Husband Number Three — Urbain Fouquereau

B. about 1653 in Continvoir, Saumurois, Anjou, France¹
M. 28 Dec 1676 in Neuville, New France²
Wife: Jeanne Rossignol
D. about 24 Feb 1700 in Neuville, New France³

For Fille du Roi Jeanne Rossignol, the third time was the charm. After being widowed twice, she married Urbain Fouquereau, and he became father to eight of her children.

Urbain was born in about 1653 in the village of Continvoir, France, which is in the Anjou region east of Angers.¹ His parents were Jean Fouquereau (alternate spellings: Foucreau, Fouquereaux, Foucrault) and Renée Bataille. Nothing at all is known of his family and childhood beyond these facts; neither he nor his parents are listed in Continvoir parish records.

The first place Urbain does appear is in a baptism in New France where he was the godfather. The date was February 20, 1676, and it was for a child born in Sillery, just outside of Quebec City.⁴ The fact he played such a role suggests that he didn’t just step off a boat from France; indeed it was the dead of winter, so the latest he could have arrived was the previous fall. What motivated him to migrate isn’t known. This was well after the period of recruitment of French citizens to populate the colony, and there’s no evidence that Urbain could have been part of the military. 

Baptism showing Urbain as godfather.

Later that same year, on December 28th, Urbain married a widow named Jeanne Rossignol.² She had been married twice before, but both husbands died. Jeanne brought three young sons into the marriage, and became pregnant again almost immediately, delivering Urbain’s first son about 8 1/2 months later.⁵ They would go on to have seven more, with the last child born in 1696.⁶

When Urbain got married, his wife had three sons. (AI-generated image)

While his wife Jeanne appeared in court records, Urbain had no such presence of his own. The case involving Jeanne described her as being a woman “who couldn’t stay out of other people’s business,” and she was forced to make a public apology to others in the community.⁷ This happened a couple years before Urbain was in the picture, but it suggests that she had a lively personality.

As for Urbain, he was only mentioned in a couple of records. On March 27, 1685, he sold property to Guillaume Cartier, with a receipt was issued on the 29th, and Jeanne “ratified “ the sale on April 4th.⁸ Then in 1693, the two of them arranged to hire out their oldest daughter, age 14, to a couple in Quebec City.⁹ This would seem to indicate that the family needed the money.

Urbain’s life came to an end in February 1700,³ and he was buried on the 24th. Jeanne married yet again to her fourth husband.¹⁰ She passed away in 1712.¹¹ Urbain was the ancestor of Chloë Sevigny.

Children:
1. Pierre Fouquereau — B. before 10 Aug 1677, Neuville, New France;⁵ D. before 1681¹²

2. Elisabeth-Ursule Fouquereau — B. 22 Aug 1679, Neuville, New France;¹³ D. 31 Dec 1758, Rivière-Ouelle, New France;¹⁴ M. Pierre Soucy (1673-1760), 13 Jan 1699, Riviere Ouelle, New France¹⁵

3. Michel Fouquereau — B. 5 Oct 1681, Neuville, New France¹⁶

4. André Fouquereau — B. 20 Dec 1683, Neuville, New France;¹⁷ D. before 16 Nov 1722, New France;¹⁸ M. Françoise Aupry (1702-1776), 15 Apr 1720, Laprairie, New France¹⁹

5. Madeleine Fouquereau — B. 10 Jul 1686, Neuville, New France;²⁰ M. (1) Jacques Richaume (1661-1713), 25 Feb 1710, Repentigny, New France;²¹ (2) Louis Cailloneau (1685-?), 8 Jan 1714, Repentigny, New France²²

6. Guillaume Fouquereau dit Urbain — B. 23 Mar 1690, Neuville, New France;²³ D. 22 Apr 1769, Repentigny, Quebec;²⁴ M. Marie Anne Riviere (1699-1785), 20 Mar 1719, Repentigny, New France²⁵

7. Marie-Anne Fouquereau — B. 3 Jul 1693, Neuville, New France;²⁶ D. 7 Feb 1767, Pierrefonds, Quebec;²⁷ M. Antoine Laniel dit Desrosiers (1693-1772), 29 Nov 1719, Repentigny, New France²⁸

