Thomas Wallen the "Bad Boy"

 Thomas Walling - court records  Plymouth colony  1650
"The fourth of Aprell, 1650. Tho Wallen, Richard Carle, Gorg Way, Katheren Warner, and Mary Mills were apprehended at Barnstable,
 in the jurisdiction of New Plym; and on the eight day of Aprell, aforsaid, they being examined before William Bradford, gent, Gouer,
Willam Collyar, and Willam Thomas, gent, Assistants, confessed yt they, the said Tho Wallen, Richard Carle, & Gorge Way did healpe
away Katheren Warner & Mary Mills, who were run away from theire husbands; and for yt purpose yt Richard Carle aforsaid did steale  his fathers boat, which they came away in; it was therefore ordered by the Gouer & Assistants aboue mensioned, that the aforsaid  Gorg Way, Katheren Warner, & Mary Mills should bee sent from constabel to constable to the place from whence they came, wh is a place  called Winter Harbor, near Richmans Iland to the eastward; and yt Tho Wallen & Richard Carle aforsaid bee comitted to ward; all which  accordingly was forthwith pformed."
(TL NOTE apparently Winter Harbor is in present-day Maine I think commited to ward might be a little like colonial house arrest )
Genealogical Dictionary of New Hampshire and Maine reveals a Thomas Warner whose wife Katheren went “with an eloping party from Winter Harbor to Barnstable.”
 The Early Records of the Town of Providence--1662/63
-For asmuch as Thomas Walling, formerly inhabitant of this Towne of providence; hath departed this towne, the Towne being doubtfull of his return to take care for the Releife of the wife and child which he hath left in the Towne: This to signiffie unto all persons, that the town hath seized into their handes and Secured, all the estate of the said Thomas Walling....
..
 Court Oct. 1664 Providence, Providence, RI:  Indicted by the grand Jury for Committing Fornication with Ann Smith... pay forye shillings or to be whipt. The sayd walwin Doth Choose to pay Fortye shllings

He returned for a while then abandoned his wife and children again in  1667
“in October of 1666 Thomas Walling was found guilty of assault on Robert Colwell and paid a bond of 20 pounds, but he failed to appear in court and forfeited his bond. It turned out that he had run away with Colwell's wife Margaret White, whom Colwell subsequently divorced.”

In a separate incident, William White's daughter, Margaret, already married to Robert Colwell, ran away with her married neighbor, Thomas Walling; both deserted their families. Colwell secured his divorce 2 July 1667; Margaret had returned to Boston and was ordered to be publicly whipped 15 stripes and was fined £5 in October 1666.

 Thomas was also whipped this time twice once in Providence and the other was I believe in Boston
http://www.patconwell.com/familytree/histories/TWallen.html

Poor Mary, first Wife of Thomas Wallen
from -- Thomas Wallen/Walling: Pilgrim Rogue?  by Joan Gatturna
"Roger Williams wrote the following to the town of Providence: “I understand that one of the orphans of our dear friend Daniel Abbott is likely(as she herself told me) to be disposed of in marriage.'Tis true she has now come to some years, but who knows not what need the poor maid hath of your fatherly care, counsel and direction. I would not disparage the young man (for I hear he hath been laborious)...”
 Williams went on to urge the town to seek assurance that the young man will “forsake his former courses.”

"The Early Records of the Town of Providence
For asmuch as Thomas Walling, formerly inhabitant of this Towne of providence;
hath departed this towne, the Towne being doubtfull of his return to take care
for the Releife of the wife and child which he hath left in the Towne: This to
signiffie unto all persons, that the town hath seized into their handes and Secured,
 all the estate of the said Thomas Walling......
There are several entries about the absence of Thomas. Mary petitions the town to be
relieved of the care of an apprentice named Daniel Comstock, as she can no longer care
for him. During the same year she also apprentices her own son Gerhom to Nathaniel Mowry.
 The entries about the apprenticeships are dated 1667, the same year as the divorce of
Margaret and Robert Colwell. Mary Abbott Wallen dies in 1669  and Thomas reappears to marry Margaret Colwell. "

http://www.patconwell.com/familytree/histories/TWallen.html

FAMILY PATH  Turner to Tompkins, to Wilburn, to Wallen.

