A Maine Family's History - Davis / McDowell

Davis / McDowell Surnames: Oldham

William OLDHAM

Spouse: Phillipa SOWTER married 1588 Derby Derbyshire ENG buried 6/26/1636 [ancestry.com]

Children: John born 7/14/1592 Derby killed in his bark at Rhode Island by the Indians 8/1636; Lucretia born 1/14/1599-00 Derby; Jacobus christened 6/12/1597; Elizabeth christened 2/24/1594; Thomas born 1602;

Lucretia OLDHAM born circa 1/14/1599-1600 Derby Derbyshire ENG baptized 1/14/1600-1 All Sts Parish Derbyshire died 3/4/1648-9 Preston New London CT; came in "Anne" 1623 with brother John Oldham and sister-in-law

Spouse: Jonathan BREWSTER born 8/12/1593 Scrooby married 4/10/1624

Children: Mary born 4/16/1627 Plymouth married John Turner 11/10/1645 Scituate; William born 3/9/1624-25; Jonathan born 7/17/1627-9 married Mary Parrish; Benjamin born 11/17/1633; Elizabeth born 5/1/1637; Grace born 11/1/1639; Ruth born 10/1631; Hannah born 11/3/1641married Samuel Starr

Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families pg 96: OLDHAM John, came in the "Ann" 1623, returned to ENG 1628, came back 1629 and settled in Watertown.

Gen Reg of the First Settlers of NE 211: OLDHAM, JOHN, arrived at Plymouth, in the ship Ann, in July 1623, where he lived a short time; went to Nantasket, now Hull, and from thence to Cape Ann. He was admitted freeman 18 May, 1631, when he probably resided in Watertown, which town he represented in the first general court of Mass in 1634. He was killed in his bark at Rhode-Island, by the Indians, in August 1636. It is said his posterity still remain in Mass. and one of the name of John Oldham died at Danvers in 1827. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. x. Index.

Topographical pg 17: OLDHAM, John; Derby Derbyshire; "Anne"; Plymouth MA; Ref Banks Mss. pg 103: OLDHAM, John; St Stephens Coleman St London; "Anne"; Plymouth MA; Banks Mss

Mayflower Increasings pg 24: Jonathan Brewster b 8/12/1593 Scrooby Eng d 8/7/1659 New London Ct bur Preston Ct; m 4/10/1624 Plymouth Lucretia Oldham (dau of William Oldham & Phillipa Sowter) bpt 1/14/1600 Parish of All Saints Derby/Darby Eng, d 3/4/1678-9 Norwich Ct bur Preston Ct.

Pioneers MA pg 334: OLDHAM, OULDAM, Mr. John, came to Plymouth in 1623. Was associated with Lyford in schemes to overthrow the gov and substitute episcopal rule; wrote letters to persons in Eng who were hostile to the Colony; was detected and banished. The Western Adventurerers of Dorchester Eng sent him to Cape ann in 1625, but he accomplished nought. He went to Eng and came again in 1630. Settled at Watertown. Frm 5/18/1631. Deputy 1634-5. Gen Court granted him a farm at Wat; this he mortg to Mr. Craddock. Was on imp committees. Had grants from the Indians of islands in Narragansett Bay. Was slain by Indians while on a trading voyage at Block Island in 7/1636 [W & B]. John ae 12 came in the Elizabeth & Ann 5/1635, res at Duxbury atba 1643; and Thomas ae 10, who came at the same time, res at Scituate, m 11/20/1656 [1657] Mary Witherell; had ch Mary b 8/20/1658, Thomas b 10/30/166. Mmay both be children of 1st John above.

NEHGR LXXXIX, July 1935 pg 280: One cause of the Pequot War had been the killing of Mr. John Oldham of Watertown by the Indians at Block Island in July 1636. Mr. John Oldham, with his wife and Lucretia Oldham, arrived at Plymouth in the ship Ann on 7/10/1623. Lucretia Oldham "of Darby" was married 4/10/1624 to Elder William Brewster's son, Jonathan Brewster, who had arrived at Cape Cod 11/9/1621 in the Fortune, not in the Mayflower. Born at Scrooby, Nottinghamshire 8/12/1593, and reared at Leyden, in the Protestant Netherlands, Jonathan Brewster spoke Dutch fluently. "Mungrel Dutch," Samuel Maverick called the Plymouth Pilgrims. The youngest daughter of Jonathan and Lucretia (Oldham) Brewster, Hannah Brewster, was married at New London, CT 12/23/1664 to Dr. Thomas Starr's son, Samuel Starr. At first one of the leading men at Plymouth, Mr. John Oldham finally was expelled, moved to "Natascot" (Hull), and, allying himself with the fortunes of Sir Ferdinando Gorges and his sons, later moved across the Bay, when Rev. William Blaxton and Mr. William Jeffries as agents of Georges put him in possession of the territory along the seacoast from the Saugus River to the Charles River--years before Winthrop arrived--including Charlestown and a large part of Watertown. /P/ In 7/1636 John Gallop of Dorchester was at Block Island, and there learned that Indians had killed Mr. John Oldham and seized his boat and goods and also his gold, amounting, says Lion Gardiner, to £60. Bradford wrote (p. 131): "2 little boys that were his kinsmen [John Oldham, 13, and Thomas Oldham, 11, no doubt] were saved." Gallop at once retaliated by killing many Indians--Narragansetts, Block Island being in their territory, seven of whom the Narragansett sachem Miantonomah in 1636 said were Indian chiefs....