Edmund Freeman Founder of Sandwich, Massachusetts

Edmund FREEMAN born in England 1590 died in Sandwich 1682 A Founder of the town of Sandwich, Massachusetts in 1637. Assistant to Governor Bradford 1640 - 1647. This pillion shaped stone is flat on the ground. The only other gravestone in this small cemetery is saddle shaped stone for Edmond's wife Elizabeth [BEAUCHAMP] FREEMAN who died in 1675-6.

See Google books: Title:New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, William Richard Cutter; pg 853; Editor:William Richard Cutter; Edition:3; Publisher:Lewis historical publishing company, 1915; Original from:Harvard University; Digitized:Feb 1, 2008;

The surname Freeman is of FREEMAN ancient English origin. The coat-of-arms: Three lozenges, or. Crest: A demi-lion rampant gules, holding between his paws a like lozenge. Motto: Liber et Audax.

(I) Edmund Freeman, immigrant ancestor, was born in England in 1590, and came in the ship "Abigail" in July, 1635, with wife Elizabeth and children Alice, Edmund, Elizabeth, John. He settled first in Lynn, Massachusetts, early in 1636. Lewis says in his history of Lynn: "This year (1636) many new inhabitants appear in Lynn and among them worthy of note Mr. Edmund Freeman, who presented to the colony twenty corslets or pieces of plate armor." He was subsequently of the Plymouth Colony and with nine associates was soon recognized by the government as a suitable person to originate a new settlement. He was admitted a freeman, January 2, 1637, at Plymouth, and after being a short time a resident of Duxbury, settled in what was incorporated later as the town of Sandwich. Most of the grantees of that town were formerly of Lynn. Freeman had the largest grant and was evidently the foremost man in the enterprise. He was elected an assistant to the governor and commissioner to hear and determine causes within the several contiguous townships. He was one of the first judges of the select court of Plymouth county. During the persecution of the Quakers, he opposed the course of the government and was once fined ten shillings for refusing to aid in the baiting of Friends under pretence of the law. "Preeminently respected, always fixed in principle, and decisive in action, nevertheless quiet and unobtrusive, a counsellor and leader without ambitious ends in view of uncompromising integrity and of sound judgment, the symmetry of his entire character furnished an example that is a rich legacy to his descendants." He died in 1682 at the advanced age of ninety-two. His will is dated June 21, 1682, and was offered for probate, November 2, 1682. He was buried on his own land on the hill in the rear of his dwelling house at Sandwich. It is the oldest burial place in the town. His grave and that of his wife are marked by two boulders which he himself placed in position after his wife died, and they are called from a fancied resemblance "the saddle and pillion." His home was a mile and a quarter west of the town hall and near the junction of the old and new county roads" to the Cape. He married Elizabeth Beauchamp born 1600 and died February 14, 1675-6

Children: Alice, married Deacon William Paddy; Edmund, married Rebecca Prence; Elizabeth, born 1625; John married Mercy Prence, Mary, married Edward Perry. Sarah married John Butterfield [Sarah was born in MA].

NOTES: On the roster of the ship Abigail which sailed from Plymouth, England to Boston arriving c.Oct. 8, 1635 with smallpox aboard. Richard Hackwell, Master:
Edmund Freeman, 34, gentleman, Pulborough, Lynn Co., Sussex; Mrs. Elizabeth Freeman; Alice Freeman; Edward Freeman 15; Elizabeth Freeman 12; John Freeman 8.

MARRAGES [Ancestry.com]: First wife- Hodsoll Bennett Death 12 Apr 1630 in Pulborough, Sussex, England. Second wife- Elizabeth Beauchamp Birth 1600 in Pulborough, Sussex, England, Death 1676-02-14 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts.

EDMUND FREEMAN, THE IMMIGRANT

Source is: Sandwich A Cape Cod Town by R.A. Lovell, Jr, Town of Sandwich Massachusetts Archives and Historical Center, 1984, Second Printing, 1987

p 3 "The Ten Men of Saugus: The first information of the settling of Sandwich is in an item in Plymouth Colony Records dated April 3, 1637 reading as follows:

"It is also agreed by the Court that those ten men of Saugust, viz Edmond Freeman, Henry Feake, Thomas Dexter, Edward Dillingham, William Wood, John Carman, Richard Chadwell, William Almey, Thomas Tupper & George Knott shall have liberty to view a place to sit down & have sufficient lands for three score famylies, upon the conditions propounded to them by the Governor and Mr. Winslow." p 4 The Lynn historian Alonzo Lewis wrote of the migration down to Cape Cod:

"This year (1637) a large number of people removed from Lynn and commenced a new settlement at Sandwich. The grant of the town was made on the third of April by the Colony of Plymouth...Thomas-Dexter did not remove, but the rest of the above named went with forty six other men from Lynn." p 4 Those Who Went to Sandwich "The impetus for founding a new town on Cape Cod originated from a dedicated and persuasive leader, Edmund' Freeman of Pulborough, Sussex (England). He arrived in October 1635 on the ship Abigail with his wife Elizabeth and children Edmund, John, Alice, and Elizabeth. Freeman was a person of some prestige as a brother-in-law of Mr. John Beauchamp of London, an investor in Colonial ventures with a stake in Plymouth Colony." j p 5 "The English origins of Edmund Freeman are better known than those of many early settlers in New England. He owned property in Pulborough, Sussex, where he married his first wife Bennett Hodsoll, and had six children. Two died young, and Bennett herself died in 1628 or 29. Edmund then married a wife named Elizabeth whose identity has long been sought by his descendants and by genealogists. She has been called Gurney, Gravely, Perry and Bennett, Raymond and Raymer, but we believe now that her name was Elizabeth Beauchamp, as shown in her marriage to Edmund Freeman in 1630 at Shipley, Sussex. There is mention of Edmunds brother-in-law a Sir John Beauchamp. As we saw above, Edmund, Elizabeth, and four youngsters, Alice 17, Edmund Jr. 15, Elizabeth 12, and John 8 embarked on the Abigail in 1635. Another unrelated Freeman group was on the same ship, which has caused confusion as to their possible relationship to the Edmund Freeman’s. Later, in Sandwich, a fifth child Mary Freeman was in the family, but her birth is not recorded. She may have been born in Massachusetts to Edmund and Elizabeth, or may have been adopted here. p 7 Settlers from Plymouth. Later found there are records of two daughters of Edmund & Elizabeth, Mary and Sarah born in America. "Mr. Freeman must have decided on founding his town in Plymouth Colony but there has been no record so far found as to his reasons or procedures. He and Mr. Leveridge established a brief residence in Plymouth

EDMUND FREEMAN, THE IMMIGRANT

There are two phases in this description of the background of Edmund Freeman. This one involves his life in the Pulborough/Billingshurst/Cowfold/Shipley area (Currently West Sussex County, England). The other phase is in the section following which is excerpted from "Sandwich, A Cape Cod Town" by R.A. Lovell, Jr.

