John (Ramsden) Ramsdell (abt. 1602 - 1688)

Born about 1602 in England

Husband of Priscilla (Unknown) Ramsdell — married 1639 in Essex, MA

Descendants

Died 27 Oct 1688 at about age 86 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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John (Ramsden) Ramsdell migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Directory, by R. C. Anderson, p. 277) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

John Ramsdell was born in probably England about 1602.^[1] "John Ramsdell's origins are unknown, but it is presumed he was from England." [1]

John was among the first settlers of Lynn, Massachusetts, arriving in Boston in the summer of 1632 with the Winthrop Fleet [?? Winthrop arrived in 1630] and going shortly to Lynn. He was an indentured servant of Captain Nathaniel Turner and was probably unmarried when he emigrated.^[1]

He married Priscilla ______

On 30 April 1657, John Ramsdell "age 55" deposed at Salem Court that "twenty five years ago , when he was a servant of Captain Turner, his master and other inhabitants of Lynn, before it was a town, fenced in Nahant" (Records and files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County) John was a husbandman or farmer, owning property in the "Rumney Marsh" area of the part of Lynn that is now Saugus. As early as 1641, John was serving as a juror for both the General Court and on the Grand Jury. He was called as a witness in a number of cases. One of particular interest was the case against "Robert Burgis of Lin" for "bad and course grinding of both English and Indian corn". On 25 June 1650, John Ramsdell and Jenkin Davis were sworn as constables for Lynn.

In the TEG article titled, "John Ramsdell of Lynn MA" by Roselyn Listernick. Citation Information The Essex Genealogist. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) "John Ramsdell's origins are unknown, but it is presumed he was from England. Ramsdell is a Saxon word meaning winding valley, or extremity of a valley (Frank R. Holmes, Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1600-1700 [Baltimore, 1980], cxcvi)" "John RAMSDELL 0f Lynn is the only known RAMSDELL who appeared in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 17th century. There was a Joseph RAMSDEN in Plymouth Colony, whose name was sometimes given as RAMSDELL, but usually RAMSDEN. ^[2] There is no evidence of a son Joseph in this article, and the named children Aquilla, John, Jonathan, Isaac, Praesilla, Hannah and Elizabeth were all born in the 1640s. Joseph RAMSDEN has been removed as son.

He died 27 Oct 1688 at Lynn.^[1]

Children (order uncertain)^[1]

• Praesilla b. early 1640s; m. 7 May 1662 Concord, Massachusetts James Adams
• Hanna b. early 1640s; m. Concord 11 Dec 1662 John Mason
• Isaac b. c. 1646; m. Eleanor Vinton
• John b. about 1649; m. Elizabeth Perkins
• Aquila b. c 1652; m. (1) Hannah ____; m. (2) Lydia ____
• Elizabeth b. c 1654; m at Malden, Massachusetts, 12 Jun 1674 John Shaw (his 2nd wife)
• Jonathan b. 31 Mar 1657 Lynn; d. at Lynn 6m:1658

Undocumented Data

Parents: John Ramsden and Susan Meg (Waterhouse) Ramsden

Born NOV 1601. Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.

Christening: 17 SEP 1608. York, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Listernick, Roselyn. John Ramsdell of Lynn, Massachusetts" The Essex Genealogist 6:27 [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB396/i/12595/27/24358835 Link at AmericanAncestors ($)]
2. ↑ (James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of New England [Baltimore, 1969]. lll:503) Genealogical Dictionary of the first settlers of New England John Ramsdell Article in TEG Vol 10 pgs 25, 26 and 27

See also:

• Fifty great migration colonists to New England & their origins,

Threlfall, John B. (John Brooks), 1920- [1] Starting at page 310

• Marriage

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mjr6387&id=I85830

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=geefour&id=P21507 cites Vital Records of Bellingham Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1904.

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hammonreo&id=I654

• Death

• Ancestral File Number: W9K6-PQ

• Ian Watson, The Origins of Aquila Ramsdell's Given Name: Investigating the 17th Century with Mitochondrial DNA, American Ancestors, NEHGS, Vol 18, #2, Summer 2017, pages 54-56.

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LBHL-XXV
• *https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LBHL-XXV

• John Ramsdell in entry for Priscilla, "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910"

url https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCMR-G9F Indexed Information Show Citation "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCMR-G9F : 10 February 2018), John Ramsdell in entry for Priscilla, 23 Jan 1675; citing Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, reference ; FHL microfilm 877,468.

• John Ramsdell in entry for Priscilla Ramsdell, "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910"

url https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH1R-MWR Indexed Information Show Citation "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH1R-MWR : 10 February 2018), John Ramsdell in entry for Priscilla Ramsdell, 23 Nov 1675; citing Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, reference v 1 p 143; FHL microfilm 877,447.