Edmund Chandler, of Duxbury
Also Known As:	"Henry", "Edmond Chaundeler"
Birthdate:	between 1588 and 1592
Birthplace:	England
Death:	May 1662 (69-74) Duxbury, Plymouth Colony, Colonial America
Place of Burial:	Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Immediate Family:	Husband of 1st wife of Edmund Chandler and 2nd wife of Edmund Chandler Father of Samuel Chandler; Lydia Higgins; N.N. Chandler; John Chandler; Benjamin Chandler and 5 others
Occupation:	Sayweaver, draper, pipemaker

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Immediate Family

About Edmund Chandler, of Duxbury

Not a known child of Jane Chandler and John Chandler

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Chandler-194#Biography

It has been said that there is much confusion and misinformation about Edmund Chandler who immigrated to Plymouth, Massachusetts before 1633. He probably was born in England between 1588 and 1592.

He seems to have lived in Leiden. He is listed in the Leiden records several times. He was a member of the Separatist (English religious dissenting) congregation. His profession was sayweaver. He married and had three children born at Leiden: Samuel, Lydia, and an unnamed child who died in 1619. The name of his first wife is unknown.

He married again, to a woman whose first name was Sarah [SIC], but a record of his marriage has not been found. Edmund Chandler had seven surviving children: John, Sarah, Anna, Mary, Benjamin, Joseph, and Ruth[1]. He made his will on on May 3, 1662 and had passed away by June 4, 1662. The married names and husbands of his daughters are unknown.

Children[6]

By 1st wife ______ ______

1. Samuel Chandler b. say 1612 m. ____ ____. No known children
2. (prob.) Lydia Chandler b. say 1614; m. 1634 Richard Higgins
3. Child Chandler buried Pieterskerk, Leiden 26 March 1619.

By 2nd wife _____ ______

4. John Chandler b. say 1632; In 1653, at sea bound for Barbadoes, he left his estate to his father
5. Sarah Chandler b. say 1638; named in her father's will. No further record.
6. Anna Chandler b. say 1640; named in her father's will. No further record.
7. Mary Chandler, b. say 1642; named in her father's will. No further record.
8. Benjamin Chandler b. say 1644; m. Elizabeth Buck
9. Joseph Chandler b. say 1646; m. by 1673 Mercy ______
10 Ruth Chandler b. say 1648; named in her father's will. No further record.

Areas of Confusion

The following are being removed as parents: John Chandler, Jane Gitton. Neither the Great Migration Begins nor the Edmund Chandler Association give the names of the parents.
Birth seen as 1588 London, Stoke Newington, England (United Kingdom)
A different Edmund Chandler did marry an Elizabeth Alden. (Much later generation)
Roger Chandler is associated with Edmund Chandler, but the relationship has not been proven.
Edmund Chandler's son John had been to Barbados. He had property in Barbados (sugar) and was a draper according to his will (see image). (citation needed)

John Chandler, 1555 – 1592 Jane Gitton, 1560 – 1666

Edmund arrived in Plymouth, MA in 1632 and may have married a second time in Barbados in 1633.

References

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/MS8F-5XC/edmund-chandler-1588...

Edmund Chandler 20 December 1588–21 May 1662

Birth • 1 Sources 20 December 1588 London, England

Age 73 Death • 1 Sources 21 May 1662 Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

Edmund Chaundler, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"

SPOUSES AND CHILDREN

Edmund Chandler 1588-1662

Marriage: about 1612 London, Middlesex, , England

Elizabeth Annis Alden 1591-1630

Children (12)

Samuel Chandler 1611-1683

Sarah Chandler 1613-

Chandler 1615-1619

Lydia Chandler 1615-1650

Mary Chandler 1619-

Joseph Chandler 1620-

Ruth Chandler 1628-1662

Jonathan Chandler 1632-1653

John Chandler 1632-1691

Samuel Chandler 1636-1698

Joseph Chandler Sr 1637-1721

Anna Chandler

- PARENTS AND SIBLINGS

John Chaundeler III 1510-1582

Marriage: 1535 Wilcot, Wiltshire, England

Joanne Bermingham 1512-1601

Children (5)

Nicholas Chandler 1540-1604 Robert Chaundeler Robert Chaundeler 1542- John Chaundeler John Chaundeler 1544-

Henry Chaundeler 1546-1613

Edmund Chandler 1588-1662

Immigration

Born about 1588 near London to John and Jane Glitton Chandler.
1st marriage about 1612
Went to Barbados about 1625.
Joined Plymouth Colony about 1632.
2nd marriage about 1632.
Constable of Plymouth Colonly 1636-1637
Living in Duxbury 1639-1645.
One of the proprietors of the town of Bridgewater in 1645,

OCCUPATION: Sayweaver, draper, pipemaker (In Leiden [Dexter 609]).

