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Family of Anthony * ANNABLE and Anne ALCOCKE

Husband: Anthony * ANNABLE (1599-bef1674)
Wife: Anne ALCOCKE (c. 1610-1651)
Children: Samuel ANNABLE (1646- )
Ezekial ANNABLE (1649- )
Desire ANNABLE (1653- )
Marriage 3 Mar 1645 Barnstable, Barnstable, MA, US

Husband: Anthony * ANNABLE

Name: Anthony * ANNABLE
Sex: Male
Father: William * ANNABLE (1573-1614)
Mother: Hannah * BARKER (1575-1615)
Birth 1599 Cambridge,Cambridgeshire, England
Immigration 10 Jul 1623 (age 23-24) to Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, US1
On the vessel the Anne
Residence 1632 (age 32-33) Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, US2
Will 24 Feb 1672 (age 72-73)
Will of Anthony Annable

I, Anthony Annible, this 24th day of February one thousand six hundred seaventy and two, being weake of body but in some good measure disposed in mind and memory, doe judge it my duty to sett my affaires in order, not knowing how soone my change shalbe, and my body, when I shall depart this life, to decent buriall according to the descretion of my Executor whom I shall heerafter name in this my Last Will and Testament.


First of all, my will is that all my just debts be payed out of my estate according to right and good consiente, as it ought, and for the remainder of my estate I doe will and dispose as followeth: Imprimis, I doe give unto my loveing wife, Ann Annible, my now dwelling house and housing, and all the lands which lyeth between that land which I have formerly given to my sonne, Samuell Annible, and Goodman [Abraham] Blushe's land, as alsoe all the comodities and proffetts of the same as alsoe the one halfe of all my meadow, and alsoe the one halfe of all my Great Lott, All those foremensioned particulars, given to my foremensioned wife, my will is that shee shall have to her owne disposing dureing her life, and further I doe give to my abovemensioned wife all my neat cattle and all my horseflesh, as alsoe all my moveable estate whatsoever, both within my house and upon my land without, and this shalbe att my wife's disposeing.


What houshold stuffe shalbe left att my wife's decease, shalbe my daughter, Desire Annibles. Alsoe. I doe give unto my daughters, each of them, twelve pence a peece.


Alsoe I doe constitute and appoint my loveing wife, Ann Annible, to be my whole and sole Executrix, to performe whatsoever ought to be done by an Executor, according to this my Last Will and Testament, and to doe all other actions concerning this my Last Will according as the law hath provided. All these abovemensioned promises, doe I, the abovesaid Anthony Annible, declare to be my Last Will and Testament as witnes my hand and seale this day and yeare above written


Anthony Annible (Mark & Seal)

Signed and sealed in the presence of John Smith William Throrpe Plymouth PR III(1), f, 101.


CODICIL to Will of Anthony Annable

I, Anthony Annible, upon further consideration doe order this Codicel following to be taken as parte of this my Last Will and Testament, viz: It is my will that after my wife's decease, my son, Samuell, shall have and injoy the whole of my housing and lands to him, arid his heires and assignes for ever, only my will is that hee shall pay to my daughter, Desire Annible, thirty pounds: in currant merchantable pay within foure yeares, after my decease, to be payed yearly by equal portions thereof; the first payement to be made within a yeare after my decease. And my will is that shee, the said Desire, shall have the two cowes and two steers, a heiffer, a mare, a horse and coult which I have given her before to be hers, and that what my wife shall leave att her decease, of what I have before bequeathed her, shalbe equally devided between my son, Samuell, and daughter, Desire, excepting the houshold stuffe to be the said Desire's as abovesaid.

In testimony wherof as to my Last Will and Testament, I have heerunto sett my hand and seale this 23 of Aprill 1674 one thousand six hundred seaventy foure.


