William Chadbourne, of Berwick

Burial record:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46651181/william-chadbourne

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William Chadbourne

• Baptized: Mar 30 1582 - Tamworth, Stafford, England
• Death: after Nov 16 1652 - Kittery, York County, Maine
• Parents: Robert Chadbourne, Margaret Dooley
• Wife: Elizabeth Sparry

He built the Great House at Strawberry Banke in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and the first water powered saw mill in the United States at Great Works, South Berwick Maine 

1. WILLIAM1 CHADBOURNE (Robert), baptized Church of St Editha, Tamworth, Warwickshire, England 30 Mar 1582 (Tamworth parish register); died after his last appearance in Maine 16 Nov 1652 (qv); married Tamworth 8 Oct 1609 (ibid) ELIZABETH SPARRY, born perhaps about 1589, died after 1 Jun 1623 (birth of her last known child, Tamworth parish register). Her parentage has not been discovered; however, her surname is common in Staffordshire. William was the son of Robert and Margery or Margaret (Dooley) Chadbourne of Preston, Lancashire, and Tamworth, Warwickshire, England.

From Old Berwick Historical Society

In July 1634, William Chadbourne, James Wall and John Goddard, three English carpenters under contract with Capt. John Mason's Laconia Company, arrived in present-day South Berwick, Maine, from England aboard the vessel "Pied Cow." Their contract called for them to build a saw mill and grist mill on on what was then called the Asbenbedick or Little Newichawannock River. (Source: The Chadbourne Family in America: A Genealogy, 1994, compiled by Elaine C. Bacon for The Chadbourne Family Association, and edited by Deborah L. Chadbourne).

The sawmill they built, thought to be the first over-shot water-powered site in America, was located in the "Rocky Gorge" below today's Brattle Street bridge.

About 15 years later the first mill, fallen into disuse, passed to an English engineer named Richard Leader, who had directed the Saugus Iron Works in Massachusetts.  Leader acquired about 25 Scottish soldiers captured at the September, 1650, battle of Dunbar, Scotland, and put them to work on a gang of up to 20 saws.  The increased output inspired the name Great Works for the site and the river.  Local 17th century deeds (Patience Spencer) referred to the mill site on the steep falls as the "Great mill works."

The photo was taken in 1989 from the Brattle Street bridge in South Berwick above the Great Works River falls at Rocky Gorge. These buildings were built in the mid-1800s. The brick mill building at right was torn down in the 1990s.

In the 19th century, the site was still called Great Works and was even served by a railroad station by that name.  Factories known as the Rocky Gorge Mill, the Newichawannock Mill and others processed wool and produced blankets.  These mills operated into the mid-1900s.  Electricity is still generated to this day.

From SHIPS AND PASSENGERS...... 1635.......TRUELOVE.....PIED COW......HOPEWELL

PIED COW...nothing is known of this vessel, the time of departure or arrival, except what is given below:

• Baldwin,James
• Baldwin,Williams
• Bills, Robert....32..husbandman...to Charlestown
• Harrison,William...55..certified at by Sir Edward Spencer "residnt of Bramford"

Biography

From [http://www.chadbourne.org/Genealogy.html Chadbourne.org]

William arrived in New England aboard the Pied Cow 8 Jul 1634 (vide post) with James Wall and John Goddard. The three were under contract with Capt John Mason of London's Laconia Company, a joint-stock company seeking profits in the new world. The purpose of the contract, dated 16 Mar 1633/4, was to build mills in Berwick. William was referred to as a housewright or master carpenter. The men began to build the first water-powered saw mill and grist mill in New England on 22 Jul 1634.

James Wall, carpenter and millwright, deposed on 21 May 1652 that about the year 1634 he and his partners William Chadbourne and John Goddard, carpenters, came over to Mason's land on his account and their own, that Mr [Henry] Joslyn, Mason's agent, brought them to certain lands at Asbenbedick Falls, as the Indians called the place, later the Great Works River in Berwick, where they carried on a sawmill and a stamping mill for corn three or four years. Wall built a house there and Chadbourne built another (Pope, The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623 to 1660, 218-19).

The house William built may be the one said by Stackpole in 1926 to be the oldest house in Maine. Part of its foundation is under the present house on the northwest corner of Brattle and Vine Streets on the road from the Lower Landing (Hamilton House) to the original mill site at Asbenbedick (later Great Works) Falls. William Chadbourne deeded the home to his son-in-law, Thomas Spencer, and a nice picture of it appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript of 25 Jun 1938. Other accounts suggest that the property occupied by Spencer was actually a second, later house, and that the early home stood in the northwesterly angle of the intersection of Brattle Street leading to the mouth of the Great Works River and the highway to Eliot.

The Asbenbedick Great Works was the site of a mill with nineteen saws built by the Leader brothers in the 1650s. The river was called Chadbournes River by many before and after, due to the Chadbourne dam and mill erected downstream in the late 1630s.

A copy of the Mason contract referred to above survives in the MA Archives 3:437. It stipulates that they were to stay five years and receive three fourths of the profits from the mills and own three fourths of the houses, which Mason was to furnish. At the termination of the contract they were to have fifty acres on lease for the term of "three lives" at the annual rent of three bushels of corn.

The articles brought on the vessel, which were taken from the company's store were: one great iron kettle, for which Thomas Spencer was responsible, Irish blankets, one Kilkenny rug, one pair of sheets, one pentado coverlet, one brass kettle and seven spoons.

