William Howell ¹ died ² in 1557. William married Maude.

Other marriages:

Hampton, Anne Eyre

William Howell, had come from Wales and built the large stone manor-house in Marsh Gibbon in 1536, a house still well preserved. Some of the New England descendants have a picture of it.

William Howell, of Wedon, in County of Bucks, England, purchased the manor of Westbury, in Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, in 1536. The old stone manor house is still standing, though the remains of a foundation near it shows that some portions of it have been taken down. It is two full stories and what is called a double house and is nearly covered with ivy. William Howell married first Maude, second Anne Hampton. His will of date Nov. 30, 1557, directs his body to be buried in the parish church of Wingrave, in the chancel before the high altar. Gives legacies to the poor of Aylesbury, to the poor of Whiteehurch and to the poor of Marsh. Gives his wife Anne his lands in Watton and Hamme for her life, and at her decease they are to go to his son Henry. Gives his eldest son John his lands in Marsh Gibbon and in default of issue to his son Henry and in default of issue to his son Jacob. To each of his daughters £20 and a legacy for bells for Hardwich Church. He died in 1557 and John the eldest son inherited the manor and himself died without issue in 1576, so Henry inherited the manor. [ history of the Willis family of New England and New Jersey]

Robert Fordham. Robert married Elizabeth Benning.

Elizabeth Benning. Elizabeth married Robert Fordham.

Edward Hawten. Edward married Margery Croker.

Margery Croker. Margery married Edward Hawten.

Abiel Cook [Parents] ¹ was born ¹ in 1669. He died ¹ in 1740 in Southampton. Abiel married Frances.

Other marriages:

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Frances died before 1715. Frances married Abiel Cook ¹.

Ellis Cook [Parents] was born ¹ in 1703. He died ¹ in 1756. Ellis married Mary Williams ¹.

Mary Williams ¹. Mary married Ellis Cook.

Ellis Cook was born ¹ in 1617 in Hertfordshire, England. He died ¹ in 1669 in Southampton, Long Island. Ellis married Martha Cooper ¹.

Ellis Cook, the first of the family in this country, was born in Hertfordshire, Enigland, in 1617. He came to America at the age of twenty, in 1637, and settled in Lynn, Mass. He was evidently a young man of means, as he bought property at Lynn and afterward on Long Island. In 1644 he removed to Southampton, Long Island. This settlement was made in 1640 by Edward Howell (one of our ancestors) and others, who formed a company for the settlement at Lynn, Mass. (For Edward Howell, see ‘‘Howell Family.’’)

Our ancestor Ellis Cook’s name first appears in the town records in 1653, when all the male inhabitants were formed into four "squadrons" for certain public service. Ellis’ Cook’s name appears as placed in the third squadron. His village lot was on the east side of Main Street, the second one south of the Meeting House. He afterward lived near the water mill on the road to Bridgehampton. He married Martha Cooper, daughter of Mr. John Cooper. (See "Cooper Family.") There is no record of Ellis Cook’s age, death or burial, as none of the first settlers at Southampton had tombstones, there being no stone in tile neighborhood, but the second generatlion had, and his son Ellis Cook (2nd) was buried on the west side of Mecox, or Mecock’s, Bay, where his grave is marked with a stone; lie died in 1706, aged 44 years. The will of Ellis Cook (1st) is on record in the Surrogate’s office in New York City and is dated September 5th, 1663, and recorded July 17, 1669, so he probably died shortly before the latter date. From his will we learn he had five children: John, Martha, Ellis, Jr., Mary and our ancestor, Abiel, who was born after the death of his father in 1669. None of these children were of age when the will was written in 1663 and he appointed his wife executrix, and his brothers-in-law, John and Thomas Cooper, overseers of his property. He mentions various articles in his will and his property in the village and also on Mecox Bay, of which he appears to have had a large tract. In the will his name is spelled Cooke, but the name is spelled everywhere in the town records Cook. Ellis Cook moved to Mecox Bay in 1659, but retained his town house, which after his death was exchanged by his widow and son Abiel for property at Mill Neck, now Watermill.

