George Sisson (1644 - abt. 1718)

Born 17 Jul 1644 in Dartmouth, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Lawton) Sisson — married 1 Aug 1667 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island

Descendants

Died about 7 Sep 1718 at about age 74 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island

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Biography

Birth

1644 Dartmouth,Bristol, Massachusetts, USA

Marriage

1667 RI

Death

1718-09-07: Portsmouth,Newport,Rhode Island, USA

Residence

In 1667 he went with his father to East Main Road. A house was built by Richard and Mary's son George, or possibly by George's son Richard who inherited the land in Portsmouth. It can be seen at 1236 East Main Road, Portsmouth, Rhode Island. "The homestead farm was given to Richard (3rd generation) the eldest son, and has descended to the present time.^[1] Flowing through this property is the Mintwater Brook.^[2]

It was purchased (about 1998) by Roland A. Morgan, a trained archaeologist, who planned in 1998 to open an antique shop there. ^[3]

On 7 April 1677, he traded his sister Anne's husband Peleg Tripp 32 acres in Portsmouth including houses, orchards, fencing, &c., for 3/8 share of some property in Dartmouth, Mass.

Occupation

Farmer

Event

On 5 June 1671, he served on a Grand Jury. At the same date he and others were appointed to view the damage done to the Indians by horses and hogs.

On November 28, 1673, George was admitted as a freeman at Portsmouth. ^[4]

On July 14, 1687 he was sworn in as Constable of Portsmouth. ^[5] He was commissioned to attend the General Assembly in Providence June 19, 1696. 1690 George was a deputy to the [Massachusetts?] colonial assembly in 1690, 1702, 1705 & 1707, and was a Justice of the Peace 1703. He was a town councilman in Portsmouth in 1695, 1696, and 1697. ^[6]

In 1692, George signed a receipt for his share of his mother's estate.^[7]

Wills

• On June 24, 1687 he was appointed Administrator of his brother John's widow Mary's estate.

• “Abstracts from the first book of Bristol County [Massachusetts] Records” Mary Sison of Dartmouth widow, made her will: "the fifteenth day of the second month Caled aprill" 1690, "being uery ill in body.” - To my loving son Georg Sison L35 in money and a Bible. [L=pound sign] ^[8]

• A transcription of George's will:

• To eldest son Richard, "about 80 acres in northerly part of farm where I dwell, also 17 acres near 'Solentary Hole,' and all lands owned in Warwick."

• To son George, "farm now possessed by him at Touisset Neck, Swanzey." To son Thomas, "land at Newport, now possessed by him."

• To son John, land and housing in Tiverton, he paying L70 as follows:

• To daughters Elizabeth Clarke, Anne Weeden, Hope Sanford, Ruth Tew and Abigail Tew, L10 each and L20 to granddaughter Jane Sisson, daughter of John, when she is eighteen.

• To son James, remainder of lands in Portsmouth, with all buildings, fencing and orchards, &c., "only excepting the burial place, to be kept well fenced by my son James Sisson, his heirs and assigns forever, which is hereby preserved for my poster. To son James, also old negro man Abraham and Lucy his wife, twenty sheep, two great tables, two great forms, cupboard, yoke, chains, &c. "My grindstone I give equally between my sons Richard Sisson and James Sisson, for the improvement of them and theirs."

• To five daughters, equally, silver money and plate, and to each a feather bed, &c. To granddaughter Sarah Clarke, a feather bed and L10. Rest of movables to daughters. The inventory of George's estate showed his property was worth L441, 18s, 8d (with subsequent addition of L10, 5s.) [Note: In 1669, L440 was worth roughly $135,000 in late 20th century money. Each pound was worth approximately $307.]