It is not clear when other members of William's family arrived. His daughter Patience may have preceded him, since her husband Thomas Spencer came four years earlier and they may have had children between 1630 and 1634. Mason's list of stewards and workmen sent contains the names "William Chadborn, William Chadborn, jun., and Humphry Chadborn," but also indicates twenty-two women who are unnamed. It is known that the Pied Cow had made at least one crossing in 1631 and that the bark Warwick had made several early crossings, all for Capt Mason, but it is unlikely that William came on any of these trips, given the phrasing of Wall's deposition which implies that he came in about 1634 (NEHGR 21:223-4).

Elizabeth is mentioned only in the couple's marriage record. It is not known when or where she died. She may have come to Maine, for there is no burial record for her in Tamworth; however, no account of her has been found in the New World. Some have conjectured that William may have returned to England after deeding his Berwick homestead to son-in-law Thomas Spencer. No record of William's death has been located in England or Maine.

In 1640, he and his sons were listed as NH residents (NHPP, Vol 1) before purchasing land in Kittery in those regions now called S Berwick and Eliot. Both William Sr and William Jr were in Boston in 1643 (LND, 134).

The Chadbournes, like the other people brought to ME by Mason, were not dissenters from the Church of England, emigrating for religious freedom, as was the case with most of the settlers in New England in this period. William's father Robert, raised Catholic, professed to fear God as his reason for not attending the Church of England; but William's family were members of the Church of England who perhaps intended to return to England after the terms of Mason's contract were fulfilled. Indeed, that may be what William and Elizabeth Chadbourne did.

William Chadbourne, as a respected master carpenter and housewright, may have been contracted to build the so-called Great House at Strawbery Banke (now Portsmouth NH) used to house the Laconia Company's stores and serve as a dwelling for the company workmen. The site of this building has recently been found, near the present Stawbery Banke village historic site. Claims have been made in published sources that the Great House was built by William's son Humphrey circa 1631. Humphrey was said to have come on the Warwick in 1631, and no evidence has been found of William's arrival before 1634. An error could have occurred because of a poorly-written paragraph in James Sullivan's book, The History of the District of Maine , published in Boston MA in 1795, where William1, who built the Great House, and Humprhey2, who purchased land from Mr Rowles, are rolled into one. If Humphrey was baptized as an infant in 1615 he would have been sixteen at the time the Great House was built. He may very well have worked on it, although it is more likely that his father was given the contract for its building. The contract hasn't survived and which of the Chadbournes was responsible for the building remains conjecture.

One William Chadbourne was admitted an inhabitant to the town of Portsmouth RI 25 February 1642[/3] (The Early Records of the Town of Portsmouth, Providence RI: The RI Historical Society, 1901, 19). He was granted land there in 1642 (ibid, 11), but the grant was not finalized, and it is doubtful he ever resided there. He was certainly gone by 28 Sep 1647 (ibid, 36). This may have been another William Chadbourne who is known to have come from Winchcombe (see discussion on this man in the Appendix).

On 3 Mar 1650/1, William and his sons, with others, were accused by Mrs Ann (Green) Mason, widow of Capt John Mason, of embezzling her husband's estate. The claim was based on a contract which was not honored by either party because of the death of Capt Mason, and also based on the first recorded Indian deed in ME in 1643. The Chadbourne claim was upheld by the selectmen of Kittery and the Government of the Massachusetts Bay in New England.

On 4 May 1652, William Chadbourne was one of the chosen men assigned to a Kittery committee to pick a lot and build a meeting house. He was the first signer of the Kittery Act of Submission, 16 November 1652. We have no certain record of William after this date.

Children (parish records, St Editha, Tamworth), surname CHADBOURNE:

     i.    WILLIAM2, bpt Tamworth, Warwickshire 30 Sept 1610; bur there 18 Apr 1616

2. ii. PATIENCE, bpt Tamworth 8 Nov 1612, mar. Thomas SPENCER

3. iii. HUMPHREY, bpt Tamworth 23 Apr 1615.

     iv.  SUSANNAH, bpt Tamworth 22 Feb 1617/8; bur Tamworth 26 Apr 1618.

4. v. WILLIAM, bpt Tamworth 15 Oct 1620.

     vi.   ROBERT, bpt Tamworth 1 June 1623; bur Tamworth 19 Jan 1626/7.

NOTE that the place "Winchcombe if erroneous for these Chadbournes, and likely also for Thomas Spencer.}

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This is from the Chadbourne.org website:

First Generation [from our 1994 book]

1. WILLIAM1 CHADBOURNE (RobertA), baptized Church of St Editha, Tamworth, Warwickshire, England 30 Mar 1582 (Tamworth parish register); died after his last appearance in Maine 16 Nov 1652 (qv); married Tamworth 8 Oct 1609 (ibid) ELIZABETH SPARRY, born perhaps about 1589, died after 1 Jun 1623 (birth of her last known child, Tamworth parish register). Her parentage has not been discovered; however, her surname is common in Staffordshire. William was the son of Robert and Margery or Margaret (Dooley) Chadbourne of Preston, Lancashire, and Tamworth, Warwickshire, England.

William arrived in New England aboard the Pied Cow 8 Jul 1634 (vide post) with James Wall and John Goddard. The three were under contract with Capt John Mason of London's Laconia Company, a joint-stock company seeking profits in the new world. The purpose of the contract, dated 16 Mar 1633/4, was to build mills in Berwick. William was referred to as a housewright or master carpenter. The men began to build the first water-powered saw mill and grist mill in New England on 22 Jul 1634.

