WENTWORTH, Lydia

Lydia married HALL, William on 7 Dec 1769. William (son of Living) was born on 10 Jul 1745 in Rollinsford, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Lieutenant Benjamin
• Residence: Rollinsford, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; Lived on his father's farm in Rollinsford

Benjamin + STIMPSON, Deborah. Deborah (daughter of STIMPSON, Bartholomew) was born on 11 Apr 1709 in Durham, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died on 4 Jun 1790. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
an only child

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: Y
• Relation to Me: 8 GGF
• Name: //
• _DNA: Match (Michelle - M)
• Residence: 1693, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; Elder William gave Benjamin the farm at Cocheco in this year
• Public Service: 1711, 1713, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; Constable
• Public Service: 1703, 1717, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; Surveyor of Highways

Notes:

Died:
drowned "at 11 o'clock at night, going home from Dover Neck, he missed the boom and drove into the river."

Benjamin married ALLEN, Sarah in 1697 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. Sarah (daughter of ALLEN, Edward and KIMBALL, Sarah) was born in 1679 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; died on 12 Jul 1770 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Relation to Me: 8 GGM
• _DNA: Match (Michelle - M)

Notes:

Died:
Died at the home of her grandson Bartholomew

Notes:

Died:
killed by Indians

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: The Great Migration; Royal gateway ancestor; defended the garrison and lived through Dover Indian Massacre
• Gateway Ancestor: Royal Descent and Magna Carta
• Great Migration: William likely arrived Boston in 1636 or 1637, perhaps traveling with John Wheelwright's group.
• Historical Importance: Gateway Ancestor
• Web Address: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wentworth_(elder)
• Web Address: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wentworth-145
• Name: Wintworth, Winford, Wenford, Wintford, and Wantworth
• _DNA: match
• Arrival: 1636, Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
• Residence: Between 1642 and 1649, Wells, York, Maine, USA
• Public Service: Between 1647 and 1649, Kittery, York, Maine, USA; Member of Jury
• Public Service: 1648, Wells, York, Maine, USA; Constable
• Residence: 1650, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; Taxed in Dover for first time this year
• Public Service: Between 1655 and 1697, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; Ruler Elder of the first church in Dover
• Public Service: 1657, 1660, 1661, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; Lot Layer (arbitrate conflicting claims of land)
• Public Service: 1661, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; Moderator of Town Meetings
• Public Service: 1663, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; Commissioner (in charge of adjudging "small causes")
• Public Service: 1651, 1657, 1660, 1664, 1665, 1670, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; Selectman
• Burial: 15 Mar 1697, Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire, USA

Notes:

The first record of Elder William Wentworth in America is on 4 Jul 1639 when his signature appeared, along with those of 35 others including Reverend John Wheelwright, on the Exeter Combination for government. Rev. Wheelwright had been banished from Massachusetts along with Anne Hutchinson (for his religious views) and had purchased from Native Americans the title to 2 pieces of land in New Hampshire. The settlement was created in 1638 around the lower falls of Swamscott River--what is now Exeter. The original document is preserved among the records of Exeter. The Combination is essentially similar to the "Mayflower Compact" in that it established a cooperative government where none existed.

William was from Wheelwright's parish in England and probably came to America with him or shortly after. As circumstantial evidence of this, just after Wheelwright's arrival in Boston (26 May 1636) Elder William Wentworth's father (William Sr) sold his property in England and there is no record of either of them in England after that.

As the Ruling Elder of the First Church in Dover, Elder William was responsible for preaching and serving the needs of the congregation in the absence of the preacher. Due to the geographic distance and difficulty many members had reaching the church held at the meeting house on Dover Neck, Elder William spent the last 40 years or so preaching. He was the first person ever employed by public authority to preach within the city limits of Dover, but he officiated more commonly at Quamphegan (now South Berrwick) which also served the Salmon Falls area. Later in life he also preached in Exeter.

The tale of how Elder William held off the Indians during the massacre at Cocheco in 1689 is well known. On 28 Jun 1689, Elder William was at Heard's garrison (the frontier post between Portsmouth and Canada), about a mile from his house. That night some of the squaws in the garrison requested to sleep by the kitchen fire (not unusual). But in the middle of the night, the squaws got up and admitted the attacking Indians. A dog barking at them awoke and alerted Elder William, who at 73 years of age managed to somehow push the entering Indians back out, shut the door, and then fall against it to barricade it until help came despite the shots being fired through the door just over his head while he held it. This was the only garrison saved that night. From the others attacked, 23 people were killed and 29 were taken captive.

William married KENNEY, Elizabeth Knight in 1640 in New Hampshire, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of QUINEY, William and SUTTON, Elizabeth) was born in 1619; died on 4 Apr 1697 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; was buried in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: Great Migration; Immigrant
• _DNA: match

Other Events and Attributes:

• Web Address: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Allen-6362
• Court Case: 1673, Berwick, York, Maine, USA; Fined in a court case for being absent at a meeting (Quaker?)
• Civil: 1678, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA; Prison Keeper

Notes:

Source: "Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire" [Noyes, Libby, Davis], p. 62: EDWARD ALLEN, received from his father, Hope Allen (wife Rachel), of Boston, a large part of Portland [Maine], bought from Mr. Cleeve, and sold it to George Bramhall and Henry Kirke. Apparently came first to Berwick, and was fined in York Court, July 1673, for being absent from meeting, but soon settled on Dover Neck below Thompson's Point. Prison keeper, 1678, probably bookkeeper for Major Waldron. In 1703-1704. he visited Lynn to assist the widow about his brother Capt. Benjamin's estate. His wife, Sarah, died about 1720. Children: 3 sons and "several daughters"...

[Two of the sons are identified as Edward Jr., later of Nantucket, and Joseph of Dover. The daughters are identified as Rachel (Allen) Twombly, Sarah (Allen) Wentworth, Leah (Allen) Canney, and Mary (Allen) Pinkham. A third son, unidentified, "went to sea" and likely died there.]

Edward married KIMBALL, Sarah on 24 Nov 1658 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. Sarah (daughter of KIMBALL, Richard and SCOTT, Ursula) was born in 1635 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1720. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]