Saturday, March 12, 2016

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Middle Names

Hey genea-folks, 
it's Saturday Night again, 

 time for more Genealogy Fun!

 


Your mission this week, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music!), is to:


1)   It became tradition in English speaking countries to bestow middle names on children during the 19th century and later.  Go back four generations in your ancestral families and list the middle names of the children in these families.  Do you know why those middle names were bestowed?

2)  Share your family middle names on your own blogp ost, in a comment to this post, or on social media like Facebook or Google+.

Here's mine: 

A)  Father:  Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983): Middle name is father's middle name
Mother: Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002): no recent ancestor with this name
Son:  Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-????): no recent ancestor with this name
Son:  Stanley Richmond Seaver (1946-????):  Middle name is paternal grandmother's surname
Son:  Scott Frederick Seaver (1955-????): Middle name is father's given name

B)  Father:  Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942):  Middle name is father's middle name
Mother:  Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962): no recent ancestor with this name
Daughter:  Marion Frances Seaver (1901-1999):  Middle name is maternal aunt's middle name
Daughter Evelyn Seaver (1903-1978)
Son:  Stanley Richmond Seaver (1905-1910):  Middle name is mother's surname
Daughter:  Ruth Weston Seaver (1907-1999): no recent ancestor with this name
Son:  Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983): Middle name is paternal grandfather's name
Son:  Edward Richmond Seaver (1913-2004): Middle name is mother's surname
Daughter: Geraldine Seaver (1917-2007)

C)  Father:  Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976): no recent ancestor with this name
Mother:  Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977): Middle name is mother's surname
Daughter:  Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002): no recent ancestor with this name

D)  Father:  Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922): no recent ancestor with this name
Mother:  Harriet Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920): no recent ancestor with this name
Son:  Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942): Middle name is father's middle name
Son:  Harry Clifton Seaver (1885-1951): no recent ancestor with this name
Son:  Howard Edward Seaver (1893-1900): Middle name is maternal grandfather's given name

E)  Father:  Thomas Richmond (1848-1917)
Mother:  Julia E. White (1848-1913)
Daughter:  Anne Frances Richmond (1869-1939): no recent ancestor with this name
Son:  Frederic J. Richmond (1870-1875)
Son:  Everett Glens Richmond (1875-1917): no recent ancestor with this name
Daughter:  Grace L. Richmond (1876-1963)
Daughter:  Emily White Richmond (1879-1966): Middle name is mother's surname
Son:  Charles Percival Richmond (1880-1910): no recent ancestor with this name
Daughter:  Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962): no recent ancestor with this name
Son:  Edwin Thomas Richmond (1883-1935):  Middle name is given name of father
Son:  James Henry Richmond (1886-1913): no recent ancestor with this name

F)  Father:  Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946): no ancestor with this name
Mother:  Abbie Ardell Smith (1862-1944): no ancestor with this name
Son:  David Devier Carringer (1889-1890): maternal grandfather's name was Devier J. Smith
Son:  Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976): no ancestor with this name

G)  Father:  Charles Auble (1849-1916)
Mother:  Georgianna Kemp (1868-1952)
Daughter:  Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977):  Middle name is mother's surname

So we have in these names:

*  2 where middle name is father's middle name
*  2 where middle name is father's given name
*  2 where middle name is grandfather's given name
*  3 where middle name is mother's surname
*  1 where middle name is aunt/uncle's middle name

So out of  33 persons in these four generations, only 10 of them had a middle name from a family member.  Four had no middle name, and 3 had initials for middle names (middle name unknown).  16 had unique middle names not in recent family members.


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Surname Saturday -- NURSE (England to colonial New England)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  


I am in the 8th great-grandmothers and I'm up to Ancestor #1261, who is Sarah NURSE (1650-????) 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two generations of this NURSE family line is:


1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)


18.  Edward Hildreth (1831-1899)
19.  Sophia Newton (1834-1923)

38.  Thomas J. Newton (1800-????)
39.  Sophia Buck (1797-1882)

78.  Isaac Buck (1757-1846)
79.  Martha Phillips (1757-1820)

156.  Isaac Buck (1732-????)
157.  Mary Richards (1733-????)

314.  Joseph Richards (1703-1748)
315.  Mary Bowden (1705-1755)

630.  Michael Bowden (1673-1741)
631.  Sarah Davis (1676-1754)

 1260.  Michael Bowden, born about 1651 in Massachusetts, United States; died 26 June 1740 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.  He married 15 December 1669 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
1261.  Sarah Nurse, born about 1650 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.  

