EDMUND FROST

• Birth Notes
  • Edmund Frost was born 28 August 1593 at Hartest, Suffolk, England 

• Death Notes
  • and died 12 July 1672 at Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA.

• General Notes
  •  He was a "preaching elder" and was obliged to leave England under an assumed name because he dissented from Church views. In 1635 he immigrated to Cambridge, MA with his first wife and son John, becoming a freeman there 3 March 1636. He was one of the original members of First Congregational Church of Cambridge and was installed as Elder 11 February 1636. He married first Thomasine c1630 at Hartest, Suffolk, England. (She was not surnamed Belgrave, Thomasine Belgrave was the wife of another Frost named Edward.)  She died 13 June 1653 at Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA. Edmund Frost married second to Mary c1653. She died before 1669. He married third to Reana before 1669. She died before 3 November 1675 when an inventory of her estate was made. Reana had married first to Edmund James before 1640, second to William Andrews (-1652) c11 August 1640, and third to Robert Daniel (-1655) 2 May 1654.
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    Children Sex Birth
    John Frost  M abt 1632 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA   
    Samuel Frost  M 13 Feb 1638 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA   
    Joseph Frost  M 13 Jan 1640 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA   
    James Frost  M 9 Apr 1640 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA   
    Mary Frost  F 24 Jul 1645 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA   
    Ephraim Frost  M 1646 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA   
    Thomas Frost  M 1647 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA   
    Sarah Frost  F 1653 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA   
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    From: RobinVanM@aol.com
    Subject: Edmund Frost, son James
    Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:50:58 EDT
    
