Sara G Wallingford

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General Notes: Wife - Sara G. Poore

This is probably either Agnes, Elizabeth or Barbara. General Notes: Child - Nicholas Wallingford

Some researches have his mother as Sara G. Poore, daughter of John Poore ( b. 1560). John Coffin Jones Brown disputes this as follows: "Some Intern et sources, including the Mormon's International Genealogical Index, gi ve the name of Nicholas' mother as Sara G. Poore. This seems like ly to be someone's confused fabrication. First of all, it is extremely unl ikely that a woman would have a middle initial in those days. The Poore co nnection may come from all the Poores mentioned in the will of William Gor e."

From Wallingfords of New England (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ ~teschek/wallingford/): The English ancestry of Nicholas Wallingford is unknown, but it is someh ow tied to the Gore family of the village of Nether Wallop in Southampt on (Hampshire) England. The will of William Gore of Nether Wallop in 16 56 proves the connection (see William Gore the elder, son of William Gore ). Included with these abstracts, originally done by Henry F. Water s, is an analytic note by a John Coffin Jones Brown of the wills of Willi am Gore and his father William as follows: "In these Goore wills Mr. Waters is evidently probing the connections of t he ancestors of our Merrimac Valley settlers. The villages of Wallop, li ke those of Choulderton, lie upon the edges of the Counties of Wilts and S outhampton, and when Dummer, Saltonstall and Rawson, with their English as sociates, had arranged for developing a stock-raising town in New Englan d, they arranged also to secure from co. Wilts and its vicinity the transf er of a colony of practical men not only accustomed to the care of livesto ck, but to the trades which interlaced in the products of a stock-raisi ng community. The matter of first importance was to secure ministers wi th whom the community would feel at home. Rev. Thomas Parker and his relat ives the Noyes family, natives of Choulderton, were secured, and with th em the Wiltshire men were glad to join." "In the will, proved 28 March 16 57 [sic], the names of many of the Poore family are mentioned as cousi ns of the testator, and so is Nicholas Wallingford, who came in the Confid ence from Southampton in 1638, with others--Stephen Kent, John Rolfe, Jo hn Saunders, John and William Ilsley, and more recruits to join their rela tives who established the town of Newbury. Joseph Poore, of Newbury, marri ed, 6 August, 1680, Mary Wallingford, daughter of Nicholas, born 20 [si c] August 1663. Anthony Sadler was a passenger in the same vessel. In t he Visitation of co. Wilts in 1623 are pedigrees of the Sadler fami ly on p. 63. The son and heir of the family given there is Robert Sadle r, born in 1608, who may have been the person mentioned as "brother-in-la w" in the will given above." "The will proved in 1588 contains an instanc e, not uncommon at that period, but a terrible annoyance to genealogist s, of two sons having the same baptismal name--eldest son William, and fo ur youngest sons, among whom is William the younger. The name of Margar et Read recalls the fact that the Read and Noyes family intermarried in t he locality of these testators. From these two wills it seems likely th at the mother of Nicholas Wallingford was a Gore, sister to William who di ed in 1656 and daughter of the William who died in 1587 or 1588. Of cour se she could also be a relation to his wife, and thus a sister-in-law, b ut given that William had four sisters, namely Agnes, Elizabeth, Barbara a nd Margery, it would seem reasonable to believe that he was referring at t he time to his own sister. Nevertheless we shouldn't jump to the conclusi on that Nicholas's mother was a Gore, and his grandparents were William a nd Joane Gore of Nether Wallop. Of the four Gore sisters it appears that M argery/Margaret married a man named Singer, but who the other three marri ed isn't specifically stated. William Gore in 1656 mentions several "cousi ns", including Nicholas Wallingford, so these all may be nieces and nephew s. The term 'cousin' was most often used to mean niece or nephew in tho se days, but was also used to refer to cousins in the modern sense, or ev en some other kind of blood relation. The surnames of Singer, Wallingfor d, Poore, Miller and Hamon are all mentioned as 'cousin'. He mentions h is brother Roger Sherfield, which may indicate the maiden name of his wif e, as well as his uncle Hugh Mundy, which may indicate the maiden na me of his mother. Other scenarios are possible here as well."

Daniels spells name Wallington and also refers to spelling of Warrington..

