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General James Cudworth ★ (Ralph, Mary) was the son of Ralph Cudworth and was christened on August 2, 1612 SO1. The record of his baptism in Aller, Somerset, England was very likely written by his own father, who just two years previously had become the rector of Aller; it states “James Cudworth, the sonn of Mr Raph Cudworth was baptized the 2 day of August” in 1612 SO1. He probably married Mary Parker on February 1, 1633/4 in Northam, Devonshire, England AN7. The authors of The Great Migration believe that the Northam Parish Register marriage record for James Cudworth and Mary Parker apply to this particular James Cudworth because the timing was appropriate; February was just before the sailing season for passenger ships AN7. Additionally, this date was fifteen months before James, their first child, was born AN7. James was baptized on May 3, 1635 in the home of his father “Mr. Cuddworth” RO6; this is a normal interval between the wedding date and a child’s birth AN7. Further, The Great Migration authors believe that this marriage record applies to James Cudworth because of the proximity of Northam to Barnstaple, England, which was a port from which many left for New England AN7. Although Barnstaple is located inland, it lies on a large river. Lastly, the surname “Cudworth” does not occur again in the Northam Parish Register AN7.
James was in Scituate as early as 1634 DE3. Upon the arrival of Reverend John Lothrop to Scituate in September 1634, the Reverend wrote a list of the nine houses which had already been constructed in Scituate, all of which were “small plaine pallizadoe Houses” SW1. The pallizadoe (or palisade) construction technique, as described by C.F. Swift, involved boring “two parallel rows of holes, about four inches apart… into the sills, and [boring] corresponding ones into the plates of the building. Into these small poles were inserted, and the spaces between filled with stones and clay” SW1. These nine houses were erected on Kent Street SW1. The Cudworth house was the second on Reverend Lothrop’s list, as transcribed by Amos Otis, after that of the house owned by “Mr. Hatherlye”. The remaining seven houses belonged to Mr. Gillson, Goodman Anniball, Goodman Rowlye, Goodman Turner, Goodman Cobbe, Goodman Howe, and Edward Foster SW1. While in Scituate in December 1634, James wrote a letter to his stepfather, John Stoughton, which mentioned that he planted corn, and reckoned that he harvested about fifty bushels DR2. He remarked that because his home was the largest, it was used as the meeting house for the settlement of about sixty people DR2; incidentally, the meeting house in Scituate was not completed until November 1636 SW1. The fact that he harvested corn indicates that he must have been in Massachusetts by the spring of 1634, in time to till the field and plant the corn.
He was “admitted into the freedome of the colonie” at the General Court on January 1, 1634/5 SH9 and was a member of the church on January 18 of that year SW1. Among the several trials he heard as a jury member on October 4 and 5, 1636, were two trials for breaking the Sabbath, after which the offenders were compelled to pay fines, and a case regarding drunken behavior, for which the reprobate was to be whipped SH9. James was selected as the constable of Scituate on January 3, 1636/7 and he was sworn into that position on March 7, 1636/7 SH9.
He was among fifteen freemen who complained to the Court of Assistants on January 1, 1637/8 that their allotment of land was so minute that they could not subsist on it, and because of that, they were granted “all that vpland & neck of land lying betweene the North & South Riuers, and all the meadow grounde between the said riuers from the North Riuer to the Beauer Pond, and all along by the North Riuer side” SH9. The conditions of this grant were that they must create a township and live there and construct a ferry to transport cattle and people across the North River SH9. The next day, he was part of a jury that decided the fate of Edward Shaw, a thief who stole fifteen shillings from William Corvannell, and Marke Mendloue (Mendlove), who was an accessory to the felony SH9. The criminals were whipped, and Mr. Shaw was branded on his shoulder with a hot iron SH9. James was fined nine shillings on December 4, 1638, as were six additional men, because thrice they were to have appeared in the General Court in New Plymouth, and for each time they did not present themselves, they received a fine of three shillings SH9.
