1629 April 4 Samuel Sharpel of St. Trinity in Trinity Lane, merchant, bachelor, aged 36, and Alice Stileman of All Hallows Staynings, maiden, aged 24, daughter of Robert Stileman of the same parish, mercer, who is present and willing; at the same parish church. April 28 Thomas Fry of Christ Church, merchant tailor, bacht elor, aged 28, and Alice Watson of St. Peter's West Cheap, maiden, aged 26, daughter of William Watson of Bushlane, Herts., yeoman; at St. Gregory's. April 28 John Gibson of the City of York, Esq., bachelor, t aged 22, at his own disposing, and Penelope Woodhall of St. Faith, London, maiden, aged 16, daughter of Edmond Woodhall of the same April 28 1 One of the most important of the early'settlers of Salem, where also settled his wife's uncle Elias, and brother Richard Stileman (see Emmerton and Waters' Gleanings, p. 119). The Court of Assistants in London, Feb. 26, 1629, ordered five pieces of ordnance to be placed in his hands (and he was to have carriages made for them) with a great quantity of other arms and great shot. A contract had been made with him for three years at £10 a year "to haue the ouersight of the ordnance to bee planted in the ffort to be built uppon the plantacon, and what ells may concerne artillery busines to geeue his advize in" &c. March 5, a committee of the governor, deputy and several assistants, who were to advise with Messrs. Graves and Sharpe, were chosen to consider the subject of dividing the lands, etc. Mr. Sharpe is referred to as engineer of the plantations and was appointed Master Gunner of the Ordnance. The duplicate Charter, with the company's seal, was committed to his care on board the George Bonaventure. Mr. Samuel Skelton and Mr. Samuel Sharpe were commissioned, in case they should find Governor Endecott dead on their arrival at Naumkeag, or if he should die before all the vessels should reach there, to take the lead of the council and rule according to order. To Mr. Sharpe must have been assigned a lot opposite Governor Endecott's, being on the west side of what is now Washington street, extending back to North street. This became known as Sharp's field. On it (according to the Lynde MSS.) was planted a fort, which must have stood quite near the old Methodist meeting House near the corner of Sewall and Lynde streets. When Mr. Winthrop was chosen governor of the Company, Mr. Samuel Sharpe was chosen one of the Assistants. He was also made ruling elder of the church. His children seem to have been Abigail, Elias, Edward, Mary, Experience, Nathaniel and Hannah. He died, according to Felt, in 1656, and his widow Alice died 1667. Of the children, I find that Abigail became the wife of Thomas Jeggells, Mary was married to John Norton and Nathaniel had a wife Rebecca in 1684. Whether other of his children survived I cannot now say. I suspect, however, that one was the wife of William Lake. H. F. W. See Pedigree of Woodhall in my Gleanings, Part I, p. 53. She was a kinswoman of the Wilsons and the Rawsons. H. F. W. 1629 parish, Esq., who consents; at St. Olave's Silver Street. [This has been erased.] June 3 Robert Houghton of St. Olave's Southwark, citizen t and fishmonger of London, bachelor, aged 23, and Mary Sedgwickel of St. Bridget als St. Brides, Fleet Street, maiden, aged 22, at the disposing of William Sedgwicke of the said parish, haberdasher, who consents; at St. Bride's, &c. [This was signed by Robt Houghton and William Sedgweeck, but the entry has been erased.] June 18 Augustine Wingfield of Lincoln's Inn, gent, alleg† eth that Thomas Lane2 of Rickmansworth, Herts., yeoman, bachelor, aged about 40, intendeth to marry Mary Child of the same parish, widow, aged about 40; at St. Mary Savoy. June 18 John Gybson of St. Faith the Virgin, Esq., bachelor, aged 23, at his own government, and Penelope Woodhall of the same parish, maiden, aged 16, daughter of Edmond Woodhall of the same Esq., who consents; at St. Ann's, Blackfriars. June 30 Thomas Starling, of Harverdstock, Essex, potter, † bachelor, aged 23, at his own government, and Joane Glascock, of Harverdstock, maiden, aged 20, daughter of Thomas Glascock, deceased; Eustace Brock of St. Faith's, London, skinner, attests to the consent of Smith als Glascock, wife of Thomas Smith and mother of Joane; at St. Martin's, Ludgate. July 7 Edmund Staunton, clerk, parson of Bushey, Herts., † bachelor, aged 30, and Mary Balthorp of the same parish, maiden, aged 25, her father deceased; at the Chapel of Bridewell. July 14 Thomas Cryse, of Stepney, mariner, bachelor, aged t 26, at his own government, and Joane Clay of 1A sister of Major General Robert Sedgwick. Her husband was a brother-in-law of Col. Francis Norton. (see note on p. 55). H. F. W. A near relative, without doubt, of Job Lane of Mass. (see N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, Vol. 44, pp. 395-7). H. F. W. July 14 1629 the same parish, maiden, aged 25, daughter of John Clay deceased, and her mother also deceased, and she