SOUTHCOAT, SOUTHCOTE; Captain, came in the Mary and John with the church-colony that founded Dorchester in 1629-30. Had been a LOW COUNTRY SOLDIER, led the exploring party that went up Charles River in search of a place for the colony. Mr. Richard and Mr. Thomas appl from October 19, 1630; "Captain" was administrator from May 18, 1631. Propr. Dorchester until December 2, 1633. Both removed soon. See Historic Windsor and other Conn. histories. (Pope, 1900, p. 426)
Information about Richard de Southcot
"Richard Southcott and Thomas Southcott were among the first settlers of Dorchester, MA and applied to be admitted freemen October 19, 1630" (Golding, 1929, p. 14)
Passenger List of the MARY AND JOHN 1630 (Passenger List of the Mary and John 1630, n.d.)
Southcot, Thomas? possibly Devon
Southcote, Richard 40 Devon
The Mary & John left Plymouth, England March 20, 1630 with her unknown Master, arriving in Nantasket Point, now Dorchester, Mass., at the entrance of Boston Harbor on May 30, 1630, two weeks before the Winthrop Fleet arrived. These families and passengers were recruited by the Reverend John White of Dorchester, Dorset. Nearly all of the Mary and John 1630 passengers came from the West Country counties of Somerset, Dorset , Devon, and West Country towns of Dorchester, Bridgport, Crewkerne and Exeter. The passengers of the Mary and John 1630 founded one of the first towns in New England, Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1630 and also founded the town of Windsor, Connecticut five years later in 1635. Other information says the master was Thomas Chubb, and they landed in Dorchester. "140 passengers, but the list has never been found." (Great Migration: Passengers of the Mary & John, 1630, n.d.)
SMITH, JOHN, a parishioner of Mr. Richard Mather at Toxteth (Prince), came with Mr. M in the James from Bristol May 23, 1635. His wife and Mary also mentioned by Mr. M. as being on board. Settled at Dorchester. Frm May 25, 1636. Herdsman, propr, made repairs on the meeting house in 1653; CHOSEN QUARTER MASTER OF THE TROOP OF SUFFOLK REGIMENT; confirmed by the Court in Oct. 1652. He married in Roxbuy August 1, 1647 Katharine, daughter of Isaac Morrel. Children: Mary m Nathaniel Glover (1) and (2) Thomas, afterwards Governor Thomas Hinckley and died July 29, 1703; Elizabeth baptized 1647; Anna baptized 1651; Mary baptized 1655 married Samuel Pelton in 1673; Samuel born 1658-9; John baptized 1656; Waitstill b 1658; Samuel b 158-9; Deliverance b 1660; Samuel b 1662; Sarah b 1665; Abigail b 1668; Joseph b 1671 and died about a month later.
John Smith died April 29, 1678. Will dated Dec. 10, 1676, probated July 25, 1678. Bequethed to wife Katharine, daughter Mary Pelton, son John and other children not named. Refers to the portion given to his daughter Mrs. Mary Hinckley at her marriage with Nathaniel Gover, and her receipt dated 1660 and gives her nothing at this time. Daughter Mary Pelton had received a part of her portion. Inventory filed by the widow 3 August 1678; another inventory filed after her death by Samuel Bayley, son in law, 1 Nov. 1710. (Pope, 1900, p. 421)
i. The ship James of London sailed from Southampton on April 5, 1635 and arrived in Massachusetts Bay on June 3,[5] 1635 with master William Cooper at the helm.
ii. The ship James left King's Road in Bristol on May 23, 1635 with master John Taylor at the helm. From England to Massachusetts in a fleet of five ships:
○ The Angel Gabriel 1635 - The Angel Gabriel was wrecked off the coast of Maine, but the smaller, faster ships, the Mary, the Bess, and the Diligence outran the storm, and landed in Newfoundland on August 15, 1635. Richard Mather was on board the Angel Gabriel. (Geni.com, "Great Migration: The Angel Gabriel)
○ The Elizabeth and Ann (Bess)1635 - 17th Aprill 1635. In the Eliza and Ane mr Ro. Cowper* to New England (Elizabeth and Ann, n.d.)
○ The Mary 1635 - No information.