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Chandler-194

Edmund Chandler

Born about 1587 in Englandmap [uncertain]

Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

[sibling%28s%29 unknown]

Husband of Unknown (Unknown) Chandler — married about 1610 (to about 1630) [location unknown]

Husband of Elizabeth (Unknown) Chandler — married about 1630 in Plymouth, Massachusetts

Father of Anna (Chandler) Pickworth, Samuel Chandler, Lydia (Chandler) Higgins, Unknown Chandler, John Chandler, Benjamin Chandler, Joseph Chandler, Sarah Chandler, Mary Chandler and Ruth Chandler

Died after 3 May 1662 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Profile last modified 31 Jan 2019 | Created 21 Sep 2010

Edmund Chandler migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640).

Biography

It has been said that there is much confusion and misinformation about Edmund Chandler who immigrated to Plymouth, Massachusetts before 1633. He probably was born in England between 1588 and 1592.

He seems to have lived in Leiden. He is listed in the Leiden records several times. He was a member of the Separatist (English religious dissenting) congregation. His profession was sayweaver. He married and had three children born at Leiden: Samuel, Lydia, and an unnamed child who died in 1619. The name of his first wife is unknown.

The last of the Leiden pilgrims arrived in Plymouth Colony about 1629. Edmund and Roger Chandler were among them. He resided at Plymouth, then at neighboring Duxbury. His profession is given as draper. He served as constable. He first married while in Leiden. He married again, to a woman whose first name was Sarah, but a record of his marriage has not been found. Edmund Chandler had seven surviving children: John, Sarah, Anna, Mary, Benjamin, Joseph, and Ruth[1]. He made his will on on May 3, 1662 and had passed away by June 4, 1662. The married names and husbands of his daughters are unknown.

Name: Elizabeth? Alden - She married a different Edmund Chandler. She was born many years too late to have been a wife to this Edmund.

Below information POSTED by Thomas Moody (sources listed in "Source" section.

Edmund died between May 3, 1662 when he made his Will and June 2, 1662 when the inventory of his estate was taken. His Will was proved June 4, 1662 (Plymouth Colony Probate, Book 2: pt. 2: 75, 76 as referred to in “Small”, see above) When he died, he bequeathed to his daughters, Sarah, Anna, and Mary “three thousand and five hundred of sugar which belonges to mee at Barbadoes.” Only the sugar was said to have been in Barbados, not the daughters also, as some have asserted.

TIMELINE

1580s

Edmund was most likely born sometime during this decade.

November 11, 1613

He was admitted to citizenship in Leiden, Holland under the guarantee of Roger Wilson and Henry Wood. (From Small)

April 27, 1615 He guaranteed Leiden citizenship for John Keble. (From Small)

March 26, 1619

He buried a child in St. Peter’s Church in Leiden. Edmund was living in Nieuwestadt, Holland. (From Small)

May 5, 1623 He guaranteed Leiden citizenship for Roger White. (From Small)

April 17, 1626 He guaranteed Leiden citizenship for Edward Coolidge. (From Small)

July 31, 1628 He was a witness for the Last Will and Testament of Catherine Edmonds, wife of William Cubitt in Leiden, Holland. (From the Dutch Archives Internet site, see Sources below). N.B. The English translation of this Will on the Dutch Archives site contains an error - the name of the testator is shown as Catherine Edmonds Chandler (introducing the possibility that she could be related to Edmund the witness). However, examination of the Dutch original makes it clear that the only person named Chandler in the document is Edmund.

1629 or 1630 Edmund most likely left Holland for Plymouth during this period. Isaac Allerton and Mr. Sherley facilitated the emigration of the remaining members of Rev. Robinson’s congregation, of which Edmund was a member, who wished to leave Holland. (From Plymouth Colony)

January 1, 1633: Edmund was listed as a freeman in Duxbury, Massachusetts.[2] One had to be a member in good standing of the church in those days to be a freeman. He was also listed as a freeman in March 1636/7[2] and in Duxbury 1639 and 1658.[3][4] October 20, 1634 He sold a lot to John Rogers adjoining Robert Hicks’ land on the Duxbury side. (From Small)

January 3, 1636/37 He was chosen Constable (the equivalent of Chief Executive Officer) of the town of Duxbury. He was sworn in on March 7, 1636/37. (From Small)

