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1. Citation Information: "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III:
"Richard Norman
Origin: Unknown
Migration: 1626
First Residence: Salem
Removes: Marblehead
Occupation: Fisherman or shipwright.
Education: Signed deed of 1653 by mark 3:369]. Offices: Coroner's jury on body of William Bateman, 18 September 1630 [MBCR 1:78]. On 18 May 1631 "Rich[ard] Norman is fined 2s. 6d. for his negligence in watching" [MBCR 1:87]. Estate: In Salem land grant of 1636 received twenty acres [STR 1:19, 24]. In the 25 December 1637 division of marsh and meadow, granted three-quarters of an acre, with a household of four [STR 1:103]. Granted twenty acres "that was Mr. Thorndeck's," 29 January 1637/8 [STR 1:65]. A grant of 20 January 1640/1 to Allen Converse refers to "that lot which was Richard Norman's near the head of the river," and adjoining Mr. Endicott's farm [STR 1:109]. In his will, dated 14 October 1672, son-in-law Robert Morgan of Salem mentions the twelve acres of land in Manchester "which my wife's father Norman gave unto her in the great plain" [EPR 2:355]. On 22 April 1653 Richard Norman the elder deeded to his son Richard Norman his house and ten acre lot "in Marvellheade upon Darbe Fort side," along with cow commons [EQC 3:369]. Birth: By about 1587 based on estimated date of marriage. Death: After 22 April 1653 [EQC 3:369], but before 27 June 1664 [EQC 3:369, when Thomas Millett Sr. acknowledged "old Richard Norman's act and deed"]. Marriage: By about 1612 ____ ____; on 9 July 1645 the "wife of Richard Norman Sr." testified in court [EQC 1:82]; no further record. (Two women by the name of Arabella Norman were admitted to Salem church, one in May 1637 and the other on 25 February 1637/8 [SChR 6, 7]. One of these is certainly the wife of John Norman, son of Richard. The second is probably a clerical error, but just might be the wife of Richard Sr.) Children:
i JOHN, b. say 1612; m. before May 1637 Arabella ____ [SChR 6; EQC 1:74 (when he certifies the births of children with wife Arabella)].
ii MARGARET, b. say 1613; m. (1) by about 1633 Robert Morgan (who mentions "my wife's father Norman" in his will [EPR 2:355]; their eldest Child, Samuel, m. in 1658). (Margaret is said to have married second, after 1673, Samuel Fowler, but the evidence for this is not seen [Hoyt 162].)
iii SUSANNA, b. say 1615; m. by 1635 Robert Lockwood (who refused a Salem houselot grant "beyond his father Norman's" [STR 1:47]).
iv FLORENCE, b. say 1619; m. (1) by about 1639 John Hart (daughter Elizabeth m. in 1659; husband of daughter Florence called son-in-law of Thomas Whittridge in 1672 [Sarah Stone Anc 38]); m. (2) about 1657 Thomas Whittridge (who called Richard Norman his wife's brother and with whom she had three sons after 1657 [EPR 2:287; Sarah Stone Anc 46-47]).
v RICHARD, b. about 1623 (deposed aged about fifty 19 March 1673/4 [EQC 5:256], deposed aged about fifty-seven at June Term 1680 [EQC 7:386]); m. by about 1650 Margaret ____ (daughter Elizabeth "d. in 1732, aged eighty-two" [Sarah Stone Anc 52]).
Comments: In his deposition of 20 January 1680/1 Richard Brackenbury included "old Goodman Norman and his son" among those who were already at Salem when Endicott arrived in 1628 [EIHC 13:138]. On 17 September 1640 "Erasmus James and Richard Norman, sr., [were] presented for defective fences on Darby fort side. Not proved" [EQC 1:194]. Richard Norman was evidently in a fishing or shipbuilding business with his son, since "Rich[ard] Norman, Jno. Norman and Company" were sued by John Devereux at July Term 1642 and again at December Term 1642 [EQC 1:42, 45]. The conflict grew heated and Devereux further sued Richard Norman for defamation at December Term 1642 [EQC 1:45]. At July Term 1642 Norman witnessed against Matthew Gillet who stole a piece of soap from John Norman "to wash his shirts with, as he said" [EQC 1:44]. When his son Richard, Jr., was fined for "slighting ordinances and carrying a burden on Lord's day," Richard Sr. answered for him in court, February 1642/3 [EQC 1:51]. It is likely, as Davis says, that "Norman was probably not of the Puritan persuasion" [Sarah Stone Anc 45]. Pope incorrectly applied the probate of the younger Richard to the elder. Savage thought that there were two John Normans, a brother of Richard the immigrant, and a son, but the records all apply to one man, son of Richard. Bibliographic Note: In 1930 Walter Goodwin Davis prepared one of his typical eloquent but sparsely referenced treatments of this family [Sarah Stone Anc 45-54]."