8. Marie-Helene Fouquereau — B. 14 Feb 1696, Neuville, New France;⁶ D. 12 Dec 1736, St-Sulpice, New France;²⁹ M. Michel Rivet (1689-1753), 18 Jan 1718, Repentigny, New France³⁰

Sources:
1    Généalogie du Quebec et d’Amérique française listing of Urbain Fouquereau
2    Marriage record of Urbain Fouquereau and Jeanne Rossignol, Quebec Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1979, FamilySearch.org
3    Burial record of Urbain Fouquereau, Q., C. P. R.
4    Baptismal record of Marie-Madeleine Petitclerc, Q., C. P. R.
5    Baptismal record of Pierre Fouquereau, Q., C. P. R.
6    Baptismal record of Marie-Helene Fouquereau, Q., C. P. R.
7    King’s Daughters and Founding Mothers: The Filles du Roi, 1663-1672, Peter J. Gagné, 2001
8    Inventaire des greffes des notaires du Régime français, V. 4, Pierre-Georges Roy
9    Inventaire des greffes des notaires du Régime français, V. 18, Pierre-Georges Roy, p. 36
10  Marriage record of François Huard dit Laliberteand Jeanne Rossignol, Q., C. P. R.
11  Burial record of Jeanne Rossignol, Q., C. P. R.
12  Recensement de 1681 en Nouvelle-France
13  Baptismal record of Elisabeth-Ursule Fouquereau, Q., C. P. R.
14  Burial record of Elisabeth-Ursule Fouquereau, Q., C. P. R.
15  Marriage record of Pierre Soucy and Elisabeth-Ursule Fouquereau, Q., C. P. R.
16  Baptismal record of Michel Fouquereau, Q., C. P. R.
17  Baptismal record of André Fouquereau, Q., C. P. R.
18  Burial record of André Fouquereau, Q., C. P. R.
19  Marriage record of André Fouquereau and Françoise Aupry, Q., C. P. R.
20  Baptismal record of Madeleine Fouquereau, Q., C. P. R.
21  Marriage record of Jacques Richaume and Madeleine Fouquereau, Q., C. P. R.
22  Marriage record of Louis Cailloneau and Madeleine Fouquereau, Q., C. P. R.
23  Baptismal record of Guillaume Fouquereau, Q., C. P. R.
24  Burial record of Guillaume Fouquereau, Q., C. P. R.
25  Marriage record of Guillaume Fouquereau and Marie Anne Riviere, Q., C. P. R.
26  Baptismal record of Marie-Anne Fouquereau, Q., C. P. R.
27  Burial record of Marie-Anne Fouquereau, Q., C. P. R.
28  Marriage record of Antoine Laniel dit Desrosiers and Marie-Anne Fouquereau, Q., C. P. R.
29  Burial record of Marie-Helene Fouquereau, Q., C. P. R.
30  Marriage record of Michel Rivet and Marie-Helene Fouquereau, Q., C. P. R.

A Rose Among Thorns — Francis Thorndike

B. 6 Jan 1570 in (probably) Lincolnshire, England¹
M. (1) before 4 Sep 1589 in (probably) Great Waldington, Suffolk, England²
Wife: Alice Coleman
M. (2) 9 Feb 1633 in Greenfield, Lincolnshire, England²
Wife: Elizabeth _______
D. before 10 Mar 1645 in (probably) Scamblesby, Lincolnshire, England²

Just one generation before the Puritan Great Migration to New England was a man in England named Francis Thorndike, who was of enough wealth and status to register for a coat of arms.

Francis was from Great Carlton, Lincolnshire, and he was born on January 6, 1570 to Nicholas Thorndike and Margaret Sotheby.¹ This was after a period of turmoil in England with the children of Henry VIII taking turns on the throne, and now Elizabeth presided over a time of peace. Nicholas Thorndike was a yeoman, and had gentry status in his community of Aby.² He was able to put Francis into Trinity College at Cambridge in 1581.²

At Trinity College. (AI-generated image)

On November 16, 1586, Francis was admitted to Gray’s Inn, a professional association for lawyers based in London.² In order to practice law in England, a man had to be a member of Gray’s Inn or one the three other “Inns.”³ Gray’s Inn was fairly prestigious in Francis’ day, with Francis Bacon as one of its members.³ Its hall was said to have introduced one of Shakespeare’s first plays, A Comedy of Errors.³

Another indicator of the family’s wealth was Francis’ father’s will.² As a second son, strict protocol dictated that his older brother would inherit all of the land. But Francis was bequeathed by his father “my best silver cup, my best silver goblet, three of my best silver spoons, three of my second silver spoons, and in money forty pounds.”² These were not the possessions of peasants.