Edmund Freeman, the Immigrant was born in Pulborough, Sussex County, England in 1594, and baptized in St. Mary's Parish Church there in the baptismal font shown in a prior section. The current Parish Church was built in 1220 on the site of the former Anglo-Saxon Church which had been built there about 1120. The date of the baptism, according the St Mary's Parish Church records was July 25, 1596.

As a result of his sailing to the New World in 1635 on the ship ABIGAIL, his burial occurred between June 21st and November 2, 1682 in the burial plot on the Freeman Family Farm in northwestern Sandwich, Massachusetts. Pictures are shown following.

He married, first, the mother of some of his children: Bennett Hodsoll in the Parish Church in Cowfold (St Peter's) on June 16, 1617.

Edmond's first wife, Bennett, according to St Mary's Parish Church records, was buried in Pulborough in 1628. While she was living, the Edmund Freeman family lived in Pulborough and Billingshurst, Sussex County: in Pulborough, from 1617 to about 1620; in Billingshurst from about 1620 to 1627; and in Pulborough again from 1627 until her death.

Ancestry Chain:

Edmund Freeman (II) (1596 - 1682)

is your 11th great grandfather

Sarah Freeman (1630 - 1708)

Daughter of Edmund

John Butterworth (1651 - 1731)

Son of Sarah

Elizabeth Butterworth (1682 - 1708)

Daughter of John

Eleazer Carpenter (1704 - 1781)

Son of Elizabeth

Elihu Carpenter (1752 - 1827)

Son of Eleazer

Betsy Carpenter (1790 - 1862)

Daughter of Elihu

Adaline RAWSON (1811 - 1841)

Daughter of Betsy

Mary DUNN (1833 - 1920)

Daughter of Adaline

Harriet Camilla Ensign (1859 - 1930)

Daughter of Mary

George Ensign Smith (1898 - 1967)

Son of Harriet Camilla

Camilla SMITH (1926 - 1999)

Daughter of George Ensign
Lark
Child of Camilla
JR
Child of Lark

William, William and William CARPENTER

Description = Bevis Passenger list England to America in 1638 AD

Three Grandfathers (son, father, grandfather) all William Carpenter and One Grandmother (Abigail Briant Carpenter) Arrive Together on the Ship Bevis 1638

Ancestry Chain: 11th great-grandfather William CARPENTER Immigant b.1576, 10th great-grandfather William CARPENTER Immigant b.1605, 9th great-grandfather William CARPENTER Immigant b.1631, Daniel CARPENTER b.1669, Eleazer CARPENTER b.1704, Elihu CARPENTER b.1752, Betsy CARPENTER b.1788, Adaline RAWSON b.1811, Mary DUNN b.1833, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Camilla SMITH b.1926, Lark JR.

The Rehoboth Carpenter family is an American family that helped settle the town of Rehoboth, Massachusetts in 1644.^[1]

The first immigrant and founder of this line was William Carpenter (generation 1) (b. c1575 in England), his namesake son, William Carpenter (Generation 2) (c1605 in EnglandBevis from Southampton, England, in 1638. William Carpenter (Gen. 2) and the son's wife and children (then numbering four) arrived on the arrived on the Bevis from Southampton, England, in 1638. Nothing more is known of the father, William, in Massachusetts and he is presumed to have perished either in passage, shortly after arriving in the new world or, less likely he returned to England. William Carpenter (Gen. 2) is buried in the Newman Congregational Church Cemetery with a simple field stone marked with a "W. C.".

William Carpenter, (Gen. 2) first appears in New England records in 1640, as a resident of Weymouth, Massachusetts. He was among the founders (at Weymouth in late 1643) of the Plymouth Colony town of Rehoboth (settled 1644). His son, William (Gen. 3) Carpenter (b. 1631 in England - 1702/3 Rehoboth, Bristol, MA), was for many years Rehoboth town clerk, by virtue of which his name—not that of his father—appears with some frequency in Plymouth Colony records, in association with a number of local vital-records lists that he certified and forwarded to colony authorities. The name William Carpenter appears in copious Plymouth Colony records and in the writings of John Winthrop and in other public records over the generations.

Three Carpenter family houses in Rehoboth are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places: Christopher Carpenter House, Col. Thomas Carpenter III House, and Carpenter House.

William Carpenter (Gen. 1) born about 1575 in England. He died after 2 May 1638 (Bevis passenger list) and certainly before 1644 when his son, William settled in Rehoboth. He was of Newtown, Shalbourne Parish, Wiltshire, England, by 1608, when he became a copyholder (semipermanent leaseholder) at Westcourt Manor (Westcourt Recs 7). Shalbourne, completely in Wiltshire since 1895, previously it straddled the line separating Wiltshire and Berkshire, with Westcourt comprising the Wiltshire part of the parish (Shalbourne Map); the Hampshire border was/is about four miles away. It is likely that William was born in one of these three counties. William's renewal of his Westcourt tenancy on 22 June 1614 gives his age as 40 (Westcourt Recs 7). The passenger list of the Bevis, the ship on which he left England, is dated 2 May 1638 and states William's age as 62 leading to an estimate of about 1575 for his birth.

His son William Carpenter (Gen. 2) was born about 1605 in or of Wiltshire, England. He died 7 February 1658/1659 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA. He married Abigail Briant, daughter of John & Alice, on 28 April 1625 in Shalbourne Parish, Berkshire, now in, Wiltshire, England.

Their children:

1. John Carpenter - Christened 8 Oct.1626 in Shalborne Parish - Bevis passenger
2. Abigail Carpenter - Chr. 31 May 1629 in Shalborne Parish - Bevis passenger
3. William Carpenter (Gen. 3) - Chr. 22 Nov. 1631 in Shalborne Parish - Bevis Passenger
4. Joseph Carpenter - Chr. 6 Apr. 1634 in Shalborne Parish - Bevis Passenger
5. Samuel Carpenter - Chr. 1 Mar 1636/1637 d. 20 Apr 1637 both in Shalbourne Parish.
6. Samuel Carpenter - b. abt. 1638 of, Weymouth, Norfolk, MA - his mother was probably pregnant on the Bevis
7. Hannah Carpenter - b. 3 Apr. 1640 Weymouth, Norfolk, MA
8. Abiah Carpenter - b. 9 Apr. 1643 of, Weymouth, Norfolk, MA

(Wikipedia)

Ship BEVIS - DESTINATION: Weymouth 1638

Name	Age	Occupation
Carpenter, William	62	carpenter, of Wherwell (listed "Horwell"cit.3), county Hampshire
Carpenter, William, Jr	33	carpenter, of Wherwell, county Hampshire
(wife) Carpenter, Abigail	32	(Maiden Name: Briant*; listed "Abigael"cit.3)
(child) Carpenter	-	under 10 (John*)
(child) Carpenter	-	under 10 (Abigail*)
(child) Carpenter	-	under 10 (William*)
(child) Carpenter	-	under 10 (Joseph*)
Banshott, Thomas	14	(Carpenter servant)

Thomas PRENCE 4th, 8th & 12th Governor of Plymouth Colony

Thomas Prence House Eastam, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Built 1646. Demolished.

Thomas Prence Governor of Plymouth

Thomas Prence (1599 – March 29, 1673) was a co-founder of Eastham, Massachusetts, a political leader in both the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies, and governor of Plymouth (1634, 1638, and 1657 - 1673).

Early Life:
Thomas Prence was born in 1599 at Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England a son of Thomas Prence and Elizabeth Tolderby. Thomas emigrated to America in 1621 on the ship Fortune, arriving in Plymouth on November 9, 1621, just a few days after the first Thanksgiving.

A chair belonging to Thomas which now resides in the Pilgrim Hall Museum.
75 Court Street (Route 3A), Plymouth, Massachusetts 02360

Marriage and Family:
Prence married three times. He married as his first wife on August 5, 1624 at Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts (the ninth marriage recorded in the colony), Patience Brewster, a passenger on the Anne which arrived in Plymouth in 1623. She was born circa 1600 probably in Scrooby a small village, where her father was born, in the northern part of the English county of Nottinghamshire and died before December 12, 1634 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, of a "pestilent fever." She was a daughter of Elder William Brewster, (c. 1567 - April 10, 1644), the Pilgrim leader and spiritual elder of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower.

Thomas and Patience had four children: Thomas Jr., Rebecca, Mercy, and Hannah. Rebecca married first Edmund Freeman, Jr. the son of Edmund Freeman and had two children. Rebecca married second Capt. John PUTMAN they had ten children. She died in Sandwich, Massachusetts. Mercy married John Freeman, had eleven children, and settled in Eastham, Massachusetts. Hannah married Nathaniel Mayo, had six children, and died in Eastham.

Prence next married on April 1, 1635 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Mary Collier, bapt. in 1612 at St Olave's Church, in the parish of Southwark St Olave, an area of south-east London, now the London Borough of Southwark, England and died before December 1662 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. She was a daughter of Jane (____) Clark and William Collier, one of the investors, or Merchant Adventurers, and an initial shareholder in the Plymouth Plantation. She was the sister of Sarah Collier, the wife of Love Brewster, a passenger on the Mayflower and the son of Elder William Brewster.

They were the parents of five children: Mary Prence, Jane Prence, Elizabeth Prence, Sarah Prence, Judith Prence. Jane Prence (November 1, 1637 - 1712) married Mark Snow the son of Nicholas Snow and Constance Hopkins, a daughter of Stephen Hopkins (born about 1582 – 1644), a tanner and merchant who was one of the passengers on the Mayflower in 1620, settling in Plymouth Colony.

Lastly, Prence married Apphia Quicke in December, 1662. It is unknown if they had any children.

COMMENTS: For many years it was believed that Prence had married only three times and that his last wife was "Mary" Freeman, but this was straightened out in 1904 by Ella Florence Elliott, who divided the erroneous construct into its proper wholes, revealing divorcee Apphia Freeman and widow Mary Howes as Prence's last two of four wives.

Career
He was allowed to join with Bradford, Allerton and Standish as a member of the Trade Monopoly. Later, in 1644, he and several other prominent families left Plymouth for better land and founded the community of Eastham, Massachusetts. He became governor of Plymouth, for the first time, in 1634; he was elected again in 1638 and served from 1657 to 1673. After the death of Governor Bradford in 1653, he became the leader of the Plymouth Colony serving in that capacity until his death.

He was distinguished for his religious zeal, and opposed those that he believed to be heretics, particularly the Quakers. He became infamous for the banishment of those who would not conform to his specific church law, including Samuel Gorton, the first governor of Rhode Island. He restructured the local government to secure his position and led the persecution of numerous people for offenses such as smiling in church, harboring non-church members, and tending garden during the Sabbath. He also procured revenue for the colony's grammar schools so future generations would be better educated.

Governor Prence gave to Wamsutta and Pometacom, the sons of Massasoit, the names Alexander and Philip as a compliment to their warlike character.

Plots belonging to our Grandfathers found on this map are:
William Brewster, Thomas Prence,
Peter Browne, Stephen Hopkins and [Uncle Dr. Samuel Fuller.]

"He was another able business man to arrive in Plymouth on the Fortune in 1621, and became Governor of Plymouth Colony for 20 years, serving at times from 1634 to 1673. He followed his father-in-law, William Brewster, to Duxbury in 1632, and finally removed to Nauset (Eastham) in 1644 with six other families, returning later to Plymouth where he died."
- Leon Clark Hills, The Mayflower Planters, History and Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters & First Comers to Ye Olde Colony, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1990, Baltimore, MD.

"Prence arrived at Plymouth Colony in 1621 on the Fortune, and from the beginning seemed to have taken a leading role in Plymouth affairs. Of the eight Plymouth Undertakers, who seemed to be the most important men in the colony in 1627, Prence was the only one who had not arrived on the Mayflower. He became governor in 1634, and was elected an Assistant in 1635, and from then on he was either an Assistant or governor every year for the rest of his life. He also served as treasurer, as president of the Council of War, and in various other capacities. With the death of of Bradford in 1657, Prence became without a doubt the most important and influential man in the colony. He was of a conservative nature, as is shown by his siding with Bradford and Winslow in the 1645 Vassall controversy, and by his actions against the Quakers. He was involved in several law suits which were decided in his favor, ... " - Plymouth Colony, Its History & People, 1620-1691.

