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Nathaniel GARY
(4 Jul 1663 - Mar 1740)
http://www.connecticutgenealogy.com/windham/mashamoquet_settlement.htm
Mashamoquet Settlement
The first recorded public recognition of the Mashamoquet settlement was in 1708, when its inhabitants were invited to join with the selectmen of Woodstock and Killingly in petitioning for a road to Providence, and were also ordered by the general assembly to send in their list of polls and estates, that they might bear their proportion of rates and taxes. The estates were appraised at £920, but the list of polls was omitted. In 1709 three men from Massamugget" were directed to join in a projected expedition against Canada, which failed of accomplishment. In 1710 a military company was organized,and about fifty males over sixteen years of age were reported in the settlement. John Sabin, its first and leading citizen, who had previously enjoyed the honorary title of captain, was now appointed lieutenant; Ebenezer Sabin, ensign; Ebenezer Grosvenor, sergeant; James Sawyer, cornet.
In 1713 efforts were made to secure town organization, and the following inhabitants and proprietors petitioned the assembly for a charter: Benjamin Sabin, John Sabin, Nathaniel Gary, Benjamin Sitton,Samuel Gates, Edward Payson, Samuel Paine, Seth Paine, John Cummings, Samuel Warner, Thomas Goodell, Philemon Chandler, Daniel Allen, David Allen, Joseph Tucker, Samuel Taylor, Leicester Grosvenor, Ebenezer Grosvenor, Benjamin Sabin, Jr., Jeremiah Sabin, Stephen Sabin, Ebenezer Sabin, Josiah Sabin, Ebenezer Truesdell, Benjamin Goodell,Joseph Sabin, Nathaniel Sessions, Josiah Sessions, John Hubbard,Thomas Grosvenor, Joseph Grosvenor, James Danielson, Abiel Lyon,Samuel Gary, Joseph Chandler, David Bishop.
The town was organized under the name of Pomfret, in accordance with the charter, at a meeting held May 27th, 1713. Lieutenant Sabin, Sergeant Grosvenor and Ensign Sabin were elected selectmen for the new township; Philemon Chandler, clerk. The first object of the town was to secure a more accurate determination of its boundary. A survey was ordered, and completed March 20th, 1714. The bounds of the town, as then laid down, began at a stake by Quinebaug river between the upper and lower falls, thence south seven miles, thence east over the top of a hill called " Gray Mare," to the Quinebaug, its eastern bound. The manor of Mortlake, and also part of the township granted to Captain Blackwell, were included within its limits. Before proceeding with the history of Pomfret, it will be necessary to gain more definite knowledge of this part of its territory and the Blackwell township.
Mortlake, as we have already seen, was purchased by Captain or Sir John Blackwell, for the establishment of a colony of English and Irish dissenters, who were suffering from the oppression of King James. The course of public events frustrated this scheme. During the administration of Andross no settlement was possible, and after the revolution it was no longer needful. Religious liberty under William and Mary could be enjoyed in Great Britain, and Blackwell himself soon returned to his native land, making no attempt to settle or improve his purchase; and thus for nearly thirty years Mortlake was left a wilderness. The land adjoining it, included in the township granted to Captain Blackwell, accrued to Major Fitch as a part of the Wabbaquasset country. A tract two miles square in its southwest corner was taken from him in 1695 by Simon Stoddard, of Boston, in execution of judgment for debt.
The Mashamoquet proprietors still had the entire control of their lands. even though they lay within the bounds of the new town of Pomfret, and indeed comprised more than half of the area of that town. A second division of land among these proprietors was made in 1719. At that time some changes had been made in the proprietors. John Sabin was in possession of the right of Samuel Ruggles; Joseph Chandler, in that of Deacon John Chandler; John Mo-wry, in that of Thomas Mowry; Ebenezer Sabin, in that of Deacon Benjamin Sabin; and Captain John Chandler, in that of Samuel Gore. The distribution of lands to the proprietors, about four hundred acres to each share, was made in the western part of the town, and was later included in the parish of Abington.
