John Clark (before 1656 to 1727) and His Wife Sarah Smith of Beverly and Rochester, Massachusetts

John Clark (sometimes Clarke) was born about 1651, based on his being about age 30 in a 1681 deposition. [Records of New Plymouth Colony 6:75] I have not found his birth since his name is quite common, so unclear if he was born in England or New England. The first record I am confident refers to him is the 1683 birth of his eldest child in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts. He is not the John Clarke, son of 1623 Anne passenger Thomas Clarke. [Johnson] John is my 9th great-grandfather on my grandfather Arthur Washburn Ellis Davis’ side of the family.

John was a mariner who is called a fisherman in the 1705 deed mentioned below. He is also called a weaver, perhaps because his inventory included a loom and tackling. [Perley]

He had a brother William, shown by this deed: “I John Clarke of Rochester, fisherman, formerly of Beverly, in consideration of £80 paid by William Clark of said Beverly do grant…to said William Clark my brother…7 acres, upland and meadow in Beverly afores’d.” Dated 23 November 1705. John signed with his mark. Witnesses: John Pratt, Samuel Balch. Acknowledged 24 November 1705; recorded 24 November 1705. [Essex County Deeds 17:104] William married Elizabeth Stone of Salem and raised a family in Beverly.

By about 1682 John Clark married Sarah Smith. [Torrey, Coddington] Published works identify her as the Sarah Smith born Salem 20 October 1660 [Salem Vital Records/Births p 305], the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Goodale) Smith. Her grandfather Robert Goodale was a large landholder in Salem. John and Sarah moved their young family to the new settlement of Sippican/Rochester in Plymouth Colony. I have not found the original source for identifying Sarah as the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Goodale) Smith. 

Sarah and John had seven children:

1. Sarah Clarke born Beverly 21 August 1683 [Beverly Vital Records p 74]; baptized 18 September 1686 [Davis]; called eldest daughter in father’s January 1726/27 will; married John Dexter about 1702 at Rochester; died 21 January 1755 at Rochester [Rochester VR 2:376]
2. John Clark born 7 October 1685 [Beverly VR p 60]; called eldest son in father’s will; married in Sandwich 2 November 1709 Mary Tobey [Rochester VR 2:85]
3. Katherine Clark baptized Rochester 3 July 1690 [Coddington]; not mentioned in her father’s will so likely predeceased him
4. Joseph Clark born Rochester ca 1695; called second son in his father’s will; married at Rochester on 29 November 1720 Thankful Stevens (also seen as Stephen), daughter of Andrew [Rochester VR 2:85]
5. Mary Clark baptized Rochester 2 July 1693 [Coddington]; called second daughter Mary Stevens in her father’s will; married Timothy Stevens (also seen as Stephens), son of Andrew, at Rochester 21 March 1716/17 [Rochester VR 2:81]
6. Cornelius Clark baptized Rochester 28 August 1698 [Coddington]; called third son in father’s will; married at Plymouth Susannah Dunham on 2 December 1731 [Rochester VR 2:78]; his will was proved 3 September 1781 in Plymouth
7. Elisabeth Clark baptized Rochester 1 November 1702 [Coddington], called third daughter Elizabeth Clarke in her father’s will; I found no marriage

 I descend from Sarah whom I wrote about here.

I am not clear on when the family moved from Beverly to Rochester as there are conflicting records as to which town some of the children were born. The Beverly Vital Records claim some of the children were born there that seem more likely they were born in Rochester. Some of the births are written in a different, likely later, hand than that of Sarah. 

In the Beverly Proprietors Book p 2-3 the list of proprietors of common lands taken 27 March 1699 includes John Clark, but that does not necessarily mean he was still living there as we see from a later deed by his son John that John Senior still owned Beverly land at the time of his death.

John Clark appears in two court records, once because his fellow canoe passenger was drowned: 

At 28 October 1681 Plymouth Colony Court included the deposition of John Clarke, aged about 30 yeers, and alsoe of Robert Hilliard, aged about 30 yeers, both of them witnesseth and saith, that whereas they, with two more, viz Mr Gorge May and Timothy Venor, being bound from Matapoisett to Assonett, where William Makepeace dwelt, as wee were going over, the canooe prouving very Leakey, and the wind riseing caused a great sea, in soe much that the canooe began to fill, soe that William Makepeace jumpt out of the canooe, with an intent to swim ashore; and wee with Gods mercye, hanged on both ends of the canooe, and escaped, and Gott to the shore, where wee gott some refreshment att Hugh Coles house; and after wee were a little refreshed, wee went to looke along the shore to see whether wee could find our hatts or any other of our things, but wee, seeing William Makepeace floteing dead on the flates, thought it a point of humanity for to gett the said Makepeace to the shore, whereunto wee did him, and above high water marke, and soe left him; and further saith not.

