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Ancestors of Margaret May Harvey

Generation No. 10

      512. Thomas Harvey I, born 1580 in Ashill, Somerset, England ³⁰; died Bef. 1647 in Ashill, Somerset, England. He was the son of 1024. William Harvey, Jr and 1025. Thomazine~ Harvey. He married 513. Joan~ Collier 22 Jun 1612 in Ashill, Somerset, England.

      513. Joan~ Collier, born 1580 in Ashill, Somerset, England; died Bef. 1647.

Notes for Thomas Harvey I:
The Harvey Book
GenealogyLibrary.com

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THOMAS HARVEY, a great-grandson of Turner Harvey (page 16), and a younger brother of Henry the owner of Bridgwater manor, was born in Somersetshire about the year 1585--which was not many years after the death of Turner, who had lived to a great age.

The home of Thomas was at Ashill (see page 29, post), a small village pleasantly situated on rising ground three miles west of Ilminster and nine miles east of Taunton, in Somersetshire. The village probably derived its name from the large number of ash trees that at one time grew in that locality, which constituted part of the great forest of Neroche. In Domesday Book the name of the place is written Aiselle, and is there said to be held by Robert Earl of Morton, being one of the many manors in Somersetshire which he obtained of his brother William the Conqueror. In 1791 the parish of Ashill contained one church, 55 houses and 320 inhabitants.

When, in the eleventh century, the Normans overran England, they began to seat themselves chiefly in Surrey, Sussex and Kent, adjoining counties in the south-easternmost corner of the conquered Isle.

As noted on page 14, there were Anglo-Norman Harveys in Surrey as early as the beginning of the thirteenth century. In Kent there were Harveys settled at Eythorne early in the fifteenth century, and later at Eastry and Cowden--all sprung from the same stock; and at about the beginning of the sixteenth century William Harvey, son of Humphrey and brother of Turner, mentioned on page 16, was settled at Folkestone in Kent. It is quite probable that Humphrey Harvey was originally of Kent--but this cannot now be determined.

William Harvey of Folkestone, abovementioned, had a son Thomas, who had a son Thomas (b. about 1550; d. 12 Jan., 1623), who, in the latter part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was described as a "yeoman of Folkstone in Kent." He was married (1st) to (???) Jenkins, and (2d) to Joane, daughter of Thomas Halke, who bore him seven sons and two daughters.

The eldest of these nine children was Dr. William Harvey (b. at Folkestone 1 April, 1578), noted as the discoverer of the circulation of the blood. He was cotemporaneous with Thomas Harvey of Ashill (see page 21), their fathers being second cousins. Doctor Harvey died 3 June, 1657, without issue.

Daniel Harvey, a brother of Doctor William, settled about 1651 at Combe, in Surrey, and from him descended the Harveys of Combe-Nevile. The Harveys of Chickwell, or Chigwell, in Essex, descended from Sir Eliab Harvey (b. 1589; d. 27 May, 1661), a younger brother of Doctor William and Daniel. The last male heir of this line was Admiral Sir Eliab Harvey, G. C. B., of Rolls Park, Chigwell, who died in 1830.

For an interesting sketch of Dr. William Harvey, and his place of sepulture--"The Harvey Chapel," at Hempstead, in Essex--prepared for this book by Mrs. Charles T. Harvey, see Part IV., post...

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HARVEY.

(1) THOMAS HARVEY (see page 21 ante) died in Somersetshire prior to 1647, as is shown by the "will of Agnes Clarke of Ayshill [Ashill], Somerset, widow." [See (4) WILLIAM HARVEY,2 post.] The name of the wife of (1) Thomas Harvey is not known. His children, so far as can be ascertained, were as follows:

i. (???), a daughter, b. about 1610.
ii. JAMES, b. about 1612.
iii. WILLIAM, b. about 1614; d. 1691.
iv. THOMAS, b. 1617; d. 1651.

