John Smalley of Eastham

[One chapter of the Edward Small genealogy is devoted to John Smalley of Eastham and some of his descendants. It is reproduced below. For some time, many of the Small and Smalley families on Cape Cod were assumed to be descendants of John Smalley, but they were actually descendants Edward Small and his son Francis. The surnames Small and Smalley were often used as alternates of each other. DP-J]

Descendants of Edward Small of New England
and the Allied Families with Tracings of English Ancestry

by Lora Altine Woodbury Underhill

Revised Edition
The Riverside Press
Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934

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SINCE Shebnah Rich, in his “History of Truro, Cape Cod,” Massachusetts, has stated that all the Smalls, Smalleys, etc., of Cape Cod are descendants of John Smalley of Eastham it seems appropriate, just here, to prove that no descendant of John Smalley, bearing the name, has ever been found on the Cape. His two daughters, Hannah and Mary, married, and lived on the Cape. Hannah married John Bangs, but no children of theirs have been found after most diligent search. His daughter Mary married John Snow and had nine children. This family will be shown in more detail in later pages.
In his “History of Truro, Cape Cod,” Shebnah Rich makes the statement that John Smalley of Eastham is “the accepted ancestor of the Cape family.... Record of death not found.” This statement of Shebnah Rich has been widely circulated throughout the United States and believed everywhere. This justifies its denial here. He mentions children, “Hannah, John, Isaac, and Mary,” then adds: “Samuel, Joseph, and James, of Truro, early.... We cannot connect these, but they were assuredly the grandsons of John.” Later appear: “Samuel, Francis, Isaac, and Joshua... All of this name in Provincetown belonged to the Truro family.”^* In the latter statement Shebnah Rich is correct. The writer goes still further in stating that all the Smalls and Smalleys of Provincetown, today (1931), appear to be descendants of Francis³ Smalley, of Truro, Francis² Smale, of Kittery, Maine, and Truro, Massachusetts, and Edward¹ Smale, of Kittery, Maine. But not a Smale, Smalley, or Small, bearing the name Small, descended from John Smalley of Eastham, for four generations, at least, can be found on Cape Cod. They are descendants of Edward.

^* History of Truro, Cape Cod, by Shebnah Rich, 1883: 562.

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John Smalley came over with Edward Winslow in the William and Francis, sailing from London March 9, 1632, and arrived in New England, June 5, 1632.^*
In 1637/38, a garden place at Willingsley Brook and six acres upon Woberry Plain, in Plymouth County, were granted “John Smaley”; and in 1640, five acres “in the South Meddows towards Aggawam, Colebrook Meddowes.” These three lots of land he sold, March 21, 1644, to Edmund Tilson, with “all his house and housing and garden place”; signature “John Smalley.”^† September 7, 1641, he was propounded for freeman; admitted and sworn, March 1, 1641/42. In August, 1643, “John Smaley” appeared in a list of “all the males that are able to bear armes from XVI years old to 60 yeares w^thin the seuerall Townshipps,” in Plymouth Colony.^‡
Among the prominent men who removed from Plymouth, in April, 1644, to Nauset (now Eastham), far down on Cape Cod, were: John Smalley, Richard Higgins,^§ Nicholas Snow,

^* New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 14: 300.
^† Plymouth Colony Records, Court Orders, vol. I: 76, 90, 166, 108.
^‡ Plymouth Colony Records, Court Orders, vol. I: 24, 33.
^§ Richard¹ Higgins, whose English home is unknown, might be identical with that “Richard Higgins, son of Robert Higgins of Leominster, County Hereford, mercer,” who apprenticed himself “with Phillip Ruddock of St. Clements Lane, London, for the term of seven years from the date given herein, for the term aforesaid, on said date and year, April 23, 1627.” The pedigree of the Herefordshire Higgins can be established from wills examined of that and other counties in England.
Richard Higgins arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in time to purchase some corn of the crop of 1633. On October 7, 1633, he bought a dwellinghouse of Thomas Little, for which he paid in corn. April 1, 1634, he took Samuel Godbertson, son of Godbert Godbertson, deceased, with the consent of William Bradford, guardian to Samuel, as an apprentice for the term of seven years. He is frequently mentioned in the Plymouth Colony Records.
On December 11 (November 23, according to Eastham records), 1634, he married Lydia Chandler, of Duxbury, and presumably they settled in a dwelling-house which Richard Higgins had bought January 13, 1633/34, from John Barnes. It had been lately in possession of Edward Holman. Lydia Chandler was not mentioned in the will of Edmund Chandler in 1662.
In 1643, he went with others to Nauset, afterward Eastham, where he is [footnote continued]