The above written John Clarke and Robert Hillyard made oath to the above written        testimony, the day and yeer above written [19 August 1681, Swansey], before mee

James Browne, Assistant

A jury,  impanelled for the viewing of the corpse of William Makepeace, found “wee, the said jurying, haveing dilligently serched him, can not find either wound or bruise about him; but, according to the best of our understanding, wee find the cause of his death was by drowning. [Records of Old Plymouth Colony 6:75] It seems likely this refers to this John Clark since he lived in Rochester, parts of which, particularly the ocean-bordering section where you would expect a fisherman to live, became Mattapoisett. 

No date, but apparently 1715, John Clarke of Rochester complained to ye Court that Suit has commenced against him to this Court by Benjamin Dexter of Rochester aforesaid and yt ye sd Dexter had Discontinued his Suit, the defendant therefore Prays Costs against ye sd Dexter which ye Court Allows at £1 14s 6d. [Plymouth Superior Court Records, Court of Common Pleas, volume 1, p 67]

John Clark died at Rochester between 13 January 1726/7 (date of will) and 9 March 1726/7 (will proven). His probate records show he was a large landowner who left significant bequests.

John Clark of Rochester wrote his will on 13 January 1726[/7]. [Probate Records 1724-1731 vol 5-5T image 184] He writes that he is “well stricken in years & under infirmity of body.” He left the following bequests:

• I give & Bequeath to my eldest son John Clark that part of my Land lying in Rochester; mentions near William White’s and Ebenezer Holmes’ land.
• I give & Bequeath to my second son Joseph Clark that part of my lands lying in sd Rochester where Joseph’s dwelling house stands; mentions land near that of Samuel Arnold.  
• I give & Bequeath to my third son Cornelius Clark land lying in said Rochester and also twenty acres adjoining the lot; land bounded by land given to John and Joseph. 
• Also I give & Bequeath to my three sons above so named all my Lands in sd Rochester lying to ye northward of that Land have already given to my son Cornelius Clark already as abovesd to be equally divided between them.  John Clark to have ye western part & Joseph Clark ye Easterly part & Cornelius Clark ye middle part and furthermore I give & Bequeath to my son John Clark my quarter part of ye twenty fourth Gore Lott and all my other Lands & cedar swamps: not above exprest.
• I give to my three sons above named to be equally divided amongst them: and all ye parcells & parts of Lands & swamps. 
• I give to my dear & loving wife Sarah Clark for ye tender love I have to Her ye one halfe of the dwelling House I now live in namely ye Eastern End during her natural life, and all my moveable estate both within doors & without it to be at her own disposing for ever, not extending her of her thirds: and further my will is that my three sons above named shall find my sd wife suitable firewood so long as she remains a widdow equally between them: and also suitable tendance both in sickness & healthy in equall proportion: and my will is that it is to be understood that my wife Sarah Clarke is to have ye improvement of part of ye Land above given to to my sd son Cornelius Clarke during her natural life: viz…containing about one acre be it more or less lying easterly of my now dwelling house together with that part of my improved Land & meadow ground I have improved to ye Eastward of sd orchard so across sd Lott Eastward so far as ye choice land goes and also my will is that my son Cornelius Clarke shall keep said orchard & Lands with sufficient fence & tend my said wifes stock she finding forever. 
• I give to my eldest daughter Sarah Dexter ten pounds to be aid to her or her heirs by my son John Clarke his Heirs &c out of his part of Land. 
• I give to my second daughter Mary Stevens twenty pounds money to be paid her or her heirs &c: by my son Joseph Clarke or his Heirs &c out of his Part of Land. 
• I give to my third daughter Elizabeth Clarke twenty five pounds money to be paid her or her heirs by my son Cornelius Clarke or his Heirs &c out of his Part of Land &c: also to have a fine roome to herselfe after my sd wifes decease during her single life in my said house.

He also wrote “my will is that my just debts and funeral charges shall be equally paid by my three sons namely John Clark, Joseph Clark & Cornelius Clark.”