"In July 1627, Thomas Prence became one of the eight parnters called undertakers, who guaranteed the purchase of Plymouth Colony from the merchant adventurers. He, with his father-in-law, William Brewster, and brother-in-law, Jonathan Brewster, signed 'Articles of Agreement' to have the 'whole trade consigned to us for some years' to pay the 'debts (of the colony) and set them free:' and to 'transport as many of our brethern of Leyden over' to Plymouth. Thomas Prence served Plymouth Colony as Governors Assistant in 1632, 1635-37, and 1639 through 1656. He was the treasurer of Plymouth Colony from 1637 to 1640 and he served as Commissioner of the United Colonies, 1645, 1650 and 1653-56. On 1 January 1633/34, when he was only 34 years old, Thomas Prence was elected as the fourth governor of Plymouth Colony. He served his second term in 1638, during which time he presided over the trial of four men wh had robbed and murdered an Indian near Providence. The evidence presented to the court resulted in them being found guilty and they were hung, one having escaped. 'On 3 June 1657, Thomas Prence was again elected Governor of the jurisdiction of New Plymouth and served until his death in 1673.'" ^- Barbara Lambert Merrick, William Brewster Of The Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1996. "Thomas Prence was the most distinguished of the settlers of Eastham, though not the best educated. At the time of his removal in 1645, he was holding the position of an assistant ofFortune, in November, 1621. At the time of his removal he was residing in Duxbury. His farm at Eastham contained many acres. It was situated northwest of Town cove, in that part now include within the present town of Eastham. His house stood on the est side of teh county road, near where Mr. E. Doane's howse now [1916] stands. It is said his farm comprised teh 'richest land' in the place. The famous old pear tree planted by him while a resident, and which was blown down in 1849, stood but a few rods westward from the site of his house. He was a large land-owner. He owned land in what became afterwards Harwich and Truro, besides tracts at Tonset and other localities iin ht Colony. He disposed of most of his landed estate before his death. His tracts at Sauquatucket, now Brewster, which came to him by grant, on the account of haveing been a 'Purchaser or Old-Comer,' he sold to his son-in-law, Major John Freeman, in 1672. His 'half share' at Paumet, both 'purchased and unpurchased,' lying between 'Bound Brook,' at Wellfleet, and 'Eastern Harbor or Lovell's Creek,' he sold to Mr. Thomas Paine in 1670. "Mr. Pratt, in his History of Estham, says the homestead of Gov. Prence was given by will to his son-in-law, Samuel Freeman, but the statement is not supported by documentary evidence. Records show that Gov. Prence did sell to his 'beloverd son-in-law, Mr. Samuel Freeman, Jan. 12, 1671, for thirty pounds' his 'hose lot situated and being in the town of Eastham' and 'containing eighteen acres of upland, be it more or less,' boutnde 'at the northeasterly end' by a creek, together with other upland and meadows in other parts of the town. Records also show that Gov. Prence provided a place of abode for his son-in-law, Samuel Freeman and Mercy his wife, soon after thier marrigae, and that in December, 1662, it was conveyed to them. They were then residing upon it. It was the place of the governor purchased of Mr. Josiah Cook, a 'gentleman' of Eastham. The position of this house lot the writer cannot give, but undoubtedly it was near Gov. Prence's place. "Gov. Prence continued in the office of an assistant by successive elections till 1657, when he was unanimously elected to the office of governor, as successor to Gov. Bradford, who died that year. As the law required the governor to reside at the seat of government, a dispensation was obtained from him, and he was allowed to remain at Eastham, as he desired. Mrs. Bradford was engaged to entertain him and his assistants while at Court; and attendant was appointed to attend him in his journey to and from Plymouth, and Mr. Allyn of Barnstable was engaged to accommodate him and his attendant in his house with private rooms when passing 'to and from' In 1665, Gov. Prence removed to Plymouth, and occupied the place provided by the government at a place called Plain Dealing, which the late Judge John Davis, a native of Plymouth, says was 'nearly two miles from the centre of the town on the road to Boston.' The late William Russell in his Guide to Plymouth, says the place called Plain Dealing 'extended it is believed to Kingston line'; and that Gov. Prence's house was near 'Mr. Hedges,' and in the vicinity of 'Starts Hill.' At this place, while occupying the gubernatorial chair, he died March 29, 1673, in his 73d year. He was 'honorably interred at Plymouth, April 8th.' Judge Davis says: 'The Plymouth church records, in expressing Mr. Prence's character and his amiable and pleasant conversation, depart from their usual course by an indication of his personal appearance, from which it may be supposed that it was peculiarly dignified and striking. He was excellently qualified for the office of governor. He had a countenance full of majesty, and therein, as well as otherwise, was a terror to evil doers. Gove. Bradford, and had twice been chosen govenor of the infant colony-first election in 1634, and second election in 1638. He was a native of Lechlade, a parish in Gloucestershire, England, it is understood, and born about the year 1600. He came to Plymouth in the ship

Besides holding the office of governor, Mr. Prence was a great number of years an assistant of Gov. Bradford. He was one of the commissioners of the United Colonies many years; colonial treasurer and one of the council of war. He was one of those who stood bound to the adventures for the payment of the sum they demanded for their interest in the stock, trade, etc., of the Colony, when the purchase was made in behalf of those who came in the three first ships, viz: Mayflower, Fortune and Ann.

"Gov. Prence's will bears date March 13th, 1673, and codicil march 28th, 1683. He appointed his wife, Mary, executrix, and desired that his brother, Thomas Clark, and Mr. Josiah Winslow be her advisers. To his wife mary, he gave the profits of his part of the mill at Sauquatuckett, now West Brewster, with the land adjacent to it, which he desired at her death to go to his grandson, Theophilus Mayo, who was living with him. This, he said, he gave him for his encouragement to proceed in learning. HE also gave him all his 'books fit for him in learning. He enjoined him to 'carry it well with his grandmother,' and, in case he did so, to have a 'bed.' How dutiful he was to his aged grandparent, we have no means of knowing. He doubtless removed with her to Yarmouth. From what can now be gathered he did not survive her. His death, it is supposed, took place about 1678. He was the youngest son of Nathaniel and Hannah (Prence) Mayo, and it would seem, at the death of his father, was taken by the governor into his family. The governor also gave him one-half of his land and meadow near Namassakett, in Middleboro, which if he died without descendants, would be equally divided between Gov. Prence's daughters. Of his books he gave, among others, 'to Maj John Freeman, of Eastham, Speed's, Church's and Wilson's Dictionary; Simpson's History of the Church, and Newman's Concordance.' He made other bequests, but we cannot mention them all.

