I see an important typo 5th parag. of my last post: "The Banker 'Desboe.'" I mistakenly typed "Jon Disbrow" instead of the correct "JOHN," which is name of our interesting 17th c. goldsmith "banker." Also, I note somewhat fortuitous mistake in my previous post today: "Nich Disbrowe & Robert Pennoyer" The Rainsborough "uncle" of those TWO Rainsborough sisters who married the Winthrops (father & son!) was NO UNCLE to them at all! Rather better still, he was their own BROTHER! Great stuff, esp. since HE was the very guy I discovered from Maurice Ashley's book, "John Wildman: Plotter & Postmaster," page 162, who was ALSO arrested with our own Major General John Disbrowe in 1660, upon suspicions of "White's Plot" (so-called by the Royalists!), according to Ashley. No telling what ever became of poor Captain Thomas White (NO, his given name does not expressly show-up among the Hobson "Whites" of our own Disbrowe relation, sorry!). STSquires

To List: I found these notes in my research for the family of AMY DISBROW who married WILLIAM SEAMAN. I don't remember having seen this information on the Disbrow Site and thought I would send it to share with you. Bonnie Bryant William Seaman, Pg. 1& Pg. 2 b. 1740-45 in New Jersey m. 1st Amy Disberry m. 2nd Margaret ________________ d. March 26, 1814, in Amity, Washington County, PA Apparently the first wife, Amy Disberry, died in New Jersey before the family moved west. Her name may have been Disbrow, Disborough, Dusenberry, for these variations are found in New Jersey records. HELEN VOGHT "SEAMAN - HUNT - WRIGHT GENEALOGY" Pg. 1 & 2 We expect to prove that the family lived in the vicinity of Hopewell N.J. Miss Helen Vogt found evidence in 1955 that a William Seaman had a tavern and a 98-acre farm in Hopewell in 1780. A clue to Amy Disberry's family may lie in the will of Thomas Burrows, of Hopewell, NJ, dated November 26, 1761, in which he leaves bequeststo his grand-daughters Charity and Rachel Disborough, for these first names and others mentioned in the will are found also in the Williiam Seaman family. The Great Migration Begins Sketches PRESERVED PURITAN THOMAS DESBRE 3 September 1633: "Administration granted to Mr. John Moody of the goods & chattells of Thomas Desbre deceased, & so to remain in his hands, to be accountable for them" [MBCR 1:108]. COMMENTS: The connection with John Moody suggests that Thomas Desbre resided in Roxbury. In 1634 "[Phebe] Disborough the wife of Walter Disborough" was admitted to Roxbury church [RChR 80], and so "Desbre" may be a variant of "Disborough" or "Desborough." RCHR: Roxbury Land and Church Records, Sixth Report of the Boston Record Commissioners (Boston 1884), pp. 74-191 The Great Migration Begins Sketches PRESERVED PURITAN WALTER DISBOROUGH ORIGIN: Saffron Walden, Essex MIGRATION: 1634 FIRST RESIDENCE: Roxbury RETURN TRIPS Possibly returned to England by 1641, when he was not in Roxbury when his wife acted in his place CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: "[blank] Disborough the wife of Walter Disborough" was among those admitted to Roxbury church in 1634 [RChR 80]. ESTATE: On 26 May 1641, "Phebe Disborough in the absence of her husband by his assignment hath sold unto James Morgan two houses and four parcels of land" [RTR 3]. BIRTH: About 1584, son of John and Joan (Kent) Disborough of Saffron Walden, Essex. (In his will of 4 May 1607, "John Dysborowe of Walden" made a bequest to "Walter Dysborowe one other of my sons" [Archdeaconry of Colchester Box 4, #238 (27)]. In her will of 24 [June or July?] 1619, "Johanne Disborowe of Walden, widow," included bequests to "Walter Disborowe my son" and to "the three children of Walter Disborowe viz: Anna, Phebe & John" [Archdeaconry of