June 7, 1636 He was chosen to serve on a jury. (From Small)

January 29, 1638/9 He took an apprentice, John Edwards. (From Small)

April 2, 1638 “Threescore acres of land are granted to Edmund Chandler on…the Duxburrrow side by…Captain Standish and Mr. Alden.” This was his homestead later occupied by his sons. (From Small)

May 30, 1637 He gave bail for Samuel Chaundler, probably his son, regarding an indebtedness. (From Small and Plymouth Colony)

June 4, 1639 He and Jonathan Brewster were sent as the first Deputies from Duxbury to the Plymouth Colony General Court to look into uniting Duxbury and Plymouth. (From Small and Plymouth Colony)

July 19, 1639 He bought one acre of land from Thomas Besbeech (Bixby) of Duxbury to build a house. (From Small)

September 1, 1640 He served on a jury before the General Court. (From Small)

October 5, 1640 He served on a jury before the Court of Assistants. (From Small)

November 2, 1640 He received a 50 acre grant of land at North River by the General Court. (From Small)

June 8, 1650 He sold the one acre of land that he bought from Thomas Besbeech plus the house and improvements to John Browne of Duxbury.

June 7, 1651

He sold the 50 acres of North River land to Thomas Byrd of Scituate. (From Small)

May 4, 1653

He bought 2 acres of marsh meadow adjacent to his property from John Washburn, Jr. (From Small)

July 15, 1653 He exchanged his interest in his Bridgewater land (of which he was a proprietor) for interest in land in Dartmouth, Mass. He was one of 34 purchasers of the Dartmouth (Massachusetts) land and “places adjacent.” (From Small)

July 3, 1656 The General Court purchased land from the Native Americans - what is now Freetown, Dartmouth and Fall River Mills near Rhode Island - to be granted to freemen. (From Small)

April 2, 1659 The Dartmouth land and “places adjacent” as mentioned above was conveyed to Edmund Chandler among others. This share of land by the Taunton River was left by Will to his son Joseph. Edmund left his “whole share of land” in Dartmouth to his son, Samuel. May 3, 1662 He wrote his Will leaving his estate to his sons and daughters. His wife most likely died previously. He owned land in Duxbury, Dartmouth and Taunton when he died.

May 3 to June 2, 1662 Edmund died between May 2nd and June 2nd when his estate was inventoried.

Where did Edmund Chandler Originate from? by Dick Chandler, CFA Vice President

The honest answer to this question is “we don’t know”. It is regrettable that some family historians seem unable to say those words, preferring to invent an answer that roughly fits the few facts available. The original English parish register extractions performed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) as part of their International Genealogical Index (IGI) were performed to a very high standard of verification. Equally, the early submissions by LDS church members were subjected to scrutiny by Elders. Regrettably the IGI now contains a large number of submissions which have not been subjected to any meaningful scrutiny and contain no source references, and as a result contain “inventions”, thereby corrupting and devaluing what was previously a very valuable genealogical resource. A number of the records displayed by the LDS FamilySearch facility claim to state details of Edmund’s origins and parentage. Many are based on old books which contain incorrect statements. Some are plainly wrong. Others, though plausible, are not corroborated by any source reference and cannot be independently verified by a church record or similar document. The purpose of this paper is to document the Edmund brick wall and state what has been studied to date, to form a basis for further research.

The Edmund Chandler timeline (on another page of this web site) identifies that Edmund was probably born in the 1580s before 1584 and no later than 1592, as he had to have been an adult when he was admitted to citizenship of Leiden, Holland in 1613, probably older than 60 in 1643, yet born late enough to have lived until 1662.

One of the most common errors seen regarding Edmund’s origins arises from the writings of Dr Mary Chandler Lowell, who asserted that he was born in London, England in 1588/9, the son of John and Jane (Gilton) Channdeler (later Chandler) of St Margaret Moyses (the name of a parish in London). This has spawned a host of LDS patron submissions placing the birth of Jane, her marriage to John, and their parenting of Edmund at various widely scattered locations around England. The truth is that the John Channdeler who did marry Jane Gyttin on 15th January 1581 at St Mildred, Poultry with St Mary Colechurch (another parish in London) was the same person as John Chaundflower alias Chaundler who died in 1585. In his Will, John mentions his two fathers-in-law Robert Cole and Robert Gyttens, his second wife Jane and his three children (by Elizabeth Cole, not Jane) named as Robert, John and Martha – no mention of Edmund. It has been suggested that this was because Edmund was a child “in esse”. This term strictly means “in existence”, that is, a child born but not yet named, but it is often incorrectly used to describe a child conceived but not yet born, for which the correct expression is “in posse” – a possible child. If Edmund had been a child in esse or in posse it might have explained how Edmund could be John Chaundflower’s child but excluded from his Will. But Dr Lowell said that Edmund was born in 1588/9, three years after John died – too long for him to have been unborn/unnamed.

