SAMUEL EDDY

• Birth Notes
  • Birth: 15 May 1608 in Cranbrook, Kent, England
    

• Death Notes
  • Death: 12 Nov 1687 in Swansea, Bristol, MA
    Burial: Swansea, Bristol, MA
    

• General Notes
  •   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 Plymouth, tailor, granted "unto his two sons viz: Zacariah Eedey and Obadiah Eedey all that his share lot and portion of land which he hath in the land granted and confirmed by the court in June last past before the date hereof, unto sundry persons, lying near unto Namassakett," to be equally divided between them, reserving "unto his own use six acres of the upland of the said lot of land," this six acres to belong to sons Zachariah and Obadiah at his death, and that they permit him to winter three cows on their share of the land; "it was mutually agreed before the ratification of the premises by and between the said Samuell Eedey and Zachariah Eedey that in case Caleb Eedey shall desire a quarter part of the abovesaid land he shall have it"; acknowledged 26 February 1672 [ MD 18:34-35, transcribing PCLR 2:2:116; see also MD 18:37].
       On 7 March 1671[/2] Samuel Eddy of Plymouth, tailor, sold to Steven Bryant Senior of Plymouth, husbandman, "all that my one share of land be it more or less divided and undivided that I have in a certain share or tract of land called the Major's Purchase lying at or near Namassakeesett Pond"; acknowledged by Samuel Eddy and Elizabeth his wife on the same day [ PCLR 3:217].
       On 16 February 1673/4 the town of Plymouth noted that "land which Samuell Ryder bought of Samuell Eedey lying at Mannomett Ponds" was still common land, according to the records searched [ PTR 1:138].
    BIRTH: Baptized Cranbrook, Kent, 15 May 1608, son of William and Mary (Fosten) Eddy [ Eddy Gen 22].
    DEATH: Swansea 12 November 1688 [ PChR 262].
    MARRIAGE: By 1637 Elizabeth _____; d. Swansea 24 May 1689 "in her 82nd year at the end of it" [ PChR 265]. (Elizabeth has been called sister of Thomas Savory of Plymouth, based on relationships stated in deeds [ Eddy Gen 22]. Unfortunately for this argument, one of these deeds does not state the connection; the deed from Thomas Savory to Samuel Eddy of 20 February 1662 does not refer to Eddy as "brother-in-law" [ MD 17:244-45; PCLR 2:2:111]. The later deed, by the widow of Thomas, does refer to "our brother-in-law Samuel Eddy" [ PCLR 4:311], so the identification certainly remains possible. Note also that Eddy and Savory were granted land jointly in 1664 [ PTR 1:63], although these lots were all granted to pairs of individuals, not necessarily related.) 
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    Samuel EDDY was born before 15 May 1608 in Cranbrook, Kent, England. He died on 12 Nov 1687 in Swansea, Mass.. "The Eddy Family in America" devotes several pages to Samuel Eddy and hisvarious land purchases in Swansea and Tiverton, RI.
    
    AT his father's death, he was put in the guardianship of his brotherPhineas Eddy, who was to provide for his education and apprenticeship ina trade. He became a tailor. At the age of 22 he received an inheritenceof 100 pounds from his father's estate. He and his brother, John,purchased passage on the "Handmaid", leaving the port of London on August10, 1630, and arriving in Plymouth harbor on October 29th after a verystormy 12 weeks at sea. He and John wanted to settle in Boston, but wererejected by the Massachusetts Bay Colony for lack of properdocumentation. John finally succeeded and settled in Watertown in 1631.Samuel remained in Plymouth and purchased a dwelling on what is now 34and 36 Market Street in Plymouth from Experience Mitchell. He was amongthe poor of the Colony during these early years. In the late 1670's,their sons Caleb and Zachariah convinced them to sell their house inPlymouth and move to Swansea, where they died.
    
    For more, see "The Eddy family in America," 1930, pp. 5ff. Samuel EDDY and Elizabeth SAVORY were married in 1636 in Plymouth, MA.103