Covell, Mehitable (b. BET 15 FEB 1727 AND 1728, d. ?)

Note: Mehitable and James were first cousins.

Note: Ebenezar Broadbrooks, the son of Ebenezar and Lydia Broadbrooks, born in 1750, was a man of prominence. He was selectman of the town twenty years, representative six years, justice of peace twenty-five years, postmaster sixteen years, and parish clerk and treasurer many years. He married Tamesin Hall, daughter of Seth and Elizabeth Hall, February 2, 1775. He first resided on the south side of the road where his father died; but building a house on the opposite side of the road, upon the farm he purchased of Samuel Ellis in 1798, he there resided until his death, which took place February 4, 1828. His wife, Tamesin, died January 1, 1828. Mr. Broadbrooks and family took the name of Brooks by legislative enactment in 1806. He was the principal merchant in town for many years before 1800. His children by wife Tamesin, were: Naomi, who married Calvin Gifford; Ruth, who married John Hall; Obed; Roxana, who married Ebenezar Weekes, jr.; Asenath, who married Levi Snow; Tamesin, who died unmarried in 1807; Lucy, who married Enoch E. Harding; Ebenezar; Seth; and Sabra, who married Benjamin K. Hall.

Note: Huldah and Thomas were second cousins.

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Harwich, Barnstable, MA

Note: 25 Sep 1856; Benjamin Doane; age 84 yrs, 3 months, 1 day; d. Harwich; of consumption; male; farmer; b. Harwich; parents Elisha and Mehitable Doane

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Note: Henry and Mehitable were 4th cousins.

Note: Thankful and Nathaniel were first cousins.

Note: Genealogical Dictionary of New England Settlers Volume 3, Page 284 Weaver, from Norwich, Eng. aged 33, with w. Ann, eldest d. of Nicholas Busby (who came in the same ship), aged 28, and four ch. Nicholas, Robert, Eliz. and Ann, emb. at Ipswich, or Yarmouth, 8 Apr. 1637, arr. 2 June at Boston, proceed. with f.-in-law, I presume, first to Watertown, where he might be allow. to join the ch. for in Boston there exist. nothing but contention among the memb. to drive out, and nobody was rec.until long aft. N. had been ad. freem. 2 May 1638. But he is aft. found at Yarmouth where he had Joseph, b. Dec. 1647; and Eliz. m. Oct. 1649, Robert Eldred.
Persons of Quality Original Lists Lists of the Livinge and Dead in Virgina Febr: 16th 1623 8 1637, The examinaction of WILLIAM: NICKERSON: of Norwch in Norff/Weauear/ ageed 33 yeares. and. ANNE: his WIfe/ aged/ 28 yeares with/ 4 children / NICHO: ROBARTT: ELIZABETH: and ANNE: ar desirous to goe to Bostone in New England ther to Inhabitt
Source: http://www.capecod.net/~rcarlson/epitaph.html William Nickerson 1690
IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM NICKERSON ENGLAND 1604 - MASSACHUSETTS 1689-1690
BOSTON 1637 -
FREEMAN 1638 -
YARMOUTH 1640
DEPUTY TO CENTRAL COURT 1655 -
FOUNDER OF CHATHAM RELIGIOUS TEACHER -
USEFUL CITIZEN -
FIRST OF THE NAME IN AMERICA PROGENITOR OF FIFTY THOUSAND
DESCENDANTS----------
HIS WIFE ANNE( BUSBY) NICKERSON ENGLAND 1609 -
MASSACHUSETTS 1686+----------

THEIR CHILDREN
ELIZABETH (MARRIED TRUSTRAM HEDGES) -
ROBERT (MARRIED - )
SAMUEL (MARRIED MARYBELL) -
SARAH (MARRIED NATHANIEL COVEL)
JOHN (MARRIED SARAH WILLIAMS) -
WILLIAM (MARRIED MERCY WILLIAMS)
JOSEPH (MARRIED RUHAMAH -)----------

THIS TABLET SET ON THIS THE PROBABLE BURIAL PLACE OF WILLIAM NICKERSON (1) WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE TOWN OF CHATHAM 1915 BY WILLIAM NICKERSON OF CAMBRIDGE (9) AMOS (8)JONATHAN (7) JONATHAN (6) SETH (5) JONATHAN (4) THOMAS (3) WILLIAM (2) WILLIAM (1)
This is a large granite monument located in the Nickerson family cemetery.

