A project that tries to facilitate a better appreciation of the various blood lines of Rowley immigrants

The settlement, called originally "New Plantation" was begun in the spring of 1639. "13 March, 1638-9, Mr. Ezechiel Rogers, Mr. John Phillips, & their company had granted them 8 miles every way into the country, where it may not trench upon other plantations already settled."

➽ We've gone through and checked off each name that relates to the 1643 map (above) ↑↑↑

< means cross-referenced..... or ✖ < if the profile is not found on Geni or is obscured by contradictions, etc.
Discussions of such difficulties are covered in documents.
There are 73 (+/-) names in the list below. This suggests a population of 146 adults, if each had a distinct partner. Of course this is a crude way of estimation...

Please add any additional profiles of your own descendants but, we request that such NOT be added to the list below. It's reserved for husbands and wives of the lot holders of 1643. Don't hesitate to add documents, discussions, photographs, and links.

Purpose

To cross-reference the settlers of Rowley with Geni Profiles.
Women, spouses & widows are included as much as possible.

Method for finding a Rowley settler of 1643

1. Pick out a surname you want. Use the alphabetized list that follows in the column below, if needs be.
2. Click on the map found at the top of this page
3. Search on the surname you've chosen
4. Click on profile name you've selected in the caption underneath the map. It will be highlighted in blue.
5. This will complete a search on the surname you are interested in.
6. One advantage of the alphabetized list is that maiden names of wives are cross-referenced.
7. If you want to see who your direct ancestors are in this list, use the History Link App. It will detail and total your direct ancestors for you. Search on < "Rowley" >
8. The check-marked list below is by street name. This aids in locating the lots held (mostly) in men's names.

Scope

Survey of Rowley register On the "tenth of the eleventh Anno Domini 1643

Thomas Nelson, Edward Carlton, Humphrey Reynon & Deacon Francis Parratt, Esq. made a survey of the town and a register of the several house lots of from 1 1/2 to 6 acres then laid out to the settlers. They were as follows:

On Bradford Street {named for Bradford, West Yorkshire}, Thomas Ellethorpe, John Dresser , Hugh Chaplin, Peter Cooper, Thomas Sumner, John Burbank, Thomas Palmer, William Wilde , William Jackson, Hugh Smith, Michael Hopkinson, John Boynton, William Boynton, Thomas Dickinson, Joseph Jewett, Maxemilian Jewett, Jane Grant , John Spofford, George Kilborne & Margaret Stanton ✖ whose lot contained only one acre.

On Wethersfield street, John Remington , James Barker , William Stickney , William Scales , Matthew Boyes , Jane {& John} Brocklebank , Thomas Mighill , Margery Shove, Humphrey Reynor, & Ezekiel Rogers who had six acres. { Humphrey Reyner Deacon Francis Parratt, Esq. }

On Holmes street John Miller, John Jarrat , Francis Parrot, Edward Carleton, Henry Sandys, Thomas Leaver, John Trumble , John Haseltine, Thomas Tenney, Robert Haseltine, Richard Swan , Thomas Lilforth , Richard Thorlay {or Thurlow} , Frances Lambert, Robert Hunter ✖, William Acy William Acie, Jr., Thomas Miller, William Harris, John Harris, Thomas Harris, John Newmarch , William Bellingham, Thomas Nelson, Thomas Barker, Sebastian Briggam {or Brigham}, George Abbot, Edmund Bridges, Constance Crosby& Richard Wicom.

Sixteen other lots were soon afterwards laid out to the following persons, viz.: John Smith (son of Hugh ), Mark Prime, William Tenney, Nicholas Jackson , Richard Leighton, John Pearson, Edward Sawyer, James Bailey, Richard Holmes, Thomas Burkley ✖ , John Tillison, Samuel Bellingham, Thomas Sawyer, Daniel Harris , William Law & John Hill ✖ who 'remained but a short time' .

