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JOHN STOCKBRIDGE
ANN UNKNOWN
John married Elizabeth Sone of Scituate on 9 October 1643. [PC01]
John Stockbridge of Scituate was presented to the court for disgraceful speeches on 5 June 1638. John Stockbridge, wheelwright of Scituate, was fined ten shillings at the 4 Sepember 1638 court for contemptuous words agains the government. He was among several men of Scituate who were presented to the court on 4 December 1638 for receiving [religious] strangers and foreigners into their houses and land without license. They were later discharged. John, wheelwright, was presented for contemptuous speeches against the government on 7 September 1642. [PC02]
John was appointed a constable of Scituate on 7 March 1642/3. He was a appointed a surveyor of the highways in Scituate on 4 June 1645, 2 June 1646 and 8 June 1655. [PC03]
John was propounded as a freeman on 4 June 1650. [PC04]
Children of John and Ann Stockbridge:
i. Elizabeth Stockbridge married Thomas Hyland.
References:
SCT. Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, The Seventeenth-Century Town Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1997, 1999, 2001)
PC01. Nathaniel Shurtleff, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, 2 vols., 1633–1644 (Boston, William White, 1855), vol. 1: 94.
PC02. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 86–87; 96–98; 105–7; vol. 2: 53.
PC03. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 2: 53, 84, 102; vol. 3: 79.
PC04. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 2: 154.
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02-Aug-2020