GOULD, John

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John married BIXLEY, Esther Giles Taylor on 5 Jan 1749 in Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Esther was born in 1718 in Essex, Massachusetts, United States; was christened on 8 Jun 1718 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; died on 20 Dec 1788 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; was buried in Dec 1788 in Pine Grove Cemetery, Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Zaccheus married CURTIS, Elizabeth on 21 Jan 1702 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of CURTIS, John B. and LOOKE, Mary) was born on 15 Dec 1679 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America; died on 21 Jun 1740 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America; was buried on 21 Jun 1740 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BIOGRAPHY: John Gould was born in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England. In the town was an abbey and a register of the convent dates its foundation to 1133. A court book of a manor there says it was founded by the Doyleys and augmented by the Missendens pursuant to a vow. Sir William de Missenden gave the manor to the abbey and much later it became the House of Brudenells. Family tradition says an Uncle of John's was Master of the House of Brudenells, possibly Henry. A letter dated March 3, 1678, says "Mrs. Mary Gould is yet living and remains single still. Henry Gould is dead almost a year since."

In 1638, John and his parents arrived in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He married Sarah Baker October 14, 1660 and they had eight children, John, Sarah, Thomas, Samuel, Zaccheus, Priscilla, Joseph, and Mary. About 1668, John became a stockholder in an iron foundry and eventually became a prominent resident of Topsfield, Massachusetts. Prior to the Salem Witch Trials, his nephew, John Wilde, wrongly accused him of treason.

John was known to be a very outspoken patriot against the oppression of King Charles II. He was jailed by the colonial governor in Boston for his disloyalty to the crown, but was later released.

In 1675-1676, John served during King Phillip's War, in the "Three-County Troop" under the command of Captain Hutchinson and later Captain Wheeler. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant and put in command of the Topsfield Company of militia.

John is buried beside his father, Zaccheus Gould, at the Pine Grove Cemetery. Some descendents of the Gould family erected a monument at the cemetery commemorating John and Zaccheus. The Topsfield Historical Society commemorated John in the essay "John Gould – Patriot".

Edward Robert Hale, grandson of Mattie Gould Hale and a descendant of John Gould and Sarah Baker, provided the following information regarding the Gould's eight children. The information was taken from a book written about the genealogy of the Gould Family.

John (December 1, 1662 - 1724), married Phebe French in 1684

Sarah (December 18, 1664 - 1723), married Joseph Bixby, Jr. in 1682

Thomas (February 14, 1666 - 1752), married first Mary Yates in 1700. Thomas married second in 1728/29, the widow Mary Stanley

Samuel (March 9, 1669/70 - 1724), married Margaret Stone in 1697

Zaccheus (March 26, 1672 - 1739), married Elizabeth Curtice in 1703

Priscilla (November 2, 1674 - 1715), married John Curtice, Jr. in 1695

Joseph (August 24, 1677 - 1753), married Priscilla Perkins in 1712/13

Mary (June 16, 1681 - May 11, 1689 one month short of her eighth birthday

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John married BAKER, Sarah on 12 Oct 1660 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Sarah (daughter of BAKER, John and FOSTER, Elizabeth) was born on 9 Mar 1641 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; was christened on 9 Mar 1641; died on 20 Jan 1709 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; was buried in Jan 1709 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BIOGRAPHY: B.A. Gould gives her marriage date as 10/14/1660. In 1670, Sarah Baker Gould witnessed the intemperance (in the pulpit) ofthe Minister (Thomas Gilbert) of the Puritan Congregational Church atTopsfield Massachusetts... "He went into the pulpit in a disordered state,which he betrayed by the confusion of his thought and the clipping of hiswords, and especially by forgetting the order of the exercises." The casebecame so bad that at last one of the congregation rose and begged him tostop. Sarah Gould testified against him, and in the following year on 26September 1671, 4 separate "cases" were brought before the town government: Mr. Thomas Gilbert v. Ensign John Gould, for Sary Gould'sdefaming him. Verdict for the defendant. Also an action for assault. Verdict for plaintiff. Fine20s. Also another action of slander, for saying he was a lyingin the pulpit. Verdict for defendant. Ensign John Gould, in behalf of his wife Sarah, v. Mr.Thomas Gilbert. Action of slander. Verdict forplaintiff 40s. In "The Ancestry of Dudley Wildes" by William Goodwin Davis, theincident is described a little differently, as follows (editorialcomments are Davis's):Thomas and Phebe Perkins were among the guests at a Sundaydinner at the house of an earlier parson, Mr. Gilbert, in1670. Mr. Gilbert was a sick man, as good old Joanna Townecharitably realized, but others believed him to have drunk toomuch wine. The matter was aired in court and Phebe Perkinstestified as follows: "there was a cup with wine in it whichwas offered to Mr. Gilbert. He refused to take it at first,but afterward put the cup to his mouth" but she did not knowwhether he drank or not. Three more had the cup besidehimself and after he had dined he drank what was left in thecup. Immediately after dinner he sang a psalm and in readingit she thought his voice was lower than it used to be. Asevidence of drunkeness this would seem to be negligible.Phebe Perkins' sister-in-law, Sarah Gould, wife of Capt. JohnGould, went farther, however. She testified that she andPhebe went into another room after dinner, where Phebe said "Iwonder my Husban would ask him to drinke for I think hee hadnoe need of it. The first time hee toke the Cope I saw himdrinke a good draft." In spite of his wife's testimony thatMr. Gilbert was a sick man, the court admonished him.Sarah Gould continued to gossip and Mr. Gilbert eventuallysued her for slander. In court he asked the judges to"compare her [Sarah's] Oath with the Oath of Goodie Perkins,taken att the same tym, and if they do not clash one againstanother I am much mistaken." We heartily agree.

Sarah also caused difficulties: She accused the minister, Thomas Gilbert, of entering the pulpit drunk. On Sept 26, 1671, 4 cases were heard:
1. Rev Gilbert sued the Goulds for Sary Gould's defaming him. Verdict for the Goulds.
2. Rev Gilbert sued Goulds for saying he was lying in the pulpit. Verdict for the Goulds.
3. He also sued them for assault. Goulds fined 20 shillings.
4. The Goulds sued for slander. Gilbert fined 20 shillings.

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John married LOOKE, Mary on 4 Dec 1672 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of LOOKE, John Thomas and MILLER, Sarah) was born on 15 Jul 1654 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; died on 23 Aug 1745 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; was buried in Aug 1745 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BIOGRAPHY: The name GOOLD, GOOLDE, GOLD, GOLDE, and GOULD can be traced in England to an early period, the family being of that ancient Normandy stock which was transplanted to English soil with the coming of William the Conqueror. John Gole or Gold was a crusader of the 13th century. Collinson in History of Amersetshire (2:172) gives the following account of him:

us gave him an estate in Scarborough (by deed still extant) about 1229In the time of Henry III, Ralph de Vallibus, being obliged to send men in the service of the King when he undertook a crusade to the Holy Land, amongst others despatched on John Gole out of his manor of Scarborough, who went, accordingly, to Jerusalem, and was present at the siege of Damieta (1217) where he fought valiantly; and after his return, as a reward for his merits, this Ralph de Vallib.

The Goulds are descended form this John Gole, granted an estate in the County of Somersetshire for his valor. Various branches of the family figure extensively in the annals of that county, as well as Hertford, Devon, Buckingham, and London. Some held important offices in the army and navy, others were prominent as merchants, bankers, and members of the learned professions. There is an interesting story about one James Gould who was a wealthy merchant of Exon, and held successively the offices of head steward of that city (1630), receiver (1645), high sheriff of County Exeter (1646), and Mayor of Exon (1648). It was while holding the latter office that Charles I was executed, and the Cromwellian leaders issued a proclamation concerning the assumption by Cromwell of the throne.

Mayor Gould refused to receive the proclamation for his city, and turned the messengers who brought it out of doors. For this act of contempt he was fined 200 pounds, but he "fought the judgment in the courts and secured its reversal. The only other mayor of England whose loyalty to the King led him to follow a similar course was hanged at his own door for his temerity." An extended account of Honorable James Gould may be found in John Prince's Worthies of Devon[1]. Whittemore in his Heroes of the Revolution and Their Descendants (176-182) says further: "The Gould and allied families of America have from the beginning of the settlement of New England been among the most earnest and faithful promoters of civil and religious liberty. 'Let all the ends thou aimst at be thy God's, thy country's, and truth's' has been the great underlying principle which has actuated them through each succeeding generation, and their influence has been everywhere felt for good. Their personal achievements form an interesting chapter in American history."

In 1235 a branch of the Gould family was seated at Bovington, Hertfordshire, and from the middle of the 15th century the line can be traced without interruption from Thomas Gould of that place, born about 1455, through Richard, whose memorial tablet of brass in the Bovington church contains the following: "Of your charitie pray for the soul of Rychard Gold and Joan his wife, which Ric. deceased ye xxiv day of August in 1531, whose soul Jehu pardon," Thomas, who died in 1547, Richard who died in 1558, and Richard born about 1553 who remove to the parish of Chesham, County Bucks, to the immigrant sons, Zaccheus and Jeremy who came to New England.

I. Zaccheus GOULD, progenitor of the Topsfield, Massachusetts, branch of the family, was born in Bovington in 1589, in the parish of Hemel Hempsted, County of Hertford, England, and resided there, and at Great Messenden, Bucks, where he was assessed in 1629, until he emigrated to New England in 1638, bringing with him his wife and five children. He located first at Weymouth, Massachusetts, and a little later at Lynn, where he owned a mill. As early as 1644 he became one of the proprietors of Topsfield, where he acquired extensive property, being the largest landowner in that locality, and one of the first. In that year, by his petition, Topsfield was set off from Ipswich, becoming a separate town. The first building erected on his property there was a block-house which the inhabitants used as a protection against the frequent raids of the Indians. The iron works erected on the lands of Zaccheus Gould in Topsfield were among the first built in New England, and it was there the first iron castings were made. His son John was partner with him in these enterprises, and at the father's death inherited as only son an estate of three thousand acres.[2] In 1660, Zaccheus Gould was fined for entertaining Quakers, but "on account of his loss by fire," the fine was remitted. It is written of him that he was a man of strong personality, decided convictions zealous in maintaining his rights, with a strong sense of justice, and liberal in his religious views, the latter a trait of character the Puritans could never tolerate. "He had an altercation with Governor Winthrop in regard to the naming of Topsfield, and a suit-at-law with Governor Endicott respecting the boundaries of their adjoining estates. He maintained friendly relations with the Quakers and Baptists, though both were proscribed, and more than once was severely fined for entertaining Quakers. Incensed by such persecutions, he thereafter refused to attend church services, and was subjected to additional fines for this misdemeanor."[3]

Zaccheus Gould married in England, Phebe DEACON, who died in Topsfield, 20 September 1663.[4] The exact date of the death of Zaccheus Gould seems uncertain, Whittemore placing it at 1668, Benjamin Aprhorp Gould stating it occurred about 1670.[5] Stones which were partially visible in 1872, in the Topsfield Cemetery, were supposed to mark the resting place of these early pioneers, though when some of his descendants in that year exhumed them with the hope of finding some inscriptions thereon, they were disappointed.

CHILDREN:

Phebe, baptized in Hemel Hempsted, England, 20 September 1620. She married Deacon Thomas Perkins, of Topsfield, born 1616; died 7 May 1686, aged 70. He was the son of John and Judith (Gates) Perkins, of Ipswich. Phebe was living in 1681. A daughter and son Timothy seem to be the only children recorded at Topsfield.
Mary, baptized at Hemel Hempsted, 19 December 1621; married John Redingtyon, of Topsfield, who died 15 November 1690. Four daughters and two sons are on record, one of the latter dying young.
Martha, baptized at Hemel Hempsted, 15 June 1623; married John Newmarch (or Newmarsh), of Ipswich. She died in 1699.
Priscilla, born at Great Messenden about 1625, the exact date uncertain, as the records there were destroyed by fire. She married John Wildes, born 1620. She died 16 April 1663, shortly after the birth of her second child, Nathan, who died 17 March 1663. The first child was Priscilla, who married Henry Lake. After the death of his first wife, John Wildes married (2) 23 November 1663, Sarah Averill, who bore a family. He died 14 May 1705.
John, born 10 June 1633; married Sarah BAKER.

John GOULD

II. John GOULD, born 10 June 1635, at Great Messenden, England, came to New England at the age of three, with his father. He lived at Topsfield, Massachusetts, where he was made freeman in 1665. Due to his large inheritances from his father, and his own business acumen, he was the greatest landowner in the neighborhood[6], and a man of much influence. Topsfield records bear his name frequently. He was ensign 22 March 1672, and elected constable 14 September same year. He was selectman (an officer now termed councilman) for fifteen years, beginning in 1663. In 1675 he was a member of the "Three County Troop," which served during King Philip's War. [7] For many years he was licensed to keep a "house of entertainment," i.e., hotel, and to sell beer and wine.[8] He was frequently on juries, acting also as attorney; was deputy marshal, and in 1688 commanded the Topsfield Militia, being made captain in 1693.
Capt. John Gould Headstone
A petition drawn up at Topsfield 1 March 1678/9, and signed by "Yours in all fidelity, Loyall servants under his Majesty," bore the names of many prominent men of that locality, who, addressing the "Honorable and Worshipful, the Council of the Colony of Massachusetts, asked that body to restore Ensign John Gould to freedom again, and to his former commission or a higher one."[9] On 26 March the request was granted and Lieutenant Gould's commission and standing restored to him.

