Armstrong, Gregory

• Name	Armstrong, Gregory  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
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  Person ID	I17	WETZEL-SPRING

  
  

  Family	NEWTON, Elinor,   b. 1582, Spalding, Lincolnshire, England d. Abt 12 Mar 1643, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 61 years)
  Marriage	Abt 18 Sep 1638	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA   [1, 2]
  	Mayflower and The Great Migration In the 1623 Plymouth land division, John Billington received 3 acres as a passenger on the Mayflower. In the 1627 Plymouth cattle division, John Billington Sr., Hellen Billington and Francis Billington were the eleventh through thirteenth persons in the 7th company, and John Billington Jr. was the 10th person in the 9th company. John Billington was born about 1582 based on estimated date of marriage. He was hanged in September 1630 at Plymouth. He was married by about 1607 to Elinor Bradford. She married the second time between the 14th and 21st of Sept in 1638 to Gregory Armstrong and was living as late as 2 March 1642/3.. Children of John and Elinor/Eleanor were: John, born about 1604, died in Plymouth between 22 May 1627 and Sept. 1630, and Francis, born about 1606 (deposed 10 July 1674 "68 years of age"), married in Plymouth in July 1634 to Christian Eaton. She was Christian Penn Eaton, widow of Francis Eaton.. In his list of passengers on the Mayflower, Bradford includes "John Billington and Ellen his wife, and two sons, John and Francis". In his 1651 accounting of the Mayflower families, Bradford reported that "John Billington, after he had been here ten years, was executed for killing a man, and his eldest son died before him but his second son in alive and married and hath eight children". (The man murdered by Billington was John Newcomen.). In a Survey of 1650 for the manor of Spalding in Lincolnshire is a lease for three lives in which one of the lives is "Francis Billington son of John Billington." In describing the three lives involved, we are told that "Franscis Billington (as it is informed) was living about a year since in New England aged 40 years or thereabouts." The estimated age for Francis Billington is probably less accurate than his own deposition in 1674, but this record does provide an excellent clue for further research on the English origin of the family,.. The family of John Billington has been treated thoroughly by Harriet Woodbury Hodge in the 5th volume of the Five Generations Project of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, and she lists the many occasions on which John Billington or his sons were in trouble with the Plymouth authorities in the first decade of the colony's existence.. JeanHumbleFineran JeanHumbleFineran originally shared this to Humble Family Tree ?29 Oct 2008 ?story Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33, Provo, UT. (Database on-line. Original data R C Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33. Vol. 1-3. Boston MA, New England Historical Society KathyLaQuey KathyLaQuey added this to Jan Kirkland Darby Family Tree ?27 Jul 2010 Billington, Eleanor (1) fact edited 20240111GHLn- Plymouth Colony, p.245 -The wife of John Billington, Eleanor was with him in 1620 on the Mayflower. Her maiden name is not known, though some have speculated that it might have been Newton, since her son Francis inherited land in Lincolnshire, England, with a co-heir named Newton. However, Billington researcher Harriett Hodge thinks that the surname could be Longland. On 1636 Eleanor was fined £5 and sentenced to sit in the stocks and be whipped for slandering John Doane (PCR 1:42). She was married between 28 August 1638 and 21 September 1638 to (2) Gregory Armstrong (PCR 12:33. 37), but there is no record of her having any children by him. She was married between 28 August 1638 and 21 September 1638 to (2) Gregory Armstrong (PCR 12:33. 37), but there is no record of her having any children by him.
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  Marriage - Abt 18 Sep 1638 - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  AncestryView for Windows: Plymouth Colony, its History and People- Eaton, Sarah Plymouth Colony, p.286 ?The wife of Francis Eaton, q.v., she sailed with him and their son Samuel on the 1620 Mayflower, and she died in the illnesses of the first year. Her maiden name is not known. ______________________________ http://www.mayflowerfamilies.com/enquirer/billington.htm Billington: Not a Bradford Favorite! John Billington, his wife Elinor, and two adolescent sons, John and Francis were passengers on the Mayflower. Billington, who was not one of the Leyden group, became a Mayflower Passenger at Southampton. Ten years later he was executed for the murder of "one John Newcomen. . ." (Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, V, 31+) It seems that