BIRTH: Wallingfords of New England has birth in Fareham possibly by 30 Mar ch 1630. Some sources erronously have his birth in Newbury, Massachusetts.

BIOGRAPHY: From Wallingfords of New England: Nicholas Wallingford came from England in the ship Confidence from Lond on in 1638, landing in Boston. Customs House records published in the NEH GR are prefaced with the following note: "The List of the Names of the Pas sengrs Intended for New England in the good shipp the Confidence of Lond on of CC [200] tonnes, John Jobson, M[aste]r And thus by vertue of the Lo rd Treasrs warr[an]t of the xjth [11th] of Aprill, 1638. Southampton, 24 A prill, 1638". Among the passengers were Stephen and Margery Kent, husba nd and wife aged 17 and 16 respectively, whose origins in England were n ot stated on the passenger list as were most of the other passengers. [O ne source states the Stephen was from Salisbury, England and his wife Marg ery (Norris) was from Wallopp, co. South.] With them were four young peop le aged 9 through 20 described as servants, as well as "Nicholas Wallingto n, a poore boy", whose age was not given. The fact that he was listed amo ng the servants yet not described as one probably means that he was n ot a servant. In any case from this we can guess that he was probably ag ed in the range of 5 to 15 years old at the time, give or take. A manuscri pt Wallingford genealogy by Charles Wallingford states that the ship's l og gives his age as 19, and one by Samuel Shackford gives his age as 9, b ut no age appears in the published records in the New England Historical a nd Genealogical Register so this is suspect. Pope's "Pioneers of Massachus etts" also gives him a fictitious age of 9. If he was 19 at the time he wo uld have been born about 1619, married at age 35 to a woman about 18 yea rs his junior, had his last child at age 61, and disappeared at sea ag ed in his early 60s. It seems more likely that he was about nine years o ld and born closer to 1630 than to 1620. His whereabouts between his arrival in 1638 and his first appearance in t he records in 1654 is unknown. He was likely a minor until the late 1640 s, and may have been living with another family as a servant or perhaps, g iven his later occupation as seaman, he may have been at sea as a cabin b oy or apprentice seaman. He may very well have stayed with the Kent fami ly with whom he traveled to America. The Kents lived in Newbury. By 1654 Nicholas was living in Newbury, Mass., as he was married the re in August. Also that year "Nicholas Wallington" was one of many Newbu ry residents to sign a petition to the Massachusetts General Court protest ing an action against Lt. Robert Pike of Salisbury. In May of 1653 the Gen eral Court had passed a law making it illegal for anyone to preach in a ny town in the colony without the consent of the elders of four neighbori ng churches or with the approval of the county court. Lt. Robert Pike prot ested this as an infringement on personal rights of freemen and was censur ed by the General Court for seditious speech. He was fined, disenfranchis ed and prohibited from holding public office. This angered many residen ts of the towns of Newbury, Haverhill, Andover, Salisbury and Hampton a nd petitions were circulated in all those towns asking for the penalti es to be rescinded. Most of the freemen in these towns signed the petitio n, which angered the General Court further. Rather than grant the petition ers' request they considered the petitions to be highly censurable. The Co urt did "deeply resent that so many persons of several towns, conditions a nd relations, should combine together to present such an unjust and unreas onable request." They appointed a commission to meet with the petitione rs in each town and "require a reason of their unjust request, and how th ey came to be induced to sign the said petition." In October 1654 Capt. Wi lliam Gerrish and Nicholas Noyes reported back regarding the Newbury petit ioners. The Court ordered the petitioners whose answers to the commissi on they deemed unsatisfactory to appear in court and give bonds to answ er for their offences. Only eight Newbury men were so ordered, and Nichol as Wallingford was not one of them, so he must have been one of the many w ho apologized in some way to the commission for signing the petition. Josh ua Coffin, in his history of Newbury, remarks: "The whole case is a very i nstructive one. It exhibits, on the one hand, the watchful jealousy of t he people in consequence of any supposed, or real, encroachment on their c ivil or eccestial rights; and, on the other hand, the determination of t he magistrates not to have their authority lightly called in question." On October 1, 1659 Richard Window of Gloucester and his wife Bridget, wid ow of Henry Travers, conveyed to Nicholas Wallington of Newbury four acr es and a house formerly belonging to said Travers. The land was border ed on the east by the street going to Merrimack, on the south by the Sou th Street, on the west by Richard Brown's land, and on the north by the la nd of Tristram Coffin. On October 26, 1659 Nicholas turned right around a nd sold the land to John Browne of Newbury. Henry Travers was of course h is father-in-law. Nicholas Wallington witnessed the will of John Cutting of Newbury Octob er 22, 1659. On June 18, 1662 he owned land in the town of Rowley, as sho wn by a lease of that date in which Phillip Nelson of Rowley let to Robe rt Savery and William Bolton of Newbury a farm in Rowley of 300 acres, bou nded on the east by the Newbury town line, on the west by land of "Nicol as Walington", on the north by the Merrimack River, and on the south by Cr ane Meadow. Nicholas Wallington served as surveyor of Highways, fences and chimne ys in Bradford in 1667 with John Hardy. In a Court held at Salem, Mass., June 25, 1667: "Copy of deed, dated Octob er 16, 1661, John (his mark) Willcot of Newbury and Mary, his wife, to Nic olas Wallington of Newbury, the half farm he purchased of Philip Nells on of Rowley, etc. Wit: Joseph Muzzey, Trustram Coffin, Robert Lange, Jo hn Pike, and Hugh Marsh. Acknowledged March 25, 1662, by John Wolcott. Co py made, June 24, 1667, by Robert Lord"(28). At a later Court held in Ipsw ich on September 24, 1667, Nicholas sued John Wolcott for not making go od on this parcel of land. The verdict was for the defendant. In February 1670 Nicholas "Wallinghton" was mentioned in court recor ds as someone who "frequently communed with" members of Mr. Edward Woodman 's church despite not being a member. He took an oath as a freeman in Newb ury on October 11, 1670. In November 1672 he owed 3 pounds to the esta te of Abraham Toppan of Newbury. On February 24, 1672 town orders regardi ng fences, swine, cattle, and horses were signed by five people, includi ng Nicolas Wallingford. No town was stated in this record, but since Bradf ord came into existence in 1675 it was most likely Newbury. "Nicolas Walin gton" was a member of a grand jury in Ipswich, September 25, 1677. By a de ed acknowledged on January 29, 1677/8 he gave one acre of meadow in the Cr ane Meadow, bounded on Crane Brook, "to have an able & faithful ministry s ettle amongst the inhabitants of the s[ai]d Towne of Bradford" (Essex Deed s, 4 Ips.: 130). He settled in Newbury, Massachusetts and, judging by the birth recor ds of his children, was apparently living in Bradford by 1672, which is wh en that town was first named. He may have lived a short time in Rowley, Ma ss., about 1662-3, as evidenced by the fact that he owned land there in 16 62 and one of his childen's birth's was recorded in the Rowley town recor ds (although also in the Newbury town records at the same time). Of cours e, Bradford was originally part of Rowley, known as "Merrimack" or "The Me rrimac Lands", so these lands may have been in what later became Bradfor d.

DEATH: Wallingfords of New England has death in captivity overseas, abo ut 1680 or 1681, in "Argone". Nicholas was a seaman and his last voya ge to sea apparently led to his being captured on his way to England and h is death in captivity. The first word yet found of his disappearan ce is in a letter dated October 24, 1680 from Samuel Sewall of Boston to h is brother Stephen Sewall of Bishop-Stoke, Hampshire, England. At one poi nt in this letter Samuel writes, "Mr. Lidget is well & brisk in London: en quire if he can tell any thing of Nic Wallingford". Samuel Sewall was a ri ch merchant who later became a judge, but in these early years he had rece ntly come of age in the town of Newbury where his father and grandfather w ere early settlers. It seems reasonable to imagine that the Wallingford fa mily appealed to Sewall, having known his family and knowing that they h ad contacts in a wider world who might have word of Nicholas. Sewall lat er was a judge at the Salem witch trails, and eventually Chief Justi ce of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The Mr. Lidget mentioned in the l etter may be either Peter or his son Charles, both merchants from Boston a nd London. More research should be done into these individuals to see if t hey left any more letters with information on Nicholas. Samuel Sewall le ft an extensive diary covering most of his life but, unfortunately, the ye ars which might reveal more information about Wallingford's disappearan ce were lost long ago. Certification of his death by Mr. Thomas Kellon, a merchant, was made to t he court at Ipswich, Mass. on September 27, 1681, and an inventory of h is estate had been made on the 22d. Nicholas had been captured at sea whi le on a voyage to England and died in captivity, so likely died long befo re the news reached home. Evidence for this fact is contained in his proba te files in a 1683 petition from his wife where she states that he "bei ng going for England was taken Captive and there ended his Days". Some sec ondary sources state that he was captured by Barbary pirates, but th is is likely only oral tradition, although perfectly plausible. The invent ory of his estate begins "An Inventory of ye Estate of Nicholaus Wallingfo rd who Deceased in Argone." This would seem to indicate that the name of t he place where he died is called "Argone". Three possible locations for th is would be "Aragon", a part of Spain, "Argonne", a part of France, and "A rguin", a fortified trading station dominating a section of the West Afric an coast, now in Mauritania. Arguin was under contention between the Dut ch and the French about that time and was also being visited by some adven turous English traders. At a court held in Ipswich on September 27, 1681, administration of the es tate of Nicholas Wallingford was granted to Sarah Wallingford, relict of s aid Nicholas, and Caleb Hopkinson, and they were ordered to bring in an in ventory to the next March court. This action was performed "upon a certifi cate received from Mr. Tho. Kellon, merchant, on the death of Nicholas Wal ingford". Nicholas' probate file includes a number of papers, some of which are extr acted or abstracted below: An inventory that was taken on September 22, 1681 by Ezekiel Northen, [Shu ?] Walker, and John Palmer was presented to the court on March 28, 1682: " An Inventory of ye Estate of Nicholaus Wallingford who Deceased in Argon e. in apparill ------------------------------------------ 05-05-0 to books --------------------------------------------- 01-10-0 to Amunition ----------------------------------------- 03-00-0 to beding -------------------------------------------- 14-00-0 to [Sak--?] ------------------------------------------ 01-01-0 to Lumber and fla[x?] ----------------------------- 04-10-0 to Linin -------------------------------------------- 01-00-0 to pewtter brass and Iron in ye house

