Generation 1

ROBERT SPURR (c. 1610 - 1693)

Parents:

Robert Spurr was born about 1610. He died on 16 Aut 1703, age 93, in Dorchester. [Ref]

Robert Spurr, Henry Merryfield and Robert Stanton, husbandmen of Dorchester, bought a house with 10 acres in the cow pasture first division of Dorchester, thirty-four nearby acres, andtwenty acres in the third division lot fifty-one from Nathaniel Duncan on 21 Feb 1654/5. [Ref]

He signed a petition in Dorchester on 19 Oct 1664. [Ref]

Robert Spurr of Dorchester was a freeman on 23 May 1666. [Ref]

In 1677 Robert Belcher was called before the church at Dorchester to make an acknowledgement of entertaining loose and vain persons, especially Joseph Belcher. [Ref]

Children of Robert Spurr:

1. Joanna Spurr died on 22 Mar 1687/8 in Dorchester. She married Nathaniel Wyatt.
2. Elizabeth Spurr was born on 4 (11) 1658 in Dorchester. [Ref]
3. Col. Robert Spurr was born on 21 (2) 1661 in Dorchester. [Ref] Robert Spurr, Esq. died on 16 Jan 1738/9 in Dorchester. [Ref] He married Elizabeth Tilstone on 24 Oct 1684 in Dorchester. [Ref] She died on 27 Jul 1738, age 73, in Dorcheser. [Ref]
   He was representative from Dorchester 24 Jul 1720; he was selectman in 1720, 1722 and 1723; he was moderator in 1722 and 1723; he was justice of the peace in 1715, 1724, 1728 and 1731; he was a colonel in 1720. [Ref] He was a farmer. [Ref]
4. Patience Spurr was born on 27 (5) 1664 in Dorchester. [Ref][Ref]
   

Generation 2

JOANNA SPURR (d. 1688)

Parents: Robert Spurr

Joanna Spurr died on 22 Mar 1687/8 in Dorchester. [Ref] She married Nathaniel Wyatt, [Ref] the son of Edward, on 8 (11) 1668 in Dorchester. [Ref]

Savage [Ref 4;662] says that Nathaniel Wyatt married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Spurr.

References

Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. Vol. 1-3. Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995, entry for Nathaniel Duncan.

I. E. B., "Joseph Belcher," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 11, 1857, 335-336.

No author, "Marriages, Births and Deaths in Dorchester, Mass, 1648-1683," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 16, 1862, 152-158.

Editors, "Old Dorchester," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 5, 1851, 389-402, 466.

Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, Online Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2008.

No author, "Marriages, Births and Deaths in Dorchester, Mass, 1648-1683," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 16, 1862, 152-158.

Paige, Lucius, R., "List of Freemen, " New England Historical and Genealogical Register 3, 1849, 239.

Pierce, James, "Historical Intelligence," Notes section, New England Historical and Genealogical Register 103, 1949, 150.

Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, Vol. I-IV, Boston, 1860-1862.

Schultz, John A., Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court 1691–1780: A biographical dictionary, Boston, Northeastern University Press, 1997.