Untangling 3 Richard Ives and 2 William Ellises of Horsham, Sussex, England

In attempting to discover the parents of my 12th great-grandfather John Ive of Horsham, who married Elizabeth Jennyns alias Emery, I discovered some information about two Richard Ives of Horsham on WikiTree.  

The manager called them Richard Ive the elder, who wrote his will in 1531, naming wife Elizabeth and a son Thomas (1), and Richard Ive, Jr. who married Joan, and wrote his will on 4 Mar 1545, probated 20 Jul 1546, and said that this will named his wife Joan.  

Unfortunately, in doing some research myself, I realized there were two main errors:  1. The 1545 will was misattributed to Richard Ive, Jr., and 2. The statement that this will named his wife as Joan, when it did not.  This created some knots that needed to be untangled.

Two Richard Ives appeared on the 1524 Lay Subsidy Roll for Sussex at Horsham, "Richard Ive" on East Street, and "Richard Ive, Jr." of West Street.  They were therefore born by 1508, as you had to be aged 16 to be taxed (2).  I have not been able to determine if "Richard Ive, Jr." is the same person who married Joan, or the third Richard Ive who I found, who married Alice.

I will call them Richard Ive #1, also known as the Elder, or Senior, both terms were used in his 1531 will, Richard Ive #2, who married Joan, and Richard Ive #3, who married Alice.

Richard Ive #1 wrote his will 3 Dec 1531, and named his wife Elizabeth, son John (unmarried), and daughter Elizabeth (unmarried), he does not allude to any other children.  If these two children were just infants, as I suspect, it's possible that Elizabeth married John Alsborne 2 Nov 1550, and John, a barber, was buried 15 Nov 1550, both in Horsham.

Richard Ive #2 first appears in the burial record of his son Richard on 4 Jul 1543 "Rycherd the sone of Rycherd Ive and Johan hys wyfe."(3)  He is next mentioned in the 16 Oct 1552 marriage record of his son, "Thomas the sone of Rycherd Ive, now dede, & Johan hys wyfe, now the wyfe of Wyllm. Elys, maryed Elysabth the dowghter of Henry Cadman and Phyllys hys wyfe." (4)  So we know two things, Richard Ive #2 was deceased before 16 Oct 1552, and his widow Joan had married William Ellis.  Joan was still living 7 Jan 1560/61 when she was godmother at the baptism of John Stere. (5)  No burial record has been found for her.  William Ellis was buried 15 Jun 1561 "Was buryed Wm Ellys, vir [married man], at Gildforde." (6)

The lovely Janet Wolfe, an expert in medieval English genealogy, was kind enough to transcribe the 1545 will for me:

