Ancestors of Tim Farr and Descendants of Stephen Farr Sr. of Concord, Massachusetts and Lidlington, Bedfordshire, England


Ichabod KING [Parents] was born 1 on 24 Apr 1681 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. He was christened on 24 Apr 1681 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. He died in 1753. Ichabod married 2 Hannah WITHKELL on 8 May 1701 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.

Other marriages:
GUIBS, Judith

Middleborough Births Marriages and Deaths
[p.4] Hannah King the wife of Ichabod King deceased March the first 1716/15 [p.3] Ichabod King of middleboro & Judith Guibs of plimouth were married. august: 22. 1716 by me peter Thacher

Hannah WITHKELL died 1 on 1 Mar 1715/1716 in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Hannah married 2 Ichabod KING on 8 May 1701 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.

Middleborough Births Marriages and Deaths
[p.4] Hannah King the wife of Ichabod King deceased March the first 1716/15


Ichabod KING [Parents] was born 1 on 24 Apr 1681 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. He was christened on 24 Apr 1681 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. He died in 1753. Ichabod married 2 Judith GUIBS on 22 Aug 1716 in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.

Other marriages:
WITHKELL, Hannah

Middleborough Births Marriages and Deaths
[p.4] Hannah King the wife of Ichabod King deceased March the first 1716/15 [p.3] Ichabod King of middleboro & Judith Guibs of plimouth were married. august: 22. 1716 by me peter Thacher

Judith GUIBS. Judith married 1 Ichabod KING on 22 Aug 1716 in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.


George KING [Parents] was born 1 on 27 Aug 1682 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. He was christened on 27 Aug 1682 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. He died on 16 Jun 1754 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. George married 2 Deborah BRIGGS on 12 Jul 1710 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.

Scituate, Mass., Vital Records
[p.20] George King and Deborah Briggs both of this Town, were Joyned together in marriage July the l2th 1710 by me Nathaniell Fells

Deborah BRIGGS. Deborah married 1 George KING on 12 Jul 1710 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.


STETSON. STETSON married Anne KING on 29 Jan 1712/1713.

Anne KING [Parents] was born 1 in May 1684 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Anne married STETSON on 29 Jan 1712/1713.


Thomas CUTLER [Parents] [scrapbook] was born on 7 Nov 1578 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. He was christened on 7 Nov 1578 in St Nicholas, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. He died on 3 Jul 1640 in Sproughton, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. Thomas married Anne DOUNDY in 1600 in England, United Kingdom.

Anne DOUNDY [Parents] was born in 1582/1583 in Sproughton, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. She died on 19 Aug 1613 in Sproughton, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. Anne married Thomas CUTLER in 1600 in England, United Kingdom.

They had the following children.

  M i John CUTLER was born in 1600. He died on 24 Feb 1637.
  M ii
Robte CUTLER was christened on 17 Nov 1605 in St Nicholas, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom.
  M iii James CUTLER Sr was born on 21 May 1605. He died on 17 May 1694.
  F iv
Alice CUTLER was born about 1607 in Sproughton, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom.
  M v
Thomas CUTLER was born about 1608 in Sproughton, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom.
  F vi
Elizabeth CUTLER was born about 1609 in Sproughton, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom.

James CUTLER Sr [Parents] [scrapbook] was born on 21 May 1605 in Sprowston, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. He died 1, 2 on 17 May 1694 in Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. James married 3, 4 Anna GROUT after 1630 in England, United Kingdom.

Other marriages:
KING, Mary
PAGE, Phoebe

According to the source listed below, James had three wives; Anna, Mary King and Phebe Page. He had children with each wife. The AF has all the children linked to one wife.
Source: "A Genealogy of The Cutler Family of Lexington, Massachusetts James and some of his Descendants 1634-1964" National Genealogical Society.  FHL #929.273 C973b

202        NEHGS NEXUS Vol. XV, No. 6
COLUMNS GREAT MIGRATION DIARY
by, Melinde Lutz Sanborn, F.A.S.C.

Just WHEN I THOUGHT it was safe to ignore the A-C sketches, RCA brings back the last three "C"s for Some detail work. James Cutler, Richard Cutting and William Cutting are all old friends: I met them all in the Same place, as a matter of fact, as James and Richard were featured in the first volume of The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton. (William just falls off the face of the earth, so he is fairly easy to handle.) Richard Cutting is a curious person. RCA wants some comment about why he waited until he was seventy before he joined the church, became a freeman, and served as a Watertown selectman. Fortunately, the minister quoted from Corinthians in his sermon, Unfortunately, the Corinthians quotation does not make any sense in this context. After a few minutes, it occurs to me that it needn't be l Corinthians. lt must be ll Corinthians, which describes a man who comes to an understanding of God before he becomes a member of the church. That leaves James Cutler, who really ought to be a snap but isn't. Everybody has worked on James Cutler: Mary Walton Ferris and J. Gardner Bartlett, to name but two. The problem is, they all come to the same conclusions. It should be safe to agree with them, but it turns out not to be.

I HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT Cutler had too many daughters named Mary but the more I look at it, the more suspicious the whole farmily group looks. Jarnes Cutler had three wives and, by conventional wisdom, twelve children. The trick is to reconcile his will with what is known about the family from other records. After three days of working on a vague hunch - and looking at vital and probate records, deeds, town histories, compiled genealogies, and court records-it still does not add up. Finally, I decide to chuck everything and start from scratch. I hunker down with James's will and Torrey's New England Marriages Before 1700 and suddenly things start to happen. Cutler wrote his will in 1684 when he was 78 years old. He took care of his three eldest sons first, then said "the rest of my children, including with them the two children of my wife formerly the widow of Thomas King," were to have the rest of the estate divided between them. I list the people who got shares of the estate: John Coller, Richard Parks' wife, the wife of John Parmenter, Sarah Waite, Mary Johnson, Hannah Winter, Johanna Russell, Jemima [Cutler], and Thomas, John, and Samuel Cutler. Since they all got equal shares, I assume that all these people were children and not grandchildren representing deceased children. Given that, we can look for the two children of the second wife, Mary King. Clearly they were daughters, as none of the sons was named King. Torrey's index says that John Coller married first Hannah and second Mary Cutler. I tangled with John Coller's family in the Kempton book, and could never understand why the earlier genealogists picked Mary as John's wife when I could never find any evidence of another wife than Hannah. Sigh. I leave this blank, reserving room for John Coller's wife but not naming her.

Richard Parks' wife is another problem. There is little evidence of who she might be, although there is a deed in which she was called Mary. There is a birth record in Watertown for Mary Cutler in 1643. I go back to Mary Walton Ferris's analysis. Strangely enough, she did not connect Richard Parks' wife to the Cutler family. I assumed earlier that she believed that Richard's wife was one of the King girls. This is not right, either, and the Torrey entry reflects the confusion. Since there were three Richard Parkes alive at the time in question, someone chose the wrong Richard to connect to the Cutler and King families, asserting that a much too young Richard married a Sarah "King not Cutler."

I KNOW THE WIFE of John Parmenter was Elizabeth Cutler because they got into a little trouble before marriage, and James Cutler had to post bond for her. Sarah Waite was the wife of Thomas, She deposed in 1678 and died in 1743/44, so her age works out to make her a Cutler daughter of James's marriage to Mary King. Mary Johnson (another Mary!) was called Mary King when she married John Johnson. One King daughter down. Unless both King daughters were named Mary, the wife of Richard Parks must be Mary Cutler. This means Mary Cutler was not John Coller's wife. Hannah Winter. There is a birth record in Watertown for Hannah Cutler, She was the first daughter of james and first wife. It would be easy to match them up but I am suspicious now. If John Coller was not married to Mary Cutler, then his known wife Hannah could be Hannah King or Hannah Cutler. How to choose? I set the problem aside for the moment.

NEHGS NEXUS, Vol. XV, No.6 p. 203

Johanna Russell was born in 1661, based on an exact age at death, and was therefore necessarily a daughter of James' third wife, Phebe Page. Jemima was unmarried in 1684, but married soon after and had children. To be of childbearing age when Jemima Snow had her last recorded child, she must be the youngest of the Cutler daughters and a child of James and Phebe.

WHERE DOES THIS ALL LEAVE US? Clearly the King daughters were born before James married the widow King, so only the oldest girls could possibly provide the identity of the second King daughter. The only daughter old enough and mysterious enough is Hannah. The final clue lies in the phrasing of the will. When speaking of each of his daughters, James Cutler said "to my daughter," but in the case of Mary Johnson and Hannah Winter, merely said "I have already given to," never actually calling them his daughters. The order in which the daughters were named in the will also appears to proceed from eldest to youngest, given what else is known about them. This interpretation would mean that Hannah Cutler was the wife of John Coller; that Hannah King was the posthumous daughter of Thomas King and became the wife of John Winter; that Mary Cutler did not marry John Coller but was the wife of Richard Parks;  and that Sarah Parks, wife of one of the other Richard Parkses, was neither a King nor a Cutler. PHEW! All of the pieces were there, they just needed some shulffling. This means five new Torrey entries and lots of new ancestry for many Cutler and King descendants. (Of course, it does not begin to address the curious situation of the woman James Cutler called "my daughter Phebe," who was undoubtedly not a Cutler at all, but rather a daughter of the notorious Phebe Page by a previous liaison; see The Great Migration, second series.) Just one final problem. It seems that the last time I struggled with the identity of John Coller's wife I agreed with the previous genealogists who married him to Hannah___and then Mary Cutler. I did not just privately agree with them: I did so in print in The Ancestry of Warren Francis Kempton, complete with color frontispiece, autographs, photographs of gravestones, and transcriptions of documents. How to tell the author of this hook, one Dean Crawford Smith, that his editor is fallible? Oh, well, maybe he reads "Great Migration Diary" in NEXUS....

Melinde Lutz Sanborn, F.A.S.G., joined NEXUS as a Consulting Editor with the September-October issue, and "Great Migration Diary" will appear henceforth in each issue of the magazine. Ms. Sanborn is co-author - with Robert Charles Anderson, C.G., F.A.S.G., and George Freeman Sanborn Jr., F.A.S.G. - of The Great Migration, second series.

Anna GROUT was buried 1 on 30 Sep 1644 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Anna married 2, 3 James CUTLER Sr after 1630 in England, United Kingdom.

Source: "A Genealogy of The Cutler Family of Lexington, Massachusetts James and some of his Descendants 1634-1964" National Genealogical Society. FHL #929.273 C973b

They had the following children.

  M i James CUTLER was born on 6 Nov 1635.
  F ii Hannah CUTLER was born on 26 Jul 1638.
  F iii
Elizabeth CUTLER was born on 28 Jan 1639 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. She was buried on 30 Dec 1644 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
  F iv Mary CUTLER was born on 29 Mar 1644.

James CUTLER Sr [Parents] [scrapbook] was born on 21 May 1605 in Sprowston, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. He died 1, 2 on 17 May 1694 in Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. James married 3, 4 Mary KING on 9 Mar 1645 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Other marriages:
GROUT, Anna
PAGE, Phoebe

According to the source listed below, James had three wives; Anna, Mary King and Phebe Page. He had children with each wife. The AF has all the children linked to one wife.
Source: "A Genealogy of The Cutler Family of Lexington, Massachusetts James and some of his Descendants 1634-1964" National Genealogical Society.  FHL #929.273 C973b

202        NEHGS NEXUS Vol. XV, No. 6
COLUMNS GREAT MIGRATION DIARY
by, Melinde Lutz Sanborn, F.A.S.C.

Just WHEN I THOUGHT it was safe to ignore the A-C sketches, RCA brings back the last three "C"s for Some detail work. James Cutler, Richard Cutting and William Cutting are all old friends: I met them all in the Same place, as a matter of fact, as James and Richard were featured in the first volume of The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton. (William just falls off the face of the earth, so he is fairly easy to handle.) Richard Cutting is a curious person. RCA wants some comment about why he waited until he was seventy before he joined the church, became a freeman, and served as a Watertown selectman. Fortunately, the minister quoted from Corinthians in his sermon, Unfortunately, the Corinthians quotation does not make any sense in this context. After a few minutes, it occurs to me that it needn't be l Corinthians. lt must be ll Corinthians, which describes a man who comes to an understanding of God before he becomes a member of the church. That leaves James Cutler, who really ought to be a snap but isn't. Everybody has worked on James Cutler: Mary Walton Ferris and J. Gardner Bartlett, to name but two. The problem is, they all come to the same conclusions. It should be safe to agree with them, but it turns out not to be.

I HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT Cutler had too many daughters named Mary but the more I look at it, the more suspicious the whole farmily group looks. Jarnes Cutler had three wives and, by conventional wisdom, twelve children. The trick is to reconcile his will with what is known about the family from other records. After three days of working on a vague hunch - and looking at vital and probate records, deeds, town histories, compiled genealogies, and court records-it still does not add up. Finally, I decide to chuck everything and start from scratch. I hunker down with James's will and Torrey's New England Marriages Before 1700 and suddenly things start to happen. Cutler wrote his will in 1684 when he was 78 years old. He took care of his three eldest sons first, then said "the rest of my children, including with them the two children of my wife formerly the widow of Thomas King," were to have the rest of the estate divided between them. I list the people who got shares of the estate: John Coller, Richard Parks' wife, the wife of John Parmenter, Sarah Waite, Mary Johnson, Hannah Winter, Johanna Russell, Jemima [Cutler], and Thomas, John, and Samuel Cutler. Since they all got equal shares, I assume that all these people were children and not grandchildren representing deceased children. Given that, we can look for the two children of the second wife, Mary King. Clearly they were daughters, as none of the sons was named King. Torrey's index says that John Coller married first Hannah and second Mary Cutler. I tangled with John Coller's family in the Kempton book, and could never understand why the earlier genealogists picked Mary as John's wife when I could never find any evidence of another wife than Hannah. Sigh. I leave this blank, reserving room for John Coller's wife but not naming her.

Richard Parks' wife is another problem. There is little evidence of who she might be, although there is a deed in which she was called Mary. There is a birth record in Watertown for Mary Cutler in 1643. I go back to Mary Walton Ferris's analysis. Strangely enough, she did not connect Richard Parks' wife to the Cutler family. I assumed earlier that she believed that Richard's wife was one of the King girls. This is not right, either, and the Torrey entry reflects the confusion. Since there were three Richard Parkes alive at the time in question, someone chose the wrong Richard to connect to the Cutler and King families, asserting that a much too young Richard married a Sarah "King not Cutler."

I KNOW THE WIFE of John Parmenter was Elizabeth Cutler because they got into a little trouble before marriage, and James Cutler had to post bond for her. Sarah Waite was the wife of Thomas, She deposed in 1678 and died in 1743/44, so her age works out to make her a Cutler daughter of James's marriage to Mary King. Mary Johnson (another Mary!) was called Mary King when she married John Johnson. One King daughter down. Unless both King daughters were named Mary, the wife of Richard Parks must be Mary Cutler. This means Mary Cutler was not John Coller's wife. Hannah Winter. There is a birth record in Watertown for Hannah Cutler, She was the first daughter of james and first wife. It would be easy to match them up but I am suspicious now. If John Coller was not married to Mary Cutler, then his known wife Hannah could be Hannah King or Hannah Cutler. How to choose? I set the problem aside for the moment.

NEHGS NEXUS, Vol. XV, No.6 p. 203

Johanna Russell was born in 1661, based on an exact age at death, and was therefore necessarily a daughter of James' third wife, Phebe Page. Jemima was unmarried in 1684, but married soon after and had children. To be of childbearing age when Jemima Snow had her last recorded child, she must be the youngest of the Cutler daughters and a child of James and Phebe.

