Person:Abraham Preble (1)

Browse
Major Abraham Preble
chr.1 Jan 1603/04 Wootton, Kent, England
d.Bef 7 Jul 1663
Parents and Siblings
(edit)
m. Bef 1604
  1. Major Abraham Preble1603/04 - Bef 1663
Spouse and Children
(edit)
  • H.  Major Abraham Preble1603/04 - Bef 1663
  • W.  Judith Tilden1620 - Aft 1664
m. 3 Jan 1641
  1. Abraham PREBLE1642 - 1714
  2. Rachel PREBLE1643 -
  3. Lydia PREBLE1645 - Bef 1690
  4. Stephen PREBLE1647 - 1696
  5. Nathaniel PREBLE1648 -
  6. John PREBLE1650 - 1695
  7. Joseph PREBLE1651 -
  8. Benjamin PREBLE1657 - 1732
  9. Sarah PREBLE1659 - 1724
  10. Mary PREBLEAbt 1661 -
  11. Benjamin Preble
Add another spouse & children
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Major Abraham Preble
Gender Male
Christening[1] 1 Jan 1603/04 Wootton, Kent, England
Marriage 3 Jan 1641 Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Statesto Judith Tilden
Death[1] Bef 7 Jul 1663 Before date of probate.
Probate[1] 7 Jul 1663 Administration to widow.
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1 Abraham Preble, in Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939)
    565-566.

    Preble, a yeoman family early established in co. Kent. Abraham, Esq., founder of what York's historian calls the most disting. fam. of the town, was bp. at Wootton, co. Kent, 1 Jan. 1603-4, s. of Robert and Joan. At Scituate bef. Oct. 1639, he m. there 3 Jan. 1641 Judith Tilden (Dea. Nathl.), bp. at Tenterden, co. Kent, 22 Oct. 1620, and came to Scituate Row, York, buying from Godfrey 20 Dec. 1642. See Banks(3), Chambers(2), Curtis(9), Twisden; N. E. Reg. 65: 322; 67: 44. Magistrate, Saco ct. 1645; Prov. Councillor 1645-9; Associate 1646; Major; and last Mayor of Gorgeana. Under Mass., he was Magistrate; County Treas. 1654; Comr. for York 1655; Associate for Co. Court 1656 till death. … Adm. 7 July 1663 to wid. Judith, named as wid. Preble in her step-fa.'s will, Dec. 1664. Ch., sons under 21 in 1663, daus. (prob. not incl. the first) under 18: Daughter, m. and had portion bef. fa. d. Abraham, b. 1642-6. John, had town gr. 1669. Nathaniel, bp. at Scituate 9 Apr. 1648. Joseph. Stephen, b. ± 1656. Benjamin, b. ± 1657. Sarah, b. ± 1659, accus. with Joseph Weare in Dec. 1688 and acquitted; see Preble(9). She m. 1st Abraham Parker(1); m. 2d Henry Coombs(4). And at least one other married dau., not found, called Mary by Preble Gen. and Col. Banks, b. 1662, the latter says.

  2. ↑ Abraham Preble, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    3:477.

    "Preble, Abraham, Scituate 1637, m. Judith, d. of Nathaniel Tilden, had Abraham, b. a. 1642; Nathaniel, bapt. there 1648, tho. some yrs. bef. he had rem. to York, where he perhaps had Benjamin, and others; was magistr. 1650, submit. soon to Mass. and freem. 1652, treasr. of the Col. 1659, and d. 1663, leav. wid. Judith and sev. ch. of wh. one d. was m. Willis I. 102.

Retrieved from "https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Abraham_Preble_%281%29"