Standish Descendants Report

Descendants of Standish

Generation No. 1

1. MYLES¹ STANDISH¹ was born 1584¹, and died 03 Oct 1656 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts¹. He married (1) ROSE¹ Bef. 1623¹. She died Unknown. He married (2) BARBARA¹ 1623 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts¹. She died Unknown.

Notes for MYLES STANDISH:

[Caleb Johnson, Myles Standish from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers, (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."]

ANCESTRAL SUMMARY:
A lot of research has been done on the ancestry of Myles Standish, yet nothing conclusive on his parents have been found. G.V.C. Young has suggested Myles Standish's great-grandfather was Huan Standish of the Isle of Man. However, recent research has tended to undermine this conclusion, and new discoveries are currently being made which could very well disprove the Isle of Man origins altogether.

Thomas Morton of Merrymount, in his 1637 book New England's Canaan, mentions that "Captain Shrimp" was bred a soldier in the Low Countries, and Nathaniel Morton wrote in 1669 that Standish was from Lancashire. The will of Myles Standish mentions numerous lands both in Lancashire and on the Isle of Man.

The maiden names of Myles Standish's wives Rose and Barbara are not known. Rose died on 29 January 1620/1 at Plymouth, and wife Barbara arrived on the ship Anne in July 1623. By the time of the 1623 Division of Land, Myles and Barbara were already married. This probably suggests a marriage arranged by Standish, to a Barbara he either knew from home or from his stay in Leyden. There is absolutely no evidence at all to suggest Barbara's maiden name was Mullins, as is sometimes claimed, nor that either Rose or Barbara were his cousins as occasionally claimed. There is also no evidence to suggest Myles Standish pursued Priscilla Mullins, as in the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "The Courtship of Myles Standish". This poem was intentionally fictional and should be considered as such. Myles Standish would have been about 39 and Priscilla about 18--an unlikely couple.

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
Myles Standish started his military career as a drummer, and eventually worked his way up and into the Low Countries (Holland), where English troops under Heratio Vere had been stationed to help the Dutch in their war with Spain. It was certainly here that he made acquaintance with the Pilgrims at Leyden, and came into good standing with the Pilgrims pastor John Robinson. Standish was eventually hired by them to be their military captain.

Captain Standish lead most of the first exploring missions into the wintery surroundings at Cape Cod looking for a place to settle. He was elected military captain, and organized the Pilgrims defenses against the Indians, as well as protect the Colony from the French, Spanish, and Dutch. In 1622 he led an expedition to save the remaining members of the Wessagusett Colony and killed several Indians who had led the plot to kill all the Englishmen at that Colony.

Standish befriended an Indian named Hobomok, just as Bradford befriended Squanto, and the two lived out their lives very close to one another. Hobomok was a warrior for Massasoit, and the two "military men" probably understood one another better than most.

So much could be written about Myles Standish. But here are a few selections from what contemporaries had to say about him, both the good and the bad.

William Bradford on Myles Standish:

But that which was most sad and lamentable was, that in two or three months' time half of their company died, especially in January and February . . . So as their died some times two or three of a day in the foresaid time, that of 100 and odd persons, scarce fifty remained. And of these, in the time of most distress, there was but six or seven sound persons who to their great commendations, be it spoken, spared no pains night nor day, but with abundance of toil and hazard of their own health, fetched them wood, made them fires, dressed their meat, made their beds, washed their loathsome clothes, clothed and unclothed them. . . . Two of these seven were Mr. William Brewster, their reverend Elder, and Myles Standish, their captain and military commander, unto whom myself and many others were much beholden in our low and sick condition.

William Hubbard, c1650 in his The General History of New England, writes of Standish:

Capt. Standish had been bred a soldier in the Low Countries, and never entered the school of our Savior Christ, or of John Baptist, his harbinger; or, if he was ever there, had forgot his first lessens, to offer violence to no man, and to part with the cloak rather than needlessly contend for the coat, though taken away without order. A little chimney is soon fired; so was the Plymouth captain, a man of very little stature, yet of a very hot and angry temper. The fire of his passion soon kindled, and blown up into a flame by hot words, might easily have consumed all, had it not been seasonably quenched.