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Edward Bangs, John Doane, John Young, Josias Cook and others.^* “John Smaley” was appointed Constable at

often mentioned in records of the Eastham Town Book and Book of Lands and Ways. He lived in the part called Pochet.
John Yates and his wife Mary were of Duxbury, where their son John Yates was born August 15, 1650. Soon after, they removed to Eastham, where John Yates, senior, died in 1651, and administration was granted to his widow, Mary Yates, June 8, 1651.
Richard Higgins and the widow, Mary Yates, were married in October, 1651
“October 6, 1657, Mr. John Done, Josias Cooke, Richard Sparrow and Richard Higgins desired some proportions of land at a place about thirteen English miles from Rehoboth,” which was granted by the Court. December 14, 1668, Daniel Cole, Nicholas Snow, Richard Higgins, Jonathan Higgins (and eight others) were to lay out “a highway from Eastham to Santuckett brooke.” Richard Higgins disposed of most of his lands at Eastham early in the summer of 1669, and may have been at Barnstable, as witnessing of a deed there shows, July 4, 1669.
A number of men with their families removed from the Cape to New Jersey in 1669, headed by Edward Fitz Randolph, of Barnstable. Richard Higgins appears to have joined this company. He settled at New Piscataway, New Jersey, acquiring a home and proprietor’s rights, rights that totaled 254 acres of wild land for his widow and children. Richard Higgins lived about six years at New Piscataway, dying between November 20, 1674, and June 1, 1675–probably nearer the latter date. Deeds in 1672 by Richard Higgins in “New Jerse,” to Benjamin Higgins, of Eastham, and in 1672, November 24, the recorded consent of his wife Mary Higgins authorizing him to sell land in “New Plimouth in person or otherwise,” connect the two regions with Richard Higgins and his family.
While Richard Higgins took the oath of allegiance to the new Dutch government in 1672 or 1673, his approval for John Yates to sell land November 20, 1674, is his last act to be found. In 1673, Benjamin Higgins receipted to the widow Cooke for “nine shillings seven pence... upon the acompt of my father; as witness my hand. Benjamine higgens.”
Richard Higgins had been some time deceased on June 1, 1675, when Benjamin Higgins petitioned the Court at Plymouth for some share in the lands at Saconnet, which his father had not received and had been therein wronged, as the Court admitted. These lands at Saconnet (now Little Compton, Rhode Island) probably were the lands, “thirteen English miles from Rehoboth,” granted to Richard Higgins and others in October, 1657.
In the land records of 1677, Mary Higgins is called widow, and Richard Higgins is called “her deceased husband late of Piscataway.” While the will of Richard Higgins has not been found, it is probable that he left one. “June 5, 1677, Mary Higgins widow and Eliakim Higgins, son of Richard Higgins, late of Piscataway, executors of said Richard’s will, sold to Edward Slater lands purchased of John Smalley, Sr., and John Smalley, Jr.” [footnote continued]

^* History of Cape Cod, by Frederick Freeman, 1858, vol. I: 173, 359.

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“Nawsett,” June 1, 1647; Surveyor of Highways, June 6, 1649; of the “Grand Inquest” several times between 1654 and 1667.^†

In connection with exchanges of lands between Richard Higgins and John Doane, July 2, 1669, appears the following:
“Mary Higgins executrix to ye last will and testament of the above named Richard Higgins deceased do by this present assign and make over this above written deed and all ye said lands comprised to my daughter in law Desier Yates, the relict of my natural son John Yates deceased as a feofee in trust for my grandchild John Yates now surviving to him, to him and his heirs forever, it being land that was my former husband’s John Yates, given to him by ye Town of Eastham.... Dated this 26 of June in the year of our Lord god 1682.

“The mark of Mary Higgins [seal]

“Signed sealed and delivered before John Freeman Asist. Samuel Treat.”

This quitclaim is again recorded, and in the second, John Yates’s widow is called Deborah. John Freeman was of Eastham and Mrs. Mary Higgins was probably at Eastham when this quitclaim deed was signed.
About this time, Samuel Moore, Sr., of Woodbridge, New Jersey, obtained a license to marry the widow Mary Higgins, but the marriage never took place. Some time after 1684, she married, for her third husband, and as his second wife, Isaac Whitehead, son of John Whitehead, of New Haven, Connecticut, who had settled at Elizabethtown in 1666, having then a wife and six children. He died in or about February, 1691 leaving by will one third of all his movables to his wife Mary. Thomas Higgins son of Richard and Mary, in his will of December 2, 1702, says: “My will is that my honoured mother, Mary Whitehead, shall have and quietly possess the Parlor or Rooms where she now lives and also one-third part of the orchard during her natural life.” She was about seventy years old at this time. No further reference to her has been found.
Issue:
By first wife, Lydia Chandler:
I. Jonathan, b. July, 1637, at Plymouth; m. (I) Elizabeth Rogers; m. (2) Hannah Rogers.
II. Benjamin, b. June, 1640 (Colony Records, July); m. Lydia Bangs.
By second wife, Mary (___) Yates:
III. Mary, b. Sept. 27, 1652. (It was formerly supposed that she married Samuel Oliver, because Probate Records of Essex County, New Jersey, state that Thomas Higgins and Samuel Oliver, his uncles, were appointed guardians of Richard Higgins, the son of Zerah Higgins. Elizabeth Oliver, wife of Zerah Higgins, was a sister of Samuel Oliver. Therefore, Samuel Oliver was a maternal–not paternal–uncle of Richard Higgins. An inscription at Presbyterian churchyard, Eliza- [footnote continued]

^† Plymouth Colony Records, Court Orders, vol. 2: 115, 139.

