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| Husband: Constant Southworth |
| Born: BET. 1614 - 1615 | Place: Leiden, Holland |
| Died: 10 MAR 1678/79 | Place: Plymouth, Massachusetts |
| Married: 1637 | Place: |
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| Father: Edward Southworth |
| Mother: Alice Carpenter |
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| Wife: Elizabeth Collier |
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| Father: William Collier |
| Mother: Jane Clark |
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| Child 1 (F): Mary\Mercy Southworth |
| Born: BET. 1650 - 1654 | Place: Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts |
| Died: BEF. 1719 | Place: |
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Spouses: David Alden |
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HUSBAND NOTES: - BIOGRAPHY: Constance Southworth of Plymouth was the son of Constant or Thomas Southworth. He did not come with his widowed mother in 1623 when she came to the colonies to marry Governor Bradford. He arrived in 1628 and married Elizabeth Collier on 2 Nov 1637. She is the daughter of William Collier. They lived in Duxbury and he was a representative in 1647 and for 22 years following. On the death of his brother, Captain Thomas Southworth he was chosen assistant until his own death 11 Mar 1679. He was also a commissioner for the United Colonies. He served in the Pequot War in 1637. He was Treasurer of the Plymouth Colony. He was a General in the King Philip War. Constance had 2 brothers, Nathaniel of Plymouth, married Desire Gray on 10 Jan 1672. Thomas was younger than Constance, was a militia Lieutenant and Captain and was assistant in 1652 and 12 times after that until 1667. Thomas died 8 Dec 1669 in his 53rd year. He married Elizabeth Reyner, daughter of the Reverend John Reyner on 7 Sep 1641. Constance and Thomas were among the purchasers of Dartmouth. His children are: Edward Southworth, Nathaniel Southworth, b. 1648, William Southworth, b. 1659, Mercy Southworth, m. Samuel Freeman on 12 May 1658., Alice Southworth, m. the famous Benjamin Church on 26 Dec 1667, Mary Southworth, m. David Alden, Elizabeth Southworth, m. William Fobes, Priscilla Southworth (Genealogical Directory of the First Settlers of New England). MILITARY: Pequot War: The Pequot War (1637), the first major conflict between Indians and whites in New England, set a brutal precedent for subsequent Indian-white warfare. Following the killing of Indians by John Stone (1634) and the Massachusetts trader John Oldham (1636), the Pequots were reluctant to yield the suspected killers. Puritan authorities decided to retaliate, a decision reinforced by Pequot hostility toward the new white settlements in Connecticut. John ENDECOTT led an expedition that inflicted considerable damage on the Pequots before withdrawing. Subsequently, Capt. John Mason led a force of New England soldiers together with Mohegan and Narragansett warriors aGeorgiainst the principal Pequot village located near the Mystic River. Arriving undetected on May 26, 1637, Mason's troops burned the village and slaughtered its inhabitants. During the ensuing weeks soldiers relentlessly pursued fleeing Pequots until the tribe was largely destroyed (New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia). !BIOGRAPHY: Lists mother of Constant Southworth as Alice Carpenter. Constant was a Deputy for 22 years. He was a member of the Council of War in 1658, Commissioner of the United Colonies in 1668 (Compendium of American Genealogy, Volume I, p. 991). !BIOGRAPHY-SPOUSE-CHILDREN: Genealogical Directory of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of those who came before May 1692 on the basis of farmers register, Volume IV, by James Savage, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1990. (page 143), Tifton Tift County Public Library, Tifton, Georgia. !SPOUSE-CHILDREN: Family tree chart prepared by Stanwood E Flitner, Englewood, New Jersey, 1934 for Orlando Nelson Dana and Clara H. Lequin. Copies in possession of Diane Blanton Bargeron and June Blanton. !MILITARY: New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Vaughan, Alden, New England Frontier: Puritans and Indians, 1620-1675 (1965). !BIRTH-DEATH-PARENTS-SPOUSE-CHILDREN: Broderbund World Family Tree CD ROM, Volume I, File # 4962. !BIOGRAPHY: Compendium of American Genealogy, Volume I, edited by Frederick A. Virkus, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1968. page 991 (Tifton Tift County Public Library) WIFE NOTES: - !PARENTS-SPOUSE-CHILDREN: Broderbund World Family Tree CD ROM, Volume 3, File # 4962. |
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