General Notes

m. about 1688

George Walter Chamberlain, History of Weymouth, Boston, 1923

"Young son John (so named probably at request of a godfather) lived north-east of Hick's swamp, (near now [1831] Leonard Clap's)." (Samuel Deane, History of Scituate, Massachusetts, from Its First Settlement to 1831)

“Although an active man he was not physically strong, and was freed from military duty or training. He was active in town affairs on various committees with his elder brogher, John, Sr.; ws one of the local Council of War, and a colonial collector of the excise on ‘tarr, borads and oysters.’ He lived northeast of Hick’s Swamp, on the Country Way, near the old Clap mansion-house at Greenbush.” (L. Vernon Briggs, History and Genealogy of the Briggs Family, 1254-1937, 1938, Three volumes.)

John’s will, dated 25 Oct 1686, proved 8 Jun 1687, mentions sons Japheth and Israel (executors), Jacob, David, and Philip, and daughters Miriam Turner, Anne Green, and Sarah Turner. Wit: Thomas Turner, Thomas Plamer Sr, and Thomas Palmer Jr. (Marya Myers and Donald W. James, Jr., “A new look at the family of Francis and Philip James of Hingham: immigrant ancestors,” New Eng. Hist Gen. Reg. 151 (1997): 61-86)