CCIF Research: Nicholas Simpkins-18

Date: 1634 to 1635
Location: Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Surname/tag: Simpkins, Simkins, Sympkins

Commanders of the Castle Island Fort

Captain Nicholas Simpkins

Time Line

Birth about 1600 (aged 54 or thereabouts, 1654 deposition) ^[1]

• Jul 1634: Captain Nicholas Simpkins 1st Commander of Castle ^[2], ^[3]
• 14 Jul 1636: Simpkins Remiss in accounts. Lt. Morris accuses of lying ^{[4] [5]}
• by 9 Feb 1638 Residence: Yarmouth ^[6]
• 1649 Residence: Boston ^[7]
• 1 Jun 1654: Nicholas (aged 54) and wife Isabelle (aged 44) deposed in Plymouth Colony Court regarding Will of Major William Holmes ^{[8] [9]}
• Bef 30 Oct 1656 Death: Boston, Intestate ^{[10] [11]}

Research Notes

Note: Nicholas Simpkins children need developed on WikiTree.

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-997D-VS28?cc=2018320&wc=M6BX-F29 : 20 May 2014), Wills 1633-1686 vol 1-4 > image 184 of 616; State Archives, Boston., p62., see Anderson GM, PCLR 2:1:62
2. ↑ Clap, p. 31.
3. ↑ Whitman, p. 104.
4. ↑ Whitman, P. 161.
5. ↑ WJ, Vol. 2 (1853) Addenda, p. *422.
6. ↑ Winifred Lovering Holman, S.B, F.A.S.G., The Family of Pilgrim Simpkins of Boston, The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/11864/87/23576718, TAG Vol. 28, p.87.
7. ↑ Holman, TAG Vol. 28, p.87
8. ↑ PCLR 2:1:62
9. ↑ Holman, TAG Vol. 28, p.87
10. ↑ Suffolk County (Massachusetts) probate records, 1636-1899, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9YP-P2L6?i=508 , p. 89.
11. ↑ Holman, TAG Vol. 28, p.87

• Savage, v. 4. S-Z., p. 101.
• Member of the Artillery Company of Massachusetts (1650)
• GMD, p. 305.
• GM profile
• GM Sources used by Anderson:

1. CaBOP - The Register Book of the Lands and Houses in the "New Towne" and the Town of Cambridge ... (Cambridge 1896)
2. ChBOP - Charlestown Land Records, 1638-1802, Third Report of the Boston Record Commissioners, 2nd ed. (Boston 1883)
3. Clap - Roger Clap, Memoirs of Capt. Roger Clap (Boston 1731; rpt. Boston 1844)
4. GMN - Great Migration Newsletter, Volume 1 through present (1990+)
5. HAHAC - Oliver Ayer Roberts, History of .. the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, 1637-1888, 4 volumes (Boston 1895-1901)
6. MBCR - Records of the and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686, ed. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, 5 volumes in 6 (Boston 1853-1854)
7. MD - Mayflower Descendant, Volume 1 through present (1899-1937, 1985+)
8. PCLR - Plymouth Colony Deeds (from microfilm; Volume 1 has been published as Volume 12 of PCR)
9. PCPR - Plymouth Colony Probate Records (from microfilm)
10. PCR - Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, 'eds., 12 volumes in 10 (Boston 1855-1861)
11. SLR- Suffolk Deeds, Volumes 1 through 14 (Boston 1880-1906). Citations to later volumes are from the microfilm copies of the originals.
12. SPR - Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate Records
13. TAG - The American Genealogist, Volume 9 to present (1932+)
14. TOPO Dict - Charles Edward Banks, Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650, Elijah Ellsworth Brownell, ed. (Philadelphia 1937; rpt. Baltimore 1957)
15. WJ - John Winthrop, The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, ed. James Savage, 2 volumes (Boston 1853). Citations herein refer to the pagination of the 1853 and not the 1826 edition, even though the index to the 1853 edition continues to use the 1826 pagination.
16. WP - Winthrop Papers, 1498-1654, 6 volumes, various editors (Boston 1925-1992)