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| 2801 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is an approximation.
MAR: No mar rec found. A wife Alice is identified in his will, below.
BUR: Billingborough par reg (FHL #1450460 item 4). Also see the will of Waters Dickinson of Billingborough, 30 Dec 1590, proved 20 Apr 1591, Consistory Court of Lincoln, reg wills, 75:1:315-16 (FHL #198848).
IGI: Found marriage sealing. | Dickinson, Waters (I12525)
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| 2802 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is an approximation.
MAR: No mar rec found. A wife Cicely is mentioned in his will, below.
BUR: Wormingford par reg (FHL #1565717 item 20). Also see the will of John Tue of Wormingford, 15 Apr 1605, proved 8 Jul 1605, Commissary Court of the Bishop of London (Essex & Herts Div), orig wills, box 38, #147 (FHL #094400). | Tue, John (I8718)
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| 2803 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is an approximation.
MAR: No mar rec found. A wife Katherine is identified in his own will, below. Her will proves that she is the mother of Robert's children.
BUR: St. Leonard Eastcheap, London par reg (FHL #535720). Also see the will of Robert Brooke of London, 26 Jun 1551, proved 21 Jul 1551, P.C.C., 18 Bucke (FHL #091925).
OCC: Citizen and merchant tailor of London.
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BES: IGI | Brooke, Robert (I12600)
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| 2804 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is an approximation.
MAR: Wife is identified in a manor court roll of Stanstead, 4 Apr 1532, P.R.O Court Rolls, 178/35, cited in Henry Wyckoff Belknap, THE BURNAP-BURNETT GENEALOGY (Salem, MA, 1925), 2-3 (FHL #896923).
DEATH: No death rec found. Thomas is last of rec in the Stanstead manor court roll for 1538 (Ibid, 6).
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BES: IGI | Burnap, Thomas (I8448)
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| 2805 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is an approximation. "Istius [of this place]" on mar rec at Winwick, below.
MAR: Robert Dickinson, ed, THE REGISTER OF WINWICK PARISH CHURCH, Lancashire Parish Register Society, 113(1974):72 (FHL #942.72 K29pr).
DEATH: No death rec found. See the will of Mary Atherton of Dorchester, 21 Feb 1671, proved 3 Oct 1672, Suffolk Co. Probate, #609, (o.s.) 7:245 (FHL #584128). | Kenyon, Mary (I5762)
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| 2806 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is an approximation. Barentje Dircks was called "Van Meppel" [of Meppel] on mar rec, below. She is probably a sister of Geertruyd Dirks, wife of Jan Adamszen. Cornelis Matthysen, Barentje's husband, witnessed the bapt of Geertruyd's dau Barbertie, and Jan Adamszen and Geertruyd witnessed baptisms of Barentje's children in 1665 and 1669 (BAPTISMS FROM 1639 TO 1730 IN THE REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH, NEW YORK, Collections of the NYGBS, 2[1901]:77, 84, 96 [FHL #974.7 B4ne]). Barentje is also the probable sister of Egbertje Dirks, Van Meppel, who married Anke Bruson at New Amsterdam, 7 Apr 1661 (MARRIAGES FROM 1639 TO 1801 IN THE REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH, NEW AMSTERDAM, Collections of the NYGBS, 9[1940]:27 [FHL #974 B4ne]). Baptisms for Barentje, Egbertje, and Geertruyd were not found in the recs of the Meppel Reformed Dutch Church.
MAR: MARRIAGES IN THE REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH, NEW AMSTERDAM, 9:27.
DEATH: No death rec found. Barentje was living in 1681 when twin daughters, Sarah and Rachel, were baptized at New York. She probably removed to the vicintity of Hackensack, NJ with her family and died there.
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SEAL S: IGI | Dircks, Barentje (Van Meppel) (I4780)
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| 2807 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is an approximation. Cornelis Mattyszen was suffixed "Van Stockholm" on mar rec, below.
MAR: MARRIAGES FROM 1639 TO 1801 IN THE REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH, NEW AMSTERDAM, Collections of the NYGBS, 9(1940):27 (FHL #974.7 B4ne).
DEATH: No death rec found. Cornelis was living in 1681 when twin daughters Sarah and Rachel were baptized at New York. He probably removed to the vicintity of Hackensack, NJ with his family and died there.
OCC: Carpenter, timber-hewer, sawyer, founder of Harlem.
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SEAL S: IGI | Matthysen, Cornelis (Van Stockholm) (I4779)
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| 2808 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is an approximation. England is specified as the place of birth in REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND OLD FAMILIES OF RHODE ISLAND, 3 vols. (Chicago, 1908), 3:1642 (FHL #974.5 D3r). It is also stated that John Moore came from England in James R. Irish, HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE TOWN OF RICHMOND (Hope Valley, RI 1877), 93 (FHL #930852 item 2). A cenotaph erected in 1903 by Benjamin Barber Moore, a great great-grandson, also states that John Moore was of English birth("Richmond Cemetery Inscriptions," RIGR, 19[1995]:110 [FHL #974.5 D2Ri]). No evidence has been found to prove these assertions.
MAR: No mar rec found. John Moore's wife Mercy appears with him on a deed at North Kingstown, 22 Mar 1714/5 (North Kingstown Land Evidences, 3:37 [FHL #930954]), and again at Westerly, 7 Jan 1716 (Westerly Town Records, 2:130 [FHL #930813]). She is called Mercy "Easton" in REPRESENTATIVE MEN, 3:1642. The name Easton has been passed down in the Moore family. She is called "Mercy Easton wife of John Moore" in "James Arnold's Tombstone Records Collection," 32 vols. (typescript, n.d.; Knight Memorial Library, Providence), Town of Richmond, 23:72 (FHL #1838896).