About the time of the birth of Thomas Harvey's first child King James' declaration that he would make all men conform to the established Church, or drive them out of England, was having its due effect. Some of his subjects--known as Dissenters and Puritans--were not long in coming to the conclusion that each body of Christians had a right to form a religious society of its own wholly independent of the State. To those who thus thought the names Independents and Separatists were applied; and as early as 1608 a body of these Independents, under their spiritual leader John Robinson, resolved to leave England for Holland, where all men were at that time free to establish societies for the worship of God in their own manner. With much difficulty and danger they managed to escape to Holland, and after remaining there upwards of twelve years a part of them succeeded in obtaining from King James the privilege of emigrating to America. A London trading company, which was sending out an expedition for fish and furs, agreed to furnish the Pilgrims passage by the Mayflower, though on terms so hard that the exiles said the "conditions were fitter for thieves and bond-slaves than honest men."

In 1620 these wanderers, or Pilgrims, set forth for this New World beyond the sea, which they hoped would redress the wrongs of the Old. They came to find in this new far Western Continent a home where they might enjoy that toleration and freedom denied them in the land of their birth. They came

"To seek a home and rest;
A rest from Europe's wild turmoil,
A home of peace and love."

Landing at Plymouth in Massachusetts they established a colony on the basis of "equal laws for the general good." Ten years later John Winthrop, a Puritan gentleman of wealth, followed with a small company and settled Salem and Boston.

The great immigration into New England under the Massachusetts Bay charter, which began in 1630, continued for a period of ten years or more, or until the cessation in England of persecution for non-conformity. It is estimated by Hutchinson, the eminent historian of the Massachusetts Colony, that during this period 20,000 persons came to these shores. "It was not the peasantry of Great Britain, nor her paupers, nor her fortune hunters that founded New England. It was her staunch yeomanry, her intelligent mechanics, her merchants, her farmers, her middle classes--and of devout women not a few--whose enlarged vision beheld a realm of freedom beyond the ocean, and whose independent spirits disdained the yoke of oppression, were it to be imposed either on the soul or the body."

During the first few years of the Massachusetts Colony, Dorchester (the oldest town in the Bay, but now included within the municipal limits of Boston and constituting the 16th Ward of the city) was its most important town;(*) and, among the mass of immigrants who landed upon the shores of Massachusetts from all parts of England in 1630, the first settlers of Dorchester may be regarded as the special delegation of the south-western counties of England, among which is Somersetshire.

(*)In the old first meeting-house of the Dorchester plantation was held the first town-meeting in America--A. D. 1630.
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Surrounded by countryside yet close enough to major towns and motorways to be convenient to Exeter, Bristol, Bath and London, Ashill is an idyllic village half way between Taunton and Yeovil. Featuring thatched cottages alongside modern and traditional stone houses, Ashill offers something for everyone. Set well back from the A358, the village roads are relatively safe and quiet which makes horseriding, walking and cycling a pleasant experience for young and old alike...

HISTORY OF ASHILL

Saxon Origins

From Wickham's 'Churches of Somerset : At Ashill the chancel arch, although encircled later withdog tooth moulding, retains the simple lines of the eleventh century work, and is flanked by arches, now blocked, which appear originally to have been open.

DOMESDAY

AISELLE ('Hill where ash-trees grow'. Old English æsc + hyll) Two thanes held it before 1066; it paid tax for 5 hides. Land for 5 ploughs. In lordship 2 ploughs; 3 hides and 31/2 virgates. 4 villagers and 17 smallholders with 2 ploughs and 1 hide and 1/2 virgate. Meadow, 40 acres; woodland 40 furlongs long and 20 furlongs wide. 2 cattle; 70 pigs; 20 goats.

Value 60s; when the count acquired it, £4
This Manor ought to pay 30d to Curry ( Rivel ), a manor of the King's.

The following is taken from Collinson's history of Somerset (1791) :' In Domesday book this place is written Aiselle, and is there said to be held by Robert, Earl of Morton, being one of the many manors which he obtained from his brother the Conqueror in this county. In the said record it is thus particularized:

" Malgar holds of the Earl Aiselle. Two thanes* held it in the time of King Edward, and were rated at five hides. The arable land consists of 5 carucates**. In demesne are two carucates, and four villanes***, and seventeen cottagers with two ploughs. There are forty acres of meadow. A wood forty furlongs long and twenty broad. It is worth sixty shillings. This manor pays a rent of thirty pence to Curi a manor of the King"

* Thane - one who held by service to the King - a petty nobleman
** Carucate - as much land as a team of oxen could plough in a season
*** Villane - a 'free' man except to his lord

In the church history there is a printer's error, uncorrected, defining a carucate as the area of ploughed in a "session' rather than a season. The Ashill Oxen must have been the fastest beasts in the west!

