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NICHOLAS WADE (c. 1616–1683/4)
ELIZABETH HANFORD (c. 1621–1672/83), daughter of JEFFREY HANFORD and EGLIN HATHERLY
Nicholas Wade was born about 1616. [1] He died between 7 February 1683 and 11 March 1683/4. He married Elizabeth Hanford by about 1648. [2] He married Elizabeth Hanford, the daughter of Jeffrey and Eglin (Hatherly)(Downe) Hanford. [1][3]
Elizabeth Hanford was born about 1621. She died after 5 June 1672 and before 7 February 1683.
It has been suggested that Nicholas married (a mythical) Elizabeth Ensign; this is incorrect. [1][4]
Elizabeth Hanford, age 14, along with her mother and sister Margaret, enrolled in London for passage to New England on the Planter on 10 April 1635. [5]
Nicholas Wade of Scituate took the oath of fidelity on 1 February 1638. [6] His name is in the Scituate section of the list of those able to bear arms in Plymouth Colony in 1643. [7]
Nicholas was licensed to keep an ordinary in Scituate in 1657. [8]
On 27 January 1664 Nicholas Wade of Scituate sold his dwelling house and half acre of land to John Vinall of Scituate for 20 pounds and engaged that his wife Elizabeth would surrender her right to a third. [9]
On 26 July 1672 William Holmes of Marshfield signed a deed acknowledging that he had sold Nicholas Wade of Scituate an tract of upland in Scituate of about eight acres for 50 shillings about 25 years before. [10]
Nicholas Wade is on a 26 February 1673/4 list of people in Scituate with rights to divisions and Commons. [11]
Nicholas made his will on 7 February 1683; inventory was taken on 11 March 1683/4. He mentioned his sons John, Thomas, Nicholas, and Nathaniel Wade; his daughter Susannah Wilcom and husband Wilcom; his daughter Susannah White "in her former days;" his children Nicholas, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, and Hannah Wade. [1][4]
Esther Woodfield of Scituate made her will on 27 May 1672. She left Elizabeth, the wife of Nicholas Wade, her red cow and her broadcloth petticoat and waistcoat that Elizabeth had made. Elizabeth witnessed the will and testified when the will was exhibited on 5 June 1672. [12]
Children of Nicholas Wade and Elizabeth Hanford:
i. Thomas Wade was probably born about 1645. He died between 14 March and 23 November 1726. He married Hannah Ensign.
ii. John Wade was born about 1648, probably in Scituate. [1] He died after 7 February 1683.
iii. Joseph Wade was born say 1650. He died in 1676. He married Sarah Ensign. [4]
According to Savage, Joseph was a son of Nicholas, and he was killed at Rehoboth in 1676. [1]
In March 1676 a company of 50 to 60 men was raised under Captain Michael Pierce of Scituate, and on 26 March they set off for Rehoboth. Unfortunately, they encountered a a group of about a thousand Narragansett soldiers and most of them, including Joseph and his brother-in-law John Ensign were killed. [4]
iv. Susanna Wade was born about 1652. [1] She died after 7 February 1683. She married first William Wilcom. [1] She married second Joseph White. [1]
v. Elizabeth Wade was born about 1654. [1] She married Thomas Stevens by 1679. In 1679 Elizabeth and Nicholas Wade successfully petitioned the court for a divorce on the grounds that Thomas already had a wife in Boston and a wife in Barbados. Thomas was sentenced to be whipped. [8][13][14]
vi. Hannah Wade was baptized on 3 August 1656 in Scituate. [1][15] She was living and unmarried on 7 February 1683.
vii. Nicholas Wade was baptized on 1 July 1660 in Scituate. [1][15] He died on 16 March 1723 in Scituate. [15]
viii. Nathaniel Wade was born about 1662. [1] He died after 7 February 1683.
References:
1. Mary Lovering Holman, Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and His Wife Frances Helen Miller (Concord, NH: Rumford Press, 1948), 485–9.
2. "Great Migration, 1634–1635, G–H," digitized book, originally published as Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration to New England, 1634–1635, Volume III, G–H (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003), 205–7.
3. Eugene A. Stratton, "Mann-Ensign Notes," The American Genealogist 61 (1985): 46–49.
4. Robert E. Bowman, "Ensigns Revisited," The American Genealogist 73 (1998): 241–55.
5. "Great Migration 1634–1635, C–F," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson,, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume II, C–F (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001), 426.
6. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of Plymouth Colony: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1640, vol. 2, 1641–1651, vol. 3, 1651–1661, vol. 4, 1661–1668, vol. 5, 1668–1678, vol. 6, 1678–1691 (Boston: William White, 1855, 1866). , 1: 110.
7. Nathaniel Shurtleff, "List of Those Able to Bear Arms in the Colony of New Plymouth, 1643," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 4 (1850): 256.
8. Samuel Deane, History of Scituate (Boston: James Loring, 1831): 370–1.
9. "Plymouth Colony Records of Deeds: Abstracts of the Records in Volume III," Mayflower Descendant 34 (1937): 161–2.
10. "William Holmes to Nicholas Wade: An Unrecorded Deed Dated 1672," Mayflower Descendant 34 (1937): 168–71.
11. Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, The Seventeenth-Century Town Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1997, 1999, 2001), vol. 1: 61
12. "Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories," Mayflower Descendant 19 (1917): 62–63.
13. "New England Marriages to 1700," digitized books, AmericanAncestors, originally published as Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015), vol. 2: 1447. This source and Deane say, probably incorrectly, that Elizabeth married Marmaduke Stevens.
14. Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620–1691 ( Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1986), 203.
15. Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850, 2 vols. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1909), vol. 1: 396–400, 403 (births); vol. 2: 316–318 (marriages), 463–464 (deaths).
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