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Humphrey Turner ★ was
also called “Humphry” and “Humphery” Turner SH15, SH16. He was a tanner CU17, BA40 who was perhaps born
in Essex, England TU4, CU17 or Kent, England VI37 in about 1593 CU17, 1594 VI37, or 1595 TU4, AN5. He married Lydia
Gaymer (“Lidda Gamar” ES15) on October 24, 1618
in Sandon, Essex, England TU4, AN5. Under the year marked 1618, the succinct
record of their marriage at St. Andrew Church in Sandon stated, “Humphry Turner
and Lidda Gamar October 26”
ES15. Humphrey was the father of Mary Turner SH16, BA20,
SA10
and two sons named John Turner, whom he identified as “John” and “Young son John”
CU17. In Plymouth Colony court records, the elder John was referred to as
“John Turner, Senior”, while the younger John was called “John Turner, Junior” SH15.
He immigrated to Plymouth, Massachusetts
circa 1628 CU17, DE3, where he resided until 1633 CU17, DE3. Humphrey Turner’s
name was included in a list of freemen of Plymouth in 1633, and he was included
in a tax list on March 25, 1633 and assessed nine shillings SH9. The wording of this
court record stated SH9:
According to an order in Court held the 2d of January… the p[er]sons heere under menconed [mentioned]
were rated for publike use… to be brought in by each
p[er]son… rated in corne at vis [six shillings]
p[er] bushel, at or before the last of November next ensuing… And for default heereof, the value to be doubled, & accordingly leavied by the publick officer…
In 1633 CU17, DE3, he relocated to
Scituate, Massachusetts BA20, CU17, and he sold his
Plymouth property on May 18, 1633 to Josias Winslow, Sr., for eight pounds SH9:
May 18th. Humphrey Turner,
having obtayned leaue to
make use of a peece of ground by the pond on the wester side of the fort, neere
the towne, & having enclosed the same wth
a firme pallisado, hath
sold his right & title to the same, as also the pallisado
it selfe, together wth a smale randevow, to Josias Wynslow, the elder, for & in considerac[i]on of eight pownd[s] starling,
to be pd in money or beaver… at or before the 15th of October next
ensuing.
In Scituate, although he was granted a house
lot on Kent Street near the Satuit Brook, he chose to
live on his farm east of Coleman’s Hills CU17, DE3, BA40. John Lothrop’s list
of Scituate residents, created on September 30, 1634, showed Goodman Turner in
the list of the original nine households SW1. He was assessed
another nine shillings in corn on March 27, 1634 SH9. Humphrey joined the
church in Scituate on January 8, 1634/5 SW1, AN5, and he was
appointed as a constable for “Sityate” (Scituate) on
January 5, 1635/6 SH9. He arrested (legally seized) five bushels
of corn which belonged to a man with the surname of “Page”, of Watertown,
sometime shortly before March 1, 1635/6 SH9. In 1636, he was granted eighty acres near the
bridge (Bridge and Union streets) which crosses the North River DE3. He seems to have
sold his Kent Street property to Goodman Jackson in 1636 SW1, AN5, and he established
a tannery in or before that year DE3, BA40.
He was a plaintiff against William Hamans in the General Court on March 7, 1636/7; the wording
of the court record, which follows, seemed to indicate that William Hamans owed Humphrey thirty-nine shillings, and Humphrey
had attached certain goods in Scituate which were owned by William, but the
note of debt had not yet been proved SH15:
Humfrey Turner companies agst
Willm Hamans in an action
of debt for xxxixs, vpon
a note of the sd Hamans hand, whervpon his
goods were attached at Scituate; but the note not being prooued,
the goods remayne vnder the
attachment vntill the next Court, that proofe be made it is his hand subscribed to the said note.
Humphrey was a jury member in trials which
occurred on March 6, 1637/8, September 4, 1638, March 3, 1639/40, March 2,
1640/1, March 1, 1641/2, March 7, 1642/3, and June 4, 1645 SH15. He was named as a
committee member for Scituate on June 2, 1640 SH9, June 1, 1641, June
7, 1642, June 5, 1644, August 20, 1644, March 3, 1645, July 7, 1646, June 1,
1647, June 4, 1650, and June 5, 1651 SH10.
