“Kingdomites” at a Glance
A rundown of temporal attributes and historical peers shared by many Incendiaries
As part of my ongoing “Jigsaw Gens” series, I profile the various American generations (and “microgenerations”) identified by historians.
In This Installment
Featured Generation: “Kingdomites” (aka Incendiaries, Deathbeds, Meager Beavers, Connectors, Delft Dishes)
Who they are: The generation who came-of-age in the earliest days of Plymouth Colony and New Amsterdam, with their adult lives spanning all three Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Dutch Wars and being the absolute eldest people still alive during the Salem Witch Trials
When they were born: Approximately between 1611–1622
Key Members
Enforcers: Richard More of Salem, Peregrine White, Miles Morgan, Captain Edward Hutchinson Jr., Thomas Hinckley, Elizur Holyoke, Randall Holden, William Crowne, James Cudworth, Daniel Denison, Henry Soane, Francis Lovelace, Ralph Wormeley Sr., Thomas Swann, Henry Vane the Younger, Caleb Carr, Richard Waldron, Henry Chicheley, Robert Treat, Samuel Stephens, William Goffe, Daniel Liczko, Johan Risingh, Daniel Fisher, William Eltonhead Esq., Dr. Luke Barber Sr.
Debaters: Mary Dyer, Richard “The Immigrant” Lee I, James Nayler, Susannah Martin, Francis Howgill, Rebecca Nurse, William Wickenden, Ann Pudeator, Margaret Scott, Giles Corey, Martha Corey, Ann Foster
Scholars: John Sassamon, Robert Child, Augustine Herman, Joshua Scottow, Margaret Fell, Cockenoe, Abraham Pierson the Elder, John Crandall, Thomas Stanton, Daniel Gookin, Penowanyanquis, William Hubbard, Edward Rawson, John Woodbridge, Robert Hinsdale, Edward Bishop Sr., John Myles
Creators: Anne Bradstreet, Samuel Green Sr., Hezekiah Usher, James Crewes, Nathaniel Batts, Edward Digges, Thomas Rolfe, John Evered, Resolved White, Mary Allerton Cushman, Augustine Warner Sr., Love Brewster, Joshua Fisher, Thomas Wheeler, Mary Morrell Folger, Jacob Gerritse Strycker, Humility Cooper, Oceanus Hopkins, Richard Preston “The Great Quaker”
Cusp Cohorts
Preceding Microgeneration: “Long Climbers” (1606–1610)
Prominent “Long Climbers”: Humphrey Atherton, Gregory Dexter, John Underhill, Katherine Marbury Scott, Elizabeth Fones, Harman Garrett, Thomas Willett, Henry Bull, Elizabeth Tilley, William Brenton, Obadiah Holmes, Henry Winthrop, Ninigret, Dr. John Clarke of Newport, Governor William Harris of Plymouth Colony, Henry Dunster, Tristram Coffyn of Nantucket, Richard Bennett of Virginia Colony, John Norton, Bray Wilkins, Mary Chilton, Thomas Savage, Montowampate, Wilmot Redd, George Jacobs Sr., Nathaniel Sylvester, Thomas Pell, Joseph Croshaw, Richard Leader, George Reade of Virginia Colony, William Dyer, Constance Hopkins Snow, Thomas Lunsford, Peter Stuyvesant, George Gardiner of Newport, Leonard Calvert, Thomas Macy, John Winthrop the Younger, Governor Richard Bennett of Virginia Colony, Walter Aston, Thomas Dew, Abraham Wood, George Carteret, Edward Whalley
Subsequent Microgeneration: “Rumpus Rebels” (1623–1627)
Prominent “Rumpus Rebels”: Thomas Danforth, Sarah Wildes, George Fox, Wilhelmus Beekman, Robin Cassacinamon, Herodias Gardiner, Peter Folger of Nantucket, Tamanend, Frederick Philipse, Josiah Winslow, Charles Morton, Pessicus, Anna Hack Boot, John Bowne, Cornelius Steenwyk, William Bradford the Younger, John Easton, Mary Fisher, Samuel Appleton, Johannes de Decker, Thomas Trueman, John Hull of Boston, Canonchet, William Tucker of Jamestown, Antonio de Otermín, James Atherton of Sherborn, William Bond of Watertown, Isaac Allerton Jr., Colonel John Page of James City County, Richard Nicolls, Johan van Rensselaer, Phillip Calvert, Johannes Pieterse van Brugh, Gerrard Fowke, John Richards of Boston, William Coward of Nantasket, Henry Sloughter
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