Person:Edmund Weston (2)

Arrived in Boston midsummer 1635, age 30, on the Elizabeth & Ann. Settled in Duxbury, MA. From a court record of 2 November 1636, we know that Mr. John Winslow transferred the services of Edmund Weston for two years beginning the last of May next ensuing to Nathaniel Thomas on behalf of his father, Mr. William Thomas, for 10 pound. William Thomas was also to give Weston 6 pound per annum and fourteen bushels of corn at the end of his two years. This would indicate that Edmund had come over as an indentured servant. By 4 November 1639, Edmund was licensed by the court to live with Mr. John Carew and be partners with him in planing Carew's land. He subsequently received various land grants, including in 1645 one of the the original proprietorships in the Bridgewater grant. He was among those listed from Duxbury in 1643 as able to bear arms. along with Philip Delano and Robert Carver, he became on 7 Jun 1648 one of the administrators of the estate of Thomas Howell in Duxbury. He was enfranchised as a freeman of Plymouth colony on 7 June 1653. He served in various public offices, such as grand juryman and highway surveyor, but did not serve in a major office. All in all he seemed to have fare well from the promise of opportunity which must have brought him to the New World. The name of his wife is not known. It would seem likely that he arrived unmarried. It has been suggested that he married a daughter of Philip Delano, but there is no extant contemporary evidence. From the probable ages of his children, it appears he married late in life. His will was dated 16 April 1686 and confirmed by witnesses 3 Jun 1686. In it he named three sons and one daughter callilng the latter the wife of John Delano. [The National Genealogical society Quarterly, Vol 71, "The Descendants of Edmund Weston, Revisited. pg 42 - ]

He was said to be a thrasher of grain when he lived in England. In 1652, he was a surveyor of highways. His name was frequently connected with public matters in town. In the History of Duxbury, Winsor says of Edmund Weston, " . . . as the enterprising ancestor of an enterprising family whose descendants have been numerous and most of them have resided in town."

Edmund Weston Will Duxborough This Eighteenth Day of the 2d M.* 1686. The Last will and Testament of Edmond Weston .... I being Very aged & Sick & weak .... Funeral Charges & my Debts to be paid out of My Personall Estate Before any Legacies" "unto my Son Edmond all my Lands lying on the North Side of Greens Harbour Brook" "Unto My Son John One red Heifer Now with Calfe &c one yearling Heifer & my old mare" "unto my Daughter Mary Now the wife of John Delano My Bigest Pot & a Tract of Land where the sd Delanos house Doth Stand according to the Bounds formerly agreed on & the Land that I had of him to Return to him againe" "My Son Elnathan to be Executor of this my Last will" "unto my Son Elnathan My house & all Lands lying In Duxborough and all the Remaining Part of my Estate he paying Debts & Legaceys" The will was witnessed by Edward Southworth and Thomas Delano."June 3rd 1686 Edward Southworth & Thomas Delano .... made Oath in the Court" before Daniel Smith, Assistant

1.   Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts. (New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1908)
   396.

   "Edmund Weston, immigrant ancestor, came to Boston in the ship "Elizabeth and Ann," and settled in Duxbury in 1635. His age at the time of coming was given as thirty years. It is said that in England his trade was a thresher of grain. He was apprenticed to John Winslow, and transferred November 2, 1636, to William Thomas. In 1639 he formed a partnership with John Carver for planting and farming, and in 1640 had a grant of four acres at Stony Brook, Duxbury, and a tract of land at Green Harbor. He was on the list of those able to bear arms in 1643. In 1652 he was a surveyor of highways, and took an active part in town affairs. His will was dated February 18, 1686, and proved June 3, 1686. He died in Duxbury in 1686, aged eighty. He married late in life, ____ De La Noye (Delano). Children: 1. Elnathan, mentioned below. 2. Mary, married John Delano; lived in Duxbury. 3. Edmund, born 1660, died September 23, 1723. 4. John, born 1662, died 1736."

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Edmund Weston, 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)
   VII:3__, 311.

   BIRTH: About 1605 (aged 30 on 8 May 1635 [Hotten 76])
   DEATH: Between 18 April 1686 (date of will) and 3 June 1686 (probate of will)