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Note for: John Sprague, ABT 1683 - 6 APR 1760
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Individual Note: Capt. John Sprague with 22 sentinels marched from Sims-
bury, Conn. (Conn. Hist. Papers, iv, 12.)1739, Capt. Sprague removed from Lebanon to Sharon, Conn.
He drew the 37th home lot. He was a Selectman for sev-
eral years, and what is singular he could not write his
name. The words John X Sprague are appended to many
mark
official documents on the Sharon records. He built the
first frame house in the town. In 1748, he exchanged-
farms with Cornelius Knickerbocker and removed to
Furnace Village (now Lakeville) in Salisbury, Conn.
He afterwards removed to Canaan, Conn., where he
died. (Hist. Sharon, Conn.)
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Individual Notes
Note for: John Sprague, ABT 1656 - 6 MAR 1727/28
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Individual Note: "John Sprague of Duxbery In ye County of New
Plymouth, Weaver, being Grandson to frances Sprague Deed.&
eldest son of & heir to John Sprague also Deceased both for-
merly of ye abovesd town County & Jurisdiction having by
Lineal Decent a Real Right to One half of a purchase o
Land Lying In * * Dartmouth .* * now in the * occupation
of my Uncle Ralf Earle," grantor to "John Earle of sd Dart-
mouth * all my Real and Right title Interest & property In
& to the half share of Land having full power & Lawful Author-
ity to Dispose of ye same * * by virtue of Descent from francis
Sprague aforesd the original purchaser & proprietor * Eleventh
day of Octobr Anno Domi i686.
JOHN SPRAGUE
LYDIA SPRAGUE.
(Bristol Co., Mass., Deeds xxxi, 156.)
He was Constable of Duxbury in 1692, and held other
public trusts there at various times from 1684 to 1701. He was
one of the conspicuous members of the Church in Duxbury. -
1702-30,Jan.8. John Sprague, "Mariner," and Lydia his wife,
of Duxbury, deeded 40 acres of upland with dwelling
house and barn standing thereon in Duxbury for E125
to Israel Sylvester of Scituate. (Plymouth Co. Deeds,
v. 103.) His last deed in Duxbury was given Jan. 28,
1702-3.1703.He removed to Lebanon, Conn., probably in the spring
of this year and became the owner of much land there.
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1718, July 14. John Sprague, Sr., and John Sprague, Jr., agree to liberate Jack, an Indian slave bought by them when he has served faithfully 12 years, and give him a colt which they agree to keep free of charge until Jack sees fit to dispose of him. They also give him a ewe sheep, which they agree to keep and her increase for two years.
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Note for: John Sprague, ABT 1630 - 26 MAR 1676
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Individual Note: Counsellor of Sir Edmund Andros, mentioned in Hutch. i, 354. 5 1
He was slain in Pierce's fierce fight at Pawtucket in Philip's
war, Mch. 26, 1676. His estate was appraised in 1676 and was
sworn to by the widow Ruth Sprague.
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John Sprague, like his father, proved to be a rebel. He spent several hours in the stocks on at least one occasion for "highly misdemeaning himself in the house of James Cole of Plymouth near unto or on the evening before the Sabbath Day, in drinking, gaming and uncivil reveling, to the dishonor of God and the offense of the government, by his gaming and the bringing of his mare uncivily into the parlor of James Cole, aforesaid."
June 6, 1655 (GC Presentments by Grand Enquest, PCR 3:82):
Item, wee present John Sprague and Ruth Bassett, of Duxburrow, for
fornication before they were married. [Cleared by paying the fine.]
Capt MichaelPeirse & Co. of Plymouth Colony
--Capt Peirse[sic]was of Hingham,Mass 1646-1663 and later of Scituate,Mass.
The following information was " chance list found here and there"....the
names also show up in the Treasurer's list as "Narraganset Grantees". This
company was nearly wiped out [doesnt list survivors].
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March 1675/6
Pawtucket Falls fight
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from Duxbury.....slain
John Sprague Benjamin Soal
Thomas Hunt Joshua Fobes -------------------------------
John Sprague [Constable 1663/1664] Biographical
John Sprague is the most colorful of all the constables of Duxbury. Aside
from fornication before marriage and signing fraudulent divorce papers, he
apparently liked to get drunk and out of control at other peoples' houses. He
was born between 1638 and 1643 since he appears in no freemen listings before
1658 but was constable by 1663. He died (in extreme debt) before 1677. His
life was short, it seems, but unlike the other constables he had fun. His
service record to the community is extremely brief, but he served on a few
committees and two juries. Apparently nobody saw him as a good representative
to other towns.
Individual Notes
Note for: Ruth Bassett, ABT 1634 -
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Individual Note: Ruth may have married a second time to John Thomas of Marshfield. His first wife had died January 2, 1683. [TAB 41:179].
Individual Notes
Note for: William Bassett, ABT 1600 - 1667
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Occupation: Place: Blacksmith
Individual Note: William Bassett arrived from England on the ship Fortune.
The ship Fortune arrived at Plymouth on November 9, 1621, just a few weeks after the First Thanksgiving. This passenger list is based on the 1623 Division of Land, the passenger list compiled by Charles Edward Banks in Planters of the Commonwealth, by material published occasionally by Robert S. Wakefield in the Mayflower Quarterly, and by the information found in Eugene Aubrey Stratton's Plymouth Colony: Its History and Its People, 1620-1691.
William Bassett was a gunsmith and worker in metals. He was baptised at Stepney, 24 October, 1600. He was unmarried on arrival, but in the division of 1623 was allotted two acres showing that he had taken a wife before that date.
Source: The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers Who Came to Plymouth on the "Mayflower" in 1620, the "Fortune" in 1621, and the "Anne" and the "Little James" in 1623, by Charles Edward Banks, New York, 1929
From "Immigrant Ancestors, A list of 2500 Immigrants to America before 1750, extacted from Vol. VII, Compendium of American Genealogy." by Frederic A. Virkus, Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1986,
Page 11
BASSETT (Basset, Bassite), WILLIAM (will proved June 5, 1667), came in the "Fortune" to Plymouth, Mass. Nov. 19, 1621; blacksmith and gunsmith; freeman, 1633; served in Pequot War: removed to Duxbury, abt.. 1638; dep. Gen. CT. 1640)43; Capt. Standish's mil. co. 1643; constable , 1652; original propr. of Bridgewater, and early settler there, 1655; had large library; m. ca. 1621 Elizabeth Neil (?); m. 2d. post 1651, Mary (Tilden) Lapham, dau. of Nathaniel Tilden, and widow of Thomas Lapham.
