General Notes

Source: Blackman/Farmer Roots
Bermuda 1677 Wills 1:250
Will made Mar 1, 1677, proved Mar 26 1678
John Todd, of Southampton, widower children Mary,Amos Tudor,Henry, John Tudor, Joseph Tudor, Benjamin Tudor, Elizabeth (now Wethersby), Sarah (now Jackson),  grandchildren of all but Mary and Henry. Exec: Henry Durham, Thomas Richards Wit: William Keele, Henry Onyon inventory included.

Note:  pg 212 Mercer's "Bermuda Settlers of the 17th Century" 1673, Book V(A) pg 468 Sep 1, 1673
I, Thomas Richards, being in England in 1651, discoursed with Joseph Todd, skinner, who lived in Walbrook and who told me that he had bought two shares land in Bermuda on which his brother John Todd should live and at his decease the same should go to his nephew, Joseph Todd, son of John Todd.

Memorials of the Bermudas by LeFoy pg 401.
John Todd held land in"Southampton Tribe, formerly part of ye twelve shares of Sr. Nathaniell Rich.  A tenement and two shares of land in his own occupation Abutting at ye south end partly on ye south side    sea and partly uppon a parcell of common land there.  And at ye north end upon a bay called___, Lying between ye lands last before entred of Capt Wm Sayle to ye eastwards and ye ffree-school land to ye westwards cont."

Memorials of the Bermudas by LeFroy Volume II pg 7
Letter from the Committee in London to Captain Josias Forster
London 1 Jan 1649/1650
"Wee have chosen & appoynted Mr John Todd to be marshall in the roome of Mr John Stowe and requier you and the Govrnor & Councell forthwith to see the s'd john Todd invested in the same with all the emunityes belonging to the said place for wich wee have sent here with him a commission." ...signed by Nath Rich, Owen Rowe, Joseph Todd, John Oxenbridge, Leonard Ward, Isaak Rowe.

pg 41 Order of Council of State, 21 May 1653.  Interegnum Entry Book Vol xcvii CP pg 402
"The petition of Leonard Ward and Joseph Todd  on behalf of the well affected of the company of the Somers Islands is referred to the Committee for that business."

pg 42 Order of the Council of State, 25 June 1653, Domestic Entry
Book, Interregnum No 97, pg 411
"That a comission be granted to Cornelius Holland Esqre, Colonell Owen Rowe, Sr Thomas Wroth, Francis Alleyn Esqre, Dr Aaron Gourdon, Maurice Thomson Esqre, Mr Wm Jessop, Mr John Oxenbridge, Mr Edward Pead, mr Leonard Ward, Mr Joseph Tod, Mr. George Turberville, Mr George Prynn, Mr Edward Carter, Mr Elias Roberts, Mr Mathew Batson, and Mr. Nathaniell Hawes, or any of the three or more of them, where of the Governor or Deputy to be one, To be a Company for the governing and carrying on the affairs of the Somer Islands als Bermudas, and to have the same power sand privilages as the former Company has [Mike's 6-9-01.GED]