Weymouth New England Genealogy

Marriage: "History & Gen. of the Mayflower Planters"; by L.C.Hills, 1941. (NSA) the above source gives the date of 1611 "Families of the Pilgrims"; by H.K. Shaw, 1956. (NSA)!Death: "Families of the Pilgrims"; by H.K. Shaw, 1956. (NSA)" History & Gen. of the Mayflower Planters"; by H.K. Shaw, 1956.(NSA) Came to America on the ship "Mayflower" in 1620, by himself Family came on the ship "Ann" in 1623. A 1620 Mayflower passenger, Richard Warren is unusal because, although Bradford in his "decreasing and increasings" gives him the honorific title "Mr.," he does not mention him at all in the text of his history, and very little is known about him except for a few brief mentions elsewhere. In Mourt's Relation, p. 15, Winslow lists ten men on an early expedition at Cape Cod, three of whom, including Richard Warren, were from London. Judging from land transactions (see, for example, MD3:45-51 and PCR12:28) of his widow, Elizabeth, who came over in 1623 on the Anne with daughter Abigail, Anna, Elizabeth, Mary and Sarah, the family appears to have been one of the wealthier ones at Plymouth. However, he was not one of the eight select Undertakers in 1627. Nathaniel Morton wrote for the year 1628 "This Year died Mr. Richard Warren, who ... was an useful Instrument and during his life bare a deep share in the Difficulties and Troubles of the first Settlement of the Plantation of New-Plimouth". His widow, Elizabeth Warren, was given the unique distinction of having a law passed unanimously by the whole court to give her the Purchaser status her deceased husband had had, "hee dying before he had performed the bargaine, the said Elizabeth performed the same after his decease, and also for the establishing of the lotts of lands formerly by her unto her sonnes in law, Richard Church, Robert Bartlett, and Thomas Little" .

The three sons-in-law had married respectively daughters Elizabeth, Mary, and Anna, and the other two daughters were married later, Sarah to Mayflower passenger John Cooke, and Abigail to Anthony Snow. Richard and Elizabeth Warren had two sons born at Plymouth, Nathaniel, who married Sarah Walker, and Joseph, who married Priscilla Faunce - see the second revision (1986) of the Families of the Pilgrims bookleton Warren. Widow of Elizabeth Warren's servant, Thomas Williams, was charged with speaking profane and blasphemous speeches to her, but the court released him with a warning after he made a humble acknowledgement of his offense. She died at Plymouth 2 October 1673, aged above ninety years, "having lived a godly life, came to her grave as a shoke of corn fully ripe". The English origin of the Warrens, though much searched for, has not yet been found, but she was definitely not Elizabeth Jowett, as some have claimed. Although Warren's granddaughter Elizabeth Warren had a child by Joseph Doty, she did not, as has been written, marry him.

Some early generations are given by Claude W. Barlow, "Richard and Elizabeth Warren." MQ 42:125, 43:12. See also Mrs. Washington A. Roebling, "Richard Warren of the Mayflower and Some of His Descendants," NEHGR 55:70, which contains some errors. See also Ruth Berg Walsh, "The Search forPilgrim Richard Warren's Parentage," MQ 51:109."mr Richard Warren, but his wife and children were lefte behindand came afterwards" "mr Richard Warren lived some 4 or 5 years, and had his wifecome over to him, by whom he had 2 sons before dyed; and one ofthem is maryed, and hath 2 children So his Increase is 4 but he had 5 doughters more came over with his wife, who are all maried, & living & have many children."The ninth lot fell to Richard Warren* & his companie Joyned wth him his wife 2 Elizabeth Warren, 3 Nathaniell Warren, 4 JosephWarren, 5 Mary Warren, 6 Anna Warren, 7 Sara Warren, 8 Elizabeth Warren, 9 Abigall Warren. To this lott fell one of the 4 black Heyfers that came in the Jacob caled the smooth horned Heyferand two shee goats.

RICHARD WARREN AND HIS DESCENDANTS. Compiled from Original Sources, BY GEORGE ERNEST BOWMAN.