From "The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers," by Charles E. Banks. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980.
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WILLIAM BASSETT
He was a gunsmith and worker in metals, and is probably the William , son of William Bassett of Bethnal Green, London, next Whitechapel, who was baptized at Stepney, 24 October, 1600. Extended investigation satisfactorily disposes of the inference that he was identical with a William Basset of Leyden twice married before 1612 and said to be from Sandwich, co. Kent. The church records of Sandwich, all parishes, do not confirm this supposition. The emigrant's death in 1667 and the terms of his will indicate that he was not old enough to have been a widower in 1611, as was the Leyden William, who was a "hodman" (mason?). Bethnal Green was in the Pilgrim neighborhood whence came Hopkins, Warren and Snow. He was unmarried on arrival, but in the division of 1623 was allotted two acres showing that he had taken a wife before that date.
From "Plymouth Colony Marriages To 1650, Robert S. Wakefield. Warwick, RI: Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Rhode Island, 1978
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BASSETT
Tho. Burgis married Elizabeth Basset the 8th of Nov. 1648 (PCR 8:6).
Peregrine White married Sara Bassett in 1648 before they appeared in Court. (PCR 2:138) (See Mayflower FAmilies 1:101).
William Bassett was born in 1590 in Sandwich, Kent, England. He died on 4 Apr 1667 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA.
From George Davis, Prodigy DVMG66A
William Bassett came to Plymouth Colony abroad the "Fortune" in 1621. he settled in duxbury, MA until the establishement of Bridgewater, MA in about 1645. William was a blacksmith and armorer. William had at least two wives, Elizabeth______ and widow Mary (Tilden) Lapham. It appears that he may also have been the widower of Cecily Light and margaret Oldham. His children were by Elizabeth. All were born in Plymouth before Elizabeth's demise circa 1650. "The Bassett-Preston Ancestry", page 23. The following translation from the records of the city of Leyden, Holland, where Pilgrims were then living, may possibly refer to William who came in the Fortune, but more probably to his father. "On the 19th of March, 1611, were affianced William Bassett, drayman (or journeyman mason) from Sandwich, in England, the widower of Cecilia Light, accompanied by Roger Wilson and William Brewster, his friends, and Margaret Butler." The bride died before the third calling, and was interred April 9, 1611. "On the 26th of July 1611, were affianced, and on the 13th August were married William Bassett, Englishman, widower of Cecilia Light, accompanied by Roger Wilson and Edward Southworth, his friends, and Margaret Oldham, young maid from England". William Bassett was one of thirty-five who came in 1621, in the Fortune, landing in November.
He remained in Plymouth until 1638, then went to Duxbury where for several years he and Capt. Miles Standish were alternately deputies of the town to General Court. as he was rated one of the highest on the tax list he must have been a man of property. In 1645, the town of Duxbury was granted a plantation, to the west, four miles in each ditection from a given center. This was divided between fifty-four, who were called original proprietors: among then were John Alden, Miles Standish, William Bradford, William Bassett, William Collier, Constant Southworth, and Christopher Wadsworth-all but the first two being Bassett ancestors. They paid Massasoit, the friendly chief of the neighboring Indians, for this land, seven coats-a yard and half in each cot-nine hatchets, eight hoes, twenty knives, four moose skins and ten and a half yards of cotton cloth. Each settler had a grant of a house lot of six acres. This was incorporated as Bridgewater in 1656. The nearest corn mill was at Taunton and they often walked there carrying their grists on their backs. He became a large land holder and had the largest library owned by any of the Pilgrims. He was a blacksmith and "armorer". He was a volunteer in the war against the Pequots in 1637; a member of Capt. Myles Standish's Military Company, 1643.
When a division of the cattle of the colony was made in 1627, the sixth lot, consisting of "the lesser of the black cowes came at first in the Ann, the bigest of the two steers, and two shee goats' came to a company of thirteen persons among them were William and Elizabeth Bassett and Willyam Bassett, Jr., and Elyzabeth Bassett, Jr., showing there were two children at that time.
His wife died before 1650, and he married, after, 1651, Mary (Tilden) Lapham, who was baptized in Tenterden, England in 1610, daughter of Nathaniel Tilden, and widow of Thomas Lapham who died in 1648. He had no children by his second wife. he died in Bridgewater in 1667, between April 3rd, the date of his will, and May 12th, the date of inventory. His widow, mary signed a receipt September 1667, which is the latest record we have of her. In the inventory of his property appear, "a pair of Bellowes, an Anvill, a vice, tongs and hammers and coal shovels, a feather bed and boister and sheets, one other small feather bed, 2 pillows, 2 blankets, 4 guns, 1 buggy" and several books, among them being "Wilson's Dixonary", two concordances, and many commentaries on books of the bible.
From "Early History of Settlement of Bridgewater", by Nahum Mitchell
William Bassett, one of the forefathers, came over in the ship Fortune in 1621, and settled first in Plymouth, then in Duxbury, and finally in West Bridgewater. He was original proprietor of the town. He was a large land holder in the colony, and left a large library. His wife Elizabeth, was probably a Tilden.
From "History of the Town of Duxbury, with Genealogical Registers", by Justin Winsor. Specifically indictes that William Bassett's second wife was not Elizabeth Tilden.
From Keith Kingham
Originally two ships left for the New World in 1620. The "Mayflower" and the "Speedwell" took 30 passengers and the "Mayflower" took 90. they both sailed from Southhampton on 15 August, 1620. They had gone but a short distance when the "Speedwell" began to leak. They returned to Dartmouth for a week of repairs. They set out again but when they had covered only 300 miles, the "Speedwell" began to leak again. Again they returned to port, this time to Plymouth. In Plymouth, the "Speedwell" was abandoned, 18 people left the expedition, and the remaining 102 were all loaded on the "Mayflower" making it dangerously overloaded. William Bassett stayed behind to come the following year. William Bassett arrived in Cape Cod harbor on 19 November 1621 in the ship "Fortune", with 36 young men about one week after the First Thanksgiving. the population had depleted from 102 to about 50 souls so the "Fortune" was welcome indeed. William Bassett lived in Plymouth until 1638 when he moved to Duxbury where for several years he and Captain Myles Standish were alternately deputies of the town to General Court. He must have been relatively wealthy as he was rated as one of the highest on the tax list. In Duxbury, he was an original proprietor with John Alden, Myles Standish and William Bradford. He had the largest library in town, was a blacksmith and armorer. he was a member of Myles Standish's Military Company in the war against the Pequots in 1637. William Bassett married Elizabeth and had seven children.
From "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633"
WILLIAM BASSETT
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1621 on Fortune
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
REMOVES: Duxbury by 1637 [PCR 1:63], Bridgewater by 1656
OCCUPATION: Blacksmith (the first five lines of the inventory included blacksmith's tools, including a pair of bellows, an anvil, a vice, tongs and hammers and coal shovels, and "all the rest of the smith shop" items).
FREEMAN: In "1633" Plymouth list of freemen, among those admitted before 1 January 1632/3 [PCR 1:3]; also in list of 7 March 1636/7 [PCR 1:52]. In Duxbury portion of list of 1639 [PCR 8:174]. In Bridgewater portion of list which has been dated in 1658 [PCR 8:202].
EDUCATION: Inventory included more than twenty books listed by title, mostly theological, valued at £9 18s.
OFFICES: Plymouth coroner's jury, 2 March 1635/6 [PCR 1:39]; committee to admit newcomers to Duxbury, 7 May 1638 [PCR 1:84]; Plymouth grand jury, 5 June 1638, 6 June 1654 [PCR 1:87, 3:49]; Plymouth petit jury, 7 March 1636/7, 2 January 1637/8, 6 March 1637/8, 4 June 1639, 3 September 1639 [PCR 7:5, 7, 8, 12, 13]; Duxbury deputy to Plymouth court, 2 June 1640, 6 June 1643, 29 August 1643, 5 March 1643/4, 7 June 1648 [PCR 1:154, 2:57, 60, 68, 123]; committee to lay out land, 3 September 1638, 7 January 1638/9, 4 February 1638/9, 4 March 1638/9, 31 August 1640, 5 October 1640 [PCR 1:95, 109, 112, 115, 161, 163]; committee on bounds between Duxbury and Marshfield, 2 March 1640/1 [PCR 2:9, 42]; council of war for Duxbury, 27 September 1642 [PCR 2:46]; Duxbury constable, 3 June 1652 [PCR 3:8]; committee to lay out highways [PCR 3:61, 62]. In Duxbury portion of 1643 list of men able to bear arms [PCR 8:190].
ESTATE: In the 1623 Plymouth land division "William Bassite" received two acres as a passenger on the Fortune in 1621 [PCR 12:5]. In the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle, the sixth company included William Basset, Elizabeth Basset, William Basset Jr. and Elizabeth Basset Jr. [PCR 12:11].
Assessed £1 7s. in the Plymouth tax lists of 25 March 1633 and 27 March 1634 [PCR 1:10, 27].
On 1 July 1633, 14 March 1635/6 and 20 March 1636/7 William Bassett was ordered to "mow at the end of his own ground" [PCR 1:14, 40, 56].
On 23 June 1637 William Bassett of Duxbury released to Mr. Ralph Partridge "so much of the lot of his lands lying in Ducksborrow aforesaid as is now enclosed by the said Mr. Partridg" [PCR 12:18-19], and again on 7 November 1637 a similar agreement was reached regarding land released to William Leverich and Ralph Partridge [PCR 12:25].
On 6 April 1640 Plymouth Colony granted to "William Basset of Duxburrow" one hundred acres of upland with "meadow convenient" [PCR 1:144, 146].
On 3 June 1652 William Bassett of Duxbury gave to "his son-in-law Leiftenant Perigrine White" forty acres of upland with the meadow adjoining [MD 1:96, citing PCLR 2:1:5]. On 16 June 1656 "William Bassett Senior of Duxburrow now living at Bridgewater" made a deed of gift of his Marshfield lands to his "two sons there living viz: Perigrine White and Nathaniell Bassett" [MD 10:25-27, citing PCLR 2:1:177-78].
William Bassett and Mr. [John] Howland jointly held one share as Dartmouth purchasers, 7 March 1652 [MD 4:187, citing PCLR 2:1:107].
On 8 November 1666 William Bassett, blacksmith, of Bridgewater sold to John Sprague of Duxbury, husbandman, for £40 four lots of upland containing fourscore acres and five acres of meadow, with dwelling house, cowhouse, stable, barn, outhouse, orchard and garden; William Bassett acknowledged the deed on 7 November 1666, and on 5 November 1666 "Mary Bassett the wife of William Bassett Sr. ... of Bridgewater" consented to the sale [PCLR 3:66, with dates in the unlikely order as given].
On 3 April 1667 William Bassett Senior made a nuncupative will, bequeathing the movables to his wife, and the house and land to her during her life, after which it was to go to his son William's son, and bequeath~ing his tools to his son Joseph, and "being demanded about his books which he formerly took care about, answered he could not now do it" [MD 16:162, citing PCPR 2:2:37]. His inventory was taken 12 May 1667 and totalled £123 2s. 6d. (which included no land, but did include his blacksmith's tools and more than twenty books) [PCPR 2:2:37-38]. On 5 June 1667 letters of administration were granted to William Bassett Jr. on the estate of William Bassett Sr. deceased [PCR 4:155].
On 2 June 1669 "William Bassett of Sandwich ... the eldest son and heir of William Bassett sometimes inhabitant of ... Bridgewater ... now deceased" confirmed to "Joseph Bassett of Bridgewater my youngest brother" land in Bridgewater granted him by his father in his lifetime but not legally confirmed [PCLR 3:140].
BIRTH: By about 1600, assuming that Elizabeth was his first wife.
DEATH: Bridgewater between 3 April 1667 (date of will) and 12 May 1667 (date of inventory). (The claim that William Bassett died on 4 April 1667 derives from a peculiar misreading of the probate documents, in which the date of probate is taken as 5 April rather than 5 June, and the assumption is made that the death must have occurred between the third and the fifth.)
MARRIAGE: (1) By 1623 (and probably by 1621) Elizabeth _____, probably also a passenger on the Fortune in 1621; she appears in no record after 1627, and may have died soon after the birth of the last child about 1634, or she may have lived until just before William Bassett married his second wife.
(2) After 1651 and before 12 December 1664 Mary (Tilden) Lapham, daughter of Nathaniel Tilden, widow of Thomas Lapham [see TIMOTHY HATHERLEY]; she was living at Bridgewater as late as 28 March 1690 [Bassett Gen 6, citing BridTR 1:320].
