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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."
3. "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."
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. 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."
5. 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."
6. 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."
7. 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)"
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