Charles Stockbridge

(26 January 1633/34 - 28 December 1683)
Pedigree - three generations
Date this page was last edited=25 Jan 2014
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Ancestors of Martha Josselyn (1909 - 2007)
Charles Stockbridge was born on 26 January 1633/34, probably in Rayleigh, Essex, England.1,2,3,4 He was the son of John Stockbridge and Anne Kendall.

Charles Stockbridge and his parents left the Port of London 17 June 1635 on the Blessing, John Lecester, master, and arrived in New England in July.5,6,7,3

Charles Stockbridge married Abigail Pierce about 1657.8

Charles Stockbridge lived first in Boston, then in Charlestown, and afterwards in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, on his father's property.1 On 10 February 1673/4 (Deane9 gives 1665) Charles purchased George Russell's half interest in the Scituate gristmill on the First Herring Brook, becoming the sole owner of what was known (until about 1880) as the Stockbridge Mills.10 He and Abigail Pierce sued one Joseph Turner in 1669 for defamation and slander, claiming that Turner had called Charles "a coocally rogue" and a "coocally raskall" and Abigail "as very a strumpett as any in New England" and "a brasen faced whore." Turner was found guilty and fined £100.11

Charles was said to have built, by contract, the second water mill in Plymouth in 1676; also a corn mill on the Third Herring Brook in Hanover, in 1677.12,9 Charles had interests in several mills, and served the community in a number of positions.13

Charles Stockbridge died on 28 December 1683 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, at age 49.14,15,8

Children of Charles Stockbridge and Abigail Pierce

Citations

  1. [S2] Barry, A Historical Sketch of the Town of Hanover, Mass., 385.
  2. [S393] Roger D. Joslyn, "Descendants of John Stockbridge", 100, 187.
  3. [S757] Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, Vol. IV, 197.
  4. [S761] Roger D. Joslyn, "The English Origin of John Stockbridge and His First Wife Ann", 111-118.
  5. [S393] Roger D. Joslyn, "Descendants of John Stockbridge", 94.
  6. [S403] Samuel G. Drake, "Founders of New England", 317.
  7. [S343] Hotten, Our Early Emigrant Ancestors, 93-94.
  8. [S393] Roger D. Joslyn, "Descendants of John Stockbridge", 187.
  9. [S524] Deane, History of Scituate, 343.
  10. [S393] Roger D. Joslyn, "Descendants of John Stockbridge", 188.
  11. [S393] Roger D. Joslyn, "Descendants of John Stockbridge", 190.
  12. [S2] Barry, A Historical Sketch of the Town of Hanover, Mass., 21, 385.
  13. [S393] Roger D. Joslyn, "Descendants of John Stockbridge", 188, 189.
  14. [S2] Barry, A Historical Sketch of the Town of Hanover, Mass., 385 (only the year of death is given).
  15. [S390] Scituate Marriages and Deaths, 445.
  16. [S393] Roger D. Joslyn, "Descendants of John Stockbridge", 192.
  17. [S393] Roger D. Joslyn, "Descendants of John Stockbridge", 193.

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