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It is not known whom he mamed; but the christenings of the children, whom he brought with him, are all recorded in the register of the parish of St. Peter Mancroft, IS^orwich.

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"1633. Chr. August 18. Elizabeth, the da. of John Baker.

"1634. ,, Noveb : 30. John y*^ Sorie of John Baker.

"1636. ,, Sept. 18. Thomas sonn of John Baker & Eliz : his wife."

John Baker did not settle at Charlestown, but in 1638 is found at Ipswich, Massachusetts. I presume it was he who became Freeman of the Colony 2 June, 1611. His name is occasionally found in the Colonial Kecdrds.

13 November, 1644, "It is ord'ed, y* John Bak*" onely hath liberty to sell wine at Ipswich."

26 May, 1647, "John Baker is licensed to draw wine at Ipswich, accord" to ord'"."

16 October, 1650, "In answer to the peticon of John Baker, of Ipswich, craving that the severall somes due to him from the country be paid him by the Tresurer out of this levy, and satis- faction for two disappointments by the Cou''s adjournment, itt is ordered, tliat the Treasurer pay him the severall somes due to

him, w**^ forty shillings for his disapointments."

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He was from year to year licensed by the County Court for Essex to brew and sell beer, and the following entry is found on the records of that Court for 28 September, 1652: —

" John Baker is discharged fr his p'sentment for suspition of not puting in six bushells malt in a hoggshead."

In 1662-63 he had some trouble on account of the. misbehavior of his sons, who seem to have been rather wild young men. The particulars will be mentioned in a notice of the younger son Thomas. To this son John Bakei" had on 20 February, 1662, deeded all his lands, housing, &c., in Topsfield, 150 acres more or less, with the condition that Thomas should pay to his father and mother 10£ every year. The date of death is not known of John Baker, or of his Avife Elizabeth. He was living at Topsfield in 1680, as aj^pears from the following documents on record at Salem : —

"Norwich the 2 of march 1G76.

"M'' John Baker these lines are to desire you to pay the twenty pound you have in your hand of myne w'^h I did order you formerly to pay to your Brother Benjamin into the hands of

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m'" Nathaniell Greenwood of Boston and his receipt shall be your discharge your cossen Richard Baker & my selfe have writ to you more fully to that purpose.

Thomas. Whitterell Richard Baker."

On 28 June, 1680, I^athaniel Greenwood discharged John Baker, Sen., late of Ipswich and now of Tops- field, in consideration of bills from his sons John and Thomas to the amount of £'18.

John^ and Elizabeth Baker had four children: —

I. Elizabeth,- born at Norwich in 1633, of whom nothing is known. II. John,^ born at Norwich in 1631. III.' Thomas,^ born at Norwich, 13 September, 1636. IV. Martha,^ born at Ipswich, married, first, Obadiah An- trim of Salem, who was lost at sea on a voyage to Nevis in 1665 ; secondly, at Topsfield, ^2 June, 1670, Thomas Andrews.

John^ Baker, elder son of the settler, born at l^or- wich in 1631, married, 13 May, 1667, Katharine, daughter of Kev. William Perkins of Topsfield; he lived in Ipswich, and died in 1718, leaving children. His son John^ married, in 1703, Hannah, daughter of

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John Dutch of Ipswich, and also died in 1718. Let- ters of administration on estates of father and son were granted 14 April of that year. His daughter Elizabeth^ married, first, 30 June, 1690, Benjamin Dutch of Ipswich, who died in 1695, and, secondly, 3 August, 1700, John Appleton of Ipswich, who died 17 May, 1724: she died 24 March, 1750.

Thomas^ Baker, younger son of the settler, born at JSTorwich 13 September, 1636, received from his father in 1662 an estate in Topsfield, as stated before, and lived in that town. He had previously led rather a wild life at Ipswich. On the records of the County Court for 26 March, 1661, we read, —

" Thomas Baker upon his p^'sentment for smoking tobaco in the street on the Saboth daye was fined 10' <fe costs & fees of court."

The next year he and his brother were concerned in a very serious matter, which came before the Gen- eral Court at Boston, from the records of which I quote at full length : —

7 May, 1662. The Court having considered the case of John Baker & Thomas Baker, represented to this Court by the records of the County Court at Ipsuich, together w''* what the parties

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could say for themselves, in helping John Perly out of the prison there, who was sentenced to be whipt severely for his stealing of a mare, the Court sentenceth them to be severely "vvhipt w**^ tenn stripes apeece forthuith, & be bound to their good behaviour w*^ sureties of twenty pounds apeece till the next County Court at Ipsuich.

In ans"" to the petition of John & Thomas Baker, the Court, considering the humble acknowledgement of the petitioners, & their ample justiffication of the authority of the country, doe order the execution of the sentence of this Court a2;ainst them be suspended till the next session of this Court, the prisoners giving bond w*^ security to the value of fiffty pounds a peece for their personall appearance at this Court, & in the meane time to be of good behaviour. Security was given accordingly by y® parties, Jn° Baker, y® father, & Tho Deane.

8 October, 1662. John & Thomas Backer appearing in

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Court, the Court ordered that the sentence of the last Court ag* said Bakers be respitted till the next Court of Election, on condicon that they bring in the person of John Perly to some of the IVIagis''* at or before sd Court, or otheruise to pay five pounds a peece to the coiiion tresury, or in defect thereof to be punished according to former sentence ; & all on condi- con y'^ give fifty pounds bonds for their appearanc at y^ next Gen^ Court. ,

6 June, 1663. In ans*" to the petition of John Baker, Seii, relating to his sonnes, John & Thomas Baker, the Court

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JLidgetli it meete to abate the petlconers sonnes fines to five pounds, payable to the Tresnrer of that county, the petitioner paying tenn shillings for this petition, & then they are tlis- chardo'ed.

It may be doubted whether gentlemen would now escape so easily the results of such an oftence as helping a prisoner to break jail. These youthful in- discretions, however, seem to have been forgotten, for Thomas Baker married at Topsfield, 26 March, 1672, Mrs. Priscilla, daughter of the Hon. Samuel Symonds of Ipswich, then an Assistant, and, the year follow- ing, Deputy Governor of the Colony of Massachusetts. He lived at Topsfield, and was for many years one of its most trusted and useful inhabitants. He was a selectman several times between 1675 and 1700, and his name occurs verj^ often on the records of the town, particularly on committees to defend the boun- daries of Toj^sfield, which were constantly in dispute with, its neighbors. On 16 May, 1683, the General Court authorized the inhabitants of Andover, Tops- field, &c., to raise a troop of horse of forty-eight men; and Thomas Baker was appointed lieutenant. In 1713 he had the title of captain. His name is on the list of church-members of Topsfield in 1684.

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As Leift Tho Baker, he Avas first sent Deputy from Topsfield to the General Court of 7 November, 1683, and again in 1684 and 1686. His pay as Dep- uty was .^2; and the value of his services and time at this period is seen in the following extract from the town-records of Topsfield, 25 January, 1687 : —

" Alowed Lieut Thomas Baker five sliilin2;s in silver three for the Justises confermation of our Rates to our menister and OTantinij a warrent to our Constable to gather them and two shilings for three clays one for goeing Commisiener to Salem & two days to the Justises above said."

In 1688 he was chosen Town -Constable. On 7 May, 1689, he was sent Deputy to consult with the Council of Safety, and,

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"At a lawfull Towne metting the o of June 1G89, — Leiut Thomas Baker was chosen the Townes representive to goe to the preasent Counsell for safty of the people and Conservation of the peace To act for the publick good and welfare and safty of This Collony prohibbiting any act or thing that may have any tendencey to the infringment of any of our Charter privilidges whatsoever."

He was also a Deputy in 1690, 1692, 1693, 1694, 1698, and 1708. In September, 1693, the town voted

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to pay him 12 shillings per week; but, in October, changed it to 2 shillings per cl,ay.

Thomas^ and Priscilla Baker had six children: —

I. Priscilla,^ born at Topsfield 8 December, 1674 ; married,

about 1695, Isaac Appleton of Ipswich. II. Martha,'^ born at Topsfield 14 October,»1682 ; married, 17 April, 1712, Joseph Sargent of Gloucester; and died 27 May, 1713, leaving one son; her husband died about 1750.

III. Rebecca,^ born at Topsfield 16 November, 1685 ; mar-

ried 30 April, 1712, Jacob Peabody of Topsfield, who died 24 July, 1749 ; she lived till 12 March, 1780.

IV. Thomas," born at Topsfield 17 February, 1688 ; mar-

ried, 5 January, 1710, Mary, daughter of Rev. Jo- seph Capen of Topsfield, whose wife was Priscilla Appleton, a cousin of Isaac, above mentioned ; Thomas^ Baker died in September, 1725, leaving several children, and ^Nlary, his widow, married, 11 August, 1730, John Griffin of Bradford. V. John,^ born at Topsfifeld 6 January, 1691, married Mary Perley, and died at Ipswich 1 August, 1734. Tlie following notice appeared in the Boston " News- Letter" of 8 August: "Ipswich, Aug. 1. This day died Jo/ui Baker, Esq., in the 44th year of his age !

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He was one of His Maj^ Justices of the Peace for the County of Essex. His Descent was Honourable, son of Capt. Thomas Baker of Tojisfield, by a dau. of the late lion. Samuel Symonds Esq., Dep. Gov. of Mass. He has left a widow witli four small chil- dren, & a considerable Estate for their Support." His widow died 26 March, 1738, aged 40. VI. Elizabeth,^ born at Topsfield, baptized 17 September, 1693, of whom nothing is known.

Capt. Thomas Baker died 18 March, 1718, and was buried at Topsfield, with this inscription on his gravestone : —

"Here lyes buried ye body of "Capt. Thomas Baker who died March ye 18^^ 1717-18 Aged 81 years & 6 months & 5 days."

His widow moved to Ipswich, and died there, 2 January, 1734, aged 85.

Priscilla,^ eldest daughter of Capt. Thomas Baker, born 8 December, 1671, married, about 1695, Isaac

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Appleton of Ipswich. She died there, 26 May, 1731, leaving" several children, among whom was an only son, Isaac, ancestor of many of the name of Appleton, including most of those who have heen eminent in ^ew England during the present century.

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AYILL OF THOMAS BAKER.

nnHE Last Will & Testamt of Thomas Baker of Topsfiekl & -*- this to be taken only for my last Will & Testament & no other, & first being penitent & sorry from y° bottom of my heart for my Sins past most humbly desireing forgiveness for y® same I give & committ my soul unto almighty God my Sa- viour & Redeemer in whom & by y® merritt of Jesus Christ I trust & beleive assuredly to be Saved & to have full remission and forgiveness of my sins & att y*^ Gener" Day of Resurrection my body shall rise againe with joy thro y® mcritts of Chi'ist Death & passio possess & inheritt y*^ Kingdom of heaven pre- pared for his Elect & Chosen And my Body to be buryed in such place where it shall please my Executo^" hereafter named to appoint and for y*' temporal Estate & such Goods, Chattells & Debts as it hath pleased God farr above my Desarts hath bestowed upon mee I doe order give & dispose y° same in man- ner & ftbrme ffollowing That is to say ffirst I will y' all my debts & duties as I owe in any wise to any person or psons w'

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shall be well contented & payd or ordained to be payd w*** con- venient time after my Decease by my Execut".

Item. I give & bequeath unto Mrs Baker my dearly be- loved Wife y*' best room in my house or any other part of it & Cellar room y* shee shall have occasion to make use of for com- fort & all household goods vizt ray Bedding Woolen brass peuter & plate except such a part of it as I mentioned hereafter and disposed off to be att her dispose among her children as shee sees good & also to be Supplyed with such things as are neces- sary for her comfortable being as meat drink cloathing sutable for such a p''son, also to have a horse & man to waite upon her to meeting on y*^ Sabbath days & att other times as Shee shall Desii'e to see her ffreinds, and if my Executor faile of perform- ing y® same y" I give to my said Wife twenty pounds a year in passing mony to be payd by my son Thomas two thirds parts of itt & y*^ other third by my son John & their Heires : If my Wife shoud marry y" I give her five pounds a year in y® like mony as above expressed To be payd by my executo" y*" pro- portion as above expressed all which said Gift to my Wife is in Lieu of her Right of Dower in my said Estate.

Item. I give & bequeath to my three daughters Priscilla Rebecca & Elizabeth a hundred pounds a peice att money price or Bills of Creditt with what they have received as may appear upon my Book & what is wanting to be their Heires after my Decease to be payd by my Execto" within two years after.

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And whereas it hath pleased God to take away my Dafter Martha by death, & she hath left a child named Joseph Ser- geant & shee with her husband Sergeant hatli receivd Thirty one pounds I give y*^ Sura of sixty nine pounds to my grandson Joseph Serjeant if he lives to y° age of twenty one [years] to be pd by my Executors as money or bills of creditt to be payd by my Executo" as heretofore y"" proportion.

I give & bequeath to my Son Thomas all my Houses Lands & Meadows y' I have in y^ townshipp of Topsfeild and Boxford «fe Comonages y' belong y^'unto and all my Stocks of Cattle of what kind soever y' belongs to mee in Topsfeild & Boxford with all Implements for husbandry & two thirds of all money y*^ shall remaine due to mee from any person or persons. I also give to my son Thomas my silver Tankard & silver Spoon y' was my fFa'thers & also y® use of a good Bed for Strangers. I also give and bequeath to my son Tho^ seven hundred acres of land & meadow I bought of M"" Harlack Symonds and I also give him two hundred & fifty I bought of Mr Noyes att Salem both parcells of land lying att Coxhall att the Eastward he paying two thirds of my debts & legacies & to take care of his mother in all particula''s that shee be supplyd with those things y* are comfortable for her & to pay two thirds of mine & my Wife's ffunerall charges.

Item. I give & bequeath to my Son John all my houses and lands and meadows att y® Argilla fFarme in Ipswich with y® commonages, & all my stock of Cattle y' shall be left there att

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my decease, and also I doe bequeath unto my said son John an acre of Salt Marsh y* I bought of Bro"" Epes with eight hun- dred acres of upland & meadow att Coxhall att y*^ Eastward he paying one third of all my debts & legacies & fFunerall charges of myself & his Mother with six pounds a year to his^Bro'' Thomas Towards his mothers maintenance as shee lives unmar- ryed.

Lastly. I doe appoint my two Sons Thomas and John to be my sole Execute''^ of this my last Will & Testament & To Exeute y*' same.

In wittness whereinto & confirmation thereof I y*' said Thomas Baker of Topsfield doe hereunto Sett my Hand & Seal This seventeenth Day of January in y*' year of our Lord [One thousand] Seven hundred & Seventeen In y'' fourth year of His Maj*^^ Reigne.

Thomas Baker. Signed Seakt & publishd to be my last Will & Testament in the p^'senc'^ of us

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Joseph Dorman

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Proved at Ipswich, 7 April, 1718.

FAMILY OF SYMONDS.

I WILL begin the account of tliis famih^ by quo- ting all that is printed in " The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex," by Rev. Philip Morant, M.A., 1768. It is found under " The Pool," an estate in the parish of Great Yeldham.

" The fsimily is originally of Croft in Lancashire, where they contihuecl in a direct line for about 20 generations, and at length terminated in females. — From Richard, in the thifd generation, sprung the Symonds's of Norfolk; and from John, in the eighth generation, sprung the Symonds's of Cambridge- shire.— Thomas Symonds, in the eleventh generation, married . . . daughter of Mr. Tolleshunt, of Tolleshunt Darcy. — Thomas, in the fourteenth descent, married . . . daughter of Robert Osbaldeston. — John, in the seventeenth descent, by . . . daughter of William Lerdiug, had two sons, William of Croft : and Robert who marrving . . . daughter and heir of

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. . . Congreve of Stratton in Staffordshire, settled in that county ; and from his descendents issued the Symonds's of Oxfordshire. . . . John, in the twentieth generation, was of Newport; and, by Margaret his wife, daughter of Thomas Maynard, was father of . . , John: who, by Anne daughter of Tliomas Bendbow of Shropshire, had his son and heir

Richard Symonds above-mentioned. He was a Cursitor in Chancery ; and marrying, 9 Janu. 1580, Elizabeth daughter of Robert Plumb of Yeldham-Hall above-mentioned, had in frank marriage with her the Poole, where he settled. His wife was interred in this Church 24 Janu. 1611, and he himself dyed 8 July 1627, and was also buried here. — Richard, then aged 40 years, is set down in the Inquisition as his son and heir. But, according to the pedigree, he had also 4 other sons ; viz. John ; Thomas, who dyed without issue 5 June, 1625 ; Samuel ; and Edmund ; and Richard is set down as the fifth. O^ John, who is placed as the eldest in the pedigree, we shall give a particular account, after taking proper notice of the others. 3. Samuel, the 3d son, married Dorothy daughter of Thomas Harlakenden of Earl's-Colne. He was a Cursitor in Chancery ; and had Olivers in Toppesfield ; but retired to New England with his family. . . . — 4. Edmund the 4th son, was also a Cursitor in Chancery. In right of his wife, Anne only daughter of Joshua Draper of Braintree, to whom he was married 2 February 1614, he had an estate at Black- Notley, where he dwelt, and dying 9 Decemb. 1627, was buried

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in that Church. He had 3 sons, and 1 daughter, llichard, the eldest son, Avas a Cursitor in Chancery, and Collector of the Three Volumes in folio, preserved in the Heralds Office, con- taining the Arms, Epitaphs, and other Antiquities in this county, to which we so often refer in the course of this work. On the 25th of March 1643, he was committed to prison by Miles Corbet for his loyalty to K. Charles I. but escaping, he went into the King's Army, and served in his troop, under the command of the Lord Bernard Steuart Earl of Litchfield, at the battles of Cropedy-bridge, Lestwithiel, Newbury second and third, Naseby, and relief of Chester, where that noble Lord was slain : After that, he was at Denbigh with Sir William Yaughan, and at other places. — Edward, the second son, baptized 20 Decemb. 1621, dyed at Oxford in 1645, being in arms for the King. . . . John, the third son was baptized 10 April 1627. And Anne 31 March 1631. 5 Richard, the fifth son of the first Richard Symonds settled here, was of Magdalen College, Cambridge, and of Lincoln's-Inn. He pur- chased the manor of Panfield, where he sometimes resided, and dying 26 Sept. 1680, aged 83, was buried in this Church, with a monument.

JoHX, the eldest son abovementioned, of Richard Symonds, who first settled at the Pool, and Elizabeth Plumb, married Anne daughter of Tho. Elyott of Godalming in Surrey, Esq. ; by whom he had 4 sons, Richard, John, Samuel, and Fitz- Symonds : and 4 daughters, Agnes wife of Tho. Bacon of

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London, merchant; Elizabeth, of Antony Wohner of Lincoln's- Inn Esq. ; Thomasine and Dorothy, twins, born 16 August 1627. Thomasine was married to . . . Pepys Esq. ; . . . Richard, the eldest son, born 13 Octob. 1616, being of Lin- coln's-Inn, was in several battles with the Earl of Essex against the King ; and slain at Xaseby 1645, fighting under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax. . . . John, the second son, born at Yeldham, 4 Sept. 1618, became one of the Cursitors in Chancery upon his father's resignation in 1641. He was of Lincoln's-Inn, and near 40 years a Justice of Peace for this county. He had two wives, but issue by neither. The first was Elizabeth daughter of Sir Robert Quarles of Rumford Knt. She was buried in this Church 18 Decemb. 1666. His second wife was Jane daughter of Sir Robert Burgoyne, o£< Sutton in Bedfordshire, Knt. This worthy person dyed 19 Febr. 1692-3, in the 74th year of his age, and was buried in the South Chapel of this Church. By will he left this and other his estates to his nephew,

Jolui Pepys Esq."

This account is copied almost exactly in " The History and Topography of the County of

Essex," by Thomas Wright, 1836.

Our more positive information is derived from the Heraldic Yisitation of Essex in 1634 (British

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Museum, MS. Harleian, 15ti:2), and from the re- searches of Richard Sjmonds, a nephew of the set- tler m ^ew England and a devoted antiquary, whose MS. Collections for the County of Essexj made about 1638-40, in three folio volumes, are now in the library of the College of Arms, London. He gives six gen- erations of ancestors before Richard, who married Elizabeth Plume of Great Yeldham ; and this is prob- ably as far as he could trace his lineage with any certainty: Morant's twenty generations would carry the family back beyond the !N^orman Conquest. The following pedigree is from the second volume of Symonds' Collections: it has been already printed by the Camden Society, together with the contents of four small MS. volumes by Symonds in the British Museum, in which he recorded the armory of such churches as he visited while serving in the Royal army in 1644-5, as well as much military and other matter. The same library contains ten more MS. volumes by Symonds, some of which I have exam- ined. The compiler made a strange mistake in giv- ing the date of death of his father, Edward Symonds of Black J^otley, as 1627, whereas it should be 1636. The pedigree in the Yisitation difters slightly from

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this, but is much shorter, and adds httle information. It tells the baptismal name, '^- Dorathey," of the wife of Samuell of Topesfeld, and gives him nine children, — Kichard, Samuell, Harlakenden, John, William, Dor- athey, Jane, Anne, Elizabeth. It has the coat of arms, and attestation, as printed below the wood- cut opposite.

There is little to be added to the pedigree, except the few facts obtained from the wills here j^rinted. John*^ Symons of JSTewport, Shropshire, who married Ann, daughter of Thomas Benbow, died in 1574, and left a nuncupative will, in which he mentioned his wife Ann, his sons Richard,^ John,'^ Thomas," Thurston,'^ Francis,' and Roger,' and his daughters Elizabeth,'^ Margaret,^ and Isabel.^ Of these sons, Richard^ moved to 'orreat Yeldham, Essex, and died there in 1627; John ^ and Roger" lived at Newport, and died in 1597 and 1604; Thomas' was presented by his brother Richard to the rectory of Farnham in Essex, which he held till 1634; Thurston^ was of London, and died in 1628, leaving an only son, Thomas-; by his will he appointed as his executors, his "well-beloved kmsmen and nephewes " Edward Symons of Black IS'otley and Thomas Symons, son of his brother Thomas Symons

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Ann daughter of Thomas Elyott of Godalmyng in y« County of Surrey Esq.

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Margaret onely daugliter married to Edmund Eyre of Windsor Gent, one of ye Cursis- tars of y^ Chan- cery.

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Dorothy & Penelope both dead about 1621 .

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Kobt. Symonds went into Staffordshire =

John Symonds of Stratton = daughter of ■

Thomas Symonds of Stratton

-dauarhter of Thomas Worthi

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John Symonds of Newport, com Salop = Margare a jtleiofT- •

t ■dUiomai Ikit..:

John Symonds of Newport, com Salop = Ann dav

Eichard Symonds of the Poole an antient seate in this parish, = Elizabeth

came out of Shropsh : one of y"-' Cursistars of y« Chancery, buried in Yeldham Cliurch July 8. 1627.

of Xeldh Yelilliam

John Symonds = Ann daughter of Thomas S.

eldest son Thomas Elyott 2'^' son dyed

one of y Cur- of Godalmyng June 5 witli-

sistars of y" in y^ County of out yssue

Chancery. Surrey Esq. 1625.

Margaret onely daughter married to Edmund Eyre of Windsor Gent, one of y Cursis- tars of y^ Chan- cery.

Edward Symonds '2fi- so one of y'^ Cursistars of y*' Cliancery, borne at Yeld- ham, Died 9 of Decemb. 1627, buried in y^ Church of Black Notley in Essex. he lived in Notley and had his lands chiefly by his wife. Benefactor w'* y<' other Cursistars to y<= Library at AVestminster.

Eichard Symonds eldest son one of y<= Cursistars of y® Cham 1617, committed prisoner by Myles Corbet for a delinquent escaped thence 1613 & gott into y" Kings Army where he wa cohiand of y" Lord Bernard Stuart Earle of Lichfield in y- b. field Newbury 2'' Naseby 3<i Eeliefe of Cliester where that 1 w"> S"^ W'" Vaughan at Denbigh & other places. Collector o;

l^ichard S. eldest son student in Lincolns Inn, in divers battles with y« Earle of Essex ag'. y^ King, was slaj'ne at Naseby 164-5. Under ye Comand of S"" Tlio : Fairfax ag'. y King, borne Oct. IS. 1616.

John S. 2 son = married y« daugliter

one of the Cur sistars of the Chancery by y^ resignation of his father 1611. borne at Y. Scj>t. 4. 1618.

of S>' Eobt Quarles of Eomford com Essex.

Samuel S. 3 son.

Fitz Sy 4"' son.

l'all,»eiit. Wfit'i

mi'!-' ill v<i'

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iftiseii at I fete •:, Kinjs Tr^l

" Ann Sir,

fcr,

mlv.l,.

B. '«^K ^^K 1^^ i^K. .db •

U MAGJ^A.

iter of S'' W'" Lording, Kt.

* enor, of Bellaport, com Salop Esq";

iter & li . of

Con grave, of Stratton.

fTent.

llobt S. 2'' son married

liad yssue.

gliter of Thomas Maynard.

of Thomas Bendbow.

daughter of Rob' Plume ill, gent, buried in 2h Jan. 27. 1611.

Willm Symonds married and had yssue.

Roger S.

nn onely daugh- ;er of John Dra- k'r of Brayntree n y<s County of Kssex married in St. Gregories of Pauls Londo bY-b. 2. 1614.

Samuel S. 3'' son = one of ye Cursis- tars of the Chan- cery, bought. y« place in Toppes- field in Essex called Olivers 100 Pann, went into New Eng- land.

daughter of

Thos : Harlakinden of Colne.

Richard S. S"' son Barrister of Lincolns Inn, bought ye manor of Panfield in Essex of James Heron Esq.

Richard S.

eldest son,

student in

Greys Inn.

Dorothy. Samuel. Harlakenden. Elizabeth. w^i' he carried w"" him to New England.

iptised at Notlej^ 12 June State 25 of March 1643, Kings Troope under y^ of Cropradry bridg Lich- jrd was slayne. after y' 3 Volumes.

I Edward Symonds 2'^ son dyed at Oxford 164.5 being in Amies for y^ King 1645. bap- tised Dec. 20. 1621.

John Symonds bapt. at Notley Apl 10. 1627.

Ann Symonds bapt at N. March 31. 1631.

Ann Symonds eldest daughter married M'' Thomas Bacon of y» Citty of London Mer- chant.

Bacon

only (l.iuijliter.

Elizabeth 2'' daughter married to An- thony Walmer of Lincolns Inn Barrister, by whom he had Elizabeth.

Thomasine married Pepys. Dorothy twins, borne Aug. 16. 1627.

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Dorothy & Penelope both dead about 1621.

Ancestry of Prise ilia Baker. 25

of Farnham, Clark, Parson of Farnham. Ann, widow of John ^ Symons, died in 1597.

Kichard' Symonds, eldest son of John, moved to Great Yeldham in Essex, where he married, 9 Jan- nary, 1581, Elizabeth, danghter of Robert PInme ^ of that parish, and received with her the estate known as The Pool. They had five sons, — John,'' Thomas,^ Edward,^ Samnel,'^ and Richard - Fitz ; ^ and one danghter, Margaret,'^ who married Edmnnd Eyre of Windsor, and of Bnrnham, Bnckinghamshire. He was a Cnrsitorf in Chancery, and died in 1G27; his wife had died in 1611. His will has not been fonnd. In the chnrch of Great Yeldham is a mural brass tablet to his memory, with figures of himself and wife, five sons, and one danghtei-, in prayer, and, be- low, a shield with these arms : Symonds, of four quar- terings : 1 and 4, Azure, a chevron engrailed between three trefoils slipped Or; 2, Or, three eagles dis- played ; 3, on a bend three eagles dis- played ; empaling Plume, Argent, a bend Yairy

Or and Gules, cotised Yert.

* Robert Plume was son of John Plume of Great Yeldham, and married "zabeth Purchas : she died in 1596, and lie in 1613.

t A cursitor is an officer in the Court of Chancery, whose duty it is to make t original writs.

26 Ancestry of Priscilla Baker.

Joliii^ Symonds, eldest son of Richard, inherited The Pool, where he lived. He was a Cursitor in Chancery, and married Ann, daughter of Thomas Elyott of Godalming in Surrey. They had four sons, — Richard,^ John,^ Samuel,^ and Fitz;'' and seven daughters, of whom three died in infancy. Ann,^ born in 1612, married, 1 N^ovember, 1627, Thomas Bacon; Elizabeth,'' born in 1614, married, 6 June, 1639, Anthon}^ AYollmer, and had a daughter, Eliza- beth, who married Martin Carter; Thomasine,^ born in 1626, married John Pepys, and had, with other children, a son, John Pepys, who inherited part of the estates of the family in Great Yeldham. John"^ Symonds died in 1657.

Thomas^ Symonds, second son of Richard, died childless at Great Yeldham, 5 June, 1625. He may have been the same Thomas Symons, from Essex, who was admitted fellow-commoner of Jesus College, Cambridge, S.July, 1615.

Edward^ Symonds, third son of Richard, was a Cursitor in Chancery, and married Ann, only daugh- ter of Joshua Draper of Bi'aintree in Essex, with w^hom he had an estate at Black ^N'otley, in the same county, where he lived, and died in 1636. They had

Ancestry of Pr is cilia Bahci^. 27

three sons, — Richard,^ Edward,^ and John; ^ and one daughter, Ann,^ who married Wright.

Samuel- S3anonds, fourth son of Richard, moved to New England, and founded the family in America. He will be fully noticed farther on.

Richard-Fitz ^ Symonds, fifth son of Richard, born in 1598, was a barrister of Lincoln's Inn. He bought the estate of Panfield in Essex, and died unmarried, 26 September, 1680, leaving his property to the sons of his brother John. In the church of Great Yeld- ham is a mural marble monument to his memory, with the family arms, and the following inscription : —

In Memoriara

Eici Fitz-Symonds

Armigeri q;ii bene latuit

beneq. vixit. Et sup 26^""^

diem Septembr, A". Dni

1680 ab hac luce

Migravit =

A° J^^tatis sue

83°.

Richard^ Symonds, eldest son of .John, born in 1616, was killed at Naseby, in 1645;^ in the Parlia- mentary army under Sir Thomas Fairfax.

28 Ancestiy of PiasciHa Baker.

John'^ Symonds, second son of John, born in 1618, was a Cursitor in Chancery, and sncceeded his father in the estates at Great Yeldham. He married, first, Ehzabeth, daughter of Sir Kobert Qnarles of Kom- ford in Essex, Knight, who died 15 December, 1666, and was baried at Great Yeldham* and secondly, Jane, daughter of Sir Robert Burgoyne of Sutton, Bedfordshire, Knight. He had no children, and died 19 February, 1693, leaving his extensive estates in Great Yeldham, Castle Hedingham, TojDpesfield, Panfield, Shalford, Stamborne, &c., to his nephew, John Pepys of Cambridge, and his grand-nephew, Martin Carter. In the church of Great Yeldham is a mural marble monument to his memory, with a shield of four quarterings, and the long inscription following. Arms, 1 and 4, Symonds, as before; 2, Azure, a talbot passant Argent, for Burgoyne; 3, Or, a fess dancettee Ermine betAveen three sea-pewits Yert, for Qnarles.

Hie in pace quiescit,

Non nisi novissima tuba evoeandus,

Johannes Symonds,

De Yeldham magna, in Comit. Essexite,

A-vmiger.

In Hospitio Lincolniensi

Ancestry of Priscilla Baker. 29

Legibus impense studuit, sed pad magis, Cujus per quadraginta fere annos

Gustos erat vigilantissimus :

Juris imprimis, sed & requi simul,

Consultisslmus :

Id enim unice curavit

Vt lites extingueret impensis & simultate senescentes :

Vnde ubique habitus est

Pauperum patronus & asylum. Spectatai erat

Erga Deii pietatis, erga amicos fidei, erga egenos liberalitatis.

Duas suscepit Vxores,

Ytramque osquo & singular! coluit afFeotu :

Primam Diii Rob. Quarles Filiam

De Rumford in Comit. Essexia^ Militis ;

- Secundam, Diii Rogeri Burgoyne

De Sutton in agro Bedford. Militis & Bar*! Filiam.

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Memoria justi non peribit in asternum. Obiit Feb. XIX, Anno Salutis, MDCXCII. iEtatis sua3

LXXIIII.

SamiieP Symonds, third son of John, born in 1623, was rector of Coine Engaine in Essex, from 1662 to 1667, m which year he died, and was buried at Great Yeldham. He left a wife, Hannah, but no children.

Fitz*^ Symonds, fourth son of John, born in 1629,

Avas livmg in 1666. Probably he was the person called

5

30 Ancestry of Priscilla Baker

Orlando-Fitz Symonds, of Steeple Burapstead in Essex, who died, unmarried, 20 February, 1692, and was buried at Great Yeldham. Letters of adminis- tration were granted to his brother John.

Richard^ Symonds, eldest son of Edward, born in 1617, was a Cursitor in Chancery. He has given a biography of himself in the pedigree following page 21. He appears among the compounded royal- ists of the county of Essex, with an estate of .£295. Mr. Charles E. Long, editor of his manuscript diary for the Camden Society, gives him this well-merited praise : " We are indebted to him, then a very young man, for many a family record which time, neglect, and Vandalism have since swept away; and, if his narrative is not always lively, and attractive to the general reader, it is valuable as affording corrobora- tive testimony to the truth of other publications of that period." He was living in 1660, but the date of his death is not known.

Edward*^ Symonds, second son of Edward, born in 1621, died at Oxford in 161:5, being then in the King's army.

John^ Symonds, third son of Edward, born in 1627, was of Pater-Xoster Row, London, and may have

A nccstry of Priscl//a Baker. 3 1

been the person mentioned thus in Richard Smyth's Obitnary of persons he knew, (British Museum, MS. Sloane 886): "1654. May 19, Mr. Simonds, the printer, died."'

Edward Symonds, rector of Rayne in Essex, was a member of the family, but his exact relationship is not knoAvn. He was son of Edward, is called " cousin " by Richard, the antiquary, and is commem- orated by Cotton Mather, in his " Magnalia Christi Americana," for the following words in a sermon jDreached in 1637 : " Many now promise to themselves nothing but successive Happiness at New England; which for a time, thro' God's Mercy, they may enjoy; aud I pray 'God, they may a long time, but in this World there is no Happiness perpetual."

DOCUMENTS.

EXTRACTS FROM THE REGISTER OF NEWPORT, SHROPSHIRE.

1573-(4). January. John Simons sepult the .

1592-(3). William Simons son of Roger bapt. march 22.

1593. September. Mary Simons filia John bapt. the 2.

1594. Margaret Simons filia Thomas bapt. novemb. 4.

1595. February. Mary Simons filia John sepult the 7.

1595. Elizabeth Simons filia Roger bapt. January the 23.

1596. June. William Simons sepult the 22.

1597. June. Anna Simons widdow sepult the 2. 1597. July. Margaret Simons sepult the 2.

,, ,, Jane Simons widdow sepult the 17.

,, ,, Elizabeth Simons sepult the 25.

1597. August. Thomas Symons draper sepult the 6.

1597. September. John Symons draper sepult the 8.

1598. May. Atealanta Simons filia William bapt. the 25. 1598-(9) . February. Margaret Simons filia John bapt. the 1. 1G04. Julij. Rogerus Symmons sepultus fuit vicesimo sep-

timo Die i Rogerus occisus fuit p .*

* The last word I could not decipher.

Ancestry of Priscilla Baher. 33

EXTRACTS FROM THE REGISTER OF GREAT YELDIIAM, ESSEX.

1580-(1). Richard Symons and Elizabeth Plume weare niaried

the ix"' day of January Anno Elizabeth the xxiij" anno

dni p''dic. 1617. Samuel Symons and t)orothie Harlaklnden were maried

the second day of Aprill 1617 annoq regni Jacobi

Eeo;is etc 15°.

1595. Samuell Symons the sonne of Richard Symons was baptised the ix*^ of June 1595 Eliz. xxxvij'!'

1598. Richardfitz Symons the sonne of Richard Symons was baptised the xxx*'' day of march anno diii 1598 anno Eliz. the xF!'

1610-(1). Elizabeth Symons late wife of m*" Richard Simons was buried the xxiiij"' of January 1610, aiioq regni

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Jacobi regis etc octavo. 1625. Thomas Symons, soile of Richard Symons, was buried

the sixt day of June 1625 aiioq regni Caroli Regis

etc primo. 1627. m'" Richard Symons the elder was buried the x*'' day of

July 1627. 1657. M. John Symons senyor was buryed the 6"^ day of

October 1657. 1666-(7). M-" Samuell Symonds was buryed Jan. 15"^ 1666. 1680. Richard Fitz-Symonds Esq was buryed Octob. 1^ 1680.

34 Ancestry of Priscilla Baker.

EXTRACTS FROM THE REGISTER OF TOPPESFIELD, ESSEX. "

1618. Jun. 15. Richard the sonne of Samuel Simons ijent.

was baptized. 1(319. Nouemb. 9. Dorothe daughter of Samueii Simons &

Dorothe his wife was baptized.

1621. Apr. 29. Jane daughter of Samuell Simons »& Doro-

thee his wife baptized.

1622. Anne Simons the daughter of Samuell Simons orent. &

Dorothy his wyfe was baptized y° 25"' day of Aprill A- p'"dicto.

1623. Samuell Symons the sonne of Samuell Svmons grent. &

Dorothy his wife was baptized the 29"' day of October Anno p'dicto.

1624. EHzabeth Symons the daughter of Samuell Symons

gent. & Dorothy his wife was baptized y^ 22* day of December Anno p'dicto. 1625-(6). Samuell Simons y*^ sonne of Samuell Symons gent. & Dorothy his wife was baptized y*^ 3 day of Janu- ary Anno p''dicto.

1627. Harlakinden Simons y*^ sonne of Samuell Simons gent.

& Dorothy his wife was baptized y*^ 17"' day of Aprill Anno p^^dicto.

1628. John Simons the sonne of Samuell Symons gent. &

Dorothy his wife was baptized y*^ 15"^ day of Julie Anno p'"dicto.

A nccstry of Prise ilia Baker. 3 5

1629. Robert Simons the sonne of Samuell Sjmons gent. &:,

Dorothy his wife was baptized y° 13"^ day of August Anno p^'dicto.

1632. William Svmons y® sonne of Samuell Svmons arent. &

Dorothy his wife^was baptized y*^ 22"* day of June A'* p'dicto.

1633. Roger Symons y® sonne of Samuell Symons gent. &

Dorothy his wife was baptized the 5"' day of Decem- ber A" p'dicto.

1623. Samuell Symons the sonne of Samuell Symons was buried the 4"* day of November Anno p'dicto.

1630. Robert Symons y** sonne of Samuell Symons was buried

y'' 2 day of September Anno p'dicto.

1634. Roger Symons wms buried the 10"* day of June A"

p'dicto. 1634. Anne Symons was buried y*^ 27* day of Nouember

A° p^'dicto. 1636. Dorothy Simons y° wife of m*" Samuel Simons was

buried y*" 3'^ day of August A" p'dicto.

^6 Alices hy of Prise ilia Baker.

WILLS FROM VARIOUS PROBATE OFFICES.

JOHN SYMONS.

In the name of God amen the xxix*'' daye of November anno 1573, and in the Sixteneth yeare of o^' Soveraigne Ladye Eliza- beth, by the grace of God Quene of Enghannd Fraunce and Ireland defendo^ of the faithe &c. John Symons late of New- porte in the countie of Salopp deceased sicke of bodye but whoale and pfecte of remembraunce in the preasance of Roger Symons Frauncs Milwarde and Thomas Bendbowe spake theis words hereafter ensewinsj or the like in effecte as his laste will that is to saye he gave all his landes unto his eldeste Sonne Richarde Symons and to his Seconnde Sonne John Symons he gave fyve Poundes of Lawfull monnye of england. Item he gave and bequeasted to Thomas Symons his thirde Sonne fyve poundes of lawfull monnye of englande. Item he gave and bequeasted to Thurstan Symons his fovvrth Sonne fyve poundes of Lawfull monnye of englande. Item he gave and bequeasted to Frauncs Symons his fifte Sonne fyve poundes of Lawfull monnye of englande. Item he gave and bequeasted to Roger Symons his youngeste Sonne fyve poundes of Lawfull mon- nye of englande. Item he gave and bequeasted to Elizabeth his dawghter Twentie Poundes of Lawfull monnye of eng- lande and one fetherbed and twoe sil? Sponcs. Item he gave and bequeasted to Margarette his dawghter Thirtene Poundes

Ancestry of Priscilla Baker. 37

vjs viij'^ of Lawfull monnye of Englancle one fetlierbedtle and twoe silver spones. Item he gave and bequeasted .to Isabell his youngeste dawghter xiij" vj^ viij*^ of Lawfull monnye of eng- lande one fetherbedd and twoe Silver spones. Item all the resi- dewe of his goodes unbequeasted he gave and bequeasted to Anne his wife whome he made his onely and soale executrix.

Proved at London 4 June 1574.

JOHN SYMONDS.

In the name of God Amen I John Symonds of Nether Yeld- ham in the Countie of Essex gent, being at the present time in good and perfect memorie (thainks be to Allmightie God thei'e- fore) yet takeing unto mind the frailtie of this mortall life, Doe make and ordeine this my last will and Testament in manner

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& forme following revoking all others. First I commit my soule to God that gave it, and my bodie to be buried trusting and relying upon the mercies of God and that by the meritts of Jesus Christ which he hath done and suffered for sinfull man- kind (beleevers in him) to obtain remission of my sinnes & fruition of eternall Life amongst his glorified Saints. Also I give and bequeath to my sonne Samuel Symonds tlie summe of Six Hundred pounds partlie in Lieu of a Legacie of Twentie pounds given to him by his Grandfather Symonds his will* and

* Unfortunately this will is not now found. 6

38 Ancesby of Priscilla Baker.

in full siitisfiiccon thereof To be paid to him by my Executor hereunder named. Also I give and bequeath to my sonne Fitz Synionds the summe of Three hundred pounds To be paid to hira by my s*^ Executor which two severall portions or Legacies if my Executor be not provided to paie them within Six moneths after my decease then my will and minde is, That my said Exe- cutor shall give to each of them sufficient securitie by Mortgage of Lands for the payment thereof with allowance for the for- bearance thereof. Also my will & minde is, that whereas my Daughter Elizabeth is left in a deplorable estate & condicon by her evill disposed husband Wolmer, who inasmuch' as in him Lyeth hath deprived her of all means of Liveliehood, although I her father Upon the Commendacon of him to me by my brother Richard Did give him Six Hundred pounds, and Lend hira fur- ther one Hundred pounds &c in marriage with her ; She being now ao-aine Left to the rate & charo^e of me her Father, cannot but doe the Utmost for her that I am able. Further it is there- fore my will and mynd that my said Executor doe take special care for her reliefe, so that she be p'"vided for of meat drinck Howseroome, Lodging, Apparrell fireing and all other necessa- ries for her liveliehood meet for her during her life or untill it shall please God otherwise to provide for her. Also my will and minde is. That my said Executor doe take speciall care of my Grandchild Elizabeth Wolmer, to whom I give and bequeath the sume of * Hundred pounds to be paid to her by my

* Blank in original.

Alices tj'y of Prise ilia Baker. 39

said Executor at her ao;e of one & Twentie vercs iinles she niarrie before, then at her marriage, Which two hist mentioned Legacies, that they male the better be performed, my will and mind is that my Stock shalbe apprized by three judicious men whereof my brother Richard^ & my sonne Samuel to be two of them, the value or price or summe thereof, which being em- ployed will as I conceive yeld a Competence for the mainte- nance of my said Daughter Elizabeth and of her Daughter, till she have her portion. And my desire is, that my said Execu- tor shall or will execute this my desire And shall also give my Sonne Samuel for the performance hereof such securitie as my said Brother and sonne Samuel shall think meet. And further my will is that if my said Executor shall refuse so to doe, then I will that my said sonne Samuel shall have the value or price of my stock as -it is apprized and he shall give bonds to my said Executor for the performance hereof as is desired. Also I give and bequeath to my grandchild Hellen Bacon the summe of Twentie pounds at her age of three and Twentie yeres, To be paid to her by my said Executor. Also I give and bequeath to T^ventie of the Poore people of Nether Yeldham Hedingham at the Castle & Toppesfield each parish Twentie shillings a Parish to be distributed at the Discrecon of my said Executor soone after my decease. Also I give and bequeath to each of my bretheren and Sister Eyre a peece of Gould of Twentie & two shillings in token of my love unto them. Also I give and be- queath to my sonne in Lawe Pepys the Five pounds which he

40 Ancestry of Priscilla Baker.

oweth me. Also I give and bequeath to my daughter Thoma- sine his wife Five pounds to be paid to her self by my said Exec- utor and to their two sonns Samuel & John Five pounds a peece at their severall ages of one and Tvventie yeres. Also I give & bequeath to Roger Wrag all my w^earing apparrell, & three pounds in monie. Also for the better enabling & incour- agement of my said Executor to undertake the Execucon of this my will I give & bequeath unto my sonne John Symonds whom I make my sole Executor of this my will, All the rest of my goods, Debts, Chatties, Lands and Tenements (my Debts & Legacies being Discharged & which are not in this my will otherwise Directed and Disposed) To have and to hold to him and his heires for ever ; Hoping that he will doe his best en- deavor to Execute this my Avill according to my intent & meaninge. In witnes whereof I have hereunto put my hand & seale the Eighth Daie of May in the yere of o*" Lord One Thovvsand Six Hundred Fiftie Seaven. By me John Symonds geii. p me Joham Symonds geii.

Proved at London 23 November 1657.

EDWARD SYMONDS.

In the name of the blessed Trinitie God Almightie Amen the Twelfe dale of October in the yeare of the Incarnation of my Lord Jesus Christ one thousand six hundred thirty sixe I

Ancestry of Prise ilia Baker, 41

Edward Symonds of Black Notley in the County of Essex and Dioces of London gentleman beingc at this tyme sicke and weake in body but in good and perfect meniorie (I praise the Almightie God therefore) considering this my uncertaine con- tinuance in this my mortall life, doe for the better quiet of my own mind and peace and concord of those whome by the lawes of nature & grace I am bound to provide for, make and ordainc this my last will and Testament as followeth.

First and above all things I give myselfe wholly into the hands of God the Father for hee made me, Jesus Christ his onely sonne my onely Saviour for hee redeemed mee, and to the holy ghost my Comforter and Directer in all goodness for hee sanctifieth me. To which blessed Trinity in unity and unitie in Trinitie I humbly desire to be an instrument of glory both heere and in heaven for evermore.

The temporal! goods which that great God hath bestowed upon mee I give and bequeath in such sort as hereafter is declared.

And first I give and bequeath unto Richard Symonds my sonne whome I doe ordavne and constitute the sole Execute'" of this my last will and testament, All my houses lands tenements leases goods and Chattells except such as are hereby otherwise disposed, to have and to hold to him and his heires for evef upon trust confidence and condicon that hee will performe and fulfill the same accordinge to the true intent and meaninge thereof discharging my debts and paying such Legacyes as shall hereby

42 Ancestry of PiHscilla Baker.

bee given and bequeathed and under the Charges provisoes and Lymitacons hereafter expressed and declared.

And forasmuch as I hould myself obliged by the bonds of nature to expresse a tender respect and care for the future main- tenance and support of my deare Companion and loving wife Avho albeit shee is interessed or intituled unto parte of my lands by the order and course of the Coinon lawes of this Realme, yet for her quiet and the more orderly and convenient disposinge of my estate amongst my said wife and children and by her consent and app'bacon I doe hereby give and bequeath unto my said wife for terme of her life in leiwe and recompence of her dower and estate out of all my Lands and Tenements the yearely rent of Five and Fifty Pounds, to be paid by my said Executor att the fower usuall Feasts or tymes in the year (that is to say) at the Feast of St. Michaell Tharchangell, the Nativity of our Saviour Jesus Christ, the Annunciacon of the blessed Viroin Mary, and the Nativity of St. John the Baptist by equall porcons, The first payment thereof to commence at that Feast which shall first happen after my decease. And if it shall happen the same to bee behind and unpayd by the space of Fifteene dayes after anie of the dayes and tymes limited for the payment thereof. Then it shalbe lawfull for my said wife to enter into all my Lands and Houses whatsoeV and wheresoever and there to distreyne untill the same be paid accordinge to the true intent and meaninge of this my last will and testament. Yet notwithstandinge my will and meaning is that my said wife

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sh.'ill have and occupye to her owne use and behoofe duringe her life two Chambers that is to say the Kitchine Chamber wlierein my said sonne lyeth and tlie Chamber intended to be builded over part of the Brewhouse with free Uberty att her pleasure to walk in and through all the houses yards gardens Orchards &c. alsoe a meete roome or part in the woodhouse for wood &c.

Item I give and bequeath unto her my said lovinge wife thirtie jaounds in money and of goods, household stuffe plate or Jewells (after appraisement made) of whatsoever shee best liketh to the value of Thirtie Pounds more. Provided alwaies and upon condicon that if my said wife doe claime or demand any of my said Lands or Tenements by vertue or pretence of anie manner of right tytle or Interest or shall not within Three moneths after my death release convey and assure unto my said Sonne Richard all her my said wifes right title or estate & interest into or out of all and singuler my said Lands and Tene- ments then shee is to loose the benefitt of all such Legacyes goods and Coinodityes as are to her hereby appointed and gyven and everie Clause concerninge onely the same to bee voide and of none effect.

Item I give and bequeath to my two sonnes Edward and John Six hundred Pounds a peece to bee paid to them at their severall ages of thre? and twenty yeares, aijd to my daughter Ann Five hundreth Pounds to be paid att her age of twentie yeares or at the daie of her marriage which shall first happen, and in the meane tyme for and towards their educations sixteene

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Pounds a peece yearely till they accomplish their severall ages of twenty yeares and then my will is that my said sonnes shall have fower and twenty Pounds a peece yearely untill they shall attaine to their said seVall ages of three & twenty yeares, the said Annuyties or yearely soines to bee paid at the fower feasts and tymes in the yeare as is before appoynted to my Wife by equall porcons. And if it shall happen the same to be behind and unpaid by the space of twenty dayes after anie of the said tymes lymited then it shalbe lawfull for my said three Children Edward John and Ann, and everie of them respectively to enter into all my lands and Tenements in Bumpstead and to distreyne untill the same bee paid according to the true intent and meaning of this my last will and testament. And if the said principall soiiie or Legacie of Six hundreth Pounds o-iven to my said sonne Edward happen to be unpaid at the tyme before appoynted for the payment thereof then my will is that my said sonne Edward to have and to hould to him and to his heires forever the one moyety of my farme and Tenements in Bumpstead, Likewise if it happen the said principall some or Legacie of Six hundreth pounds given to my said sonne John to be unpaid at the tyme before appointed for the payment thereof, then my will is that my said sonne John to have to him and his heires forever the other moyetie of my said farme and Tenements in Bumpsteed upon this Condicon notwithstanding that my said two sonnes Edward and John soe entryng and enjoyinge the sayd severall moyetyes pay out of the same one hundred and Fifty Pounds a

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peece to my said daughter Anne as parte of the Five hundrctli Pounds before bequeathed her at such tymes as are assigned for the payment thereof, and if it further happen the other three hundred pounds residue of the said Legacie of Five hundred pounds to be unpaid unto my said daughter att her said age of twenty yeares or day of marriage then my will and meaninge is my said daughter Ann to have and to hould to her and her heires forever my Lands and Tenements in Black Notley called Overeds Grayes Wren Parke and Perry Crofts. Provided alwayes that if my said daughter Ann marry without the consent of my Loving bretheren John Symonds, Samuel Symonds, Richard-Fitz Symonds, and of Ann my beloved wife and Richard my sonne or two of them at the least, the same to be declared by wryting under three or two of their hands and scales, then my will and meaninge is that the said Five hundreth pounds shall be paid into the hands of my said bretheren to bee by them distributed amonge my Children according to their discretions.

Item I give and bequeath unto my said Bretheren and Mar- garet my Sister Five markes a peece in token of my love to them and my meaninge is that my said Executo^' reward my Servants with some token for remembrance accordin<y to his discretion and their meritt.

And lastly (though not most forgotten) I will and require my said Executo'' to contynue in my steede mindfull of the poore not for once and a done but from tyme to tyme as God shall inlarge him with abilitie thereunto.

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In witnes this to be my last will and Testament conteyned

in these two severall sheets of paper whereunto alsoe my hand

and Seale is severally put.

Edw. Symonds.

These are witnesses whose names are subscribed. Joshua Draper. Sollomon Rallins. The inlke of William Homes.

Proved at London 31 January 1637.

EICHARD FITZ SYMONDS.

In the name of God Amen, The first day of June in the yeare of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixtie &> three I Richard Fitz Symonds of Yeldham Magna in the Countie of Essex gentleman being of whole minde & p^'fect remembrance (blessed be God) doe make ordaine & declare this to be my last Will & Testament and doe make constitute & appoint my trustie & well-beloved Nephew M^ John Symonds sonne & heire of my brother John Symonds sole Executor heereof. And first I doe humbly resigne So recommend my immortall Soule into the hands of Almighty God my Heavenly Father the Lord & maker therof through the sanctification of whose Holy Spirit I have an entrance unto him by Jesus Christ my Blessed Redeemer through the sprinkling of whose precious bloud I am begotten againe with a lively hope that I have free & full remission of

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all my Sinnes and that when the eai'thly tabernacle of my flesh is dissolved I shall liave possession of a durable Inheritance among them that are sanctifyed by faith in his name. Secondly I doe committ my Body to the earth to be decently buryed in sure & c'taine hope that it shall be kept through the power of God & raysed up at the last day by vertue of y° resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and that Soule & Body being re- united shall together enjoy the perpetuitie of Blessedness & holy happyness in the Kingdome of Heaven for evermore. Item I give & bequeath IFortie shillings to the Poore of Yeldham ; And ifortie shillings to the Poore of Panfield ; And Twentie

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shillings to the Poore of Shalford : to be distributed accordino; to the discretion & direction of mine Executor. Moreover I bequeath Twentie pounds to be imployed by mine Executor about the purchase of fiirewood for the Almeshouse of Yeldham aforesaide and to be layd in the yard of the saide Almeshouse yearely for Ten yeares after my decease for tlie use & behoofe of the Poore therin. Item I give unto my loving Brother M^ Samuel Symonds of New-England One hundred pounds to be paid within one yeare after my decease (if he be then living) And also five pounds a piece to every one of those his Children w'hich were borne in Enofland & went w'th him & shall be living a yeare after my decease. Item I give those my Manors of Nicholls & Panfield hall with all & every their severall & respective riglits members & appurten'nces Together with all & sing'lr my Lands Tenem'ts Rents & Hereditam'ts whatsoever

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Sc wheresoever unto the forenamed John Symonds my Nephew To have & to hold the saide Manors & Lands to him & the helres males of his body and for default of such issue Then as to my Manor of Nicholls with all & every its rights members & app'ten'nces Together with all & sing'l'r my lands tenem'ts Rents &. Hereditam'ts in Shaldeford, my will is that they shall remaine & come to Samuel Symonds brother of the saide John »& to the heires males of his body And for default of such Issue male of the body of the saide Samuel Symonds Then they shall remaine over to Fitz Symonds Brother of the saide Samuel &> to the heires males of his body, And for defoult of such issue male of the body of the saide Fitz Symonds, Then to the right heires of the saide John Symonds for ever. And as to my Ma- nor of Panfield hall with all & every its rights members & app'ten'nces Together with all & sing'l'r my lands tenem'ts Rents & Hereditam'ts in Panfield my will is That for default of such Issue male of the body of the saide John Symonds they shall remaine & come to the saide Fitz Symonds & the heires males of his body ; And for default of such Issue the Remainder thereof to Samuel Symonds Brother of the saide Fitz Symonds and the heires males of his body ; And for default of such Issue, to the right heires of the saide John Symonds for ever. Item I give unto the said John Symonds my Nephew All those Arerages of a c'taine Rent Charge of Twentie pounds p"" Ann granted unto mee by my Father out of all his Lands in Yeldham by his deede bearing date 23" die Martij Anno R' Jacobi AnglijB

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ye 17? and are behinde unpaide from the death of my Father (I being unwilling to burden my Brother who inlierited those lands or his Sonne succeeding him unless thereunto urged by neces- sitous want.) Item I give & bequeath unto my saide Nephew M^ John Symonds the Scale Ring of Amies which I received of my Fathers gift & which he in his life tyme used to weare, And also all my Bookes, Together with all other my goods 8c chattells (excepting only such as are or shall be by this my Will other- wise given appointed & bequeathed) All which my saide lands goods & chattells before menconed I give unto my saide beloved Nephew in trust & confidence that Avith the profits raysed out therof he will faithfully & fully pay & discharge all my detts, & duely p^forme & pay all such legacies as are in this my Will bequeathed. Item I give unto the forenamed Samuel Symonds & Fitz Symonds Sonnes of my Brother John Symonds One hundred pounds a piece ; Moreover I give to the saide Fitz Symonds my Scale King of Armes which I used to weare. Item I give unto my Neece Wolmer daughter of my said Brother John Symonds Twentie pounds (Not doubting but that my Executor (who beareth a singular love & affection to her his sister) will exhibite unto her to the value of five pounds yearely dui'ing her naturall life, in such manner & way as shall be most convenient, wherefore my Will & meaning is that he shall not be injoyned, or any wayes compelled thereunto, but that it shall be left wholly to his Love prudence & discretion.) Item I give unto my saide Neeces daughter Elizabeth the wife of M'- Martiny

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Carter five pounds. Item I give unto Thomasine the wife of Mi; John Pepyes five pounds. Item I give unto Ann daughter of my Brother Edward Symonds & wife of M^ Wright five pounds. Item I give to Helen Bacon my deceased Neeces daughter five pounds. Item I give Ten pounds to be imployed by ray Executor in the purchase of a Jewell for his wife as a token of my Love unto her. Item I give to M^ William Adderley the elder my kinsman, To Mv John Pepyes my kins- man, To M^ Wright my kinsman, To M'^ Martin Carter my kinsman. To M^ Thomas Symonds the elder of Farnham, To M^ John Brookes Minister of Yeldham, every of them a Gold Ping of the value of Twentie shillings in token of my Love to them. From my experience of the Reverend M'^ John Brook, I do augment his Legacie, and to him I doe bequeath five pounds. Item I give to each of the Meniall Servants of my foresaide Nephew M^ John Symonds remaining in his service at the tyme of my death Ten shillings a piece.

R. FiTZ Symonds.

Sealed subscribed published & declared to be the last Will & Testament of the saide Richard Fitz Symonds in the p''sence of Samuel Pluiiie. Tho. Plufiie. John Brooke. Robert Purkis. Thomas Ha2*o'ard. Ezekiel Allin.

Proved at Chelmsford 11 January 1681.

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JOHN SYMONDS.

In the Name of God Amen I John Symonds of Yeldham in the County of Essex Esquire being of good disposing minde and meraoiy and considering my mortality doe make and ordain this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all former Wills.

First I Coinend my Soul into the hands of my Great Creator hoping for life and pardon through the merits of my blessed Saviour. I dispose of my temporall Estate as folio weth.

First I confirm the Jointure which I have made to my dear wife unto my dear wife and in addition thereunto and for her more comfortable subsistance after my death I give to her my Mansion house called the Poole with all the Outhouses Orchards gardens and grounds thereunto belonging both free and Copy togeather with my house and lands called Lancasters and all their appurteniics in the occupacon of Moses Hurrell scituate in Yeldham Castle Hedingham and Topesfield To hold to her and her Assiijnes durinsr her naturall life if she shall so lonsr continue sole and unmarried with this Trust in her reposed That she shall not fell any Timber there growing or the bodies of any trees there but such as from time to time shall be decayed and dead Excej^t for the necessery repairs of the houses aforesaid and of the gates stiles and Fences thereto belonoin2: and with this further Trust that she shall keepe and maintaine all the houses and fences thereon in good and sufficient repair whiles she enjoyeth them. And the said additionall Jointure is made in recompence of a

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small parcell of Land called Finchingfield crofts of the yearly value of Fifty shillings which were part of her jointure and by me sold divers years since.

Item I give my Mannors of Panfield Hall and Nichols scituate in Panfield and Shalford in the County of Essex with all the Outhouses Royalties and grounds thereunto belonging and all and every of their and either of their appurteiics And all other my Messuages Cottages Lands and tenements in Panfield and Shalford aforesaid unto my kinsman M"^ Martin Carter and his heirs and Assignes for ever.

Item I give after my Wifes decease my JNIessuage and Farm called Kings scituate in Great Bardfield little Bardfield with all the houses and grounds thereunto belonging unto him the said Martin Carter and his Heirs forever.

Item I give my lands and grounds called Rookwoods scituate in Saling magna unto him the said Martin Carter and his heirs upon this Condicon that he or they doe pay or cause to be paid unto my Neece Elizabeth Pepys or her Assignes all such moneys as are due to her by bond or otherwise by Martin Carter de- ceased Father of the said Martin with due interest for the same within one year next after my decease And in case of failure therein then I give the said Lands called Eookwoods with their appurteiics to my said Neece Elizabeth Pepys and her Heirs for ever.

I give also the Revercon of all my Messuages Houses Lands and Tenements scituate and being in Horn church and Rumford

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in the county of Essex after my wifes decease unto the said Martin Carter and his Heires for ever.

Item I give all those Lands and Tenements vvhicli are lying in Cottenhani Willingham and Rampton in the county of Cam- bridge which I hold as Tennant by Elegit and all the interest w^hich I have therein to such persons and to such uses and under such Trusts as the same are devised and limitted by the last Will and Testament of Martin Carter deceased late of Felsted.