The opening of new territory was followed by a fresh influx of population. Sales and transfers of land became more frequent, and many families were added to the settlement. Jonathan Hide, William Hamlet, Abiel Cheney, Jonathan Dana, Archibald McCoy, Ebenezer Holbrook, Jehoshaphat Holmes, Samuel Perrin and Daniel Waldo appear as residents of Pomfret, prior to 1720; William Sharpe, Samuel Sumner, John and James Ingalls, soon after that date. Hide bought purchase land of Truesdell; Hamlet removed from Woburn to an allotment laid out to Samuel Ruggles, comprising the hill still known as Hamlet's; Cheney's first residence was south of Mashamoquet, on land bought of Major Fitch, east of Newichewanna brook; Holmes was still farther southward. McCoy's homestead was the fifth lot of the square, bought of Captain John Sabin in 1716; Waldo's, east side of the highway, farther northward, on land bought of Captain Chandler. A beautiful triangular farm, bordering on the Mashamoquet, laid out first to Samuel Gore and sold successively to Captain John Chandler, Thomas Hutchinson and Francis Clark, was purchased by John Holbrook, of Roxbury, whose son,Ebenezer, took possession of it in 1719. The Perrin farm on the Quinebaug, early secured by Samuel, of Woodstock, was occupied first by his son Samuel, who there built, it is said, in 1714, the fine mansion so long known as the "old Perrin House." Jonathan Dresser,brother to Richard, of Nashaway, bought land of Nathaniel Gray in 1717. About 1720, William Sharpe, with his wife Abigail, daughter of John White, one of the original proprietors of Mashamoquet, and their seven sons, three daughters and a daughter's husband-Samuel Gridley-removed to Pomfret, settling upon a second-division lot between Goodell's and Grosvenor's, in what is the north part of Abington. Two years later, Samuel Sumner, son of George Sumner, of Roxbury. took possession of the sixth lot of the square, purchased of Captain Sabin-building his house near the site of the present Quaker meeting house, and marrying Elizabeth Griffin, probably daughter of Joseph, the Mashamoquet proprietor. The young Ingalls brothers, who came up with their widowed mother, Hannah Ingalls, from Andover,bought a second-division lot in the southwest of the purchase, and made them a home in the depths of the wilderness. Joseph Craft appears at about this date as a resident of the west part of Pomfret. It is quite possible that his land was secured by an early grant from Major Fitch. as the name of Samuel Craft appears among the original grantees of the town and no subsequent deed has been discovered. Some sales of land were also made to non-residents. Several tracts were sold by Captain Chandler to Jonathan Waldo, of Boston. Eight hundred acres of second-division land, south of the Mashamoquet and west of Newichewanna brook were sold by Major Fitch, in 1714, to John Dyer, of Canterbury, and by him conveyed to Colonel Thomas Fitch, of Boston.The strip of lard west of the purchase, embracing about two thousand acres, was made over by Major Fitch to his son Daniel in 1719.
History of Windham County, Connecticut by Ellen Larned, Volume 1, says this, speaking of Masjamoquet:
"Nathaniel Gary removed to the new settlement probably as early as 1698, settling on land east of the Purchase, received, according to tradition, for his services as chain-bearer in laying out that tract,having all he could encompass in an hour's nimble running. The payment of twelve pounds secured him, in 1699, a deed of five hundred and fifty acres "southeast from Woodstock", in what was afterwards called the Gary neighborhood."
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The First Church of Roxbury, built in 1804 and fifth on the site since1632
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Incorporated 1846
Annexed by Boston 1868
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Area code(s) 617 / 857
Roxbury is a neighborhood within Boston, Massachusetts USA. It was one of the first towns founded in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630,and became a city in 1846 until annexed to Boston on January 5,1868.[1] The original town of Roxbury once included the current Boston neighborhoods of Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, West Roxbury, the South End and much of Back Bay. Roxbury now generally ends at Columbus Avenue to the north and Lenox Street to the east. The original boundaries of the Town of Roxbury can be found in Drake's History of Roxbury and its noted Personages. Those boundaries include the Christian Science Center, the Prudential Center (built on the old Roxbury Railroad Yards) and everything south and east of the Muddy River including Symphony Hall, Northeastern University, Y.M.C.A.,Harvard Medical School and many hospitals and schools in the area.This side of the Muddy River is Roxbury, the other side is Brookline and Boston. Franklin Park, once entirely within Roxbury when Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury and Roslindale were villages within the town of Roxbury until 1854, has been divided with the line between Jamaica Plain and Roxbury located in the vicinity of Peter Parley Road on Walnut Avenue, through the park to Columbia Road. Here, Walnut Avenue changes its name to Sigourney Street, indicating the area is now Jamaica Plain. One side of Columbia Road is Roxbury the other is Dorchester. Melnea Cass Boulevard is located approximately over the Roxbury Canal that brought boats into Roxbury bypassing the busy the port of Boston in the 1830s.
Note: A google search got a hit on the book "American Marriage Records Before 1699" by William Montgomery Clemens. It shows a marriage for Mary [not Ann] Rice and Nathaniel Gary, 12 Nov 1684, at Roxbury, Mass.
Mashamoquet Settlement
The first recorded public recognition of the Mashamoquet settlement was in 1708, when its inhabitants were invited to join with the selectmen of Woodstock and Killingly in petitioning for a road to Providence, and were also ordered by the general assembly to send in their list of polls and estates, that they might bear their proportion of rates and taxes. The estates were appraised at £920, but the list of polls was omitted. In 1709 three men from Massamugget" were directed to join in a projected expedition against Canada, which failed of accomplishment. In 1710 a military company was organized,and about fifty males over sixteen years of age were reported in the settlement. John Sabin, its first and leading citizen, who had previously enjoyed the honorary title of captain, was now appointed lieutenant; Ebenezer Sabin, ensign; Ebenezer Grosvenor, sergeant; James Sawyer, cornet.
In 1713 efforts were made to secure town organization, and the following inhabitants and proprietors petitioned the assembly for a charter: Benjamin Sabin, John Sabin, Nathaniel Gary, Benjamin Sitton,Samuel Gates, Edward Payson, Samuel Paine, Seth Paine, John Cummings, Samuel Warner, Thomas Goodell, Philemon Chandler, Daniel Allen, David Allen, Joseph Tucker, Samuel Taylor, Leicester Grosvenor, Ebenezer Grosvenor, Benjamin Sabin, Jr., Jeremiah Sabin, Stephen Sabin, Ebenezer Sabin, Josiah Sabin, Ebenezer Truesdell, Benjamin Goodell,Joseph Sabin, Nathaniel Sessions, Josiah Sessions, John Hubbard,Thomas Grosvenor, Joseph Grosvenor, James Danielson, Abiel Lyon,Samuel Gary, Joseph Chandler, David Bishop.
The town was organized under the name of Pomfret, in accordance with the charter, at a meeting held May 27th, 1713. Lieutenant Sabin, Sergeant Grosvenor and Ensign Sabin were elected selectmen for the new township; Philemon Chandler, clerk. The first object of the town was to secure a more accurate determination of its boundary. A survey was ordered, and completed March 20th, 1714. The bounds of the town, as then laid down, began at a stake by Quinebaug river between the upper and lower falls, thence south seven miles, thence east over the top of a hill called " Gray Mare," to the Quinebaug, its eastern bound. The manor of Mortlake, and also part of the township granted to Captain Blackwell, were included within its limits. Before proceeding with the history of Pomfret, it will be necessary to gain more definite knowledge of this part of its territory and the Blackwell township.
Mortlake, as we have already seen, was purchased by Captain or Sir John Blackwell, for the establishment of a colony of English and Irish dissenters, who were suffering from the oppression of King James. The course of public events frustrated this scheme. During the administration of Andross no settlement was possible, and after the revolution it was no longer needful. Religious liberty under William and Mary could be enjoyed in Great Britain, and Blackwell himself soon returned to his native land, making no attempt to settle or improve his purchase; and thus for nearly thirty years Mortlake was left a wilderness. The land adjoining it, included in the township granted to Captain Blackwell, accrued to Major Fitch as a part of the Wabbaquasset country. A tract two miles square in its southwest corner was taken from him in 1695 by Simon Stoddard, of Boston, in execution of judgment for debt.
