b.c.1530
m. JOAN ______ (bur. 7 June 1587/8 Fordington St. Georges, Dorchester, Dorset)
d. 1607 Fordington
Jone Emes widow an olde woman was buried the vijth daye of June Ano-
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Parish Register for St. Georges, Fordington
m. before 1575 MILLICENT BREWSTER (bur. 23 May 1614 Fordington St. Georges, Dorchester, Dorset)
bur. 25 June 1618 Fordington
St. Georges Church, Fordington
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3II. ANTHONY (JOHN 1, THOMAS 2)
m.c.1615 MARGERY PRISSE (b. 1599 Fordington, bur. 31 Dec. 1662 Marshfield, MA)
bur. 6 Oct. 1686 Marshfield
Anthony lived in Fordington as late as 1631. He was a church warden in 1622, 1627, and 1631. At the Quarter Seesions at Sherborne from the 6th to 8th of April 1630, Anthony was sworn in as the Constable for the Manor of Fordington. Two of the eight justices at the sessions, Sir Francis Ashley and John Brown, J.P., were involved in the Dorchester Company. Constables at this time was a compulsory appointment. Once you were summoned to appear at the next court you were to serve for a year unless you had a good excuse as to why you could not. The Constable had to deal with felons, escaped prisoners, riots, disputes, non-attendance at church, unlawful assemblies, business irregularities, licensing of ale houses, making juror's lists, drunkenness, unauthorized building of homes and other structures, vagabonds, intruders, militia muster rolls and taking lewd women to court and detaining deadbeat fathers of illegitimate children. Over a third of all issues the Constables had to deal with were related to drinking. On 12 Apr. 1632 Anthony declared himself "to be of Fordington in Dorset, a Yeoman, where he had lived from infancy, born there and aged about 40 or thereabouts".(2)
From the Port Books completed by the Kings Remembrancer we find that Anthony embarked on the Recovery which sailed from Weymouth on 31 Mar. 1633 for New England.(1) He was a proprietor in Charlestown, MA in 1634. On 10 Feb. 1634/5 Anthony signed the Selectmen Government Agreement which set down how the citizens of Charlestown were going to select their representatives to the Government. His wife Margery is of record of being admitted to the church at Charleston on 13 Sept. 1635. Sometime afterwards, Anthony and his family removed to Hingham where, in 1636, he owned a house lot in Hingham on the Lower Plain. He was admitted as Freeman on 09 March 1637. Anthony was Hingham�s representative to the General Court from 1637 to 1639 and again in 1643 to 1645. He was a lieutenant of the military company and then was chosen to be captain of the company during the military difficulties of 1644-5. However, the soldiers changed their minds and in a second election gave the rank of captain to Bozoun Allen. The magistrates thought this an affront to Anthony and determined that the first election should hold until the courts should take further order, however, the company would not obey their captain and mutinied. In the legal battle that ensued the Deputy Governor "'justified all the particulars laid to his charge; as that upon credible information of such a mutinous practice and open disturbance of the peace and slighting of authority, the offenders were sent for, the principal by warrant to the constable to bring them and others by summons, and that some were bound over to the next Court of Assistants, and others , that refused to be bound, were committed; and all this according to the equity of the laws established, and custom and laws of England and our constant practice these fifteen years". The dispute went on for two months and was finally settled by agreement to acquit Winthrop and to punish all the petitioners by fines. So, Anthony returned to Hingham and took his office as Captain of the Militia.
Anthony was one of the Deputies to the General Court in 1638 who signed the charter granted by Winthrop for the Military Company of Massachusetts that later became the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company, the third oldest chartered military organization in the world. On 12 June 1643, the town granted permission to Anthony Eames, Samuel Ward and Bozoun Allen for developing and operating the first corn mill for the town. In 1641 he also assisted in laying out the boundary between the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Plymouth Colony.
Old Ship Church, Hingham
Capt. Anthony lived in Hingham until about 1650 when he moved to Marshfield. Anthony, together with his son, Mark, bought a house and 100 acres on the North River on 10 Dec. 1651. Capt. Anthony was Deputy from Marshfield to the General Court at Plymouth from 1653 to 1658 and again in 1661. He was a member of the Council of War and served for many years as Moderator of the town. He was admitted a freeman in the Plymouth Colony on 7 June 1653.
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(1) Records of the Exchequer at the PRO- E190/875/8
(2) The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635- Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn Jr., Melinde Lutz Sanborn, NEHGS, 2001- Vol. II, pp. 387-92
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"History of the Town of Hingham"- George Lincoln, Vol. II, p. 208, Vol. III, p. 164
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