Dealing only with the generally reliable extracted records from parish registers, the following are the only Edmund Chandler (or variant) references within the LDS FamilySearch facility in the relevant period:

Edmund, son of Edmund Chaundler, christened 20 December 1612 at St Mary, Stoke Newington. It is presumably this record, which evidences the prior existence of an Edmund Chaundler, which has given rise to another common error stating that the Edmund who migrated to New England was the earlier Edmund Chandler, assumed to have been born in Stoke Newington in the 1580s. Obviously the younger Edmund christened in 1612 was not old enough to become a citizen of Leiden in 1613. Edmund the father could not have been the Separatist either, because: In the Calendar to the Middlesex Sessions Records 1616-1618 Session Roll 557/32 Session Reg 2/406 Robert Anthony and Edmund Chaundler of Stoke Newington, silkweavers, give recognizances to keep the peace for Lucy, wife of the said Robert, towards Lucy Atkinson). In addition to young Edmund on 20 December 1612, the father Edmund Chaundler had the following children christened at St Mary, Stoke Newington: Marie on 1 May 1618 (died 8 August 1620); Thomas on 23 November 1619 (died 1621); Katherine on 30 December 1621; and another Thomas on 11 January 1624. In short, this Edmund could not have been doing all this in England as well as living as a citizen of Leiden. This discredits the Stoke Newington theory. Edmund Chaundler, son of Rych Chaundler, christened 22 October 1620 at Stewkley, Buckinghamshire (again, too late to be Edmund the Separatist). Edmud (sic) Chandler, parents not recorded, christened 30 May 1593 at Stewkley, Buckinghamshire. Probably too late to be our Edmund, but possible. Edmonde Chanler married Johane Furfille at Winterbourne Earls, Wiltshire on 10 October 1594. Probably too early to be our Edmond, and in any case this is probably the Edmund Chandler who was buried at All Saints Church in nearby Idmiston, Wiltshire on 4th December 1646. Edmond Chandler married Alis Eyde at St Mary, Woodbridge (near Ipswich in Suffolk) on 4 May 1595. Probably too early to be our Edmond, and in any case this is probably the Edmond Chandler who was buried at St Michael’s Church in nearby Framlingham, Suffolk on 5th January 1632. Edman Chandler married Judeth Partreche 17 November 1616 at Woodbridge (near Ipswich in Suffolk). This could only be our Edmund if he returned to England from Leiden to marry, which seems unlikely. In addition, Boyd’s Marriage Index has:

Ed Chaundler married Joan Farney 1603 at St Gregory by St Pauls, London. Further investigation shows that this Ed is Boyd’s abbreviation for Edward. Edm Chandler married Rose Musket 1575 at Haughley in Suffolk. This Edmund could not have lived until 1662. Edm Chandler married An Sarles 1625 at Peasenhall in Suffolk. Again, this could only be our Edmund if he returned to England from Leiden to marry, which seems unlikely. There is an LDS Church Member submission (with no contact details) showing the birth of an Edmund Chandler at Colchester, Essex in 1582 – this record, which is not corroborated by an extract from a Parish Register, also shows a death date of 1662, so this is obviously intended to refer to Edmund the Separatist. Presumably the alleged place of Edmund’s birth is because a Leiden record shows another Chandler - Roger - as being “of Colcester” (though there is also a contradictory Leiden record saying he is “of Rochester” which is in the county of Kent), and the birth year of 1582 was chosen so that he would be an adult when granted citizenship of Leiden in 1613, but aged over 60 in 1643, so too old to appear on the “Able to Bear Arms” list. If anyone has evidence to support this submission, we would value seeing it. In the absence of evidence, it must be assumed to be incorrect. In the 16th Century Colchester, an ancient English town dating back to the Romans who invaded England in the year 55 BC, did become the meeting place for a number of congregations bitterly opposed to the rites and practices of the established church in England. Roger, and perhaps Edmund too, may indeed have joined one of these congregations, but that does not mean they came from Colchester originally. It is well known that the original homes of the Mayflower passengers were widely scattered throughout England.