nearly all that we know of the Billingtons comes from Governor William Bradford's references to the family, and, for good reason or not, it is evident that he felt a hearty dislike for the family. Billington troubles are noted from the start. While still on board ship in Provincetown Harbor, one of the young sons (unknown) fired a gun near an open half-keg of gun powder posing a near disaster for the ship and passengers. Of this Bradford writes "and yet, by God's mercy, no harm done." (MF5G V:31) In 1621 Billington was sentenced to have his neck and heels tied together for "oppribrious" speeches against Miles Standish. "Craving pardon," he was forgiven." (MF5G V:32) On a more cheerful note, Francis Billington, shortly after the settlement of Plymouth, climbed to the top of a tree on a hilltop and discovered two lakes known from then until now as "Billington Sea." (Actually I think this was John Billington, his brother- jcw 29.02.2012) Bradford's writings, however, continue to present Billington as contentious, unmanageable and undesirable. In a 1625 letter to Robert Cushman in England (Governor Bradford's Letter Book,MD V:79, New-Plymouth, June 9, 1625), Bradford writes: "Billington still rails against you, and threatens to arrest you, I know not wherefore; he is a knave, and so will live and die." [Mr. "Cusksnan" died before this letter arrived.] Finally, in the only known eyewitness account, Bradford relates (Bradford History MF5G V:33) that in 1630 "John Billington the elder, one that came over with the first, was arraigned, and both by grand and petty jury found guilty of wilful murder, by plain and notorious evidence. And was for the same accordingly executed . . ." " He and some of his had been often punished for miscarriages before, being one of the profanest families amongst them; they came from London, and I know not what friends shuffled into their company. His fact was that he waylaid a young man, one John Newcomen, about a former quarrel and shot him with a gun, whereof he died." Upon his death he left his wife Eleanor (Elinor) and son Francis -- his son John having died previously. About eight years later, his wife would remarry a Gregory Armstrong. Son Francis married Christian Penn Eaton in 1634, widow of Pilgrim Francis Eaton. She brought to the marriage three children Rachel, Benjamin and another of unknown name (Samuel? -jcw 29.02.2012). Together they had an additional nine children. In 1642 (Records of the Town of Plymouth 1:12) numerous of the children were put out. "Concerneing the placeing and disposing of ffrancis Billingtons children according to the Act and order of the Court: "It is ordered and agreed upon that John Cooke the yonger shall have Joseph until hee shalbe of the age of twenty and one years (being now about vi or vii years old) and fynd him meat drink and apparell during the said terme." One can imagine the psychological hurt of a young child being put out of his home, and it is noted in the records that as a child (MF5G V:39) "he (Joseph) repeatedly ran away from his master to return to his parents; in July 1643 he and they were sternly admonished." This Joseph, who is later found at Block Island, was apparently considered lazy and shiftless. He is repeatedly ordered in the town records to go to work and support his family.(NEHGR 105:179, Notes on Block Islanders of Seventeenth Century.) A probable son Elisha is cited as having following his father's shiftless ways. (NEHGR: 106:105, Two Block Island Documents) It is ordered that Benjamin Eaton his eldest Boy shalbe with John Winslow upon these conditions untill he shall accomplish the age of xxi years being about xv years in march next . . ." It is ordered and agreed also that Gyles Rickett shall take another of his children a gerle aboute five years of age and shall keepe her and find her meat drink and apparell . . ." It is ordered and agreed likewise That Gabriell ffallowell shall have another of his children a gerle about ______ years of age . . ." Tragedy seemed to follow some members of the early family. A surviving daughter Elizabeth, one of those apprenticed out, married first Richard Bullock in 1660, Rehobeth, who died in 1667. She married second in 1673 a Robert Beere who was killed by the Indians in March of 1676. She married third Thomas Patey/Patte of Providence who drowned in the Seekonk River 1695. (MF5G V:37,38). Sources: Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, V, John Billington, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1991 Records of the Town of Plymouth, Volume 1, 1636-1705, Plymouth, Avery & Doten, Book and Job Printers, 1889. New England Historic and Genealogical Register, V 105,106. Mayflower Descendant,Volume V, Editor,George Ernest Bowman, Published by the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. For additional information on this family visit the Mayflower Site

