Bissell Family History

 

 

[------- John Ames, d. 21 Feb 1560,

[          Bruton, Somersetshire, Eng.

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[------- John Ames, b. Abt 1540, d. 1583, Bruton

[          m. Margery Crome

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[-------John Ames, b. 1 May 1560

[         m. Cyprian Browne, 12 Oct 1601

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[------- William Ames [GMD]

[          Christened 6 Oct 1605, Bruton

[          d. 11 Jan 1654, Old Braintree, MA

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[------- John Ames, 9th Great-grandfather

[          b. 24 Mar 1647, Braintree, MA; d. 1 Mar 1726, West Bridgewater, MA

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[                   [------- Hannah Adams, m. William in 1639/40

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Elizabeth Ames, 8th Great-grandmother

b. 6 Sep 1680, Bridgewater, MA

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[                   [------- Deacon John Willis [GMD] , b. Abt 1612, Eng.  

[                   [          Originally settled in Duxbury, MA

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[------- Sarah Willis

           b. 1 Mar 1650/51, Bridgewater, MA

           m. to John Ames Abt 1671

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SEE NOTES BELOW ABOUT QUESTIONS RELATED TO ELIZABETH HODGKINS CONNECTION TO JOHN WILLIS

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[                                                  [------- William T. Hoskins, b. 1570

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[                        [------- Henry Hoskins (or Hodgkins), b. 1591, Cork, Ireland; d. 1634, Plymouth, MA

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[------- Elizabeth Hodgkins ** See below.

           (First married to William Palmer, Jr. [GMD] in 1634, Plymouth County, MA.

            He died Abt 1637 and she married John Willis after that in Bridgewater.)

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                         [                         [------- John Winthrop [GMD]

                         [                         [

                         [------- Anne Winthrop, b. 1592 in Aghadown, Cork, Ireland (or in Groton Manor, Suffolk, Eng.)

                                                   [

                                                   [------- Elizabeth Powden

 

John Winthrop's brother Adam had a son, John, born 12 Jan 1586/87, who became Gov. John Winthrop, first Governor and a founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.  So he and Anne Winthrop were first cousins.

 

Anne and Henry Hoskins had a son William, born 1615 in Cork, Ireland, who became a planter in Plymouth.  

 

The Elizabeth Hodgkins connection to John Willis is not confirmed in The Great Migration Begins and the GMD; and likewise her ancestry with Anne Winthrop is not confirmed.  Needs more research to determine whether Elizabeth was Sarah's mother and what Elizabeth's ancestry was.

 

Notes.  An Ames Family Website at http://john.rootsweb.ancestry.com/Ames/heritage.html says that this line of descent came from Bruton Parish, Somersetshire. This website says the first immigrants from this family to America were brothers William (the one noted above) and John and that Anthony Eames was part of this family, as Anthony (and others who used the “E”) later dropped that first letter from their name.

 

One unconfirmed (and somewhat dubious) internet site reports William Ames or Eames as the son of James IV of Scotland and England and Cyprian Browne and that the older brother of John Ames b. 1646 in Braintree was Absalom Eames, b. 1632 in Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland.  Obviously, this would mean that William Ames 1605 is not the son of John Ames 1560 but rather the son of King James IV. 

 

Elizabeth Ames was born to John and Sarah 6 Sep 1680 in Bridgewater.  Her brother Nathaniel, born 9 Oct 1677, was the father of Nathaniel Ames, first American almanac publisher.