Stephen Iggleden, III

• 'Stephen Eggleston
• 'M, d. 1638
• Father Stephen Igleden b. 5 Apr 1582, d. Nov 1624
• Mother Sarah Haffenden
• ' Stephen Eggleston was christened at Biddenden, Kent, England. He married Elizabeth Bennett on 30 November 1628 at Biddenden, Kent, England. Stephen Eggleston died in 1638 at Castle ship at sea.
• 'Family Elizabeth Bennett b. c 1608
• Children
  • ◦John Eggleston b. 1629, d. 1660
  • ◦Sarah Eggleston+ b. 1630, d. a 1676
  • ◦Ruth Eggleston b. 8 Nov 1631, d. 14 Oct 1703
  • ◦Elizabeth Eggleston b. 1634
  • ◦(Daughter) Eggleston b. 1636, d. 1646
  • ◦Richard Eggleston b. 1638
• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p40.htm#i1195
• _________

Stephen Iggleden, baptised at Biddenden, 17 January 1607/8; dead by 1638 (perhaps died on ship en route to America); Married at Benenden, 30 November 1628, Elizabeth Bennett, who is said to have emigrated to America with her daughters per "Castle", 1638, arriving as a widow, and to have married secondly at Roxbury, Mass., 10 April 1642 Joseph Patchen (arrived per "Hercules", 1634, as servant to Thomas Besbeech); Elizabeth died at Roxbury, 10 March 1680/1; buried at Fairfield, Connecticut.

Died in 1638 at sea on board the Castle bound for New England.

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Source <http://www.genealogy.theroyfamily.com/p237.htm>

Stephen Iggleston, baptised at Biddenden, 17 January 1607/8; dead by 1638 (perhaps died on ship en route to America); Married at Benenden, 30 November 1628, Elizabeth Bennett, who is said to have emigrated to America with her daughters per "Castle", 1638, arriving as a widow, and to have married secondly at Roxbury, Mass., 10 April 1642 Joseph Patchen (arrived per "Hercules", 1634, as servant to Thomas Besbeech); Elizabeth died at Roxbury, 10 March 1680/1; buried at Fairfield, Connecticut.

Died in 1638 at sea on board the Castle bound for New England.

5th GENERATION 896 - SAMUEL BLODGETT

Born bpt 12 July 1633 Stowmarket, County Suffolk, England (7), a son of Thomas Blodgett and Susan___________.

died 21 May 1720 at Woburn, MA. (7g)

married 13 Dec 1655 (7g) Ruth Iggledon.

897 RUTH IGGLEDON (Eggleston)

born ca 1632 (4, Vol. XVI, p 386).

died 14 Oct 1703 at Woburn, MA (7g).

Samuel Blodgett was born in England but at the tender age of one and a half emigrated to New England with his parents and four year old brother, Daniel. His family settled at Cambridge, first known as Newtown. His father died in 1642 when Samuel was only nine years of age. Within a year his mother remarried and the family removed to Woburn, the domicile of his stepfather, James Thompson.

Samuel was made a freeman in Woburn 18 April 1690. (5, Vol. 3, p 349) He was a selectman during the 1690s - 90, 91, 93, 95, 96, 97, and in 1703. (7) He was deputy to the General Court in 1673 and was assessed from 166___ to 1719.

His wife, Ruth, was thought to have been a daughter of Stephen Igglede _ n. (6, p 203) Stephen died on the passage to New England on board the "Castle" in 1638. A fellow passenger on the ship, Peter Branch, in a will dated 16 June 1638, left the widow of Stephen 5 pounds: "give to Widowe Igleden the late wife of Stephen Igleden or to his children or to her children she had by him five pounds." (5, Col. II, p 183)

According to Savage, besides Ruth, Stephen and Elizabeth Iggledon had Sarah who m 28 Aug 1650 John Nutting of Woburn, Richard m 19 July 1660 Ann Prince, Elizabeth m Philip Meadows, and a daughter who died in Roxbury on 20 Oct 1646, age 10 years. Savage also thought the family came from County Kent in England.

