeds. The boundary was settled in New York's favor by the 1731 Treaty of Dover. A southern portion of the Oblong was alternately known as Southeast as it was the southeasternmost town in Dutchess County. It consisted of the eastern half of the current Town of Patterson, and the eastern half of the current town of Southeast. The western half of the current town of Southeast was part of the large Phillipse Patent which had not yet been divided into towns. The most heavily-settled area of the Oblong at this point was the "city" of Frederickstown, now the hamlet of Patterson. The town of Southeast, then still including its portion of the Oblong, was founded in 1788, and formed the southeast corner of Dutchess County. In 1795, the town that had been Southeast's neighbor, Frederickstown was divided into the present Carmel, Kent, and Patterson, the latter two known at first as "Frederick" and "Franklin." At that time, Southeast lost its northern half to Patterson, and expanded to the west to become the shape it is now. Putnam County split from Dutchess in 1812. The most densely populated area in the town is the village of Brewster.

Jehiel married Sarah Squire on 5 Oct 1763 in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Sarah (daughter of Daniel Squire and Abigail Osborn) was born on 23 Jan 1746/47 in Fairfield County, Connecticut; died on 6 May 1793 in Fairfield County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Grizzel married Gershom Osborn on 29 Dec 1772 in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Gershom was born on 23 Apr 1746 in Probably Fairfield Co, Connecticut; died on 5 Apr 1819 in Probably Fairfield Co, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name: Abel Sherwood Birth Date: 1740
Birthplace: Connecticut Volume: 158 Page Number: 259 Reference: Rolls and lists of Ct.Men in the Rev. 1775-1783. Ed.
By Albert C. Bates. Hartford, Ct., 1901-1909(Vols. 8 and 12 of the "Collections" of the Ct. Hist. Soc.) (2v.):12:7
--Ancestry hint

Notes:

Residence in 1841, Otisco, Onondaga Co, New York; ref p 851 "The Families of Old Fairfield" by Jacobus

Family/Spouse: Ellen Bradley. Ellen was christened on 26 Apr 1767 in Probably Fairfield Co, Connecticut; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: [?] Canne. [?] and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Aaron Wakeman about Jan 1786 in Probably Fairfield Co, Connecticut. Aaron and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charity married Lyman Banks on 7 Jan 1798 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut. Lyman was christened on 29 May 1768 in Probably Fairfield Co, Connecticut; died on 1 Nov 1849 in Probably Fairfield Co, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Jacobus p851: Distribution of Stephen's estate, 1837: widow, Oran Sherwood, Eliza Sherwood, Betsey wife of Uriah Banks, Norman Sherwood, William Sherwood, Ann wife of Frederick Wakeman, Sarah Sherwood, Emily Sherwood, Mary-Jane Sherwood, Wilson Sherwood, Frances Sherwood

Stephen married Eulilla GoodsellProbably Fairfield Co, Connecticut. Eulilla was christened on 8 Feb 1776; died on 4 Mar 1814. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Stephen married Tamma Banks on 15 May 1816. Tamma was born about 1790; died on 3 Jun 1848. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Two DAR applications list the husband as "Hebbard" (No. 74380, Mrs. Ida L. Fitchard and No. 131665, Mrs. Jessie Estelle Margerin). They list the birthdate of Abigail as 17 Feb 1777. That, however, was the birth year of Hezekiah who was omitted from their applications. They may have been referring to the Grenville C. Mackenzie papers which also omit Hezekiah substituting his birth year of 1777 for Abigail's.
I do not think that there is any justification for omitting Hezikiah from the list of Jehiel Sherwood's children. In fact, with reports of the pencilling in of information in the MacKenzie papers and the Lounsbury papers (letterTalbot to Arnold) it appears that there has been deliberate alteration of Sherwood family history data (possibly as early as 1895) in order to juggle, include, and exclude names in the list of Jehiel Sherwood's children.
With Fitchard, for example, she desperately had to find a father for her ancestor Abigail Sherwood and Jehiel Sherwood, Revolutionary War Patriot, filled the bill. However, it is unconscionable to remove a name (Hezekiah) to get Abigail in there. I have done an analysis in which I added three names (Mehitable, Abigail, and William) to the original Greenfield Hill Church list leaving original birth dates in place with logical birth dates for the additional children. A mystery of the ages, however, is why two of those names, Mehitable and Abigail, did not appear in the Greenfield list. William was a latecomer born in New York City, giving a reasonable explanation for his omission.

Hezekiah married Eleanor Ogden on 16 Mar 1796 in Probably Fairfield Co, Connecticut. Eleanor was christened on 27 Sep 1778; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

See my note with Hezekiah. Abigail can be added without omitting Hezekiah.

Family/Spouse: Nathaniel Hebbard. Nathaniel and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _TODO: Open

Notes:

Mehitable/Mabel Sherwood was the daughter of Jehiel Sherwood. She was born about November 1780. The first solid reference to "Mehitable" wife of James Sears, appears on the 1826 gravestone at Hunt's Corners, Wayne Co, New York. Previous references to the wife of James Sears had her name as "Mabel" Sherwood. Is the "Mabel" of South East, New York the "Mehitable", wife of James Sears, at Hunt's Corners? Circumstantially, it is convincing but no specific documentation exists to verify that Mehitable/Mabel Sherwood was the daughter of Jehiel Sherwood. She died 12 Mar 1826 in Wayne County NY aged 45 years and this inscription on Mehitable's gravestone was what I used to arrive at a birth date of approximately Nov 1780. The central problem with Mehitable is that in a Fairfield Church journal of families (not kept in real time), a list of Jehiel Sherwood's family members does not contain either Abigail or Mehitable. This has caused over a century of consternation even leading 19th century DAR applicants to falsify records (in the New York City Public Library) to enable the inclusion of these two children. In fact, Hezakiah Sherwood's name was erased from the Fairfield Church list in order to get Abigail's name in there. There's no justification for doing this. I am able to "fit" birthdates for all without erasing anyone. The burnng of Fairfield by the British in 1779 could well have prevented the recording of Abigail and Mehitable Sherwood's births. From Wikipedia: "On the morning of July 7, 1779, approximately 2,000 enemy troops landed on Fairfield Beach near Pine Creek Point and proceeded to invade the town. When they left the following evening, the entire town lay in ruins, burned to the ground as punishment for Fairfield's support of the rebel cause. Ten years later, President George Washington noted after traveling through Fairfield, that "the destructive evidences of British cruelty are yet visible both in Norwalk and Fairfield; as there are the chimneys of many burnt houses standing in them yet."
The gravestone inscription in the Hunts Corners Cemetery in Wayne County NY is "In memory of/Mehitable/wife of James Sears/ who died March 12, 1826 in the 45th/year of her age." At one time there was a dispute about the year, that it could be 1824, but I have closely examined the gravestone picture and the last digit of the year definitely has a curved top thus it could not be a four.

_TODO:
Cutter looks like he got the list that had deleted Hezekiah in favor of Mabel

Mehitable married James Sears on 19 Nov 1797 in Probably South East New York. James (son of Thomas Sears and Deborah Baldwin) was born on 24 Mar 1778 in South East, Dutchess Co, New York; died on 28 Feb 1857 in Tyre, Seneca Co, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Betsey Minor. Betsey and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Lydia Ann Kellogg on 16 Aug 1816 in Great Barrington, Berkshire Co, Massachusetts. Lydia was born on 10 Oct 1793 in Great Barrington, Berkshire Co, Massachusetts; died on 9 Feb 1865 in Great Barrington, Berkshire Co, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]