Ammasa WEST

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• Baptism: 27 Mar 1704, Stonington, Connecticut

Ammasa married Amy HATCH on 08 Jul 1730 in Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut. Amy (daughter of Joseph HATCH and Mercy DELANO) was born on 10 Oct 1713 in Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut; died on 08 Aug 1756 in Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ammasa married Bethshua POPE on 04 Sep 1757 in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Bethshua was born on 02 Dec 1713 in Sandwich, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Francis West, the first born child of Samuel West & Tryphosa Partridge, was b. of record at Duxbury, Mass. on Dec. 13, 1669. He d. testate at Tolland, Conn. on May 12, 1731, Æ 62, not 63 as inscribed on his gravestone. His parents m. of record at Duxbury, Mass. on Dec. 16, 1668.

Francis' mother was the maternal gr.dau. of Stephen Tracy & Tryphosa Lee, who m. at Leiden, Holland on Jan. 2, 1620/1. Stephen Tracy arrived at Plymouth, Mass in 1623 aboard the ship "Ann," his wife Triphosa following thereafter with eldest dau. Sarah in 1624 aboard the ship "Jacob."

Francis West is the patriarch of the West family of Tolland, Conn. while Francis' three younger brothers, Samuel, Ebenezer & John, are patriarchs of the West families of Lebanon, Conn.

On Dec. 20, 1696 at Preston, Conn. (by Samuel Mason, Assistant), Francis m. Mercy Minor, dau. of Dr. Joseph Minor & Maria Avery. She was b. on Aug. 21, 1673 at Stonington, Conn. and d. at Tolland, Conn. on Sept. 6, 1751, Æ 79. The day after their first child was baptized at Preston, Samuel & wife Mercy were admitted members of the Preston Church. They were subsequently received by letter of dismission from Preston and admitted to the Stonington Church on Nov. 1, 1702. After relocating to Tolland, Conn. Francis was the longtime Deacon of the Tolland Congregational Chh.

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Francis married Mercy MINER on 20 Dec 1696 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA. Mercy (daughter of Joseph MINER and Marie AVERY) was born on 21 Aug 1673 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA; died on 06 Sep 1751 in Tolland, Tolland Co., Connecticut; was buried in South Yard Cemetery, Tolland, Tolland Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Tryphosa PARTRIDGE on 26 Sep 1668 in Duxbury, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. Tryphosa (daughter of George PARTRIDGE and Sarah TRACY) died on 01 Nov 1701. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Marie AVERY on 28 Oct 1668 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA. Marie (daughter of Capt James AVERY and Joanna GREENSLADE) was born on 19 Feb 1647/48 in Gloucester, Essex Co., Massachusetts; died on 02 Feb 1697/98 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Francis West of Salisbury, Eng., was invited to America by Mr. Thomas of Marshfield, Mass., and he married Margery Reeves Feb. 27, 1639. He was at Duxbury, Mass., in 1641. He moved from there and purchased land at Mill Brook in 1642, returned to Duxbury in 1655. He held various public offices. Was surveyor in 1657 and constable in 1660. In 1671 was appointed by the court to have oversight of the ordinances, and in 1672 was one of the proprietors who received lots of land of five shares each. He d. Jan. 2, 1692, aged 86 years.

Francis married Margery REEVES on 27 Feb 1639. Margery was born in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Will: 26 Jun 1682
• Will Proved: 10 Oct 1695

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George Partridge, the first of the family in America, arrived at Duxbury, Mass., in or sometime prior to 1636. It is stated in Winsor's "History of Duxbury" that he came from the County of Kent in England.

The first mention of his name upon the records of Plymouth County was in that year (1636), when he was granted five acres of land at Powder Point, with permission from the court to settle thereon. In the next two years and also in 1666, he received additional grants of land about Duxbury, amounting in all to about two hundred acres.

Winsor styles him "one of the most respectable yeomanry of the colony." In 1643 his name appears in a list of those able to bear arms. In 1646 he was constable. Of this office Winsor says: "This was an office of high trust and responsibility and none were elected to it but men of good standing."