''In succeeding times after Domesday, this manor was possessed by the family of Hull, who resided here. The daughter and heiress of the family was married to Thomas de Multon (or Moulton) of Pinho, in the county of Devon, in which name it continued for three successive generations. In the beginning of the fifteenth century, Mary the daughter and heiress of John Multon, married an ancestor of Sir Thomas Beauchamp, of Whitelackington, knight, whose cousin and heiress Alice transferred this manor to Sir John Speke, knight, in which family it continued for twelve generations: and at length became the possession of Lord North* by his marriage with Anne daughter of George Speke, esq.'

*It was Lord North who is generally held responsible for the loss of the American colonies, and who lived at Dillington

Ashill Prebend

The exact date of the foundation of Ashill as a Prebend ( ie having a share in the revenues of the diocese and a say in running it's secular affairs) is not on record, but is thought to be between 1213 (gift of the advowson to the Bishop by Robert de Valhus, confirmed by his mother Alice) and 1298 when it is first recorded a Prebend. It was most probably founded by Bishop Jocelin who died in 1242. Each Prebendary had to support two Vicars, one at the Cathedral and one at the Prebend - except in a very few instances wherethe incumbant served his Prebend in person.

The Prebend's house stood at the junction of the present main road ( the ' New cut' of 1931) and the village road ( ie next to the 'Old Rectory' garage), a pink blossomed chestnut tree now stands on it's site. It was pulled down about 1867.

The Prebendal estate included Parsonage Farm and 57 acres.

Some Inhabitants Of "Asshulle" in 1327

De Johanne de Moltone, Adam Hastyng, Laurentio de Bronkeshull, Johanne atte Hurne, Matillda atte Wode, Willelmo Colegrom, Richardo Merischman, Gilberto le Baker, De Wilhelmo Robyn, Thoma le Old, Roberto Golde, Martino Mannyng, Vincentio Deyme, Richardo de Thikthorn, Willelmo de Thikthorn, Willelmo de Haxhulle, Thoma de Hokkeleghe, Roberto Jordan.

Feasts and Fairs

"Thomas de Multon, Lord of this Manor, obtained from Edward II ( 1307-1327) a king's grant of a weekly market here on Wednesdays, and two fairs to be held yearly on the eve, day, and morrow of the Festival of the Blessed Virgin Mary (25th March) and the eve,day, and morrow of the Feast of St. Simon and St. Jude (28th October)"

One day to prepare, one for excess and one for recovery - to celebrate the end of long winter and in the autumn, to prepare for the next.

The events were held on Fair Green - which was roughly the triangle of land lying between the present village road, east of the Old Rectory, and the 'new cut' of the old A358 ( which was put through in the 1930s).

The Ashill Legend

'The wife of a yeoman residing in the parish of Ashill, sometime during the middle ages, was delivered of seven children at one birth. The progeny being too numerous for the husband to maintain, he took them away from the house in his apron intending to drown them in a stream that ran close by. While he was passing the church to carry out his un-christian deed he was met by the Lady to whom the manor belonged, who at once questioned him as to the contents of his bundle. He replied "only a few puppies to drown".

Not satisfied with the man's statement, and his strange and excited demeanour arousing her suspicions, she examined the contents of his apron and found there the several children. She rebuked him for his diabolical design and at once relieved him of the tiny babes. Taking them under her own care, she brought them to manhood's estate and one became a Prebendary of the Church. To honour these events, it was said, the effigy of the Lady was raised - and she now lies recumbent in the cusped niche in the north wall of the church, and the little stone cherubs playing about her represent the seven children'

In apparent corroboration of this legend, is advanced the fact of the Prebendary of Ashill's creation and continuation. And too, that church registers indicate that a very large family lived at Ashill Manor circa 1600. The Manor, it is thought, was in the area of Ashill Woods at lower Park Barn Lane.

