The TURNER Family of Scituate, Plymouth, MA | Send comments and corrections to anneb0704@yahoo.co.uk |
HUMPHREY TURNER (d.
1672/3) of Scituate m. Lydia Gaymer
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MARY TURNER (1704-1775)
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CAPT. JAMES TURNER (1706
- 1776) of Scituate
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INDEX to the Turner Family files
Generation 1
HUMPHREY TURNER (d. 1672/3) of Scituate
Parents: Turner suggests the possibility that Humphrey was the son of John and (Lily) Turner of Terling. [Ref]
Humphrey Turner died between 1 Nov 1672 and 29 May 1673. [Ref] The Scituate vital records say that he died in 1673, age 79. [Ref] A tombstone, erected long after his death says that he was 78 in 1673. [Ref] He married Lydia Gaymer.
Humphrey was a tanner. [Ref] He came to Plymouth in 1632. [Ref] He is in the 1633 Plymouth list of freemen. [Ref] He appears on the Plymouth tax lists of 25 Mar 1633 and 27 Mar 1634. [Ref] On 18 May 1633 he sold his land by a pond in Plymouth that he had enclosed with a firm palisado (fence of stakes) to Josias Winslow, the elder, for eight pounds. [Ref]
Humphrey Turner was alloted a house lot on Kent Street in Scituate but chose to live instead on his farm there. Goodman Turner was an original member of the first church in Scituate, joining on 8 Jan 1634. [Ref] He had one of the first houses in Scituate, before Sep 1634; it was small and plain. [Ref] On 1 Jan 1637/8, Humphrey was one the Scituate freemen who complained that their portions of land were too small to subsist on.The court granted them additional land, provided that they make a township there and live there. [Ref]
Humphrey is in the Scituate section of the 1643 list of those between 16 and 60 able to bear arms in Plymouth Colony. [Ref]
Humphrey was an important man in early Scituate. He was deputy to the Plymouth General Court from Scituate 13 times between 2 Jun 1640 and 7 Jun 1653. [Ref] He was Constable for Duxbury three times between 5 Jan 1635/6 and 4 Jun 1639. [Ref] He was on the grand jury three times between 7 Jun 1642 and 6 Jun 1643. [Ref] He was on the Plymouth jury on 4 Sep 1638. [Ref] He was on the Committee to Divide Lands in Scituate on 30 Nov 1640. [Ref] He was Supervisor of the Highways in Scituate on 1 Jun 1647 and on 7 Jun 1648. [Ref] He was on a Coroner's jury on 5 Jun 1666. [Ref]
Humphrey signed his will on 28 Feb 1669/70; it was proved on 5 Jun 1673. [Ref] In it, he mentions his oldest son John; his sons Joseph, John, Daniel, Nathaniel and Thomas; his daughers Mary [illegible] and Lydia Doughtey; his granchildren Humphrey Turner, Mary Doughtey, and Jonathan, Josiah and Elizabeth Turner, the children of his eldest son John. [Ref]
Children of Humphrey Turner and Lydia Gaymer:
Generation 2
JOHN TURNER (bp. 1621) of Scituate
Parents: Humphrey Turner and Lydia Gaymer
John Turner was baptised on 23 Mar 1621 in Terling, Essex. [Ref] He married Mary Brewster on 10 or 12 Nov 1645. [Ref]
John is in the Scituate section of the 1643 list of those between 16 and 60 able to bear arms in Plymouth Colony. [Ref]
Children of John Turner and Mary Brewster:
Parents: Humphrey Turner and Lydia Gaymer [Ref only gives Lydia's first name]
Mary Turner was baptised on 25 Jan 1634/5 in Scituate; [Ref] hers was the first baptism in the first church there. [Ref] She died between 1 Mar 1703/4 and 2 Mar 1705/6. [Ref] She married William Parker on 13 Nov 1651 in Scituate. [Ref][Ref][Ref][Ref]
NATHANIEL TURNER (bp. 1639 - 1715) of Scituate
Parents: Humphrey Turner and Lydia Gaymer
Nathaniel Turner was baptised on 10 Mar 1638/9 in Scituate. [Ref][Ref] He died on 31 Jan 1715 in Scituate. [Ref] He married first Mehitable Rigby on 29 Mar 1664 in Scituate. [Ref][Ref][Ref] She died on 22 Mar 1680 in Scituate, about two weeks after having her last child. [Ref] He married second as her second husband Abigail Eames. [Ref, 38;186] Barclay [Ref, 38;186] argues that Abigail was the daughter of Capt. Anthony Eames of Marshfield. She died in Mar 1709/10 in Scituate. [Ref] She married first Charles Stockbridge. [Ref][Ref, 38;186]
Children of Nathaniel Turner and Mehitable Rigby
DANIEL TURNER (m. 1665/6) of Scituate
Parents: Humphrey Turner and Lydia Gaymer
