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_John BILLINGTON ____|
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|--Francis BILLINGTON
| (1606 - ....)
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|_Eleanor LOCKWOOD ___|
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[92741]
BILLINGTON, FRANCIS-The son of John and Eleanor Billington, Francis
accompanied his parents on the 1620 Mayflower. See the three articles
under his father for his probable English origin and his American
descendants. When the Mayflower was anchored at Cape Cod, "one of
Francis [sic, should be John] Billington's Sons [presumably son Francis],
who in his Fathers absence, had got Gun-powder, and had shot of a peice
or two, and made scuibs, and there being a fowling peice charged in his
fathers Cabbin, shot her off in the Cabbin, there being a little barren
of powder halfe full, scattered in and about the Cabbin, the fire being
within foure foote of the bed betweene the Deckes, and many flints and
Iron things about the Cabbin, and many people about the fire, and yet by
Gods mercy no harme done" (Mourt's Relation, p. 15). The same source, p.
26, relates how Francis Billington climbed a tree and saw what appeared
to be a great sea, but on close inspection it turned out to be a very
shallow pond, which is called to this day the Billington Sea. He married
Christian (Penn), the widow of Francis Eaton, in July 1634 (PCR 1:31).
Source: Plymouth Colony Its History & People 1620-1691 by Eugene Aubrey
Stratton
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Francis Billington, the sole surviving son: John's son
Francis was one of the first
Pilgrims punished for premarital sex. How he and
Christian Penn were 'caught' is
unknown; their first child Elizabeth wasn't born until
a year, to the month, after their
marriage. He lived at Plymouth until 1669; then he
moved to Middleboro and lived on land
granted to him as one of the "First Comers." (Plymouth
Colony LR 1:344; 3:129 (Francis
Billington) He lived there until his death, except for
a few years when he took refuge at
Plymouth during the King Philip's War.
On 18 April 1642 he apprenticed his daughter Elizabeth
(Plymouth Colony Record 2:38)
and 14 Jan 1642/3 he bound-out son Joseph, "aged vi or
vii" and two daughters, probably
Martha and Mary, one five years old and the other even
younger. (Plymouth town records)
Bradford in his History (446) stated in 1651 that
Francis Billington had eight children. In
his old age, Francis was dependent on his son Isaac
for support and died intestate. No
probate record appears, although Isaac petitioned the
probate court in 1703/4 for title to
his father's Middleboro lands, stating he had had sole
care of his parents in their old age.
(Plymouth Co. PR)
A Plymouth County Court case of Sep 1722, brought by
Isaac's daughter Desire
(Billington) Bonney and her husband, James, shows that
Francis Billington died intestate
leaving issue, two sons and five daughters [see
below]. Isaac as the eldest undoubtedly
got a double portion as there were a total of eight
shares in the estate. (Plymouth Co. CT
Records, 1686-1859, 5:145) A 1719 quitclaim deed from
Francis's grandson, Francis
Billington (Family #12) reading "my father Francis and
grandfather [unnamed] Bilington"
seems to imply a son Francis, Jr. But in the absence
of any mention of such a son in
contemporary Plymouth records, coupled with the fact
that Francis's deed evidently
transferred the shares of Joseph Billington, we
conclude that the deed contains a clerical
error. The original must have read "my father Joseph
and grandfather Francis Billington."
(Ply. Co. LR 14:255) Indications are that the seven
children named in the Bonney suit and
their progeny were the only survivors of Francis
Billington. A more detailed account has
been published in the Mayflower Quarterly 52:137-44;
and The Genealogist 3:231-2 vol ,
1980.)
American families from New Plymouth,~1620 to1790+
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''History of the Town of Middleboro'':
"Francis Billington was a son of John Billing
_William COUSINS ____
|
_Irvine Franklin COUSINS _|
| |
| |_Betsey GRAY ________+
|
|
|--Ruth COUSINS
|
| _____________________
| |
|_Emily AUSTIN ____________|
|
|_____________________
_Rem DITMARS ________+
| (1707 - 1775) m 1740
_Peter DITMARS ______|
| (1745 - 1792) m 1781|
| |_Helen VAN LIEW _____+
| (1724 - 1778) m 1740
|
|--Abraham DITMARS
| (1780 - 1876)
| _____________________
| |
|_Martha PUMEA _______|
(.... - 1781) m 1781|
|_____________________
[35428] REFN: 814
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Reference Number:3086
CHAN8 Jun 2001
_George EMPFIELD ____+
| (1809 - 1865) m 1835
_Adam George EMPFIELD __|
| (1852 - 1933) m 1877 |
| |_Sarah COY __________+
| (1820 - 1866) m 1835
|
|--Harley A. "Harry" EMPFIELD
| (1890 - 1918)
| _James M. BARR ______
| |
|_Myrtilla "Myrta" BARR _|
(1856 - 1931) m 1877 |
|_Mary LUCAS _________
[92736] Company L, 110th Infantry
_John SHERBOURNE ____
| (1615 - ....)
_John SHERBOURNE ____|
| |
| |_Elizabeth TUCK _____+
|
|
|--James SHERBOURNE
|
| _____________________
| |
|_Mary JACKSON _______|
|
|_____________________