JohnsonFamily2/19/24 - Person Sheet
JohnsonFamily2/19/24 - Person Sheet
Birth1593/1600, Eckington, Worcestershire, England142
Deathbef 22 Jan 1679, Duxbury, MA
FatherRobert Soule (~1564-~1612)
MotherElizabeth Tylson (~1568-?)
Spouses
Birthabt 1600, England
DeathDec 1670/1677, Duxbury, MA
FatherSylvester Becket (~1560-?)
MotherElizabeth Hill (~1560-?)
Family ID128
MarriageDec 1626, Duxbury, MA31
Notes for George Soule
Came to America on the Mayflower. See Mayflower Families, Vol 3.
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"THE DRINKWATER FAMILY.
History, Biography and Genealogy of the Families Named Soule, Sowle and Soulis, Volume I
The family of Drinkwater can trace its history into the distant past both in this country and in England. The present generation can trace its ancestry through two separate lines, to the passengers of the Mayflower, and before that time the Drinkwater or Derwentwater name was prominent in England.
That the family is of even older date than the time of Radcliff is shown by the coat-of-arms granted to Hugh Drinkwater (or Derwentwater) of Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1615. Copies of this coat-of-arms, finely executed in oil, on parchment, are in possession of descendants of JOSEPH DRINKWATER, who died in North Yarmouth, Me., in 1784.
The Drinkwater family in this section of Maine can trace its origin to a common ancestor, MICAJAH DRINKWATER, who came from North Yarmouth and settled in Northport on the farm now owned by his grandson, MATHEW DRINKWATER. Micajah's grandfather, THOMAS DRINKWATER, was born in England and came to America when a young man, settling in Taunton, Mass. He married ELIZABETH HASKELL, a daughter of JOHN and PATIENCE (SOULE) HASKELL. Patience Soule was a daughter of GEORGE SOULE who came over in the Mayflower in 1620. Thomas Drinkwater died in 1710. His son Joseph married Jane Latham (or Leighton) and was one of the early settlers of North Yarmouth.
From 1675 to 1713 all the coast settlements of Maine suffered from the Indian wars, and North Yarmouth was abandoned. It was resettled in 1721-1722, and Joseph and Jane Drinkwater were among those who had the courage to settle there."
The foregoing is sustained by several New England references to the effect that the first THOMAS DRINKWATER married July 2, 1672, ELIZABETH HASKELL, as above, who was born at Middleborough (see The Pligrim Notes and Queries, Vol. I, p. 47). This Soule lineage connects up with FRANCIS WALKER, likewise from Middleborough, who removed to Piscataway and Woodbridge before 1700 (see, ante, PART TWO, p. 217), and it is a most formidable assumption that JOHN DRINKWATER of PISCATAWAY was a son or brother of the THOMAS DRINKWATER first above.
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7. Benjamin Soule (1), a son of George (2) and Mary (Beckett) Soule, was born in Plymouth, or Duxbury, Mass., but, like the other children, the date of his advent is unknown. Among searchers and writers, this man's name has been disposed of with a very brief statement, viz., "He was killed by the Indians before Pawtucket, 26 March, 1676, leaving no issue so far as known."
Benjamin Soule was one of the "impressed soldiers" called out by the Plymouth Colony on February 8, 1675-6, and under the command of Capt. Michael Pierce was engaged in the ill-fated battle against outnumbering Indians who out-generaled him, led him with his men into a cunningly arranged ambuscade and hewed them in pieces. From the town of Scituate fifteen were slain; from Marshfield, nine were slain; from Duxbury, four were killed, among them Benjamin Soule. From a letter written by Rev. Noah Newman the day after the battle, now much decayed and partly illegible, we find the names of those killed in this battle.