In the name of god Amen the ____ iiijth day of Marche in the yer of our lord god a thousand fyve hundred fourtie and fyve I Richard Ive of Horsham in the dioc[ese] of Chichester of good Remembrance god belauded ordeyne and declare this my testa't and last will as folowyth First I commende and bequeve my sole to almyghtie god my creator and redemor Item I will my body to be buryed in the churcheyeard of Horsham aforesaide It' I will vnto the highe alter of the church of Horsham for offerringe and tythes necligently for forgoten (yf any be) iiij d It I will vnto Thomas my son xls to be payde vnto hym at the Full yers ende aft' my buriall It' I will vnto eche of my other sonnes xls tobe payde vnto eche of them at the full age of xviij yers Item I will that yf Thomas my son do dye before the full yers ende aft' my bryall then I will the saide xls to hym bequeved to be equally shyfted(?) betweyne all my other sonnes to be delyvered vnto eche of them at ther full age of xviij yers and if it happen any one or moe of my other sonnes to die befor ther full age of xviij yers then I will the Somme or sommes to hym or them willed to be equally shyfted betwixt all my other sones then levyng to be payde vnto eche of them at ther full age of xviij yers item I will to ether of my daughters xls to be payde to ether of them at the day of ther marriage yff it be before the full age of xxij yeres or at the age of xxij yeres and yff hit happyn any of my daughters one or mo to dye unmarryed befor the full age of xxijti yeres then I will the monye to hir or them so willed to be equally sheftyd  be twyne all my other daughters then lyving to be paid to eche of them at the day of marriage or at the full age of xxijti yeres also I will to be bestowed at my buriall amongs poure peple vjs viijd The Reste of all my goods and the detts that be owen to me I will and bequethe to Als my Wyff whom I ordyn and mak my sole executrix & she therto to see my body to onnestly buryed & to pay all the dets that I do owe & the Reste to use as she doth think Beste & my said executrix happen to mary befor my test'mt be fully performed then I will that before the day of her mariage she shall delyver unto the hands & custody of my Supervisors or to any so moche money or goods in balew(?) as shall _______ to the rest of this my testament not yet then being not performed Item I will the said Alis my wyff & to her assignes all that my howse and gardyn thereto which I now dwell in the spac of x yeres next folowing after my decease & thereto perform the rest of any yeres of my obbet conteyned in the last will of my fathers and after the said x yeres to be exspyred yf my heyre be not dysposed to dwell in the said house hym selff I will that my wyff shall have the said house and garden yf she will geve or do therefor as any other body will geve wher of she shall ouer receve the therde part as hyr dower and to pay my heyr the other ii parts. Item I will that yf my supervysors or any of them do receve any somme or somes out of the hands of my executor befor the day of hyr marying as is befor saide then I will that he or they shall hold and paye the same to my children and to any of the ther portions as ys befor saide at the day of marriage or yers of age as ys aforsaid Item I ordeyn and make my welbelovyd in Xpe Thomas Olys(?) and John Jenyng my spervysors to whom I remitte full ___te in case befor expressed to se this my testamente to be treuely performed Itm yI will my table and trestylle in the hall and my grate chest to remayne behynde the dowor of the howse Itm I will to eche of my supervysors iij s iiij d These beying wytnesse _yr Herr Parchy__ ____ John ______ Thomas Olys(?) John Jenyng wt other

Probate

xx die mens Julij anno dni millimo quin__ xlvj(?) (1546?)

As you can see, the testator twice names his wife as Alice, and names only one child, a son, Thomas.  He does mention "other sonnes" and "other daughters." (7) Therefore, this is Richard Ive #3 who was buried 18 Jun 1546 at Horsham as "Rycherd Ive, a shoemaker," (8) and his widow Alice married William Ellis on 13 Sep 1546 "was maryed Willm. Ellys to Ric. Ive love." (9) She was buried 26 Feb 1559/60 at Horsham, "Ales Ellis the wyffe of Wm Elles." (10) Their son Thomas is untraced.  

This clearly shows that there were two William Ellises.  As Alice was buried 26 Feb 1559/60, the first William Ellis, who died in 1561, would not have been called a married man.  A burial record for the second William Ellis has not been found.

Richard Ive #1

Born by 1508, married Elizabeth, and had unmarried children John and Elizabeth at the time of his 1531 will.  No further record for him or his wife.

    1.    John, perhaps the barber buried 15 Nov 1550 (11)

    2.    Elizabeth, perhaps married John Alsborne 2 Nov 1550 (12)

Richard Ive #2

Married Joan, and was deceased by 16 Oct 1552, Joan had married William Ellis #1 by the same date, and was living 7 Jan 1560/61.

    1.  Richard, buried 4 Jul 1543

    2.  Thomas, married Elizabeth Cadman 16 Oct 1552

    3.  Joan, married John Garland 30 Jan 1552/53 "Jhon Garlond, a Docheman, maryed Johan the dowghter of Rycherd Ive, now dede" (13)

Richard Ive #3

Married Alice, named Thomas and "other sons" and "other daughters" in his 4 Mar 1545 will, probated 20 Jul 1546, buried 18 Jun 1546, wife Alice married William Ellis #2 on 13 Sep 1546, she was buried 26 Feb 1559/60.

    1.    Thomas, untraced

Sadly, I haven't determined the relationship between these three Richard Ives, or the two William Ellises, or who the parents of John Ive are, and I'm unwilling to speculate....

(1) Consistory Court of Chichester, Registered Wills, Volume 2, page 111, FSL #00790522, Image 196 of 524, familysearch.org

(2) The lay subsidy rolls for the county of Sussex, 1524-25, Julian Cornwall, editor, Sussex Record Society, Volume LVI, 1956, page 83, familysearch.org

(3) The Parish Register of Horsham in the County of Sussex, 1541-1635, R. Garraway Rice, editor, Sussex Record Society, Volume XXI, 1915, page 294, archive.org

(4) St Mary the Virgin (Horsham, Sussex, England), Parish Register, page 80, no. 61, FHL #004428355, Image 70 of 1019, familysearch.org

(5) St Mary the Virgin (Horsham, Sussex, England), Parish Register, page 135, no. 122, FHL #004428355, Image 125 of 1019, familysearch.org

(6) St Mary the Virgin (Horsham, Sussex, England), Parish Register, FHL #004428355, Image 378 of 1019, familysearch.org

(7) Consistory Court of Chichester, Registered Wills, Volume 5, page 136, FSL #007905023, Images 149-150 of 525, familysearch.org

(8) St Mary the Virgin (Horsham, Sussex, England), Parish Register, page 49, no. 30, FHL #004428355, Image 42 of 1019, familysearch.org

(9) St Mary the Virgin (Horsham, Sussex, England), Parish Register, page 49, no. 42, FHL #004428355, Image 42 of 1019, familysearch.org

(10) St Mary the Virgin (Horsham, Sussex, England), Parish Register, page 129, no. 152, FHL #004428355, Image 118 of 1019, familysearch.org

(11) St Mary the Virgin (Horsham, Sussex, England), Parish Register, page 70, no. 75, FHL #004428355, Image 60 of 1019, familysearch.org

(12) St Mary the Virgin (Horsham, Sussex, England), Parish Register, page 70, no. 73, FHL #004428355, Image 60 of 1019, familysearch.org

(13) St Mary the Virgin (Horsham, Sussex, England), Parish Register, page 81, no. 103, FHL #004428355, Image 71 of 1019, familysearch.org

Notes on the Jacob and Hannah Waterhouse family of New London, Connecticut

 In the course of my multi-year project of improving my source citations, trying to get away from secondary sources to primary ones, I've come across some amazing finds, some of which have added to or corrected published information in those secondary sources.

I recently contacted the Connecticut State Library regarding a probate record mentioned in the article "Jacob Waterhouse of Wethersfield and New London, Conn., and some of his descendants," by Grace Pratt Bonsall (1).

She stated that John Waterhouse, son of Jacob and Hannah Waterhouse, married Mary "and had a son Jacob, an infant in 1687." This is followed by the statement "New London Court Probate Record, 20 Mar 1704, Jacob Waterhouse, son of John, late of New London, dec'd, who about sixteen years ago chose Lieut. Abraham Waterhouse as guardian."

I didn't realize it at the time, but the math doesn't work.  How can an infant choose a guardian?

In reading through one (there are two) probate record for Jacob Waterhouse, son of John, I learned that his guardian was actually Lieut. Abraham Chalker (2).  The probate record consists of a single scrap of paper:

Upon receiving the record from Mike Sullivan of The Connecticut State Library, I realized that Bonsall made several more mistakes (3).

The record, actually dated 30 Mar 1704 reads "Jacob Waterus Son of John Waterus late of New London Deceased being about Sixteen Years of Age having made Choice of Lieut. Abraham Chalker of Say=brook to be his Guardian as appears under the hands of Nathaniel Lynde and Daniel Taylor Justices of the Peace this Court approves of the Same, he giving bond accordding to Law."

That is three errors:  the date, when John Waterhouse appointed his guardian, and who his guardian was.  This is why I exhort other family historians to ferret out those original records.  They are incredibly rewarding!

