Leticia "Lettie" Ring

Lettice Kempton

• Born about 1620 in London, England
• Died 22 Feb 1691 in Middleboro, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay
• Burial: Place: Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
• Daughter of Ephraim Kempton Sr. and Elizabeth (Wilson) Kempton (unproven)
• Sister of John Kempton and Ephraim Kempton II
• Wife of John Morton — married 1645 [location unknown]
• Wife of Andrew Ring — married 1674 in Plymouth, Plymouth Bay Colony

Disambiguation

Not the same as Lettice Jenkins

There were two women in early Plymouth named Lettice, each with two husbands, and they have been confused. Lettice Kempton, prob of London, it seems likely is the one who married first John Morton and then Andrew Ring.

Note that Morton's stepfather was Manassah Kempton, and this Lettice would be his niece. Both of her husbands were the offspring of Leiden Separatists.

The other Lettice was surname Hanford, with a documented family from Devon England, and marriages to Foster and Jenkins, who are not as closely associated with the original Separatists. Adams-21565 09:44, 16 March 2016 (EDT)

It is very possible that she IS the wife of John Morton or Andrew Ring. They were both likely married to THIS Lettice born Kempton.

Family

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Morton-646

Married first to John Morton.

John Morton was born circa 1616 or 17, a son of George Morton (of "Mourt's Relation" fame) and Juliana (Carpenter) Morton Kempton, who were married and lived in Leiden before migrating to Plymouth on the Anne in 1623. John's uncle by marriage was Governor Bradford, who helped raise John and his siblings due to the death of their father in 1624[1] [2]

Circa 1649, John married Lettuce, whose LNAB and DOB are not provided in these sources[3] [1] [4] [5] [2]. Their children included:

1. John, born December 11, 1649[1], who died December 20, 1649 [2]
2. John Jr, born December 21, 1650[6], who married first Phebe Shaw, daughter of Jonathan, and second married Mary Ring, daughter of Andrew and Deborah (Hopkins) Ring[2]
3. Deborah (Morton) Coombs, who married Francis Coombs, son of John and Sarah Coombs in 1687[4] [2]
4. Mary (Morton) Bosworth[4][2], who was the second wife of Nathaniel Bosworth Jr.[7][8]
5. Martha[4] [2]
6. Hannah (Morton) Fuller Lathrop[4] [2], who married John Fuller[9] and John Lathrop
7. Esther[4] [2]
8. Manasseh, a twin, born June 7, 1653[2]
9. Ephraim, a twin, born June 7, 1653[2]

After his death, Lettuce married Andrew Ring, father of her son John's wife Mary Ring. He was the son of William Ring and Mary Durrant and Deborah Hopkins widower.

Origins

From New Bedford Streets: A Piece of Americana: Kempton Street

Ephraim Kempton Sr. & Jr. (1591-1645)

Ephraim Kempton, Sr., a tailor, and his son Ephraim Jr., eventually moved onto land owned by Mannasses (his brother) in Scituate by 1640. Ephraim Sr. had other children: John, who stayed behind in England, Mannaseh and Lettice who did emigrate, and Annis of whom very little is known

Manassah Kempton had no children. Thus his brother Ephraim is likely to be her father; see will: From the Cutter genealogy:

"(I) Ephraim Kempton, immigrant ancestor of all the early Kempton families of Massachusetts, brother of Manasseh Kempton. came to the Plymouth colony, after 1627 probably, as he did not share in the division of cattle that year. His son Ephraim Jr. came with him and was in partnership with him from the time of coming to this country until his death, May 5 or June 24, 1645. The names of both appear on the list of 1643 of those able to bear arms, but that of Ephraim Sr. was crossed off afterward, his age doubtless exempting him from service. He was a tailor by trade. The inventory of his estate was filed and administration granted October 28, 1645, to his brother Manasseh and son Ephraim. The estate was divided June 4, 1645. Manasseh Kempton, of Scituate, and Thomas Rawlins. Sr., of Boston, father-in-law of Ephraim Jr., arranged for the apportionment of the estate to Ephraim and the three other children June 8. 1658. The names of the other children are not known. They were probably daughters."

Great Migration says the wife of Edward Foster and Edward Jenkins (by 1650) is Lettice Hanford and the wife of John Morton (by 1649) is Lettice unknown. There's no indication her name was Kempton.

References

• http://chrisman.org/pedigree/out41.htm#RIN13781
• http://www.famhist.us/getperson.php?personID=I596186&tree=allfam
• Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of …, Volume 2 By William Richard Cutter
• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/o/o/Janet-Moorhead/GEN...
• http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=16426683&st=1.
• http://www.jezzmo.com/DataPublic/junefamily2012/50/14106.htm
• ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, page 1297. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995).
• ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 George Morton of Plymouth Colony and Some of His Descendants by Allen, John Kermott, (Chicago: J. K. Allen, 1908) see page 11 for John Sr, page 13 for John Jr
• ↑ Torrey's New England Marriages Volume 2, page 1605 found in New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015, which states: MORTON, John (-1673) & Lettice ____, m/2 Andrew RING; by 1649, aft 1642/3?; Plymouth/Middleborough {MD 18:70, 24:135, 25:123; NYGBR 52:197; Middleborough Hist. 48; Morton 18, 26; Morton (1908) 11; Drown (ms) 76; Tingley-Meyers 56; Bosworth 195}
• ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories found in Volume 24, page 135 of the Mayflower Descendant: A Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899- . (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010)
• ↑ (Obituary of) Levi Parsons Morton by John Totten, found in Volume 52, page 197 of the The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. New York, NY: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1870-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.)
• ↑ 6.0 6.1 History of the Town of Middleboro, Mass by Weston, Thomas (Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1906). See page 48 for John and Lettuce
• ↑ Some Ancestral Lines; Being a Record of Some of the Ancestors of Guilford: Solon Tingley and His Wife, Martha Pamelia Meyers, Collected by Their Son, Raymon Meyers Tingley by Tingley, Raymon Meyers, (Tuttle, Rutland, Vt, 1935), see page 56 for Nathaniel
• ↑ Bosworth Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of Edward Bosworth Who Arrived in America in the Year 1634; with an Appendix Containing Other Lines of American Bosworths by Clarke, Mary (Bosworth), (San Francisco, 1926), see page 195 for Nathaniel
• ↑ Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth, Part II (repr. 1975 as General Register of Plymouth Families) by Davis, William T. (Boston, 1899), see page 189 of Part II
• ↑ Plymouth Colony Vital Records found in Volume 18, page 70 of Mayflower Descendant: A Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899- . (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010)
• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Lettice_Kempton_%281%29