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From: "Stephen T. Squires" <>
Subject: [DISBROW] More Goldin/Golding, PT One!
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 04:06:19 -0400

RE: The following is NOT that promised "STARTLING Info", quite yet (tho
there may be much in it startling to many), but this is necessary background
regarding that to come (this being "first" of several planned for current
posting!).
Let me begin by saying the work I am doing would never have been
possible without the excellent, very meticulous work of Mike Disbrow, and so
many others who contributed to his fine books. The Disbrows were that line
of my father's family which I grew-up knowing most intimately about, as my
father's "family". My bedridden grandmother, Daisy, had a stroke in late
1930's and she was all the grandparents I ever knew on his side; she died in
1960. My father grew-up in the very large house of his grandfather, David
Ellis Disbrow, at 84 West Avenue, So. Norwalk (once filled with relatives &
in all neighboring houses, now all but gone away now)---his father, Oscar
Squires, died in 1923. So, I have been SPOILED by Mike's fine books which
have taught me so very much about my earliest Disbrow family history after I
first discovered vol I in 1994. His books have served as something of a
long-lost surrogate, I guess, absent my being "bounced" on the knees of my
Disbrow grandparents, who might have taught me otherwise. I am so "spoiled"
by Mike's books in fact, that I routinely lament why there are not OTHER
books just like his, covering my other family lines, each to unravel my
intertwined, & just as interestingly long-lived "Squires" family lines.
That history, I am only now coming to fully understand, has been
surprisingly intertwining over the centuries, not just from Fairfield, but
even through the histories of the various intermarrying clans of Benedict,
Hull & Disbrow of my recent Disbrow connection. Plus, in this fascinating,
multi-layered mix, there are Norwalk Reeds, & 2 separate Fitch clans, one of
those being ALSO very early at Norwalk, ...each via my Long Island Squires
clan. In this regard (& others more pertinent to you), please here note,
not just for your own curiosity's sake (!), that one "William READ" and one
"Eliza. SQUIRE" are both also on the 1677 CROWN MALLIGOE passenger list,
together with 'my' Thomas Disbrow (p. 21, v I, DISBROW DESCENDANTS by
Micheal). One "William" Read/Reed is also listed by Jacobus as a very early
Fairfield settler, perhaps NOT coincidentally (before that 1677 voyage!).
The "Squire's" Fairfield clan had long before this come over accompanying
Rev. John Jones (ie: Mercy Disbrow's later step-father), who himself had
been the Squire's family pastor in their hometown of Peterborough,
Northamptonshire (not so very far from Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire of Oliver
Cromwell's home, & its bordering Eltisley Disbrowe manor, so nearby in
Cambridgeshire, England). Rev. Eliphalet Jones, the Rev. John's son, would
become the long-lived (until the 1730's), much beloved pastor at
Hungtington, Long Island, ...a town so named, as some believe, for
Cromwell's own hometown.
Mike's books, with their contributions from so many of you, are not
just invaluable to me personally, but an indispensable foundation for my
work in writing a truly thorough history of Mercy Disbrow's witchcraft trial
(with much new insight into this via my "relational analysis", as I
certainly do hope!). I would never have attempted this too awesome project
without his foundation.
Please see the material attached below (end of this e-mail) from the
"Hempstead Census of 1698". If you can see past the innumerable
mis-spellings there, you may begin to realize some of what I've been talking
about, re: interconnecting, truly intimate family NETWORKS that were
operating very early in CT colonial history, extending outward,... AND
within OUR own Disbrow/Disbrowe family history too, offering us many further
clues about that (eg: it makes you realize that time-tested careerist
"truism": "it's not WHAT you know, but who you know", ...or " knew " back
then too...except that these ancient folks also valued "WHAT" they knew as
well, perhaps equally!).