CHILDREN:
i WILLIAM, b. Plymouth about 1624; m. by about 1652 Mary Rainsford, daughter of EDWARD RAINSFORD [NEHGR 139:299].
ii ELIZABETH, b. Plymouth about 1626; m. Sandwich 8 November 1648 Thomas Burgess [PCR 8:6], from whom she was divorced on 10 June 1661 [PCR 3:221].
iii SARAH, b. Plymouth say 1628; m. by 6 March 1648/9 Peregrine White, son of WILLIAM WHITE [PCR 2:183; MF 1:101-03].
iv NATHANIEL, b. say 1630; m. about 1661 Dorcas Joyce, daughter of John Joyce [TAG 43:3-5].
v JOSEPH, b. say 1632; m. (1) by about 1660 Mary _____ (said to be his stepsister Mary Lapham, daughter of Thomas Lapham [see NEHGR 115:85]); m. (2) Hingham 16 October 1677 Martha Hobart [NEHGR 121:200].
vi RUTH, b. say 1634; m. (1) by 1655 John Sprague, son of FRANCIS SPRAGUE [TAG 41:178-81, citing PCR 6:109 for evidence of marriage]; she m. (2) _____ Thomas [TAG 41:179; Robert S. Wakefield suggests that this was John Thomas of Marshfield, who died before 12 January 1691/2, and whose first wife had died 2 January 1682/3].
COMMENTS: In 1611 a William Bassett, formerly of Sandwich in England, widower of Cecily Light, was twice betrothed at Leiden in Holland. His first bride-to-be died, but he succeeded the second time. Some have held that this was the man who came to Plymouth, but this seems unlikely given the ten-year gap before the arrival in Plymouth in 1621, and the lack of evidence for children of the Plymouth man born before that date, assuming that he had been married at least twice before. It is also possible that the William Bassett of Leiden in 1611 was the father of the immigrant to Plymouth in 1621, but there is no evidence directly favoring this hypothesis. (See discussion in Stratton 242-43.)
If the two-acre grant to William Bassett in 1623 was for William and his wife Elizabeth, then the first child would not have been born until 1624, three years after William's arrival in Plymouth. It is possible (though not likely) that the marriage took place in Plymouth, and Elizabeth came on the Fortune as a single woman.
Savage has misread the 1627 Plymouth cattle division, somehow including daughter Sarah Bassett in this list, when in fact only two children, William and Elizabeth, were included. Sarah must have been born soon after 1627, however, to have married by the end of 1648.
Pope claims that William Bassett resided at Sandwich in 1650, but this would be the son of the same name.
Munsey-Hopkins (p. 67) lists a "probable" seventh child, a daughter Jane who married a Thomas Gilbert. This must be a simple error in which "Rossiter" was misread for "Bassett," as there was a Thomas Gilbert of Taunton who married Jane Rossiter.
Various secondary sources claim that William Bassett volunteered for service in the Pequot War, and in the index to the first volume of published Plymouth Colony records he is listed for the page on which such volunteers appear, but he does not actually appear in the list [PCR 1:61]; a number of the index entries for William Bassett actually seem to be for William Paddy.
On 6 March 1648/9 William Bassett was fined 5s. "for not mending of guns in seasonable time," and on 9 June 1653 he was fined 10s. "for neglecting to publish and make known an order directed to him from the council of war, prohibiting provisions for being transported out of the colony" [PCR 2:137, 3:36]. On 9 August 1655 and 10 June 1661 the colony treasurer received payment of fines by William Bassett [PCR 3:93, 8:104].
From "One Bassett Family In America", by Buell Burdett Bassett, Page 2
1611, July 29. P. 12 So: "On the 29th day of July, 1611, were affianced William Bassett, an Englishman, and widower of Cecelia Leight, accompanied by Roger Wilson and Edward Southworth, his friends, and Margaret Oldham, a young maid from england, accompanied by Wybra Pauties and Elizabeth Neill, her aquantances." On Aug. 13, 1611, the wedding bells rang and they were married, the great John Robinson the pilgrim pastor, no doubt officiating. There are many who claim that this William is the same William who may have atarted for America with the frist pilgrims, as described in the next item, and who finally came in the Fortune in 1621; but this would require that he be born as early as 1590 and make him 77 at the time of making will, whereas the language of the will does not indicate one so old. Moreover, it is quite unusual for one to have married twice and have both wives die within ten years without heirs. for these reasons, the best judgment considers that this Leyden William may have been the father of the Fortune passenger; but could hardly have been the Fortune William. Mr. John Mcllvene, keen Bassett authority, says that the Sandwich Bassetts were of French extraction, and that the form of spelling "Bassite", which was early in use at Plymouth, also suggests French extraction. He was married to Elizabeth Unknown about 1621.
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Note for: Francis Sprague, ABT 1590 - BET 1670 AND 1680
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Individual Note: Francis Sprague, his wife Anna and daughter Mercy arrived in MassachusetFrancis Sprague, his wife Anna and daughter Mercy arrived in Massachusetts aboard the ship, Anne.
The ship Anne arrived in Plymouth in July, 1623 accompanied by the Little James, bringing new settlers along with many of the wives and children that had been left behind in Leyden when the Mayflower departed in 1620. This ship passenger list is reconstructed from the 1623 Division of Land, the passenger list compiled by Charles Banks in Planters of the Commonwealth, and the research found in Eugene Aubrey Stratton's Plymouth Colony: Its History and Its People, 1620-1690
The Spragues came into England from Holland, probably during Queen Elizabeth's time, or before. The name is derived from the Dutch word Spraak, meaning speech or. language. Some early forms of the name include Sprag, Spragg , Spragge, Sprache, Sprake, Spreek and Spraick.
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1. #01 Francis Sprague was born in 1600 in London, London, England.(1) He died in 1676 in Duxbury, Plymouth Co., MA.(2)
"Sprague Families in America", by W. V. Sprague, page 2.
Francis Sprague came in the "Good Ship Anne" which sailed from London, England, and arrived at Plymouth, July, 1623. He was one of those "passengers" who, as Morton writes, "seeing the low and poor conditions of those that were before them, were much daunted and dismayed, and according to their divers humors, were diversely affected. Some wished themselves in England again; others fell to weeping, fancying their own misery in what they saw in others; other some pitying the distress they saw their friends had long been in, and still were under. In a word, all were full of sadness; only some of their old friends rejoiced to see them, and it was no worse with them for they could not expect it should be better, and now hoped they should enjoy better days together. And truly it was no marvel they should be thus affected, for they were in a low condition, both in respect of food and clothing at that time." Governor Bradford, in allusion to the passengers who came in the Anne and the James, says: "The best dish we could present them with, is a lobster, or a piece of fish, without bread, or any thing else but a cup of fair spring water: and the long continuance of this diet, with our labors abroad, has somewhat abated the freshness of our complexion; but God gives us health."
He married in England, Lydia ______ who with their daughter came with him. "Pilgrims Republic of 1888", Goodwin, pages 362-596.
1623, Autumn. He shared in the division of lands with those who came in the Anne. 1627, At the division of cattle he gives the names of his children as Ann and Mary. 1627, July. Signed an agreement with William Bradford and others pertaining to the carrying on of the fur trade.
1632-3, Jan. 2. Was taxed at Plymouth, being assessed for 18 shillings.
1632. About this date he settled in the N.E. part of Duxbury, near the Nook, so called.
1637, June 17. Admitted Freeman of the Colony.
1637. Licensed to sell spirituous liquors. 1640. Owned land on North River.
1644, Apr. 1. Deeded to his son-in-law William Lawrence 50 acres on South River. 1645. Was one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater, but he nor any of his family came to reside there. He was one of the original purchasers of Dartmouth.
1659, Oct 26. Deeded land to his son-in-law Ralph Earle of Rhode Island.
1666. Was an Inn Holder up to this date and owned considerable property. Mr. Sprague did not adhere strictly to the enactments of the civil code of the Puritan Fathers and was several times brought before the Court for what they considered departures from the strict line of duty. His ardent temperament and great independence of mind did not fully accord with the principles of the Puritans, but considered from the present standards of estimating the characters of men, he must have been a person of worth and great respectability. We know that he was the head of a most honorable and respected family of descendants.
1669. His son John succeeded to his business of "keeping an Ordinary" or tavern, where spirituous liquors were sold, and it is presumed that his death occurred shortly before.
1662. The Court admonished good wife Tubbs (his daughter Mercy) for "mixed dancing"; she left her husband and in 1668 the court granted him a divorce. They had a son, William Tubbs, Jr., who married in 1691, Judith, widow of Isaac Baker.
From Eugene Aubry's "Plymouth Colony" Biographical Sketches, page 357.
Arriving in 1623 on the Anne, Francis Sprague had three shares in the 1623 land division, and he was in the 1627 cattle division with Anna Sprague and Mercy Sprague, the latter known to be his daughter, but his relationship to Anna, possibly a wife or another daughter, is not known. His son John Sprague was born in Plymouth and married Ruth Basset, daughter of William Basset. Mary Lovering Holman, The Scott Genealogy, page 241, gives him four children. In addition to a son John, Francis had Mercy Sprague, who married 9 November 1637 William Tubbs, Anna Sprague, who married before 1 April 1644 William Lawrence, and Dorcas Sprague, who married before 26 October 1659 Ralph Earle. Though William Lawrence's wife was a daughter of Francis Sprague, it is assumed that her first name was Ann, and if it should later be learned that the Anna in the 1627 division was Sprague's wife, then the first name of Lawrence's wife is unknown. One of the purchasers, Sprague was on the 1633 and 1634 tax lists and became a freeman 7 June 1637. On 2 January 1637/38, he was presented for beating William Halloway, erstwhile servant to William Bassett. In 1638, he was licensed to keep an ordinary at Duxbury; his license was suspended in 1640, but he was licensed again in 1646. In 1650, he became a constable for Duxbury. On 27 April 1661, Francis Sprague of Duxbury deeded his dwelling house and land to his son John Sprague with the provision that John would not take possession until his father died. Francis was listed in the 29 May 1670 list of freemen in Duxbury, but his name was crossed out, which would seem to indicate that he died shortly after that date.
The following is from:
Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
FRANCIS SPRAGUE
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1623 in Anne
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
REMOVES: Duxbury by 1638
OCCUPATION: Innkeeper (1 October 1638: "Francis Sprague is licensed to keep victualling on Duxborrow side" [PCR 1:99]; 3 March 1639/40: "Francis Sprague, of Duxborrow, for drawing & retailing wine at Duxborrow, contrary to the express order of the Court, is fined by the Bench 20s. sterling" [PCR 1:143]; 5 May 1640: "Francis Sprague, of Duxborrow, is prohibited by the Court to draw any wine or strong water until the next General [Court], without special license from the Court so to do" [PCR 1:153]; 2 June 1640 and 1 September 1640: Francis Sprague presented for selling & retailing of wine contrary to order [PCR 1:156, 162]). Licensed 7 July 1646 to draw wine and keep an ordinary at Duxburrow [PCR 2:104]. His license was recalled 5 June 1666 [PCR 4:129].
FREEMAN: Admitted 7 June 1637 [PCR 1:60] (and as a result added to the list of freemen compiled on 7 March 1636/7 [PCR 1:53]). In Duxbury section of 1639, 1658 and 29 May 1670 lists of freemen [PCR 5:275, 8:175, 198].
EDUCATION: Signed his deeds by mark.
OFFICES: Duxbury surveyor of highways, 7 June 1648, 3 June 1657 [PCR 2:124, 3:116]. Constable, 4 June 1653 [PCR 2:153].
In Duxbury section of 1643 Plymouth Colony list of men able to bear arms [PCR 8:190].
ESTATE: In the 1623 Plymouth land division "Francis Spragge" was granted three acres as a passenger on the Anne [PCR 12:5]. In the 1627 Plymouth cattle division Francis Sprage, Anna Sprage and Mercye Sprage were the eleventh through thirteenth persons in the sixth company [PCR 12:11].
Assessed 18s. in the Plymouth tax lists of 25 March 1633 and 27 March 1634 [PCR 1:10, 27]. He was one of the purchasers [PCR 2:177].
In 1637 Francis Sprague of Duxbury sold to Mr. Ralph Partridge "all his right and title into so much of the lot of his land lying in Ducksburrow aforesaid as is now enclosed by the said Mr. Partridg" [PCR 12:19]. On 28 March 1642 Francis Sprague sold to Morris Truant "two acres of marsh meadow lying at the Wood Island" [PCR 12:78]. On 1 April 1644 Francis Sprague of Duxbury sold to "Will[ia]m Laurence my son-in-law of the same town ... fifty acres" [PCR 12:138].
On 26 October 1659 Francis Sprague of Duxbury, planter, sold to "his son-in-law Ralph Earle of Road Island in the Jurisdiction of Providence Plantation the one-half of all his share, part or portion of land lying or being at the place or places commonly called by the Indians by the names of Coaksett and Acushena" [MD 14:90-91, citing PCLR 2:2:30a].
On 27 April 1661 "Francis Sprague of Duxburrow ... planter" deeded "unto John Sprague his true and natural son all that his dwelling house and outhouses and buildings scituate in Duxburrow aforesaid, and all and singular the upland and meadow now thereunto belonging, whether obtained by grant or purchased of other persons ... containing in all forty or fifty acres or thereabouts with three acres of meadow" [MD 16:205-07, citing PCLR 2:2:75-76]. On 3 May 1664 "Francis Sprague of Duxburrow ... planter" deeded to "his son John Sprague all that his part, portion and share of land and meadow he hath at or near Namasakett ... which was granted to him and others" on 3 June 1662 [MD 19:107, citing PCLR 3:4; see also PCR 4:19 and MD 34:81, citing PCLR 3:21].
BIRTH: By about 1590 based on estimated date of marriage.
DEATH: Living 1670 [PCR 5:275] but deceased by 2 March 1679/80 [PCR 7:221].
MARRIAGE: (1) England by about 1614 _____ _____; she died England by 1623.
(2) By about 1630 _____ _____.
CHILDREN:
With first wife
i ANNA, b. say 1614; m. by 1644 William Lawrence [PCR 12:138].
ii MERCY, b. say 1617; m. Plymouth 9 November 1637 William Tubbs [PCR 1:68]; William Tubbs was granted a divorce from his wife Mercy, 7 July 1668, at which time she was living in Rhode Island [PCR 4:192].
With second wife
iii JOHN, b. say 1630; m. by about 1655 Ruth Bassett, daughter of WILLIAM BASSETT (on 8 June 1655 "we present John Sprague and Ruth Bassett, of Duxburrow, for fornication before they were married [PCR 3:82]). (John Sprague is treated in detail by Maclean W. McLean, who estimates his birth as about 1635, whereas we make him slightly older [TAG 41:178-81].)
iv DORCAS, b. say 1632; m. by 1659 Ralph Earle [MD 14:90-91].
COMMENTS: There are very few dates for this family, and many unanswered questions. The household of Francis Sprague consisted of three persons in 1623 and again in 1627 [PCR 12:5, 11], and we assume here that these three are in both cases Francis, Anna and Mercy. Mercy was clearly the daughter who married in 1637, but opinion is divided as to whether Anna was wife or daughter of Francis.
We know that a daughter of Francis Sprague had married William Lawrence by 1644, but we have no record which gives her Christian name. But to have married by that date, and be born after the cattle division of 1627, she would be seventeen at marriage at most, and perhaps younger. The more likely solution is that the Anna of the cattle division was a second daughter, and Francis did not bring a wife with him to New England.
The other two children of Francis (John and Dorcas) were apparently born in the 1630s, and so fifteen or twenty years younger than Mercy and Anna, with no evidence of any children born in between. This alone suggests that these were children of a second marriage. We postulate, therefore, that Francis Sprague had two wives, the first of whom died in England before 1623, and the second of whom he married in New England about 1630. If our conclusion that Anna Sprague of the 1627 cattle division became wife of William Lawrence is correct, then we do not know the given name of either of the wives of Francis, nor do we have dates of birth, marriage or death for either of them.
On 2 August 1642 Francis Sprague, innholder, of Duxborrow, was accused of selling a fowling piece to an Indian [PCR 2:43].
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1919 Mary Lovering Holman compiled a concise account of the family of Francis Sprague [Scott Gen 241].
Individual Notes
Note for: Richard Curtis, 1621 - 15 OCT 1693
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Individual Note: "Four brothers, Richard, William, John and Thomas Curtis, settled in Scituate. Thomas went to York, Maine; John appears to have left no descendants, while those of Richard and William are numerous in Scituate, Hanover and vicinity in Massachusetts
"Richard Curtis, immigrant ancestor, was born in Kent, England. He settled in Scituate, Massachusetts, about 1643, and died there in 1693. Some writers have confused this Richard with Richard Curtis, of Dorchester and Milton; and with Richard Curtis, of Salem and Marblehead. Richard, of Scituate, was on the list of Plymouth colony men able to bear arms in that 1643, and was a town officer in 1650. His brother William as also on this list, and together they took the oath of fidelity. He was one of the 'allowed and approved inhabitants' to whom portions of the common lands were assigned by the joint committee of the general court in 1673. Richard Curtis and Thomas Hyland were witnesses to the will of General James Cudworth in 1682. His home was between that of Gowen White and the harbor below Millbrook."5
"Richard Curtis was one of four brothers who came early to New England, viz. Richard, Thomas, John and William. John left no family.
"Richard had lands at Marblehead in 1648, and in the same year he purchased lands in Scituate, and built a house between Gowin White's and the Harbour.
"His will, dated 1692, gives 'To oldest son John two thirds ofmy real estate, he providing for my wife Lydia during her life. To son Thomsas one third, &c. To daughters Hannah Curtis, Elizabeth Brooks, Mary Badcocke, and Martha Clark.'"21
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Note for: John Hallet, -
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Individual Note: [Frank Charles Sutherland.FTW]
[Workman-Sutherland.FTW]
"John Hallett, Planter, (Early written Hollet.) was one of the Conihassett partners, 1646, His house stood at the harbour, near where stands that of Jesse Dunbar, Esq. perhaps a little south-east. In 1691, 'Capt. Stephen Otis's new house' is mentioned, which is now Young's tavern and Post-office), and as bounded to John Hollet's house lot on the north. He was an extensive landholder. Hollet's island, near 'the stepping stones,' now retains his name. He was in Scituate, or rather had lands assigned to his right, in 1668. He was probably at Yarmouth in 1650, in which year his son John was there born."21
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Note for: Nettie E. Walker, 20 JUN 1861 - 1 JUN 1937
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Individual Note:
The 1880 Federal census lists Nettie living with her husband, Fred Sutherland in Pompey.
In the 1920 federal census, Nettie was living with her daughter Alice and family in Cazenovia, Madison, NY. By 1930, Alice has died and Nettie is still living with her son-in-law and grandson.
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In the 1870 census for Pompey, Nettie is living with her mother, stepfather, and two siblings. All are listed with the surname, Sperry.
Adelbert Sperry, age 25
Mary, age 30,
Benjamin, age 10,
Nettie, age 8,
Nellie, age 2
Next door is the family of Michael Magee, age 52. Michael is the future father-in-law of Nettie.
In the 1880 census, Nettie is married to Fred Sutherland. Michael Magee's first wife has died and he is now married to Mary, widow of Adelbert Sperry and Nettie's mother. The families all live close to each other.
