Jeremy AKA Jeremiah BELCHER, my 9th great
grandfather, was born about 1614 in England and arrived in New England aboard the
ship Susan & Ellen in 1635 as
part of the Winthrop Fleet. The passenger list has a 25 year old woman
named Mary Clifford listed next to him.
It is supposed by some that this woman became his first wife because of
two reasons. First, he had a grandson
named Clifford Belcher, and second, he had two daughters named Mary (one by his
unknown first wife, and another by his second wife Mary Lockwood). I descend from the second daughter named
Mary, born in Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1660 and who married Thomas Andrews in
1681/2. Her sister Judith married his
brother, John Andrews.
Jeremy Belcher was made a freeman at Ipswich on 13 March
1638/9 and he was granted land and also purchased much land. He appears in the
records selling and buying land. He was
a selectman, served on juries, and was a sergeant for the Ipswich militia. His marriage contract with Mary Lockwood in
1652 granted her land for life in her own right. He died in 1692/3 and she outlived him and
died in 1700. Jeremy was able to sign
all his deeds, but his second wife, Mary signed by mark.
For more information on the BELCHER family see:
The New England Historic Genealogy Society Register, Volume 60, pages 249 – 256,
and pages 358 – 364.
Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634 – 1635, Volume
1, pages 231 – 237.
“Belcher Genealogy Research” at Rootsweb http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genbel/main/belchers1.html
Just for fun, a parody blog "The Journal of Constant Belcher" by Tim Abbott, http://constantbelcher.blogspot.com/ (not a relative or descendant!)
Just for fun, a parody blog "The Journal of Constant Belcher" by Tim Abbott, http://constantbelcher.blogspot.com/ (not a relative or descendant!)
My BELCHER genealogy:
Generation 1: Jeremy
Belcher, born about 1614 in England, died 21 March 1693 in Ipswich,
Massachusetts; married first to Unknown (four children); married second on 30
September 1652 in Ipswich to Mary Lockwood, daughter of Edmund Lockwood and his
wife, Elizabeth (seven more children).
Generation 2: Mary
Belcher, daughter of Jeremy Belcher and Mary Lockwood, born 12 July 1660 In
Ipswich, died 21 March 1731 in Ipswich; married on 9 February 1681 to Thomas
Andrews, son of John Andrews and Jane Jordan.
He was born in 1654 in Ipswich and died 22 March 1718/19 in the Chebacco
Parish of Ipswich. Two children.
Generation 3: Thomas
Andrews married Mary Smith
Generation 4: Mary
Andrews m. Stephen Burnham
Generation 5: Joshua Burnham m. Jemima Wyman
Generation 6: Jemima Burnham m. Romanus Emerson
Generation 7: George Emerson m. Mary Esther Younger
Generation 8: Mary
Katharine Emerson m. George E. Batchelder
Generation 9: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen
Generation 10: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda
Hitchings (my grandparents)
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ BELCHER of Ipswich, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 8, 2016, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/10/surname-saturday-belcher-of-ipswich.html: accessed [access date]).
I am a descendent of Jeremiah Belcher. I visited Ipswich MA last summer. I loved it!
ReplyDeleteLinda Prindle -Florida
The General Court at Boston seemed to place Sarjant Jerremiah Belchar as chief petitioner in successful acquisition of authority to establish a plantation (with three partners), 12 May 1675. Prospect for immense wealth creation opened up. See 'Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, Vol. V, 1674-1686,' Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff, ed. (1854), pp. 36-37.
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