Genealogy Report: Ancestors of Gertrude Matilda Hitchings
Ancestors of Gertrude Matilda Hitchings
482.John Soule, born Abt. 1632 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; died 14 November 1707 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.He was the son of 964. George Soule and 965. Mary Beckett.He married 483. Rebecca Simonson Abt. 1654 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
483.Rebecca Simonson, died Bef. 1678 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.She was the daughter of 966. Moses Simonson and 967. Sarah Chandler.
More About John Soule and Rebecca Simonson:
Marriage: Abt. 1654, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Children of John Soule and Rebecca Simonson are:
| i. | James Soule, born 04 October 1659. | |||
| ii. | Sarah Soule, born Abt. 1660. | |||
| iii. | Rachel Soule, born Abt. 1663. | |||
| iv. | Aaron Soule, born Abt. 1664. | |||
| v. | Benjamin Soule, born 1665. | |||
| vi. | Moses Soule, born Abt. 1669. | |||
| vii. | Zachariah Soule, born Bef. 1670. |
| Notes for Zachariah Soule: Zachariah Soule died during the Canadian expedition before 16 March 1690/91 when his inventory was taken for his will. |
| viii. | John Soule, born Abt. 1675. | |||
| 241 | ix. | Rebecca Soule, born 1656 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; died 18 November 1732 in Plympton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; married Edmund Weston. |
484.Myles Standish, born Abt. 1584 in Isle of Man, England; died 03 October 1656 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.He married 485. Barbara Unknown Aft. 1621.
485.Barbara Unknown, died Aft. 06 October 1659.
Notes for Myles Standish:
Myles Standish was a Mayflower passenger.He was the Captain and the leader of the Plymouth Colony military forces from the first and continuously until his death in 1656.He is first mentioned as an Assistant 1 Jan 1632/33.He was first elected treasurer in 1644 and was frequently re-electedto that office up to 1655.On May 1653 he was appointed Deputy Governor in the absence of the Governor.
Myles Standish was the first to settle in Duxbury, and lived there the rest of his life.Captain Standish and his wife Rose came on the "Mayflower."His second wife Barbara came over in 1623 on the "Anne."Bradford's account says "Captain Standish his wife dyed in the first sickness; and he maried againe, and hath 4 sones liveing, and some are dead.In the 1623 Division of Land, Captain Myles Standish received 2 acres and Mrs. Standish received one acre.This proves he had married Barbara by this time.In the 1627 Division of cattle Capt. Standish is listed with wife Barbara and children Charles, Alexander and John.
(from page 2 ofMayflower Families in Progress, Myles Standish, compiled by Russell L. Warner, 1996)
Myles Standish Will
MD 3:153
The will and inventory are recorded in the Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories, Volume II, Part I, pages 37 - 40.
The Last will and Testament of Captaine Myles Standish
Exhibited before the court held att Plymouth (the 4th) of may 1657 on the oath of Captaine James Cudworth; and ordered to bee recorded as followeth;
Given under my hand this march the 7th 1655 Witnesseth these prsents that I Myles Standish senir of Duxburrow being in prfect memory yett Deseased in my body and knowing the fraile estate of man in his best estate I Doe make this to bee my last will and Testament in manor and forme following;
1 my will is that out of my whole estate my funerall charges be taken out & my body to bee buried in Decent manor and if I Die att Duxburrow my body to bee Layed as neare as Conveniently may bee to my two Daughters Lora Standish my Daugher and Mary Standish my Daughter in law
2 my will is that that out of the remaining prte of my whole estate that all my Just and lawfull Debts which I now owe or att the Day of my Death may owe bee paied
3 out of what remaines according to the order of this Govrment: my will is that my Dear and loveing wife Barbara Standish shall have the third prte
