In a message dated 7/3/2004 3:55:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Subj: [GenCT] July Challenge - Nathaniel Turner and Lamberton's Ship > Date: 7/3/2004 3:55:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time > From: [email protected] > Reply-to: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Sent from the Internet > > My eighth great grandfather was Capt. Nathaniel Turner, who was born in > England, and died in 1646 or 1647 (on Lamberton's ship). His eldest daughter Mary > Turner, my > ancestor, married Thomas Yale in 1645. > > Nathaniel Turner came, probably from London, with the Winthrop Fleet in 1630 > and settled in Saugus. He became a freeman on July 3, 1632. He evidently > married after arriving in America but the name of his wife is not recorded in my > main source for this family, The Lineage of Jeremiah Mead of Greenwich, > Connecticut, Soldier of the American Revolution - written by Mary Beeler Sawers > in 1958. > > He was one of the first settlers of the New Haven Colony in 1638. He was > lost at sea in 1646 or 1647 on Lamberton's ship when it foundered on its maiden > voyage to England. In January 1646 or 1647 the ship sailed from New Haven > with several planters of New Haven aboard, including George Lamberton, master, > Thomas Gregson, and Captain Nathaniel Turner. The ship was never heard from > again. > > My questions: > 1. Who was his wife, the mother of Mary Turner? I have the name Margaret > Leachland as a possibility but have no solid documentation. > 2. I don't have the dates of Nathaniel Turner's birth or death. Much has > been written about the tragic voyage of this ship. I have seen the date of its > voyage listed as January 1646 and January 1647. Does anyone know which date is > correct? Or perhaps his birth date? > > I appreciate any information that can be provided about these ancestors. > > Sandy Johnson Witt > Gainesville, Florida > > New England Ancestors: Anderson, Bosch, Bostwick, Brinsmead, Brown, Carter, > Curtis, Ferris, Groves, Hardy, Hobby, Holmes, Husted, Kitchell, Knapp, > Lockwood, Mead, Pardee, Peat/Peet/Peake, Peck, Porter, Potter, > Scholey/Schooley, Sheaffe, Sherman, Turner, Waterbury, Yale CT, NJ <England, > > Scotland &Wales 1600s > Hi Sandy: I had Tuttle family members in New Haven, CT during that period of time. Would you look to see if you have any Tuttles in your data? Thanks and have a nice holiday. Bill. Family names being researched: TUTTLE, PINGREE, WEATHERBEE, STETSON, ELLERSHAW, COTE, LEFEBVRE, WESTHAVER William R. Tuttle, Esq. [email protected]