Census Place: Pompey, Onondaga, New York
Source: FHL Film 1254906 National Archives Film T9-0906 Page 202C
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
Michael MAGEE Self M M W 61 NY
Occ: Farmer Fa: NY Mo: NY
Mary MAGEE Wife F M W 38 NY
Occ: Keeping House Fa: CANADA Mo: CANADA
Nellie SPERRY SDau F S W 12 NY
Occ: At School Fa: NY Mo: NY
Ida SPERRY SDau F S W 9 NY
Fa: NY Mo: NY
Charles SPERRY SSon M S W 6 NY
Fa: NY Mo: NY
Fred SPERRY SSon M S W 2 NY
Fa: NY Mo: NY
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Note for: John Whitney, 20 JAN 1644/45 - ABT 1719
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Individual Note:
John Whitney, son of Henry Whitney, was born about 1640, and died at Norwalk, Connecticut, 1720. He settled in Norwalk with his father, and was also a miller and wheelwright, succeeding to his father's house and mill. He built a fulling mill, which he gave to his son John, April 14, 1707, and he sold him the grist mill, July 8, 1712. It was re-conveyed to the father, who deeded it then to his son Joseph. He married, March 17, 1674-75, Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Richard Smith. Their children: John, born March 12, 1676-77, married Elizabeth Finch; Joseph, born March 1, 1678-79, millwright, married Hannah Hoyt; Henry, born February 21, 1680-81, weaver, married Elizabeth Olmstead; Elizabeth, married Joseph Keeler; Richard, born April 18, 1687, married Hannah Darling; Samuel, born 1688, married Ann Laboree; Anne, born 1691, married, October 13, 1709, Matthew St. John; Eleanor, born January 27, 1693, married Jonathan Fairchild; Nathan; Sarah, married, June 13, 1717, Samuel Smith; Josiah, married, October 3, 1729, Eunice Hanford.
Source: Bibliographic Information: Crane, Ellery Bicknell. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worchester County vol.2. The Lewis Publishing Company. New York. 1907.
Individual Notes
Note for: Matthew Marvin, 26 MAR 1600 - 20 DEC 1678
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Individual Note: He came from England to America in 1635, (in the ship Increase) and was one of Governor Winthrops Outpost on the Connecticut in 1636-7. He was Deputy in 1653, to the General Court of Connecticut.
Source: Bibliographic Information: Leonard, Clarence Ettienne. The Fulton-Hayden-Warner Ancestry in America. New York. Tobias A. Wright. 1923.
MATTHEW MARVIN, born in England about 1600, emigrated to New England in 1635, making the voyage in the ship "Increase," accompanied by his wife, Elizabeth, and five children. From the records in the office of the "Rolls Court," in London, it is learned that Matthew Marvin and his family were recorded to be transported to New England, April 15, 1635. He was then thirty-five years old;
his wife, Elizabeth, was thirty-one; his daughter, Sarah, three years old. They came from Essex County. [Talcott's Notes on New York and New England Families.]
He became one of the first settlers of Hartford, Conn., and his home-lot, in 1639, was on what is now the corner of Front and Pleasant streets. In 1639, and in 1647, he was chosen Surveyor of Highways. On June 19, 1650, he signed the agreement for the planting of Norwalk, Conn., and he was among those settlers who received a deed of land from Runckinheage, February 15, 1651. He represented the new town in the General Court in 1654. His name appears in a table of "Estates of lands and accommodations" in 1655 (which contains the earliest list of inhabitants), where his estate is rated at œ314 0s. 0d., and is the largest of any of the proprietors. His earliest house-lot in Norwalk, granted him by the town, contained four acres, and adjoined the meeting-house yard on the east side of the "Towns Highway." His wife, Elizabeth, died, and he married 2nd, Mrs. Alice Kellogg. He died in Norwalk in 1687.
Source: Bibliographic Information: Boardman, William F. J. The Ancestry of William Francis Joseph Boardman. Harford, Connecticutt. 1906.
MATTHEW MARVIN was born in England about 1600. In the records of Westminster Hall is a list of persons "to be transported to New England imbarqued in the 'Increase,' Robert Lea, master, having taken oath of allegiance and supremacy etc." among whom are:
"husbandman Matthew Marvyn age 35 yrs.
uxor Elizabeth Marvyn 31
Elizabeth Marvyn 11
Matthew Marvyn 8
Marie Marvyn 6
Sara Marvyn 3
Hanna Marvyn 1/2"
Matthew Marvin was one of the original settlers of Hartford and resided for some years on the corner of Village and Front Streets. He removed about 1650 to Norwalk where he was a pioneer. He was representative to the General Court in 1654 and died at Norwalk in 1687. Late in life he married for his second wife Mrs. Alice Kellogg.
Source: Bibliographic Information: Paine, Lyman May. My Ancestors. Privately Published. 1914.
100. MATTHEW MARVIN, an original proprietor of Hartford, was among the twelve earliest settlers whose names are known. He and his brother Reinold, were the first of that name in America. Mathew, the youngest son of EDWARD5 and MARGARET MARVIN, was baptised at St. Mary's Church, Great Bently, Essex, March 26, 1600. EDWARD5 MARVIN, the proprietor of Wrabness Hall, and the owner of considerable estates, was born 1550 or earlier and died November 13-4, 1615. His widow, MARGARET, was buried May 28, 1633. He was the son of REINOLD4 MARVIN of "Ramsey, yeoman," whose widow JOHAN was sole executrix of his will, dated December 22, 1554. The Marvin Genealogy says Reinold4 was grandson of JOHN2, whose father ROGER1 MERVYN of St. Stephen's Parish, Ipswich, was born as early at 1430 and whose will was dated and proved September 10, 1475. MATTHEW MARVYN, the settler, is mentioned at St. Mary's as "Sydeman" 1621, overseer 1627, senior warden 1628. In 1635 he sailed from London with his family in the Increase. He was surveyor of highways in Hartford 1639, 1647. On June 19, 1650, he signed the agreement for the settlement of Norwalk, became an original proprietor, settled there 1653, and was one of the first representatives 1654. His name is third among the grantees from the Indians. His first wife, Elizabeth, born about 1604, died 1640-7. His will was dated December 20, 1678, and the inventory, July 12, 1680.
Source: Bibliographic Information: Tyler, William Seymour, D.D.,LL.D. Massachusetts, 1912.
