| Note* | | Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33 RICHARD PALGRAVE ORIGIN: Unknown MIGRATION: 1630 FIRST RESIDENCE: Charlestown RETURNS: Richard Palgrave's widow Anne was in Stepney, Middlesex, in1656, but had returned to New England by 1665 OCCUPATION: Physician. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: 'Richard Palsgrave and Anne his wife' were admitted toBoston church as members #104 and #105, which would be early in 1631[BChR 14]. FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 and admitted 18 May 1631 (both timesas 'Mr. Rich: Palgrave') [MBCR 1:80, 366]. EDUCATION: He signed his will. His inventory included 'his books' valuedat Ð25. ESTATE: In 1630 'Mr. Rich[ar]d Palsgrave & Edw[ar]d Jones also built &planted three-quarters of a mile without the neck of land' [ChTR 6]. Granted one acre of planting ground in Charlestown, 10 January 1634/5[ChTR 12]. Granted one acre of planting ground, January 1635/6 [ChTR 15].Granted one cow common in 1635, increased to 4½ [ChTR 19, 20]. Grantedfive acres Mystic Side, 1637 [ChTR 27]. Held four cow commons, 1637 [ChTR33]. In the Mystic Side allotments of 23 April 1638 received proportionsof twenty, fifty and five acres [ChTR 36]. On 27 August 1638 'Mr.Palgrave is granted 4 cows hay he having yielded back 5 acres of his tenacres' [ChTR 40]. On 30 December 1640 held four cow commons in thestinted common [ChTR 42]. In the 1638 Charlestown Book of Possessions 'Ric[hard] Palgrave' heldten parcels: five acres arable on the common, 'with a dwelling house,&c.'; one acre and a half of meadow in the South Mead; four milk cowcommons; five acres of meadow in the South Mead; two acres of arable inLine Field; five acres of woodland in Mystic Field; four acres of meadowin Mystic Marshes; twenty acres of woodland in Mystic Field; fifty-sixacres of land in Water Field 'divided by Horn Pond in three parts'; andtwenty-four acres of land in West Rock Field [ChBOP 49-50]. On 9 September 1639 he was granted two hundred acres near what wouldbecome Woburn [MBCR 1:273, 282]. By 23 May 1655 this grant of land was inthe hands of John Alcock as a result of 'Mr. Palsgrave's disposing of the200 acres of land to his wife, & of the petitioner's [Alcock's] rightthereunto by a letter of attorney, under the hand and seal of Mrs. AnnaPalsgrave' [MBCR 3:377]. On 5 July 1650 Henry Evans and Hester his wife of Boston, yeoman, soldto Richard Palgrave, 'phisition,' and Anne Palgrave his wife, both ofCharlestown, a house with a barn, cowhouse and two acres of land at thewest end of the town common, also three acres of meadowland and fouracres of land near the upper field, also four cow commons at CharltownNeck [ChBOP 118]. On 18 October 1651 Mr. Thomas Allen of Charlestowndeclared that he had formerly sold to Richard Palgrave, deceased, a cow'shay lot and part of a salt and fresh marsh meadow in Charlestown, andthat he resigned it up to Mrs. Anne Palgrave the widow [ChBOP 112]. On 19 October 1650 'Mr. Palsgrave, of Charlstowne,' owed the colony Ð2[MBCR 3:219]. In his will, dated 8 June 1651 and proved 8 August 1651, 'RichardPalgrave, phisition, inhabitant of Charltowne ... being at present sickin body,' bequeathed to 'my beloved wife Anne Palgrave all my lawfuldebts due unto me, also all my goods moveable and unmoveable, and all mycattle great and small ... and devise all my housing and lands arable andmeadow unto her to be hers after my decease forever, to dispose of as shesees meet & fit'; 'my son John Palgrave, and my two daughters, Rebeckahand Lydia' to be at 'my said wife's disposing both in regard of theirmarriages, as also of the giving and disposing of anything which is mineas above named'; 'for my three daughters Mary, Sarah and Elizabeth, whoare all at the present married ... they rest and be satisfied with thatwhich they have had of me already, or with what my wife shall please tobestow upon them or any of them in her lifetime or at her decease'; 'mybeloved wife Anne Palgrave to be my full and sole executrix' [MPR28:93-95, Case #16383]. The inventory of the estate of Richard Palgrave, physician, ofCharlestown, was taken 1 October 1651 and totalled Ð313, including Ð80 inreal estate: 'housing, land, arable and meadow, and cows commons,' Ð80[MPR Case #16383]. On 14 October 1651 in 'answer to the petition of Anna Palgrave, ofCharlstow[N], widow, this court doth confirm her as the sole executrix ofher late husband, Richard Palgrave, & doth also hereby confer all hersaid husband's estate upon her & her heirs forever, according to thedesire & true intent of the testator, expressed in his will' [MBCR3:251]. On 17 March 1656[/7] 'Anne Palgrave of Stepney, Middlesex, late wifeand executrix of Richard Palgrave, late of