James Wall, carpenter and millwright, deposed on 21 May 1652 that about the year 1634 he and his partners William Chadbourne and John Goddard, carpenters, came over to Mason's land on his account and their own, that Mr [Henry] Joslyn, Mason's agent, brought them to certain lands at Asbenbedick Falls, as the Indians called the place, later the Great Works River in Berwick, where they carried on a sawmill and a stamping mill for corn three or four years. Wall built a house there and Chadbourne built another (Pope, The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623 to 1660, 218-19).

The house William built may be the one said by Stackpole in 1926 to be the oldest house in Maine. Part of its foundation is under the present house on the northwest corner of Brattle and Vine Streets on the road from the Lower Landing (Hamilton House) to the original mill site at Asbenbedick (later Great Works) Falls. William Chadbourne deeded the home to his son-in-law, Thomas Spencer, and a nice picture of it appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript of 25 Jun 1938. Other accounts suggest that the property occupied by Spencer was actually a second, later house, and that the early home stood in the northwesterly angle of the intersection of Brattle Street leading to the mouth of the Great Works River and the highway to Eliot.

The Asbenbedick Great Works was the site of a mill with nineteen saws built by the Leader brothers in the 1650s. The river was called Chadbournes River by many before and after, due to the Chadbourne dam and mill erected downstream in the late 1630s.

A copy of the Mason contract referred to above survives in the MA Archives 3:437. It stipulates that they were to stay five years and receive three fourths of the profits from the mills and own three fourths of the houses, which Mason was to furnish. At the termination of the contract they were to have fifty acres on lease for the term of "three lives" at the annual rent of three bushels of corn.

The articles brought on the vessel, which were taken from the company's store were: one great iron kettle, for which Thomas Spencer was responsible, Irish blankets, one Kilkenny rug, one pair of sheets, one pentado coverlet, one brass kettle and seven spoons.

It is not clear when other members of William's family arrived. His daughter Patience may have preceded him, since her husband Thomas Spencer came four years earlier and they may have had children between 1630 and 1634. Mason's list of stewards and workmen sent contains the names "William Chadborn, William Chadborn, jun., and Humphry Chadborn," but also indicates twenty-two women who are unnamed. It is known that the Pied Cow had made at least one crossing in 1631 and that the bark Warwick had made several early crossings, all for Capt Mason, but it is unlikely that William came on any of these trips, given the phrasing of Wall's deposition which implies that he came in about 1634 (NEHGR 21:223-4).

Elizabeth is mentioned only in the couple's marriage record. It is not known when or where she died. She may have come to Maine, for there is no burial record for her in Tamworth; however, no account of her has been found in the New World. Some have conjectured that William may have returned to England after deeding his Berwick homestead to son-in-law Thomas Spencer. No record of William's death has been located in England or Maine.

In 1640, he and his sons were listed as NH residents (NHPP, Vol 1) before purchasing land in Kittery in those regions now called S Berwick and Eliot. Both William Sr and William Jr were in Boston in 1643 (LND, 134).

The Chadbournes, like the other people brought to ME by Mason, were not dissenters from the Church of England, emigrating for religious freedom, as was the case with most of the settlers in New England in this period. William's father Robert, raised Catholic, professed to fear God as his reason for not attending the Church of England; but William's family were members of the Church of England who perhaps intended to return to England after the terms of Mason's contract were fulfilled. Indeed, that may be what William and Elizabeth Chadbourne did.

William Chadbourne, as a respected master carpenter and housewright, may have been contracted to build the so-called Great House at Strawbery Banke (now Portsmouth NH) used to house the Laconia Company's stores and serve as a dwelling for the company workmen. The site of this building has recently been found, near the present Stawbery Banke village historic site. Claims have been made in published sources that the Great House was built by William's son Humphrey circa 1631. Humphrey was said to have come on the Warwick in 1631, and no evidence has been found of William's arrival before 1634. An error could have occurred because of a poorly-written paragraph in James Sullivan's book, The History of the District of Maine , published in Boston MA in 1795, where William1, who built the Great House, and Humprhey2, who purchased land from Mr Rowles, are rolled into one. If Humphrey was baptized as an infant in 1615 he would have been sixteen at the time the Great House was built. He may very well have worked on it, although it is more likely that his father was given the contract for its building. The contract hasn't survived and which of the Chadbournes was responsible for the building remains conjecture.

One William Chadbourne was admitted an inhabitant to the town of Portsmouth RI 25 February 1642[/3] (The Early Records of the Town of Portsmouth, Providence RI: The RI Historical Society, 1901, 19). He was granted land there in 1642 (ibid, 11), but the grant was not finalized, and it is doubtful he ever resided there. He was certainly gone by 28 Sep 1647 (ibid, 36). This may have been another William Chadbourne who is known to have come from Winchcombe (see discussion on this man in the Appendix).

On 3 Mar 1650/1, William and his sons, with others, were accused by Mrs Ann (Green) Mason, widow of Capt John Mason, of embezzling her husband's estate. The claim was based on a contract which was not honored by either party because of the death of Capt Mason, and also based on the first recorded Indian deed in ME in 1643. The Chadbourne claim was upheld by the selectmen of Kittery and the Government of the Massachusetts Bay in New England.

On 4 May 1652, William Chadbourne was one of the chosen men assigned to a Kittery committee to pick a lot and build a meeting house. He was the first signer of the Kittery Act of Submission, 16 November 1652. We have no certain record of William after this date.