DEATH: No death rec found. See the will of John Moore of Richmond, 1 Jul 1752, proved 1 Oct 1753, inv Oct 1753, Richmond Town Council & Probate, 1:130-34 (FHL #930847).
BUR: "James Arnold's Tombstone Records Collection," Town of Richmond, 23:72. Only the year of death is recorded.
OCC: Cooper | Moore, John (I6064)
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| 2809 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is an approximation. England is specified as the place of birth in REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND OLD FAMILIES OF RHODE ISLAND, 3 vols. (Chicago, 1908), 3:1642 (FHL #974.5 D3r). She is identified as Mercy Easton in this work, and the Easton name has been passed down in the Moore family. She is called "Mercy Easton wife of John Moore" on her gravestone, below. It is also stated that Mercy came from England in James R. Irish, HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE TOWN OF RICHMOND (Hope Valley, RI, 1877), 93 (FHL #930853 item 2). No evidence has been found to prove Mercy's origin.
MAR: No mar rec found. John Moore's wife Mercy appears with him on a deed at North Kingstown, 22 Mar 1714/5 (North Kingstown Land Evidences, 3:37 [FHL #930954]), and again at Westerly, 7 Jan 1716 (Westerly Town Records, 2:130 [FHL #930813]).
DEATH: No death rec found. She is not mentioned in the will of her husband, John Moore of Richmond, 1 Jul 1752, proved 1 Oct 1753, Richmond Town Council & Probate, 1:130-33 (FHL #930847).
BUR: "James Arnold's Tombstone Records Collection," 32 vols. (typescript, n.d.; Knight Memorial Library, Providence), Town of Richmond, 23:72 (FHL #1838896). No dates are given. | Easton, Mercy (I6065)
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| 2810 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is an approximation. It is unclear whether Benjamin was an immigrant or belonged to one of the New England Collins families.
MAR: VITAL RECORDS OF SALISBURY (Topsfield, MA, 1915), 312 (FHL #974.45/S3 V2t).
DEATH: Ibid, 542. Also see the adm of estate of Benjamin Collins of Salisbury, 25 Mar 1684, inv 3 Jan 1683/4, Essex Co. Probate, (o.s.) 304:150 (FHL #860486), adm bond of Martha "Collins alias Flanders," widow, 27 Sep 1695 (Ibid, 305:82 [FHL #860486]).
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BES: IGI | Collins, Benjamin (I11003)
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| 2811 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is an approximation. It is unclear whether William is related to other Green families in Mass.
MAR: No mar rec found. Children of William Green and his wife Mary were born in Groton and Cambridge, 1661-1683. Also see deed from William Green of Groton to his son John Green, 11 Mar 1694, for the 7-acre homestall that was "my father Chrisps" (Middlesex Co. Deeds, 25:555 [FHL #554013]). Also see deed from John Green to Samuel Boynton, 17 Dec 1717, for land in Groton "which was formerly granted by sd Town of Groton to my Great Grandfather Crispe deceased or by an act of sd Town granted or Should have by virture of his right hereafter mentioned to my Grandfather Wm Green deceased" (Ibid, 20:338 [FHL #554009]). Crispe could be no other than Benjamin Crispe of Watertown and Groton; hence, Mary, wife of William Green, is the dau of Benjamin Crispe.
DEATH: No death rec found. See the will of William Green of Groton, 13 Jul 1713, proved 27 Oct 1713, Middlesex Co. Probate Files, 1st series, #9859 (FHL #397079).
OCC: Maltster
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BAPT/ENDW: TIB (FHL #1262950-R)
SEAL S: IGI | Green, William (I8683)
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| 2812 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is an approximation. Johan is called "daughter of---- Crow of Taunton, Gentleman," in the papers of Sir Symond D'Ewes (1602-1650), Harleian ms #381, British Museum, cited in G. Andrews Moriarty, "Genealogical Research in England - Symond-Femell," NEHGR, 80(1926):368 (FHL #974 B2ne).
MAR: Agnes, the mother of William Symonds and a proved daughter of Richard Femell is identified as a daughter in the will of widow Johan Femell of St. Mary Magdalene, Taunton, 29 Jun 1576, proved 4 Feb 1577/8, P.C.C., 8 Langley (FHL #091957). Her name was Johan "Crow" according to the papers of Sir Symond D'Ewes (1602-1650), Harleian ms, #381, British Museum (Moriarty, "Genealogical Research," NEHGR, 80:368).
BUR: Par reg of St. Mary Magdalene, Taunton (FHL #1526734 item 5). Also see the will of Johan Femell of Taunton, above.
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BES: IGI | Crow, Johan (I6897)
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| 2813 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is an approximation. Residence of Wigan is given on mar rec, below.
MAR: Robert Dickinson, ed, THE REGISTER OF WINWICK PARISH CHURCH, Lancashire Parish Register Society, 113 (1974):72 (FHL #942.72 K29pr).
DEATH: DORCHESTER BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS, 21st Report Boston Record Commissioners (Boston, 1890), 26 (FHL #974.46/D1 V2r). For a detailed account of his death, see Joseph Besse, A COLLECTION OF THE SUFFERINGS OF THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS, 2 vols. (London, 1753), 2:270 (FHL #599671). Also see Suffolk Co. Probate, #275, (o.s.); most important docs:
4:31, adm of estate, 27 Sep 1661 (FHL #584127).
20:63-65, adm of remaining estate, 9 Oct 1717 (FHL #584134).
28:203-204, adm of remaining estate, 26 Oct 1730 (FHL #548138).
