Giles Badger (bef. 1610 - abt. 1647)

Born before 1610 in St Mary de Lode, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Greenleaf) Browne — married about 1642 in Boston, MA

Descendants

Died about 10 Jul 1647 after about age 37 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

The circumstantial evidence "is very strong" that Giles was the son of John Badger of Wotton in the Parish of St Mary de Lode, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, born ca. 1610.^[1] Giles and two of his brothers, Nathaniel and Richard, perhaps used the proceeds of their father's 1639 will to finance passage to New England.^[2] Although at least one source places the Badgers at New England in 1635,^[3] the date of their father's will awarding them tenements makes that unlikely.

Newbury

The first actual record of Giles' presence in the Massachusetts Bay Colony is a land purchase in the new town of Newbury on July 12, 1639.^[1] In March of 1641, Giles was on a list as having two acres at Parker River.^[4] On December 7, 1642, the three brothers were listed as "freeholders by the towne...and to have proportionable right in all waste lands, commons, and rivers..."^[5] As the Town expanded with a settlement at Merrimack River, Gyles and Richard Badger elected to take up residence there. In 1645 Giles was granted "four acres of land joyning to fish street," now State Street in Newburyport.^[6]

Family

In about 1642 Giles Badger married Elizabeth Greenleaf very likely at Newbury. Her father deeded land to the couple in October of 1642.^[7] They had one known child:

• John Badger bp "last of June 1653"^[8]

Death and Estate

Gyles Badger died at Newbury on July 14, 1647.^[9] He left a will made on June 29 of that year which left property to his wife and only child. It was proved on September 28, 1647.^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Joslyn, Roger D. "The English Ancestry of the Newbury Badgers." The American Genealogist, Volume 58. New Haven, CT: 1982. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) By Subscription $. Page 96.
2. ↑ Badger, Alice. Four Ancestral Lines and Descendants of Erastus Beethoven and Fanny Babcock (Campbell) Badger. Chestnut Hill, MA: Self-Published, 1982. Page 18.
3. ↑ Coffin, Joshua. A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, from 1635 to 1845. Boston, MA: Samuel G. Drake, 1845. Page 294.
4. ↑ Currier, John J. History of Newbury, Mass. 1635-1902. Boston, MA: Damrell & Upham, 1902. Page 55.
5. ↑ Coffin, 1845. Page 292.
6. ↑ Currier, 1902. Page 90.
7. ↑ Joslyn, 1982. Page 97.
8. ↑ Vital Records of Newbury Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 Vol I Births. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1911. Vol 1, page 30.
9. ↑ VRs of Newbury Vol II Marriages and Deaths. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1911. Vol. 2, page 541.
10. ↑ The Probate Records of Essex County Massachusetts Volume I, 1635-1664. Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1916. Page 78.

See also:

• Stearns, Ezra S. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire (Lewis Publishing Company, 1908) Vol. 2, Page 546
• Badger, John Cogswell. Giles Badger and His Descendants (J.B. Clarke Co., Manchester, NH, 1909) Page 5
• Virkus, Frederick Adams. The Compendium of American Genealogy (Chicago, A.N. Marquis & company, 1925-)
• Haskin, Joseph A. Haskin: The Family, 1660-1968. Little Rock, Arkansas: J.A. Hatcher, 1968, page 3 (Giles Badger mentioned in entry for Daniel Haskin.):