General Notes

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 3GZT-0H
SAMUEL EDDY

ORIGIN: Cranbrook, Kent
MIGRATION: 1630
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
REMOVES: Swansea by 1681
OCCUPATION: Tailor. On 26 June 1678 the town of Plymouth allowed five shillings to "Goodman Edey viz: Samuell Edey for work done by him in time of the war in making clothes for soldiers" [PTR 1:157].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Samuel Eddy and his wife were both members of the Plymouth church, as evidenced by the inclusion of their death dates in the records of that church.
FREEMAN: Admitted 1 January 1633/4 [PCR 1:5]. In "1633" and 7 March 1636/7 Plymouth lists of freemen, and in Plymouth portion of 1639, 1658 and 1670 lists of freemen [PCR 1:4, 53; 5:274; 8:174, 197].
OFFICES: In Plymouth portion of 1643 Plymouth Colony list of men able to bear arms [PCR 8:188].
ESTATE: On 9 May 1631 Experience Mitchell sold to Samuel Eddy for £20 "his dwelling house, garden plot & fence, with all things nailfast in the same," reserving a portion of the garden plot [PCR 12:18].
Assessed 9s. in Plymouth tax lists of 25 March 1633 and 27 March 1634 [PCR 1:10, 28].
Granted three acres "next to the lands of Joh. Dunham the elder," 7 November 1636 [PCR 1:46].
On 6 July 1638 Samuel Eddy sold to Richard Clough for forty bushels of Indian corn "all that his house and garden in Plymouth wherein the said Samuel now dwelleth" [PCR 12:31]. On the same day Nicholas Snow sold to Samuel Eddy for the same amount "all that his house & garden adjoining with the fence in & about the same in Plymouth wherein the said Nicholas now dwelleth" [PCR 12:31].
Granted "six acres of upland lying on the northwest side of Fresh Lake, about the fishing place, and thirty acres of upland at the Narrogansett Hill, and four acres of meadow, or else half the meadow ground there to it," 16 September 1641 [PCR 2:26].
On 7 March 1642[/3?] John Allen sold to Samuel Eddy "all that his house, barns & buildings with the lands thereunto belonging lying at Willingsly and Woeberry Plain" [PCR 12:90]. On 3 March 1645[/6?] Samuel Eddy sold to John Tompson "all that his house situate at the Spring Hill in Plymouth with the garden place adjoining and three acres of upland ... lying in the Newfield" [PCR 12:134]. On 20 March 1647[/8?] "Samuell Eedy" sold to Experience Mitchell of Duxbury "one acre of marsh meadow" [PCR 12:151].
As early as March 1651 Samuel Eddy had "interest and proprieties in the town's land at Punckateesett over against Road Island," and on 22 March 1663/4 he and Thomas Savory were jointly recorded as the holders of Lot #3 on "Puncateesett Necke" [PTR 1:36, 63]. On 14 July 1667 Samuel Eddy was granted six acres of meadow "lying at the South Meadow Brook" [PTR 1:89, 281]. On 5 August 1672 "the swamp at Wellingsley lying up the brook" was granted to "the neighbors there," being five men including "Samuell Eedey" [PTR 1:127].
"Samuell Eedey" was one of five men "desiring some proportions of land to accommodate them for their posterities, the Court giveth liberty unto them to look out a tract of land for that purpose, and if found convenient it shall be confirmed unto them for the ends aforesaid," 7 June 1659 [PCR 3:164], and was in the list of those permitted to "look out some accommodations of land, as being the first borne children of this government," 3 June 1662 [PCR 4:19].
On 20 February 1662 Thomas Savory of Plymouth, planter, deeded to Samuel Eddy of Plymouth, tailor, "all that his whole right part and portion of the land belonging to the town of Plymouth aforesaid commonly called and known by the name of Punckateesett, and places adjacent lying over against Road Iland," in exchange for "a parcel of upland and meadow belonging to the said Samuell Eedey lying at the four mile brook in the township of Plymouth aforesaid, as also a parcel of upland being six acres lying and being at or near Fresh Lake in the township of Plymouth" [MD 17:244-45, transcribing PCLR 2:2:111].
On 24 March 1662 "Samuell Eedey seni[o]r" of Plymo