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Surnames: Coddington, Ewer
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Robert Ewer & Elizabeth Coddington; m. 1690 RI. [TAG67:20]
I am not related to this family, I am just passing on this information, which comes from a book titled "Supplement to Torrey's New England Marriages prior to 1700" by Melinde Lutz Sanborn, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1991, pg.22.
Joyce
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Surnames: eleanor ann coddington
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My name is Bethanie Sue Gordon, my mother is mentioned above, if anyone knows her background from her birth to when she graduated High School, please e-mail me at the address above or you can write to my home address which is
Bethanie Sue Gordon
7214 edward
Centerline, Michigan 48015
My father is Neal Edward Gordon, if anyone knows him, please let me know.
bethanie sue gordon
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Somehow I have a photo of "Will Stevenson Coddington." I'd guess it is 1870-1890, and he is about 20. Does anyone know who this is? I have no idea...
Jonathan
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Parents unknown!
Hiram appears on various censuses in Clinton Co., Indiana--the 1900 gives his birth as Nov. 1831, and he consistently gives Ohio as his birthplace. Had several children, 25 known descendants through abt 1900.
He doesn't seem to fit in any of the resident Ohio families--almost all the 1831 birth slots are taken by others.
I have that he died in Union Co., Indiana, where a number of Coddingtons lived, yet few of them had ancestors from or who lived in Ohio.
Yet he must be a member of one of those relatively few emigrations that established the Ohio and Indiana branches.
Any ideas?
Jonathan
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Turns out that Peter Browne and Williams Mullins were not Pilgrims, per se, but rather "Planters" recruited by the Pilgrims since they did not have the right mix of crafts among themselves to survive as a colony. In Dorking all these men (Stockdale included) were part of the same "frankpledge" (a tithing mechanism) to the Church of England, so I suppose they had no insuperable gripes with the C of E--or maybe they did, since one reason the pilgrims left england for holland were the jail terms attendant on not attending C of E services, and, presumably, paying tithes. At any rate, the witnessing of wills, juxtaposition of Stockale's and William Mullin's house on "Weste" Street in Dorking, and membership in the same frankpledge (usually 10-12 households) all suggest that Stockdale was of like mind with Browne and Mullins.
So the two Dorking Mayflower passengers were not part of the original religious congregation. But they must have been sympathetic, since once they got to Plymouth, their only church option was the separatist, puritan service.
Does anyone know how the "English Planters" were actually recruited by the Pilgrims? Was it money, promise of land, or just cajoling families sympathetic to separatist theology to join them?
Stockdale was the same generation as these Pilgrims, but he emigrated to Roxbury when he was 71. At least three of his children remained in England, so it wasn't for lack of family that he emigrated. His son John came in 1635, just at the end of the "Great Migration."
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Johnson, Caleb, The Probable English Origin of Mayflower Passenger Peter Browne, and His Association with Mayflower Passenger William Mullins: With New Information on William Mullins and His Association With Later New England Immigrants Stockdale Coddington and Christopher Hussey (2004, The American Genealogist), 79:161-178.
Mahler, Leslie, The English records for Stockdale Coddington of Roxbury, Massachusetts (The American Genealogist, 2004)), p. 179-180.
Caleb Johnson is a Mayflower scholar. His main purpose is to identify the English origins of Browne and Mullins. Both families came from Dorking, as of course, did Stockdale's.
One wonders, therefore, if John Coddington's (son of Stockdale) motive to emigrate to Boston in 1635 on board the Susan and Ellen was in part religious? Boston was not Plymouth, but both the Puritans and the Pilgrims were notably theocratic. John's son John had departed for Woodbridge, New Jersey by abt. 1677. Although led by a minister, one gets the impression that the settlement of Woodbridge was substantially economic and secular. For that it seemed that Stockdale and John’s reasons for leaving England were economic/financial—or at least not primarily religious freedom. Certainly their descendants in Woodbridge were not exceptionally devout (they accumulated quite a number of fines for not attending church, paying tithes, etc.).
Sarah Wood, Stockdale’s second wife by whom he had most of his children, was the daughter of John Wood, and his will was witnessed by William Mullins( Pilgrim). John Wood had three wives according to John Insley Coddington, who attributed Stockdale’s future wife Sarah to the first, “Audrey,” although Johnson attributes Sarah to the last, Joan Taylor. Given the sequence of births and baptismal records, it does seem that Sarah was born to John and Joan, not John and Audrey.
On the whole, the facts listed by Johnson and Mahler were already noted by John Insley Coddington during the 30’s and 40’s, but it is interesting to see how the Dorking families connect, and what a large fraction of Pilgrims came from Dorking.