You will see many "Dusenborohs" in the list attached below (it's on
the web at: http://users.rootsweb.com/~nynassa2/census.htm , together with
transcripts from the earliest Hempstead Town Records showing, despite
transcribers mispellings for "Strickland", that truly very provocative entry
about the Strickland clan and Henry Disbrow's clan; ...the spelling is not
all that's wrong with this very important document for our family history
since the date is wrong too, as transcribed here----it should read "1669"
not 1667 (important to my arguments), ...which is upon authority of an
authentic published copy of those records I received from the L.I. Institute
at Hofstra Univ. in Hempstead, NY). Please do note the atrocious spelling,
most of it authentic to the time, throughout this very early census document
which includes a couple of "Henery Dusenborohs" (both sr. & jr). Please do
notice also that this is "1698", long after Henry's apparent "move" to
Mamaroneck about 1670, ...landholdings & home jurisdictions, over time,
being very fluid, apparently not just for these early census takers, of
course. There are even a "Sanuell" & a "John Dusenboroh" included on this
list! Can these all be any other than our own "Disbrows" from early
Hempstead & then Mamaroneck on this list?? You will also see many listings
at the end for "Golden", and two others spelled "Goldn" (& a Gshden or
"gihden"). Please now recall my discussion in earlier posts of the
Gold/Goldin/Golding/Goldingham family nexus, and how these may relate, in
some way at least, to that John Goldin/Golding who was released from prison,
together with and, apparently accompanied by "my" own Thomas Disbrow on the
CROWN MALLIGOE to Maryland in 1677 (I will have much more to say on the VERY
probable reasons for Thomas' "forced" migration from England in a later
post, together with those extremely provocative clues being seductive of
much more English research, NOW so very necessary!!).
It does seem clear that these two refugees on the CROWN MALLIGOE
(together with "Sarah Barlow" from both the prison & ship lists) had been
sentenced to be "Barbadosed", or "transported", for some unstated crimes.
Each of these three surnames of Barlow, Goldin and "Desborow" also crop up,
in one form or another, at 17th c. Fairfield, together with those of "Read"
and "Squire", as on this ship's manifest. But it is the surname of
"Butler", also on that same passenger list, which may actually prove to be
the MOST "startling" and provocative name of all there (discussed in
considerable detail in a later e-mail, together with my truly VERY
"STARTLING" new info of some now unmistakably "proven", even for
genealogists, clan-relations between our various CT Disbrow families). This
passenger list from the good ship CROWN MALLIGOE is as printed in Mike's
vol. one, p.21!!
I coincidentally discovered in Schenk just the other day (AFTER
deciding I needed exactly such for your own far better reference,...those
"library angels" working over-time recently!!), that the "Goldingham" name
for the manor at Eltisley, bought by "our" most famous Disbrowe clan back in
1600 (see my previous posts), may have simply used the suffix "-ham" because
that suffix happens to mean "home or house" (according to Schenk's HISTORY
OF FAIRFIELD, p.68!! Also on this page of hers, she happens to list the
early settlers at Fairfield from 1650-1700,...provocatively included there
with my own Thomas "Disborow" are two "Egglestons", James & John, James
being a Pequot War veteran. Couldn't these two EGGLESTONS be kinsmen to
Samuel Eggleston who married Nicholas Disbrowe's daughter from
Hartford,...Nicholas too was a Pequot War veteran recall?!!). So then, the
actual "Goldingham" family of Eltisley manor may have been originally called
"Golding", just like Thomas's accomplice on the passage in 1677.
