ALEXANDER  WIGNALL 

• Birth Notes
  • Birth: ABT 1578 in England 

• Death Notes
  •  AFT MAY 1631 in Massachusetts 

• General Notes
  • Alexander WIGNALL  
    1. Alexander came to Watertown, Massachusetts about 1628.
    
    2. On October 19, 1630 Alexander asked for and on May 18, 1631 took the o ath of Freeman of Massachusetts. In both lists his name has the pref ix of "Mr." showing respect. He was a either a scholar or property own er with his name next above Captain William Jennison who may have been ass ociated with Alexander.
    
    3. "The Great Migration Begins" doubts Alexander was the father of Elizab eth and considers him to be the same "Jno. Wignall a 1630 list of Charlest own inhabitants as included in the following:
    
    "Jno. Wignall" is included in 1630 Charlestown list of inhabitan ts as one of four who "went & built in the main on the
    northeast side of the northwest creek of this town" [ ChTR 5]. In ne xt list, also for 1630, is Walter Pope, who "bought
    Jno. Wignall's house & land" [ ChTR 6].
    
    3 May 1631: "Alex: Wignall" on jury for Dexter vs. Endicott [ MBCR 1: 86].
    
    18 May 1631: "Mr. Alex: Wignall" admitted as a freeman [ MBCR 1:366 ].
    
    16 August 1631: "Mr. Alex: Wignall" fined five marks for drunkenne ss [ MBCR 1:91].
    
    6 Sept. 1631: "Mr. Alex: Wignall is fined 40sh., bound to his good be havior, & enjoined to remove his dwelling to some settled
    plantation before the last of May next, for drunkenness & much misdea meanor by him committed at the plantation where he
    now dwelleth" [ MBCR 1:91].
    
    2 July 1633: "Mr. Woolridge & Mr. Gibbons are appointed to join wi th Mr. Graves & Mr. Geneson to inventory the goods &
    chattels of Alex: Wignall" [ MBCR 1:106].
    
    COMMENT: In the Charlestown records are two references to John Wignal l, and in the Colony records are five entries for
    Alexander Wignall, and nowhere else do we see this surname at this ea rly date. John Wignall is said to have "built on the main"
    with three others, WALTER NORTON , EDWARD GIBBONS and WILLIAM JENNIN GS [i.e, JENNISON]. Alexander Wignall is
    seen in the Colony records interacting with this same group, especial ly at the time of the inventory of his estate. Note that the
    inventory record does not describe him as deceased as it does with ot hers, so he may simply have abandoned his land and
    goods, realizing that the Puritan commonwealth was not for him. (S ee GMN 2:3, 5-6, 5:32 for further discussion on these points.)
    
    We conclude that all these records refer to one man, and that the Chr istian name given in the Colony records is to be preferred
    over that in the town records.
    
    In 1935 Raymon Meyers Tingley published an undocumented account of Al exander Wignall, giving him two children - a son John
    (based on the records discussed above) and a daughter Elizabeth who m arried Richard Ingraham [ Tingley-Meyers 441]. Nothing
    is known about the wife of Richard Ingraham, and this whole construct ion apparently derived from Tingley's imagination.
    
    
    Marriage 1 Spouse Unknown
    Married: BEF 1604
    Children
    Elizabeth WIGNALL b: ABT 1604 in Frating, Essex, Suffolk, England
    
    Sources:
    Title: Ancestral Lines
    Author: Carl Boyer
    Publication: 3rd Edition
    Note: CBoyer3154@yahoo.com, 661-259-3154,
    PO Box 220333, Santa Clara, CA 91322-0333
    Note: Excellent
    Repository:
    Note: Chesebro' Reference Material
    Media: Book
    Page: page 330
    Title: Vandenburgh Family Records
    Author: George W. Vandenburgh
    Publication: 1998
    Note: Sources include "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England", by Savage; "Some Ancestor Lines", by Ramon Myers Tingley; and "New England Historical and Genealogical Register" Vol . 3, -
    1004 Burlington Beach Road,
    Valparaiso IN, USA 46383
    Note: Good
    Repository:
    Note: 6-4279
    Media: Letter