Anthony Annible (Mark & Seal)


In the presence of

Thomas Hinckley, Assistant

John Chipman


[Mr. Thomas Hinckley and Mr. John Chipman gave their oaths, 4 June 1674,]
Death bef 4 Jun 1674 (age 74-75) Barnstable, Barnstable, MA, US3
Probate 4 Jun 1674

Wife: Anne ALCOCKE

Name: Anne ALCOCKE
Sex: Female
Father: -
Mother: -
Birth 1610 (est)
Death 1651 (age 40-41) Barnstable, Barnstable, MA, US
Burial 16 May 1651

Child 1: Samuel ANNABLE

Name: Samuel ANNABLE
Sex: Male
Birth 2 Jan 1646

Child 2: Ezekial ANNABLE

Name: Ezekial ANNABLE
Sex: Male
Birth 29 Apr 1649

Child 3: Desire ANNABLE

Name: Desire ANNABLE
Sex: Female
Birth Oct 1653

Note on Husband: Anthony * ANNABLE

ANTHONY ANNABLE was born in Kent County, England, in the year 1599. He is reported to have been the son of John Annable of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk County, England, whose paternal ancestor, William Annable of Dunstable, first used the Annable arms in 1396.

 

He was likely born into a middle or lower middle class family, and as such would have received only a superficial education. In his later years in Plymouth, Scituate and Barnstable, he was never addressed as "Master" or "Mister", prefixes reserved for the upper class. He was occasionally referred to as "Goodman Annable", denoting one of a somewhat humble postion in the community. It is even thought that he could not sign his name. Any such defieciency in education was remedied in later years, as he became one of the leading lawmakers in Scituate, and his signature appears on countless deeds.

 

ANTHONY ANNABLE came to America in 1623 with his wife, JANE MOMFORD, and daughter SARAH, on the ship Anne, the third of the Pilgrim ships. They lived first in Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, but removed to Scituate, Plymouth, MA, in 1633. The settlers there were mostly from Kent County, England, and were called the "Men of Kent."

 

As Pilgrim developments sprang up north of Plymouth, there was more demand for the food that was being produced at Plymouth. The colonists began looking elsewhere for land to produce crops. One such site was Scituate. And in 1633, the more liberal outpost of Scituate was established by ANTHONY ANNABLE and and other Kentishmen. ANTHONY was chosen constable for the ward of Scituate at a meeting of the Plymouth General Court, Jan. 1, 1633.

 

The village at the harbor was laid out in 1633, the principal avenue extending southerly from a point near Satuit brook and was called Kent Street. It was intersected by a street at right angles near Satuit brook and by another street further south called Meeting-house Lane. Lots were laid out on Kent Street. Only four acres, eight rods front and extending back "80 rods up into the woodes," were allowed to each person, the object being to form a compact settlement for mutual defense.

 

The second lot north from the Meeting-house Lane was assigned to ANTHONY ANNABLE. He also had land at Green harbor which was on Kent Street extending southeasterly. He probably lived on the Green harbor property when his eighteen-year-old daughter was married to HENRY EWELL.

 

On Sep. 18, 1634, the Reverend John Lothrop, and some thirty of his congregation from Egerton in Kent County, England, arrived in Boston on the ship Griffin and settled in Scituate. Scituate became a compact little settlement of twenty-seven householders. On Jan. 8, 1635, ANTHONY headed a group which organized and built the first church at the corner of Kent Street and Meeting House Lane. The town of Scituate was incorporated on Oct. 4-5, 1636.

 

Rev. Lothrop was not without controversy. He had, in his past stormy career, serve two years in prison in London, over religious issues. This time, in Scituate, the trouble brewed over the question of whether baptism should be by total immersion or the mere laying of hands, as was Rev. Lothrop's belief. The issue was so contentuous that it resulted in a split of the parishioners. The exodus to a new place, Barnstable, Plymouth, MA, on Cape Cod, must have been difficult for ANTHONY ANNABLE and his family. They had been an important part of the evolution of Scituate from a pioneer settlement to a town of comfort. It was a community of superior individuals.

 

ANTHONY remained in Barnstable the rest of his life and served the town in many capacities. It was here that JANE died, Dec. 13, 1643. Here too he married second, Ann Clark on Mar. 3, 1645. From 1643 to 1658 he represented Barnstable in the General Court at Plymouth, and continued to be involved in public affairs and to occupy a position of trust.