The Mashamoquet proprietors still had the entire control of their lands. even though they lay within the bounds of the new town of Pomfret, and indeed comprised more than half of the area of that town. A second division of land among these proprietors was made in 1719. At that time some changes had been made in the proprietors. John Sabin was in possession of the right of Samuel Ruggles; Joseph Chandler, in that of Deacon John Chandler; John Mo-wry, in that of Thomas Mowry; Ebenezer Sabin, in that of Deacon Benjamin Sabin; and Captain John Chandler, in that of Samuel Gore. The distribution of lands to the proprietors, about four hundred acres to each share, was made in the western part of the town, and was later included in the parish of Abington.
The opening of new territory was followed by a fresh influx of population. Sales and transfers of land became more frequent, and many families were added to the settlement. Jonathan Hide, William Hamlet, Abiel Cheney, Jonathan Dana, Archibald McCoy, Ebenezer Holbrook, Jehoshaphat Holmes, Samuel Perrin and Daniel Waldo appear as residents of Pomfret, prior to 1720; William Sharpe, Samuel Sumner, John and James Ingalls, soon after that date. Hide bought purchase land of Truesdell; Hamlet removed from Woburn to an allotment laid out to Samuel Ruggles, comprising the hill still known as Hamlet's; Cheney's first residence was south of Mashamoquet, on land bought of Major Fitch, east of Newichewanna brook; Holmes was still farther southward. McCoy's homestead was the fifth lot of the square, bought of Captain John Sabin in 1716; Waldo's, east side of the highway, farther northward, on land bought of Captain Chandler. A beautiful triangular farm, bordering on the Mashamoquet, laid out first to Samuel Gore and sold successively to Captain John Chandler, Thomas Hutchinson and Francis Clark, was purchased by John Holbrook, of Roxbury, whose son,Ebenezer, took possession of it in 1719. The Perrin farm on the Quinebaug, early secured by Samuel, of Woodstock, was occupied first by his son Samuel, who there built, it is said, in 1714, the fine mansion so long known as the "old Perrin House." Jonathan Dresser,brother to Richard, of Nashaway, bought land of Nathaniel Gray in 1717. About 1720, William Sharpe, with his wife Abigail, daughter of John White, one of the original proprietors of Mashamoquet, and their seven sons, three daughters and a daughter's husband-Samuel Gridley-removed to Pomfret, settling upon a second-division lot between Goodell's and Grosvenor's, in what is the north part of Abington. Two years later, Samuel Sumner, son of George Sumner, of Roxbury. took possession of the sixth lot of the square, purchased of Captain Sabin-building his house near the site of the present Quaker meeting house, and marrying Elizabeth Griffin, probably daughter of Joseph, the Mashamoquet proprietor. The young Ingalls brothers, who came up with their widowed mother, Hannah Ingalls, from Andover,bought a second-division lot in the southwest of the purchase, and made them a home in the depths of the wilderness. Joseph Craft appears at about this date as a resident of the west part of Pomfret. It is quite possible that his land was secured by an early grant from Major Fitch. as the name of Samuel Craft appears among the original grantees of the town and no subsequent deed has been discovered. Some sales of land were also made to non-residents. Several tracts were sold by Captain Chandler to Jonathan Waldo, of Boston. Eight hundred acres of second-division land, south of the Mashamoquet and west of Newichewanna brook were sold by Major Fitch, in 1714, to John Dyer, of Canterbury, and by him conveyed to Colonel Thomas Fitch, of Boston.The strip of lard west of the purchase, embracing about two thousand acres, was made over by Major Fitch to his son Daniel in 1719.
History of Windham County, Connecticut by Ellen Larned, Volume 1, says this, speaking of Masjamoquet:
"Nathaniel Gary removed to the new settlement probably as early as 1698, settling on land east of the Purchase, received, according to tradition, for his services as chain-bearer in laying out that tract,having all he could encompass in an hour's nimble running. The payment of twelve pounds secured him, in 1699, a deed of five hundred and fifty acres "southeast from Woodstock", in what was afterwards called the Gary neighborhood."