In the church history there is another theory, wherein the effigy in the church niche is thought to be the "Lady of Gilsland" who clasps to her bosom the heart case of her husband - killed fighting the Scots on the border at Gilsland, Northumberland. She lived at Wood for the many years of her widowhood

The Protestation Returns of 1641/42

With the onset of confrontation between King Charles I and Parliament all parishes were required by Archbishop Laud to introduce the 'Laudian Liturgy' into their church services. In 1641 the Vicar, Churchwardens and Overseers of Ashill signed a list of those parishioners who objected to this introduction. Over a hundred names are listed as being against what they saw as a return towards papacy. Some names are listed as 'recusants' ie those who disagreed with the protest, and who were thus publicly ready to stand up and be counted as in agreement with Laud and the King.

Thomas Mutleberry, then owner of Jordans, appears on this list as a recusant together with his family and some of his servants, and it would seem he paid dearly for his courage and loyalty by loss of that manor during the Civil War.

ASHILL PARISH

Alford, John
Ashton, John sen.
Ashton, Nicholas jun.
Ayshton, John jun.
Ayshton, Richard sen.
Bagge, Christopher
Baker, George
Broome, Alexander sen.
Broome, Alexander jun.
Broome, Christopher
Broome, Richard
Broome, William
Cape, Humphrey
Chick, Robert
Classe, Thomas
Cornish, Bartholomew
Crabbe, John
Crabbe, Richard
Curtis, William
Dabbes, Waiter
Dollen, Richard
Dyke, Alexander
Dyke, Robert sen.
Dyke, Robert jun.
Dyke, William
Dynham, Jonas
England, Richard
England, Thomas
Foxwell, Abel
Foxwell, John
Foxwell, Richard
Foxwell, Robert sen.
Foxwell, Robert jun.
Froste, Thomas
Giver, Henry
Gullock, Hugh
Gullock, William
HARVEY, JAMES
HARVEY, ROBERT
Hawkins, Alexander
Hawkins, Hugh
Hawkins, James
Hawldns, John
Hayball, William
Hayman, John
Hayman, Robert
Hayman, Thomas
Hodges, John
Hodges, William
Hooper, John
Hull, William
Illary, George
Leakye, John
Long, Alexander
Longe, John sen.
Longe, John jun.
Luffe, John
Luffe, Roger
Luffe, Thomas
Luffe, William
Lumbard, George
Lyllye, William
Manly, Thomas
Marshall, Robert
Masters, John sen.
Masters, John jun.
Miller, William
Mitchell, John
Moore, Ambrose
Moore, Hugh
Nicholls, George
Nicholls, John
Nicholls, Joseph
Nicholls, Oliver sen.
Nicholls, Oliver jun.
Nicholls, Wiilliam
Norman, Edmond
Norman, John
Norman, Robert
Page, Adam
Page, John
Page, Robert
Parker, Richard
Parsons, William
Paynter, John
Paynter, Richard
Perrye, John
Prigge, John
Pynney, Edmond
Pytts, John
Reach, William
Rose, William
Rugge, Thomas
Salter, Robert
Salter, Thomas sen.
Salter, Thomas jun.
Single, Thomas
Squires, John
Tanner, Joshua
Tanner, Robert
Treading, Samuel
Watts, William
Willes, George
Williams, Jenkin
Williams, John

Recusants : Thomas Mutlebury gent., George Barnes, Ambrose Sqibbs

The above names in the same hand, the following five are signatures

Nathaniel Hawkins Vicar; RICHARD HARVEY; William Hodges, Hugh Hawkins - Overseers; Roger Luffe - Churchwarden

Another list of the same period (below) includes some of those who figure on the first list together with their poll tax assessments which aggregated to £12 4s. Note that recusants thereon, had to pay an additional tax of one shilling and fourpence

From the Protestation returns and Lay Subsidy rolls (1641/2)

In these cases the G refers to goods, L refers to land, and the amount shown refers to the amount in £s for which the taxpayer was assessed

The Hearth Tax returns

It seems that by 1664, after the Restoration, the government introduced a new form of 'Community Charge which was known as the Hearth Tax. The return for this tax is on the right, and it is interesting to conjecture just what it was that William Speke 'pulled down', Mary Norman and Alice Cape 'beat up', Joseph Cobb 'stopt up' and Ciprian Ishman returned "one short'.