A widow Iggulden was a proprietor at Roxbury in 1639. The New England Historical Society, Vol. 2, p 53 states that the Widow Iggulden was a land owner from 1634 to 1643 and had 22 acres. On 18 April 1642 she married 2) Joseph Patchman and bore him two sons. These dates would conflict with the arrival of Stephen Iggleden's family on the "Castle" in 16 _þ38 and perhaps these two widows were two different women.

Banks in PLANTERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH lists Elizabeth Iggleden, Jane Iggleden, Sarah Iggleden and John Iggleden in a family headed by Thomas

Besbeech of Sandwich who settled in Cambridge. Also with the group was Joseph Paeheing (Patchen) who could have been the Joseph Patchman mentioned in the preceding paragraph. They were said to have sailed on the "Hercules".

Thompson gave the surname of Ruth as Eggleston in his record and said she was a daughter of Jane Eggleston Britton Cole. A Buell family history stated Ruth was the daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth (Bennett) Iggleston.

Increase Mather related an interesting story involving Ruth Blodgett in "A Brief History of the Vvar with the Indians in New England from June 24, 1675 to August 12, 1676". In this particular tale he was telling about several strange happenings in the Colony which the people had taken as omens or forewarnings of this conflict. Of added interest is that the spelling _ of the name Blodgett was the old spelling Bloghead.

"June 15. This day was seen at Plimouth the perfect form of an Indian bow appearing in the air; which the Inhabitants of that place (at least some of them) look upon, as a Prodigious Apparition. The like was taken notice of, a little before the Fort Fight in the Narraganset Country. Who knoweth but that it may be an Omen of ruine to the enemy, and that the Lord will break the bow ahd spear asunder, and make wars to cease unto the ends of the earth? Nor is this (may I here take occasion a little to digress, in order to the inserting of some things, hitherto no so much observed, as it may be they ought to be ) the first prodigy that hath been taken notice of in New England. It is common observation, verified by the experience of many ages, that great and publick calamities seldom come upon any place without Prodigious warnings to forerun and signifie what is to be expected. I am slow to believe Rumors of this nature, nevertheless some things I have certain Information of.

(examples)

"And now that I am upon this Disgression, let me add, that the monstrous births which have at sundry times happened, are speaking solemn providences. Especially that which was at Woburn Febru 23, 1670, when the wife of Joseph Wright was delivered of a Creature, the form thereof was as followeth. 'The head, neck and arms in true form and shape of a child, but it had no breast bone nor any back bone, the belly was of an extraordinary bigness, both the sides and back being like a belly, the thighs were very small without any thigh bones; it had no buttocks, the membrum mirile was a meer bone; it had no passage for nature in any part below; the feet turned directly outward, the heels turned up, and like a bone. It being opened, there were found two great lumps of flesh on the sides of the seeming belly; the bowels did lie on the upper part of the breast by Vitals.' This was testified before the Deputy Governor Mr. Willoughby on the 2d of March following, by Mrs. Johnson, midwife, Mary Kendal, Ruth Bloghead, Lydia Kendal. Seen also by Capt. Edward Johnson, Lieut John Carter, Henry Brook, James Thomas, Isaac Cole.

"There are judicious persons who upon the consideration of some relative circumstances, in that monstrous birth, have concluded that God did thereby witness against the Disorders of some in that place. As in the days of our Fathers, it was apprehended that God did teltitie from heaven against the monstrous Familistical opinions that were then stirring, by that direful monster which was brought forth by the wife of William Dyer, Octo 17, 1637, a description whereof may be seen in Mr. Welds his History of the Rise and Ruin of Antinomianism p. 43,44 and in Mr. Clarks Exampler vol. l p. 249.

"Certainly God would have such providences to be observed and recorded; He doth not send such things for nothing, or that no notice should be taken of them and therefore was I willing to give a true account thereof, hoping that thereby mistaken and false report _þs may be prevented."

Children of Samuel Blodgett and Ruth Iggledon (Eggleston): (All events and dates are from Woburn Vital Records unless stated otherwise.)

1. Ruth Blodgett, born 28 Dec 1656, died 18 Dec 1695, married 1673 Thomas Kendall, b 10 Jan 1649, d 25 May 1730, s/o Frances and Mary (Tidd) Kendall, 10 children. He m 2) 30 Mar 1696 Abigail (Raynor) Broughton.

2. Samuel Blodgett - Ancestor 448

3. Thomas Blodgett, born 26 Feb 1661, died 29 Sept 1740 at Lexington, married 11 Nov 1685 Rebecca Tidd, d/o John and Rebecca (Wood) Tidd, 8 children.

4. Susannah Blodgett, born 17 Feb 1664/5, died 9 Feb 1715, married, 29 Dec 1685 James Simonds, b 1 Nov 1658, d 15 Sept 1717, s/o William and Judith (Phippen) (Hayward) Simons and brother to Huldah Simonds who m Samuel Blodgett, Susannah's brother and Ancestor 448, 6 children.

5. Sarah Blodgett, born 17 Feb 1668, married 7 Jan 1687 John Hayward of Concord, MA, cousin of James who m Judith Phippen. He was b 1652, d 1718, s/o John and Rebecca (Atkinson) Hayward or Haywood, 11 children.

6. Martha Blodgett, born 15 Sept 1673, married 7 Apr 1696 Joseph Winn, b 15 May 1671, 6 children.

7. Mary Blodgett, born 15 Sept 1673, died 11 Mar 1752, married 24 Oct 1693 at Charlestown, MA (Woburn VR) Joseph Richardson, b 19 May 1672 at Woburn, d 5 Dec 1754, s/o Joseph and Hannah (Green) Richardson, 10 children.

References:

1. Banks, Charles Edward. THE PLANTERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH, 1620-1640. The Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore.

2. Curtis, Harlow Dunham. THE DESCENDENTS OF THOMAS BUELL, Pioneer of Madison County, New York. Portland, Oregon, N.D. Buell, 1956.

3. Mather, Increase. "A Brief History of the Vvar with the Indians in New England from June 24, 1675 to August 12, 1676"; printed for Richard Christwell, 1676. University Microfilm, American Cultural Series No. 75, Roll 7. Original in the Wm. L. Clements library, University of Michigan, Ann, Arbor, MI, pgs. 34-35.

4. National Society of Daughters of American Colonists. LINEAGE BOOK, Vol. II, p 58 - #1145 and p 129 - #1337; Vol. XVI, p 386 - #391.

5. New England Historical and Genealogical Register Vol. III, p 349 - Freemen of Woburn Vol. II, p 183 - Abstracts of Earliest Wills p 53 - land owners of Roxbury

6. Savage, James. A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND, Vol. 1, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1965.

7. Thompson, Rev. Franklin C. BLODGET-BLODGETT GENEALOGY, Descendents of Thomas of Cambridge. LDS Film # 0896868, no date given.

References cited in this work applicable to this ancestor:

a. Hazen Family History

b. Cran and Williams, Hist. Worchester County, MA

c Danvers Historical Collection, Vol. 12, p 41.

d. Blodgett, I.D. Asahel Blodgett

e. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 59, p 145 and 417; Vol. 65, p 174; Vol. 39, p 388; Vol. 57, p 534, Vol. 87, p 285.

f. Vinton, Richardson Memorial.

g. Woburn Vital Records

8. Virkus, Frederick, ed. THE ABRIDGED COMPENDIUM OF AMERICAN GENEALOGY, Vol. III, 1928. F.A. Virkus and Co., 440-442 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, IL.

GEDCOM Note

From http://waltervanness.com/Mayflower-o/p10.htm:
FatherStephen Iggleden b. 5 Apr 1582, d. Nov 1624MotherSarah Haffenden b. 10 Feb 1588, d. 8 Jul 1689
Stephen Eggleston lived at USA.3 He was born on 17 July 1608 at Biddenden, Kent, England.2 He married Elizabeth Bennett, daughter of Johannis Bennett, on 30 November 1628 at Biddenden, Kent, England.2 Stephen Eggleston died in June 1634 at aboard the ship 'Castle' in the Atlantic at age 25.FamilyElizabeth Bennett b. 1602, d. 10 Mar 1681Child· Ruth Eggleton+ b. 8 Nov 1631, d. 14 Oct 1703
Citations· [S68] Unknown author, Supplement II to Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors and War ServiceSupplement.
· [S3] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Source number: 176.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number ofPages: 1; Submitter Code: GV1.
· [S69] Ancestry.com, Lamont-Eldredge family records.
· [S2] Unknown author, Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Trees.