• George owned wearing apparel valued at L8/11s/, armour worth L2, plate at 8s per ounce L8/12s/2d, silver money L13/12s/6d, Bills of Public Credit L69/8s/6d, books, 4 cows, half of 5 steers, 3 yearlings, and 2 calves, 2 mares, colt, 93 sheep and lambs, half of 4 swine and 4 shoats, geese, turkeys and fowls, small table, 12 chairs, woolen wheel, cradle, churn, cheese motes, pewter, iron and brass ware, &c. ^[9][10]

• Mary Jo (Sisson) March sent this list of house furnishings in the Mintwater Brook House as listed in his will: 2 great tables, 2 great forms(?), "my standing cupboard," 6 feather beds & boulsters, "Rest of moveables equally to five daughters." books and spectacles, small table, 12 chairs, woolen wheel (spinning wheel?), cradle, pewter, earthen, brass, [and] iron ware, tongs, andirons, linen and flannel sheets, table linen.

• The inventory of George's estate showed his property was worth L441, 18s, 8d (with subsequent addition of L10, 5s.) [Note: In 1669, L440 was worth roughly $135,000 in late 20th century money. ^{[11] [12]}

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Alternate source for George The Snaith, Yorkshire /Registers of Baptisms 1559-1657/, show baptisms of children of Richard Sisson/s "ofHecke":

·Richard, May 15, 1634 (burial October 15, 1637, parish register of Crofton, Yorkshire)

·George, July 17, 1636

·Marie, June 24, 1639

·Thomas Aug 22, 1641 (buried November 26, 1641, Crofton register)

·Alice, March 23, 1642 [only seven months after the birth of Thomas]

None of them came to America, unless this is the George documented in New England and reported born in England in 1644. "Our" George Sisson of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, is a known son of Richard and Mary. If the George born in England in 1636 is to be identified with the George who came to New England, the arrival of Richard and Mary was probably considerably earlier than 1650. Why do no records document their presence in New England at any time between 1644 and 1651?

Sources

• Find A Grave: Memorial #183531629

• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Yates Publishing Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004.

• Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.Original data: Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.

• David A Geiger web site.

• Mecham, Leonidas DeVon,. Family book of remembrance and genealogy, with allied lines. Salt Lake City: unknown, 1952.

http://person.ancestrylibrary.com/tree/83396560/person/30479919687/facts

1. ↑ "Luther Sisson of Easton, Mass., His Ancestry and Descendants," compiled and printed by Arthur A. Wood, Slocum, RI, 1909.
2. ↑ Herbert H Hall, III, descendant of Richard Sisson (1st generation), living in Portsmouth.The History of Newport County, RI.
3. ↑ The Sisson Newsletter, v 6 #3 p 17,
4. ↑ the records of the colony of Rhode Island
5. ↑ Society in Rhode Island, 1636-1690" (published by Brown University Press, 1974)
6. ↑ Carl Bridenbaugh's "Fat Mutton and Liberty of Conscience: Society in Rhode Island, 1636-1690" (published by Brown University Press, 1974
7. ↑ " Probate records 1687-1916; index, 1687-1926 [Bristol County, Massachusetts]," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9YT-98XW : 3 August 2023), Film# 007703530, Bristol, Massachusetts, image 43, Vol 1.
8. ↑ New England Historic and Genealogical Register, vol. 62 (1908), p 182.
9. ↑ GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF RHODE ISLAND, by John Osborne Austin, Page 181.
10. ↑ EARLY AMERICAN HOMES, October, 1996, page 31.
11. ↑ GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF RHODE ISLAND, by John Osborne Austin, Page 181.
12. ↑ EARLY AMERICAN HOMES, October, 1996, page 31.
13. ↑ Sisson wills;
14. ↑ Lawton genealogy;
15. ↑ Austin's "Genealogical Dictionary of RI; Tiverton and Portsmouth Vital Records," p. 95; Arnold, v.4, pp.48, 106, 107;
16. ↑ "Historical and Genealogical Miscellany of Early Settlers of New Jersey" by Stillwell, v.5, 1932.