Person:Humphrey Turner (1)

Humphrey Turner
b.Abt 1593
  • HHumphrey TurnerAbt 1593 - Bet 1672 & 1673
  • WLydia Gaymer1602 - Bef 1669/70
m. 24 Oct 1618
  1. John Turner1621 - Bef 1697
  2. John TurnerEst 1624 - 1687
  3. Thomas TurnerEst 1627 - 1688
  4. Lydia Turner1629 -
  5. Mary Turner1634/35 -
  6. Joseph Turner1636/37 - Aft 1681
  7. Nathaniel Turner1638/39 - 1715
  8. Daniel TurnerEst 1641 -
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Humphrey Turner
Gender Male
Birth[2] Abt 1593 Estimate based on date of marriage.
Marriage 24 Oct 1618 Sandon, Essex, Englandto Lydia Gaymer
Emigration[1][2] 1632
Residence[1][2] 1632 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Residence[1][2] 1633 Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Will[2] 28 Feb 1669/70
Death[2] Bet 1 Nov 1672 and 29 May 1673 Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States (probably)
Probate[2] 4 Jun 1673 Will proved.

Settled on a farm along present Driftway in Scituate.

Received an 80 acre grant on North River by what is now Union Bridge in Norwell. Established a tannery there which was operated by sons John and Joseph.

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Humphrey Turner, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
    343.

    "Turner, Humphrey: [Origin] Little Baddow, Essex; [Emigration] 1632; [Resided] Plymouth, Scituate [GMB 1843-46; PM 466-70]."

  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Humphrey Turner, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004)
    466-70.

    "On 1 November 1672 'Humphery Turner' of Scituate deeded to 'my loving son Joseph Turner' of Scituate all right to undivided land in Scituate 'or any way appertaining to the right of a purchasing freeman of the patent of Plymouth'; acknowledged 29 May 1673 by the witnesses, the grantor being deceased [PCLR 3:321]"

  3.   Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Descendant: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy, History and Biography.

    See son John Turner's page for quoted text referring Humphrey as John's father

  4.   Scituate Historical Society. Scituate Historical Society Website.

    http://www.scituatehistoricalsociety.org/families/TurnerHumphrey.htm contains genealogy summarized from
    * "History of Scituate" Samuel Deane
    * "Geneology of Descendants of Humphrey Turner", by Jacob Turner, Esq. 1852
    * "Briggs Geneology" by L.Vernon Briggs
    * "Compiled by Mary S. Power - 1945" at Scituate Town Archives
    * "Lydia Gamer, The Wife Of Humphrey Turner" by Vernon Dow Turner, NEHG. 7/1997