Axtell

Landgrave Daniel Axtell 1642 - 1686 | his parents
& Lady Rebecca Holland ? - 1720 | her parents
of London, England
& Berkeley County, [South] Carolina

This is my working hypothesis - the way I see it as of this moment!!

on Danl., s. of Danl. Axtell, esq., of Barkhamsted, & Rebecca, d. of Cornelius Holand, esq., of Créslo, publication 20 Jul 1659 in Buckinghamshire.

the Landgrave Daniel Axtell was the son of Lt. Col. Daniel Axtell, the regacide.

Merchant in London, Came to South Carolina ca 1680, received land grant for 3000 acres 1680, made Landgrave in 1681, married Lady Rebecca Holland who came to South Carolina in 1683 and she received grants of about 3,780 acres in 1696, 1704, 1707 and 1711. [Comp. of Am Gen.]
Daniel and his son Holland were "landgraves" near modern Summerville, South Carolina on the Ashley River (inland from Charles Town--now Charleston). Holland died childless in 1692. The name died with him, but the daughters married well

Children of Landgrave Daniel Axtell:
The Landgrave AXTELL, son of the regicide (will proved in London circa 1692), had several children, among them - Holland, hereditary Peer, d. unm. Anne. Elizabeth m. to the Landgrave BLAKE, Rebecca and Sybil."
1. Holland Axtell died 1692 SC dsp
2. [Lady] Anne Axtell 1678 - Oct 1751 Charleston, SC
     Inherited 1000 acres from her mother Rebecca [1720] and named the plantation Mount Boone.
     She and Joseph are buried there although her marker is gone.
      married 1st John Alexander 1670
      married 1700 Joseph Boone 1678 London England - 24 Feb 1734 Charlestown SC
               son of Thomas Boone and wife Sarah Finch of London and South Carolina
is Indian Interpreter for the Colony, and serves as Agent to the Crown, traveling back to England several times before his death, about 1734. He leaves extensive records in Carolina and England, and a will in Charleston.
Lady Ann BOONE's will (daughter of Landgrave Daniel AXTELL), So. Car. Probate Office, W. B. of 1751, Hume's England,
3. Elizabeth Axtell
     married 1698 Landgrave Joseph Blake
             Gov. Joseph Blake, an English Admiral from Cromwell's time.
     married 1701 Francis Turgis
4. Rebecca Axtell ca 1660 London - 21 Dec 1749
     married John Moore ca 1658 - 1732 Philadelphia PA
5. Sybil Axtell
6. Daniel Axtell died at sea 13 Dec 1680
7. Mary Axtell

Governor of Kilkenny under the Protectorate:

Lt. Col. Daniel Axtell 1622 - 1660 | his parents
&
of London, England

This is my working hypothesis - the way I see it as of this moment!!

from a speech 1952 by Silas B Axtell
Lieut.-Col. DaVery early in his life seems to have become convinced of the righteousness of the Parliamentary Cause. He joined Cromwell's insurrectionary army in 1643 and rose by merit and hard experience of many battles to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was junior in command of Colonel Thomas Pride in the action famous as "Pride's Purge", when one hundred royalist members of Parliament, who had refused to concur in majority rule, were expelled from the House of Commons. Subsequently Colonel Axtell--as we all know--commanded the Parliamentary Guard at King Charles' capital trial in Westminster Hall. Colonel Daniel Axtell was then 27 years old. For the next ten years he was constantly close to the protector, Oliver Cromwell; the greatest of poets, John Milton; John Bunyan, of "Pilgrim's Progress"; and all the other champions of the Puritan Cause. All this time, Prince Rupert, the dead king's nephew, from his base on the continent, was harassing Cromwell's Army. Colonel Axtell was constantly employed combatting these raids, and, northwards, subduing occasional forays of the recalcitrant royalist Scots. He accompanied Cromwell on several Irish expeditions, and was Governor of the Province of Kilkenny. He retired then, for a while, from the army, and went home for a quiet life in Berkhamstead. 'There he might have remained in safety had not his inflexible principles prompted him to volunteer to fight the return of the royal Stuarts to the last ditch. Quixotically (some might hold) he rushed to join General Lambert in the last hopeless battle, which was fought on Easter Sunday, 1660, at Daventry. Vastly outnumbered, the Republican Army had no chance. The conviction and execution of Colonel Daniel Axtell inevitably followed.
http://www.axtellfamily.org/axgenea/axsilasb.html

