Thomas WISWALL [Parents] 1, 2 was christened 3 on 20 SEP 1601 in Warrington, Lancaster, England. He died 4 on 06 DEC 1683 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Thomas WISWALL married Isabella Barbage FARMER.
Other marriages:BERBAGE, Elizabeth
Isabella Barbage FARMER 1, 2 died 3 on 21 MAY 1686 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. She married Thomas WISWALL.
Robert WISWALL [Parents] 1, 2 was born 3 in 1570 in England. He died 4 in England and was buried 5 on 16 APR 1616 in England.
He had the following children:
M i Thomas WISWALL M ii John WISWALL
Robert WISWALL [Parents] 1, 2 was buried 3 on 24 MAY 1588 in Hale, Lancaster, England.
He had the following children:
M i Robert WISWALL
Thomas SMITH 1, 2 died 3 in Lancaster, England. He married Ann.
Ann 1, 2 died 3 in Smithfould, England. She married Thomas SMITH.
They had the following children:
F i Margaret SMITH
Thomas WISWALL [Parents]
He had the following children:
M i Robert WISWALL
Richard WISWALL 1, 2 was born 3 about 1498.
He had the following children:
M i Thomas WISWALL
Francis WYMAN [Parents] 1, 2 was born 3 on 02 MAY 1617 in Westmill, Hertfordshire, England. He died 4 on 28 NOV 1699 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA and was buried 5, 6 on 30 NOV 1699 in Old Burial Grounds, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Francis WYMAN married 7, 8, 9 Judith PIERCE on 30 JAN 1643/1644 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Francis was employed as 10 30 DEC 1644 in Tanner. He was baptized 11, 12 on 24 FEB 1618/1619 in Westmill, Hertfordshire, England.
Other marriages:REED, Abigail Justus
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DEATH: 'MEMENTO MORI' 'FUGIT HORA' 'Here lyes ye body of
Francis Wyman aged about 82 years, died November 28th, 1699 [an
error of 1 or 2 years] 'The memory of ye just is blessed'Proof of the lineage of Francis and John Wyman of Woburn is
from Water's 'Genealogical Gleanings in England' and from
Threlfall's 'Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England &
Their Origins'. The English Wymans are well covered in 'The
Wymans/Whymans of Hertfordshire' by Christine E. Jackson of
Amberly, Herts, England.The two Wyman brothers Francis and John were seventeen and
fourteen in 1636 and so probably came over with their older
uncles, Samuel and Thomas Richardson. The first definite record
that we find of the Wyman brothers in New England is when the
town order of Charlestown Village (Woburn) were signed in 1640;
which the Richardsons and Wymans all signed. By that date the
Wymans were 21 and 18. John Wyman the brother of Francis was
made a freeman 26 May 1647 at age 25, and Francis a freeman
1657. Later in 1658 Francis Wyman Sr. in his will said '.. do
give and bequeth unto my two sons Francis Wyman and John Wyman
which are beyound sea ten pounds a piece of Lawful English
money to be paid unto them by mine executor if they be in want
and come over to demand the same.' The Wymans built on what
became Wyman St. in Woburn, and by 1666 they had also built
country farms in what is now Burlington, a few miles north, on
what became the Billerica boundry.
He settled with each son at majority and in his will left his
remaining estate to his youngest son Benjamin. (William had
already inherited land and the homestead). Abigail is also
mentioned in his willOverlooked by many is the fact that a grant of land was made in
Woburn on 25 Feb 1679 to a John Wyman, a wheelwright. This was
not Lt. John Wyman the brother of Francis, but rather the son
of Thomas and Ann (Godfrey) Wyman and hence the nephew of the
Wyman brothers. This John was know and Sergant John Wyman.Their is also found in Boston a tailor named Thomas Wyman or
Wayman who was in the 1675 war against the Narragansett
Indians. He is believed by some to be the son of the brother
Richard Wyman, hence another nephew of Francis and John Wyman.He settled with each son at majority and in his will left his
remaining estate to his youngest son Benjamin. (William had
already inherited land and the homestead). Abigail is also
mentioned in his willFrancis1 and John1 Wyman became tanners in Woburn, perhaps
having learned the craft in England (Buntingford, two miles
north of Westmill, was a tanning center in Hertfordshire) By
1641 they were granted lots for 6d per acre near the center of
Woburn at the present Main and Wyman Streets near Central
Square. Francis' house has not been recorded, but John's house
was a two story frame house 34 by 26 feet with 13 windows
having 40 rods of land adjoining. Nearby on Wymans' Lane were
the tanning vats, a barn, tan house, currying shop and sheds.
