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1. The book "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson, pp. 389-92:
"EDMUND BRIDGES
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1635 on the James
FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
REMOVES: Rowley by 1641, Ipswich by 1660, Salem by 1670, Ipswich by 1684
OCCUPATION: Blacksmith [EPR Case #3295].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Lynn church prior to 7 September 1639 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 7 September 1639 [MBCR 1:376].
EDUCATION: Signed his deed of 1682 and his will.
OFFICES: Essex County grand jury, 30 September 1651, 26 September 1654, 25 September 1660 [EQC 1:232, 362, 2:225]. Petit jury, 30 September 1662, 30 September 1673, 28 November 1676, 27 September 1681 [EQC 2:434, 5:224, 6:215, 8:150]. Replacement juror, 30 November 1675 [EQC 6:73].
ESTATE: "Edward Bridges" received ten acres in the Lynn land division of 1638 [EQC 2:271].
On 14 April 1660, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, and Anthony Potter sold to Elder John Whipple of Ipswich part of a six-acre lot that had previously been Henry Kingsbury's [ILR 1:247-248].
On 26 June 1663, Zacheus Gould of Topsfield sold a small parcel of land to Edmond Bridges and Daniel Black. Bridges and Black immediately mortgaged the property back to Gould, with Bridges accepting one-third of the responsibility for the mortgage and Black two-thirds [ILR 2:162-64].
On 22 February 1663/4, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, sold to Nicholas Wallis six acres of meadow in Ipswich [ILR 3:204-5].
On 9 December 1670, Edmond Bridges of Salem, blacksmith, sold to Ensign John Gould of Topsfield, yeoman, an eight-acre parcel of land with a dwelling house and barn in Topsfield, also a parcel of ten acres of meadow, swamp and upland in Topsfield [ELR 3:101].
On 12 April 1682, Edmund Bridges Sr. of Salem, blacksmith, made a one year mortgage with Mrs. Eliza[beth] Turner of Salem, widow, for his "dwelling house & shop & wharf, with sixty poles of ground with it" MLR 6:49].
In his will, dated 6 January 1684[/5] and proved 31 March 1685, Edmond Bridges Sr. of Ipswich, blacksmith, in "weakness of body and many infirmities often prevailing," stated that "I have already given unto all my children but Mary [their] portions as was suitable and convenient to my estate," but in addition bequeathed to "John Bridges my rapier'; to "Josiah Bridges ... my musket'; to "Fayth Bridges" a pewter platter marked with an "EBA"; to "Bethiah Bridges, the fellow or other pewter platter with the same marks"; to "my daughter Mary," £20 in goods; to "my beloved wife Mary Bridges" use of the whole estate during her life unless she marry, then £10; residue of estate at death of wife or her remarriage to be equally divided among "John Bridges my son, my son Josiah Bridges, my daughter Faith Bridges alias Black, Bethiah Bridges alias Peabodie, and Mary Bridges"; "my beloved wife Mary Bridges & my son John Bridges" executors; "Daniel Epps" with "Lieut. John Appleton" overseers [EPR Case #3295].
The inventory of the estate of Edmond Bridges, taken 16 January 1684[/5], totalled £215 6s. 6d., of which £90 was real estate: "the homestead with all the housing belonging to it," £70; and "9 acres of land," £20 [EPR Case #3295].
An undated account of debts showed £175 12s. 2-1/2d. in sums owed by Bridges, including amounts to settle the entitlements of the Littlehale heirs [EPR Case #3295].
BIRTH: About 1612 (aged 23 in 1635 [Hotten 107]; deposed "aged about forty-six years" in September 1658 [EQC 2:117]). In May 1661 he was released from training "except twice a year" [EQC 2:281].
DEATH: Ipswich 13 January 1684/5.
MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1636 Elizabeth ___. She died at Ipswich 31 December 1664. (Some secondary sources, including Savage, propose an earlier wife Alice, but no supporting evidence for this has been found, so we assume here two wives only for Edmund Bridges.)
(2) Ipswich 6 April 1665 Mary (Langton) Littlehale, widow of Richard [EQC 6:118], born about 1625 (deposed 24 November 1685 "aged sixty years" [EQC 9:545]); she died at Ipswich 24 October 1691. (On 15 March 1664/5, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich acknowledged that "I have nothing to do directly nor indirectly anyways to dispose of or having any interest at all of Mary Litelhale['s] accommodation at Haverhill notwithstanding she is to be my wife, but leaveth it wholly to the said Mary to dispose of for her own use and her four children which she hath by Rich[ar]d Litelhale" [ILR 5:108]).