Children of Michael Bowden and Sarah Nurse are:
*  Susannah Bowden (1670-????).
*  Michael Bowden (1673-1741), married 1697 Sarah Davis (1676-1754).
*  Samuel Bowden (1676-1737), married 1705 Mary Webber (1673-1737).
*  Francis Bowden *1678-1759), married 1707 Mary Bobbyer (1687-1748).

2522. Francis Nurse, born before 18 January 1618 in England; died 22 November 1695 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.  He married 24 August 1644 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England.
2523.  Rebecca Towne, born before 21 February 1621 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England; died 19 July 1692 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 5046. William Towne and 5047. Joan Blessing.

Children of Francis Nurse and Rebecca Towne are:
*  John Nurse (1645-1719), married (1) 1672 Elizabeth Smith (1645-1673); (2) 1677 Elizabeth Verry (1655-1684).
*  Rebecca Nurse (1647-1695), married 1669 Thomas Preston (1643-1697).
*  Samuel Nurse (1648-1715), married 1677 Mary Smith (1660-1716).
*  Sarah Nurse (1650-????), married 1669 Michael Bowden (1651-1740).
*  Mary Nurse (1655-1749), married 1678 John Tarbell (1654-1715).
*  Francis Nurse (1661-1716), married 1685 Sarah Craggen (1664-1707).
*  Elizabeth Nurse (1664-1735), married 1678 William Russell (1655-1733).
*  Benjamin Nurse (1666-1748), married (1) 1688 Tamesin Smith (1671-1713); (2) 1714 Elizabeth Sawtell (1669-1723).

Information about this Nurse family was obtained from:

Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Sarah Johnson, 1775-1824 Wife of Joseph Neal of Litchfield Maine (Portland, ME. : The Anthoensen Press, 1960).

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Friday, March 11, 2016

Finding the 1800 Amos Plimpton et al Deed in Massachusetts Land Records

After I posted Amanuensis Monday - Post 310: 1798 Deed of Amos Plimpton et.al to Harman Guild in Norfolk County, Mass. on 7 March 2016, I was asked by a society colleague on Wednesday "How did you find that?"  I've written about the process before, but it's worth going through it again for those researchers who may have missed the earlier posts.

I wanted to search the Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986 record collection on FamilySearch.  These land records cannot be searched using a name or place or date in search fields.  The researcher must "browse" the records in order to find the documents of interest.  In the case of land records, the researcher must browse the Grantee (Buyer) and Grantor (Seller) indexes to determine the Volume and Page Number for a specific deed.  

I knew that Amos Plimpton (1735-1808) resided in Medfield in Suffolk County, Massachusetts until 1793, when Norfolk County, Massachusetts was created from a portion of Suffolk County.  I had to search both Suffolk and Norfolk County Land Records to find his deeds.

Here is the process I used for Norfolk County deeds of Amos Plimpton:

1)  From the list of FamilySearch record collections, I clicked on the Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986 record collection page and saw:



See, there's no search field.  The user has to click on the link to "Browse through 5,766,135 images."  That sounds daunting, but it is remarkably well organized.

2)  I clicked on the Browse link on the screen above, and saw the first set of "Waypoints" - the counties of Massachusetts.


3)  I wanted Norfolk County, so I clicked on "Norfolk" on the screen above.  That opened the next set of "Waypoints" - the list of "Books" that have been digitized and organized for Norfolk County.


At the top of the list of "Books" are the Grantee Deed indexes, then the Grantor Deed Indexes, and then the Deed Books themselves in Volume order.  For Norfolk county, there are 25 Grantee Index books, 40 Grantor Index books, and 886 Volumes of Deeds from 1793 to 1901.  Isn't that amazing?

