Genealogical Dictionary of Maine & New Hampshire, pg. 583; History of Durham (NH. D4) 2: 315,316; Pope: Pioneers of Maine & NH. pg. 73; Maine: Prov & Court Records (ME 4) pg. 243. Archive Family Group Sheet Submitted by S. Farnham Kimball
Malden Vital Records; Bradford Vital Records; New England Reg 10:241; Ye Atte Wode Annals, Philip Line (B10 F19) pg 1 Wyman; Charleston Genealogies (Mass C15) pgs 26,27. Archive Family Group Sheet submitted by Archibald F. Bennett.
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Wyman: Charleston Genealogies (Mass c15) pgs 42,43,248; Ye Atte Wode Annals (R10 F19) Philip Line pg. 1; New England Register 89:211;Colonial Fam. of Long Island, by Herbert Furman Seyersmith. Archive Family Groups Sheet Submitted by S. Farnham Kimball,
On the internet they have the children born to a wife Rachel. More research needs to be done to confirm this one way or the other.
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The Tenney Family, by M.J.Tenney, Concord, NH 1904, pgs. 10-21.
Archive Family Group Sheet of Homer Whitmore Evans.Thomas Tenney emigrated from Yorkshire, England, to Salem, Massachusetts in December, 1638. He settled in Rowley, Massachusetts in April, 1639. His first marriage was to Ann Parrat and all his children were born of this marriage. He later married Elizabeth Parrat.
From TENNEY FAMILY, Generation 1 in America:
Thomas Tenney was born in Rowley, County of Yorkshire, England, sometime during the year 1614. As a basis for that conclusion, there are only two sentences in the Tenney Genealogy which give any information concerning Thomas Tenney's date of birth. This reference, on page 10, reads as follows:
"In a deposition taken at Ipswich, Mass., 4 May, 1680, Mr. Tenney testifies in relation to an ox pasture in Rowley (Mass.) and at that time he gave his age as about sixty-six years. This would have made him 24 years old when he emigrated to America."
Thomas Tenney died in Bradford, Mass., February 20th, 1699, at the age of 85 after living 61 years in America. He is buried in the Old Cemetery at Bradford (now Groveland). His wife, Ann, who came from England with Thomas, was buried September 26, 1657. Thomas married his second wife, Elizabeth, widow of Francis Parrat, February 24th, 1658. No children were born to them.
In a survey of the town of Rowley, ordered November 10th, 1643, a 1 1/2 acre house lot on Holmes St. was registered in Thomas Tenney's name. He erected a house on this lot which was torn down by Capt. Daniel L. Prime in 1838. It appears that Thomas also owned several large tracts of land outside of the village of Rowley.
Thomas Tenney took an active part in town affairs. He was "marshal in 1653-66; warner of town meetings, 1650-53-60-61-66; overseer of plains, 1656-64-71; selectman, 1660-61-70; viewer of fences, highways, and chimneys, 1669; constable, 1665-66; tithingman, 1680. In 1660, on committee to see about the preservation of firewood. In 1674-77, concerned in the affairs of Rev. Mr. Shepard. In 1667, appointed to see that the Sabbath be duly observed. In 1680, appointed inspector of ten families.
"The last years of his life were passed in Bradford, as seen by a deed, vis.: 'Thomas Tenney of Bradford (a gift) to Eldest son John Tenney of Bradford, sixty acres of land in Bradford, now in possession of John wood, also three acres of meadow at Crane Pond in Rowley, also six acres . . . . also one and one fourth acre. . . . also six acres and two cow-gates. Dated 15 June, 1694.THE TENNEY FAMILY
Our Former Home in England
Our English home was Rowley, County of Yorkshire, England. It is situated near the great waterway, the River Humber, an estuary of the North Sea. Rowley is six miles from the south bank of the Humber, twenty miles inland from Spurn Head, and three hundred feet above sea level. It is delightfully located on the top of high hills called the "Yorkshire Wolds".