John Waterhouse married Mary, or Marah, about 1687, their son Jacob was born about 1688, and he probably died about 1688.  Marah then married John Hayden (4).  Her first name was discovered in the birth record for their sons (5).

Mr. Sullivan also sent another image that I didn't even know about, that referred to Hannah Waterhouse.  I knew that she was living on 10 Nov 1693, when she acknowledged a deed (6) but I didn't know when she died.  I still don't, but I now know that she died before 31 Mar 1704 (7).

This record, dated 31 Mar 1704, reads:  "... which land was left in the Widows hands by said [word covered by tape] during her life and she being lately deceased..."  This wording leads me to suppose that she died in late 1703 or early 1704.

1. "Jacob Waterhouse of Wethersfield and New London, Conn., and some of his descendants," Grace Pratt Bonsall, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 104, page 189, 1950
2. New London District Probate Record no. 5541, FSL #007628900, Image 407, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L92R-DFFL
3. Record Group 4:95, Records of the New London Probate Court, Journal, Volume 1, 1700-1705, page 27, Connecticut State Library
4. Connecticut, New London, New London Probate District, Probate Packet no. 5542, FHL #007628900, Images 408-413, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L92R-D61F
5. Connecticut, New London, Lyme Land Records, Volume 2, page 201, FSL #007833645, Image 202 of 344, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3N-4QJJ-F
6. Connecticut, New London, New London Land Records, Volume 4, page 134, FSL #008140613, Image 532, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKW-F3FC-X
7. Record Group 4:95, Records of the New London Probate Court, Journal, Volume 1, 1700-1705, page 28, Connecticut State Library

Frederick Cox and wife Milly vs. Robert and Elisha Estes, executors of Robert Estes of Lunenburg, Virginia

NOTE:  this post includes the horrible subject of slavery and the disgraceful way enslaved persons were treated and referred to.

It isn’t often when perusing genealogical records that I find one that reveals personalities, family dynamics and awful statements like the 1776 Chancery Court Case between the heirs of Robert Estes, Sr. of Lunenburg County, Virginia.

On 15 Mar 1775 Robert Estes, Sr. wrote a will leaving property, including land and enslaved persons, equally between his 7 children:

Robert Estes, born about 1724 (“being now near fifty three years of age” in 1776)

Elisha Estes,

Benjamin Estes

George Estes, who married Mary, who married second William Thompson by 1779

Bartlett Estes

Zachary / Zachariah Estes

Mildred “Milly” Estes, born about 1742, who married Frederick Cox

He only named one enslaved person in his will, Sam; however, the Chancery Court Case and the division of his estate in 1795 revealed the names, and some of the relationships, of the others.  

The rift in the family began much earlier, though.  About 23 Jul 1751, Robert Estes, Sr. purchased three enslaved persons from Col. John Chiswell, Jacob, aged 12 (born about 1739), Kate, aged 11 (born about 1740), and Jack.  Per the deposition of Micajah Estes, Milly was about 9 years old at this time (born about 1742).

The marriage of Frederick Cox and Milly Estes was a bit irregular.  Frederick was underage, so he had to get a certificate before the parson would marry them.  He didn’t get it from his father, Capt. Cox, though, but from a Mr. Whitehead, and Milly wasn’t given away by her father, but by a man named Sylvanus Walker.  It’s unclear exactly when they married, but “it was in the last of July or the first of August” about 1763.

On 18 Nov 1767, Robert Estes, Sr. lent his enslaved person Lucy to Frederick and Milly Cox “during my pleasure Let time be long or short.”  Per other deponents in the lawsuit, Lucy was the daughter of Kate and Jack.

By the following year, Robert Estes, Sr. believed that Frederick Cox was in debt, and he worried that that his son-in-law would sell Lucy to pay off his debts.  His concern was compounded when Frederick and Milly removed to Pittsylvania County, taking Lucy with them.  Robert Estes placed a notice in the Virginia Gazette, published 5 May 1768, which read “where the negro may be disposed of before I can be informed of it.”