"The inventory of the governor's estate shows he owned on the Cape, 'one fourth of the mill and land adjoining to it at Satuckett,' now West Brewster; twenty acres of land and three acres of meadow at Tonsett in Eastham, and eighteen acres on Porchy Island. Befre his death Gov. Prence disposed of most of his estate by deeds. Thomas Prence's descendants are numerous upon the Cape. Thomas Prence, the only son of the governor, died in England, leaving no sons, consequently he has no descendants of the patronymic living." ^- Josiah Paine, "Early Settlers of Eastham," Library of Cape Cod History and Genealogy, 33 and 34 (1916), 63 pages.

(http://www.caskey-family.com/genealogy/ThomasPrence.htm)

Death:
Prence died March 29, 1673, in Plymouth, Massachusetts and was buried on Burial Hill.

(Wikipedia)

Ancestry Chain: 12th gr. grandfather (Gov.) Thomas PRENCE b.1599, Rebecca PRINCE b.1625, Priscilla PUTNAM b.1657, Lydia BAILEY b.1695, John JEFFORDS b.1724, John JEFFORDS b.1746, Lucretia JEFFORDS b.1766, Amariah RAWSON b.1787, Adaline RAWSON b.1811, Mary DUNN b.1833, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Camilla SMITH b.1926, Lark, TR.

GILLETT Family Bible

Gillette family bible, carried from England by Jonathan Gillett in 1630 The version of Bible that Jonathan Gillett brought with him from England to America is known as the ‘Breeches Bible’ because the ‘fig-leaf garment’ worn by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden - which is called ‘apron’ in the King James Version - is called ‘breeches’ in this edition. Jonathan's Bible was printed in Amsterdam in 1599 and was one of numerous editions of that translation, which was first printed in Geneva in 1559. This edition was favored by the Puritans in England, and it had a profound effect on the King James translation in 1611. The ‘Breeches Bible’ remains in Windsor. It has been torn and damaged, with many of its pages missing. The Bible passed into the hands of the present Holcomb family. The Gillett-Holcomb Bible became known as the "Bear Bible," because it was placed in a window to keep the sash raised, when a bear, wanting to effect an entrance, clawed it, leaving the marks of his claws so deep upon the edges of its leaves, where it can still be plainly seen. The blank pages between the Old and New Testaments are still intact, and their pen and ink entries establish the copy as having belonged to the early Gillett family. The script of the entries is the very old style, which was in use in England around 1600, in the hand of Jonathan Gillett of the second generation.
Ancestry Chain 1: (10th gr.grandfather) Jonathan Sr. GILLETT (GYLETTE) Immigant b.1604, Mary GILLETT b.1638, Abigail BROWN b.1662, Jonathan FOWLER b.1685, Catherine FOWLER b.1723, Lydia NOBLE b.1768, Horace Datus ENSIGN-76 b.1797, Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Camilla SMITM b.1926, Lark, TR.
Ancestry Chain 2: (10th gr.grandfather) Jonathan Sr. GILLETT (GYLETTE) Immigant b.1604, Samuel GILLETT, Hannah GILLETT b.1674, Mary TAYLOR b.1708, David BRONSON b.1733, Sylvanus BRONSON b.1769, Mary BRONSON b.1806, Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Camilla SMITM b.1926, Lark, TR.
Ancestry Chain 3: (11th gr.grandfather) Jonathan Sr. GILLETT (GYLETTE) Immigant b.1604, Joseph GILLETT, Joseph GILLETT b.1664, Elizabeth GILLETT b.1688, Esther MARSH b.1714, Esther SAWYER "GUNN" b.1739, Esther REMINGTON b.1772, Mary BRONSON b.1806, Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Camilla SMITM b.1926, Lark, TR.

Mehitable GUNN was married to two of our grandfathers David ENSIGN and Isaac SHELDON

Mehitable GUNN

Birth[1]

28 July 1644

Windsor, Connecticut, United States

Marriage	22 Oct 1663	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto David Ensign
Divorce	Oct 1682	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesfrom David Ensign

Marriage	1686	Northampton, Massachusetts, United Statesto Isaac Sheldon
Death	30 Jan 1720	Northampton, Massachusetts, United States

Mehitable married twice, to David Ensign, and then to Isaac Sheldon. She had 5 children with David Ensign. She divorced him "for his ill conduct" and in 1686 married Isaac Sheldon of Northampton and had another child. Married to David Ensign on 22 OCT 1663 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut.

Children David ENSIGN and Mehitable GUNN:

David ENSIGN b: 16 NOV 1664 in Hartford

James ENSIGN b: 08 JUL 1666 in Hartford

Thomas ENSIGN b: 07 DEC 1668 in Hartford

Sarah ENSIGN b: 22 JAN 1671 in Hartford

Mary ENSIGN b: 26 JAN 1674 in Hartford

The charges against David Ensign are recorded in “Connecticut Court Assistants,” page 34. Three charges were made. First he was charged with spreading false reports concerning the death of the King, the flight of the Duke of York, and the Duke of Monmouth being made Protector, and second it was charged that he “continually and unlawfully accompanied the wife of Thomas Long to the great dishonor of God, scandal of religion, and breach of the laws of the colony whereby he hath forfeited his bond made to Hartford County Sept. 18, 1679." The third charge was that he committed adultery with Thomas Long's wife, “or at least is suspiciously guilty thereof." Mehitable was married to Isaac SHELDON in 1686

Children Isaac SHELDON and Mehitable GUNN:

(Capt.) Jonathan SHELDON b: 29 MAY 1687 in Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts

David SHELDON 1688-1759

Source: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Mehitable_Gunn_%281%29

1. ↑ Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1638-1925.

   Mahitable Gunn daughter to Thomas Gunn born July 28th A.D. 1644 (Bk I Page Sixteen)

David ENSIGN (8th great grandfather)

Alt Birth	26 Nov 1644	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Birth	29 NOV 1644	New Hartford, Litchfield County, Connecticut
Christening	19 AUG 1649	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Marriage	22 Oct 1663	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States to Mehitable Gunn
Divorce	Oct 1682	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States from Mehitable Gunn
Marriage	ABT 1686	to Sarah Wilcox
Death[1]	13 DEC 1727	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

David was a farmer and miller and was also prominent in church and town affairs. He was chosen, 16 Feb 1665, chimney viewer; 23 Feb 1688, surveyor and grand juryman. He was one of the first settlers in West Hartford where he moved in 1686; his name headed the list of petitioners for the establishment of a new church. David was buried in the old cemetery of West Hartford where his gravestone bears the inscription: "Here lyeth the body of Mr. David Ensign who Died Decemr ye 14th 1727 in ye 83 year of his age." Mehitable divorced David in Oct 1682 for "ill conduct on his part." She married again in 1685, Isaac Sheldon of Northampton. David remarried Sarah Wilcox [daughter of and John WILCOX Jr. and Sarah WADSWORTH]. Nanncewatt brought complaint against David for "obtaining a quille of wampum" and he was ordered to pay the Indian 40s on 29 Dec 1674.

