JEREMIAH JAGGER’S DNA KIN IN SOUTHOWRAM WEST YORKSHIRE

This is a tale of 2 Jagger lines separated by over 2 centuries in arrival in America, but united by origin village and by autosomal DNA.

Jeremiah Jagger (born January 27, 1610/1611, Southowram) was a Puritan, merchant sea captain, and co-founder of Stamford Connecticut. He arrived in New England in 1630. Some of his descendants have autosomal DNA (atDNA) matches with either me or with my cousin Randy Jagger, both of whom descend from James Jagger (b. 1843, Southowram) who arrived in Illinois before 1870. All 3 of Jeremiah’s known sons have living descendants whose atDNA appear at Family Tree DNA, AncestryDNA &/or www.gedmatch.com as our matches. There are in these databases at least 5 people with continuous lines of ancestry back to Jeremiah as of November 2018. Additionally, at www.gedmatch.com Randy Jagger’s Kit # T033828 & his Jeremiah Jagger descendant atDNA match H473581 share a Chromosome 10 segment with 13 other people. Some in this group appear to be atDNA kin to me. Some are not aware of Jagger ancestry but incidentally have Jagger in their trees.

Puritanism took root in West Yorkshire in the 1600s. https://www.calderdale.gov.uk/wtw/timeline/1600-1650/1600-1650-1.html

Northowram, home of some Jagger families, saw the growth of Non-Conformist religions in general. I.e., not Church of England.

Jeremiah Jagger (b. 1610) was aboard the flagship Arbella in the 1630 fleet of 11 ships carrying over 700 Puritans to Massachusetts. Search for the Winthrop fleet at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Great_Migration_Ships#Winthrop_Fleet.
Jeremiah is mentioned in the Calderdale Companion at http://www.calderdalecompanion.co.uk/mmj160.html. Sir Richard Saltonstall (bapt. 1586, Halifax) was on the same ship as Jeremiah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Saltonstall Sir Richard would have been a contemporary of the unknown parents of our Jeremiah Jagger (b. 1610, Southowram, adjacent to Halifax). Jeremiah was born the same year as Richard Saltonstall, son of Sir Richard. Both Jagger & Saltonstall had several descendants in early New England. At AncestryDNA, I have an atDNA match with a person who lists ancestor Elizabeth Saltonstall (b. 1668, Massachusetts); tree by scl518. Elizabeth may or may not have been the carrier of the atDNA which is a match to me. Elsewhere, Elizabeth is listed as a great-granddaughter of Sir Richard Saltonstall (m. Grace Kaye) -& Richard Saltonstall (b. 1610; m. Muriel Gurdon) -& Col. Nathaniel Saltonstall (b. 1639, Ipswich Essex Co. Mass.; m. Elizabeth Ward) & this Elizabeth Saltonstall (b. 1668; m. Rev. John Denison & Rev. Roland Cotton).

After the 1630 arrival on Arbella, Sir Richard led a group up the Charles River & settled at current Watertown Massachusetts. Our Jeremiah Jagger lived at Watertown until 1636, when he moved to Wethersfield Connecticut. The next year, Native Americans attacked Wethersfield, killing Puritan settlers & taking many captive. Some historians believe this was a precipitating event of the Pequot War.

Jeremiah became a soldier in the Pequot War.

The war ultimately resulted in a brutal massacre at Mystic and the Pequot population was so diminished that they "ceased to be a tribe in most senses."

Reflecting on that period, Alfred Cave wrote: "Contemporary chroniclers and later historians sympathetic to the Puritans painted a portrait of the Pequots as a 'cruell, barbarous and bloudy' people," reinforced by long-standing stereotypes from the previous century that described Native American religious practices as "the Devil's instruments" out to "exterminate all Christians in New England. The Puritans and their later apologists asserted that the English colonists had no choice but to strike first."