○ The Diligence 1635
iii. On June 3, 1635, the James joined four other ships, and set sail for the New World with just over 100 passengers as part of a fleet of five ships, including the families of Richard Mather, Captain John Evered, John Greene and John Ayer. As they approached New England, a hurricane struck and they were forced to ride it out just off the coast of modern-day Hampton, New Hampshire. According to the ship's log and the journal of Increase Mather, whose father Richard Mather and family were passengers, the following was recorded; "At this moment,... their lives were given up for lost; but then, in an instant of time, God turned the wind about, which carried them from the rocks of death before their eyes. ...her sails rent in sunder, and split in pieces, as if they had been rotten ragges..." They tried to stand down during the storm just outside the Isles of Shoals, but lost all three anchors, as no canvas or rope would hold, but on Aug 13, 1635, torn to pieces, and not one death, all one hundred plus passengers the James manages to make it to Boston Harbor two days later. The Angel Gabriel was wrecked off the coast of Maine, but the smaller, faster ships, the Mary, the Bess, and the Diligence outran the storm, and landed in Newfoundland on August 15, 1635.[1]
iv. 1662 voyage - The James left Bermuda on August 5, 1662 with Captain William Sayle and James Sayle under the command of Matthew Normal in search of Eleutheria.[6] (Ship James, n.d.)
MASON, JOHN, Dorchester from March 4, 1634-5 Agreement with certain settlers on his lands March 4, 1634. He remained to Hingham. Capt. Chief commander in the Pequot War. Rem. to Windsor, Conn.; sold house and lot at Hingham 1647. He married at Hingham July 1639 Anne, dau of Mr. Robert Peck, q.v. Children: Priscilla, Samuel, John, Rachel, Anne, Daniel, Elizabeth (History of Hingham) (Pope, 1900, p. 204)
"These under-written names are to be transported to the Barbadoes & St Christophers, embarqued in the Ann & Elizabeth Jo Brookhaven Capten & Mr having taken the oaths of Allegeance & Supremacie. As also being Conformable to the orders & discipline of the Church of England & no subsedy Men, whereof they brought test : from the Minister of St Katherins neere ye Tower of London.
27 April 1635: Persons to be transported [from London] to Barbadoes in the Ann & Elizabeth, Mr. John Brookehaven. Coldham pges 139-140 (Stevens, n.d.)
Golding John 21
Bennet Bartholomew 18
Mason Jo 20
All of these men would have been born about 1615. This John Mason cannot be the same John Mason who was in the Pequot War. That Captain John Mason was older. It’s just an idea but there’s a Will of Bartholomew Bennett of East Greenwich in the co of Kent, mariner, “all my estate whatsoever to my loving wife Elizabeth Bennett whom I make my sole executrix, dated 5th Feb 1707/8” (rootsweb, n.d.)
Proved London 9th March 1707/8 by the oath of Elizabeth Bennet, widow
That’s just another problem to be solved. John Golding age 21 and John Mason, age 20 who cannot be the same John Mason who fought with the Veres. Who were they, because they were all of the younger generation.
Anyway, the Fighting Veres have a fascinating history. Their lives coincide with the son of Arthur “the translator” Golding of Essex. After the death of his father Percival Golding, Jr was faced with the immediate necessity to support himself without a benefactor. Not much is known about the children of Arthur Golding other than the fact that he was a respected scholar who died nearly bankrupt. When the Golding family lost their connection with the DeVere family with the death of Edward, the 16th Earl of Oxford their fortunes began to decline, so much so that Percival Jr., who was an esteemed scholar in his own right, used as a primary source of income the rights to publish and live off of the proceeds of his father’s works. The DeVere name passed to the nephews of Edward DeVere. They were warriors, Sir Francis Vere and his brother Sir Horace Vere. ("Sir Horace Vere", n.d.)
The Fighting Veres
Sir Francis Vere (1560 – 18 August 1609) was an English soldier, famous for his career in Dutch service. He was the son of Geoffrey Vere of Crepping Hall, Essex, and nephew of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford.
Military career
The young Francis Vere first went on active service under Leicester in 1585, and was soon in the thick of the war raging in the Low Countries. At the siege of Sluys he greatly distinguished himself under Sir Roger Williams and Sir Thomas Baskerville. In 1588 he was in the garrison of Bergen op Zoom, which delivered itself from the besiegers by its own good fighting and was knighted by Lord Willoughby on the field of battle. In the next year Sir Francis became sergeant major-general of the English troops in the Low Countries, and soon afterwards the chief command devolved upon him. This position he retained during fifteen campaigns, with almost unbroken success. Working in close cooperation with the Dutch forces under Maurice of Nassau, he helped to step by step secure the country for the cause of independence. The future prominent dramatist and poet Ben Jonson served as a volunteer under his command. Vere won the reputation of being one of the best English soldiers of the day. His troops acquired a cohesion and a training based on the Dutch model fitting them to face the best Spanish troops, and his camp became the fashionable training-ground of all aspiring English soldiers, amongst others not only his younger brother Horace, but men of such note as Ferdinando (Lord) Fairfax, Gervase Markham and Captain Myles Standish. He was elected Member of Parliament for Leominster in 1593.
