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Note for: Jonathan Royce, ABT 1636 - JUL 1690 Index

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JONATHAN ROYCE (IX), son of Robert and Mary Royce, was probably the eldest, rather than the youngest son in this family, and must have been born about 1636, or earlier, as he doubtless married (first) in 1656, Mary Spinning, daughter of Humphrey Spinning of New Haven (see Vol. 80, p. 107 of the N. E. H. G. Reg., D. L. Jacobus), and (second) June, 1660, Deborah Caulkins. (See Caulkins IV.) She survived her husband and married (second) (???) Woodward of Lebanon, Connecticut. By the first wife, Mary Spinning, Jonathan Royce is believed to have had a daughter, Mary, who in 1678 married John Beach of Wallingford. The following record of the settlement of the estate of Jonathan Royce was found in the New London County Court Records by Mr. Jacobus, under date of September 22, 1690: "The inventory of the estate of Jonathan Royce was exhibited in Court, approved and ordered to be recorded, etc." "The Inventory of the Estate of Jonathan Royce of Norwich, deceased, having been exhibited in Court September last and power of administration was then granted to the Relict: this Court proceeds to distribution." Jonathan Royce resided at the time of his first marriage in Stratford, removing first to New London and after his second marriage to Norwich, Connecticut, where the birth dates of all his children by the second wife are to be found on the Vital Records of the town. (Vol. I, p. 33.) The marriages of the children are shown by the distribution of the estate, and a still later record was found by Mr. Jacobus in the settlement of the estate of David Royce, youngest son of Jonathan, who died unmarried, and the Court determined the heirs among his brothers and sisters and the "children of his deceased sister, Eliza Bacchus, Habijah Wade, and Mary Beach, his half sister." Dated January 13, 1712-13. The children of Jonathan and Deborah (Caulkins) Royce were as follows:

        I--ELIZABETH, b. Jan., 1661.
        II--John, b. Nov., 1663.
       III--Sarah, b. Oct., 1665.
        IV--Abigail, b. Sept. 1667; d. Aug., 1668.
        V--Ruth, b. Apr., 1669; m. June 4, 1694, Caleb Chappell.
        VI--Hannah, b. Apr., 1671.
       VII--Abijah, b. Apr., 1673; m. Mar. 11, 1691, Robert Wade.
      VIII--Jonathan, b. Aug., 1678.
        IX--Deborah, b. Aug. 10, 1680; m. Dec. 1699, Thomas Stoddard.
        X--David, b. Aug. 19, 1682; died unmarried.

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Note for: Robert Royce, ABT 1603 - 1676 Index

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ROYCE
The surname Royce is found on the early England and New England records and was the original spelling of the now more common name of Rice, used by descendants of the early families.

ROBERT ROYCE, ancestor of this family, was born in England and was an early settler in Stratford, Connecticut, where his name is on record in 1644. In 1657 he removed to New London, where he was constable in 1660 and the following year was a member of the General Assembly. Robert Royce of New London died in 1676, leaving a widow, Mary, who died in 1697, and on July 14 of that year administration of the remaining estate of the widow, who died intestate, was granted her son, Samuel Royce. The surname of Mary, wife of Robert Royce, is not on record, but a Mary Sims and Robert Royce were married at Martsock, Somersetshire, England, June 4, 1634, and the date is suitable for the marriage of the New London, Connecticut man. (Article by D. L. Jacobus, N. E. H. G. Reg., Vol. 80, p. 107-09.)

[Note: This alleged marriage to a Mary Sims June 4, 1634 is a myth. There was a marriage of a Robert Rayce and Mary Sims in 1624 which has been determined to be too early to be our ancestors. See The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1842, vol. 3, page 92.]

Savage claimed that Robert Roice of Boston was identical with a man of the same name who appeared in Connecticut some years later, but since the latter had wife Mary, and the only known wife of the Boston man was Elizabeth, who outlived him, this cannot be true [NEHGR 122:274-77 and the sources cited there; Goodwin Anc 1:295].
Anderson: The great Migration Begins

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Note for: Goodman John Close, ABT 1600 - ABT 1653 Index

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     John "Goodman" Close. Goodman and Goodwomen were titles of respect used in the 1600's, also goody for women, John Close was the name of this person often called Goodman--he was Goodman John Close.

The name of Close, in New England, first appears in the will of William Frost of Fairfield, CT, dated Jan. 6, 1644, where one Goodman Close is mentioned as having one of the testator's heifers. (See Manwaring's Abstract of Hartford Wills, Vol. I., Page 13.) Goodman Close probably died at Fairfield about 1643, and left him surviving, his widow, Elizabeth and the following children: Hannah, Thomas, Joseph, and Mary. His widow afterwards married George Stuckey, and had one child, Elizabeth Stuckey.

George Stuckey bought land at Windsor, CT, in 1640, sold out in 1645, removed to Fairfield, where he married the widow Close, and later removed to Stamford, CT, with his step-children. His wife died at Stamford, September 4, 1656. He died at Stamford, September 28, 1660, leaving a will, which is recorded in the Stamford Land Records. The will is dated Aug. 23, 1660, and makes mention of the Close children, namely, Mary Close, Thomas Close, Hannah Close, and Joseph Close, then deceased. On the settlement of his estate, November 6, 1660, Mary Close was represented by her guardian, which shows that she was not twenty-one years of age at the time. According to the records, the Close family in New England, in 1660, consisted of Hannah Close, who, June 9, 1657, married Joshua Knapp, Thomas Close, and Mary Close, who, June 25, 1668 married Samuel Holly.

A search of the Parish Registers for County York, England, seems to indicate that Goodman Close was born in Grinton Parish, where the family attained considerable prominence.

Thomas Close above referred to settled permanently in Greenwich, CT., and was one of the original patentees named in the patent granted to the Town of Greenwich by the General Assembly in May, 1665. He married Sarah, daughter of Richard and Ann (Husted) Hardy, in 1669. He died in Greenwich in 1709, leaving a will dated Dec. 30, 1708, which was probated in 1709. He was a member of the General Assembly in 1701.

Source: Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich, Pages 517-530.

Sources:

    1. Nicholas Knapp Genealogy (1953) by A.A. Knapp, :1; :8-9

    2. Supplement (1993) to Nicholas Knapp Genealogy (1953) by Fred H. Knapp
        I:9

    3. Ancestry of Elizabeth (Barrett) Gillespie (1973) by Paul W. Prindle, F.A.S.G.,
        :235-236

    4. Early Records of Greenwich CT

    5. Stamford Town Records, 1:74; 102; 126

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Note for: Mary, 1609 - 1697 Index

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A marriage to Mary Sims is disproven in Gary Boyd Roberts, English Origins of New England Families, Second Series, volume 3, pp. 42-45.

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Note for: John Finch, ABT 1595 - 5 SEP 1657 Index

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     From Warren M. Packer book, page 10:From Warren M. Packer book, page 10:

John "...was granted land in Stamford, Conn., October 1642; d. Stamford, 1657, he had previously lived at Watertown, Mass., and Wethersfield, Conn."

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4. John FINCH died on 5 Sep 1657 in Stamford, Fairfield, CT. He was born in , Eng. THUMMEL-ID: 3 PAGE: 251 born in England, brothe of Abraham and Daniel, came to New England with them in the "Winthrop Fleet" in 1630 and settled first at Watertown. When he removed from Watertown to Connecticutt is doubtful. Holmes in his "Ancstral Heads of New England Families" states that he removed to Wethersfield in 1637. Adams in his "Ancient Wethersfield" states "I find no evidence that he ever resided in Wethersfield excepting the fact that he was one of the pioneers of Stamford, a Wethersfield Colony.". Both Bond and Savage credit him to Wethersfield. Records of Massachussetts by Shurtleff give the following: Vol. 1 p120, John Finchg fined 7 Nov 1632. (Note 1) Vol. 1 p 223, John Finch receives payment 5 june 1638. (Note 2) Records of Watertown, Mass., Lands, Grants, and possessions: p. 8, John Finch granted 4 acres 28 Feb 1636. p. 13; John Finch granted another 4 acres, 26 june 1637. p. 18; John Finch drew the first lot and received 91 acres 10 May 1642.

This would seem to place him in Watertown up to 1642. In Oct 1642 he was assigned land amounting to 5 acres of marsh and upland "like the other men" in Stamford and was thereafter in Stamford. He was on ech of the lists of the Stamford colonyfo the first three years.

