• General Notes

  WFT-Vol. 11, No. 1970
  (Pomroy,Pummery, Pumery)French "Pomme-roi"  a kind of apple--royal apple--king's apple---king of apple--name given to the gardner
  
  May 7, 1629---married his 2nd wife Margery Rockett at Crewkerne
  
  March 30, 1630--Sailed from England on the ship "Mary & John"  admitted upon taking the oath of Freeman on March 04, 1632
  
  June 08, 1630---arrived America
  
  March 4, 1632---Oath of Freeman  in Massachusetts Bay Colony
  
  Settled in Dorchester-- one of Dorchester's first settlers an proprietors of the town
  
  1633 First Selectman and one of first proprietors  in this plantation and was chosen chairman of the Board of Selectmen in America
  
  Established the first free public school in the country
  
  First town meeting in America and model  for all such meetings.  Eltweed  presided over this first town meeting .
      
  June 03, 1634--appointed by General Court, Constable of Dorchester.
  
  Granted 1000 acres of land to establish a gunsmithery
           
  October 23,1635-- Removed to Windsor Conn. and in1671-2, and owned 1000 acres on the Connecticut Riv., removed to Northampton, Mass.
  
  1638--granted land.  He had a house and lot in the palisadeo which he later sold leavingf Winsdor.
  
  1671--removed to Northampton to live with son Medad,according to tradition Eltweed had become blind.  Died there att 88 years old.
  
  Traces his pedigree back to Sir Ralf  de Pomery, a favorite  knight of William the Conqueror, whom he accompanied into England, acting a conspicious part in the Battler of Hastings, fought October 14, 1066, anf afters building a castle called Berry Pomeroy, still in preservation on the grant which he received from the crown.---Easthampton

Details of Eltweed's family with Johan Keech

Details of Eltweed's family with Margery Rockett