Person:Benjamin Crispe (1)

Name	Benjamin Crispe
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	Est 1610	England
Marriage	Bef 1636	to Bridget Unknown
Marriage	Aft 29 Nov 1680	to Joanna Goff
Occupation^[1]		Mason
Alt Death^[1]	Aft 31 Oct 1682	Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Death^[1]	Bet 5 Nov 1683 and 21 Dec 1683	Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Benjamin Crisp, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1631
FIRST RESIDENCE: Watertown
REMOVES: Groton 1666, Watertown by 1681
OCCUPATION: Mason.

BIRTH: About 1610 (deposed aged forty-five in 1656, fifty-two in 1662 and seventy-seven in 1683 [Sarah Hildreth Anc 56, presumably from Middlesex Court Files]).
DEATH: Watertown between 5 November 1683 and 21 December 1683 (Frederick C. Warner suggests this range of dates because on the latter date Crisp was replaced in his duties about the meetinghouse, but on the former date at a town meeting no mention was made of the need for such a replacement [WaTR 2:15]; certainly he is seen in no record after 31 October 1682 when he sold his son Jonathan's property [MLR 8:227]).
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)
1:473.

CRISP, or CRISPE, BENJAMIN, Watertown 1630, freem. 1646, had, by w. Bridget, Elizabeth b. 8 Jan. 1637; Mary, 20 May 1638; Jonathan, 29 Jan. 1640; Eleazer, 14 Jan. 1642; Mehitable, 21 Jan. 1646; and Zechariah. From Bond we learn, that in 1630, he was serv. of Maj. Gibbons, and, perhaps, came as early as 1629; late in life rem. to Groton, but was ret. bef. 1682 to W. and had m. Joanna, wid. of William Longley. Elizabeth m. 27 or 29 Sept. 1657, George Lawrence.

Founders of Watertown, MA

Located along the Charles River, Watertown was one of the first settlements in Massachusetts Bay Colony. After a brief stay by Roger Clapp and others who then went on to settle Dorchester. In late July 1630, Sir Richard Saltonstall led a group of about 115 households to settle at Watertown, which at the time included parts of present-day Cambridge and much of the surrounding area; the population approached Boston's in the mid 17th century. In 1632 the residents of Watertown protested against being compelled to pay a tax for the erection of a stockade fort at Cambridge; leading to the establishment of representative government in the colony. Full list of original heads of households See also: History of Watertown - Wikipedia entry - Richard Saltonstall on Wikipedia
	Watertown Founders' Monument
Current Location: Middlesex County, Massachusetts Parent Towns: None Daughter Towns: Cambridge, Weston, Waltham, Belmont, Lincoln