Gideon WARREN

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Gideon WARREN was born , Berwick, York Co. ME (son of Gilbert WARREN and Abigail).

    Gideon married Hannah Morrell 12 Jan 1747/48. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. Phineas WARREN was born 23 Feb 1749/50, York Co. ME; died Bef 22 Apr 1763, York Co. ME.
    2. Adriel WARREN was born 24 Feb 1751/52, York Co. ME.
    3. Keziah WARREN was born 31 Mar 1755, York Co. ME.
    4. Dr. Peletiah WARREN was born 01 Jun 1756, York Co. ME.
    5. Peace WARREN was born 27 Jan 1758, York Co. ME.
    6. Ruth WARREN was born 06 Jun 1760, York Co. ME.
    7. Phineas WARREN was born 22 Apr 1763, York Co. ME.
    8. Asa WARREN was born 07 Mar 1766, York Co. ME.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Gilbert WARREN was born 30 Apr 1703, Kittery, York Co. ME (son of James WARREN, Jr. and Mary FROST); died 1755, Berwick, York Co. ME.

    Gilbert married Abigail. [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  Abigail
    Children:
    1. Lucy WARREN was born , Berwick, York Co. ME.
    2. 1. Gideon WARREN was born , Berwick, York Co. ME.
    3. Alden WARREN was born , Berwick, York Co. ME.
    4. Rachel WARREN was born , York Co. ME.
    5. Gilbert WARREN was born , York Co. ME.
    6. Gilbert WARREN was born Bef 06 Sep 1739, Berwick, York Co. ME.
    7. Abigail WARREN was born Bef 03 Aug 1740, Berwick, York Co. ME.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  James WARREN, Jr. was born 1658, Berwick, York Co. ME (son of James WARREN and Margaret); died Abt 1725, York Co. ME.

    Other Events:

    • Reference Number: 4567
    • _UID: D32DFE1BCE5A4DA596BB106B60EF5467090B

    Notes:

    James was a surveyor and laid out the original lots of the Massabesic Plantation.

    He was a surveyor of highways and fences in 1692-3, and in 1698-9; constable in 1693-4; grandjuryman in 1695 and 1702; selectman from 1696 to 1698; auditing committee from 1696 to 1699; and on the committee to divide Kittery from Berwick in Feb. 1713/4.

    James Warren of Berwick, cordwainer, sold for £15 to Benjamin Weymouth and Thomas Hobbs of Sommersworth, laborers, six acres "which Tract or Parcel of Land was Granted to my Father James Warren of Barwick late Decd in the Year 1673 by the Town of Kittery... Part of an additional Grant to my Fathers Homestedd place..."(1) The deed was witnessed by "Gilbard Warren" and Nathaniel Perkins.

    James married Mary FROST 1691, Dover, Strafford Co. NH. Mary (daughter of John FROST and Mary Chadbourne) was born 1667, Dover, Strafford Co. NH. [Group Sheet]


  2. 5.  Mary FROST was born 1667, Dover, Strafford Co. NH (daughter of John FROST and Mary Chadbourne).

    Other Events:

    • Reference Number: 4568
    • _UID: B9E66782500449FEA4B9628FB95C4698645C

    Children:
    1. Mary WARREN was born 23 Feb 1691/92, Kittery, York Co. ME.
    2. James WARREN, III was born 8 Jun 1698, Berwick, York Co. ME.
    3. Rachel WARREN was born 26 Aug 1700, Kittery, York Co. ME.
    4. 2. Gilbert WARREN was born 30 Apr 1703, Kittery, York Co. ME; died 1755, Berwick, York Co. ME.
    5. John WARREN was born 16 Dec 1705, Kittery, York Co. ME; died ca 1768, York Co. ME.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  James WARREN was born ca 1621, Berwick, Scotland; died Dec 1702, Kittery, York Co. ME.

    Other Events:

    • Reference Number: 4571
    • _UID: 981B5A04517B43A7A5447CC6D8B596D8ED14

    Notes:

    HIS BACKGROUND IN SCOTLAND

    James was one of the (Scots) Royalist soldiers who was captured at the Battle of Dunbar, (near Berwick, Scotland) March 9 1650 during the English Civil War.