Today, the image of Pequot native people has transformed, in part owing to critiques of historical Puritan Indian policies, as well as a growing recognition of injustices committed against Native Americans. "Pequots are now often celebrated rather than excoriated for their resistance to English expansionism" (Cave).

For more see The Pequot War by Alfred Cave:
http://www.sjsu.edu/people/ruma.chopra/courses/h170_MW_S13/s0/Wk4A_Cave_English.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pequot_War

http://pequotwar.org/about/ The Dutch (some of which were French Huguenot refugees to the Netherlands & on to America) were part of this conflict; my 9th Great-Grandmother Sarah Rapalje (b. 1625, Fort Orange/Albany; m. Teunis Bogaert) was a girl then.

Excavations of Wethersfield:
http://www.wnpr.org/post/archaeologists-discover-evidence-connecticuts-earliest-english-colony
The discovery of a palisade (fortified wall) was a surprise.

Jeremiah’s father, said to be Jonathan Jagger (b. abt. 1590), or Jonathan’s wife may have been the Most Recent Common Ancestor accounting for robust atDNA chromosomal segments (esp. the Chromosome 10 group) shared by descendants of Jagger of 1600s New England & our 1800s Southowram line. Presumably, at least one (more likely many) Jagger person(s) with the atDNA pattern seen in Jeremiah would have lived in one or more of the 25 Jagger households appearing in the 1672 Hearth Tax roll for West Yorkshire. A particular Jagger in 1672 West Yorkshire would have been ancestral to our known ancestor John Jagger (m. 1713, Halifax, to Mary Russet; d. 1772); & lived not more than 2 generations back from this John, my 6th great-grandfather.

Probably about 95% of people descending from British Jaggers derive directly from West Yorkshire. Additionally, there is a Jagger line associated with Oxfordshire, esp. Bicester. I have recently been contacted by Keith, a descendant of this latter line. We currently have no solid evidence of any relationship between the two lines, despite what might appear in any online tree.

Another Jeremiah Jagger (b. 1730; m. Sarah Binns) was the great-grandfather of Joseph Hobson Jagger (b. 1830), the guy who broke the bank at Monte Carlo. A book on Joseph Hobson Jagger has been written by Anne Fletcher. https://annefletcherauthor.wordpress.com/media/

Joseph was her 3rd great uncle. There is also an entry on Joseph in the Calderdale Companion:http://www.calderdalecompanion.co.uk/mmj160.html Over a period of 8 days in 1875 Joseph reportedly won a sum of money equivalent to £26 million today. In her book, Anne’s genealogical formulation is termed the Jaggers of Pepper Hill, Shelf. Ash Tree Farm. This line might be close kin to one or more of my past correspondents associated with the Calderdale Family History Society. https://www.cfhsweb.com/ At GEDmatch, my Kit # A693287 is not a significant match with Kit # A703534 from a probable kinswoman of Anne.

My great-grandfather James Jagger (b. 1843, Southowram) lived in Batley in 1861 with his Uncle Joseph, who had Canadian descendants who are my atDNA matches. James’ brother Will migrated to America before James; Will’s Pelosi descendant has an atDNA match with me at AncestryDNA. We may soon have atDNA from another descendant of Will.

Dean Jagger, actor. Once thought by my Grandpa Albert Muffley (m. Edna Jagger) to be Jagger kin. Grandpa apparently was right, but not in a way that we could conceive or support until now. Dean’s reported ancestry tracks back to our Jeremiah Jagger (b. 1610) of Southowram.

2 comments:

Anne Fletcher said...

Hi thanks so much for mentioning my book about Joseph Hobson Jagger. I'd be grateful to receive comments from anyone who reads it (Annefletcher@hotmail.com). As you mention it's called From the Mill to Monte Carlo

Anne Fletcher said...

Hi thanks so much for mentioning my book about Joseph Hobson Jagger. I'd be grateful to receive comments from anyone who reads it (Annefletcher@hotmail.com). As you mention it's called From the Mill to Monte Carlo