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John EDDY and Amy DOGGETT

HUSBAND:
[F15158]. John EDDY. [see PC T4-7].
Son of Reverend William EDDY and Mary Fosten.

John Eddy was nearly twenty years of age at his father's death, so Phineas was given no care over him. No further record concerning him has been found in Cranbrook. It has been suggested that perhaps he was studying to follow in the footsteps of his father and was about to enter Cambridge, but that his father's death put an end to these plans.

He married (1) Ann Doggett on 22 May 1619 in Groton, Sullfolk, England.

He is next found in 1622 married and living in Nayland not very far from Thurston, the little parish in which hi~ father served as curate while studying at Cambridge. Both of the towns are in the region of Bury St. Edmunds. It has been suggested that perhaps some relatives or friends of his father lived in this vicinity and gave to this young student a home while he was studying. He does not seem to have learned any trade. This change from peaceful Cranbrook to Suffolk county, one of those sections in which Puritanism was rapidly increasing in strength, was destined to be a momentous one in the life of young John Eddy. It is probable that he embraced these views with all the ardor of a young man, so that when the great Puritan migration to New England began under the leadership of John Winthrop in 1630, he was ready to throw in his lot with this group, and probably induced his younger brother Samuel, who was just coming of age, to be also one of those who were setting out to
  • secure religious liberty and a civil democracy in a new land. (S1).

    Immediately before emigrating, he had lived in Boxted, Essex, England.

    He emmigrated to America on ship at about age 33, landed at Plymouth (Plymouth Colony) on Oct 29, 1630 (O.S.).

    Arrived at the Plymouth Colony in 1630 aboard the Handmaid. Left London 8/10/1630 arriving in Plymouth 10/29/1930

    By February, 1631/2, he had left Plymouth and removed to Watertown, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He joined the Watertown congregation by March 1632/3 and served as a selectman several years. He suffered bouts of mental illness but otherwise lived “very orderly” according to John Winthrop. His estate included large land holdings which were distributed among his children in his will. He was the brother of three other early colonists: Samuel Eddy of Plymouth, Abigail (Eddy) Benjamin of Cambridge and Anna (Eddy) Wines of Watertown.

    He married (2) Joanna (Bates) Meade after 12 May 1666, in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

    WILL:
    "John Eddie of Watertowne, senior," bequeathed to "my son Samuell Eddie ... my homestall being by estimation forty acres more or less with my dwelling house and barn and all the appurtenances thereunto belonging, with seven acres of meadow and upland lying right over against Widow Barnard's house," he to pay to "my son John Eddie thirty pounds," as further limited by a writing "my sons-in-law John Miriam and Thomas Orton had ... of me"; also to "my son Samuell aforesaid a lot of twelve acres of upland more or less lying and being on the top of Stonie Brook Hill"; to "my four daughters Marie Orton, Sarah Miriam, Pilgrim Steadman, Ruth Gardner, a hundred acres of upland ... being a farm lying near upland called Nonesuch ... to be equally divided between my four daughters aforesaid"; to "my two sons aforesaid Samuell and John Eddie" all movables to be equally divided between them; "as for my dear and wellbeloved wife I have a writing under my hand and witness to it with the particulars therein mentioned what she shall enjoy after my death"; to "my son John aforesaid fourscore and five acres of land being land called by the name of farm land"; son Samuel Eddy to be executor. Massachusetts Probate Court.
    Written 11 Jan. 1677/78, probated 16 Dec. 1684, Watertown, MA.

    WIFE:
    [F15159]. Amy DOGGETT. [see PC T4-7].
    Born before 16 June 1597 in Groton, Sullfolk, England; daughter of John DOGGETT [F30318]. She married John EDDY [F15158].

    She died on 20 August 1683 in Rehoboth, Bristol, massachusets.

    CHILDREN of John EDDY [F15158] and Amy DOGGETT [F15159]:
    1. [F7579]. Sarah EDDY. [see PC T4-7]. Born (in 1625)(about 1628) in England. She married John MARRIAN [F7578] (Marion) (about 1641)(by 1651). They had eleven children. He died on January 27, 1705. She died 3 February 1709-1710 in Boston, Massachusetts.
    2. John (bapt. 1622, d. @ 8 mos), Born in England. baptized in Nayland, Suffolk on June 9, 1622, and buried there February 8, 1622/3.
    3. John [#2]* (bapt. 1624), Born in England. baptized in Nayland on March 29, 1624, and died soon thereafter.
    4. Mary (bapt. 1625), Born in England. baptized in Nayland on March 10, 1625/6. She married Thomas Orton by 1648 and had at least three children. He died on May 19, 1687. She died on September 13, 1693.
    5. Pilgrim (b. 1634, d. young), Born in America.
    6. Pilgrim [#2], Born in America. Pilgrim was born in Watertown on August 25, 1634. She married (1) William Baker in Boston on April 22, 1656, and had one child. She married (2) Isaac Stedman by January 11, 1677, She married (3) Sylvester Eveleth after February 5, 1682. He died on January 4, 1688/9.
    7. John [#3]* (b. 1636/37), Born in America. born in Watertown on February 16, 1636. He was still living on August 6, 1702, apparently unmarried.
    8. Benjamin (bur. 1639), Born in America. buried in Watertown in 1639.
    9. Samuel (b. 1640), Born in America. born in Watertown on September 30, 1640. He married Sarah Meade in Dorchester on November 31 [sic], 1664, and had eight children. He died on November 22, 1711.
    10. Ruth, Born in America. born about 1645. She married Ezekiel Gardner by 1671 and had at least one son. He died before February 9, 1703.
    11. Abigail (b. 1643, d. bfr. 1677).Born in America. born in Watertown on October 11, 1643.There is no further record.


    WIFE (2):
    Joanna Bates.
    Born in 1603.

    She married (1) Gabriel Meade, of England, in 1636.

    She married (2) John Eddy of Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

    She died on 25 August 1685 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusets.

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