Anne Wilbore

Anne Smith

• Born 13 Jan 1598 in Sible Hedingham, Essex, England
• Died after 1 Dec 1633 after age 35 in Taunton, Plymouth Colony
• Daughter of John Smith and Unknown
• Wife of Samuel Wilbore — married 13 Jan 1619 in Sible-Hedingham, Essex, England. He was the son of Nicholas & Elizabeth Thickines.

Children of Ann Smith and Samuel Wilbore - baptized Sible Hedingham, Braintree Dist., Essex:

• 1. Samuel WILBORE, Jr., bap. 10 Apr 1622; m. Hannah PORTER, d/o John PORTER
• 2. Arthur WILBORE, bap. 28 Dec 1623; bur. 2 Sep 1624, Sible Hedingham, ESS
• 3. William WILBORE, bap. 27 Aug 1626; bur. 28 Jan 1626/7, Sible Hendingham, ESS — not the William WILBORE (1630-1710) who married Martha __?__ (see Sources below)
• 4. Joseph WILBORE, bap. 28 Feb 1629/30
• 5. Shadrach WILBORE, bap. 6 Sep 1631; m1. by 1659, Mary DEAN, d/o Walter DEAN; m2. 13 Sep 1692, Taunton, MA, Ann (BASS) PAINE, d/o Samuel BASS, wid/o Stephen PAINE / PAYNE

William Wilbore, of Little Compton was raised by Samuel Wilbore and Ann Smith. HE WAS NOT THEIR SON HOWEVER. Their William - A SEPARATE PROFILE - died in England. This William was appears to be a great nephew, son of John Wilbore and Joan Drane.

Disputed Origins

Ann Smith, not Ann Bradford was the wife of Samuel Wildbore

According to the New England Historic and Genealogical Society in "American Ancestors", Volume 112, pp. 108/109 Ann Bradford is not the wife of Samuel Wilbore. It is Ann Smith. I will quote some:

"In 1923 I went to the city of York, England, and examined the original will of Thomas Bradford of Doncaster and found the following statement as to his daughter Ann: "To my daughter Ann Wildbore, the wife of Zacharias Wildbore"......(she did marry) according to the Boyd index at Thorne, Yorkshire, in 1607, Zacharias Wildbore.
In the year 1944, I employed Mr L. H. H. Whitehead, of Long Melford, co. Suffolk, to go to Sible Hedingham and examine the parish records. He found not only the marriage of Samuel Wilbore and Ann Smith, but also the baptisms of the five children, namely, Samuel, Junior, Jespheff or Joseph, Sidreake, Arthur, and William, these two last died at Sible Hedigham an the remainder corresponded to the children who came over with Samuel and Ann.

The author says Mr Savage in his "Genealogical Dictionary" jumped to conclusions while looking at a copy of Bradford's will that omitted the name of Ann's husband. The purpose of the copy was the search for Gov. Bradford's ancestry (not proof of his descendants). The author I quote, Benjamin Franklin Wilbour of Little Compton, RI, himself inspected the original will.

Biography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Wilbore

Samuel Wilbore was born around 1595,[1] the son of Nicholas Wilbore of Braintree and Sible Hedingham, both in Essex, England. Wilbore married Ann Smith in January 1620 in Sible Hedingham, and all five of their children were baptized there between 1622 and 1631,[2] but their son Arthur died in infancy in England. The couple sailed to New England around 1633 with their sons Samuel, William, Joseph, and Shadrach.[2]

The family arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony where Wilbore was made a freeman in March 1633.[3] He and his wife were both admitted as members of the Boston church in December 1633, and the following November he was an assessor of taxes.[3] In 1636, the Antinomian Controversy divided the colony; Wilbore became attracted to the preachings of dissident minister John Wheelwright, along with the teachings of Anne Hutchinson, and he signed a petition in support of Wheelwright.[2]

Wheelwright, Hutchinson, and others were eventually banished from the Massachusetts colony. He and many other followers were disarmed on 20 November 1637 when they were ordered to deliver up all guns, pistols, swords, powder, and shot because the "opinions and revelations of Mr. Wheelwright and Mrs. Hutchinson have seduced and led into dangerous errors many of the people here in New England."[3] Scores of the followers of Wheelwright and Hutchinson were ordered out of the Massachusetts colony, but a group of them signed the Portsmouth Compact on 7 March 1638 before leaving Boston, agreeing to form a non-sectarian government that was Christian in character.[4] The group of signers then considered going to New Netherland (New York), but Roger Williams suggested that they purchase some land on the Narragansett Bay from the Narragansett Indians. They purchased Aquidneck Island, which was called Rhode Island at the time, and formed the settlement of Pocasset there, which was renamed Portsmouth in 1639.[5]

Wilbore was given the military role of clerk of the Train Band in June 1638.[6] The following January, he was selected as constable, and he was allotted about two acres of land in the Great Cove a month later.[6] In 1641, he became a freeman of Portsmouth and was selected as Sergeant in 1644.[6]

In May 1639, Wilbore repudiated his signature on the Wheelwright petition,[2] and was thereafter allowed to return to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He returned to Boston around 1645, and his second wife Elizabeth was received into the Boston church in November.[6] In May 1648, he went to Taunton[1] in the Plymouth Colony, and he owned land there, in Portsmouth, and in Boston.[6] In 1655, he was again in Portsmouth, but he was living in Taunton when he wrote his will in April 1656.[6] His death, however, was recorded in Boston on 29 November 1656.[1]

Family and descendants

Samuel Wilbore was a cousin of William Wilbore, another early settler of Portsmouth, Rhode Island.[2]

His son Samuel Jr. was named in Rhode Island's Royal Charter of 1663,[7] and he was one of the original purchasers of Pettaquanscutt (later South Kingstown, Rhode Island). He married Hannah Porter, the daughter of John Porter, another signer of the Portsmouth Compact and purchaser of the Pettaquamscutt lands.[3] Their daughter Abigail married Caleb Arnold, the son of colonial governor Benedict Arnold; their daughter Hannah married Latham Clarke, the son of colonial President Jeremy Clarke and his wife Frances Latham.[8]

Notable descendants of Samuel Wilbore include Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry,[9] American hero of the Great Lakes during the War of 1812; his younger brother Commodore Matthew C. Perry,[9] who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854; and Stephen Arnold Douglas[10] who debated Abraham Lincoln in 1858 before a senate race and later lost to him in the 1860 presidential election. Rhode Island colonial Deputy Governor George Hazard is also a descendant.

Family of Samuel Wilbore:

Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995) Page 1988. View with NEHGs Membership

Sources

• Uncertain dates posted at: "Find A Grave Index for Non-Burials, Burials at Sea, and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s" -Current Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012; Repository: #R1<https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142997977/ann-wilbore#/>
• "Netherlands, Genealogie Online Trees Index, 1000-Current Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014.
• Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995) Page 1988. View with NEHGs Membership
• NEHGR 112:117, 118 http://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11655/118/235964593
• BChR 17
• http://dgmweb.net/FGS/W/WilboreSamuel-AnnSmith-Elizabeth_.html