William VASSALL

1592 -

• Name	William VASSALL  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Birth	27 Aug 1592	Ratcliffe, Devon, England   [4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	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.
  Person ID	I58349	Main Tree
  Last Modified	10 May 2021

  
  

  Father	John VASSALL,   b. Caen, Normandy, France d. 13 Sep 1625, Stephany, Essex, England
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Anne RUSSELL,   b. Ratcliffe, Middlesex, England d. Stephany, England
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	England
  Family ID	F05340	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anne KINGE,   b. 01 Dec 1594, Woodham, England d. Barbados
  Marriage	29 Jun 1613	Cold Norton, England   [4]
  Children	1. Judith VASSALL,   b. 1619, Of, Stephney, Middlesex, England d. 03 Apr 1670, Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts (Age 51 years)  [Birth]   2. Frances VASSALL,   b. 1623, Stephany, England  [Birth]   3. Margaret VASSALL,   b. Abt 1633   d. Bef 18 Jul 1657 (Age 24 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F05361	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 May 2021

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 29 Jun 1613 - Cold Norton, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S02658] Mayflower Increasings 2nd Edition by Susan E. Roser. [S02366] Genealogies of Mayflower Families, 1500's-1800's by genealogy.com. [S02656] Mayflower Families Through 5 Generations Vol. 13 William White. [S01952] Certain Comeoverers by Henry Howland Crapo. [S8841] American Ancestor.org, Early New England Families, 1641 - 1700, Vol. 1.