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NICHOLAS WADE
ELIZABETH HANFORD, daughter of JEFFREY HANFORD and EGLIN HATHERLY
Nicholas Wade of Scituate took the oath of fidelity on 1 February 1638. [PC01] He married Elizabeth Hanford, the daughter of Jeffrey and Eglin (Hatherly)(Downe) Hanford. [EASM]
It has been suggested that Nicholas married (a mythical) Elizabeth Ensign; this is incorrect. [REBE]
Nicholas Wade is on a 26 February list of people in Scituate with rights to divisions and Commons. [SCT]
Nicholas made his will on 7 February 1683; inventory was taken on 11 March 1683/4. He mentioned his son Thomas Wade; his daughter Susannah Wilcom and husband Wilcom; his son Nicholas Wade; his son Nathaniel Wade; his daughter Susannah White "in her former days;" his daughter Elizabeth Wade. [REBE]
Children of Nicholas Wade and Elizabeth Hanford:
i. Thomas Wade married Hannah Ensign.
ii. Joseph Wade married Sarah Ensign. [REBE]
In March 1676 a company of 50 to 60 men was raised under Captain Michael Pierce of Scituate, and on 26 March they set off for Rehoboth. Unfortunately, they encountered a a group of about a thousand Narragansett soldiers and most of them, including Joseph and his brother-in-law John Ensign were killed. [REBE]
iii. Susanna Wade married Unknown Wilcom.
iv. Nicholas Wade
v. Nathaniel Wade
vi. Elizabeth Wade
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: 61
PC01. Nathaniel Shurtleff, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Court Orders, vols. 1–2, 1633–1644 (Boston, William White, 1855), vol. 1: 110.
EASM. Eugene A. Stratton, "Mann-Ensign Notes," The American Genealogist 61 (1985): 46–49.
REBE. Robert E. Bowman, "Ensigns Revisited," The American Genealogist 73 (1998): 241–55.
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