Family of Andrew + MESSENGER and Sarah + BENEDICT

Husband: Andrew + MESSENGER

Wife: Sarah + BENEDICT

Child 1: Edward + MESSENGER

Child 2: Henry MESSENGER

Note on Husband: Andrew + MESSENGER

Also could have been born in Yorkshire England. Arrived in Mass. from England about 1630. He is probably from Lincolnshire or Yorkshire. The name Messenger is probably French Norman, it can be traced to almost the beginning of surnames (1060 to 1307 A.D.). A. Messenger signed the "Fundamental Agreement at New Haven " June 4 , 1639 . It was the first written constitution known to history which created a government."Topigraphical dictionary of 2,285 English immigrants to New England, 1620 to 1650" by Charles Edward Banks includes the names of Andrew's three sons.Andrew arrived in America from England with his famil y about 1630. He is probably from Lincolnshire or Yorkshire . Though their origin is not positively known, we might entertain the possibility that our ancestors are from Gloucestershire whose arms "Ar., a chevron between three close helmets S a.,;". In the church at Painswick, 6 miles south of Gloucester, are several memorials of the Massinger family , formerly of Gloucester, whose arms are : "Argent a chevron gules between three helmets sable." . In the Herald's college, London, the same arms are entered as borne by john Messenger of Newisham , county of York, who died in 1616, aged 70 years , and was buried at Kirk Ravensworth. Two of his sons, Henry and Anthony , were killed in the service of K ing Charles I , and another, John Messenger , Esq., born in 1590 , was the owner of the Fountain Abbey estate, near Ripon, in 1627 . That the family of Andrew had the right of Arms is shown by the will of the widow Messenger of Boston, which mentions that Simeon (the eldest son of Henry then living), is to have the "Messinger coat of arms.". As Simeon died without male heirs, these arms were probably lost.

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