Anthony Annable (1599 - 1672)

Born 1599 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

Husband of Jane (Momford) Annable — married 29 Apr 1619 in All Saints, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

Husband of Ann (Clark) Annable — married 3 Mar 1644 in Barnstable, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 24 Feb 1672 at about age 73 in Barnstable, Plymouth Colony

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Anthony Annable migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See Great Migration Begins, by R. C. Anderson, Vol. 1, p. 47) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography^[1]

Anthony immigrated from England on the Anne and arrived at Plymouth on July 10, 1623. He brought with him, wife Jane and daughters, Sarah and Hannah. He was from Cambridge in Cambridgeshire in England. He was one of the first settlers of Scituate, MA in 1630, and was listed among the freemen 1Jan 1632/3,^[2], then Scituate (1633), then Barnstable (1639). He was representative in 1639 for Scituate and in 1646 for Barnstable, MA. He evidently served frequently thereafter as well.^[3]

"Goodman Anniball and his wife" were #4 and #5 among the founding members of the Scituate church on 8 January 1634/5 [ NEHGR 9:279]; they may well have been members of the Plymouth church earlier. They stayed with Lathrop and his church when it moved to Barnstable."

That he was literate and well educated is suggested by his inclusion on the 1636 and 1645 committees to reform the laws. Inventory included books valued at 15 shillings.

He married first at All Saints, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, 26 April ^[4][5] or 29 April 1619^[6] Jane Moumford; "Sister Anniball buried the 13th day of the tenth month [December] 1643 in the Calves pasture" Barnstable [ NEHGR 9:285].

He m2 Barnstable 3 March 1644 or 1 March 1645 Ann Elcock or Clark [ MD 2:212; PCR 2:80, 8:41; see also Otis 17-18]. In his will of 25 June 1672 Thomas Shaw of Barnstable bequeathed to "Ann Annible, the wife of Anthony Annible" (without stating any relation to himself) his bed and all his bedding [ PCPR 3:1:42; NEHGR 7:236]. On 30 October 1677 "Anne Annible of Barnstable, widow," was fined 20s. "for selling of beer to English and Indians without license" [ PCR 5:246]. She was still living as late as 30 October 1678, when she was named in the settlement of the estate of her son Samuel Annible [ PCR 5:272].

He died between 23 April 1674 (codicil to will) and 4 June 1674 (probate of will).

Service

• Constable (1633/4 and 5);
• committee on "the trade" 1 October 1634 [ PCR 1:31];
• committee to reform colony laws 4-5 October 1636, 4 June 1645 [ PCR 1:44, 2:85];
• jury 4-5 October 1636 [ PCR 1:44];
• Plymouth petit jury 6 March 1637/8, 2 March 1640/1, 1 March 1641/2 [ PCR 7:8, 19, 29];
• Plymouth coroner's jury 15 March 1657/8, 22 October 1668 [ PCR 3:147, 5:7];
• Scituate deputy to Plymouth General Court, 4 June 1639 [ PCR 1:126];
• Barnstable deputy to Plymouth General Court, 2 June 1640, 1 June 1641, 7 June 1642, 27 September 1642, 6 June 1643, 10 October 1643, 5 March 1643/4, 5 June 1644, 20 August 1644, 28 October 1645, 1 June 1647, 4 June 1650, 5 June 1651, 7 June 1653, 3 June 1656, 3 June 1657 [ PCR 1:155; 2:16, 40, 46, 57, 63, 68, 72, 75, 94, 117, 154, 168; 3:32, 99, 115];
• in Barnstable in the 1643 list of men able to bear arms [ PCR 8:193];
• committee for the defense of Barnstable, 10 October 1643 [ PCR 2:65];
• committee on taxes, 2 June 1646 [ PCR 2:101].

Property

• 1623: granted four acres in Plymouth land division "on the other side of the town towards Eel River" [ PCR 12:6].
• 1627 division of cattle the eighth company included Anthony, Jane, Sara and Hannah Anable [ PCR 12:11-12].
• 9 June 1630 Anthony Anable sold to Daniel Ray his dwelling house, garden plot, fence and "and all the privileges thereunto belonging" for £15 [ PCR 12:17-18].
• Taxed 18s. on 25 March 1633 and 9s. on 27 March 1634 [ PCR 1:10, 27].
• Before the end of September 1634 Anthony Annable had built a "small plain pallizadoe" house at Scituate [ NEHGR 10:42].
• On 29 September 1639 Anthony Annable of Barnstable, planter, sold to Thomas Rawlins of Scituate "my dwelling house and out house and all my lands thereunto appertaining, viz:" twenty-two acres, on the northeast side of the first herring brook, nine acres of marsh on the same side of the first herring brook, eighty acres of upland on the north side of the North River, and thirteen acres of marsh thereto belonging [ PCR 12:82-83, 85].
• Anthony Annible was one of the Purchasers or Old Comers [ PCR 2:177]. On 5 March 1660/1 he had permission to purchase at Saconeesett [ PCR 3:216], and on 1 June 1669 he was granted "competent accommodation of land" at Teticut [ PCR 5:20, 24].