He named his son John Clarke and “trusty friend” Roger Haskell of Rochester as executors. 

John’s will was witnessed by Samuel Arnold, Isaac Holmes and Samuel Sprague all of whom made oath to the will on 9 March 1726/27.

On 9 March 1726/27 Roger Haskell declared his refusal of executorship. 

Inventory of John Clarke of Rochester’s estate was taken 17 March 1726/27 by Samuel Sprague, John White and Edward Winslow. [Plymouth County Probate Records 1724-1731, vol. 5-5T, image 189]

Ye Reall estate wee vallued at five hundred & fifty pounds 550 0 0

And to ye Personall Estate as followeth.

Ye stock thirty six pounds 36 0 0

Beds & bedding fifteen pounds 15 0 0

Grain four pounds & three shillings  4 3 0

One loome & tackling three pounds 3 0 0

Apparell seven pounds five shillings 7 5 0

Old Barrells & 2 hogs heads & one barrel of cyder & 1/2 2 pound 5   2 5 0

Laths & leather one pound one shilling 1 1 0

Scythes & Tackling six shillings 0 6 0

3 chest 4 chairs one table with ye linen in ye chests 2 13 0

2 spinning wheels 1 saddle & pillion 1 7 0

Meat & ye cask ye meat is in 2 12 0

Pewter & wooden dishes & hoops 1 6 0

Ironware of all sorts 2 18 0

3 bottles one bagg 1 book 1 old sword 1 linnen yarn neck cloth 1 5 0

One table cloth two old iron boxes & 2 old hoops 0 10 0

Move to two small swine 1 0 0

Samuel Sprague, John White and Caleb Blackwell made oath to the inventory on 23 March 1726/7.  [Plymouth County Probate Records 1724-1731, vol. 5-5T, image 190]

His son John, also a mariner, sold some of his father’s Beverly lands in 1728.  “…I John Clark of New Rochester in the County of Plymouth…Marriner (being Executr to the Last Will…of my father John Clark late of said Rochester Yeoman Deceased) For…£15…paid by Robert Cleeves of Beverly, Black Smith…Do Sell…Robert Cleeves one comon Right of Lands in…Beverly…in that part…that is called Burnt Hills & Bever Pond Rocks the said Comon Right of Land in said comon Pasture is Sett or Stated to Samuell Clarke in the Right of John Clarke as appears by the Proprietors Book of Records in said Beverly and the said John Clark in whose Right the said Comon Right of Land is Sett or Stated…was my Father who is Deceased as aforesaid and Did never Sell nor any ways Convey the said Comon Right when He sold his House and Land in said Beverly…and therefore I being his Eldest Son & Executor to his Last Will…have Good…Right to the said Granted Premises & Lawful Authority to…Sell the same. 25 December 1728. [Signed] John Clark. Witnesses: Abraham Goodel (this witness may be cousin Abraham Goodale of Salem), Thomas Whitredg. Acknowledged 25 Dec 1729; recorded 25 Dec 1729. [Essex County Deeds 50:265]

Sarah outlived her husband but I have not found her death record. I have seen her death year as 1731 and 1738 but without sources. 

Sources:

John Insley Coddington, The American Genealogist, “The Clark Family of Beverly and Rochester,  Mass.,” 43:19-26  (1967]

Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Lydia Harmon 1755-1836 wife of Joseph Waterhouse of Standish Maine, 1924, p 33

Sidney Perley, The History of Salem Massachusetts, 1924, 3:41-42

William W Johnson, Clarke-Clark Genealogy, Records of the Descendants of Thomas Clarke, Plymouth 1623-1697, 1884

Torrey’s New England Marriages to 1700, 1:323

Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, eds., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in New England, 12 vols. (New York: AMS Press, 1968)

Jack Mack Holbrook, compiler, Massachusetts Vital Records Beverly 1653-1892 (available on ancestry.com)

Jireh Swift, ca 1673 to 1749, of Sandwich and Wareham, Massachusetts, and His Wives Abigail Gibbs and Mary Besse

Jireh Swift was born about 1673 (based on age at death) at Sandwich on Cape Cod, then part of Plymouth Colony. His parents were William and Ruth (—?—) Swift. [The Mayflower Descendant (hereafter “MD”) 30:113] He was an original founder of the town of Wareham in Plymouth County. His name is also spelled Jirah and Jirie. Jireh is my 9th great-grandfather on my grandfather Arthur Washburn Ellis Davis’ side of the family.

