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Robert Whitcomb ★
(John, Frances) was baptized on December
20, 1629 in St. James Parish in Taunton, Somerset, England (“Robet, sonne of John Whitcombe”) SO1. He may have been
born on September 14, 1628 or 1629 SH3.
He had immigrated with his family by 1635, when his father was called a member
of the church in Dorchester, Massachusetts WH5, NO9. Robert did not move with his family in
1654 but may have stayed with the family of his older sister, Catherine Elmes WH5, SH3.
In that same year, Robert’s father, John, gave him a half interest in the Conihasset lands DE3,
WH5, WH7.
Robert was impaneled with eleven other men
by Timothy Hatherly on February 16, 1655, to commence
an inquiry into the death of Richard Man SH11.
The jury agreed that as Richard was walking on his frozen pond from his home to
his farm, he fell through the ice, and despite the efforts of those who
attempted to rescue him, he perished after about an hour SH11.
Robert Whitcomb and Mary Cudworth were
married by Henery Hobson of Rhode Island AN6 in Scituate, Massachusetts WH5, but because it was a Quaker marriage, it
was pronounced unlawful, and Robert and Mary were fined ten pounds and
sentenced to prison DE3, WH5, SH16.
The court record of March 5, 1660/1 stated SH11:
Robert
Whetcomb and Mary Cudworth, for disorderly coming
together without consent of parents and lawfull
marriage, is sentanced to pay ten pounds fne and imprisoned during the pleasure of the Court; and
being desirouse to bee orderly married, accordingly
were this 9th
of March, 1660.
They
were remarried by a Puritan preacher WH5,
but the court also ordered that Henery Hobson should
be apprehended and must appear before the court to “answare
for his derision of authoritie in counterfeiteing
the… marriage” SH11.
One year later, the General Court revisited this case, and chose to remit five
pounds of their fine because Robert and Mary’s neighbors attested to their good
conduct, and because they were reported to have diligently attended worship
services SH12.
Whether the word “remit” meant that the court cancelled half of their fine, or
simply allowed a delayed payment, is unclear. Perhaps the latter definition was
used, for the Plymouth Colony Treasury Accounts recorded in June 1665, “There
is a fine of ten pound, vnpayed,
due from Robert Whetcombe” SH16. Because Robert and Mary chose a Quaker
minister to perform their marriage ceremony, it may be reasonable to speculate
that they sympathized with Quakers.
Robert was one of several
men from Scituate who took the oath of fidelity in 1657 SH16. He was impaneled on September 11, 1673
by Henery Chettenden, the
constable of Scituate, to determine the cause of death for the toddler son of Samuell Jenkens SH13. After viewing the corpse of the boy, the
jury decided that he drowned in a well SH13.
This was not the last time that Robert was compelled to perform the duties of a
Medical Examiner, for on May 6, 1678, he was a part of a jury which concluded
that Thomas Totman starved himself to death SH13.
Robert and Mary were the first Whitcombs to settle at Beechwood in the Beeches, and many subsequent generations lived in that area WH5. His land was mentioned by his son,
Israel Whitcomb, in a deed of sale to Job Otis on January 13, 1704/5 PL10:
…
Certaine parcels of land, Swamp land & upland…
lying in… that part of sd Scittuate
wch
is Comonly Called or Knowne
by ye
Name of Cohasset alias Conehasset, wch
sd
parcels of land were formerly the lands of my father Robert Whitcomb, late of Scittuate deceased, wch lands
my Father Dyed Seized of & had a right Unto att
the time of his decease, by Estimation being Ninteen
Acres be it more or less… one parcel therof being
formerly the home lott of the sd Robert
Whitcomb, Containing Six acres… bounded on ye South to the high Way and ye West to ye land of Stephen Chittenden, & on ye North to ye land of Willm James,
and on ye
East to ye
Swamp and James Whitcombs one Acres, of upland, which
his house Standeth upon…
Robert died intestate sometime before
January 18, 1696/7 MA24.
It is possible that he died sometime before September 15, 1681, the date his
father-in-law wrote his will, which included the names of Robert’s children,
but did not mention Robert MA24.
Mary Whetcomb and her son, Israel Whetcomb,
were the administrators of Robert’s estate, and on January 18, 1696/7, Israel
Chittenden and Samuel Clapp conducted an inventory of his estate, which has
been transcribed below MA24:
An Inventory of ye Estate of Robert Whetcomb
late deceased of Scituate Taken by us whose names are here under written This
18th of
January 1696/7
His Apparrell…
Books… Bed & furniture with a new peece for
curtains… pewter Brass and Iron… Tubs Trays and Trenchers… Corne
& malt and Honey & Butter… Wooll and ffeathers… Bees and Bee Hives…
Oxen Cows and Sheep… Two Horses and one Swine… Axes & other Tools & old
Iron… chairs and chests and other Lumber… Arms and Ammunition… A Drum his
Interest in it… Plains & stocks & cards and wheels… A Bed and Boulster & Bread [the
previous word is uncertain] Barrell… cheeses and Iron cart pins… Tow Baggs
a Barrell and Box Iron… three sheets and one pillowbeer…
Due from James Whetcomb for ye Estate in money [twelve shillings]… We find he dyed seized of Housing and severall parcels of Land which we Deem at [sixty pounds and
four shillings]…
Mary Cudworth (James, Mary),
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. Mary had five known children, Israel WH5, CU1, Robert WH5, CU1, James WH5, CU1, Mary WH5, CU1, and Elizabeth WH5, WH7.
Israel Whitcomb married Mary Stodder,
the daughter of Samuel Stodder of Hingham, on May 28,
1700 in Hingham, Suffolk County, Massachusetts VI38. Israell (or
Israel) and Mary Whetcomb (or Whitcomb) were the
parents of seven children whose births were recorded in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI37. These were Israell
Whetcomb, born on March 20, 1700/1, Mary Whetcomb, born on March 9, 1703, Hannah Whetcomb,
born in September 1706 (Hannah Whitcomb was baptized on August 7, 1709),
Elizabeth Whetcomb, born in May 1709, John Whetcomb, born on January 18, 1711/12, and Noah Whetcomb, baptized on October 7, 1716 VI37. Elizabeth, the daughter of Israell and Mary Whetcomb, died
in May 1708 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI38. He died sometime before May 25, 1733
when Isaac Winslow, Judge of Probate and Wills, ordered an inventory of Israell Whitcomb’s estate AM1. Israell
Whitcomb and John Whitcomb were administrators of the estate of their father, Israell Whitcomb, called late of Scituate but who had
property in Hingham, Suffolk County and Scituate, Plymouth County, in the
inventory of his estate which was conducted on June 19, 1733 and June 6, 1734 AM1. A letter regarding the division of Israell’s estate dated June 27, 1734 to Isaac Winslow,
Judge of Probate named the heirs as Mary Pratt, Hanah
Pratt, and Noah Whitcomb, and was signed by Stevon
Pratt, Mary Pratt, Jonathan Pratt, Hannah Pratt, and Noah Whitcomb; Samuel
Stoddard was Noah Whitcomb’s guardian AM1.
Robert Whetcombe married Elizabeth AM1 and was the father of children whose
births were recorded in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI37. These were Content, born on August 4,
1695, Melea, born on May 8, 1699, and Elizabeth, born
on February 13, 1704 VI37. Robert
Whetcomb died on December 25, 1704 in Scituate,
Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI38.
Elizabeth Whitcomb was the administrator of the estate of her late husband,
Robert Whitcomb of Scituate; an inventory of his estate was conducted on June
18, 1707 stated “The Children being three Daughters viz Content aged at the
death of her father about 9 years. Melia aged about 5 years Elizabeth aged ¾ of
a year” AM1. James
Whitcomb was born in 1668 in Scituate, Massachusetts WH5, RO6, SH3, BA20.
Mary Whitcomb, the daughter of Robert and Mary
(Cudworth) Whitcomb, was said to have married Joseph Parker in about the year
1682 or 1683 BA20 or
by the year 1684 TO1.
Joseph was the son of William and Mary (Turner) Parker. Joseph Parker and his wife, Mary Parker,
along with brothers James and Israel Whitcomb, together sold ten acres of land
in Cohasset, Scituate to Job Otis on January 20, 1704/5 for the sum of ten
pounds PL10.
Joseph Parker was the father of six children whose births were recorded in Scituate,
Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI37.
These were Alice, born on August 31, 1684, Mary, born on November 17, 1687,
Joseph, born on March 31, 1690 (and died on November 2, 1711 VI38), Elizabeth, born on July 7, 1693,
Judith, born on June 11, 1699, and Miles, born on June 21, 1702 VI37. Miles died on February 18, 1703/4 in
Scituate VI38.
Elizabeth Whetcomb married Daniell
Lincolne on February 15, 1710/11 in Scituate,
Plymouth County, Massachusetts VI38.
Daniel was the son of Daniel of Hingham; his first wife was Sarah Nichols HI20. Daniel and Elizabeth Lincoln were the
parents of Daniel Lincoln, born on November 4, 1712 in Hingham, Suffolk County
(now Plymouth County), Massachusetts MA26, as
well as Rachel and Hannah, who were named in their father’s will HI20. Daniel Lincoln wrote his will on
November 20, 1724 and died on November 28, 1724 HI20. Elizabeth Lincoln, the widow of Daniel
Lincoln, died on August 24, 1730 in Hingham, Suffolk County (now Plymouth
County), Massachusetts MA26.
Mary’s children (Israell,
Robert, James, and Mary “Whetcome”), but not Mary
herself, were mentioned in their grandfather James Cudworth’s will, dated
September 15, 1681 MA24. Mary was still alive on January 13,
1704/5, when on that date, a deed of land from her son, Israel Whitcomb, to Job
Otis, stated PL10:
I
the sd Israel Whitcomb… to ye sd Job Otis…
Warrant & forever Confirme… from all Lawfull Claim by these prsents:
herby Excepting My Mother in Law Whitcombs
right of thirds in the above bargained parcels of lands wch right
of thirds in the above sd Lands Now belongeth
to my sd Mother as being Widdow
& relict of My Father Robert Whitcomb late of Scittuate
aforsd deceased…