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| (1739 - 1823) |
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_Samuel DUNN ________|
| (1778 - 1848) |
| | _William J. DYER ________________+
| | | (1690 - ....) m 1709
| | _Christopher DYER __________|_Hannah STROUT __________________
| | | (1722 - 1759) m 1741
| |_Mercy DYER ________________|
| (1740 - 0818) |
| | _Joseph SMALL ___________________+
| | | (1696 - 1773)
| |_Mercy SMALL _______________|_________________________________
| (1724 - 1803) m 1741
_Samuel (Jr.) DUNN __|
| (1804 - 1883) m 1830|
| | _Chipman COBB ___________________+
| | | (1709 - 1796) m 1731
| | _Andrew COBB _______________|_Elizabeth INGERSOLL ____________
| | | (1734 - 1822) m 1754 (1705 - ....)
| | _Andrew COBB _______________|
| | | (1764 - 1845) |
| | | | _Daniel (or David) GREEN ________+
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| | | |_Hannah GREEN ______________|_Mary BLOOM _____________________
| | | (1734 - 1803) m 1754 (1714 - 1803)
| |_Dorcas COBB ________|
| (1783 - 1847) |
| | _James IRISH ____________________+
| | | (.... - 1741) m 1720
| | _Joseph IRISH ______________|_Elizabeth, wife of James IRISH _
| | | (1728 - 1808) m 1753
| |_Betsy IRISH _______________|
| (.... - 1807) |
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| |_Hannah DOANE ______________|_________________________________
| m 1753
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|--Joseph Clark DUNN
| (1833 - 1922)
| _Henry William ARCHER ___________
| | m 1717
| _Henry ARCHER ______________|_Mary TELL ______________________
| | (1719 - ....) m 1750 (1692 - 1732)
| _John (Sr.) ARCHER _________|
| | (1752 - 1830) m 1778 |
| | | _Richard WIGLEY _________________+
| | | | (1691 - 1762) m 1728
| | |_Mary WIGLEY _______________|_Mary MATHEWS ___________________
| | (1729 - ....) m 1750 (1704 - ....)
| _John (Jr.) ARCHER __|
| | (1783 - 1861) m 1805|
| | | _Eliakim (Jr.) TUPPER ___________+
| | | | (1711 - 1761) m 1734
| | | _William A. TUPPER _________|_Mary BASSETT ___________________
| | | | (1735 - 1802) m 1755 (1709 - 1753)
| | |_Elizabeth TUPPER __________|
| | (1758 - 1830) m 1778 |
| | | _Robert GATES ___________________+
| | | | (1696 - 1745) m 1726
| | |_Margaret GATES ____________|_Mary CLARK _____________________
| | (1730 - ....) m 1755 (1705 - ....)
|_Julia Ann ARCHER ___|
(1808 - 1882) m 1830|
| _Samuel CORSON __________________+
| | (1686 - 1764)
| _Samuel (Corson or) COLSON _|_Mary POTTS _____________________
| | (1719 - 1810) (1690 - ....)
| _Samuel (Corson or) COLSON _|
| | m 1784 |
| | | _Timothy GERRISH ________________+
| | | | (1713 - ....)
| | |_Mary (Molly) GERRISH ______|_Lydia GRAY _____________________
| | (1719 - ....)
|_Lucy Willey COLSON _|
(1785 - 1884) m 1805|
| _John WILLEY ____________________+
| | m 1729
| _Ichabod (Sr.) WILLEY ______|_Abigail DENBO __________________
| | (1738 - 1828) (1701 - ....)
|_Susan WILLEY ______________|
(1761 - 1853) m 1784 |
| _________________________________
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|_Elizabeth BUMFORD _________|_________________________________
(1744 - 1834)
[34327] See "Early Narraguagus River Families of Washington County, Maine," Darryl B. Lamson and Leonard F. Tibbetts (Rockport, ME: Picton Press, 2002), p. 276 which states he served in the War Between the States from ME. He enlisted 15 Dec 1863 in Maine Co. A, 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment and was mustered out 1 Sept 1866.
_Stephen GARDINER __________+
| (1483 - 1555)
_George GARDINER _____|_Margaret GREY _____________
| (1509 - 1536)
_George GARDINER __________|
| (1537 - 1589) |
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| |_Margaret NEVILLE ____|____________________________
| (.... - 1559)
_Thomas GARDNER _____|
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| | _Robert CONSTABLE ____|____________________________
| | | (1510 - ....) m 1535
| |_Dorothy CONSTABLE ________|
| |
| | _John (VII) DE WIDDRINGTON _+
| | | (1496 - 1568) m 1519
| |_Dorothy WIDDRINGTON _|_Agnes METCALFE ____________
| (1520 - 1583) m 1535 (1507 - ....)