Abstracts of much of Atherton's probate file were published in William B. Trask, "Abstracts of the Earliest Wills on Record...in the County of Suffolk," NEHGR, 32(1878):197-204 (FHL #974 B2ne). Also see additional probate from the Hartford, Connecticut Probate District, abstracted in Charles W. Manwaring, ed, DIGEST OF THE EARLY CONNECTICUT PROBATE RECORDS, 3 vols. (Hartford, 1904-1906), 1:174-75 (FHL #974.6 P2m).
BUR: "Epitaphs at Dorchester," NEHGR, 2(1848):382 (FHL #974 B2ne). Died on "16" Sep 1661.
OCC: Magistrate, military officer, Major-general of militia in 1656. | Atherton, Humphrey (I5761)
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| 2814 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is an approximation. The Gibbons family may have originated in the vicinity of Fenny Compton, Warws. Elizabeth's brother, William Gibbons, was a steward of George Wyllys. The Wyllys family was from Fenny Compton. See Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman, HALE, HOUSE AND RELATED FAMILIES (Hartford, 1952), 612 (FHL #929.273 H135j).
MAR #1: No mar rec found. The will of William Gibbons of Hartford, 26 Feb 1654/5, proved 10 Mar 1654/5, mentions his "sister Hidgecock" and her son John. Luke Hitchcock witnessed the will. See abstract from Hartford District Probate in Charles W. Manwaring, ed, DIGEST OF THE EARLY CONNECTICUT PROBATE RECORDS, 3 vols. (Hartford, 1904-1906), 1:115-16 (FHL #974.6 P2m).
MAR #2: "Hampshire Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths" (private ms of John Pynchon), entries for Hadley, p. 224 (FHL #014766).
MAR #3: No mar rec found in original source records. Elizabeth is said to have married Joseph Baldwin of Hadley. See Jacobus, HALE, HOUSE, 611. Also see Mrs. Edward Hitchcock, THE GENEALOGY OF THE HITCHCOCK FAMILY (Amherst, MA, 1894), 207 (FHL #896563).
DEATH: Springfield Vital Records, 1:54 (FHL #185414).
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BEPS1,2,3: IGI | Gibbons, Elizabeth (I5207)
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| 2815 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is an approximation. The surname Bryan is traditional. No proof has been found. For further discussion, see Charles C. Baldwin, THE BALDWIN GENEALOGY (Cleveland, 1881), 41 (FHL #547101).
MAR #1: No mar rec found. Sarah, widow of Sylvester Baldwin, was granted executorship of his estate with son Richard (Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed, RECORDS OF THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY, 5 vols. [Boston, 1853-54], 1:235 [FHL #974.4 N2s]).
MAR: #2: No mar rec found. See the will of Sarah Astwood of Milford, 9 Nov 1669, proved 20 Nov 1669, which names her children by first husband Sylvester Baldwin (New Haven District Probate, 1:2:33-34 [FHL #005294]). Also see deed from Sarah Astwood, "otherwise Baldwin," to Edward Baldwin, 1 Oct 1666, which states she was formerly the wife of Sylvester Baldwin and later the wife of John Astwood. The document is quoted verbatim in Baldwin, BALDWIN GENEALOGY, 84; original deed is found in New Haven Co. Court recs, 1:3.
DEATH: "Milford Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1640-1850," Barbour Collection (typescript, 1925, Conn. State Library, Hartford), 5 (FHL #002974).
BUR: Milford 1st Congregational Church recs, 1:1 (FHL #004936).
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BES1,2: IGI | (Bryan?), Sarah (I5630)
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| 2816 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is an approximation. The surname Janns suggests a possible European origin for this family. The name was usually spelled with an umlaut over the "a."
MAR #1: No mar rec found George and Maria Janns had children baptized at Ruckinge, 1652-1656.
MAR #2: No mar rec found. George and Sarah Janns had children baptized at Ruckinge, 1657-1675.
BUR: Ruckinge ATs (FHL #1752063 item 2). | Jänns, George (I13204)
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| 2817 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is an approximation. Thomas's will, below, identifies his own father.
MAR: Wife and father-in-law are identified in his will, below.
DEATH: No death/bur rec found. See the will of Thomas Baldwin of Wendover, 7 May 1522, proved 15 May 1522, Archdeaconry Court of Buckingham, reg wills, 1:42 (FHL #088492).
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BEP: IGI | Baldwin, Thomas (I5701)
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| 2818 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calcualted from age 52 in 1669, as given in the medical journal of John Winthrop (TAG, 23[1946]:124 [FHL #973 D25aga]). She is called Elizabeth Ferguson in some published genealogies, but there seems to be no evidence for this statement. See discussion in George E. McCracken, Thomas Holcombe's Earlier Posterity," TAG (1981), 57:66 (FHL #973 D25aga).
MAR #1: No mar rec found. That the wife of Thomas Holcombe was named Elizabeth is shown by the mar rec of widow Elizabeth Holcomb to James Enno, 5 Aug 1658, cited below, and Windsor deed, James Enno of Windsor to Joshua Holcombe, "eldest son to Elizabeth my now wife," 17 Dec 1660(Windsor Deeds, 1A:221 [FHL #006188]). Joshua is a proved son of Thomas Holcombe.
MAR #2: "Windsor Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1637-1850," Barbour Collection (typescript, 1929; Conn. State Library, Hartford), 148 (FHL #002983).
DEATH: Ibid, 93.
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SEAL S1: IGI | Elizabeth (I7162)
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| 2819 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age "about 50 years," on deposition of William Barnes in case of Pike v. Gove, 11 Apr 1665 (Suffolk Co. Court Files, #1321 [FHL #911126]). William also deposed in the criminal trial of Samuel Guile on 9 Sep 1675. However, the age was written over, and it cannot be determined whether the intended age was 60 or 63 yrs (Ibid, case #1414 [FHL #911128]).
