Person:Francis Weekes (2)

Francis was probably a servant or apprentice of John Smith the miller, and worked for him in Dorchester, MA. John Smith was banished and he took Francis with him to the wilderness near the Seeconk River. They joined Roger Williams in the early spring of 1636, and accompanied him in founding the new settlement of Providence, RI. Francis was one of the signers of the Providence Compact, dated 20 Aug 1637 (he left his mark, since he couldn't write). Francis received a home lot of 5 1/2 acres in addition to a six acre lot and eventually some 85 acres. He and Elizabeth probably married there and then moved to Gravesend, Long Island by 1645. They sold their property in Gravesend in 1655 and moved to Hempstead, Long Island. In April 1658, Elizabeth was fined 20 guilders ($8.00) for absenting herself from public worship and profaning the Lord's day by going to a Quaker meeting in the woods. The family moved to Oyster Bay, Long Island between 1658 an d 1661, where Francis bought a home lot and 10 acres of land on the east side of South Street.

1.   The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. (New York, New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society)
   280-286, 1922.

   FRANCIS WEEKES.
   CONTRIBUTED BY ALICE DELANO WEEKES,
   Member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
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   At the time of the Herald's visitation in Devonshire, in 1620, there was living
   in Honeychurch, a place twenty miles west of Exeter, in Devon, a Francis
   Weekes, who was at that time aged thirty. He was married to Wilmot, the
   daughter of Richard Coffin, of Portledge, and he had two infant children,
   Simon and Mary. He was descended from Sir Richard Weekes, who lived
   about I450-i475.

2.   Weeks, F. E. (Frank Edgar). Genealogy of Francis Weekes of Providence, R.I., Gravesend, Hempstead and Oyster Bay, L.I., ca.1345-1938: and collateral lines, Bowne, Burrowes, Carpenter, Cooke, Cornell, Davenport, De Forest, Emery, Feake, Fones, Freeman, Goodwin, Fowler, Hoag, Ireland, Jansen, Kierstede, Kip, Montagne, Mosher, Paddy, Reddocke, Sands, Stevenson, Sutton, Taber, Thorn, Warren, Winthrop. (Washington [District of Columbia]: L.C. Photoduplication Service, 1985)
   1938.

   Francis Weekes:
   Will: 25 Jun 1687
   His will left to his sons Samuel, Joseph, John, Thomas and James, and to daughters Elizabeth and Ann, all moveable estate to be equally divided among them by two such men as they shall agree upon to do the same. To son Daniel, all that his mother gave him before she died, that is to say, her bed, coverings, curtains and valens: also my meadow at Matinecock and four acres of land at Hempstead and meadows in Oyster Bay which I bought from Henry Townsend: also my dwelling house and land. He appointed sons Thomas and James as executors.

3.   Cocks, George William. History and Genealogy of the Cock, Cocks, Cox Family: Descended from James and Sarah Cock, of Killingworth Upon Matinecock, in the Township of Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. (Somerville, New Jersey: Unionist Gazette Association, 1914)
   383-388, 1914.

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4.   Main Index to The Weeks(es) Surname Database, in Long Island Genealogy: Your Long Island Historical and Genealogical Research Resource.

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5.   Since Roger Williams referred to Francis as a poor young man in 1636 and his name does not appear as a land holder until 1641, the land was most likely held for him until he became of age, placing his birth abt 1620. Likewise, his oldest son Samuel hed a lot in Gravesend in 1643, thus he was born abt 1642, so most likely Francis and Elizabeth were married in 1641. The visitation of 1620 shows two infant children, Simon and Mary for Francis Weekes and Wilmot Coffin but no child Francis.