An LDS Ancestral File entry shows Roger Chandler “of Colchester” born 1580 in Colchester but christened some 20 miles away at Lavenham, Suffolk on 4th April 1580, the son of James Chandler and an unnamed wife or Roger Chandler and Joan Vale. This record says that Roger married Isabella Chilton at Canterbury in Kent on 21 July 1615 and died on 3rd October 1665 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. A parish register entry does exist at Lavenham for the christening of Roger Chandelor son of Roger on 4th April 1580. But there is no trace of the Canterbury marriage in the registers of the churches of Canterbury, although an Isabell Chilton was christened at St Paul’s Canterbury on 15th January 1587. In fact, Roger and Isabella married in Leiden. And although the older Roger and two other Chandelors christened a total of seven children at Lavenham in that period, none of them was named Edmond – the boys, all sons of Roger, were named Roger, Isac (sic) who only survived for two months, and Abraham.

It should be noted that only five of the twelve Colchester parishes have registers surviving from the 16th Century. They are St. Botolph, St. James, St. Leonard, St. Mary-at-the Walls and St. Nicholas. All of these five have been searched (by IGI PR extraction batch number), and they contain no Edmund or Roger Chandler (or variants) christening. It remains possible that Edmund did come from Colchester – perhaps via Rochester - the point is that there is no evidence to support this or any other origin.

There is an LDS Church Member submission stating that Edmunde (sic) Chandler married Ann Purdye 17 May 1602 at North Elmham (near Fakenham in Norfolk). This is not corroborated by an entry in the North Elmham church register, though other Chandler entries in the same period appear there.

I have searched the database of the Alumni of Cambridge University in England, which was a hot-bed of religious debate towards the end of the 16th Century. Alumni Records exist for Separatists Wm Brewster born 1565 who entered Peterhouse College in 1580, and for John Robinson born 1576 who entered Corpus Christi College in 1592. Alumni records also exist for two other men who may have been the relevant Separatists – Roger Wilson (no birth year given) entered St John’s College at Michaelmas 1587 and Henry Wood (again no birth year given) who entered King’s College at Easter 1572. There is no record of Edmund or Roger Chandler in the Cambridge Alumni database, so it was not at Cambridge University that Edmund or Roger acquired their Separatist leaning. (There are no Cambridge records for Wm Bradford, Richard Clyfton, John Smyth, Myles Standish, John Alden, John Keble [a common name in Suffolk, including a 1591 christening at Earl Stoneham, 6 miles east of Stowmarket], Roger White, Nathaniel Chandler or Edward Coolidge – there is an Edward Coolidge marriage to Prudence Reader 30 May 1591 at Maidstone in Kent).

There was an Edmond Chandler (Chaundler) of Buckinghamshire born 1568 who attended New College, Oxford between 1588 and 1595, but he went on to pursue a career in the English church.

I have tried to locate Edmund’s origins by researching the origins of the men he guaranteed for citizenship in Leiden, but this has produced no positive result. Similarly, pursuing clues from other Leiden records, I have examined all possible permutations of Mary or Catherine Chandler, Edmonds or Richards marriages, or any of these to a Cubitt, in English online marriage records in the relevant period, to no avail.

Analysis of the 1881 British Census shows 3,816 people with any surname and the forename Edmond, but 27,024 with any surname and the forename Edmund, indicating that the Edmund spelling is far more usual. Most frequent distribution of the forename Edmund at that time was in Middlesex and Lancashire, followed by Sussex and Kent. The surname Chandler, however, does not occur frequently in Lancashire. The popularity of the name Edmund can be traced to the martyrdom of Edmund, a King of East Anglia in England, who was captured by Danish invaders near Hoxne in the county of Suffolk on 20th November in the year 870. He was flayed with flesh-stripping whips, tied to a tree and used for archery practice until his body was covered “like the bristles of a hedgehog”, yet still he refused to renounce his Christian faith. Finally, because Edmund continued to profess his belief, the Danish chief Ivar had him beheaded. After the Danes moved on, Edmund was interred at Beadoriceworth, the town now known as Bury St Edmunds.

