** Connected to Bosworth Family at David Bosworth (1670-1747) **
** Connected to Robert Waterman Family at John Waterman (1642-1718) **
** Underlined names are linked to their connecting pages**
Generation One:
Samuel Sturtevant b. abt 1624; m. abt 1644 Ann Lee at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; d. 16 October 1669 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
Their Children:
1. Ann b. 4 June 1648 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. 7 December 1665 John Waterman at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; d. 9 february 1720 at Plympton, Plymouth, MA, aged 71 years.
2. John b. 17 October 1650 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; d. 30 October 1650 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
3. Mary b. 7 december 1651 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. 22 November 1672 Ephraim Little at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; d. 10 february 1717 at Scituate, Plymouth, MA
4. Samuel b. 19 April 1654 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
5. Hannah b. 4 September 1656 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
6. John b. 16 September 1658 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. abt 1685 Hannah Winslow; d. 4 february 1752 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, aged 93 years.
7.Lydia b. 18 December 1660 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
8. James b. 11 February 1663 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
9. Joseph b. 16 July 1666 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. 5 December 1693 Hannah Jones at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; d. abt 1725, aged 58 years.
Samuel Sturetevant was in Plymouth in 1640, this is proven by a lost that was submitted to town meeting on 18 May 1688. The first chronological metion of his name is from a court order dated 3 May 1642 It was a case concerning "corn in partnership' between Mr. John Jenney, Samuel Sturtevant, and Joseph Ramsden.
In 1643, Samuel Sturtevant and Joseph Ramsden took John Jenney to court "on a trespass action, 20 pounds damage, on 6 June. Also in August of 1643 he was listed among the males between the ages of 16 and 60 able to bear arms. Under the law of the time he was thus a member of the Plymouth Train Band and did normal military service. " After 1645, he was assigned to the north squadron of the Plymouth Company whose emergency assembly point was Jones River" which he helpted to lay out the route across it. He was surveyor of highways on 5 June 1651. He was constable in 1644. He also served as juryamn in 1650, 1656, 1657/58, 1659, 1660, 1661, 1663, 1664, 1665, 1666, 1667, 1668, and 1669. At the Plymouth Town Meeting on May 18, 1668, he was appointed on the committee of twelve to draw up the warrant for the next town meeting to be held on February 21, 1669.
His first recorded land purchase was on 17 July1645 "when he bought from John Shaw, Jr. for £4:10:0 (payable in good Beaver before October 31, 1645), 20 acres at High Cliff, Plymouth, bounded south by lands of Samuel Cuthbertson, and north by lands of John Shaw, Sr. By October 26, 1647, he had bought other land from Kanelme Winslow. On 25 December 1655, he was granted by Plymouth Town 4 acres of meadow land on the north side of a branch of Jones River. Five years later the town granted him 50 acres of land on the north side of Jones River on the southeast side of his meadow. This 50 acres he exchanged in July 1667, for 50 acres at the south end of Monponsett Pond abutting 50 acres of Mr. William Bradford's. By grant or purchase he acquired considerable other land, and in his right some grants were made to his widow after his death." He lived at High Cliff in North Plymouth.
His will was made 1 August 1669. It names son-in-law John Waterman, sons Samuel, James, john, and Joseph, and a child "a wife foeth with." To his wife. The inventory of the estate of Samuel Sturtevant was by Ephraim Tincome. Joseph Howland and William Crowe on 22 October 1669.£23, 18s.
Generation Two:
Samuel Sturtevant b. 19 April 1654 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m(1) abt 1676 Mercy Cornish; m(2) 12 August 1715 Elizabeth Smith in Beverly, Essex, MA; d. 21 August 1736 at Halifax, Plymouth, MA
M(1) Children:
1. Mercy b. abt 1676 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. 18 August 1698 David Bosworth at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; d. 23 April 1707 at Plympton, Plymouth, MA, aged 31 years.
2. Samuel b. 12 May 1677 at Halifax, Plymouth, MA; m. 20 January 1706 Mary Price at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; d. 18 September 1743 Halifax, Plymouth, MA, aged 66 years
3. Hannah b. 10 April 1678 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. 23 January 1697 Ebenezer Standish at Duxbury, Plymouth, MA; d. 23 June 1759 at Plympton, Plymouth, MA, aged 81 years.
4. Nehemiah b. 1681 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. 9 december 1703 Ruth Sampson at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; d. 22 August 1744 at Plympton, Plymouth, MA, aged 63 years.
5. William b. 1683 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. 12 February 1707 Fear Cushman at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; d. 18 August 1753 at Halifax, Plymouth, MA, aged 70 years.
6. James b. abt 1687 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. 15 February 1710 Susannah Cooke at Plympton, Plymouth, MA; d. 8 May 1756 at Halifax, Plymouth, MA. aged 69 years.
7. Josiah b. 1690 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. 24 December 1719 Hannah Church at Scituate, Plymouth, MA; d. 17 February 1774 at Halifax, Plymouth, MA, aged 84 years.
8. John b, 11 February 1692 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. 16 June 1720 Hannah Stetson at Halifax, Plymouth, MA
9. Mose b. 15 June 1695 at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; m. 16 June 1720 Elizabeth Horrell at Plympton, Plymouth, MA; d. 1762, aged 66 years
Sources:
1. The Plymouth Scrapbook: the oldest original documents extant in Plymouth. p. viii
2. The New England Historical & Genealogical Refister, Vol 7 p. 180
3. 'The Descendants of Samuel Sturtevant' (published privately by Robert).
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