WHERE DOES THIS ALL LEAVE US? Clearly the King daughters were born before James married the widow King, so only the oldest girls could possibly provide the identity of the second King daughter. The only daughter old enough and mysterious enough is Hannah. The final clue lies in the phrasing of the will. When speaking of each of his daughters, James Cutler said "to my daughter," but in the case of Mary Johnson and Hannah Winter, merely said "I have already given to," never actually calling them his daughters. The order in which the daughters were named in the will also appears to proceed from eldest to youngest, given what else is known about them. This interpretation would mean that Hannah Cutler was the wife of John Coller; that Hannah King was the posthumous daughter of Thomas King and became the wife of John Winter; that Mary Cutler did not marry John Coller but was the wife of Richard Parks;  and that Sarah Parks, wife of one of the other Richard Parkses, was neither a King nor a Cutler. PHEW! All of the pieces were there, they just needed some shulffling. This means five new Torrey entries and lots of new ancestry for many Cutler and King descendants. (Of course, it does not begin to address the curious situation of the woman James Cutler called "my daughter Phebe," who was undoubtedly not a Cutler at all, but rather a daughter of the notorious Phebe Page by a previous liaison; see The Great Migration, second series.) Just one final problem. It seems that the last time I struggled with the identity of John Coller's wife I agreed with the previous genealogists who married him to Hannah___and then Mary Cutler. I did not just privately agree with them: I did so in print in The Ancestry of Warren Francis Kempton, complete with color frontispiece, autographs, photographs of gravestones, and transcriptions of documents. How to tell the author of this hook, one Dean Crawford Smith, that his editor is fallible? Oh, well, maybe he reads "Great Migration Diary" in NEXUS....

Melinde Lutz Sanborn, F.A.S.G., joined NEXUS as a Consulting Editor with the September-October issue, and "Great Migration Diary" will appear henceforth in each issue of the magazine. Ms. Sanborn is co-author - with Robert Charles Anderson, C.G., F.A.S.G., and George Freeman Sanborn Jr., F.A.S.G. - of The Great Migration, second series.

Mary KING died 1 on 7 Dec 1654. Mary married 2, 3 James CUTLER Sr on 9 Mar 1645 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Widow of Thomas King of Watertown.
Source: "A Genealogy of The Cutler Family of Lexington, Massachusetts James and some of his Descendants 1634-1964" National Genealogical Society.

They had the following children.

  F i Elizabeth CUTLER was born on 22 Jul 1646.
  M ii
Thomas CUTLER was born about 1648 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
  F iii Sarah CUTLER was born about 1653. She died on 17 Jan 1744.

John PAGE [Parents] 1, 2, 3 was born on 25 Sep 1586 in Dedham, Essex, England, United Kingdom. He was christened 4 on 25 Sep 1586 in Boxted, Essex, England, United Kingdom. He died 5, 6 on 18 Dec 1676 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. John married 7, 8, 9 Phoebe PAINE on 5 Jun 1621 in Lavenham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom.

JOHN PAGE

ORIGIN:  Dedham, Essex
MIGRATION:  1630
FIRST RESIDENCE:  Watertown

CHURCH MEMBERSHIP:  On 23 May 1665 the Watertown selectmen ordered several persons, including "old Goodman Page & his wife," to attend the next selectmen's meeting "to answer for not attending their seats in the meetinghouse appointed them by the town" [WaTR 1:85].
FREEMAN:  Requested 19 October 1630 and admitted 18 May 1631 [MBCR 1:79, 366].
EDUCATION:  His inventory included a "Bible and two other small books" valued at 12s.
OFFICES:  Chosen constable for Watertown, 19 October 1630 [MBCR 1:79]. Trial jury in case of Walter Palmer, 9 November 1630 [MBCR 1:81].
ESTATE:  On 21 April 1631 "The house of John Page of Watertown was burnt by carrying a few coals from one house to another: a coal fell by the way and kindled in the leaves" [WJ 1:65].

Granted fifty acres in the Great Dividend in Watertown, 25 July 1636 [WaBOP 5]; granted thirteen acres in the Beaverbrook Plowlands, 28 February 1636/7 [WaBOP 7]; granted thirteen acres in the Remote Meadows, 26 June 1637 [WaBOP 10].