Edmund Chandler's Will

[Plymouth Colony Wills, II:II:75] Edmund Chandler, "old and weake in body" dated his will 3 May 1662, which was signed by mark, witnessed by John Alden and Constant Southworth, and proved 4 June 1662. He made bequests to: son Samuell Chandeler, son Benjamine Chandeler, son Joseph Chandeler, daughters Sarah, Anna, and Mary, child Ruth. Son Joseph made executor. The inventory was taken 2 June 1662 and presented 4 June 1662.[5][6]

Children[6]

By 1st wife ______ ______

1. Samuel Chandler b. say 1612 m. ____ ____. No known children 2. (prob.) Lydia Chandler b. say 1614; m. 1634 Richard Higgins 3. Child Chandler buried Pieterskerk, Leiden 26 March 1619. By 2nd wife _____ ______

4. John Chandler b. say 1632; In 1653, at sea bound for Barbadoes, he left his estate to his father 5. Sarah Chandler b. say 1638; named in her father's will. No further record. 6. Anna Chandler b. say 1640; named in her father's will. No further record. 7. Mary Chandler, b. say 1642; named in her father's will. No further record. 8. Benjamin Chandler b. say 1644; m. Elizabeth Buck 9. Joseph Chandler b. say 1646; m. by 1673 Mercy ______ 10 Ruth Chandler b. say 1648; named in her father's will. No further record. Editing Note

Areas of confusion: The following are being removed as parents: John Chandler, Jane Gitton. Neither the Great Migration Begins nor the Edmund Chandler Association give the names of the parents. The following source citation from Ancestry Family Trees states that this set of parents have been disproved [7]

A different Edmund Chandler did marry an Elizabeth Alden.

Roger Chandler is associated with Edmund Chandler, but the relationship has not been proven.

Edmund Chandler's son John had been to Barbados.

Removing Elizabeth Alden [8]

He had property in Barbados (sugar) and was a draper according to his will (see image). (citation needed)

His parents were NOT (see above):

John Chandler, 1555 – 1592 Jane Gitton, 1560 – 1666

Edmund arrived in Plymouth, MA in 1632 and may have married a second time in Barbados in 1633.

Sources

↑ Great Migration Begins Vol. I p. 328-329 ↑ 2.0 2.1 Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet (ed.) Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in New England Volume 1 1633-1640. Originally publ 1855 (Reprint. New York : AMS Press, 1968) 1633 p. 4; 1637 p.52; ↑ Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet (ed.) Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in New England Volume 7 MIscellaneous records 1633-1689. Boston: 1857 Vol 7 1639 p. 174 1658 p. 198 ↑ Underhill, Lora Altine Woodbury. The Genealogy of Edward Small of New England and the Allied Families with Tracings of English Ancestry, Cambridge, Mass. 1910. Vol II, pp 855 - 919 ↑ Bowman George Ernest. "Chandler Notes" Mayflower Descendant: A Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899- . 14:65 Will p 69 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010) ↑ 6.0 6.1 Robert Charles Anderson, "Edmund Chandler", The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol I, Boston, New England Historic Genelogical Society 1995, p326 - 328. ↑ http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/26055694/person/12553109672/story/c3... ↑ Editing notes submitted by Becky Syphers 6/5/14 Source: Robert Charles Anderson, "Edmund Chandler", The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol I, Boston, New England Historic Genelogical Society 1995, p326 - 328. Source: Underhill, Lora Altine Woodbury. The Genealogy of Edward Small of New England and the Allied Families with Tracings of English Ancestry, Cambridge, Mass. 1910. Vol II, pp 855 - 919 Source: Title: http://www.edmundchandler.com/ See especially: http://www.edmundchandler.com/myths.html Description: The Edmund Chandler Family Association.

Source: Woodworth-Barnes, Esther Littleford and Williams, Alicia Crane, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Vol 16 Part 1 of 3, John Alden, Boston, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2002. p. 44-45, 120-122 Source: Title: http://www.pilgrimarchives.nl Description: Pilgrim Archive from Leiden, Netherlands Source: Title: GEDCOM file submitted by Thomas Gull - from Rootsweb.com gedcom file, tmrgull@msn.com. Imported on 30 April 2010. Source: Title: http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/26055694/person/12553109672/story/c3... Note: Extensive Bibliography Source: http://search.ancestry.ca/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=genepoold&h=482917&ti=... Source: Title: Family Data Collection - Deaths, Author: Edmund West, comp. Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001. Note: Data was dreived from Ancestry Family Trees Source: Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. NOTE:This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Source: Title: Marie Harrington, Benton, ME, 04901 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2801918&... Sources for info posted by Thomas Moody:

Sources:

Plymouth Colony, Its History and People 1620-1621 by Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Ancestry Publishing, 1986. Stratton was the former Historian General of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants. Original source material is listed in this book. The Genealogy of Edward Small of New England and the Allied Families with Tracings of English Ancestry by Lora Altine Woodbury Underhill (Cambridge, Mass. 1910). This is considered the most complete, meticulously documented genealogy of the early Chandlers. Original sources are listed. Chapter 13, The Chandler Family, is 68 pages long and covers Edmund and several generations of his descendants. There have been discoveries since it was first written. John was found to be Edmund’s son and not his brother, as was Samuel. We still have not found more information about Nathaniel (Nathanell Chaundor). http://www.pilgrimarchives.nl/

This Dutch website was created to show documents regarding the Pilgrims discovered by Dutch researchers. http://one-barton-family.us/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I5804&...

