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Mary Doggett |
Immigrant Ancestor | see FAMILY TREE |
Baptized: 21 Sep 1600 Horsmonden, Kent, England
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Married: 1 Nov 1624 Horsmonden, Kent, England
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Died: 3 Jul 1676 Barnstable, MA |
FATHER
MOTHER
HUSBAND
CHILDREN
1. Mary Lewis
b. 27 Dec 1625
2. George Lewis
b. 11 Nov 1627
3. Thomas Lewis
b. 5 Jan 1630
4. James Lewis
b. 25 Mar 1632
5. Edward Lewis
b. 9 May 1634
6. John Lewis
b. 02 March 1637
7. Ephraim Lewis
b. 23 July 1641
8. Sarah Lewis
b. 02 Feb 1643
Mary Doggett
by Susan Brooke
Mar 2023
Mary Doggett was baptized in Horsmonden, Kent, England on 21 Sep 1600. (1) Her father died in 1621 and she inherited £30. She married George Lewis in Horsmonden on 1 Nov 1624. (2) They lived in Brenchley, Kent, England where her first four children were christened. (3) George Lewis was a clothier but by 1634 they were not in a good financial place. Mary was in Stapleburst, Kent, England when the Brenchley parish deemed she could stay in Staplehurst and receive aid there. (4) George left for Plymouth Colony when she was about 7 or 8 months pregnant. She gave birth to her fifth child in Stablehurst, but eventually travelled with her five children to Plymouth Colony where her sixth child was born. Her husband died in Barnstable, MA in 1634 and she was the executor of his will. She lived unto Jul 1676. (5)
Sources
Mary Doggete
Christened: 21 Sep 1600 Horsmonden, Kent, England
Father:
Thomas Doggete
(2) Marriage
Record
George Leweis to Mary Doggat 1 Nov 1624 Horsmonden,
Kent, England
(3) Christening Records for children of George and Mary Lewis
Mary Lewis
27 Dec 1625 Brenchley, Kent, England, Father: George
George Lewis
11 Nov 1627 Brenchley, Kent, England, Father: George
Thomas
Lewis 6 Jan 1729 (Thomas Lewes) Brenchley, Kent, England, Father: Gorg
James Lewis
25 Mar 1631 (James Lewes) Brenchley, Kent, England, Father George
Edward Lewis
25 May 1634 (Edward Lews) Staplehurst, Kent, England Parents: George and
Mary Lews
John
Lewis 2 Mar 1637 Scituate, Plymouth, MA (John Lewes) Father: George Lewes
Ephraim Lewis 23
Jul 1641 (Ephraim Lewes) Barnstable, Plymouth, MA Father: George
Lewes
Sarah
Lewis 02 Feb 1643 (Sarah Lewes) Barnstable, Plymouth, MA Father:
George Lewes
The Brenchley parish disagreed, and the matter ended up in court.
At its Easter Sessions, on 15 April 1634, the court considered the case. Applying the law, the oldest child, who was older than seven, could have been sent back to Brenchley, but the wife and the younger children could be sent to the place where the “husband belonged”. The court decided that the husband had become a legitimate resident of Staplehurst and elected to ignore the age of the oldest child: “It is ordered by this court that the said Mary Lewis and her children be settled and remain in Staplehurst where they now are, and the said parishioners of Staplehurst are to see them provided for according to the law.”
(5)
The American Genealogist by Jacobus
"The 14 April 1670 list of the
inhabitants of Barnstable includes Edw's Lewis, Geo, Lewis, James Lewis, John
Lewis, Thos. Lewis and Widow Lewis (Frederick Freeman, The History of Cape Cod:
The Annals of the Thirteen Towns of Barnstable County, 2 vols. (Boston, 1862),
2: 271).
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