Also please recall, not just incidentally, that the Disbrowe's Eltisley
manor, according to Henry Waters, had been previously owned by families
named both "Ward" & "Stow" (in addition to "Goldingham"). Recall too that
the will of Rose (Hobson) Disbrowe's father (she was the 2nd wife of Samuel
Disbrowe of Eltisley) proved 1661 at Hackney, Middlesex (note: Maj. Gen John
Disbrowe is said to have retired to Hackney) not only mentions Christ's
Hospital and the poor of both St. Martin Ludgate and Hackney, but also "my
sons-in-law William White and Patience Warde" together with "my daughter
Ward",...and "I also give to my daughter Desborow Tenne pounds to buy her a
peece of Plate." [curiously enough, this is the EXACT same spelling as for
Thomas Disbrow on the CROWN MALLIGOE list, 1677], noting many other perhaps
important names for us (see my previous posts referencing this will). In
Rose Disbrowe's own 1698 will at Elsworth, she leaves many of her very
valuable holdings not only to her own (& Samuel Disbrowe's) children, Samuel
Disbrowe formerly also being of Guilford, CT (New Haven Colony), but also to
"George & Mary SHERWOOD" (recall a Thomas "Sherwood" was prominent at BOTH
Fairfield AND, yes, at RYE, CT/NY this relationship not yet examined by
me,...but recall Rye as being "founded" by that ever-mysterious Peter
Disbrow, ..with much more on HIM to come later!). She also mentions her son
"& lady" Christopher MILLS "Esq.", and her grandson, Samuel MILLS "Esq.",
and "his lady" (are we missing something here-?-, perhaps she once also
married a "Lacey Mills", could it be, considering her mysterious allusion to
"husband Lacey's picture"). There was, needless now for me to say it, a
Richard "Mills" at early Fairfield,...according to Jacobus (if you wonder
what I've been up to these days it's trying to track down some of these very
MANY family inter-connections, an awesome task!). Richard Mills was also at
Stamford according to town histories (where Peter Disbrow and a truly
mysterious "John Disbrow" are apparently recorded as having married the very
same woman named "Sarah Knapp", dau. of Nicholas, unless that is somehow a
confusion of BOTH dates and names. ---Obviously then this "John" must have
died 1657 or so, leaving Peter to care for his grieving widow, certainly NOT
unusual then, ...but much more on this later,... w/ that "Startling" info!.
Rose (Hobson) Disbrowe further mentions in her will (which I will post
verbatim w/ her father's from Waters' abstracts in "Gleanings", just as I
posted them earlier in sum, they are full of names provocative of further
study---perhaps even by YOU who may read this!), a "Samuel Browne" and her
niece Elizabeth Browne. While "Brown" is a far too common name for gen
convenience, even then (---it is, for example, the surname of a prominent
family on Long Island, and maiden-name of my own gggm, Louisa-Brown-Squires
Young, of Stony Brook), I am, nevertheless, studying one "Hackaliah Browne"
(and a Peter Browne at early New Haven Colony, on 1643 "census" list with my
own Arthur Holbridge, Mercy's father) since Hackiliah was at RYE, NY, &
since Hack was a rep to the CT colonial lesgislature, often mentioned on
magistrate lists at Rye with Peter Disbrow (another name on such lists is
the next most frequent magistrate there after Peter: "Timothy Knapp", a
brother-in-law of Peter's through Peter Disbrow's marriage to John Disbrow's
"widow" Sarah Knapp (see Knapp genealogy, YE HISTORIE OF GREENWICH, Mead,
other Knapp genealogies, related references, this Knapp family is KEY, in
fact for other reasons, to my entire "startling" analysis as you will soon
see!). AND, most provocatively, Hackaliah was mentioned by Baird's "History
of Rye" (via direct quotes from RYE Town Records) as a head-man elected with
a very mysterious early "Thomas Disbrow" there too, all elected "vestrymen"
at Rye, NY in 1703 (see my earlier post about this mysterious early "Thomas
Disbrow of Rye NY",...). Rye was, by 1700, ordered by the King to become a
part of NY colony. Until then it had been intimately connected to CT
Colony. Those southern CT "removers" to that place from both Fairfield and
Stamford, mentioned above, just about revolted over this change in their
jurisdiction, & had viciously disputed its possibility for years before due
to New York's unremitting 'Church of England' civic requirements! All
exactly why our Puritan forebears of a generation before had first "removed"
themselves from their English oppressors, balled-up too with questions of
voting and citizenship rights! END of Pt One...[see attached Hempstead
1698 census below]

THE HEMPSTEAD CENSUS OF 1698
COMMUNICATED BY EDW. DOUBLEDAY HARRIS
The original document containing the names of the inhabitants of the town of
Hempstead, Queens Co., New York, in August, 1698, for many years was one of
the treasured possessions of the State Library in Albany. It consisted of
eight pages of manuscript, in excellent preservation, the names arranged in
four columns to the page, evidently complied from a house to house
visitation, children's names following those of parents, presumably in the
order of their births. Most unfortunately, in the recent disastrous fire at
the Capitol the document was destroyed.