Daniel Axtell, Governor of Kilkenny under the Protectorate,
an active participant in Pride's Purge and preceding events leading to the execution of Charles I, was excepted from the Bill of Amnesty in July 1660, and the pardons granted the following August.
He was arraigned at the Old Bailey,
-- charged with commanding the soldiers at the High Court of Justice,
-- threatening to shoot Lady Fairfax for interrupting the proceedings,
-- and personal insults to the King.
To the first, he plead the order of the Commander-in-Chief,
to the second, the exigencies of the occasion,
the third, he utterly denied. [his trial see ]
The sentence for treason was fully carried out [19 Oct 1660] and his head was set on the further end of Westminster Hall. (Ludloe's Memoirs, State Trials).

Pepy's Diary 1660,
Life of Axtell, with portrait, London, 1660, Lee supra.

Children of Daniel Axtell:
1. Daniel Axtell ca 1642 - 1686 SC
2. William Axtell bapt 16 Nov 1644 - who went to Jamaica
3. daughter

Coat of Arms of Daniel Axtell

check out
David Plant, Biography of Daniel Axtell, British Civil Wars and Commonwealth website
http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/axtell.htm

William Axtell 1595 - 1637 | his parents
& Thomasine ? 1576 - 1630 | her parents

This is my working hypothesis - the way I see it as of this moment!!

Children of William Axtell:
nine children bapt between 1614 and 1628 St. Peter's Church, Barkbamstead
1. John Axtell bapt 14 Aug 1614 -
2. William Axtell bapt 1 Dec 1616 -
3. Thomas Axtell bapt 26 Jan 1618 - bur March 1645/46 Sudbury, Mass.
Thomas and Mary (_____) Axtell had their second child, Henry, christened in St. Peter's Church, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England on 15 October 1641. Shortly after this, Thomas & Mary sailed from England, and settled in Sudbury.
    There is a possibility - totally unproven that Mary may have been the daughter of Edmund Rice who was also from Berkhamsted. This Mary is mentioned in the 1672/73 estate of her second husband John Maynard.
    married Mary Rice? d aft 1672/73
    [Mary next married 16 June 1646 in Sudbury John Maynard d 1672/73]
       a. Mary Axtell bapt 26 Sept 1639 -
            married 19 Sept 1656 John Goodnow
       b. Henry Axtell bapt 15 Oct 1641 - early 1676 killed by Indians
            married 14 June 1665 Hannah Marriam
             i. Daniel Axtell 4 Nov 1673 - 1735
                  he is mentioned in Lady Axtell will
                  married 1702 Thankful Pratt
            Hannah married next 5 July 1677 Will Taylor
4. Mary Axtell 1619 - 1672
5. Daniel Axtell bapt 26 May 1622 - 19 Oct 1660
      Col. in Cromwell's Army and put to death after the Restoration in 1660.
6. Samuel Axtell bapt 15 Dec 1624 -
7. Alice Axtell bapt 26 Mar 1627 -
8. Sarah Axtell bapt 20 Jun 1628 -
9. Anna Axtell bapt 6 June 1641 Berkhampstead, Hertford, Eng.-- 4 June 1687
            said to have been born in 1633 - mother Anne bapt record
    married Berkhampstead 1658 Thomas Taylor
                      ca 1631 Rigmere, Sussex, Eng. - 1 Aug 1682 Kells, Meath, Ireland
    a. Anne Taylor ca 1658 Berkhampstead - 1739/43 Kells
       married Ireland 1686 Sir Nicholas Acheson, 4th Bt
                             ca 1655 Market Hill, Armagh, Ireland - 1701
                                           David's 9th g grandparents

