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PORTER, Ruth
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1. PORTER, Ruth was born on 16 Sep 1675 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA (daughter of PORTER, John D. and BYRAM, Deliverance); died in 1676.
2. PORTER, John D. was born in 1638 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA (son of PORTER, Richard and UNKNOWN, Ruth); died on 25 Aug 1717 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
John married BYRAM, Deliverance on 9 Apr 1660 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Deliverance (daughter of BYRAM, Dr. Nicholas and SHAW, Susannah) was born in 1644 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 30 Sep 1720 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. BYRAM, Deliverance was born in 1644 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA (daughter of BYRAM, Dr. Nicholas and SHAW, Susannah); died on 30 Sep 1720 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
Other Events and Attributes:
- Residence: Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
Children:
- PORTER, Ebenezer was born on 8 Nov 1685 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1763 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
- PORTER, Nicholas was born on 11 Apr 1672 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 31 Dec 1770 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.
- PORTER, Susannah was born on 2 Jun 1665 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 17 Dec 1761 in Abington, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.
- PORTER, John was born on 2 Jul 1667 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 22 May 1723 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
- 1. PORTER, Ruth was born on 16 Sep 1675 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1676.
- PORTER, Thomas was born in 1678 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 6 Mar 1760 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
- PORTER, Sarah was born in 1680 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 3 Mar 1742 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.
- PORTER, Mary was born on 12 Oct 1663 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 24 Dec 1746 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
- PORTER, Samuel was born on 20 Mar 1669 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 31 Aug 1725 in Abington, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.
Generation: 3
4. PORTER, Richard was born about 1612 in Dorchester, Dorset, England; died on 6 Mar 1688 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
Other Events and Attributes:
- Differentiator: The Great Migration; Immigrant
- Great Migration: https://www.americanancestors.org/DB401/rd/12155/494/235143850
- Web Address: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Porter-493
- Occupation: Husbandsman
- Residence: Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA
- Departure: 1635
Richard married UNKNOWN, Ruth in 1634 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Ruth was born in 1615; died in 1688 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
5. UNKNOWN, Ruth was born in 1615; died in 1688 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
Other Events and Attributes:
- Differentiator: The Great Migration; Immigrant
Children:
- 2. PORTER, John D. was born in 1638 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 25 Aug 1717 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
- PORTER, Ruth was born on 3 Oct 1639 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1661 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
- PORTER, Thomas was born in 1641 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 17 Dec 1672 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
- PORTER, Mary was born about 1637 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 10 Apr 1682 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
6. BYRAM, Dr. Nicholas was born in 1610 in Lancashire, England (son of BYRAM, William H and WILLIAMS, Mary); died on 13 Apr 1688 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.
Other Events and Attributes:
- Differentiator: The Great Migration; Immigrant
- Great Migration: Yes, but no GM profile
- Web Address: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Byram-11
- Residence: Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
- Immigration: 1637
- Probate: 1688, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
Notes:
About Nicholas Byram, Sr.
Name: Nicholas Byram 1
Sex: M
Death: 13 APR 1688 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Ma
Note: NICHOLAS BYRAM, a physician, resided in Weymouth from ~:1638 to 1662, and in Bridgewater from 1662 to 1688. Dr. Byram was joint executor of the will of Abraham Shaw in or about Nov. 1638. (Lechford's Note-Book, 329.)
-------------------- came to Weymouth 1638 stayed 24 years removed to Bridgewater.Family tradition states his father came from Kent moved to Ireland when nicholas was born.Sent his son to England when he was 16 to friend... stole all his money sent him to West Indies was sold into service to pay for his passage..made his way to Weymouth. -------------------- Nicholas Byram, according to family tradition, was son of an English gentleman of the county of Kent, who removed to Ireland about the time this son was born. His father sent him at the age of 16 to visit his friends in Eng. in charge of a man who betrayed his trust, robbed him of his money, and sent him to the West Indies, where he was sold to service to pay his passage, and after his term expired he made his way to New England and settled at Weymouth. He m. Susanna, D. of Abraham Shaw of Dedham. In 1660 he bought three proprietary or original purchase rights in Bridgewater viz.: Moses Simmons', Philip Delano's, and George Soule's, and settled here soon after. He d. 1688; she d. a. 1698.