Charlestowne,' appointed JohnPierce of Wapping, Middlesex, and Edmund Heylett of Stepney, Middlesex,her attorneys to handle matters in New England [MLR 2:32]. Edmund Heylettmade two sales of land under this power [MLR 2:47, 3:12]. On 1 December1665 'Anne Palgrave of Boston, widow,' sold to James Converse of Woburn,yeoman, two lots of land in Woburn, one of fifty-six acres and one oftwenty-two acres [MLR 10:3]. In her will, dated 11 March 1668/9 and proved 13 May 1669, 'AnnaPalsgrave of Roxbury, relict of Richard Palsgrave formerly ofCharles:Towne,' stated that 'whereas my late son Alcock did take into hisown possession the two hundred acres of land formerly granted by theGeneral Court unto my husband, Richard Palsgrave,' those of Alcock'schildren who received this land were to pay Ð15 to 'my eldest daughter,Mary, the wife of Roger Willington'; and bequeathed to 'my said daughter,Mary,' several pieces of clothing; to 'Mary, the wife of John Maddox, myblack gown'; to 'Anna Alcock, eldest daughter of my late son and daughterAlcock, my dwelling house and land in Boston, with all my moveables, shepaying the seven pounds debt due from me to John Pattison, in oldEngland, and out of the same the legacy hereunder mentioned to JohnHeylet'; to 'John Heylet, the eldest son of my daughter Lydia,' Ð20 (tobe paid in annual installments for his education as a physician) and 'allmy medicines and instruments and all my books' [SPR 6:24; NEHGR19:307-08]. BIRTH: By about 1593 based on estimated date of marriage. DEATH: Charlestown between 8 June 1651 (date of will) and 8 August 1651(probate of will). MARRIAGE: By about 1618 Anne _____; she died Roxbury 17 March 1668/9('Mrs. Anne Palsgrave, aged (as is said) 75' [RChR 179]). CHILDREN: i MARY, b. say 1618; m. by 1638 Roger Wellington (eldest child b.Watertown 25 July 1638 [WaVR 6; Bond 627]). ii SARAH, b. about 1621 (d. Roxbury 27 November 1665, aged 44 years[RChR 178, 203]); m. by 1649 Dr. John Alcock, son of GEORGE ALCOCK. iii ELIZABETH, b. say 1625; m. by 8 June 1651 John Edwards ofStepney, Middlesex [NEHGR 67:297-99]. iv REBECCA, b. Charlestown 25 July 1631 [ChVR 1:6]; livingunmarried on 8 June 1651 (date of father's will); apparently d. withoutissue by 11 March 1668/9 (date of mother's will). v JOHN, b. Charlestown 6 March 1633/4 [ChVR 1:6]; bp. Boston 9March 1633/4 [BChR 279]; m. Boston 8 February 1655[/6] 'Mary Mavericke,daughter of Samuel Mavericke of Nodle's Island' [BVR 53; NEHGR 69:159,96:238-39]. vi LYDIA, b. Charlestown 15 January 1635[/6] [ChVR 1:6]; bp. Boston17 January 1635/6 [BChR 280]; m. after 8 June 1651 (date of father'swill) and before 27 April 1657 (date of husband's will [NEHGR 10:359])Edmund Heylett of Deptford, Kent [TAG 18:209]. vii BETHIA, b. Charlestown 10 [sic] July 1638 [ChVR 1:6]; bp.Boston 8 July 1638 [BChR 283]; d. Charlestown 21 August 1638 [ChVR 1:6]. COMMENTS: 'Mr. Richard Palsgrave' was admitted as an inhabitant ofCharlestown in 1630 [ChTR 5]. He was in the lists of Charlestowninhabitants of 9 January 1633/4 and January 1635/6 [ChTR 10, 15]. Hesigned the town agreement which created the office of selectman, 10February 1634/5 [ChTR 12]. BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: The definitive account of this family was prepared in1942 by George Andrews Moriarty [TAG 18:206-09], who says of Palgravethat '[h]e was a quiet man, who minded his own business, got into notrouble, and buried himself in his profession' [TAG 18:208]. Moriartydiscusses possible connections of this immigrant to the Palgrave familyof county Norfolk, England. The most likely solution is that RichardPalgrave resided in the parishes of Wymondham and Barnham Broom inNorfolk before his migration, but the evidence for this identificationremains insufficient. (See also McCormick-Hamilton 797-803). Dr. Richard Palgrave is one of the colonists researched in the book,Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before1700, by Frederick Lewis Weir. Through him we are linked to the followingpeople: ROYALTY (partial list): Alfred the Great, King of England Brian Boru, King of Ireland Cerdic, King of the West Saxons (from whom all British Royalty descends) Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor Rodrigo Diaz de Bibar (Vivar) aka El Cid Duncan, King of Scotland Edward I, King of England Henry I, King of England Henry II, King of England John, King of England Malcolm III, King of Scotland William the Conqueror, King of England MAGNA CHARTA SURETIES: Hugh Bigod Roger Bigod Henry de Bohun Sir Gilbert de Clare Richard de Clare John de Lacy Saier de Quincy Robert de Vere CRUSADERS: Humphrey de Bohun Robert de Quincy Saier de Quincy William de Warenne In addition to this list are many earls, dukes, etc.1 |