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Facts and Events
| Name[1][2] |
Captain William Dixey |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][2] |
Cal 1607 |
England |
| Emigration[1][2] |
1629 |
As one of the servants of Mr. Isaac Johnson. |
| Residence[1] |
1629 |
Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Residence[1] |
Bef 1634 |
Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Marriage |
Bef 1634 |
to Anna Unknown |
| Other[1] |
14 May 1634 |
Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay. |
| Residence[1] |
Bef 1681 |
Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Will[1] |
21 Feb 1684/85 |
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| Will[1] |
11 Aug 1688 |
Codicil. |
| Death[1] |
Bet 11 Aug 1688 and 24 Jun 1690 |
Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United StatesBetween date of codicil and date of probate. |
| Estate Inventory[1] |
2 Jun 1690 |
£113 16s, and John Stone a creditor for diet and "tendance" at £31 10s. [EQC 49:43]. |
| Probate[1] |
24 Jun 1690 |
Will proved. |
William described his arrival at Cape Ann in 1629 in a later deposition, describing how the English and the Indians got along together.
He took over the ferry at the North Point from John Stone on 11 Dec 1639.
His will, dated 21 Feb 1684/5, names his five daughters Mary Woodbury, Anna Judkin, Abigail Stone, Elizabeth Morgan, and Sarah Gale; two grandchildren Elizabeth Dixie and Sarah Dixie; "my son Samuell Morgan", grandson Jonathan Stone; grandchildren Anna Stone, Anna Gale, and Anna Morgan; son-in-law Edmund Gale.
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 William Dixey, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
1:553-57.
ORIGIN: Unknown.
OCCUPATION: Ferryman (… [STR 1:94]. … [EQC 5:70]. See also EQC 1:92.)
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: "William Dixy" is included in the list of Salem church members compiled late in 1636, but he must have been admitted to church no later than 14 May 1634 based on his admission to freemanship [SChR 6].
FREEMAN: 14 May 1634 (third in a sequence of six Salem men) [MBCR 1:368].
BIRTH: About 1607 (deposed aged fifty years 1 July 1657 [EQC 7:127]; aged sixty-two years 2 July 1669 [EQC 4:175]; aged seventy-two years at November Term, 1679 [EQC 7:311]; and aged about seventy years June Term 1680 [EQC 7:389]).
DEATH: Between 11 Aug 1688 (codicil to will) and 24 June 1690 (probate of will).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 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)
2:54.
WILLIAM, Salem, had come to Cape Ann 1629, was next at Lynn, had bapt. at S. Abigail, 25 Dec. 1636; Ann, 17 May 1638; John, 1639; Elizabeth 1641; and others; freem. 14 May 1634; was capt., of Beverly, a. 1677, and d. 1690, aet. 82. Lewis. Felt. Gibbs. Whitman. 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. VII. 260. Ann m. 11 Aug. 1657, Nehemiah Howard; and Elizabeth m. 15 Dec. 1658, Samuel Morgan.
- Davis, Walter Goodwin, Compiler, and Introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts. Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting, in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia (plus Thomas Haley of Winter Harbor and His Descendants). (Baltimore, Maryland, United States: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1996)
1:420-27.
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