July 29, 2024
Introduction: In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series about the founders of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and their descendants, again focusing on the Cartwright family line. Melissa is a genealogist who has a website, americana-archives.com, and a Facebook group, New England Family Genealogy and History.
Today I continue with the Cartwright ancestral line of New England that has Mayflower passenger Degory Priest and many Nantucket settler families, including Tristram and Dionis Coffin.
To recap: My last story introduced Captain Benjamin C. Cartwright (1831-1920), son of Alexander and Phebe (Joy) Carwright, who married Agnes Campbell Hamilton (1839-1916), daughter of John and Agnes (Dunn) Hamilton (widow of Arthur Robert Betteridge). For full lineage, see Part I.
Captain Benjamin’s great aunt Mary (Cartwright) Whippey (1789-1882) is the daughter of Benjamin and Abigail (Paddock) Cartwright, and wife of John Gardner Whippey, son of Coffin and Lucinda (Gardner) Whippey.
In the collection of the Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) is a register painting of the Cartwright family gifted by Mary.
The inscription on this piece reads: “Dron [drawn] by Eunice Gardner 1796” and it records the 1788 marriage of Benjamin Cartwright to Abigail Paddock, as well as his prior marriage in 1754 to Elizabeth Bunker, daughter of David and Elizabeth (Gorham) Bunker, a descendant of Mayflower passengers John and Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland, through their daughter Desire Howland who married John Gorham.
The offspring of Benjamin Cartwright from each union are listed. The names of nine surviving children are lettered in the pods of opened rose blossoms. The names of four deceased children are lettered in collapsed and discolored blossoms. Downward hanging five-petal roses are colored in shades of dark and light pink. More will be covered on all these scions in later stories.
Jean Campbell Cartwright (1878-1960), daughter of Captain Benjamin C. and Agnes Cartwright, married Dr. James Willis Johnson Marion (1881-1921), son of Brig. Gen. Otis Humphrey and Carrie Eudora (Johnson) Marion, and left descendants.
I found a wedding announcement for Jean and her husband, who married quietly in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on 28 December 1911, with Rev. W. W. Ranney officiating the ceremony. The celebration was held at the home of Jean’s sister Edith H. (Cartwright) Pitman, wife of Charles Walter Pitman.
Jean and her husband lived in Oregon for the first years of their marriage.
Here is another photo of Jean taken in 1895 in Nantucket, before her marriage, which shows the Grand Army of the Republic Centennial float, featuring women in white with shields labeled with the names of states and the Goddess of Liberty. In this photo we see (left to right): Lizzie Riddell, Phebe Coffin, Lottie Wyer, Mary Defrey, Ethel Coffin, Louise Sheldon, unknown woman, Mary Tracy, Jean Campbell Cartwright, Lizzie Fitzgerald, Lillie Snow, and another unknown woman.
Captain Benjamin C. Cartwright had a brother, Captain William Joy Cartwright (1819-1863), who married Lucretia Coleman (1829-1919), daughter of James B. and Lydia (Macy) Coleman. The couple had three children. Below are some photos of his offshoots and family.
This is a photo of Annie Cartwright (1860-1943) and her sister Emma, who died at age 10. They were both born to Captain William and Lucretia (Coleman) Cartwright.
Here is another photograph of Annie Cartwright, taken in December 1883.
Annie married wealthy banker and insurance company owner Albert Gardener Brock (1862-1938), son of Josiah C. and Mary (Coleman) Brock, and left descendants.
Here are photos (left) of Albert Gardner Brock outside 36 Liberty Street in Nantucket, and (right) the doorway to his business, Albert G. Brock Co. Insurance, on Main Street in Nantucket.
Here is an obituary for Albert G. Brock, who died 15 December 1938.
This obituary reports:
Albert G. Brock, wealthy Nantucket banker and insurance man, who was well known at Florence, died last night at Nantucket, according to word received by Judge Rufus H. Cook today. The widow of the Nantucket man [Annie (Cartwright) Brock] was a member of the second graduating class at Smith College and his granddaughter, Miss Elizabeth [Cartwright] Brock [daughter of William Cartwright and Bessie Eastman (Cook) Brock, married Fred Leroy Chase] is a senior there now.
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Note on the header image: flag of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Credit: NuclearVacuum; Wikimedia Commons.
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