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Descendants of Francis Wainwright
8.Francis2 Wainwright (Francis1) was born August 25, 1664 in Ipswich MA, and died August 03, 1711 in Ipswich MA.He married Sarah Whipple.
Notes for Francis Wainwright:
FrancisWainwright2ndwasborninIpswich25 Aug 1664.He graduatedHarvardCollegein1686.HebecameaColonelof the Regiment,Representativeto the General Court (the predecessor to our legislature),TownClerk,and Justice of the Court of Sessions, all within a brief life of 47 years.
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On23 Jun 1711 he registered his intention to marry Mrs. Elizabeth Hurst of Salem.However, this marriage never took place.
FrancisWainwrightis listed as owning land in Ipswich in 1690 on thesouthside of East street between Water and Hovey Streets.On 30 Sepof that year, Francis or his Father purchased a lot of 2 3/4 acres withhouse from Robert Paine located at the Meetinghouse Green on East andHigh Street.Whoever bought the land, the younger Francis resided here for the remainder of his life.In 1740 Stephen Waldo, husband of Francisyoungestdaughter Lucy,actingas administrator, sold this property.On29Jun 1696 Francis bought a house and 3 acres of land fromJoseph Cobbet located adjacent to his property on High Street.A
year later on 9 Mar 1696-7 he sold the house with 4 feet of land around ittoJohn Annable.He sold the remaining three acres on 11 Oct 1701 toCapt.MathewPerkins.In 1702, he purchased land of John Annable locatedontheNorthMainStreet side of the Green consisting of a houseand23/4acres.He petitioned the town for a further lot of landoffthe green and a lot of 18 by 24 feet was apportioned for use byhimasasheepyard.By this, Francis Wainwright by 1702 owned virtuallytheentire Meetinghouse Square area.He was also listed as ownerofa house on High Street in the West End at Green's Point Road
in 1705.
In1692Francis, along with his brother John and his father, were licensedtosell"strong drink", and Francis no doubt did so on his propertyalongthewaterfront.Suchlicensesweregrantedvery carefullyandonly to persons of the highest moral character in order to control and preserve the Puritan nature of the community.
Francis'nameappearsin the Town Records in connection with the Fishing industry, although he did not appear to be directly involved in thetrade.In1696,hewasnamed to a Town committee which was "appointedandempowered a Committee to lay out the several lots that shallbe desired by persons to carry on the fishing designat Jeffrey's Neck, for flake room and erecting stage or stages."
MajorWainwright served with some distinction in Queen Anne's War.In 1701, in response to several attacks by French soldiers and Indians onfrontier towns in the Colony, the General Court began preparing for war.On 23 March 1702-3, Major Wainwright detached a company of forty eightmenfromIpswich"totheEastward"(i.e.toMaine and the MaritimesofCanada) under command of Major John Cutler, Lieut. Mathew Perkinsassecondincommand.For the next few years this company participatedinbloody fighting throughout the north of New England.
InMarch1707,itwasdecidedto launch an expedition against the Frenchstronghold at Port Royal.Under the command of Col. John March ofNewbury,FrancisservedasCaptain of the First Regiment.This expeditiondepartedby boat around Apr of 1707, landing in Port Royal inMidMay.Things went very badly for the Colonists, and Col. March provedtobenotup to the task at hand.On 31 Jun, in the face of disillusionment and distrust of the command, the assault was abandoned.Col. Wainwright wrote a letter to the Governor on 17 Jun 1707:
"IhopetheGentlemenwesentare waiting upon your
Excellencyanaccountof our proceeding at Port Royall and
thestateofthatplacewhichwill be without doubt far
differenttotheaccount given by that Impudent Lying Hill
[SamuelHill of the sloop "Charity" had been dispatched as a
messengerto Governor Dudley with a report of the failure of
theexpedition],and will make such a discovery of truth to
your Excellency and the General Court as Reely to believe (by
agoodreinforcementoffive hundred goodefficient men,
provision,andammunition,etc.)thatby a long seige we
mightreducetheForttoverygreatdistress and if we
beseege it long enough to surrender I doubt not.
Imust again offer my opinion, now is the Time or Never.
AndIhadrather return and use all possible endeavors for
the Subdueing of them and their Fort, than to my family, whom
I love very well.
Iamheartysorry for any Mistakes we have made, and I
doubt not but all wise men will call them so rather than Acts
of Cowardice.
William Dudley, son of the Governor and a member of the expedition,wrote his father of the inadequate command, of the "ambitions of higher command"ofCol.Appleton, and of Col. Wainwright's concern "that he shouldberendered a coward".He requested, on Francis' behalf, that two of the French prisoners be sent to work on his farm in Ipswich.
TheGovernororderedColMarchto return to Port Royal, but he transferredcommandtothreecommissionerswho,uponjoining the expeditionat Passamaquoddy, promptly relieved Col. March and replaced him by Col. Wainwright.They arrived at Port Royal on 10 Aug, but were ontheshortendofseveral skirmishes.Col. Wainwright wrote the
Commissionerson15Augto report lack of ammunition, the return of severalsickand wounded soldiers, and the need of axes "to cutt down the house frames which will not burn".He added the following:
"Thisveryminute, Col. Wantons Company under ye command
ofLt.Cudworth:werealldrawnup, fitt for a march to
desert.IwentimmediatelytoyeLt.andasked if he
intendedtohead them deserters, he told me no:I resolved
andtoldthemifanyman moved one step in that nature I
wouldshoot them down.I also immediately sent Capt Dimmock
&Comp.tobringthemin,and to take away their Arms.
