Family of John * EDDY and Amy * DOGGETT

Husband:	John * EDDY (1597-1684)
Wife:	Amy * DOGGETT (1597-1683)
Children:	Sarah * EDDY (1623-1671)
	Mary EDDY (1625- )
	Pilgrim EDDY (1634- )
	John EDDY (1636- )
	Benjamin EDDY (c. 1640- )
	Samuel EDDY (1640- )
	Abigail EDDY (1643- )
	Ruth EDDY (c. 1650- )
Marriage	22 May 1619	Groton, Edwardston, Suffolk, England1,2

Husband: John * EDDY

Wife: Amy * DOGGETT

Name:	Amy * DOGGETT
Sex:	Female
Father:	John * DOGGETT (1555-1619)
Mother:	Dorothy* (1559-1605)
Birth	16 Jul 1597	Groton, Edwardston, Suffolk, England
Christening	16 Jul 1597 (age 0)	Groton, Edwardston, Suffolk, England
Immigration	29 Oct 1630 (age 33)	to Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, US from London, Middlesex, England
	Vessel: Handmaid
Death	20 Aug 1683 (age 86)	Rehoboth, Bristol, MA, US

Child 1: Sarah * EDDY

Child 2: Mary EDDY

Name:	Mary EDDY
Sex:	Female
Birth	1625

Child 3: Pilgrim EDDY

Name:	Pilgrim EDDY
Sex:	Female
Birth	25 Jun 1634

Child 4: John EDDY

Name:	John EDDY
Sex:	Male
Birth	16 Dec 1636

Child 5: Benjamin EDDY

Name:	Benjamin EDDY
Sex:	Male
Birth	1640 (est)

Child 6: Samuel EDDY

Name:	Samuel EDDY
Sex:	Male
Birth	30 Jul 1640

Child 7: Abigail EDDY

Name:	Abigail EDDY
Sex:	Female
Birth	11 Aug 1643

Child 8: Ruth EDDY

Name:	Ruth EDDY
Sex:	Female
Birth	1650 (est)

Note on Husband: John * EDDY

John Eddy and Amie Doggett emigrated on August 10, 1630 from London, England, on board the "Handmaid", reaching Plymouth, Massachusetts October 29, 1630.160

 

He had a temporary attack of insanity in March 1633 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. He served in 1634 in Watertown as the Town Clerk. He held this office for several years, and was again elected in 1670. He served between 1634 and 1637 in Watertown, Middlesex , Massachusetts as a member of the first Board of Selectman. He became a freeman on September 3, 1634 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts.160

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John Eddy was nearly twenty years of age at his father's death, so Phineas was given no care over him. No further record concerning him has been found in Cranbrook. It has been suggested that perhaps he was studying to follow in the footsteps of his father and was about to enter Cambridge, but that his father's death put an end to these plans.

 

He married (1) Ann Doggett on 22 May 1619 in Groton, Sullfolk, England.

 

He is next found in 1622 married and living in Nayland not very far from Thurston, the little parish in which hi~ father served as curate while studying at Cambridge. Both of the towns are in the region of Bury St. Edmunds. It has been suggested that perhaps some relatives or friends of his father lived in this vicinity and gave to this young student a home while he was studying. He does not seem to have learned any trade. This change from peaceful Cranbrook to Suffolk county, one of those sections in which Puritanism was rapidly increasing in strength, was destined to be a momentous one in the life of young John Eddy. It is probable that he embraced these views with all the ardor of a young man, so that when the great Puritan migration to New England began under the leadership of John Winthrop in 1630, he was ready to throw in his lot with this group, and probably induced his younger brother Samuel, who was just coming of age, to be also one of those who were setting out to

secure religious liberty and a civil democracy in a new land. (S1).

 

Immediately before emigrating, he had lived in Boxted, Essex, England.

 

He emmigrated to America on ship < i=""> at about age 33, landed at Plymouth (Plymouth Colony) on Oct 29, 1630 (O.S.).

 

Arrived at the Plymouth Colony in 1630 aboard the Handmaid. Left London 8/10/1630 arriving in Plymouth 10/29/1930

 

By February, 1631/2, he had left Plymouth and removed to Watertown, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He joined the Watertown congregation by March 1632/3 and served as a selectman several years. He suffered bouts of mental illness but otherwise lived “very orderly” according to John Winthrop. His estate included large land holdings which were distributed among his children in his will. He was the brother of three other early colonists: Samuel Eddy of Plymouth, Abigail (Eddy) Benjamin of Cambridge and Anna (Eddy) Wines of Watertown.

 

He married (2) Joanna (Bates) Meade after 12 May 1666, in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

 

WILL:

"John Eddie of Watertowne, senior," bequeathed to "my son Samuell Eddie ... my homestall being by estimation forty acres more or less with my dwelling house and barn and all the appurtenances thereunto belonging, with seven acres of meadow and upland lying right over against Widow Barnard's house," he to pay to "my son John Eddie thirty pounds," as further limited by a writing "my sons-in-law John Miriam and Thomas Orton had ... of me"; also to "my son Samuell aforesaid a lot of twelve acres of upland more or less lying and being on the top of Stonie Brook Hill"; to "my four daughters Marie Orton, Sarah Miriam, Pilgrim Steadman, Ruth Gardner, a hundred acres of upland ... being a farm lying near upland called Nonesuch ... to be equally divided between my four daughters aforesaid"; to "my two sons aforesaid Samuell and John Eddie" all movables to be equally divided between them; "as for my dear and wellbeloved wife I have a writing under my hand and witness to it with the particulars therein mentioned what she shall enjoy after my death"; to "my son John aforesaid fourscore and five acres of land being land called by the name of farm land"; son Samuel Eddy to be executor. Massachusetts Probate Court.

Written 11 Jan. 1677/78, probated 16 Dec. 1684, Watertown, MA.

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Sources

1	"US New England Marriages prior to 1700".

2	"US and International Marriage Records, 1550-1900" (on-line, Yates Publishing, Provo, UT).

3	Charles Henry Pope, "Pioneers of Massachusetts, 1620-1650" (Genealogical Publishing Co, 1998).