8 Nov, 1647, court action, Daniel Mitchell vs John Finch. 1647, David Mitchell sued John Finch for Debt. 13 Feb 1648/9 Jeffrey Ferris sued John Finch. 1652, sold land to William Potts (Potter). On 27;11m:84 (27 Jan 1684/5) W. Potter, ae 75, or thereabouts testafied that he bot the lot which Daniel Scofield now lives upon of Goodman ffinch, which was Isaac ffinch and Samuel ffinch father.) 1652, bot a house and lot of Henry Ackerly at Stamford. 1653, sold his house and lot to Richard Ambler. (The lands of John Finch (Stamford) are described under date of Mar. 1, 1650: "This house and lot with the ten acres following sould to Richard Ambler". The deed given by Finch, signed Nov 15, 1652 and specified that Finch to have the use of the house to Nov 15, 1653. Deed recorded Nov. 10, 1653.

The following is from "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633" by Robert Charles Anderson:

FINCH, JOHN [1632, Watertown]
JOHN FINCH

ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1632
FIRST RESIDENCE: Watertown
REMOVES: Stamford 1642

ESTATE: Granted four acres in Beaverbrook Plowlands, 28 February 1636/7 [WaBOP 7]; granted four acres in Remote Meadows, 26 June 1637 [WaBOP 9]; granted a farm of ninety-one acres, 10 May 1642 [WaBOP 13]. (Presumably he had held a houselot and other small holdings prior to 1637. He does not appear in the early Watertown land inventories, and all lands known to be granted to him are at that time in the hands of John Wincoll, who purchased them from John Finch, presumably in mid-1642.)
        Granted six acres by Stamford in October 1642 [TAG 10:42, 19:58].
        An inventory of Stamford landholding was prepared on 1 March 1650, and John Finch's real estate is summarized there [Gillespie Anc 140, citing StTR 1:43-44].

BIRTH: By about 1595 based on estimated date of marriage.
DEATH: Stamford 5 September 1657 [TAG 10:44,19:58].
MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1620 _____ _____; not seen in any New England record.
        (2) by about 1635 Martha (assuming she was the mother of his last four children), who married [blank] September 1658 John Green [TAG 10:113, 19:58].
CHILDREN:
        With first wife
        i JOHN, b. say 1620; m. (1) _____ _____; m. (2) after 8 November 1652 Hannah (Marsh) Fuller, widow of Launcelot Fuller.
        With second wife
        ii ISAAC, b. say 1635; m. (1) Stamford [blank] October 1658 Elizabeth Basset [TAG 10:113]; m. (2) by 1682 Ann _____.
        iii SAMUEL, b. say 1638; m. by about 1663 Sarah Hoyt, daughter of SIMON HOYT.
        iv JOSEPH, b. about 1647 (deposed 6 May 1700 aged about fifty-three); m. Stamford 23 November [1670] Elizabeth Austin.
        v ABRAHAM, b. say 1648; m. about 1670 _____ _____.
ASSOCIATIONS: See DANIEL FINCH for possible relations among Finch immigrants.

COMMENTS: As noted under Daniel Finch, John has been credited as the man who lost his belongings in a fire in September 1630, but this is more likely Daniel. On 7 November 1632 "John Finch is fined 10s. for wanting arms for his man, & for being absent himself from training" [MBCR 1:102], and this is the earliest record we have for him in New England. Savage has assigned to this John the death at the hands of the Pequots suffered by Abraham, son of Daniel. The grants of Beaverbrook Plowlands and Remote Meadows in 1637 were for four acres each, which indicates that the maximum size of his family at that time was four heads. This would account for himself, wife, and two eldest sons John and Isaac, both of whom were born by this time.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In addition to the sources cited under DANIEL FINCH, we take note here of the magnificent work by Paul Prindle on John Finch, which we follow here in many instances [Gillespie Anc 138-51]. In particular we have relied on Prindle for the data on the marriages of the sons of John Finch, and refer the reader to his work for fuller citations on these men.

