Person:John Astwood (1)

John married his first wife in Missenden, Hertfordshire, and she was buried 10 months later, not long after the baptism of their first child, at Little Hadham, Hertfordshire.

On 3 Apr 1635, "Husbandman Jo: Astwood" enrolled at London on the Hopewell. Enrolled at the same time was Martha Carter, aged 27, probably his second wife.

His will, apparently written in England but calling himself "of Milford," names his wife Sarah, brother William, brother Robert, and son Samuel. It refers to his estates both in Milford, and "here in Abutley."

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} John Astwood, 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: Little Hadham, Hertfordshire. Migratio: 1635 on the Hopewell. Roxbury, Milford by 1639, England by 1654.
   Church/Freeman: Admitted to Roxbury among 1635 arrivals [RChR81] and admitted freeman 3 Mar 1635/6 [MBCR 1:371].
   Birth: Abt 1609 (aged 26 in 1635 per Hotten 46)
   Death: "Abutley", England, between 27 Jun 1654 (date of will) and 31 Aug 1654 (probate) [NEHGR 38:421] (Abutley has not been identified).

2.   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)
   1:71.

   JOHN, Roxbury, came by the Hopewell, Capt. Bundocke,
   in the spring, of 1635, aged 26, a husbandman from Stanstead Abbey, Co.
   Herts, at R. had a w. Martha, wh. may have come in the same ship, was
   freem. 3 Mar. 1636, rem. to Milford 1639, there m. next yr. Sarah, wid.
   of Sylvester Baldwin, was chos. rep. 1643 and 4, afterwards an Assist. of
   the Col. and a Commissioner. of the Unit. Cols. in 1653, went home, as
   agent, the next yr. and d. at London soon. His wid. d. Nov. 1669.