Daniel Abbott fined for making a statement

DANIEL ABBOTT 
ORIGIN: Unknown   BIRTH: Before 1610, based on freemanship
MIGRATION: est 1630  FIRST RESIDENCE: Cambridge

FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 and admitted 18 May 1631 [MBCR 1:80, 366]

ESTATE: "Daniell Abott" was  granted three acres behind the Pine Swamp in Cambridge on 5 January 1634/5

REMOVES: Providence possibly in 1636, and certainly by 1639
   On 4 June 1639, the Massachusetts Bay General Court, for unknown reasons,
       noted that "Daniell Abbot is departed to New Providence" [MBCR 1:267].
  Since Daniel Abbott does not appear in Cambridge records after February of 1636,
    he may have gone to Providence as early as 1636.
"Mary Abbott wife unto Daniell Abbott of this town of Providence departed this life in the year 1643,
 or thereabouts" [PrTR 5:203].
 DECEASED  "Daniell Abbott Husband to said Mary departed this life in the year 1647"  [PrTR 5:203].
 On 27 July 1650 Nicholas Power and Gregory Dexter were ordered to "take the goods belonging to the children of Daniel Abbot . deceased ,into their hands.."

*******COMMENTS: 18 May 1631: "Daniell Abbott is fined 5s. for refusing to watch, & for other ill
behavior showed towards Captain Pattricke"  the fine was remitted in the general amnesty of
 6 September 1638 [MBCR 1:243].***********

So this caught my eye -who was Captain Pattricke and why did Grandpa Abbott disrespect him?

DANIEL PATRICK (listed as possibly Irish in other sources)

 ORIGIN: The Hague, Holland
MIGRATION: 1630
FIRST RESIDENCE: Watertown
REMOVES: Cambridge by 1632, Watertown 1636, Greenwich by 1640
OCCUPATION: Soldier.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Watertown [ WJ 2:182].
FREEMAN: 18 May 1631 (TL NOTE same day as Daniel Abbott and when Abbott was fined)
DEATH: Killed at Stamford late in 1643 of Capt. Daniel Patrick who was shot at Stantford in New England by one Hans Frederick

The Winthrop Papers contain three letters written by Capt. Daniel Patrick during the Pequot War, each including current details of encounters and supplies [WP 3:421, 430-31, 440-41].
EDWARD WINSLOW and ROGER WILLIAMS also made frequent mention of his activities during the war [WP 3:427-28, 436-37, 450].

 Winthrop and Patrick were not friends and their relationship grew more strained with time. About 1640, Daniel Patrick wrote to Winthrop asking to be reconciled and saying "I do confess I am a man of many failings, and certainly I am not ignorant of that unbeseeming carriage, once, nay twice towards yourself, but as time ripeneth fruit, so have I through God's goodness since that thoroughly considered the folly of such rash and proudlike actions ... I am unfeignedly sorry for mine offence" [WP 4:168-69].

   About 1641 Elizabeth Sturgis made a plain statement of the assaults made on her by Captain Patrick, first at the time when  she was a servant to Mr. Cumines and later after her marriage. Patrick wrote back rebutting her account and saying that he had  written to her husband saying that "if such things were spoken ... I should expect satisfaction" [WP 4:300-03].

Winthrop wrote of Patrick in 1643 as "very proud and vicious" and that he followed after other women .
Winthrop described his last day as  this --The Dutchman (Hans Frederick) had charged him with treachery, for causing 120 men to come to  him upon his promise to direct them to the Indians, etc.,but deluded them. Whereupon the captain (Patrick) gave him ill language and spit in his face, and turning to go out, the Dutchman shot him behind in the head, so he fell down dead and never spake. The murderer escaped out of custody.--"

It looks like Grandpa Abbott may have recognized a bad egg when he saw one. I think he refused to watch a man make an oath  that Abbott believed he had no intention of honoring.  It appears he was right.