"It is said that nearly all of the original settlers of Southampton were titled men, but did not use their titles in this country." Nearly all their names are found in "Burke’s General Armory" as entitled to coats of arms. Seven families of the name Cook are in Burke’s and seventy-one of the name of Cooke.

Ellis Cook (1st) had a son Abiel (2nd), who had a son Abiel (3rd), who married Sarah Moore, a great- granddaughter of Edward Howell, the leader of the Southampton colony. Ellis Cook (4th), son of Abiel, moved to Hanover, New Jersey (Livingston now), and on June 22, 1744, bought of Cornelius Drake a farm of 110 acres, lying on the south side of the road to the old "Iron Works" and extending from the Passaic river 62 chains westerly.

Martha Cooper [Parents] ¹ was born ¹ about 1630 in England. Martha married Ellis Cook.

John Cooper ¹ was born ¹ in 1594 in Olney, Buckinghamshire, England. John married Widroe ¹.

John immigrated ² in 1635 to America.

John Cooper was born Olney, Buckinhanshire, England, in 1594. He came from England 1633, in the Hopewell, with his wife Widroe and four children: Mary, aged 13  John, aged 10  Thomas, aged 7 Martha, aged 5 yearsHe was from his arrival a prominent figure in the affairs of Boston and Lynn, Mass. In 1636 he was made freeman at Boston, was one of the elders of the church when it was organized at Lynn, in 1638, and he is on record as owning one hundred acres in that town. He was one of the twenty heads of families who formed the settlement of Southampton, Long Island, in 1640. He was living in Southampton in 1655, and probably afterward, “where he was a man of reputation.” He moved to Connecticut and was “representative” May, 1659, and after that date. He was in the list of freeman at New Haven in Oct., 1669.

Widroe ¹. Widroe married John Cooper.

Isaac Evans [Parents] ¹ was born ¹ on 3 Dec 1789. He died ¹ on 14 Feb 1875. Isaac married ^{1, 2} Jane P. Morton ¹ on 2 Jan 1812 in Ross County, Ohio, USA.

Other marriages:

Wallace, Mary
Peoples, Jane

THE EVANS FAMILY (by Zorbaugh, Charles Louis, 1941)

The Isaac Evans Home

The home of Isaac Evans, where my grandmother, Cynthia Evans McClure, was born, was on a farm just at the edge of South Salem, Ohio. The original house was destroyed by fire years ago, and replaced with another. I have visited the place two or three times, preached in the old South Salem Church where Isaac Evans was an elder for forty years, and seen his tombstone and those of his wives in the cemetery by the church.

South Salem was an Evans center for many years, and its famous academy, now converted into the village library, was an educational center, not only for the Evanses, but for many well known people. None of the Evans name is now left in the village, but the morning I preached there I was told that probably eighty per cent of the congregation were related to me through intermarriages with the Evanses.

Isaac Evans Describes Himself - He says: "I joined the Presbyterian Church at 21. I was not a swearer, but did something for 'the old boy.' Have been an elder in the South Salem Church for forty years. I opposed slavery and joined the Abolition Society at an early day. The organization went into politics. I thought this was helping the Democrats, and left them."

Reminiscences of William M. Evans: He recalls his grandfather as a prominent, conservative, old-fashioned man in the South Salem community. 'He was deeply religious, and so considered by all who knew him. . . He was active in building both Salem Academy and the Presbyterian Church. . . His educational advantages were limited: yet he was a student of church history and of the Scriptures. . . had a remarkable knowledge of the Bible and insight into its meaning conducted family worship morning and evening in his home

Scripture reading, hymn singing (lined out), and prayer. The words of his family prayers were deeply impressive. The petitions, dignified, reverential, commonly ended with "world without end, Amen."