The Queens County Sentinel, in its issue of March 13, 1884, printed a copy
of the census, which, although not altogether accurate, has proved of much
value to students of family history.
In 1899 the writer caused to be made, for his own use, from the original
sheets in Albany, a certified copy, in manuscript, which has been in his
possession until recently, and is now deposited in the State Library. It is
this certified copy, in Mr. Arnold J. F. van Laer's handwriting, that is
reproduced in the following pages.
QUEENS COUNTY
A List of all ye Inhabitants of hempstd, old and young fremen and servants,
blacke and white tacken by strict Inquary, yt ye nams of all ye Inhabitants
old and young, white and blacke tacken by order of yey ye Justises of ye
Peece, and to ys being a true List by strict Inquiry we have given it under
oure hands agust ye 31-1698
Joseph Pettit
Jeremiah Wood
Job bedle Daniell bedle an Bedle Thomas bedle an Bedle David bedle Jeremi
bedle Richrd bedle Joseph bedle mary Bedle abraham bedle Roberd bedle John
bedle sarah bedle John bedle Jr samuell bedle Jacob bedle Beniamen bedle
martha bedle Jeams Beate (or Beale) PAGE 2, COLUMN 3. Elizabeth beate (or
Beale) sarah Beate " solomon Beate " Ruth beate " Reachell beate " John
Dusenboroh mary Dusenboroh John Dusenboroh iv William Thickston Margreat
Thickston Mary Thickston Elizabeth Thickston Margaret Thickston Joseph
Willems an bortsell mary bortsell David Jecockes Hanah Jecockes William
Jecockes Joseph Jecockes ffranses Jecockes mary williams John Williams Miell
Williams Elias Dorland Grace Jecockes Thomas Gildersleeve mary Gildersleeve
henery Dusenborh mary Dusenboroh mary Dusenborh Sanuell Dusenborh henery
Dusenborh Jr .......Dusenboroh (Dusen)boroh en snedecor leache snedecor
willeache snedocor Elizabeth snedecor geanet snedecor adrian snedecor Johnes
snedecorwill gripman margret gripman Phebe gripman margret gripman Thomas
gripman mary gripman (Ja)mes man(c)y ... .... ... ....cy (Eliz)beth mancy
henery onderdonck harman hendricksn margreat hendricksn hendrick hendricksn
Phebe hendricksn Thomas hendricksn margreat hendricksn Unice hendricksn John
hendricksn mary hendricksn abraham hendricksn egburche hendricksn Isack
frost mercy frost nathanell O'hely sary frost Jacob frost Jarman Johnson
Corneliah Johnson Jorg Johnson mary thickston
....[snip]__________________________________________________________________
__________
[snip].....henery Johnson martha Johnson susanah Johnson PAGE 7, COLUMN 3.
martha Johnson John Johnson Richrd Everit Elizabeth Everit Prissilla Everit
abraham everit Richard Everit Mary Everit Ephrain golden Rebeckah golden
Elizabeth golden John golden Danell goldn Ephraim goldn Thomas gshden (or
gihden) Corles williansn micoll Williansn Jane Williamsn may williamson
Charls Randall Elizabeth Randall John foster Phebe foster John foster Jr
Phebe foster Jr Mary foster.....[snip]
A true List of ye In- habitants of hempsted old and young freeman and
servants blacke and white tacken by............... given under our hands
august ye 31 1698 ........Joseph Pettit ........Jeremiah Wood
A true Lest as it is returned to us by the above Constable and
clerke this Last of of Agust 1698
William Hallet John Tredwell Tho Hicke Danll Whitehead John Smith Edward
White x Samuell Moore

I herby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy,
and of the whole thereof, of a Census of the town of Hempstead,
taken 31 August, 1698, the original of which is kept in the N.Y.
State library.
ARNOLD J.F.VAN LAER,
Sub-librarian, Manuscripts.
23 Aug., 1899.
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