Thomas Morton of Merrymount, in his New England's Cannan describing Standish, and his own arrest which was carried out by Standish (1637):

. . . But mine Host [i.e. Thomas Morton] no sooner had set open the door, and issued out, but instantly Captain Shrimp and the rest of his worthies stepped to him, laid hold of his arms [guns], and had him down . . . Captain Shrimp, and the rest of the nine worthies, made themselves, (by this outrageous riot,) Masters of mine Host of Merrymount, and disposed of what he had at his plantation.

Nathaniel Morton in his New England's Memorial (1669) wrote of Myles Standish's death in 1656:

This year Captain Miles Standish expired his mortal life. . . . In his younger time he went over into the low countries, and was a soldier there, and came acquainted with the church at Leyden, and came over into New-England, with such of them as at the first set out for the planting of the plantation of New-Plimouth, and bare a deep share of their first difficulties, and was always very faithful to their interest. He growing ancient, became sick of the stone, or stranguary, whereof, after his suffering of much dolorous pain, he fell asleep in the Lord, and was honourably buried at Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

Conspiratorial letter of John Oldham, intercepted by William Bradford:

Captain Standish looks like a silly boy and is in utter contempt.

Edward Winslow, in Good News From New England describing an retaliatory military expedition, relating to an Indian conspiracy Massasoit had alerted the Pilgrims to (1624):

Also Pecksuot, being a man of greater stature than the Captain, told him, though he were a great Captain, yet he was but a little man; and said he, though I be no sachem, yet I am a man of great strength and courage. These things the Captain observed, yet bare with patience for the present. . . . On the next day he began himself with Pecksuot, and snatching his own knife from his neck, though with much struggling, killed him therewith . . . Hobbamock stood by all this time as a spectator, and meddled not, observing how our men demeaned themselves in this action. All being here ended, smiling, he brake forth into these speeches to the Captain: "Yesterday Pecksuot, bragging of his own strength and stature, said, though you were a great captain, yet you were but a little man; but today I see you are big enough to lay him on the ground."

A chair and a sword owned by Myles Standish are preserved in the Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Massachusetts. The authenticity of the portrait of Myles Standish shown above not fully known. The inscription with the portrait reads "AEtatis Suae 38, Ao. 1625", and it is only by tradition that the portrait is of Myles Standish--a tradition, however, which dates back to at least 1812.

THE WILL OF MYLES STANDISH
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The Last will and Testament of Captaine Myles Standish Exhibited before the court held att Plymouth (the 4th) of may 1657 on the oath of Captaine James Cudworth; and ordered to bee recorded as followeth;

Given under my hand this march the 7th 1655 Witnesseth these prsents that I Myles Standish senir of Duxburrow being in prfect memory yett Deseased in my body and knowing the fraile estate of man in his best estate I Doe make this to be my last will and Testament in manor and forme following;

1 my will is that out of my whole estate my funerall charges be taken out & my bod(y) to be buried in Decent manor and if I Die att Duxburrow my body to bee layed as neare as Conveniently may bee to my two Daughters Lora Standish my Daughter and Mary Standish my Daughterinlaw

2 my will is that that out of the remaining prte of my whole estate that all my jus(t) and lawful Debts which I now owe or att the Day of my Death may owe bee paied

3 out of what remaines according to the order of this Govrment: my will is that my Dear and loveing wife Barbara Standish shall have the third prte

4 I have given to my son Josias Standish upon his marriage one young horse five sheep and two heiffers which I must upon that contract of marriage make forty pounds yett not knowing whether the estate will bear it att prsent; my will is that the resedue remaine in the whole stocke and that every one of my four sons viz Allexander Standish Myles Standish Josias Standish and Charles Standish may have forty pounds appeec; if not that they may have proportionable to ye remaining prte bee it more or lesse

5 my will is that my eldest son Allexander shall have a Double share in land

6 my will is that soe long as they live single that the whole bee in prtenership betwix(t) them

7 I do ordaine and make my Dearly beloved wife Barbara Standish Allexander Standish Myles Standish and Josias Standish Joynt Exequitors of this my last will and Testament

8 I Doe by this my will make and appoint my loveing frinds mr Timothy hatherley and Capt: James Cudworth Supervissors of this my last will and that they wilbee pleased to Doe the office of Christian love to bee healpfull to my poor wife and Children by theire Christian Counsell and advisse; and if any Difference should arise which I hope will not; my will i(s) that my said Supervissors shall Determine the same and that they see that m(y) poor wife shall have as comfortable maintainance as my poor state will beare the whole time of her life which if you my loveing frinds pleasse to Doe though neither they nor I shalbee able to recompenc I Doe not Doubt but the Lord will; By mee Myles Standish

further my will is that marcye Robenson whome I tenderly love for her Grandfathers sacke shall have three pounds in somthing to goe forward for her two yeares after my Decease which my will is my overseers shall see prformed

further (m)y will is that my servant John Irish Junir have forty shillings more then his Covenant which will appear upon the towne booke alwaies provided that hee continew till the time hee covenanted bee expired in the service of my exequitors or any of them with theire Joynt Concent

March 7th 1655 By mee Myles Standish.

9 I give unto my son & heire aparent Allexander Standish all my lands as heire apparent by lawfull Decent in Ormistick Borsconge Wrightington Maudsley Newburrow Crawston and the Ile of man and given to me as right heire by lawful Decent but Surruptuously Detained from mee my great G(ran)dfather being a 2cond or younger brother from the house of Standish of Standish

March the 7th 1655 by mee Myles Standish

Witnessed by mee

James Cudworth

PROBATE ESTATE INVENTORY OF CAPTAIN MYLES STANDISH
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An Inventory of the goods and Chattles that Captaine Miles Standish gent: was possessed of att his Decease as they were shewed to us whose names are underwritten this 2cond of Decembe(r) 165(6) and exhibited to the court held att Plymouth

the 4 may 1657 on the oath of mis Barbara Standish

It one Dwelling house and outhouses with the land ther unto belonging 140 00 00
It 4 oxen 24 00 00
It 2 mares to mare courts one young horse 48 00 00
It six cowes 3 heifers and one Calfe 29 00 00
It 8 ewe sheep two rames and one wether 15 00 00
It 14 swine great and smale 3 15 00
It one fowling peece 3 musketts 4 Carbines 2 smale guns one old barrell 08 01 00
It one sword one Cutles 3 belts 02 07 00
It the history of the world and the turkish history 01 10 00
It a Cronicle of England and the Countrey ffarmer 00 08 00
It ye history of queen Ellisabeth the state of Europe Vusebious Dodines earball 01 10 00
It Doctor halls workes Calvins Institutions 01 04 00
It Wilcocks workes and Mayors 01 00 00
It rogers seaven treatises and the ffrench Akadamey 00 12 00
It 3 old bibles 00 14 00
It Cecers Comentaryes Bariffes artillery 00 10 00
It Prestons Sermons Burroughes Christian contentment gosspell Conversation passions of the mind the Phisitions practice Burrowghes earthly mindednes Burroughs Descovery 01 04 00
It Ball on faith Brinssleys watch Dod on the lords Supper Sparke against herisye Davenports apollogye 00 15 00
It a reply to Doctor Cotten on baptisme the Garman history the Sweden Intelligencer reasons Discused 00 10 00
It 1 Testament one Psalme booke Nature and grace in Conflict a law booke the mean in mourning allegation against B P of Durham Johnson against hearing 00 06 00
It a prcell of old bookes of Divers subjects in quarto 00 14 00
It an other prcell in Octavo 00 04 00
It Wilsons Dixonary homers Illiads a Comentary on James balls Cattechesmes 00 12 00
It halfe a young heiffer 1 00 00
It one feather bed bolster and 2 pillowes 04 00 00
It 1 blankett a Coverlid and a rugg 01 05 00
It 1 feather bed blankett and great pillow 02 15 00
It one old featherbed 02 05 00
It one feather bed and bolster 04 00 00
It one blankett and 2 ruggs 01 15 00
It one feather bolster and old rugg 00 14 00
It 4 padre of sheets 03 00 00
It 1 padre of fine sheets 01 04 00
It 1 Tablecloth 4 napkins 00 10 00
It his wearing clothes 10 00 00
It 26 peeces of pewter 01 08 00
It earthen ware 00 05 00
It 3 brasse kettles one skillett 02 00 00
It 4 Iron posts 01 08 00
It a warming pan a frying pan and a Cullender 00 00 9 00
It one padre of stillyards 00 10 00
It 2 bedsteds one Table 1 forme Chaires 1 Chest and 2 boxes 02 13 0
It 1 bedsted one settle bed one box 3 Caske 01 07 00
It 1 bedsted 3 Chists 3 Casses with som bottles 1 box 4 Caske 02 06 06
It one Still 00 12 00
It 1 old settle 1 Chaire one kneading trough 2 pailes 2 trades one Dozen of trenchers 1 bowle 1 ferkin 1 beer Caske 1 Table 00 16 00
It 2 beer Caske 1 Chern 2 spiring wheels one powdering tubb 2 old Caske one old flaskett 00 15 00
It 1 mauls mill 02 00 00
It 2 sawes with Divers Carpenters tooles 01 19 00
It a Timber Chaine with plow Chaines 01 06 00
It 2 saddles a pillion 1 bridle 01 00 00
It old Iron 00 11 0
It 1 Chist and a bucking Tubb 00 08 0
It 1 hachell 2 tramells 2 Iron Doggs 1 spits one fierforke 1 lamp 2 gars one lanthorn with other old lumber 02 01 0
It in woole 00 15 0
It hemp and flax 00 06 0
It eleven bushells of wheat 02 05 0
It 24 bushells of rye 02 02 0
It 30 bushells of pease 05 05 0
It 25 bushels of Indian Corn 3 15 0
It Cart and yeekes and plow Irons and 1 brake 2 05 0
It axes sickles hookes and other tooles 01 00 0
It eight Iron hoopes 1 spiring wheele with other lumber 00 14 0

John Alden 055 18 00
James Cudworth 280 06 00
[total] 358 07 00

Emigration: 1620, Arrived in America on the Mayflower¹

More About MYLES STANDISH and ROSE:

Marriage: Bef. 1623¹

More About BARBARA:

Emigration: Jul 1623, Arrived on the Anne¹

More About MYLES STANDISH and BARBARA:

Marriage: 1623, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts¹

Children of MYLES STANDISH and BARBARA are:

i. CHARLES² STANDISH¹, b. 1624, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts¹; d. Bet. 1627 - 1634¹.

2. ii. ALEXANDER STANDISH, b. 1626, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; d. 06 Jul 1702, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

iii. JOHN STANDISH¹, b. 1627, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts¹; d. Bef. 1650¹.

iv. LORA STANDISH¹, b. Aft. May 1627, probably Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts¹; d. Bef. 1651¹.

v. MYLES STANDISH², b. 1629, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts³; d. 19 Aug 1661, lost at sea³; m. SARAH WINSLOW⁴^,5, 19 Jul 1660, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts⁶; b. 1632, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts⁷; d. 09 Apr 1726⁷.

Notes for SARAH WINSLOW:

[Alden R. Partridge, v10t3192.FTW, (World Family Tree submission Volume 10 Tree 3192), "CD-ROM," Date of Import: Dec 26, 2000.]

Married 2nd Tobias Paine, 3rd Richard Middecott.

BAPL: 19 Apr 1932⁷

ENDL: 16 Jun 1932⁷

SLGC: 13 Jan 1960⁷

More About MYLES STANDISH and SARAH WINSLOW:

Marriage: 19 Jul 1660, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts⁸

vi. JOSIAH STANDISH⁸, b. 1633, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts⁸; d. 19 Mar 1690/91, Preston, New London County, Connecticut⁸; m. (1) MARY DINGLEY⁸, 19 Dec 1654, Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts⁸; d. Unknown; m. (2) SARAH ALLEN⁸, Aft. 07 Mar 1655/56⁸; d. Unknown.

More About JOSIAH STANDISH and MARY DINGLEY:

Marriage: 19 Dec 1654, Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts⁸

More About JOSIAH STANDISH and SARAH ALLEN:

Marriage: Aft. 07 Mar 1655/56⁸

vii. CHARLES STANDISH⁸, b. Aft. 1634, probably Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts⁸; d. Aft. 07 Mar 1655/56⁸.

Generation No. 2

2. ALEXANDER² STANDISH (MYLES¹)^9,10 was born 1626 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts¹¹, and died 06 Jul 1702 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts¹¹. He married (1) SARAH ALDEN^12,13 WFT Est. 1643-1667¹⁴, daughter of JOHN ALDEN and PRISCILLA MULLINS. She was born 1629 in of Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts¹⁴, and died 12 Aug 1674¹⁴. He married (2) DESIRE DOTY^14,15 1688 in probably Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts^16,17, daughter of EDWARD DOTY and FAITH CLARKE. She was born Bet. 1645 - 1646 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts¹⁸, and died 22 Jan 1730/31 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts¹⁸.

More About ALEXANDER STANDISH:

Ancestral File Number: FRGC-F7

More About SARAH ALDEN:

Ancestral File Number: 1HKM-6G

Baptism: 20 Nov 1888¹⁹

ENDL: 08 Jan 1890¹⁹

SLGC: 14 Feb 1945, ALBER¹⁹

More About ALEXANDER STANDISH and SARAH ALDEN:

Marriage: WFT Est. 1643-1667¹⁹

More About DESIRE DOTY:

Ancestral File Number: 3BSR-2R

BAPL: 09 Nov 1897¹⁹

ENDL: 22 Oct 1914¹⁹

SLGC: 31 Jan 1958¹⁹

More About ALEXANDER STANDISH and DESIRE DOTY:

Marriage: 1688, probably Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts^20,21

Child of ALEXANDER STANDISH and SARAH ALDEN is:

i. MYLES³ STANDISH^22,23, b. 1671, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts²³; d. 15 Sep 1739, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts²³; m. EXPERIENCE SHERMAN^24,25, 05 Jul 1702²⁵; b. 22 Sep 1678, Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts^26,27; d. 31 Mar 1744, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts^27,28.

More About MYLES STANDISH:

Ancestral File Number: J3VS-LT

More About EXPERIENCE SHERMAN:

Ancestral File Number: J3VS-M1

BAPL: 31 May 1932²⁸

ENDL: 23 Jun 1933²⁸

SLGC: 13 Oct 1964, SLAKE²⁸

More About MYLES STANDISH and EXPERIENCE SHERMAN:

Marriage: 05 Jul 1702²⁹

Endnotes

1. Caleb Johnson, Myles Standish from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers, (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

2. Alden R. Partridge, v10t3192.FTW, (World Family Tree submission Volume 10 Tree 3192), "CD-ROM," Date of Import: Dec 26, 2000.

3. Caleb Johnson, Myles Standish from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers, (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

4. Susan B. Stavropoulos, v10t0507.FTW, (World Family Tree submission Volume 10 Tree 0507), "CD-ROM," Date of Import: Dec 25, 2000.

5. Alden R. Partridge, v10t3192.FTW, (World Family Tree submission Volume 10 Tree 3192), "CD-ROM," Date of Import: Dec 26, 2000.

6. Caleb Johnson, Myles Standish from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers, (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

7. Alden R. Partridge, v10t3192.FTW, (World Family Tree submission Volume 10 Tree 3192), "CD-ROM," Date of Import: Dec 26, 2000.

8. Caleb Johnson, Myles Standish from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers, (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

9. Alden R. Partridge, v10t3192.FTW, (World Family Tree submission Volume 10 Tree 3192), "CD-ROM," Date of Import: Dec 26, 2000.

11. Caleb Johnson, Myles Standish from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers, (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

12. Alden R. Partridge, v10t3192.FTW, (World Family Tree submission Volume 10 Tree 3192), "CD-ROM," Date of Import: Dec 26, 2000.

14. Alden R. Partridge, v10t3192.FTW, (World Family Tree submission Volume 10 Tree 3192), "CD-ROM," Date of Import: Dec 26, 2000.

16. Caleb Johnson, Edward Doty from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers, (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

17. Caleb Johnson, Myles Standish from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers, (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

18. Caleb Johnson, Edward Doty from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers, (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

19. Alden R. Partridge, v10t3192.FTW, (World Family Tree submission Volume 10 Tree 3192), "CD-ROM," Date of Import: Dec 26, 2000.

20. Caleb Johnson, Edward Doty from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers, (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

21. Caleb Johnson, Myles Standish from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers, (Mayflower Web Pages, 1995-1999), "Electronic."

22. Alden R. Partridge, v10t3192.FTW, (World Family Tree submission Volume 10 Tree 3192), "CD-ROM," Date of Import: Dec 26, 2000.

24. Alden R. Partridge, v10t3192.FTW, (World Family Tree submission Volume 10 Tree 3192), "CD-ROM," Date of Import: Dec 26, 2000.

26. Alden R. Partridge, v10t3192.FTW, (World Family Tree submission Volume 10 Tree 3192), "CD-ROM," Date of Import: Dec 26, 2000.

28. Alden R. Partridge, v10t3192.FTW, (World Family Tree submission Volume 10 Tree 3192), "CD-ROM," Date of Import: Dec 26, 2000.

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