John Train

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JOHN TRAIN (c. 1609–1681)

MARGARET DIX (c. 1616–1660)

John Train was born about 1609. He died on 29 January 1680/1 in Watertown. [1] He married first Margaret Dix. He married second the widow Abigail Bent on 12 October 1675 in Watertown. [1] She died on 17 August 1691 in Watertown. [1]

Margaret Dix was born about 1616. She died on 18 December 1660 in Watertown, age about 44. [1]

Husbandman Percival Greene, his wife, and his two servants—John Train, age 25 and Margaret Dix, age 18—enrolled at London as passengers on the Susan & Ellen on 18 April 1635. [2] As no record has been found of Margaret Dix in New England, and as she sailed on the same ship as John Train, who later had a wife named Margaret of the same age, it is presumed that Margaret Dix and Margaret, wife of John Train, are the same person. [3][4]

John was referred to as a husbandman, planter, and yeoman. [1] He took the oath of fidelity in 1652. [1] He held a few offices in Watertown: fence viewer in 1651, surveyor of highways in 1652, 1665, and 1674, and constable in 1663. [1]

John made his will on 21 January 1680/1; it was proved on 4 April 1681. He mentioned his wife Abigail Train, his sons John and Thomas Train, his daughters Elizabeth Stratton, Rebecca "Basto," Sarah Cole, Abigail Towning, Hannah Child, and Mary Memory. He also left bequests to his his grandchildren, naming Mary Memory's children John, Samuel, Joseph and Mary Memory. He named his sons his executors. Inventory was taken on 3 February 1680/1 and included real estate worth £303-10-00. [1]

Children of John Train and Margaret Dix: Births of the first five and eighth in Watertown from [1]

i. Elizabeth Train was born on 30 September 1640. She married John, the son of Samuel Stratton, on 10 March 1658/9 in Watertown. [1]

ii. Mary Train was born on 10 October 1642. She died on 17 August 1678 at Dorchester. [1] She married John Memory, who died on 22 July 1678 in Dorchester. [1]

iii. Sarah Train was born on 31 January 1646. She married Jacob, the son of Isaac Cole, on 12 October 1669 in Charlestown. [1]

iv. Abigail Train was born on 31 January 1648. She married Martin Townsend on 16 April 1668 in Watertown. [1]

v. John Train was born on 25 May 1651. He married Mary, the daughter of Joshua Stubbs, on 24 March 1674[/5?] in Watertown. [1]

vi. Thomas Train was born say 1653. he married Rebecca, the daughter of Charles Stearns, on 25 January 1692/3 in Watertown. [1]

vii. Rebecca Train was born say 1655. She married Michael, the son of John Barstow, on 12 January 167[6/7?] in Watertown. [1]

i. Hannah Train was born on 7 September 1657 in Watertown. She married Richard Child.

Endnotes:

1. "Great Migration 1634–1635, T–Y," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume VII, T–Y (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011), 83–87.

2. John Camden Hotten, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality ... who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600–1700, reprinted (New York: Empire State Book Co., n.d.), 61–63.

3. "Great Migration 1634–1635, C–F," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume II, C–F (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001), 605–6.

4. Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, 2nd edition (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1860), 604–5.

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