CHADBOURNE, William
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Name CHADBOURNE, William [1] Birth 30 Mar 1582 Tamworth Borough, Staffordshire, England [1]
Gender Male Departure 1634 [2] Differentiator The Great Migration; Immigrant; One of the founders of South Berwick; first settlement in Maine Great Migration https://www.americanancestors.org/DB115/i/7373/33/235156279 Web Address https://www.chadbourne.org/ Web Address https://www.chadbourne.org/English.html Immigration 1634 Kittery, York, Maine, USA [3]
On the Pied Cow Occupation carpenter Residence Kittery, York, Maine, USA [2]
Death Aft 20 Dec 1652 Kittery, York, Maine, USA [1]
Burial South Berwick, York County, Maine, USA [1]
Patriarch & Matriarch CHADBOURNE, Robert, b. 1539, Preston, Tamworth, Warwickshire, Englandd. Bef 16 Dec 1622, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England
(Age < 83 years) (Father)
DOOLEY, Margaret, b. 1558, Tamworth, Staffordshire, Englandd. 23 Sep 1626, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England
(Age 68 years) (Mother)
Person ID I8348 My Genealogy Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
Father CHADBOURNE, Robert, b. 1539, Preston, Tamworth, Warwickshire, England d. Bef 16 Dec 1622, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England
(Age < 83 years)
Relationship natural Mother DOOLEY, Margaret, b. 1558, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England d. 23 Sep 1626, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England
(Age 68 years)
Relationship natural Marriage 28 Jan 1577 Tamworth, Staffordshire, England Family ID F12521 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family SPARRY, Elizabeth, b. 1589, Belbroughton, Worcestershire, England d. 1 Jun 1623, Tamworth Borough, Staffordshire, England
(Age 34 years)
Marriage Maine, USA Married 8 Oct 1609 St Editha, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England Children 1. CHADBOURNE, Humphrey, b. 23 Apr 1615, Tamworth, Warwickshire, England d. 25 May 1667, Kittery, York, Maine, USA
(Age 52 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
2. CHADBOURNE, William Jr., b. 30 Sep 1610, Tamworth, Warwickshire, England d. 18 Apr 1616, Tamworth, Warwickshire, England
(Age 5 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
3. CHADBOURNE, Susannah, b. 22 Feb 1618, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England d. 26 Apr 1618, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England
(Age 0 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
4. CHADBOURNE, Robert, b. 1 Jun 1623, Tamworth, Warwickshire, England d. 19 Jan 1627, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England
(Age 3 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
5. CHADBOURNE, William JR, b. 1620, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England d. 1652 (Age 32 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
6. CHADBOURNE, Patience, b. 8 Nov 1612, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England d. 7 Nov 1683, South Berwick, York, Maine, USA
(Age 70 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
▻ SPENCER, Thomas m. Aft 1629Family ID F6770 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
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Documents Great Migration William Chadbourne (1582-1652) Great Migration: William Chadbourne (1582-1652)
https://www.americanancestors.org/DB115/i/7373/33/235156279In 1634, William arrived in New England aboard the ship "Pied Cow" with James Wall and John Goddard. They were under a contract with Captain John Mason of London's Laconia Company to build mills in Berwick. William, a master carpenter, played a significant role in constructing the first water-powered sawmill and gristmill in New England. William married Elizabeth Sparry on October 8, 1609, in England. The couple had several children, but Elizabeth's life after their marriage remains largely undocumented. It is believed that she died in England. The house William built in Berwick, Maine, is believed to be the oldest in the state, with part of its foundation under a house at the northwest corner of Brattle and Vine Streets. This property was later deeded to his son-in-law, Thomas Spencer.We have six separate branches of descent from this couple on both the Wright (Tucker) line and Laviolette (DeRochemont) line.
Histories Founding-and-Early-History-of-South-Berwick-Maine
Albums Founding Families of Kittery & The Berwicks (13)
While I was born in New Hampshire and have lived almost all of my adult in New Hampshire, I grew up just over the border, in Berwick, Maine. This is Jim and I met and dated throughout high school (Noble High School) and it's where we were later married at Our Lady of Peace. Berwick is where my grandparents purchased a farm after he was wounded in WWII and received a medical discharge from the Marines, and it is where they raised their nine children. It is where most of my family still lives and it is where Jim's parents live.
