Person:Richard Shatswell (1)

From W. G. Davis, p. 284, 285: "In 1653 he rented the Ipswich house of his wife's aunt, widow Joanna Tuttle, for a two year term, subletting to Robert Smith. The rent was to be 24 lbs in corn each year and Simon Tuttle, as attorney for his mother, was obliged to sue for it, Shatswell in turn suing Smith. In 1656 he had several difficulties with his neighbor Richard Kimball. Kimball struck the Shatswell's maid and sued Richard and Rebecca for slander. He hear in his own words when William Dellow, his servant, was in court for beating his master's ox so that the poor animal died--'Now, William, you may see fruits of cruelty.' He had other servants, Robert Punnill and Mary Parker. He was guilty of contempt of court in 1659 and acknowledged his error. In 1657 the town had given him authority to set up a mill for breaking hemp, and in 1676 he had a fulling mill on Egypt river above the rod to Rowley. A neighborhood case, with much testimony, resulted when mark Quilter ejected Rebecca Shatswell from his house where she was visiting Quilter's wife, in 1664. He was a member of the trial jury in 1671 and the grand jury in 1673."

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)
   4:61.

   "RICHARD, Ipswich, s[on]. of the first John, b[orn]. prob[ably]. in Eng[land]. by w[ife]. Rebecca, perhaps, had Mary, wh[o]. d[ied]. Sept. 1657; Sarah, b[orn]. 19 Aug. 1658; Richard, wh[o]. d[ied]. 28 Jan. 1664; Ann, b[orn]. 21 Feb. 1666; Richard, again; John, and Hannah, or Joanna, perhaps both; and he d[ied]. 13 July 1694. Sarah m[arried]. a Rindge."

2.   Felt, Joseph B. History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton.

   1633. There are two saw-mills in Ipswich.
   Fulling-Mills. 1675. John Whipple is to have one at the Small Falls.
   1677. Richard Shatswell is allowed to have one. But as he did not comply with the conditions of his grant, he is desired, 1681, to take away his dam.

3.   From Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis.

   "In 1653 he rented the Ipswich house of his wife's aunt, widow Joanna Tuttle, for a two year term, subletting to Robert Smith. The rent was to be 24 lbs. in corn each year and Simon Tuttle, as attorney for his mother, was obliged to sue for it, Shatswell in turn suing Smith. In 1656 he had several difficulties with his neighbor Richard Kimball. Kimball struck the Shatswell's maid and sued Richard and Rebecca for slander. He heard in his own words when William Dellow, his servant, was in court for beating his master's ox so that the poor animal died - "Now, William, you may see fruits of cruelty." He had other servants, Robert Punnill and Mary Parker. He was guilty of contempt of court in 1659 and acknowledged his error. In 1657 the town had given him authority to set up a mill for breaking hemp, and in 1676 he had a fulling mill on Egypt river above the road to Rowley. A neighborhood case, with much testimony, resulted when Mark Quilter ejected Rebecca Shatswell from his house where she was visiting Quilter's wife, in 1664. He was a member of the trial jury in 1671 and the grand jury in 1673."

4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 John Shatswell, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
   3:1657.

   Richard Shatswell, b. about 1627 (deposed aged 52 in 1679 [Pillsbury Anc 1:205, citing unknown source]).

5. ↑ Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts to End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1910, 1919)
   2:672.

   Shatswell, Richard, sr. (died) July 13, 1694.