Individual Details

ANTHONY EAMES

(1595 - )



Born about 1592 (on 12 Apr 1632, "Anthony Eames of Fordington, Dorset, yeoman, where he had lived from infancy, born there, aged 40 or thereabouts," deposed in a Fordington tithe case, apparently son of Thomas & Millicent (____) Eames. A yeoman from Fordington, dorset, who came to Massachusetts Bay in 1634 on the Recovery of London." First settled in Charlestown MA; moved to Hingham in 1636 & Marshfield in 1652. Died after 28 Jun 1670.
Married by about 1615, Margery ____.
Richard Eames, probably brother of Anthony, married at Fordington St. George on 5 Jun 1615, Alice Sprague, sister of RALPH SPRAGUE, RICHARD SPRAGUE , & WILLIAM SPRAGUE .

Ancestry Database: Massachusetts, Town and vital Records, 1620-1988
Records of First Settlers, Hingham, Massachusetts
April 25, 1646
An agreement between John Porter, Anthony Eames, Thomas Faxter, William Sprage, Thomas Hammond, John Leavitt, and Nicholas Jacob to fence their parcels of meadow lying betwixt Layford's Likeing to Straits Parcel.
John Porter to fence the head of his Lot from the sea to the mark tree of Anthony Eames and Anthony Eames to fence from thence to that marked tree betwixt him and Thomas Faxter
.... Hammond to fence to the two Rocks at the tother side of Thomas Hammond's meadow - and William Sprage to fence from thence as far as the marked tree betwixt Thomas Hammond and John Leavitt
.....make these fences sufficient agaynst great Cattle, according to the judgment of two men and so to maynstayn them year to year and none are to putt in any cattle to feed in any part of this Land till the 12th day of September every year ---and if any man hath any hay left then to secure it; and every man for the afterfeed putt in Cattle according to the quantity of their fence.

Events

Birth1595Fordington, Dorset, England
MarriageCa 1615Fordington, Dorset, England - MARGERY Pierce/Prisse
Burial6 Oct 1686Marshfield Hills, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts

Families

SpouseMARGERY Pierce/Prisse (1599 - )
ChildMELICENT EAMES (1615 - 1695)
FatherTHOMAS EAMES (1549 - 1618)
MotherMILLICENT [Eames] (1551 - 1614)
SiblingAlice EAMES (1578 - )
SiblingJohn EAMES ( - 1662)
SiblingRichard EAMES (1588 - 1634)
SiblingAnne EAMES (1593 - )