Thomas Tiffany 1668-1734 and Hannah

Thomas Tiffany
Parents:  Humphrey Tiffany and Elizabeth
Born 11 Jun 1668 Milton, Massachusetts, British America
Married Hannah (unknown surname) abt 1689
1698:  Went to Rhode Island then on to Ashford, Connecticut where he purchased a lot of land
Selectman:  1735-1741
Town Clerk:  1721-1748 (except 2 years)
Died 7 Mar 1734 Ashford, Windham, Connecticut
Buried
Sources

Milton Records: Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1662-1843

http://genforum.genealogy.com/tiffany/messages/370.html

Hanah (unknown surname)

Unknown Parents
Born abt 1668

Died 7 March 1734 Ashford, Windham, Connecticut

Buried Old Ashford Cemetery, Ashford, Windham, Connecticut
Sources

Headstone: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38749525

Death:  Ashford Connecticut Barbour Collection link:

http://www.ctgenweb.org/county/cowindham/records/barbour/barbourashfordtuv.htm
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CHILDREN

Eleazar Tiffany
Note:  His name is spelled many ways

Born 13 April 1690 Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts

Married:  Bethyah Tiffany 23 Dec 1734 Ashford, Connecticut

Children:  Bethia (1735)
Died 1737

Buried
Sources 

Marriage:  Ashford Connecticut Barbour Collection link http://www.ctgenweb.org/county/cowindham/records/barbour/barbourashfordtuv.htm

http://genforum.genealogy.com/tiffany/messages/370.html
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Thomas Tiffany

Born 22 May 1692 Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts

Married 1) Mercy Reed 11 Jun 1719  Ashford, Windham, Connecticut

Children: Abigail (1720), Bethia (1721), Anne (1723), Ezekiel (1724), Mary(1726), Thomas (1728), Simeon (1732), Hannah (1733), Sarah (1736) 

2) Elisabeth Marcy 19 Apr 1753 Ashford, Windham, Connecticut
Died 29 Jan 1768 

Buried
Sources 

Death and Marriages:  Ashford Connecticut Barbour Collection, link:  http://www.ctgenweb.org/county/cowindham/records/barbour/barbourashfordtuv.htm

The New England Register, Bristol Records: Volume 34 1880  By New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff page 137

http://genforum.genealogy.com/tiffany/messages/370.html
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Recompence Tiffany

Born 11 Mar 1693 Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts

Married Experience Stockbridge 6 Feb 1729 Barrington, Bristol, Rhode Island.  She was the daughter of Charles Stockbridge and Abigail Tilden

Died 29 Dec 1770 

Buried Church Hill Cemetery, Norwell, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Sources

The New England Register, Bristol Records: Volume 34 1880  By New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff page 137

http://genforum.genealogy.com/tiffany/messages/370.html
Headstone:  http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=74266356
Picture of his wife's grave: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Tiffany&GSiman=1&GScid=2248416&GRid=74265976&

Isaiah Tiffany
Born abt 1698 Bristol, Rhode Island
Married
Died
Buried
Sources
http://genforum.genealogy.com/tiffany/messages/370.html

Edward Tiffany
Baptized 1706 Bristol, Rhode Island
Married Tabitha Humphrey 27 Jan 1726 Ashford, Windham, Connecticut
Children:  Hannah (1727) Edward (1728) David (1732) Lois (1734) Edward (1743)Mary (1747)
Died 29 Jul 1770 Ashford, Windham,Connecticut
Buried Old Ashford Cemetery, Ashford, Windham, Connecticut
Sources
Marriage,children, death: http://www.ctgenweb.org/county/cowindham/records/barbour/barbourashfordtuv.htm

The New England Register, Bristol Records: Volume 34 1880  By New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff page 137

http://genforum.genealogy.com/tiffany/messages/370.html

Nathaniel Tiffany
Baptized 1706 Bristol, Rhode Island
Married Keziah Ward 6 Sep 1726 Ashford, Windham, Connecticut
Children: Keziah (1727) Nathaniel (1731) Nathan (1733)
Died 
Buried
Sources
The New England Register, Bristol Records: Volume 34 1880  By New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff page 137
http://genforum.genealogy.com/tiffany/messages/370.html

