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Richard Hulse 1 was born 2 in 1620/1625. He died . He married Unknown.
Unknown was born 1 before 1618. She died . She married Richard Hulse.
They had the following children:
M i Richard Hulse
Samuel Black [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4 was born 5, 6 on 29 May 1699 in York, York Co, Maine. He died 7, 8 before 14 Jan 1745/1746 in York, York Co, Maine. He married 9 Dorcas Bragdon on 3 Dec 1721 in York, York Co, Maine.
2. Samuel Black was born on May 29, 1699 at York, York, Maine.
He married Dorcas Bragdon, daughter of Samuel Bragdon and
Isabella (--?--), circa 1721. He died before Jan 14, 1745 at York,
York, Maine.
from Darryl Rowles drowles@servecom.picker.com
A mariner (Downeast Ancestry)
Dorcas Bragdon [Parents] 1, 2, 3 was born 4, 5 on 7 Sep 1695 in York, York Co, Maine. She died . She married 6 Samuel Black on 3 Dec 1721 in York, York Co, Maine.
3. Dorcas Bragdon was born on Sep 7, 1695 at York, York,
Maine. She married Samuel Black, son of Daniel Black Jr. and
Sarah Adams, circa 1721.
from Darryl Rowles drowles@servecom.picker.com
They had the following children:
F i Jane Black 1 was born 2, 3 on 27 Sep 1722 in York, York Co, Maine. She died . F ii Isabella Black 1 was born 2, 3 on 2 Oct 1724 in York, York Co, Maine. She died . F iii Dorcas Black F iv Sarah Black 1 was born 2, 3 in York, York Co, Maine. She died . M v Daniel Black 1 was born 2, 3 on 25 Apr 1731 in York, York Co, Maine. He died . M vi Samuel Black F vii Mary Black
Samuel Bragdon [Parents] 1, 2, 3 was born 4, 5 on 31 Jul 1673 in York, York, Maine. He died 6, 7 on 3 Mar 1746 in York, York, Maine. He was buried 8, 9 in Old Graveyeard, 1st Parish, York, Maine. He married Isabella Austin on 25 Dec 1694 in York, York, Me.
Other marriages:Young, Lydia
Isabella Austin [Parents] 1, 2 was born 3, 4 about 1675. She died 5, 6 on 16 Jun 1722 in York, York, Maine. She married Samuel Bragdon on 25 Dec 1694 in York, York, Me.
They had the following children:
F i Dorcas Bragdon F ii Mary Bragdon M iii Samuel Bragdon F iv Isabella Bragdon M v Jeremiah Bragdon 1 was born 2, 3 on 30 Mar 1704/1705 in York, York Co, Maine. He died 4 on 26 Oct 1767.
by tradition, he was never married, but on 13 Nov 1738 his intent to marry Elizabeth Sargent is recorded (Downeast Ancestry)M vi Daniel Bragdon M vii Joseph Bragdon F viii Mehitable Bragdon
Matthew Austin [Parents] 1 died 2 about 1684/1685 in York, York, Maine. He married Mary Davis.
Banks, Charles Edward. History of York Maine, Vol I. Regional Publishing Company: Baltimore, MD. 1931.