Their tanning business carried on until 1768 when it was sold
to David Cummings. The water needed for tanning was diverted
from a brook which was done away with when the nearby Middlesex
Canal was built about 1800. Woburn became the tanning center of
the country.
A grant of 500 acres in what became the town of Billerica was
made in 1648 to the Rev. Henry Dunster the first president of
Harvard College. This he sold in 1655 to Francis and John Wyman
for 100 sterling. Because of Dunster's Baptist leanings, he
was removed as the president of Harvard College and apparently
needed some cash. After some political maneuvering the pending
town of Billerica was persuaded to lay out the grant which was
entirely within the new town. The grant was on the border of
Woburn, adjacent to where the Wymans already had land.
In 1657 The Woburn selectmen agreed to exchange 94 acres of
land the Wymans already possessed in the town for an equal
amount '_adjoining to their land at Billerica_.' Again, in 1661
Francis exchanged with the town of Woburn '_a parcel of land
lying in the treasury_(for land at)_his farm next Billerica.'
The same year Billerica granted 70 acres in the same general
area to the Wyman brothers which was laid out and the return
made in 1663.
In 1665 the Wymans purchased for the sum of 50 the Coytmore
grant of 500 acres which was to be laid out in Woburn. The
Woburn selectmen attempted to have the grant laid out
elsewhere, but the General Court in 1666 had it laid out at
this time when the Woburn-Billerica boundary was being settled.
It was stated that the grant was to be laid out '_in Woobourne
bounds, next adjoining to the land and houses of the said
Waymens, apprehending it to be most convenient and profitable
for them so to lye.' Interestingly, the deed of sale is
witnessed by Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, a Martha's Vineyard Indian
who was the solitary Indian to have graduated from Harvard
College at this time.
In 1667 Francis, John and eleven other citizens of Woburn were
hauled before the County Court for publicly manifesting
contempt for the ordinance of baptism and for attending illegal
assemblies of the Anabaptists. Nothing much happened and both
were later active in the local church, although Francis in his
will left small bequests to two elders of the Baptist Church in
Boston.
The country house of Francis built sometime before 1666 still
stands in Burlington and is now owned by the Francis Wyman
Association. It is an eight room, two story, center chimney
house with attic and half-cellar.
Nearby in Billerica is the Amos Wyman cellar hole, the site of
John Wyman's original farm house, a house to which Samuel Adams
and John Hancock retreated on 17 April 1775 when they fled
Lexington. Elizabeth (Pierce) Wyman, the wife of Amos is said
to have fed her visitors boiled potatoes, pork and bread
instead of the salmon which her guests had planned to eat at
the Lexington parsonage. Hancock is reported to have sent a cow
to his hostess at a later date in appreciation of her
hospitality.In 1640 500 acres of land in Woburn (now Burlington) was
granted to Mr. Thomas Coytmore and was subsequently sold by
Joseph Rock to Francis and John for 50 in Oct. 1667. They also
owned a large farm in West Woburn extending into Billerica
adjoining the Coytmore grant.(2)
'Billerica, 19.9m.1661. At a Towne Meeting, The towne do grant
to ffrances Wyman & John Wyman that parcell of land that lyeth
betweene Woburne line & the former that they purchased of Mr.
