Freeborn William b. ABT 1594 of Ipswich, England, U.K. d. 28 APR 1670

1594 - 1670

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Birth Abt 1594 of Ipswich, England, U.K. [1, 2]

Gender Male

_UPD 14 AUG 2009 23:44:13 GMT-5

Died 28 Apr 1670 [2]

Person ID I712 Alan Donald Vibber

Last Modified 08 Dec 2009

Family Mary, b. Abt 1601, of Ipswich, England, U.K. , d. 03 May 1670

Children

1. Freeborn Sarah, b. 1632, England, U.K.

, d. 23 Apr 1670

Family ID F313 Group Sheet

Notes	WILLIAM FREEBORN, aged 40, his wife MARY, aged 33, and their two children, were passengers for New England in April, 1634, in the Francis of Ipswich. William Freeborn was admitted a freeman of the Colony of Massachusetts September 3, 1634. He was an inhabitant of Boston, and was "disarmed November 30, 1637, in consequence of having been seduced and led into dangerous error by the opinions and revelations of Mr. Wheelwright and Mrs. Hutchinson." Having licence to depart, he removed to the Colony of Rhode Island, and settled on the island of Aquedneck, where he was one of the nineteen original settlers who, in March, 1638, signed a compact incorporating themselves into a "body-politic." He had a grant of land in Portsmouth, December 18, 1639, and was a deputy from that town in 1657. He diedApril 28, 1670, aged 76. His widow, Mary, died May 3, 1670, aged 69. COMPACT SIGNED AT PORTSMOUTH, R. I. The 7th of the first month (March), 1638. WE, whose names are underwritten, do here solemnly, in the presence of Jehovah, incorporate ourselves into a Body Politic, and as He shall help, will submit our persons, lives, and estates, unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and to all those perfect and most absolute laws of His, given us in His holy word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby. Exod. xxiv., 3, 4. 2 Chron., x\., 3. 2 Kings, xt., 17. WILLIAM CODDINCTON, JOHN CLARKE, WILLIAM HUTCHINSON, JR., JOHN COGGESHALL, WILLIAM ASPINWALL, SAMUEL WILBORE, JOHN PORTER, JOHN SANFORD, EDWARD HUTCHINSON, JR., ESQ., THOMAS SAVAGE, WILLIAM DYRE, WILLIAM FREEBORN, PHILIP SHERMAN, JOHN WALKER, RICHARD CARDER, WILLIAM BAULSTONE, EDWARD HUTCHINSON, SEN., HENRY BULL, RANDALL HOLDEN. WILLIAM CODDINGTON was elected Judge. WILLIAM ASPINWALL " " Secretary. WILLIAM DYRE " " Clerk.

Sources

[S66] American Ancestry, Thomas Patrick Hughes, Frank Munsell, 170 (Reliability: 3).
[S67] Descendants of Edward Thurston, the First of the Name in the Colony of Rhode, Charles Myrick Thurston, Robert Henry Thurston, 53 (Reliability: 3).