Susanna (Boaden) Edgecomb (abt. 1660)

Born about 1660 in Scarborough, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

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Biography

6724. Susannah Boaden. Born ca 1655.

Children of John and Susannah (Boaden) Edgecomb:

i. Susanna Edgecomb, m. at Marblehead, MA, 6 Aug 1696 John Rhodes; http://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/G003074.pdf

ii. Mary Edgecomb, m. at Marblehead 3 Dec 1702 John Palmer;

iii. John Edgecomb; [also at Marblehead see marriages: Kelly, Grace [Baptism: March 31, 1689, Marblehead, Ma.], and John Edgecomb, Dec. 11, 1710.] and

iv. Nicholas Edgecomb, m. at Marblehead 25 Dec 1712 Mary Gale.

Research Notes

John Legg House . There was a house upon this lot before 1664 ; and John Clements, sr., of Marblehead, fisherman, conveyed the house and land to Maj. William Hathorne, sr., esq.* The deed is dated Nov. 2, 1677, but the sale occurred before 1664. For twenty-one pounds and ten shillings, Mr. Hathorne conveyed the house, orchard, garden and lot to John Roads of Marblehead, mariner, 16 : 11 : 1664. f Mr. Roads sold the same estate to Capt. John Legg of Marblehead, merchant, Dec. 23, 1698; J and, for seventy pounds, Mr. Legg conveyed to John Roads, sr., of Marblehead, fisherman, son of the former owner of that name, the said garden, orchard and pasture, with the house and barn thereon, April 29, 1708.§ Mr. Roads (also, Rhodes) died in 1725, his will, dated Oct. 28, 1721, being proved Sept. 10, 1725. He devised all his estate to his wife Susannah for her life , and at her decease to his three children, John Rhods, Benjamin Rhodes and Sarah Rhods,

Susannah married John Edgecomb, son of Nicholas Edgecomb (ca 1593-aft 8 Jun 1685) & Wilmot Randall (-aft 8 Jun 1685). Born ca 1653 in Scarborough, Cumberland County, Maine. John died in Saco, York County, Maine aft 1688. Occupation: fisherman. Pane-Joyce Genealogy _ Ambrose Boaden (2555) & Mary

" ... Nicholas was unable to write, and affixed his mark to several documents in which he appears. When he died it is stated by witnesses that he wished his son Robert to have his lands and care for his mother. His estate was small. In 1688 John Edgcomb petitions Gov. Andross for liberty to enlarge his holdings to 100 acres and for confirmation of land at Saco where he had 25 acres bought about six years since from John Bonighton, two acres of marsh left him by his father deceased, ten acres he bought of Philip Foxell, etc. Mass. Archives, 128, 220. In 1752 a suit was brought by heirs of Ambrose Boden formerly of Spurwink against John Rackley and others for trespass. Various depositions on file give valuable genealogical information. Nicholas Edgecombe, merchant, of Marblehead, and son of Susannah one of the daughters of Ambrose Boden, Jr. , was one of the plaintiffs. Suffolk files, 69, 41 8. Ambrose Boden was driven awav by the Indians in 1700 and that same year a John Edgecombe is taxed in Salem (Salem records). ..." The ancestry of Nicholas Davis, 1753-1832, of Limington, Maine.

Research Noes

Nicholas Edgecomb married Wilmot Randall, who was in the service of Mrs. Winter at Richmond's Island. In an account rendered by John Winter to Robert Trelawny in 1641, occurs the entre: "Received of Nicholas Edgecomb for yielding up of the maid Wilmot's time, which he married before her time was out, �5". After his marriage, Nicholas Edgecomb leased a farm of Captain Bonython, at Blue Point. In 1660, he removed, with his wife and six children, to Saco, Maine. The posterity of the Edgecombs "is still there now", wrote Sullivan, when he published his History of the District of Maine. See Mr. Baxter's note on Nicholas Edgecomb, Trelawn Papers, 327, 328.

Susanna was born about 1660. She passed away about 1673.

Sources

• The ancestry of Charity Haley, 1775-1800 : wife of Major Nicholas Davis of Limington, Maine by Davis, Walter Goodwin, 1885-1966

Publication date 1916 https://archive.org/details/ancestryofcharit00davi/page/n88/mode/1up

• Boaden Genealogy

• http://genealogytrails.com/maine/hist_begofcolonialmaine_ch14.html

• https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr04/rr04_064.html