Item I give after my Wifes decease the Revercon of my Mansion house called the Poole scituate in Yeldham aforesaid and of all the outhouses orchards gardens Lands grounds and appurteiics thereunto belonging and of the Messuage Outhouses and grounds called Lancasters in the occupacon of Moses Hurrell aforesaid and of all that my Manner of Gunces with all the Houses lands and rounds thereunto belonging both free and Copy lying and being in Great Yeldham Toppesfield and Stamborne in the severall occupacons of John Page and John Ashby and of all that Farm called Beverleys with the grounds and appurteiics therewith demised unto the said John Ashby And of all that peece of Meadow and pasture called Keney lying in Yeldham and in my own occupacon containing by esti- macbn about six acres unto my Nephew M"" John Pepys of Cambrido;e and his Heires forever.

Item I give my Tenement called Spiltlmbers with the yards Orchards Smiths Forge and Shopp thereto belonging and the Croft called Spiltimber Croft And the house and outhouses in the

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Tenure of Thomas Wragg, My Cottage in.which Martha Annable now dwelleth with the yard and Orchard thereto belonghig and my Meadow called Goose Meadow with their appurteiics, My Messuage or Inn called White Hart in John Seamans occupacon and the Hopground adjoining, and Slipe meadow Pulden and Gravell pitt field in his tenure And all that Messuage and Shopp wherein Robert Walford dwelleth with the yards and appurteiics thereunto belonoini^ all which are scituat^ in great Yeldham and Toppesfield aforesaid or one of them And all that Messuage with the severall closes of ground thereto belonging in the tenure of John Syday And that Messuage called Fullers with the Out- houses Fields and o-rounds thereto belono'inar both which last mentioned are scituate in Toppesfield aforesaid and the Cottage in the occupacon of Nathaniel Sheldrake with the a^^purteiics in Yeldham unto my sister Thomasin Pepys for and during the term of her naturall life and after her decease unto my said Nephew John Pepys and his Heires forever.

Item I give my Mannors of Spaine and Butlers with all the Royalties Houses and grounds thereto belonging with their ap- purteiics unto my said Nephew John Pepys and his Heirs forever.

Item I give to my said sister Pepys my Lease of the Messuage called Hoses in Toppesfield with the Outhouses and grounds therewith demised by me unto Thomas Cracherode gent for the wholeTerm which I have in it if she soe Ions: live and after her death to my said Nephew John Pepys and his Assignes.

Item I give my Farm called Weldens in Steple Bumpsted w^''

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all the houses grounds and lands thereunto beloniiini; unto mv Nephew Thomas Pepjs and his Heires forever.

I give unto my Neeces Anne Whaples and Elizabeth Pepys to each of them one Hundred pounds To Ellen Bacon my Neece Fifty Pounds To each of the children of Martin Carter deceased (except the two eldest sons) Fifty pounds To my sister M'"** Judeth Burgoyne Forty pounds To my Nephew and Godson Mark Guy on Ten pounds To my Neece Jane Guyon Ten pounds To my Nephews Roger and Lucy Burgoyne sons of S"" John Burgoyne Baronet Ten pounds a peece. To the poor of great Yeldham Five pounds. To the poor of Castle Hedingham Three pounds. To the poor of Toppesfield Three pounds. To M John Brooke our worthy Minister Five pounds and in case he preach my Funerall ser- mon Five pounds more. To each of my servants Forty shillings a peece Except ]\T Pagit to whome I give Ten pounds.

Item I give to my dear wife the use of all my houshold goods for and durino- the term of her naturall life if she soe lono^ con- tinue sole and unmarried with this trust in her reposed that she will use them kindly and not abuse them. I give unto her also her Necklace of Pearls her Diamond Jewels all her Rings and wearing ornaments her silver dressing boxes Glass and appur- teiics, The Chest of Drawers which was of S'' John Burgoynes gift, The Chest of Drawers standing at the Clossett Door All the Plate which hath been at any time given to her by any of her Friends and relations and my Coach and Coach horses and all the Wood in my Woodyard and the Hay and Stover in my Out-

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houses to be disposed of by her at her Will and pleasure And it is my niinde and will that if any of my Copyhold Lands shall happen to be unsurrendred at the time of my death to such uses as shall be declared in this my Will That the same shall be taken upp by my next Heire at Law and surrendred to such per- son and persons at their respective charge and to such uses and for such Estates as the Inheritance or other Estate of the Free- hold Lands contiguous thereunto already are or shall be hereby respectively limited by me.

Item I give Two Hundred pounds to be laid out in the pur- chase of Lands and tenements for and towards the maintenance of a Schoolmaster and of a School in the Schoolhouse of Yeld- ham Magna forever the same to be paid into the Hands of M"^ John Brooke Rector of Yeldham aforesaid and M"" Nathaniel Plum of the same or reserved in the hands of my Executor John Pepys untill such purchase can be had and made and to be settled upon Trustees by them or the major part of them to be appointed and their heires with all convenient speed in Trust to take and dispose the yearly profits thereof to the use aforesaid forever.

Item I give my Library of Bookes (Except the Books to be chosen out of the same by my wife proper for her reading which when chosen I give to her and except those Five books entituled Sinopsis Criticorum etc which I give to the Hono^'^ Society of Llncolnes Inne of which I am a Member to be kept in the Library there for the use of that Society) unto my said Nephew John Pepys to his own use.

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Lastly I doe constitute and ordain my Dear Wife Jane Symonds and my said Sister Thomazine Pepys and my said Nephew John Pepys the executors of this my Will trusting they will pay my Debts Legacies and Funeral Expences and to them I give all the residue of my personall Estate But my Will is that my Houshold goods shall be inventoried and ap- praised and remain in my house aforesaid for the use of such person as shall be the reverconer of the Poole after my wifes decease and are not intended to come to them as Residuary Legatees unless ray personall Estate shall not suffice without them to discharge my debts and Legacies.

In witness whereof to this my Will contained in three sheets of paper I have set my hand and seal the Twentieth day of March in the Fourth year of the reign of our Soveraign Lord and Lady William [and Mary] King and Queen of England Scotland France and Ireland Annoq" Diii 1691.

Jo. Symonds.

Signed sealed published and declared to be the last Will of the Testator herein before named in the presence of Jo : Pagett, Tho : Greene, John Baldock.

Instead of the Two hundred pounds given towards a School- masters maintenance I give to my Executors and their Heires the Farm I lately bought of Thomas Sewell lying in Halsted for such intent as I gave the said Money.

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I give to my Cousen William * Synionds of Ipswich in New England One Hundred pounds To M'' Fisk Forty shillings, and to my cosen John Carter and his heires all my Copyhold Lands and Tenements lying and being in Farnham in this County [to the poor] of Castle Hedingham three pounds to the poor of Toppesfield three pounds to M": John Brooke our worthy Min- ister Five pounds and in case he preach my Funerall sermon Five pounds more. To each of my servants Forty shillings a peece except M"" Pagett to whome I give Ten pounds.

Item I give to my dear wife the use of all my houshold goods for and during the term of her naturall life if she soe Ions; con- tinue sole and unmarried with this Trust in her reposed that she will use them kindly and not abuse them I give to her also her Necklace of Pearles her Diamond Jewels all her Einos and wearing Ornaments her silver Dressing boxes Glass and ap- purteiics which was of S'' John Burgoynes gift The Chest of Drawers standing at her Closet door All the Plate which hath been at any time given to her and me by any of her Friends and Relacbns my Coach and Coachhorses All the Wood in my Woodyard and Cole All the hay and stover in my Outhouses and Fifty pounds in money to be disposed of at her Will and pleasure And it is my minde that if any of my Copyhold Lands shall happen to be unsurrendred at the time of my death to such uses as shall be declared in this my Will That the same

* At this time Harlakenden Symonds was the only living nephew in New England.

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sliall be taken upp by my next Heir at Law and suirondrcd to the use of such person and persons at their respective charge and to such use and uses and for such Estates as the Inheritance or other Estate of the Freehold Lands lying contiguous there- unto already are or shall be hereby respectively limited by me.

Item I oive the Messuaoe and all the Outhouses lands orounds and appurtefics thereto belonging scituate in Halsted now in the tenure and occupacon of Thomas Sewell and his Under teiiant and lately bought of the said Sewell unto my Nephew Thomas Pepys of Felsted and to M'' John Brooke of Yeldham magna and their heirs in Trust that they shall with all convenient speed settle convey and assure the same To and upon Ten or more honest and substantial men living in the Hundred of Hinkford in Essex and to their heires in Trust that therewith and with the Rents and profits thereof and of the Messuage called Ford in the tenure of AVilliam Day scituate in Yeldham aforesaid they shall provide for the perpetuall maintenance of a School- master in Great Yeldham for the educating and instructing of youth for ever.

Item I give to my Kinsman jVT' AVilliam Symonds of Ipswich in New England One Hundred pounds To M*" West my Chap- lain Forty shillings To M'" John Carter and his Heires All my Copyhold Lands lying in Farnham and Albury in the Counties of Essex and Hertford.

Item I give my Library of Books (Except the books to be chosen out of the same by my Wife proper for her reading as

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also her own Library of Books which I give to my said wife) unto my Nephew John Pepys to his own use I doe also except out of them those five books entituled Sinopsis Criticorum etc. which I give to the Hono''''' Society of Lincolnes Inne of which I am a Member to be kept in the Library there for the use of that Society.

Lastly I doe constitute and ordain my dear wife Jane Symonds, My Sister Thomazine Pepys and my said Nephew John Pepys the Executors of this my Will, trusting that they will pay my debts Legacies and Funerall Charges And to them I give the residue of my personall Estate But my Will is that my Hous- hold Goods shall be inventoried and appraised and remain in my house aforesaid for the use of such pson as shall be the Rever- coner of the Poole after my wifes decease, and are not intended to come to my said Executors as residuary Legatees unless my personall Estate shall not suffice without them to discharge my debts and Legacies.

In witness whereof to this my Will contained in tlu'ee sheets of paper I have set my hand and scale the sixteenth day of February in the Fifth year of the reign of our Soveraign Lord and Lady King William and Queen Mary Annoq" Dili 1692.

Jo : Symonds.

Published and declared to be the last Will and Testament of the Testator in the presence of

Proved at London 31 May 1693.

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FAMILY OF SYMONDS IN KEW ENGLA^H).

SAMUEL^ SYMONDS, founder of the family in America, fourth son of Richr*. d of Great Yeld- ham, Essex, was born in that parish in 1595, and baptized 9 June of that year. He was a Cursitor in Chancery, and married at Great Yeldham, 2 April, 1617, Dorothy, eldest daughter of Thomas Harla- kenden, of Earl's Colne, Essex, where she was baptized 12 December, 1596. lie owned the estate of Olivers in Toppesfield, next parish to Great Y^eldham, and lived there twenty years. They had twelve children born at Toppesfield, four of whom died there young. His wife was buried there 3 August, 1636.

In the next year he moved to Il^ew England, and settled at Ipswich, and was made Freeman of the Colony of Massachusetts in March, 1638, without the

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title of Mr., to which he certainly had good claim. Before this, he had married Mai'tha, daughter of Edmund Read of Wickford in Essex, widow of Daniel iJIpes, step-daughter of Rev. Hugh Peter, and sister of Mie second wife of John Winthrop, Jr. Among the Winthrop Papers, printed by the Massachusetts Historiv^al Society (Collections, Fourth Series, Vol. VII.), is J letter from Samuel Symonds, written prob- ably from i^oston to his brother-in-law Winthrop at Ipswich, contchiing most particular directions about a house, of whicl. the latter was superintending the building. I shall not reprint the letter here, but it is interesting as giving perhaps the fullest contem23orary descrij^tion known of such a house as was at this early date built by one of the richer settlers in !N^ew Eng- land. The letter is unfortunately not dated. In it Symonds says, "my wife her tyme draweth very near," and mentions his daughter as at Ipswich, probably on a visit, unless he means his step-daughter Elizabeth Epes, who seems to have lived with John Winthrop, Jr. In another letter, apparently dated 14 December, 1637, Symonds says, "I resolved to take the opor- tunity of my father's barke, now at Boston, to send certaine necessarie things by it, as far as Salem, that

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soe by some meanes or other, they may be gotten to Argilhx," his farm at Ipswich.

He was sent Deputy from Ipswich to the General Court of 2 May, 1638, and the same year was ap- pointed, with Mr. Woodbridge and Mr. Hubbard, to join the Magistrates in keeping the County Court at Ipswich. Tlie latter duty he also discharged the three following years, and in IGiO was chosen to record all mortgages, bargains, sales and grants of houses, lands, rents, and other hereditaments within the jurisdiction of Ipswich Court. The first volume of these records, now at Salem, is almost wholly written in his beautiful round hand, as are also the town records of Ipswich for a few years between 1639 and 1615. We shall find that he was constantly employed in this colony in duties, for which his pro- fessional education and experience in England partic- ularly fitted him. He was one of six gentlemen, appointed 9 October, 1641, to keep Court at Pascata- quack, then decided to be within the jurisdiction of Massachusetts. In 16tl:2 he was one of a committee of the General Couit " to consider whether in tryall of causes to retaine or dismise juries." He was a Deputy to most of the General Courts before 10 May,

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1643, when he was "chosen an Assistant, &; tooke his oathe." He was a Selectman of Ipswich in 1644 and a few other years, and was a member of the committee of the town " for makeinge of a Rule for settleinge of mens pprieties in respect of the variacon from the Grants." His duties as a Colonial Magistrate seem to have interfered to prevent him from holding offices of honor in the town, and his name is not often found on the records of the latter.

In 1644 he was on a committee with Belling- ham and Saltonstall with "full power to heare & determine all businesses at Hampton, both about their differences, offences, & a new plantation," and the same year was again appointed to keep a Court at Pascataqua, as also in 1645, when it is called Dover. In this year he was put in Bellingham's place on the committee for Essex County to meet on 12 JN^ovember, " to consult together, &; to returne to this Co^'t a result of their thoughts, that this Co^'te may i^ceede there- upon to satisfy y*^ expectation of the country in estab- lishing a body of lawes." He also appears as one of seven gentlemen who petitioned the General Court to be established a free company of adventurers, with extensive privileges, which was granted.

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In 16^8 he was one of the committee " to piise the articles of o'' confederation w"' the United Colonies," with instrnctions as to its dnty and powers. !N^ext year he was appointed to keep Courts for JS^orfolk County at Salisbury and Hampton; and also in 1651, in Avhich year he was chosen by the inhabitants of Ipswich as one of the Feoffees of the Grammar School of that town, founded by Robert Payne, and held the office till his death. 23 October, 1652, the General Court issued a commission to him as one of six gen- tlemen, " to setle the civil government amongst the inhabitants of Kittery, the He of Shoales, Accomen- ticus, and so to the most northerly extent of our patent," charging them with various duties to be performed, " as in your wisdomes and discretions yow shall judge most to conduce to the glorj^ of God, the peace and welfare of the people there, and the main- tenance of our oune just rights and interest." The return of the commissioners may be read at full length in the fourth volume of the Records of Massachusetts. In 1653 he was chairman of a com- mittee "to joyne with such of the comissioners for the United Colonies as they shall please to nominate, to draw up the case respecting the Dutch and In-

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deans," and of another to consider " whither the comissioners of the United CoUonies have power, by the artickles of agreement, to determine the justice of an offencive or vindictive warre, and to ingage the collonies therein," which was decided in the negative. In 1654 he was chairman of an important com- mittee of three, " to examine, compare, reconcile, and pkice together, in good order, all former lawes, both j^rinted and written, and make fitt titles and tables for ready recourse to any particular conteined in them, and to present the same unto the next Court of Eleccon, to be considered of, that so order may be taken for the printing of them together in one booke, whereby they be more usefull then now they are or cann be." This year he was also on a committee " to drawe up severall letters, to his highnes the Lord Protectors letter, y® letter for y® gent''^ of y'' corpora- tion, & M'' Winslows, as also to drawe up a narrative, in way of remonstrance, of all matters respecting that which is charged on this Court concerning the breach of the confoederacy, for the vindication of this Courts actiones in such resj^ect." About the same time he appears as buying from George Dell, master of the ship Goodfellow, " two of the Irish youthes brought

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over by order of the State of England : the name of one of them is William Dalton the other EdAvard "Welch — sum six &; twenty pounds in corn mer- chantable or live cattell at or before the end of October next." There seems to be some doubt about the names of these unfortunate men, as they are afterwards called William Downing and Philip Welch. Mr. Symonds was obliged to bring an ac- tion to enforce his authority and ownership, and his declaration in the case may be seen in the ISTew- England Historical and Genealogical Register for 1865.

In 1655 he was appointed to keep Courts at Dover and York, and to take under the government of Massachusetts " all persons not yet subjected to this government that are inhabiting w^^in the northerly line of our patent, so farr as it is extended," and also to keep the Courts in I^orfolk. In 1658, in conse- quence of disorders in the eastern parts, he was one of the commissioners appointed " to repaire to Black Point, Richmonds Island, & Casco, ... to take in the inhabitants thereof into our jurisdiction." The return of the commissioners is printed in the fourth volume of the Records of Massachusetts. In the

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previous year, 1657, as Justice of the County Court of Essex, he gave judgment iu the case of George Gicldings, plaintiff, against Edward Browne, defend- ant. The documents relating to this case occupy more than twenty pages in Hutchinson's Collection of Original Papers. The clergymen in ISTew England being usually supported by voluntary contributions, the town of Ipswich, in 1656, voted to give £100 towards building or buying a house for Rev. Mr. Cobbet, and the question was whether this vote was binding on those who objected to it and refused to pay. The selectmen of Ipswich ordered the marshal, Edward Browne, to distrain on such as refused, and this action of trespass upon the case was brought by one of those, whose houses he had entered for that purpose. The judge, Symonds, found for the plain- tiff, and expressed at some length the grounds of his judgment. His opinion is too long to be quoted here, and all the documents are curious and well woi'th reading. Appeal was taken from the decision, and the whole matter was finally referred to the General Court, which decided in favor of the vote of the town as binding, thus reversing the judgment of Mr. Symonds.

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In June, 1G61, he was a member of an important committee of prominent men, appointed "to consider & debate such matter or thing of 2)ublicke concern- ment touching our pattent, lawes, priviledges, & duty to his maj^y as they in theire wisdome shall judge most expedient, & drawe up the result of theire app'hensons, & present the same to the next session for consideration & approbation, that so (if the will of God be) wee may speake & act the same thing, becomeing prudent, honest, conscientious, & faithfull men." He was this year ordered to keep Courts at Hampton and Salisbury ; in 1663, was ordered to keep the next County Court for Suffolk, and in 1664 again in IS^orfolk.

Among the Winthrop Papers, in the volume be- fore named, is a letter from Symonds to his brother- in-law Winthrop, written in 1662, in which is the following interesting and touching passage : —

" I have still one brother livino-. He hath a o-ood estate : he is a batchellour. \yhen I was in Enijland he loved me well. I know not now, how I am in his minde ; * but brother, if you did make a journy to see him, & (as occasion may be taken)

* This was Richard Fitz Symonds, who by will left his brother Samuel one

hundred pounds.

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to speake of me, as you shall see good, I shall add this courtecy to the heap of your former high deservings. The rest of my cosens are (I take it) well provided for. I am loath to be as one utterly forgotten by one soe related (if God see meet). But I confesse it is a tender stringe, &j he hath need of wisdome that can finger it well. He dwelleth at the Poole in Much Yeldham, neare Castle Heningham in Essex, about six miles from Erls Colne, where my kinrid of the Harlakindens live, which if alsoe you please to vizitt, kindly commending me to them all & every one of them, it wilbe very gratfull."

From the same letter we learn that his second wife was hving m the early part of 1662, but was *" very crazy"; she certainly died during that year, and in April, or May, 1663, he married Rebecca, widow, first of Henry Byley, secondly of John Hall, and thirdly of Rev. William Worcester. Her parentage was long a matter of doubt, but she is now plainly identified as daughter of Bennett Swayne, of Salisbury, England. She survived her fourth husband, and died 21 July, 1695, aged 78.

