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Abigail Briggs was born in 1692 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. John Moon and she were married on 30 November 1710 in Westport, Bristol County, Massachusetts. John Butts and she were married on 29 January 1724 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. She died on 26 September 1757 at age ~65 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.

Abigail Briggs was born in 1698 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island.

Enoch Briggs was born in 1651 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. He and Hannah Cooke were married after 1689 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.¹ He died in April 1734 at age ~83 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.

Hannah Cooke was born in 1658 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. Daniel Wilcox and she were married unk. Enoch Briggs and she were married after 1689 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.¹ She died on 22 October 1736 at age ~78 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.

Hannah was widow of Daniel Wilcox.

Joseph Cook and Susannah Briggs were married on 19 April 1692.

Thomas Manchester was born about 1620 in Yorkshire, England. He and Margaret Wood were married before 1650 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. He and Margaret Wood were married in 1650. He died in 1691 at age ~71 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.

He came initially to New Haven, CT, in 1639, but moved to Portsmouth, RI, in 1642. He may have come as part of a company of Yorkshire settlers led by Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, a famous nonconformist minister. As of 1639 and 1640 he was listed as a servant of Mr. Perry. He owned considerable land in Portsmouth by the time he died, including Quononoqutt Island and Dutch Island. Some question whether the family really came from Yorkshire.

This information comes from Boyer, Ancestral Lines, Third Edition, pp. 286-7. He may have been the son of Henry de Mancestre of Warwickshire. See Genealogies of RI Families, Gary Boyd Roberts, 1989.

The following is from "The Manchester Family of Rhode Island", by Alden and Rita C. Manchester, Takoma Park, Md., in the New England
Historic Genealogical Society of Boston Register, October 1947. It differs considerably from, and corrects many errors in the following
other genealogies, from which I have added several items of interest, namely:. Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, Vol 2, p
108: from "New England Families", by William Richard Cutter, Vol 2, p. 853, New York, 1913: from "Colonial Families", by the American
Historical Society, New York, 1929: from the "Genealogy of Stephen Manchester: from "The Genealogy of the "Briggs Family", by Pearl Leona Heck: from Daniel Wilcox of Puncatest", by Herbert A. Wilcox, South Pasadena, Cal., 1943: and from the "Cooke Family & Descendants and Relatives of Francis Cooke of the Mayflower". The genealogy by Alden and Rita C.Manchester carries the descendants down much further than given below.

Thomas Manchester was born in England about 1620, and died at Portsmouth, R.I., about 1691. Alden and Rita Manchester state that no
English ancestry of Thomas Manchester has ever been satisfactorily established, and they consider the statement in "Colonial Families" that Thomas was the son of Henry de Mancestre, and grandson of Hugo de Mancestre, Lord Mancestre of Warwickshire, England, was pure guesswork and only worthy of inclusion here as an interesting speculation. Thomas Manchester was an early pioneer of Quinnipiac, called
New Haven after 1640, in the Plantation of Connecticut: since he is found there in 1639, it would seem probable that he was of the company of Yorkshire settlers who in 1638 came to America with Ezekiel Rogers, the famous non-conformist minister, with the view of joining the Quinnipiac Plantation, although many of them eventually settled elsewhere. The New Haven colony differed very much from other colonies.
Many of the colonists put up large houses. As an explanation why this style of building was so general, it may be said that the founders of
New Haven were mainly gentlemen and merchants, used to living in superior houses in London and other parts of England. For a period, Thomas continued at Quinnipiac, but removed to Portsmouth, R.I, before 1642. On February 25/1642 he was appointed to serve on the next jury. From 1674 till his death, he was Town Sergeant. He became a considerable landed proprietor. Prior to 1655 he acquired land on the
island of Aquidneck, and on January 25/1655, he made a deed of a tract of 12 acres there to Thomas Wood. On December 10/1657, he shared in the land division and received eight acres at Portsmouth. He also had share in Dutch Island and Quononoquet Island, and conveyed his interest in1/300th right therein to Richard Sisson on July 6/1658. His mansion and homestead was built on his Portsmouth land. On July 9/1691, Thomas deeded to his son John, his mansion house and all lands at Portsmouth, except the piece at the lower end, which had been theretofore deeded to his son Thomas. According to the deed, half was to be John's on his brother Thomas' death, and the remaining half upon the death of his Mother, conditioned always that pay to his brothers Thomas, William and
Stephen, 10 shillings each, to Job 20/-, and to his sisters Mary andElizabeth, ten shillings each.


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Check this information out -- it's from Ancestry.com OneWorldTree Collection, which is notoriously inaccurate. Have not included children for Thomas and William because of so many discrepancies. Thomas Manchester had person sources.¹

Margaret Wood was born in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. Thomas Manchester and she were married before 1650 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. She died in 1693 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.

Thomas Cook was born on 13 April 1600 at Saint Mary in Netherbury, Dorset, England. He and Rebecca Westcott were married in 1626 in Earles Colne, Essex, England. He died on 6 February 1677 at age 76 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.

Thomas Cooke alias Butcher (Bowcher), Netherbury, Dorset, England. He may have left England due to drought there. He came on ship Speedwell in 1637. He was an original settler of Taunton in 1638 and moved to Portsmouth in 1643. See "Thomas Cooke of Rhode Island, " Jane Fletcher Fiske, Boxford, MA, 1987.

