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GODFREY SHELDON (c. 1598–1664/70)

ALICE FROST (say 1598–aft. 1664)

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Godfrey Sheldon was born about 1598. He died between 13 March 1663/4 and 3 April 1670. He married Alice Frost on 11 March 1620 in Bakewell Parish, Derbyshire. [1]

Alice Frost was born say 1598. She died after 13 March 1663/4.

Godfrey Sheldon, planter of Scarborough alias Black Point, age about 65, made his will on 13 March 1663/4. It was sworn to on 3 April 1670. He left his eldest son William half of his estate and his wife Alice the other half, for her life. After her decease it was to go to William. William was to pay his brother John four pound and each of his sisters ten shillings. [2]

Children of Godfrey Sheldon and Alice Frost:

i. William Sheldon was born on 5 February 1622/3 in Bakewell. [3] He died—"hurt by a fall above 2 weeks"—on 2 December 1691, age 80, in Salem. [3] He married Rebecca, the daughter of William Scadlock. [3]

William had a grant in 1658/9 in Billerica, provided he built a corn mill. However, he and his brother John ran into trouble with the town and he did not settle. [3]

William wrote his will on 23 November 1691; it was proved on 3 September 1694. [3]

ii. Abraham Sheldon was baptized on 28 November 1624 in Bakewell. [3] He was buried there on 13 December 1645. [3]

iii. Unknown Sheldon was born and died on 23 October 1626 in Bakewell. [3]

iv. John Sheldon was born on 8 May 1628 in Bakewell. [3] He died on 24 May 1690 in Billerica. [3] He married as her second husband, Mary, daughter of Edward and Sarah (Parker) Converse, on 1 February 1658/9 in Billerica. [3] She was born about 1625. [3] She died after February 1674. [3] She married first Simon Thompson on 19 December 1643 in Woburn. [3]

i. Ann Sheldon was probably born in Bakewill Parish, Derbyshire about 1630. She died on 21 March 1716 in Woburn. She married first Lieutenant Arthur Alger. She married second Samuel Walker.

ii. Unknown Sheldon married Giles Roberts. [3]

Endnotes:

1. "New England Marriages to 1700," digitized books, AmericanAncestors, originally published as Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015).

2. "Maine: Early Wills and Deeds, 1640-1760," database with images, AmericanAncestors > Wills, 20.

3. Marilyn Fitzpatrick, "Descendants of Godfrey Sheldon, Part I," The Essex Genealogist 26 (2006): 118–21.

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