_Thomas GARDNER _____|
| (1591 - 1674) |
| | _Mark WHITE ________________+
| | |
| | _John WHITE __________|____________________________
| | | (.... - 1579)
| | _John WHITE _______________|
| | | (1550 - 1618) |
| | | | _John WESTON _______________
| | | | | (1490 - ....)
| | | |_Mildred WESTON ______|_Cecilia NEVILLE ___________
| | | (.... - 1567)
| |_Elizabeth WHITE ____|
| (1564 - 1648) |
| | ____________________________
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| | _John BAWLE __________|____________________________
| | | (1526 - 1567)
| |_Isabel (Elizabeth) BAWLE _|
| (1552 - 1601) |
| | ____________________________
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| |_Rosana MCILHENY _____|____________________________
| (1526 - 1588)
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|--George GARDNER
| (1619 - 1679)
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[22118] This lines is from the unverified file 994Q-HTV in familysearch.org which offers: "When Lieutenant George Gardner was born on 1 January 1619, in Dorset, England, his father, Thomas Gardner Sr., was 27 and his mother, Margaret Frier, was 20. He married Hannah Shattuck before 1643, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 20 August 1679, in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 60." George m. (1) ELIZABETH ALLEN; (2) RUTH TURNER; (3) ELIZABETH STONE; (4) LYDIA BALLOU; (5) HANNAH SHATTUCK. Hannah united with the church in 1649 but was dismissed; they moved to Nantucket where son Joseph was b. 1670 and had several children. See "Memorials of the Descendants of William Shattuck, the Progentor of the Families in America that have Borne His Name," by Lemuel Shattuck, (Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1855). Cf. http://www.pcez.com/~bigshoe/du/Stub/coffin.html
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| (1717 - 1766)
_Andreas GEIST _____________|
| (1755 - 1849) |
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| |_Anna Margaretha PLOWHEAD __|_______________________________
| (1724 - 1776)
_Abraham GEIST ______|
| (1813 - 1883) |
| | _George Daniel SCHNEIDER ______+
| | | (1721 - 1789) m 1748
| | _Johann Nicholas SCHNEIDER _|_Magdalena STUPP ______________
| | | (1749 - 1821) m 1773 (1728 - 1814)
| |_Maria Catharina SCHNEIDER _|
| (1778 - 1859) |
| | _______________________________
| | |
| |_Anna Maria BORDNER ________|_______________________________
| (1756 - 1827) m 1773
_Frank Henry GEIST ___|
| (1850 - 1911) m 1880 |
| | _John Casper (III) HEPLER _____+
| | | (1713 - 1769) m 1743
| | _Caspar HEPLER _____________|_Susannah Ephrosina SCHEIBLE __
| | | (1751 - 1816) m 1772 (1718 - 1757)
| | _Christopher HEPLER ________|
| | | (1777 - 1847) m 1799 |
| | | | _Martin SCHMIDT _______________
| | | | | (1718 - 1775) m 1745
| | | |_Anna Maria SCHMIDT ________|_Margaretha Catharina FISCHER _
| | | (1755 - 1831) m 1772 (.... - 1759)
| |_Elizabeth HEPLER ___|
| (1813 - 1888) |
| | _Hans Jacob (Sr) WAGNER _______+
| | | (1693 - 1754)
| | _Hans Jacob (Jr) WAGNER ____|_Anna Maria JUNG ______________
| | | (1725 - 1802) m 1756 (1695 - ....)
| |_Catherine WAGNER __________|
| (1780 - 1855) m 1799 |
| | _______________________________
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| |_Louisa HUBER ______________|_______________________________
| (1736 - 1827) m 1756
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|--Esther GEIST
| (1888 - ....)
