Martha Low

Other Events:

• Name: Martha Crofts

Family/Spouse: Eleanzer Crofts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Anecdote:
The following is from "Ancestors of John Lowe":
His will is dated March 14, 1745, and probated June 16, 1746. In a deed dated Oct. 5, 1736, he gives to his son, David Low, Jr., "his part of land granted to a certain number of men, which formerly went in an expedition to Canada under Sir William Phipps, of which I, David Lowe, was one." This expedition arrived before Quebec, Nov. 5, 1690, and was repulsed with heavy loss. The land thus granted was in New Hampshire. David's rank in the army was that of sergeant. His will names sons David, Jeremiah, Caleb, Stephen and Joshua, gives each five shillings old tenor, and to David his andirons names; daughters, Mary, wife of Jeremiah Lufkin, Martha, wife of Eleazer Croft or Craft, Abigail and Eunice. No inventory indicated previous division of property.

David married Mary Lamb on 28 Dec 1699 in Chebacco Parish, Ipswich. Mary (daughter of Caleb Lamb and Mary Wise) was born on 7 Mar 1680/81 in Roxbury, Massachusetts; died on 3 Mar 1735 in Chebacco Parish, Ipswich, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Mary Low

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• Baptism: 8 May 1631, Groton, County Suffolk, England
• Immigration: Abt 1635, Massachusetts

Notes:

Anecdote:
From Davis:
He lived in Chebacco, Ipswich, where he bought land of Daniel Hinge in 1664, and was deacon of the Chebacco church from 1679 until his death, acting as parish clerk during the absence of Rev. John Wise in the Quebec expedition under Sir William Phips. He and his wife headed a petition in favor of their neighbor Thomas Wells, accused of "slanderous speeches against the worshipful magistrates" in 1668. In 1669 he was deputy-marshal of the county court. He served on trial juries in 1076 and J.680 and took the Freeman's Oath in 1682. He and his wife signed the petition in favor of John Proctor and his wife, accused of witchcraft, in 1692. In 1698 he was overseer of the poor. He saw service in King Philip's war, his son Jonathan receiving a grant in Narragansett No. 1 (Buxton) because of it in 1733.
Deacon Thomas Low of Ipswich, maltster, made his will June 17, 1708, and it was admitted to probate May 5, 1712. His wife Martha was to live in the lower mom and chamber in the new end of their house, with privilege of the cellar, and to have two cows kept for her winter and summer for her life, a horse to ride on, a little garden and detailed provision of pork, cider, wool, flax, wood, all movables in their dwelling, etc. To his son Jonathan Low, the house in which Jonathan was then living, one-half the tillage and pasture land and the land bought of John Burnham. To his son Samuel Low, who had taken Care of his father and mother, "all the housing, land and common rights I now enjoy," except what was given to his mother, also the stock, tools of husbandry and carpenter's tools. To his son David Low, £100 in good merchantable pay. To daughters Martha Dodge, Joanna Dodge and Abigail Goodhue, 10s. each. To daughter Sarah Low £30. Executors: sons Jonathan and Samuel Low. Oveerseers: Capt. William Goodhue, Nathaniel Rust, jr. Witnesses: John Cogswell, jr., Adam Cogswell, Nathaniel Low, jr.

Buried:
[CENTER:]Here Lyes ye body
of Mr Thomas
Low Deacon
Who Died April
ye 12, 1712
Aged
80 Years
As You Are So Ware We
as We Are, You Shall be[:CENTER]

Thomas married Martha Boreman on 4 Jul 1660 in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Martha (daughter of Thomas Boreman and Margaret Offing) was born about 1641 in Ipswich, Massachusetts; died on 17 Jan 1720; was buried in Chebacco Parish, Ipswich, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Martha Low

Notes:

Buried:
[CENTER:]Here Lyes ye body
of Mrs Martha Low
Wife to Deacon
Thomas Low Decd
Janry ye 22d 1720
in ye 79 Year
of Her Age[:CENTER]

Notes:

Biography:
He was a mariner.

Died:
He died during the Battle of Quebec in 1690. His daughter's 1737 petition "shewing that her later father, Captain Lamb, was master of a transport in the expedition to Canada in the year 1690, and praying that she be admitted as a grantee in the township lately granted to the heirs of Capt. Gardner and his company." The grants were for relative of those killed in the expedition.

Caleb married Mary Wise on 30 Jun 1669 in Roxbury. Mary (daughter of Joseph Wise and Mary Thompson) was born about 1649 in Rocbury, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Mary Lamb

Other Events:

• Immigration: Abt 1635, Massachusetts
• Will: 20 Apr 1677

Notes:

Anecdote:
From Davis:
Thomas Low is first mentioned in the records of Ipswich on April 6, 1641, when he was granted ten acres of upland at Chebacco next to his previous ten acres, in exchange for the ten acres "due to him by grant to Mr. Rogers Company" near the mile brook by Mr. Appleton's farm. Rev. Nathaniel Rogers, the Ipswich minister, had emigrated to New England in 1636, and from the above record it would appear that Low was among those who accompanied or followed him to Ipswich. Mr. Rogers had been rector of the parish of Assington, co. Suffolk, and it is quite probable that Low was the Thomas Lowe who married Margaret Tod on June 22,1630, at Polstead, co. Suffolk, three miles from Assington, and that they were the Thomas and Margaret Lowe who had a son Thomas baptized at Groton May 8, 1631, and a son John baptized at Boxford March 2, 1633/4. Groton is a scant three miles while Boxford is about two miles from Assington. Both parishes are in co. Suffolk. Also at Boxford is the baptismal record, on June 17, 1632, of Margaret, daughter of John and Margaret Lowe. There is no other mention of John Lowe in the register at this period. Granting John to be the parson's error for Thomas, we have the baptism of three Lowe children corresponding in name, age and order to the three oldest children of Thomas Low of Ipswich.
Low was born about 1605, his age being estimated at fifty-five in 1660. He was a maltster and a successful farmer at Chebacco. Like many of his fellow townsmen, he carted material for the bridge in 1646 and subscribed toward Major Denison's salary in 1648. He was fined for not appearing to serve on a jury in 1655, but was on the trial juries of 1656 and 1663, and the grand jury of 1667. Abigail Story, aged 15, was serving Low's wife in 1669.
If Low's first wife came to New England with him, she completely escaped the records. His wife Susanna, who survived him, was possibly a widow from Watertown when he married her as she went or returned to that place after his death and died there August 19, 1684.
A Bible "Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Majestic, dwelling in Pater Noster Howe at the signe of the Tygresliead Anno 1576," on a blank leaf of which are written "Susan Low her book 1677 May 19" and "Thomas Low his Book," has descended in the Low family.


Will:
From Davis:
Thomas Low died in Ipswich September 8, 1677. His will was made April 20, 1677. His wife Susanna was to have the things which she brought with her at marriage, the use of the room in which he lay and of the things therein. His son John was to keep for her the cow which she liked best, "Also I give unto mv wife one fourth part of her labor that she hat Spunn both Lening & woolen, & Also she shall have her beerc as she hath now & also use of the fire." John was to rear a shoat for her yearly, and she was to have a garden plot and land in which to sow half a peck of flax seed. She was to be paid 30s. a year in such things as she needed and to have £5 to dispose of as she wished (at death). If she left John he was to pay her 40s. a year, to be sent to Boston or Charlestown. To son John, all land and housing in Ipswich. To son Thomas £30. To daughter Margaret £40 and to daughter Sarah £40, to be paid within two years of his death. To grandchildren Thomas Low £5, Margaret Davison £5, Sarah Saffbrd £5, and Sarah Low £5, to be paid when they were twenty-one or on their marriage days. Residue to son John, executor. Witnesses: John Chute, Mary Chute. The inventory of simple things totaled £290.11 Probate Records of Essex County, £175.

Thomas married Margaret Todd on 22 Jun 1630 in Polstead, England. Margaret died about 1676. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Margaret Low
• Immigration: Abt 1635, Massachusetts

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• Baptism: 18 Oct 1601, Claydon, Oxfordshire, England
• Immigration: Abt 1633, Massachusetts

Notes:

Biography:
From "The Great Migration":
ORIGIN: London
MIGRATION: 1634
FIRST RESIDENCE: Ipswich
OCCUPATION; Cooper (EQC 7:86].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Ipswich church prior to 4 March
1634/5 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 4 March 1634/5 [MBCR 1:370].
EDUCATION: He could sign his name, as could lib youngest daughter,
Joanna JILR 3:293-94]. His inventory included "books" valued at £1. His
widow signed her will by mark.
OFFICES: Deputy for Ipswich to Massachusetts Bay General Court (as
"Mr. Boreman"), 8 September 1636 [MBCR 1:178).
Essex petit jury, 31 March 1646, 27 September 1649, 27 September 1653, 27 March 1655 [EQC 1:93,175,289,381],
On 29 March 1664, "Thomas Boreman, having been formerly released from training, paying something yearly to the use of the company and being behind several years, upon his wife's petition, court granted one-half of what was in arrears remitted, if he paid to the clerk of the company the other half. Also that he be released from training for time to come" [EQC 3:142].
ESTATE: In 1635 "Thomas Boreman" held three parcels of land in Ipswich: fifty-five acres; "a six-acre lot on the northeast side the hill by the town"; and "an houselot in the town upon which he hath built an house" [Boardman Gen 104-5, citing ITR]. On 7 May 1639, he was recorded as holding six parcels in Ipswich: "one houselot about two acres"; "an island about fifty and five acres of land, meadow and upland"; six acres of planting ground; "two acres for a houselot lying on the south side the Town River"; and "a small parcel about a rood of ground on the street called the East End" [Boardman Gen 105, citing ITRJ.
On 27 December 1647, "Thomas Boreman" of Ipswich sold to Philip Longe of Ipswich "my house and house lot" containing two acres, together with the commonage belonging to it, also a parcel of seven acres [ILR 1:123-24]. On 22 March 1650/1, Mathias Button of Ipswich deeded 9 3/4 acres near Labor-in-vain Creek to "Thomas Borman of Ipswich, cooper," in exchange for Boreman's eleven acres [EQC 7:86]. [A map of this land, which was later the subject of a suit, appears facing EQC 7:86], On 7 October 1652, John and Mary Emery sold to "Thomas Boreman" of Ipswich a twenty acre island in Ipswich [ILR 1:115).
On 27 September 1665, "Daniel Borman" quitclaimed to "his father Thomas Bonnan" all his right and interest in Thomas's farm, in return for £225 paid in installments; this arrangement was approved by "Mr. Thomas Borman Senior with his two sons, that is Robert Kinsman and Thomas Low," who gave bond on the agreement [ILR 3:39, 293-94],
In the 1666 division of Plum Island, he received a double share, as did other wealthy men whose country rate exceeded 6s. 8d. (TopsHC 8:105].
On 9 December 1667, Thomas and Margaret Boreman of Ipswich sold to Thomas Perring of Ipswich a six-acre lot of marsh at Plumb Island [ILR 3:137].
On 17 December 1670, the same day he signed his will, Thomas Boreman Senior of Ipswich sold to Robert Kinsman of Ipswich a ten acre piece of saltmarsh called "the Nookes" [ILR 3:182-83).
In his will, dated 17 December 1670 and proved 19 June 1673, "Thomas Borman Senior" of Ipswich, weak in body, bequeathed to "my wife" the use and benefit of the entire farm during her life, also cattle and household stuff; after wife's death, land was to return to "my son Thomas"; to "my daughter Joanna" on the day of her marriage or at age 22 years, her portion to the value of £100; to "my son Daniel" six acres leaving Thomas right of first refusal should Daniel wish to sell; to "my daughter Mary, the wife of Robert Kinsman that is to say to her children," £20; to "my daughter Martha the wife of Thomas Loe to her children" £20; to "iny son Daniel" £8 for the use of "his two sons at the age of one and twenty years"; to "my son Kinsman" the right to a footpath to go to his land "he bought of me"; to "my son Daniel and Robert Kinsman" ten acres more or less; "my brother Daniel" to live "with my wife while she lives" and after her death "my son Thomas" to maintain him; wife sole executor; "my well beloved friends" Simon Tomson and Thomas Burnam., overseers [EPR 2:349-51). A codicil dated 3 May 1673 allowed "my wife" the right to dispose of cattle, household goods and land "as need shall require" [EPR 2:351).
The inventory of the estate, taken 26 May 1673, totalled £553 6s. 6d., of which £350 was real estate: "the dwelling house, barn & outhousing with all the lands adjoining," about 42 and a half acres, £280; and "ten acres of planting land" at Button's Point, £70 [EPR 2:351).
In her will, dated 8 August 1679 and proved 30 March 1680, "Margret Borman" bequeathed to "my daughter Kinsman" household goods; to "my daughter Loe" pewter and household goods; to "my daughter Fellowes" linen and clothing; to "my soil Daniel" furniture and debts "he owes me" and to "his wife" a new hat; to "my son Thomas" livestock and furniture; residue of livestock: three parts to "my daughter Kindsman" and one part to "Martha and Johana"; son Thomas sole executor, to "Dinah my son's maid" household goods [EPR 3:350-51].
The inventory of the estate of "Mrs. Margerit Borman" of Ipswich, taken 19 March 1679/80, totalled £84 8s., with no real estate included [EPR 3:350).
BIRTH: Baptized Claydon, Oxfordshire, 18 October 1601, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Carter) Boreman [Boardman Gen 77,93-99].
DEATH: After 3 May 1673 (date of codicil) and before 19 June 1673 (probate of will).
MARRIAGE: St Helen's Bishopgate, London, 17 August 1630 Margaret Offing (the entry for this marriage in the original parish register did not include the words "and Cordwayner of London" [NEHGR 62:303j), for whom Thomas provided in a deed dated 26 February 1661/2 [EQC 3:271]. She was living 30 June 1676 when she made her mark to an agreement (EQC 5:85], and she was probably the "Mrs. Borman" who died at Ipswich 25 November 1679.

Thomas married Margaret Offing on 18 Aug 1630 in St Helen's Bishopgate, London, England. Margaret was born in in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Margaret Boreman
• Immigration: Abt 1633, Massachusetts

Other Events:

• Immigration: Abt 1629, Massachusetts

Notes:

Biography:
From "The Great Migration Begins":
ORIGIN: Possibly Barnardiston, Suffolk
MIGRATION: 1630
FIRST RESIDENCE: Roxbury
OCCUPATION: Yeoman. Possibly a slater. On 2 July 1633 "There is demised to Tho: Lambe, of slate in Slate Island, 10 pole towards the water side, & 5 pole into the land, for three years, paying the yearly rent of 2s. 6d."[MBCR 1:106].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: "Thomas Lambe, he came into this land in the year 1630; he brought his wife & 2 children, Thomas & John" [RChR 73].
FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 and admitted 18 May 1631 [MBCR 1:80, 366],
ESTATE: In the 1652 inventory of Roxbury lands, the heirs of Thomas Lamb held six parcels which had been granted to him, and a seventh parcel which he had apparently purchased [RBOP 23].
The inventory of his estate, taken "this last of the month 1646 [sic]," referred to various crops on the land, but did not list or value the land itself; the inventory, consisting of movables, totalled £112 8s. 8d. [SPR 2:48]. On 14 October 1651 the General Court ratified the sale by Dorothy Lamb of a parcel of three-quarters of an acre, and on 31 May 1652 granted a petition by "Thomas Hawley & Dorothy, his wife, together with Thomas Lambe & John Lambe, sons of Thomas Lambe deceased" for the sale of fifteen acres to William Parke [MBCR 2:255, 277]. On 26 February 1661 Thomas Hawley and Dorothy his wife sold one of the parcels that had been granted to Thomas Lamb; this was endorsed in 1704 by some of the heirs of Thomas Lamb [SLR 6:42]-
On 3 March 1697/8 letters of administration were granted to "Abiel Lambe, son of Thomas Lambe sometime of Roxbury ... yeoman, deceased intestate, James Bayley and Mary his wife, daughter of the said Thomas Lamb, and Joshua Lamb his grandson" [SPR 8:106]. Subsequent to this grant of administration a large number of documents were gathered in an attempt to determine what had happened to the estate of Thomas Lamb after it had passed into the hand of Thomas's second wife Dorothy and her second husband, Thomas Hawley [SJC Case #3762], Among these papers were a number of receipts that had been drawn up in 1652, shortly after Dorothy had married Hawley. On 12 April 1652 "Thomas Lamb of Charlstown, son of Thomas Lamb of Roxbury deceased," receipted to "Thomas Hawley of Roxbury my father-in-law." On 27 May 1652 "John Lamb of Springfield, wheelwright, son of Thomas Lamb late of Roxbury deceased," acknowledged receipt of his share of his father's estate from "Thomas Halley of Roxbury my father-in-law." Other receipts were acknowledged at a later date. On 23 July 1677 "Abiall Lamb son of Thomas Lamb late of Roxbury" stated that he had received his £24 from Thomas Hawly. On 6 October 1686 "Joshuah Lamb son to Thomas Lamb late of Roxbury" acknowledged that he had had his share of the estate from "my mother Dorothy Hawley administratrix to the estate of Thomas Hawley late of Roxbury and formerly the wife and widow of Thomas Lamb." On 2 July 1697 "Thomas Swan and Mary Swan formerly Mary Lamb daughter of Thomas Lamb of Roxbury deceased" stated that he had received £24 from "Thomas Hawley of the same place who married Dorothy the widow and relict of Thomas Lamb."
BIRTH: By about 1599 based on estimated date of marriage.
DEATH: Roxbury 28 March 1646 "Bro. Lambe died of a calenture, by a great cold" [RChR 173].
MARRIAGE: (1) By 1624 Elizabeth (if she was the mother of all his elder children, and if the Barnardiston origin is correct); "Elizabeth the wife of Thomas Lamb" was buried at Roxbury 28 November 1639 [NEHGR 6:183].
(2) "He afterwards married Dorothy Harbitle, a godly maid, a sister of our church" [RChR 74]. As Dorothy Harbectle, she was admitted to Roxbury church in 1638 or 1639 [RChR 84]; the marriage took place at Roxbury 16 July 1640. She married (2) Roxbury 2 February 1651/2 Thomas Hawley.

Thomas married Dorothy Harbottle on 16 Jul 1640 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Dorothy was born in in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Immigration: Massachusetts
• Name: Lamb

Other Events:

• Immigration: Massachusetts

Notes:

Biography:
From Anderson:
Joseph Wise first appears in New England records in the will of Dr. George Alcock of Roxbury. This document, gives the curious date of "22 day 11th (month), called December, Anno Domini 1640," includes bequests to the testator's servants Joseph Wise and John Plimpton (NEHGR 2:104). One of the witnesses to the will was Thomas Weld, whose brother Joseph had married a daughter of the Widow Wise (TAG 55: 148-50).
Joseph is next seen marrying in Roxbury on 3 Dec. 1641 "Mary Tompsonn." There is good reason to believe that this is the Mary Tompson baptized at Preston Capes, Northants, 14 Nov. 1619, to John and Alice (Freeman) Tompson (TAG 13: 1-8; 14:145 f.). Arguments for this identification of Joseph's wife are given by Mary Holman (Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his wife Frances Helen Miller, pp. 422 f.), with support from Donald Lines Jacobus (TAG 32:128). Further supporting circumstantial evidence lies la the Rhode Island land records, where we find that on 7 June 1671 Joseph Wise of Roxbury sells to Deacon William Parke of Roxbury half of a 600 acre tract in Providence. After the document was drawn up, it was discovered that an error in the bounds had to be corrected. This correction was made and signed by Joseph Wise Senior and by Samuel Williams "for his father Deacon William Park." William Parke was son of Robert Parke of Roxbury by his first wife, and was therefore stepbrother of Mary Tompson, daughter of John and Alice (Freeman) Tompson. Samuel Williams, who had married Theoda Parke, daughter of William, was brother of Stephen Williams who had married Sarah, daughter of Joseph Wise. Two years later Joseph Wise sold the other half of this tract to Caleb Lamb and Stephen Williams (Rhode Island Land Evidences vol. 1 (1648-1696), pp. 40 f., 81.
On the assumption that Joseph Wise was of the usual marrying age for colonial males in 1641, he would have been born about 1615. Soon after obtaining his freedom and marrying, Joseph must have taken up the trade of butcher, for by 1648 he is referred to by the elder John Winthrop as "the Roxbury butcher." In the published Winthrop Papers we can trace the course of an early (and somewhat comical) cattle drive which took place in 1648, starting at the "ranch' of John Winthrop Junior at Pequot (later New London), moving through Rhode Island and on to Roxbury. The correspondence includes two letters penned by Joseph Wise which show that he was literate, although not university educated. Before the cattle could be delivered to Wise for slaughter and sale, John Winthrop Senior, John Winthrop Junior and Roger Wllliams were all involved (Winthrop Papers 5:240, 242, 264 f., ;270, 280, 341 f., 375; three unpublished letters from Joseph Hise to John Winthrop Junior, dated 19 March 1650/1, 12 Aug. 1654 and 1 Nov. 1654, are in the Winthrop Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston). Joseph Wise was clearly an important participant in the developing New England economy. For a broader picture of the cattle industry in southeastern New England in these early years, see Carl Bridenbaugh, Fat Mutton and Liberty of Conscience: Society in Rhode Island, 1636-1690, pp. 84-92, and Darret B. Hutman, "Governor Winthrop's Garden Crop: The Significance of Agriculture in the Early Commerce of Massachusetts Bay" (William and Mary Quarterly, ser. 3, 20 [1963] 396-415).
Joseph Wise died at Roxbury 12 Sept. 1684, and on 15 September administration of the estate of "Joseph Wise of Roxbury, butcher, dying intestate," was granted to widow Mary and son John (Suffolk Probate Case #1366). We have seen evidence above that Joseph Wise had interests in Providence, so the inclusion in the August 1688 tax list of Providence of "The Estate of ye deceased Joseph Wise" most likely refers to the Roxbury butcher (Richard LeBaron Bowen, Early Rehoboth 1:94).

Joseph married Mary Thompson on 3 Dec 1641 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of John Thompson and Alice Freeman) was born about 1619; died on 4 Aug 1693 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Immigration: Massachusetts
• Name: Mary Wise
• Baptism: 14 Nov 1619, Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England