In 1665 he was chairman of a committee "to give answer to Secretary Morrise his letter, & to consider what is farther necessary to be donne in refference to what hath past betweene the honorable coinissioners

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& this Court as it relates to England." The same year he and Thomas Danforth were ordered to repaii* to York, to keep a County Court, and to appoint civil and military officers and commissioners. In 1668 he was appointed to keep County Courts in ]!*^orfolk, and in 1672 in Yorkshire. 7 May, 1673, he was chosen Deputy Governor, in succession to Leverett elected Governor. His services certainly deserved this com- pliment, a barren one, it must be confessed, to a man of 78 years. In this year he was chairman of a committee to consider of these three questions : — " 1 Q. Whither according to patient there be a neg- ative vote in any part of the Generall Court ; if there be, then in what cases. Secondly. How farr our pos- sitive lawes doe in this mattei* agree w^^' or disagree from the patent. 3 Q. Where the use of the negative voat causeth an obstruction in any matter of necessity to be concluded or of great moment to the publick, what may be the best expedient for an issue, whither by lot or otherwise." In 1675 he was on the com- mittee * to settle the trouble in Salem Church between

* I have a copy of the return to the General Court, in an unknown hand, but indorsed, " Tliis is a true copy according: to the original! left with me by y« com- mittee under their own hands. Attested by John Higgixson, senior."

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Kev. Messrs, Higginson and Nicholet ; and the same year, on account of the Indian war, obtained a guard of two men for his house, which was "so remoate from neighbours, & he so much necessitated to be on the countrys service."

In the records of the General Court for October, 1678, w^e read, " The Court judgeth it matter of incumbancy to take care for an honnoHjle & decent interment of y® late Deputy Gov'no'', & doe hereby order, that the country Treasurer forthwith deliver the sum of twenty jDOunds, in money or such other pay as may be necessary for such an end, to ]\P Daniel Epps, Senio"^, to be as an addition to wdiat shallbe ex- pended by his relations on that account." The exact day of his death is not known. It is on record among the papers at the State House, Boston, that he died on 13 October; John Hull's Diary says, "Oct. 12. Samuel Symonds, Esq., the Deputy-Governor, died in Boston, the General Court sitting," Avhile the fol- lowing entry is found in an interleaved ahuanac of Samuel Sewall, " 1678. 8, 11, Samuel Symonds Esq. Dep. Gov. buried."

The Rev. Dr. Felt thus writes of him in the " His- tory OF Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton " : —

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" ^Yho, that reviews the clifFerent and multiplied duties of Mr. Symonds, and the devoted and patriotic spirit, with which he discharged them, can truly deny that he merited the full, repeated, important, and long confidence placed in him by the public authorities? Nor was he less honored in the private walks of life. Whatever he undertook, whether business of town, county, colony, or country, he did not leave it, till he had expended upon it all the time, attention, and exertion which he ought. His politics, principles, and practices, were not swayed by corrupt ambition, but were deeply seasoned by the salt of piety, which induced him to seek first for the appro- bation of God, and then, as a consequence, to act for the best good of those, whose interests were committed to his care. The circle of his benevolence, his motives, and conduct, was not merely confined to the civilized, but also extended to the heathen, to whom he was an instrument of sending the Gospel more fully than it had been. His was a mind which looked at earthly concerns in the light of Revelation. His was a soul aflPected and moved more by eternal realities than by things temporal. His was a life which took hold on judgment, and secured the blessedness of justification through the Redeemer."

I will only add that he seems to me to have pos- sessed that combination of true religious feeling with great firmness, not to say obstinacy, which was so much needed in the founding and early days of this

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colony, and which was so perfectly in place, and fully in agreement, with the men, among whom he found himself in Massachusetts.

I quote from his letters various passages illustrating his character. 1637, to John AYinthrop, Jr., at Ips- wich : —

" I heare that your Church hath setlecl the choyce of your ministers in their offices, & that now things are likely to goe on very well & conifortablely, which ministers matter of great joy to all that love Jesus Christ. And truely the peace of any Church (because pretious) is soe difficult to preserve, in respect of the subtilty & niallice of the common enymy, that it requires answerable cautelousnes on all hands, every one waighing well that one sentence of the Apostle, Let every one esteeme an other better then him selfe, & studdy the vally-way to rise to true honour."

1647, to Governor John Winthi-oi? : —

"Troubles and difficulties we must looke for (if we will reere a building to the Lord) but the encouragement exceeds when we consider the worke is his. . . . The scope of what I would expresse is, to observe Gods providences in mans motions at this tyme seeme plainly to tend to settle his people here, and to recover new English spirit for Christs kingdome againe. . . . Is not government in church and common weale (according to

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Gods owne rules) that new heaven and earth promised, in the fullnes accomplished when the Jewes come in, and the first fruites begun in this part New England, though neglected by many and opposed by some? Now to name what seemes to be Gods ende in bringing his people hether, whatever more there may be which tyme may yet discover. 1. To be an occasion to stirre up the zeale of the two nations to sett upon reformation of religion, and that with good successe. 2. To have liberty and power to sett up Gods owne ordinances in church govern- ment, and thereby to hold forth matter of conviction to the episcopacy and others that this way of church government and civill government may stand together. 3. To exercise the graces of the richer sort in a more mixt condition, they shall have the liberty of good government in their hands, yet with the abatement of their outward estates. And that the poorer sort (held under in England) should have inlargement. 4. To afford a hiding place for some of his people that stood for the truth while the nation was exercised unto blood. 5. To have an opportunity to trayne up a godly skillfull soldiery, which shortly may be imployed against that blasphemous citty. And to these may be added (at least a sprinkling) of godly seamen, formerly rare in the world. 6. To make this place a rendezvous for our deare English friends when they shall make their voyages to the West Indies, to dry up that Euphrates. 7. To be hopefull instruments in Gods hand to gaine these Indians to Christs king- dome. Which mercy if attained in any considerable measure

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will make us o-oe sinsrino; to our o^raves. . . . Sir, its conceived this place will prove either very honourable or very meene and contemptable, according as religion is attended or neglected."

1654, to John Winthrop, Jr., on the death of a child of the latter : —

" If I were present with you & my sister, in these two things I should endeavour ; first, to help support your spirits under such a stroke, then to cast which way may be best for spirituall improvement. For the first, it tends to support to consider who it is that hath done it : he that is bound to or-ive noe ac- count of his matters : & not too much to pore upon this, or that, which might have prevented, as its likly you are apt to conceive ; and secondly, that you therewith labour to apply that generall soule comforting promise, viz : All things shall worke together for the good of them that love God. And for spirituall improvement, such providences may well minde us of the uncer- tainty of all earthly enjoyments, therefore to put us on the move to obtayne assurance of such as are both full & lasting. When, through spetiall grace, the heart, seeing the emptines of the creature, rests in the fullnes that is in Jesus Christ, it is in spirituall health. Health you know is sweet, though the pill that procureth it be bitter. I might add, you have many child- ren still ; count you have none, give them all to the Lord ; & then shall you be sure to have thein againe with advantage."

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1662, to John AYiiithrop, Jr., at London : —

" I heare what a dangerous passage you had ; it may put us in minde of the extreame difficulties & hassards doe attende our pilgrimage to that heavenly country. We had need labor with all our might, to get a sure & safe arrivall at that haven."

Samuel Symonds left a good property, consisting principally of real estate, of Avhich he had bought, and received by grant, from the town of Ipswich and the General Court, a very large amount. The fol- lowing is on record at Salem in the first volume of Ipswich Deeds, w^ritten in his own clear hand : —

Granted by the freemen of the Towne of Ipswach to Samuel Symonds of Ipswich in New England Gent a farme of five hundred acres of ground vpland & meadowe pporconable Anno Dili 1637 : which farme w^as laid out accordingly : It Is since called Ollivers ; * The said farme (at the day of the Date of this & other Coppies following) is thus bounded viz : that end thereof towards the North-east abutteth vpon the now coinon ground of the Towne of Ipswich beyonde part of the west meadowes : that part thereof towards the south-east abutteth vpon certayne ground of m'' William Payne that end thereof

* It was so named after his estate at Topposfield, England ; and the town of Topsfield, Mass., probably received its name at his suggestion, or in compliment to him.

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towards south west abutteth vpon a little Brooke called Pye Brooke that side thereof towards the North Avest abutteth partly vpon the ground of Thomas Dornian parly vpon coinon ground & ptly vpon the farme now or late of m'" John Winthrope the yonger To have & to hold the said five hundred acres of ground with the app^tnncs to him the said Samuel Symonds his heires & assignes for ever./

Item granted as aforesaid vnto the said Samuel Symonds & at the time aforesaid a planting Lott of six acres of ground, which planting Lott was laid out, and abutteth vpon the south- west end of m^' Kichard Saltonstalls meadowe lying neare a Creeke called Labour in vayne Creek according to marked trees betweene nV Saltonstalls said meadow & the said six acre Lott, the North-end of the said planting lott abutteth vpon the ground of m'^' Nathaniel Rogers Pastor of the Church of Ipswich from a marked tree neare the corn*" of m'" Saltonstalls said meadowe all a longe the middle of the said Swampe to the marked tree which is the corner tree vpon Argilla farme-line runninge thence to a little meadowe of the said m'^' Rogers the rest of the said Lott abutteth partly vpon a pcell of ground granted to m'' John win- throp the yonger in consideracon of a high-way taken out of his then farme now the farme & ground of the said Samuel Symonds called Argilla & partly vpon other grounds of the said farme./

Item Granted as aforesaid to the said Samuel Symonds all that pcell of ground both marsh & vpland lying at the hether- most side of Saggamore hill not exceeding forty acres (which

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provetli in quantity much vnder forty acres) and the said ground abutteth as followeth viz : that side thereof towards the west abutteth vpon the land nowe of Thomas Bishop, part vpon the land of Thomas Avells part vpon the land of jNIathias Button & part vpon the marsh ground of the widdow Lumpkyn and the rest vpon the marshes belonging to Castle-hill & the marshes belono-ino^ to the other hills called the Hands now the lands of the said Samuel Symonds./

Item the said Samuel Symonds is possessed of a farme called Argilla contayning by estimacon three hundred & Twenty acres (Avith the addicons aforesaid) be it more or lesse, as it is now geiially fenced round ; and it lyeth vpon & beyonde the Creek called Labour in vayne Creeke towards the south in a place foriSly called Chebaccoe ; which farme was granted by the freemen of the Towne of Ipswich (divers yeares since) to John winthrop the yonger, Esqr. To have & to hold the ]5misses with the ap^ptniics to him the said John winthrop his heires & assignes for ever : which said farme the said John winthrop sould to the said Samuel Symonds by his deede bearing date the eight day of 12"' month Anno Dni 1G37./

Item the said Samuel Symonds is possessed of a pcell of ground contayning by estimacon one acre & a halfe be it more or lesse abutting on the east side thereof vpon the lower end of m'" William Hubbards Close before his Towne-howse & the rest of the said pcell of ground is surrounded Avith high-wayes w^hich said pcell of ground was part of m'' John winthrops six acre

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Lott there which the freemen of the Towne of Ipswich granted to him ; and which said pcell of ground the said John winthrop hath granted to the said Samuel Symonds by his Deed bearing- Date 24 of October Anno Dili 1638./

Item the said Samuel Symonds is possessed of a Towne-howse & howse-IiOtt contayning by estimacon three acres be it more or lesse which howse-lott on the North side thereof abutteth vpon the meeting-howse greene vpon the North east end thereof it abutteth vpon the howse lott of william white vpon the south east side thereof it abutteth vpon Ipswich River & william ffullers Lott and vpon the south west end thereof it abutteth vpon the highway leading to the meeting-howse which howse lott first mentioned the Towne of Ipswich viz : the freemen thereof granted to Henry Sewall the elder gent to have & to hold the same with the app^'tniics to him the said Henry Sewall his heires & assio-nes for ever, which said howse-Lott the said Henry Sewall sould with the app^'tniics to the said Samuel Symonds by his Deed bearing Date the sixt day of the first month Anno Dili 1637.*

The Date of giving out these coppies is the xvith day of December Anno Dili 1645./

by vs selected herevnto according to order of Court./

Richard Saltonstall Thomas Rowlingson. Constable./ Daniel Denison John Gage Lott-layer./

Saimuell Appleton./

* I feel sure that this is a mistake for 1638.

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10 December, 164:2, the town of Ipswich passed this vote : —

" Granted to m'^ Samuel Symonds that his faniie consisting of 500 acres of ground which lyeth towards the west side of the ToVvne (& is Comonly called Ollivers) shall or may (for the prop use of the farme) be constantly supplied with Timber & fire wood, off the Comons. To injoye to him his heires & As- signes."

On 1 January, 1615, he bought of his brother-in- law Winthrop the estate called Castle-Hill, which the town of Ipswich had granted to Winthrop in 1636. Symonds had to prove his title at a trial in 1617, and the trouble he had is told in a letter to Winthrop, printed by the Massachusetts Historical Society in the volume before quoted. The General Court of Massa- chusetts made him many large grants of land, as fol- lows: 1648, five hundred acres of land in the Pequot country. 1651, three hundred acres " beyond the River of Merremacke, . . . with free liberty for timber, pro- vided he sett up a sawe mille there w*4n the space of seven yeeres." 1653, five hundred acres, in reference to his " service donne for the countrie at Yorlie, Kit- tery, &c." 1657, he was allowed to take three hun- dred acres on this side of the Connecticut River in

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exchange for .part of his former grants. 1658, in right of these grants he took possession of six himclrecl and forty acres on Lamper Eele Kiver, between Dover and Exeter. 1G59, he is desired to take land in some other place instead of on the Connecticnt, as before granted, but the same year he was granted one hun- dred and sixty acres on that river above J^orthamp- ton. 1659, he was also granted any island in Casco Bay not exceeding five hundred acres, as a recom- pense for services done. 1660, in consideration of the resignation of his three hundred acres on the Connecticut, he was granted one hundred in another part, additional, probably, to the one hundred and sixty. 1661, he was allowed to change the grants of an island of five hundred acres and of one hundred and sixty acres at JSTorthwottocke for eight hundred to be laid out in one or two places.^ 1662, five hun- dred acres were laid out for him " in the wildernes on the north of Merrimacke River, ... at the mouth of Concord Ryver, upon a brooke called by the Indians Pophessgosquockegg." 1664, in obedience to former

* This land had not been laid out in 1716, when Cyprian and Dorothy Whipple and Elizabeth Allyn petitioned the General Court for a Committee to lay it out, which the Court in 1717 gave them leave to do.

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grants, three hundred acres were laid ont for him at Assibath Plaine, between Concord and Lancaster. 166G, he was granted two hundred and fifty acres, which were laid out near the former grant on Lam- perele Kiver.

Samuel Symonds left a will with three codicils, here printed, which caused loug litigation. His son William, whom he appointed executor, died intestate 22 May, 1679, when the General Court appointed Daniel Epps, Harlakenden Symonds, and Richard Martin, administrators ; a final settlement of the es- tate Avas not made till 1694. The case came often before the General Court, as may be read in the fifth volume of the Records of Massachusetts. The in- ventory is recorded as £2103 65. lOfZ. Many pe- titions and other papers relating to the case may be seen among the records at the State House, Boston, and at Salem \ I have not thought worth while to take particular notice of them here.

Samuel Symonds had certainly these sixteen chil- dren : —

I. Richard,'^ born at Toppesfiekl, Essex, in 1618, was a student in Grey's Irin, and left in England by his father ; I presume he died a few years later, as he is not mentioned in letters.

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II. Dorothy,^ born at Toppesfield in 1619, married, prob- ably about 1648, Rev. Thomas Harrison, who had been in Virginia as Chaplain to the Governor, was afterwards a short time in Massachusetts, but re- turned to England, and, in 1653, was of St. Dun- stan's in the East, London; he was afterwards of Dublin, of Chester, and again of Dublin, where he died. I think his wife was dead in 1657 ; certainly she died before her father.

III. Jane,^ born at Toppesfield in 1621, living in 1634, but

probably died a few years later.

IV. Anne,^ born at Toppesfield in 1622, died there in

1634. V. Samuel,^ born at Toppesfield in 1623, died there the

same year. VI. Elizabeth,'' born at Toppesfield in 1624, married at Ips- wich 20 jNIay, 1644, her step-brother Daniel Eppes, to whom she bore several children, and died 7 May, 1685 ; her husband died 8 January, 1693. VII. Samuel,^ born at Toppesfield in 1625, died unmarried at Ipswich in 1653 ; in his will he mentioned his brothers Harlakenden, John, William, and Samuel, and his sisters Martha, Ruth, Priscilla, and Mary Eppes. VII L Harlakenden,^ born at Toppesfield in 1627, lived at Gloucester, Mass., and became Freeman of the Col-

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ony 3 May, 1665 ; married Elizabeth Day, grand- daughter, by her first husband, William Story, of Sarah, wife of Rev. John Cotton ; he visited Eng- land in 1672, but returned the next year, and is thus mentioned in a letter from Samuell Epps to Fitz-John Winthrop, written at Boston 5 December, 1673. (Collections of Mass. Hist. Soc, 3d Series, Vol. X.) "Uncle Lack is come over in his own person as little varying from himself as most that have travelled the world as he hath done, hath as high an apprehension of his own prowesse valour activity, ingenuity understanding, wit and memory as any in old or New England can have of him ; he saith he went out with nothing, spent 100^''^ there, and is 100"'' better then when he left New England ; his relations have sent him over to lay in for an heir (to bear the name of John) to possesse the inheri- tance." He was living at Ipswich in 1695, and died in 1697. He left an only daughter and heir Sarah, ^'^ born at Gloucester 2 July, 1668, who married about 1692 Thomas Low of that place. His widow died there 31 January, 1728 or 29, aged 90. IX. John,^ born at Toppesfield in 1628, seems to have been but little in this country, and was in England in 1653 ; he probably died within a few years from that

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X. Robert,® born at Toppesfield in 1629, died there in

1630. XL William,® born at Toppesfield in 1632, lived some time at Wells, now in Maine, from which he was Deputy to the General Court of 3 May, 1676, and in 1677 and 1678 was one of the persons chosen to be asso- ciates with the Magistrates in keeping the County Courts for Yorkshire. Before and after this he lived at Ipswich, where he married Mary, daughter of Jonathan Wade of that town ; he died there 22 May, 1679, leaving four daughters and coheirs.

I. Susanna,^" born at Ipswich 3 January, 1669, married there 18 December, 1690, Joseph Jacob, who died in 1697. II. Dorothy ,10 born at Ipswich 21 October, 1670, married there 19 December, 1695, Cyprian Whipple, who moved to Stonington, Con- necticut, about 1708.

III. Maryji*^ born at Ipswich 6 January, 1674,

married there 10 December, 1697, Joseph Whipple, who died 11 May, 1699 ; she died 20 June, 1703.

IV. Elizabeth,io born at Ipswich 20 July, 1678,

married Allyn.

His widow died probably in 1693 or 94. XIT. Roger,® born at Toppesfield in 1633, died there in 1634.

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By his second wife : —

XIII. Martha,^ born probably at Ipswich, married John Deni-

son, who died 9 January, 1671, leaving children ; she married secondly Kichard Martyn of Portsmouth, New Hampshh-e, and died in February, 1684, having also had children by her second husband, who died 2 April, 1694.

XIV. Ruth,^ born probably at Ipswich, mai'ried in 1659 Rev.

John Emerson of Gloucester, who died 2 December, 1700; she died 23 February, 1702, leaving several children. XV. Samuel,^ born probably at Ipswich, graduated at Har- vard College in 1663, and died unmarried in 1669 ; in his will written 18 December, 1668, being then about to make a voyage for England, he mentioned his sisters Elizabeth Epps, Martha Denison, Ruth Emerson, Mary Duncan, and Priscilla Symonds. XVI. Priscilla,^ borii at Ipswich in 1648, being undoubtedly the child mentioned by Governor Winthrop in a letter to his son of 30 September in that year : " Your sister Symonds is delivered of a daughter ; " married at Topsfield 26 March, 1672, Thomas Baker of that place, who died 'there 18 March, 1718; she died at Ipswich 2 January, 1734. (See p. 13.)

88 Ancestry of Pris cilia Baker.

It is seen that Samuel Symonds had no grandsons of the family name, which of course soon became extinct in this country. It was, however, given in baptism in the families of Eppes, Low, and Baker, perhaps in others ; but I cannot say how long it con- tinued in use. The descendants of Harlakenden and William are, of course, entitled to quarter the arms of Symonds : that is, provided they have arms of their own, with which to quarter them.

WILL OF SAMUEL SYMO^DS.

X SAMUEL SYMONDS of Ipswich in New England gent, -*- being clesireous by setting these things in order now in tyme of my health that I may be the more free (if god please) when death approcheth to leave this world, & to attende the matters of my soule, & the blessed hopes for life to come, doe make, & ordayne this my last will, & testament, in manner & forme following, viz : first I coiiiend my soule into the handes of Jesus Christ my euer blessed Saviour, in hope of a joyful! resurreccon, & meeting of my body at the last day w^^h I leave to be decently Buried (without any vayne pompe) and my funlall expences & debts to be paid, & discharged. Item my will is that all the estate of my deare wife Rebeckah Symonds, be returned to her in kinde, to her owne p|) use to have & to hold the same to her, her heires & assignes for ever : viz : the lande at Salisbury, being six acres of meadow, now in the tenure of Henry Browne Sen) and the seaventy acres of vpland at Salisbury new-towne, now called Amesbury.

