Gideon SOUTHWORTH

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• Fact: Son of William Southworth and Martha Kirtland

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Residence: Little Compton and Rochester.

In 1719 his father gave him a dwelling house, orchard and land in Little Compton. He graduated from yale University with an AB degree in 1727, and in 1732 he left Little Compton for Rochester, where he was a school master. In 1751 records place him in Coventry, Conn., but he soon returned to Rochester where he died.

Gideon married Mary WILBOR on 25 Sep 1728. Mary (daughter of John WILBORE and Sarah PALMER) was born on 13 Apr 1711 in Little Compton, Rhode Island; was christened on 3 May 1730 in Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Lois SOUTHWORTH was born on 10 Jan 1741 in Rochester, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; died on 21 Jun 1819 in Fairhaven, Bristol Co., Massachusetts.

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He lived in Duxbury, Little Compton and Bristol, Rhode Island. He was a deputy in Duxbury 1654-63 and 1671-82, a selectman there 1672-75 and 1683-85. He owned much land in Little Compton and was there in 1686. He lived on Swamp Road on the place known as the Franklin C. Southworth place. All of his children are entered on the records of the Church of Christ in Bristol, as baptized 29 June 1709.

He gave land to his sons Samuel, Thomas, Stephen, Benjamin and Andrew; and to Gideon he gave his dwelling house, orchard and land. With his wife Martha he gave Joseph and his wife Mary Blague a dwelling house, orchard and 26 acres of upland, with a sawmill standing upon the cornmill stream with 42 acres of upland on the west side of that stream and 20 acres of upland adjoining the land of Reynolds Marvin, with 10 acres meadow known by the name of the Fresh Meadow. In his will, recorded in Taunton, made 8 May 1719 and proved 24 Aug. 1719, he left to his wife Martha "her third as the law allows"; 20 pounds each to sons Joseph, Edward Thomas and Gideon; to son Samuel 5 pounds; to son Nathaniel 400 pounds; to son Benjamin 10 shillings; to daughter Elizabeth 60 pounds; to daughter Alice 70 pounds; to son Stephen one half of his Negro man called Cuff and one cow, and to son Andrew the other half of his Negro man called Cuff. He also mentioned his grandsons William and Constant Southworth. He named his friend Lt. John Wood to be one of his executors along with his sons Joseph and Samuel. An inventory of his estate lists one Negro man called Cuff, one Negro woman called Sue and one Negro woman called Kate, two houses and one hundred acres of land with 2000 pounds, with the estate totaling 2593 pounds.

In her will his widow left 5 shillings each to her sons Joseph Blague and Samuel Blague, "...To sons Gideon Southworth and Andrew Southworth the rest and residue. To son Andrew my Negro girl named Kate and my silver tankard, to daughter mary Southworth my wearing apparel, to grandson William Southworth my young heifer that came of that cow I had of Stephen Wilcox, to granddaughter Mary Blague my satinet gown and short apron..." Her son-in-law Joseph Southworth was named sole executor.

William married Martha KIRTLAND on 14 Nov 1705 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA. Martha was born about 1667; died on 7 Feb 1737/8. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]