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Charles Howard was the 11th great grandfather of Winfield Dyer Gallup. Burke's Peerage tells that he was the 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham and became the 1st Earl of Nottingham 22 Oct 1596. Burke also notes that he became the Lord High Admiral of the English Fleet and was Commander in Chief of the English Fleet defeating the Spanish Armade in 1588.
In Burke's Peerage we also find that he married 1 July 1563 Catherine (died 25 Feb 1602/3), daughter of Henry Cary (aka Lord Hunsdon) by whom he had two sons, William & Charles, and three daughters, including Elizabeth who married Sir Robert Southwell. Catherine died 25 Feb 1602/3 and on 2 Sep 1603 Charles married Margaret, daughter of 2nd Earl of Moray and by her had other children. After the death of Charles on 14 Dec 1624, she married again on 23 Oct 1625, the 1st and last Viscount Monson of Castlemaine, as his first wife. The Viscount died 5 Aug 1639.
In the official Biography of the Barony of Howard of Effingham it is stated that the father of Charles was William, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, and his mother Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Gamage of Coity County, Glamorgan. Further events in his life recorded in the Biography are that he was in the train of Fran?s de Vend?? Vidame of Chartres, in France and Lorraine 1552-53; Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, 1558; attended his father, Lord Howard, to France early in 1559; on 10 July 1559 Envoy to the French King, who had been severely wounded in a tourney; M.P. for Surrey, 1563-67 and 1572-73; admitted Gray's Inn, 1564; General of Horse of the army levied in the South against the Northern rebels, 1569; escorted the Queen Consort of Spain from the Low Countries to Spain, September 1570; knighted before 30 August 1571, on which day he was created M.A. of Cambridge; succeeded to his father's Barony 11 January 1572/3; nominated K.G. 23 April, and installed 22 May 1575. Lieutenant of Musters, Surrey, 1579; Lord Lieutenant of Surrey, 3 July 1585 to 1621, and jointly with his son, Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham, from 1621 to his death; Lord Lieutenant of Sussex, 3 July 1585, and jointly with Lord Buckhurst (from 2 September 1586) and the Earl of Arundel (from 1608) to his death. As Vice Admiral he escorted the Duke of Anjou, thwarted of his marriage to the Queen, to Antwerp in February 1591/2; P.C. 1584 and 1603; Chamberlain of the Household, 1 January 1583/4 to July 1585; Lord High Admiral, 8 July 1585 (for life) to 1618/9, and as such in supreme command at the defeat of the Spanish Armada in July 1588 (g). A Commissioner to treat with the United Provinces, 29 July 1585, and for the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1586, but did not serve (i); Constable of Windsor Castle, 5 December 1588, and High Steward of Windsor, 15 January 1592/3, both till his death; Governor of the ships carrying aid to the King of France [Henri IV] September 1589; Keeper of Hampton Court, 24 March 1592/3; a joint Commissioner to exercise the office of Earl Marshal, 1 January 1591/2, 10 December 1601, 4 February 1603/4, 5 February 1604/5, 25 September 1616, 5 April 1617, and 7 February 1617/8; a Commissioner to install Knights of the Garter, 1593. He held a joint command with the Earl of Essex of the fleet and forces sent against Cadiz in 1596, which city was captured on 21 June. He was created EARL OF NOTTINGHAM 22 October 1597, taking his seat 2 days later, styled High Steward "pro tempore." (f) Chief justice in Eyre South of Trent, 15 June 1597 till his death. Lord Steward of the Household, 24 October 1597 to November 1615. The Queen's Lieutenant and Captain General in the South of England, 10 August 1599, and again 14 February 1600/1, 6 days after he had arrested at Essex House the Earl of Essex, for whose trial he was a Commissioner. Commissioner to create Knights of the Bath, 22 July 1603; as Lord High Steward, on 24 July 1603, he heard claims for offices at the Coronation; Lord High Constable.
The ancestry of Charles Howard has been traced to the tenth century and even earlier. Given below is his ancestry for nine generations to Edward I, King of England through his father, William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, and his mother, Margaret Gamage:From "The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants to the American Colonies" by Gary Boyd Roberts
(Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1st Edition -1993; pg. 283)
1. Edward I, King of England, d. 1307 = Margaret of France
2. Thomas of Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk = Alice de Hales
3. Margaret Plantagenet, Duchess of Norfolk = John de Segrave, 4th Baron Segrave
4. Elizabeth de Segrave = John Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray
5. Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk = Elizabeth FitzAlan
6. Margaret Mowbray = Sir Robert Howard
7. John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk = Katherine Moleyns
8. Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk = Agnes Tilney
9. William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham = Margaret Gamage
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John Vinton was a man of singular ability, energy, and activity, and became a leader in every place where his lot was cast. He spent the principal part of his life, from 1710 to November 1738 in Stoneham. Prior to Stoneham he resided successively in Malden, 1700 in Woburn, 1705 in Reading, and back to Woburn in 1708/09. In November 1738, he sold his farm in Stoneham, containing 270 acres for $2,550 in bills of credit, and removed to Dudley, then a new town, incorporated in February 1731.
More than 30 deeds, between 1700 and 1727, are on record in East Cambridge in which he was either grantor or grantee. in 20 of them the land was conveyed to him. He was active in procuring the incorporation of Stoneham in 1725, advancing more money and doing more than any other person. He was on the first board of selectmen, and served in that office for 6 years between 1726 and 1735. He presided in town meetings as moderator and was on almost all the important committees. He was representative of the town in 1734.
Abigail was buried in the Old Burial Grounds, Woburn, Middlesex, MA. Her tombstone epitaph reads:
"Here Lyes ye Body M'rs Abigail Vinton wife to Lieutenant John Vinton Aged 36 years 5 mo's & 6 da's Dec'd May 20th 1720"