Children (parish records, St Editha, Tamworth), surname CHADBOURNE:

     i.    WILLIAM2, bpt Tamworth, Warwickshire 30 Sept 1610; bur there 18 Apr 1616 

2. ii. PATIENCE, bpt Tamworth 8 Nov 1612, mar. Thomas SPENCER

3. iii. HUMPHREY, bpt Tamworth 23 Apr 1615.

     iv.  SUSANNAH, bpt Tamworth 22 Feb 1617/8; bur Tamworth 26 Apr 1618. 

4. v. WILLIAM, bpt Tamworth 15 Oct 1620.

     vi.   ROBERT, bpt Tamworth 1 June 1623; bur Tamworth 19 Jan 1626/7.

NOTE that the place "Winchcombe if erroneous for these Chadbournes, and likely also for Thomas Spencer.}

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As stated in "Thomas Joy and His Descendants" by Thomas R. Joy published by James Richard Joy, Plainfield, NJ, July 4, 1900; compiled by James Richard Joy, New York:

"Patience Spencer was the widow of Thomas Spencer, who was sent over by [John] Mason to Piscataqua in 1630, and the daughter of William Chadbourne, who, March 14, 1633-34, with his partners, James Wall and John Goddard, signed an agreement (a duplicate original in Massachusettes Archives 3,437) with John Mason to go over and remain five years, they to have three quarters of the profits from the mills and own three quarters of the houses which [John] Mason was to furnish. They came over with Henry Jocelyn in the 'Pide Cow', arriving at Portsmouth July 8, 1634. Her brother, Humphrey Chadbourne, remembers her affectionately in his will May 6, 1667. Widow Spencer kept an inn at Saco, 1662."

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WILLIAM1 CHADBOURNE (RobertA), baptized Church of St Editha, Tamworth, Warwickshire, England 30 Mar 1582 (Tamworth parish register); died after his last appearance in Maine 16 Nov 1652 (qv); married Tamworth 8 Oct 1609 (ibid) ELIZABETH SPARRY, born perhaps about 1589, died after 1 Jun 1623 (birth of her last known child, Tamworth parish register). Her parentage has not been discovered; however, her surname is common in Staffordshire. William was the son of Robert and Margery or Margaret (Dooley) Chadbourne of Preston, Lancashire, and Tamworth, Warwickshire, England.

William arrived in New England aboard the Pied Cow 8 Jul 1634 (vide post) with James Wall and John Goddard. The three were under contract with Capt John Mason of London's Laconia Company, a joint-stock company seeking profits in the new world. The purpose of the contract, dated 16 Mar 1633/4, was to build mills in Berwick. William was referred to as a housewright or master carpenter. The men began to build the first water-powered saw mill and grist mill in New England on 22 Jul 1634.

James Wall, carpenter and millwright, deposed on 21 May 1652 that about the year 1634 he and his partners William Chadbourne and John Goddard, carpenters, came over to Mason's land on his account and their own, that Mr [Henry] Joslyn, Mason's agent, brought them to certain lands at Asbenbedick Falls, as the Indians called the place, later the Great Works River in Berwick, where they carried on a sawmill and a stamping mill for corn three or four years. Wall built a house there and Chadbourne built another (Pope, The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623 to 1660, 218-19).

The house William built may be the one said by Stackpole in 1926 to be the oldest house in Maine. Part of its foundation is under the present house on the northwest corner of Brattle and Vine Streets on the road from the Lower Landing (Hamilton House) to the original mill site at Asbenbedick (later Great Works) Falls. William Chadbourne deeded the home to his son-in-law, Thomas Spencer, and a nice picture of it appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript of 25 Jun 1938. Other accounts suggest that the property occupied by Spencer was actually a second, later house, and that the early home stood in the northwesterly angle of the intersection of Brattle Street leading to the mouth of the Great Works River and the highway to Eliot.

The Asbenbedick Great Works was the site of a mill with nineteen saws built by the Leader brothers in the 1650s. The river was called Chadbournes River by many before and after, due to the Chadbourne dam and mill erected downstream in the late 1630s.

A copy of the Mason contract referred to above survives in the MA Archives 3:437. It stipulates that they were to stay five years and receive three fourths of the profits from the mills and own three fourths of the houses, which Mason was to furnish. At the termination of the contract they were to have fifty acres on lease for the term of "three lives" at the annual rent of three bushels of corn.

The articles brought on the vessel, which were taken from the company's store were: one great iron kettle, for which Thomas Spencer was responsible, Irish blankets, one Kilkenny rug, one pair of sheets, one pentado coverlet, one brass kettle and seven spoons.

It is not clear when other members of William's family arrived. His daughter Patience may have preceded him, since her husband Thomas Spencer came four years earlier and they may have had children between 1630 and 1634. Mason's list of stewards and workmen sent contains the names "William Chadborn, William Chadborn, jun., and Humphry Chadborn," but also indicates twenty-two women who are unnamed. It is known that the Pied Cow had made at least one crossing in 1631 and that the bark Warwick had made several early crossings, all for Capt Mason, but it is unlikely that William came on any of these trips, given the phrasing of Wall's deposition which implies that he came in about 1634 (NEHGR 21:223-4).

Elizabeth is mentioned only in the couple's marriage record. It is not known when or where she died. She may have come to Maine, for there is no burial record for her in Tamworth; however, no account of her has been found in the New World. Some have conjectured that William may have returned to England after deeding his Berwick homestead to son-in-law Thomas Spencer. No record of William's death has been located in England or Maine.

In 1640, he and his sons were listed as NH residents (NHPP, Vol 1) before purchasing land in Kittery in those regions now called S Berwick and Eliot. Both William Sr and William Jr were in Boston in 1643 (LND, 134).