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Note for: John Jones Pettus, 9 OCT 1813 - 1867 Index

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Pettus, John Jones (1813-1867) — of Mississippi. Born October 9, 1813. Brother of Edmund Winston Pettus. Governor of Mississippi, 1854, 1859-63. After the Civil War, amnesty was refused to him, and he became a fugitive; the manhunt continued until his death in Pulaski County, Ark., in early 1867. Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment at Flat Bayou Burial Ground, Near Wabbaseka, Jefferson County, Ark.

Source: Political Graveyard website.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pettitt-pezzulo.html#RDQ1EPYEZ

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Note for: John Austin, 12 NOV 1615 - 24 AUG 1657 Index

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John Austin of Stamford, Conn., pledged allegiance to the New Haven Coloney, Oct. 6, 1656. Inventory taken of his estate by Richard Law, May 1658. He died Stamford, Aug. 24, 1657. Wife Catherine. Son Samuel d. Sept. 21, 1657. His son John died about 1673. His widow married second William Hubbard. John Austin's estate was divided among his children 1684. John who never married. Thomas mar. Hannah Hardy; and Elizabeth who mar. Joseph Finch. Mr. Kenneth L. Austin of New York City believes there were two John Austins father and son as above stated rather than one generation as given by some authorities.

Source: Bibliographic Information: Moore, Edith Austin. A Genealogy of the Descendants of Robert Austin of Kingstown, Rhode Island. 1951.

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Note for: George Manchester, 1659 - 1734 Index

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These may not be the correct parents for Anna Manchester.

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Note for: Hugh Calkins, 1600 - 1690 Index

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"Hugh Calkins was a radical, in religion a non-conformist, and living in the troublous times of Charles, the First, soon became satisfied that there were safer countires than England and Wales--for men who wished to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences. Accordingly, he with his wife, Ann, and John, their son, then four years old, joined a body of emigrants called the 'Welch Company,' and with their pastor, Rev. Richard Blinman, embarked and came to America, about 1638 or 1640. They settled first at Green's Harbor (now Marshfield) in New Plymouth colony, but religious dissentions arising, Mr. Blinman, Hugh Calkins and others removed to Gloucester. Hugh Calkins became one of the first board of selectmen, and in 1650 was chosen deputy to the general court of Massachusetts Bay colony. He was chosen again in 1651, but for some reason he and others removed in that year to Connecticut colony, some say to Saybrook, but he could not have remained there long, as he was soon in New London. The Connecticut colonial records show that Hugh Calkins was deputy at the general court from New London, May 20 1652. In all, he served twelve times as deputy from New London. By order of the general court, held October 3, 1654, Hugh and another were appointed a committee for enlisting men to fight the Narragansett Indians. The records also show that he was a deputy magistrate. In 1660 he again changed his residence to the place where the city of Norwich now stands, then a wilderness and owned by the Mohegan Indians. Just previously a treaty had been concluded, by and between the celebrated major Mason and others with the Mohegan chiefs, by which a tract of land nine miles square around Norwich was ceded to the whites,for the sum of seventy pounds sterling. Hugh and his son, John, were of the thirty-five original proprietors. Hugh appears in the colonial records as a deputy from Norwich to the general court, ten times. Hugh was an active worker there in all measures for the public good; and also at home constantly identified with public interests. He was a deacon in the first church built in Norwich."2

2. William Cutter, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, 1910.

Freeman 27 Dec 1642 in Gloucester, selectman 1643-48, rep. 1650-52. In New London, selectman, rep., and town clerk. In Norwich, first deacon, rep.7

"Hugh Calkins (or Caulkins) was one of a body of emigrants, called the Welsh Company, that came to New England in 1640, from Chepstow in Monmouthshire, on the border of Wales, with their minister, the Rev. Mr. Blinman."