90 Ancestry of Priscilla Baker.

Alsoe sixty two pounds twelve shillings of New England mony, which I received of M"" Clarke Ironmonger of Boston, whereof there is now in M'" Russells hande, as Treasurer of this country fifty pounds, and twelve pounds twelve shillings in my owne handes. Also the cattell, for numtj, & kinde, with all other particulars of estate & howshould stuff, & goods, as they are exprest in a note of particulars bearing date the last day of Novemfe Anno Doiii! 1669 vnder mv hande & scale ; alsoe what is impaired, or lost of the very things in the said note of par- ticulars, are to be made good, according to her owne word & Judgment. Item I give to my wife a good breeding mare, or one of my riding horses which she shall chuse. Item I give to my wife two milch yonge cowes. Beside the three expressed in the saide note of particulars. Alsoe I give, or leave to my wife (insteade of Dower) twelve pounds p ann! to be paid to her, or her assignes, out of ray farme called Argilla, during her naturall life, in two severall payments viz : six pounds on the 25*^^ day of ]\Iarch, & the other six pounds on the last day of Septemtj yearly : this payment to be made in wheate 40% mault foure pounds at the price current amongsts the merchants of Ipswich, and the other six pounds to be paid in porke, & Indian corne, accordingly and to be paid where she appoynt in Ips- wich. Alsoe my will & meaning is that my wife shall have the sole vse of part of my dwelling howse at Argilla viz : The east end of it with free liberty of ingresse, egresse, & regresse into the said part of my howse, as alsoe the vse in conion of the

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kitchin or hall, Seller, dayry, back howse, brewhowse or other places to the said howse belonging during her . naturall life. Alsoe my will is that wife shall keepe or have liberty soe to doe, vpon my farme during her naturall life six neate cattell, 10 sheep, & one horse, to be pvided for, all of the cattell both sumer & winter at the care, &j charge of my executor : alsoe my wife shall comand attendance of the servants of my executor for her selfe & creatures, & she may as she please require horse meate, & attendants for her frends, that come to vizitt her ; from tyme to tyme, at the charge of my executor. Alsoe my minde is that all the wood she please to spende shall be brought out of my farme to her dore, ready cutt out for her fire at the charge of my executor from yeare to yeare, Alsoe she shall have liberty to make vse of my Towne howse in coinon with my children, as foriSly. Alsoe my wife shall have liberty to keep what foules she please at my farme of Argilla. Also my wife shall have liberty to take what apples, peares & plumes for her vse, & to take what ground she please, for her gardan. All which liberties & priviledges she shall have during her naturall life, with free liberty of water at the well, & elswhere vpon my farme. Provided allwayse, & it is intended, that vpon my wife her acceptance of these things before mencoed, she shall relinquish the agreement made betweene me & her before marriage, & stande onely to this my last will & testament ; moreover my will is that whatsoever rent, debts, & estate is due to me at the tyme of my death, by reason of marriag w4i

92 Ancestry of Priscilla Baker.

my wife Eebeckah, being due by her right in England shalbe

hers, & at her owne disposing. Provided ahvayse that if my

Avife shall chuse rather to leave Argilla, «& live elsvvhere signify-

ino" her desire soe to Doe vnder her hande in writino^, during;

her absence from Argilla, then she shall have her 12" allowed

in stead of Dower made twenty pounds p anh), to be paid in

manh) & quality as in her foresaide Dower : For which eight

pounds being added to her Dower she shall abate all these

pticulars following viz : The keeping of six neat cattell, teil

sheep, horse, attendance of the servants, requiering of horse '

meat for frends, bringing of wood to the dore, vseing of ground

for gardening and the vse of the bowses, except one roome

which she shall chuse for her owne vse during her naturall life,

with free ingresse, egresse, & regresse. Provided alwayse that

when she thinkes meete to returne, & live at Argilla againe,

she shall have liberty soe to doe, expressing her minde in

wu'itinw Things shalbe as aforesaide for her more comfortable

being there, and the eight pounds added to her dower aforesaid

is to be abated againe. Moreover I binde my farme called Argilla

for the due payments of what is in this my will exprest.

Item. I give to my sonne Harlakinden Symonds all my part of my farme at Lampele River, with the sawing mill there vpon erected with all the vtenses, & app'tunacs there vnto belonging, with all my part of the bowses therevnto apptayning. And alsoe one half of my part of the meadow, &, vpland lately laid out to me, which the hon'^ gen'all Court latly granted to me,

Ancestry of Prlscilla Baker. 93

lying beyond the Bounds of Dover ; & mostly out of the Bounds of Exiter. And alsoe all my liberty in the landes of Dover, which I lately purchassed of Robert Wadley w**^ all its singular priviledges & app^tunacs. To have & to hold the p'misses to him the said Harlakinden during his naturall life, and to the heires of his body lawfully begotten male or female, and for want of such heires, to remayne to the said Harlakinden & his heires forever.

Item I give to my sonne Harlakinden my great silver salt seller, and my best suit of apparrell both linen, & wollen. Item I give to my grandaughter Sarah Symonds all that pcell of laude lying in Coxall, which remayneth of that I had of her father it being three hundred acres be it more, or lesse.

Item I give to my sonne, & daughter Epps, one hundred pounds p[ro]mised before marriage to be paid within one yeare, or two, after ray decease, and if she still desire to have the sute of damask, which was the lady Cheynies her grandmother, let her have it upon apprizment. Item wheras I pmised to give my daughter Martha one hundred pounds, as a porcion vpon marriage with her husbande m"" John Denison, it being desired by the major & herself soe to doe, according to the bonde I en- tered into I doe by this my last will confirme the same. Item I give to my sonne &, daughter Emerson four score pounds haveing given them 20'' at the least soone after her marriage to be paid within one yeare or two after my decease. Item I give

to my daughter Baker, having paid my sonne Baker Thirty

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pounds already Three skore «& ten pounds to be paid within one, or two yeare after my decease. Item I give to my daugh- ter Dunkin * twenty shillings.

Item I give to my daughter Hale | twenty shillings. Item I give to my sonne Chewte \ Twenty shillings. Item I give to the Keverend Mr Cobbett our Pastor forty shillings. Item I give to my wives grandaughter one Cow viz ; Kebeckah Stacy, because of her diligent attendance on me. Item I give to my deare wife my fether bed & boulster which we vsually lye vpon". My mind, & meaning is that the legacies here given to my children shalbe paid not in mony nor according to mony, but in such pay, as they vsually passe, from man, to man, which is called the Currant price. And I doe make, & ordayne my Sonne William Symonds to be my executor of this my last will, & testament. And considering there are many payments to be made, & discharged by my executor, I doe give, & be- queath to him my said sonne William Symonds all my bowses & lands in Ipswich with all my comonages, & priviledges there- vnto belon2:ino;.

Item I give to my sonne William Symonds, (having ingaged to him before the writing of this my will soe much) half of my

* Peter Duncan married Mary Eppes, daughter of his second wife by a former husband.

t Eev. John Hale married Rebecca Byley, daughter of his third wife by her first husband.

\ James Chute probably married Elizabeth Eppes, sister of Mary Duncan.

A ncestry of Prise ilia Baker. 95

meadowe, & vplnnd ground, which lieth beyond my farme at lamperle River, beyond the Bounds of Dover, & mostly out of the bounds of Exiter, together with all the priviledges, & app'tunacs therevnto belonging. Also my will & desire is that my loving frends, Captaine John Appleton, & Levetenant Samuel Appleton, & my sonne John Hale, to be overseers of this my last will & Testament. My request is that the advice, & counsell of my said overseers, be indeavoured to be taken about my executors arduous concernments, that soe love & Con- corde may continew, & be increased amongst those I leave behinde me.

In wittnesse that this is my last will & Testament, I have herevnto sett my hande & scale, the sixteenth day of Februaiy Anno Doin! 1673./

Samuel Symonds.

Subscribed, sealed, delivered,

& published, in the p'sence of vs./

Henry Archer

John Greaues

The "igx marke of

Edward Bragg

g6 . Ancestry of Pris cilia Baker.

A codicil testamentary to the last will & testament of Samuel Symonds gent which will beareth date the sixteeth of February Anno Dom 1673.

Whereas in that my will I bequeathed to my sonne Harla- kinden Symonds all my part of my farme at Lamperele River with the Sawinge Mill therevpon erected with all the vtenses & app^'timacs therevnto belonging, with all my part of the howses therevnto belonging, and alsoe one half of all my part of the meadow & vpland lately laid out to me which the hon*^ Gen''all Court lastly granted to me, lyinge beyonnd the Bounds of Dover & mostly beyonnd the Bounds of Exiter ; and alsoe all my liberty in the lands of Dover, which I lately purchassed of Robert Wadley with all its singular priviledges & appur- tinances. To have & to hold the p'^misses to him the said Harlakinden during his naturall life, and to the heires of his body lawfully begotten, male or female and for want of such heires to remayne to the saide Harlakinden & his heires for ever : Now therefore I doe hereby disanull & revoke all this my gift to my sonne Harlakinden as for terme of his naturall life and doe give him all the p'^misses to have & to hold the same together with all & singular its apptunacs to him the said Harla- kinden Symonds & his heires & assignes for ever. Alsoe where- as I bequeathed in my will to my sonne Harlakin Symonds my fourth part of the sawing mill at Lampeele River with all its priviledges & apptunacs the pvidence of god hath soe ordered it that the mill itself hath bene fired & wholly ruined by the

Ancestry of Priscilla Baker. 97

enymy and soe made vnprofittable for the p'sent ; and consider- ing that my sonne William Symonds who is my executor is in my debt for rent for my said mill more then the building & finishing the fourth part of the said mill will cost, my wall is that when the rest of the owners doe rebuild & finish the saide mill that then this my fourth part soe bequeathed be alsoe carried on to the finishing of the same at the onely cost & charges of my sonne William Symonds for the onely vse of my Sonne Harlakinden Symonds. Alsoe considering what lands I formerly have given to my sonne, Harlakinden, and that I highly esteeme this at Lampeele River. My advice & desire now is that he doth not sell, or putt it away, or any part of it vnlesse extreame necessity compell and that he doth what he doth in reference to the mill &c with very good advice And though I have gained very little by it, yet if he can waite, & pcure honest dealing workmen, he will finde sufficient recompence for his waiting, for there is store of timber, with that which is added to it from Dover, & the meadow &c the Court gave me vp into the country. In wittnesse whereof I have herevnto sett my hande & scale the thirteenth day of January 1676.

Samuel Symonds. Subscribed, Sealed, delivered, & published in the p'"sence of vs./

William Goodhue Sen the mark of

William W. Smyth Jufi)

98 Ancestry of Priscilla Baker,

A codicile testamentary which is added to the codicile bearing date the 13"^ day of february 1676, which refereth to my last will & Testament dated 16"^ of February 1673.

I Samuel Symonds being in good health of body cS; of good vnderstanding (blessed be god) thought good to add by this codicile annexed to the former bearing date as above. I say some consideracons moving me therevnto I give to my sonne Harlakinden five pounds (in coinon pay) p anfi) during his naturall life, to be paide by my executor : Provided that if in the life tyme of my sonne Harlakinden my loving brother M'' Richard Fitts Symonds decease in the interim, and be Bountifull to my sonne Harlakinden (which I beleive he will) and bequeath to liim more then the value of five pounds 43 anh) ; Then my will & minde is, that this five pounds shall cease : and that my executor thenceforth be wholly free from the payment thereof. In wittnesse whereof I have herevnto sett my hande & Seale dated November the eigth day 1677.

Samuel Symonds.

Subscribed sealed & delivered, & published in the p'sence of vs

John Wood

John Woodin

Martha Graves.

Ancestry of Priscilla Bake?. 99

This third coclicill testamentary I Samuell Symonds doe now add to the former, which refereth to my will dated 16"' day of February 167o. The occasion & reason of my soe doeing is because I mistooke in my date of my last codicill viz : I dated it 13"^ day of February 1676, which should have bene January 1676. Alsoe whereas I have mentioned in my will 100'' to my daughter jMartha Its onely named I doe not thereby give it, for I have given my bond for it, soe that mention is voide. The reason why I make these codicills is to spare writinge being longe.

Dated January 8"> 1677.

Samuel Symonds.

Sealed, subscribed &, deliud in the p''sence of vs

The iiilk of + Edward Brag Timothy' brag.

Proved at Ipswich 6 November 1678.

AGREEMENT OF SYMONDS FAMILY.

Articles of Agreement Indented made and agreed upon this Aprill 10 : Anno Domj : 1694. Between Harlackinden Symonds of Ipswich in New England ; John Emerson & his Avife Ruth Emerson of Glocester in New England : Thomas Baker & his wife Priscilla Baker of Topsfield in New England, Daniel Epes

loo Ancestry of Priscilla Baker,

of Salem & Simond Epes of Ipswich in New England on the one part : and Joseph Jacob and his wife Susannah Jacob Dorothy Symonds Colonel Wade as Guardian to Mary & Elizabeth Symonds, all of Ipswich in New England, aforesaid, on the other part w^itnesseth That all we whose names are aboue mentioned do firmly Couenant promise to stand to the following Articles

Imp''^ That Rebekah Symonds of Ipswich in New England Relict widow of Sam Symonds deceased Shall have all things performed & made good to her according to ye will of said Samuel Symonds by the above Said parties (viz.) half by the one party <fe half by the other party above named. That all the Land Sould in Argilla (viz) Thirty and five acres of upland to Brands; & Eio-ht acres of meadow Sould to Brao^w and Ei^ht Acres of vpland Sould to John Emerson and four acres of vpland Sould to Thomas Baker : Towards paying Legacies by Richard INIartin Daniel Epes & Harlackinden Symonds as ad- ministrators Shall Stand good & be accounted vallid and also a parcell of marsh of about fourteen or fiueteen ace" Bounded by marsh of Simonds Epes the Rings & Avells : be the same more or less which was ordered & Sett out by the admin- istrators aboue Said for payment of Legacies Shall Stand good & be accounted vallid & also all the Stock w*^'^ was upon the farme Together with all vtensills as Clock Copper cfec : which ware ordered by the said Administrators for the payment of Legacies Shall Stand good and be accounted vallid : We also

Ancestiy of Priscilla Baker. loi

Covenant & afjree : that what Estate WilHam Shnonds de- ceased hath disposed of to his own vse formerly which once belonged to the Estate of Sam" Simonds Esq' Deceased shall stand orood & he accounted vallid and likewise that which was his Interest in Lamper Eele River. Wee the aboue sd parties do also Couenant & agree that the whole remaining part of the farme Called Argilla both upland & meadow with houses fences orchards & all previledges & appurtinances Shall be Equally divided into Two Equal Shares between the above sd parties (viz) the moiety or one half to be to the proper vse and beuifit of the one party (viz) Harlackinden Simonds John Emerson & Euth his wdfe Thomas Baker cfe Priscilla his wife Daniel & Simond Epes Richard Martins Children which he had by his Second wife Martha & her other Children That is to Say to be Equally divided into Six Shares whereof Harlackinden Simonds is to have two Shares & five pounds in pay p annu during life to be well & truly paid by the above said parties (viz) fifty Shillings p annm by the one party and fivety Shil- lings J) annum by the other party. The other half of Said farme to be to the proper vse & benifit of the other party (viz) Joseph Jacob & his wife Susanna Dorothy Simonds Mary Simonds & Elizabeth Simonds in Equal Shares To have & to hold the aboue named parts or halfs of said farme Called Argilla to them the aboue named partise (viz) Harlackinden Simonds John Emerson & his wife Ruth : Thomas Baker «& his wife priscilla Daniel & Simond Epes Richard Martins children

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I02 Ancestry of Priscilla Baker.

by his wife Martha & lier other Children and Joseph Jacob w*'^ his Avife Susanna, Dorothy Simonds INIary Simonds & EHzabeth Simonds to them their heires Executors, adm's & Assignes To the Sole vse benifit & behoof of them their heires & assignes for Euer. Unto tlie true performance of all and Singuler the premises, AVe the above sd parties, do bind our Selves our heirs Execu'"s & Adult's, in the penall Sum of one Thousand pounds Lawfull money of new England to be paid by the defectiue party. In Witness whcrof we have here vnto Set our hands & Seals the day & year first above written : Inter- changeably

Haklackindex SiaioxDS & a Seal Signed Sealed & JoHX Emeeson & a Seal

Delivered In pres- Euth Emerson & a Seal

ence of vs "i Thomas Baker & a Seal

Samuel Appleton ^\\\\^ Ppjscilla Bakee & a Seal John Newman Daniel Epes & a Seal

Thomas Low\ Simond Epes & a Seal

Harlackinden Simonds, John Emerson : Ruth Emerson :

Thomas Baker : Daniel Epes and Symonds Epes, appeared

personally before me the Subscriber, one of the Council &

Justice of the peace in the province of the Massachusetts Bay

& acknowledged this Instrument both Sides of it to be their

act & deed this June 12"^ 1694.

Barth" Gedney

Judge, of the probate of loills ^~c " for the County of Essex.

PEDIGREE OF HARLAKENDEX.

ANCESTRY OF DOROTHY, FIRST WIFE OF SAMUEL SYMONDS. Arms. — Azure, a fess Ermine between three lion's lieads erased Or.

William Harlakenden =

William Harlakenden =

Thomas Harlakenden =

I William Harlakenden of Woodchurcli, livinsc 1286 =

John Harlakenden of Woodchurch, living 1326 :

Thomas Harlakenden of Woodchurch, living 1408:

Moyses Harlakenden of Woodchurch == Petronella, dau. of Sir Henry Hardres.

William Harlakenden= John Harlakenden = Joane, daughter and heir of

of Woodchurch, of Warehorn,

d. 1481. Kent.

Thomas Willes of Alkinden, Kent.

John Harlakenden = Joane, daughter of

of Warehorn.

Philliiies of Tenterden.

Thomas Harlakenden = Mary, daughter and heir of

of Warehorn.

Richard Londenoys of Bread, Sussex.

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John William Elizabeth, dau. of= Roger Harlakenden=EIizabeth Blechenden.

d. 1606. Thomas Hardres of Hardres.

of Kenardington, =Jane, daughter of Sir Kent, and of Earl's Thomas Josceline. Colne, Essex. =Aune Barnard,

d. 1603.

Roger Richard Dorothy, dau. of = Thomas Harlakenden = Jane, dau. of Ed-

d. 1583. d. 1631. John Cheney of Drayton, Buck- inghamshire.

of Earl's Colne. ward Hubert, d. 1648. =Anne Blechenden. = Sarah .

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Roger William Dorothy bap. at Anne Agnes jSIabell Katharine

E. C. 12 Dec. Thomas Katharine Richard William 1596, m. Sam- uel Symonds at Great Yeldham 2 April, 1617, bur. at Toppesfield 3 August, 1636.

FAMILY OF READ. -

LITTLE attention has yet been paid to the his- tory of this family, though many persons in ^ew England are directly descended from Edmund Read of Wickford in Essex. 'No account of any fulness or value can anywhere be read. The docu- ments here printed, and the facts here recorded, will certainly be new to most persons. The will of Ed- mund Read has been printed in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society for 1862; and the editors of the volume, though having all the information then within their reach in this country, were hardly able to add any biographical notes to the document. The short pedigree on the next page may be found in MS. Harleian, 1429, in the British Museum.

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Ancestry of Pr is cilia Baker.

Allan Read Deputy of the ward of Faringdon without 1670. an Atcht ma-de.

Arms, — Azure, a griffin segreant Or, a canton of the sec- ond, quartering Allen, Brett, , Gedding, Aspall, Petrhys,

Watkins, Watervile, Peverell.

William Read of Wigford=Anne, daughter & heir of

m Essex.

Thomas Alleyn.

I Aleyn Reade=Katherine,

dau. of Rich- ard Cutbert of Lond.

only Sonne, ob. 16—, buryed at Bishop-star- ford.

Alleyn Read

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Jane & Elizabeth both dyed mayds, & ly buryed in St. Anne's Chappell, in St. Dunstans, west. Lond.

Anne Reade, twice marr. 1. to Henry Clarke ; 2i.y to Edward Hickes, D": of divinity.

In the "History a:n^d TopoGRAPHr of the Coun- ty OF Essex," by Thomas Wright, we read, under the parish of Birchanger, —

"William Reade, of this parish, and Ann his wife, sole daughter and heir of Thomas Aleyn, of Branghen, in Hertford- shire, gentleman, by Jane his wife, one of the daughters of Thomas Laventhorp, of Albury Hall, in the said county, esquire. She died, 14th Nov. 1639. He, the 3d April, 1659. This monument was erected by their only son, Aleyn Reade." Arms : A griffin segreant ... a canton . . . impaling per bend rompu ... six martlets.

