John Raymond
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 30 Mar 1616 - Glastonbury, Somerset, England
Christening:
Death: 18 Jan 1702-18 Jan 1703 - Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts
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Parents
Father: George Raymond (Raiment) (1599-1651)
Mother: Mary (Abt 1584- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Rachel Scruggs (1627 - Bef 1670)
Marriage: Bef 1652-1654 - Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
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Notes
General:
First found Salem, 3/2/1653. He first landed NH, Portsmouth, 1630. Members of John Mason colony. Probably spent some time in Maine, with a much older John and William Raymond. Probably also returned to England at some point.
I previously had him born about (cal) 1622).
3. JOHN2 RAYMENT (George1) was born, presumably in Glastonbury, in the years between
1616 and 1622. He was stated to be thirty-eight in 1660,(4) and "about eighty-seven" at his death in
1703. He emigrated to America before 1651, when he is mentioned in his father's will as being in
New England. He settled in Salem on what was called "Bass River side," later the town of Beverly,
and married there Rachel Scruggs, only surviving child of Thomas Scruggs, prominent in the town's
civil and religious life. In 1659 William Ellett's wife was fined for saying that John Rayment's wife
was "a firebrand from hell, for her lying tongue."(5) Upon her father's death in 1654, by agreement
with her mother, Rayment took over the Scruggs estate. Rachel (Scruggs) Rayment died May 2,
1666, and as his second wife Rayment married Judith Woodbury, widow of William Woodbury,
Jr., of Beverly, who died October 31, 1702, aged about seventy-five. He died January 18, 1703.
Rayment was a grand juryman in 1653, 1654, 1658 and 1659; constable "for Bass River side" in
1659 and 1660; selectman of Beverly in 1670, and took the oath of fidelity there in 1677. He was
frequently employed in appraising estates, among them being those of John Friend (1655), Annis
Balch (1657), Samuel Porter (1659), Nehemiah Hayward (1665), Roger Haskell (1667), Henry
Herrick (1671), Richard Dodge (1671), Lot Conant (1674), John Batchelder (1675), Osmund
Trask (1676), Edith Dodge (1677), Roger Conant (1679), and John Herrick (1680).