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Ancestors of Sarah Mildred STROUT

695.Elizabeth Clere, born Abt. 1612; died Bef. 1712.She was the daughter of 1390. John Clere.
Notes for William Osgood:
William is shown to have one of the larger lots of land in 1639 map in the book Old Families of Amesbury and Salisbury.An internet home page also says that in 1640 "it was recorded that he built a barn in Newbury, for John Spencer."
The internet site concurs with the information we had (from a world family tree file, unkonwn sources) for William, his ancestors (Christopher, Jr. , Christopher, Sr.) and his daughter Joanna, and adds the sibling information for each family.He lists his sources as:The Osgood Family in New England, by CM Endicott, NEHG Register vol 13 April 1859.Early Settlers of Salisbury, Mass.,NEHG Register vol 8, April 1845.A Contribution to the History of the Family of Osgood, by O. Field, NEHG Register vol 20, Jan 1866.Notes and Queries NEHG Register vol 22, Jan 1868.IGI and Ancestral CD's-LDS.Original Settlers of Salisbury, Mass. NEHG Register vol 3, Jan 1849.

Children of William Osgood and Elizabeth Clere are:

347	i.	Joanna Osgood, married Robert Jones.
	ii.	John Osgood, born 1648.
	iii.	William Osgood, born 1648.
	iv.	Mary Osgood, born 1649.
	v.	Joseph Osgood, born 1651; died 1664.
	vi.	Sarah Osgood, born 1652.
	vii.	Elizabeth Osgood

     704.John Tenney IHe married 705. Agnes Bowden.
     705.Agnes Bowden

Child of John Tenney and Agnes Bowden is:

352

John Tenney II, born in England; married Margaret Warwick.

     706.Henry WarwickHe married 707. Joan.
     707.Joan

Child of Henry Warwick and Joan is:

353

Margaret Warwick, married John Tenney II.

     710.John Andrews, born 1600 in Kittery, ME; died 1671 in Kittery, ME.He married 711. Joan.
     711.Joan

Child of John Andrews and Joan is:

355

Sarah Andrews, born 1641 in Kittery, ME; died 1732 in Kittery, ME; married Christopher Mitchell.

714.Hugh Gunnison

Child of Hugh Gunnison is:

357

Deborah Gunnison, married John Ingersol, Sr..

     718.Richard LockwoodHe married 719. Deborah.
     719.Deborah

Child of Richard Lockwood and Deborah is:

359

Deborah Lockwood, married John Phoenix.

     720.Robert ELWELL, died 05 18 1683 in Gloucester, Essex,MA.He married 721. Joane (ELWELL).
     721.Joane (ELWELL), born in England; died 03 31 1675 in Gloucester, MA.
Notes for Robert ELWELL:
     I descend from Robert through two of his sons, Samuel and Isaac.I descend through Isaac through two of his great grandchildren (brothers whose grandchildren married cousins).While this makes for less work researching, it does get confusing when trying to figure it all out.
     FTM CD #350-The Complete Book of Emigrants shows a Robert Elwell on the Recovery of London which sailed from Weymouth to New England on March 31, 1633.This fits with the following references which place him in Dorchester, MA in 1634.
     All of the following information and family information given comes from FTM CD 194, MA and ME genealogies, Vol. 1, Elwell, of Gloucester (from Nicholas Davis, 1956) and a bit on the children's spouses from the same CD, Vol. 1, Elwell, of Gloucester (from Charity Haley, 1916).
     Robert is first found in New England in 1634 in the town records of Dorchester, in the Mass. Bay Colony, where Sept. 1 of that year, a Robert Elway was given a grant of land.He received four small grants of land in 1637, including two grants of marsh at Ludlow neck and Mannings Moore."Before June, 1640, Elwell had sold some of his holdings to John Holland.With Holland, who was a merchant, trading by sea from Maine to Virginia, Elwell wa 'att the Eastward' in 1635 when Mr. Thomas Wannerton threatened to sink his boat, as Holland and Elwell testified at Newtowne (Cambridge) on August 4, 1635."
     No one is sure if Joane came from Dorset with Robert or if he met her here.There is a letter, though, from a Tristram Dolliber from Stoke Abbot, Co. Dorset, to John Balch and William Woodbury of Salem, saying that a legacy had been left to her from a brother in Stoke Abbot.Haley gives Robert's first son's (Samuel) birth as in Dorchester in 1636, but then says Robert was in Mass. in 1634.Davis does not give a location for Samuel's birth, but says it is possible that their daughter Mary, having married in 1654, may have been old enough to have been born in England.
     Robert had moved to Marblehead by the summer of 1639 (at the time it was still part of Salem)."He had a child baptized in Salem church in 1639 and was on the list of Salem church members in 1643.In 1642, however, he had bought from Mr. Milward two acres in Gloucester.The year of his removal to Gloucester is determined by a court record of 1674, which states that Robert Elwell "left town (Marblehead)...twenty-eight years since" (1646), selling his land to Thomas Bowen, to whom he gave a bill of sale on June 12, 1674.In view of this lengthy interval Bowen was probably justified in abusing Elwell 'with reproachful words' in 1648/9."(NOTE: all quotes will be from Davis unless specified.)
     From "Records and Files, etc., V: 348" Davis has:"Elwell was a fisherman and his stages for drying fish are twice mentioned.He was elected selectman of Gloucester in 1649, was appointed by the General Court a 'commissioner to end small causes,' or local justice, in 1651 and was the town's constable in 1657.He subscribed to Mr. Millet's salary in 1658, was one of the committee to erect a new meeting-house in 1664 and protested against allowing a tavern near the church in 1674.He was discharged from training in 1659 but was to pay a bushel of corn to the company each year.He served on a trial jury in 1653 and on a grand jury in 1677."
     The way Davis records Robert's will is very confusing, some quoted, some not.In one spot he says Robert leaves the house he now lives in to his eldest son Samuel and Samuel "was to maintain his father and mother for their lives with food and rayment."But this is his father's will, so he'd be dead.Then later he says that the will left to Samuel, Jr. (his grandson) the house where "his father" - meaning Samuel, Sr.??- now lives.Then supposedly the will says that if "Samuel and his mother disagree" and she wants to live by herself, Samuel needs to leave the house, but support her.He seems to mix up Samuel, Jr. and Sr. here and there.Whether this is how the will reads or it is a product of Davis's interpretation, I do not know.
     Haley gives only one unnamed child as being baptized in Salem on Aug. 28, 1639, Davis says there were two with the following footnote: "These two unnamed children may have been Mary and Samuel, their baptism delayed, for the phrase 'died aged six months' does not appear in the printed Salem Vital Records.It does appear in the "History of Salem," by Sidney Perley, but I suspect that he took it from the article in the "New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 53: 25," which lists only one child baptized August 28, 1639, as "second child" and adds 'd.ae. 6 mos.'"