Accordingly,they came and after an Admonition they promised
'untum et omnes' to be obedient and doe the best service they
can."
TheFrenchreceivedreinforcements, and morale in the expedition grew worse.Soldiers suffered from Dysentery and "massive swellings in their throats".Col. Wainwright wrote:
"Infinemost of the forces are in a distressed state,
someinbody and some in mind; and the longer they are kept
hereonthe cold ground, the longer it will grow upon them,
andI fear the further we proceed, the worse the event.God
help us."
On 21 Aug the ships left Port Royal and sailed for home, abandoning theeffort.Theexpeditionwentso badly that a Court Martial was ordered, but was never convened.
FrancisWainwright 2nd died suddenly on 3 Aug 1711.Judge Sewall's Diary contains the following entry for 3 August:
Col. Francis Wainwright dies at his own house in Ipswich.
LeftSalemforhislast July 25, the day before his first
apointedweddingday,which Appointment was remov'd to the
lastofJuly.Hewas taken sick at Ipswich on the Lord's
Day,July29and died on the Friday following at 10 m, his
Bridebeing with him.'Tis the most compleat and surprising
DisapointmentthatIhavebeenacquainted with.Wedding
CloathestoaneckClothand Night Cap laid ready in the
Bride'sChamber,withthe Bride's Attire.Great Provision
madefor Entertainment.Guests several came from Boston and
entertainedatMr. Hirst's, but no Bridegroom, no Wedding.
Hewaslaidout in a New Tomb of his own making lately and
his dead wife taken out of another and laid with him.
"Tuesday Aug. 7.Bearers.John Appleton, Esq. Col. John
Higginson,Esq.DanielEpes, Esq. Stephen Sewall, Esq. Lt.
Col.SavageandMr.DanielRogers, Mrs. Betty Hirst, the
principal mourner."
Histomb is located in the Old Ipswich North Burial Ground, in the centerof the lower portion, to the right of the main walk.The crypt iscoveredbya large stone on which the Wainwright Coat of Arms and the following inscription have been largely worn away:
"Here Lies entombed
the body of
Colonel Francis Wainwright, Esq.
who died August 3 1711,
aetis 47
and his vertuous consort
Mrs Sarah Wainwright,
who died March 16, 1709,
aetis 38.
With their three youngest children,
John, Francis, and John,
who died in their infancy"
Hiswill,preparedontheday before his death, is transcribed below.Init,heleaves Mrs Hirst, "with whom I had contracted for marriage,foryeloveIbare to her, the sum of one hundred pounds money".HealsoleavessmallsumstotheChurch and to several
ministers.Heleaveshis mother-in-law Mrs. Mary Whipple, "who hath been kind to me in in health and sickness"ten pounds.He also states that"mymotherEpes may have a mourning sute given by my executors attmyfuneral.".He had previously given 250 pounds to his daughter Sarahwhen she married Stephen Minot, and he gave a like amount to his onlyother living children, Elizabeth and Lucy.The estate was valued at 1914 Pounds in Real Estate, and 4132 Pounds in personal estate.The inventory, transcribed below, reveals that he had one Negro Slave named "Mercy"or"Mexey", valued at 40 Pounds.Real Estate holdings of the ColonelincludedpropertyinIpswich,Rowley, Exeter NH, Chebacco (Essex),andsubstantial holdings on Plum Island in Newbury.In the finalaccounting,each daughter received an equal share in the estate amounting to over 1500 Pounds.
The death of Francis Wainwright affected the Colonygreatly, and a funeralfit for such a beloved man was held on 7 Aug.The accounts of administratorStephenMinotattest to a lavish, even gaudy funeral.Mostexpenditureswere made in Boston, ignoring the Ipswich merchants completely.The saddest entries in the accounting are from John Cotts, who submitted a bill for "sundrys for your wedding clothes".The total billforthefuneral was over 415 Pounds.The accounting, recounted withannotationfrom"Ipswichinthe Massachusetts Bay Colony, is transcribed below:
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Children of Francis Wainwright and Sarah Whipple are:
50 | i. | John3 Wainwright, born Abt. 1687; died Abt. 1687. | ||
51 | ii. | John Wainwright, born January 07, 1689/90 in Ipswich MA; died September 25, 1708 in Cambridge, MA. | ||
52 | iii. | Sarah Wainwright, born January 26, 1692/93; died October 27, 1711.She married Stephen Minot September 16, 1710 in Boston, MA. | ||
53 | iv. | Francis Wainwright, born April 02, 1697 in Ipswich, MA; died November 20, 1698 in Ipswich, MA. | ||
54 | v. | Benjamin Wainwright, born September 26, 1698 in Ipswich MA; died October 15, 1698 in Ipswich MA. | ||
55 | vi. | Lucy Wainwright, born April 30, 1704.She married Samuel Waldo June 09, 1722 in Boston, MA. |
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56 | vii. | Elizabeth Wainwright, died Bef. April 09, 1714. |