| _______________________________
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| _Mathias MASSER ____________|_______________________________
| | (1733 - 1797) m 1762
| _Johannes MASSER ___________|
| | (.... - 1813) m 1797 |
| | | _______________________________
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| | |_Barbara BERGER ____________|_______________________________
| | (1739 - 1810) m 1762
| _Jacob MASSER _______|
| | (1812 - 1895) m 1834|
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| | |_Maria Margaretha FICK _____|
| | (1777 - 1847) m 1797 |
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|_Amelia Alice MASSER _|
(1859 - 1942) m 1880 |
| _Johann Heinrich CHRIST _______
| | (1721 - 1789) m 1748
| _Jacob CHRIST ______________|_Appolonia RICHTER ____________
| | (1764 - 1833) m 1785 (.... - 1805)
| _Emanuel CHRIST ____________|
| | (1794 - 1831) m 1814 |
| | | _John GROSS ___________________
| | | | (1745 - 1780)
| | |_Susannah GROSS ____________|_Susanna ZIMMERMAN ____________
| | (1765 - 1821) m 1785 (.... - 1819)
|_Catharina CHRIST ___|
(1816 - 1890) m 1834|
| _Caspar HEPLER ________________+
| | (1751 - 1816) m 1772
| _Johannes ("John") HEPLER __|_Anna Maria SCHMIDT ___________
| | (1774 - 1834) m 1795 (1755 - 1831)
|_Anna Maria HEPLER _________|
(1797 - 1869) m 1814 |
| _Daniel MAURER ________________
| | (1749 - 1832) m 1776
|_Maria Catherina MAURER ____|_Regina WAGNER ________________
(1776 - 1831) m 1795 (1756 - 1816)
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| (1862 - 1920) |
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|--Raymond Lamont HACKETT
| (1889 - 1964)
| _Johannes BREINER ___+
| | (1765 - ....)
| _John BRYNER ________|_____________________
| | (1774 - 1850)
| _Jacob BRYNER ________|
| | (1819 - 1888) m 1836 |
| | | _Johannes HENCH _____+
| | | | (1750 - 1800) m 1779
| | |_Elizabeth HENCH ____|_Margaretta RICE ____
| | (1779 - 1853) (1762 - 1821)
| _George Washington BRYNER __|
| | (1840 - 1916) m 1866 |
| | | _____________________
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| | |_Mary ("Lydia") HOKE _|
| | (1812 - 1879) m 1836 |
| | | _____________________
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| | |_____________________|_____________________
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|_Margaret Jane BRYNER _|
(1867 - 1946) |
| _____________________
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|_Maria(h) Elizabeth COYDER _|
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[42863] Raymond registered for the draft 17 April 1942 as a resident of Honey Grove, Tuscarora Twp., Juniata Co., PA.
[52977] Nancy is from the unverified file KDSB-23M in familysearch.org; Find A Grave memorial states she is Nancy S. Montgomery, daughter of David Montgomery (1782-1862) & Sally Williams (1787-1879).
_Dominicus JORDAN ___+
| (1655 - 1703)
_Nathaniel JORDEN ___|_Hannah TRISTRAM ____
| (1696 - 1783) (1655 - 1703)
_Ebenezer JORDAN ____|
| (1742 - 1826) m 1765|
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| |_Dorothy HILL _______|_____________________
| (1706 - 1745)
_Nathaniel JORDAN ___|
| (1766 - 1831) m 1791|
| | _Nathaniel TARBOX ___+
| | | (1684 - 1726)
| | _John TARBOX ________|_Elizabeth EMERY ____
| | | (1716 - 1770) m 1744 (1687 - 1725)
| |_Lucy TARBOX ________|
| (1748 - 1788) m 1765|
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| |_Abigail WEBBER _____|_____________________
| (1724 - 1760) m 1744
_Timothy JORDAN _____|
| (1799 - 1873) m 1820|
| | _Amaziah HARDING ____+
| | | (1671 - 1734)
| | _John HARDING _______|_Hannah ROGERS ______
| | | (1713 - 1761) m 1731 (1668 - 1733)
| | _John HARDING _______|
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| | | | _Elisha YOUNG _______+
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| | | |_Elizabeth YOUNG ____|_Elizabeth MERRICK __
| | | (1711 - 1761) m 1731 (1685 - 1712)
| |_Betsy Cole HARDIN __|
| (1772 - ....) m 1791|
| | _Timothy COLE _______+
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| | _Isaac COLE _________|_Apphia PEPPER ______
| | | (1714 - 1782) m 1737 (1687 - 1718)
| |_Margaret COLE ______|
| (1738 - 1829) |
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| |_Anne DOANE _________|_____________________
| (1715 - 1814) m 1737
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|--Peter Salisbury JORDAN
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| _Benjamin BUNKER ____|
| | (1710 - 1818) |
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| | (1759 - 1829) m 1779|
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| | (1715 - ....) |
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|_Mary BUNKER ________|
(1799 - 1863) m 1820|
| _Sands STANDLEY _____+
| | (1676 - 1702) m 1701
| _Sans STANLEY _______|_Abigail HASKELL ____
| | (1702 - ....) m 1724 (1683 - 1710)
| _Sans STANLEY _______|
| | (1729 - ....) m 1748|
| | | _Samuel CHARDER _____
| | | | (1680 - ....) m 1705
| | |_Mary CHARDER _______|_Mary KNIGHT ________
| | (1706 - 1748) m 1724 (1684 - ....)
