Wilson, Abigail (b. 8 JUL 1666, d. ?)

Note: Also have bithdate of 8 Aug 1666.

Note: Thomas Webster of Great Yarmouth was named in the 1502 and 1509 rolls of
freemen. He is the earliest Thomas Webster found in the area, and probably
was the brother of William Webster, priest, of Great Yarmouth, who left a
will dated 1528. The 1522 list of freemen of Great Yarmouth names William
Webster, who may have been the son of Thomas, and perhaps father of Bartram.

Occupation: Place: Shipwright

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Chelmsford Vital Records, p.371

Note: Rowley and Haverhill, Mass.
Made his will the day he died.

Note: Widow of ____ Jacques.

Note: Chelmsford death record says "Died in her 58th year."

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Chelmsford Deaths, p. 403

Note: Resided England, Rowley, and Bradford, Mass.

John Hazelton

A brother of Robert Hazelton, he was one of Rev. Ezekiel Rogers' colony at Rowley and one of the first three settlers of that part of Rowley afterwards incorporated into Bradford.

Prior to 1660 he lived in Haverhill, originally called Pentuckett.

In 1665 John gave to the people of Bradford an acre of land for a meeting house provided the grantees kept it cared for. His son, Samuel, released the people of Bradford this obligation.

John's will was made Aug 17, 1689 and proved Mar 31, 1691.

Source: Hazelton Genealogy by W. B. Lapham, 1892, p .101

Note: She was said to have been from Biddeford, England, and from the family of a
Mr. Holman of Biddeford. It has been said that John Hazelton married before
he left England, but this is doubtful. He was probably younger than Robert
who was married in Rowley and whose eldest child was five years older than
the oldest of John.

Note: Killed by Indians.
Oath of allegiance, 1677.
Estate administered 5 Apr, 1697.
Resided Haverhill, Mass.

Note: Unmarried.

Note: Resided in Salisbury and Haverhill, Massachusetts.
Received land in Salisbury in 1630, 1643, and 1646. Moved to Haverhill in
November 1646 and was selectman there in 1648.

Occupation: Place: Cooper

Note: Last name is possibly CROSSMAN.

Note: Widow of Thomas Dow.

Note: Unmarried.

Note: Resided in Newbury, Mass.

JOHN EMERY

John Emery, senior, sailed from Southampton, April 3, 1635, with his brother Anthony in the ship James of London, William Cooper, Master, their wives and one or two children each probably with them; he landed in Boston, 3 June 1635, and went soon af
to Newbury where John, senior, had a town grant of half an acre for a house lot. John Emery was fined 22 December 1637, by the town, twenty shillings for inclosing ground not laid out, or owned by the town, contrary to a town order, and on 1 Februa
1638, the town granted him that part of ground which was already inclosed.

He was made freeman 2 June 1641, and recorded as one of the ninety-one freeholders of the town 2 December 1642; in the same year he was appointed with three others to make a valuation of all the property in the town, for the purpose of proportioning
each man's share in the new division. On 16 March 1663, John Emery was presented to the Court at Ipswich by Henry Jaques, Constable of Newbury, for entertaining travellers and Quakers. 5 May 1663 his presentment for entertaining Quakers was referred
unto next Court. The next Court fined him four pounds, costs and fees for entertaining strangers. The evidence given in the case was 'yt two men quakers wr entertained very kindly to bed and table & John Emmerie shok ym by ye hand and bid ym welcome
Also, 'that the witness heard John Emery and his wife say that he had entertained quakers and that he would not put them from his house and used argument for the lawfulness of it.' John Emery in May, 1663, petitioned the General Court for the remiss
of his fine. His petition was signed by the selectmen of the town and fifty of the citizens. The fine was not remitted.

He was also prominent in the case of Lieut. Robert Pike, refusing to recognize the authority of the Court to deprive him and his neighbors of the right of petition. In the famouse ecelesiastical difficulties John Emery was a member of the Woodman pa

10 April 1644 he had a grant from the town of twenty-two acres and five rods being his own and Henry Palmer's portion of 'Divident' land in the great field beyond the new town. He was selectman, 1661; fence viewer, 1666; grand juryman in the same ye
jury of trials in 1672; appointed to carry votes to Salem in 1676.

John Emery made his will 1 May 1680, proved 27 November 1683, in which he mentions his age as eighty-three years. The inventory of his estate was taken in the same day, amounting to 263 poinds, 11 shillings.

Source: 'Genealogical Guide to the Early Settlers of America', 1967, p 178. 'Genealogical Records of Descendants of John and Anthony Emery of Newbury, Mass.', Rev. Rufus Emery, 1891, p 1-2. 'Historical and Genealogical Shatswells of Ipswich., No 1.'
Augustine Caldwell, p 1.

Note: Heroine of an indian massacre. What story is this?
Lookup Hoyt, Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury. Vol. 1 p. 342.

Note: Widow of ____ Broad.

Note: The Puttenham Family


Like a great many old names, the name Putnam takes it origins from the town or area where the first people of that name lived. In the casae of the Putnam family, the town came from Puttenham.

The name Puttenham comes from the Flemish PUTTE (PUTTEN plural) for well and HAM for hamlet or village. In the other words the lands were a village by a well.

The current day parish of Puttenham lies some 40 miles north of Londan near the ancient town of Tring. The original lands lay in Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire to the north and west of London. Aston Abbotts, where John Putnam came from, is somewhat northeast of London and Chesham, where Thomas Putnam came from, is northwest of London.

As far back as the Middle Ages as we can trace, tha lands were held by Edwin of Caddington and his son Leofwin. It later came to Earl Lewin or Leuium, the brother of King Harold. After the Norman conquest in 1066, the lands were granted to
Odo, the bishop of Bayeux. Odo was a half brother of William the Conqueror and the lands were held by a tenant, Roger.

In 1085-1086, William took a census of all lands to determine ownership and taxability. This huge undertaking resulted in the Doomsday Book of 1088. The description of the lands in this book read:

The manor (of Puttenham) answer for four hides, Roger holds it for the Bishop. There is land to four ploughs. There is one in the demesne and another may be made. Four villanes with two borders there have two ploughs. There are four cottages and two bondmen, and two mills of ten shillings and eight pence. MEadow for four ploughs, and four shillings. Pasture for the cattle. It is worth sixty shillings, when the Bishop recieved it forty shillings. In King Edward's time four pounds.

Puttenham was later given to the Earls of Leicester in the 1200s and to the Honor of Wallingford under King Edward i in the 1300s. In the 1300s, the lands were held by the Wale-Fitz Wale Family. By the 1400s, the holders of Puttenham were granted their own Coat of Arms and were knights in their own rights. The Puttenham Manor remained in possession of the Puttenham family through the middle of the sixteenth century.

The manor was sold in 1690 by Thomas Saunders, a descendent in the female line. It was subsequently sold to Francic Duncombe, whose descendentd sold it in 1800 to John William Edgerton, 7th Earl of Bridgewater. From him it passed to Earl Brownlow who conveyed the estate to baron Lional Nathan de Rothschild in exchange for lands in the Parish of Northaw.

Note: A widow.

Note: Resided Hingham and Haverhill, Mass.
Freeman in 1672.
Will proved 29 Oct 1713.