Person:John Spaulding (10)

Public Records

• 11 March 1689-90: Made a freeman in Chelmsford.^S1
• 16 Nov 1655, Chelmsford: "John Spalding is granted a piece of upland, two acres more or less lying betwixt his House Lott & the Lott of Samuel Richardson."^S1
• 7 Jan 1659, Chelmsford: "it is evidenssed that John Spalding hath the Swamp granted to him that lyes between his Lott and John Shepley's Lott, provided he leave a highway to the S'd Swamp for the Town to take of the wood & lumber."^S1
• 1683, Chelmsford: "The Record of the Accommodation of Upland and Meadow granted by the Town of Chelmsford to John Spalding, with the Bounds and Butments of the same. His uplands first. One Hous Lott Seventeen acres more or less Bounding by the land of Isaiah Richardson North; South by the land of John Shipley; West by the Town Commen." Also "12 acres on the South Bank of the Merrimack River; 9 acres lying on the Town Commen, & 6 acres in the Newfield." His meadow land was 2 1/2 acres in the "River Meadow," 2 1/2 acres at "further Tadmuck," 2 1/2 acres at "Stony Brook;" and 6 1/2 acres on the Town Highway, in all 58 acres.^S1
• 29 Jan 1696, Chelmsford: "Six acres of Meadow, bounded easterly by Nebanusek Pond."^S1

1. ↑ Spalding, John (9), in Spalding, Samuel Jones, and Charles Warren Spalding. The Spalding Memorial: A Genealogical History of Edward Spalding of Virginia and Massachusetts Bay and His Descendants, with a Record of Their Military Service in the Colonial, Revolutionary and Civil wars, Together with Information Concerning Other Branches of the Spalding Family. (Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1897)
   p. 60.

   Argues that John is the eldest son of Edward, and came with his father to Chelmsford about 1654. He was made a freeman 11 Mar 1689-90.
   [Note: see TAG article, which "add to and correct the Spalding Memmorial". In particular, in the Spalding Memorial, the second marriage of John the father is incorrectly given to John the son, even though John the son has a probate that mentions his first wife Ann, ruling out a second marriage.]

   Spalding memorial cites Hull's Journal of the War expenses 1675 and 6, where John Spalding is mentioned as a Soldier under Capt. Manning in King Phillip's War.

2. ↑ Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1914)
   p. 444.

   SPAULDING, John, sr., [died] Oct. 3, 1721.

3. ↑ Hayward, Kendall P. "Connecticut Descendants of John² Spaulding", in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
   Vol. 24, p. 222.

   John Spaulding, b. abt. 1633, d. Chelmsford 3 Oct 1721, m. (1) 18 May 1658 Hannah Heald, m. (2) Concord 18 Nov 1700 Mary (Stow) (Cotton) Fletcher.

4. ↑ Butcher, Jonathan. Spaulding Family Genforum: Re: Edward SPALDING & Margaret, Braintree MA
   #1103, 3 Mar 2007.

   "John, bp. 14 Apr. 1633"

5. ↑ Spalding memorial cites Hull's Journal of the War expenses 1675 and 6, where John Spalding is mentioned as a Soldier under Capt. Manning in King Phillip's War.