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Humphrey Chadbourne (bef. 1615 - bef. 1667)

Humphrey "Umfhrey" Chadbourne aka Chadburne
Born before in Tamworth, Staffordshire, Englandmap
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Husband of — married 1652 [location unknown]
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Died before at about age 52 in Kittery, York, Mainemap
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Biography

Humphrey Chadbourne immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Humphrey was christened April 1615 as Umfrey Chadburne, son of Willm Chadburne at St Editha, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England. [1]

Humphrey Chadbourne’s substantial homestead and merchant complex in Berwick (present-day South Berwick, Maine) was an archaeological “time capsule” – rapidly abandoned after being destroyed by the Wabanaki and their French allies in King William’s War (1688-1697). Escaping the Salmon Falls raid of 1690, the Chadbournes were forced to leave almost all of their possessions behind. Dr. Emerson “Tad” Baker, Professor of History at Salem State University, directed volunteers of the Old Berwick Historical Society and the Chadbourne Family Association in 13 seasons of excavation at the site between 1995 and 2007. The project uncovered a substantial array of finds - over 40,000 artifacts, from fancy door hardware to silver spoons and brass spurs, are now stored in the Counting House Museum, in South Berwick.

The Chadbournes belonged to the rising merchant elite of early New England. Humphrey Chadbourne Sr. migrated from Tamworth.

Supposedly Humphrey came over in the bark "Warwick", landing 9 Sept. 1631 as chief carpenter for David Thompson, patentee and built the Great House at Strawberry Bank where he lived for several years. If this were so, he would have had to have come with his brother-in-law Thomas Spencer in 1630 or have been the "factor" who came on the Warwick in 1631. If he was baptized in the year of his birth, he would have been only 16 in 1631, so it would be unlikely that he was the chief carpenter. The first record we have found indicating his presence in America is the 1640 list of Residents of NH, and in the same year he was named among the Kittery men who did not attend the court held at Saco.

He initially worked with his father to build and operate a saw mill for Captain John Mason on the present-day Great Works River, a tributary of the Piscataqua/Salmon Falls River. The mill soon ceased operations, but on 10 May 1643 Humphrey purchased a large tract of land from the local Wabanaki sachem, Sagamore Rowles, and established himself as a merchant and fur trader.

"Know all whom these may consarne that Humphrey Chadbourne have bought of Mr Roles the Sagamore of Newichawanuke Half a Mile of Ground which lieth betwixt the Little River & the Great River to begin at the Norther Side of ye old Ground... sd Mr Roles doth except a Parcel of Ground called by the Name of Comphegan wch he doth keep for himself… in the Presence of us Peter Weare Basill Parker James Rawlen Tho S Spencers Mark… the aforesd Sagamore Mr Roles hath hereunto set his hand May the 10th 1643…
The Mark of Mr. X Roles"[2]

Three years later Sagamore Rowles confirmed the sale of his fish weir at Little John's Falls reserving for himself the right to as many small alewives as he wanted and "half ye great Alewives that shall be taken at that Ware from Time to Time for ever". These falls are the succession of rapids in the Newichawannock River opposite the land bought by Humphrey: [3]

"I Mr. Roles Indian… for the Confirming of a former Bargain of Saile of my Right of the Ware at the Fales of the great River of Newichawanucke known by the Name of Little Johns Fales have sold… the same unto Humphrey Chadbourn… only I the sd Roles do except for my self my heirs & Ex so much smale Alewives to fish Ground as I… shall have Occasion to make Use of for Planting from Time to Time & likeways Fish for to eat & also Half ye great Alewifes that shall be taken at that Ware from Time to Time for ever… the Eight Day of May 1646…
The Mark of Mr. Roles X
The Mark of O Thomas Johnson
Patience Spencer” [4]

Although buying a house and 20 acres of land in Dover on 18 May 1645 from Christopher Lawson of Boston[5] he settled at Sturgeon Creek, Kittery on 150 acres of land purchased from Nicholas Shapleigh. This property is shown on the 1701 Kittery tax map as the "Plott of Mr. Humphrey Chadburns Farm at Sturgeon Creek". His house in South Berwick was later enlarged by his great-grandson Judge Benjamin Chadbourne and is still standing.

"I Humphry Chadbourn of Francisborough in the County of York Esqr testify & say that about sixty years agone that I have heard my Father & Uncle Humphry Chadbourn often speaking of their Grand father's Logg house or Loging house & that said house stood about half a mile Southerly of Quampeging Landing in Berwick near Little River now called great works river and further saith not." George Dod discharged Humphrey Chadbourne of his share of "The third part" of victualling and wages of Dod's man in the French voyage, apparently a shipping/trading venture in which Dod, Chadbourne and Henry Parkes were partners together until Dod bought out Chadbourne: [6]

Know all me by these prsent, yt I George Dod doe freely acquit & discharge Omphery Chadborne of the 3d part of victualling, & wages of my man in the ffrench vioage wrin myself Hen : Parkes, & ye sd Oumfrey Chadborne were partners togeather, & of allother debts, dews & demands, from the beginig of ye world to this present day
George Dod
Witnesse
Basell Parker"[7]

He was town clerk for several years after 1650, a selectman in 1651, a commissioner to settle the Wells/York bounds in 1657, deputy to the General Court in 1657, 1659, 1660, and an associate judge in 1662-3. In The Tory Lover, Sarah Orne Jewett called him "the law-giver of Kittery."

He had grants of 300 acres in 1651 and 1652:

"Att a Town meeteing in Kittery the 8th of Aprill 1651 : It is ordered at this Town Meeting that Thomas Spencer & Humfrey Chadborne to them… for ever shall have Namly Tomtinkers swampe & five hundred pine trees besids allotted unto them by the Townsmen when Mr. Leadr comes And it is further ordered that Thoms Spencer & Humfrey Chadborne… shall have free passage for the bringing of Tymber down the little River unto their Mill

It is further ordered at the same Meeting that Humfrey Chadborne shall have to him… thirty Aceers of Meddow… Adjoyning to a pond commonly Called by ye name of Sacoe Pond this grant of Meddow layd out June 14 : 1653 : By Capt Nicho : Shapleigh Nicho : Frost & Anthony Emery Select men

Wee the Select Townsmen for Kittery have granted & Lotted unto Humfrey Chadborne… all that Land yt lyeth between Mr. Thomas Broughtons & Mr. Richd Leadrs bounds & soe backewards into the woods… being two hundred Acers & this lott was bounded by the select men the 12 : of Aprill 1654 : Namly Mr. Nic : Shapleigh Mr. John Wincoll & Anthony Emery Townsmen

Wee Townsmen for Kittery have Lotted unto Humfrey Chadborne & Thomas Spencer… five hundred of pine trees that was given them at a Town Meeting at Kittery… & Wee have given them all the rest of the pines that are in the same swamp where Wee Lotted them out It being the next great swampe beyond Tomtinkers swampe…

May 24 : 1652
Wee the Townsmen for Kittery have lotted & granted unto Humfrey Chadborne… one hundred Acers of Land next adjoyneing to a certen Meddow of thirty acers that was given to him at a Town Meeteing at Kittery… beareing date the eight day of Aprill 1641 :"[8]

The construction of Chadbourne’s saw mill in 1652 at the confluence of the Great Works and Salmon Falls River greatly expanded his merchant operations and his wealth.

His growing prosperity was aided by a very favorable marriage. About the time he constructed his mill, Humphrey married Lucy Treworgy, a member of one of the leading merchant families of Devon, England, as well as the Piscataqua. The town of Kittery, Maine is named after the home, wharf and warehouses of Lucy’s grandfather, Alexander Shapleigh, located on Kittery Quay, in Kingsweare, Devon. Kittery Quay lies across the river Dart from the busy West Country port of Dartmouth.

Lucy’s uncle Nicholas Shapleigh, a prominent royalist, controlled the family merchant and saw mill interests in the Piscataqua. Living a few miles downriver from the Chadbournes on a large estate in present-day Eliot, Maine, Nicholas was a sometimes business partner of Humphrey Chadbourne. Numerous artifacts from the West Country are found on the Chadbourne site, suggesting the family maintained these important trade ties to home. Pottery finds include North Devon gravel tempered wares and sgraffittos, as well as Totnes ware – a rare find on early New England sites. Its presence at the Chadbourne site is explained by its manufacture in Totnes, just a few miles up the Dart from Kittery Quay.

June 24 : 1659 :
Granted unto Humfrey Chadborne by the Select Townsmen for Kittery… one hundred Acers of Land more to bee layd out unto one hundred Acers that was granted him before at Kittery… beareing date the 24 of May 1652 : this lott to begine at ye upper end of ye pond… "[9]

I Humfrey Chadborne of Newgewanacke have… sould unto Mr Hateevill Nutter of Dover all my Meddow liing on the East side of Pischataq River… one peece of Meddow being Called by the name of Burcham Poynt the other peece liing between Jon Hords Marsh & his upland upon the Cricke Called the bla Cricke… this 15th day of May 1651
Humfrey Chadborne
In the prsence of
Nicho : Shapleigh
The marke of R
George Rogers"[10]

In Nov 1652 Humphrey was fourth among the men signing the Kittery Act of Submission, by which Kittery agreed to be governed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The signers may have thought this would strengthen their land claims in the face of claims by the heirs of Capt John Mason. Capt Mason and Fernando Gorges had been granted by King James I, 10 Aug 1622 all the land between the Merrimac and Kennebec Rivers. This was further divided in 1629, with Mason receiving all the land between the Merrimac and the Piscataqua. On 3 Nov 1631 Mason and Gorges made a grant to the Council of Plymouth, encompassing both sides of Piscataqua harbor and river. After his death in 1635, his heirs or agents apparently did not continue to fulfill Mason's part of the contract with the colonists, so by 1643 Humphrey initiated the secure title to his South Berwick land with his deed from Mr Rowles, the Indian. In Nov 1652 this was further strengthened by the Kittery Act of Submission. Richard Leader was noticeably absent from the signers of this document. Humphrey Chadbourne was among the signers of a petition against Richard Leader in Dec 1652, accusing him of the desire of purpose to get the upper hand in government over them. [11]

Chadbourne raised the core of his mansion house in 1664, three years before his death, when he left an estate of over £1,700, making him one of the wealthiest men in northern New England:

" In the name of god Amen the twenty fifth day of May In the nineteenth yeare of the Reign of our soveraign Ld Charles the secund, now King of England Scottland &c: & in the yeare of our Ld 1667, I Humfrey Chadborne of the Town of Kittery & parish of Unity, In the County of Yorke or Province of Mayn in New England being deseased in body, yet haveing the right uss of my sences & memory, do ordaine this my last Will & Testament, hereby revoakeing renounceing, & makeing voyd all other former Wills by mee made & for these outward things that god hath given mee, I hereby dispose of them as followeth

Impris I do hereby give & bequeath unto my three daughters, Namely Lucey Aylce & Kattherne Chadborne, to each of them one hundred pounds, respectively to bee payd them in manner & forme following vidzt: If yt estate of Lands houses & Mills with their appurtenances which I do now possesse, do remaine & continew to my executrix (hereafter in these Presents to bee named) quiettly & peaceably as now It is in mine owne possession, shee being not defrauded nor dispossessed of it nor any of itt before the tyme that these my aforesd Legacys become due & payable by these Presents, then my will is that ye aforesd Three hundred pounds shall be payd them & to each of them respectivly at or before the full end of five yeares, after my decease in good Mrchandable goods, wch Legacys I ordayn to bee raysed out of, & pd with the produce & profett of the Saw Mills, which are now in my possesion, by my executrix, & that Prson whom I shall hereafter in these Presents Impoure to take any part of the profetts or produce of the sd saw Mills, togeather with my executrix after my decease, which Legacy or portion respectively my will is should be putt into the hands of some sufficient Prson or Prsons to bee Improved for ye best advantage of my aforesd daughters aequally & respectively untill such tyme as they shall attayne unto Marriage, or unto the age of one & Twenty yeares, by my executrix & overseers but if in case that ye sd saw Mills doe not produce that benefitt & profett yt heretofore they have by reason of the troublesomnes of the tymes or otherwise; Then my will is that the sd Legacys shall be pd them at their marrage days to each one as they shall come to Marriage respectively or else as they shall come to the age of one & twenty yeares, respectively as aforesd to bee pade by my executrix, & that Prson that shall injoy the profetts of the sd Mills as aforesd with her provided always that If my wife doe happen to Marry, my will is that yt Prson with whom shee shall marry, shall give in good security to see these aforesd Legacys fully satisfyd, & payd, If then unpayd to any or either of them, before hee or shee shall Injoy any benefitt or profett or have any thing to doe with the sd Mills, unto my overseers, for the true payment of the sd Legacys unto my aforesd daughters as aforesd And if In case yt any or either of my three daughters shall happen to dy before their Marrage, or the aforesd days of payment, then my will is, that ye surviver or survivers of my daughter or daughters shall injoy that portion hereby given unto the deceased aequally & if it do appeare hereafter that my wife bee now at this Present tyme conceaved with child, then my will is that if that Child live to ye age of one & twenty yeares or marrage wither sunn or daughter, shall Injoy & have all such portion & legacys as is hereby given unto my aforesd daughters, now Liveing if in case that any or either of them shall happen to dy before their sd portions become due, & payable as aforesd, any thing here in contayned to the contrary, in any wise notwithstanding

Item I do give & bequeath unto my Two youngest sunns James & William Chadborne all that Land & Meddow now in my possession, with ye appurtenances liing & being at a place Called Sturgeon Cricke Which land & Meddow I lately purchased of my Ounkle Nicho: Shapleigh which appeareth by his act & deede of sayle to mee made beareing date in the yeare of our Lord 1663: togeather with the sayd deede & writeings, & all other the appurtenances thereunto belonging, or In any wise apprtayneing. Equally to bee devided betwixt them by yr mother, & my overseers to this my will & testament to have & to hould the sayd Land & Meddow with the appurtenances to them & to their or either of their heyres for ever, from & immediately after the deaths & deceases of my selfe & wife their mother, & not before And my will is that if my sun James dy, liveing, my sun William, or my sun William dy Liveing my sun James, & either diing, without lawfull heyres or unmaried, then the other that shall soe survive, shall Injoy all the aforesd Lands & Meddow, but if one or both of my aforesd suns shall happen to dy in a married estate, & hee or they or either of them dy in a married condition with out Issew, or heyres, my will is that his or their Widdow or Widdows shall each of them respectively quietly possess & Injoy that part of the sd Land & Meddow which did belong to there or her former husband or husbands for tearme of her or their naturall life, or lifes, if any such Widdow or widdows bee left soe, & after the decease of both my suns & their wife or wives diing with out Issew aforesd, my will is, that all the aforesd Land & Meddow shall returne backe unto my daughters, & to bee devided amongst them, & their heyres lawfully begotten, or to bee begotten And if after the death of my aforesd two sunns soe diing with out Issew as aforesd, there bee none nor neither of my daughters, nor not any Legitimate Issew by them at that tyme, then the sayd Land to returne backe & to bee possest & Injoyed by my next heyre at Law either male or female

Item I doe hereby give grant devise convay & bequeath unto my Sunn Humfrey Chadborne wch is my Elldest son & heyre by Law all my Lands & meddows fenced or not fenced, with all my houses buildings structures & Edifices togeather with my saw Mills, togeather with the appurtenances there unto belonging, all wch Lands Mills & houses are now liing & being in Newgewanacke, with in the Parish of Unity, now in my possession, & now or heretofore demed reputed & known to bee my proper Lands & estate, to have & to hould the sd prmisses unto him, & his lawfull & Legitimat heyres for ever, from & immediately after the deaths & deceases of my selfe & my now wife & not before: provided always & It is my true Intent & meaneing in these & by these Presents, that ye sd Humfrey Chadborne my son & heyre shall have noe pouer, directly or indirectly to sell give or grant the sd Lands houses or Mills or any part or Prcell thereof unto any Prson or Prsons wtsoever (except it bee to Confirme Joynter or Dowry unto his heyres wife) Neither to lease sett or lett the same unto any Prson or Prsons for any Tearme exceeding Twenty & one yeares, & that from seaven years to seaven yeares And further my will is, that If either my sun Humfrey aforesd, or any of his heyres or successors hereafter at any tyme shall make any grant gyft bargaine or sayle otherwise then aforesd, wrby to frustrate my will & to divert my aforesd Land & prmisses, from runneing directly hereditary to mine & their heyres for ever, I doe hereby declare all such or any such barganes gyft grant or sayle to bee voyd & of none aeffect any thing herein to ye Contrary, in any wise Notwithstanding And if it soe happen hee die with out Issue, either In a married estate or otherwise, then my will is after the decease of him & his wife, If hee leave his wife a Widdow after him, then all the aforesd Premisses in this article specifyd, shall then returne & bee my sun James his estate, if then Liveing, & his heyres for ever And for want of James Chadborne aforesd, or such Isue by him, If my sun William Chadborne bee then Liveing, unto him & his heyres as aforesd, & for want of such Isue by William, unto yt child my wife is now conceaved with if a male & his heyres And for want of such Issew, unto my Elldest daughter then Liveing, & to her heyres for ever & for want of such Isue to the next daughter, & to her heyres, & soe to the longest liver, or my daughters & her heyres And if they all dy without Issue, unto my next kinesman that is my right heyre in Law & to his heyres, pvided always that they nor Neither of them shall have any power to defrade nor disinheritt mine or their heyres otherwise but to Injoy it for tearme of life upon the same conditions & provisoes that my sd sun Humfrey Chadborne is hereby to inheritt & hould my sd Lands & prmisses

Item And further my will is that If my sun Humfrey Chadborne doe enter into a Marrage Condition before the death & decease of his Mother, that then hee shall hereby have free Lyberty to fence in a quantity of the aforesd Lands, at Newgewanacke either tenn Acers more or lesse for planting Land, & alsoe free Lyberty to Erect & build him a Mansion house & other houses to his pleasure & for his owne uss, upon the same Land soe fenced in to bee layd out to him, & delivered into his hands by my overseers at their discretion, & by the Consent & advise of my Loveing wife his Mother Moreover my will is that if my sun Humfrey doe happen to Marry, yt then hee shall have & Injoy the one halfe deale of my saw Mill, & the halfe deale of ye profitts for & towards the payment of his sisters Legacys aforesd, if any bee unpayd at the Marrage day of the sd Humfrey, & for noe other uss untill ye sd Legacys are fully payd, & satisfyd: And in the meane tyme after my decease & before his Marrage especially to bee aydeing & with the best of his skill & ability assisting to his sayd Mother, in the carriing of the worke about ye sd saw Mill, as long as his mother shall continew unmarried for the best advantage not onely his owne part, but alsoe his mothers part by her direction & after all the burthen & Legacys which are layd on the profetts & produce of the sd Mills are payd, hee the sd Humfrey my sonn shall have hould & Injoy the halfe of the sd Mills, or one saw, & halfe of the Teame, & halfe ye Marsh now belonging unto, or now occupied with & for the sd Mills usse, unto his own proper usse benefitt & behoofe, dureing the naturall life of his mother, paying the halfe deale of the Charges concerneing the same & after her decease to Injoy all the aforesd Lands & other the prmisses as aforesd; but dureing his mothers life, to hould but soe much of the Marsh, or hay as may serve to mantayne halfe the Teame, bee it eight or tenn oxen, but not above the residue, for his mothers halfe Teame, & for her other usses;

All the residue of my goods & Chattles moveable & unmovable not heretofore nor hereby given, granted, conveighed or bequeathed, I doe give & bequeath to my wife Luce Chadborne, whom I ordayne & make my whoole & soole executrix for to see my debts payd, & not onely such Legacys Prformed as are heretofore in this my Present Will & testament formerly given, but alsoe all such Legacys & bequeaths, as I shall hereafter give it being small Legacys, & annexed to this as part of my whoole Will, soe it bee Attested signed & witnessed under mine & Witnesses hands

And I doe desire my Ouncle Nicholas Shapleigh, & my Cosson John Shapleigh & my Cosson William Spencer, to bee my overseers unto this my last will & testament, to the utmost of their pouer to see my Will observed, & Prformed according to the Tenour thereof, & I doe hereby give unto my Ouncle Shapleigh one very good beaver hatt, & to my cosson John Shapleigh & William Spencer each of them a good Castor hatt as good as can bee gotten, for their paynes to oversee & see my will executed

Item I do upon due & serious considerations of the prmisses aforesd, order & ordayne that my suns James & William Chadborne, In consideration to that Donation I gave them at Sturgeon Cricke, that both of them shall to their utmost pouer & assistance, always to bee aydeing & assistant to their mother, & to bee at her Command untill the tyme of their marrage if there mother see cause soe to have it, & if they shall bee stubborne & disobedient to there mother, that then It shall bee lawfull for my executrix with the Consent of my overseers to dispossess them or either of them & to give the aforesd Lands & Meddow of Sturgeon Cricke to any other of my children & to none else, any thing herein Contayned to the Contrary notwithstanding

It is my will that my beloved wife being my Lawfull executrix take spetiall Care of my sister Spencer, & If it should soe happen yt my sister should fall to decay, & bee in want that then my wife Lucy Chadborn shall to her uttmost power & ability supply her & bee helpefull to her at all tymes hereafter

Item I doe bequeath unto my Cosson Mary Fosse five pounds to bee payd her with in one yeare after my decease

Item I give & bequeath unto my sun Humfrey Chadborne my now rideing horse with all the furniture to him belonging, & my intent is that the sd horse with ye furniture bee at his owne dispose, imediately after my decease

Item I give & bequeath unto my daughter Aylce Chadborne my great silver beaker, & my true intent is it shall bee quietly delivered unto her at the day of her Marrage

In witness wrof, both unto that former writeing here in expressed, & heretofore in this sedule of my will & testament at large expressed before I did ordayne & make my executrix & appoynted hereby my overseers, as alsoe to those bequeaths Lecacys injunctions & desirs of mine I have hereunto sett my hand & seale thereby Confirmeing it to bee my last Will & testament In the Presence of these Witnesses, hereafter underwritten & subscribed
Humfrey Chadburne
Sealed Signed & acknowledged
by mee Humfrey Chadburne Senior
to bee my Last will & testament in the Presence of us
Humphrey (his mark) Spencer
Moses (his mark) Spencer
Andrew Searle

And further I doe declare unto all men that I Humfrey Chadburne Testator, haveing maturely & seriously considered my owne fraylty in pticular, & every Prsons mortality in generall, & haveing not yet formerly in this my last will & testament made any provission for the bringing up of my 3 little daughters Luce Aylce & Katthrine, Chadborne, & that Child with which my wife is conceaved with, yet unborne, how to bee brought up according to my mind & Will at Schoole & Learneing, not spending upon that stocke or portion or Legacys which I have formerly given them, untill they should every one of them respecitvely, bee of the age of Twelve yeares, or capable to gett their liveing, intending thereby & my will is that yr portions shall remaine whoole & unimbezelled unto them at that age, & tyme respecitvely, for that end & purpose my intent & Will is, that my aforesayd daughters & youngest Children shall be mantayned & brought up by my suns Humfrey James & William Chadborne, respecitvely & proportionably & my will is that my Sun Humfrey shall bee at the greatest Charge towards their bringing up, & James & William some small part according to yr abilitys & the discretion of my overseers, & I doe hereby bind my Land for the Prformance here of, that my suns possessing my aforesd Lands & Mills, shall bee to the Charges of the bringing up of my sayd youngest children, soe as that their aforesd portions may not bee spent nor in the least Imbeazelled untill they shall accomplish the age aforesd, respectively, & I doe hereby declare that this here under written is as really a branch & a part of my last will & testament as any thing either gyft devise or Legacy heretofore given or bequeathed

In witness hereof I have here unto sett my hand the day & yeare aforesd, in the Presence of the same Witnesses abovesd, whose names are here againe subscribed
Humfrey Chadburne
Witnesse
Andrew Searle
Humphrey (his mark) Spencer
Witness
Moses (his mark) Spencer"[12]

"An inventory of the estate vidzt of the Lands goods & Chattles of Mr Humfrey Chadburne deceased, taken & apprized by us this 13th day of September 1667 : whose names are here underwritten/

Inprs his weareing Cloaths 10ld In moneys & beaver &
other furrs 108ld................................................ 118 0 0
It one saw Mill with utinsills & Tymber........... 300 0 0
It one home stall contayneing a dwelling house a
barne & other out houses with 400 Acers of Land by
estimation........................................................... 350 0 0
It Thyrty Acers of Meddow & 200 Acers of vpland at
Bonnibiss pond.................................................. 120 0 0
& fourty acers of swamp land in Tomtynkers swamp:
10ld...................................................................... 130 0 0
It A farme at 5turgeon Cricke contayneing by estimation
In vplaud & Meddow 230 Acers....................... 260 0 0
In Plate 16ld.......................................................... 16 0 0
It Tenn oxen at per oxe & eight Cows at......... 118 0 0
It 4 5teares & one Heifer att............................... 23 0 0
It Two stears 2 years ould 2 yearelings foure Calfes
at............................................................................ 14 0 0
It one horse & a Mare at..................................... 16 0 0
It fourteen swine at 8ld......................................... 8 0 0
It boards & Loggs at............................................. 70 0 0
It one Cart 3 peyr of Wheeles five 5 yoakes &
chaynes................................................................. 16 0 0
It All English & Indean Graine at........................ 25 0 0
It five servant men & mades att......................... 40 0 0
It Two Conows & a plow at................................. 2 10 0
It All manner of Toules for husbandry................ 5 0 0
In ye Parlour one bed furnished, one long table two
Chests Eleven chayres & other furniture att…. 30 0 0
In ye Kittchen : Pewter potts & Kettles & other
utensills at............................................................ 23 0 0
In ye Leane two : One bed furnished a Table &
chayres att............................................................ 10 0 0
In ye Leane to Chamber : In goods & small
necessarys............................................................ 30 0 0
In the Chambers foure bedds & furniture & some
Cotton Woll........................................................... 18 0 0
aboue stares fine Musketts two fowling peeces
att............................................................................. 7 0 0
In debts due to the estate................................... 82 4 0
..........................................................................1713 14 0

John Wincoll Nicholas Shapleigh William Spencer Mis Luce Chadburne doth Attest upon her oath that this is a true Inventory of those goods & Lands above written belonging to ye estate of Mr Humfrcy Chadburne her husband lately deceased, to the best of her knowledge/ Taken before mee this 13th of September 1667 : Edw RishworthJus: pe: "[13]

I Thomas Wills of Kittery… Mariner, do stand & am firmely bounden & obleig’d unto Capt Francis Champernown of Kittery… Gentle : & Major Nicho : Shapleigh of Kittery… Mrchant & William Spencer… Yeoman, ffeofees to Luce Chadborne Widdow, of Kittery… late the wife of Humphrey Chadborne whilst he lived of Kittery… In ye full & whole sume of Two hundred pounds… to bee payd unto the sd Capt Francis Champernown, Major Nicho Shapleigh, & William Spencer… the Twenty fifth day of March… 1669.

The Condition of this Prsent obligation is such yt wras there is a Marriage agreed upon & shortly (by gods Permission) to bee had & solemnized betweene the above bounden Thomas Wills, and the above named Luce Chadborne. In case it shall please god that shee decease before her Intended husband Thomas Wills, reserveth unto her self a Lyberty to dispose of the full Moeity or one halfe part of all the moveables that shee the sd Luce Chadborne is now possessed off, as by an Inventory here unto annexed. If yrfore the sayd Thomas Wills shall for him selfe from tyme to tyme, & at all tyms hereafter the solemnizing thereof, Prmitt & suffer the sayd Luce Chadborne his wife to make her will, thereby giving & bequeathing unto whom shee shall thinke meete all the Moveables above mentioned unto such Person or Persons as shee shall please there in to nominate… Kittery 1st of Aprill 1669
Thomas Wills
In ye Presence of us
Edward Hilton
John Shapleigh
Richard Allexander" [14]

Looks like the above was the 17th Century version of a pre-nuptial agreement.

"Wras by the request of William Hutchinson & Humprey Chadbowrn unto Major Nicholas Shapleigh & Richard Nason formerly Townes men of Kittery for the bounding of Lands in the sd Town & Wee the sd Prsons upon Inquiry & examination of the bounds of some Lands formerly granted unto Richard Leader & Humfrey Chadbowrn Senjor now in the hands of the sd Hutchinson & Chadbowrn Junjor about the dividing Lyne between them & finding such a deconnancy between the lyne mentioned in ye Record & the bound trees marked do by these prsents firmely settle & agree with the Mutuall Consent of the sayd Hutchinson & Chadbowrne to… reverse all former bounds… & Conclude the bounds as by Poynts & Marked trees now runne & stated… which bounds… beginneth six pooles or rodds below Assabumbedicke falls… neare the place Called John Lambs Landing place where hee burned Charcoales… to the Mills… this eighteenth day of July… 1673…
Nic : Shapleigh
Richd Nason his
Marke O
William Hutchinson
Humphrey Chadborne" [15]

I’m surprised that with the way they marked boundaries by making references to trees and rocks that there weren’t more problems with boundary issues. This is one of the few boundary disputes I’ve found in the family.

His probate inventory confirms the archaeological evidence of a two-story hall and parlor house with rear lean-to. The structure was large and impressive, adorned with many windows, and fancy imported hardware, such as cocks head hinges. Great expense went into the windows, and hundreds of bricks were used to make two substantial chimneys. The plastered parlor must have been one of the earliest in New England, a real rarity on the Maine frontier. Sometime later, another room was added off the parlor, making for a dwelling measuring 42’x 60.’

Remarkably the Chadbourne’s substantial home was largely earthfast. The front wall of the house cellar was stoned, but the other three walls were made of wood, held in place by earth-fast posts, with some of these posts serving as structural posts for the house. While part of the lean-to had a stone footing, the rest was built with a sill laid on grade, and the lean-to chamber was constructed with wooden posts anchored directly into the ground, just like a fence post.

This house was connected to another domestic unit by a palisade and fencing, creating an enclosed compound, with central court yard. A barn and dairy were located to the north of the compound. A second domestic unit was perhaps occupied by servants, for when Humphrey died in 1667 his probate inventory includes five indentured servants. The homestead, barn and outbuildings sat on 400 acres and were valued at £350. Chadbourne’s saw mill, appraised at £300, stood on a waterfall nearby to the south.

Excavations at the Chadbourne site recovered a silver spoon as well as a silver spoon handle. The complete specimen was made by the first American silversmiths, John Hull and Robert Sanderson, who engraved it with the monogram “HLC” so there would be no mistaking that it belonged to Humphrey and Lucy Chadbourne. Silver objects show up in only a handful of other Maine estates of the era.

A considerable quantity of fine imported ceramics complimented the silver on the Chadbournes’ table. Excavations recovered fragments of a minimum of 20 tin-enameled vessels, as well as combed-wares, and several nice German stonewares. Tin-enameled wares were the finest European ceramics of the day. Hand-painted in a variety of colors and finished with a shiny white glaze, they were manufactured across Europe and called delft, faience, or majolica. The Chadbournes had fancy lobed plate; Bleu Persan plate, striking and quite rare in its day, and in the height of fashion in the 1690s; and English delft plate, decorated in the Chinese Scholar pattern.

As merchants who sold lumber in the Caribbean and participated in the wider Atlantic trade, the Chadbournes also owned many non-English tablewares, including at least three different patterns of Portuguese majolica, or Lisbonware. And while other residents of Maine owned an occasional piece of Lisbonware, no one could match the Chadbournes’ set of at least four hand-painted platas (or plates) made of Aucilla polychrome ware, manufactured in Mexico City. These are the first confirmed seventeenth-century Spanish colonial tablewares found north of the Chesapeake. Presumably acquired through the Chadbournes’ Caribbean lumber trade, the platas must have been purchased clandestinely, for it was illegal for the English to trade with the Spanish.

The Chadbournes showed their rank in their dress and adornment, in such objects as a hand mirror with an ivory handle. Excavations found three passmenterie buttons – two made with silver wound thread. Two spurs have been found, and a horse harness was decorated with a large brass Tudor rose boss, a badge of loyalty to the royalist cause of the Stuart monarchy. At the time when streets were rare in Maine and oxen pulled plows, horses were a true luxury item.

After Humphrey's death, the house and 400 surrounding acres passed to his wife Lucy and his eldest son, Lieutenant Humphrey Chadbourne Jr., and he also inherited his father’s fine stallion.

The Tudor symbolism of the horse harness certainly would not have been missed by Lt. Chadbourne’s wife, Sarah Bolles Chadbourne, who was a descendant of King Edward I (1272-1307). Sarah’s father, Joseph, was a gentleman, born at his parent’s estate of Oberton Manor, in Nottinghamshire, and one of the few gentlemen to take up residence in Maine. Joseph had been an early immigrant, a high office holder and a leading citizen of Wells. Bolles’s daughters were probably the only young ladies in Maine of known royal descent. Humphrey Jr.’s marriage to one of the Bolles girls bolstered the claim of gentle status for himself and his descendants. The marriage also allied him with another prominent merchant family, for Sarah’s oldest sister was married to Major Charles Frost, another of the leading magistrates and merchants in southern Maine.

But the Wabanaki burned the entire complex in March of 1690 during the Salmon Falls raid. In some ways, the Chadbourne house is symbolic of the young society that was evolving in Maine during the seventeenth century. It was a house and a culture built upon the rapidly acquired wealth of the frontier, with a promise of more to come, along with growing status and power. Yet, not enough care had gone into the construction of this society. By early 1692, almost all the English settlements of Maine had been abandoned with just a few hundred settlers clinging to hope in the southernmost settlements. Not until a generation of warfare ended in 1713 would people be able to return to Maine and build society anew.

"In the name of god Amen The Eighth Day of January In The Eleventh year of The Reigne of our Sovereigne Lord William The Third by The Grace of god of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the faith &c Anno: Dom: one Thousand Six hundred ninety & nine. I Lucy Stileman of New Castle being In Perfect health both In Body and mind....

That Is To Say first. I Give and bequeath To my grandson James Chadborn Son of My late Son James Chadborn one half part of all my land and Meddow which Is lying and being Att or ny Sturgeon Creek In the Province of main which was granted me by A Deed of gift or Joynter from My former Husband Humphry Chadborn Duering My Natural Life and Then Att my disposeal Among our Children And The Sd James Chadborn Is To Pay his sister Lucy Chadborn twenty Pounds out of The Incoms or Rent of The Sd Land And If the sd James Shuld Dy without Issue Then The Sd Land Is to goe to his Sd Sister Lucy _____ I Give and bequeath To my Daughter Elizabeth Alcock The other half of my Sd land and Meaddow Aforsd To be Equally divided betwext her and my grandson Aforsd Shee Paying To her Sister Katharine Wamouth Twenty Pounds out of the Rent or Income. and If my Daughter Elizabeth Alcock Shuld Dy without Issue and Leave A husband then sd Land and Mash Shall remain to her husband Dureing his Natural life and then Decend To my Daughter Katharine Waymouth or her heirs: or If She Dy without husband or Issue Imediately to goe As Aforesd To my Daughter Waymouth or her heirs she or they Paying To my other Two Daughters Viz Lucy Lewis & Alice Dunnel Each Ten Pounds being the mony Recd of her Sister Alcock or If Not Recd by Reason of The Shortness of The Time being In My daughters Alcocks hands &c Then Nevertheless To Pay Them The Ten Pounds Each ___ And That whereas my last husband Mr Elias Stileman Did give me forty Pounds To be Disposed by me out of his Estate I give and Bequeth That Equally between my five Daughters Viz: Eight pounds To Each Lucy Lewis Alice Dunnel Kattharine Waymouth Eliza Alcock & Joana Cutt Each Eight Pounds Whereas I Now have An obligation from Rich: Stileman for Ten Pounds If I Receve That Ten Pounds Then I give my Grand son Thomas Landel Ten Pounds mony If I dy before I Recover That Then my Sd Grand son Shall have that Bill I heereby Assigning It over to him I Give to my Grandaughter Lucy Chadborn Daughter to my Son James Chadborn A Cow Whearas There Is A Dt Due from my late Son Humpry Chadborn I Give that To my four grandchildren My Son Humprys Children Viz Mary Wm Eliza & Joseph Chadborn And what Ever Estate I Leave Else Not heer mentioned I order It to be Equally Divided between my Sd five Daughters Viz: Lucy Lewis Kath: Waymouth Eliza Alcock Alice Dunell & Joanah Cutt And I Doe heereby Appoint My Two Daughters Kath: Wamouth & Eliza Alcock To be my Executrixes of this my last will and Testament I Desire My good frends John Hincks & Robt Eliot Esqrs To be Overseours heer of to See this My Will fulfiled In wittness whereof I have heerunto Sett my hand And Seal the Day and year Above writen
1699 In Presents of
Samuel Smith
mary tetherly
Theodore Atkinson
signum
Lucy X Stileman Alis
Wells Alis Chadborn (seal)"[16]

To discover more about the dig go to: http://w3.salemstate.edu/~ebaker/chadbourne.htm as well as to the Chadbourne Family Association site at: http://www.chadbourne.org

Birth

BET 1613 AND 1640

Marriage

BET 1660 AND 1666
Wife: Lucy Treworgy
Child: Alice Chadbourne

Death

1667

Sources

  1. St Editha, Tamworth, Affiliate Image Identifier: D3773/1/1 England, Staffordshire, Church Records, 1538-1944 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QL35-ST58
  2. York County Deeds- Vol. I, pt. 1, fol. 6
  3. York Deeds- Vol. I, fol. 6-7 quoted by Stackpole in "Old Kittery" p. 130
  4. York County Registry of Deeds- Vol. I, pt. 1, fol. 6
  5. Suffolk County Deeds- Vol. I, p. 68
  6. York Deeds- Vol. I, fol. 24; Mass. Supreme Judicial Court Docket No. 138094- c. 1790
  7. York Deeds- Vol. I, fol. 24; Mass. Supreme Judicial Court Docket No. 138094- c. 1790
  8. York Co. Deeds- Vol. II, fol. 96-7
  9. York Co. Deeds- Vol. II, fol. 96-7
  10. York Co. Deeds- Vol. III, fol. 70
  11. Chadbourne Family Association Web Site
  12. York County Deeds- Book II, fol. 27-30; see also Maine Wills 1640-1760- William Sargent, Brown, Thurston & Co., Portland, 1887- pp. 45-39
  13. York County Registry of Deeds- Vol. II, fol. 27-31
  14. York County Registry of Deeds- Vol. IV, fol. 50
  15. York County Registry of Deeds- Vol. III, fol. 91-2
  16. New Hampshire State Papers- Vol. 31, pp. 452-3




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posted by Bobbie (Madison) Hall
I dont think Lucy is a daughter. Any records I am not seeing?
posted by Lissa (Rosa) Debrees

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