    
    Edmund Frost is the first American ancestor for many of us. For you and
    Darlene Frost Kneaves, this is what I've found so far. I believe Edmund:
    -was born in Hartest, Suffolk County, England Aug. 28, 1593.
    The following two books led me to look at Hartest and dates around 1593:
    The Frost
    Family in England and America with Special Reference to Edmund Frost and
    Some of
    His Descendants,Thomas G. Frost and Edward L. Frost (Russell Printing
    Co.,
    Buffalo,NY,1909) and Frost Genealogy in Five Families, Norman Seaver
    Frost, (Frost
    Family Assn. of America, West Newton, MA, 1926) reprinted by Higginson
    Book Co.
    The parish transcripts from Hartest 1556-1784, Family History Library
    (FHL) film
    0991936 show only one Edmund Frost born between 1556 and 1620, the one
    born
    Aug. 28, 1593. "Our" Edmund's birth could have been erroneously omitted,
    but
    I believe this is the right one.
    -was the son of John Frost.
    The books also point to John as Edmund's father and many trees said he
    was born in
    or around 1570. The transcripts show only two John Frosts born in
    Hartest between
    1565 and 1575: May 30, 1568 and March 17,1572. The father of both John
    Frosts
    was John Frost. The second birth has "carpr." next to John the father's
    name,
    apparently to differentiate John the carpenter from the John who had
    "sexton" in the
    margins for a different child's birth. Again, this could be wrong, but I
    think one of these
    two Johns was Edmund's father. If Edmund was born in 1593, the earliest
    his father
    could have died was 1592. There was a John Frost sho died Sept.6, 1606
    who was "son
    of Hen.[ry] of Glemsford. This may have given rise to the
    Edmund-born-in-Glemsford,
    England belief that I saw in some Frost family trees that didn't have
    documentation.
    Other John Frosts died Mar. 20, 1607, Feb. 2, 1609, and Feb. 9, 1609.
    According to
    Hartest: A Village History, ed. Clive Paine (Hartest Local History Group,
    Lavenham Press
    Lavenham, England, 1999) the last two are son and father, and the
    father's will didn't
    mention a son Edmund. This means the John Frost who died in 1607 might
    have been
    Edmund's father.
    -was the grandson of John Frost. See information above.
    -was married to Thomasine Clench whose parentage is known.
    The Frost books and other sources say his wife was Thomasine Belgrave or
    Clench.
    Neil Thompson reported his research in "The English Ancestry of Thomasine
    (Clench)
    Frost, First Wife of Edmund Frost of Cambridge, Massachusetts," New
    England
    Historical and Genealogical Register, July 1999. Microfilmed parish
    register records
    from the town of Earls Colne, Essex County, England show Reverend Thomas
    Shepard
    married Edmund Frost and Thomasine "Clenche" Apr. 16, 1634. This is
    significant
    because Edmund and Thomasine came to America with Shepard. Thomasine was
    baptized Oct.6,1608 at Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, the 7th of 8 children
    of Robert Clench
    and Joan Webbe. Robert was baptized at Coddenham, Suffolk County June 22,
    1572 with
    his twin sister Anne, and died at Witcham, Cambridgeshire before July 12,
    1633 when
    his will was "proved." Joan was born about 1579, the daughter of Thomas
    Webbe and
    Susanna Smyth, and died after June 1610 when her oldest child was
    baptized. Robert
    was a landowner in Bottisham and moved to Witcham, Isle of Ely after
    1610. Robert was
    one of 13 children of John Clench and Katherine Almott. John was
    probably born in
    Wethersfield, Essex around 1533, and died in Holbrook, Suffolk Aug. 18 or
    19, 1607.
    Katherine was born around 1534, the daughter of Thomas Almott and Bridget
    of Creeting
    All Saints, Suffolk. Bridget's surname was possibly Thorne. John Clench
    was a judge
    who, according to Thompson, was "a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I who
    called him 'her
    good judge.'" The judge's father, Edmund's great-grandfather, was John
    clenche of
    Wethersfield, Essex, whose parents are unkknown. In his will he called
    himself a
    husbandman, which means farmer, although he owned some land and leased
    other land.
    Around 1525 he married Joan Amias, daughter of John Amias, "gentleman."
    I think some of the Thomasine Clench-Belgrave confusion is due to the
    fact that there
    was a Thomasine Frost, a descendent of John Strutt (Strut) of Glemsford,
    who married
    Edmund Rice and immigrated to Sudbury, MA.
    -had his first son John in England in 1635.
    Books and trees give various dates, but people usually had their first
    child about a year
    after they were married, and Edmund and Thomasine were married Apr. 16,
    1634. I
    didn't find a birth of a John Frost around this time in the Hartest
    records, but since they
    were married in Earls Colne, it may have occurred there. I haven't
    ordered the Earls
    Colne microfilm yet.
    Re: Edmund's son James. I'm not descended from him, but the Frost Family
    book says
    James was Edmund and Thomasine's sixth child born 9,2,1643 old system
    (Apr. 9,
    1643). He "settled in Billerica and m. Rebecca Hamlet, Dec. 17, 1664;
    she d. Aug. 20,
    1666 and he m. Elizabeth, dau. of Thos. Foster, Jan. 22, 1666-7. His
    children were
    James, b. Aug. 14, 1666; Thomas, b. Oct. 18, 1667; John, b. Nov.14, 1668,
    d. Mar.
    3,1668-9; Samuel, b. Feb. 28, 1669-70; Elizabeth b.Nov.6,1672, m. Peter
    Cornell;
    Edmund b. May 14, d.May 18, 1675; Sarah b.July 15, 1678, m.--Howard;
    Hannah
    b.Jan.31,1680-1; Joseph, b.Mar.21,1682-3; Abigail b.Aug.23,1685,
    m.Ephraim Kidder;
    Benjamin, b.Mar.8,1687-8, and Mary, who m. John Walker. James the f. was
    deacon of
    the Billerica church and died Aug. 12, 1711, a.71; his wife Elizabeth,
    survived. He was a
    soldier against Weymesit Indians, Billerica garrison, 1675." The Frost
    Genealogy book
    takes James' line through nine generations who lived in MA, NH, and VT,
    but none in
    Maine (the MA towns are in what is now MA). Darlene - e-mail me your
    snail mail
    address if you want me to send you a photocopy of the James generations.
    
    Hope this helps the Edmund descendants.
    Robin in maryland
    
    

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