Person:Edward Bridge (1)

  • HEdward BridgeCal 1601 - 1683
  • WMary UnknownBef 1617 - Bef 1677
m. Bef 1637
  1. Mary Bridge1637 - 1718
  2. Thomas Bridge1639 -
  3. John Bridge1641 - 1674
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Edward Bridge
Gender Male
Birth[2][4] Cal 1601 England (probably)
Marriage Bef 1637 Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child (Mary).
to Mary Unknown
Emigration[1][2] 1637
Residence[1][2] 1637 Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Other[2][3] 22 May 1639 Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay
Death[2][3][4] 20 Dec 1683 Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

"Savage says [John Bridge] perhaps brother of Edmund of Roxbury, but we see no support for this."[5]

"John Ruggles died Oct., 1663, and in his will written in 1658, he appointed his son John his executor. The will and the proving seems somewhat irregular. He showed great anxiety for the welfare of his wife. His will was witnessed by Dea. William Parke, and Edward Bridge, and it required their depositions, that the wishes of the deceased should be established─that provision for the support of his wife Margery should be secured, these men saying in their own language, what he desired. In his deposition Edward Bridge calls the deceased 'his brother-in-law.'"[6]

Edward Bridge owned land adjoining land of Daniel Brewer.[2]

Member of Roxbury Church. ("Rev John Eliot's Record of [Roxbury] Church Members," NEHGR 35:247.)

5 March 1672: Danil Bruer, Edward Bridge, and John Eliot were among the signers of a petition objecting to the long hair of students at Harvard College. ("Censures on Harvard College, 1672, NEGHR, 35:121-22.)

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Edward Bridge, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
    40.

    "Bridge, Edward: [Origin] Unknown; [Emigration] 1637; [Resided] Roxbury [RChR 82; MBCR 1:376; Dawes-Gates 1:112-18]."

  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Bridge Family, in Ferris, Mary Walton. Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes; and A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Mary Beman (Gates) Dawes. (Milwaukee, WI: Cuneo Press, 1931-1943)
    1:113-16, 1879.

    "Edward1 Bridge, born about 1601 in England, emigrated by or before 1637. He either brought wife Mary with him or married her soon after his arrival for they had a child recorded at Roxbury as having been born on November 18, 1637. Edward1 and his wife joined the Roxbury Church at an early date after which he became a freeman on May 22, 1639."

  3. 3.0 3.1 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)
    1:247-248.

    "Bridge, Edward, Roxbury, freem. 22 May 1639, had w. Mary, and ch. Mary, b. 18 Nov. 1637; and Thomas, 31 Mar. or May 1639; and, perhaps, other ch.; and d. 20 Dec. 1683, aged 82. Mary m. I think, 23 Nov. 1661, Samuel Gay."

  4. 4.0 4.1 Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1925-1926)
    2:473.

    "Bridge, … Edward [Bridg (church record, First Religious Society, Unitarian.)], [died] Dec. 20, 1683, a. abt. 82 y."

  5. John Bridge, 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)
    1:396.
  6. John Ruggles, in Bailey, Franklin Ladd. The genealogy of Thomas4 Ruggles of Roxbury, 1637, to Thomas9 Ruggles of Pomfret, Conn. and Rutland, Vt. ; The genealogy of Altheah Smith, of Hampton, Conn., the wife of Thomas9 Ruggles ; and, The genealogy of the descendants--in part--of Samuel Ladd of Haverhill, Mass. (unknown: unknown, 1896)
    23-24.