Nathaniel Turner (bef. 1638 - 1715)

Born before 10 Mar 1638 in Scituate, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Mehitable (Rigby) Turner — married 29 Mar 1664 (to 22 Mar 1680) in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Husband of Abigail (Eames) Turner — married 1691 (to Mar 1709) in Scituate, Plymouth. Colony

Descendants

Died 31 Jan 1715 after age 76 in Scituate, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Nathaniel Turner, the son of "Umphrey" and Lydia (Gaymer) Turner, was baptised on 10 March 1638 in Scituate, Plymouth Colony.^[1]

Nathaniel and Mehetabel Rigby were married by Capt. Roger Clap of Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony on 29 January 1665. The Scituate record incorrectly calls her "Bigbee."^[2][3] She was the daughter of John and Isabel (Prescott) Rigby baptised in Dorchester on 23 April 1643. The church record also notes that she married "Mr Turner of Scittuate".^[4] Mehitable died in Scituate on 22 March 1680.^[5]

Nathaniel married, secondly, Abigail (Eames) Stockbridge after 1683. Abigail was the daughter of Anthony and Margery (Unknown) Eames, born about 1633 in Fordington, Dorset, England. She was the widow of Charles Stockbridge who died in Scituate on 28 December 1683.^[6][7]

"Nathaniell" died on 31 January 1715 in Scituate, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay.^[8][9]

Sources

1. ↑ NEHGS, compiler, Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1976), [https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofscbyu01scit/page/380/mode/1up Vol. 1, p. 380.

   "Turner, Nathaniel, s. Umphrey, bp. Mar. 10, 1638. C.R.1."

2. ↑ VRs of Scituate Vol. 2, p. 306.

   "Turner, Nathanell and Mehetabell Bigbee, Mar. 29, 1664-5."

3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (30 October 2019), Suffolk > Dorchester > Births, marriages, deaths 1631-1844 > image 17 of 349; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston. Copy of Dorchester Births, Marriages & Deaths 1631-1844, citing page 79 of original record.
4. ↑ Dorchester, Records of the First Church at Dorchester, in New England, 1636- 1734 (Boston, Mass. : G.H. Ellis, 1891), p. 156.

   "mehitabell Rigby vicesimo 3^tio : 2^do : 43

   "(to m^r Turner of Scittuate)" (baptised 23:2:1643, or April 23 1643)

5. ↑ NEHGS, compiler, Vital Records of Scituate MA to 1850 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1976), Vol. 2, p. 457.

   "Turner, Mehetabell, w. Nathanael, Mar. 22, 1680."

6. ↑ Scituate VRs Vol. 2:445.
7. ↑ Joslyn, Roger D., "The Descendants of John Stockbridge," NEHGR Vol. 133(1979):191. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.)
8. ↑ NEHGS, compiler, Vital Records of Scituate MA to 1850 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1976), Vol. 2, p. 457.

   "Turner, Nathaniell, Jan. 31,1715."

9. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
   citing Death, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009271.
   FamilySearch Record: FHPT-N4D (accessed 20 September 2022)
   FamilySearch Image: 3QS7-L979-7FSS Image number 00144
   Nathanial Turner death 31 Jan 1715 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony.