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Descendants of James Pemberton

Generation No. 1

1. JAMES¹ PEMBERTON was born Abt. 1608 in Based on estimated date of marriage ¹, and died February 5, 1661/62 in Malden, , Mass.². He married (1) ALICE Bef. 1633 ³. She died Bet. 1642 - 1653⁴. He married (2) MARGARET Bef. 1653 ⁵. She was born Abt. 1612⁶, and died December 15, 1662⁶.

Notes for JAMES PEMBERTON:
Webpage http://members.aol.com/dcurtin1/gene/winthrop.htm lists:
1630, THE WINTHROP FLEET:
Eleven vessels brought ' the Great Emigration' of this year,viz:

ARBELLA the flagship

AMBROSE WILLIAM AND FRANCIS

TALBOT HOPEWELL

JEWEL WHALE

CHARLES SUCCESS

MAYFLOWER TRIAL

The first five ships sailed April 8 from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and arrived at Salem June 13 and
following days. The other half of the fleet sailed in May and arrived in July at various dates.
Altogether they brought about seven hundred passengers of whom the following are presumed to
have been on these ships:
JAMES PEMBERTON Charlestown (Destination)
Mrs. Alice Pemberton

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ancestry.com datatbase [Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.] states:
JAMES PEMBERTON

ORIGIN: Unknown
FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 [MBCR 1:80].
EDUCATION: He made his mark to his will.
ESTATE: Granted two acres of planting ground at Charlestown, 10 January 1634/5 [ChTR 12]. Had
hay ground allotment of one in 1635, which was increased to two [ChTR 19, 20]. Had five acres of
land Mystic Side, 1637 [ChTR 27]. Had 2˝ cow commons, 1637 [ChTR]. In Mystic Side allotments
of 23 April 1638 received five shares as his first proprotion [ChTR 36 (second and third proportions
illegible)]. In cow commons on stinted common had 2˝, 30 December 1638 [ChTR 42].
In the 1638 Charlestown Book of Possessions James Pemberton held eight parcels: half a rood of
ground; two acres arable land in East Field; two acres arable land in Line Field; two and a half cow
commons; five acres woodland in Mystic Field; one acre meadow in Mystic Field; five acres
woodland in Mystic Field; and thirty-two acres of land in Water Field [ChBOP 14].
On 12 May 1648 James Pemberton acknowledged that he had sold one stinted cow common to
Robert Hale of Charlestown [ChBOP 104].
In his will, dated 23 March 1659/60 and proved 1 April 1662, "James Pemberton of Maldon ...
being weak in body" bequeathed to "my son Edward Barlow all that my upland ground he now is
resident upon containing four acres and to my daughter Mary his wife and to the heirs of their two
bodies for ever"; to "my son Edward Barlow, his wife, my daughter, and their children aforesaid, my
orchard plot and the fresh meadow thereunto adjoining containing one acre ... only one half part of
the grass for hay for my wife during her life"; to "my daughter Sara Ł10"; "my dwelling house with
all the land belonging to it being ten acres more or less, five acres of land in the great swamp, all my
salt marsh ... with all other my estate whatsoever not before particularly disposed of I give one half
part unto my son John ... the other half part I give unto my beloved wife Margit Pemberton during
her life, and after her decease to my son John and his heirs"; "my wife and my son John executors";
"my friend Joseph Hills Sr." overseer [MPR Case #17117].
The inventory of the estate of James Pemberton was taken 5 February 1661[/2] and totalled Ł84
12s. including Ł72 in real estate: "one dwelling house," Ł12; "ten acres of upland, and five of
swamp," Ł30; "four acres of upland more and one acre of orchard & meadow," Ł18; and "four acres
of meadow more," Ł12 [MPR Case #17117].

COMMENTS: James Pemberton was admitted as an inhabitant of Charlestown in December 1633,
and was in the lists of inhabitants of 9 January 1633/4 and January 1635/6 [ChTR 9, 10, 15]. He
signed the town agreement establishing the office of selectman, 10 February 1634/5 [ChTR 12].
There is no record of this James Pemberton in New England between his request for freemanship
in September 1630 and his reappearance in Charlestown in 1633. This gap, and especially the fact
that he was not made a freeman in May of 1631, suggests that he returned to England for some
portion of these years. There is even the possibility that the 1630 man is not the same as the one
who appeared in 1633 in Charlestown.
About 1640, James Pemberton, Prudence Wilkinson, and others petitioned that having been
inhabitants of Charlestown and now planters on Mystick side, found that the town meeting had
passed very prejudicial and unreasonable rules to the detriment of the planters and they sought
redress from the court [Lechford 365].
Savage notes that this James Pemberton "perhaps removed to Hull for a short time, about 1647"
[Savage 3:387]. Savage is off by a decade, and it is not certain that these records apply to James
Pemberton of Charlestown. 12 March 1637/8: "James Pemberton is referred to the committee of
the next Court about the ground which he had at Nantascot" [MBCR 1:226]. 2 May 1638: "There is
ten acres of land granted to James Pemberton, part of it the land formerly planted by him, & the rest
joining to it at Nantascot" [MBCR 1:229].
On 19 October 1652 the court judged that the island claimed by James Pemberton, and called by
his name, did belong to him [MBCR 3:291].

More About JAMES PEMBERTON:
Immigrated: 1630, from England in Winthrop's fleet^7,⁸
Residence 1: 1630, Charlestown, , Mass.⁹
Residence 2: Aft. 1630, Malden, , Mass.¹⁰

Notes for ALICE:
ancestry.com datatbase [Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.] states:
"Alice Pemberton" was admitted to Charlestown church 31 August 1633 [ChChR 8]

More About ALICE:
Immigrated: 1630, from England in Winthrop's fleet¹¹

More About JAMES PEMBERTON and ALICE:
Marriage: Bef. 1633¹²

More About JAMES PEMBERTON and MARGARET:
Marriage: Bef. 1653¹³

Children of JAMES PEMBERTON and ALICE are:

JAMES² PEMBERTON.

More About JAMES PEMBERTON:
Baptism: September 14, 1633, Charlestown, , Mass.¹⁴

ii.

MARY PEMBERTON, b. Bef. April 3, 1636 ¹⁵; m. EDMUND BARLOW¹⁶, Abt. 1650, Charlestown, Mass ^17,¹⁸; b. Bef. October 1, 1626 ¹⁹; d. December 19, 1697, prob at Malden, Mass ²⁰.

Notes for MARY PEMBERTON:
*************** See BARLOW family for continuation of this line **********************

More About MARY PEMBERTON:
Baptism (LDS): April 3, 1636, Charlestown, Mass ^21,²²

Notes for EDMUND BARLOW:
Edson Barlow web page www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ridge/3145/edmundmalden.html:
His will was dated May 16, 1696, was proved on December 24, 1697, and mentioned his
wife and four daughters; three grandchildren, James, Elizabeth and Mary Barlow; two grandchildren,
Edmund and Elizabeth Chadwick; and daughter-in-law Elizabeth Townsend.

There is no record of Edmund Barlow's arrival in New England. The extant records place him at
Charlestown, Massachusetts, when he married in 1650 and he was recorded at Charlestown before
November 1664, so he probably came to America in the 1640's.

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Edson Barlow concludes that James Barlow was the son of Edmund Barlow. The name Edmund appears frequently among the descendants of James Barlow. Carl Nathan Barlow, however, says that James came from Pembrokshire, Wales as an indentured servant, and shipped out of Falmouth, England on the ship Truelove which was the first ship to Connecticut. The Mormons subscribe to the story that Edmund Barlow is the father of James. Walter Barlow Omans remembers his mother, Margaret Barlow, going to see a prisoner ship touring on the Great Lakes from Wales, and she found a wax model of one of her Barlow ancestors. Perhaps it was James.