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Humphrey 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]
Humphrey was on a 7 March 1636/7 list of freemen in Plymouth. [RPCK]
Humphrey was given the right to use a piece of land by the western side of the fort near the town. He enclosed it with a pallisade and sold it to Joshua Winslow for eight pounds on 8 April 1633. [RPCF]
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]
Some of the freemen of Scituate, including Humphrey, complained that they had too little land to subsist on and the court granted them additional land on 1 January 1638/8. [RPCN] He was appointed to a committee to grant lots in a piece of land two miles long and one mile wide to residents of Scituate who needed more land in November 1646. [SCT]
Humphrey was chosen constable of Scituate on 5 January 1635/6, 5 March 1638/9 and 2 June 1640. [RPCB] He was a deputy from Scituate on 1 June 1641, 7 June 1642, 5 June 1644, 20 August 1644, 3 March 1645, 7 July 1646, 1 June 1647, 4 June 1650, 5 June 1651, 3 June 1652 and 7 June 1653. [PC01] He was on the grand inquest jury on 7 June 1642 and 2 May 1643. [PC02] He was chosen a supervisor of highways in Scituate on 1 June 1647 and 7 June 1648. [PC03]
Children of Humphrey Turner and Lydia Garner
x. John Turner married Mary Brewster.
x. Nathaniel Turner married Mehitable Rigby.
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, 55.
RPC3. Nathaniel Shurtleff, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vols. 1–3 (Boston, William White, 1855), vol. 1: 9–11.
RPC0. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 3–4.
RPC1. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 27–29.
RPCB. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 36, 116–7, 154–6.
RPCF. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 13.
RPCK. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 52–54.
RPCN. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1: 72.
PC01. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 2: 16, 40, 72, 74, 95, 104, 117, 154, 167; vol. 3: 8, 32.
PC02. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 2: 41, 56.
PC03. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 2: 115, 124.
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