Later he was a "Surveyor of Highways" an a grand-jury man.

He was either a private or a non-commissioned officer in Capt. Miles Standish's Company.

He was one of the original purchasers of Middleborough.

George married Sarah TRACY on 16 Nov 1638 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Sarah (daughter of Stephen TRACY and Tryphosa LEE) was born between 1621 and 1622 in Leyden, South Holland, Netherlands; died between 28 Nov 1702 and 06 Oct 1708 in Duxbury, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Stephen Tracy and Tryphosa Lee
• Death: Abt 1708

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1630, Sailed from England in the Ship "Arabella" and landed at Salem, June 14.
• Residence: 1634, Removed to Saybrook, in the colony of Connecticut, with the younger John Winthrop and company.
• Fact: 1646, Elected a townsman and admitted to the rights accorded freemen
• Death: 03 Oct 1690

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A long stone of rough granite lies in the ancient burial ground at Wickulequack, almost buried in the turf beneath, and bears the following inscription:

Here lyeth the body of Lieutenant Thomas Minor
Aged Eighty three years, departed 1690

Thomas married Grace PALMER on 29 Apr 1633/4. Grace (daughter of Walter PALMER and Ann/Elizabeth ?) was born in England; died on 31 Dec 1690 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Groups of Palmer Families from Walter Palmer of Charlestown and Rehoboth, Mass., Stonington, Conn. (1901) (NewEnglandAncestors.org)

Grace Palmer, daughter of Walter and Elizabeth Palmer, was born in England between the years 1608-10. She became a member of the First Church in Charlestown, Middlesex County, Mass., June 1, 1632, at the same time her father and step-mother united with it. She married, in Charlestown, Thomas Minor, who was born in Chew Magne, county Somerset, England, April 23, 1608, and was of the tenth generation in the Minor family. He came in the fleet which bore John Winthrop, future governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which put into port at Cape Ann, now Salem, Essex Co., Mass., Saturday, June 12, 1630.
Thomas Minor received Lot 18 in the first division of land at Mystic Side, now Charlestown, on the sixth of the first month, 1637. His future father-in-law, Walter Palmer, receiving Lot 15.
From Charlestown, Thomas Minor migrated, first to Hingham, Plymouth County, where four children were born, thence to Stonington, New London County, Conn., where he bouth a large tract of land lying on the borders of Wequetequack Cove, in 1652, whereon he built his house, having made a brief previous residence in Hingham, Plymouth Co. Mass. going thence to New London in 1645, where he had a grant of one home lot and built a house, but sold the whole to settle at his final abode in Stonington, where he met with some difficulty, by the fact that a grant of three hundred acres of land from the town of New London to Governor Haynes, and sold by the latter to Walter Palmer, being found to cover Minor's lot. He, however, signed the conveyance, qualifying it by the reservation that he should inhabit the place until he should have time to erect another dwelling at Mistupet. He held a very prominent place in all the stirring events which ensued in the settlement of this plantation where he died October 23, 1690. She died October, 1690, and is said to have been born the same year as her husband.

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Captain James Avery is often spoken as the founder of the family or clan that we call the Groton Averys. That he was the only child of Christopher Avery is plainly seen by the following entry on the books of the county court of New London, Connecticut, November 24, 1683:

"Capt. James Avery appearing in this Court and there Declaring himself the only sonn & Heir of his Father Mr. Christopher Avery deceased and that there was neither sonn or Daughter but himself was sole heir and he desiring this court would so constitute him and give him power of administration upon the said estate of his father deceased. This Court having duly considered what hath been alleadged do approve of the same and judge the said Capt. James Avery to be the right and full heir to the said estate and do give him power of administrator to the estate of Mr. Christopher Avery his deceased father,

Attest Charles Hill rec."

