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ANTHONY ANNABLE
ANN UNKNOWN
Anthony Annable married first Jane Unknown. [FSBA] She died about December 1643. [FSBA] He married second Anna Clarke. [FSBA]
Anthony came from Cambridge on the Anne in 1623. [SCT]
Anthony was on a 2 January 7 Charles [1631/2] tax list in Plymouth. [RPC3] He was a freeman in Plymouth in 1633. [RPC0] He was on a 24 March 1633/4 Plymouth tax list. [RPC1] He was on a 7 March 1636/7 list of freemen in Plymouth. [RPCK]
Scituate's first street—the highway or Kents Street—was laid out in 1633 and lots were laid out to Edward Foster, Humphrey Turner and Anthony Annable. The second street was Meeting House Lane and lots there were laid out for George Lewis, John Hewes, Walter Woodworth, Richard Foxwell and Isaac Chittenden. North of Satuit Brook was a path to the harbor with lots belonging to James Cudworth, John Lothrop, Eglin Hanford, Gowen White and Timothy Hatherly. [SCT]
Anthony was chosen to be the constable of Scituate on 1 January 1633/4, 1 January 1634/5 and 6 March 1637/8. [RPC5] He was on a committee to determine trade policy for the colony on 1 October 1634. [PRC7] He was on a jury at the 4/5 October 1636 Plymouth court. [RPCD] He was a deputy for Scituate on 4 June 1639. [PC10]
Some of the freemen of Scituate, including Anthony, complained that they had too little land to subsist on and the court granted them additional land on 1 January 1638/8. [RPCN]
The 2 January 1637 court sentenced Thomas Shaw to be severely whipped and branded on the shoulder for stealing 15 shillings; his accomplice was sentenced to be whipped. Anthony served on the jury that found the accomplice to be guilty. [RPCO]
Anthony moved to Barnstable by 1641 and he was a deputy for Barnstable thirteen times between 1 June 1641 and 5 June 1651. [PC11]
On 19 October 1643 the court ordered that if the town of Barnstable would not act then a committee, including Anthony, was to appoint a place that would service as a place of defense for the inhabitants of the town if there were a sudden attack. [PC19] On 4 June 1645 Anthony was appointed to a committee to examine and report on the dispute between Kenelme Winslow and John Mynard. [PC20] On 2 June 1646 he was appointed to a committee to consider a way of defraying the charges at the magistrate's table, say by imposing an excise tax. [PC21]
Children of Anthony and Jane Annable:
i. Sarah Annable [FSBA] married Henry Ewell on 22 November 1638. [PCO5]
ii. Hannah Annable [FSBA] married Thomas Boreman on 3 March 1644. [PC22]
Children of Anthony Annable and Anna Clarke:
iii. Samuel Annable was born on 22 January 1646. [FSBA]
iv. Ezekiel Annable was baptized on 29 April 1649. [FSBA]
v. Desire Annable was born in October 1653. She married John Barker.
References:
SCT. Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, The Seventeenth-Century Town Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1997, 1999, 2001), vol. 1: 14, 24.
FSBA. David Hamblen, "First Settlers of Barnstable, MS," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2 (1848): 64.
LONF. "List of Names Found Among the First Settlers of New England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 1 (1847): 137–9.
RPC3. Nathaniel Shurtleff, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1644 (Boston, William White, 1855), 9–11.
RPC0. Nathaniel Shurtleff, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1644 (Boston, William White, 1855), 3–4.
RPC1. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1644, 27–29.
RPC5. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1644, 21, 32, 79.
RPC7. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1644, 31.
RPCD. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1644, 44.
RPCK. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1644, 52–54.
RPCN. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1644, 72.
RPCO. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1644, 74–75.
PCO5. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1644, 108.
PC10. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1644, 126–7.
PC10. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1644, 154–6; vol. 2, 1633–1644, 16, 40, 46, 57, 63, 68, 72, 75, 94, 117, 154, 168.
PC19. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 2, 1633–1644, 65.
PC20. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 2, 1633–1644, 185.
PC21. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 2, 1633–1644, 101.
PC22. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vol. 2, 1633–1644, 180.
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