William Twining Sr (abt. 1605 - 1659)

Born about 1605 in England

Husband of Unknown (Unknown) Twining — married about 1620 in England

Descendants

Died 15 Apr 1659 at about age 54 in Eastham, Plymouth

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William Twining Sr migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Directory, by R. C. Anderson, p. 344) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Disputed Origins

A previous version of this profile claimed, without source, that he was the son of Thomas Twenynge and Mabell Newcombe. The only Thomas listed in the Gloucestershire records is the SON of William, not the Father of William. These parents have been detached.

IF he was from Gloucestershire, he was son of William Twenynge and Mabell Newcombe, christened 20 MAY 1599 in Painswick, Gloucester, England. If this is the correct birth, the record is here.^[1]

Biography

He arrived at Plymouth, presumably with first wife (name unknown) and near-adult children, Isabel and William2. No known other children.

Was in Yarmouth by 1641 and able to bear arms there 1643.

He removed by 1645 to Eastham, where he lived near Town Cove.

In 1645 he served against the Narragansetts (or was this his son?) About this time he moved to Nauset or Eastham where he was the constable 5 June 1651.

He m2 1652 Anne Doane; therefore she is not the mother of his children. She may have been sister of Deacon Done.

William, or his son, was admitted a freeman on 3 June 1652. on 13 May 1654 he was granted two acres of meadow at Great Namshaket “five acres of upland with his son Wm. And that he shall have five acres more at the head of these lots”. He also had grants at Rock Harbor and Poche. He lived in Poche on the east side of Town Cove “on a house lot containing two and one-half acres lying next the cove”. In 1659 he was granted “five acres at Pocke, lying at the head of Wm. Twining Jr.” ^[2]

“Ann Twining which was the Wife of William Twining senior died the twentieseventh day of feburarie in the year of our lord one thousand six hundred and eightie" ^[3]

Death

He died in Eastham 15 April 1659; no known will or estate document survives.

“William Twineing Senior Decesed the fifteenth: Day of Apreill in the year: of or Lord one thousand six hundered fifty nine” .^[4][5] Source: Note: Age: 59-60.

Research Notes

William Twining is in the Great Migration Directory, page 344, with the following notes:

"Unknown; 1640; Yarmouth, Eastham [PCR 2:19, 7:21; MD 6:202, 17:201; Emerson-Benson 568-69]." Key to titles: PCR = Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, by Nathaniel Shurtleff etc. MD = Mayflower Descendant Vol 1through present. Emerson-Benson = An Emerson-Benson Saga" The Ancestry of Charles F Emerson and Bessie Benson and the Sturggle to Settle the United States, by Edmund K. Swigart (1994)

Sources

1. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch [1] : 11 February 2018, William Twenynge, 20 May 1599); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 425,488, 855,629.
2. ↑ The Twining Family- Thomas Twining, Fort Wayne, 1905- pp. 3-6
3. ↑ Eastham and Orleans Vital Records- The Mayflower Descendant- Vol. VI, p. 202
4. ↑ Massachusetts, Town Clerk...d Town Records, 1626-2001 Barnstable Eastham, Orleans Births, marriages, deaths, land grants 1649-1722.[2]
5. ↑ Births, marriages, deaths, 1649-ca.1840; intentions of marriage, 1700-ca.1905, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G979-9FQV  : 28 September 2022), FHL microfilm 007009735, image 124, Eastham, Massachusetts, Volume 2, Births, & Deaths, 1654-1797, Page 40.

1. Leon Clark Hills, Cape Cod Series, Vol. I: History and Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters and First Comers to Ye Olde Colonie
2. Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. Volume II
3. History and genealogy of the Mayflower planters and first comers to ye olde colonie. Ancestry.com. Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Washington, D.C.: Hills Pub. Co., c1936-c1941.
4. Thomas Jefferson Twining, The Twining family : descendants of William Twining, Sr. of Eastham, Massachusetts, where he died 1659 : with notes of English
5. Filby, P. William, ed.. , Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
6. Anderson, Robert Charles, F.A.S.G., The Great Migration Directory, (Boston, Massachusetts, NEHGS, 2015), "Concise entries for all immigrant families for the entirety of the Great Migration, from 1620 to 1640." William Twining, page 344