Page 223
'Matthew Austin
Of this prominent citizen and resident of Cider Hill, nothing definite is known as to his origin. There were numerous Austin families in Kent, the source of several of our settlers. A Matthew Austin of Tenterden, died in Tenterden (the home of the Tilden emigrant) in 1554, and a Matthew of the same parish, tailor, died in 1609, leaving a family. Others of this Christian name resided in Wye, Addisham, Wickhambreaux at the period of the emigration of our Matthew. He is first of record in July 1653 (T. R. i, 21). At this time he was 33 years old, having been born in 1620 (Deeds i, 163), and in 1659 he became sergeant of the military company; in 1665 he was first elected Selectman. He held this latter office in 1669, 1670, 1671, 1672, 1673, 1676, and 1678. He was a weaver by occupation (Deeds iv, 66). He was an 'uncle' of Jeremy and Joseph Tibbetts of Dover, perhaps through marriage with a daughter of Thomas Canney of that town but later of York. If so, he married a second wife, Mrs. Mary (Davis) Dodd, daughter of Nicholas Davis and widow of George Dodd of Boston. She survived him and married for a third husband William Wright of Boston and later of York (Deeds vi, 75; ix, 33), and in 1714 was a widow for the third time. Matthew Austin drew his will November 19, 1684, 'a little before his death,' but it was not allowed by the court because it was 'not so Clearly & Methodically done to the understanding & satisfaction either of authority & some others of sd Mathew Austines relations, who were most espetally Concern'd therein, vidzt Mary Austine his wife and Mathew his onely sonn' (Deeds iv, 66). The parties called in Arthur Bragdon Senior and John Sayward as arbitrators and friends. The uncertainties of the will related to the bequests of his real property to his wife and his son and its reversions and a compromise was reached, apparently satisfactory to all concerned and was signed by the widow, his son Matthew, and his daughters Mary (Sayward) and Sarah Austin on June 6, 1686. Matthew Austin Sr. left the following issue:
1. Matthew (only son)
2. Mary, b. abt 1665; m. (1) Jonathan Sayward and (2) Lewis Bane
3. Sarah, b. abt 1667; m. (1) Joseph Preble and (2) Job Young
4. Isabella, b. abt 1675; m. Samuel Bragdon
The genealogy of this family appears in Volume III.
Mary Davis [Parents] 1, 2 died . She married Matthew Austin.
Other marriages:Dodd, George
Wright, William
They had the following children:
M i Matthew Austin 1 died . F ii Mary Austin F iii Sarah Austin F iv Isabella Austin
Nicholas Davis was born in 1595. He died 1 in 1670. He married Sarah.
Ancestry.com. Maine Will Abstracts, 1640-1760 [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2000. Original data: Sargent, William M. Maine Wills, 1640-1760. Portland, ME: Maine Historical Society, 1887.
Source Page: Court Records, B, 96. Name: Nicholas Daviss Will Text: I Nicholas Daviss of Yorke In the Province of Mayn, being of Prefect Memory & vnderstanding, though not unsencible of the vncertenty of my life, vpon wch consideration being the more willing to settle thinges vidzt outward my estate in due order, do hereby make & declare this signification of my mind, In these Presents Included, to bee my last Will and testament as followeth/I giue vnto my Cosson Mathew Barnard of Boston the wife of Mathew Barnard the some of fiue pounds/I giue vnto my Cosson William Locke of Owborne two silver spoones & fiue shillings In silver/I giue vnto my daughter Astine & her two children Mary & Sarah Austine Three pounds/I give vnto Mary Dod Elizabeth Dod & Mehitabell Dod 20s a peece/I doe likewise giue vnto the aforesd Marry, Elizabeth & Mehitabell Dod my house housing & Lands, with all priuiledges & appurtenances belonging there vnto, after ye decease of my wife Elizabeth Dauis/These Legacys being payd as abouesd I doe giue vnto my beloued wife Elizabeth Davis, the soole vse of all my houses & Lands soe ... g as her naturall life Contineweth, & do grant & giue vnto her the sool vseing & disposeing of all the rest of my goods Chattles Cattle Househould stuffe, debts or wtsoever else appertaynes to mee, for her own proper vse & behoofe as shee shall see meete, to dispose yrof to her selfe & others/And for the better Prformance of this my last will, I do desire & appoynt my Loueing frejnds Capt John Davess & Mr Peter Weare to bee ye overseers thereof, vnto whom I do giue fiue shillings a peece/ In witness wrof I haue sett two my hand & seale/ Dated this 27: day of April 1667: In ye 19th yeare of or Soueraign Ld ye King Charles the secund/Signed & DeliverdIn ye Prsence of,Edw: Rishworth/Susanna Rishworth/Nicholas Davis (his seale)Probated:--recorded 17 August 1670. Inventory returned at 102: 10: 6. by Edw: Rishworth, John Davess, and Mathew Austine, 12 March 1669 or 70. Debts due to his estate fro n the Town of Yorke, Job Allcocke, Will: more, Thomas Bragdon, the County Treasurer, Phillip Cooper, Phillip Hatch, amounting together to 4:11:6.Banks, Charles Edward. History of York Maine, Vol I. Regional Publishing Company: Baltimore, MD. 1931.
Page 164-5
'Nicholas Davis
Among the passengers of the Planter emigrating to New England in 1635 were Nicholas Davis, aged forty, a tailor of Wapping Wall, London, his wife Sarah, forty, a son Joseph, aged thirteen, and a young boy William Locke, aged six years, for whom Davis was guardian (Commissary of London, Act Book fo. 189), son of William and Margaret Locke of Stepney. He settled in Charlestown, later removing to Woburn, where his wife died in 1643. He married (2) Elizabeth Isaac, widow of Joseph, a few months later, and brought his son Joseph with him when he settled in this town. He died in 1670 and his will proved that year (dated April 27, 1667) left his estate to his gradchildren Mary, Elizabeth, and Mehitable Dodd, children of his daughter Mary who had married (1) George Dodd.
Nicholas Davis came to this town about 1648 and soon established himself as a tavern keeper in Lower Town where the main street leads to Stage Island. He is not known to have been connected with either of the three other Davises living here at the same time. He had issue:
1. Joseph, bapt. 18 Nov. 1621; witness, York 1659; no further record
2. Mary, m. (1) George Dodd; (2) Matthew Austin; (3) William Wright'
Sarah was born in 1595. She died . She married Nicholas Davis.
They had the following children:
M i Joseph Davis was christened 1 on 18 Nov 1621. He died . F ii Mary Davis M iii William Locke was born 1 about 1629. He died . He was related to his parents by guardianship. He had other parents.
Francis Austin was born in 1611. He died . He married Isabelle Smith.
Isabelle Smith died . She married Francis Austin.
They had the following children:
M i Matthew Austin
Samuel Bragdon [Parents] 1, 2, 3 was born 4, 5, 6 about 1647 in York, York Co, Maine. He died 7, 8 in 1712 in York, York, Me. He married 9 Mary Moulton in 1672 in York, York Co, Maine.
Probate Office 2, 53, Page 160 (from http://home.maine.rr.com/bragdon/html/Wills.htm):
In the Name of God Amen I Samuel Bragdon Senr of Yorke in Province of Main, being Aged and Crazy of body but of Sound understanding, do make this my last will and Testament as followeth, First and above all, I commit my Soul into the hands of god, and my body to the Earth to be decently buried in hopes of a glorious Resurection. And as for my outward Estate, which a good god has freely bestowed on me, I dispose of it in manner following
Imprs After my Just debts and funeral Charges are paid, I give and bequeath unto my Son Samuell (besides what he hath already) Ten pounds in or as money, as money shall generally pass, from man to man in this Country, when this sum comes to be dve, to be paid by my son Joseph, within two years after he shall come to enter upon the possession of the Living hereafter bequeathed wt him. Item I give and bequeath unto each of my four daughters, vizt Magdalin Patience, Sarah & Ruth, five and twenty shillings (five pounds in the whole) to be paid by my son Joseph the next year after the ten pounds above said is to be paid to Samuel
Item I give and bequeath unto my Wife, the vse and Improvment of all my lands, housing, Stock, houshold goods and moneys even the whole of what I shall leave, for her own maintainance, and the bringing up of my youngest son till he comes to be of age.
Item I give unto my son Joseph the whole living that now I possess and Improve, whither land, dwelling houses Barns, and orchards, with all the priviledges and rights that do or may any ways appertain or belong thereunto. I also give unto my son Joseph the One halfe of my stock and the one halfe of my household stuft, and goods of all sorts belonging to house keeping.
Item My Will is that when my son Joseph shall come to be of age according to law to enter upon the living aforesaid, his mother if shee desires it shall have the Choice of all the Room in the dwelling house, the vse of halfe the lands, halfe the stock, and halfe the houshold stuft or goods, during her Widowhood.
Item My Will is that after my wifes decease, all that is left of my Estate in Cattle, Houshold goods, moneys or whatever Elce not disposed of in the above Said Articles Shall be Equally divided betwene my Son Samuel and my four Daughters above said. Finally I do appoint my dear Cousin, Decon Bragdon the sole Executor of this my last will & Testament, desiring him, and Intreating him to see the Will of the dead punctually fulfill'd, I do also appoint Mr Moody our Pastor, and Richard Milbery to be overseers of this my last Will and Testament.
