Innocent LAKE

Notes:

In the Remington Family book, Martha A. Benns gives her name as Innocent Taylor. From the records, it appears that this marriage to Benjamin Taylor was a first marriage for our Innocent, and that these are not two different Innocent Taylors. In any case, David Lake named his daughter as Innocent Remington in his will, so that has been documented.

Her year of birth is given as 1722 on the Brayton plaque at the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Tiverton, RI.

One genealogy has her age at death as 91, which places her birth year at c1718.

Innocent married Benjamin Taylor 14 Aug 1742, Portsmouth, RI. Benjamin (son of Jonathan Taylor) died Abt 1743. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Benjamin & Innocent were married by William Anthony, Jr., Justice.

Innocent married Joseph REMINGTON 10 Jul 1744, Portsmouth, RI. Joseph (son of William REMINGTON and Abigail UNKNOWN) was born Abt 1718, Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI; died Between 1790 and 1800, Tiverton, Newport Co., RI; was buried , Pleasant View Cemetery, Stone Church Rd., Tiverton, RI. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Joseph & Innocent were married by Robert Lawton, Justice.

1. Abigail Remington was born 31 Mar 1745, Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI.
2. David Remington, Sr. was born 13 Jun 1747, Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI; died Abt 24 Oct 1834, Greenwich, Washington Co., NY; was buried , Greenwich, Washington Co., NY.
3. Phebe Remington was born 4 Sep 1749, Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI.
4. Sarah Remington was born 18 Jun 1752, Portsmouth or Tiverton, Newport Co., RI.
5. Benjamin Remington was born 12 Nov 1755, Portsmouth or Tiverton, Newport Co., RI.
6. Joseph Remington, Jr. was born Between 13 Jun and 13 Sep 1757, South Kingstown, Washington County, RI; died 1834, Hartland, Windsor County, VT.
7. Thomas REMINGTON was born 10 Sep 1760, South Kingstown, Washington County, RI; died Abt 4 Mar 1842, Tiverton, Newport Co, RI.
8. Mary Remington was born 16 Oct 1762, Tiverton, RI; died 17 Jan 1838; was buried , Pleasant View Cemetery, Stone Church Rd., Tiverton, RI.

Notes:

His will mentions four deceased daughters, but not by name. He does give the names of the granddaughters, which I have listed here as daughters, as the granddaughters may have been named after his daughters.

On 23 Apr 1757, David Lake, yeoman of Portsmouth, sold a piece of land to Thomas Remington, cordwainer, resident of Portsmouth. The price paid by TR was 20 shillings. "I David Lake have given granted bargained sold conveyed and confirmed and do freely fully and absolutely give grant . . . unto him the said Thomas Remington . . . certain piece of land 3 Rods Square at the S.E. corner of my land." (No wives are mentioned; however, this Thomas may be the one whose wife was Amy.) Signed by David Lake's X and witnessed by Robert Dennis & Matthew Slocum. (Po Land Ev Bk 5 p 343)

David married Mary WILCOX Abt 1700. Mary (daughter of Daniel WILCOX, Jr. and Hannah COOK) was born 25 Feb 1682/83, Portsmouth, RI; died 6 May 1747, Portsmouth, RI. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Portsmouth records: LAKE Mary, wife of David, and daughter of Daniel and Hannah Wilcox, born Feb. 25, 1682.

Notes:

The following notes are from John O. Austin's "Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island."

David [Lake] was a freeman at Portsmouth 27 Feb 1669 [I found the date of 16 Oct 1668], and his earmark (for his livestock) was recorded 29 Mar 1669. On 22 Sep 1679 he bought land on the Taunton River (in Dighton, Somerset, and Freetown, MA) and also at Sippican (Rochester, MA) and Acushnet (New Bedford, MA). In 1689 he was a proprietor at Dartmouth, and a Selectman at Tiverton on 28 Jul 1694 and again in 1698. On 16 Mar 1696 and in 1698 he was Town Clerk of Tiverton. On 11 Mar 1702 he was Moderator of the Tiverton Town Meeting. On 15 Jun 1709 he, then of Little Compton, deeded to Zaccheus Butts his land rights in Dorchester and Stoughton, MA, which had been inherited from his uncle Thomas (probably Lake).

"Thomas LAKE [Henry & Alice's son] ... was brought up in the family of his uncle, Thomas LAKE of Dorchester. ... He was a soldier under Capt. Benjamin CHURCH in Philip's War, as was his brother David. ... On 1 Nov 1676, Plymouth Colony granted 100 acres at Puncatest (Tiverton) to David and Thomas LAKE for their services in Philip's War, of which David was to have 60 acres (Plymouth Col. Rec.). This land was afterwards included in the bounds of the Pocasset purchase, with the result that a bitter dispute arose between the Lakes and the Pocasset proprietors." (source: MORIARTY, G. Andrews: The Early Rhode Island LAKEs, published July 1935 in The American Genealogist and New Haven Genealogical Magazine, Vol. XII, No. 1, pp. 17-24.)

David married Sarah EARLE Abt 1677. Sarah (daughter of Ralph EARLE and Joan SAVAGE) was born Between 1640 and 1645, Dorchester, MA; died Abt 1690, Tiverton, RI. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Daniel's mother was probably his father's first wife, name unknown, rather than Elizabeth Cooke, Mayflower descendant.

Daniel — Hannah COOK. Hannah (daughter of John "Butcher" COOKE and Mary BORDEN) was born Abt 1661. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Her second marriage was to Enoch Briggs.

Notes:

I have roughly estimated Henry's year of birth.

COLKET, Merredith B.: Founders of Early American Families: Emigrants from Europe 1607-1657, 1975, published by the General Court of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America as a Contribution to the Bicentennial of the U.S.A., Cleveland, Ohio.
Page 170:
"LAKE, Henry: Dorchester, Mass., 1651; Portsmouth, RI, 1651; Dartmouth, Mass.; died after 21 Feb 1672/73. Wife executed for witchcraft. Sources: Wilbour's Little Compton, 1967; The American Genealogist, 12:17 (desc.) and 19:225 (note). Believed to have left numerous progeny."

DEMOS, John Putnam: Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England, 1982, Oxford University Press.
[ISBN 0-19-503378-7]
Page 71:
"It is significant, moreover, that many children of accused witches went on to useful even successful lives. Thus, ... David LAKE, the younger son of Alice (convicted and executed at Dorchester in 1651) was a leading man in the town of Little Compton, Rhode Island." [source indicated: G. Andrews Moriarty's The Early Rhode Island Lakes, in The American Genealogist, XII, 17-24.]

Pages 301-302:
"The process of dispersal is a little easier to follow for the family of Alice LAKE, convicted and executed at Dorchester in about 1650. Her husband Henry moved away at once; his name appears regularly in the records of Portsmouth, RI, beginning in April 1651. Meanwhile the four LAKE children, all less than ten years old, remained in Dorchester. One, probably the youngest, was 'bound out' by the town meeting to a local family for a 'consideration' of 26 pounds--and was dead within two years. The other three were also placed in (separate) Dorchester households. At this point their trail becomes badly obscured. (One was living as a servant to an uncle--still in Dorchester--in 1659.) Later, having reached adulthood, the same three were found in Rhode Island--and then in Plymouth Colony, where their father had removed by 1673. It appears, therefore, that the family was eventually reunited, some two decades after the event that had broken it apart."

Henry married Alice Unknown Abt 1640. Alice was born Abt 1617, England; died Abt 1651, Boston, MA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

I have roughly estimated Alice's year of birth.

Alice, our ancestor, was executed for witchcraft in Boston in 1650. She was the wife of Henry Lake. There is some information about her online at other web sites. Innocent Lake is a descendant of hers. The story is that Alice had had a baby who died, and was so overcome with grief that she kept seeing her baby and was tormented by this. It was alleged that she was being visited by a demon, and must be a witch. Complicating this circumstance was the problem that losing her baby also brought to her great feelings of guilt, because apparently she had had relations with another man before marriage and felt that she was being punished for that in the loss of her child. Rather than receive the help she needed, either repentance and forgiveness, or other good counsel and support from other women, she was caught up in the whole witchcraft scare and as result executed.