e-mail from David Arathoon -davidarathoonstudio ( at sign here ) sympatico.ca
THOMAS TAYLOR; b c 1631; went to Ireland 1653 with his friend and college companion Sir William Petty (see LANSDOWNE, M), with whom he undertook the cartographic project known as the Down Survey (although the maps were published in Sir William’s name alone); sold his English property and bought 1660 land in Ireland, including Kells, Co Meath; Dep Receiver-Gen 1669–70, V-Treasurer and Treasurer-at-War; m 1658 Anne (d 4 June 1687), dau of William Axtell, of Berkhamsted, Herts, and d 1 Aug 1682, having had, with two other sons (d young), and a dau (Anne, m 1686 Sir Nicholas Acheson, 4th Bt; see GOSFORD, E):

from : Burkes

e-mail from Grace:
Mary, the widow of Thomas, married 16 June 1646 John Maynard in Sudbury.
Also, she was NOT Mary, daughter of Dr. Comfort Starr. Mary Starr married John Maynard of Duxbury, Plymouth Colony, on 16 May 1640 in Duxbury. She died about 1658, or at least just before the will of her father, Dr. Comfort Starr in 1659. To my knowledge this Maynard family never left the Plymouth Colony area.
Thomas and Mary (_____) Axtell had their second child, Henry, christened in St. Peter's Church, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England on 15 October 1641. Shortly after this, Thomas & Mary sailed from England, and settled in Sudbury.
    There is a possibility - totally unproven that Mary may have been the daughter of Edmund Rice who was also from Berkhamsted. This Mary is mentioned in the 1672/73 estate of her second husband John Maynard.
Savage details FOUR John Maynard's all in New England very early. Early researchers tried to make them all one, but they weren't!
England area: Today the name of the town is spelled Berkhamsted, in ancient records it is Berkhampstead. Little Berkhamsted is a totally different town, and Great Berkhamsted is the name of the parish in Berkhamsted.   Grace Schmitt
There are some spectacular photographs of St. Peter's Church on the web at http://stpetersberkhamsted.org.uk/   then click on images of St Peter

a history of Berkhamsted Berkhamsted

William Axtell 1541 - | his parents
& Joan Wells d 1584 | her parents
of Barkbamstead, Hertfordshire, England

This is my working hypothesis - the way I see it as of this moment!!

The earliest the name had been found was 1535 - John Axstyl's name found in a conveyance of property in Hertfordshire.
John Axtell, son of John Axtell was bapt. 1539. and William, son of John was bapt 14 Nov 1541.

Children of William Axtell & Joan Wells:
1. Susanna Axtyll bapt 22 May 1599 -

from a speech 1952 by Silas B Axtell
"Within a year from that date [1534] we come upon the record of the action of a certain Johannes Axstyl, of Gatesden, Berkhamstead, Herts. John Axstyl was a Roman Catholic monk of the Order of Augustinians, Father Martin Luther had been a monk; of the Augustinian Order in Germany. The spiritual connection seems obvious. Anyhow, in 1535, John Axstyl was no longer a Roman Catholic or an Augustinian. In that year his signature appears upon a document which conveyed the Gatesden monastery to the English king. This ancestral Axtell, Protestant now, presently married, and in St. Peter's Church, Berkhamstead, Herts., we see today the baptismal records of John, son of John Axtell (as he now signed himself) in the year 1539; and of William, son of John Axtell, in 1541, forbears of Daniel (Reg.) and his brother Thomas who settled here in Sudbury."
Transcriber's Note: It seems doubtful that Johannes Axstyl was the grandfather of Thomas Axtell of Sudbury as presented here. Johannes signed a deed in 1535 and Thomas was christened in 1619. Perhaps Johannes was the great-grandfather of Thomas. http://www.axtellfamily.org/axgenea/axsilasb.html

more info: http://www.axtellfamily.org/index.htm

this is my working hypothesis - the way I see it as of this moment!!

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