Person:John Collamore (8)

BIOGRAPHY: Genealogy of the Descendants of Anthony Collamer Of Scituate, Massachusetts By Charles Hatch Newcomb & Gauss, Publishers Salem, Mass. 1915 Page 82-83 John Collmore, yeoman, when he became of age, left the ancestral farm on Belle House Neck and established for himself a home on Gilman Plain, in West Scituate. He married Margaret, daughter of Enoch Whiton. Their dwelling on the northeast side of the Boston-Plymouth Stage Road, was also favorably known as a tavern for many years, and the house is at the present day (1915), in a good state of preservation. He inherited property from both his father and his mother. In 1747 he was appointed to administer the estate of his father (Peter Collamer), his brother (Anthony) having died in 1746. He was a member of the Second Parish Church in Scituate. In the year 1750 he was summoned to sit on the Grand Jury at Plymouth. In his will, dated April 15, 1755, he appointed Margaret (his wife) executrix of his estate. He gave to son Enoch "The farm where I now dwell, on the northerly side of road, being 30 acres, and part of farm on southerly side of road where barn stands being 35 acres." He also gave son Enoch and daughters Sarah, Mary and Betty, in equal shares, "all my land at Spring Brook and Black Pond Hill, in Scituate, being 26 acres. Also all my Land in the Easterly parts of this Province at a place called Muscongus and all the real estate which my Mother Abigail Collamer game me in her Will."

LAND: Genealogy of the Descendants of Anthony Collamer of Scituate, Massachusetts By Charles Hatch Newcomb & Gauss, Publishers Salem, Mass 1915 - Page 33

  (Copy of Deed in Book No. 39, on page 132 at Plymouth.)

To all Christian People to whom these Presents shall come, Peter Collamor of Scituate in ye County of Plymth in New England, Yeoman, Sendeth Greeting-Know ye that I the said Peter, In consideration of forty Pounds, old Tenor Bills, to me in hand paid by John Collamor of Scituate aforesaid, Yeoman, Do hereby Give, Grant, Bargain, Sell, Convey and Confirm unto him said John Collamor, his Heirs and Assigns Forever Two Acres of Land, lying in said Scituate, called the Burying Place Pasture, Bounded North Westerly on ye Town Road, South Westerly on Doct. Otis Land and North Easterly or Easterly on the Land which did belong to Joseph Neal. It being a triangular Piece of Land.

  To have and to Hold to him said John Collamor, his Heirs forever.
                                                                Peter Collamor

The mark of Abigail and Thomas

DEATH: Genealogy of the Descendants of Anthony Collamer Of Scituate, Massachusetts By Charles Hatch Newcomb & Gauss, Publishers Salem, Mass. 1915 Page 36 Scituate, Novem. the 19th, 1755

  Then Recd. Of Isaac Collamer, Thomas Collamer and Mary Collamer and of Margaret Collamer Excr. of the Will of John Collamer Dec. Two pounds and Ten Shillings In silver money at six shillings and Eight pence Pr ounce being The Legasie Given to Sarah Curtis in and by the Will of our Hond. Mother Abigail Collamore Late of Scituate in the County of Plymouth Decd. to be paid by John, Isaac, Thomas and Mary, and Therefore we do fully acquit and Discharge sd Isaac, Thomas and Mary and also sd Margaret as Execr aforsd from all Demands Relating to the Legasie aforsd.
                                                                    Witness our hands and seals the day above sd.

Signed, sealed and Delivered Isiah Curtis, seal.

  In Presence of                                           Sarah Curtis, seal.

Nathaniel Brooks Junior Peter Collamer.