MAR: No mar rec found. Children are recorded for William Barnes and his wife Rachel in Salisbury vital recs, 1643-49. Other children were born before 1643.
DEATH: VITAL RECORDS OF AMESBURY (Topsfield, MA, 1913), 522 (FHL #974.45/A1 V2a). Also see the will of William Barnes of Amesbury, 7 Apr 1696, proved 28 Sep 1698, inv 25 Mar 1698, Essex Co. Probate, (o.s.) 306:72-74 (FHL #860486).
OCC: Mill owner
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BES: IGI | Barnes, William (I11311)
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| 2820 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 11 on the passenger list of the ship "Elizabeth," 30 Apr 1634 (Peter Wilson Coldham, THE COMPLETE BOOK OF EMIGRANTS, 1607-1660 [Baltimore, 1987], 114 [FHL #973 C2col]).
MAR: Henry Bond, GENEALOGIES OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF WATERTOWN, 2nd edition (Boston, 1860), 442 (FHL #974.44 D2b). No evidence of this mar has been found in original source records.
DEATH: No death rec found. If Mary Spring was in fact the wife of John Davis, she was the widow Mary Davis of Watertown whose estate was administered, 9 Jun 1656 (David Pulsifer, ed, "Records of the County of Middlesex," 4 vols. [transcript, 1851], 1:101 [FHL #892250]).
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BEP: IGI | Spring, Mary (I8063)
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| 2821 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 16 on death rec, below. Place of birth is suggested by known residence of family in Sharon.
DEATH: Vermont Vital Records, 1st series, -1870 (FHL #027562).
BUR: Ibid.
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BEP: IGI | Goodspeed, Eunice (I6212)
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| 2822 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 20 given by Hannah in deposition at Middlesex County Court, 3 Apr 1657 (Middlesex Co. Court Files, 1657, fo. 18, #2e [FHL #878221]).
MAR: No mar rec found. The above deposition refers to Hannah's husband, John Coller.
DEATH: No death rec found. Hannah was dead by 24 Nov 1684, when John Coller is referred to as a son-in-law in the will of James Cutler. | Hannah (I12844)
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| 2823 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 25 in deposition at Middlesex County Court held at Cambridge, 6 Feb 1658/9 (Middlesex Co. Court Files, 1658, fo. 17, #3g [FHL #878221).
MAR #1: No mar rec found. Hannah Coller of Watertown, aged 20 yrs, deposed in court, 3 Apr 1657, that her husband was John Coller (Ibid, 1657, fo. 18, #2e).
MAR #2: No mar rec found. John Coller is identified as a son-in-law in the will of James Cutler of Cambridge, 24 Nov 1684, proved 20 Aug 1694, Middlesex Co. Probate Files, 1st series, #5518 (FHL #386067). Of James Cutler's daughters, only Mary cannot be accounted for, suggesting she is the unnamed dau who married John Coller. For James Cutler's family see Nahum S. Cutler, CUTLER MEMORIAL (Greenfield, MA, 1889), 17-21 (FHL #929.273 C973c). It seems unlikely that Mary Cutler was the wife of John Coller, Jr, who was 18 yrs younger than Mary.
DEATH: No death rec found. John was living, probably in Framingham, as late as 25 Mar 1699, when his land is mentioned in an indenture between Joseph Buckminster and Thomas Danforth (Suffolk Co. Court Files, #162490 [FHL #046534]). He was probably living on 23 Oct 1702 when his son John is called "Jr" (ACTS AND RESOLVES OF THE PROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY, 8:117, 21:731, cited in Dean Crawford Smith, THE ANCESTRY OF EVA BELLE KEMPTON, 4 vols. in progress [Boston, 1996- ], 1:254 [FHL #929.273 K329sm]).
OCC: Soldier in King Philip's War.
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BAPT/ENDW: IGI | Coller, John (I12843)
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| 2824 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 26 on passenger list of the ship "Blessing" from London, 1635 (Peter Wilson Coldham, THE COMPLETE BOOK OF EMIGRANTS, 1607-1660 [Baltimore, 1987], 149 [FHL #973 W2col]).
MAR #1: No mar rec found. "Mary wife of Robert Onion" was buried at Roxbury, 4 Apr 1643 (VITAL RECORDS OF ROXBURY, 2 vols. [Salem, MA, 1925-26], 2:604 [FHL #974.46/R2 V2r]). Another account of her death is found in John Winthrop, THE HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND, 1630 TO 1649, ed James Savage, 2 vols. (Boston, 1826), 2:95 (FHL #974 H2w).
MAR #2: Robert Brand Hanson, ed, VITAL RECORDS OF DEDHAM, 3 vols. (Bowie, MD, 1989), 3:137 (FHL #974.47/D2 V2hr).
MAR #3: No mar rec found. Children were born to Robert Onion and wife Sarah in Dedham, 1649-65. Sarah Onion is identified in the will of her father, Michael Metcalf of Dedham, 15 Nov 1664, proved 1 Feb 1664/5, Suffolk Co. Probate, misc docket, (o.s.) 1:440-41 (FHL #584127).
DEATH: Hanson, VITAL RECORDS OF DEDHAM, 2:149. Also see the adm of estate of Robert Onion of Dedham, n.d., inv 23 Dec 1673, Suffolk Co. Probate, #675, (o.s.) 7:336-37 (FHL #584128).