Sir Horace Vere
Sir Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury (1565 – 2 May 1635)was an English military leader active during the Eighty Year’s and the Thirty Year’s Wars. He and his brother Francis were the sons of Geoffrey Vere, but Horace died without leaving a male heir. He was sent to the Palatinate by James I in 1620.
Sir Horace Vere
Sir Horace had among his lieutenants the Earls of Warwick, Peterborough and Bedford who served under him as well as the royalist soldiers Lords Gandison, Byron and Goring. The Earl of Essex was one of his lieutenants, and the Earls of Warwick, Peterborough, and Bedford served under him, as did the royalist soldiers Lords Grandison, Byron, and Goring. He commanded three hundred food soldiers at the battle of Nieuwport under his brother and when his elder brother Francis retired from the field he helped Sir John Ogle and Sir Charles Fairfax rally the English vanguard. The other senior officers being Sir Edward Cecil and Sir Edward Harwood. At the Siege of Ostend he took a conspicuous part in the repulse of the Spanish assault on 7 January 1602. This Cecil was the grandson of Queen Elizabeth's minister William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley who acted as guardian of the young Edward De Vere and knew Arthur Golding in his prime.
John Mason, later of Connecticut was in 1629 a lieutenant in the Brabant Campaign and participated in the Siege of s'-Hertogenbosch, which means literally "The Duke's Forrest" in English. He served with Lord Thomas Fairfax under General Horace Vere in the army of Frederik Hendrik, The Prince of Orange. Were there members of the Golding family fighting alongside Mason in the Netherlands? That would be nearly impossible to determine as history usually records only the military leaders, however in addition to General Vere, there were several other commanders in the Siege of s'-Hertogenbosch.
Sir Edward Cecil has already been mentioned. Sir Edward Harwood, a soldier of the low country, afterwards a member of the Virginia Company and signer of the Second Virginia Charter of 1609. He was also involved in the Somers Isles Company as well as a charter member of the Providence Island Company. . No relation has been found yet between him and Captain Thomas Harwood, who was the first of the Harwood family to arrive in Virginia and is sometimes referred to as the “Chief of Martin’s Hundred”.
Twelve Years’ Truce
The battle of Mulheim was followed by Vere's return to England, and by his marriage in 1607. Two years later came the twelve years' truce between the United Provinces and Spain. In October 1609 Sir Horace succeeded his brother as governor of the Brill. In 1609 he was promised the reversion of the mastership of ordnance, after Lord Carew.
In 1610 he served at the siege of Juliers under Sir Edward Cecil. In 1616 he yielded up the cautionary town of Brill to the Dutch on the repayment by them of the loans received from England, receiving a life pension of £800 in compensation for his loss of the governorship. Two years later Sir Horace received from Maurice the governorship of Utrecht. He had previously aided the prince in disarming and suppressing the provincial levies, raised on behalf of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt.
Palatinate campaign
In May 1620 James I was being strongly urged by popular opinion to defend the Protestant cause of his son-in-law, Frederick V, Elector Palatine. He allowed Count Dohna, the Palatine envoy, to levy a body of volunteers at his own cost, and to appeal for funds. Dohna, as paymaster, selected Sir Horace Vere, as commander; Buckingham had wanted the post for Sir Edward Cecil, and withdrew support from the expedition.
News arrived of the treaty of Ulm (23 June), between the union of Catholic princes and the League, preparing the way for a catholic invasion of the palatinate, and money came in more rapidly. On 9 July Vere went to Theobalds to take leave of the king, and on 22 July the regiment, 2,200 strong, set sail from Gravesend to the Netherlands, to be escorted south into Germany and to the seat of war by a body of Dutch cavalry. Spinola was in the field with one army, Don Luis de Velasco in the way with another.
Vere's plan was to effect a junction with the Protestant force near Mannheim, under the Margrave of Ansbach. He marched through Wesel into the neighborhood of Coblenz, and then made a detour by a route through the Taunus, on the other side of which, in the valley of the Main River, Spinola made an unsuccessful attempt to cut him off. Vere crossed the Main by a ford, near Frankfurt, and then, by way of Darmstadt and Bensheim (there resting his troops), and proceeded to Worms, where the junction of forces actually took place.
Spinola now adopted Fabian tactics in the hope of wearing the enemy out, until the approach of winter compelled the English and their allies to seek quarters. Vere divided his troops among the three most important strongholds of the Palatinate. He himself occupied Mannheim, Gerard Herbert he stationed in Heidelberg Castle, while Sir John Burroughs undertook to defend Frankenthal.
Early in 1621 the Protestant union was broken up, and the English garrisons had to give up all hope of relief. The English governors were not closely pressed that year. The garrison under Vere at Mannheim received a visit early in 1622 from the dethroned elector, who had promised them a diversion, and who, in conjunction with Mansfelt, had inflicted a momentary check upon the imperialist army under Johann Tserclaes von Tilly at Wiesloch (April). A few weeks later, however, Tilly, having been reinforced by Gonzalez de Cordova, inflicted defeats on the Protestants, and in June the elector had finally to leave Mannheim.
