Curtis Zaccheus b. ABT 1619 d. 1682

1619 - 1682

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Birth Abt 1619 [1]

Gender Male

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Died 1682 [1]

Person ID I4841 Alan Donald Vibber

Last Modified 08 Dec 2009

Family Joanna

Married Y [1]

Children

1. Curtis John, b. 1649, d. Abt 1718

Family ID F2005 Group Sheet

Notes	Zacheus Curtis embarked on the "James" at Southampton, England, on April 5 1635. The Customs House record gives his occupation as laborer and his residence as Downton. A later estimate of his age indicates he was born about 1619. A large number of his fellow passengers were from Wiltshire so it is assumed his home was in the Wiltshire parish of Downton which is a few miles southeast of Salisbury.However, parish records fail to identify him. Curtis probably settled in Salem. However, there is no record of him until 1643 when the Salem constable presented him and ten others for pasturing cattle in the north corn fields. The following yearhe was fined twenty shillings "for rash and ill-advised coming in to have sworn falcelie." He was presented for smoking tobacco in the street in 1647, but the charge was not proved. About this time he married Joanna ________, who appears as a witness in a defamation suit in 1650. Sometime before 1658, Zacheus Curtis and his family settled in Reading on land rented from John Gould. They then went to Gloucester where Curtis was involved in a suit over a job managing a farm for William Bartholomew. The birth of their daughter, Mary is recorded in Gloucester in 1659. Soon afterward, they are found at Rowley Village (Boxford), which was then closely identified with Topsfield, and where in 1663 Zacheus Gould, the father of his former landlord at Reading, deeded to Zacheus Curtis, a parcel of land lying on the south side of Fishbrook. He also gave Curtis liberty to pasture cattle on Gould's common land and a right of way to Topsfield. By 1664/5, Curtis called himself a planter. Zacheus Curtis died in 1682. His verbal will was testified to by John Ramsdel and Abigail Curtis, who stated they were present when Curtis lay on his deathbed, and that he declared that his will was that all of his grandsons should have twenty shillings each and his granddaughters ten shillings each, and that his son Ephraim should have the farm after his mother's death. The statement was sworn to on November 29, 1682, and John Curtis, Ephraim Curtis and Jonathan Looke, husband of Mary Curtis, assented to it. The inventory of his estate amounted to £185:16:8. The estate was much reduced by debts which totaled £134:6:8. Ephraim Curtis was appointed to administer his father's property. Zacheus Curtis of Topsfield is listed as having served in King Phillips War. Zacheus Curtis is listed as being a member of The Old Church, Topsfield. NOTE: Link is to Google Books. Zacheus Curtis and his wife, Joanna had the following children: * Zacheus born about 1646, married Mary Blake. * John born about 1649, married Mary Looke. * Zachariah born about 1651. * Sarah born about 1654, married James Scales. * Mary born May 12 1659 in Gloucester, married John Heard. * Ephraim married Elizabeth Kelbourne. * Abigail who testified to her father's verbal will in 1682; presented for fornication at the Quarterly Court in September 1689.

Sources
[S247] http://www.family-genealogy-online.com/tucker/curtis-family-genealogy.htm (Reliability: 2).