Francis married got married in the late 1580s, sometime before the baptism of his oldest son on September 4, 1589.² His wife was Alice Coleman, and they were known to have four sons born between 1589 and 1611. One son went on to become a noted theologian and prebendary at Westminster Abbey,² and another son was a Puritan who settled in Massachusetts.² Alice passed away at the end of 1622, and Francis didn’t take another wife until February 9, 1633, when he married a widow, Elizabeth Prigion.

When Francis was in his old age, he and his brother Herbert “signed the pedigree for the first visitation of Heralds recorded in the family in the year 1634.”⁴ The visitation was a process of authenticating a coat of arms. This English ritual began during the reign of Henry VIII in order to verify claims of nobility or gentry class status. The Thorndike coat of arms was a design that included a rose at the top and a shield with six thorns in a triangle. The family motto was, Rosae inter spinas nascumtur. Translation: A rose among thorns.⁵

Thorndike coat of arms.

Francis died in 1645, and was buried on March 10th at the village of Scamblesby in Lincolnshire.² Because of his son John’s migration to America, Francis is the ancestor of John Kerry and John Lithgow.⁶

Children:
1. Francis Thorndike — B. before 4 Sep 1589, (probably) Great Waldington, Suffolk, England;² D. (probably) Nov 1656, (probably) Lincolnshire, England;² M. (1) Margaret Copinger (1592-1629), before 25 Mar 1620, (probably) Lincolnshire, England;² (2) Anne²

2. Herbert Thorndike — B. about 1598, (probably) Lincolnshire, England;⁷ D. 11 Jul 1672, Chiswick, Middlesex, England²

3. Paul Thorndike — D. before 12 Dec 1639, (probably) Lincolnshire, England;² M. Elizabeth Brooke²

4. John Thorndike — B. before 23 Feb 1611, Great Carlton, Lincolnshire, England;⁸ D. Nov 1668, London, England;² M. Elizabeth Stratton (~1614-1668), before 25 Dec 1637, Salem Massachusetts²

Sources:
1    Find-a-Grave listing of Francis Thorndike
2    “The Thorndikes of Aby in Greenfield, Lincolnshire and Essex County, Massachusetts,” Scott C. Steward, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, V. 154, Oct 2000
3    Gray’s Inn (Wikipedia article)
4    The Founders of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Sarah Sprague Saunders Smith, 1897, p. 165
5    House of Names (website)
6    FamousKin.com listing of Francis Thorndike
7    Find-a-Grave listing of Herbert Thorndike
8    Find-a-Grave listing of John Thorndike

Uncertain Status as Fille du Roi — Andrée Remondière

B. about 1651 in La Rochelle, France¹
M. after 31 Oct 1666 in Île d’Orleans, New France²
Husband: Thomas Rondeau
D. 21 Nov 1702 in St-Pierre, Île d’Orleans, New France³

During the 1660s, when French women were recruited to become the brides of settlers in Canada, they usually said goodbye to their families forever. But Andrée Remondière arrived in different circumstances — her mother either accompanied her or was already there.

Andrée came from a part of France which supplied many of the Filles du Roi: the port city of La Rochelle. Her parents were Jacques Remondière and Renée Rivière, who were likely married around 1650 in the parish of Notre-Dame-de-Cogne.⁴ Andrée is believed to have been born in about 1651,¹ but may have been an only child because no other offspring are attached to her parents. Her father died sometime before 1666,⁴ presenting two scenarios for her childhood — one is in a two-parent household until she was an adolescent, and the other with her widowed mother struggling alone to raise her child from infancy. No records exist that can determine the circumstances of how Andrée grew up.

The lives of Andrée and Renée changed dramatically when a decision was made to move to Canada. This happened in about 1666, and the details are unfortunately lacking, but we can speculate that the mother as well as the daughter needed to find husbands, and somehow it made sense that both of them migrate. While Renée seems to have married a man she connected with on her own, Andrée is believed to have been part of the Fille du Roi program which gave small dowries in return for being courted by the men who desired wives in New France. There is no actual confirmation that mother and daughter traveled together, nor that either of them were Filles du Roi.

