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Deacon Thomas ClappEvent: Admitted 1638 As a Freeman at Derchester, Massachusetts
Event: Admitted 1645 As a Freeman at Scituate, Massachusetts
Event: Moved 1639 To Waymouth, Massachusetts
Event: Removed 1644 To Scituate, Massachusetts
Will: 1 January 1674/75 And Proved 8/19/1682
Note:
Deacon. Thomas Clap. Born in 1597 in Dorchester, England. Thomas died on 20 April 1684 in Scituate, Massachusetts. "Mr Thomas Clap was born in Dorchester, England, 1597. He came to New England with the early settlers of Dorchester, where his brothers John, Richard and Ambrose tarried. Thomas proceeded to Weymouth, where his first son Thomas was born 1639. He had grants of land in Hingham, 1637, but never resided there. His farm in Weymouth was near the present residence of Hon. Christopher Webb. He came to Scituate 1740. We find no record of his children born here, but we learn from incidental records, that he had Eleazer, Samuel, Elizabeth, Prudence, John born 1658, and Abigail born 1659. His farm in Scituate was on the south-west of Stockbridge's mill pond, and now owned by Calvin Jenkins, sen. He was a Deacon of the first Church 1647. He was an active, useful, and venerable man." "Thomas Clapp. Son of Richard Clapp, of England, and cousin of Roger and Edward, was born in Dorchester, England, in 1597. He came over to this country, probably, ... in the ship which arrived from Weymouth (Eng.) on the 24th of July, 1633. The probability is that Thomas and Nicholas, and their cousin Edward, came over together, and John some time afterward. The name of Thomas Clapp appears, in 1634, on the Town Records of Dorchester, where his brothers Nicholas and John settled, lived and died. After his arrival in this country, Thomas remained a few years in Dorchester, being admitted as a freeman there in 1638, and then removed to Weymouth, Mass., probably with the intention of settling there. His farm was near what has since been the residence of Hon. Christopher Webb, of that place. "Farmer, in his Genealogical Register, says that Thomas, senior, removed from Waymouth to Hingham, and thence to Scituate; while Deane says he had grants of land in Hingham, but never resided there. Whether he did remove there or not, there is little doubt that it was his intention to do so when the grant of lands was made to him. If he was an inhabitant of Scituate as early as 1640, as Deane says, it is very unlikely that he ever took up his residence in Hingham, as there is evidence of his being in Weymouth the year previous.
He was Deacon of the Church in Scituate in 1647, and was warmly engaged in a theological controversy respecting the form of baptism, which commenced about 1641, with the Rev. Charles Chauncey, then minister in Scituate, but afterwards President of Harvard College. Mr. Clapp was one of the committee of three, in 1675, who sent a letter to the Second Church, informing them that a reconciliation had taken place after a controversy of 33 years. Mr. Clapp was a Deputy to the Court in 1649, and overseer of the poor in 1667, that being the first year such officers were chosen. He was a useful and enterprising man. He died April 20, 1684, greatly respected.
His farm in Scituate was on the south-west of Stockbridge's mill-pond, and afterwards owned by Calvin Jenkins. Who his wife was had not been ascertained, excepting that her Christian name was Abigail. "Richard Sylvester, who lived in Weymouth about 1640, held doctrines too liberal for the age in which he lived; they were supposed to be similar to those of his minister, Mr. Lenthial, whose doctrine was 'that all baptized persons should "...be admitted to the church without further Trial. This Mr. Lenthial afterward retracted before the General Court of Massachusetts; but Sylvester refusing, he was disfranchised, and therefore removed into Scituate, then in the Plymouth Colony and out of their jurisdiction. As Thomas Rawlins, Thomas Clapp, James Torrey and William Holbrook went to Scituate about the same time, Deane supposed it was on account of holding similar opinions."
Children:
i. Thomas (1639-1691)
ii. Increase (1640-)
iii. Samuel (after 1640-)
iv. Eleazer (-1676)
v. Elizabeth (-1698)
vi. Prudence (before 1658-)
circa 1657 Thomas second married Abigail Wright, widow of Robert Sharpe of Braintree and Rehoboth.They had the following children:
i. John (1658-circa1671)
ii. Abigail (1660-)
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Exerpt from; Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33On 24 February 1640[/1?] "Tymothy Hatherley of Scituate" deeded to "Egline Hanford of Scituate" five acres of land in Scituate "given to the said Egline Hanford the 27th day of September" in the year 1634 [PCR 12:71-72]. On 1 December 1646 "Timothy Hatherly of Seteaat in the government of New Plymouth ... gentleman" being one of four associ~ates deeded land by Mr. William Bradford to the north of Scituate Brooke, known "by the Indians or natives by the name of Conahaset alias Cohaset," and being possessed of three of the four parts of this land, sold to Charles Chansy, pastor of the church of "Seteaat", and various other men, all of "Seteaat" [PCR 12:158-160]. In a retrospective deed dated 6 March 1650[/1?], "Mr. Timothy Hatherley" of Scituate, gentleman, stated that he had, in the year 1645, sold to Mr. John Floyde of Scituate, merchant, his house, barn, orchard and homelot in Scituate, with the marsh and upland and meadow, formerly the right of Samuell Hinckley, except twenty-four acres, which Hatherly sold in 1645 to Thomas Clapp of Scituate [PCR 12:204-05].
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colorHe had land grants in Hingham, Massachusetts but never resided there. His farm in Weymouth was near the present residence of the Hon. Christopher Webb. There is no record of any of his children being born in Scituate. His farm in Sciyuate was on the southwest of Stockbridge's mill pond, and now owned by Calvin Jenkins son. He was a Deacon of the first Church in 1647. He was an active, useful, and venerable man.
[History of Scituate, Massachusetts, Samuel Deane, 1831]
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Notes on Thomas Clapp, 1597-1684Thomas CLAPP was born in 1597 in Dorchester, Dorset, England. He died in 1684 in Scituate, Massachusetts. "Mr Thomas Clap was born in Dorchester, England, 1597. He came to New England with the early settlers of Dorchester, where his brothers John, Richard and Ambrose tarried. Thomas proceeded to Weymouth, where his first son Thomas was born 1639. He had grands of land in Hingham, 1637, but never resided there. His farm in Weymouth was near the present residence of Hon. Christopher Webb. He came to Scituate 1740. We find no record of his children born here, but we learn from incidental records, that he had Eleazer, Samuel, Elizabeth, Prudence, John born 1658, and Abigail born 1659. His farm in Scituate was on the south -west of Stockbridge's mill pond, and now owned by Calvin Jenkins, sen. He was a Deacon of the first Church 1647. He was an active, useful, and venerable man."21"Thomas Clapp. Son of Richard Clapp, of England, and cousin of Roger and Edward, was born in Dorchester, England, in 1597. He came over to this country, probably, ... in the ship which arrived from Weymouth (England) on the 24th of July, 1633. The probability is that Thomas and Nicholas, and their cousin Edward, came over together, and John some time afterward. The name of Thomas Clapp appears, in 1634, on the Town Records of Dorchester, where his brothers Nicholas and John settled, lived and died. After his arrival in this country, Thomas remaind a few years in Dorchester, being admitted as a freeman there in 1638, and then removed to Weymouth, Massachusetts, probably with the intention of settling there. His farm was near what has since been the residence of Hon. Christopher Webb, of that place."Farmer, in his Genealogical Register, says that Thomas, senior, removed from Waymouth to Hingham, and thence to Scituate; while Deane says he had grants of land in Hingham, but never resided there. Whether he did remove there or not, there is little doubt that it was his intention to do so when the grant of lands was made to him. If he was an inhabitant of Scituate as early as 1640, as Deane says, it is very unlikely that he ever took up his residence in Hingham, as there is evidence of his being in Weymouth the year previous. He was Deacon of the Church in Scituate in 1647, and was warmly engaged in a theological controversy respecting the form of baptism, which commenced about 1641, with the Reverend Charles Chauncey, then minister in Scituate, but afterwards President of Harvard College. Mr. Clapp was one of the committee of three, in 1675, who sent a letter to the Second Church, informing them that a reconciliation had taken place after a controversy of 33 years. Mr. Clapp was a Deputy to the Court in 1649, and overseer of the poor in 1667, that being the first year such officers were chosen. He was a useful and enterprising man. He died April 20, 1684, greatly respected. His farm in Scituate was on the south-west of Stockbridge's mill-pond, and afterwards owned by Calvin Jenkins. Who his wife was had not been ascertained, excepting that her christian name was Abigail."Richard Sylvester, who lived in Weymouth about 1640, held doctrines too liberal for the age in which he lived; they were supposed to be similar to those of his minister, Mr. Lenthial, whose doctrine was 'that all baptized persons should be admitted to the church without further trial.' This Mr. Lenthial afterward retracted before the General Court of Massachusetts; but Sylvester refusing, he was disfranchised, and therefore removed into Scituate, then in the Plymouth Colony and out of their jurisdiction. As Thomas Rawlins, Thomas Clapp, James Torrey and William Holbrook went to Scituate about the same time, Deane supposed it was on account of holding similar opinions."
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Deacon Thomas Clapp InformationEvent: Admitted 1638 As a Freeman at Derchester, Massachusetts
Event: Admitted 1645 As a Freeman at Scituate, Massachusetts
Event: Moved 1639 To Waymouth, Massachusetts
Event: Removed 1644 To Scituate, Massachusetts
Will: 1 January 1674/75 And Proved 8/19/1682
Note:
Deacon Thomas Clap. Born in 1597 in Dorchester, England. Thomas died on 20 April 1684 in Scituate, Massachusetts. "Mr Thomas Clap was born in Dorchester, England, 1597. He came to New England and with the early settlers of Dorchester, where his brothers John, Richard and Ambrose tarried. Thomas proceeded to Weymouth, where his first son Thomas was born 1639. He had grands of land in Hingham, 1637, but never resided there. His farm in Weymouth was near the present residence of Hon. Christopher Webb. He came to Scituate 1740. We find no record of his children born here, but we learn from incidental records, that he had Eleazer, Samuel, Elizabeth, Prudence, John born 1658, and Abigail born 1659. His farm in Scituate was on the south-west of Stockbridge's mill pond, and now owned by Calvin Jenkins, sen. He was a Deacon of the first Church 1 647. He was an active, useful, and venerable man." "Thomas Clapp. Son of Richard Clapp, of England, and cousin of Roger and E dward, was born in Dorchester, England, in 1597. He came over to this country, probably, ... in the ship which arrived from Weymouth (England) on the 24th of July, 1633. The probability is that Thomas and Nicholas, and their cousin Edward, came over together, and John some time afterward. The name of Thomas Clapp appears, in 1634, on the Town Records of Dorchester, where his brothers Nicholas and John settled, lived and died. After his arrival in this country, Thomas remained a few years in Dorchester, being admitted as a freeman there in 1638, and then removed to Weymouth, Massachusetts, probably with the intention of settling there. His farm was near what has since been the residence of Hon. Christopher Webb, of that place."Farmer, in his Genealogical Register, says that Thomas, senior, removed from Waymouth to Hingham, and thence to Scituate; while Deane says he had grands of land in Hingham, but never resided there. Whether he did remove there or not, there is little doubt that it was his intention to do so when the grant of lands was made to him. If he was an inhabitant of Scituate as early as 1640, as Deane says, it is very unlikely that he ever took up his residence in Hingham, as there is evidence of his being in Weymouth the year previous. He was Deacon of the Church in Scituate in 1647, and was warmly engaged in a theological controversy respecting the form of baptism, which commenced about 1641, with the Reverend Charles Chauncey, then minister in Scituate, but afterwards President of Harvard College. Mr. Clapp was one of the committee of three, in 1675, who sent a letter to the Second Church, informing them that a reconciliation had taken place after a controversy of 33 years. Mr. Clapp was a Deputy to the Court in 1649, and overseer of the poor in 1667, that being the first year such officers were chosen. He was a useful and enterprising man. He died April 20, 1684, greatly respected. His farm in Scituate was on the south-west of Stockbridge's mill-pond, and afterwards owned by Calvin Jenkins. Who his wife was had not been ascertained, excepting that her Christian name was Abigail. "Richard Sylvester, who lived in Weymouth about 1640, held doctrines too iberal for the age in which he lived; they were supposed to be similar to those of his minister, Mr. Lenthial, whose doctrine was 'that all baptized persons should be admitted to the church without further Trial. This Mr. Lenthial afterward retracted before the General Court of Massachusetts; but Sylvester refusing, he was disfranchised, and therefore removed into Scituate, then in the Plymouth Colony and out of their jurisdiction. As Thomas Rawlins, Thomas Clapp, James Torrey and William Holbrook went to Scituate about the same time, Deane supposed it was on account of holding similar opinions."
Children:
i. Thomas (1639-1691)
ii. Increase (1640-)
iii. Samuel
iv. Eleazer (-1676)
v. Elizabeth (-1698)
vi. Prudence
circa 1657 Thomas second married Abigail Wright. Abigail, widow of Robert Sharpe of Braintree and Rehoboth. They had the following children:
i. John (1658-circa1671)
ii. Abigail (1660-) )
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
THOMAS KING 1645-1711
[Ancestral Link: Marguerite Anderson (Miller), daughter of Hannah Anderson (Anderson), daughter of Mary Margaret Edmiston (Anderson), daughter of Martha Jane Snow (Edmiston), daughter of Gardner Snow, son of James Snow, son of Mary Trowbridge (Snow), daughter of Jerusha Park (Trowbridge), daughter of Richard Ensign Parke, son of Sarah King (Parke), daughter of Thomas King.]
[Ancestral Link: Marguerite Anderson (Miller), daughter of Hannah Anderson (Anderson), daughter of Mary Margaret Edmiston (Anderson), daughter of Martha Jane Snow (Edmiston), daughter of Gardner Snow, son of Abigail Farr (Snow), daughter of Mercy Winslow (Farr), daughter of Thomas Winslow, son of Mercy King (Winslow), daughter of Thomas King.]
Deacon Thomas KingDeacon Thomas and Elizabeth resided on the North side of Rotten March, but before 1680 Deacon King purchased Nathaniel Rawlins' farm at Stony Cove Brook, and Built the house in 1936 still standing in ruins.
Deacon Thomas King was a deacon of the church since the death of Deacon Thomas Robinson in 1676.
Deacon Thomas King's will, dated 1711, gives 'to son Daniel the homestead; (of Elder Thomas King, late deceased, on the neck); he allowing daughter Anne to live in the house. To son John a farm in Marshfield. To son George the farm where I now dewll, also a lot adjoining my brother Samuel Clap's land. To daughter Mercy Winslow 30 lbs. To daughter Anne King 30 lbs.
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Constable in 1671A record of warranty deed in Bristol County registry, shows that on the 20th day of July,1683, Jared Talbutt of New Plymouth with free consent from Sarah, in consideration of two hundred and twenty pounds, conveyed to Philip King of Weynouth, all his housing and lands within the township of Taughton, being a neck of land of 60 acres, more or less bounded by land of John Hall, Walter Dean,Nathaniel Williams, Toughton Great River with a little island belonging to said neck: also a dwelling house with forty acheres of land, there to belonging. The witnesses to this instrument were John Richmond and Thomas King. The latter was probably the brother Of Philip, and who had perhaps the previous year become a resident, and the former was one of the proprietors of the township.
Very little is known of Philip King prior to his coming to Taoughton. Public records show him to have been Constable in in 1671, and show some land transactions in 1671 and 1672, also show that a town meeting in Weymough November 27,1882 he was named one of a large committee to consider the advisability of building a new meeting house or rejuvenation the old one.--------Nancy King and Metella King
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[Ancestral Link: Marguerite Anderson (Miller), daughter of Hannah Anderson (Anderson), daughter of Mary Margaret Edmiston (Anderson), daughter of Martha Jane Snow (Edmiston), daughter of Gardner Snow, son of Abigail Farr (Snow), daughter of Mercy Winslow (Farr), daughter of Thomas Winslow, son of Mercy King (Winslow), daughter of Thomas King.]