On January 22, 1638/9, for the purpose of creating a township, James and seven other men from Scituate were granted the Seppekann (Sippican) plantation, but they were instructed to reserve a three- or four-hundred-acre parcel of land for a farm AN7, SH9. Six of these eight individuals, including James, were also named as part of the fifteen freemen who were granted land between the North and South Rivers in 1637/8. He and Kenelm Winslow were jury members at the General Court on June 4, 1639 and September 3, 1639 SH15. Timothy Hatherley took James to the General Court at New Plymouth on March 3, 1639/40 because James owed him a debt of twelve pounds SH15. James was elected a committee member for Barnstable (and/or possibly Yarmouth, as the page markings seemed to indicate that he was to serve perhaps for both towns) on June 2, 1640, but “Mr Cudworth, of Scittuate” was also presented to the court for selling wine contrary to the order of the court SH9. At this point it is unclear where he lived, for on the same day that he was a township official for Yarmouth, he was also said to be from Scituate. Yarmouth and Barnstable, which are very close to each other, are fifty-six miles southeast of Scituate. Perhaps he was in a transitory stage and was in the process of relocating in 1640. While in Scituate, he owned a salt works, but he relocated that company to Rendezvous Creek in Barnstable in 1640 SP3, CU1.
He was a jury member at a court in Yarmouth on June 17, 1641 and a jury member at the General Court in Plymouth on March 1, 1641/2 SH15. Thomas Byrd, a servant of James Cudworth of Barnstable, ran away from the Cudworth household and stole food and clothing from neighboring families sometime before January 4, 1641/2, and was consequently censured to be whipped in both Plymouth and Scituate SH10. On May 3, 1642, James was the plaintiff at the Court of Assistants in Plymouth and sued Thomas Byrd “in an action of trespasse vpon the case, to the damage of xijli” (twelve pounds), of which James received “vjli vs and xijd”, or six pounds, five shillings, and twelve pence SH15. One month later, on June 7, 1642, Thomas Byrd sued James for the same general reason, and he sought damages of forty pounds, of which he was awarded “xls”, or forty shillings SH15. On this day, James was also one of three men chosen to represent Barnstable SH10. The following day, “James Cudworth of Barnestable” sold his house, located near the bridge by the harbor, and five acres of upland to Thomas Ensinge of Scituate, for eighteen pounds AN7, DE3, PU3.
Shortly after, on June 10, 1642, James signed a deed to Thomas Robinson of Scituate which stated that he had received from Thomas “the sum of threescore and seaventeene pounds and tenn shillings” PU3. In return, James granted to Thomas Robinson his dwelling house, outhouses, barns, buildings, twenty acres of upland, ten acres of marsh meadow, another ninety-acre parcel of upland, and another sixteen-acre marsh meadow lot which was adjacent to the North River PU3. The Conihasset Grant was a large parcel of land first purchased by Timothy Hatherly, and on December 1, 1646, he divided it up into thirty parts, but saved one fourth of it AN7, DE3, presumably for himself. He then sold the thirty parts to a group of men for 180 pounds; two of these men were John “Whetcomb” and James Cudworth DE3, PU3.
In 1643, he was listed along with all other men from Scituate who were between the ages of sixteen and sixty and able to bear arms, but his name was also found in the same type of list of men from Barnstable, though cancelled out RO6, SH16. He sold his salt manufacturing facility in 1646 and moved back to Scituate, where he built a house on the south side of Coleman Hills SP3, CU1, near Musquashcut Pond DE3, which itself is directly adjacent to the ocean. Governor William Bradford, Mr. Thomas Prince (Prence), Mr. William Collier, Mr. John Howland, Mr. Thomas Democke (Dimocke), Mr. James Cudworth, and Mr. Josiah Winslow were appointed to form a committee of the General Court of Massachusetts to determine which jurisdiction the tract of land called Shawamet and Pautuxit fell under, that of the Massachusetts Bay Colony or of the New Plimoth Colony SH18. On June 7, 1650, the committee members returned their determination to the court, and stated that Plimoth Colony relinquished their right, title, and claim to the tract of land called “Shawamett and Pautuxit” to the government of Massachusetts SH19.
He was selected to represent Scituate as a committee member on June 4, 1650 and again on June 5, 1651 SH10, and he was selected to be the Deputy of Scituate on June 3, 1652 SH11. He was appointed on June 29, 1652 as the “captaine of the milletary company of Scituate” DE3, SH11, and on April 6, 1653, he and eight additional men were elected to form the War Council, which had the power to issue warrants to impress (force to serve) men for military duty, and to issue warrants to the towns for weapons and provisions SH11. The War Council met at Plymouth five weeks later to discuss intelligence from Boston regarding a war with the Dutch and concluded that anything that would be undertaken or accomplished about this war would be by the authority of England, and that the towns must become prepared for a potential war with the Dutch SH11. They issued warrants in the name of England to impress sixty men: seven from Plymouth, six from Duxburrow, nine from Scituate, six from Sandwidge (Sandwich), five from Taunton, six from Yarmouth, six from Barnstable, six from Marshfield, six from Rehoboth, and three from Eastham SH11. The towns were ordered to provide arms for these men SH11.
