Kingman, Joseph

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Disposition of John Kingman's Estate
186 Abstracts of Plymouth County Probate Records
[p. 91] "Whereas John Kingman of Bridgwater .... being denied
opportunity of making a written Will did desire us .... to be helpfull
in the disposal of his estate .... have .... with the Consent of the
heires and Legatees agreed upon the dispose of the said Estate as
followeth . for the payment of a debt of" £7 "we have set a part ten
acres of land next to the house lott and Six acres which was bought of
Samuel Backard the which Lands are nov given to the widdow and are at
her dispose for the payment of" £3 "due to the daughters".
"We have Set apart" 8 1/2 acres of "that lot which was bought of
Eilillue Brett which .... are at the daughters dispose for the payment
of" 20s. more due.
"We have set apart a peece of Cloth which is Given to the Widdow as
for all other debts and Rates due at the decease of the abovesaid John
Kingman and till the begining of march 1690/1
Abstracts of Plymouth County Probate Records 185
The three Brothers have Engaged for the payment of them, and for that
End we have set a part a 52 acre lot at Salisbury Plain valued at" £9,
"A Swamp lot at Cutting Cove" £2, 10s., "A ten acre lot on the
Easterly side of West Meadow" £2, 10s.
"We have ordered the housing and house lot Consisting of 20 acres to
be at the Widdows dispose during her life allowing the Eldest son the
Improvement of one half of the dwelling house till the begining of May
and that at the Widdows decease the Eldest Son shall have a double
share in the said housing and house lott and the Rest to be Equally
divided among the Rest of the Children."
"We have ordered the Improvement of half Flaggey meadow lott for the
Widow during her life."
"We have set apart a third part of the movables for the Widdow
amounting to" £24, 13s.
"We have ordered for the Eldest Son in lands half of Matfield Lott the
whole lot Consisting of 44 acres that is half of the said lot being
Equally divided for quantity and quallity" £9, 10s; "A 10 acre lot
near hoclebery plaine" £3, 6s., 8d.; "10 acres which was bought of
Jonathan Carey" £5; "5 acres butting on that which was Joseph Caries"
A; "Flaggey Meadow lott" £7; "a double share in the Purchase Right and
the Cedar Swamp" £1, 14s., 10d.; "all amounting to" £28, 11s., 9d.
"We have farther ordered for the Eldest Son in Moveables" £7, 13s.,
"his whole Double share amounting to" £86, 4s.
"We have further ordered for the second Brother Henry Kingman in lands
a lott of meadow at Poore meadow" £5, 10s.; "Ten acres bought of
Joseph Carey" £3, 10s.; "7 acres on the Easterly side of a Six acre
lot which was bought of Samuel Packard More 4 acres lying betweene the
head of that which was Joseph Caries and that which was bought of
Elihu Brett both" £3, lost; "A single Share in the purchase Right and
the Cedar Swamp" 17 shillings, "The whole amounting to" £13, 7s.
"We have further ordered for the said Henry Kingman" £4, 25s. "in
moveables"
"We halve ordered for the third Brother, Samuel Kingman in lands a 50
acre lot at Salisbury plaine" £10; "half of a meadow lott at Salisbury
plaine" A, his.; "A Single share in the purchase Right and the Cedar
Swamp" 17 shillings, "all amounting to" £13, 12s.; also £4, 10s. "in
moveables"
"We have ordered for the three daughters in lands a ten acre Swamp
lott about home at Some distance from the dwelling house" £4; "half of
Matfield lot" £9, 10s.; [p. 92] "half of the meadow lott at Salisbury
Plaine" £2, 25s.; "fifteene acres of upland
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Jonathan married Keith, Mary on 15 Mar 1732 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Mary (daughter of Keith, Joseph and Fobes, Elizabeth) was born on 12 Oct 1713 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; died on 28 Mar 1781 in W Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
old burial ground

Henry married Howard, Bethiah in 1693 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Bethiah (daughter of Howard, John and Hayward, Martha) was born about 1671; died on 30 Apr 1755; was buried in West Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
old burial ground

