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Richard Earle was born about 1620.

Mary Earle was born about 1622.

John Borden and Joanna were married before 1627. She died on 14 August 1691 in Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.

John Roe and Mary Borden were married on 1 June 1620 in Headcorn, Kent, England.

Rebecca Westcott was born in 1605 in Earles Colne, England. Thomas Cook and she were married in 1626 in Earles Colne, Essex, England. She died before March 1673 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.

Capt. Thomas Cook was born about 1633. He and Mary Havens were married. He died in 1670 at age ~37 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.

George Cook was born about 1635.

John Cornell was born in 1660.

Innocent Cornell was born in 1673 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. She died in 1732 at age ~59 in Westport, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

Thomas Bonney was born before 1665 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. He and Dorcas Samson were married before 1684 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.¹ He and Sarah Studley were married on 18 July 1695 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. He died in July 1735.

Thomas Bonney had person sources.²

Dorcas Samson was born in 1652. Thomas Bonney and she were married before 1684 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.¹ She died after 24 December 1684.

Dorcas Samson had person sources.²

Ebenezer Bonney was born before 1691.

Thomas Bonney was born before 1684.

Mercy Bonney was born after 1684.

Thomas Bonney was born about 1604 in England. He died between 1689 and 1693 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Thomas Bonney, a shoemaker, came to New England on the ship "Hercules"
from Sandwich, England in March 1634. He settled first at Charleston,
Massachusetts where he was a proprietor in 1635. He sold his house and
land there in 1637 to Robert Cutler and moved to Duxbury, Massachusetts
where he became a freeman on March 5, 1638/9 and a proprietor on August
31, 1640. In 1640 he owned land northwest of North Hill and thirty acres
at Namasakeeset. The name was later changed to Pembroke and subsequently
changed to Hanson.

Thomas's first wife was Mary Terry. Following her death, Thomas married
Mary Hunt, the daughter of Edmund Hunt and his wife, Dorcus (Oxenbridge)
Hunt. In 1643, Thomas was listed as able to bear arms (16-60 years old)
in Duxbury along with his future father-in-law, Edmund Hunt and his son's
future father-in-law, Henry Sampson. He was also listed as a constable at
Duxbury between 1643 and 1644, a town officer in Court in 1645, and as a
surveyor of highways in 1652. He was a shoemaker by trade. His will was
dated January 2, 1688/9 and was probated on May1, 1693. He bequeath to
his wife, Mary, and son, Thomas, his estate to be divided between the
children after the death of their mother.

While there has been some question as to which Thomas Bonney married
Dorcus Sampson, daughter of Henry Sampson, Perez Bonney's own chronicle
of his predecessors and his own posterity -- from his grandfather down to
his own grandchildren is generally accepted as being correct. In it he
states:

"I, the subscriber, Perez Bonney, the son of John Bonney, of Pembrook,
having a mind to write an account of my predecessor, according to the
best information that ever I had, I shall begin with my grandfather,
Thomas Bonney, who came from Dover, in England, and was born about the
year 1604, and married Mary Terry, but she died, and then he married Mary
Hunt, being as I have been told about 50 years old by whom he had: Thomas
2nd, who married Dorcas Sampson; Mary, who married John Mitchell; Sarah,
who married Nathaniel Cole; Hannah, unknown; John who married Elizabeth
Bishop; William, who married Ann May; Joseph, who married Margaret
Phillips; and James, who married Abigail Bishop. My grandfather was by
trade or occupation a cordwainer and settled in Duxborough. ... And so
I have gone through with my design at present.

Pembrook, Jan. 23d, 1758. Perez Bonney."

It is also possible that the book, The Bonney Family, 1898 could have
combined the children and grandchildren of Thomas Bonney I. While Dorcus
Sampson was described in her father Henry Sampson's will as the "wife of
Thomas Bonney", because of her date of birth (about 1645) it is possible
that she was not the wife of the Thomas Bonney who was born in 1670. It
is also questionable whether Thomas Bonney I (at age 71) was the person
who served in King Philip's War in 1675 and it is not possible that it
was the Thomas born in 1670. It is possible that the original Thomas
Bonney had three children by his first wife Mary (Terry) Bonney; two
daughters and a son, Thomas II, who was born about 1642. This son could
have been the person who married Dorcus Sampson in about 1663 and had a
son (Thomas III) who was born in 1670, married Sarah Studley in 1695 and
died in 1735 wihout leaving any male heirs. It is also possible that a
Thomas Bonney born about 1642 was the father of the Joseph Bonney who was
born in 1677, married Margaret Philips, and died in 1720 rather than
Thomas Bonney I who would have then been 73 years old.

Because there is no record of any Terry family in the Plymouth Colony at
the time, it is possible that Thomas Bonney's marriage to Mary Terry may
have occurred at Charleston, prior to the time he moved to Duxbury. If
the theory of a second Thomas is in fact true, all of the Bonney surname
descendants have a Mayflower line through Henry Sampson.

See "The Great Migration Begins," pp. 340-343.

John Bonney was born on 25 February 1664 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. He and Elizabeth Bishop were married in 1690. He died on 16 November 1745 at age 81 in Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

William Bonney was born in 1667 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. He and Mehitable King were married in 1692. He died in 1746 at age ~79 in Plympton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

James Bonney was born about 1672 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. He and Abigail Bishop were married on 12 June 1695 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. He died on 24 January 1724 at age ~52 in Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Joseph Bonney was born in 1677 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. He died on 14 November 1707 at age ~30 in Plympton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

John Mitchell and Mary Bonney were married on 14 December 1675 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

John Mitchell and Mary Bonney were married on 14 December 1675 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

John Bonney and Elizabeth Bishop were married in 1690.

William Bonney and Mehitable King were married in 1692.