Saturday, January 12, 2019

Surname Saturday -- NEWCOMB (England to colonial Massachusetts)

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

I am working in the 9th great-grandmothers by Ahnentafel number, and I am up to Ancestor #2219 who is Rachel NEWCOMB (1631-????). [Note: the more recent ancestral families have been covered in earlier posts.]

My ancestral line back through two generations in this NEWCOMB 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)

34.  Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840)
35.  Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869)

68.  Aaron Smith (1768-1841)
69.  Mercy Plimpton (1772-1850)

138.  Amos Plimpton (1735-1808)
139.  Mary Guild (1735-1800)

276.  John Plimpton (1708-1756)
277.  Abigail Fisher (1711-1785)


554.  John Fisher (1677-1727)
555.  Abigail Smith (1686-1726)

1108.  John Fisher (1652-1727)
1109.  Hannah Adams (1656-1746)


2218.  Peter Adams, born before 01 March 1622 in Barton St David, Somerset, England; died 23 October 1690 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 4436. Henry Adams and 4437. Edith Squire.  He married about 1648 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.
2219.  Rachel Newcomb, born before 13 November 1631 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England.

Children of Peter Adams and Rachel Newcomb are:
*  John Adams (1648-1724), married 1684 Michal Bloice (1664-1752).
*  Rachel Adams (1650-1678).
*  Peter Adams (1652-1723), married 1680 Experience Cook (1652-1725).
Hannah Adams (1656-1746), married (1) 1674 John Fisher (1652-1727); (2) 1730 Joseph Metcalf (1658-1741)
*  Mary Adams (1661-1704).
*  Jonathan Adams (1663-1664).
*  Ruth Adams (1665-1665).
*  Joseph Adams (1668-1748), married 1694 Mary Davenport (1668-1737).
*  Samuel Adams (1671-1731), married 1703 Sarah Sabin (1679-1705).
*   Henry Adams (1674-1674).

4438.  Francis Newcomb, born about 1605 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England; died 27 May 1692 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.  He married  13 November 1630 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England.
4439.  Rachel Brackett, born before 28 April 1614 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England; died after 05 January 1685 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 8878. Peter Brackett and 8879. Rachel LNU.

Children of Francis Newcomb and Rachel Brackett are:
Rachel Newcomb (1631-????), married 1648 Peter Adams (1622-1690).
*  John Newcomb (1634-1722), married (1) 1658 Ruth Marshall (1634-1697); (2) 1698 Elizabeth LNU (1640-1722).
*  Hannah Newcomb (1637-1710), married 1658 James Thorpe.
*  Mary Newcomb (1640-1678), married (1) 1657 Samuel Deering (1604-1671); (2) 1675 George Spear (1613-1688).
*  Judith Newcomb (1646-1723), married 1666 Samuel Jennison (1645-1701).
*  Peter Newcomb (1648-1725), married (1) 1672 Susanna Cutting (1652-17800); (2) 1701 Mary Phillips (1660-1738).
*  Abigail Newcomb (1651-????).
*  Leah Newcomb (1654-????), married 1688 William Price (1658-????).
*  Elizabeth Newcomb (1658-????), married (1) 1677 John Pidge (1640-1691); (2) 1695 James Emery (1631-1719).

Information about the Newcomb family was obtained from:

*  
Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007), pages 242-245.

I have done no original research on this family line.


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