Per the testimony, it appears that Robert Estes, Sr. doted on and spoiled his daughter Milly, which led to jealousy amongst his other children.  Mary Estes, aged about 65 (born about 1711, I wonder if she is the wife of Richard, brother of Robert Estes, Sr.), deposed “that she has heard George Estes, the son, & Mary Estes, the daughter in law of the said Robert Estes, & wife of Elisha Estes say they thought it a hard thing, that Milly, the wife of the said Frederick Cox, should have all these negroes, who never did any thing for it, but was always kept like a gentlewoman.”

It seems to me that Frederick and Milly Cox could be selfish, disrespectful, and pushy, for by early 1771, there was clearly no love lost between Robert Estes, Sr. and his son-in-law.  Robert has been purported to say some very unflattering things about his character, such as “Every time Fred & his wife or either of them came down they were perpetually at him to give them the negro girl Lucy.  He never would give her to them, for if he did, Frederick would make her go the same way as those his father had given him.

About Sep 1774, Robert Estes, Sr. evidently told Daniel Dejarnett over dinner at Robert’s home “that he was afraid the said Frederick Cox would put a cheat upon some person in selling the aforesaid negroes lent to his wife Milly & put him to some trouble to get his property again.”  Later in the same conversation, Robert also stated his displeasure with two of his other children:  He “intended that at his death the above negroes lent aforesaid should be called in & that his estate would be equally proportioned among his children, some of which, Benjamin, Bartlett & Frederick Cox would know the want of an estate, or he imagined they would spend what they were to have.”

Then about Feb 1775, Robert Estes told John Smith that “he was very uneasy about it, because he imagined Frederick Cox would not bring in the negro to be shared or divided with the rest of his estate…because he was a stubborn body.”

James Bell said that just before Robert Estes, Sr. death he told him “He was afraid his estate would go to pay off the other to clerks, sheriffs, and lawyers, & that he was afraid that Frederick Cox would be troublesome to the rest of the children, and if he did, the consequences will be bad on the side of the rest of the children.

Well, he had it half right, for the lawsuit proves his point, but in the end, his property was divided up fairly.

His son Elisha and his wife (my 7th great-grandparents) weren’t spared the ire of Robert Estes, Sr. either.  In the spring of 1774, Robert Estes, Sr. told Dejarnett that “the wife of the said Elisha (Elisha then being away from home) had someway offended him, & for these reasons he intended to disinherit the said Elisha.”  A few days later “He had seen Elisha, & that Elisha had satisfied him & that he was very sorry for expressing himself angrily at the former meeting against Elisha, and was glad” Dejarnett “opposed his then passionate intention” and said “if he had executed his intentions he would have hurt one of his most dutiful & obedient children.”

This paints the picture of a hard man, quick to anger and take offense, and quick to forgive.  In the end, he obviously trusted Elisha, making him a co-executor of his will.  He also recognized that spoiling Milly did her no favors, and he realized he should treat all his children equally and fairly.

There was also rancor between Frederick Cox and Elisha Estes and his wife Mary, for about Dec 1775, William Parrott, Robert Estes, Sr.’s overseer, met Frederick Cox and Cox asked him “if Elisha Estes was come home that damned negro stealing son of a bitch. I told him I had heard he was going to steal some of the negroes down here, so it would be steal for steal, don’t you think they could hang you for stealing, he said he knew they could, & he said he only took them but did not carry them away, & that what he had done was to fret Molly Estes, the wife of Elisha Estes.”

There were several genealogical goldmines found in the lawsuit, the estimated birth years for Robert Estes and his sister Milly, the death year of their mother Mary, which was 1774, and that she “was reported to be illegitimate” per William White, who from his youth knew Robert Estes, Sr. and lived with them for some time.

Per the depositions in the lawsuit, enslaved persons Jack and Kate (born about 1740) had nine children:  Lucy (who had a daughter Lydia), Jack, Kate, Lydia, Peter, Sam, Sarah, Tom, and Will.

