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Facts and Events
another source says Andover,hampshire
Highlights from NEHGR 163:85 (April 2009)
"Humphrey Blake (1494?-1558) and his Descendants in New England and South Carolina," by Clifford L. Stott.
- 7-8 descendants of Humphrey Blake emigrated to the American colonies, including:
- William Blake of Dorchester, MA
- Benjamin Blake of South Carolina
- (probably) Thomas Richards of Weymouth, MA
- David Selleck of Dorchester and Boston, MA
- William Torrey of Scituate, Plymouth Colony
- Philip Torrey of Roxbury, Massachusetts
- Joseph Torrey of Newport, RI
- Elizabeth (Saunders) Wolcott, wife of Henry Wolcott of Windsor, CT
- The ancestry of Humphrey Blake published in William H. Whitmore, ed., A Record of the Blakes of Somersetshire, Especially in the Line of William Blake, of Dorchester, Mass. (Boston: privately printed, 1881), has been thoroughly disproved by Paul C. Reed ("Two Somerby Frauds or 'Placing the Flesh on the Bones,'" The American Genealogist 74 (1999):15-30 at 15-28.)
- The continuation of the article (NEHGR 164:73-74) specifies that "Somerby fraudulently linked Humphrey Black of Over Stowey to [an earlier pedigree of the Wiltshire Blakes]. Somerby found it necessary to create two ficticious ancestors: William Blake [m. Mary Coles] father of Humphrey, and another William identified as the grandfather of Humphrey. He then made the earlier William Black into a son of Robert Blake, who was a proven son of Henry Blake and his wife Margaret Bellett."
- Signed his will 19 Nov 1558; proved 11 May 1559. Mentions Anstice Blake, one of Robert Blake's daughters; Jone Slocombe, daughter of George Slocumbe; Agnes Mannynge, daughter; Catherine Cabull; Alice Cabull, my sister; John Blake the elder, my son; Robert Blake, my son; Thomas Blake, son; Eleanor Langham, daughter; Alice Slocombe, daughter; Thomas (Blake), my son; John Blake, the younger, my son. Anne, my wife.
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