The Chadbournes, like the other people brought to ME by Mason, were not dissenters from the Church of England, emigrating for religious freedom, as was the case with most of the settlers in New England in this period. William's father Robert, raised Catholic, professed to fear God as his reason for not attending the Church of England; but William's family were members of the Church of England who perhaps intended to return to England after the terms of Mason's contract were fulfilled. Indeed, that may be what William and Elizabeth Chadbourne did.

William Chadbourne, as a respected master carpenter and housewright, may have been contracted to build the so-called Great House at Strawbery Banke (now Portsmouth NH) used to house the Laconia Company's stores and serve as a dwelling for the company workmen. The site of this building has recently been found, near the present Stawbery Banke village historic site. Claims have been made in published sources that the Great House was built by William's son Humphrey circa 1631. Humphrey was said to have come on the Warwick in 1631, and no evidence has been found of William's arrival before 1634. An error could have occurred because of a poorly-written paragraph in James Sullivan's book, The History of the District of Maine , published in Boston MA in 1795, where William1, who built the Great House, and Humprhey2, who purchased land from Mr Rowles, are rolled into one. If Humphrey was baptized as an infant in 1615 he would have been sixteen at the time the Great House was built. He may very well have worked on it, although it is more likely that his father was given the contract for its building. The contract hasn't survived and which of the Chadbournes was responsible for the building remains conjecture.

One William Chadbourne was admitted an inhabitant to the town of Portsmouth RI 25 February 1642[/3] (The Early Records of the Town of Portsmouth, Providence RI: The RI Historical Society, 1901, 19). He was granted land there in 1642 (ibid, 11), but the grant was not finalized, and it is doubtful he ever resided there. He was certainly gone by 28 Sep 1647 (ibid, 36). This may have been another William Chadbourne who is known to have come from Winchcombe (see discussion on this man in the Appendix).

On 3 Mar 1650/1, William and his sons, with others, were accused by Mrs Ann (Green) Mason, widow of Capt John Mason, of embezzling her husband's estate. The claim was based on a contract which was not honored by either party because of the death of Capt Mason, and also based on the first recorded Indian deed in ME in 1643. The Chadbourne claim was upheld by the selectmen of Kittery and the Government of the Massachusetts Bay in New England.

On 4 May 1652, William Chadbourne was one of the chosen men assigned to a Kittery committee to pick a lot and build a meeting house. He was the first signer of the Kittery Act of Submission, 16 November 1652. We have no certain record of William after this date.

Children (parish records, St Editha, Tamworth), surname CHADBOURNE:

     i.    WILLIAM2, bpt Tamworth, Warwickshire 30 Sept 1610; bur there 18 Apr 1616

2. ii. PATIENCE, bpt Tamworth 8 Nov 1612, mar. Thomas SPENCER

3. iii. HUMPHREY, bpt Tamworth 23 Apr 1615.

     iv.  SUSANNAH, bpt Tamworth 22 Feb 1617/8; bur Tamworth 26 Apr 1618.

4. v. WILLIAM, bpt Tamworth 15 Oct 1620.

     vi.   ROBERT, bpt Tamworth 1 June 1623; bur Tamworth 19 Jan 1626/7.

NOTE that the place "Winchcombe if erroneous for these Chadbournes, and likely also for Thomas Spencer.}

William Chadbourne (M)

b. circa 1582, d. after 1652

    William Chadbourne was a Housewright.1 He married Elizabeth Sparry.2 William Chadbourne was born circa 1582 at Tamworth, Straffordshire, England.3 He was sent up for drinking too much around 1643.4 He died after 1652 at So. Berwick, Me..3

Children of William Chadbourne and Elizabeth Sparry

Patience Chadbourne+ d. 7 Nov 16832

William Chadbourne b. 1610

Humphrey Chadbourne b. 16264

Citations

[S52] Unknown author, Gen Dict of Me. & Nh. Patsy Lawler Husson, Family Tree.

[S1] W. D. Spencer, The Maine Spencers, Pg 181. Patsy Lawler Husson, Family Tree.

[S29] Oral Communication, Dave C. email e-mail address

e-mail address.

[S52] Unknown author, Gen Dict of Me. & Nh, Pg 134. Patsy Lawler Husson, Family Tree.

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William Chadbourne came from Devonsire. Came to America in the "Pied Cow". Came in 1634 and settled in S. Berwick. He was a carpenter.

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WILLIAM1 CHADBOURNE (RobertA), baptized Church of St Editha, Tamworth, Warwickshire, England 30 Mar 1582 (Tamworth parish register); died after his last appearance in Maine 16 Nov 1652 (qv); married Tamworth 8 Oct 1609 (ibid) ELIZABETH SPARRY, born perhaps about 1589, died after 1 Jun 1623 (birth of her last known child, Tamworth parish register). Her parentage has not been discovered; however, her surname is common in Staffordshire. William was the son of Robert and Margery or Margaret (Dooley) Chadbourne of Preston, Lancashire, and Tamworth, Warwickshire, England.

William arrived in New England aboard the Pied Cow 8 Jul 1634 (vide post) with James Wall and John Goddard. The three were under contract with Capt John Mason of London's Laconia Company, a joint-stock company seeking profits in the new world. The purpose of the contract, dated 16 Mar 1633/4, was to build mills in Berwick. William was referred to as a housewright or master carpenter. The men began to build the first water-powered saw mill and grist mill in New England on 22 Jul 1634.

