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- Francis Plummer
From The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620 - 1633
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FRANCIS PLUMMER
ORIGIN: Unknown (but see COMMENTS below)
MIGRATION: 1633
FIRST RESIDENCE: perhaps Lynn or Ipswich
REMOVES: Newbury 1635
OCCUPATION: Linen weaver.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to a Massachusetts Bay church prior to 14 May 1634 implied by freemanship (see COMMENTS below). On a list of the members of the church of Newbury about April 1671 [EQC 4:361].
FREEMAN: 14 May 1634 [MBCR 1:369].
EDUCATION: His inventory included a "Bible and four books" valued at 16s. [EPR 2:320], but he made his mark to his marriage contract and other documents [EQC 2:349].
OFFICES: Essex grand jury, 29 September 1646, 27 September 1653, 26 September 1654, 28 September 1658 [EQC 1:103, 289, 362, 2:111].
ESTATE: Over the years, he received the usual proprietors' grants at Newbury, so that his property was recorded by Anthony Somerby as: "an house lot of four acres"; "four acres of upland on the neck over the Point"; "a field lot of twenty acres of upland and meadow on the Little River"; "seven acres of meadow"; "five acres of meadow"; "eight acres of salt marsh in the Great Marsh"; "two acres of upland"; "in consideration of Francis Plumer his resigning up into the Town's hand of four acres of land in the neck over the river" he received in exchange "four acres of upland in the field of Exchange land beyond the new town"; "four acres of land ... in the field of Exchange"; in exchange for "nine acres of that twenty two acres of his situate on Merrimack River and also ... nine acres of divident land," he received "the inheritance of his own house lot and Abraham Toppan's house lot" [Plumer Gen 3-4, citing Newbury town records]. At a later date he made further exchanges of land with the town, and received a grant of five acres of marsh land in the neck over the Great River [Plumer Gen 4, citing Newbury town records]. He had rights for five oxen and cows in the commons at Newbury in 1642 [Plumer Gen 4, citing Newbury town records].
On 5 March 1648 John Bishop of Newbury, carpenter, "who lately married Rebecka the relict of Samuel Scullard, lately of Newbury, yeoman," sold to Francis Plummer of Newbury, linenweaver, a house lot of four acres with barn, orchard and fences, another houselot of four acres, and a third houselot with four acres [ILR 1:101]. On 16 November 1649 Plummer sold the four acre lot on the neck to William Sawyer of Newbury [ILR 1:190], and on 7 January 1651 he sold to Robert Coker of Newbury four more acres of upland [ILR 1:110].
Administration of the estate of "Frances Plumer of Newbury" was granted to his sons Samuel and Joseph on 20 February 1672[/3] [EPR 2:319]. On 25 March 1673 administration was again granted to "his son Samuel," who gave a
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Abt 1594 - 1673 (79 years)