In Witness to all and singular the Premisses, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this tenth day of May One Thousand seven Hundred and nine
| Samuel Moody Samuel Bragdon (seal) Witt | Hannah Moody nesses| Christian Passons
Sworn to and recorded 6 Jan. 1712-13. Inventory returned 6 Jan. 1712-13 at œ296: 8: 0 by Samuell Donnell Samuel Webber and Richard Milbery, appraisers
Mary Moulton [Parents] 1, 2 was born 3, 4, 5 on 25 Jan 1651/1652 in Hampton, Rockingham Co, New Hampshire. She died 6 in Nov 1725 in York, York Co, Maine. She married 7 Samuel Bragdon in 1672 in York, York Co, Maine.
Other marriages:Hilton, Mainwaring
From Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
William Hilton:
[Had son] MAINWARING, b. by 1646 [YLR 2:33]; m. by about 1670 as her first husband Mary Moulton, daughter of Thomas Moulton (eldest child of daughter Magdalen b. York 24 September 1691 [NEHGR 110:60]; on 4 July 1671 administration was granted to "Tho[mas] Mowlton of the estate of Mannering Hilton his son-in-law lately deceased" [MPCR 2:214]
They had the following children:
M i Samuel Bragdon F ii Mary Bragdon F iii Patience Bragdon F iv Sarah Bragdon M v Jeremiah Bragdon 1 was born 2 on 17 Mar 1683/1684 in York, York, Maine. He died 3 as a child. F vi Ruth Bragdon M vii Joseph Bragdon
Arthur Bragdon [Parents] [scrapbook] 1, 2, 3 was born 4, 5 in 1597 in Stratford-on-Avon, Worchestershire, England. He was christened 6 on 17 Jul 1586 in Stratford-on-Avon, England. He died 7, 8, 9 in 1678 in York, York Co, Maine. He married 10 Mary in 1639 in York, York Co, Maine.
Other marriages:Gold, Joan
Ancestry.com. Maine Pioneers, 1623-1660 [database online]. Orem, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 1999. Original data: Pope, Charles Henry. The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623-1660. n.p., 1908.
planter, York, constable in 1640; witnessed a deed July 3, 1647; took oath of allegiance to Mass. govt. 22 Nov. 1652, and was appointed lieutenant of the militia. Town officer. His wife Mary witnessed a deed with him in 1661. Sold land 1 Nov. 1668, to Andrew Rainking, planter, of the same place. He deposed 5 June, 1665, ae. about 67 years; deposed again 6 July, 1671, aged about 74 years, as to what he heard Mr. Tho. Rogers say before he went to England, which was in 1643. [York De. vol. 1, Part II, folio 14.]
Made deed of gift to son Thomas 25 May, 1678, conditioned on life maintenance for himself and wife. [York De. V.]
He died during the year. Inventory of his estate was filed 2 Oct., 1678.Will Admitted 2 Oct 1678 (from Downeast Ancestry)
Banks, Charles Edward. History of York Maine, Vol I. Regional Publishing Company: Baltimore, MD. 1931.
Page 106-7
'Arthur Bragdon
The story of this pioneer includes the interesting fact that he was undoubtedly a native of Stratford-upon-Avon, County Warwick. The men of his family were butchers by occupation, the same as followed by John Shakespeare and Arthur Bragdon must have known the Bard of Avon, for he was 19 years old when Shakespeare died. This statement is made on circumstantial evidence arising on the existence of a Bragdon family living in Shakespeare's parish, whose sons carried the names of Arthur and Thomas as did the York family and the only Bragdon family found in England which bore these Christian names. It is stated that another resident of Stratford was an early emigrant to Maine, settling in the adjoining town of Kittery. At this period, business communication was common between towns in Warwickshire by means of navigation of the Severn and Bristol was probably the port from which he emigrated. Arthur Bragdon is first of record here in 1636 as witness to the sale of property (Deeds i. 119; viii, 210) and on June 11, 1637 he had a grant of 100 acres of land from Samuel Maverick and William Jeffrey, two of the patentees of Agamenticus (Deeds xxvi, 83). This land was situated on Bass Cove. This grant was contested by Godfrey as to the extent of its bounds and arbitrators Richard Vines and Henry Josselyn awarded the case in favor of Bragdon which was confirmed by Godfrey January 21, 1643, making the limits of his land on the northeast to the path leading from the Plantation to Christian Point (Deeds x, 173). He was constable of Agamenticus in 1640, and alderman 1641 under the first charter. In his later years, he resided with his son Thomas who lived just north of Bass Creek in Scotland and on May 20, 1678 he transferred all his property to Thomas on condition that his son 'provide for mee & my wife all necessary things that either of us shall stand in need of so long as wee shall live' (Deeds v, 26). He died in about six months and administration of his estate was granted to his son Thomas Oct 2, 1678. Inventory of the property was returned at a valuation of 64-06-0 pounds. In a deposition Arthur Bragdon stated his age which places his birth in 1597 and he was therefore 81 years old when he died. His wife's name was Mary, but there is nothing to suggest her family name or connection. The homestead at Bass Cove apparently remained in possession of his youngest son Samuel and his branch and the usual family litigation regarding the title based upon the blanket deed of 1678 came into court in 1727, nearly 50 years later. A new administration on the estate was granted that year and a new appraisal valued the property at 504-16-0 pounds. The case resulted in favor of the occupants. Arthur Bragdon left issue three sons. No daughters are known.
1. Thomas, b. abt. 1640
2. Arthur, b. 1645.
3. Samuel, b. abt 1647.'
Mary 1, 2, 3 was born 4 in 1601. She died 5 after 20 May 1678. She married 6 Arthur Bragdon in 1639 in York, York Co, Maine.
They had the following children:
M i Thomas Bragdon M ii Arthur Bragdon M iii Samuel Bragdon
Thomas Moulton [Parents] 1 was born 2, 3 in 1606 in Great Ormsby, Norfolk, England. He was christened 4 on 16 Jul 1608 in Great Ormsby, Norfolk, England. He died 5 in 1702/1703 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire. He married 6, 7 Martha about 1638 in Newbury, Hampton, New Hampshire.
From English Origins of New England Families, pages 746-749
"Extracts from a Rental of the Manor of Ormesby, Co. Norfolk, England, 1610
Communicated by J. Gardner Bartlett, Esq. of Boston, Mass.
Among the early settlers of New England, before 1640 were Henry Dow, William Estow, Robert and William Marson, John, Thomas, and William Moulton, Thomas Nudd, Robert Page, and William Palmer all of Hampton, New Hampshire, Richard Carver of Watertown, Mass, and John and William Marston of Salem, Mass. All these colonists were from Ormseby, County Norfolk, England, and most of them sailed from Great Yarmouth, co. Norfolk for New England in April 1637. Of the two parishes in Norfolk named Ormseby, Ormseby St. Margaret (with Scratby) lies on the coast of the North Sea about five miles from Great Yarmouth and its parish registers prior to 1675 are lost; Ormseby St. Michael adjoins Orseby St. Margaret on the west and its registers date from 1658.
In the Public Record Office in London there is preserved a rental of the Manor of Ormseby for the year 1610 (General Series of Rentals and Surveys, Portfolio 12, #52) and the following extracts from this rental contain every mention in the role of the family names given above....
Folio 3: Of John Moulton for a Mess' sometime Cordweyners and lande late Elizabeth Sadd viij s. x d. ob. q. di. And for landes late Rob't Moulton before Margaret Moulton besides xviij d. paid by Wm. Greene vj s. ij. d. xv s. ob. q. di. [In margin Wm Greene xviij d.]
Folio 6: Of John Moulton for landes of the R'corey of Martham xiiij d.
Folio 8: Of William Baispole for certain lands late Rob't Stantons purchased of the lord besides ix d. q. paid by Ro: Moulton ij s. vj d. ob. q.: and for other free landes at Piltes besides ij s. & ob. paid by Arnop and ob. di. q. paid Rob't Moulton xij d. ob. q. di. iij s. vij d. ob. di. q. [In margin: whereof Edm: Goose is to paie for 10 acr xv d. q.]
