Nathaniel Treadway (1615 - 1689)

Born 7 Aug 1615 in Semley, Wiltshire, England

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Died 20 Jul 1689 at age 73 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Nathaniel Treadway migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Directory, by R. C. Anderson, p. 340) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

Nathaniel Treadway was born in Semley, Wiltshire, England August 7, 1615. He was the son of Nathaniel Treadway and Mary Howe Treadway. [4] [7]

Nathaniel was married about 1639, probably in Sudbury, Middlesex County, to Sufferance Haynes, daughter of Walter Haynes and Elizabeth Gourd Haynes. [1] [2] [6]

He relocated to Sudbury, Middlesex County about 1639 [1] [2]

Nathaniel Treadway died in Watertown, Middlesex County July 20, 1689, He was buried in the Old Burying Ground, in Watertown. His wife died there July 22, 1682. [1] [2] [3] [5] [7]

Death

20 JUL 1689 Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

Marriage

10 MAY 1640 Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

Wife: Sufferance Haynes

Child: Elizabeth Treadway

Sources

*Treadway and Burket Families; by William E. Treadway, pub 1951 CORRECTED EARLIER ERRORS including wife's last name, HAYNES not How.

• Hurd, D. Hamilton. History of New London County, Connecticut With Biographical Sketches (J.W. Lewis & Co., 1882)

• Page 244-5: "Nathaniel Treadway married Sufferance, daughter of Edward Howe (incorrect), and removed to Watertown about 1645. He was repeatedly chosen selectman, and died in 1689... his brother Josiah, who had no son... Nathaniel had three sons, Jonathan (of Sudbury), Josiah (last of Charlestown), and James. His daughter Lydia married Josiah Jones, Sr."

https://archive.org/stream/familymemorialsg00bond#page/606/mode/2up Shows he was a weaver.

[1] Henry Bond: "Early Settlers of Watertown"; page 607

[2] Charles Henry Pope: "Pioneers of Massachusetts". page 461

[3] Watertown Vital Records, Births, Marriages and Deaths; Volume I, page 102

[4] Ancestry.com Bulletin Board, posting 8/11/2008 by R S Treadway.

[5] Middlesex County, Massachusetts Probate Index 1648-1870; 1689 - will. file #22774

[6] New England Marriages prior to 1700; Second Torrey Supplement; page 64

[7] U S Find a Grave; Memorial @64197188

• Great Migration Directory, page 340

See also:

• Smith, Dean Crawford. The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908 (NEHGS, Boston, 1996), p.451-461.
• Roger Thompson. Divided we stand: Watertown, Massachusetts, 1630-1680. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 2001. p. 44-50.
• The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .). p. 171-80. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/13130/171/0
• The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .). p.86. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/13131/86/0
• Find A Grave: Memorial #64197188 Nathaniel Treadway
• “Nathaniel Treadway of Massachusetts – The Treadway Web,” accessed May 8, 2023, https://thetreadwayweb.com/nathanieltreadway/.