James Wall, carpenter and millwright, deposed on 21 May 1652 that about the year 1634 he and his partners William Chadbourne and John Goddard, carpenters, came over to Mason's land on his account and their own, that Mr [Henry] Joslyn, Mason's agent, brought them to certain lands at Asbenbedick Falls, as the Indians called the place, later the Great Works River in Berwick, where they carried on a sawmill and a stamping mill for corn three or four years. Wall built a house there and Chadbourne built another (Pope, The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623 to 1660, 218-19).

The house William built may be the one said by Stackpole in 1926 to be the oldest house in Maine. Part of its foundation is under the present house on the northwest corner of Brattle and Vine Streets on the road from the Lower Landing (Hamilton House) to the original mill site at Asbenbedick (later Great Works) Falls. William Chadbourne deeded the home to his son-in-law, Thomas Spencer, and a nice picture of it appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript of 25 Jun 1938. Other accounts suggest that the property occupied by Spencer was actually a second, later house, and that the early home stood in the northwesterly angle of the intersection of Brattle Street leading to the mouth of the Great Works River and the highway to Eliot.

The Asbenbedick Great Works was the site of a mill with nineteen saws built by the Leader brothers in the 1650s. The river was called Chadbournes River by many before and after, due to the Chadbourne dam and mill erected downstream in the late 1630s.

A copy of the Mason contract referred to above survives in the MA Archives 3:437. It stipulates that they were to stay five years and receive three fourths of the profits from the mills and own three fourths of the houses, which Mason was to furnish. At the termination of the contract they were to have fifty acres on lease for the term of "three lives" at the annual rent of three bushels of corn.

The articles brought on the vessel, which were taken from the company's store were: one great iron kettle, for which Thomas Spencer was responsible, Irish blankets, one Kilkenny rug, one pair of sheets, one pentado coverlet, one brass kettle and seven spoons.

It is not clear when other members of William's family arrived. His daughter Patience may have preceded him, since her husband Thomas Spencer came four years earlier and they may have had children between 1630 and 1634. Mason's list of stewards and workmen sent contains the names "William Chadborn, William Chadborn, jun., and Humphry Chadborn," but also indicates twenty-two women who are unnamed. It is known that the Pied Cow had made at least one crossing in 1631 and that the bark Warwick had made several early crossings, all for Capt Mason, but it is unlikely that William came on any of these trips, given the phrasing of Wall's deposition which implies that he came in about 1634 (NEHGR 21:223-4).

Elizabeth is mentioned only in the couple's marriage record. It is not known when or where she died. She may have come to Maine, for there is no burial record for her in Tamworth; however, no account of her has been found in the New World. Some have conjectured that William may have returned to England after deeding his Berwick homestead to son-in-law Thomas Spencer. No record of William's death has been located in England or Maine.

In 1640, he and his sons were listed as NH residents (NHPP, Vol 1) before purchasing land in Kittery in those regions now called S Berwick and Eliot. Both William Sr and William Jr were in Boston in 1643 (LND, 134).

The Chadbournes, like the other people brought to ME by Mason, were not dissenters from the Church of England, emigrating for religious freedom, as was the case with most of the settlers in New England in this period. William's father Robert, raised Catholic, professed to fear God as his reason for not attending the Church of England; but William's family were members of the Church of England who perhaps intended to return to England after the terms of Mason's contract were fulfilled. Indeed, that may be what William and Elizabeth Chadbourne did.

William Chadbourne, as a respected master carpenter and housewright, may have been contracted to build the so-called Great House at Strawbery Banke (now Portsmouth NH) used to house the Laconia Company's stores and serve as a dwelling for the company workmen. The site of this building has recently been found, near the present Stawbery Banke village historic site. Claims have been made in published sources that the Great House was built by William's son Humphrey circa 1631. Humphrey was said to have come on the Warwick in 1631, and no evidence has been found of William's arrival before 1634. An error could have occurred because of a poorly-written paragraph in James Sullivan's book, The History of the District of Maine , published in Boston MA in 1795, where William1, who built the Great House, and Humprhey2, who purchased land from Mr Rowles, are rolled into one. If Humphrey was baptized as an infant in 1615 he would have been sixteen at the time the Great House was built. He may very well have worked on it, although it is more likely that his father was given the contract for its building. The contract hasn't survived and which of the Chadbournes was responsible for the building remains conjecture.

One William Chadbourne was admitted an inhabitant to the town of Portsmouth RI 25 February 1642[/3] (The Early Records of the Town of Portsmouth, Providence RI: The RI Historical Society, 1901, 19). He was granted land there in 1642 (ibid, 11), but the grant was not finalized, and it is doubtful he ever resided there. He was certainly gone by 28 Sep 1647 (ibid, 36). This may have been another William Chadbourne who is known to have come from Winchcombe (see discussion on this man in the Appendix).

On 3 Mar 1650/1, William and his sons, with others, were accused by Mrs Ann (Green) Mason, widow of Capt John Mason, of embezzling her husband's estate. The claim was based on a contract which was not honored by either party because of the death of Capt Mason, and also based on the first recorded Indian deed in ME in 1643. The Chadbourne claim was upheld by the selectmen of Kittery and the Government of the Massachusetts Bay in New England.

On 4 May 1652, William Chadbourne was one of the chosen men assigned to a Kittery committee to pick a lot and build a meeting house. He was the first signer of the Kittery Act of Submission, 16 November 1652. We have no certain record of William after this date.

Children (parish records, St Editha, Tamworth), surname CHADBOURNE:

     i.    WILLIAM2, bpt Tamworth, Warwickshire 30 Sept 1610; bur there 18 Apr 1616 

2. ii. PATIENCE, bpt Tamworth 8 Nov 1612, mar. Thomas SPENCER
3. iii. HUMPHREY, bpt Tamworth 23 Apr 1615.

     iv.  SUSANNAH, bpt Tamworth 22 Feb 1617/8; bur Tamworth 26 Apr 1618. 

4. v. WILLIAM, bpt Tamworth 15 Oct 1620.

     vi.   ROBERT, bpt Tamworth 1 June 1623; bur Tamworth 19 Jan 1626/7.

NOTE that the place "Winchcombe if erroneous for these Chadbournes, and likely also for Thomas Spencer.}

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Biography
Christening
William, son of Robert Chadburne(note spelling change)
Christening Date: 30 Mar 1582
Place: Church of St. Editha, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England. Affiliate Image Identifier: D3773/1/1 [1]
Note
Note: @NI28279@
@NI28279@ NOTE1. WILLIAM1 CHADBOURNE (RobertA), baptized Church of St Editha, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England 30 Mar 1582 (Tamworth parish register); died after his last appearance in Maine 16 Nov 1652 (qv); married Tamworth 8 Oct 1609 (ibid) ELIZABETH SPARRY, born perhaps about 1589, died after 1 Jun 1623 (birth of her last known child, Tamworth parish register). Her parentage has not been discovered; however, her surname is common in Staffordshire. William was the son of Robert and Margery or Margaret (Dooley) Chadbourne of Preston, Lancashire, and Tamworth, Staffordshire, England.
William arrived in New England aboard the Pied Cow 8 Jul 1634 (vide post) with James Wall and John Goddard. The three were under contract with Capt John Mason of London's Laconia Company, a joint-stock company seeking profits in the new world. The purpose of the contract, dated 16 Mar 1633/4, was to build mills in Berwick. William was referred to as a housewright or master carpenter. The men began to build the first water-powered saw mill and grist mill in New England on 22 Jul 1634.
James Wall, carpenter and millwright, deposed on 21 May 1652 that about the year 1634 he and his partners William Chadbourne and John Goddard, carpenters, came over to Mason's land on his account and their own, that Mr [Henry] Joslyn, Mason's agent, brought them to certain lands at Asbenbedick Falls, as the Indians called the place, later the Great Works River in Berwick, where they carried on a sawmill and a stamping mill for corn three or four years. Wall built a house there and Chadbourne built another (Pope, The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623 to 1660, 218-19).
The house William built may be the one said by Stackpole in 1926 to be the oldest house in Maine. Part of its foundation is under the present house on the northwest corner of Brattle and Vine Streets on the road from the Lower Landing (Hamilton House) to the original mill site at Asbenbedick (later Great Works) Falls. William Chadbourne deeded the home to his son-in-law, Thomas Spencer, and a nice picture of it appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript of 25 Jun 1938. Other accounts suggest that the property occupied by Spencer was actually a second, later house, and that the early home stood in the northwesterly angle of the intersection of Brattle Street leading to the mouth of the Great Works River and the highway to Eliot.
The Asbenbedick Great Works was the site of a mill with nineteen saws built by the Leader brothers in the 1650s. The river was called Chadbournes River by many before and after, due to the Chadbourne dam and mill erected downstream in the late 1630s.
A copy of the Mason contract referred to above survives in the MA Archives 3:437. It stipulates that they were to stay five years and receive three fourths of the profits from the mills and own three fourths of the houses, which Mason was to furnish. At the termination of the contract they were to have fifty acres on lease for the term of "three lives" at the annual rent of three bushels of corn.
The articles brought on the vessel, which were taken from the company's store were: one great iron kettle, for which Thomas Spencer was responsible, Irish blankets, one Kilkenny rug, one pair of sheets, one pentado coverlet, one brass kettle and seven spoons.
It is not clear when other members of William's family arrived. His daughter Patience may have preceded him, since her husband Thomas Spencer came four years earlier and they may have had children between 1630 and 1634. Mason's list of stewards and workmen sent contains the names "William Chadborn, William Chadborn, jun., and Humphry Chadborn," but also indicates twenty-two women who are unnamed. It is known that the Pied Cow had made at least one crossing in 1631 and that the bark Warwick had made several early crossings, all for Capt Mason, but it is unlikely that William came on any of these trips, given the phrasing of Wall's deposition which implies that he came in about 1634 (NEHGR 21:223-4).
Elizabeth is mentioned only in the couple's marriage record. It is not known when or where she died. She may have come to Maine, for there is no burial record for her in Tamworth; however, no account of her has been found in the New World. Some have conjectured that William may have returned to England after deeding his Berwick homestead to son-in-law Thomas Spencer. No record of William's death has been located in England or Maine.
In 1640, he and his sons were listed as NH residents (NHPP, Vol 1) before purchasing land in Kittery in those regions now called S Berwick and Eliot. Both William Sr and William Jr were in Boston in 1643 (LND, 134).
The Chadbournes, like the other people brought to ME by Mason, were not dissenters from the Church of England, emigrating for religious freedom, as was the case with most of the settlers in New England in this period. William's father Robert, raised Catholic, professed to fear God as his reason for not attending the Church of England; but William's family were members of the Church of England who perhaps intended to return to England after the terms of Mason's contract were fulfilled. Indeed, that may be what William and Elizabeth Chadbourne did.
William Chadbourne, as a respected master carpenter and housewright, may have been contracted to build the so-called Great House at Strawbery Banke (now Portsmouth NH) used to house the Laconia Company's stores and serve as a dwelling for the company workmen. The site of this building has recently been found, near the present Stawbery Banke village historic site. Claims have been made in published sources that the Great House was built by William's son Humphrey circa 1631. Humphrey was said to have come on the Warwick in 1631, and no evidence has been found of William's arrival before 1634. An error could have occurred because of a poorly-written paragraph in James Sullivan's book, The History of the District of Maine , published in Boston MA in 1795, where William1, who built the Great House, and Humprhey2, who purchased land from Mr Rowles, are rolled into one. If Humphrey was baptized as an infant in 1615 he would have been sixteen at the time the Great House was built. He may very well have worked on it, although it is more likely that his father was given the contract for its building. The contract hasn't survived and which of the Chadbournes was responsible for the building remains conjecture.
One William Chadbourne was admitted an inhabitant to the town of Portsmouth RI 25 February 1642[/3] (The Early Records of the Town of Portsmouth, Providence RI: The RI Historical Society, 1901, 19). He was granted land there in 1642 (ibid, 11), but the grant was not finalized, and it is doubtful he ever resided there. He was certainly gone by 28 Sep 1647 (ibid, 36). This may have been another William Chadbourne who is known to have come from Winchcombe (see discussion on this man in the Appendix).
On 3 Mar 1650/1, William and his sons, with others, were accused by Mrs Ann (Green) Mason, widow of Capt John Mason, of embezzling her husband's estate. The claim was based on a contract which was not honored by either party because of the death of Capt Mason, and also based on the first recorded Indian deed in ME in 1643. The Chadbourne claim was upheld by the selectmen of Kittery and the Government of the Massachusetts Bay in New England.
On 4 May 1652, William Chadbourne was one of the chosen men assigned to a Kittery committee to pick a lot and build a meeting house. He was the first signer of the Kittery Act of Submission, 16 November 1652. We have no certain record of William after this date.
Children (parish records, St Editha, Tamworth), surname CHADBOURNE:
i. WILLIAM2, bpt Tamworth, Warwickshire 30 Sept 1610; bur there 18 Apr 1616
ii. PATIENCE, bpt Tamworth 8 Nov 1612, mar. Thomas SPENCER
iii. HUMPHREY, bpt Tamworth 23 Apr 1615.
iv. SUSANNAH, bpt Tamworth 22 Feb 1617/8; bur Tamworth 26 Apr 1618.
v. WILLIAM, bpt Tamworth 15 Oct 1620.
vi. ROBERT, bpt Tamworth 1 June 1623; bur Tamworth 19 Jan 1626/7.
http://www.chadbourne.org/Genealogy.html#William1
Page 34 of "The Great Migration" notes considerable confusion about William Chadbourne in some published accounts. "Savage was confused by the relationship of the Chadbournes to each other, saying that William was 'no doubt, brother or other relation of the first Humphrey,' assuming, as many have done that he was younger than his son, Humphrey [Savage 1:350]. Savage also errs in stating that both William and Humphrey came to Maine in 1631. Pope did only slightly better by providing some primary source references, but this time made William the same as his son of the same name [Pope MNH 34]. Banks muddied the waters more by showing that William Chadbourne came from Tamworth, Staffordshire, while saying that Humphrey [no relationship suggests] came from Winchcombe, Gloucestershire [Topo Dict 58, 148]. Evidently drawing on Banks, the usually careful Noyes, Libby and Davis concocted a bizarre story to attempt to reconcile the above accounts. Though they did bring the family together in the correct generational order, they claimed that the family had lived in both Tamworth, Warwickshire, and in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, and provided incomplete baptismal dates (the years only, which were correct) for two of the children (although they gave the wrong parish and county!), and suggested a baptismal year for son Humphrey which would have made him only 5 years old when he allegedly sailed away to Maine by himself, a mere 8 when, asa master housewright, he constructed the so-called Great House at Strawberry Banke, and 17 when he purchased land [GDMNH 133-34]