The Great Migration Begins Sketches PRESERVED PURITAN
Robert Charles Anderson. Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. Vol. 1-3. Boston, MA, USA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
A marvelous book.

Maddness of Folly , Margaret White

Margaret was not a blood relative of mine, but I find her story very interesting. 
She was  hot tempered adultress, and apparently more than a little intimidating.  Now imagine all of this  dressed in the the garments of our Old Comers ( original name for Pilgrims).  Read on and just imagine how mad she may have been!

She was the daughter of  William White (d Oct 1673) and Elizabeth Cadman? (d Dec 1690)  / William was a bricklayer , his will proved 31 January 1673/4 in Boston is shown as follows:

His wife was to have "all my vissable estate so long as she was a widowe and to have her thirds if she remarried; two Sonnes  Isaacke & Cornelius White; two sonnes & 1 daughter Susanna Waggett, wife of Thomas Waggett after the decease of wife;  to son William White 5 shillings... to other 3 daughters, Elysabeth Harnden, wife of Benjamyne.  Margaret Wallen, wife of Thomas Wallen, and Usrulla Bennett, the wife of John Bennett each 4 shillings."

Margaret married Robert Colewell 1660 they  had two children Robert, Jr., b. 1662, and Elizabeth, b 1664 Robert (Colwel, Coleway, Caldwell)  took the  freemans oath 1658 in Providence,took oath. of alleg. May 1666-

October 1666, Thomas Walling was found guilty of assault on Robert Colwell and paid a bond of 20 pounds, but he failed to appear in court and forfeited his bond.
October 1666 Margaret was convicted of  fornication with Thomas Wallin ordered to be publicly whipped 15 stripes in Boston and was fined £5
 July 21, 1667 Colwell was granted a divorce from Margaret.
Margaret married Thomas in 1669, he died in 1674. In just five short years she gave birth to four boys,
  John (he may be Mary Abbott's son), William, Cornelius, and James.
On Decmber 25,1678 Margaret married Daniel Abbott, brother of Thomas Wallen's first wife.(-some speculate he did this to regain his sister's share of family inheritance)
Daniel is mentioned in the Providece town records in 1680 petioning for money for the orphans of Thomas Walling
Dan: Abbott.wtj ye orphs of Tho: wallings Right 
To the 7 pd Rate    8d    -July  1680 (page 207)
 and listed  again as July 1680 different amount
A List of a Rate of a ii (in or/as/money) Leivied on this
Towne of providence july y 16th:1680: to y end appoynted,
 as y Towne order enjoyneth Conderneing y sd rate: / the w are/
As ffolloweth jmpremes,/ Dan : Abbott, with ye orphans of Thomas Walling     2s 8d  (page 210-211)

Margaret's oldest son made reference to Daniel  February 8, 1682/3
 [PrTR 17:11]. Robert Colwell (Jr.) refers to "my father-in-law Daniell Abbott"

In about 1682 Margaret gave birth to Daniel Abbott,III. (the future Deputy Governor of the Colny of Rhode Island)
 Magaret and Daniel hit a "rough patch" in their marriage  August 7, 1683


Petion " Whereas my wife Margrett through her maddness of folly & turbulency of her currupt will,  hath often threatened to ruinate my family, routeing me (as she saith) of horse & foote, destroying me root & branch, putting out one of her owne eyes to putt out both mine, & sett  my house on fire: And is since deparated from me takeing away my Children without my consent. And as I have been enformed, is now plotting micheife with wsome , of her turbulent Spiritt, that when I am absent from home to rifle my house & take away my goodes, to accomplish her Divelish resolution against me. These are therefore, not only to advise, but alsoe to charge all persons vpon theire perrill to forbare any such illegal proceedings, and alsoe do hereby foreworne & forbid al persons whatsoever, to forbare bargaineing with, contracting of Debts, or receiveing any part of my estate of my sd wife Mrgrett without my approbation."

Published 8 January 1684: "These are to desire the Towne, that the within Written prohibition may be put
 upon the publick record of this Towne, And alsoe published in this Towne meeting."

