Person:Simon Eyre (5)

in 1635, before leaving for New England, Simon Eire, gentleman, and Dorothy his wife sold to Timothy Oldmanes alias Pricke and his wife Mary land in Bury St. Edmonds, although they did not baptized their children there. They sailed on the Increase later that year.

Simon became a freeman in Watertown 17 Apr 1637 and served as a selectman there several times. By 1644, he had eleven parcels in the Watertown Inventory of Grants.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Simon Eyre, 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: Bury St Edmonds, Suffolk
   Migration:1635 on the Increase First Residence: Watertown, Boston by 1646. Surgeon and physician.
   Birth: Baptized Lavenham, Suffolk, 21 Jun3 1588, son of Simon and Susan (Vale) Eyre [NEHGR 69:248-51] (aged 48 in 1635 [Hotten 66])
   Death: Boston 10 Nov 1658 [BVR 67]
   Marriage: (1) by 1619 Dorothy Paine, born abt 1597 (aged 38 in 1635 [Hotten 66]), daughter of William and Agnes ([Neves) Paine [NEHGR 69:250]. She died at Boston 11 August 1650 [BVR 31].
   (2) By 1652 Martha (Hubbard) Whittingham, daughter of William Hubbard {1635, Ipswich} and widow of JOHN WITTINGHAM {1638 Ipswich}