"Hugh Calkins was, in 1650, deputy from Gloucester to the General Court of Massachusetts, and chosen again in 1651, but removing early in that year to New London, the vacancy was filled by another election.
While living at New London, he was chosen twelved times deputy to the Connecticut Assembly, (the elections being semi-annual,) and was one of the townsmen, or select-men, invariably, from 1652 till he removed to Norwich.
From Norwich, he was deputy at ten sessions of the Legislature, between March, 1663, and October, 1671, and was one of the first deacons of the Norwich Church. At each of the three towns in which he was an early settler and proprietor, he was largely employed in public business, being usually appointed one of committees for consultation, for fortifying, drafting soldiers, settling difficulties, and particularly for surveying lands and determining boundaries. "

"History of Norwich, Connecticut: From Its Possession By The Indians, To The Year 1866"
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"He arrived with a party headed by a Mr. Richard Blinman, who had been minister in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, England (Wales?), and had been silenced for nonconformity to the established church. The group was styled as "the Welsh party". They first arrived at Green's Harbor near Marshfield but soon moved to Gloucester near Cape Ann, in the Mass. Bay Co. In 1650 he was at New London, Ct. He held many prominent offices in both places. In 1659 he joined a Saybrook Co. that was organized to purchase and establish the town of Norwich and he became a deacon in the church there."

http://204.167.154.3/lrichard/tracy.htm

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Note for: Richard Hardy, - 1683 Index

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NOTE.--Richard Hardy came to Concord, Mass., in 1639; removed to Stamford, Conn., and there married Ann Heusted, daughter of Robert Heusted, (who came to Boston in 1640, and died in 1652,) and Elizabeth, his wife.

Richard Hardy had a daughter Mary, born, April 30, 1659. In 1683 he gave son Samuel a house and lot, and shortly after gave legacies to his daughters Elizabeth Parsons, Susanna Sherman, Sarah Close, Ruth Mead, and Mary Hardy.

His son Samuel married, first, Rebecca Hobby, November 18, 1686, and had Rebecca, born September 28, 1687. He married second, Rebecca Furbust, May 12, 1692, and had Hannah, born, July 6, 1693, (who married Samuel Rundle); Samuel, born, July 3, 1694, Daniel, born, August 8, 1701; Phineous, born, October 12, 1703-4.

(See Huntington's History of Stamford.)

Source: Bibliographic Information: Noyes, LaVerne W. Descendants of Reverend William Noyes. LaVerne W. Noyes, Chicago 1900

Richard and , Ann resided in Fairfield , CT.. Richard Was declared
"Freeman" of the Connecticut Colony in 1662 of the and Selectman from
1666 thru 1699. Richard represented Fairfield three times in the State
General Court. In 1650 he became a landowner in Fairfield, where he and
Ann raised eight children. Richard was in Concord Mass. in 1639, and gave
the name of "Hardy's Hole" to the low-lands to the west of the harbor,
and it has retained that title to this day. In 1683 shortly before his
will, Richard gave to his son Samuel Hardy the house, and lands.

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Note for: John Mead, 1634 - 5 FEB 1698/99 Index

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John Mead, the second, died 1696, married Miss Potter of Stamford, and left as appears by his will, eight sons and tradition says, three daughters, viz: John, Joseph, Jonathan, Ebenezer, Nathaniel, David, Samuel, Abigail, Mary and Susan or Susannah.

SOURCE: Hurd, D. Hamilton. History of Fairfield County, Connecticut. Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co. (1881), p. 396-398

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Note for: Hannah Potter, 1638 - 13 NOV 1700 Index

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from a pedigree at WorldConnect:

There is a theory that Hannah Potter was the daughter of John Browne and Dorothy. After John's death, Dorothy's second husband was William Potter, who adopted Hannah and gave her the name Potter.
John Browne, b. 1598, came over on the Lyon in 1632 and settled in Watertown, Mass. His parents were Edmund Browne, b. 1547, and Mary Camphorne, b. 1562, daughter of William Cramphorne and Joane Plowe.
Edmund is the son of William Browne, b. abt 1505, and Joan, b. abt. 1510. All of the Brownes were born in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire.

Anderson's Great Migration Begins has some speculation about this.

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Note for: John Mead, - Index

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John Mead was one of two brothers who emigrated from England about the year 1642. The family was then an ancient and honorable one, though it is not within the author's means to trace their genealogy previous to their emigration to this country.

One of their ancestors had been the friend and the physician of the talented, though not very amicable Queen Elizabeth. One of the two brothers emigrated to Virginia, where the family still exists. The other, John Mead, with his two sons, came to New England about the year 1642. The name is spelled Meade as well as Mead. Many claim that they emigrated from Greenwich, Kent Co., England, but we have not fallen with any direct proof of the fact, and this town was known by its present name long before the settlement of the Mead family. John Mead and his two sons, John and Joseph, having tarried awhile in Massachusetts, first settled in Hempstead, L.I., where they remained until October, 1660, when the two sons came to Greenwich and bought land of Richard Crab and others, which was deeded to John Mead, he being the elder. Either John, the father, never came to Greenwich, or if so, he took no active part in life, now having become quite an old man. His son Joseph left no children in this town. He may have died young, or left no issue, or may have emigrated to another part of the country.

