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By marrying Mary Williams, Samuel formed a blood connection between the Gallups and the Miles.
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I found it to be a very confusing thing to sort out an Esther Nichols versus Hester Nichols descendancy. Finally I started paying more attention to the records of the Prentice family in America and things became clear. Who would have thought that John V. Prentice would have married first a Hester Nichols, daughter of John Nichols, and married second an Esther Nichols, daughter of Caleb Nichols - And that these two women would be first cousins. For years I had thought that "Esther" and "Hester" were the same person.
I owe my enlightenment to a fine amateur genealogist, Larry Cheesebro', with whom I had corresponded on a few occasions in the past, who put me on to the classic 1883 Prentice family reference book by C.J.F. Binney.
John immigrated at age three with his parents to Boston aboard the "Lyon". His occupations were blacksmith and seaman. His residences were Boston, MA, in 1631, Roxbury, MA, in 1632 and New London, CT, in 1652. He remained a member of the Roxbury church and took his children there to be baptized. His first wife was Hester Nichols (daughter of John Nichols) and first cousin of his second wife Esther Nichols (daughter of Caleb Nichols). His third wife was Rebecca Parker, daughter of Ralph Parker.
He was Deputy to the General Assembly of CT in 1668. Two of his sons, Jonathan and Thomas were also sea captains.
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The LDS file on Hesther, MX2S-Z3 (from which came her death date), refers to her as "Esther" which is wrong according to the Prentice Family records, a more authoritive reference than LDS. This could be the source of so much confusion over these two ladies, Hester (or Hesther) and Esther, to be found in many family genealogies. In the Prentice Family records, basically the 1883 C.J.F. Binney Genealogy of the Prentice Family, her name is spelled "Hesther" but in the 1883 Gallup Genealogy she is named "Esther". These two sources are both considered authoritative but one or the other has to be wrong. I chose to use "Hesther" because she would be a principal person to Prentice family researchers while she would be only of secondary interest to Gallup family researchers.
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I found it to be a very confusing thing to sort out an Esther Nichols versus Hester Nichols descendancy. Finally I started paying more attention to the records of the Prentice family in America and things became clear. Who would have thought that John V. Prentice would have married first a Hester Nichols, daughter of John Nichols, and married second an Esther Nichols, daughter of Caleb Nichols - And that these two women would be first cousins. For years I had thought that "Esther" and "Hester" were the same person.
I owe my enlightenment to a fine amateur genealogist, Larry Cheesebro', with whom I had corresponded on a few occasions in the past, who put me on to the classic 1883 Prentice family reference book by C.J.F. Binney.
John immigrated at age three with his parents to Boston aboard the "Lyon". His occupations were blacksmith and seaman. His residences were Boston, MA, in 1631, Roxbury, MA, in 1632 and New London, CT, in 1652. He remained a member of the Roxbury church and took his children there to be baptized. His first wife was Hester Nichols (daughter of John Nichols) and first cousin of his second wife Esther Nichols (daughter of Caleb Nichols). His third wife was Rebecca Parker, daughter of Ralph Parker.
He was Deputy to the General Assembly of CT in 1668. Two of his sons, Jonathan and Thomas were also sea captains.
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In a previous display of these pages on my web site, I mistakenly had Esther, this child of Caleb, as the mother of all the children of John V. Prentice. Without going into the gory details, I had mixed my Hesthers with my Esthers and produced a messter. (See notes for John V. Prentice and wife Hesther Nichols.)
I speculate that Esther must have died in childbirth. She died so very young and her son Valentine's birthdate is so close to her death.
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I found it to be a very confusing thing to sort out an Esther Nichols versus Hester Nichols descendancy. Finally I started paying more attention to the records of the Prentice family in America and things became clear. Who would have thought that John V. Prentice would have married first a Hester Nichols, daughter of John Nichols, and married second an Esther Nichols, daughter of Caleb Nichols - And that these two women would be first cousins. For years I had thought that "Esther" and "Hester" were the same person.
I owe my enlightenment to a fine amateur genealogist, Larry Cheesebro', with whom I had corresponded on a few occasions in the past, who put me on to the classic 1883 Prentice family reference book by C.J.F. Binney.
John immigrated at age three with his parents to Boston aboard the "Lyon". His occupations were blacksmith and seaman. His residences were Boston, MA, in 1631, Roxbury, MA, in 1632 and New London, CT, in 1652. He remained a member of the Roxbury church and took his children there to be baptized. His first wife was Hester Nichols (daughter of John Nichols) and first cousin of his second wife Esther Nichols (daughter of Caleb Nichols). His third wife was Rebecca Parker, daughter of Ralph Parker.