4)  I wanted to search the Grantor Deed Index for Amos Plimpton in the 1793-1849 time period.  I scrolled down to the Grantor Deed Index list, and saw:


5)  From the list above, I chose the "Deed Index (Grantor) 1793-1849 vol 18-20, N-Q" book because that is where Plimpton deeds would be indexed.  Here is the first image of that Index:


This "Book" of the deed index is on FHL US/CAN Microfilm 0,838,381.  The top left of the screen says this is "Image 1 of 632.

6)  Now I have to guess where the index listings for Plimpton will be - I figured it would be in the second half of the "Book."  By guessing, and calculating, and guessing again, it took several minutes to find the Plimpton section of the Grantor Deed Index on image 438 of 632:


The index entry for Amos Plimpton is at the bottom of the screen above.  The entry has this information:

*  Date:  1800, June 1
*  Grantors Name:  Plimpton, Amos &ux &al [&ux means "and wife" and &al mean "and others]
*  Grantees Name:  Herman Guild
*  From where the Land Lies:  Sharon, Walpole
*  Lib.:  13 [Lib. = "Volume"]
*  Fol.:  81 [Fol. = "Folio" or sheet]
*  Instrument:  Deed
*  Description:  All int. of Samuel Guild &al. in est. of Nathaniel Guild

6)  So I need to find Volume 13 back on the "Books" "Waypoints" list:


7)  I selected "Deeds 1799-1802 vol 12-13."  That opened the first image with the FHL Microfilm number 0,839,603.  I quickly found the image for Volume 13, Page 81 on image 386 of 551:


8)  I reviewed the deed, decided that this was the correct deed in the Grantor Deed Index, and clicked on the "Download" link on the right-hand side of the screen above the image.  I advanced to the next image (using the right arrow on the left-hand side of the screen) and downloaded that image also.  

9)  I saved the two images in my Genealogy >Ancestor Files > Family History - Seaver-Hildreth-Richmond-White > Plimpton > 01-Amos Plimpton + Mary Guild > Documents file folder with the file names of AmosPlimpton-1800-LandRecord-NorfolkCoMA-Vol13-pg81 and AmosPlimpton-1800-LandRecord-NorfolkCoMA-Vol13-pg82.  

10)  The entire process to find this one record took less than 10 minutes (partially because I am confident in my ability to find these records).  

11)  I hope that this description helps others find Land Records in the different states for which they are available.  

The process is identical to that used for finding land records on FHL microfilm at the Family History Library or a local FamilySearch Center.  Of course, I can do this for these digitized records online at home in my pajamas instead of going 12 miles to the local FSC after ordering the microfilm from Salt Lake City and paying $8 for the privilege, or spending several days and several hundred dollars to go to Salt Lake City for a day at the Family History Library.


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New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday (11 March 2016)


