The Family Tree
I've been working on building our family tree off an on for several years, using only the information from Auntie Blanche (Collver Beauchamp) that she started gathering in the 1950's. In 2008, I found Ancestry.com - and now I'm hooked! What follows is incomplete; from time to time I will come back to flesh it out. It is the line from Edward Collver through Alfred Bainbridge Collver. I admit to finding much information from Dennis Collver at http://www.mystic.com/dcd/collver/doc/, and other websites that I found through Google searches. Not to mention Ancestry.com - it has an amazing collection of census records, immigration information, etc - etc - etc! I have tried to limit the information in this to sourced material, but make no claims of perfection! - Marita Collver McDonough
THE COLLVER FAMILY TREE
presently "unrefined" - so you are seeing it published here with all my little notations that need to be cleaned up and tended to! If you see any misstatements - please let me know at marita.mcdonough@gmail.com - Thank You!
I EDWARD CULVER, b 1600 in Dedham, Norfolk, England (or Groton, England), lived past 75 yrs, d 1685 Mystic New London County Connecticut; came to America in the Winthrop Fleet in 1635; was a founder of Dedham, Mass;
married Sept 19, 1636
ANN ELLES (ELLIS), b July 1, 1619 in Dedham, Norfolk, England; d December 4,1678 in Groton, Connecticut Daughter of John Ellis & Ann Benjamin
Their son:
II JOHN COLVER, b Apr 15, 1640 at Dedham, Suffolk, Mass; d 1725 in Groton, New London, CT
married 1672 (or 1665)
MERCY CLARK, b 1651 in New Haven CT; d 1732; (daughter of James Clark); married 1665
For more detailed information on Edward and this generation, refer to http://www.mystic.com/dcd/collver/doc/gen1.html
Some trees show John Colver married Mary Winthrop in 1672; b 1644, d 1703. According to the following, Mary Winthrop died in 1653. It is most probably John’s wife Mercy was mother of the children. http://www.ishipress.com/pafg201.htm
Their son:
III JOHN COLVER, b c 1673 (or July 21, 1670) Groton, CT; d after 1748 (December 1760 in Schooley’s Mountain, Morris Co., NJ)
married June 30, 1695
(probably not) SARAH WAY, granddaughter of Henry Way the Puritan;
The LDS site shows Sarah Way b abt 1685 NY married John Colver b 1689 Newtown, Queens, NY; married 14 May 1712; another entry Sarah married Thomas Farrington in 1716; daughter of John Way and Sarah Dean; another entry b abt 1691 Queens NY; married John Culver 14 Mar 1712 (no info on John Culver); another entry shows Sarah Way b abt 1663 Hartford CT, married Sept 4, 1684 Ichabod Welles
Another suggested wife is Sarah Franklin Sarah Franklin, b 1676 Baltimore MD married 1691 to William Horne; daughter of Robert Franklin b 1647 West River Anne Arundel, MD
most likely married
SARAH LONG, b 1673 in Oxfeast, Greenwich, Kent, RI; (daughter of Thomas Long and Sarah Wilcox); d March 1756 in Schooley’s Mountain, Morris Co. NJ
Their son:
IV JOHN COLVER, b July 21, 1700 in Groton, CT, d 1732/33 in Black River, ChesterCo., NJ,
married 1726 in Groton, New London, CT
FREELOVE LAMB, b 1699 in Groton, New London, CT; d in Black River, Chester Co., NJ; daughter of Elizabeth Hempstead and Isaac Lamb
http://www.nelsongenealogy.org/gedcom/71377.html
Their son:
V Rev. JABEZ CULVER, b June 19, 1731 in Groton CT or Hunterdor County NJ, d 1812; (raised by his uncle Isaac Lamb); may have been a chaplain in Washington’s Army in Revolutionary War; d Dec 29, 1818 in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada;
married 1755
ANNA CULVER-SMITH, b July 18, 1740, d Mar 10, 1813 in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
Their son:
VI JOHN CULVER, b 1768 in NJ, d 1834 (he was a poet)
married (See the Double Collver Quartette below)
MIRIAM CULVER (Marion, or Merriam) b Oct 2, 1772; d Sept 15, 1852 in Townsend, Norvolk Co., ON; John was one of the four Culver brothers to marry the four Culver sisters, their 2nd cousins, daughters of Timothy and Soverign Culver, 1st cousin of Rev. Jabez Culver
Their son:
VII GABRIEL CULVER, b 1793 in NJ, d 1849 Tipton Iowa
married 1819
PHILURA BROWN, daughter of Peleg Brown of Warrensville, b c 1798 in New York, New York, may have died at the birth of their son in 1819 in Warrensvillle Township, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, or the birth of their daughter in 1827
Their Son:
VIII ALFRED BAINBRIDGE COLLVER b Dec 12, 1819 Cuyahoga County, Ohio, d May 1902 Independence Oregon; came to Oregon from Utah 1851—53
married July 13, 1845 Tipton Iowa
RUTH RICE, b Oct 29, 1827 Matua Ohio, d Oct 8, 1903 in Coos County OR
The Double Collver Quartette
John Colver 1670-1760
Sarah Long 1673-1756
Their Children:
Mercy Colver
Esther Colver
John Culver 1700-1733
Thankful Colver
Thomas Colver
Tmothy Colver
Nathan Colver
Samuel Colver
Robert Colver:1713-1783
John Culver 1700-1733 brothers Robert Colver 1713-1783
Freelove Lamb 1699-1787 Ann Clark 1717-1777
John Culver 1725 Joseph Colver 1730
Rev Jabez Collver 1731 David Colver 1731
James Culver 1732 1st cousins Mercy Colver 1732
Anne Colver 1733
Timothy Culver 1734
Esther Colver 1740
Lavinah Colver 1742
Robert Jr 1743
Rev Jabez Collver 1731-1818 Timothy Culver 1734
Anna Culver 1740-1813 Martha Sovereign 1708-1850
Ebeneezer 1756 Nesbit 1773
Phoebe 1757 Timothy Jr 1779
Anna Culver 1759 Ebenezer 1756
Jabez Jr. 1760 * Ann (Anne, Anna)*
Freelove Culver 1786 Elizabeth 1750 **
Nathan 1764 2nd cousins Miriam 1772 ***
Aaron 1766 ** Martha 1755 ****
John 1768 *** Eunice
Hanna 1770
Michael 1772
Gabriel 1774****
Griffith 1778
Benjamin 1780
The four brothers who married four sisters, second cousins, are:
* Jabez Jr. married Ann
** Aaron married Elizabeth
*** John married Miriam (Alfred Bainbridge's grandparents)
**** Gabriel married Martha
John Collver 1768
Miriam Culver 1772
Their Son, Gabriel 1798 m Philura Brown