Person:Henry Shrimpton (1)

Abstract based on NEHGR, p. 15:76

Will of "Henry Shrimpton, Brasier, of Boston", dated "17th 5'mo 1666" [17 Jul 1666], inventory 24 Jul 1666, proved 4 Aug 1666, mentions:

• "my Cousinne, Mary Shrimpton daughter of my Late Brother Edward Shrimpton, Deceased", five youngest children of brother Edward "that is to say, Ebenezer, Epafras, Silas, Elisabeth & Lidya Shrimpton", "Elizabeth Shrimpton, wife to my Brother Edward Shrimpton, Deceased", also adds mention of Edward's son Jonathan.
• "my wife Mary Shrimpton"
• "my sonne Samuell Shrimpton"
• "four Daughters, Sarah Shrimpton, Abigail, Bethiah & Elisabeth Shrimpton ... [when] they come to the age of 20 yeares"
• "appoint my 5 children, Executor & executrixes"
• Church of Boston, town of Boston, "Mr. Jn'o Wilson, pastor", "Mr. Powell, ruling Elder of the other Church"
• "former wife Ellenor Shrimpton"
• "Bro. & Sister Fletcher"
• servant Mary East and her sister Elisabeth, servant Wm Mumford, servant Crechly
• "Society of Christians that doth now Meet at Nodles Island"
• widows Mrs. Elizabeth Scott, Mrs Sandys, Sister Blanchett
• "Louing Brother, Edw. Fletcher, Mr. Hezekiah Usher, and Mr Thomas Lake, with Mr Peter Oliuer, to be Overseers"

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)
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   Shrimpton, Henry, Boston, br. of Edward of Bednal Green, Co. Middlesex, had been a brazier in London, join. our ch. 15 Sept. 1639, by w. Elinor had Eliz. bapt. 3 Oct. 1641, a. 10 days old, wh. d. under 18 yrs. ; Samuel, 25 June 1643, a. 26 days old; Mary, 10 Aug. 1645, a. 13 days, wh. d. I presume, 9 Mar. 1652, tho. blunder. town rec. calls her Elinor, d. of H. S. and his w. Mary; John, 28 May 1648, a. 6 wks. wh. I dare to adopt; Sarah, b. 1649, wh. was not bapt. for eleven yrs.; Henry, 26 Apr. 1653, says one of the copies of town rec. but an older one, 1654, and he, I suppose, d. young; Mehitable, wh. d. 29 July 1657 ; Jonathan, 18 Nov. 1656, wh. d. 22 July 1657 ; Abigail, 3 Jan. 1658 ; Bethia, 30 Jan. 1659 ; Eliz. again, 10 Apr. 1660, bapt. at 5 days, with three sis. bef. ment. He m. 27 Feb. 1662, sec. w. Mary, wid. of capt. Robert Fenn (wh. had first been wid. of capt. Thomas Hawkins, and m. F. 26 June 1654); and d. July 1666. His will, of 17 of that mo. pro. 4 Aug. foll. aft. provid. for his w. made dispos. of large prop. to ch. Samuel, Sarah, Abigail, Bethia, and Eliz. and provides for Eliz. wid. of his br. Edward of London, and the seven ch. Jonathan, Mary, Ebenezer, Epaphras, Silas, Eliz. and Lydia, large pt. of whose est. he held in tr.; gave £50. to the ch. and £50., with this curious proviso, for "leave that I may be bur. in the tomb wherein my former w. Elinor S. was bur. otherwise I give nothing." A better proof of his sense is a bequest of £10., "token of my love," to Gold, Osborn, and others, of the Bapt. ch. worship. at Noddle's isl. A copy of the will of his br. Edward, that sheds some light on our side of the water, sent from the Prerogative Ct. of the Archbp. of Canterbury, may be read in our Prob. rec. I. 390.