On 26 November 1697 Jireh Swift married Abigail Gibbs at Sandwich. [Sandwich Vital Records in MD 29:30] She was born about 1679 at Sandwich (based on age at death), the daughter of Thomas and Alice (Warren) Gibbs and a descendant of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren. [Wakefield/1]

Abigail and Jireh had a large family of twelve children born in Sandwich [births recorded as children of “Jirah and Abigail Swift,” Sandwich Vital Records in MD 30:99-100]: 

1. Alice born 23 July 1698; married James Crocker son of Jonathan and Hannah Crocker and a descendant of Mayflower passenger John Howland, at Barnstable 21 Nov 1721; died 15 Jan 1783 in Colchester, Connecticut [Wakefield/2]
2. Susannah born 6 Oct 1699; married Joseph Isham at Sandwich 11 Dec 1730; died 04 Jan 1745/46 Colchester [Wakefield/2]
3. Jabez born 16 March 1700[/1]; married Abigail Pope at Sandwich 9 Oct 1729; died Kent, Connecticut 12 Nov 1767 [Wakefield/2]
4. Zephaniah born 6 March 1702/3; married Lydia Chipman at Sandwich 30 Sept 1725; died 9 May 1781 Wilmington, Vermont [Wakefield/2]
5. William born 5 July 1705;  married first Keziah Ryder who died 23 March 1735/6 at Sandwich; married 2nd Abigail Burgess about 1740; died between 2 Oct and 20 Dec 1748 at Sandwich [Wakefield/2]
6. Nathaniel born 14 March 1707/8; married Abia Tupper at Sandwich 14 Sept 1730 who was daughter of Eliakim Tupper [Tupper]; died 13 March 1790 at Warren, Connecticut [Wakefield/2]
7. Jireh born 23 Nov 1709; married Deborah Hathaway 9 Oct 1730 at Dartmouth who was a descendant of Mayflower passengers Francis Cooke and Richard Warren; died Dartmouth 16 March 1782 [Wakefield/2]
8. Job born 3 Oct 1711; m. Sarah Blackwell Sandwich 20 Jan 1733/4; died Sharon, Norfolk, Mass., 14 Feb 1801 [Wakefield/2]
9. Silas born 2 Aug 1713; married Abigail Tupper (whose sister Abia married his brother Nathaniel) at Lebanon 16 Oct 1735 [Tupper]; died Lebanon CT 24 Sept 1794 [Wakefield/2]
10. 10. Abigail born 26 July 1715; m. Intentions to Antipas Hammond December 1736; died Rochester 31 Jan 1796 [Wakefield/2]
11. Isaac born 3 May 1720; m. 26 Jan 1748/9 Susanna (Keith) Ames; died Bridgewater 22 Nov 1811 [Wakefield/2]
12. Rowland born 24 March 1721/2; m. Mary Dexter 5 December 1745 at Wareham; d. Lebanon CT 13 Feb 1795 [Wakefield/2]

Alice, Susanna, Jabez, Zephaniah, William, Nathaniel, and Jireh Swift all baptized Sandwich on 8 October 1710. [Sandwich VR p 1374, citing Records of the First Parish Church, Sandwich, page 16] 

Job Swift was baptized 11 November 1711 and Silas Swift was baptized 13 September 1713. [Sandwich VR p 1374, citing Records of the First Parish Church page 16] 

Abigail Swift was baptized 28 August 1715. [Sandwich VR 1376, citing same page in church records]

Isaac Swift was baptized 12 June 1720. [Sandwich VR 1380, citing p. 17 in Sandwich church records] 

No baptism for Rowland found in Sandwich Vital Records. 

Incredibly all twelve children were living when Jireh wrote his will on 29 March 1744.

I descend from William whom I wrote about here. 

Usually in my 17th and 18th century families, the eldest son inherited the family homestead where he then stayed to bring up his own family, but that is not the case in Jireh and Abigail’s family. Their eldest son Jabez as well as two other sons went to Connecticut, four to other Massachusetts towns, and one to Vermont. It was only their youngest son, Rowland, who raised his family in Wareham, but later in life even he went to Connecticut. 

William Swift, in his December 1705 will, left his son “Jirie” a bequest of £20 in moveables. [MD 30:110] Abigail received a bequest from her father Thomas Gibbs in his 23 June 1725 will:  “To my daughter Abigail” £10 in money. [Barnstable Co PR 5:24]

Jireh served as a Sandwich Selectman for two years beginning in 1720. [Deyo] 

Jireh Swift was listed as one of the Sandwich heads of families taken March 1730 by Rev. Benjamin Fessenden. [Locke]

In 1731 ecclesiastical discontent began in Sandwich. A petition by Jireh Swift and others stated “that great dissatisfaction was conceived at the conduct of the minister, Mr. Fessenden; that the aggrieved had called in council seventeen churches to advise, which said council had laid Mr. Fessenden under censure, and advised his removal, but that he and the church refused to submit; and that the petitioners not being able with a good conscience to sit under his ministry, pray for a division of the parish, the petitioners to be allowed the right of one half of the parsonage.” Their grievances apparently were not viewed by the Court in the same light and their petition was dismissed. [Freeman] The major issue was that Rev. Fessenden was rumored to have fathered a child out of wedlock. [RA Lovell]

In response, the following year 1732 Jireh Swift and others erected a meeting house in what is now Sagamore Village, but they continued to be taxed for the support of the parent church at Sandwich. Moses Swift and 33 others petitioned to be released from the tax but were refused. [Deyo] Town Meeting did not vote in favor of allowing a division into a Second Parish which also would have divided assets. In 1733 a Council did approve the organization of the new church. In 1734 Fessenden was said to confess to fathering the illegitimate child but no minutes for the meeting are found. [RA Lovell] 

Jireh removed with his family to Wareham in Plymouth County where he was “busy and prominent.” [Swift] It seems probable the conflict about ministerial taxes in Sandwich precipitated his move to Wareham where he was a Church Deacon. 

Wareham, then called Agawam Plantation, was originally set off as a precinct of Rochester. In 1739 the town sent a second petition to the Colony for permission to be set off as a town. The petition was granted by Gov. Jonathan Belcher on 10 July 1739. Ten townsmen pledged their own money to fund the endeavor including “Mr. Jirey Swift 5 shillings.” All the men were titled “Mr” indicating their standing in the fledgling community. [D. Lovell]

The first Wareham town meeting was held on 6 August 1739 to select officers and conduct other necessary business. Jirah Swift was selected as Town Treasurer and a Selectmen. [D. Lovell]

I have found just two deeds pertaining to Jireh:

In a 15 July 1731/2 deed, Joshua Gibbs of Agawam, for £150 paid by Nathan Landers of Rochester, sold certain parcels of land “lying near the sd Joshua Gibbs his dwelling house,” containing upland and meadow land which he and Jirah Swift had bought from the Bartletts, situated on the northwesterly side of Agawam River on the Southerly side of the country road leading from Agawam to Sandwich. [Plymouth Land Court Deeds 27:106]

In a deed dated 7 July 1758, acknowledged Barnstable 28 March 1759, shows that “Malachi Ellis of Sandwich, yeoman” purchased for £4 from Josiah Swift and John Swift, also of Sandwich, a one-quarter part of a tract of land in Plymouth which had by deed of 21 March 1696/7 been conveyed by Jonathan Morey to Jireh Swift and John Gibbs [Plymouth Land Court Deeds 46:231-2; NEHGR 120:103]

Abigail died 22 March 1740 at Wareham. She is buried at Agawam Cemetery: Abigail Swift, wife of Dea Jirah, Mar. 22, 1740, 62nd yr. [Thatcher]

Jireh Swift and Mary Besse, both of Wareham, were married by Rev. R. Thatcher on 19 November 1741. [Wareham Vital Records, p 154; Records of First Church of Wareham, p 73]

Jireh Swift died at Wareham 17 April 1749. He’s buried with his first wife Abigail at Agawam Cemetery in Wareham: Deacon Jireh Swift, died 17 April 1749, in his 77th yr. [Thatcher]

Jireh made his will at Wareham 29 March 1744; probated 1 May 1749. [Plymouth County Probate Records 11:241] 

Bequests were as follows:

To “Mary my wife one Bed, the best bed the Curtains two pr of Sheets, three Coverlids, a bolster & a Pillow, one Cow, one kittle, one pot, one pot hanger, one Slice, a pr of tongs, the best Chest, one platter puter, one puter basen, two puter plates, and liberty to live in the West End of my house dureing the Term that she remains my widdow, and Two hundred pounds in Good bills of the Old Tenour to be paid her One half within a year after my Decease, and Other half at the End of two years.”

