Saturday, August 23, 2014

Surname Saturday -- FLAGG (England to Colonial Massachusetts)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  


I am in the 8th great-grandmothers and I'm up to Ancestor #1033 who is Mary FLAGG (1658-1720) 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two generations in this FLAGG family line is:


1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)

16. Isaac Seaver (1823-1901)
17. Lucretia Townsend Smith (1827-1884)

32. Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825)
33. Abigail Gates (1797-1869)

64. Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816)
65. Martha Whitney (1764-1832)

128.  Norman Seaver (1734-1787)
129.  Sarah Read (1736-1809)


258.  Isaac Read (1704-1780)
259.  Experience Willis (1709-1787)

516.  Thomas Read (1678-1755)
517.  Mary Bigelow (1677-1708)

1032.  Samuel Bigelow, born 28 October 1653 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 01 February 1732 in Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 2064. John Bigelow and 2065. Mary Warren.  He married 03 June 1674 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
1033.  Mary Flagg, born 14 January 1658 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 07 September 1720 in Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  

Children of Samuel Bigelow and Mary Flagg are:
*  John Bigelow (1675-1769), married 1696 Jerusha Garfield (1677-1768)
*  Mary Bigelow (1677-1708), married (1) 1699 David Bruce (1675-1701), (2) Thomas Read (1678-1755)
*  Samuel Bigelow (1679-1734), married (1) 1705 Ruth Warren (1681-1716); (2) 1716 Mary Gleason (1682-1752).
*  Sarah Bigelow (1681-1713), married 1706 Josiah Howe (1678-1766).
*  Thomas Bigelow (1683-1756), married 1705 Mary Livermore (1684-1753).
*  Mercy Bigelow (1686-1745), married 1707 Thomas Garfield (1680-1752).
*  Abigail Bigelow (1687-????), married 1710 Jonathan Cutler (1688-1740).
*  Hannah Bigelow (1689-1717), married 1711 Daniel Warren (1686-1733).
*  Isaac Bigelow (1691-1751), married 1709 Mary Bond (1690-1775).
*  Deliverance Bigelow (1695-1762), married 1715 John Stearns (1692-????).

2066.  Thomas Flagg, born before 06 May 1621 in Hardingham, Norfolk, England; died 06 February 1698 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 4132. Allan Flegg and 4133. Elizabeth Deveroys.  He married about 1640 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
2067.  Mary, born 1619 in Hardingham, Norfolk, England; died 30 December 1702 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of Thomas Flagg and Mary are:
*  Gershom Flagg (1641-1690), married 1668 Hannah Leffingwell (1647-1700).
*  John Flagg (1643-1697), married 1670 Mary Gale (1645-????).
*  Bartholomew Flagg (1645-1675).
*  Thomas Flagg (1646-1719), married (1) 1668 Rebecca Dix (1641-1691); (2) 1691 Rebecca Dumblin (1655-????).
*  William Flagg (1648-1675).
*  Michael Flagg (1651-1711), married (1) 1674 Mary Bigelow (1649-1704); (2) 1704 Mary Lawrence (1671-????).
*  Eleazer Flagg (1653-1722), married 1676 Deborah Barnes (1646-????).
*  Elizabwth Flagg (1655-1729), married 1676 Joshua Bigelow (1655-1745).
*  Mary Flagg (1658-1720), married 1674 Samuel Bigelow (1653-1732).
*  Rebecca Flagg (1660-1721), married 1679 Stephen Coooke (1647-1738)
*  Benjamin Flagg (1662-1741), married 1690 Experience Child (1670-1757).
*  Allen Flagg (1665-1711), married 1685 Sarah Ball (1666-????).

Resources used to research these families include:

*  Norman Gershom Flagg and Lucius C.S. Flagg, Family Records of the Descendants of Gershom Flagg [born 1730] of Lancaster, Massachusetts with other Genealogical Records of The Flagg Family Descended from Thomas Flagg of Watertown, Massachusetts and Including the Flegg Lineage in England (Quincy, Ill. : Cadogn-Hatcher Publishers, 1907).

*  Nora E. Snow and Myrtle Mae Jillson, Snow-Estes Ancestry (Hillburn N.Y.: the authors, 1939), Flagg family, page 236.

*  Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts (Boston, Mass. : Brown & Little, 1860)

*  Patricia Bigelow, editor, The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Volume I (Flint, Mich. : The Bigelow Society, 1986). 

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