In the Watertown Inventory of Grants John Page was credited with five parcels of land: three acre homestall; thirteen acres plowland in the Further Plain [Beaverbrook Plowlands]; thirteen acres in the Remote Meadows; fifty acres in the Great Dividend; and three acres meadow [WaBOP 112].  In the Inventory of Possessions he held six parcels, and in the Composite Inventory the same six parcels: forty acre homestall (originally a Great Dividend lot, purchased of Edward Howe); twenty acres upland (part of a Great Dividend lot, purchased of John Coolidge); eighteen acres of meadow in Plain Meadow (eight acres purchased of Edward Howe, six of Robert Feake and four of Simon Stone); four acres meadow at Beaver Brook (purchased of William Jennison); seventy acres of upland, being a Great Dividend Lot (purchased of Simon Stone); and thirty-five acres of upland, being a Great Dividend lot (purchased of John Smith) [WaBOP 64, 144].

On 4 November 1646, with others, he pled poverty to be excused from paying a 14s. 5d. fine, but the court, understanding that some of those pleading were "of good ability," considered the matter closely [MBCR 2:164].

On 6 April 1658 John Page of Watertown and Phebe his wife sold to Isaac Mixture of Watertown seventy acres of land, being a dividend, lying in Watertown, also seven acres of remote meadow in the third lot [MLR 6:436-37].  On 26 February 1652[/3] John Page of Watertown and Phebe his wife sold to Joseph Child of Watertown "one small tenement" in Watertown containing one dwelling house and four acres of land [MLR 1:58-59].

The inventory of the estate of John Page of Watertown "who died about the 19th December 1676" was taken 16 February 1676[/7] and was untotalled but included real estate valued at £50: "half a dwelling house with about twelve acres of plain and four acres of meadow £50" [MPR 5:348].

The settlement of the estate witnessed a bitter dispute pitting John, the eldest son, against Samuel Page and James Cutler.  Cutler (husband of daughter Phebe Page) and Samuel Page claimed that John kept the estate entirely to himself and refused to make a division.  The court ruled in favor of John, finding the estate to be his [MCF 1687 III 251, 252, 228, 240, 167].

BIRTH:  Perhaps the John Page baptized Boxted, Essex, 25 September 1586, son of Robert and Susanna (Syckerling) Page [NEHGR 105:26].
DEATH:  Watertown 18 December 1676 "aged about 90 years" [WaVR 41].
MARRIAGE:  Lavenham, Suffolk, 5 June 1621 Phebe Paine; she was baptized Lavenham 1 April 1594, daughter of William and Agnes (Neves) Paine [NEHGR 69:251]; she died Watertown 25 September 1677 "aged 87" [WaVR 42].

ASSOCIATIONS:  Phebe (Paine) Page, wife of John Page, was sister of Elizabeth (Paine) Hammond, wife of WILLIAM HAMMOND of Watertown; of Dorothy (Paine) Eyre, wife of Simon Eyre of Watertown; and of William Paine of Ipswich [NEHGR 69:248-252, 79:82-4, 101:242-45, 105:25-27].

COMMENTS:  In a November 1630 letter to John Winthrop Jr., John Rogers, vicar of Dedham, Essex, reports that "this day I have received so lamentable a letter from one John Page late of Dedham that hath his wife and 2 children there and he certifies me that unless God stirring some friends to send him some provision he is like to starve"; as a result, Rogers donated 20s. to buy meal for the family [WP 2:316]. Dedham, Essex, is a parish adjacent to Boxted where records of this Page family are found.  The two children who came to New England with John Page are apparently Phebe and John.

Some sources claim that John Page had daughters Elizabeth and Mary living in 1660, but the evidence for this is not seen [NEHGR 101:242, 245, 105:26].

4 December 1638: "Isack Sternes & John Page were fined 5s. for turning the way about, & day was given till the next Court" [MBCR 1:247].