    Having defeated the Royalists in England and beheaded the king in 1649, Oliver Cromwell proceeded to invade Scotland, the last kingdom remaining loyal to the Crown and, reaching Edinburgh after some skirmishes he marched his army to Dunbar, a town on the east coast of Scotland. General David Leslie in command of the Scottish troops had more troops than Cromwell, but his army was no longer formed of the battle-hardened veterans of the Thirty Years' War as many of them had perished during the Civil War and the 1648 invasion of England. Some had left active service or returned to Swedish or French service again.

    James was part of this new army that had to be raised and trained by the remaining veterans. They were raw recruits unused to war in its technical aspects, and the Scottish general Leslie was reluctant to give open battle hoping to starve out Cromwell then hemmed in on the narrow peninsula of Dunbar. The Scots were well armed, but they were poorly trained compared with their English counterparts, all of whom had served with Oliver Cromwell for years.

    Meanwhile the young King Charles II had arrived from Holland and joined this motley military organization to the great joy of the clansmen and made himself popular by sharing their rough camp life.

    Leslie's army was routed and Cromwell's cavalry pursued the disorganized Covenanters with great slaughter. The only resistance to this onslaught was made by a regiment of Highlanders who fought with great desperation as they had learned from his conquest of Ireland the tales that Cromwell would put all men to the sword and thrust hot irons through women's breasts. Cromwell claimed that 3,000 Scots were killed and 10,000 were taken prisoner. On the other hand, Sir James Balfour, a senior officer with the Scottish army, noted in his journal that there were "8 or 900 killed," and the English Royalist leader, Sir Edward Walker put the number at 6,000 captured, of which 1,000 sick and wounded men were quickly released.

    James was one of the the 5,000 able-bodied prisoners that marched down to Durham cathedral in order to prevent any attempt to rescue them. The conditions on the march were so appalling that as many as 2,000 died of starvation, illness or exhaustion during this eight-day, 118 mile forced march.

    Many had not eaten for four days prior to the Battle of Dunbar and in Cromwell's letter of the 4th September, he wrote he had to dismiss prisoners because they were sick, injured or starving.

    The remaining 3,000 survived the march and a diet of raw cabbage which killed with the "flux". The cathedral had been converted into a prison where these unfortunate Highlanders were destined to spend an indefinite period as captives of war.

    Although the Cathedral offered a degree of shelter, the English failed to provide their prisoners with adequate food or fuel for heating. Records indicate that the Scots died at an average of 30 a day between 11th September and 31st October and it seems this reached over 100 a day with virtually no food, clean water or heat and the linked spread of disease and infection.

    For a time, the prisoners kept warm by burning all of the woodwork in the Cathedral with the notable exception of Prior Castell's Clock in the South Transept. It is thought that they left the clock alone because it carries a thistle, the emblem of Scotland, on it.

    Sir Arthur Haselrigge, Member of the English Parliament for Leicester, The military leader appointed by Cromwell to take charge of the prisoners, later claimed in a letter to the Parliament that adequate food, water, bedding and fuel for heating had been provided.

    There is a possibility that the prisoners were experiencing what we now call "refeeding syndrome." This is a metabolic disturbances that occur as a result of reinstitution of food to patients who are starved or severely malnourished. Blood sugar and electrolytes are out of balance leading to heart rhythm irregularties, coma and convulsions and cardiac failure. This can happen to people who are anorexic and then begin eating.

    If a person has not eaten for five days in these modern times, they are in danger from refeeding syndrome. If they haven't eaten for ten days, then they are in critical danger. That is with modern hospital care. This syndrome was documented on the Allied Prisoners of the Japanese. The Japanese managed to kill 40 percent of their prisoners over the course of three years.

    Attempts were made to feed the prisoners, all of which were detrimental. Bread, Broth, meat were fed to people whose systems had shut down. It was only when they tried boiled milk with water, followed by the same with added beanflour that they began to save people. Even then, Heslerig reported that men who were seeming well were falling down dead. His letters make more sense if you add refeeding syndrome to it and if you look at what happened to the Japanese POW's and the concentration camp survivors.

    There was an order in Cromwell's council passed to deliver 900 prisoners for transportation to Virginia and 150 for New England. Another 500 were forced the following spring to serve in the French army, and were still fighting seven years later against the Spanish, side by side with a contingent of English soldiers sent over by Cromwell.