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MATTHEW MARVIN was baptized at Great Bentley, Essex, England, March 26, 1600, youngest son of Edward Mervyn, Marven or Marvin. He received from his father, who died in 1615, certain land and the mansion house called Edons alias Dreybrockes, on condition that he provide support for the widow, Margaret. She died in 1633 and Matthew sailed from London on the Increase for Boston, Mass. in April 1635, with his wife Elizabeth (aged 32) five children and two men servants. The children were Elizabeth (aged 11 or 13), Matthew 8, Mary 6, Sarah 3 and Hannah 1/2. In 1638, Reinold, an elder brother of Matthew's, also came to New England.
The western movement of colonists to the Connecticut River region had already begun and from the vicinity of Boston, in the early autumn of 1635, a group of pioneers made their way along Indian paths to the Great River and thence down toward the Dutch fort or trading post which had been built on the southern side of the Little River which flows into the Connecticut and which became a bisecting line through the later city of Hartford. The newcomers laid out their home lots and built their dugouts upon the ridge above the meadow and back from the Little River, on its north side. How many remained all through the bitter winter is not clear. The greater, and better-known, migration came the next summer, when the Rev. Thomas Hooker with the larger part of his congregation left Newtown, Mass. the 31st of May for the new plantation, where most of the families settled south of the Little River. Known as Suckiaug to the first comers, the name Hartford was given, February 21, 1636/7, to the town.
The Founders' monument in the city carries the names of both groups and the names of others who arrived individually and helped in establishing the settlement. In the Adventurers' Green on Hartford's main street, has been set up in recent years a stone bearing the names of the Adventurers, those who arrived in the autumn of 1635, the North-siders. Matthew Marvin's name appears on the Founders' monument and on the Adventurers' stone.
In Hartford two daughters, Abigail and Rebecca, were born. The death of his wife Elizabeth is not recorded but at some time in the 40's (not later than 1647) Matthew married Alice, the widow of John Bouton, Senior. A home lot was assigned to Matthew Marvin in the new plantation which, in 1645, was given the name Farmington, but he sold his rights there and in 1650-1651 he was one of the Hartford group which removed to the new town of Norwalk, of which in 1654 he was deputy to the General Court.
He died in 1680, inventory of his estate being presented the 13th of July that year. His will had been made December 26, 1678. In it he named his wife Alice; only son Matthew and grandson Matthew Marvin; son (that is step-son and son-in-law) John Bouton, and "my daughter Abigail," who had married her step-mother's son; grandchild Richard Bushnell, son of his daughter Mary and her first husband, Richard Bushnell, Senior; Francis Bushnell and his heirs, nephew of Richard Bushnell, Senior, and recently married to Matthew's granddaughter, Hannah Seymour; "my four daughters," Mary Adgate of Norwich, whose first husband had been Richard Bushnell, Senior; Hannah Seymour, wife of Thomas Seymour; Abigail Bouton; and Rebecca Clark of Farmington, wife of John Clark.
He did not name his daughter Sarah (whose first husband was William Goodrich and second William Curtis) nor his eldest daughter Elizabeth (wife of John Olmstead-Holmstead) nor his youngest daughter Rachel, though incidentially in connection with a right-of-way her husband Samuel Smith and his heirs were mentioned. After his wife Alice's death, John Bouton and John Platt were to be executors; the Rev. Thomas Handford, also named in the will, and Lt. Richard Olmstead were appointed overseers.
The widow Alice died within a year after Matthew Marvin's death, inventory of her estate being taken the last day of January 1680/1. Her will, which was dated the first of December 1680, dealt with her family by her first husband and with her daughter Rachel Marvin, wife of Samuel Smith.
SOURCE:
The New England Ancestry of Dana Converse Backus
Author: Mary E. N. Backus
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One of the descendants of Matthew Marvin was General William Tecumseh Sherman. He descends through Matthew's daughter, Sarah.
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For other notes, see under Matthew's wife, Elizabeth
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Note for: John Bouton, BET 1610 AND 1615 - BEF 1647
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Individual Note: The account of the origin of the Bouton family and of its founder in New England given in James Bouton's Bouton-Boughton Family (1890) contains so many mistakes that it has to be disregarded. In 1897 William T. R. Marvin published in the New England Hist. and Gen. Register a devastating criticism of these errors, with full citation of record evidence.
Jacobus, Donald Lines,The ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth
Woodstock, Vt.: N.G. Parke, 1960, 361 pgs.
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Note for: Matthias St. John, 1604 - 19 OCT 1669
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Individual Note: Parents of Matthias or Matthew St. John are frequently given as Oliver St. John and Sarah Bulkeley. Apparently, research has not supported this.
5.4.1. Sir Oliver St. John
It has often been stated that Matthias Sention was a brother of Elizabeth St. John, wife of Samuel Whiting. However, no proof of this has ever been advanced. Sir Oliver's will is the Public Record Office, PCC Wills 1626/149 folio 73. It is dated 13 March 1625 and was probated 1 May 1626. The following persons are mentioned:
first wife
wife Alice
daughter Dorothie Westland
daughter Judith, unmarried
daughter Elizabeth
eldest son Oliver
brother-in-law Peter Bulkley, uncle of my children
Mary and Ann under 18, my two daughters and their mother, my wife
father-in-law Mr. Thomas Alleyne of Gouldington
brother Mr. William Hasolden
youngest son John St. John
son Edward St. John
sister Fraunces Weales
mother-in-law Mrs. Marye Alleyn
brother Mr. Robert Hasolden
nephew Mr. Samuel Browne
As is apparent, there is no mention of a Matthias or James St. John.
Matthias St. John is said to have come to America in 1630 on the ship, Mary and John.
Matthias St.John was in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1631. He was made a free man there on Sept.3, 1634 and on June 14, 1635 he received a grant of 20 acres of land. In 1640 he moved to Windsor, Connecticut, but did not stay long and moved on to Weatherfield, Connecticut.
In a "Catalogue of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut", by R.R.Hinman, Matthias St.John appears as Matthias Senchion, 1640. In 1655 he is shown as Matthias Sention, Sen. among the First Settlers of Norwalk, Conn.
His home lot in Norwalk was 4 acres and was bounded east by Common land, west by Town's Highway, north by Samuel Hale's home-lot, south by Matthew Camfield's home-lot.
Matthias St.John died in Norwalk in Nov. 1669. His estate amounted to 300 lbs. and Ralph Keeler was one of the witnesses to his will.
Source: Bibliographic Information: Leonard, Lewis Keeler. Seven Hundred Ancestors. Privately Published. 1975.
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Note for: Elizabeth, 1613 - AFT 1684
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Individual Note: She was the widow of William England.