He did not manage to stay out of trouble, however, for the court records of 9 April 1678 show him having been brought up for "reproachful speeches and behavior in court toward Captain Saltonstall, as saying 'you are no judge of ye Court,' in a violent manner."[10] He was fined for this irreverence. He was perhaps the most outspoken of all the patriots in opposing the arbitrary government which James II sought to impose upon New England when under Dudley and Sir Edmund Andros. Upon a warrant 5 August 1686, issued under "information ... of several treasonable and seditious words spoken by John Gould of Topsfield against our Sovereign Lord the King," he was arrested and lodged in Boston jail. In a presentment found against him by the Court Special Session, 19 August 1686, he is described as "John Gould, sen., otherwise called Lieutenant Gould of Topsfield," and it is asserted that "at a Riotus Muster of armed men gathered together by him, the aforesaid John Gould, as their pretended officer at Topsfield ... did against the duty of his Allegiance, and in terror of his Majesty's liege people, maliciously, wickedly, treasonably and advisedly speak and utter the malicious, treasonable and seditious speeches," etc., saying that he "was under another Government, and did not know this government, and this in manifest contempt of His Majesty's Laws," etc., etc. Captain Gould was released 25 August 1686, with imposition of heavy fine.

Three years later, in 1689, with the Advent of William, the Prince of Orange, Governor Andros himself was apprehended, and banished from the Colony, while in 1690, under the ensuing liberal government, Captain Gould was thrice elected Deputy from Topsfield to the General Curt, and subsequently twice re-elected.[11] Less than a hundred years after these occurrences, all the Colonies were in revolt against the same unjust tyranny which called forth John Gould's indignant protests, which he proclaimed, doubtless, in words and manner more vigorous than discreet.

It is said of him that his literary qualities were good; he wrote a very good hand in the fashion of the day in which he lived. He died in his 75th year, leaving the reputation of an honorable, public-spirited and religious man, morally as well as physically brave, and of sterling integrity. John Gould married 12 October 1660, Sarah, daughter of John BAKER, of Ipswich. She was born 9 March 1641, and died 20 January 1708/9 - just one year before the death of her husband, which occurred 26 January 1709/10. They are buried at Topsfield Cemetery where his parents also lie.

CHILDREN all born in Topsfield.

John, born 1 December 1662; married 10 November 1684, to Phebe French, born 1667. He was a corporal. They were the parents of five sons and five daughters.
Sarah, born 18 December 1664; married 29 March 1682, Joseph Bixby. Two sons and two daughters were born to this union.
Thomas, born 14 February 1666/7; died 4 July 1752. He married (1) about 1699, Mary, whom the compiler of Massachusetts Genealogies[12] says was Mary Yates. Topsfield Vital Records carry the marriage of a Thomas Gould and a Mary Yates in 1770, which obviously could not be the same, though the coincidence might have occurred. There were eight children recorded at Topsfield. He married (2) 13 January 1728/9, the Widow Mary Stanley, of Boxford.
Samuel, born 9 March 1669/70; married 20 April 1697, Margrit Stone. They had two sons and two daughters recorded at Topsfield.
Zaccheus, born 26 March 1672; married Elizabeth CURTIS.
Priscilla, born 2 November 1674; married 15 April 1695, to John Curtis, brother of Elizabeth just mentioned. He was born 11 October 1673. They were the parents of two sons and five daughter. She died 16 June 1715.
Joseph, born 24 August 1677; died 4 April 1753. He was a captain. He married 14 January 1712, Priscilla, daughter of Tobijah and Sarah Perkins, born 21 April 1689. They were the parents of three sons and six daughters, among the latter being Priscilla, born 6 April 1714, who married, as his second wife, 8 October 1745, Samuel SMITH, of Topsfield, Joseph Smith's great grandfather and the organizer of the "Boston Tea Party," whose first wife had been her cousin Priscilla, daughter of her uncle Zaccheus mentioned above. Priscilla Gould died a week after her husband, her death occurring on 11 April 1753.
Mary, born 16 June 1681; married 25 June 1711, Thomas Stanley.

Zaccheus GOULD

III. Zaccheus GOULD, born 26 March 1672, at Topsfield married 21 January 1701/2, Elizabeth, daughter of John and Mary (Look) CURTIS. She was born 15 December 1679, and died 21 June 1740. Zaccheus was for many years a selectman of Topsfield[13]. He died 29 April 1739, and in his will, dated 16 April that year, names nine children.

CHILDREN:

Elizabeth, born 13 February 1702/3.
Mary, born 1 March 1704/5.
Priscilla, born 4 August 1707; married Samuel SMITH.
John, born 29 January 1709/10; died 21 June 1778. He was a deacon, and representative to General Court. He married 5 January 1748/9, Widow Esther Bixby. Two sons and a daughter are recorded at Topsfield.
Sarah, born 28 January 1711/2.
Abigail, born 12 August 1715; married 2 August 1737, Jonathan Stanley. Five sons and three daughters are recorded.
Zaccheus, born 7 November 1717; married (intention published 29 September 1745) Rebecca Symonds, of Middleton, who died 1792, aged 70 years. He died 2 January 1793.
Eliezer, born 29 May (1) 17 April 1740, his cousin, Elizabeth Smith, daughter of his aunt, Rebecca Curtis, and her husband Samuel Smith, and a sister of Samuel Smith who had married Eliezer's sister Priscilla, as above stated. Elizabeth was born 8 July 1718, and died 27 March 1753, after having borne seven children. He married (2) 25 February 1755, Phebe, daughter of John Gould of Boxford. She was born 22 September 1716, and became the mother of three children.
Susanna, born 11 February 1722/3; married her cousin, Robert Smith, a brother of the Elizabeth Smith who married Eliezer Gould above mentioned. Three children are recorded at Topsfield.

Priscilla GOULD

IV. Priscilla GOULD, born August 1707, married 27 May 1734, her cousin Samuel SMITH, who was born 26 January 1714. She was the mother of all his children.([14] For continuation of this line please see the SMITH biographical sketch.

SOURCE: The Ancestry & Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale by Audentia Smith Anderson (1926)

References
(London, 1810, 436-7)
(Heroes of the Revolution, Whittemore, 176-182.)
(Heroes of the Revolution, Whittemore, 176-182.)
(Essex County Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 1, no. 4.)
(Descendants of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield, 9.)
(Genealogical Dictionary of New England, Savage, 2:285)
(General Register Society Colonial Wars, 1899-1902, 647.)
(Topsfield Historical Society Collections 27:76, 82.)
(Ibid 15:40.)
(Ibid. 27:89.)
(Heroes of the Revolution, Whittemore, 176-182.)
(Cutter and Adams 3:1591)
(Heroes of the Revolution, Whittemore, 183), and a lieutenant of militia (Topsfield Vital Records 9:225)
descendants of Zaccheus Gould, B.A. Gould, 25.)

Zaccheus married DEACON, Phebe about 1619 in Hempstead, Gloucestershire, England. Phebe (daughter of DEACON, Thomas IV and FIELDE, Martha) was born on 3 Apr 1597 in Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England; was christened on 3 Apr 1597 in Hemel, Harts, England; died on 20 Sep 1663 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; was buried in Sep 1663. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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When Phebe Deacon was born on April 3, 1597, in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, her father, Thomas, was 37, and her mother, Martha, was 18. She married Zaccheus Gould in 1618 in her hometown. They had 12 children in 44 years. She died on September 20, 1663, in Topsfield, Massachusetts, at the age of 66, and was buried there.

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BIOGRAPHY: John BAKER[1]

Our immigrant in this family is John BAKER born 1598 in Norwich, Norfolk County, England, where the name is quite common. It is thought he was a grandson of Richard Baker, alderman, who died in 1589, leaving four sons.[2]. On 9 April 1616, John Baker was apprenticed to a grocer in Norwich for a term of twelve years, to learn that business. At the expiration of this time, viz, in 1628, he was listed as a citizen of Norwich, engaged as grocer. [3]

In April, 1637, he with his family took passage in the Rose of Yarmouth from the port of London. The entry, found in one of the early volumes containing the names of many of the early emigrants to this country: "Aprill 8, 1637. The examination of John Baker, borne in Norwich in Norffolkke, Grocar, aged 39 yrs, and Elizabeth he wife aged 31 yrs, with three children, Elizabeth, John and Thomas, and four servants, Marcy Alxasrson aged 24 yrs, Anne Alxarson aged 20 yrs, and Bridgett Boulle aged 32 yrs, and Samuell Arres aged 14 yrs, as all desiroues to goe for Charles Towne in New England ther to inhabitt and remaine."[4]

John Baker did not settle permanently in Charlestown, however, for in 1638 he is found on record at Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he possessed a house lot on High Street.[5] According to Pope[6], he was a proprietor at Watertown, and at Newberry in 1638, prior to his removal to Ipswich, and later bought land in Reading, adjoining Andover.

On 2 June 1641 he was made freeman at Ipswich, and was there licensed in 1644 and 1647 to sell wine, and, in 1652 to sell beer, being recorded as inn holder in 1664, 1665, and 1666. [3] "He appears to have been a man of property, his name standing one of the forty four highest of one hundred and fifty seven subscribers to the compensation of Major Denison, the military leader, in 1648."[5]

On 19 December 1648 "Mr. Baker" makes a "subsrciption to the town."[7] This title, together with the number of domestics he brought with him to this country, would indicate a rather superior social stand in, although it is to be remembered that in those days people were frequently listed as the "servants" of others simply in order to obtain a cheaper passage across the ocean. Just when John Baker bought his extensive tract of land in Topsfield is not clear. In 1661 he conveyed a 150 acre farm and buildings there, "bounded on Baker's (now Hood's) pond" to his son Thomas. [3] [5] says this conveyance was made upon condition of the payment of the ten pounds annually to him and his wife during their lives, and to his daughter Elizabeth also, according to Pope of Massachusetts.[6]

He removed to Topsfield between 1670 and 1678, being of that place in 1680.[3] In the will of John Davis, 16 May 1672, he is called "Old Mr. Baker of Ipswich."[8]

It is recorded that John Baker served in Kings Philip's War at Mount Hope, under Captain Moseley [9], but this more likely to have been his son that this man then nearing eighty years of age.

The christening of the first three children of this family is of record on the parish register at Saint Peter's, Mancroft, Norwich, England.[10] The younger ones were born at Ipswich, Massachusetts.


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1. Elizabeth, baptized 18 August 1633.
2. John, baptized 30 November 1634. He was a husbandman of Topsfield. Married 13 May 1667, Katherine, daughter of Reverend William Perkins of that place, who was granted administration on his estate 14 April 1718. [3] They had two sons and one daughter, the latter, Elizabeth, becoming the wife of Benjamin Dutch on 30 June 1690, and his widow eight years later [3]
3. Thomas, baptized 18 September 1636, died 18 March 1717/8, at Topsfield. He married there, 26 March 1672, "Mrs." Priscilla Symonds, born 1648; died 2 January 1733/4. She was the daughter of Deputy Governor Samuel Symonds, immigrant from Yieldham, Essex, England, and his first wife, Dorothea Harlackenden. Thomas was captain in the military organization of Topsfield; freeman in 1665; interested in the iron works of Rowley Village. They owned Argilla Farm in Ipswich. After his death his widow removed to Ipswich. They had two sons and four daughters, of whom Elizabeth married Michael Farley, and Rebecca married 30 April 1712, Jacob Peabody, and died 12 March 1780. Thomas Baker was often on "jury of trials," and was deputy for many years from 1683 to 1700. His son Thomas and grandson Thomas were also captains in the militia. [11] [12] [3] [13]
4. Mary, born about 1638; married 6 March 1660, Joseph Safford [3].
5. SARAH, born 9 March 1640/1; married JOHN GOULD.
6. Martha, born about 1643; married (1) Obadiah Antrim, of Salem, a mariner who was lost at sea on a voyage to Nevis in 1664 or 1665. She married (2) at Topsfield, 22 June 1670, Thomas Andrews of Boxford. Topsfield records show the birth of at least two daughters.
II. Sarah Baker

Sarah Baker, born at Ipswich, Massachusetts, 9 March 1641, married 12 October 1660, Captain John Gould of Topsfield. [14] [3]


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John married FOSTER, Elizabeth in 1612 in Mancroft, Norfolk, England. Elizabeth was born in 1599 in Mancroft, Norfolk, England; died on 13 May 1669 in Surry, Virginia, United States; was buried in May 1669 in Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BIOGRAPHY: This is an ancient English surname, also spelled Curtiss, Curtesse, Curteis, Curtoys. In early New England records it is also variably spelled Curtice, Curteis, Courtes, Cortes, Corteis, and Curtious.

