Makepeace, William (b. ABT 1633, d. 29 AUG 1681)

Note: from "Brown and Allied Famlies":

'William was at one time fined L5 for selling liquor to an Indian. At another time he was sentenced 'to be publicly whipt,' for misconduct with an Indian women... His estate, exclusive of land, was L180

drowned in Taunton River crossing from Matapoisett to Freetown (Assonet);

Note: Cause of Death: Killed by a cart

Note: William Makepeace Abstracts, Etc.


(Editor's note: His first wife was Abigail Tisdale, a descendant of Thomas Rogers, by whom he had eleven children. The Ann who petitions the court for relief, as below, was his second wife Ann Cudworth who he married in 1732, only a few years before his death.One wonders why he made no provisions for her.)

[MD: Bristol Co. Prob. From original will] "William Makepeace of Taunton" made his will, on 16 November, 1736. Bequests were as follows:


To "my son Seth Makepeace & my son William Makepeace and my son Thomas Makepeace besides what I have convey'd to them by by Deeds, the sum of three shillings viz one shilling Each"

To "ye six Children of my Daughter Abigal Deceased besides what I conveyed to her in her life time the sum of Eighteen pence each"

To "my Daughter Annah" £3, "and my daugter Susannah" 30s., "the same to be paid to them out of my movables or personal Estate before Devition be made thereof"

To "my Daughter Susannah my brass Kittel"
"All ye Rest of my Household Goods, Movables, Tools &
personal Estate not given away by this my will after my Just Debts, Legacyes, and funiral Charges are paid, I give the same to be Equally Devided amonge my seven Daughters hereafter named viz: Annah, Mary, Susannah, Lydia, Deborah, Remember & Persilla"
"I also give to said seven Daughters and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever my lot of land that lyeth between the land of John Smith and ye land that was Daniel Williams Deceased, and Ye land of Elnathan Thrasher & ye Highway, and also all the land that Remains due to me from ye Heirs of mr: nicholas Moorey late of Dighton Deceased, of ye forty acres said Moorey sold to me at three mile River"
"my Daughter Lydia and my Daughter Susannah to be my Executrixes"
The will was signed by a mark.

The witnesses were Seth Williams, Mercy Mason and Stephen Macomber. "Seth Williams Esqr and Mercy Mason" made oath to the will, 21 June, 1737. [The will was also recorded, 8: 480.]

[From original inventory] The inventory was taken on 5 January, 1736, by Samuel Pitts, "John Briggs 2nd" and John Godfrey. The only real estate was: "about 4 or 5 acrs of Improoved Land" £100. "Lidia Witheril and Susanah Godfrey Daughters and Executrixes" made oath to the inventory, 21 June, 1737. [The inventory was also recorded, 8: 481.]

[From unrecorded petition] "The petetion of Ann Makepeace of Taunton .... widow and Relick of William Makepeace Late of Taunton aforesd Deceasd most Humbly Sheweth—That The aforesd William Makepeace .... was Removed from her By Death Some time in the mounth of December Last past and That in the time of his Sickness he Dissposed of his Estate By will The which your petitioner apprehends will Soon Be presented To your Honr to Be proved .... and for as much as her Said Late hussband hath not made any provission for her or given her any Thing in sd will in Leiw of her Thirds or any other ways: your Honrs petitioner Therefore prays That Said will may not Be allowed But That Shee may have one Third of his Estate That he Died Seized of Assigned and Set off unto her for her Support in her old and infirm age:"
The petition was signed by a mark, and was dated "Taunton February ye 23—1736"
"filed in the Probaite office march ye 7 1736"

[8:479] On 21 June, 1737, the will was probated, and administration granted to "Lidia and Susanah Daughters of William Mackpeice Late of Taunton Deceased, wifes of Simeon Witheril and Joseph Godfrey of Norton .... yeomen"

[From unrecorded bond] On 21 June, 1737, "Lydia Wetherel" and "Susana Godfree" as executrixes, with Simeon Wetherel and Uriah Atherton, yeomen, as sureties, all of Norton, gave a bond for £500. The witnesses were Stephen Paine and Thomas Richmo?

Note: Remained in Monongahela Valley *(From letter written by S.Arthur Stewart. A professor in LaPorte, Indiana. on August 10, 1931 to family reunion.)

Note: "Sarah, the fourth child, married Benjamin Love... Aunt Sally as she was commonly called was the favorite sister of her brother Thomas. She was woman of parts and was a strong character in the home, in the church and in the neighborhood. Her family of ten boys and two girls made a house full but she was always the mistress of the house. It was an interesting sight to see the family around the open fireplace, the father and boys sitting in silence and the mother the life of the whole family. The old farm was three miles south east of Sharon, Pa and this made it easy for the Loves to keep up the acquaintance of the families of Thomas and James G. Stewart.
Mr. and Mrs. Love were strong Presbyterians. When the old Morefield Church was organized they were charter members, and when that church was disorganized because of the organizagion of churches in the villages of Sharon and West Middlesex, the Loves transferred their membership to the Free Presbyterian Church at Clarksville, this was in 1845, where they remained members until their deaths. Their bodies lie in the Moorfield Cemetery."