Ephraim Tiffany and Bethia Tosh

Ephraim Tiffany
Parents: Humphrey Tiffany and Elizabeth (unknown surname)
Born 26 Dec 1677 Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts
Married Bethia Tosh about 1700 Massachusetts
Died 15 Jul 1727 Lyme, New London, Connecticut
Buried 
Sources
Genealogical Sketch of the Tiffany Family, By Ella F. Wright, 1904.  (the author, Ella, was one of his descendants)

Bethia Tosh (nickname: Leisha)
Parents  William Tosh and Penelope Niles
alternate parents:  William Macintosh and Jael Sullivan
Born September 1676  New Shoreham, Newport, Rhode Island
Died 
Buried
Sources
Family Search
Ancestry.com

CHILDREN

Samuel Tiffany
Born 7 April 1701 New Shoreham, Newport, Rhode Island
Note:  his mother's name is give as Leisha and is either a type-o or an extraction/clerk error.  This Samuel is often confused with his cousin Samuel that was born about the same time to James and Bethia Tiffany.
Died 1734 Lyme, New London, Connecticut
Buried 
Sources
Birth:  Vital Records of Rhode Island page 36
Birth:  The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Volume 153 page 456
Family Search
Ancestry.com
Consider Tiffany
Born 28 April 1703 New Shoreham, Newport, Rhode Island
Note:  his mother's name is give as Leisha 
Married 1) Naomi Comstock 26 Nov 1731 Lyme, New London, Connecticut
Children: Consider(1732), Luther (1734),  Naomi (1737), Samuel (1740), Humphrey (1743)
2)  Mary Davis 23 January 1753 Lyme, New London, Connecticut
Children:  Timothy, Titus
Died 29 May 1763 Newfield, Tompkins, New York
Buried Tiffany Cemetery, Lyme, New London, Connecticut
Sources
Birth:  Vital Records of Rhode Island page 36
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Volume 153 page 456
Marriage to Naomi:  Lyme Vital Records Volume L-6 page 316
Birth of his son, Consider:  Lyme Vital Records Volume L-6 page 316
Marriage to Mary: Lyme Vital Records Volume 1 page 67
Death/Burial: New England Death and Burial Index
Ancestry.com
Family Search
Memorial:  http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=130892576
Humphrey Tiffany
Born 9 February 1706 New Shoreham, Newport, Rhode Island
Note:  his mother's name is give as Leisha and is either a type-o or an extraction/clerk error
Married Dorothy Mott when he was younger?  Phoebe Brown in 1771?
Died 5 Jan 1788  Lyme, New London, Connecticut
Buried
Sources
Birth:  Vital Records of Rhode Island page 36
Family Search
Ephraim Tiffany 
Born 1708 Lyme, New London, Connecticut
Died 1759 Lyme, New London, Connecticut
Buried 
Sources
Birth:  Vital Records of Rhode Island page 36
Birth:  The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Volume 153 page 456
Family Search
Ancestry.com
Bethia Tiffany
Born 1710 Lyme, New London, Connecticut
Possibly married David Eaton (his second marriage) 11 March 1741 Ashford, Connecticut
Died
Buried
Sources
Birth:  The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Volume 153 page 456
Ancestry.com
Family Search

Mary Tiffany
Born 1714 Lyme, New London, Connecticut
Married ?
Died 
Buried 
Sources
Family Search
Ancestry.com

Lieutenant Ebenezer Tiffany
Born 1716 Lyme, New London, Connecticut
Married Ruhamah Ely abt 1855 Connecticut
Children: Ruhamah, Deborah, Ebenezer, Richard, Abner, Simeon, Seth
Died 13 Feb 1799 Lyme, New London, Connecticut
Buried Pleasant View Cemetery,  Lyme, New London, Connecticut
Sources
Marriage to Ruhama:  The New England Historical and Genealogical Register  Volume 153 page 457
Ancestry.com
Family Search
Headstone for Ebenezer: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11804774
Headstone for his wife, Ruhamah: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11804770

James Tiffany 1666-1732 and Bethiah Eaton 1670-1711 (1st wife) Elizabeth Fuller 1678 (2nd wife)

