Note: I have previously blogged about another ANDREWS family from Essex, County, Massachusetts at this post “ANDREWS of Essex, Massachusetts(Ipswich’s Chebacco Parish” – the descendants of John Andrews and Jane Jordan,my 8th great grandparents.
This sketch of Robert Andrews (about 1612 – 1668) of Topsfield and
Boxford, my 10th great grandfather, is not to be confused with Robert Andrews
(1593 – 1634/5) of Ipswich.
Robert Andrews was in Boxford, Massachusetts in 1656, and he
owned land in both Rowley and Topsfield.
He died in Topsfield on 29 May 1668.
His will names his wife, sons and daughters.
Estate of Robert Andrews of Boxford (Rowley Village)
Essex Probate Docket # 709
In the name of God
amen Know all Christian people this may or shall concearne yt I Robart Andrews
of Rowley village in the County of Esex being verey sick & weack of body
but blesed be god in prfect cence & memorey doe mack this my last will &
testiment revoking all other former will wtsoever.
Impr. I bequeath my
soule to Allmighty God that gave it me in whome I trust through the merits of
Jesus Christ to be receaived into Eternall happiness forever and my body to the
earth from whence it came to be deciently burried in ye burring place of
Topsfield according as my wife and Children shall see meet.
It I give &
bequeath unto my eldest sonn Thomas Andrews the house yt I now Live in and
nine(s)core Ackers of Land being upland & Medow & yt Land yt I bought
of Zacheus Gould only my well beloved wife is to have duering her life time,
the kiching and hall & Kiching Chamber & halfe the seller & the new
feeld & the eight Ackers peeice & halfe the orchard & if ther be
not Land enufe for her to manuer then my sd sonn with ye help of my son Robart
is to breack her up three Ackers more or let her have three Ackers yt is
allready broacken up and the same to injoy duering her life without the Lett
hinderanc or molestation of my sd sonn or aney other prson under him and my sonn
Thomas is to shingle the house and at my wives deceas the said land orchard and
rooms is to returne to my son Thomas & his haires forever my said sonn
Paying unto my three youngest daughters Rebeckah, Sarah & Ruth twenty pound
pr each when she shall be twenty yeares of Age and if eaither of them shall die
before yt time then yt prt shall be equally devided between the other two and
allso his is to pay unto my Daughter Mary the wife of Isack Comins five pound
three years after my deceas & for the new whip saw and all other Carpenters
tools shall be for the use of my wife sonn Thomas & Robert.
It. I give and be
bequeath unto my sonn Robart Andrews eight(s)core Ackers of Land from Piebroock
to ye clay pits and ye fatti medow and the fishing broock medow & becaus my
sonn Thomas & Robart should not wrong one another in wood I desier ther Land
may be ped by them selves & two other honest men and Robart is to pay unto
my Daughter Elizabeth the wife of Samuell Symons five pounds three years after
my deceas and to my daughter Hanah Pebody five pounds fouer years after my
deceas.
It. I give unto my
sonn John the Lot comonly called the seller Lott and the Medow belonging unto
it but the medow shall be for the use of my wife & Thomas untell my sonn
John shall be one and twenty years of Age and then to returne to him without
aney further truble he paying to my seaven Grandchildren twenty shillings pr
each when they shall come to the age of fourteen years.
It. I give unto my
sonn Joseph ye Land in the Topsfeeld yt I bought of John Wilds, Senr. with all
the previledgs therunto belonging.
It. I give unto my
well beloved wife all my Cattell & other moveable goods and the Doung that
is now in ye yard & half the barne & Lintos and my sonn Thomas the
other halfe and he and his brother Robart is to set up the other Lintoos &
Lay in for the use of ther mother eavery year duering her Life twelve Loads of
hay and if eaither of my sonns should die before they are married then yt Land
yt is given to them to be equally devided amongst the Survivers Leaving my said
wife sole Executrix and in Testimony hereof I have Set my hand and Seale this
Sixteenth day of May in the yeare of our Lord one thousand Six hundred Sixty
& eight.
Robart (his / mark)
Andrews, Senr (seal)
Witness:
Robert (his G mark)
Smith
James Hanscombe
Proved in Salem court
2: 5m: 1668 by the witnesses. Essex County Probate Files, Docket 709
Inventory of the
estate was taken by Frances Pabody, Isack Comings, and Edman Towne. Attested
1:5m: 1668 by Grace Andrewes wife of the deceased
[Source: Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol 13 leaf 67]
My ANDREWS genealogy:
Generation 1: Robert
Andrews, born about 1612 in England, died 29 May 1668 in Topsfield,
Massachusetts; married about 1637 to Grace Unknown. She died on 25 December 1700 in Topsfield,
Massachusetts. Eleven children.
Generation 2: Thomas Andrews, born abut 1645 and died 1
April 1725. He married first to Martha
Baker, daughter of John Baker and Elizabeth Unknown. She died about 1670. He married second to Mary Belcher, and
married third to Rebecca Unknown. One
child with Martha Baker.
Generation 3: Sarah Andrews, daughter of Thomas Andrews and
Martha Baker. She was born about 1670 in
Boxford, Massachusetts, and died about 1763; married on 20 November 1701 in
Hampton to Joseph Swett, son of Benjamin Swett and Hester Weare. He died before January 1721 and Sarah remarried
second to Charles Treadwell, my half 7th great granduncle in a
different lineage.
Generation 4: Benjamin Swett m. Elizabeth Norton
Generation 5: Elizabeth Swett m. David Batchelder
Generation 6: Elisha
Batchelder m. Sarah Lane
Generation 7:
Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson
Generation 8: George E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke
Generation 9: George
E. Batchelder m. Mary Katharine Emerson
Generation 10: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen
Generation 11: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda
Hitchings (my grandparents)
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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ ANDREWS of Boxford, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted February 13, 2016, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/02/surname-saturday-andrews-of-boxford.html: accessed [access date]).
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