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Hickory, Mercer, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Hickory, Mercer, PA

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Hickory, Mercer, PA

Note: Robert Stockton, of Scotch-Irish parentage, was married in the eastern part of the State near Chambersburg, where the most of his children were born. He removed to Washington County in 1784, and on the 2d of July purchased three hundred and fourteen acres of land of Peter Jolly, named in the survey "Beaver Dam." Mr. Stockton was chosen an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and held the position till his death in 1821. He had eight children,—Margaret (Mrs. Colton), Frances (Mrs. Charles Stewart), Robert, Joseph, Elizabeth (Mrs. Cunningham), Thomas, and John.

Note: "As to the Stewarts, Grandfather Thomas Stewart owned his own home over in Trumbull Co. Ohio where my father and aunt Amanda were born, and in 1829 he bought the old farm in Hickory Twp. and uncle James bought the Keel Ridge farm.
You know the story of his living on the farm and raising his family, and after the death of our grandmother and his remarrying, he bought the house on the hill above Clarksville, where he lived till his death in October 1875. Always owning his home."
*(From letter written by S. Arthur Stewart. A professor in LaPorte,Indiana. on August 10, 1936 to family reunion.)

"Two brothers - Thomas and James, with their wives came in 1830 to Hickory Township, this county (Mercer). These brothers married sisters by the name of Esther and Margaret Porter... The large family of Thomas Stewart and his wife Esther, six grew to maturity. Samuel Stewart, who married Deborah Dickson. N. Coe Stewart who married Gabriel Townsend, John Wright Stewart who married Jennie Stambaugh, Amanda, who married Lawrence Lightner. Margaret, who married Major Ormsby, and James,who died of disease contracted during the war."
(From letter type written, unknown author, regarding ancestry and the First Stewart-Dickson Reunion held in 1925)

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Hickory, Mercer, PA

Note: "Samuel Stewart was the only one who felt the call to the west; He went first to Indiana, then to Iowa then to Washington and finally to California. I might state that I have been in correspondence for a number of years with a grand daughter of his, Mrs. Dixie Samuels; Mrs Samuels lives in San Francisco, her husband is an attorney, she has one son Stewart Samuels. The Samuel Stewart family is scattered along the western coast."
*(From letter written by S. Arthur Stewart. A professor in LaPorte,Indiana. on August 10, 1931 to a family reunion.)

Mr. Samuel C. Stewart left his home at Hubbard, Ohio at an early age and kept on the edge of civilization or in the wilds most of his life. He made a great many bows and arrows for the Indians and became an expert shot with them. I think he married in Indiana, then to Illinois, and then to Iowa, near Marion, Linn Co. where most of his 12 children were born. But it became to thickly settled there and he and his family with several others congregated together and with their ox teams and covered wagons containing their all started for Seattle Washington territory. It took them just six months to a day to make the trip. This was in about 1852 or 1853. When the country west of the Mississippi was but little known he took up quite a quantity of land near Seattle and commenced to make improvements. The Indians became unmanageable, he got his goods to the fort at Seattle and the family too for protection, awaited there until the Indians became quite again, he ventured out to see how things looked at his ranch. He found that all the buildings he had erected were in ashes and every thing they could destroy was destroyed. He went back to the fort and made up his mind to leave there. There was a vessel there about ready to go to San Francisco and he got his family and goods aboard the vessel and landed safely in the latter place. He went north from there a short distance and tired to buy him a home and settled in two or three tracts long enough to find that he could not get a clear title for the land, owing to old Spanish claims that would be found so he then went on up the coast and located in Mendacino Co. At Point Arena(Punta Arinas actual name found in census records.) on the Pacific Coast and where he succeeded in getting a clear title to his land. He remained there the balance of his life. His family having been kept in the wilds most of their lives, he had but little opportunity to get an education. His daughter Sarah, now Mrs. Fraiser was the best educated of the family. Her sister Celia, who married Mr. Hunter took her when young and gave her a good education. She was a beautiful writer and her language was almost faultless. I correspond with her for several years and I have many of her letters.
(From Stewart Family History written by William F. Stewart)

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Linn, Iowa

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Arena, Mendocino, California

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Ten-Mile, Mendocino, California

Note: James Guthrie Stewart was quite venturesome in his younger days, he took a load of clocks in a flat boat from Pittsburgh to some point in Kentucky below Cincinnati disposing of them in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. He learned the Tanners Trade and after marrying worked that trade for several years. He and his wife were members of the Clarksville Pa. Presbyterian Church and he was an elder in it for many years. He did not care for office of any kind but had two appointments from the Govenor of Pa. The 1st for 1st Lieutenant of Mailtia and the 2nd for Justice of the Peace. In his younger days he was considered a fine wrestler and met with but few equals. Mrs. Stewart united with the church when she was 12 years old and lived an earnest Christian life. She lacked from March 10, 1895 to July 2, 1895 of being 88 years old. Eighteen months previous to her death she had a stroke of paralysis affecting her in such away she could not move from one position to another without assistance. During those 18 months she was in that condition all of the time, and there was never a murmer passed her lips, she was a fine judge of human nature and her first impressions were rarely changed.
(From handwritten genealogy by William F. Stewart, date unknown.)

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Hickory, Mercer, PA

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Hickory, Mercer, PA

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Hickory, Mercer, PA

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Hubbard, Trumbull, Ohio