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03-00-0 to stock in cattel horses and swine

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[55?]--17-0 to utencils for husbandry --------------------------- 04-06-0 to one hundred four

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? and two acres of Land and Meadow with housing --- --- 300-00-0 This Inventory taken ye 22: September 1681 by Ezek Northe and [Shu?] Walk er and John Palmer Debts Due from ye Estate John Wattson --------------------------------- 0- 12-0 John Griffing --------------------------------- 0-10-0 Anthony Somersby: Newbury:

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1-12-9 Ensigne Greinleafe: Newbury:

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0-15-7 John Wicom: Rowley:

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3-10-0 Mr. H

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? Wainwright

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14-10-0 Mr. Jon Wainwright

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1-01-0 Tristram Coffin: Newbury:

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8-8-0 George Kilborne: Rowley

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0-8-0 Caleb Boynton ----------------------------- 0-4-9 Mistis Wi[ston?]: Bradford:

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0-18-0 Rich Bartlet[?]: Newbury:

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0-06-0 John [F---?]: Rowley

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0-05-0 Mr Looke ----------------------------------- 2-0-0 David Merrill Newbury

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0-4-0 Abraham Merrill: Newbury

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0-5-0 Mr. {illeg.] and Mr.

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eth? in silver

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12-0-0 Caleb Hopkinson --------------------------- 9-0-0 more to John Atkinson

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10[s?] [Total] ------------------------------------------- 56-10-1 Debts due to ye estate Abraham Be[lnapper?]