James Tiffany
Born 1666 Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts
Parents: Humphrey Tiffany and Elizabeth (unknown surname, but it is NOT Ray - that was her second husband's surname)
21 Oct 1680:  Lived with the Reverend Peter Thacher who taught him to read and write
Moved from Swansea to Attleboro in 1790
Married 1) Bethia Eaton abt 1688
2) Elizabeth Fuller Shephardson abt 1710
Died Between June 28 and July 26 1732
Buried
Sources
Book: Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island, Volume 1, page 1653-1654
Note:  this book really follows his son, Benjamin's line. Everyone else is very briefly mentioned.
Book:  The Tiffany's of America:  History and Genealogy pages 4-6
Book:  Tales of Our Ancestors by Eileen Hacking Lentz page 94
http://genforum.genealogy.com/tiffany/messages/892.html
Steve Condacures New England Families (there are errors, but it gives some basic information):  http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_6c.htm#61
Memorial: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=73150253
Bethiah Eaton
Born abt 1669 West Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Parents Samuel Eaton and Martha Billington
Died 27 Dec 1711 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Buried
Sources
Book: Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island,Volume 1, page 1653
http://genforum.genealogy.com/tiffany/messages/892.html


CHILDREN with Bethiah

Elizabeth Tiffany
Born 15 Apr 1689 Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts
Married ?
Died 28 Jun 1732
Buried
Sources
Book: Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island,Volume 1, page 1654
*Joseph Tiffany
Born 16 Apr 1693 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Married Mary Burroughs 9 June 1735 Massachusetts
Children: William, Elizabeth, Hannah, Benjamin, Keziah
Died 16 Mar 1734 Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts
Buried
Sources
Birth, Marriage dates, names of children:  http://trees.ancestryinstitution.com/tree/46642069/person/24060139342
Book: Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island,Volume 1, page 1654
http://genforum.genealogy.com/tiffany/messages/371.html
More about Mary:

The Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder, Volume 2 page 200

http://www.fayewest.ca/west/exhibits/the_third_wife_of_the_rev_george_burroughs_(fam_005).pdf

James Tiffany
Born  28 Nov 1697 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Married Elizabeth Allen 11 Nov 1725 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Children:  Bethia, Elizabeth, James, Ebenezer, Gideon, Daniel, Benjamin
Died Oct 1776 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Buried Hillside Cemetery, Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Sources
Book:  Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800 edited by Frederic William Bailey page 190
Marriage: Massachusetts Marriages 1695-1910 Batch M50002-1
Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915
http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_2df.htm#24
Headstone: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=40146532

Samuel Tiffany
Born 1700 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Note:  I noticed on Ancestry.com that some claim the date is 7 April 1701, but the source attached to Samuel is wrong.  The parents listed in the attached record were Ephraim Tiffany and Bethia Tosh.  That makes him a cousin to the other Samuel.  Also, it was listed on Findagrave that he was born in 1701, but the headstone itself claims he died in the 81st year of his life - not the 80th.
Married Mary Richardson 11 Feb 1731 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Children: Dan (1736), Samuel (1739)
Died 9 January 1781 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Buried Kirkland Cemetery (Old Kirkyard) Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Sources
Death: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records page 729
Book: Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island, Volume 1, page 1654
Picture of his headstone: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=67808008

Lydia Tiffany
Born 1701 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Note:  The year is according to her headstone.  I originally had 1707 as the year.
Married Nathaniel Daggett Jr 30 April 1724 Attleborough, Bristol, Massachusetts
Children:  Lydia, Bethia, Nathaniel, Reuben, Amos, Joseph, Amy, Nathaniel
Died (age 93) 24 Jun 1794 Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire
Buried Canoe Meadow Cemetery, Westmoreland, New Hampshire
Sources
Book: Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island,Volume 1, page 1654
Picture of her headstone: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=147826185

Benjamin Tiffany 
Born  Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Married Elizabeth Hallibone 11 Nov 1725 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Children:  Stephen, James, Thomas, Asa, Benjamin
Died 19 Dec 1747 Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island
Buried Possibly in the Thomas Tiffany Lot Cemetery
Sources
Book: Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island,Volume 3, page 1654-1656
Anna Tiffany
Born 1702 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Married Mr. Tripp
Died
Buried
Sources
Book: Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island,Volume 1, page 1654
Bristol County, Massachusetts Deeds 47:381
Rebecca Tiffany
Born 1703 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Married ?
Died
Buried
Sources
Book: Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island,Volume 1, page 1654
Sarah Tiffany
Born 1704 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Married John Tyler abt 1717
Children: William, Mary, Sarah, John, Bathsheba, James
Died 1778
Buried
Sources
Book: Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island,Volume 1, page 1654
http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_367.htm#183

