Elizabeth Tilley portrait
Isetta's mother Harriet Smith descended from the Mayflower family of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley
When I showed my Stetson results to Twyla, she was interested to learn that Cornet Robert Stetson arrived in Plymouth Colony shortly after the Mayflower. But what about the family members who were actually aboard the original Pilgrim ship?
Those would be the famous couple of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley, whose history and genealogy are well documented. How did the Stetson family intersect with this famous Mayflower family?
It turns out Twyla had quite a bit of information. She knew there was a line of three daughters named Hope. In fact, she thought the line of descent was mostly or entirely through daughter relationships.
She also knew the Stetson family connection to the Howland line came through Isetta's mother, Harriett Smith. When I mentioned that Harriett's mother was Martha Haskell, she recognized that the Haskell surname was part of the lineage.
With those clues, I went to work mapping the generations back from Martha Haskell and forward from John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley. I knew I was on the right track when I found that Martha's father, Captain George Henry Haskell, though living in western New York state and later in northeastern Ohio, was a native of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
The full results are below. Twyla was right about the Hopes and the predominantly female line of descent. There were two male generations but none since 1840, when Captain Haskell died in North Bloomfield, Ohio.
Both families went back to the Plymouth Colony but it took them nine generations to get together in the American midwest.
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Gen |
Line |
Name |
Birth |
Death |
Marriage |
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1 |
M |
John Howland |
BIRTH 1591 • Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire District, Cambridgeshire, England |
DEATH 23 FEBRUARY 1672 • Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts |
Elizabeth Tilley (1607–1687) About 1624 • Plymouth |
|
2 |
F |
Hope Howland |
BIRTH 30 AUG 1629 • Plymouth, Massachusetts |
DEATH 8 JANUARY 1683 • Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts |
John Chipman (1621–1708) 1646 |
|
3 |
F |
Hope Chipman |
BIRTH 31 AUGUST 1652 • Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts |
DEATH 25 JULY 1728 • Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts |
John Huckens (1649–1678) 1670 • New England, USA |
|
4 |
F |
Hope Huckens |
BIRTH 10 MAY 1677 • Barnstable, Massachusetts |
DEATH 7 DECEMBER 1782 |
Thomas Nelson (1675–1755) 24 Mar 1697 • New England |
|
5 |
M |
Thomas Nelson II |
BIRTH 12 APRIL 1710 • Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts |
DEATH 7 MARCH 1768 • Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts |
Juda Peirce (1706–1792) 2 Dec 1736 • Middleborough, Massachusetts |
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6 |
F |
Judith Nelson |
BIRTH 2 MARCH 1743 • Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts |
DEATH 23 MARCH 1806 • Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts |
Roger Haskell (1742–1815) 5 Jan 1765 • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts |
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7 |
M |
Captain George Henry Haskell |
BIRTH 21 APR 1773 • Lakeville, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts |
DEATH 16 FEB 1840 • North Bloomfield, Trumbull, Ohio |
Eliza Knapp (1786–1842) 12 Aug 1812 • Middlebury, Addison, Vermont |
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8 |
F |
Martha Haskell |
BIRTH 5 FEB 1822 • Mina, Chautauqua County, New York |
DEATH 23 FEB 1872 • North Bloomfield, Ashtabula, OH |
Josiah T Smith (1818–1893) 23 Apr 1842 • Trumbull, Ohio |
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9 |
F |
Harriet Eliza Ford Smith |
BIRTH ABT 7 JAN 1854 • Bloomfield, Ohio |
DEATH 12 DEC 1940 • Deer Lodge, Powell County, Montana |
Herbert E Stetson (1852–1924) 1877 |
|
10 |
F |
Isetta M. Stetson |
BIRTH 30 NOV 1891 • Earlville, Delaware, Iowa, USA |
DEATH 13 FEB 1983 • St Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, USA |
James Vincent Bennett (1878–1951) 16 Jan 1918 • Deer Lodge, Powell, Montana |
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11 |
F |
Judith Bennett |
BIRTH 30 AUG 1928 • Daniels, Montana, USA |
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Edwin John Eilertsen (1925–2015) 12 Jun 1950 • Hennepin, Minnesota, USA |
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12 |
F |
Kathleen Eilertsen |
BIRTH 27 AUG 1954 • Douglas, Minnesota |
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Daniel J Ruby (1952–) 30 AUG 1980 • Lake Minnetonka Minnesota |
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13 |
F |
Twyla Eilertsen Ruby |
BIRTH 7 AUG 1985 • Boston, Massachusetts |
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