Deacon Thomas KingDeacon Thomas and Elizabeth resided on the North side of Rotten March, but before 1680 Deacon King purchased Nathaniel Rawlins' farm at Stony Cove Brook, and Built the house in 1936 still standing in ruins.
Deacon Thomas King was a deacon of the church since the death of Deacon Thomas Robinson in 1676.
Deacon Thomas King's will, dated 1711, gives 'to son Daniel the homestead; (of Elder Thomas King, late deceased, on the neck); he allowing daughter Anne to live in the house. To son John a farm in Marshfield. To son George the farm where I now dewll, also a lot adjoining my brother Samuel Clap's land. To daughter Mercy Winslow 30 lbs. To daughter Anne King 30 lbs.
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Constable in 1671A record of warranty deed in Bristol County registry, shows that on the 20th day of July,1683, Jared Talbutt of New Plymouth with free consent from Sarah, in consideration of two hundred and twenty pounds, conveyed to Philip King of Weynouth, all his housing and lands within the township of Taughton, being a neck of land of 60 acres, more or less bounded by land of John Hall, Walter Dean,Nathaniel Williams, Toughton Great River with a little island belonging to said neck: also a dwelling house with forty acheres of land, there to belonging. The witnesses to this instrument were John Richmond and Thomas King. The latter was probably the brother Of Philip, and who had perhaps the previous year become a resident, and the former was one of the proprietors of the township.
Very little is known of Philip King prior to his coming to Taoughton. Public records show him to have been Constable in in 1671, and show some land transactions in 1671 and 1672, also show that a town meeting in Weymough November 27,1882 he was named one of a large committee to consider the advisability of building a new meeting house or rejuvenation the old one.--------Nancy King and Metella King
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011
JOHN JACKSON 1602-1675
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St. Dunstan, Stepney
Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Monument to the First Settler's of Newton. John Jackson was the first person buried in this burial ground. His headstone no longer exists.
Inscription: THIS IS THE MONUMENT TO THE FIRST SETTLERS OF CAMBRIDGE VILLAGE, NOW KNOWN AS NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS
Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
St. Dunstans, Stepney, London, England
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Birth: June 6, 1602, England
Death: January 30, 1675, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
WIFE: Margaret Taft
CHILDREN:
Margaret Jackson;
Mary Jackson;
Edward Jackson;
Abigail Jackson;
Abraham Jackson
History of Newton Page 86
John Jackson was baptized in the parish of Stephney, London, June 6, 1602. He was the first settler of Cambridge Village who removed thither and died in the place. He brought a good estate with him from England. He took the freeman oath in 1641. He was one of the first deacons of the church, and gave an acre of land for the church and cemetery, in the centre of which the first meeting-house was erected in 1660. This acre constitutes the oldest part of the old cemetery on Centre Street. He labored long and earnestly, by petitioning the General Court and otherwise, to have Cambridge Village erected into an independent town; but he did not live to see the object accomplished. He died January 30, 1674-5, aged about 73 years. His widow, Margaret, died August 28, 1684, aged 60. His son, Edward, was slain by the Indians at Medfield,, in their attack upon and burning of that town, February 21, 1676.
His house was near the place where Mr. Smallwood's shop afterwards stood. The cellar yet remains, and the pear trees now standing there, are supposed to have been planted by him. Abraham was the only one among his sons who reared a family.
From the History of Newton, Page 142, Jackson, Deacon
John (died 1675), the first settler of Cambridge Village, who remained and died in it. In 1639, he bought of Miles Ives, of Watertown, a dwelling-house and eighteen acres of land, situated on the Roxbury road, very near the line which now divides Newton from Brighton. It was he who gave an acre of land for the first meeting-house and burial place, now the oldest part of the old cemetery on Centre Street. His old mansion house, which was pulled down about 1800, stood on the spot afterwards occupied by the dwelling-house of Edwin Smallwood. The old pear trees on the estate are supposed to have been planted by his son Abraham, who added an acre to the acre given by his father for the meeting-house and burial place. He left eight hundred and sixty-three acres of land.
Deacon Jackson's Headstone no longer exists at the burying ground.
THIS IS THE MONUMENT TO THE FIRST SETTLERS OF CAMBRIDGE VILLAGE, NOW KNOWN AS NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.
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From the History of Newton, Page 142, Jackson, Deacon
John (died. 1675), the first settler of Cambridge Village, who remained and died in it. In 1639, he bought of Miles Ives, of Watertown, a dwelling-house and eighteen acres of land, situated on the Roxbury road, very near the line which now divides Newton from Brighton. It was he who gave an acre of land for the first meeting-house and burial place, now the oldest part of the old cemetery on Centre Street. His old mansion house, which was pulled down about 1800, stood on the spot afterwards occupied by the dwelling-house of Edwin Smallwood. The old pear trees on the estate are supposed to have been planted by his son Abraham, who added an acre to the acre given by his father for the meeting-house and burial place. He left eight hundred and sixty-three acres of land.
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Deacon John Jackson 1602-1675 May have had two prior wives that died in England. Some say he came over from England on the "Defence" in 1635, others say he immigrated on the Blessing July 13, 1635.
Several different sources suggest he was among the first to settle an area outside Cambridge, Massachusetts, then called Cambridge Village and later incorporated as Newton, Massachusetts.
At his death, he owned 863 acres of land. His estate was settled by agreement among the surviving children in December 1676. He was 73 years of age at his death, based upon the baptismal record, but it's not known how old he was when baptized.
This may have been the John Jackson, "wholesale man in Burchen Lane," age 30, who immigrated on the ship "Defense" from London 6 July, 1635. This man's certification was provided from Sir George Whitmore and "minister of ye parish." (See "Register," Vol 14, pg. 319 for passenger list.)
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From the History of Newton, Page 142
Jackson, Deacon, John (died 1675), the first settler of Cambridge Village, who remained and died in it. In 1639, he bought of Miles Ives, of Watertown, a dwelling-house and eighteen acres of land, situated on the Roxbury road, very near the line which now divides Newton from Brighton. It was he who gave an acre of land for the first meeting-house and burial place, now the oldest part of the old cemetery on Centre Street. His old mansion house, which was pulled down about 1800, stood on the spot afterwards occupied by the dwelling-house of Edward Smallwood. The old pear trees on the estate are supposed to have been planted by his son Abraham, who added an acre to the acre given by his father for the meeting-house and burial place. He left eight hundred and sixty-three acres of land. Deacon Jackson's headstone no longer exists at the burying ground.
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St. Dunstan, Stepney
Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USAInscription: THIS IS THE MONUMENT TO THE FIRST SETTLERS OF CAMBRIDGE VILLAGE, NOW KNOWN AS NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS
Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
St. Dunstans, Stepney, London, England
Current church of the 1,000 year old parish of St. Dunstans in the London borough of Stepney...
Birth: June 6, 1602, England
Death: January 30, 1675, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
WIFE: Margaret Taft
CHILDREN:
Margaret Jackson;
Mary Jackson;
Edward Jackson;
Abigail Jackson;
Abraham Jackson
History of Newton Page 86
John Jackson was baptized in the parish of Stephney, London, June 6, 1602. He was the first settler of Cambridge Village who removed thither and died in the place. He brought a good estate with him from England. He took the freeman oath in 1641. He was one of the first deacons of the church, and gave an acre of land for the church and cemetery, in the centre of which the first meeting-house was erected in 1660. This acre constitutes the oldest part of the old cemetery on Centre Street. He labored long and earnestly, by petitioning the General Court and otherwise, to have Cambridge Village erected into an independent town; but he did not live to see the object accomplished. He died January 30, 1674-5, aged about 73 years. His widow, Margaret, died August 28, 1684, aged 60. His son, Edward, was slain by the Indians at Medfield,, in their attack upon and burning of that town, February 21, 1676.
His house was near the place where Mr. Smallwood's shop afterwards stood. The cellar yet remains, and the pear trees now standing there, are supposed to have been planted by him. Abraham was the only one among his sons who reared a family.
From the History of Newton, Page 142, Jackson, Deacon
John (died 1675), the first settler of Cambridge Village, who remained and died in it. In 1639, he bought of Miles Ives, of Watertown, a dwelling-house and eighteen acres of land, situated on the Roxbury road, very near the line which now divides Newton from Brighton. It was he who gave an acre of land for the first meeting-house and burial place, now the oldest part of the old cemetery on Centre Street. His old mansion house, which was pulled down about 1800, stood on the spot afterwards occupied by the dwelling-house of Edwin Smallwood. The old pear trees on the estate are supposed to have been planted by his son Abraham, who added an acre to the acre given by his father for the meeting-house and burial place. He left eight hundred and sixty-three acres of land.
THIS IS THE MONUMENT TO THE FIRST SETTLERS OF CAMBRIDGE VILLAGE, NOW KNOWN AS NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.
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John Jackson
History of Newton, Page 86
History of Newton, Page 86
John Jackson was baptized in the parish of Stephney, London, June 6, 1602. He was the first settler of Cambridge Village who removed thither and died in the place. He brought a good estate with him from England. He took the freeman oath in 1641. He was one of the first deacons of the church, and gave an acre of land for the church and cemetery, in the centre of which the first meeting-house was erected in 1660. This acre constitutes the oldest part of the old cemetery on Centre Street. He labored long and earnestly, by petitioning the General Court and otherwise, to have Cambridge Village erected into an independent town; but he did not live to see the object accomplished. He died January 30, 1674-5, aged about 73 years. His widow, Margaret, died August 28, 1684, aged 60. His son, Edward, was slain by the Indians at Medfield, in their attack upon and burning of that town, February 21, 1676. His house was near the place where Mr. Smallwood's shop afterwards stood. The cellar yet remains, and the pear trees now standing there, are supposed to have been planted by him. Abraham was the only one among his sons who reared a family.
From the History of Newton, Page 142, Jackson, Deacon
John (died. 1675), the first settler of Cambridge Village, who remained and died in it. In 1639, he bought of Miles Ives, of Watertown, a dwelling-house and eighteen acres of land, situated on the Roxbury road, very near the line which now divides Newton from Brighton. It was he who gave an acre of land for the first meeting-house and burial place, now the oldest part of the old cemetery on Centre Street. His old mansion house, which was pulled down about 1800, stood on the spot afterwards occupied by the dwelling-house of Edwin Smallwood. The old pear trees on the estate are supposed to have been planted by his son Abraham, who added an acre to the acre given by his father for the meeting-house and burial place. He left eight hundred and sixty-three acres of land.
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John Jackson
The Jackson family associated with the Homestead on Washington Street is one of several who can trace their descent back to two brothers who were among the first settlers on the south side of the Charles River in Cambridge: John, who bought his first piece of land near the Brighton line in 1639, and Edward, who followed three years later. It is with Edward's descendants through his son, Sebas, that we trace the history of the Jackson family in Newton, which was once a part of Cambridge, and the Jackson Homestead.
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The Jackson family associated with the Homestead on Washington Street is one of several who can trace their descent back to two brothers who were among the first settlers on the south side of the Charles River in Cambridge: John, who bought his first piece of land near the Brighton line in 1639, and Edward, who followed three years later. It is with Edward's descendants through his son, Sebas, that we trace the history of the Jackson family in Newton, which was once a part of Cambridge, and the Jackson Homestead.
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Deacon John Jackson 1602-1675 May have had two prior wives that died in England. Some say he came over from England on the "Defence" in 1635, others say he immigrated on the Blessing July 13, 1635.
Several different sources suggest he was among the first to settle an area outside Cambridge, Massachusetts, then called Cambridge Village and later incorporated as Newton, Massachusetts.
John Jackson's purchase of 18 acres of land and a dwelling house in what was then Cambridge Village, now Newton, Massachusetts, was the first viable settlement of that town. He is alleged to have brought a "good estate" with him from England. He bought the property from Miles Ives of Watertown, situated on the Roxbury road, very near the line which divided Newton from Brighton in 1854. He took the Freeman's oath in 1641 and was one of the first Deacons of the church. He gave one acre of land for the church and cemetery, upon which the first meeting house was erected in 1660 and which is the oldest part of what was the Centre Cemetery in 1854. His old home was pulled down about 1800, on land occupied by Edwin Smallwood in 1854. He was a proprietor of the Cambridge lands and, in the division of 1662, he had 3 acres, in 1664 he had 30 acres. In the division of the Billerica lands in 1652 he had 50 acres. He petitioned the General Court and others to have Cambridge Village established as a separate town, but died before this was accomplished.
At his death, he owned 863 acres of land. His estate was settled by agreement among the surviving children in December 1676. He was 73 years of age at his death, based upon the baptismal record, but it's not known how old he was when baptized.
This may have been the John Jackson, "wholesale man in Burchen Lane," age 30, who immigrated on the ship "Defense" from London 6 July, 1635. This man's certification was provided from Sir George Whitmore and "minister of ye parish." (See "Register," Vol 14, pg. 319 for passenger list.)
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First Settler of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
John Jackson was baptized in the parish of Stephney, London, England, June 6, 1602, He was the first settler of Cambridge Village who removed thither and died in the place. He brought a good estate with him from England. He took the freeman oath in 1641. He was one of the first deacons of the church, and gave one acre of land for the church and cemetery, in the center of which the first meeting-house was erected in 1660. This acre constituted the oldest part of the old cemetery on Centre Street. He labored long and earnestly, by petitioning the General Court and otherwise, to have Cambridge Village erected into an independent town; but he did not live to see the object accomplished. He died January 30, 1675 aged about 73 yrs. His widow, Margaret, died August 28, 1684, aged 60 years. His son, Edward, was slain by the Indians at Medfield, in their attack upon and burning of that town, February 21, 1676. His house was near the place where Mr Smallwoods shop afterwards stood. The cellar yet remains, and the pear trees now standing there, are supposed to have been planted by him. Abraham was the only one among his sons who reared a family. From the History of Newton, Page 142
Jackson, Deacon, John (died 1675), the first settler of Cambridge Village, who remained and died in it. In 1639, he bought of Miles Ives, of Watertown, a dwelling-house and eighteen acres of land, situated on the Roxbury road, very near the line which now divides Newton from Brighton. It was he who gave an acre of land for the first meeting-house and burial place, now the oldest part of the old cemetery on Centre Street. His old mansion house, which was pulled down about 1800, stood on the spot afterwards occupied by the dwelling-house of Edward Smallwood. The old pear trees on the estate are supposed to have been planted by his son Abraham, who added an acre to the acre given by his father for the meeting-house and burial place. He left eight hundred and sixty-three acres of land. Deacon Jackson's headstone no longer exists at the burying ground.
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JOHN WARD 1626-1708
[Ancestral Link: Marguerite Anderson (Miller), daughter of Hannah Anderson (Anderson), daughter of Mary Margaret Edmiston (Anderson), daughter of Martha Jane Snow (Edmiston), daughter of Gardner Snow, son of James Snow, son of Mary Trowbridge (Snow), daughter of James Trowbridge, son of Sarah Ward (Trowbridge), daughter of John Ward, son of John Ward.]