4 I have given to my son Josias Standish upon his marriage one young horse five sheep and two heiffers which I must upon that contract of marriage make forty pounds yett not knowing whether the estate will bear it att prsent; my will is that the resedue remaine in the whole stocke and that every one of my four sons viz Allexander Standish Myles Standish Josias Standish and Charles Standish may have forty pounds appeec; if not that they may have proportionable to ye remaining prte bee it more or lesse
5 my will is that my eldest son Allexander shall have a Doubble share in land
6 my will is that soe long as they live single that the whole bee in prtenership betwixt them
7 I Doe ordaine and make my Dearly beloved wife Barbara Standish Allexander Standish Myles Standish and Josias Standish Joynt Exequitors of this my last will and Testament
8 I Doe by this my will make and appoint my loveing frinds mr Timothy hatherley and Capt: James Cudworth Supervissors of this my last will and that they wilbee pleased to Doe the office of Christian love to bee healpfull to my poor wife and Children by theire Christian Counsell and advisse; and if any Difference should arise which I hope will not; my will is that my said Supervissors shall Determine the same and that they see that my poor wife shall have as comfortable maintainance as my poor state will beare the whole time of her life which if you my loveing frinds pleasse to Doe though neither they nor I shalbee able to recompenc I Doe not Doubt but the Lord will;
By mee Myles Standish
further my will is that marcye Robenson whome I tenderly love for her Grandfathers sacke shall have three pounds in som thing to goe forward for her two yeares after my Decease which my will is my overseers shall see prformed
[p. 38] ffurther my will is that my servant John Irish Junir have forty shillings more then his Covenant which will appeer upon the towne booke alwaies provided that hee continew till the time hee covenanted bee expired in the service of my exequitors or any of them with theire Joynt Concent
March 7th 1655 By mee Myles Standish
9 I give unto my son & heire aparent Allexander Standish all my lands as heire apparent. by lawfull Decent in Ormistick Borsconge Wrightington Maudsley Newburrow Crawston and the Ile of man and given to mee as right heire by lawfull Decent but Surruptuously Detained from mee my great Grandfather being a 2cond or younger brother from the house of Standish of Standish
March the 7th 1655 by mee Myles Standish
Witnessed by mee
James Cudworth
[p. 39] An Inventory of the goods and Chattles that Captaine Miles Standish gent: was possessed of att his Decease as they were shewed to us whose names are underwritten this 2cond of December 1656 and exhibited to the court held att Plymouth the 4 may 1657 on the oath of mis Barbara Standish
From The Great Migration Begins
MILES STANDISH
ORIGIN: Holland
MIGRATION: 1620 on Mayflower
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
REMOVES: Duxbury
RETURN TRIPS: Sent to London in late 1625 and returned early 1626
OCCUPATION: Soldier.
FREEMAN: In the "1633" Plymouth list of freemen Capt[ain] Myles Standish is first among the councillors, immediately after the governor [ PCR 1:3]. In 7 March 1636/7 list of freemen [ PCR 1:52]. In 1639 list of freemen, among Assistants and in Duxbury section [ PCR 8:173, 174].
EDUCATION: He signed several documents sent to the Bay and must have been conversant with figures to be colony treasurer. His inventory included several dozen books, valued at £9 3s.; although there were three Bibles and a number of other theological volumes, Standish also owned such titles as Homer's Iliad and Caesar's Commentaries. OFFICES: Assistant, 1 January 1632/3, 1635, 1637-41, 1645-56 [ MA Civil List 36-38; PCR 1:5, 32, 48, 79, 116, 140, 2:8, 15, 83, 115, 123, 166, 3:7, 30, 48, 77, 99]. Deputy Governor [ PCR 3:27]. Treasurer, 1644-56 [ MA Civil List 36; PCR 2:76, 101, 115, 123, 166, 3:7, 30, 48, 77]. Council of War [ PCR 2:47, 64, 100, 3:26, 28]."Capt. Standish" is in the Duxbury section of the 1643 Plymouth Colony list of men able to bear arms [ PCR 8:190].Captain, 1620-56 [ PCR 1:52, 59, 80, 82, 84, 90-92, 98, 100]. Commander of forces [ PCR 2:47, 146]. Captain of troops raised for Dutch war [ PCR 3:29, 55]
