Joseph Witter

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• Reference Number: 2738

Joseph married Elizabeth Gore on 13 Aug 1722. Elizabeth was born on 12 Jan 1703/4; died on 09 Aug 1761. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Amy (-----) on 09 Apr 1762. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 2719

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Died:
He died of "pluretic fever"

Ebenezer married Dorothy Morgan on 05 May 1693 in Preston, CT. Dorothy was born on 20 Feb 1675; died on 09 Mar 1759. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Dorothy Witter
• Reference Number: 2725

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• Reference Number: 2715

Josiah married Elizabeth Wheeler on 25 Feb 1662 in Lynn, Essex County, MA. Elizabeth was born about 1648 in Lynn, Essex County, MA; died on 05 Aug 1672 in Stonington, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Elizabeth Witter
• Reference Number: 2716

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• Reference Number: 2713
• Will: 06 Aug 1657

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Memo:
At the time of the controversy between the Massachusetts Bay Colony authorities and the leaders of the Baptist movement, William Witter was one of those whose adherence to the Baptist tenets brought him into disagreement with the former. He was haled to Court more than once because of his opposition to infant baptism. He also gave offense because of his entertainment of the Baptist leaders, Obadiah Holmes, John Crandall and .John Clarke, the first-named being an ancestor of Abraham Lincoln. In the narrative of their journey to Rhode Island, because of the persecution of the Massachusetts government, John Clarke wrote: "It came to pass that we three ... came into the Mathatusetts Bay about the 16 day of the 5th Moneth 51; and upon the-19th of the same, ... we' came into a Town ... called Lin, where we lodged at a Blind-man's house, neer two miles out of the Town, by name William Witter .... " From this we see that William Witter, in his old age, had become blind.

Memo:
William Witter's homestead at Swampscott was on "the spot where Joseph Blaney's house now stands,"--or where it was standing in 1844, about two miles from Lynn. The land on which it stood was purchased by William Witter from an Indian, according to the following deposition made by him, and recorded in the files of the Salem Court, under the dates April 15 and 27, 1657:
"Blacke will, or duke william, so called; came to my house (which was two or three miles from Nahant), when Thomas Dexter had bought Nahant for a suit of clothes; the said Blacke will Asked me what I would give him for the ' Land my house stood vppon, it being his land, and his ffather's wigwam stood their abouts .... " and he adds that he "bought Nahant and Sagomer Hill and Swamscoate of Black William for two pestle stones."

Will:
William Witter's will was dated August, 1657. In it he bequeathed to his wife, Annis, half of his estate, and to his son, Josiah, the other half. Of his daughter, he says: "Hannah shall have a yew and lamb this time twelf mounth." He died two years after making his will, in 1659.

William married Hannah "Annis" Churchman about 1630 in New England. Hannah (daughter of Hugh Churchman) was born about 1616 in England; died about 1659 in Stonington, New London County, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Hannah "Annis" Witter
• Reference Number: 2714