We are not ready to leave the name of this brave man without another word of comment. If he was not born before 1630 he was 46 years of age when he was killed; an age when he was probably married and the father of several children. It is no proof that he was a single man because no record of his marriage has been discovered, or that he was not the father of children because their names and births have not been found. He and his family may have lived in some contiguous town and beyond the boundaries of Plymouth County, although he was accredited to Duxbury in the military records. Emerging from these obscure suggestions into the clearer light of recent discovery, we cite our readers to some facts of peculiar interest on the line of this subject. Following the recorded names of the Sole-Soule families found in the Census Returns of 1790 we were led onward to an investigation of the public records in North and South Carolina. The first report from the Secretary of State brought us the beautifully inscribed names of seven persons who were of the Sowle family. These were, with one exception, duplicates of names peculiar to the Soule families in New England; there were Benjamin, Nathaniel, Sylvanus, Timothy, Joseph and Edward. Pursuing the trail we procured abstracts from their land-grants and learned that these "Sowles" had joined the great wave of Quaker migration that invested the Carolinas about 1730-40 and made a permanent settlement there. A full account of these researches will be found in a section of this work entitled "Soule Families in the South." These Soule families were comparatively illiterate and preserved but meagre records of their movements or affairs. As one proof of their New England origin we found record of the noncupative will of John Tibbetts whose wife was Sarah Soule, a daughter of George Soule second, in
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which he mentions among his children "Avis Sole" the wife of George Soule who removed to the Oblong in Dutchess County, N. Y. This George Soule certainly married his cousin, Avis Tibbetts, and thus we link the Northern and Southern branches of the Soule family. Concretely summing up, we find but one family in New England from which these Southern offshoots could have been broken unless Benjamin Soule was a married man and the father of those who removed to the South. It will be recalled that the Soules owned vessels about this time and were engaged in maritime relations with "the Carolinas" and these relatives having learned of cheap lands that could be had "for the asking" took passage in the "Soule fleet" and emigrated to that country. After a prolonged investigation of this interesting subject the author finds no avenue in which to look for the origin of these southern families unless they were the descendants of Benjamin Soule who was killed before Pawtucket. There were no other families in America known at that time from whom they could have sprung. But see a more comprehensive presentation of the facts in the especial section of this book alluded to above.
8. Patience Soule (1), a daughter of George (1) and Mary (Beckett) Soule, born in Plymouth or Duxbury, Mass., became the wife of JOHN HASKELL as proved by the records of Middleboro, Mass. She was married "sometime in January, 1666." She died March 11, 1705-6, in the (not clear) year of her age." Her husband died May 15, 1706, in the 67th year of his age. She was one of the daughters of the Pilgrim who received a portion of his lands in Middleboro. They settled in that town and were there buried. Descendants of Patience (Soule) Haskell are still living in the West. Her children's names do not follow immediately after her marriage and the eldest probably died in infancy. The names following were recorded in the Middleboro Registers:
I. JOHN HASKELL, born June 11, 1670; married MARY SQUIRE of Cambridge,
Mass., March 2, 1699.
II. ELIZABETH HASKELL, born July 2, 1672, was the wife of THOMAS
DRINKWATER and had a son Joseph Drinkwater, born 1710, died
April 18, 1784.
III. WILLIAM HASKELL, born June 11, 1674, of whom no other record.
IV. PATIENCE HASKELL, born Feb. 1, 1679; died Feb. 14, 1705-6, in
her 27th year.
V. BETHYAR HASKELL, born Jan. 4, 1681, of whom nothing more.
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GEORGE SOULE
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1620 on Mayflower
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
REMOVES: Duxbury
FREEMAN: In the "1633" Plymouth list of freemen, ahead of those admitted on 1 January 1632/3 [PCR 1:4]. On list of 7 March 1636/7 freemen [PCR 1:52]. On the 29 May 1670 list of freemen of Duxburrow [PCR 5:275].
EDUCATION: Signed his name as witness to the will of John Barnes of Plymouth 6 March 1667/8 [MD 4:98, citing Scrapbook 56].
