Willix, supposed of continental origin. See N. E. Reg. 50:46; 68:79-82; 69:361.
1 Balthasar, Exeter 1640, bp. at Alford, Lincolnshire, 27 July 1595, s. of Balthasar and Anne, and half-br. of Susanna (Bellingham) Pormort(3). Bell called him a man of more than ordinary education. Townsman 1647. … He and w. (Annah) wit. ag. Edw. Hilton in 1645. In 1647 he won a suit ag. John Legate and Humphrey Wilson, and Legate won ag. him and the Walls in a suit over cruelty to his cattle. About June 1648 his w. was robbed and murdered betw. Dover and Ex. and her body thrown into the river. In Hampt. ct. the next Sept. he and Robert Hethersay had cross suits for defama., he charging that H. had raised an evil report of his decd. wife; he also sued for breach of contract in carrying her to O. R. in a canoe and not bringing her back, as agreed. He soon m. wid. Mary Hauxworth of Salisb. and mov. there; taxed 1650; d. 23 Jan. 1650-1. She was gr. adm. in Apr. 1651 and was sued by Robert Tuck in 1652 for diet of 2 ch., one ab. a yr., one ab. 8 wks. Crazy and distempered, she was under a gdn. in 1664; wid. Willix a Salisb. abuttor 1667. Ch: Hazelelponi, servant of Henry Waltham of Weymouth, see N. E. Reg. 5: 303. She m. 1st John Gee of Boston and Martha's Vineyard, m. 2d aft. 19 Nov. 1671 Obadiah Wood of Ipsw., d. 27 Nov. 1718, ag. 78 (gr.st.). Gee ch: Mary, m. Thomas Pickering(8); John, b. in Boston 1662; Anna, m. Samuel Hodgkins of Gloucester; Martha, m. Thomas Cotes. See vol. 2, Hist. of Martha's Vineyard (Annals of Edgartown, p. 70, of Tisbury, p. 13); Essex Antiq. 8: 164. Anna, serv. of Rev. Timothy Dalton whose wid. Ruth in 1663 willed her £5. She m. 1st Robert Roscoe, had 3 more husbands in the south, James Blunt, Seth Southwell, Esq., Col. John Lear, and d. s.p. Susannah, a serv. near her sis. Anna, m. Francis Jones(16).