Children of Robert ELWELL and Joane (ELWELL) are:

	360	i.		Isaac ELWELL, born 02 27 1641/42 in (bptz) Salem, MA; died 10 14 1715 in Gloucester, MA; married (1) Mehitable MILLETT Abt. 1666; married (2) Mary Prince Rowe 12 16 1702.
		ii.		Samuel ELWELL, born Abt. 1636 in Dorchester, MA; died 11 24 1696 in Gloucester, Essex,MA; married Esther DUTCH 06 07 1658; born Abt. 1639; died 09 06 1721 in Gloucester, Essex,MA.

Notes for Samuel ELWELL:
The following information, dates given for Samuel and Esther, and children's info from FTM CD 194, MA and ME genealogies, Vol. 1, Elwell of Gloucester (from Nichols Davis, 1956) unless otherwise noted.Samuel took the Freeman's Oath in June, 1664.He testified twice against others for fishing on Sunday, but was himself fined for it at least twice.In one hearing his father and his son's father-in-law, William Vinson, testified against him.His mother-in-law, Grace Pratte Dutch lived with him and Esther for about 10 years after her husband died.For more on this see notes for Grace and Osmund Dutch.
Samuel's estate was less than 20 pounds and "found to be insolvent and one-third given to the widow was to revert to the creditors upon her death.Aquietus against the creditors was given her on May 1, 1699.She sold an island of upland and a neck of land, about two acres, to John Smith in 1698."Davis sites Essex Probate and Deed records as his sources.
There is no evidence of the last child, Thomas, "except a statement that his house lot in Gloucester is referred to in the description of the location of his brother Ebenezer's." (Davis sites New England historical and Gen. Register, 53:29)
"Esther Elwell and her father-in-law were witnesses in the case of Jackson v. Somes in 1660...On October 30, 1692, Esther Elwell was one of several Gloucester women carried to Ipswich jail charged with witchcraft, but she was released on November 7, the unhappy delusion being on the wane."

		iii.		A Child Elwell, born 08 28 1639 in (bptzd) Salem, MA; died Abt. 02 1639/40 in Salem, MA.
		iv.		John Elwell, born 01 23 1639/40 in (bptzd) Salem, MA; died 1710 in Captured by the Indians; married Jane Durin 10 01 1667.
		v.		Josiah Elwell, born Abt. 1644 in Salem, MA; married Mary Collins 06 15 1666 in Boston, MA.
		vi.		Joseph Elwell, born Abt. 1649; married Mary Dutch 06 22 1669.
		vii.		Sarah Elwell, born 04 20 1651 in Gloucester, Essex,MA; died 04 23 1651 in Gloucester, Essex,MA.
		viii.		Sarah Elwell, born 03 12 1651/52 in Gloucester, Essex,MA; died 08 26 1655 in Gloucester, Essex,MA.
		ix.		A Child Elwell, born 08 28 1639.
		x.		Mary Elwell, married Samuel Dolliver 08 15 1654 in Gloucester, MA.
		xi.		Thomas Elwell, born 11 21 1654 in Gloucester, Essex,MA.
		xii.		Jacob Elwell, born 06 10 1657 in Gloucester, Essex,MA; died 05 21 1658 in Gloucester, Essex,MA.
		xiii.		Richard Elwell, born 04 11 1658 in (bptzd) Salem, MA; died in Died young.

     722.Thomas Millett, born 1605 in Chertsey, England; died 1675 in Brookfield, MA.He was the son of 1444. Henry Millett and 1445. Joyce Chapman.He married 723. Mary Greenaway 05 01 1629.
     723.Mary Greenaway, born Abt. 1609; died 09 27 1682 in Brookfield, MA.She was the daughter of 1446. John Greenaway and 1447. Mary (Greenaway).

Child of Thomas Millett and Mary Greenaway is:

361

Mehitable MILLETT, born 03 14 1640/41 in Dorchester, MA; died 09 28 1699 in Gloucester, MA; married Isaac ELWELL Abt. 1666.

     724.Nicholas Denning, Sr.He married 725. Elizabeth Davis.
     725.Elizabeth Davis

Child of Nicholas Denning and Elizabeth Davis is:

362

Nicholas Denning, Jr., born Abt. 1645; died 06 09 1725 in Gloucester, MA; married Eme Brown.