2. From FHL book 929.273-K727kaa: "The Ancestral Lines of Mary Lenore Knapp," compiled by Alfred Averill Knapp, M.D.,1800 Columbia Terrace, Peoria, Illinois; 1947:
"12-G-33. Richard Norman, Ancestry not traced. Of Salem, Mass. Came from Dorchester, England, about 1626. He was a carpenter. Was in Salem before Endicott came. He was one of the oldest "Planters" of the Old Planters, called Old Goodman Norman. He was a member of the old Episcopal Colony of Cape Ann in 1623. In Salem in 1623. Moved to Marblehead before 1645. Had
1. Hugh Norman. [KP: Disputed.]
2. John Norman.
3. Richard Norman.
4. Susan Norman who m. Robert Lockwood. 11-G-42." "The American Genealogist," 77[2002]:102-3: "The English Origin of Richard1 Norman of Salem, Massachusetts," by Leslie Mahler:
"Richard1 Norman of Salem, Massachusetts, arrived in New England with his family at a very early date, certainly prior to 1628.[1] In 1680 Richard Brackenbury, aged 80, testified that "Old Goodman Norman and his sonn" and others "owned that they came over upon the account of a company of England called by us by the name of Dorchester Company or Dorchester Merchants."[2] Brackenbury himself had arrived in 1628 with John Endicott. Richard Norman was granted land at Salem in 1636, 1637, and 1638. The last record found for him is in 1653, when he deeded his house with a ten-acre lot in Marblehead to his son Richard.[3]
Since Richard was part of the Dorchester Company, it should be no surprise to find records of his family near Dorchester in old England. The village of Charminster, co. Dorset, is just to the north of Dorchester, and this is where Richard's children were baptized in a church that dates from the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The entries show that his wife was named Florence, but if they were married in Charminster, the record does not survive, as the church registers and Bishops' Transcripts are both missing the marriages from 1598 to 1605.[4]
Relatively few Dorsetshire probate items were found for this surname. There were two wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury: Thomas Norman of Wimborne dated 1619, and William Norman of Cerne Abbas (just to the north of Charminster), for 1646.[5] Nothing in either of these wills connects with Richard Norman of Charminster. Contact with the Dorset County archivist located an administration for Edith Norman of Sherbome, widow in 1600, and an inventory for Henry Norman for 1636.[6]
Children of Richard1 and Florence (___) Norman, i-v bp. at Charminster, co. Dorset:[7]
i. John2 Norman, bp. 7 Feb. 1606/7; m. by 1637, ARABELLA ___.
ii. Elizabeth Norman, bp. 12 Jan. 1610/1, bur. Charminster, 23 April 1613.
iii. Margaret Norman, bp. 4 Feb. 1614/5; m. by 1633, Robert1 Morgan, a cooper of Cape Ann Side in Salem, Mass. Robert's will, dated 14 Oct. 1672 and proved 24 June 1673, includes a reference to "my wife's father Norman."[8] Several sources state that she m. (2) Samuel2 F0WLER (Philip1) of Salisbury, Mass., but primary evidence has not been found.[9]
iv. SUSAN Norman, bp. 31 July 1617; m. by 1635, Robert1 Lockwood. This identification is based on a record of 17 July 1637, when Sergeant Lockwood refused the grant of a house lot in Salem "beyond his father Norman's." This appears to be a reference to Robert Lockwood of Watertown, who later removed to Fairfield, Conn., and whose wife was named Susanna.[10]
v. FLORENCE Norman, bp. 17 Oct. 1619; m. (1) by 1639, JOHN1 HART of Marblehead, Mass.;[11] in 1672, John Trask, husband of their daughter Florence, was called son-in-law of Thomas Whittridge.[12] She m. (2) ca. 1657, Thomas2 WHITRRIDGE (William1) of Salisbury, who, in his nuncupative will, declared before 3 Sept. 1672, stated that Richard Norman was his wife's brother.[13]
vi. Richard Norman, b. ca. 1623-24; m. ca. 1650, Margaret ___. He deposed, aged about 50, on 19 March 1673/4 and on 2 Dec. 1674.[14] His baptism was not found in Charminster, so the family probably moved from there about the time that they disappeared from the register.
Footnotes:
1. Walter Goodwin Davis published an excellent account of the Norman family in 1930 ("The Ancestry of Sarah Stone..." [Portland, Maine, 1930], 45-54 [hereafter cited as Davis, "Stone Ancestry"]). The best modern summary of this family can be found in Robert Charles Anderson, "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633," 3 vols. (Boston, 1995), 2:1334-6 (hereafter cited as Anderson, "Great Migration Begins"). Statements about Richard1 Norman and his family in this article that are not documented here are taken from this latter source. Another recent account of this family can be found in Burton W. Spear, ed., "Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John 1630, "18: West Country Ancestries, 1620-1643 (Toledo, Ohio, 1992), 102-3, which uses (with a note of caution) the poorest available source: Raymon Meyers Tingley, "Some Ancestral Lines.. ." (Rutland, Vt., 1935), 256-58. Tingley has Richard1 as the son of a John Fryeth alias Norman of Ipswich, Suffolk, which is in a completely different part of England. Tingley also gave Richard a non-existent son named William.
2. Essex Co., Mass., Deeds 5:107.
3. "Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts," 9 vols. (Salem, Mass., 1911-75), 3:368 (hereafter cited as "Essex Court Records").
4. The marriages for Holy Trinity parish in the nearby town of Dorchester were searched, but their marriage was not found there either ("Dorset Parish Registers," Marriages, 7 [London: Phillimore, 1914]:1-44). The marriages for Charminster were also published by Phillimore.
5. Prerogative Court of Canterbury 69 Parker [Thomas], 140 Twisse [William]. (Cerne Abbas is best known for its ancient 180-foot-tall giant chalk figure with oversized genitalia.)
6. The archivist provided the following citations, apparently from the Archdeaconry Court of Dorset: Ref DS 6 258 [Edith]; Inv CC/262, no locality listed [Henry].
7. The original research on these baptisms was carried out in the Bishops' Transcripts for Charminster, Dorsetshire, 1591-1879 Family History Library, Salt Lake City, film #1,279,491, items 9-12]. The transcripts are missing for the years 1617, 1623, and 1624. Copies from the parish register at the Dorset Record Office in Dorchester were obtained by Simon Neal of London, who located the entry for Susan in 1617, but not the baptism for son Richard.
8. [George Ernest Dow, ed.,] "The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts," 3 vols. (Salem, Mass., 1916-20), 2:355-57 (hereafter cited as "Essex Co. Probate Records").
9. E.g., David W. Hoyt, "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts," 3 vols. plus supplement (Providence, RI., 1897-1919), 1:162; Davis, "Stone Ancestry," 46.
10. Robert1 Lockwood and his family, see Donald Lines Jacobus, comp. and ed., "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," 3 vols. (Fairfield, Conn., 1930-32), 1:380-81, 715.
11. See Davis, "Stone Ancestry," 38; and an anonymous article [probably by Eben Putnam], "John Hart of Marblehead, Shipwright," "The Genealogical Quarterly Magazine" 3(1902):67-72. The latter article does not identify Hart's wife Florence or provide her 2nd marriage.
12. Davis, "Stone Ancestry," 38.
13. "Essex Co. Probate Records," 2:286-87.
14. "Essex Court Records," 5:256, as cited in Anderson, "Great Migration Begins," 2:1335; Christopher Johnston, "Thomas Weston and His Family," "The New England Historical and Genealogical Register" 50(1896):201-6, at 202-3."
3. The book "Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting, in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia (plus Thomas Haley of Winter Harbor and His Descendants), compiled by Maine's Foremost Genealogist, 1916-1963 Walter Goodwin Davis," with an Introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts, book section "The Ancestry of Annis Spear," 1996, vol. III, pp. 44-46:
"RICHARD NORMAN, born in England about the year 1580, came to America as an employee of the Dorchester company, a group of capitalists and adventurers who established a small colony at Cape Ann in 1623. It is not certain that he was an original member of this settlement, which undoubtedly received additions from Engalnd from time to time, but we know that he and his family were among those who, upon the failure of the Cape Ann venture, moved to Naumkeag in 1626 udner leadership of Roger Conant and were established there upon the arrival of the Endicott migration in 1628. Testifying in 1680, Richard Brackenbury of Beverly, aged eighty, said that he came to New England with the late Governor Endicott and that when "wee came ashore at the place now called Salem ... wee found living (there) Old Goodman Norman and his sonn ... and others" who "owned that they came over upon the account of a company in England called by the name of Dorchester Company or Dorchester Merchants; they had sundry houses built at Salem ... and they declared that they had a house built at Cape Ann for the dorchester company."(Essex Deeds, 5:107.) These pre-Endicott settlers became known in Salem history as the "old planters."
Richard Norman participated in the various grants made to the colonists in 1636, 1637 and 1640, and he had undoubtedly received a previous allotment of land of considerable size, as it is recorded that he and his son John sold one hundred acres to Capt. William Trask in 1636, and that Governor Endicott bought land near the head of Bass River, originally granted to Richard Norman and others, which purchase was confirmed to the governor by grant in 1643.
Norman was probably not of the Puritan persuasion and in 1650 we find himliving on "Darby Fort side: (Marblehead) wehre he may possibly have settled some years previously, beyond the immediate influence of the Salem church-state, and where his defective fences caused his appearance in court. (Records and Files, etc., I:194.) The last record we have of him is in 1653, where Richard Norman "the elder" made over his house and ten acre lot in "Marvellhead upon Darbe Fort side" to his son Richard. (Records and Files, etc., III:368.) He probably died soon afterward.
Richard Norman's wife testified against Richard Cooke in 1645, but unfortunately her name was not recorded.
Children:
i. A DAUGHTER. On 17: 7: 1637 Sergeant Lockwood refused the grant of a houselot in Salem "beyond his father Norman's." There is no further record of Lockwood in Salem, and the theory has been advanced that he was that Robert Lockwood of Watertown, 1635, who eventually settled in Fairfield, Connecticut, and whose wife's name was Susanna. (
ii. JOHN.
iii. MARGARET. She m. Robert Morgan, a cooper, who lived in that part of Salem first called Cape Ann Side and later organized as Beverly. He united with the Salem church in 1650 and was made a freeman on 29: 4: 1652. He signed the petition of the settlers on Cape Ann Side to be set off as a separate town in 1659, and when the Beverly church was organized he kept the first book of records. He was clerk of the writ in 1671 in which year he stated that he was seventy years of age. His will, dated Oct. 14, 1672, and probated June, 1673, mentions his wife Margaret, his son Samuel, to whom he left twelve acres of land at Manchester "which my wife's father Norman gave her in the g't plain," his sons Benjamin, Joseph, Robert and Moses, and his daughter Bethia, and appoints Ensign Corning and John Stone overseers. Margaret (Norman) Morgan m. Samuel Fowler of Salisbury and was living in 1690.
Children:
1. Samuel Morgan, bapt. 23: 4: 1650, in Salem; m. Elizabeth Dixey, daughter of Capt. William Dixey, Dec. 15, 1658. (See Dixey.)
2. Luke Morgan, bapt. 23: 4: 1650, in Salem; d. before 1672.
3. Benjamin Morgan, bapt. 23: 4: 1650, in Salem; slain by Indians, "to the eastward" before July, 1677.
4. Joseph Morgan, bapt. 23: 4: 1650, in Salem; m. Deborah Hart, daughter of John and Florence (Norman) Hart, his first cousin, July 12, 1669, in Lynn. (See Hart.)
5. Robert Morgan, bapt. 15: 10: 1650, in Salem; d. s. p.
6. Moses Morgan, d. s. p. before 1694.
7. Bethia Morgan, bapt. 29: 3: 1653, in Salem; m. Samuel Weed, son of John and Deborah (Winsley) Weed of Amesbury, March 12, 1675/6.
iv. RICHARD.
v. FLORENCE. She m. John Hart of Marblehead as his second wife. (See Hart.) After his death in 1656, she m. Thomas2 Whittridge of Ipswich. He was a son of William Whittridge, a carpenter, who came to New England on the "Elizabeth" in 1635. Thomas Whittridge died in 1672, and administration was granted to Robert Morgan and Richard Norman on Sept. 24 of that year. They filed the following document: "A declaration of the verball will of Thomas Whittridge deceased which wee Robert Morgan & Richard Norman present vnto this honoured Court.... Our brother Thomas Whittridge being sicke Sent vnto mee Robert Morgan: by 2 of his Sonnes desireing mee with speede to (send) to our brother Richard Norman: & that wee together would come Vnto him: which we Accomplished & tarried not long. Uppon the 21st of August last past wee went to the howse of our brother: who finding him Uppon his bed: after mutual greting & talk about gods Seuerall dispensations towards vs in or relations in general: & to him & his family in pticular: he said hee had beine very sick but yesterday mr newman administering phisick vnto him hee was revived & something better: so summing from his bed and walking to & fro in his howse sapke as foll: Bretheren you being the most Intimate with vs and dearest in our affections vnto mee & yor sister my wife now taken from mee in whom wee putt our Confidence: & in whom I doe Confide: of all our relations remaining aliue: I have therefore Sent for you to decar(re) my mind Unto yow, wch is this: my desire & will is ... to Committ vnto you my 3 sonnes wch I had by yor sister: withal that smale estae yt god hath given mee; … (here follows a division of property between the sons, Thomas, Richard and William Whittridge) … to putt his sd 3 Sonnes Unto trades such as they most desire: & wheare their affections most enclined to bee; but with their relations rather than any others: if possibly wee could bring it so to passe. This having spoken he lay downed vppon his bed againe & wee according to our duty as the Lord enabled Vs sought unto god with him & for him by prer & in som tyme after departed from him: and all this tyme from our Coming Vnto him Untill our depting from him weare present his owne 3 Sonnes before mentioned: and his brother Sammuell Whittridge: and his Sone in Law John Traske (Husband of Florence Hart.)." (Records and Files, etc., VII:163.)
Children, by Whittridge:
1. Thomas Whittridge.
2. Richard Whittridge.
3. William Whittridge."
4. The book "Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting, in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia (plus Thomas Haley of Winter Harbor and His Descendants), compiled by Maine's Foremost Genealogist, 1916-1963 Walter Goodwin Davis," with an Introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts, book section "The Ancestry of Annis Spear," 1996, vol. III, pp. 49-53:
"LIEUT. RICHARD2 NORMAN (Richard1) was born about 1623, his age being given as fifty in 1673 and fifty-seven in 1680. His first appearance in the Essex County records is in 1643, when he was fined ten shillings "for carrying a burden on the Lord's day," his father answering for him. He lived in Marblehead with his father, and in 1653 the "old planter" deeded the homestead to him. (Records and Files, etc., III: 368.) He married Margaret ___ about 1649.
Richard Norman was engaged in the fishing trade and he also kept an inn, receiving a license each year from 1669 until 1679. In 1682 the selectmen again recommended his appointment by the Court, saying "the situation of our place being a Seaport towne, and the concourse of many strangers especially in the summer season being such that one particular house of entertainment cannot with any convenience accomodate all" … Left. Richard Norman is one "who will (we hope) endeavour to keep such good orders in his house that none may charge with just matter of complaint." (Records and Files, etc., VIII: 318.)
He served the town of Marblehead as selectman in 1670, 1671 and 1672, took the freeman's oath in 1680 and was the town constable that same year. His military career began in 1675 when he was ensign of the local foot company and four years later he was confirmed as its lieutenant. The town failed to send its quota of troops to the defense of the province in King Philip's War and was fined. £10 for this neglect, and Lieut. Norman, as one of the military commissioners, petitioned the court that half of the fine be remitted. He served in the Jury of Trials in 1668, 1673, 1676 and 1677.
On August 11, 1683, a jury impanelled "to enquire to the untimely death of Lieut. Norman" found that being in a shallop at Moulton's Misery (Misery Island) he leapt out intending to swim ashore, but was drowned. Administration was granted to his widow Margaret Norman and Lieut. John Pickering and an inventory taken by Moses Maverick and James Dennis showed an estate of £398. Among the papers in the probate court docket is a list of Norman's children -- Rebecka, Richard, William, John, Elizabeth, Joseph, Benjamin and Jonathan. The administrators were authorized to pay the widow and eldest son £80 apiece. Margaret Norman married Robert Goodwin October 15, 1685, and died before 1705 when administration on the estates of Mr. Richard Norman and Margaret his wife, both deceased, was granted to their eldest son, Mr. John Norman, joiner. He sued his step-father, Robert Goodwin, for his father's house in 1706. (Supreme Judicial Court, No. 6962.) The undivided estate then consisted of property valued at £226, including a tract of land at Dunstable. The death of John Norman again interrupted the settlement of the estate, and Moses Norman, a grandson, was appointed to complete it on March 15, 1708/9. (Essex Probate, 303: 103; 308: 407; 310: 88.)
Children:
i. REBECCA, b. about 1650; m. Edward Diamond of Marblehead, who was b. about 1642; d. in 1732, aged eighty-two. In that year her children William, Thomas and Aholiab Diamond, Mary Tucker, Hannah Fettyplace, and her grandchildren Rebecca Treffry, Michael and John Wormistall sold to her son Joseph Diamond all their rights in the homestead of Edward and Rebecca Diamond at Marblehead. (Essex Deeds, 61: 239.)
Children:
1. William Diamond, b. May 9, 1671; a shoreman in Marblehead in 1732.
2. Mary Diamond, b. Oct. 7, 1672; m. Andrew Tucker, Jr., of Marblehead Nov. 6, 1690, and was his widow in 1732.
3. Rebecca Diamond, m. (1) Michael Wormistall July 5, 1696; had sons John and Michael and daughter Rebecca (who m. Thomas Treffry in 1715); she probably m. (2) Edward Hammond June 1, 1709.
4. Aholiab Diamond, b. March 16, 1679; m. Lucy Bond Aug. 14, 1701; a fisherman in Beverly in 1732.
5. Thomas Diamond, b. Jan. 28, 1684; m. Margaret Wilkins, June 6, 1706; a fisherman in Salem In 1734.
6. Edward Diamond, bapt. Sept. 11, 1687.
7. Richard Diamond, bapt. Sept. 11, 1687.
8. Joseph Diamond, bapt. Oct. 7, 1687; of Salem in 1732.
9. Benjamin Diamond, bapt. Nov. 24, 1689.
10. Hannah Diamond, b. Oct. 28, 1694; m. William Fettyplace Feb. 21, 1714/15; living in Marblehead in 1732.
11. Rebecca Diamond, b. 7: 16: 1695. (Possibly the clerk made an error in recording the name of this child, as Edward and Rebecca Diamond had a daughter Rebecca living in 1695. The Cressey Genealogy, in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 31, p. 199, states that Rebecca, dau. of Edward and Rebecca Diamond, m. Job Cressey of Salem June 27, 1723. As this couple named a daughter Lucy, it is more likely that the wife of Cressey was Rebecca, dau. of Aboliab and Lucy (Bond) Diamond, who was born Jan. 13, 1703.)
ii. RICHARD; his name appears in the list of the children of Lieut. Norman, attached to the inventory of the estate in 1682, but, as no further reference to him whatsoever is found, it is probable that he d. before reaching majority.
iii. WILLIAM; an apprentice of William Beale of Marblehead, from whom he ran away in 1665, being caught at Ipswich, placed in jail and sentenced to be whipped ten stripes (Records & Files, III : 263.); Beale assigned his interest in Norman to Capt. Thomas Savage, with the approval of the court, at the same session; m. Rebecca ___; d. before 1699 when Samuel Walton of Wenham deeded land to his widow (Essex Deeds, 13 : 221.); his widow, Rebecca, was a shop-keeper in Marblehead, and conveyed her two houses, goods and jewels to her son-in-law Joshua Orne in 1715/6 (Essex Deeds, 29 : 261); Orne was appointed to administer her estate in 1728. (Essex Probate, 318: 178.)
Child:
1. Elizabeth; m. Joshua Orne Nov. 23, 1704.
iv. JOHN, b. about 1658; m. Sarah Maverick, daughter of Moses and Eunice Maverick of Marblehead Nov. 10, 1683; appointed administrator of the estates of his father and mother, as eldest son, Sept. 3, 1705; will, dated Jan. 25, 1708/9, and proved Feb. 25, 1708/9, describing him as a carpenter and joiner, appoints his wife Sarah executrix and Mr. Richard Grover and Mr. Eleazer Ingalls overseers, and directs that his estate be divided when his youngest child reaches the age of eighteen. (Essex Probate, No. 19560.)