Colchester Box 8, #178].) DEATH: In or after 1641 [RTR 3], perhaps in England. MARRIAGE: By 1613 Phebe _____. CHILDREN: i ANNA, bp. Saffron Walden 25 April 1613; named in her grandmother's will in 1619; no further record. ii PHEBE, bp. Saffron Walden 2 April 1615; named in her grandmother's will in 1619; no further record. iii MARY, bp. Saffron Walden 8 May 1617; bur. there 8 May 1617. iv JOHN, bp. Saffron Walden 21 June 1618 ("the son of Walter Disberow & Phebe his wife"); bur. there 2 May 1619. v (probably) PETER, b. say 1632; m. Stamford 6 April 1657 Sarah Knapp [TAG 10:112], daughter of NICHOLAS KNAPP [GMB 2:1136]. vi (possibly) HENRY, b. say 1637 (or earlier); m. by about 1662 Margaret _____ (in the 1698 Mamaroneck census are consecutive entries for "Henery Disbrow sein [senior] and his wife Margreet" and "Henery Disbrow june [junior] [and] his wife Mary" [NYGBR 59:104]; on 13 July 1692, "Henry Disbrow Senior and wife Margaret" sold land to "son Benjamin Disbrow" [NYGBR 54:395, citing Westchester County, New York, Land Records B:123]; "Benjamin Disbrow, died Dec. 10, 1733, aged 61" [NYGBR 49:298, citing Stillwell 2:304-5]). ASSOCIATIONS: Walter Disborough's father John was son of Henry Disborough, who was buried at Saffron Walden on 30 May 1559, naming in his will of 20 May 1559 wife Katherine, sons John, William, Henry and Richard, and daughters Margaret and Elizabeth [Archdeaconry of Colchester Box 12, #102]. In his will of 30 March 1610, "William Disberowe of Walden, joiner," named only wife Katherine and "Nicholas Disberowe my son" [Consistory Court of London 7:21]. This Nicholas Disborough married at Saffron Walden on 18 October 1610 Mary Gilbye, and had second child Nicholas baptized there on 16 January 1613/4. In 1962 John Insley Coddington, without benefit of most of this information, speculated that the Nicholas Disborough who appeared in Hartford by 1639 and soon married Mary Brownson was from Saffron Walden, and these records would seem to confirm his hypothesis [TAG 38:208-11], and identify the immigrant as the child baptized early in 1614. Note especially that there was a family tradition of working with wood. William Disborough in his will calls himself joiner. In 1628 and 1629 the elder Nicholas Disborough was paid by the Saffron Walden churchwardens for "mending of the pulpit & a seat" and for "mending of seats & for nails" [Saffron Walden Churchwardens' Accounts, 1623-1756, Essex Record Office D/P 192/5/3]. Nicholas Disborough the immigrant's "usual occupation was that of carpenter or cabinet maker" [TAG 38:209]. For the possibility of more distant connections within the Disborough family, see the sketch of ISAAC DISBOROUGH. COMMENTS: The last record of Walter Disborough in England is in 1619, fifteen years before his arrival in New England, and we have no record that any of his children baptized in Saffron Walden made the trip to New England. Presumably Walter resided elsewhere in England in the 1620s and early 1630s. The evidence for the two proposed sons of Walter who did come to New England, Peter and Henry, is circumstantial, and stronger for Peter than for Henry. Walter had an elder brother Peter, baptized at Saffron Walden on 5 December 1581. On 28 December 1647, "Peter Disborough constituted Jonathan Pope of Roxbury his attorney to receive forty shillings of Griffith Bowen due for wages" [Aspinwall 119]. As for Henry, we know merely that Walter's grandfather was named Henry, and that Henry Disborough of New England resided not far from Peter Disborough (although we have no record that the two men interacted even though both were for many years in Westchester County). If Henry was not a son of Walter, he was very likely closely related in some way.