Person:John Proctor (38)

link [abstract] Daniel Marble yeoman of Danvers, Essex Co. to Mary Marble his wife for £2 -- 13 acres of upland & meadow in said Danvers being E'ly part of tract he purchased of Samll Felton bounded NW'ly on land of John Follit dec'd, NE'ly on land of Cornelius Culler & on land of Enos Pope, SE'ly on land of widow Elizabeth Gardner, etc. which tract oof land is to satisfy a legacy given to said Mary by her late husband John Procter 3d dec'd; signed 23 Mar 1754 in presence of Jonathan Osborne, Paul Osborne; recorded 14 Jun 1754, Essex Co. MA Deeds, vol. 100, p. 107.

link Abstract of will: John Proctor yeoman of Salem being very weak & infirm in body makes bequests to wife Mary Procter, to cousins [nephews] Abraham & Samuel Pears sons of my sister Mary Pears, to cousin [niece] Eunice Macmillion daughter of my sister Rachal [Massy?]; appoints wife as sole Exix; signed 1 Jun 1747 in presence of Increase Gatchell, Tabitha Gatchell, Mary Deen; proved 3 Aug 1747.

--- On 16 Oct 1752, "Mary Procter alias Marble" (signed "Mary Marbel al Proctor") exhibited an accounting for the estate of "her husband John Procter late of Salem" (again see Essex Co. Probate case no. 22853).

link [abstract] Joseph Hollet & wife Mary, Michael Coomes, Thomas White Jr, John Procter & wife Mary, Boniell Merifield & wife Susannah all of Marblehead, Essex Co. fishermen & spinsters conveys to Ebenezer Hawks of Marblehead of sd county blacksmith for £50 -- a small piece of land near Salem Ferry in Marblehead being two rights drawn by our father Thomas White by a division of land of his father Thomas White dec'd bounded NE'ly on highway leading to sd Ferry, SE'ly on land of Girdlers back to Peaches land, SW'ly on Peaches land, NW'ly on lot of Benjamin Whites to sd highway & as by a divisional deed made 5 Feb 1718; signed 5 Jan 1742 in presence of Robert Smith Jr, Benja Stacey Jr; recorded 25 Jun 1748, Essex Co. MA Deeds, vol. 90, p. 216.

link [abstract] Edward Pepper of Salem, Essex Co. husbandman conveys to John Procter Tertius of sd Salem husbandman for £20 -- 2.5 acres in sd Salem butting W'ly on sd Procters land, NW'ly on land of sd Procter till it comes to brook, E'ly on my own land to Redding Road & S'ly on Reading Road; signed 29 May 1738 in presence of John Higginson, John Higginson Jr; wife Mary consenting in presence of John Foster, Samuel Rhoades; recorded 15 Jan 1741, Essex Co. MA Deeds, vol. 82, p. 61.

link [abstract] Edward Pepper of Salem, Essex Co. husbandman conveys to John Procter Tertius of sd Salem husbandman for £20 -- a certain parcel in sd Salem butting W'ly & N'ly on land of John Procter Sr, E'ly on land of sd Pepper, S'ly on Road leading to Reading; signed 8 Jul 1734 in presence of John Webb Jr, William Bowles; wife Mary consenting in presence of John Follet, Saml Roads; recorded 15 Jan 1741, Essex Co. MA Deeds, vol. 82, p. 62.

link [abstract] John Procter of Salem, Essex Co. conveys to son John Procter yeoman of same town partly for love & affection & partly for £100 -- all that part of "my Farme whereon I now dwell" on E'ly side of Ipswich Road containing 35 acres bounded W'ly on said Ipswich Road, S'ly on Redding Road to land I formerly sold John Loomes, E'ly on sd land sold to Loomes to fulling mill brook, then by sd brook to land of Deacon Abraham Peirce, then on sd Peirces land & land belonging to heirs of Isaac Follet dec'd to sd Ipswich Road; signed 26 Aug 1740 in presence of Ebenr Boyce, Jon Boyce Jr; Hannah my wife renounces dower rights same date; recorded 16 Sep 1740, Essex Co. Deeds, vol. 100, p. 119.
[COMMENT: The recorder identified this as a deed from John Procter to John Procter 3th]

link [abstract] Jonathan Mackmallen of Salem, Essex Co. chairmaker conveys to John Procter 3tius of sd Salem husbandman for £15 -- 16 poles in sd Salem bounding E'ly on land of Messrs Brownes, S'ly on Benja Wards land, N'ly on John Hendersons land, W'ly (being the front) on St Peters Street alias Prison Street; signed 29 Mar 1736 in presence of Benja Rhoads, Robt Pele; recorded 30 Mar 1736, Essex Co. MA Deeds, vol. 71, p. 42.

