1702 Colonial AMERICAN Handwritten MANUSCRIPT Taunton MASSACHUSETTS BAY Bristol

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1702 Colonial AMERICAN Handwritten MANUSCRIPT Taunton MASSACHUSETTS BAY Bristol :
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TRULY A FASCINATING PIECE OF TAUNTON/BRISTOL COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS/ RHODE ISLAND EARLY 18TH CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY WITH NAUTICAL CONTENT,

BEING AN EARLY ARREST WARRANT!

Dated only two years after the 17th century concluded in colonial America, this original and genuine Bristol County, Massachusetts Bay Colony handwritten early 18th century American document records an arrest warrant given to \' the sheriff or marshall of our county of Bristoll...or to either of the constables of Taunton...\' written by John Cary, the County Clerk on behalf of Judge Nathaniel Byfield. The warrant was for the arrest and seizure of \'goods, chatels, or lands\' from shipwright Nathaniel Pardue for his neglect to pay John Reed of Taunton three pounds in debt and two pounds, one shilling and six pence for the cost of suit to the courts.It further commands the arresting person to \'take the Body of the sd Nathaniel Pardue and Him commit (un)to our Gaole (jail) in Bristoll in our County of Bristoll aforesd and Detain in your Custody within our sd Gaole untill He pay the full summes above, or that he Be Discharged by ye Sd John Reed, the Creditor or otherwise...\' It is dated Oct 16th, 1702 and affixed with an official red wax seal, still mostly intact and somewhat discernible.

Mentioned on the document\'s verso is the actual carrying out of the warrant the next day, being in the form of a seizure of Pardue\'s ship, as pointed out by attorney Nicholas May and carried out by Sheriff Samuell Galley (the writer), and with subsequent repayment to John Reed.

This is very early in the colonial history of the area , and holds fascinating historical value with many popular names, including shipwrights, King Philip\'s War veterans and early Rhode Island figures as well as Mass Bay settlers. See below.

11.75\" x 7.75.\" Rare document in amazingcondition for age, bright and clean with very light wear. Watermarked as shown. GENEALOGY:
NATHANIEL BYFIELD ESQ
Nathaniel Byfield

\"Nathaniel Byfield, first judge of the Court of Vice-Admiralty, was born in 1653, at Long Ditton, Surrey, England, the twenty-first child of Richard Byfield, rector there, and grandson of the vicar of Stratford-on-Avon. His father, as a member of the Westminster Assembly, helped to prepare the \'Westminster Shorter Catechism\' [Protestant Doctrinal Statement]. His mother, Sarah Juxon, was, like many early New Englanders, \'nearly related\' to an Archbishop of Canterbury.

Byfield arrived in Boston in 1674, and the next year married Deborah, daughter of Captain Thomas Clarke. Having been drafted to fight the Indians, he based a claim for exemption on XXIV Deuteronomy 5. At the close of King Philip\'s War he invested heavily in Rhode Island lands, becoming a settler at Bristol, Rhode Island, and living part of the time at Pappoosquaws Point better known in connection with Nathanael Herreshoff, the famous yacht builder.

Nathaniel Byfield Tomb

Byfield joined the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1679, was a member of the General Court in 1696 and 1697, and served as speaker in 1698. He was commissioner for forming the excise, and judge of probate for Bristol County, as well as of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in Bristol and Suffolk. In June, 1710, he was suspended from the office of judge of probate \'for unmannerly and rude behaviour,\' but resumed office in December, 1715. He was the first judge of the Court of Vice-Admiralty from 9 June, 1699, to 20 May, 1700, when Wait Winthrop obtained the place. Byfield threatened Winthrop and succeeded, through Governor Dudley, in securing his removal in 1701; he obtained the office for himself in December, 1703, holding it until 1715, and a third time from 1728 to 1733.

In earlier years the judge exercised much influence through his political alliance with Dudley and his marriage, in 1718, to Governor Leverett\'s daughter Sarah, following the death of his first wife. Cotton Mather, in February, 1702 or 3, received a visit from Governor Dudley, whom Mather advised to allow no people to say that the governor\'s policies were dictated by Byfield and Leverett. Mather continues: \'The Wretch went unto those Men, and told them, that I had advised him, to be no ways advised by them: and inflamed them into an implacable Rage against me.\'

Byfield was a man of positive traits, dictatorial and overbearing, ambitious and revengeful, yet so sound that no decision of his was ever, upon appeal, reversed by a higher court. He printed and gave away thousands of copies of the \'Shorter Catechism;\' he strenuously opposed the witchcraft delusion, gave hundreds of pounds yearly in charity, and devoted his eloquence freely to public affairs.

He died between the hours of one and two of the morning of the 6th of June, 1733, at Boston, and was entombed at Granary Burying Ground. Two of his five children grew to maturity, one the wife of Lieutenant Governor William Tailer, another the wife of Edward Lyde, whose son, Byfield Lyde (son-in-law of Governor Belcher), was his chief heir.

At Granary Burying Ground, Byfield rests in Tomb #49 or #50, which is marked by stone bearing the Lyde family crest, along the Tremont Street fence.

