Person:William Coleman (31)

William Coleman born in England ca 1619, was transported from England in the ship Assurance from Gravesend on 24 July 1635. Legend says that the Captain of the ship bound him out to a farmer and that he married the farmer's daughter.

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1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Deaths, in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts.: Essex Institute, 1917)
   p. 97.

   COLEMAN (Colleman)
   William, Apr. 18, 1680.

2.   Colman, James Cash. The genealogy of William Coleman of Gloucester, Mass., and Graveshead, England, 1619-1906. (Goshen, N.Y. : Independent Republican, 1906), pp. 15-16, 35. Available on Internet Archive.

   pp. 15-16
   "The tradition of the Colman family is that William Coleman, at the age of 16, was transported [from England]"
   Thee is a record that says "about 260 persons were transported to Virginia in 135 in the ship Assurance." [emphasis added]
   p. 16
   William was living in Southold, Suffolk County, New York, in 1675, "wealthy farmer"
   p. 35
   William Coleman married as his second wife, in 1662 in Gloucester, MA, his second wife, Bridget Row, widow of John Row.
   
   Comments
   This is obviously a very confused and unreliable account of the origins of the William Coleman whose descendants lived in New York.
   
   1) There is nothing to indicate that the William Coleman on the ship being transported to Virginia was the William Coleman who settled in New York, to become a "wealthy farmer", or that he was the William Coleman who lived in Gloucester, Massachusetts who married the widow Rowe.
   
   2) The William Coleman who married Bridget Rowe in 1662 continued to live in Gloucester until his death. He is obviously not the same William Coleman who was living (and taxed) as a "wealthy farmer" in Southold, Suffolk, New York in 1675.