Daniel died  early 1700's (dates  found vary from 1700-1717)  and mentioned Margaret in his will , so they apparently never divorced.   (TL NOTE not yet located the will )

Margaret appeared once more in the public records  (Margaret may have died later this year):
1717
" 'Upon the Cumplaint of Mrs Margret Abbott widow of mr Daniel Abbott deceased that shee wants Releif and being sensible  that the sd Daniel Abbott her deceased husband Left a Compitent Esstate: suffuciant to Releife his sd widdow and being Informed that his son Daniel Abbott Administred vpon sd Esstate and being also sumthing sinsable of the same Where vpon wee doe order as hereby it is ordered that the sd suruiueing Daniel Abbott shall pay to the Relief of his mother the sd Margreet Abbott the sum of Eight shillings Per weeke Currant money into the hands of one of the ouer seers of the poor of  sd Towne Except he prouide for her sum other way to her Content vntill sum further order be taken.' "

FAMILY PATH  Turner to Tompkins, to Wilburn, to Wallen, AND  to Abbott

Staid and went not away

The aftermath of the King Phillip's War left the people of Providence with an abundance of  prisoners.
In August 1676 a meeting of those men referred to as those "that{staid} and went not away:" were chosen to make the final decision about these prisoners.  They had to consider that to simply release  the Indians would threaten safety of the colonists . They could  hang or shoot their prisoners but that  was a path that could likely lead to more battles later. The decision issued was as follows:

“We whose names are underwritten, being Chosen by the Town to set the
disposal of the Indians now in Town, we agree, that Roger Williams,
Nathaniel Waterman, Thomas Fenner, Henry Ashton, John Morey, Daniel
Abbott, James Olney, Valentine Whitman, John Whipple, Sen., Ephraim Pray,
John Pray, John Angell, James Angell, Thomas Arnold, Abraham Man,
Thomas Field, Edward Bennett, Thomas Clemence, William Lancaster,
William Hopkins, William Hawkins, William Harris, Zachariah Field, Samuel
Windsor, and Captain Fenner Joseph Woodward and Richard Pray, each
three fourths of a share, John Smith, Miller, and Edward Smith, Samuel Whipple,
Nelle Whipple, and Thomas Walling, each half a share. Inhabitants wanting, to
have Indians at the price they sell at Rhode Island or elsewhere. All under five
 years to serve till thirty, above five and under ten, till twenty eight, above
ten to fifteen, till twenty seven, above fifteen to twenty, till twenty six,
from twenty to thirty shall serve eight years, all above thirty, seven years.

Roger Williams Thomas Field
Thomas Harris, Sen. John Whipple, jr.
Thomas + Angell
August 14; 1676."

The committee authorized Capt. Arthur Fenner ,William Hopkins ,and John Whipple Jr. to procure a boat to transport the  Indians where they might be sold,  and after cost and reasonalble payment for their efforts the remaining funds would be divided the company _
"This being our reall act and deed as wittness our handes this 16 day of August 1676:
Roger Williams
Daniell Abbott  John Morey   Henry Ashton   Nathaniell Waterman
Ephraim Pray   Joseph Woodward   Abraham Man   Eliazur Whipple
John Angell   James Olney  James Angell  Vallintine Whittman
Edward Bennett  Thomas Field   John Pray-”

Now one might wonder why ther appears to be a length of servitude attached to this sale.   It seems that in March 1675,before the troubles had begun,  legislature of Rhode Island had passed a law “that noe Indian in this Collony be a slave, but only to pay their debts or for their bringeing up, or Custody they have
received, or to performed Covenant as if they had been Countrymen and not taken in war.” 
Did the committee believe that by imposing time limits  it made the sale into an  contract of servitude for debt repayment?
 Here is an accounting of at least a part of the sale
To Anthony Low, five Indians, great and small, £8.
'To James Rogers, two, for twenty two bushels of Indian corn.
'To Philip Smith, two, in silver, £4, 10.
'To Daniel Allen, one, in silver, £2, 10.
'To Caleb Carr, one, twelve bushels of Indian corn.
'To Elisha Smith, one, in wool, 100 lbs.
'To Elisha Smith, one, for three fat sheep

Daniel Abbott listed is my 8th grand uncle and Thomas Walling is my 7th great grandfather.
  He is the son of "Bad Boy Thomas" who died between 1674 and 1675, before the war. Thomas Jr. would have been only 21 maybe 22 when this occurred.


