Everhard Family Genealogy

   SAMUEL APPLETON married JUDITH EVERHARD, the daughter of John Everard, a London goldsmith, who was born about 1545, and married about 1574 to Judith Borne, daughter of John Borne. His father, Thomas Everard, came of a younger branch of the Everards of Great Waltham, co. Essex, and greatly advanced himself by marrying Margaret Wiseman, daughter of John Wiseman of Great Canfield, co. Essex, who was auditor of the exchequer to King Henry VIII, and some of whose lands at Great Canfield young John Everard inherited. Judith (Borne) Everard, widow of John Everard "late citizen and goldsmith of London," made her will in 1598, mentioning Judith among her five unmarried daughters. The Everards bore *Argent*, a fess wavy between three etoiles *gukles*. [Footenote: "See *The Founding of New England*, Ernest Flagg, 1926, which contains, beginning on p. 391, an article on the Everards by the late J. Gardner Bartlett. The ancestry of Judith (Everard) Appleton would undoubtedly repay further concentrated attention."] The identity of Judith (Everard) Appleton with Judith, daughter of John Everard, is strongly evidenced by the fact that Samuel and Judith Appleton possessed lands at Great Canfield. The ancestry of both the Everard and Wiseman families has been traced back many generations, but could be strengthened by futher documentation which doubtless can be had. (P) After 1625 the Appletons lived in some other parish, not yet identified, possibly Groton or Combs or Milden or Monks Eleigh, in each of which Samuel Appleton held land.
   Through a combination of Puritan inclination and economic pressure, Samuel Appleton became interested in emigration to New England, and from a reference in one of Governor Winthrop's letters it seems probable that he had intended to cross the Atlantic in the great fleet of 1630. Writing from New England to his son John, who was still at Groton, co. Suffolk, Winthrop says: "For Mr. Appleton take no money of him. He can have no cows; there came not on shore one helf of them."
   It was the late winter of 1636, however, before Appleton left England with his family.
   In 1635 Samuel Appleton, gentleman, and Judith, his wife, sold to Richard Gildersleeve, and John Boreham certain lands in Groton and Combs for L60. In the Easter term of 1636 the Appletons with Richard Turner and Joanna, his wife, sold a messuage and seventy acres of land in Mildren and Monks Eleigh, to William Barwick, clerk, and Daniel Cage. In January, 1635/6, a fine was levied between Richard Pepys and Samuel Browne, deforciants, and Samuel Appleton and Judith, his wife, deforciants, of lands in Great Canfield, co. Essex. This latter document disposed of Judith Appleton's rights in the estate of her grandmother Everard, who was born a Wiseman of Great Canfield, and all the sales were in preparation for the family's departure.
   By May 25, 1636, when he took the Freeman's Oath, the voyage was ended and the Appletons were established in Ipswich in Massachusetts. Appleton had brought with him certain books which his brother-in-law, Robert Ryece, was sending to Winthrop. Ryece died in 1638 and by his will left lands in Monks Eleigh to Samuel Appleton, and to facilitate the management and disposal of them, Appleton had Thomas Lechford, the Boston notary, draw up a power of attorney in 1639 giving the necessary authority to six men, including his nephew Isaac Appleton, armiger, of Little Waldingfield, his kinsman John Gurdon, armiger, and his brother-in-law Rev. Henry Smith, D. D., Master of Magdalen College at Cambridge.
   Ipswich granted Mr. Appleton an eight acre homestead lot in the cillage and a farm of four hundred and sixty acres bounded on one side by Ipswich river and on another by Mile brook [sic] on December 20, 1638. In her will of 1636, Mrs. Sarah Dillingham named Appleton and Richard Saltonstall executors, and left to Appleton L5 and to his wife a silver porringer. In his final account, entered in 1645, Saltonstall refers to "my cousin Appleton."
   Appleton was one of of Ipswich's deputies to the General Court in 1637 but did not serve in this capacity again. Cionsidering his position, this is surprising, and it is reasonably suggested that he may not have been in sympathy with the official attitude in the Hutchinson controversy, which would have made him unacceptable to authority. In 1637 he also served as a justice of the county court for the first and last time. His only other public office was as a member of the Essex grand jury in 1642. He was released from military training on account of age in 1650.
   It is not known when Judith Appleton died. Samuel Appleton spent his last years in Rowley, presumably with his daughter Mrs. Phillips, and there he died in June, 1670. He left no will and there are no administration papers in the Essex Probate Court.
   From the NEHGS Register, v 147 Jan 1993 p 10: "Mary Isaac's son, Samuel Appleton, emigrated to New England by 1635 and died in June 1670 at Rowley, Massachusetts. A number of his American descendants are traced in William Sumner Appleton, *A Genealogy of the Appleton Family* (Boston, 1874)." Also decended from Thomas Appulton, Samuel Appleton and Judith Everard Appleton is (John) Calvin Coolidge (Jr.), 30th President of the United States, and Mrs. Franklin Pierce (Jane Means Appleton), wife of Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States.

GENEALOGY SAMUEL APPLETON (1586 - 1670), who married JUDITH EVERHARD begat... JOHANNA APPLETON (b. 1601), who married RICHARD GILDERSLEEVE (1601 - 1681) and begat... ELIZABETH GILDERSLEEVE (1620 - ?), who married JEREMIAH WOOD (1620 - ) and begat... JOSEPH WOOD, who married EUNICE JARVIS in 1680 and begat... JOSEPH WOOD, JR. (1680 - ?) who married MARGRIET (MARGARET) WOOD and begat... JONATHAN WOOD (1720 - ?) who married JOHANNA CROMPTON (1725 - ?) and begat... MARTHA WOOD (1753 - 1822) who married WILLIAM HAUSE (1750 - 1818) and begat... JOHN HAUSE (1773 - 1844) who married ESTHER KETCHAM (1779 - 1853) and begat... AUGUSTUS HAUSE (1804 - 1875) who married JANE JONES (1802 - 1850) and begat... LABAN HAUSE (1831 - 1906) who married MELISSA SANDERSON (1839 - 1921) and begat... FRANK HAUSE (1867 - 1951) who married FLADELLA RAYMOND (1869 - 1961) and begat... CARLISLE HAUSE (1891 - 1972) who married MARJORIE MARCHANT (1892 - 1939) who begat... CARLETON MARCHANT HAUSE, SR. (1917 - 1983) who married JEANNE BRUNNER (1918 - 2000) and begat... CARLETON MARCHANT HAUSE, JR. (b. 1939) who married MARTHA WENK (b. 1940) and begat... JEFF (who married LORI ANN DOTSON), KATHY (who married HAL LARSEN), ERIC (who married MARY MOONSAMMY), and MICHELE HAUSE (who married JOHN SCOTT HOUSTON).