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Not long after the latter date, John Smalley, with his wife and two sons, left Eastham; they are said to have tarried for a short time in Rhode Island, probably at the Saconnet settlement (now Little Compton, Rhode Island) with Richard Higgins and others; moving from there to Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, “where they were among the earliest pioneer freeholders of this New Jersey settlement.”
The history of the settlement at Piscataway is unique. New Netherland (now New York) and New Jersey were early settled by the Dutch, and were in their possession until October 1, 1664, when separation took place. Philip Carteret was then appointed Governor of New Jersey, February 10, 1664/65, by Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret, Lord Proprietors of New Jersey.^* It is recorded that Hugh Dunn, Hopewell and Benjamin Hull, John

bethtown; New Jersey, reads: “Mary wife of Samuel Oliver died Jan. 23, 1729, aged 6, years, 6 months.” This disproves the marriage of Samuel Oliver to Mary Higgins, for she was fourteen years older than the Mrs. Mary Oliver of the inscription. “Aug. 20, 1682, Mary Higgins, spinster, and Eliakim Higgins carpenter, both of the Towne of Piscataway,” signed a bond to Richard Smith, Constable, as sureties for the support of the wife of William Looker, late of Elizabethtown.)
IV. Eliakim, b. Oct. 20, 1654, at Eastham, m. Alice Newbold.
V. William, b. Dec. 15, 1654; an impossible date, but so recorded at Plymouth. Unmentioned in Eastham records. Savage says, “1655,” without support.
VI. Jediah (variations), b. March 5, 1656/57, at Eastham; m. Mary Newbold.
VII. Zerah, b. June, 1658, at Eastham; m. Elizabeth Oliver.
VIII. Thomas, b. Jan., 1661/62, at Eastham; m. Elizabeth Hull.
IX. Lydia, b. July, 1664, at Eastham; probably died young or unmarried; no further record.
X. Rebecca, b. about 1666, at Eastham, m. Thomas Martin.
XI. Ruth, b. about 1668, at Eastham, but possibly at Piscataway; m. (1) Isaac Fitz Randolph; m. (2) Stephen Tuttle.
XII. Sarah, b. about 1670, at Piscataway; m. Samuel Moore, 2d.
Plymouth Colony Records (printed); Plymouth Deeds, 3:147; 4:165; 5:139, 140; Eastham Land Grants, 98; Richard Higgins, by Mrs. Katherine Chapin Higgins; East New Jersey Patents, Book I.
^* New Jersey Historical Society Proceedings, Third Series, 1898-1900, vol. 3: 144.

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Martin (or Marten), Charles and John Gilman, Robert Dennis, and John Smith were granted, December 18, 1666, and May 30, 1668, the right, as Associates, of conferring upon the townships the name of the place whence they came–Piscataqua, on the southern coast of Maine, later incorporated as the town of Kittery. And as Piscataqua, the English settlement in New Jersey was known for a short time; later, the name drifted into Piscataway.
John and George Drake, said to be descendants of Sir Francis Drake (1546-96), of Devonshire, England, “who took part in the glorious defeat of the invincible Spanish Armada,” were among the first settlers at Piscataway. The early records of the town date back to June 25, 1675; but it is evident that John Smalley and his sons were there three or four years earlier.^* “The Smalley family of New Jersey belonged to old Devonshire stock, and came from the same neighborhood as the Drakes.”^†
Although Piscataway was largely an English settlement, many of the Dutch remained. “During the temporary occupation of East New Jersey by the Dutch, in 1673, each town was directed to nominate, by a plurality of votes, six persons for shepins (shepens) or magistrates, and also two deputies towards the constitution of a joint board for the purpose of nominating by a majority of votes three persons for schouts and for secretaries.” At a meeting of the Commanders and Honorable Council of War of New Netherland, holden in Fort William Hendrick the 24th of August, 1673, there were present Commander Cornelis Evertse, Junior, Commander Jacob Benkes, and Captain Anthony Colve. The Council, from the nominations thus made, would select three magistrates for each town, and a schout and a secretary for the six towns collectively.^‡

^* History of Union and Middlesex County, New Jersey, 586-89.
^† Genealogical and Memorial History of New Jersey, by Francis Bazley Lee, vol. 2: 793.
^‡ East New Jersey under the Proprietary Government, by William A. Whitehead, 1875: 75.

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From the nomination of the inhabitants of the Town of Piscataway are elected, August 26, 1673:
As Shepens [Magistrates]: John Smalley, Nicholas Bowman, and Daniel Denton, Sworn 6th Sept^r, 1673.^*

Whereas the Court of Plymouth in New England did formerly Graunt to the Servants and ancient freemen of Plymouth Collonie a Tract of land called by the Name of Saconett neck: if it should be procured of the Indians; and since the said Court of Plymouth in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand six hundred sixty and seven have further granted that the above said servants and ancient freeman shall have libertie incase they can not procure Saconett neck according to the said Grant To look out some other place; undisposed of, for theire accommodation and John Smalley being lately an Inhabitant of Eastham in the said Collonie of New England: and now an Inhabitant of New Jersey in New England, being one of the aforsaid Grantees viz: of the said servants or ancient freemen: To whom the said Court of Plymouth Graunted the said Saconett neck of land or land in some other place, incase as aforsaid: now know all men by these presents that I the said John Smalley, for a valuable consideration to mee in hand well and truly payed: by Joseph Chirch of hingham in New England Carpenter the Receipt wherof the said John Smalley doe heerby acknowlidge, and myself therwith fully satisfied contented and payed; and therof and of every prte and prsell therof doe exonerate acquitt and discharge the said Joseph Chirch hee his heires executors adminnestrators and assignes and every of them forever by these prsents have given Graunted bargained sold alliened enfeofed and confirmed: and by these prsents doe fully clearly and absolutely give graunt bargaine sell allien enfeoffe and Confirme unto the said Joseph Chirch his heires and assignes forever: all the Right, title Interest Claime and Demand whatsoever, which I the said John

^* Documents Relating to the Colonial History of New York: Holland Documents, 1657-1678, vol. 2: XV: 587; also New Jersey Archives, First Series,vol. I: 129.

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Smalley by virtue of the said Graunt of the said Plymouth Court, now have, may might should or off Right ought to have or claime off in or out of the said Saconett Neck of land, or of any other lands that shall heerafter be laid out to the said Grantees viz. The Servants and ancient freemen in leiu of the said Saconett Neck of land: if the said Neck of land cannot be procured of the Indians. etc.
Dated March 26, 1613

[Signed] John Smalley [seal]^*

Several years after obtaining his first grant of land in Piscataway, John Smalley had it surveyed. This was in 1677; in 1685, he took up another grant of land. On January 1, 1682, “Jodiah” (elsewhere written Jediah) Higgins, one of the younger sons of Richard Higgins, of Eastham, obtained a grant described as “y^e fild by y^e side of y^e slow (slough) or swamp nar (near) M^r Smalley’s house.”^†
John Smalley and Ann Walden were married November 29, 1638, at Plymouth, Massachusetts.^‡ Their children were Hannah, born at Plymouth, and John, born in Plymouth; also Isaac and Mary, born at Eastham, baptized February 27, 1647, at Barnstable, as “twin children of John Smalle of Nausett.”^§ John Smalley died, July 30, 1692, at Piscataway; his widow Ann, died January 29, 1693/94. The Deed of Gift which served as the will of “John Smalley,” of Piscataway, dated July 16, 1689, was proved June 23, 1697.^||

TO ALL PEOPLE to whome this present writeing shall come, I John Smalley of the Towne of Piscataway In the Countie of Middsx: & Province of East New Jersey send Greeting &c: Know yee that I the sayd John Smalley as well for & In consideration of the Naturall Affection & ffatherly consideration I have & beare

^* Old Colony Records, vol. 3, Part 2, page 313.
^† History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey, 586.
^‡ Plymouth Colony Records, Court Orders, vol. I: 103.
^§ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol.,: 280; vol. 9: 283.
^|| Recorded, Liber F, of Deeds, 395.

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unto my well beloved & dewtifull son Isaac Smallee of the same Towne & Countie And Also for diverse other good causes & considerations mee att this present moveing but more Especially haveing had large Experience of his filliall love & Endeavours towards his Aged Parents In makeing our lives Comfortable to us In this our Pilgremage hitherto, And being confidently Assure that hee will still continue his care & filliall Affection In provideing what is convenient for mee the sayd John Smallie & Ann Smalley my wife his Naturall & Aged Parents dureing the small Remainder of time that wee are to Remaine on this side the Grave, Have given Granted, And do by these presents give grant & confirme unto my sayd Sone Isaac Smalley all & singular my goodes Chattells, debts, household stuffe, brass pewter bedding & All other my substance whatsoever moveable & imoveable quick & dead of what kinde name qualitie or condition soeever the same are or bee, Excepting my Armes (viz) my sword & Gun & my wearing Apparell, which I have given to my sone John Smalley after my decease to my dawghter Hanah Banges one shilling, to my dawgher Mary Snow one shilling, to my sone John Smallies two sones John & Jonathan one yearelen Heiffer betweene them And to my dawghter Mary Snowes three Eldest dawghters five shillings a peece, All to bee payd after my decease, And that my Loveing wife Ann Smallie shall have one Cow to dispose of According to her will & pleasure, To Have & to Hold All & singular the Abovesaid goodes & chattells with All other the Aforesayd premises (Excepting what is before Excepted) unto the sayd Isaac Smally his Executors Administrators & Assignes forever to his & theire owne proper uses & behoofes forever, freely & quietly without any matter of challenge claime or Demand of mee the sayd John Smally or of any other persone or persones whatsoever for mee In my Name, by my cause meanes or procurement And without any other thing therefore to bee yeelded payd or done unto mee the sayd John Smally my Executors Administrators or Assignes but to provide convenient for mee the sayd John & Ann Smally my wife dureing these our Naturall lives & the longer liver of us both, And After our deaths decently to burie us In such place as hee the sayd Isaac shall thinke convenient, Alwayes provided And bee It further Excepted, that If the sayd Isaac Smally showld die before his sayd