Their children,
all born at Weymouth, were as follows:
(32) Nicholas, Jr.; married Mary, daughter of Sam-
uel Edson, January, 1676. He was born
about 1640.
Abigail, born 1636 or 1637; married Thomas
Whitman, 1656.
Deliverance; married Rev. John Porter, 1660.
Experience ; married John Willis.
Susanne; married Samuel Edson. about 1677.
Miary ; married Samuel Leach.
http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA127&dq=nicholas+byram+braintree+ma&lr=&ei=ca4FTIqnA6SQkATnxbWzDQ&cd=11&id=KIc-AAAAYAAJ#v=onepage&q=nicholas%20byram&f=false
Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts Colony
On April 9, 1676, the Natives crept up Satucket Path to the Latham farm. Robert Latham’s house would be the first of nine houses to be destroyed by fire that day, the natives sparing only one dwelling…that of Nicholas Byram.
Worcester County, Massachusetts Memoirs, Volume I-II
Abraham Shaw (1) the immigrant ancestor of Thomas Asa Shaw, of Worcester, came from Halifax, York County, England and settled in Dedham, MA, before 1636. In that year he signed the famous Dedham Covenant. In the old country he was a clothier and a man of some property. He was a planter at Dedham. When he first came to America he went to Watertown, MA, where he was a proprietor in 1636; his house was burned in October of that year, whereupon he seems to have removed to Dedham, where he was a constable in 1636-37-38, and was admitted a freeman March 9, 1637. He was owner of coal mines in Halifax and November 2, 1637, shortly before his death, he received a grant of half the coal and iron he might find in the common lands. He was given a permit to erect a coal mill February 12, 1637. He died in 1638, and his will, made November of that year, was proved before the end of the year. He mentions Joseph, John, Mary and Martha, his children, and Nicholas Byram, son-in-law. Of the children Joseph removed to Weymouth; Mary was born about 1638; Martha born about ---; Susanna married married Nicholas Byram before 1638.
Nicholas Byram. according;- to family tradition, was the son of an English gentleman of some prominence, William H. By- ram and his wife, Mary, of the County of Kent, who ri.moved to Ireland about the time this son was born in 1610. His father sent him at the age of sixteen to visit his friends in England m charge of a man who betrayed his trust, robbed him of his money, and took him to the West Indies, supposed to have been Barbadoes, where he was sold to service to pay his passage, and after his term expired he made his way to New England in 1633 or and settled at Weymouth. He married Su- sanne (36), daughter of Abraham Shaw in Dedham, about 1635. In 1660 he bought three proprietary or original purchase rights in Bridgewater. viz. : Moses Simmons, Phillip Delanos, and George Soules, and settled there soon after. He died in 1688. His wife died April 13. 1688-9.Dr. married SHAW, Susannah in 1636 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Susannah (daughter of SHAW, Abraham and BEST, Bridget) was born in 1617 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England; died on 21 Aug 1698 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in East Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
7. SHAW, Susannah was born in 1617 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England (daughter of SHAW, Abraham and BEST, Bridget); died on 21 Aug 1698 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in East Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.
Other Events and Attributes:
- Differentiator: The Great Migration; Immigrant
Children:
- 3. BYRAM, Deliverance was born in 1644 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 30 Sep 1720 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
- BYRAM, Ebenezer was born in 1642 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1753 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
- BYRAM, Susanna was born in 1644 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 12 May 1742 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.
- BYRAM, Josiah was born in 1645 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1736.
- BYRAM, Joseph was born in 1646 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1647 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
- BYRAM, Bass was born in 1649 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1744 in Norfolk, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
- BYRAM, Nicholas was born in 1656 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; died on 20 Sep 1727 in East Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in East Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.
