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| John Sargent |
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| Born: Dec 1639 Charlestown, Suffolk, MA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Married: 1st to Deborah Hillier 19 Mar 1662/3
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| Died: 09 Sep 1716 Malden, Middlesex, MA
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| Buried: Old Malden Burial Ground (Bell Rock Cemetery) | "Here Lyes Y Body of M John Sargant aged 76 years & 9 months Departed this life September y 9th 1716" |
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FATHER
MOTHER
Sarah
WIFE
1. Deborah Hillier
2. Mary Bense
3. Lydia Chipman
CHILDREN with Deborah Hillier
1. Joseph Sargent b. 18 Apr 1663
2. John Sargent b. 16 Feb 1664/5
3. Mary Sargent b. 1667
4. Jabez Sargent b. Apr 1669
CHILDREN with Lydia Chipman
1. Hannah Sargent b. Dec 1675
2. Jonathan Sargent b. 17 Apr 1677
3. William Sargent b. 20 Nov 1680
4. Lydia Sargent b. 1682
5. Deborah Sargent b. 1684
6. Ruth Sargent b. 26 Oct 1686
7. Samuel Sargent b. 15 Sep 1688
8. Ebenezer Sargent b. 25 Sep 1690
9. Hope Sargent b. 1692
10. Mehitable Sargent b. 05 Sep 1696
11. Sarah Sargent b. 1698
From "Sargent Genealogy" by Aaron Sargent, 1895
"John Sargent (born in Charlestown) went to Barnstable with his father, and
was admitted to inhabit there between 1662 and 1666. He returned to Malden
about 1669, where he was a selectman six years.
In May, 1695, the town of Malden made a division of two thousand three hundred
acres of common lands. The distribution was by lot to all freeholders in
the town, in proportion to their ratable estates, - an average of about thirty
acres to each man. Among the names are John Sargent, Sr., and John Sargent,
Jr. It was votes by the town - showing confidence in his integrity and
fairness - "that John Sargent, sen'r, is the man to draw the lots."
His slate gravestone is in Bell Rock Cemetery (formerly the "Old Malden
burial-ground")
Like is transatlantic great-grandfather, he heeded the Scripture injunction; and
all his fifteen children are named in his will of May 20, 1708.
It is a circumstance worthy of incidental mention, perhaps, that the first and
third wives of John Sargent (who was born in Massachusetts Bay Colony) were born
in Plymouth Colony; so that the mingled blood of the Pilgrim and the Puritan of
these two noted colonies (which afterwards became the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts) flows in the veins of all his descendants."
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