Dorcas PLUMBE

Family/Spouse: John LYMAN. John (son of Richard LYMAN and Sarah OSBORNE) was born in Sep 1623 in High Ongar, England; died on 20 Aug 1690. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary LYMAN was born on 2 Jan 1668; died on 16 Oct 1740.
2. Benjamin LYMAN was born in Aug 1674; died on 14 Oct 1723.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Son of Robert Plumbe of Spaynes Hall and Grace Crackbone

Notes:

Name:
John Plumbe was the son of Robert Plumbe of Spaynes Hall and his wife Grace Crackbone, and great-grandson of John Plumbe of Toppesfield, county Essex. He probably owned Ridgewell hall by the gift of his father at the time of his marriage, and was living there in 1634, as reported by the King's herald at the visitation of Essex in that year. This property he doubtless sold and with the proceeds bought a vessel, if he was not already the owner of one, and in it came to Wethersfield, as he was from the first a ship owner there and traded up and down the river with the Indians. It was probably his vessel which carried Captain Mason's little army of seventy-seven men down the river and around to Narragansett Bay to attack the Pequots. His name frequently appears upon the Records of the town. He was often a member of the Court, was a candidate for Assistant in 1643, and held various offices until 1644. In that year he sold his land in Wethersfield, thirteen parcels from two acres up to two hundred and four, and two dwelling-houses, and removed to Brandford, where he died in 1648. At the first town meeting held there, Dec. 15, 1645, he was elected town clerk and held the office until his death. His eldest son Robert, settled in Milford, which he probably discovered in the pursuit of the Pequots, and died there.

John married Dorothy ? about 1616. Dorothy died after 1669. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]