Sarah was mentioned in her fathers will and received the sum of ten pounds in Chattel, his great brass kettle, and gave land to her two youngest sons Besaliel and Samuel.
[Source: The Randall Line by Mrs. J. M. Morrison.]
He was made a fireman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony 12 October 1681.
Made a Freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 12 October 1681
Moved to Taunton, MA, about 1695.
[Genealogical Dictionary of New England by James Savage]The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy, Frederick A. Virkus. Vol III (page 48) The lineage of Horace Henry Baker ties back to Nathaniel and says he was the first settler of Taunton, Massachusetts.
From Patricia Blodgett, 310 Laurel Place, P.O. Box 125, Cornwall, PA 17016, "Many of the Vital Records of Taunton were lost in a courthouse fire in the 1830's so important events of the people's lives must be estimated from the records of land transactions which still exist. By 1693 he had moved to Taunton as shown by a deed dated 11 Dec. 1693, at which time a 'Nathaniel Smith, yeoman of Taunton,' bought land from John Richmond. He probably moved to Taunton as early as 1691 as indicated by a deed dated 22 Feb. 1696-97. On this date he sold land in Taunton that had been deeded to him by John Spur on 4 Jan. 1691 and also land deeded to him by Jiles Gilbert on 8 June 1693. Proof that he did move to Taunton is shown in a deed dated 12 Aug. 1695 and recorded in Suffolk Registry of Deeds, Book 17, p 230. By this deed, 'Nathaniel Smith, deceased father of Nathaniel and given by James Smith to Nathaniel by Will'. On 8 April 1700, Nathaniel Smith, then living in the "fourth purchase" in Taunton (in 1712 it became the village of Dighton), sold land to his son, Nathaniel. Three years later on 22 Jan. 1703 a Nicholas Mooney of Freetown sold land in Taunton "fourth purchase" to 'Nathaniel Smith of Taunton, son of Nathaniel Smith, late f Taunton, deceased'. So on the basis of these land records, Nathaniel Smith, sr. probably died in taunton between 8 April 1700 and 22 Jan. 1703. (Warner, F.C., The Ancestry of Samuel, freda and John warner, Boston, MA, 1949, page 594)."
Patricial Blodgett further says, "In her letter of May 23, 1995, V. McComas questioins where Deliverance and Nathaniel lived, because she says he deeded his Taunton property to his sons. And she asks "who bailed Nathaniel out of the mortgage foreclosure?" Virginia says the birth records of the children of Nathaniel and Experience are in the Vital Records of Weymouth, MA."
Settled in Weymouth as early as 1639.
He had land granted to him on the "easterneck." (Weymouth Land Grant 262)
His will dated 11 May 1673, was signed 19 June 1673, and proved 22 June 1676. In it he mentions his wife Joane, his sons James and Nathaniel, his daughter Hannah Parramore, and his grandson James, son of his deceased son Joshua.
["History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, in Four Volumes," Weymouth Historical Society, 1923]From "The Pioneers of Massachusetts," by Charles Henry Pope: James, Sr., Weymouth, 1639; Proprietor; lands referred to in deed of Margery Staple in 1658. Then names children as James, Joshua, Nathaniel, Hannah, (m.1. John Snell, m. 2, ---Parramore).
From "Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut," Vol. II compiled by Clement, Hart, Talcott, Bostwick, and Stearns: page 615 identifies James as a Proprietor of Weymouth, and states that he was admitted a freeman in 1654.
This description of James Smith's land grant came from "Historical Sketch of the Town of Weymouth, Massachusetts, from 1622 to 1884," compiled by Gilbert Nash, published by the Weymouth Historical Society, 1885;
"Three in the Easterneck bounded on the east with the highwaie the land of Clement Briggs on the west on the north with the sea on the south with the land of William Hayward. One acre of salt marsh bounded with the sea on the east the sea on the west the land of William Pitty on the north of James Luden the south."
Elected Selectman in November, 1681. ["History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, in Four Volumes," Weymouth Historical Society, 1923]
According to Tibbetts & Lamson, "Early Pleasant River Families of Washington County, Maine":
Christopher came to Addison either with or soon after his 1st wife's family settled there {Corthell} and in 1805 bought land from "Patten, Mellus, and Ferno" [Washington Co Deed 4:384]; lived at Addison [1810-40]; since records of his marriages haven't been found, it is not clear just when they occurred, or which children are by which wife {except Mary was by 1st wife and Deborah was by 2nd wife}; Christopher married, first, his second cousin's daughter, DEBORAH CORTHELL,
Baptised in Scituate, now Abington, 20 Jun 1742. Moved his family back and forth several times between Hanover, MA, and eastern Maine (Passamaquoddy and later Addison); he came to Addison in 1798, and subsequently returned to Hanover, MA to live with his son, Levi Jr, but most of his surviving children settled at Pleasant River.
11 children.
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