The English garrisons were now surrounded and threatened by a force of imperialists and Spaniards under Tilly, Cordova, and Verdugo. Vere resolved to hold out, though he knew that the military position was hopeless. On 16 September the town of Heidelberg was taken by storm, and the castle surrendered three days later. Sir Gerard Herbert had received a mortal wound during the siege. At Mannheim Vere, with a garrison of fourteen hundred men, without money or supplies, had to defend extensive fortifications. He retired to the citadel, but no extraneous help being forthcoming, he was forced to capitulate at the close of September, and, having marched out with the honors of war, withdrew to The Hague. Vere's defense was commemorated by George Chapman. At Frankenthal, Burroughs did not surrender the place to Verdugo until 14 April 1623, and then only in response to direct orders from home. The courage displayed by Vere against great odds was recognized in England, when the general returned early in February 1623, even if his salary and expenses were never paid in full by the treasury. On 16 February 1623 he was appointed master-general of the ordnance for life, and he became a member of the council of war on 20 July 1624. On the death of his elder brother, John, in the same year he became his residuary legatee, with the reversion of Tilbury and Kirby Hall upon the death of the widow.
Breda and the Brabant campaign
In 1624 Sir Horace Vere traveled once more to The Hague in order to second Prince Maurice in the defense of the fortress of Breda, under siege by Spinola from August. Maurice died on 23 April 1625. The only ways to approach the siege works from outside were by causeways. The new stadtholder, Maurice's brother, Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, resolved to attempt the causeways, and Vere was selected to conduct this hazardous operation. Taking with him some six thousand men, including three hundred pikemen led by his kinsman, Robert de Vere, 19th Earl of Oxford, Vere started an hour before the dawn on the morning of 13 May 1625. The English marched along the dyke, and after a sharp engagement captured the redoubt. Spinola thereupon sent strong reinforcements to the threatened point, and, incurring a very heavy loss, the English were forced to retire. On his return to England that summer Vere, high in military reputation, was created Baron Vere of Tilbury.
His next enterprise in the Netherlands was in connection with the siege of 's-Hertogenbosch, one of the chief military positions in Brabant, undertaken by Prince Frederic Henry in April 1629. Sir Edward Vere (born ca. 1580), the illegitimate son of Horatio's first cousin Edward, Earl of Oxford, was mortally wounded in the lines on 18 August a few weeks before the place was finally surrendered. The services of the Veres in the Netherlands were closed by the Capture of Maastricht May–August 1632. Vere commanded a powerful brigade, and posted his headquarters opposite the Brussels Gate. Among those killed during the operations were Vere's kinsman, Robert de Vere, 19th Earl of Oxford, while among the wounded were his nephew, Sir Simon Harcourt, and Sir Thomas Holles.
Death
After the surrender of Maastricht, Vere returned to England. While dining with Sir Harry Vane, The Hague envoy and his diplomatic friend, at Whitehall on 2 May 1635, he was seized with an apoplectic fit and died within two hours. He was buried with military pomp on 8 May in Westminster Abbey, where the same tomb serves for him and his brother, Sir Francis.
References
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"Sir Horace Vere". (n.d.). Retrieved from Geni.com: https://www.geni.com/people/Horace-de-Vere-1st-Baron-Vere-of-Tilbury/6000000004630355569
Elizabeth and Ann. (n.d.). Retrieved from Olive Tree Genealogy: https://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/eliza_ann1635.shtml
Golding, L. T. (1929). English Origins of New England Families.
Great Migration: Passengers of the Mary & John, 1630. (n.d.). Retrieved from Geni.com: https://www.geni.com/projects/Great-Migration-Passengers-of-the-Mary-John-1630/4352
Passenger List of the Mary and John 1630. (n.d.). Retrieved from Geni.com: https://www.geni.com/projects/Great-Migration-Passengers-of-the-Mary-John-1630/4352
Pope, C. H. (1900). The Pioneers of Massachusetts, A Descriptive List. Boston: Published by Charles H. Pope.
Ship James. (n.d.). Retrieved from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_(ship)
Stevens, A. (n.d.). Retrieved from packrat.pro: https://www.packrat-pro.com/ships/annelizabeth.htm
Source: Geni.com, “Great Migration: The Angel Gabriel”, https://www.geni.com/projects/Great-Migration-Passengers-of-the-Angel-Gabriel-1635/1142
The source of the image of Sir Horace Vere is https://collectionimages.npg.org.uk/large/mw261047/Horace-Vere-Baron-Vere-of-Tilbury.jpg
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