SOURCE: Hurd, D. Hamilton. History of Fairfield County, Connecticut. Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co. (1881), p. 396-398.

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Note for: Henry Whitney, 4 MAY 1619 - 5 JUN 1672 Index

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Henry Whitney (1), the immigrant ancestor of the late Christopher Whitney, of Westboro, Massachusetts, was born in England about 1620. His English pedigree given in the family genealogy is acknowledged incorrect, but he doubtless belonged to the same family as John Whitney, who settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, and whose English ancestors are known. Henry Whitney was first in this country at Southold, Long Island, and he bought land there at Hashamommock, October 8, 1649, with Edward Tredwell and Thomas Benedict, from William Salmon. He lived later at Huntington, Long Island, where he built a grist mill for Rev. William Leverick. He was later at Jamaica, Long Island, and was townsman there 1664. He settled next at Norwalk, Connecticut, in 1665, and agreed with the town to build a corn mill on the north side of Norwalk river, on the first lot west of Mill brook. He was one of a list of thirty-three freeman, October 11, 1669. His name appears last on the town records, February 20, 1672. He probably died in 1673. His will was dated June 5, 1672. He described his condition as "being weake and crazy in body, but throwe mercy perfect in memory and understanding." He married Widow Ketchum. His only child mentioned in his will was John.

Source: Bibliographic Information: Crane, Ellery Bicknell. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worchester County vol.2. The Lewis Publishing Company. New York. 1907.

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Note for: John Budd, ABT 1634 - 15 NOV 1684 Index

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JOHN BUDD, Southold. "I John Budd of the Town of Southold, being at present weak in body." "My mind and will is, and I doe hereby bequeath to my wife Mary Budd, two cows, a bed, and all household goods, and the negro woman called Catharine and her child." And she is to remain in my new dwelling house, and my eldest son John shall maintain her with victualls during her widowhood. And anything more for her comfort shall be at the discretion of my executors. I also leave her one piece of gold, value 21 shillings." He leaves to his eldest son John, all his accommodations of land and meadow, and commonage lying between the Fresh meadow and Plum Gut, as will appear by Record, with all Housing and farming implements. Also 4 oxen, 3 cows, 6 horses. "If he marries without the consent of my executors, then he is to have only two-thirds of what is here left to him. And he is to make no sale or Trucker of any part of his estate without the consent of my executors until he come to the age of twenty-five years." He leaves to his son Joseph, "all my right and interest in a neck of land in Westchester. which lieth between Blind Brook and Mamaroneck River, and an island of meadow belonging thereto (except 100 acres of upland and 4 acres of meadow), and all my housing and improvements on said land." He leaves to his daughter Mary, wife of Christopher Youngs, one half of his right of land and meadow at Accobauk. To daughter Hannah wife of Jonathan Hart, 100 acres of land, and 4 acres of meadow in the neck called Mensarninck lying between Joseph Budds and Langleys. To daughter Ann, one half of his right of land and meadow at Accobauk, and œ15; to daughter Sarah œ30, when she arrives at the age of eighteen; makes his "respected friends and neighbors," John Tuttle, Sr., and Isaac Arnold his executors, and leaves to each of them "50 shillings to buy what they shall best like to remember me by."

Dated October 27, 1684. Witnesses, John Budd, Ann Budd. Proved at Court of Oyer and Terminer, in Southampton, November 12, 1684.

Inventory, taken November 5, 1684: 11 oxen, œ33, 14 cows, œ28; 12 two-year-old cattle, œ12; 158 sheep, œ43; 10 horses, œ16; 27 pounds of Powder, œ2; 20 pounds of shot, 6s; 50 pounds of shot, 14s. Inventory of property at Rye, œ134.

Source: Bibliographic Information: Abstracts of Wills Vol I 1665-1707, The New York Historical Society, 1892.