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• Name: John WYATT
• Sex: M
• Birth: Abt 1594 ^b
• Death: Dec 1665 in Ipswich, Massachusetts ^d


Parents:

Family:
Marriage:

• Martha SHELDRAKE on 28 Sep 1619 at Assington, Suffolk, England .^m1
  
• Martha SHELDRAKE Birth: Abt 8 Feb 1596/7 in Assington, Suffolk, England Death: 16 Mar 1631/2 in Assington, Suffolk, England

Marriage:

• Mary (RIDDLESDALE) on 27 Jun 1632 at Assington, Suffolk, England .^m2
  
• Mary (RIDDLESDALE) Death: 10 Apr 1683 in Rowley, Massachusetts

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

abt 1594 [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p311]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p311]

between 23 Nov and 26 Dec 1665 [Ref: Threlfall WYATT p217],

place:

[Ref: Threlfall WYATT p217]

Sources with Information about marriage to Martha SHELDRAKE

date:

[Ref: Threlfall WYATT p218]

first marriage of John [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p311],

place:

[Ref: Threlfall WYATT p218]

Sources with Information about marriage to Mary (RIDDLESDALE)

date:

[Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p311, Threlfall WYATT p218],

place:

[Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p311, Threlfall WYATT p218],

names:

John WYATT & Mary ___ [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p311, Threlfall WYATT p218]

Sources with Inaccurate marriage information

child:

Mary (#39747) wife of Henry KIMBALL [Ref: KimballJA KIMBALL p24, Morrison KIMBALL p34]

Research Notes:
shortly after marriage to Mary (RIDDLESDALE), left for New England and settled in Ipswich, as did her former sister-in-law Susan (RIDDLESDALE) FRENCH [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p311, Threlfall WYATT p218]

1638: recorded as owning land in Ipswich [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p311]

1639: proprietor of Ipswich [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p311]

Nov 1645: freeman [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p311]

1646: served on trial jury; also in 1650 and 1655 [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p311]

1647: served on grand jury; also in 1660 [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p311]

1647: witness to the oral will of Luke Heard, his son-in-law [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p311]

Sep 1650: excused from ordinary military training, to pay 5s yearly for the use of the copany [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p311]

1659: released from military training, to pay 2s 6d per year [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p311]

1664: had a share of Plum Island [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p311]

Sep 1665: sued Enoch Greenleaf for 10 pounds of debt for a pair of steers to have been paid for in wheat, malt, and Indian corn at Wyatt's home in Ipswich. Wyatt won [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p311]

refers to his daughters Mary, Sarah, and Dorcas in his will, but they were actually step-daughters; he had no children of his own [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p311]

----- Will of John Wyatt, dated 23 Nov 1665, pro 15 Jan 1665/6:
the will of John Wyatt of Ipswich ... weak in body ... to wife during term of her natural life 6 pounds per annum in merchantabvle wheat, malt and Indian corn ... the use of room we now live in with the cellar under it and the upper rooms over it, and the use of the bedstead in the said room for her natural live, also I give her all her household goods that are remaining which are contained in an inventory annexed to the will to be at her disposing ... als 5 pounds per annum for three years to be paid in country pay at the current price. But in case she needs it sooner, then to be paid according to necessity. Moreover she shall have the use of all my household goods together with my grandchild John Kimball ... while he abives in the house ... if wife cannot live comfortably in the house with him then she shall have liberty to choose another place of being in the town, and he shall supply her with wood and pay her room. I give unto my three daughters, Mary, Sarah, and Dorcas 5s apiece ... unto John Kemball my grandchild my dwelling house and all the ground belonging to it and all my meadow ground together with my Cattle and husbandry implements, provided he carry himself respectfully towards my wife, and in case he shall not, then I give unto my said grandchild 10 pounds and so not to have to do with any part of my estate besides ... Loving friend Mr. Theophilus Wilson my sole executor ... and he to have 40s ... my loving friends Mr Robert Paine and Willm White the overseers.
An Inventory of all or the most part of the household goods and Chattels that Mary Wyatt, now wife unto John Wyatt of Ipswich, brought or delivered into her husband's possession at the time of her marriage - her apparell, a feather bed, a feather bolater & a pillow, a flockbed and a bolster, a green rug & three blankets, a pair of valances and three curtains, a pair of sheets and one pair of pillowbiers, two trunks and a great chest and great broad box, three platters one long and two broad ones, a great pewter candlestick and a little one, a great pewter salt, two pewter basins, a great one and a lesser one, two pewter great pint pots and two lesser pots, a pewter bedpan, one porringer and spoons and other small pewter saucers & plates, two iron pots a great one & a little one, an iron kettle, a warming pan and a brass frying pan, a pestal and a mortar, a pair of andirons, two brass skillets, a three pint one and a two pint one, a brass ladel and a brass scummer, a pair of pot hooks and a pair of pot hangers, a chafing dish.
Proved 15 Jan 1655/6 [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p312]



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