At a Court of Assistants on January 1,
1637/8, “Humfrey” Turner, James Cudworth, and
thirteen additional men stated that they could not survive on such small plots
of land, and so they were
granted all of the upland and the neck of land between the North and the South
Rivers, and all of the meadowland between those rivers from the North River to
the Beaver Pond SH9. In return for this grant, the men were
to create and reside in a township there, and make a
ferry across the North River SH9. The
ferry rates were stipulated at one penny per person and four pence per horse or
beast SH9.
He and James Cudworth were fined nine pence
on December 4, 1638, for failing to appear before the General Court at New
Plymouth SH9. He was elected as the constable for
Scituate on March 5, 1638/9 and was sworn in that position on June 4, 1639 SH9. Humphrey purchased one parcel of
swampland, which contained about 1 ¾ acres, from Thomas Roberts of Plymouth for
forty shillings, on May 1, 1640 PU3.
On
November 30, 1640, Timothy Hatherly, Edward Foster,
and Humphrey Turner were selected to distribute parcels of a piece of land
which was one mile in breadth, and which stretched two miles along the North
River, to certain “p[er]sons of Scituate as they shall thinke
fitt to be supplyed” SH9.
Humphrey served on the Grand Inquest, or
Grand Jury, on June 7, 1642 and May 2, 1643, and he and Thomas King were
elected as “grand jury men” for Scituate on March 7, 1642/3 SH10. He was a freeman of Scituate who was able to
bear arms and was between the ages of sixteen and sixty in August 1643 SH16. On June 1, 1647 and
again on June 7, 1648, he and three other men were appointed as Supervisors or
Surveyors of the Highways for Scituate SH10.
On June 7, 1649, Humfry
Turner, Henery Cobb, Henery
Rowly, and Barnard Lumbert
testified regarding the inheritance of the deceased, childless William Gillson, formerly of “Seteaat” SH10. Humphrey made a
personal statement SH10:
Further, I, Humfry Turner, being a townsman at yt [that]
time, & sence so remayning
in Seteaat aformentioned,
doe further testify yt William Gillson,
desseased, did say vnto mee
yt
I aske this land yt my
kinsfolks may injoy it when I am dead. Witness my
hand,
Humfry Turner.
Humphrey was a defendant against Mr. John Varssell at the General Court held at New Plymouth on June
7, 1651 SH15. John Varssell
accused Humphrey of defamation, and sought damages of twenty pounds, but the
jury ruled in favor of Humphrey, and awarded him the cost of the lawsuit SH15. He and James
Cudworth were appointed as Deputies for Scituate on June 3, 1652, and on June
7, 1653, Humphrey was re-elected and shared that duty with Thomas Byrd SH11.
Humphrey granted two parcels of land to
his son, Thomas Turner, on February 24, 1660, which included nine acres of
marsh meadow PL8. This adjoined twenty acres of upland in Scituate “on
the clift comonly knowne by the Name of the third clift;
and is the lott that was sometimes John Whetcombs” PL8. The twenty-acre
parcel was bounded on the north by the highway, on the east by land owned by
John Damman, on the south by the marsh, and on the
west by additional land owned by Humphrey PL8.
The names of “Humphery
Turner” and several additional individuals were
included in an account of two rates which were made at Scituate on July 5,
1666, both of which rates were for “the Indian purchase for the west end of the
towne” SH15. Humphrey’s first
rate was one shilling and five pence, and his second rate was three shillings
and three pence SH15. On October 29, 1667, Humphrey was a
plaintiff against Abraham Sutliffe when he accused
Abraham of mowing his meadow and removing the grass SH15. The jury’s
determination was in favor of Humphrey, and he was awarded twenty shillings, as
well as the cost of the suit SH15.
Humphrey, his son, the elder John Turner,
and John Bryant, Sr., were described as “some of the ancient inhabitants of the
towne of Scituate” when they were plaintiffs against
John Silvester and Joseph Berstow in an action of
trespass on the case in the court at Plymouth on March 5, 1667/8 SH15. The plaintiffs
stated that John Silvester and Joseph Berstow made
use of their interest by working on timber on the undivided land of Scituate,
and while the jury did rule in favor of the plaintiffs, awarding them damages
of ten shillings and the cost of the lawsuit, they also granted a review to the
defendants SH15.
He granted a parcel of land situated
between the Taunton and Quequechan Rivers (probably at the current site of the
town of Fall River, Massachusetts), to his sons, Joseph
and Nathaniel, on October 1, 1668; select portions of the deed have been
transcribed PL7:
humphery Turner of Scittuate
in the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth in New England in America Tanner… Know yea that I
the said Humphrey Turner; especially for and in Consideration of the Naturall afection and fatherly
love and Respect which I have and beare unto my sonnes Joseph Turner and Nathaniel Turner… have given
granted… To them the said Joseph Turner and Nathaniel Turner… all that my lott of upland lying and being on the easterly syde of Taunton River; and is the second Lott from Quechecham or the fall River and is bounded towards the
south with the Lott of Timothy Foster; Towards the north with the Lott of
Christopher Wadsworth; and abutteth towards the west
upon the River and toward the east to the woods; above all the Rest of my prte
[present] share or Interest of and into upland and meddow
land by vertue of a graunt
of Court made to mee with the Rest of the ancient Freemen whose names are mensioned together in the said Courts graunt…
To be holden according to the mannor of East greenwich in the County of Kent in free and comon soccage and not in capite nor by Knights service; nor by the Rents and
services therof due… In witnes
wherof I have heerunto sett my hand and seale this first
day of October Anno Dom one
Thousand six hundred sixty eight, 1668
Nathaniel Turner purchased two parcels of
land from his father on February 26, 1669, for the sum of one hundred sixty
pounds PL8. The first parcel of twenty-seven acres of upland,
located on the “southwest corner of the third Clift”, which included a house, a
barn, outbuildings, an orchard, and fences, was bounded on the north by the
highway, on the east by “land that was formerly John Whetcombs”,
on the south by a meadow, and on the west by a street PL8. It was adjoined by
the second parcel which Nathaniel purchased from Humphrey, which was a marsh or
meadow of thirty acres PL8.
Humphrey’s name was included in a list of
freemen of Scituate on May 29, 1670 SH13, and on December 16,
1671, Humphrey and Nathaniel Turner, as well as Robert
Stanford, signed a bond to Mr. Joseph Tilden SH15.
The will of Humphrey Turner, witnessed by
Mathew Gannett, Nathaniel Turner, and James Cudworth, was created on February
12, 1669/70 PL4 and was proved on
June 5, 1673 CU17, PL4. His will, which has been reproduced below PL4, mentioned each of
his eight children, in addition to several
grandchildren; the executors were Nathaniel and his younger son named John DE3, PL4.
In the Name of God,
the twelvth day of February 1669. I, Humphrey Turner
of Scittuate in the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth in
New England in America, tanner, being weake in body
but of sound and perfect memory, praise be given to God for the same, and
knowing the uncertainty of this life on earth and being desirous to settle
things in order, I doe ordaine
this my Last Will and Testament in manor and forme
following: That is to say, first and principally I comitt
my soule to Almighty God my Creator assuredly believeing that I shall receive full pardon and remission
of all my sinnes and be saved by the presious death and merretts of my
blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ, and my body
to the earth from whence it was taken to be buried in such decent manor as to
my Exequitors heerafter
named shalbe thought meet and convenient, and as to
disposing my worldly estate that the Lord in mercy hath lent mee, my will and
memory is the same shall be bequeathed and bestowed as heerafter
by this my Will is expressed, and first I heerby
revoke, renounce, frustrate, and make void all wills and testaments by mee
formerly made and declared and appoint this my Last Will and Testament and no
other.
Item, I give and bequeath unto my eldest
son, John Turner, twelve pence, and wheras I have
lately given and possessed my son, Joseph Turner, of forty pounds out of my
estate as a portion for him, item I give and bequeath unto him, Joseph, twelve
pence. Item, I give and bequeath unto my son, Younge John Turner, five pounds.
Item, I give and bequeath unto my son, Daniell
Turner, twelve pence. Item, I give and beqeath unto
my son, Nathaniel Turner, fifty pounds.
Item, I give and bequeath unto my
daughter, Mary Parker, ten pounds. Item, I give and bequeath unto my daughter,
Lydia Doughtey, twelve pence. Item, I give and
bequeath unto my grandchild, Humphrey Turner, five pounds. Item, I give and
bequeath unto my grandchild, Mary Doughtey, ten
pounds. Item, I give and bequeath unto my grandchildren, Jonathan Turner,
Joseph Turner, Ezekiel Turner, being the sonnes of my
eldest sonne, ten shillings a peece.
Item, I give and bequeath unto my son,
Nathaniel Turner, all my livestock, both of cattle, horse flesh, sheep and swine. Item, I give and bequeath unto my son,
Thomas Turner, all my wearing clothes and one feather bed with the blanketts and coverings belonging to it and my mind and
will is that the wearing clothes and beding be
delivered within one month after my decease, and my will is that the rest of
the legacyes be payed, one halfe of each and every legacye,
within twelve monthes after my decease and the other halfe within two yeares after my
decease. Item, I give and bequeath unto my grand child,
Abigaill Turner, the daughter of my son Nathaniel
Turner, fifteen pounds to be payed within two yeares after my decease.
And as for my debtes
I owe or which is owing to mee, my mind and will is they be equally received
and equally payed by my son, Younge John Turner, and
Nathaniel Turner whom I doe make, ordaine
and appoint to be joynt Exequitors
of this my Last Will and Testamant to see my debts
and legacyes being payed.
Item, I give all the rest of my moveable goods and lumber, both within dores and without, I give and bequeath unto my Exequitors to be equally divided betwixt them.
In witness wherof
I have heerunto sett my
hand and seale the day and yeare
above written.
Humphrey died
sometime after November 1, 1672, when he granted his “Right title and Interest,
in and upon or about the undevided land or comons within the Township of Scittuate
or any way appertaining to the Right of a purchasing Freeman, of the pattent of Plymouth” to his son, Joseph, but before May 29,
1673, when on that date he was said to have been deceased PL8. Humphrey Turner, the husband of Lydia “Gamer”
died at age seventy-nine in 1673 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI38.
Lydia Gaymer ★ (Richard, Margaret)
was born in England CU17 to Richard and Margaret (Mason) Gaymer, and
was baptized in Terling, Essex, England on May 18,
1602 ES13, TU4, AN5. Her baptismal record in All Saints Church in Terling stated, “Lydia Gaymer, the daughter of Richarde Gaymer was baptised the xviijth
day of May. 1602.” ES13. Upon the death of her father, she inherited
a portion of a tenement called the Angell in the Ockendon Fee, in Terling, Essex, England TU4. As “Goody Turner”,
she joined the church at Scituate on January 10, 1635/6 AN5 or on January 10 in an unknown year OT1. She was the mother of John, John, Thomas,
Lydia DE3, CU17, AN5, Mary DE3, BA20, CU17, AN5, Joseph, Nathaniel,
and Daniel DE3, CU17, AN5.
John Turner was baptized in Terling,
Essex, England on March 24, 1621/2 ES13, TU4, AN5. John Turner married Mary Brewster on November
10 or 12, 1645 in Plymouth, Massachusetts TO1. John Turner, Sr. was the father of several children whose
births were recorded in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI37. These
were Jonathan, born on September 20, 1646 and baptized in May 1649, Joseph,
born on January 12, 1647 (who may have been the same or different child as
Josepth, born on January 12, 1649), Ezekiell, born on January 7, 1650, Lydia,
born on January 24, 1652, John, born on October 30, 1654, Elisha, born on March
8, 1656, Mary, born on December 10, 1658, Benjamin, born on March 5, 1660,
Ruth, baptized on May 17, 1662, Isaack, baptized on April 30, 1665, Grace, baptized
on August 2, 1668, and Amos, baptized on June 4, 1671 VI37. John
Turner was named in his father’s will dated February 12, 1669 in which he was
called the eldest son PL4.
This will also named
Humphrey Turner’s grandchildren, Jonathan Turner, Joseph Turner, and Ezekiel
Turner, “being the sonnes of my eldest sonne” PL4.
John Turner, Jr. married Ann James on April 25, 1649 in Scituate, Plymouth
County, Massachusetts VI38. John Turner, Jr. was the father of several children whose
births were recorded in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI37. These
were Japheth, born on February 9, 1650, Israell, born on February 14, 1654,
Meriam, born on April 8, 1658 (Miriam was baptized on May 15, 1659), Samuell,
baptized on August 4, 1661, Ann, born on February 23, 1662, Sarah, born on July
25, 1665, Jacob, born on March 10, 1667 and baptized on April 20, 1673, David,
born on November 5, 1670 and baptized on April 20, 1673, Philip, born on August
18, 1673 and baptized on August 15, 1675, and Icabud, born on April 9, 1676 VI37. “Younge
John Turner” was named in his father’s will dated February 12, 1669 PL4.
Thomas Turner married Sarah Hiland on January 6,
1652 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI38. Thomas Turner was named in
his father’s will dated February 12, 1669 PL4. Thomas Turner was the father of several children whose
births were recorded in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI37. These
were Nathaniell or Nathan, who was born on March 1, 1654 and was baptized on
March 25, 1655, Elizabeth, born in July 1656, Mary, born on September 15, 1658,
Eunice, born on April 10, 1661, Hunphrey, born in September 1663, Grace, born
in 1665, Epherim or Ephreiem, born in June 1667 or 1668, Thomas, born in
December 1670, Josiah, born in January 1672, and Charles, born on May 3, 1675 VI37. Two birth
records for children of Thomas Turner were struck out from the record book;
Abigall, born on February 10, 1665 and Samuell born on February 25, 1670 may or
may not have been his children VI37. Thomas and Sarah
Turner died in November 1688 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI38.
Lydia Turner (“Lyda the
daughter of Humphry Turner” ES14),
was baptized in Little Baddow, Essex, England on February 17, 1629 ES14, TU4, AN5. Lydia Turner, the daughter of “Humph”, married
James Doughtey on August 15, 1649 in Scituate,
Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI38.
James Doughtie was the father of Mary, born on June 23, 1650
in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI37. James Doughty was also named as the father of eight
additional children whose births were recorded in Scituate, Plymouth County,
Massachusetts VI37. These were James, born on February 21, 1651, Elizabeth,
born on November 5, 1654, Martha, baptized on April 12, 1657, Lidia, born on
February 14, 1658, Sarah, born on April 2, 1662, Sammuell, born on September
29, 1664, Robard, born on February 14, 1667, and Susana, born on February 15,
1670 VI37. Lydia
Doughtey was named in her father’s will dated
February 12, 1669, which also mentioned his grandchild, Mary Doughtey PL4. Mary Turner, the daughter of Humfery, was
baptized on January 25, 1634/5 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI37, VI37, AN5, CU17, BA20.
Joseph Turner,
the son of Humfery, was baptized in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts on
January 1, 1636 VI37, VI37, AN5. Joseph
Turner was named as the father of three children whose births were recorded in
Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI37. These
were Margaret, born on September 20, 1677, Bathshua or Barshua, born on
December 30, 1679, and Joseph, baptized on June 11, 1682 VI37. He was
named in his father’s will dated February 12, 1669 PL4.
Nathaniel Turner, the son of Umphrey, was baptized on March 10, 1638 in
Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI37,
VI37, AN5. Nathanell Turner married Mehetabell
Bigbee on March 29, 1664/5 in Scituate, Plymouth
County, Massachusetts VI38. Nathanell, Nathaell, Nathnael, Nathanael, or Turner was named
as the father of six children whose births were recorded in Scituate, Plymouth
County, Massachusetts VI37. These were Abigall, born on February 10, 1666, Sammuell,
born on February 25, 1671, Mehetabell, born on March 29, 1673, Lydia, born in
August 1675, Nathanael, born on December 24, 1678, and an unidentified son
whose parents were Nathanael and Mehetabell who was born “about two weeks
before” March 22, 1680 VI37. Nathaniel Turner was named in his father’s will dated February
12, 1669 PL4. His daughter, Abigail, was also named as “Abigaill
Turner, the daughter of my son Nathaniel Turner” PL4. Nathaniell Turner died on January 31, 1715 in Scituate, Plymouth County,
Massachusetts VI38.
Daniel Turner married Hanna Randall, the daughter of Will[iam],
on June 20, 1665 or 1666 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI38. Daniell
Turner was the father of eight children whose births were recorded in Scituate,
Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI37. These were Hannah, born on August 14, 1668, Eliab, born on
February 14, 1669/70, Abner, born in July 1672, Amasa, born on December 10,
1674, Mary, born on April 13, 1679, Bethie, born on December 18, 1680, and
Rachell, born on April 9, 1687 VI37. Daniell
Turner was named in his father’s will dated February 12, 1669 PL4.
Lydia was still alive on July 23, 1669,
when on that date she released her right to the land granted by her husband to
her sons, Joseph and Nathaniel PL7. Because she was not
mentioned in Humphrey’s will, she probably died before February 28, 1669/70 TU4, AN5, or sometime in or
before 1673 DE3, CU17.