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