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*

It seems worth while to print the following facts in addition to the pedigree. Elizabeth, widow of Ed- mund Kead, who died in 1623, married secondly the famous Kev. Hugh Peter. The AYinthrop Family Papers contain indirect evidence of this, but the most certain proof is in a volume with this title:

" ENGLANDS SHAME : OR THE UIS^MASKES^G OF A

Politick Atheist: Being a Full and Faithful Re- lation of the Life and Death of that Grand Im- postor HUGH PETERS. Wherein is set forth his whole Comportment, Policies, and Principles exer- cised from the Ingress, in the Progress, and to the Egress of his Unhappy Life. By William Yo^ge, Dr. Med." The volume is an atrocious libel. Peters, being " setled in a Free School of 24Z. ]}er annum^'' at or near Maiden in Essex, " feigns himself a Suitor, or rather a politick Servant to one Mistris B^ead a Widow woman dwelling neer unto him," and ac- cordino' to Dr. Yon^, e obtained her hand and fortune by a vile stratagem. The marriage probably took place about 1625, and Mrs. Peter died in England about 1637. I have no certain account of her paren- tage, but think she was daughter of Thomas Cooke of Pebmarsh, Essex.

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William Read, eldest son of Edmniid, lived at Birchanger in Essex, and died in 1659. His will is valuable as mentioning "my sister Lake, my sister Symonds, my sister Winthropp."

Samuel Read, second son of Edmund, was a physician, and in 1643 was of Bishop's-Stortford in Hertfordshire. He was undoubtedly dead in 1659, not being named in his brother William's will.

Thomas Read, third son of Edmund, came to IS'ew England, and was admitted Freeman of the Colony of Massachusetts 1 April, 1631. He settled at Salem, and in March, 1637, was appointed Ensign of the watch for that town ; in 1617 he was called Captain. 16 February, 1636, the town granted him a farm of three hundred acres north-west northerly from Salem, the bounds of Avhich were settled 28 February, 1662. He seems not to have passed much time in this coun- try, and finally returned to England, to take an active part in the great rebellion. He was a Colonel in the parliamentary army, and for some time was governor of Stirling Castle. He has been thought to have taken part with General Monk in the restoration of Charles II.; and this is possible, though in October,

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1661, he was one of several officers " comitted close prissoners to the Gatehouse, Westmy, by .expresse warants sygned by his Ma^'*^'^ principall Secretary of State." Thomas Read married Priscilla, daughter of John Banks of Maidstone, Kent, and of London, who died in 1642. They had six children, but I only know the names of four; three of them died young. Thomas Read died in 1662. His son Samuel, a mer- chant of London, was living in 1701.

Margaret Read, eldest daughter of Edmund, mar- ried John Lake, of what family I do not know; he was certainly not brother of Sir Edward Lake and of Thomas Lake of Boston, Mass., for that John was also of Boston, where he died in 1677. They had three children, John and Anna, mentioned in the will of their grandfather Read, and Martha, born later. Mrs. Margaret Lake came to ^ew England, and lived for some time at ]^^ew London, Conn., afterwards at Ipswich, where she died in 1672. Her husband was living in 1657, but I know not how much later. Of her son John I know nothing ; her daughter Anna, called here Hannah, married John Grallup, of !N^ew London and Stonington, a Captain, who was killed in the ^arragansett swamp fight 19 December,

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1675, leaving several children ; Martha married 15 N^ovember, 1647, Thomas Harris of Ij^swich, who died in 1687, also leaving several children.

Martha Read, second daughter of Edmnnd, married Daniel Eppes of Kent, in which county the name often occurs. They had three children, Daniel and Elizabeth, mentioned in the will of their grandfather Read, and Mary, born later. Her husband died with- in a few years after 1623, and she married about 1637 Samuel Symonds, as related on page 62. JN^ear the same time she came to this country. She bore her second husband certainly four children, as before enumerated, and died in 1662. Her son Daniel Eppes married 20 May, 1614, his step-sister Eliz- abeth Symonds, and died 8 January, 1693, leaving several children. Her daughter Elizabeth EjDpes be- came, I presume, wife of James Chute of Ipswich ; he is called son by Samuel Symonds, and in 1653 James and Elizabeth Chewte were witnesses to the will of Samuel Symonds, Jr. Her daughter Mary Eppes married about 1654 Peter Duncan of Glouces- ter, and died there 21 July, 1692, leaving several children ; her husband died 6 May, 1716, aged eighty-six.

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Elizabeth Read, third daughter of Edmund, born at Wickford in 1614, married about 1635 John Win- throp, Jr., Governor of Connecticut, and had several children before her death, 21: N^ovember, 1672. He died 5 April, 1676.

DOCUMENTS.

EXTRACTS FROM THE REGISTER OF WICKFORD, ESSEX.

Ano 1539(- Ano 1553.

Ano 1563.

Ano 1564.

Ano 1566 (-

Ano 1568.

Ano 1571 (-

Ano 1573.

Alio 1575 (-

40). AYilliam Reade was babtysed marche j^ 11"' Roger Reade the sonne of Roger Reade was bab- tysed October y" 2"? Edmund Reade sonne to Willia Reade was bab- tysed INlay y^ 23"3 Willia Reade sonne to Willia Reade was babtysed July y« 22"3 -7). Margarett Reade daughter of Willia Reade was babtysed Jaiiuary y'^ 9*'.' Willia Reade sonne of Willia Reade was babtysed May y'^ 24".' -2). Mary Reade the daughter of Willia Reade was babtysed Jan: y*^ 2".' Richard Reade sonne of Willia Reade was bab- ■ tysed July y" 24".' •6 ) . John Reade sonne of AVillia Reade was bab- tysed January y*^ 25".'

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Aiio 1582 (-3). Agnes Reade daughter of Roger Reade was

babtysed February y'' 25*^ Ano 1595. Edmund Reade sonne of Edmund Reade was

babtysed november y° 6*'.' 1604. Edmund Reade the sonne of Edmund Reade was

babtysed July the 22"? 1614. Elizabeth Read dauohter of m' Edmund Read was baptised novemb. 27. Alio 1586 (-7), Willia Hurt & ^Margaret Reade were married

February y® 15'? Ano 1592. Edmund Reade & Thomasin Wallenoer were mar-

ried november y*^ 14"3 1616. Arthure Helhouse & Marye Read widdow were marryed August the 7"? Alio 1558. Roger Reade was buryed marche y® 17'? ,, ,, John Reade was buryed november y'^ 27'? Alio 1571. Willia Reade was buryed marche y*^ 3'? Alio 1577. Martha Reade was buryed december y® 16'? Ano 1583. Agnes Reade was buryed August y** 4'? Ano 1592. Thomasin Reade was buryed decembr y® 7'? 1603. Willia Reade was buryed July y*^ 19'^ 1613. Edmunde Read the sonne of Edmund Read was buryed Noveratt: 9. M^ Edmonde Read was buried the firste of December Anno

1623. Widdo Read was hurried July the 26, 1660.

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WILLS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

WILLIAM BEAD.

In the name of God Amen the yere of owre Lord MCCCCCXXXIIIJ the xvj day of may I Wyllya Rede of Wy-kford In the cowntie off Essex yoman make my testament in maner and Forme Folowing. fyrst I beqweth my sowle to almyghty God to owre lady saynt mare and to all the holy company of heven and my body to be buryed in the chyrch or chyrcheyarde of Wykford.

E. I beqweth to tlie hygh awt thythys neclygently for goten XX ^

If. I beqweth to the same chyrch iij ^ iiij '?

It. I beqweth to a pryst to syng for my sowle and all crysten sowls the space of halfe a yer In the parrishe chyrch of Wykford iij ^' vj ^ viij ?

K. I beqweth to Roger Stonard my dogM son, a cowe and iiij schepe.

IL I beqweth to elsabeth hys sys?, a cowe and iiij schepe.

I£. I beqweth mergret Bundoke my dog£ doght on cowe and iiij schepe.

The resydewe of all my gods not beqwethyd I gyffe to Roger my sii the woche Roger I make myne executure.

Wyttnes here of S^ Nawffi Byrche curat Ihoil Peke w* o^" mower.

Proved at Chelmsford 26 June 1534.

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ROGEK READ.

In the Name of God Amen the x*'^ daye of Decemblr in the

yere of o'' Lord God 1557" etc. I Koger Rede of Wyckford

etc. make this my last will and testament etc. First I be-

quethe my soull to allmyghty God etc. And my bodye to be

bmyed etc. Also I geve and bequethe unto Elizsibethe my

wyf and to her assygnes xlvj ^' xiij ^ iiij '^ of good and Lawfull

money of England. Also I geve unto Elizabethe my Avif two

Kyne a blacke and a branded. Also I geve unto Elizabethe my

wif all such houshold [stuff] and plate as she had when and

at such tyme as we were maryed uppon condycion hereafter

followeyng That is to saye I will that Elizabethe my wyf shall

Eeleasse and yeld up unto John and Williii Reade my sones and

to their heires accordynge to my wall w"^in one monethe next

after my deceasse all that her right tytill and intrest of dowrye

of all those my Tenements and Lands which Tenements and

Lands I w^as Seased of at the daye and tyme of 0^' Spousage.

Also I wall that Elizabethe my Avif shall dely? or cause to be

dely^ed A certayne bill of conveyance made betwene me and

my waf before o"" Spowsage And in case that Elizabethe my

wyf doe Refuse to yelde up and Release all her Right tytill and

intrest of Dowrye of all my tenements and Lands as before

is sayd as also to delyver or cause to be dely?ed unto my

Execut" the byll Or elles to make a suffycyent quyttance and

dyscharge for the said byll or any thyng therein contayned,

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Then I will that Elizabethe my wyf shall have no pte of the Legacyes to her here in my will before bequethed. Also I geve unto the sayde Elizabethe xxvj ** viij '' for a bed and the new Cupbord in the ploV Also I will that my ExecuE hereafter named shall paye or cause to be payed unto the saide Elizabethe my wyf w*'^ in one moneth next after my deceasse xxvj " xiij ^ iiij '^ of the foresaid Legacye. Also I will that Elizabethe my wyf shall make releasse of all her Right tytill &, Intrest of her dowrye and of the bill of coveniits betwene us made at the daye of o'" Spowsage as before is said. And in so doynge the other xx" to be payd to lier w*''in one yere and a half next after my decease. Also I will that Elizabethe my wyf and Roger my sone shalbe here in the house w"^ my ij Soiies John and Will- yam untill my monethes daye. And furthermore I will my Execut shall keape Roger my soiie at there charges w*'' suffy- cyent apparrell and in otherwyse. Also I geve unto Roger my sone att the age of xxj *' yeres xl '' of good and Lawfull money of England to be payd by the hands of myne Execut or there assygnes. Also I will that my said Executors or there as- sygneys shall bye the said Roger a fetherbed and all thyngs to yt belongyng or els xP for the bed. Also I geve and bequethe to Byttrys Hastier xx ^ and a petycoote to be payde to her w^^in one yere next after my decease. Item I geve and bequethe to Avys Hastier xx^ and iiij ° Ewe shepe To be payde by the hands of my ExecuE or there assygnes to her w'^in ij" yeres next after my deceass. Also I geve and bequethe to Agnys my doughter

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the wyf of Henry Dowe xxvj® and viij? And that yt be payde ymedyatlye after my decease by the hands of myne Exec. Also I geve unto John Rede my soiie all my Tenements & lands called greate Amys and litill Amys w^'' all thapp'tenrics therto belongyng, to hyni and to his heh'es and assygnys for ever, lyinge and beyng Av"'in the pyshe of Wyckford. Also I geve unto Williii Rede my sone and to the heires of his bodye lawfully begotten a certeyne Tent called felds and all the lands w*'^ thapp'teniics thereto belongyng. And a certayne pcell of land called Helmans croft lyinge and beynge in the pyshe of Wydford. Also I will that yf God call williii my sone to his incye w*'^ owt yssew of his bodye lawfully begotten Then I will his legacye of land remayne to Roger my soiie and to his heires of his bodye lawfully begotten. The Resydew of all my goods unbequethed w**^ a leasse of a pece of Land called Rosses, my debtes beyng payde my bodye honestly buryed my funeralles done and this my present testament beyng pformed and fullfilled I geve them wholy to John Rede and Williu Rede my Soiies j)te and parte lyke which John Rede and Williii I constitute ordeyne and make my Executors of this my present testament and last will.

In wytnes unto this my present testament and last will I have made my marke w*'' myne owne hand. Wytnes hereunto AYillfii Stamer, Thomas Deryvall, Edward Stamer and others.

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WILLIAM K E A D.

In the name of God Amen The iij*'^ day of July in the yeare of our Lord God 1603, I William Reade of Wickford in the county of Essex yeoman (beinge in perfect mynd & memory lawde & prayse therefore moste hartely I give unto God) doe ordayne make and constitute this my p''sent testament contayn- ing therein my last will in manner and forme followinge that is to saye fyrst and principally I give and bequeathe my sowle to Allmighty God my Maker Redeemer «& Saviour Jesus Christe by whose death and passion I trust to be saved and by no other meanes and my body to be buryed in the Church of Wickford whensoever the same shall fortune to departe this lyfe.

IL I give and bequeathe to the poore of Wickford Three powndes to be payd to them yearely xx ? The first xx ? to be payd p^'sently after my death.

IL I give to the jsoore of Rayley xx ?

H. I give to the poore of Rawreth xx ?

I£. I give to the poore of Nevingdon xx?

IL I give to the poore of Runwell xx ?

IL I give and bequeath to my cozen Roger Reade the some of Eight pownds to be payd unto him by forty shyllinges a yeare.

IL I give to every one of my howsehold servants x? a piece.

IL I give and bequeath to Mary my welbeloved wyfe One hundred powndes of good and lawfull money of England to be

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payd unto lier within halfe a yeare after my decease upon this condicion hereafter mentioned that is to say that she the sayd Mary shall accept and take twenty powndes a yeare of my Sonne Edmund Reade his heyres or assignes for her dowrye or third w'^'^ she is to have out of my landes And if that the sayd Mary my wyfe do refuse to yeeld up and release all her right title and interest of dowrye or third of all my sayd landes (my sayd Sonne beinge bownde to pay her quarterly that is to say v ^' every quarter so long as she shall live) then my will and mean- inge is that jNIary my wyfe shall not have any part of this legacye of One hundred powndes to her given by my wall before bequeathed.

It. I give and bequeath to the sayd Mary my wyfe all such household stufFe and plate as she had when and at such tyme as we were marryed except suche howsehold as she hath given since to her children or is otherwise worne altered and decayed ■\vcii i^^y ^yill and meaninge is that my executour hereafter men- tioned shall not be charged withall.

K. I give and bequeath to the said Mary my lovinge wyfe sixe Kyne to be delivered by my executour out of my stocke heere in Wickford within one moneth after my decease.

K. I give and bequeath to my sayd wyfe my baye trottinge Geldinge.

IL My mynd and wyll is that my sayd wyfe shall have her dwellinge & entertaynment in all honest and comely manner for herself & her mayde in my nowe dwellinge howse for the

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terme of one Avliole yeare next after my decease yf she will so longe there continue & abyde.

K. I give and bequeath to my sonne John Reade three hundred pownds of lawfull Englishe money to be payd within one veare after my decease. ..

■ *

IL I give and bequeath to my brother iSdmund Churche the some of vj'^ xiij ^ iiij'' to be payd unto him within one quar- ter of a yeare after my decease.

IL I give and bequeath to my sonne Edmund Reade and to the heyres of his body lawfully begotten all my landes and tenements whatsoever and for want of suche heyres my will and meaninge is that all the sayd landes and tenements shall de- scend and come to my sonne John Reade before mentioned & to his heyres for ever.

IL I give and bequeath to my sayd sonne Edmund my lease of Fryearne* and the lease w*^'^ I bought of my brother Edmund Church.

The residue of all my goodes and chattells whatsoever unbe- queathed my funerall charges discharged and this my p'sent testament and last will perfourmed and fullfylled I give and bequeath to my sayd sonne Edmund whome I doe institute ordayne and make my sole executour of this my present testa- ment and last will and I doe appoynt my cozen Edmund Thorneton and my cozen Richard Dowe to be myne overseers

* A manor in Newenden parish, bordering Wickford.

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and I doe give to either of them xx* a piece to make them a ringe in recompence of there paynes & token of my good will.

In wittnesse whereof unto this my p'sent testament and last will I have sett to my hand and seale the day and yeare above wrytten.

The marke of X the sayd William Reade the testator & his seale.

Sealed subscribed ratified acknowledged & delivered by the sayd William Reade the testator for his last wyll & testament in the p''sence of us William Harries & Thomas Meredythe.

EDMUND READ*

In y*" name of God Amen, y^ 20*'^ day® of November in y*^ yeare of our Lord one thousand Six hundred and [twenty] thre I Edmand Reade &c.

Item, I give & bequeth unto y*' Poore of Wickford twenty shillings of Lawfull english mony to be payde to y™ by my Execute'"^ with in one Month next after my dicease : Item, I give & bequeth unto John Weald my Servant five pounds of

* This Will, found among the Winthrop Family Papers, has been printed in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. A few misprints there seen are corrected here from the manuscript.

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Lawfull english mony to be Payde to him within one yeare after my dicease : Item, I give & bequeth unto every one of my other Servants two shillings a Peece to Be payde to y™ within one Month after my dicease : Item, I give & bequeth unto William Reade my soil & to my daughter Reade forty shil- lings apeece to Bye y"" Rings : Item, I give & bequeth unto Elizabeth my Loving Wife all those Leases which I have of M^ Edward Syliarde & M^ George White ; and allsoe y" Mes- sages and Tenaments or Lands theireunto belonging which I lately Purchased of M^ Cockerum now in y*^ Teno' & occupation of John Tyle or his assignes for »& during y® Tearme of her Naturall Life ; and after her dicease, I give & bequeath all y'' sd Leases Messages or Teniments and y'' lands above spesi- fyed unto William Reade my soil upon y*^ Condition y* he y*^ sd William my son. shall with in forty dayes next after my deth enter into bond to Elizabeth my sd Loving Wife in y*^ full soin of 400 ^ y* he y*^ sd William my son shall paye unto my son Thomas Reade within fourescore dayes after y° dicease of my sd Loving Wife, if he y*^ sd Thomas be y" Living or otherwise to his Children if he have any then Living y*^ full suiii of 240 ^ of Lawfull english mony and if my sd soil William shall Re- fuse to enter into Bond to my sd Loving Wife as aforesaide • y** my minde and Will is y* my sd soS Thomas Reade shall Presantly after y'' dicease of my sd Loving Wife, enter into y** aforesd leases & Lands ; and allsoe into y*^ aforesd Messages or Teniments with y® apertinances and Lands theireunto be-

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longing, to have and enjoye to him y^ sd Thomas Reade or y*^ eyres of his Body Lawfully begotten and for Want of such Issue y" to Remayne to my soil AVilliam Reade and his Eyres for ever: Item, I give & bequeth unto Samuell my second soil & to y*' eyres of his body Lawfully begotten ; y* my Mes- sage or Teniment with y° appertinances Sc Lands theireunto belonging, Called or Knowne by y° name of Sopers or by what soever Name or names y*" same be Calld or Knowne ; now in y*^ Teno^" & occupation of George Ballard or his assignes ; and if y'^ sd Samuell my soil shall fortune to depart y** life with out Eyres of his body lawfully begotten ; y" my minde and AYIll is y* Thomas my aforesd soil shall enter into y° Messages & Lands aforesd to have and enjoye y™ to him or y® eyres of his Body lawfully begotten ; and for Want of such Issue unto William Reade my sd soil and to his eyres for ever : Provided allwayes y* if y°' sd Message or Teniment and lands theireunto belonging, Called Sopers herein and hereby formerly given & bequethed unto Samuell my soil shall liapen to Com to William my soil in Maner & forme as aforesaide ; y" I Will y' my sd soil William shall with in one Month y" next enter into bond to my Executo^" herein and hereby nominated (If she be y" Living) or otherwise to y^ overseeres of this my last Will & Testiment herein Nominated in y'^ Penall soiu of 600 ! with Condition to paye 300 ' of LawfuU english niony in maner & forme follow- ing : (that is to saye) unto John Lake and Anna Lake two of my Grand Children : 50 ^ apeece : & to Daniell Epps & Eliza-

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beth Epps two other of my Grand Children : 50 a peece and to Elizabeth my Daughter : 100 ' of lawfull english mony within one yeare next after y*^ sd Message or Teniment &, ^^ lands theireunto belonging Called Soppers, shall hapen to Com to ray sd son William in Maner & forme as aforesaide and if my sd soil William shall Refuse to enter bond in Maner & forme as is aforesaide then I will y' all those Messages lands & teniments Called Sopers shall be and Remayne unto my aforesaide Grand Chilldren, and to y^ Residue of my Grand Children of all my Daughters, and to Elizabeth my youngest Daughter equally to be divided aiuongst y™ and if my sd Grand Children shall hapen to dye before the sd Legasye shall be due, y° my minde & Will is y* y'' saide Legasye shall Ineur to my two Daughters y'' Mothers, and Provided allsoe y* if Samuell my son hapen to depart this life with°"* Issue of his body lawfully begotten, and that Thomas my soil enjoye y^ sd lands & teniments aforesd and to him in and by this my last Will & testiment bequethed ; then my minde and will is that those leases lands and Messages with y® lands theireunto belonging which is before given unto my saide son Thomas shall Presently Ineur and Com to my saide soil William Reade and to his eyres for ever without pay- ing y® foresaide soin of 240 ^ unto Thomas Reade my soil or any part theireof in maner and forme as is aforesaide. Item, I give & bequeth unto my saide Loving Wife y® lease of Frearne and all y® time and terme to Come and unexpired for and towards y'' Mayntenance and education and bringing up of Thomas

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Reade my third sou : Item, I give and bequeth unto my son in Law John Lake and to my Daughter Margrett Lake, forty shillings apeece to make y™ Rings and to John Lake and Anna Lake theire Children 20*'^ apeece : Item, I give and bequeth unto Daniell Epps & Martha Epps my Daughter 40 ^'' apeece to make y™ Rings & to Elizabeth Epps and Daniell Epps theire Children 20^'^ apeece:* Item, I give and bequeth unto Elizabeth my Daughter 200 ' of Lawfull inony of england to be payde unto her at her full age of 20 yeares. Item, I give & bequeath unto my Brother John Reade y° sufii of five pounds to be payde to him within one whole yeare next after my Dicease : Item, I give and bequeath unto my sofi William my young graye Guilding now in y^ Custodye of my Kinsman John Reade : all ye Residue of my Goods Chattells and Mooveables Avhat soever, I give and bequeath unto Elizabeth my said Loving Wife, who I make and ordayne my sole execu- trix of this my last Will & testiment ; and I doe nominate and appoynt James Lawrence of Cliffords Inn Gentillman and John Reade of Pitsaye my Kinsman overseers of this my last Will and testiment, and doe hereby give y" thre pownd six shillings cfe aight pence apeece to be payde to y'^^ by my saide executrix Intreating y" to be ayding and assisting my sd loving Wife to se this my last Will and testiment duly and truly exe- cuted & performed according to my Intent and true meaning herein and hereby set downe & declared. In Witness whereof, I the saide Edmand Reade, have set my hand to every severall

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lease and iny scale to y'" all fixed together, and doe dellvei' y*^

same in to y'' hands of my Loving Wife my saide executrix this

20* daye of November in the 21^* yeare of y® Kings Majestyes

Raigne that now is and in anno Domini 1623.