|_Mary STANLEY _______|
(1752 - ....) m 1779|
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|_Margaret HOMAN _____|
(1731 - 1807) m 1748|
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[23181] Ancestral File states that Peter is son of Timothy Jordan (b. 26 Aug 1799 in Ellsworth, ME, d. 13 Oct 1873 in Otis, ME - Ancestral File gives his ancestry to the English immigrant) and Mary Bunker (b. ca. 1798, m. in Trenton, ME 1819). His ancestry is from One World Tree in Ancestry.com in 2010 (not verified). See http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sladenfamily/fam/fam03862.html which offers Peter's descent from Thomas Jordan (b. ca. 1544 in Ashchurch Parish, Gloucestershire, England). The 1870 census at Otis, Maine lists him as a farmer, age 36, with Mary D. (30), Lucy A. (8), Elmeretta (6), Rauth A. (4), Lizzie Z. (1) and Timothy Jordan (70).
[23180]
[S2]
LDS Church's Ancestral File - not verified.
[61982]
[S2]
LDS Church's Ancestral File - not verified.
[4416] "Iowa, Marriages, 1809-1992," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XJTB-QZZ) reports she was Laura Mccurdy Miller, age 26, when she married Oscar Paullin, and that she is daughter of Frank Mccurdy and Mariette Ramsey. The 1900 federal census in Muscatine, IA lists Oscar and Laura with her children, Chester L. Miller (age 14) and Flora P. Miller (age 10).
[56459] Mary is daughter of Jacob Satterlee (1673-1742) & Flower Norton (b. in 1677; m. 30 July 1712 in Amesbury, Essex Co., MA).
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[17733] AKA Roger of Hauteville. See http://www.fact-index.com/r/ro/roger_ii_of_sicily.html and http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cousin/html/p180.htm for details of his life and reign. Cf. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_II_de_Sicile.
_Justus Sanford SOPER __+
| (1760 - 1851) m 1783
_Elisha SOPER _______|_Elizabeth VILES _______
| (1793 - 1871) m 1817 (1765 - 1850)
_John Foster SOPER ____________|
| (1828 - 1912) m 1856 |
| | _Andrew STEELE _________
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| |_Ann STEELE _________|________________________
| (1794 - 1865) m 1817
_Charles Wesley SOPER ________________|
| (1859 - 1922) m 1887 |
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| |_Caroline Elizabeth ELDRIDGE __|
| (1831 - 1928) m 1856 |
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_Frank Foster SOPER _|
| (1892 - 1969) m 1923|
| | _William SNOWMAN _______+
| | | (1765 - 1839) m 1790
| | _William SNOWMAN ____|_Judith HUTCHINGS ______
| | | (1794 - 1876) m 1817 (1772 - 1862)
| | _Gilbert M. Lafayette SNOWMAN _|
| | | (1827 - 1868) m 1849 |
| | | | _Nathaniel (Jr) ATKINS _+
| | | | | (1765 - 1844) m 1789
| | | |_Mary ATKINS ________|_Hannah PIKE ___________
| | | (1798 - 1882) m 1817 (1772 - 1799)
| |_Harriette Curtis ("Hattie") SNOWMAN _|
| (1868 - 1955) m 1887 |
| | _Peletiah LEACH ________+
| | | (1757 - 1839)
| | _Ebenezer LEACH _____|_Mary GRINDLE __________
| | | (1789 - 1863) m 1816 (1765 - 1839)
| |_Sophronia LEACH ______________|
| (1830 - 1911) m 1849 |
| | _Samuel WARDWELL _______+
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| |_Clarissa WARDWELL __|_Mary ("Polly") BANKS __
| (1796 - 1867) m 1816 (1772 - 1862)
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(1900 - 1981) m 1923|
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[49760] "Bangor Daily News [Bangor, Maine], 15 August 1914": "Orland - Frances Elizabeth Soper, daughter of Eva L. (Curtis) and Frank F. Soper, passed peacefully from this world to the next on August 12, 2014, at an Ellsworth healthcare facility. She was born in Ellsworth, November 21, 1917. Frances graduated with high honors from Bucksport High School in June 1935 and was married to Richard S. Soper, later that month and year. They were united in marriage by the Rev. Leslie Craig, minister of the Methodist Church in Orland. A civic minded woman, Frances served on and was Chairman of the Orland School Board; was Chairman of the Orland Town Fish Committee; was ballot clerk many times and was elected Town Clerk for a number of years. She was a founder of the Orland Historical Society and an active member of the Orland United Methodist Church, the Narramissic Grange, the Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust, and the Maine Archaeological Society of which she became president. As a member of the Riverside Chapter Order of Eastern Star she worked through the offices to be Worthy Matron and after that held the position of District 13 Deputy Grand Matron for two terms. Other interests besides her family included traveling, geology and anything pertaining to nature. She is survived by her two sons; Richard S. Soper, Jr., and wife Irene; Brent H. Soper and partner, Susan, sisters; Virginia S. Davis, Orland and Reese S. Miller of Tulsa, OK.; five grandchildren; nine great grandchildren, five great-great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by here parents; husband Richard, infant son Brian and daughter in law, Brenda."
