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ANTHONY ANNABLE (say 1595–1674)
ANN ALCOCK (d. aft. 1678)
Anthony Annable was born say 1595. He died between 23 April and 4 June 1674. He married first Jane Moumford on 26 April 1619 in All Saints, Cambridge. [1] She was buried about December 1643 in Barnstable. [2, 689] Anthony married second Anna Alcock on 3 March 1645 in Barnstable. [2, 689][3]
Hayward [4] claims that Ann Alcock was buried on 16 My 1651 and Anthony married next Hannah Barker. He appears to be confusing the records for Abraham Blush's wives: Anne and Ann (Hannah) Williams, who first married John Barker. The records appear next to each other.
Anthony and Jane came from Cambridge on the Anne in 1623. [5]
Anthony and Jane first settled in Plymouth. In the 1623 Plymouth land division, Anthony was granted four acres "on the other side of the town towards Eel River." [5] Anthony and his wife Ann were counted with children Sarah and Hannah in Plymouth's cattle division in 1627. [5]
Anthony was on a 2 January 7 Charles [1631/2] tax list in Plymouth. [6, 1:9–11] He was a freeman in Plymouth in 1633. [6, 1:3–4] He was on a 24 March 1633/4 Plymouth tax list. [6, 1:27–29] He was on a 7 March 1636/7 list of freemen in Plymouth. [6, 1: 52–54]
Anthony was one of the earliest recorded settlers of Scituate, receiving land on the Second Cliff on 12 April 1638. He sold his house and garden in Plymouth on 9 June 1630, so he may have moved to Scituate even earlier. [7] He is in the Scituate section of men between between 16 and 60 in Plymouth Colony who were able to bear arms. [8]
Goodman Annable and his wife were original members of the church in Scituate on 8 January 1634. [3, 3:516]
Scituate's first street—the highway or Kent 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. [7]
Anthony was one of those dismissed from the church in Plymouth on the condition that they form a church in Scituate. [7, 19] "Goodman Annniball" and his wife were founding members of the church in Scituate on 8 January 1634/5. [5]
Anthony was chosen to be the constable of Scituate on 1 January 1633/4, 1 January 1634/5 and 6 March 1637/8. [6, 1: 21, 32, 79] He was on a committee to determine trade policy for the colony on 1 October 1634. [6, 1: 31] He was on a jury at the 4/5 October 1636 Plymouth court. [6, 1: 44]
The first representative legislative assembly of Plymouth Colony met on 4 June 1639 in Plymouth. Anthony Annable and Edward Foster were the deputies for Scituate. [6, 1: 126–7][9]
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. [6, 1: 72]
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. [6, 1:74–75]
Anthony stayed with John Lothrop and his church and moved to Barnstable in 1639. [5] He was a deputy for Barnstable thirteen times between 1 June 1641 and 5 June 1651. [10]
Anthony is on a 1643 list of inhabitants of Barnstable. [11, 1:6]
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. [6, 2: 65] On 4 June 1645 Anthony was appointed to a committee to examine and report on the dispute between Kenelme Winslow and John Maynard. [6, 2: 185] 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. [6, 2: 101]
In 1652 Anthony was foreman of the jury for highways in Barnstable. [11, 1:148]
In his will of 25 June 1672, Thomas Shaw left his bed and all his bedding to Ann, the wife of Anthony Annable. He also left both Anthony and Ann payments for the extraordinary care they took of him for five years when he was ill. Ann made oath to his inventory on 2 September 1672. [12][13, 19:162]
Anthony made his will on 24 February 1672; he added a codicil on 23 April 1674. He left his wife Ann, for her life, his house and land, cattle, a horse, and his movable estate. He left his household stuff to his daughter Desire Annable after Ann's decease. He also left Desire two cows, two steers, a heifer, a mare, and a horse and colt. He left unnamed daughters 12 pence each. After Ann's decease Samuel was to have the house and her land. He was to pay Desire 30 pounds. The will was sworn to on 4 June 1674; the inventory was sworn to by Ann on 18 June 1674. [13, 25:90–91]
Children of Anthony and Jane Annable:
i. Sarah Annable was born say 1620. She was married to Henry Ewell on 22 November 1638 by Mr. Winslow at Green's Harbor [Marshfield]. [6, 1:108][7, 3:518]
ii. Hannah Annable was born in 1623 in Plymouth. [5] She married Thomas Boreman on 3 March 1644 [6, 2: 180] or 1 March 1645. [2, 6]
Other sources give different dates in March for Hannah's wedding. [5] The above date is the same day Hannah's father remarried.
Anthony Annable administered the estate of Thomas Borman on 1 June 1663. [5]
iii. Susanna Annable was born about 1630. [5] She married William Hatch on 13 May 1652 in Scituate. [14] William, the son of Thomas and Lydia (Gyles) Hatch of Wye, County Kent and Scituate, was baptized on 21 May 1621 in Tonbridge, County Kent and died about 1702 in Swansea. [15][16]
William lived in Scituate and later in Swansea. [15] French [15] and Taylor and West [16] present his English ancestry.
iv. Daughter Annable—born too early—was buried on 8 April 1635 in Scituate. [5][7: 3:518]
v. Deborah Annable was baptized on 7 May 1637 by Reverend John Lothrop in Scituate. [7: 3:518]
Children of Anthony Annable and Anna Alcock: Births recorded in Barnstable. [2, 689]
vi. Samuel Annable was born on 2 January 1646. He was baptized on 8 February 1645/6 in Barnstable. [17] He married M4itable Allyn on 1 June 1667. [5]
vii. Ezek (Esek) Annable was born ___. baptized on 29 April 1649 in Barnstable. [17, 90, "Esek"]
viii. Desire Annable was born about the beginning of October 1653. She was baptized on 16 October 1653 in Barnstable. She married John Barker.
References:
1. "England: Marriages, 1538–1973,"database, AmericanAncestors.org, page 2061185. Original index: "England Marriages, 1538–1973, FamilySearch, 2014.
2. "Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620–1850," database with images, AmericanAncestors > Barnstable, vol. 1, image 689.
3. "Plymouth Colony Vital Records," Mayflower Descendant 13 (1911): 86.
4. Elijah Hayward, "Plymouth Colony Records," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 9 (1855): 315.
5. "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620–1633, Volumes I-III," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally Published as: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 volumes (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).
6. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of Plymouth Colony: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1640, vol. 2, 1641–1651, vol. 3, 1651–1661, vol. 4, 1661–1668 (Boston: William White, 1855).
7. Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, The Seventeenth-Century Town Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1997, 1999, 2001), vol. 1: 12, 14, 24.
8. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, "List of Those Able to Bear Arms in the Colony of New Plymouth in 1643," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 4 (1850): 257.
9. "Sketches of the Early History of the Town of Middleborough, in the County of Plymouth," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 3 (1849): 341.
10. 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.
11. "Barnstable, MA: Town Records, 1640–1793," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org.
12. Justin Winsor, "Abstracts of the Earliest Wills in the Probate Office, Plymouth," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 7 (1852): 236.
13. "Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories," Mayflower Descendant, various issues.
14. "Early Marriages and Births at Scituate, Mass.," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 19 (1865): 220.
15. Elizabeth French, "Genealogical Research in England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 70 (1916): 256–7.
16. Edward R. Taylor and Randy A. West, "Updates to the Ancestry of Brothers Thomas and William Hatch of Scituate, Massachusetts," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175 (2021): 72.
17. "Barnstable, MA: Church Records, 1639–1892," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org.
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