Follow this link to read a book written about John Beal, a shoemaker, who arrived in New England onboard the Diligent in 1638. John is Ann Engs Gt Gt Grandfather.
John came from Old Hingham, Norfolk, England as did the bulk of the ships passengers. Hence the name of the village they settled near Plymouth, Massechussets.
John was accompanied by 5 sons and three daughters. He was became a landowner soon after,taking possession of a 6 acre lot in the town, on the south side of South Street.
His wife Nazareth Hobart, had family in the new town. Her brother was the first minister of Hingham and their family had settled there a few years earlier. Nazareth gave birth to two children in Hingham, Jacob in 1642 and Rebecca.
Follow this link to find out more about the Diligent.
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ANN ENGS SISTER AVIS ENGS FAMILY
AVIS ENGS married BARNABAS BINNEY
HON. WILLIAM BINNEY -- The Binney family, of which the late Hon. William Binney, lawyer and jurist of Providence, R. I., was a member, is one of the oldest families of historic lineage which were founded in the Colonial period of our history. In the several generations since its establishment the family has produced men who have figured largely in the affairs of the Nation, in its commercial and industrial life, and its religious and educational institutions and organizations.
The Binney family in England is very ancient. Its origin, however, is Scotch, and the lineage of the family there greatly antedates the year 1500, when the branch of the family of which the immigrant ancestor of the American Binneys was a member settled in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England. The progenitor of the English branch of the Binneys came from Scotland in the year 1500. About one hundred and seventy-eight years later the first of the name is recorded in America.
Arms -- Ardent with a bend sable, between a cinquefoil in chief gules and a sword in pale azure, bladed or
Crest -- A horse's head bridled.
Motto -- Vertute et spera.
(I) Captain John Binney, progenitor of the family in America, was a native of Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, and emigrated to America in 1678-79. He settled at Hull, Mass., where he died in 1698, aged fifty years. John Binney and his son John were buried in the same grave, over which in 1883 several of their descendants erected a monument.
(II) Deacon John (2) Binney, son of Captain John (1) and Mercy Binney, was born on May 31, 1679, and died in Hull, Mass., June 30, 1759. In various contemporary documents he is called mariner, deacon and gentleman. He was one of the most prominent men of his time in the community, and frequently held public office. He was town treasurer of Hull, in 1712 and 1733, and from 1746 to 1751; town clerk from 1749 to 1753; clerk of the market, 1743 to 1748, selectman in 1721-22-31-35-39-42-44-48-51; and also assessor. There is mention in early records, under the date March 22, 1724-25, of one Ensign Binney, member of a committee of five to call a minister. Deacon John Binney married (first), May 31, 1704, in Eastham, Mass., Hannah Paine, born in Eastham, May 12, 1684, died in Hull, January 14, 1757, daughter of Thomas Paine, Jr., and his wife Hannah, daughter of Jonathan and Phebe (Warren) Shaw. He married (second), in Boston, Mass., December 15, 1757, Sarah Crosby. He was elected deacon of the church at Hull, December 13, 1727, of which he and his wife, Hannah, became members on April 30, 1727.
(III) Captain Barnabas Binney, son of Deacon John (2) and Hannah (Paine) Binney, was born at Hull, Mass., March 12, 1723. He was a very prominent merchant and sea captain in his day, and was master and owner of his vessel in which he traded to Demarara and other ports; he is also said to have been the owner of a plantation and slaves at Demarara. He resided on Summer street, Boston, and there had a store in his residence. From time to time in the Boston newspapers of the period there occur advertisements of his stock. Captain Binney died at Demarara, probably in 1774. His estate in Boston extended from Summer street to the shore front. He married, October 15, 1747, Avis Engs, daughter of Deacon William and Ann (Adams) Engs; she was baptized in Boston in 1720, and died after 1779. She was admitted to the new South Church, May 1, 1763.
(IV) Dr. Barnabas (2) Binney, son of Captain Barnabas (1) and Avis (Engs) Binney, was born in Boston, Mass., and baptized there on May 10, 1751. He died on June 21, 1787, in Franklin county, Penn. He became a member of the First Baptist Church of Boston, March 3, 1771. He was graduated from Brown University, Providence, R. I., with the highest honors in the class of 1774, taking the degree of Bachelor of Arts. His oration delivered at commencement in September, 1774, was published. The title page reads: 'A plea for the right of private judgment in religious matters, and for the liberty of choosing our own religion, corroborated by the well known consequences of priestly power to which are annexed the valedictory of the class (then the one first graduated) by Barnabas Binney, A. B., Boston, printed and sold by John Kneeland in Milk St. MDCCLXXIV.' Dr. Barnabas Binney served as a surgeon in the American Revolution, and later practiced medicine in Philadelphia. He married, May 25, 1777, Mary Woodrow, daughter of Henry Woodrow, of Monmouth, N. J. Several interesting anecdotes concerning Dr. Binney are preserved and a collection of these are printed in the Binney genealogy. Two of the most interesting relate to his service in the Revolution. He is said to have discovered life in a soldier assigned for burial, and to have dressed his wounds. The soldier lived and recovered his health, and for the remainder of his life made periodical visits to the doctor bringing him gifts of farm produce. He is also credited with the discovery of the sex of Deborah Sampson, a woman who fought in the war under a man's name, escaping detection until she was wounded and sent to the hospital. She was taken from the hospital to the home of Dr. Binney, and upon recovering was sent to General Washington, who gave her an honorable discharge and funds for her trip home. The late Epes Sargent of Boston, wrote of him: 'He was the most eloquent man I ever met.' Another contemporary writer says: 'His intellectual powers, fine learning, strength of principle, decision and energy in action, with a delicacy of passion and poetic talents, were appreciated'.