OFFICES: Deputy (for Duxburrow), 27 September 1642 (special deputy in case of war with the Indians), 7 June 1653, 7 March 1653/4, 6 June 1654 [PCR 2:45, 3:31, 44, 49]. Committee (from Duxbury), 28 October 1645, 3 March 1645/6, 7 July 1646, 4 June 1650 (to consider the making and repealing of laws), 5 June 1651 [PCR 2:94, 95, 104, 154, 167, 11:155]. Grand jury, 7 March 1642/3, 6 June 1643 [PCR 2:53, 56]. Jury, 3 June 1656, 3 March 1662/3 [PCR 3:102, 7:108]. Petit jury, 1 June 1647 [PCR 2:117]. Lot viewer, 4 June 1645 [PCR 2:88]. Committee to draw an order concerning the disorderly drinking of tobacco [!], 20 October 1646 [PCR 2:108]. Viewer of meadows, 5 May 1640 [PCR 1:151]. Committee to set the range, 1 June 1658 [PCR 3:138].
One of the "voluntaries," soldiers "that willingly offer themselves to go upon ... service" 7 June 1637 [PCR 1:60].
ESTATE: In the 1623 Plymouth division of land received one acre as a passenger on the Mayflower [PCR 12:4]. In the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle George Sowle, Mary Sowle and Zakariah Sowle were the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth persons in the ninth company [PCR 12:12].
Assessed 9s. in the Plymouth tax lists of 25 March 1633 and 27 March 1634 [PCR 1:10, 27]. He was on the list of purchasers [PCR 2:177].
On 1 July 1633 he was granted "mow for a cow near his dwelling house" [PCR 1:15]. On 20 March 1636/7 he was allowed the hay ground where he got hay the year before [PCR 1:56]. On 4 December 1637 George Soule was granted a garden place on Ducksborrow side [PCR 1:69]. On 7 May 1638 one acre of land was granted to George Soule "at the watering place" in liew of another acre which was taken from him for other use, and also two acres of stony marsh at Powder Point were granted to him [PCR 1:83]. On 13 July 1639 George Soule sold to Robert Hicks two acres at the watering place on the south side of Plymouth [PCR 12:45]. On 2 November 1640 he was granted "the meadow he desires" at Green's Harbor [PCR 1:165].
On 4 May 1658 George Soule was granted five acres of meadow [PCR 3:134]. On 22 January 1658 and 17 July 1668, George Soule gave his Dartmouth propriety to his sons Nathaniel and George as a single undivided share [PCLR 3:123, 245].
On 23 July 1668 George Soule, with "consent of my wife Mary," gave land to Francis Walker "husband to my daughter Elizabeth" [MD 27:39-40, citing PCLR 3:126]. On 26 January 1668[/9] George Soule of Duxbury deeded to "Patience Haskall his true and natural daughter and unto John Haskall her husband" his half share of land at Namassakett [MD 27:40, citing PCLR 3:153] On 12 March 1668[/9] George Soule of Duxbury, husbandman, deeded to "my daughter Elizabeth wife unto Francis Walkere" half his share of land at Namascutt [MD 27: 40-41, citing PLR 10:2:327].
In his will, dated 11 August 1677 (with codicil dated 20 September 1677) and proved 5 March 1679/80, "G[e]orge Soule Senior of Duxberry ... being aged and weak of body" confirmed that he had formerly given by deeds "unto my two sons Nathaniel and G[e]orge all my lands in the township of Dartmouth ... [and] I have formerly given unto my daughters Elizabeth and Patience all my lands in the township of Middlebery"; to "my daughters Sussannah and Mary" 12d. apiece; "forasmuch as my eldest son John Soule and his family hath in my extreme old age and weakness been tender and careful of me and very helpful to me, and is likely so to be while it shall please God to continue my life here, therefore I give and bequeath unto my said son John Soule all the remainder of my housing and lands whatsoever"; to "my son John Soule all my goods and chattels whatsoever"; "my son John Soule to be my sole executor." In a codicil dated 20 September 1677, "G[e]orge Soule" indicated that if "my son John Soule" were to disturb "my daughter Patience or her heirs" in the peacable possession of lands he had given her in Middleborough, then "my gift to my son John Soule shall be void" and "my daughter Patience shall have all my lands at Duxburrey and she shall be my sole executrix ... and enter into my housing lands and meadows at Duxburrow" [MD 2:81-83, citing PCPR 4:1:50].
