John Otis was born Abt. 1581 in Barnstable, Devonshire, Eng, and died May 31, 1657 in Otis Hill (called Weary-all-hill) Weymouth, MA. He married Marjery or Margaret (Unknown).
Notes for John Otis: John Otis took oath and made freeman of Colony of Mass. Bay March 3, 1635.
From "Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worchester County" vol1 p 409-410:
The Otis family has had many men of distinction from colonial times to the present and all are of the same family, all descendants of the same progenitor. John Otis, or as the name is spelled otherwise Attis, Oates, Oatise. The English family has a coat of arms.
The Otis family has had many men of distinction from colonial times to the present and all are of the same family, all descendants of the same progenitor. John Otis, or as the name is spelled otherwise Attis, Oates, Oatise. The English family has a coat of arms.
(I) John Otis, was born in Barnstable, England, in 1581. He settled in Hingham in New England. He was there at the time of the first division and drew land in 1635. Most of the early settlers in Hingham, Massachusetts, were from Hingham, England, and it is thought that Otis lived in Hingham for a time before coming to New England. His homestead was on Otis Hill in the southwest part of Hingham, Massachusetts. He had numerous grants of land between 1635 and 1647. He was admitted a freeman March 3, 1635-6. He was a town officer. His buildings burned March 15, 1645-6. He removed about 1655 to Weymouth, Massachusetts.
He married (first) Margaret (???) in England. She died in Hingham, June 28, 1653. He married (second) and his widow drew land in Weymouth in 1663. He died in Weymouth, May 31, 1657, aged seventy-six. His will was dated the day before his death and was proved July 28, 1657. He bequeathed to his wife; to son John, who was made executor; to daughter Margaret Burton and her three children; to daughter Hannah Gile; to Mary and Thomas Gile, Jr.; to daughters Anne and Alice. His widow Elizabeth made will September 12, 1672, proved July 17, 1676, and bequeathed to son John Streme; daughter Elizabeth and son-in-law, Lieutenant John Holbrook. The children of John Otis were: John, see forward; Richard, went to Weymouth in 1654, settled in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1662; killed by the Indians 1689 with his son Stephen; wife and child captured and sold to the French; his widow married a Frenchman in Canada, but after his death she returned to her old home and married (third) Captain Thomas Baker; Margaret, married Thomas Burton, of Hingham; Hannah, married Thomas Gile; Ann; Alice.
Children of John Otis and Marjery or Margaret (Unknown) are:
+John Otis, b. 1620, Barnstable, Devonshire, Eng, d. January 16, 1683/84, Scituate.
John Otis (b. Abt. 1581, d. May 31, 1657)
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