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Arabella

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  • Name Arabella  
    Gender Female 
    Died 23 Nov 1679  Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I498  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family John Norman,   c. 7/07 Feb 1606/7, Charminster, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt Nov 1672, Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 65 years) 
    Married Bef May 1637  of Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F406  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Citation Information: "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III, article about Richard Norman, Sr.: "...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)]..."

      2. "The American Genealogist," 77[2002]:102-3: "The English Origin of Richard1 Norman of Salem, Massachusetts," by Leslie Mahler:
      "...Children of Richard1 and Florence (___) Norman, i-v bp. at Charminster, co. Dorset...
      i. John2 Norman, bp. 7 Feb. 1606/7; m. by 1637, Arabella ___."

      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. 46-49:
      "JOHN2 NORMAN (Richard1) was born about the year 1612, and passed his youth in the Cape Ann and Naumkeag settlements. He married Arabella ___ who was admitted to the Salem church in 1637. He 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 built a house. The following year he had a grant twenty-five acres at Jeffrey's Creek (Manchester) and seems also to have had a share in four hundred acres in the same locality granted to "eight men," probably "old planters," and in 1640 he and sixteen others "belonging to ye Church & Towne of Salem … being straitned in our accomodations, so yt we are not able comfortably to subsist" petitioned the Court to be given power to erect a village at "Jeffereyes Creeke, lying so neere us & most of us having some small quantitye of ground alotted to us there alreadye." (Records and Files, etc., VII:163.) He immediately conveyed his North Field homestead to Rev. Hugh Peter, but there is some doubt as to the date of his removal to Jeffrey's Creek.
      Norman was made a commoner in Marblehead in 1647, and in 1650 he was definitely settled at Manchester and petitioning the court for permission to open a house of entertainment there, to sell wine and beer and to keep provisions and accommodations for men and horses. He was Manchester's constable in 1652 and again in 1663, and served on the Grand Jury in 1661, 1671 and 1672. He seems to have been of a somewhat combative disposition, being several times summoned to court for engaging in physical conflict with his neighbors, and on one of these occasions a battle royal seems to have taken place, John Norman, his son John and a servant being engaged on one side and John Pickworth and his three sons on the other. (Records and Files, etc., I: 323. II: 107; 225.) His wife Arabella was also in court in 1657 for striking the wife of Nicholas Vinson, and it is amusing to find her appearing as a witness against John Elletrap, who was tried for "profane swearing" in 1667, and testifying that the miserable defendant had said "plague take it." (Records and Files, etc., III: 46.)
      Among the papers in suits brought by Mr. George Emery and Capt. John Lathrop against John Norman for breach of contract in failing to finish two houses in Manchester are copies of the specifications in accordance with which the houses were to be built, and they are of great interest to all students of seventeenth-century architecture. (Records and Files, etc., II: 186, 282.)
      John Norman died in 1672, and his widow, Arabella Norman, was appointed administratrix in November of that year, and ordered to pay forty shillings to the eldest son and twenty shillings to each of the other children. An inventory of £125: 10 was presented. (Essex Probate, 301: 3.) Arabella Norman died on November 23, 1679, and her son John, a ship-carpenter of Salem, was made administrator of the estates of both of his parents, his father's estate being valued at £150: 16 in 1680. (Essex Probate, 301: 165.) The Manchester homestead was sold to Obed Carter on Oct 4, 1707. (Essex Deeds, 20: 66.)
      Children:
      i. JOHN, bapt. March 4, 1637/8; m. Mary Ropes, daughter of George and Mary Ropes of Salem, 17: 9: 1663; sea-captain and shipbuilder, of Salem; prefix of respect; taken prisoner and plundered by a Dutch man-of-war off the Virginia coast in 1667; one of the administrators of his father-in-law's estate in 1670 Jury of Trials, 1677; member of the Salem troop in 1678; for him Norman Street, leading to his ship-yard in Salem, was named; d. May 6, 1713; his will dated April 10 and proved July 3, 1713, leaves his entire estate to his wife for life, and also mentions his daughter Abigail Green and his granddaughter Mary Norman, Mr. John Pickering and Mr. Simon Willard being named overseers (Essex Probate, 311 : 11-12.); administration cum testamento annexo granted to his son-in-law John Green Nov. 2, 1713, the widow and executrix having died Oct. 24, 1713, aged sixty-eight.