The record of Andrée’s marriage survives in the form of a contract with her new husband, Thomas Rondeau. Because of the date of the contract, October 31, 1666,² it’s possible that Andrée and her mother were on that year’s ship of prospective brides. Renée is noted on the document as the wife of Mathurin Croiset, who served as stepfather to Andrée; both couples would settle on Île d’Orleans, although there are no marriage records for either one. 

Signing a marriage contract. (AI-generated image)

In spite of seeming to be an only child herself, Andrée gave birth to 15 children. The oldest was born in 1668,⁵ and the youngest in 1694.⁶ It was common for New France mothers to have such a big family because the authorities offered money to families with 10 living children. The pregnancies may have taken a toll, though, because Andrée didn’t live to a ripe old age; she passed away on November 21, 1702 at the age of about 51.³ Her husband Thomas never remarried and died in 1721.⁷ They were both ancestors of Bridget Fonda and Emeril Lagasse.⁸

Children:
1. Mathurin Rondeau — B. 7 Feb 1668, (probably) Île d’Orleans, New France;⁵ D. before 1681, New France⁹

2. Thomas Rondeau — B. 22 Dec 1668, Ste-Famille, Île d’Orleans, New France;¹⁰ D. 13 Nov 1671, Ste-Famille, Île d’Orleans, New France¹¹

3. Elisabeth-Isabelle Rondeau — B. 19 Oct 1670, Ste-Famille, Île d’Orleans, New France;¹² D. 8 Nov 1746, St-Laurent, Île d’Orleans, New France;¹³ M. Pierre Leclerc (1659-1736), 7 Feb 1690, St-Pierre, Île d’Orleans, New France¹⁴

4. Marie Rondeau — B. 16 Dec 1672, Ste-Famille, Île d’Orleans, New France;¹⁵ D. 30 May 1751, St-Pierre, Île d’Orleans, New France;¹⁶ M. Philippe Nöel (1670-1736), 5 Nov 1692, St-Pierre, Île d’Orleans, New France¹⁷

5. Françoise Rondeau — B. 25 Aug 1674, Ste-Famille, Île d’Orleans, New France;¹⁸ D. 12 Oct 1699, St-Jean, Île d’Orleans, New France;¹⁹ M. Charles Dumas (1671-1734), 12 Aug 1694, St-Pierre, Île d’Orleans, New France²⁰

6. Ursule Rondeau — B. 5 Aug 1676, Ste-Famille, Île d’Orleans, New France;²¹ D. 17 Jan 1746, Quebec City, New France;²² M. Jean Bussiere (1673-1735), 21 Apr 1694, St-Pierre, Île d’Orleans, New France²³

7. François Rondeau — B. 7 Apr 1678, Ste-Famille, Île d’Orleans, New France;²⁴ D. 27 Oct 1748, St-Antoine-de-Tilly, New France;²⁵ M. (1) Marie-Anne Decaux (1678-1723), 21 Jul 1705, St-Laurent, Île d’Orleans, New France;²⁶ (2) Marie-Madeleine Denevers (1686-1725), 1724, Ste-Croix, New France;²⁷ (3) Marie-Anne Denevers (~1704-1729), 7 Jan 1728, Ste-Croix, New France²⁸

8. Marie-Madeleine Rondeau — B. 28 Dec 1679, St-Pierre, Île d’Orleans, New France;²⁹ D. 9 Sep 1712, St-Nicolas, New France;³⁰ M. Jacques Côte (1686-1734), 8 Feb 1706, St-Pierre, Île d’Orleans, New France³¹

9. Fabien Rondeau — B. 23 Oct 1681, St-Pierre, Île d’Orleans, New France;³² D. 14 May 1712, Quebec City, New France;³³ M. Marie Denevers (~1684-1712), about 1705, New France³⁴

10. Baby Rondeau — B. 28 Oct 1683, St-Pierre, Île d’Orleans, New France;³⁵ D. 28 Oct 1683, St-Pierre, Île d’Orleans, New France³⁵

11. Marie-Charlotte Rondeau — B. 25 Dec 1684, St-Pierre, Île d’Orleans, New France;³⁶ M. Pierre Côte (1679-1715), 27 Apr 1707, St-Pierre, Île d’Orleans, New France³⁷

