Crofts, Ivory, South Research Notes

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Contents 1 Profiles 2 Crofts 3 Ivory 4 South 5 Sources

Profiles

William Crofts
William Ivory
Ann South

Crofts

One Griffin Croft (Griffin Crafts), immigrated 1630 and settled at Roxbury. Anderson profiled him as "Griffin Crafts" in 1995.^[1] Anderson (1995) reported Griffin Craft parentage and origin were unknown. (WikiTree reports Griffin was born at Yorkshire, England, but no obvious source appears.)

Griffin Crofte appears in the index to Records of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay ... volume 1; no Crofte or Craft entries appear in the index to volume 2; only Sgt./Lt. Crafts (Roxbury) appears indexed in volume 3; again in volume 4.2 and volume 4.2. Ditto, volume 5.

Records and Files notes

@ Book 1 - p. 409 - already in bio.

Records and Files - 2

2:166.

Ipswich Quarterly Court, held at Salem, 28 June 1659

Presentments, 27 : 1659.

From Lynn:---Wm Craft, for a pound breach. Witness: Dan. Salmon and Franc. Burrell.

From Lynn:---Benjamin Chadwell, for smoking tobacco near a house amongst combustible matter. Witnesses: Fr. Burrell and Tho. Ivory.

pound breach

2:194

Summons to William Crafts to appear to answer to his presentment for a pound breach. Wit. Danyell Salmon and Francis Burell.

@ book 2 Croft index 459 157, 166, 194, 319, 343

Ivory

No Ivory entries appear indexed in Records of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay ... volume 1; William Ivery appears in volume 2 (p. 149); only William Ivory in volume 3 (p. 67); No Ivorys indexed in volume 4.1; none in 4.2; none in volume 5.

Volume 2:^[2] :6 May 1646.

In answere to ye petition of Wm Ivery, it is ordred, (in regard ye peition aleges his long absence from home, & publike service pformed where he then abode,) yt ye military officrs of ye east regimt shall convent him to their next meeting, & shall then heare & ex examine his allegations, & according to law, & ye execution to stay in he meane time.

Volume 3,^[3]

In ansr to ye peticon of Wm Ivory, itt is ordered, in regard ye peticonr alleadgeth his long absence from home, & publicke service pformed where he then aboad, that ye military officrs of he east regiment shall convent him to their next meeting, & shall then heare & examine his allegations, & accordingly to pceede acording to lawe, & the execution to sty in ye meanetime. By both.

No entry for son Thomas in Ages from the Court Records. Son Thomas in Records and files, 2:61, Thomas Evorey and Samuel Shaducke, both of Salem, for absenting themselves from public ordinances of God. Witnesses: John Rucke, George Norton, Samuell Archer of Salem.

Records and Files Note - Thomas

2:166.

Ipswich Quarterly Court, held at Salem, 28 June 1659

Presentments, 27 : 1659.

From Lynn:---Benjamin Chadwell, for smoking tobacco near a house amongst combustible matter. Witnesses: Fr. Burrell and Tho. Ivory.

2:194

summons to Benjamin Chadwel....

@ Book 3 - John Ivery @ 471

1667, "Jon Burges, Nicholas Manning and John Ivery, the latter of Lin, wee fined.

Book 4. Index at 483, no Ivory entries.

Book 5. Index at 473 Thomas at 46, 76, 106, 113, 185.

Thomas' marriage date. Lynn reports, "abt 17 : 3 m : 1660," cites CT. R. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8979-WQRN?cc=2061550&wc=Q4DH-MNT%3A353349401%2C353664501%2C1006149502 : 13 July 2016), Essex > County wide > County court births, marriages, deaths 1654-1795 > image 307 of 610; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston.

Lynn VR:

Ivery, Ivory Lynn births. See Vital records of Lynn, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Salem, Mass., The Essex institute, 1905-06), 2 vols., 1:211: digital images, Hathi Trust

Ivory, etc. Lynn marriages. See Vital records of Lynn, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Salem, Mass., The Essex institute, 1905-06), 2 vols., 2:203: digital images, Hathi Trust

Ivory, etc. Lynn deaths. See Vital records of Lynn, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Salem, Mass., The Essex institute, 1905-06), 2 vols., 2:510: digital images, Hathi Trust

Son Thomas' marriage date.

South

One of the beneficiaries listed in Ann's 167 will was "Sarah Farrington alias Sarah Potter." Sarah otherwise presumed, "Sarah (Potter) Farrington. See also, Marcie Wiswall Lindberg, "Edmund Farrington and his descendants," in "Research in Progress," The Essex Genealogist, 17 (1997):147 (Mathew^3 Farrington); digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.

