John Peabody
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Husband: John PEABODY died at age 77 |
[The material below has been copied from Selim N. Peabody's book, Peabody Genealogy, which was published in 1909.]
John Paybody, born in England; came to Plymouth, New England, as early as 1636, for his name is in the list of freemen of the colony dated March 7, 1636-7, and he was admitted and sworn with others whose names are in that list Jan. 2, 1637-8. He received a grant of ten acres of land Jan. 1, 1637-8, "on Duxburrow side, lying betwixt the lands of William Tubs on the north side and Experience Mitchell on the south side, and from the sea in the west, and from Blew Fish River in the easte." Another tract, granted him Nov. 2, 1640, was 30 acres "with meadow to it" at North River. He was a member of the jury which convicted three young Englishmen of the murder of an Indian Sept. 4, 1638, and of "Grand Inquest" at the court June 4, 1639. He was one of the sureties on a neighbor's bond June 4, 1645. No other references to him appear in the records of the colony, save the following copy of his will and testimony about it.
THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JOHN PAYBODY
In and upon the sixteenth of July in the yeare of out Lord 1649 I John Paybody of Durbrook in the Collonie of New Plymouth planter being in prfect health and sound in memory God be blesses for it doe ordaine and make this my last Will and Testament In manner and forme as foloweth
Imprimis I bequeath mu soule to God that gave it hopeing to be saved by the Meritt of Christ my blessed Savior and Redeemer; as for my worldly as followeth
Item I give and bequeath unto Thomas my eldest sonne one shilling
Item I give and bequeath unto ffrancis Paybody my second son one shilling
Item I give and bequeath unto William Paybody my youngest son one shilling
Item I give and bequeath unto Annis Rouse my daughter one shilling
Item I give and bequeath unto John Rouse the son of John Rouse my lands att Carswell in Marshfield after my wifes decease;
Item I give and bequeath unto John Paybody the son of William my lott of Land att the new plantation;
Item I give and bequeath all the rest of my goods that are mine liveing and dead unto my wife Isabell Paybody whome I make my sole executrix of this my last Will and Testament; memorandum all these legasyes before sett downe are to be payed by William Paybody my youngest son when they shalbe demanded
John Paybody
John ffernesyde
Boston in New England
the 27th of Aprill 1667
Mr John ffernesyde came before me inder written and deposed that by order of John Paybody above written and mentioned: hee wrote what is written above written and Read it to the said John Paybody on the day of the date thereof and declared the same to be his Last Will and that when hee soe did hee was of a sound disposing mind to his best knowlidge and alsoe subscribed his name thereunto John ffernesyde as a witness:
As Attestest Edward
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No document of any sort is appended to this copy of the will and the accompanying deposition of Mr. Fernyside. Doubtless an inventory was taken duly but has become lost. The copy does not give absolut evidence that the name was spelled exactly this way in the original, thought this would be usual with recorders; but it affords satisfactory evidence that the signature was an autograph and not a "mark".
The children mentioned are not certainly all that survived, though it was usual for a man to mention all; no record has been found about the eldest son, Thomas; perhaps he did not come to this country. The second son bears a name which was not at all common in the pioneer families of New England, nor as frequently given in England as other christian names. As the English records show, the name was found in only a single instance in any other Paybody family there in that period. The fact that a Francis was living right here in Massachusetts, at the time the will was written, and whose age and conditions matched this case, has seemed to all who have made close study of the subject strong evidence that Francis of Ipswich was the second son of John of Duxbury; Ipswitch was so short a distance from Duxbury that communication would have been easy.
Although there has not yet been discovered any family record of this Duxbury pioneer or other documentary evidence that Francis of Ipswitch was his child, yet that theory is acted on in this work. The genealogy of Francis is first given, then that of William and his descendents, generations being similarly numbered in the two parts.
John Paybody died at a time and place of which no record has been found.
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Children:
i. Thomas, named in his father's will.
2. ii. Francis, named in his father's will.
3. iii. William, b. about 1619.
iv. Annis, m. about 1639 John Rouse (Rowe) of Marshfield. He d. Dec 16, 1684; she d. about 1688, each leaving a will.