Genealogy of Patty Rose
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| Notes for James NORTHY | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - James, son of John Northey and Sarah Ewell of Scituate; b. 1687 [ref 20] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - James Northy birth 2 Oct 1687 Scituate Plymouth /s John and Sarah [ref 76] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - James Northy married Mary Stockbridge July 09, 1717 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA [ref 23:0496902] (First Parish Church) (children 1718-34: Mary, James, Mehitable, Eliphalet, Ebenezer, Sarh, Anna, Deborah, Jesse) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - James' father became a Quaker sometime after Philip's war - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
| Notes for Mary STOCKBRIDGE | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mary, b. 19 Mar. 1692, m. in Scituate 9 July 1717 James Northy. In 1746 she sued Richard Clifford for 1/6 of her fa.'s land [ref 22] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mary, b. 19 Mar. 1691/2; living in Scituate 6 June 1757 when she and son Eliphalet deeded land there (Plymouth co deeds 47:3,4); m. in Scituate, 9 July 1717, James Northy, b. in Scituate, 2 Oct. 1687; d. probably in Scituate, between 12 Dec. 1751 and 24 June 1752, the dates of making and proving his will (Plymouth co probate 13:12-15), son of John1 and Sarah (Elwell) Northy. Children born in Scituate 1718-34: Mary, James, Mehitable, Eliphalet, Ebenezer, Anna, Sarah, Deborah, Jesse. On 28 October 1746, John's daughter Mary and her husband James Northy of Scituate brought suit against Richard Clifford of Kingston for �30, the value of twenty-eight acres in Kingston which they claimed was her one-sixth share of her father's land there. Clifford had purchased this property by a deed dated 8 May 1723 from Joshua Prescott of Kingston who did not have a clear title to it. Prescott refused to appear in court to explain his right to sell the land. Strangely, the verdict, dated 5 March 1746/7, one day after Prescott had requested a continuance, was in favor of Clifford. In her suit, Mary Northy deposed that her father died intestate at Hampton in 1716, leaving five children, sons Samuel, John, Moses, Abraham, and daughter Mary, and among his property a tract of land in Kingston which was divided into sixths, two shares going to the eldest son. Even though the verdict had been given, two more depositions are found in the case file, which seem to indicate that the date of John Stockbridge's death, as given by his daughter, was being questioned. On 15 June 1747, Capt. Jonathan Marston of Hampton deposed that "Abraham Stockbridg the son of John Stockbridg late of said Hampton Deceased was born some time after the death of his father the said John Stockbridge." A statement dated Hampton, 14 April 1747, by Benjamin James, aged about 74, shows that "he Lived With John Stockbridg Late of Hampton Deceased & that his son Abraham Stockbridg to ye best of my knowledge was not Born Till after his Fathers Deceas & further I the Deponant Testifieth & saith that abraham Stockbridg the son of sd John Stockbridg Told me that his Father Was Decd before he was Born" (NH province records #81). The case may have continued even further, in spite of the verdict, for an order dated Portsmouth, 4 August 1747, required that Samuel Dow, town clerk of Hampton, appear at the Superior Court in Portsmouth, bringing with him the record book showing "ye Birth of Mary ye Daughter of John Stockgridg by Mary his Wife on ye 19th day of march 1691/2" (NH province records #24589). There is nothing further in the court records to show the outcome of the events following the verdict, and yet Mary ended up with the Kingston property, for on 3 July 1746 James Northy, yeoman, and his wife Mary of Scituate sold to Samuel Connor of Exeter, Gentleman, land in Kingston for �2 10 s., being real estate of "our father John Stockbridge, late of Hampton, dec." (Rockingham co deeds 42:300,301). [ref 87-3:505,507] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
| Last Modified 22 Oct 2004 | Created 4 Jan 2005 |