The estate division was as follows:

Robert Estes                 Sarah, Phil, Joe

Elisha Estes         Tom, Kate the younger

Mary, widow of George Estes  Peter, Jack

Benjamin Estes         Jack, Kate his wife

Zachariah Estes         Phyllis, Lydia, Jack the son of Kate

Milly & Frederick Cox         Lucy, lydia, Hannah

Sources:

Virginia, Lunenburg, Chancery Court Case 1776-001, Frederick Cox and wife vs. Robert and Elisha Estes, Library of Virginia, Virginia Memory, 

https://old.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=111-1776-001#img

Virginia, Lunenburg, Will Book 2, pages 417-419, 442-445, 451, FHL #007645430, Images 421-422, 434-435, 438 of 659, 

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89P6-TWDS

Update on my English Origin of the Tompson Brothers of New Haven, Connecticut article

 Good news!  

My article has been published and is now online and viewable with an americanancestors.org subscription at:

https://www.americanancestors.org/sites/default/files/2025-08/NEHGR-Summer25.pdf

The English origin of the Tompson brothers of New Haven, Connecticut

 I am pleased to announce that I will have an article published in the Summer 2025 issue of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register regarding the English origin of the Tompson brothers of New Haven, Connecticut.

I am referring to Anthony, William and John Tompson, who were non-original signers of the "Fundamental Agreement" which was dated 4 Jun 1639 (1).

These brothers were originally thought to have originated from Lenham, Kent, England (2), but this was proven incorrect by Donald Lines Jacobus in 1912 (3).

If you are descendants of these brothers, please get a copy of the Register!

(1) Fundamental Agreement of the Colony of New Haven, Records of the Colony of New Haven, 1 1638-1649, Connecticut State Library

(2) Rev. A. G. Hibbard, History of the Town of Goshen, Connecticut (Hartford, CT, Press of The 2 Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1897) 526 

(3) Eliza J. Lines, Marks-Platt Ancestry (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, 3 1902) 46-50 

(4) Donald Lines Jacobus “Notes on Thompson Families of Connecticut” The New England 4 Historical and Genealogical Register 66 (1912): 198-199 

Update on Griffith Jones, his only wife Margaret, and their son Benoni Jones.

This post is short but sweet:

I hired the New England Historic Genealogical Society to search for the 29 Mar 1670 Northampton court record, which Thomas B. Warren cited as his source that Griffith married second, a woman named Sarah.  This has been proven to be a misreading of the first few words of the court record.  In truth, it said:  "For likewise is Griffith Jones of Springfield freed from military services with Springfield company." This was the only 1670 court record found pertaining to Griffith Jones (1).

As this is the only record that supposedly was evidence of a second wife, it can now be said without doubt, that Margaret was the only wife of Griffith Jones; therefore, Benoni Jones, proven by his 28 Mar 1678 indenture to Lieut. William Clark, to be the son of Griffith Jones, was also the son of Margaret (2).

Margaret's death record was recorded 6 May 1665, so Benoni must have been born on or before this date. (3).

The first image is the 1670 court record, right hand page, 3rd paragraph from the bottom.

This image is the 1678 indentures of brothers Benoni and Pelatiah Jones, left hand page, final two paragraphs.

(1) Massachusetts, Hampshire, Probate Records, Volume 1, page 115, FHL #007705549, Image 77 of 689, familysearch.org

(2) Massachusetts, Hampshire, Probate Records, Volume 1, page 196, FHL #007705549, Image 130 of 689, familysearch.org

(3) Massachusetts, Hampden, Springfield births, marriages, deaths, Volume 1, page 48, FHL #004375670, Image 59 of 594, familysearch.org

The real wife of Griffith Jones, of Springfield, Massachusetts, the true mother of his children

 

William Pynchon's Magistrate's Book, page 56, held by the Harvard Law School Library. 

