Martha Fones: Adkins-Horton Family

1609 -

Generation: 1

Martha Fones was born on 21 Jan 1609.

Martha married Gov. John Winthrop, Jr. in 1630. John (son of Gov. John Winthrop, Sr. and Mary Forth) was born on 12 Feb 1606 in Groton, MA; died in 1676; was buried on 10 Apr 1676 in Kings Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk Co, MA. [Group Sheet]

Children:

2. Margaret Winthrop

Generation: 2

Margaret Winthrop

(1.Martha¹)

Margaret married Judge Jonathan Corwin. Jonathan (son of Capt. George Corwin and Elizabeth Herbert) was born on 10 Dec 1640; died on 09 Jun 1718. [Group Sheet]

Children:

3. Sheriff George Corwin was born on 26 Feb 1666; died on 12 Apr 1696.

Generation: 3

Sheriff George Corwin

(2.Margaret², 1.Martha¹) was born on 26 Feb 1666; died on 12 Apr 1696.

Notes:

George Corwin (February 26, 1666 ? April 12, 1696) was the High Sheriff of Essex County, Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials. He signed warrants for the arrest and execution of those condemned of witchcraft. On September 16, 1692, he was ordered by the Court of Oyer and Terminer to preside over the interrogation, under torture of Giles Corey, who was pressed to death for refusing to stand trial for witchcraft. Corwin died of a heart attack, in 1696, at the age of 30, after which his burial was delayed by a Salem resident named Phillip English, who was accused during the Witch Trials, and had his property seized by Corwin. English put a lien on Corwin's corpse, and delayed its burial until he had been reimbursed for the property he lost to Corwin.

George Corwin was the Grandson of John Winthrop, the Younger, the Governor of Connecticutt. His wife, Lydia Gedney, was the daughter of Bartholomew Gedney, one of the magistrates involved in the witch trials.

George married Lydia Gedney. (daughter of Bartholomew Gedney and Hannah Clarke) [Group Sheet]

Children:

4. Bartholomew Corwin was born in 1693; died in 1747.

Generation: 4

Bartholomew Corwin

(3.George³, 2.Margaret², 1.Martha¹) was born in 1693; died in 1747.

Notes:

Bartholomew Corwin was named after his maternal grandfather, Bartholomew Gedney.

Bartholomew married Esther Burt. (daughter of John Burt) [Group Sheet]

Children:

5. Joseph Corwin was born on 24 Nov 1724 in Salem, Essex Co, MA; died on 25 May 1805 in Ontario, Canada; was buried in Drummond Hill Cemetery, Niagara Falls, Niagara Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada.