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Note for: Richard Bullock, 22 NOV 1622 - ABT 1667 Index

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http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/2726/rich1.htm

"Richard Bullock, the American progenitor of this line, was one of the founders of the town of Rehobcth, Massachusetts, in 1643. He was admitted a freeman of the colony in 1644. About 1656 he removed to Newtown, Long Island, but soon afterward returned to Rehoboth. He received an allotment of land there January 4, 1647, ar>d another June 22, 1658. He was elected town clerk January 30, 1659. He was a man of some prominence in the town. He married (first) August 4, 1647, Elizabeth Ingraham, probably a daughter of Richard Ingraham, an early settler of Rehoboth. She died January 7, 1659, and he married (second) September 21, 1660, Elizabeth Billington. Children by first wife : Samuel, born August 19, 1648; Elizabeth, October 9, 1650; Mary, February 16. 1652; Mehitable, April 4, 1655; Abigail, August 29, 1657; Hopestill, December 26, 1659. Children by second wife: Israel, born July 15, 1661."
Source: New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial, by William Richard Cutler. Vol. 1 p. 158

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Note for: Elizabeth Ballett, 1542 - Index

Alias: Elizabeth /Bylett/

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Note for: Abraham Toppan, 1606 - 5 NOV 1672 Index

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From : Pioneers of Massachusetts, Surnames: Abraham was a cooper, He and Susanna came to Massachusetts from England with children Peter and Elizabeth and servant Anne Goodin .

The name Tappan is Welsh , " the top of a hanging rock" ; from tap, a hanging rock , pen meaning top or head.

WHILE MOST OF THE FAMILY SPELLED THE NAME TOPPAN, BENJAMIN , WHO WAS BORN IN 1747 SPELLED IT TAPPAN. AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER BENJAMIN, WHO WAS BORN IN 1720 THE FAMILY ADOPTED THE NAME TAPPAN.....ABOUT 1720....

Came to America on the ship "Mary Ann" . Was in Newbury in 1637

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Note for: John Hull, - Index

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A goldsmith and principal merchant of Boston. In 1676 he was the Treasurer of the colony of Massachusetts.

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Note for: Stephen Longfellow, 22 SEP 1685 - 7 NOV 1764 Index

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Stephen and Abigail were the great great grandparents of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Note for: Anthony Powers, - ABT 30 DEC 1632 Index

Alias: Anthony /Poore/

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Note for: Mary Dugdale, 1597 - 1648 Index

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     From Robert Sewell (http://mywebpage.netscape.com/robertsewellca/dugdale.html)

Ancestors of Mary Dugdale
       Mary Dugdale (1597 - 1648) married in 1614/15 to Richard Sewall (died in 1637) of Nuneaton, Warwickshire. They had children Margaret, Mary, Anne, Elizabeth, Prudence, Sarah, Richard, Henry and Samuel. Henry emigrated to Maryland in 1661 where he married Jane Lowe. Henry was the Secretary of the Province of Maryland.
       Mary Dugdale was the only daughter of John Dugdale of Shustock, co. Warwick by Elizabeth Swynfen his wife, daughter of Arthur Swynfen of Dunchurch, co. Warwick (descended from the ancient family of Swynfen of Swynfen, co. Stafford.

      The above information is considered reliable as it comes from the records of Harold Macrae Sewell; and is represented in Generations 8 to 11 below. However, Generations 2 to 7 originate with an internet genealogy site, and may be reliable as well, but I don't have any sources for the information.

Thanks to Eben W. Graves for the information that Generations 8 to 10 are represented
in the Visitation of Warwickshire 1619 and for the Arms of Dugdale shown above.

For Generation 1, Baldwin de Freville and Joan Greene are mentioned in:
Frederick Lewis Weis, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, Baltimore, 1999; Line 101A-8
Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, Baltimore, 1992; Line 216-32A
These references, of course, indicate our interest in this line as The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, Line 101A-8 leads to Magna Charta Sureties Hugh and Roger Bigod, Henry de Bohun, Richard and Gilbert de Clare and Saher de Quincy; as well as to Joan Plantagenet, a daughter of Edward I and Eleanor of Castile.
Ancestral Roots, Line 216-32A leads to an equally impressive group of famous (and infamous) historical persons.

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Note for: Jonathan Longfellow, 23 MAY 1714 - BEF 4 JUN 1786 Index

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Jonathan was a soldier engaged in fighting the Indians. He was appointed the first Justice of the Peace east of the Pennobscot River. After 1741, this family moved to Nottingham, NH (the part that became Deerfield, NH in 1766) where Jonathan built a Garrison house. Here he bought and sold much land, and, it is thought, some slaves. He moved to Rye, NH, in 1761; to Cornwallis, Nova Scotia in 1763; and to Machias, ME in 1765. In Machias, in 1766, he built a house which was his homestead and a tavern. Records show that his married children, Mary Batchelder, Jacob Longfellow, and Sarah Cilley, remained in New Hampshire.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jtrue/Longfell.htm#Jonathan

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Note for: Henry Clarke, 5 JUL 1673 - 9 JUN 1749 Index

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Henry Clarke owned much land in and around Newbury which he sold about the time he moved to New Hampshire. In the deeds he is variously designated as gentleman, lieutenant, and cooper. He commanded a company in the Indian fight in Wells, Maine

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Note for: Stephen Greenleaf, 15 AUG 1652 - 13 OCT 1743 Index