  
  

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  [S901] Public Member Trees, **** 201411 KathyLaQuey, Database online. Record for Eleanor Bradford - THE BILLINGTON FAMILY - Eleanor - Mayflower and The Great Migration THE BILLINGTON FAMILY JOHN and his family (wife ELEANOR and sons John and FRANCIS) came over on the Mayflower and were part of the original Plymouth Colony. (Check out the Mayflower history page for details) Look at the details about JOHN BILLINGTON and you"ll seE that " The BILLINGTON FAMILY was Plymouth Colony’s troublemakers." JOHN was hung for murder in 1630 and his oldest son went missing before he died.. . According to the Crime and Punishment in the Plymouth Colony page. "The first person executed for murder was Mayflower passenger JOHN BILLINGTON, who was hanged in September 1630. He had gunned down John Newcomen, apparently the result of an ongoing quarrel." On a positive note ELEANOR was one of only five adult women to survive the first winter and only one of four to participate in the famous 1621 Thanksgiving. This is according ELEANOR'S Mayflower history page .. ==. Three hundred and seventy-seven years ago this month (Sep 2007) Mayflower passenger, JOHN BILLINGTON, was hung for murder. He was, in fact, the first white man hung in North America. He was know as a ruffian and a "knave" fond of brawling and social turbulence. The Governor at the time, William Bradford, had an obvious distaste for the BILLINGTON FAMILY and wrote the following about JOHN BILLINGTON in The History of Plymouth Colony: "This year JOHN BILLINGTON the elder, one of those who came over first, was arraigned, and both by grand and petty jury found guilty of willful murder by plain and notorious evidence, and was accordingly executed. This, the first execution among them was a great sadness to them. They took all possible pains in the trial, and consulted Mr. Winthrop, and the other leading men at the Bay of Massachusetts recently arrived, who concurred with them that he ought to die, and the land be purged of blood. He and some of his relatives had often been punished for misconduct before, being one of the profanest families among them. They came from London, and I know not by what influence they were shuffled into the first body of settlers. The charge against him was that he waylaid a young man, one John Newcomin, about a former quarrel, and shot him with a gun, whereof he died.". . Four years after JOHN'S death, his son FRANCIS married CHRISTIAN PENN, who was born on September 2nd, 1613.. . This information can be found in Edward Winslow and John Billington for Five Generations contains the best, most thorough and completely researched genealogy on John and Eleanor Billington and their two children John and Francis. It covers every known descendant for the first five generations, to the birth of the sixth generation. This book is packed full of pure genealogical research. Published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants. . . Sources:. 1.) Mayflower Families: . http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0930270177/themayflowwebpag . 2.) Edward Winslow and John Billington for Five Generations . http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0930270045/themayflowwebpag. ==. Eleanor The Billington family may have originated from around Cowbit and Spaulding, in Lincolnshire, England. Eleanor came to Plymouth on the Mayflower in 1620 with husband John, and children John and Francis. Eleanor was one of only five adult women to survive the first winter, and one of only four who was still alive to partake in the famous 1621 Thanksgiving. Her family is remembered as rather ill-behaved, however. Just after arrival, young Francis Billington shot off his father's musket in the Mayflower's cabin, showering sparks around open barrels of gunpowder, nearly causing a catastrophe. A few months later in March 1621, husband John was brought before the company for "contempt of the Captain's lawful command with opprobrious speeches", and was sentenced to have his neck and heels tied together: "but upon humbling himself and craving pardon, and it being the first offence, he is forgiven." Son John wandered off in May 1621, and was brought by Nauset Indians to Cape Cod, where he was later retrieved. In 1624, husband John Billington was implicated in the Oldham-Lyford scandal (a failed revolt against the Plymouth church), but he played ignorant and was never