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There is so much misinformation about Griffith Jones, born in Wales, died 19 Feb 1676/77 in Springfield, Massachusetts (1) that it just makes me sad.   Numerous books, family trees, websites and blogs state unequivocally that he married Sarah in Wales, and that she was the mother of his 11 children.  Of course, none of these cite an original source.  

I state unequivocally that the wife of Griffith Jones, and the mother of at least 10 of his children was Margaret.  I've just found that William Pynchon wrote in his Magistrate's book an entry dated 3 Mar 1653/53 which reads "Margarite the wife of Griffith Joanes being presented for breach of a Towne Order, in carying fire we find not her excuse sufficient, and therefore adjudge her to pay .5s to the Towne treasurer." (2) An image of this entry appears above.

The death record for Margaret does not give her name, but reads "Griffith Jones' wife dyed May the 6th 1665" (3).  An image appears below, her entry is in the right hand column, halfway down.

In a copy of this this record, someone wrote in the margin of the entry "Margaret." It seems the Town Clerk was aware of her name, and felt it important to add it (4).

Griffith Jones had 11 children, 10 of whom had their births recorded by the Springfield Town Clerk in Volume 1 "Births Marriages and Deaths, 1638-1728."  Unfortunately the birth of my direct ancestor, his 11th child, was not recorded.  He was indentured to Lt. William Clarke of Northampton in Mar 1678 at age 12 (5), which makes it probable that his mother was Margaret.  Thomas B. Warren made reference to a "Court record at Northampton 1670 speaks of Sarah wife of Griffith Jones of Springfield - probably a second wife" (6).  Did Griffith Jones quickly marry and was this Sarah the mother of Benoni?  I find that unlikely.  Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find the indenture yet, and Warren's reference is rather vague, but I'm also searching for that court record.  I find it most likely that Margaret was the mother of all 11 children.

Despite what all these unsourced family trees, blogs, websites and books say, the date of birth for Griffith, and the maiden names of Margaret, and possible second wife Sarah are unknown.

Hopefully I will have an update soon, with the result of my searches for the indenture and court record.

Here are the children of Griffith Jones and his wife Margaret, all born in Springield:

1.  daughter born 2 Sep 1645 "lived not longe." (7)

2.  Mercy, born 4 Jul 1647, married James Barker 5 Jan 1675 in Springfield, died 27 Apr 1717 in Springfield (8, 9, 10)

3.  Hephzibah, born 26 Jan 1648/49, baptized 28 Feb 1648/49, married Isaac Cakebread 20 Dec 1677 in Springfield, died 3 Mar 1685 in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut (11, 12, 13)

4.  Samuel, born 19 Jan 1650/51 (14)

5.  Ebenezer, born 14 Jul 1653, married Mercy Bagg 26 Jun 1679 in Springfield, died 24 Jan 1735/36 in Springfield (15, 16, 17)

6.  Thomas, born 9 Jun 1655, married Elizabeth Graves 31 Aug 1682 in Springfield (18, 19)

7.  Griffith, born 4 Jun 1658 (20)

8.  Griffith, born 28 Mar 1660 (21)

9.  Experience, born 12 Aug 1662, married John Huggins 4 Feb 1684 in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, died 9 May 1714 in Springfield (22, 23, 24)

10.  Pelatiah, born 22 Jul 1664, married Sarah Meakins, died 1745 in Springfield "This Year died at Louisburgh, belonging to this Parish" (25, 26, 27)

11.  Benoni, born about 1666, married Hester Ingersoll 23 Jan 1687/88 in Northampton, Hampshire, MA, died 13 May 1704 in Northampton, Hampshire, MA (28, 29, 30)

Sources:

1.  Massachusetts, Hampden, Springfield births, marriages, deaths, Volume 1, page 50, FHL #004375670, Image 61 of 594

2.  Pynchon, William, 1590-1662, Record of cases before the magistrate of Agawan, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1638-1702, HLS MS 4344, Sequence 60, Harvard Law School Library, https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:50610470$60i