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Stephen, Jr. was a prominent man in public affairs. He was a selectman in Newbury in 1675-76. Like his father, he was Ensign, appointed Lieutenant in 1685, and Captain of Militia in 1689. He served in King Philips War on the Connecticut River and was wounded in the Battle of Hatfield, MA. He was famed for his services in the Indian wars and was known as "the great Indian fighter." The following notes give an account of some of his experiences with the Indians:

"In 1689, he was appointed agent of the state to treat with the Indians at Pennacock. May 18, 1695, he files a petition for relief, and presents the bill for professional services of Dr. Humphrey Bradstreet, which reads: 'Bill for curing Capt. Stephen Greenleaf, who was wounded while moving a family who had been taken from Newbury by the Indians.' On the fifth of March, 1696, Captain Greenleaf addressed the following petition to the general court: 'The petition of Captain Greenleaf, of Newbury, Humbly Showeth: That upon the Seventh of October last, about three o'clock in the afternoon, a party of Indians surprised a family at Turkey Hill in said town, captured nine persons, women and children, rifled the house, carrying away bedding and dry goods. Only one person escaped, and gave notice to the next family, and they to the town; upon the alarm your petitioner with a party of men pursued after the enemy, endeavoring to line the river Merrimack to prevent their passage, by which means the captives were recovered and brought back. The enemy lay in a gully hard by the roadway and about nine at night made a shot at Your Petitioner, and shot him through the wrist, between the bones, and also made a large wound on his side, which would have been very painful and costly to your petitioner in the cure of them, and have in a great measure utterly taken away the use of his left hand, and wholly taken off from his employment this winter. Your petitioner therefore honorably prays this honorable court that they would make him such compensation as shall seem fit; which he shall thankfully acknowledge, and doubts not but will be an encouragement to others, and possibly to relieve their neighbors when assaulted by so barbarous an enemy, And your petitioner shall every pray.'

"(Signed) Stephen Greenleaf"

"March 6 ---- Read and voted that there be paid out of the province treasury to the Petitioner the sum of forty pounds."

This is said to be the only instance in which the Indians attacked, "captivated," or killed any of the inhabitants of Newbury.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jtrue/Greenlea.htm#StephenJr

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Note for: Stephen Greenleaf, BEF 10 AUG 1628 - 31 OCT 1690 Index

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Stephen was a representative to the General Court from Newbury, 1676-1686. He was appointed Ensign in 1670, Lieutenant in 1685, and Captain of the Militia in 1686. "As a Captain of the Militia, he went with the disastrous Phips expedition against Port Royal, 1690, to Cape Breton, and was there wrecked in a vessel and drowned in company with nine others."

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Note for: Edmund Greenleaf, ABT 1590 - 24 MAR 1670/71 Index

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Edmund was one of the original settlers of Quasca Cunquen, afterward Newbury, where each of the first settlers was granted a house lot of at least four acres, with a suitable quantity of salt and fresh meadow. In addition to this, he had a grant of twelve acres, which shows him to have been one of the eighteen principal pioneer settlers. Edmund lived near the old town bridge in Newbury, where he kept a tavern. By trade, he was a silk dyer. He was Ensign in 1639, Lieutenant in 1645, and Captain of the Militia under William Gerrish. He and Sarah moved to Boston about 1650.

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Note for: Jacob Longfellow, 6 NOV 1737 - BEF 17 DEC 1781 Index

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Jacob was a soldier engaged in fighting the Indians and became a Captain in the town (Deerfield?) Militia. He bought land from his father in Deerfield, NH, on 6 February 1759. After his marriage, he bought more land there in 1760 and 1762. He was moderator at the first town meeting of Deerfield, NH, 17 March 1767; helped to build the first church and to hire the minister; and was selectman several times. His principal occupation was surveyor of timber lands and lots in Deerfield, NH, and the laying out of highways in the new town. In 1776, Jacob signed the Association Test in Deerfield, NH.

He may have lived in Kensington, NH, for awhile as he and his wife owned property there and their daughter, Betty, was baptized in the Congregational Church there on 30 June 1776.

By 1777, Jacob was of Newmarket, NH, where he bought and sold more land and he and his wife were proprietors of a tavern. This family of Newmarket, NH, seems to have been the only one named Longfellow in Southern New Hampshire during the Revolutionary period. Jacob had died before 17 December 1781 when the selectmen of Newmarket, NH, adjourned for refreshment at the tavern of Widow Longfellow. Mercy Longfellow, widow and spinster, bought buildings and land from Thomas Perkins in 1783. Later, their daughter and her husband, Polly and William White, who were married in 1784, helped run the tavern. It is probable that Mercy (Page) Longfellow was dead by or during 1784, for in that year, the selectmen of Newmarket were indebted one pound for "vittles and drink" to William and Mary White for expenses incurred at the tavern.

There are no New Hampshire vital records listing the children of Jacob and Mercy (Page) Longfellow. However, land evidences and printed family records seem to furnish conclusive data regarding this Longfellow family of Deerfield and Newmarket, NH.

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Note for: Mercy Page, 30 MAR 1739 - BEF 1784 Index

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She was the first cousin of Jacob Longfellow.

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Note for: Phillip Martin, 11 JUN 1756 - 6 MAY 1821 Index

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Fought in the Revolutionary War as an Ensign, Captain, Major, Colonel and finally as a Brigadier General of militia of Providence, RI. First Senator elected to the US Senate by the State of Rhode Island. Buried with Masonic Order.