link [abstract] John Balcam of Mansfield, Windham Co. CT and Hannah his wife, Abraham Pierce of Salem, Essex Co. yeoman and Mary his wife and Elizabeth Procter of said Salem singlewoman quitclaim to "our brother" Samuel Goldthwait of said Salem for £81.6s - all our rights to 50 acres in middle Parish Salem, bounded E'ly on Ipswich Road, S'ly on Reading Road, W'ly on land of Jona Boyce & N'ly on land of Daniel Jacobs & John Follet, also one acre of salt marsh in town of Lyn, said land and marsh being part of estate of our honored father John Proctor late of Salem dec'd; signed 20 Dec 1750 in presence of Daniel Epes Jr, Ezekl Marsh Jr; recorded 27 Jan 1752, Essex Co. MA Deeds, v. 96, p. 214.

link Pertinent text, pp. 67-69:
"25- Samuel4 Goldthwaite (Samuel3, Samuel2, Thomas1), of Salem, baptized there May 30, 1702 1st ch. Rec.), married 1st (int. pub. Oct. 24, 1730), MARY PULSIFER{a} of Gloucester. After her death he married, Aug. 22, 1738, ABIGAIL PROCTOR of Salem, daughter of John Proctor.{b} The home of Samuel was the south end of the house his father had kept as an inn and fronting on the present Foster street, then called 'a way leading from the meeting-house to Boston road.' This he sold Dec. 18, 1752, to his brother-in-law, Gideon Foster, who lived in the north end of the house, and about that time he bought out the other heirs of his wife's father, John Proctor, and removed to the latter's homestead, which is described as 50 acres with mansion house, barn, etc., bounded east on the Ipswich road, south by the Reading road, etc. Proctor's Brook, still so called, helps to mark its location.
"Samuel last appears in the parish tax-list in 1771, dying, therefore, probably in 1772, when 70 years of age. His wife was living in 1762. The old Goldthwaite record of 1829 says of Samuel that he " left no male heirs." Pie must have had, however, the two following sons, who died without issue, leaving the name extinct in his line not many years after his death. If he had daughters, they have not come to light. Children, by 1st wife:
"69 SAMUEL5, b. ____; it is only known of him that he was in the company of Capt. John Tapley (enlisted at Salem, Beverly, etc.), which was in the capitulation of Fort William Henry, Aug. 9, 1757, and that he is marked 'dead' on the roll, perhaps having perished in the massacre by the Indians which followed the surrender of the fort. He is credited with service of 23 weeks, 4 days, having entered March 9. His home is given as Danvers, and he must have been past 21, since no parent or guardian is mentioned against his name, as is the case with those under age (Mass. Archives, Vol. 95, p. 51).
"By 2d wife:
"70 JONATHAN, b. 1738 ; m. July 2, 1770, Rebecca Trask. He enlisted at the age of 18 in Capt. Andrew Fuller's company, Col. Ichabod Plaisted's regiment, serving at Fort Edward from Mar. 30 to Dec. 1, 1756. The roll shows his age, his birth at Danvers, and that he was then apprenticed to Thorndike Proctor (blacksmith). He again enlisted Apr. 2, 1759, in one of Gen. Amherst's regiments. He served also in the Revolution, in Capt. Benjamin Ward's company, stationed at Salem for the defense of the sea-coast, from Jan. 22 to Nov. 18, 1776. He died in 1778, in which year, July 15th, administration of estate of Jonathan Goldthwait, late of Danvers, mariner, was granted to his widow, Rebecca. "

Pertinent footnotes, p. 68:
{a} "Babson, in his history of Gloucester, mentions John Pulcifer,. or Pulsever, who, according to tradition, settled about 1650 on the old road leading to Coffin's Beach, and in 1688 had a piece of land given to the house where he then lived. He was the son of Benedict Pulsifer of Ipswich, and married, Dec, 31, 1684, Joanna, dau. of Thomas Kent. They had, among other children, as I am told by Mr. W. H. Dolliver of Gloucester, a Mary, baptized, 1st ch., Aug. 17, 1707, who may very probably have been the wife of Samuel Goldthwaite."
{b} "Abigail Proctor had sisters: Hannah, wife of John Balcum of Mansfield, Conn.; Mary, wife of Abraham Pierce of Salem; Rachel, who m. 1st, Jonathan Mackmallin, and 2d, Nath'l Massey; Elizabeth, unmarried, 1750; and a brother, John Proctor, 3d, who m. Mary Collier of Marblehead, and died in 1747 without issue."

link Pertinent text, v. 2, p. 23 (pertaining to John Proctor born 27 Jan 1692-3 and his children):
"JOHN PROCTOR3 son of John Proctor2 [John1] and Elizabeth Bassett; yeoman; lived in Peabody part of Salem; married Mary ____; died in 1745; she married, secondly, Daniel Marble (published July 2, 1748); children: 1. Abigail4; married Samuel Goldthwait; 2. Rachel4; married, first, Jonathan Mackmallon; second, Nathaniel Massey; 3. Mary4; married Abraham Pierce Aug. 22, 1744; 4. Hannah4; married John Balcam of Mansfield, Conn. (published April 20, 1745); 5. Elizabeth4; unmarried in 1750, in Salem; 6. John4; yeoman; married Mary Collier of Marblehead (published Nov. 6, 1736); died in the summer of 1747; she survived him."