The following notes are from Alice Marie Beard's web site [http://members.aol.com/alicebeard/lake.html]:
BURR, George L. [editor]: Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases 1648-1706, 1914, Scribner's.
[Collection of old essays, collected and edited by Burr, a professor of medieval history at Cornell University.]
Quoting John HALE's "A Modest Enquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft," 1702, [one of Burr's selected narratives]:
Pages 408 & 409:
"Another that suffered on that account some time after, was a Dorchester Woman [in a note Burr makes it clear that Hale was speaking of Henry LAKE's wife]. And upon the day of her Execution Mr. THOMPSON, Minister at Brantry [Burr notes, Braintree, MA], and J.P. [Burr notes, probably John PHILLIPS of Dorchester according to Farmer**] her former Master took pains with her to bring her to repentance. And she utterly denyed her guilt of Witchcraft: yet justified God for bringing her to that punishment: for she had when a single woman played the harlot, and being with Child used means to destroy the fruit of her body to conceal her sin and shame, and although she did not effect it, yet she was a Murderer in the sight of God for her endeavours, and shewed great penitency for that sin; but owned nothing of the crime laid to her charge."
Page 409-410, note:
"In Hale's account there seems some confusion with the case of Mary Parsons." . . . "And two or three [women accused as witches] of Springfield, one of which confessed; and she said the occasion of her familiarity with Satan was this: She had lost a Child and was exceedingly discontented at it and longed; Oh that she might see her Child again! And at last the Devil in likeness of her Child came to her bed side and talked with her, and asked to come into the bed to her that night and several nights after, and so entred into covenant with Satan and became a Witch." . . . "This was the case of Mary Parsons and her husband Hugh, whom she accused (1651). See Drake, Annals of Witchcraft, pp.64-72, and especially the appended papers of Hugh Parson's case, pp.219-258. The originals of these papers are now in the New York Public Library. Others, from the Suffolk court file, are printed in the N.E. Hist. and Gen. Register," XXXV, 152-153.]
[**NOTE: Another researcher, Benjamin Lake Noyes, surmised that "J.P." was John POPE, husband of Alice POPE.]
Pages 408 & 409, note:
Burr quotes Nathaniel Mather as writing on Dec. 31, 1684, to his brother Increase talking about Alice LAKE; "H. LAKE's wife, of Dorchester, whom the devil drew in by appearing to her in the likenes, and acting the part of a child of hers then lately dead, on whom her heart was much set." BURR notes his source as "The Mather Papers."

http://www.alicemariebeard.com/genealogy/maternal/lake.htm

Notes:

Ralph is said to have come from England to Boston, MA in 1634. Records show him at various times in Newport, RI; Portsmouth, RI; and Darthmouth, MA. His will is dated 19 Nov 1673, proved 14 Nov 1677, Portsmouth, RI. The will names his wife as Jane, but sometimes it is given as Joan. His five children and one grandson are mentioned in this will. See Alden Beaman's "RI Genealogical Register," Vol. 3, No. 1.

Ralph married Joan SAVAGE 29 Jun 1631, Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. Joan was born 1606, Stortford, Hertfordshire, England; died Aft 15 Sep 1699, Portsmouth, RI. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Her name is sometimes given as Joan.

Notes:

Some genealogies have as many as 11 children for this couple -- needs more research.

Daniel's first wife, name unknown, died before 1 August 1661, when her gravesite was referred to in a land document.

Daniel married Unknown Wife Abt 1658. Unknown was born Abt 1636; died Bef Aug 1661. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

"John Cooke alias Butcher" was made a freeman of Portsmouth, RI, on 10 July 1648 at the age of 18. In March 1656/57 he signed as one of the purchasers of Conanicut Island (Jamestown). On 14 May 1660 his parents deeded to him 60 acres of land in Portsmouth. He was a grand juryman at the Court of Trials in 1667, 1669, and 1673. His name appears in many official records of the time period.

See his will dated at Portsmouth on 15 May 1691, proved 25 May 1691. The will describes John as aged. He names four sons and seven daughters, plus one granddaughter: John, Joseph, Thomas (probably the one who married Mary Cory, b. 1669), Samuel, Mary (Mrs. William Manchester; these are our ancesters), Elizabeth (Mrs. William Briggs), Sarah (Mrs. Thomas Wait), Hannah (Mrs. Daniel Wilcox), Martha (Mrs. William Cory), Deborah (Mrs. William Almy), Amy (Mrs. David Clayton), and granddaughter Sarah Manchester, plus six other unnamed daughters (or granddaughters, or daughters-in-law).

According to the book "Thomas Cooke of Rhode Island," he died of smallpox.

John married Mary BORDEN Abt 1652. Mary (daughter of Richard BORDEN and Joan FOWLE) was born Abt Jan 1632/33, Cranbrook, Kent, England; was christened 13 Jan 1632/33, Cranbrook, Kent, England; died 23 Dec 1690, Portsmouth, RI. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

The ages and birth order of the children are not certain. Birth years have been estimated for most.