Folio 9: Rob't Moulton for vj acr' di. freehould p't of certain landes purchased of the lord by fortie pence yearelie rent late Wm Baispoles heretofore Rob't Stantons ix d. yearelie rent and for iiij acr of lande and one rood of freehould late the said Wm Baispoles sometime Piltes p'cell of the rent thereof (sometime was iiij s. iiij d.) the three acres and jr charged fower pence ob. di. q. xxiij d. ob. q. di.
Folio 11: Rob't Moulton for one Mesuage & three roods of lande late John Marstons purchased of the lord of this Mannor as the deed importith whereby is reserved for yerelie rent xij d.
** In this rental the following abbreviations require explanation: ob. for halfpenny, q. period for farthing., di. q. for half farthing, q. di for a farthing and a half. In the original rental, there are no periods after these abbreviations, but over them are special marks which have not been reproduced in the printed copy. Periods have been inserted also after the usual letters standing for shillings and pence. The abbreviation di. occurs also at various places in teh rental for half, being equivalent to demi-.""Ancestry.com. Maine Pioneers, 1623-1660 [database online]. Orem, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 1999. Original data: Pope, Charles Henry. The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623-1660. n.p., 1908:
yeoman, Newbury, proprietor, 1638. Removed to Hampton. Deposed in 1655, ae. about 50 years. [Arch. 38 B.] Bought land at York of John Allcocke 22 March, 1655, having removed thither; sold it 20 Jan. 1657, to Alex. Maxwell. [York De. I.] Sold Hampton lands in 1654, giving deed 11 July, 1662. Made deed of gift 5 June, 1684, to sons Jeremiah and Joseph, wife Martha joining in it.
Children, by wife Martha, Thomas bapt. Nov. 24, 1639, Daniel bapt. Feb. 13, 1640-1; by wife "Mary" (sic copia), Mary b. 25 (11) 1651, Hannah b. 19 (4) 1655. [Norf. Court rec.]
Compare Thomas M. master of Ralph Glover's boat in 1630. [Mass. rec.]From Hampton, New Hampshire Area Related Families
Thomas was in Newbury, Essex, Mass., in 1637. He came to Hampton in 1638, but he moved to York, York, Maine, in 1654. He was the 7th of 10 children and the youngest of 5 sons of Robert and Mary. Additional sources: Noyes/Libby/Davis, "Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire," (1939), p. 500. Moulton, Joy Wade, "English Background of the Moulton Family, " (NEH&GR, 1990), v. 144 , p. 260.Top of Form 1 Re: Moultons from New Hampshire
Posted by: Jere AZ
Date: April 21, 2001 at 12:43:41
In Reply to: Re: Moultons from New Hampshire <788.html> by Jeanne (Dolloff) Lowenthal of 1242
Jeanne, Sorry to be so long in answering. Let me take your message one paragraph at a time. First, My source for Thomas Moulton's arrival in the colonies comes from Charles E. Banks "Planters of the Commonwealth." Thomas came over on one of the same two ships his brother John came on. The Pages were there too. Thomas was alone according to passenger lists. John and his wife Anne had five children with them. There was also a Widow, Mrs. Mary Moulton, a Miriam Moulton, age 23, and a Ruth Moulton, age 20, listed with John and his family. The Pages, had 3 daughters,Frances, Margaret & Susanna with them. From Dow's "History of Hampton, NH" the daughter "Margaret" married "William Moulton", who came over as a servant at the same time. I also find that in my family copy of "Moulton Annals." The name "Dolloff" has never come up in our Genealogy and Thomas did not have a daughter named "Rachel." He had six children, two of which were girls named Hannah & Mary. The other four were boys and all of them accounted for. According to my family records Thomas was Baptised on July 16, 1608, not born. My wife and I have been in that church where he was Baptised and it is still in great shape. I even left a 5LB donation at the alter. The marriage date of 1638 to a Martha is the same information I have, but where did the Martha Page come from, since Robert and Lucy did not have Martha the year before? and since William Moulton married she can hardly be confused with Margaret Page. My records show that Thomas did live next door to his brother John in Hampton, NH, where they were Founding Fathers. However, he did move to York, ME in 1655. You will not only find this in "Moulton Annals," but also in Charles E. Banks, "History of York, ME. Samuel Tilton married one of Thomas's daughters, but it was Hannah, not a Ann. The information on Joseph2 is pretty close and the same with Joseph3, but it still doesn't give us Martha's last name. There was another Thomas Moulton came over with the Winthrop Fleet in 1630 and you might want to look at that one for the answers to some of your questions? Jeremiah MoultonBanks, Charles Edward. History of York Maine, Vol I. Regional Publishing Company: Baltimore, MD. 1931.