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Tombstone, Centre Street Cemetery, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts
East Parish Burying Ground, Newton, Massachusetts
Birth: 1626
Death: July 8, 1708
Deacon John Ward was born in 1626 at England. He was the son of Deacon William Ward. Deacon John Ward was a turner and a farmer. He became a freeman in 1649 at Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. In 1650 at Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, John married Hannah Jackson, daughter of Edward Jackson and Frances (?). After their marriage, they settled in Hannah's home town of Cambridge in that part which became Newton. The house he built was later fortified as a garrison-house during the Indian Wars, though it was never attacked. It was raised in 1821. Deacon John Ward served in 1660 at Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a Constable. He served on 27 August 1679 at Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a member of the first Board of Selectman, serving again in 1684, 1693, and 1695 to 1697. He served in 1686 at Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a member of the committee, which negotiated with Cambridge on the terms of separation. Deacon John Ward served in 1688 at Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a member of the committee to prevent Widow Susanna Clements from becoming a charge on the town. He served between 1688 and 1689 at Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a Representative to the Massachusetts General Court. He served in 1693 at Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a member of the committee to represent the town of Newton in a suit brought by Captain Thomas Prentice. In 1696 Deacon John Ward was one of the men who perambulated the Newton-Roxbury line. He served in 1698 at Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a Tithingman. He died on Sunday, 8 July 1708 at Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, at age 82 years.
Burial: Newton Cemetery and Crematory, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
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791 Walnut Street
617-332-0047
Tombstone, Centre Street Cemetery, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts
East Parish Burying Ground, Newton, Massachusetts
John Ward, died July 1, 1708, 82 years
Plot 110 Birth: 1626
Death: July 8, 1708
Deacon John Ward was born in 1626 at England. He was the son of Deacon William Ward. Deacon John Ward was a turner and a farmer. He became a freeman in 1649 at Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. In 1650 at Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, John married Hannah Jackson, daughter of Edward Jackson and Frances (?). After their marriage, they settled in Hannah's home town of Cambridge in that part which became Newton. The house he built was later fortified as a garrison-house during the Indian Wars, though it was never attacked. It was raised in 1821. Deacon John Ward served in 1660 at Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a Constable. He served on 27 August 1679 at Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a member of the first Board of Selectman, serving again in 1684, 1693, and 1695 to 1697. He served in 1686 at Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a member of the committee, which negotiated with Cambridge on the terms of separation. Deacon John Ward served in 1688 at Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a member of the committee to prevent Widow Susanna Clements from becoming a charge on the town. He served between 1688 and 1689 at Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a Representative to the Massachusetts General Court. He served in 1693 at Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a member of the committee to represent the town of Newton in a suit brought by Captain Thomas Prentice. In 1696 Deacon John Ward was one of the men who perambulated the Newton-Roxbury line. He served in 1698 at Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a Tithingman. He died on Sunday, 8 July 1708 at Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, at age 82 years.
Burial: Newton Cemetery and Crematory, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
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John Ward
Deacon John Ward was born in 1626 in England. He was the son of Deacon William Ward. Deacon John Ward immigrated with Deacon William Ward and Elizabeth unknown, his parents, about 1638 to Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Deacon John Ward was a turner and a farmer. He became a freeman in 1649 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. In 1650 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, John married Hannah Jackson, daughter of Edward Jackson and Frances unknown. After their marriage, they settled in Hannah's home town of Cambridge in that part which became Newton. He built his house on the southeast part of the village on a tract of 45 acres belonging to his father-in-law and later deeded to him. The house he built was later fortified as a garrison-house during the Indian Wars, though it was never attacked. It was raised in 1821. Deacon John Ward served in 1660 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a Constable. He served on 27 August 1679 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a member of the first Board of Selectman, serving again in 1684, 1693, and 1695 to 1697. He served in 1686 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a member of the committee, which negotiated with Cambridge on the terms of separation. On 6 April 1686 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Deacon John Ward was mentioned in the will of Deacon William Ward. Deacon John Ward served in 1688 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a member of the committee to prevent Widow Susanna Clements from becoming a charge on the town. He was reimbursed by the town for the expense of removing Abigail Parker from the town in 1688. He served between 1688 and 1689 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a Representative to the Massachusetts General Court. He served in 1693 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a member of the committee to represent the town of Newton in a suit brought by Captain Thomas Prentice. In 1696 Deacon John Ward was one of the men who perambulated the Newton-Roxbury line. He served in 1698 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a Tithingman. He deeded land in 1701 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, to his sons by gift. He left a will on 2 February 1708 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He died on Sunday, 8 July 1708 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, at age 82 years. He was buried in the Newton Cemetery, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in grave #110.2 ChartsAncestry of Robert Roy
Children of Deacon John Ward and Hannah Jackson
Hannah Ward+ (1650 - b 1687)
John Ward (26 January 1653 - 5 June 1654)
Rebecca Ward (15 June 1655 - 28 August 1735)
John Ward+ (8 March 1658 - 5 June 1727)
Elizabeth Ward+ (18 June 1660 - 17 August 1691)
Deborah Ward+ (19 July 1662 - a 1706)
William Ward+ (19 November 1664 - 23 January 1752)
Deacon Richard Ward+ (15 November 1666 - 27 March 1739)
Mercy Ward (27 January 1668 - 4 June 1685)
Edward Ward+ (13 March 1671 - January 1749)
Eleazer Ward+ (26 February 1672 - 18 January 1751)
Jonathan Ward+ (22 April 1674 - 16 July 1723)
Joseph Ward+ (15 November 1677 - 26 October 1742)
Citations Paige, Lucius R. History of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1630-1877 with a Genealogical Register. 1877. Reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1986. Ritter, Priscilla R. and Thelma Fleishman. Newton, Massachusetts, 1679-1779 A Biographical Directory. Boston: New England Historic-Genealogical Society, 1982. Ward, Andrew Henshaw. History of the Town of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts From Its Settlement in 1717 to 1829, with Other Matter Relating thereto Not Before Published, Including an Extensive Family Register. 1847. Reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1989. Hudson, Alfred Sereno. The History of Sudbury, Massachusetts 1638-1889. 1889. Reprint Sudbury, Massachusetts: The Sudbury Press, 1968. Martyn, Charles. The William Ward Genealogy - The History of the Descendants of William Ward of Sudbury, Massachusetts 1638-1925. New York: Artemas Ward, 1925. Greenwood, Frederick. Greenwood Genealogies, 1154-1914. New York: The Lyons Genealogical Company, 1914. Jackson, Francis. A History of the Early Settlement of Newton, County of Middlesex, Massachusetts, from 1639 to 1800. 1854. Reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc., 1987. Ward, Andrew Henshaw. Ward Family: Descendants of William Ward. Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1851. Gozzaldi, Mary Isabella. History of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1630-1877 with a Genealogical Register - Supplement and Index. 1930. Reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1986. Woods, Henry Ernest. Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic-Genealogical Society, 1905. Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts from its First Settlement in 1657 to 1861 with a Brief Sketch of the Town of Northborough. Boston: T.R. Marvin and Son, 1862. Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May 1692 on the Basis of Farmer's Register. volume IV. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1862). Pope, Charles Henry. The Pioneers of Massachusetts. 1900. Reprint Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1981. Ward, Andrew Henshaw. Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice. Boston: C. Benjamin Richardson, 1858. Bond, Henry. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts including Waltham and Weston. 1860. Reprint Boston: New England Historic-Genealogical Society, 1978.
found on ancestry.com Deacon John Ward was born in 1626 in England. He was the son of Deacon William Ward. Deacon John Ward immigrated with Deacon William Ward and Elizabeth unknown, his parents, about 1638 to Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Deacon John Ward was a turner and a farmer. He became a freeman in 1649 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. In 1650 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, John married Hannah Jackson, daughter of Edward Jackson and Frances unknown. After their marriage, they settled in Hannah's home town of Cambridge in that part which became Newton. He built his house on the southeast part of the village on a tract of 45 acres belonging to his father-in-law and later deeded to him. The house he built was later fortified as a garrison-house during the Indian Wars, though it was never attacked. It was raised in 1821. Deacon John Ward served in 1660 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a Constable. He served on 27 August 1679 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a member of the first Board of Selectman, serving again in 1684, 1693, and 1695 to 1697. He served in 1686 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a member of the committee, which negotiated with Cambridge on the terms of separation. On 6 April 1686 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Deacon John Ward was mentioned in the will of Deacon William Ward. Deacon John Ward served in 1688 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a member of the committee to prevent Widow Susanna Clements from becoming a charge on the town. He was reimbursed by the town for the expense of removing Abigail Parker from the town in 1688. He served between 1688 and 1689 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a Representative to the Massachusetts General Court. He served in 1693 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a member of the committee to represent the town of Newton in a suit brought by Captain Thomas Prentice. In 1696 Deacon John Ward was one of the men who perambulated the Newton-Roxbury line. He served in 1698 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a Tithingman. He deeded land in 1701 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, to his sons by gift. He left a will on 2 February 1708 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He died on Sunday, 8 July 1708 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, at age 82 years. He was buried in the Newton Cemetery, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in grave #110.2 ChartsAncestry of Robert Roy
Children of Deacon John Ward and Hannah Jackson
Hannah Ward+ (1650 - b 1687)
John Ward (26 January 1653 - 5 June 1654)
Rebecca Ward (15 June 1655 - 28 August 1735)
John Ward+ (8 March 1658 - 5 June 1727)
Elizabeth Ward+ (18 June 1660 - 17 August 1691)
Deborah Ward+ (19 July 1662 - a 1706)
William Ward+ (19 November 1664 - 23 January 1752)
Deacon Richard Ward+ (15 November 1666 - 27 March 1739)
Mercy Ward (27 January 1668 - 4 June 1685)
Edward Ward+ (13 March 1671 - January 1749)
Eleazer Ward+ (26 February 1672 - 18 January 1751)
Jonathan Ward+ (22 April 1674 - 16 July 1723)
Joseph Ward+ (15 November 1677 - 26 October 1742)
Citations Paige, Lucius R. History of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1630-1877 with a Genealogical Register. 1877. Reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1986. Ritter, Priscilla R. and Thelma Fleishman. Newton, Massachusetts, 1679-1779 A Biographical Directory. Boston: New England Historic-Genealogical Society, 1982. Ward, Andrew Henshaw. History of the Town of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts From Its Settlement in 1717 to 1829, with Other Matter Relating thereto Not Before Published, Including an Extensive Family Register. 1847. Reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1989. Hudson, Alfred Sereno. The History of Sudbury, Massachusetts 1638-1889. 1889. Reprint Sudbury, Massachusetts: The Sudbury Press, 1968. Martyn, Charles. The William Ward Genealogy - The History of the Descendants of William Ward of Sudbury, Massachusetts 1638-1925. New York: Artemas Ward, 1925. Greenwood, Frederick. Greenwood Genealogies, 1154-1914. New York: The Lyons Genealogical Company, 1914. Jackson, Francis. A History of the Early Settlement of Newton, County of Middlesex, Massachusetts, from 1639 to 1800. 1854. Reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc., 1987. Ward, Andrew Henshaw. Ward Family: Descendants of William Ward. Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1851. Gozzaldi, Mary Isabella. History of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1630-1877 with a Genealogical Register - Supplement and Index. 1930. Reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1986. Woods, Henry Ernest. Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic-Genealogical Society, 1905. Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts from its First Settlement in 1657 to 1861 with a Brief Sketch of the Town of Northborough. Boston: T.R. Marvin and Son, 1862. Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May 1692 on the Basis of Farmer's Register. volume IV. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1862). Pope, Charles Henry. The Pioneers of Massachusetts. 1900. Reprint Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1981. Ward, Andrew Henshaw. Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice. Boston: C. Benjamin Richardson, 1858. Bond, Henry. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts including Waltham and Weston. 1860. Reprint Boston: New England Historic-Genealogical Society, 1978.
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John was one of the first selectmen when Newton was set off from Cambridge. He was freeman 1685, representative 1689 and several years afterwards. From The William Ward Genealogy,191 about John: "Upon his marriage he settled in Newton, the home of his wife's parents, building a house in the southeasterly part of the village upon a tract of forty-five acres belonging to his father-in-law and subsequently deeded to him by the latter. He had learned the trade of turner and combined its practise with farming, in time increasing his holdings to several hundred acres. When Newton became a separate township in 1679, he was elected to its first board of selectmen and as its first representative in the General Court, being several times reelected to both posts. He was also a deacon of its first church. "In 1701 he disposed of his real estate, which lay mostly in one body, by deeds of gift to his sons. The quantity of the land given to each was about one hundred acres. "The house that John Ward built for his bride, was later fortified as a 'garrison-house' during times of Indian alarms. It was taken down in 1821, after having sheltered seven generations of Wards."
found on ancestry.com John was one of the first selectmen when Newton was set off from Cambridge. He was freeman 1685, representative 1689 and several years afterwards. From The William Ward Genealogy,191 about John: "Upon his marriage he settled in Newton, the home of his wife's parents, building a house in the southeasterly part of the village upon a tract of forty-five acres belonging to his father-in-law and subsequently deeded to him by the latter. He had learned the trade of turner and combined its practise with farming, in time increasing his holdings to several hundred acres. When Newton became a separate township in 1679, he was elected to its first board of selectmen and as its first representative in the General Court, being several times reelected to both posts. He was also a deacon of its first church. "In 1701 he disposed of his real estate, which lay mostly in one body, by deeds of gift to his sons. The quantity of the land given to each was about one hundred acres. "The house that John Ward built for his bride, was later fortified as a 'garrison-house' during times of Indian alarms. It was taken down in 1821, after having sheltered seven generations of Wards."
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Elected to Newton's first board of selectman; representative to General Court, Deacon
Elected to Newton's first board of selectman; representative to General Court, Deacon
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JAMES TROWBRIDGE 1636-1717
[Ancestral Link: Marguerite Anderson (Miller), daughter of Hannah Anderson (Anderson), daughter of Mary Margaret Edmiston (Anderson), daughter of Martha Jane Snow (Edmiston), daughter of Gardner Snow, son of James Snow, son of Mary Trowbridge (Snow), daughter of James Trowbridge, son of William Trowbridge, son of James Trowbridge.]
James Trowbridge Grave
Trowbridge James born 1717, cemetery sign, Newton, Massachusetts
Birth: 1636, Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Death: May 22, 1717, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
PARENTS: Thomas Trowbridge and Elizabeth Marshall, married March 26, 1627 in St. Petrock, Exeter, England.
Elizabeth Trowbridge
Mindwell Trowbridge
John Trowbridge
Margaret Trowbridge
Thankful Trowbridge
Hannah Trowbridge
Margaret Atherton Trowbridge died on August 17, 1672 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
Thomas Trowbridge
Caleb Trowbridge
Deliverance Trowbridge
In 1675 he purchased of Deputy Governor Danforth, eighty-five acres of land with a dwelling-house, standing where Mr. Nathan Trowbridge's house stood in later times, which he had occupied for some years; bounded by the highways west and south, a narrow lane north, his own land east, the dividing line being straight through the swamp. He was a Lieutenant Clerk of the Writs in 1691 an 1693, and Representative in the General Courts in 1700 and 1703. He had five sons and nine daughters, and upwards of eighty grandchildren. His first wife died June 17, 1672; second wife was Margaret, the daughter of Deacon John Jackson; she died September 16, 1727, aged 48. He died May 22, 1717, Aged 81, Leaving a will dated 1709.
Parents: Thomas Trowbridge (1598-1673)
1st settlers monument, east parish burying grounds, Newton, Massachusetts
James Trowbridge Grave
Trowbridge James born 1717, cemetery sign, Newton, MassachusettsBirth: 1636, Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Death: May 22, 1717, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
PARENTS: Thomas Trowbridge and Elizabeth Marshall, married March 26, 1627 in St. Petrock, Exeter, England.
1st WIFE: Margaret Atherton, married December 30, 1659 in Dorchester, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Major General Humphrey Atherton and Mary Wales.
Their children were:
Mary TrowbridgeElizabeth Trowbridge
Mindwell Trowbridge
John Trowbridge
Margaret Trowbridge
Thankful Trowbridge
Hannah Trowbridge
Margaret Atherton Trowbridge died on August 17, 1672 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
2nd WIFE: Margaret Jackson, married January 30, 1673 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of John Jackson and Margaret Taft, first settlers of Newton.
Their children were:
James Trowbridge
Experience TrowbridgeThomas Trowbridge
Caleb Trowbridge
Deliverance Trowbridge
From the History of Newton, Page 101-102
DEACON JAMES TROWBRIDGE was born in Dorchester, and baptized there in 1638. His father was Thomas Trowbridge, one of he early settlers of Dorchester, a merchant, and was engaged in the Barbadoes trade; he came from Taunton, England, where his father founded a large charity for poor widows, which is still administering for their benefit. Thomas went home to Taunton in 1644, leaving his three sons in charge of Sergeant Jeffries, of Dorchester, who removed with those sons to New Haven about 1638. Thomas the father, died in Taunton, England, about 1670. James returned from New Haven to Dorchester about 1656 where he married Margaret, the daughter of Major Humphrey Atherton, December 30, 1659, and had three children in Dorchester, and removed to Cambridge Village; his wife Margaret was dismissed from Dorchester to form the church in Cambridge Village, in 1664. After the death of John Jackson he became deacon of he church. He was one for the first Board of Selectmen formed in the Village in August, 1679, and continued that office for nine years.
HEADSTONE INSCRIPTION: Here lyes ye body of Deacon James Trowbridge dec'd May 22, 1717 in ye 81st year of his age.
Winged EffigyParents: Thomas Trowbridge (1598-1673)
Children:
Mindwell Trowbridge Fuller (162-1758)
Mindwell Trowbridge Fuller (162-1758)
Experience Trowbridge Wilson (1675-1705)
James Trowbridge (1682-1714)
Caleb Trowbridge (1692-1760)
Burial: East Parish Burying Ground, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
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1st settlers monument, east parish burying grounds, Newton, Massachusetts
Deacon James TrowbridgeDeacon James Trowbridge was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1636 and died May 22, 1717. On attaining his majority, he returned to Dorchester and married first December 3, 1659, Margaret Atherton, who died June 17, 1672, the daughter of Major General Humphrey Atherton, who came from England and settled in Dorchester about 1636. (General H. Atherton succeeded General Robert Sedgwick as commander of the military forces, was employed in negotiations with the Indians and was killed by falling from his horse while reviewing the militia on Boston common, September 17, 1661.)
James Trowbridge married second January 30, 1674, Margaret Jackson who was born June 20, 1649 and died September 16, 1797. He then moved to Cambridge Village after called Nonantum, and now Newton in 1664 and purchased 85 acres of land with dwelling and outbuildings, which he had occupied for some years, of Deputy Governor Danforth. After the death of Deacon John Jackson, he was chosen deacon of the Church 1675. By his will dated 1709, he bequeathed all the lands he had of him through his father in law, Atherton to the children of his first wife, equally. Source: The Greenwood Genealogies 1154-1914 by Frederick Greenwood, pg. 60.
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James and Thomas Trowbridge Info."As a young man, Thomas Trowbridge settled in Exeter where he was engaged in business as a wool mercer. He became a member of the powerful Merchants and Adventurer's Guild. His wife Elizabeth Marshall's father, John Marshall, was sheriff, alderman and mayor of Exeter (1615) and her grandfather, Richard Bevys (Beavis), in addition to his political offices, was a successful merchant. It was probably through these connections that Thomas was able to gain entrance to this Guild.
Possibly in hopes of furthering his fortune, Thomas decided to take his family to America to set up his business there. He apparently did not intend to make the American Colonies his home because he left his oldest son, John, with his father in Taunton. He landed his family at Dorchester, Massachusetts in about 1636. He and his wife are noted in Dorchester church records as 'Mr. and Mrs.' Trowbridge, a distinction confined at that time to persons of established gentility. His wife was a member of the Dorchester church in 1637-38 and their youngest son, James, was baptized there. Thomas and Elizabeth must have found it a considerable hardship to live in the newly settled town of Dorchester, accustomed as they were to the comforts of a city like Exeter. Additionally, there was considerable friction among differing factions within the church.
Thomas and his family left Dorchester in about 1638 and moved to the New Haven Plantation. His name does not appear among those subscribed to the articles of agreement at the organization of the church or body politic there in June, 1639. He may have been absent from New Haven at the time or this Fundamental Agreement, as it was afterwards called, required that "church members only shall be free burgesses". He may not have been eligible to sign it for there is no evidence that he ever severed his connections with the Church of England and became a member of the Puritan Church.
In the list of Proprietors of the Plantation in 1641, he was credited with five heads in his family. They were: himself, his wife, and three sons, Thomas, William and James. His estate was given as £500, a large sum for that place and time and it was among the larger of the 123 estates mentioned in the listing.
He appeared to have spent very little time in New Haven, making several voyages to Barbados and England in pursuit of his business. His wife (Elizabeth Marshall Trowbridge) died in about 1641, possibly in the spring or summer. He returned to England about this time, possibly to settle her estate and intending to send his sons at a later date. No record has been found proving the exact date he left, but it was before the fall of 1641. When he returned to Taunton he got caught up in the English Civil War which started about that time. He served as a Captain in the Parlimentary Troops, serving under Colonel Blake in the defence of Taunton. He never returned to America.
Some sources say that he married his first cousin, Frances Trowbridge Godsall, widow Shattuck in England.During his final absence, Thomas left his sons under the care of his steward, Henry Gibbons, who appeard to be an unfaithful servant who seized Thomas' property and deserted the three boys. Town records show that the boys were declared wards of the Colony in November, 1641, and the court placed them under the care of a nearby neighbor, Sergeant Thomas Jeffreys and his wife, who took them into their home to rear and educate until 'such time as their father shall come over or send to take order concerning them.' Thomas regularly corresponded from England to the authorities in New Haven to bring Gibbons to an account for his breach of trust, but Gibbons kept the property for many years. When the Trowbridge boys came of age, Thomas gave them power of attorney to regain his property from Gibbons. The sons sued Gibbons and were successful in reclaiming their father's estate in 1680 which he had previously given them on a share and share alike basis. Gibbons himself died without issue."
Thomas Trowbridge brought his family to Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1634. In 1639 the family was at New Haven, Connecticut. Thomas returned to England where he died, leaving his three known sons in Connecticut.
Source: This story comes from the research notes of Paul L. Nichols
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James Trowbridge from findagrave.orgBirth: 1636, Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Death: May 22, 1717, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
PARENTS: Thomas Trowbridge and Elizabeth Marshall, married March 26, 1627 in St. Petrock, Exeter, England.
1st WIFE: Margaret Atherton, married December 30, 1659 in Dorchester, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Major General Humphrey Atherton and Mary Wales.
Their children were:
James Trowbridge
Mary Trowbridge
Elizabeth Trowbridge
Mindwell Trowbridge
John Trowbridge
Margaret Trowbridge
Thankful Trowbridge
Hannah Trowbridge
Margaret Atherton Trowbridge died on August 17, 1672 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
2nd WIFE: Margaret Jackson, married January 30, 1673 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of John Jackson and Margaret Taft, first settlers of Newton.
Their children were:
Experience Trowbridge
Thomas Trowbridge
Caleb Trowbridge
Deliverance Trowbridge
From the History of Newton, Page 101-102
DEACON JAMES TROWBRIDGE was born in Dorchester, and baptized there in 1638. His father was Thomas Trowbridge, one of the early settlers of Dorchester, a merchant, and was engaged in the Barbadoes trade; he came from Taunton, England, where his father founded a large charity for poor widows, which is still administering for their benefit. Thomas went home to Taunton in 644, leaving his three sons in charge of Sergeant Jeffries, of Dorchester, who removed with those sons to New Haven about 1638. Thomas the father, died in Taunton, England, about 1670. James returned from New Haven to Dorchester about 1656 where he married Margaret, the daughter of Major Humphrey Atherton, December 30, 1659, and had three children in Dorchester, and removed to Cambridge Village; his wife Margaret was dismissed from Dorchester to form the church in Cambridge Village, in 1664. After the death of John Jackson he became deacon of he church. He was one for the first Board of Selectmen formed in the Village in August, 1679, and continued that office for nine years.In 1675 he purchased of Deputy Governor Danforth, eighty-five acres of land with a dwelling-house, standing where Mr. Nathan Trowbridge's house stood in later times, which he had occupied for some yeard; bounded by the highways west and south, a narrow lane north, his own land east, the dividing line being straight through the swamp. He was a Lieutenant Clerk of the Writs in 1691 an 1693, and Representative in the General Cours in 1700 and 1703. He had five sons and nine daughters, and upwards of eighty grandchildren. His first wife died June 17, 1672; second wife was Margaret, the daughter of Deacon John Jackson; she died September 16, 1727, aged 48. He died May 22, 1717, Aged 81, Leaving a will dated 1709.
HEADSTONE INSCRIPTION: Here lyes ye body of Deacon James Trowbridge dec'd May 22, 1717 in ye 81st year of his age.
ARTWORK: Winged Effigy
Burial: East Parish Burying Ground, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
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From the History of Newton, Page 101-102 (Massachusetts)
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Elizabeth Marshall and Thomas Trowbridge3649. Elizabeth Marshall was christened 24 March 1602/1603 in St Mary Arches, Exeter, Devon, England. She died 1641 in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut [Parents]
Elizabeth, first wife of Thomas Trowbridge, and mother of his children, was baptized at St. Mary Arches Church, Exeter, 24 March 1562 of a family at the centre of commercial and civic power in the cathedral city. This was amply set forth in 1905 in an article by Emory McClintock, "Thomas Trowbridge and Elizabeth Marshall", NEHGR 59:291-97 (1905). Elizabeth's father, the Alderman John Marshall, Mayor in 1615, was deceased by the daughter's marriage. Her mother Alice was the second daughter of the name, baptized at St. Kerrians Church, Exeter, 7 June 1572, and Marshall's bride 30 August 1695 at St. Mary Arches. Alice, buried there 13 January 1630/1, left to her favorite daughter Mrs. Elizabeth Trowbridge, 50 and a 10 piece of plate (PCC 23 St. John). Alice's father was Richard Beavis, who died in office as Mayor of Exeter 26 August 1603. He had married (1) Elizabeth Price, from the Welsh "Ape Rhys", mother of Alice Marshall, and (2) Jane, daughter of Henry Huish of Sands.
Thomas and Elizabeth had the following children:
F i Elizabeth Trowbridge was christened 6 March 1627/1628 in St Petrock, Exeter, Devon, England. She was buried 10 May 1630 in St Petrock, Exeter, Devon, England.
M ii John Trowbridge was christened 5 November 1629 in St Petrock, Exeter, Devon, England. He was buried 16 February 1653/1654 in St Mary Magdalien, Taunton, Somerset, England.
English Origins of American Colonists, p.66
Will of JOHN TROWBRIDGE of Exeter, county Devon. There is oweinge unto me from my uncle Mr. James Marshall of Exon, merchant, 49, and from my father Mr. Thomas Trowbridge 10 which I lent him, and I have sent for Muclinx (sic) eight peeces of Sarges, cost twentie pounds And twentie fowre pounds Mr. Jno: Manninge of New England, merchant, owes me, and twentie one pounds Mr. William Davis of Muskeeta in Newfoundland owes, which I have ordered George Pardon, master of the Willinge Minde, to receive of him this yeare there and carry it with him for St. Lukas and bring home returnes with him, All which summes amounts unto 129, of which if it please God to take me hence 20 shal be disbursed for my buriall, and of the other 109 I give unto my honored father fortie pounds, to my brothers Thomas, William and James Trowbridge betweene them 50, to my aunt Mace 5, and to my cozen James Marshall 14. Dated at Taunton, 20 October, 1653. Witnesses to the identity of the handwriting: James Marshall, senior, Christo: Clarke, junior, Chr: Dore. 26 June, 1654, commission to Thomas Trowbridge, father and principal legetary named in the will of John Trowbridge, late of the city of Exeter, deceased, to administer. (P.C.C. Alchin, 492.) M iii Thomas Trowbridge Jr. was christened 11 December 1631 in St Petrock, Exeter, Devon, England. He died 22 August 1702 in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut 1824
M iv William Trowbridge was christened 3 September 1633 and died November 1688.
M v James Trowbridge 1, 2, 3 was born 1636/1637 in Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts and was christened 1637/1638 in Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He died 22 May 1717 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts and was buried in Old East Parish Burying Ground, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. James signed a will 1709 in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He signed a will 1715 in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He had a will probated June 1717 in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. James Trowbridge was likely born at Dorchester after his parents immigrated and was baptized there in 1637 or 1638. After his family's move to New Haven, CT, his mother died and, at about age 8, in 1644, his father returned to England, leaving James and his two brothers in the care of a Sgt. Thomas Jeffries, possibly a relative from the Taunton, England area.As the result of a lawsuit against their father's steward in New Haven, James acquired his father's property in Dorchester, Massachusetts and moved there, where he married his first wife in 1659. He removed to Cambridge Village, now Newton, in 1664. After the death of Deacon John Jackson, his second wife's father, he was chosen Deacon of the church at Newton.In 1675 he purchased 85 acres of land and a dwelling house and out buildings from Deputy Governor Danforth; he had occupied this land for some years. He was chosen one of the first Selectmen at the organization of the town 27 August 1679 and held that office for 9 years. He was clerk of the Writs in 1691 and 1693, and Commissioner, Lieutenant and Representative to the General Court in 1700 and 1703.
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Biographical sketchFrom New England Families, page 1211-12, Google Books, Thomas came to Dorchester, Massachusetts with his wife and two sons (Thomas and William), perhaps in 1636, and appeared to have been affluent as they are recorded as "Mr. and Mrs." His wife is mentioned in church records in 1638, and James was baptized in the Dorchester church in 1637 or 38. In 1639 he moved to New Haven, Connecticut, where in 1641 he shows up in records with "five heads of families." His business was shipping, and his fortune seems to have been large for the day. He returned to England in 1641 and left his estate under the direction of Henry Gibbons--who promptly took as much as he could until finally Thomas Junior was able to recover everything. Thomas Sr. died in England and his wife died in Connecticut.
When Thomas Sr. left, the boys, (Thomas Jr., William, and James) were, in April of 1644, in such sorry state regarding access to their estate that the town placed them under the care of Sargent Thomas Jeffrey and his wife "to be well educated and nurtured in the fear of God." Thomas Jr. became an active citizen and businessman and probably served in King Phillip's War.
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LieutenantJames Trowbridge served as a Lieutenant in King Phillip's War, 1675–1676.
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TROWBRIDGEThe name of TROWBRIDGE is of high antiquity in England as persons bearing that name are found to have lived during the reign of William the Conqueror. The first of the name are found in Trowbridge, a market town and parish in Wiltshire, England, which town received its name from that of one of the family, being their residence for many centuries, and the property of one of the name in the reign of Edward I. The name Trowbridge first appears in the Domesday book. Trowbridge formerly had a castle, but no trace now remains. It was besieged by Stephen about A. D. 1135. A younger branch of the Trowbridges settled in Somersetshire as early as 1541. They resided at Taunton in that county, and from this branch sprang the Trowbridges of America. That the Taunton family descended from that of Wiltshire is sufficiently proven by their arms, precisely the same as those seen in the stained glass window of the chancel of St. James' Church, Taunton, England. (Copied from the history of Woodbury, Connecticut.)
(I) John Trowbridge lived at Hutton, Somerset county, England, and died there in 1575.
In his will, dated February 17, 1575, he names two sons. Thomas, and Edmund, mentioned below, the former being remembered to this day for his bequest to the poor, the income of which is annually distributed in the parish church of St. Mary Magdalen, at Taunton, England. John Trowbridge named as executor of his will his two brothers, Thomas, Sr. and Thomas, Jr.