Was his wife Mary Havens, or is this a mix-up with his son, Thomas?

Zaccheus Butts was born before August 1667 in Little Compton, Rhode Island. He and Sarah Cornell were married in 1689 in Little Compton, Rhode Island. He died before 1718 in Little Compton, Rhode Island.

Sarah Cornell was born about 1671. Zaccheus Butts and she were married in 1689 in Little Compton, Rhode Island. She died on 16 January 1749 at age ~78 in Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts. She was buried at Kickemuit Cemetery in Warren, Rhode Island.

Thomas Butts was born about 1641 in Norfolk, England. He and Elizabeth Lake were married in 1667 in Little Compton, Rhode Island. He died about 1703 at age ~62 in Little Compton, Rhode Island.

Thomas emigrated from Norfolk, England and arrived in the Plymouth Colony May 18, 1660. He removed to Portsmouth where he bought four acres from Richard Hart 16 Nov 1662. On 1 Oct 1666 he bought from Richard Bulgar two acres in Portsmouth for a cow and 10 s in wampum. On 20 Nov 1668 he deeded William Earle seven acres, and he bought from Richard Earle, of Dartmouth, a quarter of a purchaser's share of meadow, an eighth share of upland, etc. in Dartmouth. On 31 Oct 1682, in Little Compton, he and James Case were to be sent for to the next court to give reason tof their being and continuance at Punckateest without liberty first obtained so to do from the government. They had rebelled on paying taxes. On 27 Oct 1685 Thomas was granted a division of land in Dartmouth, purchased of Woosamequin and Wamsutta.

His will, recorded in Taunton in December 1702, left land in Little Compton to his son Zacheus.

Elizabeth Lake was born about 1642 in Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Thomas Butts and she were married in 1667 in Little Compton, Rhode Island. She died after 1709 in Little Compton, Rhode Island.

Henry Lake was born on 14 August 1611 at Chidwell in Liverpool, Lancashire, England. He died after 21 October 1678 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

Henry came to New England in the group from Lancashire led by Rev. Richard Mather (grandfather of Cotton Mather) emigrated together to Dorchester.

After his wife's execution in Dorchester 9 (she was executed as a witch?), Henry removed to Portsmouth, where he was admitted as an inhabitant in 1652, having previously witnessed a deed there on 23 Apr 1651. By 1673 he had removed to Dartmouth.

ca 1641 Henry married Alice [Lake]. Born in England. Alice died ca 1650/1 in Boston, MA.

Alice Ireod was born about 1616 in Lancashire, England. She died in 1650 at age ~34 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

She had two more children, names unknown, born abt. 1648 and abt. 1650.

The article "Witchcraft in the American Colonies" that appeared in the American Quarterly describes many cases of persecution of women and a few men claimed to be witches. In it, Mrs. H. Lake is listed as being tried as a witch in Dorchester, found guilty, and executed in Boston in 1650. Also, there is quoted a letter from Nathaniel Mather to Increase Mather, 31 Dec 1684, which gives a small detail about the case. 'I have also received by way of London one of your books of Remarkable Providences. ... Why did you not put in the story of Mrs. Hibbens witchcrafts, & the discovery thereof, as also H. Lake's wife, of Dorchester, whom, as I have heard, the devill drew in by appearing to her in the likenes, & acting the part of a child of hers then lately dead, on whom her heart was much set: as also another of a girl in Connecticut who was judged to dye a reall convert, tho she dyed ofr the same crime?' From The Mather Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections, 4th ser., VIII (1868), 59-60. See also W. F. Poole, editor, Governor T. Hutchinson's Witchcraft Delusion, p. 384, n5.

After 1648, abt. 1650, Alice was executed as a witch. After she was executed, Henry moved to Portsmouth. Later in life,he lived in Dartmouth.

Thomas Cornell was born in 1653 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. He and Susanna Lawton were married in 1673 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. He died on 14 October 1714 at age ~61 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.

Sarah Earle was born about 1637 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. Thomas Cornell and she were married after 1650 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. David Lake and she were married about 1677. She died in 1690 at age ~53 in Tiverton, Rhode Island.

David Lake and Sarah Earle were married.

William Meader was born on 12 May 1750 in Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. He died in March 1829 at age 78.

Was she born in 1835 and married John Sayers, Jr., in 1866? Mary Elizabeth Slocum had person sources.¹

Edward Cornell was born in 1655 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.

Seabury Manchester was born on 27 August 1740 in Bristol, Rhode Island. He and Miriam Wyatt were married on 1 February 1763 in Bristol, Rhode Island.¹ He and Sabra Lincoln were married on 21 November 1799 in Bristol, Rhode Island.² He and Lydia Throop were married on 4 December 1801 in Bristol, Rhode Island.² He died on 10 August 1829 at age 88 in Bristol, Rhode Island.³ He was buried at Br004, Old East Burial Ground, in Bristol, Rhode Island.

Seabury and Miriam and their children, Martha, Benjamin, and William, were baptized October 3, 1773, by the Rev. John Burt. Seabury Manchester had person sources.⁴

Sarah Butts was born about 1695. She died about 1714 at age ~19.

Abigail Butts was born in 1699. She died in 1757 at age ~58.

Mary Butts was born in 1697.

Elizabeth Butts was born in 1700. She died about 1732 at age ~32.

Elizabeth Butts was born on 1 January 1748 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.