The inventory of the estate of George Soule of Duxbury, taken 22 January 1679[/80], totalled £40 19s., including £25 in real estate: "dwelling house, orchard, barn and upland," £20; and "meadow land," £5; John Soule appended a long list of charges against the estate, including an item "for diet and tendance since my mother died which was three year the last December" [MD 2:83-84, citing PCPR 4:1:51].
BIRTH: By about 1602 based on date of marriage.
DEATH: Between 20 September 1677 (codicil to will) and 22 January 1679[/80] (date of inventory), and probably closer to the latter date.
MARRIAGE: By 1627 MARY BUCKETT (in the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle George Soule had wife Mary and son Zachariah; Mary has been identified by many writers as Mary Buckett of the 1623 land division on that basis that no other Mary was available in the limited Plymouth population of the earliest years). She died about December 1672 (son John Soule indicated in an account of 1676 that "my mother died which was three year the last December" [MD 2:83-84]).
CHILDREN:
i ZACHARIAH, b. by 1627; m. by 1663 Margaret _____ [Scrapbook 20].
ii JOHN, b. about 1632 (deposed 8 March 1705/6 aged "about seventy-four years" [MD 5:46, citing PLR 7:35]); m. (1) by about 1656 Rebecca Simonson, daughter of MOSES SIMONSON (estimated b. of eldest child [MF 3:7]); m. (2) by 1679 Esther (Delano) Samson, daughter of PHILIP DELANO and widow of Samuel Samson [TAG 15:165-67; TG 1:233; MF 3:7].
iii NATHANIEL, b. between say 1634 and 1646 (adult by 1667/8 [PCR 3:178]); before 4 March 1673/4 fathered a child with an unnamed Indian woman and ordered to pay ten bushels of corn to her for the keeping of the child [PCR 5:163]; m. by 1681 Rose _____ (eldest child b. Dartmouth 12 January 1681[/2]).
iv GEORGE, b. about 1639 (deposed 1 March 1672/3 "aged 34 years or thereabouts" [Newport Court Book A:30]); m. by 1671 Deborah _____ (estimated birth of first children [MF 3:9]).
v SUSANNA, b. say 1640; m. by 1660 Francis West (estimated birth of first child [MF 3:10]).
vi MARY, b. about 1642 (in 1653 bound out for seven years or eight if she did not marry [MD 1:214]); m. by 1667 John Peterson (estimated birth of first child [MF 3:10]).
vii ELIZABETH, b. say 1644 (fined for committing fornication 3 March 1662/3 [PCR 5:34]; sued Nathaniel Church 5 October 1663 for refusing to marry her [PCR 7:111]; ordered whipped 2 July 1667 for committing fornication a second time [PCR 5:162]); m. by 23 July 1668 Francis Walker.
viii PATIENCE, b. say 1646; m. Middleboro January 1666[/7] John Haskell [MiddleVR 1:1].
ix BENJAMIN, b. say 1652; fell with Capt. Pierce 26 March 1676 during King Philip's War [Bodge 350]; unm.
COMMENTS: Bradford, in his list of passengers of the Mayflower, included George Soule as one of "two men-servants" of Mr. Edward Winslow [Bradford 441]. In 1651 Bradford summed up the group headed by Winslow, saying that one of the servants died, "but his man, George Soule, is still living, and hath eight children" [Bradford 444].
On 3 January 1636/7 George Soule and Nathaniel Thomas sued and countersued each other over two heifers [PCR 7:4].
On 3 June 1662 "Gorg Soule" was on a list of freemen desiring to look for additional land "being the first born children of this government" [PCR 4:19].
On 5 March 1667/8 George Soule Sr. stood surety with his son John for the good behavior of his son Nathaniel Soule who had verbally abused Mr. John Holmes, teacher of the church at Duxburrow [PCR 4:178].
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1980 the General Society of Mayflower Descendants published a genealogy of five generations of descent from George Soule as the third volume in its series of silver volumes [John E. Soule and Milton E. Terry, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Three: George Soule (Plymouth 1980), ed. Anne Borden Harding (cited herein as MF 3)]. This is a seriously flawed volume, which should not be relied upon. George E. McCracken and Neil D. Thompson published lengthy reviews pointing out some of the problems [TG 1:225-58; TAG 57:57-58].
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"THE DRINKWATER FAMILY.
History, Biography and Genealogy of the Families Named Soule, Sowle and Soulis, Volume I
The family of Drinkwater can trace its history into the distant past both in this country and in England. The present generation can trace its ancestry through two separate lines, to the passengers of the Mayflower, and before that time the Drinkwater or Derwentwater name was prominent in England.
That the family is of even older date than the time of Radcliff is shown by the coat-of-arms granted to Hugh Drinkwater (or Derwentwater) of Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1615. Copies of this coat-of-arms, finely executed in oil, on parchment, are in possession of descendants of JOSEPH DRINKWATER, who died in North Yarmouth, Me., in 1784.
The Drinkwater family in this section of Maine can trace its origin to a common ancestor, MICAJAH DRINKWATER, who came from North Yarmouth and settled in Northport on the farm now owned by his grandson, MATHEW DRINKWATER. Micajah's grandfather, THOMAS DRINKWATER, was born in England and came to America when a young man, settling in Taunton, Mass. He married ELIZABETH HASKELL, a daughter of JOHN and PATIENCE (SOULE) HASKELL. Patience Soule was a daughter of GEORGE SOULE who came over in the Mayflower in 1620. Thomas Drinkwater died in 1710. His son Joseph married Jane Latham (or Leighton) and was one of the early settlers of North Yarmouth.
From 1675 to 1713 all the coast settlements of Maine suffered from the Indian wars, and North Yarmouth was abandoned. It was resettled in 1721-1722, and Joseph and Jane Drinkwater were among those who had the courage to settle there."
The foregoing is sustained by several New England references to the effect that the first THOMAS DRINKWATER married July 2, 1672, ELIZABETH HASKELL, as above, who was born at Middleborough (see The Pligrim Notes and Queries, Vol. I, p. 47). This Soule lineage connects up with FRANCIS WALKER, likewise from Middleborough, who removed to Piscataway and Woodbridge before 1700 (see, ante, PART TWO, p. 217), and it is a most formidable assumption that JOHN DRINKWATER of PISCATAWAY was a son or brother of the THOMAS DRINKWATER first above.
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7. Benjamin Soule (1), a son of George (2) and Mary (Beckett) Soule, was born in Plymouth, or Duxbury, Mass., but, like the other children, the date of his advent is unknown. Among searchers and writers, this man's name has been disposed of with a very brief statement, viz., "He was killed by the Indians before Pawtucket, 26 March, 1676, leaving no issue so far as known."
Benjamin Soule was one of the "impressed soldiers" called out by the Plymouth Colony on February 8, 1675-6, and under the command of Capt. Michael Pierce was engaged in the ill-fated battle against outnumbering Indians who out-generaled him, led him with his men into a cunningly arranged ambuscade and hewed them in pieces. From the town of Scituate fifteen were slain; from Marshfield, nine were slain; from Duxbury, four were killed, among them Benjamin Soule. From a letter written by Rev. Noah Newman the day after the battle, now much decayed and partly illegible, we find the names of those killed in this battle.