Children of David ENSIGN and Sarah WILCOX:

David ENSIGN Jr. b.10 OCT 1688. m.1st Hannah SMITH 16 MAY 1709. [six children] m.2nd Sarah MOODY 29 APR 1726. [six children] d.4 DEC 1759 Bloomfield, Hartford, Connecticut. David and Hannah were original members of the Second Church in Hartford, 18 Feb 1711/12. On 16 Dec 1712 he was chosen grand juryman; on 20 Dec 1715 he was selected collector of tax. He went from Windsor to Wintonbury, now Bloomfield, with all his goods in a bundle.

1682
David Ensigne is complained of in court.

First: for bringing and spreading false reports concerning the death of the King, the flight of the Duke of York, and the Duke of Monmouth being made protector. This prisoner returns and said he heard so at New York.

Second: for contempt of authority and that after so much means used, that he hath continually and unlawfully accompanied the wife of Thomas Long to the great dishonor of God, scandal of religion, and breach of the laws of the colony whereby he hath forefeited his bond made to Hartford County, Sept. 18, 1679.

Third: that he hath committed adultery with Thomas Long's wife, or at least is suspiciously guilty thereof.

The jury find the first article according to the prisoner's confession. They find the 2nd article and so consequently the breach of the bond, and they find the 3rd article as suspiciously guilty of the gross act of adultery. David Ensigne having been complained of in these three articles which have been committed to a jury, and he is found guilty.

The court, having considered the first article, that his misdemeanors therein in spreading such reports is notoriously dangerous and very offensive and there being no particular law that doth direct what punishment to inflict on such high misdemeanors, do inflict no punishment on him for the same, but leave to the consideration of the Court of Assistants in October next.

The court approves the verdict of the jury in the 2nd article and do accordingly judge him, the said Ensigne, to have forfeited his bond to the county of Hartford and do order execution to be granted accordingly.

And whereas the jury do find him, the said David Ensigne, suspiciously guilty of the gross act of adultery, and it being difficult to find out such notorious wickedness, not withstanding all care used, yet in this case wherein there hath been so great appearance of those gross ills, this court do order that the said David Ensigne give bond to the value of £400 in good estate, for his good behavior, and that he will totally forbear going into or keeping company with the said Long, which bond is to continue during the pleasure of the court of Assistants. In case he refuse to give bond, he is to be committed to prison, there to remain until the bond is given as aforesaid and do, for the miscarriage of above written, see good reason to defranchise him of his freedom in this corporation according to law.

David Ensigne personally appeared July 23, 1682 and did bind over to the Publick Treasury of the Colony of Connecticut, all his housing and lands within the township of Hartford, both on the East and West side of the Connecticut River as they stand bound to him in the publick records of the said town, or by his father's last will in the court records, to stand as security for his good behavior, and that he will totally forbear going into or keeping company with Sarah, the wife of Thomas Long, according to the judgement of the Court of Assistants, passed against him at their last session May 31 last passed, and for the confirmation hereof he hath sett to his hand and acknowledged the same before John Allyn, Assistant and Secretary. Page 34.

Divorce - May 28, 1683

Upon the petition of Mehitable Ensigne, that she might be freed from the conjugality to David Ensigne, the court hath considered the case, and finding testimony that the said David Ensigne hath sundry times withdrawn himself from his wife, the said Mehitabell, and bedded and boarded with the late wife of Thomas Long, and owned her to be his wife, and carried so to her, and hath not had, nor desired, communion with the said Mehitable for a long time, as she allegeth, but the last winter carried it in a laseivious manner towards the wife of Samuel Elmor, and is now gone from his wife to New York. And it may well be concluded he has gone after the said Long's wife again.

Upon those considerations this court do see good reason, and accordingly do grant, the said Mehittabell Ensigne a release from the matrimonial tye to the said David Ensigne.

And this court do order that an inventory of the personal estate of David Ensigne be taken, and that it be equally divided between the said David Ensigne and Mehitabell.

And this court orders that the house the said Mehitabell now lives in, she be not molested in her inhabiting there, without order of this court by any person whatever. Page 45. (published in 1988 or 1989 as page 24 in one issue of the Sheldon Family Association Newsletter. )

Ancestry Chain: David ENSIGN b.1644, David ENSIGN Jr. b.1688, Datus (Datis) ENSIGN b.1729, Isaac ENSIGN Rev.WarVet.b.1756, Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797, Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Camilla SMITH b.1926, Lark, JR.

Source:

1. ↑ Hartford vital records, in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records.

   David Sr, died Dec 13, 1727. David, son James, m Mehetabell GUNN, dau Thomas, Oct 22, 1663.

Isaac SHELDON (9th great grandfather)

Birth[1][2]	Abt 1629	Deposed at Northampton, Mass., 29 Apr. 1679, "aged 50 years or thereabouts."
Emigration[2]	1639	… came from England with Rev/ Ephraim Hewitt of Windsor, 1639.
Residence[1]	1652	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Marriage	By Abt 1654	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States to Mary Woodford
Residence[1]	1656	Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	1686	Northampton, Massachusetts, United Statesto Mehitable Gunn
Will[1]	21 Jun 1708
Death[2]	27 Jul 1708	Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States Died at aged about 79.
Probate[1]	1 Sep 1708

"Isaac Sheldon of Windsor, Conn., and of Northampton, Mass., was born about 1629 (according to his deposition of 1679, quoted in part above), a date which agrees with the supposed date of the birth of Isaac Sheldon, son of Ralph and Barbara (Stone) Sheldon of Ashford, in the parish of Bakewell, co. Derby, England, and died as Northampton, Mass., 27 July 1708, aged 78 years. He married first, in 1653, Mary Woodford, who was born about 1636 and died at Northampton 17 Apr. 1684, daughter of Thomas WOODFORD and Mary (Blott) Woodford of Hartford, Conn., and Northampton, Mass.; and secondly, in 1686, Mrs. Mehitable (Gunn) Ensign, who was born as Windsor, Conn., 28 July 1644 and died at Northampton, Mass., 30 Jan. 1720/1, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Gunn and formerly wife of David Ensign of Hartford, Conn.