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ffather & mother John & Ann Smally or the longer liver of them both, then it shall or may bee Lawfull, And the sayd John & Ann Smally or Either of them hath full power & Authoritie to reenter, And to take Into theire possession & custody & dispose of any of the goodes & Chattells above mentioned as they shall have neede & occasion for dureing this theire Naturall lives for theire Comfortable maintainance & being, but for no other Ends uses or meanes whatsoever any thing In the above mentioned Deede of Gift to the contrary notwithstanding
IN WITNESS hereof I the sayd John Smally have sett my hand & seale this sixteenth day of July 1689

John Smally [mark for a seal]

Signed Sealed & delivered In the presence of Edward Slater, Samuell Blackfoord parsonally came before mee Edward Slater And upon his Corporall oath did declare that hee saw John Smally deceased signe seale & deliver to his sone Isaac above named, the Above deede of Gift, June: 23^d: 1697
Samuell Dennes Justice/

Issue of John¹ and Ann (Walden) Smalley:
I. Hannah², b. June I4, 1641, at Plymouth; m. Jan. 23, 1660/61, John² Bangs, son to Edward¹ and Lydia (Hicks) Bangs, of Eastham. They evidently had no children, since his will, dated Jan. 27, 1702/03, at Eastham, left his entire estate to his wife, Hannah, who was to be “sole Executrix.” The will was proved May 17, 1708; witnesses, Joseph Doane, George Shaw, Beriah Smith, all of Eastham.^*
II. John², b. Sept. 8, 1644, in Plymouth. He followed the fortunes of his parents, and, in 1675, had a farm at Piscataway surveyed for him. In 1683, he came into possession of a hundred acres of land at Ambrose Brook; in 1685, he took up another hundred acres.
On October 18, 1676, John Smalley, Jr., married Lydia Marten, daughter to John and Esther (Roberts) Marten, of Piscataway.^† The will of “John Smalley, of Piscataway,

^* New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 9:314. Also Bangs Genealogy, by Dean Dudley, 1896:8.
^† Genealogical and Memorial History of New Jersey, by Francis Bazley Lee, 1910, vol. 2: 794

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Middlesex Co., New Jersey, yeoman,” dated Sept. 13, 1731, was proved May 25, 1733. It mentions “wife Liddea,” sons Jonathan, Elisha, and Benjamin, daughters and daughters-in-law; also lands bought of Hezekiah Bonham (?), Joseph Gilman, and Benjamin Cull (Hull?).^*
Issue (all born in Piscataway):^†
1. Lydia³, b. March 3I, 1679; d. Oct. 7, 1682.
2. John³, b. March 3, 1680/81; d. Oct. 3, 1682.
3. Jonathan³, b. April 10, 1683; m. Sarah Bird. It has frequently been asserted that Jonathan³ Smalley, born April 10, 1683, married Sarah Fitz Randolph. No record of such a marriage has been found, while it is definitely recorded in the Coriel-Smalley Bible that Jonathan Smalley married Sarah Bird, as stated above. The margin of the Bible page is torn or worn, so that, possibly, the name may have had another syllable: The name of Birdsall is common in the region, while that of Bird is rare.
4. John³, b. June 15, 1685; d. July 30, 1692.
5. Lydia³, b. Sept. 9, 1687; d. Feb. 6, 1699/1700.
6. Martha³, b. Jan. 20, 1692/93.
7. Phebe³, b. June 20, 1695; m. Jan. 26, 1715/16, Ephraim Dunham.
8. “Marten”³, b. Sept. 1, 1697.
9. Elisha³, b. Feb. 4, 1699/1700; m. June 12, 1721, Mary Dunham.
10. Benjamin³, b. Nov. 20, 1702; m. June 7, 1725, at Westchester (New York?), Mercy or Mary Gardener. On July 25, 1737, Mercy Smalley, the widow, was appointed administratrix of the estate of Benjamin Smalley, of Piscataway, Middlesex County, yeoman, who died intestate.^‡
Issue:
I. Martha⁴, b. July 3, 1726, in Piscataway.

^* New Jersey Archives, Abstracts of Wills, First Series, vol. 30: 437.
^† Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Third Series, vol. 3: 14.
^‡ New Jersey Archives, Abstracts of Wills, First Series, vol. 30:437.

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II. Mary⁴, b. Dec. 22, 1727, in Piscataway.
III. Experience⁴, b. Jan. 6, 1734/35, in Piscataway.
IV. John⁴, b. April 8, 1737, in Piscataway.^*

