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Note for: Alexander Bragg, 6 MAR 1688/89 - 1750 Index

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Posted at Rootsweb: "new England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Third Series, Vol. III" - Alexander St. died in 1750, and his will is on file in Boston. His son Alexander, son Constant, and daughter Sarah had guardians appointed in 1755."

New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Third Series, Volume III
BRAGG The first of this name in New England was Edmund Bragg, who settled in Ipswich and was an apprentice or servant of Mr. Symonds in 1642. He became a leading citizen, proprietor of the town and town officer. He was living in 1700. He married, at Ipswich, January 1, 1669, Mary, daughter of Joseph Eveleth.
No documentary proof has been discovered to show that Alexander and Henry Bragg, who settled in Wrentham about 1740, were descended from Edmund Bragg, but the presumption is favorable. Many Ipswich families drifted to Dedham and Wrentham. On the other hand some Scotch-Irish and other stock came thither about 1730-40 and Alexander and Henry may have been immigrants. Alexander married Elizabeth (???) and had at Wrentham a son Alexander, born November 15, 1743, married, November 12, 1767, Esther Fisher and had children at Wrentham. Alexander Sr. died in 1750, and his will is on file in Boston. His son Alexander, son Constant and daughter Sarah had guardians appointed in 1755. Elizabeth, Lydia and Martha were probably sisters. Elizabeth Bragg married at Wrentham, July 16, 1741, John Vlake; Lydia married, in 1746, (???); Martha married, March 14, 1743-44, John Hancock.
(I) Henry Bragg married, at Wrentham, March 4, 1741-42. Mary Bennett. His will was proved in Boston in 1757. She died at Keene, New Hampshire, November 20, 1791, aged ninety-two. Children, born at Wrentham: Luther, mentioned below; Henry, April 16, 1745; William, June 23, 1747; Royal, June 6, 1749; Mary, baptized September 6, 1753; Ebenezer, baptized January 25, 1756. Henry Bragg was a lieutenant in the revolution. Constant, Alexander and Ariel or Royal Bragg were also soldiers in the revolution from Wrentham.

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Note for: Elizabeth Mackmallen, 1658 - 7 FEB 1715/16 Index

Alias: /mackmillen/

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Note for: Allister MACKMILLEN, 1630 - 20 APR 1679 Index

Alias: /mackmallen/

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Note for: Elizabeth, ABT 1641 - 7 FEB 1715/16 Index

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Speculation:
Found this in MAss Vitals to 1850 -
Could this be this elizabeth? It says she is a widow and the date doesn't match any other with this name in Salem at the time. Allister died in 4/1679 so that part adds up but not sure and either way no evidence of her maiden name.
1679 BAXTER John, 2d m., and wid. Elizabeth Mackmallen, 1:9 m: 1679. CT. R. Image more Marriage Salem

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Note for: Nathaniel LUTHER, 25 APR 1665 - 12 APR 1719 Index

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Others have this Nathaniel Luther mixed up with one that died in Rhode Island

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Note for: Richard FOXWELL, ABT 1610 - 1668 Index

Immigration:
     Date:   1634
     Place:   Scituate, Plymouth, MA

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Note for: James COLE, ABT 1600 - AFT OCT 1678 Index

