"Able to bear arms" in 1643 in Yarmouth for Lt. Blackmer’s Company. He was a Plymouth Colony constable in 1644 and a surveyor of highways in 1647. He died young, at about 40, when only his son Joseph was of age. His wife remarried and raised their 4 small daughters. Joseph’s estate was not settled until 18 years after his death, when all the daughters were grown.[
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Savage’s: HOLLEY, JOSEPH, Dorchester 1634, Weymouth 1639, was prob. of Sandwich 1643, and d. early in Dec. 1647. Often it is spell. Holway.
10g grandfather of Gerald Ford through daughter Experience and Barack Obama through daughter Mary.
Very active Quaker in Sandwich and occasionally persecuted for it.[
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Called to give evidence against John Ellis in 1644 when he was charged with fornication. Ellis was found guilty and sentenced to the whipping post, despite the fact that he and his wife were by then married. (NEHGR 119:163)