p 224-225
"Thomas Moulton
The progenitor of one of the oldest and most distinguished families in this town, Thomas Moulton was a descendant of a well-to-do line line of yeomen, living long before 1500 in the parish of Great Ormsby, County of Norfolk, England (***footnote: Generous and enthusiastic descendents have given him the accolade and bestowed a title on him as Sir Thomas Moulton, but this is confined to a few who do not understand that coats of arms do not belong to the yeomanry. There is no record of a grant of arms to his family and the one shown is a spurious one painted about 1800 by a traveling artist named Coles.) It is situated about 5 miles north of Yarmouth, the greatest fishing port of England on the North Sea. The name is found in the early English records as Multon, Muleton, Mowleton, Mouton and Moton, but the emigrant used the form in which it is found today. The ancestry and geneology of this family appears in Volume III of this work and it will be sufficient here to state that he was the son of Robert and Mary (Smyth) Moulton, born in 1606 and baptized at Great Ormesby, July 16, 1608, where he lived until his emigration. After the death of his father (1633) and mother (1636), he and his elder brother John came to New England and settled in 1636-7 at Newbury, Mass. From thence they removed to Hampton, N. H., in 1638, where they lived side by side until 1655, when Thomas came to York with his wife and five of his children. What inducement caused him to see out there is not known, as he had no relatives here to induce the change. He bought seventy acres of John Alcock, in what is now Scotland in 1655 (which he sold in 1657 to Alexander Maxwell), and in 1656 bought twenty acres of Capt. John Davis on Gorges Neck, on which he lived until his death.
Beyond holding office as Selectman in 1679 and 1681 he did not enter public life, as far as known. he married, probably in Hamptom, Martha (surname unknown), about 1638, the mother of all his children. Date of death of bnoth is unknown, but they were living September 26, 1684, when they transferred all their real estate to their sons Jereamiah and Joseph in consideration of support during their lives. They had the following children:
1. Thomas, bapt. November 24, 1639; prob d.s.p. (Feb. 18, 1665, Savage).
2. Daniel, bapt. Feb. 13, 1641-2; removed to Portsmouth and d.s.p.
3. Abigail, (1645).
4. Joseph, (1648).
5. Jeremiah, 1650.
6. Mary, b. Jan. 25, 1651-2.
7. Hannah, b. June 19, 1655.
Martha 1, 2 was born 3 in 1610/1617 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire. She died 4, 5 after 1684 in York, York, Maine. She married 6, 7 Thomas Moulton about 1638 in Newbury, Hampton, New Hampshire.
Quite possibly the same woman as the one to give testimony in the trial of Eunice Cole as a witch:
Thomas Moulton's Wife and Goodwife Sleeper describe strange sounds
The deposition of Thomas Moulton's wife and Goodwife Sleeper[:] These deponents testifieth that we being talking about Goodwife Cole, and Goodwife Marston's child and on the sudden we heard something scrape against the boards of the window and we went out and looked about and could see nothing and then we went in again and began to talk the same also again concerning she and Goodwife Marston's child and then we heard the scraping again and then we went out again and looked about and could see nothing, and the scraping was so loud that if a dog or a cat had done it we should have seen the marks in the boards and we could see none. The house where we were was Thomas Sleeper's house and farther these deponents saith not. Taken upon oath before us the commissioners of Hampton the 10th 2d month 1656. Vera Col)ia per me Thomas Bradbury recorder William Fuller Henry Dow. Sworn in court September 4, 1656 Edward Rawson Secretary.
