Joseph Plympton

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JOSEPH PLYMPTON (1653–1702), son of Sergeant John Plympton and Jane Damon

MARY MORSE (c. 1652–1717), daughter of Joseph Morse and Hannah Phillips

Joseph, the son of John and Jame Plympton, was born on 7 October 1653 in Medfield. [1] He died on 20 June 1702 in Medfield. [1][2] He married Mary Morse on 3 November 1675 in Medfield. [1]

Mary, the daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Phillips) Morse, was born about 1652. [2] Mary, the widow of Joseph, died on 25 December 1717 in Medfield. [1][2]

Joseph died intestate. Inventory was taken on his estate on 8 February 1702/3 and amounted to £440-08-06. The widow Mary Plympton and Joseph Plymton made oath to it on 15 March 1702/3. The same day they posted bond and were given administration. Probate was on 5 April 1704. On 12 April 1704 Samuel Barbour, Henry Adams, John Fisher, Eliezer Wheelock and John Dwight—or any three of them—were ordered to make a division. The division, between the widow Mary Plympton, Joseph Plympton, the eldest son, Jonathan Plympton, Jeremiah Plympton, and Mary Plympton, was made on 7 June 1704 and aprroved by the Judge of Probate on 12 August 1704. [3]

Children of Joseph Plympton and Mary Morse:

i. Joseph Plympton was born on 15 March 1676/7 in Medfield. [1]

ii. Jonathan Plympton was born on 28 April 1680 in Medfield. [1] He might be the Jonathan who died on 6 December 1749 in Medfield. [1]

iii. Jeremiah Plympton was born on 8 November 1683 in Medfield. He married Elizabeth Johnson.

iv. Mary Plympton was born in July 1692 in Medfield. [1] She might be the Mary who married Samuel Adams on 22 November 1709 in Medfield. [1]

References:

1. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 (Boston: New England History Genealogical Society, 1903).

PLYMPTON

Births, 80–85

Jeremiah, s. Joseph (Plimto) and Marie, Nov. 8, 1683
Jonathan, s. Joseph (Plimto) and Marie, Apr. 28, 1680
Joseph, s. Joseph and Marie, Mar. 15, 1676-7
Mary, d. Joseph and Marie, July __, 1692
Joseph, s. John and Jane, Oct. 7, 1763

Marriages, 165–6

Joseph and Mary Morse, Nov. 3, 1675
Mary and Samuel Adams, Nov. 22, 1709

Deaths, 222

Jonathan, Dec. 6, 1749
Joseph, h. Mary, June 20, 1702
Mary, wid. Joseph, Dec. 25, 1717

2. Alicia Crane Williams, "Early New England Families, 1641-1700," database with images, AmericanAncestors, entry for Joseph Morse (m. 1638).

3. "Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > case 2795, entry for Joseph Plympton.

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