Mary Tiffany
Born 1705 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Married John Caswell 10 Nov 1737  Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts
Children: Beal, Marcy, David, Joseph, John, Keziah, Samuel, Molley
Died 17 Sep 1796 Middletown Springs, Rutland, Vermont
Buried  Middletown Springs Cemetery
Sources
Book: Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island,Volume 1, page 1654
http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_2df.htm#24
Headstone: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=80568817
Book:  The Nicholas White Family (compiled by Thomas Lathrop, 1902) page 66

Martha Tiffany
Born 1706 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Married Preserved Alger 9 Dec 1730  Attleborough, Bristol, Massachusetts
Children:  Josiah, Jonathan, Preserved, Martha, Benjamin, Chloe, Ben, Joshua
Died
Buried
Sources
Book: Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island,Volume 1, page 1654
http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_161.htm#236

Bathsheba Tiffany
Born 1708 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Married Henry Crane 3 Aug 1744 Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts
Children:  Zipporah, Ruth
Died 3 January 1807 Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts (age 99)
Buried Britton Cemetery, Raynham, Briston, Massachusetts
Sources
Book: Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island,Volume 1, page 1654
Headstone: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=47321248


Keziah Tiffany
Note:  She is also listed as Elizabeth's (the second wife's) daughter in some places, but given her birth year, that cannot be
Born 29 July 1709 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Married John Lane 15 Jun 1734
Children: Asaph, Esther, Amos
Died
Buried
Sources
Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915
http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_258.htm#21

John Tiffany
Born 1 Sep 1710 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Married Deliverance Parmenter 26 May 1737 Attleborough, Bristol, Massachusetts
Children: Esther, Deliverance, Martha, Ann, John, Humphrey, Noah, Hosea, Thomas, Abijah, Zachariah, Hezekiah
Died 10 Jan 1788 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Buried  Old Kirk Yard, Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Sources
Book: Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island,Volume 1, page 1654
More about his children:  Book: History of Brooklyn, Susquehanna Co., Penna: Its Homes and Its People  By Edward A. Weston, 1889
http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_2df.htm#19
Headstone: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=67807900

This ends the known children James had with Bethiah
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2nd Wife of James Tiffany:  Elizabeth Fuller
Born 12 May 1678 Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts
Parents ?
Married 1) John Shephardson
Children:  Amos, Daniel
3) Andrew Grover (after James died)
Died
Buried
Sources
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/TIFFANY/2000-07/0963782550

CHILDREN with Elizabeth Fuller

Jonathan Tiffany
Born 21 June 1714 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Never Married
No Children
Died 1717 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Buried
Sources
Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915
Althea Tiffany
Born 26 June 1718 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Married
Died
Buried
Sources
Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915
Noah Tiffany
Born 24 February 1720 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
Note:  chose his older half-brother Daniel as legal guardian after his father died
Married Martha Grover 23 April 1741 Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts
Died 14 June 1745
Buried
Sources

Commemorative Biographical Record of Northeastern Pennsylvania..., Page 547, Issue 1280

Book:  Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800 edited by Frederic William Bailey page 190

Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915

Amos East 1854-1923 Sarah Bass 1849-1920

Amos East
Parents:  George East and Rhoda Stanford
Born: 2 Aug 1854 Union Work House, Bassingbourn, Cambridge, England
Note:  Census of 1861 claims his birthplace as Royston, Cambridge, England
Occupation:  Agricultural Laborer (1901) Farm Laborer (1923 - at time of death)
Married: Sarah Bass 2 May 1874 in Melbourn, Cambridge, England
Death:  11 November 1923 Cambridge, England
COD:  Intestinal Cancer
Life Notes:  According to the Melbourne Petty News, Amos and his brother-in-law, both farmers, were assaulted by two men and charged with assault by those two men.  On another occasion, Amos and George East were charged with assault - George was convicted and fined, Amos' charges were discharged.
Sources
Melbourne Petty Sessions
Arrington Petty Sessions
Birth Certificate
Death Certificate
1861 UK Census (age 6, lodger)
1871 UK Census for Melbourn, Hertford, England (age 16)
1881 UK Census for Dolphin Lane, Melbourn, Cambridge, England page 13 (age 26)
1891 UK Census for Melbourn, Cambridge, England (age 37)
1901 UK Census for Ashwell, Hertfordshire, England (age 46)
1911 UK Census for Cambridge, Cambridge, England (age 56)
Marriage: IGI film 1040541 batch M138262 dated 1852-1877.
Note: The record lists the husbands age as 19y and his father's name as George

Sarah Bass
Parents Simeon Bass and Emma Hinkins
Christened 25 February 1849 Melbourne, Cambridgeshire, England
Died 1920 Chesterton, Cambridge, England
Sources
England Birth and Christenings
1851 UK Census (age 2)
1861 UK Census Melbourn, Hertford, England (age 12)
1871 UK Census Melbourn, Melbourn, Hertford, England (age 22)
1881 UK Census for Dolphin Lane, Melbourn, Cambridge, England page 13 (age 32 )
1891 UK Census for Melbourn, Cambridge, England (age 41)
1901 UK Census for Ashwell, Hertfordshire, England (age 50)
1911 UK Census for Cambridge, Cambridge, England (age 61)
England and Wales Death Registration Index

CHILDREN

Frederick B East
Born 1874 Melbourn, Cambridge, England
Occupation:  Carman (1911)
No Marriage found
No Children known
Died 13 June 1935 Barnwell Junction, Cambridge, England
Note:  left a bit more than 98 pounds to Maude Grace Beatrice Dewitt
Link to history of Barnwell:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnwell,_Cambridgeshire
Buried
Sources
1881 UK Census for Dolphin Lane, Melbourn, Cambridge, England page 13 (age 7)
1911 UK Census Cambridge, Cambridge, England (age 35, single, with brother Amos' family)
National Probate Calendar for UK
Ancestry.com
Alice Jane East
Born July 1875 Melbourn, Cambridge, England
Occupation:  College Servant (1911)
Married Frederick C Unwin about 1895 England
Children: Grace, Frederick
Died May 1957 St Andrews Hospital
Buried 20 May 1957 Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park,, London, England
Note:  a historic cemetery located in Mile End and Bow in the East End of London. The cemetery opened in 1841 and closed for burials in 1966.  
Sources
1881 UK Census for Dolphin Lane, Melbourn, Cambridge, England page 13 (age 5)
1891 UK Census Melbourn, Hertfordshire, England (age 17, employee)
1901 UK Census Cambridge, England (age 25, her brother's Amos and Frank are with them)
Note:In this census she has a middle initial - J )
1911 UK Census 119 New Street, Cambridge, England (age 36)
Note:  her middle name is given as Jane
Ancestry.com
England and Wales Death Index
Register of Burials for City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery
Memorial:  https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=179534904
Sarah East
Born  1876 Melbourn, Cambridge, England
Married Osbond Tuffen  1906 Royston, Hertfordshire, England
Children: Gwendolyn, Agnes, Winifred, Adeline, Osbond
Died  1960 Cambridge, England
Buried
Sources
1881 UK Census for Dolphin Lane, Melbourn, Cambridge, England page 13 (age 4)
1901 UK Census Cambridgeshire, England (Servant in Thurlborn household, age 24)
1911 UK Census Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, England (age 35)
UK Birth Registration Index
UK Death Registration Index
Annie East
Born September 1878 Melbourn, Cambridge, England
Married Frederick John Maling  1901 England
Children: Violet, Rhoda, Frederick, Nellie, Walter
Died 1966 Cambridgeshire, England
Buried
Sources
1881 UK Census for Dolphin Lane, Melbourn, Cambridge, England page 13 (age 2)
1891 UK Census for Melbourn, Cambridge, England (age 10)
1911 UK Census Shepreth, Hertfordshire, England (age 32)
Joseph East
Born September 1879 Melbourn, Cambridge, England
Never Married
No Children
Died  1885 Cambridge, England
Buried
Sources
1881 UK Census for Dolphin Lane, Melbourn, Cambridge, England page 13 (age 1)
Amos East
Born 10 March 1881 Melbourn, Cambridge, England
Occupation:  General Laborer (1901) Carman (1911)
Married Elizabeth Carter  1904 Cambridge, Cambridge, England
Children:  Charles, Frederick
Died  1955 England
Buried
Sources
1881 UK Census for Dolphin Lane, Melbourn, Cambridge, England page 13 (age 0)
1891 UK Census for Melbourn, Cambridge, England (age 10)
1901 UK Census Cambridge, Cambridge, England (age 20, with sister Alice and brother in law)
1911 UK Census Cambridge, Cambridge, England (age 30)
Frank East
Born July 1882 Melbourn, Cambridge, England
Occupation:  Shoemaker apprentice (1901)
Married Dorothy Evelyn Bowden  1920 Cambridge, England
Children : Walter, Margaret
Died 1950 Barnstaple, Devon, England
Buried
Sources
1891 UK Census for Melbourn, Cambridge, England (age 8)
1901 UK Census Cambridge, Cambridge, England (age 19, visiting sister and brother in law)
Walter East
Born 1884 Melbourn, Cambridge, England
Military:  World War 1
Occupation:  Tailor (1901) Market Gardener (1911)
Married Nellie Ellwood about 1910
No known children
Died 6 May 1917 France & Flanders
Buried
Sources
1891 UK Census for Melbourn, Cambridge, England (age 7)
1901 UK Census for Ashwell, Hertfordshire, England (age 17)
1911 UK Census Coton Barton, Cambridge, England (age 27, married)
UK Army Register of Effects
Note:  he left behind a little over five pounds
Rhoda East
Born  1886 Melbourn, Cambridge, England
Occupation:  Jam Factory (1911)
Married Frederick William Butler 28 July 1909 Cambridge, England
Children:  Frederick
Died 1944 Cambridge, England
Buried
Sources
1891 UK Census for Melbourn, Cambridge, England (age 5)
1901 UK Census Cambridge, England (servant in Walter Clarke household, age 15)
1911 UK Census Histon, Cambridge, England (age 25)
Ancestry.com
Family Search
Lydia East
Born  1888 Melbourn, Cambridge, England
Married Herbert Frederick Game 1907 Cambridge, England
Children: Rhoda
Died 1944 England
Buried
Sources
1891 UK Census for Melbourn, Cambridge, England (age 3)
1901 UK Census for Ashwell, Hertfordshire, England (age 12)
1911 UK Census Cambridge, England (age 22)

