Nicholas
Stoughton
aka Stoten, Stoton
Born in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Elizabeth (Knapp) Stoughton
— married
17 Feb 1673 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony
Husband of
Sarah (Richmond) Stoughton
— married
1691 [location unknown]
Husband of
Sarah (Hoar) Stoughton
— married
25 Feb 1692 in Massachusetts Bay Colony
Descendants 
Father of
Elizabeth Stoughton, Mary Stoughton, Hannah (Stoughton) Booth, Samuel Stoughton, Sarah Jane (Stoughton) Alger and Abigail (Stoughton) Willis
Died about
at about age 56
in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts
Profile last modified
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Biography
Nicholas Stoughton (alternative spelling: "Nicklos Stoten") was born about 1637, in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts or England. He died 4 15 Feb 1693 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts.
His parents are unknown. Further research is needed. He may have been related to the emigrant brothers Israel Stoughton and Thomas Stoughton or son of Samuel Stoughton of Woking, Surrey.[1]
He was probably not the son, as some have suggested, of Anthony Stoughton and Agnes Pierce (parents of emigrant Rose Stoughton Otis). That Nicholas Stoughton, lived in Stoughton Surrey and was High Sherriff of Surrey.
He married Elizabeth Knapp, daughter of Aaron and Elizabeth Knapp, on Feb. 16, 1673 in Plymouth, Mass.[2] They had three children.
He married, Sarah, daughter of John Richmond, as her third husband, after her her second husband, James Walker, died Feb. 1691. Her first husband, Edward Rew, died in 1678. [3] They had no children.
Nicholas married Sarah Hoar, as his third wife, on 25 Feb 1692 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts. Sarah was one of eight children of Hezekiah Hoar.[4]
A 1999 article by Malcom Young in "The American Genealogist" concluded that Nicholas Stoughton married first on 17 Feb 1673/4 in Taunton, Massachusetts, Elizabeth Knapp and had daughter, Hannah (b. 4 Jul 1679) and son, Samuel (b. 28 Oct 1690). He married secondly between 15 Feb 1690/1 and 7 Aug 1691, Sarah Richmond, widow of Edward Rew and James Walker, by whom he had no children. He married thirdly, in Taunton on 25 Feb 1691/2, Sarah Hoar. Mr. Young states: "It is likely that Sarah and Abigail are of the third marriage; Sarah was probably named in memory of the second wife, a frequent custom of the time, though Sarah was the third wife's name as well."[5]
Sources
- ↑ English Origins of New England Families, Second Series Vol. III, p. 369
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP8G-1LJS : 11 May 2022), Nicholas Stoughton and Elizabeth Knapp, 11 Feb 1673; citing Marriage, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009308.
- ↑ HIstory of Taunton, p. 73
- ↑ History of Taunton, p. 52
- ↑ "The American Genealogist" Vol. 74, No. 3, July 1999, p.178, by Malcom Young
See also:
- American Genealogist, The, Vol. 74, No. 3, July 1999, p.178, by Malcom Young.
- Ancestry.com family trees
- English Origins of New England Families, from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. 3 vols., Second Series Vol. III.
- Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850, Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005, source: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 0899100.
- History of Taunton, Massachusetts: From Its Settlement to the Present Time", by Samuel Hopkins Emergy, Syracuse, NY, D. Mason & Co., 1893, 878 p. https://books.google.com/books?id=iqsvAQAAMAAJ
- Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Ancestry.com [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
- The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011, Ancestry.com [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: New England Historic Genealogical Society. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston: The New England Historic Genealogical Society.
- New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Clarence Almon Torrey (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011) Vol. II, pp. 1462, 1463. STAUGHTON, Nicholas & 1/wf Elizabeth KNAPP (-1681); 17 Feb 1673; Taunton. STOUGHTON, Nicholas & 2/wf Sarah (RICHMOND-REW)[WALKER] (1638-1691); ?by 1690 Taunton, ?m 1691; Taunton. STOUGHTON, Nicholas & 2/wf? 3/wf Sarah HOAR (1658-1713?); 25 Feb 1691/2, ?Saybrook, CT; Taunton/Boston
- Our county and its people: a descriptive and biographical record of Bristol County, Massachusetts, p. 251, by Alansen Borden, Boston: Boston History Co., 1899. https://books.google.com/books?id=NFqqkKGlNN4C
- Rootsweb, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hwbradley/aqwg140.htm
- U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700, [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2012. Original data: Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.
- Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook). - Marriage Record of Nicklos Staton and Elizabeth Knapp - m. 17 Feb 1673 in Taunton, Massachusetts.
- Torrey, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. - Marriage Record for Nicholas Stoughton and Elizabeth Knapp m. 17 Feb 1673 in Taunton, Massachusetts.
- FamilySearch Person: 9WRP-JFL
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That Dorchester register that lists the births of Elizabeth and Mary and the death of "Mrs. Elizabeth" does not say that Mrs. Elizabeth was the wife of Nicholas. It is a compilation of all records for people names Stoughton in a particular time period. The Great Migration Begins associates that 1681 death with Elizabeth (Knight) Stoughton, widow of Israel Stoughton. (Israel Stoughton and his older brother Thomas Stoughton are the two Great Migration immigrants named Stoughton who are treated in the Great Migration series. Both settled in Dorchester.) The Mrs. Elizabeth who died in 1681 was old enough to have been the grandmother of Nicholas (but apparently she was not his grandmother); she was not his wife.
1. Nicholas of T. married Elizabeth Knapp in 1673/4 and had at least 2 children: Hannah in 1679 and Samuel 1690 (probably others, but most Taunton records are lost). Eliz. died after Samuel's birth and Nicholas married Sarah Richmond after Feb 1691. She died; he married Sarah Hoar and had at least 2 more children: Sarah and Abigail. Evidence that these people, at least, were a family comes from the November 1726 deed that refers to Nicholas (deceased) and names as siblings Hannah (Stoughton) Booth, Samuel Stoughton (as of the deed of March 1726/7 he has disappeared and is presumed dead), Sarah (Stoughton) Alger, and Abigail (Stoughton) Willlis.
2. Nicholas of D. and wife Eliz. had twins Elizabeth & Mary in 1676/7, and wife Eliz died in 1680.
The marriage in Taunton is reasonably well documented and Nicholas was recorded with children in Taunton (mother not identified) in 1679 and 1690.
Nicholas had daughters Elizabeth and Mary in Dorchester in 1676/7 (mother not identified), and "Mrs Elizabeth Stoughton" died in Dorchester in 1681.
Did this one family move from Taunton to Dorchester (35 miles by modern reckoning) between 1674 and 1677, the move back to Taunton by 1679, then back to Dorchester by 1680? Or were there two families?
It also seems odd that Nicholas would have remained unmarried for 10 years after the death of Elizabeth. And if the same Nicholas was father of Samuel in 1690, who was the mother?
The birthdate of "before 1652" is based on his age at first marriage; I have no idea where the 1637 birthdate is from, but it's before 1652.
What's the source for the death date of 1693? Neither Torrey nor Young gives a date of death.
Note on 2 July 2017: Young cites a deed dated 1726 that describes Nicholas as deceased,, so we know he died before then.