Last Will & Testament

Dated 24 February 1672 and probated 4 June 1674, Anthony Annible bequeathed to wife Ann Annible dwelling house and all lands "which lyeth between that land which I have formerly given to my son, Samuel Annible, and Goodman Blush's land," along with half the meadow and half the Great Meadow, for life, and all movables to be at wife's disposal; to daughter Desire Annible household stuff left at wife's decease; to each of my daughters 12d. In a codicil of 23 April 1674 he gave his remaining lands to son Samuel Annible at his wife's decease, Samuel to pay £30 to [Anthony's] daughter Desire Annible. The inventory, presented 18 June 1674, totalled £100 9s. 6d., with no real estate included [ PCPR 3:1:101; MD 25:90].^[7]

Children

With first wife

1. SARAH, bp. 24 March 1619 in St Clement's, Cambridge, Cambridge, England;^[8] m. "Greens-harbour" [Marshfield] 22 or 23 November 1638 Henry Ewell [ PCR 1:108; NEHGR 9:286].
2. HANNAH, b. Plymouth 1623 (date and place of birth so stated because she was presumably one of those accounted for in the grant of four acres to her father in 1623, and in a 3 June 1662 list of those eligible for a grant of land "as being the first born children of this government" is "Anthony Anible for his daughter, Hannah Burman" [ PCR 4:19]); m. 10 March 1645[/6] Thomas Bourman [ MD 3:51; other dates recorded are 3 March 1644 and 1 March 1645 (PCR 2:80, 8:41), to be compared against the dates of marriage of her father to his second wife]. Anthony Annible was appointed adminstrator on the estate of Thomas Burman, 1 June 1663 [ PCR 4:41].
3. SUSANNA, b. about 1630; "Will[iam] Hatch married to Susanna Anniball daughter of Anth. Anniball" at Scituate 13 May 1652 [ MD 2:33].
4. Daughter, "Brother Anniball buried a maid child being born somewhat before the time" Scituate 8 April 1635 [ NEHGR 9:284].
5. DEBORAH, bp. Scituate 7 May 1637 [ NEHGR 9:281]; no further record.

With 2nd wife:

1. SAMUEL, b. Barnstable "about 22 of January 1646 [i.e, 1645/6]" [ MD 2:212], bp. Barnstable 8 February 1645/6 [ NEHGR 9:283]; m. Barnstable 1 June 1667 Mehitable Allyn [ MD 2:213].
2. ESEK, bp. Barnstable 29 April 1649 [ NEHGR 9:284]; no further record.
3. DESIRE, b. Barnstable "about beginning of October 1653" [ MD 2:212], bp. Barnstable 16 October 1653 [ NEHGR 9:284]; m. Barnstable 18 January 1676[/7] John Barker [ MD 3:52].

Comments

"In a set of Plymouth Colony vital records published in 1855 are records which indicate that Anthony Annable's second wife died in 1651, that Annable married a third time, and that this third wife also soon died [ NEHGR 9:315, 317]. Since Annable names a wife Ann in his 1672 will, a fourth wife is implied. Savage apparently based his treatment of the Annable family on these records, but Otis noted that events occurring in the family of Abraham Blish (or Blush) had been applied to Anthony Annable, that Annable had only two wives, and that Savage would be correcting his account, which he did in his fourth volume [ Savage 1:59, 4:674; Otis 18]. The problem arose because the records published in 1855 had been rearranged, and do not correspond to the originals."

"In his marriage index, Torrey identifies the wife of Alexander Kennedy/Canedy as Elizabeth Annable. This does not derive from any of the sources cited by Torrey, and is apparently a suggestion based on the fact that this couple named a child Annable in 1698 [ MD 1:209]. Despite this interesting name, the chronology makes such an identification unlikely."

"The most recent treatment of this immigrant and his descendants, The Anable Family in America: 1623-1967, authored by Anthony Anable and published in 1967, is inadequately documented and makes unsubstantiated claims about the English origin of the immigrant."

Note items in brackets [ ] are Anderson Great Migration Citations

Sources

1. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins
2. ↑ Anderson citing Plymouth Colony Records 1:52
3. ↑ page 137 in The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers by Charles Edward Banks, p.137 and A Genealogical Dictionary of New England by James Savage, Vol. 1, pages 58-59. Typed by Tracey (Durant) Lackey on September 1, 1997.
4. ↑ NEHGR 65:380.
5. ↑ Blagg, Thomas M., Cambridgeshire parish registers. Marriages (London : Phillimore & Co., 1911) Vol. 4:9.
6. ↑ "England, Cambridgeshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1538-1983," database, FamilySearch (23 February 2021), > image 1 of 1; Cambridge University Library, England.
7. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-897D-V38J : 9 March 2023), Wills 1633-1686 vol 1-4 > image 352 of 616; State Archives, Boston.
8. ↑ Baptism: "England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975" Original data: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013; FHL Film Number: 1040438 Ancestry Record 9841 #142664068 (accessed 6 September 2023) Sarah Anable baptism on 24 Mar 1619, daughter of Anthony Anable, in St Clement's, Cambridge, Cambridge, England.

• Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33, Edition: [database online], Volume 1; New England Historical Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995 pp 47-50. AmericanAncestors (subscription)
• Plymouth Colony: Its History and its People, Ancestry Publishing, Salt Lake City, UT, 1986
• Otis, Amos. Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families (F.B. & F.P. Goss, Publishers and Printers, Barnstable, Mass., 1888) Vol. 1, Page 13-18
• The First Settlers of Barnstable, MS., The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1848) Vol. 2, Page 64
• Wikipedia. 'The ships Anne and Little James" [1]

Footnotes

• England: Marriages, 1538-1973. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Original index: England Marriages, 1538-1973. FamilySearch, 2014.) [2]