"It may be from Curthose, a name given for wearing short hose; or from Courtors, a district in France; maybe for polite address of those on whom the name was bestowed a form of courteous."[1]

Some writers claim that members of the Curtis family removed from England to Ireland, locating in the County of Cork, "where they spent active and useful lives, and where their deaths occurred, among them being the grandfather of John Curtis," early immigrant to New England, who purchased a large tract of land in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.[2]

I. On the shipping records of London, England, appears the name of "Zacheus Courtis, of Downton, laborer." This place was in Wiltshire. He embarked at the town of Hampton, England, in the ship James, of London, 5 April 1635.[3] His age is given in 1672 as fifty three, which would make him but sixteen years old at the time of his coming to this country.[4]

In 1646, he had a grant of land in Salem, but moved to Reading and Gloucester, where his daughter Mary was born in 1659. Later, he lived in Boxford, where his son Zaccheus and perhaps others of his children located, and near Topsfield, where his daughter Mary and son John dwelt. The name of Zaccheus CURTIS, sr., appears in the court records of Topsfield as late as 3 June 1678.[5], and from these records and others the ages of some of his sons are ascertained.

In 1663, he purchased a part of the original farm grant of Zaccheus Gould, one of the largest landowners of Topsfield. He built a house there soon after, which was taken down after the building of a new house on the site, for Benjamin Pike, in 1803. "In the present house, now on hundred years old, a child has never been born." About half way between this site on Rowley Bridge Street and Hill Street, near an excellent spring of water, may be seen the cellar of the house built, probably about 1714, for John Curtis, at the time he purchased twelve acres there from his father, Zaccheus. This house was last taxed in 1767. Zaccheus Curtis married in 1645 to Joanna G. Corwithin.

CHILDREN:

Zaccheus, aged 28 in 1674; married 4 December 1673, at Topsfield, Mary Bleake, who died there, a widow, 23 August 1745, in her ninety eighth year. They lived in Boxford and Topsfield. He was a soldier in King Philip's War, 1675 - 1676, serving under Captain Joseph Gardiner.[6] He was taxed under Andros, 1687, for house and eight acres, at Boxford. They had four sons and six daughters whose births are recorded in Topsfield.
John, aged 24 in 1673; married Mary LOOK.
Zechariah, born around 1651, we know he was aged 22 in 1673.
Abigail, born around 1653 and died 6 Apr 1735 at Ipswhich, Essex, Massachusetts. About 1680, she married Ebenezer Blackman who was born about 1664 in Stratford, New Haven, Connecticut. He died 10 Nov 1715.
Sarah, baptized 15 April 1654; married at Rowley, 7 Nov. 1677, James Scales (William), who was born at Rowley, and died 1685. According to a writer in New England Historical and Genealogical Register[7], their son James (born 30 March 1679; died 1746) married (1) 10 March 1702, Sarah Curtis, born at Boxford 27 December 1675; died before 1736, daughter of Zaccheus and Abigail Curtis, of Boxford. If the names are correct, it would indicate that Zaccheus Curtis had married a second wife, for his first one was Mary Bleake. The writer mentioned says that in his will of 17 June 1710, codicil 18 April 1712, and proved 7 July 1712, Zaccheus Curtis mentions his daughter Sarah Scales and son James Scales, referring for the record to Essex County Probate Records 10:244 5.
Ephraim; four sons and one daughter, born between 1696 and 1707, are of record at Topsfield. Ephraim was born about 1656 in Gloucestershire, Essex, Massachusetts and died in Boxford, Massachusetts.
Mary, born 12 May 1659, at Gloucester; married 19 November 1678, Jonathan Look (Thomas). They lived at Rowley and Topsfield, at which latter place the births of two sons and two daughters are recorded, between 1679 and 1690. Gage, in his History of Rowley, puts 1695 as the year in which their first child born at Rowley is recorded. There may have been others.

John Curtis

II. John Curtis, born about 1649, was married (recorded at Topsfield) 4 December 1672, to Mary[8], daughter of Thomas and Sarah LOOK, born at Lynn, Massachusetts, July 1654.[9]

He took the oath of allegiance at Topsfield, January 1677[10], having served prior to that in King Philip's War. On Topsfield records he is referred to as corporal[11], indicative his rank in the militia. Their home was in Topsfield, where the death of a John Curtis recorded on 23 February 1732/3 may refer to him.

CHILDREN, born in Topsfield:

John, born 11 October 1673; married 25 April 1695, Priscilla Gould, born 2 November 1674; died 16 June 1715. They were the parents of six daughters and two sons, three of whom died in infancy.
Sarah, born 17 March 1675. Either she or her cousin Sarah, daughter of Zaccheus Curtis, who was born 27 December 1675, became the wife on 12 May 1696, of Samuel Smith, of Salem, and bore eight daughters and two sons.
Mary, born 27 December 1677.
Elizabeth, born 15 December 1679; married Zaccheus Gould.
Thomas, born 2 December 1681; married 16 October 1706, Phebe Gould (probably daughter of John and Phebe (French) Gould, who was born 7 July 1685). They had five sons and two daughters recorded at Topsfield. They removed to Andover.
Hannah, born 12 January 1685; died 25 April 1712; married 2 February 1708, John Gould (probably son of John Gould mentioned above), who was born 25 August 1687. They had four children, the last two, twins, being born sixteen days before Hannah's death.
Rebecca, born 20 January 1687; married Samuel SMITH.
Phebe, born 20 January 1689; married 31 December 31 December 1713, Nathan Towne. Five sons and three daughters are recorded at Topsfield.
Ephraim, born 28 August 1692.
Haphzibah, born 28 November 1694.
Samuel, born 31 May 1698; married 15 June 1720, Hannah Dodge, of Beverly. Four sons and six daughters are on Topsfield records, one dying in infancy.