Richard Warren was from London and joined the Leyden Pilgrims in July, 1620, at Southampton, whence the Mayflower and the Speedwell first set sail for America. He was married in England, before 1611, to Elizabeth-, whose maiden name is unknown, and had by her five daughters, Mary, Anna (born about 1612), Sarah, Elizabeth and Abigail, who were left in England and came to Plymouth with their mother in 1623. Nothing more is known of his life before he joined the Pilgrims on the Mayflower, and there are very few references to him in the Plymouth Colony records and the works of contemporary writers, doubtless owing to his early death in 1628. Bradford's History mentions him only in the list of the Mayflower passengers,* and includes him among the few who were of enough importance to be distinguished by the title of "Mr." Nathaniel Morton, in the New England's Memorial, published at Cambridge, Mass., in 1669, was the first to print the names of the forty-one men who signed the Compact in the cabin of the Mayflower on Saturday, 11/21 November, 1620, and Richard Warren's name appears in this list. †

The following extract from Mourt's Relation contains the only reference yet found to the place from which Richard Warren came. It also shows us that he was a member of the third exploring party sent out while the Mayflower lay at anchor in Cape Cod Harbor. This party set out in the shallop on Wednesday, 6/16 December, 1620, and after many hardships, including a fight with the Indians early Friday morning, landed at Plymouth on the following Monday, 11/21 December, 1620. Wednesday the sixt of December, it was resolved our discoverers should set forth, for the day before was too fowle weather, and so they did, though* Mayflower Descendant, 1: 10, 24.† Ibid., 1: 79. it was well ore the day ere all things could be readie: So ten of our men were appointed who were of themselves willing to undertake it, to wit, Captaine Standish, Maister Carver, William Bradford, Edward Winsloe, John Tilley, Edward Tilley, Iohn Houland, and three of London, Richard Warren, Steeven Hopkins and Edward Dotte, and two of our Sea-men, Iohn Alderton and Thomas English, of the Ships Company there went two of the Masters Mates, Master Clarke and Master Copin, the Master Gunner, and three Saylers. The narration of which Discovery, followes, penned by one of the Company. [Mourt's Relation,London, 1622, p. 15.] "In the latter end of July," 1623, his wife and daughters arrived at Plymouth in the Anne, and in the Division of Land a few months later he received lots on "the north side of the towne" and "on the other side of the towne towards the eele-river."*

In 1624 or 1625 his son Nathaniel was born at Plymouth,†and his second son, Joseph, must have been born there in 1626 or early in 1627, as his name appears in the division of the cattle among the "Purchasers" who in 1627 bought from the Adventurers all their rights in the Colony of New Plymouth. ‡ In this division, which was made 22 May/1 June, 1627, "The ninth lot fell to Richard Warren & his companie Joyned wth him." To this lot fell a black smooth horned heifer which came in the Jacob, and two she goats The record of this division contains the, earliest mention of the names of Richard's wife and children.The next year, 1628, he died at Plymouth, leaving his widow to care for a family of five daughters (four of whom were under seventeen), and two sons under four. Nathaniel Morton, in writing of the year 1628, speaks of his death as follows: This year died Mr. Richard Warren, who hath been mentioned before in this Book,§ and was an useful Instrument; and during his life bare a deep share in the Difficulties and Troubles of the first Settlement of the Plantation of New-Plimouth. [New England's Memorial, p. 68.] There is no account of the settlement of Richard Warren's estate, but the Colony records contain abundant evidence that his widow was thoroughly competent to bring up the children and manage the property left to her care.* Winslow, Good Newes from New England, London, 1624, p. 51, and Mayflower Descendant, 1: 14, 228 - 230.† Mayflower Descendant, 11: 178, 179.‡ Bradford's History, folios 143, 144.|| Mayflower Descendant, 1: 152.§ As a signer of the Compact. and as a member of the third exploring party.

RICHARD WARREN OF THE MAYFLOWER, AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. RICHARD WARREN, the first of the Warren name in America, sailed from Plymouth, Eng., in the historic "Mayflower," 6 September, 1620 (O. S.). He was not of the Leyden Company, but joined the Pilgrims from London,* and he was one of the signers of the Compact framed in the cabin of the " Mayflower " while in Cape Cod Harbor, which was the first platform of civil government in the new world, and which converted the band of unknown adventurers into an immortal Commonwealth. Morton, in his New England's Memorial, prints his name as twelfth in the list of signers, and Prince in his New England Chronology adds the honorable prefix of " Mr." from the Register at the end of Bradford's folio manuscript. He was one of the third exploring party which was surprised by the Indians,! 18 December, 1620, at the spot since known as "The First Encounter,"} and, technically speaking, he was one of the first to land at Plymouth, 21 December, 1620, on what might be called the birthday of New England. Under the land division of 1623, Richard Warren's apportionment, as one of the " Mayflower " passengers, fell in the north side of the town with William White, Edward Winslow, John Goodman, John Crackston, John Alden, Marie Chilton, Captain Myles Standish, Francis Eaton, Henry Sampson and Humilitie Cooper§ ; and under those who came in the "Ann," his lands were "on the other side of the towne towards Eele River," where he made his home, in the section later known as Wellings- ley or Hobshole, and where he died in 1628. He also owned land along the shore of the present Warren's Cove.||

He was one of the nineteen signers of the Compact who survived the first winter. A cotemporaneous authority described him as "grave Richard Warren," " a man of integrity, justice and uprightness, of piety and serious religion," and as "a useful instrument during the short time he lived, bearing a deep share in the difficulties and troubles of the plantation." H

• Arber's Story of the Pilgrim Fathers, 355.
t Goodwin's Pilgrim Republic, 90.
J This was the first eyent in the Indian wars of New England.— Bodge'a Soldiers in King Philip's War.
} Plymouth Colony Records, XH, 4-6.
|| Davis's Landmarks of Plymouth, part I., 327.
'. Morton's New England Memorial.

