Resident of Dorchester, removed to Edgartown abt. 1652, husbandman.
He is the ancestor of all the Vineyard Butlers, as his only brother Henry returned to England and descendants of him now reside there.
Living in 1680 but no descendants known; prob. unm.
Living in Malden, MA, in 1698.
She resided in Duxbury, Plymouth Co., MA. She resided in Harpswell, Cumberland Co., ME.
["The Genealogical Record", April 1970, page 120.]David and Bethiah (Sprague) Curtis had six children born in Hanover 1733-1743, and removed to North Yarmouth, ME., by 1745, where they were living in 1755.
["Sprague Families in America", says that the children were in Harpswell, ME in 1759.]
Brother of John MACOMBER, of Taunton, MA.
He settled in 1638 at Plymouth. and in company with Henry Madeley, of Dorchester, a carpenter, he received permission to dwell at Plymouth, April 2d that year. He removed to Duxbury, where he was on the list of men able to bear arms, 1643, and subsequently removed to Marshfield. He died 1670, and the inventory of his property is dated May 27, same year. His wife Priscilla survived him.
Joanna Tinkham was a descendant of Peter Brown, passenger on the Mayflower.
Joseph settled north of Church Hill. In the Indian raid of 1676 his house was burned. He was captain under Col. Benjamin Church in the Eastern Expedition in 1689. In the Phips' Canada Expedition of 1690 he was Captain of a company in which there were 16 men from Scituate, many of whom never returned. Capt. Sylvester died in this expedition.
[SOURCE: Silvester, Albert Henry, "Richard Silvester of Weymouth, Mass., and Some of his Descendants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume LXXXV (Boston, MA: 1931), p. 262-263.]Besides the land conveyed to him by his father-in-law, Joseph owned land which he bought of John Whiston. His farm was in the southern part of Scituate, north of the Church Hill. In King Philip's War Joseph's house, which was considered the most valuable of the houses in that town, was burned by the Wild Savages, and was destroyed.
On the fifth day of March 1684 Joseph took the place of his brother-in-law, Joseph Barstow, as an innkeeper at Scituate, the General Court at Plymouth, having discharged Joseph Barstow as keeper of an ordinary at the North River, granting License unto Joseph Silvester to keep an ordinary at the North River for the entertainment of strangers, and to be well provided for the necessaries for their entertainment both for them in respect of food and lodging, and also to provide for their horses. He was to keep good order in his house, and had the freedom to entertain such of their own town as he should see cause, and too, keep out others as he should see reason.
Joseph understanding that all power residing originally in, and being derived from the people, and that all the magistrates and officers of government, are their substitutes and agents, and at all times accountable to them, held various town offices in Scituate, and was elected by the freemen of that town to be Deputy or Representative to the General Court or General Assembly in the years 1689 and 1690.
Joseph was a Captain under Colonel Church in the expedition against the eastern Wild Savages in the year 1689. But in expedition against Canada in the following year he fell sick, and it appears from the papers connected with the settlement of his estate that he received medical attendance and nursing for some time before his death. On the twenty-second day of July 1690, he declared his nuncupative will before three of his men, Benjamin Stetson, Junior, and John and William Perry. He died soon after still in service.
Joseph died in 1690, after the twenty-second day of July, while serving as Captain in the expedition against Canada conducted by Sir William Phips. The inventory of his estate, was dated 29 --- 1691, at Scituate, showed items amounting to 434 pounds, 7 shillings, and 6 pence, against which there were debts amounting to 16 pounds, 7 shillings.
Important items given are two oxen, seven cows, two 2-year Olds, five yearlings, three calves, one horse, two mares, one colt, twenty-two sheep, five swine. No domestic fowls are mentioned, although it is probable that they were kept on the farm. Two slaves were also listed, with a valuation of 30 pounds. About 65 pounds was due the estate, of which the sum of 30 pounds was for services on the Phips expedition. The list includes also a large assortment of household articles, food, grains, tools, farming implements, guns, pistols, a cider mill, a still, rum, wine, tobacco, venison, beef, pork, sugar, and honey. The inventory of the estate is dated the twenty-second day of October 1715.
[Source: Richard Silvester of Weymouth, Massachusetts, and some of his Descendants by Albert Henry Silvester.]
"Capt. Joseph Sylvester, son of Richard, was born in Weymouth, Mass., in 1638. While on an expedition to Canada with Col. Phipps, he died. This account gives the descendants (daughters) the honor of "Colonial Dames," and they are eligible to that Society.
[ Family History, Volume S(4), Sylvester, Daughters of the American Revolution library, Washington, DC.]
On 14 May 1656 when Mary was 14, she first married William Ingraham, in Rehoboth, Bristol County, MA
["New England MarriagesPrior to 1700," by Clarence Almon Torrey, Baltimore, MD Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1985; pg 411] William Ingraham was born about 1628.- Relationship to parents proven in a deed from Joseph Barstow (confirming the
act of his father) to Joseph Silvester.
- Her son, Amos, appointed administrator of her estate on May 27, 1715.[Silvester, Albert Henry, "Richard Silvester of Weymouth, Mass., and Some of his Descendants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume LXXXV (Boston, MA: 1931), p. 261.]
Occupation: shipwright.
"Job, (shipwright and a very respectable and useful man) settled one fourth mile south of the Herring brook hill, (now [1831] David Torrey's). ... From this family the Randalls (Samuel &c.) in the west part of the Town are descended."
[Source: Samuel Deane, History of Scituate, Massachusetts, from Its First Settlement to 1831.]He lived a quarter mile south of Herring Brook Hill and was a shipwright at the Chittenden Yard on the Norwell side of the river. He built ships for Samuel Lillie and Andrew Belcher of Boston. Many of Belcher's ships were privateers used in the French war. In 1675 he served in King Philip's Was under General James Cudworth. He died in Scituate on Sept 19, 1727.
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