Benjamin Sanborn Weeks 1749-1829 Sarah Hewitt Weed 1775-1841

Esquire Benjamin Sanborn Weeks
Parents Matthias Weeks and Sarah Ford Sanborn
Born 28 February 1749 Greenland, Rockingham, New Hampshire
Occupation:  Large land holder, dealing extensively in land, Justice of the Peace, Owned a tannery,
Married Sarah Hewitt Weed 26 May 1774 New Hampshire
Note:  married by William Parsons, Clergyman
Died 14 March 1829 Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire
Buried Weeks Cemetery, Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire
Sources
1776 New Hampshire Complied Census Index for Gilmanton, Belknap, New Hampshire
Marriage Record: Ancestry.com

New Hampshire, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890
1820 US Census Greenland, Rockingham, New Hampshire
Book: Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire Volume 2 page 526-7
Biographical review containing life sketches of leading citizens..." page 540-541  
Headstone: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=83571283

Benjamin Weeks Will (Page one shown below)
Translation of above will:  In the name of God Amen, I Benjamin Weeks of Guilford in the country of Strafford and the state of New Hampshire Esquire being of sound mind and memory thanks to God therefore calling to mind my mortality that is appointed to all men to die and being desirous to settle my worldly affairs while I have strength and ability to do, I make and publish this my last will and testament in answer and ? following ?  my spirit to that God who gave it and my body to the Earth to lie buried at the discretion of my creator ? and as touching ?  worldly ? please God to bless me with in this world I have desire to dispose of it in the following manner and form that is

