Mary (Unknown) Pepper (abt. 1604)

Born about 1604 in England

Wife of Richard Pepper — married about 1630 in England

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Mary (Unknown) Pepper migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

Born about 1604 (age 30 in 1634)^[1]

Married about 1630 Richard Pepper^[1]

Died after 1634 last known record.^[2][1]

"A Note of the names and ages of all the Passengers which tooke shipping In the Francis of Ipswich Mr John Cutting bound for new England the last of Aprill 1634."^[3]

Richard Pepp[Pepper] aged 27^[3][1]

Mary his wife aged 30^[3][1]

On board at the same time but underage^[3]

Mary Pepp[Pepper] aged 3 and halfe^[3][1]

Stephen Beckett aged 11^[3]

Richard Pepper and his wife Mary Pepper were admitted to the Roxbury Church in 1634.^[4][1]

4 March 1634/5 Rich[ard] Pepp[er] was made Freeman^[2][1]

3 10m 1639 Richard Pepper for his extortion was fined 5 pounds. 3 March 1639/40 "Richrd Pepper his fine of 5 pounds is remitted to 6s 8d, wch hee paid.^[2][1]

1. Child: Mary age 3 and half April 1634 so b. about 1630^[3][1]

There are no other records, after 3 March 1639/40 of this family in New England. Died? Returned to England?^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10} Great Migration 1634-1635, M-P. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007. pp 437/8 American Ancestors ($)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., 5 volumes in 6 (Boston 1853-1854) Freeman 1: 370 fine p. 286
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6} Hotten, John Camden (editor). The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants, Religious Exiles, Political Rebels, Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years, Apprentices, Children Stolen, Maidens Pressed, and Others, who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700. London: John Camden Hotten, 1874. pp 278/9
4. ↑ Roxbury Land and Church Records, Sixth Report of the Boston Record Commissioners (Boston 1884), p 80