James was named again as a Deputy of Scituate on June 6, 1654, but he may have left the court early on that day, because he was fined five pounds for “departing the court, being required to stay on speciall occation” SH11. He remained a Deputy for Scituate at the next election the following June SH11, and he and Timothy Hatherly were appointed as supervisors of the last will and testament of Captain Myles Standish on March 7, 1655 RO6. He was also involved in the inventories of the estates of many deceased persons, such as Henry Merritt of Scituate on January 24, 1653, Richard Sillis of Scituate on March 26, 1656, John Allin of Scituate on September 26, 1662, Gowin White on December 8, 1664, Lieutenant James Torrey on September 15, 1665, Timothy Hatherly of Scituate on November 9, 1666, and Thomas Chettenden of Scituate on November 9, 1668 RO6.
On June 6, 1655, Captain James Cudworth and Mr. James Browne were chosen as Commissioners for Plymouth Colony for one year PU2, and on June 3, 1656, he was sworn as an Assistant to the General Court at Plymouth, and was also chosen as a Magistrate SH11. He acted in that duty at the General Court in October 1656, June 1657, October 1657, March 1657/8, and at the Court of his Majesty at Plymouth in July and October of 1674, March 1674/5, October 1675, March 1675/6, November 1676, July and October of 1677, March 1677/8, July 1678, July and November of 1679, March 1679/80, July and October of 1680, March 1680/1, and July 1681 SH15. On June 5, 1657, he and Mr. Thomas Prence were appointed as Commissioners for Plymouth Colony for one year PU2. James opposed the anti-Quaker laws, and instead favored tolerance DE3. A petition against James Cudworth’s actions toward Quakers, initiated by civilian and military residents of Scituate, was received at the Plymouth Colony court on or before March 2, 1657/8 SH11. Specifically, the townspeople were displeased with him because he had been SH11:
entertaining… Quakers, by suffering them to meet in his house, and others with them, which said Quakers haue rendered themselues in theire doctrines, speeches, and carriages destructiue to the peace of this jurisdiction, the Court… doe order as followeth… that the said Captaine James Cudworth by the Court is discharged of his place as capt[ain] of the milletary companie of the towne of Scituate.
John Coggen, the minor son of the late Henery Coggen, chose James Cudworth and Mr. Isacke Robinson as his guardians in May 1659 SH11. John Coggen (Cogan) was the nephew of Frances (Cogan) Whetcomb, who was Mary (Cudworth) Whitcomb’s mother-in-law, as “Henery Coggen” was the brother of Frances SP3. Mary Cudworth was the daughter of James Cudworth.
Although James had been discharged as captain, the court continued to refer to him by that title SH11. He was not re-elected as a Deputy of Scituate in June 1659; a marginal notation stated that he was not approved by the court SH11. In March 1659/60, the court was made aware of a letter written by James that was destined to be sent to England, which was considered to be scandalous, as it exposed his dissatisfaction with the government and illustrated its bigotry SH11, DE3. Additionally, the court was aware of his “manifest abetting and incurragement of those called Quakers”, and because of these two reasons, the court bound him over for trial at the next General Court session in June, and required that he pay an absolutely exorbitant sum of five hundred pounds for security, to ensure that he would arrive at court SH11, DE3. During the court session on June 6, 1660, the letter was determined to be seditious and James was found to be a “manifest opposer of the lawes” of the government, and was sentenced to be disenfranchised of his freedom SH11. The court again demanded that James must furnish five hundred pounds to the court to guarantee his appearance at the next court session, held in October SH11. During the October 2, 1660 General Court session, James was questioned if the letter which was said to be seditious was written by him, but his answer may have been evasive, because the court record stated that he “refused to answare directly” SH11. The bond was cancelled, and he was cleared for a time, until an additional trial could find him innocent SH11.