James Avery came to America with his father and lived at Gloucester for several years. He married November 10, 1643, as appears by the records of Gloucester:

"James Avery married Joane---- November 10, 1643."
That her name was Joanne Greenslade is learned from her letter of dismissal from the church at Boston to the one at Gloucester in 1644. The first volume of admissions of the First Church of Boston contains what little information we have been able to glean concerning Joane Greenslade. On page 63 is a list of six names of which hers stands third among the admissions as follows:

"The 18th day of ye 4th Moneth 1643 Joan Greenslade, a single woman."

On page 66 of the same volume is an entry showing her dismissal to the church of Gloucester: "the 17th day of ye 1at Moneth 1644 Our Sister Joan greenslade now ye wife of one James Averill of Gloster had granted hir by ye Churches silence Ires of Recomend to ye Church at Gloster."

She, however, seems to have retained her connection with the First Church at Boston, for on page 97 of the book of admissions is the record:
"oe Sister Joan Avery with ye Consent of ye whole church was dismist unto ye church of christ at Pekot on ye 31 of ye 6th mo 1651.".....

He soon became active in military affairs and is generally spoken of by the title of ensign, lieutenant, or captain. The region in which he lived was formerly the chief seat of the formidable Pequot tribe that, a few years before, had been almost exterminated by the English. The Pequot Fort, taken in 1637 by Captain John Mason in command of the Connecticut troops and their Mohegan and Narragansett allies, was on the Mystic River, on the eastern line of Groton. After the Pequot War, a few survivors of that once dreaded tribe still lived in the haunts of their fathers, with the Narragansetts on the east and the Mohegans under their sachem, Uncas, near by on the west. In 1657, the Narragansetts made a wild foray and Uncas fled from the blood and fire that marked their course. He took refuge in a fort and was besieged by his unrelenting foes. but, just in time, "Lieutenant James Avery, Mr. Brewster, Richard Haughton, Samuel Lothrop, and others well armed, succeeded in throwing themselves into the fort; and the Narragansetts, fearing to engage in a conflict with the English, broke up the siege and returned home." The legislature approved the measures that had been taken for the protection of the faithful ally of the English.....

In 1668, James Avery and Cary Latham were chosen by the town to settle the boundary line with the sachem, Uncas. The L15 that secured the desired formal deed was paid by James Avery and two others in consideration of which each received 200 acres of land from the town. Captain Avery's services seem to have been often called for by the town and by individuals in the settling of such controversies. In 1678, the commissioners, granted Captain Avery five pounds "for his good service in assisting in the government of the Pequots for sundry years."........

James Avery represented New London as deputy to the general court for many years. The record runs as follows: May, 1659, Oct. 1660; Oct. 1661; Oct., 1664; May and July 1665; May and Oct 1667; April and May 1668; May and Oct., 1669; May, 1675. Oct 1675, he was reported as absent. He was serving his country elsewhere-raising troops for the Indian war that terminated in the great swamp fight of December 19, 1675. We find him again a member of the general court 1676; also May and Oct., 1677; May, 1678; Oct., 1679; Oct., 1680 oct., 1682; May, 1683, May and July, 1684; May and Oct., 1685; Oct., 1686......

In studying the record of those days, the careful student is strongly impressed with the fact that Capt. James Avery was a very remarkable man. Living as he did in stirring times, he was a leader among strong men, enjoying their confidence and respect because he deserved them. Especially is it to be noted that, although the state took cognizance of affairs that we now call private and interfered in the details of family life and personal relations in a way that would not now be tolerated, he was never censured or "presented" for any shortcoming or alleged dereliction of duty or propriety. Eminent in all the relations of life, his descendants look upon him with pride and affection as one SANS PEUR ET SANS REPROCHE.

James married Joanna GREENSLADE on 10 Nov 1643 in Gloucester, Essex Co., Massachusetts. Joanna was born about 1622 in Devonshire Co., England; died on 16 Apr 1693 in Groton, New London Co., Connecticut; was buried in Avery-Morgan Cemetery, Groton, New London Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]