Note: WILLIAM ELDRED is known to have been a resident of yarmouth from March 1645, to 1667. It is thought that William of Yarmouth, Robert of Yarmouth and Monomoy and Samuel of Cambridge and Stonington, were brothers, and that they came from England about 1635. They all appear to have been men of standing and substance. William was appointed constable in Yarmouth in 1657, 1662, 1674, 1675 and 1677. He was also surveyor of highways. He married Anne, dauthter of William and Tamesin Lumpkin, of Yarmouth. Lumpkin came over in 1637. He was a deputy to the Colony Court and held many of the local offices.

Source: Eldredge Genealogy by Zoeth S. Eldredge, Esq., of San Francisco, Cal., FTM CD #171

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The name of Eldredge, or as it was originally written, Eldred, is Saxon. Eldred was the name of several kings of the Saxons in the eighth and ninth centuries. Eldred was King of Chester, A.D. 951. An Eldred was Saxon Archbishop of York (and Canterbury) in 1066 and according to the historian Thiery cursed William the Conqueror. The Eldreds were holders of lands in Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Gloucester, Shropshire, Yourkshire and other counties at the time of the Domerday survey (A.D. 1085) and prior thereto, in the time of Edward the Confessor.

John Eldred, of Great Saxham, in Suffolk, descended from an ancient family claiming Saxon origin. Tradition says that he purchased the great Saxham estates because of his belief that his ancestors in remote ages, as Saxon kings, had held the Saxhams as their great Saxon home.

He was born in 1552 and died in 1632. He was a great traveler and his ships and merchandise went to all parts of the world. He was one of the founders of Virginia and from 1609 to 1624 was a member of His Majesty's Council for the Virginia Company of London. The brass to "John Eldred the Navigator." at Great Saxham, has the arms of the East India Merchants, the Levant or Turky Merchants and the Russia Merchants Companies. He left four sons and two daughters. Thomas Lee, of Coton, in Shropshire (the seat of Lanncelot Lee, Esq.) married Dorothy , granddaughter of John Eldred.

The Pligrims who came to America in the Mayflower , in 1620, obtained a patent from London Company and though cantrary winds carried them northward to Cape Cod, they had intended to plant their Colony in "Virginia," near the mouth of the Hudson River.

As John Eldred of Great Saxham was at that time and for fifteen years, a director of the Virginia Company of London, it is possible that the Eldreds who appeared in New England between the years 1635 and 1645, viz: William, Robert, Samuel, John and Nathaniel, were in some way connected with his family.

Source: Eldredge Genealogy by Zoeth S. Eldredge, Esq., of San Francisco, Cal., FTM CD #171

Note: ELISHA ELDREDGE, born in 1653, died in Eastham (Wellfleet) Oct. 14, 1739, and is buried in the old graveyard at the head of Duck Creek, where a stone marks the spot. His name on the gravestone is spelled Eldredg. In 1693 Elisha Eldredg was in Harwich where he, with Joseph Severance and Manoah Ellis, bought a tract of land of Joseph Crook, an Indian. He resided in the south part of the town in what is sometimes denominated the Doane neighborhhood. He afterwards sold his interest in the above land to Isaac Atkins and removed to that part of Eastham which subsequently became the town of Wellfleet. It is not known who his wife was. His son Elisha Eldredge, Jr., was active in church work and was opposed to the preaching of Mr. Oakes.

Source: Eldredge Genealogy by Zoeth S. Eldredge, Esq., of San Francisco, Cal., FTM CD #171