    By the end of October, the cold, malnutrition and disease had resulted in the deaths of another 1,600 of the Scottish soldiers, the Dunbar Martyrs. The bodies of many of those who had died were simply thrown into a mass grave in the form of a trench running northwards from the Cathedral. The location of their remains was then forgotten for almost three centuries until rediscovered by workmen in 1946.

    TRANSPORTED TO NEW ENGLAND

    Selected as "well and sound and free of wound," James Warren was one of the 150 men who were transported from London to Boston, on the Unity, in November, 1650. James was initially sold (going price was 15 -30 pounds per man) into a number of years of indentured servitude, possibly spending some time at Hammersmith working at the Lynn/Saugus Ironworks near Boston or more likely was sold and taken to Kittery, ME where men were needed for the Great Works sawmill.

    The prisoners were distributed throughout numerous towns in Massachusetts and New Hampshire in a kind of modified slavery or compulsory service which was to terminate in seven years. John Cotton had his qualms about this camouflaged slavery. In a letter to Cromwell dated Boston 28 July 1651 he said: "The Scots whom God delivered into your hands at Dunbarre and whereof sundry were sent hither, we have been desirous (as we could) to make their yoke easy. Such as were sick of the scurvey or other diseases have not wanted Physick and chyrugery. They have not been sold for slaves to perpetual servitude. But for 6 or 7 or 8 yeares as we do our own."

    LIFE AFTER SERVITUDE

    In Newichawannock between Thompson's Brook (Shorey's) and the Great Works River James was granted land 15 Aug. 1656. He received 50 acres with 48 poles (660') fronting Cow Cove where the "Pied Cow" dropped anchor in 1634, now part of the South Berwick Vaughn Woods Memorial.

    James was the Commissioner for Kittery 5 July 1664. He was on the grand jury 28 Dec. 1665 and also 12 June 1666. He was again on jury duty 19 Aug. 1668. In 1670 Margaret and other Scots were admonished for using profane language and in 1674 James was bound to good behavior and was disciplined for abetting Richard Gibson.

    On 6 Oct. 1662 James bought of John Davis a parcel of land "near the bridge" granted by the town of York in 1652 containing about 40 acres, but it is doubtful that he occupied this purchase. He may have cultivated it and harvested whatever crops he planted. James retained this property for 40 years until it was bequeathed to his eldest son Gilbert.

    He signed a Kittery petition as a selectman 13 Apr. 1697. He signed a Berwick petition again as a selectman 4 Sept. 1697 and another 20 May 1698 requesting £20 for the maintenance of the ministry: "whereas the circumstance of the parish of Barwick continues as bad as, or rather more grievous than hitherto by reason of the not ceasing of the wars & the extreme deadness in trading." They were granted £15 for the maintenance of the ministry for the year beginning Sept. 1698 on 2 Dec. 1698. James then signed a Berwick petition for a township as a Berwick selectman 26 July 1700.

    From The Highlander Magazine, Nov/Dec 2004. "Scottish Slaves in Colonial America" Part II by Diane Rapaport, p. 17.

    "After his servitude ended, James Warren married an Irish woman and settled near the Great Works sawmill in Kittery, Maine. His friends Daniel Ferguson, John Taylor, Peter Grant and other former war prisoners from the ship Unity acquired farms nearby. Not surprisingly this area became known as 'the Parrish of Unity' and later Berwick, reputedly in honor of Warren's Scottish birthplace.

    Warren seems to have been a natural leader in the Scottish community serving as a constable and selectman, but his outspoken ways sometimes offended Puritan sensibilities. In 1669 the Court admonished Warren, his wife and other Scotsmen "for using profane speeches in their common talk." He was punished in 1674 for "abetting a friend who made insolent remarks to the local militia commander" and in 1685 for "Contempt of Authority and abuse of the Constable" when Warren resisted seizure of "a small beast" for delinquent taxes.

    Near the end of Warren's life the Indian wars had reduced Berwick to a state of poverty. Attacks destroyed homes, barns and mills; corn crops failed; families crowded into garrisons and survived only by charity and determination. Still, Warren owned land and he dreamed of a better life for his children when he signed his will with a shaky mark, leaving "all my lands to my sons and their Heirs forever."

    Kittery which was in southern York Co. of Massachusetts Province, now Maine, an area which quickly became known as "Little Scotland". Berwick Parish was named after the old country town of Berwick, reputedly in honor of the birthplace of James warren, and probably of some of his neighbors. Berwick, Scotland is not far from the site of the Battle of Dunbar.

    In Kittery, ME there was a Unity Parish, named for or by the prisoners, who were sent there to work in the sawmills. About fifteen Scotchmen worked there and many were friends and neighbors; their children intermarrying. They are:

    Niven Agnew; James Barry; Alexander Cooper; William Furbush; Daniel Ferguson; Peter Grant; George Gray; William Gowen; David Hamilton; Thomas Holme; John Key; Alexander Maxwell; John Neal; John Ross; John Taylor;
    William Thomson; and JAMES WARREN


    JAMES WARREN'S WILL

    James' will is recorded in Berwick, Massachusetts Province, (now Berwick, York Co. Maine), proved December 24, 1702. In it he names heirs, sons Gilbert, and James and daughters, Margaret, GRIZEL, and granddaughter, Jane Grant and grandson James Stagpole, wife Margaret and son James, Jr., executors.

    "In the name of god Amen: James Warren Snr of the parish of Barwick in the town of Kittrey... Do make & ordain this my last will & testement as foloweth being sick & week of bodey but in good & perfect memory Viz...

    1- I do give unto my son Gilbert Warren all yt tract of land which I bought of John Davis living in ye town ship of York to him & to his haires forever

    2- I do give unto my son James warren all my other Lands marshes medoes buldings of all sorts Liing in ye town shep of Kettrey or elce whare to him & his haires for ever

    3- I do Give to my Daughter Margrat Stagpole five Shiling

    4- I do Give to by Daughter Grizel five Shilings-

    5- I do Give to my Granddaughter Jane Grant five Shilings

    6- I do Give to my Grandson James Stacpole- one hefer & one Ewe & a young fold-

    7- I do Give unto Margrat waren my loveing wife all ye rest of my of my Estate it being moveabels for her Comfertabel mantainance and no legusi before mentioned to be demanded til her decse

    8- I do Constitute & Appoint My liveing wife Margrat & my son James Waren to bee Executrix and Executor to this my will & testement made this ninth day of December one thousand seven hundred as wittness my hand-

    James X Waren

    his mark-

    witnesses
    Robert: X : Gray
    his mark
    James: A : Stacpole
    his mark
    Nicolas Gowen
    An Invatary of the Estate of James Warren Late of Kittrey


    deceased

    Imp: to his waring Cloathes...... 03-00-00
    to two Cows & two Hiffers of three years......12-00-00
    to fourteen Sheep........... 04-04-00
    to Six Swine and Six piggs......05-08-00
    to the Dwelling house and the barn: and ye home Lot of Land...........80-00-00
    to hundred Acres of Land and ten Acres of Marsh Lying
    at whits Marsh.... 40-00-00
    to two barrels & one hogshead.......
    to one half bushel.....00-01-00
    to two Brast Chaines and Apees and one Cleaver.. 00-16-00
    to tooles and old Iron......... 01-07-00
    to Brass But Saw.....00-07-00
    to one barrel Sider..00-10-00
    to Indian Corn..... 02-05-00
    to A grind Stone.....00-05-00
    ( ) from Richard ( ).... 05-10-00
    to two ( ) and two pichfork tynes......00-03-00
    to Linning yarn and wooling Cotton wool
    and Sheep wool:..... 04-10-00
    to beding: and one feather bed bolster and pillowes. 08-00-00
    to four sheets:..... 03-00-00
    to new Cloath: Linning and woling......... 02-10-00
    to one brass Kittel.... 02-00-00
    to Hachet..... 00-01-08
    to forty Acres of Land by york bridg..... 30-00-00
    to puter:.... 01-06-00
    to Spoones: woodin Trayes A ( )........ 03-00
    to one Iron Kittel one pott one fryen pan one skillet
    one tramel A pare of pot Hoks...... 01-01-00
    to one Hamer one trowel pare of fire tongs: and som old
    Iron and A pare of pincers..... 00-06-00
    to A Chamber pot and: eight pounds flax....00-05-06
    to four bushels pase:six bushels barley and A Cooler 02-01-00
    to A barel and: half of beef.....02-10-00
    to A ( )....00-08-00
    to money:....11-16-04
    to one bushel mault: one bushel Sault.... 00-06-00
    to two Chests... 00-04-00
    Aprised December:ye:15:1702

    his
    Peter O Grant


    mark

    William Goodin"(12)


    REFERENCES

    History of York, Maine- Banks, Vol.I, pp.206-9.

