Robert Pepper
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1618 - St Mary, Aldermary, London, England
Christening: 22 Jan 1618 - St.Maryaldermary, London, Middlesex, England
Death: in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Wp
Burial: 8 Mar 1684 - Roxbury, Massachusetts
Cause of Death:
AFN #: 8MHR-J2
Parents
Father: Robert PEPPER (PEPPIT) (1590-1685) 1
Mother: Elizabeth LEAKE (1594-1642) 1
Father: Richard PEPPER (PEPPIT) ( - )
Mother: Mary ( - )
Spouses and Children
1. *Elizabeth Johnson (22 Aug 1619 - 7 Jul 1684)
Marriage: 14 Mar 1642-14 Mar 1643 - Roxbury, Massachusetts
Status:
Notes
General:
Date of burial is 8 5 mo 1684; I may not have translated properly. "'an old Xian'" (RCR, p 185). Roger Pepper is called a man servant in Eliot's list. He came about 1640.
John Johnson Genealogy says that he was the son of Richard Pepper and Mary. It says, Richard Pepper, age 27 years, and his wife, age 30 years, came from Ipswich, England, in the Francis, in 1634. Robert was their son. They resided in Roxbury.
Robert Pepper married Eliza Johnson at First Church in Roxbury. He was made Freeman May 10, 1643, was an original donor to the Free School, a member of the First church. He was given leave to brew, and sell penny beare and cakes, and white bread. Innkeepers were men of only the best repute, and the inns were the meeting place of towns people in these early days. Between church services the taverns furnished warming up places.
Robert Pepper is supposed by Savage to be the son of Richard Pepper.
Rober Pepper in King Phillips War Jul 6 1675.
Robert Pepper born in England, emigrated to Roxbury, Mass., in 1640. He was called a man servant on Eliot's list.
Robert Pepper m March 14, 1662, Elizabeth Johnson, daughter of Capt. John Johnson of Roxbury and his wife Margeret Scuuder Johnson, whom he married in England) Gives Margaret parentage of William Scudder of Darenth, Kent.
Following from Boston Transcript of Apr 9, 1930 - "Capt. John Johnson 1600 - 1659 was Surveyor of all ye Armyes (Soce of Col Wars), was deputy to First General court of Mass., 1634 and for 25 years, thill his death, member of Artillery Co., kept a tavern, many public meetings held at brother Johnson's (ref given, Gen of 1st settlers, by Farmer; Ellis' His. of Roxbury; Popes pioneers of Mass. by Savage)
Robert Pepper was made freeman May 10, 1643.
West of JOhnson's was the homestead of Robert Pepper who in 1642, m. his sister Elizabeth.
Robert Pepper's wife died Jan 5, 1648 and he the aged Christian, as the church record calls him, died Jul 7 following, having three days before made his will... His son Robert was taken by Indians at Northfield, in Squakheag fight Sept 4, 1675, and was prisoner to Shoshannim. Sagamore of Nashaway. under Capt. Beers, when report said he was killed, but Mrs. Rowlandson saw him in the following winter and he probably died in captivity.
In 1653 leaf was given to John Groton and Robert Pepper to brew and sell penny beare adn cakes and white wine.
Robert Pepper was Man servant.
Robert Pepper was an original donor to the Free Schools. (Ref. His. of 1st ch. of Roxbury pages 55-56.)
DNA proves that two lines from Robert Pepper of Roxbury, and a John Pepper of Staffordshire, England, share common ancestry.