III. Isaac², b. Dec. 11, 1647, at Eastham, was baptized with his twin sister Mary, Feb. 27, 1647/48, at Barnstable.^† He, also, removed with his parents to Piscataway, where he married, first, Feb. 20, 1683/84, Esther Wood. She died April 29, 1701. He married, second, March 18, 1702/03, Mary White, who survived him.
He took up land in 1683, subsequently becoming a large landowner. He was Town Clerk, 1686, 1688-1705, 1709; Assessor, 1688-89, 1693, 1711-12; and, as “Isaac Smalley, Esq.,” Justice of the Peace, 1703, 1711.^‡ The will of “Isaac Smalley of Piscataway Town, yeoman,” dated 1 Dec. 4, 1724, was proved Feb. 11, 1724/25. He mentions wife Mary, “children, Joseph, Joshua, Isaac (under age), Mary Broderick, Ester Langstaff, Margaret, Martha, Hannah, Lidda, and Elizabeth,” also, “cousin Jonathan Smalley.” His home farm of twenty-eight acres, in Piscataway, lots of upland and meadow are described, as well as personal estate; wife Mary, “sole executrix”; witnesses: “Sam’1 Walker, Benjamin Hull, Marttin Stein.”^§
Issue, by first wife (born in Piscataway):^||
1. Isaac³, b. March 19, 1685; d. Dec. 3, 1702.
2. Mary³, b. Oct. 13, 1686; m. Thomas Broderick.
3. John³, b. July 5, 1689; d. June 1, 1701.
4. “Ester”³, b. Sept. 7, 1691; m. ___ Langstaff.
5. Joseph³, b. May 1, 1693; m. Ann ___. The will of “Joseph Smalley, of Piscataway, Middlesex Co., yeoman,” dated. Feb. 2, 1736/37, proved March 3, 1736/37, mentions wife Ann, brother Joshua Smalley, and children “Isaac, Ester,

^* New Jersey printed records show, also, a son Benjamin “of Benjamin and Mercy Smalley,” born Oct, 26, 1741, in Piscataway. If correct, there must have been two Benjamins, each having wife, Mercy.
^† New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 7: 280; vol. 9: 283.
^‡ History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey, 587, 589, 592-94.
^§ New Jersey Archives, Abstracts of Wills, First Series, vol. 23: 423.
^|| Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, vol. 3: 14.

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Lucy, Susannah, Lideah, Joseph, Benjamin, Joshua, and John, all under age.”^*
6. Benjamin³, b. Nov. 26, 1694; d. Dec. 16, 1701.
7. Joshua³, b. March 12, 1698/99; married.
8. Margaret³, b. Oct. 10, 1700; d. Oct. 14, 1701.
Issue by second wife, born in Piscataway.^†
9. Margaret³, b. Jan. 11, 1703/04.
10. Martha³, b. June 7, 1706.
11. Hannah³, b. March 1, 1707/08.
12. Lydia³, b. March 12, 1709/10.
13. Isaac³, b. April 17, 1714.
14. Elizabeth³, mentioned in her father’s will.

IV. Mary², b. Dec. 11, 1647, at Eastham; baptized Feb. 27, 1647/48, at Barnstable, with her twin brother Isaac.^† “John Snow and Mary Smale were maried: the 19th of September: 1667,” in Eastham; and their nine children were recorded there. ^§
John² Snow, born about 1638, at Plymouth, was one of the younger sons to Nicholas¹ and Constance² (Hopkins) Snow. Constance was daughter to Stephen¹ Hopkins, a passenger in the Mayflower,^|| 1620, by his wife, Constance.
By the will of Nicholas Snow of Eastham, dated Nov. 14, 1676, proved March 5, 1676/77, his son John was given all his lands at “Paomett” (later Truro), with “all my Right and title or privilige there.”^¶;
Except for a short period at Piscataway, he lived at Eastham until his death about 1692.
The inventory of the “Estate of John Snow, of Eastham, Late deceased taken this 4th of April: 1692,” by John Freeman and William Walker, mentions “to housing and his whole Right in purches [purchasers] Lands at Pammet,” � 50. “Mary Snow Relict of sd deceased” made oath to the inventory April 20, 1692, and it was so recorded April 22,

^* New Jersey Archives, Abstracts of Wills, First Series, vol. 30:437.
^† Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Third Series, vol. 3:14.
^‡ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 7: 280; vol. 9: 283.
^§ The Mayflower Descendant, vol. 7: 17.
^|| The Mayflower Descendant, vol 1: 127, 157, 230.
^¶; The Mayflower Descendant, vol. 3: 167-74.

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1692. “The Settlement of The Estate of John Snow Late of Eastham, deceased,” gave to his wife Mary one third part of his real estate during her natural life, and one third part of his personal estate forever, the rest of the personal estate “for bringing up y^e children of sd deceased Saving her paying to each of the Daughters four pounds a peece as they com to be of age or married: and the Sons... to have the Lands and housing According to Law.”^*
Not long after, widow Mary Snow became the wife of Ephraim² Doane, of Eastham. He was born probably at Plymouth, son to John¹ Doane. On February 5, 1667, Ephraim Doane married, first, Mercy Knowles;^† married, second, after 1692, Mary (Smalley) Snow.
The will of Ephraim Doane, of Eastham, dated Dec. 7, 1699, proved April 19, 1700, gave to his “well beloved wife Mary Doane, all my serviceable estate (after my debts are paid),” and the “use of half of my now dwelling house,” with all the land adjoining. And after his decease, “that y^e same shall be Divided among y^e children (that is to say) y^e children which I had by my former wife and y^e children which my now beloved wife had by her former husband John Snow Deceased. I say to be divided among y^e children by equal proportion.^‡
Mary Doane did not long survive. A lengthy inventory of her estate was taken Nov. 22, 1703, by Josiah Cook, Sr., and Joseph Young, Sr., to which was added:
“Memorandum on the 8th day of December 1703, John