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Brother = Samuel Keith

Joseph married Fobes, Elizabeth about 1694. Elizabeth (daughter of Fobes, Edward and Howard, Elizabeth) was born on 20 Mar 1677 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; died on 12 Feb 1758 in W Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Edson, Elizabeth in 1663. Elizabeth (daughter of Edson, Deacon Samuel and Bickley, Susanna) was born in 1643; died in 1695 in Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Weymouth, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John Howard, with his brother James, came from England and settled in
Duxbury; he was among those able to bear arms there in 1643. James, it
is said, went to Bermuda, and John came to W. B., and was one of the
proprietors and original settlers in the town a. 1651; was young when
he came over, and it is said, lived in Capt. Miles Standish's family;
was a man of much influence in the new plantation; one of the first
military officers in Bridgewater; took the oath of fidelity here 1657;
his descendants still own and live on the place where he first
settled; he always wrote his name Haward, and so did all his
descendants till after 1700, and the early town records are
conformable to this spelling; but for the last century it has been
invariably written Howard. It is remarkable that the two names of
Hayward and Haward, which have always been known as distinct families,
were uniformly pronounced alike, Howard. They were perhaps the same
originally, and both Hayward; but, in writing, John omitted the Y.
There was supposed to have been some connection between the families,
but perhaps it arose altogether from intermarriage, as John m. Martha
, D. of Thos. Hayward, and was a younger man even that Thomas Hayward,
Jr.--He d. about 1700.--He had John, James, Jonathan, Elizabeth,
Sarah, Bethiah, Ephraim.--Elizabeth m. Edward Fobes.--Sarah m.
Zaccheus Packard.--Bethiah m. Henry Kingman.--He was licensed to keep
an Ordinary or Tavern as early as 1670, and it is remarkable that a
public house has been kept there by his descendants ever since till
within a few years.

,, p. 147. Immigrant ancestor to Duxbury, MA,prior to 1643, later moving to Bridgewater.

John married Hayward, Martha on 6 Apr 1657 in Dennis, Barnstable Co., MA. Martha (daughter of Hayward, Thomas and Towne, Susanna) was born about 1635 in Aylesford, Kent, England; died before 15 Oct 1701 in Plymouth Co., Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 28 Jul 1702, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts Colony

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First Reverend in Bridgewater

For nearly a hundred and sixty years, till 1822, the people went to town-meetings in what is now West Bridgewater, the old centre of the town; and for fifty years they attended Sunday services at the same
place, till 1716, when this southern part of the town was organized as the South Parish for church and school purposes, and a meeting-house was built near the site of the present First Parish, or Unitarian,
church, the Rev. James Keith preaching the dedication sermon, August 14, 17I7 The house was forty-three feet by thirty-eight, without tower or belfry. A low partition up the centre separated the men and women, who sat on very rude benches; and the deacons sat in front of the pulpit, facing the people. August I8, the First Church in this parish, of more than fifty members, was organized• Benjamin Alien was immediately engaged to preach and on July g, 1718, was formally settled. He probably lived in the Edson-Lazell house, now occupied by Miss Clara Washburn, or certainly very near this site. After thirteen years he was released by a council in I730, and was afterward settled in Maine, dying there in 1764 Source::The Bridgewater Book

Property owners:
"To These fity-four were added Samuel Edson, the first miller, who came from Salem, and Rev James Keith, the first minister and Edson's son-in-law, educated at Aberdeen, and installed at
Bridgewater 1664 at the age of 21. "

According to Jarvis Edson: Born in Scotland, educated at Aberdeen and at the age of 18 emigrated to this country, arriving in Boston in 1662, and introduced to the church in Bridgeweater by Dr. Increase Mather.

James married Edson, Susanna on 3 May 1668 in Lincoln, Middlesex, MA. Susanna (daughter of Edson, Deacon Samuel and Bickley, Susanna) was born in 1640 in Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts, USA; died on 16 Oct 1705 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Old Churchyard, Bridgewater, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Source:by Jarvis Bonesteel Edson, of the city of New York. Edsons In
England And America. Kinckerbocker Press,1903, 27 West 23rd Street,
NY,NY. p. 2.
Source:by Jarvis Bonesteel Edson, of the city of New York. Edsons In
England And America. Kinckerbocker Press,1903, 27 West 23rd Street,
NY,NY. p. 2.

Edward married Howard, Elizabeth about 1683 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Howard, John and Hayward, Martha) was born about 1655 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]