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Facts and Events
| Name[1][8] |
Jonathan Simpson |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[6] |
6 Apr 1680 |
Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Christening[2] |
1 Mar 1684/85 |
Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Marriage |
13 Aug 1702 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Elizabeth Cox (add) |
| Marriage |
4 Oct 1731 |
Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Esther Wheeler |
| Death[3][4][5][7] |
1 Nov 1733 |
Wayland, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
References
- ↑ Wheeler, Albert Gallatin. The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler family in America. (American College of Genealogy , 1914)
p. 30.
Esther Wheeler [#165] m. 4 Oct 1731 Jonathan Simson of Sudbury, s/o Jonathan Simson and Wayte Clap, bp. 1 Jan [sic] 1685.
[Note: Wheeler does not mention the first wife, and erroneously attributes all the children to Esther even though their 2+ year marriage obviously was too short for that to be true (especially since one was married and all appear to have been old enough to appear in court without a guardian).]
- ↑ First Church (Charlestown, Massachusetts), and James Frothingham, ed. Hunnewell. Records of the First Church in Charlestown, 1632-1789. (Boston, Mass, 1880)
p. 74.
1685 [moneth] 1 [day 1] Jonathan ye son of G. Jonathan Simpson & Wait his wife [baptized]
[Note: In old-styles dates, the first month is March. More info may be found here.]
- ↑ Wayland, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Wayland, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. (Boston, Mass: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1910)
p. 155.
SIMPSON, Jonathan, "late" of Boston, Nov. 1, 1733, in 54th y. GR1
[Age 53, so born about 1680. GR1=North Cemetery]
- ↑ Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903)
p. 325.
SIMSON, Jonathan, [died] Nov. 1, 1733.
- ↑ Find A Grave: North Cemetery, Wayland, Mass., in Find A Grave
Jonathan Simpson.
HERE LYES Ye BODY OF
Mr. JONATHAN SIMPSON
LATE OF BOSON. WHO
DEPARTED THIS LIFE
NOVr. 1st. 1 7 3 3:
IN Ye 54th YEAR PF
HIS AGE.
CHARLESTOWN doth claim his BIRTH
BOSTON his HABITATION
SUDBURY hath his GRAVE
Where was his EXPIRATION.
- ↑ Joslyn, Roger D. Vital Records of Charlestown, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1984-1995)
p. 109.
Jonathan, son of Jonathan & Waite Simpson, b. Apr. 6, 1680.
- ↑ Massachusetts. Probate Court (Middlesex County). Probate records, 1648-1924. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1964-1967)
Case 20484: Jonathan Simpson 1733.
Will of "Jonathan Simpson of Sudbury ... Glazier", dated 4 Aug 1733, proved 10 Dec 1733, names wife Esther ["all ye Goods Chattels or Personal Estate which she brought to me at Marriage: and all ye Debt that Shall remain Due to me at my Deceased for work she hath done at her Tailor Trade"; son Jonathan Simpson, daughters Elizabeth Hunniwell and Abigail Simpson, "my Brother James Blake". Wife Esther and s'd Brother-in-law James Blake to be executors.
10 Dec 1733: letters issued to Esther Simpson the sd' Dece'd Widow ... the other executor mr James Blacke to accept of his s'd trust" [Note: James Blake m. Boston 1714 Jonathan's sister Wait. James Blake wrote: "my Indisposition is such that I doubt of going much about this winter"].
17 Dec 1733: Complaint of son Jonathan Simpson that "this will is not my father's will he teling me so much to the Contra[r]y...given things away to strangers w[h]ich should have b[e]en his sons my father has not complained In his will of my being unnaturall or a disobed[ie]nt son... Thar fore I look upon my self as [w]holy cut of[f]..."
20 Dec 1733: Inventory of Jonathan Simpson late of Sudbury Dec'd [apparently property in Suffolk County]
25 Jan 1733/4: Testimonial of neighbor William Cook: "I understand that...The Judge thinks it hard[?] that ye widow should have what is by will given to Her and that ye Children think it too. but I am fine [?] that ye whole of ye Estate would be but a small reward for ye hard [???] that ye Good woman underwent upon ye account of Her Husbands long confinement to his bed which was almost two years;..."
25 Jan 1733/34: Inventory of the personal estate of Mr Jonathan Simpson Late of Sudbury Dece'd.
[no specific date], 1734: Accounting of Esther Simpson Executrix presented and approved.
- ↑ There is not very good coverage of the Simpsons of Charlestown and Boston. It does not help that Simpson and Simson are not matches for each other under Soundex. That said, the best source for Jonathan Simpson, one small part of which found its way into Wheeler, is Source:Wyman, Thomas Bellows. Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1629-1818, p. 2:867, which says this Jonathan [#7] m. (1) Abigail ---, m. (2) Esther Wheeler, and made a will dated 4 Aug 1733 naming wife Esther, children Jonathan, Elizabeth Hunnewell and Abigail. As in Wheeler, no birthdates are given for the children and all we know is that Elizabeth m. a Mr. Stephen Hunnewell. This marriage occurred in 1726, and so suggests that the daughter is the Elizabeth b. 1703. But if this is so, then Jonathan's first wife was named Elizabeth Cox, not Abigail. The basis for thinking he had a wife named Abigail has not been found, and whether she might be a second wife, or whether it may be an assumption based on the name of the other daughter, or whether the Jonathan Simpson who married Elizabeth Cox is a different person, is not known. Birth records for the other children would probably offer clues but haven't been found yet.
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