The earliest confirmed ancestor in this line. The birth order of their five children is taken from William's will.
His Will dated 23 February 1570/1571 was proved on 23 Apr 1571.
A Farmer, the son of unknown parents was born about 1607, in England. He married Emiline, her maiden name is not known, his first wife when and where is not known. She was born when is not known, in England and died when and where is not known.
Richard came to New England in 1630, probably in the "Mary and John," which sailed from Plymouth, Devonshire, England, on the thirtieth day of March 1630, and arrived in Nantasket Roads on the thirtieth day of May 1630.
On the nineteenth day of October 1630 he applied, with many others, for admission as a freeman, but he was not admitted as such until the first day of April 1634, when he agreed to take the Oath of Freeman or Citizenship. This delay, when many were accepted immediately as freemen, may well have been due to his move to Wessagusset and to the fact that, when more were admitted on the eighteenth day of May 1631, it was voted that none were to be admitted until joining fellowship with one of the Churches of Christ. When he was admitted in 1634, he must, therefore, have been a member of the church.
While Richard was living in Weymouth, he more than once came into conflict with the authorities of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in Boston. At a Quarter Court held in Boston on the fifth day of January 1638, he was fined 12 shillings for selling strong water, and he paid this fine into the Court. At a Quarter Court held in Boston on the fourth day of June 1639, for speaking against the law about hogs, and against a particular magistrate, he was fined 10 pounds, whereof the three witnesses were to have 6 shillings, 8 pence, apiece. But on the third day of September 1639, 6 pounds, of his fine was suspended upon his good behavior and he paid the other 6 pounds. It was probably a greater offense to speak against a "particular magistrate" than against the law about hogs, a few years later Richard was one of the men appointed to enforce the regulations about hogs in Weymouth.
Richard was also involved in religious controversies, by espousing certain religious sentiments, too liberal for the age in which he lived. He advanced the sentiment, that all baptized persons should be admitted to the Communion without further trial. This was a heresy to be noticed by Government, and he was ordered to retract in presence of the General Court. He did not, and in consequence was fined and disfranchised by the Government. He was disfranchised and find 2 pounds on the thirteenth day of March 1639, for joining in an attempt to organize a church at Weymouth which was not in accordance with the Massachusetts Bay authorities. He sold his Weymouth property, on the twenty-third day of September 1640, and moved to Marshfield about 1644.
On the sixth day of June,1654, Richard was elected by the freemen of Marshfield to be their Surveyor of highways, and on the eighth day of June 1655, he was elected by the freemen to be their Constable of the town.
Richard died in 1663, at Scituate. He made his will at Marshfield, and it was proved on the twenty-fourth day of September 1663. His second wife Naomi her last name is not known, survived him and died on or before the twenty-sixth day of November 1668, when the inventory of her personal estate was taken, there in he mentions his second wife Naomi, sons John, Joseph, Israel, Richard and Benjamin, and daughters Lydia, Dinah, Elizabeth, Naomi and Hester.
[Source: Richard Silvester of Weymouth, Massachusetts, and some of his Descendants by Albert Henry Silvester.]
"The name Sylvester is of French origin and signifies 'Forest,' hence Coat-of-Arms an oak tree vertical and the crest of a lion vertical. We find that the family settled in England not long after the Conquest by William the Conqueror. Stephen Sylvester was among the Gentry of Norfolk, England. Gabriel Sylvester was D.D. Prebend of Litchfield Cathedral. John Sylvester of Norfolk went to fight the Saracens in the reign of Richard the I. The first name in New England is Richard Sylvester, Gentleman, in Plymouth, Mass., 1633, who married Naomi Torrey,, in 1632. This Richard took up his residence in Scituate, Mass., after being banished from Plymouth for his friendship with the family of the great Christian reformer, Anne Hutchinson. Richard was living in Scituate in 1642. He died in 1663."
[Source: Family History, Volume S(4), Sylvester, Daughters of the American Revolution library, Washington, DC:]
George married secondly about 1616, Dorothy James, by whom he had two sons, Matthew and Thomas, both of whom immigrated to the New World. On 12 November 1616, George purchased from Hugh Underhill and his sister Lettice with her husband, a cottage and garden at Kenilworth, Warwickshire. The transaction was probably made upon the occasion of his second marriage, and may be an indication that his second wife was a relation of the Underhills. The possibility of such a connection is further enhanced by the recollection of Edward's son Geogre, in a deposition taken 9 May 1700 stating that as a young boy he had lived with his father, Edward, in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, and had heard that the house they lived in belonged to Edward's brother, Matthew. If George had settled the property upon his second wife at the time of their marriage, it would have become the property of her oldest son, Matthew, at her death. If both parents had died, Matthew may have been under Edward's guardianship.
No record of his death or grave site.
Marriage intentions filed 6 Oct 1846, at Harrington, pg 5, states both from Cherryfield.
It is believed that she died at sea. There are no graves.
Married..(unknown)
Maintenance worker on State Highway.
Died of Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease.
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