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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 William ffry, in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, probate and deed indexes, ca. 1640-1800. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1941)
1:31.
link This may be to witnes & giue testimony, vnder the hands of those whom haue herevnto subscribed their names that Wm ffry of Waymouth who dyed the 26 of october, 1642, being sicke & weake in body. To his wife after his decease his house & foure acres of land being his home lot, & after her decease to his two daughters, Elizabeth & Mary. To his two daus. 2 acres of mead & sixe acres of land lying by the mill, also to each of them a Goate. To Thomas Harris, Thomas Rawlens & John Meggs his three sisters youngest children, each of them a kid. The rest of estate to wife
Thomas Bailey
John Burge
deposed by the above named before the court the 9 of the 9 mo. 1643
- Mary Harris, in Connecticut, United States. Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999
Case Number 2584.
link Will 19th of Jan 1655; "I give to my three daughters..." dau Sarah Lane, and her daus Sarah & Mary; dau Mary Lawrence, dau Elizabeth Weekes, I give to my sister Meigs, I give to my cousen Calib Rawlyns (nephew), I give to my two cousisn Mary and Elizabeth ffry, To my sister Hannah Rawlin... To my brother Rawlin, To my kinswoman Elizabeth Hubbard and Mary Stevens, I give to Mary Barnet, I give to my sonne Thomas, I give to Rebeka Bruen, I give to my sonne Gabriell.
- Swigart, Edmund K. (Edmund Kearsley), and Richard Andrew Pierce. An Emerson-Benson saga: the ancestry of Charles F. Emerson and Bessie Benson and the struggle to settle the United States : including 194 allied lines : major families: Barrows, Besse, Blanchard, Bloss, Booth, Chittenden, Ford, Freeman, Hafford, Hall, Johnson, Joslyn, Lewis, Lord, Lyman, Merrill, Moulton, Perry, Rogers, Safford, Shaw, Spear, Stevens, Sumner, Woodward and Younglove. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Gateway Press, c1994)
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JOHN2 MEIGS (VINCENT1) was born in 1612 in England and died 4 January 1672, probably at Hammonassett (later Ki11ingworth ) CT, married by 1632 probably in England, TAMSEN/TOMAZINE/ THOMASIN/TAMAZIN1 FRY, sister of William1, whom she probably accompanied to the New World. Her brother William was a resident of Weymouth, where the MEIGS landed, and died there at a young age in 1642, leaving a wife and two daughters, ages three and ten months. Nothing is known of the parents or birth and depth dates and locations of JOHN's wife and William1.
John lived in Weymouth, county Dorset, England, after his marriage. At least his second child, and probably his first, was born there. He probably immigrated with his father by 1639 from Weymouth -England to Weymouth, MA. He remained in Weymouth until sometime after the birth of his third child and first in the New World, John3 in 1642. JOHN2 and his family then moved to New Haven by 1644 and Guilford by his father, VINCENT1. JOHN's last move was to Hammonassett by 1658. His father passed away that year. His son John became a Freemen in 1669. John was a successful tanner by trade. On at least one occasion, however, he was sued for the poor quality of his hides, yet it did not appear, based on the evidence presented in court, that he bore the primary responsibility for the problem. The suit was brought in 1647 by ancestor SAMUEL1 NETTLETON. Despite this one unfortunate incident, JOHN2 was quite a wealthy man, having some books, of wh. one was a Latin and Greek Diet." (Savage, J., op. cit., 11:214; 111:193-4; IV:190). This was very unusual for the time and suggested a family of education and probable social connections.
Children: Elizabeth, Mary, John, Concurrance and Trial.
- Spear, Burton W. Search for the passengers of the Mary & John, 1630. (Toledo, Ohio: B.W. Spear, c1985-)
Vol 6 p 9, p 39, p 44, p 58, p 67, p 137+, 1991.
p 9 William Fry ( - 1642) of Weymouth, MA. William Fry and his sisters Thomasine (wife of John Meigs), Mary (wife of Walter Harris) and Hannah (wife of Thomas Rawlins) have been called children of William Fry and Sarah Hill, brother of William Hill of Lyme Regis, Dorset and Fairfield, CT. This is disproven by the will of William Fry, proved 25 Feb 1625/6 (PCC HELE 20). The parents of the above children of Axminster, Devon are not known.
p 39 Recap of above plus possibly from Axminster, Devon (5 mi N of Lyme Regis). Walter Harris and Mary Fry lived in Honiton, Devon (1621-1636).
p 44 Walter Harris documents the bp of seven children in Honiton, Devon between 1621-1636 and recaps the four Fry siblings.
p 58 Vincent Miegs 1583 - 1658 suggested son of Lawrence Meggs and Anne Wood of Bradford Peverell, Dorset, wife Em ___, children bp in Chardstock, Devon (3 mi. S of Chard): Mary bp 16 Apr 1610, John bp 29 Jan 1612/13 (m Thomasine Fry), Marke bp 25 Aug 1616 (m Avis), Vincent. Brother John of Axminster, Devon will 1632 overseers Vincent Maggs and Thomas Loring, probably the Thomas Loring of Hingham, MA and Axminster in 1634.
p 67 William Rawlins of Weymouth m in England Hannah Fry came about 1633 with two sister Mary Fry and Walter Harris and Tamizine Fry and John Meigs and brother William Fry. So Thomas Fry.
p 137 English Origins of Vincent Meggs (or Meigs) (d. 1658) of Weymouth, Mass., New Haven and Guilford, Conn. by Douglas Richardson. Recap of above citation to TAG 53:92 Vincent Meggs and Thomas Loring witteses to will of John Meggs of Axminster. he found the will probated in 1614 in PCC of William Wyatt of Westwater, Devon (tything of Axminster) dated 9 Feb 1613/4 probated 27 May 1614 (Ref 40 Lawe) naming godchild Thomas ffrye. The Bishop's Transcripts of Chardstock, Dorset included bps for the children of Vincent Meggs. Also rec's for George Fry m to Ralina Dabinot (Jane Dabinot m Thomas Newberry of Windsor).
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