Genealogy Report: Ancestors of Geordon Michael VanTassle
Ancestors of Geordon Michael VanTassle
6612.Edward Neland, born 1640 in County Cork, Ireland; died 1711 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.He married 6613. Martha Fowler 1668 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.
6613.Martha Fowler, born 1645 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.
Notes for Edward Neland:
Date: 10/23/01 9:57:10 PM Central Daylight Time
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Last year, I spent several days in Ipswich. Edward Ne(a)land is repeatedly shown in records as Edward Neland, Irishman.
Also, the first mention of him - or any Neland - is in 1659, when he is fined for excessive drinking. He was then 19 years old.
Michael J. O'Brien, in his book "Pioneer Irish in New England", squarely lists him as one of the youngsters kidnapped by Capt. Dell in Co. Cork, Ireland in 1653, and brought over in the GOODFELLOW, and sold for indenture in Ipswich, in 1654.
Edward bought his first house and half an acre in April 1664. Indentures would last 9 years; so, by April 1664, he would have had one year to scrape together enough money to buy that house. And on June 5, that same year, the record shows:
"Joseph Metcalfe, of Ipswich, seaman, Eliza. Metcalfe and Thomas Medcalfe, in consideration for work to be performed, to Edward Nealand
of Ipswich, Irishman, seven acres, bounded northwest by John Kimball, north by the highway, …"
Rose-Marie
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From BostonFamilyHistory.com
http://www.bostonfamilyhistory.com/ir_1650.html
1654: 400 Irish arrive on the ship Goodfellow. They were kidnapped from Kinsale, County Cork and sold at Ipswich.
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"Masters & Servants From The Puritan Family"; By Edmond S. Morgan, 1944
Irishmen and Scotsmen taken by Cromwell's armies were likewise shipped to New England by enterprising dealers,
there to expiate the resistance of their nations at Dublin and Dunbar. 4. Peter Ross, The Scot in America (New York 1896) pp 48-49.
The Irish and Scots, however, must have been thought less cuplable than the Indians or the Negroes, for they seem to have served not for life but only for a few years.A bill of sale, dated May 10, 1654, states that George Dell, master of the ship Goodfellow, sold to Samuel Symonds for the sum of twenty-six pounds "two of the Irish youthes I brought over by order of theState of England."
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The Goodfellow was transporting Irish children to Massachusetts in 1654. The captain was George Dell (Dille). A petition to transport Irish children to America was approved by the English government and it literally sanctioned the kidpnapping of hundreds of children. "Soldiers" came in the night and took them, according to some undocumented family histories, they could have been real soldiers hired at local pubs.
The Goodfellow is said to have sunk later in 1654.
More About Edward Neland:
Military service: Solidier King Philips War
Child of Edward Neland and Martha Fowler is:
| 3306 | i. | Benjamin Kneeland, born July 07, 1679 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; died February 18, 1742/43 in Hebron, Tolland Co., Connecticut; married Abigail November 20, 1705 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. |
6616.John Gillet, born October 05, 1644 in Windsor , Hartford, Conneticut; died November 1682 in Windsor, Hartford, Conneticut.He married 6617. Mary Mercy Barber.
6617.Mary Mercy Barber, born October 12, 1651 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut; died December 31, 1725 in Suffield, Hartford, Conneticut.She was the daughter of 13234. Thomas Barber and 13235. Jane Coggins.
Child of John Gillet and Mary Barber is:
| 3308 | i. | Thomas Gillet, born July 18, 1676 in Windsor, Hartford, Conneticut; died June 11, 1708 in Suffield, Hartford, Conneticut; married Hannah Clark. |