(II) Edmund Trowbridge, son of John Trowbridge (1), lived in Taunton, Somerset county, -England. He had a son, Thomas, mentioned below. He received a bequest from his father John of five silver spoons and a gold ring.
(III) Thomas Trowbridge, son of Edmund Trowbridge (2), was born in England about 1610. He came from Taunton, Somersetshire, England, and settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, as early as 1636. His wife joined the church there in 1636, and their son was born there that year.' He drew a lot of land January 2, 1637, and at various times after that. Later in 1638 or early in 1639 however, he removed to New Haven. He was in the foreign shipping business and he continued in business, making voyages between the Barbadoes and England. He owned a house and lot in New Haven as early as 1639, but apparently was not living there. He and his wife and three children were living there in 1643, and he was rated as one of the richest men of the colony, paying taxes on five hundred pounds. In 1644 Mr. Cheever, the celebrated pedagogue, received payment for teaching Trowbridge's children; evidently the children were well educated for their day. He went to England in 1644, leaving his three sons and all his American property in charge of Henry Gibbons, who proved unfaithful to his trust. Sergeant Thomas Jeffries took the boys into his own family. Thomas Trowbridge wrote often from England to have Gibbons brought to account, but without avail. Kven a power of attorney to his sons was not effective. Thomas Trowbridge died in Taunton, England, February 7, 1672-73, and soon afterwards Gibbons gave to the sons a deed of everything he had, even to the bed he slept on, in an endeavor to make good the property of the family. When Gibbons died in 1086 Thomas Trowbridge was appointed his administrator and recovered all there was left of his father's estate in New Haven. The sons of Thomas Trowbridge were: 1. Thomas, born 1632 at Taunton, England. 2. William, born 1634. 3. James, born 1636. at Dorchester, Massachusetts, mentioned below.
(IV) Deacon James Trowbridge, son of Thomas Trowbridge (3), was bom at Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1636, and baptized two years later. In 1641 he removed with his father to New Haven, Connecticut. He lived in New Haven until nearly twenty-one years old, when he returned to Dorchester and occupied the land his father had owned before removing to New Haven. He removed in 1664 to Cambridge Village, now Newton, Massachusetts. His wife Margaret. Thomas Wiswan, Goodman Kinwright, were dismissed by the Dorchester church July 11, 1664, to the church gathered at Cambridge Village. James Trowbridge was elected deacon to succeed his father-inlaw in 1675. and held the office forty-two consecutive years. In 1675 he bought of Deputy Governor Danforth a farm of eighty-five acres with house and other buildings, where the governor had lived several years, adjoining his farm, and the descendants of James Trowbridge have ever since kept in their possession a considerable part of the original homestead in Newton. In the seventh generation the place was owned by Nathan Trowbridge. James Trowbridge was selectman on the very first board, elected August 27, 1679, and served nine years. He was clerk of writs 1692-93, lieutenant of the military company, deputy to the general court from 1700 to 1703. He made his will in 1709, and added a codicil in 1715; it was proved in June, 1717. He mentioned his rights in land at Dorchester received from his father, Thomas Trowbridge. The estate amounted to two hundred and forty pounds and seven shillings.
He married December 30, 1659, Margaret Atherton, daughter of Major General Humphrey Atherton. She died August 17, 1672, and he married (second). January 30, 1674, Margaret Jackson, daughter of Deacon John Jackson. She died September 16. 1727, aged seventy-eight years.
Children of the first wife:
1. Elizabeth, born October 12, 1660, married John Myrick.
2. Mindwell. June 20, 1662, married Jonathan Fuller.
3. John, May 22, 1664, married Sarah Wilson.
4. Margaret, April 30, 1666. married Hon. Ebenezer Stone.
5. Thankful, March 4, 1668, married Deacon R. Ward.
6. Hannah, June 15, 1672, married John Greenwood.
Children of the second wife;
7. Experience, November 1, 1675, married Samuel Wilson.
8. Thomas. December 4, 1677. mentioned below.
9. Deliverance. December 31, 1679, married Eleazer Ward.
10. James. September 20, 1682, married (first) Hannah Bacon; (second) Hannah Jackson
11. William, November 19, 1684, married Sarah Ann Ward; married (second) Sarah Fullam.
12. Abigail, April 11, 1687, probably never married.
13. Caleb. November 9, 1692, married Sarah Oliver; married (second) Hannah Walter.
(V) Lieutenant Thomas Trowbridge, son of James Trowbridge (4), was born December 4, 1677, and died in 1724. He settled in Newton and removed to New London. Connecticut. He married his first wife about 1700; married (second), March 3, 1709, Mary Goffe. of Cambridge. He married (third), January 7, 1716, Susanna . In 1725 Edmund Goffe was appointed guardian of Trowbridge's minor children Edmund and Lydia, and Mr. Nathaniel Longley of Mary Trowbridge, aged thirteen.
Child of the first wife.
1. John, born about 1702. mentioned below.
Children of the second wife:
2. Edmund, born 1709, Harvard graduate, 1728; married Martha Remington and resided in Cambridge.
3. Lydia, born 1710-11. married, 1737. Richard Dana, and was mother of Chief Justice Dana.
4. Mary, born 1713, married Eben Chamberlain, in 1733.
5. Abigail, born about 1720 (see guardianship papers at Middlesex probate).
(VI) John Trowbridge, son of Thomas Trowbridge (5), was born about 1702, and died May 19, 1762. He was a housewright and came to Framingham, Massachusetts, as early as 1725. He bought fifty-five acres of land, part of the present Nathan Hosmer place, by deed dated February 3, 1726-27, from Joseph Buckminster. He exchanged this farm March 16, 1732, with Samuel Bullen for fifty acres of land and buildings, paying also fifty-five pounds. This farm adjoined Ezekiel How's. He also bought the Joshua Eaton place, now Captain Russell's and Mrs. Parsons, in 1742, and the Peter B. Davis farm in 1747. All his land was formerly of the six hundred acres of "reserved land," and the original title given by Colonel Buckminster or derived from him proving defective, Trowbridge recovered damages and gained new title of the heirs of Governor Danforth. Trowbridge was selectman and a prominent citizen of Framingham. He married Mehitable Eaton, daughter of Jonas Eaton. She was buried March 26, 1777.
Children:
1. Mehitable, born January 26, 1725-26. married Oldham (iates.
2. Mary, born July 27, 1728. married Amos Gates.
3. John, born May 22. 1730, married Margaret Farrar and lived in Framingham.
4. Lydia. born December 24, 1731, married. January 7, 1752-53. Ralph Hemenway.
5. Thomas, born April 1, 1734, mentioned below.
6. Ruth, born March 3, 1736, married Peter Rice.
(VII) Thomas Trowbridge, son of John Trowbridge (6). was born in Framingham, April 1, 1734, and died at Swanzey, New Hampshire, January 12, 1804. He lived in Framingham until 1771, when he settled in Fitzwilliam, where he was admitted to the church in 1772, removing to Swanzey. He was dismissed to the Swanzey church December 26, 1784. He resided on the J. O. C;ary place in Swanzey. His son Thomas succeeded to the homestead, and his grandson, Colonel Thomas Trowbridge, lived in Swanzey on the C. E. Hill place. Mr. Trowbridge married Hannah Perry, of Framingham, born 1735, died December 2, 1809, aged seventy four years.
Children, born in Framingham, except the two youngest:
1. Luther, born June 3, 1756, married Elizabeth Tallman and lived in Albany, New York.
2. Hannah, December 19. 1759. died 1804; married. November 22, 1781, Jonathan Whitin, Jr.
3. Edmund. March 2, 1762, died 1766.
4. Mehitable, February 6, 1764, married, July 1. 1781, Abijah Wetherbee; she died February 6, 1844.
5. Polly, June 6, 1766, married Page and lived in Ohio.
6. Thomas, June 5, 1768.
7. Joseph, May 5, 1770, mentioned below.
8. Margaret. April 6, 1774. married Belden and lived in Vermont.
9. Martha, born in Fitzwilliam, May 10. 1778, married Jonathan Whitcomb; she died September 3, 1822, at Dummerston, Vermont.
(VIII) Joseph Trowbridge, son of Thomas Trowbridge (7), was born in Framingham, May 5, 1770. He married, at the age of eighteen, April 27, 1788, Lucy Barnes, of Marlborough, born September 16, 1756, daughter of Frederick Barnes. A certificate on file at the Middlesex probate records states that "Joseph Trowbridge of Marlborough, a minor, and husband to Lucy, daughter of Frederick Barnes, late of Marlborough, chose John Stowe for his guardian," May 6, 1789. The guardian's bond states that his father Thomas Trowbridge was "late of Framingham, now of New Hampshire." John and Simon Stowe and Uriah Brigham were on the bond. Joseph died November. 1808, and his widow Lucy administered his estate. The inventory filed December 21, 1808, showed property valued at $1910.98.
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Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs ..., Volume 1 edited by William Richard Cutter
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Lt. James Trowbridge"Register of officers and members of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Hampshire"
TROWBRIDGE, LIEUTENANT JAMES, 1636-1717, Newton. Deputy to the General Court from Cambridge, 1700 and 1703. Served in King Philip's War. Colony of Massachusetts Bay.
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1st Settler's Memorial, Newton, MassachusettsOld East Parish Burying GroundNewton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Contributed by Paul E. Truesdell, Jr [petjr@nirai.ne.jp].
1st Settlers Monument North Side: "Dea. John Jackson gave one acre of land for this Burial Place and First Church, which was erected upon this spot.", "Abraham Jackson son of Dea. John gave one acre which two acres form the old part of This Cemetery." "Edward Jackson gave 20 acres for the Parsonage in 1660, and 31 acres for the Ministensal Wood Lot in 1681."West Side:s. = settledd. = died Druce, Vincent, s. 1650, d. 1678Eliot, John, s. 1664, d. 1668, 33yFuller, John, s. 1644, d. 1698, 87yHammond, Thomas, s. 1650, d. 1675Hyde, Jonathan, s. 1657, d. 1711, 85yHyde, Samuel, s. 1640, d. 1689, 79yJackson, Edward, s. 1643, d. 1681, 79yJackson, John, s. 1639, d. 1674Kenrick, John, s. 1658, d. 1686, 82yPark, Richard, s. 1647, d. 1665Parker, John, s. 1650, d. 1686, 71yPrentice, James, s. 1650, d. 1710, 81yPrentice, Thomas 2nd, s. 1650, d. no datePrentice, Thomas, s. 1649, d. 1710, 89ySpring, John, s. 1664, d. 1717, 87yTrowbridge, James, s. 1664, d. 1717, 81yWard, John, s. 1650, d. 1708, 82yWilliams, Abraham, s. 1662, d. 1712, 84yWilliams, Isaac, s. 1661, d. 1708, 69yWiswall, Thomas, s. 1654, d. 1683South Side: "Thomas Wiswall ordained ruling elder Jul 20 1664. His sons Enoch of Dorchester died Nov 28, 1706 age 73", "Rev. Ichabod Minister of Duxbury 30 y. Agent of Plymouth Colony in England 1690. Died Jul 23, 1700 age 63.", "Capt. Noah, of Newton an officer in the expedition against Canada killed in Battle with the French and Indians July 6, 1690 age 50. Leaving a son Thomas."East Side: "Rev. John Eliot Jr. first Pastor of the first Church Ordained July 20, 1664", "His widow married Edmond Quincy of Braintree died in 1700.", "His only daughter married John Bowles Esq. of Roxbury and died Jun 28, 1740 AET 75, "His only son John settled in Windsor Connecticut When he died in 1733. leaving a son John a student in Yale College.On Base: "First settlers of Newton. Erected Sep 1, 1852 Times of their settlement by descendants of the first settlers."Memorial Tablets Tablet 1522 "Rev. Joseph Grafton, d. Erected by his congregation as a grateful tribute to the many virtues of a devoted pastor who Watched over them with tender interest, christian, diligence and parental affection more than sixty years. Also to his worthy companion who exhibited in unusual perfection all the graces of the christian."Tablet 232 "Nehemiah Hobart, d. In this tomb are deposited the remains of the Reverend and very learned teacher of divinity, Nehemias Hobart, an estimable fellow of H.C., a highly faithful and watchful Pastor of the ch. of Newton, for forty years. His singular gravity, humility, piety, and learning, rendered him the object of deep verneration, and ardent esteem, to men of science and religion. He was born Nov 21, 1648, and d. Aug 25, 1712, in the 64th year of his age. (Original Inscription in Latin...badly deteriorated)"Tablet 1527 "A memorial of unsurpassed Ministerial fidelity hallowed affections, social virtues and holy perseverance, d. erected by many friends."Tablet 1150 "Hic depositum mori quod potuit Rev. Verig Venerandi Johannis Cotton ecclesiae Newtoniensis fidelissimi prudentissimi doctissimig nuxes Pastoris concionandi tam precandi facultate celiberrimi pictate specatis simi moribus Sanctissimi undequaq et Suavissimi ab omnibus bene meriti deploratiq. Anditoribu praecipue quibus vel mortuus concionari non, d. desimi Famal onge latiq. Vacalius et diuttus marmore durantissimo nomen perdulce proclamabit Morbo non Senecta tractus e viat decessit Maii 17 A.D 1757 ÆT. Suae 64 Offici ministratis"Tablet 43 "Here lie interred the remains of Madam Mary Cotton consort of ye late Rev. Mr. John Cotton who died lamented Sept. 28, 1761 age 63.", "Here lie intered the remains of Dr. John Cotton A.M. Son of ye late Rev. Mr. John Cotton who died much lamented Sept. 6, 1758 age 29. And died March 28, 1833. Virtus superavit annos""Squire Kenrick's" Epitaph on Marble Slab in Old City Cemetery, Newton, Massachusetts. Fast becoming obliterated and decipherable only with great difficulty"John Kebrick, Esq. Aet. 77 years "He was laborious, honest and frugalThough possessed of wealthHe loved not money but loved his fellow men.Sparing in self, d. indulgence and hospitable to allHe was a benefactor to the needy and unfortunate. To the fundsFor the poor of his native landAnd to benevolent societies and Christian charities every(where?)To the temperance reformation he was an efficient and devoted friend.Early impressed with the un......and inhumanity of slaveryAnd its peculiar incompatability with republican institutionsHe strove alone and unassisted to awaken his fellow manTo this subject.""He wrote often and persuasively for this cause.He republished gratuitously the writings of others.If there had been ten like him in the (country??)The stain of slavery would not have darkened the (stars??)In the North American Constellation.A forerunner of Abolition, a liberal contributorTo the first Society formed for that object in this countryAnd died in holding office.He believed that goodness consists in doing goodAnd that the truest homage to Almighty GodIs in reverent imitation of His blessed word.He was born Nov 6, 1755"
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Cambridge CompanyHe was a soldier in King Philip's War, being a lieutenant of the Cambridge village company of foot soldiers, and he was also a deacon of the church, evidently a man of note in his community.
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS VOLUME XIV—SIXTH MEMOIR BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF JOHN TROWBRIDGE 18434923 BY EDWIN H. HALL PRESENTED TO THE ACADEMY AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, 1930
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Deacon James TrowbridgeDeacon James Trowbridge was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1636 and died May 22, 1717 . On attaining his majority, he returned to Dorchester and married first December 3, 1659, Margaret Atherton, who died June 17, 1672, the daughter of Major General Humphrey Atherton, who came from England and settled in Dorchester about 1636. (General H. Atherton succceeded Geneneral Robert Sedgwick as commander of the military forces, was employed in negotiations with the Indians and was killed by falling from his horse while reviewing the militia on Boston common, September 17, 1661.) James Trowbridge married second January 30, 1674, Margaret Jackson who was born June 20, 1649 and died September 16, 1797. He then moved to Cambridge Village after called Nonantum, and now Newton in 1664 and purchased 85 acres of land with dwelling and outbuildings, which he had occupied for some years, of Deputy Governor Danforth. After the death of Deacon John Jackson, he was chosen deacon of the Church 1675. By his will dated 1709, he bequeathed all the lands he had of him through his father in law, Atherton to the children of his first wife, equally. Source: The Greenwood Genealogies 1154-1914 by Frederick Greenwood, pg. 60.