To “my son Jabez Five Shillings old tenour”

To “my son Zephaniah five Shillings old tenr”

To “my son Nathll five Shillings old tenour”

To “my son Willm five Shillings old tenour”

To “my son Jirah Swift five Shillings old tenour”

To “my son Job five Shillings old tenour”

To “my son Silas Swift five shillings old tenour”

To “my son Isaac Eighty pounds old tenour”

To “my daughter Alice Croker one Shilling old tenr”

To “my daughter Susannah Isham One Shilling Old tenour”

To “my daughter Abigail Hamond five pounds old tenour”

To “my Granddaughter Abigail Hamond five pounds old tenour”

To “my gd Daughter Abigail Swift daughter to my son Jabez five pounds old tenour”

To “my gd son Jirah Swift son to my son Jabez five pounds old tenour”

To “Catherine Curby twenty Shillings old tenour” [she may be a daughter of his niece Sarah Kirby] 

To “my son Rowland…all my lands and Salt and fresh meadow both Divided and undivided that I have in Wareham, together with all my right, which I have in the Muddy pond cedar Swamp, lying in this Town, as also all my right in Sandy Pond land lying in the Township of Plimouth, And [p 242] my Will is that if my son Rowland Should die without leaving any Issue lawfull begotten…then his part or Share above given to be Equally divided among my sons, also my Will is that if my wife, while She remains my Widdow, is so minded s to go away Shall not hire out her part of the house but it Shall be for the use of my son Rowland…and also I give to my sd son Rowland all my Moveable Estate both within Doors & without (Except what I have given to my wife as above) together with all my houseing & Out houseing, my part of the Mill, The privilige that I have in the Stream with all my bonds & book Debts he paying all my Just Debts & the bequests above Given.”

He named son Roland Swift sole executor. Witnesses were Rowland Thacher, Samuel Waterman and John Bump 3d. Administration was granted to Rowland Swift of Wareham on 1 May 1749. 

On 3 May 1749 “Mary Swift of Warham” widow of Jirah Swift, late of Wareham, receipted to her “son in Law [ie stepson] Rowland Swift” for “the whole of the Moveable & Personal Estate which was given…unto me in the last will…of the said Jirah swift” also for “Security for the payment of Two hundred pounds, in bills of Credit of the old tenour” and released to him “for other…Considerations…all my Right of Dower and Power of Thirds…in…any part of parcel of the real Estate of my said late Husband…and also all my right and Interest in and to the Personal Estate of said Deceased…Only it is to be understood…that the said Mary Swift is to have Liberty to dwell and live in the west End of the dwelling house of the deceasd dureing the Term of her Continuing to be the widdow of the said Jirah Swift.”

Mary Swift signed by a mark. Witnesses were Rowland Hamond and John Norris. Mary Swift acknowledged the receipt and quit claim at Wareham on 4 May 1749. [Plymouth County Probate Records 11:335]

Sources:

Eben Swift, Library of Cape Cod History and Genealogy, ”William Swift and Descendants to the Sixth Generation," Pamphlet No. 15, 1923

Simeon L. Deyo, editor, History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 1890

Lydia B (Phinney) Brownson and Maclean McLean, NEHGS Register, “Thomas Gibbs of Sandwich, Mass,” 123:135

John G. Locke (communicated by), NEHGS Register, “Extracts from Rev Benjamin Fessenden’s Manuscript,” 13:30

George E. Bowman, The Mayflower Descendant, “Jirah Swift’s Will,” 23:39

Tupper Family Association (communicated by), NEHGS Register, “Thomas 1 Tupper and His Descendants,” 99:65

Frederick Freeman, The History of Cape Cod: the annals of Barnstable County, including the district of Mashpee, 1858, p 371

RA Lovell, Sandwich: A Cape Cod Town, 1984, P 143

Robert S. Wakefield (No. 1), Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol. 18, Richard Warren, published by the GSMD, 1999

Robert S. Wakefield (No. 2), Family of Richard Warren, The fifth generation descendants of his children Abigail, Nathaniel and Joseph, GSMD, 2001

Col. Leonard H. Smith Jr & Norma H. Smith, Records of the First Church of Wareham, Massachusetts 1739-1891, 1974

Charles M. Thatcher, Old Cemeteries of Southeastern Massachusetts, compilation in the late 1880s, published 1995 by The Middleborough Public Library

Daisy Washburn Lovell, Glimpses of Early Wareham, 1970