Descendants of John Everson
of Plymouth, Massachusetts
Mary Blauss Edwards
John Everson was a seventeenth-century immigrant who was considered
a transient in both Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth Colonies. He was
unwelcome in both Boston and Plymouth, and his children were placed in
permanent guardianships with separate Plymouth families. Probably due to
his transience (which caused few biographical facts to be documented) and
his separation from his children, no genealogy of the Everson family has been
compiled. Several Mayflower descendants later married Everson descendants,
and therefore have been treated in Mayflower Families Through Five
Generations. Additionally, the line of Richard Abbott7 Everson (Barnabas6,
Richard5, Levi4, Richard3-2, John1) was covered in Representative Men and Old
Families of Southeastern Massachu­setts.[1] However, this source confused the
early generations and did not recognize John Everson of Plymouth as the first
generation.
John Everson first appeared in Boston records on the 29th day of the 4th
month (June) 1663, when Symon Rogers was fined 10 shillings for “setting
John Everson a worke contrary to the Towne order.” Joshua Rice was fined 20
shillings for “breach of Towne order for the same parson,” and John Lewis and
John Jipson were each fined 20 shillings “for the same defect.”[2] Although no
order in the Boston town records prior to this date included a specific work
ban on John Everson, a clue to the “towne order” lies in the next fine listed
after those of Rogers, Rice, Lewis, and Jipson: Robert Orchard was fined 20
shillings “for entertaineing John White as a Journyman, contrary to Towne
order.”
The previous year, at a town meeting held 31 March 1662, the Boston
selectman stated “whereas sundry of our inhabitants have received into their
houses diverse persons of ill behavior belonging to other places, who upon
inquiry after them according to Towne order, upon their unsettled abode
in any of theire houses have been denied as inmates, and they shifting from
Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, Containing Historical
Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old
Families, 3 vols. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1912), 3:1208–09.
2
A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, Containing the Boston Records From
1660 to 1701 (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1881), 17.
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house to house, which unless timely prevented as it hath already been to our
detriment so it threatens further mischiefe and charge unto us, it is therefore
ordered that if any of our inhabitants shall from the 5th day of April next
receive any such person or persons into their houses, the entertainer shall pay
20 shillings for each night that any one shall be so entertained.”[3] Although
the order specified that the fine was for the entertainment, or lodging, of a
transient, Robert Orchard’s fine specifies that he was fined for entertaining
John White as a daily-wage craftsman, or journeyman. The fines involving
John Everson describe the issue as “setting [him] a worke,” although Rogers,
Rice, Lewis, and Jipson provided lodging as well as work to the transient John
Everson, who was perceived to be “of ill behavior belonging to other places,”
and therefore a possible threat to both the peace and the coffers of the town
of Boston.
The occupations of the four fined Boston men provide a clue to John
Everson’s occupation as a possible cordwainer or other leather-related worker:
Simon Rogers was a shoemaker, tanner, and cordwainer,[4] Joshua Rice/Roice
was a cordwainer,[5] and John Jepson was a cordwainer and leatherseller.[6] In
the 1660s, two John Lewises lived in Boston: one a butcher, one a mariner.
Probably the butcher John Lewis was the man fined, being a permanent
resident able to offer Everson lodging, as well as more closely associated with
the leather industry.[7]
Everson first appeared in Plymouth records on the second Tuesday of
September 1668. “The Towne have (with the Consent of John Everson)
disposed of Richard Everson his son unto Willam Nelson seni: of Plymouth
to be and Remaine with him until he hath attained the age of one and twenty
yeares hee being att the date heerof about two yeares old.”[8] Several months
later, on 3 December 1668, the Plymouth selectmen, in direct response to
John Everson and perhaps other new transients, ordered that the town should
have full power to require securities from “any that shall receive any stranger
so as to entertain them in their house” to save the town “harmless from any
damage that may accrue unto them by their entertainment of such . . . it was
likewise agreed that John Everson be forthwith warned to depart the towne
with all Convenient speed.”[9] However, six months later John Everson was
still in Plymouth, when on 29 July 1669, “John Everson Came before Captaine
Southworth and acknowlidged that hee hath disposed of his daughter Martha
Everson unto Robert Barrow of Plymouth to be to and with him as his owne
Ibid., 7.
Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume
VI, R–S (Boston: NEHGS, 2009), 84–87.
5
Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1633, 3
vols. (Boston: NEHGS, 1995), 3:1599–1600.
6
Neil D. Thompson, “The Parentage of John1 Jepson of Boston, Massachusetts,” The American
Genealogist 78 (2003):253–55.
7
Robert S. Wakefield, “George1 and John1 Lewis of Brenchley, Kent, England, and Scituate,
Massachusetts,” The American Genealogist 68 (1993):26–28.
8
Records of the Town of Plymouth, Published by Order of the Town, 3 vols. (Plymouth, Mass.: Avery
& Doten, 1889), 1:105.
9
Ibid., 1:106.
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Child from this time forward to be provided and looked unto and desposed of
by him the said Robert Barrow as his owne Child.”[10]
Probably around this time John Everson gave his son John Everson Jr. into
the custody of Stephen Bryant Sr. of Plymouth, perhaps through a guardianship
or an apprenticeship. On 30 August 1690, Stephen Bryant, “in consideration of
love and good will” he had toward John Everson Jr., gave him, at no cost, eight
acres of upland in Plymouth where Bryant’s son Stephen Bryant Jr. was currently
living.[11] Although no official record confirm this, there was precedent with
Bryant, since in 1657 Stephen Bryant Sr. took on the 13-year-old Benjamin
Savory as an indentured servant whom Bryant was to instruct in husbandry.[12]
Robert Barrows and Stephen Bryant Sr. each had young children of a similar
age to the Everson children, and William Nelson Sr. had one teenage daughter
living in his household at the time Nelson took in Richard Everson.[13] Robert
Barrows and William Nelson Sr. both left wills, although neither provided real
or personal estate to the Everson children.[14]
The identity of John Everson’s wife (or wives) is unknown, though she may
have died prior to 3 December 1668, when only John Everson was warned
out of Plymouth. Possibly all three of his children had been placed into
other Plymouth families by that date, although only son Richard Everson’s
guardianship had been recorded, since none of the children of John Everson
were warned out of town with him.
The surname Everson may be English or Scottish. John Everson possibly was
one of the Dunbar prisoners or Scots-Irish redemptioners who arrived in Boston
in the 1650s and served as an indentured servant for seven or more years. Such
a situation might explain why neither Boston nor Plymouth wished to claim
financial responsibility for him, and why he first appears as an independent
laborer in 1663. However, nothing definitive is known of his origins, or of his
eventual fate; he was last mentioned in Plymouth on 29 July 1669 when he
“disposed” of his daughter Martha into Robert Barrows’ guardianship.
Genealogical Summary
1. John Everson was born by 1642.[15] He died after 29 July 1669.[16] He
married, possibly in Massachusetts, by 1662 [based upon his daughter’s
approxi­mate date of birth], an unknown wife or wives.
Ibid., 1:112.
Plymouth County Deeds, 4:91.
12
D. Alden Smith, “The Descendants of Stephen Bryant of Plymouth, and of His Son-In-Law Lt.
John Bryant of Plympton,” Register 153 [1999]:420.
13
William Nelson Sr. had children born ca. 1641–1650/1 (Robert S. Wakefield, “Men of the
‘Fortune’: Ford,” The American Genealogist 56 [1980]:32–35). Robert Barrows had children by
his first wife born ca. 1667–1677 (Martin E. Hollick, “John Barrows of Plymouth, Massachusetts,”
Register 166 [2012]:119–31). Stephen Bryant Sr. had children born ca. 1647/8–ca.1672 (Smith,
“Descendants of Stephen Bryant” [note 12], Register 153:413–26).
14
Hollick, “John Barrows” [note 13], Register 166:126; Wakefield, “Men of the ‘Fortune’” [note 13],
The American Genealogist 56:33.
15
This assumes he was at least 21 in 1663 (see below).
16
Records of the Town of Plymouth [note 8], 112.
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On 29 June 1663, Boston residents Symon Rogers, Joshua Rice, John Lewis,
and John Jipson were fined for lodging and “setting John Everson a worke
contrary to the Towne order.”[17]
On the second Tuesday of September 1668, Plymouth selectmen placed
2-year-old Richard Everson into the guardianship of William Nelson Sr.
of Plymouth until he reached 21 years, with the consent of his father John
Everson. John Everson was warned out of Plymouth on 3 December 1668. On
29 July 1669, John Everson testified that he had placed his daughter Martha
Everson into the guardianship of Robert Barrows of Plymouth “to be to and
with him as his owne Child from this time forward.”[18]
No Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth County, or
Suffolk County deeds or probate were recorded for John Everson.
Children of John Everson1, born probably in New England:
i.Martha2 Everson, b. say 1662; m. Hugh Briggs.
ii. Richard Everson, b. ca. 1666; m. (1) Elizabeth _____; m. (2) Penelope
Bumpas.
4. iii. John Everson, b. by 1669; m. Elizabeth _____.
2.
3.
2. Martha2 Everson (John1) was born say 1662, probably in New England.[19]
She died in Halifax, Massachusetts, 12 January 1736/7.[20] She married in
Taunton, Massachusetts, 1 March 168[2]/3, Hugh Briggs.[21] He was born in
Taunton between about 1650 and 1654, son of John and Agnes (Tayer/Thayer)
Briggs.[22] He died in Taunton after 22 August 1692 (deed acknowledged).[23]
Hugh Briggs was listed on “The Names of the Heads of Families in Taunton,
Anno Domini 1675, When Philip’s War Began” and the roster of the First
Military Company of Taunton on 8 April 1682.[24]
Boston Records From 1660 to 1701 [note 2], 17.
Records of the Town of Plymouth [note 8], 105, 106, 112.
19
She was certainly born before 29 July 1669, when she was placed in the guardianship of Robert
Barrows, and probably born before 3 December 1668, when only John Everson was warned out
of Plymouth (with none of his children). If she was at least 17 at the time of her marriage, she was
born no later than 1666. The mean age in Plymouth Colony of women born between 1650 and
1675 at first marriage was 21.3 years, so she may have been born by 1662 (John Demos, A Little
Commonwealth, Family Life in Plymouth Colony, Second Edition [New York: Oxford University
Press, 2000], 193 [Table IV]).
20
Vital Records of Halifax, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston: Thomas Todd, 1905), 1.
21
Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 6 vols. (Boston:
William White, 1857), 5:84; Vital Records of Taunton, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, 3 vols.
(Boston: NEHGS, 1929), 2:64, incorrectly transcribed as “March 1, 1683-4” in Register 9 (1855):316.
22
Edna Anne Hannibal and Claude W. Barlow, “Richard, William and Hugh, Sons of John Briggs
of Taunton, Massachusetts,” Register 125 (1971):82–83, 201; Mrs. John E. Barclay, “Notes on
the Briggs Families of Taunton, Mass.,” The American Genealogist 33 (1956):76–83; Douglas
Richardson, “The English Origins of John Briggs of Taunton, Mass.,” The American Genealogist
59 (1983):175–79.
23
Bristol County Deeds, 2:229; date deed was received and recorded mistakenly listed as “22 August
1698” in Barclay, “Notes on Briggs Families” [note 22], The American Genealogist 33:81.
24
Samuel Hopkins Emery, History of Taunton, Massachusetts, From Its Settlement to the Present
Time (Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason & Co., 1893), 93; Theron Royal Woodward, “Briggs Family
Military Records,” Register 52 (1898):14.
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On 16 February 1685/6, Hugh and Martha Briggs sold to his brother
Richard Briggs “all that my twelve acre lot . . . given us by our father John
Briggs, deceased . . . in ye township of Taunton, southwest from ye meeting
house” bounded to the west by Peter Pitts Sr., east by the common, north
by a common plain, and south by land near Jonas Austin’s meadow.[25] On 4
May 1695 [sic, 1685], William Briggs sold 3 acres in Taunton to his brother
Hugh Briggs. On 18 July 1691, Eliazer Gilbert sold 2 acres in Taunton to Hugh
Briggs.[26]
A probate account for the estate of John Smith of Taunton, taken on 24
August 1694, owed the town rate for constable “Hugh Brigges” in 1691.[27]
On 22 August 1692, Hugh Briggs, weaver of Taunton, and his wife Martha
sold to Robert Crossman Jr., in consideration of 1200 “good, merchantable
barr iron” and 6 acres in “Taunton on the Great Plain lying westerly from the
town, and southerly from the Pine Swamp,” a tract of 5 acres called “Plumely
Hill” in Taunton on which Briggs’ dwelling house was located, consisting of
upland, meadow, and swampy land, bounded westerly by the county road
to Bristol, and “on other sides” by Nathaniel Shove, Peter Pitts (dec’d), John
Briant, Samuel Williams, Mary Streeter, Eliazer Gilbert, and Thomas Gilbert.
The tract combined the three acres from William Briggs and the two acres
from Eliazer Gilbert that Hugh had previously purchased. At the signing of the
deed, Hugh was “under bodily distempers,” but according to witnesses John
and Thomas Richmond, he was of “sufficient understanding and memory to
sell & dispose of his estate.”[28] Robert Crossman Jr. of Taunton and his wife
Hannah made a separate deed to describe the exchange on property with
Hugh Briggs on 22 August 1692, which was not recorded until 25 June 1713
and described with the same bounds as in the deed recorded at 2:229.[29]
After the death of Hugh Briggs, the widowed Martha and her children
moved to Plympton, likely to be near her brothers Richard and John Everson.
No Bristol County probate was recorded for Hugh Briggs, and no Plymouth
County probate was recorded for Martha Briggs.
Children of Hugh and Martha2 (Everson) Briggs, born in Taunton:[30]
i.Bathsheba3 Briggs, b. 11 Jan. 1683[/4]; d. Halifax or Scituate, Mass. after
30 May 1748 (when she was reported incapable of administering her
husband’s estate);[31] m. Upper Society Church, Plymouth (now the
First Congregational Church of Plympton), 9 Sept. 1702, by Rev. Isaac
Original unrecorded deed held at Connecticut State Archives, cited in Barclay, “Notes on Briggs
Families” [note 22], The American Genealogist 33:78.
26
Bristol County Deeds, 2:229.
27
Lucy Hall Greenlaw, “Abstracts from the First Book of Bristol County Probate Records,” Register
63 (1909):327.
28
Bristol County Deeds, 2:229, acknowledged 22 August 1692, recorded 7 June 1698.
29
Bristol County Deeds, 7:602.
30
Vital Records of Taunton [note 21], 1:57, 59; Edgar H. Reed, “Marriages, Births, and Deaths at
Taunton, Mass.,” Register 17 (1863):37.
31
Plymouth County Probate, docket 3206.
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Cushman, Stephen Bryant Jr.,[32] b. Plymouth 1 May 1684, son of
Stephen and Mehitable (_____) Bryant,[33] bp. First Church of Plymouth
27 March 1692,[34] d. Scituate about March 1747.[35] Stephen Bryant
Jr. was involved in numerous Plymouth County land transactions,
discussed at length in the Bryant article. His estate was valued at 7£ 15s.
[36]
ii.John Briggs, b. 15 Sept. 1686; d. probably in Halifax after 26 Feb. 1746
(last written deed);[37] m. Plympton, Mass. 3 March 1714/15, Sarah
Bryant,[38] b. Plymouth 8 Feb. 1687/8, daughter of John and Sarah
(Bonham) Bryant,[39] d. probably in Halifax between 22 Nov. 1728
(named in father’s will) and 26 Feb. 1746.[40] On 26 Feb. 1746, John Briggs
of Halifax granted his homestead farm in Halifax, including a 4-acre
meadow in Kingston he purchased from Ephraim3 Everson and Samuel
West and a 2-acre cedar swamp in Pembroke to his sons Barnabas and
Ebenezer Briggs.[41]
iii. Mehitable Briggs, b. 15 July 1687; d. Plympton 16 March 1725/6.[42]
3. Richard2 Everson (John1) was born about 1666, probably in New
England.[43] He died, probably in Kingston, Massachusetts, certainly between
16 April 1744 (deed acknowledged) and 19 April 1755 (wife Penelope listed
as widow),[44] and probably between 19 March 1753 (when his son was listed
as “Richard Everson Jr.”) and 11 May 1753 (when juror “Richard Everson” was
probably his son).[45] He married first, probably in Plymouth, by 15 June 1698
Elizabeth _____. On 15 June 1698, “Richard Everson and Elizabeth his wife
were fined £4 for committing fornication together when single persons.”[46]
Lee D. van Antwerp, Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, Ruth Wilder
Sherman, ed. (Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1993), 88.
33
Van Antwerp, Vital Records of Plymouth [note 32], 12.
34
Plymouth Church Records, 1620–1859, 2 vols. (New York: New England Society in the City of New
York, 1920–23), 1:274–75.
35
Plymouth County Probate, docket 3206.
36
Smith, “Descendants of Stephen Bryant” [note 12], Register 154:57–60.
37
Plymouth County Deeds, 43:241.
38
Vital Records of Plympton, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston: NEHGS, 1923), 268.
39
Van Antwerp, Vital Records of Plymouth [note 32], 5.
40
Plymouth County Probate, docket 3153; Plymouth County Deeds, 43:241.
41
Plymouth County Deeds, 43:241.
42
Vital Records of Plympton [note 38], 451.
43
On the second Tuesday of September 1668, Plymouth selectmen placed two year old Richard
Everson into the guardianship of William Nelson Sr. of Plymouth until he reached 21 years, with
the consent of his father John Everson (Records of the Town of Plymouth [note 8], 105).
44
Plymouth County Deeds, 36:159, 43:126.
45
Plymouth County Deeds, 105:227; Kingston, Massachusetts, Town Records, 1717–1850, Volume 1
[FHL 0,910,369], 64–65. At 64, “Richard Everson Junr.” was mentioned on 19 March 1753. At 65,
James and Richard Everson were assigned on 11 May 1753 to serve on the jury at Plymouth. The
absence of “Jr.” for the juror may indicate that the old Richard Everson (born about 1666) was
dead by then.
46
David Thomas Koenig, ed., Plymouth County Court Records, 1686-1859, CD-ROM (Boston:
NEHGS and Pilgrim Society, 2002), online at AmericanAncestors.org, 1:31.
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Elizabeth was born, possibly in Plymouth, by 1680.[47] She died in Plympton
16 February 1716/[7].[48]
He married second “after lawful publication” in Middleborough, 31
March 171[7/]8, Penelope Bumpas.[49] She was born in Middleborough 21
December 1681, daughter of Joseph and Wybra (Glass) Bumpas.[50] She died,
probably in Kingston, after 18 April 1767 (when she was described as living on
Richard2 Everson’s homestead farm).[51]
Richard Everson had numerous Plymouth County land transactions:[52]
1698 [day and month left blank]. Richard Everson of Plymouth purchased
from Stephen Bryant Jr. of Plymouth for 12 pounds 16 acres of land along
a brook which “runneth down and between my now dwelling house and
the house of my brother John Bryant,” bounded at the “upper end” by
land originally granted by the town of Plymouth to Stephen Bryant Sr.,
and bounded southeast by Stephen Bryant Sr.’s meadow; along with one
acre of meadow along the brook between meadows belonging to John
Barrows, deceased, and John Bryant.[53]
1701/2, February. Richard Everson was one of 201 Plymouth and
Plympton proprietors who received 30 acres of land.[54]
1706, 19 June. John Everson and his wife Elizabeth of Plymouth sold to
Richard Everson of Plymouth for 30 shillings, 12 acres of land in Plymouth
This assumes she was at least 18 at the time of her marriage.
Elisabeth Penn Hammond, “Early Records of Plympton, Mass.,” The Mayflower Descendant 2
(1900), 140; Vital Records of Plympton [note 38], 478.
49
Barbara Lambert Merrick and Alicia Crane Williams, Middleborough, Massachusetts, Vital
Records, 2 vols. (Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1986), 1:25.
50
Merrick and Williams, Middleborough Vital Records [note 49], 1:7. On 17 September 1705,
Penelope Bumpas was listed as the daughter of Joseph Bumpas in the division of his estate, with
Penelope and her sisters to each receive £9.6.8, with the liberty to reside in the house until one
year after widow Wibra Bumpas’ death. On 2 April 1713, the division was revised due to the
deaths of the widow Wibra Bumpas and three of the Bumpas sisters. Penelope and her surviving
sisters acknowledged that they each received £9.6.8 from their brothers and an additional £25
each from the estate of their mother, as well as their deceased sister Lydia Bumpas’ whole share
of land in the South Purchase of Middleborough, which Lydia had received in the right of their
father (Plymouth County Probate, docket 3278; 2:63–64, 120–21; 3:253–55; docket 3307; 3:154–
55). The families of Joseph Bumpas and Penelope (Bumpas) Everson were treated in Mrs. John
E. Barclay, “The Bumpus Family of New England,” The American Genealogist 43 (1967):71–72,
and Carle Franklin Bumpus, Bompass, Bumpas, Bump, Bumpus, and Allied Families, 1621–1981
(Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1985), 69–72.
51
Plymouth County Deeds, 53:201.
52
Not all of Richard Everson’s deeds have been abstracted here, including Plymouth County Deeds
11:266; 16:182; 17:213; 17:8; 13:47; 18:203, and some cited in Smith, “Descendants of Stephen
Bryant” [note 12], Register 154:51–52, from Plymouth and Plympton Proprietors Records. For
additional details, see the forthcoming Descendants of John Everson of Plymouth, Massachusetts
by the present author.
53
Plymouth County Deeds, 4:20.
54
William Thomas Davis, History of the Town of Plymouth, With a Sketch of the Origin and Growth
of Separatism (Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis & Co., 1885), 73–74.
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at the “place where the said Richard Everson now dwells,” bounded at the
northwest by Satucket Brook.[55]
1724/5, 2 March. Richard Everson of Plympton “in consideration of the
love and good affection which I have and do bear unto my son” Richard
Everson Jr. of Plympton, granted him 30 acres of land in Plympton which
was part of his 60-acre lot in Plympton. Twenty of those acres were
bounded northeast by Jones River Pond, southeast by Samuel Bryant,
and bounded by Joseph Phinney. The remaining 10 acres was bounded
by John Bryant Sr., John Bryant Jr., and Samuel Bryant.[56] The same day,
“in consideration of the love and good affection” for his sons Ephraim and
Ebenezer Everson of Plympton, he granted them several lots of land and
meadow, which all adjoined “where I now dwell” in Plympton, including
“my now dwelling house, outhouses, and fences,” including his thirty-acre
lot, ten acres of land which adjoined the northwest end of the 30-acre lot,
a 25-acre lot along the northeast end of the 30-acre lot, a 16-acre lot and
one acre of meadow which he had bought of Stephen Bryant in 1698,
also the 24-acre lot he recently bought of John Faunce located along the
southwest end of the 30-acre lot, reserving the use and improvement of
the premises during his natural life and reserving to his wife Penelope a
room in his dwelling house should she outlive him with “the privilege of
firewood from off the aforesaid lands to be cut and brought to the door for
her by my aforesaid two sons.”[57]
1733, 8 June. Richard Everson Sr. of Kingston, yeoman revised the
division of his estate, due to the fact that “my son Ebenezer Everson died
without issue.” Although Richard had originally divided “my homestead
in Kingston” between his sons Ephraim and Ebenezer, he now wished to
divide it between his sons Ephraim and Richard Everson Jr. He therefore
granted to Ephraim his dwelling house, barn, outhousing, and all of his
land westward of a dividing line, bounded in part by Barrows Brook and
John Phinney’s 30-acre lot, reserving the use, improvement, and income
of the premises during his natural life and a room in the house for his wife
Penelope should she outlive him, with the privilege of having firewood
from the land cut and brought to her door by Ephraim.[58] The same day,
Richard Everson Sr., yeoman of Kingston gave to his son Richard Everson
Jr., cordwainer of Kingston, with Ephraim Everson quit claiming his
rights to the same, “all that part of my farm” eastward of a dividing line
where Richard Everson Jr.’s “dwelling house standeth,” bounded in part by
Barrows Brook, John Phinney, and a meadow “with all the housing and
fences” on the property. Richard Jr. agreed to pay each year to Richard Sr.
for the remainder of his natural life 6 bushels of corn, a load and a half
57
58
55
56
Plymouth County Deeds, 7:131.
Plymouth County Deeds, 25:172. An original copy of this deed is in the possession of the author.
Plymouth County Deeds, 19:9.
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of hay (half English and half meadow hay), and “what apples I shall need
for my own use,” as well as paying “half the rent to my widow Penelope
Everson.”[59]
1742/3, 18 March. John and Wibery Washburn and Richard and Penelope
Everson of Kingston and Mehetabel Bumpas of Middleborough sold
to Ephraim Washburn of Plympton for £24 the 125th Lot in the South
Purchase of Middleborough, consisting of 45 acres, which “did originally
belong unto the right of our honored father, Joseph Bumpas, Senr.” that
the three sisters had inherited from their deceased sister Lydia.[60]
On 24 September 1704, Elisha Curtice of Plymouth, sworn by Thankfull
Bearse of Plymouth (daughter of James Bearse) to be the father of her bastard
child, was ordered to pay maintenance of her child, with his brother Benjamin
Curtice and Richard Everson as sureties.[61] At a Plympton town meeting held
21 February 1709[/10?], Richard Everson was on a list of eligible voters.[62]
Richard Everson and John Everson, residents of “the northeast part of
Plympton, near [Jones’] river” petitioned the Massachusetts General Court
to form the township of Kingston, read by the court on 29 May 1717.[63] On
28 July 1726, Richard Everson appraised the inventory of the estate of Joseph
Phinney of Plympton.[64]
At a Kingston town meeting held 20 May 1734, Richard Everson was voted
to serve on the petit jury at the Plymouth court in May in King v. Nehemiah
Leach.[65] In an account written on 9 July 1745, he was a creditor to the estate of
Robert Cook Jr. of Kingston.[66] On 13 February 1745/6, Richard was selected
to serve on the petit jury at Plymouth.[67]
On 19 April 1755, Penelope Everson of Middleborough, widow of Richard
Everson of Kingston, sold to Silas Wood, husbandman of Middleborough, for
£16.13.4, 51 acres in Rochester “which was laid out in the right of my honored
Plymouth County Deeds, 28:54.
Plymouth County Deeds, 36:159; Plymouth County Probate, docket 3278, 2:63–64; 120–21;
3:253–55.
61
Plymouth County Court Records, 1686–1859 [note 46], 1:74.
62
Eugene Wright, History of Plympton, Massachusetts, 1640–1945 (Plympton, Mass.: C. H. Bricknell,
1973), 44.
63
Although the request was denied, the General Court allowed the formation of a new precinct
parish which contained the boundaries of Kingston. See D. Hamilton Hurd, History of Plymouth
County, Massachusetts with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men
(Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis & Co., 1884), 254–55; Kingston Town Records, Volume 1 [note 45], 1–2.
64
Plymouth County Probate, 5:279-280.
65
Kingston Town Records, Volume 1 [note 45], 25; Plymouth County Court Records, 1686–1859
[note 46], 2:114. This record did not indicate Sr. or Jr., and so it is assumed to pertain to Richard
Everson Sr.
66
This record did not say Sr. or Jr., and so it is assumed to pertain to Richard Everson Sr. (Susan E.
Roser, Mayflower Deeds and Probates, From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts
Society of Mayflower Descendants [Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994], 173).
67
Kingston Town Records, Volume 1 [note 45], 48. This record did not note Sr. or Jr., and so it is
assumed to pertain to Richard Everson Sr.
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father Joseph Bumpas, once of Middleborough . . . now in my own proper
right,” bounded in part by Mr. Coombes’ heirs and Joseph Vaughan.[68]
On 18 April 1767, Ebenezer and Silvanus Everson, mariners of Kingston,
divided the homestead farm of their deceased father Ephraim Everson, and
they agreed to equally pay from the homestead lands “the right of dower
which by law for the future shall be coming to Penelope Everson, the widow of
Richard Everson, late of said Kingston, deceased.”[69]
No Plymouth County probate was recorded for Richard, Elizabeth, or
Penelope Everson.
Children of Richard2 and Elizabeth (_____) Everson, second through fourth
recorded in Plymouth,[70] fifth recorded in Plympton:[71]
i.(Infant)3 Everson, b. Plymouth by 15 June 1698 (less than nine months
after parents’ marriage);[72] probably d. young. No further record.
ii. Richard Everson, b. 10 Nov. 1700; bur. Fern Hill Cemetery, Pembroke
(now Hanson), Mass., 21 June 1790;[73] m. (1) intentions in Kingston
25 March 1731/2, Mehitable Leach,[74] probably the daughter
of John and Alice (_____) Leach, b. Bridgewater 14 Nov. 1704.[75]
Mehitable (Leach) Everson d. probably Kingston by 25 Oct. 1740
when Richard m. (2) intentions in Kingston 25 Oct. 1740, Thankful
Whitmarsh,[76] b. Abington, Mass., 18 Sept. 1714, daughter of Richard
and Lydia (Ford) Whitmarsh,[77] d. probably Kingston between ca.
10 June 1744 and 30 Oct. 1750.[78] Richard m. (3) Plympton 30 Oct.
1750, Averick (Churchill) Standish,[79] b. Plympton 15 Sept. 1723,
daughter of Isaac and Susanna (Leach) Churchill,[80] and widow of
Plymouth County Deeds, 43:126.
Plymouth County Deeds, 53:201.
70
Vital Records of Plymouth [note 32], 22.
71
Vital Records of Plympton [note 38], 101.
72
Plymouth County Court Records, 1686–1859 [note 46], 1:31.
73
Barbara L. Merrick, “The Original Church Records of Gad Hitchcock, D.D., 1748 to 1803:
Deaths,” Register 136 (1982):40.
74
Kingston Town Records, Volume 1 [note 45], 128; Vital Records of Kingston, Massachu­setts, to the
Year 1850 (Boston: NEHGS, 1911), 217.
75
Vital Records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, 2 vols. (Boston: NEHGS, 1916),
1:210. John Leach died intestate and there was no division of his estate naming his heirs
(Plymouth County Probate, docket 12448). Another Mehitable Leach was born in Bridgewater
18 July 1711, daughter of David and Hannah (Whitman) Leach. However, her brother Ephraim
Leach of Bridgewater made a will in 1767, naming his siblings Mehitable Leach, Mercy [sic,
Hannah] Peterson, Abigail Keith, and David Leach (Plymouth County Probate, docket 12432).
Thus the Mehitable born in 1711 probably never married.
76
Kingston Town Records, Volume 1 [note 45], 126; Vital Records of Kingston [note 74], 217.
77
Vital Records of Abington, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston: NEHGS, 1912), 247; Vital
Records of Bridgewater [note 75], 2:403.
78
Her youngest child, Jacob Everson, was baptized 10 June 1744 (Vital Records of Kingston [note
74], 69). Or she may have died at his birth.
79
Kingston Town Records, Volume 1 [note 45], 124; Vital Records of Kingston [note 74], 217; Vital
Records of Plympton [note 38], 316.
80
Vital Records of Plympton [note 38], 57.
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Ebenezer Standish.[81] Averick d. probably Kingston, after 22 July 1759
and probably before 17 June 1777.[82]
iii. Ephraim Everson, b. 1 Sept. 1702; d. Kingston 7 July 1757;[83] m. Kingston
15 March 1732/3, Abigail (Kimball) Prince,[84] b. Boston 28 Jan.
1703/4, daughter of Christopher and Sarah (Jolls) Kimball,[85] and
widow of Job Prince.[86] Abigail d. Kingston 6 Sept. 1780.[87]
iv.Ebenezer Everson, b. 14 April 1705; d. probably Plympton between 2
March 1724/5 and 8 June 1733 (“died without issue”). Ebenezer Everson
was granted a portion of his father’s estate in Plympton on 2 March
1724/5.[88]
v.Benjamin Everson, b. 26 Jan. 1711[/2?]; probably d. young. No further
record.
Probable children of Richard2 and Penelope (Bumpas) Everson, born probably in
Plympton in Kingston parish (see note 63):[89]
For Ebenezer Standish, see Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume 14, Myles
Standish Family (Plymouth, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1997), 101.
82
Averick’s youngest child was born 22 July 1759 (Vital Records of Kingston [note 74], 71). Isaac
Churchill of Plympton made his will 17 June 1777 (Plymouth County Probate, docket 4038;
25:31, 32), in which he named wife Susanna; son Isaac; and grandchildren, including “children
of my daughter Susanna Weston, deceased,” and the children of Averick (Churchill) (Standish)
Everson (although he does not identify her by name), namely, sons Ebenezer Standish, Shadrach
Standish, Samuel Everson, Levi Everson (who received “all the land which I bought of William
Cushman, lying in Cushman’s Neck . . . in Plympton”), and daughter Everick Thomas. The fact
that Averick’s children received an inheritance rather than Averick herself suggests she was dead
by 17 June 1777.
83
Vital Records of Kingston [note 74], 345.
84
Kingston Town Records, Volume 1 [note 45], 129; Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620–
1988, original Kingston records, images online at Ancestry.com.
85
[Twenty-fourth] Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston Containing Boston Births
from A.D. 1700 to A.D. 1800 (Boston: Rockwell & Churchill, 1894), 22; [Twenty-Eighth] Report
of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, Containing the Boston Marriages from 1700 to
1751 (Boston: Municipal Printing Office, 1898), 4.
86
For Job Prince, see Barbara Lambert Merrick, Mayflower Families Through Five
Generations . . . Volume Twenty-Four: The Descendants of Elder William Brewster, Part 1,
Generations 1 through 4, Scott Andrew Bartley, ed. (Plymouth, Mass.: General Society of May­
flower Descendants, 2014), 224. Job died of smallpox in Jamaica in April 1731 (Vital Records of
Kingston [note 74], 371; George Prince, “Twelve Hundred Miles on Horseback One Hundred
Years Ago: The Diary of Hezekiah Prince,” The New England Magazine 9 [1894], 728).
87
Vital Records of Kingston [note 74], 344.
88
Plymouth County Deeds, 19:9.
89
Richard and Penelope (Bumpas) Everson were probably the parents of Samuel and Seth Everson
based on several pieces of circumstantial evidence. There were no other Everson families in
Plymouth County at this time. The only married Eversons who could possibly be their father
were John2 and Richard2 Everson, and the only unmarried female Eversons, daughters of John2,
were too young. Since the youngest recorded child of John2 was born in 1707, it is unlikely that
Samuel or Seth would be unrecorded children born over a decade later. Based on Samuel and
Seth’s estimated ages (Samuel was an adult at his death in Middleborough in 1747 and Seth
was at least 21 in Kingston in 1741), they are a good fit to have been born after Richard2 and
Penelope’s marriage in 1718. Penelope Bumpas was the only Everson with a connection to
Middleborough (where Samuel died). As a widow, despite having been provided her husband
Richard Everson’s Kingston homestead, she was “of Middleborough” in 1755, and perhaps lived
with Bumpas relatives after Richard’s death for a time. The fact that Richard2 provided for his
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vi.Samuel3 Everson, b. say 1719; d. Middleborough, Mass. by 17 Sept.
1747.[90] He was a hatter. Administration of his estate was granted on
17 Sept. 1747 to Josiah Edson, Esq. of Bridgewater, and no subsequent
documents were filed with his probate,[91] his only known record.
vii.Seth Everson, b. say 1720;[92] d. Kingston between 21 March 1763 (jury
duty) and 13 Sept. 1763 (administration);[93] m. Kingston 28 April 1752,
Lusannah “Lucy” Bradford,[94] b. Plymouth 3 May 1721, daughter
of Ephraim and Elizabeth (Brewster) Bradford,[95] d. Kingston, 8 Dec.
1805.[96]
4. John2 Everson (John1) was born by 1669, probably in New England.[97]
He died in Plympton, Massachusetts, between 16 June 1724 (when he divided
his property) and 3 April 1729 (when he was listed as deceased).[98] He married
by 1703, probably in Plymouth, Elizabeth _____.[99] She was born by 1685,
possibly in Plymouth.[100] She died of consumption in Kingston 10 December
1737.[101]
John Everson had numerous Plymouth County land transactions:[102]
1690, 30 August. Stephen Bryant Sr. of Plymouth, with the consent of his
wife Abigail, granted “in consideration of ye love and good will which I
do bear unto John Everson of ye town of Plimouth” 8 acres of upland in
sons Richard, Ephraim, and Ebenezer in the 1720s makes it unlikely that Samuel or Seth was the
child of Richard2 and Elizabeth (_____) Everson conceived before marriage. Richard3 Everson
Jr.’s first child born after the death of Samuel Everson was named Samuel — perhaps in honor of
Richard’s deceased brother. Seth Everson purchased land along Bridgewater Road in Kingston,
neighboring property which belonged to both John2 and Richard2 Everson, likely indicating that
Seth was a relative.
90
Plymouth County Probate, docket 7413; 10:484–85.
91
Ibid.
92
Assuming that Seth Everson was at least 21, the age of majority, when he was elected to serve on
a jury on 10 December 1741, and taxed by the town of Kingston in 1742 (Kingston Town Records,
Volume 1 [note 45], 39; Plymouth County Court Records, 1686–1859 [note 46], 2:172-73).