- BYRAM, Mary was born in 1658 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 13 Jun 1687 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.
- BYRAM, Abigail was born about 1637 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 13 Nov 1712 in East Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.
- BYRAM, Experience was born about 1646 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1712 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.
Generation: 4
12. BYRAM, William H was born in 1570 in Kent, England; died in 1618. William married WILLIAMS, Mary in 1608 in Kent, England. Mary was born in 1589 in Kent, England; died in 1640 in Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
13. WILLIAMS, Mary was born in 1589 in Kent, England; died in 1640 in Kent, England. Children:
- 6. BYRAM, Dr. Nicholas was born in 1610 in Lancashire, England; died on 13 Apr 1688 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.
- BYRAM, Abraham was born in 1612 in Kent, England.
14. SHAW, Abraham was born on 14 Nov 1585 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England (son of SHAW, Thomas and LONGBOTHAM, Elizabeth); died on 10 Oct 1638 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
Other Events and Attributes:
- Differentiator: The Great Migration; Immigrant
- Great Migration: Abraham and Bridget Shaw and children emigrated to America in 1636 on the Anne
- Web Address: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Best-10
- Occupation: Clothier and Planter
- Birth: 14 Nov 1585, Halifax, Yorkshire, England
- Death: 1638, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA
Notes:
Worcester County, Massachusetts Memoirs, Volume I-II
Abraham Shaw (1) the immigrant ancestor of Thomas Asa Shaw, of Worcester, came from Halifax, York County, England and settled in Dedham, MA, before 1636. In that year he signed the famous Dedham Covenant. In the old country he was a clothier and a man of some property. He was a planter at Dedham. When he first came to America he went to Watertown, MA, where he was a proprietor in 1636; his house was burned in October of that year, whereupon he seems to have removed to Dedham, where he was a constable in 1636-37-38, and was admitted a freeman March 9, 1637. He was owner of coal mines in Halifax and November 2, 1637, shortly before his death, he received a grant of half the coal and iron he might find in the common lands. He was given a permit to erect a coal mill February 12, 1637. He died in 1638, and his will, made November of that year, was proved before the end of the year. He mentions Joseph, John, Mary and Martha, his children, and Nicholas Byram, son-in-law. Of the children Joseph removed to Weymouth; Mary was born about 1638; Martha born about ---; Susanna married married Nicholas Byram before 1638.
Abraham and Bridget (Best) Shaw and their children emigrated to America in 1636 on the Anne. When they first came to America, they went to Watertown, MA; their house was burned down in October 1636, whereupon they moved to Dedham. Abraham was the owner of coal mines in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, where they had come from, and in 1637, shortly before his death, he was given a permit to erect a coal mill. Bridget had died sometime between 1636 and 1638 as well, leaving their six children, including our ancestor Susannah, their oldest, aged 21 and already married by then, orphaned. Their other children were 20, 17, 10, 8, and 6.Abraham + BEST, Bridget. Bridget (daughter of BEST, Henry and BOITHES, Grace) was born on 9 Apr 1592 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England; died before 1638 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
15. BEST, Bridget was born on 9 Apr 1592 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England (daughter of BEST, Henry and BOITHES, Grace); died before 1638 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
Other Events and Attributes:
- Differentiator: The Great Migration; Immigrant
Children:
- SHAW, Maria was born on 18 Jun 1626 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England; died on 25 Mar 1658 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
- 7. SHAW, Susannah was born in 1617 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England; died on 21 Aug 1698 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in East Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.
- SHAW, Joseph was born on 14 Mar 1618 in Northowram, Yorkshire, England; died on 13 Dec 1653 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
- SHAW, Grace was born on 15 Aug 1621 in Northowram, Yorkshire, England; died after 1682 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
- SHAW, Martha was born before 6 Jan 1632 in Yorkshire, England; died on 18 Sep 1704 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
- SHAW, John was born before 23 May 1630 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England; died on 16 Sep 1704 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.