CHILDREN:
With first wife
i EDMUND, b. about 1636 (deposed June 1664 "aged about twenty-seven years" [EQC 3:160, 183]; deposed for 27 March 1666 court "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 3:312]; deposed in June 1674 "aged about thirty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); Topsfield 11 January 1659/60 Sarah Towne, daughter of William Towne [Amos Towne Anc 4- 6].
ii HACKALIAH, b. say 1638 (fined for running away from his father September 1655 [EQC 1:404]); accused by Sarah French for getting her with child September 1656, case discharged [EQC 2:2]; whipped for fornication and ordered to discharge the town about bringing up the child of Mary Quilter, September 1657 [EQC 2:54]; "Hackoliah Bridges drowned at the Gay Head December the 23rd 1671 his estate being inventoried and prized amounted to the just sum of twenty-eight pounds eighteen shillings and eight pence, the said estate was committed into the hand of Mr. Richard Sarson as administrator upon the said estate," who presented the inventory on 25 January 1671/2 [Dukes LR 1:311]; "Hackaliah Bridges being cast away and dying intestate," Essex administration was granted on 8 February 1671/2 "to Obadiah Bridges, his brother, who was to bring in an inventory" [EQC 5:1; EPR 2:253]; apparently unmarried.
iii MEHITABLE, b. Rowley 26 March 1641; no further record.
iv JOHN, b. say 1643; m. (1) Ipswich 5 December 1666 Sarah How; m. (2) Andover 1 March 1677/8 Mary (Tyler) Post, widow of Richard.
v FAITH, b. about 1645 (deposed at court June 1674 "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); m. after 1660 and by March 1664 Daniel Black [EQC 3:130, 192-94].
vi OBADIAH, b. about 1647 (deposed at court September 1667 "aged about twenty years" [EQC 3:444]; deposed at court November 1669 "aged about twenty-four years" [EQC 4:195]); m. (1) Ipswich 25 October 1671 Mary Smith; m. (2) by 1677 Elizabeth ___ (his administratrix [EQC 6:344]).
vii BETHIA, b. say 1649; m. Boxford or Topsfield 26 October 1668 Joseph Peabody (marriage recorded in both towns).
viii JOSIAH, b. about 1654 (deposed 2 March 1676 "aged about twenty-two years" [EQC 6:239]); m. (1) Ipswich 13 November 1676 Elizabeth Norton; m. (2) Ipswich 19 September 1677 Ruth Greenslip.
With second wife
ix MARY, b. Ipswich 14 April 1667; living 1684/5.
ASSOCIATIONS: The inventory of Roger Lancton of Haverhill was taken 24 January 1671[/2] at the request of "Mr. Edmon Bridges and Samewall Varnum related to the said Rodger who deceased without a will" [EPR 2:260]. The relationship was evidently through Edmund's second wife.
COMMENTS: On 13 July 1635, "Edmond Bridges," aged 23, was enrolled at London for passage to New England on the James [Hotten 107].
Edmund Bridges was excused for neglect of public service, at his request, July 1647 [EQC 1:119]. He did take some responsibilities, since he was named executor of the will of Thomas Scott of Ipswich, written 8 March 1653/4 [EPR 1:169; ILR 1:190]. He also deposed as attorney to John Caldwell in November 1653, saying that, "being in Goodman Bridges' shop, Goodman ___ being present, he heard him say that a woman and her daughter, gathering berries, saw four women, Mrs. Perkins, Goody Evens, Goody Dutch, etc. As they approached them, the four women sat upon the ground, but when they came near, the women had vanished. He could not say that they were witches" [EQC 1:325].
In September 1660 Faith Bridges and Daniel Black were in court over his unlawful seduction of her without her father's permission [EQC 2:243].
While still minors Edward and Hackaliah were in trouble for things like lying, fornicating and getting drunk [EQC 2:3, 40-42, 52-54, 68]. Edmund's children kept unsavory company and were often called to depose in court about unlawful events they witnessed. Sometimes they were more than witnesses. Andrew Mansfield of Lynn deposed in September 1667 that "in hay time, two or three of Goodman Bridges' sons of Ipswich overtook him on this side of Lynn bridge and stayed there to light their pipes." The youngest, Hackaliah, was charged with feloniously assaulting a man upon the highway that night, but the court found for Bridges [EQC 3:444-45]."
2. Undocumented from Internet accessed 22 Jan 2019:
A. Daniel was taken prisoner by the army of Oliver Cromwell at the Battle of Dunbar in 1651. He was shipped to Massachusetts as an indentured servsnt. (better than left to rot in an English prison) and worked at the Saugus Iron Works. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Worcester September 3, 1651. Oliver Cromwell's Army beat up the Scots at Worcester, as they had a year to the day earlier at Dunbar. He was one of the Scotch Soldiers that Cromwell sent over to this country to be sold. He was one of the prisoners after the Battle of Worcester September 3, 1651 at or near Dunbar Scotland. Daniel Blacke arrived in the colonies aboard the ship John and Sarah on May 13, 1652. He was put into service at the Lynn Iron Works. The first we know of him is from Essex court records, where we find that "1660, September, Daniel Blake is fined 65 pounds, and respited for 4 pounds, conditionally, for making love to Edmund Bridge's daughter, without her parent's consent." This daughter was Faith Bridges, who he afterward married. It does not appear that he owned land in Boxford, he did own a small tract in Toipsfield. It is said that Daniel and Faith appeared in court about marital problems in 1664. It also said that the town of Rowley describes Daniel as living alone with property of 1 house on 10 acres, 1 horse, 4 cows and 1 young cattle with a tax of 2 shillings. Daniel is also said to be "cripple" this was in 1679. Being alone I imagine they were divorced.