A letter written in 1852 by a lawyer residing near Rowley, describes the place as follows:
"Rowley is a small hamlet with not more than a dozen houses and some fifty to sixty inhabitants who are engaged in agriculture. It has neither trade nor institutions. Relatively, it was undoubtedly a more important place in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries than it is at the present time. The church parish is comprised of four other hamlets in addition to Rowley."
Mr. Willis R. Tenney, who visited Rowley in 1896, reported that St. Peter's Church was built about the year 1400, and that a portion of the main building may date back a century earlier. Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, rector of this church in 1638, was a man of learning, very devout, possessed of much zeal, and felt keenly the religious persecution of King Charles' order to the clergy to read in church the "declaration of sports". The king directed that no hindrance should be thrown in the way of those who wished to dance or shoot at the butts (a target) on Sunday afternoons. Puritan Rogers, much aggrieved at this and other persecutions, gathered to him in the parish of Rowley some twenty families (including Thomas Tenney and his wife, Ann) for the purpose of emigrating to America. They succeeded in leaving England in the autumn of 1638.
The voyage was made in the ship "John of London" which landed in Salem, Massachusetts in December. A fellow passenger was Rev. Joseph Glover, now known as the "Father of the American Press" who brought over with him the first printing press ever shipped to America.Putting Down Roots in America
This group of people, remaining in Salem during the winter, settled the following April in what is now Rowley, Massachusetts. This area was probably selected on account of its pleasantness, its nearness to the river, and the abundance of thatch found growing on the river banks.
In colonizing, they formed a community under the direction of their spiritual leader, Rev. Rogers, and first called it the Rogers Plantation. The General Court, under date of Sept. 4th, 1639, ordered that the settlement "shall be called Rowley". (Mass. Colony Record, Vol. 1, page 271).
By December 3rd, 1639, a plain meeting-house had been erected. The earliest mention of a meeting-house bell, which was suspended from a nearby frame, was in 1658. For sweeping the meeting-house and ringing this bell, a yearly appropriation of 2pounds, 10shillings was granted. There was no organized school until February 3rd, 1656, at which time William Boynton was engaged as teacher for a term of seven years. He continued to teach until the end of his 24th year.
The first marriage was recorded in 1639. Rowley had no resident physician until 1652. The earliest preserved tax list bears the date "ye 9th of June, 1691". In 1680, there were 129 families living in Rowley. The town records are full and complete. Not a leaf is missing from the books containing the entries of births, marriages, and deaths. (History of Essex County)
From the beginning, Rowley was a manufacturing as well as a farming community. Many of the first settlers were weavers, and in connection with the fulling mill built in 1643, the production of cloth was long a profitable industry. As early as 1680, ship-building was carried on at the warehouse landing. About 1813, Capt. Perley built a vessel of ninety tons on Rowley Common, one mile and a half from the river. The ship, which was named "Country's Wonder" was hauled to the river in one day by more than one hundred yoke of oxen. (condensed from Tenney Family Genealogy, pages 7 - 13)
Thus, the Tenney Family began a new life in America. Since then, members of our family have made their way, and their mark, throughout the United States. Whether in business, agriculture, industry, the arts and sciences, or the professions, the name Tenney has become synonymous with sterling character, honesty, and the diligent and successful pursuit of highly worth-while objectives. Educators, ministers, doctors, and lawyers in the Tenney Family have been especially numerous. Government officials are not infrequent. There have been many well-known businessmen and manufacturers by the name of Tenney, or from Tenney ancestry.
Much Tenney blood, sweat, and tears has been bravely spilled in the service of our country.
A deep sense of respect and responsibility for law and order, family unity, and religious devotion is a strong family characteristic. Deacon John Harrison Tenney, father of Harrison E. Tenney who is a present resident of Rowley, made the following statement: "So far as I can learn, with very few exceptions, all who have borne the name of Tenney have been sober, industrious, law-abiding citizens, and some have been highly honored." (Quoted from Tenney Family Geneology, pages 35-76)
The following is also quoted from our geneology.
"Elder Samuel Tenney, grandson of Thomas, was accustomed to pray earnestly for his 'children and children's children's children to the latest generation.' How much of the good that has been in his descendants may be in answer to his prayers? Who can say?"
