ANDREW PIERCE REPORTS - DECEMBER 17, 2001

Mr. Tim Farr
P.0.Box 449
Ferron, UT 84523

Dear Tim,

In response to your request of 24 November, I have continued research on various of your ancestral lines.

The Jacksons present the biggest problem. I find that NO further work has been done on this family(that I can find), since the publication of Fred K.Jackson1s The Jackson Chronicles(1949). He notes that THREE John Jacksons arrived in Boston in 1635, and believed(though there is no conclusive proof)that the man who settled in cambridge & Newton was the 'Wholesale man, of Birchin Lane, London, near ComhiII2 who was age 30 and single. He refutes others1 contention that John of Newton was the fisherman, age 40, with wife Margaret age 36 and son John age 2, feeling that the fisherman was more likely the John Jackson who settled in Salem.

Fred K.Jackson further notes that 'Mr.Edward Jackson, usually conceded to be a brother of Deacon John, came to the Bay Colony some years later than John. I find NO evidence in this or any other publication, that the two WERE brothers. This seems to have been assumed because they were about the same age and lived near each other in Newton. Middlesex County Probate Records 1649-1660, a new publication, does show Edward Jackson and the two John Jacksons(fa- ther and son)serving en a coroner1s inquisition in 1657, but this does not prove a relationship.

Frank F. Starr1s The Edward jackson Family of Newton, Massachusetts(1895), may have been the first publication to note finding three children of a Christopher Jackson baptized at St.Dunstan1s, Stepney: John in 1602, edward in 1605 and Miles in 1607. There is NO proof that this John and Edward were the same who settled at Cambridge MA, and indeed, as Fred K.Jackson concludes, 'the dates and facts as authered from various sources do not harmonize. In fact our earlier generations and their relations to each other obviously are hazy.

I condude the same thing; there is no proof that either John or Edward Jackson was the son of a Christopher Jackson of London. It is notable that neither man named a son Christopher. Nor do I find any information on John Jackson1s mar-rylng a Margaret Taft at Stepney in 1641. Our John Jackson was already at Cambridge MA by 1639, so obviously the Taft connection has no basis. My advice is to scale down this family group sheet te start with John & Margaret (maiden name unknown)as the earliest known ancestors, and hope that Bob Anderson1s Great Migration project might find more dues on them in the near future(I have spoken with him and he has not attacked the Jacksons yet).

If Edward Jackson of Cambridge was the same who, with wife Frances, had children baptized at St.Mary?s, Whitechapel, London(Israel in 1631, Margaret in 1633, Hannah in 1634, Rebeccca in

1636, Caleb in 1638 & Joseph in 1639), his origins at least might be traced; but there is still no proof that John was his brother.

I believe that material I have previously sent shows that Mary(Spring) Ward was the daughter of John Jr. & Hannah(Barsham)Spring. A 1979 attid. In The American Genealogist(enclosed) elaborates further on John Spring Sr.?s possible English ancestry. The best work to date on the Pattens is Malcolm C. Patton?s recent Patten Genealogy. He draws heavily from Thomas Baldwin?s earlier work, but adds some new information and inferences. He concludes only that William Patton MIGHT have been the son mentioned in the will of Thomas Patten of Hardington Mandeville, Somerset, England, but there is no proof. So, the family group sheets in this line must start with William, not Thomas, Patten; William?s parentage is thus far unknown.

American records infer your William Patton's birth date to be about 1606; if he was the eldest son of Thomas Patten of Hardington, it seems strange that the younger children named in the will were not called or inferred to be minors, in 1627. The William who inherited in 1627 would seem to have been a settled farmer already, not a young man barely out of his teens.This may be evidence that he was NOT identical with William of Massachusetts.

There is apparently a 1924 genealogy on Robert Lovell, but I do not find it at NEHGS. The best treatment I can find is in Chamberlain?s Early Families of Weymouth, Massachusetts. This shows pretty conclusively that he was the same man who arrived from Weymouth, Dorset, England in 1635, age 40, with wife and children, and settled at Weymouth MA, as a member of Rev. Joseph Hull's company. His English origins have not been traced. I have emailed Elisabeth Lovell Bowman, who recently published an excellent history of Alexander Lovell, another immigrant, to see if she may have uncovered any additional info on Robert Lovell, but thus far I have not heard back from her.

In 1986, Robert C. Anderson published an article on the Clark, Wheelock and related families, in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly(enclosed). An excellent article in the NEHGS Register, January 1998, traces the English ancestry of Rebecca Clarke, wife of Ralph Wheelock, back several generations. She was a daughter of Thomas & Mary(Canne)Clark, and a granddaughter of Rowland Clark. This article should supercede any previous information you have.

A followup article in the same issue(both by Christopher Gleason Clark)adds more information on Ralph Wheelock and his family, but his English origins have still not been traced. I find NO proof that his parents were Joseph & Elizabeth (Rogers) Wheelock, and the family should start with him until more information is found by British researchers.

The only possible source on Edward Perry's English origins is in a 1961 NEHGS Register article on Ezra Perry, which I believe I have referred to In a previous report. The author infers, and I agree, that the assumption that the other Perrys in Sandwich, including Edward, were Ezra?s siblings, is entirely without foundation. Looking at your group sheet, it looks as though an attempt was made to make children 1 through 7, Edward & Sarah?s children, which cannot be so. For one thing, the eldest was born in 1607 and Edward himself was born in 1599 according to the sheet(though he was probably even younger, as he did not arrive in Sandwich until the 1640s and died in 1694)

Anthony Perry of Rehoboth and Arthur Perry of Boston have never been claimed to be Edward?s sons, and as I noted in a previous report, there is also no evidence that Margaret Perry, wife of Edmund Freeman Jr.(who I believe are your ancestral couple)was a daughter of Edward Perry(she is not named in his will). With this In mind, the question of whether Edward Perry himself was a son of a John Perry, is moot. The entire group sheet is largely without foundation.

This concludes my report; I trust the new information and extracts will be of interest. If you will forward $315.00 for ten hours? research and photocopy & postage expenses(thus far I have not received an advance retainer), I would very much appreciate it; my best wishes for the holidays, and I shall look forward to corresponding again In the future.

Sincerely

R. Andrew Pierce