From Dwelly's Hearth Tax Returns 1664/5
[ includes the following ]

0-1-0-5 [lb-s-lb-s]-Wmi Harvey j EX now James Harvey

The Battle Of Ashill

In June 1685, at the start of the Monmouth rebellion, when the main body of the Duke's force was at Divine Service in Chard, his forward scouts were intercepted at Ashill by the King's cavalry sweeping down from the Blackdowns and engaging them in the 'Forest Fight Field' - opposite the Square and Compass Inn. (The King's Dragoons were led by the second in command of all his forces, Jack Churchill, subsequently Duke of Marlborough and ancestor of Winston Churchill). In the resulting skirmish men were killed on both sides, including a Lieutenant Philip Monoux of the Dragoons, and one of the rebels who was buried in Ashill churchyard.

Monmouth recruited many local folk to his cause on is way from Lyme Regis to Taunton, and not least, those drawn from the surrounding countryside when he passed through Ilminster. Among the latter were John Speke and a company of horsemen 'not of the best quality' so that they were unkindly known as 'Speke's Ragged Horse'.

Later, the infamous Judge Jeffreys declaring that 'the family owed a life for their rebellious behaviour, had Charles Speke, brother of John, hanged.

Ashill Tithes

The tithe map of Ashill, dated June 1774, shows the parish to be in the Hundred of Abdick and Bulstone. Much of the land was still owned by the church. Barton House was then known as Court Barton and was a working farm. The land east of the Old Rectory, earlier known as 'Fair Green', is shown here as 'Ashill Park - owned by William Speke and tenanted by Thomas Trout at Ashill Farm.

The twenty-fourth apportionment of Vicarial Tithes payable to James Mickleburgh - Vicar for 51 years from 1833 to 1884, and thus in receipt of considerable aggregate of parishioners money - contained the following :-

2d per acre for ancient meadow
1 1/2d per acre for arable land
1 1/2d per heifer
1/2d per calf
Quantities of grass or hay, known as 'mead' could be paid in lieu of cash.

Mrs. Anne Collie, occupant of ' New House', subsequently known as ' Towns End' in the 1872 directory, and as 'Ashill House' since the turn of the century, paid one penny a year tithe for her garden. The 'Ashill House' of that time is now called 'The Firs'.

Court Barton paid three shillings and sixpence to the Vicar and one shilling and ninepence to the proprietor, John Woodland

William Woodland who owned the land near to the New House ( as his descendants still do) paid the Vicar one shilling and ninepence for his orchards thereon.

Collinson's description of 1791

''Ashill is a small village, pleasantly situated on a rising ground three miles west of Ilminster, six north of Chard, and nine east from Taunton. It probably derived it's name from the quantity of ash trees that heretofore grew upon the spot, which constituted part of the great forest of Neroche. At this day it is tolerably wooded.

'The parish of Ashill is of large extent, and contains fifty-five houses, twenty-four of which comprise the village, wherein stands the church : the remainder are in the hamlets of Southton, Wimblehill*, Wood, Rowlands and Jordans. The number of inhabitants is about three hundred and twenty.

The last mentioned hamlet had it's appellation from the little river of Jordan, which divides this parish on the eastern side from that of Ilminster, and has a stone bridge over it in the road to Horton. Another stream rising in the forest separates this parish on the north from Isle Abbotts. The crossing roads are rough and narrow, full of brown flints, and other stones, which render traveling very disagreeable.

*Wimblehill - has this been corrupted over the intervening years to Windmill Hill? "Wimble' is a Norman/French word meaning a large auger such as might be used for finding water - there might be a connection here too with Wimbleball reservoir.