For all these reasons, I was beyond excited to find that our ancestral roots go back to the very beginning of the European settlement of Berwick. The branches run through both my maternal and paternal lines and I will use this collection to provide all my research.Great Migration (119)
The "Great Migration," as defined by the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS), encompasses the English Puritan migration to New England from 1620 to 1640. This movement primarily involved English Puritans who relocated in family units, driven by a quest for religious freedom and the aspiration to establish a Puritan commonwealth. These migrants originated from various regions of England and settled in areas that now form Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, including the Plymouth Colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
An individual's inclusion in the Great Migration Study Project requires evidence of migration to New England within the specified period of 1620 to 1640. The project's objective is to compile biographical and genealogical profiles of all immigrants who arrived in New England during these two decades. The NEHGS has produced extensive volumes and directories, providing details about the lives of these immigrants. This collection presents research on many ancestors who were part of this significant historical migration.
You may be shocked by how many there are. Even I was at first. However, most of these Great Migration ancestors are my 9th and 10th great-grandparents, and in some cases 11th and 12th, and with the number of great-grandparents doubling with each generation, the possibilities quickly become immense. We have a total of 1024 sets of 9th great-grandparents and 2048 sets of 10th great-grandparents. This makes finding so many Great Migration ancestors more understandable.
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Notes - William Chadbourne, baptized on March 30, 1582, in Tamworth, Warwickshire, England, was a pivotal figure in the early colonization of New England. He was the son of Robert and Margery or Margaret (Dooley) Chadbourne. William married Elizabeth Sparry on October 8, 1609, in Tamworth. The couple had several children, but Elizabeth's life after their marriage remains largely undocumented, including her death date and place.
In 1634, William arrived in New England aboard the ship "Pied Cow" with James Wall and John Goddard. They were under a contract with Captain John Mason of London's Laconia Company to build mills in Berwick. William, a master carpenter, played a significant role in constructing the first water-powered sawmill and gristmill in New England, starting on July 22, 1634.
The house William built in Berwick, Maine, is believed to be the oldest in the state, with part of its foundation under a house at the northwest corner of Brattle and Vine Streets. This property was later deeded to his son-in-law, Thomas Spencer. The Chadbournes were not religious dissenters but members of the Church of England, possibly planning to return to England after fulfilling their contract with Mason.
William's involvement in the construction of the Great House at Strawbery Banke (now Portsmouth, NH) is a subject of conjecture. While some sources attribute the building to his son Humphrey, it's more likely that William, given his expertise, was responsible for its construction.
William's life in New England was marked by his active participation in community affairs. He was accused, along with his sons, by Mrs. Ann (Green) Mason, widow of Captain John Mason, of embezzling her husband's estate. However, their claim was upheld by the selectmen of Kittery and the Government of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. William was also involved in the establishment of a meeting house in Kittery and was a signatory of the Kittery Act of Submission in 1652. His last known appearance in records was on November 16, 1652.
William Chadbourne's children, all baptized in Tamworth, include Patience, from whom we are descended.
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The house William built may be the one said by Stackpole in 1926 to be the oldest house in Maine. Part of its foundation is under the present house on the northwest corner of Brattle and Vine Streets on the road from the Lower Landing (Hamilton House) to the original mill site at Asbenbedick (later Great Works) Falls. William Chadbourne deeded the home to his son-in-law, Thomas Spencer, and a nice picture of it appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript of 25 Jun 1938. Other accounts suggest that the property occupied by Spencer was actually a second, later house, and that the early home stood in the northwesterly angle of the intersection of Brattle Street leading to the mouth of the Great Works River and the highway to Eliot.
The Asbenbedick Great Works was the site of a mill with nineteen saws built by the Leader brothers in the 1650s. The river was called Chadbournes River by many before and after, due to the Chadbourne dam and mill erected downstream in the late 1630s.
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- William Chadbourne, baptized on March 30, 1582, in Tamworth, Warwickshire, England, was a pivotal figure in the early colonization of New England. He was the son of Robert and Margery or Margaret (Dooley) Chadbourne. William married Elizabeth Sparry on October 8, 1609, in Tamworth. The couple had several children, but Elizabeth's life after their marriage remains largely undocumented, including her death date and place.
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Sources - [S2050] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).
Record for William Chadbourne
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=60525&h=10979437&indiv=try - [S2163] Ancestry.com, New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013;).
New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 - [S3396] Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, Great Migration 1634-1635, C-F, (Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society; Location: Boston; Date: 2001;), William Chadbourne.
https://www.americanancestors.org/DB115/i/7373/33/235156279
- [S2050] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).