First, I give and bequeath to my bloved wife, Sarah Weeks, the one half of all my homestead farm  one half of my dwelling house thereas one third part of the other buildings thereon - also one third of the farming utensils - also as much of the livestock of my herd as shall make one fifth part of the whole - also one eighth part of all the unproved land on the ? lots all to be for her improvement or benefit during her natural life.  I also give/bequeath to her the said Sarah Weeks for her use and...
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Page Two:   ...benefit forever and at her disposal all the household furniture That I shall have at my decease and after paying my ? debts and funeral charges I dispose of the remainder of estate in the following manner
Secondly, whereas my daughter, Sally Wadley was ? not to keep house in addition to that I give her all the land between the highway and James Hoyts land beginning at David Hoyt's land and standing entirely on the highway to the ? end of the bridge there northerly ? as the brook as is convenient toward Samuel Hoyt's land during her life and then to her son Benjamin also one acre easterly of the above and adjoining the same during her life and no longer.
Also I give to my son in law Henry Wadley on half of the balance that shall be found ? estate on note or accounts also the ewe sheep ? to his wife to be paid by my ? after ? in one year after my decease
Thirdly whereas my son Matthias Weeks has in time past received considerable property of me in addition in addition to which I give and bequeath to him the said Matthias a note he gave Stephen Bean of ? and by Bean ? Daniel Weeks and by said Daniel  to me said note was for one thousand dollars and interest - also I give him what I paid Benjamin Bodge I being bound with said Bodge with said Matthias which was about ninety dollars when paid.  I also give him the interest on his note he gave me dated 21 August 1813 up to this date ? 362 dollars.  I also give him a note he gave Thomas ? for 35 dollars 50 cents.  I also give him the ? I shall leave also ten dollars of his note to be allowed by my executor hereafter named.
Fourthly, I give and bequeath unto my son David Weeks ten dollars to be paid to him ? in one year after my decease - I also give to my grandson John G Weeks one fourth part of all the ? of all my estate whether ? not disposed of ? together with the remainder of one fourth of all my real estate to have...CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE
Page 3:  ...to hold to him the said J G Weeks and his heirs in trust that the said John G Weeks shall carry on and improve the same to the best advantage and yearly and every year pay over to his father the above named Daniel the clear annual income of said estate after deducting the ? expense of carrying on and improving the same ? and at times as be the said John G Weeks shall think work beneficial to said David Weeks during the lifetime of said Daniel held in case the said Daniel Weeks should die having children under age then in trust to carry over and apply the clear annual income to care for the support maintenance and education of said children of Daniel until ? the age of twenty one years and in case said children or any of them shall ? to the age twenty one years then ? to each of said male children ? of the said John G Weeks and each of said female children notes of said John who shall not be married in the life time of the said Daniel Weeks his or her equal ? of said estate ? to himself which ? I hereby give ? to him the said John G Weeks his heirs and ? forever.
Sixthly I give to my son Elisha Weeks, Benjamin Weeks, and Levi R Weeks, to be? in equal ? the other three fourths of all my estate real and ? together with the ? of those ? of all my real estate to hold to them the said Elisha, Benjamin, and Levi R Weeks and their heirs forever
Seventhly I hereby constitute and appoint my aforesaid son Levi Weeks the executor of this my  last will and testament hereby ? and disregarding all former wills by ? In ? whereof ? the said Benjamin Weeks have ? my hand and ? this ? day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine Signed sealed and published by the above
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Final page (4) Benjamin Weeks ? for his last will and testament in reverence of us who by his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have ?  (Signed)

Sarah Hewitt Weed
Parents Orlando Weed and Sarah Webster
Born 28 October 1755 Sandwich, Carroll, New Hampshire
Died 9 October 1841 Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire
Buried Weeks Cemetery, Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire
Sources
Ancestry.com
Book: Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire Volume 2 page 527 
Note:  Page 1 and 2 of her husband's will mentions her
Biographical review containing life sketches of leading citizens..." page 540-541 
Headstone: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=83571819