In a field in this parish belonging to the Earl of Egremont, there is a medicinal spring, bearing the name of Skipperham Well, the water of which is of a singular property, and has been thus analyzed:
1. The soil of the field seems to be a sand mixed with clay, and the stones which the water flows over are covered with a yellow ochrey substance.
2. The water, fresh taken from the well, is of a light grey colour, which is very cospicuous in the bath, approaching blue; but it is collected there in a large quantity, and generally foul. It is very cold, but never freezes; has no smell, but is of a subacid and gently styptick taste, which goes off upon keeping.
3. The sides of the well are covered with air-bubbles, where the water ebbs and flows every day. This effect, however, is not retained afterwards upon being taken out of the well; that is, the water does not sparkle in a glass; but in passing from one vessel to another, even after it has been bottled, something of the same kind may be observed. After standing about two months, it deposited a tenacious green sediment upon the sides of the bottle, which had a putrid smell and taste, and felt like grease.
4. The specific gravity of this water to that which is commonly used was as 740 to 700.
5. Twelve grains of green tea infused by an ounce of this water induced a bright amber colour.
6. A similar infusion with galls became first of a light brown, and after standing two days assumed a green hue upon the top, with a greasy scum.
7. An infusion of ash bark in this water was turned almost instantaneously to a beautiful light green, with a bluish circle at the top.
8. This water made a slight ebullition upon spirit of vitriol being poured into it; it also became much brighter, and bubbles continued to rise from the bottom for some time.
9. The same appearances occurred with spirit of salt, and vinegar. The former seemed to change its colour to purple.
10. With salt of tartar this water assumed a pearl colour, and deposited a white sediment.
11. With lime-water it became milky, and precipitated a white sediment.
12. With spirit of sal ammoniac it formed a light bluish cloud, and upon standing emitted bubbles.
13. Being boiled with milk it did not coagulate, but lathered very easily with soap.
14. A piece of silver having been immersed in it, was, after standing some four hours, covered with air-bubbles, and the water became more pellucid than natural.
15. With a solution of silver in the nitrous acid, it first threw up white clouds, and afterwards became of a deep dirty purple colour, and deposited a sediment of the same.
16.With saccharum saturni it put on the appearance of milk, and deposited a light-coloured sediment.
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Somerset towns and parishes - Ashill

The following is the entry from "The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset, collected from authentic records and an actual survey made by the late Mr. Edmund Rack. by the Reverend John Collinson, F.A.S." published in 1791.

Ashill is a small village, pleasantly situated on a rising ground three miles west from Ilminster, six north from Chard, and nine east from Taunton. It probably derived its name from the quantity of ash trees that heretofore grew upon the spot, which constituted part of the great forest of Neroche. At this day it is tolerably wooded.

The parish of Ashill is of large extent, and contains fifty-five houses, twenty-four of which compose the village, wherin stands the church; and the remainder are in the hamlets of Southton, Wimblehill, Wood, Rowlands, and Jordans: the number of inhabitants is about three hundred and twenty.

The last-mentioned hamlet had its appelation from the little river of Jordan, which divides this parish on the eastern side from that of Ilminster, and has a stone bridge over it on the road to Horton. Another stream rising in the forest separates this parish on the north from Isle-Abbots. The cross roads are rough and narrow, full of loose brown flints, and other stones, which render travelling disagreeable.

In a field in this parish belonging to the Earl of Egremont, there is a medicinal spring, bearing the name of Skipperham Well, the water of which is of a singular property, and has been thus analyzed:

1. The soil of the field seems to be a sand mixed with clay, and the stones which the water flows over are covered with a yellow ochrey substance.

2. The water, fresh taken from the well, is of a light grey colour, which is very cospicuous in the bath, approaching blue; but it is collected there in a large quantity, and generally foul. It is very cold, but never freezes; has no smell, but is of a subacid and gently styptick taste, which goes off upon keeping.

3. The sides of the well are covered with air-bubbles, where the water ebbs and flows every day. This effect, however, is not retained afterwards upon being taken out of the well; that is, the water does not sparkle in a glass; but in passing from one vessel to another, even after it has been bottled, something of the same kind may be observed. After standing about two months, it deposited a tenacious green sediment upon the sides of the bottle, which had a putrid smell and taste, and felt like grease.

4. The specific gravity of this water to that which is commonly used was as 740 to 700.

5. Twelve grains of green tea infused by an ounce of this water induced a bright amber colour.

6. A similar infusion with galls became first of a light brown, and after standing two days assumed a green hue upon the top, with a greasy scum.

7. An infusion of ash bark in this water was turned almost instantaneously to a beautiful light green, with a bluish circle at the top.

8. This water made a slight ebullition upon spirit of vitriol being poured into it; it also became much brighter, and bubbles continued to rise from the bottom for some time.

