Family:Humphrey Chadbourne and Lucy Treworgy (1)

Humphrey² Chadbourne (William¹, Robert^A) bp 23 Apr 1615 Tamworth, d Kittery, Me., 25 May 1667-12 Sep 1667 (William M Sargaent, Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me: Maine Historical Society, 1887] 45-53); mar. as her first husband ca. 1652, Lucy² Treworgye, b. in England ca. 1632, d. in New Castle, N.H., 8 Jan 1699/1700-13 Apr 1708 (Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 134) daughter of Janmes¹ and Catherine (Shapleigh) Treworgye of Kittery. Lucy mar. second, Thomaas Willas, and she mar. third, Elias Stileman. Humphrey and Lucy had issue.

Please read the information provided on the page for William's father Robert Chadbourne which includes his published discoveries of the wills, dispositions, marriages, births and deaths the Chadbourne familiy in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England published in this article.

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Origin: Tamworth, Staffordshire.
Migration: 1634 on the Pied Cow.
First Residence: Kittery.
Occupation: Carpenter
Education: Made his mark, "WC," on petitions.
Birth: Baptized Tamworth, Staffordshire, 30 March 1582, to Robert and Margaret (Dooley) Chadbourne [NEHGR 10:102].
Death: After 20 Dec 1652 (when he made his mark to a petition [Doc Hist ME 4:43-45]
Marriage: Tamworth, Staffordshire, 8 Oct 1609 Elizabeth Sparry [NHGR 10:102]. She is not seen in New England

Children (all baptized Tamworth [NHGR 10:102]:

1. William bp 30 Sep 1610; bur. Tamwork 18 Apr 1616 [NHGR 10:102]

2. Parience bp 8 Nov 1612; m by about 1630 Thomas Spencer

3. Humphrey bp 23 Apr 1615 m Lucy Treworgye, daughter of James and Katherine (Shapleigh) Treworgye of Kittery. She m (2) Thomas Wills and (3) Elias Stileman son of Elias Stilman [GMB 3:1761]. etc. see source

4. Susannah bp 22 Feb 1617/8; bur Tamworth 26 Apr 1618 [NHGR 10:104]

5. William bp 15 Oct 1620; m by 1644 Mary ___ (only known child born Boston "10th mo 1644 [BVR 9:18])

6 Robert bp 1 Jun 1623; bur. Tamworth 19 Jan 1626/7 [NHGR 10:104]

Link to Humphrey³ Chadbourne on Chadbourne Family Association page

HUMPHREY2 CHADBOURNE (1. William1), baptized Tamworth, Warwickshire, England 23 Apr 1615; died Kittery, York Co, ME 1667 (will dated 25 May 1667, recorded 15 Oct 1667, inventory returned 12 Sep 1667 (MW, 45-53; YD 2:27-31); married about 1652 LUCY2 TREWORGYE (James1), born circa 1632, came to this country circa 1646 (LND), died Newcastle NH between 1704 and Apr 13 1708 (LND, 133-134), daughter of James and Catherine (Shapleigh) Treworgye and niece of Humphrey's good friend, Major Nicholas Shapleigh. Lucy married second after 1 Apr 1669 (YD 4:fol 51) and probably by 13 Apr 1671, when Wills received land "for the use of Thomas Chick's family" (Berwick TR, 74) Thomas Wills. They were surely married by 12 May 1674 when Lucy's niece Elizabeth (Spencer) Chick was in court for abusing her "Aunt Wells" (vide post). Lucy married third after 14 Mar 1687/8 (date of Thomas Wills' inventory attested to by widow Lucy, LND, 134) Elias Stileman of the Isle of Shoals (LND, 661-2). The will of Elias Stileman, written 18 Dec 1695, named Lucy and her children (LND, 662). Elias died 19 Dec 1695 (Journal of Reverend John Pike, NHHS Coll III: 47). Lucy was listed on the Great Island (Newcastle) tax lists of 1699. She left an extensive will probated in NH as Lucy Stileman.

Humphrey may have arrived in New England with his father in 1634, although some reports credit his arrival earlier. Several books and articles have called Humphrey the builder, "chiefest of the artificers," of the Great House at Strawbery Banke in 1631. If this were so, he would have had to have come with his brother-in-law Thomas Spencer in 1630 or have been the "factor" who came on the Warwick in 1631. If he was baptized in the year of his birth, he would have been only 16 in 1631. In 1989 George Sanborn, as The CFA Reunion main speaker, stated that we have no documentation as to when Humphrey arrived. The first record we have found indicating his presence in America is the 1640 list of Residents of NH (NHPP, Vol 1), and in the same year he was named among the Kittery men who did not attend the court held at Saco (LND, 32), apparently required of all settlers in the region each year.