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James Trowbridge married second January 30, 1674, Margaret Jackson who was born June 20, 1649 and died September 16, 1797. He then moved to Cambridge Village after called Nonantum, and now Newton in 1664 and purchased 85 acres of land with dwelling and outbuildings, which he had occupied for some years, of Deputy Governor Danforth. After the death of Deacon John Jackson, he was chosen deacon of the Church 1675. By his will dated 1709, he bequeathed all the lands he had of him through his father in law, Atherton to the children of his first wife, equally. Source: The Greenwood Genealogies 1154-1914 by Frederick Greenwood, pg. 60.
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James and Thomas Trowbridge Info."As a young man, Thomas Trowbridge settled in Exeter where he was engaged in business as a wool mercer. He became a member of the powerful Merchants and Adventurer's Guild. His wife Elizabeth Marshall's father, John Marshall, was sheriff, alderman and mayor of Exeter (1615) and her grandfather, Richard Bevys (Beavis), in addition to his political offices, was a successful merchant. It was probably through these connections that Thomas was able to gain entrance to this Guild.
Possibly in hopes of furthering his fortune, Thomas decided to take his family to America to set up his business there. He apparently did not intend to make the American Colonies his home because he left his oldest son, John, with his father in Taunton. He landed his family at Dorchester, Massachusetts in about 1636. He and his wife are noted in Dorchester church records as 'Mr. and Mrs.' Trowbridge, a distinction confined at that time to persons of established gentility. His wife was a member of the Dorchester church in 1637-38 and their youngest son, James, was baptized there. Thomas and Elizabeth must have found it a considerable hardship to live in the newly settled town of Dorchester, accustomed as they were to the comforts of a city like Exeter. Additionally, there was considerable friction among differing factions within the church.
Thomas and his family left Dorchester in about 1638 and moved to the New Haven Plantation. His name does not appear among those subscribed to the articles of agreement at the organization of the church or body politic there in June, 1639. He may have been absent from New Haven at the time or this Fundamental Agreement, as it was afterwards called, required that "church members only shall be free burgesses". He may not have been eligible to sign it for there is no evidence that he ever severed his connections with the Church of England and became a member of the Puritan Church.
In the list of Proprietors of the Plantation in 1641, he was credited with five heads in his family. They were: himself, his wife, and three sons, Thomas, William and James. His estate was given as £500, a large sum for that place and time and it was among the larger of the 123 estates mentioned in the listing.
He appeared to have spent very little time in New Haven, making several voyages to Barbados and England in pursuit of his business. His wife (Elizabeth Marshall Trowbridge) died in about 1641, possibly in the spring or summer. He returned to England about this time, possibly to settle her estate and intending to send his sons at a later date. No record has been found proving the exact date he left, but it was before the fall of 1641. When he returned to Taunton he got caught up in the English Civil War which started about that time. He served as a Captain in the Parlimentary Troops, serving under Colonel Blake in the defence of Taunton. He never returned to America.
Some sources say that he married his first cousin, Frances Trowbridge Godsall, widow Shattuck in England.During his final absence, Thomas left his sons under the care of his steward, Henry Gibbons, who appeard to be an unfaithful servant who seized Thomas' property and deserted the three boys. Town records show that the boys were declared wards of the Colony in November, 1641, and the court placed them under the care of a nearby neighbor, Sergeant Thomas Jeffreys and his wife, who took them into their home to rear and educate until 'such time as their father shall come over or send to take order concerning them.' Thomas regularly corresponded from England to the authorities in New Haven to bring Gibbons to an account for his breach of trust, but Gibbons kept the property for many years. When the Trowbridge boys came of age, Thomas gave them power of attorney to regain his property from Gibbons. The sons sued Gibbons and were successful in reclaiming their father's estate in 1680 which he had previously given them on a share and share alike basis. Gibbons himself died without issue."
Thomas Trowbridge brought his family to Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1634. In 1639 the family was at New Haven, Connecticut. Thomas returned to England where he died, leaving his three known sons in Connecticut.
Source: This story comes from the research notes of Paul L. Nichols
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James Trowbridge from findagrave.orgBirth: 1636, Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Death: May 22, 1717, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
PARENTS: Thomas Trowbridge and Elizabeth Marshall, married March 26, 1627 in St. Petrock, Exeter, England.
1st WIFE: Margaret Atherton, married December 30, 1659 in Dorchester, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Major General Humphrey Atherton and Mary Wales.
Their children were:
James Trowbridge
Mary Trowbridge
Elizabeth Trowbridge
Mindwell Trowbridge
John Trowbridge
Margaret Trowbridge
Thankful Trowbridge
Hannah Trowbridge
Margaret Atherton Trowbridge died on August 17, 1672 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
2nd WIFE: Margaret Jackson, married January 30, 1673 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of John Jackson and Margaret Taft, first settlers of Newton.
Their children were:
Experience Trowbridge
Thomas Trowbridge
Caleb Trowbridge
Deliverance Trowbridge
From the History of Newton, Page 101-102
DEACON JAMES TROWBRIDGE was born in Dorchester, and baptized there in 1638. His father was Thomas Trowbridge, one of the early settlers of Dorchester, a merchant, and was engaged in the Barbadoes trade; he came from Taunton, England, where his father founded a large charity for poor widows, which is still administering for their benefit. Thomas went home to Taunton in 644, leaving his three sons in charge of Sergeant Jeffries, of Dorchester, who removed with those sons to New Haven about 1638. Thomas the father, died in Taunton, England, about 1670. James returned from New Haven to Dorchester about 1656 where he married Margaret, the daughter of Major Humphrey Atherton, December 30, 1659, and had three children in Dorchester, and removed to Cambridge Village; his wife Margaret was dismissed from Dorchester to form the church in Cambridge Village, in 1664. After the death of John Jackson he became deacon of he church. He was one for the first Board of Selectmen formed in the Village in August, 1679, and continued that office for nine years.In 1675 he purchased of Deputy Governor Danforth, eighty-five acres of land with a dwelling-house, standing where Mr. Nathan Trowbridge's house stood in later times, which he had occupied for some yeard; bounded by the highways west and south, a narrow lane north, his own land east, the dividing line being straight through the swamp. He was a Lieutenant Clerk of the Writs in 1691 an 1693, and Representative in the General Cours in 1700 and 1703. He had five sons and nine daughters, and upwards of eighty grandchildren. His first wife died June 17, 1672; second wife was Margaret, the daughter of Deacon John Jackson; she died September 16, 1727, aged 48. He died May 22, 1717, Aged 81, Leaving a will dated 1709.
HEADSTONE INSCRIPTION: Here lyes ye body of Deacon James Trowbridge dec'd May 22, 1717 in ye 81st year of his age.
ARTWORK: Winged Effigy
Burial: East Parish Burying Ground, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
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From the History of Newton, Page 101-102 (Massachusetts)
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Elizabeth Marshall and Thomas Trowbridge3649. Elizabeth Marshall was christened 24 March 1602/1603 in St Mary Arches, Exeter, Devon, England. She died 1641 in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut [Parents]
Elizabeth, first wife of Thomas Trowbridge, and mother of his children, was baptized at St. Mary Arches Church, Exeter, 24 March 1562 of a family at the centre of commercial and civic power in the cathedral city. This was amply set forth in 1905 in an article by Emory McClintock, "Thomas Trowbridge and Elizabeth Marshall", NEHGR 59:291-97 (1905). Elizabeth's father, the Alderman John Marshall, Mayor in 1615, was deceased by the daughter's marriage. Her mother Alice was the second daughter of the name, baptized at St. Kerrians Church, Exeter, 7 June 1572, and Marshall's bride 30 August 1695 at St. Mary Arches. Alice, buried there 13 January 1630/1, left to her favorite daughter Mrs. Elizabeth Trowbridge, 50 and a 10 piece of plate (PCC 23 St. John). Alice's father was Richard Beavis, who died in office as Mayor of Exeter 26 August 1603. He had married (1) Elizabeth Price, from the Welsh "Ape Rhys", mother of Alice Marshall, and (2) Jane, daughter of Henry Huish of Sands.
Thomas and Elizabeth had the following children:
F i Elizabeth Trowbridge was christened 6 March 1627/1628 in St Petrock, Exeter, Devon, England. She was buried 10 May 1630 in St Petrock, Exeter, Devon, England.
M ii John Trowbridge was christened 5 November 1629 in St Petrock, Exeter, Devon, England. He was buried 16 February 1653/1654 in St Mary Magdalien, Taunton, Somerset, England.
English Origins of American Colonists, p.66
Will of JOHN TROWBRIDGE of Exeter, county Devon. There is oweinge unto me from my uncle Mr. James Marshall of Exon, merchant, 49, and from my father Mr. Thomas Trowbridge 10 which I lent him, and I have sent for Muclinx (sic) eight peeces of Sarges, cost twentie pounds And twentie fowre pounds Mr. Jno: Manninge of New England, merchant, owes me, and twentie one pounds Mr. William Davis of Muskeeta in Newfoundland owes, which I have ordered George Pardon, master of the Willinge Minde, to receive of him this yeare there and carry it with him for St. Lukas and bring home returnes with him, All which summes amounts unto 129, of which if it please God to take me hence 20 shal be disbursed for my buriall, and of the other 109 I give unto my honored father fortie pounds, to my brothers Thomas, William and James Trowbridge betweene them 50, to my aunt Mace 5, and to my cozen James Marshall 14. Dated at Taunton, 20 October, 1653. Witnesses to the identity of the handwriting: James Marshall, senior, Christo: Clarke, junior, Chr: Dore. 26 June, 1654, commission to Thomas Trowbridge, father and principal legetary named in the will of John Trowbridge, late of the city of Exeter, deceased, to administer. (P.C.C. Alchin, 492.) M iii Thomas Trowbridge Jr. was christened 11 December 1631 in St Petrock, Exeter, Devon, England. He died 22 August 1702 in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut 1824
M iv William Trowbridge was christened 3 September 1633 and died November 1688.
M v James Trowbridge 1, 2, 3 was born 1636/1637 in Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts and was christened 1637/1638 in Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He died 22 May 1717 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts and was buried in Old East Parish Burying Ground, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. James signed a will 1709 in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He signed a will 1715 in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He had a will probated June 1717 in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. James Trowbridge was likely born at Dorchester after his parents immigrated and was baptized there in 1637 or 1638. After his family's move to New Haven, CT, his mother died and, at about age 8, in 1644, his father returned to England, leaving James and his two brothers in the care of a Sgt. Thomas Jeffries, possibly a relative from the Taunton, England area.As the result of a lawsuit against their father's steward in New Haven, James acquired his father's property in Dorchester, Massachusetts and moved there, where he married his first wife in 1659. He removed to Cambridge Village, now Newton, in 1664. After the death of Deacon John Jackson, his second wife's father, he was chosen Deacon of the church at Newton.In 1675 he purchased 85 acres of land and a dwelling house and out buildings from Deputy Governor Danforth; he had occupied this land for some years. He was chosen one of the first Selectmen at the organization of the town 27 August 1679 and held that office for 9 years. He was clerk of the Writs in 1691 and 1693, and Commissioner, Lieutenant and Representative to the General Court in 1700 and 1703.
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Biographical sketchFrom New England Families, page 1211-12, Google Books, Thomas came to Dorchester, Massachusetts with his wife and two sons (Thomas and William), perhaps in 1636, and appeared to have been affluent as they are recorded as "Mr. and Mrs." His wife is mentioned in church records in 1638, and James was baptized in the Dorchester church in 1637 or 38. In 1639 he moved to New Haven, Connecticut, where in 1641 he shows up in records with "five heads of families." His business was shipping, and his fortune seems to have been large for the day. He returned to England in 1641 and left his estate under the direction of Henry Gibbons--who promptly took as much as he could until finally Thomas Junior was able to recover everything. Thomas Sr. died in England and his wife died in Connecticut.
When Thomas Sr. left, the boys, (Thomas Jr., William, and James) were, in April of 1644, in such sorry state regarding access to their estate that the town placed them under the care of Sargent Thomas Jeffrey and his wife "to be well educated and nurtured in the fear of God." Thomas Jr. became an active citizen and businessman and probably served in King Phillip's War.
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LieutenantJames Trowbridge served as a Lieutenant in King Phillip's War, 1675–1676.
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TROWBRIDGEThe name of TROWBRIDGE is of high antiquity in England as persons bearing that name are found to have lived during the reign of William the Conqueror. The first of the name are found in Trowbridge, a market town and parish in Wiltshire, England, which town received its name from that of one of the family, being their residence for many centuries, and the property of one of the name in the reign of Edward I. The name Trowbridge first appears in the Domesday book. Trowbridge formerly had a castle, but no trace now remains. It was besieged by Stephen about A. D. 1135. A younger branch of the Trowbridges settled in Somersetshire as early as 1541. They resided at Taunton in that county, and from this branch sprang the Trowbridges of America. That the Taunton family descended from that of Wiltshire is sufficiently proven by their arms, precisely the same as those seen in the stained glass window of the chancel of St. James' Church, Taunton, England. (Copied from the history of Woodbury, Connecticut.)
(I) John Trowbridge lived at Hutton, Somerset county, England, and died there in 1575.
In his will, dated February 17, 1575, he names two sons. Thomas, and Edmund, mentioned below, the former being remembered to this day for his bequest to the poor, the income of which is annually distributed in the parish church of St. Mary Magdalen, at Taunton, England. John Trowbridge named as executor of his will his two brothers, Thomas, Sr. and Thomas, Jr.
(II) Edmund Trowbridge, son of John Trowbridge (1), lived in Taunton, Somerset county, -England. He had a son, Thomas, mentioned below. He received a bequest from his father John of five silver spoons and a gold ring.
(III) Thomas Trowbridge, son of Edmund Trowbridge (2), was born in England about 1610. He came from Taunton, Somersetshire, England, and settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, as early as 1636. His wife joined the church there in 1636, and their son was born there that year.' He drew a lot of land January 2, 1637, and at various times after that. Later in 1638 or early in 1639 however, he removed to New Haven. He was in the foreign shipping business and he continued in business, making voyages between the Barbadoes and England. He owned a house and lot in New Haven as early as 1639, but apparently was not living there. He and his wife and three children were living there in 1643, and he was rated as one of the richest men of the colony, paying taxes on five hundred pounds. In 1644 Mr. Cheever, the celebrated pedagogue, received payment for teaching Trowbridge's children; evidently the children were well educated for their day. He went to England in 1644, leaving his three sons and all his American property in charge of Henry Gibbons, who proved unfaithful to his trust. Sergeant Thomas Jeffries took the boys into his own family. Thomas Trowbridge wrote often from England to have Gibbons brought to account, but without avail. Kven a power of attorney to his sons was not effective. Thomas Trowbridge died in Taunton, England, February 7, 1672-73, and soon afterwards Gibbons gave to the sons a deed of everything he had, even to the bed he slept on, in an endeavor to make good the property of the family. When Gibbons died in 1086 Thomas Trowbridge was appointed his administrator and recovered all there was left of his father's estate in New Haven. The sons of Thomas Trowbridge were: 1. Thomas, born 1632 at Taunton, England. 2. William, born 1634. 3. James, born 1636. at Dorchester, Massachusetts, mentioned below.