Elizabeth Curtis

III. Elizabeth CURTIS, born 15 December 1679, married, at Topsfield, Massachusetts, 21 January 1701/2, Zaccheus GOULD, born 26 March 1672.[12] For continuation of this family line see the GOULD biographical sketch.
Rebecca Curtis

III. Rebecca CURTIS, born 20 January 1687, married at Topsfield, Massachusetts, 25 January 1707/8, Samuel SMITH, born 26 January 1666/7.[13] For continuation of this family line see the SMITH biographical sketch.

SOURCE: The Ancestry & Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale by Audentia Smith Anderson (1926)

Zaccheus married CORWITHEN, Joanna Grace in 1645 in Gloucestershire, Essex, Massachusetts. Joanna was born in 1625 in Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; was christened in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; died on 17 Aug 1706 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married 1649 ~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 29 Aug 1961, LANGE.

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BIOGRAPHY: Thomas LOOK

The family name of LOOK is sometimes found in colonial records as Looke and Locke.

I. The first of the name of whom we have record in New England was Thomas LOOK, who was in Lynn, Massachusetts, before 1646. This town is about fifteen miles from Topsfield, at which place at least two of his children are located. There is reason to connect the Looks with the iron works of "Rowley Village," at one time identical with Boxford, near Topsfield. Thomas Look died before his wife, Sarah, who, at her death 30 June 1666, was called "widow."[1]

CHILDREN, born in Lynn.[2]

Thomas, born June 1646; took oath of fidelity at Topsfield, January 1677.[3] He married Elizabeth BUNKER[4], daughter of George and Margaret(Howe) Bunker, of Charlestown. They removed to Nantucket, and later, to Martha's Vineyard. George Bunker owned the summit of that "Hill of Glory" which bears his name. In later years he was also a resident of Nantucket, and died in 1664.[5]
Sarah, born 12 May 1648.
Jonathan, born July 1651; married 19 November 1678, Mary, daughter of Zaccheus and Joan Corwithin. She was a sister of his sister Mary's husband. {Here is another instance of where our ancestral lines merge, this can be noted on the pedigree charts. You will notice two LOOKE lines.} They lived in Topsfield, where two sons and two daughters are on record. In 1695 they were living in Rowley, where the birth of another child is that year recorded.[6]
Experience; died 2 March 1738, aged 85. On 16 October 1678, she married, as his second wife, Samuel, son of John and Rebeckah Tarbox, born 1647; died 16 August 1715. He was an ensign; and lived at Lynn. His first marriage occurred 14 November 1665, when Rebeckah, daughter of Joseph Armitage of Lynn, became his wife.[7] There were six children by first marriage, and twelve by the second.[8]
Mary, born July 1654; married John CURTIS.
Elizabeth, born May 1656, Left without parents in her childhood, this girl seems to have lived with her "brother John Curtis," at Topsfield, according to town records. [9]

Mary LOOK

II. Mary LOOK, born July 1654, married 4 December 1672, John CURTIS. This couple and their children can be found on the CURTIS sketch.

SOURCE: The Ancestry & Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale by Audentia Smith Anderson (1926)

Footnotes
(New England Historical and Genealogical Register 5:254.)
{Genealogical Dictionary of New England, Savage, 3:111.)
(Topsfield Historical Society Collections 3:46.)
(Massachusetts Genealogies, Cutter and Adams, 3:1653)
(Boston Transcript, 29 July 1925.)
(History of Rowley, Gage, 145.)
(Essex Antiquarian 5:7,8,9:140.)
(Mack Genealogy, Martin, 2:1740.)
(Topsfield Historical Society Collections 27:65.)

John married MILLER, Sarah about 1645 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Sarah (daughter of MILLARD, John Sr. and BAUGH, Elizabeth) was born about 1624 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; died on 30 Jun 1666 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; was buried in Jun 1666. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married 1650