Samuel Blanchard

Samuel married Mary Brown on 14 Jul 1747 in Billerica,,MA. Mary (daughter of Living and Living) was born on 21 Mar 1728 in Billerica,,MA; died in 1811 in Billerica,,MA, aged 83; was buried in Old South Cem,Billerica. [Group Sheet]

1. Jonathan Blanchard was born on 20 Feb 1769 in Billerica,,MA; died on 30 Jun 1835 in Rockingham,,VT,age 66 yrs; was buried in Rockingham First Church Cemetery, VT.

Other Events:

• Baptism: 25 Sep 1681, 1st Ch, Charleston,MA

John married Mary Crosby on 07 Aug 1701 in Billerica,,MA. Mary (daughter of Simon Crosby and Rachel Bracket) was born on 25 Nov 1680 in Billerica,,MA; died on 07 May 1748 in Billerica,,MA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Source: NEHGR V. 60, pages 373-376 - Blanchard Family Records - The following items were copied by the late George Dana Boardman Blanchard of Malden, MA, a Life Member of NEHG, from an old manuscript book, once the property of Abel Blanchard of Andover, MA, now at the Bible Society, Astor Place, New York City. The book was evidently commenced by the first Samuel Blanchard of Andover, MA, and continued by members of the family.

Bible includes:
I Samuel Blanchard landed in New England on the 23rd day of June in the year 1639.
I Samuel Blanchard came to Andover with my family upon the tenth day of June in the year 1686.
I bought my horse of John Whelar upon the 18 day of March 1691.

Samuel married Hannah Daggett on 24 Jun 1673 in Charlestown,,MA. Hannah (daughter of Capt Thomas Daggett and Hannah Mayhew) was born in 1647 in Marshfield,,MA; died on 10 Jul 1725 in Andover,,MA, aged 78. [Group Sheet]

Simon married Rachel Bracket on 15 Jul 1659 in Braintree,,MA. Rachel (daughter of Richard Bracket and Alice Blower) was born on 03 Nov 1639 in (bp) Boston,,MA; died on 07 May 1748 in Cambridge,,MA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

1-1-2002 Notes from -- rootsweb.com/Blanchard-L : Thomas Blanchard was married 3 times: 1) Elizabeth //, 2) Agnes Bent (or Barnes-Agnes Bent was the widow of Richard Barnes), and 3) Mary Maverick or Shrimpton.

Source: NEHGR V.56, page liv: ..."Thomas (1) Blanchard, who was of French Huguenot ancestry, and who came to this country from England in 1639, in the ship "Jonathan." His wife's name was Mary. His son Samuel (2) was born in England in 1629, and came to America with his father. "

Source: NEHGR v.41, page 82 - from Massachusetts Archives, ix.4 -- Petition of Thomas Blandcher, 2-4-1646, says -- Whereas Anne Barnes of Way-hill in Hampshire, England, gave her son Richard Barnes 20 pounds and Anne Bent grandmother to said Richard gave him 16 pounds committed to the trust of John Bent with whom the said Richard hath been "mantayned since his coming into New England about seven years." -- John Bent gives security for payment when said Richard is twentyone, signed by Thomas Blancher, John Bent and Peter Noyes.

Source: NEHGR V. 51, pages 126-7 - (See- in Blanchard File). Genealogical Gleanings in England - show relationship of Thornedyke of Little Carlton (Herbert, d. 24 May 1554, proved 23 November 1554) and Thomas Blanchard family. (Thomas Blanchard m. a Thornedyke.)
I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT THE EXACT LINKAGE -- NEED MORE INFO.

Source: Everton's Genealogical Helper, March-April 2000, page 33: Family Traced Back to England-- all on the Blanchards and provides the surname web site: www.Blanchard-L.com for further information: "It is believed Thomas operated a dairy in Boston. He lived in Braintree, MA from 1646 to 1651. In 1650 he purchased a house in Malden, MA. There is considerable documentation on Thomas, including his will, deeds, and a suit filed against him. Thomas Blanchard died in Charlestown, MA, 21 May 1654."

Thomas married Elizabeth. Elizabeth died before 1637 in England. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Source: The Great Migration Begins, NEHGS, Vol. 1, page 568-9, pub. 1995.

Capt married Hannah Mayhew in 1657 in Edgartown,Martha'sVineyard,MA. Hannah (daughter of Thomas Mayhew and Jane (Gallion) Paine) was born on 15 Jun 1635 in Watertown,,MA; died in in Living in 1713, d. before 1721. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Source: The Great Migration Begins, NEHGS, Vol. 1, pages 568-9, pub. 1995.

Notes:

Source: Passengers to America, A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, edited by Michael Tepper, pub. 1988, pages 23-24:

Aprillis 1635,,, these underwritten names are to be transported to New England imbarqued in the Suzan and Ellin (Susan & Ellen) Edward Payne Mr. The p'ties have brought Certificates from ye Ministers and Justices of the peace of they are no Subsedy men : and are conformable to ye orders and discipline of the Church of England.
Symon Crosby Husbandm: 26
Ann Crosby vxor (wife) 25
Tho: Crosby child 8 weeks

Symon Crosby is also listed in "Savage's Genealogical Dictionary.", vol. 4, p. 289; and in "Pope's Pioneers of Massachusetts", p. 457.

