Genealogical Genesis
Marcia great grandfather Aquila Chase began a life of crime assisted by family members way back in 1646. Chase and the family gang haad absconded to Newbury Mass where they cane to justice. Chase was admonished in court, but the fine was excused.
Aquila Chase appears to be nflbearsofficial.com/Nike-Brandon-Marshall-Jersey.html the first man to pilot a vessel past the bar at the mouth of the Merrimack River in what is now Newburyport Mass. Chase owned lands at Plum Island off the Newburyport coast.
The fun of genealogy rests with discovering interesting ancestors, including nobility. Everyone loves to discover a Duke or an Earl in the family tree. However, an important question is: just how many ancestors are in your tree?
A great site called of Ancestors in a Given Tree looks at the math of genealogy. The mathematical equation is 2n = x, where n is the number of generations back and x ia the number of persons in that generation (grandparents). (Each generation is 20 years).
Therefore, in the first generation, a person has 2 ancestors, called parents; In generation 2, 4 ancestors or grandparents. Following the equation a person has 8 great grandparents in generation 3 (23 = 8).
The number increases exponentially quickly. A person has 256 6th great grandparents in generation 8, 1024 8th great grandparents in Gen 10, and 1,048,567 18th great grandparents in Gen 20. A person has 2,097,151 cumulative grandparents in Gen 20. Clearly someone of those million or so great grandparents is likely numbers increase out of control quickly: over 2 million 19th great grandparents in Gen 21, over 4 million 20th great grandparents in Gen 22, and in Gen 25 (750 years) you have over 33 million grandparents. A person is likely to have some stinkers too by then. If you started in 1950, that would mean in 1200, roughly 8% of persons living on earth were your great grandparents (33 million great GPs/ 400 million population of the earth)
For instance, if you trace back one of our trees (or maybe both) through Joseph Loomis, one can get to Edward III King of England Plantagenet. That right the 19th great grandfather of GRG, some 21 generations back was King Edward the IIIrd. He and 2,097,151 other 19th great grandparents. How is that for name dropping?One of the original pilgrims on Plymouth was Eleanor Newton Adams Winslow. She is found in many of the books and papers studying the colony at Plymouth, including The Women of the Mayflower and Plymouth Colony.
Was Eleanor a Newton of our family? Unlikely unless she was born a Newton in England or married into the family. Her English background is unclear.
On the Mayflower she is listed a Mrs. Eleanor Newton, indicating she was married, and therefore widowed. Eleanor birth is at Clayton le Moors, Lancashire, England, which is on the west coast of England, a distance from Little Ilford, the home of the Newtons. say her father was Peter Wordon, which makes little sense. Wordon was also an immigrant to Plymouth. Furthermore, her birth is then listed as occurring in Plymouth which is inaccurate.
Eleanor, as a widow survived the Anne journey. As with all Pilgrims she was given one acre and a cow in Plymouth, the very definition of 1600s hot. It is recorded she married John Adams, who lived for a couple years in the colony, dying in about 1623.
Eleanor then married Kenelm Winslow, brother to Massachusetts Governor Edward Winslow. She is buried in the Winslow compound in Marshfield, Plymouth, Mass.
Regardless of her ancestry, what incredible courage did it take for this women to venture across the Atlantic Ocean on her own to a land where over 50% of the settlers did not survive the winter. Her descendants (which include Presidents Adams, I believe) certainly made their mark on America.
Yesterday we discussed the epic story of the bad boys of the puritans, the Billingtons, John and Eleanor (Ellen or Elinor). But, wait one minute, Oscar. However this introduced an entire new cache of friends to Plimouth Lance Briggs Navy Jersey colony:
Francis's brother John also gave the Pilgrim leaders some headaches. In July 1621, the 16 year old lost his way in the woods. For five days he wandered aimlessly until he stumbled on the Indian village of Manomet, some 20 miles from Plymouth. He was passed onto the Nausets of Cape Cod, http://www.nflbearsofficial.com/Nike-Matt-Forte-Jersey.html who had attacked the Pilgrims during the first encounter back in December and from whom the Pilgrims had taken corn and disturbed graves. When he heard of the news, Bradford ordered a party of 10 men to go for the boy with Squanto and another Indian as guides. They met with the Nausets in present day Eastham and promised to replenish their corn. More than 100 warriors armed with bows and arrows watched the discussion and John was carried in one of the men arms, looking none the worse for wear, wearing a string of shell beads around his neck. The Nauset sachem Aspinet was presented with a knife and peace was declared.
Lastly, the entire thing might just be trumped up. Appears that John Newcomen was a 17 year old neighbor of Billingtons, who liked to poach on the Billington 4 acre land. Although warned several times, Newcomen continued to hunt on Billington land. On the fateful Trumaine McBride Womens Jersey day of the shooting, it is reported John Sr was about to warn Newcomen again, when the teenager hid behind a tree. Billington may have been firing a warning shot, at precisely the time Newcomen peered around the tree. Oops, shoulder shot.
Billington quickly summoned assistance and helped the injured man into the village to get medical care. It was a wound but survivable. may have been Newcomen's own carelessness that he caught a cold. there a major infection developed and then gangrene. After several days Newcomen died. William Bradford then had Billington arrested and held on a murder charge. a grand jury and a petty jury heard the case against Billington. John Billington stated he took aim against Newcomen with regret, yet was found guilty of Newcomen's murder.
A cartoonist even characterizes the family as above.
The Redux is: Poor misunderstood Billington family. Trumaine McBride Jersey
With Thanksgiving coming up, attention in some quarters will turn to the Pilgrims, one of the most intensively studied colonial groups in history. Debate continues about Pilgrims and Puritans holding the first or New England thanksgiving, when (1621, 1623, 1631) and where (in Plymouth or in Boston).
It is much clearer who was convicted of first murder John Billington of Plymouth. (although some object Lance Briggs Jersey to this characterization; see Billington Redux)