Children:
1. Richard, b. Sept. 4, 1684; d. s. p. before 1723/4.
2. Margaret; d. April 12, 1685.
3. Eunice, bapt. March 21, 1686; m. Samuel Raymond of Beverly, mariner, Nov. 21, 1704; in 1720/1 he purchased from her brothers John and Joseph their right in the house in Marblehead given by their grandparents, Moses and Eunice Maverick, to their mother (Essex Deeds, 39 : 184.); widow, living in Marblehead in 1724.
4. Moses, b. 1687; m. Anne Bullfinch in Boston Aug. 30, 1716; mariner; appointed administrator of the estates of his grandparents, Richard and Margaret Norman 1708/9, and still acting as such in 1717 will, dated Oct. 15, 1716, in Boston, leaves entire property to wife Anne; inventory Jan. 3. 1731; three children, Moses, John and Anne, wife of Thomas Eggleston. (In a deed to Philip English, in 1719, Moses Norman of Boston, mariner, is stated to be only son of John Norman of Marblehead, shipwright (Essex Deeds, 36: 16). In 1723/4, however, Moses Norman of Boston, mariner, joins his two brothers and three sisters, all described as children of John Norman of Marblehead, in a conveyance to Joseph Neal of Salem (Essex Deeds, 43: 173). The first description is obviously an error.)
5. John, b. 1690; d. young.
6. Sarah. bapt. May 14, 1693; m. John Broughton of Marblehead Dec. 3, 1718; in 1723 she sold to her brother John a house and land inherited from her grandfather Maverick; she joined in the 1723/4 deed to Joseph Neal.
7. Benjamin, b. 1694; d. young.
8. John, bapt. April 26, 1696; m. Mary Cox Sept. 15, 1720; fisherman; administration granted to widow Mary July 5, 1725. (Essex Probate, 314: 221; 316: 25.)
9. Benjamin, bapt. Oct. 8, 1699; cordwainer and fisherman of Marblehead; with his brother John sells house and land (Essex Deeds, 39: 184.) given to their mother Sarah Norman by their grandparents Moses and Eunice Maverick to their brother-m-law Samuel Raymond, in 1720/1.
10. Jonathan, b. 1701; d. before 1723/4.
11. Elizabeth, bapt. Sept. 8, 1706; m. William Edgella Boston Aug. 2, 1725; sold property inherited from her parents to Joshua Orne, husband of her cousin Elizabeth Norman, July 26, 1725. (Essex Deeds, 47: 37.)
v. Elizabeth, m. (1) Aholiab Diamond Jan. 8, 1685/6; m. (2) William Hine Nov. 13, 1688; purchased a portion of her father's land from nephew, Moses Norman, the relationships being fully described, June 10, 1711 (Essex Deeds, 39:176.); d. Oct. 15, 1716; in 1722 William Hine and wife Mary conveyed to William Hine, Jr., the house of his grandfather, Richard Norman. (Essex Deeds, 38: 276.)
Child, by first husband:
1. Susanna Diamond. bapt. Sept. 11, 1687, in Marblehead; m. Joseph Woolcomb March 30, 1713, in Marblehead.
Children, by second husband:
2. William Hine, bapt. March 29, 1691.
3. Richard Hine, bapt. Jan. 6, 1694/5.
4. Joseph Hine, bapt. March 21, 1696/7.
5. Elizabeth Hine, bapt. April 3, 1700.
6. Hannah Hine, bapt. March 14, 1701/2.
7. Benjamin Hine, bapt. Sept. 16, 1705.
vi. JOSEPH; m. Mary Collins Jan. 24, 1688/9; his widow Mary appointed administratrix of his estate and an inventory filed Nov. 18, 1691 (Essex Probate, 303 : 95, 101.); she m., second, Henry Hooper of Marblehead, who was made joint administrator Dec. 6, 1692.
vii. BENJAMIN; d. young.
viii. JONATHAN; administration granted to his step-father and chief creditor, Robert Goodwin, April 21, 1713 (Essex Probate, 310 : 539.); in 1714, Goodwin sued Moses Norman, as administrator of the estates of his grandparents, Richard and Margaret Norman, for Jonathan Norman's one-seventh share thereof, stating that one child of Mr. and Mrs. Norman had died before reaching majority."
5. The publication "Search for the Passengers of the "Mary & John" 1630," by Burton W. Spear (Toledo, OH; The Mary & John Clearing House, 1989-2004), 18:102-103, "NORMAN. RICHARD (a.1580-aft.1653) OF MARBLEHEAD, MA":
"... Richard Norman - Born about 1580. Died 1682. He m. ___ in England. He came to Salem, MA by 1630. Savage (3:288) says he came in 1626, probably from Dorchester, Dorset. Tingley says he was with Governor Roger Conant's company in 1625 in Salem (?). Tingley makes a statement that is difficult to interpret: "It is supposed that he was the Richard Fryeth alias Norman, who Oct. 23, 1603, brought suit against his step-mother and half-sister, Agnes Greenleaf, but no proof has been found". Children (Salem 3:288)
a. John Norman - B.a. 1613, England. Died 1673, age 60. He m. Arabella ___, who died 1679. Eight children (1637-1656).