^* The Mayflower Descendant, vol. 12: 190.
^† Issue of Ephraim² and Mercy (Knowles) Doane:
I. Patience³, b. Jan. 28, 1668; d; 1675, in Eastham.
II. Apphiah³, b. July 18, 1670, in Eastham.
III. “Ezekiah”³ (Hezekiah), b. “last weke in august: 1672,” in Eastham; m. Hannah³ Snow (?).
IV. Thomas³, b. Sept. 4, 1674, in Eastham.
V. Ebenezer³, b. April, 1676, in Eastham.
VI. Nehemiah³, b. Aug., 1670 (?), d. Feb., 1674 (?).
VII. Patience³, b. “last week in aprill: 1682.”
VIII. Ruhama³, b. “last day of aprill, 1685.”

(The Mayflower Descendant, vol. 6: 13.)

^‡ Probate Records, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, vol. 2: 37.

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Snow of Parmett in the County of Barnstable... did personally appear and made oath that this above written.. . was a true Inventory of the estate of his late mother Mary Doane, late of Eastham deceased.”^*
Issue (born in Eastham):
I. Hannah³, Snow, b. Aug. 26, 1670; probably married, about 1691, in Eastham, Hezekiah³ Doane, born the last week in August, 1672, at Eastham, son to Ephraim² Doane by his first wife, Mercy Knowles.
There has been considerable discussion about this first wife of Hezekiah Doane, but circumstantial evidence indicates that she was Hannah Snow. He married, second, about 1717, Mary (Smith) Freeman, widow of Thomas Freeman, of Harwich. She died, in 1742, and he married, third, in 1744, Mrs. Sarah Knowles, of Eastham.^† He early resided in Provincetown, where he was engaged in the whale fishery; on May 15, 1705, he was admitted an inhabitant of Truro.^‡ He was appointed Justice of the Peace in 1710, and other years. His name appears in 1736, as Justice. He was, at that time, a resident of Provincetown.
On November 1, 1711, “M^r John Snow and M^r Hezekiah Doane” were made Deacons of the newly formed church at Truro.^§
Hezekiah Doane died, about 1752, in that part of Eastham, now Wellfleet.
Issue, by first wife:
I. Nehemiah⁴ Doane, b. Aug. 20, 1692, in Eastham.
II. Mary⁴ Doane, b. Aug. 31, 1694, in Eastham.
III. Ephraim⁴ Doane, b. April 1, 1696, in Provincetown.
IV. Elisha⁴ Doane, b. 1699; m. Feb. 26, 1718/19, Hannah Cole, of Eastham.
V. Rachel⁴ Doane, b. ____; m. March 27, 1716, to Joseph Strout.

^* Probate Records, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, vol. 2: 144, 145.
^† The Doane Family, by Alfred A. Doane, 1902: 57.
^‡ History of Cape Cod, by Frederick Freeman; vol. 2: 545.
^§ The Mayflower Descendant, vol. 9: 54.

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VI. Apphia⁴ Doane, b. ____; m. June 11, 1717, William Collins.
VII. Hannah⁴ Doane, b. ____; m. November 15, 1719, Colonel Ezekiel Cushing, of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, where he died, June 7, 1742.
VIII. Hezekiah Doane, baptized March 30, 1712, in Truro. He was living, in 1762, at Wellfleet. Dec. 19, 1774, he was mentioned as “Major Hezekiah Doane”; Aug. 20, 1778, Major Doane was on the Committee of Safety, at Wellfleet.^*
Issue, by second wife:
IX. Joseph⁴ Doane, baptized Aug. 2, 1719, in Truro; d. young.
X. Joseph⁴ Doane, baptized Aug. 13, 1721, in Truro; m. Mary Mayo.

2. Mary³ Snow, b. March 10, 1671/72.
3. Abigail³ Snow, b. Oct. I4, 1673.
4. Rebecca³ Snow, grand-daughter to John¹ Smalley, of Eastham, b. July 23, 1676; m. (1) about 1694, in Eastham, Benjamin³ “Smalley” (Francis², Edward¹ Small), of Eastham. He died, 1721, at Lebanon, Connecticut; she married (2) Dec. 26, 1728, John Porter, of Hebron, Connecticut, and died Aug. 31, 1753, at Salisbury, Connecticut.
5. John³ Snow, b. May 3, 1678; m. Feb. 25, 1700/01, in Eastham, Elizabeth Ridley, born about 1679, daughter to Mark Ridley.
While his father (John² Snow) appears to have made no attempt to settle upon the land that his father (Nicholas¹ Snow) had given him by his will at Pamet, now Truro, John³ Snow, as the eldest son, took possession at the first settlement. The rights and privileges mentioned in the will of Nicholas¹ Snow were further grants of land to be established on a pro rata basis. Pamet was not set off as the town of Truro until July 16, 1709. At the first town meeting, held

^* History of Cape Cod, by Frederick Freeman, vol. 2: 659, 664, 672.

