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JOHN RIGBY (d. by 1647)
ISABEL UNKNOWN (d. 1673)
John died by 16 April 1647. He married Isabel Unknown. [1]
Isabel Unknown died on 22 June 1673 in Dorchester. [2] She married second as his second wife Edward Breck in 1647 in Dorchester. [1][3] Edward, the son of Robert and Ann (Hurst) Breck, was baptized in August 1596 in All Saints, Wigan, Lancashire and died on 2 November 1622 in Dorchester. [3] He married first Mary Unknown by 7 April 1623. [3] She died about 1645. [3] She married third as his second wife Anthony Fisher on 14 November 1663 in Dorchester. [1][3] Anthony, the son of Anthony and Marie (Fiske) Fisher, was baptized on 23 April 1591 in Syleham, co. Suffolk and died on 18 April 1671 in Dorchester. [2] Anthony died on 18 April 1671, age 80, in Roxbury. [1] He married first Alice Unknown. [2]
John was admitted to the Dorchester church in early 1638. [4] He was granted land in Dorchester on 18 March 1637/8. [4] He was a freeman on 18 May 1642. [1]
Edward and Isabel apparently spent a year in Lancaster. [3]
Edward wrote his will on 30 October 1662; it was proved on 11 December 1662. He named his children John, Mary, Elizabeth, and Susanna, and named Isabel his executor. [3]
Isabel wrote her will on 20 September 1671; it was proved on 3 July 1673. She left bequests to Abigail, the daughter of her daughter Turner, her five daughters, her son-in-law Thomas Holman, her unmarried daughter Susanna, and her son-in-law Samuel Paul. [3]
Inventory was taken on John's estate on 16 April 1647. [5] His will was proved on 9 December 1747. [5]
Children of John Rigby and Isabel Unknown:
i. Samuel Rigby (presumed son) was born say 1636. He married first Elizabeth George about 1660 in Dorchester. [6] He married second Hannah Unknown by 1676 in Dorchester. [6]
ii. Elizabeth Rigby was baptized on 3 March 1638/9 in Dorchester. [4] She died on 1 March 1702/3 in Milton. [ALH]
iii. Alice Rigby was born say 1640. She married Thomas Holman on 9 February 1663/4. [1] Thomas was born on 6 August 1641 in Dorchester and died on 4 August 1704 in Milton. [ALH]
Thomas Holman was a cordwainer of Milton. [ALH]
iv. Mehitable Rigby was baptized on 23 April 1643 in Dorchester. She died on 22 March 1680 in Scituate. She married Nathaniel Turner.
Children of Edward Breck and Isabel Unknown:
iv. Mary Breck was baptized on 13 August 1648 in Dorchester. [3] She died on 25 August 1720 in Dorchester. [3] She married first Samuel Paul on 9 January 1666/7 in Dorchester. [3] He died on 3 November 1690 in Dorchester. [3] She married second John Toman on 15 June 1692 in Dorchester. [3] John, the son of Thomas and Sarah Tolman, was born on 27 July 1642 in Dorchester. [3] He married first Elizabeth Collins. [3]
v. John Breck was baptized on 27 October 1650 in Dorchester. [3] He died on 17 February 1690/1 in Dorchester. [3] He married Susanna Unknown. [3]
vi. Elizabeth Breck was baptized on 24 May 1653 in Dorchester. [3] She died on 6 April 1691 in Dorchester. [3] She married John Minot on 11 March 1670/1 in Dorchester. [3] John, the son of John and Lydia (Butler) Minot, was born on 22 January 1647/8 in Dorchester and died there on 26 January 1690/1. [3]
vii. Susanna Breck was baptized on 26 November 1654 in Dorchester. [3] She married John Harris of Boston on 20 March 1674/5 in Dorchester. [3]
References:
1. "Old Dorchester," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 5 (1851): 396, 465.
2. Myrtle Stevens Hyde and John Plummer, "The English Ancestry of New England Settlers Joshua and Anthony Fisher," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 151 (1997): 182.
3. Doris Shreiber Wilcox, "Edward Breck's Baptismal Record ..., " New England Historical and Genealogical Register 164 (2010): 175–183.
4. "Great Migration Newsletter, v. 1–25," database with images, AmericanAncestors > vol. 19, p. 12.
5. "Abstracts of the Earliest Wills on File in the County of Sussex, Mass.," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 7 (1853): 170.
6. "New England Marriages to 1700," database with images, AmericanAncestors ("Torrey's New England marriages").
7. Alfred Lyman Holman, "John Holman of Dorchester, Mass. and His Descendants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 72 (1918): 196.
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