I received this via email today from Findmypast:
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This week’s Findmypast Friday marks the release of over 12 million passenger lists and arrival records from New York. Also available to search this week are cremation records from the Manchester Crematorium, Land tax and borough court records from Devon and the 1893 women’s suffrage petition that finally succeeded in granting women the right to vote in New Zealand.
New York Passenger Lists and Arrivals contains over 12 million records of immigrants from England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and other countries who arrived in the port between the middle of the nineteenth century and the middle of the twentieth century.
The early records coincide with the Great Irish Famine, when millions of families left Ireland for America, while later records document the beginning of mass migration from other parts of Europe, prior to the creation of Ellis Island. These earlier immigrants passed through the immigration center known as Castle Garden. As the country’s largest city and port, New York received more immigrants than any other city, with roughly 7.5 million people passing through Castle Garden.
Each record consists of a transcript of an original ship’s passenger lists that will list your ancestors name, birth year, country of origin, occupation, departure port, arrival date and the name of the ship they sailed on. A number of records will also include an image of the original document which may reveal additional information such as they part of the vessel your ancestor stayed in and whether or not they could read and write and in what language.
The Lancashire, Manchester Cremation Records 1818-2001 consist of over 17,000 memorial transcripts from the Manchester Crematorium.
The Manchester Crematorium, located on Barlow Moor Road, was opened in 1892 and is the second oldest crematorium in the UK. During the blitz of Christmas 1940, the crematorium registers were destroyed. The details found in these records were recovered by the Manchester and Lancashire family history society through crematorium memorials and obituaries in local newspapers.
Each record consists of a transcript that will list you ancestor’s name, cremation date and a narrative that may include a short biography or details of their next of kin.
Find out if your ancestor lived in Tavistock in West Devon between 1839 and 1896 with over 5,000 assorted court documents. The records consist of court papers from the Tavistock borough court collected by Robert Luxton of Tavistock, clerk to the magistrates. The borough was integral to daily community life and was responsible for the administration of poor relief and law enforcement.
With each record you will find a transcript and an image of the borough document. The detail found in each record can vary depending on the type of event as the collection consists of a wide variety of documents including warrants, summonses, depositions, convictions and case reports. Most transcripts will include a combination of your ancestors’ name, parish, the date of the event that was being recorded, the type of event that was being recorded, the names of their parents and the name of the presiding judge.
The Devon, Plymouth & West Devon Land Tax and Valuation Records 1897-1949 contains over 249,000 records.
The records will provide you with a location of your ancestor’s home as well as a description of the property. The records will also give you the value of the land as this was used to determine the rate of tax and poor rate to be paid to the local parish or borough.
Each record includes an image of the original document from the Plymouth & West Devon Record Office and a transcript. Most transcripts will include your ancestor’s name, the location of the property, whether they were the owner, occupier or owner/occupier, and the year the records was taken. Images will include further descriptions of your ancestor’s property such as wither it was used as an inn, public house, shop, cottage, orchard, etc. They will also reveal the street name and precise location of the property, its size and gross value, and the poor rate paid on that property.
The New Zealand, Women's Suffrage Petition 1893 lists the names of the 23,853 women who signed the 1893 petition that finally succeeded in granting women the right to vote in New Zealand. On 19 September 1893, Governor Lord Glasgow passed women’s suffrage in New Zealand with the signing of a new Electoral Act. New Zealand was years ahead of other countries in granting universal women’s suffrage. Both the United States and the United Kingdom succeeded in doing so only after the First World War.
Between the 1880s and 1893, several petitions were circulated and signed in an effort to gain the right to vote for women. The 1893 petition resulted in 23,853 signatures with an additional 7,000 added before being shown to Parliament. The individual sheets, totaling more than 500 pages, were adhered together and, when unrolled, measured longer than 270 meters (885 feet). The original petition is on display at Archives New Zealand in the Constitution Room.
Don’t forget to regularly check our dedicated Findmypast Friday page to keep up to date with all the latest additions.
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52 Ancestors - Week 115: #138 Amos Plimpton (1735-1808)

Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post Challenge:  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I am extending this theme in 2016 to 156 Ancestors in 156 Weeks. Here is my ancestor biography for week #115:

Amos Plimpton (1735-1808) is #138 on my Ahnentafel list, my 5th great-grandfather who married #138 Mary Guild (1735-1800) in 1756.


I am descended through:

*  their daughter
#69 Mercy Plimpton (1772-1850), who married 
#68 Aaron Smith (1765-1841) in 1795. 
*  their son, #34 Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840) who married #35 Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869) in 1826.
*  their daughter, #17 Lucretia Townsend smith (1828-1884), who married #16 Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) in 1852.
*  their son, #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922), who married #9 Hattie Louise Hildreth (1847-1920) in 1874. 
*  their son, #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942), who married Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
* their son, #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983), who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
*  their son, #1 Randall J. Seaver (1943-....)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):


*  Name:                       Amos Plimpton[1–15]   
*  Sex:                          Male   

*  Father:                      John Plimpton (1708-1756)   
*  Mother:                    Abigail Fisher (1711-1785)   
  
2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
  
*  Birth:                       16 June 1735, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[3]   
*  Deed:                       17 March 1765 (age 29); Abner and Esther Plimpton sold 9 acres of woodland to Amos Plimpton for 12 pounds; Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[5]   
*  Deed:                      4 September 1765 (age 30), sold 9 acres of land in land in Wrentham, Mass. to David Wight for 12 pounds, six shillings; Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[6]   
*  Military:                 19 April 1775 (age 39), Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[7]   
*  Census:                   1 June 1790 (age 54), Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[8]   
*  Distribution:           1796 (about age 61), distribution from Nathaniel Guild's estate; Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[9]   
*  Deed:                      6 April 1798 (age 62), deed of land in Norfolk County from heirs of Nathaniel Guild to Harman Guild for $1671.43; Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[10]   
*  Census:                   1 June 1800 (age 64), Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[11]
*  Death:                     20 August 1808 (age 73), Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[13]
*  Burial:                    after 20 August 1808 (after age 73), Vine Lake Cemetery, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[14]    
*  Probate:                  6 September 1808 (age 73), will proved; Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[15]   
  
