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Robert Moulton
b.Bef 1587
Facts and Events
| Name[1][2][3] |
Robert Moulton |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[2] |
Bef 1587 |
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| Marriage |
Bef 1612 |
to Alice Unknown |
| Emigration[1][3] |
1629 |
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| Residence[2] |
1629 |
Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Residence[2] |
1630 |
Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Other[2][3][4] |
18 May 1631 |
Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United StatesAdmitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay (as "Robte Moulton"). |
| Residence[2] |
1636 |
Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Will[2][3][5] |
20 Feb 1654/55 |
Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Occupation[2] |
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Shipwright |
| Death[2][3] |
Bet 20 Feb 1654/55 and 26 Jun 1655 |
Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United StatesBetween date of will and date of probate. |
| Probate[2][3][5] |
26 Jun 1655 |
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Robert Moulton, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
234.
"Moulton, Robert: [Origin] Unknown; [Emigration] 1629; [Resided] Salem, Charlestown [GMB 1304-6; WF 474-77; NEGHR 141:313-16, 154:217; TAG 74:305]."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Robert Moulton, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
2:1304-06.
BIRTH: By about 1587 based on estimated date of marriage.
DEATH: Salem between 20 February 1654/5 (date of will) and 26 June 1655 (probate of will).
MARRIAGE: By about 1612 Alice _____ (assuming she was the mother of his children). "Alice Molton" joined the church at Charlestown 27 December 1632 [ ChChR 1]. She evidently predeceased her husband.
ASSOCIATIONS:
There have been suggestions that Robert was brother of THOMAS MOULTON (see sketch below) who appeared at Charlestown in 1631. This seems more than possible, but there is no supporting evidence. Thomas stayed in Charlestown, while Robert soon returned to Salem; Thomas was about fifteen to twenty years younger than Robert; and the two men do not interact in any way.
We should also consider the possibility of a connection with the various Moultons who arrived some years later, from Ormsby, Norfolk, and vicinity. The names Robert and Thomas appear in both families; and there are connections of the early and late Moultons with Salem. The Moultons of Ormsby have, however, been studied extensively, and there do not seem to be any spare Roberts or Thomases who might be identified as the Charlestown men [ NEHGR 141:313-28, 144:245-63, 147:129-45].
Henry and Nicholas Phelps, sons of Eleanor Trusler, witnessed Robert Moulton's will, while Robert Moulton Sr. witnessed the wills of Thomas Trusler and Eleanor Trusler, and participated in appraising their estates [ EPR 1:183, 212; EQC 1:356]. This may have been simply the consequence of the Trusler and Moulton farms being adjacent to one another [ EPR 1:183], but a relation by blood or marriage is certainly possible.
COMMENTS:
In a letter dated Gravesend, 17 April 1629, Gov. Craddock described Robert Moulton: 'We have sent six shipwrights of whom Robert Molton is chief …' [SLR 1:x; MBCR 1:54].
Robert Moulton was admitted as an inhabitant of Charlestown in 1630 [ChTR 6], and was in the lists of inhabitants of 9 January 1633/4 and January 1635/6 [ChTR 10, 15]. He signed the agreement of 10 February 1634/5 which established the office of selectman in Charlestown [ChTR 13].
'Goo[dman] Robert Moulton" was one of five Salem men disarmed on 20 November 1637 for supporting Wheelwright and Hutchinson.'"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Robert Moulton, in 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)
3:249.
"Robert (Moulton), Salem, a shipbuilder, came 1629, in the fleet with Higginson, but went to Charlestown soon, freem. 18 May 1631, was one of the first selectmen, and rep. at the first Court, 1634, and for Salem, to wh. he had rem. in 1637, and was that yr. disarm. as a friend of Wheelwright, d. 1655, leav. Robert, and Dorothy, of one Edwards, both nam. as also gr.s. Robert, in his will of 20 Feb. pro. 20 June foll. See Young's Chron. of Mass. 161."
- ↑ Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1849)
3:91.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Estate of Robert Moulton, Sr. of Salem, in Massachusetts, Probate Court (Essex County). The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1916, 1917, 1920)
1:210-11.
"'Salem dated 20th febry: 1654-5. By theise prsents be it knowne, that I Robert Moulton Senior being by Gods hand one my sicke bed of pfect memory Doe ordaine & Appoint my sonne Robert Moulton, whole Executor of this my Last will & Testament. I Giue my Daughter Dorothy Edwards twenty marke, Allsoe Two pillow bers marked with R D M. Item My farme I Leaue with my sonne, till my Grandsonne Robert Moulton be twenty one yeares old & then he to Enjoy the one halfe with the Apple trees, & After his father & mothers death to Enjoy the farme wholly, & in Case my Grandsonne Robert dye first that it fall in like manner to his next Elder brother ║& soe║ successively if he That Enjoyes it haue no issue; To Goodwife Buffum I give twenty shillings. To Joshua Buffum ten shillings. The Rest of my Goods & Cattell I leave with my sonne Robert and he to pay my debts.'
Robt moulton, Sen.
Witness: George gardner, Henry Phelps, Nich. Phelpes.
Proved 26: 4: 1655 by George Gardner, Henry Phelpes.
Essex Co. Quarterly Court Files, vol. 3. leaf 14.
Inventory taken by Jo. Alderman and Robert (his R mark) Buffum: … Whole value of the estate 121li. 8s.; debts, 8 li.; total, 113li. 8s. Essex Co. Quarterly Court Files, vol. 3, leaf 15."
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