ESTATE: In the 1623 Plymouth division of land "Captin Myles Standish" received two acres as a passenger on the Mayflower [for himself and his first wife, Rose], and "Mrs. Standish" received one acre as a passenger on the Anne in 1623 [ PCR 12:4, 6]. In the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle Captain Standish, Barbara Standish, Charles Standish, Alexander Standish and John Standish are the first five persons in the third company [ PCR 12:10].In 1631 "Captain Myles Standish of Plymouth" sold to Edward Winslow of Plymouth "two acres of land lying in the north field" [ PCR 12:16].In the Plymouth tax lists of 25 March 1633 and 27 March 1634 Capt[ain] Myles Standish was assessed 18s. [ PCR 1:9, 27]. He was one of the purchasers [ PCR 2:177].On 1 July 1633 through 20 March 1636/7 Captain Standish was allowed to mow land he had formerly mowed [ PCR 1:14, 40, 56]. On 4 December 1637 Captain Myles Standish was granted the surplusage of land on "Ducksborrow side" in consideration of the "want of lands he should have had to his proportion [ PCR 1:70]. On 2 July 1638 Captain Myles Standish received three hundred acres of uplands [ PCR 1:91]. On 1 October 1638 he was granted a garden place at Duxborrow side, which was formerly laid forth for him [ PCR 1:99]. On 4 March 1650/1 "whereas Captain Miles Standish hath been at much trouble and pains, and hath gone sundry journeys into Yarmouth aforesaid in the said town's business, and likely to have more in that behalf, in respect whereunto the Court have granted unto the said Captain Standish" about forty or fifty acres [ PCR 2:164].On 9 May 1654 "Capt. Myles Standish" sold to Capt. Thomas Willett of Plymouth his purchaser's right at Sowamsett, Mattapoisett and places adjacent; "Mrs. Barberye Standish wife of the said Capt. Standish" consented to his deed [ MD 6:246-47, citing PCLR 2:1:111].In his will, dated 7 March 1655[/6] and proved 4 May 1657, "Myles Standish Senior of Duxburrow" asked that "if I die at Duxburrow my body to be laid as near as conveniently may be to my two daughters Lora Standish my daughter and Mary Standish my daughter-in-law" and bequeathed to "my dear and loving wife Barbara Standish" one-third of his estate after all debts are paid; to "my son Josias Standish upon his marriage" cattle to the value of £40 (if possible), and "that every one of my four sons viz: Allexander Standish, Myles Standish, Josias Standish and Charles Standish may have forty pounds apiece," to "my eldest son Allexaner ... a double share in land," and "so long as they live single that the whole be in partnership betwixt them"; "my dearly beloved wife Barbara Standish, Allexander Standish, Myles Standish and Josias Standish" to be joint executors; "my loving friends Mr. Timothy Hatherley and Capt. James Cudworth" to be supervisors; to "Marcye Robinson whom I tenderly love for her grandfather's sake" £3; to "my servant John Irish Jr." 40s. beyond what is due him by covenant; and to "my son & heir apparent Allexander Standish all my lands as heir apparent by lawful descent in Ormistick, Borsconge, Wrightington, Maudsley, Newburrow, Crawston and the Isle of Man and given to me as right heir by lawful descent but surruptuously [sic] detained from me my great-grandfather being a second or younger brother from the house of Standish of Standish" [ MD 3:153-55, citingPCPR 2:1:37-38].The inventory of the estate of "Captain Miles Standish gent.," taken 2 December 1656, totalled £358 7s., including "one dwelling house and outhouses with the land thereunto belonging" valued at £140 [ MD 3:155-56, citing PCPR 2:1:39-40].On 4 May 1657 "Mr. Allexander Standish and Mr. Josias Standish do accept of being executors with Mrs. Barbery Standish, their mother, on the estate of Captain Myles Standish, deceased" [ PCR 3:114].On 5 October 1658 confirmation was made of a sale by "Capt. Myles Standish" (with consent of his wife Barbara) to Mr. Thomas Howes of Yarmouth of "a certain farm lying in the liberties of Yarmouth," which had been granted to Standish by the court on 4 March 1650 [ MD 13:142-43, citing PCLR 2:2:11].
BIRTH: By about 1593 based on date of first marriage.
DEATH: Duxbury 3 October 1656 [ MD 1:12-13 (and especially footnote on page 12);NEHGR 87:152].