B. He was one of the Royalist Scotch Soldiers that Cromwell sent over to this country to be sold. He was one of the prisoners after the Battle of Worcester September 3, 1651 at or near Dunbar Scotland. Daniell Blacke arrived in the colonies aboard the John and Sarah, master John Greene, which sent sail from Gravesend and arrived in Boston, Massachusetts on May 13, 1652.
He put into service at the Lynn Iron Works. He was probably employed by the iron company here, as we find by court records that he sued Henry Leonard for a debt of 5 pounds 12 s. 10 d. and received satisfaction by the court at Ipswitch, in September, 1673.
The first we know of him is from Essex court records, where we find that: "1660, September, Daniel Blake is fined 5 pounds, and respited for 4 pounds, conditionally, for making love to Edmund Bridge's daughter, without her parent's consent. This daughter was Faith Bridges, who he afterward married.
Excerpt from trial:Daniell Blake fined 5li. for making love to the daughter of Edmond Bridges, without consent of her parents. Execution respitted.
The examination of Daniel Black and Faith Bridges,concerning his notorious, evil carriage: First, said Black confessed that contrary to the mind of her father, he stayed with her in her father's house late upon the last day of June, 1660, when the family were in bed, it being about ten o'clock when Edmund Bridges went to bed that night. Second, that having taken William Danford from his master Pritchett's work, to go with him to Rowly, they carried a bottle of wine to the house of Edmund Deere in Ipswich; and being there, he employed the said William as his messenger and instrument to draw the said young wench to him at Deere's house, from her father's house, her father and mother being absent from home; that she stayed at Deere's house half and hour, when Deere and his wife were not at home.
Edmund Bridges bound for his daughter's appearance.
William Danford said that Daniel Black said to him that he could "beteame to stabb him" because he stayed so long, and this was after the wench was come to him at Deere's house.
Danford was bound to appear at next Ipswich court in this case.
Sureties: William Vselton and John Marshall. "Gudm Bridges I pray let me be remembered to you and let me intrete your leniti toward Daniell blak or giue or produs bond for him rather then imprison him I would haue Cam my self but my ocasions will not let me he is like to loes his korn if he li by it and if you and he do take up so much of the matter as you can Conuenientli which he is willing to doe it may do well on both parties "Yours Daniell Clark."
Warrant, dated, 4:5: 1660, to the constables of Ipswich, Rowley and Toppesfeild for the arrest of Daniel Black and William, an Irish man servant of William Pritchett; also to summon John Brewer, Obidiah Bridges and the wife of Edmund Deere, as witnesses; signed by Samuel Symonds.'97Sept. 25, 1660.
Later in 1664 both Daniel and his wife, Faith, appeared in court, both haveing summoned the other, for the treatment each had for the other. She claimed he had kicked her out of their home in the middle of a snow storm without sock or coat and she had to walk 1/2 mile for shelter. He claimed she was running around on him with two or three of the local men and would not cook or clean or treat him as a husband. The upshot of all this was that the court decided: "Upon complaint made against Daniel Black and his wife, court orders that they should sit one hour in the stocks for domestic disturbances. They were instructed not to miscall each other while so confined. For the future that said Black was not to threaten his wife or miscall her and to live peaceably with her, and she was to be orderly and not to gad about. She was further ordered not be in the company of the two men nor come to their house unless her husband sent her on business, and if either of them offended against this order, they were to be whipped." The stocks were probably located in or near the meeting house green in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
He resided near what is now the Junction of route 97 and the Kelsey Road in Boxford, Massachusetts. That part of Boxford was in Rowley prior to 1680. In the General Register the tax was for 2 shillings and according to the register Daniel Black was a cripple and he had 0 heads, 1 house, 10 acres land, 1 hourse, 4 cows, 1 young cattle, Boxford 1687. "On the 12th of June in 1688 the Selact men of Boxford met to hear the poorer & did order Daniell Black Juner to help his father as much as hee head need of in hay time & to give a Count of it to the Selact men."
It does not appear that he owned land in Boxford, he did own a small tract in Topsfield in 1663, near Boxford, Fish Brook.
Daniel Black was appointed Tithing-man to see that the sabbath was well kept and this was aggreable to the Act of the General Court on May 23, 1677.
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