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Aug. 1, 1709, the Selectmen chosen were: Thomas Mulford, Jedidiah Lumbert, Jr., and John Snow; the latter also being chosen Town Clerk. “Deacon John Snow was moderator at the town meeting of July 17, 1723; he was chosen town clerk March 25, 1724.” March 5, 1725, “John snow, francis Smalley, and Jonathan vickery” were chosen Selectmen; Deacon John Snow to be Town Clerk.^*
When his brother-in-law, Deacon Benjamin “Smalley,” of Truro, removed with his wife and several small children to Lebanon, Connecticut, John Snow appears to have accompanied them, but probably without his own family. On March 23, 1710/11, “John Snow of Truro in y^e County of Barnstable, yeoman,” bought of William Holton and his wife Sarah, for � 360, “all that my farm or tract of Land situate & being in y^e Town of Lebanon afforesd... Containing one hundred & six acres... withall y^e buildings & frute trees there unto belonging... with y^e house & barn shops & orchard & all other y^e rights,” etc. This deed, witnessed by Mehuman Stebins and William Clarke, was recorded March 27, 1711.^†
In the same month, March 26, 1711, John Sprague, of Lebanon, sold to “Benjamin Smalle of y^e Town of Truro, in y^e County of Barnstable,” 375 acres of “Land Lying on y^e northeasterly side of y^e Town,” in two lots. Witnesses: John Snow and William Clarke; recorded March 28, 1711. One half of this land, “Benjamin Smalle” sold in 1712, to his “brother Daniell Smalle of Truro”; and in 1718, a half part of what remained to “Jedidiah Lumbard,” of Truro.^†
A deed of even date (March 23, 1710/11), from John Snow, mortgaged the premises bought of William Holton back to him, agreeing to pay � 360, of current money, as follows: “� 150, to be paid at or before November 1, next ensuing y^e date hereof"; and “� 103, at or before y^e first of April in y^e year 1712”; the remaining “� 105 to be paid at or before y^e first of November in y^e year 1712.” Whether John Snow could not meet these payments, or changed his

^* Town Proceedings of Truro, Massachusetts, vol. I: 2, 41, 43.
^† Lebanon Second Book of Records, 264.
^‡ Lebanon Second Book of Records, 265, 316, Book 3: 124.

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mind about going to Lebanon to remain, is not apparent, but he conveyed back, December 2, 1712, to William Holton, the farm and buildings, at Lebanon, “the money therein set forth not being payd.” The deed was signed by John Snow; witnessed by “Sam^ll Young and francis Smalley,” and Recorded October 24, 1713.^*
On November 1, 1711, when the First Church was formed at Truro, “M^r John Snow, M^r Mezekiah Doane, and M^r Benjamin Smaly” were among the seven male members who united in founding the church, of which Rev. John Avery was at that time ordained as pastor; and these three men were at the same time chosen Deacons. “Mr John Snow” also served as Deacon from January, 1717/18 to January 11, 1726/27, when he was chosen one of the “Presbiterean Ruling Elders,” an office he never filled. Elizabeth, wife of John Snow, was admitted to the church, August 10, 1713; and all their children born in Truro were baptized there.^†
Issue (of John³ and Elizabeth (Ridley) Snow):
I. Joshua⁴, b. Sept. 22, 1701, in Eastham.
II. Anne⁴, b. July 17, 1703, in Eastham.
III. Elizabeth⁴, b. March 17 (or 27), 1705, in Eastham.
IV. John⁴, b. Dec. 27, 1706.
V. Phineas⁴, b. Dec. 27, 1706; died Jan. 16, 1707.
VI. Anthony⁴, b. July 28, 1709, in Truro.
VII. Elisha⁴, b. Oct. 20, baptized Nov. 18, 1711, in Truro.
VIII. Isaac⁴, b. Feb. 11, baptized March 21, 1713/ 14, in Truro.
IX. Mary⁴, b. Aug. 16, baptized Sept. 9, 1716, Truro.
X. Ambrose⁴, b. Jan. 6, baptized March 1, 1718/ 19, Truro.
XI. Amasa⁴, b. Jan. 9, baptized July 22, 1720/21, in Truro.

^* Lebanon Second Book of Records, 409, 404.
^† The Mayflower Descendant, vol. 9: 8, 54, 175 ,55-57, 75-76.

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XII. David⁴, b. March 15, baptized April 14, 1723, in Truro.

6. Isaac³ Snow, son to John² and Mary (Smalley) Snow, b. Aug. 10, 1683; m. Alice. He moved to Duck Creek (now Smyrna), Delaware.
7. Lydia³ Snow, b. Sept. 29, 1685; m. Samuel Hopkins (?).
8. Elisha³ Snow, b. Jan. 10, 1686/87; m. Elizabeth ___. They settled at Duck Creek, Delaware.
9. Phebe³ Snow, b. June 27, 1689.

Descendants of Edward Small of New England and the Allied Families with Tracings of English Ancestry

by Lora Altine Woodbury Underhill

Descendants of Edward Small of New England
and the Allied Families with Tracings of English Ancestry