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The First Church of Roxbury, built in 1804 and fifth on the site since1632
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Settled 1630
Incorporated 1846
Annexed by Boston 1868
Time zone Eastern (UTC)
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Area code(s) 617 / 857
Roxbury is a neighborhood within Boston, Massachusetts USA. It was one of the first towns founded in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630,and became a city in 1846 until annexed to Boston on January 5,1868.[1] The original town of Roxbury once included the current Boston neighborhoods of Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, West Roxbury, the South End and much of Back Bay. Roxbury now generally ends at Columbus Avenue to the north and Lenox Street to the east. The original boundaries of the Town of Roxbury can be found in Drake's History of Roxbury and its noted Personages. Those boundaries include the Christian Science Center, the Prudential Center (built on the old Roxbury Railroad Yards) and everything south and east of the Muddy River including Symphony Hall, Northeastern University, Y.M.C.A.,Harvard Medical School and many hospitals and schools in the area.This side of the Muddy River is Roxbury, the other side is Brookline and Boston. Franklin Park, once entirely within Roxbury when Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury and Roslindale were villages within the town of Roxbury until 1854, has been divided with the line between Jamaica Plain and Roxbury located in the vicinity of Peter Parley Road on Walnut Avenue, through the park to Columbia Road. Here, Walnut Avenue changes its name to Sigourney Street, indicating the area is now Jamaica Plain. One side of Columbia Road is Roxbury the other is Dorchester. Melnea Cass Boulevard is located approximately over the Roxbury Canal that brought boats into Roxbury bypassing the busy the port of Boston in the 1830s.
Note: A google search got a hit on the book "American Marriage Records Before 1699" by William Montgomery Clemens. It shows a marriage for Mary [not Ann] Rice and Nathaniel Gary, 12 Nov 1684, at Roxbury, Mass.
Events
| Birth | 4 Jul 1663 | Roxbury, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts |  | ||
| Baptism | 5 Jul 1663 | Roxbury, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts | |||
| Marriage | 12 Nov 1685 | Roxbury, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts - Anne RICE | | ||
| Miscellaneous | Apr 1686 | Among 13 original settlers of "New Roxbury", now Woodstock, CT and drew lot 18, 15 acares of land in the easta vale of the town. | |||
| Miscellaneous | 1700 | One of the founders of the settlement of Mashamoquet (incorporated as Pomfret, CT in 1713). | |||
| Marriage | 11 Feb 1713 | Pomfret, Connecticut - Mary FAIRBANKS | | ||
| Residence | 1715 | Moved fropm Pomfret, CT to Enfield, CT. | |||
| Death | Mar 1740 | Enfield, Hartford Co., Connectiut | |||
| Reference No | 8977 |
Families
| Spouse | Anne RICE ( - 1712) |
| Child | Nathaniel GARY (1686 - ) |
| Child | Hannah GARY (1689 - ) |
| Child | Sarah GARY (1691 - ) |
| Child | Ann GARY (1693 - ) |
| Child | Joshua GARY (1694 - ) |
| Child | Elisha GARY (1696 - 1696) |
| Child | Mehetable GARY (1697 - ) |
| Child | Mary GARY (1699 - ) |
| Child | Rachel GARY (1700 - 1741) |
| Child | Elizabeth GARY (1703 - ) |
| Child | Jemima GARY (1706 - ) |
| Child | Naomi GARY (1707 - ) |
| Child | Rebecca GARY (1709 - ) |
| Spouse | Mary FAIRBANKS (1674 - 1740) |
| Child | Eunice GARY (1714 - ) |
| Child | Abigail GARY (1717 - ) |
| Father | Nathaniel GARY (1633 - 1678) |
| Mother | Anne DOUGLAS (1637 - 1691) |
| Sibling | Hannah GARY (1659 - 1670) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth GARY (1661 - ) |
| Sibling | Mary GARY (1661 - ) |
| Sibling | Sarah GARY (1665 - ) |
| Sibling | William GARY (1666 - ) |
| Sibling | Rebecca GARY (1668 - 1679) |
| Sibling | Hannah GARY (1671 - ) |
| Sibling | Samuel GARY (1673 - 1759) |
| Sibling | Deborah GARY (1675 - 1679) |
| Sibling | Dorcas GARY ( - 1679) |
Endnotes
1. Vital Records of Roxbury Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, Pg. 144.
2. Ancestry.com database, Pg. 295.
3. Vital Records of Roxbury Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, Pg. 162.
4. Ancestry.com database, Pg. 155.