Source: NEHGS Vol. 87, October 1933, page 360:
The Susan and Ellen sailed from London for New England soon after the middle of May 1635, and crossed the Atlantic in six of eight weeks. She had been one of the great fleet which left England in October, ten years earlier, to intercept the Spanish treasure ships off the Bay of Cadiz. Her captain at that time, Christopher Levett, had a poor opinion of her, but now in 1635 she carried 96 passengers and was commanded by Edward Payne. Many of those on board, including ...Simon Crosby... had come from Yorkshire.

Source: NEHGS Great Migration Study Project, Fall 2001:
Simon Crosby arrived in New England in 1635, settled at Cambridge and died there in 1639. In these brief four years we have evidence of both civil and military service. He was twice a selectman, and his inventory listed "one great fowling piece & a musket, ... one carbine with furniture...(and) one pistol."

Simon married Ann Brigham on 21 Apr 1634 in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor,Yorkshire,Eng. Ann was born about 1610 in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor,Yorkshire,Eng; died on 11 Oct 1675 in Braintree,,MA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Source: The Great Migration Begins 1620-1633, Vol. I, NEHGS, pub. 1995, pages 203-206.

Origin: Sudbury, Suffolk, England Migration: 1632 First Residence: Boston Removes: Braintree 1641
Return Trips: Travelled to England in 1633 for his marriage, and then returned to New England in 1634.
Occupation: Husbandman. Boston jailkeeper (1637-1640).
Church Membership: Admitted to Boston church as member #144 which would be shortly before 11 November 1632. Richard and Alice were dismissed from the Boston church to the Braintree church on 8 May 1642.
Freeman: 25 May 1636
Education: Sufficient to be Braintree clerk of writs. Signed will with shaky hand.
Offices: Deputy for Braintree to General Court (as "Capt. Richard Brackett"), May of 1655, 1665, 1667, 1671, 1672, 1674 (and October 1674), 1680 and January 1680/1. Commisioner to meet with men of Plymouth "to lay out that marsh lying at Connahassett", 29 May 1655. Commissioner to lay out land, December 1683. Appointed by General Court "to join persons in marriage in the town of Braintry...also to administer oaths in civil cased," October 1679. Braintree selectman in 1652, 1653, 1670, 1672, 1683. Braintree clerk of writs, 1646 to 1654. Admitted to Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1639 and was granted his request to lay down his arms as chief military commander in Braintry on October 15 1684...due to infirmaties of age being above 73 years of age.

Estate: named the following- wife, Alice Brackett of Braintree; to the children of son John "by his wife Hannah Brackett", to son Peter Brackett, son-in-law Simon Crosbey and son-in-law Joseph Thompson; to "the two daughters of my son Josiah deceased Elizabeth and Sarah; to my son James Brackett; to my son-in-law Joseph Crosby; to "my daughter Hannah Blancher", to "my daughter Rachell Crosby; "to my grandchild Abigall Tompson"; to Hannah Brackett the daughter of my son John; "to Anna Crosby daughter of my son Joseph Crosby."

Associations: Through his mother and his wife Richard Brackett became a member of, and the first immigrant from, the largest kinship network as yet uncovered among the participants in the Great Migration, a network worked out mostly by Mary Lovering Holman, John Brooks Trelfall and Douglas Richardson. (See John Brooks Trelfall, Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England & Their Origins (Madison, Wisconsin, 1990).

Richard Brackett was son of Peter Brackett and his wife Rachell; another son of this couple was Peter Brackett who came to Braintree about 1636 (TAG 52:65-75m 92). About 1618 Rachel, the mother of the two Brackett immigrants, married secondly Martin Sanders, and in 1635 Sanders, his wife, and their Sander children, along with Rachel (Brackett) Newcomb (sister of Richard and Peter Brackett), her husband, Francis Newcomb, and their children sailed for New England on the "Planter" (Hotten 48-49, TAG 55:215-217).

Alice Blower was daughter of Thomas and Alice (Frost) Blower; she may have had two brothers who came to New England, and her father certainly came to New England in 1635, but apparently died soon (TAG 52:73-75; see also NEHGR 139:148-49), Her mother, Alice Frost, was sister of Thomasine Frost, who married Edmund Rice, imigrant to Sudbury, and also of Elizabeth Frost, who married first Henry Rice and then Philemon Whale, the latter also an immigrant to Sudbury (TAG 15:227,26:10-11; TG 6:131-41; Stevens-Miller Anc 143-44).

Taking into accounts all these persons and their children, then, there were more than forty future immigrants to New England who were related to Richard Brackett by blood or marriage before their departure from England."

Richard married Alice Blower on 06 Jan 1634 in St Katherine by the Tower,London,Eng. Alice (daughter of Thomas Blower and Alice Frost) was born on 30 Jun 1615 in (bp)St.Gregory,Sudbury,Suffolk,Eng; died on 03 Nov 1690 in Braintree,,MA aged 76. [Group Sheet]