ADAMS, Alexander, shipwright, Boston, bought house in 1645, adm. chh. 31 (3) 1646; frm. May 10, 1648. With wife Mary, dism. to Chh. of Dorchester for a season 23 (10) 1647. Ch. Mary b. 9 (11) 1645, Susanna, b. 14 (3) 1648, Martha bapt. 27 (5) 1650, John b. 26 Feb. 1652, Samuel b. 7 May, 1656, Susanna b. July 21, 1658, Elizabeth bapt. 25 (5) 1658, Elizabeth b. Oct. 1, 1660.
Admin. gr. Feb. 28, 1677-8 to his widow Mary.
Ferdinando, shoemaker, Dedham, propr. 1637, adm. chh. 25 (11) 1639; frm. May 13, 1640. Wife, Ann adm. chh. in 1639; ch. Abigail b. 45 (7) 1639, Bethia b. 10 (4) 1640, Nathaniel b. 16 (1) 1642. He went to England 3 (6) 1641, and his wife followed in 1642. [Chh. Rec.] He res. in St. Katharine's in 1653, when his agent sold lands in Dedham.
George, glover, Watertown, 1645, propr. at Nashaway or Lancaster in 1647; sold land in Wat. Nov. 4, 1664. Rem. to Cambridge.
Wife, Frances; ch. John b. 16 (8) 1645, Joseph b. March 6, 1657; other ch. George, and Mary.
He d. Oct. 10, 1696. Admin. on his est. was gr. to the widow Frances Oct. 28.
Henry, Sen., Braintree, had land grant at Mr. Wollaston 24 (12) 1639-40, 40 acres for 10 heads. Signed petition about meadows in 1646. [Arch. 45.]
He was bur. 8 (8) 1646. Nunc. will prob. 8 (4) 1647, on testimony of Benjamin Allbe and Richard Brackett. Inv. filed. Beq. to wife; to sons Peter, John, Joseph, Edward and Samuel, and dau. Ursula. House and lands, etc. Books to be divided among his children. Money due to son Samuel for ground bought of him; part of his land to return to the town. John (probably this son), depos. at Cambridge 7 (8) 1656, ae. about 35 years. [Mdx. Files.] Samuel m. Mary Eaglesfield, q. v. [Henry, town clerk, lieut., owner of a mill afterwards at Medfield, who m. Elizabeth, dau. of Moses Paine, is believed to have been another son of Henry, Sen.; but the writer has found no proof of this nor any trace of the origin of the family, in any contemporaneous document.]
Jeremy, Cambridge, propr. 1633, frm. May 6, 1635.
John, Plymouth, came in the Fortune in 1621; frm. 1632. Wife Eleanor and son James recd. shares of cattle in 1627.
He d. in 1633; inv. of his est. taken Oct. 24, 1633. Ch. James, John and Susan. The widow m. 2, in June, 1634, Kenelm Winslow, who paid her son John his portion 26 Dec. 1651. She was bur. Dec. 5, 1681, ae. 83. [Reg. XXXIII, 410.]
John, Salem left his master Thorndike in 1636. [Court Rec.]
Nathaniel, dish-turner, Weymouth, frm. May 26, 1647; town officer. He rem. to Boston; bought house and land about 1651. Town officer; had large estate. Wife Sarah; ch. Abraham b. 16 (11) 1641. He deposed about 2 (2) 1661, ae. about 60 years, concerning a bargain made in 1657. [Mdx. Files.]
He made will 14 July, 1675; "aged;" prob. 1 (9) folg.; beq. to wife Sarah, sons Nathaniel, David, Abraham, Jonathan, Isaac (if yet alive and shalll return to Boston); to David's ch. Sarah and David; to Mary Tinwell. The widow's will, dated Oct. 16, 1684, prob. 14 May, 1685. The son Nathaniel depos., 1681, ae. about 50 years.
Richard, ae. 29, with Susan, ae. 26, came in the Abigail June 26, 1635, cert. from Northampton, Eng. Settled at Salem. Frm. Sept. 2, 1635. Deputy, town officer. Bought land, 1646. Wife Elizabeth d. at Malden (9) 1656.
Richard, ae. 29, servant to Wm. Read of Batcome, Eng., tailor, came from Weymouth, Eng. before March 20, 1635, with wife Mary, ae. 26, and ch. Mary, ae. 1. Settled at Weymouth. Com. for Gen. Court 6 (7) 1638. Excused from bearing arms on account of age 20 (4) 1665. [Mdx. Files.] Ch. Sarah b. 3 (5) 1637, Samuel b. 6 (4) 1639, Ruth b. 3 (4) 1642.
Robert, yeoman, tailor, Salem, propr. 1638; employed to "ring" the swine in 1646. Rem. to Newbury about 1649. Wife Eleanor d. June 12, 1677. He m. 2, Feb. 6, 1678, Sarah, widow of Henry Short. Ch. John, Joanna, (m. Launcelot Granger,) Abraham, Elizabeth, (m. Edward Phelps,) Mary, (m. Jeremiah Goodridge,) Isaac, Jacob b. and d. 1649, Hannah b. 25 June, 1650, (m. William Warham,) Jacob b. 13 Sept. 1651, Jacob b. April 14, 1654, Archelaus. Joanna, ae. 17, and Abraham, ae. 10, depos. in 1651.
He d. 12 Oct. 1682, ae. 81. Will dated 7 March, 1680, and 27 June, 1682, prob. 28 (9) folg.; beq. to wife Sarah, sons John, Isaac, Jacob, Abraham, and daus. Hannah A., Elizabeth Phelps, Joanna Granger, Mary Goodridge; to several of their ch. and to Mary, Abraham's wife. The widow d. 24 Oct. 1697.
Thomas, Cambridge, propr. 1639. Rem. to Braintree; propr. also at Weymouth, 1643. Rem. to Concord; sold house and land, lately called that of John A., 1 Jan. 1654. Rem. to Chelmsford. Wife Mary; ch. Jonathan and Pelatiah b. 6 (1) 1646, Timothy b. 15 (2) 1648, George b. 29 (3) 1650.
His will, dated March 28, 1688, prob. Oct. 7, 1690, beq. to wife Mary, sons Pelatiah, Jonathan, Timothy, Samuel, and dau. Cooper. Inv. taken 11 Aug. 1688.
William, ae. 15, came in the Elizabeth and Ann in May, 1635. Settled at Cambridge; planter; propr. 1636; frm. May 22, 1638. Rem. to Ipswich. Memb. grand jury, 1642. He made exchange of land about 1651, as his son Lieut. John testified March 29, 1692, being about 60 years old; mentioning his bro. William, and the latter's ch. William, Simon and John.
William, b. May 27, 1650, who was ord. minister at Dedham in 1673, is doubtless the grandson here mentioned. His diary is printed in Mass. Hist. Coll. 4-1.
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