FREEMAN: In "1633" Plymouth list of freemen, ahead of those admitted on 1 January 1632/3 [PCR 1:4]; on list of Plymouth freemen of 7 March 1636/7 [PCR 1:52]. In Duxbury portions of lists of freemen of 1639 and 1658 [PCR 8:174, 198].

EDUCATION: The inventory included "a parcel of books" valued at 10s. OFFICES: Duxbury representative to committee on "the nearer uniting of Plymoth & those on Duxburrough side," 11 March 1635/6 [PCR 1:41]; trial jury, 7 June 1636 [PCR 1:42]; Duxbury constable, 3 January 1636/7, 7 March 1636/7 [PCR 1:48, 54]; Duxbury representative to committee on dividing meadow, 2 October 1637 [PCR 1:67]; Duxbury deputy to Plymouth General Court, 4 June 1639, 29 August 1643, 5 March 1643/4 [PCR 1:126, 2:60, 68]; petit jury, 1 September 1640, 5 October 1640 [PCR 7:17, 18]. ESTATE: Land of Edmund Chandler mentioned on 1 July 1633 [PCR 1:14]; on 20 October 1634 sold to John Rogers "a lot of ground adjoining to the lots of Robert Hicks, on Duxbury side, it being a lot which the said Edward bought of John Barnes" [PCR 1:31]; on 4 July 1635 Isaac Robinson sold to Joseph Bidle "half a lot of ground lying above the island creek, which the said Isaake bought of Edmond Chanler, and he of John Barnes" [PCR 1:34]; granted forty acres "on the east side of Moyses Symonson, where Morris formerly began to clear for Mr. Bowman," 2 January 1636/7 [PCR 1:47, 49]; granted sixty acres on Duxbury side "on the northeast side of the lands granted to Moyses Symons," 2 April 1638 [PCR 1:82]; granted fifty acres with some meadow at the North River, 2 November 1640 [PCR 1:165].

On 19 July 1639 Mr. Thomas Besbeech of Duxbury sold to "Edmond Chaundler of the same one acre of land lying to the north side of the lands of the said Thomas Besbeech" [PCR 12:46]. On 8 June 1650 "Edmond Chandeler of Duxburrow" sold to John Browne of Duxbury, weaver, "an house situate in Duxburrow aforesaid and an acre of land on which the said house standeth next adjoining unto the house and land of Mr. John Rener above the path" [PCR 12:187]. On 7 June 1651 "Edmond Chandeler of Duxburrow" sold to Thomas Byrd of Scituate fifty acres at the North River, "with all the meadow land or marsh abutting upon the aforesaid fifty acres of upland" [PCR 12:207).

On 4 May 1653 James Lendal of Duxbury, tailor, sold to "Edmond Chandeler of the town aforesaid ... planter ... two acres of marsh meadow ... which was sometimes the meadow of Peeter Brown's children" [MD 2:169, citing PCLR 2:1:51]. On 15 July 1653 "Edmond Chandeler of Duxburrow" exchanged land with Edward Bumpas of Marshfield, Chandler relinquishing all his rights to any lands or meadows in "Duxburrow New Plantation commonly called and known by the Indian names of Satuckquett and Nunckatatesett and places adjacent" in return for the rights of Bumpas as "one of the thirty-four purchasers who are to have their proportions of land at the places commonly called and known by the Indian names of Cushenett and Coaksett and places adjacent" [MD 2:245-46, citing PCLR 2:1:53]. On 30 March 1655 Edward Bumpas of Marshfield (with the consent of Hannah his wife) sold to "Edmond Chandeler of Duxburrow ... all his land lying at Ducke Hill lying between the lands of John Rouse and the lands of the said Edmond Chandeler" [MD 10:73, citing PCLR 2:1:169]. On 16 June 1659 Samuel Eaton sold to "Edmond Chandeler of Duxburrow two acres of meadow lying between Mr. Kempe's land and John Rouse's" [MD 14:14, citing PCLR 2:2:27]. In his will, dated 3 May 1662 and proved 4 June 1662, "Edmond Chandeler" bequeathed to "my son Samuell Chandeler my whole share of land that is at ... Akoaksett and Cushenah"; to "my son Benjamine Chandeler ... all that tract ... of land lying in Duxburrow both upland and meadow with all the housing belonging thereunto"; to "my son Josepth [sic] Chandeler ... my whole share of land which now lieth by Taunton River"; to "my three daughters Sarah, Anna and Mary three thousand and five hundred of sugar which belongs to me at Barbadoes"; to "my three children viz: Benjamine, Josepth and Ruth Chandeler" rent due from "my son Samuell Chandeler"; the cattle which have been in the hands of "my son Samuel" to be equally divided between "my three children Benjamine, Josepth and Ruth" [MD 14:68, citing PCPR 2:2:75].

