Woodworth, Ichabod

Notes:

Hannah is his second wife.

Benjamin married Damon, Hannah in 1689 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA. Hannah (daughter of Damon, John and Howland, Martha) was born on 02 Dec 1672 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA; died on 05 Aug 1741 in Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA; was buried in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Family: No children with John May

Joseph married Stockbridge, Sarah on 06 Jan 1670 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA. Sarah (daughter of Stockbridge, John and Soane, Elizabeth [Hatch]) was born on 15 Mar 1645 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Arrival: Bef 1633, Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA; On the ship Fortune

Notes:

John Damon with his sister Hannah, came to Scituate before 1633. They were then minors, and under the guardianship of Mr. William Gillson, their uncle. We understand that they were very young at that time from the circumstance, that having been made the heirs of Mr. Gillson, they were not established in their inheritance by the Court until 1649. "John and Hannah Daman were allowed by the Court to be lawful heirs of William Gillson, it being proved by diverse persons that Gillson had often said that he intended to make these (his sister's children) his heirs." (Colony Records 1649)

John Daman succeeded to the residence of his uncle, on Kent street, the second lot from Satuit brook (Edward Foster's being the first).

I have copied an excerpt from a hand-written book by a Mrs. Hatch who recently died. I don't know how accurate old Mrs. Hatch was, but I was impressed with her attention to detail and perseverance when I read the book in a recent visit to Scituate. She writes, in her preamble:

"The earliest mention of the name in English history is that of William Damon, author of a book of music published in 1591, during the reign of Elizabeth I. The Rev. S.C. Damon, author of a memorial published in Honolulu in 1882, states that he also found the name while traveling in France. (He mentions) that visitors to the World Fair in Chicago in 1893 will remember the name "Colin & Damon" prominently displayed on a French exhibit in the Manufacture and Liberal Arts Building. There is little doubt (Mrs. Hatch continues) that the name is of French origin and was probably brought over to England as early as the 14th century.

The parish records of the St. Lawrence Church of Reading, England, record the baptism of John, son of John Damon on 25 June 1620." (Mrs Hatch notes that these are are not Scituate's John Damon.') She continues....
John was prominent in the affairs of town and church. In military affairs he held the position of Seargent in 1666. He was appointed to the Command of the Scituate Militia under Miles Standish and held that position until 1669.
Lived at the 2nd house from Satuit Brook on Kent Street in Scituate.