Occupation:
     Place:   Shoemaker

Occupation:
     Place:   Innkeeper

Immigration:
     Date:   1633
     Place:   Plymouth Mass

Individual Note:
     JAMES COLE

ORIGIN: Barnstaple, Devonshire
MIGRATION: 1633
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
OCCUPATION: Shoemaker. Innkeeper. On 7 June 1637 "James Coale of Plymouth" was fined 10s. "for selling less than a Winchester quart for ijd.... but not in ignorance" [ PCR 1:61]. On 5 May 1640 "James Cole, of Plymouth, is prohibited by the Court to draw any wine or strong water until the next General Court, nor then neither without special license from the Court" [ PCR 1:153]. On 2 June 1640 John Kerman deposed that "there was such disorder in James Cole's house, by throwing stools, & forms, & fire, until within a hour of day, or thereabouts, that they could hardly sleep, and in the morning he found them on sleep by the fire" [ PCR 1:156]. On 1 September 1640 James Cole "for drawing wine without license & contrary to the express prohibition of the Court, & for his contempt & disorders suffered in his house, is fined Ł5" [ PCR 1:162]; in the margin is the annotation "Discharged." On 7 January 1644/5 he was licensed to draw wine "if he shall agree with Mr. Done to take off those wines he now hath in his hands" [ PCR 2:80]. It was ordered 9 June 1653 that "James Cole, the ordinary keeper of Plymouth" be paid "for what he expendeth in keeping the ordinary" [ PCR 3:38]. On 7 June 1659 the court authorized Ł10 for the "repairing of the house he now liveth in, so as it may be fitted as an ordinary for the entertainment of strangers" [ PCR 3:166]. On 5 March 1660/1, James Cole, senior, was fined 10s. for selling wine to the Indians [ PCR 3:207]. He was fined 5s. 3 October 1665 for allowing Richard Dwelley to be drunk in his house [ PCR 4:107]. James Cole, senior, and Mary, his wife, were presented for selling strong liquors to an Indian, and for allowing James Clarke, Phillip Dotterich, Mary Ryder, and Hester Wormall to drink on the Lord's Day on 2 March 1668/9 [ PCR 5:15]. The large fine was partly remitted, 1 June 1669 [ PCR 5:21]. On 8 March 1670/1 John Sprague was fined for "highly misdemean[ing]" himself at the house of James Cole, including riding his mare into the parlor [ PCR 5:53]. This was probably the house of entertainment kept by James Cole Junior, who began business shortly before 7 June 1670 [ PCR 5:39]. "James Cole, Senir" was fined for being "found drunk the second time, 5 June 1671 [ PCR 5:61]. He was presented for suspicion of being drunk, "he pleading infirmity of body, which may make some think that sometimes he is drunk" 29 October 1671 [ PCR 5:81].
FREEMAN: In "1633" Plymouth list of freemen, between those made free 1 January 1633/4, and those made free 1 January 1634/5 [ PCR 1:4]. In 7 March 1636/7 Plymouth list of freemen [ PCR 1:53]. In Plymouth section of 1639, 1658 and 29 May 1670 lists of freemen [ PCR 5:274, 8:174, 197].
EDUCATION: Signed his deeds.
OFFICES: Plymouth petit jury, 2 January 1637/8, 3 May 1642, 1 November 1642, 6 June 1643, 7 November 1643 [ PCR 1:74, 7:29, 32, 35, 36]. Coroner's jury, 1 August 1648 on the body of the daughter of Richard and Alice Bishop, and 15 July 1660 on the body of James "Peirse" [ PCR 2:132, 3:196].
Plymouth constable, 1 March 1641/2, 5 June 1644 [ PCR 2:34, 72]. Surveyor of highways, 1 March 1641/2, 7 June 1642, 5 June 1651, 7 June 1652 [ PCR 2:34, 40, 168, 3:9].
At the end of the list of Plymouth men who will serve in the Pequot war "if they be pressed" is "James Coale," 7 June 1637 [ PCR 1:61]. In Plymouth section of 1643 Plymouth Colony list of men able to bear arms (as "James Cole Sen[ior]") [ PCR 8:188]. The "boat of James Cole of Plymouth," with seamen, was impressed to transport soldiers 20 June 1654 [ PCR 3:57].
ESTATE: Assessed 9s. in Plymouth tax list of 27 March 1634 [ PCR 1:28].
On 2 January 1636/7, one of four men granted "seven acres apiece, to belong to their several dwelling houses in Plymouth" [ PCR 1:49].
On 16 September 1641 James Cole was granted fifty acres of upland at Lakenhame Meddow, and some meadow to be laid out "upon view" [ PCR 2:26]. On 27 September 1642 James Cole was granted "an enlargement at the head of his lot" [ PCR 2:48].
On 9 September 1661 Samuel Dunham of Plymouth, planter, sold to "James Cole Senior of [Plymouth], shoemaker, all that his part, portion or share of land at Punckateeset" [ PCLR 2:2:69].
He was first on the list when on 3 June 1662, the court allowed that the "servants and ancient freemen shall have liberty, in case they cannot procure Saconett Necke ... to look out some other place undisposed of, for their accommodation" [ PCR 4:18]. He received one share, equivalent to about thirty acres on the westerly side of Namasskett River, 7 June 1665 [ PCR 4:94].
On [blank] March 1668 James Cole Sr. of Plymouth, yeoman, gave to "my beloved son-in-law Mr. John Almey of ... Portsmouth in Rhode Island" his entire right at Punckateeset [ PCLR 3:326.
On 31 October 1673 James Cole Sr. of Plymouth "for natural love and affection" granted to "my son Hugh Cole of Swansea" his right to land at Saconnet [ PCLR 3:310]
BIRTH: By about 1600 based on date of marriage.
DEATH: After October 1678 (his son sold land as "James Cole Junior" [ PCLR 4:226]). (Savage states that "he was living in 1688, very aged.")
MARRIAGE: Barnstaple, Devonshire, 1 May 1625 Mary Tibbes [Thomas Wainwright, ed., Barnstaple Parish Register of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538 A.D. to 1812 A.D. (Exeter, 1903), cited herein as Barnstaple PR, p. 21]; she died after 7 March 1659/60 [ PCR 3:181].
CHILDREN:
    i JAMES, bp. Barnstaple, Devonshire, 11 February 1626/7 [Barnstaple PR 68]; in Plymouth section of 1643 list of men able to bear arms [ PCR 8:188]; m. (1) Plymouth 23 December 1652 Mary Tilson [ PCR 8:14]; m. (2) by September 1698 Esther _____; m. (3) in 1700 or later Abigail _____ [ TAG 67:243-45 discusses the wives and children of this man in detail].