3.  Massachusetts, Hampden, Springfield births, marriages, deaths, Volume 1, page 48, FHL #004375670, Image 59 of 594

4.  Massachusetts, Hampden, Springfield births, marriages, deaths, Volume 1, page 179, FHL #004375670, Image 246 of 594

5. History of Northampton, Massachusetts, from its settlement in 1654, Volume I, page495, Note 2, James Russell Trumbull, Gazette Printing Co., Northampton, MA, 1898, hathitrust.org

6.  Warren Manuscript, Births, marriages, and deaths, A-P, 1639-1843, Thomas B. Warren, FHL #008203035, Image 750 of 1034

7.  Massachusetts, Hampden, Springfield births, marriages, deaths, Volume 1, page 6, FHL #004375670, Image 17 of 594

8.  Massachusetts, Hampden, Springfield births, marriages, deaths, Volume 1, page 7, FHL #004375670, Image 21 of 594

9.  Massachusetts, Hampden, Springfield births, marriages, deaths, Volume 1, page 16, FHL #004375670, Image 30 of 594

10. Massachusetts, Hampden, Springfield births, marriages, deaths, Volume 1, page 103, FHL #004375670, Image 115 of 594

11. Massachusetts, Hampden, Springfield births, marriages, deaths, Volume 1, page 7, FHL #004375670, Image 21 of 594

12. Massachusetts, Hampden, Springfield births, marriages, deaths, Volume 1, page 16, FHL #004375670, Image 30 of 594

13.   Connecticut, Hartford, Shuffield births, marriages, deaths, Volume 1, page 7, FHL #007730434, Image 14 of 564

14. Massachusetts, Hampden, Springfield births, marriages, deaths, Volume 1, page 8, FHL #004375670, Image 22 of 594

15. Massachusetts, Hampden, Springfield births, marriages, deaths, Volume 1, page 9, FHL #004375670, Image 23 of 594

16. Massachusetts, Hampden, Springfield births, marriages, deaths, Volume 1, page 81, FHL #004375670, Image 30 of 594

17. Massachusetts, Hampden, Springfield deaths, Volume 2, page 6, FHL #004375673, Image 13 of 439

18. Massachusetts, Hampden, Springfield births, marriages, deaths, Volume 1, page 9, FHL #004375670, Image 23 of 594

19. Massachusetts, Hampden, Springfield births, marriages, deaths, Volume 1, page 17, FHL #004375670, Image 31 of 594

20. Massachusetts, Hampden, Springfield births, marriages, deaths, Volume 1, page 10, FHL #004375670, Image 24 of 594

21. Massachusetts, Hampden, Springfield births, marriages, deaths, Volume 1, page 11, FHL #004375670, Image 25 of 594

22. Massachusetts, Hampden, Springfield births, marriages, deaths, Volume 1, page 11, FHL #004375670, Image 25 of 594

23. Connecticut, Hartford, Shuffield births, marriages, deaths, Volume 1, page 16, FHL #007730434, Image 19 of 564

24. Massachusetts, Hampden, Springfield births, marriages, deaths, Volume 1, page 102, FHL #004375670, Image 114 of 594

25. Massachusetts, Hampden, Springfield births, marriages, deaths, Volume 1, page 12, FHL #004375670, Image 26 of 594

26. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Volume II, Hartford District, 1700-1729, Charles William Manwaring, R. S. Peck & Co., Hartford, CT, 1904, Hathitrust.org

27. First Congregational Church (Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts), Church Records, 1736-1784, FHL #007578434, Image 58 of 665

28. History of Northampton, Massachusetts, from its settlement in 1654, Volume I, page495, Note 2, James Russell Trumbull, Gazette Printing Co., Northampton, MA, 1898, hathitrust.org

29. Massachusetts, Hampshire, Northampton Births Marriages & Deaths, 1654-1801, FHL #004329300

30. Massachusetts, Hampshire, Northampton births, marriages, deaths, 1654-1801, page 141, FHL #004329300, Image 84 of 464