The inventory of the estate was taken 2 June 1662 and totalled £38 7s. 6d., with no real estate included [MD 14:69, citing PCPR 2:2:76].

Edmund Chandler does not appear in the 25 March 1633 and 27 March 1634 Plymouth tax lists, even though his age, wealth and social status would lead one to expect that he should.

Records for a Samuel Chandler of Plymouth and then of Duxbury begin with appearances on the 25 March 1633 and 27 March 1634 Plymouth tax lists [PCR 1:11, 28], and continue through the 1683 estate records in Duxbury. Attempts have been made to distribute these records between two Samuel Chandlers, the elder being possibly the son of Roger Chandler seen in Leiden records, who did not survive his father, and the younger being the Samuel Chandler named in the will of Edmund Chandler. We will argue here that these records, spread over sixty years, pertain to only one Samuel Chandler, who was son of Edmund.

First, the Samuel Chandler taxed in 1633 must have been at least 21, and therefore born no later than 1612. Edmund Chandler was made a citizen of Leiden in 1613, and was therefore born no later than 1592, and perhaps earlier; he could easily have been father of a Samuel born in 1612.

Second, the records for Samuel Chandler from 1633 to 1683 do not at any point imply two persons of that name at Duxbury during these years. The designations "Sr." and "Jr." are never employed in the records.

Third, when Samuel Chandler was charged with slander against the Plymouth government in 1639, one of his bondsmen was Richard Higgins, who had married in 1634 at Plymouth Lydia Chandler. If she married at the normal age, Lydia would have been born about 1614, and so could well have been a sister of Samuel.

Fourth, on 20 May 1637 John Jenney sued Samuel Chandler for a debt of £20. "Edmond Chaundler became bail to the action, and to satisfy the debt," and on 2 October 1637 "Edmond Chaundler undertook to pay the Plaintiff the amount remaining due [PCR 7:6].

All of these arguments are consistent with the hypothesis that Edmund Chandler had three children by a first wife: Samuel, Lydia, and the child buried at Leiden in 1619.

The will of Edmund Chandler names six other children, but we have little to help us in dating them. Two of these six were sons, Benjamin and Joseph, with Benjamin always named first in the will. Three of the daughters (Sarah, Anna and Mary) are grouped together, after which the other three children were grouped together (Benjamin, Joseph and Ruth). Our arrangement of the children above assumes that these six were named in birth order, and were all by a second (or later) wife. The argument has been made that Joseph must have been born by 1641, since he was named executor by his father in 1662; but since a testator might not be planning to die immediately, this is not necessarily true. Benjamin married by about 1671, and Joseph probably sometime in the mid-1670s, and rough estimates of birthdates for these six children are assigned on this basis. Nothing is known of the fate of the four daughters of Edmund Chandler. The grouping together of Sarah, Anna and Mary may possibly indicate that they were married by 3 May 1662, the date of their father's will.

The son John, who died testate at Barbados, would be older by some years than all of these children by the second wife, if we assume that he was twenty-one when he made his will.

On 23 January 1638/9 "Edmond Chandler, of Duxborrow, yeom[an]," took John Edwards as an apprentice for five years [PCR 1:110]."

--Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins. Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (1995. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Great Migration Study Project.), 326-330.

Immigration

Born about 1588 near London to John and Jane Glitton Chandler. 1st marriage about 1612 Went to Barbados about 1625. Joined Plymouth Colony about 1632. 2nd marriage about 1632. Constable of Plymouth Colonly 1636-1637 Living in Duxbury 1639-1645. One of the proprietors of the town of Bridgewater in 1645, OCCUPATION: Sayweaver, draper, pipemaker (In Leiden [Dexter 609]).