MARRIAGE: (1) By say 1618 Rose _____. She died Plymouth 29 January 1620/1 ("January 29 [1620/1]. Dies Rose, the wife of Captain Standish" [Prince 184]).(2) By 1624 Barbara _____. She died after 6 October 1659 [ MD 4:119].
CHILDREN:with second wife
iCHARLES, b. say 1624; living 1627; d. by about 1635.
iiALEXANDER, b. say 1626 (died 6 July 1702 "being about 76 years of age" [ NEHGR 87:153]); m. (1) by about 1660 Sarah Alden, daughter of JOHN ALDEN ; m. (2) by 1689 as her third husband Desire (Doty) (Sherman) Holmes, daughter of EDWARD DOTY .
iiiJOHN, b. say 1627; no further record.
ivMYLES, b. say 1629; m. Boston 19 July 1660 Sarah Winslow, daughter of JOHN WINSLOW [BVR 76].
vLORA, b. say 1631; d. by 7 March 1655[/6], unm. (from father's will).
viJOSIAS, b. say 1633; m. (1) Marshfield 19 December 1654 Mary Dingley [MarVR 1]; m. (2) after 1655 Sarah Allen, daughter of Samuel Allen (in his will of 2 August 1669 Samuel Allen bequeathed to "my son-in-law Josiah Standish" [SPR 6:27]).
viiCHARLES, b. say 1635; living 7 March 1655[/6] (named in father's will); no further record.
COMMENTS: Bradford listed "Captin Myles Standish and Rose his wife" as passengers on the Mayflower [ Bradford 442]. In 1651 Bradford stated that "Captain Standish his wife died in the first sickness and he married again and hath four sons living and some are dead" [ Bradford 445].Although we have been left with THOMAS MORTON 's description of Standish as "Captain Shrimp," Bradford described him in gentler terms during the first great sickness: so as there died sometimes two or three of a day ... that of one hundred & odd persons, scarce fifty remained. And of these in the time of most distress, there was but six or seven sound persons, who, to their great commendations be it spoken, spared no pains, night nor day, but with abundance of toil and hazard of their own health ... did all the homely & necessary offices for them, which dainty & queazy stomachs cannot endure to hear named; and all this willingly & cheerfully, without any grudging in the least, showing herein their true love unto their friends & bretheren. A rare example & worthy to be remembered. Two of these seven were Mr. William Brewster, their Reverend Elder, & Myles Standish, their Captain & military commander, unto whom myself & many others, were much beholden in our low & sick condition" [ Bradford 77].Standish also had a facility with language, but one editor remarked that "Standish, though `the best linguist among them,' in the Indian dialects, was more expert with the sword than the pen" [ Young's Pilgrim Fathers 115].Lyford and Oldham, in their derogatory letters to England about the early settlement at Plymouth, said "Captain Standish looks like a silly boy, and is in utter contempt" [ Bradford 156].In a 1623 trip to the area near what would be Boston, Captain Standish warned the men there of the Indians' violent intentions. When a number arrived to trade, Standish boldly faced them down and averted a skirmish, but not without suffering some personal slights:"Also Pecksuot, being a man of greater stature than the Captain, told him, though he were a great captain, yet he was but a little man; and, said he, though I be no sachim, yet I am a man of great strength and courage. These things the Captain observed, yet bare with patience for the present" [ Young's Pilgrim Fathers 338].He was one of those who made the voyage of discovery in December 1620 along the coast [ Young's Pilgrim Fathers 149-162]. He left his tools in the woods and they were stolen by the "savages" [ Young's Pilgrim Fathers 180].On 22 March 1620/1 Captain Standish and Master Williamson met Massassoit at the brook and began negotiations, soon joined by the governor [ Young's Pilgrim Fathers 192-93].In the winter of 1622, Captain Standish was to go to the Bay, but was twice driven back by high winds, the latter time being sick with a "violent fever" [ Young's Pilgrim Fathers 299-300]. The Governor took his place and the meeting occurred as intended. We are told that Standish recovered within the month [ Young's Pilgrim Fathers 304].In early 1623, Captain Standish went to trade with the Indians. On meeting some of greater number than his little band, he soon missed some beads, and taking his men "set them on their guard about the sachim's house ... threatening to fall upon them without further delay if they would not forthwith restore them, signifying ... that as he would not offer the least injury, so he would not receive any at their hands, which should escape without punishment or due satisfaction" [ Young's Pilgrim Fathers 309]. This bold stance won respect as well as the return of the beads.In a running conflict in spring of 1623, Standish and a small troop took the high ground and as one assailant drew his bow to fire at Standish, Standish and one other fired at him and broke his arm, "whereupon they fled into a swampe. When they were in the thicket, they parleyed, but to small purpose, getting nothing but foul language. So our Captain dared the sachim to come out and fight like a man, showing how base and woman-like he was in tonguing it as he did, but he refused, and fled" [ Young's Pilgrim Fathers 341]. Johnson, with his usual hyperbole, described the scene: Now the Indians, whose dwellings are most near the waterside, appeared with their bows bent and arrows on the string, let fly their long shafts among this little company, whom they might soon have enclosed, but the Lord otherwise disposed of it, for one Captaine Miles Standish having his fowling piece in a readiness, presented full at them, his shot being directed by the provident Hand of the most high God, struck the stoutest sachem among them on the right arm, it being bent over his shoulder to reach an arrow forth his quiver, as their manner is to draw them forth in fight. At this stroke they all fled with great swiftness [ WWP 42].In late 1625 Captain Standish was sent to England with letters and instructions both to their friends of the company ... and also the Honorable Council of New England to the company to desire that seeing that they meant only to let them have goods upon sale, that they might have them upon easier terms, for they should never be able to bear such high interest ... But he came in a very bad time, for the State was full of trouble, and the plague very hot in London, so as no business could be done, yet he spake with some of the Honored Council, who promised all helpfulnes to the plantation which lay in them ... yet with much ado he took up £150 (& spent a good deal of it in expences) at 50 per cent, which he bestowed in trading goods & such other most needful commodities as he knew requisite for their use, and so returned passenger in a fishing ship [ Bradford 177-79].In 1628, Captain Standish was sent to capture Morton by force. Coming upon Morton's dwelling, Standish found him to be well armed and locked within. Fortunately, they were "over armed with drink" and, coming out of the house they were so steeled with drink as their pieces were too heavy for them, [ Morton ] ... with a carbine ... had thought to have shot Captain Standish; but he [Standish] stepped to him, & put by his piece, & took him. Neither was there any hurt done to any of either side, save that one was so drunk that he ran his own nose upon the point of a sword that one held before him as he entered the house; but he lost but a little of his hot blood [ Bradford 209-10].In 1634 when Mr. Alden was imprisoned in the Massachusetts Bay, Captain Standish was sent to free him [ Bradford 264-65].
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: The last clause of the will of Miles Standish, in which he complains of being "surruptuously detained" from his rightful inheritance, and then lists a number of estates, has spawned a great amount of research into the origins of this immigrant.In 1914 Thomas Cruddas Porteus published "Some Recent Investigations Concerning the Ancestry of Capt. Myles Standish" [ NEHGR 68:339-69]. He transcribed many estate documents, and came to the tentative conclusion that Miles Standish descended from a certain Huan Standish of the Isle of Man.In 1933 Merton Taylor Goodrich prepared a study of "The Children and Grandchildren of Capt. Myles Standish" [ NEHGR 87:149-60]. Goodrich touches only briefly on the matter of the Standish ancestry; the most important part of his article is a careful study of both wives and each of the children of Miles Standish, dealing in detail with a number of matters of chronology and proof. This article is the bedrock on which all later work is based.More recently G.V.C. Young has tackled the problem of the ancestry of Miles Standish and has advanced our knowledge greatly. In 1984 he presented an extended argument that Miles Standish was born on the Isle of Man, and that he was the son of a John Standish of Ellanbane on the Isle of Man [Myles Standish: First Manx American (Isle of Man 1984)]. This John Standish was son of another John Standish, who was son of a Huan Standish of Ellanbane, the very man proposed by Porteus in 1914. Although this conclusion is very well argued, the proof is not yet complete, although Young's identification is highly probable.Young has published two brief supplements to this work: More About Pilgrim Myles Standish (Isle of Man 1987) and Ellanbane Was the Birthplace of Myles Standish (Isle of Man 1988).