12. Jean-Baptiste Rondeau — B. 24 Mar 1688, St-Pierre, Île d’Orleans, New France;³⁸ D. 23 Jan 1709, St-Pierre, Île d’Orleans, New France³⁹

13. Claire Rondeau — B. 12 Jul 1690, St-Pierre, Île d’Orleans, New France;⁴⁰ D. 18 Jul 1690, St-Pierre, Île d’Orleans, New France⁴¹

14. Thomas Rondeau — B. 18 Nov 1692, St-Pierre, Île d’Orleans, New France;⁴² D. 26 Mar 1734, St-Antoine-de-Tilly, New France;⁴³ M. Marie-Catherine Bourgouin (1700-?), 25 Oct 1717, St-Antoine-de-Tilly, New France⁴⁴

15. Anne Rondeau — B. 4 Nov 1694, Saint-Pierre, Île d’Orlèans, New France;⁶ M. (1) Julien Rapoché (1707-1731), 19 Aug 1725, Quebec City, New France;⁴⁵ (2) Philippe Desmarais (1702-?), 21 Nov 1735, Quebec City, New France⁴⁶

Sources:
1    Généalogie du Québec et d'Amérique française listing of Andrée Remondière
2    Marriage contract of Thomas Rondeau and Andrée Remondière
3    Burial record of Andrée Remondière, Quebec Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1979, FamilySearch.org
4    Généalogie du Québec et d'Amérique française listing of Jacques Remondière
5    Baptismal record of Mathurin Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
6    Baptismal record of Anne Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
7    Burial record of Thomas Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
8    FamousKin.com listing of Thomas Rondeau
9    Recensement de 1681 en Nouvelle-France
10  Baptismal record of Thomas Rondeau (older child), Q.C.P.R.
11  Burial record of Thomas Rondeau (older child), Q.C.P.R.
12  Baptismal record of Elisabeth-Isabelle Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
13  Burial record of Elisabeth-Isabelle Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
14  Marriage record of Pierre Leclerc and Elisabeth-Isabelle Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
15  Baptismal record of Marie Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
16  Burial record of Marie Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
17  Marriage record of Philippe Noël and Marie Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
18  Baptismal record of Françoise Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
19  Burial record of Françoise Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
20  Marriage record of Charles Dumas and Françoise Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
21  Baptismal record of Ursule Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
22  Burial record of Ursule Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
23  Marriage record of Jean Bussiere and Ursule Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
24  Baptismal record of François Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
25  Burial record of François Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
26  Marriage record of Françoise Rondeau and Marie-Anne Decaux, Q.C.P.R.
27  Marriage record of Françoise Rondeau and Marie-Madeleine Denevers, Q.C.P.R.
28  Marriage record of Françoise Rondeau and Marie-Anne Denevers, Q.C.P.R.
29  Baptismal record of Marie-Madeleine Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
30  Burial record of Marie-Madeleine Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
31  Marriage record of Jacques Côte and Marie-Madeleine Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
32  Baptismal record of Fabien Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
33  Burial record of Fabien Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
34  Marriage record of Fabien Rondeau and Marie Denevers, Q.C.P.R.
35  Burial record of Baby Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
36  Baptismal record of Marie-Charlotte Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
37  Marriage record of Pierre Côte and Marie-Charlotte Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
38  Baptismal record of Jean-Baptiste Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
39  Burial record of Jean-Baptiste Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
40  Baptismal record of Claire Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
41  Burial record of Claire Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
42  Baptismal record of Thomas Rondeau (younger child), Q.C.P.R.
43  Burial record of Thomas Rondeau (younger child), Q.C.P.R.
44  Marriage record of Thomas Rondeau and Marie-Catherine Bourgouin, Q.C.P.R.
45  Marriage record of Julien Rapoché and Anne Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.
46  Marriage record of Philippe Desmarais and Anne Rondeau, Q.C.P.R.

The Path to East Hampton — Stephen Hand

B. about 1635 in (probably) Tunbridge, Kent, England¹
M. (1) 1660 in (probably) Long Island²
Wife: Sarah Stratton
M. (2) before 17 May 1688 in East Hampton, New York¹
Wife: Rebecca ________
D. 15 Apr 1693 in South Hampton, New York¹

Stephen Hand left his legacy all over the region where he lived on Long Island with a road that bears his name in a somewhat unique style.

