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CAPTAIN DANIEL WICOM (c. 1634–1700), son of Richard Wicom
MARY SMITH (1642–1691), daughter of Hugh Smith
Captain Daniel Wicom was born about 1634, probably in England. He died on 13 April 1700, age 65, in Rowley, Essex county, Massachusetts. [1] He married first Mary, the daughter of Hugh Smith, on 14 or 24 October 1658 in Rowley. [1][2, 2: 122] He married second Lydia Platts on 11 November 1691 in Rowley. [1][3][4] She was Lydia Bailey, the widow of Abel Platts. [3]
Mary, the daughter of Hugh and Mary Smith, was born on 17 March 1642 in Rowley. [1] Mary, the wife of Captain Daniel, was buried on 29 January 1690/1 in Rowley. [1]
Daniel deposed that he was 30 in March 1671 and about 40 in June and November 1681. [2, 4: 347; 8: 128, 214] This suggests he was born about 1641. This would make him very young when he got married. His reported age at death seems more plausible.
Daniel was a carpenter and farmer. [4]
Daniel was fined for some unknown transgression by the November 1657 quarterly court in Ipswich. [2, 2: 55] He was fined for entertaining men's servants and sons at an unseasonable time of night and excessive drinking at the November 1665 court in Ipswich. [2, 2: 180]
Sarah Smith chose her brother-in-law Daniel Wicom as her guardian at the March 1664 court in Ipswich. [2, 3: 136] Samuel Smith chose Daniel as his guardian at the November 1665 court in Ipswich. [2, 3: 292] The orphan Sarah Longhorne chose Daniel as her guardian at the May 1674 court in Ipswich. Her grandmother Constance Crosby did not approve, saying that Sarah needed someone with more experience. She asked it not be granted until her uncle Thomas Longhorne of Cambridge approved. [2, 5: 307–8]
Daniel was a selectman in Rowley in 1677, [2, 6: 269]
On 22 October 1677 the General Court in Boston ruled that Daniel Wicom and three others had fomented dissent in Rowley over the ministry of Mr. Shepard and ordered them admonished and to pay costs of £6-07-08. [5, 5: 173]
On 12 August 1685 Daniel was one of six inhabitants of Rowley and Rowley Village, acting on behalf of the town and village, that petitioned for Rowley Village (later Boxford) to be a separate town. [5, 5: 497–8]
Captain Daniel Wicom of Rowley died intestate. Inventory on his estate, exhibited by his widow Lydia on 5 August 1700, amounted to £703-12-04. On 10 June 1700 Lydia, Daniel Wicom, Samuel Johnson, and Rebecca Wicom signed an agreement setting out Lydia's widow's third. [6]
Children of Daniel Wicom and Mary Smith: Order uncertain
i. Mary Wicom was buried on 1 February 1660 in Rowley. [1]
ii. Sarah Wicom was born on 27 December 1661 in Rowley. [1]
iii. Hannah Wicom died on 24 February 1689 in Rowley. [1]
iv. Daniel Wicom was born say 1665. He married Sarah Hazen.
v. Mary Wicom was born on 11 November 1667 in Rowley. [1][2, 3: 469] She married Jonathan Jewitt on 24 January 1699/70 in Rowley. [1]
vi. Thomas Wicom was baptized on 14 July 1672 in Rowley. [1]
vii. Frances Wicom was born on 29 March 1675 in Rowley. [1] She married Samuel Johnson on 31 May 1694 in Rowley. [1]
viii. Rebecca Wicom was born on 7 December 1677 in Rowley. [1]
ix. Martha Wicom was born on 6 March 1679 in Rowley. [1] She died on 24 February 1745 in Bradford. [7] She married Captain Daniel Hardy of Bradford on 15 January 1701/2 in Rowley. [1][7]
Endnotes:
1. Vital Records of Rowley, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, vol. 1, vol. 2 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1928, 1931).
WICOM / WICOME 1: 231 Frances (Wycome), d. Daniel, Mar. 29, 1675. 1: 427 Daniell (Wircome), and Mary Smith, d. Hugh, Oct. 14 [24. Ct. R.], 1658.* |
1: 534 Daniell (Wicom), Capt., Apr. 13, 1700. [a. 65 y. G.R. 1.] 2: 28 ____, aged wid., Nov. 24, 1722. SMITH 1: 197 Mary, d. Hugh and Mary, 17:1m:1642. |
2. George Francis Dow, ed., and Harriet S. Tapley, trans., Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, 9 vols., digitized books, Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (http://salem.lib.virginia.edu).
3. "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).
3: 1664 WICOM, Daniel & Lydia (BAILEY) PLATTS, w Abel; 11 Nov 1691; Rowley {Rowley MA Fam. 408; Prime 33; Pillsbury Anc. 406, 413}
4. "Massachusetts: Legislators of the General Court, 1691–1780," database, AmericanAncestors.or, entry for Daniel Wicom.
5. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, vol. 1, 1628–1641, vol. 2, 1642–1649, vol. 3, 1644–1657, vol. 4 , 1650–1660, vol. 5, 1661–1674, vol. 6, 1674–1686 (Boston: William White, 1853, 1854).
6. "Essex County, MA: Early Probate Records, 1635–1681," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org, case 29790.
7. H. Claude Hardy and Edward Noah Hardy, Hardy and Hardie, Past and Present (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Typesetting, c. 1935).
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