My Sanborn Connection

Heather Rojo at Nutfield Genealogy posted about her connection to John Sanborn of New Hampshire. On her Facebook post, she asked if her Facebook friends were descended from John, and my reply was "yes."

I thought it might be fun to include my line from John here. It would take "forever" to write a documented post so I'll leave documentation of the individuals and their parentage for future posts. I have not done extensive work on the Sanborn line, and I did learn the exact location in England where John was born from Heather's post! It's a post I've "pinned" for future reference.

Generation 1.
John Sanborn (son of John Sanborn and Ann Batchelder): born abt 1620 Brimpton, Berkshire, England; died 10 Oct 1692 Hampton, New Hampshire. I'm descended from his first wife Mary Tuck, daughter of Robert Tuck and his wife Joanna.

Generation 2.
Joseph Sanborn: born 13 Mar 1659; married Mary Gove 28 Dec 1682; died abt 1722, Hampton, New Hampshire.

Generation 3.
Abigail Sanborn: born 1 Apr 1686 Hampton, New Hampshire; married Ebenezer Dearborn 7 Oct 1703 Hampton, New Hampshire; died 26 Feb 1768 Hampton, New Hampshire.

Generation 4.
Benjamin Dearborn: born 13 Aug 1713 probably Chester, New Hampshire; married Susanna Colcord 31 Oct 1735; died 15 May 1772 Plymouth, Grafton County, New Hampshire. (County was formed in 1771.)

Generation 5.
Samuel Dearborn: born 15 Apr 1745 Chester, New Hampshire; married Abigail Ward, daughter of Rev. Nathan Ward and Tamasin Ireland Ward, 22 Jul 1777 Plymouth, Grafton County, New Hampshire; died 22 Jul 1833 Plymouth, Grafton County, New Hampshire.

Generation 6.
Nathan Dearborn: born 4 Sep 1785 Plymouth, Grafton County, New Hampshire; married 1 - Sarah Seeley 6 Feb 1812 Washington County, Ohio; married 2 - Lucy Perkins 26 Sep 1813 (probably in New Hampshire - there's a story about their wedding trip by horseback that is widely circulated); died 22 Feb 1847 Malta, Morgan County, Ohio. (I'm descended from Lucy.)

Generation 7.
Betsey Dearborn: born 4 Sep 1818 Malta, Morgan County, Ohio; married Stephen Taylor 8 Mar 1837 Morgan County, Ohio; died 12 Mar 1899 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Territory.

Betsey Dearborn Taylor, abt 1881

Generation 8.
Laura Lucy Taylor: born 25 Apr 1854 McLean County, Illinois; married Abraham Lowden Lantz 15 Feb 1874 McLean County, Illinois; died 25 Sep 1922 Monroe County, Mississippi.

Generation 9.
Irving Lee Lantz: born 19 Nov 1885 Oak Grove, McLean County, Illinois; married Gillie Mae Hester 5 Aug 1917 Monroe County, Mississippi; died 5 Sep 1971 Amory, Monroe County, Mississippi.

Generation 10.
Dorothy Ann Lantz: born 30 Aug 1924 Monroe County, Mississippi; married James Thomas Thornton, Jr. 17 Mar 1946 Amory, Monroe County, Mississippi; died 22 Mar 2010 Amory, Monroe County, Mississippi.

Generation 11.
Me!

Did He Really Do That?

Have you ever been reading a history book and happened upon a name that rang a bell with you? That's what happened last night as I was reading The Eastern Frontier: The Settlement of Northern New England, 1610-1763 by Charles E. Clark. It came as no surprise to me to find a reference to Rev. Stephen Bachiler (also spelled Batchelor or Batchelder, etc.) as he was the founder of Hampton, New Hampshire and is quite notorious. However, the name I ran across a chapter or two later in the book was a name I recognized from some of the materials I'd studied when doing some preliminary work on my lines. While I haven't proven all the relationships back to this particular ancestor, I have it proven back far enough that I feel comfortable based on the quality of other people's research that have worked on the line in question that he is actually my 8th great grandfather. Some of you probably know the story far better than I since this was a new one for me and caught me completely by surprise as I was reading last night. I had to grab the notepad and paper. You see Edward Gove, my 8th great grandfather, was an assemblyman in the province of New Hampshire back in the 1680s. Around 1683, the English apparently sent a new governor to the New Hampshire and within a few days he'd removed a couple of folks from power that really made Edward Gove angry. The gist of it is that Gove (who apparently was very popular among the citizens of the area) led an armed revolt against the governor. He was tried and convicted of treason. He was sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered. Somehow instead of such a drastic measure, he was shipped off to the Tower of London where he was imprisoned for about 3 years before being pardoned and returned to New Hampshire. I was hoping the Provincial Papers of New Hampshire were on Google Books, but they didn't have the volume I need. I can't wait to get my hands on this and see what really happened. I need to find other things to support this "story" that I read, but it has my attention. I've found a few things online, but I've not had time to really print and read them yet. If you have more information on Edward Gove, feel free to email me at lorithor@yahoo.com. I really had not worked on this Gove line, but I at least recognized the name when I ran across it.