Person:John Masters (11)
John Masters
b.Bef 1581
d.21 Dec 1639 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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  1. John MastersBef 1581 - 1639
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  John MastersBef 1581 - 1639
  • W.  Jane UnknownBef 1586 - 1639
m. Bef 1606
  1. Unknown MastersEst 1606 -
  2. Sarah MastersEst 1609 -
  3. Elizabeth MastersEst 1612 -
  4. Lydia MastersEst 1615 - Bef 1669
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Facts and Events
Name[1] John Masters
Gender Male
Birth[1] Bef 1581 Based on estimated date of marriage.
Marriage Bef 1606 Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child.
to Jane Unknown
Emigration[1] 1630
Residence[1] 1630 Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Other[1] 18 May 1631 Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay.
Residence[1] 1633 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Will[1][2][3] 19 Dec 1639 Proved at an unknown date.
Death[1][2][3] 21 Dec 1639 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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The Will of John Masters

"19 : 10mo. 1639.

This is the minde & will of me John Masters.

Item I give to my wife all my estate for the terme of her life & after hir decease I will & bequeathe vnto my Daughter Sarah Dobyson ten pownds.

Item to my daughter Lydya Taber ten pownds,

Item to my Grand child John Lockwood ten pownds,

It to Nathaniell Masters ten pownds to Abraham Masters ten shillings, Also my minde & will is that the ten pownds I give to John Lockwood, & the ten pownds I give to Nathaniell Masters shal be layde out vpon somethinge that may turne to the encrease of theire portions ffurthermore my will is that these leagacyes shal be well & truly discharged within six months after my wives decease, these & all other my debt beinge discharged I give all the remainder of my estate vnto my daughter Elizabeth Latham."[3]

References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 John Masters, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
    2:1234-36.

    ORIGIN: Unknown.
    OCUPATION: Tavernkeeper. On 3 September 1635 "John Maistrs" was licensed to keep an ordinary at Cambridge [MBCR 1:159].
    CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Member of Watertown church by July 1632 [[WJ 1:97].
    FREEMAN: 18 May 1631 (as "Mr. John Maistrs") [MBCR 1:366].
    BIRTH: By about 1581 based on estimated date of marriage.
    DEATH: Cambridge 21 December 1639 [NEHGR 4:181].

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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)
    3:170-171.

    John (Masters), Cambridge, perhaps came in the fleet with Winthrop freem. 18 May 1631, with prefix of respect, a man of skill and enterprise, d. 21 Dec. 1639, and Jane, his w. d. five days aft. His will, made two days only bef. he d. abstract. in Geneal. Reg. II. 180, names d. Sarah Dobyson, or Dobson but we kn. nothing of her or her h.; d. Lydia Tabor, perhaps w. of Philip; gr.ch. John Lockwood, prob. by his d. Eliz. s. of Edmund; Abraham and Nathaniel Masters, whom I judge to be s. and gr.s. and gives residue of est. to d. Eliz. w. of Cary Latham.

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Trask, William B. Abstracts from the Earliest Wills on Record in the County of Suffolk, Mass. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (1848-1866, 1876-1878)
    2:180-81, 1848.
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