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Facts and Events
Freeman with Watertown men on 25 May 1636, and served as a selectman at Watertown various times between 1639 and 1642, and 1664 to 1679. He was granted numerous small lots at Watertown between 1636 and 1642.
In his will dated 19 Nov 1681, proved 16 June 1691, John Cooledge Sr. of Watertown, names wife Mary Cooledge, sons Stephen and Jonathan Collidge; granddaughters Sary and Mary Mixer, and sons John Cooledge, Simon and Nathanell Cooledge.
References
- ↑ Thwing, Walter (W.B.Clarke Company Boston, MA 1902).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 John Coolidge, 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: Cottenham, Cambridge Migration 1635 First Residence: Watertown
Birth: Baptized Cottenham, Cambridge, 16 Sep 1604, son of William and Margaret (Mayse) Coolidge [NEHGR 80:597]
Death: Watertown 7 May 1691 [WaVR 65], "aged 88 years" [Watertown Epitaphs 14]
Ancestor of President Calvin Coolidge
- 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)
1:451.
COOLIDGE, JOHN, Watertown, may be youngest s. of William, gent. of Cottenham, Co. Cambridge, bapt. 16 Sept. 1604, so of good lineage; freem. 20 May 1636, selectman 1639, and oft. aft. rep. 1658, d. 7 May 1691, left wid. Mary, by her had John; Nathaniel; Simon; all, perhaps, b. in Eng.; Mary, b. 14 Oct. 1637; Stephen, 28 Oct. 1639; Obadiah, 15 Apr. 1642; and Jonathan, 10 Mar. 1647. In his will, made 19 Nov. 1681, pro. 16 June 1691, he names all the ch. but O. wh. d. 1663, unm.; and Mary, wh. m. 19 Sept. 1655, Isaac Mixer, and d. 2 Nov. 1660, but her ch. Sarah and Mary are ment.
- ↑ John Coolidge, in Find A Grave.
| Founders of Watertown, MA
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| 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
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Current Location: Middlesex County, Massachusetts Parent Towns: None Daughter Towns: Cambridge, Weston, Waltham, Belmont, Lincoln
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| Founders of Dedham, Massachusetts
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| Winthrop's Journal states that a town was formed on the banks of the Charles on September 1, 1635--a town that must have been Dedham. Twelve men attended the first town meeting held on that day. In November 1636, those 12 and 7 others petitioned the General Court for an enlargement of their grant for a township. In July 1637, twelve more men arrived, bringing the total to 31, at which time the town admitted freeman and established a church. [1] [2]
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| 1636 Petitioners: Edward Allyne - Abraham Shaw - Samuel Morse - Phileman Dalton - Ezekiel Holliman - John Kingsbury - John Dwite - John Cooledge - Richard Ewed - John Howard - Lambert Genere - Nicholas Philips - Ralph Shepard - John Gay - Thomas Bartleet - Francis Austin - John Rogers - Joseph Shaw - William Bearstowe
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| Current Location: Norfolk County, Massachusetts Parent Towns: Newton, Cambridge Daughter Towns: Norwood, Westwood, Dover, Natick, Needham, Wellesley, Walpole, Medfield, Medway, Millis
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