Person:Edmund Bloys (1)

Name	Edmund Bloys
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	Abt 1588	England(Likely Suffolk)
Marriage		to Mary (add)
Marriage	27 Sep 1675	to Ruth Parsons
Will^[1]^[3]	5 Dec 1676	Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States(Proved 6 Apr 1681)
Death^[1]	Bef 1 Mar 1680/81	Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States(Inventory)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Edmund Blois, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011).

Origin: Unknown (but comments note that his wife and son came on the Francis in 1634, and likely origin is southeastern Suffolk)
Migration: 1634
First Residence: Watertown
Birth: abt 1588 (based on age at depositions in 1663 and 1671)
Death: Between 18 Nov 1679 (mention in Watertown records re his care) and 1 Mar 1680/1 (inventory)
Marriage: m1 Mary, d. Watertown 29 May 1672. m2 Ruth Parsons 27 Sep 1675.
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)
Vol. 1:203.

BLOIS or BLOYS, EDMUND, Watertown, was freem. 22 May 1639, but Bond well presumes, that he had been here sev. yrs. as his w. Mary, aged 40, with s. Richard, 11, came, to join him, in the Francis, from Ipswich, 1634, and this renders it prob. that he was of a Suffk. fam. His w. d. 29 May 1675, and he m. 27 Sept. foll. Ruth, d. of Hugh Parsons, and d. at gr. age, bef. April, 1681. It is said he was b. 1587. The wid. liv. to Dec. 1711.
↑ Will does not name any family, but estate records name widow Ruth, daughter of Hugh Parsons.

Founders of Watertown, MA

Located along the Charles River, Watertown was one of the first settlements in Massachusetts Bay Colony. After a brief stay by Roger Clapp and others who then went on to settle Dorchester. In late July 1630, Sir Richard Saltonstall led a group of about 115 households to settle at Watertown, which at the time included parts of present-day Cambridge and much of the surrounding area; the population approached Boston's in the mid 17th century. In 1632 the residents of Watertown protested against being compelled to pay a tax for the erection of a stockade fort at Cambridge; leading to the establishment of representative government in the colony. Full list of original heads of households See also: History of Watertown - Wikipedia entry - Richard Saltonstall on Wikipedia
	Watertown Founders' Monument
Current Location: Middlesex County, Massachusetts Parent Towns: None Daughter Towns: Cambridge, Weston, Waltham, Belmont, Lincoln