3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
  
*  Spouse 1:               Mary Guild (1735-1800)   
*  Marriage 1:            9 December 1756 (age 21), Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[4]  
*  Child 1:                  Molly Plimpton (1758-1813)   
*  Child 2:                  Elizabeth Plimpton (1761-1766)   
*  Child 3:                  John Plimpton (1763-1765)   
*  Child 4:                  Amos Plimpton (1770-1770)   
*  Child 5:                  Mercy Plimpton (1772-1850)   

*  Spouse 2:               Mary (Pratt) Breck (1750-1843)   
*  Marriage 2:           6 November 1800 (age 65) Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[12]   
  
4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):   

Amos Plimpton was the second son and second child of John Plimpton (1708-1756) and Abigail Fisher (1711-1785), and was born in Medfield, Massachusetts.  The birth record of Amos Plimpton in the Medfield Vital Record book says[3]:

"[Plimpton] Amose, s. John and Abigail, June 16, 1735"

There are sketches of the life of Amos Plimpton in two published books:

1)  From page 74 of:  Levi B. Chase, A Genealogy and Historical Notices of the Family of Plimpton or Plympton in America, Plumpton in England (Hartford, Conn. : Plimpton Mfg. Co., Print, 1884)[1].

"[Plimpton] Amos (39) b. June 16, 1735, d. 1808; m. first, 1756, Mary Guild, of Walpole, b. 1735, d. 1800; m. second, widow Mary Breck, of Sherborne, d. in Medway. He took the estate at the decease of his mother in 1785 ; paying out to Abner Plimpton, Unity  Boyden and Olive Peters, other children of the deceased, and was the last of the name residing on the original homestead. He was a soldier of the Revolution."

and on page: 105:

"39. Amos Plimpton. [22]

"Molly (90) b. 1758, m. first, 1780, Joseph Cole, of Medfield, d. ; m. second, 1785, Amos Kingsbury, of Walpole. They settled on the original homestead in Medfield."  

2)  Mr. Tilden, the historian of Medfield, writes[2]

"The original Plimpton House stood doubtless on the traditional spot where the traces of a cellar are, which I showed you." This was a depression in the ground behind Mr. Kingsbury's barn ; and farther from the street than the present house. "On the decay of that house, a second one was built on the spot now occupied by that of Mr. Kingsbury. I remember it as long ago as 1840 ; it was very old in appearance then and hardly fit for a residence. This was built, probably, by John [9] who d. 1730. It was a two-story house with, at first, but one large room below, and the front door and entryway at the westerly end. Afterwards a lean-to seems to have been added in the rear.

"When Amos Plimpton married his second wife (1800), his son-in-law Kingsbury was still living with him, and the house being found too small, a ' new part ' was added to the west end, of about the same shape and size as the old part."

"The whole was torn away about 1875, and the present house built by William Kingsbury (210) on the same cellar.

"Mr. K. owns the easterly part of the original house-lot as at first laid out on the north side of the street, with the addition made carrying it to the brook. Across the ' field ' opposite, Spring street now runs ; a portion of the land has been sold for house-lots. The out-lands of the Old Plympton Estate are mostly sold out of the family."

"Elizabeth b. 1761, d. 1766. John b. 1763, d. 1765. Amos b. 1770, d. 1800 ; unm. Marcy (91) b. 1772, d. 1850 ; m. 1795 Aaron Smith, of Medfield, b. 1772, d. 1841, lived on the road to Norfolk, near the south school house."

Amos Plimpton of Medfield and Mary Guild of Medfield, daughter of Nathaniel Guild and Mary Boyden, were married in Medfield in 1756.  The Medfield Vital Records book says[4]:

"Amos Plimpton and Mary Guild, Dec. 9, 1756"

Amos and Mary (Guild) Plimpton had five children between 1758 and 1772.  Only two survived to adulthood - Molly and Mercy.