(IV) Deacon James Trowbridge, son of Thomas Trowbridge (3), was bom at Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1636, and baptized two years later. In 1641 he removed with his father to New Haven, Connecticut. He lived in New Haven until nearly twenty-one years old, when he returned to Dorchester and occupied the land his father had owned before removing to New Haven. He removed in 1664 to Cambridge Village, now Newton, Massachusetts. His wife Margaret. Thomas Wiswan, Goodman Kinwright, were dismissed by the Dorchester church July 11, 1664, to the church gathered at Cambridge Village. James Trowbridge was elected deacon to succeed his father-inlaw in 1675. and held the office forty-two consecutive years. In 1675 he bought of Deputy Governor Danforth a farm of eighty-five acres with house and other buildings, where the governor had lived several years, adjoining his farm, and the descendants of James Trowbridge have ever since kept in their possession a considerable part of the original homestead in Newton. In the seventh generation the place was owned by Nathan Trowbridge. James Trowbridge was selectman on the very first board, elected August 27, 1679, and served nine years. He was clerk of writs 1692-93, lieutenant of the military company, deputy to the general court from 1700 to 1703. He made his will in 1709, and added a codicil in 1715; it was proved in June, 1717. He mentioned his rights in land at Dorchester received from his father, Thomas Trowbridge. The estate amounted to two hundred and forty pounds and seven shillings.
He married December 30, 1659, Margaret Atherton, daughter of Major General Humphrey Atherton. She died August 17, 1672, and he married (second). January 30, 1674, Margaret Jackson, daughter of Deacon John Jackson. She died September 16. 1727, aged seventy-eight years.
Children of the first wife:
1. Elizabeth, born October 12, 1660, married John Myrick.
2. Mindwell. June 20, 1662, married Jonathan Fuller.
3. John, May 22, 1664, married Sarah Wilson.
4. Margaret, April 30, 1666. married Hon. Ebenezer Stone.
5. Thankful, March 4, 1668, married Deacon R. Ward.
6. Hannah, June 15, 1672, married John Greenwood.
Children of the second wife;
7. Experience, November 1, 1675, married Samuel Wilson.
8. Thomas. December 4, 1677. mentioned below.
9. Deliverance. December 31, 1679, married Eleazer Ward.
10. James. September 20, 1682, married (first) Hannah Bacon; (second) Hannah Jackson
11. William, November 19, 1684, married Sarah Ann Ward; married (second) Sarah Fullam.
12. Abigail, April 11, 1687, probably never married.
13. Caleb. November 9, 1692, married Sarah Oliver; married (second) Hannah Walter.
(V) Lieutenant Thomas Trowbridge, son of James Trowbridge (4), was born December 4, 1677, and died in 1724. He settled in Newton and removed to New London. Connecticut. He married his first wife about 1700; married (second), March 3, 1709, Mary Goffe. of Cambridge. He married (third), January 7, 1716, Susanna . In 1725 Edmund Goffe was appointed guardian of Trowbridge's minor children Edmund and Lydia, and Mr. Nathaniel Longley of Mary Trowbridge, aged thirteen.
Child of the first wife.
1. John, born about 1702. mentioned below.
Children of the second wife:
2. Edmund, born 1709, Harvard graduate, 1728; married Martha Remington and resided in Cambridge.
3. Lydia, born 1710-11. married, 1737. Richard Dana, and was mother of Chief Justice Dana.
4. Mary, born 1713, married Eben Chamberlain, in 1733.
5. Abigail, born about 1720 (see guardianship papers at Middlesex probate).
(VI) John Trowbridge, son of Thomas Trowbridge (5), was born about 1702, and died May 19, 1762. He was a housewright and came to Framingham, Massachusetts, as early as 1725. He bought fifty-five acres of land, part of the present Nathan Hosmer place, by deed dated February 3, 1726-27, from Joseph Buckminster. He exchanged this farm March 16, 1732, with Samuel Bullen for fifty acres of land and buildings, paying also fifty-five pounds. This farm adjoined Ezekiel How's. He also bought the Joshua Eaton place, now Captain Russell's and Mrs. Parsons, in 1742, and the Peter B. Davis farm in 1747. All his land was formerly of the six hundred acres of "reserved land," and the original title given by Colonel Buckminster or derived from him proving defective, Trowbridge recovered damages and gained new title of the heirs of Governor Danforth. Trowbridge was selectman and a prominent citizen of Framingham. He married Mehitable Eaton, daughter of Jonas Eaton. She was buried March 26, 1777.
Children:
1. Mehitable, born January 26, 1725-26. married Oldham (iates.
2. Mary, born July 27, 1728. married Amos Gates.
3. John, born May 22. 1730, married Margaret Farrar and lived in Framingham.
4. Lydia. born December 24, 1731, married. January 7, 1752-53. Ralph Hemenway.
5. Thomas, born April 1, 1734, mentioned below.
6. Ruth, born March 3, 1736, married Peter Rice.
(VII) Thomas Trowbridge, son of John Trowbridge (6). was born in Framingham, April 1, 1734, and died at Swanzey, New Hampshire, January 12, 1804. He lived in Framingham until 1771, when he settled in Fitzwilliam, where he was admitted to the church in 1772, removing to Swanzey. He was dismissed to the Swanzey church December 26, 1784. He resided on the J. O. C;ary place in Swanzey. His son Thomas succeeded to the homestead, and his grandson, Colonel Thomas Trowbridge, lived in Swanzey on the C. E. Hill place. Mr. Trowbridge married Hannah Perry, of Framingham, born 1735, died December 2, 1809, aged seventy four years.
Children, born in Framingham, except the two youngest:
1. Luther, born June 3, 1756, married Elizabeth Tallman and lived in Albany, New York.
2. Hannah, December 19. 1759. died 1804; married. November 22, 1781, Jonathan Whitin, Jr.
3. Edmund. March 2, 1762, died 1766.
4. Mehitable, February 6, 1764, married, July 1. 1781, Abijah Wetherbee; she died February 6, 1844.
5. Polly, June 6, 1766, married Page and lived in Ohio.
6. Thomas, June 5, 1768.
7. Joseph, May 5, 1770, mentioned below.
8. Margaret. April 6, 1774. married Belden and lived in Vermont.
9. Martha, born in Fitzwilliam, May 10. 1778, married Jonathan Whitcomb; she died September 3, 1822, at Dummerston, Vermont.
(VIII) Joseph Trowbridge, son of Thomas Trowbridge (7), was born in Framingham, May 5, 1770. He married, at the age of eighteen, April 27, 1788, Lucy Barnes, of Marlborough, born September 16, 1756, daughter of Frederick Barnes. A certificate on file at the Middlesex probate records states that "Joseph Trowbridge of Marlborough, a minor, and husband to Lucy, daughter of Frederick Barnes, late of Marlborough, chose John Stowe for his guardian," May 6, 1789. The guardian's bond states that his father Thomas Trowbridge was "late of Framingham, now of New Hampshire." John and Simon Stowe and Uriah Brigham were on the bond. Joseph died November. 1808, and his widow Lucy administered his estate. The inventory filed December 21, 1808, showed property valued at $1910.98.
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Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs ..., Volume 1 edited by William Richard Cutter
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Lt. James Trowbridge"Register of officers and members of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Hampshire"
TROWBRIDGE, LIEUTENANT JAMES, 1636-1717, Newton. Deputy to the General Court from Cambridge, 1700 and 1703. Served in King Philip's War. Colony of Massachusetts Bay.
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1st Settler's Memorial, Newton, MassachusettsOld East Parish Burying GroundNewton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Contributed by Paul E. Truesdell, Jr [petjr@nirai.ne.jp].
1st Settlers Monument North Side: "Dea. John Jackson gave one acre of land for this Burial Place and First Church, which was erected upon this spot.", "Abraham Jackson son of Dea. John gave one acre which two acres form the old part of This Cemetery." "Edward Jackson gave 20 acres for the Parsonage in 1660, and 31 acres for the Ministensal Wood Lot in 1681."West Side:s. = settledd. = died Druce, Vincent, s. 1650, d. 1678Eliot, John, s. 1664, d. 1668, 33yFuller, John, s. 1644, d. 1698, 87yHammond, Thomas, s. 1650, d. 1675Hyde, Jonathan, s. 1657, d. 1711, 85yHyde, Samuel, s. 1640, d. 1689, 79yJackson, Edward, s. 1643, d. 1681, 79yJackson, John, s. 1639, d. 1674Kenrick, John, s. 1658, d. 1686, 82yPark, Richard, s. 1647, d. 1665Parker, John, s. 1650, d. 1686, 71yPrentice, James, s. 1650, d. 1710, 81yPrentice, Thomas 2nd, s. 1650, d. no datePrentice, Thomas, s. 1649, d. 1710, 89ySpring, John, s. 1664, d. 1717, 87yTrowbridge, James, s. 1664, d. 1717, 81yWard, John, s. 1650, d. 1708, 82yWilliams, Abraham, s. 1662, d. 1712, 84yWilliams, Isaac, s. 1661, d. 1708, 69yWiswall, Thomas, s. 1654, d. 1683South Side: "Thomas Wiswall ordained ruling elder Jul 20 1664. His sons Enoch of Dorchester died Nov 28, 1706 age 73", "Rev. Ichabod Minister of Duxbury 30 y. Agent of Plymouth Colony in England 1690. Died Jul 23, 1700 age 63.", "Capt. Noah, of Newton an officer in the expedition against Canada killed in Battle with the French and Indians July 6, 1690 age 50. Leaving a son Thomas."East Side: "Rev. John Eliot Jr. first Pastor of the first Church Ordained July 20, 1664", "His widow married Edmond Quincy of Braintree died in 1700.", "His only daughter married John Bowles Esq. of Roxbury and died Jun 28, 1740 AET 75, "His only son John settled in Windsor Connecticut When he died in 1733. leaving a son John a student in Yale College.On Base: "First settlers of Newton. Erected Sep 1, 1852 Times of their settlement by descendants of the first settlers."Memorial Tablets Tablet 1522 "Rev. Joseph Grafton, d. Erected by his congregation as a grateful tribute to the many virtues of a devoted pastor who Watched over them with tender interest, christian, diligence and parental affection more than sixty years. Also to his worthy companion who exhibited in unusual perfection all the graces of the christian."Tablet 232 "Nehemiah Hobart, d. In this tomb are deposited the remains of the Reverend and very learned teacher of divinity, Nehemias Hobart, an estimable fellow of H.C., a highly faithful and watchful Pastor of the ch. of Newton, for forty years. His singular gravity, humility, piety, and learning, rendered him the object of deep verneration, and ardent esteem, to men of science and religion. He was born Nov 21, 1648, and d. Aug 25, 1712, in the 64th year of his age. (Original Inscription in Latin...badly deteriorated)"Tablet 1527 "A memorial of unsurpassed Ministerial fidelity hallowed affections, social virtues and holy perseverance, d. erected by many friends."Tablet 1150 "Hic depositum mori quod potuit Rev. Verig Venerandi Johannis Cotton ecclesiae Newtoniensis fidelissimi prudentissimi doctissimig nuxes Pastoris concionandi tam precandi facultate celiberrimi pictate specatis simi moribus Sanctissimi undequaq et Suavissimi ab omnibus bene meriti deploratiq. Anditoribu praecipue quibus vel mortuus concionari non, d. desimi Famal onge latiq. Vacalius et diuttus marmore durantissimo nomen perdulce proclamabit Morbo non Senecta tractus e viat decessit Maii 17 A.D 1757 ÆT. Suae 64 Offici ministratis"Tablet 43 "Here lie interred the remains of Madam Mary Cotton consort of ye late Rev. Mr. John Cotton who died lamented Sept. 28, 1761 age 63.", "Here lie intered the remains of Dr. John Cotton A.M. Son of ye late Rev. Mr. John Cotton who died much lamented Sept. 6, 1758 age 29. And died March 28, 1833. Virtus superavit annos""Squire Kenrick's" Epitaph on Marble Slab in Old City Cemetery, Newton, Massachusetts. Fast becoming obliterated and decipherable only with great difficulty"John Kebrick, Esq. Aet. 77 years "He was laborious, honest and frugalThough possessed of wealthHe loved not money but loved his fellow men.Sparing in self, d. indulgence and hospitable to allHe was a benefactor to the needy and unfortunate. To the fundsFor the poor of his native landAnd to benevolent societies and Christian charities every(where?)To the temperance reformation he was an efficient and devoted friend.Early impressed with the un......and inhumanity of slaveryAnd its peculiar incompatability with republican institutionsHe strove alone and unassisted to awaken his fellow manTo this subject.""He wrote often and persuasively for this cause.He republished gratuitously the writings of others.If there had been ten like him in the (country??)The stain of slavery would not have darkened the (stars??)In the North American Constellation.A forerunner of Abolition, a liberal contributorTo the first Society formed for that object in this countryAnd died in holding office.He believed that goodness consists in doing goodAnd that the truest homage to Almighty GodIs in reverent imitation of His blessed word.He was born Nov 6, 1755"
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Cambridge CompanyHe was a soldier in King Philip's War, being a lieutenant of the Cambridge village company of foot soldiers, and he was also a deacon of the church, evidently a man of note in his community.
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS VOLUME XIV—SIXTH MEMOIR BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF JOHN TROWBRIDGE 18434923 BY EDWIN H. HALL PRESENTED TO THE ACADEMY AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, 1930
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Deacon James TrowbridgeDeacon James Trowbridge was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1636 and died May 22, 1717 . On attaining his majority, he returned to Dorchester and married first December 3, 1659, Margaret Atherton, who died June 17, 1672, the daughter of Major General Humphrey Atherton, who came from England and settled in Dorchester about 1636. (General H. Atherton succceeded Geneneral Robert Sedgwick as commander of the military forces, was employed in negotiations with the Indians and was killed by falling from his horse while reviewing the militia on Boston common, September 17, 1661.) James Trowbridge married second January 30, 1674, Margaret Jackson who was born June 20, 1649 and died September 16, 1797. He then moved to Cambridge Village after called Nonantum, and now Newton in 1664 and purchased 85 acres of land with dwelling and outbuildings, which he had occupied for some years, of Deputy Governor Danforth. After the death of Deacon John Jackson, he was chosen deacon of the Church 1675. By his will dated 1709, he bequeathed all the lands he had of him through his father in law, Atherton to the children of his first wife, equally. Source: The Greenwood Genealogies 1154-1914 by Frederick Greenwood, pg. 60.
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WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE 1684-1744
[Ancestral Link: Marguerite Anderson (Miller), daughter of Hannah Anderson (Anderson), daughter of Mary Margaret Edmiston (Anderson), daughter of Martha Jane Snow (Edmiston), daughter of Gardner Snow, son of James Snow, son of Mary Trowbridge (Snow), daughter of James Trowbridge, son of William Trowbridge.]
Old East Parish Burying Ground, Newton, Massachusetts
William Trowbridge died 1744, Newton, Massachusetts
Burial: East Parish Burying Ground, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Plot 554
Old East Parish Burying Ground, Newton, Massachusetts
William Trowbridge died 1744, Newton, MassachusettsBurial: East Parish Burying Ground, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
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Bio from F. B. Trowbridge bookNewton, Massachusetts
Bio from F. B. Trowbridge bookNewton, Massachusetts
"His will dated July 2, 1734 was proved March 18, 1744 (Middlesex County Probate Records, Vol. 22, p. 323)" "William Trowbridge after his marriage went to housekeeping in the end of his father-in-law's house. he engaged in business as a weaver, following this trade for several years. His father-in-law made a gift to him by deed of the west end of his house, 13 acres of land adjoining, and a quarter interest in his gristmill and stream (Smelt brook). He later inherited his father-in-law's homestead of about 40 acres and the mill pasture of about equal area. He also owned 20 acres of woodland and a cider mill and four negro slaves. He was prominent in town affairs and served on various committees. He was chosen one of the first board of overseer of the poor in 1734; was elected a selectman for our terms, from 1736 to 1739; and was lieutenant and later Captain of the town's military company for several years. He was a deacon of the Congregational church in Newton and was one of the donors of its communion service. He was called "gentleman" and "Captain" at the time of his death."