FAMILY PATH  Turner to Tompkins, to Wilburn, to Wallen.

Abbotts of RI

We don't know alot about DANIEL ABBOTT SR
from   The Great Migration Begins    Sketches PRESERVED PURITAN

ORIGIN: Unknown MIGRATION: 1630 FIRST RESIDENCE: Cambridge
REMOVES: Providence possibly in 1636, and certainly by 1639
FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 and admitted 18 May 1631 [MBCR 1:80, 366].
ESTATE: "Daniell Abott" (Sr.)was granted three acres behind the Pine Swamp in Cambridge on 5 January 1634/5 [CaTR 11].
His proportional rating in the division of Fresh Pond Meadow was 1/2 [CaTR 13].

 May 18 1631(or 1637 ?)
 Fined five shillings "for refusing to watch, & for other ill behavior showed towards Captain Pattricke"
[MBCR 1:87]; the fine was remitted in the general amnesty of 6 September 1638 [MBCR 1:243].
In the 8 February 1635/6 list of houses, Daniel Abbott appears with one house [CaTR 19].
   In the Cambridge land inventory on 10 October 1635 "Daniell Abott" held two parcels of
land: "one house with backside about half a rood"; and three acres behind the Pine Swamp [CaBOP 27].
These two parcels (owned house N. W. cor. Holyoke and Mount Auburn Sts.)were purchased by John Russell and appear under his name in the inventory of land carried out about 1639; the third parcel in Russell's  inventory may also have belonged to Abbott [CaBOP 60-61].

Marriage -  Mary-- ; according to the "Enroulments of Burialls" in Providence
"Mary Abbott wife unto Daniell Abbott of this town of Providence departed this life in the year 1643, or thereabouts"    [PrTR 5:203].
   On 20 May 1644 Daniel Abbott sold to Robert Morris five parcels of land in Providence: twenty acres upland, a share of meadow, sixty acres, another share of meadow, and a fifth parcel the details of which are no longer  legible [PrTR ]
 "Daniell Abbott Husband to said Mary departed this life in the year 1647" [PrTR 5:203]
 (*See TL NOTE 1)
  On 27 July 1650 Nicholas Power and Gregory Dexter were ordered to "take the goods belonging to the children of Daniel Abbot deceased into their hands & take notice of the goats, & also care of them, to see to the disposal  of them & bring in a list into the town, & record them" [PrTR 2:49].
22 January 1650/1 See Roger William letter to the Town of Providence (SEE Mary Abbott)

DANIEL ABBOTT Jr.
24 May 1673, a grant was made "unto Daniel Abott [Jr.]  and Thomas Wallin two lots together" [PrTR 3:244-45];   the combining of these two grants by the town may indicate that this was in fact a grant made in the right of the elder, deceased, Daniel Abbott, the grantees here being his son and son-in-law, and only known heirs. On 16 and 21 November 1685 two grants of land were made to Daniel Abbott "in the right of his deceased father 
 Daniell Abbott" [PrTR 14:186-87].   Although not recorded as such, Daniel Abbott  was a proprietor in Providence, for on 27 April 1680 the town   voted "that whereas there is no record in our town book now found extant that Daniell Abbott formerly inhabitant in this town of Providence, deceased, was an equal proprietor with the rest of the purchasers within the township thereof, though known to this town to be a purchaser with them. This town doth thereupon order & it is hereby
ordered that Daniell Abbott his son and heir by right of succession, be now recorded a purchaser in his father's room & stead" [PrTR 8:69-70].
In 1676 Daniel Abbott was  one the the Providence men "that stayed{staid} and went not away:" during what became known as King Philip's War .  Thomas Wallen was there also. It is a very interesting story I may try to include later 
 (*See TL NOTE-2)
 Daniel Abbott married Margaret White ,- he filed the following prohibition against her;
" Whereas my wife Margrett through her maddness of folly & turbulency of her currupt will, hath often threatened   to ruinate my family, routeing me (as she saith) of horse & foote, destroying me root & branch, putting out one of  her owne eyes to putt out both mine, & sett my house on fire: And is since deparated from me takeing away my Children  without my consent. And as I have been enformed, is now plotting micheife with wsome , of her turbulent Spiritt, that when I am absent from home to rifle my house & take away my goodes, to accomplish her Divelish resolution against me. These are therefore, not only to advise, but alsoe to charge all persons vpon theire perrill to forbare any such illegal proceedings, and alsoe do hereby foreworne & forbid allpersons whatsoever, to forbare bargaineing with, contracting of Debts, or receiveing any part of my estate of my sd wife Mrgrett without my approbation."l (Published 7 August 1683:)
28 January 1684: "These are to desire the Towne, that the within Written prohibition may be put upon the publick record of this Towne, And alsoe published in this Towne meeting." 
(*See TL NOTE-3)
 Apparently they must have settled their differences  somewhat because as his wife  she signed a deed dated in 1709;  and Margaret was mentioned in her husband's will in 1717 but Margaret's problems were not over yet. Late in the year 1717, Margaret filed a complaint against her son Daniel Abbott for relief:

"Upon the Cumplaint of Mrs Margret Abbott widow of Mr. Daniel Abbott deceased that shee wants Relief and being sensible that the sd Daniel Abbott her deceased husband left a compitent Esstate; sufficiant to releife his sd  widdow and being informed that his son Daniel Abbott administred upon sd Esstate and being also sum thing insable of the same where upon wee doe order as hereby it is ordered that the sd suruiueing Daniel Abbott shall  pay to the Relief of his mother the sd Margreet Abbott the sum of Eight Shillings per weeke curant money into the   hands of one of  the over seers of the poor of sd Towne except he prouide for her sum other way to her content  until sum further  order be taken."
(*See TL NOTE-4)

MARY ABBOTT
 Letter from Roger Williams to the town fathers of Providence, dated 22 February 1650/1.
It does not name Thomas Walling, but Williams knew of Wallings past:
 "I understand that an unknown age  one of the Orphanes of or dead freind Dan: Abbot, is likely
(as she herselfe told me) to be disposed of in mariage[.] Tis true that she is now come to some yeares:
But who knowes not, what neede the poore maid hath of yor fatherly Care, Councell & Direction: I would not  disparage the young man (for I heare he hath bene Laborious) yet with your leaue
 I must say I durst not, you will not give yor daughters in mariage to such those liues have bene in such
 course without some good  Assurance & Certificate of / his/ not being engaged to other women or otherwayes criminous, as allso of his Resolution to forsake his former course, least (this Jnquireie being neglected) The Maid & orselues repent when Miserie hath befallen her, & a just Reprove & charges befall orselues: of wch we haue no neede"[.]
   (* See TL NOTE 5)
TL NOTES
  1 -Apparently the Abbots had no family on this side of the ocean because others were asked to handle their affairs. 
      I am guessing both children were so nearly adult age that they were able to take care of themselves in most matters.
      I have not seen any mention of guardians
   2- Daniel Abbott (Jr.) married Margaret White (Colwell,Walling)  in 1678. This is the same Margaret that had been publically  whipped for her affair with Thomas Walling(Wallen) prior to their marrage .
   3-Not sure but perhaps he was asking for a repeat publishing of the same statement? destroying root and
   branch what do you suppose that means? I am guessing a reference to male anatomy)
   4- I did not transcribe this passage & for some reason made a note of the fact but now can not remember  why,   I apologize to whomever did the work for not giving credit.
      I presume that Daniel III did not even want to speak to his mother if he was using the Overseer of the
     Poor to pass the money to her each week. If she was alive today, I wonder what the doctors diagnosis might be ?)
      
   5- I understand this to be asking the town to verify Tom is not engaged to any other women & that he truly intends to settle down.  Mary is mentioned several times in records after Thomas starts misbehaving -see his page.)
I beleive CaTR stands for Cambridge Town Records and PrTR stands for Providence Town Records but I am not sure