Discussion

Mortality was high in the early years of Rowley, consequently many individuals married multiple times. This settlement was also known in its early day as The Rogers Settlement...as leader Rev. Ezekial Rogers was the head, He had originally been solicited to take this group to assist with the settlement of New Haven Plantation by his acquaintance in faith, the Rev. John Davenport

Numerous individuals who emigrated to Rowley early on do not show up on the register as they were under-age and not property holders. Leonard Harriman (age 16 at the time) is a good example.

A check mark indicates completion/inclusion in the alphabetized list.
An means that either there is no Geni profile for this person or there are remaining difficulties that need to resolved

Suggestion for those new to researching Rowley ancestors

If you are directly related to one couple, you are undoubtably closely related to many others. In the SURNAME list below, test a few other relationship paths by running your relationship to them, you may be able to find numerous surprises.

Many individuals listed here are buried in the Rowley Burial Ground

List Alphabetized by surname

Spouses are included on this list too, sometimes multiple times. Some individuals remarried more than twice (Street name in italics as an aid to find them on the map)

• ABBOTT, George... husband of Mary HILL; a son married a SWAN Holmes St.
• AUTER, Joan.. wife of John HAZELTINE
• BAILEY, James.. husband of Lydia EMERY; other lots
• BARKER, James.. husband of Grace & Mary {how about Elizabeth KILBOURNE?}; Wethersfield street
• BARKER, Jane.. wife of Francis LAMBERT
• BARKER, Elizabeth.. wife of George KILBOURNE; Bradford St.
• BARKER,Thomas.. brother of James BARKER, husband of Mary (MNU) who was also married Rev Ezekial ROGERS; Holmes St.
• BELLINGHAM, Samuel... husband of Lucy (MNU); other lots
• BELLINGHAM, William.. (no wife known); his brother was the 8th Gov. of Massachusetts; his sister was hanged as a witchHolmes St.
• BOOTH, Jane.. wife of Richard THURLOW / THORLEY;
• BOYCE / BOYES , Mathew.. husband of Mary GLEADSTON & widow of William BOYNTON (Elizabeth Jackson); Wethersfield St.
• BOYNTON, John.. husband of PELL, Elizabeth - the two Boyntons are brothers; Bradford St.
• BOYNTON, William.. husband of JACKSON, Elizabeth ; Bradford St.
• BRADLEY, Mary.. wife of Thomas LEAVER
• BRIDGES, Edmund.. husband of (possibly three women); Holmes St.
• BRIGHAM, Constance (see CROSBY) Capt. Sebastian Brigham is Constance Crosby (Brigham)'s first cousin.
• BRIGHAM, Sebastian.. Capt. of Rowley forces; Holmes St. did not remain in the Americas - returned to England
• BROCKLEBANK, Jane.. & husband John who died in 1666; Wethersfield St.
• BURBANK, John.. husband of Jemima Jane (unknown maiden name) & JORDAN, Ann; Bradford St.
• BURKBY, Thomas.. aka Burkley/Burpee; husband of Sarah KELLEY; other lots
• CARLETON, Edward.. husband of Ellen NEWTON; Holmes St.
• CHAPLIN, Hugh.. husband of Elizabeth Jackson (unknown maiden name); Bradford St.
• CHENEY, Mary.. 1st wife of William LAW
• COLEMAN, Dorcas.. wife of John TILLOTSON (did not stay & died young)
• COOPER, Peter.. husband of Emma (unknown maiden name); Bradford St.
• CROSBY, Constance.. widow; her maiden name is BRIGHAM; husband died prior to the recording of this map; Holmes St.
• DAWSON, Elizabeth.. wife of WIlliam STICKNEY
• DICKINSON, Thomas.. husband of Jennet WHIPPLE; Bradford St.
• DRESSER, John and wife Mary ROWLEY, Bradford St.
• EMERY, Lydia.. wife of James BAILEY & Daniel WICOM
• ELITHORPE, Thomas and wife Abigail, whose maiden name is unknown, who also married SUMNER, Bradford St. (Other Elithorpe / GOULDs settled in the New Haven plantation, such as Katharine Miles )
• ELLSWORTH, Mary... wife of Hugh SMITH;
• GOULD, Martha... wife of John NEWMARCH
• GRANT, Jane.. widow (held property in her own namr) on Bradford St. aka Jane Grant (Haburne); Thomas, her husband, died as the list was being made
• HARRIS, Daniel.. husband of Mary WELD (they left Rowley in 1651; other lots
• HARRIS, John.. {three brothers on the Newbury Road}
• HARRIS, Thomas.. husband (in Rowley) of LAKE
• HARRIS, William.. husband (in Rowley) of BLIGH?
• HARTOPP, Joan.. 1st wife of Ezekial ROGERS; she died in childbirth along with her child
• HAZELTINE, John.. husband of Joan AUTER; brother of Robert II; Holmes St.
• HAZELTINE, Robert II.. husband of Ann LANGLEY ; Holmes St.; neighbor SWAN was a close relative.

