_Henry BRIGHT ____+
_Henry BRIGHT ___|
| |_Mary _____ ______
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|--Elizabeth BRIGHT
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| _Henry GOLDSTONE _+
|_Anne GOLDSTONE _|
|_Anne _____ ______
_William FLETCHER __________+
_Samuel FLETCHER _|
| |_Lydia (Fairbanks ?) BATES _+
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|--Hannah FLETCHER
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| _George WHEELER ____________+
|_Hannah WHEELER __|
|_Catherine PIN _____________
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_William FROST _|
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|--Audrey FROST
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| __
|_Philippa ______|
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_Henry KELLAM __+
_Augustine KILHAM _|
| |_Alice GOODALE _+
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|--Daniel KILHAM
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| ________________
|_Alice GORBALL ____|
|________________
___________________
_John PERKINS _|
| |___________________
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|--Ann PERKINS
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| _Michael GATER ____
|_Judith GATER _|
|_Elizabeth BAILEY _
_Henry PUTNAM _+
_Roger PUTNAM _|
| |_Hannah _____ _
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|--John PUTNAM
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| _______________
|_Hannah _____ _|
|_______________
_Henry PUTTENHAM _+
_Richard PUTNAM _|
| |__________________
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|--John PUTNAM
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| __________________
|_Joan _____ _____|
|__________________
[366] The Puttenham Family
[367] Like a great many old names, the name Putnam takes it origins from the town or area where the first people of that name lived. In the casae of the Putnam family, the town came from Puttenham.
[368] The name Puttenham comes from the Flemish PUTTE (PUTTEN plural) for well and HAM for hamlet or village. In the other words the lands were a village by a well.
[369]
The current day parish of Puttenham lies some 40 miles north of Londan near the ancient town of Tring. The original lands lay in Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire to the north and west of London. Aston Abbotts, where John Putnam came from, is
somewhat northeast of London and Chesham, where Thomas Putnam came from, is northwest of London.
[370]
As far back as the Middle Ages as we can trace, tha lands were held by Edwin of Caddington and his son Leofwin. It later came to Earl Lewin or Leuium, the brother of King Harold. After the Norman conquest in 1066, the lands were granted to
Odo, the bishop of Bayeux. Odo was a half brother of William the Conqueror and the lands were held by a tenant, Roger.
[371] In 1085-1086, William took a census of all lands to determine ownership and taxability. This huge undertaking resulted in the Doomsday Book of 1088. The description of the lands in this book read:
[372]
The manor (of Puttenham) answer for four hides, Roger holds it for the Bishop. There is land to four ploughs. There is one in the demesne and another may be made. Four villanes with two borders there have two ploughs. There are four cottages and
two bondmen, and two mills of ten shillings and eight pence. MEadow for four ploughs, and four shillings. Pasture for the cattle. It is worth sixty shillings, when the Bishop recieved it forty shillings. In King Edward's time four pounds.
[373]
Puttenham was later given to the Earls of Leicester in the 1200s and to the Honor of Wallingford under King Edward i in the 1300s. In the 1300s, the lands were held by the Wale-Fitz Wale Family. By the 1400s, the holders of Puttenham were granted
their own Coat of Arms and were knights in their own rights. The Puttenham Manor remained in possession of the Puttenham family through the middle of the sixteenth century.
[374]
The manor was sold in 1690 by Thomas Saunders, a descendent in the female line. It was subsequently sold to Francic Duncombe, whose descendentd sold it in 1800 to John William Edgerton, 7th Earl of Bridgewater. From him it passed to Earl Brownlow
who conveyed the estate to baron Lional Nathan de Rothschild in exchange for lands in the Parish of Northaw.
_Thomas WEBSTER _+
_Thomas WEBSTER _|
| |_Margery ________
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|--Hannah WEBSTER
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| _Daniel BREWER __
|_Sarah BREWER ___|
|_________________
_John WHEELER __+
_Henry WHEELER _|
| |_Agnes YEOMAS __
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|--James WHEELER
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| _William ALLEN _
|_Abigail ALLEN _|
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|--Sarah _____ WIGGINS
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[827] a widow.