Birth
Birth Date: 30 MAR 1582
Place: Tamworth, Stafford, England[2]
Residence
Residence Date: 1661
Place: York, Maine.[3]
Residence:
Place: New Hampshire. [4]
Emigration
Arrival Date: 1631
Place: New England[5]
Research Notes
Links to Ancestry search results.

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Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire
Sources
↑ England, Staffordshire, Church Records, 1538-1944 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QL35-S8SH
↑ Yates Publishing U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900S Source number: 1265.000 Submitter Code: CLS. Data: Text: Birth date: 1582 Birth place: Refers to note N530
↑ Edwin Emery The history of Sanford, Maine, 1661-1900. Fall River, Mass.: The compiler, 1901. "Biographies and genealogies": p. [391]-517.
↑ Capt. John Mason, the founder of New Hampshire : including his tract on Newfoundland, 1620, the American charters in which he ...
↑ P. William Filby Publication: Gale Research, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2006. Place: New England; Year: 1631; Page Number: . Data: Text: Arrival date: 1631 Arrival place: New England Refers to note N529
Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F (2001), 33-36 (William Chadbourne); digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
Charles Henry Pope The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623-1660. n.p., 1908.
Lucius R. Paige List of Freemen of Massachusetts. Boston, MA, USA: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1849.
Capt. John Mason, the founder of New Hampshire : including his tract on Newfoundland, 1620, the American charters in which he ...
Edwin Emery The history of Sanford, Maine, 1661-1900. Fall River, Mass.: The compiler, 1901. "Biographies and genealogies": p. [391]-517.
Maine Wills, 1640-1760
Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire
P. William Filby Publication: Gale Research, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2006.
Yates Publishing U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Ancestry Family Trees
Acknowledgments
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