    York Co. Court Records- Vol.II, p.205; Vol.III, p.42,p.54; Vol.IV, p.61.

    Genealogical Dictionary of Maine & New Hampshire- p.721
    York Deeds- Vol.4, p.159.

    Mass. Archives- Vol.3, pp.385-6; Vol.11, pp.125-125a, p.127a;
    Vol.3, p.394a.

    York Co. Probate- I, 85; II, 66.

    History and Genealogy of the Stackpole Family- pp.61-2.

    Adriel Warren of Berwick, ME: His Forebears and Descendants- Vanetta Hosford Warren, Boston, 1969.

    Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society- Vol.LXI, pp.16-29.

    James married Margaret Bef 1654, Kittery, York Co. ME. Margaret was born ca 1622, Ireland; died 1713, Kittery, York Co. ME. [Group Sheet]


  2. 9.  Margaret was born ca 1622, Ireland; died 1713, Kittery, York Co. ME.

    Other Events:

    • Reference Number: 4572
    • _UID: 293A1548EB234AEAA40175BDFC7D63CB80F5

    Notes:

    "In The Name of God Amen. I Margret Warren of the town of Kittrey.... doe make this my Last will and testament in manner as followeth...

    2ly I give and bequeath unto my Son Gilbird Warren one Cow and three Sheep.

    3ly I give and bequeath to my daughter margret Stackpole my great Brass Kittle and two Blankits and one Coverlid and ten yeards of woling Cloath and my great wodden platter and one pare of Sheets and all my waring Cloathes

    4ly I give and bequeath into my Son James Warren my feather bed and bolster and all the Rest of my Estat whatsoever abroad or at home without dores or within

    5ly I doe ordain and Appoint my Son James Warren the hole and Soul Executor to this my Last will and testament revoaking and Renounsing all other will heretofore by me made

    In witness hereof I set to my hand and Seal this thirteen day of december Anno Domni-one thousand seven hundred and twelve-

    Signed Sealed and ( ) to be her Last will and testament

    in the presence of
    her
    Margret X Warren
    mark
    his
    Baker X Nason
    mark
    Joseph Wood
    Thomas Curtis"(13)

    Children:
    1. Gilbert WARREN was born 1654, Kittery, York Co. ME; died 1733, Kittery, York Co. ME.
    2. Margaret WARREN was born 1656, Kittery, York Co. ME; died 1749, Dover, Stafford Co. NH.
    3. Grizel (Marie Madeline) WARREN was born 6 Mar 1661/62, Kittery, York Co. ME; died 26 Oct 1750, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
    4. 4. James WARREN, Jr. was born 1658, Berwick, York Co. ME; died Abt 1725, York Co. ME.
    5. Jane WARREN was born 1664, Kittery, York Co. ME.

  3. 10.  John FROST was born , England; died 18 Dec 1699, Dover, Strafford Co. NH.

    Other Events:

    • Reference Number: 4569
    • _UID: A16C7F79370C47CD845A95E359F71595AC19

    Notes:

    This name is variously spelt Foss, Fost, Foste, on the records. In the early records it is Fost. The family tradition is that is was properly spelled Faust, and that the ancestor, or ancestors, came from Germany, and settled in Rye, NH. John, was received an inhabitant at Dover, 19, 1 mo., 1665-6; took the oath 21 June, 1669; juryman, 1667-9, 1671, 1688; was taxed at Cochecho 1665 to 1667. He had a son John.

    John and Mary were of Sandy Beach, 1668; of "Shrewsbury Patent" (near Exeter) 1671. They bought of John Warren 29 Sept. 1668, land near Exeter, which they sold to Richard Morgan, April 1671.

    John married Mary Chadbourne. Mary was born Dec 1644, Boston, Suffolk Co. MA; died Bef Jan 1685/86, Dover, Strafford Co. NH. [Group Sheet]


  4. 11.  Mary Chadbourne was born Dec 1644, Boston, Suffolk Co. MA; died Bef Jan 1685/86, Dover, Strafford Co. NH.

    Other Events:

    • Reference Number: 4570
    • _UID: 3A433C3C62134664A835A1ADA59412F47ECC

    Children:
    1. 5. Mary FROST was born 1667, Dover, Strafford Co. NH.