Isabella BLAND

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Note that Isabella may, in some records, be listed with the surname "Smith" as in Jones' book on Philip Towle (p. 65). This comes from the fact that her father referred to himself as Smith, though he was born with the surname of Bland.

When her first husband died in 1642, she married Thomas Leavitt.

Birth:
Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Births [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.

The Family Data Collection - Births database was created while gathering genealogical data for use in the study of human genetics and disease.

Name: Isabell Bland
Father: John Bland
Mother: Isabella Isabel Drake
Birth Date: 1602
City: Colchester
County: Essex
Country: England

Died:
Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Deaths [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.

The Family Data Collection - Deaths database was created while gathering genealogical data for use in the study of human genetics and disease.

Name: Isabella Bland
Death Date: 19 Feb 1699
City: Hampton
County: Rockingham
State: NH

Joseph Dow. "History of the Town of Hampton, NH, from its Settlement in 1638 to the Autumn of 1892". pub. 1893; reprinted in 1988. I. Thomas Leavitt - p.810.

Isabella married Francis AUSTIN 2 Oct 1632, Colchester, Essex, England. Francis was born Abt 1607, England; died Bef 13 Jul 1642, Hampton, Rockingham Co., NH. [Group Sheet]

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Married:
Philip Towle, Hampton, New Hampshire: His English origins and Some American Descendants, William Haslet Jones, Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie MD, 1995,p. 65.

Church: Probably St. Mary, the Virgin, Colchester, Essexshire, England

1. Isabella AUSTIN was born Abt 1633, Colchester, Essexshire, England; was christened 09 Jun 1633, Great Gidding, Huntingdonshire England; died 7 Dec 1719, Hampton, Rockingham Co., NH; was buried , Pine Grove Cemetery, Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH.
2. Jemima AUSTIN was born Bef 24 Jan 1641, Hampton, Rockingham Co, NH.
3. Keziah AUSTIN was born Bef 24 Jan 1641, Hampton, Rockingham Co, NH.

Isabella married Thomas LEAVITT ca 1644, Hampton, NH. [Group Sheet]

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John Bland was one of the earliest settlers of Martha's Vineyard, owning land here as early as 1646. He and his second wife Joanna (his first wife, Isabella, died before he came to the island) were prominent citizens of Edgartown back in the day. It is even believed that John Bland was with Thomas Mayhew in the shallop that first pulled into what is now Edgartown Great Harbor.

He frequently called himself John Smith, this even prior to arrival in New England. Probate records include the John Smith name.

Source: Genealogical Dict. of ME & NH

"John Bland,alias John Smith was living at Edgartown, on Martha's Vineyard, in 1646, undoubtedly the John Smith [in] association with the Mayhews in the first movement from Watertown to the Island, where he was always 'Bland'. In Watertown, lived his mother Adrian, 2nd wife of Jeremiah Norcross and there is a recorded "Isabel" wife of John Smith, born 12 July 1639, age 60. The Hampton Drakes testified that they knew his daughter Isabel Bland from childhood, that her father John Bland lived in Colchester, and that his ancestory was Bland, not Smith. Apparently his step-father was Smith. His will made 2 Nov. 1663 names wife, Joanna and "all the children that are alive that I owne"

Source: History of Martha's Vineyard

FIRST TOWNSHIP GRANT.

"The basis of all land titles in Edgartown rests upon the original grant of the two patentees to certain individuals named in the following grant of township rights:-
..... unto John Doggett, Danish Pierce and Rich'd Beeres and John Smith and Francis Smith with ourselves to make choice for the Present of a large Towne upon the same Terms that we have it: And also equall Power in Governm't with us, and equall Power in admission of all that shall present themselves to come to live upon any part of the whole grant of all the Islands; and wee grant also to them and their Associates with us to receive another Townshipp for Posterity upon the same Terms wee have from the Grantees.
[New York Col. Doc. Deeds, I, 72.]"

Buried:
Grave location and cemetery photo:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=82166404

John married Isabella DRAKE 1597, Colchester, Essex, England. Isabella (daughter of William DRAKE and Joan MERYLLS) was born Abt 1579, England; died Oct 1639, Watertown, Middlesex, MA; was buried 12 Oct 1639, Old Burying Place, Watertown, Middlesex Co. MA. [Group Sheet]

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Grave location and cemetery photo:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=82166194

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From "Drake in England" p. 88: "William Drake was presented for default of residence on 6 April 1592 and fined on inhabited houses in the manor Court of Abell in Halstead 30 December 1600. Earlier on 1 February 1579, he was named as witness to the apprenticeship of Tobias son of Richard Ebbes of Sandy in Befordshire a woollen draper, to Thomas Wilkinson, linen draper.

Although traces of Puritan influence can be seen in the introduction of Old Testament names for children in some of the branches of the family, William Drake and his wife are the first to be identified with the extreme Puritans who rejected the established Church of England. In the records of the Archdeacon of Colchester's Court we find them being fined for not attending the parish Church in 1611 and later, in 1615, he was presented by the Churchwardens of Elmstead 'for not coming orderly to Church on the Sabbath Daye' and was duly fined 12d. on 28 June 1615. He was buried at Elmstead on 3 November 1616."

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Heritage Consulting. The Millennium File. Salt Lake City, UT: Heritage Consulting.

Name: William Drake
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 1553
Birth Place: Halstead, Essex, England
Death Date: 3 Nov 1616
Death Place: Elmstead, Essex, England
Marriage Date: 12 Oct 1578
Marriage Place: Halstead, Essex, England
Spouse: Joane Merrylls
Children: Robert Drake

Buried:
Grave location and biography:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=107813318&ref=acom

William married Joan MERYLLS 12 Oct 1578, Halstead, Essex, England. Joan was born Abt 1557, Halstead, Essex, England; died Mar 1616/17, Elmstead, Essex, England; was buried 25 Mar 1617, St Anne & St Lawrence Churchyard, Elmstead Market, Colchester Borough, Essex England. [Group Sheet]

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William married Joan. Joan was born Abt 1529, Great Waltham, Essex, England; died Jul 1573, Essex, England. [Group Sheet]

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