In 1643, Humphrey received a deed from the Indian Sagamore Roles of half a mile of ground between the Little River and the Great River in Newichawannock (S Berwick), except Quamphegan (YD I:6). Three years later, Humphrey got a release from the same Sagamore of the rights to the fishing weir at Little John's Falls in Newichawannock (ibid). On 18 May 1645 Humphrey and Robert Nanney purchased a dwelling house in Dover from Christopher Lawson of Boston, that had been in the possession of William Belew. The land included an acre around the house and twenty acres of upland formerly granted by the town of Dover to Belew (Suffolk Deed I:68). No evidence has been found that Humphrey lived there. In 1650 he was elected town clerk in Kittery and served in this capacity many times thereafter. In 1651/2 he built his house near Great Works and that year served as a selectman. In 1663, Humphrey bought 150 acres of land at Sturgeon Creek from Nicholas Shapleigh, Lucy's uncle (Humphrey's will). The Sturgeon Creek property is shown on the 1701 "Plott of Mr Humphrey Chadburns Farm at Sturgeon Creek," surveyed for the town of Kittery for tax purposes, available through The CFA.

Notations by Charles Thornton Libby in his personal copy of Stackpole's Old Kittery and Her Families, held at MHS, show testimony (from MA Supreme Judicial Court Docket #138094, between 1780-1798) by Elder Humphrey5 stating references by William4 and Humphrey4 regarding a log house of Humphrey2:

"I Humphry Chadbourn of Francisborough in the County of York Esqr testify & say that about sixty years agone that I have heard my Father & Uncle Humphry Chadbourn often speaking of their Grand father's Logg house or Loging house & that said house stood about half a mile Southerly of Quampeging Landing in Berwick near Little River now called great works river and further saith not." George Dod discharged Humphrey Chadbourne of his share of "The third part" of victualling and wages of Dod's man in the French voyage, apparently a shipping/trading venture in which Dod, Chadbourne and Henry Parkes were partners together until Dod bought out Chadbourne (YD I:24 30 Apr 1651).
In Nov 1652 Humphrey was fourth among the men signing the Kittery Act of Submission, by which Kittery agreed to be governed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The signers may have thought this would strengthen their land claims in the face of claims by heirs of Capt John Mason. Capt Mason and Fernando Gorges had been granted by King James I 10 Aug 1622 all the land between the Merrimac and Kennebec Rivers. This was further divided in 1629, with Mason receiving all the land between the Merrimac and the Piscataqua. On 3 Nov 1631 Mason and Gorges made a grant to the Council of Plymouth, encompassing both sides of Piscataqua harbor and river. After his death in 1635, his heirs or agents apparently did not continue to fulfill Mason's part of the contract with the colonists; so by 1643 Humphrey 2 Chadbourne initiated the secure title to S Berwick land with his deed from Mr Rowles, the Indian. In Nov 1652 this was further strengthened by the Kittery Act of Submission. Richard Leader was noticeably absent from the signers of this document. Humphrey Chadbourne was among the signers of a petition against Richard Leader in Dec 1652, accusing him of the desire of purpose to get the upper hand in government over them (LND, 32/233, 421; Stackpole, 11-5).

By occupation, Humphrey was a miller, but he held several significant public offices as well, including serving as town clerk in 1650 and "often thereafter" (LND, 133). He was appointed a deputy to the General Court in 1657 and acted as commissioner to end small causes for several years. He was returned as deputy in 1659-60. He signed the petition against the claims of the Gorges heirs in 1662 and was an associate judge in 1662-3. In The Tory Lover, Sarah Orne Jewett called him "the law-giver of Kittery."

Both Humphrey and Lucy left impressive wills.

[See will below (NHSP 31:452-3, proved 13 Apr 1708)]

With Wills, Lucy had a daughter, Joanna Wills, born circa 1669 (LND, 760), who married by Jan 1699, when she was called Joanna Cutt in her mother's will, Richard Cutt.
Children, probably born Kittery (now S Berwick), surname CHADBOURNE:

11 i. HUMPHREY3, b ca 1653.
12 ii. JAMES, b ca 1655.
iii. WILLIAM, b ca 1657; d before 8 Jan 1699, when he was not named in his mother's will (MPA 1/103); unm. He was captured by Indians in 1676, and released at Pemaquid on the Penobscot River later that year to Major Waldron's expedition to the Eastward. He and others were ransomed for twelve skins each (LND, 134). Administration on his estate was granted to his mother 22 Sept 1701 (YCP #2707).

13 iv. LUCY, b about 1659.
14 v. ALICE, b ca 1661.
15 vi. KATHERINE, b ca 1665.
16 vii. ELIZABETH, b after 25 May 1667 (posthumous).

Pedigree page 14: Humphrey Chadbourne (1615-1667) son of WIlliam Chadbourne (1582-1643+) and Elizabeth Sperry -1623) m Lucy Treworgy (c 1632-1708)