Abner and Esther Plimpton, both of Sturbridge, sold land in Wrentham, Massachusetts to Amos Plimpton of Medfield, Massachusetts on 17 March 1765 for 12 pounds[5]. The land was one fifth part of a 45 acre tract of woodland lying in the northern part of Wrentham bounded to the north by the Charles River, on land of Asa Ellis, on Common land, on land of Nathan Plimpton, on land of John Ellis, on land of Ebenezer Ware to the east and southeast, and land of Ebenezer Ware, of Ebenezer Ellis, and land of Joseph Plimpton to the west and northwest. Recorded 20 June 1765.

Amos Plimpton, yeoman of Medfield, sold land in Wrentham, Massachusetts to David Wight, yeoman of Medway, Massachusetts on 4 September 1765 for 12 pounds 6 shillings[6]. The land was one fifth part of a 45 acre tract of woodland lying in the northern part of Wrentham bounded to the north by the Charles River,on land of Asa Ellis, on Common land, on land of Nathan Plimpton, on land of John Ellis, on land of Ebenezer Ware to the east and southeast, and land of Ebenezer Ware, of Ebenezer Ellis, and land of Joseph Plimpton to the west and northwest. Recorded 5 April 1766.

Amos Plimpton served in the Revolutionary War.  His service is summarized in the Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War book as[7]:

"Plimpton, Amos, Medfield.  Sergeant, Capt. Ephraim Chenery's (Medfield) co., Col. John Smith's regt., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 11 days; also, 2d Lieutenant, Capt. Aaron Guild's co., Col. Lemuel Robinson's regt.; list of commissioned officers endorsed ?till 1st of April [p.464] 1776;? also, Lieutenant, Capt. Aaron Guild's co., Col. Lemuel Robson's (Robinson's) regt.; enlisted Jan. 29, 1776; service to time of marching in [i.e. home], 14 days; regiment raised in Suffolk and York counties; roll dated Roxbury and endorsed ?service at Dorchester Heights and vicinity; also, Lieutenant, Capt. Sabin Mann's co. of Medfield militia; return of alarm list with equipments, dated June 10, 1776; also, list dated Sept. 16, 1777, of men belonging to Capt. Sabin Mann's co. of Medfield militia drafted to complete the quota for the Continental Army, but who paid money in lieu of service; said Plimpton reported as having paid £15."

In the 1790 U.S. Census, Amos Plimpton was enumerated in Medfield, Suffolk County, Massachusetts[8].  There was one male over age 16 (Amos) and one female (probably wife Mary).

Amos Plimpton's wife, Mary Plimpton, received a one seventh share of all of the real estate and the personal estate of Mary's father, Nathaniel Guild (1712-1796) of Walpole, according to the 1795 will of Nathaniel Guild[9].  

On 6 April 1798, the heirs of Nathaniel Guild, father of Mary (Guild) Plimpton, sold land in Walpole to Harman Guild[10].  The deed says, in part:

"Know all Men by these Presents, that We Amos Plimpton Yeoman, and his wife Mary Plimton Spinster, both of Medfield and Ebenezer Hewings Yeoman and Mercy Hewins his wife Spinster, and Ezra Morse Esq'r & Susanna Morse his wife Spinster, and Mehatable Guild, spinster, all of Sharon, all in the County of Norfolk, and Samuel Guild of Easton in the County of Bristol Esq'r, and heirs of  the Estate of Nathaniel Guild late of Walpole dec'd for and in consideration of Sixteen Hundred & seventy one Dollars and forty three Dollars paid us by Herman Guild of Walpole in the County of Norfolk Yeoman, the receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge, do hereby Quit and have by these  Presents, have Quited to him the said Harmen Guild and to his heirs and assigns, all our rights & title in and unto all the real Estate lying and being partly in Sd Walpole and partly in Sd Sharon and partly in Foxborough, being all that is contained in the Inventory that was taken of the real estate of s'd Nathaniel Guild dec'd dated Nov'r 15'th 1796 and for further description and Perticulars of the Boundaries of s'd real Estate, reference is had to the Plan taken by the appraisers of s'd Estate."

