John Wentworth

William Wentworth and his first and/or second wife had eleven children, birth dates of the children not known, but estimated by assuming they were at least 21 years old when recorded as taxed:

John, b. ca. 1647; m. Martha Stewart [or Dummer]

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Added by Gr. Grandson Elwin Nickerson- NOTE Location of property given to john Wentworth and wife(Martha?), by Chiefs - Very Unlikely they would have given him their Burial ground without a Reason! Left fleeing the Indian problem in New Hampshire/"Massachusetts"(Maine) only to Join them again next door and live among them in Massachusetts?? Note Location on Map- Burr Lane Indian Burial Ground-*Simon George*/John Wentworth. /ECN/

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              John 3 Wentworth moved from New Hampshire to York, Maine, which was continually ravaged by Indian massacres. He left York to settle in what is now Canton, Mass.

• 'The Wentworth genealogy, comprising the origin of the name, the family in England, and a particular account of Elder William Wentworth, the emigrant, and of his descendants (1870)
• http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n123/mo...
• http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n210/mo...
• The first mention of him in the Alford register is in the record of his marriage, which took place the 28th of November, 1614, when, if our theory be correct, he would have been about thirty years of age. The name of his wife is given as Susanna Fleming. She was, however, a widow; and an examination of the register, confirmed by various wills, reveals the following facts: Her maiden name was Carter, and so far as can be ascertained, she was the daughter of Edward Carter, of Well, a small village two miles southwest from Alford, who was probably a small farmer. On the 1st of July, 1613, she was married at Alford to Uther Fleming, son of Robert Fleming, of Alford, and his wife Jane. This Robert Fleming, who died in 1599, calls himself, in his will, a shoemaker. From the character and extent of his bequests, it is evident that he was what would be called in England, a "well-to-do tradesman." Uther Fleming lived but little more than six months after his marriage, as he was buried at Alford on the 22d of January, 1613-14; and on the 29th of May following, their only child, a posthumous daughter named Anne, was baptized. (This child was buried at Alford, the 27th of November 1619.) Six month later, the young widow married William Wentworth.
• According to the Alford registers, their eldest child was baptized on the 15th of March, 1615-16, and was named William, after his father. On the 18 of January, 1617-18, another son was baptized, named Edward, doubtless after his maternal grandfather. A third son was baptized at Alford, on the 4th of June, 1620, and was named Christopher, in all probability after his father's father.
• http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n214/mo...
• XXI. William Wentworth, who it is believed, was identical with the New England emigrant, afterwards known as Elder Wentworth. As has been seen, he was baptized at Alford on the 15th of March, 1615-16, and, assuming the identity, it is a curious fact that he died on the eighty-first anniversary of his baptism, viz: the 15th March, 1696-7.
• The circumstantial evidence touching the identity mentioned may be summed up as follows: ....
• http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n244/mo...
• Dr. Belknap describes him thus:
• William Wentworth was one of the first settlers at Exeter; and after the breaking up of their "Combination" for a government he removed to Dover, and became a ruling Elder in the church there.
• In 1689, he was remarkably instramental of saving Heard's garrison. After this, he officiated several years as a preacher, at Exeter and other places, and died at a very advanced age, at Dover, in 1697, leaving a numerous posterity. From him the several sovernors of that name are descended. He was a very useful and good man.
• http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n252/mo...
• If there were two wives and the name of one was not Elizabeth, the first must have died prior to 18 November, 1666-7. There is a family tradition that when he was quite advanced in years he married a second wife, who was very young even to be married, and that he had children by both wives.
• http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n256/mo...
• We first find Elder William with a wife Elizabeth in 1666-7. The same tradition that gives Elder Wentworth a second wife also gives Elizabeth as her first child, and Timothy as the last child of the previous wife; and also that he had children after he had had grandchildren. The first grandchild whose birth has been found recorded was born 1666; so it may be inferred that if he had a second wife he married her between 1660 and 1665, and that Mrs. Elizabeth Tozer and sons Ephraim and Benjamin were her children.
• The order of the birth of the prior chldren would seem to be as follows: Samuel, 'John', Gershom, Ezekiel, Paul, Sylvanus, and Timothy. We know he had a child in 1640; and there is every probability that Ephraim and Benjamin were born after 1670, making a difference of over thirty years in the births of children, and creating a probability that there were two wives. And there may have been other children. Indeed under the head of the "Daughters of Elder William," the claims of Sarah, wife of Benjamin Barnard, to be his daughter, upon the ground that her children, left fatherless, call Paul Wentworth their uncle, are canvassed.
• http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n262/mo...
• Children of Elder William Wentworth
  • '3. II. John.
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n272/mo...
  • 'John (3. II.), son of Elder William Wentworth, was upon the Dover (N. H.) tax list from 1668 to 1672. Nothing is found of him before 1668. He took the "oath of fidelity" 21 June, 1669. As he must then have been at least twenty-one years of age, he was born prior to 1649, and hence was one of the earliest of Elder William Wentworth's children.
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n274/mo...
  • 'The first that we hear of his wife is 28 August, 1679, when John, of York, Me., and wife Martha, convey a house and fifteen acres of land, in York, to Isaac Parker.
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n276/mo...
  • 'Savage, in his Genealogical Dictionary, mistakes her for Martha Miller, who was the wife of John, son of Ezekiel.
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/70/mode...
  • 'Of the children of John Wentworth, but two daughters are found (of whom nothing is known prior to their marriage), and four sons; and but little as to the order of their birth. These children were:
    • 19. I. John, died at Stoughton, 6 January, 1772, aged 95. This makes him born about 1676, and he is undoubtedly the first-born, unless, possibly, Edward. [105]
    • 20. II. Edward, died at Stoughton, 12 February, 1767; age not given. His wife, who died 10 October, 1745, was aged 52, and so was born in 1693. [112]
    • 21. III. Charles, died at Canton, Mass., 8 July, 1780, aged 96, and was therefore born about 1684. [119]
    • 22. IV. Shubael,* who died in 1759. [127]
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    • 23. V. Elizabeth, marrired at Dorchester, 30 December, 1715, Benjamin Jordon, of Dorchester.
    • 24. VI. Abigail, married 16 May 1728, John Kenney.
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John Wentworth (William Wentworth4, William Wentworth3, Christopher Wentworth2, William Wentworth1) was born 1644 in Rowley, Essex, MA, USA, and died 25 MAR 1690 in Canton, Norfolk, MA, USA.