JOHN REED
John READ

Given Name: John

Surname: Read

Sex: M

Change Date: 8 DEC 2008

Note: Named in father\'s will.

Birth: ABT 1668

Note: Age 82 at death. 1

Will: 25 JUN 1750 Swansea, Bristol, MA

Note: \"Will of John Read of Swan., Yeoman, \'being in Reasonable Health\' dtd. 25 June 1750, prob. 2 July 1751. Wife Sarah; incl. \'all her household Goods which She Brought with her at Marriage.\' Sons: John, Thomas dcd., Oliver, Jonathan dcd. & William Read. Daus: Mary Forman, Penelopy Bowen & Susannah Borden [dcd. & former wife of Joseph Borden?]. Grson. James (under 21) son of my son Jonathan Read dcd. Grchldn. Elisha Read, Thomas Read, Hannah Lawton & Deborah Read chldn. of my son Thomas dcd. Grson. Oliver Read son of my son John. Dau.-in-law Deborah Read widow of my son Thomas dcd. The 3 daus. [no names] (all under 18) of my dau. Susannah Borden, with Joseph Borden disposing to my dau.\'s chldn. the goods I lent to my dau. Susannah. Negros: Jenney (woman) & Cudyeo (man). Mulattos: Margaret (woman), Richard (boy) & Mercy & Phillis (girls). Incl. lands in Free. Sons William & Oliver to be Execs. Witns: Edward Slead, Samuel Slead & William Hart [12:584/5/6/7/8].\" 2

Death: BEF 2 JUL 1751 in Swansea, Bristol, MA

Note: Estate administration.

Probate: 2 JUL 1751 Taunton, Bristol, MA

Note: \"Order to William & Oliver Read, Execs. of Est. of John Read of Taun., dtd. 2 July 1751 [12:258/9].\" 2 John* Reed, supposed son of William and Lucy [Heneage] Read, was
born in 1598, and is said to come to America with the great fleet in 1630. He
is of record in 1637 in Weymouth, was in Dorchester the next year, and went
from there to that part of Braintree now Quincy. In 1643 or 1644 he
accompanied Rev. Mr. Newman and his church society to Rehoboth, where his
name appears the third on the list of purchasers of the town. He was a man of
large property for those times, and held office of Constable which was the
chief executive office in town. He lived in that part of Rehoboth now
Seekonk, and was a prominent and leading man; he kept a public house. He died
Sept. 7, 1685, aged 87 years. The Christian name of his wife was Sarah, and
their children were: Samuel, William, Abigail, John, Thomas, Ezekiel and
Zacharia [ twins] Moses, Mary, Elizabeth, Daniel, Isreal and Mehetabel.
Father: John READ b: ABT 1645 in , , England
Mother: Hannah PEABODY b: ABT 1643Marriage 1Mary PEARCE

• Married: BEF 1690
• Note: Birth of daughter Mary 19 Nov 1690.

Children

1. Mary READ b: 19 NOV 1690 in Freetown, Bristol, MA
2. John READ b: 12 JUN 1694 in Freetown, Bristol, MA
3. Hannah READ b: 12 OCT 1697 in Freetown, Bristol, MA
4. Thomas READ b: 9 MAY 1698 in Freetown, Bristol, MA
5. William READ b: 9 SEP 1699 in Freetown, Bristol, MA
6. Oliver READ b: 14 OCT 1701 in Freetown, Bristol, MA
7. Penelope READ b: 12 OCT 1703 in Freetown, Bristol, MA
8. Jonathan READ b: 23 JAN 1705/6 in Freetown, Bristol, MA
9. Joseph READ b: 5 MAR 1708/9 in Freetown, Bristol, MA
10. Sarah READ b: 1 FEB 1709/10 in Freetown, Bristol, MA
11. Nathan READ b: 23 FEB 1711/2 in Freetown, Bristol, MA
12. Susanna READ b: 27 SEP 1715 in Freetown, Bristol, MA

Marriage 2Susanna BROWNELL b: ABT 1677

• Married: 29 MAR 1727 3

Marriage 3Sarah SHERMAN b: 24 SEP 1677 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI

• Married: 3 OCT 1737 in Swansea, Bristol, MA
• Note: \"Read, John, of John, deceased, of Freetown, and Sarah Chase, widow of Joseph, of Swansey, 3d 8m 1737.\" 4 5
• Marriage Contract: 3 OCT 1737 in Swansea, Bristol, MA
• Note: \"Agrmt. btwn. John Read of Free., Yeoman (1st party) & Sarah Chase of Swan., widow of Joseph Chase of Swan. (2nd party), prior to their marriage, dtd. 3 Oct. 1737. Witns: Walter Chase & Abill Terry [12:589/90/1].\" 6