b. Richard Norman, Jr. - B.a. 1624, England. Died 1683, Marblehead, MA. He m. (1) Elizabeth Whitridge, 15 July 1654 (1635-1659), daughter of William Whitridge. He m. (2) Margaret, daughter of William Flint and Alice Bosworth. She m. (2) Robert Goodwin. Three children by first wife (1656-1658) and six by second (1661-1672).
c. Susanna Norman - She m. (1) Sgt. Robert Lockwood of Fairfield, CT. She m. (2) Jeffrey Ferris. Six children by first husband (1634-1643).
d. William Norman - He m. (1) ___ in England, and he left her there. Maine (p. 512) says he m. (2) Margery Randall, while still married to his first wife. On 11 Mar. 1650/1, in Wells, ME, they were legally separated and he was banished after failing to divorce his first wife in England. His second wife m. (2) Thomas Spinney. One daughter.
e. Margaret Norman - Born England. Died before 1694. She m. (1) Robert Morgan, 27 Jan. 1638, Salem, ME (1601-1673). She m. (2) Samuel Fowler (a.1618-1711). Eight children by first husband.
Richard Norman had five children and at least 32 grandchildren.
Reference: Some Ancestral Lines, Being a Record of Some of the Ancestors of Guilford Solon Tingley and His Wife, Martha Pamela Meyers, by Raymond M. Tingley, 1935."
6. The book "The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson 1899-1986," by W. M. Bollenbach, Jr. (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 2003), pp. 267-68:
"RICHARD1 NORMAN, born England, probably Dorchester, by about 1587, died Salem MA after 22 April 1653 but before 27 June 1664; married England about 1611 (birth 1612) (___), possibly Margaret Alford)), born there say 1590, died Marblehead MA after 1645.
Richard1 was in Cape Ann (Gloucester) MA by 1626, living in Salem 6 September 1628, and in Marblehead in 1645. He came to America as an employee of the Dorchester Company, a group of capitalists and adventurers who established a small colony at Cape Ann in 1623. It is not certain that he was an original member of this group, which undoubtedly received additions from England from time to time, but we know that he and his family were among those who, upon the failure of the Cape Ann venture, moved to Naumkeag in 1626 under the leadership of Roger Conant, and were established there upon the arrival of the Endicott migration in 1628. Testifying in 1680, Richard Brackenbury of Beverly, aged eighty, said that he came to New England with the late Governor Endicott and that when "wee came ashore at the place now called Salem ... wee found living (there) Old Goodman Norman and his sonn... and others" who "owned that they came over upon the account of a company in England called by the name of Dorchester Company or Dorchester Merchants; they had sundry houses built at Salem... and they declared that they had a house built at Cape Ann for the dorchester company." These pre-Endicott settlers became known in Salem history as the "old planters".
He participated in the various grants made to the colonists in 1636, 1637 and 1640, and undoubtedly had received a previous allotment of land of considerable size, as it is recorded that he and his son John sold one hundred acres to Capt. William Trask in 1636, and that Governor Endicott bought land near the head of Bass River, originally granted to Richard Norman and others, which purchase was confirmed to the governor by grant in 1643.
Norman probably was not of the Puritan persuasion and in 1650 we find him living on "Darby Fort side" (Marblehead), where he may have settled some years previously, beyond the immediate influence of the Salem church-state, and where his defective fences caused his appearance in court. The last record we have of him is in 1653, when Richard Norman "the elder" made over his house and ten acre lot in "Marvellhead upon Darbe Fort side" to his son Richard (Torrey 538).
Children, surname NORMAN:
i. JOHN, born England about 1612, died Salem MA 1672; married there about 1636 (birth 1637 Arabella (___), born England say 1616, died Salem 1679. He passed his youth in the Cape Ann and Naumkeag settlements, and was a carpenter and shipwright. He shared in the first grants to Salem settlers, and his first home was in the North Field, on land granted him in 1636, and on which he immediately built a house (Torrey 538).
ii. MARGARET, born England say 1613; married (1) Salem MA by about 1633 Robert1 Morgan, born England 1601, died Beverly MA 1672, a cooper, who lived in that part of Salem first called Cape Ann Side and later organized as Beverly; married (2) Salisbury MA about 1673 Samuel1 Fowler, born England 1618, died Salisbury 1711 (Torrey 518 and 280). Robert united with the Salem church in 1650 and was made a freeman on 29 April 1652. He signed the petition of the settlers on Cape Ann Side to be set off as a separate town in 1659, and when the Beverly church was organized he kept the first book of records. He was clerk of the writ in 1671, in which year he stated that he was seventy years of age.
iii. SUSANNA2, born England say 1615, died Greenwich CT 23 December 1660: married Watertown MA about 1633 (birth 1634) Sgt. ROBERT1 LOCKWOOD, baptized Combs, co. Suffolk, England 18 January 1600, died Fairfield CT by 11 September 1658. On 17 July 1637 Sgt. Lockwood refused the grant of a houselot in Salem "beyond his father Norman's". There is no further record of Lockwood in Salem, and the theory is advanced that he was that Robert Lockwood of Watertown, 1635, who eventually settled in Fairfield CT, and whose wife's name was Susanna (see Lockwood Chapter) (Torrey 470).