 

He opposed, along with Rev. Lothrop, the harsh measures and cruel laws enacted and enforced against the Quakers and Anti-Baptists in the Massachusetts Colony. These laws were never enforced in Barnstable by its representatives on the General Court. The colonists of Barnstable followed the doctrine taught by Rev. Lothrop, who accepted all who professed faith in God and promised to keep the Ten Commandments.

 

ANTHONY died at Barnstable, in 1674, aged 75 years, and his remains are reported to have been interred in an unmarked grave in what was then and still is known as the Cow Pasture in that town. His second wife, Ann, administered his quite sizeable estate and was still living in 1686. In 1678, she was referred to locally as "the aged Widow Annibal", one of the first of many corruptions of the family name.

 

A recreation of the Pilgrim Village of 1627 exists at the Plimoth Plantation on Route 3A in Plymouth, MA. The house of ANTHONY ANNABLE is one of the dozen-or-so homes built to replicate the village as it was in 1627. A WEB site about the home can be found at www.plimoth.org/Museum/Pilgrim_Village/annable.htm.

 

In the town of Falmouth, MA, not far from Barnstable, the names of ANTHONY ANNABLE and Jonathan Hatch, father-in-law of ANTHONY's daughter Susanna, appear on a bronze tablet erected in 1930 to commemorate the names of the thirteen founders of "Succanessett" in 1661, the Indian name for the area.

 

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Plymouth PR III(1), f. 101.

 

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Arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts July 10, 1623

 

The ship Anne arrived the latter part of June, and the Little James a week or ten days later. A number of the passengers were the wives and children of persons already in the Colony. "The ship Anne arrived in Plymouth in July, 1623 accompanied by the Little James, bringing new settlers along with many of the wives and children that had been left behind in Leyden when the Mayflower departed in 1620." Emigrant Ancestors, John Camden Hotten, 1874

 

"Built by the Plymouth Adventurers to remain at the Colony___ Burthen: 44 tons" William Peirce, Master Anne Emanuel Althan, Captain Little James John Bridges, Master Little James

 

Columns represent: Name, Occupation and notes, Last Residence, Place in New Colony they resided

 