Daniel Turner married Hannah Randall on 20 Jun 1665 or 1666. [Ref][Ref][Ref]
Children of Daniel Turner and Hannah Randall:
COL. AMOS TURNER (bp. 1671-1739) of Scituate
Parents: John Turner and Mary Brewster
Amos Turner was baptised on 4 Jun 1671 in Scituate. [Ref] Col. Amos Turner, Esq. died on 13 Apr 1739 in Scituate. [Ref] He married first Mary Hyland on 6 Apr 1695 in Scituate. [Ref] He married second as her second husband the widow Hannah [Gill] Clapp on 19 Nov 1730 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Ref]
Children of Amos Turner and Mary Hyland
CAPT. SAMUEL TURNER (b. 1671) of Scituate
Parents: Nathaniel Turner and Mehitable Rigby
Samuel Turner was born on 25 Feb 1671 in Scituate. [Ref] He married first Desire Barker on 20 Nov 1700 in Scituate. [Ref] She died on 12 Jan 1709/10 in Scituate. [Ref] He married second as her second husband Abigail Gill of Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusestts on 13 Nov 1718 in Hingham. [Ref]
Children of Samuel Turner and Desire Barker:
Children of Samuel Turner and Abigail (Gill) Leavitt:
Parents: Daniel Turner and Hannah Randall
Mary Turner was born on 13 Apr 1679 in Scituate. [Ref] Mary Turner of Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts married Seth Fish in Sandwich on 30 Dec 1702. [Ref][Ref][Ref]
Generation 4
Parents: Col. Amos Turner and Mary Hyland
Mary Turner was born on 23 Apr 1704 in Scituate. [Ref] She was baptised there on 10 Jul 1709. [Ref] She died on 19 Aug 1775, age 73, in Scituate. [Ref] She married Capt. James Turner on 23 Nov 1732 in Scituate. [Ref]
CAPT. JAMES TURNER of Scituate
Parents: Capt. Samuel Turner and Desire Barker
James Turner was born on 18 Dec 1706 in Scituate. [Ref] He was baptised there on 24 Apr 1715. [Ref] He died on 30 May 1776 in Scituate. [Ref] He married Mary Turner on 23 Nov 1732 in Scituate. [Ref]
Children of James Turner and Mary Turner:
DESIRE TURNER (1735 - 1775)
Parents: James Turner and Mary Turner
Desire Turner was born on 4 Apr 1735 in Scituate. [Ref] She died on 17 Aug 1775 in Scituate, age 41. [Ref] She married Eli Curtis on 14 Dec 1758. [Ref]
The Desire Turner who was the daughter of James and Mary Turner appears to be the only Desire Turner of the right age in Scituate to have married Eli Curtis. There do not appear to be any widows named Desire Turner that Eli could have married.
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 Humphrey Turner.
Barclay, Mrs. John, "The Family of John Stockbridge of Scituate," The American Genealogist 38, 1963, 184-189.
Barclay, Mrs. John E., "William Parker of Scituate," The American Genealogist 41, 1965, 102-108.
Barry, John, Historical Sketches of the Town of Hanover, Mass., with family genealogies, Boston, Samuel G. Drake, 1853.
Crowell, F. E., New Englanders in Nova Scotia, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1938.
Hayward, Elijah, "Plymouth Colony Records," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 9, 1855, 313-318.
Kardell, Caroline Lewis, and Lovell, Russell A. Jr., Vital Records of Sandwich Massachusetts to 1885, Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996. Online: NewEnglandAncestors.org.
Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850. Online Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2007.
Myers, Marya and Donald W. James, Jr., "A New Look at the Family of Francis and Philip James of Hingham: Immigrant Ancestors," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 151, 1997, 61-86.
No author, History of the Town of Dorchester, Massachusetts, Boston, E. Clapp, Jr., 1859.
Otis, Amos, trans., "Scituate and Barnstable Church Records," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 9, 1855, 279-287; 10,1856, 37-43, 345-351.
Shurtleff, Nathaniel B., "List of Those Able to Bear Arms in the Colony of New Plymouth 1643," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 4, 1850, 255-259.
Torrey, Clarence A, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.
Turner, Verner Dow, "Lydia Gaymer, the Wife of Humphrey Turner of Scituate," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 151, 1997, 286-290.
Vital Records of the Towns of Barnstable and Sandwich
W. H. W., "Early Marriages and Births in Scituate, Mass. Prior to 1700," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 18, 1864, 285-287.; 19, 1865, 219-221.