We are not ready to leave the name of this brave man without another word of comment. If he was not born before 1630 he was 46 years of age when he was killed; an age when he was probably married and the father of several children. It is no proof that he was a single man because no record of his marriage has been discovered, or that he was not the father of children because their names and births have not been found. He and his family may have lived in some contiguous town and beyond the boundaries of Plymouth County, although he was accredited to Duxbury in the military records. Emerging from these obscure suggestions into the clearer light of recent discovery, we cite our readers to some facts of peculiar interest on the line of this subject. Following the recorded names of the Sole-Soule families found in the Census Returns of 1790 we were led onward to an investigation of the public records in North and South Carolina. The first report from the Secretary of State brought us the beautifully inscribed names of seven persons who were of the Sowle family. These were, with one exception, duplicates of names peculiar to the Soule families in New England; there were Benjamin, Nathaniel, Sylvanus, Timothy, Joseph and Edward. Pursuing the trail we procured abstracts from their land-grants and learned that these "Sowles" had joined the great wave of Quaker migration that invested the Carolinas about 1730-40 and made a permanent settlement there. A full account of these researches will be found in a section of this work entitled "Soule Families in the South." These Soule families were comparatively illiterate and preserved but meagre records of their movements or affairs. As one proof of their New England origin we found record of the noncupative will of John Tibbetts whose wife was Sarah Soule, a daughter of George Soule second, in
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which he mentions among his children "Avis Sole" the wife of George Soule who removed to the Oblong in Dutchess County, N. Y. This George Soule certainly married his cousin, Avis Tibbetts, and thus we link the Northern and Southern branches of the Soule family. Concretely summing up, we find but one family in New England from which these Southern offshoots could have been broken unless Benjamin Soule was a married man and the father of those who removed to the South. It will be recalled that the Soules owned vessels about this time and were engaged in maritime relations with "the Carolinas" and these relatives having learned of cheap lands that could be had "for the asking" took passage in the "Soule fleet" and emigrated to that country. After a prolonged investigation of this interesting subject the author finds no avenue in which to look for the origin of these southern families unless they were the descendants of Benjamin Soule who was killed before Pawtucket. There were no other families in America known at that time from whom they could have sprung. But see a more comprehensive presentation of the facts in the especial section of this book alluded to above.
8. Patience Soule (1), a daughter of George (1) and Mary (Beckett) Soule, born in Plymouth or Duxbury, Mass., became the wife of JOHN HASKELL as proved by the records of Middleboro, Mass. She was married "sometime in January, 1666." She died March 11, 1705-6, in the (not clear) year of her age." Her husband died May 15, 1706, in the 67th year of his age. She was one of the daughters of the Pilgrim who received a portion of his lands in Middleboro. They settled in that town and were there buried. Descendants of Patience (Soule) Haskell are still living in the West. Her children's names do not follow immediately after her marriage and the eldest probably died in infancy. The names following were recorded in the Middleboro Registers:
I. JOHN HASKELL, born June 11, 1670; married MARY SQUIRE of Cambridge,
Mass., March 2, 1699.
II. ELIZABETH HASKELL, born July 2, 1672, was the wife of THOMAS
DRINKWATER and had a son Joseph Drinkwater, born 1710, died
April 18, 1784.
III. WILLIAM HASKELL, born June 11, 1674, of whom no other record.
IV. PATIENCE HASKELL, born Feb. 1, 1679; died Feb. 14, 1705-6, in
her 27th year.
V. BETHYAR HASKELL, born Jan. 4, 1681, of whom nothing more.
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GEORGE SOULE
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1620 on Mayflower
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
REMOVES: Duxbury
FREEMAN: In the "1633" Plymouth list of freemen, ahead of those admitted on 1 January 1632/3 [PCR 1:4]. On list of 7 March 1636/7 freemen [PCR 1:52]. On the 29 May 1670 list of freemen of Duxburrow [PCR 5:275].
EDUCATION: Signed his name as witness to the will of John Barnes of Plymouth 6 March 1667/8 [MD 4:98, citing Scrapbook 56].
OFFICES: Deputy (for Duxburrow), 27 September 1642 (special deputy in case of war with the Indians), 7 June 1653, 7 March 1653/4, 6 June 1654 [PCR 2:45, 3:31, 44, 49]. Committee (from Duxbury), 28 October 1645, 3 March 1645/6, 7 July 1646, 4 June 1650 (to consider the making and repealing of laws), 5 June 1651 [PCR 2:94, 95, 104, 154, 167, 11:155]. Grand jury, 7 March 1642/3, 6 June 1643 [PCR 2:53, 56]. Jury, 3 June 1656, 3 March 1662/3 [PCR 3:102, 7:108]. Petit jury, 1 June 1647 [PCR 2:117]. Lot viewer, 4 June 1645 [PCR 2:88]. Committee to draw an order concerning the disorderly drinking of tobacco [!], 20 October 1646 [PCR 2:108]. Viewer of meadows, 5 May 1640 [PCR 1:151]. Committee to set the range, 1 June 1658 [PCR 3:138].
