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| Name |
William Curtis |
| Gender |
Male |
| Baptism |
12 Nov 1592 |
Nazing, Essex, England  [1, 2, 3, 4] |
| Will |
11 Feb 1669 |
Suffolk Co, Massacusetts [3] |
- The Will of William Curtis.
I willyam Curtis ... Co. Suff., in New England, for and in consideration of mine own and my wife's eage and weaknesse, and our unability by resen thereoff to manage that small estate in our hand, ... and all my children ... being disposed into families of their one excepting my youngest sson, Isaack, ... to be help fful unto me; for ... fatherly affection ... give ... unto my beloved sone, Issaac Curtis ... now living with me, my hole esteate, ... that is to say, my dwelling hous, barn, and outhousings and all my lands, ... as it now lyeth in Roxbury, tene acars of it lyeth in Roxbury by Stoony River, ... abutting upon stoony river East, and upon the land of Isaac Curtis, lately of John Curtis North, and upon the land of John Crafts and Robert Seaver, West, and upon the land of Isaac Curtis, lately the land of Willyam Hopkins, and the hyway leding from Gamblins end south; and two acors of salt marsh ... in the eyeland in Roxbury ... abutting upon the river south, upon the land of Robert Seaver West, upon the heirs of John Ruggles. And five acors of woodland, ... nere to the town grate lots in Roxbury, and there abutting upon the town grate lots, and the land of John Mayo and Willyam hopkins west, and upon the land of willyam hopkins south, and upon Abraham how, east. And mor, eayght acors of land in the woods in the middle divishion and the last, South and together with this my present deed, doe give to my sayd sson Isaack, ...; that the sayd Isaac Curtis, his hayers ..., shall pay or cass to be payed unto my beloved sonne John Curtis and to my beloved sonn in law Isaac Newall, ... forty shillings ... to each of them. Dated 11 Feb. 1669.
In presence of us Peleg Heath, Samuel Crafts.
Will. Curtis acknowledged this Instrument as his Will, May 5th. 1672.
Enos Tyng.
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| Died |
08 Dec 1672 |
Roxbury, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts [1, 3] |
| Notes |
- William Curtis sailed on the Lyon the 22 June 1632 and arrived at Boston the 16 Sept. following; he owned a farm in Roxbury lying on Stony Brook, not far from the present Boylston Street Station. William Curtis was freeman of Roxbury 4 Mar 1633.
"William Curtis he came to this Land in the yeare 1632 & soon after joyned to the church, he brought 4 children wth him. Thomas, Mary, John, Phillip & his eldest son Willia, came the yeare before. he was a hope full scholler, but God tooke him in the end of the yeare 1634. Sarah Curtis, the wife of Willia Curtis."
"1644. Soon after taht one william Curtis of Roxbury was cast off from a cart of logs unto the ground wth such violence, yt his head & one side of his face were bruised, blood gushed out of his eare, his braine was shaken, he senseless divers days, yet by degres thro' Gods mercy he recovered his senses, yet his cheeke drawne awry & p'alitik, but in a quarter of a yeare, he was pretty well recovered, to the wonder of all men." [3]
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| Person ID |
I30354 |
Bryant |
| Last Modified |
25 Nov 2006 |
| Father |
Thomas Curtis, b. 25 Aug 1560, Ash Juxte, Sandwich, Kent, England , d. 11 Dec 1631, Nazing, Essex, England |
| Mother |
Mary Camp, b. 01 Dec 1560, Nazing, Essex, England , d. Nov 1594, Nazing, Essex, England |
| Married |
24 Aug 1585 |
Nazing, Essex, England [5] |
| Family ID |
F2566 |
Group Sheet |
| Family 1 |
Sarah Eliot, d. 26 Mar 1673, Roxbury, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts |
| Married |
06 Aug 1618 |
Nazing, Essex, England [1, 3, 6] |
| Family ID |
F2564 |
Group Sheet |
| Family 2 |
Mary Rawlyns, d. 1618, Nazing, Essex, England |
| Married |
03 Dec 1615 |
St. Margaret Moses, London, Middlesex, England [2] |
| Family ID |
F2565 |
Group Sheet |
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| Event Map |
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 | Baptism - 12 Nov 1592 - Nazing, Essex, England |
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 | Married - 03 Dec 1615 - St. Margaret Moses, London, Middlesex, England |
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| Married - 06 Aug 1618 - Nazing, Essex, England |
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 | Will - 11 Feb 1669 - Suffolk Co, Massacusetts |
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 | Died - 08 Dec 1672 - Roxbury, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts |
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| Sources |
- [S203] Lawless, Parker, Lawless, Thomas, (Author, 1981 & 1983 (Revised edition:1990)), Eliot family p.1.
- [S260] GMB, Anderson, Robert Charles, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1995), p. 500.
- [S396] Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass, Linzee, John William, (Samuel Usher, Boston, Mass, 1913), p. 463.
- [S397] Memorials of the Pilgrim Fathers, Winters, William, (Waltham Abbey, Essex, 1882), p. 46-47.
- [S397] Memorials of the Pilgrim Fathers, Winters, William, (Waltham Abbey, Essex, 1882), p. 46.
- [S396] Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass, Linzee, John William, (Samuel Usher, Boston, Mass, 1913), p. 451-452.
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