1 Anthony Annable All Saints, Cambridge Scituate 2 Jane Annable wife 3 Sarah Annable daughter 4 Hannah Annable daughter listed only as daughters in Hotten's 5 Edward Bangs shipwright Panfield, Essex Eastham 6 Lydia Bangs wife - not listed in Hotten's 7 Jonathan Bangs son - not listed in Hotten's 8 John Bangs son - not listed in Hotten's 9 Robert Bartlett 10 Fear Brewster daughter of Elder Wm. Brewster 11 Patience Brewster daughter of Elder Wm. Brewster 12* William Bridges London 13 Mary Buckett otherwise listed as Mary Becket 14* Edward Burchere 15* Mrs. Burchere 16 Thomas Clarke 17 Christopher Conant grocer St. Lawrence, London also listed from Holland 18 Hester Cooke wife of Francis 19 Jane Cooke daughter - not listed in Hotten's 20 Jacob Cooke son - not listed in Hotten's 21 Hester Cooke daughter - not listed in Hotten's 22 Anthony Dix 23 John Faunce Purleigh, Essex 24 Manasseh Faunce Not in Planters 25 Elizabeth Flavell wife of Thomas Flavell, who came in the ship Fortune listed as "Goodwife" in Hotten's 26 Edmund Floode 27 Bridget Fuller ? wife of Samuel Fuller, the physician on the ship Mayflower from Leyden 28 Godbert Godbertson hatmaker Leyden - listed as Cuthbert Cuthbertson in Hotten's 29 Sarah Godbertson wife - not in Hotten's 30 Samuel Godbertson son - not in Hotten's 31 Sarah Priest step-daughter - not in Hotten's 32 Mary Priest step-daughter - not in Hotten's 33 Timothy Hatherly feltmaker St. Olaves, Southward 34 William Heard 35 Margaret Hickes wife of Robert Hickes, who came in the ship Fortune 36 Hickes children Samuel and Lydia? - not listed in Planters 37 Mrs. William Hilton wife - William had sent for them before his death 38 Hilton two children William and Mary ? 39 Edward Holman Clapham, Co. Surrey? 40* John Jenney Erected corn mill 1636 Norwich, Norfolk 41* Sarah Jenney wife Monk Soham, Suffolk 42* Samuel Jenney son 43* Abigal Jenney daughter 44* Sarah Jenney daughter 45 Manasseh Kempton Colchester, Essex 46 Robert Long 47 Experience Mitchell Duke's Place, London married Jane Cooke daughter of Francis Cooke of the Mayflower 48* George Morton b. abt 1580, England married 1612, Leyden, Holland to Juliana Carpenter, June 1624, Plymouth, Plymouth, Mass merchant Harworth, Co. Notts - listed in Planters with wife but no children 49* Juliana Morton wife 50* Nathaniel Morton became Secretary of the Colony 51* Morton 4 other children John, Ephraim, Patience, Sarah ? 52 Thomas Morton, Jr. son of Thomas who came in the ship Fortune 53 Ellen Newton 54 John Oldham 55 Mrs. Oldham wife - Not in Hotten's 56 Lucretia Oldham sister - Not in Hotten's 57 Frances Palmer wife of William Palmer who came in the ship Fortune 58 William Palmer Jr. son 59 Christian Penn not listed in Planters 60 Abraham Pierce not listed in Planters 61 & 62 Mr. Pierce's two servants. names not indicated 63 Joshua Pratt 64 James Rand St. George, Southwark 65 Robert Rattliffe Ratcliff in Planters 66 Mrs. Rattliffe wife - not listed in Planters 67 Nicholas Snow Hoxton, Co. Middlesex Eastham 68 Alice Southworth widow, later became the second wife of Governor Bradford 69 Thomas Southworth son - not in Hotten's 70 Francis Sprague Duxbury 71 Anna Sprague wife - not in Hotten's 72 Mercy Sprague daughter - not in Hotten's 73 Barbara Standish second wife of Captain Standish, married after her arrival 74 Thomas Tilden Stepney, London 75 Ann ? Tilden wife - not in Hotten's 76 Tilden child not in Hotten's 77 Stephen Tracy Yarmouth, Norfolk 78 Tryphosa Tracy not in Hotten's 79 Tracy child not in Hotten's 80 Ralph Wallen 81 Joyce Wallen wife - not in Hotten's 82 Elizabeth Warren wife of Richard Warren of Mayflower - no Warren's on Hotten's list 83 Mary Warren daughter 84 Elizabeth Warren daughter 85 Anna Warren daughter 86 Sarah Warren daughter 87 Abigail Warren daughter

 

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came in 1623 with wife Jane and daus. Sarah and Hannah. Settled at Plymouth; planter; town officer; frm 1632. Rem. to Scituate. He and wife Jane were membs. chh at is organization Jan 8. 1634. Ch. Deborah baptised May 7, 1637, Samuel b. Jan 2, 1646. Esek (Ezekial) bapt April 29, 1649; Desiree bapt Oct 16, 1653; Hannah (m. March 1, 1645-6, Thomas Boreman); Susannah (m. May 13, 1652 William Hatch); Sarah (m. at Green's Harbour Nov. 23, 1638, Henry Ewell).

He rem. to Barnstable 22 Jan 1638-9. His wife Jane was buried Mary 16, 1651. He m. w March 1644-5 Ann Alcock; she was buried May 16, 1651. He m (3) Hannah Barker who was buried about March 16, 1657-8.

Will dated 24 Feb 1672, prob. 4 June 1674, beq to wife Ann, son Samuel, dau Desiree and other daus. not specified.

Sources

1"Passenger and Immigrations Lists Index 1500-1900".
2"MA Census, 1790-1890".
3Edmund West, "Family Data Collection - Death" (Generations Network, Inc 2001).