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Francis PARRAT was born in 1614 in Sulerton, Lincolnshire, England. He died on 30 SEP 1656 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts. Genealogical History of the Clark and Worth Familes
Author: Carol Clark JohnsonPARRAT
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This name originated as "little Peter", the French Pierre plus suffix -et or -ot, and occurs in English records as early as 1277; Wm. le Perot, 1277; John Parrot, 1344, London; Wm. Parotte, 1470, Lincolnshire; and John Parott, 1520.FRANCIS PARRAT1, ESQUIRE, DEACON was born in England about 1610 and probably came from Yorkshire with the Reverend Ezekiel Rogers in 1638, bringing his sisters Ann who married Deacon Thomas Mighill and Faith who married (1) John Smith February 24, 1657, and (2) May 2, 1666, William Law.
Mr. Parrat, after becoming a freeman May 13, 1640, served as the Town Clerk of Rowley fourteen years from 1641. He was a man of influence and ability with a good education for the time as evidenced by his penmanship on town records.
The deacon was one of those who made the first town survey and assigned houselots, and he was the first Rowley deputy to the General Court in 1640 and again in 1642. He served on the grand jury in 1641 and on the trial jury in 1648 and 1649. In 1652 he was the commissioner of Rowley and was ordained a deacon in 1655. He married Elizabeth Northend who married (2) February 24, 1658, Thomas Tenney. Mr. Parrat's house-lot was on Wethersfield Street: "To ffrancis Parrat two acres, bounded on the south side by John Jarrat's house Lott, the West End and the North side by the streets". He went to England on business and there died
in 1656. His will of November 18, 1655, was proved September 30, 1656:"I ffrancis Parratt of Rowley intending to take a journey to England. . . . . . . . . constitute and appoint this as my last will & testament in maner & forme as followeth.
. . . . . . . . . . Ite my will is that my debts be first payd. Ite I give to my Loveing wifePage 70
Elizabeth Parrat one hundred pounds (???) in land goods & cattle. I also give her my house and house - lott, after her death to be equally divided amonge my children. The rest of my lands goods & Chattles, I give to my Six daughters to be equally divided amongst them and each of them to have their equall share paid unto them at the age of twenty one yeares or the day of their mariage. I constitute my wife as sole executris of this my last will & Testament and I appoint my loveing brethren, Maximilian Jewett & Ezekiel Northend as overseers of this my last will and testament in witnes hereof I have hereunto set my hand this 18th day of November 1655.
ffrancis Parrat"
Witnesses: Ezekiel northend, John Palmer.
(Essex County Probate, 1:244)Children Born in Rowley
1. Elizabeth2, born May 1, 1640, married Samuel Worcester November 29, 1659; m. (2) Ovis Marsh Sr.;
four children. She died May 9, 1690, at Haverhill.
2. Faith2, born March 20, 1642, married Ezekiel Jewett (son of Maximilian) February 26, 1664; 10
children.
3. John2, twin born February 22, 1643; died young.
4. Sarah2, twin of John; buried October 9, 1663.
5. Mercy2, born May 23, 1646, married Deacon John Tenney February 26, 1663; died November 27,1667.
6. MARY PARRAT2 (Francis1) was born July 15, 1647, married John Sawyer; died September 28, 1714.
SEE SAWYER FAMILY.
7. Martha2, born October 9, 1649; died in Amesbury, July 13, 1730. She married Isaac Colby.
8. Hannah2, born December 26, 1651; died before 1656.He was married to Elizabeth NORTHEND in 1639 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts. Children were: Elizabeth PARRAT, Faith PARRAT, John PARRAT
-twin, Sarah PARRAT, Mercy PARRAT, Mary PARRAT, Martha PARRAT, Hannah PARRAT.
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Wyman: Charleston Genealogies (Mass c15) pgs 42,43,248; Ye Atte Wode Annals (R10 F19) Philip Line pg. 1; New England Register 89:211;Colonial Fam. of Long Island, by Herbert Furman Seyersmith. Archive Family Groups Sheet Submitted by S. Farnham Kimball,
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