In the 1800 U.S. Census, Amos Plimpton was enumerated in Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts[11].  There was one male over age 45 (Amos) and one female aged 26-45.

Mary (Guild) Plimpton, the first wife of Amos, died in Medfield on 20 March 1800.  Amos married, secondly, Mary (Pratt) Breck, widow of Elijah Breck,  on 6 November 1800.  The Medfield Vital Record book records the marriage[12]

"[Plimpton] Amos and Mary Breck (wid., int.], Nov. 6, 1800"

Amos Plimpton died on 20 August 1808 in Medfield, Massachusetts, according to the Medfield vital Records book[13], which says:

"[Plimptom] Amos, Aug. 20, 1808."

The inscription on the gravestone of Amos Plimpton, in Vine Lake Cemetery in Medfield, says[14]:


In Memory of 
Mr. Amos Plimpton.
Died August 20th 1808
Aged 73
How peaceful are our slumbers here,
No cares disturb our rest,
In vain shall death alarm our fear,
Since Christ the grave hath blest.

Amos Plimpton wrote his will on 13 January 1807, and it was proved on 6 September 1808 in the Norfolk County, Massachusetts Probate Court.  The proving statement and will say[15]:

" Commonwealth of Massachusetts
By William Heath Esquire Judge of the Probate of Wills, and for granting Letters of Administration on the Estates of Persons deceased, having Goods, chattels, Rights or Credits in the County of Norfolk,within the Commonwealth aforesaid.

"To all men to whom these presents shall come, Greetings. Know Ye, That on the day of the date hereof at a Court of Probate, held at Dedham in and for the County aforesaid, the Instrument hereunto annexed, purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Amos Plimpton, late of Medfield, in said County, Gentleman, deceased, who had, while he lived, and at the time of his decease,Goods, Chattels, rights or Credits, in the County aforesaid, was present before me and proven. I Do, Therefore, by virtue of the power and authority given me in such Case, hereby commit the execution of the said Instrument and the Administration of the Estate of the said Deceased unto John Kingsbury, the Executor named in the said Will, well and faithfully to execute the same, and to administer the Estate of the said deceased according thereto; who accepted of the said Trust, and gave Bond as the Law directs, to exhibit, upon oath a true and perfect Inventory of the said Estate, into the Probate Office of the said County within three months; and also to render a plain and true Account of his proceedings thereon, upon oath, within one year from the date hereof. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & Seal of the said Court of Probate. Dated at Dedham the sixth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight.                        W. Heath

"I, Amos Plimpton of the town of Medfield,County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Gentleman, being in health and of a sound mind and memory blessed be Almighty God for the same, do make and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner following that is to say. First, I order all my just debts and funeral charges to be paid by my Executor hereafter named as soon as may be after my decease.

"Imprimis I give to my beloved wife Mary Plimpton the use and improvement of the following parts of my Dwelling House as long as she remains my Widow viz. My front room, bedroom and back room and back chamber with one half of the Cellar and the free use of the well, with a sufficient yard room together with half the wood house. And it is my will that she shall receive annually out of my estate for her support eight cords of good fire wood brought to the door and cut fit for the fire, five Bushells of Indian Corn, five bushells of Rye, one bushell of Matt, one barrell of Cyder, sixty pounds of Pork, fifty pounds of Beef, sixty pounds of good Cheese, thirty pounds of Butter, ten pounds of Flax and five pounds of Sheep's Wool, with a sufficiency of same of all kinds. I also give her all of the furniture which she brought with her when I married her to be at her disposall forever. Also one Cow at her disposal.

"Item I Give and devise to my Grandson John Kingsbury and to his heirs all my Real Estate that I shall die possessed of, such as buildings and lands excepting my wood lot at Smith's plane (so called) and what I shall hereafter give to my daughter Molly Kingsbury for improvement during her natural life he the said John Kingsbury to come into possession of the first part after my decease the other part after his mother's decease. 

"Item I give to my daughter Molly Kingsbury wife of Amos Kingsbury the use and improvement of the one third part of my home lot on the south side the Turnpike Road during her natural life. Item I give and devise to my daughter Mercy Smith wife of Aaron Smith and to her heirs my woodlot lying on Smith's plane (so called). And also six hundred dollars to be paid in the following manner (viz) one hundred dollars in one year after my decease and one hundred dollars annually until the whole sum of six hundred dollars is paid.

"Item I give and bequeath to my Son in law Aaron Smith and to his heirs all my wearing Apparell to be at their disposal forever. Item I give and bequeath to my grandson John Kingsbury all my farming tools to him & his heirs forever. 

"Item I give and bequeath to my two Sons in law (viz) Amos Kingsbury and Aaron Smith and to my grandson John Kingsbury and to their heirs all the remainder of my personal estate not before disposed of to be equally divided between them. All the before enumerated articles which I have given to my wife for her annual support I order my Grandson John Kingsbury to furnish agreeable to the foregoing part of my Will. And all the Legacies which I have given to my daughter Mary Smith are to be paid by my grandson John Kingsbury at the times and in the manner before directed in consideration of what I have given him. And I do constitute and appoint my grandson John Kingsbury sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament which I have this day made and executed and in conformation this is my last Will and Testament. In Testimony whereof I the said Amos Plimpton have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirteenth day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seven.     
                                     Amos Plimpton 

"Signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the said Amos Plimpton as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us, who at his request and in his presence hereunto set our names as witnesses to the same. 
                                     John Baxter Thaddeus Moore Alpheus Fisher"

5)  SOURCES
 
1. Levi B. Chase, A Genealogy and Historical Notices of the Family of Plimpton or Plympton in America, Plumpton in England (Hartford, Conn. : Plimpton Mfg. Co., Print, 1884), pages 74 and 105, Amos Plimpton sketches.

2. William S. Tilden and John A. S. Monks, History of the town of Medfield, Massachusetts, 1650-1886 : with genealogies of the families that held real estate or made any considerable stay in the town during the first two centuries (Boston, Mass.: G.H. Ellis, 1887), page 462, Amos Plimpton sketch.

3. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. :  New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903), Births, page 84, Amos Plimpton entry.

4. Vital Records of Walpole, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. :New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1902), Marriages, page 161, Amos Plimpton and Mary Guild entry.

5. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org :, Suffolk County, Mass., Volume 104, page 219, deed for 9 acres of woodland in Wrentham, Suffolk County from Abner and Esther Plimpton to Amos Plimpton, 1765; citing original records in County Courthouses, and on FHL Microfilms.

6. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, Suffolk County, Mass., Volume 108, page 164, deed for 9 acres of woodland in Wrentham, Suffolk County from Amos Plimpton to David Wight, 1766; citing original records in County Courthouses, and on FHL Microfilms.

7. Massachusetts, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (Boston, Mass. : Wright & Potter Printing, 1896-1908), Volume 12, Page 484, Amos Plimpton entry.

8. 1790 United States Federal Census,, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Medfield, Page 369, Amos Plimpton household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M697, Roll 4  .

9. "Norfolk County, Massachusetts Probate Court Records, 1793-1881," court clerk manuscript, Volume 2, Pages 502-503, will of Nathaniel Guild, 1795, accessed on FHL US/CAN Microfilm 0,843,573.

10. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, accessed 4 March 2016), Norfolk County, Mass., Volume 13, pages 81-82, deed for land in Norfolk County from heirs of Nathaniel Guild to Harman Guild, 1798; citing original records in County Courthouses, and on FHL Microfilms .

11. 1800 United States Federal Census, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Medfield, Page 89, Amos Plimpton household, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M32, Roll 18.

12. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Marriages, Page 164, Amos Plimpton and Mary Breck entry.

13. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Deaths, page 228, Amos Plimpton entry.

14. Jim Tipton, indexed database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com), Vine Lake Cemetery (Medfield, Mass.), entry for Lieut Amos Plimpton (1735-1808).

15. "Norfolk County, Massachusetts Probate Court Records, 1793-1881," Volume 15, Pages 482-484, Amos Plimpton estate, will, 1808, accessed 2 February 2016 on FHL US/CAN Microfilm 0,843,580.



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