FROM: F. B. Trowbridge. "History of the Trowbridge Family in America", (New Haven, Connecticut: Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Co. 1908), p. 507 In a footnote, F. B. Trowbridge discusses the gristmill and stream that Wm. inherited: "John Ward had this from his father-in-law, John Spring, who built the first gristmill in Newton on Smelt brook, near the center of the town." p. 507.
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Captain William Trowbridge 1684-1744
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FROM: F. B. Trowbridge. "History of the Trowbridge Family in America", (New Haven, Connecticut: Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Co. 1908), p. 507 In a footnote, F. B. Trowbridge discusses the gristmill and stream that Wm. inherited: "John Ward had this from his father-in-law, John Spring, who built the first gristmill in Newton on Smelt brook, near the center of the town." p. 507.
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Captain William Trowbridge 1684-1744
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
THOMAS ADGATE 1620-1707
[Ancestral Link: Harold William Miller, son of Edward Emerson Miller, son of Anna Hull (Miller), daughter of William Hull, son of Anna Hyde (Hull), daughter of Uriah Hyde, son of Ezra Hyde, son of Ann Bushnell (Hyde), daughter of Elizabeth Adgate (Bushnell), daughter of Thomas Adgate.]
Thomas Adgate grave
Thomas Adgate grave
Birth: 1620, England
Death: July 21, 1707 Norwich New London County, Connecticut, USA
Husband of Mary Marvin
Family links: Children: Elizabeth Adgate Bushnell (1651 - 1713)
Sarah Adgate Huntington (1662 - 1705)
Spouses: Mary Marvin Adgate (1628 - 1713)
Burial: Old Norwichtown Cemetery, Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, USA
Cemetery name - Old Norwichtown Cemetery
Name on headstone - Thomas Adgate
Birth 1620
Death 1707
Thomas Adgate Headstone
Connecticut, New London, Hempsted House, 1649
Connecticut stone wall
monument, Norwich, Connecticut
Founder of Norwich, Connecticut
NORWICH, MASSACHUSETTS
Norwich was settled in 1660. The 35 original proprietors of that town were:
Reverend James Fitch, the first minister
Major John Mason, afterwards Lieut. Gov. of Connecticut
Lieut. Thomas Leflingwell
Lieut. Thomas Tracy and his eldest son John Tracy Adgate
Deacon Thomas Adgate
Christopher Huntington and his brother, Deacon Simon Huntington
Ensign Thomas Waterman
William Hyde and his son Samuel Hyde, and his son-in-law John Post
Thomas Post
Lieut. William Backus and his brother Stephen Backus
Deacon Hugh Calkins, his son John Calkins and his son-in-lawJonathap Royce
John Reynolds
Thomas Bliss
Francis Griswold
John Birchard
Robert Wade
Morgan Bowers
John Gager
Thomas Howard
Dr. John Olmstead
Nehemiah Smith
Richard Edgerton
John Elderkin
John Bradford
Thomas Bingham
Robert Allen
John Baldwin
John Pease
Most of these original proprietors of Norwich came from Saybrook, and East Saybrook (now Lyme). Hugh Calkins, and his son and son-in-law, and John Pease, John Gager, Nehemiah Smith and Robert Allen came from New London, Connecticut. Thomas Smith and John Bradford were from Marshfield, Massachusetts.
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Marriage
Volume 1 page 18
Adgate, Thomas, Saybrook, had Eliz. born 10 October 1651; and Hannah, 6 October 1653; and by second wife Mary, widow of Richard Bushnell, daughter of Matthew Marvin, with wh. a. 1660, he rem. to Norwich, had Abigail, August 1661; Sarah, January 1663; Rebecca, June 1666; and Thomas, March 1670. He was after at Saybrook, deac. and died 1707.
All the daughters were married - Eliz. to Richard Bushnell, 7 December. 1672; Hannah, to Samuel Lothrop, but perhaps as second wife; Abigail, to Daniel Tracy, 1682; Sarah, to Christopher Huntington the second and; Rebecca, to Joseph Huntington.
THOMAS, Norwich, son of the preced. married 15 June 1692, Ruth, daughter of Benjamin Brewster of the same, had Thomas, and Matthew, was deac. and reached to very old age.
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Thomas Adgate (1620 - 1707)
Nothing is known of Thomas Adgate previous to his arrival in Saybrook. The name of his first wife, and the date of her death, are unknown. The births of two daughters are recorded at Saybrook, Elizabeth (born 1651), and Hannah (born 1653). Between 1658 and 1660, Thomas Adgate married Mary (Marvin) Bushnell, widow of Richard Bushnell, and daughter of Matthew Marvin or Norwalk. On their arrival at Norwich, the household consisted of Deacon Thomas and his wife, his two daughters, Elizabeth and Hannah, and the four Bushnell children, Joseph, Richard, Mary, and Mercy. Three other daughters were born in Norwich, and one son. The family must have been not only a very united one, but uncommonly attractive as well, for Richard Bushnell married his step-sister, Elizabeth Adgate, and one by one the neighbors' sons succumbed to the charms of the remaining daughters."Source: Perkins, Mary E. Old houses of the antient [sic] town of Norwich, 1660-1800 : with maps, illustrations, portraits, and genealogies, Pages 174-175.Thomas Adgate first appeared in Saybook, Connecticut around 1650. According to some sources (for example, Caulkins, "History of Norwich", p.155) he may have been the only immigrant to New England named Adgate. So it's possible that most, if not all, of the Adgates in America are his descendants.http://www.conovergenealogy.com/ancestor-p/p14.htmDea. Thomas Adgate was born in 1620 at England. His mother was Elizabeth Chester.
He married a Elizabeth unknown about 1650 in England and had two children: Elizabeth Adgate and Hannah Adgate. The children were born in Connecticut.
He married Mary Marvin, daughter of Matthew Marvin and Elizabeth Gregory, in 1660 at Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut. Deacon Thomas Adgate died on July 21, 1707 at Norwich, New London County, Connecticut. He is buried at Old Burying Ground, Norwich, New London County, Connecticut.
Thomas was first ordained to his office in the First Church of Saybrook in 1646. He was one of the earliest proprietors of Saybrook and Lyme. He resigned his post in Saybrook in 1660, when he removed to Norwich where he was one of the first 35 proprietors. He was made a freeman in Norwich in 1669. He was a townsman there in 1674, 1676, 1679, 1680, 1682, 1684 and 1686. When the meeting house was enlarged in 1698 he was given some of the best seats due to his rank and stature as one of the oldest and most respected citizens. By his first marriage he had two daughters. The oldest, Elizabeth, later married her step-brother, Richard Bushnell Jr. His will was date 22 May 1704 and says in part, "I Thomas Adgate, being in the 84th year of my age". In his will, he spelled his name "Adgit". He was buried in the Old Burying Grounds in Norwich. Note: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gov. Thomas Dewey, Adlai Stevenson III, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Jan Garrigue Masaryk (foreign minister of Czechoslovakia) are descendants of Thomas and his first wife.
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Norwich Deed
6 June 1659, Norwich, Connecticut
Norwich, New London County, Connecticut Deed "Know all men that Onkos, Owaneco, Attawanhood, Sachems of Mohegan have Bargained, sold, and passed over, and doe by these presents sell and pass over unto the towne and Inhabitants of Norwich nine miles square of land lying and being at Mohegan and the parts thereunto adjoyneing, with all ponds, rivers. woods, quarries, mines, with all royalties, privileges, and appurtenaces thereunto belonging, to them the said inhabitiants of Norwich, theire heirs and successors forever--from thence the line run nor north east nine miles, and on the East side the afores'd river to the southward the line is to joyne with New London bounds as it is now laid out and soe to run east two miles from the foresd river, nor norwest nine miles to meet with the western line. "In consideration whereof the sd Onkos, Owanexo and Attawanhood doe acknowledge to have received of the parties aforesd the full and juste sum of seventy pounds and doe promise and engage ourselves, heirs and successors, to warrant the sd bargain and sale to the aforesd parties, their heirs and successors, and them to defend from all claimes and molestations from any whatsoever. "In witness whereof we have hereunto set out to our hands this 6th of June, Anno 1659. "Unkos "Owaneco "Attawanhood "Witness hereunto, John Mason, Thomas Tracy "
Source: USGenweb, Connecticut, New London
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Death: July 21, 1707 Norwich New London County, Connecticut, USA
Husband of Mary Marvin
Family links: Children: Elizabeth Adgate Bushnell (1651 - 1713)
Sarah Adgate Huntington (1662 - 1705)
Spouses: Mary Marvin Adgate (1628 - 1713)
Burial: Old Norwichtown Cemetery, Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, USA
Cemetery name - Old Norwichtown Cemetery
Name on headstone - Thomas Adgate
Birth 1620
Death 1707
Thomas Adgate Headstone
Connecticut, New London, Hempsted House, 1649
Connecticut stone wall
monument, Norwich, ConnecticutFounder of Norwich, Connecticut
NORWICH, MASSACHUSETTS
Norwich was settled in 1660. The 35 original proprietors of that town were:
Reverend James Fitch, the first minister
Major John Mason, afterwards Lieut. Gov. of Connecticut
Lieut. Thomas Leflingwell
Lieut. Thomas Tracy and his eldest son John Tracy Adgate
Deacon Thomas Adgate
Christopher Huntington and his brother, Deacon Simon Huntington
Ensign Thomas Waterman
William Hyde and his son Samuel Hyde, and his son-in-law John Post
Thomas Post
Lieut. William Backus and his brother Stephen Backus
Deacon Hugh Calkins, his son John Calkins and his son-in-lawJonathap Royce
John Reynolds
Thomas Bliss
Francis Griswold
John Birchard
Robert Wade
Morgan Bowers
John Gager
Thomas Howard
Dr. John Olmstead
Nehemiah Smith
Richard Edgerton
John Elderkin
John Bradford
Thomas Bingham
Robert Allen
John Baldwin
John Pease
Most of these original proprietors of Norwich came from Saybrook, and East Saybrook (now Lyme). Hugh Calkins, and his son and son-in-law, and John Pease, John Gager, Nehemiah Smith and Robert Allen came from New London, Connecticut. Thomas Smith and John Bradford were from Marshfield, Massachusetts.
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Marriage
Volume 1 page 18
Adgate, Thomas, Saybrook, had Eliz. born 10 October 1651; and Hannah, 6 October 1653; and by second wife Mary, widow of Richard Bushnell, daughter of Matthew Marvin, with wh. a. 1660, he rem. to Norwich, had Abigail, August 1661; Sarah, January 1663; Rebecca, June 1666; and Thomas, March 1670. He was after at Saybrook, deac. and died 1707.
All the daughters were married - Eliz. to Richard Bushnell, 7 December. 1672; Hannah, to Samuel Lothrop, but perhaps as second wife; Abigail, to Daniel Tracy, 1682; Sarah, to Christopher Huntington the second and; Rebecca, to Joseph Huntington.
THOMAS, Norwich, son of the preced. married 15 June 1692, Ruth, daughter of Benjamin Brewster of the same, had Thomas, and Matthew, was deac. and reached to very old age.
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Thomas Adgate (1620 - 1707)
Nothing is known of Thomas Adgate previous to his arrival in Saybrook. The name of his first wife, and the date of her death, are unknown. The births of two daughters are recorded at Saybrook, Elizabeth (born 1651), and Hannah (born 1653). Between 1658 and 1660, Thomas Adgate married Mary (Marvin) Bushnell, widow of Richard Bushnell, and daughter of Matthew Marvin or Norwalk. On their arrival at Norwich, the household consisted of Deacon Thomas and his wife, his two daughters, Elizabeth and Hannah, and the four Bushnell children, Joseph, Richard, Mary, and Mercy. Three other daughters were born in Norwich, and one son. The family must have been not only a very united one, but uncommonly attractive as well, for Richard Bushnell married his step-sister, Elizabeth Adgate, and one by one the neighbors' sons succumbed to the charms of the remaining daughters."Source: Perkins, Mary E. Old houses of the antient [sic] town of Norwich, 1660-1800 : with maps, illustrations, portraits, and genealogies, Pages 174-175.Thomas Adgate first appeared in Saybook, Connecticut around 1650. According to some sources (for example, Caulkins, "History of Norwich", p.155) he may have been the only immigrant to New England named Adgate. So it's possible that most, if not all, of the Adgates in America are his descendants.http://www.conovergenealogy.com/ancestor-p/p14.htmDea. Thomas Adgate was born in 1620 at England. His mother was Elizabeth Chester.
He married a Elizabeth unknown about 1650 in England and had two children: Elizabeth Adgate and Hannah Adgate. The children were born in Connecticut.
He married Mary Marvin, daughter of Matthew Marvin and Elizabeth Gregory, in 1660 at Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut. Deacon Thomas Adgate died on July 21, 1707 at Norwich, New London County, Connecticut. He is buried at Old Burying Ground, Norwich, New London County, Connecticut.
Thomas was first ordained to his office in the First Church of Saybrook in 1646. He was one of the earliest proprietors of Saybrook and Lyme. He resigned his post in Saybrook in 1660, when he removed to Norwich where he was one of the first 35 proprietors. He was made a freeman in Norwich in 1669. He was a townsman there in 1674, 1676, 1679, 1680, 1682, 1684 and 1686. When the meeting house was enlarged in 1698 he was given some of the best seats due to his rank and stature as one of the oldest and most respected citizens. By his first marriage he had two daughters. The oldest, Elizabeth, later married her step-brother, Richard Bushnell Jr. His will was date 22 May 1704 and says in part, "I Thomas Adgate, being in the 84th year of my age". In his will, he spelled his name "Adgit". He was buried in the Old Burying Grounds in Norwich. Note: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gov. Thomas Dewey, Adlai Stevenson III, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Jan Garrigue Masaryk (foreign minister of Czechoslovakia) are descendants of Thomas and his first wife.
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Norwich Deed
6 June 1659, Norwich, Connecticut
Norwich, New London County, Connecticut Deed "Know all men that Onkos, Owaneco, Attawanhood, Sachems of Mohegan have Bargained, sold, and passed over, and doe by these presents sell and pass over unto the towne and Inhabitants of Norwich nine miles square of land lying and being at Mohegan and the parts thereunto adjoyneing, with all ponds, rivers. woods, quarries, mines, with all royalties, privileges, and appurtenaces thereunto belonging, to them the said inhabitiants of Norwich, theire heirs and successors forever--from thence the line run nor north east nine miles, and on the East side the afores'd river to the southward the line is to joyne with New London bounds as it is now laid out and soe to run east two miles from the foresd river, nor norwest nine miles to meet with the western line. "In consideration whereof the sd Onkos, Owanexo and Attawanhood doe acknowledge to have received of the parties aforesd the full and juste sum of seventy pounds and doe promise and engage ourselves, heirs and successors, to warrant the sd bargain and sale to the aforesd parties, their heirs and successors, and them to defend from all claimes and molestations from any whatsoever. "In witness whereof we have hereunto set out to our hands this 6th of June, Anno 1659. "Unkos "Owaneco "Attawanhood "Witness hereunto, John Mason, Thomas Tracy "
Source: USGenweb, Connecticut, New London
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