living with Sarah Paine als Clay, wife of Edward Paine of the said parish, mariner, who giveth consent; at Stepney or St. Leonard's, Bromley, Middlesex. [The signature is Thomas Crippes.] July 15 Thomas Mott of All Hallow's Stainings, haberdasht er, bachelor, aged 50, and Sarah Hunt of the same parish, widow, aged 36, late the wife of Robert Hunt deceased; at the same parish church. July 20 Peter Mullett of Whitechapel, mariner, bachelor, t aged 26, and Catherine King of the same parish, maiden, aged 18, daughter of John King of the same, mariner, who gives consent; at the same parish church. Aug. 4 John Anderson of St. Botolph's Bishopsgate, silk t throwster, allegeth that Matthew Draper of the city of London, gent., bachelor, aged 24, with consent of his father, intendeth to marry Sarah Stammar of Ingatston, Essex, maiden, aged 20, daughter of Stammar deceased, and with consent of her mother; at St. Botolph's Bishops gate. Sept. 3 Luke Atkinson1 of St. Mary, Islington, widower, t aged 28, and Rebecca Foster, of St. Clement Danes, widow, aged 37 (?), late the wife of William Foster, citizen and vintner deceased; at St. Mary, Islington. Sept. 14 Henry Wilkinson of St. Mildred's, Poultry, tailor, t a widower, aged 40, and Ellenor Johnson of St. Martin's Outwich, maiden, aged 34, at her own disposal; at St. Martin's Outwich. Sept. 16 Thomas Peirson of Hadley monachorum, a bachet lor aged 18, son of Thomas Peirson husbandman, deceased, and Margaret Whytinge, maiden, Sept. 16 1629 1 There was a Luke Atkinson among the early settlers of Connecticut. H. F. W. aged 19, daughter of John Whytinge, deceased, as attested by Henry Warner of Hadley, etc., tailor, who married the mother of the said Margaret; at St. James, Clarkenwell. Sept. 23 William Browne of St. Clement Danes, tailor, a widower, aged 31 (?), and Catherine Aldridge of the same parish, widow, aged 39; at the same parish church. Oct. 7 Abraham Shorte of St. Sepulchre's, tailor, a bachet lor aged 27, at his own government, and Mary Beedom of St. Bride's, maiden, aged 18, daughter of Thomas Beedom of the same parish, cutler, who is present and consents; at St. Mary Strand als Savoy. Oct. 26 Anthony Goddard of St. Clement Danes, gent., a † bachelor aged 26, at his own government, and Elizabeth Backouse of St. Martins in the Fields, maiden, aged 24, daughter of Nicholas Backouse of the same parish, tailor; at St. Clement's. Oct. 26 Laurence Tickner of Great All Hallows, Lombard t Street, citizen and grocer of London, a bachelor aged 27, and Margaret Wilson of Stepney, widow, aged 27; at St. Mary Whitechapel or Wapping. Oct. 31 William Ingoll [or, as she writes it, Inghall] of St. t Botolph Aldersgate, merchant tailor, a bachelor aged 24 and at his own government, and Anne Lewis of St. James Clarkenwell, maiden, aged 22, at her own dispose, her parents deceased; at St. James Clarkenwell. Nov. 2 Francis Wethered of Waltham Abbey, painter stainer, t a bachelor aged 26, at his own government, and Dorothy Lee of the same place, widow, aged 40 (?); at St. Botolph's Aldgate. Nov. 6 Lewis Griffin of St. Mary Abchurch, clothworker, a t bachelor aged 40, and Joanna Goodwin of St. Olave's, Hart Street, maiden, 34, at her own disposing; at St. Olave's, Hart Street. 1629 Nov. 7 John King of Weston, Herts., husbandman, a bachelor aged 23, at his own disposing, and Jane Wright, maiden, aged 20, daughter of Michael Wright deceased; at East Barnet Herts. Nov. 14 George Willis of Hackney, yeoman, a widower aged t 48, and Elizabeth Lord of the same parish, maiden, aged 32, at her own disposing; at the same parish church. Nov. 18 William Goddarde, Doctor of Physick, a bachelor t aged 30, and Mary Matthewes of the same parish, maiden, aged 22, her father deceased, with consent of Anne Matthewes of the same parish, widow; at St. —. Nov. 23 John Crowe of St. Giles in the Fields, gent., a bachet lor aged 25, at his own government, and Anne Hinde of St. Andrew's Holborn, aged 32, relict of John Hinde deceased; at St. Nicholas Olaves. Nov. 23 Alexander Pinder of St. Clement Danes, sadler, t bachelor, aged 23, and Margery Needham of St. Botolph's Aldgate, widow, aged 30; at Stepney. Nov. 26 William Prentice of Rumford, husbandman, bachelor, aged 24, and Joane Halfpenny of the same, widow, aged 40; at St. Giles Cripplegate. Nov. 28 Thomas Parker of St. Katherine's, Colman Street, citizen and haberdasher, a bachelor aged 24, and Jane Hayward of St. Bride's, Fleet Street, widow, aged 30; at Stepney. Dec. 1 Thomas Hellwys of St. James Duke's Place, mercer, t a bachelor aged 26, and Philip Man of St. Mary Aldermary, maiden, aged 21, daughter of Robert Mann citizen and grocer, deceased; at Hackney. Dec. 1 James Tripp of St. Giles without Cripplegate, clothworker, a bachelor aged 29, and Ellen Maltus of St. Mildred in the Poultry, maiden, 18, daughter of John Maltus, of Co. Essex, yeoman, who consenteth; at St. Mildred's, etc. Dec. 5 Isaac Pennington of Creedchurch, London, widower, |