93
Kingston Town Records, Volume 1 [note 45], 95; Plymouth County Probate, 17:112.
94
Kingston Town Records, Volume 1 [note 45], 124; Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620–
1988, original Kingston records, images online at Ancestry.com.
95
Vital Records of Plymouth [note 32], 59. Her birthdate was recorded as 14 May 1721 by Rev.
Z. Willis in “Census of Kingston Families for 1796” (Vital Records of Kingston [note 74], 70).
For Ephraim Bradford and Lusannah (Bradford) Everson, see Mayflower Families Through
Five Generations, Volume 22, William Bradford Family (Plymouth, Mass.: General Society of
Mayflower Descendants, 2004), 30–31, 127, 512–13, and Merrick, William Brewster [note 86],
383–85.
96
Vital Records of Kingston [note 74], 345.
97
If John Everson was at least 21 when he received land from Stephen Bryant Sr. in 1690, he was
born by 1669.
98
Plymouth County Deeds, 18:118, 205; 20:121; 25:186.
99
Based upon the estimated year of birth of son James Everson.
100
This assumes she was at least 18 at marriage.
101
Vital Records of Kingston [note 74], 345.
102
Not all of John Everson’s deeds have been abstracted here, including Plymouth County Deeds,
4:93; 6:141; 7:131, 155; 8:200; 16:124, and Records of the Town of Plymouth [note 8], 157. For
additional details, see the forthcoming Descendants of John Everson of Plymouth, Massachusetts
by the present author.
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Plymouth, part of a tract of land which was originally granted to Bryant
from the town of Plymouth, where Bryant’s son Stephen Bryant Jr. “is now
settled on and built on in ye woods toward Turkey Swamp.”[103]
1691 or 1692, 27 or 31 August, 27 August. John Everson of Plymouth
bought a tract of land from Stephen Bryant Sr. and his wife Abigail of
Plymouth for 50 shillings, part of Bryant’s 60 acres, located near Stephen
Bryant Jr.’s land “on which he now liveth,” and bounded by the 8 acres
of land that Bryant had granted to Everson in 1690.[104] John Everson of
Plymouth bought 10 acres of upland in Plymouth located on “ye plain as
ye road goeth to Bridgewater” from Stephen Bryant Jr. of Plymouth, half
a tract Bryant had bought from Plymouth town agents.[105]
1701, 12 May. John Everson of Plymouth purchased from Stephen Bryant
Jr. of Plymouth for 15 shillings, 5 acres of upland in Plymouth near the
“lands on which said Everson’s dwelling house now standeth,” being half
of the 10 acres Bryant bought from Plymouth town agents.[106]
1701, 19 May. At a Plymouth town meeting “John Eaverson” was granted
“6 acres of land next to his own land where he now liveth” and surveyed
23 September1701.[107]
1701/2 February. John Everson was one of the 201 Plymouth/Plympton
proprietors who received 30 acres of land.[108]
1711, 14 January. Benjamin Eaton Jr. of Plymouth sold to John Everson
of Plympton for 5 shillings all of his 4 acres in Plymouth which were
“laid out to me, together with ye said John Everson” which adjoined the
south[east?] side of Everson’s 30-acre lot, laid out by the surveyors on 9
May 1706.[109]
1724. John Everson divided all of his property amongst his two sons
James and John.[110] On 16 June 1724, John Everson Sr. of Plympton “in
consideration of the love and good affection which I have and do bear
unto my son James Everson of Plimton” gave him part of “my homestead
whereon I now dwell” in Plympton on the southwest side of the cartway
which “leads by my house toward Plymouth” bounded by the cartway’s
intersection with Barrows Brook and land of Richard Everson, together
with “my dwelling house and barn and fences,” as well as his homestead
Plymouth County Deeds, 4:91.
Plymouth County Deeds, 4:91. The date of this deed is unclear.
105
Plymouth County Deeds, 4:92. The date of this deed is unclear.
106
Plymouth County Deeds, 4:94.
107
Records of the Town of Plymouth [note 8], 1:267, 306. Bounded “at the south-east corner with a
stake and a heap of stones and from thence 24 pole east to another stake and a heap of stones and
from thence 40 pole north to a pine tree marked on 4 sides and so down to [Everson’s] meadow
and from thence 24 pole by the meadow westerly until it comes to his other lands and his land to
be the west bounds that he had of Stephen Bryant Sen.”
108
Davis, History of the Town of Plymouth [note 54], 73–74.
109
Plymouth County Deeds, 9:291.
110
Plymouth County Deeds, 18:118, 205.
103
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land along the northeast side of the cartway. Also included were 7 acres
on the northwest side of Barrows Brook, one half of his land at Bradford’s
Bridge, one half of all his other lands lying on the southeast side of the
highway leading from Bridgewater to Plymouth [present-day Route 106],
and also one half of his share in Jones River Cedar Swamp in Plympton,
reserving for himself and wife Elizabeth the use and improvement of
those lands during their natural lives. He gave to his son John Everson
Jr. of Plympton part of his Plympton homestead on the southwest side
of the cartway leading from John Everson’s house towards Plymouth,
bounded by Richard Everson, bounded southeast by the highway leading
from Bridgewater to Plymouth, together with 6 acres of land at Bradford’s
Bridge in Plympton [now Kingston], one half of his other lands southeast
of the highway leading from Bridgewater to Plymouth, with the lower
half of his meadow along Barrows Brook, and half of his share in Jones
River Cedar Swamp, reserving the improvement of the Barrows Brook
meadow, and the use, improvement and income on the already fenced
in land “where I formerly lived on the northwest side of the aforesaid
highway that leads from Bridgewater to Plymouth,” and reserving one
half of the wood growing at Bradford’s Bridge for his own use.
John Everson and Elizabeth Everson were on the undated list of “First
Members of the Plympton Church To Join In Full Communion” under Rev.