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SEAL S2,3: IGI | Onion, Robert (I9131)
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| 2825 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 32 on passenger list of the ship "Elizabeth," 30 Apr 1634 (Peter Wilson Coldham, COMPLETE BOOK OF EMIGRANTS, 1607-1660 [Baltimore, 1987], 115 [FHL #973 W2 col]). Elizabeth had children baptized in the Suffolk parishes of Whatfield and Hadleigh but was not herself baptized in either.
MAR: Whatfield par reg (FHL #919634).
DEATH: "Births, Marriages, and Deaths, [Hampshire] County Court," entries for Hadley, p. 81 (FHL #760648).
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BES: IGI | Smith, Elizabeth (I5893)
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| 2826 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 32 on passenger list of the ship "Elizabeth," 30 Apr 1634 (Peter Wilson Coldham, COMPLETE BOOK OF EMIGRANTS, 1607-1660, [Baltimore, 1987], 115 [FHL #973 W2 col]). Samuel had children baptized in the Suffolk parishes of Whatfield and Hadleigh but was not himself baptized in either.
MAR: Whatfield par reg (FHL #919634).
DEATH: No death rec found. See the will of Samuel Smith of Hadley, 23 Jun 1680, proved 29 Mar 1681, inv 17 Jan 1680/1, Hampshire Co. Probate, 1:213-14 (FHL #879184).
OCC: Glover, fellmonger, deputy to General Court of Connecticut from Wethersfield.
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BAPT: IGI
SEAL S: IGI | Smith, Samuel (I5892)
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| 2827 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 36 on deposition, 30 Oct 1673, concerning the nuncupative will of John Tilson of Scituate, Plymouth Colony Probate, 3:93 (FHL #567794).
MAR: No mar rec found. Abigail Ransom made oath to the inv of estate of her late husband, Robert Ransom of Plymouth, 22 Dec 1697, Plymouth Co. Probate, 1:280 (FHL #550708). | Abigail (I11934)
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| 2828 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 4 on the passenger list of the ship "Elizabeth," 30 Apr 1634 (Peter Wilson Coldham, THE COMPLETE BOOK OF EMIGRANTS, 1607-1660 [Baltimore, 1987], 114 [FHL #973 C2col]).
MAR: WATERTOWN RECORDS, 8 vols. [Watertown, MA, 1894-1939], 1:3:18 (FHL #014793]).
DEATH: VITAL RECORDS OF NEWTON (Boston, 1905), 501 (FHL #974.44/N1 V2n).
BUR: Ibid.
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BEPS: IGI | Spring, John (I8064)
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| 2829 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 42 on deposition, 14 Nov 1566, Star Chamber Proceedings, Elizabeth, C, 5/34, cited in G. Andrews Moriarty, "Genealogical Research in England - Symonds-Femell," NEHGR, 80(1926):361 (FHL #974 B2ne). Thomas's son William stated in correspondence with his grandnephew Sir Symonds D'Ewes that his grandfather (not named) came to Taunton from Melbury, Dorset and died in Taunton ("Genealogical Research," NEHGR, 80:350). He was, perhaps, the William Symonds bur at St. Mary Magdalene, Taunton, 21 Apr 1566.
MAR #1: No mar rec found. Name of wife is unknown. William Symonds, son of Thomas, called his mother, Agnes Femell, the "second" wife of Thomas Symonds in correspondence with his grandnephew Sir Symonds D'Ewes (Moriarty, "Genealogical Research," NEHGR, 80:351).
MAR #2: Thomas identified a wife Agnes in his will, below. His son William Symonds identified his mother as a dau of Richard Femell in correspondence with his grandnephew Symonds D'Ewes, preserved in Harleian ms, #381, British Museum, cited in Moriarty, "Genealogical Recearch," NEHGR, 80:351. Agnes was also identified in the will of her mother Johan Femell of Taunton, 29 Jun 1576, proved 4 Feb 1577/8, P.C.C., 8 Langley (FHL #091957).
BUR: Par reg of St. Mary Magdalene, Taunton (FHL #1526734 item 5). Also see the will of Thomas Symonds of Taunton, 13 Oct 1572, proved 10 Jan 1572/3, P.C.C., 1 Peter (FHL #091951).
OCC: Merchant, pewterer, gentleman
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BAPT/ENDW: IGI
SEAL S2: FGRA | Symonds, Thomas (I6875)
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| 2830 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 45 yrs on passenger list of the ship "Elizabeth," 30 Apr 1634 (Peter Wilson Coldham, THE COMPLETE BOOK OF EMIGRANTS [Baltimore, 1987], 114 [FHL #973 C2col]).
MAR: No mar rec found. Elinor appears as the wife of John Spring on the above passenger list.
DEATH: Elinor was apparently dead before 25 Mar 1656, when John Spring deeded his house and lands to son Henry in exchange for perpetual support, as he made no provision for his wife's support (Middlesex Co. Deeds, 1:220-23 [FHL #554000]).
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BES: IGI | Elinor (I8062)
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| 2831 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 55 on death rec, below. Elizabeth Batchelder has not been identified. She may be the illegitimate dau of Benjamin Batchelder and Deborah Clifford. See Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis, GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE (Portland, ME, 1928-39; repr Baltimore, 1979), 151, 781 (FHL #974 D2n).
MAR: Mar rec is not found in extant New Hampshire vital recs or in Hampton Falls Congregational Church recs. Mar info is provided in V. C. Sanborn, GENEALOGY OF THE FAMILY OF SAMBORNE OR SANBORN (Privately printed, 1899), 99 (FHL #599237 item 2). The authenticity of this information in unknown, but Sanborn presumably acquired it from church or family recs. Hampton Falls church records confirm that Richard and wife Elizabeth were members in 1724 ("The Church Records of Hampton Falls, beginning January 2d 1712" [typescript, n.d.], 99 [FHL #015560 item 4]).