He married

1. Martha Anne (Anna Hannah) [STEWARD] Stewart BEF 28 AUG 1679, daughter of Duncan [STUART STEWARD] Stewart and Ann [WINEHURST WINCHURST] Winchester. She was born 4 APR 1659 in Newbury, Essex, MA, USA, and died BEF DEC 1691 in Boston, Suffolk, MA, USA.

	  Children of John Wentworth and Martha Anne (Anna Hannah) [STEWARD] Stewart are:

• 2 i. John Wentworth was born ABT 1676, and died 6 JAN 1772.
• 3 ii. Abigail Wentworth was born 1682, and died 1757. She married John Kenney 16 MAY 1728.
• 4 iii. Charles Wentworth was born ABT 1684, and died 8 JUL 1780 in Canton, , MA.
• 5 iv. Elizabeth Wentworth was born 1684, and died 1757. She married Benjamin Jordon 30 DEC 1715.
• 6 v. Shubael Wentworth was born 1689, and died 1759 in Stoughton, Norfolk, MA, USA.
• + 7 vi. Mary Wentworth was born 1692, and died 1728.
• 8 vii. Edward Wentworth was born 1693 in Newbury, Essex, MA, USA, and died 12 FEB 1767. He married Unknown Wentworth. She was born ABT 1693, and died 10 OCT 1745.

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Children of Duncan and Ann (Winchurst) Stewart:

2. ii. MARTHA² STEWART, b. at Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts on 4 Apr 1659; m. JOHN WENTWORTH and COLIN FRAZER.

Links

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Resided in York, Maine and Canton, Massachusetts.

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