Capt William SOUTHWORTH

1659 - 1719  (60 years)

• Name	William SOUTHWORTH  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  	He lived in Duxbury, Little Compton and Bristol, Rhode Island. He was a deputy in Duxbury 1654-63 and 1671-82, a selectman there 1672-75 and 1683-85. He owned much land in Little Compton and was there in 1686. He lived on Swamp Road on the place known as the Franklin C. Southworth place. All of his children are entered on the records of the Church of Christ in Bristol, as baptized 29 June 1709. He gave land to his sons Samuel, Thomas, Stephen, Benjamin and Andrew; and to Gideon he gave his dwelling house, orchard and land. With his wife Martha he gave Joseph and his wife Mary Blague a dwelling house, orchard and 26 acres of upland, with a sawmill standing upon the cornmill stream with 42 acres of upland on the west side of that stream and 20 acres of upland adjoining the land of Reynolds Marvin, with 10 acres meadow known by the name of the Fresh Meadow. In his will, recorded in Taunton, made 8 May 1719 and proved 24 Aug. 1719, he left to his wife Martha "her third as the law allows"; 20 pounds each to sons Joseph, Edward Thomas and Gideon; to son Samuel 5 pounds; to son Nathaniel 400 pounds; to son Benjamin 10 shillings; to daughter Elizabeth 60 pounds; to daughter Alice 70 pounds; to son Stephen one half of his Negro man called Cuff and one cow, and to son Andrew the other half of his Negro man called Cuff. He also mentioned his grandsons William and Constant Southworth. He named his friend Lt. John Wood to be one of his executors along with his sons Joseph and Samuel. An inventory of his estate lists one Negro man called Cuff, one Negro woman called Sue and one Negro woman called Kate, two houses and one hundred acres of land with 2000 pounds, with the estate totaling 2593 pounds. In her will his widow left 5 shillings each to her sons Joseph Blague and Samuel Blague, "...To sons Gideon Southworth and Andrew Southworth the rest and residue. To son Andrew my Negro girl named Kate and my silver tankard, to daughter mary Southworth my wearing apparel, to grandson William Southworth my young heifer that came of that cow I had of Stephen Wilcox, to granddaughter Mary Blague my satinet gown and short apron..." Her son-in-law Joseph Southworth was named sole executor. [1]
  Prefix	Capt
  Birth	1659	Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	25 Jun 1719	Little Compton, Rhode Island   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I53929	Main Tree
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2020

  
  

  Father	Constant SOUTHWORTH,   b. Abt 1612, Leyden, Holland d. 11 Mar 1678/9, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts (Age 67 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Elizabeth COLLIER,   c. 09 Mar 1619, Saint Olave, Southwark, Surrey, England d. Aft 20 Feb 1678/9, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts (Age ~ 59 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	02 Nov 1637  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Family ID	F05350	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Rebecca PABODIE,   b. 16 Oct 1660, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 03 Dec 1702, Little Compton, Rhode Island (Age 42 years)
  Marriage	1680  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Children	1. Capt. Joseph SOUTHWORTH,   b. 1 Feb 1683, Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island d. 20 Apr 1739, Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island (Age 56 years)  [Birth] + 2. Nathaniel SOUTHWORTH,   b. 31 Oct 1692   d. poss. Bef 1738 (Age 45 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F07405	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Nov 2018

  
  

  Family 2	Martha KIRTLAND,   b. Abt 1667   d. 7 Feb 1737/8 (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	14 Nov 1705	Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA   [1, 3, 4]
  Children	+ 1. Gideon SOUTHWORTH,   b. 21 Mar 1707, Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island d. 1772, Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age 64 years)  [Birth] + 2. Andrew SOUTHWORTH,   b. 12 Dec 1709, Little Compton, Rhode Island  [Birth]
  Family ID	F29031	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Nov 2018

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1659 - Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Death - 25 Jun 1719 - Little Compton, Rhode Island  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S5383] "Little Compton Families" Vol. II, Little Compton, Rhode Island. [S02658] Mayflower Increasings 2nd Edition by Susan E. Roser. [S10225] The Southworths in America. [S10290] Samuel Gilbert Webber, A Genealogy of the Southworths (Southards) Descendants of Constant Southworth, with a sketch of the Family in England. [S02644] Massachusetts, 1620-1930 Local and Family Histories: History of the Town of Duxbury, Genealogical Registers. [S12598] Mayflower Descendant A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy & History Vol. 69, No. 1 Winter 2021. [S1978] Joseph O. Curtis, The Descendants of Elisha Cole Who Came From Cape Cod to What is Now Putnam Co., New York, about 1745.