Tenth Generation

990. John DUMBLETON was born in 1620. He died on 27 July 1702 at the age of 82 in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA. He came to New England as the servant of William Whiting of Hartford. He lived in Springfield for a time.

This story was extracted from the book, Hale, House, and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, by Donad Lines Jacobus and Edgr Francis Waterman, published by the Connecticut Historical Society, Chapter on John Dumbleton, page 521/2.
John Dumbleton was born in England about 1620. He died 27 Jul 1702 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He married Mercy. She died 4 Jul 1704 in Springfield, Massachusetts.
He was an indentured of Mr. William Whiting of Hartford and came to Windsor in 1636 or 1640 at the age of twenty, to work the lands there which Mr. Whiting had bought of Mr. Roger Ludlow. His term of service expired in 1645, after which he worked on shares for four years and then paid rental of 20 pounds a year. When of Springfield he made affidavit in the case of Whiting's sons vs. John Bissell, and says, "There was little improvement on the land when I came upon it but I plowed and brake up considerable quantity of it."
Doublless he married while still in Windsor. and that explains why his marriage and the birth of his first child was not recorded in Springfield. Unfortunately, his name does not occur in Matthew Grant's church records of Windsor.
He settled in Springfield about 1650 and soon became a man of consequence there. He served as Selectman in 1655, 1657, 1660, 1666, 1668, 1671, 1673, 1675, 1677, 1679, 1681, 1683, 1685,1687, 1689, and 1691. He served as fence viewer 1654, 1664, 1670; appraiser of livestock 1653 and 1662, serving both years with Thomas Cooper. He was surveyor of highways in 1662. He was commissioned with Thomas Miller to make a pound in 1665, and in 1666 to get posts and rails for another pound on the West Side of the Great River. In 1669 he was paid for his work on the pound, and in 1675 was to repair the one on the West side. And in 1678 it was agreed that "Goodman Dumbleton's yard be accounted & made use of as a pound for the loest side of the Great River til such time as a new pound be made." It would seem that he must have kept his fences in good repair for his yard to be used as a pound, yet even he was fined in 1668 and 1680; but in the latter year "the Worshipfull major Pinchon" was a fellow-culpit. In 1676 when he was not a Selectman, he was asked to join with the Selectmen in making rates. He received his first grant of land from the Town in 1652, and several thereafter. Altogether, he seems to have been a useful citizen.
At a Court 27 Sep 1669, John Dumbleton and Thomas Miller of Springfield were presented by the Grand Jury for not attending their office for viewing fences on the West side of the River. Dumbleton was freed because he could not get his partner to join him, but Miller was fined 20s 8d.
The will of John Dumbleton, Sr., of Springfield, dated 16 Aug 1693, proved 1702, gave his house, homelot, and Cold Spring lot to his wife and after her decrease to his son Nathaniel; legacies to daughters Lydia, Hannah, and Rebecca, to be paid by Nathaniel; granddaughter Marah; if Nathaniel die unmarried the estate to be equally divided between the daughters. Witnesses John Holyoke, Peletiah Glover, and John Crowfoot. The will was allowed, and Nathaniel Dumbleton was appointed administrator cum testamento annexo, but, "is to agree with those children not mentioned in ye will or they may contest it at law." On 20 May 1714, Nathaniel Dumbleton agreed to pay Elizabeth Burt, grandchild of John Dumbleton, Sr., L15, and she and her father Nathaniel Burt gave him a discharge."
Children of John and Mercy Dumbleton:
1. Mary - born abt 1649, died at Springfield 3 Feb 1675/6, married Joseph Bedortha 15 Mar 1648/9 in Springfield.
2. John - born 2 Jan 1650/1, killed by Indians at Westfield, Mass 27 Oct 1675, married Lydia Leonard 18 Mar 1674/5. She was born 20 Oct 1650 in Springfield, she drowned 18 Mar 1682/3. She was the daughter of John and Sarah (Heald) Leonard. She married second Joseph Bedortha 2 Oct 1678.
3. Mercy - born 1 Mar 1652/3, died at Springfield 6 Jun 1689, married Samuel Bedortha 28 Apr 1891 in Springfield.
4. Sarah - born 5 Jan 1654/5, died at Westfield, Mass 3 Jan 1693/4, married Josiah Leonard 19 Dec 1678 in Springfield. He was born 28 Mar 1658 in Springfield and died 15 Feb 1688, He was the son of John and Sarah (Heald) Leonard. She married second Thomas Root on 25 Jan 1692. He was born abt 1648 and died at Westfield 16 Aug 1709. He was the son of John and Mary (Kilbourn) Root.
5. Samuel - born 12 May 1657, buried 10 Jun 1657.
6. Samuel - born 15 May 1658. Died young.
7. Lydia - born 16 Apr 1661, died 21 Jan 1739, married first Jonathan Burt 8 Dec 1681 in Springfield, married second Daniel Cooley 2 May 1651 in Springfield.
8. Nathaniel - born 10 Jun 1664, died 13 Feb 1736/7 in Springfield, married Hannah Allen 29 Dec 1696 in Northampton, Mass
Check to be sure he didn't also marry Lydia Leonard. Mercy MARSHFIELD and John DUMBLETON were married about 1647 in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA.

991. Mercy MARSHFIELD was born about 1630. She died on 4 July 1704 at the age of 74 in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA.

Children were:

	i.	Mary DUMBLETON was born in 1648 in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA. She died on 3 February 1675/6 at the age of 28 in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA.
	ii.	John DUMBLETON was born on 2 January 1650 in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA. He was born on 2 January 1650. He died on 27 October 1675 at the age of 25 in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA. He was slain in an encounter with Indians.
	iii.	Mercy DUMBLETON was born on 1 March 1652/3 in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA. She died on 6 June 1689 at the age of 36 in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA.
495	iv.	Sarah DUMBLETON.
	v.	Samuel DUMBLETON died before 10 June 1657 in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA.¹²⁴ He was born on 12 May 1658 in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA.
	vi.	Samuel DUMBLETON was born in 1658 in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA. He died young (Jacobus, p. 523).
	vii.	Lydia DUMBLETON was born on 15 April 1661 in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA. She died on 16 April 1661 at the age of 0 in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA.
	viii.	Elizabeth DUMBLETON was born maybe 16 April 1668 in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA. She died on 3 November 1692 at the age of 24 in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA.
	ix.	Nathaniel DUMBLETON was born on 10 June 1664 in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA. He died on 13 February 1736/7 at the age of 72 in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA.
	x.	Rebecca DUMBLETON¹⁰⁵ was born on 4 October 1667 in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA. She was born on 4 October 1667. She died on 16 February 1694 at the age of 26 in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA.
	xi.	Hannah DUMBLETON was born about 1670 in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA. She died on 25 October 1737 at the age of 67 in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA.