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North and South
Stories and Genealogy of Theodore Charles Anderson and Sara Carlene Shuttleworth
How They got Here
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Sara’s Northern Families
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The first to arrive in the Americas were the Fullers. They were passengers aboard the schooner Mayflower that arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts in November 1620.
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There were 4 Fullers aboard the Mayflower:
 Edward Fuller (age 45) Sara's 10th Great Grandfather,
His wife Ann Fuller (age 42) Sara’s 10th Great Grandmother,
Their son Samuel Fuller (age 8) Sara’s 9th Great Grandfather,
Dr. Samuel Fuller (age 40) Sara’s 10th Great Granduncle
Edward Fuller and his wife Ann died during that terrible first winter at the Plymouth Colony. Edward’s brother Dr. Samuel Fuller brought up young Samuel.
We know that Edward, the elder, and Dr. Samuel’s parents were Robert Fuller and Sara Dunkhorn who lived in Redenhall, Norfolk, England in the 1570’s.
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The next to arrive were the Washburns. The best documented of these are John1 and his younger brother William1 (Sara’s 9th Great Grandfather). They were both born in Bengeworth, Worcestershire, England in the 1590’s.
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John came over in 1630/31 to get things organized. His wife Margery Moore and his 2 sons John2, Jr. and Philip2 came over in 1635 on the schooner Elizabeth and Ann. They settled in Duxbury, Massachusetts. John2 Washburn’s descendants are particularly well documented as they married into several Mayflower families. William1 came over a few years later and settled in Hempstead, Long Island.
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Also in 1635, the Case family arrived in Simsbury, Connecticut on the schooner Dorset. William Solomon Case, the patriarch of the family, died en-route and never made it to the Colonies, but his 4 sons John (Sara’s 8th Great Grandfather), Richard, Henry and William and his daughter Tristen did. They all came from Aylesham, England.
The next to arrive was the Frenchman, James (Jacques) Eno (Hennot) (Sara’s 8th Great Grandfather). He arrived in Windsor, Connecticut in 1648 at the age of 23. He was baptized Aug 21, 1625, in London, England at the Threadneedle Street Church.
This was a church for French Protestants (or Huguenots) who had fled France due to the religious persecutions in the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries. James was given the baptismal name of Jacques, which is French for James. His father's name was given in the record as Jean Hennot. There are fascinating stories about Jean’s escape from France via Belgium in the early 1600’s with the French military right on his heels.
We don’t know exactly when John Tuller (Sara’s 7th Great Grandfather) arrived in the Americas. It is possible that he was the grandson of Achsah Taylor, who arrived in Salem, Massachusetts as a member of the "Great Winthrop Fleet" of 1630. (Taylor and Tuller are variations of the same name.)
John Tuller first appears in the land records of Simsbury, CT about 1690 as owning a farm near the south end of the town, on the east side of the river. At any rate, he married Elizabeth Case in Simsbury in 1684 so he had to have arrived before then.
John Fillmore (Sara’s 7th Great Grandfather) was born in Manchester, England around 1676. We don’t know exactly when he arrived in the Americas, but he married Abigail Tilton in Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1701. Their grandson Nathaniel Day Fillmore (1739–1814) was the father of Millard Fillmore (1800–1874), the 13th President of the United States.
It’s not clear how William John Thompson’s (Sara’s Great Grandfather) family got here either. All we know for sure is that he was born in Prophetstown Township, Whiteside County, IL in 1857. It’s probable that he is a descendant of Robert Thompson, Sr. (1801-1880) who was born in Monahan, Ireland, immigrated to the United States with his wife Lydia in 1830 and came to Portland Township, Whiteside County, IL in 1836. Robert had 5 sons, Richard, William, Robert Jr., John and Hiram, all of whom, except Hiram, married and lived nearby. Any one of them could have been William John Thompson’s father; but, Sara insists that her Thompsons came from Wales not Scotland. The only problem is that there were no Thompsons of Welsh descent in Whiteside County in the 1840’s, 1850’s, or 1860’s, so we don’t know.