He continued to fulfill the duties which he was permitted to do. On April 24, 1666 he was a jury member assigned to investigate the death of Mary Totman, who died because she consumed a noxious root which she mistook for a different, commonly eaten, and non-toxic root SH12. On June 5, 1666, the court overruled the results of a vote by Scituate’s military, which was in favor of Captain Cudworth’s return to leadership, and instead placed Sergeant John Damman in that position SH12. On October 30 and 31, 1666, James efficaciously petitioned the Plymouth Colony Court to divide the marsh meadow Lot Twenty-three at the west end of the Great Neck at Conihasset AN7, SH12. On October 29, 1667, James, Joseph Tilden, and Cornett Robert Studson were unsuccessful plaintiffs at the General Court in Plymouth against John Williams, Jr., but the verbiage of the abstract of this court case was composed in such a way as to require a background in jurisprudence to decipher it (see page 141 of Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England. Judicial Acts. 1636-1692) SH15.
On two occasions, March 5, 1666/7 and July 7, 1668, James was sued for ten pounds by Constant Southworth, a treasurer who (on both occasions) claimed that James did not pay five pounds “to the countrey” SH15. The first time, the “action was taken vp before it was pleaded to” and the second time, the “suite was withdrawne after the jury was impanneled” SH15. James brought a suit against John Williams on October 29, 1670 at the Court of his Majesty in Plymouth, because he stated that SH15:
John Williams, about the latter end of hey haruest… 1669, vpon the Gulfe Iland, in Scittuate… did pull or beate downe… a wigwam, or Indian house, which an Indian sett vp for his shelter, which Indian was hiered by the said Cudworth to cutt coard wood on the said iland, by which meanes the Indian was forced from his worke, and the said Cudworth disappointed of a considerable quantity of the wood that would haue supplied his nessesitie, and the title of his land brought into question.
The jury decided that James should receive five pounds for damages, in addition to the cost of the lawsuit, but on March 7, 1670/1, John Williams petitioned the court for a review of the case, which was granted SH15. James was brought to the Court of his Majesty in Plymouth on July 5, 1671 to answer to the charge by Robert Stanford, who stated before the court that James unjustly molested Robert “by causing him to be attached [probably “attacked”] in seuerall actions, and imprisoning his body vpon seuerall action by him commenced in the name of Peter Goulding” SH15. The jury determined that James should pay Robert Stanford ten pounds in damages, in addition to the cost of the suit, but on October 29, 1671, James complained to the court that he was greatly wronged by the verdict, and that “hee hath obtained a review of the said action” SH15.
After the election of Josiah Winslow to the post of Governor, James was reestablished as a freeman on July 4, 1673 DE3, SH13, and authorized to solemnize marriages, grant subpoenas, and administer oaths to witnesses at trials SH13. On December 17, 1673, he was appointed to lead an expedition of one hundred men SH13 against the Dutch, but he chose to decline the position because his wife was ill DE3. He wrote to Governor Winslow, “My wife, as is well known unto the whole town, is not only a weak woman, but has so been all along, and now by reason of age, being sixty-seven years and upward, and nature decaying, so her illness grows strongly upon her” DE3. She must have died within eight years from the date of this letter, because she was not named in his will.
The court recognized him as the Captain of Scituate’s military in 1674 SH13, and he was chosen to determine if the residents of Scituate had enough firepower, as a skirmish against the Dutch settlers was expected to occur DE3. He was ordered to “purchase seven sordes [swords] to complete the town’s stock in that kinde” DE3. On October 4, 1675, when he was referred to as “Major James Cudworth”, he was unanimously elected as the “generall or comaunder in cheiffe” SH13, and from 1674 until 1680 he was chosen as a governmental assistant DE3. 1675 was the same year that the Namassakesett (Nemasket) Indians were ordered to be forcefully displaced to Clark’s Island, as they were considered the enemy DE3. He was again a Commissioner for Plymouth Colony for one year, appointed this time with Thomas Hinckley, Esquire on June 4, 1678 PU2. In that year, the court ordered that Governor Winslow, Mr. Hinckley, the treasurer, and James Cudworth should review the laws of the colony, and then edit and organize them into one volume SH13.
On October 27, 1680, he made a formal complaint about John Williams at the Court of his Majesty in Plymouth, which also happened to be the same court and day on which he was assigned to act as a Justice SH15. James alleged that in August 1679 in Scituate, John “did vnlawfully seize and posesse himselfe of a mare coult of about a yeer and a halfe old” which belonged to James SH15. John branded the horse with his brand mark, the letters “I W”; James described the horse as “a brownish couller, with a whitish face, and the off foot behind white” SH15. The jury determined that John Williams should pay forty silver shillings for damages, in addition to the cost of the lawsuit, or give James the mare, as well as five shillings for damages and the cost of the suit SH15. He became the Deputy Governor, and he, along with Governor Thomas Hinckley, were selected to be Commissioners for the colony on June 7, 1681 SH14. He signed his name to a document on September 6, 1681 regarding the settlement of a claim, which was drawn up at a Meeting of the Commissioners for the United Colonies PU2.