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Captain Myles Standish: Separatist Pilgrim, or Roman Catholic Soldier of Fortune?
by David Beale,1 Ph.D. November 2001
The Mayflower set sail from England in 1620 with 102 passengers (fifty men, twenty women, twenty-two boys, and ten girls).2 This number includes three crew members who were hired to remain permanently in Plymouth and two crew members hired to remain for one year. Not included in the number are Oceanus Hopkins (a boy born at sea) and Peregrine White (a boy born on the ship while it was anchored off Provincetown, Cape Cod)–making the actual number of “passengers” to be 104. William Butten died at sea, and four more3 died on board after arrival at Cape Cod, making ninety-nine the total of those who actually reached “Plymouth Rock.” For half a century, the traditional number of Mayflower Separatists has been “forty-one.”4 Recent research, however, reveals an additional sixteen, raising the total to fifty-seven, including thirteen women, nineteen children (fourteen boys and five girls), and twenty-five men, one of whom (Giles Heale) was also listed with the crew. This means that fifty percent of the men were identified with the Christian Separatists; these men were the leaders of the mission. Those who were not Separatists were servants and adventurers.
The most recognizable addition to the list of Separatists is Captain Myles Standish,5 long considered a mere soldier of fortune by some and a nominal Roman Catholic by others. Such descriptions are clearly false, originating in the works of Thomas Morton and William Hubbard. After arresting Thomas Morton for supplying guns to the Indians, Captain Standish had sent him back to England. Retaliating against the Pilgrims, Morton later wrote a caricature called New English Canaan, which demeans Standish as the ambitious “Captain Shrimp,” (referring to his small stature).6 William Hubbard, a Massachusetts Bay Colony historian writing near the end of the seventeenth century, said that Standish was outside “the school of our Saviour.”7 Based on Hubbard’s remark, along with records of the Standish family going back to a thirteenth-century Roman Catholic family, there have been frequent references to Standish as a “Roman Catholic.” His family roots, however, can hardly be any proof of his own position. As Jeremy Bangs noted, “The myth that Myles Standish was Catholic was created in Boston to inspire youthful Irish immigrants.”8 Hubbard’s negative attitude toward the Pilgrims’ relations with the Indians degenerated into a personal attack against Standish. Portraying Standish’s character as hot-tempered, Hubbard compared the captain to a “little chimney [that] is quickly fired.”9 Such unfounded remarks, however, are a caricature upon the character of this good man.
The following entry in the Plymouth Colony Records indicates that Myles Standish attended the Plymouth Church with his family and may have a been a member at the time the record was made: “Anno 1632 Aprell 2–the names of those which promise to remove their families to live in the town in the winter time that they may the better repaire to the worship of God–John Alden, Capt. Standish, Jonathan Brewster, Thomas Prence.”10 Perhaps the real Myles Standish will never be known, but there is more to him than popular descriptions imply. Already in Holland before the Pilgrims arrived, Standish was one of the thousands of British soldiers fighting in the Dutch army in the revolt against Roman Catholic Spanish Hapsburg dominion. In Plymouth Colony, he knew what he needed to do in regard to defending the colony. It was sometimes a messy job. He was quiet about church matters, possibly because he wanted to avoid reflecting upon the testimony of the church. There is no way to determine Standish’s personal spiritual condition. His four sons joined Separatist churches in the towns where they lived, and there are numerous records of their serving in high places of spiritual leadership, such as deaconries.11 In addition to being the military captain, Myles Standish served for six years as Treasurer of the Colony. In 1649, he was made commander-in-chief for the entire Colony. He was faithful to the end in giving his life for the Separatists of Plymouth. The Christian Governor William Bradford mentions people who, during the starving time, were special examples of sacrifice and loyalty, “showing herein their true love unto their friends and brethren; a rare example and worthy to be remembered. Two of these seven were Mr. William Brewster, their reverend Elder, and Myles Standish, their captain and military commander.”12