…shortly before 13 Sept. 1652, when the order quoted above was passed at a meeting of the townsmen of Windsor, Isaac Sheldon bought of John Stiles a house and three-acre lot in Windsor. In 1656 he moved from Windsor to Northampton, Mass., which was thenceforth his home. [Isaac SHELDON and father in-law Thomas WOODFORD founders of Northampton.] In his will, dated 21 June 1706 and proved 1 Sept. 1708, he named his wife Mehitable, his sons Isaac, John, Thomas, Joseph, Samuel, Ebenezer, and Jonathan Sheldon and his daughters Mary Bridgeman, Ruth Strong, Thankful Edwards, Mindwell Lyman, Hannah Chapin (Hampshire Probate Records, vol. 3, page 188)"^[1]

Children of Isaac SHELDON and Mary WOODFORD:

Mary SHELDON 1654 – 1728

Isaac SHELDON 1656 – 1712

John SHELDON 1658 – 1725

Thomas SHELDON 1663 – 1728

Thankful SHELDON (twin) 1663 – 1741

Ruth SHELDON (twin) b.27 Aug 1663. m.1st Joseph WRIGHT Sr. 16 Nov 1679 [8 children]. m.2nd Samuel STRONG 28 Oct 1698 [4 children]. d.aft 16 May 1728.

Midwell SHELDON 1666 – 1735

Joseph SHELDON 1668 – 1708

Hannah SHELDON 1670-1690

Eleazar SHELDON 1672 – 1673

Samuel SHELDON 1675 – 1745

Ebenezer SHELDON 1677 – 1755

Mercy SHELDON 1684 – 1684

Ancestry Chain: Isaac SHELDON 1652 Immigrant b.1630, Ruth SHELDON (twin) b.1663, Ruth WRIGHT b.1687, Samuel NOBLE b.1722, Lydia NOBLE b.1768, Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797, Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Camilla SMITH b.1926, Lark, JR.

Source:

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} Bartlett, J. Gardner. The Sheldons of Bakewell, Derbyshire, England, and Isaac Sheldon of New England (1926). New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Oct 1926), 80 [1926] : 378ff.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Trumbull, James Russell. History of Northampton : Northampton genealogies, 1640-1838. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958).

William ROBINSON "drawn though by the cog-wheel of his mill, and was torn in pieces and slain."

Acestry Chain: 12th great grandfather Willaim ROBINSON Immigrant b.1615, Prudence ROBINSON b.1643, Mary BRIDGE b.1661, Eunice LYONS b.1701, Mary ROTH b.1726, Mary SANGER b.1746, Lucretia JEFFORDS b.1766, Amariah RAWSON b.1787, Adaline RAWSON b.1811, Mary DUNN b.1833, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Camilla SMITH b.1926, Lark, JR.

William ROBINSON

(Immigration: Bet. 1633 - 1638, From England)

1. WILLIAM² ROBINSON (ROBINSON¹)^1,2 was born 09 Jan 1614/15 in Canterbury, England³, and died 06 Jul 1668 in Dorchester, Massachusetts^4,5. He married (1) PRUDENCE ??? WFT Est. 1634-1647. She was born WFT Est. 1611-1630 in England, and died WFT Est. 1631-1715 in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He married (2) MARGARET BEACH 14 Oct 1637 in Canterbury, Kent, England, daughter of [Rev. John BEACH and] AGNES [STREETER] BEACH. She was born 1620 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and died Bef. 1666 in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He married (3) URSULA ADAMS^5,6 21 Aug 1666 in Charlestown, Massachusetts⁷, daughter of HENRY ADAMS and EDITH SQUIRE. She was born 19 Jul 1619, and died 20 Feb 1678/79.

Notes for WILLIAM ROBINSON:
Records of Rev. John Eliot or of S. Danforth of the church in Roxbury, Massachusetts note that:

"6.5.1668, Robinson, a brother of the church at Dorchester, was drawn though by the cog-wheel of his mill, and was torn in pieces and slain."

Church books in Dorchester relate that "William Robinson came first to Dorchester between the years 1633 and 1638 from England, returned to England in 1644 and came back again in 1645 with others". This was according to records compiled by the Robinson Society and obtained via The Old Colony Historical Society in Taunton, MA.

Purchased real estate February 25, 1651 from John Phillips of Boston and estate for 150 Pounds near the Naponsett River. (A dispute about this was recorded in the Dorchester Town Records on March 11, 1663 but the Selectmen chose not to find against William, instead asking that additional information be obtained. No later entries were seen about this dispute.) He was a grantee of land in 1656 and also bought a corn tide mill in Dorchester from Edward Brecke near "Captain's Neck". He also sold his mill to Timothy Tileston on October 7, 1664 which thereafter was known as Tileston's Mill as was still standing as of 1857. It is not clear whether it was this mill or another, "The Dorchester Tide Mill", located on the creek between Roxbury and Dorchester near "Black Neck". It is known that a Thomas Robinson owned that mill but it is not clear whether he was related to William.

The "Dorchester Town Records" reference William Robinson a number of times. In 1651 he was paid 1 pound for killing a wolf. Starting 13 Dec 1653 he was regularly assigned the task of "viewing" or maintaining a section of the fencing around the Dorchester common corn field in his area of "The Great Lots". He was also a surveyor with a variety of assignments:
A 40 acre lot for Robert Vose - 9 Dec 1656
A "heigh way" from Glovers Farm to Squantoms Neck - 17 June 1657
A way to George Badcocke's house - 6 Dec 1658
A landing place by the Neponset Mill - 6 Dec 1658
The best place for 2 roads from teh Country "heigh way" to the Blue Hills - 6 Dec 1658
An ox pen for Robert Stanton - 5 Dec 1659
A road at the direction of John Gill and Robert Redman - 17 July 1660
The boundary between Dorchester and Roxbury and also that between Dorchester and Dedham - 11 January 1661
A road from the River to the Country highway and the roads at Squantoms Neck - 10 June 1661
A road from Neponset Mill to Dedham - 2 October 1661
The common fence from "the rest to the River" - 7 November 1661
A road from Boston to teh marsh cross over the pastures - 7 January 1664

He was listed as having 19 acres in an assessment done in 1667.

He was chosen as a Rater and a Constable for 1659, a Rater for 1661 and 1662, the (Highway) Supervisor for 1663 and 1664 and a Selectman in 1665.