During his residence in Providence, Hon. William Binney was one of the most prominent citizens in public life. From June, 1857, to January, 1874, he was a member of the Common Council and served as its president from 1863 to 1871, and during his service in that capacity drew up the present charter of the city of Providence. He was a deep student of economic, civic, political and social conditions, and wrote largely on these questions, in the newspapers of the city and State. Shortly before his death he wrote to the 'Providence Journal' a letter advocating a public market. Mr. Binney was at one time a member of the General Assembly of Rhode Island. Among interesting family heirlooms in his possession were an oil portrait of Avis (Engs) Binney, his great-great-grandmother, and an excellent portrait of his father by Sully, and a miniature by Brown. Mr. Binney died April 23, 1909, at his home in Providence, R. I.
(There is a matching portrait of Ann Engs Phillips, Avis' elder sister)
ANNE ENGS PORTRAIT
Children :
- Avis 4 b. Aug. 17, 1748 ; bapt. Aug. 28, 1748 ; m. Nicholas Brown, Providence, R. I. 60
- Barnabas 4 b. 1751 ; bapt. May 10, 1751, surgeon in Revolution; m. Mary Woodrow. 61
- Ann 4 b. 1752; bapt. June 7, 1752; m. Samuel Anthony, of Providence R. I. (?)
Capt. Barnabas Binney, was master and owner of his vessel in which he traded to Demerara,and tradition says, both he and Rev. Dr. Stillman of Boston, owned plantations and slaves, in Demerara. He also had a store or a room in or attached to his house, in which he sold goods. He resided in his brick house, in Summer St., Boston, opposite the new South meeting-house, church green, where he worshiped. A Boston newspaper of 1 761, has an advertisement of B. B. of " two clocks just imported, silks, dry goods, petticoats, stays, buckles, seals, &c," for sale at his house in Summer St., and one of 1758, Oct. 12," a good assortment of Irish Hollands to be sold cheap for cash, by Barnabas Binney, at his house in Summer St." The Boston Gazzette, Sept. 17, 1770, has this: "strayed from Boston, on Tuesday the 7th instant, a small yellow cow with short horns, the tops of which are sawed off; she has a slit in her right ear, her ' tets ' are very small, who ever shall bring said cow to Capt. Barnabas Binney, opposite the new South meeting-house, in ' ^even Star Lane,' shall be well rewarded for taking her up," also April 27, 177 1 t; a few bales of choice French Cotton to be sold by Barnabas Binney, in Summer St., &c." He lived in good style there.
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Provenance of Letter copied below:The Moore/Stanford/Webb Chronicles
Terri Bradshaw O'Neill
An Enlightening Letter referring to the discovery of Ann and Avis Engs portraits by Thomas Payson.
Although there has been some research done on the family of Stephen Moore’s wife, Griselda Phillips, more familiar to us as Grizey, there was still a considerable lack of knowledge and some confusion concerning the Phillips family. The following letter was transcribed by Mary Webb Strughold, of Mico, TX, from the original in the possession of Dr. Bailey Webb, Durham, NC. The letter was written to Miss Susan A. Webb, the daughter of Alexander Smith Webb and Cornelia Adeline Stanford Webb, in 1904 by Anne Rowe (Payson) Cunningham.
Terri Bradshaw O'Neill
Willow Brook
East Milton, Massachusetts
14 Aug 1904
Dear Miss Webb,
I thank you for your letter of May 17th which was duly received and should have been acknowledged sooner.
I have been very busy and did not realize how long I had left it unanswered. The information you gave me is most valuable and interesting. What a prodigious progeny Griselda Phillips Moore has- So very different from Penelope Rowe, as we are only seven living descendants- My cousin, Dr. Joseph Rowe Webster & his children & myself & I have no children. My cousin is expecting two new grandchildren in the autumn, so we hope this branch of the Phillips will not wholly die out- There are more of Anne Phillips Payson’s descendants but except my father’s immediate family, I do not know them. I see much of many of Avis Phillips Preble’s descendants (Pollard by her 2nd marriage) & the other day a young man who was visiting us from Montreal gave me news of Wm. Phillips’ grandchildren. His father John was the oldest of the sixteen Phillips children. I am sending you a photograph of your gr. gr. grandmother, Anne Enge, Mrs. John Phillips, such as I sent Mrs. Noell. It was her sister Avis who married Capt. Barnabas Binney, Horace Binney’s grandfather- Both the portraits of Anne and Avis Enge were found by my grandfather, Thomas Payson, in an attic in Newton, many years ago. This photograph is taken from an old copy Joseph Rowe, Penelope’s son, had made. The original copy is owned in another branch of the Payson family, Gould by name.
I see that you are of my generation, while Mrs. Arabella Moore Noell was of my mother’s- I grieved for her death as we were just beginning to know each other through our letters. It would be a great pleasure to see you if I ever get so far from home in my own country. I have spent many years in Europe but was never farther south than Washington. If I ever get anywhere near you, I shall certainly let you know. My mother lived to be eighty-nine years old & died in January 1896. I am fifty-six. I wish I had written to find out the North Carolina cousins while she was alive; it would have been such a pleasure to her. She used often to talk & wonder about them as she remembered the letters coming from Griselda Moore’s children to the Rowes, her uncles & aunts with whom she lived. Please give my love to Cousin Lizzie Stanford. I think she told me her home was near you when she was not teaching at Mt. Tirzah. Accept my love for yourself & believe me, sincerely yrs--
Anne Rowe (Payson) Cunningham (Mrs. Caleb Loring Cunningham)
East Milton, Massachusetts 12
The foregoing letter addressed to:
Miss Susan A. Webb
Oaks, North Carolina
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