Rev. William EDDYE

William married Mary FOSTEN on 20 Nov 1587 in Cranbrook, Kent, England. Mary was born on 19 Sep 1568 in Cranbrook, Kent, England; died on 18 Jul 1611 in Cranbrook, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Sarah TAYLOR on 22 Feb 1613/14. Sarah died before 5 Feb 1639/40. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Simeon EVERNDEN before 1616. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Katherine COURTHOPP. Katherine died before 1639. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Christian ?. Christian died after 7 Jun 1641. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The Winthrops, Doggetts, and Eddys were known to each other in England, for John Winthrop had married for his second wife Thomasine Clopton of Groton; Thomas Doggett, a cousin of Amy, had married her sister Margery Clopton of Groton; and John eddy had married Amy Doggett of Groton. This is doubtless the reason why John and Samuel Eddy within two weeks of landing at Plymouth left for the Bay Colony. they wished to settle near their friends and acquaintances. At this time there was an agreement between the two colonies that a man must carry letters of dismissal from one colony before he could be received as an inhabitant by the other. John and Samuel did not carry those letters with them and so were obliged to return to Plymouth, with John Grant and Capt. Standish.

Sometime previous to Feb. 26, 1631/32 John eddy procured the necessary letters of dismissal and was received into the Bay Colony. He joined the settlement at Watertown, which was rapidly growing to be the largest in New England. A letter which Gov. Bradford of Plymouth wrote to Gov Winthrop, regarding the dismissal of several men from the colony is found in the Chamberlain Collection at the Boston Public Library....

John married Amie DOGET after 22 May 1619. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joanna BATES. Joanna was born about 1603; died on 25 Aug 1683 in Watertown, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married John BENJAMIN about 1619 in England. John was born about 1598 in Herefordshire, England; died on 14 Jun 1645 in Watertown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Soon after Samuel's death the records state that Samuel Eddy's share in the 26 Men's Purchase was then in the hands of Obadiah Eddy. In 1695 when a new survey was made Samuel's share is called the 9th lot, which consisted of a little more than 8 acres near Ravin Brook.

So far as is known Samuel Eddy held no public office. This was due probably to his youth and inexperience with conditions in a colony which had been established for ten years when he joined it, and as time went on the care of his family occupied his entire attention.

Just how many children Samuel and Elizabeth had is not known. Three times in deeds Samuel is called Samuel Eddy, Sen'r (July 21, 1660, Mar. 24, 1662, and Dec 1681). In 1681, Both Zachariah and Caleb had small boys named Samuel, but at the time of the first two deeds so far as is known, there was no other Samuel Eddy in Plymouth. It is therefore possible to suppose that Samuel had another son, who was named Samuel Eddy and of such an age in 1660 that; it was considered necessary to distinguish the father as Samuel Eddy, Sen'r. Likewise Elizabeth also appears on a record as Elizabeth Eddy, Sen'r so it is possible to adda a daughter Elizabeth to the list of the children. But since neither Samuel nor Elizabeth left a will, no way has been found, up to the present, to prove the truth of falsity of these suppositions.

As both Samuel and Elizabeth were elderly people at the time of their deaths and they both died in Swansea, it seems likely that they were living with either their son Zachariah or their son Caleb, both of whom resided in swansea. It was the custom in early New England to bury the dead on the day following the death and in a plot near the house, so it would be natural for Samuel and Elizabeth to be buried near the home of one of these Swansea sons. It happens that in December of 1696, just nine years after the death of Samuel and seven years after the death of Elizabeth, Zachariah Eddy sold to his son, Zachariah Eddy, twenty acres in Swansea, lying in a place "Commonly known by the name of Matapoysett, bounded northerly with the highway, easterly with the fence and Spring Brook to the Salt Water, southerly to the land of Ralph Chapman and bounded westerly with the highway which leade to the land of Ralph Chapman....excepting and reserving the Burying Place on the premises which is to lye and remain as a burying place for and to the families of the said Eddys & for such of their neighbors as the said Eddys shall admit of forever." Thus it is known that preious to 1696 Zachariah had already buried some members of his family near his home. Since the only Eddys who died besides his wife Alice were his father and mother, it seems almost certain that Samuel and Elizabeth lie in the Eddy Cemetery in Swansea Village, perhaps in two of those graves whose locations are marked by stones which bear no inscriptions. This cemetery lies on a hill-top, overlooking the cove of salt water, just south of the main road through the village. It adjoins the estate of Mrs. Frank Stevens and is east of the Swansea Dye Works. This plot was used by the descendants of Zachariah as a burial place for over a hundred years.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth SAVERY. Elizabeth was born about 1607; died on 24 May 1689. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]