He married in England, Elizabeth — ,* who followed him to Plymouth in the "Ann" in 1623, accompanied by her daughters. Mrs. Warren was rated in the Plymouth tax list of 1632-3, and was one of the first purchasers of Dartmouth. A study of the early Plymouth records leads to the conclusion that she was a woman of force and social position in the community, and she is therein usually spoken of as " Mistress " Eliza beth Warren, a designation by no means common. And she is one of the rare instances in that early colony of continued widowhood. A glimpse of one side of her domestic life is to be had in connection with the prosecution by the General Court of her servant, Thomas Williams, 5 July, 1635, for " speaking profane & blasphemous speeches against y6 majestie of God." " There being some dissention between him and his dame, she after other things, exhorU J him to fear God & doe his duty."f Upon the marriage of her daughters, Mrs. Warren conveyed to their respective husbands certain lands, variously located at Eel Eiver and Welliiigsly.t She died at Ply mouth, 2 October, 1673, aged above ninety years. For some unknown reason, unless there is a mistake in the record, she was not buried until the twenty-second day after her death, when it was entered on the records that she, "haueing liued a godly life, came to her graue as a shoke^of corn fully ripe."§

•Her maiden name is not known. In the Warren Genealogy, published in 1854 by Dr. John Collins Warren, her name is given as Elizabeth Juatt. While it is true that a certain Richard Warren of Greenwich in Kent married Elizabeth, daughter of Ivat and widow of Marsh, as appears in the 1620 visitation of Devon, there is no proof that that Richard Warren is the one who came to Plymouth. The late Horatio Gates Somerby, who supplied the abstracts and copies of English records used by Dr. Warren, told me not many years before his death that he did not see proof sheets of Dr. Warren's book, and that he did not identity the Kichard Warren of Plymouth and the John Warren of Watertown as the Richard and the John Warren of the Devonshire visitation. In the tabular pedigree at the end of Dr. Warren's book, he has assumed that the Richard and John of the visitation pedigree were the New England men. At the time when that book was published it was not unusual to assume connection with English families on evidence as slight as the similarity of names. Modern critical researches have overthrown many of such assumptions. In this same tabular pedigree Peter Warren of Boston (great grand-father of Gen. Joseph Warren, who was killed at Bunker Hill) is given as the son of John Warren of Watertown. The late Dr. Henry Bond, compiler of Watertown Genealogies, told me that lie had found ample proof that Peter Warren was not the son of John of Water- town — JOHN WAKD DEAN. In 1872 the Harleian Society published an edition of the Devonshire Visitation of 1620, and in this edition the much discussed Warren Pedigree appeared, with the state ment, " Inserted by later hand." That is was not the work of the visiting heralds of 1620, and that the John and Richard, named as sons of Christopher Warren of the pedigree, are not identical with Richard Warren of the Mayflower, and John Warren of Watertown, is clear from the following facts : Christopher Warren married Alice Webb, 15 June, 1613. His second sou, John, was born in 1617, hence not the John Warren, " aged about 45 years," who emigrated to Massachusetts in 1630, in the fleet with Saltonstall, and became the founder ot the Warrens of Watertown. Richard, the third son of Christopher Warren, was baptized at Sydenham Damrell, 15 August, 1619, and was five years younger than his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth March, who was not licensed to marry her first husband until 1629. The license reads : " March, Francis, gent., of Stepney, bachelor, 26, and Elizabeth Ivatt of St. Botolph, Aldgate, spinster, 15, daughter of Oliver Ivatt, deceased, consent of Hugh Bourmau her father (in law), at Westham, Essex, 20 August, 1629." (London Marriage Licenses.) This first marriage of Elizabeth (Ivatt) March was one year after Richard Warren, the Mayflower Pilgrim, had died at Plymouth, Massachusetts. — J. GIIANVILHJ LEACH.

t Plymouth Colony Records, I., 35.
J Ibid XII., 27, 53.
§ Plymouth Colony Records, VIII., 35.