John Page took an unusual approach to the Watertown land granting process.  As shown by the Inventory of Grants, he received the usual sequence of land grants down to 1637, when he had his share of the Remote Meadows, but he did not share in any later grants.  About 1637 or 1638 he apparently sold off all these parcels which came directly to him from the town, for in the various inventories of Watertown land three of the five parcels appear in the hands of John Biscoe and one in the hands of Michael Barstow.  The fate of the homestall is unknown, but this was certainly sold as well, and as this parcel carried with it the proprietary rights in future divisions, John Page did not receive a Farm in 1642.

In the Composite Inventory, which showed landholding as of about 1644, Page held only parcels of land that he had bought from others, and these were almost all in the Great Dividend, close to one another but some way from the center of town.  Since Page received thirteen acres in the Beaverbrook Plowlands and in the Remote Meadows, and since his family had at most five members at this time, he must have had considerable wealth in cattle.  Combine this with his virtual absence from town affairs, and the occasional rebuke for antisocial behavior, and one has the picture of a man of some substance who was attempting to withdraw from society, build his own little empire, and interact as little as possible with authority.

Many secondary sources claim that the immigrant John Page removed to Groton in 1662 and returned to Watertown in 1675 after the burning of Groton, but this was the son John, as shown by the births of his children in Groton in the late 1660s and early 1670s, as well as records in Watertown that show that the elder John Page was still in Watertown during these years [WaTR 1:85, 94, 98].

James Knapp deposed in 1678 about working with John Page Jr. at Piscataqua, as many Watertown men of the second generation did, and how young John redeemed a mortgaged piece of John Sr.'s land [MCF 1678 III].  John Hammond deposed that "being at my Uncle Page's house my Aunt Page was very importunate with my Uncle to give Samuel Page a piece of land and my Uncle Page's answer was `Thou knowest it was mortgaged and my son John Page hath redeemed it and it is his'" [MCF 1678 III].  John Page Jr. submitted his account of things he had done for his father when the younger John was a single man, having managed his estate for ten years except about five months when he was in Long Island, and about a fortnight "to help James Cutler when his house was burnt" [MCF 1678 III].

At the court of 2 April 1650 daughter Phebe Page sued John Flemming and his wife for slanderously saying that she was with child.  This case illustrated a family at odds with itself; with the depositions of over twenty neighbors, it seemed that the entire town was talking about them [Pulsifer 1:6-8].  Flemming defended himself and said that his words were based on "the common practice of Phebe Page, & the report of her own friends."  "John Spring being on the watch on Saturday night after midnight testified that he met John Poole & Phebe Page together, and he asking them why they were so late, she answered because she could dispatch her business no sooner & he said he went with her because he lived with her father."  Anthony White also witnessed that "Phebe Page said she must either marry within a month or run the country or lose her wits," and also that "Phebe Page said my mother I can love and respect, but my father I cannot love." William Parker deposed that, having "much discourse with Phebe's mother, she wished her daughter had never seen Poole for she was afraid she was with child." White advised her to return to her father's house again and "she answered no, before I will do so I will go into wilderness as far as I can & lie down and die."  Perce witnessed that "Goodman Page coming to his house said thus that what with his wife and daughter, he was afraid they would kill him, and constantly affirmed the same."  Goody Mixture testified that "old Page said if she knew as much as he, Phebe deserved to be hanged."  Parker again testified "he living at Long Island & Phebe Page there also, she would not keep the house one night, but kept a young man company, and they were both whipped for it by the magistrates' order there, also that she confessed" and both were censured.  Joseph Tainter said "he was informed by one that lived at Long Island that Phebe Page confessed herself she had carnal copulation with a young man at the Island."  Phebe withdrew her action, and the Court granted the defendant costs £2 4s. 6d.  John Page Senior confessed a judgment of the costs of Court against his daughter.

Phoebe PAINE [Parents] was christened 1 on 1 Apr 1594 in Lavenham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. She died 2 on 25 Sep 1677 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Phoebe married 3, 4, 5 John PAGE 6, 7, 8 on 5 Jun 1621 in Lavenham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom.