"He was a Republican, an abolitionist, a teetotaler, opposed to Free Masonry, a loyal citizen and a staunch Presbyterian, friend of Negroes fleeing from the South, and a generous contributor to foreign missions. . . Grandfather was hard of hearing-frequently sat on pulpit steps to hear the sermon. But his vision was extraordinarily good. He never used spectacles, and could read daily paper by candle light. . . Grandfather was kind-hearted, very charitable to the sincere belief of others, but warned us vs. the frivolities of Christmas celebrations (too much R. C.) and beware of the Methodist wild fire."

Written down in the back of an early book of minutes of the session of the South Salem Church is a protest, lodged by Isaac Evans against an action of the session, and signed by his own hand in tall trembling letters, he being at the time about eighty. I have myself seen it, and it is so interesting that I give it here:

"The Elders and Deacons of South Salem Presbyterian Church having at a meeting recently held granted the request of the Choir to use an instrument of music for a few Sabbaths by way of experiment: I, Isaac Evans, a ruling elder in said church, being conscientiously opposed to the use of instrumental music in the worship of God; as having no authority in the New Testament but forbidden in Revelation 20:18; as having its origin and chief support in the Roman Catholic Apostasy;  and as tending to foster a spirit of worldliness in the Church; and as working against congregational singing-; and at the same time having no disposition to enforce my conscientious convictions as laws upon others-do hereby enter my solemn protest against such action in order that my conscience may be relieved of complicity in the matter and I still continue to retain my place as member of and Elder in South Salem Congregation.

And it is my desire that this protest shall go upon the permanent records of the Church both for my own satisfaction and for the information of others.

And that this is my own act I hereunto subscribe my name this fifth day of April, 1871. - ISAAC EVANS."

Having lived his long life, been married three times, and had thirteen children born to him, Isaac Evans died Feb. 14, 1878, at 86 years of age. In the South Salem Cemetery he and his three wives lie sleeping, and I have spent musing hours wandering there, reading their stones, and those of others, like the Bradens and Heizers, whose representatives were among the emigrants from the neighborhood who went to Iowa along with the McClures and settled in the Mediapolis neighborhood. [THE EVANS FAMILY (by Zorbaugh, Charles Louis, 1941)_]

Jane P. Morton [Parents] ¹ was born ¹ on 27 Mar 1789. She died on 18 Jul 1826. Jane married ^{1, 2} Isaac Evans ¹ on 2 Jan 1812 in Ross County, Ohio, USA.

William McClure [Parents] ¹ was born ¹ on 31 Mar 1759. He died ¹ on 1 Oct 1823. William married ¹ Agnes McKeehan ¹ on 28 Feb 1786.

Other marriages:

McKeehan, Margaret

William McClure was born Mar. 3 1, 1759, and died Oct. 1, 1823. He lived at Landisburg, near Chambersburg, Perry County, Pa. He was twice married. In 1786, on Feb. 29, he married Nancy McKeehan as she was called, though her right name was Agnes. Of this marriage was descended Colonel A. K. McClure, editor of the Philadelphia Times. Agnes was born July 25. 1765, and died Mar. 14, 1798.

After the death of Agnes, William McClure again married, and this time married, on May 2, 1799, Margaret McKeehan, probably Agnes' sister, unless, as is stated in Clemens' "McClure Family Records," she was her cousin. Margaret McKeehan was born July 28, 1773, and died Nov. 18, 1841.

Agnes McKeehan ¹ was born ¹ on 25 Jul 1765. She died ¹ on 14 Mar 1798. Agnes married ¹ William McClure ¹ on 28 Feb 1786.

Daniel Kilpatrick. Daniel married Martha Jane McClure on 9 Jun 1861.

Martha Jane McClure [Parents] was born ¹ about 1835 in Ohio, USA. Martha married Daniel Kilpatrick on 9 Jun 1861.