    ii HUGH, bp. Barnstaple, Devonshire, 29 June 1628 [Barnstaple PR 70]; in Plymouth section of 1643 list of men able to bear arms [ PCR 8:188]; m. Plymouth 8 January 1654[/5] Mary Foxwell [ PCR 8:72, 74; TAG 64:139-41].

    iii JOHN, b. say 1630; possibly the John Cole whose inventory was taken at Portsmouth, R.I., 15 December 1676 [Charles Henry Pope, The Plymouth Scrap Book (Boston 1918), p. 122].

    iv MARY, b. say 1632; m. (1) by 1668 John Almy [ PCLR 3:326; Austin 238]; m. (2) by 28 June 1677 John Pococke [ Austin 154, 238].



COMMENTS: James Cole of Saco was not part of this family.
On 2 January 1637/8 the Plymouth court noted that James Cole had been drinking excessively at the house of Mr. Hopkins [ PCR 1:75].
On 2 July 1638, and again on 4 September 1638, James Cole was surety for RICHARD CLOUGH in a criminal case [ PCR 1:91, 97]; in the first instance he was called "sayler," and in the second innkeeper.
On 6 September 1641, Emanuel White sued James Cole over twenty two bushels of Indian corn and Cole agreed to pay [ PCR 7:23]. On 7 September 1641, James Cole's fine of Ł5 was remitted "allowing the diet of John Mynard during the time he was erecting the prison" [ PCR 2:24]. On 7 December 1641 James Cole sued James Luxford and Luxford's goods were attached [ PCR 7:26]. On 21 November 1644, James Cole undertook to pay 22s. for Francis Goole to William Hanbury [ PCR 2:78].
At the 2 October 1650 court, he was cleared of assaulting William "Shirtley" of Plymouth [ PCR 2:162]. James Cole, Senior, sued James Shaw and won a 36s. judgment, 4 March 1650/1 [ PCR 7:53].
Robert Willis was up all night drinking at James Cole's before he went out fishing and accidently drowned, as the inquest found 26 July 1652 [ PCR 3:15]. James Cole was presented for "entertaining townsmen in his house, contrary to order of court" 5 October 1652 [ PCR 3:17]. On 7 March 1653/4 John Barnes sued "James Cole, Seni[o]r," for taking eleven barrels of oil on behalf of Barnes, but delivering him only ten [ PCR 7:69].
At court 7 March 1659/60, Thomas Lucas was fined 30s. for his "abusive and threatening speeches and turbulent carriages towards the wife of James Cole, Senior, and the child of James Cole, Junior" [ PCR 3:181].
James Cole Sr. and Joseph Ramsdens reached agreement over a debt, 7 May 1662 [ PCR 4:11]. He won a judgment against Henery Saunders for nonpayment of a debt, 3 May 1664 [ PCR 4:57]. James Cole Sr. attached a gun belonging to Joseph Billington, but the court ordered it released for Billington was already bound [ PCR 4:69-70]. He was granted a judgment of Ł1 10s. 11d. against John Sutten, 6 February 1665/6 [ PCR 4:112].

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Note for: Almy, - Index

Alias: /Ame/

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Note for: David Pierce, 5 OCT 1713 - 1759 Index

Alias: /Pearce/

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Note for: Susanna Stevens, 25 MAR 1717 - 1753 Index

Alias: /Stevens/

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Note for: Samuel Stevens, 5 JAN 1664/65 - 16 NOV 1756 Index

Alias: /Stephens/

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Note for: Mary Ellery, 24 FEB 1676/77 - 1 JUN 1758 Index

Alias:   /Stevens/

Birth Note: Source:    Edmund West, comp., Family Data Collection - Births, Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001, Name: Mary Ellery
Spouse: Samuel Stevens
Parents: William Ellery , Mary Coit
Birth Place: Gloucester, MA
Birth Date: 24 Feb 1676
Marriage Place: Gloucester, MA
Marriage Date: 12 Jan 1693
Death Place: Gloucester, MA
Death Date: 1 Jun 1758.

Death Note: Source:    Mass vital records to 1850, 1758 STEVENS Mary Grover, Mrs., w. Samuel, June 1, 1758, in her 82d y. G. R. 1. more Death Gloucester. - Note Mary married Edward Grover after Samuel died