His will, witnessed by Thomas Hiland and Richard Curtis, was dated September 15, 1681 and was proved in the court at Plymouth on July 7, 1682 MA24. The inventory of his estate was conducted by John Briggs, Stevin Winall, and Isack Bucke on June 20, 1682 MA24, which indicates that his death fell before that date but after September 15, 1681. He may have died in London in the latter part of 1681 AN7, or perhaps he died of smallpox somewhere in England in 1682 SP3, DE3. His estate included one house and 198 acres of land, worth 140 pounds, fifty acres of marshland, valued at 110 pounds, two shares of undivided land at Conihasset, worth twenty or twenty-two pounds, and a share of the Freemen’s land, valued at one hundred pounds MA24, AN7. Additionally, “1 Indian Boy” was counted as part of the inventory MA24. His will and the inventory of his estate have been transcribed below MA24:
The Last Will and Testament of Major James Cudworth exhibited to the Court of his Matie [perhaps “Majesty”] held att Plymouth the 2cund of November 1682 on the oaths of Thomas hiland and Richard Curtic [Curtis]
In the Name of God Amen;
The 15th day of September 1681 I James Cudworth Senir: of Scittuate
in the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth in New England being of sound and p[er]fect memory praise be Given to God for the same; And Knowing the uncertainty of this Life heer on earth, And being desirous to sette things in order; doe make this my Last Will and Testament in Maner and forme following;
That
is to say first and principally I Comend my sole unto Almighty God my Creator;
and my body to the earth; from whence it was taken; to be buried in such decent
maner as to my executors heerafter Named shalbe thought meet & Convenient;
and as touching my worldly estate; as the Lord in Mercye hath lent mee; my will
and meaning is the same shalbe Imployed and bestowed as heerafter; by this my
will is expressed; and first I doe Revoak Renounce forshake and make void all
Wills; and Testaments by mee formerly made; and declared; and appoint this My
Last will and Teastam[ent] and Noe other; first of all I will that all those
debts and dutyes as I owe in Right and Consienc to any maner of p[er]son or
p[er]sons whatsoever shalbe well and truly Contented; and payed or ordained to
be payed, within Convenient time after my decease by my executors heerafter
Named; my mind and will is that after funerall expenses and debts being payed;
I Give and bequeath all the Rest of my estate Reall and p[er]sonall, to be
equally devided amongst my Children into six parts or Shares, my eldest son
James Cudworth hee to have a double share; with what hee hath already Received;
my son* Jonathan hee is to have one sixt p[ar]te or share my daughter Maryes
four children* Israell To have one sixt p[ar]t with what hee hath already
Received, my son Jonathan he is to have one sixt p[ar]t or Share; my daughter
Maryes four Children Israell Whetcome Robert James and Mary I Give to them one
sixt p[ar]t or Share of my estate; To be equally devided betwixt them I Give to
my daughter Joannah Jones one sixt p[art]e of my estate; and my mind and Will
is That Israell Whetcome and Robert Whetcome and James have theire portions
payed them, in Currant Country pay, when oath of them shall Attaine the full Age
of twenty one yeers and Mary whetcome att the age aforsaid, or day of Marriage;
And my mind and will is that my sonnes Injoy and posesse all my lands, The
Eldest son James two thirds Israell & Jonathan each of them one third; and
my mind and will is That what the Movables fall short of makeing Good Joannahs
portion and the four Grand childrens portions, then that my sonnes Make it Good
out of theire estate; and I doe ordaine and appoint my three sonnes James
Israell and Jonathan, the Joynt executors of this my last Will and Testament;
In witness wherof I have heerunto sett my hand, and seale; The day and yeer
first above written