In Elizabeth French's 1913 article about William Ivory, Ann was identified as "perhaps the dau. of Thomas South of Lynn."^[4]

This presumably refers to the "_____ South" granted 100 acres at Lynn in 1638)^[5] (called "[Mr.] South in the heavily annotated and apparently edited version of the list published in History of Lynn, 1865).^[6]

In 1949, Mary E. Backus published a brief profile of Thomas South.^[7]

History of Lynn ... (1865) has only brief notice, calling him "Mr. South."^[8]

On 20 : 12 ; 1643, "Thom South" with "Jabez Hackett ... Wm. Prichard and Tho. Winternton were fined for drinking."^[9] His name also appears in a court record of 30 : 4 : 1646, "William Prichard (also Pritchard), assignee of Tho. South v. Samuell Benitt. Debt due South. (A warrant was issued, signed by Edward Burehum.^[10] Thomas South presumably died after 1652; (See Ann Crofts will).

There was an early William South of Massachusetts Bay. The Court of Assistants at Boston, 4 : 7 : 1638, ordered him "censured to bee severely whiped, & kept to the Generall Coute. By whom hee was banished, to return no more vpon paine of death.^[11]

Other then the 1638 entry regarding William South, no other entries for surname South were found indexed in 'Records of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay ...

Found no South entries as Essex County grantors. See "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986"; images, FamilySearch.

Found no South entries as Essex County grantees. See Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986"; images, FamilySearch.

Louis Effinghan DeForest (1930) indicates that Thomas South was "freed from training on account of age with the provision that he pay 5s a year to the Court, in March, 1641." Further that in "February 1643/4, he was relieved from this payment on account of age."^[12]

Sources

1. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995, 489-491 (Griffin Crafts); digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
2. ↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay ... (Boston, W. White, printer to the commonwealth, 1853-54), 5 vos. in 6, 2:149; digital image, Hathi Trust.
3. ↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay ... (Boston, W. White, printer to the commonwealth, 1853-54), 5 vos. in 6, 3:67; digital image, Hathi Trust indexed (p. 475) as "petition for exemption from military service."
4. ↑ J. Gardner Bartlett footnote, see Elizabeth French, "Ivory" in "Genealogical Research in England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 67 (1913):341n, digital images, InternetArchive.
5. ↑ George Francis Dow, Records and files of the Quarterly courts ... (Salem, Mass. : Essex institute, 1911-1975), 9 vols., 2:270-7; digital images, Hathi Trust; record reports this copy was "taken from the town book of the records of Lynn 10 : 1 : 1659-60, by Andrew Mansfield" and presented at court 26 March 1661; also listed are "_____ Ivorey 10 acres," and "_____ Crofte, 10 acres"; Ipswich Quarterly Court, held at Ipswich.
6. ↑ Alonzo Lewis and James Robinson Newhall, History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts ... (Boston : J.L. Shorey, 1865), 171-172 (1638 Lynn grantees); digital images, Hathi Trust; "These three pages were taken out of the Town Book of the Records of Lynn, the 10th 1 mo. Anno Domini, 59 60 [March 10, 1660]" by Andrew Mansfield, town recorder. Note: See free space page, History of Lynn ..., for Anderson's comment, "The largest source of false claims ..." (as "Errata").
7. ↑ Mary Elizabeth Backus, The New England ancestry of Dana Converse Backus ([Salem, Mass.] Printed for private distribution [1949]), 168 (South); digital images, Hathi Trust.
8. ↑ Alonzo Lewis and James Robinson Newhall, History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts ... (Boston : J.L. Shorey, 1865), 173 (Mr. South); digital images, Hathi Trust. Note: See free space page, History of Lynn ..., for Anderson's comment, "The largest source of false claims ..." (as "Errata").
9. ↑ George Francis Dow, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts (Salem, Mass. : Essex institute, 1911-1975), 9 vols., 1:61; digital images, Hathi Trust; Salem Quarterly Court, held at Salem, 20 : 12 ; 1643,
10. ↑ George Francis Dow, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts (Salem, Mass. : Essex institute, 1911-1975), 9 vols., 1:95; digital images, Hathi Trust; Salem Quarterly Court, held at Salem, 30 : 4 : 1646,
11. ↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay ... (Boston, W. White, printer to the commonwealth, 1853-54), 5 vos. in 6, 1:234; digital image, Hathi Trust.
12. ↑ Louis Effingham de Forest, Our colonial and continental ancestors ... (New York, N.Y. : DeForest Publishing Co., 1930), 124; digital image, InternetArchive,

See also--

• Eleanor Tucker, "William Ivory of Lynn and His Descendants," The Essex Genealogist 10 (1990):33-41; 85-90; 153-154, in particular, 36-37; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
• Alonzo Lewis and James Robinson Newhall, History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts ... (Boston : J.L. Shorey, 1865), 227-228 (Thomas Ivory); digital images, Hathi Trust; calling him Thomas; saying he had son Thomas and John; also, "Mr. Ivory came in 1638 ... [wife] Ann ... daughters Lois, Ruth, and Sarah ..." Note: See free space page, History of Lynn ..., for Anderson's comment, "The largest source of false claims ..." (as "Errata").