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Ted’s Southern Families
The first of Ted’s southern families to arrive were the Tribbles. William Tribble, Sr. was born in Yorkshire, England in 1600. His son, William Tribble, Jr. (Ted’s 8th Great Grandfather), came to Virginia sometime before 1649. We know this because his son Peter was born in Jamestown, Virginia in 1649.
The next to arrive were the Irbys. Dr. William Irby (Ted’s 8th Great Grandfather) was born in Biddeford, Devonshire, England in 1624. After being shipwrecked off Barbados in 1653, he finally arrived in Virginia in 1657. There he married a young girl whose surname was Blunt in England in about 1658 (she was only 15 at the time).
The first Black of Ted’s line to come over was John Black (Ted’s 5th Great Granduncle). He was of Scottish decent, born about 1700 in County Down, Northern Ireland. He arrived in Philadelphia, PA in 1735. He was in constant contact with his two brothers back in Northern Ireland and convinced his younger brother Samuel’s 4 sons; James (age 26), Samuel, Jr. (age 24), Thomas (age 23) and Robert (age 22) (Ted’s 4th Great Grandfather) to immigrate, which they did in 1754.
They made their way to Cecile County, Maryland. There, James Black married Elizabeth Russell and moved to Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Samuel, Jr. married a woman named Jane and went to Virginia. Thomas married a woman named Elizabeth wound up in North Carolina.
Robert Black (Ted’s 4th Great Grandfather) married Eleanor Rodgers and moved to the area that’s now known as Blacksburg, South Carolina.
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Sara’s Southern Families
John Sandefur (Sara’s 6th Great Grandfather) was born in England sometime around 1630. Together with his brother Mathew, he immigrated to Virginia in about 1660. They settled in York County, VA, married and began to raise families. (The Sandefurs had huge families, with 10 to 20 kids, so there are a lot of them.)
We think that Sara’s Shuttleworth line got here in 1661. We do know for sure that John Thomas Shuttleworth (Sara’s 2nd Great Grandfather) was born in 1798 (probably in Washington County) KY. His father was Allen Shuttleworth and his mother was Anne Witherington. They were married in Charles County, MD in 1792. We think that Allen is descended from Thomas1 Shuttleworth and his son Edward who were settled along the Potomac River shore of Charles County, MA before 1680, but the link from them to Allen is somewhat murky.
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Mixing them all up
These are the major players. After their arrival, they started marrying each other.
There were not a lot of people in 1630 New England, so it’s not surprising that the population of the Plymouth Colony including the Fullers and the Washburns got all mixed up and married each other.
The same thing happened with the Enos, the Cases and the Tullers in Connecticut. Enos married Cases. Cases married Tullers. Tullers married Enos.
The Blacks liked each other a lot too. There are many instances where 1st cousins married each other. In fact, Ted’s 2nd great grandfather, John C. Black, married 2 first cousins. His 1st wife was Jane Davis daughter of Robert Davis and his Aunt Mary Black. When she died during childbirth in 1837, he married Isabella Black, daughter of his Uncle Samuel Russell Black and Isabella Johnson.
There is even 1 instance where it looks like Bennett M. Sandefur married his sister Elizabeth Jane Sandefur. It's difficult to believe, but that’s what the records in Henderson, KY seem to indicate.
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Tune "Desperate Crossing"
The introductory tune used on this page is the theme song from the History Channel's
production "Desperate Crossing - The Untold Story of the Mayflower".
The History Channel provides a typically thoughtful documentary on the Pilgrims in this mini-series. The Royal Shakespeare Company provided actors for the extensively reconstructed footage of the trip on the Mayflower, and the program also ventures into the first year in their new country as they attempted to forge a relationship with the Native Americans.
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This page and all genealogical data contained on it are Copyrighted © 2007/2008
by Theodore C. Anderson
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