EXCERPT FROM PLYMOUTH COLONY RECORDS VOL 2 P.143

John Damon,the forefather of all the Damon's hereabouts, came to Plymouth with his sister Hannah in the company and under the care of their mother's brother William Gilson, before 1633. Their uncle was a man fairly well to do for the times, a good churchman and of very excellent abilities. Not long after Gilson's arrival he was made an assistant to the colonial court---counsellors they were called in those days---and in 1634 he is found at Scituate a member of Mr. Lothrop's congregation. His house was next to Edward Foster's just south of Satuit Brook. He had land on the north of second cliff and in 1637 erected the first windmill in the colonies; on the third cliff. Beside the nephews and nieces Gilson and Good wife Francis had for a time an inmate of their household Pricilla, the daughter of Peter Brown of Plymouth, who had left his widow with a large family of children. Both Gilson and his wife was devoted to their young kins people. That he might " leave them something after his days were ended " the former applied for and received from the court an allotment of more land than he personally could personally or conveniently cultivate, because " although he had no children of his own, yet that he had two of his sister's children, which he looked upon as his own. " When he died in 1649 John and Hannah was awarded all of his possessions, saved one small legacy to another nephew and another of 5 pounds " to my pastor Mr. John Lothrop."
Young Damon lived in the house on Kent street which his Uncle had left him and tilled the 80 acres which had been awarded to Gilson on his own {Damon's} and his sisters account.
He was warmhearted, generous and ever ready to be such measures of assistance that he was able, to a friend or a neighbor who stood in need. This characteristic brought him collaterally into a pretty romance in which Govenor Prence, his daughter Elizabeth and John Damon's friend Aurthur Howland, Jr., of Duxbury were involved. This was in 1666. At this time the provision concerning courtship was the law of the colonies:----
" Whereas divers persons unfit for marriage both in regard to their young years and also in regard of their weake estate, some practising the enveigleing of men's daughter's and maids under guardians { contrary to the parents and guardians liking " , and of maybe servants without leave and liking of their masters. It is therefore enacted by the court if any shall make any motion of marriage to any man's daughter or servant not having first obtained leave and consent of the parents or masters so to doe, Shall be punished by either fine or corporal punishment or both of the discretion of the bench and according to the natures of the offence."
Young Howland and Mistress Prence were enamored of each other. They were not " unfit for marriage" within the meaning of their status, both being of age and the formal possession of 50 acres of land in Duxbury which had been granted to him by the Colony Court. Their was one grave and insuperable objection. Howland was a Quaker. His father, at first was a sympathizer, and then frequently prosecuted before Prence, who was then Governor, for the entertainment of Quakers and assisting and the promulgation of their faith, and finally embraced it. The Governor was rabid in his opposition to the sect and the marriage of his daughter to one of them was intolerable. The young woman was the third child of his second marriage. Her mother was a sister of William Collier, as prominent and persistent in his persecution of the Quakers as was the Govenor himself. Both parents forbade the courtship despite of their joint effort continued. No other means availing, recourse was finally had to a criminal prosecution against Howland under the law which has above quoted. On march 5, 1666-7 Howland was brought before the bench on which his accuser sat as the presiding Magistrate and charged with :--
" Inveigling mistress Elizabeth Prence and making motion of marriage to her , and prosecuting the same contrary to her parents liking, and without their consent, and directly contrary to Their mind and will."
He was sentenced to pay a fine of 5 pounds to find sureties for his good behavior:--
" And in the special that he desist from the use of any names to obtain or retain her affections as aforesaid."
Here John Damon came to the assistance of his friend. He became surety for that good behavior which the Court required. He also apparently counselled the action which was taken 4 months later with Howland " Did solemnly and seriously engage before this court, { Governor Pence still presiding} that he will wholly desist and never apply himself for the future, as formally he hath done, to mistress Elizabeth Pence, in reference onto marriage." However solemn this agreement may have been, it was not serious in the part of young Howland: Nor did mistress Prence agree that this action either of the court or her lover was final. The courtship continued and was consummated and a marriage later. The daughter was never forgiven. The bitterness which Pence showed towards general Cudworth for the latter's leniency the Quakers was greatly increased in the case of his daughter because of her successful rebellion to his stubborn will.
Although he disinherited, he live to see her surrounded by a contented brood in the Scituate Planter who had become surety, for the good behavior of the parent the godfather of his children.
John Damon's unselfishness and genuine interest in the welfare of others is also shown in his advocacy of the cause of Elder William Hatch who claimed a share in the town"s common land. It has been told elsewhere in these pages that the Colony Court had permitted the freemen of Scituate to make division of these lands among the freeholders. In doing this there had been trouble. Two factions had sprung up, and the town had delegated the privileges to the committee. While the magistrate did not approve of this, they sanctioned it for a time and then reestablished the bench in the performance of the duty by appointing a committee of its own choice of the townsmen, made up however of the leaders of each fraction. These men were Captain James Cudworth, Cornet Stetson, Isaac Chittenden, and Lt. Buck, on one side and John Damon, John Turner{ Senior}, John Turner,Jr., and John Bryant,{senior}, on the other side. It is readily seen that they easily deadlocked. This was true upon the application of Elder Hatch for his allotment. In the argument which insured Damon, being deserted by John Bryant, won over Buck, and Chittenden from the opposition and reported a layout for Hatch to the Court. It was not the fault of this majority of the committee that the Magistrates acted unfavorably upon this report. It served Elder Hatch to no purpose but to make Damon himself the target for retribution at the hands of his opponents on the committee. When his turn came for a layout of 50 nacres a majority of his fellows refused his request weakly alleging " that he had land on that account before." He appealed to the court which returned this advise:--" Therefore we request and think he ought to be considered, and desire you so do." He was thereupon " Accommodated".
He was a deputy to the Colony Court, one of the council of war, a Selectman
and performed his full part in those other public services to which he was from time to time assigned.
He was twice married, his second wife being Martha Howland, a relative of his friend Authur. He was the father of twelve children evenly divided as to the sexes. Of those which survived adolescence, John and Zachery each did exemplary services in the King Phillips War. Another son Experience was the pioneer at Pincin Hill and the daughters Silence, Martha, Hannah, and Margaret thru marriages with Scituate neighbors has established the Damon strain in the families of Chittenden, Merrit, Stetson, Eells, Woodworth, and others.

