Leister, Edward brother of Thomas
First My disclaimer; on Edward LiesterI site what proof I have as to the possibility ofhis actually being Thomas's brother, well still working on that. Having been posting what I have found in hopes that we can connect Thomas and Edward and Robert. The earliest record I can find on Robert is a land patent in Nansemond County, Va. for 330 acres paying 7 headrights.
Also the last mention I have of Thomas is in the 1624/25 census of Jamestown. If you take the fact and assume Robert in 1672 is of legal age 21 and then take out my last known date of Thomas there is a 48 year gap. I know a lot of records were destroyed by fire, some twice need to fill the gap and make the proof stand up.
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The following information is from "The MayflowerPages"World Wide Web site and hosted by Caleb Johnson:
Edward leister
Born:1595-1602
Died:before 6 March 1651
Married:unknown
Children:none
Edward Leister came on the "MAYFLOWER" as a servant to Stephen Hopkins. He was involved in Plymouth's first duel, with fellow servant to Stephen Hopkins, Edward Doty. When Leister's term of service was up, he left for Virginia, where Bradford tells us he died, apparently without marrying or having children.
Charles Banks mentions an Edward Leister, widower, of Ixworth, Suffolk, England marrying in 1590, and suggests this might be the father of Edward. He also gives us a marriage on 2 May 1614 of an Edward Lyster of St. Mary Aldermsnbury, with Ann Walthall, widow of St. eter, Cornhill, England. Lastly he mentions a Lister family living in St. Mary, Kennsington (suburb of London), who were living there from 1587 to 1607, abd having the name Edward among their children.
William Bradford's second wife Alice Carpenter married first Edward Southworth. Edward Southworth's mother is believed to be Rosamond Leister. Perhaps this Leister family has a connection to Edward Leister of the "MAYFLOWER". As for why Edward Leister left for Virginia perhaps something can be read into the fact there was a Thomas Leister who arrived at Jamestown, Virginia on the ship Abigale in 1620, aged 33 and was still living in the colony in 1623. (The Complete book of Emigrants, by Peter Coldham)
The IGI parish register abstractions also show two promising Edward Leister's in the baptismal records:
8 March 1597, St. Michaels Wood Street, London (son of George)
7 October 1599, Brinklow, Warwick (son of Humphery)
The following information was obtained at the "Jamestown Society" World Wide Web Site and cites the information as to be taken from "Virginia's First Century" chapter 16 pages 170-173 (only excerpted)
The information concerns the uprising of the indians in the Jamestown area and the massacre of 347 men, women and children.
"Some of them (compiler note; meaning the Indians) were even sittingdown at breakfast with our people at their tables when at eight o'oclock on that Good Friday Morning of March 1622, wherever they happened to be on either side of the James river for a hundred and forty miles up and down, they rose up as one man and each began murdering the pale face "Friends" that happened to be closest to him. Neither aged men and women nor young children were spared. Each uplifted tomahawk fell upon the victim nearest the hand that wielded it so suddenly that "few or none discerned the weapon that brought them to destruction".
In the area of Jamestown there were many large plantation's which had been established by the Virginia Company. These plantation's were to accomplish two thins; number on populate and cultivate the area and also to provide a net work for self defense against the indians.
One of these plantations was called Master Macock's Dividend. On Good Friday Morning in 1622 at Master Macock's Dividend Capt. Samuel Macock, esq. Thomas Browne, John Downes and Edward Leister, a signer of the Mayflower Compact were murdered by the Indians.
There is a fill list of the dead and can be found in "The Records of the Virginia Company London" pages 565-571 Volume III 1933 US Government Printing Office. The Jamestown Society this book in and took the information from same.