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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JOHN TURNER (bp. 1621) of Scituate
m. Mary Brewster
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NATHANIEL TURNER (bp. 1639 - 1715) of Scituate
m. Mehitable Rigby
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MARY TURNER (bp. 1635 - 1706)
m. William Parker
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DANIEL TURNER (m. 1665/6) of Scituate
m. Hannah Randall
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COL. AMOS TURNER (bp. 1671-1739)
m. Mary Hyland
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CAPT. SAMUEL TURNER (b. 1671) of Scituate
m. Desire Barker
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MARY TURNER (b. 1679)
m. Seth Fish
MARY TURNER (1704-1775)
CAPT. JAMES TURNER (1706 - 1776) of Scituate
   
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DESIRE TURNER (1735 - 1775) m. Eli Curtis
   

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:

  1. John Turner was baptised on 23 Mar 1621 in Terling, Essex. He married Mary Brewster.
  2. John Turner was born say 1624. He married Ann James on 25 Apr 1649 in Scituate. [Ref][Ref] Anne was the daughter of Philip and Jane James. [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]
    Anderson [Ref] says that, in England, two living children of the same wife might be given the same name, but that this was rarely done in New England.
    some descendants of John Turner
  3. Thomas Turner was born say 1627. [Ref] He died in Nov 1688 in Scituate. [Ref] He married Sarah Hyland [Ref] on 6 Jan 1651/2 in Scituate. [Ref][Ref]
    some descendants of Thomas Turner
  4. Lydia Turner was baptised on 17 Feb 1629/30 in Little Baddow, Essex. [Ref] She married James Doughty on 15 Aug 1649 in Scituate. [Ref][Ref]
    some descendants of Lydia Turner
  5. Mary Turner was baptised on 25 Jan 1634/5 in Scituate. [Ref] She died between 1 Mar 1703/4 and 2 Mar 1705/6. She married William Parker.
  6. Joseph Turner was baptised on 1 Jan 1636/7 in Scituate. [Ref][Ref] He died, unmarried, after 1681. [Ref]
  7. Nathaniel Turner was baptised on 10 Mar 1638/9 in Scituate. He married first Mehitable Rigby. He married second the widow Abigail Stockbridge.
  8. Daniel Turner married Hannah Randall

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:

  1. Jonathan Turner was born on 20 Sep 1646 in Scituate. [Ref] He was baptised in May 1649 in Scituate. [Ref]
  2. Joseph Turner was born and died on 12 Jan 1647 in Scituate. [Ref]
  3. Joseph Turner was born on 12 Jan 1649 in Scituate. [Ref]
  4. Ezekial Turner was born on 7 Jan 1650 in Scituate. [Ref]
  5. Lydia Turner was born on 24 Jan 1652 in Scituate. [Ref]
  6. John Turner was born on 30 Oct 1654 in Scituate. [Ref]
  7. Lieut. Elisha Turner was born on 8 Mar 1656 in Scituate. [Ref] He died on 24 Apr 1700 in Scituate. [Ref] He married Elizabeth Jacob on 6 Jun 1687 in Scituate. [Ref] Elizabeth, the daughter of John and Mary (Russell) Jacob was born on 17 Apr 1666 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Ref] She was baptised on 8 Jul 1666 in Scituate. [Ref]
    some descendants of Elisha Turner
  8. Mary Turner was born on 10 Dec 1658 in Scituate. [Ref] She died on 10 Dec 1738, age 80, in Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Ref] She married Isaac Prince [Ref, p. 5_2] on 23 Dec 1679 in Hull. [Ref] Isaac, the son of Elder John and Alice (Honor) Prince, was baptised in 1654. [Ref, p. 5_2]
    some descendants of Mary Turner
  9. Benjamin Turner was born on 5 Mar 1660 in Scituate. [Ref] He may be the Benjamin who died on 12 Aug 1748 in Scituate. [Ref] He married Elizabeth Hawkins on 14 Apr 1692 in Scituate. [Ref]
    some descendants of Benjamin Turner
  10. Ruth Turner was baptised on 17 May 1662 in Scituate. [Ref] She married first Thomas Prince. [Ref, p. 5_2] Thomas, the son of Elder John and Alice (Honor) Prince was baptised on 8 Aug 1658. [Ref, p. 5_2] He died about 1700 in Barbados. [Ref, p. 5_2] Ruth married second Israel Sylvester on 3 Oct 1701 in Scituate. [Ref, p. 5_2] Israel was the son of Israel Sylvester. [Ref, p. 5_2]
    Thomas Prince was a shipmaster out of Boston. [Ref, p. 5_2]
    some descendants of Ruth Turner
  11. Isaac Turner was baptised on 30 Apr 1665 in Scituate. [Ref]
  12. Grace Turner was baptised on 2 Aug 1668 in Scituate. [Ref] She married Benjamin Stetsun on 22 Jan 1690 in Scituate. [Ref] Benjamin, the son of Benjamin and Bethiah (Lincoln) Stetsun and the grandson of Robert Stetsun, was born on 16 Feb 1666/7 in Scituate. [Ref]
    some descendants of Grace Turner
  13. Col. Amos Turner was baptised on 4 Jun 1671 in Scituate. He married first Mary Hyland. He married second Hannah Gill.

MARY TURNER (1635 - 1706)

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

  1. Abigail Turner was born on 10 Feb 1666 in Scituate. [Ref] She died in Apr 1689 in Scituate. [Ref]
  2. Capt. Samuel Turner was born on 25 Feb 1671 in Scituate. He married first Desire Barker. He married second Abigail Gill.
  3. Nathaniel Turner was born on 24 Dec 1678 in Scituate. [Ref]
  4. Mehitable Turner died about 22 Jun 1723 in Scituate. [Ref]
  5. Son Turner died about 22 Mar 1680 in Scituate; he had been born there about two weeks before. [Ref]

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:

  1. Hannah Turner was born on 14 Aug 1668 in Scituate. [Ref]
  2. Eliab Turner was born on 14 Feb 1669/70 in Scituate. [Ref] He married Elnothian Hinksman (Henchman) on 22 Nov 1694 in Scituate. [Ref]
  3. Abner Turner was born in Jul 1672 in Scituate. [Ref] He married Naomi Sylvester on 20 Nov 1705 in Scituate. [Ref]
  4. Mehitable Turner was born on 29 Mar 1673 in Scituate. [Ref]
  5. Amasa Turner was born on 10 Dec 1674 in Scituate. [Ref] He died on 8 Dec 1711 in Scituate. [Ref] He married the widow Ann Smith on 14 Dec 1704 in Scituate. [Ref]
  6. Lydia Turner was born in Aug 1675 in Scituate. [Ref]
  7. Mary Turner was born on 13 Apr 1679 in Scituate. She married Seth Fish.
  8. Bethie Turner was born on 18 Dec 1680 in Scituate. [Ref]
  9. Rachel Turner was born on 9 Apr 1687 in Scituate. [Ref]

