William VASSALL

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  1. 1.  William VASSALL was born on 27 Aug 1592 in Ratcliffe, Devon, England; died in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.

    Notes:

    Excerpt from "Certain Comeoverers": William Vassall, your ancestor, the brother of Samuel, was six years younger than Samuel and was born at Ratcliffe August 27, 1592. In 1613 he married Anna King, the daughter of George King of Cold Norton in Essex. At a meeting of the patentees of Massachusetts Bay Colony held in London October 5, 1629, William Vassall, who was then acting as an assistant to Governor Cradock, was chosen "to go over." He came to Boston with Winthrop on his second trip, arriving in June, 1630. The ships of the little fleet were the Arabella, the Talbot, the Ambrose, and the Jewel. The Mayflower and several other ships which is was expected would accompany the fleet were not ready and were left behind. It is altogether probable that William Vassall, who was, in a sense, Governor Cradock's representative, was on the Arabella, which was the "admiral's ship." ..... After looking about the new settlements for a month or so William Vassall returned to England on the ship Lyon, (the same ship that took back William White's Breeches Bible.) ...
    William Vassall was too liberal in his religious views to please the tyrannical Puritans of Boston, men of the stamp of cotton and Elliot. Winthrop called him " a man of busy and factious spirit, never at rest but when he was in the first of contention." He came back to New England in 1635 on the ship Blessing with his family (Anna his wife forty-two years old, and his children, Judith sixteen, Francis twelve, John ten, Ann six, Margaret two, and Mary one). Soon after he proceeded to the Plymouth Colony and subjected himself to the more liberal government of the Pilgrims.
    William Vassall settled at Scituate and in 1635 a tract of two hundred acres on a neck of land by the North River was laid out to him by the Plymouth Court.
    In 1642 he was a Counsellor of War of the Colonial Government.......
    Disgusted with the powers which controlled the destinies of his adopted country, he left England for the Island of Barbadoes, where he and his brother had large estates, and there in 1655, the same year that Edward Winslow met his death in the West Indies, he died.

    William married Anne KINGE on 29 Jun 1613 in Cold Norton, England. Anne was born on 01 Dec 1594 in Woodham, England; died in Barbados. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Judith VASSALL  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1619 in Of, Stephney, Middlesex, England; died on 03 Apr 1670 in Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; was buried on 03 Apr 1670 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
    2. 3. Frances VASSALL  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1623 in Stephany, England.
    3. 4. Margaret VASSALL  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1633; died before 18 Jul 1657.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Judith VASSALL Descendancy chart to this point (1.William1) was born in 1619 in Of, Stephney, Middlesex, England; died on 03 Apr 1670 in Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; was buried on 03 Apr 1670 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

    Judith married Resolved WHITE on 08 Apr 1640 in Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Resolved (son of William WHITE and Susanna FULLER) was born before 1615 in England; died after 19 Sep 1687 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 5. William WHITE  Descendancy chart to this point was born between 10 and 18 Apr 1642 in Scituate, Massachusetts; died on 24 Jan 1695 in Marshfield, Massachusetts.
    2. 6. John WHITE  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 11 Mar 1644 in Scituate, Massachusetts; died between 13 May 1684 and 1685 in Marshfield, Plymouth Co, Massachusetts.
    3. 7. Samuel WHITE  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 13 Mar 1646 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; died on 20 Sep 1720 in Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.
    4. 8. Resolved WHITE  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 12 Nov 1647 in Scituate, Massachusetts; died in Marshfield, Massachusetts; was buried on 27 Mar 1670 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
    5. 9. Anna WHITE  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 04 Jun 1649 in Scituate, Massachusetts; died on 25 May 1714 in Concord, Massachusetts.
    6. 10. Elizabeth WHITE  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 04 Jun 1652 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; died after 10 Mar 1712.
    7. 11. Josiah WHITE  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 29 Sep 1654 in Scituate, Massachusetts; died between 03 Mar and 05 Jun 1710 in Boxford, Massachusetts.
    8. 12. Susannah WHITE  Descendancy chart to this point was born in Aug 1656 in Scituate, Massachusetts; was christened on 8 Nov 1656 in Scituate, Massachusetts.

  2. 3.  Frances VASSALL Descendancy chart to this point (1.William1) was born in 1623 in Stephany, England.

    Frances married James ADAMS on 16 Jul 1646. James (son of John ADAMS and Elinor NEWTON) was born about 1630; died on 27 Aug 1653 in Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  3. 4.  Margaret VASSALL Descendancy chart to this point (1.William1) was born about 1633; died before 18 Jul 1657.

    Margaret married Joshua HOBART on 16/25 Apr 1656 in St. Michael Parish, Barbados, British West Indies. Joshua (son of Rev. Peter HOBART and Elizabeth IBROOK) was born in England; was christened on 12 Jul 1629 in Southwold, Suffolk, England; died on 22/28 Feb 1716/7 in Southold, Long Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]