DEATH: Roland D. Sawyer, comp, "Kensington Vital Statistics - Marriages and Deaths" (typescript, 1943), pt. 2, p. 3 (FHL #015563 item 13). Aged 55 years.
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BES: IGI | Batchelder, Elizabeth (I10353)
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| 2832 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 55 on Oath of Allegiance at Newbury, 1678 (NEHGR, 7[1853]:349 [FHL #974 B2ne]). He is called son of Walter Taylor on county copy of death rec, but this may be a clerical error, as no elder Walter Taylor has been found in New England.
MAR: No mar rec found. Walter's wife Alice surrendered her right of dower on 14 Apr 1663 in a deed from Walter Taylor of Salisbury to William Huntington, 13 Dec 1662 (Old Norfolk Co. Deeds, 1:166 [FHL #873020]).
DEATH: VITAL RECORDS OF AMESBURY (Topsfield, MA, 1913), 591 (FHL #974.45/A1 V2a). The unregistered adm and inv of estate of Walter Taylor, 14 Feb 1686/7, is cited in David W. Hoyt, OLD FAMILIES OF SALISBURY AND AMESBURY, 3 vols. (Providence, 1897-1916; repr in 1 vol., Baltimore, 1982), 332 (FHL #974.45 D2h).
OCC: Shipwright
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BES: IGI | Taylor, Walter (I11336)
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| 2833 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 56 in deposition concerning his father-in-law, Richard North, 3 Nov 1674 (Suffolk Co., Mass. Court Files, #1563 [FHL #911130).
MAR #1: No mar rec found. A dau Hannah was born to George and Hannah Martin at Salisbury, 1 Feb 1643/4 (VITAL RECORDS OF SALISBURY [Topsfield, MA, 1915], 151 [FHL #845110]).
MAR #2: VITAL RECORDS OF SALISBURY, 415.
DEATH: No death rec found. See the will of George Martin of Amesbury, 19 Jan 1683/4, proved 23 Nov 1686, Essex Co. Probate File #17890, quoted verbatim in David L. Greene, "George Martin of Ipswich," TAG, 56(1980):158 (FHL #973 D25aga).
OCC: Blacksmith
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BES1,2: IGI | Martin, George (I10744)
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| 2834 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 60 in Gov. Winthrop's "Medical Journal" for the year 1669, below. Place of birth is an approximation.
MAR: No mar rec found. Elizabeth is identified as the wife of Thomas Judd in the "Medical Journal" of Gov. John Winthrop, Jr, entry dated 1669, in custody of the Massachusetts Historical Society, cited in Dwight Brainerd, ANCESTRY OF THOMAS CHALMERS BRAINERD, ed Donald Lines Jacobus (Montreal, 1948), 178 (FHL #929.273 B731bd).
DEATH: No death rec found. Husband Thomas Judd remarried, 2 Dec 1679.
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BES: IGI | Elizabeth (I5493)
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| 2835 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 62 in deposition of Sep 1709, and age 64 in deposition of Sep 1713. See Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis, GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE (Portland, ME, 1928-39; repr Baltimore, 1983), 568 (FHL #974 D2n). He is almost certainly not the James Prescott of royal descent, who was baptized at Driby, Lincs in 1642/3, as claimed in William Prescott, THE PRESCOTT MEMORIAL (Boston, 1870), 35 (FHL #982013 item 3). For discussion, see TAG, 34(1958):180-81 (FHL #974 D25aga).
MAR: Noyes, GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY, 56. No evidence has been found for or against this identification after extensive searches.
DEATH: "Kingston First Church Records," New Hampshire Genealogical Register, 2(1905):131 (FHL #974.2 D25nh). "An aged father"
OCC: Planter, yeoman, husbandman, saw mill operator.
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SEAL S: IGI | Prescott, James (I10443)
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| 2836 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 63 on gravestone inscription, below. It is suspected that Henry is an immigrant, as no other Walbridge family is found in New England during the period. The name is found in Dorset and vicinity but also in London.
MAR: "Preston Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1687-1850," Barbour Collection (typescript, 1919; Conn. State Library, Hartford), 208 (FH #002977).
DEATH: VITAL RECORDS OF NORWICH, 2 vols. (Hartford, 1913), 1:67 (FHL #974.65/N1 V2s). Also see the will of Henry Walbridge of Norwich, 23 Jul 1729, proved 6 Sep 1729, inv 26 Aug 1729, New London District Probate Files, #5501 (FHL #1025055).
BUR: "Headstone Inscriptions Town of Franklin," Charles R. Hale Collection (typescript, 1937; Conn. State Library, Hartford), Old Franklin Plains Cemetery, #304-5, p. 60 (FHL #003334). Aged 63 yrs. Franklin was set off from Norwich in 1786.
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BES: IGI | Walbridge, Henry (I12104)
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| 2837 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 64 (65th year of age) on gravestone inscription, below. He was probably from England, possibly Rochadale, Lancs, where the name is common. He was in Watertown as early as 1670, when he received a bounty for a fox and birds, but was warned out of town the following year unless Charles Chadwick and John Stratten offer security (WATERTOWN RECORDS, 8 vols. [Watertown, MA, 1894-1939], 1:1:100,107 [FHL #974.44/W5 V28v]). John and Thomas Chadwick are called "kinsmen" in the will of Charles Chadwick of Watertown, 30 Jun 1681, proved 15 Jul 1682, Middlesex Co. Probate Files, 1st series #4099 (FHL #386051). For additional information, see Janice Boyd and George E. McCracken, "The Brothers Thomas and John Chadwick of Watertown," TAG, 31(1955):65-68 (FHL #973 D25aga).