Generation 3

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

  1. Jane Turner was born on 4 May 1697 in Scituate. [Ref]
  2. Anne Turner was born on 7 Apr 1699 in Scituate. [Ref] She was baptised on 10 Jul 1709 in Scituate. [Ref]
  3. Ezekiel Turner was born on 23 Mar 1700 in Scituate. [Ref] He was baptised on 10 Jul 1709 in Scituate. [Ref] Ezekiel Turner of Scituate married first Bathsheba Stockbridge on 27 Dec 1727 in Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Ref] He married second Ruth Randall on 17 Jun 1734 in in Hanover, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Ref]
    Ezekiel was a selectman in Hanover in 1742-55, 1762-67, and 1772. [Ref, p. 412] He was a Representative in 1761 and 1767. [Ref, p. 412]
    some descendants of Ezekiel Turner
  4. Mary Turner was born in Jun 1702 in Scituate. [Ref] She probably died by 23 Apr 1704.
  5. Mary Turner was born on 23 Apr 1704 in Scituate. She was baptised on 10 Jul 1709 in Scituate. She died on 19 Aug 1775, age 73, in Scituate. She married Capt. James Turner.
  6. Lieut. Seth Turner was born on 28 Nov 1705 in Scituate. [Ref] He was baptised on 10 Jul 1709 in Scituate. [Ref] Lieut. Seth Turner died on 10 Oct 1743 in Scituate. [Ref] He married Mehitable Gould on 10 Dec 1730 in Scituate. [Ref] The widow Mehitable Turner married Ambrose Cole on 1 Feb 1748 in Scituate. [Ref] Ambrose, the son of Ambrose Cole, was born on 1 Feb 1695/6 in Scituate. [Ref]
  7. Lydia Turner was born on 26 May 1707 in Scituate. [Ref] She was baptised on 10 Jul 1709 in Scituate. [Ref] She might be the Lydia Turner who married Dr. Joseph Withrel of Taunton on 3 Jan 1739 in Scituate. [Ref]
  8. Amos Turner was baptised on 10 Jul 1709 in Scituate. [Ref] He married Elizabeth Stockbridge on 29 Jan 1721 in Scituate. [Ref]
    some descendants of Amos Turner

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:

  1. Lilly Turner was born on 27 Apr 1701 in Scituate. [Ref] She was baptised on 24 Apr 1715 in Scituate. [Ref]
  2. Nathaniel Turner was born on 20 Dec 1702 in Scituate. [Ref] He was baptised on 24 Apr 1715 in Scituate. [Ref] He died on 1 May 1734 in Scituate. [Ref]
  3. Samuel Turner was born on 16 Feb 1704/5 in Scituate. [Ref] He was baptised on 24 Apr 1715 in Scituate. [Ref] He died in Jun 1734 in Scituate. [Ref]
  4. Capt. James Turner was born on 18 Dec 1706 in Scituate. He was baptised on 24 Apr 1715 in Scituate. [Ref] He died on 30 May 1776 in Scituate. He married Mary Turner.
  5. Job Turner was born on 9 May 1709 in Scituate. [Ref] He died on 26 Feb 1713/4 in Scituate. [Ref]

Children of Samuel Turner and Abigail (Gill) Leavitt:

  1. Abigail Turner was born on 26 Sep 1720 in Scituate. [Ref] She died on 12 Jan 1723/4, age three years and four months, in Scituate. [Ref] (There is a also a record that says that Abigail, the daughter of Samuel and Abigail died on 21 Jan 1722 in Scituate. [Ref])
  2. Abigail Turner was born on 30 May 1725 in Scituate. [Ref]

MARY TURNER (b. 1679)

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

MARY TURNER (1702 - 1775)

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:

  1. Lieut. James Turner was born on 13 Jul 1733 in Scituate. [Ref] Lieut. James died on 24 Oct 1803, age 71, in Scituate. [Ref] He married Deborah Lincoln on 24 Oct 1760 in Scituate. [Ref] Deborah is probably the daughter of Joshua and Mercy (Dwelly) Lincoln and the granddaughter of Solomon and Hannah Lincoln and John and Rachel (Buck) Dwelly. [Ref] This Deborah was born on 12 Apr 1740 in Scituate. [Ref] She might be the widow Deborah Turner who died in 1817 in Scituate. [Ref]
  2. Desire Turner was born on 4 Apr 1735 in Scituate. She died on 17 Aug 1775 in Scituate. She married Eli Curtis.
  3. Lydia Turner was born on 16 Feb 1736 in Scituate. [Ref] She died on 26 Mar 1740 in Scituate. [Ref]
  4. Mary Turner was born on 12 Feb 1739 in Scituate. [Ref]
  5. Nathaniel Turner was born on 12 Apr 1741 in Scituate. [Ref]
  6. Mehitable Turner was born on 1 Jan 1743 in Scituate. [Ref] She was baptised on 8 Apr 1744 in Scituate. [Ref]
  7. Samuel Turner was born on 12 Mar 1746 in Scituate. [Ref]

Generation 5

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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