Isaac Cushman, who was pastor from 1698 to 1732.[111] At a Plympton town
meeting held 21 February 1709[/10?], John Everson was on a list of eligible
voters.[112]
Richard Everson and John Everson, residents of “the northeast part of
Plympton, near [Jones’] river” petitioned the Massachusetts General Court
to form the township of Kingston, read by the court on 29 May 1717.[113] On
23 May 1724, John Everson received 17 shillings, 6 pence from the estate of
Benjamin Bryant of Plympton.[114]
The boundaries of John Everson’s land and Benjamin Eaton’s land may
have been uncertain. On 13 April 1726, possibly due to John Everson’s death,
Benjamin Eaton Sr. of Plympton testified that when he purchased a 40-acre lot
from Stephen Bryant Jr. on 2 May 1698, the deed mentioned that the property
was bounded easterly by land that Stephen Bryant Sr. had given to John
Everson, which Eaton determined “was not by a deed of gift but by a deed of
sale bearing date August the 27th 1691,” and “to prevent all controversy,” Eaton
released any possible claim to the part of the “lands mentioned in ye aforesaid
deed of sale” from Stephen Bryant Sr. to John Everson Jr.[115] However, this
Wright, History of Plympton [note 62], 83; Rev. Thomas Noyes, “Complete List of the
Congregational Ministers, In the County of Plymouth, Mass., From the Settlement of the Country
to the Present Time,” The American Quarterly Register 8 (1836):147.
112
Wright, History of Plympton [note 62], 44.
113
Hurd, History of Plymouth County [note 63], 254–55; Kingston Town Records, Volume 1 [note 45],
1–2.
114
Roser, Mayflower Deeds and Probates [note 66], 269; Plymouth County Probate, 5:179.
115
Plymouth County Deeds, 20:121. Witnessed by Joseph Phinney and Dennis Egerton,
acknowledged 26 April 1726 and recorded 27 April 1726.
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ignores the 8 acres deed of gift from Stephen Bryant Sr. to John Everson
in 1690, which is likely what Eaton’s original deed referred to, rather than
Everson’s purchase of additional land from Stephen Bryant Jr. in 1691.
Children of John2 and Elizabeth (_____) Everson, James and Marcey recorded in
Plymouth, Elizabeth recorded in Plympton:[116]
i.John3 Everson, b. probably by 23 May 1703;[117] d. Kingston by 3 June
1780;[118] m. intentions in Kingston 14 Oct. 1727, Silence Staples,[119]
b. Braintree, Mass., 11 Nov. 1705, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Cox)
Staples,[120] d. Kingston 29 April 1785.[121]
ii.James Everson, b. 5 Jan. 1703[/4?]; d. Kingston 22 June 1787;[122] m.
Kingston, 19 March 1734, Hannah Holmes,[123] b. Plymouth 18 Aug.
1706, daughter of Isaac and Mary (Nye) Holmes,[124] d. Kingston before
1 June 1787.[125]
iii. Marcey Everson, b. 30 Jan. 1705[/6?]. No further record, unless she was
the “Mary Eveton?” in an undated list of early Plympton Congregational
Church members (transcribed by historian Eugene Wright from the
“old church record book,” subsequently lost).[126]
iv. Elizabeth Everson, b. 13 Sept. 1707; d. probably Plympton between 29
Nov. 1749 and 4 Nov. 1757;[127] m. Kingston 29 Nov. 1749, Jedediah
Sampson,[128] b. Plympton 21 June 1714, son of Joseph and Ann (Tilson)
Sampson,[129] and widower of Lois Severy.[130] Jedediah d. probably
Vital Records of Plymouth [note 32], 29; Vital Records of Plympton [note 38], 101.
John Everson was probably at least 21 when, as John Everson Junr., he received a payment from
the estate of Benjamin Bryant on 23 May 1724 (see note 114).
118
Plymouth County Probate, docket 7396; 25:529, 27:40, 43, 28:22-24.
119
Kingston Town Records, Volume 1 [note 45], 128; Vital Records of Kingston [note 74], 216.
120
Silence’s birth is recorded in her father Benjamin Staples’ account book (Mrs. John E. Barclay,
“The Account Book of Benjamin Staples, Cordwainer of Braintree, Mass.,” Register 116 [1962]:20).
121
Vital Records of Kingston [note 74], 346.
122
Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620–1988, original Kingston records, images online at
Ancestry.com.
123
Kingston Town Records, Volume 1 [note 45], 129; Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620–
1988, original Kingston records, images online at Ancestry.com.
124
Vital Records of Plymouth [note 32], 74; Caroline Lewis Kardell and Russell A. Lovell Jr., Vital
Records of Sandwich, Massachusetts to 1885, 3 vols. (Boston: NEHGS, 1996), 1:72.
125
Plymouth County Deeds, 67:177.
126
Wright, History of Plympton [note 62], 84–85. Harold Field Worthley, An Inventory of the Records
of the Particular (Congregational) Churches of Massachusetts Gathered 1620–1805 (Cambridge,
Mass: Harvard University Press, 1970), 495–96, said that the church records [First Volume, 1698–
1793], was missing in 1970 and last known in 1809, with no reference to the 1889 survey that
included them or the fact that Eugene Wright saw the volume at some date prior to 1973.
127
Elizabeth died between her marriage to Jedediah Sampson and his third marriage to Elizabeth
Bull.
128
Kingston Town Records, Volume 1 [note 45], 124; Vital Records of Kingston [note 74], 275; Vital
Records of Plympton [note 38], 383.
129
Vital Records of Plympton [note 38], 175; Robert S. Wakefield, “The Tilson Family of Plymouth
Colony,” The American Genealogist 69 (1994):40.
130
Lois Severy was baptized in Wenham, Massachusetts, [8?] June 1712, daughter of John and
Martha (Parler/Parlow) Severy (William Blake Trask, “Records of the Congregational Church in
Wenham, Mass.,” Register 62 [1908]:44; A. W. Savary, “The Savery Families of America,” Register
116
117
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Plympton, probably after 7 Sept. 1770,[131] having m. (3) Hingham 4 Nov.
1757, Elizabeth Bull of Hingham.[132]
Mary Blauss Edwards is a genealogist and historian, and the author
of the upcoming book Descendants of John Everson of Plymouth,
Massachusetts, featuring six generations of Everson descendants. She
descends from Imogene Lillian7 (Barnabas6, Richard5, Levi4, Richard3,
Richard2, John1) Everson, and can be reached at [email protected].
41 [1887]:387). On 16 July 1739, Jedediah and Lois Samson of Plympton sold their rights from
the estate of “our honored grandfather Thomas Parler, late of Middleborough” which belonged to
“our honored mother, Martha Severy, deceased” (Plymouth County Deeds, 37:70).
131
Plymouth County Deeds, 64:169.
132
Vital Records of Plympton [note 38], 380.