MAR: No mar rec found. Children of John Chadwick and his wife Sarah were born in Watertown, 1673-88. Sarah is also mentioned in his will, below.
DEATH: WATERTOWN RECORDS, 2:2:42. Also see the will of John Chadwick of Watertown, 31 Jan 1710, proved 5 Mar 1710/11, inv 20 Feb 1710/11, Middlesex Co. Probate Files, 1st series, #4105 (FHL #386051).
BUR: William Thaddeus Harris, EPITAPHS FROM THE OLD BURYING GROUND IN WATERTOWN (Boston, 1869), 9 (FHL #564365 item 4).
OCC: Innholder, tavern keeper, sergeant in Watertown militia.
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BAPT/ENDW: TIB (FHL #1262777-R). | Chadwick, John (I8116)
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| 2838 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 66 on death rec, below.
MAR #1: No mar rec found. William's wife Elizabeth was admitted to the Roxbury 1st Church abt 1648 (ROXBURY LAND AND CHURCH RECORDS, 6th Report Boston Record Commissioners [Boston, 1881], 86 [FHL #974.461 H2b]).
MAR #2: VITAL RECORDS OF ROXBURY, 2 vols. (Salem, MA, 1925-26), 2:111 (FHL #974.46/R2 V2r).
MAR #3: No mar rec found. The will of William Davis, 6 Dec 1683, proved 28 Dec 1683, mentions a wife but does not name her. She was made executor and given full power to dispose of the estate and allowed to choose overseers. Jane Davis, as executor of the will of William Davis, chose overseers on 17 Dec 1685 (Suffolk Co. Probate, #1350, [o.s.] 6:431-32 [FHL #564128]).
DEATH: VITAL RECORDS OF ROXBURY, 2:506. Also see the will of William Davis of Roxbury, 6 Dec 1683, proved 28 Dec 1683 (cited above), inv sworn 3 July 1684 (Suffolk Co. Probate, #1350, [o.s.] 9:184-85 [FHL #584129]).
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BAPT/ENDW: TIB (FHL #1262843-R).
SEAL S1,2,3: IGI | Davis, William (I12625)
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| 2839 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 68 on death rec, below. Also age 54 on deposition in Middlesex Co. Court files, 4 Oct 1664, cited in Charles Henry Pope, THE PIONEERS OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston, 1900; repr Baltimore, 1991), 511 (FHL #974.4 D2p). There is a gap in Bures St. Mary par regs, 1604-1612.
MAR: Bures St. Mary par reg by corr, Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich, 8 May 1997.
DEATH: VITAL RECORDS OF MARLBOROUGH (Worcester, MA, 1908), 404 (FHL #974.44/M5 V2s). Aged 68 yrs. Also see the will of John Woods of Marlborough, 26 Nov 1677, proved 1 Oct 1678, inv 19 Jul 1678, Middlesex Co. Probate Files, 1st series, #25456 (FHL #432088). Death date is given as "11" Jul 1678 on inv.
OCC: Pin maker
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BES: IGI | Woods, John (I12174)
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| 2840 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 70 on deposition, 17 Mar 1722, cited in John O. Austin, GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF RHODE ISLAND (Albany, NY, 1887), 13 (FHL #022257). He was probably the son of James Barber, a member of the Newport Town Council, 20 Jul 1667 (John Russell Bartlett, ed, RECORDS OF THE COLONY OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS, 10 vols. [Providence, 1856-65], 2:213-14 [FHL #974.5 N29r]). James owned a half share in Westerly lands in 1661 (NARRAGANSETT HISTORICAL REGISTER, 1[1882-83]:319 [FHL #022253]).
MAR #1: No mar rec found. Three children were born before mar to Susannah West, but the name of this earlier wife is unknown.
MAR #2: South Kingstown Town Council & Probate, 1:2:31 (FHL #931833). The mar is also recorded in North Kingstown Vital Records, 1:29 (FHL #930980). These two towns were created from Kingstown in 1722/3. The mar actually occurred in the town of Kingstown, which is now extinct.
DEATH: No death rec found. See the will of Moses Barber of South Kingstown, 29 Mar 1728, proved 17 Dec 1733, inv 13 Dec 1733, South Kingstown Town Council & Probate, 2:238-44 (FHL #931833).
OCC: Yeoman
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BAPT/ENDW: IGI | Barber, Moses (I6095)
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| 2841 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 76 yrs on death rec, below. Sarah's maiden name may be Cottle. She had a son named Jonathan Cottle Rogers.
MAR: No mar rec found. Children of Eliphalet Rogers and his wife Sarah were born at Hartland, Vermont, 1786-1804 (Hartland Vital Records, 2:2:13 [FHL #028345]).
DEATH: Vermont Vital Records, 1st series, -1870 (FHL #027673). Aged 76 yrs.
BUR: Ibid. | Sarah (I11788)
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| 2842 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 78 on death rec, below.
MAR: Thomas W. Baldwin, comp, VITAL RECORDS OF FRAMINGHAM (Boston, 1911), 246 (FHL #873783).
DEATH: Vermont Vital Records, 1st series (FHL #027488). Aged 78 yrs. Also see the will of William Brisco of Strafford, 14 Nov 1793, proved 7 Jul 1797, Orange Co. Probate (Bradford District), A:166-67 (FHL #028606).
BUR: Vermont Vital Records, 1st series, -1870 (FHL #027488).
OCC: Selectman of Strafford, Vermont, Revolutionary War soldier.