 • '''HILL'', John.. did not remain long in town, unknown relationships ✖ 

• HILL, Mary... wife of George ABBOTT; she & her husband seemed to have died as a consequence of starvation;
• HOLMES, Richard.. husband of Alice NORTHEND; other lots
• HOPKINSON, Michael... husband of Ann (unknown maiden name) who later married (2) TRUMBLE & (3) SWAN; Bradford St.
• JACKSON, Elizabeth.. wife of William BOYNTON & Mathey BOYCE / BOYES
• JACKSON, Nicholas.. two wives Sarah RILEY & Mary (MNU) widow of CHAPLIN; other lots
• JARRATT, John.. husband of (?) ; Holmes St.
• JEWETT, Joseph..
• JEWETT, Maxemillian.. husband of Elizabeth PELL; Bradford St. & lived next door to his brother Joseph
• JORDAN, Ann.. wife of BURBANK
• KELLEY, Sarah.. wife of Thomas BURKBY aka Burkley
• KILBOURNE, George.. husband of Elizabeth BARKER; Bradford St.
• LAMBERT, Francis.. husband of Jane BARKER; Holmes St.
• LANGLEY, Ann.. wife of Robert HAZELTINE, II
• LAW, William.. husband of 1) Mary CHENEY & 2) Faith maiden name uncertain; other lots
• LEAVER, Thomas.. husband of Mary BRADLEY; Holmes St.
• LEIGHTON, Richard.. husband of Mary (MNU), a daughter married a SPOFFORD; other lots
• LILFORTH, Thomas.. (not known is he had a spouse); (? moved to Haverhill); Holmes St.
• MIGHILL, Ann.. 1st wife of Thomas TENNEY
• MIGHILL, Thomas.. husband of Ann PARRAT; Wetherfield St.
• MILLER, Thomas.. husband of Isabel (MNU); Holmes St.
• NELSON, Thomas,Jr... husband of Dorothy STAPLETON; Holmes St.
• NEWMARCH, John.. husband of Martha GOULD; both were born in New England; house on road to Newbury (at right)
• NEWTON, Ellen.. wife of Edward CARLETON; Holmes St.
• NORTHEND, Alice.. wife of Richard HOLMES; other lots
• NORTHEND, Elizabeth.. wife of Deacon Francis Parratt, Esq. (the two Northends are sisters)
• PALMER, Thomas.. husband of Wheeler, Ann; Bradford St.
• PARRAT / PARROTT, Francis.. btother of Ann; husband of Elizabeth NORTHEND; Holmes St.
• PARRAT, Ann.. wife of Deacon Thomas Mighill & Thomas TENNEY
• PEARSON, John.. husband of Dorcas PICKARD; other lots
• PEASLEY, Mary.. wife of Edward SAWYER
• PICKARD or PICARD, Dorcas.. wife of John PEARSON
• PELL, Elizabeth.. wife of John BOYNTON; wife of Maximillian JEWETT
• PRESCOTT, Mary.. wife of Thomas SAW(Y)ER; family moved on; other lots
• PRIME, Mark.. husband of Ann (MNU); other lots