Edmand Eeade.

Sealed &. delivered in y*^ Presence of Edmand Lamb : Ed- ward Epps.

Rob* Marrable his Marke he is M'' Thomas Lakes Mail.

Vera Copia From Coll. Reade.

WILLIAM READE.

In the name of God Amen I AVilliam Reade of Birchanger in the county of Essex Gentleman being of perfect minde and memory thankes be to ray God therefore but weake of body and Considering my uncertaine Estate and Condition in this World Doe now this Thirty day of March In the yeare of our Lord God One Thousand six hundred Fifty and nyne make this my last Will and Testament in manner following. First I bequeath my soule to God who gave it assuredly belei^■ing to be saved by the meritts pretious death passion and Resurrection of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ only. Then I bequeath my body to the Earth in sure and certaine hope of Resurrection to eternall

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life through the power & vertue of ray Redeemer and only Saviour Jesus Christ to be decently buried neare the body of my deare wife formerly buried in the Chancell of Birchanger as my Executor shall thinke fitt and convenient. Imprimis I make ray loving Sonne Alleyn Read my sole Executor of this my last Will and testament & doe give him all my Lands free and Coppy lying and being in the parish of Birchanger in the county of Essex to him & to his heires for ever he discharging my Funerall expences & all such Legacies as I shall here give &j expresse. Item I give unto my daughter Ann Clarke Widowe Two hundred pounds of good and currant money of England deducting thence only such necessary Charges as my Sonne Alleyne Read hath been putt to or shall be putt to in the Recoverie and well and surely setling of her joynture. My will herein is further that if ray daughter Ann Clarke marrie againe that she shall make good and convey in writing to my Grandchild Elizabeth Clarke her daughter one hundred pounds of the former suine given her And I request my sonn Alleyn Read my Executor to take Care for the assurance of that sumrae to ray Grandchild Elizabeth Clarke to be paid unto her att the age of one and twenty yeares or day of her marriage which shall first happen. But if the said Elizabeth Clarke shall dye before marriage or the age of one and twenty yeares then y*" hundred pounds to returne to my daughter Anne Clarke. Item I bequeath to my sonne Alleyn Read & to his wife & to my daughter Anne Clarke & likewise to my loving brother Thomas

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Read & his wife & to everie one of them perticularly a gold ring of forty shillings price each ring. Item I give to my sister Lake my sister Symonds my sister Winthropp To my Cozen Thomas Cooke & his wife To my Cozen Joseph Cooke To my Cozen Benett* Widowe To M"- Lear, Clarke & to M"- Thomas Cuthbert & to my fower Grandchildren William Alleyn & Thomas Eead & Elizabeth Clarke & to all and to every one of theise last named in perticular to each one of them one gold ring of twentie shillings price. Item I give and bequeath unto my loving Freind William Parsons now of Birchanger Clerke, five pounds of good and lawfull monie of England & one mournino; Gowne. And further I give unto the said William Parsons, Clerke, & to his wife & daughter Margarett Parsons to each of them in pertici\Iar one gold ring of twenty shillings price. Item I give to y'^ poore of y^ parish of Birchanger in Essex the suiiie of fortv shillino's to be given them & such of them & in such proporcon as my Executor with y® oversight of William Parsons of Birchansfer clerke shall thinke fitt & this sumrae of forty shillings shall be paid to the said poore in Birchanger w^^'in one moneth after my buriall. Item I give unto y'^ poore of Wickford in Essex y*^ suiue of forty shillings to be devided among them and such of them as my sonn <fe Executor Alleyn Read w*^ y*^ oversight of y^' parson or Minister of Wickford shall thinke fitt & my Avill is y* this suine of fortie

* Grace, daughter of Thomas Cooke of Pebmarsh, married John Bennet of Matching, Essex.

Ancestry of Priscilla Baker. 127

shillings shall be l^ayd w*'Un two moneths after my burlall. And for all y° Rest of my Reall & psonall Estate whatsoever I give wholy & intirely to my loving sonne Alleyn Read whome I have & doe make constitute & ordeine my sole and only Exe- cutor of this my last will and testam* & for y*' whole ordering of my buriall I wholly leave it to his Avisdome & discrecon both when & what manner to pforme y® same. In witnes & full confirmacon of this my last will & testam* I have hereunto sub- scribed my name w"^ my owne hand & imprinted my owne seale

This Thirty day of March 1659.

William Read.

This writing was sealed subscribed and acknowledged by M': William Read of Birchanger in Essex for his last will and testament in y'^ presence of William Parsons Margarett Parsons the marke of Jane Gray.

Proved at London 6 June 1659.

THOMAS READE.

I Thomas Reade in the Parish of Wickford in the County of Essex gen£ doe make my last will in manner and forme following.

Imprimis I doe give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Prissilla Read my farme called or knowne by the name of

128 Ancestry of Priscilla Baker.

Soppers in the parrish of Wickford in the County of Essex during hur life.

Item I doe give unto ray loving wife Prissilla Reade Seaven Hundred and fiftie pounds dureing hur life Alsoe it is my will that if my loving wife M'"^ Prissilla Reade should marry He that shee should have shuld ^ive o-ood securitie before marriao-e unto my overseers of this my will hereafter menconed for the repay- ing of the seaven hundred and fiftie pounds to them after the death of my wife for the use of my children hereafter menconed.

It is my will that after the decease of my loveing wife my Sonne Samuell Read shall have five hundred pounds of the aforesaid seven hundred and fiftie pounds if he be of the age of one and twenty yeares or when he attayneth thereunto.

Alsoe it is my will that my sonne Thomas Reade should have two hundred and fiftie pounds of the seaven hundred and fiftie pounds before menconed if he be of the age of one and twenty yeares or when he attayneth thereunto.

Item it is my will that after the decease of my loveing wife my Sonne Samuell Read and his Ayres males lawfully begotten shall have my farme called Soppers in the parrish of Wickford aforesaid if he attayneth to the age of one and twenty yeares or when he doth.

Alsoe it is my will that my sonne Samuell Read when he comes to the age of one and twenty yeares shall have paid him Two Thousand three hundred pound over and above them the five hundred pounds formerly menconed.

Ancestry of Pj'iscilla Baker. 129

Alsoe it is my will that my sonne Samuell Eeade shall have all that my farme called WIckford nere Salem in New England And all purtenrics thereunto belonging.

Alsoe it is my will that my sonne Samuell Read shall have all my Publicke heeles * when he attayneth to the age of one and twenty yeares paying one Third parte thereof To my sonne Thomas Read when he attayneth to the age of one and twenty yeares.

Item I doe give unto my sonne Thomas Reade fowerteene hundred and fiftie pounds to be paid him when he attayneth to the age of one and twenty yeares over and above the two hundred and fiftie pounds formerly menconed after the decease of my wife.

Item It is my will that my daughter Prissilla Read should have paid her when shee attayneth to the age of one and twenty yeares the Somme of one Thousand pounds or at the day of her marriage Provided my wife and those which I shall hereafter mention in this my will which I shall desire to be overseers of this my will doe approve of him shee doth match withall if not it is my will shee should have but five hundred poundes sterling and that five hundred pounds w'^^ she should have had it is my will that my sune Samuell Reade shall have three hundred poundes of it, and it is my will that my sune Thomas Reade shall have the other two hundred poundes sterling.

* I have no idea what this means, unless possibly certain inns or taverns.

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130 Ancestry of Prise ilia Baker.

Item it is my will that if it should please the Lord to teake away by death my Sune Samuell Reade without issue That v/hich I have given him my sune Thomas Reade should have itt.

Item it is my will if it should please the Lord to teake away by death [my Sune Thomas Reade] with aught issue lawfuly begotene what I have given unto my sune Thomas my Sune Samuell shall have it. Provided alsoe it is my further will that in case it should please the Lord to teake away by death eyther my sune Samuell Reade or my sonne Thomas Read or my daughter Prissilla Reade my wife M"^ Prissilla Reade shall have dureing hur life twenty pound a yeare ought of the deceased Chiles portion more then what I have formerly give her.

Item it is my further will that all the rest of my overplus of mv estate which will accrewe untill mv children comes of a^e as formerly menconed Item it is my will that my Sune Samuell should have two Thurds and my sune Thomas shall have the other Thurd.

Item it is my will that twenty pounds a yeare by the yere should be allowed ought of the incomes of my estate which will arise for the bringing up of my children unles my Suprinces seeth srood cause to adde something; more.

Item it is my will that my wife dureing her life should have the use of what household stufFe and plate I have and then to be distrebuted to my Childrene which my wife is desired to teake keare of before hur death.

Ancestry of Priscilla Baker. 131

Alsoe it is my earnest desire that my wife and overseers of this my will teake keare that my children may be brought up in the feare of the Lord and to have good educacon and learning and my sunes to be put ought to which they are most apte to.

Alsoe it is my further will that my beloved wife M"^ Prissilla Reade should be my executes of this my last will. I doe like- wise desire ordaine and appoint my brother Calebe Banckes esquire Thomas Cooke of Pedmeshe Esquire Sir John Banckes Barran* Allyn Reade gen^ Jacob AVillett Citcer to be Supervis of this my last will and Garderns to my Children during their noneage in case my wife dyeth or marryeth dureing theare tyme of their nonage.

In witnes whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and Seale this 25'^ July 1662.

Thomas Reade.

Witnes by us

Sarka Coall.

Proved at London 6 November 1662.

PEDIGREE OF SWAYNE.

ANCESTRY OF EEBECCA, THIRD WIFE OF SAMUEL SYMONDS. Arms. — Aziu-e, a clievron between three pheons Or.

Richard S way ne= Christian, daughter of

of Sarum.

Walter Burges of S.

I

Joan, daughter=Bennett Swayne=Bridget, daughter of

of Melin, of of Sarum. Dominic Chester of

Marlborough.

II II II

Walter Christian Margaret John Jane Joan

Dominic Chester of- Bristol.

Bennett Swayne=Anne, daughter of Richard Rebecca b. ab. 1617, m.

of Milford, b. ab. 1615.

Edward Kelsey of Pettleworth.

1. Henry By ley ; 1 2. 1641, John Hall ; \ 3. 1650, Rev. Wm. Worcester ;

4. 1663, Samuel Symonds ;

d. at Ipswich, 21 July, 1695.

Bennett Swayne: b. 1646.

:Elizabeth, daughter of Elizabeth Nicholas Skinner of London.

I Anne

I Bridget

Bennett of Milford, d. 1748^ childless.

I

Thomas d. 1747,

childless.

EEBECCA (SWAY^E) SYMO:^^DS.

REBECCA, third wife of Samuel Symonds, was daughter of Bennett Swayne of Sarum, Eng- land, where she was born in 1616 or 1617. She married, about 1636, Henry Byley of Sarum, who came to ]!^ew England in 1638, leaving her behind with one or two little children. She came soon after; but he died at Salisbury, Mass., about 1610, leaving children Henry and Rebecca. She married secondly, 3 April, 161:1, John Hall of Salisbury, and had John, born 18 March, 1612, and Samuel. He died in a few years, and she married thirdly, 22 July, 1650, Rev. William Worcester of Salisbury. He died 28 Octo- ber, 1662; and the next year she married Samuel Symonds, as has been told. Her son Henry Byley died unmarried. Her daughter Rebecca Byley mar- ried, 15 December, 1661, Rev. John Hale of Beverly,

134 Ancestry of Priscilla Baker.

and died 13 April, 1683, leaving a son Robert. Her son John Hall moved to England, and in 1676 and 1682 was of Islington, Middlesex, a merchant. He died in 1691, leaving a daughter Elizabeth Rogers.

WILL OF REBECCA SYMONDS.

In ye Name of God Amen I Eebeckah Symonds Widdow & Relique of m"" Samuell Symonds late deputy Gouf of ye Massa- thusits Collony of ye Towne of Ipswich in ye County of Essex in Newingland doe this 15*^ day of Jully One Thousand Six hundred ninty five make ordaine & Constitute this my last will & Testament heare by revokeing & disanulling all other & former Wills & Testaments by word & writeing what Soeuer makeing this only to Stand & be for my last Will & Testament beeing Sicke in body but of a good & perfect Memory blessed be God first I Commit my Soule into ye hands of Allmighty God hope- ing through ye raerrit of Jesus Christ my Saviour of a Joyfull resurection & my body to ye Earth to be descently Interred at ye discretion of my Ouerseers hear after named & as for my Temporall Estate my will is that all my Just & honest debts that I owe to any maner of person be payd & ye rest I giue & bequeath in Maner & forme fFollowing.

Ancestry of Priscilla Baker. 135

Imp'"mis. I Giue unto my Kinsman Bennett Swaine in Ingland Three pounds if he haue Soe much in his hands.

Item. I Giue unto my Grand daughter Ellizi^ Rogers * Twenty Shillings in Mony & a Gould ring yt wos my Mothers.

Item. I Giue unto my Sonn m'" Jn° Hale my Horse.

Item. I Giue unto my Sonn m'" Jn" Emerson my fFrench History.

Item. I giue unto y*^ Two Ministers in Ipswich Twenty Shillings Each one in Mony.

Item. I giue unto my Sonn Hierlackindine Symonds One good Young Co we.

Item. I Giue unto my daughter Baker my Grogerum Manto & Couloured Silke petticoat.

Item. I Giue unto my Daughter Emerson One Silk petti- coat.

Item. I Giue unto my Grand Sonn Dainell Epps One Jacke.

Item. I Giue unto my Grandsonn Symonds Epps ye Bed- stead in ye Parlour.

Item. I Giue unto my Coushae Martha Harris f a good new Scarfe of Equall valine with my best Scarfe.

* She was daughter of John Hall, son of Mrs. Symonds by her second husband.

t Slie was daughter of Mrs. Margaret Lake, sister of Samuel Symonds' second wife.

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136 Ancestry of Priscilla Baker.

Item. I Giue unto my Cousine John Stamiford * one of my Gould rings & Three pounds in Mony.

Item. I Giue unto my daughter Eliza*? Symonds all my wearing linen Excepting ye vallue of Twenty Shillings out of which I giue unto my Maide Eliza"3 Ross & I giue unto my Sd daughter Symonds one paire of good Cotton & Linen Sheets & pillobears &, ye best green rugg & one new blankett & one Suit of wearing apparell.

Item. I Giue unto my Grand daughter Sarah Lowef one Siluer porringer.

Item. I Giue unto my daughter Hale| my blacke Cloth Gowne cS; petticoat & a blacke Silke gown & petticoat.

Item. I Giue unto my Grand Sonn Robert Hale & his heires for Euer all ye rest of my Estate reall & personall Excepting ye remainder of my wearing apparell not hearin disposed of which I leaue at ye discretion of my Ouer Seers viz my Two Sonns M'" Jn" Hale & Thomas Baker & my Cousin Jn? Stani- ford to be disposed of Amongst those that haue & may be help- full to mee in my Sickness or otherwise & Unto Each of my Sd ouer Seers I giue a gould ring in regard of their pains thearin & I appoint my Sd GrandSonn Hale Sole Executor of this my last will & Testament.

* He married Margaret, daughter of Thomas and Martha Harris.

t She was daughter of Harlakendeu Symonds.

\ I am puzzled to say who this Avas. Rebecca (Byley) Hale had been dead several years, and Rev. John Hale was at this time again a widower, his second wife having died two months before date of this will.

Ancestry of Priscilla Baker.

137

Item. I Giue unto ye poor of ye Towne of Ipswich Twenty Shillings in niony to be at ye discretion of my ouer Seers in Wittness whearof I have hearunto Sett my hand & Seale ye day & year afore Sd.

Eeb ca Symonds.

Signed Sealed & Declared in p'"sence of

Jn° Staniford

James ffuller

Margarett Pynchon.

Proved 19 August, 1695.

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APPENDIX

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FAMILY OF BANKS.

TN 1859 Mr. William H..Whitmore communicated to -^ the "New-England Historical and Genealogical Eegister" a letter written from London 5 September, 1672, by Lidia Bankes to her Coussen Daniel Eppes, of Ipswich, Mass. It was an answer to a letter brought- to England by Harlakenden Symonds, and names many relations ; and Mr. Whitmore made a guess as to the manner and degree of relationship, which was wonderfully good, considering the utter ignorance of the Read pedigree which then existed. The present volume contains, I think, a full explanation of all that was then a puzzle. To finish the Avork I add a pedigree of Banks, compiled from wills and parish registers, and the following, found in the British Museum, Ms. Ilarleian, 1476. I owe many facts to the labors

of Mr. H. G. SOMERBY.

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Ancestry of Prise ilia Baker.

John Bancks of Lancasli.===

da. of -

Masterson of

I

Jo: Bancks now living in= London, 1634.

Winington in com. chest.

:Mary da. of Alex. Fisher of

Maydstone in Co. Kent by

the da. of Maplesden.

Caleb Bancks = Martha da. of eldest Sonne. Stephen Dame of Feversham in CO. Kent.

John 2

I I Margaret

Katherine

I I Lidya Elizabeth

Priscilla Mary

The full pedigree is as opposite.

Lydia, daughter of John Banks of Maidstone and London, was the writer of the letter. Her relationship to most of the persons mentioned in it is shown in the various pedigrees in this volume. She joined the Church of Salem, Mass., in 1637, but left about 1642, and in 1664 desired dismission to Mr. Nye's Church, London. Sir John Banks, Baronet, died 17 October, 1699, and was buried at Aylesford with all trophies, 31 October. The baronetcy became extinct at his death. In compliance with his will a monument was erected to his memory, with his and his wife's effigies in marble. According to Hasted, the Historian of Kent, his arms were, " Sable, on a cross, between four fleurs- de-lis. Argent, five pheons Azure ; " but according to Burkes' "Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies," they were, "Sable, on a cross Or, between four fleurs-de-lis Argent, five pellets."

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