John married Howland, Martha on 15 Jan 1659 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA. Martha (daughter of Howland, Arthur and Walker, Margaret) was born on 19 Dec 1632 in Marshfield, Plymouth Co., MA; died on 19 Dec 1732 in Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1635

Notes:

From Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Pesonal Memoirs of Worcester County Massachusetts with a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity. Volume 4, Ellery Bicknell Crane, 1907:
STOCKBRIDGE FAMILY. John Stockbridge, who came to America in the ship "Blessing" in June, 1635, was the emigrant ancestor of Radford Stockbridge, of Worcester. John Stockbridge gave his age, then as twenty-seven years, hence he was born in 1608. With him was his wife Ann, and his son Charles, aged one year. He settled at Scituate, Massachusetts, and his wife is on record as joining the church there, July 16, 1637. He took the oath of allegiance, February i, 1638. He was one of the Conihassett partners in 1646. His house was near John Hollet's, perhaps a few rods southwest of Jesse Dunbar's, and he had also a tract of land, bought of Abraham Sutcliffe, near Stockbridge's mill pond, on the north and east. In 1656 he bought one-half of the mill privilege of George Russell, with the saw-mill which Isaac Stedman had erected there, ten years before, and built a grist mill, in partnership with Russell. The "History of Scituate" says that he built the Stockbridge mansion house in 1656, which is now or was lately standing, one of the oldest in New England, and which was used as a garrison in King Philip's war. He was a town officer at Scituate.
His wife Ann died, and he married (second), October 9, 1643, Elizabeth Sone, of Scituate. She died and he married (third), Mary . He died October 13, 1657. His will was dated September 4, 1657, and proved April 8, 1658. He left his house and household goods at Boston, near what is now Milk street, to his wife, and the mill, house, grounds and orchard at Scituate to his son, Charles, who was to pay ten pounds to his sister, Elizabeth. The youngest son. John, was to have a house at Scituate, where Gilbert Brooks lived, and pay ten pounds to his sister, Mary. He left to his daughter, Mary, the house at Scituate where William Tick- nor lived. He mentioned also daughters Hannah and Sarah. Mary Stockbridge, widow of John Stockbridge, married, April 8, 1660, Daniel Hen- dricks. Children of John and Ann Stockbridge were: 1. Charles, born in England. 1634. 2. Hannah, baptized at Scituate, October 8, 1637. married, October 29, 1656, Sergeant William Ticknor. 3. Elizabeth, baptized about September, 1639, at Boston, because the Scituate minister required immersion; married Thomas Hiland, Jr., in 1661. Children of John and Elizabeth (Sone) Stockbridge were: 4. Sarah, baptized 1645-46, married Joseph Wood worth, a shop-keeper. 1669. 5. Hester, baptized July 11, 1647. Children of John and Marv were: 6. Abigail, born 1655. 7. John, baptized at Boston, July 19, 1657

John married Soane, Elizabeth [Hatch] on 09 Oct 1643. Elizabeth was born about 1600 in England; died about 1654 in MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Gilson, Hannah in 1615 in Kent County, England or Feering, England. Hannah (daughter of Gilson, Blank) was born about 1599 in Kent, England; died in 1627. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Tombstone Photo: Marshfield, Plymouth Co., MA; Winslow Cemetery

Notes:

GEORGE E. MCCRACKEN, "THE WILL OF ARTHUR HOWLAND, SENIOR, OF MARSHFIELD," NEHGR, 104:221-225 (FHL #974 B2ne)

CLARENCE A. TORREY, "THE HOWLAND ANCESTRY," THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST," 14:214-215 (FHL #973 B2ag)

ROBERT S. WAKEFIELD, ET.AL., "ARTHUR HOWLAND OF PLYMOUTH, MA," NSGQ, 71:84-91 (FHL #973 B2ng)

Arthur married Walker, Margaret before 06 Jun 1643 in Probably England. Margaret was born in 1604 in Marshfield, Plymouth Co., MA; died on 22 Jun 1683 in Marshfield, Plymouth Co., MA; was buried on 23 Oct 1683 in Marshfield, Plymouth Co., MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Mary
• Fact 2: 22 Jan 1683, Marshfield, Plymouth Co., MA

Notes:

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!GEORGE E. MCCRACKEN, "THE WILL OF ARTHUR HOWLAND, SENIOR, OF MARSHFIELD,"
NEHGR, 104:221-225 (FHL #974 B2ne)
CLARENCE A. TORREY, "THE HOWLAND ANCESTRY," THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST,
14:214-215 (FHL #973 B2ag)
ROBERT S. WAKEFIELD, ET.AL., "ARTHUR HOWLAND OF PLYMOUTH, MA," NSGQ 71:84-91
(FHL #973 B2ng)
Buried Oct 23, 1683.