iv. FLORENCE, born England say 1619; married (1) Salem MA by about 1639 as his second wife John1 Hart, born England 1595, died Marblehead MA 1656; married (2) Salisbury MA about 1657 Thomas2 Whittridge of Ipswich MA, a carpenter, born England say 1620, died Salisbury 1672, son of William1 and his first wife Elizabeth1 (___) Whittridge, and who came to New England on the "Elizabeth" in 1635 (Torrey 348 and 812)
v. RICHARD, born England about 1623, died Marblehead MA 1683; married (1) there 15 July 1654 Elizabeth2 Whitridge, born England say 1625, died Marblehead 1659, daughter of William1 and his first wife Elizabeth1 (___) Whittridge, and who probably came to New England on the "Elizabeth" in 1635; married (2) there 28 March 1660 Margaret2 Flint, born probably England 1635, died Marblehead 1705, probably daughter of William1 and Alice1 (Bosworth) Flint, married (2) there 15 October 1685 Robert1 Goodwin, born probably England say 1625 (Torrey 538 and 312).
("MA & ME Families in Ancestry of W. G. Davis", W. G. Davis, 1996; Colket 221; Pope 330; Savage III:288; "Great Migration Begins", 1:1334, R. C. Anderson, 1995)"
6. The periodical “The American Genealogist†90(April 2018):147-48, “The Probable Residence in England before Emigraion of Richard1 Norman of Salem and Marblehead, Massachusetts,†by Randy A. West:
“It is known that Richard[1] Norman of Salem and Marblehead, Massachusetts, was living in Charminster, co. Dorset, England, until at least 17 October 1619, the date of baptism of his daughter Florence.[1] He had immigrated to New England by 1628. Richard Brackenbury deposed on 20 January 1680[/1] "that he came to N. E. with John Endicott Esq. late Gov. of New England, Deceased, & that we came ashore at a place now called Salem, the 6th of Sept. 1628; ... at Salem wee found living old Goodman Norman, & his sonn, William Allen, & Walter Knight, & others; these owned that they came over upon the acount of a company of England, called by us by the name of Dorchester Company, or Dorchester marchants. They had sundry houses built at Salem…"[2] It will be shown that Richard Norman probably lived in Dorchester, co. Dorset, after leaving Charminster and before emigrating.
A baptism for "Richard sonne of Richard Norman" on 1 September 1622 was found at Holy Trinity, Dorchester, co. Dorset.[3] This is probably for the youngest son of the immigrant, as it is close to his approximated year of birth of 1623-24,[4] and Dorchester is adjacent to Charminster. No other baptisms or burials were found in this parish register for the surname Norman for the period 1615-30.
At a court of the Dorset Quarter Sessions held at Dorchester on 2-4 October 1626, Richard Norman of Dorchester, carpenter, was bound over in the sum of £10 to the next session.[5] This is the only entry for a Richard Norman in these records, which spans the years 1625 through 1638. "Richard Norman the elder of Marblehead, carpenter," was the grantee of land in a deed dated 29 July 1651,[6] and his occupation in this deed corresponds with that in the court record above.
These three records above provide a consistent narrative of the immigrant Richard Norman moving from Charminster to the neighboring parish of Dorchester by 1622 and then immigrating to New England before 1628 under the auspices of the Dorchester Company. He may have been recruited by Rev. John White of Dorchester for his skills as a carpenter.[7] If Richard was present at the court session in late 1626, he probably left England in the spring of 1627 and sailed on the same ship that returned to England in the fall with John1 Woodbury of Salem.[8]
Footnotes:
1. Leslie Mahler, "The English Origin of Richard1 Norman of Salem, Massachusetts," TAG 77(2002):102-3.
2. James Kimball, "Gleanings from the Records of the County of Essex, No. 3," “Essex Institute Historical Collections†13(1877):138-39 (citing Essex Co., Mass., Deeds, 5:497). The son of "Goodman Norman" mentioned in the record is almost certainly the eldest, John, who would have been 21 in Sept. 1628, and presumably assisted in building houses at Salem.
3. Holy Trinity, Dorchester, Dorset, parish register [images, ancestry.com].
4. Mahler, "English Origin of Richard1 Norman" [note 1], 103.
5. Terry Harding and Sarah Bridges, "Dorset Quarter Sessions Order Books, 1625-1638: A Calendar," Dorset Record Society Publications 14(2006):33.
6. Essex Co., Mass., Deeds, 1:23 (later transcript, citing orig. vol., p. 10) [Family History Library, Salt Lake City, film #866015].
7. A brief outline of the Dorchester Company and its leader, Rev. John White, is in Robert Charles Anderson, “The Winthrop Fleet: Massachusetts Bay Company Immigrants to New England, 1629-1630†(Boston, 2012), 7-8.
8. Robert Charles Anderson, “The Great Migration Begins: Immigants to New England, 1620- 1633,†3 vols. (Boston, 1995), 3:2054, 2056. A year of migration for Richard Norman of 1626 was proposed in Anderson, “Great Migration Begins,†2:1334. Mr. Anderson has privately communicated that this year was chosen based on his understanding at the time of the years in which the Dorchester Company sent ships to New England, but he acknowledges that Richard may have come a year later.â€
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