Experience Gifford

Benjamin married Sarah TOMPKINS Abt 1709. Sarah (daughter of Nathaniel TOMPKINS and Elizabeth ALLEN) was born Abt 1689. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Sarah is mentioned in her father's will.

Notes:

Robert & Sarah had about 9 children.

Robert married Sarah WING 1680, Sandwich, Plymouth Colony, MA. Sarah (daughter of Stephen WING and Sarah BRIGGS) was born 5 Feb 1658/59, Sandwich, Plymouth Colony, MA; died Between 1720 and 1724, Dartmouth, Bristol Co., MA. [Group Sheet]

Nathaniel — Elizabeth ALLEN. Elizabeth was born Abt 1660. [Group Sheet]

William — Elizabeth GRANT. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

There is some uncertainly as to whether Elizabeth was the wife of William, and therefore whether she is the mother of Robert.

Notes:

(All of the following notes are from Rootsweb genealogy of Raymond T. Wing.)

"Stephen . . . was three years old in 1624 when his mother embarked from England with him and his older sister Deborah for Holland. Stephen, like his brothers, spent the first years of his life at Flushing and at The Hague, and came to New England with his mother when nine years old."

"He married Osheah Dilingham sometime in the Fall of 1646 being at that time twenty-five years of age. Then followed an event possible
only under the strict code of morals . . . of the Pilgrims . . . young Stephen was before the Plymouth Court, March 2, 1647, and fined because of the fact that a child was born to his wife at an unseasonable time after their marriage. The Court records the 'the said Wing coming into the face of the Court, freely acknowledging, he was according to order of the Court fined and discharged.' Governor Bradford signed the record."

"Stephen Wing, son of the Rev. John and Deborah Wing, settled in Sandwich in 1637 . . . He was a member of the first Friends Meeting in America, established at Spring Hill in 1658, and suffered a great persecution at the hands of the Plymouth Government in the cause of Religious Liberty. He died in 1710 and is buried at Spring Hill."

"He was probably one of the last, if not the very last, of the original settlers of Sandwich [Plymouth Colony] to survive. He lived 63 years in Sandwich after the date of the first settlement in 1637."

Stephen died at age 88.

"Stephen committed 'my body to Decent Buruall at our friends Burieng place att Spring Hill until when God shall please to call me Hence.' Unquestionably he lies there among the unmarked graves."

"Will dated Dec. 2, 1700, proved July 13, 1710. Sons Ebenezer and Matthew executors; mentions sons Nathaniel, Elisha, John, Ebenzer,
Matthew, daughters Sarah Gifford, Abigail and grandson Jeremiah Gifford. Inventory shows personal estate,

Stephen married Sarah BRIGGS 7 Jan 1654/55, Sandwich, MA. Sarah was born Abt 1630; died 26 Mar 1689, Sandwich, Barnstable, Plymouth Colony, MA. [Group Sheet]