Bookes… diaper Linnin [this was probably cloth which had a diamond pattern]… 2 paire of Holland sheets 2 holland pillow beers… 1 diaper Table Cloth… 3 Cushens and twenty Indian Basketts… 1 Case of Bottles and paire of Brasse Scuffers… 1 steel Gun with 2 lockes… 5 musketts… 4 blunderbusses… 2 small Cask of shott and one Cask of powder and Flint… pewter… 4 brasse Candle stickes… Brasse… Lumber in the fier Rome and one Chest… potts and one Iron Candlesticke… Lumber in the Leantow and Indian Trayes… the best bed and furniture… bedds and beding… 2 bedsteeds… 2 Joynd Chaires and Lumber in the Chamber… 2 bedsteeds Curtaines and vallences…. 1 Chest looking Glasse and Scales and waights… 1 pockett Compas 2 Instruments… 1 Blankett a whitter [the previous word is extremely uncertain] and a box… tramells pothookes tonges fier slice spitts smothing Irons [perhaps “smoothing irons”]… Glasse bottle Raisor awls and other Iron tooles… 1 Indian Blankett and an old Inglish [the previous word is uncertain, as a blot obscured the middle of the word] blankett… 1 Cart and wheeles Chaine yoakes and Irons… hoopes and boxes Share and Coulter [this was a plow share, with a plow coulter affixed to it] hookes staple and link… 1 horse Coller and two horsses… 4 oxen… 4 steers 5 yeers old… 8 youngre Cattle… 6 Cowes 7 Steer [the number “7” is uncertain] and Calf… 13 swine… saddle and saddle Cloth… 1 Case and bottles and 1 Indian Boy… 1 dwelling house 198 acrees of Land [the word “Land” appears to have been amended to “upland”]… 50 acrees of Marsh Land… 2 shares of the undevided land of Conahassett… The Court sees Cause to prise the Share of Freemens Land att 100 [pounds]
A monument to James is located at Men of Kent Cemetery. The Scituate Historical Society positioned a sign there which describes the cemetery, upon which is painted: “Burial place of many of the town’s original settlers who came from Kent County, England in 1628. This is also the site of the first church in Scituate, built in 1634”.
Mary ★ was born sometime around the year 1606 CU1, DE3, for in 1673, she was described by her husband as “being sixty-seven years and upwards” and weak and ill DE3. Her surname may have been “Parker” AN7. She was the mother of James, Mary, Jonathan, Israell, Joannah, Jonathan, and perhaps an unnamed infant son, who died in 1644 RO6, SP3, CU1.
James Cuddworth was baptized on May 3, 1635 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI37. Jeames and Mary Cudworth were the parents of seven children whose births were recorded in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, but all but the record for Joanna state “[? in Scituate]” after each record VI37. Jeames and Mary were the parents of Jeames, born on June 3, 1665, Mary, born on March 14, 1667, Sarah, born on April 13, 1669, Joanna or Johanna, born on August 8, 1671, John, born on May 2, 1674, Elizabeth, born on March 4, 1677, and Abigail, born on March 9, 1680 VI37. James was mentioned in his father’s will, dated September 15, 1681 MA24.
Mary Cudworth, the daughter of James, was born in 1637 RO6, SP3, CU1 and was baptized on July 23, 1637 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI37, VI37, WH5, CU1.
Jonathan Cudworth, the son of James, was baptized on September 16, 1638 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI37 and was buried on September 24, 1638 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI38.
Israell Cudworth was born in 1641 RO6, SP3, CU1. Israell Cudworth was the father of Mary, born on October 17, 1678 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI37. Israel was mentioned in his father’s will, dated September 15, 1681 MA24.
Joannah Cudworth was born in 1643 RO6, SP3, CU1. Joannah, the daughter of James Cudworth, was baptized on March 25, 1643 in Barnstable, Massachusetts OT1. Joannah Jones was mentioned in her father’s will, dated September 15, 1681 MA24.
Jonathan Cudworth married Sarah Jacksun on May 31, 1667 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI38. Jonathan Cudworth was the father of seven children whose births were recorded in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI37. These were Nathanell, born on September 7, 1667, Bethia, born on November 25, 1671, Hanah, born on May 8, 1674, Sarah, born in 1676, James, born in January 1682, Israel, born on October 18, 1683, and Rachell, born on October 11, 1689 VI37. Bethia, the daughter of Jonathan Cudworth, died in December 1671 in Scituate VI38. Jonathan was mentioned in his father’s will, dated September 15, 1681 MA24.
Mary was probably the “Mistris Cudworth” who, along with William and Mary Parker and nine others, were each fined ten shillings on March 1, 1658/9, for their recurrent absences in church SH16. Mary died sometime after 1673.