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2-0-6 Rich Hall ------------------------------------ 0-4-0 Will Hardy ----------------------------------- 0-7-0 Joseph [C?]onnor ---------------------------- 2-0-0 Mathew Petingell ---------------------------- 2-0-0 [Ni?]cho Wallingford

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0-[17?]-0 David [Bevison?] ---------------------------- 0-09-0 [Total] ------------------------------------------- 7-19-6 This inventory of the estate of Nicholas Wallingford the Administrators up on oath delivered to be a true Inventory to the best of their knowled ge & if more appears [illeg.] ye court [illeg.] at Ipswich the 28 of Mar ch 1682. Attest Robert Ford clerk for ordering of the estate the court ord ers the estate to be left in the widdows hand for the bringing up the you ng child and the lame child but the land to be responsable to be order ed by the court." His widow petitioned the court: "To the Honored Generall Court sitting at Boston the 16th of May 1683. T he Humble petition of Sarah Wallingford to this Honored Court is as follow eth. Whereas by Gods Providence my Late Deare husband being going for Engl and was taken Captive and there ended his Days, hath left your poore handm aid with her children sivirall of whom Small & not Capable to doe anythi ng towards a livily hood; the Court at Ipswich having Granted Administrati on to myself of the estate which is most of it is wilderness land; not abo ve two acres of said land in Improvement. I [cannot tell?] which was to ma ke any releise of it for our subsistance; the rest of the moveable esta te being so little not sufficient to pay Debts which can be spared; and f or our support I am still [illeg.] running into Debt: The Humble reque st of your petitioner is, that this Court would Impower your petition er or some other [meet?] person to make sale of some part of the Land f or releife of the family and to pay what Debts are yet unpaid; for it is [ conceived?] that it will be more advantageous [yet land it?] sold to pay D ebts than to have it taken away by the Creditors and that [land?] it be di sposed of for releife then to be under-- [illeg.] all want the estate is v allued at a very high rate and some think it will not be valued at about h alf so much [as?] it is [appraised?] at, if it be taken by Execution; If s ome speedy Course be not taken, I know not which way to subsist, but mu st fall into the hands of others for releife, therefore in trust that G od may [illeg.] to that wch may be best for our pro-- [illeg.] & future be nefitt for which yor humble Petitioner shall pray. Sarah Wallingford There [or then?] was my son in law named put into the letter of Administra tion but he will not undertake nor be engatged unless there be [illeg.] gi ven, to sell some land to pay Debts & relieve us." The court granted Caleb Hopkinson & Sarah Wallingford administrators "libe rty to make sale of part of the Land belonging to sd estate to the val ew of forty pounds according to Inventory already Given in." On 28 March 1682 the probate court ordered that Nicholas' personal esta te be left in the widow Sarah's hands "for the bringing up of the young ch ild and the lame child". The young child is likely Abigail, who would ha ve been less than two years old at the time. But the "lame" child is unide ntified. If one assumes that a "lame" or handicapped child would not ha ve married (perhaps a false assumption) that leaves either William or Jose ph, who died unmarried, or Hannah, about whom it is not known whether or n ot she ever married. On 22 April 1691 the Essex Co. Quarterly Court at Ipswich ratified an agre ement between the widow Sarah, her sons James and John Wallingford and h er son-in-law Caleb Hopkinson to set out the remainder of the estate of Ni cholas to the widow and children. Sarah had renounced her rights to the wi dow's thirds for some reason, so a committee consisting of Samuel Hazeltin e, David Hazeltine and Richard Kimball was created to redistribute the rem ainder of the estate.(42) On 3 November 1709, a few months after Sarah die d, "the Children of Nicholas Wallingford, late of Bradford, Deceasd" petit ioned the government to affirm the division of the estate that was done ba ck in 1691. This was signed by Caleb Hopkinson (husband to Sarah), Nathani el Caldwell (husband to Abigail), Jonathan Look (husband to Elizabeth), Ja mes Wallingford, Benjamin Wallingford, Nathaniel Ayers (husband to Esthe r) and Joseph Poore (husband to Mary). James Wallingford was the only o ne to make a mark rather than sign. Apparently their brother and brother-i n-law John Wallingford, who had agreed to the earlier 1691 division, was n ow attempting to void his mother's title to certain lands that she h ad at some point sold, claiming that the land was only hers during her lif etime, which, the petitioners claimed, "could not bee so Intended or under stood". The Massachusetts Legislature granted their petition.(43) The leg al papers that must have been generated by John haven't been seen yet. picture Sarah Poore

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          Born: June 5, 1651 - Andover, Massachusetts

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Father: Daniel Poor Poor 1 2 3

        Mother: Mary Farnham 1 2 3