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BES: IGI | Brisco, William (I12784)
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| 2843 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 80 in his will, dated 25 May 1688, below. It has been published without documentation that Thomas was baptized at Salcombe Regis, Devon, 9 Dec 1608 (Burton W. Spear, SEARCH FOR THE PASSENGERS OF THE MARY & JOHN, 9[1987]:25 [FHL #974.4 W3s]). However, no par reg or BTs exist for Salcombe Regis for this year.
MAR: No mar rec found. A child Hannah born to Thomas Tolman and his wife Sarah at Dorchester in 1640.
DEATH: DORCHESTER BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS, 21st Report Boston Record Commissioners (Boston, 1890), 121 (FHL #974.46/D1 V2r). Also see the will of Thomas Tolman of Dorchester, 25 May 1688 (dated 29 Oct 1688 at end of will), proved 5 Feb 1690/1, inv 23 July 1690, Suffolk Co. Probate, #1814, (n.s.) 8:37, 191 (FHL #594175).
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SEAL P: IGI | Tolman, Thomas (I9832)
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| 2844 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 80-90 on death rec, below. It is possible that Mary is the dau of William Janes of Northampton. This is the only known Janes family in New England. However, it is possible that Janes is a misspelling of Jones are James. There are also chronolgical problems with fitting Mary into William's family.
MAR #1: Dedham Vital Records (orig ms) (FHL #593363).
MAR #2: Robert Brand Hanson, ed, VITAL RECORDS OF DEDHAM, 3 vols. (Bowie, MD, 1989), 3:109 (FHL #974.47/D2 V2hr).
DEATH: Ibid, 2:118. Aged "between 80 and 90 years."
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BAPT/ENDW: TIB (FHL #1263047-R).
SEAL S: IGI | Janes, Mary (I9531)
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| 2845 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 82 on 1840 U.S. census of Hartland, Vermont, p. 439 (overleaf, David Rogers family, federal pensioners) (FHL #027442).
MAR: Barbara Lambert Merrick and Alice Crane Williams, eds, VITAL RECORDS OF MIDDLEBOROUGH, 2 vols. (Boston, 1986, 1990), 2:141 (FHL #974.482/M2 V29m).
DEATH: No death rec found, Elizabeth was living in 1840. See 1840 census, above. She is not listed in the 1850 U.S. census of Hartland, Vermont (FHL #444929).
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SEAL S: IGI | Bumpas, Elizabeth (I3743)
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| 2846 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 84 on bur rec, below.
MAR: Watford par reg (FHL #1042192).
BUR: Hemel Hempstead par reg (FHL #091762).
OCC: Innkeeper
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SEAL S: IGI | Harding, John (I3866)
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| 2847 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 85 on bur rec, below.
MAR: Hemel Hempstead par reg (FHL #091762).
BUR: Ibid.
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BES: FGRA | Samms, Anne (I3872)
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| 2848 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 86 on gravestone inscription, below. Place of birth is an approximation. Sidney Perley, THE HISTORY OF SALEM, 3 vols. (Salem, MA, 1924-28), 2:47, indicates he was born in 1601. No sources are cited (FHL #974.45/S1 H2ps). Charles H. Pope, PIONEERS OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston, 1900), 11, states he was 81 yrs old at death, contrary to published gravestone inscription (FHL #974.4 D3p). Andrew N. Adams, A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF ROBERT ADAMS (Rutland, VT, 1900), 1, states that Robert was born in England in 1602. The tradition that he came from Devonshire, son of Robert and Elizabeth (Sharlon) Adams, is also recited (FHL #929.273 Ad17ad). No proof has been found. Another tradition is that he came from Holderness, Yorks.
MAR #1: No mar rec found. "Ellnar w. Robert Adams" died at Newbury, 12 Jun 1677 (VITAL RECORDS OF NEWBURY, 2 vols. [Salem, MA, 1911] 2:534 [FHL #974.45/N1 V28v]).
MAR #2: Ibid, 2:13. The wife is called Sarah "Short." She was apparently the widow of Henry Short who died at Newbury, 5 May 1673 (Ibid, 2:719). Henry Short and Sarah Glover were married at Newbury, 9 Oct 1648 (Ibid, 2:449).
DEATH: VITAL RECORDS OF NEWBURY, 2:536. Also see the will of Robert Adams of Newbury, 7 Mar 1680/1, proved 28 Nov 1682, published verbatim in NEHGR, 9 (1855):126 (FHL #974 B2ne). Also see the inv of estate, 3 Nov 1682, Essex Co. Probate, (o.s.) 302:29 (FHL #860485).
BUR: VITAL RECORDS OF NEWBURY, 2:536.
OCC: Tailor
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BES1,2: IGI | Adams, Robert (I4845)
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| 2849 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 89 on bur rec, below.
MAR: Westwell par reg (FHL #1473774).
BUR: Charing par reg (FHL #1473749). Aged 89 yrs. | Brown, Mary (I13059)
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| 2850 |
BIRTH: Date of birth is calculated from age 9 months on the passenger list of the ship "Elizabeth," 30 Apr 1634 (Peter Wilson Coldham, THE COMPLETE BOOK OF EMIGRANTS, 1607-1660 [Baltimore, 1987], 114 [FHL #973 C2col]).
MAR #1: No mar rec found. The existence of this wife is proved by the will of John Spring, Jr, of Newton, "son and heir of William Spring late of Bridgetown in the Island of Barbados deceased," 6 Aug 1698, proved 8 May 1699, Middlesex Co. Probate Files, 1st series, #21129 (FHL #421525). John was not old enough to have made a will if he was the son of William by a later wife.
MAR #2: St. Michael's Bridgetown, Barbados par reg (FHL #1157923).
MAR #3: Ibid.
BUR: Ibid.
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BEPS2,3: IGI | Spring, William (I8065)
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