Born: 15 March 1597, Crainbrook, Kent Co, England. 1 2
Parents: REV. HENRY WILLIAM EDDY AND MARY FOSTEN
Religion: Converted from Episcopal Puriton, Plymouth, MA, American. 2
Married: 1619, England. 5
Will: 11 Jan. 1677/78, Watertown, MA, America. 1 3 4
Death: 12 Oct. 1684, Watertown, MA, America. 1 2 3
Probate: 16 Dec. 1684, Watertown, MA, America. 1 3 4
Notes:
Arrived at the Plymouth Colony in 1630 aboard the Handmaid. 3
WILL:
"John Eddie of Watertowne, senior," bequeathed to "my son Samuell Eddie ... my homestall being by estimation forty acres more or less with my dwelling house and barn and all the appurtenances thereunto belonging, with seven acres of meadow and upland lying right over against Widow Barnard's house," he to pay to "my son John Eddie thirty pounds," as further limited by a writing "my sons-in-law John Miriam and Thomas Orton had ... of me"; also to "my son Samuell aforesaid a lot of twelve acres of upland more or less lying and being on the top of Stonie Brook Hill"; to "my four daughters Marie Orton, Sarah Miriam, Pilgrim Steadman, Ruth Gardner, a hundred acres of upland ... being a farm lying near upland called Nonesuch ... to be equally divided between my four daughters aforesaid"; to "my two sons aforesaid Samuell and John Eddie" all movables to be equally divided between them; "as for my dear and wellbeloved wife I have a writing under my hand and witness to it with the particulars therein mentioned what she shall enjoy after my death"; to "my son John aforesaid fourscore and five acres of land being land called by the name of farm land"; son Samuel Eddy to be executor. Massachusetts Probate Court.
Spouse: AMY DOGGETT bap. 15 July 1597, Groton, Suffolk, England d. about 1645, Watertown, MA, America.
CHILDREN OF JOHN EDDY AND AMY DOGGETT:
(my second cousins nine times removed, and my third cousins ten times removed through their great grandfather's sister, Alice Doggett)
MARY EDDY d. 13 Sep. 1693.
SARAH EDDY b: About 1619 d. 7 Jan. 1705, Boston, MA, America.
PILGRIM EDDY b: 25 Aug. 1634 in Watertown, MA, America
JOHN EDDY b: 16 Feb. 1636 in Watertown, MA, America 1 4 6 d. 1694 m. Sarah Woodward 6 July 1693. 4
BENJAMIN EDDY b: 1639 in Watertown, MA, America. 1 4 6
SAMUEL EDDY b: 30 Sep. 1640 in Watertown, MA, America d. 22 Nov. 1711.
ABIGAIL EDDY b: 11 Oct. 1643 in Watertown, MA, America
RUTH EDDY
Sources:
1. Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County Massachusetts with a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Volume I-II. New York, NY: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1907.
2. Commemorative Biographical Record of Tolland and Windham Counties Connecticut. Chicago, IL: J.H. Beers & Co., 1903.
3. Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
4. Family Memorials. Genealogies of the Families and Descendents of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1855.
5. Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900.
6. "Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages - First Book and Supplement," Sect. 3 in Watertown Records Comprising the First and Second Books of Town Proceedings as referenced in The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633.
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