One of the "voluntaries," soldiers "that willingly offer themselves to go upon ... service" 7 June 1637 [PCR 1:60].
ESTATE: In the 1623 Plymouth division of land received one acre as a passenger on the Mayflower [PCR 12:4]. In the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle George Sowle, Mary Sowle and Zakariah Sowle were the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth persons in the ninth company [PCR 12:12].
Assessed 9s. in the Plymouth tax lists of 25 March 1633 and 27 March 1634 [PCR 1:10, 27]. He was on the list of purchasers [PCR 2:177].
On 1 July 1633 he was granted "mow for a cow near his dwelling house" [PCR 1:15]. On 20 March 1636/7 he was allowed the hay ground where he got hay the year before [PCR 1:56]. On 4 December 1637 George Soule was granted a garden place on Ducksborrow side [PCR 1:69]. On 7 May 1638 one acre of land was granted to George Soule "at the watering place" in liew of another acre which was taken from him for other use, and also two acres of stony marsh at Powder Point were granted to him [PCR 1:83]. On 13 July 1639 George Soule sold to Robert Hicks two acres at the watering place on the south side of Plymouth [PCR 12:45]. On 2 November 1640 he was granted "the meadow he desires" at Green's Harbor [PCR 1:165].
On 4 May 1658 George Soule was granted five acres of meadow [PCR 3:134]. On 22 January 1658 and 17 July 1668, George Soule gave his Dartmouth propriety to his sons Nathaniel and George as a single undivided share [PCLR 3:123, 245].
On 23 July 1668 George Soule, with "consent of my wife Mary," gave land to Francis Walker "husband to my daughter Elizabeth" [MD 27:39-40, citing PCLR 3:126]. On 26 January 1668[/9] George Soule of Duxbury deeded to "Patience Haskall his true and natural daughter and unto John Haskall her husband" his half share of land at Namassakett [MD 27:40, citing PCLR 3:153] On 12 March 1668[/9] George Soule of Duxbury, husbandman, deeded to "my daughter Elizabeth wife unto Francis Walkere" half his share of land at Namascutt [MD 27: 40-41, citing PLR 10:2:327].
In his will, dated 11 August 1677 (with codicil dated 20 September 1677) and proved 5 March 1679/80, "G[e]orge Soule Senior of Duxberry ... being aged and weak of body" confirmed that he had formerly given by deeds "unto my two sons Nathaniel and G[e]orge all my lands in the township of Dartmouth ... [and] I have formerly given unto my daughters Elizabeth and Patience all my lands in the township of Middlebery"; to "my daughters Sussannah and Mary" 12d. apiece; "forasmuch as my eldest son John Soule and his family hath in my extreme old age and weakness been tender and careful of me and very helpful to me, and is likely so to be while it shall please God to continue my life here, therefore I give and bequeath unto my said son John Soule all the remainder of my housing and lands whatsoever"; to "my son John Soule all my goods and chattels whatsoever"; "my son John Soule to be my sole executor." In a codicil dated 20 September 1677, "G[e]orge Soule" indicated that if "my son John Soule" were to disturb "my daughter Patience or her heirs" in the peacable possession of lands he had given her in Middleborough, then "my gift to my son John Soule shall be void" and "my daughter Patience shall have all my lands at Duxburrey and she shall be my sole executrix ... and enter into my housing lands and meadows at Duxburrow" [MD 2:81-83, citing PCPR 4:1:50].
The inventory of the estate of George Soule of Duxbury, taken 22 January 1679[/80], totalled £40 19s., including £25 in real estate: "dwelling house, orchard, barn and upland," £20; and "meadow land," £5; John Soule appended a long list of charges against the estate, including an item "for diet and tendance since my mother died which was three year the last December" [MD 2:83-84, citing PCPR 4:1:51].
BIRTH: By about 1602 based on date of marriage.
DEATH: Between 20 September 1677 (codicil to will) and 22 January 1679[/80] (date of inventory), and probably closer to the latter date.
MARRIAGE: By 1627 MARY BUCKETT (in the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle George Soule had wife Mary and son Zachariah; Mary has been identified by many writers as Mary Buckett of the 1623 land division on that basis that no other Mary was available in the limited Plymouth population of the earliest years). She died about December 1672 (son John Soule indicated in an account of 1676 that "my mother died which was three year the last December" [MD 2:83-84]).
CHILDREN:
i ZACHARIAH, b. by 1627; m. by 1663 Margaret _____ [Scrapbook 20].
ii JOHN, b. about 1632 (deposed 8 March 1705/6 aged "about seventy-four years" [MD 5:46, citing PLR 7:35]); m. (1) by about 1656 Rebecca Simonson, daughter of MOSES SIMONSON (estimated b. of eldest child [MF 3:7]); m. (2) by 1679 Esther (Delano) Samson, daughter of PHILIP DELANO and widow of Samuel Samson [TAG 15:165-67; TG 1:233; MF 3:7].
iii NATHANIEL, b. between say 1634 and 1646 (adult by 1667/8 [PCR 3:178]); before 4 March 1673/4 fathered a child with an unnamed Indian woman and ordered to pay ten bushels of corn to her for the keeping of the child [PCR 5:163]; m. by 1681 Rose _____ (eldest child b. Dartmouth 12 January 1681[/2]).
iv GEORGE, b. about 1639 (deposed 1 March 1672/3 "aged 34 years or thereabouts" [Newport Court Book A:30]); m. by 1671 Deborah _____ (estimated birth of first children [MF 3:9]).
v SUSANNA, b. say 1640; m. by 1660 Francis West (estimated birth of first child [MF 3:10]).
vi MARY, b. about 1642 (in 1653 bound out for seven years or eight if she did not marry [MD 1:214]); m. by 1667 John Peterson (estimated birth of first child [MF 3:10]).
vii ELIZABETH, b. say 1644 (fined for committing fornication 3 March 1662/3 [PCR 5:34]; sued Nathaniel Church 5 October 1663 for refusing to marry her [PCR 7:111]; ordered whipped 2 July 1667 for committing fornication a second time [PCR 5:162]); m. by 23 July 1668 Francis Walker.
viii PATIENCE, b. say 1646; m. Middleboro January 1666[/7] John Haskell [MiddleVR 1:1].
ix BENJAMIN, b. say 1652; fell with Capt. Pierce 26 March 1676 during King Philip's War [Bodge 350]; unm.
COMMENTS: Bradford, in his list of passengers of the Mayflower, included George Soule as one of "two men-servants" of Mr. Edward Winslow [Bradford 441]. In 1651 Bradford summed up the group headed by Winslow, saying that one of the servants died, "but his man, George Soule, is still living, and hath eight children" [Bradford 444].
On 3 January 1636/7 George Soule and Nathaniel Thomas sued and countersued each other over two heifers [PCR 7:4].
On 3 June 1662 "Gorg Soule" was on a list of freemen desiring to look for additional land "being the first born children of this government" [PCR 4:19].
On 5 March 1667/8 George Soule Sr. stood surety with his son John for the good behavior of his son Nathaniel Soule who had verbally abused Mr. John Holmes, teacher of the church at Duxburrow [PCR 4:178].
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1980 the General Society of Mayflower Descendants published a genealogy of five generations of descent from George Soule as the third volume in its series of silver volumes [John E. Soule and Milton E. Terry, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Three: George Soule (Plymouth 1980), ed. Anne Borden Harding (cited herein as MF 3)]. This is a seriously flawed volume, which should not be relied upon. George E. McCracken and Neil D. Thompson published lengthy reviews pointing out some of the problems [TG 1:225-58; TAG 57:57-58].