      Children, born in Salem:
      1. John. b. 12: 9: 1664; d. 22: 9: 1664.
      2. John, b. 12: 10: 1666; d. s. p. before 1713.
      3. Mary, b. Feb. 14, 1668; d. s. p. before 1713.
      4. Timothy, b. Feb. 20, 1670; m Abigail Cole Dec. 20. 1693; d. before May 24, 1695, when his widow Abigail Norman m. ___ Andrew. Mary Norman, his daughter, b. 10: 9: 1694, in Salem, is mentioned in her grandfather's will. She m. Theodore Atkinson June 12, 1715, and in 1721, stating that she was "granddaughter of Mr. John Norman late of Salem & ye only surviving heir or heiress of that family," she sold Salem property to John Cabot. (Essex Deeds, 39: 106.)
      5. Richard, b. Feb. 20, 1674; d. s. p. before 1713.
      6. Abigail, b. July 10, 1677; m. John Greene, who was administrator of her father's estate in 1713; in 1720 they deeded all their right in her father's land, buildings, house and wharf in Salem to her niece, Mary Atkinson, and her husband, Theodore Atkinson, shipwright (Essex Deeds, 39 : 6.); d. s. p. before 1711.
      ii. LYDIA, b. Jan. 15, 1639/40; admonished in 1657 for being abroad at night where there was feasting and drinking, and for riding behind two fellows at eight o'clock at night without her master's or dame's consent (Records and Files, etc., 11: 48.); m. Thomas Bishop of Manchester, son of Richard and Dulcebella Bishop of Salem (Supreme Judicial Court, No. 2285.); he d. Oct. 15 1694; she was still living in 1704.
      Children, born in Manchester:
      1. Hanna Bishop, b. March 11, 1661; m. Manning Day before 1702.
      2. Mary Bishop, b. Aug. 5, 1634; widow ___ Buseo in 1702.
      3. John Bishop, b. Oct. 17, 1667.
      4. Richard Bishop, b. Dec. 25, 1669; d. at sea Oct. 7. 1703.
      5. Joseph Bishop, b. Feb. 27, 1671; living in 1702.
      6. Lydia Bishop, b. March 1, 1673; m. Francis Pierce before 1702.
      7. Elizabeth Bishop, b. Sept. 6, 1676; m. John Williams of Beverly Nov. 1, 1705.
      8. Rebecca Bishop, b. June 19, 1678; living in 1702.
      9. Thomas Bishop, b. April 7, 1680; living in 1702.
      iii. HANNAH, b. Jan. 4, 1642/3; bapt. as Anne 1: 3: 1642/3; if it were not for the fact that marriage with a deceased wife's sister was a court offense it might be suspected that she m. her brother-in-law Samuel Leach as his second wife and had three children, Hannah, Richard and Benjamin (1686-1692), the Leach family tradition being that Samuel Leach's wives were closely related and the Leach genealogists stating that his second wife was "his first wife's niece, Hannah Balden," which is proven not to be the case, Hannah being his first wife's daughter by her first husband, John Balden.
      iv. ARABELLA, b. Feb. 14, 1643/4; m. (1) John Balden Sept., 1664; m. (2) Samuel3 Leach (Robert2, Lawrence1); d. 1681; in 1681 Joseph Norman conveyed to Leach, his brother-in-law, all his rights in the estates of his father and mother, John and Arabella Norman (Essex Deeds, 6 : 80.); he m. Hannah ___, and d. Oct. 14, 1696.
      Children, by first husband:
      1. Hannah Bolden, b. Oct. 15, 1667; in 1682 testimony was offered to make her the sole beneficiary of her uncle Richard Norman's estate; m. James Arden May 9, 1689.
      2. John Bolden, b. 26: 9: 1668.
      Children, by second husband:
      3. Penelope Leach, b. Sept. 26, 1678.
      4. Catherine Leach, b. Oct. 1, 1680; m. Joseph Allen Oct. 26, 1696.
      5. Samuel Leach, b. May 8, 1681.
      v. MARTHA, bapt. May 17, 1646; living in 1681.
      vi. RICHARD, bapt. Oct. 5, 1651; m. Elizabeth Bullock 13: 11: 1671, in Salem, the record stating that he was "son of John"; d. s. p. April 17, 1682. "Richard Hawes, master of the ship Benjamin, testifies that on her voyage to the coast of Guinea, Richard Norman, late carpenter of said ship, being sick at St. May (?) declared it to (be) his last will and testament that his two brothers John and Joseph of Salem should have and enjoy all that he had or left in the world, published by the said Richard 17 April 1682, the same day in which he died." John and Joseph gave bonds as administrators on June 15, 1682, and presented an inventory. Hannah Ward, aged about thirty-four, entered a deposition, however stating that Richard gave the things that he left at her house to his cousin Hannah Balden "when he was going the last voyage wherein he dyed." (Essex Probate, 302: 20.)
      vii. JOSEPH, bapt. Sept. 8, 1653.
      viii. JOSEPH, bapt. Sept. 7, 1656; living in 1682."

      4. 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."

      5. 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)...
      ("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)"