THE FAMILY of Reed, variously spelled Read, Reade, Rede, Reid, and Reed, traces its ancestry back to the Norman conquest, to one Brianus, a noted man of Lincoinshire, England, who, in 1139, was registered as \"Brianus de Reed.\" He left two sons, Robert of Reed and Thomas of Reed dale. This new Reed family occupied nearly the same locality for several centuries, and from it descended William Rede, an eminent mathematician, who was made bishop of Chichester in 1339. Among the names contained on the muster roll of William the Conqueror in 1050 was John Rede, or John. of Rede. William Reade, son of William Reade and Lucy Henage, of Maidstone, England, was born in 1605, and in 1635 sailed from Gravesend, County of Kent, in the ship \"L\'Assurance de Lo,\" Isaac Broomwell and George Persey, masters. He settled in Weymouth, Mass., where in 1636 he bought a house and land of Zachary Bicknell for seven pounds, thirteen shillings1 four pence, and where he died before 1658. He was made a freeman September 2, 1635, and was sent as a representative to the General Court in 1636 and 1638. By his wife Avis he had William, Esther, Thomas, John, Mary and Margaret. John Reed, or Reade of the second generation, was born in Weymouth in 1649, and in 1673 married Bethia Frye, born in Weymouth in 1655, daughter of George Frye, born in England in 1616, who settled in Weymouth in 1640. He was a house carpenter and a man of means, owning several large tracts of land. Some of his land in Taunton, which he purchased about 1680, is now in the possession of the subject of this article. He was the ancestor of the Reeds in Taunton, but he removed from that town to Dighton, where he died January 13, 1720-21. His wife died October 20, 1730. They were buried in Dighton on Burying Hill, between Upper and Lower Four Corners. Their children were John, William, Thomas, George, Mary, Ruth and Hannah. William Reed (3), of Taunton, died in 1734, and his homestead is still in the family. June 8, 1721, he married Mary Richmond, of Norman descent, who was born in 1699 and died in 1784. Their children Were John, William, Mary and Abigail. His widow married, in 1738, Stephen Andrews, a man of learning and piety and familiarly known as \"St. Stephen.\" John Reed (4), born in 1722, was a blacksmith, a devout Christian, a captain in the militia, and one of the Committee of Inspection and Correspondence during the Revolution. He died in December, 1788. December 30, 1746, he married Dorothy Pinneo, daughter of James Pinneo, a native of Spain, who fled to France to escape persecution; there, with other Huguenots, he suffered similar persecutions, and after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes he came to New England. Their children were Ruth, Lois, John, Mary, Dorothy, Hannah, Zilpah, Enos and Lydia. Mr. Reed married, second, January 9, 1771, Mrs. Hannah Austin, by whom he had Nathan, Phebe, and David and Jonathan, twins. John Reed (5), born March 29, 1752, was a prom. inent citizen and an exemplary Christian, and served as selectman and representative several years, and frequently as arbitrator in disputes. He was also a justice of the peace and a soldier in the Revolution. November 21, 1775, he married Mary, daughter of Brig. Gen. George Godfrey, of Taunton, and their children were John, born August 11, 1776; William, October 6, 1778; Polly, August 31, 1782; Dolly, May 31, 1785; Marshall, January 17, 1788; Hodges, June 3, 1790; Sophia, September 2, 1792; and Zilpali, December 22, 1796. Mr. Reed died February 24, 1841, and his wife October 12, 1843. John Reed (6) was for more than half a century a leading merchant in Taunton, where he died November 9, 1864. May 31, 1804, he married Rebecca Gooding, of Dighton, who was born September 28, 1782, and died January 31, 1872. Their children were Mary Ann, born May 20, 1805; John, June 17, 1808; Henry G., the subject of this sketch; Rebecca, April 12, 1813; William A., September 2, 1816, deceased; Soph.iaJ., November 9, 1819; and Elizabeth G., September 4, 1823.
JOHN CARY
John Cary, Jr

• Duxbury
  Plymouth County
  Massachusetts, USADeath:Jul. 14, 1721
  Bristol
  Bristol County
  Rhode Island, USA
  Husband of Abigail Penniman Cary, married on Dec 7,1670 at Bridgewater,MA.Son of John Cary and Elizabeth Godfrey Cary of Bridgewater.Children: John Cary, Seth Cary, John Cary III, Nathaniel Cary, Eleazer Cary, James Cary, Benjamin Cary, Josiah Cary, and Abigail Cary Howland. “Hon. John CARY was one of the two first deacons of the first church of Bristol; Sgt; first Recording Officers, Clerk of Peace; Selectman and Representaive to General Court 1694…”Family links:
  Parents:
  John Cary (1610 - 1681)
  Elizabeth Godfrey Cary (____ - 1680)Spouse:
  Abigail Penniman Cary (1651 - 1730)Children:
  Eleazer Cary (1678 - 1754)*
  Benjamin Cary (1681 - 1734)*
  Abigail Carey Howland (1684 - 1737)*Siblings:
  John Cary (1645 - 1721)
  Francis Cary (1647 - 1718)**
  Jonathan M Cary (1656 - 1695)*
  Joseph Cary (1663 - 1721)*
  Rebecca Cary Allen (1665 - 1697)**Calculated Churchyard
  Bristol
  Bristol County
  Rhode Island, USA
  

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  1702 Colonial AMERICAN Handwritten MANUSCRIPT Taunton MASSACHUSETTS BAY Bristol :
  $589.99