Source: MA 135:2. (from Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England {A Documentary History, 1638-1692} by David D. Hall -- 1991)
They had the following children:
M i Thomas Moulton was christened 1, 2 on 24 Nov 1639 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire. He died . M ii Daniel Moulton M iii Jeremiah Moulton F iv Abigail Moulton F v Mary Moulton M vi Joseph Moulton F vii Hannah Moulton was born 1, 2 on 19 Jun 1655 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire. She died .
From Hampton, New Hampshire Area Genealogy:
Dow wondered if this might be the Hannah MOULTON who married Samuel TILTON. Some have speculated (even stated on the pages of the NEH&GR in 1987, v. 141, p. 329) that Hannah was born in 1645, rather than 1655. However, further check of the Hampton records for births will confirm that she was in fact born there in 1655. It therefor appears that the Hannah who married Samuel in 1662 is a member of another MOULTON family. NEH&GR acknowledges this 1987 error at "Additions and Corections," v. 155 [Oct. 2001], p. 415.
Daniel Black [Parents] 1, 2, 3 was born 4, 5, 6 on 24 Aug 1667. He died 7, 8 1710 - 12 Aug 1712 in York, York Co, Me. The cause of death was York, York, ME. He married 9, 10, 11 Sarah Adams on 19 Jul 1695 in Topsfield/Boxford, Essex, Ma.
Other marriages:Cummings, Mary
Mass Vital Records before 1850 Topsfield
1667 BLACK Daniel, s. Daniel, Aug. 24, 1667. CT. R.
4. Daniel Black Jr was born on Aug 24, 1667 at Boxford,
Massachusetts. He married Mary Cummings, daughter of Isaac
Cummings, on Jul 14, 1691 at Topsfield, Massachusetts. He
married Sarah Adams, daughter of Philip Adams and Elizabeth Turpin,
on Jul 19, 1695 at Boxford, Massachusetts; She was from Topsfield,
Massachusetts. He died between 1710 and 1712. He died on Aug 12,
1712 at York, York, Maine, at age 44.
from Darryl Rowles drowles@servecom.picker.comHistory of York Maine by Charles Edward Banks; Sponsored by the Society for the Preservation of Historical Landmarks in York County, Inc. Baltimore: Regional Publishing Company. 1967.
Page 210
"Daniel Black who came to York from Topsfield in 1695 was the son of a Scotch prisoner who arrived in the John and Sarah."
Page 276
"Daniel Black: He came here from Boxford, Mass. in 1695, the son of Daniel and Faith (Bridges) Black of that town, and was born August 24, 1667, a weaver by occupation. His father was a Scotch prisoner in 1651 and was put to service in the Lynn Iron Works. Daniel, Jr. probably came here first in the military service, as in 1696, he was a segeant (Deeds v, pt ii, 70). He was convicted of selling liquor without a license in 1699. His residence was on the Puddington lot in Lower Town (Deeds, iv, 114), and he had other lots and grants on Alcocks Neck and on the south side. He was selectman 1699 and 1700, besides holding several minor offices as moderator 1703.
He married (1) in Topsfield, Mass., Mary Cummings and after her death without issue, (2) Sarah, daughter of Phillip Adams, July 19, 1695 at Topsfield, by whom he had five children. He died between 1710 and 1712. A genealogy of the family appears in Volume III of this history."
Page 210
"Daniel Black who came to York from Topsfield in 1695 was a son of a Scotch prisoner who arrived in the John and Sarah."
Sarah Adams [Parents] 1, 2, 3 was born 4 in 1674 in York, York Co, Me. She died 5 on 28 Jul 1727 in York, York Co, Me. She married 6, 7, 8 Daniel Black on 19 Jul 1695 in Topsfield/Boxford, Essex, Ma.
5. Sarah Adams was born circa 1675. She married Daniel Black
Jr., son of Daniel Black and Faith Bridges, on Jul 19, 1695 at
Boxford, Massachusetts; She was from Topsfield, Massachusetts.
She died on Jul 28, 1727.
from Darryl Rowles drowles@servecom.picker.com
They had the following children:
M i Samuel Black M ii Daniel Black died after 1710. F iii Elizabeth Black died after 1710.
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