CHILDREN

(Honorable) Daniel Weeks
Born 28 December 1775 Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire
Married Hannah Gale Salsbury 18 September 1803 Salisbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire
Children: Isabelle, John, Julia, George, Thomas, Susan, Emily, Daniel, Albert, Thomas
Died 27 December 1851 Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire
Buried Weeks Cemetery, Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire
Sources
Book: Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire Volume 2 page 527  
His father's will
Biographical review containing life sketches of leading citizens..." page 540-541  
Headstone: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=83574152

Matthias Weeks
Born 21 February 1778 Gilmanton, Belnap, New Hampshire
Married Mary Bodge 4 November 1802 Gilmanton, Belknap, New Hampshire
Children: William, Mary, Elizabeth, Abigail, Laura, Harriet
Died 22 August 1815
Sources
New Hampshire Marriage Records FHL Film# 1001315
Book: Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire Volume 2 page 527  
Family Tree
Ancestry.com
Marriage Record
Biographical review containing life sketches of leading citizens..." page 540-541  

Sarah (Sally) Weeks
Born 3 December 1779 in Gilmanton, Belknap, New Hampshire
Occupation:  Schoolteacher
Married Henry Wadley 14 October 1800 Wolfeboro, Belknap, New Hampshire
Children:  Benjamin, William, Catherine, Isabella
Died 1829
Buried
Sources
New Hampshire Marriage Records FHL Film# 1001314
Book: Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire Volume 2 page 527  
Ancestry.com
Picture:  the part of her father's will where she is mentioned.
Biographical review containing life sketches of leading citizens..." page 540-541  

Elisha Weeks
Born 13 September 1781 in Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire
Occupation:  Farmer (1850)
Married Mary "Polly" Potter 19 January 1806 Gilmanton, Belknap, New Hampshire
Children:  Joseph, Elisha, William, Mary
Died  4 June 1866 Strafford, Strafford, New Hampshire
Buried
Sources
New Hampshire Marriage Records FHL Film# 1001315
1850 US Census Strafford, Strafford, New Hampshire (age 69)
Book: Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire Volume 2 page 527  
Biographical review containing life sketches of leading citizens..." page 540-541  
William Weeks
Born 17 June 1784 Gilmanton, Belknap, New Hampshire
Married Betsy Ellison 1808 Lee, Strafford, New Hampshire
Died 31 August 1810 Potts Grove, Northumberland, Pennsylvania 
Note:  the newspaper claims age 23, but he is 26
Buried ?
Sources
U.S. Newspaper Extractions report his death:  19 September 1810 Edition of Columbian Centinel
Ancestry.com
Book: Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire Volume 2 page 527 
Biographical review containing life sketches of leading citizens..." page 540-541   

Captain Benjamin Franklin Weeks
Born  28 April 1788 Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire
Occupation:  Farmer and Merchant, original owner of iron ore lot near Belknap
Military:  State militia
Religion:  Universalist Church
Married Elizabeth "Betsy" Hoyt  30 June 1806 Gilmanton, Belknap, New Hampshire
Children:  Betsy, Ben, Sally, William, Mehitable, Hazen, Thomas, Harriet, Nathan, Francis 
Died 29 December 1863 Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire
Buried
Sources
New Hampshire Marriage Records FHL Film# 1001315
1860 US Census Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire (age 72)
Book: Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire Volume 2 page 527
Picture:  Marriage Record
Biographical review containing life sketches of leading citizens..." page 541  

Levi R. Weeks
Born 9 April 1793  Gilmanton, Belknap, New Hampshire
Occupation:  Gardener (1860)
Married Lydia Sleeper 9 June 1814 Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire
Children:  Harrison, George, Lydia, Sarah, Benjamin, Lafayette, Harriet, Maryann, Ruth, George
Died 1876 Orono, Penobscot, Maine
Buried
Sources
New Hampshire Marriage Records FHL Film# 1001315
Ancestry.com
1840 US Census Orono, Penobscot, Maine
1850 US Census Orono, Penobscot, Maine (age 57)
1860 US Census Orono, Penobscot, Maine (age 67, son Benjamin and D in law Amanda is there)
1870 US Census Orono, Penobscot, Maine ( age 77, son Benjamin and wife still there; possibly daughters Sarah and Harriet as well)
New Hampshire Marriage Record
Book: Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire Volume 2 page 527 
Picture: His father's will 
Biographical review containing life sketches of leading citizens..." page 540-541