officially punished for involvement. In 1630, Eleanor's husband shot and killed John Newcomen, and he was hanged for the murder in September 1630. . Eleanor herself was not exempt from ill-behavior, as she was sentenced to sit in the stocks and be whipped for slandering John Doane in 1636. Two years later Eleanor remarried, to Gregory Armstrong, but had no additional children. . lorrigaines1 lorrigaines1 originally shared this to Godwin Family Tree ?09 Feb 2008 ?story From Mayflowerhistory.com KathyLaQuey KathyLaQuey added this to Jan Kirkland Darby Family Tree ?27 Jul 2010 balls56 balls56 originally shared this to PUTZ FAMILY TREE ?09 Mar 2010 ?story KathyLaQuey KathyLaQuey added this to Jan Kirkland Darby Family Tree ?27 Jul 2010 Public Comments (from all member trees) ? viviloel0626 John Billington: Parts of this story are untrue.Billington shot in the sky and it hit something and then hit the Newcomber. The man was trespassing on John Billinton's land and hunting. John Billington was a Catholic and many of the Puritans held that against him. 19 Apr 2012 wetzupdoc1 I read that they had feuded in the past and that they found themselves hunting the same game and they started shooting at each other, apparently Billington being the better, or luckier, shot. What's a reliable source? Just now _________________ Mayflower and The Great Migration In the 1623 Plymouth land division, John Billington received 3 acres as a passenger on the Mayflower. In the 1627 Plymouth cattle division, John Billington Sr., Hellen Billington and Francis Billington were the eleventh through thirteenth persons in the 7th company, and John Billington Jr. was the 10th person in the 9th company. John Billington was born about 1582 based on estimated date of marriage. He was hanged in September 1630 at Plymouth. He was married by about 1607 to Elinor Bradford. She married the second time between the 14th and 21st of Sept in 1638 to Gregory Armstrong and was living as late as 2 March 1642/3.. Children of John and Elinor/Eleanor were: John, born about 1604, died in Plymouth between 22 May 1627 and Sept. 1630, and Francis, born about 1606 (deposed 10 July 1674 "68 years of age"), married in Plymouth in July 1634 to Christian Eaton. She was Christian Penn Eaton, widow of Francis Eaton.. In his list of passengers on the Mayflower, Bradford includes "John Billington and Ellen his wife, and two sons, John and Francis". In his 1651 accounting of the Mayflower families, Bradford reported that "John Billington, after he had been here ten years, was executed for killing a man, and his eldest son died before him but his second son in alive and married and hath eight children". (The man murdered by Billington was John Newcomen.). In a Survey of 1650 for the manor of Spalding in Lincolnshire is a lease for three lives in which one of the lives is "Francis Billington son of John Billington." In describing the three lives involved, we are told that "Franscis Billington (as it is informed) was living about a year since in New England aged 40 years or thereabouts." The estimated age for Francis Billington is probably less accurate than his own deposition in 1674, but this record does provide an excellent clue for further research on the English origin of the family,.. The family of John Billington has been treated thoroughly by Harriet Woodbury Hodge in the 5th volume of the Five Generations Project of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, and she lists the many occasions on which John Billington or his sons were in trouble with the Plymouth authorities in the first decade of the colony's existence.. JeanHumbleFineran JeanHumbleFineran originally shared this to Humble Family Tree ?29 Oct 2008 ?story Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33, Provo, UT. (Database on-line. Original data R C Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33. Vol. 1-3. Boston MA, New England Historical Society KathyLaQuey KathyLaQuey added this to Jan Kirkland Darby Family Tree ?27 Jul 2010 [S29] Ancestry- BILLINGTON, John- Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633.doc, 20190308HAv- (3) facts. she married (2) between 14 and 21 September 1638 Gregory Armstrong and was living as late as 2 March 1642/3 [MF 5:34]. 20190308HAv- (3) facts she married (2) between 14 and 21 September 1638 Gregory Armstrong and was living as late as 2 March 1642/3 [MF 5:34].

  
  

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