He was listed on 10 October 1666 as having helped to bury an Indian found in a wigwam on James Minot's land dead of smallpox and abandoned by the rest of his tribe.

From "William and Anne Robinson of Dorchester, Mass: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants", Edward Doubleday Harris, 1890, p4-6:

In the files of the Suffolk Co. Probate is this paper: - "My will is that after the buriall of my Body & my debts honnestly payd, my Loving wife Ursula shall have & Enjoy my dwelling House together with the Orchard & meadow adjoyning to the same & Hemp yard & that part of the new barne & old barne I now Enjoy, stable Cow yard & one halfe of the Pasture, within fence & seaven Acres of Salt marsh by the River side & halfe the fresh meadow by Thomas Trotts & all my planting ground by my House within the great Lots, Eleaven Acres bee it more or less - my will is that my wife shall have Housing planting Land meadow Pasture & all that I now Enjoy, with all the priueledges belonging to the same during her life, if shee Continue my widdow - But at her marriage or death then to leaue all to my Sonn & while shee hath it to keepe Housing & fencing in good Tennentable repare & to make noe wast or stroy upon it, by falling wood or Timber or anything else - And I Giue to my sonn Increase Robbinson after my wiues decease or marriage ffoure Acres of my salt marsh lying next Thomas Trott's ditch being the west End of my meadow. And all my Land lying on the south side of the high [way] leading from my house to neponset mill, which I purchased of John Minot, Mr Withington, Enoch Wiswell & Goodman Pearse, bee it what it will more or less it lying out of fence, the south side lying next to the Land of Thomas Hilton, the East End to brother How & the north side with the high way aboue mentioned & halfe my Lott lying by the Sheepe pen & halfe of all my Comon rights I have in Dorchester & that with what I have already given him to bee his Portion - my will is that if my Sonn Increase doe sell the ffoure Acres of salt marsh & the 4 Lott Ends mentioned before, then my sonn Samuell shall haue it hee paying for the marsh twenty pounds in money & for the Upland Tenn pounds in money. And that hee shall not Sell it to any Else from his brother but if his Brother will not giue that price, then hee may sell it to whom he will. - my will is that after my wiues death or marriage my Eldest Sonn Samuel Robinson shall haue all my Houses Land & Meadows I haue in Dorchester to what I haue already given him. Excepting what I haue given to my Sonn Increase Robinson, & that to bee his Portion hee paying within Two yeares after my death to my daughter Prudence bridge of Roxbury the sume of Twenty pounds in corne & Cattle. - And to my daughter Waiting Penniman of Braintry Twenty pounds, in the same pay & kind. to all my Grandchildren that are then liuing Tenn shillings a peece, Excepting my sonn Increase Eldest sonn, that bears my name, And my daughter Prudence which beares my wiues name, to them two twenty shillings a peece to bee payd within two yeares after my death their ffathers giuing discharge for it these Legacies & portions being payd then my Sonn is freed from all, & hath to his proper use as is aboue mentioned, with what I gaue him before when hee was married is worth Three Hundred pounds - my will is & I Give to my wife one Cow & a mare which was Mr. Shrimptons, to bee aded to what I haue given - And I giue Mary Streeter, my wiues daughter foure pounds as a Token of my loue to her & for all my Household Goods bedding linnen & wollen brass pewter & Iron Potts Andirons all that is within my House that is mine whatsoeuer as all my Cattle of all sorts all my Husbandry tooles as plowes, Carts, wheeles, chaines, & all iron tooles & Carpenters tooles whatsoeuer within and without, my debts being taken out all the remainder to be Equally divided between Increase, Prudence & Waiting, to bee theires to what I have giuen aboue mentioned if any -
Endorst - This Will of our late Deare ffather William Robinson written on the other side with his owne hand which wee Acknowledge wee doe all agree & Consent to bee allowed & Recorded & made good as wittnes our hands:this:31:July:1668.
Ursula Robinson
Samuel Robinson
Increase Robinson
John Bridge
Joseph Penniman
An inventory of the estate, amounting to 435.12.6, was filed, and adminiistration granted, 16 July, 1668, to Increase Robinson, the son, and to John Bridge and Joseph Penniman, sons-in-law of the deceased.

History of Dorchester, MA from The Dorchester Reporter

Settled one month before its neighbor, Boston, in May of 1630, Dorchester has a history nearly as old as that of America. For its first two hundred years, Dorchester remained apart from Boston, existing primarily as a farming community with small commercial and industrial outposts along the Neponset River at Lower Mills and Mattapan Square, and along Dorchester Bay at Commercial Point.

The patterns of Dorchester's earliest settlement are preserved today in its road system. Pleasant Street linked the original settlement area of Allen's Plain (where the Old Blake House built in 1648 still stands) to the fortifications atop Rock (now Savin) Hill. Adams Street (then called the Lower road) connected the meeting house on Meeting House Hill to Israel Stoughton's grist mill on the Neponset River at Lower Mills. The Upper road, later named Washington Street because George Washington regularly used it during the fortification of Dorchester Heights, connected the "Rocksberry" settlement tot he South Shore.

Other early roads are Boston, Stoughton, Harvard, Bowdoin, Freeport (the road to the free port), Crescent (to the salt marshes on Columbia Point), Pond, East Cottage, and River Streets. The earliest of Dorchester's roads is Norfolk Street, which follows a pre-settlement Indian trail.

More About WILLIAM ROBINSON:
Elected: 18 May 1642, Freeman
Immigration: Bet. 1633 - 1638, From England
Military service: 1643, Member of the "Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston"
Occupation: Corn Mill owner and operator

Children of WILLIAM ROBINSON and MARGARET BEACH are:

2.	i.		SAMUEL3 ROBINSON, b. 14 Jun 1640, Dorchester, Massachusetts; d. 16 Sep 1718, Dorchester, Massachusetts.
3.	ii.		INCREASE ROBINSON, b. Bef. 14 Jan 1641/42, Dorchester, Massachusetts; d. Nov 1699, Taunton, Massachusetts.
4.	iii.		PRUDENCE ROBINSON, b. 10 Jul 1643, Dorchester, Massachusetts; d. WFT Est. 1666-1737. [m.1660 Dorchester, Norfolk, Massachusetts - John BRIDGE (1641-1674).]
5.	iv.		WAITING ROBINSON, b. 1645, Dorchester, Massachusetts; d. 21 Aug 1690, Braintree, Massachusetts.