Mary Winche Born 1619 - Jeri Charlene Holcomb Watson's Side Of The Family

 
MARY WINCHE (Sister in law of a direct ancestor of Jeri Charlene Holcomb Watson) was born in 1619 to Rowland Stebbins and Sarah Whiting.
Note: Rowland Stebbins has been considered by some to have been a "person of
quality" because of his inclusion in "The Original Lists of Persons ofQuality." This book is commonly known, however, as "Hotten's List of Emigrants," and its full title is "The Original Lists of Persons of Quality; Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years; Apprentices; Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations 1600-1700, With Their Ages, the Localities Where They Formerly Lived in the Mother Country, the Names of the Ships in which They Embarked, and Other Identifying Particulars." No conclusion as to his "quality" can be drawn from his mention in this book. Goodwin states that Rowland's baptism is recorded in the register of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials of St. Mary's Church, Bocking, Essex,England (p. 32), dated November 5, 1592. Greenlee, p. 56: He was buried at Northampton, "but no stone was erected [at the time] to designate the exact spot of interment. . . .Dr. Daniel Stebbins . . . in 1840 . . . caused a granite cenotaph to be erected to his memory, in the center of his family square in the new burying ground [Bridge Street Cemetery]. . . . The exact spot of his interment was accidentally discovered in 1850, some fifty rods north of the present cenotaph . . . . A small marble slab has been placed at the head of the grave, with no inscription except the name ROWLAND STEBBINS."
Marriage:
Rowland Stebbins and his family (wife, four children, and Mary Winche, age 15 -- probably a servant girl) took shipping on the ship "Francis," out of Ipswich, on the last day of April, 1634; the parents took the required oath of allegiance and thereby cleared the Ipswich Custom House on November 12 of
the same year. The explanation for the delay between the two dates is unknown. They probably landed at Boston in late 1634 or early 1635, and may have initially settled in Roxbury (Rowland is believed to have been a friend of William Pynchon, one of the founders of Roxbury). About 1639 the family moved to Springfield, which had been founded by William Pynchon three years earlier. Rowland's name appears in a variety of Springfield town records between 1640 and 1664, and that was where his
children were married and where his wife Sarah died and was buried (1649). By 1670, the elderly widower had moved toNorthampton, probably to live with his son John and his family. Rowland's will was written in Northampton, dated the "first day of the first month, 1669-70" (probably March 1, 1670 in modern notation), and named John as his executor. Goodwin states that the register of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials of St. Mary's Church, Bocking, Essex, England (p. 197) records the marriage of Rowland Stebbins and Sarah Whiting.