http://www.trytel.com/~tristan/towns/florilegium/lifecycle/lcdth11.html reprints Roger's will and further offers: "The geographical origins of his family are uncertain. According to one tradition he may have come from Hartburn. As he evidently held an estate at Thornton (since a bequest went to someone likely his steward there), his ties to his ancestral home remained strong. But where that home was is not easy to identify. The placename of Thornton is quite common in England, with a particularly large number of villages in Yorkshire bearing the name (most with some qualifier). A second tradition associates him with the Thornton that is near Bradford. There is a Thornton in Northumberland, a few miles southwest of Berwick, which could be a candidate, but one closer to Newcastle is in the North Riding of Yorkshire, just outside Middlesborough; the latter has the attraction of being close to Yarm, which would help explain the bequest to the monastery there.
"Like Hibburn, he was not the first generation of his family to settle in Newcastle; a John Thornton was bailiff there (1382/83), customs collector, and an exporter of cloth and leather, dying in 1394. By that time Roger had already become one of the leading merchants and Leland later described him as the richest merchant ever to live in Newcastle; Roger's wealth is reflected through the large number of bequests he could make without impoverishing his heirs. He is seen exporting wool in 1385, lambskins in 1389, and cloth in 1393. In 1400 he was licenced with partners to buy 2,000 sacks of wool to ship to Flanders, and licences on a similar scale were issued again in 1408 and 1410. At the same time he was diversifying his business by moving into the coal and lead trades, as well as by dealing in iron, woad, madder, and wine. Lead eventually became his chief commodity; in 1401 he negotiated a 12-year lease from the Bishop of Durham of mines that produced lead and silver. This explains the numerous bequests of that material; he had also paid the dowry of his daughter Agnes in gold and lead, when she married the son of Sir John Middleton.
"With the fortune he made from commerce, he was able to invest in real estate; this included manors at Netherwitton, about 20 miles northwest of Newcastle, and (much closer to home) at Byker, the latter later being the source of endowments of his chantry in All Saints and the poor people's hospital, or Maison Dieu, of St. Katherine, a project he had begun in 1402 and, some years after its completion, turned over to the administration of the borough authorities. He also came to hold several other estates, both in Northumberland and County Durham, some of which were received as a reward from the king for his efforts and expenses in defending Newcastle against the rebellious earl of Northumberland in 1405; as well, he leased the manors settled by the Middletons on their young son, when he married the young Agnes Thornton. Roger held extensive property in Newcastle itself, his own residence being in Broad Chare, and in the later part of his life he even bought property in London, including a business office in Sea-coal Lane. Many of the smaller cash bequests (under 100s.) in Roger Thornton's testament may have been to servants, even where this is not specified, who were needed for the upkeep of his household and his properties across the northeast.
"Roger was very active in both local and royal administration. His earliest known position of responsibility was as a borough tax collector in 1385. He served as a bailiff of Newcastle in 1396/97, followed by 9 terms as mayor, the first in 1400/01 and the last in 1425/26. Constable of the Newcastle staple in 1399/1400, he went on to serve briefly as collector of pontage (1406), and more extensively as a customs collector there (1406-13, 1421-25). He had married Agnes Wauton, who bore him seven sons and seven daughters, if we may trust the depiction on the brass covering the couple's tomb, although only two are know to have survived him. His son and heir Roger was, a year before Roger senior's death, betrothed to the daughter of Lord Greystoke; a sizable part of the father's property was settled on the son at that point.