 • '''REMINGTON''', John.. husband of Elizabeth; '' Wethersfield street'' 

• RILEY, Sarah.. wife of Nicolas JACKSON
• ROGERS, Rev. Ezekial.. three wives including Joan HARTOPP, Elizabeth WILSON, Mary widow of Thomas BARKER; (no descendants) Wethersfield street
• ROWLEY, Mary wife of DRESSER, Bradford St.
• SANDYS, Henry.. his sister Margery was the widow of Edward SHOVE; He owned The Welcome; Holmes St
• SAW(Y)ER, Edward.. husband of Mary PEASLEY; other lots
• SAW(Y)ER, Thomas.. husband of Mary PRESCOTT; did not remain; went to Lancaster; other lots
• SCALES, John.. husband of E.or S. JARRETT of Holmes St.;
• SCALES, William.. wife of Ann (MNU); Wethersfield St.
• SHOVE, Margery.. widow of Rev. Edward Shove; she was also known by her maiden name SANDYS; Wethersfield St; her brother owned the ship "Welcome" on which she and her family had sailed
• SMITH, Hugh.. husband of Mary ELSWORTH and father of John SMITH; Bradford Street
• SMITH, John.. son of Hugh SMITH & husband of (it is said but not confirmed) Faith Parrat ✖ other lots
• SPOFFORD, John.. husband of Elizabeth SPOONER; Bradford St.
• SPOONER, Elizabeth.. wife of SPOFFORD, John
• STAPLETON, Dorothy.. 2nd wife of Thomas NELSON, Jr.
• STICKNEY, William.. husband of Elizabeth DAWSON; Wethersfield street
• SUMNER, Thomas and wife Abigail, widow of ELITHORPE , Braford St.
• SWAN, Richard .. husband of Ann (MNU), widow of HOPKINSON; Holmes St.
• TILLOTSON, John.. husband of Dorcas COLEMAN; other lots
• TENNEY, Thomas.. husband of Ann MNU & Elizabeth PARRATT (NORTHEND) a widow; Holmes St.
• TENNEY, William.. brother of Thomas and husband of Katherine (MNU); other lots
• THURLOW/THORLEY, Richard.. husband of Jane BOOTH; Holmes St.
• TRUMBLE, John.. widowed in Rowley (CHANDLER) who then married the widow Ann (MNU) HOPKINSON; Holmes St.
• WELD, Mary.. wife of Daniel HARRIS
• WICOM, Richard.. who married Ann (MNU); Holmes St.
• WILD, William.. Bradford St.
• WILSON, Elizabeth.. wife of Rev. Ezekial ROGERS; died in childbirth along with child
• WHEELER, Ann.. wife of PALMER
• WHIPPLE, Jennet.. wife of Thomas DICKINSON

Project Relationships detailed through Documents

direct links provided

1. Colonial American Ministers Ezekial Rogers
2. Famous Ancestors/Relatives of these Immigrants 1) Reverend John Rogers (1507-1554) 2) Edward I, King of England 3) Ann Bellingham, witch 4) Richard Bellingham, 8th Gov. of Massachusetts
3. Famous/Notable/Notorious Descendants of these Immigrants
   

1) US House of Rep. Arnold Plumer
2) W. Atlee Burpee is Elizabeth Parratt (Northend)'s 6th great grandson
3) Luther Burbank "The Wizard of Horticulture" is John Caleb Burbank III's fourth great grandson
4) John Caleb Burbank III is Dwight Foster, Judge & U.S. Senator's third great grandfather & his brother
5) Theodore Foster, U.S. Senator, also of Massachusetts

Useful Documents

1. History of Essex County, Massachusetts: With Biographical ..., Volume 2, Part 1; edited by Duane Hamilton Hurd
2. Records of Rowley, Mass, Volume 1
3. New England Families