9. The same appearances occurred with spirit of salt, and vinegar. The former seemed to change its colour to purple.

10. With salt of tartar this water assumed a pearl colour, and deposited a white sediment.

11. With lime-water it became milky, and precipitated a white sediment.

12. With spirit of sal ammoniac it formed a light bluish cloud, and upon standing emitted bubbles.

13. Being boiled with milk it did not coagulate, but lathered very easily with soap.

14. A piece of silver having been immersed in it, was, after standing some four hours, covered with air-bubbles, and the water became more pellucid than natural.

15. With a solution of silver in the nitrous acid, it first threw up white clouds, and afterwards became of a deep dirty purple colour, and deposited a sediment of the same.

16.With saccharum saturni it put on the appearance of milk, and deposited a light-coloured sediment.
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Somerset and the Domesday Book

At the time of the Domesday Book survey the largest landholder in the county of Somerset was Count Robert of Mortain, half brother of William, Duke of Normandy who is well documented for his well known contribution to the Battle of Hastings. He was granted 797 manors throughout England by the Duke. His seat was at Castle Montacute. Robert held 87 manors in Somerset.

[his lands included ASHILL]
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More About Thomas Harvey and Joan~ Collier:
Marriage: 22 Jun 1612, Ashill, Somerset, England

Children of Thomas Harvey and Joan~ Collier are:

Agnes Harvey, born Abt. 1610 in Ashill, Somersetshire, England; died Unknown; married Anthony Slocum 1634 in England; born 1610 in of Ashill, Somersetshire, England; died Aft. 1670 in of Taunton, MA.

Notes for Agnes Harvey:
The Harvey Book
GenealogyLibrary.com
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(2) (???) HARVEY,2 daughter of (1) Thomas Harvey, and who was born in Somersetshire about 1610, was married in England to Anthony Slocum, presumably of Somersetshire. She came with her husband to America about 1636, and it is believed that they settled at Dorchester. Anthony was one of the forty-six "first and ancient purchasers" in 1637 of Taunton, Mass. [see (4) William Harvey, post], where he resided from 1638 to 1662, when, having united with the Society of Friends, he disposed of his rights in Taunton and removed with his family to that part of New Plymouth incorporated later under the name of Dartmouth township. He and one Ralph Russell were the first settlers there.

A fragment of a letter written by Anthony at Dartmouth (the date is torn off, but it was probably about 1670) to his "brother-in-law William Harvey in Taunton" has been preserved. In it is this paragraph: "My wife and sons, and daughter Gilbert who hath four sons, remember our respects and loves, and my sons are all married."

The children of Anthony and (???) (Harvey) Slocum were:

i. GILES, born about 1635 in Somersetshire; died in Rhode Island in 1682.
ii. EDWARD.
iii. A daughter who married John Gilbert and had four sons who were living in Dartmouth, Mass., in the latter part of the 17th century.
iv. JOHN, born in Taunton in 1642, and died there in March, 1651.
v. (???), a son, born about 1644.(*)

It is said that (i.) Giles Slocum "was the common ancestor of all the Slocums whose American lineage has been found to date from the 17th century."
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More About Agnes Harvey:
Migration: Abt. 1636, England to MA
Residence: Abt. 1636, Settled at Dorchester, MA

More About Anthony Slocum:
Founder: 1662, Anthony and Ralph Russell were the first to settle at New Plymouth (later Dartmouth Township).³¹
Migration 1: Abt. 1636, England to MA
Migration 2: 1662, Taunton, MA, to New Plymouth, MA (later Dartmouth Township).
Proprietor: 1637, among the 1st 46 purchasers of Taunton, MA.

More About Anthony Slocum and Agnes Harvey:
Marriage: 1634, England

	ii.	James Harvey, born Abt. 1612; died Unknown.
258	iii.	William* Harvey, born Abt. 1614 in Ashill, Somerset, England; died Aft. 12 Jun 1691 in Taunton, Bristol County, MA; married (1) Joane* Hucker 02 Apr 1639 in Cohannet [Taunton], MA; married (2) Martha Slocum Aft. 1649.
256	iv.	Thomas* Harvey II, born 1617 in Ashill, Somerset, England; died 1651 in Taunton, Bristol County, MA; married (1) Elizabeth* Andrews Abt. 1642 in Ashill, Somerset; married (2) Elizabeth Wall 1643.

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