Stephen’s family was from Kent, England, where he was likely born in about 1635.¹ This isn’t certain because that is also the year his parents John Hand and Alice Gransden migrated to New England,³ and some researchers believe he was born after his parents left. Whatever the case, Stephen earliest memories were in the town of Lynn, Massachusetts, the second child in a family of at least nine children.

Lynn is located on the coast of New England north of Boston, and many men, including Stephen’s father, were involved in the whaling industry. This was what brought the family to settle on eastern Long Island in about 1644 in a new settlement called Southampton. In about 1660, Stephen married Sarah Stratton,² the daughter of John Stratton, who was one of the founders of East Hampton. Eventually they settled at a place at the head of a creek which would be called “Hand’s Creek,” in the present-day community of Wainscott.⁴ Sarah passed away before 1684,³ and Stephen remarried to a woman named Rebecca.¹ Stephen had at least eight children, but it’s uncertain if they were from different wives. 

Settling at a creek in East Hampton. (AI-generated image)

As a Puritan settlement, East Hampton men were expected to perform civic duties, and Stephen served as town constable in 1674 and again in 1680.⁴ He was one of a handful of men assigned to choose who would represent them in the first Colonial Assembly in 1683 in Albany.⁴ And his name is listed on the official patent for East Hampton issued in 1686.⁴

Stephen’s claim to fame comes from a document dated November 3, 1668 establishing the location of a new road.³ When English colonial settlements were formed up and down the East Coast, they usually started out as patchworks of farms, with no plan for how people traveled between places. So roads were an afterthought, and some landowners were asked to sacrifice a bit of their property for the good of all. The order regarding Stephen’s land was as follows:

“Stephen Hand hath grant that the town shall have a highway for one cart to go through his lot in the woods lying on the west side of George Miller’s lot by the mill plain. The highway is to be 12 feet in breadth and the length of the lot, and it is only to drive carts and oxen in the yoke, and to ride or lead a horse through, and not to drive cattle out of the yoke. And for that highway the town doth grant that Stephen Hand shall have one acre of land, which acre it was said lay by John Osborne’s land at the end of Thomas Osborne Sr.’s addition which Stephen should have.” ³

As a result, Stephen gained immortality, at least for future residents of Long Island. The road was designated “Stephen Hand’s Path,” and the name remains to this day.



Stephen passed away on April 15, 1693 at South Hampton.¹ He is the direct ancestor of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt and all of his illustrious descendants.³

Children of Sarah Stratton:
1. Stephen Hand — B. about 1661, (probably) East Hampton, Long Island;⁵ D. 13 Nov 1740, Wainscott, New York;⁵ M. Esther Osborn (1666-1738), about 1686⁵

2. Joseph Hand — B. about 1664, (probably) East Hampton, New York;⁶ D. 26 Jan 1713, New Jersey⁶

Children of an unidentified mother:
1. (probably) Sarah Hand — B. about 1666, (probably) East Hampton, New York;⁷ D. 1735; M. Thomas Howell⁷

2. (probably) Alice Hand — B. about 1670, (probably) East Hampton, New York;⁷ M. William Shipman, 1690⁷

3. Samuel Hand — B. about 1672, (probably) East Hampton, New York; D. 1735, (probably) East Hampton, New York; M. Elizabeth ______

4. (probably) Esther Hand — B. about 1674, (probably) East Hampton, New York;⁷ M. Samuel Mulford⁷

5. (probably) Abigail Hand — B. about 1676, (probably) East Hampton, New York;⁷ M. Jacob Griswold (1675-?), 30 Nov 1696⁷

6. (probably) Elizabeth Hand — B. about 1678, (probably) East Hampton, New York;⁷ D. 1711; M. Daniel Osborn⁷

Sources:

1    Find-a-Grave listing of Stephen Hand
2    Marriage record of Stephen Hand and Sarah Stratton, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Ancestry.com
3    Genealogy of the Hand-Bradley-Churchill and Related Families, B.G. Richmond, 1982
4    Longhouse Reserve (website)
5    Find-a-Grave listing of Stephen Hand (younger)
6    “Records of Marriages, Baptisms, and Deaths in Easthampton, L.I., from 1696 to 1746,” recorded by Rev. Nathaniel Hunting, New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, V. 34, p. 143
7    Hand, Sisson and Scott: More Yeoman Ancestors, Carol Clark Johnson, 1981