Eleazer STANDISH

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 04 Jun 1755

Josiah married Sarah CAREY about 1690. Sarah (daughter of John CARY and Elizabeth GODFREY) was born on 02 Aug 1667 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; died on 16 Jun 1741 in Stafford, Tolland County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Excerpt from "Mayles Standish of the Mayflower........": on 6 June 1660 Josias Standish was approved as Lt. of the militrary company of Bridgewater. By 10 July 1663 he was "of Sandwish" when he purchased land and he was "Celect Man" from Duxburrow by 5 June 1666.
On 7 June 1665 Lt. Josias Standish was chosen as one of the Deputies of Plymouth Colony. He was frequently chosen to serve in this position.....

Josiah married Sarah ALLEN on 07 Mar 1655/6. Sarah (daughter of Samuel ALLEN and Ann WHITMORE) was born on 30 Mar 1639 in Braintree, Suffolk (Norfolk Co.,), Massachusetts; died after 16 Sep 1690. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut, Vol. I-IV": The family of Carey in England is one of the oldest as well as one of the most illustrious and honored in the kingdom. In the year 1198 Adam DeKarry was lord of Castle Karry or Kari, in the county of Somerset. For centuries the castle has existed only in history, and the village situated in that locality is known as "Castle Cary." William and John Cary represented the count of Devon in Parliament in the thirty-sixth and forty-second reigns of Edward III. John Cary was made a baron of the exchequer of Richard II. Sir Robert Cary, his son, succeeded to his honors and estates. Sir William Cary married Mary Boleyn, a sister of Anne, the consort of Henry VIII. As early as the reign of Edward I, the name was spelled Cary, but many families of the present day spell it Carey.
John Carey, immigrant ancestor, came from Somersetshire, near the city of Bristol, England, about 1634, and joined the Plymouth colony. the exact date of his arrival is unknown. From a manuscript over a hundred years old, written by a grandson of John, it is believed that differences with his brothers over the settlement of his father's estate let to his departure for the new world. His name is found among the original proprietors and first settlers of Duxbury and Bridgewater. It occurs in the original grant, as well as in the subsequent deed made by Ousamequin, the sachem or chief of the Pockonocket Indians, 1639. This deed was made to Miles Standish, Samuel Nash and Constant Southworth, as trustees in behalf of William Bradford, John Carey and fifty-two others therein named. Ousmequin was afterwards called Massosit. the deed embraced fourteen miles square and designated as "Satucket," afterwards called West Bridgewater. John Carey drew as his share a lot a mile wide, a portion of which is still occupied by his descendants. In 1656 "Duxbury New Plantation" was incorporated into a new and distinct town and called Bridgewater. John Carey was elected constable, the first and only officer elected in the consecutive year until 1681. In 1656 he was one of the ten freemen in the town. In the 1667 Deacon Willis and John Carey were chosen "to take in all the charges of the latter war (King Phillip's) since June last and the expenses of the scouts before and since June." John Carey was prominent among his fellow citizens and participated actively in public affairs. He was intelligent, well educated and public spirited. There is a tradition that he taught the first Latin class in the colony. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Godfrey, one of the first settlers of Bridgewater, in 1644. He died 1681....

John married Elizabeth GODFREY in Jun 1644 in Duxbury, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Francis GODFREY and Elizabeth HALL) was born on 29 Oct 1620; died on 01 Nov 1680 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: Between 07 Mar 1655 and 1656
• Will Proved: 04 May 1657

Notes:

Excerpt from Mayflower Increasing: "In his will he mentions lands in England which has resulted in much research carried out in an atempt to locate his origins. It is also interesting to ote that the will of his son Alexander mentions searches made in old England to recover the family lands. Capt. Standis's burial site was exhumed in 1890 and found to contain the remains of an older well built man with red & gray hair, two young women (one under 18) and two boys, and daughter in law Mary, the two boys are probably his sons Charles and John who died young."

Will of Capt. Myles Standish:
...7 March 1655/6, "my body to bee layed as neare as conveniently may bee to my two dear daughters Lora Standish by daughter May Standish my daughter-in-law"; ment. wf Barbara; sons Allexander Standish, Myles Standish, Josias Standish and Charles Standish (all single); Marcye Robenson "whome I tenderly love for her Grandfathers sake"; ment. all his lands "by lawful deent in Ormistick, Bousconge/Borsconge, Wrightington, Maudsley, Newburrow, Cranston/Crawston and the Ile of man and given to mee as right heire by lawful decent, but surruptuously detained from mee my great Grandfather being a 2nd or younger brother from the house of Standish of Standish". Pr. 4 May 1657.

Myles married Barbara ? between Jul 1623 and 24 Mar 1624 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Barbara died after 06 Oct 1659. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Son of George Allen

Notes:

Excerpt from "Myles Standish of the Mayflower.......":The will of Samuel Allen of Braintry dated 2 Aug. 1669 mentions son-in-law Josiah Standish and others.

Samuel married Ann WHITMORE before 1632 in Braintree, Massachusetts. Ann died in 1641 in Braintree, Suffolk (Norfolk Co.,), Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Francis married Elizabeth HALL on 8 Sep 1622 in York, Yorkshire, England. Elizabeth was born on 20 Sep 1601 in Mottram St. Andrew, Cheshire East Unitary Authority, Cheshire, England; died in 1702 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; was buried in First Cemetery, Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]