He was Deputy to the General Assembly of CT in 1668. Two of his sons, Jonathan and Thomas were also sea captains.
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Ralph never married.
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On the records of the First Church of Roxbury, MA, appears the following: "Valentine Prentis came to this land in 1631 aboard the 'Lyon'. While he accompanied Eliot, called Apostle to the Indians, it is unclear whether Valentine was a member of the Eliot party. Valentine and his family lived in Boston a year, then moved to Roxbury, joined this church in the year 1632. He brought but one child to this land, his son John, having buried one son before sailinjg and another at sea. He lived a godly life, and went through much affliction by bodily infirmity, and died leaving a good safr (savor) of godlyness behind him." He died at age 34.
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John's baptism date is to be found in the Sedgeberrow Parish Registers on LDS Film #0905307. The Fairfield, CT, probate records show John Nichols died before 19 June 1655 when an inventory of his estate was taken and distributed to his widow Grace and children Hester, Elizabeth, Hannah, Isaac, Sarah and John.hn's death as he is named in a 1659 document by his mother [Grace married second Richard Perry who died in Fairfield 10 Sep 1658].irfield," conveyed on 4 Jun 1659 to her son Izacke, now apprenticed to Isaac Nichols of Stratford, "house homelot & meadows that belongs to my former husband, John Nichols, paying to my three other children, Samuel, John & Sarah, 2 pounds each."y provide a listing of all seven of John's children [Hester, Elizabeth, Hannah, Isaac, Sarah, John and Samuel] but indicate only four [Isaac, Sarah, John and Samuel] belonged to Grace. Thus the older three [Hester, Elizabeth and Hannah] had to have been the children of John by a previous wife, so far unidentified.
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William's home in England was six miles from Chelmsford, Essexshire. With his wife Rebecca and their minor children, he left there for New England on 13 April 1635 aboard the ship "Increase" out of London, England, arriving Boston, Massachusetts Colony in June 1635, Captain Robert Lea, Master. The passenger list states him to be a husbandman, aged 41 [Hotten's List of Emigrants to America, p. 57 shows him age 51 but this is thought to be an error.], his wife Rebecca, aged 40, and his four children, Sara [Sarah], aged 9, Marie [Mary], aged 7, Samuel, aged 5 and William, aged 1. [His older sons, Nathaniel and John, were not on board. They were only 15 and 12 at the time so they were probably too young to have emigrated alone, but they were of an age to have been apprenticed to someone in England.] The ship's papers note that he was "no subsidy man" meaning he carried with him a certificate from his Minister in Billericay, Essexshire, that he had paided up his forced loan and ship money taxes. Rebecca died either during the voyage or very shortly after landing.
William was evidently an adherent of Rev. Thomas Hooker, as he first settled with him at Newtowne (now Cambridge), Mass. and then followed him in 1636 to Hartford, Conn where he was one of the first settlers.
At Newtowne in 1635/36 he married Hester [or Esther] Musse, the only widow there. He had another child by Hester named Samuel who was born in 1647 so his son Samuel, born 1629, by his first wife must have died before then. Hester is reported as having a daughter named Adria Corlet by her first marriage. Hester is thought to have died 13 Dec 1682 at Jamaica, Long Island, NY.
Land Records prove William's residence in Hartford and in February 1649/50 he was appointed by the General Court to keep the prison at Hartford for £10 per year. Sometime before 27 August 1657 he had followed his son John to Norwalk, CT, as he appears in the records there as late as 15 July 1665 when he sold his home and thereafter removed to Jamaica, Long Island where he died in 1682. William sometimes spelled his name "Ruskew and Roscoe" but it has been noted that Roscoe, an old family name found in Lancashire and Cheshire, is of different origin from the family of William Ruscoe which is thought to be of Dutch or Flemish origins.
William made his will on 5 August 1680 in Jamaica, Long Island, NY. It was probated on 13 December 1682 wherein he bequeaths to his son John, "now living in Norwalk in NE" [New England]; to children of daughter Sarah; to Alice, daughter of son Samuel; to son Samuel; wife [unnamed] to be executrix. The inscription on the Monument erected by the Ancient Burying Ground Association of Hartford, "In Memory of the First Settlers of Hartford", includes William Ruscoe.