William Bradford’s nephew, Nathaniel Morton, arrived in Plymouth in 1623, grew up in the Bradford home, and earned a reputation of being strict, orthodox, and Separatist. In his New England’s Memorial (1669), Morton wrote this of Myles Standish at his death in 1656: This year Captain Miles Standish expired his mortal life. . . . In his younger time he went over into the low countries, and was a soldier there, and came acquainted with the church at Leyden, and came over into New England, with such of them as at the first set out for the planting of the plantation of New Plimouth, and bare a deep share of their first difficulties, and was always very faithful to their interest. He growing ancient, became sick of the stone, or stranguary, whereof, after his suffering of much dolorous pain, he fell asleep in the Lord, and was honourably buried at Duxbury.13
The Pilgrim pastor John Robinson, in one of his last letters from Leiden, refers to Myles Standish as the “Captain, whom I love, and am persuaded the Lord in great mercy and for much good hath sent. He is a man humble and meek amongst you, and towards all in ordinary course.”14 Standish left a legacy to Pastor Robinson’s granddaughter, Mercy. He refers to her in his will as “Marcye Robenson[,] whome I tenderly love for her Grandfathers sacke.” Most of the books in Standish’s “Will and Inventory” are sermons and theological works of some of the greatest of the Puritans, including Jeremiah Burroughs and John Preston. He owned “Calvin’s Institutions.” He owned three “old Bibles,” plus “a Testament,” and “one Psalme booke.”15 It should not be surprising that the Pilgrims themselves regarded Myles Standish as one of the most beloved of all the passengers on the Mayflower. Isaac de RasiËre, Secretary of the West India Company’s Government at Manhattan, visited Plymouth in March 1627. He penned the following description of the Pilgrims’ place of worship and order of assembling, with Captain Myles Standish occupying a prominent place in the order of the Pilgrim church:
Upon the hill they had a large square house, with a flat roof, made of thick sawn planks, stayed with oak beams, upon the top of which they have six cannons, which shoot iron balls of four and five pounds, and command the surrounding country. The lower part they use for their church, where they preach on Sundays and the usual holidays. They assemble by beat of drum, each with his musket or firelock, in front of the captain’s door; they have their cloaks on, and place themselves in order, three abreast, and are led by a sergeant without beat of drum. Behind comes the Governor, in a long robe; beside him on the right hand comes the preacher with his cloak on, and on the left hand the captain with his side-arms and cloak on, and with a small cane in his hand; and so they march in good order, and each sets his arms down near him. Thus they enter their place of worship, constantly on their guard night and day.16
| Notes for Barbara Unknown: Barbara came over to Plymouth colony in 1623 on the ship "Anne." |
More About Myles Standish and Barbara Unknown:
Marriage: Aft. 1621
Children of Myles Standish and Barbara Unknown are:
| 242 | i. | Alexander Standish, born Abt. 1626 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; died 06 July 1702 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; married (1) Sarah Alden; married (2) Desire Doty Bef. 1689. | ||
| ii. | John Standish, born Bef. 22 May 1627 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; died Bef. August 1643. | |||
| iii. | Lora Standish, born Aft. 22 May 1627; died Bef. 07 March 1655/56. | |||
| iv. | Myles Standish, born Abt. 1629; died 19 August 1661 in Lost at Sea; married Sarah Winslow 19 July 1660 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; died 09 April 1726 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. |
| More About Myles Standish and Sarah Winslow: Marriage: 19 July 1660, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts |
| v. | Josiah Standish, born Abt. 1633 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; died 19 March 1689/90 in Norwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut; married (1) Mary Dingley 19 December 1654 in Marshfield, Massachusetts; died 01 July 1655; married (2) Sarah Allen Aft. 07 March 1655/56. |
| More About Josiah Standish and Sarah Allen: Marriage: Aft. 07 March 1655/56 |
| vi. | Charles Standish, born Aft. 1634; died Aft. 07 March 1655/56. | |||
| vii. | Charles Standish, born Abt. 1635 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; died Aft. 22 May 1627 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. |