Dunster, which is by estimation four score acres, more or less
and is bounded on the South or South East with Captaine Gookins
farme line.''Whereas John Wright, Isaac Cole, ffrancis Wiman, John Wiman,
ffrancis Kendall, Robert Peirce, Matthew Smith & Joseph Wright,
members in full communion with the Church of Christ at Woburne,
were presented by the Grand Jury of the County of Middlesex in
New England at the Court in October last (1671) for refuseing
communion with the Church of Woburne in the Lord's Supper, and
rejecting the counsell of neighboring churches, and all other
measures for healing the disorder and scandall thereby
occasioned: This Court having heard their severall answers,
wherein they pretend and alledge that the grounds of their
withdrawing are sundry scruples in poynt of conscience, not
daring to partake with the church for fear of defilement by
sin, giving some reasons of their dissatisfaction, which not
being satisfactory to the Court, who are sensible of the
scandall thereby redounding to our profession, and considering
the directions given by the word of God and laws of this
Colony, requiring the attendance of all due meanes for
preserving the peace and order of the churches in the wayes of
godliness and honesty, that so all God's ordinances may have
passage unto edification, according to the rules of Christ.
This Court do therfore, upon serious consideration of the whole
case, order that the respective churches of Charlestown,
Cambridge, Watertown, Redding & Billerica be moved and
requested from the Court, according to God's ordinance of
communion of churches, to send their elders and messengers unto
the church of Woburn the ( ) day of March next, where the
brethren that were presented as above said are ordered and
required to give a meeting together with the church there, and
shall have liberty humbly and inoffensively to declare their
grievances, and the church also to declare the whole case for
the hearing of their proceedings: And after the case is fully
heard by the said councill, they are to endeavor the healing of
their spirits, and making of peace among them, for the issuing
of matters according to the word of God, and to make returne of
what they shall do herein to the next county Court to be held
at Cambridge: And the Recorder of this Court is ordered
seasonably to signify the Court's mind herein to the several
churches above named. It is ordered that the Court's final
determination in the above named case be respited, untill they
receive the councill's return, and the above named persons that
were presented by the Grand Jury are ordered to attend at the
next court at Cambridge.'(3)
These people of Woburn were prosecuted before the Middlesex
County Court Dec. 1671 for contempt for the ordinance of Infant
Baptism as administered in the church of Woburn and for
withdrawing from that church and attending the assemblies of
the Anabaptists which was not allowed by law. John Wyman seemed
to have been convinced of the 'error' of his ways and was
admitted back to the church in Woburn and took an active part
in the settlement of Rev. Jabez Fox as a colleague of Rev.
Thomas Carter in 1697. In his will 10 March 1683/4 he gave them
40/ each calling them his 'Reverend Pastors'. Francis however
always retained his partiality for the Baptists for in his will
5 Sept. 1698 he gave to two elders of the Baptist Church in
Boston, Mr. Isaac Hull and Mr. John Emblen 20/ each. Francis
did however remain in communion with the church in Woburn.
Judith PIERCE 1, 2 was born 3 about 1630 in Norwich, Norfolk, England/Norwich, England. She died 4 before 02 OCT 1650 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Judith PIERCE married 5, 6, 7 Francis WYMAN on 30 JAN 1643/1644 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Judith immigrated 8, 9 on 08 JUN 1637 to 'Rose', Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA.
Ebenezer JOHNSON [Parents] 1, 2 was born 3 on 07 SEP 1699. He died 4 on 03 NOV 1756. Ebenezer JOHNSON married 5 Sarah STEARNS on 19 MAY 1725.
Sarah STEARNS 1, 2 was born 3 on 26 MAR 1704. She died 4 on 24 MAY 1779. Sarah STEARNS married 5 Ebenezer JOHNSON on 19 MAY 1725.
Mary RICHARDSON [Parents]
John BALDWIN 1, 2 married 3 Mary RICHARDSON on 15 MAY 1655 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.
Mary RICHARDSON [Parents] 1, 2 was christened 3 on 17 NOV 1638. She married 4 John BALDWIN on 15 MAY 1655 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.