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Facts and Events
Origin
Andrew's brother was named Arthur. There was an Arthur Alger baptized at Yealmptom, Devon 29 Aug 1622. THe brothers named their tract of land at Blue Point "Dunstan," which was also the name of a part of Yealmpton, so it is thought to be the origin of both brothers.
Legacy
In his will dated 23 Mar 1669-70 (proved 30 June 1676), Andrew Alger "Sr." of Scarborough, York County, New England, fisherman, names his wife Agnes, his children John, Andrew, Mathew, Elizabeth, and Joanna. His wife received the estate to dispose of as she wished as long as she remained unmarried; otherwise it went to her one third, and the remainder to his children. He names his wife executrix and his brother Arthur as his executor. Inventory £78 16 10 returned by Agnes the relict.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Andrew Alger, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).
Origin: Yealmpton, Devonshire. Migration: 1632. First Residence: Richmond Island. Removes Scarborough by 1643.
Birth: by about 1610 based on presence as a caretaker at Richmond Island in 1632
Death: On or about 10 Oct 1675 as a result of an Indian attack on that date at Scarborough [YLR 13:21]
- 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)
1:27.
ALGER, ANDREW, Scarborough, 1651, had w. Agnes, and ch. John;
Andrew; and Matthew; Elizabeth wh. m. John Palmer; Joanna, wh. m.
Elias Oakman, and, next, John Mills, both of Boston; beside a third d.
wh. m. John Ashton, or Austin. He had call. his planta. Dunster, from
the town near Minehead, in the N. W. part of Co. Somerset, where he
was b. was constable 1661, and lieut. k. by the Ind. with his br. Arthur,
Oct. 1675. The fam. fled to Boston, his will was pro. in Essex 24 June
foll. and his wid. m. Samuel Walker. See Folsom, 156; and Willis, I.
139, wh. obs. that, in our days, the est. of the Southgate fam. includes
part of the Alger domain.
[Note: it is the widow of Arthur Alger that married a Samuel Walker. She sold some land belonging to her brother-in-law Giles Roberts, and Samuel Walker acknowledged the deed. Savage not only misidentifies which widow it is, but in the Walker section, Vol. 4, p. 396, he conflates the various Samuel Walkers.]
- ↑ "Abstracts from Wills, Inventories, &c., on File in the Office of Clerk of Courts, Salem, Mass.", in Essex Institute Historical Collections. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute Press)
Vol. 2, p. 231.
Will of Andrew Alger [elsewhere on page]
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