DEATH: Daughter of William Paine of Lavenham.

They had the following children.

  F i Phoebe PAGE was born in 1624/1625. She died on 17 May 1694.
  M ii John PAGE was born on 1 Jan 1630. He died in 1711/1712.
  M iii
Daniel PAGE was born about 1631 in Dedham, Essex, England, United Kingdom. He died 1 on 10 Aug 1634 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
  M iv Samuel PAGE was born on 20 Aug 1633. He died in 1691.
  F v
Elizabeth PAGE.

  F vi
Mary PAGE.


William TROWBRIDGE [Parents] [scrapbook] was born 1 on 19 Nov 1684 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. He died on 19 Nov 1744 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. William married Sarah FULLUM on 30 May 1721 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Other marriages:
WARD, Sarah

A Deacon of the church, a lieutenant, and Selectman.
Source: Library of Congress "Genealogy of the Trowbridge Family" Page 157.
A slave holder, (s. of Dea. James,) m. Sarah, dr. of Jno. Ward, Jr., Dec. 14, 1708, took the end of his father in law's house.  Additional children:  two daughters, stillborn, 1720.  His will dated 1744, gives 5 pounds to the church, "to be loaned out so as not to depreciate, the interest thereof to be given to such poor widows as the Deacons judge proper."  To son James, 200 pounds; Hulda and Mary, 100 pounds each; Margaret, 200 pounds; Beulah, 200 pounds; Thaddeus, 50 pounds; chil. of his dr. Mary Coolidge, 325 pounds; wife Sarah, 50 pounds; and the residue of his estate to Lieut. Joseph Fuller, Lieut. William Hyde, Dea. John Stone, and Thomas Greenwood, in trust, for his w. Sarah, during her life; at her decease, two-thirds his real estate and one-fourth part of grist mill to son Thaddeus, and he to pay s. James one-fourth part of its value.  1719, Jno. Spring to William Trowbridge, a parcel of land, N. by land of John Ward and said Trowbridge, w. by a town highway, (Mill lane,) N.E. by Rev. Jno. Cotton's farm. 1721, John Ward ot his son in law William Trowbridge, the w. end of his now dwelling house, where said Trowbridge now dwelleth, and thirteen acres adjoining, w. on highway, and one-fourth part grist mill and stream.  1712, Susan, Hannah, Elizabeth, Sarah, and Rose Prentice, daughters of late James Prentice, Sen., to William Trowbridge, nineteen acres near the M.H., N. by Jno. Spring; w. by mill pond on Smelt brook; s. by heirs of Jonathan Hyde, deceased; an open highway runs through the same (Mill lane).  Lewis, his negro boy, born 1736; Nancy, his negro girl, born 1736.
Source: "History of Newton Massachusetts" by Francis Jackson

BIRTH: No date given

Sarah FULLUM was born on 2 Mar 1694. Sarah married William TROWBRIDGE on 30 May 1721 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Daughter of Francis Fullum, Esq. of Weston.

They had the following children.

  F i
Sarah TROWBRIDGE was born on 9 Mar 1722 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. She died in 1735.

Source: History of Newton Massachusetts, by Francis Jackson
  F ii Margaret TROWBRIDGE was born on 16 Apr 1724.
  F iii Beulah TROWBRIDGE was born on 29 Aug 1726.
  M iv
Thaddeus TROWBRIDGE was born on 20 Nov 1728 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Source: History of Newton Massachusetts, by Francis Jackson
  F v
Abigail TROWBRIDGE was born on 12 Oct 1732 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. She died in 1738.

Source: History of Newton Massachusetts, by Francis Jackson

Philip RUSSELL. Philip married 1, 2 Joanna CUTLER on 19 Apr 1680 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Joanna CUTLER [Parents] was born in 1660/1661 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. She died on 26 Nov 1703 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. She was buried in Nov 1703. Joanna married 1, 2 Philip RUSSELL on 19 Apr 1680 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Was a daughter of Phoebe not Mary.
Source: NEHGS NEXUS, Vol. XV, No.6, p. 203

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