General Notes

Occupation /Tailor.  John came on the WILLIAM & FRANCIS , ( another source gives the ship name as Francis and James) Sailing form London March 9, 1632 and arrived in New England ,June 05, 1632.  HE came with Edward Winslow , afterwards Governor of the Plymouth  Colony. In 1637/38 , a garden place at Willingsley Brook and six acres upon Woberry Plain, in Plymouth County , were granted "John Smalley"; and in 1640, five acres in the south Meddows towards aggawam, Colebrook Medowes. These tree lots of land he sold, March 21, 1644, to Edmund Tilson, with all his house and housing and garden place .  September 07, 1641, he was propounded for freeman; admitted and sworn, March 01, 1641/42. In August, 1643 " John Smalley " appeared in a list of "all the males that are able to bear armes from 15 years old to 60 years wthin the seuerall Townshipps ," in Plymouth Colony. He was among the prominent men who removed from Plymouth in April 1644, to Nauset (Now Eastham), far down on Cape Cod, were John. Resided in Plymouth. freeman March 1, 1642. Moved to Eastham , Mass. 1645, and Piscataway by 1670.  John Smalley , and associate of Richad Higgins and other pioneers in the settlement at Nausett, was neither freeman nor tax Payer at Plymouth in 1636. He was , However at Plymouth as early as 1638.  By trade he was a tailor. He seems to have taken but very little part of public affairs. He was admitted a freeman at Plymouth in 1642. He was a constable at Nausett in 1646, A surveyor in 1649, and of the Grand Inquest in 1654, 1660, and 1665. He was specially favored by the court, and had land granted him in 1658 between Bridgewater and Weymouth, and in 1662 near Taunton.  John Smalley married Ann Walden in Plymouth, Nov. 19, 1638. Or the date could have been November 29, 1638 No full list of his children appears. He had Hannah, born at Plymouth , June 14, 1641; John , at Plymouth , Sept. 1644; Isaac and Mary  twins Dec. 11, 1647. The time of his death is not known, and we fail to find any settlement of his estate. He was living in January, 1668, and had a ward some six years of age, who wandered six or seven miles from his house into the woods and died from exposure. John Smalley was undoubtedly a man who did not seek notoriety. He seemed to enjoy the quietness of his farm more than the honors and troubles of office.  He lived in peace with all men , there can be no doubt, and we gathered to his fathers in peace. Many have supposed that from him descended the Smalley or Smalls of the Cape. Ann Walden died on Jan 29, 1694 in Piscataway, New Jeresy.   In April , 1644 , he was among the group form Plymouth to remove to Eastman, far down the Cape Cod.  At Eastham he helped to organize the place , and then about 1667, with his wife and two sons he removed to Little Compton, R.I., but soon afterward with Richard Higgins and others he removed to Piscataway, Middlesex Co., N.J., where he was among the earliest of Pioneer freeholders.