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JAMES CUDWORTH
MARY PARKER
James was admitted a freeman in Plymouth on 1 January 1634/5. [NBS1] He is on a 7 March 1636/7 list of freemen in Plymouth. [NBS1]
On 4/5 October 1636 James Cudworth was appointed a party for Scituate on a committee ordered to appear before the Government and Assistants at Plymouth until the premises of Plymouth, Duxbury and Scituate were settled. [NBS1]
He was on a jury at the 4/5 October 1636 court. [NBS1] He was appointed constable for Scituate on 3 January 1636/7. [NBS1] On 2 January 1637/8 he was on a jury that sentenced Edward Shaw to be branded and whipped for theft. [NBS1]
The court made a grant of a plantation called Seppekann for a township and congregation on 22 January 1638/9 to a committee of eight men, including James, who were to dispose of the land. [NBS1]
James Cudworth was on the commmittee for the town of Barnstable on 2 June 1640 and 7 June 1642. [NBS1][NBS2]
Mr. James Cudworth was on the committee for the town of Scituate on 6 June 1649, 4 June 1650, 5 June 1651. [NBS2]
On 2 June 1640 James Cudworth of Scituate was presented to the court for selling wine contrary to orders. [NBS1]
Children of James Cudworth and Mary Parker: [VRMS]
i. James Cudworth was baptized on 3 May 1635 in Scituate.
ii. Mary Cudworth was baptized on 25 January 1637 in Scituate. She married Robert Whitcomb.
iii. Jonathan Cudworth was baptized on 16 September 1638 in Scituate. He was buried on 24 September 1638 in Scituate. [VRMS]
iv. Israel Cudworth
References:
NBS1. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1, Court Orders, 1633–1640 (Boston: William White, 1855).
VRMS. Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850, 2 vols. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1909), 1: 99 (baptism of James), 101 (baptism of Jonathan); vol. 2: 372 (burial of Jonathan).
Last revised: 07-Nov-2022